THAILAND

Anti-Corruption Network head says public must fire first salvo in battle to end graft

News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 22/07/2012

» Last week, the Anti-Corruption Network released a report saying that under the table pay-offs accounted for 50% of the costs of all government concessions. Couple that with the latest Abac poll in June of this year in which 63.4% of respondents said they were fine with corruption so long as they were well taken care of and the picture of Thailand that emerges is a grim one.