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HOPES for an effective
Ebola vaccine have been
raised after trials of an
experimental jab found
that it gave monkeys long-
term protection from the
killer disease.
Animals that received
a rst shot of the vaccine
and a booster two months
later were immune to the
infection for 10 months,
according to US govern-
ment researchers.
If further trials show the
vaccine works safely in
humans, it could be used
to protect health work-
ers and contain future
outbreaks by immunis-
ing villagers living next
DRIVE deep enough into
Mondulkiris Pech Chreada
district, and the rubber
plantations that dot the
roads fall away. Here, there
is only mile after mile of
lush, dark woodland: An
ideal place to bury ones
dead and pay respects to the
spirits villagers say reside
inside this sacred Phnong
forest. And, too, an ideal
place to send hundreds of
impoverished but willing
and able homesteaders to
carve out a better life.
Some 300 families, prima-
rily Muslims from Kampong
Cham province, have moved
to Bousraa communes Tuol
Svay village in recent years.
Established by the govern-
ment in 2009, the village is
part of a 2,400-hectare social
land concession aimed at
reducing poverty and
improving lives. Rich in tim-
ber and natural resources,
the forest has been a lifeline
for the new residents. But for
neighbouring indigenous
Phnong communities who
have utilised the land for
spiritual practices for dec-
ades, the forest has become
the scene of an unlikely reli-
gious battle.
The Muslims pulled down
the trees and moved into the
forest, said Khan Channy,
27, a Phnong activist who
Ebola
vaccine
hopes
raised
Animus
amid a
sacred
forest
Kevin Ponniah
T
HE United States con-
troversial bombing of
Cambodia during the
Vietnam War killed
fewer civilians than American
drone attacks under President
Barack Obama have done,
former US secretary of state
Henry Kissinger said on the
weekend, a claim labelled as
disingenuous, foolish and
plain wrong by historians
and experts.
In a National Public Radio
(NRP) interview aired on Satur-
day, Kissinger also said deci-
sions taken by the US during the
war, including the massive aer-
ial bombing of Cambodia and
Laos, were correct and would be
taken by anyone faced with the
same circumstances today.
Estimates for the number of
civilian casualties of the US
bombardment of Cambodia
targeting North Vietnamese
US bombing defended
Obamas drones killed more than Nixons bombs, says Kissinger
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RISE OF THE KINGDOM
FEMALE FIGHTERS SET FOR KNOCKOUT OPENER ON ONE FC CARD
Phnong activist Khan Channy holds her child
earlier this year in Tuol Svay village where she
has been ghting against the logging of the
indigenous communitys sacred forest. ABBY SEIFF
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lives close to the settlement.
Now the Muslims have a
very modern village. There are
big houses; there are cars under
the houses. When the Phnong
community in Bousraa goes
there to stop them, they dont
cut any more, but as soon as
we leave, they cut again.
The nearby forest has
changed considerably in
Channys lifetime. In recent
years, the snarl of native trees
has been hacked down, sold at
a tidy prot and replaced with
hundreds of square kilometres
of rubber plantations. While
Tuol Svay village represents
a minute fraction of the land
appropriated and passed on
by the government, it is a land
deal that some nd particu-
larly vexing.
Why did the government
give this land to the Muslim
people? Channy asked. Some
Phnong people dont have land
either, and weve lived here for
a long time why not give land
to them?
The Phnong community
has repeatedly sought govern-
ment intervention. The results
have been varying, leaving
activists to defend the land by
physically stopping the home-
steaders and conscating their
chainsaws.
For those trying to stake out
a claim on their newly titled
land, the confrontation has
been a headache.
Heng Pok, 32, moved from
Kampong Cham less than a
year ago with her husband.
For the most part, Pok said, the
concession is a vast improve-
ment on her overcrowded
Kampong Cham home.
But yes, we have a prob-
lem with the Phnong. We cut
down the trees, and then the
Phnong take us to the police
and say this is our land. The
police have discussed it with
the Phnong people; they come
back with them and say: This
is your land, this is theirs, but
the issue continues, Pok said.
For the most part, life in Tuol
Svay is difcult but rewarding.
There is ample land for each
family, and the abundance of
timber ensures every resident
has a spacious home. In the
rainy season, roads are nearly
impassable, but a store and a
planned school and mosque
have lessened the need to
reach neighbouring villages.
Pok runs the only store in
the village a lucrative busi-
ness, as the nearest market
takes hours to reach. Behind
her home, cassavas sprout in
heady bunches on a badly de-
nuded hill.
For her and the other resi-
dents here, the forest simply
meets a need.
I never heard it was special
land, she said.
That lack of awareness has
proved a crucial problem,
rights monitors and even gov-
ernment ofcials admit.
The social land concession
affected Phnong people, af-
fected their farmland and spirit
forests, Pech Chreada District
Governor Nuon Saron said.
After the issue was raised at
a public forum last year, au-
thorities agreed to install de-
marcation borders to protect
the remaining forest. Progress
has been slow.
We started to put in border
posts in 2014 and have not
nished, said Saron, explain-
ing that the rainy season had
stalled the initiative.
Im not sure whether it will
be nished this year or not.
In and around the village,
however, there is little sign the
demarcation is adhered to or
even known about.
A Phnong woman working
in a nearby eld grew agitated
when reporters appeared.
I have a problem, she
shouted. The Muslims took
my land where my mother and
father were buried . . . My par-
ents, grandparents and sister
died and were buried there in
that sacred forest.
Sok Ratha, a provincial co-
ordinator for rights group Ad-
hoc, chided the government
for failing to research the area
before awarding the land.
The provincial authorities
should have carried out a clear
study before providing land to
anyone, said Ratha, who had
already seen two ofcial com-
plaints led by the community.
Those in the village, how-
ever, have clearly benetted
from the lack of due diligence.
Sitting in front of a neat
wooden guest home abut-
ting an even larger house, 19-
year-old Ya marvelled over her
mother-in-laws property.
Im just visiting, but I want
to live here, said Ya, bouncing
her baby daughter. Its very
hard to nd land in Kampong
Cham. Poor people have to
work for others; they cant have
their own land.
Down the road, Say Kim Si-
nat, 16, and her two younger
siblings were spending a few
weeks with their parents before
returning to Kampong Cham,
where they attend school.
My parents wanted to move
here because they can have
land and make a farm, Kim
Sinat said. In less than a year,
the family has managed to
build an expansive home and
clear most of its 10 allotted
hectares. Behind the farmland,
forest stretches deep into the
distance and Channy stares at
it dejectedly.
That place is a sacred for-
est just 1 or 2 kilometres in,
where the Muslims have start-
ed cutting the trees, she said.
When the Muslims cut
down this spirit forest, the
souls are angry. They can make
them have an accident or make
them sick. But theyre also an-
gry at the Phnong, because it
seems that we dont care about
the spirit forest and dont pro-
tect them. UCANEWS.COM
Animus amid a sacred forest
A shelter stands amid tree stumps in a section of previously forested land in Mondulkiris Tuol Svay village,
where residents of a social land concession have logged. ABBY SEIFF
Ya, a Cham Muslim, holds her child while visiting Tuol Svay village. Ya
said she hoped to receive a title within the concession soon. ABBY SEIFF
Australian Federal Police monitor the transfer of the rst group of asylum seekers to be moved from
Christmas Island to Nauru in 2012. DIBP
Resettlement rapped
Kevin Ponniah

I
N HIS maiden address as
incoming UN high com-
missioner for human
rights, Jordanian Prince
Zeid Raad Zeid al-Hussein
yesterday alluded to a refu-
gee resettlement scheme cur-
rently being negotiated by the
Cambodian and Australian
governments that has drawn
the ire of rights groups.
The UN has largely been
silent about the proposal
since it was revealed by
Cambodian ofcials in Feb-
ruary, but Zeid appeared
to make reference to it as
he condemned Australias
detention of asylum seekers
in front of the UN Human
Rights Council.
Australias policy of off-
shore processing for asylum
seekers arriving by sea, and its
interception and turning back
of vessels, is leading to a chain
of human rights violations,
including arbitrary detention
and possible torture follow-
ing return to home countries,
he said. It could also lead to
the resettlement of migrants
in countries that are not ad-
equately equipped.
Local rights groups and
opposition party politicians
have repeatedly stated that
they do not believe Australia
should be dumping its refu-
gees into Cambodia, citing,
among other things, a lack of
basic social services available
to the population.
Andrea Giorgetta, South-
east Asia head at the Inter-
national Federation for Hu-
man Rights, said Zeid had
made a clear reference to
the deal between Austra-
lia and Cambodia, which
she said was ill-conceived
and inhumane.
Ofcer arrested for extortion
Mass ring at Xin Fang factory
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A POLICE officer and person-
al assistant to a secretary of
state at the Ministry of Inte-
rior was arrested yesterday
morning by the Anti-Corrup-
tion Unit for blackmailing and
extorting money from a busi-
nessman, a penal police offi-
cial told the Post.
Policeman Sam Sarith, 43,
allegedly attempted to extort
more than $1,000 from Thun
Buntheoun, a businessman
involved in a pending land dis-
pute lawsuit.
Sarith began calling the vic-
tim and demanding money
from him after a lawsuit against
the businessman was filed in
August regarding a 2008 sale of
land that the plaintiff claimed
does not exist. The case was
transferred to a secretary of
state at the Ministry of Interior
and the file landed in Sariths
possession, said Lam Buntha,
a penal officer.
After receiving the docu-
ments from his chief, Sarith
called the defendant to the
office. He extorted money
from the victim, promising to
help defend him in court,
Buntha said.
The police officer allegedly
regularly phoned the victim,
demanding $400 in every call.
Unable to afford the mounting
bribes, the down-on-his-luck
businessman finally turned to
the Anti-Corruption Unit and
sent in an official complaint,
Buntha said.
[Sarith] was arrested this
morning when he came to the
victims office in Phnom Penh
to receive the $1,000 he
demanded, Buntha added.
The spokesman for the Inte-
rior Ministry and officials at the
Anti-Corruption Unit could not
be reached for comment yes-
terday. The accused police
officer did not pick up or return
phone calls.
Mom Kunthear
IN A mass firing the scale of which has not been
seen since January, Phnom Penhs Xin Fang gar-
ment factory yesterday terminated 106 employ-
ees for protesting in front of the factory.
Management at the Por Sen Chey district fac-
tory on Thursday already sacked nearly 30 strik-
ing workers who ignored a court injunction for
them to return to work, said Vong Thavin, Xin
Fangs administrative manager.
We do not want to fire them, but they are
obstinate, so we have to implement our factorys
rules, Thavin said.
About 400 Xin Fang strikers marched from the
factory to the Ministry of Labour to demand gov-
ernment intervention. Protesters, represented
by the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers
Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), walked out
August 18, appealing for the reinstatement of
three fired workers as one of their 20 demands.
Firing so many workers at one factory has been
an anomaly since nationwide strikes amid min-
imum wage disputes in December and January,
said Dave Welsh, country director for labour
rights group Solidarity Center.
That [firing] and the [government] seemingly
trying to prosecute every independent union
leader its moving backward, Welsh said, refer-
ring to six union leaders being called to for ques-
tioning regarding violent protests in January.
C.CAWDU legal officer Seang Yuth yesterday
said Xin Fangs actions run contrary to Cambo-
dias labour laws.
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Migrant kids schooling at risk
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly

A
PLAN oated in
Thailand to cut state
educational support
to migrant workers
children has drawn the ire of
rights groups, which say thou-
sands of Cambodian youths
could be denied their basic
right to education.
According to Thai media, Ka-
mol Rodklai, secretary-general
of the Ofce of the Basic Edu-
cation Commission (OBEC),
has said that the number of
foreign students in Thailand
could increase to 250,000
within three years, leading the
commission to reconsider the
governments policy of offer-
ing free education.
Kamol said that help for
these students might be lim-
ited to tuition and learning
equipment, with their parents
to be asked to pay for student
uniforms, books and develop-
ment activities.
Rights groups said yesterday
that this was not acceptable.
Frequently, migrant par-
ents are paid much less than
the minimum wage, have
little medical or other ben-
ets and have very minimal
savings meaning that they
usually lack the funds to pay
for books, uniforms and other
requirements that attending
a Thai school entails, Phil
Robertson, deputy director of
Human Rights Watchs Asia di-
vision, said.
Robertson added that the
end result of the education
for all policy would be scores
of migrant children dropping
out of schools, which would
violate Thailands obligations
under international law to en-
sure that all children have the
right to primary education.
Phal Bunthy, a construc-
tion worker from Battambang
province, has struggled to pro-
vide his 7-year-old daughter
with an education since they
moved to Thailand about two
months ago.
Having not yet found a
permanent rental home, he
claims it has been impossible
to enroll his daughter in what
should be a free-for-all educa-
tion system.
We want her to go to a Thai
school, but we have not been
able to, he said yesterday.
Bunthy added that after
making it through the door,
his 6-year-old niece, who re-
cently returned to Cambodia,
struggled to integrate.
After her parents footed the
cost of food, transport and
clothing, Bunthy said that his
niece felt isolated and did
not have a lot of friends to
play with.
This isolation is something
that Adisorn Kerdmongkol of
Thai NGO Migrant Working
Group said would only get
worse if the cuts were made.
The attitude of Thailand to
migrant children may be even
more negative, he said by
email, adding that it could cre-
ate greater disparity between
Thai and migrant children.
Kerdmongkol also ques-
tioned OBECs estimates.
With an average increase of
13,000 people per year, Kerd-
mongkol said the number of
migrant children in schools
which he said currently stands
at 113,067 will not exceed
160,000 people.
Robertson of Human Rights
Watch said that while the
proposed cuts were not sur-
prising, the issue is that the
larger idea of free and com-
pulsory primary education
for all should not be compro-
mised. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
BANGKOK POST
A Cambodian migrant worker and her children cross the Thai border. The Thai government is reconsidering
its free-education policy, which could effect migrant workers and their children. VIREAK MAI
Dream team
Kem Sokha
chooses new
advisers
D
EPUTY opposition leader
Kem Sokha has begun
recruiting personal
advisers to assist with his new
role as first deputy president of
parliament.
Sokha, who received the post
under a July 22 deal with the
ruling CPP, said yesterday that
he has found two candidates to
serve as his legal advisers.
Say Bory, an adviser to King
Norodom Sihamoni and a pro-
minent lawyer once appointed
by the late King Father Noro-
dom Sihanouk to the Constitu-
tional Council, is one.
The other, Sa Sovan, is
also a well-known attorney.
Both Bory and Sovan have
previously served as defence
co-lawyers for former Khmer
Rouge leader Khieu Samphan
at the UN-backed tribunal.
I am also looking for some
more lawyers to help oversee
all 10 commissions and over-
see all 28 ministries, he said.
However, assembly spokes-
man Nhem Thavy said that
commission heads had the
right to appoint their own advi-
sers. He declined to comment
on Sokha proposing advisers
for ministries. MEASSOKCHEA
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PHNOM PENH SUGAR COMPLETES SCHOOL FACILITY, DAM AT
KAMPONG SPEU FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY
The management of Phnom Penh Sugar is pleased to announce the completion of a school
at Pis village, Omlaing commune, Thpong district in Kampong Speu.
The school, which will provide education to over seventy children aged ive to ten from Pis
village, is expected to open in time for the start of the 2014 school year.
Phnom Penh Sugar Company will pay the majority of the teachers salaries and provide
learning materials and equipment for three villages, including Pis.
This school has been provided for the local community so that parents can ensure that their
children have access to proper education, said Phnom Penh Sugar Managing Director Seng
Nhak. We realized the need for a school after months and months of regular consultations
with the local community by our community liaison oficer.
Phnom Penh Sugar nominated Mr. Sin Satha as a Community Liaison Oficer in late 2013.
Since taking up his post, Mr. Sin Satha has held regular weekly meetings with members of
the local community.
We have been engaging with the villagers directly since early 2014, said Community
Liaison Oficer, Mr. Sin Satha. As a result we are now able to provide exactly what the
community needs.
Phnom Penh Sugar recently built a dam to help local farmers irrigate their land. The
company also provides subsidized farmland to members of the community wishing to grow
their own crops.
Since 2010, Phnom Penh Sugar has invested more than USD $200 million in the sugar
reining facility at its plantation in Kampong Speu.
The development of the site has included a state-of-the-art reinery, a thriving community
with stand-alone businesses and markets, 400km of roads, 90km of electricity transmission
lines and 5000m3 per day of clean water.
The Phnom Penh Sugar Company plantation has been developed to supply the domestic
market and to reduce the amount of sugar being imported from neighboring countries.
Eighty per cent of Phnom Penh Sugars output is bought locally.
Phnom Penh Sugar is wholeheartedly committed to assisting with the continued development
of the Kingdom of Cambodia as evidenced by the companys investment and actions.
Skipping lunch
Group to call
out Chinese
by fasting
S
OME 100 monks from
the Independent Monk
Network for Social Justice
(IMNSJ) plan to hold an eight-
hour hunger strike in front of
the Chinese Embassy in Phnom
Penh on Saturday to demand
a halt to a planned dam in Koh
Kong provinces Areng Valley
and an end to Chinas oppression
of ethnic minorities.
The venerable Ly Channen,
IMNSJ representative, said the
monks are not only concerned
about the Stung Cheay Areng
dam, which is to be built by a
state-owned Chinese hydro-
power company, but also with
Chinese abuses against Tibetan
monks and the execution of
members of the Muslim minor-
ity Uighur population.
We are all human beings in
this world. We cannot let the
communist [Chinese] govern-
ment commit genocide against
the Cambodian and Uighur races
and other human rights abuses.
We have to condemn the Chinese
government, said Channen.
The hunger strike will last
from 9am to 5pm. The Chinese
Embassys spokesperson could
not be reached for comment.
PECH SOTHEARY
China dam
discharges
in Mekong
Laignee Barron
A LARGE-SCALE hydropower
dam in China began releasing
a deluge of water from its over-
filling reservoir on Friday, leav-
ing downstream neighbours to
fear imminent inundation.
The 1,750-megawatt Jin-
ghong dam in Chinas Yunan
province is discharging over 530
cubic metres of water per sec-
ond and will continue to do so
throughout September, said
Thai and Cambodian officials.
Cambodia hasnt issued flood
warnings yet, as none of the
monitored water stations have
indicated a rise to alert levels.
We will continue to monitor
the water stations closely, said
TE Navuth, secretary-general of
the Cambodian National
Mekong Committee.
But experts maintained that
flash floods remain a concern,
especially in light of repeated
floods caused by the Yali Falls
dam in Vietnam.
We know when an upstream
dam opening its gates to release
reservoir water combines with
the heavy rains of wet season,
its a high threat, said Meach
Mean coordinator of 3S Rivers
Protection Network.
Civil society, tech team up
Sean Teehan

