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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Barbara Briggs | Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Globally, Toyota is known for its innovation and quality of products like the Prius hybrid. A closer look at operations in Japan, the Philippines, Myanmar and the U.S. reveals a story of extreme working conditions, union-busting and other corporate abuses. In Japan and elsewhere, workers are speaking out.

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Published by San Francisco Chronicle | By David Baker | Saturday, September 13, 2008

Two Chevron Corp. lawyers fighting a landmark pollution lawsuit in Ecuador have been indicted by that country's prosecutor general, a move the company says proves the government is trying to tamper with the suit.

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Published by Wall Street Journal | By STEPHEN POWER | Thursday, September 11, 2008

Employees of the federal agency that last year collected more than $11 billion in royalties from oil and gas companies broke government rules and created a "culture of ethical failure" by allegedly accepting gifts from and having sex with industry representatives, the Interior Department's top watchdog said Wednesday.

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Published by Wall Street Journal | By VANESSA FUHRMANS | Thursday, September 11, 2008

Former UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chief Executive William McGuire agreed to pay $30 million and forfeit 3.7 million stock options to settle shareholder claims related to options backdating, adding to what was already one of the largest executive-pay givebacks in history.

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Published by Reuters | By Andrea Shalal-Esa | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The U.S. government on Tuesday said it had approved up to $330 million in three separate arms deals for Israel, and sources tracking a much bigger deal for 25 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets said that agreement could be approved later this month.

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Published by The New York Times | By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Friday, September 5, 2008

A federal judge in Brooklyn decided on Friday to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly's top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, citing "the health of hundreds of thousands of people" and "fundamental questions" about the way drugs are approved for new uses.

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Published by Financial Times | By Charles Clover in Moscow and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington | Friday, September 5, 2008

The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia's army assault in South Ossetia in August.

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Published by The New York Times | By ALEX BERENSON | Monday, September 1, 2008

About the only point on which both sides agree is that no one can judge ezetimibe's safety and benefits for certain without more data, ideally from a clinical trial covering more than 10,000 patients and lasting several years, long enough to show that the drug actually helps patients live longer or avoid heart attacks.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Anne Landman, Center for Media and Democracy | Monday, August 18, 2008

Multinational industries like tobacco and alcohol have responded to increased global public pressure for accountability around corporate operations by creating Voluntary Codes of Conduct to self-regulate their behavior. But how are the results measuring up?

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