11.   Mandatory beating with a rattan cane for white collar crimes is to be extended to stock market offenses, a Finance Ministry official said.

12.   Malaysia has imposed whipping for many offences including drugs, armed robberies, kidnapping and white collar crimes.

13.   The case was one of the most serious involving white collar crime ever brought before a court in Thailand.

14.   The courts have gone easy on the relatively new concept of white collar crime.

15.   The Commercial Affairs Department, which deals with white collar crimes, has dropped its probe into the case, the Television Corporation of Singapore reported.

16.   The FBI has said it is assessing damage done by the alleged thefts to investigations of organized crime, white collar crime and alien smuggling.

17.   The ruling Communist Party has vowed to crack down on corruption by handing down stiff penalties, including the death sentence for white collar crime.

18.   There could also be a growth in white collar crimes.

19.   Vietnam has been battling the spread of white collar crime and corruption as business opportunities and private wealth expand along with market-oriented reforms.

20.   Vietnam is faced with widespread corruption and white collar crime as the country embraces market-oriented reforms.