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THE Iraqi security forces
should not get in the way of
the political transition, the
UN warned yesterday after
the president named an
alternative to Nuri al-Maliki
as prime minister.
The country is in your
hands, President Fuad
Masum told Haidar al-Abadi
after accepting his nomina-
tion by parliaments Shiite
bloc, in a move immediately
welcomed by the US.
Washington had warned
Maliki against stirring trou-
ble after the two-term pre-
mier gave a defiant midnight
television address suggest-
ing that he was ready to fight
for his job to the very end.
Moments before the
speech, special forces, sol-
diers and police deployed
across Baghdad, especially
around the Green Zone dis-
trict housing the countrys
Chhay Channyda
FOR grade 12 students hop-
ing divine intervention
would resuscitate their
chances of passing this years
national exam, their salva-
tion arrived yesterday as
their concerned prime min-
ister announced he would
hold a nationwide retest
rather than let under-
performing pupils fail.
Just two days into exam
grading, Prime Minister Hun
Sen yesterday predicted dire
results and called on the
Kingdoms less-studious
grade 12 pupils to get back
to their books and prepare
for a second shot.
The number of those who
will pass wont be high, Hun
Sen predicted during a grad-
uation speech at Norton Uni-
versity. However, we have to
settle the matter, and we will
not allow the failed students
to lose their chances.
The premier said the gov-
ernment was willing to
undertake an expensive, sec-
ond national testing round
the first cost $4 million
because the students had not
been prepared for such a
strict reform year, in which
cheating, bribery and other
previously rampant irregu-
larities were not allowed.
Please work hard, this is
not a chance to copy the
answers or copy from one
another. We are willing to
spend more money, but the
students have to be real
learners, he said.
The Ministry of Education
Iraq PM
refuses
to step
down
Failing
scores
see PM
step in
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
M
YSTERY and con-
fusion now sur-
round what was
alleged to be an
organ-trafficking ring operating
out of a military-run hospital in
Phnom Penh after officials
claimed yesterday that it was
simply a Chinese program train-
ing Cambodian doctors in
transplant techniques.
According to a document
from the Municipal Anti-Hu-
man Trafficking and Juvenile
Protection Office obtained by
the Post on Sunday which offi-
cials said yesterday was not
meant for the media and could
not be trusted eight people,
including medical professionals
and two generals from the Min-
istry of Defence, were detained
on Saturday on suspicion of
trafficking human organs.
The document says the group
all eight of whom have now
been released stood accused
of human trafficking with
intent and being the accom-
plices of human trafficking with
intent, and that a victim had
Organ trafcking denied
Police insist two-month investigation uncovered only benign training
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Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community
cross the Iraqi-Syrian border along the
Fishkhabour Bridge over the Tigris River in
northern Iraq yesterday. Iraq is embroiled
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More criticism
for refugee deal
Daniel Pye
C
RITICS of the Aus-
tralian governments
plan to send refugees
to Cambodia came
out in force yesterday to con-
demn the proposed scheme,
as ofcials in both countries
remained silent on reports
that a deal will be struck in the
coming days.
The Cambodian Human
Rights Action Committee
(CHRAC) a coalition of 21 lo-
cal rights groups called for the
release of information on the
deal and for both governments
to reconsider the agreement.
It is clear that this deal con-
travenes the Refugee Conven-
tion as there is no way the Aus-
tralian Government can ensure
once these refugees reach Cam-
bodia that they will be afforded
any of the fundamental human
rights protection that are taken
for granted in Australia, it said
in a statement.
The statement came in re-
sponse to a Post article yes-
terday that quoted a senior
government ofcial as saying
that Australias Minister for Im-
migration and Border Protec-
tion Scott Morrison was due to
arrive in Cambodia in the up-
coming days.
Numerous ofcials at the
ministries of Foreign Affairs
and Interior could not be
reached. A spokesman for Mor-
rison declined to comment on
the ministers travel plans, add-
ing that discussions over the
deal were ongoing.
Morrison last visited the
country in April to discuss
the refugee deal with Interior
Minister Sar Kheng following
a meeting between foreign
ministers Julie Bishop and Hor
Namhong in February, when
the proposal was rst tabled.
The Australian Greens Party
yesterday said it wanted oppo-
sition Labor and Senate cross-
benchers to block the deal,
which requires approval from
parliament.
There is no way that Tony
Abbott can ensure the safety
of children that his govern-
ment dumps in Cambodia, the
Greens immigration spokes-
woman, Senator Sarah Hanson-
Young, told the Post. There are
still no details on the conditions
that families will be dumped
into and no information on the
size of the bribe Australia is pay-
ing to make this all happen.
Organ trafcking denied by govt
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been called to give evidence.
Among those named as suspects were
the director of Preah Ket Mealea Hospital,
54-year-old Lieutenant General Ly Sovan,
and the hospitals deputy director, 58-year-
old Major General Keo Davuth
But in a news conference yesterday at the
Municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juve-
nile Protection Office, Phnom Penh deputy
police chief Prum Sothor said no one had
filed an official complaint against the group
and those questioned had voluntarily
agreed to be. Despite their voluntary sta-
tus, members of the group were seen enter-
ing the court in handcuffs.
Sothor said a Facebook complaint had
prompted a two-month-long investigation,
culminating in the eight being called in for
questioning. He declined to reveal details of
what was discovered over the two-month
period before questioning because, he said,
it relates to our investigation techniques.
Sothor said the investigation revealed that
there are kidney transplants [happening at
the hospital], but the surgical operation is to
develop scientific techniques and was vol-
untary. [There was] no punishment, forcing
or cheating [involved].
He said Sovan, the hospitals director, had
been working with Chinese doctors since the
beginning of the year to develop transplant
techniques so that Cambodians in need of
the surgery would not have to take costly
trips abroad in future.
Sothor said multiple transplants had taken
place at the hospital, all of which involved
only Vietnamese donors and patients.
A statement released by the Phnom Penh
Municipal Court last night reiterated Sothors
statements.
The operation is not the crime of human
organ [trafficking] as some media reported,
it says, adding that Chinese experts were
merely training Cambodian military police
doctors.
But Sothor said it was possible that money
changed hands between the organ buyer
and seller.
They agreed with each other [to do this].
We have no idea if money was exchanged or
how much, he said, adding that it might
have been a case of you do me a favour, I do
you a favour.
Meas Chan Pisith, deputy prosecutor, and
hospital officials could not be reached for
comment yesterday.
Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the
Cambodian Defenders Project, said that
while he could not comment on this specific
case, the alleged involvement of high-ranking
officials makes legal action more difficult.
I think that especially in our society, if
the rank is higher, the police [are more]
careful before making any decision [and]
it is very hard to find witnesses willing to
testify, he said.
Two people are escorted through the grounds of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday
morning on their way to being questioned. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Police say
ofcial had
luxury logs
Sen David
AN IMMIGRATION official at
the Ministry of Interiors office
in Ratanakkiri province was
arrested yesterday, accused of
illegal logging, district police
said.
OYadav police chief Sok Min
said provincial court prosecu-
tor Liv Sreng led military and
police officials on a car chase
that ended with the arrest of
the official, Kong Sovan Chen-
da, and two others.
The car that the three had
been travelling in was found to
have 36 pieces of luxury timber
weighing a combined 355 kilo-
grams, Min alleged.
He [Sovan Chenda] attempt-
ed to transport the timber
across to Vietnam, but we
arrested him immediately and
his two drivers, he said.
The car, a Lexus, and the
luxury wood in question were
taken to the local Forestry
Administration office, Min
added.
Chhay Thy, a provincial coor-
dinator for rights-group Adhoc,
said authorities should con-
tinue to fight against a problem
deci mati ng Cambodi as
remaining forest areas.
Floodings deadly toll rises
Pech Sotheary
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

T
HE death toll from le-
thal oods has climbed
to 27, with more than
10,000 families across
12 provinces evacuated from
their homes to escape rising
oodwaters, according to a re-
port from the National Com-
mittee for Disaster Manage-
ment (NCDM).
The report, released yester-
day, also shows that almost
90,000 hectares of crops have
been inundated and more than
50,000 houses damaged by
oodwater.
Keo Vy, NCDM cabinet chief,
said the nancial cost of the
devastation is still not known.
We do not know the total
cost of the damages yet, be-
cause it is not yet time. The ex-
perts will summarise the dam-
ages within ve or six days, Vy
said.
The Ministry of Water Re-
sources and Meteorology is-
sued a notice yesterday stating
that the oods were caused
by heavy rains in the Mekong
River basin as well as Thailand
and Laos.
The rainwater ooded parts
of the Mekong and Stung Sen
rivers, causing oods in prov-
inces bordering the mighty wa-
terways.
The waters have receded in
the northeastern provinces of
Stung Treng and Kratie, but
oods will keep affecting prov-
inces along the Tonle Sap and
lower parts of the Mekong, the
notice says.
Because water is still owing
into these low areas, the south-
ern provinces of Prey Veng,
Kandal, and Takeo may ood
within seven days. Water levels
in Kampong Thom province
are expected to go over emer-
gency levels, the notice reads,
with oods potentially lasting
seven to ten days.
Kandal province has pre-
pared hundreds of provincial
and local authorities to inter-
vene in ood-affected areas,
and will send food and other
resources to help affected resi-
dents, said Kandal governor
Phay Bunchoeun.
Police, military police and
the local authorities are ready
for action, and we are collect-
ing information about affected
people in Lvea Em and Kien
Svay districts to deliver sup-
plies to them, he said.
Fears of disease are rising as
members of evacuated families
continue to huddle in safe relo-
cation hills
Dr Char Meng Chou, director
of the Ministry of Healths anti-
malaria centre, has appealed
to the relocated families to be
aware of the risk of diarrhea,
malaria and dengue.
Conditions among the safe
hills, which lack toilets and ba-
sic plumbing, could easily lead
to disease, he said.
To prevent these problems,
the ood victims should ad-
here to a strict policy of only
eating and drinking clean food
and water, and live in a clean
manner, Meng Chou said.
People returning to their vil-
lages once oods recede are
also at risk, as stagnant pools of
leftover oodwater create ideal
conditions for mosquitoes to
breed, spreading dengue and
malaria.
Flood victims must wear
long-sleeved shirts and trou-
sers at night, and sleep under
mosquito nets. If they get a
high temperature, they must
quickly see the nearest doctor,
Chou said.
Two men work in a ooded eld to build a levee to protect their cucumber crop from surging waters in Prek
Takov village in Kandal yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
The experts will
summarise the
damages within five
or six days
Hundreds protest
Land grab
feared after
posts appear
F
IVE hundred villagers in
Preah Vihear province
protested yesterday out-
side the ofce of FP Malaysia
Plantation Company, which
they say is attempting to take
their land.
Rith Sothon, a village re-
presentative in Preah Vihears
Kulen district, said the villa-
gers filed a complaint after the
company placed posts on the
villagers land.
This is our ancient land.
We have lived and planted
here for many years. Recently,
the company put up posts to
divide our land by nearly 400
hectares, he said.
FP Malaysia could not be
reached yesterday.
Another villager, Khoun
Sarith, said the companys
actions were unacceptable.
This is not empty land. The
land has villagers living and
planting on it. They did not dis-
cuss compensation, he said.
Lor Chan, provincial coordi-
nator for rights group Adhoc,
called on authorities to prove
the firm has a concession to
develop the land. The autho-
rities must investigate [this
firm], he said. SENDAVID
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Troops to
join UNs
CAR effort
Charles Rollet
CAMBODIA will send a detach-
ment of 216 peacekeepers to
the United Nations stabilisation
mission in the Central African
Republic (MINUSCA), the
Information Ministry has said.
The Kingdom already sent a
delivery of tanks, trucks and
other materiel there on Friday.
After the arrival of the sup-
plies in the Central African
Republic, we will be sending
216 peacekeeping forces, nine
of them female, to the country
to be part of the mission there,
said Sem Sovanny, director-
general of the National Centre
for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine
and Explosive Remnants of
War Clearance.
According to the UN, MINUS-
CA was established in April
with the protection of civilians
as its utmost priority as violent
conflict between CARs Chris-
tians and Muslims wore on.
Cambodian peacekeepers are
also stationed in Mali, where
they help with demining and
airport maintenance.
Recently, however, two died
of food poisoning and another
two were injured after driving
over a landmine.
Krom protests back in force
Pech Sotheary

H
UNDREDS of protesters de-
scended on the Vietnamese
Embassy yesterday to again
ask for a public apology from
a spokesman who said in June that the
former Kampuchea Krom provinces had
belonged to Vietnam long before being of-
cially handed over by the French in 1949.
They had given the embassy a two-week
deadline to respond to petitions handed
late last month to the Foreign Ministry,
which was in turn meant to deliver them
to the Vietnamese, but had received no re-
ply, organisers said.
The demonstration was the largest of
several planned protests in the capital
yesterday, though villagers from Kraties
Snuol district who had planned to march
on Prime Minister Hun Sens house to ask
for a resolution to a long-standing land
dispute delayed their plans and joined the
Kampuchea Krom march instead.
Separately, villagers affected by an on-
going Asian Development Bank-funded
project to rehabilitate the countrys rail-
ways protested outside the ADB yester-
day morning. They asked for the disclo-
sure of plans detailing what will happen
to families who live in the vicinity of the
railway but not close enough to have al-
ready been resettled.
Beginning at Freedom Park, where mul-
tiple public gatherings have been violently
suppressed this year, the Kampuchea
Krom protest marched to the foreign
ministry and numerous ASEAN member
states embassies yesterday morning be-
fore nally ending at the Vietnamese Em-
bassy in the afternoon.
While previous protests over the issue
have turned violent, police blocked roads
around the embassy and tolerated the
demonstration.
Thach Setha, executive director of the
Kampuchea Krom Community Organisa-
tion and an opposition party ofcial, said
demonstrators were upset that Vietnam
was ignoring their calls for an apology.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Vietnam
did not reply, so it means that Vietnam is
looking down on Cambodia since Vietnam
could not even accept a petition, he said.
Setha warned that demonstrations
would continue if no apology was forth-
coming and that his group would also call
for a boycott of Vietnamese products.
Long Visalo, a secretary of state at Cam-
bodias Foreign Affairs Ministry, received
more petitions on behalf of the govern-
ment yesterday that he promised to again
forward to the Vietnamese Embassy.
Trung Van Thong, the embassy spokes-
man who made the comments in ques-
tion, could not be reached. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
Buddhist monks lead a Khmer Krom march through the streets of Phnom Penh yesterday,
calling for a public apology from a Vietnamese Embassy spokesman. VIREAK MAI
National
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Meas Sokchea
PRIME Minister Hun Sen yes-
terday mocked diehard oppo-
sition party supporters whom
he said had devoted them-
selves and their livelihoods to
the Cambodia National Res-
cue Party during its 10-month
boycott of parliament, only to
now be left abandoned and in
poverty after the CNRP de-
cided to take its seats.
Speaking to Norton Univer-
sity students during a gradu-
ation ceremony on Koh Pich,
the premier rst told the crowd
that he was glad a political deal
signed between the two par-
ties on July 22 had brought an
end to a year of deadlock.
He then took aim at opposi-
tion backers, who he said had
single-mindedly followed the
CNRP instead of thinking
about their families or jobs
during months of post-elec-
tion protests.
In the end, politicians are
politicians. In the end, [the
CNRP] joined the parliament
while all of you are now out-
side selling cows, selling buf-
faloes, selling chicken and sell-
ing ducks, Hun Sen said.
Politicians are like a short
boat [that can change direc-
tion easily]. A decision of the
[CNRPs] peoples congress
was that the will of the people
banned [the party] from join-
ing parliament. But suddenly
the will of the people [changed]
to support [the CNRP] joining
and struggling in parliament.
Those who had not joined
the oppositions lengthy but
ultimately unsuccessful cru-
sade to reject the 2013 election
and hold a fresh poll, Hun Sen
intimated, were better off now
than those who had.
People who were not ab-
sorbed [with the CNRP], they
are not poor [now] because
they thought about their rice
pot as well, he said.
Opposition supporters
both here and abroad have
expressed disappointment
in aspects of the deal that
ended the political impasse.
But CNRP spokesman Yim So-
vann yesterday dismissed the
premiers words, saying that
the Cambodian people will
be able to see through such a
transparent attempt to incite
the public to turn against the
opposition party.
Khmer citizens have access
to information to follow politi-
cians and have the common
sense to decide [on their own]
to select leaders and take part
in political affairs, he said.
CNRP faithful wasted
their time, PM claims
No bail yet for CNRP youth
Kevin Ponniah

H
OPES that three
jailed Cambodia
National Rescue
Party youth activ-
ists would be released on bail
yesterday proved overly opti-
mistic, with the Appeal Court
judge not yet even receiving
the bail request.
Top CNRP leaders have
made overtures to the ruling
party in hopes of securing the
releases of Kheun Chumreuon,
San Kim Heng and Neang Sok-
hun, all of whom were arrest-
ed on August 2 in connection
to a July protest that turned
violent. All three were denied
bail by Phnom Penh Munici-
pal Court on Thursday.
On Saturday, opposition
leader Sam Rainsy said a deci-
sion could be made early this
week, and CNRP spokesman
Yim Sovann said yesterday
that leaders from both sides
had been working on that.
But Ket Khy, a CNRP lawyer,
said Appeal Court president
You Bunleng, who could not
be reached, had only said a
decision would be made in
the next 15 days.
He said he will send the
case to judge Seng Sivutha to
open a hearing but not for the
public, Khy said.
Sivutha said yesterday eve-
ning that he had heard of
the appeal, but he had not yet
received a bail request.
Rights groups have argued
the arrests are politically mo-
tivated, and designed to push
the CNRP to compromise as
details related to election re-
form are hammered out. A
working group meeting on the
subject was held yesterday.
However, the government
has rejected that accusation.
CNRP deputy leader Kem
Sokha, and lawmakers Mu
Sochua and Keo Phirum who
were arrested on charges in
connection to the same pro-
test but later released were
also summonsed to court yes-
terday for questioning.
