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...Satyam's revenues by millions of dollars, boosting the company's share price and making its books look far healthier than they were. Investigators following the paper trail have discovered that embezzled funds were channeled into 1,065 properties valued at $74 million, including some 6,000 acres of land, 40,000 sq. yd. of housing plots, and 90,000 sq. ft. of other developed real estate. The properties, bought in the name of some 80 shell companies, included prime commercial plots in and around Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Nagpur. (See the worst business deals...
...Proboscis monkeys are not the park's only drawcard. There are long-tailed macaques, shy silver-leaf monkeys, bearded pigs and grass-green whip snakes. But although this enclave bursts with color, the land beyond is becoming increasingly monochromatic. Massive palm-tree plantations are destroying Borneo's habitats. The proboscis-monkey population has dropped between 50% and 80% in the last three generations and now stands at about 7,000 across the island. Junaidi Payne, the chief technical officer of the WWF's Borneo Malaysia Program, says that we owe a moral responsibility to the animals. "The human species...
...individuals. Anything that we talk about regards policy to a huge degree reflects the debates that have been held inside the party. And on policy, we have done very well - our policies have been very good. We have five priorities: education - critical; health - critical; rural development; job creation; and land reform. (See pictures of Johannesburg's preparations for soccer's World...
What is called Plan No. 13157 includes a private development known as Givat Yael that will cover Wallajeh's fields with Israeli homes for more than 40,000 people. Israeli planners arrived on Abed-Rabbo's land recently and began taking measurements for the new development. The 450-mile-long Israeli security barrier that is planned to run through the area will permanently cut off Abed-Rabbo and his fellow villagers from their fields. (Read "In a Warning to Obama, Abbas Quits Election...
...property, Abed-Rabbo had crossed the Israeli municipal boundary and entered Jerusalem illegally from his legal residence in the refugee camp of Dehaishe, deeper in the West Bank. (There is no checkpoint blocking off the farm from Dehaishe; the Israelis recently granted Abed-Rabbo a permit to visit his land, a permit that has since expired...