Meas Sokchea and Bridget Di Certo
The Phnom Penh Post
Corruption fight
Rights watchdog Transparency International made its debut yesterday at the National Anti-Corruption Conference on civil society engagement in fighting corruption. Transparency International’s Cambodia chapter was made official in July this year when it received registration approval from the Ministry of the Interior. Since then, it has launched a three-year strategic plan for a more accountable and transparent Cambodian society, said Rath Sophoan, its chairman. While speakers at yesterday’s event applauded Cambodia’s passage of the Anti-Corruption Law, Om Yentieng, president of the Anti-Corruption Commission was a notable absence at the conference. He was reportedly called away to attend a matter in the provinces. “We have a good working relationship with the Anti-Corruption Unit and we look forward to furthering our relationship and cooperation,” Rath Sophoan said by email. The American and Australian ambassadors stressed that the ultimate victims of corruption are the poorest. “Corruption…has the most serious ramifications for the most vulnerable citizens and nations,” said US Ambassador Carol Rodley.
3 comments:
fighting against rampant corruption is everyone's responsibility. we have to discourage all kind of corruption in cambodia, really! big or small ones make no difference, it's the discouragement that counts, you know! i'm with you on that! may god help cambodia.
Corruption is a bad word for any country, but more often than not it was used toward Cambodia.
I want the readers to think all of these words below:
- Mishandling the Iraq War, 20 billion dollars disappeared.
- Accounting fraud (wall street).
- Ponzy scheem (wall street).
- Ethic violation (Congress).
- Mislead (a better word for "lie")
- Mismanagement.
Do you think,all of these words are the same as corruption ????
If you put the two nations in comparative terms:
One is a super power which happened to be one of the major donors to Cambodia while that country,itself, is a beggar and that's where it will remain as such for the rest of the century, perhaps?
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