China to aid Cambodia's judicial reform.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:33 pm

Exciting progress on the reform of Cambodia's judicial system has just been announced by the spokesman for the Ministry of Justice:

China MoU to help ‘reform’ judiciary
Wed, 28 September 2016
Yesenia Amaro

China has signed an agreement to assist the Kingdom with judicial reforms and to share expertise in overhauling such systems, though one international expert yesterday cautioned that China shouldn’t be considered “a model for justice reform in Cambodia”.

Under the five-year agreement, signed on Monday, China will provide training and financial, judicial and legal assistance, said Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin. China will help new administrative offices – created in 2014 – by providing training on managing caseloads, finances and personnel, as well as information technology, he said...

Judges would also receive training from China, although the specifics haven’t been decided yet. “We may have an exchange program,” he added.

What’s more, China will assist in the establishment of a legal and judicial research centre, which will provide policy recommendations to the government on general legal and judicial reforms...

[However] Kingsley Abbott, senior legal adviser at the International Commission of Jurists, yesterday questioned whether China was in the best position to help the Kingdom improve...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... -judiciary

boozyoldman · Post by **boozyoldman** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:15 pm

No comments?

This news item is beyond parody!

Will Americans and Saudis now come to instruct the Khmer in modesty and humility?

Will Somalis give lessons in nation-building?

Whatsupdoc · Post by **Whatsupdoc** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:27 pm

http://www.newsweek.com/china-executed- ... oup-278733

Problem is that whatever Human Rights groups say, nothing is taken seriously by the Cambodian government.

Sailorman · Post by **Sailorman** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:55 pm

China, the human rights star of Asia, helping to train the corrupt judicial system? In what, how to make a bribe look like a charitable donation? On the other hand, America has more people in prisons/jails than any other country on earth. Maybe they should bring in members of the American judicial system to train them in how to form a better gulag system, how to funnel government money through private prisons and how to use prisoners as slave labor.