Agreement A Tough Sell: More Than 40 Dead in Taiwan Plane Crash

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RIME Minister Hun
Sen and opposition
leader Sam Rainsy will
meet with King Noro-
dom Sihamoni at the Royal
Palace today to officially inform
him of the political agreement
reached earlier this week that
brought an end to a nearly one-
year deadlock.
By doing so, they will kick-
start a series of events that could
see the Cambodia National Res-
cue Partys 55 lawmakers
including Rainsy, who
announced yesterday he would
swap in for Kampong Cham MP
Kuoy Bunroeun take their
oaths and swear in to parlia-
ment within a matter of days.
But not all are happy.
Many CNRP supporters have
been voicing their discontent
with the agreement on social
media and on radio, with a com-
mon charge being that the
opposition will be overrun by
the ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party in parliament.
Yin Hing, 55, and her husband
Hean La, 65, travelled from Kep
province to camp out with the
CNRP at Freedom Park last year
during the partys rolling post-
election protests that were
abruptly ended after a violent
crackdown by authorities in
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THE former general who
lost Indonesias presiden-
tial election to Joko Widodo
will challenge the result in
court, his campaign team
said yesterday, a move that
could spell weeks of uncer-
tainty for the worlds third-
largest democracy.
But Prabowo Subiantos
last-ditch bid to overturn
the result did little to damp-
en the enthusiasm of Wido-
dos supporters, with thou-
sands staging a noisy rally
next to a Jakarta monument
commemorating Indone-
sias proclamation of inde-
pendence in 1945.
Widodo, the reform-
minded governor of Jakarta
seen as a break from the
autocratic era of dictator
Suharto, was named the
winner on Tuesday after
results showed he resound-
ingly defeated Prabowo, his
only challenger.
Before the result was
announced after a lengthy
vote-tallying process,
Prabowo a senior general
during the Suharto era who
has been dogged by allega-
tions of human rights
Stuart White
Analysis
WHEN seven Cambodia
National Rescue Party law-
makers-elect and a party
activist were released on
bail from Prey Sar prison
on Tuesday, it was to the
cheers of supporters and
the general approval of
civil society.
But even as observers yes-
terday welcomed the detain-
ees release which came hot
on the heels of a political deal
between the CNRP and the
ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party some were quick to
note that the entire episode
was yet another example of
Cambodian courts suscep-
tibility to political influence.
According to Duch Piseth,
head of the trial monitoring
project at the Cambodian
Center for Human Rights,
the court betrayed its lack
of independence both com-
ing and going.
The arrest of the CNRP
members was not [justified],
because they did nothing
wrong . . . If we look at the
law on demonstrations, the
authorities must arrest
those who commit violence
directly, not those who lead
the protest, Piseth said,
maintaining that the charg-
es against the politicians
were strictly meant to up the
pressure on opposition
negotiators.
And just a few hours after
the meeting between the
supreme leaders of both par-
ties, those CNRP members
who had been arrested were
released on bail, he added.
So this is a clear example
that the judiciary in Cambo-
dia is not independent.
In fact, Mu Sochua, one
Threat to
turnover
of power
in Jakarta
A justice
system
rotten to
the core
Agreement a tough sell
At grassroots level, deep doubts linger for many CNRP supporters
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A justice system rotten to the core
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of the CNRPs newly released
lawmakers, agreed, say-
ing that her experience had
showed her how rotten to
the core the court system is.
While she should not have
spent one second in jail, she
continued, her improbably
timely release was just as
suspect.
How can we be in and out
in seven days? These were seri-
ous charges, and at the minute
of the arrests they were not le-
gal, she said. When the talks
happened, within three hours,
we were out. What kind of a
system is this? It has to be free,
fair and independent for all,
not just for exceptional cases.
According to Piseth, though
the charges against the eight
still technically stand, they
were likely to be dropped
the minute that the released
lawmakers become covered
by parliamentary immunity.
However, UN Special Rap-
porteur on Human Rights
Surya Subedi expressed his
own concerns that the charges
could be dangled over law-
makers heads and revived
whenever politically expedi-
ent, as well as that [i]nstead
of being a check, the judiciary
appears to be acting as a tool
of the executive.
While it may have raised
some eyebrows that the CNRP
a party that has long advo-
cated judicial independence
was the seeming beneciary
of political inuence on the
courts this time, party presi-
dent Sam Rainsy said yester-
day that he had not specical-
ly sought his party members
release in negotiations with
Prime Minister Hun Sen.
We all know that the ju-
diciary in this country is not
independent, but in our ne-
gotiations, even though we
had in mind our colleagues
who were detained, we still
pushed for our demands our
basic demands to be met,
he said, allowing that the CPP
may have inferred that their
release was an implicit part of
the agreement.
However, Ministry of Justice
Secretary of State and CPP
working group member Keut
Rith yesterday maintained
that the lawmakers release
had nothing to do with undue
pressure from the executive.
The [lawmakers] defence
teams, as I understand, had
requested bail for their client
on July 21, and the courts de-
cision was made following the
request and based on the pro-
cedure of the law, he said. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA,
DAVID BOYLE AND KEVIN PONNIAH
Allegedly illegally felled timber sits in an ELC owned by Try Pheap last
year. The Ministry of Environment is implementing a new mechanism
to monitor timber processing in ELCs. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Phak Seangly
A
MID promises reiter-
ated by the govern-
ment yesterday that
it will take a tougher
stance on economic land con-
cessions, logging tycoon Try
Pheap minimally reduced his
sweeping natural resource
empire, returning more than
20,000 hectares of undevel-
oped forestry.
It was unclear what kind
of arrangement prompted
Pheap to give back land inside
Ratanakkiris Virachey Nation-
al Park, as Environment Min-
ister Say Sam Al provided no
reasoning for the announce-
ment and Pheap could not be
reached for comment.
Sam Al did say that conces-
sionaires who do not use their
land will see their property re-
possessed.
We will urge [ELC] com-
panies to follow their master
plan, and if they do not con-
scientiously do so, or have
enough money to complete
their intentions, we will seize
the land back, Sam Al said.
Nearly a third of the Virachey
National Parks territory has
been granted as ELCs, with
a small handful of different
companies, including the Try
Pheap Company, owning over
100,000 hectares of the park,
according to Chhay Thy, Ra-
tanakkiri provincial coordina-
tor for rights group Adhoc.
Thy added that the Try Pheap
Company did not develop its
portion of the granted land.
In addition to announcing
Pheaps returned property yes-
terday, Sam Al also said that in
order to further protect bio-
diversity and forest coverage,
the government will soon levy
a tax on concessionaires wish-
ing to clear forested areas.
However, he was not forth-
coming on precise details, in-
cluding how much would be
charged or how such a mecha-
nism could be enforced.
He did stress that any col-
lected timber would need to
be reported and that furniture
makers will have to specify
their wood suppliers.
The timber-processing
places need to be rechecked,
he said. We must know the
sources of the timber and
where they come from.
In Ratanakkiri, the govern-
ment has granted concessions
to a total of 30 international
and national companies,
supplying them with a total
of nearly 136,000 hectares
of land.
Ministry vows to take
some ELC land back
When the talks happened,
within three hours, we
were out. What kind of
system is this?
Violent argument
Bodyguard
shoots his
own driver
P
OLICE are searching
for a member of Prime
Minister Hun Sens
bodyguard unit who is accused
of shooting an employee of his
company after an argument, a
senior police ofcial said.
The official, who requested
anonymity because he is not
authorised to speak with the
media, said that on July 20,
Major General Mom Sophors,
a military officer working with
the bodyguard unit, became
angry with Sun Rattana, 27, a
driver for his company MSP
Transport in Por Sen Chey
district, over an argument
involving Rattanas back
wages. So he shot him in the
right thigh.
He fired two bullets into the
ground near his legs, but un-
luckily a bullet hit the victims
right thigh, seriously injuring
him, he said.
He added that after the
shooting, Sophors escaped,
and staff helped the victim
get to Calmette Hospital for
treatment. Two days later, he
filed a complaint with police.
Sophors could not be rea-
ched for comment yesterday.
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More troops injured in Mali
Vong Sokheng

A
T LEAST 11 Cambo-
dian United Nations
peacekeepers in Mali
were injured after
their camp was hit by a storm
on Tuesday night, the latest
incident in what has been a
rough and sometimes tragic
mission for the contingent.
A preliminary report indi-
cated that a strong storm
levelled a number of tents in
the camps and injured the
soldiers, said Ouk Bunthan,
deputy director of mines and
explosive war remnants clear-
ance at the National Centre for
Peacekeeping Forces.
We are waiting for an of-
cial report, Bunthan said.
This is rst time that our Blue
Helmets have been injured
because of a natural disaster.
According to the online
news site Cambodia Express
News, two soldiers were seri-
ously injured and nine were
slightly hurt. Twenty-three
tents were destroyed.
The soldiers are the latest ca-
sualties of Cambodias peace-
keeping mission to Mali.
Last week, two were injured
after their car drove over a
landmine, and another two
died from food poisoning in
early June. Their bodies were
repatriated later that month.
The two fatalities were the
rst deaths in Cambodias
eight years of contributions
to UN peacekeeping forces
around the world.
The Ministry of Defence
dispatched a total of 309
members of the Royal Cam-
bodian Armed Forces (RCAF)
to Mali earlier this year.
The Mali contingent of the
RCAF is the rst from Cam-
bodia to be sent to that coun-
try, where it mostly performs
airport upkeep, ordnance re-
moval, and demining. It is part
of the United Nations Multidi-
mensional Integrated Stabili-
zation Mission in Mali, which
deploys 12,640 peacekeepers
in Malis troubled north.
Mali has been in a state of
chaos since an invasion by
Tuareg rebels in the north
sparked a coup in March 2012
which ousted former presi-
dent Amadou Toumani Toure.
France, which once ran a
colony in Mali, sent a military
force to stabilise the country
and initially defeated the reb-
els. The conict has dragged
on longer than expected, how-
ever, and France has delayed its
scheduled 2014 withdrawal.
A United Nations peacekeeper salutes as he participates in a ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport
in February before departing for Mali. HENG CHIVOAN
Walkway,
bag plans
in works
Chhay Channyda
PHNOM Penh City Hall yester-
day announced plans to build
a promenade down the citys
waterfront, picking up where
the current riverfront walkway
ends around the Chaktomuk
theatre and extending some
four kilometres south to the
Monivong bridge.
Municipality spokesman
Long Dimanche said yesterday
that while there were no clear
plans on when to start, the city
was already discussing it with
riverfront hotels.
We just informed them to
cooperate, because the river-
bank belongs to the state, he
said, adding that the Ministry
of Public Works and Transport
would lead the project.
City Hall also recently issued
a directive signed by Phnom
Penh Municipal Governor Pa
Socheatvong forbidding super-
markets and convenience sto-
ries from giving out plastic bags
on weekends.
The text of the July 17 direc-
tive, which was to go into effect
immediately, said that it was
aimed at reducing the amount
of hard-to-melt and decay
waste in the city.
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On the march
Days-long
strike shifts
to district HQ
A
FTER striking for more
than a week, employ-
ees at Phnom Penhs
Sun Well Shoes yesterday
marched to Por Sen Chey
district hall, demanding their
voices be heard.
We protested in front of
the factory for nearly 10 days,
but the factory officials did not
come to negotiate, Seang
Sambath, president of the
Workers Friendship Union
Federation (WFUF), said
yesterday. So they marched
to the district hall.
Some 300 people mar-
ched from their Veng Sreng
Boulevard factory with a list of
seven demands, including the
firing of a manager and $15
per month for accommodation
and transportation.
Deputy district governor
Khem Soda told union and
worker representatives that
he had written a letter to Sun
Wells owner, inviting him to
a negotiation meeting today.
I sent a letter to the factory
calling for negotiation with
workers on the points they
demand, Soda said.
Factory officials could not be
reached. MOM KUNTHEAR
Home searched in KDC row
Khouth Sophak Chakrya

