by admin | Apr 25, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon was jailed for eight years on Thursday in a $40 million fraud case, the latest high-profile business figure snared in the country’s sweeping crackdown on corruption.The communist...
by admin | Mar 29, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family.All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in...
by admin | Mar 25, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin owner of a company that provides bus transportation services was sentenced to 13 weeks’ jail over his role in a ruse that allowed one of his vehicles to go over the prescribed speed limit, potentially affecting road safety....
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Top Stories
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Nearly 100 jails in India have been certified as ‘Eat Right Campus’ by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in its bid to promote safe and healthy eating habits within different campuses.Among the jails are Tihar Prison (Delhi),...
by admin | Feb 28, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced top human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in jail for denouncing Russia’s assault on Ukraine.The 70-year-old, a key figure of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial group, is the latest target of Kremlin...