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Chhay Channyda and Kevin Ponniah
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LMOST a year and a half after
his extraordinary cremation in
February last year, the ashes of
the late King Father Norodom
Sihanouk will be marched through the
streets of Phnom Penh today as part of
an elaborate three-day ceremony that
began yesterday, before being interred
at the Silver Pagoda on Saturday, their
final resting place.
The King Father had requested to have
his ashes interred in the same stupa
where the remains of his daughter, Prin-
cess Kantha Bopha, who died in 1952
at the age of 4 from leukemia, are kept.
The event, being celebrated as an offi-
cial holiday and is expected to draw tens
of thousands today, has been character-
ised by those close to him as a final fare-
well to Sihanouk, who as a monarch,
politician and statesman loomed large
over Cambodia for more than 60 years.
Yesterday evening, 3,600 monks gath-
ered outside the Royal Palace in medita-
tion and prayer ahead of what was
scheduled, according to one program of
events, to be a speech and greeting from
King Norodom Sihamoni, who had
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A MILITARY police officer
has been arrested and will be
sent to court, while two oth-
ers remain under question-
ing, after an unarmed man
was shot dead on Wednesday
night while travelling in a car
through protected forest in
Mondulkiris ORaing district,
officials said.
Two military police in the
company of one Forestry
Administration official
ordered the car to pull over
because the driver and two
passengers were passing
through the Seima Protected
Forest, an area plagued by
illegal logging, said provin-
cial military police chief
Sak Saraing.
When the driver refused to
stop, the two military offi-
cials allegedly fired a volley
of bullets.
The military policemen
opened fire and [one of them]
killed the car driver and seri-
ously injured one of his other
friends, Saraing said, adding
that the injured man had
been sent to receive medical
treatment in Vietnam.
As of late yesterday, the
two officers and forestry offi-
cial were being questioned
in military police custody,
though only one was known
to be bound for court.
The driver of the vehicle,
Van Phanit, 24, was from
Keo Seimas Sre Chhouk
commune, Saraing said,
Military
police
officer
accused
A grand farewell to Sihanouk
Hundreds of monks pray in
front of the Royal Palace
yesterday in Phnom Penh.
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Treason charge for KPPM leader
NATIONAL NEWS
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Meas Sokchea
CAMBODIA National Rescue
Party deputy president Kem
Sokha used the oppositions
attendance at a memorial
service for the late King Fa-
ther Norodom Sihanouk yes-
terday to call for an end to the
country's political deadlock
by July 28.
The Cambodia National
Rescue Party wants to end the
political deadlock soon, before
the rst anniversary [of last
July's election], he said dur-
ing the event at Independence
Monument in Phnom Penh.
The opposition has refused
to accept the result of the elec-
tion by declining to take its
seats in parliament. The boy-
cott is ongoing.
The message, however, re-
ceived a sceptical response
from Chheang Vun, a ruling
Cambodian Peoples Party
lawmaker and member of the
CPP negotiation team.
Vun said that the CPP had
been open to resolving the dis-
pute for months and blamed
the opposition for rejecting
its proposal.
End deadlock: Sokha
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
PHNOM Penh Municipal
Court ordered yesterday that
charges against Sourn Serey
Ratha, a Khmer-American
dissident who is considered
a terrorist by the Cambodian
government, be changed
from incitement to commit a
crime to treason.
Municipal Court judge Top
Chhunheng said he had de-
cided to transfer the case to
the investigating judge under
the charge of treason, which
carries a sentence of 15 to 30
years imprisonment.
Based on the hearing and
the prosecutors conclusion,
Sourn Serey Ratha was the
leader of an illegal and armed
movement that has always
opposed the Royal Govern-
ment of Cambodia with the
aim of overthrowing the gov-
ernment led by Prime Minis-
ter Hun Sen. His activity was
considered treason and was a
felony, he said.
The investigating judge
should conduct further inves-
tigation and research into col-
lecting more evidence [against
Serey Ratha] in order to ac-
cuse him of being a traitor,
he awent on to say.
Serey Ratha, the leader of
the US-based Khmer People
Power Movement (KPPM), was
originally charged with incite-
ment to commit a crime for
allegedly calling on the coun-
trys armed forces to turn their
weapons on the despot, Hun
Sen, in a Facebook post, dated
August 14, 2013.
Serey Ratha did not attend
the trial, but his lawyer, Sok
Sam Oeun, said there was no
justice in the ruling.
The court could not nd
him guilty in this case but
has changed his charges from
a misdemeanor to a felony,
he told reporters outside the
courtroom yesterday.
The case came less than a
week after a report on the Na-
tional Police Commissariat
website revealed that the US
Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion (FBI) would be cooper-
ating with Cambodia in its
efforts to crack down on US-
based dissidents.
Yesterday, Serey Ratha said
that he felt targeted by the an-
nouncement, but he was not
concerned.
"As I am a U.S. Citizen I de-
fend the U.S. Constitution and
obey the law of the U.S. . . . The
[FBI] is not a political tool of
a communist or a toy of [the]
Cambodian government, he
wrote in an email. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Charge against KPPM
leader upped to treason
Thais detain large number
Alice Cuddy and Kevin Ponniah

A
LARGE group of
Cambodian migrants
were rounded up and
detained in a Bang-
kok prison at the end of May,
where many still remain, Thai
ofcials told the Post yesterday.
Separate unconrmed re-
ports that at least 130 Cam-
bodians had been in deten-
tion for more than a month
emerged about a week ago.
The Thai Foreign Ministry
yesterday declined to conrm
a specic gure but said a
very large number of Cam-
bodians had been arrested.
Kobboon Sangmanee, a rst
secretary at the Thai Ministry
of Foreign Affairs Department
of Information, said many
Cambodian migrants held at
Bangkok Remand Prison have
already been deported, while
some remain incarcerated,
awaiting deportation.
The number now is not
even close to what it was be-
fore, he said.
Third secretary Namrin
Anukul said the migrants were
charged with illegal entry, a
claim disputed by other sourc-
es who said some migrants
were charged with using ex-
pired work permits and others
had not been charged at all.
Cambodian and other mi-
grants are frequently detained
briey in Thailand as a result
of labour law offences be-
fore being deported. Since a
mass exodus of Cambodian
workers from Thailand last
month, migrants crossing il-
legally have been caught and
expelled on a daily basis.
According to sources who
declined to be named, Cam-
bodians who have entered
Thailand illegally can be de-
tained for an investigative
period of up to 48 days with-
out being charged.
But while this often hap-
pens to small groups of mi-
grants, large numbers being
held for so long are more un-
usual, they added.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Koy Kuong said he was still
awaiting conrmation on the
number of Cambodians being
held at the prison yesterday.
I still have no information.
The embassy in Bangkok is
still searching for it, he said.
Relevant ofcials within the
embassy couldnt be reached
for comment yesterday.
One source with knowledge
of the matter said the prison-
ers are expected to be released
by Wednesday, exactly 48 days
since May 30, the date many
were allegedly detained.
Migrant workers stand in a transport truck as they are returned to Cambodia by Thai border police at the
Poipet border in June. HONG MENEA
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adding that authorities have
not yet been able to identify the
injured man and the other pas-
senger who ed into the woods.
The military ofcial and a
forest administration ofcial
accused them of transporting
illegally logged wood. But we
found no pieces of wood in the
car, Saraing continued.
National military police
spokesman Kheng Tito said in
a text message yesterday that
military police ofcer Pheng
Sok Heng is now under in-
vestigation by the [provincial]
court for his involvement in
Phanits death.
Authorities declined to iden-
tify the second military ofcer
or the forest administration
ofcial who were both present
during the shooting.
Sre Khtum commune chief
Sam El told the Post that Phanit
was a tenant of his and the ad-
opted son of his assistant.
Im not sure if he was in-
volved in illegal logging during
the day of the incident. He and
his friend did not tell me where
they were going, El said.
Provincial forest administra-
tion chief Sok Kheng could not
be reached for comment.
Phanits body has been tak-
en to a pagoda in Sre Khtum
commune, said Kim Sokhong,
a village chief.
Military ofcials should
not have used violence or at-
tacked them if they didnt
know if they were really trans-
porting illegal logged [timber]
in the car, Sokhong said.
Rights groups yesterday said
more needs to be done to ad-
dress civilian casualties.
Its never appropriate for
a military police ofcer or . . .
authorities to open re on un-
armed individuals, especially
in a situation where there is
no proof of wrongdoing, said
Pech Pisey, a program director
for Transparency International.
Now what is needed is a
proper investigation for the
sake of delivering justice to the
murdered individual, he said.
Ou Virak, chairman of the
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights, said collusion between
government ofcials and rogue
loggers was rampant.
This situation may have re-
sulted from pressure being ap-
plied from above for results or
evidence that military ofcials
are actually working to pro-
tect natural resources. Unfor-
tunately, a death like this isnt
unpredictable when locals
dont trust authorities, who
often take the law into their
own hands, he said.
Review of US training in order
Land concession woes aired
Military police ofcer accused
Phak Seangly
Ratanakkiri
VILLAGE representatives in
Ratanakkiri yesterday shared
their land grievances with
the European Union ambas-
sador, requesting he relay to
the government their appeal
that no further 99-year land
concessions be granted to pri-
vate companies.
Although the Post was not per-
mitted to attend the full two-
hour meeting, NGOs present at
the discussions said that five vil-
lage representatives described to
Ambassador Jean-Francois Cau-
tain how economic land conces-
sions have taken a negative toll.
Some ethnic groups have no
communal lands because of
the titles awarded to compa-
nies, which close the land off
for private use, said Chhay
Thy, provincial coordinator for
rights group Adhoc. This leads
to the loss of ethnic identities
and no land left for the young-
er generation.
Until now, no company has
planted crops on the [conces-
sionary] lands the companies
are too busy with logging forest,
he said, adding that Adhoc had
suggested that in upcoming
meetings with the government,
the ambassador urge officials to
quickly register land for the com-
munities before it disappears.
Cautain said in return that he
will mention the concerns dur-
ing his scheduled meetings with
relevant authorities, according
to an NGO present.
But the government yester-
day offered a different take on
the long-term effects of ELCs.
We need the economic
boost in our province. Agro-
industrial crops are very
promising, said Environment
Minister Say Sam Al.
Sam Al added that agro-indus-
trial crops are expected to turn a
profit in five to 10 years and as a
result, villagers will benefit from
more jobs processing products.
In Ratanakkiri, the govern-
ment has allotted just over
135,500 hectares in land conces-
sions to 30 private companies,
according to Keo Saveurn, the
provincial deputy governor.
Among those concessions, 18
were granted by the Ministry of
Agriculture and almost all
the land was allotted for rub-
ber plantations.
Alice Cuddy
LESS than two months after a major rights
group lambasted the US for providing training
to Cambodias abusive armed forces, a former
assistant secretary of state has called for a con-
gressional review.
The call came at a Wednesday hearing led by
the Republican party chair of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, on the troubling
state of human rights in Southeast Asia.
Lorne Craner, the former US State Department
official, said the training for Hun Sens security
forces during the recent Angkor Sentinel exer-
cises . . . appear to be inconsistent with Congres-
sional restrictions on the types of training that
may be offered by the US to Cambodia.
Because Cambodias security forces are
integral to the regimes repressive tactics, a
Congressional review . . . is in order.
In May, Human Rights Watch hit out at the US
for providing training that would assist Cambo-
dias military in government crackdowns on the
political opposition and civil society activists,
which it said may be in violation of US law.
The Post found that photos singled out by HRW
were removed from the official Facebook page
of the joint exercise less than two weeks later.
During the hearing, Royce referred to the count
in 2013s disputed national election as truly pre-
posterous. The committees top-ranking Demo-
crat, Eliot Engel, also criticised the government
for tightening its chokehold on the media.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan
dismissed many of the claims. Those lawmakers
dont understand Cambodia. They are a great
country, they are intelligent. They need to review
this, because I dont want them to be wrong.
Representatives of minority groups play musical instruments during the signing of a forestry project in
Ratanakkiri on Wednesday. HENG CHIVOAN
Teachers death
Cause yet
to be found,
say ofcials
A
COMMITTEE investigat-
ing the alleged murder
of US citizen William
Glenn has not yet determined a
cause of death, a toxicology de-
partment ofcial in the capitals
municipal police department
said yesterday.
The body of Glenn, 43, was
found bruised, bound, wrapped
in a curtain and dumped in a
trash heap in Phnom Penhs
Por Sen Chey district early on
Wednesday morning. Police
and Ministry of Interior officials
investigating the case have not
mentioned any suspects.
The director of the Ministry
of Interiors Penal Department,
In Bora, said yesterday that
little is known about Glenn: He
entered Cambodia sometime
around May and was living in a
guesthouse in Phnom Penh.
Glenn was married to a Thai
woman, according to former
employers and the Interior
Ministry, but lived here alone.
Heng Sokuthy, manager at
Golden Gate American Inter-
national School, where Glenn
taught as a substitute for about
four weeks, said the schools
employees were still in shock
over the incident. CHEANG SOKHA
AND SEAN TEEHAN
Casualties
from UXO
accelerate
Pech Sotheary
CASUALTIES from mines and
unexploded ordnance are on
track to outpace last years
count, according to new gov-
ernment data.
In the first five months of this
year, 89 people were either
killed or injured by the deadly
remnants of war, Cambodian
Mine Action Centre director-
general Heng Ratana said yes-
terday. The centres tally for the
whole of 2013 is 111.
CMAC will take more meas-
ures through strengthening the
searches and detonations of . . .
unexploded ordnances and
advising the villagers more
about the mines, he said.
While he didnt provide a clear
reason for the larger than usual
numbers, he said that most of
the cases occurred in Battam-
bang and Pailin provinces,
which are rife with unexploded
ordnance, especially anti-tank
mines, and that a majority of
victims were labourers.
Cambodia is littered with
unearthed ordnance. But not
all accidents kill civilians. In
May, two Cambodian deminers
were killed when an anti-tank
mine exploded at their work
site in Battambang.
Factory wage rallies heat up
Mom Kunthear

M
ORE than 1,000
workers held a
demonstration
in front of Ocean
Garment factory in the capital
yesterday, burning tyres and
blocking the road in protest
against the managements re-
fusal to abide by a ruling that
workers be paid in full for a
one-month closure.
On May 24, Ocean manage-
ment announced to employ-
ees that the factory would
close until June 26, and that
workers would be paid $15 for
the intervening period.
After the Arbitration Council
ruled on Wednesday that the
factory which remains closed
must pay employees their
full salaries for the month (at
least $100 per worker), Ocean
wrote in a letter that it would
not follow the ruling and in-
tended to pay workers just $50
for that month.
Because of our anger, we
decided to block the street in
front of the factory and burn
more than 10 tyres on factory
grounds, said Houn Vanna,
a representative of workers at
the factory in Phnom Penhs
Por Sen Chey district.
Members of Oceans man-
agement could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
Workers plan on broadening
their protest of the factorys re-
cent decree by demonstrating
in front of the Ministry of La-
bour as well as in front of Prime
Minister Hun Sens home in the
capital, Vanna said. Authorities
have blocked protesting Ocean
employees from marching to
the premiers house on mul-
tiple occasions.
Rallies will begin next week,
Vanna said, so as not to inter-
fere with todays procession of
the late King Father Norodom
Sihanouks ashes.
In its notice on Wednesday,
Ocean also offered an annual
seniority bonus of $100 to
employees who have worked
at the factory for at least sev-
en months.
But promises of future perks
do little for Pen Nary, 43, who
has worked at Ocean for more
than a decade. She said yes-
terday that she is in danger of
being evicted from her rental
home and has had to borrow
money just to buy food.
The house owner gave me
two days to come up with rent.
If I still do not have money for
them, they will not allow me to
stay, Nary told the Post.
