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Kevin Ponniah
THAILANDS human rights
commissioner has issued
damning preliminary find-
ings against Asias largest
sugar producer in relation
to alleged abuses commit-
ted on large economic land
concessions in Oddar
Meanchey province.
A complaint was filed with
the National Human Rights
Commission of Thailand
(NHRCT) by local NGOs on
behalf of 602 villagers in
Samrong and Chongkal dis-
tricts in May last year.
They alleged that system-
atic rights abuses had
occurred during the estab-
lishment of three conces-
sions for industrial sugar
cane production awarded to
shell companies owned by
Thai firm Mitr Phol Sugar
TIME is running out for
up to 30,000 starving Yaz-
idis trapped on a mountain
in northern Iraq, the UN
warned yesterday, as the
Pentagon looked at means of
staging a rescue operation.
UN refugee agency
spokesman Adrian Ed-
wards said there were
20,000 to 30,000 people on
Mt Sinjar, and UN minority
rights expert Rita Izsak said
they face a mass atroc-
ity and potential genocide
within days or hours.
With time running out
for the thousands on Sin-
jar, caretaker premier Nuri
al-Maliki deed pressure
to step aside to kick-start
national reconciliation and
the ght against IS.
Thousands of Yazidis
poured across a bridge into
Iraqs autonomous Kurdish
region yesterday after trek-
king into Syria to escape,
most with nothing but the
clothes they had on. Some
women carried exhausted
children, weeping as they
arrived to the relative safe-
ty of Iraqi Kurdistan.
But there are still large
numbers on the mountain,
said Mahmud Bakr, who
recently descended the
mountain. Many of them
are elderly; they cannot
walk this distance, Bakr
said. My father Khalaf is 70
years old he cannot make
this journey. But up there,
there is very little food and
no medicine.
US Secretary of State
Sugar
giant in
spotlight
for abuse
UN: Little
time to
stop Iraq
genocide
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
D
AYS after a group of
opposition lawmak-
ers cited their parlia-
mentary immunity
in refusing a court summons
for questioning regarding a vio-
lent July protest, a party official
without that protection was
charged with insurrection
and summonsed over the
same incident.
Two more Cambodia Nation-
al Rescue Party youth activists
have also been hit with new
court summons, while three
other CNRP youth arrested
almost two weeks ago remain
behind bars after bail was
rejected last week.
Another bail hearing will not
be held at the Appeal Court until
August 22, a judge told the Post
yesterday, despite a CNRP
spokesman saying that top lead-
ers were still lobbying the ruling
party to secure their release.
Meach Sovannara who ran
unsuccessfully as a lawmaker in
Banteay Meanchey in last Julys
election and who serves as the
partys head of information
yesterday became the latest
CNRP official to be hit with seri-
ous charges related to the pro-
test, which saw supporters clash
with district security guards at
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LOSES ITS
(REPLICA) HEAD
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BODY OF TOURIST
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NATIONAL NEWS
Up in arms
STORY > 12
In brief
Supreme Court upholds
conviction of pedophile
THE Supreme Court yesterday
upheld a 20-year prison
sentence for an Austrian man
convicted in 2008 of having sex
with five underage boys,
including a 14-year-old. Olaf
Achleitner, 64, who was
working in a riverside
restaurant in 2007 when he
committed the crimes, had
asked the court to show him
leniency because he was
suffering from health
problems, including
incontinence and a disease
that attracted him to young
boys. But presiding judge
Khim Ponn upheld the guilty
verdict and sentence, which
was welcomed by Chea Nara,
a lawyer for one of the victims.
But [my client] has not
received any compensation,
Nara said. Achleitners lawyer,
Dun Vibol, did not dispute the
verdict, but said he wanted a
reduced sentence for his
client. KIM SAROM
New Mekong bridges
slated for Phnom Penh
THE Council of Ministers this
week announced two new
spans across the Mekong
River in the vicinity of the
capital, one connecting the
Chroy Changvar peninsula to
Kandals Khsach Kandal
district and another
connecting Phnom Penhs
Chbar Ampov district with
Kandals Lovea Em. According
to a June 3 permission letter
from the council released on
Monday, the contract for the
construction went to the
Chinese state-owned China
Road and Bridge Corporation.
