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Stuart White and Cheang Sokha
A
FTER almost three years of
hearings, the Khmer Rouge
tribunal yesterday found
senior Democratic Kam-
puchea leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu
Samphan guilty of crimes against
humanity, sentencing them both to life
imprisonment.
The crimes encompassing charges
of murder, extermination, political per-
secution, forced transfers and other
inhumane acts were committed in
the course of two rounds of forced
population movements, as well as dur-
ing the execution of hundreds of offi-
cials from the toppled Lon Nol regime
at a site called Tuol Po Chrey.
Of the evacuation of Phnom Penh
the first phase of forced transfers the
trial chamber found that two million
people were forced out of the city
under terrifying and violent circum-
stances, and rejected any suggestion
that it was necessary or proportionate
in the circumstances to empty virtu-
ally the entire city.
On the second phase of forced trans-
fers, which began months later, the
chamber found that the conditions of
the transfers were deplorable and that
those marked for transfer were fright-
ened and lived in a state of terror,
unwilling or unable to disobey or ques-
tion orders.
Given the catastrophic humanitar-
ian situation that many of those trans-
ferred were facing, even the decisions
of those who agreed to be transferred
cannot be seen as a legitimate exercise
of choice.
Tuol Po Chrey, the judges found, was
the continuation of a policy to eradi-
cate the remnants of the Lon Nol
regime. Its victims were no longer
taking active part in hostilities, were
targeted in accordance with [Com-
munist Party of Kampuchea] policy
and were later either buried at Tuol Po
Chrey or bulldozed into a pond.
Both of the accused were found to
have been responsible for the crimes
through their participation in a joint
criminal enterprise (JCE), the common
goal of which was to implement a
rapid socialist revolution through a
great leap forward by any means nec-
essary, including criminal measures.
Chea was additionally found to have
superior responsibility for the events
of Tuol Po Chrey by virtue of his posi-
tion as the acting superior of the cadres
who carried out the killings there. Sam-
phan, whom the court acknowledged
held little real power, was not.
Speaking after the announcement of
the convictions, the prosecution
applauded the verdict, with national
lead co-prosecutor Chea Leang calling
life imprisonment the only appropri-
ate sentences the chamber could have
handed down.
It will not give back the lives of those
executed or those who died of exhaus-
tion, or lack of food, or water, or medical
assistance. It wont rebuild families, she
said. Yet I believe it will give some jus-
tice, reinstate some public respect to
those victims, dead and alive, that has
been denied to them for so long.
The defence teams, however, were not
so sanguine. Chea defender Victor
Koppe said that his client, despite being
disappointed with the verdict, was
not surprised at all.
He didnt have any faith and con-
fidence in this trial chamber, and he
got confirmed in that suspicion,
Koppe said.
In addition to appealing, Koppe said
that his teams highest priority would
be filing a motion calling for the rec-
usal of the current trial chamber judges,
saying that yesterdays ruling showed
they had lost their impartiality and
independence.
Already, in the way the summary was
formulated, there seems to be a very
strong bias against our client, he said.
The Khieu Samphan defence also
promised to appeal, maintaining that
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I believe it will give some justice,
reinstate some public respect to
those victims, dead and alive, that
has been denied to them for so long
Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu
Samphan (left) and one-time Khmer Rouge
Brother No 2 Nuon Chea (right) in the ECCC
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Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
T
HE names of lawmak-
ers selected to head
ve new opposition-
led commissions in
the National Assembly have
been ofcially announced
to Cambodia National Res-
cue Party members, a senior
party ofcial told the Post
yesterday.
According to the CNRP of-
cial, who asked to remain
anonymous, of the ve com-
missions, Mu Sochua will
head Social Affairs and Health;
Yim Sovann, Anti-Corruption;
Eang Chhay Yun, Human
Rights; Pol Ham, Rural De-
velopment and Environment;
and Yem Ponnarith, Religion.
The party has already an-
nounced it ofcially within
the party, but its not public
yet, the source said.
Party leader Sam Rainsy re-
fused to conrm or deny the
names, adding that doing so
would be a little premature.
In a closed-door ceremony
of the Cambodian Red Cross
yesterday, Prime Minister
Hun Sen said that plans for
the CNRP to take its seats in
the National Assembly today
would have to be postponed
if the parties could not agree
on the agenda of the session,
which is scheduled to debate
the amendment of the inter-
nal regulation of parliament.
His Excellency Kem Sokha
has asked me to vote as a
package in the meeting for
both deputy president of par-
liament and heads of com-
missions. I said that it is im-
possible, Hun Sen said.
[Sokha] is worried that he
will not be elected [as deputy
president]. I told him that I
guarantee to encourage [CPP]
lawmakers to vote for [him]
and not to worry.
Rainsy and Sovann told the
Post that the CNRP lawmak-
ers would be in attendance.
Yesterday, three CNRP
members jailed over their al-
leged involvement in a violent
protest last month were de-
nied bail.
In a letter made public and
signed by deputy prosecutor
Keo Socheat, investigating
judge Keo Mony and court
clerk Tob Phanarin, one of
the three, Kheun Chumre-
oun, was denied bail on the
basis that it would affect the
courts investigation.
In a joint statement, more
than 20 civil society groups
condemned the decision and
called for the trumped up
charges to be dropped.
The court should abide
by the law instead of the po-
litical agenda and release the
three youth leaders as well as
dropping charges against all
accused CNRP members,
Yeng Virak, executive direc-
tor of the Community Legal
Education Center, said in the
statement.
Speaking yesterday evening,
Rainsy said the party had just
put forward a request for the
government to intervene in
their favour.
This would reect the
agreement of July 22. The
agreement includes those in
prison the agreement spec-
ies that the detainees must
be released. So we have just
reminded the ruling party of
their commitments.
Opposition
commission
heads leaked
Back to parliament for ex-PM
Meas Sokchea

WHEN the opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue Partys
55 lawmakers take their seats
in parliament for the rst time
since last years disputed elec-
tion, old foes will come face-to-
face once more.
In the case of former prime
minister Pen Sovann, now a
CNRP lawmaker for Kampong
Speu province, a bitter rivalry
with Prime Minister Hun Sen
will once again be confronted.
I am excited . . . What I lost, I
will have it again, he said.
Sovann was prime minister
of the Hanoi-backed People's
Republic of Kampuchea from
June to December 1981, before
he was arrested and jailed in
1981 after oating the idea that
Cambodia create a military in-
dependent from Vietnam. He
also served as secretary-general
of Kampuchean People's Revo-
lutionary Party, a forerunner of
the current ruling Cambodian
People's Party, before his arrest.
He spent more than 10 years
in a Vietnamese prison for fall-
ing afoul of Le Duc Tho, then
Vietnam's chief adviser to the
Kampuchean United Front for
National Salvation, which So-
vann helped found in 1978.
He was replaced by current
National Assembly President
Heng Samrin.
Those who arrested me and
sent me to jail, I will meet them
again. But I will not seek to take
revenge, he said.
Returning to public life af-
ter nearly three decades in the
shadows, the 78-year-old po-
litical veteran says he is looking
forward to sparring with former
colleagues in the CPP.
When I rejoin the National
Assembly, those [former col-
leagues] will know about me.
I know that they will give me
respect. Before, they misunder-
stood my ideas and they arrest-
ed me, he said. I expect that
my former colleagues will see
me and shake hands with me
and strike up a conversation.
Since his release from prison
in 1992, Sovann's political ca-
reer failed to take off until now.
In 1998, he formed the National
Support Party, before briey ally-
ing with current CNRP president
Sam Rainsy. The party failed to
win popular support and, in
2007, the former bodyguard to
senior Khmer Rouge leader Ta
Mok joined the Human Rights
Party headed by CNRP deputy
president Kem Sokha.
He stuck with the HRP until it
joined with the Sam Rainsy Par-
ty in 2012 to form the CNRP, go-
ing on to win an unprecedented
55 seats in last years election.
I have struggled for the Cam-
bodian nation. My goals are still
the same, he said. "I am happy
to meet with former colleagues,
but I don't believe Cambodia
should be subordinate to for-
eign powers as they do.
Former prime minister turned opposition lawmaker Pen Sovann attends a meeting afliated with the Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party in Phnom Penh in 2012. VIREAK MAI
The party has
already announced
it officially . . . but its
not public yet
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Sentence slashed in rape case
Unions in push for park rally
Flooding claims six more,
while fears grow for ofcer
Kim Sarom
A CHINESE national convicted of raping a
17-year-old girl in Phnom Penhs Meanchey
district in 2012 has had his sentenced reduced
dramatically by the Court of Appeal.
Yu Chintong was sentenced to seven years in
prison for raping the girl at her house in
Meanchey districts Prek Thmey commune on
December 15, 2012. He immediately fled to
China, and was later arrested by police on his
return to Cambodia.
Pol Samoeurn, presiding judge at the Appeal
Court, said yesterday that the defendants sen-
tence had been reduced to five years, of which
he has already served 18 months.
The rest of his sentence has been suspended,
he added.
The answers of the victim and witnesses are
not clear enough, so the court will change the
charge from rape to attempted rape, he said.
But Chea Nara, the victims attorney, said he
would challenge the ruling.
The sentence reduction has let him off the
hook, and the suspect will be able to get out in
a few months, he said.
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
AS THE razor-wire came down
from Freedom Park on Wednes-
day, a group of unions quickly
filed a request to be the first peo-
ple to hold a demonstration
inside the park since it was put
into lockdown in early January.
The letter, obtained by the
Post yesterday, calls on Phnom
Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong
to allow six unions to hold the
rally on International Youth Day
on Tuesday.
Sar Mora, president of the
Cambodian Food and Service
Workers Federation, said that
the demonstration would call
for higher salaries, improved
working conditions, a better
quality of education and voca-
tional training for the King-
doms youths.
After Freedom Park, we plan
to march to the Ministry of
Labour, the Ministry of Educa-
tion and the National Assembly,
he said. We hope there will be
no problem as there is no more
tension with political issues.
Heng Choeun, president of
the Farmer Association for
Peace and Development, said
he expected about 600 young
workers and students to join
the gathering.
I hope 100 per cent that we
can use Freedom Park for the
first time since it reopened as
planned and that we will not
have police or authorities stop-
ping us like they have in the
past, he said.
The park has been off limits
since the fatal violence and
mass demonstrations of early
January. Security forces broke
up an opposition gathering at
the park on January 4, violent-
ly ending consecutive days of
demonstrating.
Officials had previously said
its reopening was dependent
on the closure of government
investigations into the events,
but as it opened on Wednesday,
the results remained elusive.
Choeun said that if permis-
sion is not granted, the group
would hold the demonstration
in a separate location near
Freedom Park.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche told the Post that
officials will meet with the union
representatives today to discuss
their request.
But, he said, if the request is
approved, the usual security
apparatus will be out in force.
If people express their free-
dom of speech or do something
over there through the law, we
will spread the armed forces or
authorities to protect them and
ease the traffic as we normally
do, he said.
Pech Sotheary
S
IX PEOPLE across the
country, including two
young children, died in
flood-related incidents
yesterday, bringing the total
number killed so far this rainy
season to 17, according to gov-
ernment figures.
Keo Vy, cabinet director at the
National Committee for Disas-
ter Management, said that
fatalities were recorded yester-
day in Kampong Cham, Kandal
and Prey Veng provinces.
Overall this rainy season,
three people [have] died in
Stung Treng, three in Kratie, one
in Tbong Khmum, six in Kam-
pong Cham, two in Kandal and
two in Prey Veng provinces,
Vy said.
The two children killed in
Kampong Cham yesterday
drowned while playing in the
water flooding their homes,
said Ma Chenda, Koh Sotin dis-
trict police chief.
At 10:05 am, Nay Vannut,
a 4-year-old boy, drowned,
and Khoeun Lisa, a 1-year-old
baby girl, drowned at noon,
Chenda said.
Chenda blamed the two
fatalities on the carelessness
of the childrens parents.
In Prey Veng province,
54-year-old Mong Mun, a Rom-
lech commune police officer,
remained missing for the sec-
ond day yesterday, according
to officials.
Long Bunthoeun, Sithor Kan-
dal district police chief, said
Mun was initially reported
missing at 11:05am on Wednes-
day after he was seen falling
into fast-moving water while
helping people put soil into
bags to fend off the floods.
From the incident to now we
have not found him and now
we are asking . . . people to help
with the search, he said.
According to Vy, the cabinet
director, the number of people
evacuated because of the flood-
ing rose to 6,286 yesterday.
And, in addition to the cost
on lives, tens of thousands of
hectares of rice fields and other
crops have been destroyed in
the flooding.
About 44,069 hectares of rice
fields and 5,617 hectares of sec-
ondary crops have been affect-
ed, Vy said. The flooding has
affected 10 provinces, but Prey
Veng and Kandal provinces are
being affected the most.
Prime Minister Hun Sen
appealed to local authorities to
raise awareness about the dan-
gers of flooding and for people
across the country to act with
precaution.
We demand that people
everywhere raise their aware-
ness and appeal for people to
be wary . . . because the author-
ities cannot intervene in all the
matters for the people. For
example, do not leave your
child who cant swim at home
alone. If this is avoided, there
will be no deaths, he said.
Children travel down a ooded laneway on a makeshift raft earlier this
week in Kandal provinces Muk Kampoul district. HENG CHIVOAN
Samphan, Chea
get life sentences
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the court had failed in its duty
to link their client who has
long painted himself as a mere
figurehead to the crimes
in question.
In this case, there is no con-
crete evidence pointing to
Khieu Samphans participation
in decision-making in the evac-
uation of Phnom Penh, the
second phase of that evacua-
tion, and the events of Tuol Po
Chrey, defender Arthur Ver-
cken said.
We know that the tribunal
has been dogged by scandals;
it has made decisions that are
desperate, that are aimed at
giving the tribunal an appear-
ance of credibility, he added.
Fellow defender Kong Sam
Onn noted with disapproval
that Samphan had been hand-
ed the same sentence as Chea,
despite not having superior
responsibility.
Responding to questions
regarding the sentencing,
prosecutor Leang said that the
gravity of the crimes informed
the punishment, a defence of
the decision echoed by inter-
national co-prosecutor Nicho-
las Koumjian.
This is a fact in many war
crimes cases. You can have
someone who personally mur-
dered 100 people, but his com-
mander above him killed thou-
sands, he said. Does that
mean the one who murdered
100 gets a lighter sentence?
The verdict, however, was
almost universally lauded by
victims.
Sum Rethy, 60, a former pris-
oner of the Khmer Rouge in
Siem Reap province, was
almost overwhelmed by the
cases verdict.
I really appreciate the judge-
ment, he said. I was jailed in
a Khmer Rouge prison for two
years, so it was a really difficult
life back then. Im crying now,
not because I regret anything,
but [because] I am so excited. I
lost my father and three of my
younger brothers.
