Reuters (Beijing) Former chairman of China’s state-owned oil company Sinopec Corp , Su Shulin, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for graft, state media The People’s Daily reported on Thursday citing the Shanghai Second Intermediate Court
Su was appointed as governor of Fujian, one of the country’s wealthiest provinces on the coast across from Taiwan, after his role at Sinopec
Su was found to illegally accept a total of 36.22 million yuan ($5.34 million) during his work at Sinopec and while governor ($1 = 6.7775 Chinese yuan renminbi)
WASHINGTON/BOSTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday rejected a move by fellow Republicans to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the No.
(Barbados Nation) Two attorneys have confirmed visiting the two directors of Goddard Enterprises and a husband and wife who are assisting Drug Squad investigations into Monday’s $3 million drug bust.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities said yesterday full results of a general election would be delayed as cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in a partial count that opponents said was rigged.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of southwestern Syria yesterday, local officials and a war monitor said, in the group’s deadliest attack in the country for years.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will remove five zeroes from the bolivar currency rather than the three zeroes originally planned, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday, in an effort to keep up with inflation projected to reach 1 million percent this year.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The impact of United States (US) sanctions on the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco), owned by United Company (UC) Rusal of Russia, has been alleviated, at least for now, following sustained lobbying by the Jamaican Government.
(Barbados Nation) A fourth person is being questioned by the police as the investigation continues into a drug find aboard a yacht in the Bridgetown Port on Monday.
WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, Mo., (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday said it will use a Great Depression-era program to pay up to $12 billion to help U.S.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Rescuers searched in difficult conditions yetserday for dozens of people feared dead and hundreds missing after a dam collapsed in a remote part of land-locked Laos, one of Asia’s poorest countries, a government official said.
MATI, Greece, (Reuters) – Greece’s prime minister told of the “unspeakable tragedy” the country faced after at least 74 people were killed by wildfires that swept through a resort, trapping people in cars and on the edge of cliffs as others were forced to jump off to survive.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron told lawmakers from his party yesterday he alone is responsible over a top bodyguard filmed assaulting May Day protesters, an incident that has sparked the biggest political crisis of his tenure.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump yesterday said she was shutting her fashion line to focus on her role as an informal White House adviser, where she is working on advancing working women.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Satellite images indicate North Korea has begun dismantling key facilities at a site used to develop engines for ballistic missiles, in a first step toward fulfilling a pledge made to U.S.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – The man accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding 13 others on a bustling Toronto street struggled with severe mental illness, his family said yesterday as police sought a motive in the rampage.
(Reuters) – More than 450 immigrant parents who were separated from their children when they entered the United States illegally are no longer in the country though their children remain behind, according to a joint court filing yesterday by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union.
