Anti-corruption organisation launches Chinese web pages
Transparency International recognises “vital importance of Chinese language”
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.
TI website access statistics March to May 1999.
|
Country March 1999 |
April 1999 |
May 1999 |
Average |
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China (People's Rep.) |
92 |
55 |
15 |
54 |
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Hong Kong |
265 |
348 |
191 |
268 |
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Macau |
34 |
31 |
44 |
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Taiwan |
2,626 |
1,260 |
302 |
1,396 |
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Total page visits globally |
230,490 |
257,148 |
207,064 |
231,567 |
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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:
|
Country Rank |
Country |
1998 CPI score |
Standard deviation |
Surveys 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 |
4 |
|
85 |
Camaroon |
1.4 |
0.5 |
4 |
For any press enquiries please contact
Mr. Jeff Lovitt, Head of Public Relations, at the TI Secretariat
Tel: +49-30-343 8200
or
Mr. Jeremy Pope, Executive Director, at our London office
Tel. +44 (020) 7610 1400; Fax. +44 (020) 7610 1550