Tol Tes, 80, an ethnic Cham
resident of Kampong Thom,
said that he, too, had lost many
siblings to the Khmer Rouge,
but that todays verdict will
calm my feelings of suffering.
For 58-year-old Suon Van-
than, however, life in prison
simply isnt enough Samphan
and Cheas punishment should
continue into the next life as
well, he said. Vanthan, who said
he narrowly escaped execution
in Prey Veng province, said that
the crimes were all the worse
because they [were] educated,
but led the country into hell
like that.
The 3,869 victims formally
recognised by the court as civ-
il parties saw a major victory
yesterday in the form of the
courts recognition of 11 repa-
rations projects, which includ-
ed a National Day of Remem-
brance, a testimonial therapy
project and the construction of
a memorial in Phnom Penh
along with eight others.
Two projects were not recog-
nised due largely to the fact
that they had not secured suf-
ficient funding.
We commend the fact that
the court has recognised the
sufferings inflicted on the peo-
ple by the Democratic Kam-
puchea regime in a broad
sense, said civil party interna-
tional lead co-lawyer Marie
Guiraud, adding that the team
would explore ways of reviving
the two unrecognised projects.
Statements in support of the
verdict poured in yesterday
from the US and German
embassies, the courts Group of
Friends (which represents its
major donors), local rights con-
sortium the Cambodian
Human Rights Action Commit-
tee, the International Federa-
tion for Human Rights, the
United Nations and Deputy
Prime Minister Sok An.
Longtime Khmer Rouge tri-
bunal monitor Heather Ryan of
the Open Society Justice Initia-
tive said yesterday was a very
important day for the court and
for Cambodia.
I was pleased with the
verdict from what I heard
and what I saw in the summa-
ry, she said. There were no
surprises there.
Given that Chea and Sam-
phan are slated to begin, in the
coming weeks, another sub-
trial exploring allegations of
genocide and forced marriage
among several others yes-
terdays decision that the two
were indeed part of a joint
criminal enterprise could have
an impact on the upcoming
case, Ryan added.
It may not be binding in the
second case, but the prosecu-
tion can put the same facts in
again in the second case, and
argue that it applies equally, and
you can say that the chances the
court would buy that a second
time are very high, she said.
Khmer Rouge survivor Sum Rethy (left) cries as he embraces Tuol Sleng prison survivor Chum Mey at the ECCC yesterday. VIREAK MAI
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Cursed statue, invaluable artefact
Sen David and Laignee Barron
WHEN Prum Ky, 43, reported his missing
statue to local police on Wednesday, he
had little inkling that the dirty antiquity
unearthed from his rice paddy could be an
invaluable cultural treasure from the pre-
Angkorian period.
Ky had discovered the headless, but oth-
erwise well-intact statue on July 12 in Pursat
towns Kandieng district and lugged the arte-
fact from his field to his house, hoping it
would bring him luck and maybe even help
him win the lottery.
Three days later, he dreamed that his
house was on fire. He told his neighbour . . .
and the village elders told him that he should
bring the statue back to the farm because,
since the statue was without a head, it cursed
his house, said Soeng Sopheak, chief of the
provincial penal police office.
The farmer hauled the statue back where
he found it, and hid it underneath a tree. Two
days later, it was gone.
Ky hoped a good Samaritan would bring
back his sandstone figure, but after three
weeks of unfulfilled waiting, he took his sore
luck to the police.
If you look at the style, the clothes and the
body, [the statue] appears to belong to the
pre-Angkorian period, maybe from the
eighth century, Sok Im Rithy, an archaeolo-
gist with APSARA said based on photographs
Ky had taken on his phone.
Rithy said it is possible the statue is a well-
done fake, but that every year villagers near
the ancient temple sites dig up antiquities.
Theyve found statues before, but almost
never so big.
According to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation in the US, looted antiquities drive
the worlds third-largest black market, worth
an estimated $8 billion a year.
We are sorry to hear about the statue,
said Lach Phengly, director of the provincial
cultural heritage department. It is the
kind of statue which belongs in the Nation-
al Museum, not a residents house.
Reaction at viewings mixed
Post Staff
Oddar Meanchey and
Battambang provinces

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N WHAT were once the
last remaining strongholds
of the Khmer Rouge, re-
actions to yesterdays life
sentences for former senior
leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu
Samphan were mixed, as old
cadre reected on questions of
responsibility for the crimes of
the regime.
About 200 locals turned out
to a live screening of the ver-
dict held at a pagoda in Oddar
Meancheys Anlong Veng dis-
trict, many of them former cad-
res who were part of the mass
defections to the government
from the area in the late 1990s
that spelled the death knell of
the Cambodian communists.
Before the screening, staff
from the Documentation Cen-
ter of Cambodia took pains to
reassure those present that the
court was only going after those
in positions of responsibility.
After the verdict, the prevail-
ing feeling among former cadre
was one of ambiguity grudg-
ingly accepting the decision
and blaming top leaders, while
simultaneously defending the
regime that they fought for.
Ngin Kheng, 37, a former
Khmer Rouge soldier, said he
had paid little attention to the
court previously, but had been
curious as to how the leaders
would be sentenced.
All the leaders, what they did
politically was only for their na-
tion, he said, before assailing
them for not taking responsibil-
ity for the ghastly consequences
of those decisions.
I was so angry when I lis-
tened to the radio and I heard
that Khieu Samphan had writ-
ten in his book that he was not
involved [in the crimes] and he
wanted to be set free. If he, as a
top leader, can say something
like this, what about us at the
lower level?
While he would be willing to
go to jail for his own actions,
Kheng said, leaders should
not be abdicating responsibil-
ity to those who received their
orders.
I feel hurt by this. When
those leaders had the power
and we did something wrong,
they regarded us as the enemy.
But when they lost power, they
are suddenly not responsible
for what they have done?
Chin Vorn, who served in the
navy under the Lon Nol repub-
lic and later joined the Khmer
Rouge army, said he backed the
verdict, but cautioned that the
court should not seek further
prosecutions.
I think the courts decision
is right. They are the leaders, so
they have to be responsible for
what they have done. They did
wrong, so they must stay in jail,
the 60-year-old said.
In Phnom Proek district in
Battambang, which was held
by the communists until 1996,
the verdict was not so readily
accepted.
Keo Kha, 52, who served as a
nurse from 1977-79 under the
Democratic Kampuchea re-
gime, said she felt sympathy for
Chea and Samphan.
I want them to be acquitted
and [released] from jail. They
have already been in jail for
many years. They are already
too old. This is my feeling,
she said.
Kong Touch, a 60-year-old
farmer who left his position as
a Khmer Rouge soldier in 1987
because he did not want to con-
tinue to ght the government,
took a more nuanced view.
If we are talking about [the
verdict], it is difcult, because
there are so many other reasons
associated with [what hap-
pened] . . . In that period, there
was so much trouble . . . It was
extremely troubled, he said,
reecting on the regime that he
served for 17 years.
Good people were also ar-
rested, whether they commit-
ted any mistake or not. It was
too complicated, so we cant
understand. The society was
too crazy [But] I understand
the judges reasons. REPORTING BY
MAY TITTHARA AND KEVIN PONNIAH IN AN-
LONG VENG; AND KOAM CHANRASMEY AND
GRIFF TAPPER IN PHNOM PROEK
Locals watch a screening of the Khmer Rouge trial verdict yesterday at a Pagoda in Oddar Meancheys Anlong
Veng district. CHARLOTTE PERT
Members of the public from around Phnom Proek district in Battambang watch the verdict of the Khmer
Rouge tribunal yesterday. GRIFF TAPPER
I want them to be acquitted
and [released]... They have
already been in jail for many
years. They are already too old
THE life sentences against
them are not serious enough
when compared to the
criminal acts they committed
during the regime. But I am
happy, because the judgement
is in accordance with
international standards. Ten
members of my family died
during the regime in
Kampong Siem district in
Kampong Cham. Every
Cambodian person who lived
during the Khmer Rouge
regime understands how bad
it was. I think that the court
has done a proper job, and the
two leaders of the Khmer
Rouge must peacefully accept
their verdicts and be satisfied.
I THINK that life in prison is
meaningless and a waste of
money. [Killing them] would
be better. They killed
millions of people, but they
are old now, therefore life in
prison doesnt impress me. I
am too young to remember
the KR regime, but members
of my family said that my
brother-in-law was killed,
and my father- in-law was
forced to kill himself by
running his head into a palm
tree in Prey Veng province.
Therefore to me, there is no
justice and the trial was
meaningless. This is only my
point of view.
EVEN though I did not live
under the Khmer Rouge
regime, I think that life in
prison is appropriate
enough for me and my
family to accept it. It is
justice for us. Life in prison
is the most serious
punishment available,
because in Cambodia there
is no death sentence. My
parents were always telling
me about the Khmer Rouge
regime, therefore, I knew
that many members of my
family died during the
regime, but I dont
remember exactly how
many.
AS I am Cambodian, I think
that the tribunals verdict and
life sentence against the
former Khmer Rouge leaders
is good. The court has done a
good job and is a model not
only for Cambodia but the
world. The verdict brings some
justice to me and my family
and Cambodian people who
were the victims of the Pol Pot
regime for three years, eight
months and 20 days. I suffered
during the regime and have
been waiting for a long time to
see this verdict. As a victim, I
am happy to see that the
criminal cannot run away from
the law. My elder sister, my
sister-in-law, my two nephews
and other family members
were killed during the Khmer
Rouge era.
I DONT know much about
the trial, but if the court
sentenced them to life in
prison, it is justice to me, as
my husband and my four
children were killed during
the Pol Pot regime when
they were being evacuated to
Battambang province. I dont
know about others, but for
me, [the verdict] is
acceptable and Im happy to
see the criminal leaders in
prison. In my heart, I wanted
them punished so other
leaders will dare not commit
such crimes against their
own people.
REFLECTIONS ON JUSTICE
Tao Chan Sokhom,
57, civil servant
Hem Hathsaream,
40, vendor
Ros Sidin, 30,
entrepreneur
Kong Bora, 57,
retired civil servant
Eam Thuok, 72,
vendor
National
6
No call for help needed
as man catches thieves
A CALL to a friend turned into a
call to action when a man
lashed out at a bandit who
snatched his phone from his
hand on Wednesday. The victim
was taking a stroll along a
roadside in the capitals Daun
Penh district, chatting to a
friend on his phone, when a
motorbike sped past and a
passenger on it seized the
handset. Reacting with light-
ning speed and fury the
phone owner let fly, pushing
the two thieves into the dirt.
One was injured and both were
arrested. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Neighbours nab gun
owner at bullet speed
NEIGHBOURS of a man in
Mondulkiri were, as you might
expect, alarmed when they saw
him wandering round his yard
with a shotgun this week.
Police said the neighbours
who said they had never
dared to speak with the man
before immediately filed a
complaint. Officers obtained a
warrant to search the mans
house and discovered that he
did not have legal permission
to own the gun. He admitted
wrongdoing, handed over his
weapon and entered police
custody peacefully. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Spaced-out dealers miss
chance to dodge arrest
YET another crackdown on
small-time dealers proved easy
for police in Poipet due to the
suspects letting down their
guard by sampling their own
product. Police raided a guest-
house in the border town, sus-
pecting seven people were
using one of the rooms as a
base for their dealing. Two
noticed they were being
watched and hot-footed it, while
at least some of the remaining
five barely noticed they had
company, despite being more
alert than usual. Police seized
methamphetamine and sent
the five to court. DEUMAMPIL
Eagle-eyed cop hinders
mans unperfect crime
SOME crooks just dont grasp
the basics. One man, 27, was
arrested in Pursat on Tuesday
for using a knife to demand a
womans motorbike. The prob-
lem for him was that he did it
right in front of a police officer.
Quick reaction from the cop,
coupled with crippling shock on
the robbers part at how care-
less he had been, resulted in a
swift arrest. The victim escaped
unharmed. DEUMAMPIL
Hit-and-run leads cops
on a low-speed chase
ITS become a leitmotif on Cam-
bodias roads: someone causes
an accident and flees the scene.
In the latest case, four men
were seriously injured when a
truck crashed into them as they
returned home on two motor-
bikes from a party in Battam-
bang. As the victims lay hurt,
the driver escaped. Police soon
arrived and helped get the four
men to hospital. One of them
provided a description of the
truck driver, giving police
something to base a manhunt
on. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
Laignee Barron
THE governments long-
pledged health insurance
scheme for private sector
employees, including factory
workers, is just around the
corner, ofcials promised yes-
terday while refusing to name
a more specic date.
On Wednesday, the Ministry
of Labour held a public forum
on the insurance plan, which
is expected to cover some
800,000 employees.
We have already prepared
the subdecree, said Som
Sophorn, deputy director of
the National Social Security
Fund. It will be compulsory
and will start later this year,
beginning rst with the fac-
tories around Phnom Penh
and then moving step by step
beyond the city.
Currently, the fund covers
only workplace-related ill-
nesses and injuries, and takes
a 0.8 per cent tax from work-
ers salaries for the service, ac-
cording to the ministry.
The new health insurance
scheme is set to operate simi-
larly, splitting a tax between
employer and employee.
But Moeun Tola of the legal
NGO CLEC said it should be
exclusively paid for by the em-
ployer; the employees already
pay taxes.
Garment manufacturing as-
sociation spokesman Ken Loo
said insurance is an obliga-
tion we will comply with.
Charles Rollet and Sen David
DUE to discrimination, sexual
minorities in the country face
high poverty, bullying and
elevated dropout rates, with
the governments ambiguous
stance on LGBT issues wors-
ening the situation, a UN re-
port says.
Laws and policies in Cam-
bodia are silent on LGBT
people and rights, states Be-
ing LGBT in Asia: Cambodia
Country Report, which was
funded by the UN Develop-
ment Program and USAID.
Its author, Vicente Salas, said
at a conference yesterday that
this means LGBT people can
be discriminated against with
impunity, citing reports of cor-
rupt cops arresting transgen-
der people in parks for simply
waving at each other.
But if other people wave at
each other its OK, Salas said.
One person ghting for the
government to improve LGBT
rights is Nuon Sidar, a project
coordinator for the Cambodi-
an Center for Human Rights.
Sidar is pushing the Minis-
try of Womens Affairs to in-
clude the LGBT community in
its latest plan to ght violence
against women, but so far we
are not quite there, he said.
However, for many, the ma-
jor issues remain outside the
reach of legislation.
The main problem facing us
is family discrimination, said
Houn Bun Virak, who works
with Rainbow Community
Kampuchea (RoCK), Cambo-
dias rst recognised NGO
dedicated to LGBT rights.
When my parents kicked
me out of my home, I was so
hurt. [Being gay] is natural, I
cannot change.
Despite the governments
lack of action and cultural
prejudices, the Kingdoms
LGBT population is increas-
ingly connected by urbanisa-
tion and social media, the re-
port notes.
Phat Sokchea, 42, said at
yesterdays conference that, as
a gay man, he had seen some
change in societys attitudes
towards his community.
I notice that nowadays
many people are interested in
us, he said. They treat us like
they would other people.
Worker insurance near
LGBT rights need to be
addressed, says report
Buddha admits fault
Phak Seangly

A
FTER a three-hour
meeting at Kandal
Provincial Hall yes-
terday, Thean Vuthy,
a man accused of promoting
himself as the next Buddha,
thumbprinted a document
from the Ministry of Cult and
Religion and confessed to vio-
lating the constitution by of-
fending Buddhist values.
Accompanied by 100 of his
supporters, Vuthy explained
his case to Minister Min Khin,
a committee of monks and the
governor of Kandal, taking re-
sponsibility for his errors.
The nine accusations in the
document include sitting on
a throne reserved for the Bud-
dha, having monks bow to him,
owning a painting of himself de-
picted as a godly gure and us-
ing followers donations to buy
jewellery, which he later sold.
Vuthy said he used the pro-
ceeds from the jewellery sales
to expand his Tuol Reachea
pagoda in Kandal provinces
Koh Thom district, and denied
other accusations.
I have not cheated, robbed
or forced anybody to pay what
they did, they did of their own
accord, Vuthy said.
I made substantial efforts to
save money to develop our na-
tion and religion, and tried to
help people escape depression
by performing water blessings
and occasionally telling their
fortunes, he continued.
On Sunday, Tuol Reachea
pagoda was raided by authori-
ties, who discovered diamonds,
platinum and other expensive
items. The pagoda was shut
down but is expected to reopen
before the Pchum Ben religious
festival in September.
Vuthy said in front of Khin
that he did not wish to destroy
Cambodias religious traditions
and would publicly repent, if
required to do so. He said that
he made mistakes because
of his youth and ignorance of
complex spiritual doctrines.
Chea Sam Arng, head of Kan-
dals monks, said Vuthy rst
promoted himself as a reincar-
nated Samdech Chuon Nat,
Cambodias former supreme
patriarch, who died in 1969. It
was only afterwards that Vuthy
began claiming to be the fth
and nal Buddha.
He thought everyone in the
world would respect him if he
was a god, but you cant become
a god just like that, Arng said.
Touch Sarom, secretary of
state for the ministry, said a
meeting will be held today to
decide what measures will be
taken against Vuthy in a trans-
parent and balanced way.
Thean Vuthy (centre) gives a formal apology to the Ministry of Cult and
Religion yesterday at Kandal Provincial Hall. PHA LINA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 8, 2014
Business
Philippine
rm to tap
remittance
tech niche
PHILIPPINE Long Distance Tel-
ephone Co (PLDT), the countrys
leading telecoms provider, said
yesterday it was buying a 10-per-
cent share in German internet
developer Rocket Internet for
333 million ($445 million).
The partnership will allow the
two companies to jointly devel-
op mobile and online payment
technologies and services in
emerging markets, a PLDT
statement said.
The strategic partnership will
allow us to leverage our com-
bined strengths in developing
online and mobile payment
solutions in emerging markets,
PLDT president Napoleon Naza-
reno was quoted as saying.
PLDT cited its experience and
intellectual property in mobile
payments and remittance plat-
forms, often used by the many
Filipinos working abroad to send
money back home.
It also cited the Berlin-based
Rockets ability to provide prod-
ucts and services for the
unbanked, uncarded and
unconnected population in
emerging markets.
The investment will entitle
PLDT to one seat on Rockets
nine-member supervisory
board the statement said, add-
ing that the investment would
be sourced from available cash
and new debt.
Rocket bills itself as the
worlds largest Internet plat-
form outside of China and the
United States, with a strong
presence in Europe, Latin
America, Russia, India, Africa
and the Middle East. AFP
Thai consumer condence has hit its highest level in 11 months, a survey found, as that countrys central bank kept interest rates unchanged. BANGKOK POST
Thai rate held amid optimism
T
HAILANDS central
bank left its bench-
mark interest rate un-
changed on Wednes-
day, as expected, reiterating
that the level is appropriate
and that the economy, bat-
tered early this year by politi-
cal turmoil, will rebound in
the second half.
The review undertaken
by the Bank of Thailands
Monetary Policy Committee
(MPC) was its second since
the country came under mili-
tary rule on May 22.
When taking power, the
army said it had to restore or-
der and kick-start Southeast
Asias second-largest econo-
my, which shrank 2.1 per cent
in the rst quarter from Octo-
ber-December.
The Thai economy showed
signs of improvements in the
second quarter of 2014, from
private spending following
the political resolution, the
MPC said in a statement.
The committee voted 7-0 to
keep the one-day repurchase
rate unchanged at 2 per cent
for a third straight meeting.
The rate was cut by 25 basis
points last November and
again in March as political
tensions escalated.
Analysts expect no rate
change this year as ina-
tion remains tame and the
economy appears to be on
the mend. Some economists
anticipate a rate increase in
2015, when the central bank
predicts economic growth of
5.5 per cent.
Gundy Cahyadi, economist
with DBS Bank in Singapore,
agrees growth momentum
should pick up late this year
but a return to near-term po-
tential will still take some time,
even if the government is go-
ing to be clearly pro-growth.
In June, the BoT slashed its
2014 growth forecast to 1.5
per cent from 2.7 per cent,
due to the turmoil which
hurt consumer condence,
domestic demand and Thai-
lands big tourism industry,
which accounts for one-tenth
of the economy.
Thai exports equivalent to
more than 60 per cent of the
economy have remained
weak this year, even though
the political crisis did not im-
pact factories or ports, and the
world economy has somewhat
improved.
In the second half, rmer
domestic demand and scal
policy, particularly public in-
vestment, should lend further
impetus to growth recovery.
Exports of goods and tourism
are expected to expand at a
subdued pace, the MPC said.
Recent poor economic data
has caused some economists
to believe that there was a
second on-quarter contrac-
tion in April-June, which
would mean Thailand slipped
into recession.
But the central bank insists
that the economy likely im-
proved in April-June and the
country will avoid recession.
Second-quarter gross do-
mestic product will be an-
nounced on August 18.
Last week, the junta ap-
proved a plan to invest in ur-
gent infrastructure projects,
including 867 billion baht
($27.3 billion) for eight dual-
track rail lines.
Meanwhile, the Thai con-
sumer condence index hit
78.2 in July, the highest in 11
months, thanks to political
and economic stability, a Uni-
versity of the Thai Chamber of
Commerce survey said.
The university announced
yesterday that the index rose
from 75.1 in June and im-
proved for the second con-
secutive month following the
May 22 coup.
Condence in July resulted
from the National Council for
Peace and Orders approval of
a 2.4-trillion-baht infrastruc-
ture investment project, ex-
port growth in June, and lower
retail fuel prices.
Thanawat Polvichai, direc-
tor of the universitys Centre
for Economics and Business
Forecasting, said the consum-
er-condence index covering
vehicle purchases stood at
102.7 and the index for con-
sumer happiness over the next
three months stands at 100.5.
Both indices exceeded the
100 level for the rst time
in eight and 16 months, re-
spectively, thanks to an im-
proved political outlook as
well as perceived solutions to
the countrys drug problems.
Thanawat also said that the
index for consumers feelings
about the political situation
stood at 80.8, its highest level
in 34 months. BANGKOK POST
USD / JPY
102.54
USD / SGD
1.2484
USD /CNY
6.167
USD / HKD
7.7503
USD / THB
32.13
AUD / USD
0.9311
NZD / USD
0.8434
EUR / USD
1.3362
GBP / USD
1.6864
Indicative Exchange Rates as of 6/8/2014. Please contact ANZ Royal Global Markets on 023 999 910 for real time rates.
USD / KHR
4,060
A PLDT payphone. AFP
Markets
8
Business
Eddie Morton
DRIVEN by garment and im-
proved agricultural export mar-
kets, Cambodia has bucked
the wider trend of slowing
Southeast Asian economies, ac-
cording to the United Nations
Economic and Social Commis-
sion for Asia and the Pacic
(ESCAP).
ESCAPs semi-annual Eco-
nomic and Social Survey of
Asia and the Pacic, published
Wednesday, puts Southeast
Asias annual growth at 4.6 per
cent, continuing a three-year
consecutvive, below 6 per cent
trend for the region.
But despite signicant infra-
structure and human capital
difculties, Cambodias econ-
omy continues to show year-
on-year above average growth
and is on track to record 7.2
per cent growth in 2014, slight-
ly down from 7.6 in 2013, the
UN organizations study says.
The Kingdoms ination rate
remained stable at 2.9 per cent
in 2013.
The least developed coun-
tries in the subregion, namely
Cambodia, the Lao Peoples
Democratic Republic, Myan-
mar and Timor-Leste, main-
tained high growth rates, un-
derpinned in part by steady
inows of foreign investment,
especially in the resource sec-
tor, the study reads.
The study adds that while
China, India, Indonesia and
Malaysia sustained or even
increased the income gap be-
tween the richest 20 per cent
and the poorest 20 per cent of
their countries, Cambodia, fu-
elled by an increasing labour
force, was one of the few that
saw a decrease in income in-
equality.
But the UN-backed study
also pointed out that Cam-
bodia, along with its fellow
least developed neighbour-
ing countries, continues to lag
behind the rest of the world
with regards to integrating into
global supply chains.
This in turn, limits their abil-
ity to diversify their economies
and engage in higher value-
added activities, the study
says.
And in the garment sector,
which accounts for 80 per cent
of the Kingdoms total export
market, there is still room for
improvement.
The minimum wage in the
(Cambodias) garment industry,
which employs about 600,000
workers, was raised; yet, work-
ing conditions still need to be
improved, the report says.
Cambodia economy
bucks regional trend
India open to foreign investors
I
NDIAS cabinet has ap-
proved plans to open its
defence and railways
industries to foreign in-
vestment as new Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modis right-
wing administration moves
to reform and revive the ail-
ing economy.
The cabinet agreed late on
Wednesday to increase the
limit on foreign direct invest-
ment in defence to 49 per cent
from 26 per cent, and allow
unlimited investment in rail-
way infrastructure, according
to the Press Trust of India.
The government, which un-
veiled both plans in the bud-
get last month, is attempting
to push ahead with much-
needed reforms after sweep-
ing to power at elections in
May with the biggest man-
date in 30 years.
But its efforts hit a major
hurdle this week, when the
opposition blocked its at-
tempts to introduce legisla-
tion to lift investment in the
insurance sector.
The cabinet approval comes
on the eve of US Secretary of
Defence Chuck Hagels visit
to India to strengthen ties be-
tween the two militaries and to
drum up defence deals.
Hagel, who arrived late yes-
terday, was expected to meet
with top government minis-
ters during the three-day visit.
The US recognises the im-
mense potential for its com-
panies in the Indian arms
market with the lifting of
the investment cap, analyst
Sameer Patil from Mumbai-
based thinktank Gateway
House said this week.
Modis government wants to
speed up modernisation of its
Soviet-era military after years
of slow procurement and the
collapse of deals over corrup-
tion allegations.
India, the worlds biggest
arms importer, has tradition-
ally relied on Russia but has
turned to the United States in
more recent years for equip-
ment and other technology.
Investment in Indias crum-
bling state-run railway net-
work, which carries 23 million
passengers a day, is desper-
ately needed after years of
neglect. India struggles to
fund upgrades of the network,
partly developed under British
colonial rule, because most of
its revenues are spent on oper-
ating costs.
But investment was not ex-
pected to ow overnight, with
foreign companies rst need-
ing to form joint ventures with
India rms before taking cau-
tious steps, he said. AFP
Passengers lean out of a train in the doorways of a train in India. The Indian cabinet has approved plans to
open its defence and railway industries more to foreign investors in a bid to revive the economy. BLOOMBERG
9
Business
Media technology rm SuperNet
launched a test phase in Cambodia
last month, with the aim of bringing
OTT (over-the-top) services, such as
television and video on demand over
the internet to the Kingdoms consum-
ers. The Posts Hor Kimsay sat down
with Fox Lui, chief nancial ofcer
at Supernet to discuss the companys
prospects.
What can you tell us about OTT TV?
Supernets OTT digital TV is the
rst OTT operator in Cambodia. It is
technology that is based on the in-
ternet, with 103 digital and HD pro-
grams, rich content, quality image
and voice, and smart applications.
It allows users to have two way com-
munications. It changes the way of
watching TV to using TV and play-
ing with TV. You basically can choose
what you want to watch. It will open
the door for developing internet digi-
tal TV in Cambodia.
Digital TV focuses mainly on peo-
ple who have less affordable income
so we want to provide them the ser-
vice so that they can have some en-
tertainment and also practical infor-
mation.
What are the origins of SuperNet?
Supernet, with a registered capital
of $100 million, was established and
founded by the China-Asean Fund
along with Chinese companies and a
Cambodia partner.
I cannot tell who the [Cambodian]
shareholder is because it is quite
condential. But I can just tell you
that we have a close relationship
with Bayon TV.
How much will the services cost?
What I can say is that the price is
quite acceptable when you take into
account the quality of service we will
provide and what customers are used
to on the market. Customers will not
be disappointed by the price when
they see this.
Why do you think now is the right time
to launch this service in Cambodia?
The objective of China-ASEAN
Fund, is to invest in ASEAN coun-
tries. In recent years, the develop-
ment of internet digital TV has been
paid signicant attention around
the world. Internet digital TV is a
popular eld, covering information
technology and media industry and
has expanded into a new market
combining infotainment, commu-
nication and internet applications.
Cambodias economy is going up
and we want to move forward with
Cambodia. We want to provide en-
tertainment services to Cambodia
and give them access to all useful
information.
What areas do your service cover?
It is in testing phase. For OTT, we
are now operating in Phnom Penh,
Siem Reap and Sihanoukville. For
DTT, we will provide the services to
eight provinces along Tonle Sap lake.
We now have about 100 users for OTT
and another 200 users for OTT TV.
How will your new services compete
with internet service providers and
TV operators in Cambodia?
I think we will speed up the trend
to reinvest. Current operators need
to improve their services. We are the
benchmark of the market.
Now some TV operators still pro-
vide analog TV, which has a lower
image quality. By doing this in digital
TV, we are improving users experi-
ences because we improve the image
quality.
Taking TV to the next level
Fox Lui, Chief of Financial Ofcer of Supreme Telecommunication Media Group, talks
to the Post from his ofce in Phnom Penh earlier this week. PHA LINA

This week in biz
World Bank bans local firm
from future tender process
THE World Banks corruption
investigation unit on July 29 banned
Cambodian firm, CDW Construction
from entering future tender
processes for three years as
punishment for submitting
fraudulent financial documents in
connection with the banks 2010
Ketsana Typhoon recovery effort.
