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...“You can buy Alexa Chung!” I exclaim happily. “Isn’t that unethical?” “You’re not buying Alexa,” von Guttman says a little peevishly. “You’re engaging with her....
...“South Korea is in a state of total crisis,” says Moon Chung-in, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul....
...The daughter of Park Chung-hee, a strongman leader who ruled South Korea for 18 years until his assassination in 1979, she is the closest thing the country has to royalty....
...Justice Chung instead noted that “very substantial sums had been paid by [CVC] and it is still unknown where those sums now are . . . Money is, of course, a relatively liquid form of asset.”...
...After all, Park Chung-hee, the architect of South Korea’s “miracle on the Han river”, was an autocrat. So, in his way, was Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew....
...“The defendant’s fraudulent misrepresentations saddled investors with unknown risks they did not bargain for,” said Benton Campbell, US attorney for the eastern district of New York....
...characteristics similar to Mr Madoff’s, such as investment advisers who use an affiliate to hold client assets, hedge funds that report unusually smooth or profitable returns and companies that use an unknown...
...Sir Allen Stanford, whose whereabouts had been unknown since being charged this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an alleged $8bn fraud, was located in Virginia on Thursday...
...Sir Allen, whose whereabouts is still unknown to investigators, was reported by CNBC to have tried this week to hire a private jet to fly from Houston to Antigua....
...The total scale of actual losses still remains unknown....
...Sandy Chung, London Jing Ulrich: The strength in China’s fixed investments so far this year has been made possible by the remarkable surge in bank loans....
...The IRS uses such a summons to obtain information about possible tax fraud by people whose identities are unknown....
...Mr Birkenfeld was indicted in May, along with Mario Staggl, a Liechtenstein national, and “others known and unknown”, for his role in helping Igor Olenicoff, a real estate developer, evade paying $7.2m in...
...Mr Birkenfeld, who was indicted along with Mario Staggl, a resident of Liechtenstein, and “others known and unknown”, is likely to co-operate with US prosecutors by providing names of other individuals,...
...Until recently, the agency’s constant proportion debt obligation rating committee was unknown to most who work in finance, not least because CPDOs were some of the most complex products to emerge from the...
...Bradley Birkenfeld, Mario Staggl and “others known and unknown” were accused in the indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, of conspiring to defraud the US from at least 2001 by engaging in a scheme that included...
...“Before the helicopter stunt, he was pretty much unknown in the City of London,” Mike Selvey, chief cricket commentator at the Guardian and former professional cricketer, said....
...“Our students may find themselves some of the most sought-after talent in Taiwan over the coming years,” says Lo Chung-liang, a pastry chef who teaches at the Hospitality and Tourism College....
...Volatility is virtually unknown in the near 240-year-old market for Pfandbrief – or covered bonds as they are now more commonly named....
...The biggest unknown, however, is what impact a sharper than expected US slowdown would have on emerging markets, particularly in Asia....
...“A lot of these companies are unknowns. Some which we have not even heard of a year ago are issuing bonds, and it takes some work to make sure you are paying the right price.”...
...The total number of new registrations nationwide remains unknown....
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