The World Bank’s Cambodia office has organized consultations on its new Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC) Strategy with four separate groups of stakeholders – government, donor, civil society, and private sector on January 11 – 12, 2007. These consultations were part of a very active on-going dialogue on these issues in Cambodia. The Government’s Rectangular Strategy [...]
December 4, 2008– On December 9, 2008 starting at 8:00am, Cambodians from all parts and levels of society will be celebrating International Anti-corruption Day in six provinces and municipalities including Phnom Penh, Sihanouk Ville, Battambang, Siem Reap, Kratie, and Svay Rieng. Since there has been little progress in fighting corruption in recent years – especially [...]
More than 40 civil society organizations presented a petition bearing 1,098,163 thumbprints and signatures collected from people in 19 towns and provinces across Cambodia to the National Assembly (NA) on May 16 to pressure the government to speed up its endorsement of the anti-corruption law, local media reported May 16 and 17. SRP lawmaker Yim [...]
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has removed Nhek Kosal Vichea from his post as general director of the Cambodian Telecommunications (CT) for allegedly embezzling million of dollars of state funds from country’s international phone networks. The removal took place April 18 following a September-2007 report which revealed he had recorded only 5 percent of [...]
The website “Corruption-Free Cambodia” was officially launched April 8 at World Vision’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, the site is hoped to enable the public to contribute ideas towards eradicating corruption in Cambodian society, VOD and WMC broadcasted April 8. The website – [www.corruption-freecambodia.info] – provides corruption-related information collected from newspapers, magazines, radio and from certain [...]
The World Bank worked with the Center for Social Development (CSD) in Cambodia to produce a study on the impact of corruption in Cambodia, and attitudes towards it. According to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy 2003-2005, one of the biggest problems for Cambodia’s further development is corruption: it is a threat to democratic institutions and [...]
Phnom Penh municipality has ordered that from April 30 road traffic wardens stop imposing fines on drivers of motorbikes without rear mirror or failing to wear safety helmets, newspapers reported May 1. Tin Proser, chief of the Municipal Road Traffic Office, said that Governor Kep Chuktema has recommended the reversal of the fining measures—which kicked [...]
Staff working at Kampong Cham National School of Agriculture (KCNSA) claims the Ministry of Agriculture’s solution to a corruption scandal involving a director of the school is riddled with irregularities and injustice. The teachers at the provincial school recently submitted a request to the ministry, calling for the removal of KCNSA Director Sam Saron, whom [...]
A national campaign has been launched by 11 NGOs to gather a million signatures from Cambodian citizens in an appeal for the nation’s leadership to adopt the nation’s draft anti-corruption law. So far about 500,000 signatures from citizens in 19 of Cambodia’s 24 provinces have been collected, local media reported. According to a report issued [...]