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Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
I
N A sharply worded state-
ment, the Vietnamese
Embassy in Phnom Penh
condemned a protest that
took place in front of its build-
ing yesterday morning, saying
demonstrators interfered with
Vietnams sovereignty and
internal affairs.
Several demonstrators and at
least one security guard were
injured during clashes when
about 200 members and sup-
porters of several Khmer Krom
organisations gathered outside
the embassy.
Participants demanded a for-
mal apology from embassy
spokesman Trung Van Thong
for commenting last month that
the Kampuchea Krom territory
belonged to Vietnam long
before France officially granted
it the land in 1949.
Despite being restrained by
relevant authorities of the Roy-
al Government of Cambodia,
the demonstration still took
place and seriously impeded
the operation of the Embassy,
the statement released yester-
day afternoon reads.
The Embassy considers this
move an act of intervention
into the sovereignty and inter-
nal affairs of Viet Nam.
Protesters led by the Federa-
tion of Cambodian Intellectu-
als and Students (FCIS) arrived
at the embassy at about 7am
and were greeted by about 200
security guards and military
police. Authorities kept them
from demonstrating in front of
the building.
Security guards and military
police forcefully used shields
and batons to disperse the pro-
testers, who were marching in
two groups towards the embas-
sy from opposite sides.
A second clash occurred at
about 9am when protesters
tried again to advance on the
building. Banging their batons
against their shields to warn
demonstrators before they
Patrick Wintour
A SOUL-SEARCHING
national inquiry into how
authorities may have
ignored systematic child
abuse in some of Britains
most eminent institutions
was being prepared yester-
day by the home secretary.
Home Secretary Theresa
May told the House of Com-
mons that she was estab-
lishing a powerful public
inquiry into how com-
plaints of sexual abuse were
treated, and sometimes
ignored, in public bodies
over several decades.
Ministers had been hold-
ing out against such a
sweeping inquiry, but, fac-
ing charges of an establish-
ment cover-up, succumbed
Cheang Sokha
and Laignee Barron
BEFORE dawn yesterday,
Thai military officials raid-
ed a house not far from the
border, finding dozens of
undocumented Cambo-
dian workers crammed
into a room awaiting trans-
portation deeper into
the country.
The 84 workers were wok-
en, taken into military cus-
tody and deported, but the
brokers who had smuggled
them into the country were
nowhere to be found,
according to Koy Kuong,
spokesman for Cambodias
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The [Thai authorities] did
not hurt the workers, just
arrested them and sent them
back, Kuong said.
Thai media put the
number higher, reporting
that the military rangers dis-
covered and repatriated 103
Cambodians during the
raid: 64 men and 39 women
who were being held by their
traffickers in a small premise
with no ventilation. The
workers had allegedly each
paid a Thai national named
Phuyai Sua 2,500 baht ($77)
to smuggle them across the
border to find jobs.
One day prior to the raid,
a car full of undocumented
migrants recently smuggled
across the border crashed
into another car in a head-
on collision at midnight in
Prachin Buri province. Two
of the workers were killed
UK set
to probe
govt sex
abuses
Raid on
house
nds 84
workers
Clash at Vietnam Embassy
Buddhist monks and sup-
porters face off against
security personnel during
a Khmer Krom protest in
Phnom Penh yesterday.
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Meas Sokchea
THE Thai military have closed
eight checkpoints along the
Cambodia-Thai border in
Banteay Meanchey province,
affecting citizens of both coun-
tries who cross the border each
day to earn their livelihoods,
Cambodian officials have said.
So Channary, police chief of
Border Defence Unit 91, and
Khuon Choeun, commander
of Brigade 51s Unit 515, which
is stationed at the border, said
that the checkpoints in Svay
Chek and OChrov districts
were closed on Monday.
Thai soldiers had informed
them that the checkpoints
were being closed to secure
the area ahead of an uniden-
tied military commanders
visit to the border yesterday,
they said.
But by yesterday afternoon,
ofcials said that the border
checkpoints remained closed
and that no commander had
visited.
The Thai commanders did
not come. I am following up to
look into this situation. Now
[the checkpoints] have still
not been opened, Channary
said.
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instantly and the other nine in-
jured passengers were taken to
the hospital, Kuong said.
Since the ongoing exodus
of more 250,000 Cambodian
migrants began over fears of a
crackdown following the May
coup, border ofcials and mi-
gration experts have said eco-
nomic desperation has driven
many to return to their better-
paying jobs. Despites prom-
ises on both sides of the bor-
der to better enforce migrant
worker policies, crack down
on trafckers and fast-track
the documentation process,
workers are still circumventing
the legal channels.
The main problem is that it
takes a long time to get all the
documents, and the workers
cant afford to wait. They need
money quickly, so they look for
the fastest way to go, said An
Bunhak, president of recruit-
ment agency Top Manpower.
Bunhak said about 10,000
Cambodians went to work in
Thailand last month through
recruiters, an average number
that hasnt increased since the
recent inux of workers.
While the Ministry of Labour
announced last month that
it would streamline overseas
work applications into a $49,
20-day process, no one has yet
received a single passport or
visa issued under the reform,
Bunhak said, adding he is
hopeful implementation will
start next week.
On the Thai side, the junta an-
nounced that undocumented
workers have until the 21st to
register at one-stop service cen-
tres, a period labour monitors
said will give further incentive
to workers to look to brokers.
This way, they dont have to
wait for a passport, they can
just go and get legalised there,
said Huy Pich Sovann, a pro-
gram ofcer at the Community
Legal Education Center.
But migration experts said
the short window for registra-
tion is setting an unrealistic
deadline that will either result
in an extension or the crack-
down and arrests that workers
feared to begin with.
Theyre saying they want to
overturn the system and really
enforce anti-trafcking policy,
but weve only been seeing
these same temporary mea-
sures that are easy to do and
address the immediate failures
of a completely broken system
rather than look to resolve the
issues, said Bangkok-based
migration expert Andy Hall.
Thailand repatriates
84 after predawn raid
Strike divides Cintri workers
Pech Sotheary and Alice Cuddy

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HILE Phnom Penhs gar-
bage truck drivers returned
to work yesterday following
a brief strike, piles of refuse
continued to mount in parts of the city,
as trash collectors who had joined the
drivers cause were continuing the strike
alone as of 7pm.
On Monday, drivers of Cintri, the citys
sole refuse collection company, went on
strike after one of their colleagues was ac-
cused of stealing petrol, threatened with
being shot by a security guard and then
briey detained.
After the company agreed to re both
the garage director and the guard who al-
legedly made the threat, the drivers agreed
yesterday to return to work.
But at least 30 of the companys trash
collectors, who had joined the protest to
demand better working conditions, con-
tinued to strike yesterday.
The drivers agreed to the resolution,
but the waste collectors are still creat-
ing a problem. There are only about 30
on strike but theyre trying to stop others
from working, said City Hall Deputy Gov-
ernor Aunny Ieng.
Ieng added that many of the remaining
protesters 10 demands, which include
stipends for travel, accommodation and
health care, came not from the workers
themselves but from the union.
Mom Sarorn, president of the Trade
Union Federation for Increasing Khmer
Employees Lifestyles, dismissed the alle-
gation. This is the program of the worker,
its not about me, she said.
But Im Un, a Cintri driver who returned
to work yesterday, said the unions list of
demands was not important enough to
him to keep him out of work.
I need those things, but not enough
[to keep striking]. The union suggested
them, he said. The [demands] are im-
portant, but Im not sure if the company
has the money to meet them after increas-
ing our pay already this year, he added,
referring to the wage increases offered fol-
lowing similar strike in February.
Nuon Sipheng, a Cintri director, agreed.
We have just increased it once and now
they demand more on top of that. Keep-
ing up with them is so difcult, he said.
Ieng, the deputy governor, said that with
more than 1,600 tonnes of garbage accu-
mulating each day in Phnom Penh, a so-
lution needed to be reached quickly.
We need to resolve it as soon as possi-
ble, before we rest the King Fathers ashes
on Friday, he said, adding that volunteers
had been brought in to help tackle the
mounting waste.
Owners of businesses located next to a
large pile of garbage near Wat Koh called
for a quick solution.
Nou Thyda, a food vendor, said her busi-
ness was suffering. People dont want to
eat here because of the smell, she said.
A front loader works to clean up mounds of rubbish on the road yesterday in Daun Penh district
after the Cintri garbage company was left short-staffed due to strikes. PHA LINA
Death in Thailand
One logger
killed after
border cross
A
N ILLEGAL logger was
shot dead by Thai secu-
rity forces on Sunday and
two others have been reported
as missing, police have said.
Pich Vanna, chief of the
Cambodia-Thailand border re-
lations office, said a prelimina-
ry intelligence report showed
that the deceased crossed into
Thailand to log rosewood and
was shot by border rangers.
We have not identified the
dead body, and the two mis-
sing people have still not retur-
ned, he said. We are working
to communicate with our Thai
counterparts but the process
of our request for repatriation
of the body is ongoing.
Kim Seng, Choam Khsan
district deputy governor and
chief of the Anses border
checkpoint, said he was
waiting for confirmation from
Thailand. I do not have clear
information, but our border
officials are in contact with
Thai counterparts, he said.
Sixty-nine Cambodians were
shot dead in Thailand last year,
the Ministry of Interior says.
In March, 12 illegal loggers
were reported killed in a single
incident. VONG SOKHENG
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Evidence
taken from
SR school
Thik Kaliyann and Daniel Pye
INVESTIGATORS from the
Child Protection Unit yesterday
confiscated a laptop and cam-
eras believed to contain evi-
dence of child abuse at the
Underprivileged Children
School in Siem Reap.
Fformer Australian Federal
Police officer James McCabe,
who heads the unit, said the
investigation was ongoing into
allegations that the schools
33-year-old director Long Ven,
who was arrested on Monday,
sold sex with underage students
to foreigners posing as donors.
Weve conducted further
inquiries today and made sure
all of the children have been
interviewed, he said. Weve
identified three potential vic-
tims . . . [and] recovered cameras
and a laptop that we think were
used to make recordings.
Ven was due to be charged at
Siem Reap provincial court this
morning, according to Doung
Thavery, provincial anti-traf-
ficking police chief.
Today, we detained him tem-
porarily at Siem Reap province
police headquarters, and we
accused him of illegally traffick-
ing children, she said.
Official dies in lift shaft fall
Chhay Channyda
A
MILITARY pol ice
commander from
Poipet town died in
Phnom Penh early
yesterday after he fell about 10
metres down a hotel lift shaft
after a night of drinking and
karaoke, police said.
Horm Muth, military police
commander in Banteay
Meanchey provinces Poipet
town, died in the early hours of
yesterday morning after falling
down an under-construction
elevator shaft at the Midland
Hotel in Tuol Kok districts Boe-
ung Kak I commune.
A hotel staffer described
watching CCTV footage of Muth
stagger around his fourth-floor
corridor in the early hours
before straying into an unfin-
ished area of the hotel.
Or Borin, Banteay Meanchey
provincial military police chief,
said Muth was on leave to see
his ill mother in Prey Veng prov-
ince before spending the night
at the hotel on his way home.
He and his wife stayed there.
I regret his loss. He was a good
officer. It was an accident and
is not considered a murder
case, he said.
The hotel staff member, who
requested anonymity, said Muth
had left the hotel to visit a kara-
oke bar with his family before
returning at about 3am.
He went out to sing karaoke
with his family and got drunk
and then came back to the hotel
at 3am. Then we saw [him on
CCTV]; he came out of his room
in a drunken manner and then
went into the back of the hotel,
where steam rooms and a
swimming pool are being con-
structed, he said.
After being declared dead on
arrival at Phnom Penhs Cal-
mette Hospital, Muths body
was immediately transferred to
his family for burial.
Chreang Sophan, a deputy
governor of Phnom Penh,
whose family owns the hotel,
yesterday held a blessing cer-
emony with his wife at the site
of the incident.
Midland Hotel representa-
tives declined to comment on
the incident and security guards
prevented any reporters from
viewing the scene.
It was not clear whether the
hotel would pay compensation
to Muths family.
It is a matter for my boss to
deal with, but so far, the family
has not complained, the hotel
staffer said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY DANIEL PYE
People inspect the ground oor of an elevator shaft yesterday at a construction site in Phnom Penh after a
military police commander fell to his death. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Activist takes KDC buyout
May Titthara
Kampong Chhnang
A
COMMUNITY repre-
sentative who has
played an active role
in the long-running
land dispute between residents
of Kampong Chhnang prov-
inces Lorpeang village and a
politically connected company
has agreed to back down after
accepting compensation.
In a deal reached with KDC
Company on Monday, Reach
Seyma accepted $20,000 com-
pensation for almost 1 hectare
of land as well as a separate
payout of nearly $2,500 to
agree to stop protesting.
For my safety, I am willing
to accept the companys rec-
ompense; otherwise, I would
be arrested, Seyma said.
In the contract, which was
obtained by the Post yesterday,
Seyma agreed not to provoke
any opposition to KDC, which
is owned by the wife of Min-
ister of Mines and Energy
Suy Sem.
The company has been
embroiled in a land dispute
with the community since
2007, when it bulldozed 145
hectares of farmland without
compensating residents.
Seyma said that as an influ-
ential figure in the community,
he believed the company
offered him the deal in hopes
that others would follow.
The deal was reached on the
same day that violent clashes
broke out in the area when vil-
lagers tried to block about 100
employees of KDC Company,
who were armed with scythes,
slingshots and iron balls, from
moving land markers and
clearing land in an apparent
attempt to extend its conces-
sion. At least one person was
beaten unconscious and 14
more injured in the violence.
Yesterday, more than 200
mixed security forces contin-
ued to surround the village.
Om Sophy said she was too
scared to leave the house.
When the forces have with-
drawn, I will go out to protest
against the company and will
not allow it to clear our land. I
will file a complaint in Phnom
Penh to seek justice. I am a vic-
tim, not a criminal, she said,
as company workers armed
with scythes and blaring loud
music guarded her house.
Chouk Chandoeun, Kam-
pong Chhnang governor, could
not be reached yesterday, while
Thai Hy, a KDC representative,
declined to comment.
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Sen David
TAKEO Provincial Court
yesterday handed out sus-
pended sentences of three
years in prison and 1 mil-
lion riel ($250) fines to four
Khmer Krom men charged
with occupying and clearing
state land and destroying a
protected area in Kampong
Krasaing commune.
According to the Minority
Rights Organization (MIRO),
the men have lived and
farmed the land since 2004,
and the verdict is aimed at ex-
pelling them while also deter-
ring other poor villagers from
cultivating state land.
Un Thanann, provincial
coordinator for rights group
Adhoc, said Vy Chan, 55; Vy
May, 45; San Roum, 34; and
Sao Moeun, 40, received guilty
verdicts in front of more than
70 Khmer Krom families who
had gathered at the court to
hear the verdict.
I have been found guilty,
but I am happy that I at least
do not have to go to prison,
Vy Chan said.
MIRO said the Khmer Krom
community of 74 families has
been asking for more land
from the state since the 1990s
to no avail.
In 2004, they occupied 215
hectares of state land, but in
2007, the authorities stated
the area would be declared a
protected wildlife sanctuary.
Villagers claim that the Fish-
eries Administration ordered
the destruction of 91 houses
in the area last year.
I admitted that I occupied
land that is now a sanctuary,
but what about the Fisheries
Administration that has de-
stroyed the villagers houses?
Who will take responsibility
for us? Chan said.
Sao Kosal, deputy direc-
tor of the provincial sheries
department, denied that the
Fisheries Administration had
anything to do with the de-
stroyed houses.
He added that the authori-
ties had called for a stiffer pen-
alty for the four men.
We asked for them to be
jailed and ned 30 million
[riel, almost $7,500] because
they destroyed a signicant
amount of state rainforest,
he said.
But its the courts deci-
sion, he added.
Provincial Governor Lay
Vannak said yesterday that
he is working on a social land
concession request from
the community.
Krom sentenced for
illegal occupation
Villagers carry an unconscious member of their group across a creek in search of medical assistance in
Kampong Chhnang on Monday after a clash with KDC employees turned violent. HENG CHIVOAN
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Speed dealers too slow
for Ratanakkiri police
ALLEGED drug dealers in
Ratanakkiri province werent
quick enough to hide the
speed police say they were
selling when a raid of a hotel
room turned up methamphet-
amine. Officers in Banlung
district arrested 12 people
during a sweep of a hotel
there when they found them
packaging yama pills. Those
arrested confessed and will be
sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Angry shop owner takes
law into his own hands
IN PHNOM Penh, where triple-
parking is commonplace, one
business owner decided to
enforce his own parking policy
on Monday. In a police com-
plaint, a man said he parked
his SUV in front of a Prampi
Makara district computer shop
to buy a drink nearby. When he
returned, he allegedly found
his tyres slashed and asked
the shop owner if he saw any-
thing. The merchant said he
did it, because he doesnt like
people parking in front of his
shop. He is being sued for
$2,000. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Beers n bikes: a combo
that just does not mix
DRUNK driving may have
been a large factor in a traffic
accident in Kampong Speus
Samrong Tong district on
Monday night which left five
men injured. Three men
stumbled out of a pub and
onto one motorbike, police
said. While driving, the trio
crashed into another motor-
bike carrying two people.
Police sent all five injured
men to hospital and allegedly
found the three on the bike
that caused the accident were
drunk. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Brutal beating in Poipet
ends in hospital, arrests
A CONFLICT between a few
men in Banteay Meancheys
Poipet town nearly cost a life
on Monday when two men
beat and stomped one man
nearly to death. The victim was
sitting in front of his house
when two rivals came by and
relentlessly beat him, stomp-
ing on his stomach, police
said. Neighbours called police,
who say things could have
been much worse if they had
not sent him to a hospital as
quickly as they did. Police
arrested the alleged assail-
ants. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Boss gets the axe from
angry worker, literally
SOME people solve workplace
problems through their HR
department, others go with
alternative methods. Police in
Tbong Khmum provinces
Memot district arrested a
25-year-old construction
worker after he attacked his
manager with an axe on Mon-
day, police said. The suspect
allegedly hacked at his boss
before fleeing. The victim was
rushed to a hospital. Police
arrested the suspect, who,
they say, admitted to the
crime, claiming his boss treat-
ed him poorly. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
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National Writing Competition 2014
East-West Management Institute -- Program on Rights and Justice (PRAJ)
believes that the hope for lasting legal and judicial reform in Cambodia rests
with the next generation of legal professionals. Accordingly, a key objective
of the USAID-funded PRAJ is to improve the quality of legal education at
Cambodias universities.
