India Lokpal bill / Korea defense industry / Malaysia whistleblower protection

Lokpal bill: BJP govt likely to bring new anti-corruption legislation during Monsoon Session; blames UPA for delay.   Union Minister Jitendra Singh Tuesday said the delay in setting up Lokpal was due to certain "inherent problems" in the legislation as the previous previous UPA regime had drafted it in "haste".

Policy Planning Panel to Explore Ways to Stamp Out Corruption in South Korea's Defense Industry.  The chief of the presidential policy planning advisory panel said that it would explore ways to stamp out deep-seated corruption in the defense industry, long blamed for eroding the country’s military capabilities.

MACC guarantees protection for whistle-blowers.  The lack of awareness on the protection guaranteed for whistle-blowers is one of the reasons that less than 0.1 per cent of 1.6 million civil servants reported graft cases.

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