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December 2003

• Ex-Parmalat CEO Ordered to Stay in Prison (31 Dec 2003)
• UK companies axe 7,000 final salary pension schemes (31 Dec 2003)
• Equitable Life will never recover (31 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat woes shine fresh spotlight on tax havens (31 Dec 2003)
• Barclays set to join jobs exodus (31 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat chief 'misappropriated €800m': report (30 Dec 2003)
• Tanzi 'has admitted diverting €500m' (30 Dec 2003)
• Russia to audit all state sell-offs (30 Dec 2003)
• SEC accuses Parmalat of fraud (30 Dec 2003)
• Singapore company unaware of Parmalat Cuba deals (30 Dec 2003)
• Tanzi admits taking Parmlat funds (30 Dec 2003)
• SEC turned timid as corruption became more complex (29 Dec 2003)
• Corruption, Governance and Globalisation: Lessons from the New Thailand (29 Dec 2003)
• When the Parmalat yogurt hits the fan (29 Dec 2003
• PARMALAT: 8.221 BILLION EURO DEBT ACCUMULATED AS OF 2002 (29 Dec 2003
• Prosecutors question Parmalat founder (29 Dec 2003)
• Underwriting Bribery Export Credit Agencies and Corruption (29 Dec 2003)
  
• Crooked deck of business cards (29 Dec 2003)
• BSE-infected beef spreads to eight US states (29 Dec 2003)
• Public-private promise slides down the tube (29 Dec 2003)
• Another PFI failure: London Underground system worse than ever (29 Dec 2003)
• 3 million Britons work over the European limit (29 Dec 2003)
• Vitamin price fixing lawsuits (28 Dec 2003)
  
• How business and political corruption harms people (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat Founder Detained in Fraud Case (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat underscores the ethics of capitalism (28 Dec 2003)
• Who Gets Parmalat's Milk And Cookies? (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat goes bankrupt as new scandal emerges (28 Dec 2003)
• Two years after the fall, here come the Enron trials (27 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat founder held in Milan (27 Dec 2003)
• KPMG resigns Hollinger audit (24 Dec 2003)
• Crisis worsens for Black's Telegraph empire as auditors quit Hollinger (24 Dec 2003)
• Corporate Ethics And The Magi’s Law (24 Dec 2003)
• Vivendi agrees to $50 million SEC settlement (24 Dec 2003)
• Mad cow disease spreads to the US (24 Dec 2003)
• Italy's Parmalat Collapse Felt in U.S. - $1.6 Billion Says Moody's (24 Dec 2003)
• UK accountancy firms in the Parmalat scandal (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat account hole now seen 7 bln euros (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat Seeks Bankruptcy Protection (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat embraced  offshore accounts, currency swaps and off-balance sheet accounting (24 Dec 2003)
• Italian government to bail out Parmalat (24 Dec 2003)
• Bank of America claims fraud in Parmalat case (24 Dec 2003)
• Bank Claims Fraud in Parmalat Case (24 Dec 2003)
• SEC probes 'disclosure' by Amylin Pharmaceuticals (24 Dec 2003)
• UK uncovers 3,607 cases of violation of minimum wage laws (23 Dec 2003)
• Major financial scandals of last two decades (23 Dec 2003)
• Consequences of tax avoidance: 2,500 Britons will die unnecessarily this week (23 Dec 2003)
• UK Watchdog to investigate aluminium trading (23 Dec 2003)
• Enron banks are back in the Parmalat spotlight (23 Dec 2003)
• Londis rebels in call for DTI inquiry (23 Dec 2003)
• HSBC boss in $15m share options deal after 1400 lose their jobs (23 Dec 2003)
• Corporate takeover of the state: Former UK Ambassador promoted cause of Enron boss (23 Dec 2003)
• CIBC to Pay $80 Million, Executives to Pay More than $600,000, to Compensate Fraud Victims (23 Dec 2003)
• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce agreed to pay US$80-million over Enron deals (23 Dec 2003)
• UK regulator curbs funds' spin on past performance (23 Dec 2003)
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• Conrad Black, the media tycoon behind the Daily Telegraph refuses to testify (23 Dec 2003)
• UK Health Service seeks £30m from drug firms in price fixing claim (23 Dec 2003)
• Profits Before People: Elderly couple die after gas cut off (23 Dec 2003)
• Italy amends bankruptcy laws for Parmalat rescue (23 Dec 2003)
• Italy fears Enron-size crisis following disappearance of Cayman Islands assets (23 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat founder and two ex-directors investigated (23 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat 'falsified its accounts' (23 Dec 2003)
• Prosecutor tells of 'false accounting' at Parmalat (23 Dec 2003)
• SEC Settles Civil Fraud Action Against Vivendi Universal, S.A., Its Former CEO, Jean-Marie Messier, and Its Former CFO, Guillaume Hannezo (23 Dec 2003)
• UK tops EU asthma league tables (23 Dec 2003)
• Bills for Tyco CEO’s Manhattan apartment reach $11 million              (23 Dec 2003)
• British children twice as likely to have asthma as those in other EU countries (22 Dec 2003)
• BAKERS, lumberjacks, dentists and waitresses most likely to develop adult asthma (22 Dec 2003)
• Why Parmalat has spooked the markets (22 Dec 2003)
• Crisis-hit Parmalat readies for administration move (22 Dec 2003)
• Banks' exposure to Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat in fraud inquiry (22 Dec 2003)
• Hollinger facing £11 million lawsuit (22 Dec 2003)
• Ex Hollinger CEO to refuse to testify before SEC (22 Dec 2003)
• Drug Firms to Fight £30M UK Price-Fixing Case (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat faces going into administration (22 Dec 2003)
• Time running out for Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat's money hole may gape wider (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat's missing milk billions (21 Dec 2003)
• Tricks of cigarette marketing smoked out (21 Dec 2003)
• PARMALAT, CONTROLS DIDN'T WORK (21 Dec 2003)
• UK  Watchdog Ready to Investigate Italian Food Group's Finances (21 Dec 2003)
• Corporate irresponsibility not a new dawn (20 Dec 2003)
• LG Card debts exceed assets by $2.7 billion (19 Dec 2003)
• Alliance Capital agrees to $600 million settlement (19 Dec 2003)
• Relief for electrical stores over UK warranty ruling (19 Dec 2003)
• Class action expert calls on UK and European investors to hold major companies to account by embracing US-style litigation (19 Dec 2003)
• Crédit Lyonnais fined $100m for breaking rules (19 Dec 2003)
• 1% of travellers risk DVT on long-haul flights (19 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat admits that documents purporting to show it had e4bn (£2.8bn) of cash and securities were forgeries (19 Dec 2003)
• 4bn-euro (£2.8bn; $4.8bn) hole in Parmalat's accounts (19 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat seeks breathing space in $400m crisis (19 Dec 2003)
• Ahold's interim CFO says cleanup done (19 Dec 2003)
• Chase de Vere fined £165,000 over misleading precipice and high income bond promotion (19 Dec 2003)
• HALLIBURTON MAY HAVE IGNORED INTERNAL AUDIT WARNING OF OVERCHARGING (19 Dec 2003)
• Federal Reserve Board finesCredit Lyonnais $100 million (18 Dec 2003)
• Stockbroker Hoodless Brennan fined £150,000 issuing a "false and misleading" statement to the market (18 Dec 2003)
• Virgin wins Luxembourg appeal on dirty tricks in BA sales (18 Dec 2003)
• Alliance Capital Management Will Pay Record $250 Million and Make Significant Governance and Compliance Reforms To Settle SEC Charges (18 Dec 2003)
• Regulators tells UK motor industry to remove warranty shackles (18 Dec 2003)
• Six charged over French banking scandal (18 Dec 2003)
• UK consumers ripped-off by unfair product warranties (18 Dec 2003)
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• UK credit card firms ripping-off people (18 Dec 2003)
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• KPMG mulls quitting post as Hollinger group auditor (17 Dec 2003)
• UK car drivers losing £500m a year because of unfair warranty deals (17 Dec 2003)
• Friends Provident fined £675,000 for mis -handling mortgage endowment complaints (17 Dec 2003)
• Mutual Funds' Worst Nightmare (17 Dec 2003)
• Calpers files lawsuit against NYSE (17 Dec 2003)
• HealthSouth spent $350 million to buy back its shares when its stock price was artificially inflated by a massive accounting fraud at the compan y (17 Dec 2003)
• UK government proposes the biggest anti-consumer legislation of all times - more liability concessions to auditors and directors (16 Dec 2003)
• UK energy companies ripping-off consumers (16 Dec 2003)
• OFT investigates claims of cigarette price fixing (16 Dec 2003)
• UK watcdog investigates possible price fixing in the cigarette trade (15 Dec 2003)
• Drug firms neglected the needy, says a think tan k (15 Dec 2003)
• GlaxoSmithKline chief executive gives up perks to head off fat-cat row (14 Dec 2003)
• The financial industry's rotten core (14 Dec 2003)
• Joe Bloggs jeans owner in a novel tax avoidance scheme ... suing himself (14 Dec 2003)
• Tax avoidance means the UK government invests less (14 Dec 2003)
• Social Inequalities: sick Britain falls to bottom of health league (13 Dec 2003)
• Price of Development: Growing concern over India's e-waste (13 Dec 2003)
• Maggot infested meat fed to people to make £1 million profit (13 Dec 2003)
• SFI, owner of the Slug & Lettuce chain, censured for accounting errors (13 Dec 2003)
• Read the company's annual accounts
• SEC Levels Fraud Charges Against Heartland Advisors, Inc., 12 Company Officials and Others for Misrepresentations, Mispricing and Insider Trading in Two High Yield Bond Funds (12 Dec 2003)
• Cap Gemini lands £3bn Inland Revenue contract (12 Dec 2003)
• Britain's privatised train companies get another £22 billion (12 Dec 2003)
• Ryanair defies British watchdog over misleading ad (12 Dec 2003)
• Reed Elsevier at risk as British MPs look into science publishing market (12 Dec 2003)
• UK Inland Revenue dumps IT provider EDS (11 Dec 2003)
• UK government to 'cap' fat cat pension pots (11 Dec 2003)
• SEC SUES FORMER EXECUTIVES OF NICOR ENERGY FOR ROLE IN FINANCIAL FRAUD (11 Dec 2003)
• Nicor Inc. "cooked the books" to boost executive bonuses (11 Dec 2003)
• 5 ex-HealthSouth execs sentenced (11 Dec 2003)
• Court rules for tobacco companies in negligence suit (10 Dec 2003)
• Company directors act like dictators (10 Dec 2003)
• Corporate emperors still rule, says Enron whistleblower (10 Dec 2003)
• UK train company pleads guilty to breaches of health and safety regulations (10 Dec 2003)
• Freddie Mac (Arthur Andersen client) pays $125 million civil fine to settle allegations of management misconduct (10 Dec 2003)
• Freddie Mac faces $125 million penalty (10 Dec 2003)
• Read the Report on corporate misconduct
• Abbey fined £2.3m for breaches of strict anti-money laundering and other rules (10 Dec 2003)
• UK Power firms 'ignore code of practice' (9 Dec 2003)
• Global Crossing posts losses of US$25 billion for 2000-2002 (9 Dec 2003)
• UK moving up poverty league but not by much (9 Dec 2003)
• 22% Britons  live below poverty line (9 Dec 2003)
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• UK government promises a credit shake-up (8 Dec 2003)
• Highly profitable companies barely pay cleaning staff a living wage               (8 dec 2003)
• Women's pay in UK still lagging behind  men's (8 Dec 2003)
• Enron Examiner Cites Auditors and Banks in frauds (8 Dec 2003)
• How drug firms 'hoodwink' medical journals (7 Dec 2003)
• Who killed Roberto Calvi (7 Dec 2003)
• UK taxpayer to pour billions into privatised railway companies (7 Dec 2003)
• Resistance to business regulation paved the way for accounting scandals (7 Dec 2003)
• $1 billion Iraq contracts bonanza for Cheney firm (7 Dec 2003)
• Anger at £1.4m pay-off to Carlton boss (7 Dec 2003)
• KPMG finds loopholes to favour fat cat pensions (6 Dec 2003)
• Invesco's system called 'outrageous': Firm took market timing to new level, regulators contend (5 Dec 2003)
• Amvescap arm facing new inquiry               (5 Dec 2003)
• BAE accused of hiding cash paid to win deals (5 Dec 2003)
• Distribute wealth from individuals to corporations, says the ICAEW (5 Dec 2003)
• Royal Bank of Canada 'aided and abetted' Enron frauds (5 Dec 2003)
• Enron report slams KPMG (5 Dec 2003)
• KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers and banks helped certain Enron officers breach their financial duties (5 Dec 2003)
• Leading banks knew of Enron fraud (5 Dec 2003)
• 19 year on: 8000 Bhopal dead remembered (4 Dec 2003)
• Merrill Lynch  plans to reimburse about $11 million to buyers of mutual funds (4 Dec 2003)
• Grand Jury Indicts Westar Energy Execs (4 Dec 2003)
• SEC Charges Mutuals.com With Fraud (4 Dec 2003)
• SEC Charges Dallas Investment Complex and Three of its Officers with Defrauding Hundreds of Mutual Funds in Market Timing and Late Trading Scheme (4 Dec 2003)
• Former Enron trader charged with manipulation of California power markets (4 Dec 2003)
• UK government announces weak company law reform (4 Dec 2003)
• Read the proposed Comapny Law Bill
• Corporations Squeal: SEC budget to be trimmed to $811 million (3 Dec 2003)
• Invesco Funds Group  and its chief executive charged with civil fraud (3 Dec 2003)
• UK watchdog  complacent  over the mortgage endowments crisis (3 Dec 2003)
• Amvescap to fight US fraud charges (3 Dec 2003)
• Profits before people: Norwich jobs move to India (3 Dec 2003)
• Consultant fee ‘is a waste of public money’ (3 Dec 2003)
• More bark than bite: UK regulator promises action against endowment mortgage mis-sellers (2 Dec 2003)
• Amvescap firm in funds scandal (2 Dec 2003)
• SEC CHARGES INVESCO FUNDS GROUP, INC. AND CEO RAYMOND CUNNINGHAM WITH FRAUD AND BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY FOR ALLOWING MARKET TIMING AT INVESCO FUNDS (2 Dec 2003)