Lim Sidenin, secretary of state
at the Ministry of Public Works
and Transportation, said the
project was the result of a
proposal from his ministry and
the Cambodia Development
Council, and that the ministry
is studying the impacts of this
plan on residents. Council of
Ministers spokesman Phay
Siphan said yesterday that he
did not know how much the
bridges would cost. KHOUTH
SOPHAK CHAKRYA
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Freedom Park on July 15.
According to the Phnom
Penh Municipal Court sum-
mons, Sovannara has been
charged with leading an in-
surrection, inciting others to
commit a felony, and instigat-
ing aggravated violence.
The charges are the same
laid against the eight CNRP of-
ficials seven lawmakers and
one youth activist who were
released from prison hours af-
ter a political deal ending the
deadlock was inked on July 22.
That group, excluding the
activist, is now seemingly off
the hook after taking their
seats in parliament.
Yesterday, speaking on the
phone from France, Sovan-
nara insinuated he was the lat-
est pawn caught up in a politi-
cal game being played by the
ruling CPP.
If the one-party government
of Mr Hun Sen wants to have
national unity and national
reconciliation, [with us] re-
specting each other according
to an agreement reached be-
tween the Cambodia National
Rescue Party and Cambodian
Peoples Party on July 22, then
all this must end, he said.
He will return early next
week and appear in court, he
added, despite labelling it a
political tool being used by
Prime Minister Hun Sen to in-
timidate the opposition.
Meanwhile, CNRP youths
San Seyhak and Tep Narin said
yesterday that they had also
been summonsed to court re-
lated to the same case, though
it remains unclear whether
they have been charged.
I am not scared, because
I have not done anything
wrong, Seyhak said, adding
that the summons for August
27, which he has not seen, was
sent to his family home.
Narin said CNRP colleagues
had told him a court official
had appeared with the sum-
mons for him yesterday but
left when he could not be
found, so he does not know
the date.
Both say they will respect the
summons.
The change in the courts fo-
cus from lawmakers who pos-
sess immunity to underlings
who dont has observers spec-
ulating that the ruling CPP is
sending a signal to the oppo-
sition faithful that the July 22
political agreement is not the
silver bullet that CNRP leaders
have been presenting it as.
Political commentator Ou
Virak said that the premier
was trying to undermine
CNRP leader Sam Rainsy with
his supporters, because Rain-
sy had been trying to sell the
deal by saying that because of
the deal, he can get people out
[of prison].
With it appearing that he
cant do that so easily, the CPP
will be hoping to create some
divisions, Virak said.
Hes also likely not just go-
ing after the smaller guys [be-
cause they dont have immu-
nity], but also maybe to show
that leaders are sitting home
in luxury while showing what
the real activists actually pro-
testing are now getting out of
all of this.
Kem Monovithya, the CN-
RPs deputy public affairs head,
said that she too believed that
the CPP was trying to create
divisions in the opposition.
They want to anger our sup-
porters that we made this deal,
and we cannot get our activists
out of the court, she said.
But government spokes-
man Phay Siphan said that
if the opposition wanted to
fight impunity, as they have
frequently proclaimed, they
have to walk the walk and
not present their members as
untouchable.
They have to maintain
that in their own principles
and fight against impunity. It
doesnt mean all the big guys
[should] always get out from
under the law.
CNRP accuses CPP of
targeting little guys
An NGO worker talks to a resident about in Kratie province earlier this month after ood waters inundated
her property. SAMARITIANS PURSE
Flooding chaos drives
families onto safe hill
Pech Sotheary and Charles Rollet
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ECENT ooding has
claimed another
victim, a child in
Kratie province who
drowned, bringing the total
death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet
director at the National Com-
mittee for Disaster Manage-
ment (NCDM), said yesterday.
While water levels are declin-
ing across the 12 provinces af-
fected by ooding, the situation
is still dire for villagers evacu-
ated to safe hills in Kratie.
This years ooding is more
terrible than in any previous
years, said Srey Mai, deputy
chief of Prek Kov village in
Kraties Chet Borei district.
Mai said 168 families from
his village had been moved to
the Ta Khem safe hill because
of the oods. Villagers are
crowded together and nding
enough food remains a con-
stant challenge, he added.