The three sent their lawyers
on their behalf, Sochua said,
adding that her lawyer had
told judge Keo Mony he was
dealing with members of par-
liament, and the procedure
[he was] using is not correct.
So he said OK, Im not go-
ing to call her [for question-
ing] again, she added.
Mony declined to comment.
Meanwhile, senators from
the CPP and the CNRP agreed
yesterday to share power in
the senate for the rst time. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA,
MEAS SOKCHEA AND VONG SOKHENG
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (right) talks to CNRP youth leader Neang Sokhoun last week at Prey Sar prison
after he was detained earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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yesterday was unable to provide figures for
how many students had so far failed, but
exam markers told the Post that in some
classes, just a handful of students achieved
a passing score.
Each class I corrected the answers for,
only three or four students passed, said a
Khmer literature exam marker who graded
results for a school in the capital.
Minister of Education Hang Chuon Nar-
on said a retest would be held at the end
of September, after results from the initial
testing round were finalised on August 29
and 30. The prime minister asked the
ministry to check the possibility of the
exam, he said. We had this second test
during the 60s and 70s.
If about 80 per cent of the pupils score
high enough, there is no need to retest, he
said, adding that the second round, like
the first, would also include independent
monitors from the Anti-Corruption Unit
to look out for and prevent cheating.
Students who fail the second round will
have to repeat their grade.
Preap Kol, executive director of Trans-
parency International, called the re-exam-
ination announcement quite funny.
It gives the message that the recent
reform efforts by the Ministry of Education
and the ACU to prevent bribery and cor-
ruption were not well thought out, he
said, adding that it was akin to the govern-
ment building a new road without first
considering drainage needs.
San Chey, coordinator at the education
NGO ANSA-EAP, suggested the lowest scor-
ers should not be allowed another shot.
But students who knew they performed
abysmally welcomed the chance. This
year, we were not allowed to cheat or bribe
proctors, so everyone could not finish filling
out their paper, said Chet Tharin*, 18.
Teachers yesterday suggested the pre-
miers intervention might have been moti-
vated less by sympathy for poor testers
than the students assumed.
I think the private colleges would com-
plain to him a lot if most students failed,
said Suon Thea*, a teacher.
Then, they would not have enough stu-
dents to attend their colleges. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY LAIGNEE BARRON
*Names changed to protect identity
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Victims claim suspect
shot them both in back
A DANCE-FLOOR shouting
match turned into a street-side
shooting for two unlucky men in
Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey
district on Sunday. As is so
often the case, one of the vic-
tims had stepped on the shoe of
a local neer-do-well at the dis-
co, prompting an argument.
When apologies were not forth-
coming, the suspect followed
them home and shot both men
in their backs. They survived
and provided authorities with a
description of the suspect.
Police are still looking for him.
KOHSANTEPHEAP

Good Samaritan knifed
trying to quell rumble
A WOULD-BE mediator found
herself an unwitting victim
when she tried to intervene in a
fight between two neighbours in
Kandal provinces Khsach Kan-
dal district on Sunday. Accord-
ing to police, the woman had
attempted to stop a fight
between two people when one
of the combatants mistook her
for his adversarys wife. Grab-
bing a knife, he stabbed her in
the back, seriously injuring her.
The man fled the scene, and
police are on the lookout for the
suspect. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Chase target slips away
by slipping into a river
AN ALLEGED phone-snatching
in Phnom Penhs Daun Penh
district on Sunday landed one
man in hot water and another
in the Tonle Sap. According to
police, the two suspects were
walking through a traffic jam on
the capitals riverside when they
snatched the phone of a for-
eigner sitting in a stalled tuk-
tuk. Nearby police gave chase,
catching one of the men, but
lost the other when he leapt
into the river. DEUMAMPIL
Three men take down
jewellery shop, escape
AN EARLY morning jewel heist
in Takeos Tram Kak district left
a shopkeeper shaken and silent
on Sunday. According to police,
just as the victim was opening
her shop, three men wearing
motorcycle helmets burst in,
told the woman at gunpoint
to keep quiet, and grabbed as
much jewellery and money as
they could, then fled the scene.
Police said that they still did not
know the amount stolen
because the victim hadnt made
a report, presumably because
she was too afraid. DEUMAMPIL
Another moto owner
loses ride to friends
TWO Kandal town men were
arrested after allegedly pulling
the oldest trick in the book on
Saturday. Police said the two
suspects met the victim at a
drink shop and proceeded to
get the poor sap soused. When
they later asked if they could
borrow his moto to go home, he
gladly agreed. After a day
passed with no sign of the men
or the moto, however, the victim
grew suspicious and called
police. The two suspects were
spotted by police trying to sell
the moto, and were promptly
arrested. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
Kerry urges
balance for
energy and
resources
Laignee Barron
AT A summit in Myanmar over
the weekend, US Secretary of
State John Kerry appealed to
Mekong Basin countries to
meet growing energy demands
without compromising region-
al food security or depleting
natural resources.
We all know that the short-
term economic gains, no mat-
ter how promising they are,
cannot come at the expense of
the long-term economic stabil-
ity and ecosystem of the river,
Kerry said at the ASEAN Minis-
terial Meeting.
Kerry and the foreign minis-
ters of Cambodia, Laos, Myan-
mar, Thailand and Vietnam
announced a new working
group tasked with developing
concrete recommendations for
sustainable development along
the shared waterway.
Consisting of government
officials and nongovernmental
academics, the 10-member
Eminent and Expert Persons
Group is slated to hold its inau-
gural meeting in December
after consultations with US
State Department counsellor
Tom Shannon. Lawyer Sok
Siphana was appointed to rep-
resent Cambodia. He could not
be reached.
Kerrys appeal comes amid
intensifying regional hydropow-
er debates, with 12 projects pro-
posed or in development along
the Mekong mainstream: 10 in
Laos and two in Cambodia.
In June, Laos yielded to pres-
sure from the other Lower
Mekong countries and agreed
to submit its second large-scale
hydropower project to further
regional consultation as long
as it was allowed to continue
construction. Meanwhile, its
first hydropower dam, the Xay-
aburi, has led to a lawsuit in
Thailand, where most of its
power would be sent.
Negotiations near in bus row
Mom Kunthear

F
ORMER bus drivers
protested for eight
hours outside Phnom
Penh Sorya Transpor-
tation Company in the capitals
Daun Penh district yesterday
before agreeing to sit for nego-
tiations tomorrow, according
to a union representative.
Prit Souoth, a legal ofcer at
the Cambodia Labour Con-
federation, said that while the
17 protesters, who are former
drivers sacked by the com-
pany in April, hoped to resolve
the situation, past dealings
with the company had created
an atmosphere of doubt.
We had many negotiations
with the company, but we
did not get any result [so far]
and we do not really trust the
company anymore because
the company often makes an
excuse for nishing the dis-
pute, Souoth said.
The labour ght began in
April, when the drivers were
sacked for attempting to form
a union. The protesters led
suit with Phnom Penh Munici-
pal Court, which referred the
case to the Arbitration Council,
which in turn ruled in the fa-
vour of the employees, calling
on Sorya to reinstate 15 of them
and pay two others lost wages.
Claiming there were not jobs
available for the drivers, the
company ignored the ruling.
Protesters said that while
they planned to negotiate on
Wednesday, they would come
back today to demonstrate.
Sambath Vorn, president of
the newly conceived union
at the heart of the fracas, said
yesterday that the authorities
did not crack down on protest-
ers, but the company played
loud music to drown out their
voices and to disturb them.
The music got louder when he
tried to read out the demands.
Sorya Transportation gen-
eral manager Chan Sophanna
said the company had always
been open to continue talks
and that the former drivers
had the right to keep protest-
ing if they wished.
Former employees of Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company protest at a bus station in the capital
yesterday, demanding they be reinstated. PHA LINA
Failing scores see premier step in
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
Business
China signs
100K-tonne
rice import
agreement
Chan Muyhong
THE Chinese government-run
China National Cereals, Oils
and Foodstuffs Corporation
(COFCO) will today formally
agree to import 100,000 tonnes
of rice from Cambodia, local
officials say.
Representatives from COFCO
and Green Trade Co, a Cambo-
dian government-owned agri-
culture firm, today met in Beijing
to sign the agreement, which
takes effect this month and is
valid for one year.
Cambodia and China have
long been trade partners and
the fact that Cambodia is a reli-
able supplier has built trust for
this deal, Ken Ratha, spokes-
person of the Ministry of Com-
merce said.
But trust between the two
nations might not be the only
reason for todays deal, accord-
ing to David Van, president of
local rice producing firm, Boost
Riche Cambodia.
The South China Sea dispute
lately may have also played indi-
rectly a part in China wanting to
diversify its rice import base as
imports from Vietnam hit a sub-
stantial figure. China imported
over 66 per cent of its total rice
imports from Vietnam in 2013,
while only 1 per cent came from
Cambodia, Van said.
Government data show that
China imported 7,700 tonnes of
Cambodian milled rice in the
first six months of year.
Chevron to sell off its Block A
Hor Kimsay and
Daniel de Carteret
S
INGAPOREAN-LISTED
oil and gas rm KrisEn-
ergy has agreed to buy
out Chevrons stake in
an offshore site in the Gulf of
Thailand for $65 million, ac-
cording to a statement from
KrisEnergy.
KrisEnergy, which already
holds a 25 per cent share in
the 4,709-square-kilometre site
known as Block A, will acquire
Chevron Cambodias 30 per cent
holding, an announcement on
the Singapore exchange issued
yesterday says.
Chevron, with its experience
in the Gulf of Thailand, has
done some tremendous work
in Block A and we hope that
with the KrisEnergy entity now
holding operator ship, we will
be able to steer the Apsara de-
velopment plans forward to rst
production as quickly and cost
effectively as possible, Richard
Lorentz, director of business
development for KrisEnergy,
said in the statement.
Other joint venture partners
MOECO Cambodia and GS En-
ergy Corporation have report-
edly approved the deal, accord-
ing to KrisEnergy. However, the
Cambodian government has
yet to agree to the conditions.
Contacted yesterday, Meng
Saktheara, secretary of state at
the Ministry of Mines and En-
ergy, said the ministry had not
yet received a formal request
from the companies, but he
was condent the deal would
go through.
We will examine this and
if we nd that it can affect the
governments advantage, we
will reject this selling and buy-
ing of the share, Sakthera said.
However, in general, it
should not be having any [neg-
ative] impact because they are
all international companies,
he added.
Chevron declared in 2010
that oil reserves in Block A
were economically viable.
However, negotiations with
the government have delayed
the long-anticipated project,
which could greatly reduce
Cambodias dependency on
energy imports.
Steve Glick, former Chevron
Cambodia country manager,
told the Post in 2011 that more
than $160 million had been
spent assessing the commercial
viability of the offshore site, re-
ferred to as Block A.
According to the KrisEnergy
statement, Chevrons share of
the site was valued using both
exploration costs already in-
curred by the company and the
potential of the oil eld.
A Chevron spokesman con-
rmed that an in principle deal
had been reached.
Chevron is pleased to have
been involved in the develop-
ment of the Cambodian oil and
gas industry, and are proud of
having made new oil discoveries
in Block A over the last 12 years,
Chevron spokesman Alex Yel-
land said yesterday in an email.
KrisEnergy expects to yield
10,000 barrells of oil per day
from Block A when it is opera-
tional, according to yesterdays
statement.
Customers refuel at a Chevron-owned Caltex petrol station yesterday in Duan Penh district. Chevron Cambodias 30 per cent Block A stake is to be
acquired by a Singaporean oil and gas rm. ELI MEIXLER
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Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
US BUYOUT rm TPG Capital
offered A$3.4 billion (US$3.2
billion) for Treasury Wine Es-
tates Ltd, according to a person
familiar with the matter, match-
ing a takeover bid by KKR & Co
and Rhone Capital Llc.
A global private equity rm
made a nonbinding, A$5.20
cash per-share offer for the
maker of Penfolds Grange and
asked that its identity be kept
condential, Treasury Wine
said. The unidentied bidder
is TPG, the person said, ask-
ing not to be named.
By matching KKRs offer, TPG
can study the nances of the
worlds second-largest listed
winemaker in detail without
committing to a purchase.
CEO Mike Clarke has prom-
ised to revitalise Treasury Wine
by spending more on market-
ing and selling off winery and
packaging plants, amid over-
supply problems in the US and
a government austerity drive
thats curbed sales in China.
A deal will probably get
done once you have this much
interest in the business, Craig
Young, who helps manage
about A$24 billion as a portfo-
lio manager at Tyndall Invest-
ment Management Ltd in Syd-
ney, said by phone.
The offer looks high and may
be cut, as with the ongoing take-
over of Australian baker Good-
man Fielder Ltd, said Young,
who doesnt hold Treasury Wine
shares. You can offer anything
to get your foot in the door, but
from our perspective its dif-
cult to see how you could get
that value out of it.
Treasury Wine shares rose 3.9
per cent to A$5.33 at the close
in Sydney. Thats the highest
level in more than a year, and
above TPGs indicative, condi-
tional offer price. The identity
of the bidder was reported ear-
lier yesterday by the Australian
Financial Review, citing un-
identied people.
KKR made an initial A$4.70
per share offer for the wine-
maker in April and raised its
bid on August 4.
TPG, the private equity rm
run by David Bonderman,
previously controlled Treasury
Wines largest unit by sales, af-
ter buying it from Nestle Sa in
the 1990s. Along with Napa-
based wine investment rm
Silverado Partners, it bought
the Beringer business from the
Swiss consumer goods compa-
ny for US$350 million in 1996.
It was later sold to Fosters
Group Ltd in 2000 for A$2.56
billion in debt and equity.
Private equity believes
A$5.20 a share is fair value,
Evan Lucas, a market strategist
at Melbourne-based IG Ltd,
said. The management and
board wouldnt let go without
a considerable premium to fair
value. Treasury Wine share-
holders can get a little excited
and hope for a bidding war to
eventuate. BLOOMBERG
HONG Kongs economic
growth slowed in the second
quarter as tourist spending
on jewellery and watches
plunged, underlining the citys
reliance on Chinese visitors.
Expansion from a year ago
was weaker than in the rst
three months, with a bigger
slowdown seen in growth from
the previous quarter, Hong
Kong Financial Secretary John
Tsang wrote on Sunday on his
government blog. He didnt
provide numbers, which will
be released on August 15.
Retail sales in Hong Kong
have fallen for ve straight
months through June, as
Chinas economic expansion
moderated and the countrys
anti-corruption campaign
trimmed visitors spending
on luxury items. Tsang, who
in February said the economy
may grow by 3 per cent to 4 per
cent this year, reiterated that
he will cut the forecast.
The pattern of visitors con-
sumption changed and aver-
age spending dropped signi-
cantly in the second quarter,
Tsang wrote. Business invest-
ments have also dropped,
while the unemployment rate
has increased, he said.
Hong Kongs economy prob-
ably grew 2.4 per cent in the
April-June period from a year
earlier, based on the median
estimate of 14 analysts sur-
veyed by Bloomberg News,
after the rst quarters 2.5 per
cent pace.
Expansion in the second
quarter from the January-
March period was projected to
pick up to 0.4 per cent from 0.2
per cent, based on the median
estimate of eight economists.
We think the sharp dete-
rioration in retail sales is likely
to weigh heavily on headline
GDP, with the economy ex-
panding less than 2 per cent in
the second quarter from a year
ago, Christiaan Tuntono, a
Hong Kong-based analyst with
Credit Suisse Group Ag, wrote
in a note yesterday.
Tuntono cut his 2014 eco-
nomic growth forecast for
Hong Kong to 2.2 per cent
from 3 per cent.
Retail sales in June fell 6.9 per
cent to HK$37.1 billion (US$4.8
billion) from a year ago, with
spending on jewellery and
watches down 28.2 per cent,
the government said July 31.
LVMH Moet Hennessy Lou-
is Vuitton Sa, the worlds larg-
est luxury-goods company,
said last month that business
in the city has slowed mark-
edly. BLOOMBERG
TPG offers $3.2B
for Treasury Wine,
matching KKR bid
Jewellery sales, tourist
numbers fall as Hong
Kongs growth slows
Following a Chinese investigation into wrongdoing by a host of foreign businesses, Chinese authorities are punishing carmaker Audi for violating
anti-monopoly laws. Audi has said that it will accept the punishment. BLOOMBERG
Audi to accept China penalty
G
ERMAN luxury car
brand Audi will ac-
cept punishment
from Chinese au-
thorities for breaching anti-
monopoly laws in the worlds
largest auto market, the car-
maker said yesterday.
An investigation by Chi-
nese authorities found that
an Audi dealer network had
violated national anti-mo-
nopoly laws, the brands
China arm said in a released
statement, adding the Audi
joint venture involved had
closely cooperated with the
investigation and will accept
a penalty.
China has launched inves-
tigations into alleged wrong-
doings by a host of foreign
rms in multiple different
elds, among them phar-
maceuticals, technology and
baby milk.
The statement came after
Chinas National Develop-
ment and Reform Commis-
sion (NDRC), which polices
violations of anti-monopoly
law, said it had been investi-
gating the auto sector dom-
inated by foreign companies
and their joint ventures for
more than two years.
Last week it pledged to
punish Audi, and Chrysler of
the US, now part of Italys Fiat
group, without stating what
penalties they would receive.
China considers using a
dominant market position
to set prices as a form of
monopoly. Violators illegal
gains can be conscated,
and they can be ned up to
10 percent of their sales rev-
enue in the previous year.
Audi is owned by the Ger-
man car rm Volkswagen,
which set up a joint venture
with Chinese auto giant FAW
to manufacture Audis and
other models.
Management processes
in the sales and dealership
structure are getting im-
proved to prevent similar
incidents in the future, the
Audi China statement sent to
AFP added.
It did not explicitly state
that Audi acknowledged any
wrongdoing.
However, it did add: Audi
and FAW-Volkswagen attach
great importance that all ap-
plicable antitrust and com-
petition laws are adhered to.
China has become critically
important to foreign carmak-
ers, given the size of the mar-
ket and weak sales elsewhere
in the world.
Chinas full-year auto sales
hit 21.98 million vehicles last
year, when a recovery in Japa-
nese brands offset the impact
of slowing economic growth.
The inquiry into carmark-
ers comes as the State Ad-
ministration for Industry and
Commerce (SAIC), which also
enforces the anti-monopoly
law, investigates US software
giant Microsoft for allegedly
operating a monopoly.
In another chill for US
technology rms, state me-
dia have said China is plan-
ning to announce chip maker
Qualcomm has monopoly
status in the mobile phone
chip market.
Foreign pharmaceutical
companies including Brit-
ains GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
have also been the target of
wide-ranging investigations.
Others businesses, such as
Apple and Starbucks, mean-
while, have sometimes re-
ceived unfavourable cover-
age in Chinas state media
over issues regarding service
and pricing.
The moves have prompted
fears from investors that
overseas companies are be-
ing especially targeted, but
China said Saturday that its
anti-monopoly law does not
discriminate between do-
mestic and overseas compa-
nies. AFP
McDonalds, Yum to reveal suppliers
SHANGHAI has ordered
McDonalds Corp and other
foreign restaurant chains to
disclose their product sourc-
es as the city seeks to regain
consumer trust after a food
scare sparked safety concerns
in the country.
Yum! Brands Inc, Burger King
Worldwide Inc, Carls Jr, Papa
Johns International Inc and
Ting Hsin International Groups
Dicos were among companies
asked to post supplier informa-
tion on their website by the
Shanghai Municipal Food and
Drug Administration, accord-
ing to a posting on the citys
official microblog.
Shanghai authorities required
greater transparency after they
ordered an investigation last
month into a food supplier
accused of selling expired meat,
and as scandals such as fox
meat sold as mutton have
rocked the city in the last two
years, raising fears of unsafe
products in the country.
On July 20, a local television
station aired an undercover
report showing workers at
Shanghai Husi Food Co, a unit
of Aurora, Illinois-based OSI
Group Llc, had been repackag-
ing and giving chicken and beef
that exceeded its sell-by dates
another year. That prompted
their customers such as
McDonalds and Yums KFC
and Pizza Hut chains to pull
products from the supplier,
leading to a shortage of Big
Macs and some other items in
their restaurants.
Eateries are now asked to put
up information such as sup-
plier names, ingredients used
in its products, and the results
of food production checks on
their official websites so they
can be put under consumer
scrutiny, according to the
August 9 posting.
McDonalds has started
restoring its full menu in some
cities in China and some of its
Beijing outlets will only get the
full range of burgers this week
due to logistical delays, the
fast-food chain said in a state-
ment yesterday. BLOOMBERG
Shanghai authorities have ordered McDonalds and other fast-food
chains to reveal the suppliers of their products. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
Business
Palm oil heavyweights battle for Papua New Guniea
Thailand at risk of being left behind in ASEAN 4G race
A BATTLE between two of the
worlds palm oil heavyweights
for an opportunity to expand
their empires into Papua New
Guinea has produced an unex-
pected winner in Malaysia, but
the PNG government may yet
have the final say.
Malaysias Sime Darby Bhd,
the worlds second-biggest
palm oil producer, edged out
third-ranked Felda Global Ven-
tures Bhd (FGV) for the right to
negotiate with Kuala Lumpur-
based Kulim Bhd to buy its 49
per cent equity stake in New
Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL).
The decision was a setback
for FGV, which badly wanted to
expand beyond Malaysia and
Indonesia, and saw great poten-
tial in the yields from the
NBPOL properties in Papua
New Guinea. FGV has been
looking for opportunities ever
since it listed on Bursa Malaysia
in 2012, when it raised $3.3 bil-
lion in the worlds third-largest
IPO that year.
We were surprised that Sime
Darby emerged as the winner,
given that FGV had been aggres-
sively courting Kulim and the
Papua New Guinea [PNG]
authorities, TA Securities wrote
in a research note.
NBPOL is listed on the Lon-
don Stock Exchange and also
in Port Moresby, the capital of
PNG. Kulim, headquartered in
Johor, holds the largest equity
stake in the company at 49 per
cent. Kulim first invested in
NBPOL in 1996 when it was a
small plantation company
with 18,000 hectares of oil
palm. Today its landbank
totals 134,611 hectares, of
which 79,884 are in Papua New
Guinea (PNG) and the Solo-
mon Islands.
The remaining 30,183 hec-
tares are reserved and unde-
veloped land. A sustainable
palm oil producer, the com-
pany also has 12 palm oil mills,
and one refinery each in PNG
and Liverpool.
NBPOL is also the largest
sugar and beef producer in
PNG with 7,700 hectares of sug-
arcane plantations and 9,200
hectares of grazing land, as well
as a seed production and palm
breeding facility.
Analysts are particularly
excited about the sale because
the plantations offer higher
yields per acre than many in
the region and would be a good
addition to the portfolio of any
company. Analysts believe
Sime Darby was chosen because
it stands a better chance of win-
ning PNG government approv-
al. Kulim does not want anoth-
er rejection.
Sime Darby is indeed an
international player, with palm
oil estates in Malaysia, Indone-
sia and Liberia. It is the worlds
largest producer of sustainable
palm oil, with 82 per cent of its
output deemed sustainable.
However, success is not
assured since the PNG govern-
ment has just introduced new
rules preventing takeovers that
are deemed not to be in the
national interest, according to
Alliance DBS Research.
The PNG Code also requires
that any party acquiring more
than a 20 per cent stake in a
company must make a tender
offer to all shareholders for the
remaining shares. NBPOL also
must appoint an independent
adviser to the shareholders to
review the merits of the Sime
Darby deal.
CIMB Research believes the
49 per cent stake will cost Sime
Darby about 2 billion ringgit
($625 million). But since it will
have to comply with PNG take-
over rules and launch a general
offer on both the exchanges on
which NBPOL is listed, the
whole deal could end up cost-
ing the Malaysian company
between 4.9 billion and 5.8 bil-
lion ringgit.
TA Securities says that based
on NBPOLs market price in
London of 519 pence ($0.87)
per share, the group is valued
at 778.7 million or 4.2 billion
ringgit. This works out to
approximately 52,000 ringgit
per hectare under cultivation.
If indeed it manages to get all
the required approvals, then it
would be in an enviable posi-
tion given the acreage size
increase and yields.
CIMB Research believes its
total planted acreage will
increase by 15 per cent to
607,218 hectares. Sime Darby
will also get to expand its cus-
tomer base in Britain and
another refinery in Liverpool. It
already has eight refineries:
three in Malaysia, one each in
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam,
the Netherlands and South
Africa. BANGKOK POST
THAILAND faces the threat of
fierce competition from other
ASEAN countries if a fourth-
generation (4G) spectrum auc-
tion fails to take place next year,
says an internet trade group.
Myanmar is the only country
in the 10-member bloc that
does not have 4G commercial
service. True Move provides 4G
commercial service in Thailand
on a limited scale.
Mobile operators in Cambo-
dia have been offering 4G
commercial service in every
province since 2012 when
Thai operators were only
beginning to roll out 3G net-
works after receiving licences
from the National Broadcast-
ing and Telecommunications
Commission (NBTC).
Srisakdi Charmonman, pres-
ident of the Thailand Internet
Association, said the lack of 4G
service notwithstanding, Myan-
mar was speeding up many
infrastructure projects such as
construction of 3G wireless
broadband networks.
Given surging demand for
telecom services in Myanmar
due to the influx of more foreign
direct investment into the
country, Myanmar could bypass
3G for 4G technology develop-
ment, he said at a forum on
creating business opportunities
with 4G in ASEAN.
According to researcher
GSMA Intelligence, more than
264 operators provide 4G serv-
ice in 101 countries, with the
figures expected to rise to 500
in 128 countries by 2017. South
Korea and Japan provide the
fastest 4G wireless broadband
in the world.
GSMA Intelligence sees 4G
access reaching 64 per cent of
the global population by 2020.
Srisakdi said the one-year
delay of the 4G spectrum auc-
tion could have a severe impact
on Thailands economic
growth, as 4G network expan-
sion would stimulate invest-
ment and boost other telecom-
related businesses.
Four-G wireless broadband
boasts up to seven times the
speed of 3G internet and could
enhance development of other
sectors such as medicine, edu-
cation and e-government.
Mr Srisakdi said Thailand had
more than 100 million mobile
subscribers, with over 50 mil-
lion still using 2G service.
Col Settapong Malisuwan,
the NBTCs telecom committee
chairman, has said Thailand is
ready for 4G service, as wit-
nessed by the jump in mobile
data traffic in the first quarter
of this year. He said the com-
mittee believed 4G could gener-
ate hundreds of billions of baht
for telecom-related industries
and the overall economy.
The big three mobile operators
AIS, DTAC and True Move
invested 70 billion baht ($2.18
billion) in network expansion in
the first year after the 3G auction
in 2012. Three-G also stimulated
the local smartphone market
with sales reaching 60 billion
baht this year, up 30 per cent
from last year. BANGKOK POST
OSIM International Ltd, Asias
largest maker of massage
chairs, said its in talks to ex-
pand its international fran-
chise with stores in Turkey
and Russia. Osims chief ex-
ecutive ofcer Ron Sim said
he hopes to reach a deal by
the end of the year.
The Turkey and Russia agree-
ments will complement fast-
growing economies including
China, which Sim said is its
top market with almost half of
its 578 stores worldwide. Osim
is planning to add 20 to 30 new
outlets each year while closing
underpeforming ones, he said.
The worldwide market is
getting bigger and bigger for
us, Sim said.
The expansion into Turkey
would give the Singapore-
based company access to
a country where economic
growth has averaged 5.5 per-
cent since 2002. Russia is grap-
pling with a $2 trillion econo-
my that has nearly stalled as
foreign capital continues to
ow out, making the impact of
Western sanctions noticeable
for Russian citizens.
Osims key markets also in-
clude Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Singapore and Malaysia. The
shares have climbed 18 per
cent this year, compared with
the 3.8 per cent gain in the
Singapore benchmark Straits
Times Index. BLOOMBERG
Turkey and
Russia next
for Osims
expansion
Sharholders offered airline exit
M
ALAYSIAS na-
tional carrier,
kept aoat with
billions from the
government in the past six
years, got yet another lifeline
after two high-prole jet di-
sasters this year left its image
in tatters.
Malaysian Airline System
Bhd (MAS) minority share-
holders have been offered an
exit after sovereign wealth
fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd
said it would pay 1.38 billion
ringgit ($429 million) to take
the carrier private. This is a
rst step and more painful
measures may be needed to
turn around the airline with
a comprehensive and holis-
tic restructuring plan, Prime
Minister Najib Razak said on
August 8.
Shareholders should accept
the offer, said Daniel Wong, an
analyst at Hong Leong Invest-
ment Bank Bhd in Kuala Lum-
pur, as he predicted a bleak
future for the carrier.
Youre getting an exit point
at a premium price, youre
still making a prot. Why not?
Unless you are thinking that
MAS can turn around within
the next two years.
Taking Malaysia Airlines
private is an initial step in re-
pairing the image of the car-
rier after two accidents this
year one over Ukraine and
another where investigators
are still looking for wreckage
after ve months claimed
the lives of 537 people. Najib
and his government came
under criticism for their han-
dling of Flight 370s disap-
pearance and restoring the
reputation is essential to lure
back passengers amid com-
petition with budget airlines.
Khazanahs offer to buy the
30.6 per cent stake it doesnt
already own in the Subang,
Malaysia-based company at
27 sen per share ($0.08) is 12.5
per cent higher than the stocks
August 7 closing price. The
shares, which were suspended
on August 8, rose 8.3 per cent
to 26 sen as of 9:39am local
time, paring this years decline
to 16 per cent.
The airline has been bailed
out before. In 2002, the gov-
ernment tightened its grip on
the carrier under an asset reor-
ganisation plan that gave it 69
per cent of the company. The
airline called for rights-share
offerings in September 2007,
February 2010 and May 2013,
requiring Khazanah to cough
up 4.8 billion ringgit to main-
tain its stake.
Flight 17 was shot down in
Ukraine in July, four months
after a jet en route to Beijing
from Kuala Lumpur vanished.
The plane that disappeared in
March put the carrier under
global scrutiny and prompted
boycotts in China, whose na-
tionals accounted for most
of the passengers. There is no
trace of the plane in what has
become the longest search for
a missing jet in modern avia-
tion history.
Before the disasters, Malay-
sia Airlines had racked up 4.13
billion ringgit in losses over
the previous three years. The
carrier will probably lose more
than 1 billion ringgit in 2014,
according to analyst estimates
compiled by Bloomberg.
Malaysia Airlines board said
it will take Khazanahs pro-
posal to shareholders in an ex-
traordinary general meeting.
Details of the restructuring
plan will be announced before
the end of August, Najib said.
Investors shouldnt expect
a better offer from Khazanah,
said Mohshin Aziz, an analyst
at Malayan Banking Bhd in
Kuala Lumpur. When the air-
line reports its second-quarter
performance, nancial results
will be awful, perhaps the
worst in its history, he said in
an August 8 note.
When that happens, it will
denitely spook everyone and
evaporate any hope for a re-
vised offer, Mohshin said. The
company may report earnings
later this month.
The airline missed its target
to be protable last year on
higher fuel, maintenance and
nancing costs. Its net loss
in the three months ended
March 31 widened to 443.4
million ringgit from 278.8 mil-
lion ringgit a year earlier. Rev-
enue rose 1.8 per cent to 3.6
billion ringgit.
Malaysia Airlines had more
than 19,500 employees at the
end of 2013. The restructur-
ing needs the support of man-
agement, employees, unions,
creditors and vendors, Najib
said. BLOOMBERG
Flags y at half-mast at Malaysia Airlines headquarters in Subang, Malaysia, on July 20. Minority
shareholders are being offered an exit by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional. BLOOMBERG
LEADING economies are show-
ing steady growth overall,
though Britain is doing particu-
larly well and Japan and Ger-
many are showing signs of slow-
ing, the OECD said yesterday.
The eurozone as a whole,
and France, are on a stable
growth path, the latest OECD
data showed, contrasting with
several recent indicators sug-
gesting that France is lagging
in the 18-member single-cur-
rency zone.
The Organisation for Eco-
nomic Co-operation and
Development, grouping 34
advanced democracies, said
that its index of leading indica-
tors for the United States and
Canada also continue to point
to stable growth momentum.
This was also the case for
Britain, a member of the EU
but not of the eurozone, where
growth momentum remains
above-trend rates, the OECDs
monthly index showed.
There were signs of a blip in
Japanese growth, but this
probably reflects one-off fac-
tors, the OECD said.
The figures for Germany, the
leading eurozone country, sug-
gested that growth was losing
its vigour, whereas in Italy the
data continues to indicate a
positive growth momentum.
The OECD index is regarded
as a reliable pointer to turning
points in economic activity
relative to trends.
The outlook for France and
for Italy will be welcome in
those two countries, in France
because recent data has been
discouraging and in Italy
because the economy was
shown last week to have slipped
unexpectedly back into reces-
sion. AFP
Swedish firm to invest
$1.6B in wind farm
SWEDISH energy group
Vattenfall and Munich City
Utilities announced yesterday
a massive wind-farm
investment off the German
North Sea coast. The wind
farm, named Sandbank and
located close to Danish
territorial waters, will include
72 turbines and will cost 11
billion kronor ($1.6 billion).
The project is intended to
generate an estimated 1.4
terawatt-hours of electricity
annually which is capable of
supplying 400,000 homes with
power. AFP
S Africa lender placed
into administration
SOUTH Africas central bank
stepped in to rescue embattled
lender African Bank
Investments Limited on
Sunday after it said it needed
8.5 billion rand ($800 million)
to continue operating. The
bank has been put into
administration and will
receive a 10 billion rand capital
injection and protection for
creditors, Reserve Bank
governor Gill Marcus said.
Lenders including Barclays
Africa, FirstRand and fund
administrator the Public
Investment Corporation have
agreed to underwrite the
capital raising, Marcus went
on to say. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
EDF Energy shuts reactors in
Britain as safety precaution
EDF Energy, the British unit of French giant EDF,
said yesterday it had decided to shut down four
nuclear reactors at two plants in northern Eng-
land as a precaution.
EDF Energy said that it was shutting down two
reactors at each of the Heysham and Hartlepool
nuclear plants for at least about eight weeks.
It follows a defect at one of the four reactors,
which has kept it out of action since June. The
decision to shut down an additional three reac-
tors was described as a conservative decision
in a statement issued by EDF Energy.
It comes as Britains government is placing
nuclear power at the heart of its low-carbon
energy policy, in stark contrast to Europes big-
gest economy Germany, which vowed to phase
it out in the wake of Japans 2011 Fukushima
disaster. Last year, Britain signed a 16 billion
deal with EDF to build two reactors at Hinkley
Point C, southwestern England, to help meet the
countrys future energy needs.
Also involved in the contract are French
group Areva the worlds leading nuclear pow-
er company and Chinese nuclear firms CGN
and CNNC.
EDF Energy meanwhile said in a statement
yesterday that its Heysham 1 Reactor 1 remains
shut down while work continues to character-
ise the nature of the defect detected earlier
this year.
Although routine inspections of other boiler
spines have not previously indicated any simi-
lar defects, EDF Energy has taken the conserv-
ative decision to shut down Heysham 1 Reactor
2 and Hartlepool Reactors 1 and 2 that are of
similar design, it said.
Until the results of the further inspections are
known it is not possible to advise exact return to
service dates for these four reactors, however, an
initial estimate is that these investigations will
take around eight weeks, the statement added.
In a separate statement, British energy group
Centrica said the shutdowns announced yes-
terday would impact its own earnings this year
owing to its 20-per cent interest in EDF Energys
existing nuclear operations.
