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Kevin Ponniah
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TS day seven of the FIFA
World Cup, and the night
staff at Phnom Penhs
popular Score Sports Bar
and Grill are looking a bit
sleep-deprived.
Some cant help themselves
yawning behind the bar as they
wait for beer towers to fill.
As hundreds of rowdy patrons,
a disproportionate number
dressed in the bright orange of
the Dutch national team, pack
into the bar for the Australia
versus the Netherlands clash,
the small team of bartenders
and wait staff are perpetu-
ally scrambling.
We are open 24 hours and
when you come here, I welcome
you, a female waitress wearing
an American-style black-and-
white-striped referee shirt says
mechanically with a half-tired
smile before rushing off to serve
another customer.
Her lack of mirth can be for-
given. Like a number of venues
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Vong Sokheng
and Amelia Woodside
AFTER being ordered to
appear in front of National
Assembly lawmakers yester-
day over concerns of illegal
logging at a hydropower
dam site, Mines and Energy
Minister Suy Sem instead
used his time to talk up the
benefits of the project to
Cambodias development.
Sem was summoned to
answer questions about the
controversial Lower Sesan
II dam in Stung Treng prov-
ince after former provincial
governor turned CPP law-
maker Loy Sophat expressed
concerns over claims of ille-
gal logging in May.
But those questions
remained unanswered yes-
terday after Sem faced an
assembly wholly comprising
fellow Cambodian Peoples
Party lawmakers who
agreed with him that the
Lower Sesan II was part of
the solution to Cambodias
electricity shortages.
Its not my duty to respond
to questions about illegal
logging, Sem told reporters
after the closed-door ses-
sion yesterday, referring
such allegations to the Min-
istry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries, which could
not be reached.
Sophat, who last May
voiced worries about illegal
logging outside the dams
reservoir area, said yester-
day that he had not pushed
the issue in parliament.
I did address concerns
about illegal logging, and
Im still concerned about
illegal logging in this area,
Martin Chulov and
Spencer Ackerman
A SPOKESMAN for Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki has said the leader
wont stand down as a con-
dition of US airstrikes
against Sunni militants who
have made a strong advance
across the country.
Iraqs foreign minister,
Hoshyar Zebari, on
Wednesday made a public
call on al-Arabiya televi-
sion for the US to launch
strikes, but Barack Obama
has received mounting
calls from senior US politi-
cians to persuade Maliki, a
Shia Muslim who has pur-
sued sectarian policies, to
step down over what they
see as failed leadership in
the face of an insurgency.
Dianne Feinstein, the
chair of the Senate Intelli-
gence Committee, told a
hearing on Wednesday that
Malikis government has
got to go if you want any
reconciliation, and Repub-
lican John McCain called
for the use of US air power
but also urged Obama to
make very clear to Maliki
that his time is up.
The White House has not
called for Maliki to go, but
spokesman Jay Carney said
that whether Iraq was led
by Maliki or a successor,
we will aggressively
attempt to impress upon
that leader the absolute
necessity of rejecting sec-
tarian governance.
US Secretary of State
John Kerry said that Wash-
ington was focused on
the people of Iraq, not
Logging
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Pressure
mounts
on Iraqi
premier
On the World Cup clock
A waitress at a sports
bar in Phnom Penh
dashes about during a
World Cup game early
on Wednesday morning.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 20, 2014
Cash shop locks up worker
Kim Sarom
T
HE owner of a former
Wing Cash Xpress
money transfer out-
let in Ratanakkiri
provinces Banlung town was
arrested on Wednesday for al-
legedly locking an employee
in a room for three days over
suspicions that she had stolen
a substantial sum of money,
police said yesterday.
Deputy anti-human traf-
cking police commissioner
Keo Davy said 23-year-old vic-
tim Mann Chenda had been
rescued on Wednesday after
police broke down the door to
the room where she was being
held. Suspect Sok Kunthea, 34,
is expected to be sent to court
for charges today.
It is a real crime, as we res-
cued the victim in a locked
room at the house, Davy said.
So the perpetrator has to be
punished based on the law.
According to Davy, police
received a complaint from the
victims mother, saying that
her daughter had been tied
hand and foot and detained in
a room since Monday.
The mother told police that
Kunthea was attempting to
ransom her daughter, who
she believed had stolen some
$5,000, part of a larger sum of
$40,000 that the owner had
previously lost. Davy add-
ed that when police raided
the room, the victim wasnt
tied, and that the court will
also investigate the missing
money.
Wing CEO Anthony Per-
kins emphasised yesterday
that Kuntheas outlet had
ceased to be afliated with
Wing earlier this year after it
was found to have been over-
charging customers. Wing, a
mobile payment and money
transfer company, handled
$1.5 billion in transactions
last year, mostly remittances
being sent between people
inside Cambodia.
We regret to learn of the re-
ported theft from Sok Kunthea,
owner of the Kun Thea Money
Exchange and Internet Shop
in Banlung, Ratanakiri, Per-
kins said in an email.
However, to clarify, this
shop was terminated by Wing
for overcharging customers
outside the Wing price list,
and ceased to operate as an
authorised Wing Cash Xpress
since April 28, 2014. ADDITIONAL
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but the ministers answer was
acceptable, because the forest is
not his responsibility, he said.
During the session, Sem told
ruling party lawmakers that 797
families would be affected by the
hydropower dam in Srekor, Kbal
Romea and Phluk communes,
but would all be compensated
with ve hectares of land and
company-funded housing.
So far, the company has
compensated 12 families with a
package of cash, he said.
Allegations of illegal logging
outside the Lower Sesan II dam
area have hounded the project
since construction began in
November.
The 420-megawatt dam is a
joint venture between Cambo-
dian tycoon Kith Mengs Royal
Group and Hydrolancang In-
ternational, a subsidiary of
state-owned China Huaneng
Group, which formed Hydro-
power Lower Sesan II Co Ltd in
November 2012.
Logging concessions owned
by Royal Group subsidiary Ang
& Associates were suspended
on October 16, following allega-
tions of illegal logging in a com-
munity forest.
A Post report in February re-
vealed that despite the govern-
ment ordering an investigation
into the allegations, one was
never launched.
Opposition lawmaker Son
Chhay yesterday called any line
of questioning about the prog-
ress of the dam project in par-
liament illegitimate due to the
absence of Cambodia National
Rescue Party lawmakers, who
continue to boycott the 55 seats
they won at last Julys election.
CPP lawmakers today wont
dare to ask [Suy Sem] the hard
questions, he said.
We [the CNRP] have never
supported the Sesan II project.
The construction rm has been
unclear about how or when lo-
cals will be compensated, and
the government has continu-
ously ignored reports of illegal
logging and how devastating the
environmental impact will be.
But prominent ruling party
lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the
any complaints the opposition
had were its own fault for re-
maining outside the assembly.
Todays session was a mes-
sage to our opponents, Yeap
said. [Sem] took responsibility
in front of the prime minister
and National Assembly in de-
fence of the ruling party.
Away from the parliament,
villagers set to be affected by
the dam remain concerned.
According to Seak Mekong,
the commune chief in a part of
Stung Trengs Sesan district that
will be ooded by the dams res-
ervoir, community members
have been told little and con-
tinue to wait for compensation.
The compensation has only
appeared in document [form],
and relocation to the new site
has not started, Mekong said.
Conservation groups yester-
day called for thorough inves-
tigations into illegal logging
and further assessment of the
projects potential negative
impacts.
Rather than just listening to
the Ministry of Mines and En-
ergy who has been promot-
ing the project its important
they hear the concerns of the
affected communities and call
in scientic experts to fully un-
derstand the project's severe
impacts," Ame Trandem, Inter-
national Rivers Southeast Asia
program director, said.
The impacts the dam will
have on the Mekongs sh
and the livelihoods of tens of
thousands of people will un-
dermine the countrys devel-
opment efforts.
Any real conversation about
the $816 million project must
involve a discussion about the
accountability of all parties in-
volved in the project, Meach
Mean, coordinator of the 3S Riv-
ers Protection Network, said.
This [questioning] is just like
a show trial where the govern-
ment can pretend they are con-
cerned about legal compliance
or about how the dam site will
impact water quality or if there
is logging outside of the reser-
voir area, Mean said.
The voices of those be-
ing affected will not really
be heard.
Logging worries skirted
Staff at Wing Cash Xpress process transactions in Phnom Penh this year. The owner of a shop that Wing cut
from its roster in Ratanakkiri has been arrested after detaining a staff member for three days. VIREAK MAI
Chhay Channyda
and Laignee Barron
FOLLOWING an exodus of more
than 200,000 Cambodian work-
ers from Thailand in the past
two weeks, the junta has urged
Cambodia to expedite planned
border offices that will facilitate
legal labour migration.
Responding to that request,
Cambodia announced yester-
day that the first one-stop serv-
ice office would open at Banteay
Meancheys Poipet Internation-
al Checkpoint in July.
The office will assist migrant
workers with the large amount
of paperwork required by both
countries, ideally streamlin-
ing the process and enticing
workers to go abroad solely
through legal channels.
At first it will be just a trial . . .
Our purpose will be to help ille-
gal migrant workers become
legal workers, Ministry of
Labour and Vocational Training
director-general Seng Sakada
said at a labour migration work-
shop in the capital yesterday.
He added that if the Poipet
office is successful, additional
offices will open in Koh Kong
and Pailin.
The important thing is not
to prevent migration but to cre-
ate a national policy and find
appropriate measures to pro-
tect labourers, Sakada said.
Countless Cambodians travel
to Thailand every year for sea-
sonal work, usually without the
proper legal documents. An esti-
mated 400,000-500,000 Cambo-
dians of both legal and undocu-
mented status contribute to
Thailands unskilled workforce.
The Thai junta staunchly
insists that despite trainloads
and truckloads of Cambodian
workers still fleeing across the
border, it has no policy to crack
down on its foreign workforce
and has since implored work-
ers to return as businesses
complain of labour shortages.
Economists and rights moni-
tors yesterday gave a tentative
welcome to the border office
initiative as an effective solution
to the influx of returned, and
now unemployed, workers.
The formal way for workers
to work in Thailand should be
as cheap and fast as possible,
said Chan Sophal, president of
the Cambodian Economic
Association, going as far as to
suggest that passports should
be offered free of charge.
But others still offered a word
of caution.
We would be really con-
cerned about corruption thats
already a problem among
immigration and customs offi-
cials on both sides, said Moe-
un Tola, labour coordinator at
the Community Legal Educa-
tion Center.
Cambodian migrant workers wait at the border in Poipet to be
transported back to their home province on the weekend. VIREAK MAI
Koh Rong death
Scuba diving
boss drowns
in sea: police

P
REAH Sihanouk
provincial police on
Tuesday found the body
of a South African scuba diving
business owner who drowned
in waters off Koh Rong island.
Kol Phallin, deputy police
chief in Preah Sihanouk, yes-
terday announced the death
of Rowland Darryl Holmes,
57, who owned and worked as
an instructor at Freedom Dive
Center a diving destination
that includes guest bungalows.
The department ruled out
foul play in the death, Phallin
said yesterday, asserting the
fact that Holmes was
intoxicated while swimming
most likely contributed to
his drowning.
After a technical official
examined his body, it was
determined that he was drunk
when he went swimming,
Phallin said. Theres no suspi-
cion of murder.
Holmess body was taken to
Calmette Hospital in Phnom
Penh by representatives of the
United States Embassy.
In a death notice on the
website for Independent
Newspapers a South African
newspaper group Holmess
children say goodbye.
May you be in peace! We
love you! You will never be
forgotten, says the notice,
published in South African
newspaper the Cape Times on
Tuesday. SEN DAVID
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Driver in
court over
boys death
Kim Sarom
A POIPET resident is due in
court today after military police
arrested him over the fatal hit-
and-run of a 10-year-old boy in
Stung Treng province.
According to authorities,
the suspect, Chan Changch-
hing, 30, was driving a Range
Rover from Preah Vihear to
Stung Treng when Ouch Orn
tried to cross the street in Veal
Denh village.
The boy was hit and killed
instantly, and Changchhing
sped off, police said.
Mi l itary and mi l itary
police chased him for us after
people reported the incident
to them, said Nav Vanny,
director of traffic police in
Stung Treng province.
Changchhing was appre-
hended 30 kilometres from the
scene after authorities set up
a roadblock.
Vanny said Changchhing
denied being involved but that
authorities decided to send
him to court based on witness
reports and evidence.
Drivers often flee the scene
of accidents to avoid prosecu-
tion, while others fear the vio-
lence of mob justice.
Hit-and-runs incidents
accounted for about 42 per
cent of all fatal crashes between
2007 and 2012, according to
data from Handicap Interna-
tional, which works on road
safety issues.
Release our relatives: evictees
May Titthara
T
HE families of four
people from Pailin
provinces Krinh village
who have been incar-
cerated since March for alleg-
edly living on state land are call-
ing for their release.
Fifty-year-old Nheb Nharn
said that he and his wife, Om
Som Ath, had lived on the
land in Stung Trang com-
mune since 2000 and that her
detainment at Pailin prison
was unjustied.
I appeal to the authorities to
release my wife. We have never
occupied the lands of other
people, he said.
According to Nharn, authori-
ties accuse 19 families of living
on an economic land conces-
sion and in early March gave
them a 15-day deadline to move
off of the land or face arrest.
But, he said, the govern-
ment has turned a blind eye
to former governor Y Chhean
and his wife Ban Sreymom,
a parliamentary lawmaker,
who are converting what is
apparently state land into
cassava elds.
Sreymom denied the allega-
tions. I have no ambition to
grab state land, and if those
lands were given to me for free,
I still would not take them,
because state lands are state
lands, she said.
