Eddie Morton

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T MAY not have all the glitter,
adrenaline or the iconic tolling
bell of Wall Street, but today, the
usually deserted Cambodian
Stock Exchange (CSX) will be a hive
of activity.
After rst hinting at an initial public
offering more than two years ago, gar-
ment manufacturer Grand Twins Inter-
national (GTI) and its chief underwrit-
ing rm, Phnom Penh Securities (PPS),
have steered their way through the
listing process to become the countrys
rst private company stock offering
since the CSX launched in 2011.
With an opening price today of
$2.41 per share, GTI will become just
the second rm to list on the bourse
after the state-owned Phnom Penh
Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) in
April 2012.
This is the most important listing
for the CSXs future. The entire private
sector, not only here but also overseas,
is watching to see if Cambodias stock
exchange is going to grow, Stephen
Hsu, CEO of PPS said.
GTI, which has more than 5,600
staff making sporting apparel for
the likes of Adidas and Reebok in its
factories on the outskirts of Phnom
Penh, announced in January that
it was oating a 20 per cent stake
in the company through an eight-
million-share offering. In April, after
numerous delays in the initial book-
building process, the rm cemented
its per-share listing price.
GTI arrived in Cambodia in 1997,
leasing a space within the Canadia In-
dustrial Park before moving into their
current facility in 2006. The company
touts itself as a model example for fac-
tory working standards, with a clean
bill of health from the International
Labour Organizations Better Factories
Cambodia.
The companys employees, the
ranks of which are set to grow by an
additional 2,300 upon completion of
two expansion projects funded by the
$20 million raised through the IPO,
say that the monthly pay, leave enti-
tlements and working conditions are
above average.
My base salary now is $240, not in-
cluding other bonuses, said Srun Thi-
da, who has worked for GTI for more
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May Titthara and Laignee Barron
SIX undocumented Cambodian
migrants and their driver died in a car
crash on Saturday night, officials said,
making them the first confirmed cas-
ualties in an exodus of workers trying
to escape instability in junta-con-
trolled Thailand.
The workers were en route to the
border when their broker-hired truck
overturned in Thailands Chachoeng-
sao province, according to Chen Pis-
eth, deputy director of the Cambodia-
Thai Border Relations Office.
The International Organization for
Migration (IOM) said staff medics
assisted an additional 13 wounded
passengers, who the government said
are also Cambodian workers. The
injured were transported to the Cam-
bodian-Soviet Hospital in Banteay
Meanchey province, where medical
authorities are also attempting to
identify the dead passengers and
return their bodies to their families.
It was a chance traffic accident
caused by carelessness, Piseth said.
The driver carried a heavy load and
drove fast, so when one of the wheels
got a flat, [the truck] overturned.
Spurred on by fear of arrest and
detention as police and soldiers con-
duct worksite raids, more than 110,000
workers, mostly undocumented, have
spilled through the border town of
Poipet in Banteay Meanchey since
June 1, according to IOM. About
40,000 people crossed yesterday
morning alone, leaving aid workers to
speculate that by the time the border
closed at about 11pm, the count
would far exceed the previous days
record-breaking 45,000 returnees.
Its very, very busy and chaotic
here, said Sum Chankea, Banteay
Meanchey coordinator for rights
group Adhoc. The stream of people
is never ending.
Recently returned workers at the
border told the Post that they didnt
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the border
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dare stay in Thailand, preferring job-
lessness and homeless to a panic trig-
gered by unsubstantiated rumours that
Thai authorities have shot and killed
undocumented workers.
Many migrants reported returning
after their employers fired them follow-
ing pressure and threats of steep fines
from the junta government.
The military has consistently down-
played its role in the frenzy, however,
and denied ordering the expulsion of
undocumented labourers despite a
spokesmans announcement last
Wednesday that undocumented work-
ers would be arrested and deported if
they were found.
In a statement issued on Friday,
Thailands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
spokesman Sek Wannamethee dis-
missed accusations that the military
was conducting a national crack-
down on Cambodian workers regard-
less of their status . . . forcibly [repatri-
ating] them to their homeland, calling
it a groundless rumour. He added
that the military has been instructed
to help facilitate the voluntarily
returning Cambodians with their
travels, not to force them back.
Wannamethee went so far as to claim
that workers are leaving to assist with
rice farming in their home provinces,
and rejected the assertion that any Thai
officials have used violence against
Cambodian workers.
Cambodians have long supplied an
integral part of Thailands 3.5 million-
strong foreign workforce, bolstering
the countrys shortage of unskilled
labourers. In return, the higher paying
jobs in Thailand allow for remittances
to be sent home.
General Prayuth Chan-ocha has said
that Thailand needs its foreign workers,
but he wants a well-managed system in
which [the workers] should be regu-
lated. Last week, the National Council
for Peace and Order announced the
creation of a committee to oversee the
creation and enforcement of policies
regarding the migrant workforce, but
the order did not mention any deporta-
tion plan.
Meanwhile, dozens of repatriated
Cambodians told the Post about having
to hide during recent police raids and
reported being solicited for as much as
$66 by military officials in exchange
for safe passage to the border. Thai
media also reported several check-
points set up along highways where
military personnel are apprehending
scores of migrant workers.
Recently repatriated construction
worker Kim San, 35, said that when sol-
diers ostensibly came to assist the 300
workers at his site in returning to Cam-
bodia, the officers instead jailed the
group, demanding each pay 300 baht
($10) to get out of detention.
The workers had to pay an addition-
al 1,700 baht for the soldiers to bus
them to the border.
We were told if we didnt have the
money, they would shoot us or keep us
in detention, he said.
Yesterday, the national police com-
missioners website featured pictures of
Cambodian workers in Thailand clear-
ing grass. The post said the workers were
caught trying to return to Cambodia,
and because they could not pay soldiers
300 baht each, they were forced to clear
the area around the border checkpoint
adjoining Battambang province before
they were permitted to leave.
National Police spokesman Kirt
Chantharith said yesterday that the
Ministry of Interior was investigat-
ing the situation, but declined to
comment further.
Cambodian officials have respond-
ed to allegations of abused migrant
workers by calling for mutual coop-
eration to assist with safe passage.
Thai authorities have arrested and
deported Cambodian migrant workers
in a rush and have not paid attention
to the safety and well-being of Cam-
bodian migrant labourers, Interior
Minister Sar Kheng said in a statement
released on Friday.
But repatriated workers are finding
their troubles dont end after crossing
the border; several have discovered
themselves subject to abuse and exploi-
tation by fellow Cambodians. Police in
Poipet yesterday arrested two local men
after they charged migrants for nonex-
istent bus tickets on government-sub-
sidised transportation.
Workers reported that the suspects
took 4,000 riel per person [$1] for a
ticket to go back home in the provinces,
said Om Sophal, Poipet police chief.
The government and IOM have mobi-
lised all forms of trucks, chartered bus-
es, vans and military vehicles to trans-
port migrant workers to the provinces
for free. Prime Minister Hun Sen has so
far allocated about 300 military trucks
to assist deportees.
But with an unending stream of
unemployed, vulnerable migrants
crossing into Cambodia, and with esti-
mates of the undocumented workers
remaining in Thailand hovering near
the 200,000 mark, rights monitors said
a long-term reintegration plan is inte-
gral to steering the country away from
an economic crisis.
These people are in complete shock
and dont have the means to transition
back into society or the workforce.
Theyre going to need emergency assist-
ance, said Ou Virak, chairman of the
Cambodian Centre for Human Rights.
This will have an undoubted neg-
ative effect on the economies of both
countries. Its going to be a signifi-
cant problem if something isnt
done, he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA, PHAK SEANGLY AND THE
BANGKOK POST
Rainsy asks
junta to care
for migrants
Amelia Woodside
O
PPOSITION leader Sam
Rainsy sent a letter to Thai-
lands ruling junta on Friday
calling for the tens of thou-
sands of Cambodian migrant workers
forcibly repatriated since early June to
be treated humanely.
In the letter addressed to General
Prayuth Chan-ocha, who assumed
power in a May 22 coup, Rainsy begs
that the safety and dignity of all Cam-
bodians still living on Thai soil be
treated in step with international
human rights standards.
I can assure you that all those Cam-
bodian workers only wish to work and
to live quietly and peacefully in Thai-
land because living conditions in Cam-
bodia are terribly bad for poor people
like them. They are not involved in Thai
politics and are not associated in any
manner with any political group or
party, the letter reads.
Since June 1, thousands of Cambo-
dian workers have been deported from
Thailand.
Yem Ponharith, an opposition party
spokesman, said yesterday that the gov-
ernments response to the deportations
had been inadequate.
[The] ruling party has not yet pro-
vided enough support . . . we sent the
letter to make sure the rights of our
workers are better respected, he said.
But ruling party lawmaker Cheam
Yeap said the military is already doing
enough to take care of them.
I dont know why he [Rainsy] does
this . . . were already sending trucks to
make sure they get home, he said.
Political analyst Kem Ley commend-
ed Rainsys initiative.
This is a conversation that should be
had between the Cambodian and Thai
government . . . this should be about
coalition building not about individual
political agendas, Ley said.
Where is Prime Minister Hun Sens
letter to the Thai junta?
But fellow analyst Chea Vannath said
the letter was tantamount to political
posturing. This is yet another way that
we are showing the world that Cambo-
dia is divided, she said. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY VONG SOKHENG
A Cambodian migrant worker with her children walks past a queue of military transport trucks at the Banteay Meanchey border
town of Poipet last week. VIREAK MAI
We were told if we didnt have
the money, they would shoot
us or keep us in detention
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NGO to drop Somalys name
Alice Cuddy
T
HE Somaly Mam Foundation
has pledged to change its name
following the resignation of its
founder and namesake amid al-
legations that she fabricated details about
her own backstory and those of supposed
sexual assault victims.
In a statement released on Friday, Soma-
ly Mam Foundation (SMF) executive direc-
tor Gina Reiss-Wilchins says the organisa-
tion has been working tirelessly to chart
the best path for . . . moving forward.
[SMF will] be rebranding, renaming,
and re-launching our organisation, Re-
iss-Wilchins says.
The resignation of Mam, Cambodias
most famous anti-sex-trafcking activ-
ist, from SMF last month came just days
after Newsweek published an article
alleging that key parts of her story had
been fabricated.
Among the claims, Mams stories of
orphanhood and teenage sexual slavery
were called into question.
In March, the foundation hired US-based
law rm Goodwin Proctor to conduct an
independent, third-party investigation
into the claims against Mam and alleged
trafcking victim Long Pros, whom the
organisation had featured in media cam-
paigns to attract support and funding.
Mams organisation said that Pros had
been sold into a brothel, where she had
endured abuse and torture. The now-
discredited story was rst brought to
public attention by New York Times col-
umnist Nick Kristof and through Mams
appearance on Oprah. After the Good-
win Proctor ndings, the organisation
permanently cut all ties with Pros.
Mam is also alleged to have fabricated
and scripted the testimony of another
woman, Meas Ratha, for a French docu-
mentary in 1998.
In 2012, Mam backtracked on a state-
ment she made earlier that year to the
UN General Assembly, where she claimed
that Cambodian soldiers killed eight girls
in a raid on one of her shelters in 2004.
In Fridays statement, Reiss-Wilchins
says the organisation has received ad-
ditional inquiries from media outlets
including the New York Times regarding
Somaly Mams resignation.
While we do not know the exact scope
of these new allegations, some may involve
questions about Somalys life and the prac-
tices of Cambodian NGOs, she adds.
The statement points out that SMF is a
registered nonprot organisation and is
fully audited every year, adding that the
2013 audit will be made publicly available
before November 15.
There is critical work to be done, and
our commitment to our work and to the
women and girls we serve has and will
not waver, the statement says.
Somaly Mam speaks at an event hosted by her foundation at New York Citys Gotham Hall last
year. Her name is to be dropped from the Somaly Mam Foundation. AFP
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
AFTER rocks from a worksite
detonation killed one of his
employees, a manager at a
Kratie province granite com-
pany was questioned yesterday
for allegedly trying to cover up
the circumstances surround-
ing the fatality, police said.
Chinese national Chov Chin-
lean, 39, died after a crew from
Moeung Sok Granite Product
Enterprise set off explosives at
a mountain in Snuol districts
Svay Chreah commune, said
Chreong Phally, provincial po-
lice chief in charge of explo-
sives statistics. Co-worker and
countryman Chhin Chifarng,
42, suffered serious injuries to
his legs from the blast.
But following the incident,
the two men were brought to
Kampong Cham Provincial
Hospital by fellow Moeung Sok
Granite employees, who told
medical staff the men were in-
jured in a trafc accident.
The two victims were sent
to Kampong Cham Provincial
Hospital immediately by the
companys vehicle in order to
hide information from the au-
thorities, Phally said. They
turned the case into a trafc
accident so they would not
be held responsible to com-
pensate workers and families.
Kratie police called in Moe-
ung Sok Granite manager Yu
Sovanret for questioning yes-
terday after investigators sus-
pected that the hazardous use
of explosives used to break
pieces of granite from the
mountain and not a trafc
accident had killed Chinlean,
Phally said. Sovanret was not
detained after questioning.
Calls to Moeung Sok Granite
yesterday went unanswered.
A manager being questioned
about a workplace death is
much more unusual than a
company lying about an em-
ployees death, Ou Virak, chair-
man of the Cambodian Center
for Human Rights, said.
Its quite common, espe-
cially for the managers, to
get away with it, Virak said.
In similar cases, authorities
only look further into causes
of death if there is a monetary
incentive, he added.
Sovanret was called in after
a woman who cooks rice for
employees said an explosion
killed Chinlean, Phally said.
Police have had problems
with Moeung Sok Granite over
the past year, mostly to do
with alleged illegal use of ex-
plosives, Phally said. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
Work death disguised
as road accident: cops
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Domestic worker day to
see maids rally for rights
Mom Kunthear
ABOUT 100 domestic workers
plan to gather today in front of
the Ministry of Labour to mark
International Domestic Work-
ers Day by calling on the gov-
ernment to do more to ensure
their rights.
Vun Samphors, president of
the Cambodian Domestic
Workers Network (CDWN), told
the Post that participants
planned to submit a petition to
the ministry.
I want to [ask] the minister
to take legal action and admin-
istrative action to protect the
rights of domestic workers,
such as to study research on the
situation of domestic workers
in Cambodia and set a decent
minimum wage for them.
Samphors is also calling on
the government to ratify the
International Labour Organi-
zations Convention 189, which
entitles domestic workers to
one day off every week, among
other benefits.
Samphors said that ahead of
the event the CDWN had dis-
tributed hundreds of leaflets
to market vendors and home-
owners across Phnom Penh to
promote the rights of domes-
tic workers.
According to Samphors,
while the CDWN has just 368
members, there are some
240,000 domestic workers
across the country.
Most of them are from poor
families and are poorly edu-
cated, she said, adding that
workers can earn between $50
and $150 each month.
The workers who work in
foreigners homes receive a
higher wage, she said.
A 22-year-old domestic
worker who asked not to be
named said she works more
than 10 hours a day for a
monthly wage of just $50.
It would be really good if
domestic workers could get a
higher wage . . . I have to get up
at 4:30 or 5am to start my jobs
such as cleaning the home,
washing clothes, cooking and
looking after the homeowners
kids, she said.
The government is nearing
deals that would see Cambo-
dian domestic workers sent to
Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
In April, the Post found that
at least three Cambodians who
had travelled to work as maids
in Singapore since August last
year as part of a pilot scheme
have complained to worker
welfare groups there about
employer abuse and poor
working conditions.
Floating houses come back
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
A
FISHING commu-
nity that abandoned
a stretch of the Tonle
Sap river in Phnom
Penhs Russey Keo district ear-
lier this month after dead sh
began appearing in the water
have brought their oating
houses back home, authori-
ties and community represen-
tatives said yesterday.
