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...banks by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and an undisclosed sum frozen in nine bank accounts controlled by the Ivory Coast's former leader, Henri Konan Bedie. James Nason, a Swiss Bankers Association official, says that since a new money-laundering law went into effect in April 1998, the number of cases of suspected laundering being reported by banks has jumped from 30 a year to 370 this year...
Austria came under fire at the FATF for its anonymous savings-account passbooks, which could be used for money laundering by concealing the true identity of the owner of an account. There are 24 million such accounts at Austrian banks, about three times the number of the entire population, a clear indication the bankbooks are used by foreigners as well. After a threat to kick Austria out of the FATF by June 15 unless the system was changed, a newly elected Austrian government relented--sort of. Amended laws require any passbook accounts opened after Nov. 1, 2000, to identify...
Things haven't been much better for the organizers of Expo 2000, the world's fair in Hanover, Germany. Meant to showcase a united Germany, it is attracting a third of the expected number of visitors so far, and a number of hoped-for corporate sponsors have yet to sign on. Organizers have fired hundreds of workers and cut ticket prices, but Expo may still leave the German government with some $1 billion in debt...
Such services are only months away, and in the meantime, a growing number of mobile users are tapping into h2g2's Internet site for tourism advice, music reviews and entries on health, politics and history. The same topics are featured on other Internet sites; h2g2's appeal is that it tries to offer an unconventional approach to virtually every subject, taking cues from Adams' own sense of humor and irony. Unlike the motivations of sites that attempt to build forums and communities as a way of getting people to stay on their sites and buy more products, creating the guide...
...Experts say Gore's measures wouldn't greatly increase the number of middle-class parents who can afford to send their kids to college but would allow most of them to do so without cutting other expenditures. And Gore's tax credits would be of no help to the millions of working Americans who don't earn enough to owe income tax (even though they pay a hefty chunk of their wages in Social Security and Medicare taxes...