Nharn said authorities told
him that his wife and the three
other inmates Om Som Ol,
Pich Sothea and Suot Mak
would be released if they
relinquished their land.
For my wifes freedom, we
agreed to thumbprint [a docu-
ment] to give [away] 5 hectares
of land . . . but my wife has not
been released yet, he said.
Om Sopheap also claimed to
have signed away land for the
release of his sister, Som Ol.
Because her 4-year-old
child always cries for his
mother, I decided to thumb-
print [the document] to give
the land to [the state], but still
they did not release her.
Yi Soksan, a senior investi-
gator with rights group Ad-
hoc, said that the authorities
should formally give the land
to the villagers.
It is not difcult, because
those lands belonged to the
state; the state can give it
to the villagers who do not
have land.
A woman holds her child earlier this week outside their house in Pailin provinces Krinh village, where locals
have allegedly been detained for refusing to vacate the area. PHOTO SUPPLIED
One-stop ofce to help
migrants at Thai border
Police end Prey Lang event
Workers take strike to ministry
Sen David
POLICE in Kampong Thom
province shut down a forest
protection training session
yesterday, citing fears that it
was encouraging residents to
protest against logging in Prey
Lang, activists and residents
have said.
Sar Mory, a deputy of the
Cambodian Youth Network
(CYN), said that his group
organised the session to teach
30 residents about ways of pro-
tecting the depleting Prey
Lang forest and about their
legal rights to the area.
We taught them about ways
to protect Prey Lang, because
they are the people who live
and depend on [the forest], so
they really do not want to
lose it because of logging,
Mory explained.
According to Mory, the
training was cut short when
five policemen arrived and
ordered the group to end the
session and for him to report
to the Sandan district gover-
nor. He said he refused the
second order.
The authorities seem to be
scared when the residents have
knowledge to protest . . . against
logging, he said.
Earlier this month, a public
forum organised by the Prey
Lang Community Network in
Preah Vihear provinces Chey
Sen district was cancelled after
provincial authorities banned
the meeting.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sok
Channa, who attended yester-
days session, said that resi-
dents rely on advocacy and
training from NGOs to assist
their anti-logging efforts.
We used to patrol and crack
down on loggers by ourselves.
We need training about the law
so we can [find legal ways
to protest against logging],
she said.
Oung San, Sandan commune
police chief, said authorities
should have been told about
the training beforehand.
Police did not say the train-
ing is illegal, but [CYN] must
inform local authorities first
. . . We have a right to know,
too, he said.
But Mory disagreed.
We do not need to inform
the authorities first, because
we have a right to offer train-
ing, he said.
Last week, activists working
in Prey Lang forest accused
military and police officers of
being behind two illegal timber
hauls they intercepted.
Mom Kunthear
MORE than 300 workers from a garment fac-
tory in Phnom Penhs Russey Keo district took
their protest to the Ministry of Labour yester-
day, marching there to demand government
intervention.
The demonstrators, who were representing
about 800 workers at Wincam Corporation who
began striking 10 days earlier, demanded eight
conditions, including an additional 2,000 riel for
every hour of overtime and one day off for preg-
nant women to receive prenatal care, said Ou
Sokheng, president of the Confederation of
Union for Cambodia Corporation.
The workers [who are not unionised] asked
my union to help them find a resolution to their
demands, and today they decided to walk to the
ministry, Sokheng said.
A Wincam Corporation administrator said fac-
tory officials are negotiating with relevant officials
to resolve the situation.
A hectic scene also arose at the Harta Packaging
factory in the capitals Por Sen Chey district,
where about 200 workers who have been on strike
since January burned tyres outside.
We agreed to thumbprint [a
document] to give [away] 5
hectares of land . . . but my
wife has not been released yet
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in the capital, Score is staying
open 24/7 for the World Cup
and will screen every game of
the tournament.
We work every night until
the games nish, a male bar-
tender says, referring to his
14-hour shift, which stretches
through three matches that,
thanks to the extreme time
difference between Cambodia
and Brazil, kick off at 11pm,
2am and 5am.
We are tired, but our boss
promised to give us extra pay-
ment. But we do not know how
much yet, another barman
later told the Post.
Score is paying its staff very
well in extra wages during the
World Cup for the long nights
they are working, according
to manager Franois Lamon-
tagne, who says he is also of-
fering a bonus and a free trip
to Sihanoukville at the end of
the tournament.
But some bars and beer gar-
dens catering to the Kingdoms
football fans may be breaching
the labour law by failing to pay
extra wages for the night-shift
work, a union that represents
service workers said.
The problem is that the em-
ployers do not pay staff work-
ing during night shifts in ac-
cordance with the labour law,
Sar Mora, president of the
Cambodian Food and Service
Workers Federation, said.
The law, he said, stipulates
that workers should be paid 30
per cent extra for night work,
dened as taking place be-
tween 10pm and 5am.
Under the formula, some-
one making $20 during a day
shift should earn $26 for the
equivalent night shift.
Many venues showing all the
games have added new shifts
to remain open at all hours
during the tournament, Mora
continued, but are failing to
obey the night-time wage and
other penalty rates.
General overtime hours
should see workers paid a 50
per cent increase on their base
salary, while overtime that oc-
curs at night should see work-
ers paid double.
If you work more than eight
hours per day, it must be con-
sidered overtime, Moeun
Tola, labour program head at
the Community Legal Educa-
tion Center, said.
Harold Unland, owner of
the Sundance Inn and Saloon,
which is also open 24 hours
during the tournament, said
that he was paying double
time to overtime workers, be-
cause it was what the staff
had asked for.
But for the new 11pm-7am
shift, the bar wasnt doling out
extra pay, because it was the
same amount of hours as a
normal shift, he said.
The benets to his bot-
tom line of staying open at all
hours dont appear to be great
thus far.
Weve usually got a lot of
people for the 11pm game. For
the second game [at 2am], we
have maybe only 10 people,
and maybe only one person for
the last game, apart from dur-
ing the England-Italy match.
We stay open just in case and
because we said we would
be open.
A supervisor at Paddy Rice
Irish Sports Bar, on the river-
side, also said the venue was
not paying extra wages to
those working the night shift
for the tournament, because it
didnt involve any extra hours
being worked compared to a
normal shift.
Lots of people come to
watch the games, but when
there are no customers [late at
night], the staff can take a rest
or sit down. Its not as busy as
other places, he said.
But while venues by and
large arent abiding by the let-
ter of the law, many are nd-
ing other ways to compensate
their workers.
What were doing is giv-
ing a bonus at the end of the
month, which I imagine will
be around $40 to $50 on top
of a standard salary of be-
tween $100 and $150 a month,
said Eden Thomas of Edens
Bar, which is open all night for
the tournament.
We pay workers as much
as we possibly can . . . what
the unions dont seem to un-
derstand is that the wages are
linked to [astronomical] rents,
he said.
His staff seems to be con-
tent with the arrangement
and say they are excited by
the general buzz surrounding
the tournament.
I like all of it. We get more
customers. It only happens
once every four years. Its a
beautiful time, and Im very
happy, a waitress said. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY PHAK SEANGLY
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Hungry thief served a
beating by angry victim
A DESPERATE 20-year-old
was arrested early yesterday
for allegedly breaking into a
restaurant in Phnom Penhs
Prampi Makara district.
According to police, the man
snuck into the restaurant,
waking the owner in the proc-
ess. When the suspect ran for
his life, the restaurateur gave
chase, throwing kicks and
punches along the way. Police
apprehended the suspect, who
confessed, saying he was driv-
en to steal because of a lack of
money for food. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Vigilante justice sees a
culprit get just deserts
A CAPITAL thief was given a
taste of a Phnom Penh mobs
fury after he allegedly stabbed
a shopkeeper during a robbery
in Prampi Makara on Wednes-
day. Police said the man
entered the shop, threatening
the owner with a knife. When
the owner called for help, the
suspect stabbed him and fled,
but not faster than a posse of
neighbours who gave him a
serious beating. Police inter-
vened, the victim was sent to
hospital, and the suspect was
sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Quarrelsome diners
knife fellow customer
A RESTAURANT rivalry result-
ed in serious injuries for a
man in Phnom Penhs Tuol
Kork district on Wednesday.
According to police, the victim
and friends were at a restau-
rant when they got into an
argument with a group at a
neighbouring table. The angry
diners left, but laid in wait out-
side, attacking the victim with
a cleaver as he left. The sus-
pects fled on motos and are
still at large. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Moto thief runs out of
steam before escaping
A HAPLESS alleged thief in
Kandals Saang district
walked right into the hands of
police after the moto he
attempted to steal ran out of
gas on Wednesday. According
to police, a woman had gone
to look for firewood in the for-
est, parking her moto about
100 metres away. She looked
up just in time to see a man
making off with her bike.
Unfortunately for the thief,
however, the bike ran out of
gas and sputtered to a stop
just outside the forest, making
it that much easier for police
to nab him. NOKORWAT
One man finds solace in
money after being jilted
A MAN in Kampots Kampong
Trach district was arrested for
adopting a strange and ulti-
mately unsuccessful courtship
tactic on Tuesday. Police said
the man broke into the home of
a sleeping widow he knew,
stealing $50 from under her
bed. He then waited for her to
awake and tried to persuade
her to marry him, pocketing
the cash after being rebuffed.
The police were called and the
man reportedly confessed, say-
ing he had been in love with the
woman, and only decided to
keep the money because she
turned him down. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
A bartender at a sports bar in Phnom Penh prepares drinks as punters wait for a World Cup game to start
early on Wednesday morning. SCOTT HOWES
Working on the
World Cup clock
Kevin Ponniah
ONCE every four years, when
the FIFA World Cup rolls
around, business surveys and
studies are inevitably released
telling us that all those hours
spent watching football, think-
ing about football and talking
about football have a tangible
effect on the global economy.
During the 2010 World Cup
in South Africa, for example,
sales data and intelligence rm
InsideView estimated that the
tournament would cost the
UK economy $7.36 billion in
productivity losses.
Closer to home, the Malay-
sian Employers Federation
found that more than 55 per
cent of businesses had dealt
with high absenteeism or
productivity loss during the
past two tournaments. Media
reports suggest more of the
same this year.
But despite the fact that
games will be shown at ex-
treme hours in Cambodia,
employers here say they ex-
pect that workers will still turn
up to work on time and get the
job done.
I have no concern its af-
fecting productivity. Its creat-
ing excitement and generally
football in Cambodia is not
as hyped [up] as in Malaysia,
for example, Smart Axiata
CEO Thomas Hundt said. So
far its positive energy instead
of negative.
According to Acleda execu-
tive vice president and group
chief operations ofcer So
Phonnary, the bank has never
had any problems with work-
ers being less productive dur-
ing the World Cup.
According to our corporate
culture, our staff are commit-
ted and they manage their
time. If its a holiday or a week-
end they may go to bed late,
but for weekdays, I dont think
my staff will do this.
Chan Sophal, president of the
Cambodian Economic Associa-
tion, said that, despite not hav-
ing any data, he would specu-
late that the tournament has
little impact on productivity.
My guess is that its not that
signicant in Cambodia. Only
a handful of people would
be affected.
Pascal Tadin, executive as-
sistant manager at the Sotel
Phokeethra hotel in Phnom
Penh, said that while he had
noticed enthusiasm and chat-
ter about the Cup among ho-
tel staff, we have not seen any
negative impact regarding our
staffs professionalism.
Will the World Cup
hurt productivity?

This week in biz
Garment factory lists
on the stock exchange
GARMENT manufacturer
Grand Twins International on
Monday became the first
privately owned company to
list on the Cambodia Stock
Exchange. After a five month
IPO process hampered by
delays and scepticism, the
firm listed on the local bourse
at $2.41 per share.
Ly Yong Phat eyes new
television station plans
PROMINENT tycoon and
ruling party Senator Ly Yong
Phat has set his sights on the
media landscape, announc-
ing on Friday plans to set up
a television station. The
entry of an LYP channel,
proposed as part of a joint
venture with unnamed
media companies from
France and Thailand, would
make it the 11th commercial
TV station in Cambodia.
Mfone pays up wage
debt to ex-workers
MORE than 1,000 former
Mfone staff members
received the remaining 30 per
cent of their unpaid wages on
Monday. The failed teleco
went bankrupt in February
last year leaving behind a total
wage bill of $4.4 million. A
company official said the
wage bill had now been
entirely paid off and that they
were now waiting on debtors
to pay up an estimated
$690,000 in owed funds.
Phnom Penh offices rise
most in region: report
OFFICE space rental prices
in Phnom Penh are the
fastest-growing in the entire
Asia Pacific region according
to Knight Frank report
published earlier this month
shows. The June 3 quarterly
report shows that monthly
prime office rent prices in the
capital reached more than
$27 per square metre in the
first quarter, up 18 per cent
compared with the same
period last year.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 20, 2014
Business
A worker sits in front of sacks of rice stored in a warehouse at the O Karnkaset rice mill in Thailands Suphan Buri province in February. BLOOMBERG
Coup rattles Thai rice industry
R
ICE prices in Thai-
land, the worlds
second-biggest ex-
porter, will probably
extend their gains because of
shipping delays as migrant
workers ee after the military
coup, the Thai Rice Exporters
Association said.
As many as 70 per cent of
the workers involved in load-
ing grain at warehouses and
moving it to vessels have left
the country, Chookiat Oph-
aswongse, the associations
honorary president, said
by phone from Bangkok on
Wednesday. That could delay
deliveries by as much as three
weeks, he said.
Thailand is set to account
for 22 per cent of global rice
exports this year, US Depart-
ment of Agriculture data
show. More than 200,000
workers from neighbouring
countries ed Thailand since
the military seized power on
May 22 amid fears of a crack-
down on illegal labour, ac-
cording to the International
Organization for Migration.
