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<description>On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. Police said it was suicide, but the Todd family believe he was murdered. Shane had feared that a project he was working on was compromising US national security. His parents want to know if that project sent him to his grave</description>
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<title>Video: Todd family seeks answers</title>
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<description>Shane Todd’s parents talk about bringing their inquiry to Washington</description>
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<title>Todd met Huawei officials, inquest told</title>
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<description>Deputy executive director of research at IME, a Singapore government research agency, testifies at a coroner’s inquiry into the death of US engineer</description>
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<description>As the US engineer’s parents prepare to tell the Singapore hearing of murder fears, former colleagues disclose contacts with a Chinese telecoms group</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>A coroner’s inquiry, which opened on Monday, comes after uncertainty over the fate of US engineer who worked for a Singapore government research agency</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:34:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Singapore to share Todd evidence with FBI</title>
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<description>As pressure mounts from US politicians, police in the Asian city-state are to work with the FBI over death of American engineer</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:21:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>‘Agent’ tried to destroy contracts, says FBI</title>
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<description>French citizen faces US charges relating to an alleged bribery scheme to secure mining rights in Guinea, according to US authorities</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Group linked to Israeli tycoon pledged cash and shares to secure rich iron ore deposit, according to documents used in US federal probe</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:50:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RP Martin suspends chief in Libor probe</title>
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<description>Move comes as investigation deepens into interdealer broker’s role in manipulation of Libor rates, which saw two former employees arrested in December</description>
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<title>Dual-track Libor replacement lined up</title>
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<description>A parallel system based on survey-based lending rates alongside transaction-linked indices could come into force as soon as next year</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 17:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Interest rates: Libor – a benchmark to fix</title>
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<description>An investigation into how key financial reference points are set has cast doubt on a process at the heart of the lending industry, write FT Reporters</description>
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<title>Bo Xilai: power, death and politics</title>
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<description>The alleged murder of Neil Heywood has brought down one of China’s most powerful politicians – and exposed a power struggle that has rocked the Communist party. By Jamil Anderlini</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bo family bought luxury London flats</title>
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<description>An FT investigation has found links between an architect arrested recently and the jet-set life of those in the fallen Chinese official’s household</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:20:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gu’s sister fronted property company</title>
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<description>The discovery is the latest revelation about the disgraced Chinese politburo member Bo Xilai who earned just $20,000 but enjoyed a lavish lifestyle</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:03:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>From warehouse to powerhouse</title>
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<description>Once just a book seller, the company provides vital logistics for many but its role seems set to face sterner political scrutiny, writes Barney Jopson</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:08:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon ‘robo-pricing’ sparks fears</title>
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<description>Algorithm trading stokes tensions as online retailer competes with clients and risk is created of malfunctions similar to equities ‘flash crash’</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:43:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Finance and fraud: Serious shortcomings</title>
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<description>The high-profile investigation of the Tchenguiz brothers crystallises concern about the UK’s leading anti-fraud body. By Ed Hammond and Caroline Binham</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:01:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fraud agency in dock over Tchenguiz case</title>
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<description>The Serious Fraud Office must explain to the High Court mistakes it made in investigating Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, leaving branded incompetence</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:17:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Iraq sends crucial fuel oil to Syria</title>
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<description>Iraq is shipping fuel oil to Syria in a deal that has triggered concern in Washington and exposes Damascus’s difficulties keeping its economy afloat</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:31:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Iran helps Syria defy oil embargo</title>
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<description>A tanker attempts to evade detection by switching flags and ownership, as it assists the Assad regime in bypassing international sanctions</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:37:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Romney’s take-off</title>
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<description>An early deal by Bain Capital has showed its commercial acumen but has been marked by unlawful suppression of a union, says Robin Harding</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:58:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>On the rocks</title>
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<description>As an inquest starts into how the liner ran aground, a reconstruction of events points to operational chaos and communication failures, writes Guy Dinmore</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:19:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Concordia ‘not first to deviate from routes’</title>
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<description>Two of the Costa Concordia’s sister ships both came well within a mile of Giglio island on three occasions, positioning data show</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:06:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cayman directors sit on hundreds of boards</title>
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<description>At least four individuals hold more than 100 non-executive directorships each as demand for independent directors booms in the tax haven</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Payday sector in search of new frontier</title>
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<description>Faced with a hostile home market, several US companies have hit upon the same solution: to set up shop in Britain</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>FT analysis shows that two-thirds of all London suspects live in neighbourhoods with below-average income</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:09:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>An FT investigation shows that the quality of care in one in seven privately run homes in England is rated ‘poor’ or ‘adequate’, leaving the elderly at the mercy of a calculation that went wrong</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 21:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>US private equity group Blackstone put in place a ‘sale and leaseback’ process on properties to expand the group, failing to take note that in hard times, it would push rents up</description>
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<description>The 300 job vacancies will add to fears about the Care Quality Commission’s ability to police the industry at a time of crisis – the regulator blames the shortage on government recruitment curbs</description>
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