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Kevin Ponniah
ONE person will hold the
balance of power on the
overhauled National Elec-
tion Committee when the
political agreement signed
by the opposition and rul-
ing parties on Tuesday is
implemented.
Sitting beside four mem-
bers from the ruling party
and four from the opposi-
tion, the man or woman
who fills the final consen-
sus spot will play the unen-
viable role of mediator and,
presumably, decisionmaker
in an election body that has
long been considered
beholden to the CPP.
But while there are many
possible candidates for the
job, it appears most of
those floated as top choic-
es by observers stand little
chance of being amenable
to both sides.
Koul Panha, who since
1998 has been executive
director at watchdog the
Committee for Free and Fair
Elections in Cambodia
(Comfrel), is chief amongst
them. This is the best can-
didate in my eyes, but its not
the best candidate for the
CPP, political analyst Kem
Ley said.
Comfrel has long been
critical of all aspects of Cam-
bodias elections and is a key
part of the Electoral Reform
Alliance, an umbrella group
whose lengthy report point-
ing out the flaws of last years
poll was dismissed by the
government as biased and
manipulated.
The opposition Cambodia
Down
to the
power
of one
Eddie Morton
C
AMBODIAS telecom sector
is outraged over a draft
law handed down by the Min-
istry of Posts and Telecom-
munications (MPTC) on Wednesday,
which details a government plan to
assert control over the industry.
In what is being labeled an unprece-
dented draconian effort to nationalise
the industry, the draft law states that no
company can both operate infrastructure
assets, such as antenna towers and under-
ground cables, and also provide services,
such as mobile and data plans.
If the draft law is approved, telecom
companies that opt to retain their retail
operations will be forced to sell off
their infrastructure assets and rely on
government-controlled infrastructure
providers.
Infrastructure and telecom network
and other infrastructure that supports
the telecom sector, need to be under the
control of the Ministry of Posts and Tel-
ecommunications as according to the
permanent regulation, it states.
The 31-page and 100-article draft,
stamped confidential was leaked to the
Telecom law outrage
Draconian draft law triggers an industry-wide backlash
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RAINSY MEET
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National Rescue Party, mean-
while, used the report as a key
piece of evidence to bolster
its claims that the election
was rigged and that it had re-
ally won.
That association would
make it very unlikely that
the CPP would accept Panha,
despite his technical exper-
tise, said Ou Virak, chairman
of the Cambodian Center for
Human Rights.
He has in the past worked a
lot closer with the CNRP and
that could be a problem for
the CPP, he said.
The ruling partys conation
of the opposition and civil so-
ciety groups, many of which
have long been the govern-
ments harshest critics, will
likely rule out a number of
candidates for the CPP, Virak
added. But it cuts both ways.
If the person is really, truly
independent, neither party
will agree, he said.
But the danger is that with-
out consensus, the current
NEC will continue its work.
Some civil society candi-
dates who should be consid-
ered aside from Panha, ac-
cording to Ley, include Thun
Saray, president of rights
group Adhoc; Pung Chhiv
Kek, president of rights group
Licadho; Yeng Virak, executive
director at the Community
Legal Education Center; and
Lao Mong Hay, a veteran po-
litical analyst.
Son Soubert, a political
commentator and adviser to
the King, offered up a candi-
date already deeply familiar
with the workings of the NEC:
Sin Chum Bo, the committees
current vice chairman.
Chum Bo, who has a doctor-
ate from a US university, may
have an independent mind,
he said, making the case that
she could prove palatable for
both sides.
I think shes suitable for
both parties, and I dont think
the CPP would refuse because
she is already on that commit-
tee . . . I would recommend her
as a good candidate or [alter-
natively] one of the leaders of
the NGOs, said Soubert, who
also serves as president of the
Human Rights Party, which
joined the Sam Rainsy Party
to form the CNRP.
Otherwise, why dont they
just ask His Majesty the King
to appoint someone who is
neutral from the Royal Pal-
ace? Soubert suggested.
But CNRP spokesman Yim
Sovann said the party would
focus on nominating candi-
dates from civil society.
We are very sure that we will
not nominate the old leaders
of the NEC, he said, but de-
clined to name preferences.
One possible alternative to
Panha that could be accepted
by both sides is Kek of Licad-
ho, who has worked closely
with Prime Minister Hun Sen
in the past. In the late 1980s,
she helped set up the meet-
ings between Hun Sen and the
late King Father Norodom Si-
hanouk that eventually led to
the Paris Peace Agreements.
Yesterday, Kek declined to
comment on whether she
would consider the position.
The ninth candidate will be
very difcult to nd, because
this person must be com-
pletely neutral, without any
afliation or bias, she said.
Panha, on the other hand,
said he would denitely con-
sider the role if asked, but said
he still had misgivings about
whether the new NEC would
really be independent.
If they put in provisions
clearly to make it indepen-
dent, I would be happy to con-
sider the possibility . . . Im very
happy that the public would
consider me, he said.
Prum Sokha, a lead CPP ne-
gotiator in recent talks and a
secretary of state at the Inte-
rior Ministry, said it was too
early to talk about suitable
candidates. But he added that
he did not think it would be
difcult to nd consensus.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Hunt is on for NECs 9th candidate
Homes move
due to floods
Pech Sotheary

C
OASTAL erosion be-
came serious enough
in Kampong Cham
province for authori-
ties to dismantle and move 13
houses along the Mekong.
Ofcials are planning to do
the same for about 100 oth-
ers to them from falling into
the river due to rising water
levels over the past few days,
Heng Vanny, Srei Santhor dis-
trict governor, said. Affected
homes are located in Koh An-
det communes Korki village.
I have reported to the pro-
vincial authorities and the Na-
tional Committee for Disaster
Management for food aid,
materials [and] money to help
the victims, Vanny said.
Houses already disassem-
bled and moved now sit on a
nearby hill, where homes are
presumably safe from ood-
ing or sinking into the water,
Vanny said. He plans on mov-
ing 102 more houses to the
same area.
Meas Samak said that he
had to move when his back-
yard ooded, knocking down
some trees.
Samak said the temporary
move will keep him safe amid
rising water.
We will move the house
across others land and log
some trees in order to get a
place to stay, Samak said,
maintaining some optimism.
Kampong Cham provincial
governor Lun Limthai said
that each affected family will
receive $75.
The Cambodian Red Cross
provincial team will continue
helping those who plan to
move their homes as well as
those who could face ood-re-
lated problems in the future.
We have a plan to evacu-
ate them to the safe hill, [and
provide] medicine and food,
Limthai said.
The water level along the
Mekong in Kampong Cham
was 13.2 metres yesterday,
according to the Ministry of
Water Resources and Meteo-
rology, which predicts a rise
to 13.4 metres.
The National Committee for
Disaster Managements Nhem
Vanda said the body has pre-
pared between 10,000 and
20,000 tonnes of rice seeds and
25 tonnes of vegetables.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen stand
outside the Senate after nal negotiations on Tuesday. HENG CHIVOAN
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A NATIONAL military police
ofcer has been released from
detention after agreeing to pay
$1,000 to the man he beat up
and threatened over a fender
bender, according to munici-
pal military police
Second Lieutenant Yean
Ra, 30, was moonlighting as a
guard at Ly Hour Money Ex-
change Shop in the capitals
Prampi Makara district when
he was arrested on Wednesday
morning, said Captain Seng
Chandy with the Phnom Penh
Municipal Military Police.
According to Chandy, Ra
drove his motorbike into the
moto of 35-year-old Kouch
Chamroeun. The damage to
his own ride enraged him.
He got very angry with the
victim, Chandy said, adding
that Ra slapped and kicked
Chamroeun, then pulled a pis-
tol out, threatening to kill.
Military police intervened
and temporarily detained
him, but the victim withdrew
his complaint after Ra offered
him $1,000 in compensation,
Chandy said.
Neither Ra nor Chamroeun
could be reached.
Ofcer settles for $1,000
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
PM, Rainsy take deal to monarch
Meas Sokchea

P
RIME Minister Hun
Sen and opposition
leader Sam Rainsy met
with King Norodom
Sihamoni yesterday for about
90 minutes at the Royal Palace,
emerging with royal approval
of the political deal they ham-
mered out on Tuesday.
He congratulated us and he
was very happy. He encour-
aged us to go out and complete
the work we have done and do
whatever remains to be done,
Rainsy told the Post.
The King was looked to at
various times throughout the
nearly one-year political stale-
mate as a possible mediating
force between the two parties.
He was petitioned near the
beginning of the dispute by the
opposition and civil society
groups hoping he would hold
off on inaugurating the new
National Assembly in Septem-
ber last year, with only law-
makers from the ruling party
willing to take their seats.
But he opened the assembly
and again congratulated the
opening of its second session
in April this year. In response,
Rainsy wrote directly to him,
saying that it was a one-par-
ty parliament a move which
led to threats of legal action by
the government.
The threats were dropped
after a senior palace ofcial
said that Rainsy had not in-
sulted the monarch.
Last night, the King was
televised receiving the leaders
and making a brief statement:
Today, the leaders of the
two political parties brought
the good result of the meeting
about the political resolution
of the nation to me, he said.
After the palace visit yes-
terday, the two parties will
now hunker down to esh out
the details of constitutional
amendments required to en-
shrine the new National Elec-
tion Committee and internal
rules changes in parliament to
formally recognise the oppo-
sition, according to ofcials.
Once that happens, the CN-
RPs lawmakers-elect can take
their oaths and be sworn in to
parliament. Although Rainsy
initially said the process would
take only a few days and that
the oaths could be taken to-
day or on Monday, an of-
cial yesterday said that time
frame would not be possible.
Meach Sovannara, head of
CNRPs information depart-
ment, said that the parties
need more time.
It will probably take one
or two more weeks until [we]
join parliament, because both
working groups are working on
the procedure from the outside
rst. Then we will send [the
text] to the permanent commit-
tee of both parties for approval,
and nally Mr Hun Sen and
Mr Sam Rainsy will both sign a
joint agreement, he said.
Only after all that will the 55
CNRP lawmakers-elect join
the assembly, he said.
Despite not being allowed
to run last year, Rainsy will be
among them after his party
yesterday scratched its list of
Kampong Cham election can-
didates and handed a new list
to the National Election Com-
mittee of who would take the
10 seats the CNRP won there.
Rainsy is now slated to re-
place Kuoy Bunroeun, the par-
tys number two candidate in
the province, who will instead
be appointed to the new NEC.
I received a letter from the
CNRP on Thursday, and the
NEC will meet on Friday to
examine the legal procedure
regarding the parliamentary
candidates in Kampong Cham
province, NEC secretary-gen-
eral Tep Nytha said, adding
that once the list is approved,
it will be sent to the assembly.
If he [Rainsy] is on the list,
he will become an elected
lawmaker, Nytha added.
Separately, Kem Sokhas law-
yer conrmed yesterday that
despite the political deal, the
CNRP deputy leader was still
expected in court today for
questioning in relation to a
party-led protest that turned
violent last week.
The court has not charged
him yet. They have just sum-
monsed him for questioning
on behalf of the party leaders,
she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH AND VONG SOKHENG
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy greets reporters yesterday following a meeting between himself, Prime
Minister Hun Sen and King Norodom Sihamoni. VIREAK MAI
He encouraged us to go out
and complete the work we
have done and do whatever
remains to be done
Kim Sarom
THE Appeal Court yesterday heard
the case of three men given heavy
prison sentences in 2012 for trans-
porting medicine banned in the
Kingdom because it contains pseu-
doephedrine a substance used to
make methamphetamines.
Teng Sophal, 36, who at the time
was the director of Mega Dragon
Logistics, was sentenced to nine
years in prison.
Sophals translator Heng Chea also
received a nine-year prison term,
while his logistics officer, Chea Po
Hok, was given five years.
Sophal and Chea were caught
transporting seven million pills,
weighing more than 2,500 kilograms,
from the Sihanoukville port to
Phnom Penh in 2010.
A fourth man, Bou Hael, 72, who is
believed to have escaped to Thailand
after the arrests, was sentenced in
absentia, also to nine years.
In court yesterday, Sophal main-
tained his innocence, saying he
believed the shipment was silica gel
after agreeing to transport it for anoth-
er local company.
I was in possession of documents
allowing me to collect the goods. I did
not know what it was . . . later the
authorities arrested me, he said.
Suong Sopheak, a lawyer for the
defendants, said his clients were not
aware the shipment included medi-
cine containing pseudoephedrine,
and that those responsible for
importing the goods Hael and a
man named Peter had escaped.
Therefore [I] ask you to drop the
charges against my clients, he said.
According to documents from his
logistics company presented to the
court, Sophal had received $10,000
from the two men in question to
transport the shipment.
Seng Sivutha, presiding judge, said
a licence had been obtained from the
Ministry of Health to import various
medicines. That licence, however, did
not cover the medicine containing
the pseudoephedrine.
The court prosecutor in the case
called for the original verdict, handed
down by Phnom Penh Municipal
Court, to be upheld. A verdict in the
case is due on August 13.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Pill shippers appeal case heard
Sex trafficker asks
court for leniency
Kim Sarom
A
CAMBODIAN woman con-
victed of pimping three
underage Vietnamese girls
appealed her sentence in
court yesterday, claiming she made
relatively little money from the girls
and had obtained their mothers
consent to be sold for sex.
Hou Ngoy, 25, was sentenced on
December 25, 2009, to 10 years in
prison on charges of child sex traf-
cking.
Ngoy had the girls sleep with for-
eign clients as well.
She pleaded for the Appeal Court
to lighten her punishment or drop
the charges altogether.
Sometimes I used to bring for-
eigners for clients only for $5 to
$10 each time I took a girl to a cus-
tomer, she said.
Ngoy added that their mothers
had agreed with the arrangement.
I would like the court to drop the
charges against me, she said.
The prosecutors representative
said the court will take into ac-
count the fact that the suspect had
previously confessed to her crime
when the court decides whether or
not to show leniency.
Som Sony, the plaintiffs attorney
from the original case, said that
pardoning Ngoy would enable her
to commit the same crimes again,
and asked the court to uphold the
sentence.
Sony said that although Ngoy had
confessed to her crime, the girls
were abused physically before being
taken to see customers.
Dun Vibol, Ngoys attorney, said
that because she had admitted
her crime she should have her
punishment lightened or given a
pardon.
Hou Ngoy was arrested on Febru-
ary 26, 2009.
According to the cases history, she
ran an operation in which three Viet-
namese girls, aged 11 and 12 years
old, had sex for money in Svay Pak.
The appeal courts verdict will be
decided on August 13.
According to UNICEF, in certain
parts of Cambodia, Vietnamese
sex workers far outnumber Cam-
bodians.
Svay Pak, located 11 kilometres
from Phnom Penh, has achieved
notoriety for its connections to
the sex trade, especially underage
Vietnamese.
Under pressure from the UN, the
Cambodian government shut down
Svay Paks brothels by 2003, but
challenges remain.
Defendants enter the Appeal Court yesterday. Three men are appealing against
convictions handed down in 2010 for shipping illegal medicine. KIM SAROM
I was in possession of
documents allowing me to
collect the goods. I did not
know what it was
Anglers invading
Villagers say
rivals taking
over sh lot
M
ORE THAN 200
residents from seven
villages in Ratanak-
kiri provinces Taveng district
have led a complaint to the
local Administrative Fisher-
ies Department and two right
groups over claims that rival
anglers in the area are col-
lecting sh in their protected
lot by poisoning the catch.
Taveng community repre-
sentative Traing Tham said
the villagers thumbprinted
the documents and submitted
them to the authorities yes-
terday, asking for interven-
tion. They also sent them to
3S Rivers Protection Network
and Adhoc.
Tham said that since
January, the other fishermen,
who could not be reached,
have been using illegal tools
and poisonous substances in
the breeding season in our
protected area.
About 20 fishermen from
Veun Sai district are accused
of invading it.
Khuon Sorya, Taveng district
deputy police chief, said that
the offences have occurred but
those responsible have so far
evaded capture. PHAKSEANGLY
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Shelter for
those with
HIV/AIDs
Sen David
HABITAT for Humanity hopes
to lend a little stability to the
lives of HIV/AIDs patients and
their families with new homes,
announcing on Monday that
they will build 220 houses
by 2016.
Slated for Phnom Penh and
Kandal, the new homes are
intended to help allay some of
the shelter and discrimina-
tion problems faced by indi-
viduals living with the disease
in poverty.
Habitat Australia donated
$500,000 for the construction
project, with each 31.5-square-
metre homes and accompany-
ing land costing an estimated
$5,000, according to Iv Bonna-
kar, Habitats Southeast Asia
program coordinator.
We think that shelter is a
human right, he said.
Since 2004, Habitat for
Humanity has spent $2.2 million
to help resettle 734 HIV-positive
Cambodians and their families.
According to the National
AIDs Authority, an estimated
76,000 people are living with
HIV/AIDs in Cambodia, with
an average of three new infec-
tions every day.
Deal making waves abroad
Laignee Barron, Charles Rollet
and Kevin Ponniah

