International Business News - Crackdown http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif For the first time, Maryland is collecting millions of dollars in corporate income taxes from a company after closing a loophole involving real estate investment trusts, the state's tax collector said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081013/md-to-collect-millions-after-closing-tax-loophole.htm Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:26:19 EDT Sammy, a Shetland sheepdog, wouldn't touch his food, retreating to a corner of the yard and devouring mouthfuls of dirt--behavioral oddities his owner later learned came from a lifetime of abuse as a "stud" in a large puppy mill. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/149473-puppy-mill-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/a-new-day-for-dogs-pa-law-targets-puppy-mills.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/a-new-day-for-dogs-pa-law-targets-puppy-mills.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT The U.S. financial meltdown is creating brighter job prospects for at least one occupation: tax collector. Several states--including New York, Massachusetts, California and Illinois--are beefing up tax enforcement and collection efforts as they face widening budget deficits. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/states-to-zero-in-on-tax-cheats-as-economy-sags.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:18:52 EDT Poland's last communist leader denied Thursday that he led an organized criminal group intent on depriving people of freedom when he imposed martial law in a 1981 crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity movement. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/143973-poland-martial-law.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/polands-last-communist-leader-pleads-not-guilty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/polands-last-communist-leader-pleads-not-guilty.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:10:35 EDT As the crowd marching through the streets of Myanmar's biggest city swelled to 100,000, the question wasn't what did they want, but when would the government crack down. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/myanmar-junta-rules-roost-1-year-after-crackdown.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:05:44 EDT Poland's last communist leader and other former top-ranking officials went on trial Friday for imposing martial law in 1981 as the Soviet-backed regime tried to crush the Solidarity pro-democracy movement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/polands-last-communist-leader-on-trial.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:45:31 EDT Police in Ohio are about to get help in trying to crackdown on scrap metal thieves who steal aluminum siding off houses and copper wiring from basements. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/new-ohio-law-aims-to-slow-down-scrap-metal-thefts.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:55:48 EDT As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112429-china-attack.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/post-olympic-clamp-on-muslim-xinjiang-possible.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/post-olympic-clamp-on-muslim-xinjiang-possible.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:04:29 EDT A human rights group called on Monday for suspension of international military cooperation with Kenya, saying Britain helped train Kenyan troops who are accused of torture and murder. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/rights-group-uk-trained-kenya-torture-troops.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:16:01 EDT Lu Jun, a campaigner for the rights of millions of Chinese with hepatitis B, seems an unlikely threat to the Beijing Olympics. But the popular Web site he runs was blocked in May. This month, police detained him for four hours when he returned to China from a hepatitis conference in Los Angeles. They wanted to know what he intended to do with a large red banner he was carrying that urged the government to provide support to people with hepatitis B. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89420-china-olympic-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/china-crackdown-targets-critics-ahead-of-olympics.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/china-crackdown-targets-critics-ahead-of-olympics.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:18:28 EDT Angry parents whose children were crushed to death in schools that collapsed in China's mighty earthquake are no longer being allowed to march, wave banners and vent their rage in public. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88089-china-quake-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/china-shushes-parent-protesters-about-earthquake.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/china-shushes-parent-protesters-about-earthquake.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:19:58 EDT California health regulators have demanded that 13 direct-to-consumer genetic testing startups halt sales in the state until they prove they meet state standards. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/calif-cracks-down-on-13-genetic-testing-startups.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:12:40 EDT Police closed dozens of clothing stores and hairdressers and stopped cars and pedestrians in a crackdown on women who do not abide by Iran's strict Islamic dress code and men wearing fashions seen as too Western, Iranian media reported Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/iranian-police-crack-down-on-dress-code-violations.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:28:40 EDT Dairy owner Mark McAfee started selling raw milk in 2000, marketing it to customers who believe it contains beneficial microbes that treat everything from asthma to autism. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/69245-raw-milk-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/health-officials-crack-down-on-unpasteurized-milk.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/health-officials-crack-down-on-unpasteurized-milk.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:25:08 EDT The New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized Bangladesh's military-backed interim government for alleged wholesale arrests of political activists. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/human-rights-watch-slams-bangladesh-arrests.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:10:00 EDT Bangladesh's military-led security forces said Wednesday they have detained more than 10,000 people in a nationwide anti-crime drive over the past week, but political parties accused the government of targeting their members in a political crackdown. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/bangladesh-police-detain-over-10-000.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:09 EDT Federal and state officials announced a widespread crackdown Tuesday against telemarketing scams that have bilked thousands of consumers, many of them elderly, out of tens of millions of dollars. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/federal-state-agencies-crack-down-on-phone-scams.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 16:08:44 EDT Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills and confiscate wood in a government crackdown on illegal logging less than three months ago. But now tractors are moving logs again in this Amazon town and locals are back to turning wood scraps into charcoal, an example of the difficulty of stamping out illegal cutting. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48365-brazil-logging-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/brazils-illegal-logging-hard-to-combat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/brazils-illegal-logging-hard-to-combat.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 11:46:34 EDT Italian police have arrested nearly 400 people _ mostly foreigners from Romania and North Africa _ in a weeklong crackdown on street crime and illegal immigration, authorities said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/46686-italy-crime-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/italy-arrests-nearly-400-in-security-crackdown.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/italy-arrests-nearly-400-in-security-crackdown.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 16:52:21 EDT Crack users openly suck on glass pipes, gang members deal drugs on sidewalks and streets are speckled with human feces. Yet the Los Angeles Police Department and some people who live and work on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles _ the city with the nation's largest population of homeless people _ say that crime is dropping and that the streets are safer and cleaner than they were just two years ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/43204-skid-row-crackdown.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080501/la-police-credit-crackdown-with-a-changing-skid-row.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080501/la-police-credit-crackdown-with-a-changing-skid-row.htm Thu, 01 May 2008 07:31:23 EDT