Malaysia incurred losses totaling MYR277 billion (US$58 billion) as a result of corruption over the past five years, Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Azam Baki said.
Two former heads of the Vietnam Register are among 254 people who have been charged with multiple crimes including bribery after neglecting violations in registration procedures for vehicles.
Moving up five ranks compared to 2022, Soc Trang Province has emerged as the leader among Vietnam's 63 localities in the corruption control index in the public sector.
The 15th Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) report announced Tuesday showed progress in citizen perceptions on anti-corruption efforts and e-governance but a backsliding in transparency.
The education ministry has ordered cities and provinces nationwide to investigate schools with "foreign-related curriculums" for corruption amid a teachers' strike at a Ho Chi Minh City international school.
The deputy Party leader of the northern Vinh Phuc Province and a former Party leader and chairman of the central Quang Ngai Province were arrested Wednesday for bribery.
Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran was handed eight more charges in a corruption case on Monday, the anti-graft body said, in one of the city-state's highest-profile corruption scandals.
Singapore's prime minister announced on Thursday the resignation of his transport chief after he was charged with 27 offenses in a corruption probe that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon.
In the recent Van Thinh Phat corruption scandal, there were many shocking figures. This includes a US$5.2 million of bribes to a government official in charge of the inspectorate duty to ignore its violations.
Binh Duong Province led the country’s 63 cities and provinces in corruption control for a second year in a row, according to the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that changes would be announced imminently in the government, the regions and in the security forces following allegations of corruption nearly a year into Russia's invasion.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that corruption, the country's chronic problem cast into the background by the war against Russia, would not be tolerated and promised forthcoming key decisions on uprooting it this week.
Dang Viet Ha, director of the Vietnam Register, has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes from registration centers across the country to ignore violations.
Indonesian anti-graft investigators arrested Papua's governor on Tuesday in a corruption probe on suspicion of accepting bribes linked to infrastructure projects in the restive eastern province, officials said.
The Ministry of Public Security detected almost 5,200 economic crimes and more than 520 corruption cases between October last year and September this year, up 41 percent year-on-year.