W
ITH the coun-
trys longest
post -el ect i on
deadlock now
over and the opposition par-
liamentarians ready to take
their seats, at least some of the
CNRPs most lucrative sup-
porters those overseas are
struggling to swallow the new
concessions.
Join[ing] the CPP [in the Na-
tional Assembly] is the same as
a male spider mating with the
black widow. The chance that
he comes out alive is remote,
said Saunora Prom, secretary
of Washington, DC-based
Cambodian Americans for Hu-
man Rights and Democracy.
The key question of our
support is how the CNRP will
guarantee the National Elec-
tion Committee . . . will do
its job: ensuring free and fair
elections, Saunora said. Im
afraid that people will not sup-
port them any more for the
next election they did not
full their promises yet.
The CNRP relies heavily on
nancial contributions from
Khmer supporters abroad,
especially from backers in the
US and Europe, which donat-
ed over 150,000 last year.
Approximately 50 to 70 per
cent of the partys budget is sup-
plied by overseas donors, said
CNRP treasurer Ky Van Dara.
He declined to speculate
on what the party would do
if overseas nancial support
dried up but did admit that
several concerned donors have
called seeking clarication.
The agreement made be-
tween parties was based on
the demands of the people. I
ask all donors to trust our lead-
ers, he said.
But internationally, observ-
ers found it hard to compre-
hend why the party that had
come to symbolise democratic
reform conceded to the bigger
contender on the playground.
The majority of Cambodi-
ans in the world are not satis-
ed with the decision of the
CNRP, said Moeung Sonn,
a former board member of
the Sam Rainsy Party who is
in exile in France. Everyone
feels that the new reform only
exchanges some personnel of
the NEC members with com-
mittees, but they cannot solve
the serious problems of Cam-
bodia like that.
Analysts argued that if the
CNRP intends to weather
through the new agreement
until the next election, it will
need to quickly regain sup-
porters ears and pockets.
In any party, unity is very
important, said Chea Van-
nath, an independent po-
litical analyst. When parties
start to have in-house ght-
ing, it weakens the party and
makes it vulnerable to outsid-
ers interference.
Cambodians protest the results of the election in front of the United Nations in New York. Many backers of the
opposition abroad are not happy with the deal struck to end the political deadlock this week. PHOTO SUPPLIED
New rules for proctors
Workers clash
At factory in
Kandal, ght
over protest
M
ELEES at a garment
factory in Kandal
province between
striking workers and employ-
ees who are against the
industrial action have left ve
people mildly injured.
Employees at the Tae
Young factory began striking
a week ago, calling for two
administrators at the plant
to be fired, among other
demands, said Seang Rithy,
president of the Cambodian
Labour Solidarity Union
Federation.
Since we protested more
than a week, the workers
have clashed with each
other two times already,
causing about five people to
be injured, but they are not
seriously hurt, Rithy said.
In addition to the firings,
the demands include the
reinstatement of six union of-
ficials who were fired in April,
the elimination of forced
overtime and the payment of
wages during protests.
Lor Sopheak, vice presi-
dent of Rithys union, said
negotiations with ministry
officials have not yet yielded
any results. MOM KUNTHEAR
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Have gun, will . . . get
beaten up, apparently
THE power of the mob is not
always diminished by the pres-
ence of a firearm, as two men
learned this week. Police said
the suspects followed a pair of
women from the market to
their home in Phnom Penhs
Meanchey district on Wednes-
day and tried to stick them up
outside of the front gate. Firing
a warning shot after the wom-
en resisted only alerted villag-
ers. Their curiosity exploded
into collective violence against
the suspects, one of whom was
badly injured in the beating that
ensued and then arrested. The
other escaped. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Garment worker turns
tables on would-be thief
A BRAVE garment worker sur-
vived an armed robbery attempt
on Wednesday by briefly dis-
arming the suspect and calling
for help, according to police. The
woman, 24, was walking to her
apartment in Por Sen Chey dis-
trict when she was approached
by an older woman, 34, who
pointed a knife at her neck and
demanded her jewellery. The
worker pushed the knife away
and began shouting. Her neigh-
bours intervened and the sus-
pect was detained later that
night. NOKORWAT
Crowd-sourced justice
for bag-snatching duo
SPOILER alert: more mob vio-
lence. Two men were arrested
and sent to court on Wednesday
after an attempted bag snatch-
ing in Daun Penh district. Police
said a 55-year-old woman was
walking home from the market
when two younger men flew by
on a motorbike, grabbed her
bag and pushed her to the
ground. But the crowd managed
to topple their getaway bike, and
after being punched, slapped
and kicked in the head, they
were arrested. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Reckless teens joyride
leaves woman injured
A MISCHIEVOUS joy ride ended
badly early yesterday morning
when a 15-year-old who had
stolen a tuk-tuk in Por Sen Chey
district crashed it into a preg-
nant woman, seriously injuring
her, according to police. The
owner, 24, came home at about
4am and went to sleep. One
hour later, the teen, now at the
wheel of the tuk-tuk, hit the
woman, but the owner was
unaware of the accident until he
filed a complaint with police.
The teen was arrested shortly
thereafter. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Cop pays price, sort of,
for drunken car crash
POLICE said one of their own
was driving drunk in Phnom
Penhs Tuol Kork district on
Wednesday night when he
crashed into a rubbish bin and
broke his leg. The 30-year-old
officer was coming home from a
party with his friends, where he
drank a lot of beer, according to
police. He lost control on the
road and crashed. Wanting
nothing to do with this particular
mess, the cleaner took the bin
away before police arrived and
sent the officer to the hospital.
There was no mention of him
being sent to court. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Phak Seangly
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Vacancy Re-Announcement
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
VILLAGERS locked in a dis-
pute with KDC International,
a company owned by the wife
of a government minister,
said yesterday that ofcials
had presented them with an
agreement to end a standoff
that has lasted some weeks.
Police, however, said that
wasnt the case.
Representative Smuon
Nhearn, whose house was
searched on Wednesday, said
police who have surrounded
homes in Kampong Tralach
districts Lor Peang village in
recent weeks returned to his
property to compromise.
Commune councillors and
the district police chief told us
to break up the gathering with
the promise that authorities
will not arrest us, he said.
Dozens of villagers have
been holed up in one house
and a tent close to the area
that is in dispute, planning
their next move.
A row dating back to 2007
between villagers and KDC
owned by Chea Kheng, the
wife of Mines and Energy
Minister Suy Sem has esca-
lated this month, leading to
clashes and arrests.
Khath Saroun, 32, a wife
of Seang Hen, a village rep-
resentative arrested earlier
this week, said that the police
were not trying to end hostili-
ties, only trick villagers.
We asked [authorities] to
release my husband and an-
other representative but they
rejected this, so how can we
believe they wont arrest us
when we disperse?
Hul Veasna, chief of police
at Kampong Tralach district,
said villagers had been told
to end their demonstrations
and move on.
We need to inform them to
break up their gathering.
Stuart White
THE Cambodia National Rescue Partys 10-
month boycott of parliament hasnt come
cheaply, according to Cambodian Peoples
Party lawmaker and National Assembly
spokesman Cheam Yeap.
The senior lawmaker said yesterday that
opposition parliamentarians readying to join
the assembly will not be able to claim their
back pay for the months they spent out of
parliament, meaning each of the CNRPs 55
lawmakers-elect forfeits the roughly $20,000
they would have earned.
If they are not present [to swear in], they
cannot receive salary or remuneration, Yeap
explained, adding that this would change
once the lawmakers-elect become full-rights
members of parliament.
However, CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said
yesterday that the party was unperturbed by
the lost salaries.
The CNRP leaders, we have been working
for the nation since a long time ago. We never
think about the salary or the benets, he said.
If Mr Cheam Yeap thinks that it is justice to
do that, let him do it.
The CNRPs lawmakers will be eligible for
other parliamentary perks upon ascending to
the position of full-rights MPs, such as parlia-
mentary immunity and ofcial National As-
sembly number plates for their cars, which
the CPP-dominated assembly warned them to
stop using in March.
Tensions high in KDC ght
Lawmakers wont get back pay
Chhay Channyda

I
N ITS continuing cam-
paign to clean up the
grade 12 national exam,
the Anti-Corruption Unit
(ACU) has warned that anyone
caught leaking copies of the
test or selling answers could
nd themselves imprisoned.
Punishments for misbehav-
ing exam observers are spelled
out in an ACU statement re-
leased yesterday, which splits
penalties into three levels.
For smaller offences such as
making noise, not wearing an
ID pass or showing up late, ob-
servers will receive a warning.
Any observers found trying
to leak copies of the test will be
immediately dismissed, and
those who manage to success-
fully disseminate copies of the
exam or solicit bribes for doing
so will face legal action.
To prevent leakage of any
one of the tests seven sub-
jects, Minister of Education
Hang Chuon Naron is limit-
ing the number of people in-
volved in writing the exam,
with only high-level ofcials
under his scrutiny involved.
In previous years, we had
many ofcials writing the sub-
jects, which makes it easy to
leak the test, but this year . . . I
will watch their work closely
and they will be responsible
for any leakage, he said.
The governments current
measures to stamp out cor-
ruption in the exams provide
a sharp contrast to prior years
when an NGO study found that
more than $500,000 in bribes
was funnelled to teachers.
Students check information related to their exams at a school in Daun Penh. The Anti-Corruption Unit has
announced severe punishments for anyone caught leaking or selling exams. VIREAK MAI
Extortion
charges for
journalists
Pech Sotheary
THE lawyer for three journal-
ists arrested for allegedly
attempting to extort military
police officers in Stung Treng
province filed a request for bail
yesterday to Stung Treng Pro-
vincial Court, which charged
the trio on Wednesday.
According to defender Mao
Sari, the bail request argues that
journalists Kem Sovannarith,
41, Kim Khoeun, 28, and Mom
Mun, 54, have houses and jobs,
and they also have an attorney,
and should be allowed to
remain out of detention under
court supervision.
Procedurally, the judge
needs to reply in five days, so
we might get the information
today or tomorrow on wheth-
er the request was approved, he
said. Stung Treng investigative
judge Leng Vannrith declined
to comment on the case.
Meanwhile, 10 journalists
from around northeastern
Cambodia will submit a petition
today to rights group Adhoc and
authorities in Ratanakkiri prov-
ince where the detained jour-
nalists are based seeking their
release, according to a journalist
for Koh Santepheap.
Villagers embroiled in a land dispute with KDC International make their
case to the press earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Continued from page 1
Post yesterday after it was emailed to
telecom companies on Wednesday
afternoon. The MPTC has given the
industry until Monday to form an offi-
cial response to the draft law.
The draft law states that all telecom
licences will be reassessed on new
criteria, forcing companies to hand
back their existing licences for what
could lead to a complete rebalancing
of the sector.
But licences and infrastructure are
not all that is at risk with the govern-
ments proposed reforms: one clause
states explicity that the MPTC will use
the telecom sector as a tool to main-
tain social order.
To ensure the effective security,
national stability and public order, the
minister of the MPTC has the right to
order operators to transfer their sys-
tems, which control their telecom
operations, to the Ministry.
Telecommunications companies
found to be in breach of the MPTCs
new suite of regulations could incur
fines from $120,000 and up to
$750,000, according to the draft docu-
ment, with company executives even
facing jail time if found guilty of oper-
ating outside of the law.
The draft is clearly out to give gov-
ernment total control and power over
the industry and not encourage any
further investment or innovation,
one industry representative, who
wished to remain anonymous, told
the Post.
It goes totally against any interna-
tional precedent, the source said,
adding that no appendices were
attached to the draft showing justifi-
cation for the draconian reform.
Alan Sinfield, CEO at Qb, said he
was shocked by the draft document,
which he said fails to justify the dra-
matic reshuffle and was only pub-
lished in Khmer, leaving executives
scrambling for urgent translation as
news quickly spread of the MPTCs
demands.
All I can say is that I have been pre-
sented a brief overview of the draft
law, he said. It contains a number of
extremely concerning articles, which
the government has not shown any of
the mechanics for their design or
implementation.
Heads of all of Cambodias telecom-
munications companies will meet for
a two-day forum hosted by the MPTC
on Monday in Phnom Penh. Sources
have told the Post that the entire
industry is in agreement over rejecting
the governments draft.
News of the leaked draft was quick-
ly quashed by MPTC officials who
denied ever sending the email or even
inviting the private sector to contrib-
ute to its development.
We have never given it [draft law]
to any private company because it has
not been done, Ek Vandy, Secretary
of State of Ministry of Post and Tele-
com said.
I cannot say what is in the draft
because I dont have it in my hand
now, but we are working hard to make
the law more flexible to the recent
situation and be complied with the
international standard.
Vandy, however, said the draft was
in the final stages of development
before being submitted to the Nation-
al Assembly for final approval and
that he did not expect the MPTC to
implement the new law before the
years end.