After having delivered various legal competitions in the past eight years, we
would like to announce another challenge, a writing competition calling for
participants to Discuss the imbalance in numbers of female judges and
prosecutors compared to male judges and prosecutors. The purpose
of the competition is to promote greater knowledge and understanding of
womens engagement in the ield of law. Speciic subtopics could be (but are
not limited to): What is the cause of this imbalance? Why does the process
of judicial selection result in many more males than females being selected
as judges and prosecutors? How is society impacted by a lack of female
judges and prosecutors? Does the lack of female judges and prosecutors
inluence the extent to which domestic violence and other gender-based
crimes are addressed/resolved? If so, what is that inluence? What steps
can the bar association take to improve the number of female judges and
prosecutors? What lessons can Cambodia consider from other countries that
have previously addressed this issue? Other relevant subtopics can also be
explored.
General criteria 1.
The Competition is open to all current female law students at all
universities in Cambodia (female only) writing on the question
stated above, regarding. Essays must be original and not previously
published. The essay should be made to relect Cambodias
situation.
No more than 3000 words and not less than 2500 words (not including
bibliography/footnotes/endnotes). Please note, 3000 words is the
absolute maximum and 2500 words is the minimum. Any violation of
this rule will result in not being eligible for consideration. The paper
must be submitted in English, as the winning entry will be proposed
for publication in an English-language law journal.
Page set up: A4, times New Roman 12 Points, with spacing at 1.5
The paper will properly reference research sources according to the
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style. The winning paper will be academic in style and thoroughly
researched.
Plagiarism is serious misconduct and will result in disqualiication.
All work must be the work of the entrant and only the entrant. Any
essay that is found to be in violation of this rule will be disqualiied
Please include your detailed biography at the last page of your paper.
It does not count against your word limit.
Amount of award 2.
The winning entry will be awarded a prize of $500 and will be
submitted for possible publication in the Cambodian Law Journal
2015. In addition to the irst prize, the Competition will oer a
second place prize of $300 and a third prize of $200. A few additional
submissions may be awarded an honorable mention certiicate.
Deadline 3.
The submission must be received on or before August 4, 2014 via
the emails below.
Information 4.
For more information, please contact the organizers:
Ms. Ly Boranine, lboranine@ewmi-praj.org , 089 745 887
Ms. Seng TithKunthy, skunthy@ewmi-praj.org , 012 777 265
Court gives
King Kong
two years
Barred from
exam, grade
12s protest
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A
USTRALIAN national
Alan Rolf Jensen, also
known by his associ-
ates as King Kong,
was sentenced to two years in
prison by Phnom Penh Munic-
ipal Court yesterday for distrib-
uting drugs to foreigners in the
capital last year.
The court convicted him to
two years, but he will only serve
one year in prison and pay a 4
million riel fine [about $1,000],
municipal court judge Keo
Mony said.
Charged with drug distribu-
tion under Article 40 of the
Kingdoms Anti-Drug Law,
Jensen, 49, was arrested in
December last year in his home
in Daun Penh district following
a month-long investigation,
according to Mony.
Colonel Khen Sovann, deputy
commander of Phnom Penh
Municipal Military Police, said
yesterday that Jensen was in
possession of marijuana, meth-
amphetamine and related para-
phernalia when he was arrested
in December.
Neither Jensen nor his legal
defence could be reached for
comment yesterday.
Chhay Channyda
FIFTY-TWO students in Kam-
pong Thom are blaming teacher
favouritism and an inherently
unequal system for preventing
them from sitting the national
exam and graduating this year.
The students, from Hun Sen
Taing Kork High School in Baray
district, filed a petition to the
provincial department of edu-
cation requesting permission to
sit the diploma-qualifying test
on August 4 and 5 even though
they failed their grade.
As of March, a policy revision
stipulates that in order to sit the
national exam, grade 12 stu-
dents must first pass the grade
with a two-semester average
score of 25 out of 50.
At the Baray district high
school, a third of grade 12 can-
didates have not qualified for
the exam a result they blame
on their teachers.
Because we are too poor to
pay for extra lessons, we did not
do well, said Chin Chhaylin, 17,
a student who said he averaged
towards the higher end of the
class ranking, yet achieved only
a 24.75 average.
Some teachers do not teach
well at the public classes, and
only give good lessons in the
extra classes, he said.
On Monday, 30 of the dis-
gruntled students travelled to
Phnom Penh to protest outside
the Ministry of Education.
Education Minister Hang
Chhuon Naron said he has sent
a delegation to the school to
check into the problem.
Provincial officials have vowed
to review the petition. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY LAIGNEE BARRON
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attacked, authorities again
used force, but were met by
volleys of rocks thrown by
members of the crowd, injur-
ing at least one embassy secu-
rity guard.
The iron gates in front of the
embassy were closed to keep
the group outside. By noon, the
demonstrators had dispersed.
Several participants decried
the authorities violent re-
sponse and their inability to
hold their planned protest in
response to Van Thongs com-
ments on Radio Free Asia last
month that France did not cut
territory of Khmer Kampuchea
Krom and give it to Vietnam,
but Kampuchea Krom had
been a Vietnamese territory for
a very long time.
We just gathered in the area
outside the embassy; that is
Khmer land, FCIS director Mao
Pises said. But the authorities
cracked down and beat us.
Despite Pises reasoning that
the group was not doing any-
thing wrong as it was not en-
croaching on Vietnamese ter-
ritory, Phnom Penh City Hall
spokesman Long Dimanche
said the municipality had
forbidden the demonstration
during a meeting and in an
ofcial letter.
The Vietnamese Embassys
statement complained that the
demonstration was contrary
to the laws of the Kingdom of
Cambodia, which stipulate
Cambodia does not allow
any force or any individual to
use its territory to counter any
other country.
Neither Van Throng nor
any other spokesperson for
Vietnams embassy could be
reached yesterday.
Council of Ministers spokes-
man Phay Siphan refused to
comment on the embassys
statement, telling a Post re-
porter that he did not want to
create any conict.
The government as well
as the local authority . . . dont
want to see anything happen-
ing, anything provocative,
said Siphan, who emphasised
close relations between Cam-
bodia and Vietnam. Everyone
should respect the law.
No arrests were made at
the demonstration, and the
Phnom Penh municipality has
no intention of opening any
investigation into the protest,
Dimanche said.
I dont have anything to in-
vestigate about this matter, he
said. [Placing security guards
and military police at embas-
sies] is what City Hall does in
order to protect foreign em-
bassies in Cambodia.
Monks stand at a barricade yesterday in Phnom Penh during a demonstration demanding the Vietnamese
Embassy apologise for a statement made by one of its ofcials. VIREAK MAI
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014
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PPWSA prot for Q1 down 60 pct over previous year
Hor Kimsay
PHNOM Penh Water Supply Author-
ity (PPWSA) the first listed com-
pany on the Cambodian stock
exchange has recorded a profit of
$1.33 million for the first quarter, a
decrease of 60 per cent from the
same period last year, according to
audited f i nancial statements
released yesterday.
Ros Kimleang, chief of PPWSAs
accounting and financial depart-
ment, told the Post yesterday that the
reduced profit is due mainly to low-
er revenues from water consump-
tion and increased spending on the
Nirot Water Treatment Plant, where
a solar power-generation system is
being installed.
Our instalment budget is higher
than our expectation, so it makes net
profit down after instalment and pay-
ing the interest rate, he said.
Political turmoil also played a
part, accordi ng to Ki mleang,
who said that construction projects
had slowed, meaning weakened
commercial demand for water.
PPWSAs share price closed at 4,760
riel ($1.17) yesterday, up from 4,700
riel ($1.16) on Monday.
Lamun Soleil, deputy director of
the market operations department of
Cambodia Securities Exchange, said
PPWSAs stock price increase during
trade yesterday indicated that inves-
tors were not overly concerned about
the profit downturn recorded in the
first quarter.
Soleil said that whether slow growth
by PPWSAs would have an effect on
the companys stock price came
down to expectations.
If it [PPWSAs growth] is not much
under investors expectation, it would
not much affect their confidence.
Svay Hay, president and CEO of
Acleda Securities, said he was con-
fident that the firms share price was
unlikely to be affected by the first-
quarter results.
Hay said that PPWSAs share value
was currently near its support price
the level that a stock usually does
not fall below, as buyers at that point
tend to purchase the stock.
When the share price of a com-
pany reaches the support price, the
share is [unlikely to] seriously fluctu-
ate further, he said.
With the stock hovering around
the support price, Hay said inves-
tors main focus was PPWSAs annu-
al dividend, which would be based
on the firms performance over four
quarters. PPWSA predicts a rise in
profits to $2.4 million in the second
quarter, the companys chief account-
ant Kimleang said.
Chan Muyhong
CAMBODIAS northwestern
provinces of Siem Reap, Bat-
tambang and Preah Vihear all
had stable increases in visitor
numbers in the first six months
of the year, according to fig-
ures from their provincial
tourism departments.
Siem Reap, which was ranked
second among the top 10 best
Asian cities for tourists in a
poll of readers of Travel + Lei-
sure magazine last week,
received just an average
increase of visitors to June.
Chung Sokhemarak, deputy
director of the tourism depart-
ment of Siem Reap province,
said that despite the impact of
the political unrest in neigh-
bouring countries the coup
in Thailand and tensions in
Vietnam over a sovereignty
dispute with China the
province had still enjoyed a
stable rise.
Siem Reap received 1.2 mil-
lion foreign visitors from
January to June, a little over
10 per cent more than in the
same period last year, with 1.3
million local visitors, up by 33
per cent.
This is an average increase
for the province, but starting
from this month, we will see
the figures drop down due to
the low season, he said refer-
ring to rainy season, which can
make it difficult for tourists to
spend time at Angkor Wat.
Sokhemarak added, howev-
er, that the province still
expected to receive 2.5 million
visitors this year, with num-
bers increasing from October,
when the rain begins to clear.
Receiving recognition as the
countrys cleanest city from
the Tourism National Commit-
tee in March, Battambang has
received 209,000 local visitors
to June, up 9 per cent from the
same period last year, while
foreign visitors increased 4.5
per cent to 43,000.
Uch Omthiny Sara, director
of the Battambang tourism
department, said yesterday
that the province was benefit-
ing from foreign tourists arriv-
ing through international
checkpoints on the Thai bor-
der before moving on to Siem
Reap and Pursat.
But, Omthiny Sara said,
months of political unrest in
Thailand had resulted in
smaller visitor numbers than
the department had hoped
for by this time of the year.
We have already seen fewer
foreign tourists visiting the
province this month, but we
hope the province will be able
to see an average increase of 10
per cent for the year, as we have
set out plans to keep the
number up.
Battambang, known as a city
of heritage and popular for its
French colonial architecture
and bamboo train, is consid-
ering plans to create a 500-
metre-long nightlife strip,
similar to Siem Reaps pub
street, to cater to more foreign
tourists, Omthiny Sara said.
In Preah Vihear province,
where Monday marked the
sixth anniversary of Preah
Vihear Temples World Herit-
age listing, foreign visitors
reached more than 6,700 in
the first six months of the
year, an increase of about 29
per cent.
The number of local visitors
was up by nearly 57 per cent to
about 56,800, according to
official figures.
You Sovann, the deputy
director of the Preah Vihear
tourism department, could
not be reached for comment
yesterday.
Visitor numbers rise
but less than hoped
Italy millers slam unfair EBA
Daniel de Carteret

C
AMBODIAS duty-
free rice exports to
the European Union
have this week come
under fresh attack from pro-
ducers in Italy, who say the
benecial treatment is re-
stricting the potential of Ital-
ian rice exports.
An Italian agriculture col-
lective of farmers, which in-
cludes representatives from
the Italian Association of
Rice Industries, will protest
in some of Italys largest rice-
growing areas, according to a
July 7 report by rice industry
publication Oryza.
The cause of the uproar,
says Oryza, is the preferential
treatment Cambodia receives
under the European Unions
Everything But Arms scheme,
which allows tax-free access
to EU markets for all states on
the UNs list of least developed
countries, which includes
Cambodia. Italian rice produc-
ers say cheaper Cambodian
imports create an unfair play-
ing eld for their products.
In a statement yesterday, the
EU ambassador to Cambodia,
Jean-Francois Cautain, said
he could not comment on any
potential complaint the Ital-
ian rice industry has without it
rst being ofcially registered.
In [the] case [that] the Euro-
pean Commission receives an
ofcial complaint, it will review
it and see whether it contains
sufcient prima facie evidence
that the conditions for impos-
ing a safeguard measure are
met or not, Cautain said.
If the European Commis-
sion would then decide to ini-
tiate the investigation, it will
publish an information notice
. . . in the Ofcial Journal.
Cautain reiterated the in-
tention of the Everything But
Arms program to foster growth
in developing countries. He
also noted that Italy itself is
a signatory to the scheme.
We cannot speculate,
however, on what Member
States may or may not plan
to do regarding imports of
individual products and the
Commission cannot com-
ment on discussions with po-
tential complainants, Cau-
tains statement reads.
Cambodian rice exports, a
large majority of which go to
the EU, have increased dra-
matically, going from 200,000
tonnes at the end of 2012 to
nearly 380,000 tonnes at the
end of last year.
The acting secretary-general
of the Cambodia Rice Federa-
tion, David Van, responded to
the concerns of Italian farmers
in an opinion piece published
in the Post on Monday.
Van said Cambodian exports
had merely replaced those
from countries, such as Thai-
land, that exported less than
before. Therefore, he said,
market pressure on Italian
farmers would have changed
little from previous years.
Van said that one of the
more popular Cambodian
grain varieties jasmine rice
was grown very little if at all in
the EU, thus creating room for
exports from the Kingdom to
meet demand.
He also took aim at the EUs
own agricultural subsidies.
The EU provides hundreds
of euros per hectare annually
to Italian rice farmers for keep-
ing the production of paddy
and rice elds in operation,
Van wrote. These are the
very farmers lobbying against
Cambodian rice, which is not
subsidised in any way by the
Cambodian government.
The General Confedera-
tion of Italian Agriculture, or
Confagricoltura, the members
of which include 19 regional
and more than 2,000 local fed-
erations across Italy, did not
respond to a request for com-
ment by press time.
A labourer harvests rice in Kandal provinces Prek Russey village earlier this year. Italy is arguing that tax-free imports from Cambodia are
making for unfair competition in the rice sector. HENG CHIVOAN
We have already seen fewer
foreign tourists . . . but we hope
to see an average increase of
10 per cent for the year
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014
Singapore
investment
rm ying
SINGAPORE state investment
giant Temasek Holdings said
yesterday its global portfolio
rose to a record S$223 billion
($179 billion) in the year to
March, despite slower asset
growth due mainly to weak
Asian markets.
The firm said in a statement
the value of its total holdings
rose 3.7 per cent or S$8 billion
in the period, less than half
the 8.6 per cent growth rate
seen in the financial year
2012-2013.
Its 10-year total shareholder
return rate, which includes
dividends it pays to the Singa-
pore government and excludes
capital injections it receives,
stood at 9 per cent.
Temasek said that it had
capitalised on a re-adjusting
global economy in the after-
math of a crippling financial
crisis in 2009 to boost invest-
ments last year.
The company reported mak-
ing a total of S$24 billion in
investments while divesting
S$10 billion worth of assets.
This year has been one of
our most active years for new
investment the most active
since the Global Financial Cri-
sis, Temasek chairman Lim
Boon Heng said in the state-
ment. AFP
Samsung profits set to plunge
Giles Hewitt

S
AMSUNG estimated
yesterday that its op-
erating prot for the
second quarter of this
year would plunge nearly 25
per cent on year, as cheaper
Chinese devices and a strong
won hammered down its
share of the global smart-
phone market.
Operating prot was esti-
mated at 7.2 trillion won ($7.1
billion) for the April-June pe-
riod, compared to 9.53 trillion
won a year ago the South
Korean electronic giants third
straight quarter of year-on-
year decline.
The second-quarter operat-
ing prot was down 15.2 per
cent from the 8.49 trillion won
posted in the previous quarter.
The prot drop had been
widely expected, but yester-
days forecast still missed col-
lated analyst estimates.
Samsung did not provide net
income or details of division
earnings ahead of the ofcial
earnings report to be led later
this month.
In an unusual move, yester-
days forecast was accompa-
nied by an explanatory note
that the company said was to
address market and investor
concerns prior to the audited
earnings release.
The company witnessed a
slowdown in the overall smart-
phone market growth and saw
increased competition in the
Chinese and some European
markets, the note said.
This led to higher inven-
tories for the medium- and
low-end smartphones, it said,
adding that earnings had also
been hit by the appreciation of
the South Korean won against
the dollar, euro and most
emerging market currencies.
The surging won is current-
ly running at six-year highs
against the dollar, heavily im-
pacting South Koreas export-
driven economy.
Sales in April-June stood at 52
trillion won, down 9.5 per cent
from a year earlier, and 3.1 per
cent from the rst quarter.
Samsung is suffering from
a global market shift toward
low-end products and it had
to up its marketing spend to
reduce the inventory of its
high-end handsets, said Noh
Geun-Chang, an analyst at
HMC Investment Securities.
The fundamental problem
for Samsung is that the global
handset market has become
saturated and demand is mov-
ing toward low-priced hand-
sets, where there is intense
competition, especially from
China, Noh said.
The market had largely fac-
tored in the prot drop and
Samsung shares closed up
0.23 per cent on the day at
1.295 million won.
April saw the global roll-
out of the latest version of its
agship Galaxy series smart-
phone, the Galaxy S5, which
came with a free premium
software bundle valued at
more than $500 as Sam-
sung sought to pull in buyers
tempted by cheaper handset
models from Chinese rivals
like Lenovo.
Initial sales of the S5 were
positive, although critics said
it offered little in the way of
real innovation to set it apart
from the iPhone and the Chi-
nese phones. AFP
Visitors pass the Samsung Electronics logo at the companys showroom in Seoul yesterday. AFP
Modi to seek foreign investment for railway plans
Japan in fourth straight account surplus
INDIA unveiled plans yesterday to
open its railways to foreign investment
and introduce the first bullet train in
a budget for the network closely
watched for clues about the new gov-
ernments economic priorities.
The rail finance bill is regarded by
economists as setting the stage for the
general budget due on Thursday in
which the right-wing government of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay
out keenly awaited reform plans.
Shares fell afterwards as some ana-
lysts lamented a lack of detail about
how proposed improvements would
be financed.
The crumbling state-run railways
need an immediate course correc-
tion after decades of mismanage-
ment, Railway Minister Sadananda
Gowda told parliament as he outlined
his plans for the network which carries
23 million people daily.
Gowda said that he would seek
cabinet approval for foreign direct
investment (FDI) in the railways for
the first time and undertake a
renewed push for public-private
partnerships (PPP) in all areas except
for passenger operations.
