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QUESTIONS are being
raised over police tactics
after a 12-hour standoff with
a man who took his 6-year-
old nephew hostage on
Tuesday ended in the tragic
killing of the child.
Locals yesterday slammed
the polices seeming reluc-
tance to use lethal force on
the perpetrator until after
the boy had been stabbed,
while officials said they had
followed protocol and tried
to minimise harm to both
the boy and his captor.
The authorities have all
kinds of guns. Why didnt
they use them? said Meas
Sophea, one of many capital
residents who saw the tale
reported on TV. And why
did they use them after the
boy had already died in their
hands?
However, military police
spokesman Kheng Tito said
that the mixed forces
THE Republican-led US
House of Representatives
voted on Wednesday to sue
President Barack Obama for
allegedly overstepping his
powers, a move swiftly
denounced by his Demo-
cratic allies as a cynical
election-year stunt.
By a party-line vote of 225
to 201, the House voted to
resort to the unprecedented
move of taking the presi-
dent to court for not having
stringently followed the let-
ter of the law while imple-
menting his signature
Obamacare health care
reform bill.
The measure, which
would empower House
Speaker John Boehner to
start the legal proceedings,
is meant to rein in a presi-
dent besotted by power,
the top House Republican
said from the floor of
the chamber.
This isnt about Repub-
licans or Democrats its
about defending the con-
stitution that we swore an
oath to uphold, and acting
decisively when it may be
compromised, Boehner
said. Are you willing to let
any president choose what
laws to execute, and what
laws to change?
Boehner told his fellow
lawmakers that Obama
violated the countrys
founding document by not
adhering rigidly to the
wording of the law when
implementing the health
reform law.
Obama, for his part, has
been derisive in dismiss-
ing the suit, making it a
Police
tactics
draw
scrutiny
House
to take
Obama
to court
Daniel Pye and Alice Cuddy
A
DEAL to end the polit-
ical deadlock may
reduce demonstra-
tions in the streets, but
the authorities are leaving noth-
ing to chance Daun Penhs
notorious district security guards
are finally receiving proper gov-
ernment training.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche, who has previously
said the baton-wielding district
security guards regularly
behind the violent beatings of
protesters in the post-election
period lack government secu-
rity training, said yesterday that
they are set to take part in an
upcoming Ministry of Interior
training scheme.
Municipal authorities have
given vocational training to the
security guards about how to
ease the traffic jams during
protests, how to protect the
protesters and avoid viola-
tions, he said. But the minis-
trys training would be different,
he added, without elaborating.
Interior Ministry officials, on
the order of Minister Sar Kheng,
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Police standoff tactics scrutinised
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responding to the scene in Tbong Khmum
province may have been caught off guard.
Military police are trained to save people
in emergencies, such as catastrophes or
natural disasters. We have intervention
units, especially in cases of terrorism or kid-
napping. We have demolition and liberation
teams who are trained daily, he said.
Provincial police chief Mao Pov said that
throughout the standoff police tried a
number of tactics to end the situation
without resorting to deadly force.
We have to look at the real situation,
whether or not the perpetrator will listen
to us. And if he does not, we have to shoot
to defend ourselves, and there is no law
banning us from shooting him, he said.
It is not that we are not trained. We
already tried all kinds of techniques.
Police attempted to incapacitate Him
Sokna, 22, using smoke guns and an energy
drink laced with sedatives. When the smoke
caused Sokna to move away from his neph-
ew, Pha Chharan, police tried to rescue the
boy, only to find he was tied to a pillar.
Officers then retreated as Sokna, whose
family had noticed his mental health
deteriorating, advanced brandishing
knives. Though Sokna was clearly a risk to
the child, himself and the authorities,
police refrained from shooting him, be-
cause he is still a human being, Pov said.
After officers retreated, Sokna stabbed
the boy. Moments later, he was shot dead
in a hail of bullets. Chharan died in his
mothers arms on the way to hospital.
Chan Soveth, a senior monitor with
rights group Adhoc, said that when young
children are involved, the police should be
prepared to take any action necessary to
protect the life of the child.
In this case, the perpetrator was a mad-
man and they should have taken all neces-
sary measures to save the boys life . . . but
the case has shown that our officers are
careless and irresponsible, he said.
It demonstrates that our authorities are
short of skills.
Contingents of provincial and military
police were dispatched, arriving at the
scene in Tbong Khmum province at about
11am. A detachment of police from the
Ministry of Interior was also present.
John Muller, managing director of local
security company Global Security Solu-
tions, said the forces should have been
prepared to respond to the situation.
The police and military police are well
trained, so whether they had the right peo-
ple there or not, I dont know, he said.
Officials yesterday would not confirm
which units from the ministry it had
deployed and gave no indication that an
investigation into police actions would
be conducted.
People receive a blessing in Tbong Khmum province at the end of a funeral ceremony on
Wednesday for a boy killed in a hostage situation. HENG CHIVOAN
NGOs offer own
reform package
Vong Sokheng, Meas Sokchea
and Stuart White
A
COALITION of NGOs
yesterday issued
proposed drafts of a
new constitutional
amendment governing the
National Election Commit-
tee, with one signatory saying
the drafts, if implemented,
would establish a minimum
threshold of independence
and transparency in the King-
doms electoral process.
Speaking for the Electoral
Reform Alliance (ERA) com-
prising 11 watchdog organisa-
tions Comfrel executive direc-
tor Koul Panha told the press and
observers yesterday the recom-
mendations and an accompany-
ing open letter were specifically
for both political parties.
Its to improve the imple-
mentation of the agreement,
corresponding to democratic
principles, and principles of
the independence of the elec-
tion body, Panha himself on
the shortlist for one of the four
opposition-controlled seats on
the committee said later, after
acknowledging the political
agreements flaws.
This is the minimum [bar for
what] needs to be improved for
fair elections in Cambodia.
The draft amendment makes
a number of stipulations,
including that NEC members
have parliamentary immunity,
not be the spouse or relative of
political leaders and not be
members of a political party or
the Royal Government.
And while it adheres to the
political deal cut between the
Cambodia National Rescue
Party and the ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party under which
each party chooses four NEC
members and the two jointly
choose one independent con-
sensus member the amend-
ment mentions neither by name.
It also contains provisions that
allow for the participation of
multiple parties, should others
join the assembly in the future.
Preap Kol, executive director
of Transparency International
Cambodia and a signatory to
the ERA letter, said civil society
had hoped for an agreement
establishing a fully independent
NEC, but the new arrangement
was still an improvement.
The [independent option]
would be better, but I think the
political situation in Cambodia
is not ready for that, he said. I
think that there need to be
[changes] in the future . . . Here
you have a formula devised by
two parties, but in the future . . .
if there are new parties, theyre
not going to like that.
One proposal voiced by the
ERA, that the NEC candidates
apply rather than be appoint-
ed, was independently taken
up by the CNRP yesterday.
Ex-CNRP lawmaker Kuoy
Bunroeun who gave up his seat
for party president Sam Rainsy
and who is considered the oppo-
sitions first pick for the NEC
said the assemblys secretariat
should accept public applica-
tions, and representatives of
each party would choose candi-
dates from those applicants.
Anyone can apply, he said.
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann
said that his party had received
the ERA recommendations, and
that while it supported some
including the stipulation that
NEC members could not be
members of political parties
the partys standing committee
would be debating others, such
as the injunction against politi-
cians family members.
In recent days, the party has
floated Kem Monovithya
CNRP deputy public affairs
head and daughter of party
deputy president Kem Sokha
as a potential pick for the NEC.
But CPP lawmaker Chheang
Vun dismissed the ERA, saying:
I am bored by [the ERAs] role.
The two parties have been
working together smoothly . . .
Why are those people trying to
throw a firecracker at us?
CORRECTION
Wednesdays article Workers seek pay after
fire misquoted Garment Manufacturers As-
sociation in Cambodia secretary-general Ken
Loo. Loo believes the razed Chang Feng fac-
tory is obligated to compensate workers, but
surrounding factories that closed are not.
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held a meeting with private security
companies early last month and are
considering forming a joint-opera-
tion with two private firms to provide
public order training to the mixed
security forces which City Hall says
includes the guards a source present
at the meeting told the Post.
Little has been known about the
make-up of the notorious Daun Penh
district security guards since they
emerged after last years election as the
front-line enforcers of government-
approved crackdowns on dissent.
While some government officials
have maintained that the guards
often dressed in navy blue and wear-
ing motorcycle helmets are employed
through private companies, City Hall
has said they are recruited by the Min-
istry of Interior.
Proof that the guards are not mere-
ly thugs-for-hire but part of a struc-
ture reporting directly to the minis-
try is spelled out in a sub-decree
passed in the National Assembly on
March 31 and signed by Interior Min-
ister Kheng.
The document outlines the make-up
of the mixed security forces, which
includes the Daun Penh district secu-
rity guards.
It shows that Daun Penh districts
Unified Command is chaired by dis-
trict governor Kouch Chamroeun,
with deputy district governor Sok
Penh Vuth, who has often led the secu-
rity guards in forcefully crushing
peaceful protests, as permanent vice-
chairman.
Neither could be reached for com-
ment.
Violent crackdowns by the guards
have multiplied since they disman-
tled a Cambodia National Rescue
Party protest camp in Freedom Park
on January 4.
But during a CNRP protest next to
the park earlier this month, the tables
were turned and numerous security
guards were isolated, stripped of
their uniforms and mercilessly
attacked by the crowd.
One of the guards injured during
the violence was 58-year-old Meas
Phoeun.
Phoeun claims that he is not usu-
ally deployed to protests, which he
says are the domain of a second group
of security guards consisting of
young, angry men.
He says he was recruited by his
commune chief and is paid by the
Interior Ministry, but another group
who sport the same blue uniform
form a separate unit.
We are gentle; we never beat the
people or the protesters, he said. The
security guards in my commune . . .
have blue uniforms but no batons or
shields.
But the Daun Penh district guards
have batons, body armour and hel-
mets, and they have hot tempers.
Phoeun said he had not asked where
they came from, because he was
afraid they would be angry.
Council of Ministers spokesman
Phay Siphan says that the vanguard of
the district forces operate under an
agency licensed by the ministry.
I understand that the district
security [forces] were established by
licence from the Ministry of Interior.
They are led by former policemen or
retired policemen, he said. Its a VIP
agency. They are hired by the govern-
ment, but they dont have a retire-
ment plan or anything.
The agency is thought to have been
established under former district gov-
ernor Sok Sambath, who is now gov-
ernor of Meanchey district.
In 2005, Sambath appointed Seng
Sovannara, formerly head of the pro-
CPP Pagoda Children, Intelligentsia
and Students Association, commonly
known as the Pagoda Boys, to the
deputy governor job after years of
accusations that he led violent crack-
downs on labour disputes and anti-
government protests.
Sovannara, now an under secretary
of state at the Ministry of Justice, said
he still heads the Pagoda Boys, but
declined to comment on whether its
members were counted in the ranks
of the district guards.
I still help and control this organisa-
tion, because I love my job, he said.
Now we can see that there are many
demonstrations if compared to before
. . . Now the demonstrations are more
serious. If the demonstrators use vio-
lence, the security forces have to main-
tain order.
Our job is still the same, even
though the public might not notice us
as much.
The Pagoda Boys, a registered NGO,
were accused by the US State Depart-
ment of involvement in the anti-Thai
riots of 2003, as well as being
denounced by unionists for alleg-
edly breaking up dozens of protests
over the years.
Mu Sochua, an elected CNRP politi-
cian, who was charged and impris-
oned last month for her supposed role
in opposition supporters violent beat-
ings of the guards, said she would
demand answers about the guards
violence from the Interior Ministry as
a top priority when the CNRP takes
its seats in parliament.
To have a deputy district governor
standing there giving orders which
aim to maim is totally a violation of
human rights, she said. Sok Penh
Vuth cannot give orders by himself.
Training for the guards, she added,
would only be beneficial if it helps the
guards protect, rather than attack,
the public.
If the training is how to use force to
control protest, then it is ineffective,
she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KHOUTH
SOPHAK CHAKRYA AND SEN DAVID
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Migrants in hurry
to get back to work
Sen David
A SURVEY of 10 Cambodian
provinces is studying the where-
abouts and plans of migrant
workers who were recently
repatriated from Thailand, fear-
ing crackdowns on foreign
workers there after the coup.
During a workshop hosted
by Coordination of Action
Research on AIDS and Mobil-
ity (CARAM) yesterday, Minis-
try of Interior secretary of state
Chou Bun Eng said early indi-
cations show many workers
are opting to cross back into
Thailand illegally, rather than
going through legal channels.
The migrant workers seem
to be in a hurry to cross back
into Thailand; they are not
waiting for the government to
prepare documents allowing
them to legally work there,
Bun Eng said at the meeting in
the capital. Now the govern-
ment and [CARAM] are doing
a survey of workers who came
back to Cambodia to examine
their current situation.
Some 225,000 Cambodian
migrants working in Thailand
fled the country in June, amid
rumours of the junta-led gov-
ernments possible intention
to clamp down on illegal labour
in the country.
For workers who seek
employment in Thailand in
hopes of earning higher wages,
the process of gaining legal
access to work there can be a
confusing and expensive proc-
ess, CARAM executive director
Ya Navuth said.
He called on the govern-
ment to make passport offices
more accessible to migrant
workers.
Several ministries in the
government are working to
make it easier for these work-
ers to legally return to Thai-
land, said Ouk Ravuth of the
Ministry of Labour.
Ravuth added that legal sta-
tus in Thailand would prove
beneficial to migrants.
We appeal to workers to reg-
ister legally before they go back
to Thailand, Ravuth said.
This will help prevent neces-
sary repatriation for them in
the future.
Cambodia National Rescue
Party lawmaker-elect Mu
Sochua suggested the survey
can be an opportunity to look
at the reasons why migrants
insist on working across the
border, rather than finding
jobs in Cambodia, and the
hardships they face to do so.
We have to study the soci-
etal impacts of migrant work-
ers, Sochua said. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
Flood warnings for Mekong
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
H
EAVY rains may
cause dangerous
ooding along the
upper parts of the
Mekong River in Cambodia in
the coming days, a senior of-
cial at the Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology
warned yesterday.
Mao Hak, deputy director
of technical works at the De-
partment of Hydrology and
River Work, told the Post that
rainfall in Kampong Cham,
Kratie and Stung Treng prov-
inces will climb to alarm
levels by Sunday.
The villagers who are liv-
ing along the river or central
lowland need to be aware,
especially for their children
and elderly people, and they
have to make sure that these
people keep away from the
water, he said.
A statement issued by Haks
department said that while
the Mekongs water stations at
Stung Treng, Kratie and Kam-
pong Cham measured safe
water levels of 10, 20.25 and
13.65 metres yesterday, the
rivers depths are expected to
breach the alarm threshold by
August 3 as they reach 10.75,
21.95 and 15 metres.
The announcement follows
last weeks warning from the
ministry that the remnants of
Typhoon Rammasun, which hit
China, Vietnam and the Philip-
pines in-mid July, were causing
the Mekong to quickly rise.
Khan Chamnarn, Kraties
deputy governor, whose prov-
ince faces the highest predicted
levels of ooding, said that it is
important for residents to heed
the announcement despite the
rivers relatively calm waters
yesterday. Awareness of emer-
gency procedures, he said, will
reduce deaths.
Kratie province has pre-
pared 118 safe hills for evacu-
ation when the ood comes,
he said, adding that the pro-
vincial government has also
supplied boats, tents and
medicine to help rescue vic-
tims when the river rises.
Chamnarn referenced trag-
ic outcomes of the regions
past natural disasters, such as
the 2011 oods that killed at
least nine people and the 2013
oods that claimed at least 25
lives, to encourage residents
to take care.
While the department did
not provide depth measure-
ments for other rivers in the
region, Hak said that farmers
along the Tonle Sap and Tonle
Bassac rivers should also brace
themselves for ooding.
Phnom Penh is safe for now,
he added, although he suspects
that the capital will face alarm
levels as the rainy season pro-
gresses into October.
A woman walks across a makeshift path way during ooding last year. The Ministry of Water Resources and
Meteorology has warned of potential ooding in the coming days. HONG MENEA
Interior to provide guard training
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A DUTCHMAN and an American
were each sentenced to one year in
prison yesterday for the theft of 17
cartons of cigarettes from Paragon
Supermarket in Daun Penh district
in March.
Kim Rath Narin, Phnom Penh Mu-
nicipal Court judge, said that Johan
Becker, 59, a Dutch tourist, and Jef-
fery Alan Adams, 51, an American
tourist, were convicted and ordered
to jointly pay $1,963 in damages to
the plaintiff and another $1,000 in
compensation.
They will be deported from Cam-
bodia as soon as they have served
out their sentences, Narin said.