• Boeing CEO exits dmits concerns about improper corporate behaviour (2 Dec 2003)

• Travelers suing carriers, Boeing over blood clots (2 Dec 2003)
• British workers were being pressurised by employers to work longer hours (2 Dec 2003)
• Chairman of Skandia quits (2 Dec 2003)
• Court told  that the DaimlerChrysler merger was a "plain, old-fashioned fraud" (2 Dec 2003)
• Corporate profiteering: Britain surrounded by water but facing a water crisis - up to 60% of the water leaks away from supply pipes (1 Dec 2003)
• Read the Water Inspectorate's Report
• Group seeks boycott of Toys ``R'' Us over use of tax shelters (1 Dec 2003)
• Boss of scandal-hit Skandia quits: financial misconduct suspected (1 Dec 2003)
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• Overworked, stressed and debt-ridden Britons are depressed (1 Dec 2003)
• Conrad Black took $93 million in dividends, an amount that exceeded the newspaper's pre-tax profits by 37 percent (1 Dec 2003)
• Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger International Inc.,probed over a $265 million loan (1 Dec 2003)
• Consequences of poverty and exploitation: 1.6 million people die from indoor smoke (1 Dec 2003)

November 2003

• UK regulator to ivestigate abuse of 'self-certification mortgages ' (30 Nov 2003)
• FBI investigation into suspected fraudulent trading by  Icap's currency traders (30 Nov 2003)
• Barclays Bank continues to defy the Higgs code on corporate governance (30 Nov 2003)
• No more than 10 fraudsters at Ahold (28 Nov 2003)
• UK government sacntions a £75 million waste recycling PFI project (28 Oct 2003)
• Telewest revamp racks up £100m fees bill from lawyers, bankers and accountants (28 Nov 2003)
• 11 Banks, Brokerages Sanctioned for Collusion in SK Networks Fraud (28 Nov 2003)
• Andersen gave birth to new breed of managers (28 Nov 2003)
• More taxpayer subsidies: British Energy 'given £200 million loan ' (28 Nov 2003)
• UK Finance Directors bag a 13% average increase in salary (27 Nov 2003)
• Fat cat pay 'harms big business' (27 Nov 2003)
• Corporate capture of the State: Former KPMG partner made industry adviser (27 Nov 2003)
• Corporate Crimes Against Nature (27 Nov 2003)
• Ex-BHP chief paid £7m golden hello (27 Nov 2003)
• Amvescap arm faces twin fines for mutual fund scandal (27 Nov 2003)
• Toxic man-made chemicals found in the blood of every person in a survey (27 Nov 2003)
• Read the WWF report
• UN criticises BHP over individual contracts (27 Nov 2003)
• Bank One Corp.'s mutual fund unit expecting regulatory litigation (27 Nov 2003)
• More subsidies please: British Energy wants more money (27 Nov 2003)
• British taxpayer underwrites a £4.5 billion BAE arms dea l (27 Nov 2003)
• Consequcnes of corporate tax avoidance: 330,000 old people died of cold weather in the UK (27 Nov 2003)
• Corporate Takeover of Britain: The case of the Food Standards Agency (27 Nov 2003)
• UK's Food Standards Agency is failing, says a parliamentary committee
• Low earners, women and ethnic minorities lose out on pension in the UK (27 Nov 2003)
• Read the 40 page Report
• Ex-HealthSouth executive is 15th to plead guilty (27 Nov 2003)
• HBOS subsidiary St. James's fined £250,000 for poor records and documentation of sales (27 Nov 2003)
• Ex Morgan Stanley manager charged with fraud (27 Nov 2003)
• AOL Executive Accused Of Fraud (27 Nov 2003)
• Security Trust Company shut down by US regulators (27 Nov 2003)
• Improper mutual funds trading at UBS (26 Nov 2003)
• Security Trust Company faces criminal charges (26 Nov 2003)
• ROYAL Bank of Scotland role criticised in the Enron debacle (26 Nov 2003)
• London Mayor candidate accepts one day a week job for £100,000 at a PFI company (26 Nov 2003)
• Icap fears legal action after fraud charges against its currency dealers (26 Nov 2003)
• Child poverty persists in the UK (25 Nov 2003)
• Irish workers protest over pension fraud (25 Nov 2003)
• Boeing Fires Execs for Unethical Conduct (24 Nov 2003)
• UK workers put in  £23 billion unpaid overtime each year (24 Nov 2003)
• Mutual Funds industry scandal (24 Nov 2003)
• $14 billion suit blasts top execs at Safeway (24 Nov 2003)
• Shareholder suits allege insider misconduct decimated Safeway (24 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger upheaval spreads to Canada (24 Nov 2003)
• UK regulator extends unit trusts inquiry to 'market timing' (24 Nov 2003)
• 49 new cases of BSE alram British people (24 Nov 2003)
• Loophole allows UK legislators to hide buisiness riches (23 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger audit committee quits (23 Nov 2003)
• New Hollinger payment unveiled (23 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger reveals earnings overstated by $17M (23 Nov 2003)
• FBI 'Prince' exposes foreign currency scam (23 Nov 2003)
• State and capitalism: UK 'delaying equal pay for temps ' (22 Nov 2003)
• Investment manager Pilgrim Baxter & Associates charged with fraud and illegal tradin g (21 Nov 2003)
• Tyco lawyer tells of mansion he owned, but didn't (21 Nov 2003)
• US to consider a Bill for limited expensing of executive share options (21 Nov 2003)
• Time to put an end to the sale of  dubious and abusive tax shelter schemes,says US Senator Carl Levin (21 Nov 2003)
• Accounting and law professionals were just chasing big dollars, says Senator Norm Coleman                (21 Nov 2003)
• Testimony by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
• Tax shelters were  developed by KPMG and/or for KPMG, says Deutsche Bank
• PwC also implicated in aggressive tax shelters, says Quellos Group CEO
• Not us guv ,says HVB America Vice-President
• KPMG, Grant Thornton, BDO sued for selling abusive tax shelters, says US Revenue
• Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board warns accountancy firms
• Federal Reserve warns baks and financial service companies
• US prosecutes accountancy firms for anti-social conduct whilst UK indulges them by offering liability limits (20 Nov 2003)
• Lieberman assails Bush over proecting accounting firms and corporations (20 Nov 2003)
• Companies Deeply Dissatisfied With Accounting, Legal, and Consulting Providers (20 Nov 2003)
• MG four defend £15m pay (20 Nov 2003)
• Forex fraud 'goes back 20 years' (20 Nov 2003)
• Fraud is easy in big, lightly regulated forex market (20 Nov 2003)
• Currency trading fraud described as `staggering' (20 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger scandal deepens with SEC subpoena (20 Nov 2003)
• UK regulators warn against personal loan and debt consolidation companies (20 Nov 2003)
• 47 currency dealers charged after FBI swoop (20 Nov 2003)
• SEC probes payments at Hollinger Intl (19 Nov 2003)
• Conrad Black: Fall of a poster boy for capitalism (19 Nov 2003)
• Conrad Black and the "non-compete" agreement at Hollinger (19 Nov 2003)
• KPMG collected an estimated $180 million in fees from just four tax avoidance strategies (19 Nov 2003)
• US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investiogations Report: The Tax Shelter industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, including Four KPMG case Studies (19 Nov 2003)
• Tax shelter industry based not on economic substance but on greed, says Lieberman (19 Nov 2003)
• How some of the tax shelters work (19 Nov 2003)
• How the BLIPS tax avoidance system works (19 Nov 2003)
• Major accounting firms sell abusive tax shelters, says Debra Peterson (19 Nov 2003)
• Tax avoidance industry is doing real damage, says Law Professor Calvin Johnson (19 Nov 2003)
• KPMG defends its role in selling tax shelters, Philip Weisner speaks (19 Nov 2003)
• PwC admits wrongdoing in selling abusive tax shelters, PwC's Ricahrd Berry Jr speaks (19 Nov 2003)
• Ernst & Young admits to marketing aggressive tax shelters, says Mark Weinberger (19 Nov 2003)
• 48 foreign exchange traders arrested on suspicion of fraud in New York (19 Nov 2003)
• Britons over run with debt: 23% rely on credit for day-to-day needs (19 Nov 2003)
• Morgan Stanley accepts $50 million slap (18 Nov 2003)
• British Railways claimed 50 lives last year (18 Nov 2003)
• RICH GET RICHER AND POOR GET EVEN POORER (18 Nov 2003)
• Watch out for falling wages at Wal-Mart (18 Nov 2003)
• 260,000 UK jobs paid below national minimum wage rates (18 Nov 2003)
• Low pay scandal: Despite minimum wage laws some UK teenagers are paid only £1.25 an hour (18 Nov 2003)
• Poor building standards and smaller houses are creating a "crowded house syndrome" in the UK (18 Nov 2003)
• Barclaycard told to drop 0% claim (18 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger Board of directors served only one master (18 Nov 2003)