On this basis, the resulting reduction in output
from the affected nuclear power stations is cur-
rently estimated to reduce Centricas earnings
per share in 2014 by around 0.3 pence per share,
it said. Centricas share price was little changed
following the announcement, with the company
trading down 0.06 per cent at 307.7 pence in
London. AFP
Lost Russia sales hit Germany
M
WL Apparate Bau
Gmbh, based in
the eastern Ger-
man town of
Grimma, has relied on strong
ties with Russia to bolster
business. Today, those links
dont mean much.
The maker of equipment
such as pressure vessels
and hot water tanks for the
chemical and petrochemical
industries has seen a sig-
nicant decline in orders in
the last six months due to the
crisis, sales chief Reinhard
Weber said. The company has
annual revenue of about 20
million ($27 million).
There are two contracts
from Russia we didnt get
and we think thats for po-
litical reasons, Weber said.
Theyre afraid of sanctions
being extended that they
will make an order and that
we wont be able to fulll it
because of political decisions
in Germany or Europe.
MWL is one of many busi-
nesses in Germanys Mittel-
stand, the thousands of small-
and medium-sized companies
that form the backbone of
Europes largest economy, that
are already getting pinched
as Russian customers put off
purchases. With the crisis now
intensifying through deeper
European Union and US sanc-
tions and retaliatory measures
from Russia banning EU and
US food imports, theyre pre-
paring for an even bigger hit.
Take Amandus Kahl Gmbh.
The maker of food process-
ing and recycling machinery
near Hamburg had expected
to bring in about 10 million
in revenue this year from
Russian sales.
Sales to the country have
pretty much evaporated be-
cause our clients cant get -
nancing, Rochus Mecke, a
Kahls sales director, said in an
interview. We still get inqui-
ries, but its only inquiries.
Even before the confronta-
tion deepened with the July
17 downing of MH17 over
territory held by pro-Russian
separatists in eastern Ukraine,
German business was being
impacted. Factory orders in
June dropped the most in more
than two and a half years.
With the escalating mea-
sures from both sides, ex-
ecutives are bracing for the
situation to worsen. German
business sentiment fell for a
third straight month in July to
the lowest since October, ac-
cording to the Munich-based
Ifo institute.
The Mittelstand, which ac-
counts for 52 per cent of Ger-
manys economic output, is
made up of businesses that
generally have a focused
product offering and more
regional sales. That means
those reliant on Russia are
less able to shift output to
other areas of the world in the
way global companies can.
EU sanctions announced
last month restrict the export
to Russia of equipment to
modernise the oil industry and
forbid the sale of machinery,
electronics and other civilian
products with potential mili-
tary uses. New arms contracts
with Russia are also not al-
lowed. Russia responded with
import bans on an array of food
stuffs from the US and Europe,
including sh, beef, pork, fruit,
vegetables and dairy.
While most attention has
been focused on the impact
to big companies in industries
such as nance and defence,
the deeper pain will be felt by
these small businesses in Ger-
many, which is Russias big-
gest EU trading partner. Their
health is critical to Europes
biggest economy and so Eu-
rope as a whole. BLOOMBERG
Hachette
ghts back
in row over
price xing
HACHETTE Book Group has
defended itself against accusa-
tions of pushing up prices for
e-books amid a dispute with
online retail giant Amazon.
Hachette sets prices for our
books entirely on our own, not
in collusion with anyone, the
American head of the publish-
ing group, Michael Pietsch,
wrote in a letter to readers.
The letter will be sent to any-
one who emails Pietsch,
Hachette said, after Pietschs
email address was published
by Amazon, in a bid to pres-
sure the company over the
price battle.
In his letter, the Hachette
chief swung back at Amazon.
This dispute started because
Amazon is seeking a lot more
profit and even more market
share, at the expense of authors,
bricks and mortar bookstores,
and ourselves, he argued.
Amazon says it wants to set a
$9.99 price for most e-books,
compared to $12.99 to $19.99
currently, arguing the lack of
printing, stocking and shipping
costs for e-books should make
them less expensive. AFP
A pig farm in Lohne. Small- and medium-sized businesses in Germany
are feeling the pinch of political tension with Russia. BLOOMBERG
Contact: Ms. Sim Kuyeng
Tel: +855 (0)23 966 878
E-mail: enquiry@kh.knightfrank.com
www.knightfrank.com.kh
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Eurozone on the mend: OECD
Markets
11
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
Business
International commodities
Energy
Agriculture
Markets
800
875
950
1025
1100
500
550
600
650
700
2000
2500
3000
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23250
25000
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2250
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2750
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14000
14500
15000
15500
16000
9000
9250
9500
9750
10000
Thailand Vietnam
Singapore Malaysia
Hong Kong China
Japan Taiwan
Thai Set 50 Index, Aug 8
FTSE Straits Times Index, Aug 8 FTSE BursaMalaysiaKLCI, Aug 8
Hang Seng Index, Aug 8 CSI 300 Index, Aug 8
Nikkei 225, Aug 8 Taiwan Taiex Index, Aug 8
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Aug 8
15,130.52
2,365.35 24,646.02
1,849.32 3,306.45
602.13 1,018.47
9,172.91
1600
1725
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1975
2100
5500
5875
6250
6625
7000
900
1050
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1350
1500
4000
4500
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6000
22000
23250
24500
25750
27000
28000
28750
29500
30250
31000
4500
4875
5250
5625
6000
4500
4750
5000
5250
5500
South Korea Philippines
Laos Indonesia
India Pakistan
Australia New Zealand
KOSPI Index, Aug 8 PSEI - Philippine Se Idx, Aug 8
Laos Composite Index, Aug 8 Jakarta Composite Index, Aug 8
BSE Sensex 30 Index, Aug 8 Karachi 100 Index, Aug 8
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Aug 8 NZX 50 Index, Aug 8
5,457.03
28,103.65 25,542.81
5,113.24 1,398.27
6,956.66 2,039.37
5,049.63
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 97.71 0.06 0.06% 5:50:13
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 104.83 -0.19 -0.18% 5:50:13
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.01 0.05 1.16% 5:50:17
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 275.33 -0.04 -0.01% 5:50:24
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 287.25 -0.44 -0.15% 5:49:57
ICEGasoil USD/MT 880.25 -3 -0.34% 5:49:48
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.64 -0.03 -0.20% 4:00:00
CME Lumber USD/tbf 344.9 -1.4 -0.40% 16:07:45
Iron giants turn to cattle farming
R
IO Tinto Group is the
worlds second-largest ex-
porter of iron ore. Its also
one of Western Australias
biggest cattle ranchers, with room
for 25,000 head to graze on land
spanning an area larger than Mon-
dulkiri province.
Global demand is surging, driven
in large part by Chinas expanding
appetite for beef. At the same time,
prices for iron ore are projected to
slip. Thats making cattle more at-
tractive to Australian mining com-
panies, a complementary business
that generates revenue from land
that otherwise would be idle.
Hancock Prospecting, the mining
company owned by Australias rich-
est woman, and Andrew Forrest,
the billionaire founder of Fortescue
Metals, the worlds fourth-biggest
iron ore exporter, are also moving
into the cattle industry.
The trouble with iron ore is you
have to dig it out and move it by
truck, but the great thing about cat-
tle is they walk there for you, Aus-
tralian Agriculture Minister Barna-
by Joyce said in a phone interview.
For mining companies, its just the
movement of another commodity.
Purchases of Australian food
and agriculture assets have had
the strongest rst half in at least 12
years, with more than 20 deals an-
nounced this year worth at least
$2.6 billion, according to data com-
piled by Bloomberg.
They include Forrests May acqui-
sition of Harvey Beef, Western Aus-
tralias only licensed beef exporter
to China, and Hancocks purchase
of a 50 per cent share last month in
two cattle stations, or ranches, in
Western Australias West Kimberley.
Joyce expects to see more such
deals by mining companies: They
are key people with the right exper-
tise to make this work.
Forrest, who once farmed al-
pacas and grew up on his familys
Minderoo ranch, this year founded
the Australia Sino Hundred Year
Agricultural and Food Safety Part-
nership to facilitate discussions
between Australian suppliers and
Chinese consumers.
He held talks with Chinese Pre-
mier Li Keqiang in April to discuss
the bilateral agricultural partner-
ship. The worlds most populous
nation is so desperate for good beef
that Forrest told Bloomberg News in
May he would be taking steak sam-
ples in his luggage on his next trip.
Australia, the worlds third-largest
beef exporter, saw beef and veal ex-
ports to China surge 76 per cent in
scal 2014, according to the Austra-
lian Bureau of Agricultural and Re-
source Economics and Sciences.
China is already the biggest con-
sumer of meat and may double beef
imports by 2018 as the countrys in-
creasing wealth drives changes in
consumers diets, Rabobank Inter-
national said in December.
Rio has six ranches in the Pilbara
that cover more than 1.5 million
hectares of land, to allow access for
exploration, infrastructure devel-
opment, water management and
future mining and production, ac-
cording to its website.
We are conscious of an opportu-
nity in relation to agriculture, Lon-
don-based Rios chief executive of-
cer Sam Walsh said in Perth on July
23. With Australias vast expanses
of land, theres huge opportunity,
he said. The company began leas-
ing some of its land in 1966 and may
consider expanding its holdings.
Australias benchmark Eastern
Young Cattle Indicator has gained
14 percent this year after two years
of declines, making this a good time
to move into beef, said Paul Deane,
senior agriculture analyst at Austra-
lia and New Zealand Banking.
Youre are buying at the bottom
of the cycle and thats attractive,
Deane said.
In the US, cattle futures are up 26
per cent in the past year in Chicago
and set for a sixth annual gain as in-
creases in consumer spending in the
nation help the economy rebound.
Prices rose to a record last month as
slaughter numbers declined.
Iron ore prices are expected to fall
to $96 a metric ton in 2018, from a
forecast of $102.50 in the current
quarter, according to data compiled
by Bloomberg.
Mining companies in Austra-
lia have long been associated with
farming and have often bought
properties outright to ease access
for exploration and mining access.
Many mines share the same name
as the stations where theyre locat-
ed, including Rios Hamersley Mine
and Fortescues Christmas Creek
operation. BLOOMBERG
With demand for beef surging and prices for iron ore slipping, Australian mining
companies are raising cattle on land that otherwise would be idle. BLOOMBERG
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
World
Strongman wins landmark Turkey poll
P
RIME Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan yesterday prepared
for the challenge of leading
Turkey as a strongman presi-
dent after winning an election in the
rst round albeit by a narrower-than-
expected margin.
He vowed to build a new Turkey
and reconcile a divided country in a
triumphant midnight speech before
tens of thousands of supporters in
Ankara, after taking almost 52 per-
cent of the vote in Sundays poll.
As premier since 2003, Erdogan
has sought to modernise Turkey and
take a more assertive position on the
global stage but is seen by many as
increasingly authoritarian.
Now the countrys rst ever directly
elected president, the Islamic-rooted
leader will be inaugurated on Au-
gust 28 and could serve two ve-year
terms, staying in power until 2024.
Outgoing president Abdullah Gul
said yesterday he would return to the
ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP) after he hands over the post.
Attention will now turn to who
becomes the next prime minister to
take the ruling Islamic-rooted AKP
into 2015 legislative elections.
As Erdogan prepares to beef up the
powers of the president which in re-
cent years has been a largely ceremo-
nial role he may have to tread more
carefully after a victory that was weak-
er than expected by his strategists.
It will have implications for the
way he approaches the new presi-
dency, it would have to be more cau-
tious, Ali Carkoglu, professor at Koc
University in Istanbul, said.
Erdogan is seeking a more US-style
executive presidency but this will
prove tricky within the limits of the
current constitution, and the AKP
has vowed to seek a new basic law
after the 2015 polls.
Debt ratings agency Fitch said the
result does little to ameliorate the po-
litical risk to Turkeys credit prole.
Sundays poll was the rst di-
rect presidential election in Turk-
ish history previously the head
of state was chosen by parliament
and Erdogan has pledged to be a
peoples president.
The Turkish people wrote history
yesterday, declared the pro-Erdogan
daily Sabah, with a picture of Erdogan
delivering a speech from the balcony
of AKP headquarters in Ankara with
his hand clasped to his heart.
Erdogan won 51.74 per cent of
the vote, the main opposition chal-
lenger Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu 38.46
per cent and Kurdish candidate Se-
lahattin Demirtas 9.80 per cent, ac-
cording to results based on a near
total vote count.
The AKPs top executive committee
was meeting yesterday on a new party
leader and premier, though a decision
will not be made for several days.
The Cumhuriyet daily said Erdo-
gans failure to win more than 55 per
cent had shifted the thinking within
the AKP about the new premier.
There were now growing voices for
Gul seen as a moderate and concil-
iatory gure to take the post.
The other option is Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu, an inuential g-
ure but an Erdogan loyalist who would
be likely to do his masters bidding.
Turnout was 73.68 per cent, a g-
ure that would be considered high
in many countries but was sharply
down on the 89 per cent recorded in
Turkeys local elections in March.
Leaders of the secular opposition
which backed Ihsanoglu expressed
frustration that many of their voters
had stayed at home.
In his victory speech, Erdogan
sought to promote a message of rec-
onciliation after a sometimes bitter
campaign. Today we are closing
an era and taking the rst step for a
new era, he said.
OSCE observers said there has been
a distinct advantage in the cam-
paign for Erdogan, whose advertising
dominated television and billboards.
The challenges we have noted,
particularly the imbalanced media
coverage, must be overcome to fully
live up to the democratic aspirations
of the people, said Vilija Aleknaite-
Abramikiene, special coordinator of
the mission.
During his rst term as president,
Erdogan will mark being in power
longer than Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,
who founded the modern Turkish
state in 1923 and is still hailed as the
national hero.
Many secular Turks bitterly ac-
cuse Erdogan of squandering Atat-
urks legacy with a gradual move to
Islamise the country and impose
one-man rule. Their anger erupted
in deadly 2013 protests sparked by
plans to build a shopping mall on the
site of Gezi Park in central Istanbul.
There was no reported unrest on
election night.
After winning, Erdogan called on
opponents who label him a dictator
to question themselves instead of
criticising him. We may have differ-
ent political views, different lifestyles,
sects, values, ethnic roots . . . but we
are all sons of this country . . . each of
us are the owner of this state. AFP
Protests, looting in St Louis after cops kill black teen
PROTESTERS clashed with police and
looted stores in a suburb of the US city
of St Louis after an officer shot dead
an unarmed black teen, local media
reported yesterday.
Police armed with clubs hurled tear
gas and deployed officers with dogs to
curb the violence that erupted late on
Sunday in Ferguson, in the Midwest-
ern state of Missouri, reports said.
But local law enforcement officers
were quickly overwhelmed and had to
urgently call for backup from nearby
communities, according to KSDK TV
5. Video posted by the St Louis Post-
Dispatch showed a gas station conven-
ience store plundered and set on fire.
Looters also raided a Walmart and
several other smaller stores, and set
fires elsewhere, the paper reported.
The violence broke out after large
crowds of mostly black protesters gath-
ered on Sunday for a vigil at the spot
where police shot and killed 18-year-
old Michael Brown a day earlier.
Details of Browns death differ. A wit-
ness identified as Dorian Johnson told
KMOV News 4 that he was walking
with Brown when a police officer con-
fronted them and drew his weapon.
The officer shot Brown, who turned
around and put his hands in the air,
Johnson said. He started to get down
and the officer still approached with
his weapon drawn and fired several
more shots.
St Louis County Police Chief Jon Bel-
mar, however, said Brown was killed
after physically assaulting a police
officer and struggling to get his gun.
Belmar did not say whether the
officer was white, but the Post-Dis-
patch said the incident brings to light
the tension between the mostly white
local police force and the African-
American community.
Browns grief-stricken mother, Les-
ley McSpadden, said that her son had
just graduated from high school and
had planned to attend college.
Do you know how hard it was for
me to get him to stay in school and
graduate? You know how many black
men graduate? Not many, she told TV
station KMOV. Because you bring
them down to this type of level, where
they feel like they dont got nothing to
live for anyway.
Browns family has hired attorney
Benjamin Crump to represent them.
Crump is the lawyer who represent-
ed the family of Trayvon Martin, the
black teen shot and killed in Florida by
George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood
watchman, in February 2012. AFP
Newly elected Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands on a balcony to give his victory speech in Ankara on Sunday, while supporters in Istanbul celebrate his presidential election win. AFP
World
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Right or wong?
Kiwi MP in
hot water for
racist joke
A
HIGH-PROFILE New
Zealand lawmaker was
accused of racism yes-
terday after making what he
called a joke at the expense
of Asians as he railed against
Chinese investment in the
countrys farming sector.
New Zealand First Party
leader Winston Peters told
his campaign launch in
Auckland on Sunday that he
wanted to tighten restrictions
on foreign ownership, telling
the audience: As they say
in Beijing, two Wongs dont
make a white.
The comment was labelled
disappointing and shameful
by Race Relations Commis-
sioner Susan Devoy, while
the ACT Party accused Peters
of inciting hatred against
Chinese ahead of a general
election on September 20.
Peters, who has warned of
New Zealand becoming an
Asian colony, said his critics
lacked a sense of humour and
claimed he was told the joke
by a Chinese man in Beijing.
The reality is a Chinese
guy thought it was a joke, he
told me that and I thought
it was funny, so did my col-
leagues, he said. Theres
nothing racist about it. AFP

Back home, Yingluck
hits the supermarket
AFTER arriving home on
Sunday night, former Thai
prime minister Yingluck
Shinawatra went shopping at a
hypermarket near her home
late yesterday morning.