Community accuses ANZ of
abandoning in time of need
ANZ Royal was accused of
abandoning the communities
impacted by ruling party Senator Ly
Yong Phats $220 million sugar
plantation developments, after the
bank announced it had severed all
financial ties with his firm. More than
350 members of Thpong and Oral
districts, which surround plantations
belonging to Yong Phats Phnom
Penh Sugar Company (PPS) and
Kampong Speu Sugar Company
[KSS], delivered a two-page
complaint to the bank on Friday.
Thailands trade status loss
could be Cambodias gain
FOLLOWING three consecutive years
of upper-middle income status,
Thailand will on January 1 lose its
Generalised System of Preferences
(GSP) privileges with EU member
states. Cambodian observers said
Thailands new status may benefit
the local economy as investors seek
to keep preferential trade status.
Tom Schoenberg
B
ANK of America Corp
is nearing a $16 bil-
lion to $17 billion re-
cord settlement with
the US Justice Department
to end probes into sales of
mortgage-backed bonds that
fueled the nancial crisis, ac-
cording to a person familiar
with the matter.
Under the proposed terms,
the bank would pay about $9
billion in cash and the rest in
consumer relief to settle feder-
al and state claims, according
to the person, who asked not
to be named because the ne-
gotiations are private. Details
of the proposed accord, such
as the relief and a statement of
facts, are still being negotiated,
the person said.
The outlines of the deal
were reached last week after a
phone call between Attorney
General Eric Holder and Bank
of America chief executive of-
cer Brian T Moynihan, the
person said. During the July
30 call, Holder said that the
government was ready to le
a lawsuit in New Jersey if the
bank didnt offer an amount
closer to the departments de-
mand of about $17 billion, ac-
cording to the person.
Bank of America said sepa-
rately on Wednesday that it is
raising its quarterly dividend
to 5 cents a share, while drop-
ping a plan to buy back stock,
after winning Federal Re-
serve approval of its proposal
for managing capital.
The dividend increase, the
rst in seven years, had been
postponed earlier this year
while the company xed er-
rors in its initial plan submit-
ted to the Fed.
The agreement, if nalised,
would cement Bank of Ameri-
cas status as the rm punished
hardest for faulty mortgage
practices. It would eclipse Citi-
group Incs $7 billion settle-
ment in July and JPMorgan
Chase & Cos $13 billion deal
in November. At the time, the
Justice Department labeled
JPMorgans accord the largest
settlement with a single entity
in American history.
Bank of Americas settlement
also comes on top of its $9.5
billion deal in March to re-
solve related Federal Housing
Finance Agency claims. The
current talks center on faulty
loans that Bank of America,
now the second-largest US
lender, inherited from Coun-
trywide Financial Corp and
Merrill Lynch & Co, which it
purchased in 2008 at the apex
of the nancial crisis.
Bank of America and rms
it acquired issued about $965
billion in mortgage backed
securities between 2004 and
2008. Almost three-fourths
of those came from Country-
wide, according to a person
with knowledge of the vol-
umes. About $245 billion in
securities have defaulted or
become delinquent, though
Bank of America only ac-
counted for 4 per cent of
those, the person said.
Talks between the govern-
ment and Bank of America
began in March and stalled
three months later when the
company balked at a $17 bil-
lion demand, people with
knowledge of the matter said
at the time. The bank had pro-
posed about $13 billion, which
included at least $5 billion in
consumer relief.
Negotiations resumed after
Citigroups settlement on July
14. Prosecutors also demand-
ed that Bank of America pay
more of the penalty in cash in-
stead of other remedies, such
as mortgage writedowns and
consumer relief, one of the
people said. BLOOMBERG
Markets
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Business
RUPERT Murdochs media-en-
tertainment group 21st Cen-
tury Fox said on Wednesday
prots jumped on box-ofce
results from its Hollywood stu-
dio and that it is looking past
its failed bid for Time Warner.
The quarterly prot was
$999 million, a year after a
loss of $371 million for the
conglomerate which operates
the Fox studios and television
properties.
Revenues jumped to $8.4
billion in the three months
ending June 30, from $7.2 bil-
lion in the comparable period
a year earlier.
The company closed out its
rst scal year since breaking
off its publishing operations
with an annual prot of $4.5
billion, compared with $7.1
billion based on comparable
data from the previous year.
The companys strong -
nancial performance was
driven by sustained afliate
revenue increases at our cable
networks and record fourth
quarter contributions at our
lmed entertainment segment
on the strength of global box
ofce successes X-Men: Days
of Future Past, Rio 2 and The
Fault In Our Stars, Murdoch
said in a statement.
The earnings came a day
after the company aban-
doned an $80 billion bid for
rival Time Warner which could
have merged two of the biggest
names in the industry.
Murdoch told a conference
call on Wednesday that drop-
ping the offer was a resolute
decision and that the deal
was no longer attractive for
Fox shareholders. He also said
We have moved on.
Time Warner was a unique
opportunity, he added, but
we like our business, our fu-
ture and where we are at.
On Tuesday, he said the of-
fer was taken off the table after
Time Warner refused to en-
gage with us.
The company also said on
Tuesday that with its cash
stockpile, it would launch a
$6 billion share buyback pro-
gram, and Murdoch said this
further underscores our disci-
plined approach to increasing
shareholder value.
Murdoch last year split his
empire into two separate rms
21st Century Fox and News
Corp which kept the news-
papers and other publishing
assets which had been a drag
on earnings. He remains in
control of both rms.
At Fox, the results were led
by gains in lm and cable op-
erations, and to a lesser ex-
tent, satellite television, while
results from broadcast opera-
tions lagged.
Operating results from lm
nearly tripled in the quarter
and its lm studio became
the rst to cross the $3 billion
mark in worldwide box ofce
this year, a company state-
ment said. Revenues for the
lm segment rose 12 per cent
to $9.7 billion for the full year
and leapt 38 per cent to $2.8
billion in the quarter.
For cable, revenues in-
creased 13 per cent for the
year to $12.3 billion and by the
same percentage to $3.3 bil-
lion in the quarter. AFP
After dropping bid for
Time Warner, Murdoch
moves on, hails prot
Bank of America is nearing a record payout to the US Justice Department to conclude an investigation into
sales of mortgage-backed bonds. The payout will reportedly be between $16 billion and $17 billion. AFP
BoA nearing record payout
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Mining giant Rio Tinto
doubles H1 net profit
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN mining
giant Rio Tinto said yesterday
its first-half net profit more
than doubled to $4.4 billion,
driven by surging iron ore
shipments as it continued a
cost-cutting program. The
bumper result in the six
months to June 30, a strong
rise from the $1.72 billion net
profit recorded in the first-half
of 2013, came despite
softening commodity prices.
During the first half we have
increased underlying earnings
by 21 per cent to $5.1 billion
and enhanced operating cash
flow by 8 per cent, Rio CEO
Sam Walsh said. AFP
US fines likely as falling
earnings hurt StanChart
STANDARD Chartered Plc
said it faces further US fines
over efforts to block money
laundering and posted a 20
per cent earnings decline on
losses in Asia. Pretax profit,
excluding adjustments to the
value of the companys own
debt, fell to $3.3 billion in the
first half from $4.1 billion in
the year-earlier period, the
London-based bank said on
Wednesday. Standard
Chartered said its likely to
face more penalties after New
Yorks banking regulator
found certain issues with its
anti-money laundering
systems. BLOOMBERG
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Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 104.28 -0.31 -0.30% 5:37:42
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RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 273.47 -0.5 -0.18% 5:37:36
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 287.11 -0.5 -0.17% 5:37:09
ICEGasoil USD/MT 880.5 -1.25 -0.14% 5:37:09
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CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.63 0.01 0.04% 3:43:00
CME Lumber USD/tbf 342.3 6 1.78% 21:59:57
Flavia Krause-Jackson
E
VEN in death, you cant es-
cape the property bubble.
From New York to London,
growing populations are
competing with the deceased for
land, driving up real-estate costs well
into the afterlife. In Asian megacities,
where cremation is the norm, even
space for urns is in short supply.
At the end of the day, its like any
other piece of real estate, says Amy
Cunningham, a New York state li-
censed funeral director. Prices have
conspired to put burials out of the
range of most peoples budgets.
Every week, about 1,000 New York-
ers die. Manhattan is running out of
room. Further out in Brooklyn, prices
of plots for the deceased and apart-
ments for the living are at records.
A 756 square-foot mausoleum site
in Green-Wood Cemetery, on the
edge of Brooklyns Park Slope neigh-
bourhood, costs $320,000. An 1,800-
square-foot single family home across
the street sold for $245,000 in 2009.
Today its worth $1 million, according
to real-estate website Zillow Inc.
Former mayor Ed Koch may be
among the last New Yorkers to be
buried in Manhattan. He paid up-
town Trinity Church Cemetery
$20,000 in 2008, ve years before he
passed away at 88.
I dont want to leave Manhattan,
even when Im gone, Koch said at
the time.
The median cost of a funeral in the
US shot up to $7,000 in 2012 from
$700 in 1960, according to the Na-
tional Funeral Directors Association,
based near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
That and shifting cultural and re-
ligious attitudes explain why cre-
mations will become increasingly
common, said Christopher Coutts,
an associate professor of urban and
regional planning at Florida State
University in Tallahassee.
In 1960, fewer than 4 per cent of
Americans chose ashes to ashes. In
2012, it was 43 per cent, according
to the association. Thats still lower
than London, where its 70 per cent,
or Tokyo, where there is virtually no
alternative to incineration.
From a oating cemetery on the
South China Sea to launching corps-
es into space, architects and urban
planners are dreaming up new ways
to dispose of human remains.
The problem is pressing, now
more than ever before, said Coutts,
co-author of a 2013 academic paper,
Planning for the Deceased. Right
now were not being efcient, or en-
vironmental.
Green burials are a draw for eco-
friendly urbanities: Theres no
embalming and no casket. These
no-frills alternatives are cheaper,
too: about $3,000 compared with
$10,000 for a traditional interment,
Cunningham said.
Claiming to be the greenest of them
all is Promessa Organic Ab, based in
Nosund, Sweden. It is developing
a procedure that would freeze-dry
bodies in a tank of liquid nitrogen
and pulverise them. Unlike crema-
tion, the process doesnt release tox-
ins, such as mercury, into the air.
In Asia, the dead, like the living, are
moving into high-rises.
The wait time for a sought-after slot
in a public Hong Kong columbarium
a building containing urns can be
up to ve years. One private develop-
ment approved earlier this year will
convert an abandoned leather fac-
tory into an 11-story columbarium
that can hold 23,000 niches.
Lack of space to bury ones dead is
a problem as old as cities themselves.
From medieval Paris to ancient
Rome, catacombs were a practical
solution. Today, both European capi-
tals contain miles of underground
mazes and caves. Among Napoleon
Bonapartes rst acts was to clear out
the capitals overloaded graveyards
and build new cemeteries at the
edge of Paris.
Green-wood cemetery has 1,200
funerals a year, a 20 per cent drop
from a decade ago. In ve years, it
will run of space. Rather than trying
to squeeze more in, Rich Moylan,
president of the cemetery is count-
ing on events such as LGBT-themed
trolley tours with a guide highlight-
ing where famous gays are buried
to help supplement lost income.
As part of its transformation,
Green-Wood offers outdoor yoga
that integrates its serene landscape
in a subtle, thoughtful way, followed
by a relaxing breakfast picnic.
Income being what it is these
days, that hurts even a cemetery like
Green-wood, Moylan went on to
say. Youre looking to grow, and the
only way to do that is in the stock
market. BLOOMBERG
Cemetery prices to die for
From America to Asia, the price of burials has shot up due to the decreasing amount
of space available to bury the ever increasing number of dead. BLOOMBERG
World
States of
emergency
in Africa
over Ebola
OVERWHELMED West African
nations called states of emer-
gency yesterday as the death
toll from a fast-spreading
Ebola epidemic neared 1,000
and an elderly Spanish mis-
sionary was evacuated for
treatment at home.
In Liberia, where the dead lay
in the streets, lawmakers gath-
ered to ratify a state of emer-
gency while Sierra Leone sent
troops to guard hospitals and
clinics handling Ebola cases.
Nigeria held out hope it could
receive an experimental US-
developed drug to halt the
spread of the virus.
Since breaking out earlier this
year, the epidemic has claimed
932 lives and infected more
than 1,700 people across West
Africa, according to the WHO.
Ebola causes severe fever
and, in the worst cases, unstop-
pable bleeding. It is transmit-
ted through close contact with
bodily fluids.
As African nations struggled
with the sheer scale of the epi-
demic, Spain flew home a
75-year-old Roman Catholic
priest, Miguel Pajares, who con-
tracted the disease while help-
ing patients at a hospital in the
Liberian capital Monrovia.
The missionary was the first
patient in the outbreak to be
taken to Europe for treatment.
Two Americans who worked
for Christian aid agencies in
Liberia and were infected with
Ebola while taking care of
patients in Monrovia were
taken back to the US for treat-
ment in recent days.
They have shown signs of
improvement after being given
an experimental drug known
as ZMapp, which is hard to pro-
duce on a large scale. The vast
majority of those infected face
a far inferior level of health care
at home. There is no proven
treatment for Ebola and the use
of the experimental drug has
sparked controversy as Ebola
experts call for it to be made
available to African victims.
Liberia President Ellen John-
son Sirleaf declared a state of
emergency of at least 90 days
on Wednesday, saying extraor-
dinary measures were needed
for the very survival of our
state. Liberias parliament was
to ratify the decision late yes-
terday. AFP
Cleanliness, godliness
Buddhist monks and volunteers clean the 15-metre-tall Great Buddha statue during the annual Ominugui ceremony at Todaiji Temple in Japans ancient capital Nara yesterday. People
visited the temple in the belief that a person who collects dust during the ceremony will be trouble-free for a year. AFP
IS surrounds 40,000 on mountain
T
ENS of thousands
of members of one
of Iraqs oldest mi-
norities have been
stranded on a mountain in
the countrys northwest, fac-
ing slaughter at the hands of
Islamic State (IS) jihadists sur-
rounding them below if they
ee, or death by dehydration
if they stay.
French Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius yesterday
called for an urgent meeting
of the UN Security Council re-
garding the situation.
UN groups say at least 40,000
members of the Yazidi sect,
many of them women and chil-
dren, have taken refuge in nine
locations on Mount Sinjar, a
craggy, 2-kilometre-high ridge
identied in local legend as the
nal resting place of Noahs ark.
At least 130,000 more people,
many from the Yazidi strong-
hold of Sinjar, have ed to
Dohuk, in the Kurdish north,
or to Irbil, where regional au-
thorities have been struggling
since June to deal with one of
the biggest and most rapid ref-
ugee movements in decades.