This week in biz
Italy submits a rice
safeguard request to EU
ITALY has again demanded
that the European Union
restrict Cambodias duty-free
import status, as concerns
over the survival of that
countrys rice sector appear
to be reaching a fever pitch.
According to a report late last
week from rice industry
website Oryza, the Italian
government has officially
submitted a request to the EU
calling for a new safeguard
clause which, if approved,
could end EU nations zero-
tariff treatment of rice
imports from Cambodia.
Business relieved after
political deal struck
CAMBODIAS business
community welcomed the
news on Tuesday that the
countys longest-ever
parliamentary deadlock had
come to an end a resolution
investors say will help ease
fears of political instability.
The ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party and the
opposition Cambodia National
Rescue Party on Tuesday
struck a deal that will see the
CNRP take its seats in the
National Assembly as early as
next week, after its
lawmakers-elect are officially
sworn in. Business leaders
breathed a sigh of relief,
saying the deal will open the
gates for investors who have
been waiting for the political
situation to stabilise.
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New IT body to unite industry
Hor Kimsay

A
IMING to unite the indus-
try under one representative
body, the Information and
Communications Technol-
ogy Federation (ICTF) was ofcially
launched in Phnom Penh yesterday.
With more than 100 members com-
prising both local and international
technology companies with a presence
in Cambodia, as well as telecommu-
nications rms and internet service
providers, the ICTF will help promote
the interests of its members, working
with both government and the pri-
vate sector. In addition, the ICTF will
provide guidance on the development
of industry regulations and work with
foreign governments to encourage in-
ternational collaboration.
The ICT cluster is something that
brings people together to share their
vision and share how they want to see
Cambodia grow, and prepare for the
future, said Sok Puthyvuth, chairman
of the ICTF.
Puthyvuth, who in May was elected
to head the Cambodia Rice Federa-
tion the key representative body for
the rice industry has family ties to
Cambodias highest political gures.
The new ICTF chairman is the son of
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and is
married to Prime Minister Hun Sens
youngest daughter, Hun Mali.
For the ICT sector, we are still a
small community, but I can say there is
a lot of potential companies and a lot of
potential IT people to help us change
and realise our vision, he told report-
ers yesterday.
And while the federation will repre-
sent Cambodia ICT sector, Kan Chan-
meta, secretary of state of the Minis-
try of Post and Telecommunication
(MPTC), said the new alliance will be a
key colleague of the government in fos-
tering the sector in Cambodia.
Ministry of Post and Telecommu-
nication cannot work alone to reach
the target. The MPTC needs all stake-
holders, all partners to join to develop
the [industrys] work, he said. You
might know and might be aware the
ICT industry in Cambodia is small,
but we can make it more compact, we
can make it well known in the region,
he said referring to bring businesses
together to share information and re-
sources.
Pily Wong, vice chairman of the new-
ly formed ICTF, told the Post yesterday
that the federation will provide input
in to Cambodias ICT policy includ-
ing the countys draft cyberlaw which
has come under scrutiny from rights
groups who say it could be used to si-
lence government critics.
Now that all these [laws] are in draft-
ing stage, we still have chance to say
our words. Later on when the policies
are all in place, all the laws are in place,
it is too late, he said.
Wong urged all companies and in-
dividuals connected to the IT industry
join the ICTF, to ensure they had input
in to the shaping of the laws.
It is important that people join us
now to give voice or feedback to the
government or people who are drafting
the law.
A motorist passes by an ofce of the local internet service provider Ezecom in Phnom Penh in January 2013. The newly-formed ICTF aims
to promote the local technology industry. VIREAK MAI
Telecommunications draft law sparks industry concerns
BIG business breathed a sigh of
relief on Tuesday after the rul-
ing Cambodia Peoples Party
and the opposition Cambo-
dian National Rescue Party
struck a deal, which promises
to end the yearlong political
stalemate as early as next week.
While analysts and the private
sector are now anticipating an
increase in foreign investment
to Cambodia, Bretton Sciaroni,
head of the American Cham-
ber of Commerce says the focus
now should be on legislation
and judicial reform to improve
the Kingdoms standing as a
place to do business. Sciaroni,
well-known as Prime Minis-
ter Hun Sens long time legal
advisor, sat down with the
Posts Eddie Morton to discuss
how Cambodias investment
climate might improve after
Tuesdays turnaround.
Did Cambodias uncertain po-
litical climate ever really have
an impact on foreign business
sentiment?
There is no doubt that the
entire business community
is happy that a resolution has
been made. Having a year go
by with this sort of political
strife, it detracts people inside
the government from their pri-
mary jobs, so that, of course,
will have an impact on invest-
ment. And with problems oc-
curring in Thailand and Viet-
nam, this piece of good news
will be benet Cambodia.
Will investment increase
now? Sure. Was there any
real, severe impact in the rst
place? I dont know.
Businesses have not been
explicit in the reasons for
coming or not coming. I know
that I have had a few disap-
pointments with big com-
panies changing their plans,
but they usually cite reasons
other than the Cambodian
political situation.
Have I been brokering less
deals for US rms than usual?
No, I would say it has been
about the same even through
the political deadlock.
So if a political stalemate
doesnt deter US rms inter-
est in Cambodia, what will?
This last year, there have
been several issues that have
hurt us. The situation in Thai-
land has hurt the tourist trade.
But at the same time, there
have been a few Thai compa-
nies looking to move their op-
erations over to Cambodia be-
cause of the increase in wage
levels there, oods and obvi-
ously the political turmoil.
But really at the forefront,
Cambodias labour issues
are by far the greatest con-
cern, at least from a business
standpoint.
The labour issue, which
now seems to be quieting
down and we hope to be re-
solved soon, is a much more
important issue than the po-
litical standoff. That issue is
being worked on, however,
with the government tack-
ling the trade union, labour
union and minimum wage
laws, and continuing nego-
tiations with workers.
The US is Cambodias largest
client when it comes to gar-
ments. How far up can the
minimum wage level go be-
fore we start to see a tapering
in orders?
I am not an economist, so
I do not know exactly where
that tipping point is or where
it will be. I dont know at what
point it will be that Cambodia
will see the same phenom-
enon that China and Thailand
are seeing, which is if you in-
crease too much, people look
elsewhere for better deals.
What is sure, is that the
wage increase is done in-
crementaly. To double the
minimum wage in a one time
swoop, has inationary im-
pacts on the wider economy
and if the workers really un-
derstood how that would im-
pact their own self interests,
it simply would not be in their
interest to double it.
You recently came back from
a trade mission to the US.
The US ambassador, William
Todd, said there were literally
a number of US companies
waiting for Cambodias po-
litical deadlock to end before
investing. Is this actually the
case?
It is difcult to say. Like I
said, many private companies
dont always say why or why
not they are or are not com-
ing. There was, however, many
positive results that came out
of the trade mission. We re-
ceived a lot of good feedback
purely due to the fact that the
US Embassy was also part of
the trade mission.
Im not going to take a naive
view of Cambodia, I have lived
here for 20 years, so I know
about the corruption, I know
about the problems, and there
is that image that Cambodia is
still a country at war. So there
are a lot of problems in over-
coming that.
As a result, actually bringing
companies here and showing
them the positive attributes of
Cambodia, is also difcult.
We are planning to do an-
other trade mission next year
because of the positive results
we had this year.
I cannot identify which
companies exactly did express
interest in investing.
It is well known that you have
a good relationship with the
CPP. Do you have one with the
CNRP at all?
No, but I welcome partici-
pation by everybody. Again, it
is everybodys responsibility
to help the country grow. The
problem in Cambodia remains
that most of the laws emanate
from the executive branch and
by the time they get to the leg-
islative branch [down to the
National Assembly level] they
are usually pretty well set.
With that in mind, we may
have to be doing more with
the opposition to make sure
the best laws are enacted.
How are private companies
meant to penetrate that inner
circle of the executive branch
then?
For the private sector, the re-
ality is that if you do not get to
the executive branch early to
communicate your concerns
for law and policy making, it
will be too late if you wait to
get to the National Assembly
and the Senate.
You have got to get involved
in the process early on if
you want to have any effect.
There are various ways to do
that. Private and public sec-
tor working groups, individual
companies lobbying, business
associations, there is not just
one solution.
You are not going to win
everytime, many times you
wont win, but there is value in
simply letting the government
know about the private sec-
tors concerns.
With the CNRP returning to
their National Assembly seats,
do you think the governments
suite of promised reforms in
investment laws, judicial laws
and corruption laws will come
quicker?
There is an industrial devel-
opment policy that is being
drafted at the moment. The
adoption of that policy, as I
understand it from my col-
leagues in the government,
would then be a precondition
to a full new investment law
for Cambodia.
We have not seen a draft in-
vestment law yet, but we are
keen to be involved in that
process as we were in 2003
to the revisions to the invest-
ment laws.
I know that part of the new
investment law will be the
complete separation of laws
for Special Economic Zones.
An SEZ-only law is impor-
tant because both the public
and private sectors are inter-
ested in getting the SEZs work-
ing. The SEZs have been good,
but I think the government is
wanting to know how to make
them more attractive.
I would like to think that the
new investment law will make
Cambodia even more open to
foreign investment.
The high cost of doing busi-
ness and the courts have for
a long time been deterrents
to investment. People want
to know that if they get into a
contract dispute, that they can
solve it outside of the courts.
Better dispute resolution
for private sector is key. The
National Arbitration Centre,
which is now operational, will
be a big plus in showing Cam-
bodia is a quality investment
destination.
But the Arbitration Centres
success wont happen overnight
we need some cases, some
successful ones at that.
The third thing that deters in-
vestment is corruption. I have a
number of blue chip clients and
they are very concerned that
they cannot come to Cambodia
without everything being done
above board.
These big companies do not
make enough money here to
justify being caught up in a fully
edged investigation. So to fully
implement the anticorruption
act is vital.
Both parties in the govern-
ment, should have good focus
on getting solid laws passed
through, and we in the private
sector are counting on that for
future development.
This interview has been edited
for length and clarity
Markets
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Business
Interested, but not yet committed
Daniel de Carteret
and May Kunmakara
FROM the finance to the edu-
cation sector, the interest from
companies looking to list on
Cambodias nascent stock
exchange is on the rise, a CSX-
official said yesterday, after a
meeting with some of the
Kingdoms largest firms.
Some 30 companies, the
CSX say, are eyeing a public
offering, ranging from the
Foreign Trade Bank to Bona
Reality Group and even the
Frangipani Villa Hotel joined
the meeting held at the
exchanges headquarters to
gain greater insights into list-
ing requirements.
Some tell me they have
already talked about it, and
are in negotiations with
shareholders, said Sok Van-
ny, acting director of Listing
and Disclosure for the CSX,
declining to name specific
companies.
And although Vanny con-
ceded there was no definite
confirmation from attendees
that they would list, she was
confident the meeting had
been fruitful, with the CSX
expecting at least one more
IPO this year.
Now we are working with
one in the garment industry,
[and we are] set to receive two
more applications this year,
she said.
Although, for the attendees
the Post spoke to yesterday, an
IPO was still a long way off.
Founder of education serv-
ice provider the American
Intercon Institute and School,
Mengly J Quach, who sent rep-
resentatives along to the meet-
ing said his company had no
immediate plans to list.
We are looking in the future,
but right now we are just
enquiring, he said.
Company CEO and presi-
dent Mong Reththy of Cambo-
dian agricultural giant, Mong
Reththy Group, whose com-
pany also went to the CSX
information session, said giv-
en the requirements to list, his
firm would not be floating on
the exchange any time soon.
As you know, in order to list,
we need time because every-
thing has to be clean now is
not the right time, he said.
And while MFI Sathapana is
looking at a potential IPO one
day, CEO Bun Mony said it was
a proposition that still needed
to be adopted by the compa-
nys shareholders.
We are not thinking about
it just yet, because it all
depends on our shareholders,
he said.
Since launching in 2011, the
CSX has been slow to attract
companies to list.
Last month garment manu-
facturer Grand Twins Inter-
national (GTI) become just
the second company to list on
the CSX, after the state-
owned Phnom Penh Water
Supply Authority (PPWSA) in
April 2012.
After listing on June 16 at
9,700 riel ($2.41), GTIs price
has dipped in its first six weeks
trading. The garment manu-
facturers price closed at 8,660
riel ($2.14) at the end of trad-
ing yesterday.
A Cambodian stock exchange ofcial explains stock purchasing on the trading oor at the CSX ofce in
Phnom Penh in May. HENG CHIVON
Still work to be done after resolution
Bretton Sciaroni, head of the American Chamber of Commerce, talks to the Post yesterday in Phnom Penh.
PHA LINA
J
APANS trade decit bal-
looned to a record in the
rst half of the year as ex-
ports fell further in June,
data showed yesterday, ramp-
ing up pressure on the central
bank to unveil fresh measures
to boost the economy.
The gures come days after
the government cut its scal
year growth forecasts, blam-
ing weak exports and a jump
in imports as well as the nega-
tive impact of an April sales tax
hike on consumer spending
and business condence.
Japan has seen widening
trade decits since the Fuku-
shima nuclear crisis in March
2011 forced it to switch off its
atomic reactors and turn to
pricey fossil fuel imports to
plug the energy gap.
The price of imports has
surged thanks to a slide in the
yen since Prime Minister Shin-
zo Abe pledged in late 2012 to
launch a spending and mon-
etary easing drive to kickstart
growth and defeat deation.
However, the weaker yen
which has lost about a fth
of its value against the dollar
since back in late 2012 has
not had the desired effect on
exports, leading to ever-wid-
ening trade gaps.
Yesterdays data from the
nance ministry showed the
country logged a record 7.60
trillion yen ($74.7 billion)
decit for the rst six months
of the year, expanding 58 per
cent from a year earlier.
The half-year gures were
released with June data that
showed the monthly decit
more than quadrupled to 822.2
billion yen from 180.5 billion
yen a year earlier and blow-
ing past market expectations
of 684.7 billion yen. Japan has
now logged 24 consecutive
monthly trade decits.
Last month, exports fell 2 per
cent year on year to 5.94 trillion
yen while imports rose 8.4 per
cent to 6.76 trillion yen. Ship-
ments to the key US market
turned down, while demand
for Japanese products in Asia
also fell, despite a slight up-
tick in China.
The lacklustre gures will
likely turn the focus on the
Bank of Japan, which is under-
taking a multi-billion-dollar
monetary easing programme
to stimulate the economy.
The BoJs asset-purchasing
scheme is a key plank of Abes
three-pronged plan to kickstart
the economy dubbed Abe-
nomics that also includes
huge government spending,
largely on public works.
The drive has given a jolt to
the insipid economy and drove
a stock market rally last year,
but Abe has so far made little
progress on the so-called third
prong promised economic
reforms, including shaking up
rigid labour markets.
There is growing speculation
that the BoJ which recently
cut its own growth forecasts
will have to launch further eas-
ing measures to prop up the
economy later in the year.
However, analysts said
there were some positives
from yesterdays data. Despite
the weak gures, the decit
for June was down from Mays
shortfall, and below levels
seen before Japans consump-
tion tax hike on April 1.
Net trade has been a drag
on GDP growth ever since
the launch of Abenomics,
but the sharp narrowing of
the trade decit after the
sales tax hike suggests that it
should nally add to growth
in the second quarter, said
Marcel Thieliant of Capital
Economics. He added that
while the yen may continue
to weaken against the dollar,
a likely fall in global energy
prices should help narrow
Japans trade decit.
Tokyo is also trying to restart
a pair of atomic reactors in the
south, which could further re-
duce its dependence on pricey
imports, Thieliant said.
Nuclear power once sup-
plied more than one quarter
of the resource-poor coun-
trys energy. AFP
Markets
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Business
SMEs urged to improve their product packaging game
S Korea unveils $40B
in economic stimulus
Chan Muyhong
SMALL and medium-size enterprises
(SMEs) need to improve their product
packaging to cater to the international
market, senior officials said yesterday
during a seminar on packaging technol-
ogy aimed at Cambodian businesses.
Chhoun Dara, secretary of state at the
Ministry of Commerce said better pack-
aging will help local producers products
stand out in the international market.
Producers and even farmers have
always wanted to have their products
exported. They always ask the Ministry
of Commerce to help seek internation-
al market, but they also have to know
that proper packaging is important for
products to gain recognition in interna-
tional market, he said.
The seminar, co-organised by the
ASEAN-Korean Center (AKC), brought
experts in packaging and design from
South Korea to speak on latest packag-
ing trends to strengthen products mar-
keting potential.
Packaging shows the quality of the
products. And for the export market,
your product has to compete with oth-
er neighbouring countries and advanced
countries, if you fail to develop nice
packaging, even though your products
is very good quality, consumers in the
market will disregard it, said Ki Bong
Moon, Second Deputy Head of AKCs
trade and investment unit.
For consumers, to have nice packag-
ing means you are able to produce qual-
ity products, Moon added.
Seminar participant, Lim Phorn,
managing director of the Lim Phorn
enterprise, which produces drinking
water, soft drinks, and washing liquid,
agreed that better packaging would add
value to his products, but said the lack
of resources in the packaging industry
remains a big challenge.
Most of the packaging materials for
my products are imported from Thai-
land, Vietnam and China while most of
packaging concepts are taken from
other countries example, he said.
Fellow participant, Chey Kunnavuth,
marketing manager of a noodle enter-
prise, was another concerned with the
lack of local packaging expertise.
Capital is needed to move to more
sophisticated packaging as we need to
bring technology and material which is
not available in Cambodia, he said.
SOUTH Korea unveiled a $40
billion stimulus package yester-
day as the finance minister
warned of a risk of recession
after the economy grew at its
slowest rate for more than a
year in the second quarter.
Citing sluggish domestic
demand in the wake of a dev-
astating ferry disaster back in
April, the finance ministry cut
its forecast for economic
expansion in 2014 to 3.7 from
4.1 per cent.
The stimulus plan of 41 trillion
won ($40 billion) includes 11.7
trillion won in expanded fiscal
spending and 29 trillion won in
extra financing support.
Our economy now stands at
a critical crossroads between
making a leap forward and fall-
ing into a recession, Finance
Minister Choi Kyung-Hwan
was quoted as saying by the
Yonhap news agency.
A slump in domestic
demand is deepening, and the
economy is losing its momen-
tum, Choi said. The new eco-
nomic team will do its utmost
to break this slumping domes-
tic demand cycle and stabilise
peoples livelihoods.
The government also said it
would ease mortgage rules
and provide tax benefits for
businesses that use their cash
reserves for wages and divi-
dends in order to spur eco-
nomic activity.
The stimulus package was
announced just hours after the
central Bank of Korea released
second quarter figures showing
the economy posting its slowest
growth in more than a year,
partly due to sluggish consum-
er spending following the Sewol
ferry tragedy.
Gross domestic product rose
a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per
cent in the April-June period
from the previous quarter, the
bank said.
It was the slowest growth
since the first quarter of 2013
and missed market expecta-
tions of around 0.7 per cent.
Year-on-year, Asias fourth
largest economy expanded 3.6
per cent, down from the previ-
ous quarters 3.9 per cent.
There are signals that the
Bank of Korea may consider an
interest rate cut in August.
The bank held its key interest
rate at 2.5 per cent for the 14th-
straight month in July.
South Koreas export-reliant
economy was hit badly by slow
demand in the wake of the glo-
bal recession, with the growth
rate plunging to 0.7 per cent in
2009 compared to 2.8 per cent
in 2008.
But it has picked up in recent
years, expanding 2.3 per cent in
2012 and 3.0 per cent in 2013.
The central bank had initially
forecast growth of 4.0 per cent
in 2014, but earlier this month
revised the figure down to 3.8
per cent. AFP
May Kunmakara
THE National Bank of Canada,
has acquired close to a 10 per
cent of stakes in Advanced
Bank of Asia Ltd (ABA Bank) to
support the banks expansion
plans into Southeast Asia, ac-
cording to an announcement
from ABA on Thursday.
Following the receipt of all
required regulatory approv-
als, Advanced Bank of Asia Ltd
announced today [yesterday]
the successful completion of a
share subscription transaction
with National Bank of Canada,
which acquired newly issued
shares of ABA Bank represent-
ing 9.99% of the total share cap-
ital, the statement said.
We have continuously in-
vested in the development
of our bank to become a sig-
nicant player in the Cambo-
dian banking market, Askhat
Azhikhanov, CEO of ABA Bank
said in statement.
We are very pleased to part-
ner with such a major nancial
institution as National Bank of
Canada, which will certainly
give us an impetus for further
growth and reinforce the posi-
tion of ABA Bank in Cambodia,
he added.
As of June 30, ABA had $391
million in assets and has 20
branches in Camboida and
plans to open ve more by the
end of the year.
At the end of April, the Na-
tional Bank of Canadas asset
were valued at $194 billion with
more than 2.4 million clients in
Canada. It is listed on the To-
ronto Stock Exchange.
Our participation in the
capital of ABA Bank presents a
great opportunity to invest in
the dynamic and fast-growing
Cambodian market, Karen
Leggett, executive vice presi-
dent of marketing and corpo-
rate strategy of National Bank
of Canada.
Canadian bank buys a
10 per cent stake in ABA
Japans trade deficit worrying
A man walks past the Bank of Japan in Tokyo. Recent data are putting
pressure on the BoJ to bring in fresh scal measures. BLOOMBERG
11
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
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. 102.86 -0.26 -0.25% 5:43:10
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 107.8 -0.23 -0.21% 5:42:35
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.77 0 0.11% 5:42:02
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 285.51 -0.5 -0.17% 5:25:02
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 287.79 0.25 0.09% 5:43:10
ICEGasoil USD/MT 888.25 1 0.11% 5:42:47
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13.13 0.01 0.04% 4:34:45
CME Lumber USD/tbf 332.7 -0.7 -0.21% 20:01:40
E
MPLOYEES protest over many
things: higher wages, better
benefits, safer working condi-
tions in their jobs. Whats far
more unusual, if not unprecedented,
is to see workers, organised by senior
managers, stage a rebellion to help
their CEO get his job back.
Yet thats just whats been happening
recently at a 71-store grocery chain
based in the northeast United States.
Thousands of employees of Market
Basket, which has locations in Mas-
sachusetts, New Hampshire and
Maine, have held rallies over the exit
of their chief executive, Arthur T
Demoulas. Artie T was ousted in
June by a board thats controlled by his
cousin. For decades, the company has
been embroiled in a family feud that
has spilled over into an unusual battle
aligning management and rank-and-
file employees against the board.
The events of recent days included
a mass rally on Friday that drew an
estimated 2,500 people, many of them
Market Basket employees, to protest
the ouster of Demoulas. Employees
are concerned the board and the new
co-chief executives, who were brought
in from the outside, will make chang-
es to the companys culture. Market
Basket is known for offering low pric-
es and high levels of customer service,
thanks in part to its above-average
compensation and benefits.
Then, on Monday, employees held
an even larger rally for Arthur Ts
return, this time with estimates of
5,000 in attendance, after eight senior
Market Basket employees who had
helped organise protests were report-
edly fired on Sunday.
Its quite remarkable, says Ashley
McCown, president of the Boston-
based communications firm Solomon
McCown & Co. The momentum thats
built around the story, she says, hasnt
just been a one day thing, she says.
Its been going on well over a week.
Its one for the crisis playbook. Any of
the commentary Ive heard from law-
yers and academics and labour experts
is that this is unique.
What would inspire such loyalty,
especially in a world where CEOs are
increasingly viewed as an out-of-
touch group of 1 per-cent-ers? A CEO
that has a track record of paying
above-average pay and benefits, for
one. But in speeches, blog posts and
media reports, employees spoke of the
former CEOs integrity, accessibility
and generosity. He was known for
attending the weddings and funerals
of employees families.
Hes George Bailey, says Tom
Trainor, a 41-year veteran of the com-
pany who was a district manager of
37 stores before he was fired on Sun-
day, comparing Arthur T to the fic-
tional savings-and-loan manager
from the film Its a Wonderful Life.
He cares more about people than
he does about money.
Daniel Korschun, a professor of
marketing and fellow at Drexel Uni-
versitys Center for Corporate Reputa-
tion who has been studying Market
Basket for a case study, attended the
rally on Monday. He seemed to be
fairly involved in peoples lives, and I
think he was a big believer in being a
low-cost provider to communities.
However successful the protesting
employees have been so far at generat-
ing public goodwill, they will need to
be careful, says John Carroll, a mass
communication professor at Boston
University. If they overplay their hand,
this could become a classic example
of destroying the village to save it, he
says. Saying things like we are going
to shut this company down has the
potential to backfire. If this is about
justice, the public will support that,
he says. But if this is about vengeance,
that could end up leaving a bad taste
in the publics mouth.
Trainor says their rallies are about
justice, and he doesnt seem con-
cerned about the long-term impact
the campaign could have on custom-
er loyalty. Even though store shelves
are increasingly empty, thinned of
basic items like produce and seafood
due to slowed deliveries, the cus-
tomers are going to come back, he
says. Our customer support is phe-
nomenal. AFP
Ousted CEO is so popular
employees are protesting
A Market Basket supermarket in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Employees of Market
Basket are seeking the reinstatement of ousted CEO Arthur T Demoulas. PHOTOSUPPLIED
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World
UN-run school in Gaza hit as Kerry pushes ceasere
AT LEAST nine people were killed,
including a baby, when an Israeli shell
slammed into a UN-run school in the
northern Gaza Strip yesterday, an AFP
correspondent said, as US Secretary
of State John Kerry pressed efforts to
end the bloodshed.
Emergency services spokesman
Ashraf al-Qudra put the toll as high as
15 dead and dozens injured, with
more bodies and wounded expected
to arrive at nearby hospitals.
Medics reported some 50 other peo-
ple killed in Gaza yesterday, mostly in
the south, hiking the overall Palestin-
ian toll to 746 since Israel launched a
military operation to halt rocket fire
from the besieged territory on July 8.
Earlier yesterday, US airlines lifted a
flight ban to Israel, with other interna-
tional airlines expected to follow suit.
The US aviation agency imposed the
restriction on Tuesday after a rocket
hit a house very close to the runways,
in a move mirrored by Europe.
It was renewed late on Wednesday,
prompting Hamas, the de facto pow-
er in Gaza, to hail the suspension of
Tel Aviv flights as a great victory for
the resistance. Shortly afterwards, the
US agency rescinded the move.
Kerry who is in Egypt, which has
drafted a truce proposal for the Israel-
Hamas conflict spoke by phone with
Qatar and Turkeys foreign ministers.
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal is
based in Qatar, while Turkeys Islamist-
oriented Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has harshly criticised Israels
assault on Gaza as well as Egypts role
in trying to clinch a ceasefire.
A US official said Kerry was hoping
Qatar and Turkey would use their
influence to encourage Hamas to
accept a ceasefire plan, which the
Islamist group has so far rejected.
Meshaal vowed late on Wednesday
there would be no end to the fighting
without the lifting of Israels eight-year
blockade on Gaza.
Despite Hamass intransigence, the
skies over southern Israel remained
quiet for seven hours, the army said,
in what was the calmest night since
the Israeli operation began on July 8.
Since 5am, just six projectiles hit the
south, while another three were inter-
cepted, a spokesman said. But there
was no let-up to the Gaza violence.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights has said more than
80 per cent of the casualties were civil-
ians, and a quarter of them children,
triggering growing international alarm
over the civilian body count.
We are gravely concerned by the
ongoing heavy level of civilian cau-
salities, British Foreign Secretary
Philip Hammond said. AFP
Plane with
116 people
vanishes
near Mali
AN AIR Algerie plane with 116
people on board including
French and Spanish nationals
went missing yesterday during
a flight from Burkina Faso to
Algiers, company sources and
officials said.
Algerian radio said 51 French
citizens and 26 from Burkina
Faso were among the 110 pas-
sengers on the plane which
dropped off the radar as it over-
flew northern Mali.
Apart from seven Algerians,
nationals from Canada,
Ukraine and Luxembourg were
also on board, it said. An official
source in Lebanon said at least
20 of its nationals were also on
the flight, including three cou-
ples with 10 children.
Sources said the aircraft was
a McDonnell Douglas MD-83
leased from Spanish firm Swift-
air. Its six crew members were
all Spanish, said Spains airline
pilots union Sepla, while Swift-
air confirmed the plane went
missing less than an hour after
takeoff from Ouagadougou.
Frances Transport Minister
Frederic Cuvillier said top civil
aviation officials were holding
an emergency meeting and a
crisis cell had been set up.
In neighbouring Mali, amid
reports of heavy storms, the
prime ministers office also said
contact was lost around Gao
over the countrys restive north.
Northern Mali was seized by
jihadist groups for several
months in 2012 and the region
has remained unstable despite
the Islamists being driven out
in a French-led offensive.
The plane was not far from
the Algerian frontier when the
crew was asked to make a
detour because of poor visibil-
ity and to prevent the risk of
collision with another aircraft
on the Algiers-Bamako route,
an airline source said.
Contact was lost after the
change of course. AFP
Botched: 118 minutes to die
The lethal injection room used for executions inside the Arizona prison complex in Florence, where Joseph
Wood (above right) was put to death over nearly two hours. AFP
Palestinian rescue workers and civilians search for victims in the rubble of a building
after an Israeli military strike yesterday in Gaza Citys al-Zahra district. AFP
Ed Pilkington
T
HE controversy en-
gulng the death
penalty in the US es-
calated on Wednes-
day when the state of Arizona
took almost two hours to kill a
prisoner using an experimen-
tal concoction of drugs, the
provenance of which it had
insisted on keeping secret.
Joseph Wood took an hour
and 58 minutes to die after he
was injected with a relatively
untested combination of the
sedative midazolam and pain-
killer hydromorphone.
The procedure took so long
that his lawyers had time to
le an emergency court mo-
tion in an attempt to have it
stopped. For more than an
hour, he was seen to be gasp-
ing and snorting, according
to the court ling.
The attempt to execute
Wood started at 1.52pm, with
sedation of the prisoner con-
rmed ve minutes later. The
ofce of the Arizona attor-
ney general, Tom Horne, an-
nounced at 3.49pm local time
that Wood was dead.
According to the emergency
motion, Wood was seen to be
still breathing at 2.02pm, and
the next minute his mouth
moved. He has been gasping
and snorting for more than an
hour, his lawyers said.
When the ofcials in charge
of the execution checked the
prisoner at 3.02pm an hour
and 10 minutes after the pro-
cedure began he was con-
rmed still to be alive.
One eyewitness, Michael
Kiefer of Arizona Republic,
counted the prisoner gasp-
ing 660 times. Another wit-
ness, reporter Troy Hayden,
told the same paper that it
had been very disturbing to
watch . . . like a sh on shore
gulping for air.
Mauricio Marin, a televi-
sion reporter with Kold News
13, said that Wood had ap-
peared to be sedated with his
eyes closed. But he said in an
email that Wood was gulping
or gasping for air. His stom-
ach moved at times while the
gulping/gasping for air as if
one would while breathing
laying down.
Wood, 55, was put to death
for the 1989 murders in Tuc-
son of his ex-girlfriend Debra
Dietz and her father Eugene
Dietz. The duration of the ex-
ecution was extreme even in
the context of recent botched
judicial killings in the US.
Clayton Lockett, who writhed
and groaned on the gurney
in Oklahoma in April, took 45
minutes to die less than half
the time it took in Woods case.
Locketts death provoked a
nationwide and international
outcry. In the fallout, President
Barack Obama was prompted
to launch a review into the
practice of the death penalty
that is still ongoing.
The hours leading up
to Woods execution were
marked by a frenzied legal
battle over the secrecy im-
posed by state ofcials on the
source of the drugs. It was put
on hold several times rst by
a federal appeals court, then
by the state supreme court of
Arizona. On Tuesday the US
court removed the stay, allow-
ing the execution to go ahead.
Woods legal team argued
that as a member of the public,
he had a right to know under
the rst amendment of the US
Constitution about the source
and nature of the drugs that
were being used to kill him, as
well as about the qualications
of the ofcials who would ad-
minister the lethal injections.
The ninth circuit federal court
of appeals ordered a stay of ex-
ecution to give time for proper
legal reection.
The US Supreme Court lifted
that stay on Tuesday, without
giving any explanation.
Within a few hours of Wood
being pronounced dead, se-
nior ofcials in Arizona had
begun a damage limitation
exercise in which they tried to
reassure the public that his ex-
ecution had been painless.
The governor, Jan Brewer,
ordered an investigation but
said the death had been law-
ful, adding that by eyewit-
ness and medical accounts he
did not suffer. This is in stark
comparison to the gruesome,
vicious suffering that he in-
icted on his two victims and
the lifetime of suffering he has
caused their family.
In an impassioned state-
ment, Woods lawyer, Dale
Baich, said: Arizona appears
to have joined several other
states who have been respon-
sible for an entirely prevent-
able horror a bungled execu-
tion. The public should hold
its ofcials responsible and
demand to make this process
more transparent.
The Wood execution is cer-
tain to provoke fresh debate
about the concoctions of drugs
used by death penalty states,
as well as about the secrecy
with which those states have
shrouded the procedure. So
far this year seven states have
carried out executions Arizo-
na, Florida, Georgia, Missouri,
Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas
and all have introduced vary-
ing degrees of secrecy around
their execution drugs.
The controversial measures
followed a European-led boy-
cott of the US death penalty
that has blocked key drugs
used in executions from reach-
ing departments of correction.
As supplies have run short and
expired, states have resorted to
untried improvisations while
insisting on hiding the identi-
ties of suppliers to keep supply
lines open. THE GUARDIAN

