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Buying lesson, cake, candy and paying money to teacher are corruption in education sector?

vutha — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:22:11 +0000

Schools will be able to be a training school to educate corruption, if schoolboys and schoolgirls are required to buy candy or cakes sold by teachers, or to pay party for teachers, or to buy gifts for teachers at the end of each year. And students have been forced to buy lessons [...]

Immoral behavior of health officials and unofficial fee for health service

vutha — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:36:09 +0000

A woman was walking out of a table of physicians and holding her 9-month son towards her husband who was waiting and sitting on motorcycle. And then she approached her husband and she said to his husband with angry face that “those nurses are not polite, when I asked them about how to [...]

Vehicle Taxes Lucrative for Corrupt Officials: Group

vutha — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:35:52 +0000

A watchdog organization says the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s tax collectors are bilking the country out of at least a million dollars a year by overcharging for annual vehicle stickers.

There are more than 2.5 million vehicles registered in Cambodia, and if tax collectors take only 2,000 riel, or about [...]

Need life safety or justice?

vutha — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:17:37 +0000

Last month, I wrote blog post that traffic police fined me and friend of mine while we drove car without wearing belt at midnight. At that time, we gave 10,000 riel to them when they asked us for pure water. And I got comment from Jeffrey Serey Hola from USA, sharing [...]

Border police takes money from cassava vendors

vutha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:59:35 +0000

While the prime minister ordered to clean up all illegal checkpoints set up along the national roads in order to take money from Cambodian farmers who transport their vegetable and products to the market. By the way, the premier also ordered all border policemen to stop taking money from people who export their [...]

Are you afraid of threat warning?

vutha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:37:27 +0000

That is the question that a journalism student asked me when she chatted with me nearly two hours about Cambodia’s traffic law, especially relating to the road accidents, bribery, corruption and extortion which are committed by traffic police. During the last year, I have liked to write my blog posts related to traffic [...]

PM points finger at corrupt army chiefs

vutha — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:37:29 +0000

PRIME Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned of harsh sanctions for soldiers and military commanders involved in illegal businesses, identifying several officials by name who he said were guilty of corruption.

Speaking at the conclusion of a conference on military reform, held at the Ministry of Defence, Hun Sen said even [...]

People victimized by the corruption

vutha — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:54:43 +0000

The public and non-governmental organization workers expressed excited when they heard that all NGO workers have obligation to declare their assets included in the new version of anticorruption legislation, which was approved by the Council of Ministers last 3 weeks. Even though, NGOs workers are not reluctant to disclose their assets.

Before starting to make discussion about Cambodia’s education sector, I just want to ask all of you whether you used to pay informal school fee to your teachers while you were at the State-primary and secondary schools. According to the Constitution, all children are encouraged to enroll into the public schools with free [...]

Strong reaction to critics of corruption

vutha — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:06:36 +0000

So far, the long-awaiting corruption draft law has not been passed yet, corruption issues is the hot topic for political parties and Cambodian people who are strongly attacking the current government. The Cambodian government rejected US ambassador’s remarks during the organization of Clean Hand Concert on May 30, 2009. US ambassador said that [...]

Country for Sale

vutha — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:57:08 +0000

Global Witness released its report entitled â€œCountry for Saleâ€ by saying that corrupt elite has captured the countryâ€™s emerging oil and mineral sectors. Report exposes for the first time how this future is being jeopardized by high-level corruption, nepotism and patronage in the allocation and management of these critical public assets.

Health care system should be designed for all

vutha — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:09:54 +0000

By Sim Socheata (the Cambodia Daily)

On Jan 15, the Cambodia Daily carried out the news item, â€œMinistry Seeks Autonomy for State Hospitalsâ€(page 27). I wonder how the Cambodian population takes this news. Personally, I have a lot of concerns of what this plan might lead to.

The Ministry of [...]

Stop or continue updating content of anti-corruption website?

vutha — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:56:09 +0000

So far, the Anti-corruption website created in Khmer and English reached one year under the management of content and technical by Open Forum of Cambodia. This website is ownership by more than 40 local NGOs under funding support from USAID through Pact-corruption. According to the monthly statistics, there are more than 3,000 [...]

Phnom Penh traffic police’s brutal acts

vutha — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:55:38 +0000

Where is the justice in Cambodia society? Who respects the law? Who breaks the law? Most of traffic policemen have been stationed at the corner of the traffic lights in Phnom Penh to facilitate the road traffic and protect social order for Cambodian people. On the contrary, image of policemen order protection is under [...]

Buddhism is basis of rule of law

vutha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:02:45 +0000

(Written by Moeun Chhean Nariddh and published on Phnom Penh Post newspapers)

As Cambodian people are returning from P’Chum Ben, they might have fulfilled their traditional obligation to appease the ghosts of their ancestors who have been roaming different pagodas in search of food offered by their living relatives during the two-week-long festival.

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Traffic police’s duty to get money from drivers

vutha — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:51:57 +0000

Almost every day, traveling toward my workplace along street in Phnom Penh, I have always spotted traffic police getting money from passenger taxi, or trucks hauling their personal goods while running past the traffic light at the intersection of corner where traffic police officers stands, especially in Phnom Penh city.

Traffic policeman stationed [...]