The military denies order-
ing such a move. Thai rice
prices have increased to a
three-month high.
Were now facing problems
of severe labour shortages
and tight supplies, which will
boost prices in the short term,
Chookiat said, predicting that
rates may increase by as much
as $20 in the next two months.
Thai 5 per cent broken white
rice, an Asian benchmark,
climbed for a third week on
Wednesday, adding 1.5 per
cent to $398 a tonne.
A supply shortage after the
military halted sales from state
stockpiles is also bolstering
rates, Chookiat said. The army
stopped sales and curbed
movement of grain to review
the quality and quantity of
reserves built up through a
state buying program started
in 2011. Inventories rose to 14
million tonnes from 5.6 mil-
lion tonnes three years ago,
USDA data show.
Ample stockpiles in Thai-
land and competition from
Vietnam will curb gains, said
Kiattisak Kanlayasirivat, a
Bangkok-based director at
Ascend Commodities Sa,
which trades about 500,000
tonnes of rice annually.
As prices rise, demand
for Thai origin slows. Buyers
will seek cheaper sources like
Vietnam.
While prices for 5 per cent
broken white rice increased
for the past three weeks, they
have declined 9 per cent this
year because of excess sup-
plies in Thailand and India.
Only about 500 tonnes
of rice a day can be loaded
now, compared with 2,000-
3,000 tonnes normally, Kiat-
tisak said, referring to grain
bought from Thai exporters
for shipment to Africa. Ive
never seen such slow loading
before. The shipment could
be delayed by a month.
The National Council for
Peace and Order, as the junta
is known, aims to solve the
problem of illegal workers,
Air Chief Marshal Prajin Jun-
tonneg, the head of economic
affairs, said on June 17.
The council expects mi-
grant labour will return to
Thailand because of high de-
mand, he said.
Workers load bags from
warehouses onto lighters and
onto vessels at ports, said
Sermsak Kuonsongtum, direc-
tor of Chaiyaporn Group, an
exporter, and association vice
president.
The loading rate is about 300
tonnes a day now compared
with 1,500 tonnes normally,
Sermsak said by phone from
Bangkok.
The country has a migrant
worker population of 2.23
million, including 1.82 mil-
lion people who entered the
country illegally, according
to the Department of Em-
ployment. Of the total, 1.74
million are from Myanmar,
395,000 from Cambodia and
96,000 from Laos.
Elsewhere on Wednesday,
The meeting between Gen-
eral Chatchai Sarikalya, dep-
uty head of economic affairs
for the National Council for
Peace and Order, and repre-
sentatives from rice millers,
farmers, exporters and rel-
evant state agencies agreed
on guidelines to help farmers
cope with production costs.
Within the guidelines, ven-
dors of chemical fertiliser, in-
secticide, rice seeds, rice har-
vesters and land owners who
rent their farmland agreed to
cut their product prices.
General Chatchai insisted
the measures will not include
cash or other forms of subsi-
dies, but rather focus on how
to lower farmers production
costs. AFP / BLOOMBERG
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8
Business
Chan Muyhong
CHINESE rm Huaxin Ce-
ment Co has purchased a 40
per cent stake in Cambodia
Cement Chakrey Ting Factory
Co, a cement-making factory
currently under construction
in Kampot province.
Huaxins $24 million in-
vestment Cambodia Cement
lifted the local factorys work-
ing capital to $60 million, up
from $32 million, according to
company representatives.
Ouk Bunseng, deputy man-
ager of Cambodia Cement,
said yesterday the deal would
help to expedite the factorys
construction and pay back
debts to the Bank of China.
The total investment for
the factorys buildin is $100
million. We received $32 mil-
lion from the shareholders
and the other $67 million has
been funded by Bank of Chi-
na, said Bunseng.
Cambodia Cement, which
is reportedly 98 per cent com-
plete and promises to produce
more than 3,200 tonnes of the
building material every day,
is slated to commence opera-
tions in August.
We will be the biggest ce-
ment producer in Cambodia,
Bunseng said.
According to industry web-
site, www.globalcement.com,
demand for cement in Cam-
bodia reached 2.5 million
tonnes in 2010 with that gure
said to be increasing at about
10 per cent annually.
The latest available govern-
ment data shows Cambodia
imported more than 816,000
tonnes of cement from Thai-
land, Vietnam and China dur-
ing 2011. During the rst six
months of 2012, the Kingdom
imported more than half that
amount, 587,000 tonnes.
Cheng Kheng, chairman
of real estate rm Cambodia
Properties Ltd, called on fu-
ture cement producer to en-
sure high quality standards to
meet growing demand.
It is good for the con-
struction sector if there is
a reliable local cement pro-
ducer because we are seeing
an increase in the amount
of high rise buildings being
built, which places huge de-
mand for cement imports,
he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
RAINBOW LI
Chinese rm acquires
large stake in Kampot
$100m cement factory
Soma teams up for $50M mill
Hor Kimsay
C
AMBODIAN rice ex-
porter Soma Group
is partnering with
Thai agricultural rm
CP Intertrade, in a $50 million
rice mill in Kampong Speu
province, the companies an-
nounced yesterday.
Construction of the mill is
nearly 60 per cent complete
and will be fully operational
within the rst quarter of 2015,
with the capacity to produce up
to 300,000 tonnes per year, Sok
Puthyvuth, chief executive of-
cer of SOMA Group, said.
Puthyvuth, who is also the
president of the newly formed
Cambodia Rice Federation
(CRF), said Soma was partner-
ing with CP Intertrade in order
to leverage the Thai rms expe-
rience with operating the tech-
nology destined for the rice mill,
as well as to help open up new
markets for Cambodian rice.
CP already has a big market,
so we will place our exports into
their channels, he said, adding
that the venture will increase
volumes to existing markets
like China and EU, while ac-
tively seeking new destinations
for local rice.
The company did not indi-
cate either partys stake in the
joint venture, but according to
Puthyvuth, CP holds a majority
share in the deal.
Prasit Damrongchietanon,
vice chairman of CP Trading
Group, said the new factory was
equipped the with close to $20
million worth of the latest rice-
production technology from
Japan and the US.
[Cambodia] still has very
high potential to increase [pro-
duction], maybe more than
double from what we currently
can do. So, the [priority] is how
we can quickly bring the right
technology to t the industrys
needs, he said.
David Van, acting secretary-
general of CRF, told the Post
that the size of the investment
alone will make the new ven-
ture a major player in Cam-
bodias rice industry. However,
there were still challenges for
the sector to overcome on its
way to the governments target
of 1 million tones exported by
2015, Van added.
If the price is smooth like
last year, we can export more,
but if it uctuates like it is cur-
rently, [the goal] will be difcult
to achieve, he said.
Sok Puthyvuth talks during a signing ceremony between Soma Group and CP Intertrade regarding a rice
milling and rening project yesterday at the Hotel Sotel Phnom Penh. HENG CHIVOAN
9
Business
Slow start
for GTI as
public rm
Eddie Morton
GRAND Twins International
(GTI) ended trading yesterday
with a slight decline.
The newly listed company
was changing hands at
9,480 riel ($2.36) per share at
the 1pm close, down from
9,640 riel ($2.40) at the morn-
ings opening.
Douglas Clayton, CEO of
investment firm Leopard Cap-
ital, said GTIs slow start may
be linked to volatility in the sec-
tor. Clayton pointed to Hong
Kong-owned garment factory
Yu Feng, which suddenly closed
its doors and went out of busi-
ness last week.
[GTI] sounds like a progres-
sive company, just in the wrong
sector to serve as the CSX stal-
wart, Clayton said.
GTI is just the second com-
pany to list on the local bourse,
following state-owed Phnom
Penh Water Supply Authoritys
listing in 2012.
The garment maker is the
first ever private company to go
public in Cambodia.
GTI shares fell almost 5 per
cent on the firms first day of
trading on Monday after launch-
ing at $2.41 per share.
EARLIER this week, garment
manufacturer Grand Twins
International became just
the second company to list
on the Cambodia Securities
Exchange (CSX) in its three-
year history. After numerous
delays and scepticism from
local and international in-
vestors, the rm successfully
completed the IPO process
and commenced trading at
$2.41 per share on Monday.
CEO Liao Chung-te spoke
with the Posts Eddie Morton
about the ve-month leadup
to Mondays listing.
Why did GTI go public? Was it
for the $20 million of increased
capital or an effort to promote
the company and the sector?
Its our honour to be the
rst [private] IPO company.
We were not only seeking the
increase in capital but also
recognition from the public.
GTI had to build up its repu-
tation and develop strong
foundations in Cambodia to
get to where it is and, with the
garment industry continuing
to expand yearly, hopefully
the public can see and appre-
ciate this.
Can you guarantee complete
transparency now that the
rm has gone public?
Absolutely, we can guaran-
tee complete transparency
to the public. This is the only
way to gain trust from the
public. That said, it might
take a while to build this
trust. But we will work hard
and have more communica-
tion with the public, espe-
cially with the media.
What were the most difcult
aspects of attracting investors
to buy into GTI?
Cambodia does not have
sufcient laws allowing foreign
banking rms to purchase in-
terests in local companies.
The lack of these custodian
laws has been the major con-
cern of most of our investors.
And some of the foreign inves-
tors were not familiar with the
Cambodia market so we had
to spend a lot of time to ex-
plain it to them.
GTI has a reputation as one of
Cambodias better-run gar-
ment factories. Was it always
that way?
It took time to build up such a
reputation at GTI. Weve been in
Cambodia for almost 20 years
and we have helped Cambo-
dias government in economic
development relating to the
garment sector since the be-
ginning. Also, with guaranteed
orders from Adidas, we are able
to improve our working envi-
ronment. This, admittedly, isnt
easy for other garment facto-
ries to catch up with.
Was GTI impacted by the
strikes at the beginning of
the year?
We were only impacted by
outside forces threatening our
workers to stop work in or-
der to facilitate their national
strike plan. This caused us to
shut down the operation for
two days in order to guarantee
our workers safety. Although
all our workers were willing to
work, they were not able to. We
arranged overtime to catch up
the two days lost capacity. We
have a strike record of zero.
In your opinion, would further
sector-wide wage rises endan-
ger the industrys longevity?
Even though the wages have
risen to $100 per month, it is
still relatively low compared
with China and neighbour-
ing Southeast Asia coun-
tries. Meanwhile, Cambodia
also has the advantage of a 0
per cent import custom du-
ties for European countries,
so that makes the industrys
current and future prospects
more promising.
Sceptics say the wage dis-
pute and a dependence on
off-shore demand to fuel
production make the indus-
try too volatile for a promis-
ing share offering. What do
you think?
To GTI, it is not volatile at all.
What we worry about is how to
expand and hire enough work-
ers at the fastest pace to fulll
all our customers demand. As
the global economy recovers,
we had huge order increases
from our existing customers
and had lots of inquiries from
new customers.
There are several rms
waiting to be listed and some
are garment companies. But
yes, it would be good to have
a nancial rm be listed as
well.
This interview has been edited
for length and clarity.
After IPO comes trust building
Grand Twins International CEO Liao Chung-te talks to the Post in the
companys factory in Por Sen Chey district last week. DANIEL QUINLAN
Empty seats
As freebies
go, so too
do investors

S
OME of Japans best-
known companies are
seeing attendance
plummet at their shareholder
meetings, but its not World
Cup fever keeping investors
away its a lack of gifts.
Sony, Japan Airlines and
fast-food chain Yoshinoya are
among firms that have dum-
ped the long-standing tradition
of coughing up freebies for
shareholders at annual meets.
In fact, some investors have
been known to grab their gifts
ranging from food coupons to
movie tickets and leave be-
fore execs open their mouths.
Sonys conference in Tokyo
yesterday drew fewer than
half the record 10,693 inves-
tors at last years meet. The
firm had notified investors
there would be no free gifts
this summer, saying the move
was aimed at being fair to
those who could not attend,
while acknowledging cost-
cutting as an additional factor.
Turnout at Yoshinoyas meet
fell by about two-thirds this
year no coincidence, per-
haps, that this is the first time
it hasnt given out coupons for
its beef-on-rice bowls. AFP
Markets
10
Business
Amazon sets smartphone Fire
Rob Lever
A
MAZON on Wednes-
day unveiled its Fire
smartphone, a high-
end handset boasting
breakthrough technologies
in a move aimed at challeng-
ing market leaders Apple
and Samsung.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
launched the device, Ama-
zons rst phone of its own,
which has a 4.7-inch display,
a high-denition camera and
Amazons free help service.
The phone also ties in to
Amazons vast array of other
offerings, serving as a plat-
form for digital content such
as books, lms and music and
connecting users to the rms
cloud storage.
Fire Phone puts everything
you love about Amazon in the
palm of your hand instant
access to Amazons vast con-
tent ecosystem, Bezos said.
The handset has what Bezos
called a dynamic display that
shows images in three dimen-
sions, and a scanner which
recognises products for sale
and a variety of other objects
such as artworks.
Amazon described these
features as two new break-
through technologies that
allow you to see and inter-
act with the world through a
whole new lens.
The so-called dynamic per-
spective uses a sensor system
to respond to the way you
hold, view, and move Fire,
enabling experiences not pos-
sible on other smartphones,
Amazon said.
Another feature, dubbed
Firey, recognises things
in the real world such as web
and email addresses, phone
numbers, bar codes and mil-
lions of products and lets you
take action in seconds to buy
a product or create a music
playlist, for example.
Contrary to some specula-
tion, Amazon is not shaking
up the pricing model for the
smartphone market selling
the device to US customers
through AT&T at $200 with a
contract, starting July 25.
Analysts had mixed reac-
tions, saying Amazon did not
offer a compelling reason for
consumers to switch, but could
appeal to its loyal customers.
