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...China's citizens say graft and corruption are their top concerns, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. But despite a highly publicized national crackdown?Chinese newspapers are constantly filled with stories of big-name arrests and executions?Beijing appears unable to stem a flood tide. Individually, ordinary Chinese can do little to protect themselves. In the city of Yiyang in central Hunan province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because...
...When his dad was boss, of course, Tommy was beyond the reach of any court, a charmed status that continued even after Suharto Sr. lost power in 1998. Tommy was first arrested in 1999, sentenced to 18 months for graft the following year, and then escaped in November 2000. During his 12 months on the lam, Supreme Court Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who convicted Tommy on the graft charges, was assassinated. Police finally caught up with Tommy last November, and he was later charged with the murder...
...confident there is no special graft, nothing to do with Taiwan,” Vogel said. “[Akiyama] was strictly somebody who was promoting basic research. All Kelly was doing was to allow him to do that research...
...heads the former ruling Golkar party, for example makes for a particularly tempting political target. Currently in detention, he faces 20 years in prison for his alleged role in the misuse of $4 million in state money. Critics say Akbar's trial is not part of a crusade against graft but something much shabbier: a maneuver by the President to remove a strong political rival from the scene. With Akbar-Megawati's opponent in the 1999 presidential race-in prison and preoccupied with a lengthy trial, he is almost certain to be replaced as head of Golkar. And with...
...CHARGED. HUTOMO MANDALA PUTRA, 30, better known as Tommy Suharto, youngest son of the former Indonesian dictator, with the murder of a Supreme Court judge who in September 2000 sentenced him for graft; in Jakarta. Tommy has been in detention since November and is scheduled to face trial this month...