Sinjar itself has been all but
emptied of its 300,000 resi-
dents since jihadists stormed
the city late on Saturday, but
an estimated 25,000 people
remain. We are being told to
convert or to lose our heads,
said Khuldoon Atyas, who has
stayed behind to guard his
familys crops. There is no
one coming to help.
Another man, who is hiding
in the mountains and identied
himself as Naee, said: Food
is low, ammunition is low, and
so is water. We have one piece
of bread to share between 10
people. We have to walk 2 ki-
lometres to get water. There
were some airstrikes yesterday
[against the jihadists], but they
have made no difference.
At least 500 Yazidis, including
40 children, have been killed
in the past week, local ofcials
say. Many more have received
direct threats, either from the
advancing militants or mem-
bers of nearby Sunni commu-
nities allied with them. They
were our neighbours and now
they are our killers, Atyas said.
Its not like this is a one-off
incident, UNICEF spokes-
woman Juliette Touma.
We are almost back to
square zero in terms of the pre-
paredness and the supplies.
Enormous numbers of people
have been crossing the border
since June.
The stresses are enormous;
dehydration, fatigue, people
sometimes having to walk
for days. The impact on kids
is very physical, let alone the
psychological impact.
The Kurdish minority Yaz-
idis have long been regarded
as devil worshippers by Sunni
jihadists who have targeted
them since the US invasion.
As the extremists latest and
most potent incarnation, the
IS, has steadily conquered
Iraqs north, the small, self-
contained community has
been especially vulnerable.
IS forces advanced across
northwestern Iraq almost un-
checked since a small band of
hardliners stormed Iraqs sec-
ond city, Mosul, on June 10,
sending the Iraqi army ee-
ing and shattering the central
governments control.
Up to 800 people from Yazidi
community have ed across
the border to Turkey, ofcials
said on yesterday.
Six hundred to 800 Yazidis
have made their own way to
Turkey since Wednesday, a
government ofcial said on
condition of anonymity.
They have been accom-
modated by the local authori-
ties in a housing complex for
earthquake victims in the
town of Silopi near the Iraqi
border.
A Turkish foreign ministry of-
cial described the ight of the
Yazidis as a human tragedy.
It is not possible for Turkey
to remain indifferent to this.
We will full our responsibil-
ity, the ofcial said.
Also yesterday, Pope Fran-
cis called on the international
community to protect those
eeing Yazidi.
A statement said that the
77-year-old pontiff calls on
the international community
to protect all those affected
or threatened by the violence,
and to guarantee all necessary
help to those forced to ee
their homes, whose fate de-
pends entirely on the solidar-
ity of others. THE GUARDIAN/AFP
AUSTRALIAN authorities said
yesterday they had nally
contacted a man exposed as
a convicted pedophile at the
centre of a Thai surrogate baby
scandal, as his son defended
him as a changed man.
Child protection ofcials
had been trying to touch base
with the man and his wife
since Tuesday but visits to
their home in Bunbury, south
of Perth, went unanswered.
The man, 56, sparked global
controversy for apparently
abandoning his Down syn-
drome baby boy, Gammy, in
Thailand and taking only his
healthy twin sister back home,
although he and his wife dis-
pute the circumstances.
It subsequently emerged
that he was convicted in the
1990s on 22 child sex abuse
charges involving girls as
young as 7, state broadcaster
ABC reported.
An investigation was
launched this week into the
safety and welfare of the twin
sister but authorities were un-
able to nd the family.
But Western Australia Child
Protection Minister Helen
Morton said her department
had now made phone contact
with the biological parents,
who cannot be named for le-
gal reasons.
This family needs the op-
portunity to have the con-
siderations around the safety
and well-being of that child
undertaken in a really private,
comfortable environment for
them, she told Fairfax Radio.
Morton gave no details
about the nature of the discus-
sion or the welfare of the baby
girl and said no further com-
ment would be made while an
investigation was under way.
We think that the family
deserves the opportunity for
privacy and condentiality.
The Thai surrogate mother,
Pattaramon Chanbua, has said
she was shocked to hear of the
child sex convictions and was
willing to take back the twin
sister aged 7 months if the
allegations were true.
The biological father has
three adult children and one
of them said he was a changed
man since spending time in
jail for the sex convictions.
I can tell you how good of
a father my dad was towards
us. Hes amazing. Hes brought
the best out of all of us kids,
the son, who did not want to
be named, said. Hes just got a
massive heart. Hes made mis-
takes, weve accepted it . . . Hes
made up for them.
For everything to be
brought back up is pretty
heartbreaking to be honest.
Pattaramon, 21, said she
agreed to carry another Thai
donors egg fertilised by the
Australian man in exchange
for around $14,900. AFP
World
13
China blocks message apps
C
HINA has banned users of in-
ternet messaging services from
posting political reports with-
out permission and has also de-
manded that posters promise to uphold
the socialist system.
Beijing tightly controls the internet, but
its online population of 632 million has
used messaging apps to push the bound-
aries of the Communist Partys restric-
tions on free speech.
Web companies are required to ensure
that users of online messaging services
register with their real names, state broad-
caster CCTV cited the governments Na-
tional Internet Information Ofce (NIIO)
as saying. Users will be required to agree
to seven bottom lines, including a vow
to uphold the socialist system, a euphe-
mism for Chinas one-party dominated
regime, when they register.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese use the
Twitter-like Sina Weibo and the messag-
ing app WeChat, among others.
The latest regulations appeared to be
aimed at WeChat, an IM platform that
allows users to share text, photos, videos
and voice messages over mobile devices.
Some foreign messaging apps, includ-
ing KakaoTalk and Line both of which
are owned by South Korean rms have
also been blocked in China for several
weeks, according to multiple reports.
South Korean authorities said yesterday
that Chinese ofcials told them the move
was taken as an anti-terrorism measure.
A South Korean ofcial said other apps
affected included Didi, TalkBox and Vower.
The NIIO said individuals or companies
running public accounts on services such
as WeChat cannot post political news
without ofcial approval.
The creation of new public accounts
which enable transmission to multiple
recipients is also subject to ofcial ap-
proval, it said.
The new regulations come as China con-
tinues a crackdown on online rumours,
which rights groups say is an excuse to
punish those who publish information
critical of the ruling party.
Also yesterday, China announced it
would construct a Chinese Christian the-
ology suitable for the country, state me-
dia reported, with both believer numbers
and tensions with authorities on the rise.
China has between 23 million and 40
million Protestants, accounting for 1.7 to
2.9 per cent of the total population, the
state-run China Daily said.
Over the past decades, the Protestant
churches in China have developed very
quickly with the implementation of the
countrys religious policy, the paper quot-
ed State Administration for Religious Af-
fairs director Wang Zuoan as saying. The
construction of Chinese Christian theolo-
gy should adapt to Chinas national condi-
tion and integrate with Chinese culture.
The Communist Party is ofcially athe-
istic and keeps a tight grip on religion for
fear it could challenge its grip on power.
It requires believers to worship in places
approved by the state and under govern-
ment supervision. AFP
Instant messaging apps and services including Weibo, Line and WeChat have been targeted by
new Communist Party regulations aimed at clamping down on dissent. BLOOMBERG
Pattaramon Chanbua, the Thai
surrogate mother. AFP
THAI police said yesterday
they will use DNA testing to
establish the relationships of
nine surrogate babies and a
Japanese businessman who
claims to be their biological
father as a fresh surrogacy
scandal emerged.
The case, which has raised
questions over the relative
ease with which foreigners
can come to Thailand to have
surrogate babies, was exposed
on Tuesday when authorities,
acting on a tipoff, found nine
babies, six boys and three girls,
aged from 2 weeks to 2 years,
in rented rooms at a condo-
minium in Bangkok.
Anti-human trafcking sup-
pression police have stepped
in to investigate.
Police General Aek Angsan-
anont, deputy national police
chief, said the DNA testing is
a crucial part of the police in-
vestigation into the latest sur-
rogacy case which is likely to
be more complicated than the
baby Gammy affair.
The babies have been taken
to a state-run nursing home.
Shortly after the search, law-
yer Ratthaprathan Tulathorn
contacted police and claimed
he is representing a Japanese
man. He said this client is the
father of all the babies.
The surrogacy arrangements
were legal and no women were
forced to carry a child.
Ratthaprathan provided in-
formation about the father,
but claimed he had no details
about the biological mothers,
police said. BANGKOK POST
THE operator of Japans crip-
pled Fukushima nuclear plant
yesterday unveiled a plan to
dump scrubbed water directly
into the ocean, sparking con-
cerns over whether it would
be properly decontaminated.
The plan, which still needs
approval from the nuclear
agency and local residents,
comes as workers are locked
in a daily struggle to safely
store radioactive water used
to cool reactors that went into
meltdown after Japans 2011
quake-tsunami disaster.
The tainted water is stored in
hundreds of on-site tanks but
operator TEPCO has admitted
that its running out of space.
It is also ghting to contain
contaminated groundwater
around the plant from seep-
ing into the ocean, more than
three years after the worst
atomic crisis in a generation.
The utility said it now wants
to start pumping out the un-
derground water, purify it with
a state-of-the-art system and
then release it into the ocean.
But we know we have to get
an agreement from the rel-
evant government authorities
. . . and local shing unions, a
company spokesman said.
The rm says it would sig-
nicantly reduce the amount
of tainted groundwater, after
announcing earlier this year
that it was building an ice
wall freezing the ground
around the plant to staunch
the ow. AFP
Surrogacy scandal
pedo tracked down
Babies found in condo
TEPCO wants to scrub
Fukushima water clean
World
Russia retaliates, bans
imports of foreign food
RUSSIA retaliated against
tough new Western sanctions
yesterday, banning most food
imports from the United States
and the European Union and
threatening to block flights
over its airspace.
The 28-member EU swiftly
denounced the measures as
clearly politically motivated
and said it was ready to take
action in response.
The tit-for-tat moves further
heighten tensions between
Russia and the West over the
conflict in Ukraine, where
heavy shelling was reported in
the rebel-held eastern city of
Donetsk yesterday.
Russias food embargo would
affect imports of beef, pork,
fruit and vegetable produce,
poultry, fish, cheese, milk and
dairy products from the Euro-
pean Union, United States,
Australia, Canada and Norway,
Prime Minister Dmitry
Medvedev told a government
meeting in televised remarks.
The ban exempts only baby
food and will last one year
unless our partners demon-
strate a constructive approach
with regards to sanctioning
Russia, he said. I hope that
economic pragmatism of our
partners will win over lousy
political motives, he said.
People will still be able to buy
the banned foods abroad if
they want, Medvedev said,
warning that those who try to
profit from reselling them will
be harshly punished.
Russia imports 35 per cent of
all the food it consumes, taking
10 per cent of food industry
exports from the EU worth 12
billion a year.
The EUs executive European
Commission said in a state-
ment that following full assess-
ment by the Commission of the
Russian Federations measures,
we reserve the right to take
action as appropriate.
Moscow is also considering
a ban on the use of Russian
airspace for European air-
lines, the so-called overflight
rights needed to take the
shortest route between
Europe and Asia.
US airlines have not been
allowed to use Siberian air-
space for years and have been
pushing the Russian govern-
ment to review its policy.
The overflight measure is
being mulled in response to EU
sanctions effectively grounding
Dobrolet, a low-cost subsidiary
of Russias flagship Aeroflot,
over its flights to Russias
annexed Crimean peninsula on
US-made Boeing craft. AFP
Snowden gets another

three years in Russia
EDWARD Snowden, the
former security contractor
who exposed top-secret
American spying programs,
has won the right to live in
Russia for three more years,
his lawyer said, threatening to
further strain ties with the US.
Snowden, whose temporary
one-year asylum expired July
31, can apply for Russian
citizenship in mid-2018,
Anatoly Kucherena told
reporters in Moscow yesterday.
He didnt get a residency
permit as a special favour,
the lawyer said. BLOOMBERG
Air Algerie crash voice
recordings unusable
INVESTIGATORS probing the
crash of an Air Algerie flight in
Mali that killed 116 people last
month said yesterday they had
been unable to access voice
recordings from the flight
deck. The tape was a little bit
damaged. We were able to
extract it . . . The BEA
laboratory was able to restore
the tape. Unfortunately the
recordings are so far
unusable, Remi Jouty, head
of Frances Bureau of
Investigations and Analyses air
safety agency, said. Flight
AH5017 crashed on July 24 in
the Mali desert after asking to
turn back as bad weather
struck. AFP
Truce deadline looms
A
THREE-DAY cease-
re in Gaza that has
brought relief to mil-
lions entered its nal
stretch yesterday with Israel
ready to extend the calm but
Hamas hedging its bets.
And US President Barack
Obama put pressure on in-
tensive ceasere negotiations
in Cairo by saying Gaza could
not remain cut off from the
world forever.
Britain, France and Germa-
ny meanwhile put forward an
initiative which would answer
key demands on both sides
and which has been present-
ed to Israel, the Palestinians,
Egypt and Washington, a dip-
lomatic source said.
Four weeks of bloodshed be-
tween Israel and Hamas killed
1,886 Palestinians and 67 on
the Israeli side.
With the ceasere due to end
at 0500 GMT on Friday, Egypts
intelligence chief Mohamed
Farid Tohamy was to hold a
new round of talks with each
side late yesterday, with the fo-
cus on extending the deadline.
An Israeli ofcial has said
Israel would be prepared to
prolong the ceasere un-
conditionally. But, following
two-days of indirect Egyptian-
brokered talks, Hamas said
agreement had still not been
reached to extend the calm,
which started on Tuesday.
There is no agreement to
extend the ceasere, Hamas
exiled deputy leader Mussa
Abu Marzuq wrote on Twitter.
With the guns silent, some
semblance of normal life has
returned to Gaza with traf-
c clogging the streets and
people bustling about their
business as shops, banks and
markets resumed business.
Hundreds of Palestinians
poured onto the streets of
Gaza City yesterday to at-
tend a Hamas victory rally,
chanting slogans of support
for resistance against Israel.
Loudspeakers mounted
by the roadside blared out
Hamas victory songs as the
crowd most of them men
but with some children
dressed in combat fatigues
and carrying toy guns gath-
ered in the square outside the
parliament building.
We have won the military
battle and with the permission
of God well win the political
battle, Hamas MP Mushir al-
Masri told the crowd.
Resistance, resistance, re-
sistance! the demonstrators
chanted. AFP
A Palestinian youth carries items salvaged from the rubble in Gaza
Citys al-Tufah neighbourhood during a 72-hour ceasere. AFP
World
15
Big crater is bad
news: scientists
R
ESEARCHERS have long
contended that the epicentre
of global warming is also far-
thest from the reach of hu-
manity. Its in the barren landscapes of
the frozen North, where red-cheeked
children wear fur, the sun barely rises
in the winter and temperatures can
plunge dozens of degrees below zero.
