China's anti-corruption body announced today that 18 senior cemetery officials in Hong Kong have been caught accepting bribes to prematurely exhume partially decomposed bodies from temporary graves in government-run cemeteries.""ICAC enquiries revealed that the arrested...
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.. not only in Indonesia.."Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News/afp) - Malaysia's anti-graft watchdog has arrested 20 people in a major clean-up of the immigration department, including the deputy director general, news reports said Sunday. The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) said...
"Thousands of Venezuelans protested in the capital on Saturday to demand the Supreme Court overturn a "blacklist" blocking key opponents of President Hugo Chavez from running in upcoming elections.Chanting "freedom!"...
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About time that one of tennis' big guns put their head above the net to speak out on the max fixing allegations and Navratilova has done that." WIMBLEDON legend Martina Navratilova has called for a lifetime ban on...
Pilot program that is looking for volunteer coordinators and funding sources for start-up, short term and long term funding. Also looking for partners in communities, law enforcement, journalism and legal industries to make sure the program succeeds in placing a very...
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"A 76-year-old Vietnamese woman has been given a major award by a global anti-corruption watchdog.
Transparency International (TI) said Le Hien Duc had been chosen for the annual Integrity Award for being a "resourceful anti-corruption fighter".
Corruption is widespread in...
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"More than one in 10 people has paid a bribe in the past 12 months, a survey by global anti-corruption body Transparency International has found.
The report added that the world's poor were the hardest hit by...
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""We need more countries to ratify it, and we recommended to the president... that he should take a leadership role in ensuring that there is a strong monitoring of this convention, so that it is not just a piece of paper," Labelle was quoted as saying by AFP.
Labelle said...
"Indonesia's state prosecutors said on Tuesday they had failed to reach an out-of-court settlement in a $1.5 billion lawsuit against former President Suharto, adding they would pursue the case in court.
The suit...
UPDATE:"Spain's governing Socialists and opposition Popular Party are running almost neck-and-neck in the country's regional and municipal elections.With almost all votes counted in the town hall poll, the Popular...
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"This can not be good for a tribal peoples just wanting to be able to pursue and share their lives with others in a modern world.
In the last week, The Commodore dispatches the Council of Chiefs because they felt that they had the right to voice their opinion as to whom the...
Nigerians want Americans to know they're
serious about tackling corruption. You can tell because they speak in
quotes they know no reporter could resist scribbling down. Suleiman
Hameen of Lagos' Port Industry Anti-Corruption Committee told our group
of visiting U.S....
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"As time carries on, questions about the legitimacy of a "takeover" Government to rule, as cream rises to the top of a container of milk, begin to come into focus.
A news item about reports that there have been over...
"A defrocked Buddhist novice who roasted a baby to create a powerful ghost has been arrested for allegedly tricking women into giving him cash and sex during useless animist rituals, according to police and anti-corruption officials.
Police, Justice Ministry officials, and...
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"Mark Schneider, Editor of NowPublic.com is reporting a developing story of peaceful protests which are underway in Bagdhad, and have received little if any reporting from the Green Zone Media. In a series of photographs received from Citizen Journalist Woodkern, Schneider...
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