Over the next few weeks, the agency will announce regulations governing the independence of auditors and corporate lawyers.
By selling most of its stake in KPMG Consulting, KPMG L.L.P. aims to help ensure that the consulting business is free from restrictions governing the independence of auditors from their clients.
More recently, he was instrumental in persuading accountants to negotiate new rules governing auditors' independence from their clients with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tanzania and Botswana, which are often put in the same league as Zambia for stability, have yet to have a full transfer of power, with the same political groups governing since independence.
The Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange have agreed on rule changes for governing the independence of the boards of the companies they list, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Montenegro's governing pro-independence coalition appeared to have won a majority in the general election on Sunday, giving it the authority to complete terms of a looser relationship with Serbia, its partner in the Yugoslav federation.
Mr. Mahathir's party has governed since independence in 1957, but its popularity among ethnic Malays, who are Muslims, has waned in recent years.
Jomo Kenyatta governed from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978 and created the idea in Kenya of the president as father figure.
In an election due in the next few months in Malaysia, the sibling nation from which Singapore was separated in infancy, the coalition that has governed since independence in 1957 faces its biggest challenge yet.
When he was shown a leaked cable from the British high commissioner that said he was "autocratic and intolerant of criticism", he promptly proved the diplomat's point by expelling him.Even in tightly controlled Angola, where José Eduardo dos Santos has held power since 1979 and the same ruling party has governed since independence in 1975, protests, albeit so far small ones, are bubbling.
JOHANNESBURG — Voters in Namibia went to the polls on Saturday for the second and final day of national elections, a balloting most likely to lead to another landslide victory for the South-West African People's Organization, or Swapo, the party that has governed since independence in 1990.