There are people who know
and love all things about Ama-
zon, and thats the low-hang-
ing fruit, Ramon Llamas, mo-
bile analyst at IDC said.
This is an uphill challenge
to get people to give up their
current smartphones and
switch to this one.
IbisWorld telecom analyst
Sarah Kahn said the Fire is not
different enough and doesnt
offer a big nancial induce-
ment for consumers to switch.
But she noted that Ama-
zons goal is always to get you
one click closer to purchasing,
so this integrates completely
with that strategy.
Ian Freed, Amazons vice
president for the Fire, said the
product comes with a year-
long Prime video-streaming
subscription, unlimited cloud
photo storage and twice as
many gigabytes inside the
phone than a similarly priced
iPhone or Galaxy S. But that
doesnt change the fact the
faster-growing market is the
nonpremium segment. The av-
erage price of smartphones fell
10 per cent year-on-year in the
rst quarter. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Not much to Like after 30
minute Facebook outage
FACEBOOK returned to service
yesterday after a major outage
hit both its website and mobile
apps across the globe for about
30 minutes.
Earlier this morning, we
experienced an issue that pre-
vented some users from post-
ing to Facebook for a brief
period of time. We resolved the
issue quickly, and we are now
back to 100 per cent, the com-
pany said, but didnt explain
what caused the outage.
Visitors to Facebooks
homepage saw an error mes-
sage reading: Sorry, something
went wrong. Were working on
getting this fixed as soon as we
can. The site couldnt be
accessed in Cambodia as well
as in cities including Tokyo,
Johannesburg, London, Paris,
New Delhi, Amsterdam, Mos-
cow and Taipei.
Facebooks mobile app was
also appeared affected, with
status updates and messages
not loading during the outage.
Facebook, which had 1.28
billion monthly active users
and 1.01 billion monthly
mobile active users in March,
is one of the worlds most-ac-
cessed web services.
The outage prevents users
accessing the social network
leading many to decamp to
other services like Google+ and
Twitter. News of the outage
spurred the #Facebookdown
hashtag to be referenced on
Twitter more than 49,000 times
within an hour.
Some wondered whether
productivity could pick up in
the time Facebook was down.
The outage was long enough
that brands started to capital-
ise on it.
Still, most seemed to make
light of the situation.
The restoration of access, of
course, didnt extend to China.
BLOOMBERG/THE GUARDIAN
Amazon.coms rst smartphone, the Fire, is displayed at its launch event in Seattle yesterday. AFP
Paul Gallen
@PaulGallenFacts
Now if we could just get
Twitter to crash as well,
global productivity would
really pick up.
Nestle KitKat PH
@kitkat_ph
Looks like #Facebook is
having a BREAK right now.
Have a BREAK, too! :)
9GAG
@k9GAG
I was going to wish you a
happy birthday but Face-
book is down
news.com.au
@newscomauHQ
On the bright side, you are
not being defriended right
now.
IRREGULARITIES amounting to more than $5
billion have been found at Chinas sovereign
wealth fund and two large state-owned banks,
according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse
into the opaque management of government-
controlled firms.
China Investment Corporation (CIC), Bank of
China and Agricultural Development Bank of
China violated regulations in areas including
asset selling, loan issuance and fraudulent
invoicing, according to the National Audit Office
(NAO). The audit found CIC breached rules on
overseas investment and risk control, domestic
subsidiaries operation and financial manage-
ment, the NAO said in a statement.
The funds financial management was rela-
tively weak, it said in the document.
CIC was established in 2007 to pursue higher
returns from part of the countrys foreign
exchange reserves, the worlds largest, and had
assets of more than $575 billion at the end of
2012. One of its subsidiaries sold stakes in a
securities firm in 2011 at their original purchase
price, losing 1.26 billion yuan ($202 million) on
their market value at the time, the NAO said in
the statement.
Another CIC subsidiary made unauthorised
investments in property developments totalling
more than 8.2 billion yuan by March last year,
the NAO said.
CIC vowed Thursday to address the problems.
Chinas state-owned companies generally oper-
ate in a secretive manner and reports on their
losses have been rare. AFP
Auditor nds $5B in China irregularities
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Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 106.5 0.53 0.50% 3:14:52
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 114.55 0.29 0.25% 3:14:32
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.64 -0.02 -0.39% 3:15:10
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 310.79 0.97 0.31% 3:05:07
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 304.34 0.33 0.11% 3:15:34
ICEGasoil USD/MT 937.75 2.75 0.29% 3:15:30
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13.86 0.05 0.33% 23:33:13
CME Lumber USD/tbf 313 4.7 1.52% 21:57:57
Anthony Efnger, Zeke Faux
and Katherine Burton
T
HE Milken Institute likes to
keep up with the newest new
thing, so it was no surprise
that its April conference in
Los Angeles included a panel on
investing in marijuana.
The moderator, Mike Zappy
Zapolin, a trainee at Drexel Burnham
Lambert Inc when junk-bond king
Michael Milken reigned there, spent
several minutes talking about Zappy
Inc, a company hes formed to prof-
it from cannabis. Another member
of the panel, Craig Ellins, showed
an infomercial for the hydroponic
pot-growing chambers developed
by his new company, GrowBlox
Sciences Inc.
Todd Denkin described how Digi
Path Inc plans to train people to work
in pot dispensaries and become the
new baristas of weed.
The three men half the panel
share a pot pedigree: They all worked
at GrowLife Inc, a money-losing com-
pany in Woodland Hills, California,
backed in 2011 by a much more pri-
vate man. His name is David Weiner,
and hes had a hand in financing at
least five penny-stock companies like
GrowLife since 2004.
With GrowLife, Weiner joined an
investor frenzy for any product relat-
ed to marijuana. The sale and use of
pot is now approved for medical pur-
poses in 22 states and the District of
Columbia and is legal for recreation-
al sales in Colorado and Washington
state. That has entrepreneurs and
investors seeing green both kinds.
Were talking about a $50 billion-
$100 billion industry thats just start-
ing, Zapolin said.
There are currently at least 130 pub-
lic companies that claim to be in the
marijuana business, and most of
them are so-called penny stocks,
defined by the SEC as stocks trading
for less than $5 a share.
They often trade in the risky and
potentially lucrative over-the-counter
market. Brendan Kennedy, chief
executive officer of Privateer Hold-
ings, a firm that invests in the mari-
juana industry, says he shuns the
public companies.
Theyre full of shenanigans and
charlatans, Kennedy says. Most of
them will revert to zero.
Hemp investors are undaunted.
On some days, cannabis-related
stocks account for 15 per cent or
more of all penny-stock trading,
according to OTC Markets Group
Inc, which runs the trading venue
once known as the pink sheets. Since
September 2012, the market capi-
talisation of those stocks has soared
from $500 million to more than $7
billion as of May 30.
Asked whether Weiner had a stake
in a half dozen other marijuana-re-
lated companies, including Vape,
Zappy and GrowBlox, Anthony Glass-
man, Weiners lawyer, said that his
client would not answer questions
about his private finances.
The US Securities and Exchange
Commission, which last year formed
a special task force to fight what it
calls microcap fraud, has taken an
interest in the burgeoning public pot
companies. In May, the SEC, without
naming any companies, warned
investors to be wary, not greedy.
Fraudsters often exploit the latest
innovation, technology, product or
growth industry in this case, mari-
juana to lure investors with the
promise of high returns, the SEC said
in a statement.
The SEC has suspended trading in
eight public marijuana companies
this year.
GrowLife shares soared 1,206 per
cent in the 12 months ended on
March 17, when they peaked at 77.7
cents, lifted by a mania for all things
cannabis and by a steady stream of
press releases extolling the company.
On the day of the high, for example,
GrowLife touted a research partner-
ship with Vape, its neighbour.
Unlike Weiner, who prefers to stay
in the background, Ellins, Denkin
and Zapolin plug their companies
by attending events such as the pres-
tigious Milken conference. Another
panellist at the pot session, Sue
Rusche, CEO of National Families in
Action, an Atlanta group that strives
to keep drugs away from kids, says
that when the men took the stage,
they all said this was a great day for
the industry.
Zapolin and Ellins put out press
releases of their attendance, and
both made pitches for their new
marijuana companies, keeping the
great marijuana stock promotion
machine rolling. BLOOMBERG
Hot stocks blowing smoke?
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Sales and Marketing Oficer 4.
Site Architect, Engineer, MEP 5.
Site Infrastructure Engineer 6.
Quality Surveyor 7.
Structural Designer 8.
Architectural Designer 9.
MEP Designer 10.
Interior and Exterior Designer 11.
Site Safety Oficer 12.
Assistant Topography Surveyor 13.
Mechanical Oficer 14.
Receptionist 15.
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products in Cambodia. To cope with our rapid expansion, we are
looking for the following positions:
Recruitment Supervisor 1.
Account Payable 2.
Supervisor
Treasury Supervisor 3.
Logistics Supervisor 4.
Plant Supervisor 5.
Concrete
Secretary 6.
Recruitment Oficer 7.
Administrative Oficer 8.
(1 Logistic , 1 Finance)
Stock Oficer 9.
GPS Controller 10.
Local Purchasing Oficer 11.
Oversea Purchasing Oficer 12.
(1 Chinese speaking and 1
Thai speaking)
Sales Project Oficer 13.
Chinese speaking
Sales Admin Oficer 14.
Sales Oficer 15.
Telemarketing Oficer 16.
Sales Representatives 17.
(Phnom Penh, Siem Reap,
Kampong Som, Takeo,
Kampong Chhnang)
Project SalesCoordinator 18.
Project Sales Engineer 19.
Chinese speaking
Quality Control Oficer 20.
Concrete
Concrete Mixing Operator 21.
Financial Reporting Oficer 22.
Budgeting Oficer 23.
Costing Analyst 24.
Business Analyst 25.
Petty Cash Oficer 26.
Collector 27.
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1
Maliki. Malikis spokesman,
Zuhair al-Nahar, said yester-
day that the West should im-
mediately support the Iraqi
governments military opera-
tion against ISIS rather than
demand a change of govern-
ment. He insisted Maliki had
never used sectarian tactics.
Obama is said to still be
weighing military options,
and US ofcials for days have
quietly signalled that a deci-
sion is not imminent.
General Martin Dempsey,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, conrmed that the
US had received the request
for air strikes but said that the
uid state of the Iraqi battle-
eld had left the US with
incomplete intelligence, a
factor that made an air cam-
paign more difcult.
Fighting continued in Iraq
yesterday as militants of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIS) raised their
black banners at Iraqs larg-
est oil renery. A witness
said militants were manning
checkpoints around the Baiji
facility and that a huge re in
one of its tankers was raging.
A security ofcial in Baghdad
said government forces were
still inside the complex.
Witnesses at the Baiji ren-
ery between the cities of Mo-
sul and Tikrit, both seized by
ISIS last week said insurgents
broke through the perimeter
of the site early on Wednesday
and were within sight of ad-
ministration buildings.
Their advance comes de-
spite erce resistance from
Iraqi troops stationed at the
renery. There were reports
foreign security contractors
had been sent to Baiji to pro-
tect what is one of Iraqs most
important strategic assets.
Losing control of Baiji
would be a critical blow to
Iraqi forces still reeling from
the capitulation of close to
50,000 troops last week, many
of whom have since been re-
placed by militias raised from
the countrys majority Shia
population.
In Iraq, the spectre of full-
blown sectarian war hangs
heavily over those trying to
decide how to deal with the
crisis, with nationalistic aims
often subsumed by sect loy-
alties. Many Shia volunteers
heading to battle zones in-
cluding Tal Afar say they see
the insurgents more as a threat
to their sect than to Iraq itself.
Battle lines for the de-
fence of Baghdad have been
drawn 40 miles to the north
of the capital, near the city
of Baquba, which remained
a scene of intense clashes on
Wednesday as jihadists again
tried to enter the city centre.
Their efforts to seize Baqubas
prison have so far been re-
buffed, with irregular militias
rushed from Baghdad prov-
ing pivotal in the ghting.
Maliki pledged that Tal Afar
would be retaken by yes-
terday, and ghting late on
Wednesday appeared to be
tipping the battle in favour of
Iraqi forces. However, a fear
remains that nothing decisive
can be achieved without in-
ternational intervention.
If we got US drones to hit
Baiji, and jets to bomb ISIS
elsewhere, we could slow
them down, said a senior
Iraqi MP. Without them we
can do nothing. Without them
we cant win. THE GUARDIAN
Pressure mounting on
Iraqs prime minister
Malaysian rescuers scour
sea in search for missing 35
M
ALAYSIAN au-
thorities were
yesterday sear-
ching for 35 peo-
ple missing at sea following
two boat accidents at a time
when many illegal migrant
workers head home to Indo-
nesia for the Muslim fasting
month of Ramadan.
In the latest reported inci-
dent, nine people were miss-
ing off western Malaysia after
a boat believed to be bound
for the Indonesian island
of Sumatra sank, said Mo-
hamad Hambali Yaakup,
an ofcial with the Malay-
sian Maritime Enforcement
Agency (MMEA).
A passing vessel, MMEA
boats and a helicopter res-
cued 18 people yesterday, he
said. Three of them were hos-
pitalised, while the rest are in
MMEAs custody.
Another maritime ofcial,
Hamid Mohamad Amin, said
interviews with survivors re-
vealed the boat sank amid
strong winds near the dis-
trict of Sepang, south Kuala
Lumpur, early on Wednesday
and not early yesterday as
originally reported.
The accident came to light
as authorities expanded a
search for survivors of an-
other boat also bound for
Sumatra that sank just up
the coast near Port Klang, the
countrys main sea port, with
97 Indonesians aboard, also
early on Wednesday.
