How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
This year’s McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember.
Hundreds of the company’s consultants frolicked in the desert, riding camels over sand dunes and mingling in tents linked by red carpets. Meetings took place in a cavernous banquet hall that resembled a sultan’s ornate court, with a sign overhead to capture the mood.
“I can’t keep calm, I work at McKinsey & Company,” it said.
Especially remarkable was the location: Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road city in China’s far west that is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis.
To combat dirty money, Britain asks: How did you pay for that mansion?
Until quite recently, Zamira Hajiyeva was living the high life, according to British authorities. She had a $15 million townhouse in London’s tony Knightsbridge neighborhood, a golf club in the English countryside and a gold-plated shopping habit at Harrods.
That was before a British court this year asked the 55-year-old from Azerbaijan an impertinent question: How did she afford those purchases?
That query is at the heart of a bold British push to try to reverse what the government believes is a flood of foreign investment stemming from overseas corruption and criminality.
Father says girl who died at border was previously in good health
U.S. Customs and Border Protection had reportedly said 7-year-old Jakelin Caal had not had any food and water for several days before she died.
By Dennis Romero
Family members of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody after reaching the U.S.-Mexico border said she did not lack food or water and was in good health when she was detained.
While U.S. officials chastised the father of Jakelin Caal Maquin for taking the girl on what can be a perilous trip through barren lands in Mexico, the pair mostly traveled by bus with about 40 other migrants, said Ruben Garcia, director of the nonprofit Annunciation House in El Paso, where the father was staying.
Jakelin and her father, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, were in a group of about 165 other asylum seekers when they arrived Dec. 6 at a U.S. Border Patrol station in New Mexico, Garcia said.
Abused, harassed, rejected: Glasgow's homeless women
Women who sleep rough have no escape from sexual violence and struggle to deal with basic menstrual hygiene.
Names marked with an asterisk* in this piece have been changed to protect the interviewees' anonymity.
Sitting under the railway bridge at Glasgow Central Station, Alison* watches the world go by as an ice-cold December night gripsScotland's largest city.
Her eyes are sunken, her blonde hair matted, and her hands are calloused and caked with grime. As emphysema slowly takes its toll, her body is failing.
Carlos Ghosn’s arrest spurs debate on executive salaries in Japan
BY PHILIP BRASOR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Dec. 10, Masaaki Tanaka, former vice president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, told a news conference he would step down as president and CEO of Japan Investment Corp., an entity set up by the government in September to develop new industries through capital investment.
Tanaka and eight other JIC board members resigned over the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s decision to pay them less than what it had initially promised. Economy minister Hiroshige Seko has pledged to return a month’s worth of his own pay for approving the original annual remunerations, which were more than ¥100 million if the investment was successful, and it’s not difficult to sense that the salaries might not have been an issue if former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s own compensation wasn’t foremost in the news cycle at the time.
THE EXTINCTION REBELLION’S DIRECT-ACTION CLIMATE ACTIVISM COMES TO NEW YORK
Sharon Lerner
THE NEW YORK CHAPTER of Extinction Rebellion held its first planning meeting on Thursday. Incensed and terrified by the accelerating climate crisis, activists gathered in Manhattan to discuss how they might replicate some of the successes the direct-action group has had in the United Kingdom.
In London, less than a month after Extinction Rebellion activists blocked roads, occupied bridges, lay down in the street and got arrested to draw immediate attention to the climate crisis, Mayor Sadiq Khan declared a climate emergency, vowing to do “everything in our power to mitigate the risk” of climate
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