Its been difcult living
here since our houses were
ooded, but the government,
local authorities and NGOs
have paid more attention in
supporting us with enough
supplies, Mai said.
The scene at Ta Khem has
been one of utter disorder, said
Julia Henning, communica-
tions coordinator at Samaritans
Purse, an NGO that has distrib-
uted food to more than 1,000
children on the safe hill.
It was very chaotic, she
said.
Henning said evacuees are
living without mosquito nets,
proper toilets and enough food,
while the safe hills lone health
centre offers only diarrhoea
medicine and salt tablets, sup-
plies of which are both running
low. The makeshift shelters
raised by the newcomers a
mix of tarp and sticks are far
from adequate, she added.
The cattle had better shelter
than they did.
Henning said the young were
the worst affected, with many
having to be treated for cuts
that became infected because
of the water and poor living
conditions.
But as the roads are clearing
thanks to lower water levels,
supplies are nally coming into
Ta Khem.
The kids were all dragging
their feet when they [rst] came,
but now theyre looking pretty
bright-eyed, Henning said.
In preparations for the oods,
the government said earlier this
year that it would provide hu-
man resources, equipment and
10,000 tonnes of rice and other
foods, according to deputy
director of the NCDM Nhim
Vanda.
Despite the help, no one in Ta
Khem is certain exactly when
they will be returning.
Mai said he might stay an-
other month, but he remains
anxious. Im worried about
people getting sick, especially
the children.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
Angkor statue loses (replica) head
Sen David and Laignee Barron

C
ONCERNS over the impact
Cambodias booming tour-
ism industry is having on
historic sites were under-
scored on Tuesday when a South
Korean holidaymaker posed for a
photo with a statue near the famed
Bayon temple, knocking the statues
replica head to the ground, where it
smashed into pieces.
Kim Jun-hong, a 22-year-old stu-
dent, was travelling with a Christian
tour group, according to APSARA,
which oversees the temples in Siem
Reaps Angkor Wat complex. Kim was
detained, then released without be-
ing charged or ned.
He was also sent to a local hospi-
tal to be treated because, as the huge
head of the statue shifted, he fell and
the replica landed on his leg.
Im Sokrithy, an archaeologist and
spokesman for APSARA, said Kim
had asked his colleague to take a
photo of him with the statue, and
he went to go hold the statue from
behind, and maybe he slipped, I
dont know, but the head of the gi-
ant fell down and hurt [Kims] right
knee, and the head broke as it hit
the causeway.
The statue is one of 54 giants
lining one side of the southern gate-
way to the ancient city of Angkor
Thom, which encloses the Bayon
temple. The other half is a forma-
tion of gods of the same number.
The head is made from cement; it
is not the original, Sokrithy added.
In the 1980s, there was a lot of
looting, so the Ministry of Culture
brought the heads of the giants and
gods of the South Gate into storage
and made a replica from cement to
put back.
This is the reason there are rep-
licas, he said of the broken head.
They can fall easily because they are
cement and the body is stone so they
dont afx properly.
All the cement heads will ultimately
be removed and replaced with sand-
stone replicas, as they are destroying
the stone bodies, he said.
The incident is a fresh reminder of
an old problem. As tourist visits to
the ancient sites continue to rise,
ease of accessibility and the sheer
volume of people passing through
have made the ageing structures
more prone to wear and tear.
Kerya Chau Sun, APSARA spokes-
woman, said that damage from visi-
tors to the temples at Angkor Wat is
not uncommon, but that this was
the rst major incident she could
remember this year.
Of course, this is not an isolated
incident. But this kind of destruc-
tion . . . has not happened before this
year, she said.
But in general, some statues,
stones and temple walls are affected
when tourists dont take care.
Chau Sun added that Kim had
been released because he had not in-
tentionally damaged the statue.
So we allowed him to go free and
concluded the case without ning
him. But we will make the tour com-
pany promise that it must guide their
customers to be careful around an-
cient statues, she said.
APSARA later met with a repre-
sentative of the Cheon First Church,
Chois Suchel, and their tour guide,
Lee Yong-chan of the Korea Best Tour
Company. Both apologised, accord-
ing to the APSARA statement.
Chau Sun added that tour com-
panies would be asked to attend a
workshop where guidelines on
how tourists under their watch must
behave would be taught.