On March 7, 2014, according to
Chhun Kaony, deputy police chief of
Chey Chumneas commune, where
the market is located, Becker stole a
variety of cigarette brands: 49 packs
of Mild Sevens, 41 packs of Marl-
boros, and some Cambodian Ang-
kor cigarettes, among others. Becker
loaded the stolen goods into some
bags, which he then gave to his friend
Adams who walked behind him as
they attempted to escape the market.
However, a female staffer spotted
the theft and called security, and
Becker was arrested on the spot.
Adams ed the scene, managing to
escape on his getaway vehicle, a mo-
torcycle. He was arrested the next
morning in his rented apartment in
Phsar Kandal I commune.
Video evidence from the super-
market indicated that the pair had
previously stolen cigarettes from
Paragon many times over a two-
month period in between February
and March 2014.
Becker said he accepted the courts
decision yesterday. Adams declined
to comment.
I will not appeal it to the upper
court, Becker said.
Kim Sarom
WHILE many Cambodian migrant
workers are going to great lengths to
return to employment in Thailand,
one Slovenian has allegedly chosen
to go the other way by swimming
his way back into the Kingdom after
being deported.
Authorities say 48-year-old Sorrn-
man Gorzd, known to locals in Preah
Sihanouk town as a perennial pest, was
arrested on Tuesday. He was charged
with illegal border crossing soon after
his wet journey in the Gulf of Thailand
nished in Koh Kong provinces Mon-
dul Seima district.
Khon Mara, deputy director of the
immigration ofce in Koh Kong, said
the swimming Slovenians visa had
expired, and due to his undesirable
past, which Mara did not go into, he
had been banned from setting foot in
Cambodia.
I worked procedurally, and this for-
eigner was charged with illegal border
crossing, Mara said, adding that after
his arrival, Gorzd troubled the villag-
ers, bringing his presence to the atten-
tion of police, who made the arrest.
After an interrogation, authorities
located his visa, found that it was ex-
pired, and also learned that Gorzd had
spent time in Preah Sihanouk town.
He was blacklisted from entering the
country on July 25, Mara said.
Heisted cigarette cartons
get jail time for expat duo
Deportee just swims back
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Kim Sarom
TWO private security guards
will be sent to Phnom Penh
Municipal Court today after
being arrested on Wednesday
on suspicion of raping a child,
police said yesterday.
According to Sreng Hong,
chief of the municipal anti-
human trafcking police, the
11-year-old victim entered the
For You cafe in Daun Penh dis-
tricts Phsar Thmey 2 on July
3 at around 9pm after losing
her mother upon arrival in the
capital from their hometown
in Kampong Cham province.
Suspects Nong Vichet, 40,
from Battambang province,
and Kuoy Bunthoeun, 36, of
Prey Veng, who both worked as
cafe security guards, told the
girl to wait with them for her
mother. They instead took her
to a nearby rental room where
they detained and raped her,
Hong said.
After receiving the com-
plaint, with permission from
the prosecutor of the mu-
nicipal court, the authorities
called the suspects for ques-
tioning, he said. An arrest
was made on July 30.
According to Hong, the sus-
pects inadvertently enabled
the girls escape when they left
her alone in the room the next
morning to go to work.
After detaining the girl for
one night . . . Vichet bought
[breakfast] for her and locked
her in the room, Hong said,
adding that the girl was able
to remove the wire that the
suspects allegedly used as a
makeshift lock. She then ed
to her aunts house, where she
was reunited with her mother.
After receiving a complaint
and legal coordination from
Kul Bun, deputy prosecutor
of Phnom Penh Municipal
Court, police questioned the
suspects and detained them.
Though the suspects denied
the charges, Bun said that a
medical examination revealed
that the girl had suffered vagi-
nal injuries consistent with a
sexual assault.
The suspects denials of the
charges, he added, bordered
on the nonsensical.
The suspects denied raping
her . . . If they were good people,
why didnt they bring her to
look for her mother? Why did
they lock her up? Bun said.
Two busted for alleged
rape, detention of girl
Hun Sen demands bus lines
Chhay Channyda

P
RIME Minister Hun
Sen yesterday used
the inauguration of
the Stung Meanchey
overpass to call for the speedy
formation of a government
bus authority, as the capital
eyes two new planned routes
and 18 by 2020.
During his speech at the
site of the approximately $19
million overpass project, Hun
Sen instructed Phnom Penh
Governor Pa Socheatvong to
ensure that the new routes are
up and running by the end of
his tenure.
Pa Socheatvong is now
57 years old and will retire in
three years, so I ask him to
please successfully establish
the bus lines, Hun Sen said.
The project did not take
off under [former municipal
governor] Kep Chuktema; Pa
Socheatvong has been gover-
nor for more than a year, and
it is still a failure.
Ten buses currently run
along Phnom Penhs only line.
With the recent arrival of 40
buses from South Korea, ser-
vice is planned to be expand-
ed with two new routes.
Global (Cambodia) Trade
Development was given a
contract for Phnom Penhs
sole route, which started ser-
vice along Monivong Boule-
vard in March. However, the
municipality pulled the rms
contract a month later, leav-
ing City Hall to run the buses.
Fares are currently priced at
1,500 riel (38 cents).
Cambodia has come a long
way in developing its capital
city since the Khmer Rouge
fell in 1979, the premier said.
But about 300,000 cars and
one million motorbikes now
clog up the citys streets, ne-
cessitating a bus service.
We started [in 1979] from
having only houses that no-
body lived in, Hun Sen said.
At that time, people could
sleep on the street for a week
and never see a car on it.
Without a private company
partner, the government plans
on taking this month to create
an autonomous transport au-
thority, which will run the cur-
rent route and the two others
being planned.
We will not lose forever and
retreat because of [a lack of]
investors, City Hall spokes-
man Long Dimanche said.
A woman and her granddaughter ride a public bus along Phnom Penhs Monivong Boulevard during a trial of
the service earlier this year. PHA LINA
If they were good
people, why didnt
they bring her to
look for her mother?
Concerns persist
Workers ill
after fainting
at factory

A
LINGERING odour
in a Sixplus Industry
garment factory is ag-
gravating the already-fragile
health of its workers, 100 of
whom fainted last weekend,
and has forced the factory to
send many of them back to
health centres.
Moeun Chanthy, head of
the sewing section at Sixplus
in Kandal province, said that
over 50 workers who fainted
on Saturday were sent back to
health centres yesterday.
They were ordered to rest
for a day more, but they came
back, so the factory checked
their health and found out
that their health was not good
enough, Chanthy said.
Overall, about 100 workers
were sent to clinics yesterday.
Srin Phat, 33, who fainted
on Monday and was sent for
treatment yesterday, said the
factory smelled like insect
pesticide or gas.
In short, it is a bad smell,
she said.
A report from the Free Trade
Union says 1,113 workers in
17 factories in Phnom Penh
alone have fainted this year.
PECHSOTHEARY
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
The ol switcheroo fails
to make it past vendor
PERHAPS looking to finance a
nursery upgrade, a pregnant
woman was busted in Siha-
noukville on Wednesday while
attempting to blindside a gold
seller. Police said the 29-year-
old asked to take a look at a
necklace from a local vendor,
waited for her to become dis-
tracted, and handed back a
fake. The ruse didnt last long
as the shopkeeper quickly real-
ised what had happened and
began shouting for help. Mak-
ing a less than top-speed geta-
way, the thief was unsurpris-
ingly nabbed by market
security and turned over to
police. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Moto breaks down right
after someone steals it
A BANTEAY Meanchey moto
thief will have time to ponder
the fickle hand of fate after
choosing poorly in his latest
adventure in thievery. Police said
the 23-year-old made his move
yesterday morning when a
woman parked her bike outside
a grocery store. Seemingly easy
pickings, the chosen motorbike
quickly betrayed him, breaking
down mere blocks from the
scene of the crime. Police found
him soon after at a local
mechanic. NOKORWAT
Gamblers bet it all on
not being caught again
SOMETIMES education from
Cambodias finest just doesnt
stick. So it was on Wednesday
after a group of unrepentant
gamblers got straight Fs from
the local constabulary after
going back on their solemn
pledge to abstain from games
of chance. Police said they
arrested four people during a
raid in Kampots Teuk Chhou
district after the quartet had yet
again assembled to break the
Kingdoms prohibition on gam-
bling. Confessing, the group
protested that they should be
able to do as they please in
their own free time. DEUMAMPIL
Coffee vendor survives
brutal drive-by slashing
ALL signs point to revenge,
police say, in yet another seem-
ingly random attack with edged
weapons in the capital. The vic-
tim, a 17-year-old coffee ven-
dor, was a passenger on a
friends moto when seven
assailants astride four motor-
bikes came alongside and
began to hack at him with
swords and cleavers. The duo
managed to stay upright until
police intervened and saved
them. The injured teen is now
in hospital and police are look-
ing for the suspects. NOKORWAT
Police interrupt drug
party, three arrested
A PHNOM Penh teen is likely
rethinking his choice of friends
and habits after being arrested
on Wednesday. Police said the
16-year-old was in the company
of two security guards, both over
20, when they burst into their
drug den and found them
using yama. The trio was taken
into custody along with a rather
pitiable array of drug parapher-
nalia, including drinking straws
used for smoking. Police have
sent them to court. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Man killed in floor collapse
Khouth Sophak Chakrya

T
HE manager of a
construction team
building a house in
Meanchey district
was killed yesterday when the
planned second oor of the
building crumbled and fell on
top of him, according to a lo-
cal ofcial and two workers,
who were both injured during
the collapse.
Keo Saroeurn, Chak Angre
Leu commune chief, said the
accident happened at 2:45pm
yesterday along National Road
2 in Prek Takong 3 village.
The building was in the
construction stage, said Sa-
roeurn, who identied the vic-
tim only as Chi.
Owners of the house de-
clined to comment.
Injured worker Sorn Seurn,
45, said the accident hap-
pened while the second oor
was being nished. The man-
ager was inspecting the wood-
en scaffolding that supported
the oor in progress, Seurn
said, and the workers were ly-
ing on top of it.
The oor had already been
laid. Suddenly the scaffolding
broke and fell onto the man
who was inspecting on the
rst oor, he added.
While he didnt know what
caused the tragedy, Seurn not-
ed that the house owners had
asked the manager to prepare
a traditional shrine to bring
happiness, but the manager
said he was not superstitious.
By late afternoon, a large
crowd had assembled, slow-
ing trafc on the road. Bun
Thorn, 53, one of the many
who stopped to look, said he
had experience in construc-
tion and hypothesised that
the scaffoldings may not have
been strong enough.
What I saw is the wooden
scaffoldings werent strong
enough and they were placed
too far from each other. Also,
the planks are thin and they
could not support the weight
of the oor like that.
Asked whether the lack of
a shrine could have played a
part, Thorn said there were
more pressing questions that
would shed light on the case.
The superstition is an-
other thing, but the techni-
cal problem is the important
thing which the construction
manager and workers should
know, he said.
An ambulance transports the body of a construction manager from a building site in Phnom Penhs Meanchey
district. Workers at the scene said the second oor of the building collapsed. HONG MENEA
Hor Kimsay
M
ICROFINANCE
deposits are on
the rise, a posi-
tive trend that
the industry says is moving
the country towards a reduced
dependency on foreign fund-
ing and that will eventually
lead to greater control over
interest rates.
The seven micronance
institutions licensed to take
deposits collected $209 mil-
lion from January to June this
year, a 35 per cent increase
from $154 million in same
period last year, according
to a report from the Cambo-
dia Micronance Association
(CMA) and obtained by the
Post yesterday.
Meanwhile, $309 million
in loans were lent out during
the rst six months of the year
across all 42 MFIs, which rep-
resents a narrowing of the gap
with deposits. The cash used
to ll that gap comes largely
from foreign lenders.
Speaking to the Post yes-
terday, CMA president Bun
Mony attributed the jump in
deposits to rising incomes and
growing understanding and
condence in the countrys
nancial system.
It is a big gain reecting
that trust from the public in
MFIs is gradually increasing,
Mony said.
It is a positive sign to show
that MFIs are playing their role
as similar to banks.
Mony added that with de-
posits growing, MFIs will in
the future be less reliant on
foreign sources of income
and thus less at the mercy of
foreign interest rates, which
are passed on to Cambodian
lenders.
At the point that an MFIs
deposits reach an equal foot-
ing with its loans, the institu-
tion will have greater control
over interest rates, he said.
The seven institutions cur-
rently licensed to accept
deposits are Prasac, Amret,
Sathapana, Hattha Kaksekar
Limited, AMK, Kredit and Vi-
sionFund Cambodia.
By the end of June, depos-
its across the whole banking
industry totalled $654 million
and loans $1.63 billion.
Sean Thorninn, a lecturer
in economics at Limkokwing
University and an expert on
the Cambodian MFI industry,
said it was critical for the gap
between local deposits and
loans to be closed.
Narrowing the difference,
Thorninn said, reduces the
risk of economic uctuations
or crises in the foreign coun-
tries from where the extra
funds are sourced.
Relying on international
creditors is sensitive. If the
world economy changes and
has a negative impact on
them [foreign creditors], the
local MFIs might face a lack of
source of funds, he said.
Sim Senacheert, general
manager of Prasac, Cambo-
dias largest MFI, acknowl-
edged that the rise in depos-
its was a good sign, but said
more condence was needed
in the nance sector to even-
tually move away from a de-
pendency on foreign lending
though that was still a long
way off for the industry as
a whole.
The industry is gaining
more condence from the
public, he said.
I do expect the deposits in
the second semester will be
even higher.
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Big strides for savings in MFIs
It is a big gain reflecting that
trust from the public in MFIs is
gradually increasing
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Business
Aus-Sino group upszied
THREE of Asias leading agribusinesses
have joined iron ore magnate Andrew For-
rest in what he described yesterday as an
unprecedented 100-year partnership to
position Australia as Chinas food bowl.
Forrest said Chinas New Hope Group
and COFCO Corp, and Singapore-listed
Wilmar International, had joined the Aus-
tralia-Sino 100-Year Agricultural and Food
Safety Partnership, known as ASA 100.
The partnership aims to make Australia
Chinas most reliable supplier of agricul-
tural products over the next century, said
billionaire Forrest.
It kicked off in Sydney yesterday with a
meeting between Agriculture Minister
Barnaby Joyce and other Australian food
industry leaders.
This is an all-of-country response, For-
rest, the founder of Fortescue Metals
Group who has more recently turned his
attention to agribusiness, told the Austral-
ian newspaper. I would like Australia to
be seen as Chinas friendliest, largest, most
reliable, highest quality, most competitive,
most efficient food and agricultural prod-
ucts supplier.
The ASA 100 will ultimately comprise
dozens of members, largely from China
and Australia, who will meet annually,
including food producers, distributors
and politicians.
The tycoon said Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang told him during a Beijing meeting
this year, when he raised the idea of the
partnership, that his chief concern was
ensuring safe food supply for his country
of more than 1.3 billion people.
Forrest said Australias agriculture indus-
try could become a mainstay of the nation-
al economy if efficiencies were boosted.
If we market ourselves as Australia to all
of China, then that lifts our entire country
in the eyes of China and we become in the
Chinese psychology the supplier of choice
whenever you think beef, wool, cotton or
natural products, he said.
China is Australias largest trading part-
ner and the countrys economic growth
has in part been fuelled by Chinese
demand for resources such as iron ore and
coal. But despite Australia being one of the
worlds biggest exporters of soft commod-
ities such as meat and dairy, its agricul-
tural sector makes up only about 2 per cent
of the economy.
This is far lower than the 10 per cent from
the mining industry, Australian Bureau of
Agricultural and Resource Economics &
Sciences figures show. AFP
Samsung profits plunge 20 pct
Jung Ha-Won

S
AMSUNG said yes-
terday that net prot
plunged almost 20
per cent in the second
quarter as competition from
cheap Chinese phones and the
strong won saw sales slump in
its key mobile business.
The South Korean electron-
ics giant said net prot came
in at 6.25 trillion won ($6.1 bil-
lion), down 19.6 per cent in the
rst on-year decline for nearly
three years. Operating prot
stood at 7.19 trillion won,
down 24.6 per cent from a year
ago, while sales tumbled 8.9
per cent to 52.35 trillion won.
The second quarter was
affected by several factors in-
cluding the slow global sales
of smartphones and tablets
and escalating marketing ex-
penditure to reduce inven-
tory, Samsung said. The
appreciation of the Korean
currency also chipped away at
this quarters operating prots,
which amounted to about 500
billion won in missed revenues
prompted by the foreign ex-
change market.
The second half would re-
main a challenge, it added.
The won is currently running
at six-year highs against the
dollar, hitting South Koreas
export-driven economy.