P
OLICE searched the
home of villagers pro-
testing against the
KDC International
company in Kampong Chh-
nang province yesterday, con-
scating a number of items,
including a crossbow, an axe
and gasoline bottles, ofcials
and villagers said.
A years-long land dispute
between villagers in Kampong
Tralach districts Lor Peang
village and KDC owned by
Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines
and Energy Minister Suy Sem
has escalated in recent weeks,
leading to clashes and arrests.
Seng Mengsrun, provincial
deputy prosecutor, said he led a
team of 10 police into the home
of village representatives Smu-
on Nhearn and Om Sophy.
Mengsrun said authorities
found and conscated a num-
ber of items during the search,
which followed the arrest of
two villagers on Monday.
The search is part of an
investigation. I cannot tell
you any more information,
Mengsrun said.
Since the dispute turned vi-
olent early this month, villag-
ers say their homes have been
surrounded by police seeking
to intimidate and arrest them.
Nheurn, 34, said he coop-
erated with police when they
searched his house.
Police asked me what the
gasoline bottle was for and I
told them that it was for burn-
ing police who invade my
home without permission, he
said. They said the crossbow
is an illegal weapon . . . but I
used it to kill rats, snakes and
sh, and have it also to pro-
tect my family at nighttime.
Police did not try to ar-
rest him, despite the deputy
prosecutor saying his name
was on a list of villagers with
complaints against them for
destroying KDC property,
Nheurn said.
The dispute began in 2007
when KDC bulldozed 145
hectares of farmland without
compensating residents.
On Monday, police arrested
village representatives Seang
Heng and Marng Yag, who
were charged with inten-
tional violence and property
destruction.
The rest of us are blocked
in the village. We cannot go
outside and earn a living, said
Khat Saruon, Hengs wife.
KDC ofcials could not be
reached for comment.
Employees of KDC International re projectiles towards local villagers in Kampong Chhnang provinces
Kampong Tralach district during an ongoing land dispute earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Court rules
that journo
has to pay
Laignee Barron
A JOURNALIST and British
national were hit with steep
financial penalties in court yes-
terday for remarks made on his
blog last year.
Rupert Winchester was con-
victed on defamation charges
and ordered by Phnom Penh
Municipal Court to pay 8 mil-
lion riel ($2,000) in fines and
100 million riel ($25,000) in
compensation to a French
businessman.
Etienne Chevenier sued Win-
chester, then a reporter at the
Post, for remarks about him
posted on the writers personal
blog in June 2013.
Im very disappointed, but
Im going to appeal, Winches-
ter said yesterday. Chevenier
could not be reached.
The verdict raised questions
about how the courts treat
online freedom of expression.
Cyberspace in Cambodia is
currently fairly free . . . but con-
victions over statements made
online are something to be
concerned about in terms of
legal precedent, said Sorn
Ramana, a project coordinator
at the Cambodian Center for
Human Rights.
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After deal, unions expect support
Sean Teehan, Mom Kunthear
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
N
EWS of an end to a
year-long political
deadlock has la-
bour union lead-
ers believing the opposition
party can bring their interests
to parliament, but a lack of
follow-through could cost the
Cambodia National Rescue
Party vital support from one of
its key interest groups.
Different union leaders said
yesterday they hope that once
the CNRP takes its seats and
takes charge of its many com-
mittees, the newfound inuence
will translate into a reinvigorat-
ed push for a higher minimum
wage and for investigations into
fatal strike shootings.
I would say theres potential
[for labour reform] and theres
also an obligation, said Dave
Welsh, country director of la-
bour rights NGO Solidarity
Center. If we recall what hap-
pened in January, what was a
labour issue turned into a po-
litical issue.
During a 10-day strike in
December and January, CNRP
members including senior
lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua
and opposition leader Sam
Rainsy encouraged unionists
to strike until the minimum
monthly wage was raised to
$160. Workers wearing stickers
reading $160 joined CNRP
supporters in massive gather-
ings at Freedom Park and in
marches around Phnom Penh.
The strikes and marches,
however, ended in an abrupt
series of crackdowns, punctu-
ated by the shooting deaths
of at least ve garment work-
ers on the capitals Veng Sreng
Boulevard on January 3.
The CNRPs promise to raise
the minimum wage in the gar-
ment sector to $150 during
last years election campaign
was arguably a large factor in
its major gains in the National
Assembly, winning 55 seats to
the ruling partys 68. There are
hundreds of thousands of gar-
ment workers, most of whom
are eligible to vote.
Workers still demand a
wage increase and the govern-
ment and garment factories
still have not resolved this, but
with a two-party system, we
can get closer to $160, said Ath
Thorn, president of the Coali-
tion of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union
(C.CAWDU), the Kingdoms
largest independent garment
union. Politicians can have
more inuence on workers and
workers can have more inu-
ence on politicians.
Collective Union of Move-
ment of Workers president
Pav Sina and Free Trade Union
president Chea Mony both
said their continued support
of the CNRP at least partially
hinges on its promise to raise
the minimum wage in the gar-
ment sector to at least $160.
The largest priority for the
[C.CAWDU] is to nd out [what
happened] and nd justice for
the people, said Kong Athit,
C.CAWDUs vice president, re-
ferring to deadly shootings at
garment protests in November
and January and the arrest and
conviction of 23 people.
His and other unions will
apply heavy pressure on CNRP
lawmakers to open investiga-
tions into the two shootings if
the party does not bring it up
themselves, Athit said.
Those who were injured
are also seeking answers.
Kha Srey, who was four
months pregnant when she
was shot in the thigh on Janu-
ary 3, yesterday said she wants
accountability.
I ask for the government or
the international community to
investigate this case to give us
justice, Srey said. I think when
they conduct the investigation
they will nd that some in the
government acted wrongly.
The committee on labour,
public health, social work and
womens affairs will prioritise
both wages and investigations
into the shootings, Sochua
said yesterday. The commit-
tee was under CPP control in
the past, but the opposition
leadership will ght for higher
minimum wages, she added.
It is only a matter of time
before investigations into the
shootings occur, she said.
It will happen, Sochua said,
though she was unsure when.
CNRP members have talked
a large game to get union-
ists on their side, said Chuon
Mom Thol, president of the
government-aligned Cambo-
dian Union Federation.
But during high-level talks
between the opposition and
the ruling party last year,
workers wages never came
up, Mom Thol said.
[In] late 2013, when there
was a meeting with a top gov-
ernment ofcial, I never heard
Sam Rainsy or Kem Sokha
speak a word about raising
wages to $160, Mom Thol
said yesterday. Its not a high
priority at this moment, but
maybe near [the next] elec-
tion day they will bring this up
again to gain support.
Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha addresses party supporters and garment
workers at Freedom Park in December. SCOTT HOWES
early January. The farmers say they are
worried that by choosing to work with
the CPP, the CNRP is at risk of being
marginalised.
I am not happy with [this agree-
ment], because I do not have any con-
fidence in the Cambodian Peoples
Party, because I think back to the Func-
inpec regime, Hing said, referring to
the once-dominant royalist party which
was bullied into a power-sharing agree-
ment with the CPP after the 1993 elec-
tion. Funcinpecs political power stead-
ily eroded in successive coalitions with
Hun Sens party.
The CPP has power, and we do not
have any power at all. Whatever the CPP
wants to do, they will be able to do.
Sim Vuthy, a Phnom Penh market ven-
dor and fervent opposition supporter,
also said he was afraid that the CNRP,
like Funcinpec, would not stand up to
the CPP in parliament and instead
adopt their ways.
Honestly, my heart is not happy,
because I am afraid that [the CNRP] will
also become corrupt.
Other supporters, however, were cau-
tiously optimistic.
Phak Vannak, who represents a com-
munity in Kampong Speus Omlaing
commune that is locked in an ongoing
land dispute with a sugar company
owned by tycoon Ly Yong Phat, said he
hoped that the victims of land grabs
would no longer be ignored in parlia-
ment with the CNRP present.
Those two parties have to respect
human rights. And I would like to say to
the CNRP: please dont think about
power too much. Think about the peo-
ple who are the victims so they can
improve their futures.
Soem Sim, a teacher from Kampong
Cham who approved of the deal but
remained wary of CPP tricks, agreed.
[The CNRP] must work hard for peo-
ple by daring to speak out. When they
see something wrong, they must say
somethings wrong, and when they see
something right, they must say some-
things right.
Among the political elite close to the
party, there also appears to be discord
about whether Tuesdays agreement
was the right decision.
To me it wasnt a negotiation. It was
just the CPP forcing the CNRP to accept
whatever they wanted, said Prince
Sisowath Thomico, who ran unsuccess-
fully with the party last July, referring to
the fact that eight CNRP officials were
in prison as the talks took place.
Thomico believes the assembly boy-
cott should have continued, given a CPP
majority in parliament will mean noth-
ing will change with this agreement.
There is [also] one thing we have for-
gotten over the last few months. We
have forgotten about justice and trans-
parency around the results of the elec-
tions. If we do not take justice and trans-
parency about the elections, we have
nothing and the deal is completely
meaningless, he added.
Mu Sochua, a senior party figure and
one of the opposition officials released
from Prey Sar prison hours after the deal
was struck on Tuesday, said yesterday
that the party was well aware that many
people were unhappy.
While it would take a few days and
maybe weeks until this uncertainty
period will subside, it was clear there
were serious misconceptions among
the public, she said.
Chief among these, Sochua contin-
ued, is that many mistakenly believe the
CNRP is joining some sort of coalition
with the CPP, rather than simply taking
their seats in the assembly.
They think we are going into the
executive branch, which is the govern-
ment itself, [but] if you look at the agree-
ment, it is only about the National
Assembly as an institution. They have
had many bitter experiences with Func-
inpec, but we are not Funcinpec, and
they know that.
The agreement also provides for sig-
nificant changes to national institutions
and the internal rules of parliament, she
said, paving the way for much-needed
reforms and a formal opposition role
in parliament.
If we stay out of that house, which is
the parliament, we will be part of the
problem instead of part of the solution,
she said.
If all goes to plan, according to Rainsy,
the CNRP could take its seats in a spe-
cially convened assembly session on
Monday, a date that would mark the first
anniversary of last years election.
It would be a symbolic move that
would only further reinforce the script-
ed feel of events of the past week or so
that brought such a seemingly swift end
to a lengthy impasse.
[After the audience with the King],
we would swear in and take our oath in
the following days. So its a matter of
days, at most one week. Then things will
be settled for us to go to the National
Assembly [for] a special session because
the National Assembly is now in recess,
Rainsy said yesterday.
The party leader was not allowed to
run in the election, but told local media
yesterday he will swap in for the parlia-
ment seat of Bunrouen, who would
become one of the oppositions four
appointees to the NEC.
Kem Sokha, the CNRP deputy presi-
dent and the more hard-line of the pair,
has remained silent since Rainsy
announced the final talks on Sunday.
He will take the first deputy presidency
position in the assembly that the CNRP
received as part of Tuesdays deal.
Chheang Vun, a senior ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party lawmaker and
the Assemblys spokesman, said yes-
terday he could not confirm whether a
special session could be arranged for
the CNRP to take their seats.
Separately, the international commu-
nity has welcomed the rapprochement.
Yesterday, Japanese Foreign Minister
Fumio Kishida said in a statement that
his country hoped that with the agree-
ment, national reconciliation and the
prompt normalisation of the National
Assembly will be achieved in order to
progress towards reforms.
Surya Subedi, the UN rights envoy to
Cambodia, said that while both parties
deserved congratulations, the agree-
ment reached on the National Election
Committee only marks the beginning
of the true work of reforming the State
institutions.
The US Embassy said on Tuesday
that hopefully that these develop-
ments will lay the groundwork for con-
tinued reform and enable both parties
to work together for the advancement
of democracy in Cambodia. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY WILL JACKSON, MAY TITTHARA AND
DAVID BOYLE
National
6
POLICE
BLOTTER
Ancient motorbike theft
not swept under the rug
LIKE elephants, some police
never forget. Ten years after a
man stole a motorbike from
someone in his village, he
returned home to visit his ill
mother, assuming everyone
had forgiven and forgotten.
They hadnt. No sooner had the
man, 31, rolled back into town
than the local cop remem-
bering the thiefs crime
handcuffed him and sent him
to court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Cash flow sows chaos
in peaceful card game
A MAN who mistakenly
thought his money had been
stolen during a village card
game attacked a fellow player
with a shovel in Takeo on Tues-
day. The irate player believed
his opponent had nicked $100
when his back was turned, an
allegation the victim strenu-
ously denied. It turned out that
he was telling nothing but the
truth police arrived later to
find that the wind had blown
the cash only a short distance
away. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Raid at internet cafe
leads to drug arrests
POLICE in the capitals Cham-
karmon district are obviously
aware of the stereotype of
gamers being involved with
recreational drugs. Officers
raided an internet cafe on
Tuesday, where they seized two
packages of drugs. While
arresting all 13 men and wom-
en in the shop might have
seemed like a slight overreac-
tion on the part of authorities,
their actions were vindicated
when all suspects confessed to
being part of a small-time
dealing ring. Police sent them
to court. KOHSANTEPHEAP