Dr Thuy Chanthuon, deputy di-
rector of the Institute of Culture and
Arts at the Royal Academy of Cam-
bodia, said authorities should cre-
ate better signage and clearer paths
for tourists to stick to when explor-
ing the temples.
I think that if people can walk all
over the complex as they please, stat-
ues will be easily broken, he said.
Siem Reap received 1.2 million for-
eign visitors from January to June, up
slightly more than 10 per cent from
the same period last year, as well as
1.3 million local visitors. Income
at the Angkor Wat site increased by
more than 14 per cent last year com-
pared with 2012.
A broken statue head lies on the ground near the Bayon temple on Tuesday after a
holidaymaker knocked it from its body. APSARA
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
Chhay Channyda
A DAY after police beat some
of them with batons, villag-
ers involved in a dispute with
KDC International again faced
resistance yesterday as they
marched towards the capital
this time from forces with guns.
About 50 security guards
and district police blocked
the protesters from Lor Peang
village in Kampong Chhnang
province as they trekked along
National Road 5 in an attempt
to make it to the National As-
sembly to air their grievances.
Following the violence on
Tuesday, when protesters were
attacked and three arrested
as they marched from their
homes, about eight villagers
fainted when confronted in
Russey Keo district, though no
one was wounded.
Tense confrontations and
heated verbal exchanges took
place between protesters
some of whom are members
of the Boeung Kak community
and authorities.
The authorities attempted
to negotiate with the villagers,
who continued their march
towards the capital. They were
eventually met by government
forces with guns and shields at
about 3:30pm.
I dont have my petition with
me it was lost when they beat
us on Tuesday, said commu-
nity representative Om Sophy.
We didnt want to come to
Phnom Penh but Chea Kheng
. . . [has] seized our land.
The villagers have been in
a years-long dispute with the
company owned by Kheng,
the wife of Mines and Energy
Minister Suy Sem. Families ac-
cuse KDC of clearing 145 hect-
ares of their land. Two villagers
who were previously arrested
remain in prison.
Three opposition lawmakers
were also at the scene yester-
day, while Cambodia National
Rescue Party lawmaker Sam
Rainsy used his Facebook page
to threaten to summon Sem
to parliament.
But District Governor Thuy
Sakhorn was more concerned
with the presence of Boeung
Kak protesters, whom he ac-
cused of spurring on the vil-
lagers protest.
Why do [they] interfere in
other peoples land disputes?
he said.
In a statement, rights group
Adhoc accused authorities of
working to serve powerful
people in the government.
KDC representatives could
not be reached.
KDC land ght comes
closer to Phnom Penh
Search for survivors goes on
Laignee Barron and Vong Sokheng
R
ESCUE teams continued recov-
ering additional bodies from
among the wreckage of a col-
lapsed condominium in south-
ern Thailand yesterday but still could not
nd three missing, presumed dead Cam-
bodian migrant workers.
At least eight people, including a moth-
er and her young child, were killed as a
result of Mondays accident in Pathum
Thani province north of Bangkok, accord-
ing to Thailands Department of Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation. Another four
to ve people remain trapped under the
debris more than 60 hours after the ac-
cident, which occurred as workers were
pouring cement on the top oor of the
six-storey construction site.
An additional 25 people were injured as
the building crumbled in on itself, six of
whom including one Cambodian re-
main in critical condition in hospitals, ac-
cording to information from the Disaster
Department and Thailands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
All of the dead so far are Thai, said an
ofcial from Thailands Foreign Affairs
Ministry who declined to provide a name.
But the rescue mission is ongoing.
But spokesman for the Cambodian Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs Koy Kuong main-
tained that at least three Cambodians had
been killed in the accident, though their
bodies have not yet been found.
Thai police said they believed that many
more than the 33 workers recorded for
Mondays shift were on the site at the time
of the buildings collapse, so nding more
victims remained likely.
Kuong said on Tuesday that as many as
30 Cambodian workers, all undocument-
ed, were known to be working on the con-
dominium at the time.
Thai courts yesterday issued an arrest
warrant for members of the construction
company responsible for the project.