Caracas, Moscow courts
target opposition chiefs
VENEZUELAN opposition
leader Leopoldo Lopez went
on trial on Wednesday on
charges of inciting violence
during anti-government
protests that ultimately left 43
people dead. The Harvard-
educated economist says the
charges are politically
motivated. In Russia
yesterday, a court convicted an
opposition leader and his
colleague of organising mass
riots ahead of Vladimir
Putins inauguration as
president in 2012. The judge
said the guilt of protest leader
Sergei Udaltsov and his ally
Leonid Razvozzhayev in
preparing unrest in Moscow
and in other regions of Russia
was totally proven. Prose-
cutors have requested
Udaltsov and Razvozzhayev be
sentenced to eight years in a
penal colony for organising
the rally. AFP
War crime suspect dies
before extradition OKd
AN 89-YEAR-OLD American
and alleged Nazi war criminal
died just hours before a US
court approved his extradition
to Germany, his lawyer said on
Wednesday. Johann Breyer, a
retired machinist born in
Czechoslovakia, admitted
joining the Waffen SS at the
age of 17 but denied being a
guard at Auschwitz, the
concentration camp in
German-occupied Poland.
Breyer was arrested in
Philadelphia in June on a
warrant from the German
government. AFP
Boko Haram blamed
as bombs kill dozens
Aminu Abubakar
T
WO bombings in a
key Nigerian city tar-
geting a prominent
cleric and a former
head-of-state killed at least
42 people on Wednesday, in
the latest violence blamed on
Boko Haram Islamists.
Ofcials ordered everyone
off the streets and imposed
an around-the-clock curfew
to restore order in the target-
ed city of Kaduna, as rescue
workers raced to care for the
dozens of wounded.
Police said the rst attack
was carried out by a suicide
bomber on the convoy of
Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, a cleric
who has ercely criticised
Boko Harams deadly ve-year
uprising.
The blast, which went off at
about 12:30pm, killed at least
25 people, but Bauchi escaped
unhurt, Kaduna state police
chief Umar Shehu said.
The second attack some
two hours later that killed 17
people targeted Muhammadu
Buhari, one of the countrys
most prominent opposition
leaders who also ruled the
country as a military dictator
from 1983 to 1985.
In a statement, Buhari de-
scribed as clearly an assassi-
nation attempt the bid to ram
his car as it passed through a
market area and the detonation
of a bomb which destroyed all
three cars in our convoy.
Unfortunately, when I
came out of my vehicle I saw
many dead bodies . . . inno-
cent people going about their
daily business, said Buhari,
who escaped injury.
Buhari has also faced threats
from Boko Haram, which ac-
cuses him of betraying Islam
by accepting democratic rule.
While there was no imme-
diate claim of responsibility,
the circumstances pointed di-
rectly to the Islamic extremists
whose uprising has increas-
ingly threatened the stabil-
ity of Africas most populous
country and top oil producer.
President Goodluck Jona-
than denounced the dastardly
targeting of the prominent po-
litical and religious leaders by
terrorists and enemies of the
nation. He also said the gov-
ernment would continue and
intensify its efforts to curb the
menace of terrorism.
Kaduna state Governor
Mukhtar Ramalan Yero placed
his capital under a 24-hour
curfew . . . aimed at forestall-
ing [the] breakdown of law
and order, after the attacks,
his spokesman Ahmed Maiya-
ki said. He added that the gov-
ernor was worried about an
outbreak of chaos in a city that
has known sectarian clashes
in recent years, because the
two targets, Bauchi and Bu-
hari, hold eminent positions
in the eyes of the people.
Bauchi was travelling in an
open-roofed truck in Kadunas
Isa Kaita area when the bomb
off. Well-wishers had gathered
on the roadside to greet him,
according to a witness. AFP
People stand at the scene of a suicide bombing in Kaduna, Nigeria, on
Wednesday. At least 42 people died in twin attacks in the city. AFP
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World
13
A SUDANESE Christian
woman who was sentenced
to death for renouncing Is-
lam, then acquitted after
intense international pres-
sure, arrived in Italy yester-
day with her family en route to
the United States.
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag
was greeted in Rome by Prime
Minister Matteo Renzi and his
wife. Today is a day of celebra-
tion, Renzi said.
Later, the 27-year-old and her
family were received at the pon-
tiffs guesthouse for 30 minutes.
She was thanked by Pope Fran-
cis for her witness to faith and
perseverance.
A global outcry erupted in May
after Ishag was sentenced under
sharia, or Islamic law, to hang for
apostasy. Days after her convic-
tion, she gave birth to a second
child in prison. Ishags conviction
was overturned in June, but she
was immediately rearrested while
trying to leave Sudan using what
prosecutors claimed were forged
documents. Two days later, she
was freed from prison and she
and her family including her
American husband Daniel Wani
and the two infant children took
refuge in the US Embassy.
Ishag was born to a Muslim fa-
ther who abandoned the family,
and was raised by her Ethiopian
Orthodox Christian mother.
The Roman Catholic Arch-
diocese of Khartoum says Ishaq
joined the Catholic church short-
ly before she married in 2011.
AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Christian woman spared death leaves Sudan

