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Gov't defends slide in corruption ranking
Published:  Nov 18, 2009 9:27 PM
Updated: Nov 19, 2009 8:02 AM

The government today defended its slide in global corruption rankings, which came despite much-vaunted anti-graft campaigns, saying it will "take some time" to purge corruption.

Watchdog Transparency International said this week that Malaysia fell to 56, from 47 last year, on a league table of 180 countries surveyed around the world and that graft had hit "alarming" levels.


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