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Laignee Barron
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
A
T THE beginning of
the school year, Mony
Vutha was handed a
new, mandatory
addition to the grade four cur-
riculum that neither he nor
any of his colleagues were
trained to teach: English.
Vuthas two years of English
lessons more than a decade ago
made him the only teacher at
Mondulkiris Poula Primary
School who could even read
the new textbook.
This is the first time Eng-
lish has been introduced in
primary school. I have never
taught English before, he
said, adding that he has no
idea how the other grade four
teachers at his school could
possibly implement the new
language requirement.
Looking to boost English flu-
ency and reap a corresponding
economic boon, the Ministry
of Education, Youth and Sport
began rolling out an initiative
this year to expand the lan-
guage program from lower
secondary schools into pri-
mary schools, starting with
grade four.
We are thinking about the
skills needed for the ASEAN
integration, and we want to
expand English into grade one.
But thats impossible right now,
our human resources are too
limited, so we will start step by
step, Lim Sotharith, director of
the Education Ministrys text-
book department, said.
But the governments first
step at expanding English edu-
cation may have already taken
a leap too far.
Vuthas school isnt the only
one where the newly printed
English textbooks were deliv-
ered to tongue-tied educators
A failure to communicate
Govt plans for English outstrip teachers
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Cheang Sokha
HE MAY have won his fight
against extradition to his
homeland, but Russian prop-
erty tycoon Sergei Polonskys
battle to remain a free man
on Cambodian soil is not
yet over.
A criminal case against the
businessman will begin in
Preah Sihanouk Provincial
Court on July 4, officials said
yesterday, though one prose-
cutor who spoke on condition
of anonymity bel ieves
the tycoons freedom is all
but guaranteed.
He committed a minor
crime, so the decision will be
light for him, the prosecutor
said of the intentional violence
and illegal detention charges
faced by Polonsky.
The judge will convict him
with a suspended sentence or
drop charges against him.
[But] we will wait and see
the decision.
Polonsky, 41, is accused of
threatening six boatmen with a
knife, locking them in a bath-
room and forcing them to jump
overboard during a boat journey
through waters off the coast of
Sihanoukville in late 2012.
Polonskys lawyer, Benson
Samay, was equally confident
yesterday of a positive outcome
for the tycoon who is wanted
in Russia on fraud charges relat-
ed to a failed $176 million prop-
erty development.
His case will be fine, Samay
said, before hanging up.
The case against the business-
man has been postponed twice
already, first after a request for a
delay from Polonskys lawyer,
and a second time when the
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Polonsky
trial date
is set for
early July
Monks sit at Samaki Rainsy pagoda in Phnom Penhs Meanchey district yesterday morning during an event to mark the 65th anniversary of France turning over
Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam. HONG MENEA
Lost land
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court assigned a new judge to
oversee proceedings.
Polonsky owns and lives on
Koh Dek Koul, an island
off Sihanoukville.
A billionaire before the global
financial crisis, according to
Forbes magazine, Polonsky has
promised to invest millions of
dollars in development and
tourism projects in the area.
Despite the boatmen with-
drawing their complaints
weeks after the alleged violence
in exchange for a combined
$20,000, Polonsky and fellow
Russians Konstantin Baglay
and Alexander Karachinsky
spent several months in prison
in early 2013 following their
arrest at sea.
Polonsky, who did not
respond to a request for com-
ment yesterday, was first grant-
ed bail in April 2013 on the
conditions that he stay in the
country and report regularly
to authorities.
Upon his release, however, he
travelled to Israel, where he
expressed an interest in gaining
citizenship status.
He later returned to Cambo-
dia, where he was dramatically
arrested on Koh Rong in
November after his details were
posted on Interpols website
and Russia issued a warrant for
his arrest.
But Polonsky who was once
punched by a rival Russian bil-
lionaire during a live television
forum was released on bail
again in January after the Court
of Appeal decided to suspend
his extradition.
Polonskys bid to remain in
Cambodia was won on April 25
this year when the Supreme
Court ruled that it could not
extradite him because Cam-
bodia and Russia do not have
an extradition agreement.
Following the decision,
Polonskys lawyer, Samay, said
his client would continue to
work on development projects
in Sihanoukville, including on
many islands.
Its difficult for Cambodia
to find people like Polonsky,
and Cambodia needs develop-
ment, especially on the islands,
he said.
Following his first arrest,
Polonsky wrote an open letter
to King Norodom Sihamoni
outlining plans for his multi-
million-dollar developments.
During his time in Preah
Sihanouk Provincial Prison,
Polonsky, the former owner of
property firm Mirax, frequent-
ly used social media sites to
garner public support for
his release.
Sergei Polonsky and his wife talk to the press in Phnom Penh in April
after a Supreme Court ruling. HENG CHIVOAN
A woman and her young son wash dishes on the side of a dirt road in Srah Chak commune in Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district. Undernutrition is a
common problem among the poor and can lead to stunted growth. HONG MENEA
Nutrition projects need funds
Kevin Ponniah

D
ESPITE sustained
levels of high eco-
nomic growth, most
people in Cambo-
dia are still eating rice at every
meal, with little meat, sh or
vegetables, meaning under-
nutrition will remain high and
stunting common among chil-
dren if the government does
not scale up targeted health
programs, a new report says.
Undernutrition remains
stubbornly high in the coun-
try, anti-poverty group RE-
SULTS contends in the report,
titled Undernutrition in the
Land of Rice.
The group is calling on the
government to recognise that
expenditure on reducing un-
dernutrition is an investment
in the countrys future, given
that the cost of malnutrition
has been estimated at $419
million annually.
They want the government
to spend more of its own
funds instead of relying al-
most wholly on donors.
One thing that has been
made really clear to us is that
even if national economic
performance is really, really
strong, and Cambodias has
been for a relatively long peri-
od of time now, it does not di-
rectly improve the nutrition of
children, Samantha Chivers,
nutrition head at RESULTS
Australia, said yesterday.
The report says domestic
nancing for nutrition pro-
grams is worryingly low,
and while the government
has prepared a new National
Strategy for Food Security and
Nutrition (NSFSN) for 2014-
2018, it is yet to be fully priced
or implemented.
Sok Silo, deputy director-
general of the Council for Ag-
ricultural and Rural Develop-
ment, said the government
would likely be spending more
in coming years, given that the
NSFSN will soon be launched.
I think the trend is to increase
the budget for nutrition . . . [Be-
cause] without the increased
budget on nutrition, we cannot
scale up. [But] now the govern-
ment has decided to scale up
already, so we hope that the
government will [direct] more
funds to nutrition, he said.
But we cannot work alone, we
need partnership with devel-
opment partners and NGOs.
According to RESULTS, one
long-neglected area has been
the link between water, sani-
tation and hygiene, and stunt-
ing. In Cambodia, 58 per cent
of people still defecate in the
open, polluting water sources
and making children sick.
Even if you are eating the
right food, if you are constantly
ushing it out with diarrhoea
and needing that extra kick of
nutrition thats not helping
you grow, Chivers said.
According to Silo, the NSFSN
will see the government focus-
ing on this area, in addition to
items used in the fortication
of staple foods, such as soy
and sh sauce. Cash and food
vouchers will also be provided
to the rural poor and women
to buy nutritious food.
A nutrition action and invest-
ment plan will be completed
later this year, he added.
CORRECTION
The June 3 story Battambang
farmers desperate for local river
water incorrectly attributed a
price tag of $55 million to an
Asian Development Bank-
funded bridge. In fact, that figure
covers the entire loan for the
banks Flood Damage Emer-
gency Reconstruction Project.
National
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Daniel Pye
CAMBODIAS opposition
leader yesterday called on the
Australian government to re-
consider its plan to send refu-
gees to the country, which he
said was a short-term solution
that does not address the root
causes of displacement.
Sam Rainsy, Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party president,
told the Post that Australia
should adopt a more respon-
sible attitude.
We have a different approach
regarding refugees worldwide.
We think that we should ad-
dress the refugee problem at
its root, at its source. We must
understand why people take
great risks to leave their coun-
tries and seek living conditions
in other countries, he said.
We dont think that dumping
refugees . . . is a decent solution
to the refugee problem, because
Cambodia is not prepared, not
equipped, to settle refugees.
I would call on Australia
to draw a more responsible,
long-term, viable response on
the refugee issue.
He added that if the CNRP
were elected to ofce, the party
would seek a different solu-
tion, more humane, more re-
sponsible and more long-term
. . . We dont know all the details,
but [its not appropriate] to ex-
change refugees for money.
Government ofcials have
repeatedly denied that the deal
would involve a pay-off in ex-
change for taking the refugees.
Ouch Borith, secretary of
state at the Foreign Ministry,
declined to comment on the
progress of the refugee deal
earlier this week, and Long
Visalo, head of the working
group tasked with drawing up
a proposal to send to Austra-
lia, could not be reached.
Rainsys comments came
days after Minister of Foreign
Affairs Hor Namhong told Aus-
tralias Fairfax Media that the
deal was in the nal stage fol-
lowing Phnom Penh submit-
ting its proposal to Canberra,
adding that the program would
be fundamentally undertaken
on the humanitarian spirit.
Namhong said that refugees
would have to consent to be-
ing resettled in Cambodia and
undergo background checks.
The Cambodian Human
Rights Action Committee a co-
alition of rights groups yester-
day condemned the deal. The
only parties beneting from this
agreement are the Australian
government and Cambodian
government ofcials, it said.
Be more responsible,
Rainsy tells Australia
Politics at fore on anniversary
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
O
PPOSITION lead-
ers brought poli-
tics to the forefront
of a ceremony to
mark yesterdays anniversary
of Frances ofcial transfer of
the former Kampuchea Krom
provinces to Vietnam in 1949.
Speaking to a crowd of hun-
dreds of monks, Khmer Krom
and Khmer attendees at Sa-
maki Rainsey pagoda in Phnom
Penhs Meanchey district, Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
deputy leader Kem Sokha lam-
basted the ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party for operating un-
der the thumb of Vietnam.
If the CNRP led the country,
it would propose a law . . . to
make June 4 a national holiday
. . . We would [also] like to allow
Khmer Kampuchea Krom to go
in and out of the country with-
out using passports, he said.
CNRP leader Sam Rainsy
said the CPP was facilitating
the loss of more Cambodian
territory through economic
land concessions (ELCs).
The government of [Prime
Minister] Hun Sen grants ELCs
. . . to pave the way for yuon to
swallow the current Cambo-
dian territory, he said, using
a term considered by some to
be derogatory to Vietnamese.
San Sang, a Khmer Krom
representative, said the effects
of the 1949 anniversary are
still felt in modern-day life.
In Vietnam, we have been
regarded as Cambodian
Vietnamese, but in current
[Cambodia], the government
does not recognise us. They
say they cannot make . . .
IDs or passports for us, be-
cause we do not have a clear
identity and cannot speak
Khmer clearly.
On Monday, City Hall scaled
back plans for the anniversary,
prohibiting a public forum for
fear it would be used as a plat-
form for racial hate speech.
Council of Ministers spokes-
man Phay Siphan told the Post
that members of the CPP did
not attend yesterdays event
because, while they respect
the spirit of the Kampuchea
Krom as . . . lost land, they
also respect the rule of law
and nonviolence.
Royal representative Siso-
wath Pong Neary Monypong
said that, for her, the anniver-
sary was not about politics.
I am not involved in poli-
tics; I came here to offer food
to the monks, and I am also a
Khmer Krom.
Monks receive donations from the public yesterday as they leave a pagoda in Phnom Penh where a Khmer
Krom commemorative event was held. HONG MENEA
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Fake outfits, real time
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

T
WO men were sen-
tenced to three years
in prison yesterday by
Phnom Penh Munici-
pal Court for impersonating
a police ofcer by donning a
National Police uniform, com-
plete with a plastic pistol and
fake number plate.
Judge Y Thavareak said that
32-year-old security guard
Touch Ravuth, also known as
Sok Sovann Piseth, or Bara-
ing, and 25-year-old Sroeng
Sopheap were found guilty of
impersonating a police of-
cer and using a phoney num-
ber plate.
The court decided to sen-
tence them to three years in
prison each and ne them 5
million riel [$1,250], Thava-
reak said, adding that the men
have the right to appeal the
verdict within 30 days.
Lieutenant Colonel Mak
Hong, chief of the Sen Sok
district police, said the duo
was arrested shortly after
midnight on January 4 while
police were on patrol in Toek
Thla commune and spotted
Ravuth wearing the uniform.
Another suspect, identied as
Ly, escaped the scene.
After stopping, checking and
asking him, we knew he was a
fake policeman, Hong said.
According to Hong, when
police checked Ravuths home
the following day, they dis-
covered military garb and
equipment.
Ravuth and Sopheap could
not be reached for comment
yesterday. However, during a
hearing last week, Ravuth de-
fended his actions.
I wore the National Police
uniform for taking photos
with my friend at his birthday
party, he said.
Sopheap denied all charges.
I did not wear a police uni-
form or carry a plastic gun,
he said, adding that he was
hitching a ride from the party
to his house.
Six arrests for phony checkpoint
A failure to communicate
Meas Sochea
A GROUP of provincial officials and an NGO
worker who got together and set up a fake police
checkpoint to earn some bribe money were
arrested along National Road 62 in Kampong
Thom province yesterday.
According to Deputy Provincial Governor
Kong Vimean, the group was picked up after
authorities got wind of their ruse, which was set
up along the road in Kampong Svay district, and
shut it down.
On the orders of Governor Uth Sam Orn, police
arrested the men, four of whom work for a
department under the provincial authority that
he declined to name, while one works for the
environment department and the other works
for a local NGO.
It is normal that some bad individuals take
the opportunity to create [an illegal checkpoint
like this]. In cases where people report to [us]
that there are bad individuals creating problems
in society, we will not tolerate it. We will always
crack down, Vimean said.
The group are being questioned and investi-
gated by the court, he said.
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unprepared to teach the for-
eign language.
Already experiencing a criti-
cal shortage of primary school
teachers, the classroom per-
sonnel gap is only set to widen
as the government looks to add
grade five English classes next
school year, with grade six to
follow in 2015-2016.
The language program alone
could require retraining and
recruiting as many as 6,000 to
7,000 additional instructors,
Sotharith said, almost triple the
annual 2,000 primary school
recruits needed just to replace
teachers who retire, die or leave
the workforce.
We are doing research now
to locate the number of teach-
ers who can currently teach
English; were not sure exactly
how many well need to add
yet, he said.
Meanwhile, grade four teach-
ers are already plunging their
classes into the ABCs as best as
they can with limited training
and once-a-week lessons.
At the moment, the second-
ary school English curriculum
assumes a certain level of pro-
ficiency in the language, so its
absolutely essential for stu-
dents to start learning the
basics early, said Pamela
Hughes, a volunteer at VSO
International, which assisted
the ministry in developing the
new language curriculum.
For many parents, the prom-
ise of English classes in public
schools is welcome news, spar-
ing them private lessons that in
the provinces can top $80 per
month and in the capital can
run upwards of $20 an hour for
one-on-one tutoring.
Even the poorest families
still try to send their children
to English classes. The percep-
tion is that its a skill that more
than anything else can lead to
good jobs, said Lim Sophea,
executive director of PKO, a
Battambang-based NGO help-
ing to train primary school
English teachers.
But before the pupils can
benefit from mastering Eng-
lish, the government will first
have to start by equipping
teachers with the bilingual
basics, Sophea said.
They have the curriculum,
but no way to implement it
right now, he said.
We will be helping to
recruit volunteers who can
train the teachers. It will take
time, but we want to make
sure we can successfully offer
all students the opportunity
to learn English, not just the
wealthy ones.
A teacher gives an English class at Wat Koh High School in Phnom Penh
yesterday afternoon. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has
suggested that up to 7,000 more English-procient teachers may be
needed for a new primary school language program. HENG CHIVOAN
Rough climate
Environment
Day march
to defy ban

