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OH Kong provincial authori-
ties detained nine people,
including the founder of a
local environmental group
established to protect the Areng Valley,
for several hours yesterday after the
activists blocked security forces from
using an access road into the area.
As of press time, eight of the nine had
been released, while Alex Gonzalez-
Davidson, founder and president of
NGO Mother Nature, which helps
organises opposition to the construc-
tion of the planned Stung Cheay Areng
hydropower dam in the valley, was
unaccounted for.
Speaking shortly before he was
detained by mixed security forces yes-
terday afternoon, Gonzalez-Davidson
said the situation was tense.
Our cars blocking the road . . . A lot of
people came to block the access road.
Its very tense. They [the police] are talk-
ing to somebody high up. They dont
claim to be from the dam [company],
theyre from the interministerial com-
mittee, he said, referring to a govern-
ment committee set up to oversee the
planning of the dams construction.
Sin Samnang, 28, a Mother Nature
representative who was at the block-
ade prior to the activists being
detained, said that at about 1pm the
armed security forces ranks swelled
to about 50 officers.
Before this event, we saw some 20
soldiers and police forces armed with
guns. But later on, more and more came,
PHNONG RALLY
IN MKIRI TO
PROTEST ELCs
NATIONAL PAGE 3
BRITS BEATEN
TO DEATH AT A
THAI RESORT
WORLD PAGE 14
BIDDING A FOND
FAREWELL TO
THE IPOD
LIFESTYLE PAGE 17
Alice Cuddy and
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
WHILE yesterday marked a
year since the death of
29-year-old Mao Sok Chan
shot dead by security forces
during clashes at a Phnom
Penh bridge his family is
still waiting for justice.
Sok Chans mother,
57-year-old Tith Sang, told
the Post that after a year of
waiting, she remained in the
dark about the truth behind
her sons death.
I waited for the result of
the authorities investigation
but until now, it has been
hidden. The gunman has still
not been found, while my
son is dead. There is still no
justice, she said.
Sang added that she did
not believe the govern-
ments investigation would
offer any real justice but
hoped she would be
proved wrong.
I still demand that gov-
ernment officials find and
arrest the gunman who shot
my son to death and sen-
tence him, she said.
Construction worker Chan
had been trying to return
home across the Kbal Thnal
overpass on the evening of
September 15, 2013. Opposi-
tion protests elsewhere in the
city had resulted in extensive
roadblocks, with angry driv-
ers on the bridge engaging in
an unruly ad hoc protest
against authorities there.
Police ultimately opened fire
on the crowds, fatally shoot-
ing Sok Chan in the head.
In addition to his death,
numerous people were
Bridge
death
haunts
family
Standoff, arrests in Areng
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Nine detained in dam protest
In memoriam
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Nine detained in Areng standoff
Arrests after garment heist
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up to about 50 armed forces,
and they picked people up right
away, he said.
The group was brought to
Thma Bang District Hall for
questioning, he added.
The community did not allow
them [police] to enter. They
havent studied the impacts [of
the dam], but the authorities
talked about the compensation
instead, Samnang said.
The crackdown on the Areng
activists follows the blocking by
security forces of a bicycle ride
organised by Mother Nature in
Phnom Penh last month to raise
awareness of their cause.
China Southern Power Grid
unveiled the dam project in 2010
but later backed out, and China
Guodian Corporation soon took
over. The planned 104-mega-
watt Stung Cheay Areng project
was then taken over by Sinohy-
dro early this year. In its annual
report, Guodian said it had
abandoned the project because
it wasnt economically viable.
Activists are concerned that,
along with a host of negative
environmental and social
impacts, the dam concession
will be used as cover for illegal
logging and other side projects.
In February, Sinohydro
Resources Ltd, a holding com-
pany for Sinohydro Group, was
granted approval for six months
of extensive drilling, geological
mapping and prospecting at the
site, which the provincial direc-
tor of the Ministry of Mines and
Energy said at the time could
lead to mining operations if
minerals were found.
Major environmental groups
have publicly opposed the dam.
In April, Conservation Interna-
tional and Fauna & Flora Inter-
national wrote to Sawac Con-
sultants for Development, a
firm contracted by Sinohydro to
carry out an environmental
impact assessment for the
project, suggesting the dam
should not be built.
Grassroots resistance to the
proposed dam has grown since
January, with local residents
and activists blocking several
attempts by Sinohydro staff and
security forces to enter the val-
ley during a blockade of the
access road earlier this year.
The latest confrontation, in
Thma Bangs Pralay commune,
began after the activists heard
in the early hours of yesterday
that security forces would
attempt to access the valley,
Gonzalez-Davidson said.
Chhuch Rim, 27, an ethnic
Chorng villager at the blockade
yesterday, said the security
forces had become angry after
their path was blocked.
Alex used his pickup truck
to block the road with the peo-
ple to stop the authorities,
police and military police from
entering, he said. Before their
arrest, the authorities asked
the protesters to stand in sepa-
rate groups according to wheth-
er they were from the commu-
nities, the youth network
from Phnom Penh or Mother
Nature staff members.
In Kong Chheth, provincial
monitor for rights group Licad-
ho, said the security forces were
accompanied by provincial
Deputy Governor Phun Ly Vire-
ak, who he said was going to
visit the local community ahead
of the Pchum Ben festival.
The arrest is in revenge,
because the authorities were
not happy with Alex and his
activists who blocked the road
many times, Kong Chheth said.
So they accused them of inter-
fering with the governments
affairs and arrested them.
Ly Vireak told the Post that
only nine people were detained
for questioning.
We did not arrest them, but
instead, we just invited them for
questioning about why they
blocked the road like that. The
police did not handcuff them,
he said.
Touch Savuth, Thma Bang
district governor, and Sim Vary,
district police chief, could not
be reached for comment.
Kim Sarom
POLICE in Phnom Penhs Tuol Kork district
early yesterday morning arrested three suspect-
ed accomplices to four security guards accused
of drugging their co-workers and making off
with some 20,000 pairs of jeans from Roo Hsing
Garment Co, authorities said.
Chan Hai, chief of Teuk Laak III commune,
said that the three suspects were arrested after
allegedly selling the stolen jeans to buyers at
Hengly Market, where police discovered thou-
sands of kilograms of the high-end jeans.
On that night, I asked the deputy commune
chief to join in the inspection, and police seized
six bags of jeans, with each bag of jeans weighing
400 kilograms, he said. The stores owner was
asked to be interrogated by the prosecutor of
Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
A Tuol Kork district police official speaking on
the condition of anonymity said that the sus-
pects motodop Ku Koeurn, 49, and construc-
tion workers Keurn Chetra, 43, and Ther Sothy,
42 were busted just as they were packing the
jeans into the bags for other buyers.
The jeans were stolen in the wee hours of Sat-
urday, when four security guards working for
ESP Security Company allegedly spiked the cof-
fees of six of their fellow guards, causing them
to pass out. Two other guards on duty were also
asleep at the time of the robbery, but had not
been drugged.
Security camera footage showed the suspects
using a truck to haul away the clothing, which
reportedly had an estimated retail value of about
$1 million.
According to the police official, the suspects
thought to have carried out the heist have been
identified as security guards Meas Sakun, 29, Seng
Sokhorn, 20, Ong Rotha, 26, and Pen Long, 30.
Police have said that they will only take action
against the security company that employed the
suspects if it is unable to reach an agreement
with the garment factory.
Riot police retreat from civilians throwing projectiles during a violent clash on the Kbal Thnal overpass in
Phnom Penh last September, during which a man was shot and killed. PHA LINA
Bridge death haunts family
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injured by police wielding elec-
tric prods and batons, and shoot-
ing live ammunition to disperse
what they called a violent mob.
Sang said that financial dona-
tions from, among others, the
Cambodia National Rescue
Party and Queen Mother Noro-
dom Monineath, had paid for
Sok Chans funeral and funded
a plot of land for her daughter-
in-law and grandchildren to
build a home and make a life.
But the money has since dried
up, and Sok Chans widow,
30-year-old Kiv Sokvy, now
endures a daily struggle to raise
her four young children alone
and with little money.
Sokvy said plans to hold a cer-
emony to mark the anniversary
of her husbands death had not
been possible because of finan-
cial constraints.
I wanted to do it for him, but
I couldnt, because I dont have
enough money, she said in
tears, adding that she and her
four daughters, aged between 2
and 7, prayed for him at the
pagoda yesterday morning.
In a statement released yes-
terday to mark the Internation-
al Day of Democracy, the Cam-
bodian Center for Human
Rights criticised the authorities
for ignoring Sok Chans death.
To date, no transparent and
independent investigation has
been undertaken into the actions
of the security forces on that
night, despite promises by the
Minister of Interior to investigate
these events, the statement
reads, adding that it is an exam-
ple of the way impunity hinders
Cambodias development.
But Council of Ministers
spokesman Phay Siphan yester-
day said that the government
had fulfilled its job of investigat-
ing the incident.
There have been investiga-
tions . . . the government [inves-
tigation] is done, the courts is
still ongoing, Siphan said.
When asked if the results of
the investigation would be
made public and if anyone
would ever be prosecuted over
Sok Chans death, Siphan said:
We let the court decide.
National Military Police
spokesman Kheng Tito referred
all questions about the investi-
gation to the Interior Ministry.
Interior Ministry officials
could not be reached yesterday,
while municipal court spokes-
man Ly Sophanna said he was
out of the office and could not
answer a reporters questions.
Opposition lawmaker Yim
Sovann told the Post that the
CNRP planned to bring the issue
to the National Assembly.
We need to bring the killer to
justice; killing people is crimi-
nal, Sovann said. Criminality
lasts forever unless they are
prosecuted.
Sovann added that the party
also wanted transparent inves-
tigations into the deaths of at
least five others killed by secu-
rity forces during a garment
strike in early January. Those
killings have also seen no
prosecutions.
We want to eliminate a cul-
ture of impunity, he said.
But Ny Chakrya, chief investi-
gator at rights group Adhoc, said
an investigation was unneces-
sary as the culprits were already
well known. This case doesnt
need investigation, because we
have all the evidence. At the
time, it was police and military
police there, he said.
Chakrya added that an inde-
pendent judiciary was the key
to justice being achieved.
Its very clear to see [this] as
evidence that the court is not
independent from politics. It is
a tool of the ruling party,
he said.
But for Sok Chans family, the
politics surrounding their loss
is meaningless.
Remembering the times she
shared with her husband, Sokvy
said the past year has been the
worst of her life.
Workers flee S Arabia
Laignee Barron and Sen David

A
S CAMBODIA con-
tinues to consider
inking a deal to ship
workers to Saudi Ara-
bia, seven migrants have al-
ready ed notoriously poor la-
bour conditions in the Middle
Eastern nation.
The workers were enlisted by
a private construction compa-
ny in Jeddah, according to the
Thai Embassy in Saudi Arabia,
which is assisting the men in the
absence of a Cambodian diplo-
matic presence in the county.
They came to the embassy
on August 18 because they
did not know where else to go
for help, said an embassy of-
cial who declined to provide
his name. Their employer
had delayed their salary for
two months.
The men told the embassy
that they wanted to return
home because the work was
too heavy, according to the of-
cial, who added that the seven
had all been legally employed
in Saudi Arabia, with the proper
visa and work permit.
The Cambodian Ministry of
Labour has repeatedly said that
it has not yet dotted all the is in
a pending memorandum of un-
derstanding to send workers to
Saudi Arabia. Labour Minister
Ith Sam Heng said in May that
the agreement would be signed
as soon as possible following
an examination of conditions
in the host country.
Until now, there is no re-
cruitment rm licensed to send
workers to Saudi Arabia . . . but
workers can still go on their
own by contacting an employer
directly, said An Bunhak, direc-
tor of Top Manpower Co Ltd.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly
come under re for a spate of
abuse scandals involving for-
eign workers. In 2011, Indo-
nesia placed a moratorium on
sending domestic workers to
the country after the beheading
of a maid found guilty of killing
her abusive employer.
With Cambodia already
seeing victims from the coun-
try come home, Am Sam Ath,
senior monitor of the rights
group Licadho, urged the gov-
ernment to reconsider send-
ing workers to the country.
The seven Cambodians cur-
rently staying at the Thai Em-
bassy are set to be repatriated
on Wednesday.
Due to the Thai embassys
intervention, the employer paid
their wages and paid for their
airfare home, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Koy Kuong said in a
statement yesterday.
Kuong added that six Cam-
bodians trafcked as brides to
China were also set to return the
same day on ights paid for by
an international organisation.
A total of 15 women cur-
rently remain in China awaiting
ights, several of whom were
informed by Chinese ofcials
that they could not leave before
obtaining a divorce from their
forcibly wedded husbands,
rights monitor Adhoc said.
The women were told this
is Chinese law, said Adhocs
Chhan Sokunthear, adding that
she didnt know why the regula-
tion was selectively applied.
In the last month, six Cambo-
dian brides have returned from
China after intervention from
aid groups and benefactors.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Position:Technical Ofcer for Agriculture
Location: Phnom Penh
Closing Date: 29 September 2014
General Description
The purpose of this position is to provide high quality
technical support and service to long term development
programmes that are designing and implementing agriculture
development and economic development interventions while
at the same time networking, coordinating and collaborating
with Government, INGOs/NGOs, and private sector to
enhance World Vision agriculture and economic development
programming.
Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Agriculture Sciences or any related 1.
to Food Security eld.
At least 7 years experiences in Agriculture technique 2.
Experience in eld demonstration or experimentation, 3.
TOT on Agriculture technique
Good communication skill, 4.
English prociency both written and speaking 5.
Have some DME knowledge 6.
Computer literate; Microsoft Word and Excel 7.
Able to embrace organizational values towards the 8.
mission of WVC
Position: Sector Technical Ofcer for Education
Location: Phnom Penh
Closing Date: 29 September
General Description
To provide sector technical support to ADPs in all LEAP
processes and in close collaboration with LEAP department
towards achieving quality in sector projects, alignment with
national secondary strategic plans and fullling the goal of
transformational development with partner communities.
Requirements:
Participate data collection for new project and review 1.
assessment report.
Manage network meeting to build capacity of project 2.
coordinators.
Recommend on assessment tools to be used in aligning 3.
with education strategy.
Review assessment report and develop 4.
recommendations for projects
Support in design process with ADP including 5.
developing design method and tools and ensuring the
quality of data analysis.
Provide onsite technical and training support to Project 6.
Coordinators, including adoption of common standards
and tools and input on innovative practices
Position: Consultancy Service for Project Evaluation
Location: Phnom Penh
Closing Date: 19 September 2014
General Description
This evaluation report is aimed to provide and share
lessons learnt of the Operations, ADPs and other interested
practitioners who working on ood recovery activity.The
main activities being implemented under project:
Restoration and rehabilitation of damaged small
infrastructures: sidewalks, roads, latrines, culverts and
soils lling
Promoting livelihoods through provision of dry
and wet-seasonal rice seeds, cash crop production,
vegetable seed, chickens and ducks-raising
Capacity-building through provide the technical
training orientations, exchange visits, reection
workshops, etc. to the affected HHs.
Requirements:
A degree in development management, social science 1.
and other relevant professional skills.
A least 4 years experience in strategy development 2.
experience, preferably with disaster management,
climate change, and food security or related eld.
Demonstrated quantitative (statistical) and qualitative 3.
data collection and analysis expertise.
Experience in leading project/program evaluation an 4.
advantage.
Strong English skills, both verbal and writing. 5.
Highly develop interpersonal skills 6.
Willing to travel to the remote area of doing 7.
research.
Interested applicants should obtain an application
form from WVC ofce or download from WVC
Website and submit a cover letter, Personal CV, and
ONLY photocopies of relevant formal Education
certicates such as High School certicate, university
degree, etc. : HR Department,World Vision Cambodia
# 20, St.71, Sangkat Tonle Basak, Khan Chamkamorn,
Phnom Penh, P.O Box. 479 Tel: 023 216 052.
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Email to: cam_recruitment@wvi.org.
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Wildlife savers
Gibbon, big
cat rescued
in July raids
C
ONSERVATION group
Wildlife Alliance rescued
333 animals, including an
endangered pileated gibbon, in
12 provinces during the month of
July, the NGO announced on its
website yesterday.
The Wildlife Rapid Rescue
Team successfully conducted 46
operations based on 79 calls to
the teams 24-hour hotline,
the organisation said.
One operation on July 1 saw
the team rescue a pileated
gibbon and a leopard cub from
captivity in Kampot province.
The animals were subse-
quently sent to the Phnom
Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center
in Takeo province after those
keeping the animals as pets
were made aware that it was
unsafe, illegal and inhumane,
Wildlife Alliance said.
Other rescued animals includ-
ed seven pygmy slow lorises, a
sun bear, two crested serpent
eagles and dozens of other
birds, snakes and turtles.
Of the 79 calls made to the
Wildlife Rescue Hotline, 11 came
from Forestry Administration
ofcials, 21 from the general
public and 41 from informants.
PHAK SEANGLY
Gun used
to coerce
sex: judge
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A FORMER police officer at the
Ministry of Interior was tried
yesterday by Phnom Penh
Municipal Court for allegedly
raping a 20-year-old garment
factory worker in August 2013.
Judge Keo Mony stated that
Heng Paris, 34, lured the
victim to eat soup and sing
karaoke with him in Phnom
Penh.
During the karaoke, he
forced her to drink beer until
she got drunk. And when she
got drunk, he brought her to a
guest house and raped her,
Mony said.
Phath Phalla, deputy anti-
human trafficking police chief
for Phnom Penh, said Paris
threatened the victim with a
gun when they arrived at Moha
Sambath Guesthouse in Tuol
Kork district, and again once
they reached the room, where
he allegedly raped her.
Paris denied the accusation,
saying he had consensual sex
with the victim, who he claimed
was his longtime girlfriend.
She was my girlfriend, and
we loved each other for two
years, he told the court. A ver-
dict is due on September 30.
Phnong rally in Mondulkiri
Chhay Channyda

