Daniel Pye and Cheang Sokha

C
AMBODIA is close to nal-
ising the details of a pro-
posal to resettle refugees
from Australias detention
centre on the South Pacic island of
Nauru, according to senior govern-
ment ofcials, some of whom are
sitting down today to review the con-
troversial plan.
Ouch Borith, secretary of state at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, could
not be reached for comment yester-
day, but on Sunday he told the ABC
during a visit to Australia that the
working group tasked with consider-
ing Australias proposal had nished
studying the plan.
So far, the working group already
nished [its] studying on the draft
proposed by Australia, and I think
that maybe soon, maybe a few days,
maybe next week . . . well send our
counter-proposal to the Australian
side, he said.
Koy Kuong, spokesman at the For-
eign Ministry, yesterday conrmed
that Cambodia was preparing to
submit a counter-proposal to Aus-
tralia, but declined to go into any
further detail.
General Sok Phal, head of the Gen-
eral Directorate of Immigration, said
the working group, under the chair-
manship of Secretary of State Long
Visalo, would meet today at the Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs regarding the
proposal.
The working group is still discuss-
ing this matter; it is still a tough dis-
cussion, he said. We have put lots
of conditions [on Australia], and we
dont know whether [they will agree].
It is a tough issue.
Australias immigration minister,
Scott Morrison, met with Interior
Minister Sar Kheng in Phnom Penh
on April 3 to discuss the deal follow-
ing a request by Foreign Minister Julie
Bishop in February for Cambodia to
take in some of its refugees.
In a radio interview yesterday on
Australias Ray Hadley Morning Show,
Morrison said Cambodia was taking
our proposal seriously, and we are
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FOODIE HEAVEN
New rice body elects politi-
cally connected president
In Mumbais growing sub-
urbs, humans and leopards
live uncomfortably close
Taiwans exciting night mar-
kets have some of the best
street food in the world
Sad holiday
for Chinese
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Kevin Ponniah
TWO days after anti-Chinese mobs
rampaged through the industrial
zone close to Ho Chi Minh City where
he works, Lin, a Chinese national,
fled the country wearing a hat with
the Vietnamese flag on it, a face mask
and a T-shirt with the words I
Love Vietnam.
The printing factory worker was
heading east to Cambodia, and after
having narrowly escaped violent riot-
ers, he wasnt taking any chances of
being recognised as Chinese.
It was incredibly frightening . . . They
were setting things on fire everywhere
[at the factories]. I saw everything on
fire, so I hid and then escaped to Ho Chi
Minh City for two days before coming
to Cambodia, he told the Post yester-
day, as he and a dozen other men with
similar tales gathered at a Chinese res-
taurant in Phnom Penh.
We have heard that one of our friends
was killed [in the rioting], but we have
no evidence to prove this yet.
Since nationalist protests broke out
in more than a third of Vietnams prov-
inces last week against Chinas deci-
sion to move an oil rig into contested
South China Sea waters, ethnic Chi-
nese have crossed into the Kingdom
in droves.
The mass exodus has seen more than
1,600 Chinese and Taiwanese pass
through Svay Rieng provinces Bavet
border crossing in less than a week.
Like Lin, who refused to reveal his full
name out of fear, many Chinese who
have crossed the border remain on
edge, worried about friends and col-
leagues they left behind and the fate of
their jobs and businesses.
Cambodia has provided a safe haven
for the temporary asylum seekers, who
have arrived on tourist or business
visas, but that doesnt mean they are
happy to be here.
We know Cambodia and China are
good friends, so its peaceful here, said
Zhou Yong Jun, a chain smoking, stocky
38-year-old who is employed at an
Chinese nationals receive a free medical examination in a Chinese restaurant on Phnom Penhs Veng Sreng Boulevard yesterday. PHA LINA
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import-export firm in Vietnam
and whose sense of frustration
is palpable.
I dont feel like going any-
where or sightseeing, because I
just had to run away from so
many people to save my life.
We pay tax and invest in
Vietnam, so why did Vietnam-
ese people do this to us?
The Chinese restaurant where
Lin and Yong Jun spoke with the
Post sits on garment factory-
lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in
Phnom Penh.
The restaurant had been
turned into a temporary health
centre by the First Center Poly
Clinic, a partly Chinese-owned
business, to offer free health
check-ups to Chinese who have
fled Vietnam and may have
been injured in the rioting.
Im also Chinese, and so I
have to help people of the same
blood, said clinic manager
Tang Hua, pointing to a large
red and yellow banner on the
wall that says All Chinese Peo-
ple Are One Family.
They are already afraid and
insecure after their experiences
in Vietnam. So the purpose of
our clinic is to help them feel at
home and support them how-
ever we can.
Most of the men here worked
at or near the Singapore-Viet-
nam Industrial Parks in Viet-
nams Binh Duong province,
near Ho Chi Minh City, where
four factories were set on fire
during riots last Tuesday.
Binh Doung province is
home to a total of 28 indus-
trial parks and a haven for for-
eign investment.
The Vietnamese government
says that the situation is now
under control and has pledged
to protect investors, though
some remain sceptical.
Across town, in a plush VIP
room at a Chinese seafood res-
taurant opposite the Chinese
Embassy, a senior manager
from a leading Chinese appli-
ance maker who declined to be
named said he was still scared
his companys factory will
be torched.
His firm decided to let their
700 or so Vietnamese workers
leave the factory when several
thousand protesters showed up
outside last Tuesday and forced
their way through the gates.
Watching the chaos were
close to 20 Chinese managers
and office staff, hiding on the
third floor of their nearby office
building, which was then
attacked by men armed with
iron rods, who laid waste to the
bottom two floors.After their
Vietnamese cook managed to
convince the mob that no Chi-
nese were left on-site, the
group escaped.
And while they blame only a
minority of Vietnamese for the
violence, they dont believe the
government did enough to pro-
tect them.
It was too slow [the Vietnam-
ese governments response].
Right now the Vietnamese gov-
ernment has made a promise
to protect investors in Vietnam,
but we will see. We have lost
nearly $2 million [in damages]
without accounting for the few
months it will take until our fac-
tory can start up again.
Tran Van Thong, spokesman
for the Vietnamese Embassy in
Phnom Penh, defended his
government yesterday, saying
that dozens of opportunistic
lawbreakers had been arrested
and that all Chinese would be
protected. The Vietnamese
authorities and people . . . did
not intend to mistreat the Chi-
nese people at all, but when
the chaos erupted, those Chi-
nese people feared for their
safety and fled for personal
security. They fled by them-
selves. We did not oust them
from Vietnam.
Cambodian government offi-
cials have welcomed the new
arrivals on the basis that they
will spend significant sums of
money in the Kingdom.
The group at the seafood res-
taurant, who can afford to lav-
ishly drink, dine and gamble,
are certainly spending large
sums.
But its likely the positive
dividends for Cambodias
already cosy relationship with
China will outlast this minor
economic boon.
If the situation gets better,
we will go back. Maybe even
tomorrow, the appliance firm
manager said.
This is not a holiday for us,
because we are still so worried
for the factory.
A business partner chimed in
to correct him.
Its a very sad holiday.
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working together with them
and we have been engaging
also with the UNHCR on this
in Geneva and talking to them
about our plans.
A spokeswoman for Morrison
yesterday declined to answer
questions over rumours that
tens of millions of dollars may
be transferred to Cambodia if
the deal goes ahead.
Australia has no further
update on the status of our
discussions with Cambodia
than what was provided by the
minister after his recent visit
to Phnom Penh, the spokes-
woman said by email.
The Government is con-
tinuing its discussions on these
issues and welcomes the re-
ceptive and positive response
from Cambodia that has been
provided to date.
Australian lawyer and execu-
tive director of the Refugee and
Immigration Legal Centre Da-
vid Manne said yesterday that
Australia should not seek to
divest itself from its legal and
moral responsibility to asy-
lum seekers.
One particularly disturbing
aspect of the proposal is that its
not been possible to subject the
proposal to any scrutiny. Theres
been no opportunity to put the
proposal under any scrutiny; it
largely remains a secret deal at
the moment, he said.
Its extremely difcult to
see how such an impover-
ished country as Cambodia,
which is barely able to pro-
vide for the basic needs of its
own population how the
refugees basic needs could
be met in the future.
In 2009, Cambodia returned
20 Uighur asylum seekers ee-
ing persecution in China back
to the country despite heavy
criticism from foreign donors.
But the Australian govern-
ment maintains that only refu-
gees who volunteered for re-
settlement would be moved to
Cambodia.
Borith told the ABC that the
Cambodian governments plan
to take on refugees from Nauru
was a different story from its
treatment of Uighur asylum
seekers, whom he called ille-
gal immigrants.
But lawyer Manne was un-
convinced, saying that Austra-
lia should not place refugees in
a situation of danger and life
on the margins.
Cambodia is a country that
is not a suitable country to
take refugees, being an im-
poverished nation with a trou-
bling human rights record,
he said.
OZ refugee pact
inches closer
Chinese nationals attending an ad hoc health clinic in Phnom Penh yesterday sit in front of a sign saying, in
part, All Chinese people are one family. More than 1,600 ethnic Chinese have ed to Cambodia from Vietnam
in the past week after the outbreak of anti-China riots there. PHA LINA
Sad holiday after fleeing VN
Ouch Borith speaks to media at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last
year. HENG CHIVOAN
Theres been no
opportunity to put
the proposal under
any scrutiny
CORRECTION
Due to a miscommunica-
tion involving translated
copy for the Monday article
Protester injured at rally
dies, the Post incorrectly
stated that no brain scan
was performed on the
victim Moun Sokmean after
he was beaten at garment
protests in Phnom Penh in
early January.
I dont feel like going anywhere
or sightseeing, because I just
had to run away from so many
people to save my life
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Prey Veng
vendors
protesting
Chhay Channyda
MORE than 100 vendors from
Prey Veng Market gathered in
front of Provincial Hall in Prey
Veng town yesterday to protest
unreasonable demands placed
on them by the markets private
administrators earlier this
month, representatives said.
Vendor representative Srea
Neang said market manager Sa
Leang handed down 11 new
guidelines, and some such as
the market abdicating its liabil-
ity in the event of a fire if ven-
dors hadnt turned off the elec-
tricity were unacceptable,
especially given monthly fees
for night watchmen had recent-
ly risen nearly 50 per cent to
10,000 riel (about $2.50). Neang
suggested vendors and the
market share liability based on
time of day. Other demands
included improving ventilation
and sanitation.
Deputy Provincial Governor
Mok Theary said that after he
talked with vendors both sides
agreed on some points, and
added that he would instruct
management to reconsider the
security fee and present a new
one to provincial authorities
for approval.
Charges dropped
Money was
demanded,
say parents
T
HE parents of three
youths arrested over a
scufe accused Takeo
provincial police and a court
prosecutor yesterday of
seeking some $5,000 from
them and other parents for
declining to pursue charges.
Sok Phoan, 55, a farmer
in Samrong district, said
yesterday that his three sons
were among 17 arrested at
a wedding this month, and
that after they were released
and their charges dropped,
provincial police allegedly
with the complicity of a pro-
secutor visited the youths
families seeking between
$300 and $350 from each as
a show of gratitude for their
not having pressed the case.
To pay for police, we all
borrowed money from other
people, and collecting a total
of about $5,000 to give to the
police and the prosecutor,
Phoan said.
Provincial police chief Ouk
Samnang denied the accu-
sations, saying deciding to
drop charges is out of police
control. But he nonetheless
pledged to investigate. BUTH
REAKSMEY KONGKEA
Japanese spark reform hopes
Vong Sokheng and Alice Cuddy
F
OLLOWING a request
from the government,
a Japanese study team
arrived yesterday for
a ve-day visit to assist with
electoral reforms, with ana-
lysts and politicians optimis-
tic about possible results.
According to a statement
released by the Japanese Em-
bassy yesterday, the study
team was dispatched to con-
duct a needs survey for Japans
assistance for electoral reform
in Cambodia.
The group, comprising 10
Japanese government of-
cials and academics, is
headed by Senya Mori, dep-
uty director-general of the
Industrial Development and
Public Policy Department of
the Japan International Co-
operation Agency.
Senior Cambodian Peoples
Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap
said Ben Chhin, deputy prime
minister and leader of the
CPPs negotiation team, will
lead a delegation to receive
the group at the party head-
quarters this morning.
We will listen to the Japa-
nese expertise, and we will
report [on the current political
situation], Yeap said.
While he was optimistic
about the outcomes, he said
that the group was not here to
end the political deadlock.
Japans assistance is aimed
to help electoral reform, not
to nd a resolution over an
obstinate demand for an
early election.
Cambodia National Res-
cue Party lawmaker-elect Son
Chhay, whose party will also
meet with the study team this
morning, was more hopeful.
Having them here could
bring about a joint commit-
tee of reform to resume talks,
at least on electoral reform,
he said.
By having the Japanese
government prepared to sup-
port electoral reform talks [it
shows] the Japanese could
play a role as mediator . . . This
trip is technical, but the gov-
ernment of Japan could do
more on the political side.
Chea Vannath, an indepen-
dent political analyst, said Ja-
pan had strong credentials to
assist Cambodia.
Japan has never had a dis-
pute with the results of an
election because it has a good
concept of the meaning of de-
mocracy [and] building trust
with each other.
Laura Thornton, country di-
rector of the National Demo-
cratic Institute, said she hoped
to raise issues including re-
forming the NEC, and issues
with voter registration and the
quality of the voter list.
Fifty-ve elected lawmak-
ers from the CNRP have dis-
missed the results of Julys na-
tional polls and are boycotting
the National Assembly.
Ofcials prepare to open a ballot box in Kampong Cham during last years national elections. HENG CHIVOAN
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THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Biodiversity & Engagement Advisor
Terms of Reference
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust is seeking to appoint
a Biodiversity & Engagement Advisor (BEA) to
oversee delivery of the WWT project in Cambodia,
alongside the National Project Manager (NPM), and
to coordinate activities with two other projects
at Boeung Prek Lapouv and Anlung Pring Sarus
Crane Reserves, in Takeo and Kampot provinces,
Cambodia. The successful candidate will be
strongly motivated, have a strong track record
of delivering conservation/development projects
and extensive experience of biodiversity and
sustainable development issues in a developing
country context, preferably in South East Asia.
Applications are invited from both experienced
Cambodian and foreign nationals.
Background
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is a leading
UK-based conservation organisation saving wetlands
for wildlife and people across the world. Founded in
1946 by the naturalist and artist, the late Sir Peter
Scott, WWT works with its global partners to monitor,
research, create and restore wetlands and the wildlife
that depends on them. With over 60 years experience
of wetland conservation, WWT is committed to the
protection of wetlands and all that depend on them
for survival. WWT engages and inspires people,
governments and businesses to take direct action to
save wetlands and their wildlife and provides the tools
that enable them to do so.
This project Is focussed on two wetland protected areas
in Southern Cambodia, Boeung Prek Lapouv (BPL) and
Anlung Pring (AP), which form the Cambodian parts of a
small, connected network of trans-boundary sites in the
Lower Mekong of critical importance for Sarus Crane,
a globally threatened (Vulnerable), landscape species
which requires interventions at the landscape scale.
The two sites support more than20% of the regional
population collectively during the dry season. They
also support important representative areas of Lower
Mekong seasonally inundated grassland a habitat
which has suffered massive conversion to agriculture.
Both sites provide important benets to local
communities, but acute human pressure threatens
not only the cranes and other biodiversity, but also the
ability of these sites to provide these benets.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Start Date: As soon as possible, preferably J une 2014
Duration of Contract: 34 months
Financial package: Competitive and commensurate
with experience
Expenses: Expenses for accommodation whilst
based on-site are provided, as are transportation costs
between Phnom Penh to the sites and ofce costs
both in Phnom Penh and whilst eld-based. Should it
be required, WWT will provide a relocation ight on
commencement of the contract and a repatriation ight
on contract termination. The BEA will be responsible
for all other costs related to their employment, including
insurance, medical cover and taxes.

Location: Based in the BirdLife International ofces in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with frequent and extensive
stays (totalling 6 months per year) at Boeung Prek
Lapouv, Kok Andeth district of Takeo province, and
Anlung Pring, of Kampot Province. Ofce space
when eld-based will be shared with local partner
organisations.
Hours of Work: This is a full-time role, requiring a
minimum of 35 hours per week. The position is eld-
based for 6 months per year. Ofce hours will be in
accordance with the working hours of the host country
but may vary depending on job requirements in the
eld. Key activities include:
Development and delivery of community
partcipaton and training programmes
Development and delivery of a biological and
hydrological monitoring and survey programme
Development and delivery of habitat and farming
trials to identfy sustainable land management
practces within the reserves
Work with partner NGOs to establish community
sheries at Boeung Prek Lapouv
Work with partner NGOs to develop eco-tourism
actvites at both sites
APPLICATION PROCESS
For an informal discussion or to express an interest in
this opportunity, please contact:
Andy Graham
Head of Wetlands for People, WWT Slimbridge, Glos, UK
T: +44-(0)1453-891259