If Im evicted, I will gather all
my possessions, stay in front of
the factory and protest until we
receive our wages.
Workers from Ocean Garment factory burn tyres in front of the companys factory during a protest yesterday
demanding to be paid for the period of time the factory was closed. PHA LINA
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Protest leads to second
chance on natl exams
Chhay Channyda
and Laignee Barron

A
MID strict reforms to
guard against ram-
pant cheating on the
high-stakes national
exam, education ofcials yes-
terday showed surprising leni-
ency towards underperform-
ing grade 12 students.
In a notice released yester-
day, the Ministry of Education
instructed upper secondary
schools to hold re-examina-
tions for grade 12 students who
failed semester tests. The redo
will allow students a second
shot at qualifying for the na-
tional exam the Kingdoms
sole factor in determining col-
lege eligibility.
The last-minute change
of heart was prompted by a
Kampong Thom high school,
where a third of the grade 12
class failed to achieve the pass-
ing two-semester average of at
least 25 out of 50.
Hun Sen Taing Kork High
Schools 52 failing students pe-
titioned the ministry this week
to allow them to retake their
exams on the grounds their
teachers unfairly rewarded stu-
dents who could pay for extra
tutoring. After meetings with
both the students and teachers,
the ministry appears to have
erred on the side of caution.
In some cases, there could
have been errors with the
test or the scoring, ministry
spokesman Ros Salin said. We
want to know the real compe-
tencies of the students.
But with a new testing model
in place, the ministry may also
be more predisposed than
usual to discard initial results.
Rather than issuing its stan-
dardised semester-end test,
the government delegated the
responsibility to teachers a
change some worried would
lend too much subjectivity to
an already bribery- and cor-
ruption-laden system.
This is a year of piloting
many reforms, said San Chey,
coordinator for the Afliated
Network for Social Account-
ability in East Asia and the Pa-
cic. We cannot expect new
standards to work all at once.
But at the school that trig-
gered the second-chance tests,
educators were signicantly
less understanding.
We will follow the minis-
trys order. But in doing this,
the ministry itself shows no
notion of reforming education
for the better. This is a step
backwards, vice principal
Sem Sim said.
The ministry, however, is al-
lowing retesting only during the
smallest of windows, requiring
schools to submit updated lists
of who has passed and who has
not by July 16, leaving no time
for students to cram.
We werent paying attention
to revising for our tests, be-
cause we were busy protesting
not being registered for the na-
tional exams, so we still cannot
pass, Vann Dyna, 18, said.
Daniel Pye
UNITED Nations Special
Rapporteur for human rights
Surya Subedi has called on
politically connected devel-
opment company KDC Inter-
national to halt its project in
Kampong Chhnang province.
Following violent clashes
between KDC security guards
and protesters on Monday,
Subedi released a state-
ment yesterday that calls on
all sides in the long-running
land dispute to exercise calm
and restraint.
I call on the company, KDC
International, to immediately
halt development of con-
tested land until all claims by
individual families have been
properly assessed by an ap-
propriate independent body
in a fair and transparent way,
he says in the statement.
In this case . . . I have docu-
mented convictions of com-
munity members and activ-
ists, whilst the company was
able to seize possession of dis-
puted land before a decision
was rendered by a competent,
independent body address-
ing the communitys claims
that the leased land is in fact
owned by individual families.
A representative of KDC In-
ternational, which is owned
by Chea Kheng, the wife of
Minister of Mines and Energy
Suy Sem, could not be reached
for comment.
Residents of Kampong Tral-
ach districts Lorpeang Chh-
nang village have been mired
in a dispute with the rm
since 2007, when it bulldozed
145 hectares of farmland.
For . . . years now, the lo-
cal community has been em-
broiled in a dispute over con-
tested land and the complaints
that they have sought to lodge
with the court system against
the authorities and KDC Inter-
national for the alleged intimi-
dation, violence and land loss,
have remained unaddressed,
Subedis statement says.
On Monday, at least one vil-
lager was beaten unconscious
and more than a dozen injured
in violent clashes with com-
pany security guards armed
with scythes, slingshots and
iron balls.
Subedi also called on the
government to do more to pro-
tect the community against
human rights violations.
Council of Ministers spokes-
man Phay Siphan and Beng
Hong Socheat Khemro, deputy
director-general at the Minis-
try of Land Management, Ur-
ban Planning and Construc-
tion, could not be reached.
Envoy calls out KDC rm
A group of villagers stand in front of a bulldozer during a land dispute
with KDC International in Kampong Chhnang this week. HENG CHIVOAN
The ministry itself shows no
notion of reforming education
for the better. This is a step
backwards
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Boy loses new moto to
sword-waving thieves
A PHNOM Penh schoolboy was
reduced to tears on Wednes-
day, and with good reason: his
motorbike was stolen by samu-
rai sword-wielding thieves.
According to police, the
16-year-old was riding his
motorbike in Chbar Ampov dis-
trict at lunchtime when two
men approached, one waving
the sword. He stopped the bike
and, no doubt quivering with
fear, gave it to them. Police
found him crying by the side of
the road. The bike was a gift
from his mother. The thieves
remain at large. DEUMAMPIL
Cries for help interfere
with gunmans stick-up
A MAN heading to the capitals
Prampi Makara market on
Wednesday to pick up some
goods never got a chance to
spend his money. Instead, he
found himself down $100 and
without a single shopping bag
in hand after he was mugged
at gunpoint on the way to the
bazaar. Police said the thief
warned he would shoot unless
the victim accompanied him to
a quiet lane. Once there, he
shouted for help. The thief
panicked, grabbed the victims
wallet and phone, and fled.
DEUMAMPIL
Numbers game proves
unlucky for merchants
THREE women allegedly run-
ning a lottery racket out of their
cloth shop were arrested by
Kandal town police on Wednes-
day. Playing lottery numbers is
banned, but that allegedly didnt
stop the women from running
clandestine games while selling
the materials. After a tip, police
arrived and sent them to court.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Boy, 6, in hospital after
nearly fatal hit-and-run
A 6-YEAR-OLD crossing the
road to buy ice cream in Poipet
town was hospitalised in seri-
ous condition on Wednesday
after he was hit by a car that
simply sped on instead of
stopping to help. Luckily,
traffic police caught up with
the driver, 35, who has been
sent to court. The boy is in
hospital with serious injuries.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Homeowner picks TV
out of line-up, sort of
THE question that immediately
arises after a theft is, naturally,
who will buy the goods? A rash
sale could lead to a hasty arrest,
which is exactly what police
think occurred in Sen Sok dis-
trict on Wednesday, when they
put the bracelets on three men
who resold an allegedly stolen
television. The owner had
reported a break-in recently.
Not long afterwards, police not-
ed a new television up for sale in
the market. The owner said it
was his, and the three were sent
to court. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
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been meeting with Prime Minister Hun
Sen inside.
But the King ultimately did not emerge,
leading many, including a few lower-level
palace officials, to speculate that the pres-
ence of a heavy contingent of opposition
lawmakers led by Cambodia National Res-
cue Party deputy president Kem Sokha had
swayed his decision.
Oum Daravuth, adviser to the secretary
of the Queen Mother, could not be reached
for comment, while Information Minister
Khieu Kanharith denied that the King had
any plan to greet people. Other high-rank-
ing officials on the organising committee
dodged questions on the issue.
Earlier yesterday morning, officials from
every ministry had offered alms to monks
outside the palace before paying their
respects at the recently erected statue of
Sihanouk in front of Independence Monu-
ment, where they offered wreaths.
Todays procession is the largest and
most public event of the three-day pro-
gram. The late King Fathers ashes are to
be interred tomorrow per his wishes.
The King made a number of wills and
each will changed procedure. But the last
will made clear he wanted his ashes in the
stupa of Princess Kantha Bopha and they
have very much respected the will, said
Julio Jeldres, Sihanouks former private
secretary and official biographer.
But the stupa, which was built in 1960,
required serious refurbishment and reno-
vation, according to palace insiders,
explaining the lengthy period between
cremation and interment.
The former stupa of Princess Kantha
Bopha was not in very good [condition],
so they had to reinforce it and embellish it
a bit better to be worthy of Sihanouk, said
Son Soubert, high privy councillor to King
Norodom Sihamoni.
The Silver Pagoda is also home to a
stupa bearing the ashes of Sihanouks
father, King Norodom Suramarit, who
reigned from 1955 until his death in 1960,
and his wife Queen Sisowath Kossamak,
who died in 1975.
King Ang Duong, Sihanouks great-great-
grandfather, and Ang Duongs son, King
Norodom, also have stupas dedicated to
them in the Silver Pagoda compound.
Other monarchs are memorialised at the
old royal capital of Oudong.
There is no prescription as to where the
King should be enshrined, said Soubert,
adding, however, that Sihanouks choice
was unsurprising. I think its logical,
because he loved that daughter a lot and
when he used to travel, he always took the
urn of that daughter with him.
Following the cremation last year, some
of Sihanouks ashes were scattered by the
royal family at the confluence of the
Mekong, Tonle Sap and Tonle Bassac riv-
ers, while some were sent to a Buddhist
temple in Japan.
Todays procession will see 7,000 police,
military and military police officers
deployed to the streets around the palace,
national police spokesman Kirth
Chantharith said.
Large stretches of Street 178, Norodom
Boulevard, Sihanouk Boulevard and Sot-
hearos Boulevard will be blocked.
While he couldnt specify how many peo-
ple would attend, Chantharith said all
people were welcome.
Grand farewell
for Sihanouk
Monks pray in front of the Royal Palace yesterday in Phnom Penh during the rst day of
ceremonies to inter the late King Fathers ashes at the Silver Pagoda. VIREAK MAI
SCHEDULE
FOR TODAY
Senior govern-
ment officials,
as well as diplo-
matic corps,
arrive at palace.
Ashes placed
into procession.
Procession
departs. It cir-
cles around pal-
ace to Noro-
dom, on to
Independence
Monument and
Sihanouk statue.
Members of
procession stop
on Sothearos
and continue
on foot back to
palace. Urn car-
ried into Silver
Pagoda.
Concert at Wat
Phnom, Wat
Botum and Hun
Sen Park. Fire-
works to follow
at 8pm.
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This week in biz
ANZ Royal and Phnom
Penh Sugar part ways
ANZ Royal Bank has severed
its ties with ruling party
Senator Ly Yong Phats
controversial sugar
plantation, a $220 million
development that has been at
the centre of years-long land
disputes and child labour
scandals. Documents
obtained by the Post in
January linked ANZ Royal
Bank to Yong Phats Phnom
Penh Sugar Company. An
ANZ spokesman confirmed
on Sunday that the sugar
company has paid back its
loan and that the bank has
cut its ties with the company.
Factory registration is
up in first half of year
THE number of garment
factories registered in
Cambodia reached 1,200 at
the end of June, an 8 per cent
increase over six months ago,
according to data released
last week by the Ministry of
Industry and Handicraft.
Garment Manufacturers
Association in Cambodia
secretary-general Ken Loo
said that while there is still
interest in the sector, the
figures are of registrations
only and factory owners were
still cautious of investing after
the January protest.
Investors waiting for
end of deadlock: Todd
A RESOLUTION to
Cambodias yearlong political
standoff would spur a new
flow from foreign investors
eyeing the Kingdom, US
Ambassador to Cambodia
William Todd said on Monday.
The ambassador said many
companies were poised to
invest in Cambodia but were
waiting for the political
deadlock following last years
July election to be broken.
Frankly, I think companies
are looking for a resolution,
and once there is a resolution,
I believe that the market is
going to take off, and at that
point many businesses will
come, Todd said.
Italian rice producers
target Cambodian rice
CAMBODIAN duty-free rice
exports to the European
Union have this week come
under a fresh attack from
producers in Italy, who say
that the beneficial treatment
of Cambodian rice is
restricting the potential of
Italian rice exports. Italian
farmers will protest in some
of Italys largest rice-growing
areas, according to a July 7
report by rice industry
publication Oryza. The EU
ambassador to Cambodia,
Jean-Francois Cautain, said
on Tuesday that he could not
comment on the issue, as the
EU had not received an
official complaint.
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UK rms follow ow of investors to Myanmar
BRITISH companies have
signed deals with local counter-
parts in Myanmar to invest in
the electricity sector during a
trip by Myanmar officials to
London, an embassy announce-
ment has revealed.
The deals come following
the widely touted success of
the United States APR Energy
plant it set up in the Mandalay
region on June 6.
The two recent deals are
between United Kingdom-
based Rolls Royce and tempo-
rary power generation firm
Aggreko, and Myanmar com-
panies Zeya and Associates and
Andaman Power and Utility.
They were signed during the
visit of Myanmars minister for
electric power, Khin Maung
Soe, to the UK.
It is a pleasure now to see
business being done that sup-
ports important national infra-
structure in Burma, said Hugo
Swire, a UK minister of state for
the foreign office, according to
the press release.
Rolls Royce will provide
three 9.2-megawatt gas tur-
bines for Zeya and Associates
Hlawga power plant in the
Yangon region. The plant is
expected to deliver 25 mega-
watts when completed. The
second deal between Aggreko
and Andaman Power will con-
tribute the development of a
temporary gas power plant in
the Tanintharyi region to pro-
vide electricity for Dawei.
Khin Maung Soe met with a
number of British companies,
aiming to garner more invest-
ment in power generation and
transmission in Myanmar.
Also this week, Myanmar
Industries Association (MIA)
said its plans to support foreign
investment in food production
joint ventures as it applies for
permission to set up in the
coming months, its chairman,
Zaw Min Win, said.
The food industry has been
picking up steam on the heels
of entries by large internation-
al companies including Amer-
ican drink makers Pepsi and
Coca-Cola, as well as Unilever
from Europe and Thailands CP
Livestock, he said.
Several more international
firms have submitted propos-
als to the Myanmar Investment
Commission through MIA this
year, mainly for soft drinks.
Although Myanmar has
extensive agricultural capabili-
ties, many local producers have
trouble gaining domestic mar-
ket share, he said. About 70 per
cent of edible products are
imported, though they often
come through border areas
without proper testing or Food
and Drug Administration
approval. MYANMAR TIMES
Customers inspect phones in an electronics shop on Phnom Penhs Sihanouk Boulevard yesterday afternoon. ELI MEIXLER
Smartphone sales slowing
May Kunmakara
and Daniel de Carteret
A
FTER years of ever-
brisker sales, the
smartphone market
may be plateauing.
Cambodians spent more
than $300 million on smart-
phones last year, a 38 per cent
increase from 2012s gure of
about $220 million, accord-
ing to data from Singapore-
based research rm GfK.
Some 907,000 smartphones
were sold in the Kingdom in
2013 42 per cent more than
the year before. However, the
new gures also reveal that
the boom may be fading,
with sales growth slowing to
10 per cent in the rst quarter
of this year compared to the
same period in 2013.
Despite the slowdown, GfK
said that if sales elsewhere
in the region are anything to
go by, there is still room in
Cambodia for the pace to pick
up again.
The trend will increase
in smartphone demand,
and vice versa for feature
phones, said Gerard Tan,
account director for Digital
World at GfK Asia.
According to GfK, which
collects data from phone
retailers throughout South-
east Asia, smartphones ac-
counted for 55 per cent of all
handsets sold in the region
in the rst three months of
the year.
More than half the market
today is contributed by smart-
phones, and the trend will
be sustained as the switch-
over [from feature phones] in
emerging markets takes pre-
cedence, Tan said.
But Gwihan Lee, managing
director of Samsungs Cam-
bodian and Lao branches,
said yesterday that half of
the Kingdoms mobile phone
owners were already using
smartphones.
Furthermore, due to the
cost of upgrading from a fea-
ture phone to smartphone, he
said he believed that the mar-
ket was at saturation point,
leaving little room for further
growth in the short term.