Sub-contractor Diaw Prabjone, 43, assis-
tant Pensri Kitipaisalnont, 48, who sought
construction permission, engineer Saksit
Inthong, 43, who designed the building,
engineer Jira Khanman, who supervised
construction and managing director Cha-
naichon Kerdthes were all charged with
negligence resulting in death, Pathum
Thani provincial police said.
The company is called Plook Plang
Co Ltd, said Prateep Boriboonrat, chief
of Pratumthani Disaster Prevention and
Mitigation Provincial Ofce.
When a phone operator was reached
under the construction companys reg-
istered phone number yesterday, he
claimed the line now belonged to a dif-
ferent construction company, though he
declined to provide the new name.
According to the government, the em-
ployers will be required to compensate
the injured and families of the deceased.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BANGKOK POST
Rescue workers search for trapped people on Tuesday after a six-storey building that was under
construction collapsed in Thailands Pathum Thani province. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
Charles Rollet
THE UN Childrens Fund in
Australia has warned volun-
teers and tourists to avoid vis-
iting Cambodian orphanages
following critical reports from
the press in recent weeks.
In a post on its website, UNI-
CEF Australia said these types
of tours exploit children and
their families for the nancial
gain of the organisers and can
lead to further exploitation.
According to Kate Moore,
spokesperson at UNICEF Aus-
tralia, tourists are growing in-
creasingly wary of orphanage
visits in Cambodia, thanks in
part to critical media reports
on the practice, such as a piece
on the orphan business that
aired last week on Australias
national broadcaster the ABC.
Theres certainly a growing
awareness about the fact that
these orphanages are more
harmful than they seem,
Moore said.
While the number of orphans
in Cambodia has declined over
the past 10 years, orphanages
have more than doubled, and
almost three-quarters of or-
phans still have at least one
parent, according to UNICEF.
Experts from UNICEF say
children are better off staying
with their families, than to risk
squalor and sexual abuse in
orphanages, while volunteers,
though well-meaning, often
have little training or screening.
Despite the negative press, its
unclear whether the number of
orphanages is still growing.
Its very difcult to say, be-
cause we just dont have the sta-
tistics, said James Sutherland,
communications coordinator
at Friends International, which
is behind a Children Are Not
Tourist Attractions campaign.
One New Zealand-based vol-
unteer travel company said it
was very aware of the issue
but stood by its popular pro-
gram of sending volunteers to
Cambodian orphanages.
Ben Brown, risk and respon-
sibility adviser at International
Volunteers HQ, said the compa-
ny has very strict requirements
that our partners in each coun-
try need to meet in relation to
the childcare organisations that
they place our volunteers in.
Still, many large aid providers
are steering well clear of any or-
phanages in the Kingdom.
The Australian Governments
aid program does not fund or-
phanages in Cambodia, and no
Australian Government-funded
volunteers are placed in or-
phanages, said Simon Fellows,
deputy head of the Australian
Embassy in Phnom Penh.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
POLICE
BLOTTER
Panicked behaviour tips
off police to drug stash
A KAMPONG Speu mans fail-
ure to keep cool under pres-
sure landed him in hot water
on Saturday when he led
police straight into an illicit
drug den. Police arrived at a
pagoda in Odong district fol-
lowing a complaint from a
neighbour that the suspect,
47, was dealing. When police
arrived at the scene, the
wanted man was taking a
stroll outside. But when he
saw the police, he hot-footed
it into the pagoda. Cops fol-
lowed, finding a stash of
drugs allegedly belonging to
the suspect. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Man literally stabbed in
back for slinging insults
A FOOD fight in Kandal prov-
ince got out of hand on Mon-
day when a disagreement over
family cooking turned violent.
According to police, the sus-
pect and his brother-in-law
were enjoying a drink together
when talk turned to their
wives culinary skills. The sus-
pect didnt take kindly to his
20-year-old brother-in-law
underselling his wifes abilities
and, in a fit of rage, grabbed a
knife and stabbed him in the
back. Police are still on the
hunt for the hungry suspect.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Police say other police
went fishing for bribes
GIVE a man a fish and hell eat
for a day. Destroy a mans
means to fish if he doesnt pay
a bribe and youll mess up the
saying. Two police in Kam-
pong Chhnang provinces
Boribo district earlier this
week allegedly demanded a
$100 fee from a local fisher-
man. He refused, so the police
allegedly returned to destroy
his nets. Authorities are look-
ing for them. DEUM AMPIL

Suspects make moving
even more bothersome
MOVING house proved a
stressful experience for one
Phnom Penh man this week
when a van hired to shift furni-
ture to his new home instead
offloaded it to eager buyers.