• KPMG signed off on plans that funneled $32 million in improper fees to Hollinger xecutives (18 Nov 2003)
• British media baron  Conrad Black quits in fees scandal (18 Nov 2003)
• Downfall of an old-style media magnate
• Strategic gamble which saw a mogul meet his Waterloo
• How about responsible taxes? (17 Nov 2003)
• Morgan Stanley to Settle Fund Allegations for $50 Million  (17 Nov 2003)
• Some tax discrepancies in the accounts of major UK companies (17 Nov 2003)
• Why are retirement pensions under attack? (17 Nov 2003)
• UK Employers Enjoy £1bn Pensions Holiday (17 Nov 2003)
• UK Firms still taking pensions holidays and robbing employees of pensions (17 Nov 2003)
• If  Maersk can do it why can't other companies save employee pension schemes (17 Nov 2003)
• Morgan Stanley fined $50 million for abuse (17 Nov 2003)
• SEC Charges Morgan Stanley With Inadequate Disclosure in Mutual Fund Sales, Morgan Stanley Pays $50 Million To Settle SEC Action (17 Nov 2003)
• UK has one of the lowest corporation tax and employer social security tax rates in the Western world (17 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger International CEO steps down after company found US$ 32.15 (£19 million) unauthorised payments (17 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger International CEO other top officials step down after the company found unauthorized payments (17 Nov 2003)
• US Senator attacks Mass Marketing of Abusive Tax Shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• KPMG may be responsible for $85 billion in tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• KPMG promoted dubious charitable deductions and complicated transactions to generate phony paper losses for clients (17 Nov 2003)
• US Senate probes KPMG tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• Corporate takeover of Britain: The teacher who made £15m out of schools (16 Nov 2003)
• Profits before People: UK banks closing bank branches (16 Nov 2003)
• Companies 'undermining global fight against HIV ' (16 Nov 2003)
• The Internet and Grassroots Politics: Nike, the Athletic Apparel Industry and the Anti-sweatshop Campaign by Victoria Carty (16 Nov 2003)
• Our Hidden History: Corporations in America (16 Nov 2003)
• The CORPORATE DOMINATION of American Culture and Politics (16 Nov 2003)
• The Myth of the Self-Regulating Market (16 Nov 2003)
• Corporate Watchdogs and the State (16 Nov 2003)
• Corporate Social Responsibility Reports: lot of hot air but little substance (15 Nov 2003)
• US Crony Capitalism? Corporate Scandals and Reform (15 Nov 2003)
• Schwab admits improper trading of mutual funds (15 Nov 2003)
• Xerox settles $239 million pension lawsuit with employees (15 Nov 2003)
• BSKYB's £30 million boss gets another £5 million for not joining a rival (15 Nov 2003)
• Non-Governmental Organizations Seek More Candor in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports (15 Nov 2003)
• Enron's ghost haunts India (15 Nov 2003)
• Jury awards Alabama $11.9B in Exxon Mobil case (15 Nov 2003)
• Exxon must pay $11.8bn damages (15 Nov 2003)
• Powergen puts up UK consumer prices at twice the rate of inflation (14 Nov 2003)
• UK Watchdog slaps fine on ex-CSFB banker for misleading tax authorities (14 Nov 2003)
• Putnam to pay back investors, revamp boards in SEC deal (14 Nov 2003)
• Scandal-hit US fund Putnam Investments agrees deal (14 Nov 2003)
• Hard up UK mothers return to work but children suffer (14 Nov 2003)
• Bye, Bye Miss American Pie; Outsourcing is Tantamount to Slavery (14 Nov 2003)
• US Congress in giving mood to drug companies, energy industry (14 Nov 2003)
• Accountant talks about pressures for tax avoidance (14 Nov 2003)
• Ernst & Young rake in £811.6m in the UK (14 Nov 2003)
• US Senate hears the role of Ernst & Young in tax avoidance schemes (14 Nov 2003)
• Former KPMG man lifts the lid of abusive tax shelters (14 Nov 2003)
• Tax avoidance abuses and tricks by the leasing industry (14 Nov 2003)
• Another Levi man claims that the company acted unlawfully (14 Nov 2003)
• Former Levi-Strauss man explains that he was fired for refusing to sign misleading tax evidence (14 Nov 2003)
• Former KPMG man lifts the lid of abusive tax shelters (14 Nov 2003)
• Co-op moves to fair trade coffee (14 Nov 2003)
• One in three British children live in poverty whilst corporate tax avoidance flourishes (14 Nov 2003)
• Read the Barnardo's Report
• 48% of London children live in poverty
• 41 Per Cent of Northern Ireland Children live in Poverty Hit Homes
• UK's Serious Fraud Office faces legal challenge to drug company inquiry (14 Nov 2003)
• UK Drugs firm takes SFO to court (13 Nov 2003)
• Allied Domecq chief banks £2m paypacket (13 Nov 2003)
• Forbes lists America's Top Corporate Givers, but silent on tax avoidance and abuses (13 Nov 2003)
• It's time to deal with corporate crime (13 Nov 2003)
• South Korea Weekly Working Hours Drop to 43 (13 Nov 2003)
• EU eyes UK with working time law changes (13 Nov 2003)
• Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed (13 Nov 2003)
• Five year sentence for former Elf chief (13 Nov 2003)
• Ex Goldman economist pleads guilty to insider trading (13 Nov 2003)
• Goldman Sachs Ex-Exec Guilty of Fraud (13 Nov 2003)
• Former Goldman Economist Youngdahl Agrees to Fraud Injunction and $240,000 Penalty in SEC Treasury Bond Insider Trading Case (13 Nov 2003)
• BAE System's Dirty Dealings (13 Nov 2003)
• Libra Project: one of the worst PFI deals in the UK, says a parliamentary committee (12 Nov 2003)
• Work stress damages health (12 Nov 2003)
• Warranty chief quits after Ford investigation (12 Nov 2003)
• British Savers are missing out on £1.5bn (12 Nov 2003)
• UK water companies fail to safeguard the environment (12 Nov 2003)
• Former Elf boss given five years for $350 million embezzlement (12 Nov 2003)
• UK Female managers narrow pay gap (12 Nov 2003)
• Tyco devised phony addresses to hide the actual location of luxury executive apartments (12 Nov 2003)
• Tyco's former chief executive had a special company account to borrow company money without paying interest (12 Nov 2003)
• New rules force UK firms to 'double pension cash' (12 Nov 2003)
• Glass ceiling cracks as Uk women make mark in the boardroom (12 Nov 2003)
• More women break into UK boardrooms (11 Nov 2003)
• The number of women directors in leading UK companies has topped 100 for the first time (11 Nov 2003)
• Barts hospital PFI deal attracts few bids (11 Nov 2003)
• Another PFI faliure: Court computer plan wastes millions - and still doesn't work (11 Nov 2003)
• Maersk bails-out workers' pensions (10 Nov 2003)
• £500,000 fine for private firm running UK schools (10 Nov 2003)
• Average house price tops £160,000 in UK and beyond most workers (10 Nov 2003)
• Corporate fraud hurts thousands of innocent victims (8 Nov 2003)
• Regulator investigates London Stock Exchange fees (8 Nov 2003)
• British American Tobacco dragged out of Burma by human rights campaigners (8 Nov 2003)
• Former HealthSouth chief arrested for $2.7 billion accounting fraud (7 Nov 2003)
• GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals face collusion probe (7 Nov 2003)
• Xerox insurers refuse to reimburse the company for millions of dollars of fines (6 Nov 2003)
• UK customers face water shortages but water companies set to raise prices (6 Nov 2003)
• Dame Shirley's assets frozen by court order (5 Nov 2003)
• Dame Shirley's 'assets frozen'
• Capture of the State: Accountant becomes post regulator in the UK (5 Nov 2003)
• Durex executives charged with fraud                (5 Nov 2003)
• Ex-HealthSouth CEO accused of fraud (5 Nov 2003)
• Former U.S. Attorney General patrols WorldCom scandal (5 Nov 2003)
• Accounting scandals undermine public confidence (5 Nov 2003)
• CBS ditches Reagans movie, denying it gave in to pressure (5 Nov 2003)
• How the poor suffer from lack of universal healthcare in USA (4 Nov 2003)
• UK PFI contractors refinance their loansto increase profits by as much as 80% (3 Nov 2003)
• Britian lags behind Singapore, Sweden, Iceland, Holland, Japan, Germany and Finland in international competitiveness (3 Nov 2003)
• British consultancy firm offered inducements for Ugandan MPs to ensure project funded by World Bank went ahead (3 Nov 2003)
• Unions issue writ over lost pension rights and broken promises (3 Nov 2003)
• British children seduced by TV advertising (3 Nov 2003)
• US contractors reap windfall profits from Iraq war (1 Nov 2003)
• British banks ripping-off savers (1 Nov 2003)