Rude awakening for
napping theft victim
A MAN who left cash in his
unlocked car while he took a
rest at his house in Kampong
Cham on Tuesday was saved
from short-term destitution by
an angry mob. After checking
in for a kip, the man awoke to
the noise of a rowdy crowd
milling about outside. During
the mans slumber, a thief, 30,
had helped himself to $100 sit-
ting in the car. In a rush to get
away, he had caught the atten-
tion of fellow villagers who
quickly turned vigilante. They
detained him until police
arrived. RASMEY KAMPUCHEA
Cover of night does not
help suspects get away
IT WAS dark and they were in a
quiet part of Stung Treng town,
but two hapless crooks still
managed to be right in front of
a police officer when they
robbed a man of his motorbike
on Tuesday. The ensuing
police chase soon made its
way to an isolated area of for-
est and turned into a rugged
game of cat and mouse. By
the time morning had broken,
however, police with the help
of some back-up had their
men. DEUM AMPIL
Translated by Sen David
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen shake hands in front of the
Senate, where a meeting to end the political deadlock took place on Tuesday. HENG CHIVOAN
Pact tough
sell for some
in the CNRP
R
ICE production in
Thailand will prob-
ably shrink to a ve-
year low as drought
hurts yields and farmers curb
planting after the end of a sub-
sidy program, according to the
Thai Rice Packers Association.
Output in the largest ship-
per after India may drop 10 per
cent to about 34 million metric
tonnes in 2014-2015, said Som-
kiat Makcayathorn, the groups
president. That would be the
lowest level since 2009-2010,
when the Southeast-Asian na-
tion produced 32.4 million
tonnes, according to data from
the Ofce of Agricultural Eco-
nomics, the Bangkok-based
state forecaster.
While a smaller harvest
would curb farm incomes, a
decline in supply may ease the
challenge faced by the coun-
trys military junta as it seeks
to sell off record stockpiles
that built up under the now-
defunct subsidy program. Dry
weather may also hurt rice
output in India this season,
according to the Rome-based
Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation, which forecasts the rst
contraction in global stockpiles
in a decade.
Production has been af-
fected by both drought and the
lack of a price subsidy, Somki-
at said in an interview in Bang-
kok on July 21. The prospect of
a production decline provides
an opportunity for the junta to
release stockpiles.
Drought spread across 49 of
Thailands 77 provinces since
September, with rainfall in
May 31 per cent below the 30-
year average, according to gov-
ernment data. Yields may de-
cline 20 per cent to 50 per cent
because of below-normal rain
and inadequate water supplies,
according to a Bloomberg sur-
vey of 10 farmers in the biggest
growing provinces.
An El Nino weather pattern,
which can parch South and
Southeast Asia and hurt farm
production, remains likely lat-
er this year, Australias Bureau
of Meteorology said on July
15, while adding that odds of a
strong event are unlikely.
Former Thai prime minis-
ter Yingluck Shinawatra, who
was deposed by the junta in
May, introduced the subsidy in
2011, spurring record output
and reserves and ending the
countrys 30-year reign as the
biggest exporter. The program
which paid farmers a guar-
anteed above-market rate for
their crop lapsed in February
and the junta is now checking
warehouses nationwide to as-
sess the quantity and quality of
the grain reserves.
Thai reserves increased from
5.62 million tonnes in 2011 to
12.8 million tonnes last year,
as exports fell from 10.6 mil-
lion tonnes to 6.72 million
tonnes in the same period, ac-
cording to the US Department
of Agriculture. Output may
drop to 30.5 million tonnes in
2015 from 31 million tonnes,
the US agency predicts.
Global stockpiles may con-
tract 0.9 per cent to 179.7 mil-
lion tonnes in 2014-2015 on a
milled basis, the UNs FAO es-
timated in a quarterly report
last week. The agency forecast
a 1.2 per cent drop in Indian
supply to 157.5 million tonnes
on a paddy basis.
Between July 3 and July 8,
more than 100 teams checked
343 warehouses out of 1,787 in
Thailand, junta leader General
Prayuth Chan-ocha said on
July 18. Irregularities, including
rice missing from warehouses
and quality deterioration, were
found in 65 warehouses, Gen-
eral Prayuth said in his weekly
televised address.
The price of Thailands 5 per
cent broken white rice, a re-
gional benchmark, rebounded
after the junta suspended sales
for the inspections. The grade
was at $427 a tonne on July 16,
compared with $384 on May
28, the lowest since at least
2008. The price slumped 23 per
cent last year.
Thai rice is still competi-
tive at current prices, which
could boost exports to 10 mil-
lion tonnes, becoming the top
exporter said Somkiat, who's
also secretary general of the
Thai Rice Exporters Asso-
ciation. Even without impact
from dry weather, we should
see a production decline be-
cause farmers barely make
a prot from planting rice.
BANGKOK POST
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 24, 2014
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Challenges and opportunities lie ahead for Myanmar
AS MYANMAR steps back onto the
world stage with renewed vigour, liv-
ing in the country during these excit-
ing times is like being in a live-action
movie. Every day brings new chal-
lenges, new developments and new
opportunities.
But underneath the glitz and glam-
our of visits from heads of state, host-
ing the SEA Games, and openings of
offices of multinational corporations
investing in droves is an administra-
tion that has been labouring quietly to
support all these changes.
In the first few months of 2014 alone,
parliament has passed the new Spe-
cial Economic Zone Act (SEZ), the
Consumer Protection Act and the
Union Tax Act of 2014, to name just a
few. The market is also keenly await-
ing several more key legislative and
regulatory reforms that will be impor-
tant to drive the economy forward.
These include the detailed SEZ
rules, a condominium law, updates
to the Myanmar Foreign Investment
Law and changes in relation to the
financial institutions law.
A good example is the banking lib-
eralisation, which is widely expected
to happen soon. The opening up of
parts of the banking sector to foreign
banks will help provide finance for
much of the infrastructure develop-
ment and foreign investment the
economy needs. More importantly,
it would also help the longer-term
development of the financial serv-
ices market within Myanmar.
However, many building blocks will
need to be put together at the base of
the pyramid first.
For a start, monitoring systems and
regulations need to be put in place
and/or upgraded to meet the chal-
lenges of a modern financial market
that is well integrated with the over-
all economy. Moreover, as many
loans are going to be denominated in
foreign currency and costs of funding
would be dependent on internation-
al funding costs, the banks entering
the Myanmar market as well as well
established local banks will need to
be able to hedge both their interest
rate costs as well as foreign currency
risks. However, prior to the offering
of such services, legislation to regu-
late such a market and its partici-
pants will be needed.
With the know your client and
anti-money laundering requirements
that banking sector participants face,
a lot of information is collected, proc-
essed and stored. Over time, other
regulators will need to adopt privacy
regulations to ensure the data obtained
by banks will not be misused.
On a different note, there has been
steady progress in other areas to
modernise rules and regulations. A
good example is the recent ration-
alisation of commercial taxes intro-
duced on April 1 this year.
In the past, the tax rates applicable
to each type of product and service
were contained in seven different
schedules. As the economy matures
rapidly, the types of products and
services that would need to be added
to these schedules will increase expo-
nentially. To mitigate this issue, the
legislature simplified the commer-
cial tax system to two main schedules
of exceptions. All other goods and
services would then be taxable at the
rate of 5 per cent.
While there will always be more
detailed questions about how new
legislation is implemented, the con-
sistent and clear direction in which the
legislation is heading demonstrates
legislators ability to forge a common
vision and to make the necessary
changes together.
From a foreign investors perspec-
tive, what does this all mean? Amid
gasps of this is Myanmar, we are qui-
etly optimistic as the country meta-
morphoses right in front of our eyes
on a daily basis.
While everyone agrees that politi-
cal and economic risk remains a
challenging area, the administration
that has guided the recent growth
spurt with a steady hand has been a
welcome contrast.
With the key agenda of increasing
investor confidence by ensuring the
gradual increase in transparency and
reliability of the administration, we
look forward to seeing more investors
in Myanmar partnering up with local
enterprises on an inclusive growth
path. BANGKOK POST
Health and
womens
affairs get
$64M grant
Hor Kimsay
THE German ambassador,
Joachim Baron von Marschall,
signed an agreement with the
permanent Deputy Prime
Minister Keat Chhon yester-
day for 47 million ($64 mil-
lion) in aid.
The grant will be used for
developing projects within the
ministries of health, rural
development and womens
affairs.
Roughly 20 million will be
allocated to a program that
aims to give better access to
health services through policy
development.
Some 19.6 million will be
used for rural development
projects, including infrastruc-
ture planning and land rights
management.
While projects fostering
access to justice for women
and administration decentral-
isation at the Ministry of Wom-
ens Affairs will receive around
3.8 million.
The remaining money is to
be used for further study across
all areas.
I believe that the partner-
ship between Cambodia and
Germany will be stronger and
stronger in the future, Chhon
said at the signing held at the
Council for the Development
of Cambodia yesterday.
According to Von Marschall,
Germany has provided some-
where in the region of half a
billion dollars in aid to Cam-
bodia since the early 1990s.
This figure would be greater if
it included contributions
through the EU he added.
Thai rice yield to hit 5-year low
Due to a drought that has spread across Thailand, Thailands rice yield is projected to hit a ve-year low. BLOOMBERG
Indias Jet Airways
sees return to profit
JET Airways, Indias second-
biggest carrier, forecast
yesterday a return to profit in
three years through cost
cutting, route sharing with new
partner Etihad Airways and
restructuring of hefty debt. The
airline, which has not posted
an annual profit since 2007,
has been struggling in an
overcrowded market beset by
cut-throat fare wars, high fuel
costs and shoddy infrastruc-
ture. The game plan is in
place, its now about delivery,
Jet Airways new chief
executive Cramer Ball said in
New Delhi. Ball was speaking
at the airlines first news
conference with Etihad since
the Abu Dhabi airlines
purchase of a 24-per-cent
stake in the Indian carrier for
$330 million. AFP
Australias inflation
accelerates in Q2
AUSTRALIAS core consumer
prices gained more than
economists forecast last
quarter, sending the
Australian dollar to its highest
in two weeks and creating a
hurdle to further monetary
policy easing. The trimmed
mean gauge rose 0.8 per cent
from the previous quarter, the
Bureau of Statistics said,
compared with the median
forecast of 25 economists for a
0.6 per cent gain. BLOOMBERG
BHP posts record production
B
HP Billiton posted
record annual iron
ore production in
Western Australia for
the 14th consecutive year
yesterday, while Queensland
coal production also hit an all-
time high.
The Anglo-Australian min-
ing giants operational re-
view for the year ended June
30 also showed copper pro-
duction rose 2 per cent year
on year and petroleum up 4
per cent. Copper production
rose to 470,000 tonnes in the
quarter, from 461,700 a year
earlier, beating the 435,000
tonne median estimate of
seven analysts.
Our focus on productivity
has resulted in a signicant
improvement in operating
performance at each of our
major businesses this year,
with a 9 per cent increase in
group production and record
output at 12 operations, chief
executive Andrew Mackenzie
explained.
Rival mining giant Rio Tinto
last week said its iron ore pro-
duction and shipments surged
to record highs in the rst-half
of the year as it boosted out-
put despite a recent fall in
commodity prices.
Iron ore prices have dropped
almost 30 per cent this year
falling below $100 a tonne
in May for the rst time since
2012 owing to a supply glut
as miners lift output on expec-
tations of continued Chinese
demand for the steel-making
material.
BHP said iron ore produc-
tion in Western Australia sig-
nicantly exceeded initial
full-year production guidance
with volumes increasing to
225 million metric tons (Mt).
We now expect production
of 245 Mt [100 per cent basis]
from the Pilbara [region] in
the 2015 nancial year, the
worlds biggest diversied
miner said in a statement.
Metallurgical coal produc-
tion was 45 Mt beating full-
year guidance as Queensland
Coal achieved record pro-
duction and sales volumes, it
said. Copper production rose
to 1.7 Mt, while petroleum
production was supported by
signicant growth at Onshore
US and Atlantis.
We expect to maintain
strong momentum and re-
main on track to generate
group production growth of
16 per cent over the two years
to the end of the 2015 nancial
year, Mackenzie said.
In petroleum, we are in-
vesting in our highest-return
acreage while a broader im-
provement in productivity is
expected to underpin stronger
iron ore, copper and metallur-
gical coal volumes.
We will remain focused on
value over volume as we pri-
oritise our browneld devel-
opment options and consider
the next phase of portfolio
simplication.
BHP shares closed up 1.22
per cent at A$38.98 in Sydney
in an overall higher market
that analysts said was boosted
by miners.
The report produced a
scramble into mining stocks,
said CMC Markets strategist
Michael McCarthy.
Chinese accounts also
showed the value of imports
was up 5 per cent, so I expect
when we see BHPs nancial
results its likely to surprise
the market, he went on to
say. BLOOMBERG/AFP
BHP posted record production of iron ore, and copper and petroleum
production also rose by 2 and 4 per cent respectively. BLOOMBERG
Business
8
Tokyo looks
to suspend
China meat
JAPAN suspended food imports
from a Chinese meat-processor
accused of selling products past
their expiration dates as Fami-
lyMart Co joined McDonalds
Corp in pulling affected items
from its Japanese outlets.
Japanese authorities would
strengthen safety checks on
food entering the country, Chief
Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide
Suga said yesterday. The gov-
ernment hadnt received any
reports of illness resulting from
the products made by Shanghai
Husi Food Co, a unit of Aurora,
Illinois-based OSI Group,
according to Suga.
We want to make sure that
questionable food wont come
into Japan by strengthening our
checks system and taking
measures for food safety for our
people, Suga said. It is
extremely important to grasp
the facts. Especially this time,
its about passing due dates. So
its not about poison or any-
thing illegal.
The chief secretarys remarks
followed a FamilyMart state-
ment on Tuesday in which the
Tokyo-based convenience store
said it had halted sales of chick-
en nuggets made from Shang-
hai Husi products. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
Thai SMEs gain confidence
T
HAILANDS small-
and medium-size
enterprises (SMEs)
Expectation Index im-
proved in June for the rst time
since the country fell into a po-
litical tailspin. The rising senti-
ment adds to signs the econo-
my is recovering following the
end of the political turmoil.
The TMB-SME Expectations
Index surveyed from April to
June increased to 55.7 points
from 51.1 the previous quar-
ter, said Benjarong Suwankiri,
head of TMB Analytics, the re-
search unit of TMB Bank.
The bank surveyed 1,000
SME customers across the
country. Monthly expectations
for the third quarter surged to
62.2 points in June from 51.7 in
the previous month.
Higher SME sentiment was
attributed to the end of the po-
litical turmoil after the military
took power following the May
22 coup. In fact, the monthly
index showed that SME opera-
tors worries over the political
factor in June slid to the low-
est level in six months at 24.9
per cent, compared to 45.6 per
cent in May.
This was the highest level in
nine months and the biggest
gain since the survey was con-
ducted, he said.
Business operators and
consumers have high hopes
the countrys economy will
bounce back in the second
half after the National Council
for Peace and Order (NCPO)
swiftly acted to deal with eco-
nomic problems that piled up
following former prime min-
ister Yingluck Shinawatra dis-
solving the house on Dec 9.
The Bank of Thailand re-
cently said economic growth
of 2.5 per cent for the country
was possible as targeted by the
junta with additional public
stimulus measures, creating a
positive pass-through effect on
private sector investments, as
well as a faster than expected
recovery of the global econo-
my. However, the central bank
still slashed its GDP forecast to
1.5 per cent from 2.7 per cent.
The SME sentiment index
reached a low ebb of 36.6
points in the second quarter,
and political factors remained
the key concern of SME busi-
ness operators, followed by
economic issues, cost man-
agement, and labour.
SMEs operators are worried
about economic conditions,
as witnessed by the increase in
the economic concern index
to 38 points in June from 22.8
the preceding month. Liquid-
ity and cash ow are the key
concerns during the nascent
economic recovery, he said.
TMB Analytics kept its 2014
economic growth projection
unchanged at 2 per cent. It
predicts economic growth of
4.2 per cent in the second half,
driven by the NCPOs econom-
ic plan, despite at growth es-
timations for the rst half.
Thailands economy from
January to March contracted
0.6 per cent year-on-year
and 2.1 per cent quarter-on-
quarter. The second quarters
ofcial economic growth
numbers are scheduled to be
released by the National Eco-
nomic and Social Develop-
ment Board next month.
Mr Benjarong forecasts the
central bank will maintain its
policy rate at 2 per cent this
year based on subdued ina-
tionary pressure. However,
interest rates are expected to
hike next year as the coun-
trys economic recovery picks
up speed and global interest
rates start to increase. The re-
search forecasts Thailands
GDP growth at 4 per cent next
year, while the policy rate is ex-
pected to nudge up by 50 to 75
basis points. BANGKOK POST
Shoppers browse at a store in a shopping centre in Bangkok. An SME
index has shown rising optimism amongst businesses. BLOOMBERG
WITH four years of growth in
international arrivals, Phnom
Penhs hotel market is becom-
ing ripe for international de-
velopers looking to penetrate
a new frontier, a report from
Jones Lang LaSalle said.
With just 800,000 tourist ar-
rivals last year, Cambodias
capital remains one of Asias
smallest hotel markets. How-
ever, Andrew Langdon, ex-
ecutive vice president of JLL
Hotels and Hospitality Group,
said that as Cambodias po-
litical situation has improved,
prospects for the hotel market
became positive this year.
Business demand in Phnom
Penh primarily emanates from
embassies, NGOs, the UN and
the garment industry. Cor-
porate demand from sectors
such as telecom, banking and
insurance is on the rise, he
explained. However, inter-
nationally branded supply
to cater to growing hotel de-
mand in Phnom Penh is cur-
rently limited.
According to from the in-
vestment-management rm,
there are currently only three
internationally branded hotels
in Phnom Penh with just 745
rooms. An additional four ho-
tel projects with 1,705 rooms
are expected to enter the mar-
ket by the end of 2015. Despite
strong future supply in a pipe-
line, it is expected that demand
will catch up to supply, allow-
ing room rates to continue to
rise at a slower pace.
The Phnom Penh hotel mar-
ket was hit hard by political
unrests in 2013. The luxury
segment recorded an increase
in the average daily rate (ADR)
of 16 per cent from $114 in
2011 to $132 in 2012. However,
growth slowed to 4 per cent to
$138 in 2013 as a result of po-
litical tensions.
Occupancy grew 2 per cent
to 43 per cent in 2012 com-
pared to the previous year,
but declined to 35 per cent in
2013. Phnom Penh has seen
continuous growth in interna-
tional visitor arrivals over the
past four years. It saw 800,000
international visitors during
2013, a 16.7 per cent annual
increase. The rst four months
of 2014 witnessed 10.9 per cent
growth in international visita-
tion compared to the same pe-
riod last year.
The Cambodian govern-
ment has also rolled a number
of planned infrastructure im-
provement initiatives and ac-
tive promotion of the Phnom
Penh-Siem Reap tourism cir-
cuit. BANGKOK POST
JLL report predicts hotel
boom for Phnom Penh
Chrysler recalls 792,000
jeeps over safety fears
CHRYSLER Group said its
recalling 792,300 Jeep models
as part of a National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
investigations into ignition
switches. Chrysler said
yesterday it will recall Jeep
Grand Cherokees from the
2005-2007 model years and
2006-2007 Jeep Commanders
because the drivers knee
could bump the key out of the
on position, possibly causing
the engine to stall and the air
bags to be disabled. The
company said that it knows of
no injuries caused by the
issue. BLOOMBERG
Netflix earnings surge
as members top 50M
NETFLIX has said that the
number of subscribers to its
online television service has
topped 50 million in more than
40 countries as it reported
stronger-than-expected
earnings. Figures released of
earnings show that profit in
the three months ending June
30 more than doubled from
the same period a year earlier.
The Los Gatos, California-
based online streaming
television titan reported that
profit in the quarter jumped to
$71 million compared to $29.5
million in the same quarter
last year on revenue that
climbed about 25 per cent to
$1.34 billion. AFP
T
WO of Europes larg-
est banks, Barclays
and Deutsche Bank,
have sold complex -
nancial products that allowed
hedge funds to avoid US taxes,
a Senate report has found.
The scheme has cost the
federal government billions of
dollars in tax revenues, accord-
ing to the report by the Senate
permanent subcommittee on
investigations of the Commit-
tee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs.
The committee said an
investigation revealed how
British bank Barclays and
Germanys Deutsche Bank
developed two types of so-
called basket options in-
struments indexed on market
values, such as stocks and
commodities to help the
hedge funds skirt US taxes.
From 1998 to 2013, Barclays
and Deutsche Bank sold 199
basket options to more than
a dozen hedge funds, which
used them to conduct more
than $100 billion in trades.
The banks and the hedge
funds used the basket options
to open proprietary trading
accounts in the names of the
banks, making it look like the
banks owned the account as-
sets. However, the hedge funds
exercised total control over the
assets, executed all the trades,
and reaped all the trading
prots, the report said.
The option functioned as
little more than a ctional de-
rivative, permitting the hedge
fund to cast short-term capital
gains as long-term gains and
authorizing nancing at lev-
els otherwise legally barred
for a customers US brokerage
account. The banks offering
the options beneted from
the nancing, trading, and
other fees charged to the hedge
funds initiating the trades.
The Democratic chairman of
the subcommittee, Carl Levin,
said the investigation focused
on two important issues: tax
avoidance by protable com-
panies and wealthy individu-
als, and reckless behaviuor
that threatens the stability of
the nancial system.
The Internal Revenue Ser-
vice publicly identied in 2010
that type of option product
was abusive yet the IRS has
not collected taxes on many of
the basket option transactions,
the report said.
These banks and hedge
funds used dubious struc-
tured nancial products in a
giant game of lets pretend,
costing the Treasury billions
and bypassing safeguards that
protect the economy from ex-
cessive bank lending for stock
speculation, Levin said.
Americans are tired of
large nancial institutions
playing by a different set of
rules when it comes to paying
taxes, said John McCain, the
ranking Republican member
of the committee. AFP
Business
10
Europe banks evaded US tax
MICROSOFT said on Tuesday
prots took a hit from its newly
acquired Nokia phone division
but that revenues got a strong
lift from cloud services.
The US tech giants new chief
executive, Satya Nadella, said
the results suggested that Mi-
crosofts shift to services amid
declining personal computer
sales was starting to pay off.
Net prot for the three
months ending June 30 dipped
7 per cent from a year earlier to
$4.6 billion, below market ex-
pectations. But revenues grew
a strong 17.5 per cent, lifted by
the cloud services.
The earnings came just days
after Microsoft announced its
biggest job cuts ever with Na-
della calling for a new focus at
the tech giant while integrat-
ing the Nokia phone division
acquired this year. The com-
pany said it would slash 18,000
jobs from its global workforce
over the next year, the majority
from the Nokia handset unit.
The cuts represent about 14
percent of Microsofts global
payroll of some 127,000. The
company will take a charge of
between $1.1 billion and $1.6
billion for costs related to the
layoffs. AFP
Microsoft
prot dips,
revenue up
B
ITCOIN investors voiced
anger yesterday after the
rst creditors meeting for
failed Tokyo trading ex-
change MtGox, the spectacular col-
lapse of which hammered the digital
currencys reputation and left a trail
of unanswered questions.
More than 100 investors, mostly
expatriates, attended the meeting at
a courthouse in the Japanese capi-
tal, demanding to know how some
$500 million worth of Bitcoins dis-
appeared from the disgraced com-
panys digital vaults earlier this year.
They are very careful about giving
out any information at this stage, it
seems, Kim Nilsson, 32, a Tokyo-
based information technology engi-
neer, said after the meeting.
We were hoping for more, obvi-
ously, he added.
Kolin Burges, a 40-year-old inves-
tor from London, lashed out what he
called a lack of transparency over the
missing money.
I felt that they didnt give out the
answers they should have done,
he said.
People who attended the meet-
ing said former MtGox chief Mark
Karpeles and a court-appointed
lawyer managing the rms bank-
ruptcy proceedings gave no clear
answer about what happened to
their money.
Bitcoins are generated by complex
chains of interactions among a huge
network of computers around the
planet and are not backed by any
government or central bank.
The online exchange, which once
boasted handling around 80 per cent
of global Bitcoin transactions, froze
withdrawals in February. It claimed
that there was a bug in the software
that underpins the virtual currency,
making it vulnerable to thieves.
It soon led for bankruptcy pro-
tection, saying it had lost 850,000
units of the crypto-currency valued
at some $500 million at the time.
The company later said it had
found about 200,000 of them in a
cold wallet a storage device such
as a memory stick that is not con-
nected to other computers.
The meeting was designed to dis-
cuss the bankruptcy process itself
and they separated that from what
happened to Bitcoin, 50-year-old
Toshiya Takahashi said.
What people wanted to know was
what happened and why.
A French investor joined fellow
creditors to demand the rm publi-
cise its data so that hackers around
the world can help analyse what
happened at MtGox.
They say its under investigation.
Thats all they say, said the investor,
who declined to give his name.
They seem to refuse to make pub-
lic more precise information about
MtGoxs own [information] and how
and when it was stolen, if it was re-
ally stolen, he added.
Karpeles has reportedly refused
to travel to the United States,
where he was being asked to ap-
pear for questioning in connection
with MtGoxs collapse. There have
been calls in Japan for a criminal
investigation.
Some creditors still expressed
condence in the future of digital
currencies despite the huge blow to
Bitcoins reputation.
I think Bitcoin as a technology
has a huge potential, Nilsson said.
I think what we are looking at with
MtGox is more of a human failure.
The next creditors meeting is slat-
ed for November 26. AFP
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Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
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Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
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Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 107.39 0.06 0.06% 5:29:44
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.78 0.01 0.19% 5:30:37
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 287.07 -1 -0.35% 5:30:08
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 285.84 0.42 0.15% 5:30:20
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CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13.15 -0.02 -0.11% 3:00:00
CME Lumber USD/tbf 333 0.6 0.18% 19:58:05
Angry Bitcoin investors seek
answers at Tokyo meeting
A Bitcoin trader walks out from a building after attending the rst creditors meeting
of failed Bitcoin exchange MtGox in Tokyo yesterday. AFP
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Dutch MH17 dead returned
Nicolas Delaunay