He also said he would avoid
announcing populist new projects
that would get many claps from this
house, but would be rendering injus-
tice to the struggling organisation.
Despite this, he proposed Indias
first bullet train to operate between
the nations financial capital Mum-
bai and commercial hub Ahmedabad
in Modis home state of Gujarat a
project that will require completely
new infrastructure.
He also announced plans to move
ahead with a network of high-speed
trains that would run at speeds of up
to 200 kilometres (120 miles) an hour
on upgraded existing rails.
After strong rises in recent sessions,
shares slumped as some analysts said
Gowdas plans were long on ambition
but short on detail about financing.
The railway budget was such a
damp squib. The market is now trying
to temper its expectations about the
main show Thursday, said Alok
Churiwala, head of Churiwala Securi-
ties, a brokerage.
Its OK to talk about bullet trains
and so on, but where are concrete pro-
posals for funding these things? Its a
reality check, Churiwala said.
The Bombay Stock Exchanges
leading benchmark index, the
Sensex, was down 2.18 per cent in
afternoon trade at 25,531.95 points
in afternoon trade.
Manish Agarwal, infrastructure ana-
lyst at global consultancy PwC, high-
lighted that PPPs were not a magic
bullet to the funding shortages for a
government struggling with a high fis-
cal deficit.
Given limited success on [PPP]
station-modernisation projects so far,
the implementation roll-out remains
to be seen, he said.
Gowda also announced a 40-percent
hike in the budget for cleaning trains
and plans for better toilets whose state
often horrify travellers.
He said the railway aimed to upgrade
some stations to look like the countrys
shiny new airports.
In keeping with financial discipline
promised by Modi, Gowda pared mar-
ket borrowing to 118 billion rupees in
the financial year ending March 2015
from 128 billion rupees in the interim
budget presented by the previous left-
leaning Congress government. AFP
JAPAN recorded a current
account surplus for the fourth
consecutive month in May,
government data showed yes-
terday, as the countrys trade
shortfall narrowed.
The surplus of 522.8 billion
($5.1 billion) was down 7.7 per-
cent from the same month a
year ago, but the rate of decline
was much smaller than a 76.1
per cent drop in April.
The latest current account
figure the broadest measure
of Japans trade picture was
influenced by a drop in the
countrys trade deficit as
imports fell for the first time in
19 months.
The current account meas-
ures not only trade in goods but
also services, tourism and
returns on foreign investment.
The countrys trade deficit has
been expanding since 2011 as
it is forced to import fossil fuels
to plug an energy gap owing to
its nuclear plants being closed
in response to the Fukushima
atomic crisis. The trade gap has
been exacerbated by a sharp
depreciation in the yen since
late 2012.
A run of monthly deficits in
late 2013 and earlier this year
raised concerns about the pos-
sibility of the balance falling
into the red for good, which
could have ultimately seen
bond yields pushed up as over-
seas investors demanded a
premium on Japans debt.
That would have made it
tougher to finance the nations
mountain of public debt one
of the heaviest burdens in the
rich world.
Japan used to boast large
trade surplus on exports of cars
and other industrial products.
But it has been saddled with
the heavy costs of importing
fossil fuels to generate elec-
tricity, after its nuclear reac-
tors were shuttered following
the 2011 tsunami-sparked
atomic disaster.
The yens sharp depreciation
since late 2012 has also pushed
up import costs. AFP
HSBC downgraded its in-
vestment outlook on Hong
Kong, citing fears over a pro-
democracy movement in the
city, but the banking giant
later altered its report, se-
verely toning down the em-
phasis on public unrest.
Discontent in Hong Kong is
at its highest level in years, with
tens of thousands of people
taking to the streets last week
against Beijings insistence
that it vet candidates before a
vote in 2017 for the southern
Chinese citys next leader.
The banks third-quarter
global equity report on Mon-
day cut Hong Kongs stock
market, one of the regions big-
gest, to underweight, a rating
the it uses to describe under-
performing stocks.
We reduce Hong Kong to
underweight on concerns
about negative news ow.
Occupy Central . . . could
sour relations with China and
may hurt the economy, the
report said.
However, HSBCs report was
later amended to put an em-
phasis other economic con-
cerns about the city.
The updated report said the
new rating was due to the
risk of weak residential real
estate prices, the slowdown
in mainland tourist arrivals,
the markets link to US inter-
est rates . . . and weak earnings
momentum, before mention-
ing Occupy.
An HSBC spokesman re-
fused to comment on why it
had been changed. AFP
HSBC downgrades HK
outlook amid protests
Cranes load containers onto ships at a pier in Tokyo yesterday. AFP
Samsung Electronics
earnings
9.53
10.16
8.31
Q1
2014
Q2
2013
Q3 Q4
Source: Samsung
Operating profits, trillion won
Q2
8.49
Estimate:
7.2
Markets
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SPIRULINA algae has been har-
vested from Twin Daung lake
in Sagaings Bu Ta Lin township
for over a decade, but climate
change and diverted rivers are
being blamed for a drop-off in
natural production.
The quality and effect of
natural spirulina and arti-
cially created spirulina might
not be exactly the same, but
it wont be much different ei-
ther, said Min Thein, a leading
spirulina grower and company
ofcial from June Pharmaceu-
tical and Foodstuff Industry.
Spirulina is blue-green algae
that is rich in protein and wide-
ly used in traditional medicine
as well as food and drink. Its
supposed health benets are
also touted in Spirulina Anti-
Aging Beer.
Min Thein said he has been
growing spirulina in articial
ponds for 10 years, producing
100 tonnes annually.
Myanmar boasts about 25
acres of spirulina farms, cen-
tred on Twin Daung and Yae
Khar lakes in Sagaing Region.
The high pH level of the water
at the volcanic lakes has en-
abled the algae to grow in the
wild, one of just a handful of
natural sites in the world.
Other countries dont get
spirulina from nature they
have to grow it, said Daw
May Yu Khine, deputy general
manager of Sagaing Pharma-
ceutical Industry.
It is hard for the business to
exist relying solely on nature,
she said.
Building the brick tanks to
function as articial ponds
for the algae makes it easier
to grow the notoriously ckle
crop, and also allows more fre-
quent harvests.
The articial ponds near
Twin Daung lake were built
to combat fears a planned
nearby dam could destroy
natural algae growth in 2003.
Though the dam never mate-
rialised, the ponds have been
useful given the large drop in
natural growth in the nearby
lake estimated at 75 percent
in November 2013 compared
year-on-year.
May Yu Khine expects dry
spirulina production will hit
between 80 and 100 tonnes in
2014, adding there is a large
stockpile of 700 tonnes.
One farmed acre produces
about 0.6 tonnes annually in
Myanmar, though the larg-
est producers in places like
the United States, Thailand,
Taiwan and Japan are able
to produce up to a tonne per
year. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Algae farms crop up as
Myanmar harvest falls
Thai factories face waste check
Pawitri Burathaworn

A
LL factories in Thai-
land will be required
to register with the
Industrial Works De-
partment within two months
in a move by the Industry
Ministry to track how factories
manage their industrial waste.
Deputy director-general
Seri Atipatta said that, starting
yesterday, the department will
send ofcials to check garbage
management systems and
compile a database.
Our department is going to
check all factories in Thailand
within two months, Seri told
a seminar co-hosted yesterday
by Chulalongkorn Universitys
social research institute on the
Praeksa model.
The model refers to the
240,000-square-metre gar-
bage site in Samut Prakan
province that was hit by res
in March and April and pro-
duced toxic air pollution that
led to evacuations.
The Praeska model shows
ways for victims to get cured,
how to revive the Praeksa
dump and how to handle any
future accidents.
Seri said that more proper
garbage sites are required af-
ter the res.
Most garbage dump sites
in Thailand fail to comply
with the standard required.
Moreover, they carry waste
both from industries and
communities, although that
is illegal under the factory
law, he explained.
Professor Pichaya Rachada-
wongs from Chulalongkorn
Universitys environmental
engineering faculty said sur-
rounding areas can easily
become contaminated if no
standards are set for garbage
sites to be built with a proper
base and a covered surface.
Even though some items
were valuable, it is hard to
use garbage from the Praeksa
site, as the area is 80 per cent
full of water and it will take a
very long time to survey how
much toxic waste is included.
A survey would also be ex-
pensive, he said.
Sumetha Vicheanpetch, a
waste and toxic substances
management expert at the Pol-
lution Control Department,
said: Garbage is a valuable re-
source. If we manage it well, it
can benet the country.
Penchom Saetung, direc-
tor of Ecological Alert and
Recovery Thailand, said that
if the Praeksa model was suc-
cessful, it should be applied
at all garbage sites across
Thailand. BANGKOK POST
A worker prepares smoked rubber sheets to be packaged for shipment at a factory in Thailand. BLOOMBERG
Name dropper
E-payment
service Isis
to rebrand
M
OBILE wallet service
Isis is changing its
name to distance itself
from an acronym used to refer
to militant group Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria.
US telecom companies
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Ve-
rizon four years ago teamed
together to back Isis, software
that takes advantage of near-
eld communication chips in
smartphones to allow people
to consumate transactions
by tapping mobile devices on
sensor-enabled pads at shops.
We wanted a name that
brought life to our company
and our values, Isis chief
executive Michael Abbott
said on Monday in an online
message about the decision to
dump the name inspired by an
Egyptian goddess.
We have no interest in
sharing a name with a group
whose name has become
synonymous with violence and
our hearts go out to those who
are suffering.
The payment venture has
not been a big hit and the as-
sociation with a violent militant
organisation wont help. The
company said it will continue
to operate while coming up
with a new name. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014
GM to invest $740M in
new Argentina factory
GENERAL Motors will invest
$740 million in Argentina
through 2016 on its first South
American factory turning out
aluminium motors, Buenos
Aires announced on Monday.
The new unit will be installed
in the GM complex in Rosario,
an agro-industrial port city
some 300 kilometres
northwest of the capital,
according to the office of
President Cristina Kirchner.
The complex currently
employs some 2,800 people
and produces seven models.
Production at the new factory,
starting in 2017, aims to reach
140,000 motors a year. AFP
Surprise as UK factories
slow most in 16 months
UK MANUFACTURING
unexpectedly slumped the
most in 16 months in May,
indicating the economy may
have struggled to maintain
momentum in the second
quarter. Factory output
plunged 1.3 per cent from
April, the most since January
2013 and the first decline in six
months, the Office for National
Statistics said yesterday in
London. The median forecast
of 25 economists in a
Bloomberg News survey was
for a gain of 0.4 per cent.
Industrial output fell 0.7 per
cent, the biggest drop since
August 2013. BLOOMBERG
Etihad Airways posts
strongest ever H1
ABU Dhabis Etihad Airways
said yesterday it posted a 28
per cent surge in revenues in
the first half of 2014, hitting
$3.2 billion. The fast-growing
carrier said it experienced its
strongest ever performance
for the six-month period, with
passenger numbers rising 22
per cent to 6.7 million,
compared to the first half of
2013. It did not say whether it
registered any profits or
losses. Etihad Cargo also
carried 25 per cent more
freight in the same period, the
Abu Dhabi-owned company
said in a statement. The
company is turning Abu Dhabi
into a major travel hub on the
route between the West, and
Asia and Australasia. AFP
Fearing hackers, bankers call for cyber-war council
Commerzbank next in line for US ne
WALL Streets biggest trade
group has proposed a govern-
ment-industry cyber-war coun-
cil to stave off terrorist attacks
that could trigger financial
panic by temporarily wiping
out account balances, accord-
ing to an internal document.
The proposal by the Securi-
ties Industry and Financial
Market Association, known as
Sifma, calls for a committee of
executives and deputy-level
representatives from at least
eight US agencies including
the Treasury Department, the
National Security Agency and
the Department of Homeland
Security, all led by a senior
White House official.
The trade association also
reveals in the document that
Sifma has retained former NSA
director Keith Alexander to
facilitate the joint effort with
the government. Alexander, in
turn, has brought in Michael
Chertoff, the former secretary
of homeland security, and his
firm, Chertoff Group.
The document sketches an
unusually frank and pessimistic
view by the industry of its read-
iness for attacks wielded by
nation-states or terrorist groups
that aim to destroy data and
machines. It says the concerns
are compounded by the
dependence of financial insti-
tutions on the electric grid,
which is also vulnerable to
physical and cyber attacks.
The systemic consequences
could well be devastating for
the economy as the resulting
loss of confidence in the secu-
rity of individual and corporate
savings and assets could trigger
widespread runs on financial
institutions that likely would
extend well beyond the direct-
ly impacted banks, securities
firms and asset managers,
Sifma wrote in the document,
dated June 27.
Liz Pierce, a spokesman for
Sifma, declined to comment on
the document, adding that the
group is doing everything pos-
sible to help the industry pre-
pare for and defend against
cyberattacks. Caitlin Hayden,
spokeswoman for the White
House National Security Coun-
cil, declined to comment.
Alexander had been pitching
Sifma and other bank trade
associations to purchase his
services through his new con-
sulting firm, IronNet Cyberse-
curity, for as much as $1 million
per month, according to two
people briefed on the talks.
He has made much the same
argument to Sifma as the asso-
ciation is now making to the
government about the emer-
gence of new, more destructive
software assaults. For several
months beginning in fall 2012,
major US bank websites were
hit by a distributed denial-of-
service attacks, in which hack-
ers flood systems with informa-
tion to shut them down.
The next wave of attacks in
the near-medium term is
likely to be more destructive
and could result in account
balances and books and
records being converted to
zeros, while recovering the
lost information would be
difficult and slow, according
to the Sifma document.
We are concerned that the
industry may not have the
capabilities that we would like
to effectively defend against
this newer form of potential
attack, the capability that we
would like to stop such an
attack once commenced from
spreading to other financial
institutions, or the capability
we would like of effectively
recovering if an initial attack is
followed by waves of follow-on
attacks, the document says.
While noting that the coordi-
nation between industry and
government on cyber threats
has improved in recent years, a
joint council would produce a
more focused response, accord-
ing to Sifma.
The government-industry
group would develop plans for
much quicker, near real-time
dissemination of information
from agencies to the private
sector and ways to actively
defend the industry if prepara-
tions for a cyberattack are dis-
covered in advance. Sifma is
also seeking pre-discussed and
mutually understood proto-
cols for the industry to request
government help during and
after an attack. BLOOMBERG
COMMERZBANK Ag, Germanys sec-
ond-largest lender, will probably be the
next bank to resolve alleged US sanc-
tions violations, a person with knowl-
edge of the matter said.
The Frankfurt-based firm may incur
penalties of at least $500 million as part
of a deferred-prosecution agreement
with authorities as soon as summer in
the US, the person said, asking not to
be identified because the talks are con-
fidential. Such agreements spare com-
panies a felony conviction.
The probe is part of a US crackdown
on financial institutions for handling
funds linked to blacklisted nations that
led to a record $8.97 billion fine against
BNP Paribas SA. Frances Credit Agricole
Sa and Societe Generale Sa, Germanys
Deutsche Bank AG and Italys UniCred-
it SpA are among other lenders being
investigated by authorities in the Unit-
ed States.
A fine of $500 million, on its own,
wouldnt require Commerzbank to raise
capital, Neil Smith, an analyst at
Bankhaus Lampe in Dusseldorf, said by
telephone. But thats highly uncertain
at the moment.
Commerzbank dropped as much as
4.1 per cent in Frankfurt trading, and
was 2.9 per cent lower at 11.16 by
9:39am The shares have declined 4.6 per
cent this year.
Margarita Thiel, a spokeswoman
for the bank based in Frankfurt,
declined to comment when contacted
by phone yesterday.
The Manhattan District Attorneys
office is working with the Justice Depart-
ment, New Yorks banking regulator and
the Federal Reserve on the Commerz-
bank investigation, according to
the person.
Preet Bharara, the prosecutor in
Manhattan who worked on the BNP
Paribas probe, is not involved in the
case, suggesting it will be filed by the
US attorney in the District of Colum-
bia, the person said.
Commerzbank had 934 million ($1.2
billion) in provisions for legal proceed-
ings and recourse claims at the end of
2013, according to its annual report.
The bank doesnt provide details for
individual cases. US authorities are
investigating whether it breached
rules regarding Iran, Sudan, North
Korea, Myanmar and Cuba, Com-
merzbank said in the report.
A fine of over $500 million will almost
certainly have an impact on the P&L,
said Dirk Becker, an analyst at Kepler
Cheuvreux in Frankfurt. BLOOMBERG
A trader points to gures on a computer while working on the oor of
the New York Stock Exchange. BLOOMBERG
Stalemate in Argentina talks
A
RGENTINA told a US
lawyer on Monday
that a court order de-
manding it pay more
than $1.3 billion in debts by
the end of the month had to
be stayed so Buenos Aires can
avoid defaulting.
Economy Minister Axel Kicil-
lof outlined Argentinas long-
running position during four
hours of talks in New York with
attorney Daniel Pollack, ap-
pointed to break the impasse
over debt payments.
There was no sign of a break-
through after Kicillof swept out
of the negotiations, refusing to
speak to journalists gathered
outside the Park Avenue build-
ing where Pollack works.
With the clock ticking to-
ward a July 30 deadline,
Argentina needs to reach a
deal on paying more than
$1.3 billion claimed by hedge
funds, mainly NML Capital
and Aurelius Management,
which refused to join other
bondholders in the 2005-2010
restructuring of the countrys
defaulted debt.
New York federal judge
Thomas Griesa has forbidden
the country from making any
payments to holders of the
restructured bonds unless it
pays the hedge fund hold-
outs at the same time.
As a result, Buenos Aires
missed a payment on June
30, giving the country a one-
month grace period to strike a
deal with the holdouts before
the restructured bond holders
declare it in default.
Kicillof was anked by se-
curity guards as he breezed
through a throng of cameras,
reporters and photographers
and got into a waiting car,
speeding off after the talks.
A statement from the econ-
omy ministry in Buenos Aires
rehashed Argentinas long-
running position.
It said Kicillof asked for a stay
to the judges order, saying that
it was impossible to comply,
but that talks would continue.
Kicillof made clear that
Judge Griesas order, as inter-
preted, would be of impos-
sible compliance; that a new
stay would be necessary since
the case involves not only the
litigants but it could also ex-
tend to all other bonds that
did not participate in Argen-
tinas debt restructuring, it
said in English.