The 29 families who live on
houseboats returned to their
village from Kandal provinces
Lvea Em district a few days ago,
believing that pollutants had
owed downstream and were
no longer causing harm, com-
munity representative Mot
Hosan said.
However, their return may
have been premature, Akrei
Khsat commune police chief
Ann Penh said.
We wanted them to stay
away for a few days to avoid
the dead sh, but they claimed
the Mekong Rivers currents
had already pushed the pol-
lutants away, Penh said, add-
ing that the community began
returning on Saturday.
Members of the commu-
nity, some of whom have
lived in the area since the fall
of the Khmer Rouge, began
moving on June 1. More than
a tonne of sh were dying
every day, villagers said last
week, resulting in a massive
depletion of daily income
and food.
Villagers blamed industrial
factories operating in Russey
Keo district as one reason for
the spate of sh deaths, while
District Deputy Governor Ly
Rozamie blamed low water
levels and high temperatures.
What caused these sh to
die was a change in the water
currents between the rainy
season and the dry season,
she said.
While Rozamie last week
promised that environmental
and shery experts would ex-
amine the water, villagers say
this has yet to happen.
On a wider scale, Cambo-
dias freshwater sh are fac-
ing a threat from changes in
temperature resulting from
climate change, Ian Baird, a
professor and sheries expert
at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, said.
Essentially, Mekong sh
are believed to be sensitive
to changes in temperature,
and so signicant changes
in temperatures resulting
from human-induced climate
change could have devastat-
ing impacts on sh stocks in
Cambodia, particularly in re-
lation to sh production, he
said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AME-
LIA WOODSIDE
Fishermen sit in boats near oating houses in Kandal province earlier this month after relocating from
Phnom Penhs Russey Keo district. HONG MENEA
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Rainsy claims deal changed
Meas Sokchea

O
PPOSITION Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party leader Sam
Rainsy has claimed that Prime
Minister Hun Sen personally
oated a plan to have National Election
Committee members appointed by a
unanimous vote in parliament, not the
50-plus-one position that ruling party of-
cials are demanding.
A senior negotiator for the Cambodian
Peoples Party quickly dismissed Rainsys
claim and chalked it up to a misunder-
standing of terms.
Speaking at CNRP headquarters on
Saturday ahead of a three-week trip to
Europe, Rainsy told reporters that in his
April phone conversation with Hun Sen,
the long-serving premier suggested the
unanimous vote option.
When I talked with Samdech Prime
Minister Hun Sen [about appointing] the
members of the NEC by a majority of two-
thirds, Mr Hun Sen claimed that unanim-
ity is better than two-thirds, Rainsy said.
In April, the two parties appeared to
be on the cusp of a deal that would bring
opposition lawmakers back into the gov-
ernment. The 55 lawmakers-elect have
refused to take their seats due to allega-
tions of fraudulent voting practices in
Julys election.
Hun Sen agreed last week to grant the
opposition a licence for a TV station and
to make the NEC the nine members
of which oversee national elections ev-
ery four years and make the nal vote
tallies a constitutional body. Both are
key demands of the opposition.
Negotiations on Friday hit a snag, how-
ever, on the proportion of lawmakers that
would need to approve NEC members. The
ruling party insisted on 50 plus one, while
the opposition argued for two-thirds. With
68 seats, the ruling CPP does not have a
two-thirds majority in parliament.
Prum Sokha, lead negotiator for the
CPPs working group, said Rainsy had
completely misunderstood the proposal.
We would [both] choose unanimous-
ly] through a permanent committee of
the parliament, prepare a list and send it
to the parliament to pass by 50 plus one.
He has confused this, Sokha said. I also
have the text that Samdech negotiated
with him. He forgot.
As for additional requests for term lim-
its for NEC members and that seats be
made available for members of civil so-
ciety as well as from each political party,
Sokha said they can be part of future dis-
cussions yet to be publicly scheduled.
He added that the oppositions rm
stance on requiring two-thirds approval
for election committee appointees was
holding up political negotiations.
Prum Sokha (centre), head of the CPPs negotiations working group, speaks to the press at the
Senate building in Phnom Penh last week after a meeting with CNRP counterparts. HENG CHIVOAN
Union leader to face
another day in court
Sean Teehan
THE leader of Cambodias
largest independent garment
union will appear in court this
afternoon for a third round of
pretrial questioning over a
case stemming from a strike
that ended more than six
months ago.
Coalition of Cambodian
Apparel Workers Democratic
Union (C.CAWDU) president
Ath Thorn, who is appealing
bail requirements that prevent
him from holding public gath-
erings, remains unsure wheth-
er the complaint of incitement
filed by a security guard at SL
Garment Processing will make
it to trial.
Based on the case, Im not
involved, said Thorn, who was
charged in April. Questioning
will begin at 3pm.
Depending on the investigat-
ing judge and prosecutors
decision, Thorn and union
activist Pav Phanna could both
stand trial for inciting violence
during a nearly four-month-
long strike involving thousands
of workers. At the height of the
strike, police opened fire with
live ammunition during a riot
on November 12, killing a street
food vendor.
SL security guard Sath Sophai
filed a court complaint against
Thorn and Phanna, saying he
was injured during the course
of the strike.
In addition to the $25,000
paid to the court last month
and the stipulation he may not
host gatherings, Thorns bail
agreement requires he stay
away from SL. Thorn and attor-
ney Kim Socheat have yet to
hear from the appellate court
about the appeal they filed
in April.
Socheat has told the Post
that he believes SL is behind
the lawsuit.
In an interview yesterday, SL
executive director Wong Hon
Ming denied any involvement
on the part of the company. He
said SL is not providing Sophai
with legal representation.
Sophai, Hon Ming said,
returned to his home province
after SL paid him an undis-
closed amount of money.
The lawsuit is merely a deter-
rent for other union leaders to
engage in large-scale indus-
trial action, said Moeun Tola,
head of the labour program at
the Community Legal Educa-
tion Center.
They use the court system
to intimidate, he said. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY ANNIE LEE AND
RAINBOW LI
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Massage parlour gives
police no time to relax
POLICE in Preah Sihanouk
province were rubbed the
wrong way by a massage par-
lour they believed was operat-
ing as a brothel. Provincial anti-
human trafficking and juvenile
protection officials raided the
establishment on Thursday,
finding many used and unused
condoms, police said. The own-
er was held for questioning and
four employees were sent to
the provincial Womens Affairs
Department. KOHSANTEAPHEAP
Thieves make a dogs
dinner of stealing spree
TWO men masquerading as
dog catchers were arrested by
Takeo provincial police on Fri-
day night, when they discovered
their real business was stealing
car batteries and motos. Sos
Ronr, 33, and Mek Pikeatha, 28,
were known in their village as
expert dog catchers. But
authorities responding to a
complaint from a villager who
alleged that the duo stole their
car battery found them in pos-
session of five stolen batteries
and an ill-gotten moto. The two
suspects confessed to the
crime, police said, explaining
that neither is able to catch
dogs. RASMEY KAMPUCHEA
Drunken husband hits
wife with garden tool
ANOTHER drunken husband is
behind bars after allegedly
attacking his wife with a gar-
dening hoe in Takeo province
on Thursday, resulting in a trip
to the hospital for her and a trip
to jail for him. The 47-year-old
victim was speaking with a
neighbour when she declined a
boozy call from her husband to
come home. Growing angrier
with each time she rebuffed his
calls, he eventually picked up a
hoe and struck her with its
handle. The suspect said he
was too drunk to control him-
self. RASMEY KAMPUCHEA
Killer sees red during
dice game with friend
A KILLER is on the loose in
Kampong Cham provinces
Chamkar Leu district, police
said. The victim, a friend of the
alleged killer, drove him to a
dice game in their village on
Saturday night, police said. At
one point, the victim walked
away from the game, and for
reasons unknown, the suspect
allegedly beat him with a blunt
object on his head and body.
Authorities are still looking for
the suspect. DEUMAMPIL
Prison guards look for
extra hours behind bars
THREE Pursat Provincial Pris-
on guards could be spending a
lot more time at their work-
place after police arrested
them and two others for
alleged drug use early on yes-
terday morning. Police in
Banteay Dei commune were
patrolling the area when they
noticed suspicious activity
inside one house, provincial
authorities said. Police
searched the house, finding five
suspects three of them pris-
on guards using undisclosed
drugs. Police arrested the sus-
pects and confiscated the
drugs. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Mom Kunthear
POLICE
BLOTTER
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Immigration Visa (IV) Assistant
TheU.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual for
theImmigration Visa (IV) Assistant position for theConsular
Affairs Ofce.
The incumbent serves in the Immigration Visa (IV) Unit
under the Consular Ofcer in charge of the team and the
Visa Supervisor, performing the full range of IV services for
Cambodian IV cases. The jobholder also serves on a rotational
basis with the Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) Unit for the full
range of NIV case processing. S/hereceives visa applications
and supporting documents, prescreens cases, advises
ofcers on Cambodia cultural and social issues, processes
applications, deals with correspondence and explains the visa
process to members of the public and provides interpretation
for American ofcers when needed.
Salary: Theannual salary rangefor this position is
USD9,216 14,286.
Required Qualications
Completion of High School is required. 1.
Two years of progressively responsible experience 2.
involving the application of complex regulatory
material, along with experience in public contact is
required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English 3.
and Khmer are required. Language prociency will
betested.
Must have general ofce management practices and 4.
basic computer skills.
Ability to deal with customers with patience and tact 5.
and to work under pressure.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is June26, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.
gov using the Universal Application for Employment as a
Locally Employed Staff or Family Member (DS-174) form.
The application form and complete details on this position
can be found at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/employment_
opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have
the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for
consideration.
Regional recognition
Post wins 4
more awards
at the SOPAs
T
HE Phnom Penh Post has
brought home another
four honours from the an-
nual Society of Publishers in Asia
(SOPA) awards in Hong Kong.
Continuing its ne form of
past years, the Post edged out
erce competition from across
the region on Wednesday night
to clinch one top award and
three honourable mentions in
the English-language category
for newspapers that circulate in
primarily one or two countries.
The top award for Excellence
in Investigative Reporting went
to David Boyle for his story Giving
more than 100%, which judges
said showed in a black and white
way just how prevalent voter fraud
is, or could be, in Cambodia.
For a collection of four news
stories involving more than 20
reporters and photographers
from last years national election,
the Post received an honourable
mention in the breaking news
section. Honourable mentions
were also received in the catego-
ries of digital news and environ-
mental reporting.
The Post has now won more
than 20 accolades in the past six
years. POST STAFF
Backs to the wall
Security personnel stand along the remains of a brick wall that was partially destroyed during a protest yesterday morning by local residents and
monks near Wat Kohbodhivong in Phnom Penhs Sen Sok district. The planned Star Platinum housing development by Borey Peng Huoth, set in an
area deemed sacred by the Ministry of Cult and Religion in 2009, has been an ongoing source of contention ever since. Residents insist that Deputy
District Governor Chea Khema and tycoon Cheeang Paksour are working with Huoth to bypass legal red tape barring construction that would
infringe upon the temple. HONG MENEA
A man watches sports on Bayon TV in Phnom Penhs Chamkarmon district yesterday. HONG MENEA
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Italy urges
EU to scrap
Cambodia
tax favours
Chan Muyhong
ITALY wants the UN to scrap
Cambodias rice import tax ex-
emption, according to leaked
excerpts of a dossier prepared
by that countrys Ministry of
Economic Development.
The Italian governments
submission states that the
EUs duty-free treatment of
Cambodian rice has reduced
Italys raw rice market price,
has caused a 22 per cent de-
cline in annual rice plantings
and discourages farmers from
continuing to grow the crop.
This will cause an irrevers-
ible deterioration of the eco-
nomic and nancial perfor-
mance of the sector to which
it will be impossible to rem-
edy, resulting in jobs crisis and
serious risk of failure, reads
one the excerpts, which were
leaked by Italian rice industry
website risoitaliano.eu.
It adds that with Italian rice
prices at about $870 per tonne
and Cambodian prices at $590
per tonne, Italian producers
are unable to compete. Italy
is asking the EU to impose a
Cambodian rice import tariff
of $230 per tonne to essential-
ly level the playing eld.
Sok Puthyvuth, president of
Cambodia Rice Federation,
said yesterday that more than
80 per cent of Cambodias rice
exports are shipped to the EU.
The EU is a big market for
Cambodia, and we cannot
lose our tax exempt status. We
will discuss with the members
for a solution. Our goal is to
expand the market, so we will
not stand still, he said.
In the rst ve months of
this year, Cambodia export-
ed 115,720 tonnes of rice to
European countries. More
than 3800 tonnes were export-
ed to Italy.
Ly Yong Phat wants TV station
May Kunmakara

P
ROMINENT tycoon
and ruling party sena-
tor Ly Yong Phat has
now set his sights on
the media landscape.
Phat, the head of LYP Group,
on Friday conrmed plans
that he is seeking to set up a
television station.
The entry of an LYP chan-
nel, proposed as part of a joint
venture with unnamed media
companies from France and
Thailand, would make it the
11th commercial TV station in
Cambodia.
I want to invest in the TV
channel because I want to
share accurate news with peo-
ple, Phat said, adding that the
new station would focus on
Cambodian social issues.
I am cooperating with
French and Thai investors who
have years of experience in the
industry. I want to launch a
very professional and modern
program for the audience,
he said, declining to disclose
the investment capital or the
name of partners.
Television-frequency licence
holders are allowed to run
up to three or four channels,
though each requires a li-
cence, which must be given by
the Ministry of Information.
Phat said he had not yet
been granted a licence but was
in negotiations to use the fre-
quency of an existing operator,
which he declined to name.
Minister of Information Kh-
ieu Kanharith was more up-
front about Phats dealings.
LYP is negotiating for the
licence from Bayon group.
Once an agreement is reached,
Bayon group has to give up
its right over the frequency,
he said.
Kanharith warned that more
stations entering the already
crowded market would mean
less advertising revenue to go
around, which could lead to
lower-quality programming.
But nally, the best survives
with better quality, he said.
According to data from Indo-
china Research, which monitors
spending on advertisements
in TV and print, $105.4 million
was spent on advertising in the
Kingdom in 2012, compared
with $101.6 million in 2011 and
$75.6 million in 2010.
Moun Ramady, CEO of TV
network CNC, said on Friday
that there was little threat
from a new entrant in Cambo-
dias television market.
We welcome more compe-
tition so that the industry will
become more professional
and bring new programs for
the audience this will be a
big contribution to develop
our media industry, he said
I dont think it will affect
our advertising revenue be-
cause you see the advertising
spending from companies to
the media is increasing year
on year while we are always
trying to set up new programs
by offering accurate news to
the audience.
Opening up
Thai bourse
to take on
intl listings
T
HAILANDS capital
market will move further
towards its mission of
becoming a regional hub by
letting foreign-listed compa-
nies mobilise funds through
the bourse starting this week.
Vorapol Socatiyanurak,
secretary-general of the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commis-
sion, says the move is part of
the SECs near-term strategy
to turn itself into a financial
services centre for the Greater
Mekong Subregion (GMS).
The SEC will disclose the
fundraising rules this week.
The accountants, auditors
and financial advisers that
the listing firms use must be
qualified and employ widely
accepted practices.
We also require the listing
firm to be supervised by the
financial adviser for the first
three years after listing,
Vorapol said.
There is heavy demand to
list on the Thai stock exchange
among firms from China, Laos
and Vietnam.
We welcome all foreign
firms if they measure up to our
listing requirements, Vorapol
added. BANGKOK POST
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
JAPANESE Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe said he aims to
start cutting corporate taxes
in 2015, reaching agreement
with senior lawmakers on a
core part of his agenda as the
central bank kept up pressure
for sustainable nances.