China reopen town hit
by plague quarantine
A CHINESE town sealed off
after a man died of plague
reopened yesterday after
authorities found no further
cases of the illness, state
media said. Authorities barred
30,000 people living in Yumen
in the northwestern province of
Gansu from leaving, while road
blocks prevented others from
entering, after a 38-year-old
died from plague last week.
The state-run China News
service said authorities had
exterminated rodents and fleas
in designated quarantine
zones, while 151 close contacts
of the man had been kept in
isolation for nine days without
showing symptoms. AFP
Libya power handover

set but battle rages on
THE General National
Congress, which has governed
violence-wracked Libya in the
wake of the overthrow of
dictator Moamer Gaddafi, said
on Wednesday it will hand over
legislative power to a newly
elected parliament on August 4.
Hopes that the news would end
fighting among rival factions
were dashed as a more than
weeklong battle intensified for
control of Tripoli airport. A fresh
appeal from the transitional
government for a humanitarian
truce fell on deaf ears, with
explosions heard from the
centre of the capital. AFP
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Iraq president named as
convoy ambush kills 60
IRAQS parliament yesterday
elected veteran Kurdish politi-
cian Fuad Masum to be the
countrys new president.
The move, which paves the
way for the much-delayed for-
mation of a new government,
came on the same day an
onslaught on a convoy trans-
ferring inmates north of Bagh-
dad left dozens dead, and as
visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon
said that the countrys survival
hinged on a more inclusive
government.
Parliament Speaker Salim al-
Juburi announced that Masum,
who was born in 1938 and
became the first prime minister
of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan
more than two decades ago,
had won the most votes.
Earlier in the day, at least 60
people were killed in a spec-
tacular pre-dawn ambush.
Most of the dead were pris-
oners convicted of terrorism
charges being transferred from
Taji prison, 25 kilometres north
of the capital.
At least 60 people, prisoners
and policemen, were killed in
a suicide attack followed by
several IEDs [improvised explo-
sive devices] and shooting, an
interior ministry official said.
One security source said the
inmates were being transferred
as a precautionary measure
after Taji prison was hit by mor-
tar fire on Wednesday.
The exact circumstances of
the attack were not immedi-
ately clear, nor how many
attackers were dead or how the
prisoners they were apparently
trying to free were killed.
The bus was believed to
be transporting around 60
prisoners, and medics said 54
of those killed in the attack
were inmates. Most of the bod-
ies were burnt beyond recogni-
tion, they said.
Iraqs Shiite prime minister,
Nuri al-Maliki, has accused the
Sunni mainstream of condon-
ing the ISs recent offensive and
dancing in the blood of the
onslaughts victims.
But many retort it was Malikis
own brand of sectarian politics
that brought the country to the
brink of collapse.
Speaking at a press confer-
ence with Maliki yesterday, UN
chief Ban said: Iraq is facing
an existential threat but it can
be overcome by the formation
of a thoroughly inclusive gov-
ernment. It is critical that all
political leaders fulfil their
responsibilities to ensure that
the government formation
process falls within the consti-
tutional timetable. AFP
Fury at Taiwan crash
Benjamin Yeh
T
AIWANESE ofcials
yesterday defended
ight clearance given
to a plane that crashed
in torrential rain, killing 48
people, as angry relatives
blamed authorities for the
worst air disaster in a decade.
The domestic TransAsia
Airways ight was carrying
54 passengers and four crew
members when it crashed in
Magong in the Penghu island
chain, with 10 survivors.
Two French medical stu-
dents were among the dead.
The ATR 72-500, a propeller
plane, was ying from Kaoh-
siung in southwestern Tai-
wan to the islands off the west
coast when it crashed into two
houses near Magong Airport,
injuring ve people on the
ground, ofcials said.
Flight GE222 was attempt-
ing to land for the second time
after aborting the rst attempt
during thunder and heavy rain
as Typhoon Matmo pounded
the island country.
The airline should not let
the plane take off in such bad
weather, a man who gave his
family name as Hsu said out-
side a funeral home in Pen-
ghu, his eyes and nose red
from crying.
Hsus 28-year-old son was
killed in the crash.
The weather was so terrible
and Taiwan was still under
the typhoons inuence, [the
plane] shouldnt have taken
off, the daughter of pilot Lee
Yi-liang, who also died, told
FTV cable news channel.
Taiwanese ofcials defended
the decision to allow the ight
to go ahead.
Many people were ques-
tioning why the plane took off
in typhoon weather . . . Accord-
ing to my understanding, the
meteorology data showed that
it met the aviation safety re-
quirements, Transport Minis-
ter Yeh Kuang-shih said.
Two planes had landed safe-
ly at the airport shortly before
the disaster, ofcials said.
A man surnamed Chen who
lost six family members in-
cluding his older brother in
the crash was seen shouting at
airline staff in Penghu.
What happened to the
plane and what was the cause
[of the crash]? At the very least
the [airline] should have some-
one on the scene to comfort
the relatives, he said. AFP
Rescue workers and reghters search through the wreckage of
TransAsia Airways ight GE222 on Taiwans Penghu island. AFP
BonanzaBoi
July 22
Pago Pago is without a doubt top 5
places Ive been this summer :)
BonanzaBoi
July 20
No fuel in Kiritimati, going from
New Caledonia to Pago Pago, then
direct Hawaii. Thats about 21 hours
of ying in two days.
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
World
15
Bleak future awaits ageing China
Carol Huang