Yesterdays gures were in
line with earnings estimates
released earlier this month,
when Samsung also issued an
explanatory note attributing
the prot decline to increased
competition from cheap Chi-
nese devices.
Samsung had expressed cau-
tious optimism about a more
positive third quarter with the
release of its new smartphone
lineup, and a much lower mar-
keting spend compared with
the second quarter. But while
the company is expected to
roll out a new version of its
popular oversized Galaxy Note
smartphone, the next quar-
ter will also see the expected
launch of the iPhone 6 by main
high-end rival Apple.
Alarm bells have been sound-
ing for a while over Samsungs
reliance on smartphone sales
in mature markets such as Eu-
rope and the United States.
Efforts to expand sales in
emerging markets, most nota-
bly China, have stumbled over
the growing challenge posed
by smaller rivals producing
cheaper handsets.
Kim Hyun-Joon, senior
vice president of Samsungs
mobile unit, vowed to act
more aggressively in China
by rolling out more mid- and
low-end phones.
There are concerns about
prot margins being squeezed
in a short term . . . but growth
of the low- and mid-end mar-
ket is a global trend, Kim said
in a conference call. We will
respond more aggressively to
meet demand in the Chinese
market . . . in the latter half of
this year by introducing more
products with better speci-
cation as well as better price
competitiveness, he said.
Samsungs share price took a
beating on the earnings news,
closing 3.73 per cent lower on
Seouls main stock exchange.
The worlds largest smart-
phone maker has a diverse
product line ranging from
memory chips to home ap-
pliances, but more than half
of its prots are generated by
mobile devices.
Second quarter sales of its
mobile unit fell 20 per cent
on-year to 28.45 trillion won,
while operating prot slid
nearly 30 per cent to 4.42 tril-
lion won.
You can say Samsungs
smartphone heyday is now
over, said Greg Roh, a Seoul-
based analyst at HMC Invest-
ment Securities.
Given that companies are
now competing over price
rather than hardware speci-
cation, the key challenge will
be how to minimise the pace
of prot decline, he said.
The consumer electronics
unit selling products from
TVs to refrigerators saw op-
erating prot surge 80 per cent
on-year to 770 billion won, but
not enough to offset the de-
cline in the mobile business.
April saw the global rollout
of the latest version of Sam-
sungs agship Galaxy series
smartphone, the Galaxy S5,
which came with a free pre-
mium software bundle val-
ued at more than $500 as the
rm sought to pull in buyers
tempted by cheaper models
from Chinese rivals like Le-
novo and Huawei.
Initial sales of the S5 were
positive, although critics said
it offered little in the way of
real innovation to set it apart.
There is consensus that
smartphone evolution has hit
a barrier that will only allow
incremental improvements
on existing design and tech-
nology, rather than market-
changing reinvention. AFP
Samsung prots fell by almost 20 per cent in the second quarter, as
cheaper phones ooded the market. AFP
THE Philippines raised its bench-
mark interest rate for the rst time
since May 2011, guarding against
ination risks even as economic
growth slowed.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
raised the rate it pays lenders for
overnight deposits to 3.75 per cent
from a record-low 3.5 per cent, ac-
cording to a statement in Manila
yesterday. Fourteen of 19 econo-
mists surveyed by Bloomberg
News predicted the decision, with
the rest forecasting no change.
The Philippines joins Malaysia
(MAOPRATE) this month in in-
creasing interest rates as Asian
policy makers take steps to re-
strain price pressure. The Philip-
pine central banks ination target
for next year may be at risk, and
yesterdays action is a preemptive
measure to arrest any second-
round effects, Governor Amando
Tetangco said.
The rate increase should help
to anchor inationary expecta-
tions and moderate price pres-
sures, said Jeff Ng, a Singapore-
based economist at Standard
Chartered Plc. Ination has
surged recently; if it continues
the momentum seen in the past 3
months, it will overshoot the in-
ation target next year, he said,
adding that BSP may raise the
benchmark rate by a further 25
basis points by year-end.
The monetary authority yester-
day kept the rate on special de-
posit accounts at 2.25 per cent and
left the reserve requirement ratio
unchanged at 20 per cent.
Ination more than doubled in
less than a year to 4.4 per cent in
June, boosted by higher costs of
food. Food prices surged 7.4 per
cent in June from a year earlier,
the fastest pace since 2009.
The central bank yesterday low-
ered its forecast for price gains this
year to 4.33 per cent from 4.4 per
cent and raised next years esti-
mate to 3.72 per cent from 3.65
per cent, citing costs of oil, food
and power as risks. The ination
target for this year is safe, and
the rate hike is a preemptive move
for 2015, deputy governor Diwa
Guinigundo said at a brieng. It
is to send a signal to the market
that the BSP is serious in its com-
mitment to price stability, Guini-
gundo said.
Philippine gross domestic
product increased 5.7 per cent in
the three months through March
from a year earlier, the weakest
pace since 2011. President Beni-
gno Aquino on Wednesday asked
lawmakers to approve a record
budget for next year, and is seek-
ing more than $20 billion of in-
vestment in roads and airports to
bolster growth to as much as 7.5
per cent this year.
The central bank will consider
second-quarter GDP data at its
next meeting in September to
gauge whether the economy is
strong enough to accommodate
normalisation of monetary pol-
icy, Guinigundo said. GDP data
are due August 28. BLOOMBERG
Key rate raised in Philippines for rst
time in three years amid ination fear

This week in biz
Proposed Royal Group
airline in doubt again
CAMBODIA Airlines, Royal
Groups airline startup venture
with Philippine Airlines (PAL),
has been thrown into doubt
again, with the countrys
aviation authority saying on
Monday that neither company
had yet applied for the
necessary certificate. Mark
Hanna, chief financial officer
of Royal Group, quickly denied
there was uncertainty over the
PAL deal, saying the firms still
aimed to launch a new
domestic and international
airline in the future.
Industry says cashew
nut data dont add up
UNSHELLED cashew nut
exports totalled close to $2.5
million in the first six months
of the year, with 2,800 tonnes
exported, a rise of 200 per
cent over the same period last
year, a report from the
Ministry of Commerce shows.
Yet industry representatives
on Tuesday questioned the
figures saying they are still
well below production
numbers, with thousands of
tonnes unaccounted for.
First intl flight lands at
Sihanoukville airport
SIHANOUKVILLE International
Airport received its first
international flight this week.
South Korea-based Skywings
Asia Airlines arrived from
Seoul on Tuesday. One
hundred and forty-two
passengers were aboard the
180-seat Airbus 320,
Cambodia Airports said.
Samsung Electronics
earnings
7.77
8.24
7.30
Q1
2014
Q2
2013
Q3 Q4
Source: Samsung
Net profits, trillion won
Q2
7.57
6.25
($6.1 b)
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
Business
Thai Airways bans shark ns in cargo
THAI Airways has banned
shark fin from its cargo flights
as part of a growing global
campaign against the popular
delicacy in Asia.
The carrier joins a host of
other airlines in taking a stand
against shark fin, highly prized
by many in the region, espe-
cially in Hong Kong and China
where it is commonly served at
wedding banquets and corpo-
rate parties.
As part of
the world com-
munity shar-
ing in the great
concern for
the protection
of endangered
species and
the environment, Thai Airways
International has implemented
its own official policy to place
an embargo on
the shipping of
shark fin prod-
ucts, the air-
line said.
Conser va-
tionists say ris-
ing demand for
fins has put
pressure on the worlds shark
populations.
The move brings the carrier
in line with a number of other
Asian airlines including Philip-
pine Airlines, which said in
April it had stopped flying shark
fin cargoes.
Air New Zealand as well as
South Koreas two largest air-
lines separately announced last
year that they would ban shark
fins from their cargo, a year
after Hong Kongs Cathay Pacif-
ic did so. AFP
Taxi Rouge enters red-hot market
THE eet of Taxi Rouge, Phnom Penhs
newest cab service, hit the road just
two weeks ago. Its Cambodian-born,
French-raised chief executive ofcer,
Aum Rithyrith of Rithy & Reiko Co,
Ltd, spoke to the Posts Chan Muy-
hong about his return to Cambodia
and why he decided to jump into the
increasingly competitive taxi business.
How did Taxi Rouge get started?
I have been observing the devel-
opment of our country and our city
Phnom Penh for a while with the
idea to do something that could help
some of our people nd a job and also
encourage them to work harder by
themselves with more commitment.
Taking taxis myself most of the
time in Phnom Penh and overseas, I
started to compare them and wanted
to understand more about the busi-
ness to nd out whether it was pos-
sible to improve the quality of the
equipment and customer service,
plus at the same time encourage
more people to take taxis.
Why call it Taxi Rouge and why set it
up in Cambodia?
I chose Cambodia because I felt
that our country is now on the move
and it is our duty and responsibility
to contribute to its development.
I called it Taxi Rouge because I
wanted to evoke our past, when most
of our parents used to appreciate and
learn more French than English. It is
an easy name to remember, either in
Cambodian, French or English, and
the colour makes the taxis able to be
seen from far away.
What are you doing to make Taxi Rouge
different from your competitors?
Taxi Rouge is aiming to equip
its fleet only with Toyota Prius hy-
brids, which would help us use be-
tween 30 per cent and 40 per cent
less petrol compared to normal
cars; it is time to think about our
environment for the good for our
citizens. Our cars are comfortable
and have air-con that works per-
fectly something really impor-
tant in a hot country.
Also, I have introduced a new
method that none of the existing
companies are practising, to encour-
age our drivers to work harder for
themselves. Each car has two driv-
ers one each for the day and night
shifts and each one knows exactly
the xed amount that they have to
pay every day. Whatever more they
make they keep for themselves.
By doing it this way, they under-
stand clearly that they are work-
ing for themselves like they have
their own business and they will
work harder.
It is a new approach in Cambodia,
but this is the way many taxi compa-
nies are doing it in other countries.
Hows business been since the launch?
We started on July 18 with 12 cars,
all Toyota Prius hybrids. Today we
have 14 cars and aim to reach 36 cars
before the end of this year. We have
been making revenue since the rst
day. One car can bring us a net prot
of $33 per day.
We are targeting people all around
Phnom Penh city. For now, we would
prefer to concentrate our efforts to
develop our company in Phnom
Penh and to do well here, but for sure
we would like later to go to the big
provinces like Siem Reap.
In the next three years, I hope that
I can reach annual prot of $2.4 mil-
lion with 200 cars; we expect one car
to earn $1,000 per month.
With four taxi companies already
competing, as well as tuk-tuks and
City Halls plan to introduce 40 more
buses, what makes you think Taxi
Rouge can be so successful?
We will be successful because the
way we do things is different, be-
cause our cars are different and be-
cause of our quality service. More
and more people will want to take
our taxis as they will understand that
they are convenient and the price is
affordable and not more expensive
than a tuk-tuk.
I cannot see any competition be-
tween a bus and a taxi company.
Both can co-exist as they are not do-
ing exactly the same thing. Buses will
never go into the small streets, unlike
taxis, which are smaller and can ac-
cess these, so they are much more
convenient.
As for other taxis, I like to take on
challenges and I feel that is good
to have competitors as it helps you
improve yourself and stay alive. But
above all it is good for the customer.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity
Rithy & Reiko Co, Ltd CEO Aum Rithyrith stands in front of one of Taxi Rouges Toyota Prius cabs earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
New Bangkok bus links
THAI bus operator Nakhon-
chai Air plans to launch three
new services linking Thailand,
Cambodia and Vietnam.
Kruewan Wongrakmit, man-
aging director of Nakhonchai
Air, said he hoped to launch
new services on routes between
Bangkok and Siem Reap and
Bangkok and Phnom Penh,
and from Phnom Penh to Ho
Chi Minh City, early next year.
The firm hoped to conclude
talks with Cambodia by Sep-
tember, and had prepared 10
buses to run on the routes.
Cambodia will be Nakhon-
chai Airs first service outside
Thailand. It is also looking at
Lao and Myanmar services.
Nakhochai Air has plans to
list on the Thai stock exchange.
It runs interprovincial bus serv-
ices between Bangkok and
northern, northeastern and
eastern regions. BANGKOK POST
Profit reports
BNP suffers massive
Q2 losses after US fine
BNP Paribas yesterday posted
a net quarterly loss of 4.3
billion ($5.75 billion), as a
record fine for violating US
economic sanctions sent it into
the red for the first time since
2008. The French banking
giant recorded an exceptional
expenditure of 5.95 billion for
the second quarter, linked to
the penalty imposed for
moving billions of dollars
through the US financial
system on behalf of Cuba, Iran,
Myanmar and Sudan, all under
economic sanctions. AFP
Triple happiness: Shell
soars on high oil prices
ANGLO-DUTCH oil giant Royal
Dutch Shell said yesterday
that net profits more than
tripled in the second quarter,
boosted by asset sales and
higher oil prices. Earnings
after taxation soared by 206
per cent to $5.307 billion
(3.961 billion) in the three
months to June compared
with $1.737 billion in the same
part of 2013, Shell said. AFP
Disappointing figures
revealed by Rolls Royce
BRITISH aircraft engine maker
Rolls-Royce said yesterday that
underlying profit fell by nearly a
fifth on the back of a weaker
performance by its defence
and marine businesses.
Underlying pretax earnings
sank to 644 million ($1.09
billion, 811 million) in the six
months to June 30. That
compared with 804 million a
year earlier, Rolls-Royce said
in a results statement. AFP
Lloyds Bankings profits
drop by more than half
BRITAINS state-rescued
Lloyds Banking Group said
yesterday that net profits
slumped 57 per cent in the
first half, hit by compensation
for insurance misselling and
fines over Libor rate rigging.
Earnings after taxation dived to
665 million ($1.125 billion,) in
the six months to June. That
was down from 1.560 billion a
year earlier. AFP
Mariano Andrade
A
RGENTINA was in
default yesterday
for the second time
in 13 years after the
failure of last-ditch
talks with US hedge funds it
has branded vultures.
After hours of meetings
on Wednesday in New York,
Economy Minister Axel Kicil-
lof emerged to conrm that
no deal had been reached,
leaving Latin Americas third
largest economy unable to
meet repayment obligations
by the midnight deadline.
Unfortunately, no agree-
ment was reached and the
Republic of Argentina will im-
minently be in default, said
Daniel Pollack, the lawyer ap-
pointed by a US court to over-
see the talks.
Argentine press reports sug-
gested an alternative solu-
tion in which a coalition of
Argentine private banks buy
some of the outstanding debt
was being prepared, but until
that comes about the country
is technically in default.
Kicillof slammed S&Ps
downgrade, arguing that Ar-
gentina could not be regarded
as being in default since the
money for the repayment was
in a US bank account but fro-
zen by US district judge Thom-
as Griesas court order.
Argentina paid. It has mon-
ey. It is going to continue to
pay. The one who is respon-
sible for this situation is judge
Griesa, he said. We are going
to pay those who hold bonds
that have been defaulted on,
but on reasonable terms, not
on terms that amount to extor-
tion, created under pressure,
under a threat, he said.
Wednesday marked the
deadline for Argentina to make
a $539 million payment on
debt it had restructured with
cooperative exchange credi-
tors after its previous 2001
default. Argentina had depos-
ited the sum for payment to
those bond holders who had
accepted a write-down in deals
reached in 2005 and 2010 in a
bank account when it was due
at the end of June.
But Griesa blocked the bank
from forwarding the payment
unless Argentina also paid two
US hedge funds the holdout
creditors the full value of
their bonds, $1.3 billion, at the
same time.
What we offered them in
terms of prot was 300 per
cent. It was not accepted, be-
cause they want more, and
they want it now, Kicillof said,
insisting the funds were being
unreasonably greedy.
Default is not a mere tech-
nical condition, but rather
a real and painful event that
will hurt real people, Pollack
warned.
Griesas ruling has trapped
Argentina in a catch-22. Bue-
nos Aires says paying the
holdouts, which it calls vul-
ture funds, could expose it to
claims for up to $100 billion
from creditors who had agreed
to take a 70 per cent haircut.
The 92 per cent of creditors
who agreed to take a haircut
could launch claims for equal
treatment under what is called
a Rights Upon Future Offers,
or RUFO, clause. The RUFO
clause expires at the end of the
year, leaving Argentina scram-
bling to nd a way to placate
the holdouts until then.
Analysts have warned a de-
fault would deepen the eco-
nomic malaise gripping Argen-
tina, exacerbating its already
troubling ination prices
rose 15 per cent in the rst half
of the year and perhaps forc-
ing another devaluation of the
peso, already devalued 20 per
cent in January. AFP
Markets
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
Business
Grandis Timber Limited - Commercial
Reforestaton
Tender for sale of excess equipment
Grandis Timber has a range of new machinery implements for sale
by Tender. Equipment includes,
2 Front End Loader atachments
2 Side shif backhoe atachments
5 Fail mower atachments
3 Woodchip atachments
3 Log spliter atachments
4 Post hole digger atachments
6 Rear blade atachments
4 Disk plough atachments
Equipment can be inspected by appointment in Phnom Penh,
contact Mrs.Tan Bunthida on 017666970 for an inspecton.