 October 2003

• RSA and its global corporate governance manifesto (31 Oct 2003)
• UK implements ineffective corporate governance code (31 Oct 2003)
• Corporate hijacking: Bush election donors share $8bn bonanza (31 Oct 2003)
• Profits before People: Lloyds TSB shifting jobs overseas (31 Oct 2003)
• UK bosses urged to cut work stress (31 Oct 2003)
• US links fumes from BOC welding rods to Parkinson's disease (30 Oct 2003)
• Corporate tax cuts don't lead to jobs and growth (30 Oct 2003)
• Profits before people as more British banking jobs to move to India (30 Oct 2003)
• Estate agents urge buyers to lie about income to get mortgage                 (29 Oct 2003)
• How Western foreign policy harms developing countries (29 Oct 2003)
• Microsoft settles lawsuits for $200m (29 Oct 2003)
• World's farmers stand in solidarity against WTO (29 Oct 2003)
• Global Businesses Profit from Congo War (29 Oct 2003)
• U.N. Must Address Corporate Role in Congo War (29 Oct 2003)
• Goldman Bars Execs from Public Co. Boards (29 Oct 2003)
• How Accountants Help Defraud Local Governments (29 Oct 2003)
• EU probes MasterCard over fees (29 Oct 2003)
• Black Americans still lag behind in income and wealth distribution (29 Oct 2003)
• UK housebuyers encouraged to lie to obtain huge mortgages (29 Oct 2003)
• EU launches chemicals crackdown (29 Oct 2003)
• Oregon loses $440 million in Enron scandal (28 Oct 2003)
• UK Under-35s face pension misery (27 Oct 2003)
• Two More Charged in Enron-Merril Nigerian Deal (21 Oct 2003)
• Britain's railways want £35bn subsidy (20 Oct 2003)
• US corporate governance reforms are not enough (20 Oct 2003)
• SEC casts wary eye on hedge funds (20 Oct 2003)
• Rich world and poor world (19 Oct 2003)
• British men earn 38% more than women for same work (19 Oct 2003)
• Employers want tax perks on executive pensions (19 Oct 2003)
• Women still on 72% of men's pay in Britain (19 Oct 2003)
• Barclays' chief says credit cards too expensive (18 Oct 2003)
• Big price hikes for water users in Britain (18 Oct 2003)
• OECD Countries Struggle with Rising Demand for Health Spending (17 Oct 2003)
• Health expenditure in the UK is below average for the EU (17 Oct 2003)
• UK spends less than Greece, Iceland and Portuagal on health (17 Oct 2003)
• British Tourists Ripped off in New Zealand (17 Oct 2003)
• Troubled Brambles' new chief could earn £1.7m (17 Oct 2003)
• NYSE fines 'cheating' traders (17 Oct 2003)
• Former HealthSouth declines to answer questions from lawmakers (17 Oct 2003)
• HSBC transfers 4000 jobs from UK to China and India (17 Oct 2003)
• US Asbestos companies agree to divide the cost of a $114bn (£68bn) fund to compensate victims (17 Oct 2003)
• Ford makes more profit from finance than car making (17 Oct 2003)
• General Motors makes more profits from finance than car making (17 Oct 2003)
• Two more charged in Enron-Merrill Nigerian deal (16 Oct 2003)
• Does anyone love accountants - not many, says a poll (16 Oct 2003)
• Redback Networks says it's involved in SEC's Qwest probe (16 Oct 2003)
• Auditors/Accountants are silent on fraud but public blows the whistle (16 Oct 2003)
• Growth hormones used by cattle farmers  can cause cancer, says EU (16 Oct 2003)
• Bank of Japan agrees to pump cash into Resona (15 Oct 2003)
• 1,000 jobs at risk in loss-laden PFI unit (15 Oct 2003)
• Morgan Stanley falls into SEC fund probe (15 Oct 2003)
• Morgan Stanley, IBM and GE fun an ethics centre (15 Oct 2003)
• War on Iraq: Cormpanies make a killing (15 Oct 2003)
• Iraq and Corporate Patriotism: It's Time to Stop the War Profiteers (15 Oct 2003)
• IBM faces workers' cancer suit; trial to raise issue of high-tech hazards (15 Oct 2003)
• The Implications of UK Financial Services Industry (the City of London) for the UK’s Entry into the Euro (15 Oct 2003)
• British companies moan about taxes but silent on tax avoidance, flight of capital, public subsidies and public rip-offs (14 Oct 2003)
• Debt ridden Brits chased by Bailiffs (14 Oct 2003)
• US unions threaten action as BP cuts health bill (14 Oct 2003)
• Deutsche Bank boss faces fraud probe (14 Oct 2003)
• Apartheid pension 'rip-off' may cost workers $100bn (14 Oct 2003)
• Apartheid lawyer targets banks (13 Oct 2003)
• Why I blew the whistle at Abbey National (13 Oct 2003)
• Global companies  face $10bn suit over 'stolen' South African pensions (12 Oct 2003)
• Iraq 'asset-stripping' warning by Stiglitz (12 Oct 2003)
• Barclays bank ignores Code on corporate governance (10 Oct 2003)
• Swiss say no to US corporate governance law (13 Oct 2003)
• FBI Probe Linked to Enron Collapse? (9 Oct 2003)
• Swiss banks in Rolls Royce bribery case (8 Oct 2003)
• Latin America rich poor gap "widens" (8 Oct 2003)
• Two Tyco executives accused of taking $600m (£361m) (8 Oct 2003)
• Chinese workers face low wages and exploitation (8 Oct 2003)
• Danger: corporate looters at work (7 Oct 2003)
• Big-Four firms audit 78% of all US Public companies and 99% of all public company sales (7 Oct 2003)
• Read the full 146 page report
• PwC lists World´s Most Respected Companies but is silent on tax avoidance (7 Oct 2003)
• Fidelity subpoenaed in Spitzer probe (7 Oct 2003)
• Corporate scandals lead Times to look inside boardrooms (7 Oct 2003)
• Slum growth 'shames the world' (6 Oct 2003)
• Scientists take on the publishers in an experiment to make research free to all (6 Oct 2003)
• Jarvis failed to file paperwork for maintenance of crashed railways (6 Oct 2003)
• UK School lunches are 'cheap muck' (6 Oct 2003)
• Read the Soil Association Report
• Corporate responsibility is catching, but it needs to stick (5 Oct 2003)
• UK Life firms risk £20bn in fines (5 Oct 2003)
• Cadbury denies Dairy Milk infestation in India (5 Oct 2003)
• SembCorp Logistics fires PwC and KPMG over accounting irregularities (4 Oct 2003)
• PwC push for more privatisation in India (4 Oct 2003)
• A 150-to-1 Ratio Is the gap between the rich and the poor (2 Oct 2003)
• SEC says Amex failed to police options trade (2 Oct 2003)
• J.P. Morgan paying $25 million to settle allegations of improper IPO conduct (2 Oct 2003)
• Brokers quit in Prudential investigation (2 Oct 2003)
• Dozen resign in Prudential investigation (2 Oct 2003)
• Wall Street in dock as Tyco scandal reaches court (1 Oct 2003)
• SEC eyes crackdown on timing trades in fund shares (1 Oct 2003)
• SEC says American Stock Exchange covered up violations (1 Oct 2003)
• Standard Chartered will only serve the rich in Cameroon (1 Oct 2003)
• AmeriCredit Corp. offeres to pay $100,000 to settle insider trading case (1 Oct 2003)
• Debt mountain grows on British people (1 Oct 2003)
• EU alarmed as Putin backtracks on Kyoto (1 Oct 2003)