A
S SHE nears retire-
ment along with mil-
lions of other Chi-
nese, He Xiangying
is too busy sending her son
money and raising a strangers
child to worry about who will
eventually look after her.
The nannys plan is to work
until her health fails, then go
back to her home village in the
Chinese countryside and grow
vegetables to save money.
She holds out little hope of
help from her jobless son.
If he isnt doing well for
himself then why would he
support his ageing parent?
said He, a 51-year-old widow,
tearing up while her charge
rested in a stroller under the
shade in a Beijing park.
I will take care of myself.
Chinas elderly population
is expanding so quickly that
children struggle to look after
them while caregivers are ei-
ther unaffordable or unavail-
able prompting a scramble
for solutions, even ones buck-
ing age-old traditions that
families should care for their
own across the generations.
Projections show that 350
million Chinese one in four
of the population will be
aged 60 or older by 2030, al-
most twice as many as now.
That monumental shift, fu-
elled by the one-child policy,
will impose a huge burden
on the country, shrink the la-
bour force that has fuelled its
growth, and put the respon-
sibility for multiple grandpar-
ents onto a single grandchild.
Many of those young adults
are, like Hes son, already
struggling with sky-high hous-
ing prices and slowing eco-
nomic growth.
Those children who are
poor, whether you live or
die, they cannot do anything
for you, she said, as fellow
nannies manned other push-
chairs nearby.
China is still only piloting
schemes, such as care homes
and nancial products, to pro-
vide care for the elderly and
help them pay for it at pres-
ent the country has only 25
care beds for every 1,000 se-
nior citizens, Civil Affairs Min-
ister Li Liguo said this week.
This will be an era of a great
institutional experiment for
facing Chinas ageing chal-
lenge, said Wang Feng, a de-
mographics expert with the
Brookings Institution.
This is not something Chi-
na has encountered in the
past, he said. The pressure
is building up. Its just going to
get greater and greater.
In traditional Chinese cul-
ture, children should look after
their ageing parents, though
the idea is losing sway under
the pressure of modern life.
On the outskirts of Beijing,
a three-star hotel has been
converted into the Yiyangnian
nursing home, a 300-bed com-
plex of plain rooms and quiet
hallways, where residents
occupy themselves playing
mahjong and cards.
If I were living at home
it would be so lonely, said
Zhou Chuanxun, who has
been living at the facility for
two years. Here at least I
can have conversations with
other people. Its better here.
Time passes quicker.
His son and daughter both
have good jobs and are too
busy to look after him, he said.
The home charges up to
8,000 yuan ($1,300) a month,
says owner Wang Yun far be-
yond the budgets of most Chi-
nese families.
Stafng poses another prob-
lem, as young Chinese start-
ing careers in their fast-mod-
ernising country nd the idea
of bathing and feeding old
people unappealing.
Authorities have sought to
encourage such projects but
only expect 3 per cent of Chi-
nas elderly to be accommo-
dated in homes.
And as in other countries,
they are stigmatised as de-
pressing waiting rooms for
death. At the park, a man in
his 60s, surnamed Zhang,
gossiped with friends about
an ailing acquaintance just
sent to a facility. Its like a
tomb, he said.
Another man playing a har-
monica added: Old people are
not willing to leave their home.
No matter how good the senior
home, its not a home.
The government expects
the vast majority of the el-
derly to stay in their houses
and perhaps hire a caregiver
to help them. AFP
An elderly Chinese man fans himself to keep cool as he smokes in a park. Chinas elderly population is
expanding so quickly that children struggle to look after them. BLOOMBERG
DOGS show jeal-
ousy when their
owners spend
time with what ap-
pears to be anoth-
er dog, suggesting
that the emotion
may have surviv-
alist roots, US re-
searchers say.
Scientists tested
36 dogs and their owners with
an experiment in which the
owners were told to play with
three separate objects in front
of their dog.
One of the objects was a toy
dog that barked and wagged
its tail when a button on it was
pushed. The owners were told
to play with it as if it were a
real dog for one minute.
They were told to then do the
same with a toy jack-o-lantern
pail, acting as if
it were a dog and
playing with it.
Finally, partici-
pants were asked
to read aloud
a pop-up chil-
drens book that
played a song, as
if they were tell-
ing the story to a
small child.
Certain behaviour was much
more common when owners
played with the toy dog versus
the other objects. The dogs
were about twice as likely to
push their owner (78 per cent
of dogs did this) when he or
she was playing with the toy
dog than when the interaction
involved the jack-o-lantern
(42 per cent). Just 22 per cent
did so with the book. AFP
Boxer gets jealous, too
EARTHLINGS of-
ten wonder if life
exists on other
planets, and re-
searchers say
that hunting for
traces of pollu-
tion from distant
worlds could pro-
vide the answer.
Under certain conditions, as-
tronomers in the next decade
might be able to detect the
presence of an industrialised
alien society, according to a
study by the Harvard-Smithso-
nian Center for Astrophysics.
Astronomers can already
study the atmospheres of
planets outside our solar sys-
tem for the presence of oxygen
and methane, which could be
produced by intelligent life or
by microbes.
But an extra-
terrestrial civili-
sation might also
spew chlorouo-
rocarbons (CFCs)
into the atmo-
sphere, much
the same way we
do on Earth, said
the study.
CFCs are chemicals used in
solvents and aerosols that de-
stroy the ozone layer.
Astronomers may be able to
detect evidence of these CFCs
on faraway planets using the
James Webb Space Telescope,
an $8.7 billion project that
NASA is scheduled to launch
in 2018. The JWST will be be-
tween 10 and 100 times more
powerful than NASAs Hubble
Space Telescope, according to
the US space agency. AFP
ET . . . pollute home?
AN AMERICAN teenager who tried to set
a record for an around-the-world ight
was killed along with his father when their
plane went down in the Pacic Ocean.
The plane, own by 17-year-old Haris
Suleman, went down shortly after leaving
Pago Pago in American Samoa on Tues-
day night. The wreckage and bodies were
being recovered by authorities.
Haris Suleman and his father, Babar,
left Indiana state on June 19 in the hope
of making the trip in 30 days to set the re-
cord for the fastest circumnavigation in a
single-engine airplane with the youngest
pilot in command to do so.
The father and son were using the trip
to raise money for the Citizens Founda-
tion, a nonprot organisation that builds
schools in Pakistan. They missed the 30-
day timetable, in part due to illness, but
had planned to return home on Sunday.
The teenagers sister, Hiba Suleman,
said the trip had been a dream of her fa-
thers for years and that her brother was
also excited about it.
Haris Suleman had recently obtained
his pilots licence and instrument rating,
which authorised him to y an aircraft
over oceans, and planned to be the pilot
in command except in an emergency.
Her father and brother had undergone
training in how to handle an ocean land-
ing and wore protective suits while ying
over water. She said it was unusual for
them to take off at night but didnt know
whether that contributed to the crash.
With a trip like this theres always a risk
and they did prepare for that risk. You can
plan all you want but sometimes things
just dont happen the way you planned.
Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Ian Gregor said the single-
engine Hawker Beechcraft crashed into
the ocean in unknown circumstances.
US coast guard spokeswoman Petty
Ofcer Melissa McKenzie said witness-
es reported seeing the Honolulu-bound
plane crash about a mile from shore
shortly after taking off from Pago Pago
international airport.
Daniel Moorani, director of the Amer-
ican branch of the Citizens Foundation,
paid tribute to the teen as a magni-
cent young man.
We just found out two and a half
hours ago. We are devastated, he said.
Moorani said the boys body has been
recovered, but that authorities were still
searching for his father.
The Sulemans had made stops through-
out Europe, Africa, Asia and the South
Pacic, and the teenager told the India-
napolis Star earlier this month that he
was enjoying each visit.
There is so much beauty and culture in
each country that I couldnt possibly wit-
ness all that I want to in the span of two
days, he told the newspaper. Thats the
maximum time weve been able to spend
at a stop. THE GUARDIAN/AFP
Teen pilot, father die in crash on
round-the-world trip for charity
Haris Suleman and his father, Babar, have died after their plane went down in the Pacic Ocean.
They were ying to raise money for a nonprot that builds schools in Pakistan. PHOTO SUPPLIED
BonanzaBoi
July 16
9 days away from home. Ill be
ying every day starting tomorrow
in order to get back! See you soon
Indy :)
@worldrounder: Teen pilot Haris Sulemans nal tweets
World
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HE de facto National
Assembly and the de facto
government rising from it
will very soon gain de jure
status, becoming legitimate state
institutions when the Cambodia
National Rescue Partys 55 lawmak-
ers-elect are sworn in and take their
seats in parliament.
On Tuesday, the Cambodian Peo-
ples Party and the CNRP settled their
differences, defusing the tension in
the country that saw public demon-
strations against the CPP, violent
crackdowns against peaceful pro-
tests and the arrest of 25 garment
factory workers in early January and
seven CNRP lawmakers-elect and an
activist last week.
This settlement has been met with
mixed reactions. Many CNRP sup-
porters have felt disappointment
and resignation, believing the agree-
ment fell short of what they wanted:
a change of regime, a real investiga-
tion into the 2013 election and the
appointment of a new NEC with a
two-third majority in the National
Assembly. There are sceptics who
doubt both parties ability to work
together to reform the NEC and the
election system that caused the
deadlock in the first place.
There is also praise and sighs of
relief as the yearlong political stale-
mate has ended and those arrested
CNRP members have been released.
Looking at the substance of the
deal, one very much gets a feeling of
deja vu. Taxpayers will foot the bill
for power-sharing through the crea-
tion of more public offices. This is
very much like the compromise after
the 1993 elections, which resulted in
co-prime ministers and co-ministers
of interior and defence one each
for the two coalition parties, the CPP
and Funcinpec.
In the new deal, the National
Assembly is to have 10 committees.
The CPP and the CNRP are each to
control five of them, giving the
impression of a balance of power.
The deal purports to show that
Cambodians can settle their differ-
ences in a peaceful manner. Howev-
er, reconciliation, in the Cambodi-
an context, is often taken to mean
the surrendering of the weaker side
to the powerful.
Following the 1993 UNTAC-organ-
ised elections, the coalition between
the winner, Funcinpec, and the loser,
the CPP, essentially amounted to the
surrender of the former to the latter,
which had control of bigger and
stronger armed forces and of the
machinery of government.
The latest deal was struck at a time
when the CPP had exclusive control
of the security forces and the gov-
ernment machinery. Furthermore,
the CPP has a majority on the
National Assemblys standing com-
mittee, with seven of 13 members,
including its chair and one of the
two deputy chairs. Even more
importantly, the CPP has control of
the five committees with jurisdic-
tions that are key to it administrat-
ing the country and maintaining an
iron hand in its dealings with those
who threaten its power: finance,
interior and defence, foreign affairs,
information and justice.
One should recall that, when it
came to running Cambodia in 1992-
1993, UNTAC had control of precise-
ly these areas to administer the
country and to create an environ-
ment in which free and fair elections
could be held.
In the current deal, both parties
are each to select four of nine NEC
members and jointly select the
ninth member by consensus. How-
ever, if such a consensus is not
forthcoming, the status quo will be
maintained, allowing the present
NEC to continue to function and
organise elections.
Why not have the two parties,
when unable to reach a consensus,
draw lots to select the ninth mem-
ber? Were the negotiating teams not
resourceful enough to think up this
divine solution and adopt it in their
deal? Perhaps. It doesnt take much
of a leap of imagination to foresee
the CPP denying a consensus by
design, because any deadlock would
benefit the ruling party, which
would be more than happy to keep
the NEC as it is.
The deal contains many such
flaws, demonstrating the opposi-
tions inability to clinch a fair deal.
The CNRP was given lemons. It must
now make lemonade. With 55 MPs
and the court of public opinion
behind it, the CNRP can effect mean-
ingful change. It can get this assem-
bly to exercise its power of oversight
over the CPP government and hold it
accountable. It can also garner a bet-
ter understanding of how to run a
country and how to address the spe-
cific problems plaguing Cambodia.
Only by doing so can the CNRP truly
promote itself as a credible alterna-
tive to the CPP.
Comment
Lao Mong Hay
The CNRPs opportunity
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy greets supporters in Phnom Penh earlier this month. AFP
Lao Mong Hay is a political analyst.
W
HEN lm direc-
tor Steve Faigen-
baum grew up in
Detroit, the city
pulsated to the sound of Mo-
town and car manufacturing.
Today, the once mighty city
is a vision of urban decay.
With the highest violent crime
rate of any large US city, De-
troit has lost 63 per cent of its
population since 1950. At least
78,000 buildings are aban-
doned and there is enough
once-inhabited empty land to
t a city the size of Paris.
Its just hard to imagine
the scale of destruction, said
Faigenbaum, whose lm City
of Dreams about what he calls
Detroits slow motion catas-
trophe has just been released
in France. Almost anywhere
you go there are these houses
that are just falling apart. Big
houses, just totally left, just
abandoned, he said.
The grandson of Jewish im-
migrants from Eastern Europe,
Faigenbaum, 64, who now lives
in Paris, moved away from the
city in the late 1960s. Years later,
following his fathers death, he
found himself back, stunned
by the apocalyptic landscape.
Growing up there, there
was always this enormous
sense of possibility, that who-
ever or whatever you were
you could make something of
yourself and do something,
he said. Even as a student you
could get a summer job and
make a lot of money. There
were jobs, he continued.
The music blues and Mo-
town for which Detroit is
now famous was also a con-
stant presence. There was all
this amazing music. On every
street corner . . . and it kind
of expressed everything that
needed to be expressed.
Faigenbaums lm aims to
show how the choices people
make play out over 100 years.
In particular, he highlights
the Wild West capitalism of
Ford Motor Company owner
Henry Ford, whose Model T
the rst affordable car for the
masses revolutionised the
automobile industry.
In 1914, Henry Ford an-
nounced he would pay work-
ers $5 per day, double the go-
ing rate, and people ooded
into the city. By 1950 the popu-
lation stood at two million and
the city was the centre of the
US automotive industry.
But just as the automobile
helped make Detroit, it also
helped to destroy it.
At the same time as the car
comes along, theyre build-
ing more roads, Faigenbaum
said. The reality of the way it
played out was that it was the
escape route for all the white
folks who could get out.
Land was cheap and tension
between whites and blacks ac-
celerated the exodus of whites
towards newly built suburbs.
While making the lm,
Faigenbaum found himself
back at his grandparents house,
now derelict and daubed with
the letters RIP, indicating that
someone had been murdered
there. In the basement, he
found his long-dead grandfa-
thers old work bench.
Later he watched as the bull-
dozers moved in and reduced
the house to rubble.
Faigenbaum warns that De-
troits demise is a reminder
that even apparently thriving
cities are not immortal.
Today, despite all of its
woes, young people still
come to the city in search of
a cheap property.
Its hard to rain on any-
ones sense of optimism but
theres still such violence. All
these kids come here with the
dream . . . until their friends get
carjacked or someone is held
up at gunpoint, Faigenbaum
said. AFP
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Tycoon on the Titanic
6 Before the appearance of life
11 Kubricks computer
14 Ocean liner?
15 Columbus hometown
16 Immodesty cause
17 Feeding only on plants
19 Charlotte of Diffrent Strokes
20 Pop singer Vannelli
21 Crescent horns
23 Frasier co-star
27 Shames
29 Was a sign of
30 Blender setting
31 Toiled in the galley
32 Prefix for sonic
34 Positive message
37 Bros, e.g.
38 Rounded hill
39 Debated wedding-vow word
40 Siamese twin name
41 Green Teletubby
42 Proton part
43 Lacking companionship
45 Clinton secretary Betty
46 One of a horses limbs
48 Campus divisions
49 Tally
50 Cries from creative people
51 Tell whoppers
52 Subsequent part of this document
59 Fireball in the sky
60 One for the books, for one
61 Superman portrayer Christopher
62 Summer center?
63 Nary a person
64 Series shutout
DOWN
1 Cigar residue
2 That liner
3 Rocky ridge
4 Crystal ball, e.g.
5 Occupied the throne
6 Prolonged suffering
7 Terrible test score
8 Palindromic music figure
9 Chit relative
10 Tree belonging to the buckthorn
family
11 Some chocolate fixes
12 Noticeably awed
13 Windblown silt or clay
18 Strove for superiority
22 Put into action
23 Bullwinkle, for one
24 With full force
25 Things for green-thumbed chefs
26 George Washington bills
27 Fittingly
28 Folk singer Ives
32 Remove, as a clothespin
33 ___ Alamos, N.M.
35 Like The Twilight Zone music
36 Funny Wanda
38 Cows, old-style
39 Group pronoun
41 Florida footballer
42 Distant starlike objects
44 Bucharest currency
45 Genealogists study
46 Exam answer, sometimes
47 Hateful disgrace
48 Strike the hour
50 Quite a long time (Var.)
53 Capital of Shoguns
54 Christ the Redeemer city
55 Not too many
56 Golfing gadget
57 Eden occupant
58 Sales agt.
WHOS THAT LADY?
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Fimmaker charts Detroits
slow motion catastrophe
A le photo taken in 2005 shows abandoned homes in what was once a thriving middle-class area in Detroit. AFP
Lifestyle
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Man of Steel
Superman
#1 up for
sale on eBay
A
PURPORTEDLY pris-
tine copy of the first
Superman comic could
fetch millions of dollars when
it goes up, up and away in an
auction on eBay.
A copy of Action Comics
#1 in which the superhero
made his debut in 1938 will
be offered in an eBay auction
that opens on August 14 and
runs for 10 days.
This is an extraordinary
opportunity to acquire the
most valuable comic book in
existence and we look forward
to sharing a piece of pop
culture history with the global
eBay community, Gene Cook
of eBay marketplaces said.
The issue being put on the
Internet auction block by
collectibles dealer Darren
Adams was touted as the
Holy Grail of comic books
and one of as few as 50 un-
restored copies in existence.
Another copy of the same is-
sue with an equally high rating
from grading service Certified
Guaranty Company (CGC)
sold for more than $2 million
dollars three years ago. AFP
In brief
Love is in the air as old
tunes arrive in Bangkok
NOSTALGIC love will fill the air
in the main hall of Thailand
Cultural Centre in Bangkok on
August 7, as numerous love
songs of the 80s will be sung
by two legendary bands of
yesteryear. Pink Panther, led by
Vichai Punyayan, will share the
stage with The Hot Pepper
Singers in a concert held to
celebrate the launch of the 32
Years Of Pink Panther album.
The audience will be taken
down memory lane with 30
memorable love songs
performed in pop and Latin
styles. They include Pink
Panthers timeless hits such as
Rak Chan Nan Phue Thur, Roy
Thao Bon Phuen Sai, Nam Sor
Sai, Klap Ma Therd Thee Rak,
Koy Thur Khuen Ma and Rak
Mai Roo Dup. BANGKOKPOST
Weird Al Yankovic tops
charts with parody album
US COMEDIAN-SINGER Weird
Al Yankovic has scored a
career-first number one album
following a viral video campaign
parodying two of the biggest hits
of the past year. Yankovic, 54,
famed for his spoof 1984 version
of Michael Jacksons Beat It
Eat It finally found chart-
topping glory after coming up
with comic versions of Robin
Thickes Blurred Lines and
Pharrells Happy. Thickes
Blurred Lines has become
reimagined as Word Crimes a
lighthearted rallying cry against
poor grammar while Happy is
aped as Tacky, poking fun at
eccentric fashion tastes. Both
parodies were included on the
album Mandatory Fun which
has debuted at number one on
Billboards 200 chart. It is the
first comedy album to reach top
spot since 1963. AFP
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20
Q
UENTIN Nespoulous
is standing by Canal
Saint Martin, a once
run-down waterway
in Paris that has been cleaned
up and turned into a popular
haunt for young bohemians.
Only this 19-year-old is not
here for a hipster hangout or a
canalside bistro, but to sh.
Nespoulous is part of a new
wave of street shers taking
to the French capitals canals
as well as the Seine, where
pike, giant catsh and black
bass have returned in large
numbers to healthier waters.
Contrary to what you might
think, Paris is bursting with
sh, and big ones too, says
Nespoulous. The biggest sh
I caught, a catsh, was 1.90
metres long.
Instead of boots and at-
caps, the urban sherman
is more likely to be sporting
jeans and a T-shirt.
Fred Miessner said he began
teaching children the basics
of street shing a few years
ago. It was the children who
asked me, he says.
To join his free class, chil-
dren from age 7 need to know
how to swim and have a sh-
ing licence, and own a rod and
reel and a bag of lures.
In Paris, we dont sh to
eat, but to be in contact with
sh and with nature, says
Miessner, whose pupils must
return the sh to the water
after showing them off for the
cameras and smartphones.
Paul Germanon, 16, says he
comes to the canal to sh to
escape into his own bubble
by the water.
Im very highly strung, and
I nd that this sport, which
requires so much concen-
tration, calms me down,
he says.
The banks of the Seine were
once populated by shermen
scenes often captured by
late 19th-century artists like
Vincent Van Gogh and Georg-
es Seurat before industriali-
sation and the pollution that
came with it made shing a
less attractive proposition.
The Seine was nearly dead
by the early 1960s, when only
three of the 32 endemic sh
species could occasionally be
spotted in the river, according
to the UN World Water Assess-
ment Programme.
From 1991 to 2001, some
10 billion ($13.5 billion)
went into cleanup work in
the Seine River basin, the
WWAP says.
Celia Blauel, the deputy
mayor in charge of environ-
mental sustainability and
water, said: In the 70s, there
were ve types of sh in the
Seine, in the 90s, around 15.
Today, there are around 30.
Today, more than 6,500
people in the city and the in-
ner suburbs count themselves
among Frances 1.3 million
shing permit holders.
Tourists, too, are starting
to ask about the sport, with
queries oddly cropping up on
travel forums alongside the
more usual bid for advice on
good hotels or restaurants.
The city has responded
with an online map showing
the top shing spots along
both the Seine and the Canal
Saint Martin.
Like the locals, foreign
visitors will need a permit,
or carte de peche, to sh in
the city.
While the annual permit
costs around 90, the cards
cost just a few euros for a child,
or 10 a day for visitors. The
permit can be bought online
at the website cartedepeche.fr.
Back by the canal, Miessner
shows a young protege how to
make a knot to attach a plastic
sh lure to the end of his line.
With his kit in hand and
a bag across a shoulder,
Abel, who comes here ev-
ery Wednesday as part of an
urban shing club, has just
caught something.
I love catching sh, I start-
ed last year, and this in my
13th catch, he says, releas-
ing the sh back into the ca-
nal. AFP
Street fishing
is thriving in
Paris canals
A new wave of street shers is taking to the French capitals canals
as well as the Seine, where pike, giant catsh and black bass have
returned in large numbers. AFP
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E
NGLANDS Jodie Stimpson
clinched the opening gold of
the Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow yesterday on a
day when the multi-sport event was
hit by the withdrawal of athletics
legend Mo Farah.
Stimpson, a silver medal winner in
the World Triathlon Series in 2013,
sprinted clear with 400 metres re-
maining of the nal 10km run to win a
thrilling race that started with a 1.5km
swim in and a 40km cycle around
Strathclyde Loch. Canadas Kirsten
Sweetland claimed silver, with Eng-
lands Vicky Holland taking bronze in
warm, sunny conditions.
Action got underway also in the
pool where top home hope for a
gold medal, Michael Jamieson was
upstaged by countryman Ross Mur-
doch in qualifying for the 200 metres
breaststroke nal. Murdoch smashed
the Commonwealth Games record by
over two seconds in a time of 2mins
08.78secs with Jamieson and Calum
Tait completing an all-Scottish top
three in qualifying.
Watching the crowd go wild and I
just wanted that for myself and we did
it, so it is something that Ill remem-
ber for the rest of my life, said the 20-
year-old Murdoch.
Scotlands Hannah Miley also had
the home crowd in raptures in the
rst heat of the event by breaking her
own Commonwealth record in the
womens 400m individual medley in a
time of 4mins 38.27 secs.
Commonwealth Games record times
were tumbling all morning at the Toll-
cross International Swimming Centre
as Jamaicas Ali Atkinson went fastest
in the womens 50m breaststroke in a
Games record time of 30.49secs.
The immediacy of the action took
some of the sting out of Farahs with-
drawal, which rocked the Games just
as they got under way.
The 5,000 and 10,000 metres Olym-
pic champion, 31, was recently laid
low by illness and has decided to pull
out of the Games in order to work on
his tness ahead of next months Eu-
ropean Championships in Zurich.
I have taken the tough decision to
withdraw from the Commonwealth
Games, Farah said in a statement re-
leased by Team England.
I really wanted to add the Com-
monwealth titles to my Olympic and
World Championships, but the event
is coming a few weeks too soon for me
as my body is telling me its not ready
to race yet. Best wishes to my fellow
athletes in Glasgow.
In total, 21 golds were up for grabs
yesterday. As well as four in the pool,
there were four up for grabs on the
rst day of track cycling at the Sir
Chris Hoy Velodrome.
Bradley Wiggins was back on the
track for the rst time since 2008 and
aiming to win his rst ever Com-
monwealth gold in the 400m team
pursuit for England.
Six-time Commonwealth Games
medallist Anna Meares began her
record-setting quest with the 500m
time trial as the Australian bids to
become the rst competitor to win a
track cycling medal at four Common-
wealth Games.
New Zealand will be the team to
beat in the mens team sprint event.
The Kiwis riders, including Eddie
Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell, go into
the event as favourites after their tri-
umph in the world championships
in Colombia and will want to go one
better than the silver they claimed in
Dehli in 2010.
They will face competition from tra-
ditional powers Australia and England
that contains sprint king Jason Kenny.
The Brownlee brothers, Alistair
and Jonathan, are betting on an in-
tense sibling rivalry in their drive
for a top-of-the-podium nish in the
mens triathlon.
Alistair Brownlee will be out
searching to add Commonwealth
gold to his Olympic gold won in Lon-
don in 2012, with triumphs in the
World Triathlon Series in 2011 and
2013 sandwiching that victory.
Indian lifters are expected to be at
the forefront on the rst days action
in the weightlifting.
There are also ve titles to be decided
in judo and one in rhythmic gymnas-
tics while preliminaries begin in eld
hockey, lawn bowls, netball, squash,
table tennis and badminton. AFP
21 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Sport

