Ousted Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday she would fight a junta order demanding she personally pay nearly $1 billion in compensation for a rice policy critics say was riddled with graft.
Close to 1.5mn Muslims from around the world descended on Thursday on Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage, undeterred by last year's stampede disaster but with Iranians absent.
The Sri Lankan cabinet yesterday extended the term of the country’s anti-corruption panel...
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak sacked two senior party members critical of his handling of a financial scandal yesterday
Supporters and opponents of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clashed in street protests yesterday after the suspension of planned questioning in an investigation into a beach apartment that prosecutors say was given to the former president by a company involved in a major corruption scandal.
In a day of dramatic twists, a court in Kerala handling corruption in public offices ordered a probe into the bribery allegations involving Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his senior colleague Aryadan Mohamed.
