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                    [Title] => Gaming tycoon nabbed in Hong Kong over $19.7 million fraud case
                    [Summary] => Embattled Japanese gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada was arrested in Hong Kong last week over a $19.7-million fraud case.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-08-06 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Edu Punay
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                    [Title] => Hong Kong tycoons, ex-official charged with graft
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Billionaire brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok and three other people have been charged in a graft case alleging that the prominent developers gave bribes in exchange for lucrative information on pending land sales.  

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Australia's former New South Wales minister Ian MacDonald told a corruption hearing on Thursday he had spent two hours with an Asian prostitute at a top Sydney hotel, but insisted he only went to get a massage and fell asleep.

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President Arroyo made an unscheduled stop yesterday in Hong Kong, on her way back from her official visits to Japan and Brazil to meet with the large Filipino community there and hold talks with anti-corruption czar Tony Kwok amid criticisms on the necessity and frequency of her foreign trips.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317399 [Title] => ‘Conviction rate of public officials now higher’ [Summary] => Twenty-two out of the 55 civil servants convicted by the Sandiganbayan last year for corruption were ranking officials, the government’s chief consultant against corruption said yesterday.

Tony Kwok, former chief of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, said the conviction rate in corruption cases involving government officials has drastically improved to 40 percent.

The figures, he said, back up his earlier claim that the Philippines was making headway in its fight against corruption.
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