Some customers can not
afford to buy a smartphone,
Lee said via email. Now, sec-
ond hand smartphone de-
mand has increased a lot, es-
pecially in provincial areas.
Lee, whose company is the
top smartphone retailer in
Cambodia, added that sales
campaigns in the future would
target those seeking to replace
their existing smartphones,
rather than make the switch
from feature phones.
Hor Hab, deputy managing
director of GGear, an autho-
rised dealer for LG Electron-
ics, said local smartphone
sales were slowing, but point-
ed to a different cause.
Starting since early this
year, the government has
charged 10 per cent more
in special tax, which is not
charged by any other country
in Asia, Hab said.
So when we add 10 per cent
more in VAT, it makes it dif-
cult to compete with illegal
smuggling and neighbour-
ing counties, and thats why
you see most of our people
visit our neighbours to buy a
smartphone there, as it is a bit
cheaper than us.
Hab estimated that in Cam-
bodias smartphone market,
LG, Sony and Huawei each
have a share of about 5 per
cent. Nokia has close to 8 per
cent, Apple has increased its
to about 30 per cent and Sam-
sung leads the pack with about
half of the market, Hab said.
Jason Liu, director of Hua-
weis Cambodian consum-
er business, could not be
reached yesterday, but he
told the Post in April that he
was condent in the local
markets prospects.
I believe that in the next ve
years, 80 or 90 per cent of fea-
ture phone users will become
smartphone users. Liu said.
Singapore set to stop
issuing $10,000 note
SINGAPORES central bank
said yesterday it would stop
issuing S$10,000 (US$8,000)
notes to help deter money
laundering, with critics
complaining the note is the
bill of choice for bribe-payers
in neighbouring Indonesia.
The note is one of the worlds
most valuable banknotes in
circulation, along with the
1,000 Swiss franc (US$1,120)
note, the S$1,000 note and
the 500 ($680) note,
according to the Standard
Catalogue of World Paper
Money. Notes currently in
circulation will remain legal
tender but stocks are
expected to decline over time
as worn notes are returned
and not replaced. AFP
China e-trade surplus
jumps up to 16.4 pct
CHINAS monthly trade
surplus jumped 16.4 per cent
in June to $31.6 billion, official
data showed yesterday, as
exports and imports both rose
in the latest sign of recovering
strength in the worlds second-
largest economy. Exports
increased 7.2 per cent to
$186.8 billion year-on-year,
the General Administration of
Customs announced, while
imports gained 5.5 per cent to
$155.2 billion. China is the
worlds biggest trading nation
in goods. AFP
Markets
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Business
Bank of China in fraud probe
C
HINAS central bank
and currency regu-
lator are investigat-
ing a state media
report that alleged Bank of
China broke rules on trans-
ferring money overseas, two
government ofcials familiar
with the matter said.
The probe focuses on
whether Bank of China violat-
ed regulations in its operations
or aided money laundering,
the people said, asking not to
be named as they arent autho-
rized to speak publicly on the
matter. Starting an investiga-
tion doesnt mean the Beijing-
based bank has done anything
wrong, they said.
Bank of China, the nations
largest foreign-exchange
lender, on Wednesday de-
nied a report by China Cen-
tral Television claiming that
it circumvented the rules by
helping customers transfer
unlimited amounts of yuan
overseas and convert it into
other currencies through a
product called Youhuitong.
The bank said it introduced
a cross-border yuan trans-
fer service in 2011 with the
knowledge of authorities.
Chinese foreign-exchange
rules cap the maximum
amount of yuan that indi-
viduals are allowed to con-
vert into other currencies at
$50,000 each year and ban
them from transferring yuan
abroad directly. Policy mak-
ers have taken steps in re-
cent years including allowing
freer movements of capital in
and out of China as they seek
to boost the global stature of
the yuan.
Chinas foreign-exchange
restriction is no longer com-
patible with the growing
economy and the drive to
make the yuan a global cur-
rency, Chen Xingyu, a Shang-
hai-based analyst at Phillip
Securities Research, said by
phone yesterday. Loopholes
and irregularities may occur
during the deregulation pro-
cess, but that doesnt mean
the direction is wrong.
Peoples Bank of China Gov-
ernor Zhou Xiaochuan said its
too early to comment on the
state television report. First
of all, we need to know whats
really going on, he said at a
brieng in Beijing during the
US-China Strategic and Eco-
nomic Dialogue yesterday.
Media reports referring
to an underground bank
and money laundering are
inconsistent with the facts,
Bank of China said in a
statement on its website on
Wednesday. The cross-border
yuan transfer service only
allows money to be moved
for emigration and overseas
property investment, it said.
Youhuitong targets custom-
ers who wish to invest in or
migrate to North America,
Australia and some European
countries, CCTV reported, re-
ferring to documents shown
by unidentied Bank of Chi-
na employees.
Bank of Chinas service com-
plies with regulatory principles
and was started after notifying
relevant authorities, the lender
said in Wednesdays statement.
Many commercial banks in the
southern province of Guang-
dong offered similar services
under a trial program, it said.
The currency regulators
Guangdong branch in 2012
picked Bank of China, China
Citic Bank Corp and a foreign
lender to let individuals trans-
fer yuan abroad as part of ef-
forts to promote global use of
the currency, Time Weekly
reported in April 2013. Banks
were told not to promote the
trial, which took place at a few
branches in Guangdong, the
report showed. BLOOMBERG
Bank of China is being investigated after state media carried reports
that the bank circumvented rules and regulations regarding the
transfer of money. BLOOMBERG
MALAYSIAS central bank yes-
terday raised a key interest rate
to curb ination in the rst ad-
justment in more than three
years, amid public protests
over price hikes.
Bank Negara said it decided
to raise the overnight policy
rate by 25 basis points to 3.25
per cent on the back of con-
tinued strength in exports and
private sector activity.
Amid the rm growth
prospects and with ination
remaining above its long-run
average, the MPC [monetary
policy committee] decided
to adjust the degree of mone-
tary accommodation, it said
in a statement.
Bank Negara has kept the
rate steady since May 2011.
Ination stood at 3.4 per
cent for the rst ve months
of the year after cuts in fuel,
sugar and other subsidies, ac-
cording to government gures.
For all of last year it was 2.1 per
cent compared to 2012.
Malaysians have staged
a series of protests against
rising prices, accusing the
government of economic
mismanagement and cor-
ruption that has drained
state coffers. AFP
Key interest
rate raised
in Malaysia
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Business
Local vs foreign: food for thought
AFTER bringing Tous les Jours to
Phnom Penh in 2011, CBM Corpora-
tion general director Sila Chy Thmor
has also kept a steady ow of global
food and beverage chains coming into
the Kingdom. He now operates fran-
chises of Singaporean eatery the Asian
Kitchen, the French cafe Miam Miam
and South Korean fast food restaurant
Lotteria. He is also a founder of local
brands BB World, Pizza World and T&C
Caf. The Posts Hor Kimsay spoke to
Sila Chy Thmor about the rising num-
ber of international chains setting up
shop in Cambodia and how they have
inuenced local competitors.
Why did you decide to invest in bring-
ing foreign brands to Cambodia?
There is an emerging trend here of
people preferring famous brands and
more modern products. I have 10
years of experience in the F&B busi-
ness and I know that about 40-50 per
cent of young Phnom Penh residents
are able to afford such products.
Five years ago, the price of local
food such as noodles or fried rice was
signicantly less than a hamburger.
But now prices of local foods are
increasing sharply while goods like
hamburgers and other fast food are
only increasing gradually. In some
instances, the price of noodles could
be similar to or even more expensive
than foreign foods.
Young people always want to try
new things. They check in on Face-
book at trendy foreign shops to show
their modern lifestyle to friends and
relatives. Lots of them will also post
photos while out at these places,
which can get others interested and
boost business.
What kind of process and costs do you
face when opening a new franchise?
It generally costs between $200,000
and $300,000 to acquire the rights to
a master franchise for a 10- to 15-year
period, and on average we spend
about half a million dollars to open
the rst branch. This number in-
cludes the cost of securing the fran-
chise rights, nding a location for the
shop and renovating it, and much
more. However, while these costs are
quite high for the rst branch, they
are much lower for those that follow.
If it costs so much to buy in to a global
chain, why do it?
The risk is lower when dealing with
an established foreign brand, even if
we need to spend a lot of our budget
on the franchise rights. Brands like
Tous Les Jours, the Asian Kitchen,
Miam Miam and Lotteria are already
famous, so when they open here ev-
erybody will know them and trust
their quality. Another advantage is we
can make our products with the high
standards set by the franchiser, who
also supports us with know-how.
You have also established your own
food and drink brands. Does your
growing emphasis on foreign chains
mean youre focusing less on your
home-grown ones?
No, we are simultaneously working
to strengthen our own local opera-
tions. I truly love my brands. They are
very close to my heart. It would be
very painful if I had to close one of
them, so I am doing my best to make
them more competitive. We are close-
ly observing how the market evolves.
As you say, the landscape is chang-
ing. What will the future hold?
We are not sure what the market
will be like; however, we know that
clients want new things modern,
high-class and imported things. We
are the supplier, so we follow our cus-
tomers. Looking at other countries
experiences, globally and region-
ally, after living conditions improve,
international brands dominate the
market. Sometimes, the foreign
brands can kill the local ones.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity
CBM Corporations Sila Chy Thmor talks to the Post in one of the companys food outlets in Aeon Mall yesterday. VIREAK MAI
Brazil $3.75B cybertheft
could be largest ever
A SCHEME that has been
skimming funds from
Brazilian bank payments over
the past two years may be the
largest cybercrime heist in
history, at some $3.75 billion,
security researchers say. The
scheme targets a Brazilian
payment system called the
Boleto, which can be issued
online and used for most types
of payments in the South
American country, according
to a report from the security
firm RSA. Researchers at RSA
said the fraud scheme that
first emerged in 2012 infected
over 192,000 computers and
led to some 495,000 fraudulent
transactions. AFP
European heavyweights
post poor output data
FRENCH industrial production
fell 1.7 per cent in May, official
data showed yesterday, the
latest of Europes biggest
economies to post poor
output data. Germany and
Britain both issued negative
figures for May, raising fears
that Europes economic
recovery may be stalling.
Manufacturing production fell
2.3 per cent for the month
after holding steady in April,
state statistics agency INSEE
said. Industrial production is
one of the key indicators
showing the health of the
countrys economy. AFP
Markets
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Business
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Human Resources Specialist
TheU.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual for the
Human Resources Specialist position in the Human Resources
Ofce.
The incumbent assists the Human Resources Ofcer (HRO) in
themanagement of theU.S. Direct Hireand Locally Employed
(LE) Staff human resources programs and serves as Contracting
Ofcer Representative for the LE Staff health insurance program.
S/he reports to the HRO, directly supervises ve employees, and
indirectly, threeothers.
Salary: Theannual salary rangefor this position is
USD19,168 29,711.
Required Qualications
Bachelors degreein Business Administration or Human 1.
Resources Management is required.
Fiveyears of progressively responsibleexperiencein the 2.
eld of human resources administration is required. Two years
of supervisory experienceis also required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Must have excellent knowledge of applicable local labor 4.
and social security laws, as well as prevailing practices and
customs as they apply to compensation and other elements
of human resources management.
Excellent managerial and leadership skills arerequired. 5.
Must possess very good writing and verbal skills necessary
to discuss complex issues and to preparecomprehensive
written reports and recommendations on both general
matters as well as on controversial problems and issues. Must
possess ahigh degreeof analytical ability and interpersonal
skills.
Application Procedure
Theapplication deadlineis July 25, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.gov
using the Universal Appli-cation for Employment as a
Locally Employed Staff or Family Member (DS-174) form.
The application form and complete details on this position
can be found at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/employment_
opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have
the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for
consideration.
BOEING Co predicts that de-
mand in Asia will push com-
mercial aircraft sales to $5.2
trillion over the next 20 years,
up 4.2 per cent from a 2013
forecast, as China overtakes
the US as the worlds largest
aviation market.
Single-aisle jets, the work-
horses of the global airline
eet, will account for about 70
per cent of the 36,770 planes
that Chicago-based Boeing
estimates will be sold by all
companies through 2033, ac-
cording to its annual market
outlook released yesterday.
China is expected to account
for about 40 per cent of the
13,460 jets that will be deliv-
ered to the Asia-Pacic area
over that period, the most of
any global region, said Ran-
dy Tinseth, vice president of
marketing at Boeings com-
mercial airplane unit. North
America, the next largest re-
gion, follows with an expect-
ed 7,550 deliveries.
This market is strong and
resilient, Tinseth said. Boe-
ings new forecast is more
bullish than in 2013 and 2012,
when it raised the 20-year
projection by 3.8 per cent and
1.5 per cent.
Boeing expects the pattern
also will boost demand for
long-range, twin-engine jets
such as its wide-body 777,
generating $1.16 trillion in
sales over two decades. The
redesigned 777X, which can
carry a jumbos capacity of 400
passengers, has attracted 300
orders worth more than $100
billion at list prices since it was
unveiled in November.
Some of these sales will come
at the expense of the industrys
largest models, Boeings 747-8
jumbo jet and Airbus Group
NV (AIR)s A380 superjumbo.
Both of those planes have
struggled to attract sales in an
environment where crude oil
costs more than $100 a bar-
rel. Boeings 747-8 had just one
order through June, while the
A380 hasnt attracted any new
airline customers in two years
and has unlled production
slots as soon as 2015.
Boeing sees a diminish-
ing role for the four-engine
planes, once synonymous
with intercontinental travel,
with 620 total sales worth $240
billion through 2033. Thats an
18 per cent drop from its 2013
forecast for the category.
This is all about demand,
Tinseth told reporters in a tele-
phone brieng. Its no sur-
prise that market has struggled
to take hold.
Demand for smaller wide-
bodies a group that includes
the rst version of the 787
Dreamliner and Airbuss A330
also is forecast to taper as air-
lines shift to the bigger 787-10
and other fuel-efcient planes
that seat more than 300 peo-
ple, he said.
Boeing forecasts a $1.14 tril-
lion market for 4,520 jets that
seat 200 to 300 people, about
the same as a year earlier.
The higher forecast comes
amid concerns about the
outlook for the aviation sec-
tor after Air France-KLM
and Lufthansa both cut their
earnings targets due to weak
demand. BLOOMBERG/AFP
Boosted by demand in
Asia, Boeing forecasts
$5.2T in next 20 years
Budget spells out Modi-nomics
Penelope Macrae
I
NDIAS new right-wing govern-
ment under Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi unveiled its maiden
budget yesterday, promising a
new era of scal prudence and greater
opportunities for foreign investors in
key sectors of the economy.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told
parliament that the new government,
in ofce since May, had inherited a
challenging situation of low growth
and high ination from the previous
Congress administration.
But he laid out what he said were
broad indicators of the direction the
government intended to travel in: to-
wards lower government debt, more
privatisation and greater openness to
foreign investors.
Government overspending would
be brought down dramatically in the
next three years, with the scal decit
reduced to 3 per cent in 2016/17 from
a target of 4.1 per cent this nancial
year, Jaitley pledged.
We cannot leave behind a legacy of
debt for future generations, he said.
He said the budget was the begin-
ning of a journey to sustain seven to
eight per cent growth in the next three
to four years.
Jaitley also announced an increase
in the permitted level of foreign di-
rect investment in the defence and
insurance sectors to 49 per cent from
26 per cent.
He also said the government intend-
ed to sell an unspecied amount of
shares in the debt-laden public banks,
which are in need of fresh equity.
The government will continue to
hold majority ownership, but the citi-
zens of India will get direct sharehold-
ing in these banks, he said.
But the Sensex, the leading index of
the Bombay Stock Exchange, fell 0.99
per cent to 25,193.55 points around
noon as investors apparently reacted
with disappointment to the absence of
any sweeping structural reforms.