September 2003

• Elderly bear the cost of corporate tax dodging (30 Sep 2003)
• ENRON LAWSUIT TARGETS DEUTSCHE BANK (30 Sep 2003)
• Former NTL chief awarded $6.6m in options (30 Sep 2003)
• Fattest cats are companies with largest layoffs, most underfunded pensions, and use tax haven s to avoid taxes (30 Sep 2003)
• Read "Executive Excess: CEOs Profit from Layoffs, Pension Shortfalls, and Tax Dodges (30 Sep 2003)
• Tyco trial tests the waters (30 Sep 2003)
• Sun lotions 'are not effective' but make millions for companies (30 Sep 2003)
• Tyco trial tests the waters (30 Sep 2003)
• New Enron Management Sues Investment Banks (30 Sep 2003)
• Asian woman wins discrimination case against law firm (29 Sep 2003)
• Lloyds TSB fined £2m for mis-selling investment products (28 Sep 2003)
• UK MPs move to end rewards for failure (27 Sep 2003)
• British Parliament Committees slams executive greed and fat cat pay (26 Sep 2003)
• UK Inland Revenue recovers £3.5 million in unpaid wages from employers flouting minimum wage laws (25 Sep 2003)
• Cheap school meals are major risk to health (25 Sep 2003)
• UK Public Sector Salary Survey (24 Sep 2003)
• Growing gulf between rich and poor (24 Sep 2003)
• UK Pharmaceutical adverts 'inadequately policed' (23 Sep 2003)
• Workers can sue for Enron millions (23 Sep 2003)
• Ending Corporate Governance (23 Sep 2003)
• Statoil chief executive resigns over a probe into possible corruption (23 Sep 2003)
• Firms face 'blood diamond' probe (23 Sep 2003)
• UK Developers hold 'massive stock' of building land (22 Sep 2003)
• US covers up climate research (22 Sep 2003)
• Dutch to rethink supervisory boards' veto after Corus crisis (21 Sep 2003)
• West wins trade war in secret (21 Sep 2003)
• Investment banks face worldwide crackdown (21 Sep 2003)
• Cost of globalization: Basic services 'fail world's poor' (21 Sep 2003)
• 80 million people will die whilst corporations avoid taxes (18 Sep 2003)
• Under-fire FSA steps up war on insider trading (15 Sep 2003)
• FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBALIZATION (12 Sep 2003)
• Meet criminals who cost UK £14bn: the middle class (12 Sep 2003)
• Smoking kills five million people a year as companies profit (12 Sep 2003)
• UK gaming group bosses accused of trying to bribe US politician (12 Sep 2003)
• Indian farmers target Monsanto (12 Sep 2003)
• Guarding the Oil Underworld (12 Sep 2003)
• Attacking corporate crime (12 Sep 2003)
• The Fallacy of Bush's Corporate U.S.A. Inc. (12 Sep 2003)
• Wal-Mart sued for labor abuses (12 Sep 2003)
• Statoil falls under bribery cloud (12 Sep 2003)
• African nations attack cotton subsidies by wealthy nation s (12 Sep 2003)
• Corporate governance: A comparison of the King Report 2002 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (11 Sep 2003)
• BAE accused of arms deal slush fund (11 Sep 2003)
• Poor pay the price of WTO liberalization (11 Sep 2003)
• Slavery and Globalization (11 Sept 2003)
• First Enron ex-official is jailed (11 Sep 2003)
• Textile workers exploited all over the world (10 Sept 2003)
• Shares in Australian Pharmaceutical Industries slump -  manufacturing premises in a "disgraceful state of disrepair" (9 Sep 2003)
• UK Trade Union challenge over workers rights (9 Sep 2003)
• PFI triples profits, say firms (8 Sep 2003)
• Company bosses Screwing the public (7 Sep 2003)
• Outsourcing Human Rights Violations (6 Sep 2003)

August 2003

• Bosses who shed most staff take top pay packets (31 Aug 2002)
• CEOs Profit From Layoffs, Pension Shortfalls and Tax Dodges (26 Aug 2003)
• SEC to Target Directors in Fraud Cases (22 Aug 2003)
• Rica Foods CEO to pay fine in SEC settlement (21 Aug 2003)
• Monsanto in $700m pollution settlement (21 Aug 2003)
• 'Dirty List' Exposes Companies Supporting Regime in Burma (20 Aug 2003)
• Ageism challenge to UK firms (18 Aug 2003)
• Cigarette company profits causing  thousands of TB deaths in India (15 Aug 2003)
• Accident Group employees likely to remain unpaid                 (15 Aug 2003)
• Stakeholders file 'Record' pension complaints with UK regulators (15 Aug 2003)
• Man Sues Citigroup For Losing Life Savings (14 Aug 2003)
• Merrill Lynch rocked by $43m embezzlement claim (13 Aug 2003)
• UK Women face 'pensioner poverty' (12 Aug 2003)
• UK Student debt 'soaring' (11 Aug 2003)
• Consequences of Globalisation: Coke, Pepsi and India (11 Aug 2003)
• Ernst & Young  moving its tax return preparation business to India (11 Aug 2003)
• 100,000 protest over the World Trade Organisation and the French government's privatisation plans (11 Aug 2003)
• Cola firms launch India legal fight (11 Aug 2003)
• Bristol-Myers receives subpoena over drug pricing (10 Aug 2003)
• SEC is moving swifter and harder against executive wrongdoing (10 Aug 2003)
• UK audit leak slams AMP to low (7 Aug 2003)
• Indian lawmakers demand ban on Pepsi and Coca-Cola (6 Aug 2003)
• Debs chief bags 24% pay rise (6 Aug 2003)
• Poor wages for childminders in the UK (6 Aug 2003)
• Shell trench failed environmental audit (6 Aug 2003)
• Indian state claims waste from Coke plant could cause cancer (6 Aug 2003)
• Henderson rapped over 'failings' (6 Aug 2003
• Now for a maximum wage for company executives (6 Aug 2003)
• New Labour has picked up where Thatcherism left off                 (6 Aug 2003)
• Greenpeace seeks steps to close down Coca-Cola factory (5 Aug 2003)
• UK Nursery nurses are poorly paid (5 Aug 2003)
•   ' Sox' not the answer to corporate crime (5 Aug 2003)
• Xcel Energy power outage reports falsified - audit (5 Aug 2003)
• Dixons defends chief's £1.4m pay despite dismal 1% profit growth                 (4 Aug 2003)
• Questions and answers over the UK income distribution divide (2 Aug 2003)
• Executive pay rises seven times faster than average earnings (1 Aug 2003)

