Gov't defends slide in corruption ranking

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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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