A
YOUTH group plans to
march in support of
World Environment Day
today, despite being told not
to by municipal authorities.
Tim Malay, director of the
Cambodia Youth Network
(CYN), said yesterday that
he met with Phnom Penh
Deputy Governor Khoung
Sreng and asked permission
to march from the Ministry of
Environment to the Ministry
of Agriculture today.
I do not know what
measures City Hall will take,
but I will wait and see if the
authorities will crack down
on our rally or protect us,
Malay, who expects 500
participants, said.
City spokesman Long
Dimanche said officials want
to avoid public disorder and
potential clashes.
It is not just this group
that loves the environment
. . . many people do. So, if we
allow them to rally then the
other associations or people
will want to do so, he said.
The authorities will take
action against them if they
abuse our ban, he said. MOM
KUNTHEAR
National
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CNRP calls
for public
swearing-in
Cheang Sokha
AUTHORITIES in Mondulkiri
decided yesterday to switch a
swearing-in ceremony for two
newly elected Keo Seima district
councillors to a commune hall
after the opposition objected to
it being held at the home of the
districts pro-ruling party gover-
nor, officials said.
Khum Kan said he and a fellow
councillor from the Cambodia
National Rescue Party had
threatened to boycott todays
ceremony if it took place at Sin
Vanvuths home.
[Vanvuth] made his home the
[new] district hall several years
ago, Kan said. Hes the head of
the CPP [Cambodian Peoples
Party] for the district, so how can
we join?
Following the criticism, Van-
vuth reluctantly agreed to
change the ceremony to anoth-
er venue one kilometre away.
When they join [the council],
we all work for the people, not
the individual parties, he said,
adding the old district hall was
dilapidated.
The opposition last night
threatened further boycotts if all
such ceremonies are not held at
public halls.
Wild cattle spotted in forest
Laignee Barron

T
HE endangered bo-
vine brother of Cam-
bodias national ani-
mal, the Kouprey, has
been caught on camera in
Siem Reap, a province where
the wild cattle were previously
thought to be extinct.
Conservation NGO Flora
and Fauna International (FFI)
photographed six wild banteng
in the northwestern province
between October 2013, when
monitoring camera traps were
set-up, and now, according to
information released yesterday.
In this area of Siem Reap
province, there have been no re-
cent sightings of banteng, said
Louisa McKerrow, a spokesper-
son for FFI.
At one time, wild banteng
herds roamed throughout
Southeast Asia. But since 1996,
the cattle species has been list-
ed as globally endangered.
There are only 2,000 to 5,000
feral banteng now living in
Cambodias eastern plains, the
largest single remaining popu-
lation of the species, accord-
ing to 2013 estimates by World
Wildlife Fund, which has num-
bered the global population at
just 5,900 to 11,000. Southeast
Asias domesticated and hybri-
dised banteng cattle, however,
number in the millions.
Cambodias banteng census
shows an 80 per cent decline
in the wild population over
the past 24 years. With illegal
poaching, habitat destruction,
disease and rampant logging all
amplifying the risk of the spe-
cies extinction, sightings have
become increasingly rare.
We have not seen one for
many years, said Sok Ratha,
Adhoc coordinator for Mon-
dulkiri, where much of the re-
maining banteng are thought
to live. The forest is the home
of wild animals, so . . . when the
forest is destroyed, wild animals
will move to other provinces or
neighboring countries.
Banteng, which have horns
and can weigh up to 800 kilo-
grams, are key to a number of
ecological processes, according
to Flora and Fauna, including
assisting nutrient recycling, in-
uencing plant composition in
their grazing areas and serving
as a food source for carnivores.
It is very important for
Cambodia to protect its bio-
diversity through habitat con-
servation, and the protection
of rare and endangered ani-
mals like this one is a priority,
said Sao Sopheap, spokesman
for the Ministry of the Envi-
ronment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
PHAK SEANGLY
A lone banteng, an endangered species of wild cattle, that was captured with a camera trap wanders through
a forest in Siem Reap province in April. ISAC JONES
Copyright case
Printer cops
$12k bill for
copied books
T
HE owner of a printing
house accused of in-
fringing on the copyright
of an author who contracted
him was slapped with $12,500
in nes and damages by
Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday.
Presiding judge Kor Vandy
said printer Trin Long, 42,
was to be fined 10 million riel
($2,500), and ordered to pay
$10,000 in compensation to
plaintiff En Yoeun, 43, a writer
and official with the Council
of Ministers who had ac-
cused Long of printing extra,
unauthorised copies of three
different civics-related school-
books and reselling them at a
steep discount.
Despite the finding in his
favour, Yoeun yesterday
criticised the courts decision
for its lack of jail time as well
as for including compensa-
tion that was far away from
[addressing] the scope of
my damages.
At trial, Long acknowledged
printing an extra 100 copies of
each book in case of defects
and to use as samples, but
maintained he hadnt resold
any. BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA
National
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POLICE
BLOTTER
Motodop takes throat
stabbing on the chin
A PLUCKY motodop fended
off a robber on the road to
Poipet town on Tuesday, pay-
ing no mind to the two stab
wounds he had just received
to the throat. Police said the
suspect had hired the driver
to take him to the border
town, but pulled out a knife en
route and jabbed him twice in
the neck. The bike fell to the
ground and the two men scuf-
fled over it. Eventually, realis-
ing the man he had hoped to
victimise was actually invinci-
ble, the thief fled and was lat-
er arrested. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Drugs dealers nabbed
but protect their supplier
TWO tight-lipped drug dealers
were arrested on a dark street
corner in the capitals Sen Sok
district on Tuesday. According
to police, no sooner had
patrolling military police offic-
ers begun to approach than
the pair bolted from their
secluded corner. They were
soon caught and a search
revealed 12 packets of yama,
scales and other parapherna-
lia. The men reportedly con-
fessed to being dealers but
neither ratted on their source.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Dice stop rolling for serial
gambling den operator
POLICE finally made good on
their repeated threats to haul
off the alleged operator of a
gambling den in Kampong
Chams Kang Meas district on
Tuesday. According to police,
the mans home where he
allowed locals to gamble while
he collected a cut had been
raided multiple times, with
police educating him each
time and eliciting promises
that the den would close. The
education, however, must have
gone in one ear and out the
other. The man fled during
Tuesdays raid on the den but
was later picked up. NOKORWAT
Speeding bikes crash
in Phnom Penh pile-up
SIX people were badly injured
in a three-moto pile-up in
Phnom Penhs Daun Penh dis-
trict on Wednesday morning.
Police said a man carrying a
female passenger on his large
motorcycle was speeding
down the road when it crashed
into two motos each carrying
two people that were driving
in the same direction.
Bystanders alleged that the
motorcycle driver seemed
intoxicated. KOH SANTEPHEAP
It aint a dance party
unless theres a brawl
DANCE floors may be even
more dangerous than the
Kingdoms notorious roads as
yet another party brawl in
Kampong Chhnang showed on
Monday. For unclear reasons,
two groups of about five men
each got into an altercation at
a party and fell upon each oth-
er with sticks and stones.
When the dust settled, two
men from one group were left
badly injured and one from the
other was arrested. Police are
on the lookout for his com-
rades. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
New KRT reparations sought
Stuart White

W
ITH all but a
verdict in Case
002/01 behind
them, civil party
lawyers at the Khmer Rouge
tribunal are already ramping
up efforts to propose a new
list of reparations geared to-
wards the victims of crimes
to be tried in upcoming
Case 002/02, the court an-
nounced yesterday.
According to the announce-
ment, civil party lawyers, the
courts Victims Support Sec-
tion (VSS), donors, civil soci-
ety representatives and civil
parties themselves are slated
to gather to discuss propos-
als and to develop a diverse
range of reparation requests
that will address the harm suf-
fered as a consequence of the
crimes charged.
Though any reparations
granted in Case 002/01 in the
event of a conviction will be
granted in the name of all the
civil parties in Case 002 as a
whole, some were conceived
with the specic charges
in Case 002/01 in mind
for example, a statue evok-
ing the forced march out of
Phnom Penh.
Likewise, VSS representative
Hang Vannak said, reparations
in Case 002/02 should address
the specic needs of its vic-
tims as well.
They suffered the harm,
so they know what they want.
The reparations projects have
to be based on their requests,
Vannak said. But also, there
are also many actors who play
important roles in the eld . . .
so we need to bring them to-
gether to discuss this.
Cambodian Justice Initiative
program ofcer Panhavuth
Long agreed yesterday, saying
that it was important to make
sure that [projects] respond to
their needs, while still being
representative of all victims.
The early start, Long not-
ed, would also make the
initiative more meaningful
and feasible.
Indeed, securing money
for the reparations in Case
002/01 all but one project
received adequate nancing
was an arduous slog that at
times required the fundrais-
ing efforts of civil party law-
yers themselves.
At the time, because of
economic recessions, it was
difcult to look for funds,
Vannak said yesterday, adding
that donors participation in
next weeks event would offer
insight into the availability of
funds for future projects.
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
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T
HAILAND has re-
gained its position as
the worlds top rice
exporter, with ship-
ments totalling nearly 4 mil-
lion tonnes in the rst ve
months of this year.
Somkiat Makcayathorn,
secretary-general of the Thai
Rice Exporters Association,
said yesterday that from Jan-
uary 1 to May 20, Thailand
exported a total of 3.93 mil-
lion tonnes, surpassing In-
dia (3.74 million tonnes) and
Vietnam (2.4 million tonnes)
in the same period.
Somkiat said Thai rice ex-
ports were boosted as price
intervention ended, meaning
Thai rice was cheaper than its
competitors especially ordi-
nary white rice.
The Thai Rice Exporters As-
sociation predicted that rice
exports would reach 9 million
tonnes this year, with a value
of $4.75 billion.
Mr Somkiat said export vol-
ume should surpass that of
India and Vietnam, and Thai-
land should regain its rice ex-
port championship this year,
after dropping behind in the
past two years.
The fall happened when
the Yingluck Shinawatra gov-
ernment increased the price
of Thai rice through its loss-
ridden rice-pledging scheme,
which promised over-market
prices to farmers. Many were
never paid.
Somkiat said Thailand
would benet this year be-
cause Thai rice was cheaper,
there was no rice price in-
tervention and the baht had
depreciated. He also said he
expected Thailand would ex-
port 11 million tonnes of rice
next year, ahead of the 10 mil-
lion tonnes expected from In-
dia and 6 million to 7 million
tonnes from Vietnam.
The Thai Rice Exporters
Association reported that in
global markets Thai rice was
priced around $390 per tonne,
with Indian rice at $420-430
and Vietnamese grain around
$400 per tonne.
Chookiat Ophaswongse,
honorary president of the
association, said that there
were bright prospects for the
second half of this year, be-
cause Thai rice was cheaper,
the market in China was
hungry and global natural
disasters were likely to im-
prove demand.
Thai Rice Exporters Asso-
ciation president Charoen
Laothamatas said the new
administration needed to
audit rice stocks, improve
rice management plans, en-
sure transparent rice auc-
tions that suit the market,
and look to government-to-
government rice sales with
China.
He added that auditing rice
stocks would reveal the exact
quantity and quality of grain
still in the stockpile, and that
should raise rice prices.
In the long term, a new rice
board should be formed to
ensure policies that are re-
ally suitable to markets. The
board should consist of rep-
resentatives of farmers, rice
millers, local rice traders and
rice exporters.
He also suggested the gov-
ernment guarantee free and
fair competition in the rice
sector and help farmers in-
crease yields and cut costs.
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Instability
delays CAA
launching
new routes
May Kunmakara
CAMBODIA Angkor Air (CAA)
will delay the launch of its
planned direct flights to Beijing,
Tokyo and Singapore due to
unrest in neighbouring coun-
tries, the airline said yesterday.
Originally slated to open the
new routes before the end of the
year, tensions in Thailand and
Vietnam have resulted in lower
crossborder visitor numbers to
Cambodia, meaning the planned
flights would be reviewed again
next year said Tekret Samrach,
Chairman of CAA.
We need to strictly study the
market demand. And now it is
not right [to launch the flights]
as our neighbours still have a
problem, so it affects our tour-
ism industry, he said.
Normally, on the package
tour, tourists dont want to only
visit us for the majority of their
trip, they want to spend a few
days here and then they want to
move on to Vietnam or Thailand.
But now they dont want to waste
their money, as the situation in
the two [Vietnam and Thailand]
has not gotten better.
Tourist numbers have slowed
since the Thai military took
power on May 22 following more
than six months of unrest leveled
at ousted Premier Yingluck
Shinawatras administration.
While in Vietnam anti-China
demonstrations flared last
month when a Chinese oil rig
was deployed in waters also
claimed by Hanoi.
Kong Sophearak, director of
statistics for the Tourism Minis-
try told the Post that the ministry
is working with tourism industry
representatives to encourage
promotional tours and stem the
flow of vistor losses.
Our private sector is also dis-
counting tour packages and
rearranging the packages from
which they normally do with
Vietnam and Thailand to Malay-
sia and Singapore, he said.
Sophearak added that Cambo-
dia received 1.6 million tourists
over the first four months year,
and though it was a slight
increase compared to last year
the growth rate had slowed.
A worker lays out raw rice to dry in the sun at the Setthapanich-Samchuk Co Ltd rice mill in Sam Chuk, Thailand. BLOOMBERG
Thai retakes rice export crown
Military gives curfew reprieve to tourist hot spots
THAILANDS junta has lifted the curfew
in Pattaya, Koh Samui and Phuket to
boost tourism.
People in the island province of Phuket,
Pattaya city in Chon Buri and Koh Samui
district in Surat Thani will no longer be
subjected to the 12am-4am curfew cov-
ering the rest of the country.
The exemptions were announced by
the National Council for Peace and
Order (NCPO) late on Tuesday and took
effect immediately. The NCPOs order
said that the curfew had been lifted in
the areas to improve the atmosphere
for tourists.
NCPO deputy spokesman Natthawat
Chancharoen said coup leader General
Prayuth Chan-O-cha last week ordered
an economic working team to assess the
impact of the curfew on tourism in prov-
inces including Phuket and Chon Buri.
Natthawat said the curfew would
remain lifted in the three resort destina-
tions as long as no protests against the
coup took place there.
Association of Thai Travel Agents head
Sisdivachr Cheewarattanaporn said
Phuket, Koh Samui and Pattaya are the
countrys main tourist attractions.
Ending the curfew in these destina-
tions will boost local tourism and
encourage more foreign visitors to trav-
el to Thailand, he said. It is a good sign
for tourism. The businesses in those
areas will start to return to normal.
Last Tuesday the junta announced a
shortening of the 10pm-5am curfew
imposed on May 22. The curfew was
relaxed after people complained they
had difficulty getting home and busi-
nesses reported revenue losses from
closing early. The shortening of the
original curfew was heartily welcomed
by the tourism sector. BANGKOK POST
Business
8
Thai SET sets ambitious
2020 daily trading goal
THE Stock Exchange of
Thailand (SET) has set an
ambitious target to lift its daily
average trading turnover to 100
billion baht ($3 billion) by 2020
as part of an effort to
underscore its role as a leading
regional exchange and one of
the worlds most attractive
markets, its newly appointed
head says. The SETs daily
trading value has averaged
32-33 billion baht this year. The
exchange largely continues to
adhere to the 2014 business
plan outlined under former
president Charamporn
Jotikasthira, president Kesara
Manchusree said during her
first press briefing since she
took office this month. She said
the bourse is likely to achieve
its target of achieving 210
billion baht in market
capitalisation from newly listed
companies this year after
reaching 91 billion baht by the
end of last month. BANGKOKPOST
Come surf with me: Nok

to offer Wi-Fi in the sky
LOW-COST Thai airline Nok
Air, whose operations are
mainly domestic, has received
approval from the telecom
regulator to offer in-flight
broadband connectivity and
voice calls for passengers. The
telecom committee of the
National Broadcasting and
Telecommunications
Commission (NBTC) gave the
nod after the budget airline
asked for a Type 1 operating
licence to provide an in-flight
Wi-Fi service. Nok Air is the
second airline to have received
approval from the NBTC to
provide in-flight broadband
services after Thai Airways
International. BANGKOK POST
INDIAS online retailers are
bulking up on acquisitions
and funding as they battle
the worlds biggest internet
shopping giant, Amazon, for
supremacy in the hyper-com-
petitive domestic market.
Late last month, Flipkart,
Indias largest e-shopping por-
tal, announced the takeover of
rival Myntra in a deal analysts
estimated at $330 million the
largest of a string of transac-
tions in the sector over the
past two years.
With Amazon entering the
fray, its forcing domestic
players to get critical mass
to compete, Ashish Jhalani,
founder of Indian consultan-
cy eTailing, said.
Its still a fragmented sector
and theres more consolida-
tion to come. Its becoming a
battle for survival, he said.
For Flipkart, founded by
two ex-Amazon employees,
the games not just about
beating their former Seattle-
based employer on Indian
turf. Flipkart wants to be-
come the Indian version of
the Chinese online shopping
juggernaut Alibaba.
Our role model is Alibaba,
Flipkarts co-founder Sachin
Bansal told reporters, adding
theres a lot of similarity be-
tween the Chinese and Indian
online retail markets.
Whats happening in
China is inspiring its big-
ger than anything in the US,
Bansal said.
Indias electronic or e-
commerce sector is still puny
compared with China, where
business-to-consumer inter-
net sales are expected to top
$180 billion this year.
But like China, India is
home to a billion-strong and
increasingly tech-savvy popu-
lation and analysts say Flip-
karts Alibaba ambitions are
not so far-fetched.
Flipkarts merger with Myn-
tra created an entity with an-
nual sales of $1.5 billion over
half of the countrys nascent
online shopping market, esti-
mated at $2.3 billion by Indian
consultancy Technopak.
Online retail sales have
been growing in excess of
60 per cent a year, mirroring
how e-commerce has grown
in China, Ankur Bisen, retail
vice president at Technopak,
told AFP.
Venture capitalists have
been pouring money into the
sector, scenting potential.
So far, $497 million worth of
deals have been struck this
year, compared with $592 mil-
lion for all of last year. Most
are small in value but impor-
tant stepping stones as retail-
ers build critical mass. AFP
In India, Amazon.com
has a ght on its hands
Territory disputes endanger trade
THE risk of territorial disputes
damaging trade in Asia is very
real and the region must focus
on shoring up economic links
as well as security ties, accord-
ing to Singapore Defence Min-
ister Ng Eng Hen.
Its completely artificial to
think that there are somehow
firewalls between trade and
security, Ng, 55, said yesterday
in an interview at the Ministry
of Defence. We shouldnt, from
a security point of view, be
dominating headlines every
few other days and I dont think
its necessarily a positive if this
continues for the region. At
some point it may impact trade
and our real economies.
Ng was speaking after a
weekend forum of defence
ministers and military leaders
in Singapore, where the US and
China openly criticised each
other over their agenda in the
region and Chinas claims over
large parts of the East China
Sea and South China Sea dom-
inated discussion. The meeting
highlighted the growing pains
in Asia as China emerges as a
military and economic power,
challenging decades of
US dominance.
Chinas rise is a fact, Ng said
in the interview. China needs to
articulate its own vision, and its
own position in this new, revised
world order. Our approach has
been that dialogue is essential,
inclusivity is important.
The US criticism followed
Vietnamese Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dungs appeal for
a stronger voice from the US
against China after clashes
between coast guard and fish-
ing vessels near an oil rig China
placed in contested waters off
Vietnams coast. The Philip-
pines, dwarfed militarily by
China, has sought support from
the US and the United Nations
against Chinas encroachment
into shoals off its coast.
Ng said that given the cur-
rent tensions, the proposed
Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade pact and other multina-
tional deals are quite strate-
gic, not just good to have but
a must to have. The US-led
12-nation TPP, which would
cover an area with about $28
trillion in annual economic
output, doesnt include China.
You certainly dont want a
scenario where your frame-
works are weighted towards
security, Ng said. From Singa-
pores point of view we would
not be upset if for example there
were no big issues to discuss at
the Shangri-La Dialogue. Thats
not a bad outcome for us.
ASEAN is seeking a code of
conduct for the waters,
although talks have made little
progress since China agreed in
July to start discussions, and
China introducing fishing rules
in January requiring foreign
vessels to seek permission
before entering waters off its
southern coast.
Singapores defence spend-
ing will remain fairly steady, he
said. The city-state allocated
S$8.6 billion ($6.8 billion) in
2004, and increased spending
to S$12.2 billion last year, he
said in Parliament earlier
this year.
We dont want big dips or big
jumps because we feel thats
the most disruptive for your
militaries, he said yesterday.
Weve kept pace with real
growth, or inflation.
Turning back to the regional
territorial disputes, Ng said
they need not be intractable.
Neither do they need to pre-
cipitate outcomes which
would be detrimental to the
great promise that Asia holds,
he said.
This is the region of greatest
promise, and greatest perform-
ance in the past decade or so,
he said. The question I sup-
pose to ask is, what are we
fighting about? BLOOMBERG
Aus steams past GDP targets
Glenda Kwek

S
URGING mining ex-
ports powered the
Australian economy to
better-than-expected
1.1 per cent growth in the
rst quarter of the year, data
showed yesterday, but Trea-
surer Joe Hockey said he was
also encouraged by a pick-up
in other sectors.
The gures will come as
welcome news for the govern-
ment as a decade-long mining
boom winds down, but ana-
lysts warned recent data point
to weakness further down
the line.
Annual growth was a season-
ally adjusted 3.5 per cent, the
Australian Bureau of Statistics
said, compared with analyst
expectations of 3.1 per cent.
Markets watchers had expect-
ed growth of 0.8 per cent in the
three months to March.
Hockey said while it was
clear Australia relied heav-
ily on its mining exports, the
expansion in other sectors
show that the expected tran-
sition away from mining in-
vestment and construction to-
wards other drivers of growth
is underway.
He added: This is an im-
portant indicator that the rest
of the economy the non-
mining side of the economy
is starting to lift, and thats
encouraging.
The Australian dollar rose by
a third of a US cent to 92.92 US
cents on the back of the g-
ures, which followed a 0.8 per
cent expansion in the three
months to December.
The mining sector made up
80 per cent of growth in Janu-
ary-March as net exports con-
tributed 1.4 percentage points
to the nal gure.
Consumption added 0.3
percentage points, but some
of the gains were partially off-
set by inventories, which sub-
tracted 0.6 percentage points.
Hockey said milder weather
at the start of 2014 played a
part in boosting exports.
Its an extraordinary quar-
ter in March when you dont
have cyclones, particularly in
Western Australia affecting
Port Hedland, so our miners
are exporting their socks off,
and thank God because its
having a positive impact on
our economy, he said, but
cautioned that one swallow
doesnt make a summer.
The fact is that because we
didnt have cyclones in this
March quarter, they dug deep
into the inventories and as you
can see, inventories detracted
from the gross national expen-
diture in this quarter.
Port Hedland, Australias
largest iron ore export port,
is located in the resource-rich
Pilbara region on the countrys
west coast. Tropical cyclones
are common in Australias
northeast and northwest.
The improved GDP gures
were foreshadowed by the Re-
serve Bank of Australia in its
monthly meeting on Tuesday,
where it held the cash rate at a
record low 2.5 per cent for the
10th straight month.
Central bank governor Glenn
Stevens agged a period of
stability in monetary policy in
a cautiously optimistic state-
ment about the economy.
He said while growth rmed
at the start of the year, partly
from very strong increases
in mining exports, such rises
would likely become smaller
over the next few quarters.
The Australian economy has
not slipped into recession as
measured by two consecutive
quarters of negative growth
for more than two decades.
The country is exiting an
unprecedented boom in the
mining sector, which helped
boost the economy even as
other nations were hit by the
global nancial crisis.
ANZ senior economist Fe-
licity Emmett said while the
latest data was a particularly
good result, it overstated the
underlying strength in the
economy as more recent data
pointed to a slowdown in sec-
ond-quarter growth.
That is, retail sales data
suggests that household con-
sumption may slow further,
while net exports are unlikely
to make such a large contribu-
tion to growth, she said.
Moreover, the drag from
the wind-back in mining
investment is likely to be
sharper over coming quarters
as large-scale LNG [lique-
ed natural gas] projects ap-
proach completion.
AMP Capital chief econo-
mist Shane Oliver echoed her
comments, saying it was too
early to break out the cham-
pagne as he projected June
quarter growth of just 0.5
per cent.
Mining export volume
growth will slow down after
the initial surge from new
mine completions, consumer
spending is likely to slow on
the back of the [May] budgets
short term hit to condence,
and the further decline in the
iron ore price will weigh on na-
tional income, he said. AFP
A train in Western Australias Pilbara region is loaded with iron ore to be taken to Port Hedland. BLOOMBERG
A Chinese Coast Guard ship res water cannon at a Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance boat near a Chinese
oil rig in the disputed South China Sea on Monday. AFP
Markets
9
Business
US factory orders up again
N
EW orders for goods
manufactured in
the US rose for the
third consecutive
month in April, lifted by de-
fence orders, but the pace of
gains slowed, according to
government data.
Factory orders rose 0.7 per
cent to $499.8 billion, the high-
est level since the current data
series was started in 1992, the
Commerce Department said.
The March increase was up-
wardly revised to 1.5 per cent,
from 1.1 per cent, following
Februarys 1.7 per cent gain.
The April gain was slightly
higher than analysts average
estimate of 0.5 per cent.
Excluding defence, factory
orders fell 0.1 per cent in April.
Stripping out transportation
equipment orders, which tend
to be volatile month-over-
month, factory orders rose
0.5 per cent. Defence aircraft
orders leaped 13.2 per cent in
April, while nondefence air-
craft orders fell 7.9 per cent.
Orders for ships and boats
soared 56.8 per cent.
Orders for durable goods,
which account for nearly half
of factory orders, increased 0.6
per cent, slowing sharply from
a 3.7 per cent jump in March.
Despite a surge in defence
orders in April, transportation
is the driving force behind the
headline numbers, said Kyle
Hillman of Moodys Analytics.
Fewer new jobs
The US private sector
churned out a net 179,000 new
jobs in May, a disappointing
fall from April, payrolls com-
pany ADP said yesterday.
It was the lowest level in
four months, and suggested
that economic growth in the
US remains in second gear.
The May gure was down
36,000 positions from Aprils
total, with a sharp slowdown
in the number of new jobs
coming in the professional
and business services sector.
Hiring remained slow, as well
in trade and transportation,
and in construction.
After a strong post-winter
rebound in April, job growth in
May slowed somewhat, ADP
head Carlos Rodriguez said.
Even so, he added, the
179,000 jobs-added gure is
higher than May of last year
and in line with the average
over the past twelve months.
Ian Shepherdson of Pan-
theon Macroeconomics called
the ADP data curious and
inconsistent with the signs of
a stronger jobs market that
come from other data on the
economy. AFP
Lockheed Martins F-35 ghter jet production line at the companys facilities in Fort Worth, Texas. AFP
MEXICOS state-owned Pe-
mex yesterday sold a 7.86 per
cent stake in Spanish oil gi-
ant Repsol for 2.092 billion
($2.848 billion), Repsol said,
putting an end to an increas-
ingly fractious relationship
between the two rms.
The sale of the shares,
which represents most of
Pemexs 9.3-per cent Repsol
holding, comes after months
of tension between the two oil
companies over the Spanish
groups handling of a conict
with Argentina.
Pemex announced late on
Tuesday that it would sell the
stake, with investment banks
Citigroup Global Markets and
Deutsche Bank handling the
deal. The shares had a value of
2.2 billion at the close of trad-
ing on Tuesday.
Madrids stock market brief-
ly suspended trading in Rep-
sol on Wednesday.
Shares in Repsol fell 4.03 per
cent to 20.025 shortly after
trading in the stock was re-
sumed. The Ibex-35 index of
most traded Spanish shares
fell 0.55 per cent.
Pemex chief executive Emil-
io Lozoya had strongly criti-
cised how Repsol reacted to
Argentinas move to seize and
nationalise Repsols 51 per
cent owned unit YPF.
Repsol announced May 23 it
had exited Argentina, pocket-
ing $6.3 billion in compensa-
tion and asset sales after Bue-
nos Aires takeover of YPF.
The news marked the nal
chapter of a bitter row sparked
in April 2012 when Argentinas
President Cristina Kirchner
ordered the nationalisation
of Repsols 51 per cent-owned
YPF unit.
Repsol said it had earned $5
billion from the sale of Argen-
tine government bonds, which
had been paid by Buenos Aires
in compensation over the sei-
zure of YPF.
Buenos Aires seizure of the
YPF operations forced Repsol
to make provisions of 1.28
billion in 2013 and sent its
prots for that year plunging
by 90 per cent.
For YPF, settlement of the
dispute with Repsol could re-
move legal questions over its
assets, helping to lure foreign
investment to the vast Vaca
Muerta shale oil and gas eld
in Argentina, which YPF dis-
covered in 2010.
The Mexican group has
been a Repsol shareholder
ever since the Spanish groups
initial stock market otation
in 1989. AFP
Mexico sells off stake in
Spains Repsol for $2.8B
Markets
11
Business
Rob Lever

S
TORIED magazine publisher
Time Inc gets a fresh start
with its upcoming spinoff
as an independent company
in a challenging and fast-changing
media landscape.
The split highlights the woes of
print journalism, which has been
suffering for years from a move to
digital news.
The June 6 move split the maga-
zine arm including the famed Time
newsweekly, Fortune, People and
Sport Illustrated from media giant
Time Warner, ending a marriage that
merged the two rms in 1990.
The new rm is the latest publish-
ing spinoff from a big conglomerate.
It comes on the heels of Rupert Mur-
dochs News Corp splitting its enter-
tainment and publishing segments,
and a similar action planned by Tri-
bune Co. Time Warner is dumping
the magazines to save themselves
from continual losses year after
year, said Nikki Usher, a George
Washington University professor
specialising in new media.
Ken Doctor, analyst at the re-
search rm Outsell, agreed, saying
this is an afrmation that print-
based publishing assets have no
growth prospects.
But analysts said an independent
Time Inc will have a chance to re-
focus with an improved strategy for
the magazines and their integration
with online services.
I would expect some selling of as-
sets, and maybe some buying, Doc-
tor speculated. He said the agship
weekly Time magazine is largely
anachronistic and that its not clear
how it can compete in the fast-mov-
ing world of journalism.
The new company, he added, must
decide whether it wants to focus on
breaking news and long-form jour-
nalism, or lifestyle titles such as
Food & Wine and Travel & Leisure.
The early magazines created by
Henry Luce may be the least valu-
able, he said. So Time may want
to go the lifestyle route.
Usher said that if the new rm
wants to compete in daily journal-
ism, it needs to invest more to cover
breaking news for its digital clients
and long-form journalism for print.
A lot of the best writers are pro-
ducing for the weekly cycle but
there is a need to ll that 24/7 Web
environment, she told AFP.
In a symbolic move, the new com-
pany headed by veteran executive Joe
Ripp is leaving the Time & Life build-
ing in midtown New York, where it
has been since 1959, for Lower Man-
hattan. It also agreed to acquire
technology rm Cozi this week to
help optimise its websites.
Time Inc has one of the strongest
collections of media brands, reach-
ing some 100 million US consumers
in print and 70 million online each
month, company documents show.
Properties include iconic titles
like Fortune, begun in 1929; Sports
Illustrated, launched in 1954; and
People, which premiered in 1974, as
well as some 50 international edi-
tions for print or digital.
When its nances are calculated
independently, the unit showed a
modest net prot of $201 million on
revenues of $3.35 billion in 2013.
This is a very challenging envi-
ronment for the magazine industry,
said Mark Jurkowitz at the Pew Re-
search Centers Journalism Project,
whose recent study showed single-
copy magazine sales are down 43
per cent since 2008.
These magazines have to monetise
the digital space, he said, adding that
the formula for doing that is not yet
clear theres no secret sauce.
Samir Husni, director of the Maga-
zine Innovation Center at the Uni-
versity of Mississippis journalism
school, said the spinoff can help the
division emerge from being a poor
stepchild of a large conglomerate.
The best thing thats happening
is putting the magazines back in the
hands of people who know and care
about them, Husni said.
Husni said Americans still read a
large number of magazines and some
publishers, such as Hearst, have suc-
cessfully launched new titles and
kept existing ones healthy.
He said he sees Time Inc returning
to its roots with high-quality journal-
ism, adding nobody does weeklies
the way Time Inc does weeklies.
I truly believe this is a new spin
on life for Time Inc and all the maga-
zines, he said. You can see the ex-
citement. There is some nervous-
ness but, they know if they fail they
will fail doing something they love,
rather than being pushed to do
something they hate. AFP
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Time set to go forward alone
Time Warner has split from its magazine arm and will leave Time Inc free to pursue
its own direction in the industry as a stand-alone company once again. BLOOMBERG
World
UKs Savile
abused at
least 500
children
AT LEAST 500 girls and boys
some as young as two were
abused by disgraced television
presenter Jimmy Savile, mak-
ing him one of the UKs most
prolific sex offenders, new
research has found.
A study by the NSPCC, com-
missioned for BBC Panorama,
reveals confidential documents
that shed light on the extent of
Saviles offending and his
unprecedented access to
Broadmoor hospital, where
some of his abuse took place.
The report said the scale of
Saviles offending inside
Broadmoor is higher than pre-
viously thought and found the
most common age group for
Saviles victims was 13 to 15
with the youngest alleged vic-
tim being just two years old.
Peter Watt, the NSPCCs
director of child protection,
said: Theres no doubt that
Savile is one of the most, if not
the most, prolific sex offender
that we at the NSPCC have
ever come across. What you
have is somebody who at his
most prolific lost no opportu-
nity to identify vulnerable vic-
tims and abuse them.
The joint BBC investigation
between TV and radio current
affairs programs Panorama
and The World At One, which
airs on Monday on BBC One
and BBC Radio 4, asks how
the DJ got so close to the heart
of Britains establishment and
why in 1972 the BBC failed to
take effective action that
might have saved young peo-
ple from abuse.
It comes ahead of the publi-
cation of the BBCs own review
to be carried out by Dame
Janet Smith. That report,
whose publication has been
repeatedly delayed, is expect-
ed to uncover up to a thousand
victims and reveal a culture of
ignorance that protected
Savile. THE GUARDIAN
Political party
Egyptians celebrate in Cairos Tahrir Square on Tuesday after ex-army
chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won the countrys presidential election.
Sisi, who romped home in Egypts presidential election after crushing
Islamists, faces a tough task to restore stability and revive a battered
economy amid fears of a return to autocracy. On Tuesday the electoral
commission declared Sisi won 96.91 per cent of the vote with a turnout
of 47.5 per cent, nearly a year after he toppled the countrys rst freely
elected leader, Islamist Mohamed Morsi. The crushing victory over
leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi had never been in doubt, with many
lauding the retired eld marshal as a hero for ending Morsis year of
divisive rule 11 months ago. AFP
Tiananmen vigil in HK draws 180,000
T
ENS of thousands
gathered in Hong
Kong yesterday to
remember the dead
on the 25th anniversary
of the Tiananmen Square
crackdown, the only major
commemoration in China
as authorities clamped tight
security on Beijing.
The White House called
for Chinas communist au-
thorities to account for those
killed, detained or missing in
connection with the June 1989
assault, still a taboo topic for
a nation that bars political re-
form despite its dramatic eco-
nomic transformation.
Vindicate 6/4! crowds
shouted, waving banners, as
the initially sombre candlelit
vigil began in Hong Kongs
Victoria Park.
Lights were turned out as
old and young alike raised
their candles in the dark. The
names of those who died in
Beijing on June 4, 1989 were
read out over loudspeakers.
People bowed to pay their
respects as footage of the
clampdown was shown on
large screens.
This event must be instilled
in everyones heart. We cant
let time dilute this, said 19-
year-old student Anna Lau.
Chief organiser Lee Cheuk-
Yan said a record 180,000 at-
tended the vigil. A police es-
timate was not immediately
available. Let Xi Jinping see
the lights of the candles, Lee
told the crowd, referring to
the Chinese president. I dont
know what the [Chinese] gov-
ernment fears, banning all
discussion about June 4. But
in Hong Kong, we will keep
ghting until the end.
In the Taiwanese capital
Taipei, exiled Chinese dis-
sidents and witnesses to the
crackdown addressed a crowd
of about 500. Taiwanese Presi-
dent Ma Ying-jeou separately
described the events of 25
years ago as an enormous
historical wound.
Ma called on Beijing to
speedily redress the wrongs
to ensure that such a tragedy
will never happen again.
Likewise, the US will contin-
ue to urge the Chinese gov-
ernment to guarantee the uni-
versal rights and fundamental
freedoms that are the birth-
right of all Chinese citizens, a
White House statement said.
Hundreds of unarmed ci-
vilians by some estimates,
more than 1,000 were killed
during the June 3-4 crackdown
of 1989, when soldiers on foot
and in tanks crushed months
of peaceful protests by stu-
dents demanding political lib-
erties to match Chinas nascent
economic opening up.
Thousands of police and
other security forces, some
armed with automatic ries,
have been deployed across
the Chinese capital this week.
There were numerous police
trucks on and around Tianan-
men Square yesterday.
Tourists and vendors criss-
crossed the vast public square
in the heart of the city, but
uniformed and plainclothes
ofcers were stationed at ev-
ery corner, checking ID cards.
In 1989 the demonstra-
tions and subsequent crack-
down played out on television
screens across the world, and
Beijing briey became a pa-
riah in the West. But 25 years
later, the Communist Partys
authority is intact and its
global clout continues to rise
in line with its rapid growth
to become the worlds second
biggest economy.
Among the crowds in Hong
Kong were many from the
Chinese mainland. I came
here to take part in this vigil,
because in China we dont
have any rights or freedoms
. . . so to express my views I
have to come to Hong Kong,
35-year-old Huang Waicheng,
an engineer from Shenzhen,
said. In China, there are too
few people that know about
[the crackdown].
Under the agreement gov-
erning Hong Kongs handover
to China in 1997, the semi-
autonomous city has far
greater civil liberties than the
mainland.
China has worked hard to
erase public memories of the
bloodshed, censoring any
mention from social net-
works and detaining scores
of activists, lawyers, artists
and relatives of victims in re-
cent weeks.
Among them is prominent
human rights lawyer Pu Zhiq-
iang, who along with four oth-
ers was taken away last month
after attending a private semi-
nar discussing the crackdown.
Around 80 academics from
12 countries penned an open
letter to President Xi yesterday
pressing for the release of the
ve. AFP
US to appoint rst Somalia ambassador since Black Hawk Down
BARACK Obama is to appoint the
United States first ambassador to
Somalia since the Black Hawk Down
incident more than 20 years ago, in a
show of faith that better are times are
ahead for the Horn of Africa nation.
A senior US official also said military
strikes might continue against al-
Qaeda targets in Somalia but did not
specify whether they would involve
drones. At the time, the 1993 Battle of
Mogadishu was the deadliest firefight
involving US forces since Vietnam.
Somali militia fighters shot down two
US helicopters, killed 18 Americans
and injured 73. The 15-hour battle
ultimately led to a withdrawal of US
troops from the country, which
descended into two decades of anar-
chy and extremism.
On Tuesday, Wendy Sherman, the
American under-secretary of state
for political affairs, said Somalia had
become a synonym for chaos but
there were now hopeful signs of
improvement in security and the
economy.
As a reflection both of our deepen-
ing relationship with the country and
of our faith that better times are ahead,
the president will propose the first US
ambassador to Somalia in more than
two decades, she told the US Institute
of Peace thinktank in Washington.
Last year Britain became the first EU
state to reopen its embassy in Soma-
lia, with the ambassador and staff liv-
ing in eight-metre by two-metre rein-
forced containers inside Mogadishus
fortified airport compound, but the
US has no plans to follow suit.
Mogadishu has been beset by vio-
lence and deadly bombings by the
Islamist group al-Shabaab, a self-de-
clared affiliate of al-Qaeda. Two
weeks ago a car bomb outside the
national parliament building killed
at least seven, and a senior Shabaab
fighter threatened Americans in a
radio broadcast.
At present a US diplomat based in
Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring
Kenya, flies sporadically to Mogad-
ishu. Sherman estimated that about a
dozen US diplomats are currently in
Nairobi working on Somalia.
Western governments began
strengthening ties with Somalia after
civil society activist Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud was elected president in
September 2012. The US has carried
out air strikes against suspected mem-
bers of Shabaab and provided training
and equipment to the African Union
peacekeeping mission, AMISOM.
Sherman said: A small contingent
of US military personnel, including
some special operations forces, have
been present in parts of Somalia for
several years. She noted that there
have been a number of direct US
military strikes on targets but did not
provide details on whether, as has
been widely assumed and reported,
they were carried out by drones.
From time to time the US military
has conducted such action in Soma-
lia against a limited number of targets
. . . determined to be al-Qaeda, she
said. These might continue if it were
established there was a continuing
imminent threat to US persons.
Last year, following the al-Shabaab
attack on the Westgate shopping mall,
US navy Seals launched a night-time
raid on the town of Barawe in a bid to
capture Abdulkadir Mohamed
Abdulkadir, who is linked to a number
of terrorist plots, but were forced to
retreat an hour later empty handed.
Sherman acknowledged there was
a hard struggle ahead and challenged
Somalis to discard age-old clan rival-
ries and focus on building a united
national government. None of us can
make that choice for Somalis. But
Somalis should know, if they choose
to continue to come together, they will
have enthusiastic and substantial
international support.
Now is the best chance in a quarter
of a century to start realising the post-
independence hopes for peace and
prosperity in Somalia, she said, cau-
tioning: The path ahead remains
rocky and uphill.
Sherman did not say who would be
nominated as the ambassador to
Somalia, adding only that it would
happen soon. THE GUARDIAN
World
13
AUSTRALIA was yesterday in-
vestigating an account from a
sailor who said she may have
seen ight MH370 on re, as
ofcials said the underwater
hunt was aiming to dive much
deeper, releasing a request for
tenders for a company to dive
up to 6,000 metres.
The Australian Transport
Safety Bureau (ATSB), lead-
ing the search at the request
of Malaysia, is looking at the
claim from a British yachts-
woman made this week.
British yachtswoman Kath-
erine Tee added to speculation
about the location of a possi-
ble crash site by revealing she
saw a glowing plane over the
Indian Ocean in March.
The 41-year-old said she
told Australian authorities of
her sighting of a plane with
what appeared to be a tail of
black smoke behind it while
she travelled from Kochi in
India to Phuket
There were two other
planes passing at that time,
she wrote on sailing site Cruis-
ers Forum, a rm for which
she also works. I recall think-
ing if it was a plane on re, the
other aircraft would report it.
She said she told no one at
the time because she and her
husband, who was asleep on-
board, had been having dif-
culties and had not spoken for
a week. Most of all, I wasnt
sure of what I saw, she said. I
couldnt believe it myself.
But after conrming her
yachts position using GPS
data in recent days, she said
she knew she was in the right
place at the right time and
told authorities.
MH370s last known position
as tracked by military radar
was roughly west of Phuket,
although the search area has
focused on a zone hundreds
of kilometres further south.
In what could be another
clue, researchers at Western
Australias Curtin University
revealed yesterday they had
detected a low-frequency un-
derwater sound which could
have come from the plane.
A listening station off Rott-
nest Island, close to the West-
ern Australia coast, picked
up the signal at 0130 GMT on
March 8. Alec Duncan, from
Curtins Centre for Marine Sci-
ence and Technology, said the
noise could have come from
the plane crashing. I wouldnt
rule it out . . . its not impossi-
ble, he said, but added that it
was more likely to have come
from a natural source, such as
an earth tremor. AFP
Aus to probe possible
MH370 witness lead
Obama, Putin spar over Ukraine
P
RESIDENT Barack
Obama yesterday
condemned Russias
dark tactics and
bullying in Ukraine and Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin hit back at
American aggression, as new
venom deepened the worst
US-Russia clash in decades.
Obama met Ukraines pres-
ident-elect Petro Poroshenko
in Warsaw and promised years
of US support, then blasted
Russia and vowed to protect
ex-Soviet states in NATO in a
hawkish speech marking 25
years of Polish democracy.
How can we allow the dark
tactics of the 20th century
to dene this new century?
Obama asked, as he adopted
the mantle of leader of the
West worn by previous presi-
dents during the Cold War.
As weve been reminded
by Russias aggression in
Ukraine, our free nations can-
not be complacent in pursuit
of the vision we share a Eu-
rope that is whole and free
and at peace. Obama said.
We will not accept Russias
occupation of Crimea or its
violations of Ukraines sover-
eignty, Obama said.
Our free nations will stand
united so that further Russian
provocations will only mean
more isolation and costs for
Russia, Obama said, before
heading to Belgium and a G7
summit dedicated to coordi-
nating policy towards Moscow.
Putin said that he could
not understand why Obama,
who has spent months trying
to isolate him over Ukraine,
would not hold a formal
meeting with him during
70th anniversary commemo-
rations in Normandy.
It is his choice, I am ready
for dialogue, Putin said in an
interview with French broad-
casters Europe1 and TF1
conducted at his dacha in the
Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Russian leader accused
the US of hypocrisy in its ag-
gressive attempts to punish
Russia over Ukraine.
We have almost no mili-
tary forces abroad yet look:
everywhere in the world there
are American military bases,
American troops thousands of
kilometres from their borders.
They interfere in the in-
terior affairs of this or that
country. So it is difcult to ac-
cuse us of abuses.
Unlike Obama, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel,
French President Francois
Hollande and British Prime
Minister David Cameron will
meet one-on-one with Putin
in France reecting their
nations greater exposure to
Russian economic power.
Obama met Poroshenko
days before his inauguration
and declared himself deeply
impressed by the chocolate
tycoon the Ukrainians chose
on May 25 to lead them back
from a political and econom-
ic precipice.
The United States is abso-
lutely committed to standing
behind the Ukrainian people
not just in the coming days,
weeks, but in the coming
years, Obama told reporters.
In Ukraine, three govern-
ment soldiers were injured
in a massive all-night attack
carried out by hundreds of
pro-Russian insurgents in the
nations restive east, authori-
ties in Kiev said yesterday.
The assault that took a po-
sition held by the Ukrainian
National Guard in the Lugan-
sk region began on Tuesday
evening and lasted 10 hours,
the Interior Ministry said,
adding that six rebels were
also killed in the ghting.
The 300 rebels who took part
in the attack were armed with
automatic weapons, rocket
launchers and mortars, and
the Ukrainian forces fought
to the last bullet, according
to the ministry. AFP
A pro-Russian militant guards the Federal Border HQ building in
Lugansk after 300 rebels seized it yesterday. AFP