W
ITH security foot-
age of elephants,
clouded leopards
and other wild-
life caught on hidden cameras
in Cambodias Eastern Plains
ashing on a TV screen, Toby
Eastoe of Conservation Inter-
national noted that their cam-
eras also catch other activity.
Theres heaps of illegal log-
ging, and were trying to help
the government put a stop
to it, explained Eastoe, who
wants to make the land a pro-
tected area.
Conservation International
who use everything from hid-
den cameras to drones to catch
footage of species that are all
too rare and illegal activity that
is all too common were some
of the hundreds who gathered
yesterday at Development In-
novations (DI), a USAID proj-
ect, to discuss the intersection
of technology and civil society.
Presenters ranging from anti-
corruption advocates to health
service workers exhibited tech-
nology they are using or devel-
oping in their efforts.
The program aims to support
new ways for civil society and
other groups to use technology
to facilitate their missions, said
Development Innovations in-
novation adviser Samuel Ng.
The essence is [focussing
on] people and projects as the
core, Ng said. We dont make
things just for the hell of it.
In a speech at the exposi-
tion, Education Minister Hang
Chuon Naron said he signed a
memorandum of understand-
ing with USAID to expand the
use of laptop computers and
tablets in classrooms.
The Education Ministry has
already introduced a pilot pro-
gram for students in grades 9
through 12, which gives them
tablets, he said.
[The growth of technology
is] creating challenges so far
in Cambodian society, but its
also creating great opportuni-
ties, he said.
NGO Transparency Inter-
national yesterday presented
the Bribespot smartphone
application. The tool allows
users to report when theyre
shaken down for bribes and
where it happened. The app
then uses Google Maps to
show where this takes place
most often.
HIV Flagship Project is work-
ing on apps that allow users
to gure out their risk level for
contracting the disease.
Technology is kind of cross-
cutting, said Larry Campbell,
vice president of information
and technology for DAI, a tech-
nology rm. Technology can
enable us to do this.
A stall member explains an educational product on a tablet yesterday at the Innovations in Development
Technology Expo held at USAIDs Development Innovations ofce in Phnom Penh. POST STAFF
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USAID project looks to
improve child nutrition
THE US and Cambodian
governments yesterday jointly
announced the launch of
USAIDs five-year, $16.25
million Integrated Nutrition,
Hygiene and Sanitation
project, an initiative that is
projected to reach some
500,000 Cambodians in rural
Battambang, Pursat and Siem
Reap provinces. According to
a USAID statement, the
program dubbed
NOURISH will seek to
improve childhood nutrition
through projects such as
meals in schools,
agricultural diversification,
hygiene education and
improvements to maternal
and pediatric health care.
Malnutrition is common
among Cambodian children,
with current figures showing
that 40 per cent of children
under the age of 6 suffer
from stunted growth. In
yesterdays statement,
USAID acting assistant
administrator Denise Rollins
called food security and
nutrition two of the most
urgent issues that Cambodia
faces. TAING VIDA
Six Australians injured
when bannister breaks
SIX Australians sustained
injuries after a visit to a
Kampong Cham pagoda
yesterday resulted in an
unexpected four-metre
plunge. While climbing the
Han Chey Mountain in
Kampong Siem district, the
tourists, aged between 56
and 73, took a break against
the staircase banister.
Because the concrete bani-
ster is dilapidated and all of
them have big builds, they
fell down, said Set Sela,
deputy provincial police chief.
Two of the six are unable to
walk due to the accident and
have been sent to Calmette
Hospital, while the other
four incurred more mild
injuries. This is an accident
which no one wanted to
happen, said Pak Cheat,
Kampong Siem district
police chief. CHHAY CHANNYDA
Mondulkiri police to investigate shooting
Phak Seangly
RIGHTS group Adhoc has released a
statement condemning an alleged attack
on three ethnic minority villagers who
were injured by a companys security
guard in Mondulkiris Pech Chreada dis-
trict on Saturday, while police have sum-
moned the companys manager and
chief of staff for questioning.
A security guard from LKL Company
shot at five villagers from the Phnong
minority group, injuring three,
although it remains unclear if the
shooter was firing a warning shot or
aiming at the victims.
After receiving complaints from the
victims and investigating the case,
Adhoc released a letter yesterday con-
demning the shooting as an attempt
to intentionally murder ethnic villag-
ers and violate their rights, appealing
to authorities to find the suspect,
who escaped.
The letter said three security guards
armed with an AK-47 and a chainsaw
loudly shouted at the villagers to leave a
rock they were sitting on as they hunted
in a community forest.
Suddenly, a security guard dressed in
military fatigues shot at the rock, shat-
tering it and injuring three villagers.
The letter claims the security guards
shouted that they only wanted to shoot
the villagers in the leg and called their
boss, a man known as Kim, to bring the
villagers motorbikes to the company.
Communal police told the Post on
Sunday that the shot was fired at the rock
to warn the villagers.
Two men, 19-year-old Bos Kus and
Tek Ngeam, 28, were hit, along with
one 16-year-old boy, Him Kem. Kus
and Kem were slightly injured while
Ngeam sustained more serious wounds
and is currently recovering at a provin-
cial hospital.
The three villagers filed a complaint
with the provincial court, demanding
$1,000 in compensation.
According to Adhoc activist Sok Rat-
tha, LKL does not have a land conces-
sion to exploit the forest, which the vil-
lagers had depended on, but banned the
villagers from entering it anyway. Rattha
also claimed the guards were hired from
among provincial military police.
Sou Sovann, Mondulkiri province
deputy police chief, said LKLs manager
and Kim, its chief of staff, have been
called in for questioning.
Sovann said the identity of the shoot-
er remains unknown, but condemned
private guards use of assault weapons.
Police forces are working to obtain
information about the shooter and will
invite the company manager for inter-
rogation immediately, Sovann said.
Residents
claim trees
were felled
Phak Seangly
ETHNIC Kuoy villagers in Stung
Treng province have alleged
that land brokers working in
cahoots with local officials have
illegally logged 300 of the resin-
producing trees they depend
on to make a living.
The villagers have submitted
a complaint to rights group
Adhoc demanding $75,000 in
compensation for lost earnings
from the trees.
Chan Sokha, 42, a representa-
tive of the 12 families from Tha-
lar Boriwath district who filed
the complaint, said the families
had depended on the trees
since 1996.
But in mid-2013, a land bro-
ker that they called Sorn Soth
allegedly brought 10 workers
into the area and began felling
the trees.
They have machetes, axes,
and five chainsaws, and they
log every day, he said. We
tried to stop them, but they
threatened to kill us. And they
said the commune and village
authority had let them log.
Duong Pov, provincial admin-
istrative director, said he wasnt
aware of the case.
Trapped fishermen returned
Sen David

S
EVEN Cambodian sh-
ermen were repatri-
ated from Brunei yes-
terday after they were
allegedly sold into slavery by
a Thai broker and imprisoned
for illegally shing in the sul-
tanates territory.
Heoung Pol, 16, a migrant
worker from Kampong Cham
province, said after arriving
at Phnom Penh International
Airport yesterday that he trav-
elled to Thailand to seek work.
After he arrived, the broker
who promised him a job sold
Pol and several other Cam-
bodians to a Thai shing cap-
tain, who ordered the men to
sh off the coast of Malaysia
before moving on to Brunei,
where the group was arrested.
We were in jail for two
months in Brunei, because
they accused us of crossing
into their waters illegally. We
did not mean to [break the
law], we just followed the Thai
boss orders, he said.
Oung Heang, 36, from Siem
Reap, said the captain hadnt
paid them since they were
forced to join his expedition.
In fact, I wanted to nd a
job as a worker in Thailand,
but I was sold to be a sher-
man until [we were arrested
in] Brunei. We worked only at
sea, we never reached land.
And we would work through-
out the whole day and night.
Oum Chan, 25, from Kam-
pong Cham province, said
he had hoped to save money
to send back to his family by
working in Thailand.
We expected to work
abroad with much money
left over to send to my family
in my homeland. But we got
nothing, and we were also ar-
rested and put in jail for two
months. It was the worst time
in my life, he said.
Chan Srey, 48, Pols mother,
said that her son had been
missing for nearly two years.
Now I dont care if he has
earned money or not. I am so
happy, because I waited for
him for nearly two years.
Koy Kuong, Ministry of For-
eign Affairs spokesman, said
the Cambodian Embassy in
Brunei and the Red Cross had
assisted in the repatriation.
Cambodian shermen are escorted through Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday evening after they
were repatriated from Brunei. VIREAK MAI

communists and later the
Khmer Rouge which saw
some 2.75 million tonnes of
ordnance dropped between
1965 and 1973 vary greatly,
however most scholars agree
that they are at least in the
tens of thousands.
Unexploded ordnance from
the period continues to kill
Cambodians today.
In comparison, US drone
attacks are estimated to have
killed 2,702 to 4,316 people in
Yemen, Pakistan and Soma-
lia in total under Bush and
Obama, with up to 1,041 civil-
ian deaths, according to the
UK-based Bureau for Investi-
gative Journalism.
Little information is known
about drone casualties in Af-
ghanistan, where more than
1,000 strikes have occurred.
In the NPR interview,
Kissinger, 90, who served as
national security adviser to
US president Richard Nixon
from 1969 until he was ap-
pointed secretary of state in
1973, was asked to respond to
those critical of his role in the
bombing campaign.
They should study what
is going on. I think we would
nd, if you study the conduct
of guerrilla-type wars, that the
Obama administration has
hit more targets on a broader
scale than the Nixon adminis-
tration ever did, he said.
When asked about the dif-
ference between a drone at-
tack and a carpet bombing,
Kissinger responded that de-
spite the stark contrast in ac-
curacy, the principle is essen-
tially the same.
You attack locations where
you believe people operate
who are killing you. You do it in
the most limited way possible.
And I bet if one did an honest
account, there are fewer civil-
ian casualties in Cambodia
than there have been from
American drone attacks, he
continued.
Studying the Vietnam War
now without prejudice, one
would nd that the decisions
that were taken would almost
certainly have been taken by
those of you who are listen-
ing, faced with the same set
of problems, Kissinger said.
And you would have done
them with anguish, as we did
them with anguish.
While Kissingers asser-
tion that drone strikes under
Obama had been wider in
geographical scale than the
bombing of Cambodia may
be at least partly accurate, his
statement about the civilian
casualties is disingenuous,
said Carlyle Thayer, a South-
east Asia expert at the Austra-
lian Defence Force Academy.
While it is impossible to
know how many were killed in
bombings of communist base
areas in eastern Cambodia in
1969-70, if later expanded air-
strikes when the Khmer Rouge
began to advance on Phnom
Penh in 1973 are included, at
a minimum, several tens of
thousands of civilians per-
ished, he said.
Historian Ben Kiernan
writes in The Pol Pot Regime
that up to 150,000 civilian
deaths resulted from the
bombings between 1969 and
1973, though he does not pro-
vide a source for these num-
bers. Demographer Marek Sli-
winski, meanwhile, estimates
about 53,000 people, both ci-
vilian and military, were killed
by bombardments.
According to eminent Cam-
bodia historian David Chan-
dler, while nobody has any
reliable evidence of casualties
from the US bombings, they
certainly killed a lot more ci-
vilians than drones have.
The problem is, if you just
made a very cold, calculating,
military decision, the bomb-
ing of 1973 was in fact a sen-
sible thing to do [at the time],
because had it not happened,
the Khmer Rouge would have
taken Phnom Penh [much ear-
lier] and South Vietnam would
have had a communist coun-
try on its ank, he said.
The cost of the campaign,
however, was enormous, he
added, given that they were
bombing the most populated
parts of Cambodia.
There is also, despite Kissing-
ers assertion, no evidence
from the time, that this was
causing any anguish to him
and Nixon, Chandler said.
After Nixon telephoned
Kissinger to demand a covert
escalation of bombings in De-
cember 1970, he called Gener-
al Alexander Haig to relay the
orders, Kiernan wrote in an
article published in 2006.
He wants a massive bomb-
ing campaign in Cambodia. He
doesnt want to hear anything.
Its an order. Its to be done.
Anything that ies, on any-
thing that moves. You got that?
Kissinger reportedly said.
A line between the Cam-
bodia bombings and drone
strikes has been drawn before.
A condential US Justice
Department white paper pub-
lished by NBC News in Febru-
ary last year used the bombing
of communist bases in Cam-
bodia as an example to bol-
ster the governments case for
ordering the killings of its own
citizens abroad using drones.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan yesterday re-
frained from criticising Kissing-
er but said that we should
learn from the past, how the
foreign policy of the US came
across at the time.
Americans talk so much
about human rights, so they
have to apply the policy, he
said.
National
6
Gambling on leap pays
off for some bettors
COURT hearings are on the
cards for four unlucky gamblers
in Banteay Meancheys Malai
district. According to police, an
unhappy neighbour tipped off
authorities to the raucous gam-
bling on Saturday night, and
police went down to investigate.
After bursting in, the cops were
able to grab and arrest four of
the gamblers, with several
more making a daft yet daring
escape by leaping from the sec-
ond storey. The four less daring
card sharks were sent to court.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Slumbering man gets
a sharp wake-up call
A 35-YEAR-OLD was rudely
woken in Kampot town on Sat-
urday by a seemingly random
axe attack. According to police,
the man was sleeping in a
hammock in his unlocked
home when the assailant
slipped in and gave him two
swift chops to the back, leaving
him seriously injured. Given that
it was dark in the house and
that the assailant attacked from
behind, the victim had no way to
identify him, and police were
just as baffled as to the attack-
ers motive as the victim was.
KAMPUCHEATHMEY
All that glitters: Heist
goes down glitch free
A VENDOR in Prey Veng town
was overwhelmed by robbers
in a daytime jewel heist on
Sunday. Police said that the
jewellery vendor was alone in
the shop when four helmeted
men armed with a gun poured
in, ordering him to keep quiet.
The men grabbed what jewel-
lery they could then escaped
as quickly as theyd come.
Thanks to the helmets, the
victim couldnt offer a positive
ID and the suspects are still at
large. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Six likely jail sentences
for one lousy necklace
A FUN night came to a painful
end for a woman in Phnom
Penhs Chamkarmon district on
Saturday. Police said the wom-
an was on her way home from
a party when two motos fully
loaded with six neer-do-wells
pulled alongside her, threaten-
ing to topple her from her bike
unless she pulled over. The
woman refused, and one of the
miscreants allegedly reached
out and snatched her necklace,
causing her to crash. Police,
however, saw the whole thing,
and chased down the group,
arresting all six. DEUMAMPIL
Trailed dealer leads
cop straight to drugs
A CARELESS alleged dealer
led cops right to a drug den in
Phnom Penhs Meanchey dis-
trict on Saturday. Police said
an officer had spotted a man
putting some drugs in his
moto, and followed him to a
guest house. After backup
arrived, the police swarmed
the place, bursting into a room
full of nine people, apparently
engaged in packaging drugs
for sale. Police rounded up the
suspects, along with 18 pack-
ets of drugs, and sent them to
court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
Kissinger defends US
bombing of Kingdom
A 250-kilogram American MK82 bomb is loaded onto the back of a ve-
hicle after it was unearthed in Kandal province in March. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Eddie Morton