E: andy.graham@wwt.org.uk
Andy Graham will also be in Phnom Penh from 19
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May and is available to meet interested individuals
for to discuss the post further. Please email to book an
appointment.
A Caltex service station remains taped off and idle yesterday afternoon
on Phnom Penhs Monivong Boulevard. VIREAK MAI
Phak Seangly
and Sean Teehan
AFTER Caltex managers alleg-
edly reneged on an agreement
to pay workers a $20 bonus
to suspend a strike for two
months, employees say they
would only return if the deal is
in writing.
In a Friday meeting, the
Cambodian Food and Service
Workers Federation agreed
with Caltex to suspend the
strike for two months while
the company reviews wages
and pays workers the one-
time bonus, said Sar Mora, the
unions leader.
Workers at 17 Phnom Penh
branches walked off the job on
May 12, demanding monthly
salaries of at least $160 and an
annual $160 bonus. All 18 lo-
cations in the capital are cur-
rently shut.
On Friday, we agreed on
the principle the company has
proposed, that they will give a
$20 bonus for waiting for two
months, Mora said.
That afternoon, Caltex hu-
man resources manager Heng
Sovann told staff the company
would not pay the bonus, said
Yoeun Reth, 37, a Caltex staff
member who attended both
meetings.
[Sovann] said we misunder-
stood and that she did not offer
the $20, Reth said. [But] we
all heard it with our own ears.
In turn, Caltex employees
backed out of the agreement,
pledging to return only if the
Friday morning deal is put in
writing, Reth said.
Sovann declined to com-
ment on the issue yesterday.
After the disagreement,
Caltex management tried to
persuade employees to return
to work on Saturday, despite
failing to reach a compromise.
Some workers came in on Sat-
urday morning, but left after a
few hours, he said.
The company is ckle, not
loyal to us and it does not
have a clear stance to solve
the problem, Reth said. It is
not a good point that the com-
pany tried to lobby staff to re-
turn to work without nding a
resolution.
Representatives from the
Food and Service Workers
Federation, Caltex and the
Ministry of Labour will meet
again today to continue nego-
tiations, Mora said yesterday.
If Caltex wants to success-
fully negotiate, they must take
steps to earn employees trust,
he added.
If we reach a written agree-
ment, we will go back to
work.
Caltex strike deal
doesnt hold up
Benefits for teachers? Not yet
Laignee Barron
and Mom Kunthear
T
HE government has a
response to teachers
request for health in-
surance: well provide
it if you buy it.
At a meeting in Takeo prov-
ince this past weekend, the
Cambodian Independent
Teachers Association (CITA)
said an upcoming teacher
strike would include health
insurance on the list of de-
mands in addition to the
repeated call for a salary in-
crease to $250 a month.
The Minister of Education
yesterday suggested instead
of striking for insurance,
teachers could join a group
plan through the ministry and
pay $10 a month for coverage.
We want teachers to have
health insurance . . . and the
ministry could implement it
once a critical mass of teach-
ers have signed up, Minister
of Education Hang Chuon
Naron said.
We need to know what kind
of coverage would best serve
teachers and . . . assess wheth-
er enough teachers want to
pay. We dont want to force
anyone to buy insurance.
But teachers maintained
yesterday that they cant af-
ford to part with 10 per cent of
their salary every year for cov-
erage they may not need.
Ten dollars is too much
money for teachers while
their salary is so little. I think
the ministry should have a
card for every teacher to show
up for free health care in every
hospital, Rong Chhun, presi-
dent of CITA, said.
Cambodia lacks a nation-
wide health care scheme,
though the government has
previously said it will provide
compulsory social health in-
surance to civil servants start-
ing in 2015.
We have a draft policy were
waiting on the government to
approve, said Dr Sok Kanha,
deputy director of the depart-
ment of planning and health
information at the Ministry
of Health. Cambodia and
Myanmar are the last coun-
tries in the ASEAN to lack a
plan to implement [universal
health coverage].
But realistically, scaling up
insurance to cover the coun-
trys more than 11,000 teach-
ers would entail a huge boost
in funding and be dependent
on effective tax collection,
she added.
A teachers works through academic exercises on a whiteboard with students at Wat Koh High School in
Phnom Penh late last month. PHA LINA
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Rubber rm destroys homes
In Ratanakkiri, schools
lack teachers, students
Trial for 23
to resume
amid rally
Sen David
THE Swift Rubber Company
demolished three homes in
Ratanakkiri provinces OChum
district last week without com-
pensation, telling about 120
families to leave immediately
or face the destruction of more
houses, according to villagers
and rights group Adhoc.
We lived there for more than
20 years, and we are workers of
[Swifts] rubber plantation, vil-
lager Chhun Socheat said.
Today, they come to move
someones house; tomorrow
or the next day, it could be my
house, he continued.
Adhoc provincial coordinator
Chhay Thy confirmed the
uncompensated demolition.
Authorities notified residents
of the impending eviction as
early as December, and in Feb-
ruary they gave families three
months to vacate their homes,
but villagers were upset that
the notices included no men-
tion of compensation.
OChum commune chief
Khanch Sovy said new resi-
dents had no right to compen-
sation, but authorities will not
allow the company to demolish
[long-term] residents homes
without any compensation.
Pan Kirivuth, a security offic-
er with Swift, said the land was
the companys and that new
residents from other provinces
came to live there illegally.
Laignee Barron
and Phak Seangly
RATANAKKIRIS teachers are
loath to come to class when
they can earn more money
elsewhere, adding to a long-
standing absenteeism trend.
The teachers blame the par-
ents for not letting students
attend class, and the parents
blame the teachers for not
showing up to school, said
Chan Kham Khoeu, director of
the Rattanakkiri provincial
education department.
We visited classes over the
last two months and saw that
one class had only between
three and five students. That
makes teachers not want to go
to school, she said.
In Taveng district, parents
claimed that some teachers
failed to consistently teach class
over the past four months while
they sought more lucrative
employment instead, an accu-
sation Kham Khoeu denied.
But the NGO Education
Partnership (NEP) reported
last year that up to 67 per cent
of primary school teachers
hold a second job, a factor fre-
quently cited as causing teach-
ers to cut class.
NEP researcher Ang Sopha
suggested that non-monetary
incentives could motivate
teachers to keep regular class
schedules, including equal
opportunities for teachers to
receive position promotions
and training.
Ke Dararoth, manager of child
rights and governance at Save
the Children, said that the real-
ly low salary forces teachers to
take on a second or third job
to compensate.
Becoming a teacher is also
generally not someones first
choice of employment, which
translates into a lack of motiva-
tion and commitment.
A 2008 Ministry of Educa-
tion study found that 153 pri-
mary school hours were lost
over a single year, mainly due
to absent teachers.
Thats one reason the gov-
ernment raised the salary of
teachers, to reduce absentee-
ism, Minister of Education
Hang Chuon Naron said.
I think the problem contin-
ues to affect mostly remote
schools where there is less con-
trol and oversight by the educa-
tion departments.
But Naron acknowledged
that the salary boost is not
enough to resolve absentee-
ism on its own.
We want to further increase
bonus incentives and monitor-
ing by district education
departments, he said.
Teachers in Taveng district
could not be reached.
Sean Teehan
THE trial of 23 men arrested at
violent demonstrations in ear-
ly January continues at 8am
today, and unionists are plan-
ning on rallying outside the
court in a show of solidarity.
About 100 union members
will join staff from the Cambo-
dian Labour Confederation and
the Coalition of Cambodian
Apparel Workers Democratic
Union (C.CAWDU) at Phnom
Penh Municipal Court, where
the trial will continue after two
separate hearings spread out
over the past month, C.CAWDU
staffer Sun Lyhov said.
Defendants face charges
ranging from incitement to
intentional violence with
aggravated circumstances after
their arrests during a garment
strike on January 2 and 3.
On the second day, authori-
ties opened fire on crowds on
Veng Sreng Boulevard, killing
at least four. A fifth person who
was severely beaten that day
died over the weekend.
Unionists attempts to gain
access to the courtrooms were
unsuccessful on April 25 and
May 6, the dates of the two pre-
vious hearings, but they will try
again today, Lyhov said.
Khmer National Liberation Front member Hen Chan (second right) is escorted by guards into Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday for questioning. HONG MENEA
KNLF asylum seeker
interrogated in court
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
and Laignee Barron
I
GNORING human rights
groups call to free the most
recently arrested member
of Denmark-based dis-
sident group the Khmer Na-
tional Liberation Front (KNLF),
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
instead summoned him for
questioning yesterday.
Hen Chan, a 33-year-old
Kampong Speu native, was
charged last Thursday with as-
sisting treason and forging a
government document.
Chans questioning contin-
ued yesterday regarding his af-
liation with an organisation
the government considers a
terrorist network, as well as
how he procured an allegedly
fake passport, according to in-
vestigating judge Im Vannak.
Chan was arrested at a taxi
station in the capitals Russey
Keo district last week, said
Chhay Sinnarith, chief of in-
ternal security police at the
Ministry of Interior, after
police found he was carrying
many books by the Khmer Na-
tional Liberation Front hidden
in a taxi.
However, National Police
spokesman Kirt Chantharith
said that Chan was arrested
after immigration police sent
out an alert about a border
crossing with a fake passport.
Chantharith claimed that of-
cials found and conscated
copies of the KNLF treatise
only after the arrest.
Chan, who has no defence
lawyer, yesterday acknowl-
edged that he was a member of
the KNLF, which is registered
in Denmark as a humanitarian
organisation, according to the
Minority Rights Group. Chan
admitted to using a fake pass-
port to enter Cambodia via an
Oddar Meanchey checkpoint,
and to transporting 260 newly
printed copies of Mystery of
Cambodia, a book banned by
Hun Sens government.
I wanted to distribute to
Cambodians KNLFs vision,
goal and objectives, he said.
Human Rights Watch said
that Chan was seeking refu-
gee status in Thailand when
he was arrested.
At this point, the Cambodia
ofce of the High Commis-
sioner for Refugees should
intervene . . . Our view is that
Hen Chan should be released
immediately because hes
done nothing wrong. Really
all he has done is exercise his
right to freedom of expression,
and joined with a group that
the government doesnt like,
said Phil Robertson, HRWs
Asia deputy director.
Last month, in a trial con-
demned by rights monitors
as lacking in evidence, 13
KNLF members were con-
victed with plotting to over-
throw the government and
were sentenced to between
ve and nine years in jail.
Damage uncertain
Vision blurry
for survivor
of acid attack
A
FTER receiving burns
to 40 per cent of his
body in an acid attack
and undergoing surgery five
times, 41-year-old Hak Ay
now has blurred vision in
both eyes, according to the
Cambodian Acid Survivors
Charity (CASC).
The survivor of this years
first recorded acid attack was
allegedly targeted by his wife,
Tor Rachany, 26, on April
22 in Banteay Meanchey. Ay
remains in stable condition
at Phnom Penhs Childrens
Surgical Centre, said Erin
Bourgois, program manager
at CASC.
In some previous cases [of
acid attacks and incidents],
eyesight has deteriorated
over time and eventually led
to blindness, Bourgois said.
On average, one in four
victims treated through CASC
is partially or fully blind.
We are arranging for Ay to
have a consultation with the
ophthalmologist to deter-
mine the damage to the eyes
and what further treatment
might be needed, Bourgois
said, adding that Ay was ea-
ting and moving around with
assistance.
Rachany will be tried under
Article 20 of the Acid Law
for intentionally violent use
of concentrated acid. A trial
date has yet to be set.
Since the 2011 passage of
the Acid Law, which was de-
signed to introduce harsher
punishments for perpretra-
tors, reports of attacks have
declined to as low as three in
2013. There were 27 in 2010.
AMELIA WOODSIDE
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Wreck just too gritty
for driver of sand truck
IN A hit and run on Friday, it
wasnt the drunken moto driv-
er who fled. According to
police in Kampong Thoms
Stung Sen town, a 32-year old
speeding, drunk driver
crashed into the back of a
truck transporting sand. The
man damaged his motorcycle
and sustained serious injuries
to both his head and body. The
moto driver was taken to hos-
pital, while the truck driver
fled, abandoning his load of
sand, which will remain in
police custody until claimed.
KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Blood thicker than water,
but money trumps blood
A WOMAN in Phnom Penhs
Sen Sok district got a rude
introduction to the old adage
neither a borrower nor a
lender be on Friday. The
woman, 22, did her relative a
favour, lending him her motor-
bike to visit a friend. According
to police, the male relative, 25,
pawned the bike for $250 and
spent all the money, hoping
his relative wouldnt need her
wheels back. The woman
turned her fibbing relation
over to the police when she
spotted him walking near his
home. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Lazy man executes lazy
scam, too lazy to flee
A 27-YEAR-OLD Dangkor dis-
trict con artist took the money,
but forgot to run last week. A
construction company driver,
the man delivered materials to
customers who paid him
$2,000. On returning to the
company, the driver reported
that he hadnt received pay-
ment, but his suspicious boss
uncovered the botched ploy
with a few phone calls. On Fri-
day, police nabbed the suspect
who said hed already spent all
the money. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Man masters jealousy,
adds wrath to repertoire
PAILIN town police are on the
lookout for a 34-year-old con-
struction worker who allegedly
beat his wife to the point of
unconsciousness on Friday.
Police said the man was jeal-
ous after spotting his wife with
another man in the village.
The husband got drunk at a
wedding, and on returning
home, beat his wife with a belt
and wooden stick badly
injuring her head, shoulder,
eye, thigh and back before
fleeing. NOKORWAT
Stab-happy lover picks
funny way of apologising
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was
apprehended in Kampong
Speus Oral district Saturday
after stabbing his girlfriend.
The woman, 18, lived with her
boyfriend in Phnom Penh, but
went to stay with her parents
in Kampong Speu after the
couple had an argument. A
week later, the man followed
her, begging her to return to
Phnom Penh. When the wom-
an refused, the man grabbed a
knife and stabbed her in the
back, armpit and arm. She
was hospitalised, and her par-
ents prevented the man from
escaping arrest. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Thiefs short road from
freedom to slammer
A NEWLY released prisoner
decided he hadnt spent quite
enough time behind bars
when after just one month of
freedom he earned himself a
one-way ticket back to the
slammer. The 18-year-old
saw an opportunity to make
some dishonest money when
he spotted a moto outside a
house in Banteay Meancheys
Poipet district on Sunday. He
quickly stole and tried to sell
the vehicle for $1,200. But
with no proof of ownership,
the suspect was arrested and
is now heading for the court.
KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Swordplay leaves one
injured, many fleeing
A FIGHT got out of hand in
Takeo town on Saturday
when, bypassing traditional
fisticuffs, a group of men
pulled out samurai swords.
Onlookers didnt dare inter-
vene in the brawl and called
police to the scene. But when
police arrived, they managed
to arrest only one of the men,
while another was left seri-
ously injured. They are now on
the hunt for the rest of the
suspects. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Moto thieves escape bid
comes to crashing end
A GANG of alleged criminals
in Pursat town might have
thought they were as thick as
thieves, but police proved on
Sunday that they were easy to
pull apart. After the gang
robbed a moto and bag from
an unsuspecting victim, police
were hot on their tails. While
two of the suspects managed
to escape, any hopes of a
speedy getaway were soon
dashed for the other pair
when they crashed. The duo
was quickly arrested and sent
to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Dance lessons needed
for stabbing victim
DODGY dancing landed a man
in hospital in Kratie town on
Wednesday when a fellow rev-
eller had an extreme reaction
to having his toes trodden on.
The 29-year-old victim
claimed he was home alone
when the man he had argued
with the night before broke in
and attacked him with a knife.
While the victim was sent to
hospital, the twinkle-toed
attacker managed to escape
arrest. DEUM AMPIL
Curtain-twitching pays
off for Sen Sok security
A THIEF in Phnom Penhs Sen
Sok district learned that he
had messed with the wrong
neighbourhood on Saturday
night when he was put under
citizens arrest. The 30-year-
old suspect hadnt counted on
nosy neighbours watching his
every move and was allegedly
busy looting goods when pri-
vate security guards, hired by
locals to fend off thieves, were
called to arrest him. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
Homecoming
Cambodian military police take part in a welcoming ceremony after arriving at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday. The military police
have returned from South Sudan, where they were part of a UN peace-keeping mission. VIREAK MAI
Land fight in Kampong Speu
May Titthara