A
BOUT 200 ethnic
Phnong villagers
gathered in Mon-
dulkiri provinces
Bousraa commune yesterday
to protest against several com-
panies that hold economic
land concessions in the area,
which they say are destroying
their traditional livelihoods.
The villagers from Pech
Chreada district accused the
Kau Su Dak Lak Company
and French-owned rubber gi-
ant Socn of digging channels
that blocked roads used by the
villagers, cutting off access to a
nearby forest where they har-
vest forest products.
The villagers also accused a
company called LKL of ring
on ethnic minority villagers
on September 6 when they
stopped to take a break from
hunting in a community forest
in the same district.
Malaysian-owned Mega First
Corporation and a rm the vil-
lagers called K-First had also
indicated that they might ob-
struct roads used by the villag-
ers, community representative
Khut Chanra, 38, claimed.
Following the demonstra-
tion yesterday morning, vil-
lagers met with Pech Chreada
district governor and Bousraa
commune chief Yeut Trin.
We asked them to cancel
some companies concessions
because they red on people,
causing injuries in the past.
[We also] asked for freedom
of movement, to not let them
block our road. We want a
written promise or else we
will not stop protesting and
we will go to Phnom Penh,
Chanra said.
But the authorities said it
was not their responsibility.
We used to live in harmony in
a traditional indigenous man-
ner, but since the development
started in 2006, it has affected
our living, he added.
Commune chief Trin told
the Post that he would seek a
resolution for the community,
but that some of what they
were asking was beyond my
responsibility. He declined to
comment further.
So Sovann, deputy provin-
cial police chief, said that the
authorities had identied the
assailants in the shooting inci-
dent last week.
There is a sole shooter and
he is on the run. We also ques-
tioned the company. I ordered
the district police chief to send
me the case, he said.
Ethnic minority villagers from Pech Chreada district hold placards during a demonstration in Mondulkiri to
raise awareness about ongoing disputes with holders of economic land concessions. ADHOC
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Laignee Barron
and Chhay Channyda
AMID a mounting series of la-
bour registration reforms that
has left many workers at a loss
as to the route to legal employ-
ment in Thailand, authorities
there have quietly slipped in
another new regulation that
could impact thousands of
Cambodians crossing the bor-
der each day for work.
The latest reform would
grant day labourers employed
in specied areas along the
border a special work permit
without rst having to obtain a
passport, Thailands permanent
secretary for labour, Jirasak Suk-
honthachat, said yesterday.
Under the previous system,
thousands of merchants, ven-
dors and farm workers tra-
versed the border each day on
weeklong border passes. But
Thai ofcials claim the long-
used informal system is illegal:
the border passes permit visit-
ing and shopping, but do not
provide legal working rights.
Some vendors at the Rong
Kluea market opposite Poipets
border checkpoint said they are
already familiar with the new
process, which involves obtain-
ing a card issued by Thai au-
thorities for 22,000 riel ($5.50).
Our card is valid for six
months for use to and from
Rung Kluea market only, said
Noun Nikida, a carter, who
added that the cards started
appearing in the past month or
two. If we dont have it, we will
be regarded as illegal.
Thailand has sought to over-
haul its migrant labour poli-
cies since the junta took power
in May. Among those reforms,
Thailand announced last month
that it had signed agreements
with its neighbours introduc-
ing temporary passes for special
economic zones along the bor-
der. A timeline for the system
taking effect was not revealed.
Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Koy Kuong could not be
reached for comment on the
new system, which labour
monitors say requires clarity for
the sake of the workers.
It seems that the Thai gov-
ernment is trying to make legal
a process that is actually already
happening, said Sara Piazzano,
country director of the USAID-
funded Counter Trafcking in
Persons CTIP II Program. It is
important to keep migrants well
informed and able to easily ac-
cess [the] system in order to re-
duce the dependency on [bro-
kers/]middle men. ADDITIONAL
REPORTINGBY THE BANGKOKPOST
New system puts Thai
day-trippers on notice
Wage fight heating back up
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan

N
EGOTIATIONS for
next years garment
sector minimum
wage heated up yes-
terday, as eight labour union
leaders threatened another in-
dustry-wide walkout, one even
larger than the 10-day strike
that began on December 25, if
their demands are not met.
I want to send message . . .
that if the negotiation this
year is similar to last years,
I think a bigger strike will
happen, Seang Sambath,
president of the Workers
Friendship Union Federa-
tion, said yesterday at a press
conference.
But signs of accommodation
were evident too. As unions
prepare the public campaign
for a $177 minimum monthly
wage with a protest outside
about 300 factories planned for
tomorrow, Ath Thorn, president
of the Coalition of Cambodian
Workers Democratic Union,
said they would be willing to
accept as little as $150.
The prospect of a strike the
size of the one that crippled
the industry towards the end
of last year is unnerving, ac-
cording to Ministry of Labour
spokesman Heng Sour. That
strike abruptly ended on Janu-
ary 3 when military authorities
shot at least ve demonstrators
dead during a violent protest
on Veng Sreng Boulevard.
Of course we are scared, but
we still have faith in the labour
unions, Sour said, warning
that repercussions are out of
the ministries hands if a strike
turned violent. If they cross
the line then they are the ones
responsible for the conse-
quences.
As union leaders spoke with
the press, Free Trade Union
(FTU) president Chea Mony,
one of six union leaders charged
with crimes allegedly commit-
ted during last years strike, was
questioned in Phnom Penh
Municipal Court.
Investigating judge Chea
Sokheng ordered Mony to re-
port to police monthly and not
participate in any public pro-
tests, like Thorn and Collective
Union of Movement of Workers
president Pav Sina, who were
already questioned.
Mony, who said FTU is not
part of the minimum wage
campaign, believes the charges
and questioning to be politi-
cally motivated.
The union leaders . . . [the
court] blocks in order to prevent
them from joining any [protests
during] this case, Mony said
through a translator.
Union leader Chea Mony (centre) leaves Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday after being questioned about
his involvement in violent garment strikes in December and January. HENG CHIVOAN
National
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National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Gang of hooligans beat
duo, flee into the night
TWO men were badly injured in
Sen Sok district early yesterday
when a gang of teens attacked
them over a perceived traffic
slight. Police said the two men
were riding a motorbike home
when they overtook a group of
seven teens. Apparently
incensed that the men had the
gall to pass them, the teens
blocked their bike, brutally
beating the men with their fists,
feet and nearby stones. The
neer-do-wells fled before the
arrival of police. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Hands up, hoes down
as cousins drop dime
A FAMILY spat allegedly turned
into a hoe attack in Banteay
Meancheys Sisophon town on
Saturday. According to police, a
28-year-old woman had a bit
too much to drink before visiting
her cousins. Upon seeing her
state, the cousins criticised her
drinking, enraging the woman,
who allegedly grabbed a nearby
hoe and struck her cousins on
their heads and bodies. Neigh-
bours intervened and called
police, who arrested the hoe-
wielding woman. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Pagoda theft backfires
on not-so-devout teen
A TEEN pretending to be a
devout Buddhist proved to be
anything but at a capital pago-
da on Saturday. Police said the
teen had struck up a conversa-
tion with an arriving farmer,
telling him to hurry to make his
offering of food before meal-
time ended. When the farmer
left, the teen hopped on his
moto and tried to speed off, but
a guard at the pagodas gate
blocked him. In a display that
was perhaps unbefitting of the
Buddhist principle of nonvio-
lence, bystanders then pro-
ceeded to rough up the suspect
until police arrived. NOKORWAT
Duo hope to furnish
the appropriate alibi
THE tables turned on Sunday
for two unlucky men accused,
respectively, of stealing and
buying stolen furniture in Kra-
ties Sambor district. Police said
three men had broken into the
victims house last month and
stolen many items, including a
table. When the victim spotted
the table at another mans
house, he filed a complaint
immediately. Police arrested
the tables new owner who
had just finished serving a pris-
on sentence for theft last year
and he identified the three men
he had bought it from. Police
nabbed one. NOKORWAT
Woman stops break-in
despite bathroom break
A WOMAN in the capitals
Meanchey district didnt let get-
ting caught with her pants down
stop her from preventing a rob-
bery yesterday. Police said a
woman had broken into the vic-
tims rental room while she was
in the bathroom, grabbing a
necklace, a ring and a bracelet.
The victim, spying the suspect
from the bathroom, loudly called
for help, bringing neighbours
running. The suspect was
detained, and the crowd gave
her a quick working-over before
police arrived. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Hunting accident
Man killed
on Kampong
Speu hunt
A
32-YEAR-OLD was shot
and killed by his step-
father during a hunting
excursion in Kampong Speu
province on Sunday after the
older man apparently confused
him for a wild pig, according to
commune ofcials.
According to Kong Soeun, the
chief of Phnom Sroch districts
Taing Samrong commune, a
group of nine people were out
hunting together in the area
when Say Chhoung, 60, asked
Reoun Ra, his 32-year-old step-
son, to nd the pig and chase it
while he lay in wait.
But when Chhoung nally red
his gun at what he allegedly be-
lieved was the pig, he shot Ra.
The father said he had
confused his son for a wild pig.
He shot him dead. And when he
reached the area, and he saw that
it was his son, he was so sorry,
Soeun explained.
But commune police chief
Seang Sareth said that Chhoung
had now escaped.
We are investigating because
even if the stepfather was con-
fused when shooting, why did he
have a gun [in the rst place?]
. . . And now he has escaped.
SEN DAVID
Settle land dispute or else
Pech Sotheary

T
HE head of the Na-
tional Assemblys top
human rights com-
mission has warned
Banteay Meancheys provincial
governor to settle a land dispute
involving 230 disabled soldiers
families from the provinces
Malai district, saying he will be
sacked if the matter is not set-
tled within three months.
After meeting representa-
tives of the soldiers families,
CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay
Eang, president of the Com-
mission on Human Rights,
Complaints and Investigation,
said authorities had turned a
blind eye to the dispute.
If the provincial governor
fails to settle this matter, we
will summon him for ques-
tioning, and we will ask the
government to sack him if
necessary. If he does not re-
spect the guidelines, how can
we allow him to be the provin-
cial governor? said Eang.
Him Yoeun, one of the three
representatives of soldiers
mostly ex-Khmer Rouge ght-
ers said they would only re-
turn to the negotiating table
if they were given a guarantee
they wouldnt be arrested.
Unless we have a conr-
mation letter saying we will
not be arrested by any institu-
tion, we will not come back,
because in the past, when our
representatives went, they
were arrested. It has already
happened twice.
But according to Banteay
Meanchey Governor Kor Sum
Saroeut, the case is particular-
ly complicated, because other
people had since moved onto
parts of the disputed land.
Other people have occu-
pied the land, so we have to
negotiate with them and ne-
gotiate with our own authori-
ties, and then we can settle,
he said, adding that the rep-
resentatives would not be ar-
rested if they came.
According to the represen-
tatives, 2,929 hectares of dis-
puted land were given to the
230 disabled soldiers families
by Prime Minister Hun Sen
in 1997, but seven years ago,
their former commanders
Mao Kiri, Preap Sarun and Ly
Utny sold the land to a third
party. They have been protest-
ing ever since.
Double-amputee Sok Phat
urged the authorities to of-
fer them land titles soon and
bring infrastructure to their
home district.
Villagers from Banteay Meancheys Malai district sit opposite the National Assembly yesterday in Phnom
Penh, where community representatives were delivering a letter addressing their concerns. VIREAK MAI
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Business
Audi opens
dealership
in capital
Hor Kimsay
AUTOMOTIVE Asia (Cambo-
dia), the only authorised dealer
of Audi vehicles in Cambodia,
opened its first showroom in
Phnom Penh yesterday.
The 2,000-square-metre
showroom on Monivong Boul-
evard currently holds just two
of the German carmakers
models, the Q7 and the A8L,
with prices ranging between
$135,000 and $206,000.
The number of people who
are wealthy is not such a large
market, but [it is] still big
enough for at least one show-
room like this one to be doing
a profitable business, Laurent
Genet, chairman of Automo-
tive Asia Cambodia, said.
This has been our experience
in other emerging countries.
Audi is the latest luxury car
brand to enter the local market,
with Mercedes-Benz, BMW,
Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Range
Rover and Porsche all now with
their own showrooms.
Pily Wong, chief executive of
Hung Hiep Group the Cam-
bodian distributor of Mercedes
Benz and Volkswagen said the
increasing number of dealer-
ships helps deter people from
buying grey market imports.
Grey importers dont have
professional maintenance serv-
ices and in many cases import
cars without knowing the cars
history, Wong said. I am more
afraid of competition from these
unfair car dealers. More car
brands coming to Cambodia I
think it is very healthy.
A Chinese national waits with his passport to disembark a plane at Phnom Penh International Airport late last month. SCOTT HOWES
Green-lit airlines target China
Eddie Morton
C
AMBODIAS aviation
authority yesterday
approved operations
for the rst of three
Chinese market-focused air-
lines, all of which are expected
to take to the skies by the end
of the year.
The State Secretariat of Civil
Aviation granted an Airline
Operations Certicate (AOC)
to Apsara International Air
(AIA) owned jointly by pri-
vate Chinese and Cambodian
investors after a more than
yearlong application process.
Safety is our most serious
concern, and we must main-
tain our commitment to the
safe operations of new airlines
in Cambodia, Chea Aun, un-
der-secretary of state for the
SSCA, said during the approval
ceremony, which ended with a
champagne toast.
AIA will initially commence
domestic ight operations
between Phnom Penh and
Siem Reap with a single Air-
bus A320, according to CEO
Zhang Xiao Peng. However,
the Chinese-backed rm has
ambitious expansion plans.
Well start domestic ights
around September 20, Peng
said. Beginning next year we
will start ights from Cambo-
dia to China. In 2015 we will y
from Cambodia to 25 cities in
China. Then in 2016 and 2017
we will expand our destina-
tions to Japan and Korea and
by the year 2019, we estimate
we will have up to 50 aircraft.
Yesterdays SSCA approval of
AIA is only the beginning, ac-
cording to Mok Sam Ol, chief
ight operations inspector at
the SSCA, who conrmed that
two more approvals would be
made by December.
[B]oth Bassaka Air and Bay-
on Airlines will be approved
by the end of the year also,
Sam Ol said.
Bassaka Air, a startup that
has partnered with travel
agency China International
Travel Services, aims to com-
mence ights from Phnom
Penh to China with two Airbus
A320s as early as this month.
Meanwhile, Cambodia Bay-
on Airlines, a wholly owned
subsidiary of local company
Bayon Holdings, has received
an undisclosed investment
from the Aviation Industry
Corporation of China to launch
a new Cambodian carrier.
Like Apsara, Bayon plans
to rst commence domestic
ight operations by Decem-
ber with two Xian Aircraft
Industry Company MA60
aircraft before expanding
its eet and destinations to
China.
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Smashing time
Samsung
alleges LG
played dirty
S
AMSUNG said on Sunday
it had requested a state
investigation of senior ex-
ecutives from its South Korean
rival LG for allegedly destroying
its products at stores in Berlin,
renewing a bitter feud between
the electronics giants.
Samsung complained
earlier this month that
several washing machines at
two major electronics stores
in the German capital were
found damaged in the same
manner.
The incident took place
during the high-prole IFA
trade fair in Berlin, where
major electronics giants
including Samsung and LG
showcase their latest gad-
gets and appliances.
Surveillance video footage
showed several Asian men
later identied as executives
from the rival rm destroy
door hinges of the washers
and leave, Samsung said.
LG rejected the accusa-
tion but also snapped back,
saying: washing machines
from a certain company
appeared to have far weaker
door hinges than those from
others. AFP
Android One hits India at $105
G
OOGLE Inc will offer
customers in India
the Android One, a
low-cost phone ca-
pable of internet access, to win
users in the fastest growing
smartphone market.
The phone, featuring a Me-
diaTek Inc quad-core proces-
sor and a 4.5-inch screen, will
start at $105, vice president
Caesar Sengupta said in New
Delhi yesterday. The handsets
made by Micromax Informat-
ics Ltd, Karbonn Mobiles India
Pvt and Spice Mobility Ltd will
be available online on Ama-
zon.com Incs India website
and at Flipkart Online Services
Pvt and Snapdeal.com.
The low-cost phone may
help Googles Android software
add rst-time internet users
in India, where most people
get online using smartphones
rather than computers. Rival
Mozilla Corp introduced a $33
smartphone running its Fire-
fox operating system in the
worlds second-most populous
nation last month.
We expect India to be the
second largest internet mar-
ket by 2017, Sundar Pichai,
senior vice president at the
Mountain View, California-
based company, said in New
Delhi. And its happening
due to mobile.
About 76 per cent of 243 mil-
lion web users in India access
the internet on smartphones,
according to a July report by
We Are Social, a social media
marketing company based in
London. The South Asian na-
tion had 797 million active
wireless subscribers as of July,
according to the Telecom Reg-
ulatory Authority of India.
Android One should be play-
ing in the volume sweet spot
of the India smartphone mar-
ket, Mohammad Chowdhury,
Leader Telecom at PwC India,
said in an email. This market
will generate 80 million-plus
shipments this year and so
there is a lot to play for.
Google plans to offer the An-
droid One platform to Asian
markets including Indonesia,
Philippines, Bangladesh, Paki-
stan and Sri Lanka by the end
of this year, it said in the state-
ment. The developer of mobile
software will partner with com-
panies including Panasonic
Corp, Acer Inc, Lenovo Group
Ltd, HTC Corp and Qualcomm
Inc on the devices.
India is just a start for us,
Pichai said. Well learn here
and use this as template for
other countries. BLOOMBERG
The Spice Android One Dream Uno smartphone, manufactured by Spice Mobility Ltd, sits on display during
the Google Android One smartphone launch event in New Delhi yesterday. BLOOMBERG
Top Chinese
FTZ ofcial
is removed
CHINA has removed a senior
ofcial of its much-heralded
Shanghai free trade zone
(FTZ) less than a year after it
was opened, state media said
yesterday, amid reports that
he was under investigation
for corruption.
The ofcial Xinhua news
agency said Dai Haibo was no
longer the Communist Party
chief and executive deputy di-
rector of the zone, which was
set up on September 29 last
year. It gave no reason.
Hong Kongs South China
Morning Post yesterday quot-
ed anonymous sources as
saying he was suspected of
disciplinary violations, a
phrase which typically refers
to corruption.
Dai was the public face of
the FTZ, appearing at news
conferences and running the
zones administration on a
day-to-day basis.
When China launched the
FTZ last year, ofcials prom-
ised widespread reform in-
cluding free convertibility of
the yuan currency, but the
slow pace of change has frus-
trated businesses, especially
foreign companies operating
in the country. AFP
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Business
Post Staff
THE National Bank of Canada
yesterday announced an in-
crease in its stake in Advanced
Bank of Asia (ABA).
According to a statement
issued by the banking insti-
tutions, the National Bank of
Canada now holds 30 per cent
of ABA following an initial ac-
quisition of 10 per cent in July.
With the completion of the
second part of the transaction
we are moving to a new level
of cooperation with Nation-
al Bank of Canada, Askhat
Azhikhanov, CEO of ABA Bank,
said in a release.
Karen Leggett, executive
vice president of marketing
and corporate strategy at Na-
tional Bank of Canada, said
via a statement that her rm
had been eying Cambodias
for months.
This transaction is all the
more meaningful for National
Bank of Canada as it allows us
to become the rst major North
American nancial institution
to enter the Cambodian bank-
ing sector, she said.
Bigger ABA
stake for
Bank of
Canada
Optimism after a slow start
Chan Muyhong
D
ESPITE delays in
planting rice for
production for this
years rainy season,
ofcials said yesterday that
they where hopeful of greater
yields this year, as water levels
have been more forgiving than
the heavy rainfall that dam-
aged crops last year.
A report released earlier this
month by the Ministry of Agri-
culture, Forestry and Fisheries
said that paddy rice production
for this rainy season which
starts in June with harvest ex-
pected around November or
December is running later
than last year due to recent
ooding and drought which
occurred from June to August.
By September 4, some 92
per cent of 3 million hectares
under cultivation had been
planted for this rainy seasons
harvest, slower than the 98 per
cent of land sowed at the same
period last year.
However, Pich Romnea, dep-
uty director of ministrys paddy
rice production department,
said yesterday that despite less
sowing than the ministry had
hope, ooding had done less
damage to crops at this point
last year.
Output from rice produc-
tion can be higher this year as
there is just enough rain start-
ing from September and the
ood went down quickly mak-
ing way giving enough water to
the land which is good for rice
to grow, he said.
Across the country, drought
has affected 96,500 hectares
of rice elds in eight provinc-
es causing damage to 17,700
hectares, while ood has im-
pacted 77,000 hectares of rice
elds and damaged close to
20,000 hectares in 14 prov-
inces, according to the minis-
tries report.
Nheb Sron, director of the
agriculture department in
Takeo province, where tens of
thousands of hectares of land
were affected by both ooding
and drought in the past two
months, said he expected rice
production to still reach the
provincial target.
Of the 28,000 hectares af-
fected land, only about 960
hectares of rice plant was com-
pletely damaged and there has
been enough rain starting from
September to allow farmers to
restore rice planting, he said.
Takeo farmer, Ket Ly, said
though his rice elds in May
were damaged by the drought,
the unpredictable weather was
not as damaging this year.
There has been drought fol-
lowed by ood, but the ood
this time is less than last year. It
has brought enough water that
will make the rice plants grow
better, so I am hopeful for this
season, he said.
Ly expects to produce 10
tonnes of fragrance paddy rice
from his 3 hectares.
In Battambang the province
where recent drought caused
the greatest amount of dam-
age of any province, Chhim
Vichera, director of agriculture
department of Battambang
province said yesterday almost
80 per cent of the rice elds
had been recovered.
Last year the ood was too
big that it completely spoiled
rice plants, for this year, for
the drought we can recover the
land after the rain started to
fall, he said.
Vichera was optimistic, but
cautioned ooding in upcom-
ing months would still need
to remain low for a reasonable
outcome in Battambang.
I expect at least we can pro-
duce as much as last year or
even more if there will not be
another ood in the coming
months, he added.
A famer inspects his drought-stricken land earlier this year in Takeo province, where his rice crop failed
grow after seasonal rains didnt come. DANIEL QUINLAN
US HEALTH CARE group Danaher aims
to buy Swiss Nobel Biocare, the worlds
biggest dental implant specialist, for
$2.2 billion, they said yesterday, sending
the Swiss companys shares spiralling.
The agreement will see the US con-
glomerate Danaher offer 17.10 Swiss
francs ($18.25) per Nobel Biocare share,
the two companies said in a released
statement.
That marks a 23-per-cent premium on
the Swiss companys share price at the
end of July, when the rst rumours of the
deal began emerging.
It is however lower than the 18.10-franc
price tag on Nobel Biocares shares at the
close of trading on Friday.
We believe that the offer recognises
the strategic value of Nobel Biocare and
delivers a considerable cash premium to
our shareholders, Nobel Biocare chair-
man Rolf Watter said in the statement.
Investors did not seem to agree how-
ever, sending Nobel Biocares shares
plunging 5.8 percent to 17.05 Swiss francs
a piece in yesterdays midday trading as
the Swiss stock exchanges main index
slipped 0.07 per cent.
The deal will be nal once Danaher
obtains at least 67 per cent of Nobel Bio-
cares shares, the companies said.
The Swiss company, the world leader in
implant-based dental restorations, said
its board had recommended that Nobel
Biocare shareholders accept the deal,
which is expected to be completed by the
end of this year or early 2015.
With the acquisition, Danaher will be-
come the globes biggest dental equip-
ment provider, with annual sales ap-
proaching $3.0 billion.
Danaher, an industrial conglomerate
with products ranging from laboratory
equipment to water-treatment chemi-
cals, is buying a business whose sales
still havent recovered from the reces-
sion and nancial crisis that began
back in 2008.
After peaking at 90.75 francs in 2007,
Nobel Biocare has traded below 20
francs for more than three years. As un-
employment soared, people cut back on
implants, which often arent covered by
insurance policies.
Nobel had a very rich valuation, so
the upside was limited, said Oliver
Metzger, an analyst at Commerzbank
AG in Frankfurt. He said he doesnt
expect rival bids. For Nobel Biocare
shareholders, its still an attractive price
compared with the share price of recent
years. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Danaher in $2.2B bid for Nobel Biocare
For Nobel Biocare
shareholders, its still an
attractive price compared
with the share price of
recent years
S
ABMiller Plc was re-
buffed in an attempt
to buy smaller brewer
Heineken Nv, a deal
that would have strengthened
it against a potential bid by
Anheuser-Busch InBev Nv,
people with knowledge of the
matter said.
Heineken conrmed in
a statement that it turned
down the offer and said it
intends to remain indepen-
dent. SABMillers preliminary
approach was rejected by the
family that controls Heinek-
en, Bloomberg News report-
ed on Sunday, citing people
who asked not to be identi-
ed because the information
is private.
The offer, made in the last
two weeks, would have made
the family one of the com-
bined companys largest hold-
ers, one of the people said.
Heineken family members
are resistant to any sale be-
cause they want to keep con-
trol of the 35 billion ($45 bil-
lion) brewer, the people said.
SABMiller, long the subject
of speculation regarding a
takeover by AB InBev, is now
assessing its next move, the
person added, and it is not
yet clear if it will approach
the family again.
Heineken determined SAB-
Millers proposal was non-ac-
tionable, the company said in
its statement. The Heineken
family and Heineken NVs
management are condent
that the company will con-
tinue to deliver growth and
shareholder value.
AB InBev, the Belgian gi-
ant, has spent close to $100
billion over the past decade
to purchase brewers from
Corona to Budweiser. By
acquiring Heineken, SAB-
Miller would add more than
$25 billion in sales and bol-
ster its presence in emerg-
ing markets including Africa
and Mexico, while helping
keep control over its future.
Aside from adding regions,
a deal would make sense for
SABMiller in helping boost its
portfolio of global beer brands,
Jonathan Fyfe, an analyst at
Mirabaud Securities, said in a
note on Sunday. Heineken has
four brands in the global top
10 of premium beer, he wrote,
citing company data.
An offer for the worlds
third-biggest brewer could
rival the largest purchase of
a beermaker ever InBev
NVs acquisition of Anheuser-
Busch in 2008. The industry
has spent much of the last de-
cade consolidating as brewers
fought off sluggish consumer-
spending growth and an in-
creasing preference for wine
and spirits over beer.
Heineken traces its roots
to the 1864 acquisition of a
brewery by Gerard Adriaan
Heineken. The founding fam-
ily control the brewer via an-
other publicly traded vehicle,
Heineken Holding NV. Shares
of the Dutch brewer, which
sells in more than 70 coun-
tries, had gained 21 per cent
this year before yesterday.
Even with a series of acqui-
sitions in emerging markets,
Heinekens largest region
remains Western Europe,
where it has fought declining
demand with new ranges in-
cluding Amstel Radler and the
tequila-infused Desperados.
Over the past 20 years,
SABMiller has gone from be-
ing primarily a South African
brewer where the company
was founded as a purveyor
of ale to thirsty gold miners
in the 19th century to the
worlds No. 2 via acquisitions
from Colombias Bavaria to
the 2011 purchase of Austra-
lias Fosters.
SABMiller itself has long
been seen as the nal target
for AB InBev in its quest to
dominate beer sales across
the globe. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
OECD slashes growth forecasts as Europe drags outlook
THE sickly eurozone recovery
is a drag on the outlook for the
global economy, the OECD
warned yesterday as it cut
growth forecasts for most major
advanced economies.
The sluggish recovery is also
at risk from increased tension
over conflicts in Ukraine and
the Middle East, and uncer-
tainty over the future of Scot-
land regarding the upcoming
independence referendum,
the Organisation for Econom-
ic Cooperation and Develop-
ment said.
Continued slow growth in
the euro area is the most wor-
rying feature of the projec-
tions, the OECD said, as it
updated its forecasts for major
economies.
It chopped by a third its 2014
forecast to 0.8 per cent from the
1.2 per cent expansion it had
projected in May.
While it said the moderate US
economic expansion remains
broadly on track, the OECD cut
the 2014 forecast by a fifth to 2.1
per cent from 2.6 per cent.
Japans forecast was cut by a
quarter, to 0.9 per cent from 1.2
per cent, although the OECD
said it expected the underlying
recovery in the economy to
reassert itsel f fol lowi ng
the dent to growth caused
by an April sales tax increase.
Non-eurozone Britain saw its
forecast cut by 0.1 points to 3.1
per cent by the organisation.
The OECD did not provide an
update to its forecast for global
growth this year, which it fore-
cast at 3.4 per cent in May.
Among the major emerging
economies which are not OECD
members, Chinas forecast was
held steady at 7.4 per cent.
The OECD said the worlds
number two economy has so
far managed to achieve an
orderly growth slowdown to
more sustainable rates.
It slashed the forecast to Bra-
zil to 0.3 per cent growth in 2014
from 1.8 per cent after the
country fell into recession in
the first half of this year.
India was the sole gainer, with
the OECD lifting its forecast to
5.7 per cent from 4.9 per cent
thanks to a boost of confidence
in the country that the new gov-
ernment will pursue growth-
oriented reforms and progress
in containing inflation.
The European Central Bank
stepped up its support for the
eurozone economy at the start
of September, lowering interest
rates and saying it would inject
money into the economy by
buying up asset-backed securi-
ties after eurozone inflation
touched 0.3 per cent in August.
The eurozone economy failed
to grow at all in the second quar-
ter, after posting an anaemic
expansion of 0.2 per cent in the
first quarter. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Dutch brewer Heineken has rejected a takeover bid by SABMiller as the Heineken family wants to keep
control of the $35 billion brewer. BLOOMBERG
Heineken rebuffs SABMiller
GERMAN electronic car parts
maker Bosch said yesterday
that it had bought a share of
ZF Friedrichshafen in their
co-venture, which could po-
tentially pave the way for ZF
to buy a US rival.
ZF Friedrichshafen, Germa-
nys third biggest auto parts
maker, has sold its 50-per cent
stake in ZFLS, a steering sys-
tems producer, to its partner
in the venture, Bosch, for an
undisclosed sum, both com-
panies said.
ZF, based on the shores of
Lake Constance in southern
Germany, announced in July
that it was in talks with US
rm TRW Automotive.
Their tie-up would create
a new giant with turnover of
around 30 billion ($39 bil-
lion), or nearly the same in
the car parts sector as each of
the market leaders, Germanys
Continental and Bosch.
Media reports and analysts
have said that the sale of the
ZFLS stake was a condition for
the purchase of TRW, which
could be announced as early
as this week.
Bosch chief Volkmar
Denner told a teleconference
that discussions on chang-
ing the ownership of ZFLS
had been ongoing for several
months. He said that Bosch
would make ZLFS, which
employs some 13,000 people
and last year posted sales of
around 4 billion, a separate
division. AFP
Bosch buys ZF shares,
potential rival takeover
Cognizant to purchase
TriZetto in $2.7B deal
US IT firm Cognizant will buy
health care IT firm TriZetto in a
$2.7 billion cash deal, the
firms said yesterday. TriZetto,
which is owned by funds
advised by Apaz Partners and
minority investors BlueCross
BlueShield and Cambia Health
Solutions, will boost
Cognizants medical services.
Health care already accounts
for about 26 per cent of
Cognizants revenue. AFP
Phones 4U collapses,
enters administration
BRITISH mobile phone retailer
Phones 4U has collapsed into
administration, putting more
than 5,500 jobs at risk, the
group said yesterday. The firm
was forced into administration,
or a stage aimed at preventing
a total collapse, after phone
network operator EE declined
to renew its current contract
on Friday, following a similar
decision by Vodafone. AFP
Air France strike set to
spark travel mayhem
FRENCH flag carrier Air
France scrapped half of its
flights yesterday as pilots
began a strike against the
companys plan to develop its
low-cost subsidiary. The firm
said 60 per cent of its flights
would be cancelled today with
fears that the weeklong
protest the longest at the
company since 1998 could
spell travel mayhem across
the country. AFP
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Nepalese maids risk safety
Pragati Shahi
A
LL that Shanti Pariyar want-
ed was to forge a better life
for herself and her six chil-
dren. But almost three years
after leaving Nepal for a job as a live-
in maid, Pariyar returned home to
her village this month penniless
and traumatised.
With many Nepalese seeking higher
wages beyond the borders of one of
Asias poorest countries, Pariyars ex-
periences underscore the risks many
migrants take to nd work in what re-
mains a largely unregulated trade.
Speaking with ucanews.com this
month in a Kathmandu shelter for
female migrant workers, 39-year-
old Pariyar whose name has been
changed to protect her identity ex-
plained how she was enticed to go
abroad, and how the reality of her job
differed from the promises made.
Pariyar said she had been desper-
ate after her husband kicked her and
her six children out of their home.
When a local travel agent offered
her a job paying $105 a month work-
ing as a live-in maid with a family in
Saudi Arabia, she readily agreed.
But once in Riyadh, she realised her
new employers held all the power.
I was often beaten without rea-
son, denied food and made to sleep
on oors, Pariyar said.
But the worst was dealing with her
employers unwanted attention, she
said. I constantly suffered the hus-
bands advances. [He] tried to touch
my private parts, Pariyar said, tears
welling in her eyes.
When she protested and repeat-
edly asked to be sent back home, she
claims her employer instead sold
her to another household, where her
experiences did not improve.
I ended up thinking that I would
not live to see my children back
home, Pariyar said.
One day, she said, her employer
agreed to send her back to Nepal. But
when she nally left, her employer
conscated her savings some
$1,000 and the mobile phones she
had bought as gifts for her children.
It was all the money she had earned
during her time away. I had to re-
turn home empty handed.
Pariyars case is symptomatic of
the risks faced by female Nepalese
migrant workers abroad. According
to the Nepalese Embassy in Riyadh,
more than 500,000 Nepali migrant
workers are currently working in
Saudi Arabia an estimated 60,000 of
them undocumented women work-
ing as live-in maids. Since November
2013, the embassy says at least 158
women have been rescued.
One of the biggest concerns is that
domestic helpers do not fall under
the protection of labour laws in Gulf
countries, which violates the rights
of the migrant workers seeking em-
ployment, said Renu Rajbhandari,
a lawyer and womens rights activ-
ist with the Womens Rehabilitation
Center, a Kathmandu-based anti-
trafcking group.
Proper legal mechanisms that
would ensure migrants like Pariyar
are covered are crucial to protest Ne-
pali workers particularly women
from abuse, Rajbhandari said.
Pariyar was undocumented, reach-
ing Saudi Arabia through informal
broker networks that operate out-
side the scrutiny of the legal system
in either Nepal or the host country.
Facing criticism for rising reports of
abuse, Nepal last month announced
that it had asked key destination
countries including Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Kuwait and Malaysia not to
issue entry permits to female Nepal-
ese migrant workers.
But the effort to alleviate the prob-
lem cannot come soon enough for
some Nepalese women trapped
abroad. Cases of abuse continue to
be reported to human rights groups.
This week, a distraught family
contacted the Womens Rehabilita-
tion Center after receiving a call
from their 19-year-old daughter. The
woman was pleading to be rescued
from her employers home in Saudi
Arabia; she said she had been tor-
tured, her hands scalded when her
employer poured hot oil on them.
The father received repeated calls
from his daughter asking for imme-
diate rescue, said Rashmita Sapko-
ta, a program ofcer with the NGO.
UCANEWS.COM
Foreign maids carry shopping outside a mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. AFP
T
HE worlds top diplo-
mats pledged yester-
day to support Iraq
in its ght against
Islamic State militants by any
means necessary, including
appropriate military assis-
tance, as leaders stressed the
urgency of the crisis.
Representatives from about
30 countries and international
organisations, including the
US, Russia and China, gath-
ered in Paris as the brutal be-
heading over the weekend of a
third Western hostage focused
participants minds.
The pledge came as US
Secretary of State John Kerry
stepped up efforts to forge a
broad anti-jihadist coalition.
In a joint statement issued
after the talks, diplomats
vowed to support Baghdad by
any means necessary, includ-
ing appropriate military assis-
tance, in line with the needs
expressed by the Iraqi authori-
ties, in accordance with inter-
national law and without jeop-
ardising civilian security.
They stressed that IS ex-
tremists were a threat not
only to Iraq but also to the en-
tire international community
and underscored the urgent
need to remove them from
Iraq, where they control some
40 per cent of its territory.
However, the nal statement
made no mention of Syria,
where the extremists hold a
quarter of the country and
where the regime of Bashar al-
Assad still had friends around
the Paris conference table, in-
cluding Russia.
Opening the conference,
French President Francois
Hollande emphasised there
was no time to lose.
The ght of the Iraqis
against terrorism is our ght
as well, Hollande stressed,
urging clear, loyal and strong
global support for Baghdad.
Iraqi President Fuad Masum
also stressed the urgency of the
crisis, saying there was a risk
the militants could overrun
more countries in the region.
The international commu-
nity is scrambling to contain
the IS jihadists who have
rampaged across Iraq and Syr-
ia and could number as many
as 31,500 ghters, according
to the CIA.
As if to underscore the urgen-
cy of the campaign, Frances
defence minister announced
just hours ahead of the con-
ference that the country was
joining Britain in carrying out
reconnaissance ights in sup-
port of the US air campaign
against the jihadists.
Shortly afterwards, two
French Rafale ghter jets took
off from the Al-Dhafra base in
the United Arab Emirates, a
correspondent reported.
The Paris conference was
one of a series of diplomatic
gatherings in the run-up to a
United Nations General As-
sembly later this week.
Kerry has been crisscrossing
the region in a bid to build as
broad a coalition as possible
and said over the weekend
that all bases were covered
in terms of implementing US
President Barack Obamas
strategy to destroy the group.
Obamas plan includes air-
strikes in Syria and expanded
operations in Iraq, where
US aircraft have carried out
more than 160 strikes since
August. The US leader also
foresees training moderate
Syrian rebels to take on IS
and to reconstitute the Iraqi
army, parts of which ed an IS
blitzkrieg across northern and
western Iraq.
While there was no mention
of Syria in the nal statement,
Hollande said the internation-
al community needs to nd a
durable solution in the place
where the [IS] movement was
born: in Syria.
The chaos is beneting the
terrorists. We therefore need
to support those who can ne-
gotiate and make the required
compromises to secure the fu-
ture of Syria, Hollande said.
The coalition received a
boost when Australian Prime
Minister Tony Abbott pledged
to deploy 600 troops to the
United Arab Emirates, a re-
gional Washington ally.
Ten Arab states, including
Saudi Arabia, are among those
backing the coalition.
Speaking in Paris, a US of-
cial said the number of coun-
tries signing on was going up
almost every hour, from Eu-
rope and the Middle East right
across to Japan, South Korea
and New Zealand. AFP
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World
Indonesian
IS suspects
are Uighurs,
say police
INDONESIAN police yester-
day said four foreigners arrest-
ed over the weekend suspect-
ed of being linked to the
Islamic State jihadist group
were from Chinas ethnic
Uighur minority.
A day after identifying the
four men as Turks, police said
they had investigated and
found that they had entered
Indonesia using forged Turk-
ish passports.
The elite Detachment 88
police squad had arrested
them, along with three Indo-
nesians, after tailing their car
on Saturday in the central
Sulawesi district of Poso, a
known hotbed for militant
activity.
It turned out that the four
foreigners arrested were
Uighurs, after investigation by
the anti-terror police, nation-
al police spokesman Ronny
Sompie told reporters.
They had used fake pass-
ports, he added.
The men had paid $1,000 to
a broker in Thailand for each
passport and used them to
enter Malaysia and Indonesia,
Sompie said.
Agus Rianto, another police
spokesman, said the men were
being investigated for alleged
connections with the Islamic
State jihadist group.
National police chief Sutar-
man said that they wanted to
meet Santoso, the leader of a
group called the Eastern
Indonesia Mujahideen that
hides out in the jungles
around Poso.
We are still investigating
why they wanted to meet San-
toso, whether for training or
for terror acts, he added.
Indonesia is home to the
worlds biggest Muslim popu-
lation of about 225 million
and has long struggled with
terrorism. But a successful
clampdown in recent years
has seen the end of major
deadly attacks.
Jakarta has estimated that
dozens of Indonesians have
travelled to Syria and Iraq to
fight and President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono said he
was concerned about their
return, adding that he had
tasked agencies to oppose the
spread of extremist ideology in
the sprawling nation. AFP
Iraq wins support against IS
THEY HAVE DIRTY HANDS: IRAN REJECTS US REQUEST FOR COOPERATION
I
RAN rejected a US request for cooperation against
the jihadist Islamic State group early in its advance
in Iraq and Syria, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei said yesterday.
Right from the start, the United States asked
through its ambassador in Iraq whether we could
cooperate against Daesh [Arabic acronym for IS],
Khamenei said in a statement on his official website.
I said no, because they have dirty hands, said
Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of
state in Iran.
Secretary of State [John Kerry] personally asked
[Iranian counterpart] Mohammad Javad Zarif and he
rejected the request, said Khamenei, who was
leaving hospital after what doctors said was
successful prostate surgery.
He accused Washington of seeking a pretext to do
in Iraq and Syria what it already does in Pakistan
bomb anywhere without authorisation.
Washington had appealed for help from all regional
states against the jihadists, who spearheaded a
lightning offensive through the Sunni Arab heartland
north and west of Baghdad in June and then
unleashed a wave of atrocities against ethnic and
religious minorities.
But last week Kerry ruled out cooperation with
Tehran citing its engagement in Syria and
elsewhere, and neither the Iranian nor the Syrian
governments were invited to an international
conference on the IS threat that opened in Paris
yesterday.
Tehran has been the main regional ally of the
Damascus government throughout the three and
a-half year uprising against President Bashar
al-Assads rule.
It strongly criticised President Barack Obamas
announcement last Wednesday that he had
authorised US airstrikes against IS targets in Syria
without the consent of Damascus. AFP
French President Francois Hollande (right) and Iraqi President Fuad
Masum attend the opening of the Paris conference yesterday; inset,
French military staff walk towards a Rafale jet during a visit by French
Defence Minister to the Al-Dhafra base in the UAE yesterday. AFP
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UK PM makes final visit