Police said the victim had
asked three men to help him
transport heavy furniture from
his home in Dangkor district
to his new abode. But when he
arrived, the pricy pieces were
nowhere to be seen. The sus-
pects, who police said sold the
furniture, were soon arrested.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
At pharmacy, bag theft
resolved very painfully
AN ATTEMPTED bag snatch
proved a bitter pill to swallow
when an opportunistic cus-
tomer allegedly tried to pinch
a pharmacists purse on
Tuesday. Police said the
32-year-old suspect asked
the proprietor of the Sen Sok
district store to get him some
medicine before seizing the
chance to snatch her bag. She
called for help and her neigh-
bours piled onto the suspect,
beating him mercilessly.
Police separated the attack-
ers from the thief and sent
him to hospital. DEUM AMPIL
Translated by Phak Seangly
Phak Seangly
ACTING on the complaints of
villagers in Preah Vihears Kulen
district, rights groups visited the
site where a soldier allegedly
shot a teenage farmer to death
over a land dispute, hearing
from residents that the shoot-
ing was neither the beginning
nor the end of the dispute.
Complainant Nay Sopheap
a resident of the village where
soldier Poeun Tash allegedly
gunned down Try Chamroe-
un last month said that in
March, soldiers including Tash
accused his wife and son of
clearing land belonging to their
superior. His wife was knocked
to the ground, he said.
They tried to hack my wife
with a machete a few more
times, but it missed because my
wife rolled away, and my dog bit
them, he said. If the dog did
not bite them, my wife would
have been chopped to death
Sopheaps wife spent three
weeks in treatment, he added,
noting that police complaints
had come to nothing, and that
he now feels targeted by the
soldiers, who accuse him of
leading a land grab.
Licadho rights monitor
Chheng Samphors said that vil-
lagers are living in fear because
the soldier who lent Tash the ri-
e in the fatal shooting Kaing
Soeum was still at large. Tash
is in pretrial detention.
Provincial prosecutor Sreng
Vuthea said he had sent a letter
to investigating judge Tie Sotha
to charge and arrest Soeum, but
District Governor Chum Puy
yesterday laid the blame for the
conict at the villagers door.
The victims family grabbed
the soldiers land and the sol-
dier tried to stop it, he said.
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Laignee Barron
PURSAT town police have yet
to nd any leads in the case
of a missing Pre-Angkorian
statue lost by a superstitious
farmer in July, but earlier this
week discovered a statue base
they believe could match the
headless artefact.
Lest another Kandieng dis-
trict villager attempt to fol-
low in the farmers footsteps
by lugging the relic home and
returning it only to be stolen
later, authorities say they are
monitoring the area carefully.
I saw and took a picture of
the pedestal and sent it to the
heritage police. We also plan
to dig it up and take it to the
provincial cultural department
after the villagers harvest their
rice, said Soeng Sopheak,
chief of Pursat provincial po-
lices penal ofce.
But an expert expressed
doubt over whether the dam-
aged base matched or even
came from the same era as the
Pre-Angkorian treasure.
It looks too small and the
stone is different, said Im
Sokrithy an archaeologist with
Cambodias Apsara Authority,
on Tuesday.
Still, the provincial culture
department plans to survey
the area soon.
Shooting site visited
Statue pedestal found
Protest pause
After concluding three straight days of protests outside the Vietnamese Embassy, the Kampuchea Krom
community vowed yesterday to resume its activities at an unknown date. PHA LINA
Traffickers jail time grows
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

T
WO Taiwanese na-
tionals and mem-
bers of a notoriously
abusive recruitment
agency were convicted yester-
day for a second time of hu-
man trafcking.
Lin Li-chen, also known as
Lin Yu-shin, 44, manager of
Giant Ocean International
Fishery Co, and her at-large
husband, Chen Chun-mu, 49,
were sentenced to 10 years
imprisonment each for selling
two Cambodian workers into
slavery aboard a South African
shing vessel in 2010, said Kor
Vany, presiding judge at the
Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
It was ordered that they
jointly pay $600 in unpaid sal-
ary and 8 million riel ($2,000)
each as compensation to the
two victims, said Vandy, add-
ing that an arrest warrant was
led for Chen.
