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| Transparency International's World Corruption Map. (Photo: Courtesy of Transparency International) |
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| Cop taking bribe (Photo: Dyna Khuon and Rithisaak Soeung posted on Facebook) |
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“We also need to have education regarding integrity, codes of conduct and promotions for people to love cleanness.”
The US-based Transparency International says Cambodia’s corruption has become “systemic,” where people are habituated to bribery that is now seen as “automatic.”
The executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, Preap Kol, says the classification is one of the most serious forms of corruption that will take considerable effort to reform.
The group rates Cambodia the 20th-most corrupt nation in the world, putting it in the company of Guinea, Kyrgyzstan and Yemen.
“People seem to have the automatic thought that they have to bribe,” he told VOA Khmer Monday.
To beat corruption, he said, requires political will and a strong rule of law, without exceptions. “We also need to have education regarding integrity, codes of conduct and promotions for people to love cleanness,” he said.
Cambodian corruption includes bribery on the street, as well as in high levels of government, in service sector exchanges, in false documents, embezzlement, nepotism and more, he said. It reduces state tax revenue, which hampers development, and it leads to extravagant waste of public resources.
13 comments:
Corruption is a way of life in Cambodia. That's the sad reality. Corruption in Cambodia happens in all levels of society, from the very top to the very bottom, fro the very rich to the very poor, from the very old to the very young. Almost everywhere you look at, there's some kind of corruption taking place. Whatevery you do, may it be applying for a job, getting your driver's license, doing your state exame: you have to bride. Otherwise, you can forget about it. People even have to bride to shit in a public toilet. Kids as young as 2 know how to bride. Brides become so common that people don't take it seriously eventhough it's a cancer that can destroy the country. It's not that they don't care, it's because in most cases they don't have a choice. Dump kids from rich and powerful families pass national exames with flying colors while poor smart kids from poor families fail year after years. Why you asked? In Cambodia, it's not what you have in your head that counts, rather it's what you have in your pockets or who you know that counts. Countries with this level of corruption is a ticking timed bomb waiting to explode and everybody will suffer. It's a lose lose situation.
Bravo Cambodia! We are number 1 again (in a bad way).
In Cambodia, corruption is so bad that you even have to bride a prostitute to have sex with you. It happened to me. We were doing it but it took too long so she decided to end it. I had to pay her an extra $5 to continue. It wasn't like I had a choice. To continue or not continue, that's my question. You can't just stop when you've reached that stage. That would be unprofessional.
CORRUPTOR-IN-CHIEF?
I thought he is a
COMMANDER-IN-THIEF.
Baay Kdaing
He's also a:
KILLER-IN-CHIEF
LOSER-IN-LIFE
LEADER-IN-TOILET
SOON-TO-BE-IN-HELL
My blood is boiling every time I see the face of that Viet dog, Ah chhke Hun Sen.
8:03AM - thank you for being so frank.. and let me also be frank with you: your behaviour shows your UTTER moral bankruptcy and complete lack of principle. It's people like you that make human rights abuse a disgusting fact of life in Cambodia because it supports sex slavery. you are the proverbial pot that calls the kettle black.
Ah Chkae Kwak is always smiling or yelling. Why?
1:33 PM,
Don't take the blogger @8:03 AM personally. This blogger 8:03 AM was joking around.
Whether or not this blogger@8:03 AM is a Vietnamese animal. We would say this blogger @8:03 AM is Vietnamese.
Agree with you @1:33 PM. This blogger @8:03 AM displayed the comment without care, but he/she did on purpose to other reader or blogger to react to his/her comments. However, he is very stupid enough to leg someone to step on foot until this blogger scream with pain, and also disrespectful until someone kicks his ass or give him/her a big slap to tell him to shut the fuck up.
This blogger @8:03 AM is lack of his/her principle because he can spill the mouthpieces so easily without a good manner.
Correction for 7:06 PM
but he/she did on purpose to MAKE other reader or blogger react to...
Most of you play day by day the same music and nothing new to hear.
It is not about the cop corrupt. The people and the transporters are the responsible for these tragedy. But it is in Cambodia and the people still have more munity feeling for each other and still want to help each other by their own ways.
We can’t change the whole situation after a short time, we better learn to understand the problem
POLOR JIS = POLICE JOR !
1:33 PM,
I can understand why you felt so upset because the hooker I banged happened to be your mother/sister/ wife.
6:55 AM. DUMB idiot.
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