W
HILE Phnom
Penh clearly re-
mains home to
the Kingdoms
strongest central business dis-
trict, the booming tourism in-
dustry continues to fuel busi-
ness growth in Siem Reap.
According to preliminary re-
sults of the countrys intercen-
sal economic census released
yesterday by Japan Interna-
tional Cooperation Agency
(JICA) and the National Insti-
tute of Statistics (NIS), there
were 37,000 registered busi-
ness establishments in Siem
Reap this year, up 34 per cent
from 27,000 in 2011.
The vast majority of new
business establishments are
simply from the service sector,
which is continually trying to
cater for the countrys tour-
ism industry, Ly Visal, ofce
manager at the Federation
of Associations for Small and
Medium Enterprises of Cam-
bodia, said.
The data released yesterday,
which come after the rst full
economic census was con-
ducted in 2011 and before the
next in 2021, found the total
number of non-streetside
businesses operating around
the country increased to more
than 514,000 as of March
this year, up from 463,000 in
March 2011.
In Phnom Penh, the num-
ber of businesses increased 16
per cent during the past three
years to more than 98,000.
But while the data indicate
how tourism dollars are fu-
elling economic growth in
Cambodias tourism capital,
Ho Vandy, co-chair of the Pri-
vate and Public Sector Tour-
ism Working Group, says that
the increase in business ac-
tivity is not being met with
adequate infrastructure to
service the demand.
If that growth gure con-
tinues into the future at such a
rapid rate, it will surely impact
negatively on the environment
and overburden the existing
infrastructure of Siem Reap,
he said, calling for more atten-
tion to be paid to waste dispos-
al, new and better roads and
tourism transport facilities.
International tourist arriv-
als in Siem Reap surpassed
2.2 million last year, up 38 per
cent from 1.6 million in 2011,
according to Ministry of Tour-
ism data. Meanwhile, the min-
istry reported there to be more
than 390 hotel and guesthouse
businesses, 178 restaurants, 49
massage parlours and 17 kara-
oke bars registered in the city.
More bars and guest hous-
es in the town centre are not
necessarily the answer in Siem
Reap. During the low season,
there is very high competition
for tourist business, Vandy
said. There is understand-
ably a concentration of these
businesses in the town, but
we wish to see more business
activity in the outskirts and
other areas of the province,
which give tourists a rea-
son to see more and spend
their money more widely.
While new businesses
continue to ock to tour-
ist hotspots and the nations
capital, lesser known prov-
inces such as Kep, Stung
Treng, Pailin and Kampong
Thom are seeing only mar-
ginal growth.
In the past three years,
Kampong Thom saw the
smallest increase in business
establishments. Registered
businesses there totalled
21,000, up just 1.8 per cent
from 2011.
Kep, meanwhile, which has
the least amount of establish-
ments of all of Cambodias
provinces, registered about
1,600 operating businesses, up
from 1,450 in 2011. ADDITIONAL
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Thailand planning to ban import of hookahs, e-cigs
THE Thai Commerce Ministry plans
to invoke a ministerial regulation to
stop the import of Middle Eastern-
style hookah pipes, a device to smoke
tobacco, baraku or shisha, and e-cig-
arettes following the National Council
for Peace and Order (NCPO)s policy
to control them.
The smoking devices have become
popular among Thailands teenagers,
who commonly use them at enter-
tainment venues.
The issue has prompted Prime Min-
ister and NCPO chief General Prayuth
Chan-ocha to call on state agencies to
seek out measures to curb them.
The ministrys Department of For-
eign Trade (DFT) wants to attach the
ministerial regulation to the Export
and Import of Goods Act to stop the
entry of such smoking devices.
Citing research by the Public Health
Ministrys Department of Disease
Control (DDC), DFT deputy director-
general Parnjit Pisawong said the
study found smoking baraku, electric
baraku and e-cigarettes are harmful.
Although liquids from fermented
fruits are used to fill the baraku, the
burning process could lead to ill-
nesses similar to those inflicted by
smoking cigarettes, she said.
Baraku, electric baraku and e-ciga-
rettes are popular among the young,
particularly baraku, Parnjit said.
They should be put in the same cat-
egory as other smoking products when
officials consider how to regulate
them, the DFT deputy chief said
Parnjit said the Office of the Con-
sumer Protection Board (OCPB) is
seeking legal ways to cope with the
spread of the smoking devices.
Talking about the health impact of
e-cigarettes, DDC deputy director-
general Nopporn Cheanklin said the
vapour from chemicals, ignited by
electricity, contains small particles of
metal, which can cause cancer. There
are two groups of e-cigarettes: ones
with nicotine, a substance which can
harm the heart, and ones without.
He said e-cigarettes without nico-
tine could present regulatory prob-
lems as they may not fit the definition
of tobacco under the Public Health
Ministrys Non-smokers Health Pro-
tection Act and the Excise Depart-
ments Tobacco Act.
Nopporn said nicotine could be
added to e-cigarettes after inspection,
making enforcement by the Customs
Department difficult.
Because control is hard to accom-
plish, he said that the import of all
e-cigarettes must be banned. More
than 20 countries have banned the
import and sale of e-cigarettes, he
said. Nopporn said online advertise-
ments suggesting e-cigarette can
help smokers quit create misunder-
standings among the public. Several
other products, including gum and
patches, exist to help them reduce
smoking. BANGKOK POST
AMRU Rice
seals deal
to purchase
off co-ops
Chan Muyhong
ONE of Cambodias largest rice
millers and exporters, AMRU
Rice Co, yesterday signed a deal
with eight farmer cooperatives
in Preah Vihear province to
purchase 2,500 tonnes of
organic fragrant paddy rice.
AMRU Rice CEO and presi-
dent Song Saran said the agree-
ment states that farmers of the
eight cooperatives will be paid
a 20 per cent premium over the
markets current price per tonne
for standard fragrant Jasmine
paddy. The deal also covers the
cost of transporting the grain
from Preah Vihear to the firms
mill in Battambang province.
The first shipment of 10 con-
tainers [20 tonnes per contain-
er] will start in November after
the rice is certified with organ-
ic status from ECOCERT, a
French organic certification
body, Saran said.
Preah Vihear is a new land for
rice farming. Farmers cannot
afford to use chemical fertilisers
and pesticides so they rely on
very traditional farming meth-
ods, which in turn make the rice
automatically organic.
Ouk Bopha Phalnary, presi-
dent of the rice community in
Preah Vihears Roveang district,
said AMRUs offer would end the
farmers dependence on mid-
dlemen, who often force them
to accept bottom-dollar rates.
Traders offer whatever price
they want, he said.
Farmers have no choice
because they need the money.
We are happy that we can have
a certain market for our rice
with a good price. It gives us
more confidence to keep plant-
ing our crops.
Figures from CEDAC, a non-
profit agricultural organisation,
show that more than 257 tonnes
of organic rice was exported to
the US, Germany and Hong
Kong between January and
August this year.
An employee at a silk farm checks on silk worms before transferring them to fresh leaves in Siem Reap. RUTH KEBER
Business flocks to tourist town
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CHINAS trade surplus surged
to a record $49.8 billion in Au-
gust, gures showed yesterday,
as imports saw a surprising
fall and export growth slowed
in a further sign of softness
in the worlds second-largest
economy.
The mixed bag of data from
the General Administration of
Customs follows a string of g-
ures showing continued weak-
ness in the economy, fanning
expectations the government
will unveil new measures to
boost growth.
Imports declined 2.4 per cent
year-on-year to $158.6 billion,
while exports increased 9.4
per cent to $208.5 billion.
The drop in imports was
greater than Julys 1.6 per
cent fall and missed the me-
dian forecast of a 2.7 per cent
increase in a Wall Street Jour-
nal survey.
Exports beat estimates of a
9.2 per cent increase but were
still well down from the 14.5
per cent rise seen in the previ-
ous month. As a result, the sur-
plus surged 77.8 per cent year-
on-year to beat the previous
all-time high of $47.3 billion
set in July and easily pass the
median forecast of $42 billion.
The news will do little to ease
worries about the economy
after a recent batch of disap-
pointing data as a series of
mini-stimulus measures have
failed to kick-start growth.
Last week two closely
watched indexes indicated
that expansion in manufac-
turing activity slowed in Au-
gust. And in July, bank lending
plunged while growth in key
measurements such as indus-
trial production, retail sales
and xed-asset investment
lost momentum from the pre-
vious month.
Analysts say Chinas outlook
is being hurt by trouble in its
huge property sector and the
waning effect of stimulus mea-
sures earlier this year. AFP
Slowing China reports
record trade surplus
Japan economy shrinks 1.8 pct
J
APANS economy shrank
more than estimated in
April-June, revised data
showed yesterday, piling
pressure on the government
to delay another sales tax hike,
while the central bank faces
calls to expand its stimulus.
The gures will come as a
blow to Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe as his program aimed at
rejuvenating growth struggles
to gain traction.
Second-quarter gross do-
mestic product (GDP) shriv-
elled 1.8 per cent from the
previous three months, worse
than the previously estimated
fall of 1.7 per cent, the Cabinet
Ofce said.
The latest statistics con-
rmed the worlds third larg-
est economy had suffered its
steepest quarterly drop since
the 2011 tsunami disaster.
On an annualised basis if
the performance was repli-
cated over a 12-month period
GDP contracted 7.1 per cent,
compared with 6.8 per cent in
the preliminary estimate. That
makes it the worst performance
since early 2009, at the height
of the global nancial crisis.
The disappointing result was
largely caused by the negative
impact of Aprils sales tax hike,
the rst for 17 years, which
was introduced to lift revenue
and reduce the countrys mas-
sive national debt.
Prior to that the economy
had been on the upswing as
Abes growth blitz, dubbed
Abenomics, helped sharply
weaken the yen, giving a lift
to exporters protability and
driving a stock market rally last
year. A huge monetary easing
campaign by the Bank of Ja-
pan (BoJ) was a cornerstone of
the program.
However, the initial enthu-
siasm that greeted Abenom-
ics has given way as the effect
of the cheaper yen has pe-
tered out while doubts have
emerged over Abes willingness
to press on with the structural
reforms Japan needs.
Yesterdays weak gures
could force Tokyo to reassess
a second tax increase planned
for next year.
Expectations will likely
strengthen for further mon-
etary easing by the Bank of Ja-
pan and more spending by the
government, Junichi Makino,
SMBC Nikko Securities chief
economist, said.
The BoJ is expected to act
at its October 31 policy meet-
ing, while the government is
thought to be compiling an
extra spending plan worth
around 5 trillion ($48 billion)
as early as autumn, he told
Dow Jones Newswires.
The government and the BoJ
have maintained the impact
on the economy of the sales
tax hike from 5 per cent to 8
per cent has been minimal.
After a policy meeting last
week, the bank decided against
unveiling any new stimulus
measures, with governor Har-
uhiko Kuroda sticking by his
rosy view of the economy.
The government is expected
to decide by the end of the
year whether it will go ahead
with raising the tax rate to 10
per cent in October 2015, as
planned.
Credit Suisse said the Japa-
nese economy had three prob-
lems in the July-September
quarter slack personal spend-
ing, slow growth in factory out-
put and dull foreign demand.
Meanwhile, separate data
from the Finance Ministry
yesterday showed Japans cur-
rent account surplus for July
fell 30.6 per cent from a year
earlier to 416.7 billion ($4
billion) with higher fuel im-
ports. AFP
A man passes a stock board in Tokyo. Japans economy shrank more
than estimated, adding to pressure to delay another tax hike. BLOOMBERG
Source: China Customs
China trade balance
Monthly
$ billion
2013
-22.98
F M J A A S O N D J
2014
A
47.3
M J
49.8
-50
-30
-10
10
30
50
31.6
28.6
Markets
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Business
Hor Kimsay
EXPORTERS will soon able to
apply and receive their certi-
cate of origin (CO) online, after
the Ministry of Commerce last
week struck a deal with Singa-
pore-based Crimson logic to
build the automated system.
Ken Ratha, spokesman at
the MoC said yesterday that he
expected the new system, de-
signed to speed up and simplify
exporters processes, to be in
place by March 2015.
When we can cut down on
the time for meetings between
businesses and ofcials, it
means we can avoid unofcial
payments, he said.
Ratha declined to detail the
cost to implement the new on-
line system but said it was being
supported with funding from
the World Bank.
The CO identies where a
product has originated and is
required by many export des-
tinations. Once the new CO
system is in place, Ratha said
business registration, trade-
marks registration, and the
management of intellectual
property rights would be the
next business processes to be
automated online.
Certicate
of orgin to
go online
Changing the global garment trade
B
IG business and -
nancial investors, not
consumers, will force
better conditions in
the worlds textile factories,
according to the head of an in-
vestment rm aiming to pump
$500 million into creating a
more ethical garment industry.
With his Italian shoes, ex-
pensive watch and glossy
hairstyle, Oliver Niedermaier
seems a far cry from an eco-
warrior or workers rights ac-
tivist. But the former partner
at US private equity rm Ad-
vent International is sitting
in one of Dhakas swankiest
Western-style hotels, arguing
for super-ethical clothing fac-
tories where respect for work-
ers is paramount.
It is nearly 18 months since
one of the worlds worst indus-
trial disasters, in which more
than 1,100 people died and
many more were injured when
the eight-oor Rana Plaza gar-
ment factory building in the
Bangladeshi capital collapsed
last year. Since then many in-
ternational retailers, workers
rights groups, factory owners
and government bodies have
come together to try to im-
prove conditions in the coun-
trys $24.5 billion garment in-
dustry. But few expected Wall
Street to join the party.
Tau is not a charitable or-
ganisation; it believes there are
prots to be made in cleaning
up and modernising supply
chains to create more sustain-
able and ethical sources of
production. We are doing this
because we think we can make
a lot of money for our investors
while were going to have very
positive impacts on commu-
nities in which our ofces are
operating, Niedermaier tells
High Street Fashion: Weaving
New Threads, a documentary
scheduled to air today on BBC
Radio 4. We think this is one
of the biggest turnaround and
growth equity opportunities in
history.
He says that turnaround
must be achieved without
raising prices for shoppers,
who may not want workers to
be treated poorly, but cannot
resist cheap clothing on the
high street. Unfortunately
when you wait for the con-
sumer to change the dynam-
ics then probably it is far too
late to save the system, says
Niedermaier. I think corpo-
rations and capitalist incen-
tives are better mechanisms
to change things.
While shoppers choices
are unlikely to drive change
directly, Niedermaier argues
that developments in com-
munications technology, such
as smart phones allowing fac-
tory workers to reveal their
plight, will shine a brighter
light on supply chains, giving
malpractice no place to hide.
Change will also be driven by
increasingly tough regulations
such as those in the California
and UK anti-slavery legisla-
tion. You may not be seeking
transparency, but transpar-
ency is seeking you, he says.
If you are claiming that you
couldnt prove that the cotton
from your shirt is from child
slaves in Uzbekistan, it is just
not true. You can trace that,
which ultimately means that
corporations are being held
accountable for it.
Bangladesh is already on the
road to cleaning up its act, with
three separate internation-
ally backed agreements push-
ing through improvements to
the structure and re safety
of factories, and more wide-
spread union-backed worker
representation which can help
monitor conditions in future.
But changing practice in em-
battled developing countries
such as Bangladesh, Cambo-
dia and Thailand is not so easy.
Rana Plaza did not meet plan-
ning regulations but it contin-
ued to operate because these
were not enforced in a country
where oversight systems are
under-resourced and corrup-
tion is endemic. Stores such
as Tesco and Primark have
tried to improve conditions
and pay for workers with pro-
ductivity, efciency and health
programs among their Bangla-
deshi suppliers. These projects
have seen positive results,
but widespread suspicion of
unions and problems ranging
from lack of education to high
ination in food and accom-
modation costs can often see
gains eroded.
But Rob Wayss, executive
director of the Accord on Fire
and Building Safety, which is
overseeing improvements at
nearly 1,600 factories for more
than 150 retailers and brands
including Marks & Spencer
and H&M, insists that the in-
dustry must modernise or lose
business. The garment indus-
try is an enormous element of
the national economy, and that
is an understatement. There is
no option but to x these fac-
tories and keep them safe, and
demonstrate they can keep
them safe, if the industry is to
survive, he says. For some,
that could make cash from Tau
a lifeline. THE GUARDIAN
Women work in a small-size garment workshop on the outskirts of
Hanoi, Vietnam, in May 2013. AFP
Web protection
Porn sites to
protest net
neutrality
T
WO of the worlds biggest
porn sites have promised
in-your-face support
for next weeks battle for the
net protest against proposals
by US regulators to create
online fast lanes for some
companies.
Pornhub and Redtube, two
of the worlds largest porno-
graphy sites, said they would
join the go-slow day planned
for September 10.
The porn giants join others
including Reddit, Mozilla and
Etsy in protest against plans
by the Federal Communication
Commission to allow cable and
telecoms firms to create fast
lanes for some customers.
Critics charge such a move
would end net neutrality the
principle that all traffic is equal
on the internet and lead to
the stifling of competition and
innovation online.
Well be displaying an
official widget from battle-
forthenet.com. We wont be
shutting down or streaming
your porn slower. We hope to
reach around 50 million people
on Sept 10th, a Pornhub
spokeswoman said on a Reddit
post. THE GUARDIAN
Exports push German
trade surplus to record
THE outlook for the German
economy, Europes biggest,
brightened yesterday when
data showed the countrys
trade surplus hit a new record
in July on the back of booming
exports. After allowance for
seasonal blips, Germany
exported goods worth a total of
98.2 billion ($127 billion) in
July, 4.7 per cent more than in
June, the federal statistics
office Destatis said. Imports
shrank by 1.8 per cent to 76.1
billion. That meant the
seasonally adjusted trade
surplus increased to 22.2
billion in July from 16.4
billion in June. AFP
Tesla picks Nevada for
$5 billion battery plant
US ELECTRIC automaker
Tesla Motors is to build the
worlds largest lithium-ion
battery plant in Nevada, the
states governor has said,
unveiling plans for the $5
billion Gigafactory. The plant,
plans for which were
announced in July with
Japanese electronics giant
Panasonic, will bring nearly
$100 billion into Nevadas
economy over the next 20
years, he said. It will employ
6,500 workers directly and
another 16,000 indirectly, and
add some four percent to
Nevadas GDP, Governor Brian
Sandoval announced. AFP
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Electrolux seals $3.3B GE buy
E
LECTROLUX Ab agreed
to buy General Electric
Cos century-old appli-
ances unit for $3.3 bil-
lion in cash, bridging the gap
with industry leader Whirlpool
Corp of the US.
The purchase, Electroluxs
biggest, brings together brands
such as Hotpoint and AEG and
creates a company with an-
nual revenue of about $22.5
billion. Acquiring the predom-
inantly US business will add
to earnings from the rst year,
Stockholm-based Electrolux
said yesterday in a statement,
sending its shares soaring to
the highest in at least 25 years.
Electrolux and Whirlpool will
dominate the North American
appliance market, according
to Johan Eliason, an analyst at
Kepler Cheuvreux. Each com-
pany will control about 40 per
cent of the industry in the re-
gion, he said in a note.
The purchase by Electrolux
comes only two months after
Whirlpool increased its mar-
ket leadership by acquiring
a controlling stake in Italian
appliance maker Indesit Co
for 758 million ($981 mil-
lion). Together, Whirlpool and
Indesit had annual revenue of
$22.3 billion last year.
Yesterdays acquisition pro-
vides Electrolux with the scale
and opportunity to accelerate
our investments in innovation
and global growth, Electrolux
chief executive ofcer Keith
McLoughlin said in yesterdays
statement.
The Swedish company said
it will continue using the GE
Appliances brand under a 40-
year agreement.
The GE unit, which employs
about 12,000 people, had sales
of $5.7 billion last year, or 4 per
cent of GEs total revenue, ac-
cording to the rm. About half
of the employees work at the
900-acre headquarters cam-
pus, known as Appliance Park.
Electrolux, which has its
North American headquarters
in Charlotte, North Carolina,
generated sales of 31.9 billion
kronor ($4.5 billion) across the
continent last year, almost 30
per cent of its global revenue.
The company said in July that
