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The US Treasury has issued a notice to all US corporations worldwide, and to all persons in the US, ordering them not to deal with several Iranian banks anywhere in the world. Particularly targeted are branches and subsidiaries in the UAE and th...

MAS Salamat didn't get far when he ran from Singapore, it turns out. In fact, he went to a tiny village near Skudai - close to the Johor airport - and moved into someone's basement.

Singapore and Malaysia have announced that MAS Selamat Kestari, who asked to go to the toilet on his way to meet visitors to his jail and promptly disappeared, has been arrested.

The events of 11 September 2001 in which Islamic radicals associated with al Qaeda flew commercial airliners full of people into iconic buildings including The Pentagon and - most devastatingly, both of the twin towers of the New York World Trad...

In the face of being over-run by government troops (at least, that's what the government says) the Tamil Tigers have decided a truce but not surrender is a good plan. Not everyone agrees.

The Fiji High Court has declared the military government illegal.

The Financial Stability Forum was created to provide a third leg for the OECD and the Financial Action Task Force to be able to claim independent...

In a startling demonstration of what happens at the margins of internal audit's responsiblilty, a New Zealand case raises more problems.

A Sydney Court has heard that an accountant, already on parole for defrauding the Government, has cheated a client of almost AUD300,000.

There are many disturbing things about the Madoff fraud. Cheating people out of USD50 milliard is one of them. That none of the institutional inv...