Transparency International has today launched its first web pages in
Chinese. The new service available at http://www.transparency.org will provide basic information about the
leading international anti-corruption organisation and its efforts to
fight corruption. "By providing information in both simplified and traditional
Chinese, TI is recognising the vital importance of the Chinese language,"
TI Chairman Dr Peter Eigen said at the occasion of the launch. He stressed
that this was only a beginning and that the Chinese service would be continuously
expanded. TI is also planning to shortly publish its National Integrity
Source Book in Chinese. This anti-corruption manual is already available
in English, Spanish, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian, Polish, Czech,
Hungarian and Ukrainian.
"Making our publications available in multiple languages is part of
our effort to make the fight against corruption a truly international
issue," Eigen said. Since the Internet plays a crucial role in TI's programmes,
documents have already been available in English, French, German and Spanish.
Access statistics of the TI website indicate that each day, thousands
of people are visiting the organisation's web pages but that there is
a wide discrepancy between the frequency of visits from individual countries.website
access statistics March to May 1999
|
March 1999 |
April 1999 |
May 1999 |
Average |
China (People's Rep.) |
92 |
55 |
15 |
54 |
Hong Kong |
265 |
348 |
191 |
268 |
Macau |
34 |
0 |
31 |
44 |
Taiwan |
2,626 |
1,260 |
302 |
1,396 |
Total page visits globally |
230,490 |
257,148 |
207,064 |
231,567 |
The TI Chairman recalled that in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan
and Hong Kong - at which the Chinese language webpages are principally
directed - different approaches have been adopted in combating corruption.
This is also reflected by the 1998 TI Corruption Perceptions Index as
indicated below:
East and South East Asian Countries in the 1998 TI Corruption Perceptions
Index:
Country Rank |
Country |
1998 CPI score |
Standard deviation |
Survey used |
1 |
Denmark |
10.0 |
0.7 |
9 |
7 |
Singapore |
9.1 |
1.0 |
10 |
16 |
Hong Kong |
7.8 |
1.1 |
12 |
25 |
Japan |
5.8 |
1.6 |
11 |
29 |
Malaysia |
5.3 |
0.4 |
11 |
29 |
Taiwan |
5.3 |
0.7 |
11 |
43 |
South Korea |
4.2 |
1.2 |
12 |
52 |
China |
3.5 |
0.7 |
10 |
55 |
Philippines |
3.3 |
1.1 |
10 |
61 |
Thailand |
3.0 |
0.7 |
11 |
74 |
Vietnam |
2.5 |
0.5 |
6 |
80 |
Indonesia |
2.0 |
0.9 |
10 |
5 |
Cameroon |
1.4 |
0.5 |
4 |
For further information
or interviews ...
Please contact:
Mr Carel Mohn, Press Officer, at the TI International Secretariat at tel.
+49-30-343 8200
or Mr Jeremy Pope, Executive Director, at our London office at tel. +44-171-610
1400 .
About Transparency International:
Transparency International was founded in 1993. It is the only global
non-governmental and not-for-profit organisation devoted solely to containing
corruption and increasing government accountability. There are currently
more than 60 National Chapters in all continents, and TI’s International
Secretariat is in Berlin, Germany.
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