China bribe takers / Entrepreneurs & corruption / Pakistan forensic lab

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China Should Go After Bribe Takers in FCPA Cases (commentary).  "The reasons why demand-side governments have not stepped up and investigated officialswho have been implicated in FCPA cases may include the lack of political will, the lack of capacity, and lack of inter-governmental cooperation."
Yixuan Zhu/Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2017/05/29/china-should-go-after-bribe-takers-in-fcpa-cases/

Entrepreneurs Care About Corruption – Here’s How to Help Them Fight It (commentary).  "Corruption protects incumbent firms, undermines entrepreneurship, and constrains growth and job creation—particularly by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are often the primary drivers of economic growth, employment, and innovation."
Travis Edwards/Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2017/05/22/entrepreneurs-care-about-corruption-heres-how-to-help-them-fight-it/

Pakistan anti-graft agency sets up own forensic lab.  The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said its Forensic Science Lab will help in retrieving of documents from electronic devices like Cell Phones, Computers, iPads and networks and its preservation to determine authorship of questioned hand writing, identity questioned typescripts and printed documents to detect forgeries in questioned documents to determine interpolation, additions or overwriting and substitution of papers, and to work on questioned fingerprints for comparison and/or identification purposes.

Pakistan Today: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/06/nab-establishes-its-own-forensic-science-lab/

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