Markets were expecting that Modis
new government would use the bud-
get to esh out campaign promises to
lift Asias number-three economy from
its longest stretch of sub-ve per cent
growth in a quarter-century.
With two-thirds of Indias 1.25 bil-
lion population living on less than
$2 a day, according to World Bank
gures, and worries about a below-
average monsoon this year, Jaitley
said the government would continue
to care for the poor.
But, taking up a theme repeated dur-
ing election campaigning by Modi,
he argued that the poor had become
newly aspirational and wanted job op-
portunities and better infrastructure,
not just handouts.
It is the poor that suffer the most,
Jaitley said. We have to ensure that
our anti-poverty programs are well
targeted.
Growth has crashed from near dou-
ble-digits a few years ago to 4.7 per cent
in 2013, marking the second straight
year of sub-ve per cent expansion
amid high interest rates, falling invest-
ment and wage-eroding ination.
The Finance Ministrys India Eco-
nomic Survey forecast on Wednesday
the economy could expand 5.4-5.9 per
cent this year, but cautioned the patchy
annual rains, running at 42 per cent
below average, threatened growth.
Since taking charge after a landslide
win over the left-leaning Congress,
swept out by voters angry about weak
growth and scandals, Modi has sent
strong signals he will pursue his Mo-
dinomics agenda of maximum gov-
ernance, minimum government.
Modi has consolidated minis-
tries and scrapped cabinet panels
to streamline administration and
speed decisions. Jaitley has criticised
mindless populism burdening pub-
lic nances. AFP
Arun Jaitley, Indias nance minister (centre), and other members of the government pose
for a photograph outside the North Block of the Central Secretariat building before leaving
to table the budget in parliament in New Delhi yesterday. BLOOMBERG
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Construction equipment
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Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
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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 %
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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. 101.63 -0.66 -0.65% 3:54:59
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 107.82 -0.46 -0.42% 3:54:36
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.18 0.01 0.24% 3:54:30
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 292.88 -0.89 -0.30% 3:55:41
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 286.42 -0.69 -0.24% 3:55:14
ICEGasoil USD/MT 883.5 -2.25 -0.25% 3:54:43
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13.46 0.01 0.04% 3:38:01
CME Lumber USD/tbf 341.6 2.6 0.77% 21:12:59
Nina Glinski
D
OUG Immel recently com-
pleted his custom-built
dream home, sparing no
expense on details like
cherry-wood floors, cathedral ceil-
ings and stained-glass windows in
just 164 square feet (15 square metres)
of living space including a loft.
The 57-year-old schoolteachers
tiny house near Providence, Rhode
Island, cost $28,000 a seventh of the
median price of single-family resi-
dences in his state.
I wanted to have an edge against
career vagaries, said Immel, a former
real estate appraiser. A dwelling with
minimal financial burden gives you
a little attitude. He invests the mon-
ey he would have spent on a mort-
gage and related costs in a mutual
fund, halving his retirement horizon
to 10 years and maybe even as soon
as three. I am infinitely happier.
Dramatic downsizing is gaining
interest, gauging by increased sales of
plans and ready-made homes and
growing audiences for websites relat-
ed to the niche. US network channel
A+E Networks yesterday started airing
Tiny House Nation, a series that cel-
ebrates the exploding movement.
The pared-down lifestyle allows
people to minimise expenses and
gain economic freedom, said archi-
tect Jay Shafer in Cotati, California,
who founded two micro building and
design companies and is widely cred-
ited with popularising the trend.
It shows people how little some
need to be happy, and how simply they
can live if they choose, said Shafer, 49,
who shares a 46-square-metre home
with his wife and two kids.
People want a more modest life-
style now, said Derek Diedricksen,
who travels nationally to lead build-
ing workshops. Those who opt for
super-small structures dont want to
waste their time or be a slave to a
house they dont fully use.
Defined as 46 or fewer square
metres, tiny houses range from prim-
itive 9-square-metre huts to award-
winning displays of sustainable archi-
tecture with elegant streamlined
design. While many are built on
wheels to avoid regulations, mobility
isnt the main draw.
Aldo Lavaggi, 36, can support him-
self as a folk musician in New Yorks
Hudson Valley thanks to the
10-square-metre home he built on a
friends farmland in the Berkshires
and has lived in since August 2012.
Theres a fallacy of limited options,
he said, arguing that people dont
need stellar credit, thick wallets or
even a full-time job to own a house.
His residence runs on a car battery
and energy from two solar panels. He
pockets enough cash to splurge on
artisanal bread and gourmet cheeses
from the local market. Im earning
more than I spend, he said.
Even with the microtrend, the
number of tiny houses in the US is,
well, tiny just in the thousands per
unofficial industry surveys. Their
popularity is growing, however, as the
US homeownership rate has fallen to
64.8 per cent, the lowest in almost 20
years, and the median size of new
single-family houses is the biggest
ever 221 square metres in 2013, a 3.4
per cent increase from 2012.
Historically, residences under 46
square metres werent considered
tiny. In 1950, houses averaged 91
square metres, according to data from
the National Association of Home
Builders. The first units in the iconic
early American suburb of Levittown,
New York, were 70 square metres.
When Laura LaVoie began writing
and blogging about the movement in
2010, there were only one or two tiny
house blogs and now there are hun-
dreds, she said.
She quit her Atlanta-based job as a
recruiter at a staffing company, sold
her 250-square-metre house and pur-
sued a career as a freelance writer by
building a place with her husband in
the mountains of North Carolina.
I felt really trapped, she said. Mov-
ing to an 11-square-metre space ena-
bled them to live in a different way,
take control of our lives.
Immel, the schoolteacher who fin-
ished his home in late 2013, said he
wasnt sure the lifestyle would suit
him long-term. He built the house
with resale in mind, just in case.
His home, which has a facade thats
20 per cent glass, doesnt feel claustro-
phobic, he said, and heating it through
the harsh winter was next to free. With
total expenses about $900 a year,
including about $112 for propane and
the rest for electricity, his $40,000-plus
salary easily sustains him and his
savings account. BLOOMBERG
Tiny house, big advantages
Theres a fallacy of limited options: Tiny-house owner Aldo Lavaggi says people
dont need stellar credit or even a full-time job to own a house. BLOOMBERG
Mai Yaghi
I
SRAELI warplanes bom-
barded Gaza relentlessly
yesterday, causing a
growing number of civil-
ian casualties, as the UN Se-
curity Council was meeting
urgently over Israels spiralling
confrontation with Hamas.
Palestinian president Mah-
mud Abbas has accused Israel
of committing genocide in
Gaza, but Israel showed no
sign of letting up, with six chil-
dren among 27 Palestinians
killed in air strikes carried out
since midnight (2100 GMT).
And Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu has
vowed even tougher action
against Hamas, despite grow-
ing international calls for a
ceasere in the worst con-
frontation in and around Gaza
since 2012.
So far, there have been no
Israel deaths but Hamas has
kept up a steady barrage of
rocket re on cities in central
Israel, sending people eeing
for cover as air raid sirens rang
out in cities as far away as Jeru-
salem, Tel Aviv and even Haifa.
We are facing long days of
ghting and Hamas attempts
to surprise Israeli with attacks
from the air, sea and land, Is-
raeli Defence Minister Moshe
Yaalon said yesterday.
The violence has emptied
the streets from Gaza City to
Tel Aviv, as both Israelis and
Palestinians take shelter in-
doors for fear of being caught
in the open when the next
rocket or missile hits.
On the beachfront in Tel
Aviv, cafes which would nor-
mally have been bursting at
the seams at the height of
tourist season, sat empty, their
waiters nervously checking
the phones for any news of an
incoming missile.
But in cafes in Gaza, the
story was much darker after
an Israeli missile slammed
into a coffee shop in Khan
Yunis, killing eight as they
watched a World Cup semi--
nal match. Another 15 people
were injured.
And Israel conrmed prepa-
rations are under way for a pos-
sible ground attack, with tanks
massing along the border and
Netanyahu facing pressure
from hardliners within his co-
alition to put boots back on
the ground in the territory.
A senior ofcial said yester-
day that Israels goal was to get
Hamas to stop the launching
of rockets and carrying out
terror attacks against Israelis.
Gaza is on a knife-edge. The
deteriorating situation is lead-
ing to a downward spiral which
could quickly get beyond any-
ones control, UN chief Ban
Ki-moon warned ahead of an
emergency meeting of the Se-
curity Council at 1400 GMT.
The risk of violence ex-
panding further still is real.
Gaza, and the region as a
whole cannot afford another
full-blown war, he said.
As the number of victims
in Gaza rose, Egypt opened
the Rafah border crossing,
with hospitals in north Sinai
placed on standby to receive
the wounded, Egypts ofcial
MENA news agency reported.
Five children and four
women were among 27 peo-
ple killed in Israeli air strikes
yesterday, medics said, with
most of the bloodshed in
Khan Yunis. The deaths
bring to 78 the overall num-
ber of Gazans killed since
Israel launched Operation
Protective Edge early on
Tuesday to halt cross-border
rocket re.
One missile attack on Khan
Yunis struck two homes, kill-
ing four women and four chil-
dren, while another air strike
killed a ve-year-old boy in
Gazas Beit Lahiya, emergency
services spokesman Ashraf al-
Qudra said. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
World
Myanmar sentences
reporters to decade
over weapons claim
MYANMAR sentenced five
journalists to 10 years in pris-
on with hard labour yesterday
over a report accusing the
military of producing chemi-
cal weapons, a sentence
denounced by campaigners as
outrageously harsh.
The reporters for the Unity
Weekly News were convicted
by a court in central Magway
region under the former junta-
run countrys official secrets
act, amid concerns that Myan-
mar is backsliding on press
freedoms.
All five journalists were
sentenced to 10 years impris-
onment, said lawyer Wah
Win Maung, who is acting on
behalf of four of the men.
This verdict is legally wrong.
We will appeal, he said.
The jailed men, who include
the chief executive of the Unity
Weekly News and are aged
between 22 and 52, were arrest-
ed in February just days after
the article was published.
Reporters Without Borders
described the verdict as very
worrying for press freedom in
Myanmar. Its clearly a step
back, said Benjamin Ismail,
head of the watchdogs Asia-
Pacific desk.
The article alleged that the
countrys military was operat-
ing a chemical weapons fac-
tory in the town of Pauk in
Magway, under the instruc-
tions of former strongman
junta chief Than Shwe.
Myanmars military ruled
the country with an iron fist
for nearly five decades, ban-
ning dissent and imprisoning
critics and journalists.
The new quasi-civilian
regime that came to power in
2011 has won praise with
reforms including freeing
political prisoners and lifting
draconian pre-publication
censorship.
But rights groups have high-
lighted mounting concerns
over press freedoms, after sev-
eral cases of criminal prosecu-
tions against journalists.
David Mathieson, a research-
er with New York-based Human
Rights Watch, said the Myan-
mar media had come under
increasing pressure in recent
months, with several high pro-
file arrests of reporters and
planned new media laws that
have raised concerns.
The government is cracking
down on the media doing its
job, he said. He noted that the
Unity Weekly case was compli-
cated by accusations of tres-
passing and revealing state
secrets, which are illegal in
many countries.
But that does not excuse the
fact that the sentences were
outrageously harsh, Mathie-
son said, adding that the
reporters could have had a
public interest defence based
on Myanmars commitment
not to use chemical weapons.
Unity Weekly quoted testi-
mony from local people and
workers and included pictures
of the alleged military facility
in its article.
In January last year Myanmar
denied accusations it had used
chemical weapons against eth-
nic minority rebels in the
northern state of Kachin, with
government spokesman Ye
Htut saying the military never
deployed them.
Gaza violence intensifies as
UN warns of regional threat
TYPHOON Neoguri slammed
into the Japanese mainland
yesterday bringing widespread
flooding, ripping trees from
their roots and leaving houses
half-buried under mud.
The storm, which has left sev-
eral people dead and a string of
damage in its wake, caused
havoc in many small commu-
nities as residents struggled to
keep waves of dirty water from
destroying their homes.
More than 500 houses in sev-
eral prefectures were flooded
due to the typhoon and heavy
rain, according to the disaster
management agency, with
about 490,000 households
urged to seek shelter.
Officials warned of the risk of
flooding and landslides as pow-
erful winds and torrential rain
batter the nation, with local
authorities urging half a mil-
lion people to seek shelter in
Okinawa earlier in the week.
Neoguri hit the mainland yes-
terday morning on the southern
main island of Kyushu, which is
home to 13 million people and
lies next to the countrys biggest
island of Honshu where major
cities including Tokyo and Osa-
ka are located.
The typhoon had crossed
Kyushu by late morning and
was forecast to make a landfall
on Honshu today.
The storms ferocity slowed
somewhat overnight, now
packing gusts of up to 126 kph
(80 miles) as it moved east-
northeast at 45 kph.
Nearly 50 people have been
injured in the wake of the
storm, officials and reports
said, while as many as five
deaths have been directly or
indirectly linked to the typhoon.
The Japanese weather agency
forecasts the typhoon to
become a tropical storm by this
afternoon. AFP
Flames erupt from a building hit by an Israeli air strike on Wednesday in Gaza City. Israeli warplanes
pounded Gaza yesterday, killing at least 24 people. AFP
Flooding and havoc as
Neoguri hits mainland
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
World
13
A GUNMAN killed four chil-
dren and two adults during a
domestic dispute in Texas on
Wednesday before being tak-
en into custody, ofcials said.
The shooting happened
in Spring, outside Houston,
Harris County Constable Ron
Hickman said.
One of the killed children
died after arriving at hospi-
tal. The two slain adults were
men, Hickman said. Before
being taken to hospital, a
wounded woman was able to
tell authorities where the sus-
pect, a relative, was headed,
triggering a police chase that
lasted at least 20 minutes.
We got him in a cul-de-
sac, said Hickman, after
at least an hour had passed
during which the suspect sat
in his vehicle surrounded by
about 50 police with their
guns drawn.
A hostage team had been
negotiating with the suspect
for him to surrender. The
suspect had not taken any-
one hostage. Hickman said
a large SWAT truck parked
right in front of the suspects
vehicle to prevent him from
eeing. AFP
Four kids
shot dead
in Texas
UK rendition files accidently destroyed
Ian Cobain and Ian Norton-Taylor
T
HE British govern-
ments problems
with missing les
deepened dramati-
cally when the Foreign Ofce
claimed documents on the
UKs role in the CIAs global
abduction operation had
been destroyed accidentally
when they became soaked
with water.
In a statement that human
rights groups said smacked
of a cover-up, the depart-
ment maintained that re-
cords of post-9/11 ights in
and out of Diego Garcia, the
British territory in the Indian
Ocean, were incomplete due
to water damage.
The claim comes amid
media reports in the US
that a Senate report due to
be published later this year
identies Diego Garcia as a
location where the CIA es-
tablished a secret prison as
part of its extraordinary ren-
dition program.
According to one report,
classied CIA documents state
that the prison was established
with the full cooperation of
the UK government.
It also comes at a time
when MPs are demanding the
Home Ofce urgently pro-
vide more information about
114 missing les that could
have contained information
about an alleged child abuse
network in the 1980s.
Ministers of successive gov-
ernments have repeatedly
given misleading or incom-
plete information about the
CIAs use of Diego Garcia. In
February 2008, the then for-
eign secretary, David Mili-
band, was forced to apologise
to MPs and explain that Tony
Blairs earlier explicit assur-
ances that Diego Garcia had
not been used for rendition
ights had not been correct.
Miliband said at this point
that two rendition ights
had landed, but that the de-
tainees on board had not
disembarked.
Milibands admission was
made after human rights
groups produced irrefutable
evidence that aircraft linked
to the rendition program had
landed on Diego Garcia. Since
then, far more aircraft have
been shown to have been in-
volved in the operation.
