Lok Savun, you are right, that's what we want to see, but it won't happen, they are not going to dig out about how they own their property prior to the new laws in effect, but from the day the law take affect, that's why I said this law is to help the big corruption thugs get their asses clean officially. If they are to question about their assets prior to the date this law in effect none of the big CPP thugs would get away, but well this is a big joke as I said! Some of you might had watched a Khmer video long time ago ( 1983-85? ), title " Thann Teang Bei " starring Khai Piseth and others, later this video was banned by the government because the story showed real issues of the society, that includes corruption as well, one sciene I like the most and also I think this is one of the reasons they banned this video, it was the sciene when a boss cursing, blaming a maid/servant for not cleaning the stair steps neatly and the servant replied if we want to clean the stair well we have to clean from top to bottom not from bottom to top, the same way as cleaning up the corruption in the government ...
Khoar Chev ( Made in Cambodia ) --- On Wed, 8/25/10, In Camdisc <[email protected]> wrote: From: In Camdisc <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Website to publish assets of senior government officials To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 6:55 AM Starting from the top first; The King, Prime Minister, Senators, Member of Parliaments and down... Account for with hard copy, bank account, asset, business and how long they employed with Cambodian government and how they earn each year. Let them show all source of imcomes. Savun From: Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> To: Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 3:38:52 AM Subject: Re: Website to publish assets of senior government officials 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. 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