Continued from here where we've been looking at news from Cambodia ...

While the Spanish may lend one kind of support, other countries are also ponying up.

The German government has donated 7.6 million Euro (about US $10 mil) for road improvement.

Finland is giving about $ 2 million to the Ministry of Urbanization and Construction to, "adopt modern information technology, strengthen public awareness and increase community participation in the sector of land registration ... "

This comes on the heels of the $ 3.5 million it gave last year for the same thing.

How much this is appreciated is debatable, apparently. At least this article would indicate a less than grateful stance.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lauded China and sniped at donor nations Wednesday, saying Chinese aid came with respect and no strings attached.

Speaking at the inauguration of a new road in the nation's north-east, Hun Sen appeared to be taking a swipe at donors after a tense meeting between them and the government earlier in the week. He praised China's relationship with Cambodia, saying it "respected Cambodia's independence and integrity."

With a certain panache ... that's what I'm calling it ... the Prime Minister elucidated, perhaps more than he should have:

"China is a very big country with 1. 3 billion people. If the Chinese all urinated at once, they would cause a great flood. However, Chinese leaders do good things with their partners."

... "When China gives, it doesn't say do this or that. We can do whatever we want with the money," Hun Sen said.

Okay ...

It's more than pee Cambodia gets, however. A year ago the Chinese pledged $600 million ... almost as much as all the other donor nations put together.

Other donors aren't taking this sitting down. At the ninth meeting of the Government-Donor Coordination Committee, donors were telling the Finance Minister that an anti-corruption law must be passed, and passed soon.

... ahead of the GDCC meeting, a coalition of non-government organizations issued a statement calling on donors to push the government to act on reform and make it show the political will to honour its promises.

Donors have threatened to withhold aid if the government fails to implement an acceptable anti-corruption law imminently.

There's more today about the KR trials and problems, but I don't feel like doing more than giving the link today.

And this story about turning pristine islands into tourist havens hits far too close to home and makes me want to cry, so it just gets a link, too.

I'd rather finish up with a bit more on the discovery of the Slender-billed Vulture breeding colony recently found. Birdlife International has a lot of information on the birds, and how important a find this is, so click on the clickable in the paragraph to read more about it.

And that's another week of news from Cambodia. Have a lovely weekend!