Nine bodies have been
found after that accident,
while 26 remain missing,
though ofcials believe some
of them made it to land it
sank near the Malaysian
shore and ed the area to
avoid being apprehended.
Ofcials said they were still
investigating the accidents,
but both boats sank in rough
seas and were overloaded
with the rst one carrying
more than three times its
capacity.
Masri, a survivor from the
second accident who like
many Indonesians only has
one name, said the boats en-
gine stopped suddenly about
an hour and a half into the
journey and water started
seeping in.
The passengers panicked
because many couldnt swim.
The sudden movement on-
board caused the boat to tip
over, said the chicken seller,
36, who held on to an empty
fuel plastic container for about
28 hours until he was rescued.
Large numbers of Indone-
sians many of them illegal
migrants return home an-
nually from Malaysia for Ra-
madan, which this year begins
around the end of June and
will culminate in late July with
Eid al-Fitr, Islams biggest fes-
tival. Both Malaysia and Indo-
nesia are Muslim-majority.
Jumah, another survivor
from the accident off Sepang,
said he had wanted to return
to Sumatra after working ille-
gally on a construction site in
the capital Kuala Lumpur for
three months.
I felt I was going to die. The
sea was very rough. I prayed
and held on to the boat, the
68-year-old said after disem-
barking from a rescue vessel
together with others looking
tired, sunburned and hungry.
Yesterday, divers were de-
ployed, more vessels brought
in and the search zone for the
rst sinking expanded along
the coast in hope of nding
more survivors, said Moham-
ad Hambali. The 62 survivors
of the rst mishap have been
detained by authorities. AFP
Malaysian search and rescue teams carry out a search operation near the area where a boat carrying
Indonesian illegal migrants sank in seas off western Banting yesterday. AFP
World
13
Nazi guard
arrested for
war crimes
AN 89-YEAR-OLD has been
arrested and denied bail in the
US for alleged war crimes as a
teenage Nazi guard at Ausch-
witz. Johann Breyer, a retired
machinist born in Czechoslo-
vakia to a US mother, admits
joining the Waffen SS at the age
of 17 but denies being a guard
at the concentration camp in
German-occupied Poland.
He emigrated to the US after
World War II and is married
with children and grandchil-
dren. But German authorities
in 2012 opened an inquiry on
the suspicion that he was an
accessory in the killings of hun-
dreds of thousands of Jews in
1944 as an Auschwitz guard.
US media quoted court docu-
ments saying Breyer has been
charged on 158 counts of aiding
and abetting Nazi atrocities.
His lawyer Dennis Boyle
insists he was only in a field
artillery unit of the Waffen SS
and deserted weeks later after
serving in the vicinity of Ausch-
witz, but not as a guard.
He was as much a victim of
the Nazis as anyone else. He did
not volunteer to be in the SS,
he did not want to be in the SS,
he deserted from the SS, Boyle
said. AFP
Trailers trashed
A US soldier investigates the scene of a suicide attack at the Afghan-Pakistan border crossing in Torkham,
Nangarhar province yesterday. Three Taliban suicide attackers set ablaze 37 NATO military vehicles in
Afghanistan yesterday, local ofcials said, though the coalition conrmed only that several vehicles were
damaged. Also in Afghanistan, about 100 supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdul-
lah demonstrated in Kabul yesterday against alleged election fraud in the rst public protest of a growing
political crisis. Abdullah boycotted the vote count on Wednesday, saying he was the victim of blatant fraud
in the run-off election to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistans rst democratic
transfer of power. His announcement threw the election into doubt as Afghan ofcials and international
diplomats scrambled to keep the process on track ahead of preliminary results due out on July 2. AFP
Man convicted
of kidnapping
daughters killer
A
76-YEAR-OLD French-
man was convicted
on Wednesday of
having kidnapped
a German doctor who had
killed his daughter, but he
avoided jail time as the court
handed down a suspended
sentence.
The court in the eastern
French border town of Mul-
house gave Andre Bamberski
a suspended one-year sen-
tence for having abducted
Dieter Krombach in Germany
and brought him to France to
face trial.
Krombach was found
bound and gagged in 2009
near the courthouse in Mul-
house after Bamberski hired
a kidnap team who snatched
the former doctor from his
home in the southern Ger-
man town of Scheidegg.
Bamberski said he was a bit
disappointed by the ruling,
believing he should have been
acquitted because he had a
moral compulsion to act. He
said he did not plan to appeal.
Krombach was convicted in
2011 over the death of Bam-
berskis 14-year-old daughter
Kalinka who was living at
the Germans home with her
mother and younger brother
in 1982.
Germany cleared Krom-
bach of her death and refused
to extradite him. But Bamber-
ski was convinced of his guilt,
especially after Krombach
was convicted of drugging
and raping a 16-year-old pa-
tient in 1997.
Frances top court in April
conrmed Krombachs con-
viction for deliberate vio-
lence leading to involuntary
death and his 15-year prison
sentence.
The two men who carried
out the kidnapping Anton
Krasniqi of Kosovo and Geor-
gian Kacha Bablovani were
also found guilty and each
sentenced to a year in prison.
Krombach, 79, did not
travel from prison in Paris to
attend the trial for health rea-
sons. AFP
Mums the word
Sexist jeers
in debate on
mothering
S
EXIST shouts from go-
verning party members
repeatedly interrupted
a Tokyo assembly woman
during a debate about how to
support child-rearing women
in a country facing a popula-
tion crisis.
Ayaka Shiomura, 35, was
questioning senior figures
in the city administration on
plans to help current and fu-
ture mothers when the abuse
erupted from seats occupied
by members of Prime Minister
Shinzo Abes Liberal Demo-
cratic Party (LDP).
Shouts of Why dont you get
married? and Are you not
able to have a baby? could be
heard as she spoke, said fellow
assembly member Shun Oto-
kita, of Shiomuras opposition
Your Party.
Shiomura continued, despite
being reduced to tears during
the debate on Wednesday, her
colleague added.
Japan has one of the lowest
rates of female workforce
participation in the developed
world and most economists
agree it badly needs to boost
the number of working wo-
men. AFP

Several held as Vietnam
breaks up China rally
VIETNAMESE authorities broke
up a small anti-China protest in
Hanoi and detained several
people yesterday, activists said,
a day after high-level talks over
an oil rig in disputed waters
ended in deadlock. Around a
dozen activists briefly waved
banners and shouted Chinese
oil rig get out of Vietnam! and
silence is cowardice a dig at
Hanois handling of the dispute
before police forced them to
disperse. Around seven
activists were detained by
police, according to reports
posted on activist blogs. The
police did not confirm the
detentions. AFP
S Korea to hold live-fire

drill near disputed islets
SOUTH Korean military said
yesterday that it would hold a
rare live-fire drill near islets
also claimed by Japan in a
move likely to further raise
diplomatic tensions with
Tokyo. The navy plans to hold
the exercise near the Seoul-
controlled chain of islets,
called Dokdo by the South and
Takeshima by Japan, today,
the Defence Ministry said.
Seouls navy and coastguard
have for years staged joint
exercises near Dokdo but
those did not involve live-fire
drills. Fridays naval drill is
not part of the biannual
exercises. AFP
World
Chinese anti-graft trio get jail
T
HREE Chinese anti-
corruption activists
were sentenced to
up to six and a half
years in prison yesterday, a
lawyer said, the latest in their
grassroots movement to be
jailed despite an ofcial drive
against graft.
A court in the central prov-
ince of Jiangxi sentenced Liu
Ping and Wei Zhongping to
six and a half years and Li Si-
hua to three years, Lis lawyer
Zhou Ze said.
The three had taken pho-
tos of themselves last year
holding banners urging gov-
ernment ofcials to disclose
their assets as a curb against
corruption.
Liu and Wei were found
guilty of disrupting public or-
der, using evil religion to sab-
otage law enforcement and
picking ghts and provoking
trouble, while Li was convict-
ed only of the nal charge.
Zhou said it was up to the
three to choose whether to
appeal but added: Does it
matter? The ruling in an ap-
peal is already decided.
Liu and Weis six and a half
year sentences are the lon-
gest handed down to mem-
bers of their New Citizens
Movement so far.
Chinas courts are con-
trolled by the ruling Commu-
nist Party and have a near-
perfect conviction rate.
From the beginning we
knew this was a political case,
so we had prepared ourselves
psychologically, Liu Pings
daughter Liao Minyue said.
I was not allowed into the
court to hear the verdict, and
there were a lot of police out-
side, she said, adding that
she felt very upset about
the outcome.
Under President Xi Jinping,
who ascended to the top of
the party in late 2012, China
has cracked down on dissent
including prosecuting around
a dozen of the New Citizens.
Participants in the loose and
moderate group held small
periodic protests and focused
on issues such as corruption,
migrant rights and education.
Party leaders have also
vowed to root out rampant
ofcial corruption, but fear
that organised popular
movements could challenge
their control.
A founder of the New Citi-
zens Movement, lawyer Xu
Zhiyong, was sentenced to
four years jail in April. Numer-
ous other Beijing-based par-
ticipants have also received
prison terms of several years
for disrupting public order.
Meanwhile, a street outside
Chinas embassy in Washing-
ton moved a step closer to
being renamed after jailed
democracy campaigner Liu
Xiaobo on Wednesday, despite
angry warnings from Beijing.
The head of the US capitals
council introduced a resolu-
tion to give the citys blessing
to calls by lawmakers and ac-
tivists to re-christen the street
after the Nobel laureate in the
hope of freeing him.
But Phil Mendelsons reso-
lution said that the federal
and not the local government
had jurisdiction over Interna-
tional Place, where China and
several other nations have
built embassies.
He called for a vote by the
US Congress, where the pro-
posal enjoys support across
party lines.
The resolution, which
would still come up for a vote
by the city council, credited a
1984 decision to rename the
street outside the Soviet em-
bassy after Andrei Sakharov
with helping to win freedom
of movement for the then-
conned dissident. AFP
Chinese anti-corruption activists Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping were
sentenced to six and a half years in prison yesterday. AFP

Turkey sentences 1980
coup leaders to life
A TURKISH court on Wednesday
handed life sentences to two
generals behind a 1980 military
takeover, the bloodiest in
Turkeys coup-ridden history.
Kenan Evren, 96, and Tahsin
Sahinkaya, 89, were found guilty
of setting the stage for a military
intervention, ousting the civilian
government by force and
committing acts against the
forces of the state. The ruling
sparked cheers and applause
from the public gallery, who
chanted: This is just the
beginning, the coup authors will
pay the price. The generals
seized power on September 12,
1980, and kept power until 1983,
but were only brought to trial in
2012. AFP
Iran nuke talks tough
RACING against the clock,
nuclear talks between Iran and
six world powers appeared
tough going yesterday with both
sides warning of major
differences as they tried to draft
an accord. But beyond agreeing
a title for the accord, Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif said that
fundamental differences were
dividing the two sides. A
Western diplomat said that Iran
was refusing to budge on most
issues and that drafting
language in the text on the
complex issues had not
begun. AFP
World
15
EFG (Express Food Group) Co., Ltd is the leading international food franchise operator in Cambodia operating: The Pizza Company, Swensens Ice-
Cream, BBQ-Chicken, Dairy Queen, and Costa Coffee Parlor 37 branches in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Sihanouk Ville, and Battambong with more than
1,000 employees working in standardization environment. Due to our business is the rapid growth and expansion, we are currently seeking dynamic candidates
with relevant experiences for following:
Position: Marketing Ofcer/Executive (03 Positions)
Location: Phnom Penh
Main Duties & Responsibilities
To effectively participate in implement yearly Marketing Communication Plan and within budget of the companys food chain brand. -
To make sure that promotional campaigns being correctly implemented at the store level. -
To follow up and conduct surveys on competitors advertising and promotional activities; do consumer research; and analyse the companys promotional -
campaign results.
To manage overall media relations for the company achieving of frequent, timely and positive media coverage; and to closely monitor for the company -
media placement.
Taking care of the interactions between the company and the public by setting up press conferences, giving out newsletters and brochures and -
organizing an open house once in a while
Qualications & Experiences Requirements
Bachelor Degree in Marketing or relevant elds. -
At least 3-year experiences similar to position. -
Experience in writing, editing, proof-reading and designing communication documents. -
Excellent written and oral communication skills, conveying messages to different audiences using diverse media. -
Experience with budgets and forecasting -
Interested candidate is requested to submit a cover letter, expected wage and detailed CV with current photo, not later than June 30, 2014, to EFG-Human
Resource Department.
Address: No. 27, St. 134, Sangkat Mittapheap, Khan 7 Makara, Phnom Penh
Tel: +855-(0) 23-88 34 88-9 / Fax: +855-(0) 23-42 67 52 / Mobile: +855-(0) 78-825 222
E-mail: Sokyeang.L@rmagroup.net/rithy.b@rmagroup.net / Website: www.efg.com.kh
EFG (Express Food Group) Co., Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview. Application documents will
not be returned.
JOB OPPORTUNITY
The persecuted seeking refuge in China
Tom Hancock
F
LEEING discrimina-
tion, persecution and
violence, members of
a Muslim sect have
abandoned their homes in
Pakistan to nd an unlikely
refuge in China.
Every day I heard the
sound of guns, said a 37-
year-old surnamed Saeed
of his former home Lahore,
Pakistans second city. We
prayed every day, because we
felt something could happen
to us at any time.
He is one of hundreds of
people who have sought asy-
lum in China in recent years,
often from conict and vio-
lence-stricken countries in-
cluding Iraq and Somalia.
The government tolerates
their presence but provides
almost no support, while hu-
man rights groups have for
years condemned Beijing for
deporting tens of thousands
of asylum seekers who enter it
to escape oppression in North
Korea and Myanmar.