S Korea poll shows tight
race after ferry tragedy
EXIT polls in South Korean
local elections yesterday
signalled the tightest of
contests in a ballot seen as a
referendum on President Park
Geun-hyes administrations
sharply criticised handling of
the April ferry disaster that
killed about 300 people. The
polls issued by three major TV
stations after voting ended
forecast that Parks ruling
Saenuri Party and the main
opposition New Politics
Alliance for Democracy
(NPAD) would each win five of
the 17 main races for
metropolitan mayors and
provincial governors. Seven of
the contests were too close to
call, with final results only
expected late last night or this
morning. AFP
Yemeni army and Shia
rebels in ceasefire deal
YEMENI forces and Shia Huthi
rebels reached a ceasefire deal
yesterday to end clashes in the
northern province of Amran
following mediation backed by
UN envoy Jamal Benomar. State
news agency Saba said the
ceasefire agreement took effect
at midday (0900 GMT). It
stipulated an end to military
reinforcements from both sides,
deployment of impartial military
monitors, and the opening of the
main road to the capital Sanaa,
the agency said. AFP
S
ERGEANT Bowe Bergdahl, re-
cently freed after ve years as
a captive of the Taliban, may
still be disciplined if the army
nds evidence of misconduct, the US
militarys top ofcer said on Tuesday.
General Martin Dempsey, the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was
speaking after claims from members
of Bergdahls unit that he had been
captured after abandoning his post.
The New York Times cited a former
military ofcial as saying Bergdahl
slipped away from his base near the
Afghan border with Pakistan, leaving
a note saying he had become disillu-
sioned with the army and the war and
was going to start a new life.
Our armys leaders will not look
away from misconduct if it occurred,
Dempsey said. The general stressed
that Bergdahl, who was taken as a pri-
vate and promoted while in captivity,
was innocent until proven guilty, and
that the military would continue to
care for him and his family.
The questions about this par-
ticular soldiers conduct are separate
from our effort to recover ANY US
service member in enemy captivity,
Dempsey wrote in his statement. This
was likely the last, best opportunity to
free him. As for the circumstances of
his capture, when he is able to provide
them, well learn the facts.
Meanwhile, CNN reported on Tues-
day that a US Army fact-nding inves-
tigation conducted in the months after
Bergdahls 2009 disappearance con-
cluded that he left his post deliberate-
ly, according to an ofcial familiar with
the probe who spoke with the network
on the condition of anonymity.
The ofcial said there was no de-
nitive nding Bergdahl had deserted
because that would have required
knowing his intent. The probe also
interviewed members of Bergdahls
unit, none of whom reported seeing
him go, according to the ofcial.
Pentagon spokesman Steven Warren
conrmed there was such a fact-nd-
ing investigation in 2009, but stressed
that its ndings are classied.
President Barack Obama has come
under re from Republicans and other
critics who say the swap will encour-
age others to try to take American sol-
diers or diplomats hostage. Obamas
aides have defended the deal as an
appropriate attempt to save the life of
a captured soldiers whose health was
believed to be deteriorating.
Warren also said Bergdahl, who is
being cared for at a US military hos-
pital in Landstuhl, Germany, had not
yet spoken with his parents.
That step will be taken when the
psychologists and other medical pro-
fessionals will determine the time is
right, he said.
Army Secretary John McHugh said
the army will conduct a compre-
hensive, coordinated review of the
circumstances around Bergdahls dis-
appearance and capture, after taking
care of his health and reintegration.
There is no timeline for this, and we
will take as long as medically necessary
to aid his recovery, he said. All other
decisions will be made thereafter, and
in accordance with appropriate regu-
lations, policies and practices.
The White House apologised for
keeping lawmakers in the dark re-
garding the exchange, senators said
on Tuesday, as controversy grew over
the issue.
Administration ofcials planned
a classied brieng for the full 100-
member chamber yesterday, with
lawmakers from both parties fuming
over the trade.
Senate Intelligence Committee chair
Dianne Feinstein, a senior member of
President Barack Obamas Democratic
Party, said the White House breached
US law when it failed to alert Congress
to the proposed trade.
Lawmakers have pounced on Obama
for not giving Congress 30 days notice
before releasing any detainee at the
Guantanamo Bay military prison, as
required in a law signed in December.
The swap will be debated in an open
House hearing next week, with De-
fence Secretary Chuck Hagel invited
to testify. AFP
World
14
Thai trains safe even when driver
works windscreen wipers by hand
Rogue Libyan general escapes
suicide attack at Benghazi base
THE State Railway of Thailands
locomotives are perfectly safe
even when a driver has to take
a hand off the controls to work
the windscreen wipers with the
other, the SRT boss said on
Tuesday.
SRT governor Prapas Chong-
sanguan guaranteed the safety
of all locomotives after a clip
posted on YouTube on Sunday
got 44,000 views as of Tuesday
night and raised questions
from many viewers.
The clip, titled The SRT never
changes, shows a locomotive
driver using one hand to keep
the wipers functioning while
driving the train though the
rain. I can guarantee that the
SRT pays full attention to safe-
ty although our trains and loco-
motives are old, he said.
The average age of the loco-
motive fleet is 40. The SRT has
160 locomotives hauling its
trains. The one featured on the
clip was an Alstom locomotive
from France. Prapas added that
it is over the average age.
The wipers of the Alstom
locos are vacuum-driven by a
pump. But the SRT could no
longer find pump spares,
meaning we have to go for the
manual mode, he added.
He said the clip was filmed
by the train mechanic and he
told his supervisor that he had
good intentions to post a video
that reflected real problems at
the SRT.
He now regretted what he
had done, but he will not be
punished. Instead, he will make
a second clip to explain what
had happened on the locomo-
tive, the governor said.
What is more worrying is
illegal [road] crossings, which
could cause accidents in bad
weather when the driver can-
not see them, he added.
The SRT will begin receiving
20 new locomotives in August
and plans to buy 50 more at a
later date. BANGKOK POST
A ROGUE Libyan general, who has led repeat-
ed deadly assaults on jihadists in second city
Benghazi, escaped a suicide attack yesterday,
one of his commanders said.
But three loyalists of former general and long-
time US exile Khalifa Haftar were killed in the
attack on a villa outside the eastern city, the
commander said.
A suicide bomber in a vehicle packed with
explosives attacked a villa where we had gath-
ered, said General Sagr al-Jerushi, who heads
the air wing Haftar has deployed in his attacks.
Three of our soldiers were killed, Jerushi said,
adding that he himself had been lightly
wounded in the attack.
It is the first attack against Haftar since he
launched his offensive, dubbed Operation
Dignity, aimed at eradicating terrorists in
Benghazi on May 16. The former general claims
his forces represent the legitimate Libyan army
and has won the support of regular army units
in the city including the special forces.
But even though he denies any political ambi-
tions, the outgoing Islamist-led parliament in
Tripoli accuses him of plotting a coup and has
branded him an outlaw.
Since the 2011 uprising that toppled and
killed long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi,
the country has been awash with weapons.
Militias of former rebels who fought to oust
the Kadhafi regime have refused to hand over
their weapons and control swathes of terri-
tory across the country.
Benghazi is considered a stronghold of Islam-
ist militias, and the city has seen near daily
attacks on security forces that have been
blamed on jihadist groups.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Sunday
urged Libyans to fight Haftar, labelling him an
enemy of Islam.
Ansar al-Sharia, a radical Islamist group in
Benghazi classified by Washington as a terror-
ist organisation, has warned that Haftar could
suffer the same fate as Gaddafi, who was killed
by rebels in October 2011. Its forces have borne
the brunt of the offensive led by Haftar. AFP
Bergdahl may face deserter probe
This screen grab from a video released yesterday by the Taliban reportedly shows Bowe
Bergdahl (right, back to camera) being handed over to US forces. AFP
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Hundreds of children were buried in unmarked graves at a home in Galway, Ireland, a historian has said. AFP
THE Catholic church in Ire-
land is facing fresh accusa-
tions of child neglect after a
researcher found records for
hundreds of children said to
be buried in unmarked graves
at the site of a former home for
unwed mothers.
The researcher, Catherine
Corless, has said her discovery
of child death records from the
home run by Catholic nuns in
Tuam, County Galway, sug-
gested that many of the chil-
drens remains lie in the site of
an old septic tank.
Church leaders in Galway,
in west Ireland, have said they
had no idea so many children
who died at the orphanage
had been buried there, and
have pledged to support local
efforts to mark the spot with a
plaque listing all 796 children.
County Galway death re-
cords showed that the children,
mostly babies and toddlers,
had died, often of sickness or
disease, during the 35 years
the home operated from 1926
to 1961, according to Corlesss
research. The building, which
had previously been a work-
house for homeless adults,
was torn down decades ago to
make way for houses.
A 1944 government inspec-
tion recorded evidence of
malnutrition among some of
the 271 children then living in
the Tuam orphanage along-
side 61 unwed mothers. The
death records cited sicknesses,
diseases, deformities and pre-
mature births as causes. In the
rst half of the 20th century
Ireland had one of the worst
infant mortality rates in Eu-
rope, with tuberculosis rife.
Corless said the burial site
had been rediscovered by lo-
cals in past decades. Residents
have kept the grass trimmed
and built a small grotto with a
statue of the Virgin Mary.
Archbishop of Tuam Michael
Neary said he would meet
leaders of the religious order
that ran the home, the Bon
Secours Sisters, to organise
fundraising for a plaque list-
ing the 796 names and to hold
a memorial service there.
Corless and other Tuam ac-
tivists have organised a com-
mittee to erect a monument to
the dead and push for a state-
funded investigation and ex-
cavation of the site.
The Irish government has
declined to comment. Ireland
has published four major in-
vestigations into child abuse
and its cover-up in Catholic
parishes and a network of
childrens industrial schools,
the last of which closed in the
1990s. THE GUARDIAN
Claim of 800 kids remains buried
at Irish home for unwed mothers
Karachi on knife-edge after Godfather arrest
Ashraf Khan
F
OR more than two decades,
Altaf Hussain has wielded
control of this freewheeling,
violent city of 20 million half
a world away from his drab London
suburb home.
His arrest on Tuesday by British po-
lice has left Pakistans biggest city on
alert and fuelled questions about the
future of his political machine. The
60-year-old is revered by his ercely
loyal supporters mainly ethnic Mo-
hajirs who migrated from India at the
time of partition, while critics accuse
him of running his party as a violent
maa-like organisation.
Party workers appeared to be in a
state of shock yesterday at a protest
rally organised on the main thor-
oughfare of this city and attended
by thousands.
Kashif Ahmed Shaikh, a die-hard
party supporter, showed off razor-
blade cuts on his upper arms.
I wasnt able to vent my anger on
anyone so I did this for my leader,
said the 32-year-old at a protest rally
over Hussains arrest in London on
money-laundering charges.
He has done a lot for us and these
wounds are just a humble way to
express our love and reverence for
him. We can even lay down our lives
for him, he added.
The sentiments are indicative of
how deep passion for politics runs
in Karachi, which grew from a small
shing town in the 19th century to
Pakistans economic hub. It is home
to large numbers of all the countrys
religious and ethnic groups, whose
political parties developed armed
wings during the 1980s.
The MQM was founded by Hus-
sain in 1984 in response to the mar-
ginalisation of Mohajirs migrants
who ed India amid the violence of
the sub-continents partition.
They are mainly concentrated
in the cities of the southern Sindh
province, especially Karachi where
they form a majority.
Nida Kirmani, an academic at the
Lahore University of Management
Sciences, said that the Mohajir com-
munity felt aggrieved by quota sys-
tems and preferential treatment for
other groups.
The rhetoric was that they strug-
gled, they sacriced to come to Paki-
stan and thats why they should have
rights. They believed their migration
justied the creation of Pakistan,
she said.
Despite the MQMs early success-
es in bringing development and as-
sistance to Mohajirs, the turbulent
city continued to see violent clashes
resulting in a military operation in
the city in 1992.
Hussain ed the country saying
he feared his life to settle in London,
where he began to address thousands
of supporters in Pakistan by video-
conference or simply by phone.
Despite being repeatedly ac-
cused of inciting violence during
his speeches, British authorities
awarded him with a passport in
2002 partly due to his partys secu-
lar, anti-Taliban outlook.
Hussain wrote to former British
prime minister Tony Blair in 2001
offering help against al-Qaeda in
return for the abolition of the coun-
trys feared Inter Services Intelli-
gence agency, the British govern-
ment conrmed two years ago.
Following his arrest in London,
MQM leaders made several appeals
for calm. There have been scattered
outbreaks of violence, the peace has
thus far held but analysts question
how long it will last.
Unfortunately in Pakistan all po-
litical parties, with the exception
of a few, are one-leader dominated
parties and once that leader is not
there the party suffers, said Jaffar
Ahmed, a long-time MQM observer
in Karachi.
Altaf Hussain is a father gure
and he cannot be substituted at any
cost, Farooq Sattar, MQMs leader
in Pakistan said.
If Hussain is eventually removed
from politics senior gures like Sat-
tar could nd their ability to main-
tain control over local-level party
leaders in Karachi tested, said Lau-
rent Gayer, an analyst at the Centre
for International Studies and Re-
search in Paris.
Are they capable? Thats the key
question, said Gayer, who will this
week launch a book on the city,
Karachi Ordered Disorder and the
Struggle for the City.
I remember the words of a friend
in Karachi a few years ago: the de-
cline of the MQM could be as violent
as its emergence. Have we arrived at
that moment yet? I dont know.
Ahmed, the Pakistani analyst, said
in the short-term, the MQM had
probably made contingency plans
for who would lead after Hussain,
given that the British investigation
began some years ago.
But over the long run, demograph-
ic changes particularly the arrival of
Pasthuns from the countrys restive
northwest who are denounced by
the MQM for their Talibanisation
of the city together with internal
dissent could threaten the partys he-
gemony, he added. AFP
A Pakistani youth wheels his bicycle past vehicle that was set alight in Karachi on
Tuesday following the arrest of Altaf Hussain. AFP
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T
HE National Assembly has
recently passed three laws
regarding Cambodias judicial
system. They are now in the
Senate for review and are expected to
be in the statutes book before long.
These laws are the Law on the Cre-
ation and Functioning of the
Supreme Council of the Magistracy,
the Law on the Organisation of
Courts and the Law on Status of
Judges and Prosecutors.
They are a chef-doeuvre of the gov-
ernment. In theory, their enactment
should be welcomed and receive a
hearty, well-deserved round of
applause.
The laws establish a supreme judi-
cial body, known as the Supreme
Council of the Magistracy, for the
nomination and oversight of judges
and prosecutors. This Supreme Coun-
cil would have managerial control over
the lower courts and higher courts
(military courts, however, do not fall
under its control), determining the
legal status of judges and prosecutors.
The laws provide for, in broad terms,
the procedures and criteria for judges
and prosecutors appointment, remu-
neration, tenure, transfer, promotion,
suspension and dismissal.
They do not, however, establish an
independent judiciary as required by
the countrys constitution, the Paris
Peace Agreements of 1991 and the
international human rights law Cam-
bodia has recognised. They simply
bestow the legal recognition of the
status quo on the countrys judiciary,
which is widely known to be under
political and financial influence and
command little public confidence.
Thus established, the judiciary has
no autonomous budget, in contrast
to the other branches of government
such as the Parliament and the exec-
utive branch. The Supreme Council
has its own autonomous budget, but
the minister of justice is its ex-officio
expender delegate. Aside from that,
the judiciarys budget is part of the
budget of the Ministry of Justice.
Again in contrast to public employ-
ees serving the government, mem-
bers of the Royal Cambodian Armed
Forces and those serving the Parlia-
ment (each of which has its own sep-
arate legal status), the administrative
personnel serving each unit of the
judiciary (the Supreme Council and
all courts), apart from court clerks,
have none. The Law on the Organisa-
tion of Courts makes them employ-
ees of the Ministry of Justice and
places them together with their
administrative units serving the
Supreme Council and each court
under the administration and
responsibility of the same ministry.
The Kings constitutional role as
chair of the Supreme Council is leg-
islated out, and he is now but a fig-
urehead whose role is to give con-
sent to the convening of Supreme
Council meetings and to sign all
decisions made by it. The latter,
which does not include the King, is
composed of 11 members and the
minister of justice, who is an ex-offi-
cio Supreme Council member. The
minister is responsible for the elec-
tion of several of its members.
The Supreme Council is virtually
run by the same minister when he is
in charge of its relations with other
institutions and legal entities. He
convenes the councils meetings on
behalf of the King, is in charge of the
administration of the Office of its
Secretary-General, conducts prelimi-
nary investigations of complaints
against judges or prosecutors,
recruits and proposes theoretically
after consultation with the Supreme
Council potential nominees for
judges and prosecutors for appoint-
ment by the King and prepares of all
its documentation for the Kings sig-
nature. If appointed by the King as
his representative to chair any
Supreme Council meeting, the minis-
ter of justice (or, for that matter, the
president of the Supreme Court,
another ex-officio Supreme Council
member) has a voice in deliberations,
while the Kings other representative
does not.
The same minister has the power to
nominate secretaries-general and
deputy secretaries-general of courts
after consultation with the president
of each court and the prosecutor
attached to it. He appoints the rest of
a courts administrative personnel.
The minister of justice is head of
the Prosecution Service. He is a sort
of supreme prosecutor who can issue
injunctions and directives to all pros-
ecutors attached to all courts of law.
Prosecutors belong, alongside judges,
to the judiciarys body of magistrates,
and these judicial officers can be
alternately appointed judges or pros-
ecutors during their careers.
The three laws do have provisions
supposedly guaranteeing judicial
independence. The Law on the
Organisation of Courts, for example,
says that one of its purposes is to
guarantee the independence of the
Judiciary, and the Law on the Status
of Judges and Prosecutors states that,
in political matters, judges and
prosecutors shall absolutely main-
tain a neutral attitude.
However, there is no ban on judg-
es and prosecutors affiliation with
political parties or involvement in
political activities (as was the case
in many former communist coun-
tries in Europe). Nor do the laws
have any measures to prevent
putting undue influence on courts,
judges or prosecutors.
Due to the justice ministers exten-
sive powers over it, the judiciary thus
established would be more like a
department of his ministry. It is man-
ifestly impossible, then, for the judi-
ciary to be, as defined in a UN report,
an institutional core of the systems
based on the rule of law. Instead,
Cambodias courts would, according
to well-known Hong Kong lawyer
Martin Lee, treat the legal system as
an instrument of suppression at the
hands of some of our Asian leaders.
The judiciary thus established
could not enforce and guarantee
the rights and freedoms of Cambodi-
an citizens as stipulated in the Paris
Peace Agreements of 1991 and the
countrys constitution.
It cannot deliver justice and com-
mand public trust. It cannot assist
the King in his constitutional role as
the guarantor of the independence of
the judiciary and of the rights and
freedoms of his people.
The country cannot honour its
international human rights obliga-
tions under those agreements or the
international human rights law it has
adhered to.
All three laws are unconstitutional.
They must not be enacted.
Comment
Dr Lao Mong Hay
Our justice system is at stake