T
HE rst bodies from
ight MH17 arrived in
the Netherlands yes-
terday, almost a week
after the plane was shot down
over Ukraine, with grieving rel-
atives and the king and queen
solemnly receiving the as yet
unidentied victims.
Church bells rang out
throughout the country as the
planes touched down with the
much-delayed return of the
rst 40 bodies of the 298 peo-
ple killed in the disaster, most
of them Dutch.
In a reminder of the ongoing
war that is hampering recov-
ery and investigation efforts,
the Ukrainian military said
that two of its ghter jets had
been shot down yesterday,
possibly close to the Boeings
crash site.
The Netherlands has been
united in grief and growing an-
ger because of delays in getting
bodies home and over the way
pro-Russian separatists have
treated the crash site, bodies
and personal possessions.
The planes left from Kharkiv
in Ukraine, where the bodies
were given a dignied cer-
emony as they were carried on
board by army cadets before a
small party of ofcials.
Around 1,000 bereaved rel-
atives of the 193 Dutch dead,
King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Maxima, Prime Min-
ister Mark Rutte and repre-
sentatives of the other nations
that lost citizens on the ight
met the planes.
Flags of the 11 nations that
lost citizens in the crash ew
at half mast at the airport. Uni-
formed members of the Dutch
military marched to the planes
to unload the wooden cofns,
while the Last Post and Reveil-
le were played on trumpet.
A minutes silence was ob-
served nationwide, during
which no ights landed or took
off at Amsterdam Schiphol air-
port, from where the doomed
Malaysia Airlines ight took off.
US intelligence ofcials have
said they believe rebels mis-
takenly shot down the plane
that was ying from Amster-
dam to Kuala Lumpur with a
surface-to-air missile.
The rebels yesterday used
rockets to shoot down two
Ukrainian Sukhoi ghter jets,
although it was not clear ex-
actly how far away from the
Malaysia Airlines crash site.
Both pilots managed to para-
chute out, military spokesman
Vladislav Seleznev said of the
shooting down possibly as
close as 25 kilometres from the
MH17 crash site.
Experts and world leaders
have expressed concern that
not all the remains have been
recovered from the sprawling
crash site.
Its quite possible that
many bodies are still out
there, in the open in the Eu-
ropean summer, subject to
interference, and subject to
the ravages of heat and ani-
mals, said Australian Prime
Minister Tony Abbott, whose
country lost 28 nationals.
Dutch Foreign Minister
Frans Timmermans and his
Australian counterpart Julie
Bishop will travel together to
Ukraine today for talks about
completing the repatriation
of bodies and the crash probe,
the Foreign Ministry said.
The rebels controlling the
crash site released some bod-
ies and handed over two black
boxes to Malaysian ofcials
only after intense internation-
al pressure.
The black boxes were deliv-
ered to Britain yesterday for
expert analysis, and to also
see whether or not they might
have been tampered with.
Rutte has warned that it
could take weeks or even
months for the bodies to be
identied, though some are
expected to be handed over to
families soon.
Dutch police have been vis-
iting the bereaved for counsel-
ling but also to retrieve DNA
samples such as from hair-
brushes, details of tattoos and
ngerprints, as well as medi-
cal and dental records, to help
with the identication task.
International monitors said
more remains were left at the
vast crash site, littered with
poignant fragments from hun-
dreds of destroyed lives.
Kiev said the Netherlands
and other countries that lost
citizens are proposing to send
police ofcers to secure the
site, amid concerns that vital
evidence has been tampered
with. AFP
Ukrainian soldiers stand next to cofns carrying the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines ight MH17
crash during a ceremony at the airport of Kharkiv, Ukraine, yesterday. AFP
Threat to handover in Indonesia
abuses angrily announced he was with-
drawing from the election.
Prabowo, who had earlier claimed vic-
tory in the July 9 election, accused his
opponent of cheating in the vote count.
A spokesman yesterday said the ex-gen-
eral plans to contest the result at the Con-
stitutional Court, with the challenge
directed at the election commission for
allegedly mishandling the count.
Analysts believe the poll was largely free
and fair and do not expect a court chal-
lenge to succeed given the size of Widodos
victory he won by more than 6 percent-
age points, or about 8.4 million votes.
But the move nevertheless signals weeks
of uncertainty ahead, as the court will
likely only issue a ruling on August 21.
The challenge would be filed within
three days, said Prabowo spokesman Tan-
towi Yahya, adding his side considered 21
million votes to be in dispute.
Prabowos brother Hashim Djojohadiku-
sumo, a wealthy businessman who has
provided financial backing for the cam-
paign, added: We are looking for justice
. . . we are expecting some fairness.
He also urged foreign leaders not to con-
gratulate Widodo, saying that the legal
process has not ended yet.
Congratulations flooded in nevertheless,
from US Secretary of State John
Kerry and Australian Prime Min-
ister Tony Abbott, as well as the
leaders of neighbouring Singa-
pore and Malaysia.
Widodo seemed unperturbed
by his rivals challenge and
returned to his duties as Jakarta
governor at city hall yesterday. He
will not be inaugurated as presi-
dent until October. He said prep-
arations for his new job were in
progress and a special office to help with
the transition had already been set up.
At the Jakarta rally, rock bands played
to a crowd of about 3,000 of his support-
ers, who were waving banners using
Widodos nickname and reading Jokowi:
honest, man of the people.
As the sun set over the historic site,
Widodo arrived to loud cheers from the
crowd and thanked all the campaign vol-
unteers who have been working day and
night to secure victory.
Please now get back to your lives,
to your day jobs, he said jokingly.
Newspapers welcomed his victory, with
the major Indonesian-language paper
Kompas showing a photo of a grinning
Widodo alongside his run-
ning mate Jusuf Kalla, under
the headline: Its time to
move together.
The words were from
Widodos victory speech
delivered late on Tuesday, in
which he urged Indonesia to
unite following the countrys
tightest and most divisive
election since the downfall
of Suharto in 1998.
A Constitutional Court official said that
if Prabowos team filed the appeal by Fri-
day, then hearings would begin on August
6 and a ruling would be delivered on
August 21.
There have been concerns about the
courts impartiality after its former chief
justice was jailed for life last month for
accepting bribes in return for favourable
rulings in local election disputes.
However analysts believe the institution
will be desperate to appear clean following
the scandal. AFP
MORE than 40 people were
feared dead in a plane crash
in Taiwan yesterday, ofcials
said, with witnesses and lo-
cal media reporting the ight
came down in a storm after an
aborted landing.
Taiwans transport minis-
ter said that 10 bodies had
so far been recovered from
the wreckage of the domestic
ight, which had 58 people
on board.
Local media reported that
TransAsia Airways ight
GE222 had smashed into two
houses near Magong airport,
on the outlying Penghu island
chain, after requesting a sec-
ond attempt to land there.
The twin turboprop plane
was ying from the south-
western city of Kaohsiung to
the island chain further west
and had been delayed due
to bad weather, according to
the authorities.
TV images showed reght-
ers working in heavy rain to
douse the mangled plane and
soldiers on the scene.
There were 58 people on
board including four crew
members, four children and,
so far, according to the in-
formation we have, 12 were
injured and were sent to hos-
pitals while 46 were missing,
Transport Minister Yeh Kuang-
shih told reporters.
We are not clear about the
situation of the 46 people
although more than 10 bod-
ies have been found and the
search continues, he said,
adding that the cause of the
crash was being investigated.
Two French nationals were
on board the plane and the
de facto French Embassy has
been notied, Yeh said.
Typhoon Matmo pounded
Taiwan with erce winds and
downpours yesterday, leaving
at least nine people injured.
Taiwans Civil Aeronautics
Administration director gen-
eral Shen Chi had earlier said
that 51 were feared dead in
the crash, but later revised
the gure to 47.
The control tower lost con-
tact with the aircraft soon after
they requested a go-around
[second attempt to land],
Shen told reporters.
The plane had requested a
second attempt to land at just
after 7pm.
Hung Yung-peng, chief of
the re agency for Penghu
county government, told local
channel TVBS that there were
11 survivors, with all others on
board feared dead.
TransAsia Airways president
Chooi Yee-choong bowed in
front of television cameras to
apologise for the incident.
An airline ofcial speaking
on local television identied
the pilot as 60-year-old Lee
Yi-liang and the co-pilot as
Chiang Kuan-hsin, 39, saying
that they had each accumu-
lated more than 20,000 ight
hours throughout their ca-
reers. AFP
More than 40 dead in
Taiwan plane disaster
Prabowo Subianto. AFP
Taiwan air crash
Hong
Kong
TransAsia Airways
Flight GE222
SOUTH CHINA
SEA
300 km
CHINA
TAIWAN
PHILIPPINES
Penghu
island
World
13
Contradictory rulings
whiplash ObamaCare
A PANEL of the US Court of
Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit struck down
a major part of the federal
health care law on Tuesday, rul-
ing that the insurance subsi-
dies that help millions of Amer-
icans pay for coverage are
illegal in three dozen states.
Less than two hours later, a
panel of the US Court of
Appeals for the 4th Circuit,
based in Richmond, handed
down a conflicting ruling on
the issue in a separate case,
raising the possibility of yet
another high-stakes battle over
the law playing out before the
Supreme Court.
The conflicting rulings give
traction to the most serious
current threat to the Afforda-
ble Care Act, which has been
battered by a series of legal
challenges since it was enacted
four years ago. The dispute
centres on whether the subsi-
dies may be awarded in states
that chose not to set up their
own insurance marketplaces
and instead left the task to the
federal government.
About 5.4 million people had
signed up for coverage on the
federal exchange as of this
spring, federal figures show.
About 87 per cent of them
received subsidies.
The Obama administration
said it will ask the full DC Circuit
court to review the decision in
the District case. The ruling will
not have an immediate effect
on consumers, because the
judges allowed time for an
appeal, and administration
officials stressed that those
receiving the subsidies will con-
tinue to do so as the cases are
sorted out in the courts.
We feel very strong about the
sound legal reasoning of the
argument that the administra-
tion is making, White House
spokesman Josh Earnest said.
You dont need a fancy legal
degree to understand that Con-
gress intended for every eligible
American to have access to tax
credits that would lower their
health care costs regardless of
whether it was state officials or
federal officials who are run-
ning the marketplace.
If the decision going against
the government it upheld, it
will be more damaging to the
law than a Supreme Court deci-
sion last month that limited
coverage of contraceptives.
Conservatives have spent
years laying the groundwork for
the challenge, which they con-
sidered their last, best chance
at hollowing out the federal
program. THE WASHINGTON POST
Israel conflict toll nears 700
F
IGHTING between
Israeli troops and
Hamas militants was
briey suspended in
two ashpoint areas of Gaza
yesterday to allow convoys of
ambulances to retrieve the
wounded, but a lasting truce
to the conict was still elusive.
A convoy of seven ambu-
lances and two Red Cross cars
went inside Shejaiya to evacu-
ate the wounded, Interna-
tional Committee of the Red
Cross spokeswoman Cecilia
Goin said. A second convoy
of nine ambulances went into
Khuzaa near the southern city
of Khan Yunis, an area which
also came under very heavy
Israeli re overnight.
Earlier yesterday, US Secre-
tary of State John Kerry took
his truce mission to Israel as
the conict in Gaza entered its
16th day and airlines suspend-
ed ights over rocket fears.
Neither Israel nor Hamas
appeared willing to perma-
nently end hostilities, despite
days of diplomatic efforts to
coax them into a truce.
Gazas emergency services
said that at least 21 people
were killed yesterday, with the
Palestinian death toll rising
to 652. The Israeli army an-
nounced another two soldiers
had been killed in ghting a
day earlier, raising the number
of Israeli dead to 31, including
29 soldiers. A foreign worker in
southern Israel also died after
being hit by mortar re.
On the ground, Saint Prophy-
rios Greek Orthodox church in
Gaza City was packed to over-
owing as hundreds of people,
mostly women and children,
sought shelter after escaping
the inferno of neighbouring
areas like Shejaiya.
Many of them, their houses
are destroyed. Many people
have been injured or killed. So
we try to help these people,
said Archbishop Alexios, one
of Gazas 1,500 Christians.
At the start of a ying visit
to Israel, Kerry said regional
diplomacy efforts had made
some progress, but he said
more time was needed.
We have certainly made
some steps forward, but there
is still work to be done, Kerry
said in Jerusalem at the start of
a meeting with UN chief Ban
Ki-moon, whom he also met
in Cairo on Monday.
Ban warned there was no
time to lose, saying: We are
now joining our forces in
strength to make a ceasere as
soon as possible.
Kerry then went to the West
Bank city of Ramallah for talks
with Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas, and was later
to return to Tel Aviv for talks
with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. He was
expected to return to Cairo in
the evening.
In Geneva, UN rights chief
Navi Pillay condemned both
Israel and Hamas at an emer-
gency session of the UN Hu-
man Rights Council, saying
that Israeli attacks, which had
killed civilians, among them
children, could amount to
war crimes.
She also denounced Hamas
for its indiscriminate attacks
on Israeli civilians.
Kerrys arrival in Tel Aviv
came a day after a Gaza rocket
struck close to the airport,
prompting the US Federal Avi-
ation Authority to ban com-
mercial ights to and from
Israel for at least 24 hours. Its
European counterpart ad-
vised all carriers to avoid Tel
Aviv until further notice in a
warning just days after a Ma-
laysian ight was allegedly
shot down over strife-torn
eastern Ukraine.
Netanyahu appealed to Ker-
ry to lift the ban, the rst since
the 1990-1991 Gulf war, with
the US diplomat assuring him
it would be reviewed within a
day. AFP
A Palestinian boy is taken into a Gaza hospital yesterday following an
Israeli military strike near his family home. AFP
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to force-feed Muslim
INDIAS parliament erupted in
anger yesterday after footage
showed a Hindu nationalist
lawmaker apparently trying to
force-feed a Muslim man
during the fasting month of
Ramadan. Opposition
Congress MPs launched
raucous protests, saying the
lawmaker violated the mans
religious beliefs by trying to
shove piece of bread into his
mouth. Vichare said he was
not trying to break the fast of
the man, a catering supervisor
at a guest house. Instead, he
said, he was trying to
demonstrate that the bread
being served was too hard. AFP
Town sealed off after
Chinese plague death
A CHINESE town has been
isolated and 151 people placed
in quarantine since last week
after a man died of bubonic
plague, state media has
reported. The 30,000 people
living in Yumen in the north-
western province of Gansu are
not being allowed to leave, and
police at roadblocks on its
perimeter are telling motorists
to find alternative routes, CCTV
said. Other reports said that
earlier this month the victim,
38, found a dead marmot, a
small furry animal that lives
on grasslands and is related to
the squirrel. AFP
King endorses constitution
T
HAILANDS junta has
won approval from
the king for an interim
constitution mapping
out yearlong political reforms
expected to curb the inuence
of fugitive former premier
Thaksin Shinawatra.
It was the rst time the re-
vered but ailing King Bhumibol
Adulyadej, 86, had granted an
audience to coup leader Gen-
eral Prayut Chan-ocha since
the military seized power two
months ago.
The document, published
online late on Tuesday, offers
an amnesty from prosecution
to the generals who seized
power in the May coup.
It also hands the junta
sweeping, vaguely dened
national security powers
and allows them to rule in par-
allel with a national assembly
appointed by the king on the
advice of the military.
Of the controversial rule,
former prime minister Abhisit
Vejjajiva wrote on Facebook
yesterday: Judging from the
wording on effects and the fact
that there are no checks, the
NCPO chief can pass a law and/
or overturn a court ruling.
Membership of that assem-
bly will be strictly controlled,
with many of the main players
in Thailands turbulent politics
seemingly barred by a clause
prohibiting anyone who held
a position in any political par-
ty in the past three years.
The military will further
deepen its grip on power with
a hand-picked 250-strong
council charged with recom-
mending sweeping reforms.
Prayut has said the overhaul
of the political system will be
complete once a new, per-
manent charter is endorsed,
opening the way for fresh
elections. But he has ruled out
holding elections until around
October 2015, despite appeals
from the US and the EU for a
return to a democratic path.
Some observers predict the
permanent constitution will
enshrine reforms that could see
the lower house of parliament
become partially appointed,
like the former upper house.
The conservatives know
that if they let a normal elec-
tion happen again, the Puea
Thai Party and Yingluck may-
be can win another landslide,
said Kan Yuenyong, executive
director of the Siam Intelli-
gence Unit think tank.
But Kan added that there was
also a lot of political conict
within the conservatives them-
selves, so it was unclear how
radical the reforms would be.
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General Prayut Chan-O-Cha receives the interim constitution from King Bhumibol Adulyadej. AFP
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one person dead and prompt-
ed hundreds of others to ee
their homes in the Philip-
pines, where natural disasters
are frequent, a civil defence
ofcial said yesterday.
The cause of the sudden
panic that hit Candelaria, 88
kilometres south of Manila,
and other impoverished towns
is still being investigated, said
Henry Buzar, head of the areas
disaster management council.
A 63-year-old woman eeing
on a motorised tricycle, had a
fatal heart attack, he said.
We really dont know where
the rumour came from. We
suddenly received informa-
tion that there were some peo-
ple evacuating from the area
late on Tuesday, he said.
It was really chaotic. I told
our staff to block the people
and tell them there is no truth
to these rumours, but they told
me they could not stop the
rush of people, Buzar said.
Nearly a thousand people,
many crammed into trucks
and mini-buses, gathered at
Candelarias town hall for safe-
ty. When no tsunami materia-
lised, they went home after a
few hours, he added. AFP
One dead
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IS: Cruelty, death, guided tours
Serene Assir