Abe said the plan would
bring the rate under 30 per
cent in a few years and that
other revenue sources will be
secured for the move, which
requires legislative approval.
A lower levy is the centre-
piece of Abes latest initiative
to boost growth, which is now
the main focus of economic
policy with the Bank of Japan
maintaining unprecedented
easing. Failure to nd extra
funds to offset the blow to rev-
enue would risk worsening the
worlds largest debt burden.
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Yoshihide Suga said itd be best
to lower the tax to less than 30
per cent as soon as possible.
Japans corporate levy of
about 35 per cent is the second
highest among G-7 nations. It
compares with levels of about
24 per cent in South Korea and
23 per cent in the UK, accord-
ing to Japanese nance minis-
try data. BLOOMBERG
Tax breaks for biz: Abe
Oil industry tense as
it descends on Russia
Frdric Pouchot

E
NERGY chiefs and po-
litical titans gather in
Moscow this week for
a major conference
that will highlight the Wests
desire to pursue oil invest-
ments in Russia despite the
Ukraine crisis.
With oil prices hitting nine-
month peaks on Friday amid
violence in Iraq, the 21st World
Petroleum Congress, which
occurs every three years, takes
on even greater prominence.
Moscow, locked in its worst
standoff with the West since
the Cold War, is expected to
use the weeklong event to em-
phasise its leading presence
on the world energy scene.
In Moscow, OPEC secretary-
general Abdullah El-Badri will
be joined by about 5,000 dele-
gates, including the chief exec-
utive of British energy giant BP
Bob Dudley and bosses at Rus-
sias Gazprom and Rosneft.
While the various scheduled
conferences and roundtables
present classic sector issues
such as obstacles to nancing
and competition from renew-
able energy sources, develop-
ments linked to current geo-
political strains look set to grab
the attention of markets.
On Saturday, the Pentagon
said the US was sending an
aircraft carrier to the Gulf in
response to the crisis in Iraq.
Iraq is the second-biggest
oil exporter in the 12-nation
Organisation of Petroleum Ex-
porting Countries after kingpin
Saudi Arabia, and OPEC pumps
about a third of the worlds oil.
In Kiev, meanwhile, an ur-
gent round of EU-brokered
gas talks between Russia and
Ukraine ended on Saturday
night without an agreement.
The countries have been
locked in a row over gas pric-
es since a popular uprising
ousted Kievs Kremlin-backed
president in February.
Negotiations were to resume
yesterday under a looming
threat by Moscow to cut off
supplies as early as today if no
deal is reached. Gas giant Gaz-
prom has said Kiev has until
0600 GMT on Monday to pay
the Russian state rm $1.95
billion or face a gas cutoff.
Russia has warned that Euro-
pean energy supplies could be
interrupted and urged the West
to help cover Ukraines bill.
Despite rising tension, West-
ern energy companies are ex-
pected to use this weeks event
in Moscow to reiterate their
desire to invest in exploration
projects across Russia.
BP, which will release its
annual energy market study
today, has insisted that it re-
mains committed to Rosneft,
despite the latters chief execu-
tive Igor Sechin being named
among ofcials facing punitive
measures over Putins stance
on Ukraine.
BP retains a near 20 per cent
stake in Rosneft after the Brit-
ish rm sold its 50 per cent
holding in joint venture TNK-
BP to the Russian company.
French energy giant Total
meanwhile announced in
May that it had signed a deal
with Russias second biggest
oil rm, Lukoil, to explore and
develop shale oil deposits in
western Siberia.
While Western energy com-
panies are eyeing Russia to
help them secure new oil and
gas sources to meet rising glob-
al demand, Russian rms are
beneting from their partners
technological expertise. AFP
Striking platinum miners stand behind barbed wire as they queue to
receive food parcels at a church in Marikana, South Africa, on Saturday.
The radical AMCU union says it has agreed in principle to a deal to end
the countrys longest mining strike, which has crippled the worlds
largest platinum producers. Meanwhile, S&P lowered South Africas
sovereign credit rating to BBB-, just a notch from junk bond status,
citing feeble growth and the prolonged strike. Fitch ratings agency also
revised its outlook for South Africa to negative from stable. AFP
Certied end to strike?
Continued from page 1

than eight years. Salary here
is determined by your senior-
ity and skill. If you are a quick
learner and can produce good
pieces in shorter time, you can
get a $10 to $30 [monthly] raise
every six months or every year,
she said.
GTIs workshops pump out
about 650,000 pieces of clothes
per month. Patterns are sent
from brands where GTIs de-
signers use computer imaging
and industrial- scale stencil cut-
ters to produce templates. Rolls
of metres-long fabric is laid out
and cut to meet the design stan-
dards before it is passed on to
the 52 sewing production lines,
where workers wear colour
coded bandanas to signify their
job on the factory oor.
Compared to other factories,
GTI has stricter working rules
or principles. Workers are not
allowed to answer the phone
while working. Workers are
asked to focus on working dur-
ing the working hour. But they
do not force you to work hard,
but if you work hard, they re-
ward you, Thida said.
Despite GTIs above-average
pay grades, analysts remain
sceptical about the prospect
of a garment manufacturer
listing publicly, as negotia-
tions over the minimum wage
continues and fatal clashes
between factory workers and
police in January are fresh in
everybodys minds.
Of course we received con-
cerns from investors about
GTIs listing in terms of the
Cambodian garment sectors
unrest, Stanley Shen, assistant
to the chief nancial ofcer at
GTI, told the Post.
Douglas Clayton, CEO and
founder of frontier market in-
vestment rm Leopard Capital,
however, is not so convinced.
The garment industry is a
low margin business and it is
highly dependent on cheap
wage costs, he said. With
Cambodias minimum wages
rising, now up to a minimum
of $100 per month and more
in the future, you would have
to ask how long this company
actually intends on sticking
around.
Clayton added that with high-
prole brands Adidas and Ree-
bok taking up more than 80 per
cent of GTIs customer base, the
rm runs the risk of receiving
disproportionate consumer
backlash if demonstrations
like the ones in January
where at least four protestors
were shot dead as part of a
crackdown recur.
GTIs success or failure today
could have long-lasting rami-
cations.
Parent company QMI Indus-
trial Co, which has subsidiary
rms in its home base of Tai-
wan and Vietnam, will consider
going public with its other op-
erations if GTIs listing in Cam-
bodia, which generated more
than $20 million in working
capital for the company during
the IPO process, proves to be a
successful stock.
GTI is the only one that is
going public at the moment.
Other QMI companies are
considering listing in their re-
spective counties upon seeing
GTIs example, GTIs Stanley
Shen said.
We have got a lot of pres-
sure to be the success on the
stock market. Not just from
ourselves, but from the whole
private sector.
A success story is overdue
for the CSX. On April 18, 2012,
PPWSA became the rst com-
pany to list on the local ex-
change. Within the rst week,
the rms share price rose 9 per
cent from 9,400 riel ($2.33) to
10,300 riel ($2.55) before plum-
meting to $6,600 ($1.63) and
continuing to decline to its cur-
rent price of 4,800 riel ($1.19).
Hong Sok Hour, the chief
executive ofcer of the stock
exchange, said PPWSAs poor
performance, unwillingness
from Cambodian businesses
to adopt transparent business
practices, and the cost of an
IPO process, which on aver-
age equates to about 10 per
cent of a $20 million share of-
fering, all contributed to the
lag between offerings.
PPWSAs at share price has
been a major discouraging fac-
tor. We need to make sure we
do not repeat the same situa-
tion. Either way, GTIs price will
be dictated by the market, so we
really have no choice, he said.
The CSX, like most other ex-
change markets has installed
price ceilings to control uctua-
tions in the market. The regula-
tor limits a stocks uctuation
by 50 per cent on the rst trad-
ing day, and then 5 per cent for
every day thereafter.
Many companies are not
interested in the CSX, or afraid
of being transparent. They still
have a lot of freedom and a lot
of darkness around them,
Hour said.
Stephen Hsu of PPS is opti-
mistic about the future of the
worlds smallest stock exchange
and believes its growth will en-
courage transparent business
practices among the wider
business community.
The more listed companies,
the more companies that need
legitimate taxation invoices in
order to report and meet the
regulators standards, he said.
Listed companies business
partners, or those who it does
business with on a regular ba-
sis, will by default be forced to
adhere to the same transpar-
ency standards.
Scott Osheroff, regional ana-
lyst for Asia Frontier Capital
Ltd, a hedge fund investing in
publicly traded companies of
12 Asian countires, said GTIs
listing could mark the begin-
ning of a long term upwards
trend for the local exchange.
There are some great oppor-
tunities here for private compa-
nies to list, some of the banks in
particular have provided great
value to the economy and I
believe that those types of com-
panies will list in the future,
he said, adding , however, that
GTIs price of $2.41 per share
was a bit too expensive.
That is something that inves-
tors will be looking at, whether
to invest in Cambodia or in
similar, cheaper companies in
other countries. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY DANIEL DE CARTERET AND
CHAN MUYHONG
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Business
Workers at Grand Twins Internationals Phnom Penh factories piece
together Adidas branded clothing last week. VIREAK MAI
Grand Twins success in question
A
RE you easily dis-
tracted? Cant be
separated from your
smartphone? Con-
stantly checking your device
for no reason? Chances are
youre an addict and you
may need professional help.
Psychiatrists in Singapore
are pushing for medical au-
thorities to formally recogn-
ise addiction to the internet
and digital devices as a dis-
order, joining other countries
around the world in address-
ing a growing problem.
Singapore and Hong Kong
top an Asia-Pacic region that
boasts some of the worlds
highest smartphone penetra-
tion rates, according to a 2013
report by media monitoring
rm Nielsen. Some 87 per cent
of Singapores 5.4 million pop-
ulation own smartphones.
In the US, where there are
similar concerns about the
impact of smartphones on
society, a 65 per cent penetra-
tion rate would not even make
the top ve in Asia Pacic.
Singaporeans also spend on
average 38 minutes per session
on Facebook, almost twice as
long as Americans, according
to a study by Experian.
Adrian Wang, a psychiatrist
at the upmarket Gleneagles
Medical Centre, said digital
addiction should be classied
as a psychiatric disorder.
Patients come for stress
anxiety-related problems, but
their coping mechanism is to
go online, go on to social me-
dia, Wang said.
He recalled having treated
an 18-year-old male student
with extreme symptoms.
When I saw him, he was un-
shaven, he had long hair, he
was skinny, he hadnt show-
ered for days, he looked like a
homeless man, Wang said.
The boy came to blows with
his father after he tried to take
away the young mans laptop.
After the father cut off in-
ternet access in the house,
desperation drove the boy
to hang around neighbours
homes trying to get a Wi-Fi
connection. He was eventu-
ally hospitalised, put on anti-
depressants and received a
lot of counselling, Wang said.
We just needed to break the
cycle. He got better, he was
discharged from the hospi-
tal and I saw him a few more
times and he was okay.
In terms of physical symp-
toms, more people are report-
ing text neck or iNeck pain,
according to Tan Kian Hian, a
consultant at the anaesthe-
siology department of Singa-
pore General Hospital.
A group of undergraduates
at Singapores Nanyang Tech-
nological University launched
a campaign late last year en-
couraging the public to put
their smartphones in a face-
down position when they are
with loved ones. The Put it
on Friend Mode campaign
drew strong support from
students, said Chan Jing Hao,
one of the organisers, and
there are plans to expand the
campaign to schools.
Addiction is so pervasive in
Singapore that a cyber well-
ness education program for
pre-school children and their
parents is set to be launched
in the second half of 2014.
Chong Ee Jay, an assistant
manager at Touch Communi-
ty Services, which is launch-
ing the drive, said: We want
to give [the parents] a warn-
ing to not give these gadgets
so early and learn to with-
hold them. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof JUNE 12, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 2.00% N/A 3.00% N/A 3.75% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Passengers use smartphones while travelling on a Mass Rapid Transit train in Singapore. AFP
Phones fuel digital addiction
MAHMUD hauls bags full of
rubbish to the small, dilapi-
dated clinic next to a busy road
on Indonesias main island of
Java several times a month.
There he exchanges grubby
cardboard boxes, plastic bottles
and other garbage for some-
thing hed struggle to afford
otherwise medical treatment.
I know I can sell my garbage
here so I keep it, said the 60-
year-old.
Mahmud, who suffers from
arthritis, is one of many mem-
bers of the Klinik Bumi Ayu in
Malang who regularly bring
in rubbish in exchange for
check-ups and medicine.
There are ve such centres
in the city, part of a scheme
dubbed Garbage Clinical Insur-
ance by its 24-year-old founder
Gamal Albinsaid. They offer
treatment and advice for free to
some of the countrys poorest.
As Southeast Asias biggest
economy struggles to spread
the riches earned in recent
years to the poorest in society,
the clinics are a creative at-
tempt to ll the gaps left by a
threadbare welfare system.
The government this year
began rolling out what is sup-
posed to be a universal health
care system across the sprawl-
ing archipelago of 250 million
people. Once fully implement-
ed by 2019, it is expected to cost
around $15 billion a year but
critics say it is underfunded
and Indonesia lacks enough
well-trained medical staff.
In a country where half the
population lives on $2 a day,
spreading the gains from a
sustained economic boom is
in sharp focus, with contend-
ers running in July presidential
elections pledging to better
the lot of the underprivileged.
Albinsaid said the system
has been successful as only
10 to 15 per cent of people
who bring in garbage use the
services. This leaves enough
money to run the centre and
fund its development. AFP
A fair trade:
Rubbish for
health care
The worlds top beers arent what you think
Boeing wins biggest Chinese order
HERES a trivia question for your drink-
ing buddies: whats the worlds most
popular beer? Bud Light? Budweiser? A
decade ago, those answers would be
right on the money.
The money is moving.
China is poised to become the worlds
biggest economy by GDP within the
next decade.
With newfound wealth comes the
means for more people to kick back and
enjoy a beer every now and then. And
so they are. While the US still chugs
more beer per person, China already
reigns as king of beer when it comes to
total consumption. Chinese drink about
110 billion pints a year, roughly twice as
much as Americans, according to Euro-
monitor International.
So what is the worlds most popular
beer? Snow.
Yes, thats a beer. Its produced by the
CR Snow joint venture between SAB
Miller and China Resources. More than
twice as many pints of Snow were
downed last year than Bud Light, which
fell to number three after Tsingtao,
according to data compiled by Eurom-
onitor International and Bloomberg.
If American keg-stand pride is feeling
upturned by a third-place ranking, the
news gets worse. Budweiser hasnt tech-
nically been American beer for some
time now. The company that took it over
in 2008, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, is based
in Belgium. It now owns half of the top
10 beers in the world.
The top 10 best-selling beers by vol-
ume in 2013:
1. Snow 2. Tsingtao
3. Bud Light 4. Budweiser
5. Skol 6. Yanjing
7. Heineken 8. Harbin
9. Brahma 10. Coors Light
Please note: These beers are the most
popular, not the most delicious. For
people with taste buds, theres no over-
lap. BLOOMBERG
BOEING Co has received its biggest ever
order from a Chinese carrier, with China
Eastern Airlines Corp agreeing to buy 80 of
the firms 737 jets valued at $7.4 billion.
China Eastern, the nations third-largest
airline, will buy a mix of 737-800 and
upgraded Max models, to be delivered
starting in 2016, the company said in a
statement to the Shanghai stock exchange.
The carrier is also selling 15 older 737-300s
and five 757s back to the planemaker,
according to the statement.
The order is a leg up for the worlds larg-
est aircraft maker in its competition with
Toulouse, France-based Airbus Group NV
in the market for single-aisle jets, the work-
horse of the global airline fleet. More than
50 per cent of the commercial jetliners
operating in China are Boeing planes,
according to the companys website.
