HSBC has played a key role in international trade since 1865, when Hongkong Bank, the founding member of the HSBC Group, was established to finance and service the growing international trade between China, Europe and the USA.
Today, the HSBC Group has an international network of approximately 10, 000 offices in 83 countries and territories, so wherever in the world you may be, you can rely on our team of specialists to support the long term growth of your business.
Here in Australia, we have trade specialists in 5 states and we combine local service excellence with global reach, supplemented by advanced technology to ensure that your import and export transactions are managed effortlessly and effectively.
Latest online fraud: Fake Postal Money Orders
by KimbizBack From the NY Times:A Common Currency for Online Fraud
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box.
In the last six months, the F.B.I. and postal inspectors say, international forgers - mostly in Nigeria, but also in Ghana and Eastern Europe - appear to have turned new attention to the United States postal money order
Latest online fraud: Fake Postal Money Orders.
by KimbizBack From the NY Times:A Common Currency for Online Fraud
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box.
In the last six months, the F.B.I. and postal inspectors say, international forgers - mostly in Nigeria, but also in Ghana and Eastern Europe - appear to have turned new attention to the United States postal money order
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Also unmentioned is Israel's use of US arms in Gaza, in violation not only of international but also US law. Or Washington's shipment of new arms to Israel right at the peak of the US-Israeli attack, surely not unknown to Obama's Middle East advisers.
Obama was firm, however, that smuggling of arms to Gaza must be stopped. He endorses the agreement of Condoleeza Rice and Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni that the Egyptian-Gaza border must be closed - a remarkable exercise of imperial arrogance, as the Financial Times observed: "as they stood in Washington congratulating each other, both officials seemed oblivious to the fact that they were making a deal about an illegal trade on someone else's border - Egypt in this case.
"Sex Slaves", CBC Newsworld, Sun. June 10 @10pm
by sjaeger In New York in April of this year, Katie Couric presented the Associated Producers team with the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Documentary on international affairs for their film Sex Slaves.
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If you missed it the first time, hereâs another opportunity to see this acclaimed award-winning film.
Sex Slaves will be broadcast on CBC Newsworld, Sunday June 10 at 10pm ET/PT.
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Sex Slaves is a gripping documentary expose inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc
