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A security guard knees a civilian in the head at Freedom Park yesterday in response to opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua making another attempt at entering the park. BENWOODS/CNRP
No holds barred
Eddie Morton
C
AMBODIAN stockbrokers
yesterday admitted to a
disappointing level of
investor interest in Grand
Twins Internationals (GTI) initial
public offering.
Garment industry unrest, distrust
in the private sector and a lack of
liquidity in the market were all said
to be discouraging investors from
buying into the Taiwanese firms
eight-million-share offering.
Sorn Sokna, CEO of Sonatra Secu-
rities, one of the brokers assigned to
the IPO, said that so far just four cli-
ents had registered their interest
with Sonatra in the GTI listing, which
is slated to officially take place on
May 29.
Not many people are interested in
the IPO, both local and foreign,
Sokna told the Post yesterday.
We cannot say exactly why, he
added. [But] I get information from
other companies also that they have
not received much interest.
GTI has so far failed to match the
hype that surrounded the Phnom
Penh Water Supply Authoritys
(PPWSA) listing in 2012, Sokna said.
State-owned PPWSA remains the
only company listed on the Cambo-
dia Stock Exchange (CSX). Upon
going public, GTI will become the
second firm to list on the local bourse,
and the first private firm to do so.
Svay Hay, CEO of Acleda Securities,
which is also a registered broker for
GTI, said the new offering had proved
to be less attractive to investors than
PPWSAs.
That said, the investors interested
have committed to large amounts
and GTIs listing is a good sign for the
CSX, he said.
Borin Phan, operations manager at
SBI Royal Securities, part owned by
the conglomerate Royal Group, mir-
rored the concerns of Hay.
PPWSA was more trusted because
it is a public company, Phan said.
This time it is a private company
and a garment firm, and with the
political situation and the strikes ear-
lier this year most of the locals feel
scared of fluctuations in the garment
industry. Phan added that since
Failing to sew up support
Lacklustre interest shown in Grand Twins IPO
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Old problems persist in NGO draft law
NATIONAL NEWS
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2 THE PHNOM PENH POST APRIL 22, 2014
NEC strives for more power
Meas Sokchea

A
MEMBER of the
muc h- ma l i g ne d
National Election
Committee said
yesterday he hoped that
the body would cease to be
merely a paper tiger and
be granted strong powers
to punish political parties
for electoral transgressions
when future election reforms
are put in place.
Speaking at the NEC head-
quarters in the Ministry of
Interior during a meeting
with political parties ahead
of next months sub-national
council elections, Mean Sa-
tik, who presided over the
meeting, lamented that the
committee was not able to
take action against politi-
cians and their parties, be-
yond nes and forcing a ne-
gotiated solution, when they
violate the election law or
campaign procedure.
Comparing Cambodia to
neighbouring Thailand
where the election commis-
sion has broad legal powers
to investigate and indict in-
dividuals for election law of-
fences Satik said he hoped
the NEC would in the future
have more power.
We will try very hard to
make [political parties] re-
spect the law according to
our ability outlined in the
law and [we] hope that when
[Cambodia] creates new laws
[in the future], the NEC will
be offered complete powers
and have the rights to govern
other institutions, he said.
The ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party and opposition
Cambodia National Rescue
Party have reportedly agreed
to a complete overhaul of
the NEC and how its mem-
bers are appointed before
the next national election, a
key demand of the CNRP and
election watchdogs, which
have accused the body of be-
ing beholden to the CPP.
My NEC, I know already,
will be changed in the next
mandate, Satik continued.
[We] hope that the coming
laws will be strong and give
power to the NEC to govern
other institutions so that [the
NEC] can become a real tiger
and not the dead tiger or pa-
per tiger [that it has been].
Ouk Suy, president of the
electoral wing of the CNRP,
was present during the dis-
cussion and welcomed Sa-
tiks comments, saying that
more power was needed for
a group controlled by the
ruling CPP.
A paper tiger means that
[the NEC] does not have
power, he said.
In response, Satik moved
to clarify that electoral prob-
lems had always been en-
forced by the committee ac-
cording to existing laws and
that he was not saying the
NEC had no powers at all.
Koul Panha, director at
elections watchdog Comfrel,
said that the NEC would not
be able to challenge govern-
ment interference until it
was made a constitutionally
mandated body.
He added, however, that its
members seeming lack of
commitment to tackle elec-
tion fraud, rather than sim-
ply what powers they have,
was also a serious issue.
I think if they had more
commitment they could
make a big difference. How-
ever there is some truth that
the law does not give them a
clear mandate and power in
terms of being able to chal-
lenge the interference of the
government, he said.
At yesterdays meeting the
NEC outlined regulations for
the May 2-16 election cam-
paign period ahead of the
May 18 elections, which see
sitting commune councillors
vote for district, city and pro-
vincial councillors.
Its instructions included,
in a clear reference to the op-
position, that parties do not
mask demonstrations as part
of campaigning and refrain
from permanently occupy-
ing public places. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
A man casts his vote at the Sothearos high school in Phnom Penh last July. HONG MENEA
Military cop investigated for alleged forest clearing
Chhay Channyda
A DEPUTY district military police
chief in Kampong Thoms Santuk dis-
trict is under scrutiny for allegedly
clearing up to seven hectares of
community forest land for personal
gain, and district officials are inves-
tigating the case with the aim of
presenting it at the provincial court
at the end of April, a district official
said yesterday.
Villagers in Kraya commune filed a
complaint to Santuk district officials,
the provincial hall and forestry
authorities against deputy district
military police chief Hor Dina for
allegedly grabbing and clearing
six to seven hectares of commu-
nity forest, district governor Pich
Sothea said.
Forestry officials and I will sum-
mon him at the end of this month.
Provincial forestry officials are inves-
tigating this case and are preparing
[it] for court. They will find out how
he got the land, how many hectares
of land he cleared and to what extent
it is within the forest law, he said.
According to Sothea, Dina was
known to have encroached upon the
community forest since 2012 and
had undertaken logging activities
besides planting crops on the cleared
forest land, but more evidence was
needed to build a case.
We asked the provincial authorities
for a solution because we are worried
[that others] will plan to clear forests
because they see him as an example,
local resident Chan Ra, 45, said.
The Veal OKdey community forest
was recognised at the provincial level
in 2002 when residents asked for the
preservation of the 4,500-hectare for-
est, but this is still awaiting approval
from the Ministry of Interior. About
1,000 people depend on the commu-
nity forest for their livelihoods.
Dina could not be reached for
comment yesterday.
Only a month ago, rights group
Adhoc organised a national cam-
paign to raise pressure on authori-
ties to settle land disputes according
to the law.
On the day the campaign was
launched, more than 100 complaints
were filed by victims of land grabs
across the country.
Borei Keila
activists go
to PP court
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
SEVEN Borei Keila community
activists were summonsed to
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
yesterday to back up a com-
plaint they filed accusing high-
ranking Prampi Makara district
officials of assault for their role
in the violent dispersal of dem-
onstrators in February.
The complaint, filed on March
18, alleges that district governor
Som Sovann, deputy governor
Lim Sophea and district secu-
rity chief Prak Hak along with
some 30 security guards were
guilty of committing intention-
al acts of violence by forcibly
evicting a group of housing
evictees that had occupied an
unfinished building at their des-
ignated relocation site.
According to activist Has
Sok Chenda, who is one of the
plaintiffs, the court asked the
group to provide any incrimi-
nating evidence they might
have in their possession.
The court told us . . . to
compile basic evidence if we
have it. Besides that, they did
not ask anything at all, Sok
Chenda stated.
Nay Vanda, of rights group
Adhoc, applauded the court for
its quick response, but noted
that for this case, the court
should invite the defence for
questioning first.
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THE latest version of the gov-
ernments draft law on NGOs,
which was approved by the
Council of Ministers in January,
is identical to an earlier version
made available to civil society
in 2011, with several outstand-
ing concerns still intact, the
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights said yesterday.
Working from a copy provid-
ed by the government late last
month, CCHR found that the
draft law despite having ad-
dressed many of civil societys
concerns was likely to be
passed as is, still with several
troubling articles, including
vague language that could
not be much worse for foreign
NGOs and associations.
Under the draft law, the
government is not obligated
to provide a reason for deny-
ing foreign NGOs applications
and there is no mechanism to
appeal such a decision.
Whats more, foreign orga-
nizations are only entitled to
implement aid projects, which
could be used to reject or de-
register foreign organizations
for supposed breach of purpose
if they engage in advocacy.
Given that the government
has said that it will accept no
more input on the law, the
fact that the draft provided last
month is identical to the 2011
version further indicat[es] that
the RGC [Royal Government
of Cambodia] will most likely
adopt the draft [law] of 2011
without further consultations.
Preap Kol, executive director
of Transparency International
Cambodia, said yesterday that
while his group is technically
registered as a local NGO, we
do have concerns along with
civil society.
The secrecy, the lack of
transparency and consulta-
tion has raised concerns about
what the motivation of the law
is, he said. Any law that has
a good intention, it should be
widely consulted [on], espe-
cially among the civil society
organisations that are the
main subject of the law.
If the government pressed
ahead with the unchanged
law, he continued, it would
not be a surprise to us.
Ruling party lawmaker
Cheam Yeap said yesterday that
the Council of Ministers ver-
sion had not yet made it to the
National Assembly though it
might arrive by the end of the
week and that he was unsure
whether there would be any
efforts to change it.
Old problems persist
in new NGO draft law
Strike falls flat as factories fill
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
W
HAT was sup-
posed to be a
widespread gar-
ment protest fell
at yesterday, as most workers
returned to their posts, days
ahead of the end of a planned
weeklong stay-at-home strike.
A program ofcer at the Co-
alition of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union
(C.CAWDU) said no work-
ers took part in the strike,
while C.CAWDU president
Ath Thorn said employees at
more than 10 factories were
on strike yesterday, but admit-
ted that the majority of work-
ers had returned to work.
More [employees] went to
work, but some did not, said
Thorn, who earlier yesterday
claimed that up to 90 per cent
of the garment sector did not
work on April 17, the strikes
rst day.
Most of Cambodias fac-
tories remained closed after
Khmer New Year until Mon-
day, making yesterday the lit-
mus test for workers support
of the strike, several industry
observers said last week. Since
so many factories were closed
on the three preceding work
days, the high attendance lev-
el calls into question alleged
strike participation of the pre-
vious days.
Vorng Demorng, C.CAWDU
program manager, yesterday
alleged that factories had taken
a carrot-and-stick approach to
the strike, warning employees
not to participate and offering
bonuses to those who worked
through the weeklong strike.
Demorng said she believed
the strike was over.
Whether or not factories of-
fered incentives to employees
who came to work during the
planned strike makes no differ-
ence, Garment Manufacturers
Association in Cambodia sec-
retary-general Ken Loo said.
If they offer bonus, they of-
fer bonus, said Loo, who pre-
viously stated he believed few
workers would participate.
While the strike over the
minimum wage lacked the
punch of the one staged in
December and January, which
crippled the industry for at
least 10 days, it has shown
that unions have the power to
force factories to temporarily
change their operating proce-
dures, said Dave Welsh, coun-
try manager of labour rights
group Solidarity Center.
I would point to the fact that
so many factories were closed
[Thursday to Saturday], which
from their end was likely some
sort of preventative measure,
Welsh said.
The small-scale strike shows
workers have the ability to shut
down the industry or protest in
a quieter way, he added.
Garment workers return from lunch and le into Terratexts factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. PHA LINA
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Fresh violence at Freedom Park
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
AT LEAST 10 people were
injured yesterday when about
30 district security guards
attacked a peaceful crowd of
journalists, NGO workers and
supporters of opposition law-
maker-elect Mu Sochua after
she ran into the middle of Free-
dom Park on her sixth attempt
to draw attention to the govern-
ments blockade of the desig-
nated protest space.
According to Am Sam Ath,
chief monitor at rights group
Licadho, three journalists and
seven Cambodia National Res-
cue Party youth supporters
were injured when baton-
wielding Daun Penh district
security guards, who have
become infamous for their vio-
lent behaviour at protests, were
ordered to attack the crowd at
about 8:30am.
Three youths were left with
head injuries, while the other
four where badly kicked, kneed,
stomped on and beaten, Sam
Ath said.
The three journalists, two of
them foreigners, were not seri-
ously injured.
Lim Kim-Ya, a CNRP lawmak-
er-elect from Kampong Thom
province, said he was slapped
across the face when he tried to
stop the guards from beating a
female youth activist.
The actions of the Daun
Penh district authorities and
the Phnom Penh Municipal
Hall violates national and inter-
national human rights laws
which the Cambodian govern-
ment is a signatory to, he said.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche denied the charac-
terisation of the violence
as a crackdown on freedom
of assembly.
This was not a crackdown, it
was law enforcement, he said.
Mu Sochua, other parliamen-
tarians from the CNRP and
their activists are trying to pro-
voke [the authorities] to react
and are inciting people to cre-
ate violence. Then she takes all
the problems that result [from
her incitement] to use for polit-
ical gain.
According to Sochua, who
began her crusade to bring
freedom back to Freedom Park
at the beginning of this month,
the violence broke out after she
was forcibly removed from the
park by her hands and legs.
As a crowd gathered around
her, district authorities gave the
orders to attack, she said.
They started going after peo-
ple with iPhones, with cameras,
foreigners or [locals], they went
after [everyone]. It was clear
that they wanted to prevent
reporting and get rid of evi-
dence. I think that . . . starting
today they are not going to be
soft [anymore].
Pen Sunsavoan, Sochuas
assistant, said he required 10
stitches to the head after being
attacked by guards.
I will file a lawsuit against
[Daun Penh Deputy District
Governor] Sok Penh Vuth, who
directly ordered those security
forces to beat us and the other
reporters, he said.
A video of Penh Vuth bashing
a man over the head with a bull-
horn during a protest in Janu-
ary went viral and led to calls
for his ouster. Vuth could not be
reached for comment. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIA
At the beginning of this month, opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua launched a one-woman campaign to bring freedom back to Freedom
Park by attempting to peacefully enter the area where a ban on public gatherings is in place to speak on a number of rights
issues. Each of her attempts has been met with resistance. Here, we look back on Sochuas rst steps in her campaign for freedom.
A man who was kneed by a municipal security ofcer has his head wound tended to in Phnom Penh yesterday. BEN WOODS/CNRP
April 2. BEN WOODS/CNRP
April 3. VIREAK MAI
April 20. PHA LINA
No matter the day, lawmaker booted from city park
Police nd
few clues in
ery death
Khoun Leakhana
POLICE in Kandal provinces
Takhmao district are following
leads after finding a man
burned beyond recognition in
a field.
After inspecting the body yes-
terday, investigators in the dis-
tricts Kampong Samnanh com-
mune said the unidentified
corpse may have been in the
plot of land for two days.
Authorities suspect foul play,
Takhmao district police chief
Sem Buthbandeth told report-
ers yesterday.
According to our examina-
tion, we can conclude that the
victim did not burn himself, but
was rather burned to death by
another person.
The body was found yester-
day morning at about 7:30, the
police chief said, but physical
evidence shows that the man
had died from burns over
the weekend.
Police investigating the crime
found 10 beer cans, a pack of
555 brand cigarettes, a pack of
Fine brand cigarettes and a
cigarette lighter, the police
chief said.
Being unable to identify him,
police have not been able to
notify the family, he added.
After evidence was collected
from the victims body, author-
ities, unable to find living rela-
tives, sent the body to Kro Boa
Pagoda, also located in Takhmao
districts Kampong Samnanh
commune.
Stuart White
T
HE Victims Support
Section (VSS) of the
Khmer Rouge tri-
bunal announced
yesterday that it has secured
sufcient funding for 12 of
its 13 recommended proj-
ects for reparations, a de-
velopment that comes after
months of frenzied fundrais-
ing, at times even by civil
party lawyers themselves.
More than $770,000 was
secured for the 12 projects,
which include symbolic
measures like a national day
of remembrance for victims
and survivors, psychologi-
cal services for victims in the
form of testimonial therapy
and self-help groups, and a
sculpture evoking the forced
march out of Phnom Penh in
1975 to be constructed near
the French Embassy.
According to the VSS an-
nouncement, the projects
aim to provide formal ac-
knowledgement to the vic-
tims of the Khmer Rouge
regime in order to mitigate
the harm and suffering they
have experienced, to pre-
serve collective memory and
to restore victims dignity.
The courts internal rules
forbid it from offering indi-
vidual monetary reparations
to civil parties, allowing it in-
stead to devise collective and
moral reparations projects.
If a guilty verdict is reached,
the court will decide whether
to ofcially implement the
projects, taking into account
not only their funding status,
but also whether they appro-
priately address the collective
harm suffered by recognised
victims of the Khmer Rouge
regime in the late 1970s, dur-
ing which nearly two million
people died.
A verdict in the rst phase
of the current trial, Case
002/01 which is trying the
regimes remaining senior
leaders Nuon Chea and Kh-
ieu Samphan is expected in
the coming months.
If there is a conviction,
then it is also possible that a
decision on reparations will
be [included] in the same
judgement, court legal com-
munications ofcer Lars Ol-
sen said.
Securing funding for the
civil party reparations was
far from a sure thing. With
no explicit guidelines regard-
ing fundraising in the courts
internal rules, the job of
drumming up money fell to
the VSS and to lawyers them-
selves, and the deadline for
ling nal submissions on
reparations was pushed back
at least once due to insuf-
cient funds.
The one project that still
has not received sufcient
funding was a proposal to
build a handful of memorials
throughout the country.
As to whether the project
could be revisited in the fu-
ture if funding materialises,
Olsen said that the matter was
a hypothetical situation that
will have to be dealt with if
it arises.
Judicial reform
Criticism is
sour grapes,
says minister
T
HE justice minister yester-
day defended three long-
awaited laws on judicial
reform which were approved
by the Council of Ministers last
week in a move slammed by
the Cambodian Center for Hu-
man Rights (CCHR) as lacking
transparency.
Minister of Justice Ang Vong
Vathana said that the three
important and necessary laws
had gone through a strict draf-
ting process.
Although these drafts . . .
are not 100 per cent perfect,
they were widely discussed,
edited and strictly examined
by our legal experts and other
related national institutions . . .
before we submitted them to
the Council of Ministers, Vong
Vathana said.
He added that civil society
groups had raised concerns be-
cause they had not been invited
to take part in the decision-ma-
king process.
Despite there [being] com-
plaints from civil societies, they
did not argue with the meaning
of these laws . . . they argued be-
cause they did not participate in
discussing or drafting them.
In a statement on Sunday, the
CCHR condemned the Council of
Ministers approval of the laws,
citing a lack of public consulta-
tion. BUTHREAKSMEYKONGKEA
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Mom Kunthear
NEARLY 4,000 workers in Svay
Rieng province continued
protesting yesterday amid a
separate stay-at-home strike.
Workers from three factories
in the countrys southeast cor-
ner held public protests outside
their factories in the provinces
Tai Seng Special Economic
Zone beginning Saturday, said
Pav Sina, president of the Col-
lective Union of Movement of
Workers (CUMW).
The striking workers are de-
manding $50 the amount of
the no-strike bonus all three
factories agreed to pay but
have withheld in the wake of
a nationwide strike that ended
in early January, CUMW of-
cer Sok Na said yesterday.
They are also calling on facto-
ries to rehire 43 workers they
say have been red since the
strike earlier this year.
The factories broke their
promise, which caused the
workers to get angry and pro-
test, Na said, adding that
workers would continue dem-
onstrating tomorrow.
Employees taking part in the
action, which is not related to
the stay-at-home strike, rep-
resent workers from the Best
Way, Smart Tech and You Li
factories, Na said.
Thousands
continue
their strike
Clock ticks on C.CAWDU bail bid
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
EMBATTLED union leader Ath
Thorn yesterday said that he
had begun a fundraising effort,
trying to come up with $25,000
in bail money by the end of
the week.
Thorn, president of the Coa-
lition of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union
(C.CAWDU), said union mem-
bers would begin distributing
flyers communicating his mon-
etary need.
If we dont have enough
maybe they will do something
bad to us, said Thorn, who was
charged with incitement in
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
on April 8 following a com-
plaint from a security guard
who works at SL Garment fac-
tory, the venue of a C.CAWDU-
led strike last year.
Thorn maybe the comments
as he stood across from the
court, which yesterday indefi-
nitely postponed motion on a
separate complaint filed by two
former members that he and
two other union leaders embez-
zled nearly $93,000.
In that case, Thorn, along
with C.CAWDU vice president
Kong Athit and secretary-gen-
eral Ek Sopheakdey, allegedly
pocketed money paid to the
union by the E Garment factory
as back pay for employees.
Reparations funded, almost
Artist Phou Sra Ings sculptures, seen here in miniature, evoke suffering endured under the Khmer Rouge.
They are part of a planned memorial in Phnom Penh included in a list of reparations projects. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Union president Ath Thorn speaks to the media in front of Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday. VIREAK MAI
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Wreck just too gritty
for driver of sand truck
IN A hit and run on Friday, it
wasnt the drunken moto driv-
er who fled. According to
police in Kampong Thoms
Stung Sen town, a 32-year old
speeding, drunk driver
crashed into the back of a
truck transporting sand. The
man damaged his motorcycle
and sustained serious injuries
to both his head and body. The
moto driver was taken to hos-
pital, while the truck driver
fled, abandoning his load of
sand, which will remain in
police custody until claimed.
KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Blood thicker than water,
but money trumps blood
A WOMAN in Phnom Penhs
Sen Sok district got a rude
introduction to the old adage
neither a borrower nor a
lender be on Friday. The
woman, 22, did her relative a
favour, lending him her motor-
bike to visit a friend. According
to police, the male relative, 25,
pawned the bike for $250 and
spent all the money, hoping
his relative wouldnt need her
wheels back. The woman
turned her fibbing relation
over to the police when she
spotted him walking near his
home. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Lazy man executes lazy
scam, too lazy to flee
A 27-YEAR-OLD Dangkor dis-
trict con artist took the money,
but forgot to run last week. A
construction company driver,
the man delivered materials to
customers who paid him
$2,000. On returning to the
company, the driver reported
that he hadnt received pay-
ment, but his suspicious boss
uncovered the botched ploy
with a few phone calls. On Fri-
day, police nabbed the suspect
who said hed already spent all
the money. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Man masters jealousy,
adds wrath to repertoire
PAILIN town police are on the
lookout for a 34-year-old con-
struction worker who allegedly
beat his wife to the point of
unconsciousness on Friday.
Police said the man was jeal-
ous after spotting his wife with
another man in the village.
The husband got drunk at a
wedding, and on returning
home, beat his wife with a belt
and wooden stick badly
injuring her head, shoulder,
eye, thigh and back before
fleeing. NOKORWAT
Stab-happy lover picks
funny way of apologising
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was
apprehended in Kampong
Speus Oral district Saturday
after stabbing his girlfriend.
The woman, 18, lived with her
boyfriend in Phnom Penh, but
went to stay with her parents
in Kampong Speu after the
couple had an argument. A
week later, the man followed
her, begging her to return to
Phnom Penh. When the wom-
an refused, the man grabbed a
knife and stabbed her in the
back, armpit and arm. She
was hospitalised, and her par-
ents prevented the man from
escaping arrest. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Combat ensues after
seller shortchanged
TWO men were arrested in
Banteay Meancheys Poipet dis-
trict on Saturday after one tried
to buy a mobile phone from
the other, without actually hand-
ing over any cash. According to
police, the seller was, to put it
lightly, a little angry that the
man had taken his phone with-
out actually paying for it. Though
the buyer pleaded that he need-
ed another week to cough up
the dough, the seller was having
none of it and eventually a fight
broke out. Police were called
and both men were brought to
the station to find a solution.
DEUMAMPIL
Thief steals bag before
getting bagged himself
ONE usually goes to the market
expecting to gain things, not
lose them. But an unfortunate
24-year-old almost kissed his
shiny laptop goodbye on Satur-
day in Kratie town when a thief
broke into his parked car and
snatched his computer bag. The
youngster was busy browsing in
the market when the thief
smashed his vehicles window,
grabbed the bag and bolted.
Luckily market security spotted
the robber and police quickly
gave chase, packing him off to
court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Police bust bird ring,
detain seven in raid
SEVEN members of a cock-
fighting ring were picked up by
police during a raid in Kam-
pong Cham town on Sunday.
The gambling men and wom-
en were part of a much larger
group, many of whom were
able to escape. Police, acting
on a tip-off from a nosy neigh-
bour, also confiscated 10
motorbikes and five fighting
cocks. The seven have been
detained and will have to
pledge to police that they will
not continue to participate in
the blood sport if they want to
be released and not end up in
a cage like their feathered
friends. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Two left feet cost one
man night in hospital
A BARSIDE brawl got out of
hand in Banteay Meanchey on
Saturday night when four men
were left seriously injured. The
men had been dancing at a club
in Poipet town when one of
them trampled on a fellow rev-
ellers dancing shoes. After
refusing to apologise, the man
and his friends were followed
out of the club and attacked,
prompting a hospital visit. The
police are still on the hunt for
the attackers. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Knife-wielding bandit
caught after fleecing cop
A POLICEMAN got hot under
the collar in Pursat town on
Sunday night when a trip to buy
ice resulted in a robbery. The
officer had parked outside a
shop when two brazen bandits
attacked him with a knife and
made off with his moto. But a
speedy getaway was ruined for
one of the thieves when police-
men near the scene nabbed
him. The robber, whose accom-
plice is still at large, was left
red-faced when he realised his
victim was a cop. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Sen David
Joint offering
Servicemen from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and the United States military donate blood yesterday in Kampong Speu province. An
annual 10-day joint exercise, dubbed Angkor Sentinel, started yesterday at the Training Centre for Multinational Peacekeeping Forces. It will
include training in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief activities, engineering exchanges, medical training, and preparation drills for
Cambodian troops deployed on United Nations peacekeeping missions, according to the US Embassy. HENG CHIVOAN
Terrorist details campaign
Alice Cuddy
I
N THE unlikely event it
is granted political party
status next month, a
group labelled terror-
ists by the Cambodian gov-
ernment will campaign on a
platform of bringing an end to
land grabs, combating human
trafcking and providing free
school meals.
Sourn Serey Ratha, the
self-exiled president of the
Khmer People Power Move-
ment (KPPM), told the Post
on Sunday that he plans to
register a political party, called
the Khmer People Power Party
(KPPP), with the Interior Min-
istry next month.
A copy of the KPPPs pro-
posed political platform, ob-
tained by the Post over the
weekend, lists policies the
group plans to implement
if its political campaigning
is successful.
Included in the policy list
are calls for all logging li-
cences to be cancelled for at
least 15 years, or indenitely
and for all landless families
to be awarded property from
the state.
It also suggests a new law
prohibiting the trafcking of
immigrants into Cambodia
and demanding their depor-
tation, as well as for students
to spend longer hours in
the classroom and to receive
free lunches.
Serey Ratha said he believes
the party will enjoy wide sup-
port if the Interior Ministry ap-
proves its registration, includ-
ing, he claims, 50 per cent
of those who abstained from
voting in last years election.
We expect KPPP will have
big support from people who
are willing to [topple] Hun
Sens regime, he said by email
from the United States. Serey
Ratha is charged with treason
for urging an overthrow of the
government and has an arrest
warrant against him.
But, he said, this will not
stop him.
If Hun Sens regime still or-
ders to arrest me I can use any
country near Cambodia to
lead my party, he said.
However, Sok Setha, a secre-
tary of state at the Ministry of
Interior, warned yesterday that
in accordance with the law on
political parties, the political
party must have its ofce and
members in Cambodia.
Rkiri bust
ends with
$5,000 ne
for logging
Phak Seangly
FORESTRY officials arrested
four men and confiscated two
pickup trucks containing ille-
gally logged luxury timber en
route to Vietnam on Sunday in
Ratanakkiris OYadav district
before releasing both the men
and the timber after fining
them thousands of dollars,
officers and a rights group rep-
resentative said yesterday.
Ten trucks, each loaded with
about 20 cubic metres of luxu-
ry timber logged in Veun Sai
district, were spotted in transit
by authorities.
However, only two vehicles
were stopped in Banlung dis-
trict, said Chhay Thy, provin-
cial coordinator for rights
group Adhoc.
Each truck contained about
two cubic metres [of luxury
wood] and if the provincial
police had joined the crack-
down all 10 vehicles would
have been captured instead of
two, Thy said.
Afterwards, however, the
four men were released along
with their vehicles by provin-
cial forestry administration
officials after agreeing to pay
$5,000 as punishment,
according to Phan Phoeun,
provincial deputy chief of the
administration.
Thy, from Adhoc, said that
the release of the men violated
Article 98 of Cambodias Law
on Forestry.
If the suspects had been tried
and found guilty, they would
have faced up to five years in
prison as well as fines of up
to 100 million riel (about
$25,000) each.
Releases like this make for-
est crimes happen more and
more, Thy said, adding that
police officers and timber
smugglers frequently work in
tandem during illegal smug-
gling operations.
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Continued from page 1
the political turbulence began in mid-
2013 with the national election and the
subsequent political standoff, as well as
the January garment sector strikes, trad-
ing in the CSX had decreased notably.
There needs to be stabilization in the
garment sector to support the GTI IPO,
he said.
Douglas Clayton, CEO of Leopard
Capital, an investment firm in Phnom
Penh, cast doubt over the timing of
the listing.
With uncertainty over future wage
increases, this isnt a great time for a
garment factory to go public here,
Clayton said yesterday in an email.
Hopefully, the CSX can attract some
banks, telecoms, and hotel groups to list
their shares, he said.
GTI spokesman Stanley Shen was
quick to allay concerns. Shen said the
garment manufacturer, which employs
5,600 people at its factory in Por Sen
Chey district and makes apparel for
sporting goods giants Adidas and Ree-
bok, was not affected by the recent wage
disputes.
GTI never had any strike record and
our average salary is well above the
minimum wage and most of our work-
ers are satisfied with this, Shen said.
Shen said, however, that GTI could
have done more to promote the listing
to encourage greater investment.
A spokesman for Phnom Penh Secu-
rities, the underwriting firm overseeing
the new IPO, downplayed the lack of
interest in GTI, saying the initial book-
building process had in fact attracted
significant interest from overseas insti-
tutional investors from Taiwan, China
and Japan.
In Taiwan and China recently, the
stocks of listed garment companies
have increased remarkably, the
spokesman, who declined to be named,
said, adding that GTIs listing price is
expected to be between $2.40 to $2.50
per share.
We strongly believe that the sub-
scription and listing of GTI is very suc-
cessful, the PPS spokesman said, add-
ing that GTIs 2013 earnings of $33
million was proof the garment maker
was in good shape to go public.
The spokesman did concede, how-
ever, that there was nervousness in the
market due to a lack of liquidity that will
hamstring share sales after listing.
PPS on April 11 announced the GTI
listing date had been pushed back by
three weeks as it awaited approval from
the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion of Cambodia (SECC) on its final
book-building results, which will out-
line the listing price.
Investors will now be advised of the
results on April 24. Following that, sub-
scriptions will be opened to the public
from May 2 to May 9. The final listing
date is now set for May 29, three weeks
after the original target of May 8.
Chhun Sambath, director of the secu-
rity insurance supervision department
at the SECC, said the regulator will be
considering GTIs book-building docu-
ments at the next board meeting on
April 23: Nothing is actually delayed.
They submitted their book building
documents and terms and conditions
to us on April 8, then it was Khmer New
Year. This process is not just easy and
quick to approve, he said.
HAGL eyes
Cambodia
agriculture
expansion
Hor Kimsay
CONTROVERSIAL Vietnamese
rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai
(HAGL) Group is to expand its
agricultural business in Cambo-
dia to include corn, according
to the companys CEO Nguyen
Van Su.
Bloomberg reported yesterday
that Su said HAGL is investing
more in food commodities to
support increasing demand
across the region.
The company also plans to list
its farming business on the Sin-
gapore stock exchange next year
to raise funds for further growth,
according to Bloomberg.
HAGL, which holds economic
land concessions (ELCs) in Cam-
bodias northeast, came under
fire last year when London-
based NGO Global Witness pub-
lished a report accusing the
company of illegal logging out-
side of ELC areas and holding at
least 47,000 hectares of ELCs,
almost five times the legal limit.
In February, 17 indigenous
communities who accused
HAGL of land grabbing in their
home villages in Ratanakkiri
province filed a complaint to
the International Financial
Corporation (IFC) for investing
in the company via an interme-
diary fund called Dragon Cap-
ital Group.
Eang Vuthy, executive director
at NGO Equitable Cambodia,
confirmed yesterday that the
IFC had met with both the com-
pany and those communities
affected earlier this month to
carry out an investigation in to
the complaint.
First they [IFC] have to issue
their assessment reports and
they will convene a meeting . . .
So all parties have a chance to
comment and participate in the
issue resolution, Vuthy said.
HAGL declined to comment
yesterday on their expansion
plans.
Lack of funds delays railway
Daniel de Carteret

T
HE China Railway
Groups planned $7.5
billion Cambodian
north-south railway
line has been delayed due to
funding shortages, according
to the companys top ofcial.
Originally slated to be-
gin construction last year,
China Railways chairman, Li
Changjin, told the South Chi-
na Morning Post that work on
the 400-kilometre railway line
was on hold due to funding
problems.
The April 9 the Morning
Posts report did not say when
construction would begin.
Part of a larger $9.6 billion
agreement signed between
China Railway and the Chi-
nese-owned Cambodia Iron
and Steel Mining Industry
Group, the railway is to con-
nect a steel factory to be built
in Preah Vihear province in
the north to a new port in Koh
Kong province on the gulf of
Thailand in the south.
Construction has yet to be-
gin on any part of what would
be Cambodias largest-ever
infrastructure project and
little information has been
made available from either of
the companies involved or the
government since the project
was announced on December
31, 2012.
From the iron-ore mining
area of Preah Vihear, the rail-
way is to pass through the
provinces of Kampong Thom,
Kampong Chhnang and Kam-
pong Speu before reaching the
proposed port in Koh Kong.
Chinese company Union
Development Group, which
holds 45,000 hectares of land
concession in Koh Kong,
said it would be difcult for
the railway to avoid passing
through their holding, which
includes a golf course and
luxury resort. But they have
not been told of any plans to
lay tracks on their turf.
I dont think they will build
the railway through our con-
cession because until today
no one has come to contact
us, the companys represen-
tative Ngou Tieng Lung told
the Phnom Penh Post in an
interview last month.
Union Development has
not been informed of any
progress on the railway by the
government, nor have they
inquired, Ngou added.
The ministry of public works
and transport could not be
reached for comment yester-
day, but Sokhom Pheakavan-
mony, secretary of state at
the ministry, told the Post in
March that they too have not
received word on the project.
I think the company is still
in the feasibility study phase
because so far I have not re-
ceived any news from them.
If they have any update on the
project they have to inform
us, he said.
Pheakavanmony attributed
the lack of information to
delays in China Railways fea-
sibility study brought on by
political instability from last
years national election. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY MAY KUNMAKARA
AND DAVID BOYLE
Liu Ziming (left), chairman of China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co Ltd, and Zhang Chuan You, general manager of Cambodia Iron & Steel Mining Industry Group, shake
hands following a signing ceremony in Phnom Penhin 2012. HENG CHIVOAN
Business
8
Tesla lifts lid on plans
to make cars in China
TESLA Motors Inc chief execu-
tive officer Elon Musk, whos
preparing to begin deliveries of
the Model S electric vehicle in
China, yesterday said he
expects to be making cars in
the country in the next three to
four years.
The company is also building
a big network of battery-
charging stations in China,
including superchargers in
Beijing and Shanghai, the bil-
lionaire CEO said at a packed
Geekpark Conference in the
nations capital.
Musk is scheduled to host an
event tomorrow to mark the
beginning of Model S deliveries
in the country.
At some point in the next
three or four years well be
establishing local manufactur-
ing in China, he said. China is
very important to the future of
Tesla. Were going to make a big
investment in China in terms of
charging infrastructure.
Local production in the
worlds biggest auto market
would allow Tesla to sell cars at
cheaper prices by avoiding
Chinas 25 per cent tariff on
such imports.
While entering the country
presents an opportunity for
Tesla to sell as many vehicles
there as in the US by as soon as
next year, Musk, 42, will
attempt to accomplish what
the Chinese government has
struggled to do: get people to
buy electric cars.
I think they can sell quite a
few here in the market, said
Finbarr ONeill, president of
J.D. Power & Associates. Theres
a lot of talk about Tesla but, you
know, their numbers are not
huge. Mr Musk has been suc-
cessful in many fields. I wish
him luck, but theres a limit to
every market.
Tesla shares have risen 32 per
cent this year after jumping
more than fourfold in 2013.
The company is starting
deliveries as the worlds big-
gest carmakers gather in Bei-
jing to display their latest
models at the annual China
auto show that opened to the
public yesterday.
Tesla has been taking orders
since August and opened an
800-square-metre store in a
Beijing shopping mall late last
year to showcase its vehicles.
Competing carmakers are
watching Teslas entry into the
country closely. China lags
behind its target of five million
alternative energy-powered
vehicles by 2020 as a lack of
charging stations and high
costs deter buyers, even as air
pollution worsens and chokes
its inhabitants.
Beijings licence-plate lotteries
underscore the extent of the
challenges automakers have
had luring electric-car buyers
in China.
While the city received more
than 90 bids for each available
permit for conventional gaso-
line autos in a February drawing,
there were only 1,428 applicants
for 1,666 new-energy vehicle
plates offered, the municipal
government said.
Tesla moved ahead with its
entry into China after losing its
general manager for operations
there last month. Kingston
Chang, who joined Tesla from
Volkswagen AGs Bentley about
a year earlier, left for personal
reasons, Sina.com reported.
His departure was confirmed
by Tesla vice president Veronica
Wu. BLOOMBERG
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Insincere market
Digital eyes
express your
mood for you
C
ANT be bothered to
show anyone what youre
thinking? Then a Japa-
nese scientist has the answer
a pair of digital eyes that can
express delight and anger, or
even feign boredom.
Building on a long line of
slightly wacky and not-very-
practical inventions for which
Japan is famous, Hirotaka
Osawa has unveiled the Agen-
cyGlass. I wanted to build a
system that is capable of car-
rying out social behaviours for
humans, he said.
Two organic light-emitting
diode screens, which are con-
nected to motion sensors and
an external camera, show a
pair of eyeballs that can appear
to be making eye contact while
the wearer is looking some-
where else entirely.
Osawa said possible ap-
plications include for ight at-
tendants dealing with irritating
passengers, or teachers who
want to project an image of
kindness towards shy students.
As the service sector grows
and becomes more sophisti-
cated, it becomes increasingly
important that we behave by
showing understanding to oth-
ers, he said. AFP
Japan trade gap quadruples
J
APANS trade decit
quadrupled on-year in
March to $14 billion, data
showed yesterday, with a
weak yen compounding surg-
ing imports as consumers
rushed to buy ahead of a rise
in sales tax.
Japan imported 1.45 tril-
lion yen ($14 billion) worth of
goods more than it exported in
the month, the nance min-
istry said, compared with a
shortfall of 356.9 billion yen in
March 2013.
Exports rose 1.8 per cent
to 6.38 trillion yen, thanks to
higher shipments of cars and
processed fuel products.
But imports grew a much
faster 18.1 per cent to 7.83 tril-
lion yen due to higher imports
of crude oil and liqueed natu-
ral gas as resource-poor Japan
raced to plug its energy gap.
For the scal year to March, Ja-
pan logged a record largest trade
decit of 13.75 trillion yen.
A 17.3 per cent rise in im-
ports from a year earlier to
84.61 trillion yen caused by
post-Fukushima energy bills
overwhelmed a 10.8 per cent
jump in exports to 70.86 tril-
lion yen, according to data is-
sued by the nance ministry.
Junko Nishioka, chief econ-
omist at RBS Securities Ja-
pan, attributed the jump in
imports to expectations for a
last-minute surge in consum-
er spending before the April 1
sales tax hike.
Compared with before the
March 2011 disaster, a weaker
yen hasnt increased export
volume as much as it used to,
she said.
That is to say Japanese
rms arent as competitive as
before, she told Dow Jones
Newswires.
It remains difcult for ex-
ports to recover even if over-
seas economies improve.
There is a risk of increasing
imports and ballooning trade
decits, she said.
Energy import needs soared
after the 2011 Fukushima cri-
sis forced the shutdown of Ja-
pans nuclear reactors, which
once supplied a third of the
nations power.
A sharp decline in the yen,
while good for exporters prof-
itability, has also forced up the
cost of importing.
The yen was an average 8.7
per cent cheaper against the
dollar in March compared
with the year-before level, ac-
cording to customs data.
Japanese domestic demand
for gasoline and other products
also picked up in March ahead
of the April 1 sales tax hike from
5 per cent to 8 per cent.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abes
drive to shake off more than a
decade of deation and eco-
nomic drift helped drive down
the yen, boosting prots of ex-
porters such as Toyota Motor
Corp even as shipment vol-
umes remain sluggish. Export
volumes fell 2.5 per cent in
March from a year earlier.
At the same time, the Japa-
nese currencys 19 per cent
drop since Abe came to power
in December 2012 has boost-
ed import values, contributing
to 21 straight monthly decits
the longest slide in compa-
rable data back to 1979.
The Bank of Japan is fore-
cast to add to already unprec-
edented easing to cushion the
economy from the sales-tax
increase and keep ination on
track to its 2 per cent target.
A survey of economists
conducted ahead of the BOJs
April 8 meeting showed 72 per
cent forecasting the central
bank would add stimulus be-
fore or during July. Weakness
in exports could be a potential
trigger for more easing in July,
a JP Morgan Chase & Co econ-
omist said. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Nissan Motor vehicles bound for export sit in a lot at a port in Hitachi City, Japan. BLOOMBERG
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Markets
9
Business
Industry urged to go green
Chan Muyhong

S
MALL and medium-
size enterprises (SME)
have been urged by the
Cambodian govern-
ment to employ more environ-
mentally friendly practices at
a green industry workshop in
Phnom Penh yesterday.
Cham Prasidh, minister for
the Ministry of Industry and
Handicrafts, said SMEs and
handicraft producers reliance
on fossil fuels such as diesel
and coal continue to emit
dangerous amounts of carbon
into the air and contribute to
global warming.
The development of in-
dustry and handicrafts must
go along with environmental
protection otherwise it will
later cost us time and money
to recover the damages of in-
dustrialisation development,
Prasidh said.
Companies and SMEs must
face this challenge. In recent
years, Cambodia has seen rap-
id economic growth of which
is dependant on very limited
foundations, he added, refer-
ring to the high energy con-
sumption of the Kingdoms
major export markets rice
and garment manufacturing.
Prasidh called for companies
to investigate alternative, re-
newable energy sources, which
will in turn reduce energy
costs, strengthen production
capacity and promote value
added industries industries
that go beyond producing only
raw materials without incur-
ring additional costs.
Te Taing Por, president of
the Federation of Associations
for Small and Medium Enter-
prises of Cambodia (FASMEC)
welcomed the green industry
initiative saying it would help
lower energy costs and keep
Cambodias production costs
competitive.
However, he said more capi-
tal is needed for production
lines to become sustainable
and a lack of technical experts
in the eld of environmental
science and engineering re-
mains a challenge.
Chin Pen Chua, representa-
tive of UNs Industry Develop-
ment Organisation (UNIDO),
said for least developed coun-
tries such as Cambodia, which
aspire to become middle-
income nations, promoting
value added industrialisation
must be an essential part of
their growth formula.
However, while industriali-
sation is widely seen to be the
global engine for growth, a
side effect is the considerable
environmental footprint, he
added.
Industry is still consuming
and wasting a large amount
of water energy, raw materials
producing harmful emissions,
unrecoverable waste and toxic
byproducts, which are all un-
sustainable.
To be sustainable, Chua said,
economic growth must there-
fore urgently reduce its reli-
ance on raw materials.
The Green Industry Work-
shop aims to promote ef-
cient, renewable and clean
energy usage among Cam-
bodias major industries with
brick making factories listed
as a key sector in need of
more environmentally friend-
ly practices.
A labourer walks though rows of stacked bricks at a brick factory in Kandal provinces Khsach Kandal district
in mid-February. HENG CHIVOAN
Earning power no guarantee of
nding favour with investors
IN THE middle of earnings
season, investors are becom-
ing less concerned about earn-
ings growth.
The best gains in the stock
market this month are being
generated by the likes of Exelon
Corp, an atomic power pro-
ducer whose profits are shrink-
ing. At the same time, compa-
nies that are boosting income
such as Facebook Inc and Net-
flix Inc are in retreat. Shares
favoured by value investors for
their low price-earnings ratios
are beating those with higher
valuations by the most since
2009, according to data com-
piled by Bloomberg.
Shareholders burned by the
worst equity selloff in two years
have taken shelter in utilities,
food companies and liquor
makers amid concern the five-
year bull market has gone on
too long. With share prices in
the Nasdaq Composite Index
exceeding 30 times annual
profits, theyre foregoing stocks
that led the last leg of the bull
market and buying those
whose prices have held up in
past retreats.
Valuations have moved into
an excessive zone, and this is a
correction of that, Bruce Bit-
tles, chief investment strategist
at Milwaukee-based RW Baird
& Co, which oversees $110 bil-
lion, said. Expectations are
coming down, and investors
are questioning why they
should pay up for high growth.
Were moving back in line with
what reality is.
Investor preferences have
shifted since the Nasdaq Com-
posite began a 6 per cent slide
on March 5. Where healthcare,
commodity and technology
shares led the market in first
two months of the year, gains
since then have been confined
to power companies, house-
hold products suppliers and
telecommunication firms.
Last year, the 10 stocks that
rallied most in the Standard &
Poors 500 Index had a median
earnings increase of 60 per
cent, eight times the rest of the
market. Since the Nasdaq
peaked, median 2014 expected
profit growth for the best per-
formers in the S&P gauge has
slipped to 4 per cent.
With more than 230 compa-
nies in the S&P 500 scheduled
to report results by the end of
April, investors are embracing
dividends and buying compa-
nies whose products are least
tied to economic expansion.
RW Baird has sold technology
stocks and added energy
shares, according to Bittles.
The gains have occurred
amid a selloff in technology
makers as investors dumped
bull-market winners. Facebook
and Netflix have plummeted
more than 14 per cent over the
past month. Those declines
occurred even as profits for the
companies are forecast to
increase more than 40 per cent
this year.
This tech retreat isnt the first
time investors have faced falling
markets. In the past year, the
Nasdaq 100 Index declined 5.2
per cent between January 22
and February 3, slipped 3.4 per
cent from October 2 to 9 and
dropped 6 per cent from May 17
through June 24. Each time, the
index was above its previous
high within a month of reaching
the bottom. BLOOMBERG
THAILAND saw capital out-
flows of more than 200 billion
baht ($6.2 billion) in the first
quarter as investors turned to
high-yield overseas bonds to
bet on higher returns amid the
escalating political tension and
the low interest rate environ-
ment at home.
Local short-term, and medi-
um to long-ended notes, how-
ever, still attracted net inflows
of around 30 billion baht and 9
billion baht, respectively, dur-
ing the January-to-March peri-
od, according to Morningstar
Research.
Broker and fund managers
suggest increasing investment
weight in low-risk assets such as
fixed income funds. For inves-
tors who are still interested in
stock market, they recommend
them to put money in global
stocks this quarter, Morning-
star Research managing direc-
tor Peet Yongwanich said.
Investors bought 1.5 billion
baht more than they sold in
local equity funds, the report
said, adding that net inflows of
1.1 billion baht were put in
large-cap equity funds and the
remaining 400 million baht in
small cap ones. The trend has
reinforced a sign that local
investors appetite in equities
remains weak on concerns that
the political mess and the slug-
gish economy still cloud the
local sentiment. BANGKOK POST
Big capital
outow in
Thailand
Authority decit
Rice-pledge
scheme put
on ice: govt
T
HAILANDS caretaker
government cannot
continue its rice-pledging
scheme in the main harvest
2013-2014, as it no longer has
the authority to oversee the
scheme, caretaker Deputy
Prime Minister and Finance
Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong
said. He also urged the next
government to take care of the
scheme to help farmers.
The minister on Friday
testied as the last witness in
a hearing before the National
Anti-Corruption Commission
(NACC). Kittiratt insisted the
scheme was accountable and
transparent and that caretaker
Prime Minister Yingluck Shi-
nawatra, as the chairwoman
of the National Rice Policy Com-
mittee, had done everything by
the book. The NACC is investi-
gating whether she overlooked
complaints of corruption.
The chairman of the Thai
Farmers Association, Wichian
Puanglamjiak, has asked the
government to withdraw an
additional 40 billion baht ($1.24
billion) from the central budget
to cover overdue payments.
Caretaker Deputy Commerce
Minister Yanyong Puangrat has
agreed to Wichians proposal,
but Kittiratt said cabinet has yet
to discuss it. Earlier, the Elec-
tion Commission approved the
withdrawal of at least 20 billion
baht from the central budget to
pay farmers. BANGKOKPOST
Facebooks income has been rising, but its stock hasnt. BLOOMBERG
Elena Mazneva

T
ROUBLED Ukraine is
boosting natural-gas
imports from Russia
to the highest in 10
weeks after President Vladi-
mir Putin gave the country
one month to resume pay-
ments or they will have to
start prepaying for the fuel.
Ukraine imported almost
115 million cubic metres of
gas from Russia on April 19,
the most since February 5,
preliminary data from the
Russian Energy Ministrys
CDU-TEK unit show.
That compares with 40 mil-
lion cubic metres on April 16,
before Putins statement. The
daily average in April last year
was about 49 million cubic
metres, according to Ukrai-
nian Energy Ministry data.
Ukraine depends on Rus-
sian gas for half of its domes-
tic needs and carries about
15 per cent of Europes sup-
ply through its pipelines
from Russia, making energy
a key component in the in-
ternational tensions over the
smaller countrys future.
OAO Gazprom, Russias
state-controlled gas exporter,
is supplying fuel to Ukraine
with little chance of receiv-
ing payment on more than
$2.2 billion already owed to
it, Dmitry Peskov, spokes-
man for Putin, said earlier
this month.
Russia is ready to wait for
a month after not receiving
a single ruble or dollar from
Ukraine for March deliveries,
Putin said on April 17 during
an annual call-in show.
Gazproms contract signed
with Ukraine in 2009 stipu-
lates a move to advance pay-
ments if the country falls
behind on paying for supplies.
That agreement ended a pric-
ing dispute that led Gazprom
to halt deliveries to Ukraine,
which disrupted transit ows
to Europe for about two weeks
during freezing weather.
Europe-bound gas
Sergei Kupriyanov, Gaz-
proms spokesman, didnt
immediately comment about
the increase in imports when
reached by phone. Aliona Os-
molovska, a spokeswoman
for NAK Naftogaz Ukrainy,
declined to comment.
Gas supplies to Ukraine
and fuel transit to Europe
through Ukrainian pipelines
are proceeding as normal, a
different Gazprom press of-
cial said by phone, without
elaborating and asking not
to be identied in line with
corporate policy.
Ukraine is seeking to diver-
sify energy supplies by buy-
ing gas from Slovakia, Poland
and Hungary using east-west
pipelines in reverse. Fuel
supplies from Poland started
on April 15, at levels amount-
ing to about 3 per cent of the
former Soviet republics do-
mestic consumption. Talks
on additional volumes from
other countries are still in
progress. BLOOMBERG
Betting on Black Sea
Crimea set
to become
casino zone
R
USSIAN President
Vladimir Putin yester-
day submitted a bill to
parliament that would turn
Crimea into a legal gambling
zone as Russia seeks ways to
lift the Black Sea peninsula
out of poverty.
Russia has only four official
government zones where
gambling is legal. Crimea,
which was annexed by Russia
last month amid international
condemnation, would be the
fifth such zone.
The precise borders of
the new gambling zone will
be determined by regional
authorities in the Republic of
Crimea, the bill states.
The legislation is unlikely to
be met with any resistance in
Russias parliament, which
is kept tightly controlled by
the Kremlin.
Russias existing gambling
zones were created after Putin
brought in tough new anti-
gambling laws in 2009 that
saw casinos shut down across
the entire country.
Analysts suggest that
attracting investor capital to
the gambling zones has not
been easy. AFP
Business
10
Ukraine grabs gas while it can
Valves of gas pipelines at a gas station not far from Kiev. AFP
WHY $115 BLN OF DEBT DOES
NOT SCARE PUTIN: CREDIT
R
USSIAN companies,
facing $115 billion of debt
due over the next 12 months,
will have the funds even as
bond markets shut because of
the Ukraine crisis, according
to Moodys Investors Service
and Fitch Ratings. Firms will
have about $100 billion in
cash and earnings at their
disposal during the next 18
months, Moodys said in an
analysis of 47 businesses.
Almost all 55 companies
examined by Fitch are well
placed to withstand a closed
refinancing market for the
rest of 2014, it said. Banks
have more than $20 billion in
foreign currency to lend as the
tensions prompted customers
to convert their ruble savings,
ZAO Raiffeisenbank said. The
amount of cash on balances of
Russian companies,
committed credit lines from
banks and the operating cash
flows they will get is sufficient
for the firms to comfortably
service their liabilities, Denis
Perevezentsev, an analyst at
Moodys in Moscow, said.
There hasnt been a single
public corporate Eurobond
sale since February from
Russian firms after President
Vladimir Putin annexed
Ukraines Crimea. BLOOMBERG
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FTSE Straits Times Index, Apr 18 FTSEBursaMalaysiaKLCI, Apr 18
Hang Seng Index, Apr 18 CSI 300 Index, Apr 18
Nikkei 225, Apr 18 Taiwan Taiex Index, Apr 18
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Apr 18
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BSE Sensex 30 Index, Apr 18 Karachi 100 Index, Apr 18
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Apr 18 NZX 50 Index, Apr 18
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4,898.45 1,270.49
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 104.17 -0.13 -0.12% 3:50:42
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 109.06 -0.47 -0.43% 3:50:48
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.75 0 0.08% 3:30:01
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 304.29 -1.18 -0.39% 3:28:48
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 293.32 -0.58 -0.20% 17:15:00
ICEGasoil USD/MT 920.25 -5 -0.54% 3:30:21
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.46 0 0.00% 22:06:48
CME Lumber USD/tbf 321.5 -1.5 -0.46% 17:00:00
Chocolate prices not so tasty
Morgane Lapeyre

T
HE worlds growing love of
chocolate meant more ex-
pensive treats for the Easter
holiday this year.
Demand is rising at the fastest
pace in three years, according to
Euromonitor International Ltd, and
farmers in West Africa arent growing
enough cocoa to keep up. The cost
of beans used to make chocolate
reached a 30-month high in March,
forcing confectioners to charge their
customers more.
Lucy Armstrong, who sells
sweets online from Chichester,
England, said the cost of a 10-
kilogram pack of bulk chocolate
she uses to make champagne
trufes, pralines and salty cara-
mels surged 18 per cent this year
to 59 ($98). She had also raised
the price of chocolate Easter eggs
by 50 per cent from last year.
Its denitely the rst time where
the chocolate has gone up quite no-
ticeably, said Armstrong, who start-
ed Lucy Armstrong Chocolates three
years ago and now charges 7.50 for
a 170-gram Belgian milk-chocolate
egg containing six hand-made choc-
olates, up from 5 in 2013. It is hard
to try and work out what you can sell
and at what price. The problem is its
only going to go up and up and up.
Cocoa may rally to $3,210 a metric
tonne on ICE Futures US in New York
by the end of December, the high-
est since July 2011, according to the
average estimate of 14 traders and
analysts surveyed by Bloomberg
News. That would be up 6.3 per
cent from yesterdays closing price
and top this years high of $3,039,
reached on March 17.
Even with higher prices, global de-
mand is growing, especially in devel-
oping markets including Asia. Sea-
sonal sales of chocolate on holidays
will jump 5 per cent this year to $12.7
billion, Euromonitor said.
The growing appetite for cocoa
or cocoa-based products in emerg-
ing markets is what is driving ex-
pectations that consumption will
outpace production, said Andreas
Christiansen, managing director
of Hamburg Cocoa & Commodity
Ofce GmbH, a consultant to the
confection industry.
In Germany, where per-capita
chocolate consumption is the high-
est in the world at nine kilograms a
year, confectioners produced an
estimated 206 million bunnies for
Easter this year, 8.4 per cent more
than last year, according to the As-
sociation of the German Confec-
tionery Industry, or BDSI.
Consumers in the Asia Pacic re-
gion will eat 1.096 million tonnes
by 2018, a 27 per cent increase from
2013, compared with a 5 per cent
gain over that period in Western Eu-
rope, the biggest buyer, Euromonitor
forecasts. By 2018, Eastern Europe
will become the worlds second big-
gest consumer, displacing North
America, where demand will be un-
changed, the researcher said.
Some predict that cocoas gains
may be limited as supply prospects
improve in West Africa. Ivory Coast,
which supplies about 40 per cent
of the worlds output, may see a 14
per cent jump in its mid-crop, the
smaller of two annual harvests, to
at least 417,000 tonnes, according
to a Bloomberg News survey of ve
traders and analysts.
Farmers started collecting beans
this month. Ivory Coasts total
output may be about 1.55 million
tonnes, 7 per cent more than the
previous year, according to the In-
ternational Cocoa Organization.
Were looking at a strong mid-
crop in West Africa, after a good
main harvest, said Sterling Smith,
a futures specialist at Citigroup Inc.
in Chicago. Assuming we have no
weather problems, prices could ease
amid increased supplies.
Money managers are betting the
cocoa rally isnt over. With prices al-
ready up 30 per cent from a year ago,
hedge funds and other large specu-
lators held a net-long position of
67,994 futures and options contracts
as of April 8, up from 11,061 a year
earlier, US Commodity Futures Trad-
ing Commission data show. Holdings
have been bullish since July 2012.
In the long term, if we do see
more and more cocoa beans sucked
into the Asian market, and they be-
come scarcer, then inevitably prices
will go up, Ecobanks George said.
It could be that cocoa becomes
again a real luxury product, like
champagne. BLOOMBERG
People look at a diamond-encrusted Easter egg worth $87,000 in London. Even
without the diamonds, chocolate prices this Easter soared. BLOOMBERG
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World
Yemen, US
air attacks
on al-Qaeda
hit new level
AN UNPRECEDENTED US
and Yemeni aerial campaign
has killed more than 40 al-
Qaeda militants in recent
days in a bid to thwart attacks
by the networks local affili-
ate, officials said.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP) has been
linked to a number of failed
terror plots against the United
States, and its leader recently
appeared in a rare video in
which he vowed to attack
Western crusaders wher-
ever they are.
A top Yemeni official said
the unprecedented opera-
tion in recent days came
after information that al-
Qaeda was plotting attacks on
vital installations, military
and security, as well as for-
eign interests in Yemen.
The official, who requested
anonymity, spoke after three
militants, one of whom may
have been a senior command-
er, were killed in a drone strike
in southern Yemen yesterday,
the latest in an accelerated
series of raids against AQAP.
The United States is the
onl y count r y operat i ng
drones over Yemen, but US
officials rarely acknowledge
the covert drone program.
A Yemeni official said that
shortly after midnight (2100
GMT) on Sunday a drone fired
a missile at an off-road vehicle
carrying three men in the
southern Shabwa province,
seen as an AQAP stronghold.
Witnesses confirmed that
the vehicle had been com-
pletely destroyed and said they
saw the charred remains of
three individuals.
They said an unmarked
commando helicopter arrived
shortly thereafter to retrieve
the bodies.
The operation seems to
indicate that one of the dead
could be an important leader
of al-Qaeda, a witness said.
US drones on Sunday killed
more than 30 militants when
they fired several missiles
into an AQAP training camp in
the rugged Wadi Ghadina
region in the southern province
of Abyan, a tribal chief said.
A defence ministry state-
ment confirmed that several
militants were killed in an
attack on training camps,
including foreigners.
The high-ranking official
said Yemeni MiG-29 jet fight-
ers took part in the raids.
Yemens interior ministry
meanwhile said that 10 peo-
ple suspected of wanting to
joi n al-Qaeda had been
arrested at a security road-
block in Shabwa.
On Saturday, a drone strike
in the central province of Baida
killed 10 al-Qaeda suspects
and three civilians, according
to the official Saba news agen-
cy. It did not say who carried
out the attack. AFP
Outpouring
of grief
A monk leads a prayer session as
a relative weeps in an area where
family members of victims of the
Korean ferry were gathered, at
Jindo harbour yesterday. South
Korean President Park Geun-hye
said yesterday that the behaviour
of the captain and crew of the
ferry that capsized ve days ago
with 476 people on board was
unacceptable and tantamount
to murder. Parks denunciation,
in which she vowed to hold all
those responsible for the disaster
criminally accountable,
followed the release of a
transcript showing the panic
and indecision that paralysed
decision-making on the bridge
as the ship listed and sank.
The conrmed death toll rose
to 80 as divers stepped up the
recovery of bodies from inside
the 6,825-tonne Sewol, but 222
people remained unaccounted
for. Three more ofcers and an
engineer were detained by police
yesterday and prosecutors said
they could face similar charges of
criminal negligence and deserting
passengers. AFP
Syria calls presidential elections for June 3
SYRIA said yesterday it will hold presi-
dential elections expected to return
President Bashar al-Assad to office on
June 3, despite a civil war that has killed
more than 150,000 people.
Underlining the ongoing violence in
the country, mortar fire hit near the
parliament building shortly before
the election date was announced,
killing two people.
Syrias first presidential election after
constitutional amendments did away
with the old referendum system will
be held amid violence that has killed
150,000 people since March 2011,
according to one monitoring group.
Parliament speaker Mohammad al-
Lahham announced the election date
at a special session, saying Syrians living
outside the country would vote on May
28 and candidates would be able to reg-
ister to run from today until May 1.
Lahham said voting would be free
and fair . . . and under full judicial super-
vision. He urged Syrians to give voice
to their will through the ballot box and
participate in the democratic process
by electing whoever they think is most
able to lead Syria to victory.
We are confident that you will grant
your support . . . to whoever is worthy
of leading and defending Syria, protect-
ing its sovereignty and principles and
ensuring a safer future where all Syr-
ians enjoy their rights without distinc-
tion, he added.
Assad, who became president after
his father Hafez died in 2000 and whose
current term ends on July 17, is widely
expected to run and win another seven-
year term in office despite the conflict.
New election rules require candidates
to have lived in Syria for the last decade,
effectively preventing key opposition
figures in exile from standing for office.
The opposition has criticised plans to
hold presidential elections and insists
that Assad should step down and have
no role in Syrias future.
Much of the international commu-
nity has also warned Syria against hold-
ing the vote, with UN-Arab League
peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi saying
it could close the door to future peace
negotiations.
It remains unclear how Syrias govern-
ment will organise an election under
the current circumstances, with swathes
of the country out of its control and
nearly half the population displaced.
Violence continues in many parts of
the country, even reaching into the
heart of the capital, which has regu-
larly come under mortar fire from oppo-
sition fighters on the outskirts.
A security source said mortar fire in
Damascus was expected to increase
during the electoral period.
They will increase the fire this month
to try to undermine the election, he
said, referring to opposition fighters.
Syrian government forces were
meanwhile on the offensive in the cen-
tral city in Homs, where the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said
clashes were continuing in the Bab
Hud and Juret al-Shiyah districts.
Both rebel-held neighbourhoods
have been under government siege for
nearly two years. AFP
Russia accuses Kiev of deal breach
U
S VICE President
Joe Biden arrived in
Kiev yesterday in a
show of support for
the pro-Western government,
as Russia accused Ukraine of
reneging on an international
accord meant to defuse ten-
sions over its separatist east.
Bidens two-day visit comes
with the clock ticking on a
White House warning of fur-
ther sanctions against Mos-
cow if it fails to implement
the agreement hammered out
last Thursday in Geneva with
Ukraine, the US and the EU.
Russia has lashed out at
claims that it is dragging its
feet on implementing the deal,
laying the blame squarely on
Kiev for violating the agree-
ment. The Geneva accord is
not only not being fullled,
but steps are being taken, pri-
marily by those who seized
power in Kiev, that are grossly
breaching the agreements
reached, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said at
a Moscow press conference.
The pact has been badly un-
dermined by a deadly weekend
shootout in Ukraines restive
east on Sunday, and an obsti-
nate refusal to stand down by
pro-Kremlin militants who
have seized control of nearly a
dozen towns in the region.
The accord calls for all illegal
armed groups in Ukraine to
surrender their weapons and
halt the occupation of public
buildings and other sites.
Washington has warned
Moscow which it believes is
pulling the strings in Ukraines
insurgency that time is run-
ning out for the accord to be
put into practice.
The White House said
Biden who has emerged as
the Obama administrations
top pointman on the cri-
sis would consult on the
latest developments in east
Ukraine during his trip.
Yesterday he was due to
speak with US embassy of-
cials in the Ukrainian capital.
Today he is to meet with the
countrys interim president,
Oleksandr Turchynov, Prime
Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
and lawmakers.
The US and its NATO allies
have bolstered military de-
ployments in eastern Europe.
Washington and Brussels
have also pledged billions to
shore up Ukraines economy.
Moscow, though, has cau-
tioned it will not tolerate fur-
ther US sanctions if the deal
falls apart, while stressing it
has tens of thousands of troops
massed on Ukraines doorstep.
It says Ukraines leaders
are using force against the
separatist protesters. It also
wants to see anti-Russian
demonstrators in Kiev cease
their occupation of the capi-
tals main square in line with
the Geneva agreement.
A bullish Lavrov said that ef-
forts to cut Moscow off from
the international commu-
nity through sanctions would
prove fruitless.
In Ukraines east, the situa-
tion appeared calm yesterday,
with insurgents still rmly en-
trenched in public buildings
occupied for over a week.
There was no shooting over-
night, Yevgen Gorbik, a rebel
standing at a barricade in the
ashpoint town of Slavyansk,
said. We will only shoot if at-
tacked. Gorbik summed up
the bellicose posturing and
political jockeying by saying:
Currently, we have a virtual
president in Ukraine, a virtual
army and a virtual war.
On Sunday, though, the bul-
lets were real in a shootout at a
roadblock near the rebel-held
town of Slavyansk that killed at
least two of the separatist mili-
tants. Pro-Moscow insurgents
in Slavyansk and the Kremlin
blamed the attack on Pravy
Sektor (Right Sector), an
ultra-nationalist group at the
vanguard of Kiev street pro-
tests that forced the February
ousting of former president
Viktor Yanukovych.
But Ukrainian ofcials and
Pravy Sektor dismissed the
allegation as Russian propa-
ganda. They ridiculed the pur-
ported discovery of a business
card belonging to the leader of
Pravy Sektor in one of the at-
tackers cars, which Russian
media had claimed was proof
of the groups involvement.
The self-styled leader of
Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Pono-
maryov, said a total of three
rebels and two attackers had
died in the attack, though
AFP saw the bodies of only
two militants.
Ponomaryov announced a
midnight-to-dawn curfew in
the town and appealed to Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
to deploy troops to the region
as peacekeepers or at least
send weapons to help ght the
fascists. AFP
World
NORTH Korea warned yester-
day that an upcoming Asian
tour by US President Barack
Obama could escalate mili-
tary tensions, as South Ko-
rean media cited intelligence
reports of increased activity
at the Norths main nuclear
test site.
Obamas April 23-29 tour
includes visits to Japan and
South Korea, the two main US
military allies in Asia and key
partners in the effort to curb
Pyongyangs nuclear weap-
ons program.
A North Korean Foreign
Ministry spokesman said the
reactionary and danger-
ous trip would only serve to
escalate confrontation and
bring dark clouds of a nuclear
arms race over the Korean
peninsula.
In a statement carried by
the Norths ofcial KCNA
news agency, the spokesman
said recent Asia visits by the
US secretaries of State and
Defence had sought to de-
monise the Norths nuclear
and missile programs and
justify a growing US military
presence in the region.
It is as clear as noonday
that Obama will trumpet the
same thing, he said.
The last two months have
been a period of elevated
tensions on the Korean
peninsula, as South Korea
and the United States con-
ducted annual, large-scale
military exercises.
North Korea protested by
test-ring dozens of short-
range missiles and conduct-
ing its rst mid-range missile
tests for nearly four years.
Yesterday, the Souths Yon-
hap news agency, citing un-
identied military sources,
said increased activity had
been observed at the Norths
underground Punggye-ri site
where its three nuclear tests
were carried out in 2006, 2009
and 2013.
South Korean and US forc-
es have been closely monitor-
ing the latest development to
detect signs of another test,
one source told Yonhap.
At the end of last month,
North Korea said it would
not rule out a new form of
nuclear test after the UN Se-
curity Council condemned
its latest medium-range mis-
sile launches.
Experts saw this as a pos-
sible reference to testing a
uranium-based device or a
miniaturised warhead small
enough to t on a ballistic
missile. AFP
N Korea slams Obamas
dangerous tour of Asia
Sherpas fight for fair share
T
HE Nepalese govern-
ment is considering
cancelling all expedi-
tions to the summit
of Mount Everest for the rest
of the year as rescuers aban-
doned their search for three
Sherpas believed to have been
killed along with 13 others in
an avalanche on Friday.
The avalanche has raised
concerns in Nepal about the
scale of the climbing business
and the dangers to the Sherpa
guides. This year, 334 climb-
ers from around the world
were given permits, costing
$10,000 each, to climb Ever-
est. Filming permits and oth-
er fees bring in more money
to the government in Kath-
mandu. If the expeditions are
cancelled the government
will have to refund the fees.
This is an unprecedented
situation, the Tourism Min-
istry spokesman Madhu Su-
dan Burlakoti told journalists.
We do not know what to do
if they want their tax back. We
will hold further discussions
before deciding anything on
this issue.
Sherpas have also been an-
gered by the government of-
fering families of the victims
$400, which will only cover
funeral costs.
Expedition leaders, politi-
cians and leading Sherpas
have agreed to lobby the gov-
ernment to improve compen-
sation for guides. Sherpas feel
they do not get a fair share
of climbing royalties but are
expected to take a dispropor-
tionate amount of the risk and
demonstrations are planned
before the funerals take place
this week.
Mingma Sherpa of Seven
Summits Treks warned that
there would be no Sherpa in-
volvement in mountaineering
in the future if their social se-
curity concerns were ignored.
Sherpas are the backbone of
Mount Everest expeditions
but the government neglects
them, he said. Sherpas are
an ethnic group in Nepal and
have helped foreigners climb
the countrys towering peaks
since before Sherpa Tenzing
Norgay and New Zealander Sir
Edmund Hilary became the
rst to reach the top in 1953.
The high numbers of climb-
ers has led to tensions on the
slopes. After an attack on three
European climbers last year,
the Tourism Ministry estab-
lished a government post with
liaison ofcers and security
personnel to keep the peace.
Sherpa anger at their exploi-
tation, particularly among the
young, is straining relation-
ships with foreign commercial
expedition leaders. Among
those killed on Friday was
Dorje Khatri, a campaigner for
Sherpa rights who had previ-
ously carried the ag of a por-
ters union to the summit.
With the working condi-
tions of high-altitude workers
in the forefront of the publics
mind, organisations repre-
senting them have been quick
to add to the pressure on the
government.
In addition to the $400 of-
fered by the government,
the families of Sherpa guides
killed will receive $10,000 from
mandatory insurance policies.
Those working as cooks and
other staff will get $5,000.
Ben Ayers, Nepal country di-
rector for the dZi Foundation
and a long-time advocate for
trekking porters rights, said
that fees should be increased
to ensure Sherpas are properly
insured: If the lives of Sherpas
were insured at a comparable
rate to foreign climbers, that
might change the way people
think about the risks they face
on the mountain. That would
be a start.
It would increase the cost
of climbing Everest by a few
hundred dollars, but so what?
If that meant fewer people on
the mountain that would be a
good thing, too. THE GUARDIAN
The avalanche that killed at least 13 sherpas is pictured as it
barrels down a mountain in the Mount Everest region on Friday. AFP
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Runway runaway
Boy survives
Pacic ight
in wheel well

A
TEENAGE runaway has
survived a ve-hour ight
across the Pacic Ocean
stowed away in the freezing wheel
well of a jet plane.
Ofcials said it was a miracle
the 16-year-old boy did not die
after he quickly lost conscious-
ness as temperatures dropped
to as low as -62C (-80F) in the
compartment on the ight from
California to Hawaii.
He was discovered on the
tarmac at Kahului airport in Maui,
Hawaii, with no identication after
jumping down from the wheel
well and wandering around the
airport grounds. He had run away
from his family after an argument,
ofcials said.
Security footage from the San
Jose airport, where the ight
originated, showed that the boy
hopped over a fence to get to
Hawaiian Airlines ight 45 on
Sunday morning.
The boy, who will not be
charged, has been referred to child
protection services, he added.
In August, a 13- or 14-year-old
boy in Nigeria survived a 35-
minute trip in the wheel well of a
domestic ight after stowing away.
Authorities credited the ights
short duration with his survival.
THEGUARDIAN
Japan warns over seizure
T
OKYO warned yes-
terday that the sei-
zure of a Japanese
ship in Shanghai over
pre-war debts threatened ties
with China and could under-
mine the very basis of their
diplomatic relationship.
Authorities in Shanghai
seized the large freight ves-
sel in a dispute over what the
Chinese side says are unpaid
bills relating to the 1930s,
when Japan occupied large
swathes of China. The move
is the latest to illustrate the
bitter enmity at the heart of
Tokyo-Beijing ties, with the
two sides embroiled in a dis-
pute over the ownership of a
small archipelago and snap-
ping at each other over differ-
ing interpretations of history.
Shanghai Maritime Court
said on Saturday that it had
seized the vessel Baosteel
Emotion owned by Mitsui
OSK Lines . . . for enforcement
of an effective judgement
made in December 2007.
The arrested vessel will be
dealt with by the law if Mitsui
OSK Lines Ltd still refuses to
perform its obligations, the
court said.
Chinese and Hong Kong
media said the seizure was
related to a verdict by a court
in Shanghai that said Mitsui
must pay about 2.9 billion
yen ($28 million) in relation
to the leasing of two ships
nearly 80 years ago.
Reports said that in 1936,
Mitsuis predecessor Daido
Shipping Co rented two ships
on a one-year contract from
Zhongwei Shipping Co.
However, the ships were
commandeered by the Im-
perial Japanese Navy and
were sunk during World War
II, it is reported.
A compensation suit was
brought against Mitsui by the
descendants of the founder
of Zhongwei Shipping, and
in 2007 a Shanghai court or-
dered Mitsui to pay about 2.9
billion yen in compensation.
Mitsui appealed against the
decision but in December
2010 the Supreme Peoples
Court turned down their peti-
tion for the case to be retried.
Mitsui has argued that it is
not liable to pay compensa-
tion given that the ships which
Daido rented were requisi-
tioned by the Japanese mili-
tary during the war, according
to Japans Kyodo News.
Yesterday, Japans chief gov-
ernment spokesman Yoshi-
hide Suga said the seizure
undermined the 1972 joint
communique that normalised
ties between Japan and Chi-
na, in which Beijing agreed to
renounce its demand for war
reparation from Japan.
It could also intimidate
Japanese companies doing
business in China as a whole
and hence Japan is deeply
worried and strongly expects
China to take appropriate
measures, he said.
It appears to be the rst
time the assets of a Japanese
company have been cons-
cated in a lawsuit relating to
wartime or occupation com-
pensation, Kyodo reported.
But it comes as a set of
lawsuits related to wartime
forced labour in Japan have
been led in China against
Japanese corporations.
China has long maintained
a policy of not accepting such
civil lawsuits. But a Beijing
court for the rst time has
agreed to hear a lawsuit by
Chinese citizens demanding
compensation from Japanese
rms over forced labour, their
lawyer said last month.
Including this incident, Chi-
nas set of policies on this issue
could shake up in a profound
way the spirit of normalising
diplomatic ties between Japan
and China that is inscribed in
the 1972 joint communique,
Suga said. AFP
Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the seizure of a
freighter threatens diplomatic ties between Japan and China. AFP

Myanmar democracy
campaigner dies at 84
WIN Tin, one of the founders of
Myanmars pro-democracy
opposition and the nations
longest-serving political
prisoner, died yesterday at the
age of 84 after battling for
decades to bring freedom to a
nation that suffered under
military rule. The former
journalist and veteran
campaigner, whose almost two
decades in jail failed to dull his
commitment to the democratic
cause, had suffered worsening
ill health in recent weeks. He
died in hospital in Yangon early
yesterday, National League for
Democracy party spokesman
Nyan Win said. A funeral
service will be held tomorrow.
A towering figure within the
democracy movement, Win Tin
formed the NLD with Aung San
Suu Kyi in 1988 in the wake of a
student-led pro-democracy
uprising. He was imprisoned
the following year for his
political activities. He reiterated
his support for party leader Suu
Kyi in the days before he died,
according to his long-time
assistant Yar Zar. AFP
Malaysia jet forced to
make emergency stop
A MALAYSIA Airlines plane with
166 people aboard was forced to
make an emergency landing in
Kuala Lumpur early yesterday
morning in another blow to its
safety image after the loss of
flight MH370. Flight MH192,
bound for Bangalore, India,
turned back to Kuala Lumpur
after it was discovered that a
tyre had burst on take-off, the
airline said. As safety is of
utmost priority to Malaysia
Airlines, the aircraft was
required to turn back to KLIA
[Kuala Lumpur International
Airport], the airline said in a
statement. The plane landed
safely at 1:56am (1756 GMT),
nearly four hours after it took
off, the flag carrier said. All 159
passengers and seven crew
members on board have
disembarked from the aircraft.
The airline said tyre debris
discovered on the runway had
led to the decision to bring the
aircraft back. They have landed
safely thank God, tweeted
Transport Minister
Hishammuddin Hussein, who is
overseeing Malaysias response
to MH370. AFP
Suspected communist

guerrillas kill mayor
SUSPECTED communist
guerrillas disguised in
paramilitary-style uniforms
shot dead a Philippine mayor
yesterday as he presided over a
flag-raising ceremony at a town
hall, police said. About 20 men
took part in the brazen attack,
shooting dead Mayor Carlito
Pentecostes in the northern
town of Gonzaga and then
overpowering officers at the
scene, said regional police
director Chief Superintendent
Miguel Laurel. It looks like the
NPA. That is where the
evidence is pointing. It was their
usual modus operandi,
disguising in camouflage
uniforms, he said. The 4,000-
strong communist New
Peoples Army has been
waging a 45-year-old
insurgency in the hinterlands of
the Southeast Asian
archipelago that has claimed
30,000 lives, according to
government estimates. AFP
Indonesia speaks out on asylum seekers
JAKARTA called on governments yes-
terday to stop shifting responsibility
for asylum seekers, in veiled criticism
of Australias hardline policy of tow-
ing boatloads of would-be refugees
back to Indonesia.
The military-led operation has
caused anger in Indonesia, which has
been forced to take back seven boat-
loads of asylum seekers turned
around by the Australian navy since
December of last year.
At the opening of an international
meeting on asylum seekers in Jakar-
ta, Indonesian Foreign Minister
Marty Natalegawa said countries
should stand by commitments to
cooperate on the issue made at a con-
ference last year.
Those commitments confirmed
our shared responsibility shared
responsibility, not [the] shifting of
responsibility. Shared responsibility
that requires coordination and coop-
eration, Natalegawa said at yester-
days meeting.
For Indonesia the message is crys-
tal-clear the cross-border and com-
plex nature of irregular movement of
persons defies . . . national solution.
Asylum seekers have for years used
Indonesia as a transit point to cross to
Australia, usually on rickety fishing
boats. More than 1,000 asylum seekers
have died at sea in recent years
attempting the perilous journey.
Tony Abbott came to power last year
at the head of a conservative govern-
ment in Australia on the back of a
pledge to stem the flow of asylum
seekers, and has implemented the
tough border protection policies. His
government says they are working,
claiming that no asylum seekers arriv-
ing by boat have set foot on Australian
soil since December.
The UN refugee agency said last week
the number of asylum seekers register-
ing in Indonesia had dropped dramat-
ically since December, from around
100 a day to 100 a week.
The Abbott administration retained
the policy of the former government of
sending all asylum seekers arriving by
boat to Papua New Guinea or Nauru
for permanent resettlement there if
judged to be refugees.
Natalegawa acknowledged yesterday
that the policies may have helped
reduce the loss of life at sea between
the two countries, but reiterated his
opposition to them.
We need to take the politics out of
this whole endeavour, he said, adding
there must be alternative ways of stop-
ping the flow of asylum seekers.
Australia was represented at the
meeting by officials from its Jakarta
embassy, but they made no comment
at the opening.
The two-day International Workshop
on the Protection of the Irregular
Movement of Persons at Sea, attended
by senior officials from 14 countries, is
co-chaired by Indonesia and the Unit-
ed Nations refugee agency. AFP
RIGHTS campaigners called
yesterday for an urgent inves-
tigation into the disappear-
ance of a community activist
in Thailand helping villagers to
seek justice for alleged abuses
by national park ofcials.
Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen
known as Billy has not
been seen since April 17
when stopped by local au-
thorities at a checkpoint in a
national park in Petchaburi
province in southern Thailand.
He was travelling to meet
fellow ethnic minority Karen
villagers to help them with a
lawsuit accusing authorities
of destroying the homes of
20 families in Kaeng Krachan
National Park in 2011, Human
Rights Watch said.
It said the lawsuit is against
the national park chief Chai-
wat Limlikitaksor and two
government departments.
Chaiwat said the activist was
stopped by his ofcials for car-
rying illegally gathered honey
but later released.
I reprimanded him then
drove him ve kilometres
and let him go . . . Two days
later I received a call from
police saying Karen villagers
complained Billy had disap-
peared, Chaiwat said. Park
ofcials are looking for him,
but theres been no trace.
HRW said Billy was carrying
les linked to the destruction
of the homes and property of
Karen families three years ago.
The Karen mostly live in
eastern Myanmar. Fighting
and human rights abuses have
forced many across the border
into Thailand. AFP

Thailand urged to probe
activists disappearance
Abe gives tree to shrine
JAPANS Prime Minister Shin-
zo Abe donated a tree to the
controversial Yasukuni war
shrine yesterday, but did not
visit the memorial which is
seen by China and South
Korea as a symbol of Japans
militarist past.
Abe donated the symbolic
gift, a sacred masakaki tree,
to coincide with the start of a
three-day spring festival, Jiji
Press news agency and other
local media said.
The offering was seen as a
sign that he would avoid a per-
sonal visit during the festival,
reports said, with public broad-
caster NHK quoting anony-
mous sources as saying he was
not planning a trip.
Abe had been widely
expected to refrain from vis-
iting the shrine ahead of US
President Barack Obamas
visit to Tokyo from tomorrow
until Friday, with Washing-
ton calling for Asian neigh-
bours to mend ties.
Many other lawmakers are
however expected to make
their regular pilgrimage today.
The 145-year-old Shinto
shrine honours Japans war
dead including several leaders
condemned as Class A war
criminals by the US-led allied
powers and executed after
World War II.
Abe, known for his national-
ist views, drew protests from
China and South Korea when
he visited the shrine last
December at a time when
Japans ties with the neighbour-
ing countries were severely
strained over territorial dis-
putes and differences in his-
torical perceptions.
Conservative Japanese par-
liamentarians make pilgrim-
ages to the shrine during
spring and autumn festivals
and on the war anniversary.
Abe made the same kind of
tree offering at the autumn
festival last year, but did not
visit the shrine.
Yasukuni is a flashpoint in
relations between Japan and
its Asian neighbours, with
disagreements about history
badly colouring relations.
Beijing and Seoul see Yasu-
kuni as a painful reminder of
Japans imperialist past
because it enshrines some of
the men who ran the country
and its military during years of
brutal expansionism.
But Japanese conservatives
say it is natural that they pay
homage to people who lost
their lives in the service of their
country. AFP
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World
Voodoo lounge
Haitian voodoo followers splattered with the blood of sacriced goats take part in a ceremony during an annual voodoo festival in Souvenance, a
suburb of Gonaives 171 kilometres north of Port-au-Prince, on Sunday. AFP
TAIWAN is setting up its rst
marine wildlife sanctuary, in
a bid to protect its dwindling
population of Indo-Pacic
humpback dolphin, ofcials
said yesterday.
Local conservation groups
say the dolphin numbers have
halved to around 60 in the
past decade, due to pollution,
industrial development and
destruction of habitat.
The Indo-Pacic dolphin
population is a key index to
measure the health of the
maritime environment, said
Tsai Chia-yang, the head of the
Chuanghua Environmental
Protection Union. The Coun-
cil of Agriculture conrmed
it will establish a vast 76,300-
hectare sanctuary off the west
coast of the country.
Were happy to announce
the setting up of the sanctuary
before this years Earth Day,
Kuan Li-hao, an ofcial of the
Forestry Bureau, said, refer-
ring to the April 22 event.
Normal shing in the area
will be unaffected, as the
government said a total ban
would not be possible as the
sanctuarys success was de-
pendent on the cooperation
of local shermen.
But the government has
tightened guidelines for those
operating in the region.
From now on, any develop-
ment projects in the area will
require government approval,
council ofcials said.
Under the new measures,
there will be tough punish-
ments for illegal shing of the
endangered species. Poach-
ers of the humpback dolphin
could face up to two years in
jail and nes of NT$500,000
(US$16,530). Dredge shing is
also banned.
Anyone caught seriously
damaging the habitat could
face ve years in prison.
The Indo-Pacic humpback
dolphin can also be found
along the coast of Africa and
in the waters stretching from
India to Australia. AFP
Taiwan to establish
dolphin sanctuary
Spains Robin Hood swindled banks to ght capitalism
THEY call him the Robin Hood
of banks, a man who took out
dozens of loans worth almost
500,000 with no intention of
ever paying them back.
Instead, Enric Duran farmed
the money out to projects that
created and promoted alterna-
tives to capitalism.
After 14 months in hiding,
Duran is unapologetic even
though his activities could land
him in jail. Im proud of this
action, he said. The money, he
said, created opportunities. It
generated a movement that
allowed us to push forward with
the construction of alternatives.
And it allowed us to build a
powerful network that groups
together these initiatives.
From 2006 to 2008, Duran
took out 68 commercial and
personal loans from 39 banks
in Spain. He farmed the money
out to social activists, funding
speaking tours against capital-
ism and TV cameras for a
media network.
I saw that, on one side, these
social movements were build-
ing alternatives but that they
lacked resources and commu-
nication capacities, he said.
Meanwhile, our reliance on
perpetual growth was creating
a system that created money
out of nothing.
The loans he swindled from
banks were his way of regulat-
ing and denouncing this situa-
tion, he said. He started slowly.
I filled out a few credit applica-
tions with my real details. They
denied me, but I just wanted to
get a feel for what they were
asking for.
From there, the former table
tennis coach began to weave an
intricate web of accounts, pay-
ments and transfers. I was
learning constantly. By the
summer of 2007, he had discov-
ered how to make the system
work, applying for loans under
the name of a false television
production company. Then I
managed to get a lot 492,000
($680,000), to be exact.
Duran was arrested in Spain
in 2009 on charges brought
against him by six of the 39
banks that lent him money.
He spent two months in pris-
on before being bailed for
50,000 bail. In February last
year, facing up to eight years in
prison, he decided to flee rath-
er than stand trial. I dont see
legitimacy in a judicial system
based on authority, because I
dont recognise its authority,
he said.
His actions, he said, were at
the vanguard of a worldwide
debate on the economic crisis.
The timing pushed the anti-
capitalist movement into the
light, just as many Spaniards
were seeking alternatives to a
system that had wreaked havoc
on their lives.
While the same actions would
probably be better understood
in todays Spain, he said that
they would not be needed. The
anti-capitalist movement has
grown from a fringe movement
to one supported by thousands
of Spaniards, he said, evidenced
by the 70 or so social currencies
in use across the country and
widely supported movements
such as the indignados.
Success has helped the
movement become self-suffi-
cient. We now have the capac-
ity to generate resources, said
Duran, adding somewhat
ironically that this was exactly
what banks issue credit for
to advance and generate a
situation that allows you to be
independent.
Duran is widening his focus
to include Spains justice sys-
tem, by promoting restorative
justice. The people in Spain
who believe banks dont work,
they think I dont owe anything.
Ive already done my work, he
said. But there is a part of a
population that is not in agree-
ment with us and I think I
should respond to that.
In his case, he said, the ele-
ment of reciprocity he could
offer to banks might lie in the
insight he gleaned from years
of obtaining bank loans fraud-
ulently. He could share his
thoughts on which best prac-
tices work and the bad ones
that dont, he suggested, for
the general population and for
bank workers. THE GUARDIAN
Sex claim shows rulers desperate: Anwar
Kate Hodal

T
HE last time Anwar Ibra-
him, Malaysias opposition
leader, was sent to prison,
he read the complete works
of Shakespeare (ve times), wrote
essays and treatises, gave interviews
and strategised about how best to
lead the opposition party to victory
against the ruling party, which has
governed this Southeast Asian na-
tion for nearly 60 years.
Ten years later, he once again faces
imprisonment on sodomy charges,
which he claims are politically moti-
vated. His case has gripped Malaysia
in its range from the absurd to the bi-
zarre. Charged in 2008 with sodomis-
ing a former male aide, Anwar was
cleared in 2012 on lack of evidence.
But an appeals court overturned
the acquittal last month on the eve
of a by-election in Malaysias richest
state, Selangor, where he was tipped
to become chief minister.
Not only did the conviction rely on
a witness of doubtful testimony, the
appeal was led by the government
and the lead prosecutor suddenly
did an about-face and switched to
Anwars defence team. Its a sign of
desperation on the part of the gov-
ernment, Anwar said of his con-
viction, in an interview in London,
where he is visiting his friend and
former American vice-president
Al Gore, after being granted a stay
of sentence. They think because
the [next general] elections are four
years away they can literally get away
with murder.
Anwar, 66, is Malaysias longest-suf-
fering political opponent and great-
est threat to the incumbent Umno
government, led by Prime Minister
Najib Razak, whose Barisan Nasional
(National Front) alliance has ruled
the country since independence.
Anwar is a polarising gure in
the conservative nation of 30 mil-
lion, where his political career has
spanned formidable highs and lows:
once serving as the deputy prime
minister and nance minister, he
was courted by international media
and graced the cover of Newsweek,
then fell out spectacularly with the
premier, Mahathir Mohamad.
Anwar has long contended that
all the charges against him were po-
litically motivated, with the sodomy
convictions based on an archaic colo-
nial law rendering sex between men
a punishable offence, even if con-
sensual. Very few sodomy cases ever
make it to court and Anwar and his
supporters believe his charges to be a
political ploy to keep him out of poli-
tics in a conservative nation built on
family values. He rst spent six years
in prison, mostly in solitary conne-
ment, until his release in 2004.
This second sodomy charge fol-
lowed a stellar performance by An-
wars three-party opposition coali-
tion in the 2008 general elections,
at which the opposition made huge
gains against the Barisan Nasional
and was overturned in 2012 by Ma-
laysias high court.
Analysts believe there was no co-
incidence regarding the overturning
of that acquittal last month, with hu-
man rights groups, the US State De-
partment and UN all questioning the
legality of the court decision.
This trial was all about knocking
Anwar Ibrahim out of politics, pure
and simple, Phil Robertson, of Hu-
man Rights Watch, said. The Malay-
sia judiciary . . . has shown how hard
it is to get a free and fair trial when
political issues are at play.
Yet it is not just Anwar the govern-
ment seems to be targeting, say civil
rights groups, who point to the ar-
rest and conviction of other promi-
nent opposition MPs, such as Karpal
Singh, who was convicted of sedi-
tion, under another ill-used colonial-
era law, as a means to thwart an op-
position that has had big gains in the
last two general elections, as well as
in the by-elections last month.
Whats alarming is the extent to
which this government, which is
supposed to have won the election, is
going to undermine the opposition,
said Ambiga Sreenevasan, a lawyer
and former chair of Bersih, the Coali-
tion for Free and Fair Elections. This
is really without a doubt a clear-cut
case of selective Im going to call it
persecution not prosecution.
Anwars conviction could once
again be overturned, pending a fed-
eral court hearing expected within
the next month. But in a nation where
the denition of justice depends on
what the government of the day
feels like doing, Ambiga said, it was
unclear just how far Malaysia would
go to silence its opposition.
As for Anwar, who could well
choose to never return to Malaysia,
life in his home country, whether
behind bars or atop rally stages,
seems the only option for ghting
for a democracy that he says will one
day prevail.
There is no benet to going back
to Malaysia, he said. [But] I decided
a long time ago that I wanted to go
back because it is my conviction, it is
my rm belief, that Malaysia has to
mature as a vibrant democracy that
has no corruption, abuse of power or
leadership that has been squander-
ing billions of dollars.
Its tough when you consider my
wife and children suffer, but they
know, and I discussed it with them,
they support me even though they
are not happy for me to endure this
again. But we have to weather the
storm. I am always optimistic.
A mass rally backing Anwar is
planned for May 1 in Kuala Lum-
pur, where other rallies in support
of Bersih, calling for clean and fair
elections, have attracted hundreds
of thousands of Malaysians to take to
the streets in recent years.
Tyrants, authoritarian leaders, are
not permanent features. They are
racing against time. Over the tempo-
rary setbacks, the clamour for reform
or democracy is irreversible, Anwar
said. THE GUARDIAN
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S RESIDENTS of Phnom
Penh, my family was forced
to leave their home and take
an uncertain journey to their
native village in Prey Veng, a province
in southeastern Cambodia.
Amid fear and confusion, they
joined the crowds of evacuees trudg-
ing along Monivong Boulevard
towards National Road 1 in an
attempt to reach their destination.
Travelling on foot with their few
belongings strapped to a motorbike,
they slept wherever they could find a
spot when night fell. My mother
recalls that one evening, without real-
ising it, the family slept through the
night atop dead bodies of evacuees.
Instead of ending their journey in
Prey Veng as planned, my family was
redirected to Kampong Cham prov-
ince, where my mothers family lived
and where my family remained
throughout the Khmer Rouge regime.
Labelled as new people or April 17
people, they were assigned to live
with base people, those who had
previously lived in zones under
Khmer Rouge control and who were
considered more trustworthy. My
family was assigned to work in the
fields, growing rice and collecting
rubber. My parents were placed in
separate work units, while my broth-
ers, ages four and seven, were
assigned to a childrens unit.
The violence that engulfed Cambo-
dia during the Khmer Rouge years has
had a constant impact on our family
and on Cambodian society ever since.
Cambodia endured five years of civ-
il war from 1970 to 1975. The country
then fell into the hands of Khmer
Rouge revolutionaries, who ruled the
country from April 17, 1975, to Janu-
ary 7, 1979. The Khmer Rouge official-
ly renamed the country Democratic
Kampuchea (DK) and embarked on
policies and practices marked by
widespread violence.
Before the Khmer Rouge captured
Phnom Penh, the population of the
city had swelled to several million, tri-
pling its number of residents in a
span of five years. This increase was
the result of a flood of refugees from
rural provinces to escape armed con-
flict, aerial bombardment and forced
conscription by the Khmer Rouge.
When they gained control of the
country, the Khmer Rouge evacuated
all cities and forced the residents to
go to their native villages. Confused
and filled with fear of the unknown,
the population was evacuated in all
directions under the constant surveil-
lance of Khmer Rouge soldiers.
The evacuation of the cities only
hinted at the terror to come. Over the
ensuing months and years, the
Khmer Rouge forced city dwellers to
perform hard labour in the country-
side. The population was transferred
to collective cooperatives and
assigned to work on massive agricul-
tural and irrigation projects.
To maintain control of the popula-
tion and of production, the Khmer
Rouge created security centres and
labour camps throughout the coun-
try. Hospitals, schools and temples
were closed or transformed into
warehouses or prisons; religious prac-
tices and money were banned; and all
cultural references from the previous
regime, including family life and cer-
tain languages, were disallowed.
This attempt to reconstruct the
country according to the ideology of
the Khmer Rouge resulted in mass
violence and fear, the consequences
of which have lingered in Cambodia.
A fundamental characteristic of the
DK regime was the constant reloca-
tion of its population. People were
repeatedly moved from one place to
another from their place of birth to
a different zone and from one coop-
erative to another. Relocations were
ordered from the provinces of Kam-
pong Cham, Takeo, Kandal and Prey
Veng to Pursat, Battambang, Banteay
Meanchey and so on. In general, the
movement was from the southeast to
the northwest part of the country.
The evacuees were terrified, con-
fused and traumatised as they were
starved, separated from their family
members and forced to journey into
the unknown. The train journeys in
particular were very traumatic. Evac-
uees were provided with almost noth-
ing to eat and were separated from
their family members at each train
stop. The painful losses and trauma of
the Cambodian citizens speak direct-
ly to the violence committed.
The permanent exhibitions of the
Documentation Center of Cambodia
titled Forced Transfers, created in col-
laboration with the Ministry of Cul-
ture and Fine Arts, includes survivors
stories of the evacuations and daily
living conditions during DK, as well as
recollections of former Khmer Rouge
soldiers who participated in the mass
relocations of the population.
Through striking photographs, sur-
vivors narratives, maps and folktales,
these exhibitions provide a tranquil
space for remembering, acknowledg-
ing and honouring the suffering of
the victims of the Khmer Rouge
regime. The educational programs
incorporated within the exhibitions
will begin at the provincial museums
in Battambang and Banteay
Meanchey and end in Kampong
Thom, Svay Rieng and Takeo.
These programs will help promote
meaningful intergenerational discus-
sion about the history and legacy of
the Khmer Rouge among Cambodi-
ans as well as among international
visitors. The education will take place
in public and private spaces, includ-
ing provincial museums, schools,
homes and specific sites where the
Khmer Rouge committed violent acts.
We hope that these exhibitions will
provide visitors with a glimpse of the
trauma and fear that was omnipres-
ent in the practices of the regime.
As a member of the generation who
was born after those traumatic years,
the images of the forced evacuations
and the pathetic daily living condi-
tions of my family exist only in my
imagination. They are never revealed
in discussions between my father and
me. The silent nature of my father
explains everything and nothing at
all. His silence forces me to realise
how traumatic life was then. It also
conceals details of life under the
regime behind a shadow of darkness.
I sincerely hope the photographs
and narratives contained in the exhi-
bitions will inspire people to share
memories and learn more about the
history of the DK regime. One per-
sons story represents only a piece of
the larger puzzle, the totality of which
will ultimately provide an historical
record of Cambodias past. Piecing
that puzzle together is the process
through which we can better under-
stand the violence inflicted upon my
family and other Cambodian families
as a whole. The impact of that vio-
lence is felt by all of us on a daily basis
and fuels a desire to restore humanity,
dignity and honour to all survivors of
the genocide perpetrated by the
Democratic Kampuchea regime.
Comment
Sirik Savina
The forced transfers
Former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Ieng Sary (centre with cap) walks along inspecting the railroad tracks in Pursat prior
to the second wave of evacuations in 1975. DC-CAM
Sirik Savina is the director of the Museum of
Memory, a project at the Sleuk Rith Institute.
In brief
New Queen Elizabeth
portrait released
A NEW portrait of Queen
Elizabeth II, taken by David
Bailey, has been released to
mark her 88th birthday on
Monday, with the renowned
photographer delighting in the
mischievous glint in her
eyes. The black-and-white
photograph of the smiling
monarch was taken in March
at Buckingham Palace. Ive
always been a huge fan of the
queen, Bailey said. She has
very kind eyes with a
mischievous glint. Ive always
liked strong women and she is
a very strong woman.AFP
Greenwald to release
more Snowden stories
GLENN Greenwald, one of the
journalists who broke the
National Security Agency
revelations from Edward
Snowden in the Guardian, said
on Sunday that a book he is
writing about the case will
contain a lot of new stories
from the Snowden archive.
Speaking at the end of a week
in which Guardian US and the
Washington Post shared a
Pulitzer Prize for public
service reporting, Greenwald
said: There are stories that I
felt from the beginning really
needed the length of a book to
be able to report and to do
justice to, so theres new
documents, [and] theres new
revelations in the book that I
think will help inform the
debate even further. THE
GUARDIAN
McCartney wows large
crowed in Uruguay
EX-BEATLE Paul McCartney
wowed fans at an Uruguay
concert late on Saturday,
dazzling the crowd with his
rendition of Let It Be. McCart-
ney opened the Montevideo
show with Eight Days a Week,
a 1964 Beatle hit released long
before many of the audience
members were born. But age
was not a factor as McCartney,
now 71, belted out decades-
old hits like in the good old
days with George, John and
Ringo. He also played from the
1970s when he was with the
band Wings, hits from the solo
period that followed, and tunes
from his latest album, New.
But it was the Beatle songs
from the 1960s like Blackbird,
Yesterday and Helter Skelter
that sent the crowd into a
frenzy. The stadium lit up with
flashes from cellphones and
personal cameras when
McCartney sang the 1970
Beatle classic Let It Be. The
legendary band broke up in
that same year. AFP
17
Lifestyle Lifestyle
Pope John Paul II makes his way through a crowds of people at Torontos exhibition
park on July 25, 2002. BLOOMBERG
Sing-along saint: papal musical under way
Dario Thuburn
POPE John Paul IIs extraordinary life is
being set to music in Rome, with audiences
enjoying a flourish of theatre shows about
the former playwright and future saint
ahead of his canonisation on Sunday.
Highlights like his famous meeting with
his would-be assassin Ali Agca in 1983 and
his famous phrase Be not afraid! have
become modern dance numbers and
jaunty tunes in an unusual cocktail of pie-
ty and showbiz.
Nuns and priests were out in force at a
performance of Karol Wojtyla: The True
Story one of at least three pope-linked
productions in the Eternal City.
Backstage, 26-year-old actor Virgilio Bran-
caccio donned a cardinal costume and
rehearsed his lines as he prepared for his
star role as the Polish pontiff.
The hardest thing for me was combining
his strong charisma with a great gentleness
and purity, said Brancaccio, who plays
Wojtyla as a young man in a plot that ends
with his Vatican election in 1978.
We know his papacy, but we dont really
know what he was like as an adolescent and
a young man, said Brancaccio, a television
actor and former participant in the Italian
version of the talent show X Factor.
In the audience, a smiling Sister Carmela
from the Daughters of St Anne congrega-
tion was thrilled.
Were already praying a lot and its been
a great gift to see this before the canonisa-
tion! she said.
I passed the theatre and saw the poster
and I was immediately drawn to it because
I knew the pope well. He blessed me when
I was a student!
The musical features songs composed by
Israeli singer Noa and premiered in Krakow,
where Wojtyla was archbishop for many
years, with the popes longtime friend Car-
dinal Stanislaw Dziwisz in attendance.
Wojtyla was born in 1920 and took up
theatre in the 1930s when he was a student
of languages at the Jagellonian University
in Krakow, performing in various produc-
tions and writing plays even during World
War II. AFP
Arctic Bound: adventurers
paddle to the frozen wastes
Emily WIght

L
AST summer, a group
of American explorers
travelled 1,000 miles
across northern Can-
ada with a Cambodian ag in
tow, bringing a little piece of
the Kingdom to one of the most
remote places on earth. Photo-
graphs of the trip, which reveal
an incredible landscape as well
as a very human struggle, will
go on display this evening at
Meta House.
After travelling for 58 days on
foot and by canoe, 26-year-old
Ben Woods and his friends be-
came the only known group of
people to cross the Dubawnt,
Morse and Arkmark rivers, start-
ing at Canadas Black Lake and
ending at the Queen Maud Gulf
on the Arctic Ocean. Other than
spotting an aboriginal man and
his dog ve days in, they saw no
other human life.
Although Woods took thou-
sands of photographs on the ex-
pedition, the exhibition, called
Arctic Bound, is limited to 24
images. As well as shots of the
group dragging canoes along
the bed of a shallow stream, and
on the water beneath the open
sky, the exhibition features more
intimate portraits betraying raw
emotions: hunger, exhaustion,
pain, frustration.
It was at an annual sum-
mer camp in Minnesota where
Woods and his friends became
canoeing acionadoes. It be-
came their dream to explore
somewhere in the Arctic region
by canoe, he said, but it was only
when he was living in Cambodia
and working as a journalist that
they were offered the chance.
About a year and a half before
we went on the expedition, a
friend emailed me and said, do
you want to go on a canoe trip?
My best friend growing up was
also visiting me in Cambodia at
the time, and he was on board
as well. I think neither of us re-
ally thought it was actually go-
ing to happen, he said.
By now, Woods was establish-
ing himself as a photojournalist
and was keen to use the op-
portunity to depict a journey
of which there was no existing
documentation. He received
a Young Explorers Grant from
National Geographic, agreeing
to send photographs and blog
posts on his return. National
Geographic was keen for the trip
to involve a scientic element,
he said, so the group took water
samples for research at the Uni-
versity of Alaska.
Hunger was one of the main
difculties Woods and his
friends had to grapple with.
Other than a few sh, all the
food they consumed in 58 days
a lot of dehydrated rice and
beans they carried with them.
They had enough in the end,
he said, but the physical exer-
tion made it particularly dif-
cult. About halfway through
the trip we just couldnt stop
thinking about food. We were
eating plenty, but we were
burning so many calories that
our bodies were just craving
food, he said. Each of them
lost between 25 to 30 pounds
on the trip.
But the photos arent limited
to hardship. One portrays one of
the group engrossed in a novel;
another shows the same man
laughing and horsing around
with an oil can.
Woodss favourite, he said, is
of the group taking a lunchtime
nap, their grey shirts camou-
aged against the rocks they lie
upon.
One photograph of particu-
lar importance to Woods didnt
make the exhibition. It shows
him holding the Cambodian
ag by the Arctic Ocean, but
has been omitted because it
wasnt his photograph. I did it
to represent my adoptive coun-
try, and I thought Cambodians
would like to see their ag in a
faraway place, he said.
Arctic Bound opens at Meta
House at 6pm this evening.
The exhibition will run until
May 12.
Two of the four-man team pull a canoe across the ice. The group traveled 1,000 miles across the Arctic. BEN WOODS
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PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 ..34..7 16:10 17:10 QR 604 ..34..7 13:30 14:30
QR 967 12...6. 22:40 23:40 QR 966 12...6. 19:50 20:50
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
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#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
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COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
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kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
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TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
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Air Asia (AK)
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Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
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Qatar Airways
No. 296 Blvd. Mao Tse Toung
(St. 245), Ground oor,
Intercontinental Hotel PP
Tel: +23 42 40 12/13/14
www.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
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Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
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Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
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2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
A priest delivers a sermon inside the El Santuario de Chimayo, home to
the el pocito legend. PHOTO SUPPLIED
A New Mexico
churchs legend
of el pocito dirt
Irene S Levine

W
HETHER youre
a believer or not,
theres some-
thing about the
serenity of small churches that
makes them inviting. Add an
unusual history or legend, and
the attraction doubles.
So it is with El Santuario de
Chimayo, a small church in
Chimayo in the US state of
New Mexico. Founded in 1816
by Bernardo Abeyta and other
residents of the then-separate
village of El Portero, it was pur-
chased by the Spanish Colonial
Arts Society in 1929 and donat-
ed to the Roman Catholic Arch-
diocese of Santa Fe.
With its thick adobe walls,
two bell towers and two-me-
tre-tall crucix, the church is
considered a prime example
of Spanish Colonial architec-
ture. But its probably best
known for the supposedly cu-
rative powers of the holy dirt
thats found in its sacristy.
Each year, more than 300,000
people visit the church. Some
come in faith, some out of cu-
riosity, but most come hoping
to nd miracle cures for their
physical or emotional pains,
illnesses or disabilities.
A door on the left of the nave
opens to a small prayer room,
with an amazing number of
discarded crutches lining the
walls. Above them, the walls
are covered with photos and
letters from people testifying
to the healing power of the
holy dirt, which is found in an
even smaller adjoining room.
The size of a walk-in closet,
this room houses a tiny well,
called el pocito.
I stepped inside to get a
glimpse of el pocito. I hadnt
come to get some dirt, but on
an impulse, I decided to take
some with me in case my
achy knee worsened during
the last days of our visit to
New Mexico.
Back at home, I did some re-
search on the holy dirt to learn
more about its properties. The
rst thing I learned is that el
pocito isnt a bottomless pit. It
has to be relled each day by
church workers who collect
the dirt from the nearby hill-
sides in the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains. Visitors haul
away an estimated 25 to 30
tonnes each year.
A handout Id picked up in
the sanctuary offered clear
instructions on applying the
soil: The Holy dirt is not to be
eaten or to be drunk, it read. It
suggested some silent prayers
to say as you rub the dirt over
the part of your body in need
of healing while invoking the
name of Jesus.
Some visitors, however, ap-
parently do decide to ingest
the soil, sprinkling it on their
food or in a beverage. And
some people claim to feel its
effects merely from having it
in their possession.
A TV show called Miracle
Detectives analysed the soil a
couple of years ago and found
that even the high levels of
calcium carbonate (which
might have a benecial effect
on heartburn) cant explain
the apparently extraordinary
healing properties of the holy
dirt of Chimayo. More likely,
the sceptical detectives con-
cluded, the curative effects
can be explained by the pla-
cebo effect, or the power of
positive thinking.
My knee hasnt given me any
trouble since my visit. I have
the baggie of holy dirt in my
night table just in case. But
maybe it has already worked
its magic. THE WASHINGTON POST
TV PICKS

4:20pm - MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR:
In the Far East, Alex OConnell, the son of famed mummy
fghters Rick and Evy OConnell, unearths the mummy of
the frst Emperor of Qin - a shape-shifing entty cursed
by a witch centuries ago. Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li,
Maria Bello. FOX MOVIES
6:15pm EPIC: A teenager fnds herself transported to a
deep forest setng where a batle between the forces
of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands
together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to
save their world - and ours. FOX MOVIES
8pm - FANTASTIC FOUR: A group of astronauts gain
superpowers afer a cosmic radiaton exposure and must
use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor
Victor Von Doom. FOX MOVIES
9:45pm - OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL: A small-tme
magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is
forced into a power struggle between three witches.
Stars: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz.
FOX MOVIES
Entertainment
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Avant-garde artist Jean
4 Island in New York Harbor
9 Humpty Dumpty-shaped
14 Coffee alternative
15 Should have said
16 A dwindling number of
17 ... and so forth, briefly
18 Part of the American dream
20 If youre so smart, why ___ you
rich?
22 Word with open or seven
23 Byzantine treasures
26 Private school-ish
30 It closes at night
32 Elm or Sesame
34 23-Across, e.g.
36 Measures of loudness
38 Clearasil target
39 Tat-tat intro
41 Brownish purples
43 Trumpet accessory
44 The same as previously
mentioned
45 Delight in the taste of
47 Boy
48 Auto safety device
51 Sanaa native
53 Crustacean with 14 legs
55 Result of jumping the gun
58 Picks up the check
60 It can be a crowd?
61 Camping tool
67 Now ___ heard everything!
68 Mature
69 Fire-___ (carnival performer)
70 252 wine gallons
71 Oxlike antelope
72 Wingtip-to-wingtip dimensions
73 Agreeable reply
DOWN
1 Crack commando unit of old TV
2 Back, in front
3 Front-runners
4 Bottles returned for deposit
5 Flower necklace
6 Resinous secretion
7 Calligraphers supply
8 Causing sticker shock
9 Kind of printing
10 Triumphant letter
11 Bristle on barley or rye
12 Old-time gumshoe
13 Before, long ago
19 Spreads pitch on
21 Thumbs-down
24 Horse-hoof sound
25 Skull cavity
27 Baby conveyance
28 Odd trait
29 Female gossip
31 Progressive decline
33 Mounted a golf ball
34 Oratorio highlight
35 Half-diameters
37 Discontinue, as relations
40 Pulpit of a sort
42 Vague quantity
46 Snooze-takers and hammock-
users
49 Add supplementary material
50 Barnyard butter
52 To the ___ degree
54 The Van __ (Dick and Jerry)
56 Songs-and-skits show
57 Coming-of-age period
59 Break off suddenly
61 Before,
if before
62 Masseuses bottleful
63 Bean counter, for short
64 Author Kesey
65 Give ___ while longer
66 Swampy bog
P SOUP
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
NOAH
A man is chosen by God to undertake a momen-
tous mission of rescue before an apocalyptic
flood destroys the world. Russell Crowe stars
alongside Jennifer Connelly as well as Anthony
Hopkins.
City Mall: 9:25am
Tuol Kork: 9:20pm
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Steve
Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the
modern world and battles a new threat from
old history: the Soviet agent known as the
Winter Soldier.
City Mall: 12:05pm, 4:50pm, 7:10pm, 9:30pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 1:50pm, 6:50pm, 9:25pm
TRANSCENDENCE
As Dr Will Caster works toward his goal of creat-
ing an omniscient, sentient machine, a radical
anti-technology organisation fights to prevent
him from establishing a world where computers
can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
City Mall: 7:10pm, 9:45pm
Tuol Kork: 9:40pm
RIO 2
Animated adventure following a cast of birds.
Its a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their
three kids after theyre hurtled from Rio de
Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries
to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful
Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary
of all: his father-in-law.
City Mall: 11:25am, 1:25pm, 5:10pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 11:50am, 1:05pm, 4:50pm
DIVERGENT
In a world divided by factions based on virtues,
Tris learns shes Divergent and wont fit in.
When she discovers a plot to destroy Diver-
gents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find
out what makes Divergents dangerous before
its too late. Stars Shailene Woodley, Theo
James, Kate Winslet.
City Mall: 7:25pm
Tuol Kork: 4:25pm
Yoga @ Yoga Phnom Penh
Four Americans paddled a thousand
miles from Black Lake, Saskatchewan,
to the Queen Maud Gulf on the Arctic
Ocean, and brought back photos to
prove it. A new exhibition, opening
tonight, documents their very human
struggle against the elements.
Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard,
6pm.
Anyone is welcome to get up for a
sing, play an instrument, try out your
stand-up comedy routine or just sit
back and enjoy the fun and
entertainment.
The Gym Sports Bar, #42 Street 178.
7:30pm
NOW SHOWING
A man carries a canoe on his head. Tonight, a new photo exhibition following the journey of four Americans through
the Arctic opens at Meta House. BENWOODS
Michelle Williams plays Glinda the Good Witch in Oz
the Great and Powerful. BLOOMBERG
Arctic exhibition
@ Meta House
Open Mic @ Gym Bar
Music @ Code Red
Think you dont have time for class
and to get lunch? No problem! You can
relax and eat after lunchtime yoga
class or take it back to the oce. This
is a lunchtime refresher for people of
all abilities.
Yoga Phnom Penh, #29, Street 21.
12:15
Unity covers songs a range of styles -
from the Cure to Nora Jones and Rod
Stewart. There might even be some
Shakira in there.
Code Red, opposite Naga World, near to
Koh Pich bridge, 8pm
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(BKKI), 04 bedrooms, large living
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For Rent At Chhroy Changeva area,
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fully furnished, very lights, western
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nice garden, very good condition
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clean, fully and modern furnished,
very big pool, western kitchen, nice
balcony, big parking, quiet & safe.
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good environment, very easy to nd
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MODERN DESIGN APARTMENT
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Sport

Dancers get down at
Sponsor drink event
SPONSOR energy drink
company hosted an outdoor
dancing event titled A Day for
Sport at the National Sports
Complex on Sunday evening
joined by 600 enthusiastic
members of the public, who
were given free T-shirts as well
as sponsor drinks to consume
during breaks. The crowd was
led by seven dancing coaches.
Chea Samnang, a well-known
Cambodian actor and
representative of the sponsor
told the Post: Were holding
this large function to encourage
citizens to think about their
health because dancing is a
simple way to keep them
healthy, helping both mental
and physical health as well as
being entertaining. Chief
organiser Sem Santra said that
following the success of the
event that there would be
another one in the future. CHHORN
NORN&TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Reigning champs Miami
open playoffs with win
LEBRON James and Dwyane
Wade combined for 50 points on
Sunday to lead two-time
defending NBA champions
Miami to a 99-88 victory over
Charlotte in their Eastern
Conference first-round series
opener. While the Heat are in
familiar territory, the
Washington Wizards were
playing their first playoff game
since 2008 on Sunday in
Chicago where they came
away with a 102-93 game-one
win over the Bulls. In the West,
the San Antonio Spurs, led by
Tim Duncans 27 points, rallied
for a 90-85 victory over the
Dallas Mavericks. The Spurs,
trying to get back to the NBA
finals after falling to the Heat in
last years championship series,
trailed 81-71 with 7:45 left to
play, but closed the game on a
19-4 scoring run to secure the
win. It was a different story for
visiting Portland in Houston,
where the Trail Blazers edged
the Rockets 122-120 in overtime
to open their series. AFP
Vekic upsets Cibulkova
for maiden WTA title
CROATIAS Donna Vekic became
the first player under 18 to win a
WTA title for eight years on
Sunday when she stunned top
seed Dominika Cibulkova 5-7,
7-5, 7-6 (7/4) in the Malaysian
Open final. The 17-year-old
shrugged off another rain-hit
day to beat the world number
10 Slovakian and win her first
title after two unsuccessful
final appearances in Tashkent
in 2012 and Birmingham in
2013. AFP
Kuchar wins Heritage
with dramatic final birdie
MATT Kuchar holed out from
a bunker at the final hole on
Sunday to win the US PGA
Tours Heritage and hand
Luke Donald another
Harbour Town disappoint-
ment. Kuchar started the day
four shots off Donalds
54-hole lead but fired a
seven-under par 64 for an
11-under total of 273. AFP
Hurricane
Carter dies
at age 76
R
UBIN Carter, a former mid-
dleweight world title con-
tender known as the Hur-
ricane whose wrongful
conviction for murder became a cause
clbre, died in Toronto on Sunday at
the age of 76.
The boxers death was conrmed by
a caregiver and associate, John Artis.
Carter, who as a young man escaped
from reform school, joined the army
and had a career as a petty criminal,
had a professional boxing career that
began in 1961 and ended in 1966.
He won 27 times, with 19 knock-
outs, and lost 12 times, one of them
a knockout. He tied one bout. In 1964
he fought Joey Giardello for the WBC
and WBA middleweight titles, losing
on a unanimous points decision.
In 1967 he was convicted, alongside
Artis, for three murders at the Lafayette
Grill in New Jersey the year before. The
murder victims were white; the per-
petrators black. Carter and Artis were
convicted by an all-white jury, largely
on the testimony of two thieves who
later recanted their stories.
Carter was jailed until 1985, when
his convictions were set aside. In 1975,
a year before a second trial conrmed
Carters conviction after a brief pe-
riod of freedom Bob Dylan released
the song Hurricane, detailing the al-
legedly racial motivations behind the
boxers imprisonment. In 1999, Den-
zel Washington played Carter in a lm
of the same name.
A number of books also dealt with
the case, including Carters autobiog-
raphy, The Sixteenth Round, which at-
tracted Dylans attention.
In later years, living in Canada,
Carter worked with the Association in
Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. In
2000, speaking to the Guardian on the
eve of the release of Hollywoods ver-
sion of the story, he said: Many inno-
cent people are locked up, and some-
body ought to be held accountable.
In February, Carter wrote an op-ed
piece for the New York Daily News, in
which he sought freedom for David
McCallum, a man he said had been
wrongly convicted.
In the piece, Carter wrote that he
was quite literally on my death-
bed, and added: If I find a heaven
after this life, Ill be quite surprised.
In my own years on this planet,
though, I lived in hell for the first 49
years, and have been in heaven for
the past 28 years.
It was reported at the time that Cart-
er was suffering from terminal cancer.
THE GUARDIAN
US Rubin Carter (right) punches Fabio Bettini of Italy during their international middleweight
match in Paris, February 22, 1965. Carter beat Bettini by knockout in the 10th round. AFP
STANISLAS Wawrinka played
down his French Open hopes
despite his Monte Carlo Mas-
ters title success against Rog-
er Federer, claiming that the
sports big names remain in a
class of their own.
His convincing 4-6, 7-6 (7/5),
6-2 fightback at the Monte
Carlo Country Club sealed the
first all-Swiss final on the ATP
in 14 years and left Wawrinka
with fresh confidence in his
big-swinging game.
I did an amazing job. Im
really happy after winning my
first Grand Slam to now win
my first Masters 1000, said the
Australian Open champion.
When mentally Im there
and Im fighting, I can play
[good] tennis, I can beat all
the players.
I play well on clay. Its nor-
mal that I would be a favourite
for the French Open, but I
dont think so because Im
very far from players like Rafa
[Nadal], Novak [Djokovic]
and Roger.
He added: I think the big
four will always be the big four
Rafa, Novak, Roger and Mur-
ray. They won all the tourna-
ments for many years and you
cannot change that.
The rankings may be differ-
ent, but the statistics are the
same. Anyway, I will not
change anything in the way I
approach the tournaments.
Third-ranked Wawrinka, who
fired 33 winners on Sunday, lost
his previous two Masters finals
in Rome in 2008 to Djokovic
and last year in Madrid to Nad-
al. The title was his third of the
year after trophies at Chennai
and Melbourne in January.
Even 17-time Grand Slam title
winner Federer, who has lost all
four of his Monte Carlo finals,
was happy for his good
friends success.
It was, of course, a great
pleasure to share this moment
with Stan. I didnt feel frustrat-
ed, I was happy for Stan.
I focused on myself, I didnt
want anybody to feel uneasy.
Ive played so many finals
already, I was relaxed. The
important thing was that Stan
had to feel comfortable.
Before anything else, it was
a tennis celebration on a
beautiful court.
And after taking a month to
come down to earth after his
Melbourne title, which was
achieved over Nadal, Wawrinka
will be hoping not to fall into
the same psychological rut after
this major breakthrough.
Ive been experiencing the
best emotions ever during
the past year or so. Its
incredible. AFP
Wawrinka shrugs off
French Open chances
Junior Masters set for 2014
H S Manjunath
THE International Tennis Fed-
eration will launch the ITF Jun-
ior Masters at the beginning of
next year in Chengdu, China,
following a three-year agree-
ment with the Chinese Tennis
Association and the Chengdu
Sport Bureau.
This inaugural event is set for
April 3-5, 2015, at the Sichuan
International Tennis Centre,
with the top eight boys and girls
on the ITF Junior World Rank-
ing at the end of 2014 invited to
participate.
According to an ITF Press
release, the Junior Masters will
showcase the next generation
of players and also help them
in making a transition from
junior tennis to the profession-
al ranks through various oppor-
tunities including travel grants.
Specific proposals and detailed
information will be released by
the ITF in due course.
The tournament will consist
of two knock-out singles events,
with each player guaranteed
three matches to determine
their finishing order.
The Sichuan International
Tennis Centre, built in 2008
with 12 match and 20 prac-
tice courts, has already host-
ed a number of international
events.
The ITF Junior Masters will be
staged on three match courts,
including a 6,000-capacity sta-
dium court, with matches
broadcast and streamed live
over the three days.
The Junior Masters will
brighten up the 2015 ITF cal-
endar alongside premier team
competitions like the 14-and-
under World Juniors, and
16-and-under Junior Davis
Cup and Junior Fed Cup by
BNP Paribas.
We are delighted that
some of the worlds most tal-
ented young players will have
the opportunity to compete
in this new, exciting event,
said ITF President Francesco
Ricci Bitti.
The ITF Junior Circuit has
long been the main pathway to
professional tennis for young
players, but this event will pro-
vide an added incentive for
players to secure a high year-
end ranking. We are grateful
for the support and the vision
of the Chinese Tennis Associa-
tion and Chengdu Sports
Bureau to be able to launch this
event in such an impressive
setting, he added.
Sun Jinfang, vice president of
the Chinese Tennis Association,
said: Chengdu has a long ten-
nis tradition, with a large tennis
population and many activities
in schools and universities, so
it is an appropriate venue for
this new event. We look forward
to seeing some of the future
stars of the game in action.
The worlds top junior tennis players will be invited to the inaugural ITF
Junior Masters tournament in Chengdu early next year. AFP
Football
23