This equipment is oered by way of Tender, either the entre lot or
individual pieces. Tenders should be submited to Grandis Timber
by 2 pm Friday 15th August 2014.
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Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Telephone +(855) 23 882 173
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A US judge on Wednesday or-
dered Bank of America to pay
a $1.3 billion penalty for sell-
ing bad loans to mortgage -
nance rms Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac amid the hous-
ing crisis.
The penalty comes after a
New York jury in October 2013
found that BoA and Country-
wide defrauded the two US
mortgage giants in a lending
program in 2007.
Bank of America bought
Countrywide in 2008.
The program was from
start to nish the vehicle for
a brazen fraud by the defen-
dants, driven by a hunger for
prots and oblivious to the
harms thereby visited, not
just on the immediate vic-
tims, but also on the nan-
cial system as a whole, wrote
US district judge Jed Rakoff
in the penalty order.
The US Justice Department
alleged that Countrywide cre-
ated the so-called Hustle
program in 2007 as govern-
ment-backed Freddie and
Fannie were tightening their
underwriting guidelines and
loan purchase requirements
in response to rising mort-
gage defaults.
Countrywide allegedly
eliminated key checkpoints
on loan quality and compen-
sated employees solely based
on loan volumes, leading to
rampant instances of fraud
as Countrywide informed the
loan-nance rms that it had
tightened requirements, the
Justice Department said in
court papers.
The jurys decision and the
subsequent penalty make
clear that mortgage fraud
cannot be viewed as simply
another cost of doing busi-
ness in the nancial world,
US Attorney Preet Bharara
said. AFP
BoA to pay
$1.3B over
mortgage
deception
Axel Kicillof, economy minister of Argentina, speaks during a press
conference in New York on Wednesday. BLOOMBERG
Argentina defaults on debt
Eurozone jobs, ination a mixed bag
EUROZONE unemployment and inflation
data painted a mixed economic picture
yesterday, with the jobless rate edging down
while softer prices raised questions over
consumer demand, clouding the outlook.
The jobless rate in the 18-nation euro-
zone fell to 11.5 per cent in June from 11.6
per cent in May, hitting the lowest level
since September 2012, the Eurostat statis-
tics agency said.
July inflation dropped to 0.4 per cent
from Junes 0.5 per cent, to the lowest since
late 2009 in the aftermath of the global
financial crisis. Declining inflation increas-
es the risk of outright falling prices, known
as deflation, which deters consumers from
spending in the belief they can wait and
buy more cheaply later. If that happens,
demand suffers and companies put off
investment, hurting employment and so
setting off a vicious circle which can drag
down the whole economy.
In July 2013, inflation ran at 1.6 per cent,
even then still well short of the European
Central Bank target of around 2 per cent.
The ECB has moved in recent months to
stimulate the economy and will likely face
fresh calls to do more.
The July inflation report underlines the
weakness of price pressures [in the euro-
zone] and support[s] our view that the
ECB has more work to do to tackle the risk
of deflation, said Jonathan Loynes at
Capital Economics.
Eurostat said there were 18.41 million
people without a job in the euro single-
currency area in June, down 152,000 from
May and 783,000 compared with June 2013
when the unemployment rate stood at 12
per cent.
In the full 28-member European Union,
the jobless rate improved to 10.2 per cent
from 10.3 per cent, with 25 million people
out of work, down 198,000 from May and
1.54 million from a year earlier when the
rate was 10.9 per cent, it said.
Austria had the lowest unemployment
rate in June at 5 per cent, followed by Ger-
many on 5.1 per cent, while Greece on 27.3
per cent and Spain, 24.5 per cent, topped
the list again. AFP
JOB VACANCY
Visa Support Ofcer Immigration
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
Phnom Penh
The Immigraton secton of the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh is seeking
applicatons from suitably skilled and motvated people for the positon of Visa
Support Ocer. The positon is available on a 12 month contract with an antcipated
start date in September 2014.
Dutes will include:
Interpretng and translatng assistance by phone and in face to face interviews;
Providing administratve assistance and preparing routne correspondence.
Requirements:
Excellent writen and spoken skills in English and Khmer
Excellent people management skills
Ability to use computer applicatons such as Microsof Word, Excel & email
Demonstraton of the highest levels of integrity in all aspects of work
Further informaton:
A full duty statement and the selecton criteria are available from the Australian
Embassy website (www.cambodia.embassy.gov.au) by clicking on the About Us tab.
Commencing base salary will be USD 637 per month
Hours of work are: Monday to Friday, 8.00 - 12.00, 1.30 5.00pm(4.15pmon Fridays)
Applicatons must include:
a statement addressing the selecton criteria - maximum two (2) pages; and
a CV - maximum two (2) pages; and
the names and contact details of two referees, including current employer
and must be submited in hard copy to:
Department of Immigraton & Border Protecton Oce Manager
Australian Embassy
No. 16B Natonal Assembly Street Sangkat Tonlebassac,
Khan Chamkarmon Phnom Penh
No applicatons will be received by email
Late applicatons or applicatons that do not address the selecton criteria may not
be considered
Only th ose applicants short listed for interview will be contacted
***Applicatons close 5pm Sunday 10 August 2014***
The Australian Embassy is an equal opportunity employer and the successful
candidate will be selected on merit.
ISPP is a non-prot, non-sectarian, IB World School providing an internationally
recognized education for Cambodian and expatriate students aged 3-18 years.
We wish to invite applications for the following position:
Cleaning Supervisors (2 positions)
To maintain a exible daily cleaning schedule of all internal areas of the school.
To monitor stocks of cleaning equipment and materials in order that orders can
be placed on a timely basis.
To organize appropriate training for all cleaning staff.
Cleaners (5 positions)
To provide and maintain a safe and high standard of cleanliness and hygiene
within the school.
Activities include dusting, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming in accordance
with work schedule.
Position requires:
Basic Education
Appropriate or related experience
Ability to follow instructions; English & Khmer
Proactive attitude; physical tness
Willingness to work exible hours
Qualied candidates are invited to submit their CV together with a covering
letter and references to:
Ms. Pichthida Khun
HR Manager
# 146 Norodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh.
Email: recruitment@ispp.edu.kh
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
The closing date for applications: 4pm, 7 August 2014
International School of Phnom Penh
Will Oremus
Analysis
T
HE numbers are clear:
Apple is selling fewer iPads.
The company reported
this week that sales of its
sleek, pricey tablet were down 19
per cent from the last quarter and
9 per cent year-over-year. CEO Tim
Cook tried to reassure investors that
Apples new partnership with IBM
to sell its devices to IBMs corporate
customers will help make iPads
ubiquitous in the workplace. This
isnt something that worries us, he
said of the iPad sales decline. But the
numbers are disappointing no mat-
ter how you spin them.
This was supposed to be the iPads
time to shine. Greeted with scepti-
cism when Steve Jobs announced
it in 2010, the tablet shattered
expectations and upended the
computer industry. As sales gures
grew, pundits began predicting the
death of the PC. Instead, PC sales
appear to be stabilising Mac sales
are actually growing and its the
iPad whose sales are declining. The
trend is undeniable.
Is it possible that, at the tender
age of 4, the iPad has already passed
its peak? Should we brace ourselves
for the post-PC crowd to begin pro-
claiming the death of the tablet?
Not so fast. The truth is that the
iPad was never cut out to replace
the PC, so we shouldnt be sur-
prised that it hasnt. And, just as
the death of the PC narrative has
been oversold, its way too early to
write off the tablets future. Its sim-
ply time to adjust expectations.
The iPads sales woes dont mean
its a bad product. Apple customers
consistently report satisfaction with
their tablets, and the iPad continues
to command a dominant share of
the market in the face of intensifying
competition from Samsung, Micro-
soft, Amazon and others.
But there are inherent limitations to
the devices ubiquity. As great as it is
for watching movies on an airplane or
checking email over breakfast, it still
cant match the power and versatility
of a desktop or laptop as a primary
workstation. Microsoft is trying to
solve that problem with its business-
oriented Surface Pro tablets, with
mixed results; Apple, at least until the
IBM deal, wasnt even trying.
For most, these limitations consign
the iPad to third device status
behind the smartphone and the PC.
And it shouldnt be surprising that
not everyone needs or can afford a
third device especially one as dear
as Apples. Again, though, this isnt
just an Apple problem: The majority
of Americans still dont own a tablet.
The second big problem for Ap-
ples tablet sales might be, ironically,
the same factor thats holding back
sales of PCs: Theyre too durable.
At the height of the death of the
PC hand-wringing, I argued that
PCs werent dying, but rather living
longer. That is, the drop-off in sales
reected a decline in PCs replace-
ment rate the time between the
average consumers computer
purchases. Not only are there more
gadgets competing for your money,
but PCs have gotten so fast and
reliable that you dont need to buy a
new one that often.
I havent seen data on the replace-
ment rate for iPads, but Id bet that
similar forces are at work. Tim Cook
said this week that more than 50 per
cent of iPad buyers are rst-time
tablet owners. That sounds on its
face like good news for the devices
future. Given that sales are declining
overall, however, it also suggests that
the company has yet to see a huge
wave of repeat customers. A lot of
people are probably still perfectly
happy with their second- and third-
generation iPads, even as Apple is
preparing to launch its sixth.
And thats the way it ought to be.
Its not fair for consumers to drop
hundreds of dollars on a fancy gad-
get only to see it become obsolete
within two or three years. It sure is
good for business, though and no
one knows that better than Apple.
Just look at the iPhone, which keeps
breaking its own sales records even
after seven years on the market.
Apple is also presumably ready-
ing its usual slate of fresh features
for its sixth-generation iPads. But if
the company really wants to see its
tablet sales spike, maybe it should
forget about A8 processors and
8-megapixel cameras. Just nd a
way to get people to drop their iPads
on the ground more often. SLATE
11
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
Business
International commodities
Energy
Agriculture
Markets
800
875
950
1025
1100
500
550
600
650
700
2000
2500
3000
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1800
1900
18000
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21500
23250
25000
2000
2250
2500
2750
3000
14000
14500
15000
15500
16000
9000
9250
9500
9750
10000
Thailand Vietnam
Singapore Malaysia
Hong Kong China
Japan Taiwan
Thai Set 50 Index, Jul 30
FTSE Straits Times Index, Jul 30 FTSE BursaMalaysiaKLCI, Jul 30
Hang Seng Index, Jul 30 CSI 300 Index, Jul 30
Nikkei 225, Jul 30 Taiwan Taiex Index, Jul 30
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Jul 30
15,646.23
2,322.01 24,732.21
1,878.34 3,353.65
589.33 1,018.17
9,447.02
1600
1725
1850
1975
2100
5500
5875
6250
6625
7000
900
1050
1200
1350
1500
4000
4500
5000
5500
6000
22000
23250
24500
25750
27000
28000
28750
29500
30250
31000
4500
4875
5250
5625
6000
4500
4750
5000
5250
5500
South Korea Philippines
Laos Indonesia
India Pakistan
Australia New Zealand
KOSPI Index, Jul 30 PSEI - Philippine Se Idx, Jul 30
Laos Composite Index, Jul 30 Jakarta Composite Index, Jul 30
BSE Sensex 30 Index, Jul 30 Karachi 100 Index, Jul 30
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Jul 30 NZX 50 Index, Jul 30
5,622.89
30,314.07 26,038.27
5,088.80 1,391.50
6,867.59 2,082.61
5,158.55
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 92.28 -0.02 -0.02% 3:20:13
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 111.44 0.13 0.12% 3:20:56
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.89 0 -0.05% 3:19:29
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 270.65 0.82 0.30% 22:35:27
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 305.4 0.71 0.23% 1:32:44
ICEGasoil USD/MT 944 3.75 0.40% 3:19:51
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.84 0.1 0.60% 14:14:53
CME Lumber USD/tbf 361.2 -0.2 -0.06% 17:00:00
Has the iPad passed its peak?
While versatile, the iPad was never cut out to replace the personal computer, so we
shouldnt be surprised that it hasnt. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
World
Chief imam
of Xinjiang
mosque is
murdered
Tania Branigan
A HIGH-PROFILE Xinjiang
imam who had staunchly sup-
ported the Communist party
was stabbed to death on
Wednesday, it has emerged,
explaining the shutdown that
saw roads closed and internet
access and text messaging shut
off in Kashgar town that day.
The death of Jume Tahir, chief
imam at the citys main mosque
and a former deputy to the offi-
cial National Peoples Congress
(NPC), comes amid a surge in
violence in the northwestern
region. It was described by
some as an assassination.
Dozens died in violence in
townships near Kashgar on
Monday, the day before Eid,
with police blaming a terrorist
attack while Uighur exiles
accused police of shooting
people protesting against a
heavy-handed Ramadan
crackdown . . . and extrajudicial
use of lethal force.
Authorities in Xinjiang had
ordered civil servants, students
and others not to fast.
While officials blame separa-
tists and religious extremists
for instigating violence in their
bid for an independent Xin-
jiang, others say the underlying
cause of tensions are Muslim
Uighur resentment at cultural
and religious controls, Han
Chinese migration and eco-
nomic inequity.
Tahir was deputy president of
the Xinjiang Islamic Associa-
tion. Yesterday a spokesman
confirmed his death but said
he could not add any further
details. At the Kashgar Islamic
Association, a man said he
could not discuss the case and
had no authority to disclose
information.
No official comment has
been made on Tahirs killing
and calls to police and
propaganda officials rang
unanswered.
Radio Free Asia quoted the
director of a neighbourhood
stability committee in Kashgar
as saying: He was a patriotic
religious person, he lost his life
in an assassination . . . Right
now we are busy making
arrangements for his funeral.
On Wednesday, a Western
tourist told Reuters he had seen
a bloodied body outside the Id
Kah mosque and two men with
knives running away.
Internet access in Kashgar
was restored late on Wednes-
day and roads reopened.
Tahir was often quoted by
state media praising the party
and condemning separatists.
Last year, Uighur imam
Abdurehim Damaolla was
stabbed to death outside his
home in Turpan after con-
demning Uighurs involved in
a violent clash as terrorists,
and helping police arrest sus-
pects. THE GUARDIAN
Israel calls up 16,000 reservists
as it vows to crush Gaza tunnels
I
SRAEL said yesterday that it
would not pull troops from Gaza
until they nish destroying a net-
work of cross-border tunnels,
despite sharp United Nations criti-
cism over the civilian death toll.
Speaking at the start of a special
cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
he would not accept any ceasere
that did not allow troops to continue
destroying tunnels used by militants
for attacking Israel.
Until now, we have destroyed doz-
ens of terror tunnels and we are de-
termined to nish this mission with
or without a ceasere, he said at the
start of a special cabinet meeting.
So I will not accept any [truce]
proposal that does not allow the IDF
[Israeli army] to complete this work
for the security of Israels citizens.
His remarks came after the army
conrmed mobilising another 16,000
additional reservists, hiking the total
number called up to 86,000. Israel
does not say how many troops are
currently engaged in the ghting in-
side the Gaza Strip.
And Washington said it had agreed
to restock Israels dwindling supplies
of ammunition, despite increasing
international concern over the death
toll in Gaza, where more than 1,374
people have been killed in 24 days
of violence. UN gures indicate two-
thirds of the victims were civilians.
Of that civilian dead, nearly half were
women and children.
Following the shelling of a UN
school in northern Gaza on Wednes-
day, which killed 16, UN human rights
chief Navi Pillay slammed Israel for its
attacks on homes, schools and hos-
pitals, accusing it of deliberate de-
ance of international law.
None of this appears to be acciden-
tal, she said. There appears to be
deliberate deance of obligations that
international law imposes on Israel.
The shelling of the school also drew
sharp condemnation from UN chief
Ban Ki-moon, who described it as
reprehensible, as well as from Wash-
ington. But the Israeli army suggested
the deaths may have been the result
of a misred Palestinian rocket.
What happened is still not clear at
this stage, military spokesman Gen-
eral Moti Almoz told army radio.
It is not clear if the school was hit by
re from IDF soldiers or from Hamas
terrorists, he said.
Despite rising international calls for
a halt to the bloodshed, the Israeli se-
curity cabinet decided on Wednesday
to press on with the operation in Gaza
just hours after troops had made a sig-
nicant advance into the enclave.
The Israeli offensive began on July 8
with the aim of ending militant rocket
re, but expanded on July 17 with a
ground operation aimed at destroy-
ing a sophisticated network of tunnels
leading under the border, which Israel
has vowed to dismantle.
