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| | Sri Lanka, 10 - 19 - 2005: Sri Lanka places 82nd on global lack of corruption list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | Iceland was in first place as the cleanest, while Sri Lanka took the 82nd spot with a score of 3.2, Transparency International said in its annual report. |
 | | Half of the countries that landed in the bottom 10 on the list were African countries, while those at the top were industrialized Asian and Western countries, it added. |
 | | Hong Kong ranked 15th with a score of 8.3, Japan was 21st at 7.3, France was 18th at 7.5, Taiwan and Qatar were both ranked 32nd at 5.9, Jordan was 37th at 5.7, and Turkey was 65th at 3.5. |
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