to boost No campaign
BRITISH Prime Minister David
Cameron yesterday was to plead
with Scots to vote against
independence in a referendum
as Scotland enters the most
decisive week in its modern
history. Cameron was expected
in Aberdeen the hub of
Britains North Sea offshore oil
and gas industry, almost all of
which would come under
Scottish control in the event of a
Yes vote. With polls showing
an extremely tight vote on
Thursday, pro-unity
campaigners were planning a
rally in Trafalgar Square in
London later yesterday.
Scotlands pro-independence
First Minister Alex Salmond also
hit the campaign trail, meeting
with business leaders who have
argued leaving the UK makes
economic sense. Queen
Elizabeth II also reportedly
made her first comment on the
vote. British media said the
88-year-old monarch told an
onlooker after attending church
near her Balmoral estate in the
Scottish Highlands on Sunday:
Well, I hope people will think
very carefully about the future.
AFP
Swedish poll victor eyes

coalition: minus far right
THE winner of Swedens
election, Social Democrat
leader Stefan Loefven,
embarked yesterday on the
difficult task of forming a
government while keeping his
pledge to exclude the hugely
strengthened far right party.
Loefvens decision not to deal
with the anti-immigration
Sweden Democrats under any
circumstances was likely to
force the 57-year-old former
trade unionist into complex
negotiations with other parties.
Now our work begins in
earnest, he said yesterday.
We need cooperation across
the block boundaries. Loefven
was expected to explore the
possibility of a coalition
involving the Greens and
perhaps the former communist
Left Party, based on an election
that left him with a narrow win
but gave no clear mandate to
either side of the 349-member
parliament. AFP
Death toll at Nigerian
church collapse hits 45
RESCUE workers have pulled
three more bodies from a
collapsed guesthouse at a
megachurch in Nigerias
financial capital Lagos, raising
the death toll to 45, emergency
services said yesterday. Ibrahim
Farinloye from the National
Emergency Management
Agency, said 45 bodies had now
been removed from the rubble
on the sprawling campus of the
Synagogue Church of All
Nations in the Ikotun of Lagos.
About 130 others were injured
when the building, which
housed visiting followers of the
churchs preacher and
televangelist TB Joshua, came
down on Friday. TB Joshua,
dubbed The Prophet, has an
almost fanatical following
among Nigerians and across
the world. Joshua has
suggested a mysterious low-
flying aircraft could be to blame
for the collapse. But rescuers
said a more likely cause was
that extra floors had been added
to the facility without streng-
thening the foundations. AFP
World
13 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
US-led troops begin Ukraine drills
U
S-LED military ex-
ercises began in
Ukraine yesterday
after a day of deadly
ghting between government
forces and pro-Russian reb-
els in the restive east that has
piled pressure on a shaky 10-
day-old truce.
Local ofcials said six civil-
ians died during heavy shelling
around the rebel stronghold
of Donetsk on Sunday, with
Kiev accusing the separatists
of jeopardising the truce by
intensifying attacks against
government positions.
It is the highest civilian toll
since the ceasere was signed
on September 5, although a
number of Ukrainian service-
men have also been reported
killed over the past 10 days.
Soldiers from 15 nations in-
cluding the United States be-
gan military exercises dubbed
Rapid Trident 14 near the
western city of Lviv, about
1,000 kilometres (600 miles)
from the conict in Donetsk.
The United States was ex-
pected to send around 200
troops, the rst such deploy-
ment since the pro-Moscow
uprising erupted across east-
ern Ukraine in April.
Defence Minister Valeriy
Geletey said on Sunday that
NATO member states were
sending weapons to Ukraine,
although this has been previ-
ously been denied.
A NATO ofcial said he
could neither conrm nor
deny the claim as any such
delivery would be done on a
bilateral basis. Ukraines new
leaders have nevertheless an-
nounced they want to begin
taking steps to join the West-
ern military alliance, a red line
for Kievs former Soviet mas-
ters in Moscow.
The conict in Ukraines vital
industrial heartland and Mos-
cows annexation of Crimea
sent ties between Russia and
the West plunging to their low-
est point since the Cold War.
The warring sides signed up
to a 12-point ceasere after
talks in the Belarussian capital
Minsk the rst truce backed
by both Kiev and Moscow
but there have been reports of
violations almost daily.
President Petro Poroshenko
and German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel expressed con-
cern about the breaches in a
telephone call late Sunday, his
ofce said.
It also said Merkel backed
Poroshenkos plans to intro-
duce legislation in parliament
this week, offering limited
self-rule for the eastern re-
gions that form the economic
backbone of Ukraine, a key
provision of the truce.
The terrorist actions are
threatening the realisation
of the Ukrainian presidents
peace plan, said Volodymyr
Polyovy, a spokesman for the
national security and defence
council in Kiev.
He also took aim at com-
ments by two rebel leaders
who both signed the truce
deal but who declared Sunday
they were mere observers at
the Minsk talks.
Sundays ghting appeared
to be heaviest near Donetsk
airport where the Ukrainian
military said it had driven
back an assault by insurgent
ghters on Friday.
But the separatists accused
Kievs forces of failing to halt
re. From our side, nobody
is shooting but they are break-
ing the rules, everybody in
the world knows it, said a
rebel commander defending
a checkpoint near a village
south of Donetsk.
The ceasere is seen as a
rst step in efforts to draw
up a longer term peace deal
to end a conict that has cost
more than 2,700 lives and sent
at least half a million ee-
ing battered towns and cities
across the east.
NATO and Kiev say at least
1,000 Russian soldiers and
possibly many more remain
on Ukrainian soil, with anoth-
er 20,000 on the border.
The Kremlin has dismissed
the claims as propaganda
aimed at justifying NATO
moves to bolster its forces
in eastern Europe, saying
some of its troops captured
in Ukraine had accidentally
strayed across the border.
Poroshenko, keen to steer
Ukraine further out of Russias
orbit by strengthening ties
with the West, meets President
Barack Obama in the White
House on Thursday, seeking to
secure a special status with
the United States. AFP
A dancer in Ukrainian national costume performs during the opening ceremony of the Rapid Trident
military exercises yesterday near the western Ukrainian town of Yavoriv. AFP
Worst shipwreck in years leaves 500 dead
J marks the spot for historic comet landing
AS MANY as 500 migrants are feared to
have drowned after traffickers rammed
and sank their boat in what the Inter-
national Organisation for Migration
(IOM) described yesterday as the worst
shipwreck in years.
Horrific details of the shipwreck near
Malta, told to IOM by survivors, came
after dozens of African migrants were
reported missing and feared dead after
their boat sank off the coast of Libya on
Sunday.
If this story, which police are inves-
tigating, is true, it would be the worst
shipwreck in years . . . not an accident
but a mass murder, perpetrated by
criminals without scruples or any
respect for human life, IOM said.
Two Palestinians plucked from the
water by a freighter on Thursday after
their boat capsized told IOM that
around 500 passengers had been on the
vessel, which was wrecked on purpose
by people smugglers.
According to the survivors, the Syri-
an, Palestinian, Egyptian and Sudanese
migrants set out from Damietta in
Egypt on September 6, and were forced
to change boats several times during
the crossing towards Europe.
The traffickers, who were on a sep-
arate boat, then ordered them onto a
smaller vessel, which many of the
migrants feared was too small to hold
them. When they refused to cross over
to the new boat, the furious traffick-
ers rammed their boat until it cap-
sized, the survivors told the maritime
organisation.
Two survivors brought to Sicily told
us that there had been at least 500 peo-
ple on board. Nine other survivors were
rescued by Greek and Maltese ships,
but all the rest appear to have per-
ished, Flavio Di Giacomo, IOMs
spokesman in Italy, said.
Both Palestinians spent a day and a
half in the water, one wearing a life-
jacket and the other holding on to a life
buoy with other migrants, all of whom
perished, including a young Egyptian
boy who hoped to make money in
Europe to pay for his fathers heart
operation, the organisation said.
In a separate incident, dozens were
feared drowned after a boat carrying
200 migrants sank off Libya, with only
36 survivors rescued.
This year has seen a surge in the num-
bers of migrants attempting to make the
hazardous crossing from North Africa
and the Middle East to Europe.
According to the UNs refugee agency
(UNHCR), over 2,500 people have
drowned or gone missing attempting
the crossing in 2014, including over
2,200 since the start of June.
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, a spe-
cial envoy for the UNHCR, urged the
international community to wake up
to the scale of the crisis.
There is a direct link between the
conflicts in Syria and elsewhere and the
rise in deaths at sea in the Mediterra-
nean, she was quoted as saying in a
UNHCR statement yesterday. We have
to understand what drives people to
take the fearful step of risking their chil-
drens lives on crowded, unsafe vessels.
It is the overwhelming desire to find
refuge, she said.
Unless we address the root causes of
these conflicts the numbers of refugees
dying or unable to find protection will
continue to rise, she added.
The IOM also called on the interna-
tional community to crack down on
traffickers, saying the only way to
render these organisations impotent is
to begin to open legal canals into Europe
for all those people, men, women and
children, fleeing their homelands in
search of shelter.
According to the Italian navy, some
2,380 migrants and asylum seekers were
picked up over the weekend in a number
of incidents by Italys large-scale naval
deployment dubbed Mare Nostrum,
launched after over 400 people died in
two shipwrecks last October. AFP
THE European Space Agency
(ESA) yesterday unveiled the
spot on a comet in deep space
where in November it will
attempt mankinds first landing
on one of these ancient wan-
derers of the Solar System.
The landing site is one of five
that ESA shortlisted after its
Rosetta spacecraft met up with
rubber duck-shaped Comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
in August, following a mara-
thon chase.
Codenamed J, the site offers
the best chance for a safe land-
ing on an exceptionally difficult
target, while also offering con-
ditions for meeting scientific
goals, ESA said.
The comet is a beautiful but
dramatic world it is scientifi-
cally exciting, but its shape
makes it operationally chal-
lenging, said Stephan Ulamec,
in charge of the landing.
On November 11, Rosetta is
scheduled to let down a robot
lab called Philae to carry out
experiments on the comets
surface that scientists hope will
shed light on the origins of
these icy bodies enigmatic
voyagers born along with the
Solar System itself.
The 100-kilogram lab will use
harpoons to anchor itself, and
then drive screws into the sur-
face for better grip. Its experi-
ments will include drilling up
to 30 centimetres into the com-
et for pristine material for
onboard chemical analysis.
Mission scientists had scru-
tinised five potential sites,
named A, B, C, I and J, vetting
each for the scientific return
they offered, landing risks and
the amount of light from the
Sun for Philaes solar cells.
Comet 67P comprises two
lobes joined by a narrow neck,
resembling the shape of a rub-
ber duck though one that is
pitch-black, darker even than
charcoal.
Three of the candidate sites
were on the smaller lobe, or
head of the duck, and two on
the larger lobe, or body. The
oval-shaped landing site called
J is roughly where the ducks
forehead would be.
Doomed to orbit the Sun,
their outer layers are stripped
by solar heat as they draw near-
er, leaving a trail of dust and ice
that is reflected in sunlight and
looks like a tail from Earth.
Astrophysicists say they are
balls of ancient ice and dust left
from the building of the Solar
System 4.6 billion years ago.
This cosmic rubble is essen-
tially a time capsule the old-
est, least-touched material in
our stellar neighbourhood
and understanding them may
advance knowledge of how
Earth came to bear life. AFP
14
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World
Typhoon sweeps out of
unscathed Philippines
TYPHOON Kalmaegi swept out
of the Philippines yesterday after
causing chest-deep floods in
some rural areas but largely
leaving the storm-prone country
unscathed, authorities said. The
storm, with winds of 160
kilometres an hour, struck the
northeast of the main Philippine
island of Luzon on Sunday
evening. Six people were killed
after a ferry sank in the central
Philippines on Saturday evening
as the storm approached, a
spokeswoman said. But officials
said this was not directly linked
to the typhoon, and said there
had been no reports of other
casualties related to the
weather. AFP
Signs of NK developing

missile sub, says Seoul
NORTH Korea appears to be
developing a new weapons
system capable of launching
submarine-based ballistic
missiles, the Souths defence
ministry said yesterday. Based
on recent US and South Korean
intelligence, we have detected
signs of North Korea
developing a vertical missile
launch tube for submarines, a
ministry official said. Ministry
spokesman Kim Min-seok said
the Norths 3,000-tonne Golf-
class submarine could be
modified to fire medium-range
ballistic missiles. AFP
Malaysia to send gloves

to Ebola-hit countries
MALAYSIA will send more than
20 million medical rubber
gloves to five African nations
stricken by the Ebola virus, the
government said yesterday.
Malaysia, one of the worlds
biggest manufacturers of the
items, said it would dispatch 11
containers, each containing 1.9
million gloves, to Liberia, Sierra
Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and the
DRC. Malaysian health
authorities have reportedly
quarantined a Zimbabwean in a
hospital on Borneo after he
sought treatment for fever on
Saturday. AFP
They said no . . .
Vietnamese
drug addicts

escape rehab
M
ORE than 400 Vietnam-
ese drug addicts have
escaped from a reha-
bilitation centre where they were
detained to receive compulsory
treatment, a local ofcial said
yesterday.
The detainees, many wielding
sticks, broke free from the centre
near the port city of Haiphong
in northeast Vietnam late on
Sunday.
More than 400 inmates ed
after breaking the door and
threatened the guards of the cen-
tre with sticks, ofcial Nguyen
Huy Hoang said.
Police found some of the ad-
dicts back at their homes, while
around 30 others voluntarily
returned to the treatment centre.
The communist government
enforces the compulsory treat-
ment programs for the countrys
estimated 140,000 drug addicts.
The centre has also reduced the
amount of money spent on food,
prompting complaints from the
addicts, he added. AFP
Apilaporn Vechakij
T
HE naked bodies
of two British tour-
ists beaten to death
were found on a Thai
beach yesterday, police said,
sparking a murder hunt on
the popular resort island of
Koh Tao.
The unidentied man and
woman, both aged 24, were
found with several wounds
near a beachside bungalow
on the island, a diving hot-
spot near Koh Phangan in the
Gulf of Thailand.
A bloodied hoe was found
35 metres from the murder
scene, local police ofcial Jak-
krapan Kaewkhao said.
They were murdered and
found naked on the beach.
The woman had three
wounds on her face and the
man had four wounds on
his back, he added. Their
bodies were found 30 metres
from [the] bungalow, he said,
adding that the pair arrived in
Thailand on August 25.
Police were told at 6:30am
(2330 GMT Sunday) and were
interviewing witnesses but
had yet to identify a suspect
or motive, he added.
Distraught friends of the vic-
tims gathered at the local police
station, another ofcer said.
Checkpoints had been set up
at the islands piers, although
ferries were still running.
This is a very cruel crime,
Prachum Ruangthong, su-
perintendent of Koh Phan-
gan police station, said, add-
ing that the bodies would be
sent for forensic examination
in Bangkok.
Horror in paradise
Witnesses told police the
pair were earlier seen dancing
at a local bar, Prachum said.
The British Embassy in
Bangkok said ofcials were
urgently seeking informa-
tion from local authorities.
Consular staff stand
ready to provide assistance
to friends and family at this
tragic time, it added.
A shocked employee at the
budget seaside resort where
they were staying said the
bodies were found behind
large rocks on the beach.
It was the rst time this has
happened on the island. I have
never seen anything like this,
the staff member added.
Koh Tao is popular with
tourists but draws fewer trav-
ellers than the neighbouring
Koh Phangan, home to the
hedonistic full moon party.
Thailands lucrative tourism
industry has been battered in
recent months after a pro-
longed political crisis ended
in a coup which saw the army
blanket the country with a
curfew and strict martial law.
Although the curfew was
swiftly lifted from key tour-
ist hotspots, visitor numbers
have yet to rebound. Military
leaders have vowed to re-
store the nations reputation
as the Land of Smiles with
a clean-up targeting tourist
resorts after a series of com-
plaints about scams, assaults
and even police extortion.
Britain says Thailand is the
country where its citizens are
second most likely to require
consular assistance if they
visit, behind the Philippines.
There were 389 deaths of
British nationals in Thailand
in the year to March 2013
about one for every 2,400
British visitors or residents
although that gure includes
natural causes.
But it is rare for tourists to
be murdered in Thailand,
although visitors frequently
perish in accidents.
In July last year a 51-year-old
American tourist was stabbed
to death after an apparent row
in a bar in Krabi, another pop-
ular tourist haven.
His death came just weeks
after another American was
slashed to death by a taxi driv-
er in Bangkok after an appar-
ent argument over the fare.
A 59-year-old Australian
woman was killed in June
2012 in an attempted bag
snatch on Phuket.
Two Thai men were later
sentenced to life imprison-
ment for her murder. AFP
Brits beaten to death in Thai resort
Abbott governs from tent as he keeps vow
Black-clad activists stage sombre HK rally
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Tony
Abbott shifted his ofce to a tent in an
isolated Aboriginal community yes-
terday, keeping a promise made when
he came to power despite having just
committed troops to the ght against
Islamic State.
Abbott vowed to spend a week each
year in a remote indigenous location
when he was sworn in 12 months ago,
seeking to be the prime minister for
Aboriginal affairs.
He made good on his commitment
by moving the hub of government
to a tent compound on the outskirts
of Nhulunbuy on the northern tip of
Australia, nearly 1,000 kilometres (620
miles) east of Darwin.
Despite the remote location, he said
he would stay in close contact with
Canberra and had access to secure
communications to do so.
Obviously, if there are dramatic
new developments, I can move if
needs be, he said during a round
of morning radio and television in-
terviews, a day after committing 600
troops to a multinational strike force
against Islamic State militants in Iraq
and Syria.
The decision to join the anti-IS cam-
paign came just days after Canberra
lifted its terror alert level to high on
growing concern about Australian ji-
hadists returning from ghting in the
Middle East.
Aborigines, who number about
500,000 of a total population of 23
million, are the most disadvantaged
Australians, suffering disproportion-
ate levels of disease, imprisonment
and social problems as well as lower
educational attainment, employment
and life expectancy.
They are believed to have numbered
around one million at the time of Brit-
ish settlement two centuries ago.
Abbott, who used to volunteer in
indigenous communities before be-
coming prime minister, said he want-
ed to give Aborigines his full attention
to gain a better understanding of the
needs of people living and working in
those areas.
I am very serious, the government
is very serious, both sides of politics
are very serious about an indigenous
recognition referendum, he said.
Australian lawmakers formally rec-
ognised indigenous peoples as the
countrys rst inhabitants last year,
ve years after an historic apology to
Aborigines for past wrongs.
There are now plans for a referen-
dum to recognise Aboriginal people,
and their rights, in the constitution.
I think were all in favour of doing
the right thing by Aboriginal people
and the point I make is that the right
constitutional change will complete
our constitution rather than change it
as such, Abbott said.
The important thing now is to set a
timetable for this . . . Its more impor-
tant that we get it right than we rush it,
because the last thing anyone ought to
want is to put a proposal of this nature
to the people and have it fail.
He added that part of his task this
week was to try to build a consensus
for change; change that does help lift
Aboriginal people, that does help to
ensure that never again do the rst
Australians feel like strangers in their
own country.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel
Scullion, who is camping with Abbott,
said 2017 was the governments pick
for a vote to include indigenous Aus-
tralians in the constitution.
He said that next year was too soon
and 2016 clashed with the next fed-
eral election.
If held in three years, it would mark
50 years since indigenous people were
ofcially given the right to vote. AFP
MORE than 1,000 activists
paraded through Hong Kongs
streets on Sunday carrying
huge lengths of black cloth,
in a sombre protest against
a recent decision by Beijing
that crushed the citys hopes
for full democracy.
Under the proposal, candi-
dates for the 2017 polls will be
vetted by a pro-Beijing com-
mittee and just two or three
approved nominees will be
allowed to stand.
Occupy Central, the move-
ment behind Sundays march,
said 4,000 participated in the
rally, while police put the
turnout at a more conserva-
tive gure, saying that 1,860
people took to the streets.
Protesters in dark cloth-
ing held wide strips of mate-
rial half a kilometre long dis-
playing Chinese characters
painted in white that read
civil disobedience and
boycott classes.
A coalition of pro-democ-
racy groups, led by Occupy,
have labelled Beijings restric-
tions a fake democracy and
have vowed to usher in a new
era of civil disobedience
against the decision.
Multiple student groups
have also vowed to boycott
classes later this month while
Occupy has threatened to
take over the streets of the
citys vital nancial district.
Protesters on Sunday shout-
ed Fight for democracy! and
We wont give up! at the be-
ginning of the rally, as the late
summer sun beat down.
The citys current chief ex-
ecutive, who was himself
nominated by a pro-Beijing
committee, said detractors
of the proposal which was
made by the top committee
of Chinas rubber stamp par-
liament were cynics.
We hope that todays rally
can use black cloth to express
our anger and distrust at the
government, pro-democracy
lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan told
TVB news.
Pro-democracy lawmakers
have vowed to veto the pro-
posals when it comes before
the citys legislature, known
locally as LegCo. AFP
Thai workers move the bodies of two British tourists on Koh Tao island in the Surat Thani province of
southern Thailand yesterday. AFP
15
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World
Okinawans look to Scottish vote
Justin McCurry