The minister reafrmed
Argentinas commitment to
continue engaging in dia-
logue in order to ensure fair,
equitable and legal condi-
tions, taking into account
the interest of 100 percent of
bondholders. AFP
Attorney for Argentina Carmine Bocuzzi (centre) arrives for a hearing at a US district court in New York late
last month. Argentina says it must delay payment on a $1.3 billion ne to avoid defaulting. BLOOMBERG
Markets
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Hang Seng Index, Jul 7 CSI 300 Index, Jul 7
Nikkei 225, Jul 7 Taiwan Taiex Index, Jul 7
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Jul 7
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Laos Composite Index, Jul 7 Jakarta Composite Index, Jul 7
BSE Sensex 30 Index, Jul 7 Karachi 100 Index, Jul 7
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Jul 7 NZX 50 Index, Jul 7
5,510.94
29,436.43 26,031.73
5,026.21 1,318.95
6,948.52 2,006.66
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 103.55 0.02 0.02% 2:53:48
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 110.13 -0.11 -0.10% 2:53:05
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.22 -0.01 -0.12% 3:14:00
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 298.11 -0.79 -0.26% 3:14:36
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 290.71 -0.74 -0.25% 3:14:36
ICEGasoil USD/MT 897 -2.5 -0.28% 2:53:33
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13.62 0 0.00% 2:27:02
CME Lumber USD/tbf 336.7 -1 -0.30% 19:56:46
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Organic, fresh: A
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Veronique Dupont

I
T LOOKS like any other Ameri-
can farmers market. Buyers sniff
the wares, test weights and com-
pare, while vendors tout their
product. But the only produce on of-
fer is cannabis organic, of course.
We have lollipops for $7, choco-
late bars to help you relax for $13,
and cosmic dust, said Bill Harri-
son, a seller who also stocks plain
old smokable marijuana.
The Heritage Farmers Market
held over the July 4th long weekend
was the rst of its kind in Los Angeles.
Despite the scorching sun, the line to
get in stretched hundreds of metres.
The crowd was diverse and mul-
tigenerational, interspersed with
hippies, rockers, hipsters and some
nondescript suburban types. But
they all have at least one thing in
common they all have, as required
for entry, a doctors prescription.
In California, marijuana is only le-
gal for medicinal purposes. For rec-
reational use, possession of less than
an ounce (28 grams) could result in
a ne. Larger amounts can trigger
criminal charges.
Edwynn Delgado knows the laws
by heart: for medical use, you are
allowed up to four ounces at home,
but Id like to bring back home more
today, he joked. He has smoked pot
since he was 11.
In my neighborhood, there was
always a lot of weed around, the
smiling 20-year-old said, wearing a
baseball cap over his black hair.
He became a legal user at age
18, when he got a prescription to
ease muscle aches.
Delgado waited for more than an
hour at the stand that offers the best
prices, at $180 per ounce instead of
$300 as charged in a regular dispen-
sary. Besides getting a good deal,
Delgado prefers coming where he
can count on quality product.
Street dealers are dangerous be-
cause they put other stuff on it.
Its like in a regular farmers mar-
ket, said Adam Agathakis, one of the
organisers of the weekend fair.
People come here to talk to grow-
ers, to check that its grown without
pesticides and that it doesnt have
mold, he said.
The bearded 35-year-old, in pleat-
ed pants and a striped shirt, has
campaigned to de-demonise can-
nabis since his father died of cancer
a decade ago.
When he was dying, marijuana
was the only thing alleviating the
pain, Agathakis said.
Marijuana grower Terry Sand said
that cannabis markets have sprout-
ed up elsewhere, including northern
California and Washington state, but
they werent quite the same.
They were more like conventions.
Here its special, because they are
bringing growers and consumers to-
gether, Sand said.
The ex-elevator technician said he
grew up amid cannabis and marijua-
na: My parents were hippies, they
were growing in their backyard.
But when a new technique
emerged to help boost cannabis
productivity in covered areas, Sand
said he saw a massive overwhelm-
ing opportunity.
Cancer patient Karen Flores, 50,
said she smokes because it helps
me relax, it helps my nerves, it helps
the pain I have. She came to the
market for good prices and quality.
It has to taste good, to smell good.
But she doesnt like to light up
in public. When she is away from
home, she snacks on brownies, like
those she just bought.
Also on offer: gold-plated pipes,
pizzas, meringue pies and wafes.
At Mathew Gersons stand, a more
unusual product is for sale: its a
vaginal lubricant, it is coconut oil-
infused, he said.
With young women, it enhances
sensations, and with menopausal
women, it awakens their sexuality.
And it helps them sleep.
Cheryl Shuman, head of a public
relations rm, said she almost died
of cancer in 2006, and credits mari-
juana for helping her pull through.
She joined the campaign to de-
criminalise marijuana, organising
the Beverly Hills Cannabis Club
and becoming one of the leaders of
Moms for Marijuana, an interna-
tional group for women who sup-
port legalisation.
One weighty argument in favour,
Shuman emphasised, is the eco-
nomic potential of the market, esti-
mated around $47 billion for the US
states where its legal alone. AFP
Chopsticks are used at a weighing at LAs rst-ever cannabis farmers market at the
West Coast Collective medical marijuana dispensary on Independence Day. AFP
Adel Zaanoun
I
SRAELI warplanes killed
12 Palestinians yesterday,
pounding the Gaza Strip
in a new campaign to
stamp out Hamas rocket re
as the two sides edged towards
another major conict.
In the most serious are-up
over Gaza since November
2012, it comes as Israel strug-
gles to contain a wave of vio-
lence in Arab towns over the
grisly murder of a Palestinian
teenager by Jewish extremists.
Palestinian president Mah-
mud Abbas demanded that Is-
rael immediately stop its air
campaign, dubbed Operation
Protective Edge, and asked the
world to pressure Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahus
government.
But Netanyahu was ex-
pected to order a signicant
broadening of the operation
and instruct the army to take
off the gloves, army radio
said, quoting a source close to
the premier.
After nearly four weeks of
intensifying rocket re on the
south, Israel appeared bent
on dealing the Islamist Hamas
movement a heavy blow, with
the cabinet reportedly au-
thorising the call up of some
40,000 reservists.
In central Gaza, one man
was killed near Nusseirat refu-
gee camp, medics said. Wit-
nesses said he was a member
of Hamass armed wing, the
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
Shortly afterwards, another
four people were killed when
a missile slammed into a car
in Gaza City, medics said.
Relatives said the victims
were all Hamas militants. One
was identied as Mohammed
Shaaban, 32,who ran the Bri-
gades naval unit.
Seven more people were
killed and at least 25 oth-
ers wounded when a missile
struck a house in Khan Yunis
in southern Gaza, medics said.
There was no immediate word
on their identities.
Hamas spokesman Sami
Abu Zuhri warned that Israel
was playing with re and
would pay for its ongoing
operations.
The Israeli army was pre-
paring all options to stamp
out rocket re from Gaza,
including a ground assault, a
senior ofcial said. The army
is preparing for all possible
scenarios, including an inva-
sion or a ground operation.
Military spokesman General
Moti Almoz said we have been
instructed by the political ech-
elon to hit Hamas hard, say-
ing the operation would take
place in stages.
He also conrmed Israel
was preparing for a possible
ground offensive.
All options are on the ta-
ble; all these steps are being
considered. Two brigades,
which are currently stationed
around the Gaza Strip, are
prepared and ready, and in
the coming days, more will
arrive, he said.
In a related development,
the cabinet authorised the
callup of 40,000 reservists,
unconrmed press reports
revealed. Ofcials, however,
refused to comment.
Around Gaza, dozens of
tanks and soldiers could
be seen massing along the
border, AFP correspondents
reported.
Defence Minister Moshe
Yaalon warned it was likely to
be a protracted campaign.
We are preparing for a
campaign against Hamas,
which will not end in just a
few days, he said in a state-
ment that dened the aim as
being to exact a very heavy
price from Hamas. AFP
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of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
(GFATM)/SSF for HIV/AIDS Component. The NAA invite
applications from qualied and experienced candidates to
apply for the position of:
Accounting Assistant
It is highly recommended that interested applicants shall
obtain the full detailed Termof Reference (TOR) for the post
before submission of the application. The full TOR can be
requested from the SR ofce by email or directly contacting
the SR ofce or visit www.naa.org.kh; detail address is
provided below. Applicants without prior knowledge of TOR
will not be accepted.
Interested candidates should submit their CVs, including a
cover letter, by Monday, 21
st
July 2014 at 17:00 pm with
attention to:
Ms. Muth Seineada, Email: mseineada@yahoo.com
National AIDS Authority ,Building #16, Street corner 271 &
150, Sangkat Toek La-ark 2, Khan Toul Kork.
Tel: 023 885 129, 012 824 047
Only short listed candidates will be contacted for further interview.
Israel, Hamas edge towards
another major Gaza conflict
Smoke billows after an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip yesterday; a missile is launched by an Iron Dome
battery yesterday in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, neighbouring the Gaza Strip. AFP
LIFE WITH DIGNITY (LWD) is a local NGO localized fromLWF Cambodia.
LWD continues the mission of LWF Cambodia to uphold the rights of
the poor and oppressed in rural Cambodia to gain lives of dignity. LWD
implements six Integrated Rural Development through Empowerment
Projects in four provinces of Battambang, Pursat, Kampong Chhnang
and Kampong Speu. LWD works with vulnerable people including poor
farmers, landless and land-poor families, female-headed households,
people living with or affected by HIV, and illiterate adults.
LWD is seeking for experienced and qualied candidates to ll the
following position:
Position Title (1 position)
Level
Duty Station
Report to
Requirements
: Accountant
: 06
: Phnom Penh, Head Ofce
: Finance Coordinator
: At least Bachelor Degree of
Economic Science, Accounting
or ACCA CAT, at least 2 years of
experiences in practical nancial/
accounting and management in
other NGO Sectors or Companies.
Interested candidates are requested to apply online. Please, visit
http://www.lwd.org.kh/jobs for detail job descriptions, application
form and how to apply online. Only short-listed candidates will be
contacted. Women are encouraged to apply.
Deadlines: 21 July 2014
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
#37, St. 592, P.O Box 37 Sangkat Boeung Kak II, Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom
Penh, Cambodia.Tel: 855-23-881 100 / 855-23-883 254 / 855-23-883 264 |
Fax: 855-23-881 616 | Website: www.lwd.org.kh
TYPHOON Neoguri lashed
Japans southern Okinawa is-
lands yesterday, reportedly
leaving two dead and forcing
more than half a million to
seek shelter as the regions
worst storm in years dam-
aged buildings, downed trees
and brought air and sea traf-
c to a halt.
The typhoon packed gusts
of up to 216 kilometres (134
miles) per hour with torren-
tial downpours, forcing the
cancellation of hundreds
of ights.
In the capital Naha, trafc
lights went off and television
footage showed trees split by
the force of the storm, sign-
boards ying around and a
restaurant destroyed, with
the shattered building block-
ing a street.
The coastguard and local
police said a 62-year-old man
was found dead after he was
knocked off his boat in rough
waters near Japans mainland,
while public broadcaster NHK
said an 81-year-old sherman
died in southwestern Kuma-
moto prefecture.
Separately, Okinawa police
said at least four people were
injured, with NHK putting the
number of injured at 25.
Schools across the sprawl-
ing archipelago were also
closed while nearly 70,000
Okinawan households had no
power, NHK said. We have no
water or electricity, but the gas
is still on, said Takuro Ogawa,
who lives in Chatan, a town in
central Okinawa.
Late on Monday, the Japan
Meteorological Agency issued
its highest typhoon alert for
Okinawas main island, home
to around 1.2 million people,
as well as the outlying Miyako
islands. The alerts for the Mi-
yako region were downgraded
yesterday evening.
Authorities had warned
there was a risk to life, as
well as major property dam-
age from the typhoon and
subsequent ooding and
landslides.
Ofcials called on 590,000
people across Okinawa to
take shelter in their homes or
evacuate to community cen-
tres and town halls. We have
urged residents to evacuate
when they see any danger, a
local municipal ofcial said.
More than 700 people have
taken refuge in shelters, Jiji
Press agency reported, as the
powerful storm barrels toward
the Japanese mainland.
The typhoon, which has
been downgraded from su-
per typhoon status, was in
the East China Sea as of 8:50
pm (1150 GMT). It was mov-
ing north at about 30 kilome-
tres (19 miles) per hour, the
weather agency said.
The storm could reach the
southern main island of Ky-
ushu late today or early to-
morrow, with the weather
agency warning that the
amount of rainfall by Thurs-
day could reach as much as
400 millimetres (16 inches),
posing a serious risk of land-
slides and ooding.
Kyushu next to the main
island of Honshu, where ma-
jor cities including Tokyo
and Osaka are located was
already experiencing heavy
rain. AFP
Powerful typhoon
Neoguri smashes
Japans Okinawa
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014

Widodo hangs on to a
slim lead before poll
INDONESIAN presidential
hopeful Joko Widodo has a lead
of less than 3 percentage points
over his rival, a poll showed
yesterday, just before the
countrys tightest election since
the downfall of dictator Suharto
begins today. Jakarta governor
Widodo, known by his
nickname Jokowi, is 2.7 points
ahead of former general
Prabowo Subianto, according to
the survey from Saiful Mujani
Research and Consulting. The
pollster said that, with the gap
so narrow, the countrys third
direct presidential election
since the end of authoritarian
rule in 1998 had become a test.
It warned there was the
potential for cheating and
that democracy could
collapse, adding: The worst
scenario is chaos. AFP
Iraqs MPs back down

over government delays
IRAQS politicians agreed to
meet next Sunday after delays
to the formation of a new
government outraged Iraqis
tired of political polarisation and
fearful of a brutal Sunni militant
offensive. It was unclear what
prompted the about-turn after
lawmakers initially said they
would postpone a crucial
parliament session for a month,
but the delay was met with
widespread criticism both from
their constituents and
internationally. Iraqs military
efforts to battle the militant
offensive were dealt a blow
when a senior general was
killed on Monday. Staff Major
General Najm Abdullah
al-Sudani, commander of the
armys 6th division, was killed
west of Baghdad, near where
security forces have been locked
in a more than six-month
standoff with militants who hold
the city of Fallujah. AFP
Macau set for suffrage

vote after huge HK poll
ACTIVISTS in the gambling hub
of Macau have announced an
unofficial referendum on
electoral reform in the latest
challenge to Beijing, after
almost 800,000 turned out for a
similar poll in Hong Kong. The
former Portuguese colony
returned to Chinese rule in
1999, two years after Hong Kong
did, and has a separate legal
system from the mainland. Like
Hong Kong, Macaus leader is
known as its chief executive and
is chosen by a pro-Beijing
electoral committee. Three civil
groups have joined forces to
organise the poll, which will run
between August 24 and August
30 just ahead of the naming of
the enclaves new leader on
August 31. AFP
Search for Honduran

miners is suspended
AUTHORITIES on Monday
suspended the search for eight
miners trapped in a collapsed
gold mine in southern
Honduras, citing the danger to
rescuers. We definitely cannot
risk more lives, said geologist
Anibal Godoy, who is heading
the operation. Speaking to a
local radio station, he said
there is no way of reaching the
eight men and recommended
calling off the search altogether.
Poor mining practices are
collapsing tunnels and there is
too much risk for the rescuers,
Godoy said. AFP
UK child abuse inquiry will take on establishment
Aus admits Sri Lankan refugees in custody
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and promised there would be
no no-go areas for the investi-
gation. A review by the Home
Office has found that public
money was given to two organ-
isations linked to the Paedo-
phile Information Exchange in
the 1970s but the group itself
was not directly funded by the
taxpayer.
May ordered the investiga-
tion after a former employee
claimed around 30,000
($51,000) was given to PIE by
the voluntary services unit of
the Home Office.
Westminster, still suffering
the reputational damage of the
expenses scandal, dare not risk
the charge of suppressing evi-
dence of systematic child abuse
by peers or MPs.
May said the wider panel
inquiry, welcomed by most
Westminster politicians, would
have full access to papers and
would, if necessary, at its
request be upgraded to full
public-inquiry status in line
with the Inquiries Act, capable
of requiring witnesses to give
evidence.
There was a tension on Mon-
day about the extent to which
the inquiry will seek out new
facts or instead more broadly
draw out thematic lessons on
how public authorities treated
complaints of the child sexual
abuse partly drawing on the
experience of cases of gang
abuse in towns such as Roch-
dale and Oxford and whether
any gaps in child protection
legislation still exist.
General inquiries have either
completed or are already under
way into how bodies such as
the BBC or hospitals failed to
protect children.
The inquiry will be able to
examine the files of the secu-
rity services and allegations
that the Tory whips office in
the 1970s may have suppressed
allegations of child abuse by
members of the parliamentary
party. It is also expected to take
some evidence from victims.
Labour MPs pointed to a
1985 BBC documentary in
which a former government
whip between 1970 and 1973
said that the Tory whips office,
when faced by an MP involved
in a scandal with small boys,
would get him out of trouble,
partly so the MP then felt
obliged in the future to carry
out the bidding of the whips.
While the broader public
inquiry will produce an inter-
im report before next years
election, the full report will not
be completed until afterwards,
May said.
A Home Office review last
year found 114 potentially rel-
evant files on child abuse were
missing, destroyed or lost, but
despite that May said last years
review found all credible evi-
dence of child abuse had been
passed to the prosecuting
authorities.
The flurry of activity follows
many months of scandals
involving celebrities and other
figures in authority, but turned
to Westminster at the weekend
with claims the former Con-
servative home secretary Lord
Brittan had not properly han-
dled potentially explosive alle-
gations of child abuse by West-
minster politicians brought to
him in the 1980s by the late
Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.
Brittan came under further
pressure after it emerged he
had been questioned by police
in 1967 over reports a woman
had accused him of raping her.
In a statement on Monday,
Brittan said that allegation was
wholly without foundation
and said he had correctly
dealt with the material brought
to him by Dickens.
May told MPs that the panel
inquiry was not supposed to
supplant existing police inves-
tigations saying: I would
expect the panel if they found
allegations they believed were
more appropriate for the police
to investigate under a criminal
investigation, for those allega-
tions to be passed to the police.
It would also have to consider
whether calling a witness
would in any way jeopardise or
prejudice a criminal investiga-
tion taking place.
Yvette Cooper, shadow home
secretary, welcomed the gov-
ernments decision and said the
allegations all at their heart
have a similar problem child
victims werent listened to,
werent heard, werent protected
and too many institutions let
children down. THE GUARDIAN
AUSTRALIAN government lawyers said
Tuesday 153 Sri Lankan asylum seekers
were in custody on the high seas and
agreed to give three days notice before
handing any back to Colombo, as crit-
icism mounted.
A late-night interim injunction on
Monday temporarily halted the trans-
fer of the would-be refugees from the
boat, whose very existence Canberra
had previously refused to confirm.
