Friday, January 25, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Joseph Mussomeli, the US Ambassador to Cambodia, is pushing the Cambodian government to speed up the adoption of the anti-corruption law, so that it can be put to use to curb down corruption in the Cambodian society, and to develop the country furthermore. Mussomeli told reporters in Kratie province on 22 January that the Cambodian government already promised to speed up the adoption of this anti-corruption law, without backing down. Mussomeli said that about $320 million flow into corruption each year. Therefore, if the flow of this gigantic sum of money can be stopped then it can be used to build a large number of schools, hospitals, and infrastructures. Mussomeli reported that more than 500,000 people provided their thumbprints to support the speedy adoption of this law by the National Assembly.
7 comments:
It is extraordinary that an Ambassador for judging a country where he's located. BRAVO !!!
Cambodian officials to outnumber athletes at Games
By Ek Madra
Fri Jan 25, 7:45 AM ET
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia will send almost three times more officials than athletes to this year's Olympics -- including the families of the country's sports chiefs.
The impoverished nation, which has never won an Olympic medal, will send 11 officials to Beijing to accompany just four athletes, Cambodia's Olympic committee chief said on Friday.
"We will have a team of two athletes and two swimmers," Meas Sarin told Reuters. "For the chef de mission and Olympic committee president and secretary general, guests such as wives or children can accompany us."
The athletes will each receive $200 (101 pounds) from the government and the country's Olympic committee for attending the Games, with top officials given an allowance of $7,000, he added.
The announcement comes just over a year after Prime Minister Hun Sen blasted the country's Olympic committee for freeloading after officials had squandered over $1 million, much of it on taking large entourages to international events.
The two gold medals won by Cambodia's petanque players at last year's Southeast Asian Games were among the country's proudest sporting moments.
"We don't have a hope of winning anything (in Beijing)," he said. "We have no qualified coaches, how can we get medals, it is impossible.
"At least we will be there, to show our faces to the world that we are there joining the Games."
(Editing by Martin Petty and Alastair Himmer)
Hun Sen and all other CPP leaders are kind of peoples who sell their country to the youns to line up theirs pockets.
It's flabbergasting!
Hun Sen will be the first to be arrested under this new corruption law. That's why this law will not pass. That's a shame.
corruption is prevalent in any society, more so in Cambodia. please help put into law those who found to be responsible. it is everyone's responsibility to bring it up; the more we talk about it the better it is to curb this practice. corruption is like robbing your own people, it is as bad as killing your own people like the so-called Khmer Rouge gov't.
If only foreign governments, especially the donor countries, were to put more pressure on the Cambodian government. But then they are the ones they have the most to lose, or don't they?
cambodia cannot run the by itself unless there dictated by the foreigners. so those leaders need to go, and let the young educated serve for better cambodia.
if he knew that cambodia lost that much of money why this monkey still hope around the country?..
you are part of it Mr. !
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