Corruption News

Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit detained the nation’s controversial ambassador to South Korea, Suth Dina, and is preparing to file corruption charges following a probe of his spending, complaints by Foreign Ministry... Read More

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... Read More

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... 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... Read More

Transperancy International Cambodia yesterday called on the authorities to fulfill their commitment to the introduction of a whistleblower law, saying it would be key in protecting those who otherwise might... Read More

Cambodia is now perceived to be the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia, according to Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which was released on Wednesday and promptly dismissed... Read More

Cambodia scored very poorly on a perceived corruption index, put out each year by Transparency International, but a government spokesman says the report doesn’t reflect the “effort” the government has... Read More