Major General Sami Turgeman, head
of the armys southern command, said
on Wednesday that the army was just
days away from completing its mis-
sion to destroy the tunnels.
Cabinet ministers were being briefed
on the progress of the operation in
their rst meeting since the ground as-
sault began.
Israel is trapped on the outskirts
of Gaza without an exit strategy and
without any ceasere on the hori-
zon, wrote defence correspondent
Alex Fishman in the top-selling Yediot
Aharonot. Within a few days, Israel is
going to have to decide either to push
ahead with full force or to pull the
troops out.
Despite a heavy death toll in Gaza
on Wednesday when 111 Palestinians
were killed, including 17 who died in
a strike on a crowded market place
and another 16 at the UN school,
Washington said it had restocked the
armys ammunition supplies.
The Pentagon conrmed it had
granted an Israeli request for ammu-
nition, including some from a stock-
pile stored by the US military on the
ground in Israel for emergency use by
the Jewish state.
Rights group Amnesty International
had urged Washington to halt arms
supplies to Israel.
There was no let-up in bloodshed
with at least 10 Palestinians killed
yesterday, among them two women,
raising the overall Palestinian toll to
1,374, medics said. AFP
Palestinians walk past the collapsed minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza City on Wednesday after it was hit in an Israeli strike. AFP
World Ebola fears grow with Asia now on alert
FEARS that the west African Ebola out-
break could spread to other continents
grew on Wednesday, with Asian and
European countries on alert and a
leading medical charity warning the
epidemic was out of control.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said
the crisis gripping Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone would only get worse
and warned there was no overarching
strategy to handle the worlds worst
outbreak of the disease.
Health authorities in Thailand said
they had ordered all hospitals to mon-
itor patients for any symptoms, par-
ticularly nationals or foreign tourists
who had been in the outbreak area.
In Hong Kong, a densely populated
city previously scarred by disease out-
breaks such as the 2003 SARS epidem-
ic, health officials confirmed they
would quarantine as a precautionary
measure any visitors from Guinea,
Sierra Leone and Liberia who showed
fever symptoms.
Hong Kong announced quarantine
measures for suspected cases, although
one woman arriving from Africa with
possible symptoms including fever and
vomiting, had tested negative for Ebo-
la. The EU said it was ready to deal with
the threat.
Australia said yesterday that it was
well prepared in the unlikely event that
the Ebola virus reached its shores. Aus-
tralia has already warned against travel
to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
US Christian charity Samaritans
Purse was temporarily withdrawing its
nonessential staff from Liberia, it said,
citing regional instability and ongoing
security issues.
The International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) has held talks
with global health officials on potential
measures to halt the diseases spread.
In Britain, where one person has
tested negative for the disease, Foreign
Secretary Philip Hammond said it was
regarded as a very serious threat.
An emergency meeting had decided
that the best approach was to provide
additional resources to deal with
the disease at source in west Africa,
he added.
Ebola can kill victims within days,
causing severe fever and muscle pain,
vomiting, diarrhoea and, in some cases,
organ failure and unstoppable bleed-
ing. Since March, there have been 1,201
cases of Ebola and 672 deaths in Guin-
ea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according
to the World Health Organization.
The US Peace Corps announced on
Wednesday that it was pulling hundreds
of volunteers from the three countries.
There are currently 102 Peace Corps
volunteers in Guinea working on agri-
culture, education and health, 108 in
Liberia and 130 in Sierra Leone.
Bart Janssens, MSFs director of oper-
ations, warned that governments and
global bodies had no overarching
view of how to tackle the outbreak.
This epidemic is unprecedented,
absolutely out of control, and the situ-
ation can only get worse because it is
still spreading, above all in Liberia and
Sierra Leone, in some very important
hotspots, he said. If the situation does
not improve fairly quickly, there is a real
risk of new countries being affected,
he told La Libre Belgique newspaper.
Togo-based pan-African airline ASKY
on Tuesday halted all flights to and
from Liberia and Sierra Leone after a
passenger died from the virus.
The 40-year-old man, who travelled
from Liberia, died in Lagos on Friday
in Nigerias first confirmed death
from Ebola.
The virus crossing borders for the
first time by plane could lead to
new flight restrictions aimed at con-
taining outbreaks, the world aviation
agency said.
Until now [the virus] had not
impacted commercial aviation, but
now were affected, ICAO secretary
general Raymond Benjamin said. AFP
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toll could reach 150
RESCUERS battled through
heavy rains yesterday in a
desperate search for victims of
a landslide in western India that
buried dozens of homes, with
fears the death toll could reach
150. Thirty people were
confirmed dead and eight pulled
alive from the mud and debris in
Maharashtra state, but with the
rain and strong winds
hampering rescue efforts,
hopes of finding any more
survivors were fading. It is very
bleak, said the NDRF regional
commandant at the scene, who
said about 160 people were
thought to have been living in
the damaged houses. AFP
Over 10,000 Filipinos to
be evacuated from Libya
THE Philippines was preparing
yesterday to evacuate 13,000
citizens from Libya as violence
continued to rage and a Filipino
worker was beheaded and a
nurse gang raped there. At the
same time, Greece was sending
a warship to evacuate some of
its nationals as well as some
from other countries, while
Spain is pulling out most of its
embassy staff. Philippine
Foreign Secretary Albert del
Rosario was heading to
neighbouring Tunisia to
organise an evacuation as
fighting resumed between
militias seeking to control the
Libyan capitals airport. AFP
Continued from page 1
punchline again during a
speech he made in in Kansas
City, Missouri.
Instead of suing me for do-
ing my job, I want Congress
to do its job and make life a
little better for the Ameri-
cans who sent them there
in the rst place, he said to
cheers and applause from a
supportive crowd.
And by the way, he add-
ed, you know whos paying
for this suit theyre going to
le? You.
Lawmakers in Obamas
Democratic party wasted no
time decrying the vote.
Top House Democrat Nan-
cy Pelosi invoked her outrage
over the vote in a fundraising
email sent to supporters late
on Wednesday.
Just now, I watched Repub-
licans vote for the rst lawsuit
against a President in US his-
tory, she wrote, in her appeal
for donations.
House Republicans took
to the oor of the House and
compared President Obama
to a tyrant, Pelosi said.
Its sickening. This is noth-
ing but disgraceful politics
and total disrespect for
our president.
The language of the mea-
sure accuses Obama of exec-
utive overreach and charges
him with failing to faithfully
execute the law with respect
to the implementation of
the law popularly known as
Obamacare.
This resolution seeks to
protect Congresss constitu-
tional prerogative and asks
the court to fulll its duty to
guard the lines of separation
between the executive and
legislative branches of gov-
ernment, it adds.
The move towards a lawsuit
is the latest sign of extreme
gridlock and discord in Wash-
ington, with the two major
political parties constantly at
loggerheads, and Obama and
his congressional opponents
unable to work together to
pass and enact legislation.
The discord is heightened
by the fact that mid-term
elections to replace the en-
tire House and a third of
the US Senate are just a few
months away.
The suit is seen by some an-
alysts as a Republican strat-
egy to pique the interest of
voters who might otherwise
be unmotivated to go to the
polls during Novembers leg-
islative vote. AFP
House votes to sue
President Obama
Experts reach MH17 site
E
XPLOSIONS rang out
near the crash site of
downed ight MH17
in eastern Ukraine
yesterday as international
investigators arrived for the
rst time in nearly a week af-
ter Kiev announced a surprise
one-day halt to its offensive
against rebels.
A small team of Dutch and
Australian experts accompa-
nied by international moni-
tors reached the vast site of
the doomed Malaysia Airlines
jet after days of erce ghting
between government forces
and rebels had stopped them
reaching the area.
The Dutch justice ministry
said the team was so far only a
reconnaissance mission but
would hopefully pave the way
for more experts to visit soon.
But in a sign of the continu-
ing insecurity, an AFP team
following some minutes be-
hind the convoy heard loud
blasts just a few kilometres
away from the site and saw
black smoke rising from a vil-
lage close to where some of
the plane wreckage is lying.
Ukraines military had earli-
er announced a day of quiet
across the entire east after a
plea from UN chief Ban Ki-
moon to halt ghting in the
area of the crash, where re-
mains from some of the 298
victims lie festering in the
sun some two weeks after
the jet was shot down over
rebel territory.
Kiev which has continu-
ally blamed pro-Russian
rebels controlling the site for
blocking the probe warned
however that insurgents had
continued shelling its troops
positions around the region.
On a visit to the Nether-
lands, Malaysian Prime Min-
ister Najib Razak appealed for
an immediate cessation in
and around the crash site by
both Ukrainian and separat-
ist forces.
The West says the insur-
gents likely shot down the
plane with a missile on July
17, but Russia and the rebels
said it could have been blown
out of sky by a Ukrainian jet.
Lawmakers in Kiev ratied
agreements with The Hague
and Canberra that could see
the two nations send some
950 armed personnel to se-
cure the site where many of
their nationals died.
The Netherlands has already
ruled out the possibility of
sending in troops as unreal-
istic over fears they could be-
come entangled in Ukraines
murky conict, which has
claimed over 1,100 lives in
more than three months of
bitter ghting. AFP
A member the Australian forensic team speaks on the phone on
Monday in Donetsk before leaving for the MH17 crash site. AFP
A SWEEPING gagging order issued by
an Australian court to block reporting
of bribery allegations involving sev-
eral international political leaders has
been attacked by journalists and law-
yers as unacceptable and an abuse
of legal process.
The extraordinary prohibition
emerged from a criminal case in the
Australian courts and relates to part of
an ongoing investigation by prosecu-
tors across three continents into allega-
tions of multimillion-dollar bribes paid
in the banknote-printing industry.
Business executives at a company
called Securency are alleged to have
conspired to win lucrative contracts
to print plastic notes in several south-
east Asian countries allegedly by pay-
ing bribes to high-ranking politicians
and ofcials between 1999 and 2005.
The Guardian is publishing a redact-
ed version of the secret order which
blots out the names of politicians who
cannot be named and the details of
the allegations involving them under
the order issued on June 19 by the su-
preme court of Victoria in Melbourne.
The rationale of this suppression or-
der is unacceptable and cannot justify
such absolute censorship for all news
providers and netizens, said Benja-
min Ismail, head of the Asia-Pacic
desk for Reporters Without Borders.
This disproportionate order, which
also aims at protecting the interests
of certain leaders of Southeast Asian
countries, amounts to asking every-
one to close their eyes on at least half
of the case. Its senseless and counter-
productive. We urge the authorities to
place public interest rst by immedi-
ately revoking this ban and allowing
full transparency on this matter.
The judge who issued the ruling, the
Honourable Justice Hollingworth, said it
was to prevent damage to Australias in-
ternational relations that may be caused
by the publication of material that may
damage the reputations of specied
individuals who are not the subject of
charges in these proceedings.
The investigations have centred on
Securency, a banknote company. Brit-
ains Serious Fraud Ofce took an in-
terest because Securency, at the time of
the alleged corruption, was half-owned
by Innovia Films, a manufacturing rm
based in Cumbria, England.
Bill Lowther, a Cumbrian business-
man who was on Securencys board,
was acquitted by a London jury in
2012 of conspiring to bribe a former
governor of Vietnams central bank. On
Wednesday the SFO said its investiga-
tion into Securency is continuing, but
it would give no further details. In Aus-
tralia, the alleged corruption has been
hugely controversial as the other half
of Securency was owned by the coun-
trys central bank, which is alleged to
have hushed up the secret payments.
A number of executives are being pros-
ecuted by Australian police.
WikiLeaks has published a full ver-
sion of the gagging order relating to
the criminal case in Australia, but the
mainstream media cannot trespass in
this territory for fear of facing proceed-
ings for contempt of court.
Mark Stephens, a leading media
lawyer in London, said it was an at-
tempt to silence the world on a matter
of enormous public importance even
though the court cited damage to Aus-
tralias international relations rather
than national security.
It is an abuse of legal process to al-
low a super-injunction to be used to
cover up governmental embarrass-
ment on matters of enormous public
interest, he said. THE GUARDIAN
ISOLATED native people
wearing loincloths and car-
rying bows and arrows have
emerged from the Amazon
rainforest and made contact
with the outside world in a
video released by Brazils in-
digenous authority.
The video shows indigenous
people from the Panoan lin-
guistic group making contact
with the Ashaninka native
people of northern Brazil along
the banks of the Envira River,
near the Peruvian border.
In one scene, an ethnic
Ashaninka in athletic shorts
gives bananas to two loin-
cloth-clad natives who appear
wary of approaching, quickly
grabbing the fruit and then re-
treating out of arms reach.
Brazilian experts said the in-
digenous people likely crossed
the border from Peru facing
pressure from illegal logging
and drug trafcking at home.
After the native people
made their initial contact
with the Ashaninka on June
26, a team from Brazils Na-
tional Indian Foundation
(FUNAI) travelled to the area
and lmed a second encoun-
ter on June 30, according to
news portal G1, which posted
the video online.
The people, identied as
members of a group known
as the Rio Xinane, at rst
emerged only briey and
then returned to the forest,
according to FUNAI ofcial
Carlos Travassos.
They were whistling and
making animal sounds, he
said. Two Panoan indigenous
interpreters were then called
in to speak with them on their
next visit.
They speak our language.
I was so happy we could talk
to each other, said one of the
interpreters, Jaminawa Jose
Correia. He said the natives
had come in search of weap-
ons and allies.
They described being at-
tacked by non-native people
and many died after coming
down with the u and diph-
theria, he told G1.
Anthropologist Terri Aquino
said the group had probably
come in search of axes, knives
and pots.
This is a people looking for
technology. Its important in
their lives because theres an
internal war among them and
because of contact with non-
indigenous groups, he said.
Another scene in the video
shows the natives taking axes
from the ethnic Ashaninka vil-
lage of Simpatia.
FUNAI said the group had
returned from the forest af-
ter their initial visit because
they had contracted the u.
A government medical team
was sent to treat seven from
the group.
Rights group Survival Inter-
national said the episode was
extremely worrying, since in-
uenza epidemics have wiped
out entire tribes in the past.
The Brazilian Amazon has
the largest number of uncon-
tacted tribes in the world at
77, FUNAI estimates. AFP
Constanze Letsch
T
WITTER in Turkey
broke into a collec-
tive grin on Wednes-
day as hundreds of
women posted pictures of
themselves laughing.
They werent just happy.
They were smiling in deance
of the deputy prime minister,
Bulent Arinc, who in a speech
to mark Eid al-Fitr on Mon-
day said that women should
not laugh in public.
Chastity is so important.
Its not just a word, its an or-
nament [for women], Arinc
told a crowd in the city of Bur-
sa in an address that decried
moral corruption in Turkey.
A woman should be chaste.
She should know the differ-
ence between public and
private. She should not laugh
in public.
On Wednesday thousands
of women posted pictures of
themselves laughing out loud,
with the hashtags #direnkah-
kaha (resist laughter) and
#direnkadin (resist woman)
trending on Twitter.
Turkish men also took to
social media to express their
solidarity. The men of a
country in which women are
not allowed to laugh are cow-
ards, tweeted one user.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the
main opposition presidential
candidate running against
current prime minister Re-
cep Tayyip Erdogan in next
Sundays elections, joined a
chorus of male voices criticis-
ing Bulent Arincs comment,
tweeting: More than any-
thing else, our country needs
women to smile and to hear
everybodys laughter.
It was certainly not the rst
time the government of Erdo-
gan notorious for his admis-
sion that he did not believe
in equality between men and
women has provoked outrage
with discriminatory remarks.
Asked by journalists to
comment on the social me-
dia backlash, Arinc said that
his comment had been taken
out of context.
From one and a half
hours of my speech, some
only heard what I said about
women laughing in the street.
What a disgusting, ugly and
unfounded fabrication.
But he also said I stand by
my words, in reference to
his wider speech, which he
described as an effort to shine
a light on the degeneration
in society.
In an attempt to distance
himself from his earlier state-
ment, he said someone who
would want to ban women
from laughing in public
would have to be an idiot.
Opposition gures pointed
out that Arincs comments
highlighted the dismal state
of womens rights in Turkey.
A 2009 report commis-
sioned by the Prime Ministry
Directorate on the Status of
Women found that more than
40 per cent of Turkeys female
population have suffered do-
mestic violence. More than
120 have been killed since the
beginning of this year alone,
mostly by their partners or
other family members.
Arinc went on to slam wom-
en who despite being married
with kids go on vacation with
their boyfriends and those
who never miss the chance
to wrap themselves around a
dancing pole.
Turkish media have specu-
lated that the latter comment
was directed at Asena Erkin,
wife of the Turkish Fener-
bahce footballer Caner Er-
kin, who recently shared an
Instagram picture of herself
dancing around a pole with
the comment: When I see a
dancing pole, I never miss the
chance [to use it].