S
OME 250 families in
Kampong Speu prov-
inces Phnom Sruoch
district have sought in-
tervention from rights group
Adhoc to help resolve a land
dispute involving a business
they allege is headed by the
son of former provincial gov-
ernor Kang Heang.
Families from three villages
say Heang, who left his posi-
tion last year, offered a 910-
hectare land concession to
Master International Perison
Group in 1997.
We have led to every gov-
ernment institution . . . our last
choice is to depend on NGOs
for help, community repre-
sentative Sao Pom said.
In 2011, the company began
clearing elds, which prompt-
ed violent clashes.
Villager Sao Yuy, 64, said
Prime Minister Hun Sens stu-
dent land measurers had prom-
ised to demarcate the families
land if they voted for the ruling
party at last years election.
We have already fullled
our jobs, so this time well act
through our own means, she
said. The authorities have giv-
en economic land concessions
to the company blindly with-
out knowing the land belongs
to families farming yearly, so
the authorities stoke disputes.
A document signed by for-
mer Agriculture Minister Chan
Sarun says the concession was
Heangs idea. However, he de-
nied wrongdoing yesterday.
We never seized peoples
land. It is state land . . . We do
not know where these stupid
people and idiots come from,
he said, adding his son was not
involved in the company.
Chan Muyhong and Eddie Morton
T
HE newly formed
Cambodia Rice Fed-
eration (CRF), an or-
ganisation aiming to
unite the entire rice sector un-
der one representative body,
will be headed by Sok Puthy-
vuth, son of Deputy Prime
Minister Sok An.
Puthyvuth, who is also CEO
of SOMA Group, a multifac-
eted business that includes
rice milling and exporting,
was elected president of the
CRF yesterday in a landslide
victory over his fellow candi-
dates, receiving nearly 75 per
cent of the 195 ballots cast.
Most of those who voted were
rice millers.
There are so many chal-
lenges in this sector, but so
far standard rice quality and
the lack of funds are the main
challenges, he said at yester-
days announcement, held at
the Ministry of Commerce.
Puthyvuth who is married
to Prime Minister Hun Sens
youngest daughter, Hun Mali
said he is looking to raise
$500 million and nd lower
loan interest rates of nearer
to 7 per cent for those look-
ing to invest in the industry.
Rates now stand closer to 10
per cent.
There are many people
out there who want to help
us, but when they ask what
we are going to do with the
money they provide, we fail
to show them a proper plan,
he said, referring to lenders
requirements.
Candidates who missed out
on the CRFs top job included
Yorn Sovann, president of
Bayon Cereal Company; Lim
Bunheng, president of Loran
Company; and Te Taing Por,
chairman of the Federation
of Associations of Small and
Medium-Size Enterprise of
Cambodia.
Kith Meng, head of Royal
Group, was also running for
the presidency, but withdrew
his candidacy at the last min-
ute and was absent from yes-
terdays election result.
I hope he [Puthyvuth] will
be able to help boost the rice
sector for all, Chea Vanna, a
rice miller from Battambang
province, said.
Vanna said he had lost faith
in the sectors former repre-
sentative bodies, where the
top brass was more likely to
focus on their own business
interests rather than those of
the industry as a whole.
If the federation fails to do
that this time, I will not trust any
association again, he added.
Kim Savuth, head of the
Cambodia Rice Exporters As-
sociation (CREA) and one
of three vice presidents ap-
pointed at yesterdays event,
assured sceptics that the CRF
would work in the sectors best
interest and despite its new
presidents family ties be free
of political interference.
This federation has been
created by the voices of the
private sector, not appointed
by government, and there are
no doubts that it will work as
an independent institution,
Savuth said.
Not everyone is convinced.
Son Chhay, chief whip of
the opposition Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party, was quick
to criticise what he called a
predictable result with obvi-
ous conicts of interest
I am very sceptical of Sok
Ans son being appointed to
the position, Chhay said.
This kind of organisa-
tion does need to be run by
someone who knows the in-
dustry and is part of it. But
they need a president that
does not have a commercial
interest in it.
Associations or federations
created before the CRF, such
as the CREA and the Asso-
ciation of Rice Producers &
Exporters of Cambodia, will
likely be dissolved following
upcoming meetings with the
newly established industry
body, CRF vice president Sa-
vuth said yesterday.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
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Amret MFI
gets $10M
loan to aid
SME reach
Hor Kimsay
AMRET Microfinance received
a $10 million boost yesterday
by a loan from German devel-
opment bank KfW, according
to a joint statement from the
finance institutions.
Chea Phalarin, chief execu-
tive officer of Amret Microfi-
nance Institution, said yester-
day that the new loan equal
to nearly double its profit for
2013 will be used to increase
access to financing for Cambo-
dias smallest businesses.
[The new loan] will provide
possibilities for Amret to
expand its activities in further
providing loans to citizens for
business operation and for cul-
tivation purposes in the com-
ing rainy season, he said in a
statement yesterday.
Amrets outstanding loans
total is currently $245 million,
according to the release. One
of a handful of MFIs licensed
to take deposits, the former
credit NGO currently holds
$113 million in client savings.
Gerald Lazer, director at KfW,
said that though the number
of MFIs has grown significant-
ly in Cambodia in recent times,
access to finance is still a prob-
lem in most rural areas.
By providing this funding,
KfW wants to be part of the
effort of enhancing access to
financial services via an
increased outreach and a diver-
sified product range, he said
in a statement yesterday.
According to Lazer, only 8 per
cent of all households use for-
mal financial services and less
than 43 per cent of micro- and
small- to medium-size enter-
prises have a bank account.
Industry-wide, MFI loans
outstanding at the end of the
first quarter this year reached
$1.51 billion, up from $1.32 bil-
lion at the end of 2013.
Sok Puthyvuth speaks at the Ministry of Commerce yesterday after being elected president of the Cambodia Rice Federation. HENG CHIVOAN
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Paying the price
Budget gets
backlash
in Australia
A
USTRALIAN Prime
Minister Tony Abbott
has suffered a voter
backlash following a budget
described as the worst in 20
years with two polls yester-
day showing support for his
government plunging.
The conservative leaders
first budget since coming to
office last September han-
ded down a week ago took
the axe to health and educa-
tion spending in an attempt to
slash the countrys deficit.
Anger boiled over during the
weekend with street marches
through major cities and a
meeting of the nations pre-
miers, including from Abbotts
own Liberal Party, vowing to
fight A$80 billion ($75 billion)
in school and hospital cuts.
The budgets unpopularity and
perceived broken promises by
Abbott were reflected in two
polls that showed a sharp drop
in support.
One in the Sydney Mor-
ning Herald, under a front
page headline Abandoned,
showed the opposition with a
12-point lead on a two-party
basis, reversing a seven point
deficit before the September
election. AFP
Yahoo Japan pulls plug
on $3 billion acquisition
INTERNET giant Yahoo Japan
said yesterday that it had
cancelled plans to buy domestic
telecom company eAccess from
its parent SoftBank Corp in a
deal that was valued at about
$3.2 billion. In March, Yahoos
Japanese unit whose top
shareholder is SoftBank
announced the deal, which it
said was aimed at growing the
firms internet services
business through smartphones
and tablets. But Yahoo Japan
yesterday said it had called off
the merger after concluding it
was more effective to operate
the two firms independently. AFP
Paper hurls tax evasion
claims at GSK China
GLAXOSMITHKLINE Plcs
China unit was accused by a
government-run law
newspaper of failing to pay
more than 100 million yuan
($16 million) in import duties
and taxes for its HIV treatment.
The company evaded the taxes
from 2005 to 2008, Chinas
Legal Daily newspaper
reported. Glaxos former China
chief Mark Reilly, a British
national, was indicted on May
14 as local police handed a
case to prosecutors accusing
him of ordering bribes to
doctors. BLOOMBERG
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Philippine economy to double next decade
Rio Tinto to nalise $20B Guinea iron ore mine
THE Philippine economy will
more than double in the next
decade as earnings from over-
seas workers and business out-
sourcing surge, a respected
US-based think-tank says.
Once the regions perennial
economic laggard, the South-
east Asian country is poised to
stage a major comeback to be
one of the top three economies
in the region by 2030, forecast
Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief
economist for IHS.
[The] Philippines economy
has undergone a remarkable
transition from a pussycat into
a tiger economy over the last
decade, he said in a statement
issued ahead of the holding of
the World Economic Forum on
East Asia meeting in Manila.
The Philippine economy
has the capacity for robust
long-term economic growth of
around 4.5 per cent to 5.0
per cent per year over the
2016 to 2030 time horizon,
the report said.
The economy will grow from
its present level of about $280
billion to $680 billion by 2024,
with a projected GDP of $1.2
trillion by 2030, he added.
He cited the strong growth of
remittances from the estimated
10 million Filipinos working
overseas as well as the local
business process outsourcing
industry, which has surged in
the past decade.
But Biswas also warned that
to sustain growth, the Philip-
pines will have to improve con-
ditions to attract more invest-
ment to the key tourism and
manufacturing sectors.
He warned that the country
still ranked very poorly on the
World Banks ratings for ease of
doing business. He also cited
government figures showing
that despite the rapid growth,
one in four Filipinos still lives
in poverty while unemploy-
ment and underemployment
remain serious problems.
The Philippines has been one
of the fastest-growing econo-
mies in Asia in recent years,
posting 7.2 percent growth in
2013. AFP
GLOBAL mining giant Rio Tinto says it
is set to finalise a $20 billion deal to
develop the worlds biggest untapped
iron-ore deposit in Guinea later this
month following years of delays.
The Simandou project, which could
create Africas biggest-ever infrastruc-
ture venture, will boost Guineas annual
revenue by $1.2 billion through income
tax and royalty payments and pump bil-
lions more into the nations economy,
Rio chief exec Sam Walsh said.
Later this month, we expect to sign
the investment framework that formal-
ises our partnership with the govern-
ment of Guinea, Chalco and the IFC,
Walsh said in a speech uploaded
to the companys website yesterday.
This has taken some time to bring to
fruition and I think this signing will
inject the project with renewed momen-
tum, he added in the speech on infra-
structure investment in developing
countries, a key theme of this years
G-20 meetings chaired by Australia.
Walsh said the remarkable project
would see billions of dollars invested in
developing infrastructure in one of
Africas poorest nations, which is still
recovering from decades of military
dictatorships and misrule.
The deal will formalise the partner-
ship for Simandou with Guineas gov-
ernment, Chinas state-run aluminium
group Chalco and the International
Finance Corporation, a division of the
World Bank.
When fully operational, the annual
economic contribution of Simandou to
the Guinean economy is estimated to
be $7.6 billion thats 22 times the $340
million in international aid contribu-
tions to Guinea in 2012, Walsh added.
The estimated $20 billion project will
include a railway to carry iron ore from
the Simandou mountain range to a
deep-water port 650 kilometres away.
The joint-venture includes the devel-
opment of the port, the establishment
of fibre-optic and wireless communica-
tions, and more than 1,000 kilometres
of new and upgraded roads.
Rio was awarded control of all four ten-
ements at Simandou which it said held
2.25 billion tonnes of iron ore resources
in 2006, but was ordered by the then-
military dictatorship to relinquish two
northern concessions in 2008.
These concessions were given to BSG
Resources, a firm controlled by Israeli
billionaire Beny Steinmetz. The permits
were declared void by the Guinea gov-
ernment last month, although Presi-
dent Alpha Conde said the withdrawal
of concessions were part of a wider
clampdown on mining rights and not
case-specific despite claims of cor-
ruption against BSGR. AFP
Modi win shuffles top stocks
Rajhkumar K Shaaw
and Santanu Chakraborty
I
NDIAN stock market in-
vestors agree with the
nations voters on at least
one thing: its time for
new leadership.
As Narendra Modis opposi-
tion bloc secured the largest
electoral victory in 30 years on
May 16, the biggest gainers in
Indias equity market were the
companies likely to benet
most from a strengthening
economy. Thats a turnaround
from the last three years,
when investors favoured so-
called defensive shares, such
as drugmakers and consum-
er-staples producers.
The shift underlines the
growing conviction that
Modi, 63, can replicate the
economic success he enjoyed
in Gujarat state when he takes
over as prime minister of the
most-populous democracy.
The victory spurred Macqua-
rie Capital Securities India
Pvts Rakesh Arora to advise
switching into State Bank of
India from cigarette-maker
ITC Ltd. CLSA Asia-Pacic
Markets made Jaiprakash
Associates Ltd, a builder of
power plants and highways,
one of its top regional picks.
We will be in a bull run
for next three to ve years,
Shishir Bajpai, a director at
IIFL Wealth Management Ltd,
which has $8 billion under
management and advisory,
said. We will look closely at
shares of banks, utilities and
industrials as they are likely
to perform better.
The value of Indian equi-
ties has climbed by $371 bil-
lion, or 37 per cent, since
the Bharatiya Janata Party
named Modi as its candidate
for prime minister in Sep-
tember. Foreigners bought
$14.4 billion of shares during
the period amid speculation
Modi will do more than the
outgoing Congress Party-led
alliance to revive economic
growth from near the weakest
pace in a decade.
The sector rotation contin-
ued for a second day as banks,
power companies and metal
producers advanced, while
software exporters and health
care providers tumbled. State
Bank rallied to a three-year
high and Jaiprakash surged
the most in ve years. The
Sensex climbed 1 per cent to
a record 24,363.05 at the close
and the rupee touched an 11-
month high.
Indias economic growth
slowed to 4.5 per cent in the
year ended March 2013, the
weakest pace in 10 years, and
the government estimates a
4.9 per cent rate in the year
that ended March 31.
With the BJP-led alliance
winning 336 of 543 seats up
for grabs, more than the 272
required for a majority, Modi
has a much greater chance
of making changes needed
to boost investment, accord-
ing to Christopher Wood,
the chief equity strategist at
CLSA Asia-Pacic Markets in
Hong Kong.
While the BJP won the big-
gest victory for a single party
since 1984, Modi will still need
to work with state govern-
ments on land-use, water and
electricity policies, said Fred-
eric Neumann, the co-head of
Asian research at HSBC Hold-
ings Plc in Hong Kong.
Only nine states adopted
the Congress Partys 2012
blueprint to allow 51 per cent
foreign ownership of multi-
brand retailers. South Ko-
reas Posco has been waiting
for land and environmental
clearances to build a $12 bil-
lion steel plant for nine years.
If the next government
fails to lift condence, its
task of turning the economy
around will get heavier,
Takahira Ogawa, an analyst
at Standard & Poors, said in a
statement. BLOOMBERG
People watch news coverage of new prime ministerial Narendra Modi
at the entrance of the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai. AFP
Vendors sell produce as a train rushes past in Manila. AFP
Markets
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THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Business
May Kunmakara
CAMBODIAS exports to Japan
increased sharply by 39 per
cent over the rst three months
of 2014 compared to the same
period last year, according to
data from the Japan External
Trade Organization (JETRO).
Total exports reached more
than $178 million at the end
of March, compared to $128
million for the rst quarter
of 2013.
It clearly shows the suc-
cess through the relationship
between the two countries,
Hiroshi Suzuki, CEO of the
Business Research Institute
for Cambodia, said.
Suzuki said that while the
majority of exports were gar-
ment products, the shipment
of electronics was also on the
rise, led in part by recent Japa-
nese investment in Cambo-
dian manufacturing.
So far, the main export des-
tinations are US and EU. How-
ever, now Japan could be one
of the important export des-
tinations not only for the gar-
ment sector but also for parts
industry under good supply
chain systems among Asian
countries, Suzuki added.
Exports to
Japan see
a big jump
Crisis-hit Thai economy shrinks
Apilaporn Vechakij
T
HAILANDS econ-
omy shrank 0.6 per
cent year-on-year in
January-March, data
showed yesterday, as the fes-
tering political crisis dissolved
consumer condence and
frightened off tourists.
The contraction is the rst
since the last three months of
2011, when the country was
hit by massive ooding, and
comes as opposition protest-
ers press for the nations sen-
ate to remove a battered care-
taker government.
With the protests deep into
their sixth month, Southeast
Asias second biggest economy
remains without a fully func-
tioning government, cramping
state spending and investment
in key infrastructure projects.
The National Economic and
Social Development Board
also slashed its growth outlook
for the whole of 2014, forecast-
ing 1.5-2.5 per cent expansion
compared to a previous esti-
mate of 3-4 per cent.
It said jittery consumers re-
duced spending during the
rst quarter due to increasing
concerns over the domestic
political situation.
A prime minister was top-
pled this month, while 28
people have been killed and
hundreds wounded in street
violence since November.
The turmoil has take the
sheen off the nations Teon
Thailand reputation a refer-
ence to its economic resilience
despite eight years of political
upheaval as well as the devas-
tating oods in 2011.
Consumer condence has
slumped to its lowest level in
more than a decade and tour-
ist arrivals dipped by 8-9 per
cent in February and March.
Foreign investors mean-
while are nervously watching
the political crisis unfold.
The stakes are rising, Capi-
tal Economics warned in a
brieng note. Private-sector
condence is likely to remain
dire until there are at least
some signs that the crisis is
moving towards a resolution.
And without a functional
government, public spending
will stay shackled, it added.
Anti-government protesters
are pressing for the senate, the
upper house of parliament, to
boot out the embattled gov-
ernment of caretaker Prime
Minister Niwattumrong Boon-
songpaisan and appoint a
new leader.
Senators, at least a quarter
of whom are avowed critics of
Yinglucks billionaire broth-
er Thaksin, are mulling the
case for invoking a clause in
the constitution to appoint a
leader. AFP
Tailors work at a shop in Bangkok yesterday. Thailands economy has
contracted by 0.6 per cent as its political crisis drags on. AFP
Source : Thailand NESDB
Quarterly GDP growth, year-on-year
Percent
Thailand economy
Q3
2011
Q1
2012
Q1
2013
Q1
2014
Q4 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q2 Q3 Q4
3.7
-9.0
0.4
4.4
3.1
19.1
5.4
2.9 2.7
0.6
-0.6
Earthly gains
Israel looks
to cash in on
papal-arity
I
sraels Tourism Ministry
expects a papal visit later
this month to give a sharp
boost to tourism by Chris-
tians, who already account for
most of the market.
As a result of the visit to
the Holy Land by Pope Fran-
cis, who is such a popular
figure and significant leader
for the worlds 1.2 billion
Catholics, the ministry esti-
mates an increase of tens of
thousands in the numbers of
Christians visiting Israel, the
ministry said.
Christian tourism, which
accounts for about 60 per
cent of all incoming tourism,
is expected to increase by
about 10 per cent in 2014.
The ministry added that
2013 was a record year
for tourism to Israel, with
3.54 million entries logged.
Jews made up 22 per cent
of the visitors, with Roman
Catholics the largest of the
Christian denominations, at
26 per cent.
The ministry said the May
25-26 visit of Pope Francis
would be streamed live on a
dedicated website to maxi-
mise the impact. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Pfizers final bid fails
A
STRAZENECA Plc
shares plunged the
most in more than 16
years yesterday after
it rejected another takeover
offer from Pzer Inc as too
low, leaving the companies in
a stalemate over a deal that
would create the worlds big-
gest drugmaker.
The 69.4 billion ($117 bil-
lion) proposal, which Pzer
said was nal, fails to account
for the value of the UK drug-
makers pipeline of experi-
mental medicines and pres-
ents risks for shareholders,
AstraZeneca said yesterday.
The offer values the company
at 55 a share. AstraZeneca
said the price would have to
be more than 58.85 for the
board to be able to recom-
mend it to shareholders.
The share price drop reects
investors view that Pzer will
walk away rather than sweet-
en the bid again before a May
26 deadline set by UK takeover
law. Pzer said the cash-and-
stock offer would be its last
under the current process,
and it wont go directly to As-
traZeneca shareholders with a
hostile bid.
Theres still a chance that
Astra shareholders will put
pressure on management and
try to push for a compromise,
but the chances of this deal
not being agreed on just in-
creased, Savvas Neophytou,
an analyst at Panmure Gordon
& Co in London, said.
With a deal, Pzer would
transfer its headquarters to
the UK to gain a lower tax rate,
add new cancer drugs to its
pipeline and take advantage
of cost reductions from over-
lapping operations.
We have tried repeatedly to
engage in a constructive pro-
cess with AstraZeneca, Pzer
CEO Ian Read said in a state-
ment. Following a conversa-
tion with AstraZeneca . . . we
do not believe that the Astra-
Zeneca board is currently pre-
pared to recommend a deal at
a reasonable price, Read said.
We remain ready to engage
in a meaningful dialogue but
time for constructive engage-
ment is running out.
Pzers initial bids led to
Reads grilling in front of UK
lawmakers, who have ex-
pressed concern a takeover
will gut AstraZenecas research
operations in the UK and hurt
British jobs. Pzer has said it
will complete a campus being
built by AstraZeneca in Cam-
bridge and keep 20 per cent of
the rms R&D workers in that
country for at least ve years.
AstraZeneca shares tumbled
14 per cent to 41.49 in early
morning deals on Londons
FTSE 100. BLOOMBERG/AFP
British drugmaker AstraZenecas ofces in Maccleseld, England. AFP
THE publisher of the New York
Times has denied that the r-
ing of top editor Jill Abramson
was linked to a salary dispute
or sexism.
The celebrated newspapers
rst female executive editor
was abruptly let go last week,
sparking much debate on the
role of women in media and
equal pay in the industry.
The prestigious US media
group has said Abramson was
not paid less than her male
counterparts, although some
reports have disputed this.
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger,
Jr weighed in on the issue on
the weekend, calling it shal-
low and factually incorrect to
portray Abramsons dismissal
as an example of the unequal
treatment of women in the
workplace.
I decided that Jill could no
longer remain as executive edi-
tor for reasons having nothing
to do with pay or gender, he
said in the memo to staff mem-
bers that was made public.
As publisher, my para-
mount duty is to ensure the
continued quality and success
of The New York Times. Jill is
an outstanding journalist and
editor, but with great regret, I
concluded that her manage-
ment of the newsroom was
simply not working out.
Following word of Abram-
sons departure, the New York-
er, for one, cited unnamed
sources as saying that she quit
after a confrontation over her
salary, said to be lower than
Bill Keller, her predecessor as
executive editor and previ-
ously managing editor.
Sulzberger hit back in his
statement, saying Abramsons
compensation package was
comparable with Kellers.
In fact, by her last full year
as executive editor, it was
more than 10 per cent higher
than his, he said.
The controversy surround-
ing Abramsons ouster comes
amid a recently leaked inter-
nal report about the Times
apparent struggle to adapt to
the digital era.
We have always cared about
the reach and impact of our
work, but we havent done
enough to crack that code in
the digital era, the report said.
Dated March 24, the docu-
ment notes that the publica-
tion has seen its readership
slip signicantly over the past
year not only on its website
but also on its smartphone
apps, a development it called
an extremely worrying sign
on a growing platform. AFP
Shake-up not linked to
pay, sexism: NYTimes
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) through the Ministry of Public Works and Transport 1.
(MPWT) has received nancing in the amount of approximately US$ 183,000.00, from the Asian
Development Bank. The fund will be managed by the MPWT as the Executing Agency to support the
General Department of Public Works as the Implementing Agency responsible for managing the Increasing
Road Safety Awareness Campaign to reduce the risk of incidence of road crashes along project roads, in
Kampot Province, through an intervention that focuses on changing road user behavior.
The Road Safety Awareness Campaign has 4 components proposed under this consulting service, 2.
as below: (A) Road Safety forum on local radio (B) Road Safety drama on national TV channel (C)
Replacement of Road Safety billboards (D) Safety school zone implementation.
The Road Safety Awareness Campaign is recruiting the consultant for an intervention that focuses 3.
on changing of road user behavior through activities as described in 2 above.
Acting on behalf of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Increasing Road Safety Awareness 4.
Campaign invites expression of interest from national Road Safety experts, with a minimum bachelor
degree in engineering or social science eld, required to implement this activity. The expert needs to
have a minimum of 5 years working experience in planning and implementing road safety activities in
Cambodia, in rural settings, to undertake the above mentioned services which are further detailed in the
Terms of Referencefor this assignment. Thesuccessful consultant will beselected in accordancewith
the provisions set forth on the Guidelines on the Use of Consultant by Asian Development Bank and Its
Borrowers, February 2007, and its Amendment from times to times.
The interested Consultant(s) must provide their updated curriculum vitae, indicating personal and 5.
technical skills, academic qualications, experience in similar assignments, and experience in Cambodia
and/or other developing countries along with the names of at least three (3) referees with contact
information (e-mail address, telephone or fax numbers). Expressions of Interest shall be submitted in hard
copy followed by an electronic copy.
Theinterested Consultant(s) may obtain copies of thedetailed Terms of Reference(in English) for the 6.
assignment from the website and/or from the address below during ofce hours from 7:30 to 12:00 and
from 14:00 to 17:30 hours, Monday through Friday, except public holidays.
The letter of Expressions of interest with CV of staff and remuneration package must be submitted 7.
to the address below no later than 28 May 2014 (before 17:30 hours).
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORT
Loan 2373-CAM: GMS: Southern Coastal Corridor Project
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE CONSULTANT SERVICE FOR
INCREASING ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
H.E. Mr. PHENG Sovicheano
Under-Secretary of State - MPWT,
SCCP Project Director
GMS Southern Coastal Corridor Project (SCCP)
4 oor, Norodom Blvd / Street 106
The Ministry of Public
Works and Transport Tel:
(855) 012 900 760
Fax: (855) 023 724 595
E-mail: psovicheano@online.com.kh
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
PRASAC MFI, Ltd. is a micronance institution, which is providing
sustainable nancial services as loan, deposit, and fee base products
for 24 provinces and city of Cambodia. PRASAC MFI is currently
seeking for the qualied Cambodian candidates to ll the position as
below:
Interested and qualied applicants should submit a resume, a
cover letter with currently photo (4x6), a copy of certicates, letter
of recommendation, national identity card, birth letter and family
book to PRASAC MFI Ltd., Head Ofce, Phnom Penh at Building
212, Street 271, Toultompong 2, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia. For more details information, please feel free to contact
us via telephone: 023 220 102, website: www.prasac.com.kh .
Applications will not be returned. Only short-listed candidates
will be notied and contacted for conducting an interview.
POSITION: Senior Client Advisor,
5 Positions
REPORT TO: VP & Banking
Service
Department
Manager
JOB LOCATION: Head Ofce,
Phnom Penh
DEADLINE: May 30, 2014 at
4:00 PM
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Key Selection Criteria and
Qualication
This is an entry level role which
will require you to act as the rst
point of contact with our custom-
ers inside and outside ofce. You
will be responsible for:
Meeting, greeting and providing
clients with an exceptional level
of banking services
Promoting and answering
questions, demonstrating
banking products and services
Setting up new strategies to
enhance sales to reach the
targets by following with top of
mind client satisfaction
Building good relationship with
clients and providing excellent
customer services
Providing a friendly and
efcient service so as to
encourage repeat business
Sales support on Banking
Services to branch level
Other tasks required by the
supervisor
Bachelors degree in
Marketing, Finance and
Banking or other related
elds
Working experience at least
3 years in banking sector
Good communications
and problem solving skills
Committed person and
willing to learn
Be professional manners
Females are strongly
encouraged to apply
Markets
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Business
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Energy
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Thai Set 50 Index, May 16
FTSE Straits Times Index, May 16 FTSEBursaMalaysiaKLCI, May 16
Hang Seng Index, May 16 CSI 300 Index, May 16
Nikkei 225, May 16 Taiwan Taiex Index, May 16
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, May 16
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India Pakistan
Australia New Zealand
KOSPI Index, May 16 PSEI- Philippine Se Idx, May 16
Laos Composite Index, May 16 Jakarta Composite Index, May 16
BSE Sensex 30 Index, May 16 Karachi 100 Index, May 16
S&P/ASX 200 Index, May 16 NZX 50 Index, May 16
5,408.98
28,868.80 24,424.40
4,982.70 1,307.35
6,870.90 2,015.14
5,167.78
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. 102.59 0.57 0.56% 4:03:13
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 110.17 0.42 0.38% 4:03:38
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.45 0.03 0.75% 4:03:13
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 299.62 2.27 0.76% 4:02:46
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 297.09 1.73 0.59% 4:03:20
ICEGasoil USD/MT 917.5 1.25 0.14% 4:03:37
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.42 0.02 0.13% 2:46:14
CME Lumber USD/tbf 324.2 -5.4 -1.64% 17:00:00
UK rich keep getting richer
Julia Kollewe

