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The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal is steadily working toward it biggest, more complicated trial to date, but that trial has been overshadowed in recent months by the court’s handling of two additional cases, which has seen the resignation of one UN judge and an emergency meeting with the UN’s top legal counsel and Cambodian officials. A growing number of court observers now say the court’s approach to cases 003 and 004 is derailing its credibility, even as it prepares to try four Khmer Rouge leaders for one of the worst atrocities of the 20 th Century. The Khmer Rouge tribunal will face its most difficult trial some time next year.

The deadline for public officials to declare their assets passed at midnight Thursday. But with the anti-corruption unit silent on the number of officials who met the deadline, critics are questioning the effectiveness of the law.

One year into the implementation of the anti-corruption law, Cambodia has made a number of high-profile arrests.

Cambodia’s rights record may worsen under continued rule, rights activists warn.

Cambodians say that a new anti-corruption law needs better enforcement, and more arrests to follow.

Ordinary people surveyed by Transparency International say corruption levels have increased over the last three years.

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s new anti-corruption unit announced its first arrests Wednesday as one of the world’s most corrupt nations tries to prove it is serious about fighting rampant graft. Top Chan Sereivuth, a prosecutor at a court in western Pursat province, was arrested along with his two bodyguards on Monday, said the chief of [...]

An official says a Cambodian provincial prosecutor has become the first person to be arrested under a new anti-corruption law. The head of the government’s anti-corruption unit, Om Yentieng, says Pursat provincial prosecutor Tob Chan Sereivuth was charged Tuesday with accepting bribes to release timber smugglers and with extorting money from local people, the military [...]

The head of the Anticorruption Unit has led police in the apprehension of a Pursat provincial prosecutor and two bodyguards working for him, marking the first arrests made by the recently established body. Nget Theavy, provincial Adhoc coordinator, said ACU head Om Yentieng, who is also a senior adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, accompanied [...]

Cambodia’s new anti-corruption strategy is a welcome step forward but there are some serious flaws in its design that mean it will fail to tackle corruption at the top of the political elite, warned Global Witness today. The lack of separation between the new Anti-Corruption Unit and the executive is a major weakness that makes [...]