C
AMPAIGNERS from Oki-
nawa were to arrive in
Scotland yesterday to seek
inspiration from the Yes
campaign as they look to boost sup-
port for making the southern Japa-
nese island an independent nation.
While Okinawas movement is tiny
compared with its counterpart in
Scotland, activists say they stand to
benet from mounting public anger
over Tokyos plans to push through
the construction of a US military
base in deance of local opposition.
Were really interested in seeing
how the rest of the UK and the inter-
national community react if Scot-
land does vote for independence,
said Masaki Tomochi, a professor of
economics at Okinawa Internation-
al University and a leading gure in
the independence movement.
Scotland has every right to be
independent and to take decisions
about its own future. Thats what
people all over the world want, in-
cluding the people of Okinawa.
Tomochi and his colleagues, along
with a reporter from the Ryukyu
Shimpo newspaper, will tour Scot-
land, meeting voters, academics and
Scottish National party ofcials. Their
group has posted a condensed Japa-
nese version of the SNPs Scotlands
Future manifesto on its website.
The history of Okinawa, Tomochi
argues, is one of bloody sacrice at
mainland Japans behest, and collu-
sion between Tokyo and Washing-
ton, beginning with a secret post-
war agreement to allow the US to
bring nuclear weapons to the island
and maintain military bases there
indenitely.
The 2012 deployment of Osprey
tilt-rotor aircraft and the relocation
of a military base have added to pop-
ular resentment towards Tokyo.
The only way we can x this is to
declare our independence from Ja-
pan and go back to the way we were
before Japan used force to take the
islands, he said.
Okinawa covers about 0.6 per cent
of Japans land area but is home to
more than half the 47,000 US troops
in the country and three-quarters of
US bases. Some residents depend on
the US military for employment, but
campaigners say the bases emascu-
late the local economy, the poorest of
Japans 47 prefectures.
Opposition to the US military
presence now centres on the reloca-
tion of Futenma, a sprawling Amer-
ican marine base located in the
centre of a densely populated area,
to an offshore site on the islands
northeast coast. Polls show that 74
per cent of Okinawans oppose the
move, and there are fears that the
new offshore runway would en-
danger residents safety and dam-
age the marine environment.
Tokyo and Washington, however,
are determined to push ahead with
the plan, which would cement Oki-
nawas critical role in the event of a
conict with China over the sover-
eignty of the nearby Senkaku/Diaoyu
islands. As a sweetener, the US has
agreed to move 8,000 marines and
their families to Guam and Hawaii.
The politicians in Tokyo have been
ignoring our wishes for decades,
said Kenzo Nagamine, a restaura-
teur. As far as they are concerned,
Okinawa counts for nothing.
The Okinawa island chain once
formed an independent kingdom,
known as the Ryukyus, until it was
forcibly annexed by Japan in 1879.
The island was the scene one of
the bloodiest battles of the Pacic
war, claiming the lives of 240,000
people, including US troops and
about a quarter of the civilian popu-
lation. US occupation authorities
did not return the territory to Japa-
nese control until 1972.
The Okinawan activists hope to
discover how the Yes campaign in
Scotland increased support to levels
that make Thursdays vote too close
to call. A 2011 poll found only 4.7
per cent of Okinawans were pro-in-
dependence, although more than 15
per cent wanted more devolution.
Just over 60 per cent preferred the
political status quo. Tomochi says
support for independence has risen
over the past two years.
Like their allies in Scotland, ac-
tivists here have been accused of
endangering security and the econ-
omy. In an independent Okinawa,
there would be no US bases and an
end to subsidies from Tokyo.
Fears the island would fall into
Chinese hands were unfounded,
said Tomochi, who regards Oki-
nawans as ethnically different from
mainland Japanese, with their own
language and culture. We would
be far more likely to be invaded by
Japan. China never invaded us for
centuries when this was an inde-
pendent kingdom, he said.
The pro-independence movement
envisages an Okinawa relieved of its
heavy military burden, with a thriv-
ing economy based on trade with
China and Southeast Asia.
Not all islanders are convinced. I
worry that an independent Okinawa
wouldnt be able to survive econom-
ically or have the military strength
to defend itself, said resident Saya-
ka Zacharski, who opposes the base
relocation. Being part of Japan is
the best way for Okinawa to survive
in todays world. THE GUARDIAN
Protesters stage a rally at the gates of Camp Schwab, near the site of the US military
runways in Nago, Okinawa prefecture on August 14. AFP
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HROUGH waves of Europe-
an revolutions, grand
reform movements, the
building and dismantling
of historys greatest global empire,
two world wars and the establish-
ment of one of the worlds leading
welfare states, the United Kingdom
has enjoyed remarkable political
stability, always evolving to meet
challenges but simultaneously
holding to the ancient constitution-
al structures and traditions that
have united and protected its peo-
ple in an uncommonly successful
multiethnic state. That has been
good for Great Britain and good for
the world.
Now, the countrys future is in
question as Scotland prepares to
vote on Thursday on whether to
secede. Polls show a closely divided
electorate. No one can instruct the
Scots on how to constitute their
political institutions, but we hope
they will consider what the world
would be without the British
union.
The synergy between
English and Scottish
enterprise, grit and
invention has pro-
duced some of the
greatest achievements
in human ingenuity,
from James Boswells
London Journal to
James Clerk Max-
wells work on elec-
tromagnetism at
Kings College Lon-
don to the develop-
ment of modern social
thought among intellectual giants
such as Adam Smith, John Stuart
Mill and Jeremy Bentham.
Against strong countervailing
forces, Great Britain established
and stood for the principles that
underlie so much of the progress
of the past two centuries free
trade, free seas, the abolition of the
slave trade, free markets, free
speech. As the mantle of global
leadership passed to the
United States, Great Britain
has been the indispensable
ally. The world, however, is
still far from applying
these values universally.
A strong British union
would be a better partner
in standing for peace,
prosperity and human
rights whether in
Ukraine or West Africa or
in battling the Islamic
State than would a
divided island.
There are many prac-
tical reasons Scots
should be wary of inde-
pendence, on which the No cam-
paign has dwelled. The new coun-
try would depend on volatile North
Sea oil revenue, for example. Scot-
tish leaders say they would keep
the pound, but London has reject-
ed the notion of a currency union.
That would leave Scotland without
control over its currency, a posi-
tion that the European Unions cri-
ses over the past decade have
shown poses serious economic
risks. Large Scottish companies,
meanwhile, are likely to shift
operations south. No doubt
remembering the bailouts London
offered them during the Great
Recession, big Scottish banks are
threatening to do so should the
referendum succeed.
Scotlands leaders might muddle
through many of the practical prob-
lems. Even then, secession would be
a blow to those who believe, as we
do, that pluralistic countries can
not only succeed but, by common
allegiance to basic political and
moral values, also thrive. Within
societies such as ours, there is wide
room for political and cultural disa-
greement. London has promised to
devolve large amounts of power
over Scottish internal affairs to
Edinburghs parliament. Scotland
does not need to tear itself away
from its neighbours to manage its
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Comment
WHEN I recently visited St Marys
Church in Rockville, I noticed that both
F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda,
were buried in the cemetery. It seems
baffling to me because neither one was
born or lived in this area. They did not
die here, either. Would you please solve
this mystery?
Carmen Smith, Churchton, Mary-
land.
American high school students
know the famous writer by the name
that graces the covers of his novels: F
Scott Fitzgerald. Even knowing that
the F stood for Francis doesnt pro-
vide much of a clue as to the authors
Maryland connections. But what if I
told you Fitzgeralds full name was
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald?
Well, I just did. And it was. The Jazz
Age wordsmith was named after the
distant cousin who wrote what
became The Star-Spangled Banner.
The Key family had a strong presence
in Maryland. Fitzgeralds father, Edward,
was born in Rockville, Maryland. And
after Edward died, thats where he was
buried, in the family plot in the ceme-
tery of St Marys Catholic Church.
Things were not to be so straightfor-
ward for his son. Scott Fitzgerald died
of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1940
at the age of 44. He didnt leave explic-
it instructions on where he was to be
buried, but his wife, the former Zelda
Sayre, who then living in an Ashe-
ville, North Carolina sanitarium,
insisted he be laid to rest in the fam-
ily plot at St Marys.
Thats when the problems started.
Fitzgerald was, famously, a drunk. His
fiction doesnt exactly strike one as
celebrating the glory of God. But it
wasnt those facts that stood in the
way of Fitzgeralds burial in a Catholic
cemetery. A parish priest told John
Biggs Jr, the authors Princeton Uni-
versity roommate and executor, that
because Fitzgerald had not gone to
confession and taken communion
regularly, he was unfit to be buried in
consecrated ground.
Wrote Perry Deane Young in a
remarkably detailed 1979 Washington
Post Magazine story on Fitzgeralds
final resting place, What it comes
down to is this: Fitzgerald was denied
a Catholic funeral and burial which he
wouldnt have wanted anyway.
Instead, Zelda paid to have Fitzger-
ald buried at Rockville Cemetery,
about a mile away from St Marys. The
mentally fragile Zelda was not well
enough to attend, but the couples
19-year-old daughter, Frances
known as Scottie came down from
Vassar College for the service. Eight
years later Zelda was killed in a fire at
her nursing home. Her husbands cas-
ket was removed, the hole dug deeper
and Zeldas casket placed on top. She
had only paid for one space.
If not penniless when they died, the
Fitzgeralds were close to it. Fitzger-
alds literary reputation had not yet
achieved the level that today makes
his work part of the core curriculum.
As his posthumous acclaim grew, so
too did the number of visitors to the
grave, people who saw in Scott and
Zelda the perfect Jazz Age couple:
Charleston-dancing, gin-drinking
bon vivants gadding about Paris. It
was said that hippies were going to
the cemetery and moving flowers
from other plots to place upon the
Fitzgeralds. By 1975 the grave was
looking somewhat grubby. Members
of the Rockville Civic Improvement
Advisory Commission and the Rock-
ville Womens Club started looking
into how it might be spruced up. They
contacted the Fitzgeralds daughter,
who was living in Washingtons Geor-
getown neighbourhood. Scottie said
that, actually, her parents were meant
to be buried somewhere else.
This time the local Catholic diocese
had no problem accepting Scott and
Zelda. Archbishop William Baum said
that Fitzgerald was an artist who was
able with lucidity and poetic imagina-
tion to portray the struggle between
grace and death . . . His characters are
involved in this great drama, seeking
God and seeking grace.
Put that in your freshman term
paper and smoke it.
In November 1975, the two caskets
were moved to St Marys and buried
in the Fitzgerald family plot, Zelda
atop Scott.
I visited the grave recently. It was
littered with a scattering of pennies,
some pens and pencils, and two
tiny bottles of rum. A slab over the
grave is inscribed with the famous
closing line of The Great Gatsby,
the one about boats beating against
the current.
This car-clogged corner of Rockville
may seem a strange place for one of
Americas literary lions, but, as Perry
Deane Young concluded in his 1979
article, Maybe Scott and Zelda lie
where they belong after all. They
didnt exactly fit anywhere in life so
there was no reason to think they
would find some perfect place in
death. THE WASHINGTON POST
I
T CAME in with a simple
promise, a hefty price tag
and a man with some-
thing white sticking in
his ears bopping around his
apartment. Soon, it would
transform music as we know it,
inspire a business model built
around pocket change and
turn a struggling computer
maker into the most valuable
company in the world.
Yet the death last Tuesday
of the iconic iPod just before
its 13th birthday went unac-
knowledged by that company
and by a Silicon Valley crowd
that applauded the unveiling
of a new phone and a smart-
watch products that stood
on the slim, metal shoulders
of its predecessor. Instead of
an announcement, there was
only the sad implication of a
redirected online page, send-
ing visitors not to informa-
tion about the iPod Classic but
rather to Apples home page.
When the iPod debuted, a
few weeks after 9/11, it was
the latest testament to the id-
iosyncrasy of Apples chief ex-
ecutive, Steve Jobs. Simplify,
he ordered the engineers.
Technically, the iPod was lit-
tle different than any other de-
vice on the market that played
digitally compressed music.
Aesthetically, though, it was a
revelation: smaller and lighter,
sporting an external design
inspired and, yes, simple to
operate. It also beneted from
the Apple marketing mystique:
The rst iPod commercial
featured nothing more than
a man dancing to a track by
an obscure electronica band.
What made the spot memo-
rable was the promise in the
voice-over at the end: 1,000
songs in your pocket.
One thousand songs? Who in
the world had the equivalent
of 100 CDs that theyd want to
hear on the go? Well, I did. The
rst time I saw the ad, I was
looking at a TV bookended by
massive, wooden towers lled
with hundreds of CDs (furni-
ture that would very soon be-
come obsolete). It was expen-
sive: $400 at a time when other
digital-music players in the lo-
cal Circuit City were going for
about half that much.
Four hundred bucks was
more than my car payment,
but I didnt care. This iPod
whatever that meant was
beautiful, and I wanted it bad.
It promised the never-ending
mix tape, the opportunity to
program a radio station that
served a market of one: Foun-
tains of Wayne to Janet Jackson
to Nirvana to Alan Jackson to
the Pretenders? No problem.
The iPod didnt truly become
transformative until April
2003, when Apple launched
its online music store with this
proposition: Get any song you
want, legally, for 99 cents and
play it on your iPod. Such mi-
cropayments had long been
proposed and dismissed as a
nonstarter for American con-
sumers, but in an era when
Napster was a household word
and 12-year-olds were getting
sued by the music industry for
illegally downloading music,
this was the equivalent of a US
marshal striding into Dodge
City to deliver law.
Sure, the promise of any
song was overblown, but
that didnt deter customers.
Forget 1,000 songs; now you
could have tens of thousands
of songs in your pocket, even if
youd never owned the CD. The
iTunes Music Store was a huge
success: It sold 1 million songs
in a week and 50 million in a
year. Then it sold 50 million
more in the next four months.
When the store opened to in-
ternational consumers, it sold
100 million more songs in ve
months. By early 2004, the
New York Times would call the
iPod not Apple, but just the
iPod a billion-dollar busi-
ness. But the music business
would never be the same.
The iTunes Music Store had
shattered the tyranny of al-
bums: Customers no longer
had to buy an entire CD to get
the one or two songs they real-
ly wanted. (Consider that only
six of the 111 albums to sell 10
million copies have been re-
leased since the iPods debut.)
The decline in album sales
led record stores to close their
doors for good. The dominant
arbiter of Americas musical
tastes shifted from Billboard
to the iTunes Top 100.
Eventually the
Beatles and Led
Zeppelin gave
in and allowed
Apple to sell
their music,
and nally AC/
DC did, too.
(Garth Brooks is
now the most fa-
mous holdout.) All
this, because of the iPod.
So that the iPod could hold
and play all these songs, Apple
kept tinkering with it, mak-
ing it smaller, adding a colour
screen, more storage capacity
and the ability to play videos.
It made a tiny version, calling
it the Mini, then went even ti-
nier with the Nano. It made a
cheap, no-frills version called
the Shufe.
Then, in January 2007, Apple
made the iPod irrelevant. By
the time Jobs introduced the
iPhone, the company had sold
110 million iPods. The device
had served its purpose, get-
ting people used to the idea
of carrying photos, videos and
music in their pocket, but for
Apple to take the next logi-
cal step, it had to replace that
gadget with another that of-
fered much more functionality
phone calls, text messaging,
even surng the web in an
iPod-size device. A thousand
emails in your pocket.
Apple nodded to its debt by
Jobs publicly calling the iP-
hone the best iPod weve ever
made and including an iPod
icon in early generations
of the iPhone. While the
latter disappeared within
a few years, the iPod name
lived on, gracing a
few devices with
touch screens. The
deck-of-cards-sized
rectangle, though,
with rounded edg-
es and the iconic
click wheel lin-
gered in only one
model: the iPod
Classic.
Compared with its prog-
eny, the Classic was a one-trick
pony, and it sold accordingly. In
January, Jobss successor, Tim
Cook, called the iPod a declin-
ing business. So the demise
of the iPod Classic came as no
real surprise. But after 13 years,
all that remains of the original,
and its once-towering inu-
ence, are the prots today,
Apple has $164 billion in cash
and, since the day that Jobs
introduced it in 2001, its stock
price is up 8,234 per cent and
the headphones: millions of
people bopping around with
something white sticking in
their ears. THE WASHINGTON POST
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Lifestyle Lifestyle
The remains of writer F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were moved in 1975 to the
cemetery of St Marys Catholic Church in Rockville, Maryland. THE WASHINGTON POST
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds a new iPod Mini at Macworld in January 2004 in San Francisco. GETTY IMAGES
Bidding a fond farewell to the iPod
F Scott Fitzgeralds long journey to a Maryland cemetery
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Small-town
charm in NY
Nevin Martell