Guangzhou on the brink
in Asian title defence
MARCELLO Lippis Guangzhou
Evergrande face a tense
evening in the AFC Champions
League tonight with their Asian
title defence on the line in the
final round of group games.
Last weeks shock defeat has
put the pre-tournament
favourites in the perilous and
unlikely position of being level
on seven points with their three
rivals in Group G, with one
game left. The Chinese
champions and league-leaders
now need a home win against
Japans Yokohama F Marinos
to guarantee that they progress
to the last 16 and avoid an
embarrassing early exit. AFP
Marseille agree deal to
have Bielsa as coach
SLUMPING French giants
Marseille announced yesterday
that they have reached an
agreement in principle with
Marcelo Bielsa to take over as
coach. The 58-year-old
Argentine, who has coached
Chile and Athletic Bilbao, has
long been the longtime
favourite to succeed caretaker
boss Jos Anigo. AFP
Lerner refuses to deny
he is set to sell Villa
RANDY Lerner has broken his
silence on the prospect of
Aston Villa being taken over
this summer by issuing a
statement that offers the
clearest indication yet that the
American is ready to sell up.
Responding to reports that a
takeover at Villa Park is on the
agenda, Lerner made no
attempt to deny the
speculation and instead
painted a picture of a man
whose days at the club are
coming to an end. The
Guardian reported last week
that sources inside, as well as
outside the club, had become
aware that Lerner, who bought
Villa in 2006, was poised to
sell. It is also understood that
Paul Lambert, the Villa
manager, has been told that
he must prepare to work with
new owners. THE GUARDIAN
Rumours groundless,
says Zenit boss AVB
ZENIT St Petersburg manager
Andre Villas-Boas yesterday
dismissed out of hand
rumours linking him with
Spanish giants Barcelona. All
the rumours about my
negotiations with Barcelona
representatives are completely
groundless, former Chelsea,
Tottenham and FC Porto coach
told reporters. Ive signed the
contract with Zenit and Im set
to stay here until its expiry
date. AFP
Liverpool ready for Chelsea clash: Rodgers
BRENDAN Rodgers is confident
his Liverpool players possess
the necessary ingredients to get
the better of title rivals Chelsea
when the two teams meet at
Anfield this weekend.
Liverpool will go into that
game five points ahead of Jos
Mourinhos side following their
3-2 win at Norwich City on Sun-
day, which followed an unex-
pected victory by bottom club
Sunderland at Chelsea the pre-
vious day.
Victory next Sunday would
put Liverpool within touching
distance of their first ever Pre-
mier League title with two
games left to play.
Their rise to the top of the
table, which has also seen them
overtake Manchester City and
Arsenal, has been achieved
through attractive, attacking
play, and Rodgers gave an
insight into the philosophy that
has helped them get there.
When they are in the chang-
ing room just before we go out,
I always tell them, Lose your-
self, focus on the ball and focus
on the team. If you do that,
then we can be a real force,
he said.
You have seen all the char-
acteristics of our team today
wonderful invention and crea-
tivity, courage, arrogance on the
ball, goal-scoring, young play-
ers and senior players all play-
ing, and instructions that allow
them to express themselves.
Its going to be a brilliant
game next weekend with Chel-
sea coming to Anfield. The sup-
porters will be right up for it
and the players as well. We are
looking forward to it.
Raheem Sterling scored two
of Liverpools goals at Carrow
Road, either side of Luis Sua-
rezs 30th Premier league goal
of the season, and Rodgers
hailed the England interna-
tional for his contribution.
He is arguably the best
young player in European
football at the moment, Rodg-
ers said.
He is 19 years of age and if
he doesnt win the [Profession-
al Footballers Association]
Young Player of the Year award,
its ridiculous.
I have been really pleased
with his maturity. He puts an
awful lot of time into his work,
and we have tried to play him
in different positions to improve
his football intelligence.
Hes got that in-built belief
that he can be a good player,
but hes a really humble lad.
Rodgers also revealed that the
victory at Norwich had been
inspired by a speech given by
the head of the Hillsborough
Family Support Group at last
weeks memorial service to
mark the 25th anniversary of
the disaster.
Margaret Aspinall, whose
son, James, was one of 96
Liverpool fans crushed to
death during an FA Cup
semi-final at Sheffields
Hillsborough stadium in
1989, was one of several peo-
ple to speak at the service,
including Rodgers himself.
We were at the memorial
service this week. There was
hope for the families there as
well, said the Liverpool
manager.
I used some words of Mar-
garet Aspinall. We put them up
on the wall [in the changing
room].
She talked about stress and
how it can prove difficult for
you, but it can also offer you
great determination to fight,
and that is what we gave the
players today.
This is all one club at this
moment in time and we are all
fighting to achieve the ulti-
mate goal.
Liverpool have now won
their last 11 Premier league
games, but Norwich have lost
their last four and are in dan-
ger of being overtaken by each
of the three teams below them
in the relegation slots.
Manager Neil Adams saw
Gary Hooper and Robert
Snodgrass find the Liverpool
net and was encouraged by his
sides improved second-half
performance, which will have
to be replicated in their final
fixtures, against Manchester
United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
The performances in the
past two games have been
first-class, but we have to get
the points, he said.
The belief is there and we
are 100 per cent committed to
staying in the division. AFP
Liverpools Raheem Sterling (right) is tackled by Norwich Citys Robert Snodgrass during their English Premier
League match on Sunday at Carrow Road in Norwich. AFP
Atletico face familiar foe
Kieran Canning
A
TLETICO Madrid may be in
uncharted territory as they
prepare for their rst Cham-
pions League semi-nal in 40
years, but they will meet a familiar face
in Chelsea boss Jos Mourinho when
the Londoners travel to the Spanish
capital tonight.
Mourinho won his rst eight meet-
ings against Atletico in a three-year
spell in charge of Real Madrid.
Then last May Los Rojiblancos ex-
acted revenge by beating Real for
the rst time in 14 years in the Por-
tugueses last competitive game in
charge of Los Blancos to win the Copa
del Rey last May.
Atletico have built on that success
and are on course for the greatest sea-
son in their history as they are just three
games away from winning both La Liga
for the rst time in 18 years and a rst
ever Champions League.
Both sides success this season has
been built upon a solid defensive base
and Atletico captain Gabi is not expect-
ing a goal-fest over the two legs.
Without a doubt Mourinhos teams
are very well prepared tactically and
they are going to come here to play
their usual game, to not leave any space
at the back, to play on the wings and in
the air, its similar to what we do here,
he said on Sunday.
Its going to be a very competitive
game of two teams with very simi-
lar styles. We are very excited about
the game and we have to play well at
home because that could determine
the second leg.
It has been a hard season but the
most important thing is what is com-
ing up. The team has been capable of
making it into the situation we are in
now but we cannot relax, we havent
achieved anything yet. We are in a great
situation and on Tuesday we want to
take a big step towards the nal, but we
have to do the talking on the pitch.
Atletico will be boosted by the news
that on-loan Chelsea goalkeeper Thi-
baut Courtois will be available to play
against his parent club as UEFA de-
clared a clause in his contract forcing
Atletico to pay an extra fee to eld him
as ineligible.
The Belgian international has be-
comes a key part of the Atletico side
over the past three seasons and Gabi
is condent that despite his tender
age the 21-year-old has the tempera-
ment to handle the situation without
any problems.
He was a bit uncertain at rst wait-
ing to see what would happen, but hes
always been certain that he wants to
play and he was sure that they could
would resolve it.
Hes very excited, this opportunity
doesnt come along very often, if you
are in a team that gets to the semi--
nals and possibly the nal it is difcult
for that to happen again and its a great
opportunity for him.
Hes very focused and even though
he is very young, he has the capacity to
not let that affect him.
Simeones men were handed a fur-
ther boost on Sunday as midelder
Arda Turan returned to training mean-
ing the Argentine coach now has a full-
t squad to choose from.
Mourinho has no such luck as he
must lift his players from a stunning 2-1
defeat at home to the Premier Leagues
bottom club Sunderland on Saturday
that left their title hopes in tatters.
Eden Hazard missed that match as
he continues to recover from a calf in-
jury picked up in the quarter-nal win
over Paris Saint-Germain, but Chelsea
are hopeful the Belgian international
will be t to play some part at the Vi-
cente Calderon.
Branislav Ivanovic is also suspended
so Ashley Cole is expected to be hand-
ed a rare start with Cesar Azpilicueta
moving across to right-back.
Tonights match kicks off at 1:45am
Cambodian time. AFP
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone (right) comes face to face with his former Spanish
league nemesis Jos Mourinho, now with Chelsea, in the Champions League tonight. AFP
English Premier League
Hull 0 Arsenal 3
Everton 2 Man United 0
Spanish La Liga
Almeria 2 Celta de Vigo 4
Rayo Vallecano 3 Real Betis 1
Sevilla 4 Granada 0
Barcelona 2 Athletic Bilbao 1
German Bundesliga
Nurnberg 1 B Leverkusen 4
Stuttgart 3 Schalke 1
French Ligue 1
Monaco 1 Nice 0
Bastia 2 Ajaccio 1
Bordeaux 5 Guingamp 1
Lorient 4 Montpellier 4
Reims 0 Sochaux 1
Valenciennes 2 Nantes 6
Marseille 0 Lille 0
SUNDAYS RESULTS
My name is Khaou Phallaboth. I write this letter to clarify to the public and competent authorities at all
levels that what was alleged by Lay Houng in her statement of clarication dated March 12, 2014 which was
recently published in the newspapers articles was designed to deceive the public and competent authorities
at all levels in a bad attempt to rob me and my family of our properties through the plot Lay Houng created in
collaboration with her associates.
To clearly conrm the truth to the public and competent authorities to avoid misunderstanding through the
lies made by Lay Houng and her associates, I would like to clarify as follows:
I would like to conrm that 1- Lay Houng is not my wife but my mistress. What was alleged by Lay
Houng that she had been living with me as a couple, that all my relatives had agreed to accept her to be my
wife and that we agreed not to have our marriage registered was completely the lies. Besides, she tried to
be my lady with all tricks, persuading me to take her as my wife; the request which was rejected by me on
every occasion. Yong Hedy is the only wife I have and she has been living with me. Although she knew that
I already have a wife in this family, Lay Houng kept thinking of ways to ruin our relationship and threaten
my wife violently and horridly with the acid dousing and to get her raped. Out of fear of such harmful acts
by Lay Houng, my wife decided to return to Malaysia.
While my wife was not at home, Lay Houng tried to threaten me to take her as my wife, a request
which I not only absolutely denied but I also did not allow her to come to my house. Lay Houng was made to
not dare to seek the right to be my wife since then, but tried to lie to and deceive other people into believing
that she is my wife although I always refused to announce her status as my wife in my ofcial business
relationships. In my business world, Lay Houng was appointed by me in the executive team of my company
to oversee my other teams and to represent me in the transfer of the rights to occupy and own 1,080 hectares
of rubber plantations land which I bought from local residents.
Above all, there is no proof to prove my love relationship with Lay Houng, including the marriage
certicate, residence record and family record book which did not list Lay Houng as part of my family.
Apart from this, none of my family including my parents, siblings and relatives recognized Lay Houng as
my wife.
In response to the claim by 2- Lay Houng that she had been living with me, invested her personal funds
to create several joint ventures with me and all the revenues from these businesses were transferred into
my account with her agreement, there is no evidence to support the claim above by Lay Houng and it was
invented only to deceive the Court and the public and it is beyond belief that Lay Houng, who even clearly
knew that I already have a wife (Yong Hedy) and 3 children, stupidly agreed to put all her moneys in my
account even without the contract or equivalent paper executed.
Actually, I acknowledge that Lay Houng only worked as an executive staff member of my company and
was paid special pay (remuneration) by me and were she have the right to claim my properties, all the executive
staffs of my company or my representative would also have enjoyed the same right as Lay Houng to claim my
properties and that they would have said to have invested millions of dollars in doing the businesses with me as
claimed by Lay Houng to lie to the Court because they also work with Lay Houng in the team.
What she said to have joined many businesses with me is not true at all. The fact is that my father, 3-
Onkha Khaou Chuly, and I stepped in Cambodia in 1991 and I started to create a number of businesses and
companies in 1993 with my father and siblings. These include a private security rm PROTEK, DE SODIO,
SOKFIN KCD, a construction rm, KHAOU CHULY MKK CO., LTD., KAMPOT CEMENT COMPANY, an
emulsion paint supplier MASTRIA, MAIDA, KHAOU CHULY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., North Bridge
International School (later sold to the ROYAL GROUP), KHAOU PHALLABOTH INDUSTRY CO., LTD.,
and Tong Yang Cambodia which bought hectares of land and all the prots from these businesses including
the bank loans which amount to about 10 million dollars and the loans from many international partners
were used as the resources to expand the businesses and invest in 1,080 hectares of rubber plantation
located in Mondulkiri provinces Sre Ampoum and Krang Tes communes, of which Lay Houng and her
associates attempted to rob from me. And Lay Houng did not contribute or pay a cent as share in the above
investments.
Besides, it was not Lay Houng who gave me reputation, rank and wealth. Instead, I am a son of Oknha
Khaou Chuly. We are a wealthy and famous family in Cambodian society for ve generations already. As
for me, I have become wealthy and was awarded the title of Oknha (business tycoon) in 1997 (see the Kings
Royal Decree dated November 17, 1997), when I did not even know where Lay Houng was then.
Lay Houng 4- brazenly alleged I promised to give her my land, rubber plantation and other properties.
But what is her relationship to me? She was simply my mistress. I have a wife and children, so there is no
reason I have to promise to give her all my properties. Lay Houng must be daydreaming and attempted to
rob me of all my properties through her tricks and bad actions disliked by the society. For instance, while I
was abroad in early 2010, Lay Houng stole my land titles for the 1080ha rubber plantations and land in other
provinces, which were kept at my house and kept them at her house in Home Dcor, an act which was seen
by His Holiness Supreme Patriarch Bou Kry and all the residents in my house.
For 5- Lay Houngs claim that our joint properties value more than 100 million dollars and she claimed
only 10 percent of the property share, please allow me to question as to why Lay Houng only demanded
10% of the property. This must be the plot of Lay Houng and her associates aimed to bewilder the court
and the public and cover her evil acts only. In fact, Lay Houng already learnt that I own no other signicant
wealth than the stated 1080ha rubber plantation and land in other provinces. In an attempt to rob all my
properties, she and her associates made an arrangement by ling a divorce petition with the court against me
demanding half of my wealth while she was only my mistress. She produced and submitted fake documents
to the court inventing the gures which do not exist in reality and to combine my properties with those of my
father and siblings in order to cause the court to believe that I have hundreds of million US dollars.
Truly speaking, 70% of all my wealth together with dozens of millions US dollars in the bank loan were used
to invest in the 1080ha rubber plantation. In this 1080ha rubber plantation investment project, I have owed my
foreign (French) business partners and banks dozens of million US dollars which are yet to be settled. The banks
threatened to seize my land and brick and concrete plant to pay off the debts.
Therefore, it is very unfair that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of First Instance handed down a verdict
to grant my 1080ha rubber plantation and land in Mondulkiri province to Lay Houng, a decision which could be
described as an act of robbing of almost all my properties in favour of Lay Houng. At this point, I led an appeal
against the unjust verdict of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of First Instance, which was issued without taking
into account the facts and legal basis.
It is a lie that she shamelessly and ironically denied knowing my Malaysian wife, 6- Yong Hedy, even if
she clearly knew she had done what was considered as a cruel action on my wife, Yong Hedy. At this point,
I wish to clarify that my former wife and I were divorced in 2001 under the divorce decree delivered by
Phnom Penh Municipal Court. In 2002, I remarried Yong Hedy and this was acknowledged by our families
and relatives. At that time, I did not even know Lay Houng until 2005. She is a widow of 3 children at the
Intercon Gymnasium. We started to have a love affair right then. Since Lay Houng stepped in my home,
problems began to happen among my family members and siblings. Lay Houng always tried to get rid of
my wife, Hedy, with the threat of acid dousing and to get her killed and raped. All my siblings and people
in my house learnt about this too.
I was terribly regretful not to listen to my parents, siblings, in particular my sisters Mom ( 7- Khaou
Chulasady) and Thach (Chumteav Sun Chantha), and other famous businessmen who advised that I should
not associate with Lay Houng. When told by my sisters Mom and Thach through some of their friends that
my youngest daughter might not be mine, I decided to get her blood tested. That spurred Lay Houngs
anger, revenge, hatred and retaliation on my family announcing several times that if she could not purge
Khaou family, she should no more be addressed Lay Houng. My sisters Mom and Thach always took care of
how I was living, which made Lay Houng hate them both. That is similar to the case of Mrs. Seng Chanda,
who also dislikes my sisters Mom (Khaou Chulasady) and Thach (Chumteav Sun Chantha) for their refusal
to accept her as a step mother.
I know it is hard to believe that Lay Houng is a malicious and unkind woman and masterminded the plot
to get my sister and niece raped and killed only because she refused to accept her as part of the family, and asked
me to stop keeping associate with her and because Sethikola was not thought to be my own daughter. Because of
her ambition and greed, she together with her associates attempted to rob me of all my properties.
In her attempt to steal my 1080ha rubber plantation in Mondulkiri province, 8- Lay Houng made a plot
with her associates and hired criminals to cause violent acts and destroy properties of my company with the
threat to murder my companys staffs in order to rob the rubber plantation of Khaou Chuly Development
Co., Ltd. aggressively. For instance, in the complaint led by a victim named Tean Bean, Lay Houng was
accused of ordering her men to stab and kill Tean Bean, who works at Khaou Chuly Development Co.,
Ltd. as Deputy Director of the companys rubber plantation based in Lao Romiet, Krang Tes commune,
Mondulkiri province, because he refused to leave my company to join her plot. In this case, the person
who is behind the plot is currently on the run while the co-perpetrators involved in the attempted murder
are detained temporarily by the court. It is said that Lay Houng ordered his associates to settle it with [the
authority] to get the detainees relieved from the charges. Because of the cruel acts done by Lay Houng, I am
very concerned about the security of myself and my staff, particularly, those who work on the 1080ha rubber
plantation because she could do everything for her end. I therefore call on competent authorities to take
effective measures to stop Lay Houng from repeating the acts and bring her to justice according to the law.
Again, I would like to deny the allegation by 9- Lay Houng that I invented the whole story with the
bad intention to put all the blames on her to make it easy for me to take all the properties alone. Instead,
it was Lay Houng who caused all the troubles in my family and I was made to fall to the trick of this bitch
Lay Houng. Because of my ignorance, I initially defended Lay Houng, who otherwise masterminded the
attempted plot to rape and kill my sister and niece, until I lost my rank, wealth and became penalized due to
the lack of the knowledge of the plot. I nally fell victim to the acts of Lay Houng and her associates in their
plot to rob my properties and inculpate me very unjustly.
Obviously, Lay Houng was a tricky woman who tried to cause rifts in my family and ruin our
relationships so that she as well as her associates could rob my properties through the court proceedings. Lay
Houng rstly alleged before the court that all the properties were held in her possession and later said to the
contrary that they were our joint properties after evidences were presented by my lawyer to prove my exclusive
ownership. Phnom Penh Municipal Court of First Instance unjustly decided to give almost all my properties to
Lay Houng.
April 4, 2014
Signature and Thumbprint
(Signature and Thumbprint)
Oknha Khaou Phallaboth
Rebuttal statement to the statement of clarication which was written by
Lay Houng on March 12, 2014 and recently published in some newspapers
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