A drop in the share price of Moutai, the high-end liquor often used by political and business elites for bribes, is a likely indicator that investors may be taking seriously China’s promise to crack down on corruption, the Atlantic Media website Quartz reports.
A multi-agency task force issued warrants for 65 police officers and 11 alleged drug traffickers in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro Tuesday after a year-long investigation into bribery and corruption there, according to the state’s Department of Security.
Karen Andreasyan has criticized the omission of an additional 11 million AMD in funding for the Human Rights Defender Office he heads.
National Assembly President Hovik Abrahamyan labelled the bill anti-constitutional since it would be retroactive, advising that it be modified or sent back to committee.
Despite protests from the Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, Mehmet Nihat Ömeroğlu was sworn in yesterday as Turkey’s first ombudsman.
A special session of the Armenian National Assembly has been scheduled to debate a new package of taxes for commercial enterprises and individual proprietors in the country.
According to a December 5 report in APA (Azeri Press Agency), Turkey’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alper Coşkun told reporters in Baku that Azerbaijan was ‘fully capable of liberating its territories from Armenian occupation’.
Armenia ranked 105th in the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index just released by Transparency International that includes 176 countries and territories.
Based on the revelations appearing in a December 4 Hetq article, the Lori Public Prosecutor has filed criminal charges against the former Shnogh Village Mayor Haykaz Kochinyan for suspicious financial dealings while in office.
Karineh Ghazinyan,Armenia’s Ambassador toGreat Britain, is reported to have passed away late during the night on December 5 in the United States.
The following commentary by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov appeared in the December 5 edition of The Wall Street Journal
Six year-old Narek was diagnosed with leukemia three years ago. He underwent a three stage round of chemotherapy but the disease has returned.
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