Chinese carriers are bringing in more
orders for Chicago-based Boeing and Air-
bus as growth in the worlds second-largest
economy enables more people to fly. That
expansion has China on pace to become
the worlds biggest aircraft market, making
purchasing planes inevitable. At least 13
Chinese airlines, double the existing
number, will have a fleet of 100 aircraft
each by the end of the decade, market
researcher CAPA Centre for Aviation said.
China Eastern, based in Shanghai, will
fund the purchase with business opera-
tions, bank loans and other finances.
Boeing said in February it doesnt rule
out the possibility of building a final
assembly line for single-aisle planes in
China in the future. Boeing, for four con-
secutive years, has increased its estimate
for demand from China and expects the
country to need 5,580 new planes costing
$780 billion through 2032. BLOOMBERG
Snow: the best-selling beer. BLOOMBERG
11 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
World
UKRAINE marked a national
day of mourning yesterday,
vowing to retaliate after pro-
Kremlin rebels downed a mili-
tary plane killing 49 personnel
in their deadliest single attack
against government forces in
the east of the country.
Russia and Ukraine also
met for key gas talks yester-
day to avert a cut in Russian
supplies that would affect
large swaths of Europe.
The new round of talks
comes a day after an irate
mob smashed the Russian
Embassys windows in Kiev
and threw a Molotov cocktail
against its walls, in the wake
of the attack that brought
down the transport plane in
Ukraines restive east.
The United States accused
Russia of sending tanks and
rocket launchers to the pro-
Moscow rebels in the former
Soviet republic a charge the
Kremlin denied.
A commander in the rebel-
held eastern city of Lugansk,
where the plane was shot
down, showed pieces of the
Ilyushin-76 transporters
charred debris in a wheat
eld a dozen kilometres
(around eight miles) outside
the airport.
The man known to his
unit as Mudzhakhed (Sacred
Fighter) said the plane tried
to dump fuel after the rebels
hit its engines. The four-en-
gine transporter crashed on
its second landing approach
after being hit by heavy ma-
chine gun re.
Ukraines Western-backed
President Petro Poroshenko
vowed to deal the rebels an
adequate response after the
attack and signalled an immi-
nent intensication of an of-
fensive being waged against
the insurgents. He proclaimed
yesterday a national day of
mourning.
Poroshenko spoke moments
before a crowd of several hun-
dred smashed windows in the
Russian Embassy building and
overturned cars belonging to
its staff before pulling down
its tricolour with the help of
a wooden pole. Later a Molo-
tov cocktail hit the wall of the
building, but it was quickly ex-
tinguished, according to a re-
porter on the scene. AFP
Ukraine marks day
of mourning after 49
die in plane attack
Iraq hits militants as Wests
neglect of Syria is blamed
I
RAQ said yesterday that
it had regained the ini-
tiative against militants
who seized vast swathes
of territory, as former UN
mediator Lakhdar Brahimi
blamed the crisis on global
neglect of Syrias civil war.
Washington responded to
the sweeping unrest by de-
ploying an aircraft carrier to
the Gulf, but Iran has warned
against foreign military in-
tervention in its Shia neigh-
bour, voicing condence that
Baghdad is able to repel the
onslaught.
The militants, spearheaded
by the powerful Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihad-
ists, have overrun all of one
province and chunks of three
more since they launched their
offensive late last Monday.
Security forces have gener-
ally performed poorly, with
some abandoning their ve-
hicles and positions and
discarding their uniforms,
though they seem to have be-
gun to recover from the initial
onslaught and have started to
regain ground.
Iraqi commanders have said
their forces were now starting
to push the militants back, and
that soldiers had recaptured
two towns north of Baghdad,
with a spokesman announc-
ing that Iraqi security person-
nel had killed 279 terrorists
in the past 24 hours.
Iraqi ofcials, however, often
announce large militant tolls,
with no way of independent
verication, and downplay
their own casualties. Prime
Minister Nuri al-Malikis se-
curity spokesman, Lieuten-
ant General Qassem Atta, also
said during a televised news
conference that Baghdad had
regained the initiative.
Baghdads forces will be
joined by a ood of volunteers,
urged on by a call to arms from
top Shia cleric Grand Ayatol-
lah Ali al-Sistani.
A recruitment centre for
such volunteers at the town
of Khales in central Iraq came
under mortar attack yester-
day, leaving six people dead,
including three Iraqi soldiers,
police and a doctor said.
US President Barack Obama
said he was looking at all the
options to halt the offensive
that has brought the militants
within 50 miles (80 kilome-
tres) of Baghdads city limits,
but ruled out any return of US
troops to combat in Iraq.
Washington has, however,
ordered an aircraft carrier into
the Gulf in response to the
crisis. Obama has been under
mounting re from his Repub-
lican opponents over the swift
collapse of Iraqs security forc-
es, which Washington spent
billions of dollars training and
equipping before pulling out
its own troops in late 2011.
Iran, meanwhile, warned
yesterday that any foreign
military intervention in Iraq
would only complicate the
crisis. Iraq has the capacity
and necessary preparations
for the ght against terrorism
and extremism, Foreign Min-
istry spokeswoman Marzieh
Afkham was quoted as saying
by the ISNA news agency. Ira-
nian President Hassan Rou-
hani said a day earlier that
Iran had not been asked for
help by its neighbour.
But in surprise comments
Rouhani added that Iran may
think about cooperating
with its enemy the US to ght
the militants in Iraq, despite
the lack of diplomatic rela-
tions between Tehran and
Washington for more than
three decades.
Brahimi, the former UN and
Arab League envoy to Syria,
said the international com-
munitys neglect of the con-
ict in neighbouring Syria had
precipitated the crisis in Iraq.
As Iraq troops began to
drive back the militants, they
found grisly scenes, amid re-
ports that militants had car-
ried out summary executions
of Iraqi security forces mem-
bers they captured.
Troops found the burned
bodies of 12 policemen as they
recaptured the town of Ishaqi
from the insurgents, a police
colonel and a doctor said.
Photos posted online were
also said to show militants
summarily executing dozens
of captured members of the
security forces in the province.
The situation on the ground
has also been further compli-
cated as forces from the au-
tonomous Kurdish region have
made territorial advances.
The Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said yesterday
that Syrias army pounded
major ISIS bases for 24 hours
in coordination with the
Baghdad government. AFP
An Iraqi soldier waves as trucks carrying volunteers to ght alongside
Iraqi security forces leave a recruitment centre yesterday. AFP
The wreckage of a Ukrainian plane shot down on Saturday. AFP
World
12
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
A ROADSIDE bomb killed 11
people in northern Afghani-
stan, including election
workers, ofcials said yes-
terday, as reports of violence
during the presidential run-
off vote mounted.
The victims, including three
female election workers and
two observers from the cam-
paign team of presidential
candidate Abdullah Abdul-
lah, were travelling on a bus
after the polls closed on Sat-
urday when the blast ripped
through the vehicle.
The attack killed 11 people.
The election workers had n-
ished their job and were head-
ing home, Samangan pro-
vincial governor Khairullah
Anosh said.
Akram Begzad, the provin-
cial police chief, conrmed the
incident. The attack, in Aybak,
the capital of Samangan, was
one of more than 150 incidents
on election day, though the
Taliban failed to launch strikes
in any major Afghan city.
More than 50 people were
killed in militant attacks dur-
ing the day, including ve
members of the same fam-
ily who died when a Taliban
rocket hit a house near a poll-
ing station.
Eleven voters in the western
province of Herat had their
ngers which were dipped
in ink to register their ballot
cut off by insurgents, Deputy
Interior Minister Ayoub Sa-
langi said.
Ahead of the vote, the Tali-
ban had threatened to kill
voters and ofcials, saying the
election was an American plot
to impose their stooges.
Counting is under way in
the election between Abdul-
lah and his rival Ashraf Ghani.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jets
launched airstrikes yesterday
against militant hideouts in
the countrys troubled north-
west, killing at least 80 insur-
gents including those linked
to a brazen attack on Karachi
airport, the military said.
But local security ofcials
put the death toll far higher,
saying that about 150 mili-
tants died in the airstrikes,
which primarily targeted Uz-
bek ghters in a remote area
of tribal North Waziristan.
Among the dead were insur-
gents linked to last Mondays
all-night siege of Karachi
airport that killed 38 people,
including 10 attackers, and
all but destroyed a tentative
peace process between the
Pakistani Taliban and the
government. AFP
Afghan election workers
among 11 killed in blast
Israel PM blames Hamas for kidnap
I
SRAELI Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
yesterday accused the Is-
lamist Hamas movement
of kidnapping three teenagers
as a massive West Bank man-
hunt for the missing youths
entered its third day.
As troops wrapped up the
biggest arrest operation in
years, detaining 80 Pales-
tinians overnight many of
them Hamas members Ne-
tanyahu directly blamed the
Islamist movement.
This morning I can say
what I could not say yester-
day before the broad wave of
arrests of Hamas people in
Judaea and Samaria, he said,
using the biblical term for the
West Bank.
Those who carried out the
kidnapping of our youngsters
are Hamas people the same
Hamas with whom Abu Ma-
zen has forged a unity govern-
ment, which has very serious
implications, he said, refer-
ring to Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas.
The youngsters, one of
whom also holds a US pass-
port, are students at Jewish
seminaries in the West Bank
and are believed to have
been snatched on Thursday
night from an area Bethle-
hem and Hebron, reportedly
while hitchhiking.
They have been identi-
ed as Gilad Shaer, 16, from
Talmon settlement near Ra-
mallah; Naftali Frenkel, 16,
from Nof Ayalon in Israel;
and Eyal Ifrach, 19, from
Elad near Tel Aviv.
Their disappearance came
10 days after the establish-
ment of a new Palestinian
government of technocrats
pieced together by Abbass
Fatah movement and Hamas
following a unity agreement
between rival leaders in the
West Bank and Gaza.
The reconciliation with
Hamas, which is committed
to Israels destruction, has
enraged Israel, with Netan-
yahu placing responsibility for
the teens safe return on the
shoulders of Abbas and his
Palestinian Authority.
Netanyahus remarks were
made at the beginning of a
special session of the weekly
cabinet meeting held at the
defence ministry.
His accusation was derid-
ed by Hamas. Netanyahus
statements accusing Hamas
of kidnapping the [teenag-
ers] are stupid, spokesman
Sami Abu Zuhri said. These
arrests are aimed at break-
ing the movement and it
wont succeed.
He said the wave of arrests
overnight, which included
Hamas MPs and former min-
isters, showed Israel had no
idea who was responsible.
The arrest of PLC [Pales-
tinian Legislative Council]
members and Hamas leaders
is a new Israeli aggression and
shows they are ailing around
in the dark and we ask the
international community to
stop this crime, he said.
The arrests came after Ne-
tanyahu ordered the security
forces to use all tools at their
disposal to nd the teenag-
ers, with the army saying ap-
proximately 80 Palestinian
suspects had been detained.
Palestinian terrorists will
not feel safe, will not be able
to hide and will feel the heavy
arm of the Israeli military ca-
pabilities, Lieutenant Colo-
nel Peter Lerner said.
As the search entered its
third day, the defence ministry
imposed a complete lockdown
on Hebron and the surround-
ing area, and also limited
access to and from Gaza to
humanitarian cases only,
while only fuel was being al-
lowed in through the southern
goods crossing. AFP
Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday accused militants from Hamas of
kidnapping three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. AFP

Malaysian navy foils
attack by pirates
MALAYSIAS navy fought off a
pirate attack on a tanker off its
South China Sea coast, the
International Maritime Bureau
said yesterday. The Malaysian
force was assisted by the
Indonesian and Singaporean
navies in fending off the attack
late on Saturday, said Noel
Choong, head of the IMBs
Kuala Lumpur-based Piracy
Reporting Centre. The pirates
fled the tanker after navy patrol
boats arrived before they could
loot the vessel. AFP
Asias Nobel winners

to be unveiled this week
THE Tang Prize, founded by one
of Taiwans richest men and
touted as the Asian equivalent of
the Nobels, will this week unveil
its first winners, organisers said
yesterday. The biennial prize,
founded by Samuel Yin in 2012
with a donation of T$3 billion
($100 million), will be awarded
for the first time on Wednesday
in the category of sustainable
development. Winners of the
three other categories
biopharmaceutical science,
Sinology (the study of China) and
rule of law will be unveiled
daily from Thursday to
Saturday. The winner in each
category will receive T$50
million ($1.7 million) compared
to the 8 million Swedish kronor
($1.2 million) that comes with a
Nobel Prize. AFP
World
13
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Junta orders Thaksin to back off
F
ORMER prime minis-
ter Thaksin Shinawa-
tra has been told to
end what the military
government sees as his active
involvement in politics for
the betterment of the coun-
try, a source close to the for-
mer premier said.
The junta also wanted
Thaksin to tell his supporters
to cease visiting him abroad.
Thaksin, thought to still wield
considerable inuence, has
agreed to cooperate, the
source said.
The source said National
Council for Peace and Order
leader General Prayuth Chan-
ocha had conveyed a message
to Thaksin.
The NCPO contacted Thak-
sin, asking him to stop med-
dling with politics in Thailand
and tell other key gures to
stop, too, the source said.
Thaksin told the NCPO he
had already stopped. Thaksin
also conveyed a message to
General Prayuth asking him
to ensure justice and fair-
ness are served for all sides.
However, when asked if he
had spoken to Thaksin on
the matter, General Prayuth
denied ever talking to the for-
mer premier.
Dont get him involved with
it, General Prayuth said.
The source said the NCPO
also wanted Thaksin to cease
meeting his supporters who
travel to meet him abroad,
but Thaksin explained that his
supporters travelled to meet
him of their own volition.
However, the source said
Thaksin agreed to the NCPOs
request and told his support-
ers not to y to meet him any
more and to cooperate with
the NCPO. An army source also
said Thaksin had been asked
to tell fugitive red-shirt leader
Jakrapob Penkair to back off
from a move to form an anti-
coup organisation-in-exile.
Jakrapob is a former Prime
Ministers Ofce minister in
the Samak Sundaravej gov-
ernment and is among lese
majeste suspects recently
ordered by the NCPO to re-
port in or face trial in a mili-
tary court.
The source said Thaksin
and his supporters, includ-
ing Pheu Thai politicians
and members of the red shirt
movement, have realised that
the junta is serious about ex-
ercising its power to handle
anti-coup elements.
They had no choice but to
keep a low prole, waiting for
a new election to be called to
allow the people to decide
their political fate again, the
source said.
At a meeting on the 2015
budget at the Army Club on
Friday, which was televised
live, General Prayuth gave a
stern warning to government
ofcials and politicians that
they must not meet or con-
sult him an indirect refer-
ence to Thaksin.
Either politicians or who-
ever, you must not consult
him. Its not your duty. Its over
now, General Prayuth told the
meeting. Youd better consult
me, instead. No need to con-
sult an outsider any more. If
you still continue consulting
an outsider, just go and live
with him. Im warning you.
I already warned the one
who gives advice and he said
he would stop.
The army source also said the
NCPO asked former premier
Yingluck Shinawatra to limit
her public appearances, par-
ticularly visits to department
stores, for the time being. Yin-
gluck was recently seen at de-
partment stores with people
taking pictures and uploading
them to their Facebook and
Twitter accounts. This could
stoke anti-coup feelings, the
source said. BANGKOK POST
A Happy Day for civil servants and the public took place in Bangkok,
featuring lookalikes of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra,
Suthep Thaugsuban (in blackface) and Abhisit Vejjajiva. AFP
School built
on disputed
isle: media
CHINA has begun building a
school on the contested Para-
cel islands, state media report-
ed, as the Asian giant further
asserts its claims in escalating
territorial disputes in the
South China Sea.
The school on Chinese-held
Sansha or Woody Island will
serve about 40 children whose
parents work there, the official
news agency Xinhua reported
on Saturday, adding that con-
struction will cost about 36 mil-
lion yuan ($5.8 million) and
take a year and a half.