NRL ups insurance for
severely injured players
PLAYERS in Australias
National Rugby League will be
eligible for payouts of up to
Aus$1 million dollars
(US$940,000) if they suffer
career-ending injuries under a
new insurance scheme, the
NRL said yesterday. The NRL,
its 16 clubs and the Rugby
League Players Association
have been working together on
the interim policy and the
proposal is before the
associations members for
review and approval. The
proposed scheme tops up the
existing insurance
arrangements to double the
payout for total and permanent
disability injuries from
Aus$500,000 to Aus$1 million.
The development comes after
Newcastle Knights forward
Alex McKinnon suffered a
severe spinal injury in a tackle
in a club game in March,
leaving him in a wheelchair. AFP
Cavaliers gain salary

room for any Love deal
A SALARY-DUMPING deal on
Tuesday by the Cleveland
Cavaliers could help the new
NBA team of superstar LeBron
James swing a deal with the
Minnesota Timberwolves for
star centre Kevin Love. The
Cavaliers obtained guard John
Lucas III and forwards Malcolm
Thomas and Erik Murphy from
Utah for second-year guard
Carrick Felix, a second-round
pick in next years NBA Draft
and $1 million. All three players
who went to Cleveland have
contracts that are not
guaranteed for next season,
meaning the Cavaliers would
have about $3.3 million toward
Loves $15.7 million salary
should they swing a deal for
him with Minnesota. The
Timberwolves are currently
looking at a deal involving other
players that could force the
Cavaliers to seek the aid of a
third club in order to make the
trade work. AFP
Mexico makes return

to F1 after 23 years
MEXICO will return to the
Formula One world
championship in 2015 after
being absent from the calendar
since 1992, the sports
ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone
confirmed on Wednesday. Im
happy to announce weve
concluded an agreement to
have a race in 2015, Ecclestone
told www.formula1.com. The
race will be run at the 4.421-
kilometre Mexico City circuit.
Mexico first hosted a race in
1963 but was last staged in 1992
when it was won by Nigel
Mansell in a Williams. AFP
Sri Lanka 305-5 at

stumps on day one
SRI Lanka were 305-5 at
stumps on the first day of the
series-deciding second and
final Test against South Africa
yesterday. Mahela Jayawardene
was batting on 140 with
Niroshan Dickwella on 12.
South Africa won the opening
game in Galle to go 1-0 up in
the series. AFP
Majka wins stage 17 of Tour de France
GIVEN the strength that Alber-
to Contadors lieutenants
Michael Rogers, Nicolas Roche
and Rafal Majka have shown
since the Tour de France
entered the Alps last Friday, it
is intriguing to speculate how
the duel between the Spaniard
and the Tour winner apparent,
Vincenzo Nibali, might have
panned out had Contador not
crashed out last Monday, not to
mention how Team Tinkoff-
Saxo would have fared had they
been able to field Roman
Kreuziger, the Czech who was
sidelined due to a biological
passport issue.
At the end of a hotly con-
tested second stage in the
Pyrenees, Majka took Tinkoff-
Saxos third mountain stage
win out of four enjoying the
support of Roche almost until
the death and forged a sub-
stantial lead in the polka-dot
mountains jersey standings
in the process. Considering
the state of utter depression
in their camp 10 days ago
after Contadors crash, it has
been quite some comeback
for all of them.
Majka, a 24-year-old Pole,
began the stage with his eyes
on reinforcing his advantage of
a single point over Joaquim
Rodriguez in the mountains
jersey but caught and dislodged
the Italian Giovanni Visconti a
double stage winner in last
years Giro dItalia in the final
five kilometres for his second
stage win of the race. His
moment of triumph was only
slightly marred by a 50 Swiss
franc ($55) fine and 10sec time
penalty for momentarily grab-
bing hold of the antenna on a
television motorbike at the foot
of the climb to the finish.
Romain Bardet and Thibaut
Pinot are attracting all the
attention from the French
media, but if Majkas second
place to Nibali last Friday at
Chamrousse and his win on
Stage 14 on Saturday are also
taken into account as well as
his sixth and seventh places in
the last two Giro dItalia he is
at least as hot a prospect for
the future.
Majka said afterwards that
his team director, Bjarne Riis,
had drummed into him that he
needed to save his strength and
aim for the stage win to take full
advantage of the double points
on offer at the finish; he fol-
lowed that to the letter. He and
Rodriguez formed part of a
group on the first climb, the Col
de Portillon, but at the summit
was Roche, standing in for
Majka to sprint with Rodriguez,
as the Pole saved his strength.
The Spaniard crossed the
next two summits, the Cols de
Peyresourde and Val Louron,
ahead of Majka, to regain the
lead, albeit only provisionally
as the contest was settled on
Pla dAdet when Majka dis-
posed of the Spaniard early on
before overhauling Visconti.
The Poles stage victory gave
him maximum points at the
top of the climb and his
37-point lead over Rodriguez
could be decisive.
The final kilometres wit-
nessed another show of
strength from Nibali, who per-
mitted Bardet and Pinot to
engage in a personal battle on
the lower slopes of the climb to
the finish before making a
series of incisive attacks to dis-
pose of almost all of his rivals.
The Italian confirmed that he
has not yet been taken to his
limit and has been able to save
his strength on every stage for
the following day. He was stat-
ing the obvious when he con-
ceded he would have had a far
harder ride had Chris Froome
and Contador remained in the
race. THE GUARDIAN
Triathlete Stimpson wins first
gold of Games, Farah pulls out
Englands Jodie Stimpson celebrates as she crosses the nish line to win the gold medal in the Womens Triathlon at the 2014
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow; Stimpson (left) and Englands bronze medalist Vicky Holland pose with their medals. AFP

Fury to fight Ustinov
after Chisora injury
TYSON Fury will fight Alexander
Ustinov in Manchester on
Saturday after the Belarusian
stepped in as a late replacement
for the injured Derek Chisora.
Ustinov has been drafted in to
face Fury in his home town after
Chisora fractured his left hand
in training. The 37-year-old has
won 21 of his 30 fights by
knockout and has lost just once
against Kubrat Pulev, the
Bulgarian who will challenge
the heavyweight champion
Wladimir Klitschko on
September 6 in Hamburg. Fury
faces a misconduct charge for
swearing at Chisora and
journalists in a pre-fight press
conference before the fight was
called off. THEGUARDIAN
Expect biting words as

Tyson praises Holyfield
MIKE Tyson will serve as the
presenter for fellow former
world heavyweight boxing
champion Evander Holyfield at
next months Nevada Boxing
Hall of Fame induction
ceremonies, Hall officials
announced on Tuesday. Tyson
infamously bit a chunk out of
Holyfields right ear in their
1997 showdown at Las Vegas,.
Now Tyson will praise
Holyfields career
achievements in a speech
during an August 9 gathering
that will see 18 inductees onto
the honour list. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Boxing
Ali ties open doors for King in Egypt
E
VERYWHERE Don
King has gone in Cai-
ro this week he has
caused a stir. When
we pulled up at the Pyramids
on Wednesday, locals peered
in the window of our mini-bus
and started shouting Its Mu-
hammad Ali!
Maybe King would take that
as a compliment, even if Ali,
struggling with Parkinsons
disease since 1984, does not
stir far from his easy-chair
these days. Because, as large a
presence as King has been and
would love to be again, Ali was
once the most famous athlete
in the world.
He was probably, for a time,
the most famous person in the
world more famous, even,
than the Beatles, whom John
Lennon reckoned were more
famous than Jesus Christ.
At his height, Ali happily
stood alongside King, and
their grins and chutzpah lit
up the 60s and 70s. They did
not part on the best of terms
near the end of his career, but
they have been reconciled
a good few years now, old
bruises healed, bad memo-
ries forgotten.
Those were crazy days and
a little of that madness re-
turned to the Egyptian capital
this week as King began what,
to anyone else, would be an
improbable quest: to bring a
world heavyweight title ght
to a country mired in nan-
cial distress, social unrest and
parked next to Israel.
If they did not know King
when he walked down the
street, there was little doubt
they would not forget him.
At the Pyramids, he chatted
for ages with the young ur-
chins trying to sell their tat,
bargaining with them before
settling on an agreed sum. He
probably drove harder bar-
gains with the casino bosses
of Las Vegas, but even some
of those lucrative deals can-
not have made him smile as
much. He was in his element,
talking to young hustlers try-
ing to survive.
King has another champion
now, the 35-year-old Haitian
Bermane Stiverne, and he
wants him to defend his World
Boxing Council title against
the fearsome Deontay Wilder
in November in the shadows
of the Pyramids (or maybe in
the more atmospheric setting
of Luxor), rounding out a pro-
motional trilogy separated by
40 years: the Rumble in the
Jungle, the 1975 Thrilla in Ma-
nila and, if he pulls it off, King
of the Nile.
A more signicant anniver-
sary marks Kings visit, how-
ever, one with deep cultural
and religious connotations.
It is 50 years since Ali visited
Egypt, shortly after he took
the world heavyweight title
from Sonny Liston, then an-
nounced he was a Muslim.
Overnight, the new champi-
on became a villain in his own
land but not beyond those
gilded shores. There are pic-
tures of Ali visiting Cairos Al-
Hussein mosque in June 1964,
praying with local devotees (of
the original Muhammad), and
he pronounced more loudly
about his faith than he did
about his boxing.
In 1975, a year after regain-
ing the title for the third time
with that Rumble against
George Foreman, Ali told Play-
boy magazine: You can go
to Japan, China, all the Euro-
pean, African, Arab, and South
American countries and, man,
they know me. I cant name
a country where they dont
know me. If another ghters
goin to be that big, hes goin
to have to be a Muslim, or
else he wont get to nations
like Indonesia, Lebanon, Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria,
Egypt, and Turkey those are
all countries that dont usually
follow boxing. He might even
have to be named Muham-
mad because Muhammad is
the most common name in
the world.
Don King is not a Muslim,
but he knows how to be a good
guest. All week, he has chant-
ed, Ana Masry! Ana Masry! (I
am an Egyptian), and Im sure
his audience were half way to
believing him.
He hopes to meet with pres-
ident Sisi before he returns
to the US next Wednesday. It
was asked if he would use his
people skills for something
far more important than this
ght: the release of three Al
Jazeera journalists jailed for
from seven to 10 years for al-
legedly inciting unrest. Ill do
my best, he said. Ill do my
best. Im getting a good vibe
from them.
Part of the sell? Maybe. But,
if King pulled off that long
shot, it would be his greatest
victory. THE GUARDIAN
Bermane Stiverne and promoter Don King pose for photgraphs after
Stiverne defeated Chris Arreola in Los Angeles on May 10. AFP
23
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014

Singapore match-fixer
jailed for three years
A SINGAPOREAN businessman
was jailed for three years
yesterday for providing
prostitutes to three Lebanese
football referees in a match-
fixing attempt that has put the
spotlight on the city-states role
in global sports corruption.
Nightclub owner Eric Ding Si
Yang, 32, was refused bail while
he appeals the ruling, and state
prosecutors said they would file
a motion before a higher court
to demand a harsher
punishment. Ding was found
guilty on July 1 of corruption for
bribing referee Ali Sabbagh, 35
and assistant referees Ali Eid,
34, and Abdallah Taleb, 38,
before a match last year in
Singapore. AFP
Barcelona buy defender