Such a place is the Yamal Peninsula in
Siberia, translated as the ends of the
Earth a desolate spit of land where
a group called the Nenets live.
By now, youve heard of the crater on
the Yamal Peninsula. Its the one that
suddenly appeared, yawning nearly
61-metres in diameter. The adjectives
most often used to describe it: giant,
mysterious, curious. Scientists were
subsequently bafed. Locals were
mystied. There were whispers
that aliens were responsible. Nearby
residents peddled theories of bright
ashes and celestial bodies.
Theres now a substantiated theory
about what created the crater. And
the news isnt so good.
It may be methane gas, released
by the thawing of frozen ground. Ac-
cording to a recent Nature article, air
near the bottom of the crater con-
tained unusually high concentrations
of methane up to 9.6% in tests
conducted at the site on 16 July, says
Andrei Plekhanov, an archaeologist at
the Scientic Centre of Arctic Stud-
ies in Salekhard, Russia. Plekhanov,
who led an expedition to the crater,
says that air normally contains just
0.000179% methane.
The scientist said the methane re-
lease may be related to Yamals unusu-
ally hot summers in 2012 and 2013,
which were warmer by an average of
5 degrees Celsius. As temperatures
rose, the researchers suggest, perma-
frost thawed and collapsed, releasing
methane that had been trapped in
the icy ground, the report stated.
Plekhanov explained that the con-
clusion is preliminary. He would like
to study how much methane is con-
tained in the air trapped inside the
craters walls. Such a task, however,
could be difcult.
Its rims are slowly melting and fall-
ing into the crater. You can hear the
ground falling, you can hear the wa-
ter running; its rather spooky.
Now, as two additional craters have
also recently been discovered in Sibe-
ria, researchers worry the craters may
portend changes to local Siberian life.
Two have appeared close to a large
gas eld. If [a release] happens at
the Bovanenkovskoye gas eld that
is only 30 kilometres away, it could
lead to an accident, and the same if it
happens in a village, Plekhanov told
Nature. THE WASHINGTON POST
A zebra-donkey hybrid born last week plays with his mother at the Taigan zoo park outside Simferopol, Crimea, on Tuesday. The
zoo welcomed into its collection the zebroid or zonkey after a zebra gave birth after befriending a donkey. Given the name
Telegraph by the keepers at the zoo, his head and body resemble that of a donkey and are a solid beige colour, while his legs are
marked by black zebra stripes. Crosses between zebras and other members of the equine family are not unheard of, but it is
more unusual that the zebra is the mother. Allowing such breeding to occur is frowned upon in the zoo community. AFP
Zebra crossing
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W
HEN my 65-year-old
mother visited my
foundations office
recently, she was cov-
ered from head to toe in a long win-
ter coat and headdress despite it
being 28 degrees Celsius. She
explained that she wanted extra pro-
tection against the Ebola virus.
As the outbreak worsened, I
urged my parents to leave Monro-
via. But my mother, a vibrant and
protective member of her commu-
nity, refuses. She is the sole carer
for my grandmother, a centenarian
who is too frail and stubborn to
travel. She stays because she loves
her home and her community. She
stays for Liberia.
Last year, Liberia celebrated the
10th anniversary of the end of a long
and bloody civil war. We proudly
marked the milestone and were
optimistic about the future. Half a
generation of children have no
memory of war. Businesses have
grown, students attend schools and
many compatriots have returned
home. When I travel internationally,
I proudly display my Liberian pass-
port. After the election of Africas
first female president, Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, and the 2011 Nobel Peace
Prize awards, my country was
famous for something other than
child soldiers and a despot.
But now we face a new enemy from
within. Liberia is battling a virus that
threatens to destroy our progress.
The Ebola outbreak has closed all
schools. Hospitals are overwhelmed
and two airlines have stopped flights
to the country. Ebola is resurrecting
old traumas for Liberians who sur-
vived the war. Those with the right
passports are able to leave. Those
with resources can buy soap and
protective gear to keep safe. But peo-
ple cannot conduct their business as
usual. Children no longer attend
classes, and many are shuttered
inside their homes. My brave sisters,
who protested along with me against
the civil war, are back again. Clothed
in white T-shirts, they gather togeth-
er to pray for a reprieve and offer
passersby water with which to wash
their hands.
The response to the crisis was ini-
tially underwhelming. Our health
care providers lacked necessary sup-
plies, such as gloves, masks and
bleach. This weeks US-Africa Lead-
ers Summit hosted by Barack
Obama in Washington under-
scores the point that Africas devel-
opment is in every nations interest.
But it is the needs at the local level
that worry me most.
Before the outbreak, Liberia had
fewer than 300 doctors for a popula-
tion of 3.5 million people. With so
few doctors to care for Ebola victims,
unrelated ailments are overlooked.
For children and the elderly, treata-
ble diseases are much more deadly.
For pregnant women, the few facili-
ties for childbirth have grown fewer.
Last week, a friend was turned
away from the hospital. Her first
child was delivered outside the
maternity ward.
A month ago, Saint Josephs Cath-
olic Hospital in Monrovia wel-
comed with fanfare a new ECG
machine. The hospitals director, Dr
Patrick Nshamdze, caught the virus
last month and died on Saturday.
The hospital is now closed.
People need direct funds to care
for their families as the govern-
ment scrambles to create a cohe-
sive health response network
where none existed before. The
outbreak will end when individuals
understand the disease and adopt
safe and sanitary practices to feed
and care for each other. My foun-
dation organised two information
sessions, for community groups
from across Liberia to distribute
posters and fund prevention and
outreach efforts. Some groups
drove up to eight hours to receive
material. Since efforts at the macro
level are flailing, Liberians must be
vigilant with their own families
and communities.
This epidemic is rewriting how we
care for one other. But we must also
equip communities with the
resources they need. A slapdash
government response has aided
Ebolas spread. The purpose of the
US-Africa Leaders Summit was to
secure development funds for gov-
ernments. Lets also provide
resources to the people who are
most vulnerable to Ebola. Liberia
has so much more to give to the
world. THE GUARDIAN
Ebola virus: a viral enemy
Members of Women in Peacebuilding Network pray on Wednesday on a eld not far from the residence of Liberias president, in Monrovia. AFP
Comment
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activ-
ist, president of the Gbowee Peace Foun-
dation and a 2011 Nobel peace laureate.
T
UESDAY nights for-
mal function at the
White House might
not have been a state
dinner that apex of entertain-
ing at 1600 Pennsylvania Av-
enue that traditionally sends
chefs and protocol experts and
social secretaries into a tizzy
of calligraphy and honing of
guest lists.
Yet the event held in hon-
our of more than 50 African-
nation dignitaries and their
guests was just as challenging
to pull off.
The usual headaches of diplo
power-dining were increased
greatly: Seating charts ac-
counted for regional tensions
in Africa. In advance, staffers
identied the guests whose
faith makes wine taboo. And
which wife was the King of
Swaziland bringing, anyway?
The fete bore many of the
hallmarks of a state dinner.
There was an elegant menu
and a famous entertainer (pop
icon Lionel Richie) and a white
tent on the South Lawn. And
Michelle Obama debuted an-
other dazzling dress a cream
Prabal Gurung.
But small touches, nearly im-
perceptible to anyone but pro-
tocol wonks, distinguished the
event from a traditional state
function: Guests were greeted
by chief of protocol Peter Sel-
fridge, for example, rather than
the president and the rst lady.
And most of the men wore
sharp suits or traditional garb
instead of tuxedoes.
Unlike so many state dinners
of late, there were few glitzy
celebrity imports on the guest
list in part because the presi-
dents and their guests alone
made up a large chunk of the
invitees. In addition to the
usual turnout of senators and
Cabinet secretaries, there were
actors Robert De Niro and Uzo
Aduba (the Orange Is the New
Black stars family is Nigerian).
Former president Jimmy
Carter was also in attendance.
But for a change, the foreign
dignitaries were the stars. And
they didnt disappoint. The
guest arrivals turned the White
Houses stately North Portico
into a catwalk of sorts, with
brightly coloured gowns offer-
ing a welcome change from
the usual parade of safe black
dresses. Chantal Biya, the dra-
matically coiffed rst lady of
Cameroon, sported her signa-
ture crimson bouffant, which
clashed merrily with a lollipop-
pink ensemble.
(And for the record: The
King of Swaziland brought
Inkhosikati LaMbikiza, his
third wife.)
President Barack Obama
raised a toast to the guests,
noting that the White House
had never before hosted so
many presidents and prime
ministers at one time. He also
underscored his Kenyan heri-
tage. I stand before you as the
president of the United States,
a proud American, he said.
But I also stand before you
as the son of a man from Af-
rica. The blood of Africa runs
through our family.
The evening was the centre-
piece of this weeks summit of
African leaders in Washing-
ton, a historic confab aimed
at highlighting the possibili-
ties of greater economic ties
between the United States and
the continent. On Tuesday
night, though, business talk
was mostly put aside.
And when the guests l-
tered in, the gathered press
corps could hear the strains
of protesters on Pennsylvania
Avenue which mixed in with
the sounds of an orchestra. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Cords used as neckwear
6 Door neighbor
10 Praise effusively
14 Gradually deteriorate
15 Artificially colored spread
16 Aware of, as a scheme
17 Agree to someones terms
20 Olympic jersey monogram
21 Electron losers or gainers
22 Nonagenarians minimum age
23 Be an excellent student
25 Write up, as a speeder
26 Minor criticisms
28 Slippery and sinuous
32 Type of setter
34 Monty Halls offering
35 Deplaning gift in Maui
38 Start to personally shine
42 St. Louis-to-Cincinnati dir.
43 Word with fry or freeze
44 Old Venetian officials
45 Jeer
48 Sommeliers suggestion
49 And others (Abbr.)
51 Number of sides in an octagon
53 Like congested traffic
55 Complex red organic pigment
56 Tenth letter of the Hebrew
alphabet
59 Add to the staff
62 Imitative sort
63 State of deep unconsciousness
64 Bookcase unit
65 Franklin and Vereen
66 Annual athletic award
67 Prose piece
DOWN
1 Boyfriend
2 Saurons minions
3 Part of a pilots announcement
4 Horatian oration
5 Retro photo
6 Woodward of film
7 Mont Blanc and neighbors
8 Sea, to Debussy
9 Unexpected blessing
10 Kid in a Spielberg movie
11 Like wet concrete
12 Envelopes two letters
13 From God
18 Floored it
19 Like pigs feet
24 To be, to Cato
26 Pleasant city on the Riviera?
27 Golf club choice
29 Parkinsons drug
30 DiCaprio, for short
31 Janis of folk
33 2004 Viggo Mortensen film
35 Company emblems
36 Pretty pitcher
37 Pt. of M.I.T.
39 Goal attachment
40 Private eye, slangily
41 Junior-to-be
45 Antics
46 Room to maneuver
47 Drooping
49 Military storehouse
50 Sign or emblem
52 Where to get down?
53 Kind of thrust
54 ___ and for all
55 Burlap fiber
57 Indian writing paper
58 Put up resistance to
60 Hated responses
61 Fun house cries
ADOPTION
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Like a state dinner with
continent-sized snags
The wife of Cameroon President Paul Biya, Chantal, arrives at the White House for a group dinner during the
US-Africa Leaders Summit on Tuesday. AFP
Lifestyle
17
Fury, legal threats
Indian photo
shoot echoes
gang-rape
A
N INDIAN fashion shoot
sparked outrage and
calls for legal action
on Wednesday for showing a
woman being assaulted on a
bus, echoing a fatal gang-rape
that shocked the nation.
The project by photographer
Raj Shetye called The Wrong
Turn appeared in his online
portfolio in recent days before
being taken down, but the pic-
tures have since been carried
by various media outlets.
They show a female model
dressed in high-end fashion
garments being groped on a
bus by a group of men, also
stylishly dressed.
In one image, the woman
is on the floor with a man
standing over her, while one
shows her struggling with two
men gripping her arms, and
another has two men pinning
her down on the seats.
The shoot has drawn criti-
cism on social media in India,
where the fatal gang-rape of
a student on a bus in Decem-
ber 2012 sparked nationwide
protests over levels of sexual
violence against women.
Nirmala Samant, chairwo-
man of the National Commis-
sion for Women, has written
to Mumbais chief of police
calling for an investigation
over the photographs.
Any person with common
sense will understand this is
nothing but glorifying of vio-
lence, Samant said. Im of
the strong opinion that there
should be some legal action
because this is not artistic
freedom, certainly not. AFP
My ex
killed Jim
Morrison:
Faithfull
BRITISH singer Marianne
Faithfull has told an inter-
viewer her former boyfriend
accidentally killed iconic rock
singer Jim Morrison of The
Doors 43 years ago.
Morrison was found dead
aged 27 in July 1971 in the
bathroom of his Paris apart-
ment, and no autopsy was per-
formed on his body.
Faithfull told Mojo maga-
zine that her then-boyfriend
Jean de Breteuil, known as the
heroin dealer to the stars, had
accidentally killed Morrison by
giving him drugs that were too
strong. The couple had trav-
elled to Paris, and on their arriv-
al de Breteuil said he had to visit
Morrisons apartment. Faithfull
stayed behind at their hotel.
[De Bretueil] went to see
Jim Morrison and killed him. I
mean Im sure it was an acci-
dent. Poor bastard. The smack
[heroin] was too strong? Yeah.
And he died . . . everybody con-
nected to the death of this poor
guy is dead now. Except me.
De Breteuil himself was
found dead in Morocco some
weeks following Morrisons
death. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 08 , 2014 19
Travel
20
A
T HIS fathers direc-
tion, Fumihiko Wada
began training to
make soba noodles
when he was 18 years old. But
he left his home at 19 to be-
come a manga artist. I almost
ran away from home to go to
Tokyo, he said.
Now, at the age of 76, he is
back in Kita-Shiobara, a part
of Fukushima prefecture re-
nowned for its buckwheat,
where he is acclaimed as a
master soba maker.
The village of Kita-Shiobara
and the surrounding area are
called Ura-
bandai. The
name means
behind Mt
Bandai, as it
is just north
of the famous
mountain.
In the big
city, he did
not become
a successful
manga art-
ist. Instead,
he had made
a living by
drawing il-
l us t r at i ons
for text books
and adverts.
He met renowned manga artist
Osamu Tezuka. As he was good
at making soba by hand, Wada
made and served them to Te-
zuka and other manga artists.
When he turned 60, he re-
turned to his hometown. I
didnt plan to make a living
making soba, he said. I made
it as a pastime and gave some
to my neighbours. One day, I
was asked by the president of
a local tourist hotel to open a
soba restaurant in the hotel.
Wada accepted the offer and
the restaurant eventually be-
came very popular.
However, after the Great East
Japan Earthquake on March
11, 2011, the number of cus-
tomers at his soba restaurant
decreased signicantly.
