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Published by US News & World Report | By Emma Schwartz | Monday, August 13, 2007

The Justice Department crackdown on corrupt practices overseas ensnares both U.S. and foreign companies

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Published by The Washington Post | By Steve Fainaru | Sunday, August 12, 2007

U.S. military has paid $548 million over the past three years to two British security firms that protect the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on reconstruction projects, more than $200 million over the original budget, according to previously undisclosed data that show how the cost of private security in Iraq has mushroomed.

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Published by The New York Times | By Keith Bradsher | Sunday, August 12, 2007

At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.

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Published by Inter Press Service News Agency | By Praful Bidwai | Thursday, August 9, 2007

Cancer patients in India have reason to be relieved at a high court ruling this week which dismissed a petition by Swiss pharmaceuticals multinational corporation (MNC) Novartis challenging an Indian law which denies patents for minor or trivial improvements to known drugs.

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Published by Philippine News | By Beting Laygo Dolor | Wednesday, August 8, 2007

President Gloria Arroyo has ordered an investigation into reports that Filipino workers were forced to go to Iraq to work on the U.S. embassy there despite a ban on them traveling there. A report from the watchdog organization CorpWatch said that "other South Asians" were indeed working for First Kuwait Trading and Contracting in Iraq.

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Published by The New York Times | By Amelia Gentleman | Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Indian companies will be free to continue making less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after a court rejected a challenge to the patent law on Monday.

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Published by New York Times | By Gardiner Harris | Saturday, August 4, 2007

An influential Republican senator says he will propose legislation requiring drug makers to disclose the payments they make to doctors for services like consulting, lectures and attendance at seminars.

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