it expects US sales to grow 4
per cent this year.
The appliances unit helped
make GE a household name
with American consumers af-
ter introducing its rst toaster
in 1905. The sale, which fol-
lows an unsuccessful attempt
to divest the business in
2008, furthers GE CEO Jeffrey
Immelts effort to reshape
the company around its
high-margin industrial units.
This transaction is consis-
tent with our strategy to be the
worlds best infrastructure and
technology company, Immelt
said in the statement. We
are creating a new type of in-
dustrial company, one with a
balanced, competitively posi-
tioned portfolio of infrastruc-
ture businesses with strong
advantages in technology,
growth markets, driving cus-
tomer outcomes and a culture
of simplication.
The deal will generate an
after-tax gain of 5 to 7 cents
per share at closing, according
to GE, which has invested $1
billion in the Louisville, Ken-
tucky-based appliances divi-
sion since the nancial crisis.
In addition to enhancing
Electroluxs presence in North
America, where the GE unit
generates more than 90 per
cent of revenue, the acquisi-
tion will give the Swedish com-
pany a 48.4 per cent stake in
Mexican appliance rm Mabe.
Electrolux said it plans a
rights offering to fund about
25 per cent of the purchase.
The rest will be nanced by
a bridge facility arranged by
Deutsche Bank Ag and SEB
Ab, which will gradually be re-
placed by capital market and
bank nancing. BLOOMBERG
US conglomerate General Electric is selling its home appliance unit to
Swedish group Electrolux in a deal worth $3.3 billion. AFP
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Future of bluefin may be farming
M
AJOR Japanese trading
companies are making
efforts to farm bluen
tuna, as the farming
projects have been increasingly im-
portant for maintaining stable sup-
plies of the sh.
At an international conference in
Fukuoka to discuss restrictions on
shing of Pacic bluen tuna, Japan,
the United States and other coun-
tries concerned reached an agree-
ment Thursday to halve catches of
immature Pacic bluen tuna begin-
ning in 2015.
In early August, a crane plucked
two bluen tuna from a 40-metre-
wide farming pen in the Takashima
district of Matsuura, Japan. The
city faces the Genkainada sea in
the northern part of the prefecture.
The two sh were processed on a
shing boat and transported to a
nearby port.
Sojitz Corp, a major trading com-
pany, established a subsidiary, Sojitz
Tuna Farm Takashima Co, in the city
in 2008. The subsidiary is in charge of
farming tuna sh.
With its subsidiary, Sojitz began
a tuna farming project that raises
young sh weighing about 1 pound,
called yokowa, into larger stock.
The sea off the Takashima district
is known as a productive area for ro-
bust farmed bluen tuna.
Koji Hayashi, president of the sub-
sidiary, said proudly, We are provid-
ing farmed tuna that consumers can
feel safe and secure about.
In this scal year, the company
has set a goal for shipments of about
400 tonnes. According to Sojitz Ky-
ushu Corp, another regional subsid-
iary based in Fukuoka, tuna farmed
there have been exported to China,
Thailand and other Southeast Asian
countries. The company is also con-
sidering exports to the Middle East.
In the Goto Islands in the western
part of Nagasaki prefecture, Toyota
Tsusho Corp is conducting a joint
project with Kinki University, which
succeeded in farming of bluen
tuna to completion for the rst time
in the world.
In the complete tuna farming cy-
cle, eggs are obtained from mature
farmed sh, hatched and raised into
mature sh, which then produce
eggs of their own. Kinki Univer-
sity achieved the complete cycle in
2002. Since 2010, the university and
Toyota Tsusho have been conduct-
ing a joint project in the city of Goto
in the prefecture. In the project,
young sh are bred until they grow
to yokowa size and are then shipped
to sh farmers.
Makoto Takahashi, chief of the
farming division of Tuna Dream
Goto, a subsidiary of Toyota Tsu-
sho, said: We are making efforts to
improve conditions in our farming
facilities. For example, we also farm
oysters to clean the water.
In this project, articially hatched
young sh are shipped from Kinki
Universitys facility in Wakayama
Prefecture to the city of Goto, but the
percentage of young sh that die in
transport is high.
In July, Toyota Tsusho announced
it would build a facility in Goto to
articially hatch fertilised eggs, to
begin joint production of young
sh. Toyota Tsusho president Jun
Karube expressed his enthusiasm,
saying, Well succeed even if it
takes us 10 years.
Toyo Reizo Co, a major tuna trad-
ing rm and a group company of
Mitsubishi Corp, has been reinforc-
ing tie-ups with local governments
in places with tuna farming facilities,
including the Goto city government.
Starting this year, the company
provided eggs of farmed tuna to oth-
er entities, such as a company jointly
established by the public and private
sectors in Nagasaki, where the eggs
are hatched. Young sh from the ar-
ticially hatched eggs are raised by
Toyo Rezio.
According to estimates by the
central government, about 30,000
tonnes of bluen tuna were sup-
plied in Japan in 2012. Farmed sh
accounted for about 10,000 tonnes,
or about 33 per cent. An ofcial of a
major trading company said, Com-
pared with natural tuna, farmed tuna
with stable qualities have supported
the baseline the supply.
The quantity of completely farmed
tuna is still about 100 tonnes. If the
method becomes widely used, peo-
ple in the sheries industry expect it
to boost the stable supply of bluen
tuna. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Bluen tuna bred by a subsidiary of Sojitz Corp are processed last month in Matsuura,
Japan. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
World
AU troops
in rape of
vulnerable
Somalis
INTERNATIONALLY funded
African Union troops in war-
torn and impoverished Soma-
lia have gang raped women
and girls as young as 12 and
traded food aid for sex, Human
Rights Watch said in a damning
report yesterday.
Some of the women who
were raped said the soldiers
gave them food or money after-
wards in an apparent attempt
to frame the assault as transac-
tional sex, the report said.
The AU force AMISOM said
the alleged rapes were isolated
incidents and called the report
unbalanced and unfair.
The 22,000 force, with sol-
diers drawn from six nations,
have been fighting alongside
government troops against al-
Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
insurgents since 2007.
The vulnerable women large-
ly came from camps in the
capital Mogadishu, having fled
rural Somalia during a devas-
tating famine in 2011.
AMISOM donors include the
UN, European Union, Britain
and the United States.
The AU soldiers, relying on
Somali intermediaries, have
used a range of tactics, includ-
ing humanitarian aid, to coerce
vulnerable women and girls
into sexual activity, the report
read, based on testimonies of
21 women and girls.
They have also raped or
otherwise sexually assaulted
women who were seeking
medical assistance or water at
AMISOM bases.
The youngest interviewed
was aged 12, who said she was
raped by a Ugandan soldier.
Several of the women
described how they had gone
to the AU camp seeking medi-
cine for their sick babies.
The findings raise serious
concerns about abuses by
AMISOM soldiers against
Somali women and girls that
suggest a much larger prob-
lem, HRW added.
But AMISOM commander,
Burundian General Silas Ntig-
urirwa, said the report docu-
mented allegations of isolated
cases of rape, and that his
troops were given strict orders
against raping and looting.
AMISOM spokesman Eloi
Yao added that the allegations
will be properly investigated
and measures taken.
Only in two cases had the
women who spoke to HRW
filed police complaints,
because they feared stigma,
reprisals from family, police,
and the Islamist insurgent
group al-Shabaab.
The cases investigated by
HRW involved troops from
Burundi and Uganda.
AMISOM troops last month
launched a major offensive
aimed at seizing key ports and
cutting off an important source
of revenue for the rebels.
EU calls fresh sanctions meet as truce teeters
UKRAINE accused pro-Rus-
sian rebels of waging fresh
attacks in the restive east yes-
terday, further imperilling a
fragile truce as EU officials
called a fresh meeting on
imposing new sanctions
against Moscow late yesterday
after failing to get full agree-
ment for the measures as had
been expected, sources said.
There will be an extraordi-
nary meeting of the [member
state] ambassadors on the
sanctions at 18:00 (1600
GMT), an EU diplomat said,
after discussions apparently
did not produce the required
unanimous support of all
28 nations.
Russia warned it would retal-
iate against any measures,
which the EU has nevertheless
said could be suspended if
Moscow observes the ceasefire
deal and removes its troops
from Ukraine.
The warring parties have
each accused the other of
breaching the pact since it was
signed on Friday, the first
backed by both Kiev and Mos-
cow to end a conflict that has
plunged East-West relations to
a post-Cold War low.
Ukrainian soldiers were
strengthening their positions
around the f lashpoint port
city of Mariupol after week-
end shelling by the insurgents
left one woman dead, while
explosions were heard near
Donetsk yesterday.
Despite the ceasefire,
Ukrainian positions are still
coming under attack, said
Ukrainian defence spokesman
Andriy Lysenko.
Russian sabotage and recon-
naissance forces are attacking
the terrorists positions under
the guise of being Ukrainian
servicemen.
Poroshenko arrived in Mar-
iupol yesterday in a show of
solidarity with its fearful pop-
ulation. The town has emerged
as a key battleground with the
insurgents apparently set on
creating a land corridor
between the Russian border
and the Crimean peninsula
annexed by Moscow back
in March.
Russia has repeatedly denied
any involvement in Ukraine
but Western leaders, deeply
suspicious of Moscows territo-
rial ambitions, have reacted by
threatening new sanctions and
boosting NATOS military pres-
ence in eastern Europe.
In a further show of force,
NATO and Ukraine launched
naval drills in the Black Sea
yesterday ahead of annual
ground exercises next week.
The new sanctions would
boost existing measures
imposed in July, targeting more
individuals with travel bans
and asset freezes, as well as
tightening access to capital
markets for Russian oil and
defence companies.
The sanctions target Russian
oil giants including Rosneft, the
worlds largest publicly traded
crude producer which is run by
a close Putin ally, Transneft and
the oil unit of gas conglomerate
Gazprom.
Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev vowed to
retaliate with asymmetric
measures by forbidding Euro-
pean airlines from flying over
the country on their lucrative
routes to Asia.
If we are sanctioned, we will
have to respond, he told the
Vedomosti business daily in an
interview published yesterday.
Russias economy is already
on the brink of recession, hit by
previous sanctions imposed in
July over the shooting down
over Ukraine of MH17.
The 12-point ceasefire agree-
ment signed in the Belarussian
capital Minsk is nevertheless
seen as the most significant to
date after five months of war-
fare that has killed over 2,700
people, according to latest UN
figures yesterday.
It calls on both sides to pull
back from major flashpoints
and provides for the creation of
a security zone on the Ukraine-
Russia border. It also stipulates
an exchange of prisoners and
the supply of humanitarian aid
to devastated eastern cities.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko said yesterday
that Kiev had managed to
free 1,200 people taken cap-
tive by pro-Russian rebels.
In the past four days, we
have managed to free 1,200 of
our prisoners, Interfax-
Ukraine quoted Poroshenko as
saying as he arrived in.
It was not immediately clear
if the release was related to the
prisoner swap the warring par-
ties agreed to under a truce
deal that was hammered out on
Friday. AFP
Iraq MPs poised for key vote
as Obama vows strategy on IS
I
RAQS parliament was to meet
yesterday under pressure to ap-
prove an inclusive government
to win broad support against ji-
hadists, as President Barack Obama
prepares to unveil a strategy to
defeat them.
The outgoing government has
faced criticism that by alienating the
Sunni Arab minority, it helped cre-
ate conditions that revitalised Sunni
militants including the Islamic State
(IS) jihadist group, which led an of-
fensive that seized much of the Sun-
ni heartland in June.
Washington and the United Nations
have repeatedly called on premier-
designate Haidar al-Abadi to form a
broad-based government.
Giving Sunnis a greater stake in
power could help encourage them to
join a ghtback against the jihadists.
The new UN human rights chief
Prince Zeid Raad Al Hussein said the
atrocities IS had committed in areas
under its control had already shown
Sunnis that jihadist rule promised
only a house of blood, while Egypts
prestigious Al-Azhar religious institu-
tion also condemned the group.
The key parliament session was due
to open at 1700 GMT and end with a
vote on a new government line-up.
There has been no word from Aba-
dis ofce on the list to be put to law-
makers and the political horse-trading
was expected to go right to the wire.
I expect changes to occur until
the nal moments, said Samira al-
Mussawi, an MP from Abadis State
of Law alliance. She said there were
persistent differences over . . . posi-
tions such as deputy prime ministers
and some of the key ministries, such
as defence and interior.
With Shia militia playing a key role
alongside the regular army in ghting
the jihadists, one of their command-
ers is apparently seeking to turn mili-
tary gains into political capital, which
could complicate efforts to bring Sun-
nis on board.
Shia lawmaker Ammar Toma said
that outgoing transport minister Hadi
al-Ameri, who heads the Badr militia
that has close ties with Iran, was under
consideration for the interior portfo-
lio, which would put him in charge of
most of Iraqs security forces.
In the previous government, key se-
curity ministries were left vacant and
run by acting ministers.
Toma said he still expected the politi-
cal bargaining to be completed in time
for the vote to go ahead as planned.
Obama, who made his political
career opposing the war in Iraq and
pulled out US troops in 2011, prom-
ised to unveil a long-awaited strategy
on Wednesday to tackle IS in both Iraq
and neighbouring Syria.
Im preparing the country to make
sure that we deal with a threat from
IS, Obama said in an interview aired
on Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press.
He said he would not announce the
return of US ground troops to Iraq
and would focus instead on a coun-
ter-terrorism campaign.
We are going to systematically de-
grade their capabilities. Were going to
shrink the territory that they control.
And ultimately were going to defeat
them, Obama said.
But the difculties Washington fac-
es were underlined by a report from
a British-based research group which
found that IS ghters were using cap-
tured US military-issue weapons sup-
plied to other rebel groups in Syria by
Saudi Arabia.
The study by the London-based
small-arms research organisation Con-
ict Armament Research documented
signicant quantities of US-made
small arms including M-16 assault ri-
es and included photos showing the
markings Property of US Govt.
Prince Zeid, the rst Muslim and
Arab to serve as UN High Commis-
sioner for Human Rights, said IS had
already shown the world what its rule
would be like if it was left unchecked.
It would be a harsh, mean-spirited
house of blood, he said in his maid-
en speech to the UN Human Rights
Council. IS has demonstrated abso-
lute and deliberate disregard for hu-
man rights, Zeid said, stressing that
the scale of its use of brute violence
against ethnic and religious groups is
unprecedented in recent times.
Arab foreign ministers agreed on
Sunday to take necessary measures
against the jihadists but stopped short
of explicitly backing the air campaign
Washington launched in Iraq on Au-
gust 8. AFP
Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribesmen stand next to their vehicles as smoke billows
after a mortar attack on Sunday that wounded the governor of Iraqs Anbar province. AFP
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a column of destroyed military
equipment some 22 kilometres northeast of Mariupol on Sunday. AFP
World
RELATIVES of passengers on
the missing Malaysia Airlines
jet MH370 gathered at a tem-
ple in Beijing to mark the six-
month anniversary of its dis-
appearance, as a small band of
plainclothes police pressured
them to disperse.
While the family members
ostensibly gathered yester-
day morning to pray for their
relatives, the meeting quickly
turned into a demonstration.
The family members, most
of them elderly, stood in a
cluster at the gates of the
Lama Temple in central Bei-
jing, wearing T-shirts that read
pray for MH370 to peacefully
return home.
Many of them sobbed and
one man recited poems he
had written since the plane
vanished. Only a few min-
utes into the demonstration,
plainclothes security ofcers
broke through a ring of cam-
era-wielding journalists and
shouted for him to stop.
Eventually, they succeeded
in subduing the crowd, shoving
the journalists away and drag-
ging women away. Where are
our children? cried one wom-
an. Mum and dad are waiting
for you! cried another.
I think Malaysia Airlines and
the Malaysian government are
cheating people and while
the whole world is watching,
nobody will tell us anything,
Dai Shuqin, 61, whose sister
was on the plane, said before
the demonstration. We dont
know if [Chinese president]
Xi Jinping knows anything or
not, but if he does know some-
thing, we hope hell tell us.
Victims of perceived injus-
tice in China have few formal
channels to air their griev-
ances the countrys media
and courts are controlled by
the government, there are few
civil society groups and so
many family members of Chi-
nese passengers have turned
to protests, online posts and
uncensored foreign media to
make themselves heard.
Some family members say
that authorities have begun
to treat them like dissidents.
In July, police detained about
30 family members, including
two young children, for at-
tempting to sleep at a MH370
relatives support centre, Dai
said, despite permission from
centre staff to do so. At least
two family members were
beaten in detention, she said.
A relative said the airline
had offered the families of
passengers $50,000 each in
compensation. Most families
have refused the offer. All we
care about is getting back our
relatives, Bian Liangwei, a 26-
year-old whose older brother
was on the ight, said. With-
out any proof theyre dead, we
can only assume theyre still
alive. THE GUARDIAN
Chinese police break up
MH370 families prayers
Ebola vaccine hopes raised
to affected areas. The nd-
ings will encourage scientists
in the UK and elsewhere who
have just begun human tri-
als of an Ebola vaccine in the
hope of preventing another
outbreak of the virus which
has swept through Guinea,
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ni-
geria, claiming more than
2,000 lives.
The World Health Organi-
zation warned last week that
the total death toll in African
states could reach 20,000 be-
fore it could be brought un-
der control. The infection is
spread by contact with bodily
uids and causes fever, vom-
iting and severe bleeding.
Researchers led by Nancy
Sullivan at the US National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in
Maryland tested two different
vaccines on macaques. The
rst was based on a harm-
less monkey virus which had
been modied to carry a pro-
tein from the Zaire strain of
Ebola, responsible for the lat-
est outbreak.
A single shot of the vaccine
protected the animals from
the virus for several weeks.
The same vaccine, developed
by the US NIH and GlaxoS-
mithKline, has just gone into
human clinical trials in the
UK and will potentially be tri-
alled in Mali and the Gambia.
The US researchers went
on to test a second vaccine
based on a modied cowpox
virus. Monkeys that received
the vaccine as a booster two
months after the rst vaccine
were protected against lethal
doses of Ebola for a full 10
months, according to a report
in Nature Medicine.
The Guardian understands
that UK researchers are keen
to include the booster jab in
future human trials.
Jonathan Ball, a molecular
virologist at the University
of Nottingham, said that a
single jab that gave even a
few weeks of protection could
help to contain an Ebola
outbreak.
This is important as it
would keep the dosing regi-
men simple and could still
provide good protection in
the sort of outbreak that we
are seeing in western Africa at
the moment, he said.
For longer-term protection
to prevent future outbreaks
one could envisage using the
combination, the so-called
primeboost approach.
Martin Hibberd, professor
of emerging infectious dis-
ease at the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, said that the study
gives hope for a successful
trial in humans.
On Friday, the UN chief,
Ban Ki-moon, set the goal of
stopping the worst-ever out-
break of the disease within six
to nine months. The next few
weeks will be crucial, Ban
said in New York, adding that
this was an international
rescue call. THE GUARDIAN
Workers wearing protective suits in Monrovia in Liberia. Human trials are now under way to test a vaccine
that may help to prevent future outbreaks. AFP
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Two Australians dead
in Kenyan bus crash
TWO Australians were killed
and 18 tourists hospitalised
when a bus plunged into a river
after a tyre burst on a steep
section of road in Kenya,
officials said yesterday. Tour
operator Intrepid Travel said 25
people 22 tourists and three
local staff were on board
when the bus careered down
an embankment outside
Nairobi on Sunday night. Local
reports said the others on
board included tourists from
Britain and the United States.
Australian foreign affairs
officials said consular
assistance was being provided
to the families of those who
died and were hurt. AFP
Meteorite smashes

