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The report, released this week by proxy-advisory firm Proxy Governance Inc., shows a spike in the number of shareholders casting votes against the election of a company director - even when the director was uncontested. The study found that about 10% of directors who were up for election in the...
Steve Farrell lamentably did not have the necessary “fear,” or the common sense, to recognize the dangerous situation in which he placed himself and Munadi. Farrell and Munadi’s kidnapping was the second kidnapping of a New York Times reporter in one...
With the possibility of war breaking out along its long border with Burma, China is finding that its presumption of easy political influence down south may have been misplaced. High-level Chinese emissaries, say Burmese analysts, recently visited Burma to warn the junta to avoid any border instability in the...
Nearly 20 years later, with Laos reopened to tourists, Yusin, her son Billy - who in the interim had established his own Singapore-based hotel-management company - and grandson Jacques made a pilgrimage to see what had become of the grand dame. They found dank corridors and chickens pecking their way...
Beijing is always a strange place ahead of important occasions. In the weeks preceding recent Communist Party Congresses and last year's Olympics, the number of security forces on the streets doubled, controls on the Internet tightened, and dissidents and other potential troublemakers were rounded up or confined to their...