Lawyers acting for about one-third
of the mostly minority ethnic Tamils
on board took their case to the High
Court yesterday, arguing that a transfer
would be illegal and that they should
not be returned to Sri Lanka against
their will.
The court has yet to decide whether
there is a case to answer. But in a sub-
mission government lawyers said the
boat, which was believed to have set
sail from India, was intercepted out-
side Australian territorial waters.
Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson said
this meant any claims made under the
Australian Migration Act were not
applicable. But he gave an undertaking
that 72 hours notice would be given
before any of the asylum seekers, now
reportedly held on a Customs boat,
were handed back to Colombo.
The legal dispute, which was
adjourned until Friday, came after
another vessel carrying 41 people was
returned to Sri Lanka on Sunday fol-
lowing a week of secrecy. The move
came under fire from domestic rights
activists as well as Amnesty Interna-
tional and UN agencies. Critics say the
asylum-seekers did not have their
claims for refugee status properly
assessed, with a brief screening carried
out at sea via video link.
The adults among the group of 41
28 men and four women were
charged in their homeland yesterday
with trying to leave the country ille-
gally, a crime punishable by up to two
years in jail.
As anxious relatives waited outside,
a court in the southern town of Galle
granted bail to 27 of them while
five were remanded in custody for
two weeks. Nine children were
discharged.
One of the detainees, Bhamith Cal-
dera, said he would complain to the
UN over his treatment by Australian
customs authorities and denied he had
been screened.
They never asked any questions.
They just wanted us to go back, he
said. They treated us very badly.
Australian Human Rights Commis-
sion chief Gillian Triggs said the screen-
ing of asylum seekers at sea appeared
inadequate under international law.
The process reportedly involved a
four-question interview via video link,
with the applicants denied the means
to challenge it. AFP
Abdullah claims poll victory
Usman Shari
P
RESIDENTIAL candi-
date Abdullah Abdul-
lah claimed victory
yesterday in Afghan-
istans disputed election,
blaming fraud for putting him
behind in preliminary results
as fears rise of instability and
ethnic unrest.
Abdullah told a rally of
thousands of rowdy support-
ers in Kabul that he would
ght on to win the presiden-
cy, but he called for patience
from loyalists who demanded
he declare a parallel govern-
ment to rule the country.
We are proud, we respect
the votes of the people, we
were the winner, Abdullah
said. Without any doubt or
hesitation, we will not accept
a fraudulent result, not today,
not tomorrow, never.
Before he spoke, a huge pho-
tograph of President Hamid
Karzai was ripped down from
the stage underlining the
boiling anger among Abdul-
lahs supporters after the pre-
liminary result in favour of
poll rival Ashraf Ghani.
The election stand-off has
sparked concern that protests
could spiral into ethnic vio-
lence and even lead to a return
to the ghting between war-
lords that ravaged Afghanistan
during the 1992-96 civil war.
But Abdullah called for the
country to remain unied as
it faces a difcult transfer of
power, after Karzais 13-year
rule ends and as 50,000 US-led
troops wind down their battle
against Taliban insurgents.
We dont want the parti-
tion of Afghanistan, we want
to preserve national unity
and the dignity of Afghani-
stan, he said. We dont want
civil war.
Earlier, the US issued a
strong warning to Abdullah
over reports that he would
form a parallel government
in deance of the results from
the run-off which said Ghani
took 56.4 per cent of the vote
to Abdullahs 43.5 per cent.
Any power grab would cost
the country international aid,
Washington said.
In the eight-man rst-round
election on April 5, Abdullah
was far ahead with 45 per cent
against Ghanis 31.6 per cent.
Karzai, who is constitution-
ally barred from a third term
in ofce, has stayed publicly
neutral in the lengthy elec-
tion, but Abdullah supporters
accuse him of xing the vote
in Ghanis favour.
The outgoing president wel-
comed the result announce-
ments and said the winner
would be known only after
complaints are addressed and
genuine votes separated.
He urged both candidate to
cooperate with the process.
Independent Election Com-
mission head Ahmad Yusuf
Nuristani admitted on Mon-
day that there had been fraud
by the security forces and
senior government officials.
A change in the result is pos-
sible, Nuristani said, ahead of
the nal result due on about
July 24. After last-minute talks,
the two campaigns eventually
failed to agree on the extent
of a proposed fraud probe to
check thousands of the most
suspicious ballot boxes.
Ghani, who says he won
fairly, was due to speak to re-
porters later yesterday.
Abdullah said he had spo-
ken to US President Barack
Obama about the crisis, and
that US Secretary of State
John Kerry was due to visit
Kabul on Friday.
Karzai is due to hand over
power at an inauguration cer-
emony on August 2. AFP
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks at a rally in Kabul yesterday, on the day he
claimed victory in Afghanistans disputed election. AFP

NATO looks at readiness
after Russia aggression
NATO is drawing up plans to
ensure its members can
respond more quickly to crises
in the aftermath of Russias
aggression in Ukraine, the
alliances chief said on Monday.
Secretary General Anders Fogh
Rasmussen said the alliance
would review a proposed
readiness action plan at an
upcoming September summit
in the UK and predicted that
European members were set to
reverse a long decline in military
spending dating back to the
Cold War. Obviously Russias
aggression against Ukraine will
put a lot of emphasis on the
need for a strong, collective
defence, he said. AFP
Bangladesh, India hail

ruling on sea border
BANGLADESH and India
yesterday welcomed an
international court ruling that
established their new sea
border, ending a decades-long
dispute over the resource-rich
area. Bangladesh Foreign
Minister Mahmood Ali hailed the
ruling yesterday by the
Permanent Court of Arbitration
in The Hague as a victory and a
win-win situation for both
sides. The court drew a new
maritime border that awarded
Bangladesh 19,467 square
kilometres of sea area out of a
total disputed area of 25,602
square kilometres, he said. AFP
Coo detat
Taiwan busts
racing pigeon

kidnap ring
F
IVE people have been
arrested in northern
Taiwan for allegedly
kidnapping dozens of racing
pigeons for ransom, police
said yesterday.
The suspects were accused
of setting traps along racing
routes to capture the pigeons
before demanding up to
T$10,000 ($333) per bird
from their owners in ransom
money, the Taipei City police
department said.
Police arrested the
suspects when they were
allegedly setting up traps
in a seaside mountain near
Taipei with nets, cages and
slingshots in their posses-
sion earlier this week.
It was not immediately
clear the amount of ransom
the alleged kidnappers had
collected, though police
have estimated that they
had already caught dozens
of pigeons.
Pigeon racing is popular in
Taiwan but has been linked
to criminal activities such
as underground gambling,
extortion and race fixing, as
well as kidnapping the birds
for ransom. AFP
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Successful People Read The Post.
Job Announcement
The Phnom Penh Post is an independent media company in Cambodia
and is seeking qualied candidates to ll the position of reporter as
follows:
Lifestyle Sub-editor: 1 position
Job requirements:
Bachelors degree in journalism or an equivalent degree -
At least 2 (two) years experience in Media -
Knowledge of media law and professional ethics -
Those who specialize in certain area such as tourism, travel, -
entertainment and leisure news are highly welcomed.
Very good in Khmer and English, Speaking and Writing -
Computer literacy (must be able to type Khmer Unicode well) -
Available to work in a high pressure environment -
Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and CV to the
human resource ofce of The Phnom Penh Post at the below address:
Post Media Co. Ltd, #888, Floor 8, Building F, Phnom Penh Center,
Corner of Sothearos and Preah Sihanouk boulevards, Sangkat Tonle
Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh or through email address:
jobs@phnompenhpost.com; Tel: 023 214 311 or Fax: 023 214 318
Deadline: July 16, 2014
Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
The US cargo ship MV Cape Ray arrives at a port in southern Italy on July 1 to wait for the arrival of the Danish
ship Ark Futura from Syria to load Syrian chemical weapon materials to be destroyed. AFP
US begins work to neutralise
Syrian chemical agents at sea
A US naval crew has begun
work to neutralise Syrias
chemical weapons on a vessel
in the Mediterranean, an
unprecedented operation
expected to take about two
months, the Pentagon said
on Monday.
The MV Cape Ray, which is
outfitted with portable hydrol-
ysis machinery, launched the
effort after having loaded on
board 600 metric tonnes of
chemical agents at an Italian
port on July 2, spokesman
Colonel Steven Warren told
reporters.
We expect neutralisation to
take approximately 60 days,
Warren said.
The pace of the work would
depend in part on the weather
and conditions at sea, he said.
After breaking down the
lethal chemicals to a sludge
equivalent to industrial waste,
the byproducts will later be
transported to Finland and
Germany for final disposal,
he explained.
Syria handed over sulfur
mustard and a precursor to
make Sarin gas under the
terms of a UN-backed and US-
Russia brokered agreement to
head off Western air strikes
against the regime last year.
The deal came after global
outrage over chemical attacks
by Bashar al-Assads regime in
the suburbs of Damascus on
August 23 last year, which
may have killed as many as
1,400 people.
The groundbreaking arrange-
ment to neutralise the chemi-
cals at sea was agreed because
no country was ready to host
an operation to destroy the
chemical agents.
A Danish ship initially picked
up the chemical agents and
delivered them to the southern
Italian port of Gioia Tauro,
amid tight security.
The Pentagon said the Cape
Ray is carrying out the work in
international waters in the
Mediterranean but would not
disclose any details of the
ships location.
US officials have insisted the
operation will not pose a seri-
ous risk to the environment
and that elaborate precautions
have been undertaken.
The 650-foot (197.5 metre)
US cargo ship has a crew of 35
civilians operating the vessel
and a 63-member team in
charge of the hydrolysis units,
as well as a security team
on board.
The hydrolysis machines mix
heated water and other chem-
icals to break down the lethal
agents into toxic materials that
pose less of a danger. AFP
Abe declares peace goals in Oz
J
APANESE Prime Minis-
ter Shinzo Abe yesterday
declared his determina-
tion to pursue peace in
Asia, as he strengthened de-
fence ties with Australia and
signed an ambitious free-
trade agreement.
Abe used a historic address
to a joint sitting of Australias
parliament to say that Japan
is now determined to do more
to enhance peace in the region
and peace in the world.
It is to put that determina-
tion into concrete action that
Japan has chosen to strength-
en its ties with Australia, said
Abe, the rst Japanese leader
to address parliament.
Our countries both love
peace. We value freedom and
democracy and we hold hu-
man rights and the rule of law
dear, he added, calling the
relationship special.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott
described Japan as a very,
very close friend.
Japan and Australia have
so much in common and I am
sure that our relationship will
go from strength to strength
as a result of this visit, and as
a result of the annual leaders
meetings that will henceforth
take place, Abbott said.
The two leaders signed an
agreement allowing for the
transfer of Japanese defence
equipment and technology
to Australia, just days after
Tokyo declared its powerful
military had the right to ght
in defence of allies.
The declaration irked China,
Australias largest trading part-
ner, which has a fractious rela-
tionship with Japan including
tensions over disputed islands
in the East China Sea.
Abe said his countrys push
to change its legal basis for
security was so it could work
with other nations and build
an international order that
upholds the rule of law.
Our desire is to make Japan
a country that is all the more
willing to contribute to peace
in the region and beyond,
he said in his address, which
was delivered in English. It is
for this reason that Japan has
raised the banner of proactive
contribution to peace.
Abe, at a press conference,
played down recent tensions
with China, saying that his
door was always open for
dialogue.
The door to China is open
from the Japanese side, and
we hope that the Chinese
side take the same posture,
he continued.
Abe went on to say that the
fundamental position of Ja-
pan is that we want to improve
our relationship with China.
AFP
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott (right) sign an ambitious
free-trade agreement at Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. AFP
15
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Fossils could be of largest ying bird ever found
Nishad Karim
A CLUTCH of fossilised bones
uncovered during the expansion of
an airport terminal in the United
States may belong to the largest fly-
ing bird ever found.
The prehistoric creature had a
wingspan of between 6.1 and 7.4
metres and could glide for long dis-
tances over the oceans as it
searched for fish 25 million years
ago, according to scientists writing
in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Its wingspan was double that of the
royal albatross, the largest flying bird
alive, and challenges the wingspan of
Argentavis magnificens, a prehistoric
bird that lived six million years ago
and had a wingspan between 5.5 and
7 metres.
The bird, named Pelagornis sand-
ersi, had short, stumpy legs and like-
ly took to the air by hopping off cliff
edges or making short runs into the
wind to take off from the ground or
sea. In flight it reached speeds of up
to 60 kilometres per hour.
This was a remarkable fossil,
almost like something out of Game
of Thrones, said Daniel Ksepka at
North Carolina State University. Its
mouth was filled with bony spikes
that gave it the menacing look of a
dragon, he added.
The remains of the bird, including
its skull, shoulder blade, and hollow
leg and wing bones, were dug from
rock near Charleston airport in 1983,
but the full significance of the fossils
had not been realised before.
Though no feathers survived,
Ksepka extrapolated the mass,
wingspan and wing shape from the
fossilised bones and fed them into
a computer to estimate how the bird
might fly. A conservative estimate
put the wingspan of P sandersi at
around 6.4 metres.
The computer model showed that
like the modern albatross, the prehis-
toric bird was an extremely efficient
glider and barely needed to flap to
cover ground.
It could probably travel for extreme
distances using a very, very small
amount of energy, said Ksepka. If the
bird was caught on low ground in bad
wind conditions, it may have become
fatally stuck.
The Charleston specimen likely
died at sea, as the excavation site was
a prehistoric seabed. Remains of
archaic rays, skates, and even a
toothed whale have been unearthed
at the site in the past. There are no
obvious breaks in the birds bones
that point to a particularly violent
death, Ksepka said.
Robert Nudds at Manchester Uni-
versity said the birds dimensions
were guesstimates instead of esti-
mates, but said the bird would have
had a similar flying style to the alba-
tross. It would flap its wings rarely
and use wind profiles above the
waves to carry it, he said.
Ksepka said the remains of larger
flying birds may yet be found. I
wouldnt be surprised if something a
little bit larger was found sometime.
I dont think well be pushing 10-me-
tre wingspans, but a little bit bigger,
he said. THE GUARDIAN
Islamist threat to West overstated
Richard Norton-Taylor
T
HE UK government
and media have
blown the Islamist
terrorism threat out
of proportion, giving extrem-
ists publicity that is counter-
productive, a former head of
Britains intelligence service
has said.
Sir Richard Dearlove, chief
of MI6 at the time of the Iraq
invasion, said that Britons
spreading blood-curdling
messages on the internet
should be ignored. He told
an audience in London on
Monday that there had been
a fundamental change in the
nature of Islamist extremism
since the Arab spring.
It had created a major po-
litical problem in the Middle
East but the West, including
Britain, was only margin-
ally affected.
Unlike the threat posed by
al-Qaida before and in the
aftermath of the 9/11 attacks
on the US 13 years ago, the
West was not the main target
of the radical fundamental-
ism that created ISIS, (the Is-
lamic State in Iraq and Syria),
Dearlove said.
Addressing the Royal Unit-
ed Services Institute, the Lon-
don-based security and de-
fence think tank, he said the
conict was essentially one
of Muslim on Muslim.
He made it clear he be-
lieved the way the British
government and the media
were giving the extremists
the oxygen of publicity was
counter-productive. The me-
dia were making monsters of
misguided young men, rath-
er pathetic gures who were
getting coverage more than
their wildest dreams, said
Dearlove, adding: It is surely
better to ignore them.
The former MI6 chief, now
master of Pembroke College,
Cambridge University, was
speaking to a prepared text
hours after the ITV program
Good Morning Britain broad-
cast an interview with a Brit-
on who had appeared in an
ISIS video saying he was re-
cruited through the internet
and was prepared to die for
his cause.
Abdul Raqib Amin, who was
brought up in Aberdeen, ap-
peared in an online video last
month with two men from
Cardiff urging western Mus-
lims to join the ghting with
ISIS. He told Good Morning
Britain: I left the UK to ght
for the sake of Allah, to give
everything I have for the sake
of Allah. One of the happiest
moments in my life was when
the plane took off from Gat-
wick airport.
I was so happy; as a Muslim
you cannot live in the country
of kuffars [nonbelievers].
Amin added: I left the
house with the intention not
to go back, Im going to stay
and ght until the khilafah
[rule of Islam] is established
or I die.
Dearlove said he was con-
cerned about the inuence
of the media on the govern-
ments security policy. It was
time to take what he called
a more proportionate ap-
proach to terrorism.
MI5, MI6, and GCHQ devot-
ed a greater share of their re-
sources to countering Islamist
fundamentalism than they
did to the Soviet Union during
the Cold War, or to Irish ter-
rorism that had cost the lives
of more UK citizens and Brit-
ish soldiers than al-Qaida had
done, Dearlove noted.
A massive reaction after the
9/11 attacks was inevitable,
he said, but it was not inevi-
table the 2001 attacks would
continue to dominate our
way of thinking about nation-
al security. There had been a
fundamental change in the
nature of the threat posed by
Islamist extremists.
Al-Qaida had largely failed
to mount the kind of at-
tacks in the US and UK it had
threatened after 9/11.
It was time, he said to move
away from the distortion of
the post-9/11 mindset, make
realistic risk assessments
and think rationally about
the causes of the crisis in the
Middle East.
The al-Qaida franchises that
had emerged since had largely
fallen back on other Mus-
lim countries, Dearlove said.
What was happening now was
a long-awaited war between
Sunni and Shia Muslims that
would have only a ripple effect
on Britain, he suggested.
Pointing the nger at Sunni
Saudi Arabia, Dearlove said
the ISIS surge in Iraq had to
be the consequence of sus-
tained funding.
He made it clear he believed
more attention should be
paid to security threats from
Europe and China, which
he warned was heading in-
exorably into the paradox of a
strong government but weak
state. THE GUARDIAN
IT WASNT just the the naval
bases of the Black Sea Fleet
that Russia acquired when it
annexed Crimea; it was also
Ukraines combat dolphins,
part of a secret program that
trains sea mammals to carry
out military tasks.
Now, however, Ukraine is
demanding the return of the
dolphins, who unlike the na-
val ofcers serving on the
peninsula, were not given the
choice of defecting to Russia
or travelling to the mainland
to continue serving Kiev.
The dolphins are still be-
ing held at an aquarium near
Sevastopol, but Ukrainian au-
thorities in a town across the
isthmus from Crimea say they
have a facility where the ceta-
ceans could spend the rest of
the summer before a new mil-
itary home is found for them.
The Ukrainian military dol-
phin program was born out
of a Soviet-era scheme that,
like much of the Soviet army,
fell into neglect in the 1990s.
There were reports in 2000
that the dolphins had been
sold to Iran.