He did not have to wait long
for a renewed wave of mock-
ery on social media. There
are politicians who imagine
Turkey to be one big open-air
orgy, Turgay Ogur tweeted.
But I swear, my neighbour-
hood Atasehir is quite an or-
derly place.
But for Mehtap Dogan, Bu-
lent Arincs statements this
week were not simply a laugh-
ing matter: The AKP govern-
ment denies women their
rights. They are sexist. We were
not surprised by what was said
this week, but we are really an-
gry. THE GUARDIAN

China court hears first

gay conversion case
A BEIJING court yesterday
heard a landmark case on gay
conversion treatment.
Homosexuality was declassified
as a mental disorder in China in
2001 but widespread
intolerance towards gays and
lesbians remains, and activists
hailed the case as a significant
step forward. The plaintiff, who
is gay and has given his name
only as Xiao Zhen, says the
Xinyu Piaoxiang clinic in
Chongqing traumatised him
when he was electroshocked
after being told to have sexual
thoughts involving men. He is
also taking action against
Chinas top internet search
engine, Baidu, for running
advertisements by the facility.
Those who come out in China
often face significant pressure
to undergo sexuality
treatment or marry a partner
of the opposite sex. The Beijing
court is expected to rule on the
case within a month. AFP
Probe finds huge FBI lab

errors over two decades
NEARLY every criminal
conviction reviewed by the FBI
and the Justice Department as
part of a massive investigation
started in 2012 of problems at
the FBI lab has included flawed
forensic testimony from the
agency, government officials
said. The inquiry includes 2,600
convictions and 45 death row
cases from the 1980s and 1990s
in which the FBIs hair and fibre
unit reported a match to a crime
scene sample before DNA
testing of hair became common.
The department is notifying
defendants about errors in two
more death-penalty cases, and
in 134 non-capital cases over
the next month, and will
complete evaluations of 98 other
cases by early October,
including 14 more death-penalty
cases. THEWASHINGTONPOST
News ush
Airline sorry
for tip-off on

contraband
A
USTRALIAN budget airline
Jetstar has apologised after
a crew member reportedly
told passengers to ush any drugs
they had down a toilet before their
ight landed in Sydney.
The ight, from the Gold Coast
to Sydney on Sunday, was carrying
some passengers returning from
a music festival, Sydneys Daily
Telegraph reported this week.
We have been told there are
sniffer dogs and ofcers waiting in
the domestic terminal, the news-
paper reported the ight attendant
as saying. If you need to dispose
of anything you shouldnt have, we
suggest you ush it now.
The airline said: We apologise
. . . [for] the comments. Were ad-
dressing the matter.
It was not clear if there were of-
cers and dogs at the terminal.
The crew members remarks
received a mixed response.
One passenger on board
the ight told said they were
shocked, adding: Why would
you tip people off about this? But
a commentator on Jetstars Face-
book page said having sniffer dogs
at the airport was entrapment
and your cabin crew did the best
thing for all. AFP
The Turkish deputy prime minister said in a speech on Monday to mark
the Eid al-Fitr feast that women should not laugh in public. AFP
Turkish women laugh to defy deputy PM
Aus courts gag order an abuse of legal process
Isolated tribe makes contact with outside world
A handout picture released yesterday shows part of a group of isolated
Amazonian indians making contact for the rst time in Brazil. AFP
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N JULY 26, for a magical 12
hours, Hamas and the
Israel Defense Forces hon-
oured a ceasefire in Gaza.
The IDF continued to destroy
Hamas military tunnels and found
four new shafts during the lull. Yet,
according to media reports on both
sides, no civilians were killed.
That paradox suggests a way to
dial down the war. Israel says its
immediate mission is to destroy the
tunnels. It wants to preserve that
mission in any ceasefire. Hamas
rejects that demand, insisting that
the IDF leave Gaza. But Gaza, more
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arguably two territories: one on the
surface, one below ground. That dif-
ference in elevation separates the
terrorists from the civilians more
effectively than any line on a map.
To stop the killing in Gaza and the
rocket fire on Israel, we need a way to
isolate Hamas from its Palestinian
hostages. For three weeks, weve seen
how horribly difficult it is to do that
on an urban grid. Maybe its time to
consider a different dimension.
Hamas began digging tunnels
about 25 years ago. Through tunnels
from Egypt, it smuggles in goods
and weapons. Below Gazas urban
centres, it stores rockets and bombs,
operates hidden launchers and
shields its commanders from Israeli
fire. Through tunnels to Israel, most
recently on Monday, it stages kid-
nappings and military attacks.
The tunnels form another world.
Some are 6 metres below the sur-
face. Others go down nearly 27
metres. Many are elaborate, with
power cables, phone lines, sewage
pipes, oxygen supplies and even rail
tracks. The IDF calls this world
Lower Gaza, an underground ter-
rorist city. Its why so few Hamas
commanders have perished in Isra-
els airstrikes. They were in their
bunkers, safely below the graves of
the innocents who died.
You wont find civilians in Lower
Gaza. Upper Gazas former health
minister, a Hamas man, says people
who live above the tunnels dont
even know whats beneath them.
When Hamas does inform a property
owner that somethings going on
under his land, it doesnt disclose the
location. It tells him that his domin-
ion extends only to the surface.
Lower Gaza, like Upper Gaza, can
be divided into regions. The tunnels
that alarm Israel most are the ones
that burrow into its territory. These
start near the Israeli border, not in
the middle of Gaza. From east to
west, Gazas width ranges from 5 to
10 kilometres. So far, the longest
tunnel to Israel thats been found
extends 1,600 metres.
These factors raise an intriguing
possibility: Could the tunnels to
Israel be destroyed without going
deeper into Gaza, and without kill-
ing civilians?
You cant do that from the air.
Thats one clear lesson from the ear-
ly days of this war. But now that
Israeli troops are in Gaza, its easier
to target the Hamas netherworld.
The IDF claims to have located more
than 30 tunnels and destroyed about
half of them. There might be 30 or so
more left to find.
The tunnel hunt allows the IDF to
target Hamas while sparing Pales-
tinians. From Israels standpoint,
thats ideal. Its even better when
combined with a ceasefire. There is
no reason to prevent Gazas people
from stocking up on supplies, so long
as the military can continue its work
against the tunnels, an Israeli offi-
cial explains. In fact, when both sides
are shooting, work on destroying
the tunnels slows down. Therefore,
one motive for Israels pursuit of
ceasefires is, in the words of another
official, to allow the pace of
destruction of tunnels to increase.
Some proponents of the tunnel
hunt argue that the peripheral loca-
tions of the tunnels make deeper
incursions into Gaza unnecessary.
This operation is very limited geo-
graphically, a former Israeli nation-
al security adviser says. Most of the
operation will not take place in
crowded areas with a lot of popula-
tion, but areas used for agriculture.
The land operation its very easy to
see where it will be finished. If noth-
ing bad will happen, we will identify
the locations of the tunnels, we will
blow them up, and we will retreat.
Thats a bit too rosy. It doesnt
square with the human shield pic-
tures broadcast by Israels public
relations people, which depict tun-
nels near mosques, hospitals and res-
idential areas. The IDF says it has
found tunnel entrances in kitchens
and bedrooms. To carry out its
searches, it has raided neighbour-
hoods, drawing fire from Hamas. The
worst incident was in Shejaia sup-
posedly the capital of Lower Gaza
where a brutal artillery exchange
destroyed 10 buildings and killed
more than 30 women and children.
One possible compromise might
be a ceasefire that forbids further
IDF movement in Upper Gaza but
allows the IDF to continue demol-
ishing Lower Gaza. No more tunnel
hunting on the surface, but you can
finish imploding the bunkers and
passages youve already found. Both
armies would object, but civilians
on each side would be protected. If
Hamas refused the deal, the IDF
would keep moving through Upper
Gaza to hit Lower Gaza. Israel would
have to be held accountable, to make
sure it respects the distinction and
pulls out expeditiously.
In the longer term, each side needs
more. Gazans need reconstruction
aid, open borders and autonomy.
Israelis need an end to rocket
attacks. All of these goals could be
served by destroying the tunnels
and weakening Hamas. It was the
discovery of an attack tunnel that
drove Israel to tighten its blockade of
Gaza last fall. Cripple the threat
from below and Israel might loosen
its grip. That outcome could be writ-
ten into a truce agreement and
enforced by arm-twisting from the
United States.
For eight years, Lower Gaza has
held Upper Gaza hostage. Its time to
end the ordeal. SLATE
Comment
William Saletan
Above the ground and
below it: A tale of two Gazas
An Israeli army ofcer speaks to journalists on July 25 during an army-organised tour of a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian
militants for cross-border attacks. AFP
William Saletan (@saletan) covers sci-
ence, technology and politics for Slate.
David Grimm
W
HEN our 5-
month-old kitten
Jasper went into
kidney failure a
few years ago, letting him die
wasnt an option. We rushed
him to our veterinarian. She
told us he might have just a
few days to live.
So we drove him to an emer-
gency clinic, where he saw an
internist, then a nephrolo-
gist. He spent three days in
intensive care, hooked up to
a catheter, while he under-
went ultrasounds, urinalyses,
and blood-chemistry proles.
Slowly, he began to recover.
It took a while for our bank
accounts to do the same. We
had adopted Jasper for next
to nothing, but a few days of
emergency veterinary care had
cost us more than $3,000.
Thanks to advances in vet-
erinary medicine, our pets are
living longer, healthier lives
than ever before. But it has also
become harder to let them go.
When our dogs and cats used
to get very sick, we could jus-
tify putting them to sleep be-
cause it was the only option.
Yet not everyone can afford
to save their pets. And some go
bankrupt trying. Meanwhile,
vets are struggling with wheth-
er to offer such expensive ser-
vices to clients.
Vets, far from their days as
the mechanics of livestock, be-
came the pediatricians of fur
babies. Thats not a dilemma
early veterinarians wrestled
with. The American vet of 150
years ago was more of a me-
chanic than a physician. He
focused on economically valu-
able creatures like cows and
horses, administering laxatives
or cauterising wounds with
a red-hot iron so that these
animals could continue to
produce milk and pull freight.
Healing a pet would have
made about as much sense as
bandaging up a rock.
But as livestock disappeared
from cities at the turn of the
20th century, vets turned to
pets to save their profession.
Cats and dogs had begun to
move indoors; owners were
springing for pet food and
fancy toys, and they sought
out doctors who would treat
their pets like any other
member of the household.
Vet schools began teaching
companion animal medicine.
By the mid-20th century, the
number of veterinarians in the
US had quintupled, and pets
had become their most reliable
source of income. But a signi-
cant transformation had taken
place. What was once an eco-
nomic relationship between
human and beast had become
sentimental. The owners of
cows and horses would never
have spent more money on
their animals than they were
worth, but cat and dog owners
did. More than toys or pet food,
the clinic provided an outlet for
people to express their devo-
tion to their pets: they were no
longer just spoiling them; they
could now save their lives.
Were shelling out more on
medical care for our pets than
ever before in excess of $15
billion this year in the US alone.
A lot of that comes from own-
ers willing to spend anything
to delay the inevitable. A recent
poll found that nearly two-
thirds of people would pay up
to $1,000 to save their animals.
After all, how do you put a price
on a member of the family?
This might seem like good
news for vets, but theyre strug-
gling with the issue. Its won-
derful that people are willing
to spend $10,000 or $20,000 to
deal with their sick pet, but eth-
ically it puts us in quicksand,
says Douglas Aspros, the for-
mer president of the American
Veterinary Medical Association.
If a client wants me to do a
$20,000 surgery on a cat, the
practicality has to go beyond,
Theres someone willing to
pay for it. As a society, should
we be promoting that?
The US is a society that in-
creasingly allows its citizens to
spend our way out of almost
any dilemma. Yet no matter how
hard we try, we cant make our
pets live as long as us. At some
point, the sentimental relation-
ship we have with our pets has
to become an economic one. If
we do make that ultimate deci-
sion, we can console ourselves
with having given our animals
the best life possible.
For now, Im thankful to have
Jasper by my side. Hes almost 9
now, and still frisky. Luckily, we
were able to weather the nan-
cial storm he put us through.
And wed do it again. Jasper
may have put a dent in our sav-
ings, but its still the best money
weve ever spent. SLATE
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Dried coconut meat
6 Brenda of comics
11 Hair-styling goop
14 Like some garments
15 Rapid transit?
16 Genetic trait carrier
17 Time right before eating?
19 Type of welder
20 In your face! e.g.
21 African antelope
23 Chlorophyllous organism
26 House of Lords member
28 Portion
29 ... heat, ___ gloom of night ...
30 ___ Miguel (Largest of the
Azores)
32 Pasty-faced
33 Lao-tzus philosophy
34 European high spot
38 Teach
40 Touches down
43 Little Dipper part
45 In need of restocking
46 Nuclear power plant measures
48 Comstocks contents
49 Wallet item
50 Map in a map
52 Russian river or mountain range
55 Word with happy or shot
56 Pasta shape
58 Bring into law
60 Poem type
61 Some large things on stage
66 Mineo of film
67 Like a moth-eaten coat
68 Cessation of hostilities
69 Bracket shape
70 Tyrants (Var.)
71 Female gossip
DOWN
1 Small part of the works
2 Common pronoun
3 School bake-sale org.
4 Cyma ___ (molding type)
5 It can be measured in square
yards
6 Restaurant row?
7 Most tangy
8 Request to Pat Sajak, sometimes
9 Crucifix
10 Commit a faux pas with a chip?
11 Place with many desks
12 Embellish
13 Sycophant
18 Baby barker
22 Donkeys Asian cousin
23 Begin a pot
24 Large amount
25 Surge, as of political action
27 Moroccos capital
31 Casa kitchen crock
34 Leave scratches on, e.g.
35 Dog in army fatigues
36 Jacket named for a statesman
37 Football fill
39 Math subgroup
41 Sandwich staple
42 Folk-dance component
44 Less stressed
46 Sugar thats a component of RNA
47 Relating to a battery terminal
51 Penny-pinching
53 Rooney and Warhol
54 Drink from the dish
55 Look too long
57 Piccadilly Circus figure
59 Job application datum
62 Carte starter
63 Mother superior inferior
64 Leaf-peeper mo.
65 Lands end
GR-GREAT
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
I spent $3,000 to save my
kitten. Was that too much?
Vets have become like pediatricians for our fur babies. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
EVERYONE is always pushing
buttons on mobile phones and
personal computers. Places
where the human hand plays
an active role have been lost.
And for Kunio Koike, a leading
advocate of calligraphy paint-
ings, which combine stylised
writing with painted images,
this is a real crisis.
When Koike was a boy, he
was very shy and was no good
at either sports or painting. I
was called makeo [loser] be-
cause I always lost in every-
thing, Koike, 73, said.
Later on, he enrolled at To-
kyo Gakugei University in the
hopes of becoming a calligra-
pher. As a student, one of his
friends offered him a bit of
left-handed praise: Your char-
acters are poor, but they really
communicate something.
This comment encouraged
him to put faith in his calligra-
phy paintings Its OK to write
characters poorly; poor writ-
ing is good. By this, he meant
that even if characters arent
perfect, they can still stir oth-
ers if you pour your heart and
soul into them, and it is impor-
tant to try to express yourself
without trying for perfection.
He has gone on to teach and
give lectures on calligraphy
paintings. It is said he has in-
spired a million lovers of cal-
ligraphy paintings.
Adding pictures to calligraphy
with watercolors or brushes
naturally draws peoples atten-
tion. Both the written phrases
and the graphic become more
soulful. It also helps people re-
ne their sensitivity.
Koike has taught calligraphy
paintings at Jobu University in
Gunma prefecture as a visiting
professor since 2009. He has
helped establish a research
institute in collaboration with
Jobu University to study how
to transmit the charm of and
preserve the culture of writ-
ing by hand. He said, From
the point of a brush, the users
honest emotion ows.
He believes calligraphy has
a power to communicate that
is lacking in the electronic de-
vices at our ngertips.
Today, he teaches calligra-
phy painting to the communi-
ty but wants to share the value
of writing by hand overseas in
the future. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
The soulful power of
calligraphy paintings
Kunio Koike, a leading advocate of calligraphy painting. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1 , 2014 19
I
TS the season of new tea
leaves, and when I learned
the largest expanse of tea
elds in Japan lies just
beyond the longest wooden
bridge in the world, I decided
to visit them in Shimada, Shi-
zuoka prefecture.
A 10-minute walk from JR
Shimada Station brought
me to the wooden Horai-
bashi bridge over the Oigawa
River. The tea elds, called
the Makinohara Tea Estate,
spread across the plateau on
the other side of the river.
