Police in Georgia have arrested more than 20 officials from the country's tax service for taking bribes, RFE/RL's Georgian Service reported.

"What is happening in Niger Delta is not being taken seriously and is very sad. It may actually end up being bigger little by little. If we are not careful, chances are that the 140 million Nigerians may end up like a Liberia or a Sierra Leone or a Somalia," Ribadu warned.

Daniyar Usenov has denied that he paid to become Kyrgyzstan's first deputy prime minister, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported.

Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Feliks Kulov has said Daniyar Usenov admitted to him that he paid $300,000 to become first deputy prime minister, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

In public comments made in recent weeks, the United States special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios has called southern Sudan a potential breadbasket for Africa. He's also expressed confidence in the ability of the south to control corruption.

Taiwan prosecutors have indicted the leader of the island's biggest opposition party, the Kuomintang, on corruption charges. But as VOA's Heda Bayron reports from Hong Kong, party chairman Ma Ying-jeou says the charges will not affect his presidential bid next year.

China's ruling Communist Party says nearly 100,000 party members were punished last year for corruption.

Authorities in Bangladesh have made a series of high profile arrests as part of a crackdown on corruption by the country's new interim administration. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, a new election commissioner has also taken charge to organize new polls in the country, where controversial general elections were postponed recently.

Kazakhstan's newly appointed prime minister, Karim Masimov, today ordered his cabinet to ensure that oil producers working in the country meet their contractual obligations.

A Kyrgyz lawmaker says he is preparing a Shari'a-inspired bill that will seek corporal mutilations for civil servants who embezzle public funds.