When the Fukushima Dai-
ichi Nuclear Power Plant in a
different part of the prefecture
was damaged by tsunami after,
radioactive material escaped
into the environment.
Soba our [to make the
noodles] is made by grind-
ing buckwheat harvested the
previous year. There was no
[contamination by] nuclear
substances, Wada said. But
people suddenly stopped com-
ing here.
Two years ago, he started
distributing his noodles to ho-
tels in the neighbourhood. He
makes the soba early in the
morning at home.
I had an opportunity to eat
his soba at a restaurant at the
National Park Resort Uraban-
dai. It was a bit sweet and ap-
propriately rm to the bite. It
also felt satisfyingly smooth
when I swallowed it.
The next day, I visited
the Mt Bandai Eruption
Me mo r i a l
Mu s e u m.
The moun-
tain is an
active vol-
cano that
has erupted
many times
in the past.
The mu-
seum dis-
plays many
mat er i al s,
such as a
photo docu-
menting a
large-scale
eruption in
1888 that
left at least
477 people dead.
Hiroshi Sato, vice director
general of the museum, said:
The Bandai Highlands are
known for beautiful greenery
and lakes. I want people not
to forget the highlands were
created by the eruption.
At nearby Lake Hibara, I saw
many people gliding across the
water in two-person canoes.
Ryo Watanabe, 39, an out-
door guide, tells visitors before
boarding: The person who sits
on the back seat is the captain.
The captain should provide
good navigation for the person
in the front seat.
On the last day of my visit, I
trekked up a mountain path to
see Onogawa Fudo Taki, a sce-
nic waterfall. The view of the
water cascading down from a
height of 40 metres was truly
magnicent. Feeling its spray
over my entire body, I felt thor-
oughly relaxed.
I hope more people will bet-
ter understand the situation of
Fukushima prefecture today
and enjoy a visit there. This will
contribute to its recovery. THE
YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Noodles and
a canoe trip
in Fukushima
Visitors paddle two-person canoes on Lake Hibara in Fukushima pre-
fecture. Mt Bandai can be seen in the background. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
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Fumihiko Wadas handmade soba
(buckwheat noodles) at a restau-
rant at the National Park Resort
Urabandai. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 8, 2014 21

Selig exits baseball
with MLB in fine shape
BUD Selig is giving his
successor as Major League
Baseball commissioner a
sport with more than double
the revenue of 11 years ago, a
two-decade run of labour
peace and television contracts
in place through 2021. MLB
executives Rob Manfred and
Tim Brosnan have been
selected as finalists to succeed
the retiring Selig, 80, along
with Boston Red Sox chairman
Tom Werner, a person familiar
with the process said on
Tuesday, adding that baseball
owners will vote on the new
commissioner next week in
Baltimore. Selig said he will
step down when his term ends
January 24, 2015, ending a
22-year run thats the second
longest behind the sports first
commissioner, Kenesaw
Mountain Landis. BLOOMBERG
Phelps hits the wall in
swimming comeback
OLYMPIC great Michael Phelps
suffered the first big setback of
his return to competition on
Wednesday as a poor turn left
him seventh in the 100m free at
the US Swimming Champion-
ships. In a finals field loaded
with Olympic medalists, the
18-time Games champion
made a mess of his turn at the
50m wall, and had no chance to
challenge coming home in the
race won by 2012 Olympic gold
medalist Nathan Adrian. When
I literally took a couple kicks
and I barely passed the flags, I
knew there was very little
chance that I was going to run
anybody down, Phelps said. It
just kind of stinks that I missed
the first wall. AFP
Khan scores 177 as
Perera takes 5 wickets
SRI Lankan off-spinner
Dilruwan Perera grabbed the
last five wickets as Pakistan
were bowled out for 451 just
before tea on the second day of
the first Test in Galle yesterday.
Resuming after lunch on 347-5,
the tourists made use of the
easy-paced wicket to build a
challenging total, with veteran
Younis Khan top-scoring with
177. Khan, who came in to bat
at 19-2 on the first morning and
ended the day on 133, anchored
the innings with the help of
lower-order batsmen. AFP
Springboks call up
Juan Smith for Tests
SOUTH Africa have called up
experienced forward Juan
Smith for the Rugby
Championship. Smith, a World
Cup winner in 2007 who has 69
Test caps to his name, currently
plays in France with double
European champions Toulon.
He was given the call following
confirmation that Victor
Matfield will miss the opening
Test of the Rugby Champion-
ship next Saturday in Pretoria
against Argentina. Our need at
this stage is to draft in a player
who can cover lock and loose
forward, and we feel Juan is the
right man for the job, said
Springbok coach Heyneke
Meyer. He has played lock
before in his career and won an
U21 World Cup in that position,
but he also covers flank and No
8. I spoke to him on various
occasions and hes comfortable
with playing in the second row
again if the need arises. AFP
Suspect in Schumacher records theft hangs himself
A MAN arrested this week suspected of
involvement in the theft and leaking of
a medical file on injured ex-Formula
One champion Michael Schumacher
was found hanged in his cell on Wednes-
day, prosecutors said.
The man, whose identity was not
disclosed, worked as an executive at a
Swiss helicopter air rescue company,
Rega, which organised the German
sportsmans transport from a French
hospital to Switzerland in June, the
Zurich prosecutors office said in a
statement.
The man, arrested Tuesday and inter-
rogated by police, had denied any
wrongdoing. He was being detained in
a Zurich police holding cell, the state-
ment said.
He was found hanged when officers
came to bring him breakfast before a
scheduled hearing before a judge.
According to an initial investigation,
no one else was involved in his hanging,
the prosecutors office said.
Zurich police told AFP they had spot-
ted no signs the man was mentally
unstable or suicidal.
Out of respect for human dignity,
detained people keep their clothing in
the cells. There are also sheets in the
cells, so theres always a risk that we can-
not eliminate, police spokesman Wern-
er Schaub said, without revealing what
the man had used to hang himself.
We are at a loss for words and deep-
ly shocked, Sabine Kehm, spokes-
woman for Schumachers family, told
AFP in an email.
Schumacher sustained serious head
injuries in a skiing accident at Meribel
on December 29 and spent more than
five months in hospital in the French
city of Grenoble before being trans-
ferred to Switzerland in June 16.
The former champion driver, long a
resident of the wealthy Alpine nation,
was brought by ambulance amid the
utmost secrecy to a cutting-edge unit in
the CHUV hospital in Lausanne.
But word soon got out that some of
his medical records had been stolen and
that the thief was attempting to sell
them to different media for 50,000
($67,000).
French prosecutors last month
tracked down the IP address of the com-
puter used in the theft of the medical
records to Zurich-based Rega, which is
the main operator of air ambulances in
Switzerland.
The company confirmed that it had
received a medical file to enable it to
provide a medical opinion on the mer-
its of the transfer operation, but denied
any wrongdoing.
The firm followed in the footsteps of
Schumachers family and lodged a legal
complaint against persons unknown
in the case.
French police opened a criminal
investigation and requested assistance
from Switzerland, which had opened
its own probe.
Rega chief Ernst Kohler expressed
sadness at Wednesdays news.
We are deeply affected to learn ... that
a Rega employee, taken into custody
yesterday upon suspicion of violating
professional secrecy, committed suicide
in his cell, he said in a statement.
This tragic event leaves us saddened
and speechless. Our thoughts and sin-
cere condolences go to the deceaseds
family and loved ones, he added.
The Zurich prosecutors office refused
to reveal the mans age, nationality or
other identifying factors.
But spokeswoman Corinne Bouvard
told AFP the prosecution was fairly con-
fident the man was the one who stole
Schumachers medical records and tried
to sell them to journalists.
There is very compelling evidence
[that] it was he who tried to sell copies
of Schumachers medical records to
different media, she said, adding that
there was no indication he had any
accomplices and that the case should
be closed.
In its statement, the prosecution
authority stressed however that the
man should be presumed innocent
until proven guilty.
According to Swiss media reports, the
data thief had exercised little caution.
He used the pseudonym Kagemu-
sha, or Shadow Warrior, inspired by
a Japanese historical film, the Tages
Anzeiger daily reported in its online
edition.
But he sent his offers to sell the med-
ical documents, along with extracts of
the records, via unencrypted emails
from computers at Regas offices, mak-
ing it easy for police to track the IP
address to the company, it added.
No media have ever published details
from the stolen documents.
Schumacher remains in the Lausanne
clinic, but little information has
emerged about his condition since it
was announced he had exited a six-
month coma in June. AFP
Pistorius branded deceitful
witness as trial enters finale
S
OUTH African Olym-
pian Oscar Pistorius
returned to the dock
yesterday for the nale
to his gripping murder trial as
lawyers present closing argu-
ments in a case that has cap-
tured the worlds attention.
State lawyer Gerrie Nel
kicked off a two-day show-
down between the countrys
top legal minds, insisting Pis-
torius deliberately murdered
his model girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp on Valentines
Day in 2013 and declaring
him a deceitful witness.
Pistorius, a double-am-
putee star sprinter known
as the Blade Runner, has
denied the charge in the
months-long trial in which
he has at times sat weeping
and vomiting in the dock as
grisly details of Steenkamps
death were presented to the
judge.
His legal team led by top
defence lawyer Barry Roux
has sought to convince Judge
Thokozile Masipa that the
27-year-old Pistorius shot his
girlfriend by accident, believ-
ing her to be an intruder.
The defence has sought to
portray Pistorius as a highly
vulnerable individual ob-
sessed with safety a result
of a difcult childhood and
his disability in a country
with a sky-high crime rate.
During the trial Pistorius
underwent psychiatric eval-
uation and a ensuing report
said he was suffering post-
traumatic stress disorder, but
was not suffering any mental
illness that could prevent
him being held criminally re-
sponsible for his actions.
The athlete appeared at
Pretoria High Court for the
start of closing arguments
wearing glasses and a dark
suit, clenching his jaw as Nel
accused him of concocting
an alibi to avoid justice.
It is the states case the
accused was a deceitful wit-
ness, said Nel, describing
Pistoriuss testimony was ab-
solutely devoid of any truth.
He said there are glaring
contradictions in the Para-
lympic gold medallists story.
Initially, Pistorius said he
shot Steenkamp by mistake
through a toilet door in his
upmarket Pretoria home, be-
lieving her to be an intruder.
However under intense
cross-examination, he said
he accidentally shot his girl-
friend as a result of deep-
seated anxiety caused by his
disability and did not mean
to kill anyone. Nel also said
Pistorius had anxiety on
call, suggesting the runner
manufactured a fear of crime
to suit his version.
Legal analysts watching
the case say the runner, once
revered for his triumph over
disability, did damage to his
case by appearing to offer
two different defences.
Nearly 40 witnesses rang-
ing from a jilted ex-girlfriend
of Pistorius to a forensic ge-
ologist testied, creating a
hefty record with thousands
of pages.
Such was the intensity of
the public gaze that some
witnesses, including Pistori-
us, refused to testify in front
of cameras, while according
to defence lawyers, some re-
fused to testify at all.
Yesterday saw Barry Steen-
kamp, Reevas father, and
Henke Pistorius, Oscars
father, make their rst ap-
pearances in court as the
ve-month long and emo-
tion-lled trial reaches its
nale.
The court fell silent as Bar-
ry entered court and Henke
hugged his daughter Aimee
before taking a seat in the
rst row of the public gallery
behind his son.
Pistorius faces a minimum
of 25 years in jail if he is con-
victed of the premeditated
murder of his girlfriend.
He also faces three sepa-
rate gun charges.
Even if he is not found
guilty of premeditated mur-
der, Pistorius could still be
convicted and jailed on al-
ternative charges of murder
or culpable homicide.
Defence lawyer Barry Roux
is expected to give his con-
cluding arguments on Friday.
Pistorius, a gold medallist
Paralympian, rose to inter-
national fame when he com-
peted alongside able-bodied
runners at the 2012 London
Olympics.
Once a poster boy for dis-
abled sport, he has been
stripped of his lucrative en-
dorsement deals by global
brands and has withdrawn
from all competitions.
Once concluding argu-
ments are nished, Judge
Thokozile Masipa is expect-
ed to adjourn the case for a
couple of weeks before deliv-
ering her verdict. AFP
South African paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is pictured ahead of the nal arguments of his murder trial at the high court in Pretoria yesterday. AFP
Sport
Djokovic battles as
Murray sails through
W
IMBLEDON champions
Novak Djokovic and
Andy Murray warmed
up their hardcourt
games on Wednesday with victories
in their opening matches at the To-
ronto ATP Masters.
World number one Djokovic, who
beat Roger Federer in ve sets in last
months Wimbledon nal, needed
almost two and three-quarter hours
to extend his winning run to 10
matches as he beat Frenchman Gael
Monls, with the top seed reaching
the third round after a 6-2, 6-7 (4/7),
7-6 (7/2) victory.
Britains 2013 Wimbledon winner
Murray made light of an absence
from the ATP Tour of over a month
to defeat promising Aussie teenag-
er Nick Kyrgios 6-2, 6-2 in less than
an hour.
Djokovic, married last month, was
playing for the rst time since his All
England Club triumph.
I tried to take the positives from
this long match, obviously the fact
that I stayed over two and a half
hours on the court and I have not
played an ofcial hard court match
since Miami nals [in March],
Djokovic said.
That obviously helps to play a lit-
tle bit more, to feel the court, to feel
the conditions. Im not feeling tired.
Im not exhausted. I havent played a
tournament for four weeks. I of course
look forward to compete more.
He goes through to a meeting with
French 13th seed Jo-Wilfried Tson-
ga, who beat countryman Jeremy
Chardy 7-6 (8/6), 6-4.
Djokovic is bidding to become the
third player, after Federer and Na-
dal, to win at least 20 Masters 1000
titles. He has claimed ve of the last
six he has contested.
Murray, the eighth seed who won
the Canadian title in 2009 and 2010,
had been seen as a potential scalp
for the dangerous Kyrgios since los-
ing to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in
the Wimbledon quarter-nals.
In the interim, the disappointed
27-year-old Scot left for his training
base in Miami to try and rediscover
his best form, which had eluded him
since back surgery in September.
He also signed former top French
WTA player Amelie Mauresmo to a
long-term coaching contract after
an experimental period through the
grasscourt season.
I was just lacking a little bit,
Murray said. But after Wimble-
don, I went over to Miami and I
really trained like I used to for the
rst time since the surgery and I felt
much better.
Murray showed that his work was
starting to pay off, as he hammered
Kyrgios, who upset Rafael Nadal in
the fourth round at Wimbledon.
Eighth seed Murray, who has not
won a title in the 13 months since
lifting the Wimbledon trophy, will
next face 12th seed Richard Gas-
quet, a winner over Ivo Karlovic 5-7,
7-6 (7/5), 6-3.
