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Released on Tuesday, Transparency International’s 2018 global Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Cambodia 161 out of 180 countries – the same ranking it held in 2017. But Cambodian government officials responded to the news by saying they cared little about the ranking, with some other observers ...

Two City Hall officials were on Wednesday arrested on corruption charges after evidence was uncovered leading to allegations that they had misappropriated public funds. ... ...

Anti-graft group Transparency International (TI) is launching a project to encourage young people to combat corruption in Cambodia. ...  ...

Cambodia has performed better than last year in its effort to fight corruption, but it is still slow, an international anti-corruption watchdog said Wednesday.  ... The index ranks Cambodia 156 out of 175 countries this year, up from a 160 ranking last year. ... ...

Reporting that the country had achieved better than expected economic growth last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday targeted a rapid expansion of the country's rubber industry and predicted that almost 1 in 10 Cambodians would soon be working in rubber. ... "Agriculture continues to play ...

The government is beset with high-level corruption, a lack of transparency in public procurements, poor auditing practices and political interference in the country's main anti-corruption body, a report produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) sent to the media yesterday states. In a 66-page report that ...

Transparency International Cambodia is set to step up its presence in the Kingdom with the launch of a $2.5 million three-year program to monitor and record corruption. ... On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean), Cambodia ranks 2.1, according to the organisation, ...