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Traditionally, those who lost elections or opted out of public service after a long stretch have sought sometimes lucrative and often cushy appointments to corporate boards of directors.
Last week, in the High Court, The Sunday Times apologised to Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the former Malaysian minister of finance and now leader of one of the main opposition parties, over an article published in February 1994 in which it was alledged that as a representative of the then Malaysian government, he had sought to procure special payments from a major British company to secure the continued progress of a construction project in Malaysia.
Unique State Ethics Rules: LSC acknowledges that there may be states where the rules of professional responsibility, ethics rulings, case law or other laws differ from the general framework under the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility and where the disclosures sought by OCE may implicate the recipient attorneys' professional responsibilities or other law.
The Prague Post reported Wednesday that Russia had sought to reduce its $1.
For the second level of validation, we sought to establish that genes identified by microarray technology represented genes truly regulated by inhalation antigen challenge.