China established Sansha as
a city in 2012 to administer a
wide swathe of waters and
islands in the South China Sea,
creating an oddity that is by far
the worlds largest city by area
but has a minuscule popula-
tion of around 1,000 people.
China placed an oil rig near
the Paracel islands in May,
sparking deadly anti-Chinese
riots in Vietnam.
Sansha has a military garri-
son and this year began setting
up a patrol system intended in
part to safeguard national sov-
ereign rights. Expanded infra-
structure and tourism are in
the works, domestic media
reported. AFP

Colombia to vote in
cliffhanger election
COLOMBIANS headed to the
polls yesterday in a cliffhanger
presidential election that has
become a referendum on
peace talks with leftist
guerrillas. President Juan
Manuel Santos, who wants a
second consecutive term in
office, is well advanced on
reaching a deal that would end
five decades of war with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC). His bitter
rival, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, 55,
long opposed the peace talks
but now says that he would
negotiate with the rebels but
under stricter conditions. AFP
Jamaica to decriminalise

marijuana possession
MARIJUANA possession is
currently illegal in Jamaica but
that could soon change. The
government of Prime Minister
Portia Simpson Miller has
proposed to amend the
Caribbean island nations
narcotics law to decriminalise
possession of up to two ounces
of marijuana known there as
ganja. The move, announced
late last week by Justice
Minister Mark Golding, would
mean possession of small
amounts of the drug would lead
to a fine. The government has
also given approval for the
possession and use of
marijuana for religious, medical
or research purposes. AFP
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14
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Aussie wonders under spotlight
Martin Parry
A
USTRALIA is home
to some of the most
pristine environ-
ment on Earth, but
two of its most high-prole
protected areas face threats to
their status as World Heritage
Sites at a UNESCO meeting
that began yesterday in Doha.
In such a vast country that
boasts large tracts of desert,
rainforest and coast, many of
Australias natural wonders
have won UNESCO World
Heritage listings.
They include Fraser Island,
Shark Bay, the Wet Tropics of
Queensland, the Greater Blue
Mountains, Kakadu National
Park and Uluru.
Perhaps its best-known
masterpiece is the Great Bar-
rier Reef, one of the most bio-
diverse places on the planet,
which sprawls across an area
roughly the size of Japan.
But all is not well on the reef,
which is considered to be in
poor health.
It is under growing pressure
not just from climate change
and the destructive coral-eat-
ing crown-of-thorns starsh,
but agricultural runoff and
rampant coastal development
linked to mining.
For these reasons, UNESCO
is considering downgrad-
ing its status to World Heri-
tage in Danger at its annual
meeting, in the absence of
Australia showing substan-
tial progress in dealing with
the problems.
Environment Minister Greg
Hunt insists Australia has
thrown millions of dollars at
protecting the reef, bolster-
ing its resilience to the major
threats of extreme weather
events and climate change.
Working to reduce out-
breaks of the crown-of-thorns
starsh was also being tack-
led, as was reducing nutrient
and sediment runoff from
land-clearing and agriculture,
he said.
Queensland state Environ-
ment Minister Andrew Pow-
ell, who released a report last
week on water quality that he
will take to the Doha meeting,
said he was condent a down-
grade would be avoided.
The reef is now on the path-
way to long-term improve-
ment, he said, pointing to
improved land management
practices that had reduced
pesticide loads by 28 per cent
since 2009. In terms of nitro-
gen thats what causes those
crown-of-thorn starsh out-
breaks weve reduced it by 16
per cent overall, he added.
While improvements to wa-
ter quality had been achieved,
Powell conceded that the
overall health of the reef still
needed more work.
The report did not deal with
port developments linked to
mining, which conservation-
ists have warned could hasten
the demise of the reef.
There has been particular
concern from UNESCO about
the approval in December of a
massive coal port expansion
in the region, and allowing the
dumping of millions of tonnes
of dredge waste within the
marine park waters.
The Australian Marine
Conservation Society said
that while a reduction in
sediment from farming was
good news, dredging was ru-
ining the reef. The mining
industry, backed by the state
government and the state-
owned ports corporations, are
treating the reef as a dumping
ground, spokeswoman Felic-
ity Wishart said.
Another of Australias natu-
ral wonders under threat is
the Tasmanian Wilderness,
one of the last expanses of
temperate wilderness in
the world, covering nearly
20 per cent, or 1.4 million
hectares, of the southern is-
land state.
Prime Minister Tony Ab-
bott believes too much for-
est is locked up, and favours
more access for loggers. He
has requested UNESCO re-
move its World Heritage
status for 74,000 hectares of
the area, claiming it was not
pristine the rst time a de-
veloped country has asked
for a delisting.
The move has been labelled
environmentally reckless by
green groups. Logging World
Heritage forests is as reckless
as destroying any other World
Heritage site, like using the
Grand Canyon as a garbage
dump, knocking down the
Sydney Opera House for har-
bourside apartments or sell-
ing the Eiffel Tower for scrap,
Wilderness Society spokes-
man Vica Bayley said.
If Tasmanias World Heri-
tage forests arent safe, neither
are our other iconic World
Heritage sites, such as the
Great Barrier Reef, the Dain-
tree rainforest, Kakadu and
the Blue Mountains. AFP
Florentine Valley is one of the forests the Australian government
wants to open to logging. AFP
World
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
PAKISTANI ghter jets
launched airstrikes early yes-
terday against militant hide-
outs in the countrys troubled
northwest, killing more than
50 insurgents, the Pakistan
military said.
However, local security of-
cials put the death toll far
higher, saying that about
150 militants died in the
airstrikes, which primarily
targeted Uzbek ghters in a
remote area of tribal North
Waziristan.
Among the dead were insur-
gents linked to last Mondays
all-night siege of Karachi
airport that killed 38 people,
including 10 attackers, and
all but destroyed a tentative
peace process between the
Pakistani Taliban (TTP) and
the government.
The mountainous Deh-
gan area, some 25 kilome-
tres west of the main town
of Miranshah in North Wa-
ziristan, is a stronghold for
Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked
militants on the border with
Afghanistan.
Today at about 0130 hours
[2030 GMT], a number of
terrorist hideouts in Deh-
gan, Datta Khel in North
Waziristan were targeted by
jet aircraft. Over 50 terror-
ists, mostly Uzbek foreigners,
were killed in the strikes, a
statement from the Pakistani
military said.
There were conrmed re-
ports of presence of foreign
and local terrorists in these
hideouts who were linked to
the planning of the Karachi
airport attack, it said.
However, local security of-
cials in Miranshah, who
spoke on the condition of an-
onymity, put the death toll far
higher than the ofcial toll.
Up to 150 people were
killed during the strikes early
Sunday. These strikes were
carried out based on con-
rmed reports about the
presence of Uzbek and other
militants in the area, an in-
telligence ofcial said.
Another security ofcial
said the number of the killed
people was even more than
150.
The Pakistan military has
not conrmed the higher
gure. However, the military
statement said an ammuni-
tion dump had also been de-
stroyed during the strikes and
that further details would fol-
low, suggesting the death toll
could rise. AFP
More than 50 killed
in Pakistani airstrikes
Sudan govt bombing shools
T
HE US has accused
Sudan of bombing
hospitals and schools
in an intensifying
military campaign against its
own people in a largely hid-
den war.
Samantha Power, the US
ambassador to the United
Nations, condemned in the
strongest possible terms
bombardments of civilians
that she claimed were being
carried out by the Sudanese
government and its rapid sup-
port forces.
Since April, not only have
ground attacks on, and the
shelling of, civilian popu-
lations increased, but the
government of Sudan has
intensied its air campaign,
dropping hundreds of barrel
bombs and other ordnance
on Sudanese towns and vil-
lages, deliberately targeting
hospitals and schools, Pow-
er said.
Forces loyal to President
Omar al-Bashir, who is want-
ed by the international crimi-
nal court on charges of crimes
against humanity, war crimes
and genocide, have been ght-
ing ethnic-minority rebels for
three years in a conict said by
the UN to have affected more
than a million people. The
government has denied aid
access to the embattled states
of South Kordofan and neigh-
bouring Blue Nile.
Power said the US was dis-
turbed by reports of airstrikes
against civilian aid workers
that, if proved, would seri-
ously violate international
law. Aid groups working in
Sudan have accused the mili-
tary of looting and destroy-
ing food and water supplies
in areas recaptured by rebels,
she added.
The ambassador compared
the governments tactics with
those used in the western re-
gion of Darfur, where she said
more than 300,000 people
had been displaced so far this
year alone.
The United States calls on
all armed groups in Sudan to
cease all violence against civil-
ians and comply with interna-
tional law.
Powers intervention came
after a coalition of 46 organi-
sations providing humanitar-
ian aid or supporting peace
efforts in Sudan wrote to the
UN security council, African
Union and Arab League de-
manding an end to attacks
on civilians.
Recent bombings, espe-
cially in South Kordofan, had
reached an unprecedented
intensity, the letter said.
These unprecedented at-
tacks represent the largest
sustained bombardment of
civilian targets in the three-
year history of the conict.
They have spread terror and
sent families into hiding in
caves and foxholes, too afraid
to plant their crops.
Bashir came to power in a
coup 25 years ago. Unrest has
been fuelled by grievances
among non-Arab groups over
neglect and discrimination by
the Arab-dominated govern-
ment in Khartoum.
In South Kordofan and Blue
Nile, government forces are
waging war on the SPLM-
North, a rebel group backed
by South Sudan.
Last month the UN said
ghting intensied in April
and May as the government
pressed ahead with its deci-
sive summer military cam-
paign to end armed rebellions.
THE GUARDIAN
Children receive classes at the school in the al-Sereif camp for
Internally Displaced Persons in Nyala, Sudan, on May 28. AFP
Hospital drama
Man sues for
shortening
penis by inch
A
CANADIAN man is
suing a Montreal-
area hospital over a
botched surgery that left
his penis one inch shorter,
claiming it ruined his sex
life and his marriage, media
said on Friday.
The man, whose identity
was withheld by Sun Media,
told the newspaper chain he
had been rushed to hospital
in 2011 with a fractured
appendage. The injury was
sustained while having sex
with his wife.
Surgery to correct the
injury reportedly left a per-
manent scar on his penis
and reduced its length by
about an inch (2.5
centimetres).
The man claims he was
unable to have sex for two
years and his wife eventually
walked out on him.
He is seeking C$155,000
(US$142,680) in damages
for negligence and indes-
cribable anguish, according
to a statement of claim cited
by Sun Media.
The allegations have not
been proven in court. AFP
World
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Gun groups march
across NYC bridge
H
UNDREDS of peo-
ple crossed New
York Citys Brook-
lyn Bridge on Sat-
urday morning to call for an
end to gun violence in the US,
united by the rallying cry Not
one more.
The slogan was inspired
by Richard Martinez, whose
son Christopher Michaels-
Martinez was killed in a May
attack that left seven people
dead, including the shooter,
Elliot Rodger. Immediately
after the shooting, Martinez
demanded lawmakers put an
end to gun violence.
We really had two messages
today, campaigner John Philp
said. One was to get people to
vote and the other message
was to carry what Richard
Martinez said: that not one
more person needs to die from
senseless gun violence.
Philp is the Dads Chapter
leader of Moms Demand Ac-
tion, which organised the
event in conjunction with
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
and Everytown for Gun Safety
and with nancial support
from former New York City
mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The groups second annual
march followed a string of
deadly shootings across the
US, including the Califor-
nia shooting, a rampage in
Las Vegas in which a couple
killed three people before
being shot dead themselves;
a high-school shooting in
Oregon in which one student
killed another before shoot-
ing himself; and an attack
on a Seattle university cam-
pus in which one person was
killed before the gunman
was subdued.
Philp and his fellow march-
ers criticised Congress for
failing to pass substantial gun
legislation. Nothings been
happening, he said, so weve
decided instead of waiting for
Congress to get something
done. Its time to take action.
Everytown and Moms De-
mand Action want one mil-
lion people to pledge to vote
for candidates who support
laws that could prevent gun
violence, such as universal
background checks.
Congress failed to pass a
bill following the Sandy Hook
shooting and, despite efforts
by groups like those march-
ing on Saturday, more states
have since eased gun laws
than have restricted them.
THE OBSERVER
Bush landing
Former US president George HW Bush, harnessed to US Army Golden Knight Sergeant Bryan Schnell, lands
safely as he completes a tandem parachute jump to celebrate his 90th birthday on Friday in College Station,
Texas. Bush planned to skydive alone, but ofcials decided high winds and low clouds made conditions too
dangerous for him to take a solo jump. AFP
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World
Murdered giant tusker mourned
Peter Martell

O
NE of Africas largest
elephants has died
after being shot by
poachers using poi-
soned arrows in Kenya, wild-
life ofcials revealed as they
mourned on Saturday the loss
of an old friend.
Satao, famed for his giant
tusks and aged around 45, was
wounded by poisoned arrows
in May in Kenyas vast south-
eastern Tsavo national park.
The Tsavo Trust, which
works to protect the wilder-
ness and its animals, an-
nounced the death with
great sadness for one of
the most iconic and well-
loved tuskers.
The death of the elephant,
the latest in a surge of the
giant mammals killed by
poachers for their ivory, came
a day after wildlife regula-
tor CITES warned entire el-
ephant populations are dying
out in many African coun-
tries due to poaching on a
massive scale.
It is with enormous re-
gret that we conrm there is
no doubt that Satao is dead,
killed by an ivory poachers
poisoned arrow to feed the
seemingly insatiable demand
for ivory in far off countries, a
great life lost so that someone
far away can have a trinket on
their mantelpiece, the Tsavo
Trust said in a statement late
last week.
Rest in peace, Old Friend,
you will be missed, it added.
Poachers had hacked off the
elephants face and stolen the
tusks, but conservationists
who had followed Satao for
years identied the body from
the ears and other signs. The
carcass was discovered earlier
this month.

Ofcial gures doubted
More than 20,000 African
elephants were poached last
year alone for their tusks,
which rake in thousands of
dollars a kilo in Asia, accord-
ing to the Convention on In-
ternational Trade in Endan-
gered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES).
Organised crime syndicates
and rebel militia looking for
ways to fund insurgencies in
Africa have become increas-
ingly involved, eager to reap
the benets as demand in
China for ivory to use in dec-
orations and in traditional
medicines has fuelled a multi-
billion-dollar illicit trade.
The famed elephant lived
in a vast wilderness stretch-
ing over a thousand square
kilometres (400 square miles),
a major challenge for rang-
ers from the government-run
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)
to patrol.
Understaffed and with in-
adequate resources given the
scale of the challenge, KWS
ground units have a massive
uphill struggle to protect wild-
life, the Tsavo Trust added.
With todays mounting
poaching pressures and anti-
poaching resources stretched
to the limit, it proved impos-
sible to prevent the poachers
getting through the net.
Last month poachers killed
an elephant called Mountain
Bull on the forested anks
of Mount Kenya, who had
gained fame after being tted
with a radio collar tracking
its movements. The data was
crucial to the opening up of a
special wildlife corridor.
The carcass was found with
spear wounds and the tusks
were missing.
While the number of el-
ephants poached in Africa
last year is staggering, latest
gures show a levelling off
after a decade of skyrocket-
ing slaughter.
In 2011, some 25,000 of the
worlds largest land mammals
were killed, and the number
was around 22,000 in 2012.
But in Kenya, while ofcial
government gures estimate
almost 100 elephants have
been killed by poachers this
year, experts argue the num-
ber is far greater.
Nobody in Kenya believes
this gure, which suggests
that less than one percent of
the national elephant popula-
tion have fallen to poachers
guns, Kenyan conservationist
Paula Kahumba, who heads
the campaign group Wildlife
Direct, wrote in a report.