The tea plantation covers
about 5,000 hectares, which
I learned accounts for 10 per
cent of all tea elds in Japan. It
was cultivated to grow tea af-
ter the 1868 Meiji Restoration
by Kageaki Chujo, a former
retainer of the Tokugawa sho-
gunate, among others.
The Horaibashi bridge, built
for people who started working
the tea elds, was repeatedly
washed away when the river
rose, so the bridge piers were
rebuilt with cement in 1965.
The bridge, 897.4 metres long
and about 7 metres high, was
registered by Guinness World
Records as the worlds longest
wooden pedestrian bridge. It
is still used by locals walking to
and from work and also often
serves as a lm location.
The bridge is 2.4 metre wide,
and the railing comes only up
to the knees of the average
adult. I saw people jogging or
cycling on the bridge without
hesitation, but I not being a
big fan of heights made my
way slowly in the middle of
the bridge, trying not to look
down. Since there was noth-
ing to block my view of the
surroundings, it felt like walk-
ing on air.
After I crossed the bridge
and walked up a dark
slope surrounded
by Japanese
cedars and other trees, the
landscape changed in a dras-
tic fashion.
I was looking at an endless
sea of tea leaves. The contrast
between the blue sky and the
yellowish green tea leaves
shining in the bright sunlight
was amazing.
And from the open space
where a statue of Chujo stood,
with the Oigawa River in the
background, I could just make
out Mount Fuji lightly dusted
with snow. It was well worth
summoning up the courage to
cross the bridge.
The World Tea Museum in
the city helps visitors learn
about the tea industry and
tea culture both at home and
abroad. It also has a Japanese
garden and a tea ceremony
room. While viewing the pond
in the beautiful garden, I
slowly sipped foamed matcha
green tea from a tea bowl. It
was a pretty tasteful event.
In the city, an event that al-
lowed visitors to experience
tea picking was under way. A
guide at the event invited me
to taste a new tea leaf, which
was pretty tender as I felt its
pleasant avour ll my mouth.
I heard that new tea leaves also
taste good as tempura.
Shimada is also said to be
the birthplace of the Shimada
topknot, a type of traditional
Japanese coiffure. An annual
festival held in September fea-
tures a procession of women
dressed in kimonos with their
hair in a Shimada topknot.
Shimada has many more
must-see places, such as Oiga-
wa Railway, with its steam-
powered locomotives, and Rose
Hill Park, where nearly 360 spe-
cies of roses are grown. It might
make for a tight schedule visit-
ing all of these places, but
they are all certainly
worth a visit. YOMIURI
SHIMBUN
Travel
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
20
The season of
new tea leaves
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Horaibashi bridge and a woman and her daughter at a tea-picking
event in Shimada, Shizuoka prefecture. YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014 21

Australian weightlifter
thrown out over ruckus
AUSTRALIAN weightlifter
Francois Etoundi had his
Commonwealth Games
accreditation revoked
yesterday after an alleged
assault at the athletes village
in Glasgow, organisers
announced. Etoundi, who won
a bronze medal in the 77kg
category, was detained by
police after an early-morning
disturbance on Wednesday
and was due to appear before
a court yesterday. We do not
want the gentleman returning
to the village and as a
consequence of that, we have
worked with the Australian
team and we fully support the
question posed to us to
withdraw his accreditation,
Commonwealth Games
Federation chief executive
Mike Hooper told yesterdays
daily media briefing. Etoundi,
29, represented Cameroon at
the 2006 Commonwealth
Games in Melbourne, finishing
fourth in the 69kg category,
but now represents Australia
after seeking asylum to
remain in the country. AFP
Sri Lanka head skips
games citing security
SRI Lankas president decided
to stay away from the
Commonwealth Games despite
being chair of the bloc because
Colombo was unhappy with
Britains security
arrangements, a minister said
yesterday. Information Minister
Keheliya Rambukwella said
Mahinda Rajapakse wanted to
attend the Games in Glasgow
but was concerned about being
targeted by ethnic Tamil
protesters who accuse him of
war crimes. Asked if the
government was unhappy with
the level of protection offered by
the British authorities,
Rambukwella said: Of course.
it happened [not enough
security] last time also.
Rambukwella said Rajapakse
had an unpleasant
experience when angry Tamils
protested outside his hotel in
London when he attended
Queen Elizabeth IIs Diamond
Jubilee in June 2012. AFP
Peterson, Garcia eye
unification boxing bout
UNBEATEN Danny Garcia and
fellow American Lamont
Peterson talked up a unification
showdown for an undisputed
light-welterweight crown on
Wednesday, but they must win
next week to create such an
opportunity. Both are favoured in
August 9 bouts in New York,
with Garcia (28-0 with 16
knockouts) in a 10-round non-
title bout against fellow
American Rod Salka (19-3 with
three knockouts) and Peterson
(32-2 with one drawn and 16
knockouts) defending the
International Boxing Federation
crown against Puerto Ricos
Edgar Santana (29-4 with 20
knockouts). Peterson wanted to
fight Garcia after a January title
defence against Canadian
Dierry Jean, but could not make
a deal. I wanted to fight Danny
Garcia next. Thats what the
fans wanted to see, Peterson
said. I pushed hard for the fight
but it just didnt happen. Its
boxing. Its a business.
Everything has to work for a
fight to happen. So Ill fight a
good fighter and hopefully itll
happen next time. AFP
RAFAEL Nadals announce-
ment on Wednesday that he
will miss key US Open warm-
up events at Toronto and
Cincinnati with a right wrist
injury will have some rivals
licking their chops.
So says Wimbledon semi-
nalist Milos Raonic, among
those surprised to learn that
the 28-year-old Spaniard, the
reigning US Open champion,
would be sidelined for the
ATP Masters Series events,
where he was also reigning
champion.
Theres a lot of people hun-
gry in this sport, Raonic said
at the ATP and WTA Washing-
ton Open.
Its unfortunate to see him
go but . . . there are too many
that are hungry and are lick-
ing their chops.
Second-ranked Nadal, a
14-time Grand Slam cham-
pion, won an emotional
French Open title in June
but has not played since
being ousted in the fourth
round at Wimbledon.
Doctors told Nadal that he
must rest the injury, suffered
in training on Tuesday, for
two to three weeks.
That will enhance the
chances of rivals to capture
a crown, including Canadas
seventh-ranked Raonic, even
though such formidable foes
as world number one Novak
Djokovic and 17-time Grand
Slam winner Roger Federer
remain in the elds the next
two weeks.
Theres nobody losing
sleep over it, Raonic said over
Nadals absence. Because
everybody wants to make the
most of the opportunities.
However, fth-ranked
Czech Tomas Berdych said
the game will miss Nadal.
I wish him a fast and soon
recovery, Berdych said. To
miss a player like Rafa a week
or more, its always a shame
and especially at these big
events.
Berdych noted that the
line between practicing hard
enough and too much is a
ne one.
You really need to plan
carefully, what to train, when
to train and how to train,
Berdych said.
While its easy to say you can
work out for a long time in a
session, there is a long-term
risk in marathon workouts.
How long can you last to
do it? Berdych said. Were
all getting older. were all get-
ting more matches under out
belt. AFP
Some licking their chops
at absence of Rafa Nadal
Boxing chiefs headache
THE International Boxing
Association says it will carry
out a detailed study of the
impact of scrapping head-
guards for amateur contests
following the conclusion of the
Commonwealth Games.
It follows a call from Austral-
ian boxer Daniel Lewis for the
immediate return of the safety
gear after a failed medical
check ruled him out of his wel-
terweight quarter-final on
Wednesday.
The 21-year-old suffered a
badly cut eye in his win against
Nigerias Kehinde Ademuyiwa
on Monday.
The wound failed to suffi-
ciently heal in time for him to
meet Mandeep Jangra of India,
who was given a walkover into
the semi-finals.
A growing number of cut
head injuries have resulted
from male boxers stepping
into the ring without head pro-
tection after AIBA changed
their rules last year.
AIBA vice-president Dr Abdel-
lah Bessalem from Algeria said
his organisation was aware of
the concerns and would address
them after the Games.
We are looking at the number
of cuts and after our study we
will prepare our report, the
Commonwealth Games tour-
nament supervisor said.
But we have to remember
that without headguards the
number of concussion inju-
ries suffered by boxers has
gone down.
Following his withdrawal on
Wednesday morning Lewis
immediately took to social
media to vent his frustration
at having his medal hopes
brought to an abrupt halt.
He wrote: For all these peo-
ple debating about headgear
for amateurs, bring the head-
gear back 100 per cent.
My journey is over. Got up
at 6am this morning to lose
weight. I made it and was
ready to go to war only to be
told by the doctor my journey
is over. They wont let me fight
with the cut.
I had two fights, two com-
fortable wins with one TKO
and a stupid elbow ruins
it all, he continued.
My mum and dad paid to
fly to the other side of the
world to watch me win gold.
The past 10 weeks Ive been
away from everyone putting
in the hard work, all for an
elbow to ruin my dream.
This is the second injury
setback to have ended Lewis
hopes of boxing glory. Two
years ago he broke his jaw in
the Australian boxing team
trials for the London 2012
Olympic Games. AFP
Australias Jai Opetaia (left) ghts Nigerias Efetobor Apochi during a
mens heavyweight quarter-nal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. AFP
King James storms Glasgow
O
LYMPIC champion Kira-
ni James handed out a
comprehensive lesson in
one-lap running when he
cruised to victory in the 400m in a
star-studded track and eld session
at the Commonwealth Games on
Wednesday.
The 21-year-old Alabama-based
Grenadan, who won world gold in
2011 aged 18 and Olympic gold in
London a year later but opped
in the 2013 Moscow worlds, clocked
a Games record of 44.24 seconds with
his uid, easy-on-the-eye style.
I am happy for my country and
everyone afliated to us, said
James of Grenadas rst-ever Com-
monwealth gold.
I knew I had to stay composed and
relaxed. The crowd are fantastic, they
cancel out the weather.
James exploit was just one of the
highlights of top-quality athletics en-
tertainment, notably featuring a sec-
ond Kenyan clean sweep in as many
days and Valerie Adams stretching
her unbeaten record in the shot put
to 56 tournaments.
Canada also consolidated their
place among the medal leaders with
two more golds from Brianne Thies-
en-Eaton and Derek Drouin in the
heptathlon and mens high jump re-
spectively, following a double haul
from Damian Warner (decathlon) and
Jim Steacy (hammer) on Tuesday.
I ran from the front and controlled
the race, said the Kenyan who set
the world record when winning in
London 2012.
I am getting better every time, my
body is responding well so I am happy
about that. There will be tough guys
[in the nal]. I will treat it like a tacti-
cal championship race.
James victory was never in doubt
from lane six, South African Wayde
van Niekerk conrming his promise
with a blistering opening half that
helped him to silver in 44.68sec, Trini-
dad and Tobagos Lalonde Gordon
claiming bronze (44.78).
In the eld, New Zealands Adams
once again showcased her unbeatable
talent, adding a third Commonwealth
crown to two Olympic and four world
gold medals, easily beating the eld
with her second effort of 19.88m.
Im happy with the medal but
frustrated with the distance, said
Adams. I come from a very small
country and the track and eld is
very dominated by eastern European
countries, so for me to keep winning
Ill have to work hard.
The Commonwealth Games is
pretty important to New Zealand and
to me especially, and Im happy the
gold was reached. Im pretty stoked.
After their teammates swept the
10,000m on Tuesday, the Kenyan
3000m steeplechasers were not to
be outdone, Purity Cherotich Kirui
surging home in 9min 30.96sec
to pip world and defending Com-
monwealth champion Milcah
Chemos Cheywa, with Joan Kip-
kemoi taking bronze.
We are happy because three of us
from Kenya nished with a medal.
We are really happy we nished that
way, said Kirui.
Australias world silver medallist
Kim Mickle threw a Games record of
65.96m to win the womens javelin,
a perfect boost after the countrys
federation earlier suspended head
coach Eric Hollingsworth for dispar-
aging comments about the teams
star hurdler Sally Pearson.
Olympic champion Greg Ruther-
ford of England won the long jump
with a best of 8.20m ahead of South
African duo Zarck Visser (8.12) and
Rushwahl Samaai (8.08).
People tried to write off the Com-
monwealth Games but try to say that
to someone whos won a medal,
beamed the Englishman.
Thiesen-Eaton claimed her gold
under the watchful eye of American
husband Ashton Eaton, the defend-
ing world and Olympic decathlon
champion.
Teammate Jessica Zelinka took sil-
ver on 6270 with Englands Jessica
Taylor claiming bronze (5826). AFP
Grenadas Kirani James wins the nal of the mens 400m athletics event at Hampden Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
Sport
NEW Zealand is to slap a seven-year
jail term on anyone caught match-
xing under a new law due to take
effect before it hosts the Cricket
World Cup and U20 FIFA World Cup
next year.
The Match-Fixing Bill, introduced
to parliament yesterday with unani-
mous political support, would ap-
ply the lengthy sentences to anyone
caught trying to inuence or benet
from the outcome of a match or race.
Match-xing is a growing prob-
lem internationally and has been
described as the number one threat
to the integrity, value and growth of
sport, Sport Minister Murray Mc-
Cully said.
Former New Zealand cricketer Lou
Vincent was recently banned for life
from the sport after admitting to
xing, while Chris Cairns, who has
denied match-xing, remains un-
der investigation. Opposition sports
spokesman Trevor Mallard said the
bill made an important change to ex-
isting laws to make it very clear that
match-xing is a crime. This puts it
beyond any doubt whatsoever.
An International Centre for Sport
Security report released earlier
this year estimated that more than
$140 billion is laundered annually
through sport betting and 80 per-
cent of global sport betting is ille-
gal. AFP
NZ to impose
jail terms for
match-xing
NSK Dream is to tame Tigers
H S Manjunath
T
HE red-hot Mekong Tigers
will be looking for their third
straight win in the Angkor
Beer Cambodian Basketball
League when they face NSK Dream
in a morning contest tomorrow at
the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena.
The Tigers have posted two impres-
sive wins so far in keeping with their
solid preseason preparations and con-
tinue to build on this momentum.
They have in their ranks two players
Meas Ravuth and Meas Pich who
shifted their loyalties from NSK Dream
and will benet from the experience
they had with their former side.
While the Tigers raging form
should be a concern for their rivals,
NSK Dream will have the advantage
of the youthful energy that was so ev-
ident in their opening game against
CCPL Warriors.
The Dreamers lost in extra time
but that effort clearly has a positive
impact on the sides morale. Phorn
Rithysak and Sok Pagna are expected
to lead the charge against the Tigers.
Of the two other matches billed
for the afternoon, the clash between
Pate 310 and Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes
should hold great spectator interest.
The Mosquitoes won their open-
ing game of the season in a breeze,
stretching their winning lead over
GL Concrete to a whopping 33 points
with Geoff Harry and Jay Rodden
dominating the score sheet. However,
Rodden could be a nonstarter for this
game after an accident he met with
on his motorbike earlier in the week.
Pate lost a close call after a spirited
third-quarter ghtback to Davies
Paints last week at 83-80 and have
obviously learnt a lesson or two in
handling pressure without lapsing
into gross errors. They will be pin-
ning their faith on the versatility of
Ouch Phanat and Taing Peng Kuy.
Smart Dragons are heaving a sigh
of relief that three key players Ben
Laird, the teams leading scorer last
season, Chhim Dara and Kelvin
Chan are back to reinforce the line-
up against GL Concrete.
Tun Chamnan will be Concretes
main hope when it comes to perim-
eter shooting, while the side will be
banking on Ran Norens speed to
net them fast breaks. However, Con-
cretes collective responsibility ought
to be keeping the turnovers low since
they suffered enough from them in
their opening game.
Saturdays Schedule
NSK Dream v Mekong Tigers
9:30am
Pate 310 v Sabay Tigers Mosquitoes
2pm
Smart Dragons v GL Concrete
4pm
NSK Dream shooting guard Phorn Rithysak (centre) tries to drive past CCPL Warriors players during their CBL game. SRENGMENGSRUN
23
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014

Va Sokthorn snubs French
football to sign for Crown
PHNOM Penh Crown yesterday
announced the clubs third signing of a
French-Cambodian player in Va
Sokthorn. According to a post of
Crowns facebook page, the 27-year-old
attacking midfielder, who has played
for numerous teams in the fourth tier
Championnat de France amateur
league and last season scored 17 goals
in 14 matches for Le Creusot JO, is set
to officially join the Metfone C-League
champions on October 1. Sokthorn was
born in Le Creusot in the Eastern
French region of Burgundy, but his
parents are from Kratie and Prey Veng
provinces. I have followed Cambodian
football for many years, so I am very
happy to have signed a contract with
[Crown] for one season, Sokthorn was
quoted as saying on the facebook page.
