September 3rd, 2010
A mysterious company director reportedly linked to North Korean arms trafficking can be revealed as a former South Auckland Burger King employee who says she made “one little mistake”.
Lu Zhang, 28, is charged with 75 counts of making false statements in company registration forms – by the seemingly minor act of declaring her office address as her home address.
But that technicality saw her in Auckland District Court yesterday, linked with the hire of a Russian-owned cargo plane that was seized in Bangkok last December carrying 35 tonnes of arms, including rockets and grenades.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4090241/Mystery-arms-firm-director-revealed
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September 3rd, 2010
Typhoon Kompasu struck South Korea on Thursday, killing at least four people and toppling trees, streetlights and scaffolding in what was called the strongest storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years.
Powerful gusts knocked over power lines, cutting off electricity to tens of thousands of homes and forcing airports to cancel or delay more than 60 international flights, the National Emergency Management Agency said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100902/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_typhoon
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September 3rd, 2010
Police were last night hunting three men who robbed a West Auckland bank at gunpoint of what is believed to be thousands of dollars.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10670763
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September 2nd, 2010
Three bombs ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/4087861/Three-bombs-kill-25-in-Lahore
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September 2nd, 2010
A bold prisoner jumped the dock at Auckland District Court and made a bold bid for freedom, but was brought down by security guards in a nearby street.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10670600
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September 2nd, 2010
Corporate frauds “ …. involving the manipulation of accounting systems continued to be the biggest single fraud threat to organisations” in the June 2010 KPMG Fraud Barometer.
The twice-yearly study, this edition of which covers January to June 2010, draws its inferences by monitoring fraud matters before the courts and found that accounting fraud is the leading cause of such actions.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/news/2240021881/Lack-of-security-advice-may-aid-financial-fraud?
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September 2nd, 2010
Indonesian police opened fire and killed five people when an angry mob attacked their station with firebombs in a protest over the death of a man in custody, police said Wednesday.
More than 20 people including several police were injured during the violent clash late Tuesday in the town of Buol, Central Sulawesi province, local deputy police chief Dewa Parsana said.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1078428/1/.html
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September 2nd, 2010
A sophisticated scam has hit Christchurch from Hong Kong.
In the elaborate ruse, the target receives a letter containing two scratch tickets for a lottery offered by the Midway Financial Investment Group of Hong Kong, ostensibly to celebrate its 30th anniversary. One ticket is the winner of a lot of money and a phone number is provided to claim the prize. Callers go through several calls and steps vetting their eligibility.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4086072/Christchurch-warned-of-elaborate-lottery-scam
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September 2nd, 2010
A notoriously shrewd businessman has emerged as the frontrunner to buy South Canterbury Finance after the failed finance company’s chief executive, Sandy Maier, was spotted on an Air New Zealand flight leafing through a sale and purchase agreement.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10670519
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September 2nd, 2010
A man upset with the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming took several people hostage at the company’s headquarters today, officials said.
Police were negotiating with the gunman, who burst into the suburban Washington building about 1pm local time wearing what seemed to be metallic canisters strapped to his front and back and waving a handgun
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670539
UPDATE:
A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body on Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/4086791/Discovery-Channel-gunman-shot
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