Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Myanmar corruption complaints / Bangladesh blocked news / India local efforts

Incompetence tops anti-corruption complaints.  “More than half of the complaints sent to the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2019 were about incompetence or mismanagement at government offices…From January to October 2019, the anti-graft body received 8172 complaints, most of them from Yangon Region”

Khin Myat Myat Wai/Myanmar Times: https://www.mmtimes.com/news/incompetence-tops-anti-corruption-complaints.html  

 

Bangladesh blocks news website accusing minister of corruption.  Bangladesh authorities have blocked access to Netra News, a Sweden-based investigative journalism website after it published a report alleging corruption by Obaidul Quader, Bangladesh's minister of road transport and bridges..

Faisal Mahmud/Aljazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/bangladesh-blocks-news-website-accusing-minister-corruption-200102172616456.html  

 

‘People should raise voice against corruption’.  “In the past few months, [Anti-Corruption Bureau in Nashik] has taken action against very senior officials when they were found accepting bribes. This has inspired confidence among people that no matter how senior or influential an official is, action will be taken against them.”

Santosh Sonawane/The Times of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/people-should-raise-voice-against-corruption/articleshow/73113177.cms

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