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U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, right, meet with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong in Phnom Penh.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
US Ambassador Carol Rodley said Thursday that Cambodia’s ongoing corruption prevents the country from moving forward and is scaring off foreign investors.
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, right, meet with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong in Phnom Penh.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
US Ambassador Carol Rodley said Thursday that Cambodia’s ongoing corruption prevents the country from moving forward and is scaring off foreign investors.
The ambassador spoke at a national seminar in Phnom Penh aimed at bolstering civic engagement in development and tackling corruption.
“It prevents countries like Cambodia from fully realizing their potential,” Rodley said in opening remarks. Corruption undermines good governance and “hinders economic and social development,” she said.
“It erodes the confidence that citizens have in their government and in the rule of law,” she said.
Rodley said corruption, which costs the government an estimated $500 million a year, drains money from public coffers and “often makes international businesses think twice” before investing.
“The government of Cambodia acknowledges this,” said Keo Remy, a spokesman for the Anti-Corruption Unit, a government body tasked with fighting graft under a 2010 law that donors had sought for years.
The government is undertaking an education campaign across the country to curb the practice, he said.
However, Hang Chhaya, a member of Transparency Cambodia, said the fight against corruption was taking place with little information available publicly.
“We want to see transparency in the fight against corruption,” he said.
Australian Ambassador Penny Richards said the battle against corruption was not the government’s alone. It also takes a “strong coalition” of civic groups, she said.
2 comments:
I don't hear China say any thing about Cambodia. They invested billion dollars in the kingdom.
Do you think US has the right to tell China how to make money ???
It is a joke right ????
This is what wrong with the world !!
Some how, when you go around and critisize other, it would make you better !!!!!
When you find fault on other, is that make you perfect ????
Is this the logic behind it ????
Cambodia needs to take US Ambassador Carol Rodley's critism as a positive thing, and not to take negatively.
I think she right on the money. Cambodia must make improvement on this issue.
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