Bangkok Informer

Legal problems aside, funds are being tapped for other projects Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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Institutional investors have investigated over 500 companies and vowed to pour investment into a select group showing proven good governance, in their bid to boost the private sector’s fight against corruption. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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As much as 2.6 per cent of Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) – or Bt329 billion – is likely to be lost to corruption this year, according to an estimate based on a survey of 2,400 people from the public and private sectors. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – Business

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Illegal outflow of money hits welfare, education, wealth distribution: groups say   BANGKOK – According to the Nation Newspaper an average of US$ 6.42 billion (Bt192.6 billion) a year illegally flowed out of Thailand between 2001 and 2010 – and a large portion of this was believed to be earned through corruption, an anti-graft campaign [...]

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UNDP Thailand/Mark S. Cogan | At the rally on International Anti-Corruption Day, more than 1500 students will ask the public to take a pledge to ‘refuse to be corrupt.’   BANGKOK – It is a shame that while Thailand is organizing a campaign against corruption, the latest survey result by Transparency International showed the country’s [...]

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Transparency International have just released the 2012 Corruptions Perceptions Index. BP has previously blogged about Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, – see also this post here – and 2011. Below is a screenshot from the 2012 results: NOTE: A higher score or higher rank is better, ie China’s score of 39 or rank of 80 is better than India’s [...]

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The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said yesterday that they will investigate the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) extension of the BTS Skytrain concession as well as charges of flood-donation money being funneled into the Democrat Party. Department chief Tharit Pengdit said the committee will do everything in order to carry out the investigation process thoroughly [...]

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By Saksith Saiyasombut SEE UPDATE AND CORRECTION BELOW! A hunger strike by schoolchildren who have been barred from advancing to the upper secondary level at their Bangkok school has highlighted the ever-existing problem of corruption when it comes to parents finding a place to learn for their children in Thailand. Pic: AP. Last year we [...]

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Corruption could cost 252 billion to 294 billion baht   Chiangrai Times – Corruption in Thailand has worsened in the first half of 2012, with the private sector saying it must spend 30-35 per cent of a project’s budget as graft payments to win a government job, a survey by the University of the Thai [...]

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