(December 13, 2002) The Office of the Auditor-General has asked graft fighters to investigate 47 corruption-plagued government and state enterprise projects which had cost the country about 60 billion baht in damage.
PRESS RELEASE Lesotho Court suspends bribery fine for Canadian multinational
(December 12, 2002) Lesotho’s Court of Appeal suspends payment on the landmark US$2.25-million fine levied against Canadian engineering giant, Acres International.
Lesotho court suspends bribery fine
(December 11, 2002) An appeals court in Lesotho has suspended a $2.2m (£1.4m) fine against the Canadian engineering firm at the heart of an alleged bribery scandal.
The long march against graft
(December 10, 2002) Of all the challenges facing China’s new and largely untested leadership, none is more critical to the survival of the Communist party than containing rampant official corruption. Minxin Pei.
‘Free Iraqis’ meet in Washington to discuss reconstruction
(December 10, 2002) The participants agreed that Iraq’s debts are of two types: civilian debts […] and military debts. […] Military debts should be renegotiated because they were incurred by a government that was not representative of the population.
Lesotho corruption trial: Sole’s applications dismissed
(December 18, 2002) The Lesotho High Court dismisses three applications brought by the former head of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority challenging his conviction for multi-million rand bribery and fraud.
Cleaning up has been far from easy
(December 6, 2002) When the Thai economy collapsed in 1997, many business leaders and their urban middle class employees believed that politicians had failed them.
European [Investment] Bank dilutes transparency
(December 5, 2002) The European Investment Bank, the development funding arm of the EU, is likely to find its new transparency rules do not satisfy social and environmental campaigners.
Argentine govt. may gain from World Bank default
(November 22, 2002) Argentina’s decision to default on its debt to the World Bank could hurt the country’s poor but might also prove beneficial in the long run, some analysts here say.
Africa’s Debt: Who Owes Whom?
(November 22, 2002) An alternative strategy is for African countries to selectively repudiate past loans, invoking the doctrine of “odious debt” in international law as well as historical precedents…
Katse communities forgotten by LHDA
(November 22, 2002) As the LHDA continues to compensate some communities affected by the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)district, others similarly affected by the Project are forgotten.
Our history of fighting corruption in the Third World
(November 15, 2002) Over the last decade, Probe International, Canada’s only organization dedicated to protecting the Third World’s environment, has made the elimination of corruption a major focus of
its work.
Argentina defaults on loan repayment
(November 14, 2002) The Argentine government on Thursday took the extraordinary step of defaulting on a loan repayment to the World Bank, in a sign of its intense frustration over negotiations with the bank’s sister institution, the International Monetary Fund.
Lakabane Family Faces Danger of Being Swallowed Up By the Giant Mohale Dam
(November 14, 2002) As the impoundment of the Mohale reservoir of the giant Lesotho Highlands Development Project begins, the future remains uncertain and bleak for some local communities living around the reservoir.
NGO’s sue Japanese bank
(November 13, 2002) Two Indonesian non-governmental organizations have filed a suit with a Japanese court against the Japan Bank forInternational Cooperation, demanding it stop funding the construction of a Rp 29bn bridge near the Rawa Singkil Animal Park in Aceh.
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