Listening mode – Asia-Pacific tunes into whistleblowers

Chinese whispers, in which a message is relayed from person to person, may, until lately, have been the most likely route by which wrongdoing would become known to company management or officialdom in the Asia-Pacific region. Growing appreciation of the value of whistleblower intelligence is now prompting governments there to offer stronger legal security for those brave enough to speak up. Jens Kastner, Sara Nabila Harris, Mark Godfrey, Raghavendra Verma and Julian Ryall report.