K
NOWN for kidnapping,
public stonings, lash-
ings and executions,
the Islamic State (IS)
is now expanding into tour-
ism, taking jihadists on hon-
eymoons and civilians to visit
other parts of its caliphate.
Running twice-weekly tours
from Syrias Raqa to Iraqs
Anbar, the ISs buses y the
groups black ag and play ji-
hadist songs.
One of the rst clients was
Chechen jihadist Abu Abdel
Rahman al-Shishani, aged 26,
who took his new Syrian wife
on honeymoon, according to
activist Hadi Salameh.
Just after they got married,
he took her to Anbar. These
jihadists are very romantic,
Salameh joked.
But the two werent able to
sit together, because women
sit in the back, and men at the
front. The bus driver plays ji-
hadist songs all through the
ride, and the IS black ag ies
over the bus.
Last month, the IS pro-
claimed a caliphate strad-
dling Iraq and Syria. According
to a rebel from eastern Syria,
the tours started operating
immediately afterwards.
It rmly controls large
swathes of northern and
eastern Syria, the Iraq-Syria
border, and parts of northern
and western Iraq. The group
is responsible for a number of
atrocities, including mass kid-
nappings and killings, ston-
ings and crucixions.
Salameh said the groups
tour buses start their journey
in Tal Abyad [on Syrias Turkish
border] and end in Iraqs An-
bar. You can get off wherever
you want, and you dont need a
passport to cross the border.
The activist, who lives in
Raqa and uses a pseudonym,
said the company is a for-
prot operation.
Of course its not free. The
price varies, depending on
how far you go on the bus,
Salameh said.
Syrian rebel Abu Quteiba al-
Okaidi, who is from the border
province of Deir Ezzor, said
most of those who use the
buses are foreign jihadists.
Most of them are foreign-
ers, he said.
They communicate in Eng-
lish and wear the Afghan-style
clothing preferred by jihadists.
There is a translator on the
bus, who explains to them
where they are going. The men
on the bus are not armed, but
vehicles carrying armed es-
corts accompany the bus.
The IS has its roots in Iraq
but spread into Syria in late
spring last year. It gradually
took over Raqa city in north-
ern Syria, and transformed
it into its bastion. In June, it
spearheaded a lightning of-
fensive in Iraq that saw large
swathes of the north and west
of the country fall from Iraqi
governments hands.
Abu Ibrahim al-Raqawi, an-
other activist living in Raqa
city, said tour buses run twice
a week, on Wednesday and
Sunday. It works like any bus
company would, except that it
treats areas under IS control in
Iraq and Syria as one state.
Many people living in this
area [northern Syria through
western Iraq] have tribal ties
stretching across the border.
So they use these buses to vis-
it their families, he said.
Speaking via the internet,
Abu Ibrahim also said others
take the bus to do business,
while some just want to take
a break from the shelling in
Syria. AFP
Twice-weekly tours, on buses that y the IS ag like the one above, are available from Syrias Raqa to Iraqs
Anbar feature. AFP
Familiar frog face?
Censors step
on inatable
toad reports

C
HINESE reports about a
giant inatable toad have
been deleted from the
internet after social media users
compared the puffed-up animal to
a former Communist Party chief.
The installation of a giant inat-
able duck in Hong Kongs harbour
last year sparked a national craze
for oversized blow-up wildlife,
with several Chinese cities
launching their own imitations.
The latest, a 22-metre-high
toad, appeared in a Beijing park
last weekend, but met with mock-
ery from social media users who
compared its appearance to that
of former President Jiang Zemin.
The website of Chinas ofcial
Xinhua news agency and popular
web portal Sina had deleted their
reports on the animal a symbol
of good fortune in Chinese culture
by yesterday. A message on
Xinhua read: Sorry, the report
you are attempting to access has
been deleted or has expired. AFP
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VENEZUELAN authorities on Tues-
day began moving residents out of
the Tower of David, a Caracas sky-
scraper so notorious as a haven for
squatters and gangs it was depicted
in the US TV series Homeland.
More than 100 families were ush-
ered out of the unnished 45-storey
building, the start of an operation by
military authorities to clear a long-
time symbol of festering poverty and
lawlessness in the heart of the Ven-
ezuelan capital.
Its construction halted in 1993 after
a nancial crisis and the death of its
owner, investor David Brillembourg,
the building was taken over in 2007
by gangs and homeless people with
the blessings of the government of
President Hugo Chavez.
They remade it into a forbidding
warren of makeshift shelters with
armed guards and commanding
views of the city. Stories about the
crime-ridden haven inspired Home-
land writers to make the Tower of
David a place of refuge for anti-hero
Nicholas Brody, who running from
US authorities in the last season of
the hit show turns up there wound-
ed and in the care of a shadowy net-
work of Venezuelan drug trafckers.
An estimated 3,000 people live
in the real Torre de David, walking
up through unlit stairwells to their
homes in the complex.
Its inhabitants have created a com-
munal organisation to maintain or-
der within the building, taking turns
keeping oors polished and com-
mon areas clean and secure.
They also plan cultural activities,
sport and religious services.
But the unnished ofce complex
lacks running water, and some oors
are open to the sky in places where
exterior windows are missing.
On Tuesday morning, several dozen
residents were seen calmly exiting the
building with their belongings, and
boarding government vehicles to be
taken to new homes outside the city.
Watching with concern was 56-
year-old Humberto Hidalgo, who has
lived with his wife and 10 children on
the buildings seventh oor for the
past six years.
Hidalgo, who lived on the streets
before nding a home in the Tower of
David, said he knows he will have to
leave too, but doesnt know when.
We still dont know where were
going, nor how long well stay here,
he said, choking back tears. But I
know our president will give us a
proper house.
This is not an eviction, said Er-
nesto Villegas, the minister for revo-
lutionary transformation. Its a co-
ordinated operation, in harmony
with the community in the tower.
As we all know, this is a structure
that does not have the minimum
conditions for a life that is safe and
lived with dignity, Villegas said.
It was unclear why the government
has decided to clear the building sev-
en years after it was taken over.
There were unconrmed reports
that a deal with Chinese interests
were behind it.
Chinas President Xi Jinping signed
a raft of oil and mineral deals with
Venezuela on Monday during a visit
to Caracas. AFP
BRITAINS fertility regulator could
allow doctors to create the rst ba-
bies to have three peoples DNA
from next April after the government
pressed ahead with plans to legalise
the procedure.
The technique, known as mito-
chondrial transfer, offers hope to
families affected by a wide range of
diseases, such as muscular dystro-
phy, caused by faulty DNA being
passed down from mother to child.
The experimental procedure replac-
es faulty genetic material found in mi-
tochondria, the small cellular batteries
that power human cells, with healthy
DNA taken from a donor woman.
One in 6,500 children in Britain
each year are born with a serious mi-
tochondrial DNA disorder. Many of
the conditions affect power-hungry
organs such as the brain, muscles
and heart, and often worsen with
age. Many children are disabled and
die young from their illnesses.
The Department of Health an-
nounced plans on Tuesday to press
ahead with regulations after a three-
month public consultation which
drew 1,850 responses. The draft reg-
ulations are due to go to parliament
for debate in the autumn, and could
be law by April next year.
But there are several hurdles that
could delay the decision in parlia-
ment. Britains fertility watchdog, the
Human Fertilisation and Embryol-
ogy Authority (HFEA), must work out
an approval process for families who
wish to have the procedure. Mean-
while, an expert panel convened by
the regulator is awaiting the results
of more scientic experiments on
the safety of the technique.
Once the HFEA is satised that
it can proceed, the regulations will
be looked over by the governments
joint committee of statutory instru-
ments and the secondary legislation
scrutiny committee before parlia-
ment will have its say.
Mitochondrial transfer is contro-
versial because the healthy donor
DNA is inserted into IVF embryos.
That means the genetic material is
not only carried by the child that
grows from the embryo, but is passed
down the female line to all future gen-
erations. So far there is no evidence
that the procedure is dangerous, but
unknown side-effects could emerge
and affect all of the generations that
carry the donor DNA. THE GUARDIAN
Venezuela moves to empty Tower of David slum
UK moves step closer to three-parent IVF babies
A farewell to a defiant Vietnam POW
Michael E Ruane

