As the text message scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick shows, when it comes to privacy in this information age, there are no guarantees.
And if you think the embattled Kilpatrick is regretting what he wrote on a city-owned hand-held communications device, two Detroit attorneys regarded as experts in electronic communications are warning corporate leaders that [...]
Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling may let SK Chairman Chey Tae-won off the legal hook, but obviously the nation’s fourth-largest conglomerate, which once typified domestic corporate corruption, still has work to do to put its scandalous past completely behind it.
Civic groups, led by the Solidarity for Economic Reform, have demanded that SK C&C _ SK’s unlisted [...]
Kilpatrick met with “a diverse gathering of supporters from corporate and civic backgrounds who are committed to the mayor’s vigorous defense,” said Chris Garrett, one of the mayor’s Washington-based public relations consultants.
Garrett declined to identify anyone who attended the fund-raiser. He also would not say how much Kilpatrick’s guests were charged or how much was [...]
Secret negotiations to settle a multimillion-pound dispute between the Total oil company and London-based businessman Nadhmi Auchi have broken down, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
Confidential talks between lawyers for both sides have foundered, raising the prospect that highly sensitive details of the operations of Elf, which Total took over in 2000, could be publicly [...]
Back from the plum diplomatic posting as New Zealands high commissioner to Britain, ambassador to Ireland and, through a quirk of latitude and African politics, high commissioner to Nigeria.
Back to the sniggering and the jeers of a country where he was a Member of Parliament for 38 years, New Zealands third longest-serving MP, but where [...]
Isabel Allende, the passionate expatriate queen of Latin American fiction writers, lives just as you might imagine - in a film-starrish, peach-coloured, faux Spanish castle, on a wooded hilltop.
Aptly named La Casa de los Esp%26iacute;ritus (The House of The Spirits) after her phenomenal best-seller first novel, its an hour north of San Francisco, with an [...]
Mosley is clinging to the presidency of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) despite a clamour for his resignation because of a scandal involving a sadomasochistic session with prostitutes.
His status near the top of the auto racing world has been in jeopardy since The News of the World tabloid reported on March 30 that he engaged [...]
Mosley is clinging to the presidency of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) despite a clamour for his resignation because of a scandal involving a sadomasochistic session with prostitutes.
His status near the top of the auto racing world has been in jeopardy since The News of the World tabloid reported on March 30 that he engaged [...]
General manager of Motorsport New Zealand Ross Armstrong Armstrong said it would rely on Chandler — who is vice-president of the Federation Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA) — to make the necessary decision.
FIA runs the Formula One (F1) world championship and the World Rally Championship (WRC).
Mr Chandler is a past president of Motorsport NZ and will [...]
The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement at the Bahrain Grand Prix that Mosley had asked the FIA Senate President, Monacos Michel Boeri, to call a general assembly.
The full membership of the FIA will be invited to attend the meeting at which the widespread publicity following an apparently illegal invasion of the FIA [...]