The program was resurrect-
ed in 2012 by the Ukrainian
navy, and the Crimean mili-
tary dolphin centre is thought
to be one of just two in the
world, with the other in San
Diego serving the US navy,
where around 75 dolphins are
trained, along with sea lions.
However, Ukraines military
infrastructure in Crimea was
destroyed by Russia in the
annexation of the territory.
Some military equipment was
seized, while some was dis-
patched to the rest of Ukraine,
which is what Kiev would now
like to happen to the dolphins.
The Russians, however, have
big plans for their newest re-
cruits. A source told Russias
RIA Novosti in March that with
Crimea part of Russia, serious
investment in dolphin prepa-
ration was now on the cards.
Engineers are developing
new aquarium technologies
for new programs to more ef-
ciently use dolphins under
water, said the source, telling
the agency that dolphins and
seals would search for sunken
military equipment and de-
tect enemy divers.
Our specialists developed
new devices that convert
dolphins underwater sonar
detection of targets into a sig-
nal to the operators monitor.
The Ukrainian navy lacked
funds for such know-how, and
some projects had to be moth-
balled. THE GUARDIAN
Kiev demands return
of combat dolphins
In loving memory
This photo taken on Monday and released yesterday by North Koreas ofcial Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Koreans
offering owers before the statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the
death of Kim Il-sung yesterday, which is to be marked with 10 days of mourning. North Koreas leader Kim Jong-un presided over an ofcial
memorial meeting in Pyongyang yesterday to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of his grandfather and the nations founder, Kim Il-sung.
Also yesterday, China and the United States increasingly agree on the need to move quickly to curb North Koreas nuclear program, a top US of-
cial said before talks in Beijing. There is a steady convergence in the views between the US and China on both the importance and the urgency
in moving North Korea to take irreversible steps to denuclearise, the ofcial told reporters travelling to Beijing with US Secretary of State
John Kerry. AFP
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OT so long ago, the Cam-
bodian nation sank into an
abyss of barbarity. Fortu-
nately, the United Nations
along with the international com-
munity and surviving Cambodians
pulled it out from that abyss and it
began an ascent to civilisation.
On July 28, 2013, it succeeded in
organising a peaceful general elec-
tion. Once subjects, Cambodians
had become citizens and, shedding
much of their fear, publicly exer-
cised their rights and took part in
the event.
Sadly, the ascent has been
blocked by discord between the two
main parties the Cambodian Peo-
ples Party and the Cambodia
National Rescue Party and by the
political deadlock over suspected
election irregularities.
Prolonged public protests for the
change of the CPP government and
the reform of the National Election
Committee both believed to be
behind the alleged irregularities
and the bloody crackdowns in Janu-
ary on garment worker demonstra-
tions that killed five people also
make clear that the Kingdoms
ascent to civilisation has stalled.
Ever since, this nation has been
living in a de facto state of emergen-
cy, with some fundamental rights
being arbitrarily suspended.
Meanwhile, the CPP and the CNRP
have continued to try to settle their
differences, seeking a compromise
over election reform and the alloca-
tion of committee chairs in the
National Assembly.
The CPP government has seeming-
ly abandoned the idea that the two
parties can reach a resolution on
election reform on their own and
has enlisted the help of Japan.
But local resources required for
the task are available. After receiv-
ing training and participating
directly or indirectly in so many
elections since 1993, Cambodians
themselves and expatriates working
at Cambodia-based election-related
organisations, including the NEC
itself, have adequate expertise to
undertake reform.
They have recognised and under-
stood the shortcomings behind elec-
tion irregularities across the entire
electoral process. They have seen
flaws during the registration of vot-
ers, the actual voting and the resolu-
tion of election disputes. And they
have remedies for these problems in
the form of recommendations for-
mulated in the 2008 EU election
observation mission report, in UN
Human Rights Special Rapporteur
Suria Subedis 2012 report on elec-
tions, in the National Democratic
Institutes (NDI) report on voter reg-
istration issued before the 2013 elec-
tion and in reports by Comfrel, Nic-
fec and other local NGOs before and
after last years vote.
Had all those recommendations
been implemented, there would have
been far fewer allegations of irregu-
larities and the CNRP would not feel
obliged to reject the election results
and boycott the National Assembly.
In a statement a few days after the
elections, Subedi commented on the
allegations of irregularities, saying:
Had [my] recommendations been
implemented in time for the elec-
tions, the situation now would have
been much better.
Assistance from Japan will be
more appreciated if its experts can
more clearly identify more flaws and
shortcomings, come up with more
effective remedies and design a bet-
ter election system.
In May, the Japanese came to
study the extent of their assistance.
However, during Japanese Foreign
Minister Fumio Kishidas recent vis-
it, Japan made it clear that its assist-
ance would not be forthcoming
until, as The Phnom Penh Post put it
on July 1, the two Cambodian par-
ties sort out their differences and
lay out the details of a political
agreement.
At the present stage of talks
between the CPP and the CNRP,
such divisions are centred on how
members of the new NEC will be
chosen by the National Assembly.
This issue of majority has now
become their political Gordian knot.
The CPP is adamantly sticking to an
absolute majority vote, commonly
known as 50 per cent plus one. The
CNRP, on the other hand, is pushing
for a two-thirds vote but is amenable
to any middle formula.
If the two parties were to compro-
mise, they should consider adopt-
ing the super majority formula
used by Khmer Rouge tribunal
judges when deciding on the legali-
ty of indictments. This tribunal
has a Trial Chamber composed of
three Cambodian judges and two
foreign judges, and a Supreme
Court Chamber comprised of four
Cambodian judges and three for-
eign judges. Under this formula, the
judges of each chamber decide by a
unanimous vote.
If this unanimity cannot be
reached, then a decision by the Trial
Chamber shall require the affirma-
tive vote of at least four judges, and
a decision by the Supreme Court
Chamber the affirmative vote of at
least five judges.
Based on this super majority for-
mula and the European Union and
Subedis recommendations for the
appointment of the NEC by a con-
sensus among all political parties
represented in the National Assem-
bly, the majority formula for the
appointment of the new NEC should
be as follows: the National Assembly
appoints the NEC by a consensus
among all political parties repre-
sented. If this is not possible, the
appointment is made by a majority
vote higher than one partys repre-
sentation in the assembly and not
less than an absolute majority vote.
This super majority should help the
CPP and the CNRP undo their politi-
cal Gordian knot. From there, they
can look to form a legitimate govern-
ment, seek the tools to empower
Cambodians to undertake election
reform, bring normalcy to the coun-
try and open the way for the nation
to restart its ascent to civilisation.
Comment
Lao Mong Hay
The political Gordian knot
Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) shakes hands with leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party Sam Rainsy during a meeting
at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh in September last year. AFP
Lao Mong Hay is a political analyst.
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Lifestyle Lifestyle Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Swiss try to yodel up a
groovier national anthem
MORE than 200 songwriters
have entered a contest to
change Switzerlands national
anthem, organisers said on
Monday. Lukas Niederberger,
director of the Swiss Society for
Public Good, said 215 entries
had submitted to replace The
Swiss Psalm, which critics liken
to a weather forecast crossed
with a religious hymn, given its
repeated references to God and
Alpine vistas. The song has been
the countrys anthem since
1981, when it replaced one set
to the tune of Britains God Save
the Queen. Niederberger said a
total of 129 entries for a new
anthem were received in
German the majority language
and 69 in its second tongue,
French. Italian-speakers, the
third-largest group in
Switzerland, submitted seven,
while 10 were written in the
countrys fourth official
language, Rumantsch. AFP
Recovered Matisse
returned to Venezuela
A PAINTING by Henri Matisse
that was stolen more than a
decade ago in Caracas and
later recovered in a sting was
turned over Monday to
Venezuelan authorities. The
Odalisque in Red Pants disap-
peared from the Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo de Caracas
after being replaced with a fake
sometime between 1999 and
2002. It was recovered in Miami
Beach in 2012 in an FBI under-
cover operation that led to the
convictions of a US citizen and
a Mexican. AFP
Afrobeats star Castro
believed to have drowned
THE Ghanaian musician
Castro, one of Afrobeats
biggest stars, is feared dead
following a boating accident.
Police have joined fishermen in
a search of the Volta River,
where Castro disappeared on
Sunday. Castro, whose real
name is Theophilus Tagoe, was
reportedly attending a boat
cruise organised by Ghanaian
footballer Asamoah Gyan.
According to the Ghana
Broadcasting Corporation,
Castro and an unnamed
woman went off on a jet ski. A
witness claims to have seen
the woman fall off; Castro
seems to have jumped into the
lagoon in an attempt to rescue
her. THEGUARDIAN
S Korea dancer jailed
for contacting North spy
A SOUTH Korean court yester-
day sentenced the head of a
dance troupe to four years in
prison for passing information
to a North Korean spy. The
Seoul Central District Court
ruled that Jeon Shik-Ryeol, 44,
had violated the national
security law, which bans South
Koreans from making
unauthorised contact with
North Koreans. Jeon, the head
of the traditional Korean dance
company Chool, is a member
of the left-wing Unified
Progressive Party. AFP
Malaysia still spinning a centuries-old tradition
IN ONE fluid motion, Amri Aziz flings his
oversized spinning top into the air and
with a whip-like crack of the rope sends
it whirling for the next two hours.
Thats when the tea is poured.
In a time-worn tradition, contestants
and spectators settle down in Malaysias
Kelantan state to see whose meticulous-
ly hand-crafted top spins the longest in
the centuries-old, contest of gasing uri.
Locals in the conservative Muslim
heartland of the countrys rural east coast
cheekily call the decades-old inter-state
contest, held monthly with neighbouring
Terengganu, their World Cup.
In the olden days, this kind of game
was very, very popular like playing foot-
ball is today, said Nazife Ismail, secretary
of the Kelantan Gasing Uri Association.
But though many here still live in huts,
modern distractions like the internet and
satellite broadcasts of football games
have penetrated. That makes gasing uri
a hard sell for a new generation.
Today few take up the sport, which
requires at least five years training before
one is considered ready for contests.
I got into it because my father and
uncle taught me. But I keep on playing
because when there are fewer players
like today, you have a better chance to
shine, said Amri.
Despite its uneventful nature, the con-
test begins with an amazing feat of dex-
terity. After the spinner launches his gas-
ing (top), a scooper catches the
plate-shaped object on a small wooden
paddle just centimetres wide.
Scooping is the most difficult job. Its
like football, the goalie is the most impor-
tant, said Hussain Mohamad, who has
been spinning for over four decades.
Top-spinning which developed in
cultures worldwide took hold in
Malay society centuries ago as a way
for men to pass the suddenly ample
time available after the rice harvest.
Under age-old, pre-Islamic Malay ani-
mist beliefs, individual gasing were
said to inherit the nature of trees they
were made from.
If I cant play, I will lose my zest for life.
Never mind work, we have to do this for
one day a month from 10 am to 6 pm,
said Hussain.
About 30 contestants per side took part
in the latest instalment of the inter-state
gasing uri rivalry, watched by about 100
mostly older male spectators, who sipped
tea on a patch of grass in the heat.
In the past, local shamans would first
call upon spirits to guide the gasing.
But amid deepening Islamic conserva-
tivism in rural Malaysia over the past
three decades or so, that is now highly
frowned upon.
Today, flowers are first placed atop the
gasing by an Islamic teacher, who then
offers a prayer of blessing, not to invoke
the spirits, but to give us a kind of confi-
dence that our top will be the winner,
Nazife said. AFP
Airport communities share
eviction stories for new film
Chelsea Chapman
and Vandy Muong

A
SHORT film that
tells the stories of
residents affected by
Phnom Penhs air-
port evictions will premiere
this evening at Meta House.
The Eviction of the Airport
Community is a short docu-
mentary directed by Sophea
Nget and produced by the
human rights group Equitable
Cambodia.
Executive director Eang
Vuthy said that the aim is to
raise awareness among the
public and to put pressure on
the government. Our inten-
tion is to share the impacts of
the airport expansion, he said,
adding: We have interviewed
NGOs and also the govern-
ment, so we have a few actors
to tell the story.
In 2012, residents of five com-
munities in Por Sen Chey dis-
trict were handed eviction
notices to make way for the
expansion of the Phnom Penh
International Airport, which is
being overseen by the private
firm Socit Concessionnaire
de lAroport. The government
has since outsourced environ-
mental impact assessments to
the private firm Green Goal.
The Eviction of the Airport
Community explores the cur-
rent situation through a collec-
tion of interviews with resi-
dents who face eviction.
One of these residents is
Phoung Sopheap, 40, who lives
with her seven children in
Thmor Kol community.
I will keep protesting as I
bought my land legally and I
am concerned that I wont get
fair compensation, explained
Sopheap, adding that her chil-
dren cannot attend school due
to financial restraints and
instability.
Meas Srey Pov, 44, has lived
in the Thmor Kol community
since 2011 when she was evict-
ed from Borei Keila.
She is worried for her familys
safety and said that she doesnt
know what will happen to
them. People in my commu-
nity might face eviction again,
and sometimes they will suffer
violence. I worry that my village
will be destroyed by private
companies or the government
if nobody helps, she said.
The affected communities
are currently campaigning for
compensation. Sia Phearum,
director of Housing Rights
Task Force, said: NGOs and
the airport authorities are
revising the memorandum of
understanding.
However, Chan Soveth, dep-
uty of land and natural resourc-
es rights at Adhoc, said that
residents are afraid because
some families like that of Srey
Pov have already been evicted
from Borei Keila and Boeung
Kak communities and are con-
cerned that it will happen
again. They feel upset and
insecure, he said.
According to Vuthy, its
important that the affected
communities play as active a
role as NGOs, SCA and the gov-
ernment in deciding on appro-
priate compensation and reset-
tlement. Hopefully all parties
working together can come up
with a good solution, he said.
Vuthy said that it was the
residents who decided that
they wanted to show the film
publicly. The team wanted to
do this and the community
wanted to raise more aware-
ness, so we wanted to support
them, he said.
This isnt the first documen-
tary that Equitable Cambodia
has been involved in.
In 2013, the organisation suc-
cessfully campaigned the gov-
ernment and the Asian Devel-
opment Bank with The
Rehabilitation of the Cambo-
dian Railways Project. In Feb-
ruary 2014, ADB announced
that victims would be properly
compensated.
Sopheap has high hopes for
this time around too. I hope
this screening will show people
and help my community with
a good solution, she said, and
that the government and the
private company can compen-
sate with acceptance.
The Eviction of the Airport
Community will premiere
tonight at Meta House, #37 Sot-
hearos Boulevard, at 7pm.
A woman walks by a house in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district, in which homes are being evicted due to airport expansion. PHA LINA
A contestant spins his gasing during a
contest in Pasir Puteh, Malaysia. AFP
Health
18
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014
Ebola virus
a creeping
menace,
say experts
MANY cases of Ebola in Sierra
Leona may be going undetec-
ted, grassroots doctors have
warned in The Lancet as they
highlighted the impoverished
countrys problems in combat-
ting the virus.
The journal published the
letter on the heels of ministe-
rial talks in Ghana, where a
senior UN health official on
Thursday said the outbreak in
West Africa, the worst in the
history of Ebola, may persist for
several more months.
Sierra Leone, one of the poor-
est countries in the world, suf-
fers a chronic lack of doctors,
diagnostic tools, a disease-
monitoring network and even
clothing to protect health work-
ers, the letter said.
Many cases meeting the
case definition for suspected
Ebola might be going undetec-
ted and unreported because ill
people and their families are
opting for self-treatment with
over-the-counter drugs or tra-
ditional medicine, it said.
At present, there is little
incentive for patients to seek
professional diagnosis of sus-
pected Ebola. Laboratory test-
ing can be expensive, is unlike-
ly to change the course of
treatment, and might stigma-
tise an infected patient and
their family.
It added: Even if a patient
wanted to be tested for Ebola,
few laboratories in the region
have the capacity to safely test
a biosafety level 4 pathogen.
The warning came from four
doctors working at the Mercy
Hospital Research Laboratory
in the city of Bo. The letter is
headed by an American-based
specialist, Kathryn Jacobsen at
George Mason University in
Fairfax, Virginia. AFP
Novel leukemia therapy
gets fast-tracked in US
US REGULATORS on Monday put an
experimental immunotherapy agent
on the fast track to market approval,
after 89 per cent of leukemia patients
in trials saw their cancers disappear.
The personalised immunotherapy
known as CTL019 was developed
by the University of Pennsylvania
and was designated a breakthrough
therapy by the US Food and Drug
Administration. That means that the
experimental therapy will benefit
from a speedier than average review
process and will get extra attention
from the FDA towards development
for market.
It is the first cancer immunothera-
py to receive the breakthrough des-
ignation, and only the fifth biologic
agent so far.
The approach works by extracting
a patients T-cells, then genetically
programming them in the lab to tar-
get cancer cells that produce a protein
called CD19.
The altered T-cells are then re-in-
jected into the patient, where they
multiply and attack cancer.
Researchers reported last year that
of 27 patients, 22 children and five
adults, with acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, 89 per cent had a complete
response to the therapy, meaning
their cancer became undetectable.
The first child to receive the treat-
ment, in May marked two years of
being in remission, and the first adult
has been in remission for one year.
Our early findings reveal tremen-
dous promise for a desperate group
of patients, many of whom have been
able to return to their normal lives . . .
after receiving this new, personalised
immunotherapy, said the Penn
research teams leader, Carl June.
The university in 2012 teamed up
with Novartis to develop and license
personalised chimeric antigen recep-
tor (CAR) T cell therapies for the treat-
ment of cancers. In addition to the
ongoing trials for acute lymphoblas-
tic leukemia, trials using CTL019
began in the summer of 2010 in
patients with relapsed and refractory
chronic lymphocytic leukemia. It is
also being tried in patients with non-
Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma.
More research is also under way into
CAR therapies for ovarian, breast and
pancreatic cancers. AFP
Desert pools: why Indigenous
areas all need a place to swim
M
OST remote In-
digenous com-
munities are a
long way from
cities, easy to ignore and easier
to misunderstand. Projects in-
tended to improve living stan-
dards in these places are too
often abandoned due to lack of
money, poor planning and im-
patience. Change takes time,
in many cases longer than a
single term of government.
There is a growing body of
evidence that a swimming
pool in remote communities
improves not only the health
and tness of young people,
but also their interest in school
and other activities. Pools solve
many problems at once. In the
central desert, the swimming
pool is crucial to the health and
social life of the community.
In searing heat, pools pro-
vide the only way you can cool
off and get t at the same time.
They do so in a clean, controlled
environment. While kids will
dunk themselves in any avail-
able water, it seems wrong to
deny them the opportunity to
do so in a way that is proved to
improve eye health, encourage
them to get an education, and
provide a new site for commu-
nity organisation.
