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While Singapore and Hong Kong are among cleaner economies in Asia Pacific, the region on average is failing when it comes to its effort in ending corruption, according to Transparency International's recently released Corruption Perceptions Index 2017.
The index, said the organization, ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people. The organization counts Australia and New Zealand as Asia Pacific countries while New Zealand scores 89, topping the index as the least corrupt country in the world.
The majority of countries worldwide are...