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...Taiwan. Last week's events, Lai's third run-in with the triads, were probably a response to a hard-hitting expos? of the Heavenly Way gang that ran in August; the magazine is still dodging official flak from a story it broke last spring about an illegal government slush fund. Complains chief editor Pei Wei: "The police and prosecutors have worked as the authorities' hitmen, trying to keep the media from reporting government corruption." Lai, who got his start in Hong Kong, remains optimistic about his Taiwan ventures. "Press freedom is there," he says, "but don't expect everything...
Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui allegedly created a secret slush fund to bribe foreign officials, according to the Washington Post, and companies like Peng’s Taiwan Transport Machinery were fronts for this secret campaign...
...state of Indonesian justice that even if he is convicted and sentenced, Akbar may never actually go to jail-not if the case of Central Bank Governor Syahril Sabirin is any precedent. Syahril was sentenced on March 13 to three years in prison for his role in a banking slush fund scandal, but remains a free man pending an appeal. Absurdly, convicted felon Syahril still goes to work every day at the central bank. Like Akbar, he has refused to step down from his post...
...What caused the crackdown was Next's report of the existence of two hidden slush funds, totalling $100 million, set up by former President Lee Teng-hui and continued by his successor Chen Shui-ban. Next alleged politicians used the money to buy better international relations, employing long-denied "dollar diplomacy" to ensure other nations resisted mainland efforts to isolate Taiwan. Damning documents leaked to the magazine also disclosed that the country's National Security Bureau (NSB) extensively shared intelligence with the U.S. and Japan-a fact that neither wanted broadcast to prickly Beijing...
BOSTON—Over 30 members of the Students Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) trekked through slush and snow yesterday to the Boston office of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to demand that Kerry include no less than $2.5 billion in funding to fight global AIDS in upcoming AIDS legislation...