From the reports I have
seen . . . the elephant poaching
in Kenya is at least 10 times
the ofcial gures.
Earlier this month over two
tonnes of ivory were seized in
the Kenyan port of Mombasa,
equivalent to at least 114 el-
ephants. AFP
Satao, one of Africas largest elephants, has died after being shot by poachers in Kenya, the Tsavo Trust has
announced. He was aged around 45, according to the wildlife group. TSAVO TRUST
Opinion
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T
HE revival of civil war in Iraq
is not about ancient sectarian
hatreds that is what the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) wants you to think. It is a hard-
core ideological group exploiting the
political disaffection of one commu-
nity to stoke sectarian war. Iraqs bro-
ken political system and the failure
of its political elite to prioritise rec-
onciliation over personal gain has
led to a collapse of faith in the politi-
cal system, leaving Iraq vulnerable
to this sectarian propaganda. But if
the Iraqi government buys the ISIS
narrative and treats Sunnis as
implacable opponents of Shias, ISIS
will have succeeded in stoking the
civil war it has so desired.
Ever since the formation of Iraq, it
has been easy to dismiss it as an arti-
ficial country that was bound to fail.
A Sunni elite was installed to govern
over a majority Shia population and
a restive Kurdish community that
had fought and lost the battle for
independence. But throughout Iraqi
history, the importance of identity
has waxed and waned according to
political realities.
At times, when Iraqs political battle
lines divided communists from
nationalists, and nationalists from
Baathists, identity seemed incidental
and even passe. Many Iraqis grew up
in households where it was rude to
refer to others sectarian identity, and
where intermarriage created large
families of mixed religious practice.
At other times, when the presence
of ethnic and religious groups was
seen as posing a threat to the political
establishment, identity became more
important. During the Iran-Iraq war,
the Baathist government feared that
Iraqi Shias would sympathise with
their co-religionists in Iran and
unleashed waves of repression.
When coalition forces stormed Iraq
in 2003 they found a society devastat-
ed by decades of war, deprivation and
brutal Baathist rule. The war itself
divided society, pitting those who saw
it as Iraqs salvation against those
decrying it as a neocolonial invasion.
The Shia and Kurdish communities,
who had suffered most at the hands
of the Baathist regime, tended to cel-
ebrate their entry into power, while
the Sunnis, who had dominated Iraqs
power structures for generations,
overwhelmingly rejected the new
Iraq. Sunnis, and some Shias, fought
against the presence of coalition
troops. But this violence was quickly
exploited by al-Qaeda affiliates.
These hardcore ideologues began to
target Shias in bomb attacks with the
explicit desire to stoke civil war. They
believed that a civil war in Iraq would
force Sunni Muslim countries around
the world to defend Sunnism, and
somehow lead to the revival of the
Islamic caliphate. These aims were
antithetical to the beliefs of the vast
majority of the Sunni population, but
as more and more Shias were violent-
ly killed by Islamist militants, they
began to fight back indiscriminately.
The cycle of revenge led to a horrific
civil war in which countless innocent
Iraqis were slaughtered.
But that civil war ended. Iraqi Sun-
nis realised that al-Qaeda in Iraq was
an abominable entity. Together with
the support of coalition forces, local
Iraqi Sunni leaders fought al-Qaeda
and won, driving them out of the
country or into hiding. Iraqi Sunnis
began to vote and to field candidates
in the parliamentary elections. Iraqi
politicians started to brand them-
selves as cross-sectarian nationalists.
The parliamentary elections in 2010
represented the apex of hope for a
new future in which Iraqis would
prosper together. Prime Minister
Nouri al-Malikis Shia-dominated
State of Law coalition went head to
head against former prime minister
Ayad Allawis Sunni-dominated Iraqi-
ya coalition. Iraqiya won and Sunnis
were ecstatic. It had seemed impossi-
ble that a largely Sunni coalition
could win, and the prospect of a gov-
ernment that reflected the priorities
of Iraqs Sunni community was mes-
merising. It wasnt to be. Maliki out-
manoeuvered the winning coalition
and managed to stay prime minister.
ISIS is not the army of Iraqs Sunnis,
it is a dangerous entity exploiting the
alienation of Iraqs Sunni community
to provoke a second civil war in Iraq.
Retracing the terrible path trodden by
al-Qaeda in 2005 and 2006, ISIS is
once again inflicting mass-casualty
attacks on Shia civilians and threat-
ening Shia shrines. Now thousands of
young Shia men are joining Shia mili-
tias and, unless dramatic action is
taken by the Iraqi government, it is
only a matter of time before unfet-
tered sectarian bloodletting begins.
Although it is extraordinarily diffi-
cult at a time when Iraqis are under
attack, the Iraqi government needs to
resist the sectarian ISIS narrative and
to recognise that ISIS is distinct from
Iraqs Sunni community. Iraqi Sunnis
dont want to be governed by ISIS,
they dont support the massacre of
Shia civilians and they dont want civil
war. But they also dont believe there
is a place for them in Malikis Iraq.
Iraqs politicians must persuade them
that a future does exist in which Sun-
nis can participate as equal citizens in
an Iraqi state, and that this is some-
thing worth fighting for.
Comment
Nussaibah Younis
Reassuring the Sunnis in Iraq
Iraqi tribesmen carry their weapons as they gather, volunteering to ght alongside the Iraqi security forces against jihadist militants. HENGCHIVOAN
Nussaibah Younis is the international
security program research fellow at
Harvards Belfer Centre for Science and
International Affairs.
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Lifestyle
Ugandan king battles
museum over throne
I
T IS a struggle between
the dignity of an embat-
tled African dynasty and
the reputation of one of
Englands most distinguished
historical collections. And it
concerns a disagreement that
centres on the whereabouts of
the lost throne of a Ugandan
kingdom and a perceived in-
justice from the treachery and
confusion of the colonial era.
Ugandan campaigners claim
that the Pitt Rivers Museum,
the anthropological treasure
house run by Oxford Universi-
ty and founded in 1884 by the
Victorian archaeologist Au-
gustus Pitt Rivers, has refused
to return important artefacts
looted from the ancient king-
dom of Bunyoro-Kitara.
They said that during the co-
lonial era, almost 300 artefacts
were taken with or without
their owners consent from
the region. The kingdoms cur-
rent cultural monarch, Solo-
mon Gafabusa Iguru I, has
spent the better part of his reign
campaigning for their return.
But over the weekend Jer-
emy Coote, joint head of col-
lections at the Pitt Rivers Mu-
seum said he believed there
had been a misunderstanding
about the provenance of the
items on show. A ceremonial
stool held by the museum was
not, Coote said, a royal throne
allegedly looted in 1894, but
another given to the collec-
tion in 1922 to improve under-
standing of the culture of this
part of western Uganda.
In Bunyoro-Kitara, the re-
turn of the missing throne
would be a signicant political
victory for what was once the
greatest and richest kingdom
in Africa, but is now one of the
poorest regions in an already
poor country.
The missing throne is the
traditional nine-legged one on
which all Igurus predecessors
sat, up to King Kabalega, who
was exiled by the British for
resisting colonialism in 1899.
The Bunyoro kingdom has
maintained since then that
Kabalegas throne was stolen
by Colonel Henry Colville in
1894, when he was the com-
missioner of Uganda.
All those after Kabalega
were not properly installed
in ofce, Yolamu Ndoleriire
Nsamba, the kings personal
spokesman, said. Solomon
Iguru was not properly in-
stalled. Without the stool there
is no king, no throne.
Coote said the museum
had received a letter from the
omukama, or king, following
a visit to the museum in July
2011. The omukama wrote
to the director of the museum
in November 2013 expressing
his pleasure at seeing that the
museums collections were so
well cared for, Coote said. He
also stated that he had asked
one of his ministers to initiate
negotiations . . . on collabora-
tion and/or possible return of
some objects and expressed
an interest in particular in
what he described as the royal
throne (nyamyaro), which
was conscated by Colonel
Colville in 1894.
Coote also said the mu-
seums director had replied
last year welcoming the
possibility of discussing fu-
ture collaborative projects.
The director also pointed
out that the stool held here
was collected in Bunyoro
in 1919-1920 and is not the
stool looted by Colonel Hen-
ry Colville in 1894, the pres-
ent whereabouts of which is
unknown. THE GUARDIAN
Artistic beauty
Balinese women perform a traditional dance during a parade at the 36th Bali Art Festival on the Indonesian resort island on Saturday. The
festivals highlights included a parade by traditional art teams and cultural displays from Bali and other Indonesian provinces. AFP
The grande dame of Chinese cinema, Gong
Li. AFP
Shanghai film fest keeps focus domestic
SHANGHAI on Saturday kicked off its an-
nual lm festival, a nine-day event with a
heavy emphasis on Chinese cinema and
a sprinkling of Hollywood stars promot-
ing their latest works.
The Shanghai International Film Fes-
tival dates to 1993, but a similar event in
Beijing has stolen some of the spotlight
though it has only been running for four
years, industry ofcials say.
Chinas lm centre is Beijing, movie
critic Raymond Zhou said, but he added
that the Shanghai lm festival has nur-
tured a loyal audience, who are all movie
enthusiasts.
At the opening ceremony, actress Ni-
cole Kidman, who is promoting Grace of
Monaco at the festival, received an award
for outstanding contribution to lm.
I like Chinese women. I like that theyre
strong and they have a very good sense of
humour, she said, answering a question
about Chinese culture.
The festival has tapped the grande
dame of Chinese cinema, actress Gong
Li, to head the jury for its agship
award, an honour usually given to a for-
eign director.
Festival organisers picked a Chinese
movie, the 1965 production Stage Sisters
about two Chinese opera artists, as the
opening lm while a major tribute will
celebrate Chinas fth generation of
lmmakers from the 1980s, including di-
rector Zhang Yimou.
Chinese state media has recently criti-
cised big-budget action lms in an indi-
rect swipe at foreign movies.
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An aerial view of the coastline in the seaside town of Glyfada, a suburb
located on the Athenian Riviera in Greece. BLOOMBERG
Undiscovered
coastline in the
heart of Greece
Amanda Dardanis

I
T IS Wednesday eve-
ning, just before mid-
night, and Im in the
Athens suburb of Gly-
fada. At Lemoni in Kyprou
Street the most popular of
the new, post-crisis breed of
taverna there are few vacant
tables. Out on the pavement,
four tall pine trees are corset-
ed in gold lights. Lavender and
sweet peas spill from planter
boxes made from Artemis
wine crates. Greek couples
and groups are smoking,
sipping cloudy ouzo over
shared platters; there are
families with young children
busting curfews.
The tumbleweed feeling has
gone and theres a tangible
pulse of optimism in this cos-
mopolitan, seaside town, capi-
tal of the Athenian Riviera.
Between Glyfada and Cape
Sounion is a run of character-
ful seaside towns. At any one
of them, you can experience
the kind of island magic that
many people come to Greece
for, without having to set foot
on a ferry: from shopping
and nightlife in amboyant
Vouliagmeni to unspoiled
craggy beaches in down-to-
earth Agia Marina.
Many of the most alluring
stretches of this coast have
been privatised, and beach ac-
cess fees of 6 to 8 ($8 to $10)
are prohibitive to the average
Greek on a monthly salary of
800 and one mayor went on
a hunger strike against the
carving up of coastline. So lo-
cals tend to seek out the free
beaches or one of the numer-
ous beach cafes, which will let
you occupy a sun lounger for
the price of a coffee or a toast-
ed sandwich. Purists head for
the scenic coves and head-
lands between Vouliagmeni
and Agia Marina.
In summer, look out for
where Athenians have left their
cars en masse by the side of
the paraliaki (the main coast
road) to reach the best local
swimming spots below.
The Athenian Rivieras best
asset is how off-grid it remains.
Yes, there are the trophy ven-
ues such as Jackie Onassiss
beloved Astir Palace resort
in Vouliagmeni, but there is
also a compelling rawness,
an authenticity that you cant
always nd on more popu-
lar Greek islands, with their
tourist hordes.
In most Athenian Riviera
suburbs, ancient traditions
such as the laiki agora (street
markets), where you can come
away with the weeks news and
a huge tub of Kalamata olives
for a couple of euros, are still an
essential way of life. And in the
plateias (town squares), there
are places where two people
can eat to bursting point and
get change from 30.
Theres also the sense of sin-
gular spots yet to be discov-
ered. Last summer, our eighth
here, we stumbled upon a
wonderful secluded beach
cafe bracketed by a pine-stud-
ded cove in Vouliagmeni. Even
longtime locals cant agree on
its exact name. All you need to
know is that you take the third
left after the Margi hotel at
11 Litous Street, then a short
drive down a dirt track until
you reach a canopy of Mon-
cafe umbrellas.
There, you can snorkel in
clear shallow waters sur-
rounded by darting sh. Sit
all day unharried over a lone
frappe coffee. Or enjoy a lunch
of fresh calamari and Greek
salad while shing boats bob
and children lure baby crabs
into buckets at the shoreline.
All the time not quite believ-
ing that youre still in Athens.
THE GUARDIAN
Entertainment
21
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Thinking caps
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
EDGE OF TOMORROW
An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war
with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the
same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a
Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to
defeating the enemy.
City Mall: 12pm, 2:20pm, 7:15pm, 9:50pm
Toul Kork: 12:35pm, 2:55pm, 5:15pm, 9:25pm
MALEFICENT
A vindictive fairy is driven to curse an infant princess
only to realize the child may be the only one who can
restore peace.
City Mall: 9:15am, 1:30pm, 5:45pm, 7:55pm
Toul Kork: 10am, 12:10pm, 2:30pm, 4:55pm, 9:55pm
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate
effort to change history and prevent an event that
results in doom for both humans and mutants at the
hands of murderous robots.
City Mall: 11:55am, 4:40pm, 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 10am, 2:20pm, 7:10pm
GODZILLA
The worlds most famous radioactive monster is
pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered
by humanitys scientific arrogance, threaten our very
existence.
City Mall: 4:55pm
Tuol Kork: 4:40pm
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious
new woman in town, her husband, a notorious gun-
slinger, announces his arrival.
City Mall: 9:30am
DRAFT DAY
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has
the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades
for the number one pick. He must decide what hes
willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few
hundred young men with NFL dreams.
City Mall: 10:05pm
Toul Kork: 9:45pm
NOW SHOWING
Ballet @ Ballet PP
This class is mainly for people who
danced when they were younger and
are looking for a refresher course,
or have a lot of experience in
another dance style. $12 per class.
Central School of Ballet Phnom Penh,
#10 Street 183. 7:15pm
Margarita @ Riverhouse
Margaritas sold in a variety of avours
are buy one, get one free all night.
Mashup tunes and remixes will be spun
by DJ Bee.
Riverhouse Lounge, #157 Sisowath
Quay. 7pm
Photos @ Meta House
Around 4,000 Cambodians studied in
communist East Germany in the
1980s. Their photos of snapshots of
their everyday lives are now on
display.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos
Boulevard. Runs until July 7.
Nerd Night @
Score!
Inspired by the world renowned Pecha
Kucha presentation format, Nerd
Night is an exhibition of local talent
and ideas. Each presentation consists
of 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide.
Score! Sports Bar, #5 Street 282.