Another Frenchman Julien Ben-
neteau moved into the third-round
as he defeated 11th seed Ernests
Gulbis 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. Spanish fth
seed David Ferrer beat Michael Rus-
sell 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
Sixth seed Milos Raonic fullled
home hopes with his defeat of
American Jack Sock 4-6, 7-6 (7/2),
7-6 (7/4), which took almost two
and a half hours and ended with 16
aces for the winner. Number seven
Grigor Dimitrov stopped Donald
Young 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
The 15th seed Marin Cilic came
back to eliminate Tunisian Malek
Jaziri 4-6, 6-0, 7-6 (7/4) while South
Africas Kevin Anderson beat Ital-
ian 16th seed Fabio Fognini 7-5,
6-2. AFP
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after winning against Gael Monls of France during
the Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre at York University on Wednesday in Toronto. AFP
Serena storms past Stosur
in Montreal WTA opener
EVEN a rain delay barely
slowed defending champion
Serena Williams in her 6-0, 6-2
progress past Samantha Stosur
on Wednesday at the WTA
hardcourt tournament at
Montreal.
Williams, the world number
one and top seed, had seized
the first set and they were
knotted at 1-1 in the second
when rain halted play.
The American showed no ill-
effects when they returned to
the court, wrapping up the vic-
tory over the unseeded Aus-
tralian in 58 minutes.
Ive just been working on
some things, working hard,
Williams said. Hopefully
theyll come together. Ive just
been waiting.
Williams stretched her career
record over Stosur to 7-3. The
Australian stunned Williams in
the final of the 2011 US Open,
but Williams has now won all
three of their meetings since.
Williams still found flaws she
wants to improve.
My toss was a little every-
where. I think I wasnt as
relaxed as I wanted to be, Wil-
liams said. But theres always
room for improvement Always
keep that in mind, that I can
continue to improve. So thats
one thing that I definitely want
to work on.
French Open champion
Maria Sharapova had to rally
for a three-set victory over
Garbine Muguruza to reach
the third round.
The fourth-seeded former
world number one fought back
to beat the rising Spanish tal-
ent 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 to set up a
meeting with another Span-
iard, Carla Suarez Navarro,
who was a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 winner
over Czech Karolina Pliskova.
Sharapova, who was play-
ing her first match since a
surprise fourth-round exit at
Wimbledon, was a runner-up
at this event in 2009 when it
was held in Toronto.
She was pleased to get her
campaign off to a winning
start against a player who won
her first career singles title at
Hobart this year and has four
career wins over top-10 play-
ers on her resume.
Its been a few weeks since
Ive been in that competitive
atmosphere, Sharapova not-
ed. Its always quite different,
no matter how much you train,
you try to prepare for that.
Once you step on the court,
you feel a little bit more from
the crowd, the energy.
You get inspired by every-
thing. But youre ultimately a
bit rusty.
Meanwhile, sixth-seeded
German left-hander Angelique
Kerber made short work of
Frances Caroline Garcia 6-4,
6-1 and 11th-seeded former
world number one Caroline
Wozniacki steamrolled Czech
Klara Koukalova 6-1, 6-2.
Kerber has reached, and lost,
four finals this season, includ-
ing losing to Williams in the
final at Stanford on Sunday.
Williams title in Stanford
was her fourth of 2014, but her
performance in the years
Grand Slams has been disap-
pointing. The 17-time major
winner hasnt made it past the
fourth round in the Australian
Open, French Open or Wim-
bledon, and the US Open
starting August 25 will be her
last chance of the year to add
another Slam to her resume.
She next faces 15th-seeded
Czech Lucie Safarova, a 6-4,
6-2 winner over Slovakian
Magdalena Rybarikova. Wil-
liams has won all six meetings
with Safarova.
Second-seeded Czech Petra
Kvitova, who claimed her sec-
ond Wimbledon title last
month, defeated Aussie Casey
Dellacqua 6-3, 6-2. AFP
Serena Williams of the USA res a shot back to Samantha Stosur of
Australia in the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium on Wednesday. AFP
PARIS Saint-Germain coach Laurent
Blanc knows it will be difficult for his
team to hit the ground running as they
begin the defence of their Ligue 1 title
tonight away to Reims.
The capital club are odds-on favour-
ites to win a third consecutive French
crown and go to the Stade Auguste-
Delaune fresh from defeating Guin-
gamp 2-0 in Beijing last weekend in the
season-opening Champions Trophy.
However, a quartet of key players
will not be involved in Champagne
country having only just started pre-
season training after a post-World
Cup holiday.
None of Argentinas Ezequiel Lavez-
zi or Brazil trio Thiago Silva, Maxwell
and new signing David Luiz will be
considered for selection against Reims
as a result.
This month is going to be strange
because we have so many players com-
ing back at different times and not
everyone is in the same physical condi-
tion, admitted Blanc.
We have done a lot of tiring physical
work. The games in August will be dif-
ficult but we are not worried.
Reims, who finished 11th last season,
have a new coach, with Jean-Luc Vas-
seur replacing Hubert Fournier, who
has taken over at Lyon.
It is quite the baptism of fire for Vas-
seur, 45, who arrives from Ligue 2 Creteil
and takes charge of a top-flight game
for the first time against the club where
he started his playing career.
It is symbolic but I am thinking more
than anything about my players. My job
here is to take the team and the club
forward. That comes before anything
else, said Vasseur, who also began his
coaching career at the Parc des Princes,
working with the clubs youngsters.
When you have a game like this for
the first match of the season there is
not much I need to say to motivate the
players.
While PSG have strengthened further
with the recruits of Luiz and Serge
Aurier, Reims have lost influential Polish
midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak to
Spanish side Sevilla.
The most likely threat to PSGs
supremacy continues to come from
Monaco, despite a summer in which
they have lost playmaker James Rod-
riguez to Real Madrid and last seasons
leading scorer Emmanuel Riviere to
Newcastle United.
The principality club have a new
coach in Leonardo Jardim, but after the
lavish spending of last year, the 40-year-
old Portuguese has yet to see any mar-
quee signings arrive.
As they prepare to host Lorient who
have a new coach of their own in Syl-
vain Ripoll in their opening game on
Sunday, veteran defender Ricardo Car-
valho is confident that last seasons
runners-up can enjoy another success-
ful campaign.
We have a new coach, with a differ-
ent mentality and methods to those of
[Claudio] Ranieri, he said. Our pre-
season has been a bit tiring. We have
travelled a lot but we worked well.
It is an advantage that we now know
one another better. Two or three players
should still join us but we are already
stronger than last season.
There are seven matches on Saturday,
with the pick seeing Marseille travel to
Corsica to face Bastia in a meeting of
two teams with new coaches.
OMs response to a poor last season
was to overhaul their backroom staff
with Argentine Marcelo Bielsa
appointed as coach.
Bielsa, who has yet to give a press
conference since arriving at the Stade
Velodrome, has done plenty of exper-
imentation on the field in pre-season,
including using a 3-1-3-3 formation
at times.
Bastia, meanwhile, have handed the
reins to former Real Madrid and Chel-
sea midfielder Claude Makelele, who
was assistant coach at PSG last season
and makes his debut against the club
he represented for one campaign in
the 1990s.
Fresh from beating Grasshopper
Zurich to qualify for the Champions
League play-offs, Lille entertain pro-
moted Metz, while Saint-Etienne go
to Guingamp and Lyons first game
under Fournier is at home to Rennes
on Sunday. AFP

Weekend Fixtures
Saturday August 9
Reims v Paris St-Germain 1:30am
Sunday August 10
Bastia v Marseille 2am
Evian TG v Caen 2am
Guingamp v St Etienne 2am
Lille v Metz 2am
Montpellier v Bordeaux 2am
Nantes v Lens 2am
Nice v Toulouse 2am
Lyon v Rennes 10pm
Monday August 11
Monaco v Lorient 2am
Dan Riley

T
HE Tiger Street Foot-
ball tour returns
to Cambodia this
weekend with two
days of intense action to be
showcased at the specially
constructed pitch at Wat
Botum park.
Former Portugal interna-
tional Deco is the celebrity
face this time out, endorsing
Tiger beers campaign to Un-
cage Football through rule
changes that help bring more
creativity to the game.
The 36-year-old attacking
midelder, who played for
Chelsea and Barcelona during
his illustrious club career, has
accepted one Facebook users
suggestion for teams to switch
from ve-a-side to three-a-
side in the second period if the
scores are tied at half time.
Other suggestions accept-
ed by Deco include giving
straight reds for diving (Dash-
kha Huu from Mongolia) and
goals from goalkeepers count
triple (Ah Fai from Singapore).
Representing Cambodia
in Wat Botum battles will be
last years domestic cham-
pions Green Empire and re-
nowned futsal side Daniel
FC. They are slated to face
off against teams from Mon-
golia, Serbia, Vietnam and
Australia in Saturdays inter-
national round.
Fans will also be given the
chance to win a trip to Bar-
celona to watch a football
game.
Winners and runners-up
from Saturdays round will
qualify for another Tiger
Street Football competition
in Singapore, with a place in a
future tournament in the US
at stake there.
According to Tiger, the
schedule for both today and
Saturday runs from 2pm-9-
pm, with games to be broad-
cast live on Fox Sports and
Hang Meas HDTV. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY CHENG SERYRITH
23
Football
Pellegrino signs on for
another year with Crown
AUSTRALIAN midfielder
Adriano Pellegrino has
extended his contract with
Metfone C-League champions
Phnom Penh Crown for
another year, the club
announced yesterday. The
30-year-old playmaker joined
Crown halfway through the
2014 league season, with his
three goals and 12 assists being
a major factor in the sides fifth
title success. Everybody has
seen the impact [Pellegrino] had
during his three-month spell
with us and we are happy that
he is going to be on our side for
the next campaign, supporting
our team with his qualities,
experience and leadership,
Crown coach Sam
Schweingruber said in a press
release yesterday. DANRILEY
Liverpool seal loan move
for Atleticos Manquillo
LIVERPOOL have signed
Spanish right-back Javier
Manquillo on loan from
reigning La Liga champions
Atletico Madrid, the English
Premier League club
announced on Wednesday.
Liverpool did not confirm the
length of the loan, but 20-year-
old Manquillo is reported to
have committed to a two-year
stay at Anfield. Im very happy
to have signed for a club like
Liverpool, Manquillo told the
Liverpool website. I think its
one of the biggest in Europe.
Any footballer would want to
come and play here. AFP
Top English referee
Howard Webb retires
ENGLANDS leading referee
Howard Webb announced on
Wednesday that he was retiring
to become the technical director
of the organisation that oversees
professional officials in English
football. The 43-year-old from
the northern English town of
Rotherham was a referee for 25
years and took charge of the
2010 World Cup final between
Spain and the Netherlands in
Johannesburg. The Premier
League revealed that he will
now take over as technical
director of Professional Game
Match Officials Limited, which
provides officials for games in
the English top flight. AFP
MLS All-Stars edge
Bayern in friendly
LANDON Donovans goal in the
70th minute on Wednesday
gave the Major League Soccer
All-Stars a 2-1 victory over
German champions Bayern
Munich in a friendly marred by
rough tackles. The Los Angeles
Galaxy striker took a high
centering pass on the run up
the middle of the field, eluded
two defenders and netted the
deciding goal. Any time you
can beat Bayern Munich, thats
a good beat, Donovan said. AFP
West Hams Morrison
made acid threat
WEST Ham United midfielder
Ravel Morrison threatened to
throw acid in his ex-girlfriends
face and have her killed, a
court in Manchester heard
yesterday. The 21-year-old
former Manchester United
player is also accused of
threatening to blow up the
house of Reah Mansoor, his
former partner, during a
campaign of harassment that
lasted four years. AFP
Workers stick advertising sticker on the boards around the pitch ahead of todays start to the Tiger Street
Football competition at Wat Botum park. SRENG MENG SRUN
Former Chelsea player Deco will be making an appearance at this
weekends Tiger Street Football competition at Wat Botum park. AFP
Deco appearance headlines
Tiger Street Football event
Blanc wary as understrength PSG begin title defence
Paris St-Germain coach Laurent Blanc knows that it will be a difcult start to their Ligue 1
title with many players returning at different times. AFP
Sport
Record turnout for Amateur Open
H S Manjunath
T
HE sixth annual Angkor Am-
ateur Open teeing off tomor-
row at the Sir Nick Faldo-de-
signed Angkor Golf Resort in
Siem Reap has been fully subscribed,
surpassing last years record turnout.
The strongest eld of 126 ever as-
sembled for the Kingdoms blue-rib-
bon amateur golf event includes three
past winners American Don Bland,
Cambodian Ly Hong and reigning
champion Michael Moir of Scotland.
With players from 17 countries to
swing into action, the race for the
overall title will be as erce as it will
be exciting. Left-hander Ly Hong
will lead the local charge in the com-
pany of 16 compatriots as he tries to
recapture the title he won in 2012.
The talk of the contest is American
Eddie Cho, who has a handicap of
2 and will be hoping to make that
form count.
Division A has its strength in depth,
with a dozen players holding handi-
caps ranging from 0 to 5 and 30 more
players with handicaps below 8.
The largest group of 44 players fall-
ing into the 11-19 handicap bracket
will contest Division B, while 22
players gure in Division C.
The womens event has attracted
a record 18 players, and all of a very
competitive standard. Phnom Penh
resident Aim Guilfoyle is among
those fancied for the title, in a eld
lled with a number of seasoned
Singaporean players.
The star attraction once again
will be Australian professional Scott
Hend, who will conduct a clinic for
the benet of the players during to-
days practice session.
After a record 2013 season on the
Asian Tour, Hend nished second on
last years Order of Merit, claiming
three titles and racking up a whop-
ping $600,000 in prize money along
the way.
It is a mark of the stature of both the
venue and the event that the Austra-
lian pro has always been eager to get
back to AGR, resort director of golf
David Baron told the Post yesterday.
In return for the hospitality shown,
Hend is a willing ambassador for Siem
Reap golf tourism while travelling the
world on the professional circuit.
He added: I am delighted by the
turnout and response weve had this
year. In recent years the event has
become well established and con-
tinues to grow each year.
The Amateur Open is a profes-
sionally organised tournament on
a world class course but we also
focus heavily on ensuring the over-
all hospitality and guest experience
is memorable.
We want guests to have fond
memories of Cambodia when they
return home and encourage their
friends to visit the Kingdom, add-
ed Baron, who is a member of the
British PGA.
In addition to numerous value-
added perks included in the players
package, there are over $10,000 worth
of prizes to compete for. These range
from luxury all-inclusive golf holi-
days to Vietnam, Bali and Malaysia to
an array of top-end golf equipment
and goodies.
Away from the heat of the battle,
also on the program is the Charity
Challenge, with all donations going
to a local charity organisation in Siem
Reap province.
Scotlands Michael Moir will attempt to defend his Angkor Amateur Open title this
weekend at the Angkor Golf Resort in Siem Reap. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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