Liu Yingxia, who was listed as China's 46th richest woman with assets worth 4 billion (or $650,000,000), was removed this week from a senior political organization, for links to a former high ranking official facing graft allegations.
One of the main reason protesters in Ukraine braved the cold winter for the past few months, which has lead to deadly clashes with riot police was that they sought to challenge President Yanukovch's increasingly authoritarian rule of law and his method of centralizing corruption.
In late January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on companies and investors from all over the world to use Israel as a global research and development center, pointing the uniqueness of the country's inherent strengths within science and technology.
William Stepien and Bridget Anne Kelly, former aides of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, refused to turn over the documents needed by a special government committee regarding a probe on the closure of access roads in the state.
