Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed doubt on Thursday about the service pattern of some foreign consultants working for donor countries' development projects in Cambodia.
These experts used to be paid dearly, but unable to contribute original initiative to the kingdom, he told a symposium about the partnership between the government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
"We can't accept this. They should have shame for these affairs, " he said.
When donor countries provide technical assistance to Cambodia, they request the government to hire foreign experts at high expenses (to carry out relevant projects), thus collecting their money back and making Cambodia receive nothing, he said.
Some consultants just stay at five-star hotels, hire Cambodian students to conduct survey for them, compose their reports on basis of the survey and finally tell the government that this is their achievement, said the premier.
"They steal Cambodian initiatives...This is corruption of intellectual property rights," he said, adding that this should be changed.
Cambodia also needs to strengthen its capacity to finish such projects with its own national staff, he said.
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the region and almost half of its annual government budget was met by donor countries in recent years.
Source: Xinhua
These experts used to be paid dearly, but unable to contribute original initiative to the kingdom, he told a symposium about the partnership between the government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
"We can't accept this. They should have shame for these affairs, " he said.
When donor countries provide technical assistance to Cambodia, they request the government to hire foreign experts at high expenses (to carry out relevant projects), thus collecting their money back and making Cambodia receive nothing, he said.
Some consultants just stay at five-star hotels, hire Cambodian students to conduct survey for them, compose their reports on basis of the survey and finally tell the government that this is their achievement, said the premier.
"They steal Cambodian initiatives...This is corruption of intellectual property rights," he said, adding that this should be changed.
Cambodia also needs to strengthen its capacity to finish such projects with its own national staff, he said.
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the region and almost half of its annual government budget was met by donor countries in recent years.
Source: Xinhua
6 comments:
Below is I copycat straight from Hun Sen's PRAGMATIC BEHAVIORAL approach to the problems:
IF YOU DON'T WANT, YOU DON'T TAKE IT. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO NEED. PERIOD
EQUAL TO:
IF YOU DON'T TAKE THEIR MONEY, YOU DON'T FEEL PRESSURE. NO FREE LUNCH. DON'T COMPLAINT AND COMPLAINT AND TAKE AND TAKE OR
EQUAL TO
YOU DO NOT LIKE TO EAT FOOD THAT YOU DON'T LIKE ITS TASTE. SO SPIT IT OUT PLEASE.
MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.
OK UN you cleared know who run Cambodia with the trick of old communists?
Help give us real democracy, this time we not depend on Royalist any more!
And how about 1997, should UN do something back then????????
or we Cambodian are too stupid?
I disagree with the way HUN SEN carried out his domestic policies but what he said there are some truth to it!
Let be honest! Cambodian people just want to survive and they will commit corruption if they have to! I am blaming the whole system of HUN SEN economic policies and the low paying job or joblessness! If the fucken job can’t pay Cambodian people enough to live on and they will continue to commit corruption! Let say if the fucken job can pay Cambodian people enough to live on and they wouldn't commit corruption and if they do they would think twice about losing their job! So please don't just create any job but a good well paying job so that people can earn decent money to support themselves and their family! Recently, HUN SEN pass a law to cut Cambodian people salary and I know it will lead to more corruption!
It seems to me that these foreign consultants have a well paying job than Cambodian people and so there is no incentive for these foreign consultants to commit corruption! The consultants will think twice about committing corruption because who would want to live in a roach infested hotel than to live in a five stars hotel! ahahahhahah
It is about time that HUN SEN must learn how to walk on his own two feet than to rely on the donor countries to help him out all the time! If a little baby can do and I am sure HUN SEN can do it too! ahahh
I should say that he have made a good point. The lender oblige Cambodia to borrow to pay the salaries of the lender's country man for doing nothing. It is time
to refuse those kind of loan.
The root of corruption is NOT ALWAYS caused by poverty.
GOOD EXAMPLE: LOOK AT MANY HIGH RANKING OFFICIALS IN HUN SEN REGIME. THEY DO NOT JUST CORRUPT TO SURVIVE to put food on a table and to have a descent house, BUT TO BE RICH and then SUPER RICH.
corruption is a behavioral addiction. When it starts, almost certainly one may have very hard time to stop.
Most of foreign experts are
corrupted, they are only in
Cambodia for a fat salary.
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