Shoppers took the opportunity
to snap photos of the former
premier in her first public
appearance since returning
from a trip to Europe and the
US. Yingluck told reporters
that she would not need to
report to the juntas National
Council for Peace and Order
as she had returned to
Thailand by the date earlier
approved. She admitted that
some people might have
questioned whether she would
return, but the trip was
primarliy for her to spend time
with her son before his school
term began. BANGKOK POST

Cleric announces march
to topple Pakistan govt
A POPULIST Pakistani cleric
on Sunday announced a march
on Islamabad to overthrow the
government, hours after being
charged with murder for the
death of a policeman allegedly
injured in clashes with his
supporters. Tahir-ul-Qadri
said he will take to the streets
on the same day that
opposition leader Imran Khan
will hold a rally in the capital
aiming to force the
government to step down and
hold a fresh election. Both
protest rallies will be held on
Thursday when Pakistan
celebrates its independence
day. Qadri, who commands
tens of thousands of followers,
returned to Pakistan in June to
lead what he terms a
peaceful revolution, claiming
the countrys political system
only benefits the elite. AFP
AT LEAST 10 people died and
dozens were injured as Ty-
phoon Halong hurtled across
the Japanese archipelago on
the weekend, reports said
yesterday, with heavy rain still
lashing the countrys north.
The storm moved over the
Sea of Japan (East Sea) and
lurched towards Russias far east
coast yesterday, after sweeping
across Japans largest and most
populous island of Honshu.
A total of 96 people were
injured, public broadcaster
NHK reported. The Nikkei
newspaper said that 10 deaths
were linked to the storm, with
two others missing.
Among the dead was an Ira-
nian man, the Nikkei said.
In Osaka, Halong forced
the cancellation of a major
reworks event on Saturday
after the storm washed away
21 launching boats, about half
of them carrying unused pyro-
technics.
They were later found stuck
down river. AFP
AN AUSTRALIAN couple at the
centre of a Thai surrogate scan-
dal have denied they deliber-
ately abandoned their baby
son because he had Downs
syndrome and said they would
ght to get him back.
David Farnell, 56, a convicted
child sex offender and the bio-
logical father of the boy, Gam-
my, told Channel Nine he and
his wife, Wendy, had wanted
to bring him with us.
It was their rst interview
since sparking global con-
troversy after leaving the boy
in Thailand with his 21-year-
old Thai surrogate mother
Pattaramon Chanbua and
taking only his healthy twin
sister Pipah back home.
We never said you [Pattara-
mon] can have this baby, no
matter what, an emotional
David Farnell said.
The couple claimed Pat-
taramon wanted to keep the
girl and said they left Thailand
without Gammy because we
were getting scared that we
would lose her too and we had
to try and get her out.
The Farnells, from Bunbury
south of Perth, Western Aus-
tralia, previously claimed they
were told Gammy had a con-
genital heart condition but
not Downs syndrome, and left
him because doctors said he
would not survive. AFP
Japan typhoon kills 10
We want Gammy back
China clamps down harder
on rights activists, rumours
US peaceful sea plan stokes tensions: Beijing
A CHINESE court yesterday
upheld lengthy prison sen-
tences handed to three anti-
corruption activists, their law-
yer said, cementing a
crackdown on a burgeoning
civil rights movement.
Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and
Li Sihua were charged with dis-
rupting public order last year for
taking photos of themselves
holding banners that urged gov-
ernment officials to disclose
their assets to curb corruption.
Under President Xi Jinping,
Chinas ruling Communist Par-
ty has repeatedly vowed to com-
bat rampant graft in the face of
public anger over the issue. But
the party has cracked down on
activists pursuing the same
goals, seeing independently
organised groups as a challenge
to its tight grip on power.
An intermediate court in
Xinyu, in the central province
of Jiangxi, upheld the six-and-
a-half-year jail sentences
handed to Liu and Wei, and a
three-year sentence given to Li,
their lawyer, Si Weijiang, said.
China has this year jailed
about 10 members of the New
Citizens Movement, a loose
group with members who held
peaceful protests in Beijing and
other cities last year calling for
officials to disclose their assets.
A founder of the movement,
legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, was
jailed for four years in January.
Group members have said the
wave of arrests, which began
last year, has severely curbed
their activities.
Also yesterday, state media
said a man had been detained
on suspicion of making up
rumours that the Chinese mili-
tary had killed thousands of
people in Xinjiang, home to the
Muslim Uighur minority.
The 22-year-old Uighur
uploaded an article onto over-
seas websites about the alleged
killings in Shache county, or
Yarkand in the Uighur language,
the Xinjiang government web
portal Tianshan reported.
His message had been detect-
ed and used by hostile overseas
forces including the World
Uyghur Congress and caused
vicious impact, it added.
Police found hundreds of text,
audio and video files of violent
terrorist materials in his lap-
top, the report said, adding he
was capable of making explo-
sive devices.
Access to information in Xin-
jiang is strictly controlled by the
authorities and reports can
often not be independently
verified. AFP
BEIJING on Sunday accused the US of
deliberately stoking tensions in the
South China Sea as it rejected Wash-
ingtons proposal for a freeze on pro-
vocative actions in the region.
The remarks by Foreign Minister
Wang Yi came at an ASEAN Regional
Forum (ARF) overshadowed by disputes
over the strategically significant sea.
Beijing claims it almost in its entirety,
putting it at odds with countries includ-
ing the Philippines and Vietnam, and
there have been several tense encoun-
ters in the area over recent months.
US Secretary of State John Kerry
appeared at the forum to push for a mul-
tilateral pact to end all actions that risk
further inflaming regional sensitivities.
But Wang said: Some countries out-
side the region are restless, and stir up
tensions . . . Might their intention be to
create chaos in the region?
China and ASEAN are totally able to
safeguard well the peace and stability
of South China Sea.
His comments, posted on the foreign
ministrys website yesterday, were
aimed squarely at the US, state-run
media said. Chinas official Xinhua news
agency headlined its report on his com-
ments: China rebuffs US freeze pro-
posal on South China Sea.
It said Wang repeated Chinas long-
standing rejection of multilateral talks
over the sea, saying that relevant dis-
putes should be addressed by countries
directly concerned.
In a commentary, Xinhua described
Washingtons proposal as counterpro-
ductive, adding: It is simply an uncon-
structive idea.
By stoking the flames, Washington is
further emboldening countries like the
Philippines and Vietnam to take a hard-
line stance against China, it said.
It is a painful reality that Uncle Sam
has left too many places in chaos after
it stepped in, as what people are wit-
nessing now in Iraq, Syria and Libya,
it added.
The South China Sea should not be
the next one. AFP
Life stirs as fresh truce begins
Adel Zaanoun
I
SRAEL and Hamas yes-
terday stuck to a 72-hour
ceasere in Gaza as Egyp-
tian mediators launched
fresh talks with negotiators
aimed at securing a perma-
nent cessation of hostilities.
Quiet returned to the en-
clave from midnight, the fruit
of days of Egyptian-brokered
mediation to stem violence
that has killed 1,939 Palestin-
ians and 67 on the Israeli side
since July 8.
More than 12 hours into the
truce, there were no reports of
violations on either side and
signs of life emerged on the
streets of the war-torn coastal
enclave, home to 1.8 million
Palestinians.
Shops and businesses
opened their doors and out-
side a UN-run school, a clutch
of cars and donkey carts wait-
ed to take some refugees back
to homes they had ed during
the ghting.
We want to go back to see
what happened to our house,
said Hikmat Atta, 58, who piled
his family into a small cart to
visit the home they left in the
northern town of Beit Lahiya
in the rst days of the war.
But with the second truce in
a week still in its early stages,
he was not taking any chanc-
es. Were just going back for
the day, at night well come
back here, he said.
Palestinian emergency ser-
vices said that a 1-month-old
baby girl died yesterday of in-
juries sustained during the of-
fensive in the Gaza Strip.
In Cairo, Egyptian intelli-
gence mediators threw them-
selves back into shuttle di-
plomacy that unravelled after
rocket attacks breached the
most previous 72-hour truce
on Friday.
They spent yesterday locked
in talks with the Palestinian
delegation and were to relay
their demands to Israeli nego-
tiators, who returned to Cairo
three days after abandoning
the talks when Palestinian
rocket attacks resumed on
southern Israel.
Egypt has urged the war-
ring sides to use the new lull
to reach a comprehensive
and permanent ceasere, af-
ter efforts to extend a similar
truce last week collapsed into
a restorm of violence. Israel
insists that the security of mil-
lions of its citizens subject to
constant fear from Palestinian
rocket attacks be guaranteed.
Hamas, the de facto power
in Gaza, has conditioned its
acceptance of any permanent
agreement on Israel lifting its
eight-year blockade on Gaza.
In the case of Israeli pro-
crastination or continued ag-
gression, Hamas is ready with
other Palestinian factions to
resist on the ground and polit-
ically, its exiled leader Khaled
Meshaal said in Doha.
James Rawley, the top UN
humanitarian ofcial for the
Palestinian territories, said Is-
raels security concerns must
be addressed but warned that
without ending the blockade
another conict was likely.
Not only will we see very
little in the way of reconstruc-
tion, but I am afraid that the
conditions are in place for us
to have another round of vio-
lence, he said.
Palestinian delegates in Cai-
ro said they would be happy for
Palestinian President Mahmud
Abbass Palestinian Authority
to take over the reconstruction
of Gaza and execute any agree-
ment reached in Cairo.
Hamas had refused to ex-
tend the last 72-hour lull when
it expired on Friday. AFP
Activist lawyers (from left) Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and Li Sihua have
had their prison sentences upheld by a Chinese court. PHOTOS SUPPLIED
A Palestinian girl carries items she collected from the rubble of her
house yesterday, during a 72-hour ceasere in the Gaza Strip. AFP
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key institutions. It had become clear
in recent weeks that Maliki had lost
support from Washington. Gradually,
all his other erstwhile allies followed:
Iran, the Shiite clergy and even his
own Dawa party.
Several of the capitals main thor-
oughfares and bridges were closed to
traffic and yesterday morning unu-
sual numbers of security personnel,
uniformed and plain-clothed,
remained deployed across the city.
His television address, in which he
vowed to sue Masum for failing to
choose him as prime minister, had
dispelled any hope he would step
down gracefully.
Yesterday afternoon, even as the
president shook hands with Abadi,
Maliki sent his supporters to protest
on Baghdads main square.
Abadi was something of a dark horse
in the months-long political wrangling
over who should be nominated for
prime minister after the April elec-
tions. The coalition headed by Maliki,
who has been prime minister since
2006, won the vote comfortably but his
increasingly sectarian policies were
seen as partly responsible for the vio-
lence that has gripped Iraq recently.
A Shiite politician considered close
to Maliki, Abadi was born in Baghdad
in 1952 and returned from British exile
in 2003 when US-led forces toppled
Saddam Hussein.
As the long-running political dead-
lock was broken, there was no letup
in the violence that wracked Iraq since
Sunni extremist militants launched an
offensive on June 9.
Islamic State (IS) jihadist fighters
wrested control of the town of Jalaw-
lab from Kurdish peshmerga troops,
who have been stretched thin along a
1,000-kilometre front.
They have struggled to defend their
own autonomous region from jihad-
ist attacks and France asked yester-
day for a Europe-wide mobilisation
to provide the Kurdish peshmerga
with much-needed weapons and
ammunition.
Meanwhile, officials in Washington
said the US was exploring options to
evacuate thousands of civilians
trapped on a mountain in northern
Iraq by IS militants after four nights of
humanitarian relief airdrops.
At least half of the 40,000 people
besieged by jihadists on Mount Sinjar
had escaped by Sunday night, aided
by Kurdish rebels who crossed from
Syria to rescue them. But proposals
for a mission to save the remaining
thousands of Yazidi people under-
score the limits of the airdrops,
ordered last week by Barack Obama.
Were reviewing options for remov-
ing the remaining civilians off the
mountain, deputy US national secu-
rity adviser Ben Rhodes said late
on Sunday.
Kurdish forces are helping, and
were talking to the [United Nations]
and other international partners
about how to bring them to a safe
space. AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Iraqi president names new PM, but Maliki wont go
Kiev demands surrender
U
KRAINES military
has demanded that
pro-Russian rebels
surrender, dismiss-
ing their offer of a ceasere, as
Ukrainian forces verged on re-
taking the city of Donetsk.
If there is an initiative, it
should be implemented by
practical means, not only with
words by raising white ags
and putting down weapons,
Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman
for the countrys military, told
reporters in Kiev. In that case
no one will shoot at them.
Ukraine is trying to dislodge
separatists from strongholds in
Donetsk and Luhansk as Russia
raises the pressure on its neigh-
bour to halt the campaign and
allow immediate assistance.
As Ukraine wrestled with
Russia over a military standoff,
lawmakers in Kiev prepared
for a vote today on a sanctions
bill that could block the transit
of Russian oil and gas supplies
to Europe. The cabinet has ap-
proved the measure.
Ukraine no longer receives
gas from Russia, though it acts
as a conduit for its neighbours
European shipments, and a
ban could be complete or par-
tial, Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenuyuk said last week. It
also may ban Russian planes
from its airspace and cut de-
fence-industry cooperation.
If new sanctions against
Russia are approved, we will
retaliate, Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said.
As the army pushed towards
Donetsk, Ukraines military
reported more desertions
among militants, and said the
town of Panteleymonivka was
cleared of rebels.
Government troops cut off
the regions of Donetsk and
Luhansk from one another,
threatening resupply routes.
Insurgents dug in near the
town of Illovaysk, armed with
tanks, Grad missiles and ar-
moured vehicles, and the mili-
tary is preparing to storm the
area, according to the military.
More than 100 inmates broke
out of a jail in the area yester-
day, when shells rained down
on a high-security prison in
the besieged rebel stronghold,
local authorities said.
Mortar blasts rocked the
correctional facility in a west-
ern district of the city on Sun-
day evening, hitting the living
areas, administrative head-
quarters and an electrical sub-
station, the city council said in
a statement.
The bombardment sparked a
mass jail break that saw scores
of detainees ee the prison.
A riot started in the facil-
ity and 106 people escaped
their place of detention, the
statement said, adding that
three convicts were seriously
wounded by the shelling.
By yesterday morning some
had been returned to the fa-
cility, with a prison ofcial
saying that 40 inmates were
still missing and thought to
be hiding in buildings around
the prison.
An AFP correspondent at the
scene found the prison gates
open and rebel gunmen could
be seen patrolling the area.
A growing number of civilian
casualties have been reported
as artillery bombardments
have hit hospitals and homes
around the beleaguered city.
BLOOMBERG/AFP
Ukrainian servicemen sit in a WWII Soviet tank captured from
pro-Russia militants at in Donetsk on the weekend. AFP
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World
What a dive
A diver jumps from the 22-metre-high Ura e Shenjte bridge during a high-diving competition near the town
of Gjakova, Kosovo, on Sunday. Some 27 divers took the plunge into the Drini i Bardhe River. AFP
Monster temblor in Chile
set off Antarctic icequakes
A GIANT earthquake that struck
Chile in 2010 also unleashed
minor icequakes in Antarctica
nearly 4,700 kilometres to the
south, scientists say.
Sensors recorded small trem-
ors in West Antarctica within six
hours of the Chilean shock, pro-
viding the first evidence that
the worlds greatest ice sheet
can be affected by distant but
powerful quakes, they said.
Twelve of the 42 monitoring
stations that are dotted across
the vast region showed clear
evidence of a spike in high-
frequency seismic signals, the
team reported in the journal
Nature Geoscience.
The signals tallied with signs
of ice fractures near the sur-
face, they added.
The February 27, 2010, quake,
which occurred just off the
coast of Chiles Maule region,
measured 8.8 in magnitude,
making it one of the largest ever
recorded. It killed more than
500 people and inflicted $30
billion in damage.
The main shock from the
event triggered microquakes as
far afield as North America, as
the passing shock wave caused
shallow faults to slip in tecton-
ically active regions.
Geologists have long won-
dered how the ice sheets in
Greenland and Antarctica
whose underlying rock is con-
sidered seismically peaceful
would respond to gigantic but
distant quakes.
Until a few years ago, there
were no means to explore the
idea. But some useful tools
have now become available
thanks to the deployment of a
small network of sensors near
and on top of the sheets.
The best bet is that the trem-
ors came from movement
within the ice sheet itself, and
not from any fault in the bed-
rock below, said Zhigang Peng
at the Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology in Atlanta.
While we are not 100 per cent
sure, we think that those seismic
signals come from ice cracking
within the ice sheet, likely very
close to the surface, he said.
Put together, the data show
that these vast slabs of ice can
be sensitive to large, distant
quakes, said the paper.
One intriguing question is
the impact on features in the
ice sheet whether a big dis-
tant quake can help to rip open
a crevasse or accelerate glacier
flow. AFP
Neil Sands
T
HE rusting hulks of
tanks and eld artillery
are a common sight in
the jungles of Peleliu,
but the ghting that scarred
the Pacic island in World War
II also left a more dangerous
legacy unexploded bombs.
A Japanese aireld made
the 10-kilometre-long island
a prized asset during the con-
ict, with the Americans deter-
mined to seize it at any cost.
The island about an hours
boat ride from the Palau capi-
tal Koror underwent months
of aerial and naval bombard-
ment before US marines
launched an amphibious
invasion in September 1944
that was expected to take just
three days. Instead, the assault
dragged on for almost three
months and became one of
the bloodiest encounters in
the Allied island hopping
campaign, claiming about
13,000 Japanese and 3,000
American lives.
On the island today, remind-
ers of the war are everywhere
the wreckage of a Japanese
Zero ghter rests against a tree
with vines growing out of the
cockpit and a US landing craft
looms beside the road, a white
star still faintly visible beneath
layers of corrosion.
Down the road from the
main jetty is the 1,000-man
cave, a maze of tunnels that
served as an underground
Japanese eld hospital one
of 608 fortications the de-
fenders carved out of the rug-
ged limestone terrain in a bid
to repel the Americans.
Steve Ballinger, co-founder of
British charity Cleared Ground
Demining, says 600 pieces of
ordnance were removed from
that cave alone in order for it
to be declared safe.
Prior to it being cleared,
tourists had visited the cave
virtually daily, unaware they
were sightseeing amid live
land mines, hand grenades
and mortars, not to mention
human remains, which were
repatriated to Japan.