into Nicaraguan capital
A MYSTERIOUS explosion that
rocked Nicaraguas crowded
capital Managua, creating a
large crater, appears to have
been caused by a small
meteorite, officials said on
Sunday. Amazingly, in a
sprawling city of 1.2 million
people, the impact near the
international airport did not
cause any known injuries, but
it did leave a crater measuring
12 metres (39 feet) across and
5 metres deep, and was felt
throughout the capital late on
Saturday. Nicaraguan
authorities believe it was a
piece of the small asteroid
dubbed 2014 RC, which
passed very close to Earth on
Sunday and was estimated by
astronomers to be about 20
metres wide, or the size of a
house. AFP
Tumour boy Ashya flies

to Prague for treatment
ASHYA King, the 5-year-old
cancer patient whose parents
sparked an international
manhunt when they took him
from hospital in Britain,
arrived in Prague yesterday for
treatment after leaving Spain.
A medical plane carrying
Ashya took off from Malaga in
southern Spain for Prague
after health and legal
authorities finally sealed the
formalities for his transfer, the
Spanish hospital that treated
him said. I can confirm that
Ashya King has arrived in
Prague, Jana Kulhankova,
spokesman for the Czech
capitals Proton Therapy
Centre (PTC) said. Earlier
yesterday, Czech doctors
expressed concern that
Ashyas parents, who are
Jehovahs Witnesses, could
object to a necessary blood
transfusion. AFP
Vietnam to punish con

