Najib's US trip may affect 1MDB probe: activists

Kuala Lumpur

IN a room packed with Malaysian civil servants, foreign ministry secretary general Ramlan Ibrahim raised his right hand as he read out an anti-corruption pledge.

He was among thousands of state officials nationwide to take such an oath in the past several weeks, part of an anti-graft campaign called by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

"The citizens are becoming more informed ... they ask for public service which is more efficient, transparent and fair," Mr Ramlan said after the event in Putrajaya, the administrative capital.

The campaign comes as Mr Najib prepares to meet President Donald Trump in the United States this week, where the US Just…