T
HE stubborn old
men of Alcatraz had
come to bid farewell
to the legendary oc-
cupant of Cell No 10.
Along with family and
friends, the survivors of the
notorious North Vietnamese
prison gathered on Tuesday at
Arlington National Cemetery
to say goodbye to fellow POW,
former US senator and retired
Navy Rear Admiral Jeremiah
Denton Jr.
They stood beneath the six
chandeliers in Fort Myers
Old Post Chapel on a humid
morning and read aloud parts
of the 27th Psalm: Hear, O
Lord, hear the sound of my
call, have pity on me, and an-
swer me . . .
They followed the horse-
drawn caisson bearing their
comrades body and stood by
as Navy jets roared overhead
and the smell of the smoke
from the rie salute drifted on
the breeze.
The four Bob Shumaker,
Representative Sam Johnson,
Jim Mulligan and George Cok-
er were among the scores of
people attending the burial of
Denton, who survived nearly
eight years of brutal captivity
in North Vietnamese prisons
during the Vietnam War.
All ve were members of the
incorrigible, and now dwin-
dling, Alcatraz 11.
Denton died on March 28 at
a hospice in Virginia Beach,
Virginia at the age of 89. Al-
though he had a distinguished
post-Vietnam War career, he is
perhaps best known for de-
ant resistance to his captors
after his jet was shot down
over North Vietnam in 1965.
During the church service,
Dentons son, James, read a
tting passage from the Bibles
Book of Jeremiah: I am the
one who . . . makes you a forti-
ed city, a pillar of iron, a wall
of bronze . . . They will ght
against you, but not prevail.
Beaten and abused, the
elder Denton once spelled
out torture in Morse code
by blinking his eyes during a
forced television interview.
So troublesome was he that
he was placed in solitary con-
nement in a special prison in
Hanoi with 10 other rebellious
POW leaders. For two years,
they occupied 11 tiny concrete
cells in a grim compound they
dubbed Alcatraz after the
prison in San Francisco Bay.
Denton occupied Cell No 10.
Shumaker was in Cell 4, John-
son in Cell 3, Coker in Cell 7,
Mulligan in Cell 11.
Only six of the original 11 are
still alive.
One, Air Force Captain Ron
Storz, of Cell 5, died in captiv-
ity in 1970. Four others passed
away after the war was over.
I came to truly love my fel-
low prisoners, and developed
a erce pride that we had been
singled out, Denton wrote in
his memoir.
He was 41, married and had
seven children when he was
shot down on July 18, 1965,
while ying a Navy bomber
off the aircraft carrier USS In-
dependence. He had been a
prisoner for seven years and
seven months when he and
hundreds of other US POWs
were released in 1973.
During the church service,
Johnson recalled how Den-
ton informed him of the way
inmates communicated with
each other. They put me in
the cell right next to him, the
congressman said. All I heard
was this banging on the wall.
He yelled, Ill teach you the
tap code. Just pay attention.
Jerry was a giant for free-
dom, added Johnson, 83,
who was a veteran Air Force
ghter pilot when he was shot
down in 1966. His patriotism
knew no bounds. His bravery
pushed every limit.
In a 1981 memoir, Mulligan,
now 88, recalled seeing Den-
ton in Alcatraz.
His face was drawn, his eyes
seemed recessed behind a
heavy ve-oclock shadow, and
he was moving very slowly like
he was in physical pain and
mental torture, Mulligan, a
Navy pilot who was shot down
in 1966, wrote. God, Jerry,
what have they done to you
now, I thought, as I watched
him return to his cell.
Shumaker, a Navy pilot who
in 1965 became the second US
aviator to be shot down dur-
ing the war, said Alcatraz was a
small prison. It was some dis-
tance from a larger North Viet-
namese prison for captured
Americans called the Hanoi
Hilton. Prisoners most often
wore pyjamas that had verti-
cal maroon and grey stripes.
The cells were concrete
[and] were 4 feet wide by 9 feet
in length, he said. They were
probably 12 feet in height. No
windows or anything. They
would bolt our legs together
. . . for about 16 hours a day.
And the light bulb would burn
24 hours a day.
But we had each other, and
we had this ability to commu-
nicate, he said. Shumaker said
he knew French and tapped
several words of French each
day to Johnson in the next cell.
A native of Mobile, Alabama,
Denton was promoted to rear
admiral after his release. He
later represented Alabama in
the Senate as a Republican.
After the church service,
mourners walked to the grave
site, where a sailor unfurled a
rear admirals blue ag with
two white stars. Artillery and
rie salutes were red.
Then, two Navy F/A-18C
Hornets thundered out of the
southeast.
They were from VFA-131
Strike Fighter Squadron One
Three One based at Naval
Air Station Oceana in Virginia
Beach, not far from where
Denton lived out his last days.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Mourners say goodbye following the funeral of retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton (pictured right in
1965) on Tuesday in Arlington, Virginia. THE WASHINGTON POST/NATIONAL ARCHIVES
The British government is to press ahead with regulations allowing DNA to be taken
from three parents, but several hurdles remain. AFP
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HAT a difference four
months can make. In
March, Malaysian lead-
er Najib Razak was
widely criticised for mishandling the
search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that
disappeared with 239 people on
board. His governments unsteady
initial response to the Flight 370
tragedy deeply tarnished the Malay-
sia brand.
Critics are seeing a very different
Najib after Malaysia Air lost a second
Boeing 777 on July 17: steady, cir-
cumspect and statesman-like. As
world leaders bickered with Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin over Russias
alleged role in the shooting down of
Flight 17, Najib quietly brokered
deals with rebel leaders in Ukraine to
gain access to the bodies of 298 peo-
ple and the planes black boxes. The
diplomatic coup has gone a long way
towards erasing memories of the
MH370 fiasco.
It will be much harder for Malaysia
Air to recover its own reputation,
however. Most observers acknowl-
edge that the airline bears no blame
for the loss of MH17. But as a busi-
ness, it was teetering well before the
crash, bleeding about $1.6 million a
day. A month earlier, state-run par-
ent Khazanah Nasional reckoned the
unprofitable carrier only had
enough funds to last another year.
Now, many passengers are sure to
declare Malaysia Air a personal no-
fly zone, whatever the facts. May-
bank analyst Mohshin Aziz was
quoted widely this week opining on
a Malaysia Air curse.
Privatisation is the main option
being considered. The process may
indeed enable CEO Ahmad Jauhari
Yahya and his team to strengthen the
airlines balance sheet and improve
competitiveness. But I worry it wont
address the underlying issues it will
prolong them.
The airlines problems are the same
as those that ail Malaysia Inc. Reve-
nues lag costs because of insular
thinking, inefficiency, fat supplier
contracts and militant labour
unions. Long shielded from global
competition, staffed with cronies
and hobbled by inefficient supply
chains, its employees generated a
paltry $220,000 of revenue on aver-
age in the last three years compared
with $524,800 at Singapore Airlines
and $245,000 at Thai Airways. Those
headwinds may intensify now
because privatising a government-
linked company essentially means
bailing it out. There will be less
urgency to challenge the status quo,
not more.
Bankruptcy is the better option. It
would free management to make the
bold moves needed turn things
around: scale back the airlines global
ambitions; scrap routes; face down
union officials whove managed to
scuttle previous overhaul efforts; and
perhaps rebrand the airline.
The process worked for Japan Air-
lines. After JAL filed the largest-ever
bankruptcy by a nonfinancial Japa-
nese company in 2010, the company
slashed enough jobs, flights and debt
to relist and prepare for seeking a
credit rating to sell corporate bonds
again. In some ways, Malaysia Airs
troubles are more daunting. It faces
competition from low-cost AirAsia
and has an unparalleled image crisis
on its hands. But JAL demonstrates
that the bankruptcy of a flag carrier
isnt the end of the world.
The stumbling block, of course, is
pride. Malaysia is a still-developing
nation eager to tout homegrown
symbols like Proton cars and the Pet-
ronas Towers that dominate the Kua-
la Lumpur skyline. If sound business-
thinking were at play in Putrajaya,
Malaysias administrative capital, the
national carmaker wouldve been
shuttered 10 years ago. Letting
Malaysia Air go bust wouldnt be any
easier for Najibs party.
Complacency, though, carries its
own risks. Its true that Malaysia is
currently growing at a healthy 6.2 per
cent pace. The country has done well
building infrastructure and raising
living standards. But Putrajaya
shouldnt let itself be lulled by these
metrics. By not implementing
reforms for the future foremost
among them, scrapping the race-
based preferences that benefit ethnic
Malays Malaysia risks standing still
while countries like Indonesia and
the Philippines race forward.
This dynamic helps explain why
Malaysias entire economy isnt fly-
ing higher. Jettisoning Malaysia Air
now forcing the kind of painful,
but necessary, restructuring the
company has avoided for so long
would send a powerful signal
throughout the economy.
If the airline can root out its deep-
est problems, it might not just reha-
bilitate its own image, but Malaysias
as well. BLOOMBERG
Comment
William Pesek
Should Malaysia Air go bust?
With its nances already on shaky ground before one of its planes was shot down earlier this month, Malaysia Airlines may have to choose between bankruptcy and going private. AFP
William Pesek is a Bloomberg View
columnist based in Tokyo and writes on
economics, markets and politics.
18
Lifestyle
In brief
Gershwin Prize goes to
the Piano Man Billy Joel
BILLY Joel, the regular guy from
Long Island who insists hes not
a very good piano player, will be
next recipient of the Gershwin
Prize for Popular Song, the US
Library of Congress announced
on Tuesday. He joins good
company the previous
honourees are Paul Simon,
Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul
McCartney, Carole King and the
songwriting duo Burt
Bacharach and Hal David. Its
the second major Washington-
based award for Joel in two
years, on the heels of his being
named a Kennedy Center
honouree last year. Calling Joel
a storyteller of the highest
order, Librarian of Congress
James Billington said in a
statement: There is an intimacy
to his songwriting that bridges
the gap between the listener
and the worlds he shares
through music. When you listen
to a Billy Joel song, you know
about the people and the place
and what happened there. AFP
Clouds over Wagner at famed Bayreuth event
THE curtain goes up on the Bayreuth
Festival on Friday, but observers say the
prestigious monthlong music fest dedi-
cated to the works of Richard Wagner
could be losing some of its shine.
Detractors say that under its current
management Wagners great-grand-
daughters Katharina Wagner and Eva
Wagner-Pasquier, who took over in 2009
the festival is on its way downhill. Fans
of the late German composer already
joke that the best Wagner singers can be
heard anywhere but in Bayreuth.
But the perceived drop in artistic
standards may now be starting to hit
ticket sales unheard of for a festival
which has always prided itself on being
sold out and having a waiting list for tick-
ets stretching to 10 years and more.
The highbrow daily Frankfurter Allge-
meine Zeitung this week complained the
festival is suffering from artistic arte-
riosclerosis and was about as exciting
as stale beer.
Ever since Wagners grandsons Wolf-
gang and Wieland relaunched the event
after World War II, tickets to Bayreuth
have been the hardest to come by.
But this year, when a contingent of
seats was made available directly on the
internet for the first time, they did not
sell out straight away. In fact, there were
still some unsold tickets for one of the
performances of the sprawling four-
opera Ring cycle next week.
Critics point the finger at the artistic
choices made by Katharina and Eva.
Last year, for example, for Wagners
bicentenary, the self-styled enfant ter-
rible of German theatre, Frank Castorf,
was picked to direct a brand-new pro-
duction of the Ring.
Hired for the project at very short
notice after the original director, film-
maker Wim Wenders, pulled out, Castorf
with his punkish, anarchic aesthetic was
bound to raise hackle.
And when he took his curtain call at
the premiere last year, he was met with
more than 15 minutes of booing, whis-
tling and jeering for his bizarre, surreal
reading setting the action in faraway
places such as Azerbaijan, and featuring
prostitutes, gangsters, Kalashnikov rifles
and copulating crocodiles.
But their choices of directors before
that have proven similarly unpopular.
Katharinas own recent production of
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, for
example, was panned by critics and audi-
ences alike. And the current production
of Tannhaeuser by Sebastian Baumgar-
ten chosen for this years opening night
has been almost unanimously vilified
ever since it first premiered in 2011.
In an interview in this weeks Der
Spiegel magazine, Castorf accused
Katharina and Eva of treating him like
an idiot and ruling over the festival
with an atmosphere of fear and intimi-
dation familiar from communist East
Germany where he grew up. AFP
Odessa film festival plays on
despite troubles in Ukraine
O
DESSA is the pearl
of the Black Sea,
a Ukrainian city
full of lovely 19th-
century Italianate architec-
ture and sandy beaches, with
a reputation, even in Soviet
times, for a certain bohemian
sense of freedom.
It has also, for the past five
years, hosted the Cannes of
the East the Odessa Interna-
tional Film Festival. This years
almost didnt happen, after the
annexation of Crimea in March,
and the events of May 2, when
43 pro-Russian activists died in
Odessa in a fire started in
unclear circumstances.
The festival was, however,
eventually given the go-ahead,
albeit on a drastically reduced
budget, and helped by a crowd-
funding campaign. The nine-day
program, from July 11-19, was
successfully completed even if
Odessa couldnt afford its usual
quota of celebrities (who in any
case had been scared off by gov-
ernment travel warnings). The
resulting atmosphere was more
to the taste of several attendees
I spoke to: it was more demo-
cratic a peoples festival.
Festival director Julia Sinkev-
ich accepted that it was contro-
versial to stage a film festival at
a time of war, but said: Taking
a longer perspective, building
a cultural identity really mat-
ters. Peter Webber, chair of the
international jury and director
of Girl With a Pearl Earring,
pondered whether it was cor-
rect to have a filmic feast
among famine before con-
cluding, it has got to be better
to spend money on culture
rather than bombs.
The festival couldnt be insu-
lated from outside events: a
silence was held at the opening
ceremony for Ukrainian sol-
diers killed in the conflict, there
were a couple of explosions
during the event, and also a
protest by a man who brought
a coffin to the red carpet with a
banner saying Putler [a fusion
of Putin and Hitler] Kaput.
Then news came through of
the downing of flight MH17. As
the enormity sank in, stunned
shock turned to outrage and
cast a dark shadow over the
remainder of the festival. A gala
celebration was cancelled.
And in a city split between
pro-separatist and pro-Kiev
sentiment, what happened and
who was to blame depended on
which media outlet you fol-
lowed. It all made clear the
importance of film and docu-
mentary as elements within the
information war.
After such an event, the films
seemed an afterthought. Yet
despite the countrys troubles,
Ukrainian cinema has some-
thing to celebrate. When the
festival started in 2010, only a
few Ukrainian films were
shown: this year, there were
more than 20 to choose from.
Ukrainian films have been
making an international
impact. The Tribe, made entire-
ly in sign language and set in a
boarding school for deaf chil-
dren, was the great discovery
of Cannes, where it picked up
three awards, according to
Observer critic Jonathan Rom-
ney. That film was not shown at
Odessa, but Sergei Loznitsas
magisterial documentary
Maidan, which also created
waves at Cannes was, as were
two other films that document-
ed Ukraines Euromaidan
revolution: Babylon 13 and
Black Book of Maidan.
Useful context was provided
by a festival strand called Ways
to Freedom, which highlighted
international films such as the
Egyptian documentary The
Square (aka al-Midan), which
followed events in Cairos Tahr-
ir Square.
The best film international
film award went to Blind Dates,
from Georgia, while the festi-
vals grand prix went to an Israe-
li film called Zero Motivation, a
black comedy about a unit of
female Israeli soldiers. On the
home front, the splashiest entry
was probably The Guide, a big-
budget epic set in 1930s Soviet
Ukraine, during a time of forced
collectivisation, a famine and
the mass execution of intellec-
tuals. The Guide boasted high
production values and fine act-
ing, but perhaps chose patriot-
ism over good art, and the film
was beaten to the national
award by a charming and ten-
der low-key documentary called
Crepuscule by Valentyn Vasy-
anovych, set on a remote
Ukrainian farm where nothing
much happens.
Before his win, Vasyanovych
had vowed to carry on making
films on his iPhone if necessary
this award should mean he
doesnt have to. THE GUARDIAN
A shot from Crepuscule, directed by Valentyn Vasyanovych and which won the best national lm at the Odessa lm festival. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Katharina Wagner (left) and Eva Wagner-
Pasquier, great-granddaughters of
German composer Richard Wagner and
current managers of the Bayreuth music
festival. AFP
Here come the bugs
Real beetles
kill Harrison
tribute tree

A
TREE planted in a Los
Angeles park in memory
of the late George Harri-
son of the Beatles has been killed
by beetles, a city councilor said
on Tuesday.
Tom LaBonge, whose district
includes Grifth Park, said that
the Japanese black pine tree,
planted about 12 years ago,
would be replaced at a commu-
nity planting that is due to take
place in November.
It had grown to 12 feet (nearly 4
meters) in height, but succumbed
to bark beetles thriving in the
vast and popular inner-city park
amid one of Californias worst
droughts in years.
A number of trees in Grifth
Park has been hit by this beetle,
LaBonge said. AFP
A plaque marking the George
Harrison Tree in Grifth Park, Los
Angeles. AFP
Travel
19
Riding like a
king from DC
to New York
Royal Sprinter offers a bus service between Washington, DC and New
York City for $90 one way. THE WASHINGTON POST
N
ORMALLY, the
announcement
to board the bus
from Washington
to New York is as personal as a
cattle call: All As, line up!
Moo.
On the Royal Sprinter, I was
a name, not a letter.
Andrea, your ride is here,
said bus driver Andrei Talas-
man, who was dressed in a
slim dark suit that t his Ro-
manian accent. What a dig-
nied way to travel.
In April, the new coach ser-
vice dashed onto the DC-to-
NY scene, offering an uptown
alternative to the low-fare
coaches that resemble long
caravans of clown cars.
Of course, what goes up
in style and comfort also
rises in price: A one-way ride
costs $90.
The midnight black eight-
seater picks up at two loca-
tions in the Washington area.
I met the driver at the Park
Hyatt in Washington, where
he found me in the hotels
tasteful lobby.
The bus departs daily at
7am, and Andrei nudged
me from my early-morning
reverie about 15 minutes be-
forehand.
The van has no restrooms,
and he patiently waited for
me while I used the hotel fa-
cility. Despite the delay, he
still made it to the Embassy
Suites at Chevy Chase Pavil-
ion for the 7:15am pickup.
As the rst passenger to
board, I had the pick of the
litter. I chose the third seat
from the front and settled
into the diamond-quilted
black leather cushion
so fancy.
Once I settled in, I poked
around my home ofce/
leisure centre, which came
with free Wi-Fi (speedy and
not skittish). I fully reclined
my seat, head to toe, but the
semi-horizontal position re-
minded me too much of be-
ing at the dentists. At maxi-
mum extension, a troubling
thought also crossed my
mind: If the bus were com-
pletely full, would I have feet
in my face?
I banished the image by
turning on DirecTV, point-
ing the remote control at the
7-inch at screen. The 150-
channel television was at-
tached so that I could move
around like a thick pipe
cleaner. Normally, I dont
watch TV on bus rides, but
then I stumbled onto HBO,
and I was powerless.
The console also included a
retractable desk arm for skin-
ny laptops and thin elbows,
plus a cup holder perfect for
cuddling the complimentary
Pellegrino and Fiji bottled
water chilling in the onboard
mini-fridge. Unfortunately,
the ride was so bumpy that
my Pellegrino popped out of
its holder and started rolling
around the wood-paneled
oor. The basket of Dean &
DeLuca gourmet pretzels,
however, didnt budge from
its perch on the fridge.
The jostling was unex-
pected, and not particularly
soothing. On the New Jersey
Turnpike, the other passen-
ger moved to the backward-
facing front seat to allevi-
ate his aching back. When
later asked about the bouncy
ride, owner Andy Seligman
said the company has since
installed upgraded suspen-
sions, and the experience
will be much smoother and
more similar to a car ride.
Andrei made only one stop,
at the Delaware Welcome
Center Travel Plaza. Bath-
room break! Otherwise, we
hummed along the highway,
entering Manhattan at 11am.
Andrei helped me load my
bags onto the sidewalk. I
stood beside the kerb, feel-
ing well rested and ready to
take on Manhattan. THE WASH-
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CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
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SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Entertainment
20
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Drummers platform
6 La ___, Calif.
10 Borrowing consequence
14 Like a great deal
15 Relating to the ear
16 From the start
17 React angrily
20 Freebie-offering ad
21 Contraction of the heart
22 Traditional Sunday fare
25 Used an ax
26 ___ gives?
30 Bathtub toy, often
32 Blimp pilot
35 They have lots of land
41 It may be Freudian
43 TV type
44 Byrons day-ender
45 Order to a chef
47 Aces, sometimes
48 Prove beneficial
53 Two not worth much
56 Title incorrectly
58 Hilo hellos
63 One handling issues
66 Copacabana showgirl
67 Carpe ___
68 West Side Story song
69 Precambrian et al.
70 Creamy shade
71 Wind problem for a pilot
DOWN
1 Inflatable lifesaver
2 Wait for the green light
3 Protein-rich legume (Var.)
4 Winged god of love
5 Allude (with to)
6 Bon ___ (witticism)
7 Archaic verb ending
8 Forty winks, south of the border
9 Needing kneading?
10 The Divine Comedy poet
11 Back, in a way
12 Ball honoree
13 Jacket fabric
18 Not to
19 Combustion residue
23 Border on
24 Thatll show you
26 Mud dauber, e.g.
27 Locale for 10-Down
28 La Scala song
29 Goes one better than
31 London art museum
33 ___ de plume
34 Way, way over yonder
36 Chip off the old block
37 And lead us not ___ ...
38 Opposed, in oaters
39 Without a stitch on
40 Keeps company with
42 Odd opposite
46 Acid found in vinegar
48 Far from meager
49 Certain brim
50 Places of refuge
51 Cuzco founders
52 Well, ___-di-dah
54 Road stuff
55 Grand baseball hits
57 Method
59 Moonfish
60 Employ
61 The land of 35-Across
62 Have the main role
64 Nautical pronoun
65 One of the ratites
THE MIDDLE PART
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the wake of a disaster that changed the world,
the growing and genetically evolving apes find
themselves at a critical point with the human race.
City Mall: 9:20am, 1:50pm, 4:25pm, 7pm, 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 11:30am, 2:15pm, 7pm, 9:35pm
EARTH TO ECHO
After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted
messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure
with an alien who needs their help.
City Mall: 11:10am
Tuol Kork: 6:10pm
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave
that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and
the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find
themselves at the center of a battle to protect the
peace.
Tuol Kork: 11:10am
MALEFICENT
A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess,
only to discover that the child may be the one
person who can restore peace to their troubled land.
City Mall: 6:55pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
(See above.)
9:30am, 11am, 1:30pm, 3:50pm, 6:15pm, 8:30pm
EARTH TO ECHO
(See above.)
4:30pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
A mechanic and his family join the Autobots as they
are targeted by a bounty hunter who hails from
another world.
8pm
MY HOUSE
WIth Khmer dub.
9:20am, 1:15pm, 4pm, 6:20pm, 8:30pm
NOW SHOWING
Photo tour @ FCC
Professional photographer Michael
Klinkhamer leads a casual photography
workshop-tour in Phnom Penh. The tour
lasts four hours.
Foreign Correspondents Club, #363
Sisowath Quay. 1:30pm
Cashews @ Artillery
Meet the Makers is a spotlight on
Cambodias unique food companies.
Discover local avours and craftsmanship
in a showcase of how these producers
create their products, from farm to table.
The rst event features Mekong Rain, the
only organic-focused cashew nut
processing company in Cambodia,
featuring a photo exhibition and a
discussion as well as samples.
Artillery Cafe, Street 240 and a half.
6pm
Film@ Meta House
Werner Herzogs documentary Cave of
Forgotten Dreams (2010, 95 min) follows
expedition into the nearly inaccessible
Chauvet Cave in France, home to the
most ancient visual art known to have
been created by man.
Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard.
4pm
TV PICKS
10:45am - TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART
TWO: After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather
other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a
false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi
FOX MOVIES
12:40pm - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MANS
CHEST: Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy
Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Joness service, as
other friends and foes seek the heart for their own
agenda as well. FOX MOVIES
3:10pm - ICE AGE: Manny, Sid and Diego discover that
the Ice Age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a
journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that
Manny, in fact, is not the last of the wooly mammoths.
FOX MOVIES
4:45pm - MR BEANS HOLIDAY: Rowan Atkinson stars in
the comic journey. FOX MOVIES
Learn about Cambodias only organic-focused processing company tonight at Artillery. BLOOMBERG
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson star in The
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. BLOOMBERG
Yoga @ Yoga PP
Relax and refresh at lunchtime with
Slow Flow Yoga, a class for all abilities
to stretch out. Get lunch delivered to
class, if you wish.
Yoga Phnom Penh, House #39 on
Street 21. 12:15pm
HS Manjunath
FRENCH-CAMBODIAN teen-
ager Sokha Panha Viriyak
Vatey, competing in the
womens 100 metres, carries
the Kingdoms medal hopes
with her alongside female
wrestler Dorn Srey Mao and
swimmer Cheng Sopha in the
ensuing Second Summer
Youth Olympic Games in the
Chinese city of Nanjing from
August 16 to 28.
The 16-year-old sprinter is
going through intense train-
ing under coach Lak Loch,
who will accompany Vatey on
the trip to her first big-stage
competition.
I am really excited. I am
training as hard as I can, and I
want to do well in Nanjing, an
enthusiastic Vatey told the Post
yesterday.
As a 6-year-old, Vatey took a
strong liking for gymnastics
and held on to the magical
bars for the next eight years
before switching her affections
to athletics.
The slight-framed Vatey,
whose father is French and
mother Cambodian, has
achieved, in under two years
on the track, a personal best
of 12.3 seconds, which is a
hugely encouraging indica-
tion of potential.
I am confident if I train hard
the timing can be improved
said Vatey, indicating that she
is determined to pursue her
athletics career along with her
academic interests.
Vatey is very young and
inexperienced, but we can
clearly see potential in her
and this experience will help
her in a big way secretary-
general of the National Olym-
pic Committee of Cambodia
Vath Chamroeun told the Post
yesterday.
A well-regarded name in
womens wrestling, Chov Sot-
heara will assume the role of a
coach for Dorn Srey Mao, who
has shown a lot of promise on
the mat.
Swimmer Cheng Sopha will
have by his side coach Hem
Kiry in Nanjing where the
three Cambodian contenders
will be aspiring to emulate the
heroics of Sam Sothea, who
won a girls 44-kilogram class
judo bronze medal in the inau-
gural games four years ago.
Heading the Cambodian
Contingent as the Chef de Mis-
sion will be Nhan Sokvisal.
The Nanjing Youth Olympics
is restricted to athletes born
between January 1, 1997 and
December 31, 1998.
As many as 3,600 athletes
from 200 countries are expect-
ed to take part in 222 events
involving 28 disciplines. The
worlds youngest nation, South
Sudan, will compete under the
Olympic flag for the first time.
Hosts China head the list of
competitors with 142 athletes,
while Brazil has the second
largest squad at 98.
A
FTER 20 of watching US
and European women golf-
ers play for the Solheim
Cup, top worldwide rivals
have their chance at a team title in
the LPGA International Crown.
The inaugural edition of the event
will begin today at suburban Balti-
mores Caves Valley Golf Club with
eight teams of four women seeking
global bragging rights and the richest
share of $1.6 million in prize money.
Every time I was watching Sol-
heim Cup, I always wish I can be
there playing, Taiwans third-ranked
Tseng Ya-ni said. This is the only
time I can play for my country. It
means a lot for me. I always feel like
I play for my country, but I never re-
ally played for my country, so this is a
time I can. I think its great.
Five-time major champion and
former world number one Tseng
will join Teresa Lu, Candie Kung and
Phoebe Yao for Taiwan in Group A,
which also includes Spain, Thailand
and the overall top seed, the US.
The Americans feature world num-
ber one Stacy Lewis, fth-ranked teen
Lexi Thompson, former world No1
Cristie Kerr and veteran Paula Cream-
er all ranked in the world top 12. But
the US women are coming off an 18-
10 Solheim Cup loss to Europe last
year on home soil, the most lopsided
rout in the Ryder Cup-style events
history. The International Crown of-
fers a chance at redemption.
Im so excited. Really look for-
ward to being part of a team event
and hopefully win and redeem our-
selves, said 19-year-old Thompson,
who won her rst major title at this
years Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Lewis says the US women welcome
another team challenge from beyond
Europe.
Its fun whenever you get those
opportunities, especially when we
are playing good golf, Lewis said.
I think were all going to enjoy the
pressure. There is always pressure
playing a team event at home. But
I think thats where we want to be.
Group B is led by South Korea,
which features former world num-
ber ones Choi Na-yeon, the 2012 US
Womens Open winner, and Park In-
bee, who won three of her four ma-
jor titles last year. Ryu So-yeon and
IK Kim complete a squad that ranks
within the worlds top 23.
We are going to play for our coun-
try, which means a lot to us, Choi
said. We will do our best to make
some good results and I hope all of
the Korean fans are proud of us.
Usually Im not showing my
emotion to people, but at that mo-
ment, I think I could with my team-
mate, both hands up or something
like that.
South Korea is joined in Group
B by Japan, Sweden and Australia.
The Japanese squad includes for-
mer world number one Ai Miyazato
while the Aussies are led by former
world number one and seven-time
major winner Karrie Webb.
Teams will play four-ball matches
against group rivals today, Friday
and Saturday, with the top two in
each group and the best third-place
team advancing to Sundays nal
singles matches, with the trophy go-
ing to the nation accumulating the
most points over all four days.
Spains Beatriz Recari, who has
played in the Solheim Cup, relishes
the chance to play for her homeland
instead of all Europe.
Its your country as opposed to
your continent, Recari said. In Eu-
rope its a lot of small countries. Even
though we feel as one as a whole, you
still grow up independently. So its a
slight difference, but just as much an
honour to be in the Solheim Cup and
part of the Spanish team.
The Spaniards have a secret weap-
on in Azahara Munoz, who helped
Arizona State win a US national col-
lege golf title at Caves Valley.
I have great memories. Its actu-
ally one of my favorite courses, she
said. AFP
Left to right: South Koreas Na Yeon-choi, Japans Ai Miyazato, Swedens Pernilla
Lindberg and Candie Kung of Taiwan announce the tournament on April 1. AFP
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Asian stars excited for LPGA clash
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THE Third National Junior Tennis
Tournament will be held at the
National Training Centre from July 25
to 27, with players from Battambang
province making their first tourna-
ment appearances.
Tennis Cambodia brought Battam-
bang into its grassroots development
network in October last year, but
within that short span the program
has blossomed well enough to pro-
duce players fit for tournament play.
In a happy coincidence, Tennis
Cambodia will be introducing a sec-
ond flight of competition involving
modified sets and green dot balls for
the boys and girls 12s to help players
who are still raw get a better footing.
The rationale behind this two-tier
idea is that age should not be a reason
to move a player up a stage to the
bouncier yellow ball that is the stand-
ard norm in competition.
The three-day event, which is
expected to draw 60 players, will be
run in three different age categories:
under-12, 14 and 18, for both the boys
and girls.
This is the third National event in a
chain of six planned for the year and
the series is supported by Ezecom,
Coca-Cola and Hagar Restaurants.
Cambodian trio carry
Youth Olympic hopes
French-Cambodian Sokha Panha Viriyak trains at the Olympic Stadium. She
is one of three representing the Kingdom in Nanjing. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sport