Lin was arrested by the Anti-
Human Trafcking and Juve-
nile Protection Unit in March
2013 after police had received
nearly 200 complaints that her
company sold men into slav-
ery. Lins husband, the mar-
keting director, had already
ed the country.
Giant Ocean received a li-
cence to send workers to Ma-
laysia, Thailand, Japan and
Kuwait in 2010, according to
the Ministry of Labour. But
rights groups assisting repatri-
ated victims estimate the rm
sent as many as 1,000 men to
work in farther-ung coun-
tries like South Africa, Sen-
egal, Fiji and Mauritius where
they were forced to work with
little or no pay.
The two Kampong Cham
men who brought the latest
charges against Giant Ocean
said the company had recruit-
ed them to work in Malaysia for
$150 a month plus bonuses.
In a landmark ruling last
April, Lin and Chen were
among six Giant Ocean em-
ployees sentenced to 10 years
in jail and ordered to pay vic-
tims back wages and com-
pensation.
Sugar giant accused of abuse
Continued from page 1
Corporation in 2008. The con-
cessions are also allegedly linked
to ruling party senator Ly Yong
Phat, though his company
denied that claim yesterday.
At a press conference yester-
day, NHRCT commissioner Dr
Nirun Phitakwatchara said that
after visiting three villages and
one resettlement site earlier this
week, he had found that local
communities had collapsed as
a result of the concessions.
The concessions have result-
ed in the illegal confiscation of
land from local people, destruc-
tion of their homes, killing of
livestock, arson, looting of crops,
beatings, threats, intimidation
and arrest of villagers which led
to extreme food insecurity and
impoverishment over a period
of several years, he said.
While Nirun had only commu-
nicated with Mitr Phol in writing,
he would seek face-to-face meet-
ings in Thailand, he said.
Mitr Phol could not be reached
for comment yesterday but has
previously said it had followed
a land concession process pre-
scribed by law.
Nirun added that he had only
seen cassava crops, and not
sugar cane, during his fact-find-
ing mission.
Um Sokhon, a Samrong city
councillor, confirmed that the
companies had cleared sugar
cane crops last year.
The companies are under
pressure from the international
community, which stopped buy-
ing their sugar, so sugar cane was
cut down last year to plant cas-
sava instead, he said.
Sokhon also said that the three
concessionaires which Mitr
Phol has admitted are part of a
joint venture are under the
control of Yong Phat.
But Seng Nhak, director of the
senators Phnom Penh Sugar
company, said he could cate-
gorically deny that there is any
link between Yong Phat and
Mitr Phol in Oddar Meanchey.
A separate complaint was
lodged with the NHRCT in Janu-
ary 2010 by communities in Koh
Kong province against Thai sug-
ar company KSL.
The commissions preliminary
findings regarding that case in
July 2012 also backed their alle-
gations and Nirun said that a
final report will be issued in
October.
While Nirun admitted that the
NHRCT had no power to sanc-
tion firms or take legal action, he
said its reports on both cases
would tell the truth and could
be used to support litigation.
Two hundred Koh Kong fami-
lies have filed a lawsuit in Lon-
don against UK sugar firm Tate
and Lyle, which they say owes
them compensation because it
purchased sugar from KSL. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY PHAK SEANGLY
Orphanage tourism
still an issue: UNICEF
Evictees watch a building burn next to a sugar plantation in Oddar Meanchey
after authorities set it alight during a 2009 eviction. PHOTOSUPPLIED
Eddie Morton
C
ambodia Angkor Air
(CAA) on Tuesday
signed an agree-
ment with Viet Flight
Training Joint Stock Company
(VFT) to restart training local
pilots, decades after Cambo-
dia ceased schooling locals to
y commercial aircraft.
CAA representative, Thai
Binh Tran, said 50 to 70 bud-
ding local pilots are expected
to enroll in the course within
the rst year, with a fee of
$80,000 per student. The new
generation of Cambodian pi-
lots will be trained in facilities
in Vietnam and in the United
States before returning to
work exclusively for CAA.
