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INDONESIA Speaker Shut Up Akbar Tandjung, the speaker of Indonesia's parliament and leader of the country's second-largest political party, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years in jail. Tandjung was convicted of using $5 million of state funds, earmarked for poverty relief, to finance the 1999 election campaigns of the Golkar party and the President at the time, B.J. Habibie. Although Tandjung said he will appeal, political analysts believe the conviction is likely to dent Tandjung's chances?and Golkar's?in the 2004 legislative and presidential elections...
COLOMBIA Kidnappers Caught Law-enforcement officials said they have dismantled a kidnapping ring that abducted people in south and central America to fund the country's second-largest rebel group. A total of 13 suspected guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) were arrested in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Cali and Medellin following a two-year investigation. Meanwhile, the first two people to win rewards for informing on rebels appeared in disguise on live television. The government gave the pair $800 each for informing on Oswaldo Diaz Alfaro, who tried to assassinate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in April...
South Of The Border HSBC, the world's second-largest bank (after Citigroup), continued its U.S. expansion, buying Mexico's Grupo Financiero Bital for $1.14 billion...
...launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that 86% of Japanese were concerned personal information would be misused...
...launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that 86% of Japanese were concerned personal information would be misused...