Arroyo defends her anti-graft record
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo defended her anti-corruption credentials on Tuesday after a witness in a Senate probe into alleged kickbacks said she was at the centre of the country's graft problems.
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Leading newspapers and groups opposed to President Gloria Arroyo expressed anger on Saturday over her decision to pardon her disgraced predecessor Joseph Estrada despite his conviction for massive graft.
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MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo defended her expropriation of a 650-million-dollar airport terminal built by Germany&#39;s Fraport AG and its partners, saying she only resorted to this after talks collapsed.
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Scotland's top law officer defends the decision to exclude her from regular cabinet meetings.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was described as "evil" in a Senate inquiry into official corruption on Monday, the most personal attack yet in a spiraling scandal.
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A day after acknowledging that she is under investigation for talk of spying on her spouse, the candidate for N.Y. attorney general vigorously defended herself.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq  defended his record on Thursday in the face of strong criticism  from Sen. John McCain, a Republican presidential contender in  2008.
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A former interim U.S. attorney appointed by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales defended his decision to bring a controversial indictment before last year's elections, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no idea Missouri Republicans would use the case as part of their campaign...
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett on Wednesday denied any wrong-doing in relation to the visa application of his ex-lover&#39;s Philippine nanny although fresh evidence has emerged
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President George W. Bush's re-election campaign launched a preemptive defense against a complaint by Democratic challenger John Kerry that a group attacking Kerry's Vietnam war record had illegal ties to the Bush campaign.
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Playing down a funding row with   Britain, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Friday defended   his controversial anti-corruption campaign, saying the bank   could not tolerate misuse of its funds to poor countries.
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, banked at least $1,500 in political donations from an indicted Chicago businessman whose past connections to Barack Obama have been used by Clinton to criticize her rival's judgment and ethics.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.   Chairman Patricia Dunn on Friday defended her role in an  inquiry into a boardroom leak that has led to a California  state investigation, and said she has no plans to resign unless  asked by the board.
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Former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada said Wednesday he would not consider a deal from President Gloria Arroyo, demanding an unconditional pardon from his arch-rival after his corruption conviction.
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(InfoWorld) - Embattled Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn told an appreciative audience in San Francisco Wednesday night that she looks forward to the opportunity to "set the record straight" regarding allegations that she oversaw anÂ internal investigation of the companyÂ which may have broken the law. Dunn made the remarks during a previously scheduled event where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of a group of San Francisco Bay Area government and business leaders. An audience of about 800 people at The Westin St. Francis hotel on San Francisco's famed Union Square, gave Dunn a standing ovation. "All I will say about the maelstrom ofÂ  recent unwelcome attention is that I look forward eagerly to the time in the near future when I will be permitted to set the record straight," she said. Dunn was honored by the Bay Area Council for her success in business and her philanthropic work. Besides being chairman of HP, she was vice chairman of Barclay's Global Investors. Dunn also is on the board of a nonprofit program helping troubled youth in San Francisco and a program for providing health care to the poor in Oakland, California. The audience was largely supportive. "I think she was courageous" to appear, said Lynette Busby after the speech while her husband, James, added, "she hasn't been convicted of anything and in America that's important. She is a very forthright person." But there was some criticism. "I think it's unbelievably arrogant of [the council] to select her when she is under anÂ egregious cloud of suspicion," said one local attorney who declined to be identified. Even though she was chosen for the Hall of Fame before the scandal broke, the honor should have been withdrawn, he said. She and others involved are accused of "doing things that are contrary to the best values of America." Dunn also tried to make light of her situation. While she said she wanted to set the record straight, she added, "and in the meantime it wouldn't hurt if the pope would continue to make controversy." Dunn is one of several people who have agreed to appear at aÂ Sept. 28 hearingÂ of a House Subcommittee probing allegations that HP hired private investigators to determine which of its board members were leaking news of board deliberations to the media. The investigators allegedlyÂ obtained private phone recordsÂ of board members, some HP employees, and reporters under false pretenses to determine the source of the leak, a tactic called pretexting. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is considering federal legislation to outlaw pretexting. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is investigating the possibility ofÂ filing state chargesÂ against people implicated in the scandal. Dunn was forced to announce Sept. 12 that she will resign in January from the chairmanship of the HP board, although she will remain a director, amid news reports about her role in ordering an investigation of the board media leaks. She has stated she did not know outside investigators were using pretexting and that she kept a distance from the investigation, but a Wall Street Journal article Wednesday, based on an internal HP report, indicated she may have been more involved in the probe than she indicated earlier.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Advisers to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, projected winner of Indonesia's presidential election, said yesterday that he would move quickly to prosecute several major graft cases to counter Indonesia's reputation as one of the world's most corrupt countries.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday sent a message of support to former US President Bill Clinton, who is awaiting a heart bypass surgery in a New York hospital.