1.   The next presidential and congressional election cycle will differ from the last only in further excesses of the de facto extortion and bribery that political fund-raising has become.

2.   Claims and counter-claims of political bribery continued in Papua New Guinea on Sunday and speculation increased that Speaker John Pundari could become the next prime minister.

3.   The political bribery case against former Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao begins Tuesday.

4.   Buchori said political bribery had a particularly bad impact on the younger generation.

5.   Malaysian companies have for several years been condemned for their clear-felling practices as well as their links to political bribery and corruption in the Solomons.