THE influx of foreigners, especially those used to a culture of buying favours, is worrying Singapore's anti-graft body.The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau wants them to know about Singapore's zero-tolerance approach to corruption and is taking steps to drum in the message.

A danger signal: They accounted for 42 per cent of those whom the bureau took to court last year, up from 34.6 per cent in 2006.

'Definitely, as Singapore opens up and more foreigners start to come in, some are bound to have bad habits because of the different cultures they are used to,' CPIB's deputy director of operations Koh Teck Hin.There have also been instances when foreigners claimed they were ignorant of the law after they were nabbed for offering bribes to policemen.