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The Spammer King (the latest one to be given that name) has been arrested. History shows that this will have no effect on the spam in your inbox.

The battle for ABN AMRO is getting bloody - and heading towards the kind of figure that raises the question "how can any company be worth that much?" The RBS-Fortis-Santander consortium has increased and restructured its bid, forced a...

The end of the eight-year term of President Obusanjo is being met with mixed emotions in Nigeria. He has done a good job, most people agree, but not good enough, many say. Surely, though, the question is how far has Nigeria come since the end of...

Several US law firms have launched class action suits against Xinhua Finance Media Ltd alleging misrepresentation during the company's IPO.

Despite claims that New Zealanders are decamping to Australia in search of better opportunities only to be replaced by "Asians" (a term lacking in precision, one might think) those escaping the UK are in fact the largest group moving t...

The former head of North Carolina Lottery, Kevin Geddings, has been sentenced to jail for mail fraud.

When the military decided to take over Bangladesh one of the reasons it gave was that it intended to take strong action against corruption before...

A new report from the United Nations and the World Bank says that the economies of Caribbean nations are being stifled by crime.

ASIC may be just about the most active companies regulator in the world. And it adopts a pre-active approach to problems: trying to head them off...

Australia's ASIC has proved that it is not necessary to demonstrate that a person wilfully evades creditors in order to secure a severe sentence...