T
HE combined fortune of
Britains richest 1,000 peo-
ple has hit a new high of
519 billion ($873 billion)
equivalent to a third of the nations
economic output, and double the
gure of ve years ago.
The worth of Britains rich elite is
up 15.4 per cent from last years to-
tal of 450 billion, according to the
Sunday Times Rich List.
Philip Beresford, who compiled
the rankings, said: Ive never seen
such a phenomenal rise in personal
wealth as the growth in the fortunes
of Britains 1,000 richest people over
the past year.
The wealth of the top 1,000 has
doubled since the nancial crisis,
rising from 258 billion in 2009.
Chris Leslie, the shadow chief
secretary to the Treasury, said:
No wonder the super-rich have got
much richer over the last year when
David Cameron has given million-
aires a huge tax cut. Yet at the same
time working people have contin-
ued to face a cost-of-living crisis and
are 1,600 [$2,690] a year worse off
since 2010. Labour is determined to
ensure all working people feel the
benets of economic growth, not
just a few at the top.
Real wages pay adjusted for in-
ation have been falling until re-
cently, although they are now start-
ing to recover. Government gures
showed last week that Britains rich-
est 1 per cent had accumulated as
much wealth as the poorest 55 per
cent put together. The data also re-
vealed the extent of the inequality
across the north-south divide, with
household wealth in the southeast
rising ve times as quickly as the
countrys as a whole.
Rachael Orr, head of Oxfams UK
poverty program, said: We need our
politicians to grasp the nettle and
make narrowing the gap between
the richest and poorest a top prior-
ity. It cannot be right that in Britain
today a small elite are getting richer
and richer while hundreds of thou-
sands rely on food banks to feed
their families.
There is money to help the poor-
est we just need to ensure that the
richest are not only asked to pay
their fair share in tax but also that
the loopholes that allow many to
dodge their obligations are closed.
The queen had a good year, add-
ing 10 million to her personal for-
tune, and is now ranked 285 with
330 million. The former Tesco
boss Sir Terry Leahy, has a fortune
of 100 million, which put him in
863rd place.
Four Candy Crush millionaires
joined the list for the rst time. They
include Melvyn Morris, the chair-
man of the company behind the
addictive game, who came in at 238
with a 430 million fortune, and Ric-
cardo Zacconi, King Digital Enter-
tainments chief executive, ranked
271 with 354 million.
The masterminds behind the best-
selling computer game Grand Theft
Auto, brothers Sam and Dan Houser,
who founded Rockstar Games, were
in at 947 with a joint 90 million.
Beresford said: While some may
criticise them, many of these people
are at the heart of the economy and
their success brings more jobs and
more wealth for the country.
To be considered for the list this
year, a minimum of 85 million was
required compared with 80 mil-
lion in 2008, before the crash, and
75 million last year. To get into the
top 500, the rich needed 190 mil-
lion, up from 160 million last year.
Jamie Oliver and his wife, Jools,
saw their worth go up by 90 million
to 240 million, putting them at 396,
as the celebrity chefs restaurant
chain, TV appearances, cookbook
sales and his wifes childrenswear
range continued to pay dividends.
The compilers of the rich list also
found that the number of billion-
aires living in Britain had risen to
more than 100 for the rst time.
Britain has 104 billionaires more
than triple the number a decade ago
who share a fortune of more than
301 billion. This means Britain has
more billionaires per capita than any
other country, while Londons total
of 72 sterling billionaires is more
than any other city in the world.
The 26th annual Sunday Times Rich
List is based on identiable wealth
including land, property, other as-
sets such as art and racehorses, or
signicant shares in publicly quoted
companies. It excludes bank ac-
counts, which the Sunday Times has
no access to. THE GUARDIAN
A rich list published by the Sunday Times shows that Britains richest 1,000 people
have amassed a combined fortune of $873 billion. BLOOMBERG
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
World
ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MOH)
DEPARTMENT OF DRUGS AND FOOD (DDF)
AS SUB-RECIPIENT FOR GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT
AIDS, TB AND MALARIA (GFATM) UNDER SSF
MALARIA GRANT
Position Level Duty Station Deadline
Data collection pharmacist 5 PhnomPenh 03-J un-14
Applications should be submitted via email to
k.chantara@yahoo.com or to Ministry of Health, DDF Ofce
(Cambodian Pharmacovigilance Center), #151-153, Kampuchea
Krom Blvd, 2nd Floor, Tel/Fax: 023 990 499
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
The Department of Drugs and Food/Essential Drug Bureau (DDF/EDB)
has applied and successfully qualied for Global Fund (GF) grant for
Single Stream of Funding (SSF) Malaria Grant under UNOPS Cambodia
for the containment of malaria resistant parasites in malaria endemic
provinces in Cambodia. A large part of DDF/EDB work plan under the SSF
Malaria Grant Phase II consists of activities that are related to assuring
the quality and efcacy of essential medicines, with a particular focus on
the long-term safety of the new Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACTs)
to patients.
DDF is seeking the services of qualied and experienced candidates for
the following positions. Detailed position descriptions are available at
www.ddfcambodia.com
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
RUSSIA said yesterday that it
had ordered the end of mili-
tary exercises near its border
with Ukraine, just days ahead
of a crucial presidential vote
aimed at bringing the country
out of crisis.
In a move that could ease
tensions, President Vladi-
mir Putins ofce said that
he had ordered thousands of
Russian troops deployed in
border regions to return to
barracks after the end of spring
exercises.
But the Kremlin said Pu-
tin had also demanded that
Ukraines pro-Western gov-
ernment halt its military op-
eration against rebels in the
countrys east and withdraw
its troops.
His remarks came amid
continued ghting in east-
ern Ukraine, with at least
one soldier reported killed
in a pre-dawn attack near
the ashpoint rebel town of
Slavyansk.
Due to the end of the
planned spring training of
troops that included their
movement to Rostov, Bel-
gorod, and Bryansk regions,
the Russian president or-
dered . . . troops participating
in the drills to return to their
permanent bases, the Krem-
lin said in a statement after a
meeting of the countrys Se-
curity Council.
The statement also called
for an immediate end to the
offensive by Ukrainian troops
in the east describing it as a
punitive operation against
the separatists and their
withdrawal.
The presence of the Russian
troops near the border had
raised deep concerns after
Russias annexation of Crimea
in March and the uprising by
well-armed pro-Moscow reb-
els in Ukraines eastern coal
and steel heartland.
An estimated 40,000 Rus-
sian soldiers had been de-
ployed, but Putin said earlier
this month that they had been
moved away from the border
to regional bases to continue
planned training exercises. At
the time both Washington and
NATO said they had seen no
evidence of the withdrawal.
However, NATO head An-
ders Fogh Rasmussen said
yesterday that he had seen no
proof of Russian troops with-
drawing from the border with
Ukraine, noting this was Pu-
tins third such statement on
the troops.
Preparations were continu-
ing yesterday for the vote,
seen by many in the West as
the only way to end a crisis
that began with pro-EU pro-
tests in Kiev but spiralled into
a wider confrontation.
It remains unclear how
much credibility the vote will
have, especially as ghting
continues between Ukrainian
troops and rebels who have
grabbed over a dozen towns
and declared sovereignty in
the industrial hubs of Do-
netsk and Lugansk.
The Ukrainian defence
ministry said one soldier
was killed and three others
injured when rebels, staked
out in a kindergarten, shelled
a military checkpoint near
Slavyansk yesterday.
The terrorists, acting in
their usual cynical and insidi-
ous manner, launched the at-
tack from a kindergarten near
the railway station, it said in
a statement. They wanted to
provoke the servicemen into
trying to destroy the kinder-
garten. AFP
Russia ends military
drills ahead of vote
China ships evacuate almost
2,000 from Vietnam: Xinhua
A
LMOST 2,000 Chi-
nese citizens were
evacuated from
riot-hit Vietnam by
sea yesterday, with another
two ships following, as Hanoi
stied fresh protests over a
territorial dispute and foreign
investors counted the cost.
The passenger vessels Wu-
zhishan and Tongguling left
the central Vietnamese port
of Vung Ang, each with more
than 900 evacuees on board,
Chinas ofcial news agency
Xinhua reported.
They were among four Chi-
nese ships each with a ca-
pacity of about 1,000 people
sent to Vietnam, Xinhua said,
with another two on standby.
Workers voiced relief as they
boarded the vessels, the agen-
cy reported, with some declar-
ing: Finally home.
Relations between com-
munist neighbours Vietnam
and China have plummeted
following Beijings move
earlier this month to send a
deep-water drilling rig into
contested waters in the South
China Sea.
Ofcially, two Chinese na-
tionals were killed and about
140 injured when enraged
mobs torched or otherwise
damaged hundreds of for-
eign-owned businesses in
Vietnam last week.
More than 3,000 Chinese
have already returned home
from Vietnam by sea and air,
reports said at the weekend.
Determined to avoid a re-
peat of the violence, authori-
ties deployed heavy security
in various cities around the
country on Sunday to smother
an attempt by activist groups
to stage fresh, coordinated
demonstrations against Bei-
jings actions.
There were no reports of any
further disturbances in Viet-
nam yesterday and Hanoi was
calm, with authorities scaling
back the heavy security pres-
ence that had blocked access
to the Chinese embassy and
other key points in the city.
The situation has returned
to normal now, the ofcial
Vietnam News Agency said.
In its rst reference to the
Chinese evacuations, it added
that Vietnamese authorities
did their utmost to facili-
tate the exodus.
Activist groups have said
several of their members
were detained as they sought
to demonstrate. Their status
was unknown yesterday.
Hanoi initially lauded pa-
triotic displays by its citi-
zens, but has backpedalled
furiously after the violence
which hit a number of non-
Chinese facilities badly
stained the countrys image
as a safe destination for sorely
needed foreign investment.
Vietnam offers abundant
cheap labour and secured
$21.6 billion in foreign direct
investment last year, up from
$16.3 billion in 2012, accord-
ing to government gures.
This will denitely have
a big impact on the coun-
trys image, which so far had
been seen as foreign-investor
friendly, said a foreign diplo-
mat who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
These actions went way
beyond what is acceptable in
terms of basic law and order.
Economist Nguyen Quang
A said the government must
move swiftly to restore con-
dence among foreign in-
vestors already complaining
about corruption, bureau-
cracy, a lack of legal and
regulatory transparency and
other issues.
In 2012 Japanese nationals,
businesses and diplomatic
missions were targeted in
violent protests that erupted
in several major Chinese cit-
ies after Tokyo nationalised
disputed islands in the East
China Sea. At the time Beijing
was criticised for allowing
the protests, which the Japa-
nese government estimated
caused damage worth more
than $100 million.
Meanwhile, Philippine
President Benigno Aquino
yesterday accused China of
violating the Declaration of
Conduct it signed in 2002,
after it allegedly began re-
claiming land on a disputed
reef in the South China Sea.
Manila last week publicly
accused Beijing of large-scale
reclamation activity at John-
son South Reef, which is also
claimed by the Philippines.
Filipino ofcials fear this could
lead to China building its rst
airstrip in the disputed region.
In my view . . . what they are
doing now, this is all seem-
ingly in violation of what we
agreed in the Declaration on
the Conduct of Parties in the
South China Sea, he said.
He stressed that China,
along with members of the As-
sociation of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) signed the
declaration in 2002 in a bid to
ease tensions over the South
China Sea, but this agreement
was not binding.
Aquino said it effectively
called on all parties to refrain
from building new structures
in the disputed area until the
conict is settled. AFP
Policemen ask people to leave a street near the Chinese embassy in
Hanoi on Sunday. AFP
Parliament attacked in Libya unrest
ARMED groups attacked Libyas interim
parliament and an air base in the east on
Sunday, adding to the turmoil in the trou-
bled country where a rogue general has
launched an offensive against Islamists
in the city of Benghazi. A colonel claiming
to speak on behalf of the army declared
that parliament had been suspended.
We, members of the army and revolu-
tionaries [former rebels], announce the
suspension of the General National Con-
gress, said Mokhtar Fernana, reading out
a statement broadcast on two private tel-
evision channels.
Private television channel Libya Inter-
national was hit by rockets, shortly after
broadcasting the statement.
At least four rockets struck the chan-
nels offices. There was material damage
but no victims, said a journalist speaking
on condition of anonymity.
Since the toppling of dictator Muammar
Gaddafi in 2011, successive Libyan gov-
ernments have struggled to impose order
as heavily armed former rebel brigades
have carved out their own fiefdoms.
Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said
two people had been killed and 55 wound-
ed in clashes between rival militia groups
in southern Tripoli, but he added that the
violence had no real link to an offensive
launched on Friday by ex-general Khalifa
Haftar against Islamists in Benghazi, 1,000
kilometres (620 miles) to the east.
Witnesses identified the assailants as
members of the influential Zintan bri-
gades who are known for their opposi-
tion to the Islamists and have attacked
parliament, known as the General
National Congress, before.
MPs were evacuated from the building
in southern Tripoli as heavy gunfire erupt-
ed after a convoy of armoured vehicles
entered the city from the airport road and
headed for the GNC. Residents said gun-
men in civilian clothes attacked the build-
ing but no casualties were reported.
The Zintan brigades are made up of
former rebels who fought Gaddafi.
The groups from Zintan now control
areas in southern Tripoli around the air-
port. A photographer said a column of
smoke billowed over the GNC building
after gunmen set fire to an annex, and
that several cars parked nearby had
been damaged. Later, the gunmen were
seen withdrawing to their bases and
gunfire was heard along the airport
road, residents said.
Militias have launched several attacks
on the GNC, including on March 2 when
two lawmakers were shot and wounded.
The latest violence in Tripoli came after
deadly fighting in Benghazi, where Haftar
unleashed his so-called National Army on
Islamist militiamen on Friday, backed by
warplanes. At least 79 people were report-
ed killed in the Benghazi unrest.
On Sunday armed Islamists attacked
the Benina air base in Benghazi but no
one was hurt, base commander Colonel
Saad al-Werfalli said.
Rockets are being fired at the base, but
so far its not serious, Werfalli said, add-
ing that the rockets hit waste land.
In Benghazi, the retired general accused
by Tripoli of staging a coup has said he is
readying a new assault on Islamist groups,
vowing to eradicate terrorism.
The government accused the outlaw
Haftar of trying to mount a coup and
declared Benghazi a no-fly zone.
Haftar, who led ground forces in the 2011
revolution, said: Our operation is not a
coup and we do not plan to seize power.
The general defected from Gaddafis
forces in the late 1980s and spent nearly
20 years in the US before joining the
uprising. Detractors accuse him of being
in the pay of the Americans. AFP
World
13 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
RATKO Mladics defence case
opens at the Yugoslav war
crimes court yesterday, with
the Bosnian Serb ex-army
chief accused of mastermind-
ing some of Europes worst
atrocities since World War II.
Mladic, 72, faces 11 charges
ranging from hostage-taking
to genocide for his role in Bos-
nias brutal 1992-95 conict
in which 100,000 people died
and 2.2 million left homeless.
An unnamed witness took
the stand in the morning be-
fore a three-judge bench of
The Hague-based Interna-
tional Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Presiding Judge Alphons
Orie has given Mladics law-
yers 207 hours to question wit-
nesses the same amount of
time given to the prosecution,
who nished their case earlier
this year, the ICTY said.
Arrested in Serbia and
transferred to the ICTY in
2011, the former Bosnian Serb
commander is in particular
wanted for his role in the June
1995 massacre of nearly 8,000
Muslim men and boys at Sre-
brenica in eastern Bosnia.
There, Mladics forces over-
ran lightly armed Dutch UN
troops protecting the sup-
posedly safe enclave, before
murdering the men and boys
and dumping their bodies
into mass graves.
Dubbed the Butcher of
Bosnia, the former Bosnian
Serb army general is also held
responsible for conducting a
campaign against residents of
Bosnias capital Sarajevo dur-
ing a 44-month siege. Some
10,000 people were killed,
many by snipers and shelling.
He has also been charged
for taking hostage a group of
more than 200 UN peacekeep-
ers during the conict, keeping
them in strategic locations as
human shields against NATO
airstrikes. Mladic, known for
his outbursts in court, has de-
nied the charges. He faces life
in prison if convicted.
In January, he refused to
testify at the trial of Radovan
Karadzic, his political coun-
terpart at the time, dismissing
the UN Yugoslav war crimes
tribunal as satanic.
Last month, the ICTY up-
held the charges against
Mladic in a hearing to see if
there was enough evidence
to continue trying him after
prosecutors closed their case.
Judge Orie ruled then that
Mladic had a case to answer
on all counts of the indict-
ment. AFP
Mladic defence opens at
UN war crimes tribunal
Balkans brace for more flood woe
T
HE Balkans braced
for swollen rivers
to reach new peaks
yesterday, piling up
misery after the worst oods
in a century killed 45 people
and sent tens of thousands
eeing for their lives.
Muddy waters from the Sava
River have submerged hous-
es, churches, mosques and
roads in Bosnia and Serbia
after record rainfall wreaked
havoc across the central Eu-
ropean region and the water-
way was expected to swell to
new highs yesterday.
Some 50,000 people have
been evacuated in Bosnia and
Serbia, with an additional
15,000 in Croatia. With some
towns completely cut off by
the torrents, fears rose that
the death toll could rise sig-
nicantly once rescue teams
were able to move in.
What happened to us
happens once in a thousand
years, Serbian Prime Min-
ister Aleksandar Vucic said
on Sunday. Rescuers told of
wrenching scenes as they -
nally reached cut-off villages,
with dozens of people hud-
dling at the highest houses
with no water or food.
Besides the ooding, the
worst rainfall since records
began in the late 19th centu-
ry, also caused landslides that
brought more destruction,
prompted landmine warn-
ings and closed numerous
border crossings.
The dykes built by thou-
sands of volunteers along
the Sava River and around
the Nikola Tesla power plant
managed to hold overnight,
Serbian state-run RTS televi-
sion reported.
The plant, which produces
some 50 per cent of Serbias
electricity, was surrounded
by water.
Humanitarian aid, tech-
nical equipment and teams
from Russia, the EU, the US
and neighbouring Monte-
negro and Macedonia were
pouring in, authorities said.
Bosnias demining agency
said residents around the
towns of Doboj, Maglaj and
Olovo which saw erce
ghting during the war in
the 1990s should be par-
ticularly wary.
Twenty of the deaths re-
corded in Bosnia occurred in
Doboj, while on the other side
of the Sava River, in Serbia, at
least 16 bodies were found.
In the town of Obreno-
vac alone we recovered 12
corpses, Prime Minister
Vucic said, bringing the toll
in Serbia to 16. Unfortu-
nately there are estimates
that the death toll will be
higher, he said.
Croatia has also conrmed
one casualty, as a result of bad
weather that engulfed much
of central and parts of East-
ern Europe at the weekend.
Ukraines emergencies min-
istry said electricity had been
cut to about 100 villages in
the north and west because
of heavy rains and winds but
that no casualties had been
reported.
In the Serbian capital Bel-
grade, dozens of schools and
sport centres were turned
into shelters for the thou-
sands of evacuees plucked
the disaster zones by boats,
buses and helicopters.
Thousands of volunteers
worked through the night
to stack sandbags along the
banks of the Sava River in
Belgrade, expecting a ood-
ing wave.
Mayor Sinisa Mali said he
was condent any swelling of
the Danube tributary could
be contained. But there was
still concern further up river.
The biggest problem is still
along the Sava River. An evacu-
ation is under way in Sremska
Raca. In other areas its getting
better, Vucic said. AFP
A picture taken on Saturday and released the day after by the Serbian
Interior Ministry shows the ooded Serbian city of Obrenovac. AFP
World
14
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014