I was wanted by clubs at good levels in
France but my priority was to play in
Cambodia and [Crown] have given me
that opportunity . . . I was so happy that
the team won the championship and I
was here to see it. And I am very happy
that I will have an opportunity to play
with great players like Kouch
Sokumpheak, who for me is the best
Khmer player I have seen. DANRILEY
Federation to host its fourth
Girls U16 championships
THE Football Federation of Cambodia
has announced details of their fourth
Girls U16 National Championships,
which are to be held at a venue in
Phnom Penh from August 31 to
September 13. Teams will be allowed
to register a minimum of 15 and a
maximum of 50 players, coaches,
officials and staff with registration
opening at the FFC head office at the
Olympic Stadium from August 15.
DAN RILEY
Premier League refs to use
vanishing spray this season
THE vanishing spray, that proved such
a success at the World Cup in Brazil,
will be used in the Premier League
from this season onwards. Following
the lead of both Italy and Spain, top-
flight matches in England will feature
the spray, used by the referee to mark
the distance between the ball and the
defensive wall, making it more difficult
for the defending side to encroach.
The Premier League had appeared
reluctant to commit to introducing the
spray, stating it would monitor its
suitability, but it has since decided to
give the green light. THEGUARDIAN
Brazil pin-up Neymar gets
mobbed during Japan visit
TOKYO caught Neymar fever
yesterday when the Brazilian superstar
jetted into the Japanese capital
sporting sunglasses, baseball cap and
designer stubble on a whistle-stop visit
to sign a sponsorship deal with a bed
manufacturer. The 22-year-old
Barcelona forward, still recovering after
fracturing a vertebra at the World Cup,
was greeted by 700 screaming fans at
Tokyos Haneda airport before being
whisked off to a television studio, which
rolled out a red carpet for his arrival as
if for royalty. My back is getting better
and Im hoping to join up with my team-
mates as soon as possible, Neymar
told reporters later as he perched on a
foam mattress the makers claimed
had secret relaxation properties.
Meanwhile, Neymars father will have
to appear in court as a witness as part
of a probe into possible tax crimes over
Barcelonas 86 million (US$117
million) signing of the player, a Spanish
court ruled on Wednesday. Judge Pablo
Ruz of the National Court issued a
written summons for Neymar da Silva
Santos Sr and Barcelona financial
director Nestor Almela to appear on
October 1. The judge also asked
Neymars father to hand over contracts
and documents relating to his sons
signing with Barca last year. AFP
Argentine football chief Julio Grondona dies
JULIO Grondona, the veteran
president of the Argentine
Football Association (AFA)
and FIFA vice-president, died
on Wednesday at the age of
82 in a Buenos Aires clinic,
AFA sources reported.
The all-powerful figure,
who had been in charge of
Argentine football since 1979,
had been taken to hospital
suffering from heart prob-
lems and died while under-
going emergency surgery.
Earlier this week he had
held meetings with Alejan-
dro Sabella, who decided not
to continue as Argentina
coach after leading the team
to the World Cup final in Bra-
zil recently.
Grondona had been a FIFA
executive member since
1988, heading its finance
committee, and was appoint-
ed to the head of AFA nine
years earlier by the countrys
military government.
He had been successfully
re-elected to continue gov-
erning football in the South
American nation every four
years since 1979, enjoying
the unconditional support of
the countrys 22,000 clubs.
His time in charge saw
Argentina win the World Cup
in Mexico in 1986, the Copa
America in 1991 and 1993
and Olympic gold in 2004
and 2008, while in his earlier
years he founded Arsenal, a
club from the Buenos Aires
suburb of Sarandi who
emerged recently as a force
at the top level.
But his FIFA links have
brought regular accusations
of scandal.
He was recently accused by
opponents of President Cris-
tina Kirchner of diverting
millions of dollars of govern-
ment finance to the AFA in
return for television rights.
Before the last AFA elec-
tion in 2011, Carlos Avila, a
former associate of Gron-
dona and owner of the TyC
Sports television channel,
alleged that the association
president had 12 undeclared
bank accounts in Europe
and the United States.
You want to know what I
think of Grondona? OK,
Grondona is the puntero
[informal military chief ] for
FIFA, Avila said at the time
calling for an investigation.
It is public knowledge that
Julio has an absolute power
over the management of
football. He has always based
it on the poverty of [Argentin-
ian] clubs, he added.
During the recent World
Cup, the AFA was allegedly
involved in an international
scandal over the illegal sale
of VIP hospitality tickets
which was investigated by
Brazilian police.
One ticket that was found
to have been be illegally sold
was in the name of Humber-
to Grondona, son of the AFA
president. The son denied
involvement in illegal activi-
ties though he admits selling
the ticket to a friend. The
ticket is not part of the Brazil-
ian investigation. AFP
Argentina Football Association president Julio Grondona died on
Wednesday aged 82. AFP
Lukaku has
no regrets
after move
Andy Hunter
R
OMELU Lukaku said he
harboured no regrets or re-
sentment over his time at
Chelsea after making what
Roberto Martinez described as a
real football statement by joining
Everton for a club-record 28 million
(US$47.4 million).
The 21-year-old signed a ve-year
contract with the Goodison Park
club on Wednesday having realised
very quickly during last seasons
successful loan spell at Everton that
he wished to continue his career un-
der Martinez.
Lukaku joined Chelsea in an 18
million-rated deal from Anderlecht
three years ago but made only one
Premier League start for the club
he supported as a teenager before
spending two seasons on loan at West
Bromwich Albion and Everton.
In football you dont have regrets,
said the Belgium international.
Sometimes choices are made. Mr
Martinez will be one of the top man-
agers in the world and to play under
him now, and for such wonderful
fans, is an honour. We have a lot of
young players who want to be part of
one of the best teams in England.
I dont have any regrets. I am very
happy with the choices Ive made.
Sometimes things like this hap-
pen in football. Sometimes its not
meant to be. Chelsea are a big club
and when I arrived I was 18. I was
very ambitious. They taught me how
to be a professional, a work ethic and
a winning mentality.
It is a great football club. I
wouldnt say anything bad about
that club but I didnt want to on the
bench for 10 years.
The feeling appeared to be mutual.
Lukaku revealed he informed his
agent, not Jose Mourinho, of his wish
to leave Chelsea permanently for
Everton but, in an ofcial club tweet,
the Chelsea manager said: Myself
and Chelsea Football Club wishes
Romelu well. He is a good kid.
Lukaku ew into Liverpools John
Lennon Airport by private jet having
tweeted Time to write a new chap-
ter while on board. He underwent
a medical upon arrival on Mersey-
side, required after his World Cup
exertions for Belgium, before being
unveiled as Evertons third summer
signing at a press conference delayed
for 100 minutes as Chelsea nalised
the players release.
The 21-year-old scored 15 goals in
31 league appearances last season
as his loan spell helped Everton re-
cord their highest points total of the
Premier League era, 72, in Martinezs
debut campaign as manager.
This is a real football statement,
the Everton manager said. Money
shouldnt be the difference between
being able to challenge or not.
Everton has an incredible football
history but to bring in a player like
Rom took 12 months of planning. It
excites me when I see the team we
have. We really needed Rom at the
club and the chairman and board
have been exceptional in that respect.
It is a key moment in that it makes it
clear where our focus is set.
Rom is potentially the best choice
in world football as a No 9. Over the
next few years you will see Rom
develop into a special talent but he
needs to keep working and develop-
ing and keep his standards. Im ex-
cited to see how far Rom can take us
and we can take Rom.
The strikers prospects of nally
securing a regular rst-team role at
Chelsea receded this summer when
Mourinho signed Diego Costa from
Atletico Madrid and Didier Drogba,
Lukakus idol and ironically the
man he was initially earmarked to
replace at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea had wanted to extend Lu-
kakus contract, which was due to
expire in 2016, to protect their in-
vestment had the forward impressed
on another season-long loan and en-
tered the nal 12 months of his deal
next summer.
However, the striker refused to
discuss an extension and insisted
on being sold permanently, with his
preference being for Everton despite
interest from Atletico, Wolfsburg and
Juventus, if the alternative was to
remain on the fringes of Mourinhos
rst-team plans.
He took the unusual step of asking
his former club, Anderlecht, for addi-
tional training after the World Cup to
convince Chelsea of his determina-
tion to make an impact next season
but the signing of Drogba effectively
derailed that plan.
Lukaku leaves Chelsea without
scoring a goal, albeit for a signicant
prot. Chelsea paid Anderlecht an
initial 11 million rising to 18 mil-
lion in 2011 but few of the add-ons
will have been activated.
Lukaku added: For me it was a
very quick decision. I knew I wanted
to come back here [to Everton] very
quickly. Im 21 and I needed to be in a
good team and where it felt right.
Here I have the condence of the
whole technical staff and the trust of
the supporters. I feel I belong here.
I have a very good relationship with
everyone at this club. This is where I
want to grow.
Everton secured Ross Barkley on a
new four-year, 60,000-a-week con-
tract on Tuesday. They have also have
signed Gareth Barry and 4 million
Muhamed Besic, and their outlay on
Lukaku obliterates their previous
record transfer, the 15 million paid
to Standard Liege for Marouane Fel-
laini in 2008.
Southampton announced the
signing of the Chelsea left-back Ryan
Bertrand on a season-long loan. It is
understood Ronald Koemans club
have the option to buy Bertrand out-
right next summer. THE GUARDIAN
Everton have broken their transfer record to secure the services of Belgian striker
Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea. AFP
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 1, 2014
Sport
Alis six appeal too strong for India
M
OEEN Ali spun England
to victory as they ended
a streak of 10 Tests with-
out a win by beating In-
dia by 266 runs in the third Test at
Southampton yesterday.
Ali took six for 67 in 20.4 overs,
including a spell of four for 17 in 22
balls as England completed a crush-
ing win that saw them level the ve-
match series at 1-1.
India, chasing what would have
been a new fourth innings record
winning total of 445, were bowled
out for 178 before lunch on the
fifth and final day.
After resuming on 112 for four, In-
dia collapsed as they lost their nal
six wickets for 66 runs inside 25 overs
yesterday, with only Ajinkya Rahane
(52 not out) offering much in the way
of resistance.
India, 1-0 up after their 95-run win
in the second Test at Lords, resumed
knowing the most any side had
made in the fourth innings to win a
Test is the 418 for seven by the West
Indies against Australia at St Johns
back in 2002/03.
The tourists had lost three wickets
late Wednesday to Englands part-
time spinners Ali (two for 33 in 12
overs) and Joe Root (one for ve in
two overs) after Murali Vijay had
been run out.
Rahane was 18 not out and Rohit
Sharma dropped on ve by James
Anderson after he put down a caught
and bowled chance, six not out.
But India lost a wicket without add-
ing to their score.
Man-of-the-match Anderson struck
with his third ball yesterday after
Sharma, feeling for the ball a long
way outside off stump, was caught
behind by Test debutant wicket-
keeper Jos Buttler.
And it was not long before the
Lancashire duo combined again
as India captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni (six) was undone by an excel-
lent full-length delivery that nipped
away off the seam.
Anderson had taken two wickets
for six runs in 12 balls, with India
now 120 for six. But Ali then trumped
that return in spectacular style on a
wearing pitch.
Left-hander Ravindra Jadeja (15)
was bowled trying to hit against the
turn and, four balls later, Bhuvnesh-
war Kumar fell for a duck after an
inside edge ballooned off his pad to
Anderson in the gully.
And it was not long before 152 for
eight became 178 all out, Ali bowl-
ing tailenders Mohammed Shami
(nought) and Pankaj Singh (nine).
That gave Ali, primarily a batsman,
15 wickets for the series at an impres-
sive average of 26.46.
England, without a Test win for
nearly a year since beating Australia
by 74 runs in Durham to clinch the
2013 Ashes on home soil, dominated
this match.
They made 569 for seven declared
featuring Ian Bells 167 and Gary
Ballances Test-best 156 before dis-
missing India for 330, with Ander-
son marking his 32nd birthday on
Wednesday with ve for 53.
England, having decided against
the follow-on, then made a rapid 205
for four declared that featured an un-
beaten 70 from under-pressure cap-
tain Alastair Cook his second fty of
the match after his rst innings 95
and Roots dashing 56.
One major concern for England is
that Anderson could miss both the
fourth Test at his Old Trafford home
ground starting next Thursday and
the series nale at The Oval if an In-
ternational Cricket Council disciplin-
ary hearing today regarding his dust-
up with Jadeja in the drawn rst Test
nds against him. AFP
England spin bowler Moeen Ali (left) celebrates taking the wicket of India batsman Pankja Singh to win their third Test match
against India at The Rose Bowl cricket ground in Southampton yesterday. AFP
Bolt denies bashing Commonwealth Games
THE row between Usain Bolt
and the Times over whether
he called the Commonwealth
Games a bit shit shows no
sign of abating with the
newspaper insisting they stand
by the story 100 per cent and
Bolt calling it nonsense.
Bolt has spent most of his
time in Glasgow in his room in
the athletes village, but he did
venture out on Wednesday to
watch Jamaicas netball team,
the Sunshine Girls, lose 50-42
to New Zealand. And while
he appeared relaxed, posing
for photographs with volun-
teers, waving a Jamaican ag,
and even vigorously joining a
Mexican wave, his entourage
quickly called for security
when he was approached by
journalists for a comment.
One reporter, the Daily Mails
Jonathan McEvoy, had his ac-
creditation ripped off him in a
heated row with one security
guard before being led out of
the netball arena although he
was later allowed to return.
His crime, he claimed, was
to say to Bolts agent Ricky
Simms is he denying that he
did the interview?
According to the Times jour-
nalist, Katie Gibbons, she ap-
proached Bolt on Tuesday as
he waited in the rain for his
car at the athletes village. Af-
ter she showed Bolt her media
accreditation, he reportedly
said that the Olympics were
better, that he was not really
having fun in Glasgow, and
that he felt the Games were a
bit shit, before he left to do
some business.
The Times published a 70-
word transcript of the conver-
sation in yesterdays paper. The
papers Scottish editor, Angus
Macleod, said he had full con-
dence in Gibbons, adding:
We stand by this story 100 per
cent. We have utter condence
in this story.
As Bolt passed Gibbons
at the netball mixed zone
on Wednesday, she shouted
to him: Why did you deny
what you said to me yester-
day? Bolt didnt appear to
hear or didnt want to hear.
His response to a question
about what he thought of the
Games consisted of one word:
Awesome.
However, earlier the Jamai-
can sprinter was more forth-
coming on Twitter, saying: Im
waking up to this nonsense.
journalist please dont create
lies to make headlines.
Simms also claimed the
reports were utter rubbish,
adding: The atmosphere
in and around the stadiums
has been absolutely fantas-
tic and I have absolutely no
idea where these quotes have
come from.
Many of Jamaicas netball
players appeared to wave at
Bolt at half-time, but after-
wards they were reluctant to
talk about whether his ap-
pearance had distracted them.
Cant you ask me a ques-
tion about the game? said
Romelda Aiken, while the
teams goal defence, Stacian
Facey, insisted: I didnt even
know he was here.
Games ofcials have denied
the row is distracting from the
competition. Mike Hooper, the
chief executive of the Com-
monwealth Games Federa-
tion, said: We take Mr Bolt at
his word. His tweet says it all.
These are a fantastic Games.
As you saw in his press
conference last Saturday he is
very upbeat. He is really posi-
tive about running the relay
and I dont wish to comment
on the journalist and work of
the Times.
Bolt, who has not raced all
season because of a foot inju-
ry, was due to run in the heats
of the 4x100m relay last night
and the nals tomorrow. When
he met the media last week-
end he insisted he was eager
to make his Commonwealth
Games debut, having missed
Melbourne through injury in
2006 and Delhi in 2010 be-
cause the event came too late
in the season.
Cynics, however, suspect his
multi-million pound sponsor-
ship deal with Virgin who are
the ofcial presenting partner
of athletics at these Games
- has played a part in his in-
volvement too.
Another Jamaican sprinter,
Jason Livermore, also ex-
pressed disquiet about the
Games. Asked what he was
making of the life in the ath-
letes village and his well-being
he told the BBC: Well it can be
better things can be a little bit
better for us. Can be better in a
lot of sense. We have to just en-
joy and give God thanks.
Speaking after his 200m
heat, he added: I hope Usains
having a better time than
me. The people in Scotland
are very welcoming so I cant
complain. Theres a nice atmo-
sphere and a nice crowd. But
its very cold. Back in Jamaica
its not like this. I need to get
me some clothes. Its freezing.
THE GUARDIAN
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (left) poses for a photo with a fan as he watches a womens netball match
between Jamaica and New Zealand in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow. AFP