The water damage claim
was given in response to a
parliamentary question by the
Tory MP and chair of Treasury
select committee, Andrew
Tyrie, who has been investi-
gating the UKs involvement
in the rendition program for
several years.
When Tyrie asked the For-
eign Ofce (FCO) to explain
which government depart-
ment keeps a list of ights
which passed through Diego
Garcia from January 2002 to
January 2009, FCO Minis-
ter Mark Simmonds replied:
Records on ight departures
and arrivals on Diego Garcia
are held by the British Indian
Ocean Territory immigration
authorities.
Daily occurrence logs,
which record the ights land-
ing and taking off, cover the
period since 2003. Though
there are some limited re-
cords from 2002, I under-
stand they are incomplete
due to water damage.
Cori Crider of the legal
charity Reprieve said: Its
looking worse and worse for
the UK government on Di-
ego Garcia. First we learn the
Senates upcoming torture
report says detainees were
held on the island, and now
conveniently a pile of key
documents turn up missing
with water damage.
The government might
as well have said the dog ate
their homework. This smacks
of a cover-up. They now need
to come clean about how,
when, and where this evi-
dence was lost.
Crider added that the claim
that documents had been de-
stroyed accidentally was es-
pecially disturbing given that
Scotland Yard is investigating
the role played by MI6 (British
foreign intelligence) in the ab-
duction of a Libyan dissident,
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was
own to one of Muammar
Gaddas prisons along with
his pregnant wife in 2004.
The police investigation,
Operation Lydd, is thought to
have examined whether the
couple were own via Diego
Garcia. A report is due to be
handed shortly to the director
of public prosecutions.
The White House and the
CIA are working on nal
redactions to a 481-page ex-
ecutive summary of a classi-
ed report by the US Senate
committee on intelligence
on the rendition program
prior to its publication, pos-
sibly in September.
The full 6,300-page report
is said to be scathing of the
way the CIA resorted rapidly
to the abduction and torture
of al-Qaeda suspects after the
attacks of 2001. THE GUARDIAN
A US Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from the Diego Garcia base on
an Afghanistan strike mission on October 7, 2001. AFP
One million on strike in
UK over pay and cuts
MORE than one million public
sector workers went on strike in
Britain yesterday over pay and
spending cuts by the govern-
ment imposed as part of its
austerity program, trade unions
said. The strike, the biggest
since Prime Minister David
Camerons coalition govern-
ment took power in 2010,
involves a wide range of workers
from teachers and civil servants
to street sweepers and park
attendants. Camerons centre
right-led coalition government
froze public sector salaries in
2010 for two years and has since
limited pay rises to one per cent
a year. Unions say this means
that salaries cannot keep up
with rising living costs and that
enough is enough. AFP
Germany expels top

US intelligence officer
GERMANY expelled the US
intelligence station chief in
Berlin yesterday over alleged
Washington spying, the
government said, in a highly
unusual move among close
NATO allies. Seibert said the
demand was based on two
formal probes by German
prosecutors of suspected spying
for Washington announced in
the last week as well as
outstanding questions over the
last several months about the
activities of the US secret
services in Germany. AFP
News ush
Tokyo toilet
expo makes

big splash
I
N A country known for its
smart loos, an exhibition
dedicated to what gets
flushed down them, featuring
a giant toilet slide, is making
a splash in Tokyo.
Children wearing poo-sha-
ped hats slid excitedly down a
chute into a lavatory standing
five metres high, following the
Journey of Poo at the Na-
tional Museum of Emerging
Science and Innovation.
The aim of the exhibition
is to educate visitors about
sewerage, health and waste.
An lavatory asked out loud
what would happen if the
loos refused to do their jobs,
encouraging toddlers to say
thank you after flushing.
Children also lined up to
make their own poop from
plasticene, while giggling cou-
ples enjoying an unusual date
also took the opportunity to
sport the popular brown hats
and slide down the toilet. AFP
World
14 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
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Australian PM ribbed over
cringe-worthy Abe photo
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister
Tony Abbott was taken to task
on social media yesterday for
tweeting a cringe-worthy
photo of himself with Japanese
counterpart Shinzo Abe pos-
ing by a giant tyre.
Abbott travelled with Abe on
Wednesday to the Pilbara min-
ing heartland in Western Aus-
tralia where they visited Rio
Tintos West Angelas mine.
The trip was designed to
reinforce the importance of
Australian iron ore to Japan
but it was the leaders pose
against a giant dusty tyre, each
with a leg raised to show off
their new Australian boots,
that drew the most attention.
The unlikely pair certainly
hit it off, giggling over glasses
of West Australian wine, get-
ting sloppy on sake, and bond-
ing at Australias beautiful
backdrops, said the Rupert
Murdoch-run news.com.au.
But this cringe-worthy
corker posted by the PM last
night has yet another Abbott
embarrassment written all
over it.
The picture shows the two
conservative leaders wearing
safety glasses as they show off
their black boots, made
by Australian company RM
Williams.
PM Abe wearing his gift
from Australia RM Williams
boots. Both proud to be wear-
ing them today, Abbott
tweeted.
Fellow Twitter users saw the
funny side.
Apparently it was about
the boots. Australian PM
Tony Abbott in bizarre crotch
shot photo op, tweeted one,
while another said: Whoever
on his staff that suggested
this photo op needs to be
fired so badly.
Some social media users felt
sympathy for Abe, who spent
two days in Australia.
Cant imagine Abes discom-
fort. Would have felt compelled
to do it, one tweeter said of
the picture.
Kiev: push east may last month
U
KRAINE warned
yesterday that its
offensive against
pro-Russian insur-
gents may last another month
and rejected calls for a cease-
re as it moved tanks to within
striking distance of the rebels
two remaining strongholds.
Heavy armoured vehicles
were seen fanning out across
the rolling corn and sunower
elds 20 kilometres south of
the eastern hub of Donetsk
to which most of the militias
have retreated.
A vast column of tanks and
military vehicles arrived in
the area on Wednesday in an
apparent push to surround
Donetsk and the neighbour-
ing city of Lugansk, also con-
trolled by the separatists.
An earthmovers engine
stuttered in the stiing heat as
it dug trenches to help troops
dodge artillery strikes from
thousands of insurgents who
are refusing to give up their
bloody three-month drive to
join Russian rule.
We arrived here last night,
said a soldier named Yuriy as
his comrades stretched elec-
tric cables to a nearby farm to
power up their equipment. He
remained tight-lipped about
his units immediate plans but
vowed to full all orders.
The Ukrainian military said
three servicemen had been
killed and 27 wounded in the
previous 24 hours. Two died
when their armoured vehicle
hit one of the numerous land
mines the separatists have
planted to ward off Kievs re-
lentless advance.
We can now make a fore-
cast about how long it will
take to pull troops back from
Donetsk and Lugansk, Ukrai-
nian Interior Minister adviser
Stanislav Rechinsky said in
reference to the capitals of the
two separatist regions.
Presumably, this can be
done within a month, he told
Ukrainian state television.
Rechinsky also said there
will be no air or artillery
strikes against either city be-
cause of the inevitable toll in a
low-scale war that has already
claimed more than 500 lives.
Fears of an all-out assault
on the two densely populated
centres have redoubled Eu-
ropean efforts to force Kiev
to negotiate truce terms that
could help calm the most ex-
plosive East-West standoff in
Europe since the Cold War.
The tide in a conict that
has threatened the strategic
states very survival turned on
Saturday when the insurgents
abandoned their symbolic
bastion Slavyansk a city of
120,000 that now stands emp-
tied of half its population and
in dire need of fresh water and
medical supplies.
But Kievs recent string of
military successes have also
alarmed European leaders
who are hoping to secure a
truce that can take pressure
off the bloc to adopt economic
sanctions that could damage
their own tight energy and -
nancial ties with Russia.
The EU resisted Washing-
tons calls to be rmer with
Putin and on Wednesday
only promised to add 11 new
names to its list of 61 Russians
and Ukrainian separatists
targeted by travel and nan-
cial bans.
Kiev for its part has largely
ignored repeated attempts
by French President Fran-
cois Hollande and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel to
resurrect a truce that Petro Po-
roshenko elected president
in May on a vow to quickly
reunite Ukraine abandoned
on July 1.
Formal negotiations with
terrorists are impossible,
deputy chief of staff Valeriy
Chaly told reporters. AFP
A Ukrainian soldier sits atop an armoured vehicle around 20 kilometres
south of Donetsk yesterday. AFP
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (right) and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, wearing his gift
from Australia, pose by a giant tyre at a mine in Western Australia. AFP
WRITING in Yedioth Ahrono-
th a few days ago, the Israeli
analyst Alex Fishman depict-
ed Hamas in vivid terms. The
militant Islamist group was
behaving like a suicidal indi-
vidual trying to drag Israel
forcibly into armed conflict . . .
believing [it] will be the one to
determine the strength of the
explosion, he said.
The conventional wisdom
would seem to echo Fish-
mans view. Cut off from Egypt
by the blockade imposed by
the military government
there, which has severed its
financial lifeline, a weakened
Hamas is not only isolated
from many of its old backers,
including Syria and Iran, but,
the argument goes, would be
weakened by a costly conflict
after which it would struggle
to re-arm.
Why then does Hamas seem
determined to pursue a
renewed and perhaps pro-
longed and bloody conflict?
They feel like they have
nothing to lose, says Mkha-
imar Abusada, a political sci-
entist at Al-Azhar University,
who has studied the group.
Since the 2 June unity agree-
ment the Palestinian Authori-
ty and Abu Mazen [President
Mahmoud Abbass nickname]
have done nothing for Gaza
and Hamas.
It was supposed to open
the crossings [to Egypt], pay
the salaries of their people,
who have not been paid for
months. They were expecting
a visit from Abu Mazen, and
he has not even called.
They calculate there will be
a new ceasefire and when it
happens it will improve
things for Hamas.
And in some respects that is
exactly what Hamas wants: to
fight a war for a ceasefire.
In its demands earlier this
week for ending hostilities, it
asked for the ceasefire condi-
tions from the last major
round of fighting with Israel
in 2012 to be reinstated, for
the rerelease of prisoners
freed by Israel in exchange
for the kidnapped soldier
Gilad Shalit, who were
rounded up again by Israeli
after the kidnapping of three
Israeli teenagers, later found
murdered, and an end to
what it says is Israeli med-
dling in the Palestinian unity
government.
Abusada believes, however,
that Hamas is being driven by
other considerations as well.
Its leaders read the Hebrew
newspapers. Hamas knows
that [Israels prime minister,
Binyamin] Netanyahu was
reluctant to be drawn into
this conflict and it knows the
history of Israeli wars that it
tends to prefer short conflicts.
It believes it can absorb
the pain of a conflict and that
Israel is concerned that if it
brings down Hamas that its
successors could be more
radical factions, including
Salafists. Hamas knows Israel
wont go all the way against
it, which would require com-
plete reoccupation and Israe-
li soldiers going door to door
looking for its members.
Hamas is also not the same
group that fought Israel in
2008-09 and 2012 in Gaza. Its
military capabilities, observ-
ers say, have been enhanced,
including the longer-range
rockets it has developed.
Hamas has also learned from
the last two conflicts, becom-
ing apparently more
proactive in its tactics.
In other words, far from
being suicidal, there is a
strong rationale behind its
current strategy, at least part
of which is designed to test
Israels own appetite for
escalation.
They see the region boiling
over, Abusada says. They
think maybe a conflict could
push East Jerusalem and the
West Bank to a third intifada.
THE GUARDIAN
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
World
15
A VALET at a ve-star hotel
in the Indian capital caused
$335,000 worth of damage to
a Lamborghini Gallardo after
crashing it into a concrete wall
in front of horried guests, a
report said yesterday.
A photograph of the after-
math at Le Meridien hotel,
published in the Times of In-
dia newspaper, showed the
severely crumpled front end
of the sleek white supercar
with its hood forced up.
The car had been parked
by valets a number of times
before, a friend of the owner,
Nipun Miglani, told the news-
paper, adding that the Italian-
made speedster was driven to
the hotel last Thursday by the
owners cousins.
A police case has been led
against Le Meridien, which
has refused to accept respon-
sibility, as well as the valet,
named as Arun Kumar. The
owner claims that the repairs
were estimated at 20 million
rupees ($335,000).
CCTV footage reportedly
showed the valet bring the car
from the parking area to the
porch of the multi-storey ho-
tel, which hosts several glitzy
restaurants and a bar, and
then briey get out.
After climbing back behind
the wheel, he then lurches
forward inexplicably, sending
a colleague diving for cover
before piling head-on into the
wall, injuring himself in the
process.
The rear-wheel-drive Gal-
lardo, named after a breed
of ghting bull, is capable of
a top speed of around 200
miles an hour (321 kilometres
an hour) and has an engine
packing more than 550 brake
horsepower.
It sells in Europe for around
$250,000 but import duties on
supercars normally double
their price in India.
The valet was taken to hos-
pital for treatment but was
discharged the same day, the
Times of India said. AFP
Oops: India hotel valet
crashes Lamborghini
Dabiq: the smiling face of Islamist caliphate
Jean Marc Mojon
P
ICTURES of smiling locals,
tales of life-changing expe-
riences, articles glorifying
centuries of heritage and
predicting a bright future: if the ca-
liphate straddling Iraq and Syria
had an airline, Dabiq would be its
in-ight magazine.
For now, global jihads latest Eng-
lish-language publishing endea-
vour is distributed online and the
aircraft over Abu Bakr al-Baghda-
dis dominion are more likely to be
warplanes and drones than com-
mercial jets.
But the 50-page magazine strives
to convince its readers that the
caliphate proclaimed last month
by Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic
State (IS) jihadist group on an area
twice the size of Israel, is the le-
gitimate and viable home of the
worlds Muslims.
In design, it strongly resembles
the Inspire magazine published by
al-Qaedas franchise in the Arabian
peninsula that disseminated bomb-
making instructions and aimed to
engender lone wolf militants, a
goal achieved in 2013 with the Bos-
ton bomber brothers.
The editorial emphasis in Dabiq,
analysts say, is more on state-build-
ing than on incitement or opera-
tional issues.
The aim isnt to get young radi-
calised Western Muslims to carry
out attacks but to come to Syria,
said Peter Neumann, director of the
London-based International Centre
for the Study of Radicalisation.
Many foreign ghters have already
taken that step and Richard Barrett,
a former counterterrorism chief at
Britains foreign intelligence agency
MI6, argued Dabiq was mostly a
brochure selling the caliphate as a
real and credible entity.
It is the same phenomenon as ad-
vertising techniques that aim to en-
dorse your choice of a product rather
than inspire it, said Barrett, who
now works for The Soufan Group, a
New York-based consultancy.
Thousands of foreigners have
joined jihadist groups in Syria since
the start of the war there in March
2011 and many of them are now part
of the newly rebranded IS, which
has broadened its remit from Iraq
into Syria.
Dabiqs rst issue also sings the
praise of Jordanian-born Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, an ultraviolent military
commander who headed ISs early
incarnations before being slain in a
2006 US airstrike, as a founding g-
ure of the caliphate.
The magazines introduction ex-
plains that it is named after the
site of a major 16th-century battle
in what is now northern Syria that
saw the Ottomans defeat the Mam-
luks and begin a major expansionist
phase of an empire Baghdadi and
his followers consider to have been
the last caliphate.
What the jihadist group wants to
communicate by picking this name
is that theyre following in the Otto-
mans footsteps, said Neumann, a
professor at Kings College London.
Dabiq is also mentioned by one of
Prophet Muhammads companions,
Abu Hurayrah, as the place where
Roman invaders are defeated, pav-
ing the way for the armies of God to
expand and defeat Satan.
This apocalyptic theme has
been a powerful strand in Islamist
extremism for many years, and is
apparently a motivator for some,
Barrett said.
Dabiqs rst issue, titled The
Return of Khilafah [caliphate], in-
cludes excerpts from speeches by
Baghdadi declaring a new era in
Islam and relays his call for skilled
professionals the world over to
come and help the new state.
The magazine carries pictures of
crowds cheering IS militants as they
parade through Syrian and Iraqi
towns, graphic photos apparently of
Sunni civilians slain by the Radhi,
a derogatory term for Shias, and of
Shia soldiers heroically killed by
the mujahedeen.
Dabiq also features a long and
complex theological article essen-
tially justifying the caliphate and
Baghdadis position as both reli-
gious and political leader.
According to Barrett, IS has been
good at reaching out to support-
ers and clearly has design skills, but
their written work lacks the pizzazz
of Inspire.
Dabiqs editorial team also oddly
chose to illustrate the article on
imamah, or leadership, with a free-
download stock picture of a border
collie herding sheep away from
a cliff.
I guess it shows that its really
made by a Westerner, Neumann
said, referring to the fact that
dogs are considered impure in Is-
lamic culture and in much of the
Arab world.
Inspire and its promotion of
open-source jihad is believed
to have been the brainchild of
US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-
Awlaki, but it is not yet clear who
is behind Dabiq.
Barrett predicted that the
caliphates English-language
mouthpiece was unlikely to have
the same impact and success
as Inspire, which became the
worlds most downloaded jihadist
publication.
The main propaganda is still
through social media sites such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
other more interactive and mod-
ern platforms, he said. AFP
Monster turnout
Indonesian election ofcials in Surabaya city in eastern Java island dress as horror characters on Wednesday to attract voters and deliver a
message to the elected leader to clean up the evils of government. Both presidential candidates Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto claimed
victory on Wednesday, in Indonesias tightest and most divisive presidential election since the end of authoritarian rule. Indonesian stocks rallied
to a one-year high yesterday after most unofcial tallies showed Jakarta Governor Widodo ahead of former general Subianto in the closely
fought race to lead Southeast Asias biggest economy. AFP
Analysis
Peter Beaumont
Hamass strategy to wage war for a ceasere
Peter Beaumont is the Guardians
Jerusalem correspondent.
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I
N MAY, Vietnam became the
35th and decisive signatory of
the 1997 United Nations Con-
vention on the Law of the Non-
Navigational Uses of International
Watercourses. As a result, 90 days
later, on August 17, the convention
will enter into force.
The fact it took almost 50 years to
draft and achieve the necessary rati-
fication threshold demonstrates
something is very wrong with the
modern system of multilateralism.
Regardless of disagreements over
how cross-border freshwater
resources should be allocated and
managed, and understandable pref-
erences by governments and water
professionals to rely on basin agree-
ments rather than on international
legal instruments, that half-century
wait can be explained only by a lack
of political leadership. So, though
the world may celebrate the conven-
tions long-awaited adoption, we
cannot rest on our laurels.
Roughly 60 per cent of freshwater
runs within cross-border basins;
only an estimated 40 per cent of
those basins, however, are governed
by some sort of basin agreement. In
an increasingly water-stressed
world, shared water resources are
becoming an instrument of power,
fostering competition within and
between countries. The struggle for
water is exacerbating political ten-
sions and impacts on ecosystems.
But the really bad news is that
water consumption is growing faster
than population indeed, in the
20th century it grew at twice the
rate. As a result, many UN agencies
forecast that by 2025 1.8 billion peo-
ple will be living in regions stricken
with absolute water scarcity, imply-
ing a lack of access to adequate
quantities for human and environ-
mental uses. Moreover, two-thirds
of the worlds population will face
water-stress conditions, meaning a
scarcity of renewable freshwater.
Without resolute countermeas-
ures, demand for water will over-
stretch many societies adaptive
capacities. This could result in mas-
sive migration, economic stagna-
tion, destabilisation and violence.
The UN Watercourses Convention
must not become just another
ignored international agreement.
The stakes are too high. In todays
context of climate change, rising
demand, population growth,
increasing pollution and overex-
ploited resources, everything must
be done to consolidate the legal
framework for managing the worlds
watersheds. Our environmental
security, economic development,
and political stability depend on it.
The convention will soon apply to
all of the cross-border rivers of its
signatories territories, not just the
biggest basins. It will complement
the gaps and shortcomings of exist-
ing agreements and provide legal
coverage to the numerous cross-bor-
der rivers that are under pressure.
Worldwide, there are 276 cross-
border freshwater basins and about
as many cross-border aquifers.
Backed by adequate financing, polit-
ical will and the engagement of
stakeholders, the convention can
help address the water challenges
that we are all facing. But will it?
An ambitious agenda should be
adopted now, at a time when the
international community is negoti-
ating the contents of the Sustaina-
ble Development Goals, the succes-
sor to the UN Millennium
Development Goals, which will
expire in 2015. We at Green Cross
hope that the new goals, which are
to be achieved by 2030, will include a
stand-alone target that addresses
water-resources management.
Moreover, the international com-
munity will soon have to agree on a
climate-change framework to
replace the Kyoto Protocol. Climate
change directly affects the hydro-
logical cycle, which means that all of
the efforts that are undertaken to
contain greenhouse-gas emissions
will help to stabilise rainfall patterns
and mitigate the extreme water
events that so many regions are
already experiencing.
But the UN Watercourses Conven-
tions entry into force raises as many
new questions as existed in the peri-
od before its ratification. What will
its implementation mean in prac-
tice? How will countries apply its
mandates within their borders and
in relation to riparian neighbours?
How will the American and Asian
countries that have largely ignored
ratification respond?
Furthermore, how will the conven-
tion relate to the Convention on the
Protection and Use of Transbounda-
ry Watercourses and International
Lakes, which is already in force in
most European and Central Asian
countries? Similarly, how will the
conventions implementation affect
existing regional and local cross-
border freshwater agreements?
The countries that ratified the UN
Watercourses Convention are
expected to engage in its implemen-
tation and to go further in their
efforts to protect and sustainably
use their cross-border waters. What
instruments, including financial,
will the convention provide to them?
Several legal instruments can be
implemented jointly and synergisti-
cally: the Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands, the UN Convention to
Combat Desertification and the UN
Framework Convention on Climate
Change, to name just a few. The UN
Watercourses Conventions long-de-
layed enactment should be viewed
as an opportunity to encourage
those that are not yet party to coop-
erative agreements to work seriously
on these issues.
Clearly, politicians and diplomats
alone cannot respond effectively to
the challenges that the world faces.
What the world needs is the engage-
ment of political, business and civil-
society leaders; effective implemen-
tation of the UN Watercourses
Convention is impossible without it.
This is too often overlooked, but it
constitutes the key to the long-term
success of cooperation that gener-
ates benefits for all. Inclusive partic-
ipation by stakeholders (including
the affected communities), and the
development of the capacity to iden-
tify, value and share the benefits of
cross-border water resources, should
be an integral part of any strategy to
achieve effective multilateral collab-
oration. PROJECT SYNDICATE
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Water must unite us all
An Indian man carries a clay pitcher of water on his head as he crosses parched land in Bhunerheri on Sunday. AFP
Mikhail Gorbachev, former head of state
of the Soviet Union, is the founder of the
Geneva-based Green Cross International.
A
LTHOUGH Dorae-
mon and his pals
never did make it to
the inaugural Bang-
kok Comic Con to dazzle fans
with their live show and there
wasnt even the slightest hint of
Star Trek on the program, there
was still more than enough to
keep the comic book and TV
show groupies satiated for the
time being.
Hosted at Siam Paragon last
weekend, it was a three-day
spectacle that brought titanic-
size crowds and a plethora of
photo-ops that many had long
been waiting for.
The main focus of this geeky
gig seemed to be dancing West-
ern mascots and photo-taking.
So, unlike Mays Thailand
Comic Con, this was not the
opportunity to nd that super
special and exclusive Gundam
gure or indulge in a spot of
retail therapy. It took immense
amounts of love and effort to
wade through the human sea
that owed from every direc-
tion through the Royal Paragon
Hall. Most of the booths were
packed into the second hall as
the Batman exhibition took up
the majority of the main hall.
Batmans 75th anniversary
called for the biggest booth
at the convention, with a life-
sized Bat-mobile, an extensive
history of Batman through the
ages and Bat-merch for Bat-
buffs to look at. Those who
spent at least 500 baht ($15.50)
on Bat-merch all got tickets to
view the Batman Hologram
Exhibition, which tracked the
evolution of the Bat-mobile (a
yawner for nonfans). The big-
gest thrill surrounding the Bat-
world at this years Comic Con,
however, was probably execu-
tive producer of all the Batman
movies, Michael Uslan, who
spoke on how comics made
the move to the silver screen.
The busiest booth was no
doubt the one with a chair that
everybody wanted to sit on
the Game of Thrones booth.
With a line that completely
circled the gloomy and grey
booth, visitors had to wait for
an hour for a photo-op with the
Iron Throne. But fans waited
their turn to pose as the ruler
of the Seven Kingdoms, as, for
many, it was the highlight and
worth waiting for.
More fun at the Game Of
Thrones booth was the Battle of
Blackwater simulation game,
where players could shoot ar-
rows at targets on the screen.
As this was HBOs rst visit to
Thailand, it was not too shabby
and hopefully their participa-
tion in future comic cons will
continue for the sake of Thai
Westerosi-wannabes.
Other than that, there was
the usual cosplay competitions
and a couple of bananas and a
sponge that got up to dance
on stage during their slot. Its
tting too that Maidreamin, a
maid cafe at Gateway Ekamai,
opened up a dining area to of-
fer some grub and kawaii cul-
ture for those into these pink,
frilly-clad waitresses.
All in all, the very rst Bang-
kok Comic Con was a respect-
able effort, with many favou-
rites from the Western world
making their way to the city.
Even though it was less of a re-
tail haven and required stami-
na, physical strength and pa-
tience to get from A to B, it was
still a dont-miss for devotees.
It is also still very much in the
making and may take years be-
fore the right blend of partici-
pants, both from the West and
East, are able to come to Thai-
land, along with impressive
displays. Its currently hosted at
Siam Paragon for the purpose
of being in the city centre, but
perhaps in the future a move
to the suburbs at the Bang-
kok International Trade and
Exhibition Centre in Bangna
might make for more breath-
ing space. BANGKOK POST
E for effort for maiden
Comic Con in Bangkok
Lifestyle
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 From the top
5 Prepare grapes for wine
10 Unite
14 Solo
15 Entertainer Midler
16 ... ___ dust shalt thou return
17 Storied jumping-off point
19 Wire measures, for short
20 Jumper-cable target
21 Muff one
22 Appropriately
23 You, over there!
24 Close-mouthed
27 Actor Robert of Airplane!
28 Delivered, as a point
32 Kings seat
35 Like feudal times
36 Basketball rim
37 Run out
39 Sanitizers target
40 Going by, as time
42 Pool wear
44 End-of-book matter
45 Way of carrying oneself
46 Oust
48 Like the seafood in sushi
51 Sir Walter ___
54 Witchy woman
55 There you are!
57 Stereo alternative
58 Seize with alacrity
60 Decorative sewing case
61 Denomination
62 Mystical mark
63 Toward sunset
64 Far from tanned
65 Begged for a citation
DOWN
1 Islamic deity
2 Theres ___ here but us ...
3 Diplomatic agent
4 Garden annoyance
5 Elementary network
6 Finds new tenants for
7 Egg containers
8 Does a laundry job
9 With it
10 Start too soon
11 Handling the job
12 ___ put hair on your chest
13 Digging for dirt?
18 Showed an episode of E.R. now
22 Prefix with lock or knock
25 Facial features
26 Involving extraordinarily accurate
recall
27 Got a move on
29 Bakery appliance
30 Annotate
31 Desire Under the ___
32 Take ___ Train (Duke Ellington
song)
33 Omit, in diners
34 Highway or avenue
35 EPA determination
38 Poets repetition for effect
41 Dither
43 Christopher of Superman
45 Its attractive
47 Showers with praise
48 Show contempt for, as a contract
49 Solitarily
50 Lessened
51 Cousin of a hootamaganzy
52 Dove place
53 Difficult duty
56 Willa Cathers One of ___
58 Burst, as a balloon
59 Eureka! is one
BOUND TO HAPPEN
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Football fever
WC boosts
sales of TVs
in SE Asia
S
ALES of flat panel televi-
sions across Southeast
Asia rose sharply in
May as demand soared in the
football-crazy region ahead of
the World Cup, a report said
on Thursday.
Nearly 957,000 units were
sold across Indonesia, Malay-
sia, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam, a 15
per cent jump compared to
the average sales volume in
February-April, global market
research firm GfK said.
It is interesting to high-
light that this trend of higher
demand for TVs in the month
leading to [the] World Cup was
also observed four years ago,
said Gerard Tan, account di-
rector for digital world at GfK.
Events such as the World
Cup has created more aware-
ness for larger screen sizes
and more advanced models,
which will help drive the mar-
ket in 2014.
TV sales in Thailand showed
the sharpest increase,
followed by Vietnam and Sin-
gapore, according to GfK.
Although no country in
Southeast Asia has qualified
for the World Cup, football has
a strong following in most of
the region of more than 600
million people. AFP
In brief
Japanese composer
diagnosed with cancer
RENOWNED Japanese
composer and activist Ryuichi
Sakamoto has been
diagnosed with throat cancer,
his record company said
yesterday. The 62-year-old,
who shot to fame in the late
1970s with the pioneering
techno-pop group Yellow
Magic Orchestra (YMO),
apologised to fans in a
statement for having to take a
break from performing but
promised to beat the disease.
I was diagnosed with cancer
of the upper throat in June
and will undergo immediate
treatment, said Sakamoto. I
deeply apologise to my fans
and everyone involved in my
current projects for having to
make this unavoidable
decision. AFP
Bieber gets probation
for egging neighbour
CANADIAN pop star Justin
Bieber, who has been in
trouble with the law in recent
months, got two years of
probation in Los Angeles on
Wednesday over an egg-
throwing attack. The teen idol
did not appear in court. His
attorneys entered a no contest
plea on his behalf on a single
misdemeanor vandalism
charge before Los Angeles
County Superior Court judge
Leland Harris. In addition to
the probation, the singer was
ordered to complete five days
of community service and an
anger management program.
He must also reimburse
$80,900 of repairs performed
on the home of his neighbour
and was ordered to stay away
from the neighbour and his
family for two years. AFP
Visitors in costumes attend London Comic Con in March. The rst Bangkok Comic Con was held last weekend. AFP
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 938 Daily 06:40 08:15 PG 931 Daily 07:55 09:05
PG 932 Daily 09:55 11:10 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:30 14:40
PG 934 Daily 15:30 16:40 FD 3616 Daily 15:15 16:20
FD 3617 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:30 18:40
PG 936 Daily 19:30 20:40 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 20:15 21:50
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
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CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
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Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
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St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
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Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
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Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
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5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
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SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Her Majestys Yacht Britannia is a splendid example of British design
and technology. PHOTO SUPPLIED
A taste of royal
life on board
the Britannia
Parisa Pichitmarn
I
T IS ready to be con-
verted into a hospital at
a moments notice. It has
served dinner in years
past to some of the worlds
most famous people, includ-
ing such dignitaries as Win-
ston Churchill and Nelson
Mandela. It can produce its
own fresh water from an on-
board desalination plant.
This remarkable and majestic
structure, a splendid example
of British design and technol-
ogy, is known as Her Majestys
Yacht Britannia.
If the Scottish capital of Ed-
inburgh is on your itinerary,
your trip wont be complete
without a visit to this magni-
cent vessel which once trans-
ported members of the British
royal family in style all around
the world. Britannia, now de-
commissioned, is permanent-
ly moored next to the Ocean
Terminal Shopping Centre,
only about 5 kilometres from
the city centre.
Launched in 1954, Britannia
was in service to Queen Eliza-
beth II until it was decommis-
sioned in 1997. Having sailed
more than 1.6 million kilo-
metres around the world, Bri-
tannia has been part of many
landmark events in British his-
tory, from solemn state visits
and leisurely holiday trips for
the monarch and her family,
to the honeymoon of Prince
Charles and Princess Diana
in 1986 and the Hong Kong
handover ceremony in 1997.
Stepping onto this great
vessel is like stepping back in
time, entering a rosier era in
British history; indeed every
clock on board has been fro-
zen at 3:01, the exact time that
Queen Elizabeth disembarked
from her beloved yacht for the
last time on the afternoon of
December 11, 1997.
Best visited on a sunny day,
the vessel offers an easy stroll,
moving between indoor and
outdoor areas, along the ve
main decks.
The well-planned walking
route and accompanying au-
dio guide takes you from the
main deck all the way to the
depths of the ship, the descent
allowing you to contrast the
splendour of the royal suites
and ofcial reception rooms
with the living quarters of
Britannias ofcers and crew.
Naval buffs will doubtless ap-
preciate inspecting the main
engine room and perhaps the
bunks assigned to ordinary
sailors, the sick bay and 24-
hour laundry room.
The main attraction for many
who come aboard, however, is
the opportunity to tour areas
of the ship once off-limits to all
but a privileged few. Decorated
like a stately home in the Eng-
lish countryside, the rooms that
Elizabeth and her entourage
once used exude a distinctly
English sumptuousness, with
lots of oral patterns.
Objects that give glimpses
into life in the royal household
are dotted around the yacht,
be it the superannuated Rolls-
Royce on the main deck, some
of the queens possessions,
framed photographs and even
several (uncorked) bottles of
what is apparently the queens
preferred brand of Cham-
pagne (Moet Chandon).
Back in the heyday of the
Britannia, it was the ultimate
mark of respect to be invited to
dine with the queen on board
the yacht, an honour extended
to political leaders like Marga-
ret Thatcher and Bill Clinton.
Now, starting at 180 ($308)
per person for a six-course
meal, we normal folks can also
experience a lavish evening of
a lifetime, the way presidents
and prime ministers have at
state banquets and ofcial re-
ceptions. BANGKOK POST
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014 21
Openers miss out as
Black Caps opt for youth
STRUGGLING New Zealand
Test openers Peter Fulton and
Hamish Rutherford missed out
on central contracts as
selectors yesterday named a
youth-orientated playing group
with an eye on next years
World Cup. There are six new
faces in the 20-man list of
players contracted for 2014-15,
including all-rounder James
Neesham, wicketkeeper Luke
Ronchi and pacemen Matt
Henry and Adam Milne.
Spinners Mark Craig and Ish
Sodhi were also given the nod
after performing strongly in the
recent Test series win over the
West Indies. AFP
Manly winger Williams
banned for placing bets
FORMER Australian Test
winger David Williams has
been suspended for the rest of
the season for betting on
matches, the National Rugby
League said yesterday.
Williams, who plays for Manly
Sea Eagles and is known as
the Wolfman, had also been
putting money on games in
which he was involved, the
NRL said. The 27-year-old was
one of five players and several
game officials suspended
following an investigation by
the NRLs integrity unit. AFP
Ali Fight of the Century
gloves up for auction
THE gloves that boxing legend
Muhammad Ali wore in his
fabled 1971 Fight of the
Century against Joe Frazier
are on the block, a US auction
house said. The opening bid
will be $125,000, said Heritage
Auctions, and can be made at
www.ha.com through July 30.
Then they will be sold the
following day at Clevelands
House of Blues. Ali was born
Cassius Clay and was still
using that name when he had
his first fight with Frazier.
Though he lost, Ali would get
his revenge in rematches in
1974 and 1975. AFP
Queensland stop NSWs
Origin sweep with win
QUEENSLAND denied New
South Wales a clean sweep of
Australias State of Origin
rugby league series with a
comprehensive 32-8 win in the
third and final match in
Brisbane on Wednesday. The
Maroons, who lost the opening
two games to relinquish the
Origin trophy after winning the
series for eight consecutive
years, scored five tries to one.
NSW were bidding for their
first Origin series clean sweep
for 14 years but had no answer
to Queensland in the second
half after trailing 6-2 at
halftime. AFP
Groundsman apologises
for Indian suited pitch
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE head
groundsman Steve Birks said
things hadnt gone to plan after
appearing to produce a pitch
ideally suited for India, rather
than England, in the first Test at
Trent Bridge on Wednesday.
India, after winning the toss,
were 259 for four at stumps on
the first day of this five-match
series, with opener Murali Vijay
122 not out and skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 50 not
out after winning the toss on a
surface that wouldnt have been
out of place back at home. AFP
Angry Sterling testifies his
wife Shelley deceived him
A
COMBATIVE Donald Ster-
ling testied that he would
go to his grave suing the
NBA amid chaotic scenes in
the courtroom on Wednesday during
which he vowed to never, ever sell
the Los Angeles Clippers.
The outspoken Sterling told the
Los Angeles Superior Court that he
was deceived by his wife so that he
could be declared mentally unt, al-
lowing her to sell the Los Angeles
Clippers franchise that he has owned
since 1981.
Shelly Sterling took the stand for the
rst time. After giving her testimony,
she approached Donald Sterling, who
yelled loudly enough so people in the
court could hear, Get away from me,
you pig!
The outburst visibly upset Shelly
Sterling, who quickly took her seat
next to her lawyers. Two sheriff depu-
ties then moved over and stood next to
Donald Sterling in the downtown Los
Angeles courtroom.
When the court adjourned for the
day, ofcials cleared spectators from
the courtroom gallery, leaving the
Sterlings on opposite sides of the
room, sitting next to their lawyers.
Both eventually left the court via dif-
ferent doors Donald Sterling through
a rear entrance and his wife through
the courtroom door.
The 80-year-old Sterling was banned
from the NBA for life earlier this year
following the release of recorded con-
versations between him and his girl-
friend V Stiviano.
Sterling is heard on the tape making
bigoted comments, criticising Stiviano
for having her picture taken with black
people and telling her not to bring
them to Clipper games.
The team owner says that he was
recorded illegally while making emo-
tional remarks during a disagreement
with Stiviano.
The league announced plans to take
action against Sterling to force him to
sell the team. But Sterling has since
led a lawsuit against the NBA, alleg-
ing violations of his civil rights.
The non-jury trial is being held to
determine whether Shelly Sterling has
the authority to sell the Clippers under
the terms of the family trust that owns
the team.
After being a no-show on Mondays
rst day of the trial, Donald Sterling
appeared for his second day of testi-
mony on Wednesday.
On the stand prior to the outburst,
he said his wife doesnt understand the
terms of the family trust and was lied
to by NBA ofcials in an effort to force
him to give up control of the team.
My wife, my beautiful wife,
wouldnt know whats in the trust, he
said. She didnt read the trust. The
trust is complicated.
But he also slammed his wife for hav-
ing him undergo two mental health
exams that resulted in the doctors di-
agnosing him with Alzheimers.
That nding led to a proposed $2
billion sale of the Clippers by Shelly
Sterling to Microsoft chief executive
Steve Ballmer.
She deceived me, Sterling said. I
trusted her. I will never, ever, ever sell
the team. And until I die, I will be su-
ing the NBA.
Shelly Sterling took the stand af-
ter her husband and told the court
that he had become combative and
forgetful
Hes slurring his words, she said.
Hes agitated a lot. He gets mad for
no particular reason. He is just not the
same person. AFP
Shelly Sterling arrives at court in Los Angeles on Tuesday on the second day two of the Sterling v Sterling trial over the sale of the Los
Angeles Clippers National Basketball Association team. AFP
NORTH Korea yesterday
proposed working talks with
South Korea as it prepares to
send athletes and cheerlead-
ers to the upcoming Asian
Games in Incheon.
The proposal for a meet-
ing next week in the border
truce village of Panmunjom
came from the head of North
Koreas Olympic committee,
the Norths official KCNA
news agency reported.
The Souths unification
ministry said it would re-
spond later in the day.
North Korea announced in
May that it would send about
150 athletes to take part in
the September 19-October
4 Asiad in the South Korean
port city of Incheon.
And earlier this week, it
said it would also dispatch
a delegation of cheerleaders
to support the team.
Pyongyang boycotted the
1988 Olympics in Seoul but
sent athletes and cheer-
leaders to three later sports
events in South Korea, in-
cluding the 2002 Asian
Games.
The cheering squad it sent
for the 2005 Asian Athletics
Championships in Incheon
included Ri Sol-ju, now the
wife of North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un.
The squads, made up
almost entirely of young
women who perform syn-
chronised dance moves,
have been a masive draw
in South Kore on each
occasion. AFP
N Korea wants talks on
delegation to Incheon
Waratahs not to risk star
COACH Michael Cheika said
yesterday that he will not be
risking star Wallaby fullback
Israel Folau in the NSW Wara-
tahs final round Super Rugby
match with Queensland this
weekend.
Leading tryscorer Folau will
miss the Australian derby in
Brisbane tomorrow due to a
bruised thigh, with the Wara-
tahs already assured of finish-
ing top of the Super 15 stand-
ings and hosting a home
semifinal.
In another situation, maybe
it would have been [worth the
risk], Cheika told reporters.
But Im more than confi-
dent with the team that weve
got to play well up there.
Cam Crawford will replace
Folau, with Wallabies lock Will
Skelton to start instead of
South African Jacques Potgi-
eter in the only other change
to the Waratahs side that
thrashed the Otago Highland-
ers 44-16 last weekend.
Of course you lose a lot of
attacking prowess, a lot of
security under the high ball as
well, and a strong defensive
man, Cheika said of the miss-
ing Folau. I know theres a lot
of talk about winning and los-
ing when Izzys [Folau] playing
and not playing, but I think
weve lost just as many games
when hes playing as when hes
not playing. Rugbys a game of
15 men.
The Waratahs have lost two
of their three games without
Folau this season and only two
out of 11 when the dual inter-
national has been playing.
Cheika said Folaus injury
was not serious and he would
be 100 per cent fit and not
underdone for the Tahs semi-
final in a fortnights time.
Folau has scored 12 tries
from 11 appearances for the
Waratahs this season and is
three tries clear of Canterbury
Crusaders winger Nemani
Nadolo as Super Rugbys lead-
ing tryscorer this year. AFP
Weekend Fixtures
Friday July 11
Blues v Chiefs 2:35pm
Brumbies v Western Force
4:40pm
Saturday July 12
Bulls v Melbourne Rebels
12:10am
Crusaders v Highlanders
2:35pm
Reds v Waratahs 4:40pm
Lions v Cheetahs 10:05pm
Sunday July 13
Stormers v Sharks 12:10am
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Sport
US Open offers record
prize money boost
THE mens and womens
champions at this years US
Open will each receive $3 million
of a record $38.3 million total
purse, the United States Tennis
Association announced on
Wednesday. The payout for the
singles champions is the largest
in US Open history as tourna-
ment organisers also increased
the payout for winners of each
round of the singles competition.
The total purse is an 11.7 per
cent increase over last years
tournament and in the last three
years the main draw prize
money is up by 64 per cent. Last
year to recognise the importance
of the players and the key role
they have in building our sport,
the USTA shared our vision to
reach $50 million in prize money
at the US Open by 2017, said
Dave Haggerty, USTA chairman
of the board. This years prize
money increase continues the
commitment to make the US
Open one of the most lucrative
purses in all of sports. The 2014
US Open is scheduled for August
25 through September 8. AFP
Cavs trade Jack, try to
clear cap space, report
THE Cleveland Cavaliers,
Brooklyn Nets and Boston
Celtics have swung a trade that
would see the Cavs create
salary cap space by unloading
guard Jarrett Jack, the US
media reported on Wednesday.
According to the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, the move would
free more than $21 million in
cap space for the Cavaliers,
who are reportedly interested in
getting LeBron James, the
biggest prize in free agency, to
return to Cleveland. The
maximum deal the Cavaliers
could give James next season
is about $20.7 million. James
spent the first seven years of
his career in Cleveland before
bolting for Miami, where he has
won two titles in four years.
James met in Las Vegas with
Miami Heat officials for more
than an hour on Wednesday but
left the meeting without
making a decision on his free
agency, ESPN television
reported. AFP
Giants fan awarded
huge sum in damages
A MAJOR League Baseball fan
who was beaten into a coma
outside Dodgers Stadium
three years ago and left with
permanent brain damage was
awarded about $18 million in
damages on Wednesday. The
Los Angeles Superior Court
jury awarded the payout to
Bryan Stow after the savage
attack by two LA Dodgers fans
that left the San Francisco
Giants supporter seriously
injured. But the panel found
the Dodgers were only 25 per
cent responsible for the attack
that Stow blamed on
inadequate security at the
stadium. The jury also
exonerated former Dodgers
owner Frank McCourt of any
culpability. Stows lawyer
Thomas Girardi said Los
Angeles Dodgers LLC, the
company created by McCourt
when he owned the team, will
have to pay Stow about $14
million for past and future
medical expenses and loss of
earnings. The company will
pay 25 percent of the
remaining roughly $4 million
for pain and suffering. AFP
Team Sky have no regrets
after Froome quits Le Tour
T
HE Team Sky principal, Sir
Dave Brailsford, has insisted
he has no regrets about not
choosing Bradley Wiggins for
this years Tour de France after Chris
Froome was forced to pull out of the
race on stage ve after his third crash
in two days.
Froome was riding with a dam-
aged left wrist sustained in Tuesdays
fourth stage and always looked ten-
tative on the rain-soaked road from
Ypres to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut on
Wednesday.
A crash after 33km inicted more
damage, this time on the right side
of his body, and after coming off his
bike again before the notorious cob-
bled sections he decided enough was
enough.
Brailsford brushed away suggestions
that Team Sky had missed a trick by
not bringing Wiggins, the 2012 Tour
winner, as a Plan B to Froome, who
last month suffered a painful fall in
the events warm-up, the Critrium du
Dauphin.
I have no regrets we picked a team
to win, we believed Chris could win,
and there was no hangover from the
crash at the Dauphin, he said. He
looked as good, if not a little bit better,
than he was last year.
He was t to start, theres no denying
that, said Brailsford. I think the injury
sustained in the rst crash, which was
on the other side to Tuesday, was the
ultimate reason why he pulled out.
Froome will now be pushed towards
the nal grand tour of the year, La
Vuelta a Espaa, which begins next
month. The Australian Richie Porte
will become Team Skys leader for the
remainder of the Tour.
Obviously its devastating news for
Chris, but when you have a setback
you have to roll with it, said Brails-
ford. One mans loss is another mans
opportunity.
We really believe in Richie. He had
a slow start to the season and is maybe
fresher than he would normally be
coming into this stage of the season.
He has shown great ability and
courage to ride over the cobbles the
way he did, and given the way he is
climbing, we have an exciting couple
of weeks to come.
Porte is eighth in the general classi-
cation, 1min 54sec behind the Vincen-
zo Nibali, after a thrilling days racing.
Nibali still leads by two seconds after
riding superbly on the famous Paris-
Roubaix cobbles but, crucially, all of
his rivals for the yellow jersey lost time,
with Alberto Contador dropping 2min
35sec on the day.
Geraint Thomas, one of only two
Britons left in the race along with
Simon Yates of Orica-GreenEdge af-
ter Mark Cavendish crashed out on
stage two, is in 14th place overall, 2min
16sec back.
Brailsford promised that Froome
would be back as soon as his body
had healed. If youre not able to take
the knocks and dust yourself down
then youre in the wrong job, he said.
THE GUARDIAN
Japan star Tanaka goes
on Yankees injury list
JAPANESE rookie ace Masahiro
Tanaka will miss at least two
weeks of the Major League
Baseball season after the New
York Yankees placed him on the
injured list on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old all-star
pitcher was officially put on
the 15-day disabled list
because of a problem with his
right elbow. He is expected to
undergo an MRI on the
inflamed elbow this week in
New York.
The injury means Tanaka
will not be able to take part
in next Tuesdays All Star
Game and will be replaced
on the American League ros-
ter by Boston Red Sox closer
and Japanese compatriot
Koji Uehara.
The decision to sideline
Tanaka comes just one day
after he had his worst start as
a Yankee. He was tagged for a
season high 10 hits over 6 2/3
innings in New Yorks 5-3 loss
at Cleveland.
Tanaka had given up three
runs or less in each of his first
16 games since leaving Japan
to sign a lucrative seven-year
contract with the Yankees in
January.
He allowed four runs in
seven innings at Minnesota
on July 3, though the right-
hander was still able to pick
up his MLB-leading 12th win
of the season. Tanaka has
compiled a 12-4 record
through 18 starts.
The 39-year-old Uehara will
be making his first all-star
appearance since he began
playing in North America in
2009. He was an eight-time
all-star in his native Japan.
Uehara, the MVP of the 2013
AL championship series and
a key player in the Red Soxs
run to last years World Series
title, has been dominant in
the first half of 2014.
The right-hander has a 4-2
record with 18 saves and a
1.30 ERA over 40 appearances,
while yielding just 25 hits in
41 2/3 innings pitched. AFP
Starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees pitches dur-
ing the rst inning against the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday. AFP
Team Skys Christopher Froome (centre) of Britain, pictured here riding injured during the fourth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, has
pulled out of the 101st edition of the annual cycling race. AFP
Crown U16 boys size up
champions Chonburi
PHNOM Penh Crown Academy
host reigning champions and
runaway Group B leaders
Chonburi FC in an Asia U16
Champions Trophy clash
Saturday morning from 9am at
the Olympic Stadium. The
Cambodians, currently third in
the six-team group after
winning half of their eight
games so far this season, are
keen to show their mettle at
home against the Thai
heavyweights, who have
already sealed their place in
the semifinals. Crowns
remaining Group B fixture will
be also against Chonburi
away, with positive results
required from both ties if they
stand a chance at leapfrogging
current second place side and
tournament organisers Frenz
United Malaysia to advance to
the knockout stage. DAN RILEY
S Korea coach resigns
after World Cup failure
SOUTH Korean football coach
Hong Myung-bo announced
his resignation yesterday
following a disappointing
World Cup showing that saw
his team jeered and booed on
their return from Brazil. As of
today, I am leaving this post,
Hong told a press conference
in Seoul. When we left for the
World Cup, I said we would
give hope to the people, but we
ended up giving them
disappointment. I really feel
sorry about that, he said.
Hongs decision to step down
came just a week after he
received a vote of confidence
from the Korean Football
Association who said he
should coach the national side
through the 2015 Asian Cup
tournament. AFP
FIFA suspend Nigeria
Federation over sacking
FIFA on Wednesday suspended
the Nigeria Football Federation
(NFF) with immediate effect
over government interference.
The decision, in the aftermath of
Nigerias World Cup last 16 loss,
came after a court sacked the
NFF and the government
appointed a sole administrator
for the countrys football shortly
after the Super Eagles returned
from Brazil. The FIFA
Emergency Committee has
decided today to suspend the
Nigeria Football Federation with
immediate effect, on account of
government interference, a
FIFA statement explains. Unless
the suspension is lifted Nigeria
will not be able to play in the
upcoming FIFA U20 Womens
World Cup scheduled for August
5-24 in Canada. AFP
France goalkeeper Lloris
extends Tottenham deal
FRANCE goalkeeper and
captain Hugo Llorishas signed a
new five-year contract with
Tottenham, the English Premier
League club confirmed
yesterday. The 27-year-old
originally signed from French
outfit Lyon two years ago for 10
million ($13.6 million) and has
made 78 appearances for the
north London club. We are
delighted to announce that
Hugo Lloris has committed his
future to the club with the
signing of a new five-year
contract, the club said in a
statement. Lloris captained
France at the World Cup, playing
all six of their games. AFP
23
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Argentina midelder Maxi Rodriguez (front) and goalkeeper Sergio Romero celebrate after winning their FIFA World Cup seminal against the Netherlands via a penalty shoot-out. AFP
Romero emerges the hero
H
AVING spent most of the
last 12 months out of favour
at club level, Sergio Romero
has emerged from the shad-
ows at the World Cup to star in Argen-
tinas run to the nal.
Romero saved twice in Wednesdays
penalty shoot-out as Argentina tri-
umphed 4-2 against the Netherlands
in the seminal at Sao Paulos Corin-
thians Arena to progress to the nal
after a goalless 120 minutes.
Reduced to the role of spectator for
much of a disppointing match, the
27-year-old stepped forward to deny
both Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder
from the spot.
And with captain Lionel Messi quiet
throughout the evening, that allowed
Romero to be hailed the hero, even if
he admitted luck played its part.
Penalties are all about luck, that is
the reality. I had condence and thanks
to God it turned out well, said the gi-
ant shot-stopper after the match.
Romero has been an assured pres-
ence behind a solid Argentina defence
throughout the competition, and has
kept clean sheets in all three knock-
out matches.
His displays have been the perfect
response to those at home who sug-
gested he should never have been
called up in the rst place by coach
Alejandro Sabella, far less chosen to
play ahead of both Agustin Orion and
Mariano Andujar.
However, Romeros trajectory at club
level over the past year was hardly that
of a player who was about to go all the
way to the World Cup nal.
He left Italian side Sampdoria to-
wards the end of last summers transfer
window to join big-spending Monaco
on a season-long loan.
When he arrived he expected to be
the Ligue 1 sides rst-choice keeper,
but coach Claudio Ranieri preferred
Croatian Danijel Subasic and Romero
only made the rst of his three league
appearances in April.
Otherwise, he had to settle for a
handful of run-outs in domestic cup
games, but Sabella never lost faith in
a player who won Olympic gold with
Argentina in Beijing in 2008.
He helped me throughout what was
the most difcult time of my career,
Romero said on Wednesday in a show
of gratitude to Sabella.
It was the rst year that I had spent
sitting on the bench. So I had to thank
Alejandro for everything he did for me
over the year.
Sabella himself insisted on giving
credit to his goalkeeping coach Juan
Jose Romero and his huge binder of
information on all prospective penalty
takers at the competition.
But if that helped Argentinas goal-
keeper, the defeated Dutch coach
Louis van Gaal admitted that he was
not surprised to see Romero produce
such heroics.
Indeed, van Gaal knows all about
Romeros ability, having coached him
during a successful spell in the Nether-
lands with AZ Alkmaar.
The Dutch Eredivisie was Rome-
ros first stop in Europe when Van
Gaal signed him from Buenos Aires
giants Racing in 2007, and two years
later they won the domestic title to-
gether, pipping the countrys more
famous names.
I didnt teach Romero to stop penal-
ties, but we were the club that brought
him to Europe because he was a big tal-
ent, van Gaal said.
Romero added: I thanked Louis in
the dressing room. He helped me a lot
in Holland, which was a totally differ-
ent country, with a different language
and different customs. He spoke Span-
ish and helped me a lot.
The truth is hes a person who
teaches a lot. Ill be forever grateful
for him helping me out in such a dif-
ferent country.
With his loan at Monaco having come
to an end, his club future may be un-
certain, but Romero was determined
to savour the moment on Wednesday
before turning his full focus to Sundays
nal against Germany at the Maracana
Stadium.
The moment should be enjoyed. I
am immensely happy, he said. AFP
Malaysia lawmaker apologises for World Cup Hitler tweet
A MALAYSIAN lawmaker apol-
ogised yesterday for a tweet
praising Adolf Hitler following
Germanys World Cup win over
Brazil, after Prime Minister
Najib Razak rebuked him for
his unacceptable statement.
Bung Mokhtar Radin, a poli-
tician with Najibs ruling Unit-
ed Malays National Organisa-
tion, congratulated Germany
on Wednesday by posting on
Twitter, Well done... Bravo...
Long Live Hitler.
Najib condemned Bung
Mokhtars comments as unac-
ceptable and wrong in a state-
ment issued by his office
Thursday and ordered him to
withdraw them.
He does not speak for
Malaysia, or for ordinary
Malaysians, who understand
Europes tragic past, and
respect its modern unity,
Najib said.
This should be a time of
celebration for Germany, he
added, wishing Germany all
the best in the final against
Argentina on Sunday.
Bung Mokhtar himself also
tweeted an apology on Thurs-
day after defending his remarks
earlier amid criticism.
When Germany whacked
Brazil, I unintentionally said
something that hurt d feeling
of d ppl in Germany. MY SIN-
CEREST APPOLOGY. LONG
LIVE BUNG.. he posted.
Germany thrashed Brazil
7-1, dealing the host nation
the worst semi-final defeat in
World Cup history.
Germanys ambassador to
Malaysia said on Wednesday
that the embassy strongly
rejected the unacceptable
allusion to the fascist regime of
Adolf Hitler who led Germany
into the World War II.
Bung Mokhtar has drawn
condemnation in the past for
statements deemed offensive
and insensitive.
During a debate over a leaky
parliament roof in 2007, he
said: Where is the leak? The
Batu Gajah MP also leaks eve-
ry month, referring to an
opposition lawmakers men-
strual cycle. AFP
Malaysias ruling party lawmaker Bung Mokhtar Radin (left) has said
sorry for tweeting Long Live Hitler after Germanys win over Brazil. AFP
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 11, 2014
Sport
Crown anxious to seal the deal
H S Manjunath
T
HIS seasons Metfone C-
League championship could
well be decided on Satur-
day if the tear-away leaders
Phnom Penh Crown grab all three
points against a somewhat dispirited
Naga Corp in their twilight xture at
the Olympic Stadium.
Hopelessly outpaced in the second
half of the season, Naga suffered a
midweek setback when the two-time
champions were held to a goal-less
draw by National Police Commissary.
While Nagas professed strength
has been consistently failing to show
up in their performances, Crown
have presented themselves as a well
coordinated strike force throughout
this campaign.
With a seven-point cushion in the
league standings over nearest rivals
Boeung Ket Rubber Field, Crown ap-
pear to be home and host when it
comes to the title race, yet the side
may deal with the next three rounds
with utmost caution.
We are close to receiving the re-
wards for our hard work over the last
20 months. Crown coach Sam Sch-
weingruber told the Post.
Yes, we know that we are facing
the strongest opponents of this year
on all of our nal three matches and
will take preparation as seriously as
we can and not be affected by the
comfortable view on the table.
If we approach our game the way
we have recently, I am condent we
can lift the title as expected by many
of our fans. But it will certainly not be
easy as each of our opponents will do
everything possible to see us falter,
added the Swiss tactician.
Boeung Kets only chance of regain-
ing the championship they last won
in 2012 hinges on them winning their
next three matches, the last of which
against none other than Crown. But
Boeung Ket also need Crown, the
four-time champions, to stumble
over their last three hurdles, a far-
more unlikely prospect.
Interestingly Crowns only defeat
this season had been at the hands of
Boeung Ket.
In their rst round clash, Crown
produced a late equaliser against
Naga to share the spoils and the two
teams have since struck different
paths after this encounter.
Schweingruber, whose side have
won, said they were disappointed
with the result of their previous
game with Naga.
Hopefully, we can learn from that
and nd a way to overcome the best
defence of the league Naga have
only conceded 13 goals so far. And we
must show that we have the best at-
tack we have scored 52 goals, said
the coach.
Part of that prociency upfront is
due to the scoring prowess of Nige-
rian forward George Bisan, whose
19 goals this campaign has only
just been bettered by Svay Riengs
Dzarma Bata on 20.
Obviously our foreign players
have been important for us, just
looking at George [Bisan]s 19 goals,
the many assists by Adriano [Pel-
legrino] and the defence organised
around Tony [Odion Obadin], said
Schweingruber.
Our Cambodian players have also
developed very well, which has been
acknowledged by the national team
coach in selecting so many in his
squad. In each position, we have op-
tions and players have to ght for a
starting spot which creates a healthy
competition.
Defending champions Svay Rieng,
who have been left to ght for minor
honours following their patchy per-
formances this season, face Hun Sen
Cup runners-up Build Bright United
in Saturdays rst xture.
Svay Rieng pumped nine goals
past a hapless Kirivong Sok Sen
Chey on Wednesday, a victory that
should jeeve up the camp for the
battle with BBU, who are working
hard to break into the top three
bracket this season.
On Sunday, Boeung Ket take on Ki-
rivong under the lights of the Olym-
pic Stadium. The Rubbermen should
assert themselves against a side that
is heading towards relegation.
In the days rst match, Western
University are up against National
Police.
Away at the Old Stadium on Sat-
urday, Albirex Niigata square off
against Ministry of National De-
fence while Asia Europe University
meet TriAsia. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
DAN RILEY
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday July 12
At the Old Stadium
Albirex Niigata v MND 1:30pm
AEU v TriAsia 3:45pm
At the Olympic Stadium
BBU v Svay Rieng 3:30pm
PP Crown v Naga Corp 6pm
Sunday July 13
At the Olympic Stadium
Western Uni v Nat Police 3:30pm
Boeung Ket v Kirivong 6pm
Goals from Phnom Penh Crown forward George Bisan (right) have been one of their main catalysts in putting them on the brink of a
record fth championship title in the Cambodian top tier, which they can wrap with victory on Saturday over Naga Corp. SRENGMENGSRUN
Honda Repsols Marquez targets nine out of nine
RUNAWAY world champion-
ship leader Marc Marquez tar-
gets a ninth win in nine races
at the German Grand Prix on
Sunday with the flying Span-
iard on course to have the title
wrapped up in record time.
The Honda rider has a
72-point lead in the champi-
onship with teammate Dani
Pedrosa and Yamahas Valen-
tino Rossi, both of whom have
just signed new deals with
their respective teams, locked
in second spot.
Marquez, 21, already has a
successful track record at the
Sachsenring having won on
his last four visits in the 125
class in 2010, in Moto2 in 2011
and 2012 and in his first
MotoGP last year.
Victory on Sunday will
mean he would have won
every race across the opening
half of the season.
In a stunning season, the
defending champion has
already become the 13th most
successful rider of all-time in
terms of wins, having celebrat-
ed his 40th victory at Assen
two weeks ago.
He now targets a 25th podi-
um in the elite class having
become the first rider to claim
eight straight wins since the
top category was introduced
at the start of 2002.
Only six other riders in his-
tory having won eight or
more MotoGP races in a sin-
gle season Mike Hailwood,
Giacomo Agostini, Mick
Doohan, Rossi, Casey Stoner
and Jorge Lorenzo.
Rossi, the 35-year-old nine-
time world champion across
all classes, heads to Germany
having extended his contract
with Yamaha until 2016.
Its great because this was
my target, I wanted to con-
tinue, I am feeling good and
Im motivated to keep giving
my best, said the Italian.
I am very happy that I can
keep riding my YZR-M1, that
has been my love for so many
years and will still be my love
this year and the following
two seasons.
Rossi who first won the 125cc
world title in 1997 before mov-
ing up to claim global honours
in the 250cc category two years
later, has since added seven
world titles at the highest level.
If he finishes on the podium at
the weekend, he will become
the first rider ever to rack up
4,000 career points.
Pedrosa has also signed an
extension to his Honda deal
that will keep him on board
until 2016.
Im very happy to be able to
announce my renewal with the
Repsol Honda Team, and grate-
ful to Honda for the trust they
have shown in me for a further
two years, said the Spaniard.
Its the best way for me to
continue in my racing career,
together with the company I
was with in my very first race. I
am very excited to give my 100
per cent and continue to work
together with everyone at Hon-
da Racing Corporation.
Sundays main race gets
under way from 7pm Cambo-
dian time. AFP Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Marquez will look to continue his dominace of races at the Sachsenring. AFP