Maliki likely frontrunner
with Iraq poll results due
ELECTION results due
yesterday were expected to put
Nuri al-Maliki in the drivers
seat to remain Iraqs prime
minister for a third term despite
vocal opposition and markedly
worsening security. The tallies
from the April 30 general
election, delayed for weeks due
to a litany of complaints
according to the electoral
commission, were likely to show
Malikis bloc won the most seats
but fell short of a majority. That
would mean the incumbent,
from Iraqs Shia majority, would
require the support of Sunni
Arab and Kurdish parties. But
many of these have refused to
countenance another term for
Maliki, who they accuse of
consolidating power and being
to blame for a protracted surge
in unrest. AFP
Dozens of children die in
Colombia bus accident
THIRTY-ONE children were
burned to death when their bus
caught fire and exploded in
northern Colombia on Sunday,
the Red Cross said. Another 25
people including one adult
were injured and seriously
burned in the blaze at the town
of Fundacion, Cesar Uruena
with the Colombian Red Cross
said. The children aboard the
bus were between the ages of
one and eight and were
returning home after a religious
service, Fundacion Mayor Luz
Stella Duran said. Stella Duran
said that according to
survivors the bus driver had
been handling a container with
gasoline aboard the vehicle.
Police initially blamed the fire on
a mechanical problem. The
driver has been arrested, and
angry locals went to his home
and threw rocks at his windows,
the mayor said. AFP
Four dead in northern
Nigeria suicide attack
FOUR people were killed,
including a young girl, in a
suicide car bomb attack in the
north Nigerian city of Kano on
Sunday, the citys police
commissioner said. At about
2200 [2100 GMT], we heard an
explosion . . . discovered a suicide
bomber . . . five people, including
the bomber, were killed, said
Adelere Shinaba. The victims
were three men and a girl of
about 12, he said at the scene
of the blast in Sabon Giri, a
predominantly Christian district
of the city. But he added that it
was too early to say who was
responsible. AFP
Taiwan holds computer
war games China test
TAIWAN yesterday launched
computerised war games
featuring its newly acquired
AH-64 Apache helicopters
helping counter a simulated
attack by a Chinese aircraft
carrier group, officials and
media said. The five-day drill,
part of the islands biggest
annual military manoeuvres to
be held in September, is aimed
at testing the islands defence
capability against the fast-
expanding military might of the
giant neighbour, defence
ministry officials said. With
military deployments focused
on the west coast facing
mainland China, the east is
relatively vulnerable to any
Chinese invasion, analysts
say. AFP
SK to break up coast guard
Chinese copper mine workers kidnapped
SOUTH Korean President Park
Geun-hye took tearful respon-
sibility yesterday for the mis-
handling of last months Sewol
ferry disaster, admitting many
lives were lost unnecessarily
and vowing to dismantle the
national coast guard.
The ultimate responsibility
for the poor response to this
accident lies with me, Park
said in a televised address to
the nation, during which she
wept openly and twice bowed
deeply in a display of contri-
tion. Parks popularity ratings
have been hammered by the
April 16 disaster that claimed
around 300 lives, most of them
schoolchildren.
She has voiced regret several
times, but yesterdays address
was the first time she has
explicitly accepted direct
responsibility for what has
become a defining moment of
her presidency.
As the president responsible
for the lives and safety of South
Koreans, I offer my sincere
apology for all the suffering,
she said.
Prime Minister Chung Hong-
won resigned last month over
the disaster, and while there
have been few calls for Park to
step down, she has been criti-
cised for not displaying enough
sympathy or remorse.
Towards the end of her
30-minute address, Parks voice
choked with emotion and tears
ran down her face as she
described the heroic actions of
some of the victims who died
trying to save others.
I have decided to dismantle
the coast guard, she said,
adding that its roles would be
split between the police and a
newly created ministry of
national safety.
The 6,825-tonne Sewol was
carrying 476 people when it
capsized and sank off the
southern coast on April 16.
The confirmed death toll
stands at 286, with 18 still unac-
counted for. Many relatives
believe some children may
have survived for hours or even
days inside air pockets in the
capsized ferry, but died because
rescuers took too long to access
the submerged vessel.
Families of those who still
remain missing criticised the
shock decision to disband the
coast guard, calling it an ill-
timed, hasty move that would
further dim hopes to find bod-
ies of their relatives.
It is clear that [Parks]
announcement will rattle
coast guard officials and ham-
per ongoing search efforts,
father of a missing teenager
and the families spokesman
told reporters.
We are in indescribable sor-
row, he said, urging officials to
continue search efforts until
the one last missing person is
found. AFP
TWO Chinese men working at a contro-
versial China-backed copper mine in
Myanmar have been kidnapped by
activists and monks who have threat-
ened to kill them, the firm behind the
project said yesterday.
Chinas Wanbao, which operates the
Letpadaung mine in the town of
Monywa, northwestern Myanmar, said
activists were holding the two 23-year-
old contractors and demanding the
total halting of the project.
The mine has triggered fierce opposi-
tion from local villagers over alleged
land grabs and environmental damage,
and raised questions over Myanmars
reliance on investment from neigh-
bouring China which propped up the
former junta.
Wanbao vehemently condemns this
unprovoked attack on our colleagues,
the firm said in a statement, calling for
the immediate release of the men, who
were surveying a part of the mine when
they were set upon by activists and two
local monks on Sunday.
The statement said the activists, who
claimed to be from a group called the
Student Network of Mandalay, had
issued a number of demands and a
death threat.
A spokesman for the company and
local officials confirmed the incident.
We strongly urge that our two col-
leagues be released soon, said Wan-
bao official Cao Densheng, adding that
the company had asked for help from
authorities in Sagaing Division, north-
western Myanmar. The copper mine
development has been struck by sev-
eral rounds of protest from campaign-
ers and local villagers.
A botched raid on a protest there in
November 2012 sparked anger after
police used phosphorus against dem-
onstrators in the harshest crackdown
since the end of military rule in early
2011, which left dozens including
monks wounded.
Wanbao said that initially three con-
tractors, two Chinese and a 21-year-old
Myanmar national, working for a firm
called Norbenco were captured on
Sunday morning. The kidnappers
demanded the release of a fellow
activist arrested by local police the
same morning.
They also called for an end to fencing
being erected on the land of local peo-
ple who had declined to accept a gov-
ernment land subsidy, the firm said.
The Myanmar national was later
freed but, in an apparent escalation of
the situation, the campaigners called
for the entire mine project to be halted
and threatened to kill the captured
men if people from a nearby village
were injured by police attempting to
free the men.
Wanbao cares greatly for the people
of Myanmar and we very much hope
this can be resolved . . . so our colleagues
can return to their families, the firm
said, adding that opposition to the
mine came from a small number of
extremists and activists. AFP
Mali troops sent to retake rebel bastion
M
ALI sent troops
yesterday to re-
take the rebel
stronghold of
Kidal after Tuareg separatists
seized local government of-
ces, taking hostages and en-
gaging the army in a reght
in which dozens were killed.
Eight soldiers and 28 in-
surgents died in ghting on
Saturday outside the region-
al governors ofces while
around 30 civil servants were
being held hostage by the mil-
itants, the government said.
We have taken every mea-
sure necessary to reinforce
our presence in the north, a
Malian army source said, de-
clining to go into detail on the
size of the deployment.
He said soldiers had been
arriving since Saturday, while
more were on their way from
the city of Gao, a seven mile
drive to the southwest, An-
es, a town between Gao and
Kidal, and other locations.
Prime Minister Moussa
Mara, who was in Kidal over
the weekend as part of a
rst visit to the restive north
since his appointment, said
on Sunday that terrorists had
declared war on Mali.
We will mobilise the re-
sources to ght this war,
Mara said. Former colonial
power France demanded the
immediate and uncondition-
al release of the hostages, as
did the United States, while Al-
bert Koenders, the head of the
United Nations MINUSMA
peacekeeping force in Mali,
condemned the violence.
We are staying in our home
to be on the safe side. We dont
know whats going to happen
and we are frightened, a resi-
dent of Kidal said. The Malian
government has blamed the
clashes on Tuareg separatists
but Mara said Islamist mili-
tants had taken advantage of
the crisis to participate in
the chaos alongside other ter-
rorist groups.
He said that the govern-
ment was working to get the
hostages released but added
that some had been killed
in cold blood while oth-
ers were freed as they had
been wounded.
Mara said the governors of-
ces had been attacked by ji-
hadists, terrorists . . . with the
clear aim to destroy and kill.
Malian troops reacted ac-
cordingly. Today Malian armed
forces are in Kidal, [they] are
readying themselves for any
contingencies, he said.
Kidal, 1,500 kilometres (900
miles) northeast of the capi-
tal Bamako, was the scene of
anti-government protests by
several hundred people on
Friday and Saturday.
Sporadic gunre was heard
overnight but calm had re-
turned by morning, a local
government ofcial said.
President Ibrahima Boubac-
ar Keita was expected to raise
the crisis in a televised address
to the nation yesterday.
Malian Defence Minister
Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga
identied the rebels on Sun-
day as members of the Tuareg
separatist National Movement
for the Liberation of Azawad
(MNLA), whom he said were
supported by members of
terrorist groups.
Our forces have taken con-
trol of all government build-
ings except, for the moment,
the governors ofces, he
said. The MNLA said it was
holding hostage the regional
director of Kidal, a prefect,
the governors adviser and 24
soldiers, promising humane
treatment to its captives.
Following a June peace deal
that paved the way for presi-
dential elections, the separat-
ists evacuated the governors
ofces in November last year
after a nine-month occupa-
tion. But the process deeply
divided the MNLA, the ulti-
mate goal of which is the inde-
pendence of Azawad, the mi-
nority Tuareg name for their
homeland in northern Mali.
Up until the agreement,
the Tuareg group had re-
fused to allow any govern-
ment soldiers or civil ser-
vants into the desert town.
The country descended into
crisis in January 2012, when
the MNLA launched the lat-
est in a string of Tuareg in-
surgencies in the north.
A subsequent coup in Bama-
ko led to chaos, and militants
linked to al-Qaeda overpow-
ered the Tuareg to seize con-
trol of Malis northern half.
A French-led military op-
eration launched in January
2013 ousted the extremists,
but sporadic attacks have
continued, and the Tuareg
demand for autonomy has
not been resolved. AFP
Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara (centre) speaks to the prefect of
Kidal after arriving there on board a UN helicopter on Saturday. AFP
SOLOMON Islands police
were out in force on the
streets of the capital Honiara
yesterday after rioting among
the victims of recent devastat-
ing oods, authorities said.
Deputy Police Commis-
sioner Juanita Matanga called
for calm and advised citizens
to stay at home amid fears of
renewed violence in the im-
poverished city. Matanga said
the rioting on Friday and Sat-
urday nights, which left sev-
eral shops burned out, would
not be tolerated and police
were ready to quell any fur-
ther disturbances.
Its everyones responsibil-
ity to stop anything or anyone
causing trouble in our country
as we will all suffer, she said.
The UN Ofce for the Co-
ordination of Humanitarian
Affairs said the rioting was
sparked by dissatisfaction
over aid distribution follow-
ing oods last month that
killed 22 people and left thou-
sands homeless.
According to the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation,
4,500 people remain in evac-
uation centres, cases of diar-
rhoea are high and thousands
do not have adequate access
to drinking water.
Honiara-based journalist
Dorothy Wickham said Chi-
nese-owned businesses were
targeted by the mob of about
400 people and most Chinese
shops in the capital had closed
in case trouble ared again.
The Chinese were also the
focus of rioters when distur-
bances destroyed large parts
of downtown Honiara in
2006, with an ofcial report
lambasting the police for fail-
ing to stop looting and burn-
ing. AFP
Solomons police out
in force after rioting
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
World
AN 84-YEAR-OLD man could
face death by ring squad for
smuggling crystal metham-
phetamine worth more than
$400,000 into the popular
Indonesian holiday resort is-
land of Bali, an ofcial said
yesterday.
Arsain bin Anwar, an In-
donesian national who lives
in Malaysia, was arrested on
Friday with 2.5 kilograms of
the drug in his luggage, air-
port customs chief I Made
Wijaya said.
Under Indonesias tough
anti-drugs laws, he could face
the death penalty if convicted
of smuggling that quantity of
drugs, he said.
However, Anwar has
claimed he had no idea he
was transporting drugs and
was paid only 200 Malaysian
ringgit ($62) to carry a pack-
age, the ofcial said.
He said that someone
he knew asked him to de-
liver the package and that
he thought it was full of
clothes, Wijaya said.
According to Wijaya, An-
war said he only accepted
the money because his wife
was ill and he needed to cover
medical costs.
Anwar, who is originally
from East Java province in
western Indonesia but had
been working in Malaysia
for 30 years as a car washer,
arrived in Bali on a Malindo
Air ight from Kuala Lumpur,
said the ofcial.
The drugs have a street
value of ve billion rupiah
($440,000), said Wijaya. He
added that customs ofcials
received intelligence that An-
war may be carrying drugs
before his arrest.
There was another man
implicated in a suspected
ring on the f light, but he
slipped past customs. Po-
lice are searching for him,
he said.
Several foreign convicted
trafckers are in jail in Bali,
including British grandmoth-
er Lindsay Sandiford.
She was sentenced to death
last year after being caught at
the islands airport with $2.4
million worth of cocaine in
her luggage. AFP
Octogenarian may face
ring squad in Bali case
Poll vault
Malawian electoral commission workers and ofcials store old ballot boxes at the Malawian Electoral commission headquarters on Sunday in
Blantyre, ahead of todays presidential, parliamentary and municipal vote. Malawis Joyce Banda, under the cloud of a huge corruption scandal
and a donors aid freeze, is ghting to hold on to the presidency in an election today in one of the closest races ever in the tiny southern African
state. AFP
Matter will be created from light in a year, scientists claim
RESEARCHERS have worked out how to make
matter from pure light and are drawing up
plans to demonstrate the feat within the next
12 months.
The theory underpinning the idea was first
described 80 years ago by two physicists who
later worked on the first atomic bomb. At the
time they considered the conversion of light into
matter impossible in a laboratory. But in a report
published on Sunday, physicists at Imperial Col-
lege London claim to have cracked the problem
using high-powered lasers and other equipment
now available to scientists.
We have shown in principle how you can
make matter from light, said Steven Rose at
Imperial. If you do this experiment, you will be
taking light and turning it into matter.
The scientists are not on the verge of a machine
that can create everyday objects from a sudden
blast of laser energy. The kind of matter they aim
to make comes in the form of subatomic parti-
cles invisible to the naked eye.
The original idea was written down by two US
physicists, Gregory Breit and John Wheeler, in
1934. They worked out that very rarely two
particles of light, or photons, could combine to
produce an electron and its antimatter equiva-
lent, a positron. Electrons are particles of matter
that form the outer shells of atoms in the every-
day objects around us.
But Breit and Wheeler had no expectations
that their theory would be proved any time soon.
In their study, the physicists noted that the proc-
ess was so rare and hard to produce that it would
be hopeless to try to observe the pair formation
in laboratory experiments.
Oliver Pike, the lead researcher on the study,
said the process was one of the most elegant
demonstrations of Einsteins famous relation-
ship that shows matter and energy are inter-
changeable currencies. The Breit-Wheeler
process is the simplest way matter can be made
from light and one of the purest demonstrations
of E=mc
2
, he said.
Writing in the journal Nature Photonics, the
scientists describe how they could turn light into
matter through a number of separate steps. The
first step fires electrons at a slab of gold to pro-
duce a beam of high-energy photons. Next, they
fire a high-energy laser into a tiny gold capsule
called a hohlraum, from the German for emp-
ty room. This produces light as bright as that
emitted from stars. In the final stage, they send
the first beam of photons into the hohlraum
where the two streams of photons collide.
The scientists calculations show that the
setup squeezes enough particles of light with
high enough energies into a small enough vol-
ume to create around 100,000 electron-positron
pairs. The process is one of the most spectacular
predictions of a theory called quantum electro-
dynamics (QED) that was developed in the run
up to World War II. You might call it the most
dramatic consequence of QED and it clearly
shows that light and matter are interchangea-
ble, Rose said.
The scientists hope to demonstrate the proc-
ess in the next 12 months. There are a number
of sites around the world that have the technol-
ogy. One is the huge Omega laser in Rochester,
New York. Another is the Orion laser at the Alder-
maston atomic weapons facility in the UK.
A successful demonstration will encourage
physicists who have been eyeing the prospect
of a photon-photon collider as a tool to study
how subatomic particles behave. Such a col-
lider could be used to study fundamental
physics with a very clean experimental setup:
pure light goes in, matter comes out. The
experiment would be the first demonstration
of this, Pike said.
Andrei Seryi, director of the John Adams Insti-
tute at Oxford University, said: Its breathtaking
to think that things we thought are not con-
nected, can in fact be converted to each other:
matter and energy, particles and light. Would we
be able in the future to convert energy into time
and vice versa? THE GUARDIAN
Living alongside leopards in Mumbai
Patrick Keddie