Around 35 of the almost 500
UN-registered asylum seek-
ers and refugees currently in
China are Ahmadi Muslims
a sect which believes their
19th century founder Ghu-
lam Ahmad to be a prophet,
and that Jesus Christ died
aged 120 in Srinagar, in Indi-
an-ruled Kashmir.
They are among the most
persecuted minorities in Paki-
stan a constitutional Islamic
republic which bans them
from calling themselves Mus-
lims or going on the Hajj pil-
grimage to Mecca.
In 2010 militants stormed
two Ahmadi prayer halls, kill-
ing 82 worshippers in gun and
grenade attacks, before target-
ing a hospital where victims
were being treated.
Ahmadi mosques and
graveyards are regularly des-
ecrated. Even high-achieving
Ahmadis have been shunned,
including physics professor
Abdus Salam, Pakistans only
Nobel laureate.
China signed up to the
UNs refugee protocol in
1982, but does not have any
mechanism to assess their
claims, leaving it to the UN
High Commissioner for Ref-
ugees (UNHCR).
But the communist state is
regularly condemned by the
US State Department for its
restrictions on religious free-
dom, which analysts say are
key elements of the tensions
it faces in Buddhist-majority
Tibet and mainly Muslim
Xinjiang.
But Saeed, who arrived
four years ago, said: From a
security point of view, China
is good. There is almost no
terrorism compared to Paki-
stan, where there is killing
and persecution of minorities
every day, he said in a rented
apartment in Sanhe, a city
outside Beijing where clumps
of high-rise apartment blocks
overshadow restaurants of-
fering donkey meat burgers.
Two of his cousins were killed
in the 2010 attack, he added.
The Ahmadi refugees in
Sanhe said they paid middle-
men up to $3,000 each for
Chinese visas more than
twice the average yearly in-
come in Pakistan.
Once in China, Saeed said,
You have to do everything for
yourself. He lives off overseas
family donations and added:
I dont expect anything from
the Chinese.
New arrivals receive no
benets unless the UN grants
them refugee status after a
gruelling 18-month series of
tests and even then China
refuses to integrate them, de-
nying them the right to work
while they wait for accep-
tance from a third country,
often for years.
In this kind of a situation,
you cant enjoy life much,
Saeed said.
But teenager Laiba Ahmad,
who arrived around two years
ago with her mother and sev-
eral siblings, had no doubts,
even though she does not
have enough Chinese to at-
tend school.
I am happy here compared
with Pakistan, she said.
Pakistan was dangerous. We
could not go outside without
our brothers and fathers, if
you are a woman especially.
Yasir Chaudry, 24, a former
air-conditioning engineer
who left his wife in Pakistan,
shares a crumbling apart-
ment with two other refugees
who rise in the late afternoon
and ll their days surng the
internet, watching DVDs
or throwing around a fris-
bee held together with black
masking tape.
All I have time to do is
think, so I think about bad
things, like how my fam-
ily is not together, he said. I
didnt want to leave my coun-
try. These problems all come
into my mind. AFP
Pakistani refugee Waheed (centre) and asylum seeker Hameed wait
for a bus in Sanhe, in Chinas Hebei province, last Friday. AFP
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W
E REMEMBER anniver-
saries that mark the
important events of our
era: September 11 (not
only the 2001 Twin Towers attack but
also the 1973 military coup against
Allende in Chile), D-Day, etc. Maybe
another date should be added to this
list: June 19.
Most of us like to take a stroll during
the day to get a breath of fresh air.
There must be a good reason for
those who cannot do it maybe they
have a job that prevents it (miners,
submariners), or a strange illness that
makes exposure to sunlight a deadly
danger. Even prisoners get their daily
hours walk in fresh air.
Yesterday marked two years since
Julian Assange was deprived of this
right: he is permanently confined to
the apartment that houses the Ecua-
dorian Embassy in London. Were he
to step out of the apartment, he
would be arrested immediately. What
did Assange do to deserve this? In a
way, one can understand the authori-
ties: Assange and his whistle-blowing
colleagues are often accused of being
traitors, but they are something much
worse (in the eyes of the authorities).
Assange designated himself a spy
for the people. Spying for the peo-
ple is not a simple betrayal (which
would instead mean acting as a dou-
ble agent, selling our secrets to the
enemy); it is something much more
radical. It undermines the very prin-
ciple of spying, the principle of
secrecy, since its goal is to make
secrets public. People who help
WikiLeaks are no longer whistle-
blowers who denounce the illegal
practices of private companies
(banks, and tobacco and oil compa-
nies) to the public authorities; they
denounce to the wider public these
public authorities themselves.
We didnt really learn anything
from WikiLeaks we didnt already
presume to be true but it is one
thing to know it in general and
another to get concrete data. It is a
little bit like knowing that ones sexu-
al partner is playing around. One can
accept the abstract knowledge of it,
but pain arises when one learns the
steamy details, when one gets pic-
tures of what they were doing.
When confronted with such facts,
should every decent US citizen not
feel deeply ashamed? Until now, the
attitude of the average citizen was
hypocritical disavowal: we preferred
to ignore the dirty job done by secret
agencies. From now on, we cant pre-
tend we dont know.
It is not enough to see WikiLeaks as
an anti-American phenomenon.
States like China and Russia are much
more oppressive than the US. Just
imagine what would have happened
to someone like Chelsea (formerly
Bradley) Manning in a Chinese court.
In all probability, there would be no
public trial; she would just disappear.
The US doesnt treat prisoners as
brutally because of its technological
priority, it simply does not need the
openly brutal approach (which it is
more than ready to apply when need-
ed). But this is why the US is an even
more dangerous threat to our free-
dom than China: its measures of con-
trol are not perceived as such, while
Chinese brutality is openly displayed.
In a country such as China, the lim-
itations of freedom are clear to every-
one, with no illusions about it. In the
US, however, formal freedoms are
guaranteed, so that most individuals
experience their lives as free and are
not even aware of the extent to which
they are controlled by state mecha-
nisms. Whistle-blowers do something
much more important than stating
the obvious by way of denouncing the
openly oppressive regimes: they
render public the unfreedom that
underlies the very situation in which
we experience ourselves as free.
Back in May 2002, it was reported
that scientists at New York University
had attached a computer chip able
to transmit elementary signals
directly to a rats brain enabling sci-
entists to control the rats move-
ments by means of a steering mech-
anism, as used in a remote-a
controlled toy car. For the first time,
the free will of a living animal was
taken over by an external machine.
How did the unfortunate rat experi-
ence its movements, which were
effectively decided from outside? Was
it totally unaware that its movements
were being steered? Maybe therein
lies the difference between Chinese
citizens and free citizens of Western,
liberal countries: the Chinese human
rats are at least aware they are con-
trolled, while we are the stupid rats
strolling around unaware of how our
movements are monitored.
Is WikiLeaks pursuing an impossi-
ble dream? Definitely not, and the
proof is that the world has already
changed since its revelations.
Not only have we learned a lot
about the illegal activities of the US
and other great powers. Not only
have the WikiLeaks revelations put
secret services on the defensive and
set in motion legislative acts to bet-
ter control them. WikiLeaks has
achieved much more: millions of
ordinary people have become aware
of the society in which they live.
Something that until now we silently
tolerated as unproblematic is ren-
dered problematic.
This is why Assange has been
accused of causing so much harm.
Yet there is no violence in what
WikiLeaks is doing. We all know the
classic scene from cartoons: the
character reaches a precipice but
goes on running, ignoring the fact
that there is no ground underfoot;
they start to fall only when they look
down and notice the abyss. What
WikiLeaks is doing is just reminding
those in power to look down.
The reaction of all too many peo-
ple, brainwashed by the media, to
WikiLeaks revelations could best be
summed up by the memorable lines
of the final song from Altmans film
Nashville: You may say I aint free,
but it dont worry me. WikiLeaks
does make us worry. And, unfortu-
nately, many people dont like that.
THE GUARDIAN
Comment
Slavoj iek
The illusion of freedom
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2012. AFP
Slavoj iek is international director of the
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
Julian Assange has been accused of
causing so much harm. Yet there is no
violence in what WikiLeaks is doing
T
HE jagged form of
the Shard, Western
Europes tallest build-
ing, is set to compete
with the piscene curves of
the London Olympics swim-
ming pool and the ambitious
and geometrically comfort-
ing Library of Birmingham
for the title of best British ar-
chitecture for 2014. All three
structures have been selected
on the longlist for the Stirling
prize, the 20,000 annual gong
awarded by the Royal Institute
of British Architects (RIBA).
The choice pits Renzo Pia-
no, the Italian designer of the
87-storey tower by London
Bridge, against Zaha Hadid,
whose Aquatics Centre on
the Olympic Park in east Lon-
don became the architectural
star of the 2012 Games, and
Patrick Arends, whose library
design won him the emerg-
ing architect award from RIBA
West Midlands.
Genoa-based Piano start-
ed his career working with
Richard Rogers on the Pom-
pidou Centre in Paris. Hadid
has previously won the prize
twice, for an academy school
in south London and an art
gallery in Rome. Despite the
Aquatics Centre opening for
business two years ago, Had-
id had entered it now because
it reopened to the public this
February without its tem-
porary seating wings that
somewhat spoiled her ow-
ing design.
Users have described pad-
dling under its swooping roof
like swimming in a spaceship.
Pianos Qatar-owned tower
has become a new city land-
mark, dividing opinion be-
tween those who see it as a
striking emblem of the capi-
tals 21st-century condence
and those who consider it a
totem of Londons sell-out to
international capital.
Also on the longlist of 56
national and European award
winners announced by RIBA
on Wednesday is the rede-
velopment of Kings Cross
station by John McAslan and
Partners. Among the mu-
seums and galleries are the
ship-shaped Mary Rose Mu-
seum by two-time Stirling
winners Wilkinson Eyre Ar-
chitects, and the Seizure Gal-
lery at the Yorkshire sculpture
park, designed by Adam Khan
Architects for the Arts Council.
Despite the presence of
the Shard, the longlist shows
how during the economic
slump, architects have relied
on public-sector clients for
the opportunity to innovate.
The RIBA judges pointed to
the big and bold Brent civic
centre and the creation of an
elegant new public square
and cafe in Great Yarmouth,
both by Hopkins Architects;
the delightful and tactile new
Everyman theatre in Liver-
pool by Haworth Tompkins
and an exciting new crisply-
designed youth centre in
Lewisham by young archi-
tects RCKA.
These buildings show the
challenges that can be over-
come with pure architectural
creativity, said RIBA president
Stephen Hodder, himself the
rst-ever winner of the Stirling
prize in 1996. In the case of
the LSEs student centre, a ver-
tical labyrinth was created to
deal with a constricted London
site. At the TNG youth centre
in Lewisham, the architect
helped nd funding to enable
the building to happen; and
with the Mary Rose Museum in
Portsmouth, the design team
resolved the most complex
brief: strict atmospheric con-
ditions on a historic site. It is
evident that each building on
this years list has been a labour
of love but worth every penny
and effort. THE GUARDIAN
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Talk up
5 Ships wheels
10 Kind of mitt
14 The Sun ___ Rises
15 Eastern church member
16 Abysmal test score
17 Pudding fruit
18 Cottonlike fiber
19 Assayers stuff
20 Separated
23 Driveway type
24 Dutch pottery city
27 Adaptable truck, for short
28 Exotic berry in some diets
31 Anger
32 Vigors go-with
34 Tributary of the Missouri River
35 Beretta, for one
36 What the detective did to his hair?
40 Irvings Van Winkle
41 Gave one-to-four stars
42 Mel whose 4 was retired
43 Beverage in a yard
44 Soon, to a bard
45 Altar avowal
47 Propensities
49 Drug that relieves pain
53 Out-and-out
57 Radar image
59 Be bombastic
60 I had no ___!
61 Garden path
62 Golden Horde member
63 Experienced
64 Clothing
65 Annoying night sound
66 ... or ___!
DOWN
1 Thin, fibrous bark
2 Earthenware jars
3 Seize power illegally
4 Diminutive hero of folklore
5 Obstacle course impediment
6 Create a statute
7 VIP vehicle, for short
8 Cause serious injury to
9 Put ones foot down
10 Kind of layer
11 Not heavy at all
12 ... ___ he drove out of sight
13 Discouraging words
21 Dig in!
22 Farewell, mon ami
25 Part of a balanced diet
26 Camping shelter
28 Bloodless, seemingly
29 Joker, for one
30 Long trailer?
32 Curtain fabric
33 About to happen
34 Germanys ___ von Bismarck
36 Fiddler, for one
37 Demagnetize a disk
38 Blocker of Bonanza
39 CBS drama (with The)
45 Is it hot ___ or is it just me?
46 Anonymous John
48 Varieties
49 Fragrance of roses
50 Alpine call
51 Year-end tunes
52 Make
jubilant
NEW WAVE
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Stirling prize list pits Shard
against Birmingham library
The Library of Birmingham is among 56 buildings in the UK vying for the prestigious Stirling prize. AFP
Lifestyle
17
OMG
FBI keeps
glossary of
web slang
T
HE internet is full of
bewildering neologisms,
which anyone would
struggle to understand. So the
US FBI compiled a glossary of
internet slang.
The glossary, which has
83 pages and contains 3,000
words, was recently made
public through a Freedom of
Information request by the
group MuckRock, which pos-
ted the PDF, called Twitter
shorthand, online. Despite
its name, this isnt just Twitter
slang: As the FBI explains in
the introduction, its a primer
on shorthand used across the
internet, including in instant
messages, Facebook and
Myspace. As if that Myspace
reference wasnt proof enough
that the FBIs a tad out of
touch, it then promises the
list will prove useful both pro-
fessionally and for keeping
up with your children and/or
grandchildren.
