Global Issues
News headlines for “Corruption”, page 40
BULGARIA: Environment Going Down a Slippery Slope
- Inter Press Service
The World Ski Cup for women last weekend was organised in Bulgaria at a ski resort whose development is partially illegal, and which is damaging a world heritage site.
BOTSWANA: High Profile Trial Could Open Can of Worms
- Inter Press Service
The high profile trial of former Debswana Managing Director, Louis Goodwill Nchindo, could open a can of worms about the shady activities of senior government officials in Botswana, officially Africa's least corrupt country.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Goa Agitated by Shady Real Estate Deals
- Inter Press Service
Simmering resentment against major, concrete development in rural Goa - famous for its exotic beaches and idyllic rural countryside - has now exploded in violent agitations against corrupt local administrations.
POLITICS: Two Kenyas, Two Dreams: Which Do We Want?
- Inter Press Service
Kenya's civil society has rebuffed efforts by its embattled government to restore its tattered image in the wake of waning public confidence in the state. Their major grievance is that the country's problems, including high level graft, are the result of a culture of impunity that has engulfed the nation's top officials and politicians.
Q&A: Fighting 'the Dark Side of Globalised Society'
- Inter Press Service
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, known for prosecuting alleged tyrants, terrorists and perpetrators of corruption, believes that progress toward a global justice system began in 1996, with the trials in Madrid of Argentine and Chilean torturers, and especially with the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in October 1998.
AFRICA: Yet Another Case of Graft Involving French Arms Trade
- Inter Press Service
Three days ago, Jean-Charles Marchiani, a former member of the French secret services, was released from the Paris prison of La Santé where he had been serving time since May 2008. Last year, a tribunal in Paris found Marchiani guilty of influence peddling and other corruption charges involving African countries.
IRAQ: Still Homeless in Baghdad
- Inter Press Service
'We only want a normal life,' says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years.
CORRUPTION-PERU: Parliament Investigates PetroTech Sale
- Inter Press Service
At the government's request, the Peruvian parliament has set up a commission to investigate alleged irregularities in the sale of Petro Tech Peruana (PTP) to Ecopetrol, the Colombian state oil company, and the South Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC). But opposition politicians are sceptical of the outcome and have refused to participate.
FRANCE: New Claims About Corrupt Relations with African Dictators
- Inter Press Service
The possibility that French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner might have misused his public position in France to boost his profitable private business with prominent African dictators come at a time when the local authorities are dealing with numerous corruption affairs.
SRI LANKA: 'Govt Targets Media Under Civil War Cover'
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka’s ruling establishment has become increasingly intolerant towards the island country’s independent media, even as President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government steps up its military offensive against separatist Tamil militants in the north.
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