A
CURIOUS night-time in-
cident between a dog and
a leopard was captured on
CCTV in the Mumbai sub-
urb of Goregaon earlier this year.
Footage was released on Youtube and
Indian newspapers printed grainy
snapshots of a dog chasing a leopard
out of a housing complex.
The dog, a stray, soon became a
hero among the buildings residents.
We have three stray dogs in the
building and residents often feed
them. It was shocking to see this one
giving a chase to a leopard. We hope
none of them falls a prey to the leop-
ard, one was quoted as saying.
As the population of Mumbai, In-
dias commercial capital and largest
city, continues to expand rapidly,
its suburbs are straining against the
boundaries of the Sanjay Gandhi na-
tional park, which is thought to be
home to Indias highest concentra-
tion of leopards.
It is now estimated that over a mil-
lion people are living around the bor-
ders of the SGNP. Population pressure
makes encounters between leopards
and humans inevitable. Statistics
provided by the forestry department
show that there were no fatalities or
injuries from leopard attacks in the
Mumbai suburbs from 2009-11.
Yet, since November 2011 there
have been six fatalities; the last three
deaths were all reported in Aarey
Milk Colony, to the south of the
SGNP. The most recent attack was in
October 2013.
People living in informal housing,
or slums, may be more at risk from
leopard attacks. Dogs, pigs and goats
rummaging through open garbage
dumps are easy prey that can attract
leopards.
There are rarely sanitation services
in informal areas and many people
have been attacked when crouching
and defecating at the edges of settle-
ments. People in slums who sleep
outside to escape the sweltering heat
of their shacks may be more vulner-
able to attack. Unaccompanied chil-
dren are most at risk as a leopard is
unlikely to attack an upright adult.
However, researchers claim that the
dangers can be mitigated. Mumbai-
kars for SGNP was set up to engage
local people, raising awareness about
leopard behaviour, conservation and
how to take precautions. Much of the
projects work also involves trying
to persuade people not to have the
leopards trapped and relocated.
The practice may inadvertently in-
crease attacks on humans. In 2003,
many leopards found in the expand-
ing sugarcane plantations far to the
north in Maharashtra were trapped
and relocated some injured dur-
ing the trapping and then subjected
to the stress of being caged and ex-
posed to close contact with humans
to the SGNP. Released into unfamil-
iar areas, traumatised leopards did
not have to go far to enter the city
and researchers now believe that this
practice may have contributed to the
spate of fatal leopard attacks in the
Mumbai suburbs in 2003-04.
When leopards attacked people
around the SGNP, the standard re-
sponse again tended to be to trap
them and release them elsewhere.
But leopards are territorial and
dominate their area, knowing it in-
timately and understanding how to
avoid people. When an animal is re-
moved, it opens up space for more
less-dominant leopards to move into
areas they are not familiar with.
That is a recipe for conict, ac-
cording to Sunetro Ghosal, a re-
searcher working for SGNP, because
now you have animals who dont
know how to deal with you.
Vidya Athreya, a specialist in the
study of leopards, says more research
is required to understand the reasons
behind the more recent spate of at-
tacks. But she says that she strongly
believes it could be either injured
animals or released animals that are
likely to be attacking people.
The rising prevalence of CCTV in
suburban areas has sometimes con-
tributed to fears about leopards in
the past, increasing public pressure
to trap the animals.
Yet, CCTV footage has also provid-
ed the impetus for dialogue, as in the
recent incident where CCTV shots
showed a dog chasing a leopard out
of a housing complex. The residents
approached Mumbaikars for SGNP
for advice, saying they were not blam-
ing the leopard but that they wanted
to know how take precautions.
The approaching monsoon season
will swell the spindly foliage of the
park and the suburbs into lush, thick
jungle; providing cover for the leop-
ards. But Mumbaikars hope greater
awareness will help them be better
equipped to live alongside leopards.
Physical separation is a luxury;
there has to be a mixing up of people
and wildlife, Ghosal says. Conict is
just one expression [of the variety of
relationships between humans and
leopards], and this can be momen-
tary and can change. THE GUARDIAN
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EWS broke on Wednesday
that anti-Chinese protests
had turned violent over-
night, resulting in the
deaths of at least two (and perhaps
as many as 16) Chinese workers,
injuries to at least 100 others, and
significant damage to Chinese, Tai-
wanese and South Korean factories.
Yet in China, ostensible target of
the violence, the mayhem wasnt
news at all. In fact, even Chinas
internet-savvy microbloggers had
trouble gathering information on an
event that everywhere else in Asia
was top-of-the-fold news. Frustra-
tion, insofar as it could be
expressed, appeared on Chinese
social networks and then was
quickly censored.
Large-scale anti-Chinese riots
took place in Vietnam and any shop
with a Chinese sign was trashed,
reported a Beijing-based Sina Weibo
blogger in a tweet that was subse-
quently deleted (the text survives in
other places). Foreign media fall all
over themselves to report it while
the domestic media focuses on
peace and prosperity while running
headlines about the militarys first
female honour guard. Such silence,
clearly intentional, suggests only
one conclusion: China, when will
you really care about your citizens?
Its a bold question, and one that
the Chinese authorities dont want
to hear, much less answer, as they
pursue a dangerous game of cat-
and-mouse with the Vietnamese
navy in a disputed area of the
South China Sea. So far, at least, the
most dangerous weapons to be
fired in that dispute are water hos-
es. In all likelihood, thats as far as
the Chinese government would
for now like the dispute to go. But
Chinas leaders are surely aware
that their public is far more hawk-
ish than they are, especially when it
comes to matters dealing with Chi-
nese sovereignty.
In late summer 2012, for exam-
ple, tensions with Japan over a set
of rocky islands the Chinese call
them the Diaoyu, and the Japanese
refer to them as the Senkakus set
off social media tempers and
eventually anti-Japanese riots. Yet
one of the most striking features of
that dark episode was how much
of the anger was directed at the
Chinese authorities and their per-
ceived weakness in the face of
what was widely viewed as Japa-
nese aggression.
With many Chinese voicing
doubts about whether the party is
capable of protecting the disputed
islands, I wrote at the time, Chi-
nas foreign policy is facing a crisis
of legitimacy.
Sure enough, anti-Japanese senti-
ment, initially allowed and wel-
comed in Chinese media and on the
streets of Chinas cities, was soon
censored and the riots quelled. By
early 2013, even the most hawkish
of Chinas state-owned media out-
lets the Global Times newspaper
was counselling against a martial
response to the Japanese.
Probably, censorship and police
work played a far more crucial role
in quelling anti-Japanese riots than
level-headed editorialising. Either
way, though, the party succeeded in
getting its people off the streets and
the microblogs, and engaged in
other, less delegitimising activities
and discussions.
Needless to say, Vietnam and its
sovereignty conflicts with China are
neither the military nor political
equivalent of Chinas dispute with
Japan. They lack both the deep-
seeded racial enmity that defines so
much of the Chinese-Japanese con-
flict and perhaps more important
Vietnam lacks Japans US backing.
Were there to be military conflict
between the two countries, China
would certainly win, though likely
with the same costs that a war over
the Senkakus would incur. Nonethe-
less, having recently experienced
the unpredictability of nationalist
protests, China has no interest in
setting off a new round of riots
designed to force its hand. What-
ever the plan, goal and policy may
be in regards to Vietnam, President
Xi Jinping and his government are
clearly keen to pursue them unen-
cumbered by angry public senti-
ment. BLOOMBERG
Comment
Adam Minter
Why China wants to keep news
about Vietnam protests quiet
A car lies overturned at a Taiwanese furniture factory in Binh Duong, Vietnam after riots that saw anti-China protesters set more than a dozen factories on re in an escalating backlash
against Beijings deployment of an oil rig in contested waters. AFP
Adam Minter is an American writer based in
Asia, where he covers politics, culture, business
and junk. He is the author of Junkyard Planet:
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade.
Such silence, clearly intentional, suggests
only one conclusion: China, when will you
care about your citizens? A bold question
Chinese authorities dont want to hear
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Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Pele pens ditty to drive
on Brazilian Cup squad
FOOTBALL legend Pele has
written a song to cheer on his
native Brazil in the World Cup
as it prepares to host the June
12-July 13 tournament. Its
given me so much happiness,
its made me cry, football is in
our nations veins, goes the
opening verse, which Pele
sang to journalists from
newspaper Folha de Sao
Paulo. The three-time World
Cup winner said there needed
to be a Brazilian song after
the release of the official
tournament song by Pitbull
and Jennifer Lopez and
another Cup theme song by
Ricky Martin. I heard the one
by Ricky Martin but I didnt like
it, he said. The other songs
dont recall the difficulties
that teams go through, he
said, calling on Brazilians to
support the selecao through
good times and bad. My song
is to tell people not to boo the
team, he said. AFP
Broadchurch scores
a TV Bafta hat-trick
ITV drama Broadchurch won a
hat-trick of Bafta television
awards including best female
actor for its star Olivia Colman,
with the program winning more
prizes than the whole of BBC1
and BBC2 combined. Colman,
who made it three Bafta
awards in two years, gave a
tearful acceptance speech on
Sunday night in which she paid
tribute to the genius of the
shows creator, Chris Chibnall,
and her co-star David Tennant:
Standing opposite you is a joy
and a treat. The acclaimed
murder mystery, ITVs biggest
hit since Downton Abbey and
the most popular new midweek
drama hit for a decade, also
won best drama series and
best supporting actor for David
Bradley, who played newsagent
Jack Marshall. THEGUARDIAN
Kanye-Kim party not a
wedding, officials say
KANYE West and Kim
Kardashian will not be tying
the knot in Florence this
weekend as they have not
submitted official documents,
a spokesman for the city
council said. The celebrity pair
have rented out the 16th-
century Fort Belvedere for a
celebration on Saturday with
200 guests, fuelling
speculation that this could be
their wedding. For the Italian
state, this is not a wedding,
Marco Agnoletti said yesterday.
To get married in Florence
they would have to submit a lot
of documents. They havent
made an official request so it
cant officially be a marriage,
said Agnoletti, a spokesman
for the citys interim mayor,
Dario Nardella. AFP
Kurdish cafe paints a history
of Iraq in wall-to-wall photos
WG Dunlop

E
VEN before speaking
with Mam Khalil, it is
clear he loves photo-
graphs they cover
almost every inch of his cafe in
northern Iraq, providing win-
dows into the countrys history.
The pictures go all the way to
the ceiling, overlooking patrons
as they sip tea, smoke ciga-
rettes or fill their spoons with
mastaw, a yogurt-like dish
served in bowls with ice.
Though small and located on
a sidestreet in the citys covered
market, the cafe is well-known
in Arbil, the capital of Iraqs
autonomous Kurdish region,
attracting everyone including
senior politicians.
I dont love money, but I love
photos, says its owner, an age-
ing man with a thin grey mous-
tache who is known by the
affectionate title of Mam,
meaning uncle in Kurdish.
Mam Khalils love of pictures
began when he was still young.
He began collecting them,
turning the cafe into a gallery
awash with photos that portray
Iraq as it moved through mon-
archy, dictatorship and into its
current fragile democracy.
Arbil has also changed a lot
since Mam Khalil began his
career. Oil money has since
transformed it into a sprawling
city of modern infrastructure.
Now, there are better houses,
better living conditions, better
cars, better streets, better
wives, he says with a grin.
Carpet-covered bench seat-
ing is built into the walls of the
cafe, but it is impossible to sit
back in most places without
leaning on a photo frame.
One shows Faisal II, Iraqs
last king, who was overthrown
in a 1958 coup, inspecting the
royal guards. Another pictures
Mulla Mustafa Barzani, a
famed Kurdish guerrilla and
the father of the current presi-
dent of Iraqi Kurdistan.
A black-and-white shot
shows a smiling, mustachioed
Saddam Hussein raising Bar-
zanis hand aloft, a photo like-
ly taken sometime between the
conclusion and collapse of a
1970 peace deal.
More recent snapshots show
Kurdish and Arab politicians
who now hold sway in Iraq,
some of them photographed
during visits to the cafe. Some
photos bear captions, but the
people shown in others are lost
to history.
Mam Khalil has also collect-
ed and framed currency used
in Iraq over the years as a
record, the oldest of which he
says dates back to the Otto-
man Empire.
There are also pictures of
Mam Khalil himself, including
a colour photo taken more
than 60 years ago when he was
just a boy, his hair black instead
of grey, a hint of a smile on
his face.
Mam Khalil says he started
work at in cafes some seven
decades ago.
My father died in Septem-
ber 1948, he says.
He was a student at the time,
but his mother told him that:
Your father has passed away
and we have no one to provide
a living.
He began working in 1948
before moving to his current
cafe a few years later. He would
hang photos on its walls, much
to the chagrin of his boss, who
hated it but let him continue
because he worked hard.
After buying the cafe in 1967,
he was free to hang as many
photos as the walls could hold.
While he has four children,
they will not follow him in run-
ning the cafe, Mam Khalil says,
though someone else may seek
to keep the tradition alive after
his death.
When he tires of answering
questions, Mam Khalil asks
that he be given a print of a
photo taken in his cafe that
day, another addition to his
collection. He then slowly
shuffles off to greet newly
arrived guests.
Seventy-six-year-old Mam Khalil poses in his cafe, the walls of which are covered with photographs, in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous
Kurdish region of northern Iraq. AFP
Japan lawmaker eyes pro-wrestling in N Korea
THE high camp drama of professional
wrestling is heading to Pyongyang this
summer, with a bout set for August, staff
of a Japanese lawmaker helping to organ-
ise the event said yesterday.
Antonio Inoki, whose own contribution
to the far-fetched fight storylines
enthralled millions in Japan during his
career, is intending to co-organise some
grappling in the North Korean capital.
Inoki, now a lawmaker in Japans upper
house, will team up with Pyongyang
authorities to bring performers from
around the world, his secretary said.
The exact date and the names of the
participants are still being decided, the
secretary said, noting the event would be
held as part of sports diplomacy.
Inoki, 71, heads a nonprofit organisa-
tion aimed at establishing sports-based
international exchanges, which opened
an office in Pyongyang last year.
Inoki, whose mentor in professional
wrestling was the late Korean-born Mit-
suhiro Momota, aka Rikidozan, has vis-
ited North Korea nearly 30 times since
1994. After his last visit in January, he told
reporters that North Korea seemed calm
despite a leadership purge last year.
During the four-day trip there, Inoki
met Kim Yong-il, director of the Interna-
tional Department of the North Korean
Workers Party, and other officials.
If the bout goes ahead, it will be the
second time Inoki has been involved in
wrestling in North Korea. In 1995, he
organised a sport festival in Pyongyang
featuring bouts between Japanese and
American pro wrestlers.
The Tokyo government, which does not
have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang,
has advised its citizens to refrain from
visiting North Korea as part of its stance
on the communist states nuclear bomb
program and missile tests.
Inokis low-profile visit in January came
days after flamboyant former basketball
player Dennis Rodman caused interna-
tional controversy with a trip to visit his
friend for life Kim, singing Happy Birth-
day on a basketball court ahead of a spe-
cial exhibition game. AFP
Japanese professional wrestler Chikara (right), a grandson of late national professional
wrestling hero Rikidozan, performs a chop on Rongai Nosawa. AFP
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KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
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CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
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2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
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SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
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APL
(4 calls/month)
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COTS
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Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
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OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
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SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
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YOK= Yokohama, Japan
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Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat what Phnom, Khan
DaunPenh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairway.com
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#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
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Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
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Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
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Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
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SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
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5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
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SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
A cook making oyster omelettes in Shilin Night Market, one of the
hundreds of food markets across Taiwan. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Taiwans night
markets and
foodie heaven
Audrey Gillan

T
HE air is lled with
the aromatic mix of
soy, rice wine, sesame,
spices, frying oil, grill-
ing meat and the high-pitched
shouts of hawkers. Clouds of
smoke waft above the dozens
of small stalls that make up
Taipeis Ningxia night market,
all brightly lit, sitting under
coloured signs, beckoning cus-
tomers to tables loaded with
glossy, roasted duck heads and
necks, intestines and hearts of
every conceivable nature, pip-
ing hot bowls of noodles and
freshly made dumplings.
Stepping deeper into the
elbow-jostling crowd, my
nose leads my eyes towards
frying chicken (often lushly
marinated in soya milk then
spiced and oured), coal-
roasted squid, poached quail
eggs, pigs blood rice cake,
even frog spawn and skew-
ered and grilled crickets. I try
gooey omelette of sweet pota-
to studded with small, fat salty
oysters and covered in sweet,
vinegary, ketchupy sauce.
Above it all is the unmistake-
able stench of stinky tofu.
Taiwan probably has the
best night market scene in
the world and certainly some
of the most exciting street
food in Asia. With little space
at home to cook, the Taiwan-
ese prefer to head out almost
every night to the heaving
markets for the cheap snacks,
or xiaochi, that are found
across the island on cor-
ners, in clusters of food-de-
voted streets or at one of over
100 night markets.
Those with no language
skills simply, point to what
they want and use their digits
to say how many. Stallhold-
ers then write the price down,
with dishes generally costing
between $1 and $2
I was being guided through
Taiwan, its culinary history
and the wondrous world of
xiaochi by the team of street
food vendors who last year
won the Young British Foodie
award and two British Street
Food awards for Bao, a Lon-
don-based bar and market
stall championing Taiwanese
dishes and ingredients.
We travelled to Ningxia by
taxi (dirt cheap if theres a few
of you) and the Bao group
headed straight for the deep-
fried taro stall with its biscuity
smell. The queue snaked along
the pavement and there was a
20-minute wait for crispy balls
of tuber. I love that people do
one thing really well, adapting
and perfecting their recipes. If
theres a queue, it means they
make the best. If you see a
queue for food in Taiwan, get
in it, Er Chen advises.
From the capital, we took
the high-speed train 300 ki-
lometres south to Tainan, the
oldest city in Taiwan, and cer-
tainly more beautiful than the
capital. We watched the land-
scape change, passing trees
in blossom and beginning
to fruit, until we reached the
station on the outskirts of the
city. Our rst stop was a pave-
ment cafe where we had bowls
of turkey rice and little sau-
sage wrapped in big sausage
at the countrys biggest night
market, Hua Yuan.
There was more space there,
enough to sit on pop-up tables
and chairs, which meant we
could really savour our next
nd pancakes lled with
milky ice-cream, peanut
shavings and coriander. They
are divine.
On the train back to Tai-
pei, the Bao group conceded
that stinky tofu wouldnt be
making it on to the list of new
dishes that they wanted to
add to their London menu.
But that ice-cream pancake?
One of the group smiled:
That was just amazing. Well
denitely be trying our own
version of that when we get
back. THE GUARDIAN
TV PICKS

