Australia police / Malaysia media / Bangladesh promise

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INFO: $15 million for Australian Federal Police to crack down on foreign bribery.  The Australian government will invest $15 million over three years to strengthen the capacity of the Australian Federal Police and specialist agencies to trace corrupt money flows, seize tainted proceeds, and engage the best lawyers to prosecute perpetrators.

Olivia Change, Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-federal-police-is-getting-15-million-to-crack-down-on-foreign-bribery-2016-4

COMMENTARY: The story that is dividing Malaysia's media. The editor of the Malaysiakini website on how a corruption scandal is shaking the government and challenging the media.

The Listening Post: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2016/04/story-dividing-malaysia-media-160416073953321.html

COMMENTARY: The Promise of E-Procurement in Bangladesh.  New research by Wahid Abdallah, a research fellow at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development in Dhaka, shows that electronic government procurement holds enormous potential.

Bjørn Lomborg, in Project Syndicate: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/online-procurement-less-corrupt-by-bjorn-lomborg-2016-04

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