T
URNING a corner,
Im confronted by a
fearsome fox. Its eyes
gleam. Its wide-open
jaws display a set of glistening
fangs. It appears poised to take
a bite. Im lucky that its only a
taxidermied head on a wall.
The stuffed creature is for
sale at the jampacked Antique
Pavilion in Bouckville, a blink-
and-youll-miss-it hamlet in the
centre of the state, 45 minutes
southeast of Syracusen New
York state. The surrounding
countryside is divided between
farmland and woodland, add-
ing to the villages rustic charm.
Route 20 cuts through the
burgs centre, and the antiques
shops lining either side of this
main drag are the primary rea-
son why most people step on
the brakes theres not a single
stop sign or stoplight. Most of
the antiques emporiums house
multiple dealers, guaranteeing
an eclectic variety of trinkets
and curios, from the incredibly
rare to the debatably collect-
ible. Since I rst came to Bouck-
ville in junior high school, Ive
bought everything from Star
Wars gures and comic books
to 19th-century furniture and
vintage kitchenware.
Bouckville doesnt have
much in the way of dining, so
good meals are always a car
ride away. We take a ve-min-
ute trip over to No 10 Tavern
in Hamilton. The restaurant,
on one of the ve corners at
the centre of town, opened in
May. Already, it has become
well known locally for its dou-
ble-patty specialty burgers. I
opt for the jalapeno-popper-
inspired one topped with an
oozy medley of jalapeno cream
cheese and cheddar.
The next day, my father and
I rst meet for lunch at Cafe
Daniele in Utica, half an hours
drive from Bouckville. The fam-
ily-run eatery turns out unpre-
tentious Old World favourites
with house-made pastas and
sauces. All meals have to start
with a plate of Utica greens.
Made with sauteed escarole,
prosciutto, hot peppers, bread
crumbs and plenty of grated
pecorino Romano, the regional
specialty is savoury, spicy and
slightly sweet.
A plastic container brimming
with leftovers sits in the car a
little while later as my father
and I make a stop at the Depot
Antique Gallery back in Bouck-
ville. Even though Im not look-
ing for anything in particular,
its frustrating to nd nothing
that strikes my fancy. You up
for one more? I ask.
As I pull up in front of Madi-
son Inn Antiques, the place
doesnt look promising. It
seems so small.
My dad nds a chair to wait
for me in. Immediately, a met-
al box, about 2 feet high and a
foot wide with a aking green
paint job, catches my eye. Im
still not sure what its for until I
read the tag: Pie safe.
Suddenly, I know what Ive
been searching for. Not that
anything can truly keep pie
safe from me when Im jones-
ing for a slice. Happy? my
asks as I load it into the car.
Its perfect, I say. Just what
I didnt know I was looking for.
THE WASHINGTON POST
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account of the life of the martal arts superstar. HBO
9am - FREQUENCY: An accidental cross-tme radio link
connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to
save his fathers life, but then must fx the consequences.
HBO
2:14pm - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: An American agent,
under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and
expose the real spy without the help of his organisaton.
HBO
5:35pm - DADDY DAY CARE: Two men get laid of and
have to become stay-at-home dads when they cant
fnd jobs. This inspires them to open their own day-care
centre. HBO
9pm - WHITE HOUSE DOWN: While on a tour of the White
House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs
into acton to save his child and protect the president from
a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. HBO
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 They give a hoot
5 Put in the fridge
10 Not a nice film
14 Pullman track
15 Flood embankment
16 Middle word of Descartes
conclusion
17 Uneasy, eerie sensation
19 Frigid
20 From the mountains of Peru
21 Dustin Hoffman movie
23 Defeated king of Troy
26 Theyre company
27 Completely surround
30 Like some teas
33 Empty trucks weight
34 Causes to attack
36 Feel remorse over
37 Small margin of victory
38 Grand ___ (wine phrase)
39 Desertlike
40 Hept- plus one
41 Saint Francis home
44 Warm, on a hunt
45 Life force
47 Pours down
49 The end, musically
50 Catch for a Florida fisherman
51 Periodic payment
54 Chicken part
58 Be a good couch potato
59 Orchard grumps?
62 Tablet company
63 Mitigator
64 Small amount of Greek?
65 Fancy dressers of 1960s London
66 Wanda of Curb YourEnthusiasm
67 Sign of sorrow
DOWN
1 Ocean predator
2 Alert of danger
3 Emulated Pinocchio
4 More heavy-eyed
5 Places for nonresident patients
6 Lobsters mother
7 So ___ heard!
8 ___ We Forget
9 Basutoland, today
10 Military zone
11 Mix, as dogs
12 Jamaican tangelo
13 A la ___ (with ice cream)
18 A wife of Henry VIII
22 Wilson of The Grand Budapest
Hotel
24 Baldwin and Templeton
25 Art of writing verse
27 Guiding beliefs of a group
28 Racial equality org.
29 Found fault with
31 Enveloping qualities
32 Impolite glances
35 Emmy winner Lucci
39 Trouble spot for Indiana Jones
41 Prime ministers assistant
42 Batting coachs concerns
43 Weather map lines
46 Lasso wielders
48 Part of BBC (Abbr.)
51 Grand ___ home run
52 Shell food?
53 Heavy low cart
55 Shower gel ingredient, often
56 ___ record (make history)
57 Ivan the Terribles title (Var.)
60 Seek answers
61 Royal jelly producer
CR-UNCH TIME
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns
the tables on her captors and transforms into a mer-
ciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
City Mall: 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 10pm
Tuol Kork: 7:55pm
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot
named Peter Quill fnds himself the object of a man-
hunt afer stealing an orb coveted by the villainous
Ronan.
Tuol Kork: 9:35pm
IF I STAY
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall afer
a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-
of-body experience, she must decide whether to
wake up and live a life far diferent than she had
imagined.
7:45pm
HOME
When ambitous young real estate agent Leigh is
asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she
crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns
is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the
property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help
her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural
force that soon pulls Leighs artst sister Vera into its
web and has sinister plans for both of them.
City Mall: 5:45pm
INTO THE STORM
A group of high school students document the
events and afermath of a devastatng tornado.
Tuol Kork: 6pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
HOME
(As above)
8:35pm
LUCY
(AS ABOVE)
9:20am, 1:25pm, 4:45pm, 6:35, 8:20pm
Access to Justice
exhibition @ Meta House
A lesson for students with
intermediate abilities at 8pm,
followed by a party afterward. The
lesson costs $5. The party is free.
The Groove, #1C Street 282 on top of
Terrazza Italian Restaurant. 8pm
NOW SHOWING
Hang out and get crafty at todays Stitch n Bitch session. WIKICOMMONS/JOMEGAT
Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum in White House
Down on HBO. BLOOMBERG
Phnom Penh Stitch n Bitch is an
informal gathering of knitters,
crocheters, cross stitchers and
embroiderers living in Phnom Penh.
Everyone is welcome.
Joma Cafe, corner of Street 294 and
Norodom Avenue. 6:30pm
Stitch n Bitch @ Joma
Salsa @ The Groove
+++
Photographer Kimlong Meng tells the
stories of 12 people whose small-scale
conicts have been resolved through
ADHOCs Alternative Dispute Resolution
Program.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
6pm
Celebrate Mexican Independence Day
with tamales, pinatas and live music
from Latin rock band Bacano.
Alma Cafe, corner of Streets 123 and
454. 8am, music from 11am until
1:30pm
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Entertainment
19
Mexican Independence
Day @ Alma Cafe
SWIMMING POOL VILLA FOR
Rent: $3800/M in Daun Penh Area
1Living room, 6Bedroom, 6Baths
Some Furniture Very Good Place
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
3BEDROOM: NICE VILLA FOR
Rent $2700/M Tonle Basac Area
Big Living room, Wester Kitchen
3Bedroom, 4Bath, Full Furniture
Nice Garden Good for Resident
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com

PENT-HOUSE APARTMENT
Rent $1900/M South Russian
Market Private Terrace Big Living
room 3Bed , 3Bath , Western
Kitchen, Very Nice River Views
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
Rent Boeung Keng Kang1 BKK1
Area $2500/M 3Bed, 2Bath
$1400/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Large Living room, Big Kitchen
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
3BR SWIM- POOL APARTMENT:
for Rent: Loc near Wat Phnom
$1400/Month 3Bedroom, 2Bath
$1100/Month 1Bedroom, 1Bath
Big Livinroom, Western Kitchen
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
777 697
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $450/M near Olympic Stadium
1Livingroom 2Bedroom & 1Bath
Fully Furbished, Motor Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com

WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M near Olympic Stadium
1Livingroom 1Bedroom & 1Bath
Fully Furbished, Motor Parking
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
www.vtrustproperty.com

VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 3 For RENT, a fully
furnished 1 bedroom, nice river view
from your balcony, price $500/m
with free internet, water, cable TV,
maintenance Location: #112, St.
Tonle Sap (peninsular)
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 4 For RENT, a luxurious
2bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, monthly price 1,040$,
free for internet, water, cable TV.
Location: #247, ST.51 St. 360, BKK1
012 569 832| 012 944 191
www.vtrustproperty.com
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
Tse Toung Blvd, Phnom Penh
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com

Please visit VTRUSTServiced
Apartments for requirement of
fully furnished studio room, one
bedroom & 2 bedrooms with price
starts from $275/Month
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16 , 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
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
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
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
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
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
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
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,
Washing Machine, A/C, Gas stove,
Tables...Etc.
-FreeInternet WIFI andCableTVsystem
-Free cleaning service x2, bed
sheet change x1 a week
-Fitness Club&Open-terraceonRoofop
Address: #242&#102,St.416&456,Tu
olTompongI&TumnupToek, Chamkar-
mon, Phnom Penh
E-mail: vinsavy@ymail.com
Tel: Khmer/Eng - 017562750
Korean/Eng - 010365253
NEW APARTMENT FOR RENT
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)
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $700/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
BIG TERRACE APARTMENT
Rent $800/M, Tonle Basac Area
1Living room 3Bedroom 3Bath
Fully Furnished, Motor Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $700/M near Aeon Shopping
Mall 1Living room, 2Bed , 2Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
1BR WESTERN APARTMENT
Rent $450/M near Central Market
1Living room, 1Bedroom, 1Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
2BR WESTERN APARTMENT
Rent $500/Mon near
Russian Market
1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16 , 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.
Price: US$4,000/month
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
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
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
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
www.towncityrealestate.com

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
www.towncityrealestate.com
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
www.towncityrealestate.com
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.
Price: US$2,500/month
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.
Price: US$1,800/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
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.
Price: US$3,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com

NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At BKKI, 03bedrooms, some
furnished, very niceandcleankitchen,
very safety, very nicetrees, very good
conditionfor livingandoffice.
Price: US$2,000/month
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com

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
www.towncityrealestate.com

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
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
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
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
LocatedalongNorodomBlvd, 100to
1700sqm, bigparkinglot, bigelevator,
bigstaircase, 24hsecurity andmany
facilitiesaround.
Price: US$12- $14/monthper sqm.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com

OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com
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
www.towncityrealestate.com

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
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
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Football
Arsenal look to repeat trick
A
RSENAL will tonight
be looking to win in
Dortmund for the
second season run-
ning, while the opening night
of the Champions League
group stage also sees Liver-
pools return and last seasons
runners-up Atletico Madrid
in action. All games kick off at
1:45am Cambodian time.

Group A
Juventus v Malmo
Under previous coach Anto-
nio Conte, Juventus failed to
reproduce their dominant do-
mestic form in Europe so Mas-
similiano Allegri will know the
importance of beginning with
a win against Malmo in Turin.
The Italian champions, who
will be without injured mid-
elder Arturo Vidal, are fresh
from beating Udinese 2-0 on
Saturday.
Olympiakos v Atletico Madrid
Spanish champions and last
seasons Champions League
runners-up Atletico begin their
campaign away to the Greek
titleholders at the Georgios
Karaiskakis Stadium. Atletico
will be buoyed by avenging
their 4-1 defeat to Real Madrid
in Mays nal in Lisbon by win-
ning 2-1 at the Santiago Bern-
abeu on Saturday.
Arda Turan was the match-
winner at the Bernabeu and
is expected to start for the rst
time this season, while Ital-
ian international Alessio Cerci
could make his debut. Atletico
coach Diego Simeone serves a
one-game European touchline
ban for storming onto the pitch
to confront Real defender Ra-
phael Varane towards the end
of the Champions League -
nal. Olympiakos, who reached
the last 16 last season under
former Real Madrid and Spain
star Michel, are unbeaten so
far this season.
Group B
Liverpool v Ludogorets Razgrad
Five-time European cham-
pions Liverpool mark their
return to the Champions
League for the rst time since
2009 at home to the Bulgar-
ian champions, who are mak-
ing their group stage debut.
Daniel Sturridge is injured for
Brendan Rodgerss side but
Raheem Sterling will return to
the line-up after being rested
for Saturdays 1-0 home loss to
Aston Villa.
Real Madrid v FC Basel
Carlo Ancelottis reigning
European champions will be
looking forward to the distrac-
tion of the Champions League
after a poor start to the season
domestically, with Saturdays
2-1 loss to Atletico in the Ma-
drid derby, their second in three
games in La Liga. Ancelotti has
yet to nd a balance to his side
following the summer arrivals
of Toni Kroos and James Ro-
driguez, while goalkeeper and
captain Iker Casillass place in
the team has been the subject
of intense scrutiny.
Group C
Benca v Zenit St Petersburg
Portuguese champions Ben-
ca, last seasons beaten Eu-
ropa League nalists, face a
familiar foe as Zenit St Peters-
burg head to Lisbon coached
by Andre Villas-Boas. The Por-
tuguese was a nemesis for Ben-
ca during his highly success-
ful season in charge of Porto
in 2010/11 and he has enjoyed
a ne start to this campaign
with Zenit, winning 10 games
in a row in all competitions.
Monaco v Bayer Leverkusen
When they nished second
in Ligue 1 last season, Monaco
looked capable of going on
to be a force to be reckoned
with in Europe, but James Ro-
driguez, Radamel Falcao and
other stars left over the sum-
mer without being replaced
and Leonardo Jardims side are
in the relegation zone at home
ahead of their meeting with
early Bundesliga leaders Bayer
Leverkusen.
Group D
Borussia Dortmund v Arsenal
Dortmund and Arsenal meet
in the Champions League for
the second season running.
Last time around, the German
giants won 2-1 in London, but
an Aaron Ramsey goal handed
the Gunners a 1-0 victory at
the Signal Iduna Park. Arsene
Wengers side will be looking
for a repeat performance here
that would extend their un-
beaten start to the campaign.
Galatasaray v Anderlecht
Turkish giants Galatasaray
entertain Anderlecht looking
for a better start to this sea-
sons Champions League than
12 months ago, when they
were thumped 6-1 by Real Ma-
drid in Istanbul. Now coached
by former Italy boss Cesare
Prandelli, Gala should do bet-
ter against Anderlecht, even if
the Belgian champions are so
far unbeaten this season. They
have nished bottom in their
last seven group stage cam-
paigns. AFP
Arsenals Per Mertesacker and Dortmunds Robert Lewandowski vie for
the ball during their UEFA Champions League match. AFP