11:05am - LONE RANGER: Natve American warrior Tonto
recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid,
a man of the law, into a legend of justce. With Johnny
Depp. FOX MOVIES
3:05pm - THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART
TWO: Afer the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather
other vampire clans in order to protect the child from
a false allegaton that puts the family in front of the
Volturi. FOX MOVIES
7:05pm - SCARY MOVIE 4: Cindy fnds out the house she
lives in is haunted by a litle boy and goes on a quest to
fnd out who killed him and why. Also, Alien Tr-iPods
are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret
in order to stop them. FOX MOVIES
8pm - BULLET TO THE HEAD: After watching their
respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a
Washington, DC, detective form an alliance in order
to bring down their common enemy. Stars: Sylvester
Stallone, Jason Momoa and Christian Slater. FOX
MOVIES
Entertainment
19 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Totals
5 Emulates Moe
10 Lousy writer
14 Certain sword
15 Folklore trickster
16 Sopranos show-stopper
17 Prolonged unconsciousness
18 Time causes it
19 Reminder of an injury
20 No, hardly
23 Pause, on a music staff
24 Carbon power source
25 Vietnams capital
28 Old verb ending
30 Overhaul
34 Exist in large quantities
36 Will Smith title role
38 Santa ___, Calif.
39 Soap-opera ceremonies
43 Prefix with dairy
44 Tank filler
45 Nurse a baby
46 Pick up the tab for someone
49 ___ Aviv
51 ___ up (excited)
52 Not final, legally
54 Presses into service
56 Attempt from beyond the arc
62 Smile
with joy
63 Occur as
a result
64 Peerage member
66 H.H. Munros nom de plume
67 Lily in a wedding bouquet
68 Fancy little sewing case
69 Guilty or not guilty
70 Aerodynamic
71 Biblical pronoun
DOWN
1 Small part of an hr.
2 Second word in many fairy tales
3 It might have the heading Re:
4 Saltwater fish
5 Fixes a pet
6 Tie up
7 Leaf-to-branch angle
8 Card game
9 Musical repeat sign
10 Royal pain
11 Semicircular entrance
12 Arrivederci!
13 Go-___ (four-wheeled racer)
21 Word with well or human
22 Long-jawed fish
25 Does not possess
26 Hate
27 Who might be to blame
29 Leather strap
31 Kerchief
32 It increases by degrees
33 ___ on a true story
35 Understood archaeology?
37 Cards at the door
40 Like some parks
41 Fists
42 Arctic ocean covering
47 Lack of vigor
48 Railroad beam
50 Crescent-shaped area on a
fingernail
53 Eyeglasses
55 Chophouse offering
56 One-sixteenth of a cup (Abbr.)
57 Restore to well-being
58 Gather leaves
59 Tiny landmass
60 Bit of profanity
61 Faithful or factual
65 Tell a whopper
AIMED ALREADY
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
NEIGHBOURS
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected
difficulties after they are forced to live next to a
fraternity house.
City Mall: 5pm, 10pm
Tuol Kork: 11:40am, 5:55pm, 7:50pm
THE RAID 2
Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes
undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans
to bring down the syndicate and uncover the
corruption within his police force.
City Mall: 11:05am
Tuol Kork: 9:20pm
RIO 2
Its a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their
three kids after theyre hurtled from Rio de
Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries
to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful
Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary
of all: his father-in-law.
Tuol Kork: 9:15am
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious
company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervil-
lains against him, impacting on his life. With
Emma Stone.
City Mall: 9:45am, 1:55pm, 4:35pm
Tuol Kork: 11:40am, 1:35pm, 6:40pm, 9:20pm
CINEPLEX CINEMA
NEIGHBOURS
(See above.)
11:50am
WALK OF SHAME
A reporters dream of becoming a news anchor
is compromised after a one-night stand leaves
her stranded in downtown LA without a phone,
car, ID or money and only eight hours to make
it to the most important job interview of her
life. Stars Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Gil-
lian Jacobs.
6:40pm
Cages Torn Open @ Meta
Sokuntevy Tevy Oeur is a bold
Cambodian artist. Her paintings tell the
story of the conicts women of this
generation face. In this mini-exhibition,
Tevy presents one of her newest pieces
that will only be showcased this month
at Meta House along with older works.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
6pm.
Classes by a professional pilates
instuctor specialising in matwork,
small apparatus and studio. He
trained and taught for eight years in
Australia before moving to Cambodia.
Samata Spa, #54, Street 306. 5:30pm
and 6:45pm
NOW SHOWING
A new piece from Cambodian artist Sokunthevy Oeur on show at Meta House tonight. PHOTOSUPPLIED
Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer star as Tonto and
John Reid in The Lone Ranger. BLOOMBERG
Art showcase
@ Meta House
Pilates @ Samata Spa
Tunes @ Riverhouse
A new exhibition by Cambodian artist
Dina Chhan. The paintings and
sculptures reveal their Cambodian
creators interest in the relationship
between humans, animals and the
natural environment.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
6pm
Resident DJs play popular dance tracks.
Special buy two, get one free deal for
cocktails and mixed drinks all night.
Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath
Quay and Street 110. 4pm
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room open to the large balcony,
airyandplentyof light, fullyfurnished.
Price : 2000/m. 012 879 231
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 3 For RENT, a fully
furnished 1 bedroom, nice river
view from your balcony, monthly
price $500 with free cleaning, inter-
net, water, cable TV, maintenance
Location: #112, St. Tonle Sap
(peninsular) 012 569 832
| 012 944 191 | 012 912 651
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 4 For RENT, a luxurious
2bed, living room, kitchen, dining
room, monthly price 1,040$, free
for internet, cleaning, water &
Entrance to Sokhah Fitness Club.
Location: #247, ST.51 St. 360, BKK1
012 569 832| 012 944 191
| 012 912 651
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Location near Central
Market $450/M 1Bedroom 1Bath
$550/Month 2Bedroom 2Bath
1Living room, Kitchen, Furnished
Tel: 077 777 697 or 012 939 958
BIG BALCONY APARTMENT FOR
Rent: near Olympic Stadium
$450/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
1Living room and Nice Kitchen
Tel: 012 939 958 or 077 777 697
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent:in BKK1 Area, Fully Furnished
$500/Month 1Bedroom, 1Bath
$600/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
1Living room and Nice Kitchen
Tel: 012 939 958 or 077 777 697
NICE APARTMENT FOR RENT:
in BKK3 Area, Fully Furnished
$350/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
$400/Month 3Bedroom, 2Bath
1Living room and Nice Kitchen
Tel: 012 939 958 or 077 777 697
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20 , 2014 21
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment for Rent LocatedinBKKI,
01&02&03bed, roof toppool andgym,
openlivingroom, fully andmodern
furnished, westernkitchen, nicebalcony,
safety area, goodconditionfor living.
Price: US1,200-US$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092232623/081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, Large living room, fully
and modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
very good condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment for Rent Located in
BKKI, 02 bed, roof top pool & gym,
open living room, fully and modern
furnished, western kitchen, nice
balcony, wooden oor, very safety
area, very good for living .
Price: US1,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

MODERN DESIGN APARTMENT
for Rent LocatedinRoseCondo, 12th
oor, 03 bed, open & large living
room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, lots of light, nice
balcony, nice pool & gym, very
good condition for living. $1,800 /m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
BRAND NEW MODERN
Apartment for Rent Tonle Basac
01-02beds&Penthouse, real modern
interior designed, large living room,
very light, fully & modern furniture,
modernKitchen, roof toppool &gym,
Price: $1,200 2,000 and 3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in south of Russian
Market, 01-02 bedrooms, large
living room, fully and modern
furnished, modern kitchen, lots of
light, nice balcony, very good condi-
tion for living, big parking.
Price: US$600-US$850/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 1-2-3
bedrooms, large living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very big balcony, very
quite and safety area, big parking
lots, good condition for living .
Price: $800-US$1,200-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN SWIMMING POOL
Apartment for Rent Located in Wat
Phnom, 01&02&03 beds, very big
pool and gym, open living room,
fully and modern furnished,
western kitchen, nice balcony, very
safety area, very good condition for
living .Price: 900-$1,200-1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
COLONIAL STYLE APARTMENT
for Rent Located a long riverside,
02 bed, elevator, open living room,
fully and classic furnished, nice
kitchen, nice and big balcony, river
view, very safety area, very good
condition for living.Price: 1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Locatednear independent
monument, 02bedrooms, openliving
roomandkitchen, fully andmodern
furnished, very safety area, very quiet,
very goodconditionfor living.
Price: USD770/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

RENOVATED-MODERN DESIGN
Apt For Rent On the riverside, 01
bed, large living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
river view and on the high oor,
165sqm, very safe, the best location
for residence.Price: US$1,350/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN DESIGN APT FOR
Rent North of Olumpic Market, 02
bedrooms, large living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very safe and quiet, the
best location for residence.
Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN DESIGN APT FOR
Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02
bedrooms, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very safe and quiet, the
best location for residence.
Price: US$600-US$1,050/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 05
bed, large living room, very modern
designed, some furniture, western
kitchen, nice balcony, big parking
& playground,very safety, The best
location for residence. $4,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKKI area, 03 bedrooms, large
living room, very clean, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
very nice balcony, big parking, very
quiet & safe. The best location for
residence or ofce.Price: $3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN SWIMMING POOL
Villa For Rent InNorthbridgearea, 05
bedroomsplus01officeroom, large
livingroom, very nicedesign, fully and
modernfurnished, very nicepool and
garden, westernkitchen, nicebalcony,
bigparkingandplayground, quiet &
safe. Price: US$3,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
TRADITIONAL WOODEN HOUSE
For Rent At Chhroy Changeva area,
river view, ground oor, 03bed-
rooms, fully furnished, very lights,
western kitchen, very safety and
quite, very nice garden, very good
condition for living.Price: $1,700/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
TRADITIONAL WOODEN HOUSE
for Rent In Tonle Bassak area, 2 bed
, real wooden design, very big and
open living room, western kitchen,
very nice garden, big parking
and play ground, very good for
residence and ofce, very quiet and
safety area. Price: US$2,200/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

MODERN SWIMMING POOL
Villa for Rent Located in Toulkork
area, 05bed, large living room, very
nicedesign,fullyandmodernfurnished,
very big pool & garden, western
kitchen, nice balcony, big parking
and playground, quiet & safe.
Price: $3,500/m Tel: 092 23 26 23
MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 04 bed,
large living room, very nice design,
fully & modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, parking &
playground, quiet & safe. the best
location for residence. $3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
SMALL VILLA FOR RENT
In Tonle Bassak area, 04 bedrooms,
large living room, traditional
design, somefurnished, nicekitchen,
big parking and playground, quiet
& safe. The best location for
residence. Price: US$1,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKK3 area, 07 bedrooms, large
living room, modern design, some
furnished, western kitchen, big
parking and playground, quiet &
safe. The best location for
residence and ofce.Price: $2,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN LINK HOUSE FOR
Rent In Bassak Garden City, 03
bedrooms, large living room, very
nice design, fully and modern fur-
nished, nice kitchen, quiet & safe.
the best location for residence.
Price: US$1,600/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
2ND FLOOR VILLA FOR RENT
Located in Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 02 bed
, large living room, very nice design,
some furnished, nice kitchen, quiet
& safe. balcony &trees,
Price: $1,000/m per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

WESTERN STYLE VILLA FOR
Rent In Beoung Keng Kang I (BKKI)
, 04 bed, large living room, fully fur-
nished, western kitchen, garden &
trees, big parking and playground,
very safe, the best location for
residence.Price: $4,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Beoung Keng Kang I (BKKI), 05
bedrooms, large living room, some
furnished, western kitchen, garden
and trees, big parking and play-
ground, very safe, the best location
for residence and residence.
Price: US$3,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Beoung Keng Kang I (BKKI), 04
bedrooms, large living room, some
furnished, western kitchen, trees,
playground, very safe, the best
location for residence.
Price: US$2,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW FACTORY FOR ]
Rent Phnom Penh Thmey area
(on main street), Size: 1500 - 2500
sqm, electricity and water are
connected, very standard quality,
good environment, very easy to nd
workers... Price: US$4/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
Located a long Norodom Blvd, 100
to 1700 sqm, big parking lot, big
elevator, big staircase, 24h security
and many facilities around.
Price: US$10 - $14/m per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
LocatedalongNorodomBlvd, 400
sqm, parkinglot, bigelevator, big
staircase, 24hsecurity andmany
facilitiesaround.
Price: US$15/monthper sqm.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com

BRAND NEW FACTORY FOR
Rent Near Prey Sor Area (Factory
zone), Size: 4800sqm, electricity
and water are connected, very big
land, possible for trucks access,
very easy to nd workers...
Price: US$1.8/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

WHOLE BUILDING FOR RENT
Located a long Monivong Blvd, 05
stories ,building size: 12m x 28m,
very good for Bank, ofce, school,
hospital, showroom...
Price: US $15,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/
081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW FACTORY FOR
Rent Near Prey Sor Area (Factory
zone), Size: 4800sqm, electricity
and water are connected, very big
land, possible for trucks access,
very easy to nd workers...
Price: US$1.8/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW FACTORY FOR
Rent A long road No 03 (Factory
zone), Size: 5600 sqm, electricity
and water are connected, very
standard quality, very easy to nd
workers... Price: US$1.7/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
GROUND FLOOR SPACE FOR
Rent In BKKI (Near Brown Coffee),
very good for ofce, showroom and
other business purpose.
Price: US$1,200/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/
081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Sport
Administration course
starts in Sihanoukville
A SIX-DAY administration
course for 25 high school
sports teachers and officials
from the Department of
Education, Youth and Sport in
Sihanoukville gets under way
today in the southern coastal
resort town. The course is
being co-hosted by the
National Olympic Committee
of Cambodia and the
International Olympic
Committees Olympic
Solidarity program. NOCC
secretary-general Vath
Chamroeun said there are
three instructors conducting
seminars. The deputy chief of
the National Physical Training
Centre and president of the
Cambodian Football Institute,
Keo Sareth, will lecture on
legislation for starting clubs
and associations, as well as
relationships in sports
society, Vath Chamroeun told
the Post. Deputy chief of the
NOCCs Sport Science and
Medicine Centre, Dr Sdoeung
Chea, will give lessons on how
to deal with doping, as I will
offer an introduction to
Olympic and sport history,
international Olympic
management and modern
sport policies. YEUN PONLOK,
TRANSLATEDY BY CHENG SERYRITH
Pacers stop Heat in
NBA series opener
PAUL George tallied 24 points
and six assists as the Indiana
Pacers pounded reigning NBA
champion Miami 107-96 on
Sunday in the opening game of
their Eastern Conference final
series. The Pacers started
quickly by draining six of their
first seven three-point
attempts en route to a wire-to-
wire victory to begin the best-
of-seven series against the
two-time defending National
Basketball Association
champions. We have been
struggling in the opening
games of playoff series at
home, George said. If we
were to lose the first game
against a great club like the
Miami Heat it would have
made this a very long series.
We came out with a great
urgency to get this one. This
is a rematch of last years
conference championship,
which was won in seven
games by the Heat. Miami also
defeated Indiana in the
quarterfinal round of the 2012
playoffs. Game two is tonight
in Indianapolis. AFP
Todd takes Byron Nelson
for first PGA Tour victory
AMERICAN Brendon Todd fired
a four-under par 66 on Sunday
to hold off Canadas Mike Weir
and win the $6.9 million Byron
Nelson Championship for his
first US PGA title. Todd, who led
after 36 holes and shared the
lead after three rounds, finished
72 holes on 14-under 266 to
take the $1.242 million top prize
at the TPC Four Seasons. The
breakthrough triumph came in
Todds 77th career US PGA start
and booked the Atlanta native a
spot in next years Masters, just
down the road from his home
town. It feels amazing, Todd
said. Its a big monkey off my
back. Ive been through a lot of
ups and downs, but Im pretty
happy right now. Weir, the 2003
Masters champion, was second
on 268 after shooting 67 on
Sunday. AFP
Stade Khmer win sevens title
Dan Riley

