Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said the government is now paying almost all civil servants’ salaries and collecting taxes using technology, rather than relying on officials to handle cash, which reduces corruption.

Thirty-nine civic leaders and lawmakers, as well as university students, have said they will publicly declare their assets, in a show of transparency and a bid against corruption.

The director of Transparency International Cambodia on Friday called for all political parties to incorporate anti-corruption measures into their platforms before next year’s commune elections. Speaking at an anti-corruption conference at the five-star Cambodiana Hotel on Friday, director Preap Kol said that TI Cambodia will work with other civil society organisations to write an anti-corruption... Read More

A Cambodian-American political scientist has proposed a novel way to tackle corruption in the Kingdom: force bribe-taking bureaucrats to compete with each other. In a paper published on Sunday titled Combating Corruption in Cambodia, academic Sophal Ear said crowd-sourcing the going rate for various services would give citizens a reference point when negotiating bribes.