EXTENSIVE POWERS OF THE MINISTRY OF J USTICE
OVER THE J UDICIARY
Dr Lao Mong Hay is a political analyst.
DR LAO MONG HAY
Three judicial reform laws currently in the Senate could see Justice Minister Ang Vong
Vathanas powers expand beyond even the boundaries of the constitution. HENG CHIVOAN
17
Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Godfather of ecstasy
Shulgin dies aged 88
AMERICAN chemist Alexander
Shulgin, known as the
Godfather of ecstasy for
turning an obscure chemical
into a widely-used party drug,
has died aged 88, his family
said. Sasha died [Monday] . . .
he was surrounded by family
and caretakers and Buddhist
meditation music, and his
going was graceful, with
almost no struggle at all, his
widow Ann said on Facebook
in a statement posted early on
Tuesday. The octogenarian,
who lived in California and
studied chemistry at Harvard
and Berkeley, suffered from
liver cancer. In the 1970s he
began working with the
amphetamine MDMA, which
later became the rave or
nightclub drug of choice,
Ecstasy. AFP
From whale hunters to
whale lovers in Japan?
CAMPAIGNERS welcomed the
launch of a new body that
aims to promote whale and
dolphin watching in Japan
yesterday, which they said
could help the country move
away from its controversial
slaughter of the mammals.
Dozens of operators in Japan,
who are based across the
country, gathered in Tokyo for
the first meeting of the Japan
Whale Dolphin Watching
Council yesterday. Erich Hoyt,
British researcher of the
Whale and Dolphin
Conservation, delivered a
keynote speech at the
foundation meeting. AFP
Cambodian folk sounds meet
Russian satire in festival finale
Emily Wight
C
AMBODIAN com-
poser Him Sophy is
in the nishing stag-
es of rehearsals with
eight young musicians who
will this weekend accompany
a black and white Russian lm
with Cambodian folk songs.
Sophy, who doesnt know
his exact age but said he is in
his early fties, has compiled
excerpts of traditional music
to accompany Lev Kuleshovs
1924 lm The Extraordinary
Adventures of Mr West in the
Land of the Bolsheviks, which
will close the Memory Inter-
national Heritage Film Festi-
val on Sunday.
The composer, who obtained
his PhD in Moscow, will con-
duct musicians from Cambo-
dian Living Arts (CLA)s pinpeat
ensemble, as well as additional
clarinet and piano players, at
the Chaktomuk Theatre.
As a composer I like to ex-
periment how can tradi-
tional Cambodian music t
together with a western lm? I
think that now, in this period
of globalisation, the world will
integrate even more, Sophy
said during a rehearsal earlier
this week.
The Extraordinary Adven-
tures of Mr West in the Land of
the Bolsheviks is a black and
white satire of American ig-
norance towards the newly
formed Soviet Union.
Originally, the lm is silent,
accompanied by Russian music.
Sundays performance, which
will run through the entirety of
the lm, will feature a mixture
of renditions of traditional folk
songs and original improvisa-
tions by the musicians.
Pinpeat is the name given
to the musical ensemble that
performs at ceremonies in
the royal courts and temples
of Cambodia. Traditionally it
consists of nine or ten instru-
ments, but Sophy has reduced
the number.
Sundays performance will
include the xylophone-like
roneat ek and roneat thung, a
large gong, the two-stringed
tro sau and various drums and
woodwind instruments as
well as the clarinet and piano.
Sophy, who plays the piano,
said that he thought the pianos
chords would help the other
instruments, adding: Piano
works very well in combina-
tion with other instruments.
You can put it with the sound
of anything and you feel more
beauty.
He added: I think for my
new work I will use piano with
all instruments. This has in-
spired me to do so it really is
king of all instruments.
Rong Sereyvann, 27, will be
playing the piano in Sundays
performance. He said that the
musicians had to study the
lm very carefully to know
what music was coming up
and how to perform it to the
best of their abilities.
It would have been difcult
but we needed somebody to
lead us, so its good that we
have Mr Him Sophy, he said.
Sereyvann, who started
learning piano at the Royal
University of Fine Arts nine
years ago, added: Ive never
seen this kind of thing before
its good that were celebrating
this kind of lm.
The Extraordinary Adven-
tures of Mr West in the Land of
the Bolsheviks will be screened
at Chaktomuk Theatre on Sun-
day at 6pm.
Musicians from Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) rehearse the tro sau, roneat ek and large gong for Sundays performance. CHARLOTTE PERT
Motoring
18
Grand Picassos dazzling distractions
Autoficial intelligence: The smartest Mustang ever
Martin Love

W
HAT makes you
take your eyes
off the road?
The rst and
probably the most important
lesson we all learn as driv-
ers is that no good can come
from letting your attention
wander. All we have to do is
stare at the onrushing grey
ribbon with a xed, unwaver-
ing focus . . . but gosh, it can
be hard cant it? And this new
C4 Grand Picasso is so packed
with digital thingumajigs and
ashing screens and rubbery
buttons, all encased in a vast
wraparound panorama of
glass, that looking at the car in
front is almost the last thing
on your mind.
A survey of 1,500 drivers
from the Institute of Advanced
Motorists (and these are peo-
ple who take their driving seri-
ously) found that a third said
children were the biggest dis-
traction to their driving.
Close on the heels of
those pesky kids were mo-
bile phones (er, thats illegal,
guys), changing radio sta-
tions, back-seat drivers, d-
dling with the satnav, smok-
ing, cuddling or kissing by
a passenger (that would be
distracting) and, lastly, attrac-
tive pedestrians . . . Just 14 per
cent of respondents admitted
that, yes, very occasionally an
attractive pedestrian had in-
deed caused their gaze to be
dragged from the bumper of
the car ahead.
Well, thats a straight lie, isnt
it 14 per cent? Come on, must
be closer to 100 per cent. And
how come no one mentioned
arguing? The greatest rows my
wife and I have always seem to
take place in the car.
Anyway, if you are easily dis-
tracted, you are going to nd
Citroens new MPV a night-
mare. The Grand is the bigger,
seven-seat version of the ve-
seat model which arrived on
these shores at the end of
last year, and there are signs
of sibling rivalry bubbling
up. Despite the fact that the
Grand has just put rubber on
British roads, it has already
collected more awards than
its little sister.
This new C4 Picasso is lighter,
roomier and quicker than the
outgoing version. It has much-
enhanced aerodynamics and
an optimised range of en-
gines that, at the extreme end,
will deliver CO2 emissions of
just 98g/km and a class-lead-
ing combined fuel economy of
up to 74.3mpg. The drive is as-
sured and engaging. For such
a large vehicle, it feels supple,
almost athletic.
If MPV means boring to you,
this car will make you think
again. It is bold and modern
and quite unlike any other car
you will sit in this year.
From the outside, hand-
some owing lines work hard
to disguise the box-on-wheels
approach of most people car-
riers. It has unusual squinting
headlamps which sit beneath
glinting running lights and a
futuristic grille which cleverly
incorporates Citroens double-
chevron logo. The short bon-
net steps up to a huge curving
windscreen that sweeps over
your head. Ive visited aquari-
ums with less glass.
Inside, the step-change in
design continues. Citroen
claims it was inspired by loft
living. That doesnt mean
exposed brick and a steel
beam through the centre.
What it means . . . well, lets
be honest it doesnt really
mean anything, does it? But,
strangely, a loft really is what
it feels like: you sit up high,
surrounded by glass and
nice design touches. Theres
a huge at oorspace on
which the three rows of large,
comfortable seats can slide
around. The dashboard is an
appealing mixture of curves
and angles, and theres a clev-
er centrally mounted instru-
ment binnacle. The digital
screen can be congured any
way you like you choose
from a range of themes and
proles. You can even upload
your own picture as a sort of
automotive desk top.
Spacious, versatile, efcient
and with plenty of pizzazz . . .
More than enough to concen-
trate the mind. THE GUARDIAN
US CARMAKING giant Ford showed
off its new Mustang at Asias biggest
tech fair on Tuesday, billing it as the
smartest Mustang to date, featuring
voice controls and early warning col-
lision systems.
Due to go on sale in Asia-Pacic in
2015, the slick sports car can connect
to drivers mobile apps using a plat-
form which will be introduced to Tai-
wan, New Zealand and Thailand next
year for the rst time, the company
announced at the Computex confer-
ence in Taipei.
Ford already introduced the AppLink
technology which allows drivers to
make their mobile apps respond to
voice commands in China, Australia
and India earlier this year.
Celebrating 50 years of production,
the original Mustang was launched at
an event on top of the Empire State
Building in 1964 and quickly became
a byword for cool among Americas
youth, who loved the highly customis-
able pony car that stood out next to
their parents bulky sedans.
But the latest edition may put the
reins on rebellious teens, with a fea-
ture which allows parents to limit top
speeds and audio volume.
Despite this sensible streak, Trevor
Worthington, vice president of prod-
uct development in Asia Pacic, said
that the classic car continued to res-
onate with drivers.
This enhances every aspect of
driving, whether youre listening to
music, changing the radio station,
optimising your car for track driving
or adjusting it for different road con-
ditions, he said of the new model,
which has an aviation-inspired dash-
board and comes with a choice of two
different engines.
Smart technology and the Internet
of Things a term used to describe
the connection of everything from
cars to household appliances to cy-
berspace is a major theme of Com-
putex this year.
The Mustang adjusts the cars speed
automatically to keep a safe distance
from vehicles in front and can boost
brakes if it anticipates a collision
Drivers can also set modes to nor-
mal, snow-wet, sport or track.
Ford gave a sneak peak of the new
Mustang and its safety features at
the Beijing Auto Show in April in an
attempt to break into Chinas sports
car market.
In addition to the Mustang, Ford will
demonstrate new vehicle-to-vehicle
technology at Computex, which it
says will allow cars to share infor-
mation and potentially prevent acci-
dents as a result. AFP
We all struggle to keep our eyes on the road. And this new Citroen MPV isnt going to make it any easier. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Fords new Mustang. The carmaker showed off its new Mustang at Asias biggest tech fair this week, billing it as the smartest
Mustang to date, with voice controls and early warning collision systems. BLOOMBERG
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Stroll through
Croatias past
in Dubrovnik
An aerial view of the walled city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Davin ODwyer