So is the glossary itself
actually good? Obviously, FBI
operatives need to understand
internet slang the inter-
net is, increasingly, where
crime goes down these days.
But then we get things like
ALOTBSOL (always look on
the bright side of life) and
AMOG (alpha male of group)
within the first 10 entries.
ALOTBSOL has, for the
record, been tweeted fewer
than 500 times. AMOG has
been tweeted far more often,
but usually in Spanish . . . as
a misspelling, it seems, of
amor and amigo. THE
WASHINGTONPOST
In brief
Walking Dead producer
warns of risks of piracy
THE executive producer of The
Walking Dead has warned that
rampant piracy is pushing the
TV and film industry to the
precipice, and called on
Google to do more to tackle
illegal websites. Gale Ann Hurd
said that if consumers want to
continue to see shows such as
Walking Dead and HBOs Game
of Thrones which have broken
viewing records while also
topping the global chart of
most-pirated TV shows then
more needs to be done to crack
down on piracy. The truth is
you wouldnt imagine stealing
someones car [or] a piece of
art they have created, she
said. THEGUARDIAN
Newsnights Paxman in
final edition farewell
BRITAINS most feared television
interviewer, notorious for once
asking a minister the same
question 12 times, presented his
final edition of the BBCs flagship
current affairs show on
Wednesday. Jeremy Paxmans
combative, accusatory style on
Newsnight he often greets poor
answers with a disapproving
raised eyebrow has seen him
clash with every-one from
former prime minister Tony Blair
to comedian Russell Brand.
Paxman signed off his final show
by threatening to follow in the
footsteps of the famously
deranged news anchor from
1976 film Network, who told
viewers to go to your windows.
Open them and stick your head
out and yell - Im as mad as hell
and Im not gonna take this
anymore! But given he was in
England, Paxman said it would
be more appropriate simply to
wish that Newsnight regulars
continue to enjoy the show. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 20 , 2014 19
A
NTARCTIC scien-
tists warned on
Wednesday that a
surge in tourists vis-
iting the frozen continent was
threatening its fragile envi-
ronment and called for better
protection.
Tourist numbers have ex-
ploded from less than 5,000
in 1990 to about 40,000 a year,
according to industry gures,
and most people go to the
fragmented ice-free areas
that make up less than 1 per
cent of Antarctica.
A growing number of re-
search facilities are also be-
ing constructed, along with
associated roads, fuel depots
and runways, in the tiny ice-
free zones.
It is these areas that con-
tain most of the continents
wildlife and plants, yet they
are among the planets least-
protected, said a study led by
the Australian government-
funded National Environ-
mental Research Program
(NERP) and the Australian
Antarctic Division.
Many people think that
Antarctica is well protected
from threats to its biodiver-
sity because its isolated and
no one lives there, said Jus-
tine Shaw from the NERP in
the study published in the
journal PLoS Biology.
However, we show that
there are threats to Antarctic
biodiversity. Most of Antarc-
tica is covered in ice, with less
than 1 per cent permanently
ice-free, Shaw continued.
Only 1.5 per cent of this
ice-free area belongs to Ant-
arctic Specially Protected
Areas under the Antarctic
Treaty System, yet ice-free
land is where the majority of
biodiversity occurs.
Five of the distinct ice-free
eco-regions have no protec-
tion at all while all 55 of the
continents protected areas
are close to sites of human
activity.
Steven Chown, from Monash
Universitys School of Biologi-
cal Sciences, another collabo-
rator in the study, said the ice-
free areas contain very simple
ecosystems due to Antarcticas
low species diversity.
This makes its native wildlife
and plants extremely vulnera-
ble to invasion by outside spe-
cies, which can be introduced
by human activity.
Antarctica has been invaded
by plants and animals, mostly
grasses and insects, from other
continents, he said.
The very real current and
future threats from invasions
are typically located close to
protected areas.
Such threats to protected ar-
eas from invasive species have
been demonstrated elsewhere
in the world, and we nd that
Antarctica is, unfortunately,
no exception.
The study said the current
level of protection was inad-
equate by any measure with
Shaw saying more was needed
to guard against the threat
posed by the booming tourism
industry.
[We need] to protect a di-
verse suite of native insects,
plants and seabirds, many of
which occur nowhere else in
the world, she said.
We also need to ensure
that Antarctic protected areas
are not going to be impacted
by human activities, such as
pollution, trampling or inva-
sive species.
Antarctica is considered one
of the last frontiers for adven-
turous travellers.
Most travel by sea, some
paying in excess of $20,000 for
a luxury cabin in the peak pe-
riod from November to March.
There is also a healthy market
for sightseeing ights. AFP
Travel
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Tourism surge
is threatening
the Antarctic
Tourists are seen in 2010 on the Antartic Peninsula. Scientists warn
that surging tourism is threatening the Antaracitcs environment. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 20, 2014 21
Red Bull looking for home
advantage at Austrian GP
RED Bull will be looking to extend
their winning form and set the stage
for a real title challenge to dominant
Mercedes when the Grand Prix
returns to Austria on Sunday after 11
years. Fresh from Daniel Ricciardos
maiden win in Canada two weeks
ago, the Austrian team will have
home advantage at the Red Bull Ring
amid the rolling hills of southern
Styria. But the 24-year-old Australian
still has a large gap to close if he is to
catch up with current championship
leader Nico Rosberg and his team-
mate Lewis Hamilton, who stand
respectively at 140 and 118 points, to
his 79. Sundays race gets underway
at 7pm Cambodian time. AFP
NSW end Queenslands Origin
reign in brutal series victory
SCRUM-HALF Trent Hodkinson
scored the only try with nine minutes
left in a brutal match to give New
South Wales a 6-4 win and victory
over Queensland in the State of Origin
rugby league series on Wednesday. It
was the Blues first Origin series win
since 2005 and ended Queenslands
eight-year domination of the fiercely
contested interstate competition.
Emotions ran high after NSWs
triumph in a bitterly fought second
match, punctuated by running
skirmishes, before a record crowd of
83,421 the largest at the Olympic
stadium since the 2000 Sydney
Games. AFP
Wiggins pulls out of Tour of
Switzerland after five days
BRITISH cyclist Bradley Wiggins has
pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland
after just five days, his last real chance
to impress before the selection of this
years Tour de France team by Sky.
The 2012 Tour de France winner
suffered a crash on Tuesday, receiving
bruising and swelling to his right thigh
which worsened overnight. Wiggins
had struggled in Switzerland and was
lying 99th, almost 14 minutes behind
the leader Tony Martin. He said on his
way to the airport that his focus now
would be to recover in time to ride the
British National Time-Trial
Championships in Monmouthshire
next Thursday. THE GUARDIAN
McIlroy to play golf for Ireland
at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio
RORY McIlroy has ended the
speculation about his 2016 Olympic
allegiance by stating he will represent
Ireland and not Great Britain when
golf returns to the Games in Rio.
McIlroy used his preview press
conference for the Irish Open in Cork
to make the announcement, with its
timing more of a surprise than the
decision itself. That said, the
Northern Irishman had previously
spoken of such unease that he
considered not putting his name
forward for selection at all. If I had
made that choice, it would have been
a very selfish decision, McIlroy said.
It would have been an easy way out
for me but I thought about the good of
golf. THE GUARDIAN
Naveed Arif gets banned for
life over spot fixing by ECB
FORMER Sussex bowler Naveed Arif
has been banned for life from cricket
after pleading guilty to six corruption
offences, the England and Wales
Cricket Board announced on
Wednesday. Arif, a Pakistani, had
previously been charged with the
offences, all relating to accusations of
spot fixing in a 40-over game between
Sussex and Kent in August 2011. Left-
arm seamer Arif, a former Pakistan A
player, is now banned from taking
part in any form of cricket sanctioned
by the International Cricket Council,
ECB or any other national cricket
federation. AFP
Serbias Novak Djokovic returns against Britains Andy Murray during the mens singles nal of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. AFP
Djokovic handed top seed
W
IMBLEDON turned
tennis upside down on
Wednesday when Novak
Djokovic was named top
seed above world number one Rafael
Nadal, while defending champion
Andy Murray was seeded three over
seven-time winner Roger Federer.
The All England Club awarded top
billing to 27-year-old Djokovic, the
2011 champion and 2013 runner-
up, by using its controversial grass-
court weighting system in deciding
its seeds instead of sticking by the
ATP world rankings.
French Open champion Nadal, the
2008 and 2010 Wimbledon winner,
is relegated from his world number
one ranking to the second seed-
ing after losing in the rst round in
2013 and second round 12 months
earlier.
Murray, who became Britains rst
mens champion since Fred Perry in
1936 when he swept past Djokovic
in last years nal, has been elevated
to the third seeding despite a world
ranking of ve.
Federer, a shock second-round los-
er to Sergei Stakhovsky in 2013 and
who won the last of his seven titles in
2012, was handed the fourth seeding
in line with his current ranking.
The womens seedings follow the
WTA world rankings with ve-time
champion Serena Williams the num-
ber one followed by Chinas Li Na,
Simona Halep of Romainia in third
and Polands Agnieszka Radwanska
taking fourth spot.
Maria Sharapova, the champion
at Wimbledon 10 years ago as a 17-
year-old, is seeded ve.
This years womens event is guar-
anteed a new champion after Frances
Marion Bartoli, the shock 2013 win-
ner, retired from the sport soon after
her lone Grand Slam triumph. AFP
Mateld to set new Springbok Test record
VETERAN lock Victor Matfield will become South
Africas most capped player when he captains the
side tomorrow against Wales in his 112th Test match
at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.
The 37-year-old powerhouse was named skipper
of an experienced Springbok starting lineup which
shows two changes from the team which beat Wales
by 38-16 in Durban last week.
Both changes are in the pack, where Tendai Mta-
warira returns at loosehead prop, with Gurthr
Steenkamp reverting to the bench, while Flip van
der Merwe will partner Matfield in the second row
in the place of Bakkies Botha.
The only other change to the team is amongst the
backline reserves, where Wynand Olivier replaces
the injured Johan Goosen to provide necessary mid-
field cover.
Ruan Pienaar will provide backup for scrum-half
and fly-half, while Lwazi Mvovo can cover fullback
and wing.
Matfield made his Test debut on June 30, 2001,
against Italy in Port Elizabeth.
He retired after the Rugby World Cup in New Zea-
land 2011 on 110 caps, but made a highly successful
return to the game earlier this year.
This is a fantastic accolade for Victor, Springbok
coach Heyneke Meyer said on Wednesday.
He has been a terrific servant of the game in South
Africa and has led his country with distinction since
returning to the Green and Gold.
When he returned to the game earlier this season,
he set his goals on becoming a Springbok yet again
and hes worked extremely hard to get there.
I dont think anyone can doubt that he deserves
his place in the team and hes also been a great
interim captain, with Jean de Villiers out injured.
Japan will peak at the World Cup, says Jones
Japan coach Eddie Jones pledged yesterday that
the Asian champions will hit peak form at next years
World Cup as they bid for a 10th successive win when
they take on Italy this weekend.
The Brave Blossoms stretched their record win-
ning streak to nine games with a 37-29 away vic-
tory over World Cup opponents the United States
last weekend.
However, Jones warned that Italy who have won
all five of their previous meetings against the Japa-
nese would be a different prospect in tomorrows
clash. It will be our toughest game of the year, the
former Australia coach told reporters.
Japans record against Italy is not impressive so
its a fantastic opportunity to change Japanese rug-
by history.
Wallabies look to march on against Les Bleus
The Wallabies are chasing their best winning run
in 14 years and France a first win in Australia since
1990 in tomorrows third and final Test in Sydney.
Australia have already retained the Trophee des
Bicentenaires following contrasting victories over
Les Bleus in Brisbane (50-23) and Melbourne (6-0),
and are after a seventh-straight win under coach
Ewen McKenzie.
The Wallabies, with their sights on wresting the
Bledisloe Cup off the world champion All
Blacks later this year, are looking for a series sweep
over the French in a rare afternoon Test match at
Allianz Stadium.
New Zealand make two changes for third Test
The All Blacks have made just two changes for
tomorrows third Test against England, injecting
Kieran Read and Malakai Fekitoa to the starting line
up as they chase a clean sweep in the series.
Coach Steve Hansen said hed decided not to try
new combinations with the series already won as
he looks to develop his preferred run-on side, who
were far from perfect in winning the first two Tests
20-15 and 28-27.
Whilst we felt we improved from the first Test to
the second, there are areas of our game we want to
improve on and that has been the focus for us this
week, he said when naming the side yesterday.
Reads return at the back of the scrum was expect-
ed after he was cleared of the concussion issues that
have sidelined him for most of the past two months
while fledgling international Fekitoa earns promo-
tion with Conrad Smith out injured.
It has been a rapid rise to stardom for the talented
Fekitoa who has blossomed this year with the Otago
Highlanders after being rejected by the Auckland
Blues. AFP
Saturdays Fixtures
Argentina v Scotland 2:10am
Japan v Italy 12pm
Australia v France 12pm
New Zealand v England 2:35pm
South Africa v Wales 8pm
Victor Mateld will win his record-breaking 112th cap for South Africa in their Test tomorrow against Wales. AFP
NFL
Zeke Motta (left) of the Atlanta Falcons upends Santana Moss of the Washington Red-
skins after a reception at the Georgia Dome in December in Atlanta. AFP
US patent office strips
Redskins of trademarks
T
HE US Patent and Trade-
mark Ofce announced
on Wednesday that it is to
cancel six trademark regis-
trations belonging to the Washing-
ton Redskins, ruling that the NFL
teams name is disparaging to Na-
tive Americans.
In a landmark decision, the of-
ces trademark trial and appeal
board found that the name cannot
be trademarked under federal law,
which prohibits the protection of
names that may disparage indi-
viduals or groups, or bring them
into contempt or disrepute.
