November 25, 2011
A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]
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July 31, 2011
Anti-corruption advocates and international experts hope a new president and National Assembly will get tough on graft and economic problems A boy walks with water buffaloes in Lao Cai Province’s Sapa District in northwest Vietnam. Anti-corruption advocates and international analysts hope that Vietnam’s new leadership will get tough on graft and economic problems. Le [...]
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November 6, 2009
Officials under investigation for graft and corruption are evading penalties all too easily, the minister of Public Security told a National Assembly meeting on Thursday. Minister Le Hong Anh said many people under corruption investigations are state officials âwho have the positions and knowledge to deal with investigative agencies.âAnh said evidence of graft was hard [...]
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November 1, 2009
Two suspended deputies of Indonesiaâs Corruption Eradication Commission were arrested Thursday in a graft case that has complicated President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonoâs drive for clean governance. Police named Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Rianto as suspects last month for allegedly abusing their power to issue travel bans against people being probed for corruption. Yudhoyono suspended them [...]
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October 6, 2009
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tuesday will fill three leadership posts at the countryâs anti-graft body that were vacated due to criminal probes with former commissioners and a United Nations adviser. A five-man panel tasked with helping Yudhoyono pick the interim replacements nominated Mas Achmad Santosa, a lawyer who [...]
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July 23, 2009
Office staff work at Rio Tinto Group’s Shanghai office in Shanghai, China Chinaâs detention of Rio Tinto Group executives amid allegations of espionage and bribery should serve as a reminder to foreign companies that they may also risk prosecution by US enforcement agencies, lawyers said. âItâs not just domestic law that may be involved,â said [...]
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December 22, 2008
Police in the Southern province of Kien Giang Saturday pressed charges against four men in a bribery case that saw a vehicle registry official arrested last week. Police said truck owners Phan Dong Tien, Luong Kim Tung and Truong Van Dang and driver Nguyen Van Tan had given bribes worth VND29.5 million (US$1,726) to Le [...]
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December 19, 2008
District 11 residents have asked members of the Ho Chi Minh City legislature to ensure that the city government expedites investigations into bribery allegations in the East-West Highway project. In a meeting with local lawmakers Thursday, they also demanded action on the overhauling of the Van Thanh 2 overpass.City authorities have to clarify details of [...]
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December 12, 2008
Vietnamese prosecutors will fully cooperate with their Japanese counterpart in investigating bribery allegations in the East-West Highway project, an official has said. The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging criminal investigation into allegations that Japanese businessmen of the Pacific Consultants International (PCI) firm had bribed a local official working on the [...]
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November 20, 2008
Huynh Ngoc Si of the Ho Chi Minh City Transport Department has been suspended for allegedly accepting bribes from Japanese businessmen The Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party Unit Wednesday suspended Huynh Ngoc Si, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Transport, who has been named in a Japanese court case as the receiver of [...]
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Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say
Office staff work at Rio Tinto Group’s Shanghai office in Shanghai, China Chinaâs detention of Rio Tinto Group executives amid allegations of espionage and bribery should serve as a reminder to foreign companies that they may also risk prosecution by US enforcement agencies, lawyers said. âItâs not just domestic law that may be involved,â said [...]
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