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Two officials arrested on corruption charges

Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) arrested two border officials from on corruption charges. A source said that Sok Hak and Em Sophat were arrested last week after they asked a Hochi Minh-Phnom Penh buses to pay USD 250. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YTQ1ZjRlODdmMjE

Stability, growth require job creation

Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said Thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ...

Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stability-growth-require-job-creation-53317/

At-large official given four years in prison

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced in absentia a senior official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport for directing money from employees’ salaries to his own pocket. Seng Setha, 52, general director of the ministry’s administration and human resources department, was sentenced ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/large-official-given-four-years-prison

Phnom Penh governor tells officials to ‘fix frustrated people’

The Phnom Penh governor on Tuesday told city officials to halt corruption and work harder to provide public services in an effort to restore confidence among the people who were so frustrated with the ruling party that they voted for the opposition CNRP in last ...

Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-governor-tells-officials-to-fix-frustrated-people-53243/

Students may monitor textbook delivery

Transparency International (T.I.) Cambodia and education NGOs on Friday held a conference titled “Promoting Integrity to Strengthen the Quality of Education in Cambodia,” where ideas were put forward on stamping out corruption in schools. “We need to mobilize the students themselves in tracking the delivery ...

Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-may-monitor-textbook-delivery-52968/

Two officials convicted of defrauding farmer

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced two government officials to three years in prison, with one year suspended, after they were found guilty of aggravated fraud. Nuon Sarath, 42, a former officer from the Justice Ministry’s civil department, and Keo Sophal, 48, a former ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-officials-convicted-of-defrauding-farmer-52469/

Warrant for missing tax man

The Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday ordered the arrest and imprisonment of a former Preah Vihear province tax official who was convicted in absentia in December and sentenced to three years in prison for exploiting his position for personal gain. According to the ACU’s announcement, former provincial ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/warrant-missing-tax-man

Suppliers to Global Fund back in biz

Two suppliers of mosquito nets to Cambodia found to have bribed officials to gain contracts under the Global Fund’s health grant scheme have had their contracts renewed. The two firms, Sumitomo Chemical and Vestergaard Frandsen, were found by the fund’s Office of the Inspector General in ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suppliers-global-fund-back-biz

CMAC Closes Probe Into Fire Amid Allegations of Corruption

The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) said Wednesday that it has closed its investigation into a fire at an equipment repair workshop in Battambang City on January 24 that destroyed equipment and vehicles worth an estimated $400,000. Heng Ratana, CMAC’s director-general, said that the fire had ...

Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cmac-closes-probe-into-fire-amid-allegations-of-corruption-51543/

US Ambassador Calls for Curbs on Corruption

U.S. Ambassador William Todd on Tuesday used his weekly newspaper column to urge Cambodia’s government to immediately conduct reforms that would even the country’s economic playing field, curb corruption, restore democratic freedoms and generally address the concerns of citizens who want change. “Corruption and nepotism contribute ...

Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-ambassador-calls-for-curbs-on-corruption-51436/

Teachers Told to Expel Corruption From Classrooms

Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wages, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda. Speaking to about 500 educators, mainly school directors, from ...

Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-told-to-expel-corruption-from-classrooms-51158/

Anti-Corruption Unit investigates corruption cases in response to Global Fund’s report

The anti-corruption Unit is launching its investigation on corruption cases after being revealed by Global Fund Organization through its progressive report. The investigation is being launched in line with the Unit’s announcement on the 37th Meeting of the National Anti-Corruption Council on 29 January 2014. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmY2NWI0NGUxMTg

Fake Orphanage Ordered Closed After Alleged Migrant Scam

The Ministry of Interior has suspended the operation of an orphanage after it found that its director had colluded with a recruitment agency to cheat migrant workers out of an alleged $600,000, officials said Tuesday. “The Ministry of Interior temporarily suspends all activities of Our Friends ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-orphanage-ordered-closed-after-alleged-migrant-scam-51114/

Cambodia cleans up visas

Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on all embassies and consulates to accelerate visa application procedures and end all “unofficial” fees. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said the government would crackdown on corruption related to the issue of visas. According to a Phnom Penh Post ...

Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/01/cambodia-cleans-up-visas/

Police Seek Chinese New Year Beer From Local Businesses

With Chinese New Year approaching, the long arm of the law has once again reached out to local businesses in at least one Phnom Penh commune asking for their help to ensure police have enough beer to usher in the Year of the Horse in ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-chinese-new-year-beer-from-local-businesses-51072/

Embassies abroad get reminder about graft

Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on all embassies and consulates to accelerate visa application procedures and cease charging “unofficial” fees, in an apparent bid to stamp out corruption abroad. ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassies-abroad-get-reminder-about-graft

Obama Signs Off on Aid Cuts to Government

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a spending bill that suspends some funding to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government until an independent investigation into last year’s disputed national election is carried out, or until the opposition CNRP ends its boycott of parliament. The bill targets ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-signs-off-on-aid-cuts-to-government-50886/

Obama Signs Off on Aid Cuts to Government

A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) officer and his son-in-law were arrested separately on Thursday and Friday in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey province for producing tens of thousands of dollars of counterfeit U.S. banknotes, officials said Sunday. Police arrested Tang Thearith, 35, in Poipet City on ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-signs-off-on-aid-cuts-to-government-50886/

Official busted for alleged graft

An official at the Takeo provincial department of labour was arrested on Friday and charged for allegedly embezzling more than $310,000 from vocational teachers, the ACU and a prosecutor said yesterday. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-busted-alleged-graft

Ministry of Defense Backs Accused RCAF Officials

The Ministry of Defense on Monday said that a complaint filed against a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) commander in Banteay Meanchey province for alleged corruption and other crimes had already been resolved in 2011. On Friday, provincial RCAF soldiers informed local rights group Adhoc of ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-defense-backs-accused-rcaf%E2%80%88officials-50496/

Former Banteay Meanchey Official Arrested for Corruption

The Anti-Corruption Unit on Friday arrested a former senior member of the Banteay Meanchey provincial administration for allegedly forging and selling a duplicate land title to 992 hectares of land already owned by a development company, provincial and anti-corruption officials said Sunday. Ouk Keo Rattanak, who ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-banteay-meanchey-official-arrested-for-corruption-50455/

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