7:30pm
ACROSS
1 Narrow-waisted insects
6 Chapters of history
10 Priests wear them
14 Run ___ of (clash with)
15 Comstock deposit
16 Dull person
17 Resume drinking
20 Too much, in music
21 Pigeons home
22 Social connections
23 Canonical hour
25 Dance syllable
26 Trick taker, often
27 ___ now or never
30 Gossip
32 Slip up
34 Unruly outbreak
36 Listening devices
38 Goosebump-raising
42 Feature of some fancy resorts
45 Brenda of the comics
46 Polygraph challenger
47 Tapered slat for leveling
48 Australian bird
50 The euro replaced it
52 ___ Paulo, Brazil
53 Dashiells detective
56 Crumb
58 Small amounts, as of cream
60 I ___ you one
61 Golden Triangle country
63 Brownish grays
67 Be a hex victim
70 Neck of the woods
71 Letter after theta
72 Clear, as a hard drive
73 Penetrate slowly
74 Like an uncleaned fireplace
75 Kept company with
DOWN
1 Travel, like an aroma
2 Way, way off
3 Song for one
4 Dime novels and such
5 Inclined
6 Tolkiens Legolas, e.g.
7 Campus military org.
8 For a certain purpose
9 Rage
10 Arabs robe
11 Sayings attributed to Jesus
12 It might be busted
13 Taste, e.g.
18 More cunning
19 Eyeglass ___ (optometry patient)
24 A way to catch fish
27 Western blue flag, e.g.
28 Windshield option
29 Fizzy drink
31 Bring up the rear
33 Wrestling officials
35 Went like the dickens
37 Composed
39 Chorus from the sidelines
40 Hip bones
41 Sesame Street character
43 Alloy of copper and zinc
44 Literary mistakes
49 Astronomy Muse
51 Degraded
53 Chesterfields, e.g.
54 Cognizant
55 Confused struggle
57 Bustles
59 Old Toyota
62 Family Guy creator MacFarlane
64 Bog product
65 Ultimatum word
66 Coaster
68 Drink from a dish
69 Beam of light
TRIPPED UP
TV PICKS
Nerd Night features an eclectic range of speakers and topics. ANNA CLARE
Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne star in Les
Miserables. BLOOMBERG
8:20am - LES MISERABLES: In 19th-century France,
Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the
ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees
to care for a factory workers daughter. The decision
changes their lives for ever. HBO
3:20pm - HITCH: While helping his latest client woo the
fine lady of his dreams, a professional date doctor
finds that his game doesnt quite work on the gossip
columnist with whom hes smitten. HBO
6:05pm - CON AIR: A newly released ex-con and former
US Ranger finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport
plane when the passengers seize control. FOX
8pm - INDEPENDENCE DAY: When aliens invade Earth, it
is up to a disparate group of survivors to counter-attack
on July 4. HBO
Royal
Dutch Shell Plc. of-
cially announced distribution
rights of engine petroleum and Shell
Helix in Cambodia to Cnergy Petroleum.
This petroleum is used for normal cars and
trucks. This event had special guests Tekreth
Kamrang, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Com-
merce, and Kevin Cheok, Ambassador of Singapore,
give speeches. Other guests came from the Singa-
porean embassy and local companies.
A gala dinner was held, as well as
a Shell Helix fashion show and
lucky draw. Photos by Chhim
Sreyneang.
Lifestyle
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
22
Socheata and Sontery
Social Life Team
Shells gala dinner @ Sotel
Models display the product.
Makii Kun and Sansana Khieu.
Tony Re-al, Jenny Seang and models.
Tekreth Kamrang, secretary of state of MoC.
Hang Chuon Narita, Head of SME, Pech Somaly,
Manager of Payment, and Sam Vannak, Public
Relations Manager of ANZ Royal.
Kevin Cheok, Ambassador of Singapore.
Meas Chantour, Purchasing Manager, Yong
Somaly, Purchasing Assistant, and Chea Sopheak,
Site Supervisor from JIT Engineering.
Vireak Chea, Western Pharmacy founder, and
designer Natacha Van.
Linda Janthewee , Peter Brongers, CEO of BMW.
The Post launched its rst
weekend newspaper on June
14. Known as Post Weekend
in English and Kampuchea
Jong Sabada in Khmer, both
newspapers focus on in-
depth feature writing in
the realms of national
news, lifestyle and
business. Minister of
Information Khieu
Kanharith and
local report-
ers turned
out for the
launch,
which was fol-
lowed by lunch.
Two models even
fashioned dresses from
newspapers. Photos by Hong Menea.
Post Weekend launch party @ The Phnom Penh Post
Alan Parkhouse, Post Weekend Editor-in-Chief,
Chris Dawe, Publisher, Bill Clough, Chairman of
Post Media, Kay Kimsong, Post Khmer Editor-in-
Chief and Sam Rith, Post Khmer Managing Editor.
Bill Clough with Kem Gunawadh, Director of TVK.
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith.
Chad Williams, Phnom Penh Post editor-in-chief, with staff. The Phnom Penh Post staff enjoying beer. Heang Tangmeng, Sok Sophorn, Vicheka Sren and Dy.
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
23
Simphony Music and Art School @ InterContinental Hotel
Phnom Penh
Phoeurng Sackona, Minister of Culture and Fine
Arts.
Darren Harris, COO of INNOV8 Group, and Yulia
Khouri, CEO of INNOV8 Group.
Mr Stefan Voogel, the hotels general manager.
Som Sakun, Secretary of State of Ministry of
Culture and Fine Arts and Hun Lak, Managing
Director of Artistic Resources at the school.
Mimi Pang,Chalatip Maneepong, and Sokviny.
Svay Sonalin, Siriyakorn Muenharn, and Grace
Jonathan. Students from the school perform. Carla la Planeta and Enora Bouvet.
Eh Lykheng and Kaliany.
Saphan Kaneka performing a solo.
Long Mitta Nisa having a drum solo.
Sam Somath, Sam Sokun, and Settara Samnang.
Mr Thomas Hundt, CEO of SMART, with his wife
Nicole.
Mr Robert Elliott, CEO of Manulife. Mr Thomas Hundt, CEO of Smart. Ms Eden Chung from Simphony Music School.
Simphony Music and Art School held a concerted titled Movements on June 1 at the In-
terContinental Hotel. The concerts title refers to the journeys around the world between
teachers and students from different countries, races and religions and friendships between
cultures. The concert received special guests from the royal family, the Cambodian govern-
ment, businesses and foreign embassies. Photos by Hong Menea..
Hong Menea and Vong Oun. Post Weekends marketing team. The administration department team.
Chan Muy Hong and May Kunmakara, Business Editor.
Marketing and accounting staff.
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014
24
Sport
Local favourite, Frenchwoman win
Phnom Penh Intl Half Marathon
H S Manjunath

H
EM Buntings total dom-
inance of the Kingdoms
long distance races con-
tinued yesterday as the
28-year-old won the Phnom Penh
International Half Marathon for the
fourth year in a row with a measure
of comfort to make out a strong
case for a recall to the national
squad bound for the 17th Asian
Games in Incheon, South Korea,
this September.
The charity run, which surpassed
all previous participation num-
bers, touching close to 4,500, raised
funds for Kantha Bopha Childrens
Hospital and served various other
causes, including help for the fami-
lies of landmine victims. It also
marked three special occasions
the 120th Olympic Day, World En-
vironment Day and Queen Mother
Norodom Monineaths birthday
(this Wednesday).
Japan had the distinction of eld-
ing the most number of participants
among the 23 foreign countries rep-
resented, with the event, recording
nearly a 30 per cent increase in en-
tries compared with last year.
I told a friend of mine that I will
do it in 1 hour and 14 minutes this
time and I am happy I went frac-
tionally under [1 hour, 13 minutes,
22 seconds] and did a faster time
than last year, Hem Bunting told
the Post moments after leading a
Cambodian trifecta to the podium.
Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi,
who sought and obtained Cambo-
dian citizenship two years ago, was
a hard chasing second in 1 hour 14
minutes, 50 seconds, with seasoned
Ma Viro lling the frame at 1 hour,
16 minutes, 8 seconds to ensure a
clean sweep for home runners. The
Cambodian trio outstayed the oth-
er 42 male half marathon contend-
ers by a long way.
I hope to run in Korea. I see no
problem now said Bunting with
a beaming smile, clearly dropping
a hint that his protracted personal
battle with the Khmer Amateur Ath-
letics Federation since his omission
from the national squad after the
2011 Guangzhou Asiad could be -
nally resolved.
As a profession, 35-year-old Ve-
ronique Messina teaches French in
the Cambodian capital, but her pas-
sion is running.
In the womens 21km event, the
French winner of the Sihanoukville
International Half Marathon in
March this year taught her 18 other
rivals a few lessons in change of pace
and conservation of energy as she
emerged victorious by a proverbial
mile, putting 20 minutes between
herself and Ceri Davies of Ireland,
who in turn was nearly three minutes
ahead of American Leslie Ann Frese.
Conditions were quite good in
the morning. It was not so hot and
I could race freely, said Messina,
who clocked in at 1 hour, 37 min-
utes, 50 seconds, a timing slower
than her personal best of 1 hour,
35 minutes.
I am really excited about the full
marathon in Angkor Wat [on Au-
gust 17]. It is Cambodias rst, and
it is such a pleasure going around
the temple complex. But I am plan-
ning to run a marathon in China
next month and my trip to Siem
Reap will depend on how I feel after
this, she added.
As many as 730 runners took off
for the mens 10km race. But by the
time this big eld sorted itself out, it
was evident that the experienced na-
tional runner Kieng Samorn would
have to contend with his compatriot
Phann Sopheak for the top honours.
Samorn managed a stronger kick
in the dash to the nish to fend off
Sopheak, barely two seconds sepa-
rating the two, with the winner stop-
ping the clock at 33:58. Kano Thoven
made it an all-Cambodian affair by
checking in third at 35:05.
In a two-way tussle for supremacy,
Japans Maki Kunimatsu (48:27.03)
won the womens 10km event ahead
of American Cierra Gillard (48:42.40).
Another American, Caitlyn Shea
(52:04), nished third in a race that
attracted 318 entries.
Yesterdays added attraction was
the popular 3km fun run for people
of all ages and athletic abilities. Huge
participation of students was a no-
table feature this year.
National Olympic Committee of
Cambodia President Thong Khon
described the greater turn out as a
sign of the events growing popular-
ity and an afrmation of Cambodias
fast emerging status as an exciting
sports tourism destination.
NOCC secretary-general Vath
Chamroeun, who is also an adviser to
the Ministry of Tourism, told the Post:
The steady climb in the number of
foreigners taking part in these events
indicate that sports-driven tourism
is an attractive proposition for visi-
tors to go alongside the breathtaking
experience of Angkor Wat.
The response to Cambodias rst
full marathon to be run around
the Angkor Wat temple complex in
mid-August has been very good. So
far we have close to 1,000 registra-
tions, the bulk of them from over-
seas, and we expect that number to
go up to at least 3,000 by the time
the race is run.
Cambodian long distance champion Hem Bunting (centre) celebrates yesterday morning on the podium after winning the mens
competition of the Phnom Penh International Half Marathon. Neko Hiroshi (left) came second and Ma Viro third. YEUN PONLOK
Mixed French feelings over tight loss to Wallabies
COACH Philippe Saint-Andre
said yesterday that he has
mixed feelings over Frances
resolute fightback to go down
narrowly to the Wallabies this
weekend.
The Australians clinched the
three-match series with a no-
frills 6-0 win in the second
Melbourne Test, which Saint-
Andre described as ping
pong rugby, given a total of 68
kicks at the expense of taking
risks by running the ball.
It was the Wallabies lowest
winning total in 87 years
against all-comers and the first
time the French have finished
a Test without a point in 44
encounters with Australia.
Saint-Andre, who reacted
forcibly by making 10 team
changes after the 50-23 first
Test hammering in Brisbane
the previous week, was in two
minds over his teams latest
loss to the Wallabies.
There were two feelings at
the end of the match, the
coach told reporters.
First the satisfaction of hav-
ing met the challenge, without
losing any tries, and also there
was the feeling that we could
have done even better.
It was a match that was
totally different to last weeks.
At the strategic level we
were much better organised in
defence, we missed far fewer
tackles, with 20 missed com-
pared to 35 last week.
Saint-Andre could even
point to a couple of missed
scoring opportunities which
could have led to Les Bleus
winning their first Test in Aus-
tralia since 1990.
We had the opportunity to
score a try, we missed two
penalties and it was 0-0 at
half-time and Australia start-
ed the second half well, and
our discipline was a little bit
poor, he said.
Sloppy handling also con-
tributed to Frances downfall
with a total of 24 lost posses-
sions, nine of them through
insecure handling.
At least this time we
matched Australia and we
werent a sparring partner, but
at half-time we should have
been seven or 10 points in
front, Saint-Andre said.
As for positional play, we
had them in difficulty. We had
24 throw-ins to their nine. We
dominated the ping pong
game, particularly in the first
half.
We broke their line nine
times and they broke ours four
times, but we were not effi-
cient and lost the ball too
quickly up front.
We know we have work to
do to get quality ball, quality
clearing out and quality pass-
ing as well.
We made them doubt they
had to change almost all their
three-quarter line to bring in
more experience.
All Blacks come back
The All Blacks pulled off a
remarkable second half turna-
round to down England 28-27
in the second Test in Dunedin
on Saturday and wrap up the
series with a game to spare.
The one-point margin was not
a clear indication of the differ-
ence between the two teams
after the All Blacks had raced
to a 28-13 lead before letting
England in for two late tries.
After a woeful first half by the
New Zealand team, in which
they trailed 6-10 by half time,
they shifted up several gears in
the second session.
They needed a colossal
improvement after their untidy
first Test win and when it came
England had no answer.
The All Blacks took control
up front for the first time in the
series and their confidence vis-
ibly grew as they ran in three
tries before Englands late
response.
Ben Smith was the All Blacks
everywhere man. In the first
half when everything was going
wrong he was always a danger
and in the second half he
scored the first try and featured
in the other two.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen
said his half-time message was
straight to the point.
There wasnt a lot of carry-
on. It was nice and calm,
he said.
It was about beleiving in
what we were doing and even-
tually, if we stuck with it, it
would come right. And it
did. AFP
Saturdays Results
South Africa 38 Wales 16
Canada 17 Scotland 19
Argentina 17 Ireland 23
G
ERMANY kick-off their
World Cup campaign to-
night aiming to continue
their domination of Cris-
tiano Ronaldos Portugal at recent
major tournaments.
The Germans enjoyed wins over
Portugal at the 2006 World Cup, plus
both of the last two European cham-
pionships and want to get their Group
G campaign off to a ying start with a
fourth consecutive win.
The Salvador clash is a re-run of
Portugals Euro 2012 opener against
Germany, when they went down 1-0
to a second-half Mario Gomez goal.
The pre-match build-up in Salva-
dor has focused on whether or not
Ronaldo will be t to play at the Arena
Fonte Nova after a knee and thigh in-
jury. The 29-year-old took a full part
in Portugals training session on Sat-
urday with team-mates William Car-
valho and goalkeeper Eduardo both
saying he will play.
Eduardo insists the Portugal squad
are highly motivated to erase memo-
ries of a disastrous 2010 campaign
which ended in the last 16 at the
hands of eventual winners Spain.
But all eyes have been on the world
player of the years recovery, despite
Ronaldos return to play 65 minutes
of Portugals nal warm-up in their
5-1 drubbing of Ireland.
The Real Madrid forward, whose
form and tness will be vital to Portu-
gals chances, has had a heavy strap-
ping on his knee in training.
But as Germany defender Benedikt
Hoewedes pointed out: This isnt
Germany against Ronaldo, but Ger-
many against Portugal.
Germany midelder Sami Khedira
claims his Real Madrid team-mate
has told him this is Portugals time
to break their German bogey.
Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski
says the Germans respect dead-
ball specialist Ronaldo, but there is
no fear.
We have prepared ourselves to
play Portugal and not just one play-
er, said Podolski, who is set to win
his 115th cap.
He is certainly extremely danger-
ous and can decide games, but we
also have players capable of doing
that. If we produce a good perfor-
mance, then it doesnt matter what
he does.
The million-dollar question is
whether Germany can recreate their
standard from four years ago when
they nished third after hammering
Argentina and England en route.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is set to
play, but has laboured with injury to
his right shoulder while vice-captain
Bastian Schweinsteiger is struggling
for tness after tendinitis of the knee.