A
LAST gasp try by Rath Ra
clinched the CFR Rugby
Sevens league title in em-
phatic fashion at the Old
Stadium on Sunday as Stade Khmer
edged the Garudas 21-19 in the nal
of the seniors section.
With Stade Khmer trailing in the
last remaining minute, Benoit Ra-
mond made a 30-metre dash up the
eld with the ball.
Female match referee Peou Sopho-
an penalised the Garudas for a mis-
take in the ruck and 19-year-old
Cambodian international Rath Ra
quickly kicked to himself to set up
the decisive try, converted by Dul
Khmerin.
Stade Khmer had dominated the
rst half, allowing little possession
for the Garudas as the surged ahead
through two well-worked tries from
Rath Ra and Robin Rerat. Rath Ra
kicked both conversions.
A Lee Heang try kept things inter-
esting for the Garudas, who hit back
in the second session through a star
turn by Norn Vanara.
With the seconds ticking away,
Lee Heang grabbed his second score
of the day, which was converted by
Norn Vanara, only to see the Rath Ra
late heroics spoil their party.
It was Stade Khmers rst domestic
trophy since being founded in 2005
by Francois Bleriot, a former physi-
cal education teacher at French high
school Rene Descartes.
Emotions ran deep, with many lo-
cal veteran players including Dul
Khemrin, Khoeun Sangsa and Em
Ratana contemplating retirement
during the awards ceremony.
I am so happy about this victory,
Dul Khemrin told the Post.
The nal was really hard. Garudas
played a great second half but we
never give up and always knew that
this trophy was for us.
It is a big thing for us to nally win
this trophy.
I personally lost the nal on two
occasions, so I will remember this
day for a very long time.
In other sevens results on Sunday,
ASPECA won both the U9 and U11 -
nals beating Lycee Descartes 4-0 and
2-1 respectively.
PSE got the better of ASPECA 2-0
in the U13 decider, while Taraspeca
thumped Lycee Descartes 5-0 in the
U15s concluder.
Lycee Descartes were crowned U18
champions with a 15-7 victory over
Stade Khmer, as PSE stormed to a
17-0 rout of Lycee Descartes in the
womens nal.
Local rugby development program
Kampuchea Balopp coached all the
winning teams except the U18s of
Lycee Descartes.
We are really proud and happy
about those results, said Kampuchea
Balopp head coach and development
ofcer Jean-Baptiste Suberbie.
Stade Khmers Rath Ra (left) scores the game winning try in front of Garudas player/coach Pich Ratana (centre) during their CFR Rugby
Sevens nal at the Old Stadium on Sunday. BING GUAN
BRITAINS Bradley Wiggins
captured the Tour of Califor-
nia title on Sunday and said
he looks forward to backing
countryman and team-mate
Chris Froomes bid to repeat
as Tour de France champion.
Wiggins, the 2012 Tour
de France winner, took the
overall crown in the eight-
stage US event after compa-
triot Mark Cavendish, who
won the opening stage, also
took the final stage over roll-
ing hills.
Wiggins (Team Sky) eas-
ily held onto the yellow jer-
sey in the closing 76.1-mile
(122.4km) stage that began
and ended in Thousand
Oaks, a Los Angeles suburb.
Moments after Cavendish
won the sprint across the n-
ish line to take the stage in 2
hrs 53 mins 50 secs, Wiggins
captured the overall crown in
28:22.05.
Its right up there in terms
of satisfaction more than
anything, said Wiggins. I
set my store to win the Tour
of California. At 34 its nice to
still be winning at this age.
Then Wiggins, the 2012
Tour de France left no doubt
that he would support Team
Skys Froome in July when he
seeks back-to-back triumphs
in France.
Chris wants to win a sec-
ond tour and I think every-
one is behind that, includ-
ing myself, Wiggins said.
If I am fortunate enough
to be in the Tour, it will
be in support of Chris and
thats that.
Wiggins became the rst
British rider to win the Tour
de France and then followed
with a 2012 time-trial gold
medal at his home Olympics
in London.
On Sunday, Wiggins denied
Australian overall runner-
up Rohan Dennis (Garmin-
Sharp) in a nal bid to close
the 30-second gap between
them after Saturdays sev-
enth stage.
I had an incredible team
around me, Wiggins said.
The team took the whole
strain this week. They have
done a fantastic job. It was a
fantastic way to nish.
American Lawson Crad-
dock nished third, remain-
ing 1:48 adrift after the nal
stage.
For Cavendish, a 28-year-
old Omega rider, the stage
victory was something of a
surprise.
Im in the form of my life,
he said. To win the sprint I
know my condition is good. I
really wasnt expecting it.
Germanys John Degenkolb
(Giant-Shimano) was second
in the stage with Slovakian
Peter Sagan (Cannondale)
third, both in the same time
as Cavendish. AFP
Wiggins wins in California,
sees Froome win in France
Jack Brabham dead at 88
FORMULA One great Sir Jack
Brabham, one of the sports
most accomplished drivers
and team owners, died yester-
day at his home in Australia
after a long illness, his family
said.
Brabham won three world
drivers championships and
remains the only man to win
one in a car he built himself.
He was also the first driver to
be knighted for services to
motorsport.
Its a very sad day for all of
us. My father passed away
peacefully at home at the age
of 88 this morning, son David
Brabham said in a statement.
He lived an incredible life,
achieving more than anyone
would ever dream of and he
will continue to live on through
the astounding legacy he
leaves behind.
The Australian won drivers
championships in 1959 and
1960 with the Cooper Racing
Team and again in 1966 in his
own Brabham car.
The motorsport world
mourned his passing with fel-
low Australian Formula One
champion Alan Jones hailing
him as inspirational.
I think he was inspirational
for any young bloke that want-
ed to go across overseas and
race cars, said Jones, who
won the world championship
in 1980.
He was the man they
looked up to and he was the
man they wanted to emulate.
The Confederation of Austral-
ian Motorsport (CAMS)
revered the F1 trailblazer,
known as Black Jack.
Always a man of few words
his nickname Black Jack
referred to both his dark hair
and his propensity for main-
taining a shadowy silence he
avoided small talk and was
undemonstrative in the
extreme, a statement on the
CAMS website said.
But behind the wheel he
was anything but shy and retir-
ing. He put his head down and
drove exceedingly forcefully.
Brabhams first two titles in
the Cooper Climax marked the
end of the era of front-engined
Formula 1 cars.
In 1959 he famously ran out
of fuel at the United States
Grand Prix and pushed his car
across the finish line to take
fourth place and become Aus-
tralias first Formula 1 world
champion.
Brabham, a former Royal
Australian Air Force mechanic,
in later years recounted the
amazing tale.
My car ran out of petrol
about half a mile from the end.
I couldnt do anything but just
coast to a stop, he told the
Australian Broadcasting Cor-
poration.
I eventually stopped about
100 yards from the finishing
line, and I started pushing. If
anybody assisted me, Id be
disqualified. AFP
Sir Jack Brabham was a unique Australian hero, a three-time Formula
One world champion and genius engineer. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
23
Rocky test for unfinished
World Cup opener venue
THE still-unfinished stadium
hosting the World Cup opening
game on June 12 held its first
official match on Sunday,
getting off to a shaky start
after delays and deadly
accidents marred its
construction. Sao Paulos
Corinthians Arena over-
budget, under construction
and operating at less than full
capacity 25 days from footballs
largest showcase hosted a
Brazilian league game in
which underdogs Figueirense
upset home team Corinthians
and rain drenched fans left
exposed by the unfinished roof.
The soaked fans sought cover
in higher rows, which had not
sold out, as they watched their
team lose 1-0 to the lowest-
ranking side in the table. About
36,000 fans turned out for the
game less than the 40,000
tickets that were on sale, and
well below the 68,000 expected
for World Cup matches. AFP
Parma beat Torino and
AC Milan to Europa spot
A DOUBLE from Amauri
helped Parma to a 2-0 win
over relegated Livorno which
ended Milans hopes of sealing
a sixth place finish in Italys
Serie A and a place in next
seasons Europa League.
Parmas 15th win of the
campaign mean they finish
one point ahead of Torino, in
seventh, with Milan in eighth
also on 57 points despite a 2-1
win at home to Sassuolo. It
means Milan, after 16
successive campaigns in
Europe, will have to do with
domestic competition only next
season. Torino, Parma, AC
Milan and Verona had been
battling for sixth spot and a
place in the Europa League.
Sixth place was good enough
to qualify for Europe because
Italian Cup winners Napoli had
qualified for the Champions
League and Fiorentina, the
beaten finalists, were already
guaranteed a Europa League
place themselves. AFP
River Plate return from
relegation to win title
BUENOS Aires giants River
Plate returned to their glory
days on Sunday as they won
their 35th Argentine title, just
two years after being relegated
to the second division in 2011-
12. The capital club clinched
their first top flight title since
2008, as coach Ramon Diaz
masterminded a final day 5-0
win over Quilmes, which kept
them above rivals Boca Juniors
and Estudiantes La Plata at the
top of the table. Former
Bordeaux striker Fernando
Cavenaghi struck twice in the
win at their Monumental
Stadium as the club from the
north of the city sent their fans
into raptures. AFP
Bad battles
take shine off
beautiful game
F
OOTBALL may be the beauti-
ful game but the dark side of
the sport has reared its head
all too often at the World Cup.
Four years ago in South Africa, Spain
earned legions of admirers as their at-
tractive passing style helped them to a
maiden World Cup triumph.
But the Spanish victory was so near-
ly derailed by a bitterly contested nal
which saw the Netherlands try to dis-
rupt their opponents with an overtly
physical approach.
Nigel De Jong was lucky to stay on
the pitch after planting his studs in
Xabi Alonsos chest with a wild tack-
le, while Johnny Heitinga joined the
elite band of players to have been
sent off in a World Cup nal for two
yellow cards.
In all, the nal produced some 47
fouls and 14 yellow cards, more than
any other game in the whole of the
2010 tournament.
Yet in many ways, the 2010 nal was
tame compared to some of the more
notorious episodes in the World Cups
wilder early history.
Since Placido Galindo was sent off
for Peru at the 1930 World Cup the
rst player in tournament history to
be dismissed a total of 159 players
have been sent off.
It was not until 1938 however that
a World Cup match earned the dubi-
ous distinction of being branded a
battle, when Brazil and Czechoslo-
vakia collided in a stormy quarter-
nal in Bordeaux.
A bruising encounter ended with
three players sent off, while Czecho-
slovakias forward Oldrich Nejedly
suffered a broken leg and goalkeeper
Frantisek Planicka was left with a
broken arm.
Brazil were at the centre of another
notorious brawl in Switzerland in
1954, when their quarter-nal against
Hungary became immortalised as the
Battle of Berne.
The result, a 4-2 victory for Hunga-
ry, has become a footnote of a match
which is a strong contender for the
dirtiest game in World Cup history.
The match was marred by three send-
ings off and several mass brawls, and
was interrupted by several invasions
from Brazilian ofcials and media.
This was a battle; a brutal, savage
match, recalled Hungarys coach
Gustav Sebes, who himself ended up
with four stitches in a facial wound
after being struck by a broken bottle
in a post-match brawl.
The violence was taken to a new
level at the Battle of Santiago eight
years later in Chile, when Italy and
the host nation met in a foul-tem-
pered group match.
The rst foul occurred within 12
seconds, and Italys Giorgio Ferrini
was dismissed after only 12 minutes,
needing to be dragged from the eld
by police after protesting vainly to
English referee Ken Aston.
Another Italian, Mario David, was
sent off for kicking Chiles Leonel
Sanchez in the head. Sanchez was
lucky to escape censure after break-
ing Humberto Maschios nose with
a punch. Police intervened repeat-
edly as the two teams continuously
clashed.
While isolated incidents of violence
have peppered World Cups since
most notably German goalkeeper
Toni Schumachers ying challenge on
Frances Patrick Battiston in 1982, and
Zinedine Zidanes headbutt on Marco
Materazzi in 2006 there have been
few games to rival the wildness of the
matches in Berne and Santiago.
One exception is 2006s Battle of
Nuremberg between Portugal and
the Netherlands. Russian referee Val-
entine Ivanov issued four red cards
and 16 yellows, a World Cup record,
and Portugal were fortunate not to
lose captain Luis Figo too.
Figo should have been sent off for
a retaliatory headbutt after being el-
bowed by Khalid Boulahrouz.
Jesus Christ may be able to turn
the other cheek but Luis Figo isnt Je-
sus Christ, Portugals then coach Luiz
Felipe Scolari said. AFP
Netherlands Nigel de Jong (left) kicks the chest of Spains Xabi Alonso during their 2010
World Cup nal at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. AFP
Crown triple up successes over weekend
Dan Riley
PHNOM Penh Crown com-
pleted a remarkable hat-trick
of victories across the region
over the weekend, including
their Academy sides first win
in the Asia U16 Champions
Trophy in China, a stunning
9-1 rout over Asia Europe
University in the Metfone
C-League at the Olympic Sta-
dium and the successful
defence of their SSC Soccer
Sixes youth tournament in
Singapore.
On Saturday at Guangzhous
58,500-seater Tianhe Stadium,
Crowns U16 team made a rous-
ing start to their second ACT
campaign by beating home
side Guangdong FA 2-1.
Coach Bouy Darys boys
went into the break a goal up
thanks to a neatly clipped fin-
ish over the onrushing keeper
by Chhuot Senteang on 35
minutes.
The second half witnessed a
torrential storm sweep through
the arena, with the referee left
with no choice but to pull both
sides off for ten minutes to
allow the rains to subside.
A waterlogged pitch in plac-
es limited play, but a clumsy
challenge just outside the box
by Guangdong keeper Pang
Jiajun on Crown substitute
Vat Samnang granted the
visitors a chance to push fur-
ther ahead with ten minutes
left on the clock.
Captain Ouk Sovann duly
executed a trademark free kick
beyond the reach of Pang.
The closing exchanges saw
the home side snatch one back
through an opportunistic
strike from Liao Jintao, while
Crown stopper Sem Mesa was
called into action in injury
time to see out the result.
Back on home soil on Sun-
day, the senior squad were in
rampant mood i n thei r
merciless league demolition
of AEU.
Nigerian defender Odion
Obadin got the ball rolling for
the four-time league winners
on 22 minutes, and then
moments later, new Australian
recruit Adriano Pellegrino
announced his arrival in the
Kingdom with a quick fire
double.
Hong Phengs goal just
before the interval had Crown
firmly in the drivers seat, and
striker George Bisan found the
net no less than four times in
the second half to signify his
intent on the Golden Boot
award this year.
Thong Da also got on the
scoresheet for Crown on 63
minutes, with Sary Matnoro-
tin scoring a consolation goal
six minutes later.
Midfielder Pellegrino, who
turns 30 next month, enjoyed
a dream debut for his latest
club, having enjoyed a career
that spans nearly 100 games in
the top tier A-League, includ-
ing stints at the likes of Perth
Glory and Central Coast Mari-
ners. The former Australian
U20 international also pro-
duced four assists to go with
his brace on Sunday.
Over in Singapore, Crowns
U14s once again dominated
their six-a-side tournament,
racking up huge group stage
wins over Singapore Muham-
madiyah A (6-0), Singapore B
(9-0) and Bali (10-0) before
coming a cropper against a
Phuket outfit (2-1).
The results saw Crown
progress to their second
straight final, where they
managed to reverse the loss
to their Thai opponents in the
group, emergi ng as 2-0
victors.
Phnom Penh Crown Academy U16 team line up before their Asia U16 Champions Trophy match against
Guangdong FA at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, China on Saturday. ANDY BROUWER
Spanish La Liga
Real Sociedad 1 Villarreal 2
Almera 0 Athletic Bilbao 0
Osasuna 2 Real Betis 1
Rayo Vallecano 1 Getafe 2
Real Valladolid 0 Granada 1
Sevilla 3 Elche 1
Italian Serie A
Catania 2 Atalanta 1
Genoa 1 Roma 0
Juventus 3 Cagliari 0
Chievo 2 Inter Milan 1
Fiorentina 2 Torino 2
Lazio 1 Bologna 0
Napoli 5 Verona 1
SUNDAYS RESULTS
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 20, 2014
Sport
Honda Repsols Spanish rider Marc Marquez (right) overtakes Yamahas Italian rider Valentino Rossi to go on and claim victory in the French MotoGP race at Le Mans in western France on Sunday. AFP
Marquez makes it a perfect five
S
PANIARD Marc Marquez
became the rst rider since
Italian great Giacomo Ago-
stini in 1972 to win the rst
ve races of the season as he eased
to victory in the French MotoGP at
Le Mans on Sunday.
The 21-year-old Honda rider
who also emulated Australias Mick
Doohan in winning ve straight rac-
es from pole recovered from a poor
start to take control with 16 laps re-
maining and came home ahead of
Italian great Valentino Rossi (Yama-
ha) while Alvaro Bautista of Spain
was third on a Honda Gresini.
Victory on Sunday made the reign-
ing world champion the youngest
ever rider to win ve successive
races in the premier class, taking the
record from late Englishman Mike
Hailwood, who was 22 years and 160
days old when he won ve succes-
sive races in the 500cc class in 1962.
Marquez moved onto a perfect 125
points from a possible 125 while his
teammate Dani Pedrosa is second
on 83 and Rossi is third a further two
points adrift.
Rossis struggling, two-time world
champion teammate Jorge Loren-
zo, is down in fth place on just
45 points.
Today was a little bit harder espe-
cially the beginning, Marquez told
BT Sports. I was a bit too calm and
needed to be a bit more aggressive
at the start.
Once I saw Valentino make a bit
of a mistake I took my opportunity
to take the lead. I am going to enjoy
the moment for ve wins from ve is
very special.
Rossi was phlegmatic about his
second spot, which was his third in
the ve races this season.
I am so happy about the result. It
is a pity about my mistake as it was
at a crucial part of the race, the 35-
year-old nine-time champion told
BT Sports.
It was too easy for Marc in the
end but we will try in my home race
in Mugello the next time to get our
own back.
For Bautista it was the culmination
of a great weekend as his beloved
Atletico Madrid had won the Span-
ish football league title on Saturday
for the rst time in 18 years.
Today was amazing, incredible,
leading to what has been the perfect
weekend for me, the 29-year-old
said with a broad smile.
Marquez got overwhelmed at the
start of the race as Andrea Dovizioso,
Stefan Bradl, Rossi and Pol Esparga-
ro swept past him and his efforts to
regain his position were thwarted as
he clipped Lorenzos back wheel and
did brilliantly not to go down.
Rossi, Espargaro and Bradl passed
Dovizioso with 23 laps remaining
while Marquez continued his ght
back by overtaking Rossis team-
mate Lorenzo with 22 laps to go to
move into fth.
He was fourth a lap later and going
away from the stands with 19 laps
remaining, he overtook Bradl and
set off after Espargaro with Rossi
still leading while Doviziosos electic
start had petered out completely as
he dropped like a stone to 10th.
Marquez breezed past Espargaro
the following lap and with 16 laps
from the nish the young Spaniard
went past the Italian as Rossi went
too wide on a corner and Marquez
needed no second invitation to take
the lead and soon built up an advan-
tage of over a second.
Behind the front two, Bautista
was surging up the eld and was
turning the pressure on Espargaro
for third place which he eventu-
ally secured while Marquezs team-
mate Dani Pedrosa produced a late
charge passing Lorenzo to claim
fth. AFP
Djokovic mind on French Open, heart with Serbia
NOVAK Djokovic believes that
his Rome Masters triumph
over Rafael Nadal is the per-
fect tonic ahead of his latest
attempt to win the French
Open and complete a career
Grand Slam.
The world number two
came from a set down to
depose seven-time Rome
champion Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
and capture his third title in
the Italian capital.
It was his fourth successive
victory over the world number
one and came just a week
before the start of the French
Open, the only major the Serb
has yet to win.
Winning a final of a great
tournament with Rafa on clay
is definitely a confidence
booster and the ultimate chal-
lenge, Djokovic said.
I am very happy with my
game and I hope I can carry it
to Roland Garros.
Sundays win was Djokovics
19th career Masters title and
his 19th win against Nadal in
41 meetings.
It also allowed the 26-year-
old to convince himself that
the right wrist injury which
torpedoed his Monte Carlo
Masters title defence and then
ruled him out of the Madrid
Masters is a thing of the past.
Its been a great week, con-
sidering how I was few weeks
ago with the injury and I didnt
know how the wrist was going
to react this week, he said.
Luckily for me I played
with no pain, increasing the
level of my tennis as the week
went on.
Djokovic, a six-time major
winner thanks to four Austral-
ian Open triumphs and one
apiece at the US Open and
Wimbledon, was beaten in the
final at Roland Garros by Nad-
al in 2012.
Last year, he was a break up
in the final set of a semifinal
epic against the Spaniard
before Nadal came through to
win 9-7.
I do not underestimate any
opponent and especially Rafa
who is the best player ever in
the history on this surface, we
all know his record, said Djok-
ovic, desperate to keep a lid
on expectations.
Djokovics caution is under-
standable given Nadal has an
astonishing record of eight
titles in Paris, 59 match wins
and just one loss in a run
stretching back to 2005.
But chinks are appearing in
the famed Nadal armour.
His loss on Sunday meant he
had lost three clay-court
matches in the same season
for the first time since 2004
when he was 17.
Worryingly for him, Djokovic
fired a huge 46 winners past
him in Sundays final.
Nadal put on a brave face
after his defeat which followed
a tough three-set win over Andy
Murray in the quarter-finals.
I was able to compete good
with one of the best players of
the moment, Nadal said.
My chances to play well at
Roland Garros two weeks ago
werent very high, now I arrive
at Roland Garros with more
encouragement.
Meanwhile, Djokovic dedi-
cated his win on Sunday to the
Balkans where floods in Serbia
and Bosnia have killed at least
44 people while making thou-
sands of others homeless.
Not being present makes
me sad because I cannot phys-
ically contribute because if I
was there I would, definitely,
he said.
As soon as the flood passes
by well need help from the
world because the process of
recovery can last for months
or years. This is the biggest dis-
aster in the history of our
country. AFP
Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, eyes the ball in his ATP Romes Tennis Masters
nal against Rafael Nadal, of Spain, on Sunday at the Foro Italico. AFP