ABSTRACT
Introduction In October 1952, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) was established in Singapore (Quah 2011: 209) and on 25 February 2014, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Myanmar was launched by President Thein Sein (Ko 2014). During this 62-year period, 29 anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) were formed in 23 Asian countries to tackle the scourge of corruption. However, an analysis of the performance of Asian countries in 2014 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the World Bank’s Control of Corruption governance indicator in Table 17.1 shows that corruption remains a serious problem in most of these countries with the three exceptions of Singapore, Japan and the Hong Kong SAR.
