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A retired supreme court justice in Uganda has proposed anti-corruption training for citizens, starting with the school kids.
Professor George Kanyeihamba’s open letter to President Yoweri Museveni this week said the country’s Anti-Corruption Act of 2009 should be ‘compulsory reading for all Ugandans.’… Continue Reading
It’s Chinese New Year next week, when people in Hong Kong and Singapore take a few days off from the pursuit of making money.
The 2012 index of economic freedom ranked those countries first and second respectively.… Continue Reading
President Obama meets tomorrow on Bali, Indonesia with the heads of state from ASEAN — the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEAN hasn’t been effective in spreading free trade and investment across the region.… Continue Reading
It’s not often — every 16 years or so — that we have something big to report from Singapore. That’s why the tiny Southeast Asian nation (along with New Zealand and Denmark) is ranked by TI as the least corrupt country on earth.… Continue Reading
Eighteen senior government officials from Afghanistan will receive anti-corruption training in Singapore through an international aid package.
A report last week by Channel News Asia said the week-long training program is part of a $1 million technical assistance package that Singapore pledged at the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan.… Continue Reading
Former Thai official Juthamas Siriwan faces eight felony counts in U.S. federal courtThe Thai official charged with laundering bribes she allegedly took from Gerald and Patricia Green is a fugitive from U.S.… Continue Reading
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office today reported in dramatic fashion the arrest of three top executives of French industrial giant Alstom’s British unit. They’re suspected of paying bribes overseas to win contracts.… Continue Reading
Corruption, of all things, may be the deciding factor in Washington’s debate about troop deployment and military strategy in Afghanistan. The Christian Science Monitor said last week: “The concern is that the Afghan government has become so rotted with corruption that it cannot consolidate the gains the U.S.… Continue Reading
The U.K. Guardian reported last week (here) that Russian President Medvedev (left) invoked the memory of Martin Luther King when he announced his intention to clean up corruption. “We are not used to saying ‘we have a dream’ in my country .… Continue Reading
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may frighten business people everywhere, but it has never been a big concern for crooked overseas officials. That’s because they can’t be prosecuted under the FCPA, which is aimed exclusively at punishing those who pay them bribes.… Continue Reading
Swiss police last week arrested a former manager of French engineering giant Alstom and searched for evidence as part of a corruption and money-laundering investigation. Offices near Zurich and in Baden were raided, as were homes in several cantons.… Continue Reading
