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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]