A Way of Life

As the Office of the Ombudsman acknowledged rampant corruption in the country, it received flak for its performance. Church leaders, meanwhile, criticized the government for its dismal record on human rights and transparency. Some lawmakers tossed back the blame to the...

Behind The Dhaka Massacres

Bangladesh in recent years has seen an increase in its defence purchases, which has given rise to a question? Does it really need to spend so-much on its defence-programmes, while much of the population are subject...

Why You Might Not Need An RRSP

Why borrowing to invest, starting young and choosing RRSP's over paying off debt may not be the best choices for you. This article was written with excerpts from an article written by David Trahair CA.  It challenges the big bank notion that RRSP's...

Cemetery officials illegally exhuming bodies in Hong Kong

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...

20 arrested in Malaysia visa scam: report

.. 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...

Venezuela opposition protests blacklist

"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...

Navratilova calls for 'Lifetime ban' for tennis cheats

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...

$10,000 Reward Fund - Info - Housing/Shelter Staff Drug Dealing, etc.

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...

Honour for bribe-busting granny

"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...

A World of Corruption: Bribery to Get By

"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...

Indonesia should take leading anti-corruption role: watchdog

""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...

Indonesian lawyers fail to agree Suharto settlement

"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...

Socialists Hold Slight Lead in Spanish poll

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...

The Real Survivor Fiji – Military Rule Slaps Hard :: MAXINE

"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...

The Real Survivor Fiji - Legitimate Corruption vs. Illegal Government :: MAXINE

"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...

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