Authorities in Myanmar’s largest city have backed off a plan to give a US$ 8 billion city expansion contract to a little-known company after public outcry.

 A government crackdown on bribery and corruption has resulted in a steep drop in the pass rate of Cambodia’s national 12^th grade exam.

Authorities in Peru have discovered at least 3.5 tons of cocaine that police say was destined to be shipped from the Pacific coast to Europe by Mexican groups, highlighting the territorial reach of Mexico's drug trafficking networks.

A New York federal court has sentenced Jimmy Cournoyer, a 34-year-old Canadian citizen known as the “King of Pot”, to 27 years in prison. Prosecutors said that Cournoyer's criminal network distributed at least $1 billion in illegal drugs over his 14-year career.

A Niagara Falls border guard in Ontario has been fired after allegedly accepting a bribe from pop star Justin Bieber.

The Supreme Court of India has ruled all coal mining rights awarded in the country from 1993 to 2010 illegal due to an unfair and corrupt allocation process.

The former chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has left the commission to join a political party he has criticized for corruption since assuming the position in 2004.

The governments of the United States and Honduras have acted together to cut off a family of alleged cocaine traffickers from its assets.

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“If you can't rein in corruption, you should legalize it," said Indian regional lawmaker Rajiv Ranjan as he announced plans to introduce a bill to do just that.