Yeah, keep denying and running from the truth. That would help!
Even a person like me who's not supporting any parties here would not criticize one for the other, but criticize one for what they do... or not do.
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AP News 2009-06-03 15:13
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP): Cambodia on Tuesday protested the U.S. ambassador's recent assertion that corruption saps the Southeast Asian country of up to $500 million a year that could otherwise be used for development.
U.S. Ambassador Carol Rodley said Sunday the lost money could be used to construct 20,000 six-room school buildings or pay every Cambodian civil servant an additional $260 a month.
Rodley, who was speaking at a concert to popularize the fight against corruption, also expressed the hope that a long-delayed anti-corruption law would finally be enacted this year.
In a letter to the U.S. Embassy, Cambodia's Foreign Ministry said it was "very much regrettable that a representative of a foreign government has made such an allegation based on a biased assessment and without any proof."
It said the $500 million figure was invented by a think tank... Read more
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