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...against contractors in Afghanistan after a contracted plane crashed in 2004, leaving three United States soldiers dead. In a successful suit filed by the families of the soldiers claiming that the contractors were in violation of multiple laws, four contracting firms were named: Aviation Worldwide Services LLC, Presidential Airways Inc., STI Aviation Inc., and Air Quest Inc. According to the report, these are all subsidiaries of the Prince Group, the military contracting arm of which is Blackwater USA.Given that Blackwater employees have a history of disregard for the law and an overly aggressive stance when performing their jobs abroad...
...article in question, a 14-page story entitled "The Family Firm" (the cover line read "Suharto Inc.,") showed how Suharto and his children built up a fortune estimated at $15 billion in "cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art," amid a climate of corruption, collusion and nepotism...
...Japan's hard-drinking business culture is as dead as a Betamax, think again. After more than a decade of austerity (not to mention sobriety) during the nation's economic slump, many Japanese companies are thriving--and they're reviving some of the customs that were hallmarks of Japan Inc. during the booming 1980s. Not only are company-sponsored drinkathons back, so too are subsidized dorms for single employees as well as corporate outings and visits to the founder's ancestral grave. "We realized that workplace communication was becoming nonexistent," explains human-resources manager Shinji Matsuyama, whose company, Alps Electric...
...Source"). Soon the Onion staff found jobs as writers or producers on Late Night With David Letterman, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and were festooned with Emmys and movie deals. But the hip mainstream ignored the WWN writers; they continued to toil away anonymously in American Media Inc.'s Boca Raton, Fla., home office, whose most severe brush with notoriety was during the anthrax attacks of Sept. 2001, when a photo editor opened an envelope containing the bacteria and was killed. And that was no joke...
...More than 250 miles (400 km) downriver, China Inc. is also reshaping Laos' riverside capital, Vientiane. The landlocked nation has been shunned by many international investors as one of the world's last remaining hard-line socialist regimes. But what others consider a pariah state, China sees as an ideological soul mate and business partner. The biggest thoroughfare in Vientiane, as well as the capital's main park and the National Cultural Hall, were all built with money given to the city by the Beijing government. More than 3,000 Chinese laborers are also busy constructing a national stadium...