Roh Moo-hyun was the 16th President of South Korea.

South Africa’s presidential frontrunner Jacob Zuma heads back on the campaign trail Tuesday free of graft charges just two weeks before polls that his ruling party is expected to sweep.
Zuma is tipped to become president after general elections on April 22 which the African National Congress (ANC) is likely to win just shy of the nearly 70 percent majority it now holds in parliament.
Prosecutors Monday dropped charges of corruption, fraud, and money-laundering after an eight-year investigation into Zuma, and presented wire-tapped conversations that appear to show political meddling in the …

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif warned in an interview Friday that political chaos could embolden Islamist militants threatening nuclear-armed Pakistan, as his supporters battled police following a court ruling barring him from elected office.
Pakistan’s biggest political crisis in over a year began Wednesday when the Supreme Court upheld a ruling that banned Sharif from contesting elections because of a past criminal conviction.
The court also disqualified Sharif’s brother from continuing as head of the government in Punjab province, Pakistan’s largest, prompting President Asif Ali Zardari to oust the regional government.

Khaleda Zia was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country’s history to hold that position..

Anti-government protesters in Thailand blockaded the country’s main international airport late Tuesday halting departing flights amid signs of increasing tensions between pro- and anti-government demonstrators. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok the violence and civil disobedience has escalated as protesters try to force the ouster of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat’s government.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters led by the People’s Alliance for Democracy or PAD swarmed into Bangkok’s main international air terminal building Tuesday evening.

Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister, has been ordered to stand trial for his role in an alleged plot to smear Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president.
Judges signed the order late on Tuesday, requiring de Villepin to appear before the court over what sources close to the trail said was alleged “complicity in libel”.

Thailand’s public sector unions have threatened to call a nationwide strike next week unless the current government quits.
The threat is the latest move in a long-running political crisis that has gripped the country and already severely undermined confidence in Thailand’s economy.
“If the government remains on November 25, we will strike,” Sawit Kaewvan, head of an umbrella group representing 200,000 workers, told reporters on Friday.

Transparency International (TI) is an international non-governmental organization addressing corruption. This includes, but is not limited to, political corruption. It is widely known for producing its annual Corruptions Perceptions Index (see below), a comparative listing of corruption worldwide. The international headquarters is located in Berlin, Germany.