Regulator says Hynix cooked books in 1999
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world&#39;s fourth biggest memory chip maker last year, engaged in accounting frauds between 1999 and 2003 that total nearly 2 trillion won, Korea&#39;s financial regulator said yesterday.
Merck &amp; Co.&#39;s Vioxx painkiller&#39;s heart risk was evident in studies four years before the drug was recalled -- and it should have been pulled from the market then, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet.