Cambodian News

Cambodia lost nearly 100 factories and 40,000 jobs last year in the wake of the global financial crisis, a government official said Monday, though some other factories have since opened and put more people to work.
“The ministry noticed that from January through November 2009, garment and shoe factories, in total 93, have been closed,” Om [...]

Foreign lawyers for jailed Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea filed a complaint on Thursday to Phnom Penh Municipal Court, claiming widespread corruption within the Khmer Rouge tribunal jeopardizes their client.
“People who pay kickbacks cannot be independent,” Michiel Pestman, the leading international defense attorney, told reporters outside the Municipal Court, joined by assistant attorneys Victor Koppe [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The United Nations and the government of Cambodia have agreed in principle to strengthen measures to prevent corruption among staff at the country’s genocide tribunal.
The partners said in a statement Wednesday that they would meet to ensure the tribunal is administered in a “transparent, fair and efficient manner.”
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Cambodia’s prime minister asked foreign donors Thursday to continue providing economic assistance despite the global financial crisis and promised the passage of an anti-corruption law.Speaking to donor representatives at the opening of a two-day meeting to coordinate assistance, Hun Sen said aid would be used for health care, education and other social improvements.
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Economic officials released the government’s plans for a second stage of public finance reform Wednesday, a day ahead of an annual donor meeting.
Cambodia has long struggled with public finance, and its government operations are supported in large part by the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from other countries and lenders such as the [...]

Cambodia is facing increasing difficulties from the global financial crisis and an erosion of democratic principals, two opposition parties said Wednesday, producing a list of critiques for donors to consider ahead of an annual meeting Thursday.
The National Assembly minority, consisting of the Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties, urged donors to consider four points ahead [...]

The Cambodian government has dismissed a statement by environmental watchdog Global Witness (GW) that criticized the government for its poor management of the nation’s potentially vast oil and mineral resources, national media reported Tuesday.
“It is naive for Global Witness to think Cambodia’s international donors are not aware of their ill-intent to damage Cambodia’s economic development,” [...]

The London-based group says foreign donors have not done enough to hold the government to account for failing to fight corruption
ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog Global Witness has released a scathing attack on what it says is rampant asset-stripping and graft in the country’s mining and oil sectors, saying that foreign donors needed to get tough on [...]

Phnom Penh – A Cambodian electricity company worker was on the run after accidentally burying alive and killing a 13-year-old labourer, local media reported Monday.
Police said the boy was clearing rocks from a hole on Thursday where new power cables were to be laid when the excavator operator – unaware the boy was still in [...]

Cambodia has the potential to be an industrialized nation, but corruption and impunity have kept it politically immature, a former US ambassador said.
Sichan Siv, who serverd as US ambassador to the United Nations, said Cambodia has slowly overcome its problems since the early 1990s, but certain impediments remain.
“The problems of corruption, crime and impunity still [...]