Cook remains captain as

England call up Buttler
ALASTAIR Cook retained the
England captaincy while the
selectors brought in uncapped
Lancashire wicketkeeper Jos
Buttler to a 13-man squad
announced on Tuesday for the
third Test against India at
Southampton on Sunday. After
Englands 95-run defeat in the
second Test at Lords on
Monday, struggling
wicketkeeper Matt Prior
announced he was taking a
break from international cricket
to regain full fitness, with the
Sussex gloveman set to undergo
surgery on an Achilles injury.
Cook insisted on Monday that he
had no intention of standing
down as captain despite the
heavy loss representing
Englands 10th successive Test
without a win their worst run
in more than 20 years. AFP
Australia pick familiar

faces for Championship
EWEN McKenzie yesterday
named a 32-man Australian
squad with few surprises for
the upcoming Rugby
Championship, sticking with
the group that is enjoying a
seven-match winning streak. It
includes 25 players who earned
at least one Test cap during the
recent 3-0 series win over
France, and five others who
were squad members.
McKenzie said the familiarity
would be an asset. Australia
face New Zealand in their
opening Bledisloe Cup Test
match on August 16 in Sydney,
and McKenzie has warned the
Wallabies will have to lift their
game to beat the all-
conquering All Blacks. AFP
Anger after Philippine
NBA game is cancelled
ORGANISERS of a visit by NBA
stars to the basketball-mad
Philippines have offered refunds
after an exhibition game was
abruptly cancelled. Tycoon
Manny Pangilinan, whose
company sponsored the
scheduled match between a
visiting NBA contingent and the
national team, issued a profuse
apology amid growing anger at
the cancellation. The NBA team,
including the Houston Rockets
James Harden, the San Antonio
Spurs Kawhi Leonard, Damian
Lillard of the Portland
Trailblazers and DeMar
DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors,
were supposed to play five on
five games with the national
team on Tuesday and
Wednesday. But on Tuesday
night, before a large crowd
some of whom had paid as
much as 23,300 pesos ($530) it
was abruptly announced the
players would instead just
engage in practice drills. It was
not stated why the NBA did not
sanction the event. AFP
Redemption for Rogers
in belated Tour success
EWEN Michael Rogers finally
won a Tour de France stage
after 10 years of trying and with
it came redemption for the
Australian. In his 10th Tour, the
wily veteran stole a march on his
four escape companions to solo
to victory after a monumental
237.5 kilometre stage from
Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-
Luchon on Tuesday. His success
came just three months after he
was absolved of doping by the
International Cycling Union
(UCI). AFP
South Africa aim to end Sri Lanka series jinx
AN UPBEAT South Africa will look to
carry their winning momentum in the
second Test against Sri Lanka beginning
today, and break a 21-year-old jinx on
the island.
The Proteas, the world number two,
have not won a Test series in Sri Lanka
since 1993, when they first toured the
country and beat the hosts 1-0. On their
next three tours, they won one Test while
losing two series and drawing one.
But a new dawn seems to be beckon-
ing for the visitors after they won the
first Test in Galle on Sunday by 153 runs
to take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series,
and hand Hashim Amla a winning start
to his captaincy.
Not many teams have come here and
won a Test series so its obviously on the
back of our minds, said Amla, the first
non-white player to lead South Africa
in a full-time capacity.
Amla, 31, was named captain last
month following the retirement of Grae-
me Smith, who led the Proteas in a
record 109 Tests.
Amlas debut leadership was uncon-
ventional and daring, evident in the way
he declared the innings at tea on the
fourth day rather than take the safer
option of batting out the last session.
It meant the hosts needed to score
370 runs in four sessions to win the
match. At one point, it appeared the
game was slipping away from South
Africa but fast bowlers Dale Steyn and
Morne Morkel ripped through the top
order on the fifth morning to ensure a
well-deserved win.
Steyn will again be crucial at Colom-
bos Sinhalese Sports Club ground,
where South Africa won by an innings
and 208 runs in 1993 thanks to fast
bowlers Allan Donald and Brett Schultz.
Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews
conceded that Steyn would be a big
factor in Colombo.
Steyn is an unbelievable bowler, any
captain would love to have a guy like
him, he said. On that flat wicket [in
Galle], he came out hard and bowled
fast. Not too many fast bowlers end up
with nine-wicket hauls in Galle.
The other concern for Mathews, apart
from Steyn, was the middle order that
has failed to click, even in the preceding
one-dayers which South Africa won 2-1,
their first ODI series win in Sri Lanka.
Right from the ODI series, our mid-
dle-order batting has not been deliver-
ing, the Sri Lankan skipper said. We
have seven batters in the side and to
expect only one player to deliver all the
time is wrong.
Mathews can rely on at least one
player to come good with the bat in the
decider Mahela Jayawardene has
scored 10 hundreds at Colombo the
most by any batsman at a single venue.
Jayawardene, 37, is due to retire next
month after a two-Test series at home
against Pakistan.
A victory at Colombo will see Amlas
men reclaim the number one ranking
they lost to Australia recently after two
years at the top.
The last time South Africa played a
Test series in Sri Lanka in 2006, they lost
2-0, but only three players from that
tour are part of the current side. AFP
A HORSE owned by Britains
Queen Elizabeth II and won
one of Englands most presti-
gious races has failed a drug
test, Buckingham Palace an-
nounced Tuesday.
Estimate, which lifted the
Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in
2013 and came second in this
years edition, has tested posi-
tive for morphine, a banned
substance.
A statement issued by the
queens racing adviser said ini-
tial indications were the posi-
tive test had resulted from the
consumption of a contami-
nated feed product.
The queen, renowned for a
love of horse racing, cheered
on Estimate, saddled by top
trainer Michael Stoute, when
the now 5-year-old lly won at
Ascot last year.
A statement by John War-
ren, the queens bloodstock
and racing adviser, said: On
July 17 the British Horseracing
Authority [BHA] announced
that a number of post-race
samples, obtained from re-
cent race meetings, had been
found to indicate the presence
of morphine, a prohibited
substance on race days.
Five horses, under the
care of various trainers, were
affected.I can conrm that
one of those horses was Es-
timate, the ve year-old lly
trained by Michael Stoute and
owned by the queen.
Morphine is banned by the
BHA because it can be used to
numb pain. Under the rules of
English racing, Estimate will
not be stripped of her 2013
Gold Cup victory, but she
could be deprived of second
place in this years edition if
ofcials decide there has been
an infringement. AFP
Queens Ascot winner
fails test for morphine
Boxer Evans in Games ban
OLYMPIC silver medallist Fred
Evans has been denied the
chance to compete in the Com-
monwealth Games after his
accreditation was refused.
The Welsh welterweight has
been told he will not be allowed
to compete after checks by the
Home Office Commonwealth
Games officials.
Wales team chief Brian Davis
said in a statement on Tuesday:
Team Wales can confirm that
boxer Fred Evans has had his
accreditation refused by Glas-
gow 2014 based on checks
completed by the Home Office
and the Commonwealth Games
accreditation decision board.
Sadly, he is therefore unable
to compete at the Common-
wealth Games. Fred is a world
class boxer and has handled
this difficult situation in a very
disciplined manner, continu-
ing to work hard in the hope of
a satisfactory resolution.
It was not immediately clear
why Evans had been barred
from the Games, although in
April he did admit being
involved in a nightclub assault
in Birmingham, central Eng-
land, for which he was fined.
However, athletes with crim-
inal records have been allowed
to compete in past Common-
wealth Games.
England boxer Simon Vallily,
who won a heavyweight gold
medal in Delhi in 2010, had
been jailed for four years in
2006 for a knife attack.
Welsh boxing performance
director James Thomas said:
Fred is the Olympic silver
medallist and European cham-
pion and wanted to come to the
Games and win a gold medal.
Obviously we were aware of
his conviction earlier this year
and we certainly dont condone
that kind of behaviour but
sport is a fantastic vehicle for
rehabilitation and we hoped
Fred would have been able to
continue to box and improve
his lifestyle through the sport.
It is sad to see such a fantas-
tic athlete go out when every-
one would have loved to see
him box.
Commonwealth Games Fed-
eration chief executive Mike
Hooper refused to comment on
Evanss specific case but said:
Before any of our member
nations submit applications for
accreditation, they sign an
agreement that if there is a
negative background check
they will not be eligible to
receive accreditation.
It is not a new process and
in my experience is exactly the
same as that applied to the
Olympic Games and the World
Championships of the respec-
tive individual sports.
The Home Office said: Pro-
portionate and stringent checks
are being undertaken on all
those seeking accreditation to
the Games. AFP
King reveals King
of Nile fight plans
T
HE hair doesnt quite have the
lustre or ping of old, but Don
King, at 82, has a few electric
shocks left for his obituary
writers. The latest of them is among his
most outrageous: his announcement
on Tuesday that he hopes to bring the
new WBC heavyweight champion,
Bermane B Ware Stiverne, to Egypt
in November to make his rst defence
against the most feared puncher in
boxing, Deontay Wilder.
The American promoter said: I want
to hold it in the shadows of the Pyra-
mids and its going to be called King
of the Nile. Forty years after King put
together the Rumble in the Jungle, this
would complete a unique hat trick of
global presentations, each with its own
catchy label, to go with the Rumble
and the Thrilla in Manila of 1975.
While the rst two ghts with Mu-
hammad Ali starring in both were the
high points of a glittering and some-
times controversial career, King has
survived all subsequent attempts to
bury him, from mob threats to serial
vilication in the media.
Two months ago in Los Angeles,
Stiverne, a 35-year-old Haitian who re-
built a troubled life in Canada and has
lived in Las Vegas for 10 years chasing
unlikely ring glory, threw his promoter
a lifeline when he stopped Chris Arre-
ola in the sixth round to win the WBC
title vacated by Vitali Klitschko, whose
battleeld is now the more complicat-
ed political landscape of Ukraine.
That win, secured with two impres-
sive knockdowns (one of which in-
jured his hand, forcing an extended
layoff), catapulted King back into the
big picture after nearly a decade on the
fringes. A year ago, one critic observed:
It is truly clear that Don King is n-
ished. Only the caricature bordering
on self-parody remains.
Maybe so, but the caricature has
been in buoyant mood since arriving
in Egypt on Saturday, defying recom-
mendations by US State Department
ofcials concerned for the safety of
Americans in the volatile environment
of worsening regional conict.
King will talk with Egypts new presi-
dent, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi after his
Egyptian hosts show him the Pyra-
mids, Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
hoping to persuade him to bankroll
his ght to restore condence in the
countrys battered tourism industry.
Tourist trafc is down 20 per cent
in the 12 months to June, because of
rumbling civil unrest, as well as the
imprisonment for seven years of three
Al Jazeera journalists accused of con-
spiring with the Muslim Brotherhood
to broadcast bad news.
King said he would do his best to
intervene on behalf of the journalists
not a species of whom he has always
been fond.
Earlier King rehearsed a poem he
had written for the president: Egypt,
Egypt hear my cry, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y, Vic-
tory for peace is our quest, To lead us
to that goal at the peoples request, El
Fattah el-Sisi is the best, Yay Sisi, may
the blessings of Allah, Guide you in
this mission.
If the scansion was reminiscent of
Ali, it hit the spot with a local audience
new to Kings theatrical style.
Wilder is Stirvanes mandatory chal-
lenger, and by some way his toughest
assignment.
The tall American, who won bronze
at the Beijing Olympics, has levelled
all of his 31 professional opponents,
among them Britains ever-disappoint-
ing Audley Harrison, who fell inside a
round (and who recently rang King to
see if he could facilitate another come-
back, at 42).
King has one more surprise for the
doubters, providing Stiverne beats
Wilder. I want him to ght Mike Ty-
son, he said. George Foreman came
back at 47, and Mike can too.
It is no more improbable than any-
thing else he has pulled off in 40 years
of unrivalled chutzpah. THE GUARDIAN
Don King put together the Rumble in the Jungle 40 years ago and the Thrilla in Manila in
1975. AFP
Football
23

