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 [...]
Nearly 200 school-age children in two remote villages of Phom Preuk district in Battambang province are facing a dire future of illiteracy due to poverty, land conflicts and school shortages, according to local education officials, RFA reported Apr 10. A representative of 115 families residing in Terk Chenh Thom and O Sra Lav villages in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]