According to associate pro-
fessor Deborah Lehmann, from
WAs Telethon Institute, given
their unacceptably high rates
of infectious diseases, chronic
diseases and drowning, the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is-
lander population would ben-
et more than any other group
in Australia from having access
to swimming pools.
The benets also extend to
education. A no school, no
pool policy, to limit pool entry
to students who go to school,
played a key part in improving
attendance rates at Areyonga,
Santa Teresa and Yuendumu.
This policy was the rationale
for the development of the
2005 pools in remote areas
scheme, which had a budget
of $4.55 million to build pools
in some of the most isolated
communities in Australia.
Now pools face closure, at the
same time as communities are
becoming targets of a $28 mil-
lion anti-truancy intervention.
Pools are built in part with
government money, but there
is no long-term plan for how
to maintain them or lled from
year to year. They are thus fund-
ed or closed from season to
season depending on the gen-
erosity of surrounding mines,
the success of local art centres,
and the sympathy of patrons.
To fund her local pool, Susie
Low, the CEO of Yuendumus
Warlpiri youth development
Aboriginal corporation relied
on $49,000 from NT sport and
recreation, a private donation
of $50,000, and $15,000 from
Facebook friends.
The pools at Kintore and
Santa Teresa reopened this year
thanks to emergency federal
funding. Scullion admitted the
pools were a drawcard to boost
school attendance, justifying a
one-off payment to support
remote community pools to
be open for the 2013-2014 sea-
son. Yet he has not committed
to funding for next summer.
In 2010, 18 remote pools did
not have enough funding to
pay staff or maintenance costs.
Its easy to get funding to build
a pool, said Floss Roberts from
the NT royal life saving society.
The real issue is ongoing op-
erational funding.
Of the 18 pools in remote
communities, seven were built
over 20 years ago and ve over
35 years ago. These pools were
built in a different era, said
Jeff McLeod of Central Austra-
lias MacDonnell shire council.
When the pools were built we
didnt employ lifeguards, energy
and water costs have increased,
and now there are strict water
management regulations and
OH&S requirements.
Cathryn Hutton, the CEO
of the Central Desert regional
council, said that in many
cases you end up with very
degraded facilities because
nobody has the money to look
after them once they are put
into the ground.
Swimming pools are a worth-
while investment, but instead
of maximising their value, the
current funding model dimin-
ishes it. Ultimately, a single
level of government must take
responsibility. With its current
drive to reform school atten-
dance, the obvious choice is
the federal government.
Its very positive, it pro-
vides all sorts of opportunities
and I cannot understand why
between the three levels of
government they cannot nd
the money to fund a pool in a
community where thats about
all that there is, said NT school
principal Daniel Hollamby.
THE GUARDIAN
Sudanese refugee children enjoy a swim in Australias Orange district in January, 2012. AFP
Breakthrough in Alzheimers
A BLOOD test to detect which people
with failing memories will go on to
develop Alzheimers disease has been
developed by British scientists, who
hope it may prove a breakthrough in
the hunt for a cure.
After a decades work, an interna-
tional collaboration led by scientists
from Kings College London, with the
UK company Proteome Sciences, has
published a study identifying a set of
10 proteins in the blood. The test can
predict the onset of Alzheimers in the
next 12 months in people with mem-
ory problems with an accuracy of 87
per cent. It could cost 100-300
($170-$510) and be available within
two years.
Alzheimers and other forms of
dementia are distressing and a huge
burden on those affected, their families
and the NHS. But despite the growing
problem as people live longer, there are
no good long-term treatments and no
cure. David Cameron recently
announced a drive to discover drugs
for dementia, which he said stands
alongside cancer as one of the greatest
enemies of humanity.
Many trials have ended in failure. As
one potential drug after another has
fallen by the wayside, scientists have
begun to look for ways to treat people
at a much earlier stage, when their
brain is not so badly damaged. But to
do that, they need a test to predict who
is going to develop the disease.
A number of research groups have
been trying to develop tests. Scientists
in the US published details in March
of a proposed test for lipids (fatty
chemicals) in the blood of people in
the general population, who do not
have memory problems. Such a
screening test would be controversial,
however: few healthy people want to
know they may be in line for an incur-
able disease that can be neither pre-
vented nor treated.
The new test is aimed at people with
the kind of memory loss called mild
cognitive impairment, 60 per cent of
whom will go on to develop dementia.
Those are the people scientists now
want to recruit into trials.
Alzheimers begins to affect the
brain many years before patients are
diagnosed with the disease, said Pro-
fessor Simon Lovestone from Kings
College. Many of our drug trials fail
because by the time patients are given
the drugs, the brain has already been
too severely affected.
A simple blood test could help us
identify patients at an earlier stage to
take part in new trials and hopefully
develop treatments which could pre-
vent the progression of the disease.
The researchers investigated 26 pro-
teins which have all been linked to
Alzheimers in the past. Writing in the
journal Alzheimers & Dementia, they
say they took blood samples from
1,148 individuals, of whom 476 had
Alzheimers disease, 220 had mild cog-
nitive impairment and 452 were eld-
erly but without dementia.
They found that 16 of the proteins
were associated with brain shrinkage
either in mild cognitive impairment
or Alzheimers.
In a second set of tests, they identi-
fied 10 proteins whose presence could
predict, with a reasonable degree of
accuracy, whether people with mild
cognitive impairment would develop
Alzheimers within a year.
Larger trials involving between
5,000 and 10,000 people are still
needed, say the scientists, according
to Lovestone. THE GUARDIAN
A simple blood test could
help us identify patients at
an earlier stage
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Dont leave Rio without a visit to Christ the Redeemer, a stroll along
Copacabana Beach and a new pair of Havaianas. BLOOMBERG
Your complete
Rio bucket list
R
IO de Janiero, Bra-
zils former capital, is
the countrys second
most populous city
after Sao Paulo. It is located in
the southeast of the country
and sits on the coast border-
ing the Atlantic Ocean. Here
are 10 things to do if you plan
on visiting this vibrant city.
1. Touch the citys icon
The Christ the Redeemer
statue sits atop Corcovado, a
mountain rising 710 metres
above the city in the Tijuca
Forest, a national park. The
38-metre-tall statue was built
to celebrate the 100th anniver-
sary of Brazils independence
from Portugal and construc-
tion was nished in 1931. The
statues open arms are a sign
of welcome for visitors to and
inhabitants of Rio.
2. Ride a cable car to Sugar-
loaf Mountain
Located at the mouth of
Guanabara Bay of the Atlantic
Ocean, Sugarloaf Mountain
rises 396 metres. This granite
mountain derives its name
from its shape, which resem-
bles the traditional shape of
concentrated rened loaf sug-
ar. The cable car is a famous
method of transportation to
take visitors to the summit.
The ride rst makes a stop at
the Urca hill, where restau-
rants and outlets are located,
before continuing to the peak
of Sugarloaf Mountain.
3. Go to the beach
Take off your shoes and step
on the soft sandy beaches of
Copacabana and Ipanema in
the citys South Zone. Copaca-
bana has a 3.4-kilometre white
sand beach, while Ipanemas
is about 2 kilometres long. The
beaches are always packed
with sunbathers, swimmers,
surfers and people playing
beach soccer.
4. Try footvolley
A net is set in the middle
of two teams, each with two
players. It may look like beach
volleyball, except each player
cannot use his or her hands
or arms, in much the same
way as Thais play takraw. The
game is called footvolley. It
was created on Copacabana
Beach in 1965 as a training ex-
ercise for football players.
5. Explore old churches
Located in downtown Rio,
the Candelaria Church is one
of the citys most outstanding.
The Roman Catholic church
was built in 1775 and n-
ished in 1898. Its facade is of
Baroque inspiration, while its
interior consists of Neoclas-
sical and Neo-Renaissance
elements. The Sao Bento
Monastery, also worth a visit,
is famous for its elegant and
beautiful design and art.
6. Step inside a 120-year-
old restaurant
Confeitaria Colombo was
established in 1894. The two-
storey restaurant has wel-
comed many VIP customers
including King Albert of Bel-
gium and Queen Elizabeth II.
The rst oor is for customers
who love pastries or a la carte
meals, while the upper oor
is reserved for buffet lunches
and dinners. It serves Spanish
and Portuguese cuisine.
7. Sip local cocktails
A caipirinha is the traditional
cocktail from Brazil. It is made
of cachaca (white rum made
from sugar cane), lime or lem-
on juice, sugar and crushed
ice. Slices of lemon are also put
inside the glass. The taste is
mix of bitter, sweet and sour.
8. Listen to authentic Bra-
zilian music
Rio Scenarium is a restau-
rant and pub which is re-
garded as one of the best live
music venues in town. The
three-storey building includes
dining tables and a dance
oor with a stage for live
bands, which play samba, jazz
and forro music. The place has
a 19th-century atmosphere
and is decorated with items
such as old wall clocks, radi-
os, musical instruments and
mannequins. The restaurant
is located on Rua do Lavradio,
one of the oft-recommended
places to experience Rios vi-
brant nightlife.
9. Shop for ip-ops
A trip to Rio cannot end
without a pair of Havaianas,
a brand of famous stylish and
colourful ip-ops from Bra-
zil. The brand now has outlets
worldwide, but more fashion-
able designs can be found in
its birthplace. BANGKOK POST
Entertainment
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 9, 2014
LEGEND CINEMA
MY HOUSE
Khmer film.
City Mall: 5:10pm, 7:55pm, 10:15pm
Tuol Kork: 5:25pm, 10:20pm
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an
acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and
a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their
relationship is all the more miraculous given
that Hazels other constant companion is an
oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg,
and they met and fell in love at a cancer sup-
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ACROSS
1 Grants landmark
5 In a frenzy
9 Smart guy
14 Brother of Cain
15 Death in Venice author Thomas
16 Chicago mayor before Emanuel
17 Soap actress Sofer
18 Flowery Veronica Lake film (with
The)
20 Computer programming
language
22 Oscar presenters take
23 PC key
24 Less stable
26 Theres ___ in the air
28 Select from the menu
30 Fasten
34 TVs The Virginian star James
37 Canarys nose
39 Guns, as an engine
40 Campus drilling gp.
41 More in need of a massage
42 Reasons for
43 Eastern nurse
44 Sack attachment
45 Martini add-in
46 Gauguins island home
48 Lasso loop
50 Number in a letter
52 Guinness superlative
56 Physicians org.
59 Brats Christmas present
61 Hard worker
62 Flower in a Texas tune
65 Colorful parrot
66 First-stringers
67 Hair remover
68 Kongs kin
69 ___ la vista, baby!
70 Certain NCOs
71 Tic-Tac alternative
DOWN
1 Infield coverings
2 West Indian sorcery
3 Brainy bunch
4 Ebony flower
5 Went for a stroll
6 Practice starter?
7 Difficult responsibility
8 ___ man, Bojangles and ...
9 Slow tempo
10 ___-di-dah!
11 Noted first name in jazz
12 Provide with a roof
13 Currency, in Myanmar
19 One of Santas team
21 Open to breezes
25 Army scouts job
27 New Hampshire state flower
29 Aired a second time
31 Prefix with scope
32 City in the Ukraine
33 To be, to Caesar
34 Oh, phooey!
35 Arrivederci ___
36 Great Salt Lake state
38 Put in fresh soil
41 Way to get to the top
45 Viking Ship Museum locale
47 Washington seaport
49 Old cowboy movies
51 Merits
53 Wed in secret
54 More parched
55 Secret meeting
56 Native maid in India
57 Prefix with physical
58 Hearty libations
60 Do nothing
63 Back muscle, in the gym
64 Not my spelling error notation
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21
Sterling suffers Alzheimers: doctor
D
ONALD Sterling, who
was a no-show in court
for the rst day of his
trial, has been suffer-
ing from Alzheimers for at least
three years, a witness told a judge
on Monday.
The proceedings are to determine
if Sterlings estranged wife Shelly
has authority to sell the team, un-
der pressure from the NBA, follow-
ing racist remarks by Sterling that
caused an uproar in America.
Neurologist Dr Meril Platzer testi-
ed that she came to that conclu-
sion after having the disgraced Los
Angeles Clippers owner undergo
a battery of tests, including a CT
(computerised tomography) scan
and a PET (positron emission to-
mography) scan. She also said she
went to his home to perform cogni-
tive testing.
Asked how long Donald Sterling
had been suffering from demen-
tia or Alzheimers disease, Platzer
said: at least for three years, most
likely for ve years.
Platzer told US judge Michael Le-
vanas that following two hours of
testing, she told Donald Sterling that
he had Alzheimers and his reaction
was Im hungry. I want to eat.
But Platzer said Donald Sterlings
wife, Shelly Sterling, was shocked
by the news.
She was taken aback, shocked.
She felt bad for her husband, said
Platzer, who testied she is an ex-
pert in the eld of neurology, hav-
ing examined over 25,000 patients
over the course of her career.
The probate court trial is to de-
cide whether Shelly Sterling has le-
gal authority under the family trust
to sell the National Basketball Asso-
ciation team for a record $2 billion
to former Microsoft chief executive
Steve Ballmer.
Donald Sterling is seeking to halt
the sale being conducted by his es-
tranged wife, arguing that his priva-
cy rights were violated by the release
of his medical records.
After several delays in the morning
session, testimony in the non-jury
trial in Los Angeles Superior Court
nally got under way. But before
that could happen a US federal court
judge had to deny Donald Sterlings
bid to move his legal ght with his
wife over the sale of the Clippers to
a federal court. The decision paved
the way for the scheduled four-day
trial to proceed.
US federal court judge George
Wu denied the motion to move the
case to federal court, saying that to
the extent that [Sterlings] medical
records are relevant to the probate
hearings, the probate court is more
than capable of evaluating them
and rendering a decision.
Pierce ODonnell, lawyer for Shelly
Sterling, then called Donald Sterling
as the rst witness. ODonnell ex-
plained he had subpoenaed Sterling
and when told he wouldnt be avail-
able, ODonnell suggested a bench
warrant could be issued.
ODonnell called his second wit-
ness, Platzer, one of two doctors
hired by Shelly Sterling who exam-
ined Donald Sterling and found him
to be mentally incapacitated.
Bobby Samini, the lawyer for
Donald Sterling, said his client was
not in the courtroom because they
thought it would take more time
to get a decision from the federal
court. His legal team said Donald
Sterling would be in court to testify
on Tuesday.
Sterlings other lawyer, Gary Rut-
tenberg, said that Shelly Sterling had
duped his client and that the NBA is
complicit in her actions.
The NBA wants to get rid of my
client, Ruttenberg said. They were
colluding with Mrs. Sterling and her
counsel to do this.
Sterlings lawyers did not cross-
examine Platzer on Monday.
But ODonnell said no fraud oc-
curred and that Donald Sterling
changed his mind after originally
agreeing to the sale of the team.
He will pull out all the stops to
prevent the sale from going for-
ward, ODonnell said.
Sterling was banned from the NBA
for life earlier this year following the
public release of recorded conversa-
tions between him and his girlfriend
V. Stiviano. Sterling is heard on the
tape making bigoted comments,
criticizing Stiviano for having her
picture taken with black people and
telling her not to bring blacks to
Clipper games.
The league announced plans to
take action against Sterling to force
him to sell the team. But Sterling
has since led a lawsuit against
the NBA, alleging violations of his
civil rights.
He has contended that he was re-
corded illegally while making emo-
tional remarks during a disagree-
ment with Stiviano. AFP
Donald Sterlings neurologist has testied that the LA Clippers owner has been suffering from dementia or Alzheimers for years. AFP
Lee to miss Glasgow
Games due to injury
BADMINTON world number
one Lee Chong Wei will miss
the Glasgow Commonwealth
Games due to injury, a report
said yesterday.
The Malaysian, 31, has been
struggling with a thigh injury
for months, which made him
decide last week to skip the
games starting late this
month, The Star reported.
Lee was quoted as saying he
would take four to five weeks
to recover and hoped to be fit
again for the World Champi-
onships in Copenhagen in
late August and the Asian
Games after that.
I will take one day at a time.
Ultimately, I want to do well
at the World Championships,
he said.
According to the doctors,
there is a tear, and it will get
worse if I dont get treatment
. . . At my age, the healing
process is harder. Im stay-
ing positive.
Lee on Saturday received
the first of three stem cell
injections to speed up his
recovery, the report said.
He said he picked up the
injury before the Thomas
Cup finals in May, but the
pain became unbearable at
last months Japan and Indo-
nesia Opens.
Lee and other sporting offi-
cials could not immediately
be reached for comment.
Last year, Lee was stretch-
ered from the court during
the World Championships
final against his nemesis
Lin Dan of China with cramp
and dehydration.
This prompted calls from
Malaysian sporting officials for
him to reduce his rigorous
playing schedule and pace
himself as he is looking to com-
pete in the 2016 Olympics.
Despite consistently top-
ping the rankings, Lee is still
without a world or Olympic
title. AFP
Aneiros, Phalkun to attend JTI workshop
H S Manjunath
TENNIS Cambodias technical
director Braen Aneiros and
head of junior development
Mam Phalkun will be among
20 coaches and national coor-
dinators from across Asian
attending the International
Tennis Federations Junior
Tennis Initiative workshop
to be held in Bangkok from
next Monday.
The four-day event is part of
the ITFs pivot towards junior
development with the aim of
creating simple competitive
formats and activity progres-
sions covering key regions of
the world in a series of six such
workshops, the first of which
was held in late October 2013
for the East African nations
hosted by Burundi.
ITF participation officer
Tim Jones and development
officer for Asia Suresh Menon
will jointly direct the work-
shop, designed to raise the
standard of national 14 and
under programs.
According to the ITF, these
interactive sessions with
national JTI coordinators are
to build their knowledge base
in specific aspects of tennis
development and raise the
standard of delivery to attract
more players into the game.
Tennis Cambodia has a
smooth running JTI in place
with player participation
showing steady growth.
Up to 2,500 students from
20 schools and six orphan-
ages are going through vari-
ous grassroots programs
countrywide under the watch
of 17 dedicated coaches, mak-
ing Cambodia a leading pro-
ponent of junior development
in Asia.
I strongly believe that JTI is
a clear pathway for player
development and thats the
reason why we have directed
so much of our energy, effort
and resources in strengthening
it, Tennis Cambodia secretary-
general Tep Rithivit said.
I feel that a workshop like
the one Braen Aneiros and
Mam Phalkun are attending
will be a highly rewarding
experience for them.
Aneiros yesterday told the
Post: I am looking forward to
this workshop. It is good to
share our knowledge and
experience with coaches and
coordinators from other coun-
tries in the region.
