Cambodia tells donors to quit lecturing on fiscal transparencyMay 26, 2010DPA'Global Witness is a group of thieves, they cooperate with foreign agencies' - Hun Xen, leader of Cambodia's family of the thieves of the nationPhnom Penh - Prime Minister Hun Sen told a conference on good mining practices Wednesday that foreign organisations must stop giving advice on how to manage expected revenues.'This is not the hour to talk about spending the money,' Hun Sen told several hundred business executives, diplomats and civil society members in a speech opening the two-day meeting.'And don't talk too much looking on Cambodia as a child; the (government) is not a child,' he said. 'So do not advise too much.'In recent years, foreign companies have signed dozens of exploration deals in industries from oil and gas to bauxite and gold.Critics charge that the deals are opaque, with revenues failing to reach the national budget.Hun Sen also lashed out at Britain-based Global Witness, which has published highly critical reports on the government's handling of state assets, including forestry and mining.'Global Witness is a group of thieves, they cooperate with foreign agencies,' he charged. 'We have no money (from extractive industries) but they teach us...