Celtic rout Reykjavik to
clear first Euro hurdle
VIRGIL van Dijk ensured
Scottish champions Celtic a safe
passage into the Champions
League third qualifying round as
he scored twice in a 4-0
demolition of Icelands KR
Reykjavik at Murrayfield on
Tuesday. With Celtic leading 1-0
from the first leg in the Icelandic
capital, Van Dijk calmed any
lingering nerves with two goals
in the space of seven first-half
minutes at the home of Scottish
rugby in Edinburgh.The Hoops
were forced to relocate with
their Parkhead stadium out of
commission due to its use in the
Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow but the change of
venue had little bearing on the
outcome as Teemu Pukki also
netted a brace with Celtic
cruising to a 5-0 aggregate
victory. The Hoops will next face
Polish side Legia Warsaw or
Irish outfit St. Patricks Athletic,
who drew the first leg 1-1 in
Poland, as they try to make it to
the group stages of Europes
elite club competition. AFP
Citys youngsters halt
match over racism
MANCHESTER Citys under-21
team walked off the pitch during
a friendly against Croatian side
HNK Rijeka after one of their
players was racially abused, the
club has claimed. Manchester
Citys [elite development squad]
U21 game with HNK Rijeka has
today been cancelled due to an
alleged incident of racial abuse
toward Seko Fofana by a
member of the opposing team,
read a City statement. Citys
officials told their players to
leave the pitch shortly before
half-time during the game in
Novigrad, west Croatia. Fofana,
a 19-year-old Frenchman, had
just been sent off for what Citys
Twitter feed described as an
off-the-ball incident. AFP
Dnipro to move Champs

League game to Kiev
FC DNIPRO announced
yesterday that the first leg of
their Champions League
qualifier against FC
Copenhagen will be played in
Kiev due to the ongoing conflict
in eastern Ukraine. Dnipro,
based around 300km from
Donetsk, had been due to host
the Danish club on July 30, but
European football governing
body UEFA ruled that match
cannot take place at the
Dnipro-Arena because of
security concerns. FC
Copenhagen had asked UEFA
to move the match to another
venue. The decision comes
after Shakhtar Donetsk
announced they would be
playing all their home games in
Lviv, over 1,000km to the west,
for the foreseeable future. AFP
Loew to stay on as coach

of champions Germany
WORLD Cup-winning coach
Joachim Loew announced
yesterday that he will see out
his contract with Germany
which runs until the 2016
European championship. I
didnt think of stopping for one
second, said Loew, 54, in an
interview on the German
Football Federation (DFB)
website. Loew took over as
German head coach in 2006
after two years as assistant and
extended his contract until
2016 before the World Cup in
Brazil. AFP
$108M Rodriguez unveiled at Real
C
OLOMBIAS World
Cup sensation James
Rodriguez was un-
veiled as Real Ma-
drids latest headline signing
in front of tens of thousands of
fans gathered at the Santiago
Bernabeu on Tuesday.
Rodriguez, the top scorer
at the World Cup in Brazil,
has moved to the European
champions from Monaco on a
six-season contract.
Spanish media said Real
paid about 80 million ($108
million) for the 23-year-old
playmaker, which if correct
would make him the fth most
expensive player in history af-
ter Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ron-
aldo, Neymar and Luis Suarez.
Its a lot of pressure to be
here but Im ready to take it
on, said Colombias poster
boy, looking relaxed and smil-
ing and sporting Reals num-
ber 10 shirt previously worn
by Mesut Ozil.
My goal here is to always
win, I dont like losing, he
added. Im thrilled to be
here, its a dream come true,
I hope to give a lot of plea-
sure, he told a huge crowd
estimated at about 40,000,
including a signicant num-
ber of Colombians. I think
Colombia will now be a fan
of this great club.
Neither club conrmed the
size of the transfer fee, but
Monaco described it as one
of the biggest transfers in
football history.
Spanish sports daily Marca,
which has close ties with Real
Madrids board, reported
that Real will pay 75 million
straight away and up to ve
million more in add ons.
Monaco paid 45 million
($60 million) when he signed
from FC Porto of Portugal.
Monaco said it had not
wanted to sell Rodriguez but
that it was proud to have
carried out one of the biggest
transfers in football history.
Rodriguezs six goals for his
country at the World Cup won
him the Golden Boot award.
A spectacular volley against
Uruguay went down as one of
the best goals scored in any
World Cup.
He was Reals second major
signing in ve days as they
prepare for a new season of
confrontation against eternal
rivals Barcelona.
German midelder Toni
Kroos moved from Bayern
Munich on Thursday, just days
after the 24-year-old helped
Germany win the World Cup.
Real have also been linked
with a move for Keylor Navas,
the goalkeeper whose heroics
helped Costa Rica reach the
World Cup quarter nals. Na-
vas plays with Levante in the
Spanish rst division.
Rodriguez had only been
at Monaco for one year but
his sizzling performance at
the World Cup made him the
number one target for many
European clubs.
In a FIFA.com poll released
on Monday, his volley against
Uruguay in the last 16 was de-
clared goal of the World Cup
by more than four million vot-
ers three quarters of those
who took part.
Rodriguez went to the World
Cup as Colombias second
best known striker. But Ra-
damel Falcao was injured in
January leaving the starring
role to his Monaco teammate
as Colombia reached the last
16 for the rst time.
Uruguays coach Oscar
Tabarez compared Rodri-
guez to Argentine legends
Diego Maradona and Lionel
Messi, the players who suc-
ceed in doing things because
they are special.
The Colombian has made
it clear for a long time that it
was the Spanish league that he
wanted to get to: The Span-
ish league is a league that Ive
always watched its differ-
ent from the English League,
which is very physical, he told
FIFA.com in November. The
game in Spain is more about
technique, and about getting
more touches on the ball.
Thats why I like it so much.
Rodriguez started his career
at 16 for Colombian second
division side Envigado FC and
immediately built a reputa-
tion for himself.
In 2008, he was signed by
Argentinian side Atletico Ban-
eld where he became known
as James Bond of Baneld
after scoring an extraordinary
left-footed lob for the unfash-
ionable side in February 2010.
He moved to FC Porto in
Portugal where more spec-
tacular goals brought three
league titles in three seasons.
Monaco bought him in May
2013. AFP
Colombian strikerJames Rodriguez, formerly at AS Monaco, acknowledges the crowd during his unveiling at
the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after signing with Spanish club Real Madrid in Madrid on Tuesday. AFP
PSG stands shut over abuse of disabled fans
FRENCH club Paris Saint-Germain were
ordered by UEFA to close part of their
stadium as punishment for their sup-
porters abuse of disabled Chelsea fans
during their Champions League quar-
ter-final match in April.
UEFA said that it had ordered a one-
match closure of sectors 104 and 105 of
the Parc des Princes, the clubs home
stadium in the French capital.
The sanction has been imposed for
the discriminatory conduct of some
Paris Saint-Germain supporters towards
disabled fans of Chelsea, UEFA said.
Disabled fans rights campaigners
hailed the announcement.
We welcome the determined deci-
sion taken by UEFA which sends a clear
message to all clubs that abuse of disa-
bled fans will not be tolerated, Joyce
Cook, head of the Centre for Access to
Football in Europe, said.
The sanction applies to the next Euro-
pean club competition match in which
PSG play as hosts. The Parisians have
an automatic berth in the group stage
of this seasons Champions League and
therefore go into action in September.
During the April 2 first-leg quarter-
final in which PSG beat the Londoners
3-1 a group of disabled Chelsea fans
were seated among the home support-
ers due to a lack of facilities in the visi-
tors stands. They were subjected to a
hail of abuse, spat on and pelted with
plastic bottles.
It seemed like I was sitting in hell and
it was something that I had no control
over, Chelsea supporter Lisa Hayden,
a wheelchair user, recently told the BBC.
I felt no-one had our backs: there were
10 of us and thousands of them and I
didnt think we were going to get out of
there, she added.
Chelsea won the April 8 second leg at
Stamford Bridge 2-0, ejecting PSG due
to the away goals rule.
In May, Mike Penning, then Britains
disabilities minister, called on UEFA to
consider throwing PSG out of this sea-
sons Champions League.
He also pointed to the problem of
seating for supporters with disabilities,
which has likewise been flagged up at
several English Premier League clubs.
Disabled fans are fans and they
shouldnt be treated any differently.
They should be sat with their own fans
and be able to enjoy the game like eve-
ryone else, Penning, now the policing
minister, told the BBC at the time.
On Tuesday, campaigner Cook said
the UEFA decision was a timely wake-
up call for football.
This was a particularly unpleasant
incident with the Chelsea disabled
fans abused and threatened by a
minority of home fans whom they
were confronted by based on being in
the wrong place through no fault of
their own, she said.
This could have happened at a
number of European clubs where disa-
bled away fans have no choice but to sit
with the opposing home fans.
She said it was discrimination to
provide disabled fans with a lesser
experience at matches, all the more
so when it left them vulnerable and
subject to abuse purely because they
are disabled.
The Parc des Princes is one of the sta-
diums due to hold games at Euro 2016
when France hosts the flagship interna-
tional tournament.
Cook said that significant access
improvements were already in the
pipeline there. AFP
Manchester United ready to break transfer records
MANCHESTER United are
prepared to break transfer
records in order to give new
manager Louis van Gaal the
players he wants, according to
executive vice-chairman Ed
Woodward.
The English giants have
already spent over 50 million
($85 million) on England left-
back Luke Shaw and Spanish
midfielder Ander Herrera, and
Woodward says that they are
ready to spend even more.
Some of Uniteds European
rivals have spent big recently.
Real Madrid on Tuesday signed
James Rodriguez from Monaco
for a fee of around 63 million
($107.4m), while Barcelona
paid Liverpool around 75 mil-
lion ($127.8m) for Luis Suarez.
Asked if United were able to
pay a similar amount for a
player, Woodward responded:
It is in our capabilities. The
club are not afraid of doing
that spending significant
amounts of money in the
transfer market.
United are rebuilding under
Van Gaal after a terrible 2013-
14 campaign and Woodward
says that in the context, the
Manchester United board will
have no qualms about sanc-
tioning big-money signings.
Whether it is a record or
not doesnt really resonate
with us, he added, in com-
ments reported by the British
media yesterday.
What resonates is a top,
top elite player that the man-
ager wants that is going to be
a star for Manchester United.
We are in a very strong finan-
cial position. We can make
big signings.
I get pointed in the direction
of a target that the manager
wants and there is an assess-
ment of what that might cost
and Ill negotiate hard to do the
best I can on the trade.
United have been linked with
a host of players in recent
weeks, including Germany
centre-back Mats Hummels,
Belgium defender Thomas Ver-
maelen, and the Dutch trio of
Daley Blind, Stefan de Vrij and
Kevin Strootman.
Woodward endured a trying
first close-season last year,
when United missed out on a
succession of major targets,
and he admits he still needs to
prove his worth to the clubs
supporters. You gain credibil-
ity through experience and
through time, said the former
investment banker.
You cant expect credibility
from day one and I wouldnt
ask that of the fans. You keep
learning on the job and Ill
continue to learn for a long
period of time.
I dont mind reading [criti-
cism], because its extremely
important for me to listen to
the fans. Criticism can change
into positive comments over a
period of time. AFP
Sport
Dunga vows organised revolution
B
RAZIL looked forward by
looking back on Tuesday
in deciding to give former
World Cup-winning skip-
per Dunga a second bite at coach-
ing the Selecao.
Having won the chance to return
to a job he lost four years earlier af-
ter a quarter-nal loss to the Neth-
erlands, Dungas mantra of organ-
ise rst, then entertain may not be
the way most Brazilians look at the
beautiful game.
But the ageing suits in charge of
the Brazilian Football Confedera-
tion (CBF) have decreed that reform
and emerging from the wreckage of
their trouncing by Germany is a job
for an experienced pragmatist not
a revolutionary.
Though it is the likes of Pele, Gar-
rincha, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and
Neymar who star in most fans
dreams as they fret over which re-
formist path to take to the future,
Dunga says he has no time, and no
need, to don rose-tinted spectacles.
Promising to engage better with
the press than he did rst time round
between 2006 and 2010, he said that
however much football evolves, cer-
tain truisms cannot be controverted.
Every coach begins by orga-
nising things from the back, he
bluntly asserted. Germany were
always organised, he added, the
clear implication being that that is a
rst building block for success not
fancy footwork 40 metres out.
That thinking was behind the
decision, announced by outgoing
CBF president Jose Maria Marin
at the CBF headquarters in Rio, to
choose a man they know well, who
won 91 caps as well as overseeing
60 matches in charge thereafter
42 won for six lost.
Brazils authorities want to reform
the game without going down the
path of cataclysmic change even if
many aspects of the domestic game
are in disarray with clubs racking up
huge debts while regular bouts of
hooliganism persist.
President Dilma Rousseff, con-
scious of the importance and high
visibility of the football debate as
she targets re-election in October,
is already in contact with the Bom
Senso (good sense) collective of
players looking to overhaul the
games structures.
Bom Senso was swift to send
advanced good luck greetings via
spokesman Ruy Bueno Neto to Dunga
overnight on Monday while making
clear that outside the CBF hierarchy
there is demand for deep reform.
There is no need to repeat that
our leaders are well behind when
it comes to the modern game . . . I
wish [Dunga] luck, said Neto, who
clearly doubts that a CBF about to
replace current 82-year-old head
Jose Maria Marin with 73-year-old
Marco Polo Del Nero is capable of
clearing out the stables effectively.
Given the way the CBF structures
are, things are very difcult, he
observed following a meeting with
Rousseff herself.
Bom Sensos calls for deep reform
have been loud and constant for
months and are not related to Bra-
zils World Cup failure which ended
in their ignominious record semi-
nal 7-1 loss to Germany.
Brazils secretary for football and
defence of fan rights Antonio Jose
Carvalho do Nascimento Filho in-
sisted there would be no let-up in
reforms after Mondays meeting with
Bom Senso.
This is not electoral opportunism,
it is patriotism. The 7-1 surprised
us, but the deciencies of Brazilian
football [in general] do not surprise
us, he said.
Assuming Dunga is still at the helm
in 2018, he will have the huge advan-
tage of not having to meet overblown
home expectations a double-edged
sword that Germany seized to cut a
Brazil psychologically unable to cope
with the emotions to ribbons.
The process starts with a Septem-
ber 5 friendly meeting with Colom-
bia in Miami. AFP
Brazils 1994 World-Cup winning skipper Carlos Verri, better known as Dunga, is
presented as Brazils new coach on Tuesday. AFP

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