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Hong Kong – September 12, 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The international law firm of Jones Day announced that it has recently advised Fang Brothers Investments Limited in the HK$1.14 billion sale by subsidiary CS Investment (CS) of a 50% interest in Times Supermarket Limited (Times) to Wumart Stores, Inc.(Wumart), Beijing’s largest supermarket

Santa Barbara resident John Peter Yunka, 56, was arrested Monday in Santa Barbara for his involvement with the promotion of investments that falsely promised extremely high returns with little or no risk to principal. Yunka falsely represented to prospective investors that he had access to certain offshore opportunities that paid yields ranging from 3 percent

Leading Jurists to Talk About Guantanamo, Secret Jails, Military Commissions and the War on Terror NEW YORK, September 12 /PRNewswire/ — WHO The Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, an independent body of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, will be talking to the press after concluding a three-day public hearing in

London, September 11, 2006 – Paul Hastings, a premier international law firm, has advised Addax Petroleum Corporation in connection with the financing aspects of its acquisition of two subsidiaries of Pan-Ocean Energy Corporation Limited, together representing substantially all of the operations of Pan-Ocean Energy, for $1.605 billion in cash. Both transactions are expected to close

Paul Hastings Bolsters International IP Practice With Addition of Prominent Patent Litigation Lawyers in New York New York, NY (September 12, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Law News & Law Jobs Network – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that Joseph O’Malley and Bruce Wexler,

LAWFUEL – Law News Daily – Chen Palmer has strengthened its government relations capability with the appointment of two former Cabinet Ministers – the Hon Jim Sutton and the Rt Hon Wyatt Creech – as consultants. Chen Palmer Partner, Mai Chen, said the appointments were a coup and would secure Chen Palmer’s status as New

Tuesday 12 September 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Mr Jeffrey Lucy, today welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into between ASIC and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). The MOU, signed by Mr Lucy and Mr David Knott, Chief Executive

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced today that a Miami jury returned a guilty verdict against defendant Victor Calles on charges of kidnapping, in violation of Title

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act), of trading in the securities of Southwestern Medical Solutions, Inc. (Southwestern), a Florida corporation based in Tampa, Florida, at 9:30 a.m. EST on September 11,

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Ugo Chukwu Nwosu, a resident of Covina, California was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper for conspiring to defraud the United States by obtaining false income tax refunds. Nwosu was sentenced by Judge Cooper to 5 months in federal prison to be followed by 5