for drug photos online
VIETNAMESE authorities have
vowed to seriously punish a
prisoner caught posting
photographs of drugs alongside
status updates on Facebook
from a smartphone smuggled
into jail, state media reported.
Nguyen Duc Hung, jailed on
drugs charges, last week
posted photographs of himself
in a black and white striped
prison uniform, as well as
photos of him and other
inmates taking drugs. The
drugs were presumed to be
heroin, a news website called
Motthegioi reported on Sunday.
Hung made the posts so that
his wife at home could see
him, the report added. AFP
Abes new picks deny links with neo-Nazi
French far right at gates of power: PM Valls
TWO newly promoted Japa-
nese politicians moved yester-
day to distance themselves
from allegations of extremism
after pictures emerged of them
posing alongside the leader of
a domestic neo-Nazi party.
Minister Sanae Takaichi
and party policy chief Tomo-
mi Inada are seen in separate
photographs next to Kazunari
Yamada on the home page of
the National Socialist Japa-
nese Workers Party.
The pictures will add fuel to
claims that Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe is increasingly sur-
rounding himself with people
on the right of Japanese poli-
tics. Yamadas blog postings
indicate admiration for Adolf
Hitler and praise for the 2001
attack on the World Trade Cen-
tre. In video footage posted on
the website, Yamada is seen
wearing a stylised swastika
during street demonstrations.
Captions for the photo-
graphs claim they were taken
sometime in June or July
2011 when [Yamada] visited
the conservative lawmakers
for talks.
Spokesmen for both senior
lawmakers acknowledged yes-
terday that the photographs
were genuine and had been
taken in their offices over the
last few years, but denied there
was any political affiliation.
He was an assistant for an
interviewer, and was taking
notes and photos, a member
of staff at Takaichis office said,
referring to Yamada. We had
no idea who he was back
then, but he requested a
snap shot with her. [The min-
ister] wouldnt refuse such
requests.
Following media enquiries,
the office asked that the pic-
tures be removed, he said. It
was careless of us, he said,
adding that Takaichi did not
share Yamadas view at all . . . it
is a nuisance.
A member of staff at Inadas
office said the Liberal Demo-
cratic Party (LDP) policy chief
did not subscribe to Nazi ide-
ology. It is disappointing if
there are people who would
misunderstand that she does,
he said.
Abe has courted criticism for
his strident nationalism and
views on history that some
find unpalatable.
In particular his unwilling-
ness to condemn Imperial
Japans behaviour up to and
during World War II has proved
a sticking point in interna-
tional relations. AFP
THE far-right National Front is at the
gates of power in France, Prime Min-
ister Manuel Valls (pictured right) said
on Sunday in a stark assessment of the
crisis embroiling the countrys centre-
left government.
Vallss warning follows weeks of tur-
moil for the ruling Socialists which cul-
minated in an opinion poll on Friday
showing that FN leader Marine Le Pen
would beat President Francois Hollande
in presidential elections in 2017.
The French premier, whose reformist
agenda caused a split in the Socialist
Party which triggered the current crisis,
made his comments in a speech to fel-
low social democrats from across
Europe at the Festa dellUnita in Bolo-
gna, an annual talk-fest in the one-time
stronghold of Italys now defunct Com-
munist Party.
In what will be interpreted as a warn-
ing shot across the bows of left-wing
rebels inside his own party, Valls said
the left across Europe had to change
its approach.
We have to act differently. We have
to speak differently, the Spanish-born
premier said, in order to be listened
to and to be heard.
We know what will be the terrible
price of failure. In France, the extreme
right of Marine Le Pen is at the gates of
power. And I, as a man of the left, will
never be able to resign myself to that
because it will be the weakest who will
be the first to suffer.
And it will also be a terrible, perhaps
fatal, blow to Europe.
The crisis within the Socialist Party
which led to an emergency reshuffle
of the government last month has
been followed by a string of grim
updates on the state of Frances
flatlining economy.
Hollandes woes have been dramati-
cally compounded by the contents of a
devastating memoir published by his
spurned former partner Valerie Trier-
weiler, which depicts him as a self-serv-
ing opportunist with no principles.
Far-right groups, meanwhile, rallied
on Sunday against migrants in the
northern French port of Calais days
after refugees tried to storm their way
onto a ferry to England.
Some protesters carried placards
saying Kick them out! and others
blamed migrants for the crime, filth
and economic disaster they claim was
affecting the town from which hun-
dreds of refugees hope to make it
across the English Channel.
National Front leader Le Pens polit-
ical power base is in the Pas de Calais
region, where her party made spec-
tacular gains in the last two elections.
Expanding on his comments, Valls
made it clear they were aimed at the
dissident wing of his party opposed to
his proposals to implement 50 billion
of cuts in state spending by 2017 and
use part of the savings to reduce com-
panies payroll taxes in the hope of
reversing the upward trend in unem-
ployment, which hit new record levels
this summer.
The tensions in the
party could come to
a head on Septem-
ber 16, when the
Valls government
faces a confidence
vote in parliament
that could if
enough left-
wi nger s
side with
the right
force
the dis-
s o l u -
tion of
parlia-
ment.
AFP
Battle on to
save flood
marooned
D
ESPERATE resi-
dents were hud-
dled on rooftops
yesterday as they
tried to escape oodwaters
which have already claimed
more than 350 lives in India
and Pakistan and left tens of
thousands homeless.
With phone lines down and
roads cut off, the exact scale
of the disaster in the cross-
border Kashmir region and
Pakistans Punjab province is
still unclear, but video foot-
age shot from army helicop-
ters showed entire villages
completely under water.
As teams of divers worked
round the clock in Indian
Kashmir to help bring people
to safety, residents could be
seen waving from rooftops
while vehicles and livestock
were washed away by the
surging waters.
Disaster ofcials say at least
350 villages have been sub-
merged on the Indian side of
the de-facto border by torren-
tial monsoon rains, making
it the deadliest ooding di-
saster there for half a century.
Thousands of troops, police
and other emergency per-
sonnel, backed by helicop-
ters and boats, have fanned
out across the Kashmir Val-
ley and the rest of the state
to deliver blankets, tents and
other aid in an attempt to
minimise casualties, the In-
dian ofcials said.
A total of 5,183 people had
been rescued so far and the re-
lief effort is being intensied.
The issue remains grim, we
have intensied our rescue
operations, O P Singh, direc-
tor general of the National
Disaster Response Force, told
reporters in New Delhi.
In some of the areas the
water is so high that we are
not being able to reach there
unless we are airlifted.
Its very difcult to say how
many are trapped, how many
are stranded in different lo-
calities. It can only come out
when people are completely
rescued.
A spokesman for the Indian
navy said that teams of divers
had been deployed to the af-
fected areas and were working
day and night but were cur-
rently incommunicado.
We are all waiting for that
[weather to clear] so that
communication lines get
open, DK Sharma told In-
dias NDTV network.
Communications were lost
on Sunday when the rain-
swollen Jhelum river ooded
large parts of Srinagar.
Vinod Vishen, a resident of
Srinagars upmarket Karan
Nagar neighbourhood, de-
scribed on Facebook how he
had moved his entire family
to the top of the house.
Water rising relentlessly,
Vishen wrote, later express-
ing fears that old houses in
the area could collapse.
Old houses are expected
to collapse as water softens
up the weight-bearing walls.
Very very grim situation,
he posted.
Srinagars main hospital,
army barracks and high court
are among the buildings to
have been badly hit, accord-
ing to the Press Trust of India.
There was no fresh rainfall
yesterday and forecasters
said that only light drizzle was
likely in the next few days. But
despite the respite, ofcials
warned that the death toll is
bound to rise.
Unofcially, the casualties
are most denitely over 150
[in Indian Kashmir] right now.
This is a ash ood. Thankfully
people are not without any
help, an Indian National Di-
saster Management Authority
ofcial said anonymously.
In Pakistan, ofcials said the
death toll now stood at 205,
with the majority of deaths
recorded in Punjab province.
Helicopters, troops and
other emergency personnel
have been deployed in ood-
hit areas for rescue and relief
operations, according to Paki-
stans National Disaster Man-
agement Authority (NMDA).
The death toll in Punjab
currently stands at 131, with
a further 273 people injured,
a senior ofcial from NDMA
said. Some 556 villages have
been affected.
The rains killed at least
63 people and injured 105
others in Pakistan-adminis-
tered Kashmir, the ofcial
added. AFP
An Indian soldier carries toddlers as evacuated families alight from an Indian Air Force Mi-17 helicopter
ying a rescue sortie in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. AFP
15
World
Is it case closed on Jack the Ripper?
Robin Millard
J
ACK the Ripper, one of the most
notorious serial killers in histo-
ry, has been identied through
DNA traces found on a shawl,
claims a sleuth in a book that was
released yesterday.
The true identity of Jack the Ripper,
whose grisly murders terrorised the
murky slums of Whitechapel in east
London in 1888, has been a mystery
ever since, with dozens of suspects
that include royalty and prime min-
isters down to bootmakers.
But after extracting DNA from a
shawl recovered from the scene of
one of the killings, which matched
relatives of the victim and one of the
suspects, Jack the Ripper sleuth Rus-
sell Edwards claims the identity of
the murderer is now beyond doubt.
He says the infamous killer is Aaron
Kosminski, a Jewish emigre from
Poland, who worked as a barber.
Edwards, a businessman inter-
ested in the Ripper story, bought
a bloodstained Victorian shawl at
auction in 2007. The story goes that
it came from the murder scene of
the Rippers fourth victim, Catherine
Eddowes, on September 30, 1888.
Police acting sergeant Amos Simp-
son, who had been at the scene, got
permission from his superiors to take
it for his dressmaker wife who was
subsequently aghast at the thought
of using a bloodstained shawl.
It had hitherto been passed down
through the policemans direct de-
scendants, who had stored it un-
washed in a box. It briey spent a
few years on loan to Scotland Yards
crime museum.
Edwards sought to nd out if DNA
technology could conclusively link
the shawl to the murder scene.
Working on the blood stains, Doc-
tor Jari Louhelainen, senior lecturer
in molecular biology at Liverpool
John Moores University, isolated
seven small segments of mitochon-
drial DNA, which is passed down
through the female line.
They were matched with the DNA
of Karen Miller, a direct descendant
of Eddowes, conrming that her
blood was on the shawl.
Meanwhile, stains exposed under
ultraviolet light suggested the pres-
ence of seminal uid.
Doctor David Miller, reader in mo-
lecular andrology at the University
of Leeds, managed to nd cells from
which DNA was isolated.
With the help of genealogists, Ed-
wards found a descendant of Kos-
minski through the female line, who
offered samples of her DNA.
Louhelainen was then able to
match DNA from the semen stains
to Kosminskis descendant.
For Edwards, this places Kosmin-
ski at the scene of Eddowes grue-
some murder. Eddowes, 46, was
killed on the same night as the Rip-
pers third victim. An orphan with a
daughter and two sons, she worked
as a casual prostitute.
She was found brutally murdered
at 1:45am. Her throat was cut and
she was disembowelled. Her face
was also mutilated. The belief is that
the shawl was left at the crime scene
by the killer, not Eddowes.
Kosminski was born in Klodawa
in central Poland on September 11,
1865. His family ed the imperial
Russian anti-Jewish pogroms and
emigrated to east London in the
early 1880s. He lived close to the
murder scenes.
Some reports say he was taken in
by the police to be identied by a
witness who had seen him with one
of the victims and, though a positive
identication was made, the wit-
ness refused to give incriminating
evidence, meaning the police had
little option but to release him.
He entered a workhouse in 1889,
being described on admission as
destitute. He was discharged later
that year but soon ended up in an in-
sane asylum. He died from gangrene
in an asylum on March 24, 1919 and
was buried three days later at East
Ham Cemetery in east London.
Some have cast doubt on Edwardss
ndings. The research has not been
published in a peer-reviewed sci-
entic journal, meaning the claims
cannot be independently veried or
the methodology scrutinised.
Professor Alec Jeffreys, who in-
vented the DNA ngerprinting tech-
nique 30 years ago this week, called
for further verication.
An interesting but remarkable
claim that needs to be subjected to
peer review, with detailed analysis of
the provenance of the shawl and the
nature of the claimed DNA match
with the perpetrators descendants
and its power of discrimination; no
actual evidence has yet been pro-
vided, Jeffreys told the Independent
newspaper. AFP
Author Russell Edwards and Karen Miller,
a descendant of Jack the Ripper victim
Catherine Eddowes; inset, a shawl taken from
Eddowes murder scene. AFP
A contemporary sketch of Jewish emigre
Aaron Kosminski, who Russell Edwards
claims was Jack the Ripper. AFP
Opinion
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countries, the literacy rate in Cam-
bodia of those 15 years old and
over is higher than in Laos (72.2
per cent) yet lower than in other
countries such as Indonesia (92.6
per cent), Malaysia (92.1 per cent),
Myanmar (91.9 per cent), Vietnam
(93.9 per cent) and Thailand (96.4
per cent). This indicates the need
for Cambodia to accelerate its
efforts and allocate adequate
resources to improve literacy in
order to enhance the countrys
competitiveness, particularly in
light of ASEANs upcoming eco-
nomic integration.
The government and the Minis-
try of Education, Youth and Sport
recognise the vital role of literacy
and lifelong learning in attaining
national development goals. The
National Strategic Development
Plan 2014-2018 identifies literacy
and lifelong learning as key policy
priorities. The Education Strategic
Plan 2014-2018 has identified non-
formal education, which includes
literacy, as a subsector within
Cambodias education sector. The
ministry is working with national
and international partners main-
ly with UNESCO to strengthen
education policy and capacity
development, specifically in the
nonformal education subsector,
and to expand innovative pro-
grams for youths and adults
through the Capacity Development
for Education for All program.
To accelerate its literacy efforts,
the Ministry of Education, Youth
and Sport is implementing the
Country Literacy Acceleration Plan
with UNESCOs support. This
action plan is a road map for lifting
the literacy rate of Cambodia, as it
determines realistic literacy priori-
ties, targets and strategies at the
national and provincial levels. Part
of this plan is the geographic map-
ping of the literacy situation at the
district and commune levels.
One important mechanism that
has been initiated and implemented
by the ministry is the establishment
of 348 Community Learning Cent-
ers (CLCs) across the country. These
centres are essential mechanisms to
deliver multiple programs, such as
literacy classes, vocational skills
acquisition and income-generation
initiatives, to the community, par-
ticularly in rural areas. Better man-
aged CLCs will enable the ministry
to better target disadvantaged pop-
ulations and support the govern-
ments goals to become an upper-
middle-income country by 2030 and
a high-income country by 2050.
While celebrating International
Literacy Day yesterday, the Minis-
try of Education, Youth and Sport
and UNESCO called for a signifi-
cant increase in the allocation of
both financial and human resourc-
es from the government, develop-
ment partners and civil society
during the next 480 days until
2016 to accelerate literacy efforts
in Cambodia.
Working towards a literate Cambodia
Students run through an academic exercise during a class at Wat Koh High School in Phnom Penh earlier this year. PHA LINA
Comment
Dr Hang Chuon Naron
and Anne Lemaistre
Dr Hang Chuon Naron is the minister
of education, youth and sport. Anne
Lemaistre is the UNESCO representative
in Cambodia.
17
Lifestyle Lifestyle
FASHION, lm and comedy
stars joined grieving rela-
tives Sunday to say goodbye
to comedy legend Joan Riv-
ers at a New York funeral that
fullled her last wish for a
showbiz send-off.
Film stars Whoopi Gold-
berg and Sarah Jessica Park-
er joined Riverss daughter
Melissa and grandson Coo-
per at the hourlong, private
service at Temple Emanu-El
on 5th Avenue.
Comedian Kathy Grif-
n, who has paid tribute to
Rivers for blazing a trial for
women comics, attended
alongside tycoon Donald
Trump, TV legend Barbara
Walters and Riverss co-host
on TV show Fashion Police
Kelly Osbourne.
The service at one of Ameri-
cas oldest reform synagogues
was by invitation only. Police
shut down the sidewalk and
PR women armed with clip-
boards checked guests IDs.
A huge scrum of paparazzi
and journalists camped out
across the street and hun-
dreds of fans lined the street
ve or six deep to watch
guests arrive.
Rivers, 81, died on Thurs-
day in hospital a week after
she stopped breathing dur-
ing a medical procedure on
her vocal cords.
In her 2013 book I Hate
Everyone . . . Starting With
Me, she said she wanted a
huge showbiz affair with
lights, camera, action the
paragraph of which was re-
produced on the inside of the
funeral program.
I want paparazzi and I
want publicists making a
scene! I want it to be Holly-
wood all the way, she wrote.
Actor Hugh Jackman sang
reportedly Quiet Please,
Theres a Lady on Stage from
his musical The Boy From Oz
and Broadway actress Audra
McDonald also performed.
The service opened with
the New York City Gay Mens
Chorus and closed with the
bagpipe band of New York
City Police Department.
Tributes came from Melissa,
friend Margie Stern and gos-
sip columnist Cindy Adams.
Melissa, wearing a black
dress and large black sun-
glasses, was cheered by Riv-
ers fans as she pulled away
in a limo after the service.
The bagpipe players were
given a roar of applause as
they streamed out of the syn-
agogue, closing off a portion
of 5th Avenue as the mourn-
ers departed. In the crowd
there were complaints that a
huge screen was not erected
outside to broadcast the fu-
neral. The way she was, she
would have wanted it, mut-
tered one woman.
Rabbi Joshua Davidson
led opening prayers. He an-
nounced: We mourn with
her family, friends and all
those millions to whom she
brought laughter and joy.
The daughter of a well-off
Jewish family, Rivers enjoyed
a stunningly successful ca-
reer that lasted decades and
worked right up until falling
ill last week.
Born Joan Alexandra Mo-
linsky in Brooklyn, she
graduated from New Yorks
Barnard College and worked
in fashion before starting out
in stand-up under the stage
name Joan Rivers. She spared
no one her razor-sharp wit
and was considered one of
the best at delivering a cut-
ting one-liner.
In later years, Rivers be-
came as well-known for
her love of plastic surgery
and reinvented herself as
the host of Fashion Police, a
show that offered running
critiques of the red-carpet
attire worn by the glitterati
at A-list events. AFP
A day sketching marines in
combat training at Quantico
Richard Johnson
R
ECENTLY I was fortunate
enough to get an opportu-
nity to join Colonel Craig
Streeter, former Marine
Cobra Pilot and latest poor soul to
wear the hat of USMC Combat Art-
ist, while he spent a couple of days
warming up his skills before he
heads for Afghanistan shortly to
continue a proud tradition: docu-
menting the experience of war
through art.
USMC Combat Artist Mike Fay, il-
lustrator/war artist Victor Juhasz and
myself were there to give a little sup-
port to his endeavour and as much
advice as we could on operating as
an artist in a hostile environment. I
was brushing up, too. Im heading to
Afghanistan myself to spend some
time with the US International Se-
curity Assistance Force troops over-
seeing the end of combat.
It was just like any other day out
sketching in the Virginia coun-
tryside with a group of landscape
artists, aside from the sporadic
mortar rounds, emplaced tanks,
smoke, impassioned screaming,
crack of AR15s and the braaaap
of live M240 machine gun rounds
echoing around the elds. We were
dropped into the middle of a full-
scale live-re drill at Quantico that
went something like this: Three
groups of Marine lieutenants from
the basic school were being taught
how to assault enemy xed-tank
positions. In good order each group
of Marines split into two forces
along a dirt road out of sight of the
enemy infantry positions.
One group with heavy machine
guns would then lay down sup-
pressing re on the enemy posi-
tions, while the other half assaulted
under that machine gun re over
open ground on one ank. With the
enemy infantry routed, the ground
assaulters would then occupy their
vacated holes and repel any coun-
terattack, while at the same time the
supporting machine gunners would
shift position right to pressure tanks
while calling in artillery and laying
mortars. Got it? Nothing to it, right?
Obviously the trick for us was to
keep the hell out of the way, while
also getting in the thick of it. So
we split up. Each group of lieuten-
ants was accompanied by a swarm
of emotionally volatile instructors
and now a couple of physically frag-
ile artists. This was akin to drawing
while running.
We spent a little while with Col-
onel Streeter answering his ques-
tions and reviewing what we had
drawn and pointing out things we
could have done better.
In the afternoon session, I moved
with the Marines who were assault-
ing over open ground. I now had a
good feeling for what was going on
and where to position myself to stay
out of the way of stray bullets.
I ended up with a sketch of 24-
year-old Lieutenant Evans, a self-
proclaimed military brat from
North Carolina. Lieutenant Evanss
father had been in the Marines for
22 years before retiring as a major.
I stuffed the sketch pad up under-
neath the Kevlar and ran to keep up
as the Marines red and manoeu-
vred their way in on target. Rockets
hidden in the grass shot skyward
and dummy noisemaking artillery
rounds intermittently burst above
us. It was by no means battleeld
conditions, but knowing you have
live rounds in weapons all around
pushes the adrenalin up a notch.
The drawings started to improve
to the point where I was almost
surprised at what was possible.
Certainly there was no time to sec-
ond-guess or to draw the same line
twice, but overall as my speed im-
proved and my accuracy dwindled
the sketches were still pretty good.
I drew Lieutenant Bare as he lay
in position to repel the counterat-
tack. Probably eight minutes work,
me following him as his eld of re
shifted. The key to that one was the
tread on the sole of the boots and
the grass swallowing his legs.
I was also starting to get a feel for
the gear and equipment the Ma-
rines were wearing. Understanding
what I am drawing has always been
a key to good sketching. This has
at times freaked out models in life
drawing classes when I have gotten
up to stare at them in close-up.
A sketch, of 24-year-old Lieuten-
ant Alexander Pascually of Seattle,
Washington, was done in a shock-
ingly short period of time while on
the move, and shows the benet of
repeatedly drawing the equipment.
Although he moved quite a bit
while waiting for the assault I just
followed him around sketching,
like an artistic tail in a spy movie.
I found I was sketching the memory
of what I had just seen, then moving
till I saw it again.
Lieutenant Pascually said his
training will help him become a
benet for American society in gen-
eral. He believes the Marines shape
young men and women who . . . see
themselves as community leaders
with real ownership of the country
they served.
In the afternoon, I ended up
squatting near the M240 machine
gun crews, mortar teams and as-
sorted infantry all pouring re on
the emplaced tanks on the other
side of the valley. Green and yellow
smoke blew across the entire scene.
I was hunkered down, leaning
against a fence post and drawing
the Marine nearest me. At this point
in the day I had reached that prom-
ised land of drawing where you are
watching what you see to one side
almost miraculously traced onto the
paper in front of my eyes the holy
grail of sketching utopia. It doesnt
happen to me often, but boy, what a
rush when it does.
When the nal ceasere came
and the smoke had cleared, I asked
the Marine for an email address so
I could send on the art. Lieutenant
Lauren Neal wrote it quickly in the
corner of the page while an instruc-
tor glared.
Lieutenant Neal, 27, from Del Mar,
CA. is a WM a classic military acro-
nym (of which they have many) for
Woman Marine. Damned if I could
tell the difference when I was draw-
ing her. She was as calmly condent
and capable as every other Marine I
saw putting rounds down range.
Lieutenant Neal says she joined
the Marines because she want-
ed to make a difference. A story
you have no doubt heard before.
Lieutenant Neal, however, gave
up her job as a lawyer, one year
after passing the bar, to join up.
She is a fourth-generation ofcer,
although the rst in the Marines.
Her father, grandfather and great
grandfather all were in the Navy.
As I was hoong it back to the ridge
with a dozen Marines, an instructor
walked up beside me said, You are
not quite what we were expecting. I
raised an eyebrow, but I didnt have
the energy to clarify whether that
was a good thing or a bad thing. I
just took it as a compliment. But
here is to Lieutenant Lauren Neal
and to not being what people are
expecting, a good rule for life. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Marines in combat training at Quantico Marine Corps Base as they prepare to head out
for Afghanistan. RICHARD JOHNSON
Comedian Joan Rivers (right) and
her daughter Melissa on February
9, 2013. AFP
Joan Rivers gets star-studded funeral she always wanted
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Worshippers carry burning incense sticks at Che Kung Temple. AFP
A spiritual
tour of HK
Melalin Mahavongtrakul