July 2003

• 2003 Annual Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Report (31 Jul 2003)
• UK Shares down 24%. Average earnings up 3%. Boardroom pay up 23% (31 Jul 2003)
• The wages of greed (31 Jul 2003)
• UK Shareholders get restless as 10 pocket £1m-plus payoffs                (31 Jul 2003)
• Directors' gains stir revolt by investors (31 Jul 2003)
• Mining boss's £9.1m crock of gold (31 Jul 2003)
• £335,000 for 41-mile move, as housing heads UK executive perks (31 Jul 2003)
• Company operating the London congestion charge gets  £31 million subsidy (31 Jul 2003)
• Indian Chartered Accountants want a level playing field (30 Jul 2003)
• UK's big polluters 'fail to learn'  (30 Jul 2003)
• JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup fined $300 million over Enron (29 Jul 2003)
• KPMG warns of disclosure implications of the Higgs rewrite (28 Jul 2003)
• SEC Settles Enforcement Proceedings against J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup (28 Jul 2003)
• UK regulators to investigate Ojjeh's Cordiant role (28 Jul 2003)
• US Corporate Reform's Baby Steps (28 Jul 2003)
• UK economic downturn brings more fraud to light (27 Jul 2003)
• Coca-Cola's 'toxic' India fertiliser (25 Jul 2003)
• How foreign workers are exploited in the UK (24 Jul 2003)
• Brokerage firm Spear, Leeds & Kellogg pays $450,000 to settle charges of manipulating trades (24 Jul 2003)
• Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants (24 Jul 2003)
• Members of Parliament call for investigation nto The Accident Group (24 Jul 2003)
• Maternity services lacking, say MPs (24 Jul 2003)
• Company profits 'flattered by assumptions on returns' on pension assets                  (23 Jul 2003)
• Craigavon pharmaceuticals facing a shares probe (23 Jul 2003)
• Flight from UK final salary pension schemes continues (23 Jul 2003)
• UK workers commute the longest in Europe (22 Jul 2003)
• Foreign nurses used as slave labour in the UK (22 Jul 2003)
• UK energy companies have over-billed millions of customers (21 Jul 2003)
• UK companies oppose any worthwhile corporate governance reforms (20 Jul 2003)
• AOL faces investor lawsuit (20 Jul 2003)
• Talking Back to the Ganglords: Free speech activist defeats computer industry (19 Jul 2003)
• High fat diet linked to breast cancer (18 Jul 2003)
• UK Financial services industry still guilty of mis -selling (18 Jul 2003)
• Tesco relocates IT to India (18 Jul 2003)
• Cosmetics giants in $175m give-away, as part settlement of a price fixing case (18 Jul 2003)
• Communities Reject Coca-Cola in India (17 Jul 2003)
• Burberry chief gets a £12 million deal (16 Jul 2003)
• Murdoch faces India blackout (16 Jul 2003)
• British income inequalities: Worse than under Thatcher (15 Oct 2003)
• £12m Burberry 'fat cat' revolt (15 Jul 2003)
• New York and Massachusetts officials are investigating Morgan Stanley (14 Jul 2003)
• Blow to new UK corporate killing law (13 Jul 2003)
• Communities Reject Coca-Cola in India (18 Jul 2003)
• No more PFI investment in IT projects, says UK Treasury (17 Jul 2003)
• PFI scrapped by the UK govt for IT projects after series of failures (15 Jul 2003)
• EU markets chief slams fat cat pay packages (10 Jul 2003)
• Tap water good if not better than bottled water (9 Jul 2003)
• Microsoft will not give share options (9 Jul 2003)
• Marks & Spencer chairman accepts a share only remuneration package (9 Jul 2003)
• Higgs supports the non-executive director shake up (9 Jul 2003)
• Crooked lenders 'not being stopped' by UK regulators (9 Jul 2003)
• Criminal charges over Hatfield train crash in UK (9 Jul 2003)
• ICAEW to obstruct accounting and governance reforms (9 Jul 2003)
• Companies face £75,000 fines for 'surprise sackings' (8 Jul 2003)
• Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC named in Adelphia lawsuit (8 Jul 2003)
• Workers win right to back-pay from exploitative employers (8 Jul 2003)
• Activists sue KFC over cruelty to poultry (8 Jul 2003)
• UK Credit probe to examine store cards (8 Jul 2003)
• WorldCom to pay $750 record fine (7 Jul 2003)
• Number of UK people in low paid jobs has doubled since 1977 (7 Jul 2003)
• Connex rail can't "demonstrate whether certain transactions with group companies are on an arm's length terms" (3 Jul 2003)
• UK company directors warn against further fat cat curbs (3 Jul 2003)
• Simplfiying corporate structures can save £1.2 billion in costs (2 Jul 2003)
• How millions of investor votes go missing (2 Jul 2003)
• Complaints about UK financial services hit record levels (2 Jul 2003)
• 75% of women work in the five lowest paid sectors in the UK (2 Jul 2003)

June 2003

• Fancy buying a plastic bucket for $972.98 to dodge corporate taxes (30 Jun 2003)
• Bring home the bacon or put more in the piggy (30 Jun 2003)
• UK Bosses 'overpaid and untrustworthy' (30 Jun 2003)
• Harrow and Eton are being investigated for allegedly operating a cartel (30 Jun 2003)
• Corporate tax avoidance is costing us all billions (29 Jun 2003)
• Turning a Blind Eye: Corruption and the UK Export Credits Guarantee Department (29 Jun 2003)
  
• Capitalism's grand delusion (29 Jun 2003)
• US Rules Require Shareholder Approval of Equity Compensation (28 Jun 2003)
• Second opinion The loans trail that shames us all (28 Jun 2003)
• UK executives are the second highest paid in the world (27 Jun 2003)
• SEC Sues  for Fraud in the Initial Public Offering of eChapman.com, Inc (26 Jun 2003)
• UK beancounters are the best paid in the world (26 Jun 2003)
• British banks fail their customers (26 Jun 2003)
• Virgin Trains in line for £282 million public subsidy (26 Jun 2003)
• Trade union attacks M&S for cutting pay of poorest workers (26 Jun 2003)
• Price-fixing row over BP's Russian oil deal (26 Jun 2003)
• UK trade unions threaten legal action over loss of worker  pensions                 (25 Jun 2003)
• UK Poverty gap widens (25 Jun 2003)
• UK moneylaunders charging exorbitant rates of interest, sometimes as high as 360% per year (25 Jun 2003)
• In good years companies had pension holidays but now power price rises fill pension black hole (25 Jun 2003)
• British railways in shambles but bosses get bonuses (23 Jun 2003)
• British banks penalise borrers for early repayment of loans (23 Jun 2003)
• Aggressive accounting helps Goodyear executives get bonuses (22 Jun 2003)
• Enron Style Corporate Crime and Privatization: A look at the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries (20 Jun 2003)
• Former Cable & Wirless boss gets £387,500 farewell (19 Jun 2003)
• Taxpayer not getting the best deal from PFI contracts because good procurement practice is not being followed, says UK regulator (19 Jun 2003)
• Debt campaigners call on Government to cap interest charges by companies (18 Jun 2003)
• The case for an interest rate cap in the UK (18 Jun 2003)
• NGOs in the US firing line - the rise of new McCarthyism (17 Jun 2003)
• Ex-Mobil Oil executive admits guiltt to tax evasion and goes to prison for more than 3 years (17 Jun 2003)
• MMO2  CEO pockets more than £1m  whilst company makes a loss of £10 billion (17 Jun 2003)
• Job Creation - a anice subsidy for company profits (17 Jun 2003)
• £100m jobs subsidy scheme is poor value, say auditors (17 Jun 2003)
• UK Rail fares set to rise as complaints go up and services fail to improve (17 Jun 2003)
• Loan companies ripping off UK consumers (17 Jun 2003)
• Profiting from Poverty: Why debt is big business in Britain
• UK wage inequalities: The number of first-time house buyers continues to fall   (16 Jun 2003)
• Icap plans £5m bonus for founder (16 Jun 2003)
• Crumbling British railways but executives will get a bonus of £2.7 million (16 Jun 2003)
• ICL misled the Government to extract itself from a loss-making Private Finance Initiative (15 Jun 2003)
• Revealed: UK's biggest earners (15 Jun 2003)
• Share options bonanza for UK bosses (15 Jun 2003)
• Share options explained (15 Jun 2003)
• The formula for fat cat cream                 (15 Jun 2003)
• C =SN(d1)-Ke [- rt] N(d2): Think you can work it out? (15 Jun 2003)
• Goodbye, Erin Brockovich, as class actions end in the US (15 Jun 2003)
• UK Customs chief to join a company bidding for government contracts through PFI (12 Jun 203)
• EU investigates BP and Shell over corruption (12 Jun 2003)
• The Stalemate in the WTO: An Update on Global Trends (11 Jun 2003)
• Founder and and former finance chief of Worldcom accused of fraud (10 Jun 2003)
• Seroxat warning over risk to young (10 Jun 2003)
• WorldCom 'was out of control' (9 June 2003)
• Read the 263 page Second Interim Report by Dick Thornburgh, WorldCom's Insolvency Examiner
• The pinstripe mafia objects to Britain's new money laundering laws (9 Jun 2003)
• MyTravel in deal with bankers (8 Jun 2003)
• British workers stage pensions protest (8 Jun 2003)
• A fat cat? Good on him (8 Jun 2003)
• GM corps produced a lower yield (7 Jun 2003)
• One in three poverty stricken Britons unable to save (7 Jun 2003)
• Call to end 200% interest rate on unsecured loans (7 Jun 2003)
• Chicken antibiotics 'must be revealed' ( 6 Jun 2003)
• Bought out by Big Business: US legislators seek to delay expensing of options for 3 years (6 Jun 2003)
• Xerox ex-directors settle $22 million charges (6 Jun 2003)
• Bechtel: Profiting from Destruction. Why the Corporate Invasion of Iraq Must be Stopped (5 Jun 2003)
• Six Former Senior Executives of Xerox Settle SEC Enforcement Action Charging Them With Fraud (5 Jun 2003)
• Bank loyalty costs UK consumers (5 Jun 2003)
• Horse meat being sold as a salamis in the UK (5 Jun 2003)
• Pollution kills fish in waterways (4 Jun 2003)
• EasyJet rapped for confusing ads (4 Jun 2003)
• British Gas has voted the UK's worst company for dealing with customer complaints (4 Jun 2003)
• Globalisation: Waterford Wedgwood moves jobs to Asia (4 Jun 2003)
• Third top Enron executive arrested (3 Jun 2003)
• UK government is clueless on 'fat cat' pay strategy (3 Jun 2003)
• One in four Britons 'in debt' (2 Jun 2003)
• Minimum redundancy pay in the UK is amongst the lowest throughout the EU (2 Jun 2003)
• HSBC deal boosts bosses' pay 800 per cent (1 Jun 2003)
• One in 10 top UK firms in tax probe (1 Jun 2003)

