Tag Archives | Malaysia

Keeping elections clean: TI-Malaysia launches Election Integrity Pledge

19 June 2012 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Politics and government, Technology

Uncontrolled and unchecked spending and a culture of money politics can disrupt the proper functioning of Malaysia’s political system. For example, Transparency International Malaysia’s research on political financing shows that the party leading the ruling coalition held assets of more than EUR 350 million in 2004. The EUR 50,000 limit on campaign spending is rarely […]

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Malaysian public become eyes and ears of the forest

15 February 2012 in Forestry, People power, Technology

You live in a very remote area in a forest-rich country. You may not rely on the forests to make a living but they’ve remained as you know them for as long as you remember and – from stories your grandfather told you when you were a child – for a long time before that. […]

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How transparency can protect Malaysian forests

11 October 2011 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Forestry

Michel Gary is Programme Coordinator in TI’s Forest Governance Programme. In the wake of a new report by TI Malaysia, he discusses the urgent need for transparent forest governance to safeguard the country’s timber. Logging is big business in Malaysia. Stretching across more than half of the country, Malaysia’s vast forests don’t just define the […]

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Public procurement: Keeping government spending corruption-free

28 July 2011 in Private sector

Transparency International’s Annual Report highlights work from more than 100 countries around the world. The following extract looks at what TI chapters are doing to keep spending on government services clean and transparent. Trillions of dollars are spent every year worldwide on publicly funded projects – everything from schools and hospitals, to roads and bridges, […]

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Cleaning up business in Malaysia

15 July 2011 in Asia Pacific, Private sector, Whistleblowing

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” The American investor Warren Buffet’s words of advice struck a chord. His words were quoted by another man intimately familiar with the world of business, K.M.Lee, Managing […]

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