A
CLOUD of grey
smoke oated by
from a nearby cluster
of burning joss sticks.
A drum was beaten inside the
temples hall. Combined with
the sound of a cameras click-
ing shutter, they produced a
strange rhythm, one of age-old
beliefs and trendy invention.
Hong Kong may be a paradise
for anyone willing to shop un-
til they drop, but at odd turns
and corners, the city can also
whisk visitors on an unexpect-
ed spiritual journey.
On a hot summers day, we
visited Che Kung Temple in the
New Territories. The stern face
of Che Kung, a general during
the Southern Song Dynasty of
ancient China, boasted noth-
ing of the kindness people
believed he could bestow. The
statue towered above us all in
an imposing stance. Still, many
say he will grant your wishes.
During Chinese New Year,
this place can get very crowded
and busy. You wait for two to
three hours just to get in, said
Auntie Cherry, a plump Thai
lady who has been living in
Hong Kong for a long time and
was acting as our tour guide.
Che Kung Temple is oc-
casionally referred to as the
windmill temple, because of
the brass windmill that can be
seen next to the statue. If you
spin it, people say, it will bring
you luck the same way any
wheel of fortune does. A trick,
whispered Auntie Cherry, is to
spin it clockwise for a smooth
and obstacle-free life. We
all followed suit, spinning it
once, twice, thrice or more.
After beating on a small
drum, our worshipping rite
was over and we were ready
to move on to our next
destination.
Later, when
our blue bus
stopped at Re-
pulse Bay, many
were ready to run
for the beach,
but Aun-
tie Cherry led us the other way,
where we faced two statues and
a shrine overlooking the sea.
Kuan Yin goddess of mer-
cy. This statue symbolises love
and kindness, read the en-
graving on a marble sign, with
a golden dragon perched on
top. Kuan Yin (also Guan Yin
or Kwun Yam) gave an eternal
small smile to onlookers who
had their hands full of joss
sticks. On the other side stood
a statue of Chinese goddess of
the sea Tin Hau (or Mazu).
Auntie Cherry pointed out
a small statue in front of Kuan
Yin. A short line was already
forming, and people slowly
took turns putting their hands
on the statue. It was the god of
wealth. You had to stroke his
beard all the way to his money
pouch. It would bring us wealth,
our guide said. We all stroked
the statues smooth stone sur-
face and prayed that our wallets
would never be empty. It was in
vain, as we visited a shopping
street afterwards.
On a spiritual journey, it is not
a requirement to put your faith
to the test. But if you are afraid
of heights, faith could be some-
thing you can hold on to when
you visit the Tian Tan Buddha
(also known as Big Buddha) on
Lantau Island. Putting our lives
literally on the line, we opted
for the most popular means
to get to the island by board-
ing the Ngong Ping 360 cable
car. Since we aimed to travel in
style, we walked straight to the
Crystal Cabin service.
The cars featured a clear
glass bottom, making
us feel as though
we were oating
through the air.
The journey last-
ed just 25 min-
utes, though
it sure felt
like a life-
time for the
few of us
who didnt
dare look
d o w n .
B A N G K O K
POST
Tian Tan
Buddha.
AFP
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ACROSS
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LEGEND CINEMA
LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal,
turns the tables on her captors and transforms
into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human
logic.
City Mall: 9:10am, 11:50am, 1:45pm, 6:20pm,
7:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 1:50pm, 3:45pm, 8:20pm,
10:15pm
Meanchey: 11:20am, 1:15pm, 5:15pm, 9:35pm
VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic trig-
ger a ruthless war between rival ant colonies,
obsessed with gaining control of the same prize:
a box of sugar cubes
City Mall: 9:15am
Tuol Kork: 5:40pm
Meanchey: 5:35pm
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
The worlds most famous team of crime-fight-
ing, pizza-loving turtles fights an evil kingpin
who is trying to take over New York City.
City Mall: 3:20pm
Tuol Kork: 10pm
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot
named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a
manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the
villainous Ronan.
City Mall: 7:35pm
INTO THE STORM
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday
townspeople document an unprecedented
onslaught of tornadoes touching down.
City Mall: 8:15pm
Tuol Kork: 11:35am, 7:35pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
LUCY
(See above.)
9:30am, 1pm, 2:45pm, 6:45pm, 8:30pm
Dodgeball @ Indoor
stadium
A lesson for students with
intermediate abilities at 8pm,
followed by a party afterward. The
lesson costs $5, party is free.
The Groove, #1C Street 282 on top of
Terrazza Italian Restaurant. 8pm
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With corn tortillas made from scratch
and prepared in authentic taqueria
style. Buy one cocktail at the bar and
get one taco from the kitchen free for
the entire day.
Cocina Cartel, #198b Street 19.
11:30am
Tacos @ Cocina Cartel
Salsa @ The Groove
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Music videos @ Meta House
The game works by dodging, ducking,
dipping, diving and throwing. Intended
to provide a fun way to work out in a
relaxing atmosphere. All are welcome
from all skill levels. Cost is $1.50.
House #55-57 Street 123.
7:30pm
Music videos from the independent
record label Ninja Tune, based in
London. Acts to include Bonobo, Illum
and Kid Koala.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
9pm
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PENT-HOUSE APARTMENT
Rent $1900/M South Russian Mar-
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3Bed, 3Bathroom, Western
Kitchen, Very Nice River Views
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
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Area $900/M 1Bedroom, 1Bath
$1400/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958

VERY NICE /NEW VILLA FOR
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Big Living room, Wester Kitchen
4Bedroom, 5Bath, Full Furnish
Nice Garden Good for Resident
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
SWIM-POOL APARTMENT 4
Rent: in Tonle Basac, Roof Swim
Pool $750~$850/M for 1Bedroom
$1000~$1500/Month 2Bedroom
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
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1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
777 697
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
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1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958

NICE GARDEN VILLA FOR RENT
Boeung Kok2, Toul Kok Area
$3000/M, Big Living room Western
Kitchen 5Bedroom 5Ba
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 1 For RENT at monthly
price $275-$700, fully furnished,
receptionists, security guards, backup
power, elevator, safe environment
and security camera Location: #37,
ST. 111, Boeung Brolit
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 2 For RENT at monthly
price $620-$900. Fully furnished
1&2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, balcony, internet,
water, cable TV included. Location:
#31, ST. 113, Boeung Brolit
012 944 191 | 012 912 651

VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 3 For RENT, a fully
furnished 1 bedroom, nice river view
from your balcony, price $500/m
with free internet, water, cable TV,
maintenance Location: #112, St.
Tonle Sap (peninsular)
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 4 For RENT, a luxurious
2bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, monthly price 1,040$,
free for internet, water, cable TV.
Location: #247, ST.51 St. 360, BKK1
012 569 832| 012 944 191
VTRUST OFFICE
Centers- $10/M2 Facilities Included:
A/Cs, Carpeting oor, Lighting
system, exhausted fans, External
partition and large parking space
Location: Parkway Square, Mao
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Please visit VTRUSTServiced
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 9 , 2014 20
VILLA FOR RENT IN BKKI
4 bed with 5 bath located in BKKI,
Basic furnished, clean, Western
kitchen, big living room, balcony,
& nice garden, closed to ISPP, Super
market, UN ofce, and riverside.
Rent: $2500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL VILLA IN DP
for rent 05 bed with bath located in
DP, Basic furnished, clean, west-
ern kitchen, big living room, nice
swimming pool, big parking.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
BRAND NEW APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe, swim-
ming pool and gym on the top oor.
location: BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
for rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe,
swimming pool, gym, quiet.
Rent: 2400 USD/month Location:
BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
rent 1-2-3 beds, 3 bath, available
near Independence, fully furnished
quiet, many trees around, western
kitchen, bright inside Price :
$ 700-1700-2000/ m 012 503 356
for rent 1-2-3 bed, bath, furnished,
swimming pool, gym, some service
included in the rent, located in
CKM. Price: 1200 USD/ month.
Tel: 012 879 231
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
100sqm to 400sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24h security, elevator
Spacious 5 meter high ceilings Lots
of plants & light + 60 sqm.
Tel: 012 869 111 yellow-tower.com
American Pacifc School High quality programs for
ESL: Preschool Gr8, Khmer: Kindergarten Gr6 and
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Classes start: August 04, 2014
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Tel: (855)23 214 825 (Khmer/English)
(855)15 716 727 (Khmer)
E-mail: ppapsacis@gmail.com
Web: www.aps.edu.kh
STEVES STEAKHOUSE STEAK
Super Specials. Sirloin
(USA) $10.50 Or T-Bone (AUS) $11.50
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
LAO-Z FOOD
(At Steves Steakhouse)
Fresh Spring Rolls, Grilled Beef and
Stcky Rice @ only $5.50!
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
STEVES STEAKHOUSE CIGARS
Cuban or Cuban Quality Nicaraguan
Startng at $9. Buy any 2 cigars and shot of
single malt for free.
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
-Available 1bed, 2bed & 3bed
-Very safe, quiet locaton next to
Chinese Embassy.
-Spacious Parking, Lif, and Generator
(Safe for Blackout)
-Free water/garbage/gym/parking fee
-24h security system/18 CCTV/Smoke
& heat Detector System 24h
-Fully Furnished-incl. 42 LED, Fridge,
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E-mail: vinsavy@ymail.com
Tel: Khmer/Eng - 017562750
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NEW APARTMENT FOR RENT
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(GREAT LOCATION) LAND FOR
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300m from pub street (Siem Reap)
Size: 2136m
2
, Price: 234$/m
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Tel: 097 45 55 877
HOUSE FOR RENT (BUSINESS)
Location: near russian market
House size: 4m x 20m
Tel: 016 721 266/ 077 494 976
RESTAURANT FOR SALE
Location at Riverside area near
Night Market. 2 oors. Lease
$1000/M, 4 years left. Price $24,000.
Include Deposit 5000$
Contact: 070 475 230 (Eng),
: 010 66 56 92 (Kh&Eng)
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 9 , 2014 21
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent InBassakGardenCity, 04
bed, very largelivingroom, very nice
design, fully andmodernfurnished,
modernkitchen, nicebalcony, big
parkingandplayground, quiet &safe.
thebest locationfor residence.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKKI area 04 bedrooms, large &
open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
big parking and playground, quiet
& safety. the best location for resi-
dence and ofce. Price: $3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Daun Penh area (close to Inde-
pendent Monument), 04 bed , large
&open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
playground, quiet & safety. the best
location for residence and ofce.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN SWIMMING POOL
Villa For Rent In North bridge area,
05 bed plus 01 ofce room, large
living room, very nice design, fully
& modern furnished, nice pool &
garden, western kitchen, nice bal-
cony, big parking Price: $3,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed , large
living room, nice design, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, big parking &
playground, nice garden and trees,
quiet & safe. Price: $2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
RENOVATED VILLA FOR RENT
In BKK3 area, 05 bedrooms, big
living room, western kitchen, park-
ing and play ground, very good for
residence and ofce, very quiet and
safety area.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
1ST FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
For Rent In Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 03
bedrooms, large and open living
room, basic furniture, western
kitchen, garden and trees, quiet &
safety. Price: US$1,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
3RD FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
For Rent In Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 1 bed,
large and open living room, basic
furniture, western kitchen, very big
balcony with many owers, quiet &
safety. Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
1ST FLOOR KHMER HOUSE
For Rent In Boeung Trobek area,
02 bed, large and open living room,
basic furniture, western kitchen,
garden and trees, quiet & safety.
the best location for residence.
Price: US$650/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW APARTMENT
For Rent BKK1, 01-02 Bedrooms,
very nice interior designed, large
living room, very light, fully and
modern furniture, western Kitchen,
good condition for living, quiet &
safe. Price: US$800-1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, Large living room, fully
and modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
very good condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Rent Located in East of Russian
Market, 01-03 bed, large living
room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, roof top pool and
gym, nice balcony, lots of light, very
good condition for living.
Price: US$850-US$1,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed-
rooms, large living room, fully and
nice furnished, western kitchen,
very big balcony, very good condi-
tion for living, big parking lot.
Price: US$800-US$1,200/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in
BKKI, 01&02&03 bed, roof top pool
& gym, open living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, very safety area,
Price: $1,200-$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODER ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in Tonle
Bassak area (near Independent
Monument), 01&02 bed, roof top
pool & gym, open living room, fully
&modernfurnished, modernkitchen,
Price: $1,100-$1,400 m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
Rent Located in Daun Penh area
(near BKKI), 02 bed, open living
room, fully and nice furnished,
western kitchen, nice balcony, very
good condition for living, very quiet
and safety. Price: US$750/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Daun Penh
Area, 01-02-03 bed, modern design
and lots of light, open living room,
fully & modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, nice pool &
gym, very good condition for living.
Price: $1,200-1,500-2,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Wat Phnom
Area, 01-02-03 bedrooms, modern
design and lots of light, open living
room, fully and modern furnished,
western kitchen, very nice balcony,
nice pool and gym, good condition
for living. Price: $1,200-1,500m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
located in on the main street (near
Independent Monument),
230 sqm and $3000 per month,
big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
located in on the main street,
200sqm plus and 300 sqm plus
and $14 per sqm per month,
big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed,
large living room, very modern
designed, some furniture, western
kitchen, nice balcony, big parking
and playground, very safety, The
best location for residence.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At Tonle Bassak area,
04bedrooms, some furnished,
western kitchen, very safety, very
nice trees, very good condition for
living and ofce.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
COLONIAL WOODEN HOUSE
For Rent In Daun Penh, 03
bedrooms, some furnished, very
nice and clean kitchen, very safety,
very nice garden and many trees,
very good condition for living.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
MODERN-CLASSIC VILLA FOR
Rent At Toul Kork area, 03bed,
some furnished, western kitchen,
very safety and very quiet, very nice
trees, very good condition for living
and ofce. Price: US$1,500 /month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At BKKI, 03bedrooms, some
furnished, very niceandcleankitchen,
very safety, very nicetrees, very good
conditionfor livingandoffice.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000