Local kids play at a festival held as part of Tennis Cambodias Junior Tennis Initiative on March 3, 2013, at Beeline Arena. SRENG MENG SRUN
Malaysias Lee Chong Wei has been
ruled out of the badminton compe-
tition at the Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow later this month. AFP
Fight cards delayed to
respect public holiday
ALL of Fridays local boxing
cards, including those at the
arenas of CTN and Bayon TV,
will be postponed in order to
respect the national public
holiday, being held to mark the
interring of late King Father
Norodom Sihanouks ashes.
After Friday, the bouts will be
held as usual and the fighters
who were set to compete on
Friday will delay fights until
next week, Cambodian
Boxing Federation president
Tem Moeurn told the Post
yesterday. YEUN PONLOK,
TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
Firm linked to theft of
Schumacher records
FRENCH authorities have
tracked down the IP address of
the computer used by the
alleged thief of Michael
Schumachers medical records,
prosecutors said on Monday,
locating it in the offices of a
Swiss helicopter firm that had
reportedly been due to
transport the Formula One
champion. A report
summarising the motorsport
stars treatment after a ski
accident in December was
offered for sale last month after
the 45-year-old was
transferred from hospital in
Grenoble, France, to a facility in
Lausanne, Switzerland. French
police opened a criminal
inquiry into the theft of the
document, which prosecutors
said consisted of several dozen
pages that summarise the
seven-time world Formula One
champions treatment. AFP
Tyson Gay comeback
gathers momentum
AMERICAN sprinter Tyson Gay
won the second 100m race of
his comeback after a drugs ban
when he clocked a modest
10.04sec at a meeting in the
Paris suburb of Montreuil on
Monday. In steady drizzle, Gay
beat Trinidad and Tobagos
Richard Thompson, who timed
10.16, into second place, with
Norways Jaysuma Saidy-
Ndure third in 10.23. Last week,
in the Lausanne Diamond
meet, Gay was trumped by
fellow-American Justin Gatlin
in his first race back. Gatlin
won in a blistering 9.80, with
Gay trailing in second in 9.93.
Gay, 31, was banned in June
2013 after testing positive for a
banned anabolic steroid in two
out-of-competition tests. His
ban, which was reduced from
two years by the United States
Anti-Doping Agency due to
Gays cooperation, ended on
June 23. AFP
Amir Khan assault
probe gets dropped
POLICE will take no further
action against British former
world champion boxer Amir
Khan, his spokesman said
Monday, three days after he was
arrested on suspicion of
assaulting two teenagers. The
27-year-old former WBA and
IBF light welterweight champion
was arrested in the early hours
of Friday morning after officers
were called to a street in his
home town of Bolton, outside
Manchester in northwest
England. Officers found two
19-year-old men had been
assaulted, though their injuries
were not serious. Khan was
arrested and taken into custody
for questioning. AFP
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Sport
Big Ben bikers
Riders pass the Houses of Parliament near the nish of the third stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race on Monday. German Marcel Kittel was in a class of his own
in the 155km stage from sunny Cambridge to drizzly London, once again winning a sprint nish. Having also won the opening stage in Yorkshire from Leeds to Harrogate, the 26-year-
old Giant-Shimano rider proved too good for the competition as he held off Slovak Peter Sagan and Australian Mark Renshaw for the victory. AFP
Beijing, Oslo and Almaty
shortlisted for 2022 Games
B
EIJING, Oslo and Almaty will
contest the race to host the
2022 Winter Olympics, the
International Olympic Com-
mittee (IOC) announced on Monday.
The three cities, which were grant-
ed ofcial candidate status, were
the only remaining bidders after the
withdrawal of Swedish capital Stock-
holm, Krakow in Poland and Lviv in
Ukraine.
These three candidates have totally
different approaches in terms of heri-
tage, budget and infrastructure, but
all impressed us, IOC chief Thomas
Bach said after an executive board
meeting at the Olympic bodys base in
the Swiss city of Lausanne.
The decision had been widely ex-
pected.
Its not a surprise. We are an im-
portant winter sports country in the
Olympic movement and we have
worked hard to come here, Inge An-
dersen, head of Norways National
Olympic Committee, told AFP in Lau-
sanne.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will take
place in Pyeongchang, South Korea,
while the 2014 edition was held in the
Russian resort of Sochi.
The winner of the 2022 race will be
announced on July 31, 2015, at an IOC
congress in Kuala Lumpur.
Legacy is a buzzword in inter-
national sport, with would-be hosts
meant to demonstrate that venues
will not become white elephants after
the show is over.
The executive board was im-
pressed by the legacy plans of each of
the three cities, said Bach.
It was good to see that each of the
bidding cities understood the differ-
ence between the Olympic Games
budget and the long-term infrastruc-
ture and investment budget from
which the population benets for de-
cades, he added.
Norwegian capital Oslos bid aims
to build on the highly regarded 1994
Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
With Oslo having hosted the 1952
edition, National Olympic Com-
mittee chief Inge Andersen said his
country did not see a problem in a
third bid.
I think it is an advantage, because
our goal is to bring the Winter Olym-
pic Games back to the roots, back to
winter, he told AFP.
Most of the Olympic venues would
be in Oslo, while Alpine skiing and
bobsled would be held in Lilleham-
mer, some 180 kilometres away.
Kazakhstans former capital Almaty,
which remains the ex-Soviet repub-
lics economic powerhouse, mean-
while aims to use the Olympics to
transform itself into a sports, tourism
and convention hub in Central Asia.
Almaty failed in two previous at-
tempts to win candidate status.
For us this is a big victory, bid
board member Andrey Kryukov said
in Lausanne.
Its lower global prole than Oslo
and Beijing is a big challenge he
told reporters, but its proximity to
the mountains is a bonus.
Theres a 35-kilometre radius of
the games, said Kryukov.
In addition, Almaty will host the
2017 Winter Universiade an interna-
tional student sporting competition.
Thats a test event ve years be-
fore the Winter Olympics. Its the best
guarantee, Kryukov underlined.
Beijing, in turn, aims to tap the leg-
acy of the 2008 Olympics and also cre-
ate a winter sports centre for China as a
springboard for new tourism.
Beijing would make history as the
rst city to hold both the summer and
winter games.
The German city of Munich host
of the 1972 Olympics had aimed to
claim that crown in 2018 but lost out to
Pyeongchang.
Mountain events would take place
in Zhangjiakou, 200 kilometres from
Beijing.
What we are trying to do is be the
best city and the most appropriate
city for the 2022 Winter Olympics,
bid committee vice president Yang Xi-
aochao said in Lausanne.
If we host the Winter Olympic
Games in 2022, we only need to build
one venue in Beijing, for the ice sports,
he told reporters.
The IOC has become increasingly
keen to ensure local populations are
solidly behind a bid.
Several cities have dropped out of
recent races, with cost a major public
concern.
Lvivs decision to withdraw last week
came amid an insurgency by pro-Rus-
sian militants.
Krakow, however, pulled out in May
after a local referendum, while Stock-
holm quit in January when the city
council opposed the Olympic plan.
Norwegian politicians are still dis-
cussing Oslos bid.
These are very healthy discussions,
said former Norwegian cross-country
skier Bjoern Daehlie, part of the bid
team, in Lausanne.
Im condent, he told reporters.
AFP
Oslo, Almaty and Beijing have been unveiled as the three potential host cities for the 2022
Winter Olympics. AFP
Football
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23
Naga, Svay Rieng look
to sew up top four spots
WITH the top two spots of the
Metfone C-League more or
less guaranteed to be taken by
leaders Phnom Penh Crown
and second placed Boeung Ket
Rubber Field, two-time
winners Naga Corp and
reigning champions Svay
Rieng take to the Olympic
Stadium pitch today in the
hunt for top four status. Svay
Rieng will grab fourth if they
can beat Kirivong Sok Sen
Chey in their game from
3:30pm. We have high
expectations to beat 11th-
placed Kirivong again due to
our recent progress, Svay
Rieng coach Sam Vandeth,
who will leave the club at the
end of this season, told the
Post yesterday. Naga will move
seven points clear of current
fourth placed TriAsia with a
victory over National Police
Commissary. Their match
kicks off at 6pm. CHHORN NORN,
TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
Hull City swoop for
Blackpool winger Ince
TOM Ince finally ended months
of speculation about his future
by signing for Premier League
side Hull City on Monday. Ince,
the 22-year-old son of former
Manchester United and
England star Paul Ince, had
been linked with a host of
clubs since confirming he
wouldnt sign a new contract
with Championship outfit
Blackpool. French side
Monaco were said to be early
front-runners for his signature
before Inter Milan, one of
fathers old clubs, appeared
set to win the race when they
held talks with the England
U21 winger in Italy. But Ince,
who spent the second half of
last season on loan at Crystal
Palace, eventually pulled out of
the move to European giants
Inter and has instead opted for
the less glamourous
surroundings of the KC
Stadium after snubbing
interest from Stoke and
Queens Park Rangers. AFP
Silva brands Zuniga a
coward for Neymar knee
BRAZIL captain Thiago Silva
branded Colombia defender
Juan Camilo Zuniga a coward
on Monday for the tackle taht
put star striker Neymar out of
the World Cup. In my opinion
it was a cowardly tackle, the
Paris Saint-Germain defender
said. I am a defender, I know
how to mark a player and
there is no way you can get the
ball by putting a knee in the
back. It is not something that
comes about in a normal
match situation. AFP
Scotlands McCormack
pens deal with Fulham
SCOTLAND international
striker Ross McCormack has
signed a four-year deal with
Fulham from fellow Cham-
pionship club Leeds, his new
club confirmed yesterday. The
27-year-old, whose deal is
believed to worth around 11
million ($18.8 million), was the
top scorer in the Champion-
ship last season after hitting
29 goals for Leeds. Fulham
Football Club is delighted to
announce the signing of Ross
McCormack from Leeds
United for an undisclosed
fee, the club said in a
statement. AFP
World Cup tickets official
arrested over illegal sales
B
RAZILIAN police arrested on
Monday a director from the
FIFA partner company han-
dling World Cup ticket pack-
ages, accusing him of leading a net-
work that illegally sold game passes.
Ray Whelan, a director at Match
Hospitality, was detained at Rio de
Janeiros luxurious beachfront Co-
pacabana Palace Hotel, days after 11
people were rounded up in a raid to
dismantle the network.
Fabio Barucke, the cases lead in-
vestigator, said Whelan faces charges
of facilitating the distribution of tick-
ets for their illegal sale and criminal
conspiracy. If found guilty, he could
face four years in prison.
Local media said Whelan is a 64-
year-old British citizen. Some 100
tickets were found in his hotel room.
Police say the international scalp-
ing syndicate sold thousands of tick-
ets worth millions of dollars, going
back to the 2002 World Cup in Japan
and South Korea.
The scandal is the latest to hit FIFA,
which is already battling allegations
that members accepted bribes from
a Qatari football ofcial to secure
support for the emirates campaign
to get the 2022 World Cup nals.
One of Match Hospitalitys share-
holders is Swiss-based Infront Sports
and Media, headed by Philippe Blat-
ter, the nephew of FIFA president
Sepp Blatter.
A French-Algerian suspect, Mo-
hamadou Lamine Fofana, was initial-
ly thought to be responsible for the
ticket scheme after he was among 11
people arrested last week in Rio and
Sao Paulo.
But suspicions moved toward an
individual at Match Hospitality, the
ofcial World Cup ticket agency,
which sells deluxe packages that in-
clude private suites at stadiums and
gourmet catering.
Whelan denied negotiating tickets
with the Franco-Algerian Mohama-
dou Lamine Fofana during the World
Cup, but we have proof. We have 900
[intercepted] calls between the two
during the tournament, Barucke
told reporters.
The investigation is looking into
seven more suspects, but Barucke
did not give more details.
Police say Whelan gave VIP tick-
ets to Fofana that were originally
for sponsors, non-governmental or-
ganisations and relatives of players.
Fofana then sold them illegally with
the help of travel agencies and foot-
ball contacts.
Authorities said last week a FIFA of-
cial appeared to have been involved
in the scheme and that the Brazilian,
Spanish and Argentine football fed-
erations are under investigation.
FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer
said the organisation takes note of
Whelans arrest and that it continues
to cooperate with the investigation.
Match Hospitality said earlier that
it had cancelled the tickets bought
by Fofanas company, Atlanta Spor-
tif, for the semifinals and the final.
The hospitality firm warned that it
would cancel the remaining tickets
of three other companies whose
names appeared in tickets seized by
police unless they cooperate with
the probe.
Match identied the companies as
Reliance Industries Limited, Jet Set
Sports and Pamodzi Sports, but did
not give details about the companies
ownership.
Reliance Industries bought 304
packages for 19 matches worth $1.2
million, including access to a pri-
vate suite for all games in Rio, Sao
Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Match
Hospitality said 59 tickets seized last
week had the companys name on
them. One ticket was imprinted with
the name Jet Set Sports, which pur-
chased 40 packages for two games
worth $108,250.
The package had been allocated to
an individual who resides in Austra-
lia, Match Hospitality said, without
naming the person.
Another ticket had the name Pa-
modzi, which secured 350 packages
for 18 games including private
suites and business seats worth
more than $1.2 million.
Byrom PLC, a Manchester, England,
company, has a 75 perc ent stake in
Match Hospitality. It also owns Match
Services. Both Match rms are based
in Zurich and provide World Cup tick-
eting and hospitality services. AFP
The CEO of Match Hospitality, a subsidary company of FIFA in charge of World Cup ticket packages, Raymond Whelan sits at a police
station in Rio de Janeiro after being arrested. AFP
Goalkeeper Willy Caballero joins Man City
ARGENTINIAN goalkeeper
Willy Caballero has signed for
Manchester City from Malaga
on a three-year contract, the
Premier League champions
confirmed yesterday.
The 32-year-old has moved
for an undisclosed fee in a
switch that sees him team up
again with City manger
Manuel Pellegrini.
Cabellero played under Pel-
legrini when the Chilean was
in charge of Malaga from
2010-2013.
I am very happy, and really
looking forward to the start of
pre-season and performing
well to help the team, said
Caballero on the clubs web-
site mcfc.co.uk.
This is a new challenge and
a new league for me. I have
been doing well in the previ-
ous years and my goal is to go
on and hopefully perform at
the same level for City.
City had been looking for a
new goalkeeper to provide
back-up for first-choice stop-
per Joe Hart following Costel
Pantilimons release at the
end of last season.
And Caballero said he was
ready to challenge Hart.
I know I am coming to a big
club with a very good goal-
keeper, Caballero said.
City already have a great
goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I
will try and compete for the
number one spot. I will do
my best in the training ses-
sions.
Caballero began his career
with Boca Juniors in his
homeland before signing for
Spanish club Elche in 2004
where he spent seven years.
He headed for Malaga in
2011 and was named La Liga
keeper of the season for 2012-
13, Pellegrinis last with the
Spanish club.
The most beauti f ul
moments of my career were
under Manuel Pellegrini in
Malaga, where we achieved
big things and we made Mala-
gas name known around
Europe, said Caballero.
As for my new teammates,
I have a very good relationship
with Martin Demichelis, but
Ive never met Pablo Zabaleta
and Sergio Aguero [Citys three
other Argentinian players].
Its something Im looking
forward to. For me it is very
good to have people from
Argentina in the squad
because I think it will be very
helpful.
Caballero becomes Citys
third new signing of the sum-
mer after midfielder Fern-
ando and full-back Bacary
Sagna. AFP
Malaga goalkeeper Willy Caballero has joined Manchester City and is
set to challenge Joe Hart for a place in the rst team. AFP
F
UELLED by decades of hurt,
Lionel Messis Argentina
and Arjen Robbens Holland
will carry competing mo-
tivations into tonights tantalising
World Cup seminal showdown at
Sao Paulos Corinthians Arena from
3am Cambodian time.
Argentina, who last reached the
nal in 1990, will be determined to
pay appropriate homage to former
great Alfredo Di Stefano, who died
on Monday aged 88, while arch ri-
vals Brazil could by then be await-
ing in the nal.
The Netherlands, meanwhile, are
eager to rediscover their group-stage
swagger and prove they are nally
ready to claim footballs greatest
prize after agonising nal defeats in
1974, 1978 and 2010.
The seminals are fantastic, but
we know what it feels like to lose a
World Cup, and we would love to
win, Dutch utility man Dirk Kuyt
told FIFA.com. Argentina are a
world-class team and they deserve
to be in the last four. But we want
to measure ourselves against the
best, and not only measure, but win.
Thats why were here.
The second of Hollands nal
losses came at the hands of Ar-
gentina, who won 3-1 as hosts at a
Monumental Stadium in Buenos Ai-
res broiling with the menace of the
countrys military dictatorship.
It is, however, the only time in
eight encounters that they have bet-
tered Holland, who memorably won
a 1998 World Cup quarternal in
Marseille thanks to a majestic last-
minute goal by Dennis Bergkamp.
Di Stefano never graced a World
Cup, either for Argentina or his ad-
opted Spain, but tonight another
Argentine great embraced by the
Spanish can tighten his grip on this
years tournament.
Messi met with quarternal heart-
break at his rst two World Cups,
but in Brazil the Barcelona super-
star has played with a decisiveness
that suggests he may be about to
denitively make his mark on the
games biggest stage.
Dutch danger man Robben is in
similarly scintillating form, but for
all the stars on show, the game in
Brazils sprawling nancial capital
will also be a painstakingly prepared
tactical battle.
Holland needed penalties to see
off Costa Rica in the last eight and
as the panache that saw them crush
Spain 5-1 in their opening game be-
gins to ebb, it is their coach who has
taken centre stage.
Louis van Gaal was heralded for a
decisive tactical switch against Mex-
ico and then pulled off a master-
stroke against Costa Rica by sending
on reserve goalkeeper Tim Krul, who
saved two penalties in the shootout.
The future Manchester United
manager has played with a three-
man defence in three of Hollands
ve games to date and his innova-
tions mean that his team sheet will
be awaited with great anticipation.
One name unlikely to feature,
however, is centre-back Ron Vlaar,
who is a serious doubt due to a
knee injury.
Joel Veltman is in line to come into
central defence alongside Bruno
Martins Indi and Stefan de Vrij, un-
less Van Gaal opts for a back four.
Argentina coach Alejandro Sa-
bella, whose side beat Belgium 1-0
in the quarterfinals, is without in-
fluential midfielder Angel Di Maria
due to injury, but left-back Marcos
Rojo is available again after sus-
pension. AFP
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History hangs heavy
for semifinals clash
The Netherlands Arjen Robben (left) and Argentinas Lionel Messi will hope to inspire
their respective teams to victory in tonights World Cup seminal in Sao Paulo. AFP