Dear cppamerican cppamerican (I'm excited to say it twice, d'ohh!!), I'm glad the Cambodian goverment is trying to combat corruption. I wish it success in its endeavor.
Pheng Kim Ving On Aug 24, 11:49 pm, cppamerican cppamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Website to publish assets of senior government officials > The Phnom Penh Post > Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:01 Vong Sokheng and James O’Toole > > The government’s Anticorruption Unit plans to set up a website to > publicise the asset declarations of government officials and other > materials related to the Kingdom’s anti-graft strategy, the body’s > chairman said yesterday. > > Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium hosted in part by anti-graft > group Transparency International, ACU head Om Yentieng said the > website would help to publicise the government’s fight against > corruption. > > “We need to find a way to release information to the public, and our > website is a bridge to connect with the public and answer questions,” > Om Yentieng said. He said he could not afford to wait for donors to > help prepare the website, and would instead start one “by myself”. > > “I will be spending only a few hundred dollars,” Om Yentieng said. “I > am not going to die if I lose support from donors, but I will die if > my people are not confident in my work.” > > Ran Liao, Tranparency International’s senior programme coordinator for > East and Southeast Asia, called the website proposal “encouraging”, > though he said that asset declarations needed to analysed to ensure > their accuracy. > > “In many countries, as a first step, they have an act which encourages > government officials to declare their assets and other things, but > there’s no monitoring system included,” Liao said. > > Transparency International, he said, plans to set up an office in > Phnom Penh “soon” to help work more on this issue. > > Asset declarations will be compulsory for senior officials under the > new Law on Anticorruption, and Om Yentieng said yesterday that the ACU > would have the power to seize assets that were not accounted for. > > “If you have two houses in your asset declaration during your two-year > term, and in the next term you have three or four houses, you will > need to explain the financial sources,” he said. > > Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay said he doubted that this > provision would be judiciously enforced by anti-graft officials. > > “We just laughed our heads off when we saw the article on the > declaration of assets,” he said. “Since these people have been > appointed by the Prime Minister, it will be easy for them to search > for their opponents.” > > Son Chhay allowed, however, that the declaration requirement could be > effective if government officials give a full and public accounting of > their assets. “We’ve heard so much about how much they earn,” he said. > “Everybody really wants to know.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