TRADITIONAL 1ST FLOOR VILLA
For Rent Near Independent
Monument, 03 bedrooms, very
big and open living room, western
kitchen, big balcony, very good for
residence, very quiet and safety
area. Price: US$800/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

3RD FLOOR APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in Daun Penh area
(close to Independent Monument),
01 bedrooms, large living room,
some furnished, nice kitchen, quiet
& safe. big balcony, the best location
for residence.: US$450/m per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
Rent Located in BKKI, 01 bedroom,
open living room and kitchen, fully
and modern furnished, very safety
area, very quiet,
very good condition for living.
Price: USD750/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
Rent Located in Tonle Bassak area
(close to BKKI), 01 bedroom, open
living room and kitchen, fully and
modern furnished, very safety area,
very quiet, very good condition for
living. Price: 450/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
LocatedalongNorodomBlvd, 100to
1700sqm, bigparkinglot, bigelevator,
bigstaircase, 24hsecurity andmany
facilitiesaround.
Price: US$12- $14/monthper sqm.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000

Located a long Norodom Blvd,
400 sqm , parking lot, big
elevator, big staircase, 24h
security and many facilities
around.
Price: US $15/month per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
02FLATS ON BLVD STREET FOR
Rent located in on the main street,
size: 8x20m, 07bedrooms, 04
stories, very good for showrooms,
banks, micronance, and other
business purpose, big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
Price: US$5,500/sqm
02FLATS ON BLVD STREET FOR
Rent located in on the main street,
size: ground oor 8x20m and
rst oor is 12x16m, 03 stories,
very good for showrooms, banks,
micronance, and other business
purpose, big parking lot.
Price: US$3,500/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRANDNEWFACTORYFORRENT
A long road No 04 (Factory zone),
Size: 6600 sqm, electricity and
water are connected, very standard
quality, good environment, very
easy to nd workers. $1.8/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02
Bed, very nice interior designed,
large living room, very light, fully &
modern furniture, western kitchen,
very good condition for living, quiet
& safe. Price: $600-1,100/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
Sport
Ministry of Interior clean
sweep tennis Cup titles
THE Sar Kheng Tennis Cup
concluded its three days of
competition at the courts of
the National Sports Complex
on Sunday with Ministry of
Interior Club taking triumphs
in all seven of the categories.
Kan Sophan doubled up on his
Division A mens singles
success with gold in the mens
doubles alongside clubmate
Orn Sambath. Dim Sambath
won the Division B mens
singles while brothers
Chheang Sovan and Chheang
Mara topped the Division B
mens doubles. Sok Sam Art
and Yi Sophany won mixed
doubles and Yi Sophany also
paired up with Met Mariyan to
clinch the womens title. Sok
Vichet finished first in the U18
boys event. Winners of each
category received US$200,
while runners up got $150 and
third placers $100. YEUN PONLOK,
TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
Horschel holds on for
PGA Tour redemption
AMERICAN Billy Horschel held
off late charges on Sunday
from Sergio Garcia and Bubba
Watson to capture the BMW
Championship at Cherry Hills
golf course in Colorado and
claim a strong chance to win
the US PGA playoffs. Six days
after squandering a chance to
win in Boston by plunking an
approach into rough terrain on
the last hole, Horschel kept his
nerve down the stretch as
rivals faded to win the $1.4
million top prize. AFP
Bryan bros win 100th
title, will keep playing
BOB and Mike Bryan won their
100th doubles title on Sunday
when they defeated Spains
Marcel Granollers and Marc
Lopez for a fifth US Open crown
and vowed to keep on playing.
The top-seeded American
brothers swept to a 6-3, 6-4 win
over their 11th-seeded rivals
which gave them a 16th Grand
Slam title. The 36-year-old
world number one pair were
also champions in New York in
2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. AFP
Farah denies collusion
with training partner
MO Farah has dismissed
suggestions that one of his
training partners allowed him to
become the first British man to
win the Great North Run since
1985. Farah, who held off the
Kenyan Mike Kigen in a sprint
finish to win in exactly one hour,
was seen chatting to Kigen
with whom he shares a
management group a mile
from the finish. THEGUARDIAN
Leading ladies fight ready
Dan Riley and In Sopheng

T
HE rise of the Cambodian
mixed martial arts over the
past year has been meteoric to
say the least, with this Fridays
momentous ONE Fighting Champion-
ship ght card at Koh Pich Theatre an
idyllic introduction of the Kingdoms
top warriors to a global audience.
Of the 10 bouts slated for the event,
none mark the rapid development of
the local scene more than the opening
match between Cambodian females
Vy Srey Chai and Sam Tharoth.
Both have been involved in numer-
ous Kun Khmer (kickboxing) ghts on
home soil, although Tharoth has ex-
tensive experience in other disciplines
such as wrestling and the Cambodian
martial art of Bokator, in which she has
performed at competitions overseas.
The ladies have been ramping up
their training regimes over the past
few weeks but have differing concerns
in making weight for Fridays clash set
at 50 kilograms.
I have difculties to make the
weight because I have to cut down for
this ght, Srey Chai, of Kandal prio-
vinces Svay Ralom district, told the
Post. I follow my diet but just eat a
little.
Tharoth, 24, who was given the
nickname Little Frog as a youngster
due to her favourite nighttime activi-
ty of hunting the amphibians in Ban-
teay Meanchey province, noted that
she needed to pile on the pounds as
she usually trained under the speci-
ed weight.
The pugnacious pair asserted their
training had them well prepared for
by far the biggest match of their lives.
Im not nervous Im calm and
focused, Srey Chai said. I will do
my best and bring all the skills I have
learnt into the cage for my fans.
Tharoth, meanwhile, said: I feel so
excited and happy, more than I can
say, because I have never been ght-
ing such a big event before.
I will try my best on the September
12 to use all my tactics, which I have
never had a chance to show.
A shared notion between the two
was of the continued growth of the
sport among local females.
For Cambodian female MMA ght-
ers, if they give everything and show
commitment to ght in the cage, es-
pecially with ONE FC, I think they
will have good future because the or-
ganisation is so big and the event is
so exciting with international bouts,
said Tharoth.
If you love something or achieve
something, you have to overcome all
the difculties to get the goals. Even
though you have family problems,
keep focusing and pushing and never
give up.
Srey Chai, 18, also highlighted the
nancial benets of a career in MMA.
I think female mixed martial arts
will be good in the future because
when we win, we will get a lot of mon-
ey, she said.
If we stay at home and dont have
something to do, we should go to train
and go to the ght to make money.
An open workout today from 2pm
will see ONE FC yweight title con-
tender Adriano Moraes of Brazil join
Cambodias Suasday Chau and Chan
Reach for a demonstration of tech-
niques at function rooms 4 and 5 of
NagaWorld.
Cambodian female mixed martial artists Vy Srey Chai (left) and Sam Tharoth are all set for their 50kg clash in the opening contest of ONE
FC: Rise of the Kingdom this Friday at Koh Pich Theatre (pictured in the background). SRENG MENG SRUN
Williams downs Wozniacki for sixth US Open title
WORLD number one Serena
Williams won her 18th Grand
Slam title at last, overpower-
ing Caroline Wozniacki 6-3,
6-3 on Sunday to capture her
sixth US Open crown.
The world number one, shut
out in the first three majors of
the year, ended a year of wait-
ing as she joined Chris Evert
and Martina Navratilova on
18 majors trailing only the
22 of Steffi Graf on the Open
era list and six behind the all-
time record held by Margaret
Court.
Williams, who turns 33 later
this month, said the goal of an
18th Grand Slam had hung
over her because I was joining
Chrissy and Martina, someone
I never thought me, Serena
Williams, would be in that
name group.
Who am I? said Williams,
who grinned with delight as
Evert and Navratilova present-
ed her with a gold bracelet
bearing an 18 charm.
I never thought you would
mention my name with such
greats and legends.
Williams lifted the trophy at
Flushing Meadows for the
third straight year, joining
Evert as the only woman in the
Open era to win three titles in
a row and matching Everts six
US Open triumphs.
She also offered words of
encouragement to her beaten
foe, her friend and confidant
as both endured difficult
months this year.
Congratulations to Caro-
line, she knows the struggles I
have had, Williams said, add-
ing to her friend: You will win
a Grand Slam title soon.
But former world number
one Wozniacki, owner of 22
WTA titles, still has that gaping
hole on her resume.
The Dane was just 19 when
she lost to Kim Clijsters in the
2009 US Open final, and she
hadnt returned to a Grand
Slam title match until Sunday.
Williams finished with 29
winners to Wozniackis four,
belting a forehand to give her-
self match point.
That was the first moment
she felt sure of victory, Wil-
liams said. Other than that I
was really tight and nervous
the whole match, said Wil-
liams, who didnt drop a set in
the tournament. There was so
much on the line.
Williams began the year
boldly, with the possibility of
achieving a rare calendar
Grand Slam talked up by her
coach Patrick Mouratoglou
before the Australian Open in
January. That dream ended
with a fourth-round exit at
Melbourne.
An embarrassing second-
round exit at Roland Garros
was followed by a third-round
departure at Wimbledon
where she also looked weak
and disoriented in a bizarre
exit from doubles.
Since then Williams had
gone from strength to
strength, winning two US
hardcourt titles in the run-up
to the Open.
Her strong showing on the
hardcourts of America meant
she claimed a $4 million jack-
pot on Sunday $3 million for
winning the title and a $1 mil-
lion bonus as the winner of
the US Open Series points
race. AFP
Serena Williams of the US holds the US Open trophy after defeating
Denmarks Caroline Wozniacki in their womens singles nals. AFP
NFL American Football
Atlanta 37 New Orleans 34
Baltimore 16 Cincinnati 23
Chicago 20 Buffalo 23
Dallas 17 San Francisco 28
Houston 17 Washington 6
Kansas City 10 Tennessee 26
Miami 33 New England 20
New York Jets 19 Oakland 14
Philadelphia 34 Jacksonville 17
Pittsburgh 30 Cleveland 27
St Louis 6 Minnesota 34
Tampa Bay 14 Carolina 20
SUNDAYS RESULTS
Blatter stakes claim for
new FIFA chief term
FIFA president Sepp Blatter
said Monday that he will be a
candidate for a fifth term in
charge of world football in an
election next year. Yes I will be
ready. I will be a candidate,
Blatter said in a video speech
to a football conference in
Manchester. Blatter has been
FIFAs leader since 1998, but
has faced growing criticism
from European football chiefs
in recent months. The World
Cup is also embroiled in
controversy over the way the
2018 and 2022 tournaments
were decided. AFP
Sport
23
Dan Riley
THE 2014 Tiger Street Foot-
ball series concluded its third
and nal round on Sunday at
a specially constructed pitch
on the Singapore Sports Hubs
Riverside Walk.
A vociferous crowd of
around 1,500 witnessed Viet-
namese side Dat Vinh Tien
seal a thrilling 6-3 victory over
fellow nalists Blue Wolves of
Mongolia, in doing so claim-
ing the top prize of $40,000 in
cash.
Cambodian team Dan-
iel FC took a deserved third
after edging Singaporeans
Touch n Go 4-3. Daniel FC
had been handed heartbreak
in the seminals earlier in the
day, losing 1-0 to Blue Wolves
while Dat Vinh Tien beat
Touch n Go 4-2.
Anachak Baitong of Cam-
bodia nished fth in the
competition, which took in
stops at Phnom Penh and
the Mongolian capital Ulan
Bataar last month.
MNA of Singapore were
sixth, Australian squad Latin
Lovers came seventh and
bringing up the rear were
Mongolias MNS.
Headlining the event in
Singapore on Sunday was a
showcase of top regional tal-
ent picked by Portuguese leg-
end Deco playing against a
team comprised of the former
Barcelona and Chelsea play-
maker and his national team-
mates of yesteryear.
Adding to Decos previ-
ous round Star Selections of
Phon Chanudom and Dani
Kouch of Daniel FC and Blue
Wolves Turbat Daginna were
Sim Yi Long from Touch N Go
and Dat Vinh Tiens Nguyen
Quoc Bao.
Football to me has always
been about the heart. A game
to bring friends together, to
challenge one another and
to bring out the best in each
other, Deco said in a press
release.
I am so happy to have been
part of Tiger Street Football this
year [as its Ambassador]. It has
been a humbling and enjoy-
able experience spending time
with other players who wear
their passion on their sleeves.
I will take away many
memories, especially playing
against my talented Star Se-
lections! I wish all the partici-
pants the very best and hope
they keep their enthusiasm
alive, and congratulate Dat
Vinh Tien on their great and
deserving win.
Dat Vinh Tien roars to
success in Lion City
Hamilton top in Italy
T
WO weeks after their
collision at the Bel-
gian Grand Prix, Lew-
is Hamilton and Nico
Rosberg were on speaking
terms again on Sunday, put-
ting on a united front for Mer-
cedes after the teams seventh
one-two triumph of the year
in the Italian Grand Prix.
Hamilton, aggressive and
awless, drove with great
speed and daring to turn a
poor start, when he dropped
to fourth from pole position,
into the 28th win of his career
to trim the Germans lead in
the title race from 29 points
to 22. Nigel Mansell, with 31
wins, is the only Briton to have
accumulated more.
Rosberg, who buckled un-
der pressure and locked up
twice at the rst chicane while
leading, ended up 3.1 seconds
adrift in second place and, as
at Spa-Francorchamps, was
booed by some of the crowd
during the prize-giving on the
podium.
Hamilton reacted by ap-
plauding Rosberg and speak-
ing generously for the Mer-
cedes team, which, on Friday,
had made clear that their driv-
ers jobs were in danger if they
allowed their rivalry to spin
out of control again.
Of course, we are still
friends, Hamilton told former
Ferrari driver Jean Alesi on the
podium. Were teammates
and we always will be.
The words came easily but
did not match the mood after
a tense race that saw Hamil-
ton regain some ground and
popular Brazilian Felipe Mas-
sa deliver his rst podium
nish since joining Williams
from Ferrari.
Massa came third, 25 sec-
onds adrift of Hamilton, ahead
of his Williams teammate Valt-
teri Bottas, Australian Daniel
Ricciardo and his Red Bull
teammate four-time cham-
pion Sebastian Vettel. The
top four were all powered by
Mercedes engines and Wil-
liams success, in taking third
and fourth, lifted them to third
ahead of Ferrari in construc-
tors championship.
Dane Kevin Magnussen
nished seventh for McLar-
en ahead of Mexican Sergio
Perez of Force India, Briton
Jenson Button in the second
McLaren and Finn Kimi Raik-
konen of Ferrari.
Magnussen, however, picked
up a ve-second penalty and
was relegated to 10th by the
stewards. AFP
Winner Lewis Hamilton (left) sprays champagne with his trophy over third
placed Felipe Massa on the podium after the Italian F1 Grand Prix. AFP
2016 Euro Qualiers
Georgia 1 Rep of Ireland 2
Germany 2 Scotland 1
Gibraltar 0 Poland 7
Hungary 1 Northern Ireland 2
Faroe Islands 1 Finland 3
Greece 0 Romania 1
Denmark 2 Armenia 1
Portugal 0 Albania 1
SUNDAYS RESULTS
2016 Euro Qualiers
Kazakhstan v Latvia 11pm
Czech Rep v Netherlands
1:45am
Iceland v Turkey 1:45am
Andorra v Wales 1:45am
Bos-Herce v Cyprus 1:45am
Azerbaijan v Bulgaria 11pm
Croatia v Malta 1:45am
Norway v Italy 1:45am
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