T
HE Pearl of the Adri-
atic, as Dubrovnik is
known, has prospered
and persevered in
equal measure since its birth in
the seventh century and boasts
exquisite physical perfection,
with the Old City, jutting out
into the sea, renowned for its
intact defensive wall, towering
forts, a characteristic red-tiled
roofscape and narrow streets.
The city of Dubrovnik is an
attractive coastal town, but it is
the Old City, a World Heritage
Site since 1979, that really cap-
tivates. Between the Ploce Gate
to the east and the Pila Gate
to the west is that ne main
thoroughfare, the Stradun.
Its one of the most perfectly
proportioned streets Ive ever
walked along, the bell towers
at either end acting as visual
exclamation points bookend-
ing the gleaming stone pave-
ment and the cream-coloured
buildings in between.
Those streets climb up to the
ramparts on the land and sea
sides, and as you walk up and
down the ights of steps, the
alleys keep framing the city in
stunning vertical shafts one
street will perfectly frame the
dome of the Cathedral of the
Assumption of the Virgin, an-
other will offer a perspective of
stacked terra cotta rooftops.
The walled city is small,
but you can get lost in the
crisscrossing streets, nding
yourself at another cafe-lled
square or in front of a Goth-
ic, Renaissance or Baroque
church that dot the map.
In Gunduliceva Square, I
stumbled upon traders setting
up their stalls for the morning
market and picked up a bag of
boiled, sugared orange peels,
basically a recipe for jelly
sweets from the Middle Ages.
But a meandering stroll
through these streets acts as
a mere prelude to the views
available from the citys most
breathtaking attraction, the
famous old wall that stretches
for one and a quarter miles,
enclosing the city like the rim
of a bowl. You can reach the
wall from either Pila or Ploce
gate, but Id recommend Pila
for maximum effect the walk
along the west side takes you
out toward the azure-coloured
Adriatic and offers stunning
views of Fort Lovrijenac, aka
the Red Keep of Kings Land-
ing, across a small bay, and
then along the south-facing
sea walls, with a vertiginous
drop down to the water.
On this side, my view was
pulled out to sea and the sight
of Lokrum Island not far away.
But as I continued the circle, it
was the city itself that began to
command my attention, draw-
ing my eye inward.
On my last day, in Luza
Square at the eastern end of
the Stradun, I happen upon
a large crowd of men dressed
in the costumes of medieval
guards, surrounding an ornate
pillar known as Orlandos col-
umn. On one side of the pillar
is the statue of the legendary
Orlando, a Norman knight
who defended the city from the
Saracens in its earliest years.
On the other side is a prisoner,
chained, beaten and whipped,
his face bloodied and swollen,
his forlorn eyes raised to the
facade of the Church of Saint
Blaise, Dubrovniks patron
saint. A crowd of onlookers
gaze at his suffering.
And then the director yells
cut! The cameras stop lm-
ing, and as the prisoner is
released from his shackles, he
poses for photographs, smil-
ing broadly at the attention,
his anguish gone.
In this little vignette, I rea-
lise, there is something of what
Dubrovnik offers: the illusion
that past and present, reality
and ction, are coexisting in
this magical little place.
Its an illusion that I didnt want
to end. THE WASHINGTON POST
Entertainment
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Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Insect feeler
5 Avian claw
10 Item of finality in the paper
14 Petri dish gelatin
15 Sans support
16 Political competition
17 U. of Arkansas gridders
19 Type of rug
20 It wont hold water
21 Bird feeder fill
22 North Atlantic food fishes
23 Like some jokes and jobs
25 First-person figure
27 Feeble-minded
29 Easily vexed
32 Throb painfully
35 Abdominal anomaly
39 Ive found you out at last!
40 Oozy stuff
41 Many moisturizers
42 It may be fresh or stale
43 Hold the title to
44 I, Robot writer
45 Cathedral section
46 Senator who made the rounds?
48 Stash finder
50 Making a team, as from oxen
54 They set out to cross the line
58 Convergence points
60 Tidy
62 Work on a wall
63 Winged god of love
64 Ignore
66 Break, as a horse
67 Rocker Winter
68 Trip provider?
69 Priestly robes
70 Bottle redheads
71 Neighbor of Vietnam
DOWN
1 Indian Zoroastrian
2 Once more
3 Lollygags
4 Be a breadwinner
5 It may run in a bar
6 Poor me!
7 ___ tenens (substitute)
8 Correctly sung
9 Nutcracker suites
10 Seer
11 Fragrant cake
12 Like many sprained ankles
13 Pekoe and oolong
18 Second version
24 Societal standards and such
26 LAX guesstimates
28 Sasquatch cousin
30 Just-once link
31 Days long gone
32 Eagerly expectant
33 Brothers hood
34 Bees creation
36 Outer edge
37 High time
38 Alloy of nickel and iron
41 Long and lean
45 Indictment
47 Discordant sounds
49 ___ Lama Ding Dong (1961 hit)
51 Not yet up
52 Dweebish
53 Shotgun caliber
55 All My Children woman
56 Pre-television entertainment
57 Goes downhill in the winter
58 Greek cheese
59 Type of exam
61 Old autocrat
65 Sluggers stats
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Two classes with Paul, a professional
pilates instructor specialising in matwork,
small apparatus and studio. At 5.40pm
the basic class gives a good grounding
while intermediate level is at 6.50pm.
Samata Spa, #54, St 306. Various times
Film @ Meta House
The new feature lm Turn tells the
real-life story of Phally, a Cambodian man
struggling against the odds to be a good
husband and father. Directed by Owen
Beck, the lm focuses on masculinity in
contemporary Cambodia. The lm was
shot in Phnom Penh and Takeo, and the
cast are all rst-time actors. Beck will
hold a question and answer session after
the screening.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
7pm
Swing @ CodeRED
Join Swing Penh every Thursday at
CodeRED. Beginner Classes and
Intermediate Classes taught by American
swing champ, Janice Wilson. Stick
around afterwards for a jam session
curated by Warren Daly.
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Koh Pich bridge. 6:30pm
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accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically
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Music @ Equinox
Rhiannon Johnson and her band bring
the funk, the soul and a lot of energy
to Equinox tonight in the Wat Langka
area. Drums, sax, vocals and bass.
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21
Cambodias Pich Seiha (right) will ght in the cage of Full Metal Dojo in Phuket on Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
MMAs card in Phuket set to
showcase Thai cage ghting
Dan Riley
SATURDAYS launch of Thai
mixed martial arts promot-
ion Full Metal Dojo at Seduc-
tion Disco in Patong, Phuket,
will see two Cambodian com-
batants enter the cage for
matches.
A Fighter Gyms Chhin Heng
Peng will take on American
bantamweight Alex Joey
Sabai Schild of the US, who
trains out of Tiger Muay Thai
in Phuket.
A Fighter featherweight and
2013 national Kun Khmer
champion Pich Seiha will face
another Tiger Muay Thai
member from the US, Emalo
Miami Vice Urrutia. In the
main event, Finnish welter-
weight Glenn Sparv (8-3)
fighting out of Chiang Mais
Team Quest camp will battle
with Tiger Muay Thais Joe Ray
of the US.
Fearsome striker Sparv, who
has clinched all his victories
with knockouts or points
decisions, will look to put
an end to Rays five-fight win-
ning streak.
Full Metal Dojo founder and
former cage fighter Jon Nutt
says that the promotion aims
to cater towards the local
audience by offering a mix-
ture of international f lair
and Thai prospects.
We are about to take this
beautif ul island and the
sport of MMA to another
level with our brand new pro-
fessional mixed martial arts
promotion, Nutt said in a
post on the events official
Facebook page.
With MMA taking off on
the island of Phuket, various
camps throughout Thailand
will have fighters stepping
into the Full Metal Dojo. We
expect this to be an eventful
night for all MMA fans and
enthusiasts alike.
Pre-sale tickets for the
seven-bout card on Saturday
are priced at 1,000 baht
($30.60) each.
ONE FC fills Jakarta card
Dan Riley

O
NE Fighting Champion-
ship (ONE FC) has con-
rmed the nal three
bouts of its Era of Cham-
pions mixed martial arts ght card,
which will be held at the 20,000-seat
Mata Elang International Stadium
in Jakarta on June 14.
Top Filipino yweight Ruel The
Avenger Catalan (2-4), who de-
feated Cambodias Khim Dima via a
rst round stoppage in his previous
ONE FC ght last December, will
face off against Malaysias Gianni
Subba (3-1).
Muay Thai world champion De-
jdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke of
Thailand will make his debut in the
ONE FC cage, duelling fellow y-
weight Joseph Omana of the Phil-
ippines, who is also kicking off his
professional MMA career.
In another eagerly anticipated
match, home town heroine Desi
Eagles Eyes Rahayu will take on
Malaysian bantamweight Ella Tang
(0-1) in the rst female MMA match
to be fought in Indonesia.
ONE FC CEO Victor Cui said:
The card is stacked with a bevy of
international stars, and fans, both
watching live in Jakarta and around
the world, can prepare for a night of
thrilling world-class mixed martial
arts action when the ONE FC war-
riors battle it out in the cage.
StarSports will be broadcasting
live coverage of the event on the
night, with local channel MyTV
to screen a delayed program with
Cambodian commentary the fol-
lowing morning.
The nine-bout card on June 14 will
be headlined by a yweight clash be-
tween Kosuke Rambo Suzuki (10-
3-2) of Japan and Brazilian Adriano
Black Diamond Moraes (10-1).
ONE FC sign seven stars
Meanwhile, Singapore-based or-
ganisation ONE FC have announced
seven exciting additions to its roster.
They include ex-Legend FC light-
weight champions Adrian Hunter
Pang (20-8) of Australia and Koji Ando
(8-3) of Japan, Russias six-time female
Wushu world champ Irina Mazepa,
2010 Pan Asian BJJ gold medalist and
Filipino lightweight Vaughn Donayre
(7-1), Japanese featherweight and
Shooto and Zst veteran Hiroshige
Tanaka (10-1), English lightweight and
Honor FC Spanish champion Chris-
tian The Animal Holley (10-0) and
former Heat heavyweight champion
Cristiano Kaminishi (8-1) of Japan.
Filipino yweight Ruel Catalan (left), pictured ghting Cambodias Khim Dima at ONE FC Moment of Truth in Manila on December 6,
2013, will be back in action on June 14 in Jakarta. ONEFC.COM
British boxing
Froch eager
to eclipse his
Wembley win
C
ARL Froch took a split second
to reserve his place in boxing
history with the best punch
I have ever thrown in my life,
another moment to propose to his
partner Rachael Cordingley (she
said yes), and will spend the sum-
mer planning a farewell that looks
certain to culminate in a return to
Wembley Stadium next summer.
His eighth-round knockout of
George Groves in front of 80,000
fans there on Saturday night not
only pointed him in the direction
of Las Vegas later this year to
defend his world titles against
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in the
American debut he has always
dreamed about but sets him up
for a return to Wembley in 2015,
probably against the mandatory
challenger, James DeGale.
That is if Froch wants it. On the
back of pay-per-view hits that
sources say could reach one million,
Froch, rising 37 and holder of the
IBF and WBA super-middleweight
belts, will be able to negotiate the
sort of cash-bonanza ending to his
career that, in tougher times,
seemed unlikely. His promoter,
Eddie Hearn, said that Frochs next
fight would have to be something
he can really get up for. THEGUARDIAN
T
HAILANDS Prom Meesawat
hopes a recent back injury
will not scupper his hopes of
challenging for a rst Asian
Tour victory in eight years at the
Queens Cup which begins today.
The 29-year-old Prom was side-
lined for three weeks after pulling a
back muscle but the enforced break
have only whetted his appetite for
home glory in the $300,000 Asian
Tour event at the challenging San-
tiburi Samui Country Club.
Prom, currently 16th on the Or-
der of Merit, is amongst the leading
stars from the local contingent who
will be keen to keep the Queens Cup
at home following four wins by Thai
players in ve editions.
Indias Anirban Lahiri, currently top
of the Merit list, headlines the popu-
lar tournament which has attracted
one of its best ever elds with eight
of the current top 10 players from the
Asian Tours rankings gathered on
the holiday isle of Samui.
I pulled a back muscle and
couldnt play for three weeks. I only
started hitting balls again three days
ago. The back is still a bit tight, and
I cant make a full turn. However, I
feel really itchy to get back out there
to play again. Its been a long break
by my standard, said Prom, who has
nished top-10 on the Asian Tours
Order of Merit in the past two years.
The burly Thai, nicknamed the Big
Dolphin as he hails from the coastal
town of Hua Hin, has two previous
top-ve nishes at Santiburi Samui
but nothing would give him greater
pleasure than getting his hands on
the Queens Cup, which is sponsored
by Bangkok Airways and the Sports
Authority of Thailand.
You can see that Thai players have
always played well in the Queens
Cup, and also in our Kings Cup.
Weve had two Thais winning the last
two Kings Cup while in the Queens
Cup, four have been won by Thai
players too.
Hopefully this time around, anoth-
er Thai player will win here. It would
be good if I am the one holding the
trophy on Sunday, Prom said.
I love Samui and its a great tour-
ist destination. You can relax when
youre away from the course but the
golf course itself is a tough one. Its a
tough walk and tough to play on.
With his wife expecting twins in
November, Prom joked that he need-
ed to get back onto the winning trail
to fend for his expanding family. We
are both very excited about the im-
pending arrival of our twin babies.
I have to start making more money
and play good to support the fam-
ily!, said Prom, whose lone victory
in Asia remains the 2006 SK Telecom
Open in Korea.
Countryman Arnond Vongvanij,
currently 10th on the rankings
thanks to a runner-up nish at the
recent ICTSI Philippine Open, hopes
to contend again at the Queens Cup
after nishing second behind Prayad
Marksaeng last season. Prayad is
not defending his title following the
passing of his wife last week.
I feel like Im getting more and
more experienced now and feel that
Im more patient on the golf course
which is the key out here. Youre go-
ing to miss some greens as its windy
and the elevation changes a lot. Ill
need the putter and short game to
work well, said Arnond, who won the
Kings Cup on the Asian Tour in 2012.
Anytime you can win a trophy
from the King or Queen, its going to
be very special. Ive won the Kings
Cup so itll be a good collection to
have the Queens Cup as well.
Chawalit Plaphol, winner here in
2011, has endured an up-and-down
season thus far, with a second place
outing at the Solaire Open in the Phil-
ippines being his best of the year. But
with two victories achieved at Santiburi
Samui, the sweet-swinging Thai hopes
to rise to the occasion once more.
Ive struggled with my iron play
and Ive been making adjustments to
the lie and loft angles of the clubs,
said the four-time Asian Tour win-
ner. I have really good memories in
Samui. Its always nice to come back.
THE ASIAN TOUR
Sport
July's Chiangmai Classic
postponed after unrest
THE $750,000 Chiangmai Golf
Classic, originally scheduled to
take place in Thailand next
month, has been postponed,
organisers announced
yesterday. A deepening
political crisis in the divided
kingdom saw martial law
declared last month and the
organisers said in a statement
released by the Asian Tour that
the event in the northern Thai
city would be rescheduled
later in the year. Last years
inaugural Chiangmai Classic,
won by Australias Scott Hend,
also featured an appearance
by four-time major winner
Ernie Els of South Africa who
tied for 14th place. AFP
Sterling sued by woman
for work discrimination
LOS Angeles Clippers owner
Donald Sterling is facing new
accusations of racism and
claims of sexual harassment
in a lawsuit filed by a woman
once employed as his
personal assistant. The
complaint filed on Monday in
Los Angeles County Superior
Court alleges that Sterling
fired Maiko May King as his
personal assistant and
caretaker in May because
she objected to the steady
stream of racially and
sexually offensive comments
he made to her. The suit, in
which King is represented by
attorney Gloria Allred, comes
after Sterling was banned for
life and fined $2.5 million by
NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver over racially charged
remarks that sparked
outrage when they became
public. The NBA was taking
steps to oust Sterling as an
owner when his wife, Shelly
Sterling, struck a deal last
week to sell the Clippers to
former Microsoft chief
executive Steve Ballmer for
$2 billion. AFP
Gay to make Lausanne
Athletissima return
AMERICAN Tyson Gay said on
Tuesday he will return to 100
metres racing after a one-year
drug ban at the Athletissima
meeting in Lausanne on July
3. Gay was banned after
testing positive for a banned
anabolic steroid in two out-of-
competition tests. His ban,
which was reduced from two
years by the United States
Anti-Doping Agency due to
Gays co-operation, ends on
June 23. AFP
Marino withdraws from
NFL concussion lawsuit
HALL of Fame quarterback Dan
Marino will withdraw his name
from a concussion lawsuit
against the NFL less than a day
after his inclusion was reported.
On Monday night, the Los
Angeles Times said that Marino
had joined 14 other retired
players in filing a suit in the US
District Court in Philadelphia
separate from the broad class-
action suit that is in limbo over
its proposed $765 million
settlement. However, it was
reported on Tuesday afternoon
that Marino will withdraw his
name from the lawsuit, which
his attorneys say was included
erroneously. The former players
are suing the NFL over
allegations that it hid the risk of
concussions sustained during
the game. BLOOMBERG
Thai star Prom
itching to win
Queens Cup
Thai golfer Prom Meesawat will look to bounce back from a recent back injury at this
weeks Queens Cup at the Santiburi Samui Country Club. AFP
TRIPLE Crown contender Cal-
ifornia Chrome continued his
preparations for the Belmont
Stakes on Tuesday with an
easy gallop under the watch-
ful eye of trainer Art Sherman.
The Kentucky Derby and
Preakness winner galloped
2 3/8 miles (3.82 kilometres)
over Belmonts main track and
Sherman, who arrived in New
York from California on Mon-
day, liked what he saw.
I thought he looked bet-
ter now than he did after the
Preakness, Sherman said. I
couldnt believe how much
weight he put on. He really
looks good right now.
Going on the Triple Crown
trail, its kind of rough. Hes an
amazing horse.
In this Saturdays 1.5-mile
Belmont, California Chrome
will try to become just the
12th horse, and the rst since
Afrmed in 1978, to sweep the
Kentucky Derby, Preakness
and Belmont.
The number of potential
challengers to the chestnut
colt was reduced on Tues-
day with the withdrawal of
Kid Cruz.
We have decided to pass
on the Belmont, trainer Lin-
da Rice said, adding that the
horse didnt perform in the
Preakness on May 17.
Well just look for an easy
race for him to get him back
on track, she said. Its a long
summer.
Wicked Strong, fourth in the
Kentucky Derby, galloped 1.5
miles on Belmonts main track
on Tuesday.
I galloped him at 7 oclock
because I thought it was going
to get kind of hot and I didnt
want to wait until 9:30 or 10
oclock like we usually do the
rst day back after working
hard, trainer Jimmy Jerkens
said. Hes doing great. AFP
Crown contender Chrome
stretches legs at Belmont
England fume at run-out
THE first series of Englands
new era ended in acrimonious
defeat on Tuesday, as Alastair
Cook exchanged words with
his opposing captain, Angelo
Mathews, in the middle and
then accused Sri Lanka of
crossing the line for refusing
to withdraw an appeal against
Jos Buttler after he had been
run out for stealing a yard at
the non-strikers end.
The tourists defended their
conduct in the so-called
Mankading a rare occur-
rence named after the Indian
player who first gained noto-
riety by removing the bails in
such a manner in Australia in
1947, and which always pro-
vokes debate about the spirit
of cricket.
They insisted it was Buttler
and England who had
breached the spirit of the
game, with their sense of
indignation heightened
because the young off-spinner
Sachithra Senanayake, who
ran Buttler out, had his bowl-
ing action called into question
on the eve of the game. Sena-
nayake was roundly booed by
the crowd after the run-out.
Mathews celebrated the six-
wicket victory by miming a
bowling action with a deliber-
ately straight arm in the direc-
tion of the Sri Lanka dressing
room, and then refused the
opportunity to apologise for
his conduct.
I would stick by it, he said,
to cheers from the small knot
of Sri Lanka supporters who
had stayed behind for the
presentations.
Mahela Jayawardene was
sent to the post-match press
conference in place of Math-
ews and launched a strong
defence of the Buttler dismiss-
al and of Senanayake while
Michael de Zoysa, the team
manager who accompanied
him at the top table, noted
pointedly that Englands Ian
Gould had been one of the two
umpires who reported Senan-
ayakes action in the fourth
game of the series at Lords.
Can I just say its disap-
pointing? Jaywardene said.
Hes played for a couple of
years for us in international
cricket, then when teams are
struggling to play certain
bowlers it comes our way.
THE GUARDIAN
Sri Lankas Sachithra Senanayake (right) stops his bowling run up and
runs out Englands Jos Buttler (left) during their fth ODI match. AFP
California Chrome, with exercise
rider Willie Delgado, trains on
the main track at Belmont Park in
New York on Tuesday. AFP
Football
23
Hazard shirt switch
dampens exit rumours
BELGIUM winger Eden Hazard
has given a strong indication
that he expects to remain at
Chelsea by announcing
yesterday that he will wear the
number 10 shirt next season. I
am very pleased to be able to
wear the number 10 for
Chelsea, Hazard, who has been
strongly linked with a move to
Paris Saint-Germain, told the
Chelsea website. It is my
favourite number and is one I
am used to wearing for the
national team, as well as the
one worn by some of my heroes
from when I was a kid, like
Zinedine Zidane. I hope it
brings me a lot of luck in the
future and I look forward to the
fans seeing me in it next
season. Meanwhile, veteran
goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer
said he expects to sign a new
deal with Chelsea after
manager Jose Mourinho
indicated he wanted him to stay
for another campaign. AFP
Portugal fret over fitness
of star striker Ronaldo
PORTUGAL were gearing up for
the World Cup on Tuesday in
New Jersey, fretting over the
fitness of superstar Cristiano
Ronaldo. With the World Cup
looming, the FIFA Ballon dOr
winner as best footballer of last
year, had some bad news about
his recent aches and pains.
Ronaldo has a muscle injury on
the back of his left thigh as well
as left-leg patellar tendinitis,
the Portuguese Football
Association said in a report on
his medical issues and those of
stars Raul Meireles, Pepe and
Beto. Amid some heavy
downpours, the four spent their
time at the New York Jets
training centre grinding it out on
different exercises meant to get
them in the best possible shape
in the final sprint before next
weeks World Cup start. AFP
Brazil president defends
World Cup preparations
BRAZILIAN President Dilma
Rousseff has defended her
governments preparations to
host the World Cup, the target of
criticism over chronic delays
and soaring costs. As Brazil
rushes to finish stadiums and
deal with a wave of protests
ahead of the June 12 kick-off,
Rousseff partly blamed FIFA for
the spiralling World Cup bill but
said the money spent would
leave a positive legacy. The leftist
leader, who is seeking
re-election in October, said FIFA
had assured Brazil that host
stadiums would be built with
private money. But the
government eventually realised
private-sector investment would
not even cover half a stadium,
and provided most of the
financing itself, Rousseff told
journalists at a dinner on
Tuesday in Brasilia. She said
she would advise future host
countries to be very careful
about the responsibility matrix
they sign with FIFA. But she
insisted that the vast majority of
public spending related to the
tournament was for Brazil. AFP
Boeung Ket overcome Svay
Rieng, eat into Crowns lead
H S Manjunath