Van Gaal wants more
from signing Di Maria
MANAGER Louis van Gaal
urged Angel di Maria to give
even more after he inspired
Manchester United to a 4-0
victory over Queens Park
Rangers on his home debut.
The Argentina international,
Uniteds record signing,
upstaged debutant Radamel
Falcao in Sundays game at Old
Trafford with a goal, an assist
and a hand in the home sides
two other goals. He came off in
the 82nd minute after suffering
cramp and although Van Gaal
heralded his contribution, he
said that he expected the 59.7
million (US$98 million) winger
to get even better. AFP
Spanish La Liga
Rayo Vallecano 2 Elche 3
Valencia 3 Espanyol 1
Sevilla 2 Getafe 0
Granada 0 Villarreal 0
German Bundesliga
Eint Frankfurt 0 Augsburg 1
Hannover 2 Hamburg 0
Italian Serie A
Sampdoria 2 Torino 0
Cagliari 1 Atalanta 2
Fiorentina 0 Genoa 0
Inter Milan 7 Sassuolo 0
Lazio 3 Cesena 0
Napoli 0 Chievo 1
Parma 4 AC Milan 5
French Ligue 1
Lille 2 Nantes 0
Guingamp 2 Bordeaux 1
Evian TG 1 Marseille 3
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D
AVIES Paints put the Smart
Dragons out of stride with a
slew of fast breaks in a 88-62
victory as the Angkor Beer
Cambodian Basketball League, co-
sponsored by Pepsi and Smart, rolled
out a three-game card at the Olympic
Stadium Indoor Arena on Sunday.
The Dragons were caught off guard
by the furious pace the Paints set in the
rst quarter and were forced to try to
play catch up for the rest of the game.
Only once in the whole contest did the
Dragons manage to draw level, and
that was at 22 in the second quarter.
The Filipino triumvirate of Janno
Cunnan, Aimar Sabayo and John Cor-
nito made a habit of tearing down the
inside court and leaving the Dragons
defence in tatters, and by half-time
the Paints had a 12-point lead.
Paints manager Chris Borja took
Cunnan and Sabayo out of action
at the beginning of the third quarter
to give them some rest. That offered
Dragons their best chance to bridge
the divide.
But despite a size advantage, the
Dragons kept missing easy buckets
under the rim, with only Hon Hai
Chan making a go of it.
The Dragons seemed completely
out of sorts in the nal quarter, un-
done by the Paints fast breaks and
their own poor marksmanship.
In the days rst xture, CCPL War-
riors swatted out the Sabay Tiger Mos-
quitoes 73-57 in a game where both
sides, having lost three games out of
four, were under pressure to ght for a
shot at the playoffs.
Troubled by injury worries over sev-
eral players, including top scorers like
Jay Rodden and Geoff Harry, the Mos-
quitoes showed up with just seven
players. The Warriors, in contrast, were
back to full strength with the return of
Vince Delmondo, adding another at-
tacking layer.
The Warriors jumped to a seven-
point lead after the rst quarter but the
Mosquitoes were served well by Steve
Chunn and Keith Kelly, who used their
size to make some good inside shots.
The Warriors crossed over with a nar-
row 35-31 lead.
Sovann Panha and Jeff Cruz stepped
up the scoring for the Warriors to
stretch the lead out to 10 points, but
once they slowed down, Chunn and
Kelly were back to pull the Mosquitoes
to within two regulation baskets.
With ve minutes left in the fourth
quarter, the Mosquitoes suffered a
huge setback when Kelly was called
out for his fth foul. As he left the court,
Kenneth Kim scored two baskets in a
row to make it a nine-point game.
The Warriors seemed to be in a pun-
ishing mood and they skipped away to
a 16-point win.
Fresh from beating the well-rounded
Mekong Tigers, the Emperors were ex-
pected to roll over young NSK Dream,
but last seasons runners-up were
forced to dig deep into their reserves
before winning 50-42 in the third game
of the day.
Surprisingly enough, NSK Dream
took a ve-point lead in the rst quar-
ter only to see the Emperors overtake
them by half time.
The young outt, ranked seventh
going into this game, showed great
resolution in the last quarter to get up
to within a point of one of the hot con-
tenders for the title at 39-40, with ve
minutes left on the clock.
It was then that Emperors captain
Monh Ratana played out his role, tak-
ing the ball from his end all the way
to the other and sink a three-pointer.
The Emperors quickly added a few
more to the tally.
Scores Summary
CCPL Warriors 73 (Vince Del Mundo
13, Fred Babida 12, Sovann Panha 10)
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 57 (Steve
Chunn 26 , Keith Kelly 13, Larry Ng 7 )
Emperors 50 (Kim Vengngoun 11,
Chao Prohors 10) NSK Dream 42 ( Teav
Kean An 11 , Chanchan Borey 11)
Davies Paints 88 (Janno Cunanan
18, Aimar Sabayo 17, John Cornito 13)
Smart Dragons 62 (Ben Laird 17 ,Ga-
briele Castaldo 14, Leng Seng 8)
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
23
Rossi relaunches title bid
ITALIAN great Valentino Rossi
led a Yamaha one-two to claim
his maiden win of the season
at the San Marino Moto GP
and launch his bid for a 10th
world title on Sunday.
Rossi, a nine-time world
champion in all categories,
finished the 28-lap race ahead
of Spanish teammate Jorge
Lorenzo with Dani Pedrosa, on
a Honda, in third.
Championship leader Mar-
quez finished 16th after crash-
ing his Honda on the early laps
and trailing at the back of the
field for most of the contest.
Lorenzo on Saturday had
earned the 30th pole position
of his career, but first of the
season, to top the grid just
ahead of Andrea Iannone on a
Ducati and Rossi.
But the Spaniards bid for a
fourth successive win in San
Marino was kept in check by a
rampant Rossi.
The Italian eclipsed his mer-
curial form so far this season
with a composed and deter-
mined performance which he
admitted was helped by Mar-
quezs misfortune.
Im very happy. It was a
great race, an ecstatic Rossi
told Sky Sports.
Obviously incidents like the
one affecting Marquez dont
happen very often.
But today we knew we had
a great chance to win this race.
I really enjoyed the race, so
many people, so many fans. It
was a perfect day.
It was Rossis 81st win in the
sports elite class, allowing the
35-year-old Italian to become
the first rider to reach 5,000
career points.
Although disappointed at
missing the win, Lorenzo was
buoyed by his podium place
and Yamahas first one-two of
the season.
It has been a long time
without this result, the Span-
iard said.
I knew from warm-up that
Valentino would be very fast.
I expected to be faster than
last year, but I was actually
slower.
With five championship
races remaining Marquez
remains leader on 289 points
but has seen Pedrosa (215)
and Rossi (214) close the gap
to 74 and 75 points respec-
tively. AFP
Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi celebrates as he wins the MotoGP race at
the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in San Marino on Sunday. AFP
THE United States com-
pleted a clean sweep of the
worlds best in racing past
Serbia 129-92 on Sunday to
win the 2014 FIBA Basketball
World Cup and become the
rst country to defend their
crown since 2002.
The Americans made 15 of
30 three-pointers in the game,
with Kyrie Irving and James
Harden combining for nine
three-pointers and 49 points.
Six other players scored in
double gures for the Ameri-
cans, who went undefeated
in the tournament with an
average winning margin of
33 points.
The US victory was close
to the all-time record for the
biggest winning margin in
a nal, the record being 46
points in a 13791 US win
over Russia in 1994.
The 129 points by the Amer-
icans were second to their
showing in 1994
The Americans also secured
their fth world title, pulling
them even with Yugoslavia,
who repeated their title in
2002. Brazil also won back-to-
back crowns in 1959 and 1963.
Nikola Kalinic and Nemanja
Bjelica paced Serbia with 18
points each as they secured
their best showing at the
worlds under the Serbian ag.
Serbia started strong, lead-
ing 12-5 in the early going, but
the Americans responded with
a 17-3 run for a 22-15 lead.
The US extended the lead
to 35-19 as Irving nailed three
three-pointers in scoring 15
points in the period.
The American shooters
remained hot in knocking
down six more three-point-
ers in pushing the lead to 31
points. The margin was 67-41
at the break.
Serbia were never able to get
the game closer than 24 points
and the US remained on tar-
get from long range as the lead
bulged to 39 points. It was 105-
67 after three quarters.
The game was long decided
and the only question unan-
swered is it would be a re-
cord-breaking victory as well.
But the lead only swelled to
40 points.
Kyrie and James were amaz-
ing. But everybody wanted to
work. They were always pre-
pared. Im proud of them. We
feel very privileged to be called
world champions, US coach
Mike Krzyzewski said.
Each one is special. The
main difference is the players
change. But the culture has
stayed the same. AFP
United States rout Serbia
to retain basketball Cup
Paints outsmart
Dragons in CBL
Davies Paints players jump for a rebound with a Smart Dragons player during their CBL
game on Sunday at the Olympic Stadium indoor hall. SRENG MENG SRUN
National Football League
Buffalo 29 Miami 10
Washington 41 Jacksonville 10
Dallas 26 Tennessee 10
Arizona 25 New York Giants 14
New England 30 Minnesota 7
Cleveland 26 New Orleans 24
Cincinnati 24 Atlanta 10
Carolina 24 Detroit 7
St. Louis 19 Tampa Bay 17
San Diego 30 Seattle 21
Houston 30 Oakland 14
Green Bay 31 NY Jets 24
Denver 24 Kansas City 17
Chicago 28 San Francisco 20
SUNDAYS RESULTS

Sparks fly as Di Grassi
wins first electric race
A SPECTACULAR crash at the
last corner that ended leader
Nicolas Prosts race and sent
ex-F1 driver Nick Heidfeld flying
into the fencing gave Brazils
Lucas di Grassi victory in the
first ever Formula E electric
race in Beijing on Saturday. The
Frenchman, son of four-time
Formula One champion Alain,
led the gripping race until the
final moments. But Heidfeld
made contact with the left side
of Prosts E.Dams Renault
shortly before the finish outside
the Birds Nest stadium in the
Chinese capital and went
barrelling into the air. The
German wriggled out of the
wreckage of his vehicle and
appeared to confront Prost, who
looked to be gesturing his
innocence. Prost told AFP after
the race: I would not have
expected for him to have
attempted a suicide move at the
end of the race. My victory was
stolen. It is really hard. AFP
Mayweather says he
isnt evading Pacquiao
BOXER Floyd Mayweather,
fresh off his lopsided victory
over Marcos Maidana, denied
he is trying to safeguard his
undefeated record by avoiding
Filipino superstar Manny
Pacquiao. Mayweather has
admitted he handpicked
opponents in the past but says
there is nothing unscrupulous
about not fighting Pacquiao,
one of the few fighters who
can match the Americans
hand speed. I am not ducking
or dodging no opponent, said
Mayweather, who turns 38 in
February. If a Pacquiao fight
presents itself then lets make
it happen. Mayweather said
on Saturday after beating
Maidana for the second time in
four months that he was open
to a fight against Pacquiao, but
it would have to be on
Mayweathers terms. AFP
Panthers bench Hardy,
violence concerns grow
THE Carolina Panthers
deactivated defensive end Greg
Hardy, found guilty of domestic
violence in July, ahead of
Sundays National Football
League home opener against
Detroit as assault concerns
grow league-wide. The
Panthers defeated Detroit 24-7
and Carolina coach Ron
Rivera, who two days earlier
defended his plans to start
Hardy, said he had changed
his mind. My rationale was
because this was in the best
interest of the Carolina
Panthers, Rivera said after
the victory. We had to do this. I
did this and thats it. Hardy
played last week for Carolina
despite a judge convicting him
two months ago for assaulting
his former girlfriend and
threatening to kill her. AFP
Contadors Vuelta victory sets up thrilling 2015 Tour
ALBERTO Contadors Vuelta a
Espana victory was not just sig-
nificant for this season but also
helps to set up a potentially
thrilling 2015 Tour de France.
As long as no one suffers any
debilitating injuries, next sea-
sons Tour de France could see
the three reigning Grand Tour
winners lining up alongside
2013 Grand Boucle winner
Chris Froome in perhaps the
most mouth-watering field
in years.
Tour champion Vincenzo
Nibali will be back to defend his
title while Giro dItalia winner
Nairo Quintana will attempt to
go one better than his debut
second place in 2013. Add to
that pair Contador and Froome,
and the stage will be set for a
crowd-pleasing battle.
And that was very much what
was in store at this years Vuelta,
won by Contador after an epic
challenge from Froome.
If anything, the Vuelta lineup
was the best of the three Grand
Tours this year, despite the
absence of Nibali.
Once Contador and Froome
crashed out of the Tour, Nibali
had no peers to threaten his yel-
low jersey procession.
But in Spain, even though
Quintana crashed out and Rig-
oberto Uran later also left the
race with bronchitis, Conta-
dor, Froome, Alejandro Val-
verde, Joaquim Rodriguez and
Fabio Aru produced a tantalis-
ing race.
Valverde and Rodriguez may
be coming towards the end of
their careers while Aru can still
improve considerably, but the
three of them provided strong
opposition that brought out the
best in Contador and Froome.
That the Briton finished
runner-up should not detract
from the fact he will probably
line up as favourite at the Tour
next year.
Froome is a bigger, heavier
man than Contador and per-
haps took longer to recover and
rediscover top form following
their respective Tour crashes.
Both broke bones in their
bodies and although Contador
was the one who was sup-
posed to miss the Vuelta, he
actually arrived in better shape
than Froome.
Those two were supposed to
go head-to-head at this years
Tour with Nibali seen as an
outsider, yet the Italians domi-
nant performance suggests he
is a lot closer to their level and
perhaps even above it than
was previously assumed.
The enigma at the Tour could
well be Quintana, widely
regarded as the best climber in
the peloton.
He has developed a habit as a
slow starter in Grand Tours
before coming on strong in the
final week.
That was what helped him
gradually climb up to second
place at the 2013 Grand Boucle
from eighth after the first
mountaintop finish.
Similarly, at Mays Giro he was
more than 3min 30sec behind
Uran following the individual
time trial in the second week,
but in the third week he dazzled
in the mountains and streaked
to victory by more than 3min.
He was also wearing the
leaders red jersey at the Vuel-
ta before a crash on the first
individual timetrial saw him
lose 4min. He went down
again the next day and pulled
out of the race.
Once again, in the first uphill
finish he had been unable to
follow Contador, Valverde and
Froome but three days later he
was the one putting time into
most of his rivals to take the
overall lead.
Quintana will need to take
time out of the others in the
mountains when the Tour
comes around as he does not
have the same power in the
timetrials.
Froome, if he rediscovers his
best form, should have the edge
against the clock but both Con-
tador and Nibali have improved
in that respect and can expect
to limit their losses. And as both
have proved this year, they have
a turn of pace in the mountains
that Froome cannot necessar-
ily match. AFP
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Sport
Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador celebrates as he crosses the nish line
of the last stage of the 69th edition of the Tour of Spain on Sunday. AFP
Horschel holds on for PGA riches
A
MERICAN Billy Horschel
won the US PGAs season-
ending Tour Championship
and captured the playoff
points crown on Sunday, ring a -
nal-round 68 to defeat Jim Furyk and
Rory McIlroy by three strokes.
Horschel, who won last weeks BMW
Championship at Denver after losing
the week before only on an errant ap-
proach at the nal hole, red his 12th
consecutive round in the 60s to nish
72 holes on 11-under par 269.
World number one McIlroy and
seventh-ranked Furyk, who has not
won since the 2010 Tour Champi-
onship, shared second on 272 with
Englands Justin Rose, American
Chris Kirk and Australian Jason Day
another stroke adrift.
Expecting the birth of a baby
daughter in two weeks, Horschel
took the FedEx Cup playoff bonus of
$10 million and the $1.4 million top
prize for winning the tournament.
Horschel, 27, who entered the four-
week playoff run only 60th in points,
won more money in one day than he
had since turning professional ve
years ago.
Its unbelievable, Horschel said.
I was sort of looking toward the start
of the 2014-15 season.
At the same time I knew my game
was in good shape and I needed to
get out of my own way. I was able to
show my game was in good shape
these past two weeks.
Horschel credited a putting tip
from coach Todd Anderson three
weeks ago with sparking the run
to glory.
It was off to the races from there,
he said.
McIlroy red a one-over par 71,
stumbling back with three bogeys
in a row starting at the ninth. He ran
off three birdies in a row starting at
the 15th hole but it was too little and
too late.
The Northern Irishman praised
Horschel but said he was tired after
a four-week playoff run and ready for
a long rest before the Ryder Cup be-
gins in 12 days.
I think it was just a week too far,
McIlroy said. I was making mistakes
out there that I dont usually make
and it got away from me.
I dont want to see my golf clubs
until the Ryder Cup. I want to take a
week off and recharge.
McIlroy and Horschel, playing to-
gether in the nal duo, started off
the day level atop the leaderboard
at nine-under and each birdied the
fourth hole to stay deadlocked in
the lead.
Horschel and McIlroy had a rivalry
dating to their Walker Cup amateur
days, when McIlroy took issue with
Horschels vocal style about his own
shotmaking during a match.
Horschel sank a 19-foot birdie putt
at the fth to take the lead alone and
McIlroy found water off the tee with
a 5-iron at the sixth on his way to a
double bogey.
It was a similar situation to 2012,
when McIlroy hit a 5-iron in the wa-
ter on the same hole and took double
bogey in the nal round on his way to
missing out on the playoff crown.
McIlroy took bogeys at the ninth,
10th and 11th holes to stumble out of
contention while Furyk made a run
for the top with birdies at the second,
third and ninth holes to move one
back of Horschel and stayed there
after both Americans began the back
nine with bogeys.
Furyk birdied the par-5 15th, tap-
ping in after leaving a 56-foot eagle
putt inches short, to match Horschel
for the lead at 10-under.
But Horschel answered with a
ve-foot birdie putt of his own at 15
to reclaim the lead with three holes
to play.
Horschel found the right rough off
the 16th tee but rolled in a clutch 30-
foot par putt to keep his one-shot
lead over Furyk.
Furyk closed with back-to-back
bogeys to stumble back, leaving
Horschel to par the last two holes
for the triumph.
It was nice knowing after I hit my
tee shot on the green at 18 that is
was pretty much sewn up, Horschel
said. AFP
Billy Horschel of the US reacts to his par-saving putt on the 16th green during the nal round of the Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday. AFP

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