Coach Joachim Loew only has one
striker in his squad with 36-year-
old Miroslav Klose just one short of
equalling Ronaldos all-time record of
15 goals at World Cup nals. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
Germany v Portugal 11pm
Iran v Nigeria 2am
Ghana v USA 5am
Italy coach Prandelli blasts
absurd lack of time-outs
ITALY coach Cesare Prandelli hit out at
the World Cup organisers after seeing
his side overcome England 2-1 amid
stifling, humid conditions in Manaus in
their opening game on Saturday night.
The temperature at kick-off in the
Amazon rainforest city was 28 degrees
Celsius, with humidity in excess of 60
per cent, but because the temperature
did not rise to about 32 degrees
Celsius, referee Bjorn Kuipers was
unable to call for any breaks. While the
game was initially played at a high
tempo, both sides appeared to struggle
physically towards the end, with several
England players cramping up. AFP
Brazil takes vacation time to
new level for World Cup
BRAZILIAN authorities have
augmented the countrys long list of
public holidays during the World Cup
to let the football-loving country enjoy
the tournament and also cut down on
traffic problems. Brazil is known for its
generous number of public holidays.
There are nine national holidays every
year, not an exceptionally large
number. But it is supplemented by
seven optional holidays granted at
employers discretion. AFP
World Cup
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Portugals forward Cristiano Ronaldo takes part in a training session at the teams
2014 FIFA World Cup base camp in Campinas, Brazil on Saturday. AFP
Germans aim
to stay on top
of Portuguese
Friday June 13
Mexico 1 Cameroon 0
Spain 1 Netherlands 5
Chile 3 Australia 1
Saturday June 14
Uruguay 1 Costa Rica 3
Colombia 3 Greece 0
Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1
GROUP STAGE RESULTS
Things kick off at Taekwondo
Federation annual assembly
THE Cambodia Taekwondo
Federation, which is affiliated to both
of the worlds governing bodies the
World Taekwondo Federation and the
International Taekwondo Federation,
held its annual assembly on Saturday
at the headquarters of National
Olympic Committee of Cambodia. The
fractious meeting saw former CTF
secretary-general Hem Samnang
dragged away after aggressively
demanding an independent
investigation into his recent expulsion
from his position. A financial report
for the previous year made by Cheat
Khemara showed that the WTF side
of the Federation had brought in
considerably larger funding than the
ITF side. CHHORN NORN, TRANSLATED BY
CHENG SERYRITH
Kings crowned Stanley Cup
champs after beating Rangers
THE Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley
Cup late on Friday, beating the New
York Rangers 3-2 in double overtime to
seize their second NHL championship
in three seasons. Alec Martinez scored
the game-winner with 5:17 remaining
in the second overtime to seal the
victory. The Kings won the best-of-
seven title series four-games-to-one,
adding the crown to the clubs first
championship captured in 2012. AFP
Algieri wins split decision in
Provodnikov WBO title fight
CHRIS Algieri of the US survived two
first-round knockdowns to claim a
surprise split decision late Saturday
over Ruslan Provodnikov and take the
Russians World Boxing Organization
light welterweight title. Algieri
improved to 20-0 with eight wins inside
the distance. He couldnt match
Provodnikovs power, but even with his
right eye swelling shut in the later
rounds he put on a display of precision
boxing that gave him the nod by scores
of 114-112 from two judges, while the
third judge saw it 117-109 for
Provodnikov. Provodnikov, who fell to
23-2, landed a crushing left hook to
Algieris eye in the first round and it
began to swell immediately. Later in
the round Algieri had to take a knee
after another punch, but again rose to
continue. AFP
UCI accused of giving Froome
unfair advantage, says report
WORLD cyclings governing body has
been accused of giving British rider
Chris Froome an unfair advantage in
the Tour of Romandie in April by
allowing him to use a steroid-based
drug. According to the French Sunday
newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche,
Froome, who went on to win the race
in Switzerland, was suffering from a
chill and was granted permission to
use the steroid to treat the illness
under the Therapeutic Use Exemption
(TUE) rule. The request for a TUE came
from Tour de France winner Froomes
Sky team doctor, Alan Farrell, and was
approved solely by the UCI medical
sirector Mario Zorzoli, the paper
claimed. The World Anti-Doping
Agency is apprently studying the case,
the paper said. Froome was permitted
to take up to 40mg of the drug
prenisolone a day. The drug is
administered in tablet form. AFP
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Sport
Cambodias Davis Cup team members pose for a photograph at the Enghelab Sports Complex in Tehran on Saturday. From left to right: Bun Kenny, Tep Timothy, captain Tep
Rithivit, coach Braen Aneiros, Long Samneang, Mam Phalkun and Mam Panhara. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Cambodia beat Singapore,
secure 2015 Group III spot
H S Manjunath
T
HE Cambodian Davis Cup
tennis squad retained their
spot in next years Asia Oce-
ania Group III series with a
2-1 victory over Singapore in a rel-
egation playoff at Tehrans Enghelab
Sports Complex on Saturday after
Malaysia had dashed the Kingdoms
promotional hopes in a Pool A cliff-
hanger the previous day.
Cambodia were quite literally a
point away from making it to the
promotional playoffs that would
have given them a shot at Group II.
But once that golden opportunity
slipped out of Bun Kenny and Mam
Phalkuns grasp in a nerve-tingling
doubles rubber against Malaysia on
Friday, the focus shifted to the Singa-
pore tie and Group III survival, which
in the end was accomplished without
much anxiety.
Mam Phalkun ensured a winning
start by taking the opening singles
rubber against Singapores Joshua
Liu 6-4, 6-3, but the scoreline con-
cealed the fact that many of the
games went to multiple deuces and
the Cambodian No 2 nominee had
to dig himself out of trouble many a
time, especially in the rst set.
What followed in the second singles
rubber was a spectacular treat for the
team Bun Kenny blitzing Roy Hobs,
handing him out a 6-0, 6-0 thrashing
and in the bargain sealing his fourth
straight singles victory in Tehran.
With tensions in the camp easing
out and Group III status conrmed
with that unbeatable 2-0 lead, Cam-
bodia preferred to give the youngest
in the squad Long Samneang his rst
match time on this trip.
He partnered Mam Panhara and
the pair did a competent job in the
rst set before the tie breaker went
against them. The Singaporean pair
of Yong Jie Ong and Saeed Alam then
struck a positively different note in
the second to win the dead rubber
7-6, 6-3.
Malaysian malaise
A frightfully close encounter with
Malaysia on Friday, marked as it was
with high intensity drama through-
out, went against Cambodia and
drew that ne line between a heart-
warming entry to the promotional
zone and the heart-breaking pros-
pect of having to ght for status quo.
Cambodia pitched in Mam Pan-
hara for the opening singles. He was
listless in a 6-2, 6-0 defeat by Syed
Agil Naguib.
Bun Kenny stepped in to keep the
ght alive and he struck assailing
form as the match progressed, his
court skill and condence shattering
his Malaysian rival Mohammed Assri
Merzuki 6-3, 6-1.
The tension was palatable in both
camps as the tie was tantalisingly
poised at 1-1 and on the outcome
of the doubles wrested either teams
promotional prospects.
Multiple breakpoints earned and
saved at both ends and a plethora of
merited rallies inevitably drove the
rst set to a tie break. Undeterred by
a couple of mini-breaks, the Cambo-
dian pair took the tie-breaker to lead
by a set.
But Bun Kenny and Mam Phalkun
let chances to consolidate in the sec-
ond set slip by, went down a break
and could never recover. At one set
all, it was anybodys rubber.
After breaks were traded midway
through the decider, Kenny and
Phalkun were facing down the barrel
at 3-6 in the tie-breaker, three match
points mocking at them. The pair not
only saved all three but set them-
selves up a match point of their own,
only to blow it up.
It was all square at 7-7 and the Ma-
laysian pair reeled off the next points
to top Pool A with three wins out of
three and head to the promotional
playoffs along with Syria, who ended
up with two wins against Cambo-
dia on the opening day (2-1) and
Turkmenistan (2-1).
Turkmen no trouble
On Thursday, Cambodia defeated
Turkmenistan 2-1 in their second
Pool A match.
Mam Phalkun got the measure of
Georgiy Pochay 6-3 6-4. Then Bun
Kenny punished Aleksandr Ernepes-
ov for his load of unforced errors in
quickly wrapping up a 6-2, 6-4 win.
With victory sealed, Cambodia
were aiming to add the doubles rub-
ber as well. But that hope collapsed
when the Mam brothers, Panhara
and Phalkun, lost a three-setter to
Aleksandr Ernepesov and Georgiy
Pochay 7-6, 4-6, 4-6.
Looking back, we have lot of posi-
tives to count despite that disap-
pointment of missing out on a chance
to enter the promotional pool. I am
proud of the way Kenny handled his
matches and ended up winning all
four, Cambodias nonplaying cap-
tain Tep Rithivit told the Post.
We have proved yet again that
we are made of sterner stuff. All the
players played their hearts out. They
wore courage on their sleeves.
The harder we are pushed, great-
er is our resolve to ght right back.
There is never a dull moment in Da-
vis Cup campaigns and there never
will be.
I sincerely express my gratitude to
our main sponsors NagaWorld, co-
sponsors GLF, Colorblind and a host
of other supporters, well-wishers,
fans and admirers of Cambodian
tennis all round the world, added
the captain.
Pointedly asked by the Post as to
what important lessons Tennis Cam-
bodia had learnt from their Mis-
sion to Iran, Tep Rithivit said the top
priority would be to strengthen the
second line and evolve a specialist
doubles combination.
Lebanon beat Malaysia and hosts
Iran beat Syria to gain promotion
to Group II next year, while United
Arab Emirates, which lost to Turk-
menistan, will join Singapore in
Group IV.
FIFA ignored terror alert
over Qatar bid for World Cup
A SECURITY briefing ordered by FIFA
less than a month before it awarded
Qatar the 2022 World Cup found the
Gulf state was a high risk target for
terror attacks during the tournament,
the Sunday Times reported. The
British newspaper accused members
of footballs world governing body of
having ignored its own terror alert in
choosing Qatar in a secret ballot in
December 2010, in a third week of
revelations raising questions about the
decision. The security review of bid
countries, ordered by FIFA secretary
general Jerome Valcke in mid-
November 2010, reportedly found that
Qatar would find it very difficult to
deal with a major incident during the
World Cup. It was written by Andre
Pruis, the South African police chief in
charge of security at the 2010 World
Cup and FIFAs security consultant for
the current tournament in Brazil. In
documents obtained by the
newspaper, Pruis acknowledged he
only had time for a very limited threat
assessment, based largely on US
anti-terrorism information. AFP
West Bromwich Albion
appoint Irvine as new coach
ALAN Irvine has been appointed as
West Bromwich Albions new head
coach. The 55-year-old former
Preston North End and Sheffield
Wednesday manager has agreed a
12-month rolling contract and will
complete his move to The Hawthorns
once he has officially signed off from
his current role as Evertons academy
manager. THE GUARDIAN
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 16, 2014 27
The Advocacy and Policy Institute (API)
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Announcement
Independent external evaluator (s) for Mid-term-Project Evaluation (MpE)
Increasing Access to Public Information (IAPI) Project
Background
TheAdvocacy andPolicy Instituteis oneof theleadingadvocacy andpolicy capacity buildingorganizations inCambodia. It has a
missionto servewithlongtermdemocratic andsocial developmentneedsof Cambodiathroughtheempowermentof peopleto interact
withtheir government to protect rightsandprovidefor needs.
With nancial support from EU, DCA/CA, BFDW and OSF, the Increasing Access to Public Information (IAPI) Project has been
implemented numerous activities by API, Article 19, COWS, FACT, KBSC, MB and VSG since 2013 up to the present. IAPI project
committed until ending its term by December 2015 in increasing the access to information for both the public and sub-national
authorities as fundamental to effective participation and accountability in sub-national governance.
API is looking for a team or individual external consultant (s) to conduct Mid Term Project Evaluation between July andAugust 2014.
Objectives of mid-term project evaluation
Assess achievements against objectives, efciency and effectiveness of methodology, relevance of approach, impacts,
sustainability andother factorswhichcanleadfor advocacy growth;
Ascertain progressive result in comparison with project outcomes, proper evaluation by considering its indicators, and identify
the key challenges and implications between January 01, 2013 until June 30, 2014 for 49 communes in ten districts within the ve
target provinces (Kampong Speu, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Thom, Kratie and Banteay Meanchey).
Expected Outputs
The evaluation team will be accountable for delivering the mid-term project evaluation report in English and Khmer withcredibility
andtransparency.
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The methodology for the evaluation must be in accordance with the methods of implementation and the methodology of Baseline
survey 2013.Desk review and a number of Focus Group Discussions and survey with 1,488 sample sizes out of 500,000 population
will be conducted as the part of the midterm evaluation methodology to be proposed by the Evaluator (s).
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decentralization and de-centralisation, right based approach or any relevant projects;
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Familiar with the process of participatory assessment;
Good facilitation, negotiation and communication skills;
Prociency in English and Khmer;
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Timeframe and fee
The total duration of the evaluation process is approximately 8 weeks, starting from July 1
st
, 2014 to August 30
th
2014. The nal report
will be submitted not later than August 30
th
, 2014.
How to apply
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th
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Champs help out Crown
H S Manjunath

M
ETFONE C-League front
runners Phnom Penh
Crown increased their
lead in the Metfone C-
League to ve points after reigning
champions Svay Rieng suddenly re-
found their form to down title con-
tenders Boeung Ket Rubber Field 2-1
at the Olympic Stadium yesterday.
Svay Riengs Nigerian hotshot
Dzarma Bata opened the scoring on
15 minutes but Boeung Kets Chan
Vathanaka levelled midway through
the second half.
Prak Mony Udom then sprung up
to grab the winner with six minutes
left on the clock to spoil the day of
their Kampong Thom-based rivals.
On Saturday at the Old Stadium,
Leng Makara gave Crown an early
lead against Western University
when he struck in the 14th minute.
The teams South Korean import
Kim Jeong Ho then doubled the
advantage soon after the restart
and Crown had no difculty riding
home the 2-0 advantage.
This years Hun Sen Cup runners-
up Build Bright United were given
a fright by bottom of the table Albi-
rex Niigata, who threatened a huge
upset before the university-backed
side managed to steer the game to a
2-2 draw.
Albirex, the rst foreign franchise to
get into the Cambodian top tier, led
by a Yusuki Ueda double until Adey-
anju Omokafe pulled one back min-
utes before the breather, although the
danger was far from over from BBU.
After struggling to get on terms
for the best part of the second half,
the day for BBU was saved by Prum
Puthsethy, who nailed the equaliser
two minutes into injury time.
Meanwhile, a brace by Tani Reijin
featured prominently in National
Police Commissary overcoming
Ministry of National Defence 3-2.
Touch Roma gave the Armymen a
33rd minute lead but Police quickly
caught up when Tani Reijin was on
target ve minutes later and went
one better by taking Police to the
front on the hour mark.
Hard-working Chhin Chhoeun re-
stored parity for MND in the 73rd
minute but the Police clinched the
deal when Ul Ravy produced the
match winner shortly after.
The tottering Kirivong Sok Sen
Chey were dealt another cruel
blow. TriAsia proved far too strong
for the visitors from Takeo in a 4-1
victory built around Nwakuna Fri-
days double. Sok Chanraksmey
and Soung Virak chipped in with
a goal each.
In Vichekas eighth minute goal
turned out to be poor consolation for
Kirivong, who are currently second
from bottom in the standings.
Svay Riengs Dzarma Bata jumps a challenge from Boeung Kets Touch Panharong during their MCL game yesterday. SRENGMENGSRUN