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...that he was acting alone. But there's reason to doubt this tidy narrative. The Japanese media reported that Shiroo had tried and failed to help a yakuza-linked company win government construction contracts. City officials excluded the company in a push to reduce yakuza influence in the construction sector. Shiroo may have murdered Itoh to intimidate other officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Days for Goodfellas | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04—who began her career in finance and eventually ended up at the Brennan Center for Justice—said that in her experience there are more women than men in the nonprofit sector...

Author: By Weslie M.W. Turner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Wage Gap Persists | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...Vietnam's private commercial lenders, profits shot up 50% last year, and depositors doubled to 350,000. But Nguyen Quang Trung, Sacombank's deputy director, is anything but complacent. "We have to expand quickly throughout the country," Trung says. "We need to build capital. Our whole banking sector must grow up very fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Season | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...country that prevented them from competing on an equal footing with domestic lenders. Previously, foreign banks were limited in their ability to acquire depositors and were allowed only one branch per city, among other constraints. But to get into the WTO, Hanoi promised to open its financial-services sector to the world faster than almost any other member. (China, which joined the WTO in 2001, had five years to open its banking market.) Already, eight foreign banks have applied to establish wholly owned Vietnam branches. Among them are UK-based HSBC, one of the world's largest banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Season | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...more accurate forecasters of the Chinese economy in recent years. He still believes the inflation threat is manageable, and that the authorities in Beijing can avoid a train wreck even while bumping up rates and trying to curb bank lending to, among others, the still red hot real estate sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Overheating? | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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