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Police are seeking to identify the man who sparked a bomb scare while attempting to rob a Wellington bank yesterday afternoon, bringing the central business district to a virtual standstill. Cordons were put up around much of the CBD after...

Police are hunting a 28-year-old man who once shared a boarding house room with the dead man. Witnesses saw the attack in which the younger man used an iron bar or tyre lever to repeatedly strike the victim in the...

Supervisory institutions of international corruption Transparency International (TI) re-released the Corruption Perceptions Index (Corruption Perceptions Index) annually. List of the most corrupt country with a score of 10 was released yesterday (17/11). This time, New Zealand tops the cleanest...

Olympian's name suppressed again 10/12/2009 11:00:01 A New Zealand Olympian accused of sex and violence offences which include allegedly raping his wife has had his name suppression order extended once again today. The sportsman faces 13 charges, including four of...

Rally Anti-Graft day in major cities in Indonesia Thousands of peoples across the country went to the street as to commemorate of ‘’the world December 9, Anti-Graft ‘day’’. In Jakarta hundreds of members of many Non-Governmental Organization and University Students...

A new trial of Burmese democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi began in the countries capital Rangoon this week. Suu Kyi is accused of violating the terms of her house arrest by allowing an American intruder who swam across...

Senators and congressmen began grilling Palace and security officials on the basis for the declaration of martial law in Maguindanao province. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita stressed that the issuance of Proclamation 1959 on the province was a �faithful exercise� of...

The ban, effective immediately, is expected to last until mid January while police fix an error in how DNA is interpreted in forensic labs...He said the move has nothing to do with the integrity of DNA evidence but how a...

Today around 20,000 people solidarity mass action against corruption in downtown Jakarta, while in many big cities in Indonesia are also troubled by similar actions. A few days before, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that this mass action is an...