We decide, based on the evidence
properly before us, that these registra-
tions must be cancelled because they
were disparaging to Native Ameri-
cans, the board wrote in its ruling.
Amanda Blackhorse, who brought
the case against the team, called
the ruling a great victory for Native
Americans and for all Americans.
The team said on Wednesday that it
would appeal the decision and insist-
ed that its right to protect its trade-
marks was not affected by the ruling,
which would not take effect until the
appeals process is complete.
Blackhorse said she hoped the
ruling would nevertheless increase
the pressure on the NFL team to
change its name. I hope this rul-
ing brings us a step closer to that
inevitable day when the name of
the Washington football team will
be changed, she said.
The controversy has intensied in
the last year, even drawing in Presi-
dent Obama. If I were the owner of
the team and I knew that the name
of my team, even if theyve had a
storied history, was offending a size-
able group of people, Id think about
changing it, Obama told the Asso-
ciated Press.
Despite mounting pressure, how-
ever, Washingtons owner, Daniel
Snyder, has said repeatedly that he
will not drop the name. In May, the
Washingtons president, Bruce Al-
len, said it was respectful to Na-
tive Americans, in a letter to Senate
majority leader Harry Reid that was
sent after dozens of senators called
on NFL bosses to force a change.
Under US law, people who can
demonstrate that they have been in-
jured by a trademarked term may
le a petition to have it cancelled. In
2006, a group of ve Native Ameri-
cans, Blackhorse among them, peti-
tioned the appeal board to have the
Redskins registrations cancelled on
grounds that the term is offensive.
Blackhorse said: The teams name
is racist and derogatory. Ive said it
before, and Ill say it again if people
wouldnt dare call a Native American
a redskin because they know it is
offensive, how can an NFL football
team have this name?
A similar petition was led in 1992,
and in 1999, the appeal board ruled
that the term redskin was dispar-
aging, ordering the teams trade-
mark registrations be cancelled.
The team, however, appealed
the boards decision to the DC cir-
cuit court of appeals. It ruled in fa-
vour of the NFL team on technical
grounds, after determining that the
petitioners had waited too long af-
ter turning age 18 to le their peti-
tions with the board.
The evidence in the current claim
is virtually identical to the evidence
a federal judge decided was insuf-
cient more than 10 years ago, said
Bob Raskopf, trademark attorney for
the Washington team. We expect the
same ultimate outcome here.
The term Redskins was used in
six separate trademarks authorised
between 1967 and 1990.
We are extraordinarily gratied to
have prevailed in this case, attorney
Alfred Putnam said in the statement.
The dedication and professionalism
of our attorneys and the determina-
tion of our clients have resulted in a
milestone victory that will serve as a
historic precedent. THE GUARDIAN
Foxes to face the Toffees in
Bangkok friendly next month
LEICESTER City, who have regained
Premier League status for the first time
in 10 years, will play a friendly against
Everton on Sunday July 27 at the
Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok,
according to a report on the clubs
official website (www.lcfc.com). The
exhibition match forms part of a six-day
pre-season tour for Nigel Pearsons
squad, while also marking the 25th
anniversary of the Foxes Thai parent
company King Power International. The
clash with Everton at the 30,000-seater
stadium, set to kick off at 6pm, will be
Leicesters first match in Thailand since
October 2010, when they beat the Thai
national team 2-0. Leicester City vice-
chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha
told www.lcfc.com: It will be with great
pride that we bring our Championship-
winning Leicester City squad back to
Thailand for a match between two
Premier League clubs that I am certain
will capture the imagination of our
football-loving nation. DANRILEY
Sick notes for sale as World
Cup fever grips Chinese fans
THE 11-hour time difference between
China and Brazil has given Chinese
wheeler-dealers a lucrative opportunity
selling fake sick notes to football fans
staying up all night to watch World Cup
games. A search by AFP for Beijing
and sick notes service returned
49,500 results on Chinese search
engine Baidu yesterday, with vendors
providing photocopies of hospital
certificates with official stamps and
doctors signatures in their product
catalogue. AFP
23
Football
Crown set to keep on firing
H S Manjunath

T
ABLE-TOPPING Phnom
Penh Crown are poised to
strike another winning blow
at the Olympic Stadium to-
morrow when they meet demotion
certs Albirex Niigata in a winding
run towards the Metfone C-League
title they last captured in 2011.
Crown have opened up a ve-
point cushion over the chasing
pack headed by Boeung Ket Rubber
Field, whose chances of ranging
alongside the pace-makers was se-
riously hurt by a loss to title holders
Svay Rieng last week.
If Crown were to stick to their
solid performances of the last few
weeks they should safely keep their
gun run going.
Meanwhile Boeung Ket, who
are the only ones to have beaten
Crown this league season, are hell
bent on recovering their poise after
last weeks reverse, which saw the
2012 champions stitched up most
dramatically by a team that was
thought to be performing well be-
low their known form in the run up
to that game.
The Rubbermen, who take the
pitch before the Crown game,
should have no qualms in dealing
with Western University, who go-
ing by their current track record are
highly unlikely to upset last years
runners-up.
A sense of urgency has turned
into one of desperation for Naga
Corp, who face a daunting task of
catching up rst with Boueng Ket
and then Crown.
At the Old Stadium tomorrow,
Naga are pitted against TriAsia,
whose steely resolve has been a
source of worry for many top teams
this season.
In the days rst xture, Ministry
of National Defence are up against
Kirivong Sok Sen Chey, whose press-
ing agenda at this stage is to crawl
out of the demotion threat. The visi-
tors from Takeo are well aware that
their only chance of survival is to do
better than Western in the remain-
ing matches.
Two interesting match-ups will
unfold at the Olympic Stadium on
Sunday.
After their great escape against
Albirex Niigata last week, when
an injury time goal turned a cer-
tain defeat into a face saving draw,
Hun Sen Cup runners up Build
Bright United will be hoping for a
better outcome when they meet
Asia Europe University, another of
those teams whose reputation as a
fighting outfit has been greatly en-
hanced during the season.
Svay Rieng may consider their
latest win over Boeung Ket as a
new set of springs in their heels,
though their title hopes remain
foggy to say the least.
A good performance against the
National Police, however, may
do some good for the defending
champions self esteem.
The Police, meanwhile, are eye-
ing a podium finish as a compli-
ment to their maiden success in
the Hun Sen Cup this year.
Weekend Schedule
Saturday June 21
At the Old Stadium
MND v Kirivong SSC 1:30pm
TriAsia v Naga Corp 3:45pm
At the Olympic Stadium
Boeung Ket v Western Uni 3:30pm
PP Crown v Albirex Niigata 6pm
Sunday June 22
At the Olympic Stadium
AEU v BBU 3:30pm
Svay Rieng v National Police 6pm
Boeung Kets Keo Sokpheng (left) vies with Western Universitys Men Seyha during
their Metfone C-League match at the Olympic Stadium on March 2. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sport
Spanish dethroned as
Chile dazzle in Brazil
S
PAINS long reign as
the kings of interna-
tional football came
to a dramatic end at
the World Cup on Wednesday,
with the defending champi-
ons sent crashing out after a
2-0 defeat to Chile.
On a day when King Juan
Carlos tearfully sealed his ab-
dication after a four-decade
reign, Spains players were
booted from their own throne
in 90 minutes.
Chiles Eduardo Vargas and
Charles Aranguiz adminis-
tered the killer blows as Spains
trophy-laden era was brought
to a shattering end at the Ma-
racana Stadium.
Chiles win sees them qualify
for the last 16 from Group B
along with the Netherlands,
who thrashed Spain 5-1 in their
opening match last week.
Australia, beaten 3-2 by the
Dutch earlier on Wednesday,
were also eliminated.
In the late Group A game,
Cameroon were knocked out
after slumping to a chaotic
4-0 defeat against Croatia,
with the Africans nishing in
disarray as teammates scuf-
ed with each other.
Yet the drama of the day
unfolded at Rios Maracana
Stadium, where Spainwere
swept aside.
It is a sad day for all of
us, Spain coach Vicente del
Bosque said.
We are sorry we didnt suc-
ceed but now is too early to
analyse where we go from
here. We were inferior to both
Holland and Chile. They got
the goals and gave us a moun-
tain to climb.
Spains early departure will
send shockwaves through
football after an unprecedent-
ed period of success that saw
them win the 2010 World Cup
as well as back-to-back Euro-
pean Championships in 2008
and 2012.
World failure read an on-
line headline of the El Mundo
newspaper in Spain.
Failed! echoed Spains big-
gest-selling sports daily Marca.
A sad farewell to the champi-
ons of the world.
Spain join Italy (1950 and
2010), Brazil (1966) and France
(2002) as the only holders to be
knocked out in the rst phase.
Del Bosque had signalled
the turmoil in the Spain camp
by dropping veteran mideld-
er Xavi and defender Gerard
Pique for the Chile showdown.
But Del Bosques decision to
retain out-of-form goalkeeper
Iker Casillas backred, with
the Spanish skipper at fault
for Chiles second goal, lashed
home by Aranguiz just before
half-time.
Aranguiz had earlier helped
to set up Chiles rst, cutting
back for Vargas to nish after a
superb counterattack.
I have not played well and
neither has the team in gen-
eral, said a dejected Casillas.
Now we need to be even more
united and nish in the most
dignied manner possible.
The nal whistle sparked
delirium inside the Maracana,
where Chilean fans heavily out-
numbered their Spanish coun-
terparts and roared on their
team relentlessly throughout.
The fervour boiled over before
the match, with dozens of tick-
etless Chilean fans attempting
to force their way into the fa-
mous stadium by storming the
press room.
Chile will now face Holland
next Monday in what could
well be a battle to avoid Brazil,
who are expected to face the
runners-up from Group B in
the last 16.
The Dutch had earlier need-
ed goals from Arjen Robben
and Robin van Persie to ght
back against Australia be-
fore Memphis Depays long-
range effort settled a thrilling
game at Porto Alegres Beira-
Rio Stadium.
Van Persie will miss the next
game against Chile though
after picking up a second
yellow card.
And Louis van Gaals side
were given an almighty fright
by their red up Australian
opponents, who had taken a
2-1 lead through a spectacular
Tim Cahill volley and a Mile Je-
dinak penalty.
In the last game of the day,
Cameroon joined Spain and
Australia on the way out of
Brazil after their loss to Croa-
tia. Goals from Ivica Olic, Ivan
Perisic and two from Mario
Mandzukic wrapped up the
win for Croatia, who face Mex-
ico in their nal game.
Cameroons campaign ended
on a sour note with midelder
Alex Song sent off for punch-
ing Mandzukic in the back in
the rst half. It got worse for
Cameroon in the dying min-
utes with defender Benoit As-
sou-Ekotto appearing to aim
a headbutt at teammate Ben-
jamin Moukandjo before the
fracas was broken up.
Cameroon coach Volker
Finke said afterwards: I apol-
ogise for the result, it really
hurts. We had no control on
the game and I didnt like the
behaviour of my team. AFP
Spain goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas (right) and midelder Andres Iniesta walk off the pitch after los-
ing their Group B match against Chile at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. AFP
Swiss seize underdogs tag for France clash
SWITZERLAND are trying to pile the pres-
sure on France by claiming the underdog
tag for the Alpine neighbours World Cup
Group E clash in Salvador tonight.
Both teams won their openers, with
France topping the table after a convinc-
ing 3-0 victory over Honduras, while
the Swiss secured a last-gasp victory
over Ecuador.
Super-sub Haris Seferovic netted in the
last minute of injury time to claim a 2-1
come-back victory after the Swiss had
fallen behind to Enner Valencias first-
half header.
Sixth-placed Switzerland are 11 places
higher than the French according to
FIFAs rankings, but insist those standings
mean nothing.
Favourites? You like that word in
France, eh?, Swiss central defender Steve
von Bergen said. It is France who are
the favourites.
Swiss assistant coach Michel Pont, who
celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday,
said 1998 World Cup winners France have
the upper hand.
Pont says France coach Didier Des-
champs has united his squad after the
debacle of their South Africa 2010 cam-
paign, when the team went on strike in
support of Nicolas Anelka after a row with
then-coach Raymond Domenech.
Us, favourites? Absolutely not, said
Pont, who has worked under current coach
Ottmar Hitzfeld since 2008, as well as his
predecessor Jakub Kuhn from 2001-2008.
Frankly, the current French team
impresses me, they have found harmony.
Italy wary of tropical terror
Italy look to reach the World Cup last 16
with victory over giant-killers Costa Rica
tonight but the four-time champions are
wary of Recifes tropical conditions.
Tough-tackling Roma midfielder Dan-
iele De Rossi has underlined Costa Ricas
likely advantage in the sweltering condi-
tions in Recife, where he said Italy were
dying from the heat last year during the
Confederations Cup.
Having made a blistering start to what
is only their fourth World Cup campaign
with a shock 3-1 win over Uruguay, the
Ticos would be forgiven for keeping the
pace high from kick-off as they go in
search of another upset.
Coaches face familiar foes
Ecuador and Honduras coaches Reinaldo
Rueda and Luis Suarez will both face their
old sides as the two group outsiders look
to get their first points of the World Cup
when they meet in Curitiba tonight.
Ruedas Ecuador were beaten 2-1 by Swit-
zerland in their opening Group E match
thanks to Haris Seferovics stoppage-time
winner. The Colombian lamented his sides
lack of killer instinct in front of goal against
the Swiss, but has insisted he wont make
any changes for the game against the coun-
try he led at the last World Cup.
Suarez, meanwhile, guided Ecuador
to their best ever showing at the World
Cup when they reached the last 16 in
2006. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
Italy v Costa Rica 11pm
Switzerland v France 2am
Honduras v Ecuador 5am

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