A
FTER conceding an own goal
as early as the 19th minute,
last years runner-up Boeung
Ket Rubber Field staged a
strong second half rally to down de-
fending champions Svay Rieng 2-1 in
a Metfone C-League tie at the Olym-
pic Stadium yesterday.
As light showers which greeted
Chan Vathanakas go-ahead goal for
Boeung Ket in the 71st minute inten-
sied into a heavy downpour towards
the full time whistle, the Rubbermen
had done enough to turn around that
nightmarish deection off defender
Pheak Rady into their own net.
Apart from their tottering domes-
tic form, Svay Rieng made a mirthless
Singapore Cup trip to the City State last
week where they were squarely beaten
by Albirex Niigata in the rst round.
Back to the damage control mode at
home, Svay Rieng could not have bar-
gained for a brighter beginning in the
shape of that Boeung Ket gift.
Brave as Svay Rieng were in holding
on to that lead till the breather, Boe-
ung Kets persistence in keeping the
attack going nally paid dividends in
the 63rd minute. A free kick led to a
corner kick which created a moment
of frenzy when an unmarked Chuk-
wuma Ohuruogu was deep enough in
the box to side-foot the ball in.
That tied the scores at 1-1 and
Chan Vathanaka not only showed a
splendid turn of foot but he also had
the presence of mind to conjure up
a tidy nish.
Having been held to a goalless draw
by National Police Commissary last
week and endured an early jolt against
Svay Rieng, the full set of points helped
Boeung Ket stay within two of table
topping Phnom Penh Crown, who are
currently enjoying a healthy break.
Svay Riengs Rasak Nou (right) tugs on the shirt of Boeung Ket Rubber Fields Chan Vathanaka during their Metfone C-League game at
the Olympic Stadium yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Every player to be tested
FIFA is on an ambitious mis-
sion to make sure that for the
first time every player who
takes part in the World Cup
has a drug test and carries a
biological passport.
Footballs governing body
wants to impose the passport
already used in cycling and
athletics that will follow a
player throughout his career,
giving details of blood and
urine tests.
Since March, a team of
FIFA doctors and nurses
have been carrying out ran-
dom blood and urine tests at
i nternational s and team
training camps.
Lionel Messis Argentina
and France were visited last
week at their camps to pre-
pare for the tournament,
according to media reports.
Brazilian star Neymar, Ital-
ian captain Gianluigi Buffon
and Spains Andres Iniesta
were among those who gave
samples at last years Confed-
erations Cup.
Chelsea, Barcelona, Santos
and Monterrey stars were
tested during international
club competitions over the
past 18 months.
Players can expect a tap on
the shoulder right from the
first matches of the World
Cup which starts June 12.
We can test anybody, any-
time, anywhere, any amount
of times, said Jiri Dvorak,
FIFAs chief medical officer in
a recent interview.
However, so far nothing
alarmi ng has turned up,
according to Dvorak. The
hematological parameters
are normal, he said.
FIFA is building up a bio-
logical passport on all play-
ers. It has taken at least two
test samples from most play-
ers while some have given
up to four.
So far teams have made the
doping investigators wel-
come. They understand
what we are doing and they
consider that kind of exami-
nation as part of their profes-
sional life, said Dvorak.
The FIFA tests look for dis-
crepancies in haemoglobins
and red cells that could indi-
cate EPO doping or other
banned efforts to boost
endurance. These kinds of
tests are already used in
cycling and athletics.
Footballs governing body
also checks hormone levels
and for anabolic steroids in
the urine.
The drug testing logistics in
Brazil face difficulties, Dvo-
rak acknowledged.
There is no international
standard laboratory in Brazil.
The World Anti-Doping
Agency withdrew its accredi-
tation for the only facility in
Rio de Janeiro last year.
FIFA will be sending its
samples to a laboratory in
Lausanne, Switzerland, which
will add US$250,000 to the
doping clampdown costs.
And as blood samples must
be analysed within 36 hours
of being drawn, it will be a
race against time to get sam-
ples from far-flung World Cup
cities such as Manaus in the
Amazon and Fortaleza.
It is a challenge, acknowl-
edged Dvorak.
But transport from stadi-
ums has already been tested.
There are a few games that
are difficult. But the majority
of the samples will arrive at
the laboratory between 24
and 48 hours, said Dvorak.
The Lausanne laboratory will
work 24 hours a day during
the World Cup, he added.
Some of the matches are
critical, the critical matches
we will look at very carefully,
the medical chief said. AFP
Dan Riley
THE Bayon Challenge Inter-
national Football Tournament,
Cambodias longest running
annual competition for ex-
patriates and local players,
will mark its 13th edition this
weekend, with 11-a-side ac-
tion slated for the 3G Field on
Saturday and the Old Stadium
on Sunday.
Four late cancellations have
seen entrant numbers reduced
dramatically, although con-
rmation on two more teams
is currently pending. The ve
sides signed up so far are Ha-
noi Drink Team, Swiss Club
Singapore, San Siro Cambo-
dia, Prey Veng Youth and hosts
Bayon Wanderers FC.
Sponsors include Paulaner
Beer, Big Cola, Dans Meat,
Aussie Gourmet bakery and
OneTV.
The brand new Cho Ray
Hospital, which started full
service on May 24 and is lo-
cated along National High-
way 1, will be on stand by in
the case of any accidents.
Ajax Amsterdam, one of the
worlds most successful clubs
and winners of the past four
seasons of the Dutch Eredi-
visie, issued a letter endorsing
the tournament and a wel-
come note signed by former
player Dennis Bergkamp.
Sport in general and foot-
ball in particular can con-
tribute to developing a coun-
try, like what Johan Cruyff is
doing with his foundation,
wrote Bergkamp.
Dutch legend Cruyff, who
made a total of 276 appear-
ances for Ajax between 1964
and 1983 scoring over 200
goals for the club, set up the
Johan Cruyff Foundation in
1997 which helps initiate and
support projects that stimu-
late sport and games for
young people.
Teams line up for the
13th Bayon Challenge
Bayon Wanderers FC (in blue) and
Ezecom players vie in the 2011
Bayon Challenge. SRENG MENG SRUN
International Friendlies
UAE 1 Georgia 0
Czech Rep 1 Austria 2
Switzerland 2 Peru 0
Brazil 4 Panama 0
Greece 0 Nigeria 0
Mexico 0 Bosnia-Herce 1
TUESDAYS RESULTS
Sport
Spurs seek revenge in NBA Finals
Greg Heakes

T
HIS is the match-up every-
one hoped for. It took a full
regular season and playoffs
to get to the expected, and
hotly anticipated, rematch the San
Antonio Spurs versus the Miami
Heat in the NBA nals.
The manner in which the 2014
postseason played out simply added
to the realisation that these two Na-
tional Basketball Association titans
would clash in the nals for the sec-
ond straight year.
The best team in the league San
Antonio will take on the best play-
er in the league in the Heats LeBron
James, and for the top seeded Spurs,
their bruised egos simply wont let
them forget a seven-game loss to the
Heat last season.
They wanted this, they wanted
us and we will be ready for the chal-
lenge, James said on Monday.
San Antonio and two-time defend-
ing champion Miami are set for the
rst rematch series since the 1997
and 1998 nals between the Chica-
go Bulls and the Utah Jazz.
The Spurs will host the rst game
tonight of the annual showcase that
pits the top teams from the Eastern
and Western conferences. Tip off is
at 8am Cambodian time on Friday.
It is unbelievable to have re-
gained our focus after that devas-
tating loss last year, said Spurs for-
ward Tim Duncan. Weve got that
bad taste in our mouth from last
time. We got four more to win. We
will do it this time.
There is a reason why they are
back there and are two-time champs.
We have our work cut out for us, but
we are happy with going back, just
not satised, added Spurs guard
Danny Green.
Injuries could be a factor in the
nals as Spurs star Tony Parker did
not play in the second half of San
Antonios series-clincher over Okla-
homa City because of a sore left an-
kle. Parker said on Tuesday he plans
to try to play in game one.

Road to the nals
Miami opened the playoffs with
a four-game sweep of the Charlotte
Bobcats and then polished off the
pesky Brooklyn Nets in the second
round in ve games.
In the nal step before the nals,
the inconsistent Indiana Pacers
pushed the Heat to six games, but
eventually succumbed.
The Spurs travelled a more dif-
cult road.
They needed seven games to get
past the eighth-seeded Dallas Mav-
ericks in the rst round, and then
ousted the Portland Trail Blazers in
ve games.
The Oklahoma City Thunder gave
the Spurs trouble in the seminals,
but San Antonio eventually ad-
vanced in six games.
The Spurs have been looking for
redemption ever since Miamis
Ray Allen drained a clutch three-
pointer in game six of the nals last
year that capped a frenzied Heat
comeback from a ve-point decit
in the nal 28 seconds of the fourth
quarter.
Two days later, Miami won game
seven and all the Spurs could do
was lick their wounds.
At the beginning of train-
ing camp this year, Spurs coach
Gregg Popovich replayed those
moments to remind the players
that they have some unfinished
business.
We just had a weird year this
year, Duncan said. We were
pressing hard early on and grinding
on each other, just because of what
happened last year.
We were able to settle ourselves
down. We played with a bunch
of different line-ups all year. We
had guys ready to play and it has
shown throughout the playoffs
where guys step up and step in and
are ready to play.
I am proud of the team for just be-
ing ready, just not letting that weigh
on us and using it as an excuse for
anything. We are back here now and
we want to get it done this time.
James, of course, has other plans.
But he is more concerned with how
his team performs that what the
Spurs are saying about them.
[Duncans] comments dont
bother me, said James, who is try-
ing to lead the Heat to the rst NBA
three-peat since the Los Angeles
Lakers between 2000-2002.
We are condent. We are not
shying away from them. We want
them too. AFP
LeBron James of the Miami Heat goes up for a shot over San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan during their NBA game at the AT&T Center in San Antonio on March 6. AFP
Bouchard to meet former idol in Sharapova showdown
CANADAS Eugenie Bouchard
will bid for a first ever appear-
ance in a Grand Slam final
when she takes on childhood
idol Maria Sharapova in the
French Open semifinals
today.
The 20-year-old from Mon-
treal, who is the first Canadian
woman to make the semifinals
in Paris, admits she used to look
up to her Russian opponent.
I have a picture with her
when I was I think seven or
eight years old. I guess that
would be the first time [we
met]. I think it was in Miami,
said the bilingual blonde about
the photo which has been cir-
culating on social media.
The photo shows a shy Bou-
chard, in a blue T-shirt and
shorts, being dwarfed by a
15-year-old Sharapova who is
dressed in a prim white tennis
dress.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I
looked up to her for sure.
Sharapova, the 2012 cham-
pion who has won each of the
Grand Slams once, has beaten
Bouchard in their two meetings
including at Roland Garros 12
months ago.
Bouchard came back from a
set down to defeat Spaniard
Garbine Muguruza 1-6, 7-5, 6-1
and reach the last four.
Bouchard is the only woman
to reach the last four of both
majors this season, after losing
to Li Na in the Australian Open
semifinals in straight sets.
The only other Canadian to
reach a Grand Slam semifinal
was Carling Bassett at the US
Open in 1984.
Someone like Eugenie who
has been up and coming for a
couple of years, I think this is
the year where shes really bro-
ken through, especially at the
Grand Slams, playing at a high
level, said Sharapova.
Last year was the last time
that we faced against each oth-
er [Sharapova winning in
straight sets in French Open
second round]. It was the sec-
ond round, and this year were
in the semifinals.
Sharapova won their only
other meeting, in Miami, 6-2,
6-0, in 2013.
Its a great stage to be at for
both of us, added Sharapova.
Bouchard, who won her first
WTA tournament at Nurem-
berg on the eve of Roland Gar-
ros, says she will not be intimi-
dated by the prospect of facing
the former world number one.
Its very exciting for me to
play against such a champion.
Its going to be a good battle on
the court and I think that this is
what I should expect in a Grand
Slam semifinal, to play against
such players.
She was number one in the
world and shes won several
Grand Slams, so its going to be
a great experience for me.
You know, I will try and put
out my best type of tennis. Ill
put up a good fight on the court,
and well see what happens.
AFP
Canadas Eugenie Bouchard has reached her second straight Grand
Slam seminal and will face Maria Sharapova of Russia today. AFP

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