Mathieu for 20 million
SPANISH giants Barcelona
said Wednesday they have
bought 30-year-old French
defender Jeremy Mathieu from
Valencia for 20 million ($27
million).Barcelona have been
seeking to bolster their
defence since Carlos Puyol
ended his career. Though he is
not an established French
international, Mathieu is
recognised as a powerful oper-
ator at left back and in central
defence. The Catalan club had
made several offers to Valencia
for Mathieu who last week
issued a public letter calling on
the side to negotiate his
release. Barcelona said it had
reached agreement on a
transfer and Mathieu would sign
a four-season contract. AFP
Pro-Palestinian fans
attack Israeli players
A PRE-SEASON friendly
between Maccabi Haifa and
French side Lille had to be
abandoned yesterday when a
group of pro-Palestinian
supporters invaded the pitch
and attacked some of the
Israeli players. Lille said on its
Twitter feed that the referee
called a halt to the game after a
group of youths, waving
Palestinian flags and placards,
ran onto the pitch at the
Austrian venue with just three
minutes of the game left. After
a series of brief scuffles, the
protesters were led away by
security officers and the game
called off with the French side
2-0 ahead at the time. AFP
Spain follow Italys lead

and introduce WC spray
SPANISH football authorities
have approved the use of the
World Cup spray for its La Liga
first and second divisions from
the forthcoming season
onwards. The spray, which
proved a success at World Cup
2014 in Brazil during the
summer, is used to mark the
distance between the ball and
the defensive wall, making it
harder for the defending side
to encroach. Spain is the
second country in Europe to
adopt the use of this spray
after the Italian federation
gave its approval, and it is
thought that France and
Germany will approve its use
before the start of the new
season. The English Premier
League has kept its distance,
however, stating it plans to
monitor the sprays suitability
but it is unlikely to be
introduced before the new
season. THE GUARDIAN
No fear of the unknown in MCL season nale
H S Manjunath
THE curtain is to come down
this weekend on the 2014 Met-
fone C League season with
very little competitive fervour
left, and the final card of six
games is of no more than aca-
demic interest.
Having sealed the Champi-
onship deal a fortnight ago
with two games in hand,
Phnom Penh Crown are
required to merely go through
the formality of passing the
winning post before popping
the champagne corks to cele-
brate their fifth title triumph.
Crown are four points ahead
of Boeung Ket Rubber Field,
who are a long way clear of the
rest, and the two meet under
the blazing lights at the Olym-
pic Stadium on Sunday in what
can only be expected to be a
mut ed f i nal e where
the outcome bothers neither
of them.
At the end of this contest,
Crown would have regained
their league supremacy they
last enjoyed in 2011 and Boe-
ung Ket, who won the title on
debut in 2012, will have to rest
content with the runners-up
berth for the second year in a
row after Svay Rieng dethroned
them last year.
Crowns eight-game winning
run in the second half of the
season was brought to an end
last week by Svay Rieng and
that first defeat in 16 games
ought to harden the sides
resolve to end their campaign
on a positive note.
Interestingly, Crowns first
reversal came at the hands of
Boeung Ket, who have every
reason to seek an encore as
some form of recompense for
losing out on the title fight.
Two-time champions Naga,
who have had a disappointing
second half of the seasobn are
well placed to grab the remu-
nerative third spot behind
Crown and Boeung Ket. The
2009 Champions and last
years Hun Sen Cup winners
play bottom of the table Albi-
rex Niigata. and unless the
form book goes upside down,
Naga should be home with all
three points.
The pick of Saturdays action
at the Olympic Stadium is the
clash between Ministry of
National Defence and Svay
Rieng, for who it will be their
last 90 minutes as the reining
champions.
A victory over the unpredict-
able Armymen will keep Svay
Rieng in the hunt for third
place but then they have to
fervently hope for a Naga
stumble against relegation
certainty Albirex the next day.
There is not much at stake in
the clash between Build Bright
United and Western Univer-
sity. Away at the Old Stadium
on Saturday, Kirivong Sok Sen
Chey will play their last game
as a Premier League team Asia
Europe University. The visitors
from Taeko have never had
such a miserable campaign as
this, exiting the MCL along
with Albirex Niigata.
In a clash between mid-ta-
ble teams, National Police take
on TriAsia.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
SATURDAY
Old Stadium: AEU v Kirivong
Sok Sen Chey (1.30pm);
National Police v TriAsia
(3.30pm)
Olympic Stadium: MND v Svay
Rieng (3.45pm);
BBU v Western University (6pm)
SUNDAY
Olympic Stadium: Albirex Nii-
gata vs Naga (3.30pm);
Phnom Penh Crown vs Boeung
Ket Rubber (6pm)
Tottenham Hotspur sign Davies and Vorm
MICHEL Vorms move from Swansea
City to Tottenham Hotspur in a deal
worth 4.5 million has been confirmed
and the goalkeeper is convinced he will
enjoy sufficient game time, despite the
competition from Hugo Lloris, the
France No 1.
Mauricio Pochettino, the new Totten-
ham manager, has also completed the
signing of Ben Davies from Swansea
the left-back has linked up with the club
on their tour of north America with
Gylfi Sigurdsson moving in the opposite
direction in a 10 million swap deal.
The Iceland midfielder enjoyed a pro-
ductive spell at Swansea in 2012, when
he was on loan from Hoffenheim.
Vorms move has been greeted with
surprise as Lloris is firmly established
as the first choice at Tottenham. Unless
Lloris is injured, there is very little
chance that Vorm will displace him in
the Premier League.
But Vorm, who was Hollands third-
choice goalkeeper at the World Cup
finals, knows that he stands to enjoy
opportunity this season in the Europa
League and the Capital One Cup.
Moreover, his purchase could prove
particularly shrewd for Tottenham in
the longer term, given that Lloris
remains a target for some of Europes
biggest clubs.
Lloris signed a new five-year contract
at White Hart Lane this month but
long-term deals have not always guar-
anteed that Tottenham have been able
to keep their best players. Luka Modric
agreed a six-year extension in 2010 and
was a Real Madrid player after two,
while Gareth Bale signed for four extra
years in 2012 and moved to Real the
following summer.
Every club has two top goalkeepers
in their squad, Vorm said. It suits the
clubs philosophy that there are two of
us, with Hugo and myself, especially
when we see that Tottenham is active
in a lot of competitions. I was on holi-
day [after the World Cup] and I was
literally plucked from the beach. In my
eyes, Tottenham is a really big club.
Sigurdsson told Sky Sports News:
The main aim for the club is obvi-
ously to stay in the Premier League but
we want to push on even further and
get the club back into the Europa
League like they were last season.
Hopefully we can finish in the top half
of the table. THE GUARDIAN
United crush Galaxy in Van Gaal debut
L
OUIS van Gaals
hailed a fantastic
performance after
his reign as manager
of Manchester United got off
to a rousing start on Wednes-
day with a 7-0 friendly victory
over Major League Soccers
Los Angeles Galaxy.
It is unclear, however, if the
emphatic victory has eased
Van Gaals worries regard-
ing the clubs pre-season ac-
tivities after he questioned
whether Manchester United
are too big a club for their
own good, outlining con-
cerns that commercial de-
mands could hamper the
teams success.
United chief executive Ed
Woodward will seek a com-
promise with the manager
over lucrative overseas tours.
Van Gaals complaints come
despite this tour being a
maximum 13,471-mile round
trip, if United reach the nal
in Miami on August 4. Last
summer, when United toured
Australasia, the club made a
24,000-mile round trip and
in 2012 they covered 22,000
miles when visiting Durban,
Cape Town, Shanghai, Oslo
and Gothenburg.
Such concerns were not
evedent at the Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, as England striker
Wayne Rooney scored twice
in the rst half, while 20-year-
old Reece James and Ash-
ley Young also contributed
two goals apiece and Danny
Welbeck scored to make van
Gaals rst match at the helm
a resounding triumph.
Its fantastic how they
played today, said Van Gaal,
who was tapped two months
ago to replace the sacked Da-
vid Moyes at the English Pre-
mier League club, but took
the reins only after guiding
the Netherlands to a third-
place nish at the World Cup.
After Welbeck opened the
scoring in the 13th min-
ute with a 25-yard strike
that crashed in off the post,
Rooney doubled the score
when he converted a penalty
in the 42nd minute after Gal-
axy midelder AJ Delagarza
handled a cross from Antonio
Valencia.
Three minutes later, Los An-
geles defender Tommy Meyer
failed to intercept Welbecks
cross, giving Rooney another
chance to beat Jaime Penedo
and he tapped home his sec-
ond of the night.
With a 3-0 lead over a Galaxy
team currently lying fourth in
Major League Soccers West-
ern Conference, Van Gaal
made nine changes to his side
at half-time.
The only two starters to
remain in the game were re-
cent signing Ander Herrera
and Darren Fletcher, who was
given the captains armband
as van Gaal ponders who will
be take that role full-time af-
ter the departure of Nemanja
Vidic for Inter Milan.
James made it 4-0 in the
62nd minute, seizing on a
cross from Young and ring
home. He added a second goal
in the 84th, putting away the
rebound of a shot by Young.
When you see us train,
you can expect something,
but not 7-0, Van Gaal said.
That was, for me, a surprise.
And they were also beautiful
goals. We scored out of beau-
tiful attacks.
The 62-year-old Dutch-
man is tasked with restoring
United to their position as the
Premier Leagues preeminent
force after they endured a
miserable campaign last sea-
son that saw them nish sev-
enth and fail to qualify for the
Champions League.
Van Gaal was particularly
pleased at a result that will
give his players condence
in the new system he is insti-
tuting, which he believes will
let him make better use of his
depth of striker talent.
I think always the results
do matter, he said. When I
am introducing a new system
then every good result helps
. . . it helps build condence
in the new system.
While Van Gaal expressed
doubts that a North American
tour of more than two weeks
is the best way to prepare for
the upcoming season, there
was no question that Califor-
nia fans were thrilled to get
a chance to see Manchester
United in action.
The picturesque Rose Bowl
stadium, site of the 1994 World
Cup nal, drew a crowd of
86,432 and was awash in red.
United now move on to the
International Champions
Cup, a collection of pre-sea-
son matches featuring eight
European clubs all preparing
for the start of their domestic
campaigns.
Manchester United will
play AS Roma on Saturday
in Denver, meet Inter Milan
on July 29 in Washington and
face Real Madrid on August 2
in suburban Detroit, where a
sold-out Michigan Stadium
crowd will number some
110,000 projected to be the
largest US crowd ever for the
sport. AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Manchester United players celebrate with Reece James (centre) after
he scored in Uniteds 7-0 thrashing of LA Galaxy on Wednesday. AFP
Boeung Kets Khoun Labravy takes a shot at goal as Crown keeper Sou
Yaty closes him down at Olympic Stadium. Boeung Ket won the last
encounter between the two clubs 3-1 on February 22. SRENG MENG SRUN
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 25, 2014
Sport
Calls to strip Russia of World Cup
GERMAN politicians demanded on
Wednesday that Russia be stripped of the
right to host the 2018 World Cup for fuel-
ling the Ukraine conflict, although football
officials quickly rejected the idea.
Amid outrage over the downing of a
Malaysian jet in Ukraine with a suspected
missile, lawmakers and commentators in
Germany, as well as Britain and Sweden,
suggested that another country host the
global sporting event.
Peter Beuth, interior minister of Ger-
manys central Hesse state, said that if
President Vladimir Putin does not get
actively involved in the investigation of
the plane crash, then a 2018 World Cup is
unimaginable in Russia.
Beuth, who heads Germanys confer-
ence of state sports ministers, called on
footballs world governing body FIFA to
review the choice of host nation.
Senior conservative lawmaker Michael
Fuchs said that Germany, along with
France and Italy, could easily host the
championship instead.
We have enough stadiums that are
World Cup ready, he said, stressing that
such a boycott would hurt Russia more
than economic sanctions.
Another conservative parliamentarian,
Stephan Mayer, said that if Putin does
not relent and keeps fuelling the crisis, it
must no longer be a taboo idea to take
away from Russia the World Cup.
However, Theo Zwanziger, a FIFA exec-
utive committee member and former
president of German football body DFB,
rejected the idea. Calls for a FIFA inter-
vention always come very quickly. Sports
boycotts have rarely achieved anything,
and thats why I think nothing of such a
proposal, he told Handelsblatt Online.
The World Cup has been awarded to
Russia, contracts have been signed and
rights have been awarded.
A German government spokesman also
dismissed the issue, saying the Cup is
still four years away. I think we have more
pressing problems.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands 193 of
whose citizens died in the MH17 crash
the national football federation said that
during these black days it was too early
to discuss the issue or a possible boycott.
We realise that a future World Cup in
Russia will be very emotive for all football
lovers and relatives of the dead in the Neth-
erlands, a federation statement read.
In Britain, Conservative MP Tracey
Crouch, a member of the culture, media
and sport select committee, said: Russia
ought to be stripped now . . . Football could
be used to put pressure on President Putin
to change some of his practices.
Football Association chairman Greg
Dyke told a parliament hearing on Tuesday
that I dont think that you can make a
decision based on one weeks events with-
out looking at the longer term.
In Sweden, Per Kaageson of Stockholms
Royal Institute of Technology, argued in
the Svenska Dagbladet daily that for Rus-
sia and for Putin personally, the loss of the
World Cup would be a big defeat.
Not only Ukraine but also the Nether-
lands, Malaysia and Australia can be
expected to have mixed feelings regarding
a tournament in Russia. AFP
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin chat during
the 2014 World Cup nal in Rio de Janeiro. AFP
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton crashes into a wall during qualifying at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim on July 19. AFP
Lewis aiming to bounce back
L
ESS than a week af-
ter his back-to-front
charge through the
eld at the German
Grand Prix, Lewis Ham-
ilton will be hoping for a
more straightforward task in
this weekends Hungarian
Grand Prix.
Despite nishing third after
starting from 20th on the grid,
the 29-year-old Briton was
still disappointed to allow his
Mercedes team-mate Nico
Rosberg complete a perfect
week by winning on home
soil and extending his lead to
14 points in the title race.
Hamilton has four pole
positions and four victories
so far at the slow and chal-
lenging Hungaroring, but a
high-speed brakes failure in
qualifying undid his best ef-
forts at Hockenheim.
Bruises and soreness not-
withstanding, he will hope
to return to his best at one
of his favourite venues for
what promises to be an in-
triguing contest in very hot
conditions.
For the Mercedes team,
Hamilton will not be the
only one nursing injuries
on arrival. Both team chief
Toto Wolff and technical boss
Paddy Lowe were involved in
a cycle crash during a team
outing in Austria on Tuesday,
with Wolff suffering signi-
cant injuries.
Commercial boss Wolff was
admitted to hospital over-
night for treatment to a bro-
ken wrist, elbow, shoulder
and collarbone, but insisted
he will be in Hungary this
weekend for the 11th race of
the 19-race season.
Mercedes should dominate
again, Rosberg and Hamilton
having won nine of this years
races to sit rst and second in
the drivers championship.
In the constructors title
race, they have 366 points al-
ready nearly twice as many
as their nearest rivals.
As Mercedes bid to stay
ahead, the revitalised Wil-
liams team will arrive in Hun-
gary after the 800km trip from
Hockenheim with a major up-
date package in the hope that
they can hunt down Red Bull
for second place in the teams
title race.
Three consecutive podium
positions enabled them to
overhaul Ferrari last weekend
and they are now seeking to
cut Red Bulls 67-points ad-
vantage over them and add
consistency to the clear speed
they have demonstrated.
Williams performance boss
Rob Smedley said the teams
upgrade was designed to help
them at the high-downforce
Hungaroring circuit.
We identied what sort
of improvement we would
need to make to keep it com-
petitive in Budapest, he said.
Now we have met all the de-
velopment targets that we are
going to get on the car.
It will improve the car and
will be very specic for Buda-
pest, so I believe that we will
go there and be able to main-
tain a decent pace.
While Williams and particu-
larly their rising Finnish star
Valtteri Bottas are in buoyant
mood, Ferrari head towards
Hungary and the now-tradi-
tional August break in reec-
tive, if not sombre, mood as
they continue to struggle to
nd a way to end their poor
form this year.
Two-time champion Fer-
nando Alonso indicated he
was less than impressed by a
demonstration of the teams
future plans when he went to
the Maranello base before the
German race.
Mercedes showed us this
year that some teams in this
new era of Formula One can
be dominant, said the Span-
iard. We didnt make a good
enough job with these new
rules and there is a lot of room
to improve its not like other
years where everything was
more or less at the limit.
The step between 2014 and
2015 cars will be a lot bigger
than what we saw in the past,
so thats the hope we have and
I think everyone will have the
same, because everyone has
very good prospects for the
future in July. AFP