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COURRI@L 2005 | MEET WITH GOD |
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Ouvrières en fuite. |
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Un camion et le vitre brisé. |
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par suite de la flambée du coût de l'essence, les prix au commerce du détail montent en flèche. Des rumeurs de
Mais, comme en haut,
[Photos RFA] |
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Chea Sim supports Border Council chaired by Norodom Sihanouk
(2005-Jun-30)
K.I. : In a speech yesterday on the occasion of the 54th
anniversary of the founding of the Cambodian People’s Party,
CPP President Chea Sim declared his
support for the Supreme National Council for Border Affairs (SNCBA) chaired
by King-Father Norodom Sihanouk. In front of several thousands party supporters
and in the presence of CPP Vice-President Hun Sen – who, as Prime Minister,
has been maneuvering to weaken the SNCBA and marginalize the King-Father
– he praised the work accomplished by the SNCBA at its first meeting in
Beijing on 11-12 May 2005 and said he trusted the King-Father in leading
the “mission to fully resolve border issues with neighboring countries.”
Contrary to a hitherto prevailing practice, Chea Sim didn't share the content
of his speech with Hun Sen before pronouncing it in public yesterday.
See corresponding press article in French (Cambodge Soir) at http://www.
cambodiapolitics.org/ news/cambodge_soir/ june_05/29_cs1.pdf
Chea Sim : Wow! Ar-Thap, you become big and fat! No surprise,
you eat a lot of ... money!
Hun Sen : I thank Samdech Ov for signing the Kret appointing
me to Prime Minister!
Sihanouk : No! I thank you for accepting my son as King of
Cambodia!
Senior Officials Refuse To Declare Their Assets (2005-Jun-23)
BY PRAK CHAN THUL , THE CAMBODIA DAILY - The long-awaited Anti-Corruption
Law, which will require government officials to declare their personal
assets in public, will be submitted to the Council of Ministers by 2006,
Minister of National Assembly and Senate Relations and Inspection Men Sam
An announced recently. But the disclosure of assets by the country’s leaders
and elected representatives is likely to be a controversial issue judging
by a straw poll this week of officials who were asked if they would volunteer
such information willingly.
According to Dianne Cullinane, anticorruption adviser for Pact Cambodia
– the NGO coordinating the Inspection Ministry's draft anticorruption law
review – public consultation on the draft should start in August and will
include publication of the law. Comments from the public will be accepted
she said. Cambodia Defenders Project Executive Director Sok Sam Oeun said
he believes the National Assembly will ratify the law by the end of the
year. "The law will go ahead, but a problem will arise over the establishment
of the Supreme National Council of Anti-corruption
and its Secretariat," he said Tuesday.
The asset declaration provision will be in the final law, but some government
officials will not be happy about it, Sok Sam Oeun said.
"They don't want to [disclose] because they don't want to be known for
being rich from corruption," he said. Regarding voluntary disclosure
of assets, Minister Men Sam An said Monday that the draft law has not yet
been submitted to the Council of Ministers let alone promulgated into law.
At this point, Men Sam An said she would not volunteer information about
her own assets but added, "I don't have any wealth to hide." Agriculture
Minister Chan Sarun also said Monday that he would not disclose his assets
until required to by the government. "I am under the government, so
if the government requires me to declare, I will do it," he said.
Environment Minister Mok Mareth said he would declare assets if required.
"I am not afraid because the properties are mine," he added. Om
Yintieng, an adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, said that mandatory
asset declarations would be a violation of a government official's human
rights. "We don't support this crazy and anarchic idea,"
he said of the voluntary declaration proposal. "I will only be prepared
[to submit a declaration] to the authority that is approved by the government,"
he added. Eng Chhay Eang, secretary-general of the Sam Rainsy Party, said
opposition party members were taking a pro-active approach to the anticorruption
law and are preparing written declarations of their assets to be made public.
Voluntarily declaring his assets, Eng Chhay Eang said that, in addition
to his $2,000 monthly salary as a parliamentarian, his wife earns $3,000
to $5,000 as a gold merchant and money changer. He also owns one apartment
in Phnom Penh, land near national Route 4 and land in Siem Reap town.
The ballet dancer : The
Royal Ballet is part of the royal assets. I never heard a king
describe the origins of the royal wealth !
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