Its crazy really, the scale
of contamination, Ballinger
said, explaining that World
War II-era ordnance had a 30
per cent failure rate and the
live shells and mines in Peleliu
were simply left in place until
the cleanup began.
There were also huge weap-
ons stockpiles in the honey-
comb of Japanese caves. Af-
ter the battle, the Americans
simply dumped enemy bodies
and ordnance into 30-metre
deep sinkholes that pit the
jungle oor.
Cleared Ground started the
clean up in 2009 and since
then has removed 32,000 items
of live ordnance in Peleliu.
Fellow co-founder Cassan-
dra McKeown said they did
a survey of all houses on the
island when the work began
and found 26 per cent of prop-
erties were contaminated with
live ordnance.
They had them in the back-
yard, they had live grenades in
the school as part of a history
project, she said.
They were using them as
doorstops, old ladies were us-
ing them to hammer nuts on,
not realising they were dan-
gerous. This one lady had one
right next to a barbecue.
Cleared Ground has trained
a team of 25 Palauans to help
dispose of the dangerous
items and boasts a 100 per
cent safety record, with no un-
planned detonations during
its demining work.
But Ballinger said practically
everyone in Palau knew some-
one who had been killed by
WWII ordnance, though acci-
dents had become rarer since
the late 1970s, when the gov-
ernment outlawed dynamite
shing, which could set off
nearby ordnance.
He said many Palauans mis-
takenly believed the bombs
were not dangerous because
they had not detonated in 70
years, but their age actually
increased the problem.
They are getting old, they
are deteriorating, he said.
He said that the presence of
so many explosives also hin-
dered development on Pele-
liu because it made creating
infrastructure such as roads
and pipelines a hazardous ex-
ercise. As a result, only about
400 people live on the island,
even though it has world-class
diving and abundant war rel-
ics for history buffs.
Andy Johns, who like Ball-
inger is a former bomb dis-
posal expert with the British
military, said the only place he
had seen a greater concentra-
tion of ordnance was in Ku-
wait after the rst Gulf War.
Theres no jungle in Kuwait
though, its nice and sandy,
not like this, he said.
Pelelius jungle is so thick,
and the cave network so ex-
tensive, that a group of Japa-
nese went into hiding after
the battle and staged guerilla
attacks before nally surren-
dering in April 1947.
Adding an extra element
of danger to an already haz-
ardous job, saltwater croco-
diles lurk in the mangroves
where Japanese mines are of-
ten found. AFP
BRITISH people
trust Wikipedia
more than the
ma i n s t r e a m
media, the sites
founder Jimmy
Wales said on Sun-
day at the close of a
three-day conference
of the Wikimedia move-
mentin London.
A YouGov poll of almost 2,000
British adults found 64 per cent
trust the authors of Wikipedia
entries to tell the truth a great
deal or a fair amount.
This compared to 61 per cent
who trusted BBC news journal-
ists, 45 per cent who trusted
journalists on broadsheets such
as the Times and the Guardian,
and 13 per cent for journalists
on tabloids such as the Sun.
British people trust Wikipe-
dia more than the news, Wales
told the conference, to cheers
from the audience.
The things thats
really impressive
here is the BBC has
an excellent repu-
tation . . . and were
trusted slightly
more than the BBC.
Thats a little scary.
But its something we
have accomplished.
Wales acknowledged that the
site which relies on the public
for its contributions and cor-
rections was flawed but said
that people turn to us for reli-
able, solid information . . . We
do a decent job of it.
The survey revealed, how-
ever that the traditional Ency-
clopaedia Britannica is viewed
as the most reliable source of
information by far, trusted by
83 per cent of respondents.
Im not going to rest until
they trust us more than they
ever trusted Encyclopaedia Bri-
tannica, Wales said. AFP
Brits trust Wiki over
mainstream media
NEANDERTHALS snacked on
pigeons that they toasted on
open fires, according to
researchers, adding to the
menu of foods known
to be eaten by our
closest ancient
relatives.
Leftovers of Nean-
derthal feasts were found in
sediments that built up over
millennia in a cave on the east
face of Gibraltar, where genera-
tions of Neanderthals sheltered
for nearly 100,000 years.
Workers there unearthed a
haul of pigeon bones and found
that some bore tooth marks,
cuts from stone tools or signs of
charring, perhaps created when
the meat was left to cook on the
glowing embers of a fire.
Most of the tell-tale marks
were on pigeon wing and leg
bones where much of the meat
was to be had. Some of the
thicker bones had tiny punc-
ture marks from smaller,
needle-like bones,
which can happen
when chicken wings are
twisted apart to get at
the meat.
The findings add to a
growing body of evidence
that Neanderthals had more on
their minds at dinner time than
large mammals. Those living in
the caves of Gibraltar left behind
butchered bones from seals and
dolphins, and even had shucks
for prising open shellfish.
The picture that is emerging
is that Neanderthals had a
diverse larder outside their
cave window and they were
exploiting all these things, said
Clive Finlayson, who took part
in the study. In June, MIT
researchers reported evidence
from 50,000-year-old Neander-
thal poo that those living in
southern Spain ate plants too.
THE GUARDIAN
Pigeons on the barbie:
Cavemens diverse diet
WWIIs explosive legacy
About 455 kilograms of explosives left over from the Second World War are detonated in Palau. AFP
They were using [live
grenades] as doorstops, old
ladies were using them to
hammer nuts on
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M
ENTAL health condi-
tions are rapidly taking
centre stage in the glo-
bal burden of disease,
especially in low- and middle-in-
come countries. Currently, mental
and substance-use disorders are the
leading cause of disability world-
wide, and the World Health Organi-
zation estimates that by 2030,
depression will be the leading
contributor to the global burden
of disease.
Adolescence is regarded as a
healthy period of a persons life com-
pared with other ages, but we often
overlook the associated risks of
those going through this stage. The
contribution of mental disorders to
the nonfatal burden of disease rises
sharply throughout adolescence and
is the largest contributor to the bur-
den of disease in young people aged
10-24 years (45 per cent), ahead of
unintentional injuries (12 per cent)
and infectious and parasitic diseas-
es (10 per cent).
Cambodia is a country where a
large proportion of the population is
under the age of 25. Young people,
especially those who are poor, vul-
nerable or marginalised, including
young gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender Cambodians, are par-
ticularly affected and afflicted by
mental health conditions and lack
access to services and support.
Substance abuse, suicide, stress,
depression and anxiety are some of
the consequences Cambodian youth
experience as a result of being
exposed to a combination of risk fac-
tors, including poverty, unemploy-
ment, inadequate youth services,
violence, self-stigma and discrimi-
nation, especially against women as
well as individuals based on their
health status (such as HIV-positive),
profession or sexual orientation.
The Royal University of Phnom
Penh conducted the first-ever large-
scale mental health survey in 2011,
through which Cambodias suicide
rate was found to be 42.5 per 100,000
people, a much higher rate than the
worldwide average of 16. Rates of
anxiety, depression and post-trau-
matic stress disorder were also found
to be high. The study showed that
women were predominantly affected
by mental health disorders, but it
also recognised that adolescent
mental health was ignored here.
To draw attention to the impor-
tance of acknowledging young peo-
ples mental health as a crucial part
in their development, the United
Nations in Cambodia is organising a
panel discussion with national
experts for International Youth Day.
Young people, including those who
are marginalised, will be given the
opportunity to interact with experts
and share their concerns.
The United Nations recognises
that risk factors for mental health
problems are well established and
include childhood abuse and
neglect, exposure to violence, pover-
ty, social exclusion, stigma and dis-
crimination, and educational disad-
vantage. Unassisted mental health
problems among teens are linked
with unemployment, substance
abuse, risk-taking behaviours,
crime, poor sexual and reproductive
health, and self-harm, all of which
increase the risk of premature death.
Mental health conditions among
youth carry high social and econom-
ic costs, as they often develop into
more disabling conditions later in
life. The stigma directed towards
young people with mental health
conditions and the human rights vio-
lations to which they are subjected
amplify the adverse consequences.
There is an urgent need to improve
access to quality treatment and care
by trained psychiatrists and psy-
chologists for those with mental
health conditions, including young
people. A Leitner Center report stat-
ed that in 2010 there were only 35
trained psychiatrists and 45 trained
psychiatric nurses to provide servic-
es for the countrys entire popula-
tion. Often those with mental health
conditions are left alone or cared for
by family or community members
who have little knowledge or under-
standing of mental health, which
results in harmful treatments such
as tying up, stigmatisation, neglect
and abuse.
Improving mental health literacy
and awareness is vital to reducing
the stigma and discrimination asso-
ciated with mental health condi-
tions and increasing the utilisation
of mental health services. At a
national level, there is a need for
greater data and reporting on ado-
lescent health, including mental
health, and a need for the inclusion
of adolescent health information in
global health initiatives. A more
holistic approach to addressing
Cambodias mental health crisis,
including prevention, especially as it
affects youth, must be taken.
Cambodia has already made some
progress towards ensuring that men-
tal health problems, including those
of young people, are addressed. The
Mental Health and Substance Mis-
use Strategic Plan 2011-2015, the
establishment of the Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
in the Ministry of Health, and the
important work of the Transcultural
Psychosocial Organization and other
NGOs are important steps; however,
mental health remains critically
neglected. More efforts and resourc-
es are required to provide an effec-
tive response for young people grow-
ing up in Cambodia. A greater
understanding of and attention to
mental health are also important for
how we plan for the post-2015 devel-
opment agenda.
Comment
Claire Van der Vaeren
The young and the mentally
ill: awareness needed
Mental health patients wait to see a doctor at a hospital in Phnom Penh. AFP
Claire Van der Vaeren is the United
Nations resident coordinator for
Cambodia.
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Lifestyle Lifestyle
Love in the time of tourists
D
ATING is never easy
but nding the per-
fect partner when
you live in a tiny vil-
lage in the Vietnamese moun-
tains is almost impossible. The
solution? A love market.
For generations, young peo-
ple from the patchwork of eth-
nic minority groups in north-
ern Vietnam have gone to the
town of Sapa on a Saturday
night to nd a spouse.
It was so exciting. I wanted
to see if I would meet any nice
girls, traditional Hmong mu-
sician Giang A Vang, 50, said of
his rst visit to the love market
three decades ago.
One girl in particular stood
out from the crowd.
When I saw her for the rst
time I was playing my violin. I
asked her if she liked it, if she
liked me, he said.
Fortunately, his affections
were returned. For the next
few weeks, he came back to the
market to meet his sweetheart
Vang Thi Xo and play music
together as part of a Hmong
courtship ritual him on a tra-
ditional violin and she playing
a leaf. The Hmong play a leaf
usually a banana leaf by curl-
ing it up and positioning it in
the mouth so it vibrates when
blown to make a loud, high
pitched sound.
The pair soon married and
have been together ever since.
I was a very lucky man to
meet her in the market, but I
think she was lucky to meet me
too! Vang said.
In recent years, Sapa has
become a tourist destination,
with foreign and Vietnamese
visitors ocking to the pictur-
esque town. Sapa is the main
attraction of Lao Cai province,
which received 1.2 million
tourists in 2013, up from just
360,000 in 2003, according to
ofcial gures.
While this inux has brought
a measure of prosperity and
development, it also has nega-
tively affected customs and
traditions, Vang Thi Xo said.
The love market is very spe-
cial for me as it was how I could
meet a good husband like him,
she said. Now I dont like it, as
people are playing music just
for fun, for the tourists to get
money, and we are losing part
of our culture.
As more young people at-
tend schools or work in Sapa
for tourism they do not re-
ally need the love market or ar-
ranged marriages, which were
also once traditional in the
area, said musician Vang.
They might meet a boy-
friend or girlfriend in the vil-
lage or in town. They choose
for themselves, he said. I
want my children to nd their
own husband and wife it is
better that way.
Sapa is only reachable from
the capital Hanoi either by an
overnight train or a long drive.
But its remoteness has not de-
terred tourists.
So many Vietnamese tour-
ists came and gave money to
[ethnic minority] couples who
were playing music to each
other at the love market, said
Ly Thi My, 54, a Hmong woman
who met her husband there.
Now people just perform
they arent doing it for real,
she said sadly.
But it is not just tourism
that has transformed the lo-
cal tribes traditions. Mobile
phones and the internet have
also played a part, My said.
Before, the boy would whis-
tle outside the girls house and
she would come and play a leaf
to show she was interested, she
said, describing Hmong court-
ship rituals. Now they have
mobile phones! she said. It is
too easy. It was a nice challenge
to nd love before. I would pre-
fer to go back 20 years.
For Ly Thi Do, 52, of the
Black Hmong tribe, the love
market has become a joke.
Before all the tourists, when
I was young, when we still used
to grow opium and pan gold in
the rivers, the market was just
for locals, she said. Now its a
business. Everyone comes to
make money and sell trinkets.
Sapa has long been a tour-
ist destination. When Vietnam
was a French colony, the hill-
top town was a popular retreat,
although the colonial-era villas
were mostly burned down by
Chinese troops during a 1979
border war.
Tourism has been here for
100 years. Its somewhat dis-
respectful to say tourism has
changed the ethnic minori-
ties culture, said Chris Car-
novale, a tourism instructor at
Canadas Capilano University.
The Hmong culture is very
strong. If they want to change,
they change. There are still true
Hmong love markets but
Im not telling you when and
where, he said.
But even at the original
love market in Sapa, amid the
throngs of camera-touting
Vietnamese and foreign tour-
ists, some locals still come
looking for a relationship.
Ha Ngasu, 26, a farmer, has
been to the love market several
times to look for a wife.
My parents met at the love
market, so Ive come here as
well, he said as he sat next to
his date for the evening, Giang
Thi Si, 16.
The pair who had seen each
other in their village but never
spoken spent the evening at
the love market chatting and
enjoying the live music now
amplied and on a stage pur-
pose-built by local authorities
for tourism.
I like being with him here,
said Si. Im not sure it is love
but I do like him a bit. AFP
Happy, healthy days preserved with 3D gures
A GROWING number of people are
buying 3D models of themselves cre-
ated with 3D printers to commemo-
rate important events or preserve a
record of their appearance.
Couples have ordered the figures to
commemorate important life events
such as marriage.
Middle-aged and elderly people
have sought 3D figures to use in place
of memorial photos after their deaths,
and there are also a large number of
cancer patients who have wanted to
preserve an image of themselves
before losing their hair.
Unlike photos, [the 3D figures] can
convey a persons aura three-dimen-
sionally, and people can hold them in
their hands, a spokesperson for a 3D
figure maker said. We believe the
uses for such figures will continue to
expand.
Ruri Suzuki, 65, in Sumida Ward,
Tokyo, said she thought, I want to
leave something for my husband to
remember me by when she saw a
leaflet for a 3D figure maker. It was
promotional material for the Aoyama
3D Salon, in Tokyo.
Suzuki ordered a 3D figure of
herself standing. She paid about
60,000 ($587) for the 20-centimeter-
tall statue.
Suzuki has suffered from diabetes
for 10 years, and has almost lost sight
in her right eye due to complications
from the disease.
My life could end at any time. I
want my husband to use the figure
like a memorial photo of me, Suzuki
said. I had the figure made to express
my gratitude to him.
Ikeo Yamauchi, a 54-year-old com-
pany employee, who lives with his
87-year-old mother, ordered figures
of his mother and himself last month
from the Aoyama 3D Salon. Consid-
ering our advanced age, I wanted to
leave a memento of the two of us.
The company opened a studio for
producing 3D figures last year. It pro-
duces figures made of plaster, scan-
ning a clients body for about 10 min-
utes to collect data.
The studio has received more than
3,000 orders. Customers included a
woman in her 60s who wanted to pre-
serve an image of herself before she
lost her hair due to cancer treatments
she was to receive. There was also a
doctor suffering from cancer who
came with his wife to record a tangible
image of himself in good health.
Mitsuhiro Ishizaki, 47, ordered 3D
figures of images of himself and his
eldest son, Kotaro, 12, last autumn.
Before my son becomes inde-
pendent from me, I wanted to pre-
serve a tangible record of our family
ties, he said.
Salon spokesperson Christina Miya-
jima, 35, said, So far, about 60 per
cent of orders have been for com-
memorating life events like marriages,
pregnancy and enrollment in school.
But recently, more people are buying
figures to use in place of memorial
photos after they die. Orders for this
purpose are increasing, approaching
20 per cent of the total.
Office 24 Studio, a company based
in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, began pro-
duction of 3D figures in October last
year, and has produced more than 160
figures. Orders have come from
French and Danish tourists travelling
in Japan, a company spokesperson
said. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Traditional Hmong musician Giang A Vang and his wife, Vang Thi Xo, perform a song in the northwestern town of Sapa. AFP
A growing number of people are buying 3D-
printed gures of themselves to commemo-
rate important events. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Help!
Abbey Road
crossing may
get warden
T
HE pedestrian crossing
on Londons Abbey Road
immortalised by The
Beatles could soon have its
own dedicated traffic warden
to ensure the safety of the
fans who flock there, media
reported on Saturday.
The local authority is
considering employing a
lollipop lady a warden
holding a stop sign that re-
sembles a sweet on the end
of a stick to help regulate
the flow of cars past the
landmark.
Fans often block traffic as
they stand on the black and
white zebra crossing outside
Abbey Road Studios to re-
create the Fab Fours famous
pose on the cover of the 1969
album Abbey Road.
Its a residential area and
its not geared to receiving
thousands and thousands
of people, Lindsey Hall, a
member of Westminster
Council, said.
She said large buses often
parked near the crossing in
defiance of parking regula-
tions, causing total chaos
to traffic and causing danger
to people trying to get their
photograph.
Obviously we dont want
to be spoilsports, we are
really proud of our musical
heritage, Hall said.
Ive set things in motion to
have a lollipop lady or man
there . . . It would be good to
have somebody there perma-
nently. AFP
Travel
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8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Passengers can dine on a salad of local vegetables and Kyoto beef on
Kitakinki Tango Railways Tango Kuromatsu train. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Riding, dining
on Japanese
gourmet tains
G
OURMET sight-
seeing trains
that run on local
lines across Ja-
pan are a hot trend, allowing
passengers to go sightseeing
while dining on authentic lo-
cal dishes.
