Corruption

Inside Bo Xilai's dungeon: victims reveal ruthless torture

19 Dec 2012

In the first of a four-part series, Revisiting Chongqing, we look at one of the earliest and most high-profile victims of the disgraced party chief's crackdown on so-called gangsters.

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Top political advisory body opens first session in Beijing

3 Mar 2013

China's top political advisory body opened its first session in Beijing on Sunday, after Communist Party leader Xi Jinping took another swipe at corruption, mentioning the concept of "two 100...

Li Ka-shing's firms deny links to Rafael Hui

3 Mar 2013

Two companies controlled by Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, issued a strongly worded public denial of a story linking them to Rafael Hui Si-yan, the former government No 2 who is accused of...

New probe on Berlusconi as ex-senator accuses him of political graft

2 Mar 2013

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under investigation on suspicion of bribing a senator to change sides in parliament, deepening the legal troubles of one of the key players in...

Rafael Hui faces new corruption charge

1 Mar 2013

Former government number two Rafael Hui Si-yan is to face a new charge that he “concealed” alleged corrupt payments of more than HK$11 million when Hong Kong’s biggest ever corruption case returns...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

China has at least 1.18 million ready-to-flee 'naked officials', anti-corruption rant reveals

First published by Beijing Evening News (then deleted) yesterday, the figure attributed to Chinese Academy of Governance professor Zhu Lijia has been republished by Xinhua earlier today.

President Yudhoyono's ruling Democratic Party hit by graft scandals

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won a second term in 2009 partly on a pledge to fight corruption in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, one of the most graft-ridden nations in the world.

Vatican hits back over corruption and blackmail claims

The Vatican's Secretariat of State - effectively the central administration of the Catholic Church - took the highly unusual step of issuing a formal statement condemning "unverified, unverifiable...

CORRUPTION

Graft-fighters' suicides linked to pressure of Xi's corruption crackdown

Ke Jianguo, director of the anti-corruption bureau in Chongzhou, Sichuan jumped from his high-rise office at the city's procuratorate headquarters last Sunday and was found dead at the scene.

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INDONESIA

Indonesian party chairman quits in graft case

Anas Urbaningrum, 43, was named a suspect for allegedly receiving "gifts or a promise of gifts" in a corruption case linked to the construction of the Hambalang sports centre project near Jakarta...

INDONESIA

Top party official a suspect in Indonesian graft probe

Indonesia's anti-graft body on Friday named the chairman of the ruling party as a suspect in connection with a multi-million-dollar corruption case, the latest scandal to hit the president's party...