May 2003

• Research sponsored by drug companies is biased (31 May 2003)
• Freebies from companies compromises education (31 May 2003)
• Scottish water costs rise by 94% in real terms over the last decade (30 May 2003)
• Medical journal turns on drug firms (30 May 2003)
• Protest at HSBC bank's £37m deal for executive (30 May 2003)
• HSBC rebels lose pay battle (30 May 2003)
• Enter HSBC's $57m man (30 May 2003)
• Shell faces case of buried documents (30 May 2003)
• Profits first, safety last and poor maintenance cause of the rail crash (30 May 2003
• Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies (29 May 2003)
• Former Merrill Lynch analysts  chaged with issuing misleading research on Tyco (29 May 2003)
• UK Estate agents 'breaking the law' (29 May 2003)
• British motorists being ripped-off  by franchise dealers (28 May 2003)
• JP Morgan Chase and Credit Suisse First Boston sued for $1.3bn over healthcare 'fraud' (28 May 2003)
• UK Energy firms 'fail to curb dodgy dealers' (27 May 2003)
• Chicken farmers reintroduce growth drugs despite public fear (27 May 2003)
• Questions remain over growth drugs in chicken (27 May 2003)
• Vodafone boss may get £5m send-off (26 May 2003)
• Oligopolies and price-fixing (26 May 2003)
  
• Former chief executive of BHP Billiton given a £4m payoff (23 May 2003)
• HOW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATIONCAN RUN AFOUL OF THE LAWAND GOOD PRACTICES IN BUSINESS:THE ENRON'S DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR (23 May 2003)
• Coca-Cola investigates fraud claims (22 May 2003)
• New closure threat for bank branches (22 May 2003)
• British workers robbed of their pension rights (22 May 2003)
• Miami court overturns $145bn smokers' award (22 May 2003)
• Supermarkets insert cheap beef waste and water into chickens (21 May 2003)
• US Tobacco firms escape fine (21 May 2003)
• How pensioners survive: whilst cormpanies avoid taxes (21 May 2003)
• We have a minimum wage - now let's set a maximum (21 May 2003)
• Fat cats and the wages of failure (21 May 2003)
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• Qwest's Anschutz settles IPO charges-Spitzer (13 May 2003)
• Lenders exploit borrowers (13 May 2003)
• Bank breaches Wall Street accord (13 May 2003)
• Marconi given away to bondholders (13 May 2003)
• Church Commissioner berates 'immoral pay' for fat cats (13 May 2003)
• How UK energy companies cause consumer debt (13 May 2003)
• UK government's "golden share" in BAA ruled illegal under EU law (13 May 2003)
• UK Power firms own up to billing errors (13 May 2003)
• Management buy outs rob workers of pension rights (12 May 2003)
• Unilever implicated in child labour (11 May 2003)
• Consumers ripped-off by the UK Electricity companies (9 May 2003)
• Cadbury and Pru bosses face irate investors over 'fat cattery' (9 May 2003)
• Amec accused of violating its environmental and ethical policy (9 May 2003)
• PPP in practice: National Savings and Investments' deal with Siemens Business Services has not met the targets (9 May 2003)
• Gaps in UK disability discrimination laws leave thousands unprotected (7 May 2003)
• NEDs without any extra duties or responsibilities earned £38,000 (7 May 2003)
• Executive pay surges ahead by 23% (7 May 2003)
• £23,000 a mile for moving Kingfisher director (7 May 2003)
• GlaxoSmithKline faces revolt over £22m pay-off for chief executive (7 May 2003)
• Commodification of childcare (6 May 2003)
• US$1.4-billion settlement just a slap on Wall Street's wrist (5 May 2003)
• RSA pays its finance director £250,000 bonus - just for turning up at his desk (4 May 2003)
• Consumers stung in ‘sector neutrality’ sham (2 May 2003)
• Equitable Life policyholders lose £1.5 billion but bosses collect £2 million (2 May 2003)
• Young Britons fear being trapped by debt (2 May 2003)
• Ex-Enron Execs Arrested on Fraud Charges (1 May 2003)
• SEC Files Amended Complaint Charging Five Enron Executives with Fraud and Insider Trading Relating to Enron's Broadband Subsidiary (1 May 2003)

April 2003

• Five international oil companies found guilty of price-fixing petrol   (30 Apr 2003)
• Wall Street firms Pay $1.4 Billion (30 Apr 2003)
• Drugs firm broke advertising rules five times (30 Apr 2003)
• Wall Street analysts pay $1.4 billion for bamboozling investors (29 Apr 2003)
• Ten  Investment Firms Settle Enforcement Actions Involving Conflicts of Interest (29 Apr 2003)
• Blodget: Fined $4m (29 Apr 2003)
• Analyst scandal costs Wall St $1.4bn (29 Apr 2003)
• UK shies away from taking on corporate predators (29 Apr 2003)
• How much chocolate do you need to eat to get a free netball from Cadbury? (29 Apr 2003)
• UK government hot air over fat cat pay packets (28 Apr 2003)
• Wall Street Settles Financial Analyst Conflict-of-Interest Charges with $1.4 billion payment (28 Apr 2003)
• Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, US Bancorp Piper Jaffray, UBS Warburg (UBS Paine Webber) - will pay  $1.4 billion in fines (28 Apr 2003)
• Mastercard settles debit card suit (28 Apr 2003)
• 10 Wall St. Firms Settle With U.S. in Analyst Inquiry by paying $1.4 billion (28 Apr 2003)
• Wall Street Investment Firms Fined Historic $1.4 Billion in Settlement (28 Apr 2003)
• SEC Statement: Ten Top Investment Firms Settle Enforcement Actions Involving Conflicts of Interest Between Research and Investment Banking - fine of $1.4 billion (28 Apr 2003)
• Institutionalised racism in corporate USA (28 Apr 2003)
• £37m pay packet for HSBC bank boss (28 Apr 2003)
• UK trade unions call for corporate killing laws (28 Apr 2003)
• Exposed: cosy world of the perk ethic (27 Apr 2003)
• ABN Amro Equities fined £900,000 for market misconduct (23 Apr 2003)
• £2m bonus package for Standard Life directors (22 Apr 2003)
• Green groups to wage war at AGMs (20 Apr 2003)
• British Gas 'stopped customers leaving' (16 Apr 2003)
• Lincoln Financial Group ffined for mis-selling financial services ( 16 Apr 2003)
• Pharmaceutical firms fined $350 million  for  defrauding the US health care system Medicaid (16 Apr 2003)
• Marconi breached listing rules (11 Apr 2003)
• ICI chief O'Neill quits with £615,000 (10 Apr 2003)
• Former Cable & Wireless chief demands a £1.5m payoff (8 Apr 2003)
• Passive smoking 'killing workers' (7 Apr 2003)
• Raising revenues for social development: A case for land tax (6 Apr 2003)
• British business is not burdened, but pampered (2 Apr 2003)
• House of Commons' Trade and Industry committee's response to government proposals for reforming UK company law (1 Apr 2003)

March 2003

• Dyson moves 800 jobs in search for cheap labour (31 Mar 2003)
• UK Parliament to probe taxman's 'soft-pedalling' on Cable & Wireles (30 Mar 2003)
• The tangeled web of ORB and its offshore links (30 Mar 2003)
• Despite plunging profits Barclays Bank boss set for £9m bonanza (30 Mar 2003)
•   US drugs company Genzyme fined  £6.8m for price fixing (28 Mar 2003)
• Ex-Philips boss faces 'insider trading' charges (27 Mar 2003)
• Royal & Sun Alliance Life and Pensions fined  £950,000 for mortgage endowment mis-selling (27 Mar 2003)
• Unilever chief's pension pot is worth nearly £12m (27 Mar 2003)
• Dentists ripping off customers (26 Mar 2003)
• Minimum wage laws encourage state sponsored exploitation of the poor (25 Mar 2003)
• DBS Financial Management Plc fined for misleading advertisements (25 Mar 2003)
• Poorer children miss out on education (25 Mar 2003)
• Gender pay gap is between 19% and 40% in the UK (24 Mar 2003)
• Honda plans to raise retirement age in £40m pension gap move (21 Mar 2003)
• MyTravel trio walk out with large pay-offs as group limps on (21 Mar 2003)
• Former MyTravel chief executive awarded £1.2m payoff                (21 Mar 2003)
• SEC Charges HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy With $1.4 Billion Accounting Fraud (19 Mar 2003)
• IMF admits policy failures (19 Mar 2003)
• US tobacco companies used for  $289bn  (19 Mar 2003)
• Big business resents minimum wage of £4.50 (19 Mar 2003)
• BP chief executive received £1.7m performance bonus despite company slump (19 Mar 2003)
• How low pay crooks dodge the UK law (19 Mar 2003)
• Employers should pay more to meet the cost of workplace injuries (18 Mar 2003)
• Big Food Group  drops huge debt claim (18 Mar 2003)
• Taco's tomato pickers on slave wages (17 Mar 2003)
• How the poor have not benefitted from economic growth (17 Mar 2003)
• UK Farmers 'still exploited by big retailers' (17 Mar 2003)
• UK Drugs inquiry thrown into doubt over members' links with manufacturers (17 Mar 2003)
• Big Food Group attacked for £12m claim against Guyana (17 Mar 2003)
• Is Ford Going bust (16 Mar 2003)
• After 26 years, UK food group squeezes poverty-stricken Guyana for £12 million                 (16 Mar 2003)
• Pay bonanza for bosses at stricken British Energy (16 Mar 2003)
• BP faces $320m fine over alleged US clean air breach (14 Mar 2003)
• UK Trade Unions urge minimum wage for teenagers (14 Mar 2003)
• Black workers to receive £45m asbestos settlement                 (14 Mar 2003)
• Ex-Hanson chief gets £660,000 plus pension top-up (12 Mar 2003)
• Former ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal to Pay More than $800,000 in SEC Insider Trading Case (12 Mar 2003)
• Orange chief received $70m in two severance payments (12 Mar 2003)
•  Lloyds TSB chief's pension soars £1.1m whilst share price drops by 40% (11 Mar 2003)
• Call to curb executive greed (10 Mar 2003)
• Big Business barons oppose changes to their power structure (10 Mar 2003)
• How UK companies  dodge the minimum wage laws (7 Mar 2003)
• Record £4m payout for widow of man killed by asbestos (7 Mar 2003)
• Consequences of profits: Oil spill killed 200,000 birds (7 Mar 2003)
• Scottish Amicable  fined £750,000 for mis -selling mortgage endowment schemes (6 Mar 2003)
• Greed is the word in corporate boardrooms (3 Mar 2003)
• Derivatives dealers with pay bonanzas of more than £1m (3 Mar 2003)
• UK Pensioner poverty 'getting worse' (3 Mar 2003)
• Boss of Levi Strauss made over $25m in compensation (3 Mar 2003)
• 300,000 mentally ill in US prisons (3 Mar 2003)
• Misery of rag-trade slaves in America's Pacific outpost (1 Mar 2003)