As many of them operate
only on weekends or limited
schedules, seats are some-
times very difcult to reserve.
The concept of dining leisure-
ly while enjoying the scenery
seen from a train window,
which has broad appeal, has
contributed to a recovery in
the declining number of riders
on local trains.
Shikoku Railway Co began
operating the Iyonada Mo-
nogatari sightseeing train in
July. On weekends and na-
tional holidays, the train trav-
els mainly around the coastal
area of Ehime prefecture. The
two-car train with a capacity
of 50 passengers.
On its inaugural day, family
passengers boarded the train
at Matsuyama Station.
This line hasnt been prof-
itable, so I hope many people
will ride the train and enjoy the
splendid landscape along the
railway track, said JR Shikoku
president Masafumi Izumi at
the inauguration ceremony.
Dishes served on the train
include a salad using locally
grown lettuce and tomatoes,
breaded fried uchiko pork fea-
turing a local pork brand and
red sea bream, which came
from nearby Seto Inland Sea.
Im looking forward to try-
ing the dishes made with lo-
cal ingredients, said Masako
Yoneda, 50, a piano teacher
in Yufu. I like the trains old-
fashioned decor.
In May, Kitakinki Tango
Railway Co began operating
the Tango Kuromatsu train,
another gourmet sightseeing
train that plies the 54 kilome-
tres between Ama no Hashi-
date Station in Kyoto prefec-
ture and Toyooka Station in
Hyogo prefecture.
Passengers can dine on a
salad of locally grown vegeta-
bles and roasted Kyoto beef,
among other specialties. The
food is partially prepared at
regional gourmet inns.
The Kuromatsu train comes
in three types trains that
specialise in lunches, sweets
or locally brewed sake, which
are offered mainly on week-
ends. Although the cost runs
from 4,000 to 10,000 ($40-
$98) per passenger, including
train fare.
Shinano Railway, which op-
erates in Karuizawa, started
operations of their Rokumon
train in July, serving local spe-
cialty gourmet ham and wines
made at wineries along the
railway line.
Ohmi Railway Corp, which
operates in eastern Shiga pre-
fecture, is running the Ohmi
Biaden-Hoshizora Nama Biru
Go (Ohmi beer train-starry sky
draft beer) train until August
30. Passengers are served fro-
zen beer.
The Tsudoi train operated
by Kintetsu Corp is equipped
with seats facing windows.
Ise ebi lobster soup and other
local dishes are served at the
counter on board.
Isumi Railways Restaurant
Kiha train operating in Chiba
prefecture serves Italian dish-
es, curry and sashimi.
Showa Retoro Biru de Den-
sha (Showa retro beer and
train), operated by Keihan
Electric Railway Co, travels in
Shiga prefecture and serves a
bottomless mug of beer.
A few trains operate on local
railway lines, making it pos-
sible to run trains at slower
speeds so passengers can
enjoy leisurely dining. Many
such routes are located in ar-
eas rich with nature, a boon
for attracting tourists.
Local railway lines have
been shifting from a means
of transportation to a sight-
seeing attraction, said Yoko
Hayano, a research fellow of
Japan Tourism Marketing Co.
Gourmet sightseeing trains
are a good way to get people
interested in areas along the
lines. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
TV PICKS

8:50am - SUPERMAN 2: Superman agrees to sacrifce his
powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian
criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve and Margot
Kidder. HBO
1:45pm - SWORDFISH: A secretve renegade counter-
terrorist co-opts the worlds greatest hacker (who is
trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government
dirty money. Stars John Travolta, Hugh Jackman and
Halle Berry. HBO
5:05pm - FORREST GUMP: Forrest Gump, while not
intelligent, has accidentally been present at many
historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes
him. HBO
7:25pm - AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME:
Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new tme machine
that allows him to go back to the 60s and steal Austn
Powerss mojo, inadvertently leaving him shagless.
Stars Mike Myers, Heather Graham and Michael York.
HBO
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Dark orange-yellow
6 Provider of a one-way ride
10 Rudimentary puppet
14 Miss Americas topper
15 Senate helper
16 Old buffalo hunter
17 Thats enough!
20 Homey, e.g.
21 Mens business wear
22 Grapevine gossips
23 One who deals with deals
25 Draft beverage
26 Wait, theres more
28 Service club since 1915
32 Bach composition
34 Greenspan or Alda
35 Letter from Greece?
38 Occasionally
42 Homers TV neighbor
43 Whimper like a baby
44 Many-stringed lute
45 Broadcast backer
48 The kissing disease
49 Skater Kulik
51 Keep up on the issues?
53 Digital displays?
55 Go by bus
56 Park or 5th, briefly
59 Individually
62 Horses trot
63 Insurable item
64 Do hair-raising work?
65 Fifth book of the New Testament
66 Sledgehammer end
67 Penned up, like pigs
DOWN
1 Give it ___ (putting tip)
2 Kunis of TV and film
3 Stabilized nautically
4 Make a boo-boo
5 What strikers usually want
6 French-speaking island
7 Mooring post
8 Flossing advocacy gp.
9 Put trust in, with on
10 Shots on lots
11 Mount a soap box
12 Iowa river with rapids
13 Singer Alicia
18 Greasy residue
19 Fixes the spine of, as a book
24 One in attendance
26 Prayerful assent
27 Puppy or true follower
29 Makes high-pitched, whiny
noises
30 Pie ___ mode
31 Berts twin sister, in fiction
33 Large percussion instrument
35 Dispose of
36 Unimaginably long time (Var.)
37 Loosen, as a knot
39 Prefix with natal or classical
40 Hold the title to
41 Domesticated
45 Tourist attractions
46 Devout petition
47 Fashion freshly
49 Writer Asimov
50 Permitted by law
52 Witches brew creatures
53 Bygone Chevy
54 Partner of crackle and pop
55 Communion or baptism, e.g.
57 Ming treasure
58 Wooed visually
60 Tint or tone
61 Butterfly snare
NONE LEFT BEHIND
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot
named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a
manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the
villainous Ronan.
City Mall: 9:25am, 2:05pm, 6:55pm, 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 2:20pm, 7:05pm, 9:35pm
HERCULES
Having endured his legendary twelve labors,
Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a
sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace
and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a
tyrannical warlord.
City Mall: 9:20am, 7:30pm
Tuol Kork: 11:55am, 4:15pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the wake of a disaster that changed the
world, the genetically evolving apes find
themselves at a critical point with the surviving
members of the human race.
City Mall: 4:55pm, 9pm
Tuol Kork: 11:45am, 4:30pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make
a discovery that brings the Autobots, Decepti-
cons and a paranoid government official down
on them. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz
and Jack Reynor.
Tuol Kork: 6:20pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
(See above)
9:30am, 11:50am, 1:50pm, 6:15pm, 8:20pm
HERCULES
(See above)
4:25pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
(See above)
3:50pm
Fashion Photography @
Meta House
Artist Jitti Jumniawai channels
memories of childhood happiness
playing with toy robots into a
fantastical set of prints.
Chinese House, #45 Sisowath Quay.
NOW SHOWING
Get your taco on at Cocina Cartel tonight at Taco Tuesdays. BLOOMBERG
Hugh Jackman stars in Swordsh today on HBO.
BLOOMBERG
Made from corn tortillas cooked from
scratch and prepared in authentic
taquiera style. Buy one cocktail and
get a free taco with your purchase.
Cocina Cartel, #198b Street 19.
11:30am
Tacos @ Concina Cartel
Prints @ Chinese House
+++
Bokator @ Aghter Gym
Curated by Eriya Miura and Balazs
Maar, this exhibition will showcase the
best works of Cambodias top 10 fashion
photographers. Some of the
photographs will be available for sale.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
6:30pm
Bokator Morodok Khmer teaches the
ancient Cambodian style of martial art
that involves kicking, punching and
hitting with various parts of the body.
Drop in fee $10.
Aghter Gym, #64 Street 135. 7pm
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
Entertainment
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12 , 2014 20
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M Tonle Basac Area
1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
4BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $1000/M near Independent
Monument, Free Internet, TV
1Living room 4Bedroom, 4Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
NICE VILLA FOR SALE:
Urgent $830,000 in Borey Tonle
Basac Land: 14mx22m Ho:
11m x 16m Big Living room,
Wester Kitchen 4Bath 4Bath
Good Living
Contact to see Tel: 012 939 958
LAND FOR SALE IN TOUL
Tompoung
1-Land 15m x 25m Sale:$750,000
on road 9m, good for build Apt
2-Land size 15m x 25m on Corner
Sale: $980,000 on main road: 12m
More Information Tel: 012 939 958
BIG LAND FOR SALE CHEAPER
Market
1-Land size 100mx300m or 3Hacta
Price: $260/m2 Doung Ngeat Road
2- size 38m x 40m Corner Street
Sale: $680,000 Komin Khmer Road
More Information Tel: 012 939 958
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $750/MIndependent Monument
1Living room, 2Bedrooms, 2Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $950/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
4Bedroom, 4Bath, Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
1BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $400/m Loc: BKK3 Area
1Living room 1Bedroom 1Bath
Include Internet, 1Car Parking
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $400/m Loc: BKK3 Area
1Living room 2Bedroom 2Bath
Include Internet, Motor Parking
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
KHMER STYLE VILLA FOR RENT
4 bed with 5 bath located near
Independence, Basic furnished,
clean, Western kitchen, big living
room, big balcony, and big garden,
many trees around the house.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL VILLA IN DP
for rent 05 bed with bath located in
DP, Basic furnished, clean, west-
ern kitchen, big living room, nice
swimming pool, big parking.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
BRAND NEW APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe, swim-
ming pool and gym on the top oor.
location: BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe,
swimming pool, gym, quiet.
Rent: 2400 USD/month Location:
BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 beds, 3 bath, available near
Independence, fully furnished
quiet, many trees around, western
kitchen, bright inside
Price : $ 2000 /m. 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 1-2-3 bed, bath, furnished,
swimming pool, gym, some service
included in the rent, located in
CKM. Price: 1200 USD/ month.
Tel: 012 879 231
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
100sqm to 400sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24h security, elevator
Spacious 5 meter high ceilings Lots
of plants & light + 60 sqm large
balcony Great view over
Phnom Penh
012 869 111 yellow-tower.com
American Pacifc School High quality programs for
ESL: Preschool Gr8, Khmer: Kindergarten Gr6 and
Foreign teachers who are native speakers.
Register now for 2014 - 2015
Classes start: August 04, 2014
#100 St. Pasteur (St.51 St.200)
Tel: (855)23 214 825 (Khmer/English)
(855)15 716 727 (Khmer)
E-mail: ppapsacis@gmail.com
Web: www.aps.edu.kh
SWIMMING POOL VILLA FOR
Rent $3500/Mo in Daun Penh Area
1Living room, 6Bedroom, 6Baths
Some Furniture, Very Good Place
Ofce or Resident, Quiet Place
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
PENT-HOUSE APARTMENT
Rent: $2200/M South Russian
Market Private Terrace Big Living
room 3Bed, 3Bathroom, Western
Kitchen, Very Nice River Views
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697

VERY NICE /NEW VILLA FOR
Rent $1700/M Tonle Basac Area
Big Living room, Wester Kitchen
4Bedroom, Furnished, Terrace
Nice Garden Good for Resident
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
Rent Boeung Keng Kang1 BKK1
Area $2500/M 3Bedroom, 3Bath
$1400/Month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
New Full Furniture, 1Car Parking
Tel: 077 777 697 or 012 939 958
NICE GARDEN VILLA FOR RENT:
Boeung Kok2, Toul Kok Area
$3000/Month, Big Living room
Western Kitchen 5Bedroom 5Ba
Good for Place Resident /Ofce
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
777 697
APARTMENT 4 RENT:
Swim-Pool in Tonle Basac, Roof
Swim Pool $750~$850/M for 1Bed
$1000~$1500/Month 2Bedroom
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697

SWIMMINGPOOLAPARTMENTFOR
Rent Loc: near Russian Market
-$750/month, 1Bedroom, 1Bath
-$1000/month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
-$1300/month 3Bedroom, 2Bath
Big Livingroom All New Furniture
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
1BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$250/m free wi,cable TV garbage
collection , on st 288 near Lucky
Super market Tel:089 36 32 06,
:Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$600/m on st 178 near Royal, big
living room, western kitchen
massive balcony, big bathroom
with bath tube Tel:089 36 32 06,
:Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
BRAND NEW 2BR APARTMENT
for rent:$700/m on st 294, free
wi,cable TV, garbage collection
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com

2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$700/m on st 456 near Russian
market,free wi,cable TV, garbage
collection,24 hrs security guard,
Gym,2Baths,1 living room,1 kitchen
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$600/m in BKK1 free wi,cable
TV,24 hrs security guard , car
parking,1kitchen,1 living
room,2bathrooms Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com

MODERN FURNISHED
Apartment for rent Located near
Russian market,1BR:$550/m,
2BR:$800/m,1living room, 1kitchen
,open Balcony Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
1BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$250/m free wi,cable TV garbage
collection ,on st 288 near Lucky
Super market
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
SERVICE OFFICE AVAILABLE ON
A monthly basis with receptionist
security and excellent location.
Call 016 503 727 012 380 710
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12 , 2014 21
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Western Rooftop Pool Apartment
for Rent LocatedinBKKI, 01&02&03
bed, roof toppool andgym, openliving
room, fully andmodernfurnished,
westernkitchen, nicebalcony, safety
area, goodconditionfor living.
Price: 1,200-US$1,800-2,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed ,
Large living room, fully and modern
furnished, modern kitchen, nice
balcony, roof top gym, very good
condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MOERN ROOFTOP POOL
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22 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
Sport

Sepak takraw players
bring home regu gold
CAMBODIAS national sepak
takraw team returned home
yesterday afternoon from last
weeks 29th Kings Cup in
Bangkok, where they grabbed
gold in the mens team regu
category of the Division 2
competition. The squad
comprising players Ream
Phirom, Chin Sovanarith, Cheat
Khemara and two other
substitutes took the second
tier title with 2-0 victories over
Taiwan, Sri Lanka and
Bangaldesh to mark an
improvement on last years
results when they only won
medals in Division 3. Sepak
Takraw Federation of Cambodia
general secretary Chhoun Leng,
who was also head of the
delegation to Thailand, told the
Post that despite claiming
medals at an international
tournament, the team
members would not be eligible
for cash prizes from the
government decree on sporting
success. [Nevertheless] we are
really proud that we bring such
a precious victory back home,
not empty hands, added
Chhoun Leng. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Hosea Gear returns to
New Zealand rugby
FORMER All Blacks wing
Hosea Gear announced
yesterday he was returning to
Super 15 rugby with the
Waikato Chiefs, making him
eligible to join New Zealands
World Cup defence in England
next year. Gear, 30, signed with
French club Toulouse last year,
and after finishing the season
there moved to Japanese side
Honda. The Chiefs said he will
join the Hamilton-based team
in February 2015 after
completing his commitments
with Honda. AFP
Lee tops Park in LPGA
playoff in Michigan
SOUTH Koreas Lee Mi-rim
birdied the second playoff hole
to beat former world number
one Park In-bee on Sunday,
winning her first LPGA title in
the inaugural Meijer Classic. I
was nervous 100 per cent, Lee
said. Because it was my first
time in a playoff in LPGA, so
Im really nervous, but it was
very fun. Lee had four birdies
and two bogeys in her round at
Blythefield Country Club in
Belmont, Michigan. AFP
Lochte edges Phelps in
encouraging 200m duel
MICHAEL Phelps departed the
US Swimming Championships
without a title after a runner-up
finish to Ryan Lochte in the
200m medley on Sunday, but
with renewed resolve to return
to the pinnacle of the sport. The
top two swimmers in the
history of the event shrugged
off indifferent results earlier in
the meet to deliver an exciting
battle, Lochte charging to a
wire-to-wire victory in 1min
56.50sec, second-fastest time
in the world this year. Definitely
better than where I was at the
beginning of the meet, said a
delighted Phelps. AFP
Motor heads
Cambodias Touch Thach (centre) races among other riders during the Special Stage 1 of the 2014 Asia Cross Country Rally between Pattaya and Sa Kaeo in Thailand on Saturday.
Thachs compatriot Koun Phandara nished third in a eld of 18. The Cambodian rider negotiated the tough terrain with gusto to pick up a special bonus for his effort. Meanwhile,
Cambodias rst ever four-wheel participants, led by Ho Sitthikun in a Toyota Thundra, nished last in the opening round of the car competition. The 2,200km rally, extended from Siem
Reap to Phnom Penh this year, has six special stages. After a circuit within Thailand, 22 car drivers and 18 motorcyclists will enter Cambodian territory today through the Poipet border
crossing. The nal stretch will be from Siem Reap to Battambang and then on to Kampong Speu via Pursat. The rallyists will then head to Phnom Penh for the closing ceremony and
prize distribution on Friday. WORDS BY H S MANJUNATH, PHOTO SUPPLIED
FRANK Maloney, the man be-
hind Britains former world
heavyweight champion Len-
nox Lewiss march to the top, is
undergoing a sex change and
living as a woman called Kellie,
she told the Sunday Mirror.
The 61-year-old English-
woman who stood for elec-
tion to be London mayor for
the UKIP Party in 2004 has
been married twice and has
two daughters, but she told the
newspaper she had always felt
she was a woman.
I was born in the wrong
body and I have always known
I was a woman, said Kellie,
who as Frank Maloney en-
gineered Lewiss 1993 world
heavyweight title victory.
I cant keep living in the
shadows. That is why I am
doing what I am today. Living
with the burden any longer
would have killed me.
What was wrong at birth
is now being medically cor-
rected. I have a female brain. I
knew I was different from the
minute I could compare my-
self to other children.
I wasnt in the right body. I
was jealous of girls.
