The Ministry of Information has welcomed USAID’s recent publication of a monthly review focusing on corruption in Cambodia, but has asked that it is expanded and its quality strengthened. After meeting with USAID Country Mission Director Erin Soto on Jan 24, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith claimed that the review, already published twice, is good enough, [...]
Yim Sovann, chairman of the Fourth Committee of the National Assembly and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) lawmaker for Phnom Penh, said at a workshop held to mark International Anti-Corruption Day December 9 that corruption is to blame for most of Cambodia’s ills, newspapers reported December 10. Claiming that the two largest problems facing [...]
A road construction project spanning six provinces and with a budget of more than US$10 million is allegedly riddled with corruption, anonymous officials involved in the project recently claimed. Corruption has apparently blighted the Tertiary Roads Improvement Program (TRIP-IV), a project using €7.6 million (over US$10 million) worth of German aid for the construction of [...]
Cambodia has this year again scored poorly in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) business competitiveness survey, with the group citing corruption, poor infrastructure and the weak implementation of laws as the main reasons the nation is being outdone by its neighbors, newspapers reported early November. Out of 131 countries ranked in the 2007 Global Competitiveness [...]
Pact Cambodia, an international NGO working collaboratively with local organizations to build organizational capacity, warned December 17 that it would terminate its contracts with all organization partners when it found that corruption or mismanagement had been intentionally committed. The warning was given after PACT had discovered that mismanagement and corruption had been committed by three [...]