February 2003

• Pension providers in new malpractices (27 Feb 2003)
• Abbey former chiefs walk away with £6.44m as bank makes loss (27 Feb 2003)
• Former Kmart executives charged with fraud                 (27 Feb 2003)
• UK Inspectors slam PFI hospital in report (27 Feb 2003)
• Qwest corporate culture placed meeting Wall Street expectations above the duty to serve shareholders and respect for the law (25 Feb 2003)
• SEC Sues Former and Current Qwest Employees for Fraud (25 Feb 2003)
• Savers to be offered People's Pension (23 Feb 2003)
• Pensions for the people based upon assets for the people (23 Feb 2003)
• A bright spark in the UK pensions gloom (23 Feb 2003)
• People's Pensions: New Thinking for the 21st Century - Read the Report (23 Feb 2003)
• UK firms face £77 billion pension 'black hole' (21 Feb 2003)
• Merrill Lynch agrees to pay $80m to settle over Enron (21 Feb 2003)
• Record fine for UK toy price-fixing (20 Feb 2003)
• Top executives face illegal payments charges (18 Feb 2003)
• UK Government subsidising oil and gas industry’s profits to the tune of £40 million (17 Feb 2003)
• A million endowment customers of one of the UK's largest insurers are facing a shortfall (17 Feb 2003)
• Bill for outside advice on UK railways triples to £39m   (17 Feb 2003)
• Six charged over bonuses in Vodafone's takeover of Mannesmann                   (17 Feb 2003)
• Ex-CSFB man on insider charges (16 Feb 2003)
• The scandal of split-capital investment trusts (14 Feb 2003)
• UK Parliament's report on the scandla of Split Capital Investment Trusts (14 Feb 2003)
• Life with the Lay people: The Enron connection (14 Feb 2003)
• UK Women 'stuck' in lower paid jobs (13 Feb 2003)
• Enron bribed tax officials : US Senate Committee on Finance (13 Feb 2003)
• Bank of Scotland  fined  for badly administering its savings schemes (13 Feb 2003)
• Liberty chairman attacks Higgs report as 'absurd and unhelpful ' (13 Feb 2003)
• Metrolink's late accounts fuel worry on PFI (13 Feb 2003)
• WTO calls for cuts in farm subsidies (13 Feb 2003)
• Financial analysts' bias under scrutiny (13 Feb 2003)
• GlaxoSmithKline CEO gets £20 million pay deal (13 Feb 2003)
• GlaxoSmithKline in bribery investigation (13 Feb 2003)
• UK Travel agents mis-sell insurance (12 Feb 2003)
• Banks face loss of millions over credit card fees (12 Feb 2003)
• Trade Union acts on flight of jobs to India (12 Feb 2003)
• Fears for British jobs as Aviva plans Indian call centre with 1,000 staff (12 Feb 2003)
• Marks & Spencer chairman gets £1 million and luxury flat for three days a week work (10 Apr 2003)
• CBI ready to marshal opposition to Higgs report on non-exec directors (10 Feb 2003)
• UK energy companies switch jobs to Asia to boost profits (9 Feb 2003)
• Intellectual property is theft. Ideas are for sharing (9 Feb 2003)
• Marks & Spencer chairman to get £1 million for a three day week (10 Feb 2003)
• B&B fit for a five-star chairman (10 Feb 2003)
• Profiting from PFI: How public is being ripped-off (7 Feb 2003)
• Nobel winners attack Bush economics (7 Feb 2003)
• Split capital investment trusts mis-selling: a damning report from a UK parliamentary committee (6 Feb 2003)
• Rastogi lawyers discuss plea deal                 (5 Feb 2003)
• Littlewoods scraps charitable donations (5 Feb 2003)
• AWG accuses Morrison of fraud in £130m compensation claim (5 Feb 2003)
• Fat cats at Allied Domecq (5 Feb 2003)
• Two-thirds of Britain's workforce earn less than the average salary (4 Feb 2003)
• Gender pay gap increases in the UK (4 Feb 2003)
• Poor are crushed by the UK wage differentials (4 Feb 2003)
• UK directors cut worker pensions but hit pension jackpot for themselves (4 Feb 2003)
• Two-thirds of the UK workers 'on less than average pay' (3 Feb 2003)
• Standard Life slashes bonus payments (3 Feb 2003)
• Rolls-Royce accused of bribery over its Indian dealings (2 Feb 2003)
• Work deaths soar as UK government dithers (2 Feb 2003)
• Cannabis economy brings in £11bn (2 Feb 2003)

January 2003

• AstraZeneca fears fine of at least $350m in US health fraud case (31 Jan 2003)
• Power without Responsibility – The Future of Accountancy (30 Jan 2003)
• KPMG fires pension fund trustees (30 Jan 2003)
• Stitched up: How the Big Four accountancy firms have PFI under their thumbs (29 Jan 2003)
• Off balance sheet financiang at PFI contractors (27 Jan 2003)
• MP calls for calls for crackdown on payoffs to failed company executives (27 Jan 2003)
• Mobile phone companies threatne to fleece customers even more (23 Jan 2003)

• Regulator curbs phone company rip-offs (22 Jan 2003)
• Big Wall Street banks face $10bn lawsuits (22 Jan 2003)
• Mis-sold mortgage cases get more time (22 Jan 2003)
• Company directors to recover £100m in share option tax (21 Jan 2003)
• UK court judgement hands millions in tax rebates to company executives (20 Jan 2003)
• Company chiefs set to recover £100m in tax as Revenue quits fight (20 Jan 2003)
• More of the same on non-executive directors : The Higgs Review (20 Jan 2003)
• Robert Smith Report on UK Audit Committees (20 Jan 2003)
• UK Bosses' bonanza widens pay gap between the sexes (20 Jan 2003)
• No statutory reform of non-executive directors - The Higgs Report (20 Jan 2003)
• Corporate interests  set the agenda for audit committees (20 Jan 2003)
• Merger creates world wine giant to reduce competition and increase monopoly profits (17 Jan 2003)
• ABB agrees asbestos settlement (17Jan 2003)
• Police in MobilCom raids (17 Jan 2003)
• Mean Britain: poor wages (17 Jan 2003)
• Scottish Widows cuts bonuses (17 Jan 2003)
• City watchdog warns on fee threats (17 Jan 2003)
• Early PFI Schools Not Significantly Better, Says UK Audit Commission (16 Jan 2003)
• Greenpeace moves to thwart British Energy bailout (15 Jan 2003)
• Who cares about low wages? (15 Jan 2003)
• SEC hands out $70m fines to brokers (15 Jan 2003)
• Aviva slashes bonuses for 3m with-profits policyholders (15 Jan 2003)
• Imperial boss held in German smuggling raid (15 Jan 2003)
• Pay more tax or 'fantastically expensive' insurance, says  Tony Blair (14 Jan 2003)
• Worst drop in decade wipes £875bn off UK pension funds (14 Jan 2003)
• Accident-prone stretch of UK railway 'renationalised' (14 Jan 2003)
• Australian insurer HIH acted  illegally (13 Jan 2003)
• Tobacco giant 'fobbed off' Customs (10 Jan 2003)
• MPs accuse cigarette firm of smuggling dodge (10 Jan 2003)
• How GATS could affect your life (10 Jan 2003)
• Driving the GATS Juggernaut (10 Jan 2003)
• UK losing £3.5 billion tax on cigarret smuggling (10 Jan 2003)
• Duty lost through smuggling from  Imperial brands was some £1.4 billion in 2001-02
• Imperial Tobacco accused of failing to co-operate with UK customs officials to prevent smuggling (10 Jan 2003)
• UK savers are losing £5bn in interest by keeping their money in poor-paying accounts (9 Jan 2003)
• Anti-green author dishonest, says scientific panel (9 Jan 2003)
• WHO 'infiltrated by food industry' (9 Jan 2003)
• Thousands of employers are breaking pension laws (8 Jan 2003)
• AABA submission on the DTI’s “Review of the Regulatory Regime of the Accountancy Profession” (7 Jan 2003)
• UK Government's green agency invests millions in companies that pollute (7 Jan 2003)
• London's workers face the worst health and safety conditions in the country (7 Jan 2003)
• Hypocrisy that underlies HIPC (6 Jan 2003)
• £50,000 minimum salary sought for non-execs   (6 Jan 2003)
• Ten Worst Corporations of 2002 (3 Jan 2003)