Maloney, who once had
aspirations to be a Roman
Catholic priest but grew dis-
illusioned when he started
studying to become one, said
she had not felt it possible
to reveal her secret desire to
those involved in boxing.
I thought maybe I can earn
enough money that one day I
can disappear and live a new
life completely away as a fe-
male and no one would ever
bother me, said Maloney,
who ended his involvement in
boxing last October.
Once you come out of sport
you are soon forgotten and
that was what I was hoping
would happen to me.
Lewis, now 48, issued a state-
ment on Facebook in which he
expressed his support for his
former manager.
I was just as shocked as
anyone at the news about my
former promoter and my ini-
tial thought was that it was a
wind-up, said Lewis.
The great thing about life,
and boxing, is that, day to day,
you never know what to ex-
pect. This world we live in isnt
always cut and dried or black
and white, and coming from
the boxing fraternity, I can only
imagine what a difcult deci-
sion this must be for Kellie.
However having taken
some time to read Kellies
statements, I understand bet-
ter what she, and others in
similar situations are going
through. AFP
Lewiss male mentor
reveals sex change
Stars look to rebound
T
HE world number one
pair of Novak Djokovic
and Serena Williams
aim to bounce back
this week at the Cincinnati
Masters, the last major tune-up
before the US Open.
Djokovic was stung by a
third-round hammering by
Frances Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
who got past the Serb in less
than an hour en route to taking
the ATP Masters title in Toron-
to on Sunday.
Williams fell in the semifinals
of the WTAs sister tournament
in Montreal, losing to her elder
sister Venus for the first time
since 2009.
Shell be eager to get back on
track before heading to the US
Open, which starts on August
25 and will be her last chance
this year to add to her cache of
17 major titles.
Djokovic has some major
repair work looming after
being frustratingly crushed by
Tsonga. The newly married
Serb, who has never won a
Cincinnati title despite four
trips to the final, may benefit
from the continuing injury
absence of Rafael Nadal.
The 2013 Cincinnati cham-
pion from Spain is racing the
clock to recover from a right
wrist injury in time to defend
his title at the years last
Grand Slam.
But Djokovic acknowledged
that the loss to Tsonga was a
bewildering blow to the confi-
dence hed gained with a Wim-
bledon title in July.
Confidence is the hardest
thing to get but easiest thing
to lose, said Djokovic, who
has the added incentive in
Cincinnati of having never
won the title, despite four trips
to the final.
Hopefully I can go one step
further this time, but I havent
been playing as well as I want-
ed in Toronto, he said. So
these couple of days Ive put a
lot of hours in on the practice
court to upgrade my game and
get my level of performance
where it needs to be in order
to have a chance to go far in
the tournament.
Roger Federer, who fell to
Djokovic in five sets in the
Wimbledon final, was Tsongas
final victim in Toronto, falling
in the championship match
7-5, 7-6 (7/3).
In Cincinnati the Swiss great
will be returning to a tourna-
ment he has won five times,
most recently in 2012.
Less than a week after turn-
ing 33, the Swiss, second seed
behind Djokovic, is playing the
tennis of a man a decade
younger.
I just keep on going, said
the 17-time Grand Slam cham-
pion, who has won titles in
Dubai and Halle this year.
Clearly Im not here to just be
here, to show up and soak it up
and enjoy it and do press.
Im not coming for that,
Federer said. Im really here to
try to win.
Swiss Stan Wawrinka, who
broke through for his first
Grand Slam title at the Austral-
ian Open, is seeded third and
he, too, will be seeking to
rebound after exiting in Toron-
to in the third round.
Czech Tomas Berdych is
seeded fourth, ahead of Cana-
dian Milos Raonic and Spains
number six David Ferrer.
Toronto semifinalist Grigor
Dimitrov is seeded seventh
ahead of two-time Cincinnati
winner Andy Murray, who is
without new coach Amelie
Maresmo this week as part of a
pre-planned break.
I need to stop losing match-
es that Im leading, said Mur-
ray, whose last title was his
2013 Wimbledon triumph 13
months ago.
On the womens side, dou-
ble Wimbledon winner Petra
Kvitova is seeded second
behind Williams, with Mon-
treal champion Agnieszka
Radwanska third.
Maria Sharapova, seeded
fourth, and Wimbledon final-
ist and fifth seed Euenie Bou-
chard both have ground to
make up after early exits in
Montreal. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 12, 2014
23

Bin Thierry signs on for
two years with Crown
PHNOM Penh Crown released
news yesterday of yet another
contract extension to one of
their star players, with French-
born midfielder Bin Chantha
Thierry agreeing to stay with
the Metfone C-League
champions until 2016. The
23-year-old is currently training
with the Cambodian national
team ahead of their 2014
Suzuki Cup qualification
tournament in Laos in October.
Im extremely happy to sign for
two more years and to remain
in Cambodia, Thierry was
quoted as saying in Crowns
press release yesterday. I love
the club, the players, the staff
and Im very excited to stay,
especially to play in the AFC
Cup next year. DANRILEY
Coutinho form excites
Liverpool boss Rodgers
LIVERPOOL manager Brendan
Rodgers has backed Philippe
Coutinho to take his game to the
next level after he inspired the
Reds to a 4-0 win over Borussia
Dortmund in their final pre-
season fixture at Anfield on
Sunday. Coutinho will be
expected to carry much of
Liverpools creative threat in the
final third of the pitch following
the record sale of Uruguay
forward Luis Suarez to
Barcelona. The Brazilian capped
a fine individual display against
Dortmund with a goal and an
assist and Rodgers predicted
even more from the 22-year-old
playmaker as Liverpool bid to go
one better than last season,
when they finished runners-up
in the Premier League to
Manchester City. AFP
Lorient shock Monaco in
opening Ligue 1 upset
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Valentin
Lavigne scored with three
minutes left to hand unfancied
Lorient a shock 2-1 victory
over Monaco in the final match
of the opening weekend in
Ligue 1 action on Sunday.
Colombian striker Radamel
Falcao had appeared to
salvage a point for new coach
Leonardo Jardim with a
controversial penalty on 78
minutes, following Ricardo
Carvalhos sending-off. But
Lavigne broke clear of the
defence to slot the ball past
Croatian keeper Danijel
Subasic. Earlier, seven-time
French champions Lyon began
their campaign in fine style as
they defeated Brittany club
Rennes 2-0 at the Stade
Gerland. AFP
Ramires, Fabregas fire
Chelsea to Hungary win
SECOND-HALf goals from
Ramires and Cesc Fabregas
gave Chelsea a 2-1 win at
Ferencvaros in a game to
mark the opening of the
Hungarian sides new stadium
in Budapest. Former West
Brom and Fulham player
Zoltan Gera had scored the
first goal at the new ground on
the quarter-hour mark but
Jose Mourinhos side hit back
after the interval. Ramires
volleyed in on 50 minutes and
Fabregas hit the winner with a
fine individual goal 10 minutes
from time. Chelsea complete
their pre-season at home to
Real Sociedad tonight before
opening their Premier League
campaign at promoted
Burnley next Monday. AFP
James Rodriguez set for his Real Madrid bow
WORLD Cup sensation James
Rodriguez is in line to make his
Real Madrid debut when the
European champions tackle
Europa League winners Sevilla
in tonights all-Spanish UEFA
Super Cup in Cardiff.
Madrids 4-1 extra-time win
over city rivals Atletico Madrid
in Lisbon in May ended their
12-year wait for a 10th Euro-
pean Cup and they now look
even stronger after a character-
istically extravagant close-sea-
son recruitment drive.
Rodriguez, Toni Kroos and
Keylor Navas arrived at the
Bernabeu after impressing at
the World Cup and all are in line
to feature at the Cardiff City
Stadium from 1:45am Cambo-
dian time.
The first glimpse of 80 mil-
lion ($108 million) playmaker
Rodriguez in a Madrid shirt is
keenly anticipated after he daz-
zled for Colombia in Brazil,
scoring six goals to win the
Golden Boot.
With the 23-year-old former
Monaco playmaker joining
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth
Bale in the Spanish capital,
Madrid now possess three of
the four most expensive play-
ers of all-time.
The trio could grace a pitch
together for the first time in
Cardiff, but like Kroos, who
arrived from Bayern Munich
after starring in Germanys
World Cup triumph, Rodriguez
is short of fitness and unlikely
to start.
Along with Costa Rican
goalkeeper Navas, the pair
only returned to training last
week and coach Carlo Ance-
lotti has admitted that his
players are some way short of
peak condition.
We had to give holidays to
some players until August 5,
said the Italian.
Therefore, we havent had
much time to prepare for the
game. We need to try our hard-
est in August to prepare the
players in the best way possible
for the new season.
The Super Cup is one of six
trophies that Madrid could win
this season, but they are still
searching for their first pre-
season victory after two defeats
and a draw on their tour of the
United States.
One player who seems cer-
tain to start is Welsh forward
Bale, who was born and raised
in Cardiff and went to school
just 6 kilometres from Tues-
days match venue.
Scorer of the decisive second
goal in the Champions League
final, the 25-year-old found the
net twice in the US and is rel-
ishing the prospect of playing
in front of his home crowd.
I knew the Super Cup would
be played in Cardiff a good 18
months ago, Bale told Spanish
newspaper Marca.
When I came to Real Madrid
it was always a dream of mine
that if we could win the Cham-
pions League, we could play in
Cardiff. Now that dream has
come true.
Tonights opponents will
carry special significance for
Bale, for it was against Sevil-
la last October that he scored
a brace in a 7-3 win that truly
launched his Madrid career.
AFP
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti (left) and new Colombian forward
James Rodriguez take part in a training session in Madrid last week. AFP
Wembley win sets tone for
Arsenal, says Arsene Wenger
A
RSENAL manager Arsene
Wenger felt his side had es-
tablished a benchmark for
their season after a con-
vincing 3-0 win over Premier League
champions Manchester City in the
Community Shield.
Substitute Olivier Giroud capped a
one-sided victory with a brilliant 25-
yard strike on the hour mark at Wem-
bley on Sunday, after rst-half goals
from Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey
had put Arsenal in control.
Arsenals league title bid last sea-
son was fatally undermined by losses
to their biggest rivals including a
6-3 humbling at City and Wenger is
hopeful that the FA Cup winners have
now turned a corner.
To win today gives us a positive
platform to prepare, the Frenchman
told his post-game media conference.
You want to win the game and you
want to look at the quality of the per-
formance as well.
It was important for our condence
to win the game, but it was even more
important to have a big part in the
game with the quality.
And that is a comfort for me to see
that we can produce the kind of quality
that we have produced for some long
patches in the game.
Reminded of his teams poor record
against their title rivals last season, he
replied: Thats why it was important
for us today [Sunday] not to lose the
game.
Last year we were very consistent
against the teams below the top six
and not consistent against the top six
teams. The year before it was the re-
verse. So lets hope that this year it will
be right on both sides.
Wenger was particularly pleased
by the performances of new signings
Calum Chambers, Mathieu Debuchy
and Alexis Sanchez.
He said that 19-year-old Chambers,
who again played at centre-back, had
been outstanding and described
Debuchys display as excellent, while
he felt that Sanchez had been always
a danger.
Wenger also revealed that Spanish
midelder Mikel Arteta has succeed-
ed Thomas Vermaelen as club cap-
tain following the Belgian defenders
move to Barcelona, with Per Merte-
sacker named vice captain.
Vermaelens departure leaves Arse-
nal light at centre-back, with Laurent
Koscielny the only other established
central defender on the clubs books.
But while Wenger admitted that he
would like to bring in another de-
fender, he added: To nd another
one of [Vermaelens] quality will not
be easy.
The pain of defeat for City was soft-
ened by the fact that they were with-
out several key rst-team players,
including captain Vincent Kompany,
right-back Pablo Zabaleta and striker
Sergio Aguero.
It was not the day today to make
pressure for different players. It was
one game more for pre-season, said
manager Manuel Pellegrini.
We have seven players who have
just worked for ve days. They were
not considered for this game. We have
another ve players who have just
worked for eight or nine days.
Its difcult to be ready in two weeks.
Aguero, Zabaleta, [Martin] Demichelis,
Kompany, [Bacary] Sagna, Fernandino
just arrived seven days ago. They start-
ed working on Monday.
They will have 15 days before we
start the Premier League so well
see during the week which of them
are ready and which of them are not
ready.
It is always bad to lose, but we dont
need to worry.
City open their league title defence at
Newcastle United on Sunday and Pel-
legrini refused to conrm that England
goalkeeper Joe Hart will come back
into the team after new signing Willy
Caballero played against Arsenal.
All the 22 players that we have in
our squad must demonstrate who is
number one in all the positions, said
the Chilean.
The goalkeeper and the other posi-
tions of the team are exactly the same.
Joe nished last season playing very
well. Well see next Sunday which 11
starts against Newcastle. AFP
Arsenals Mathieu Debuchy (left) tackles Man Citys Aleksandar Kolarov during the FA Community Shield match at Wembley Stadium. AFP
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Sport
Marquez makes it 10 wins out of 10
WORLD champion Marc Marquez became
the first man in 17 years to win 10 succes-
sive races as the Spaniard claimed victory
at the Indianapolis Grand Prix on Sunday.
Honda rider Marquez, 21, finished ahead
of Yamaha pair, Jorge Lorenzo of Spain and
Italian Valentino Rossi.
The last man to win 10 races in a row was
Australian Mick Doohan in 1997.
Marquez also won this race in 2013 when
he was making his maiden appearance in
the elite class having also triumphed at the
Brickyard in Moto2 in 2011 and 2012.
Seven-time MotoGP world champion
Rossi grabbed an early lead from the Span-
ish pole-sitter and stayed ahead of fellow
Italian, Andrea Dovizioso and Marquez.
Marquez moved into second place with
21 laps to go, with Lorenzo third before
the champion snatched the lead with 16
laps remaining.
Marquez crossed the line in 42 minutes
and 07.041 seconds, followed by Lorenzo,
who slipped past Rossi with 12 laps left.
The start I got today was not so good,
Marquez said. But then the track tem-
perature was higher and that changed
the feeling a little bit, especially with the
front tyre.
At the beginning I had some [difficult]
moments, and then I said, OK, we will be
quiet the first ten laps behind Valentino.
And then when Jorge also attacked and
tried to push in the front, I said OK, now is
the time I overtake them and I start to
push. Tenths by 10ths I opened the gap,
and those two seconds were enough in the
end of the race for take the victory.
Lorenzo was third last year and the win-
ner in 2009.
My pace was similar to [Marquez], but
not enough to challenge him for the vic-
tory, Lorenzo said.
World champion Marquez now has a
perfect 250 points with Honda teammate
Dani Pedrosa, who was fourth Sunday, in
second spot on 161.
Rossi has 157 points while 2010 and 2012
champion Lorenzo is on 117 points ahead
of the 11th round at Brno in the Czech
Republic next weekend where Marquez will
attempt to become the first rider to win 11
races in a row in the same season.
Rossi, who was not pleased with the Indy
track, reached the podium with a third-
place finish with a time of 42:13.599.
I am satisfied, because first of all, it is
a good third place, Rossi said. I led the
race, I battled with Marc and Jorge. That
is always a great pleasure.
Also this track is for me the worst or
one of the worst. So to come back on the
podium here after a season without a lot
of good results is good.
Pole-sitter Mika Kallio scored a runaway
win in a restarted Moto2 race with Mav-
erick Vinales and Dominique Aegerter
joining the Finn on the podium.
Kallio triumphed in a shortened 16-lap
contest, with the race cut short by a red
flag due to a crash involving Azlan Shah,
Anthony West, Mattia Pasini and Randy
Krummenacher.
Efren Vazquez of Spain zoomed past
Italys Romano Fenati in the home stretch
to claim his maiden Moto3 win. AFP
Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates his victory
on the podium at the end of the MotoGP Red
Bull US Indianapolis Grand Prix on Sunday. AFP
McIlroy wins a dramatic
shootout to take PGA title
R
ORY McIlroy put
himself among golfs
greatest legends
on Sunday by win-
ning his fourth major title in
dramatic fashion, capturing
the PGA Championship in
a shotmakers showdown at
rain-softened Valhalla.
Three weeks after win-
ning the British Open, the
25-year-old from Northern
Ireland rallied on the back
nine to take his second ma-
jor victory in a row and third
consecutive triumph overall
in impressive fashion.
Amazing. Incredible. Im
not sure Ill ever have another
summer like this, McIlroy
said. Ive got a lot of golf left
to play this year, but I have to
enjoy what Ive just done.
McIlroy red a 3-under par
68 in the nal round to n-
ish 72 holes on 16-under par
268 and edge ve-time major
winner Phil Mickelson by one
shot with Swedens fourth-
ranked Henrik Stenson and
American Rickie Fowler two
shots adrift.
McIlroys hat-trick of vic-
tories after the British Open
and a World Golf Champi-
onships event last week give
him the longest win streak
since Tiger Woods completed
a run of ve in a row in 2008.
McIlroy became the fourth-
youngest man to win his
fourth major trailing only
Young Tom Morris, Woods
and Jack Nicklaus and has
taken four of the past 15 ma-
jors contested.
I try and put all this talk
aside every time it comes up,
but Tiger and Jack are two
of the most successful play-
ers in our sport of all time,
McIlroy said.
Im on a nice track at the
minute and Im on a nice path.
Ive still got a long way to go,
but to be in their company at
this age is very special.
McIlroy is the rst man to
win two majors in a row or in
the same year since Irelands
Padraig Harrington took the
British Open and PGA in 2008.
McIlroy took the Wanamak-
er Trophy, even grabbing the
lid as it fell during the awards
ceremony, and a $1.8 million
top prize.
Fowler, the US and British
Open runner-up who also
shared fth at the Masters,
matched Nicklaus and Woods
as the only players to nish in
the top ve at all four majors
one year, the rst since Woods
did it in 2005 but also the rst
to do so without a win. AFP
Rory McIlroy hits his second shot on the 18th hole during the nal round of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. AFP