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The Risk Professional: when the biter gets bit

ACORN, a national USA charity, suddenly found its government funding throttled, its reputation in tatters and eventually closed after an "expose" was released by a freelance "videographer." But the story is much more complica...



Risk Professional: UK loses patience with Israel over passports

The UK's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has not responded to calls in the UK to ban the sale of goods sold by Israel and produced in the settlements in Palestinian Territories; in 2007, he said that the decision by the University and College U...



Numbers: what to call 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?

Apparently, there's a lot of fuss going around over what to call a number with 27 zeros. It's easy if you've got a decent education.



The Risk Professional: why your international trade is about to get more complicated

International trade is about to become much more complicated. Your bank is going to be told to be much more careful who it allows you to deal with.



The Risk Professional: New Yorkers want terrorism trials moved out of the city

New York's property management companies have asked the Attorney General to hold future trials relating to terrorism, particularly those relating to 11 September, somewhere other than in the city to reduce risk, cost and inconvenience.

The Risk Professional: a boat afloat signals hostiles' entry

It's the kind of news that doesn't look like news; but view it as intelligence and it become important.



The Risk Professional: attacks on Churches in Malaysia

The Malaysian government is appealing for calm after a series of attacks on Christian churches and other places of worship in recent days. But it...



The Risk Professional: First US bank failure of 2010

It ain't over until it's over and the first Friday of 2010 showed that the...



The Risk Professional: Obama admits re-run of pre 11 September failings

US President Obama's press conference late last night (US time) did not say two things it needed to say: first, a 100% success rate against terro...



The Risk Professional: Malaysian court finds against Government

It's a landmark decision in many ways: the Malaysian High Court has found in favour of a newspaper in its application against a Minister.

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