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...source of friction between the press and the powerful has been Hanoi's drive to root out rampant corruption among government officials. A scandal started brewing in early 2006 with the arrest of Bui Tien Dung, the former director of PMU18, a state road and bridge building division with a $2 billion annual budget that is largely funded by the World Bank and Japan. Dung and others were accused of embezzling millions of dollars, most of which was gambled away on European football matches, and spent on prostitutes and luxury cars, according to government investigators...
...prevent corruption amid a scandal in which ministry officials stand accused of embezzling up to $7 million in government funds to bet on soccer matches; in Hanoi. Binh, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing himself, resigned last Tuesday, hours before the arrest of his deputy, Nguyen Viet Tien, charged with violating government rules on fiscal responsibility. The scandal erupted in January when Bui Tien Dung, the head of a ministry road-building unit, was arrested on suspicion of corruption...
...long groomed himself for the national stage. The names in his personal Rolodex range from international bankers to Bono, the rock-star poverty crusader. But when he became PM in December 2003 after staging an internal party coup that swept his former boss, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, into retirement, he inherited an exhausted, divided party with its glory days behind it. Perhaps, conceded one party official in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, "We [Liberals] need a time-out." As the ice in Canada's political landscape begins to crack, they...
When the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value...
...Coast Guard says the vessel is simply taking the quickest route home. The Canadians claim that the strait is an internal waterway, and they see the U.S. insistence on entering without permission as an insult to the country's sovereignty. "The Americans are abusing us," declares Jean Chrétien, external affairs minister in the opposition Liberal Party's shadow cabinet...