VFT has invested some $3
million to launch the 72-week,
which leaves graduates quali-
ed to co-pilot commercial
airlines, according to Tran.
Firstly the student must
invest himself in the school
fees, and after having ob-
tained good records, he is
sponsored and reimbursed
50 per cent of the school fees.
This is considered the schol-
arships for students, Tran
told the Post.
There is high demand in
recruiting pilots in the re-
gion, not only in Cambodia.
The training program helps
the young Cambodians to
pursue good careers as well
as afrm the aviation indus-
try in Cambodia.
Chan Oddumkrissna, a 25-
year-old ight attendant for
CAA, has dreamt of being a
pilot since his childhood.
My father was also a pilot.
I have memories as a child
when my dad would take me
to his ofce and I would play
with the model airplanes, and
take photos of myself on my
fathers lap pretending to y
the airplane, he said.
It is my dream job.
Oddumkrissnas parents
have agreed to pay for his
schooling fees. However, the
25-year-old is condent that
after graduating, he will be
able to earn back the money
in a matter of years.
I heard pilots can earn be-
tween $5,000 and $6,000 per
month, he said.
CAA, which is 49 per cent
owned by Vietnam Airlines,
remains Cambodias sole in-
ternational ag-carrier with
a current eet of seven air-
craft. But the airline is eyeing
rapid growth in the coming
years, with passenger capac-
ities increasing more than 70
per cent from about 12,500
weekly seats recorded in
January 2013 to about 21,500
weekly seats recorded in Jan-
uary this year.
The new agreement is set
to help bolster the growing
industry, CAAs President Tek
Rethsamrach said during the
announcement of the ight
training program, held at in
Phnom Penh on Tuesday.
This is the rst agreement
after Cambodia has not sent
students to study commercial
pilot skills for 25 years since
the collapse of the Soviet
Union, he said.
Keo Sivorn, director gen-
eral at the State Secretariat
for Civil Aviation (SSCA), is an
ex-pilot himself. As was one
of the few Cambodian pilots
to train in the Soviet Union
back in the 1980s, Sivorn
welcomed VFTs Tuesday an-
nouncement, but said the lo-
cal aviation industry is short
of more than just pilots.
There are about 20 expe-
rienced pilots left, but now
they are all aged in their 50s
or 60s. There are no young
pilots here anymore, Sivorn
said, adding that most ex-
perienced Cambodian pi-
lots have historically found
employment in other Asian
countries such as Thailand
or Malaysia due to a lack of
domestic demand.
But now we [SSCA] are
in the process of evaluating
some companies to have Air
Operations Certicates. We
need pilots, aviation engi-
neers, mechanics and more
aviation management of-
cials to ll the industry too.
The new training deal
comes ten months after the
Korea International Coopera-
tion Agency (KOICA) inked a
$10 million deal to set up a
local Civil Aviation Training
Center (CATC).
KOICA, in October an-
nounced the construction of
the facility, which will provide
training for ground staff, ight
crews and air trafc control-
lers. The facility is slated to
open at the eastern compound
of Phnom Penh International
Airport in 2015.
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Tax dept sends warning to property owners
Chan Muyhong
and Daniel de Carteret
A LACK of payment for property tax has
led the General Department of Taxa-
tion to issue a warning this week to
property owners, reminding them that
penalties will apply to those who miss
this years payment deadline.
To make property tax collection on
time, GDT would like to notify every-
one who has not paid tax for their
property to do it before the 30th of Sep-
tember. Failing to do so, the property
owners will be fined on top of the tax
required, the notice, dated July 31,
though released on the GDT website
this week, reads.
As of August 4, just 3,700 taxpayers
have paid up their property tax this
year, according to So Phonnary,
executive vice president and chief
operating officer of Acleda Bank, one
of two agencies collecting tax for the
government.
Phonnary said the delay might stem
from the lack of information about
property tax obligations.
It can be that people are not aware
of paying property tax, but it can
also be that there are announce-
ments, but people do not pay atten-
tion to it, she said.
The Acleda vice president did not
have access to the number of proper-
ties registered for the tax payment.
Contacted yesterday, the GDT
declined to say how many companies
were registered or how much a fine
would be.
Property tax is charged at 0.1 per cent
on land, homes or buildings with a
value greater than 100 million riel
(about $25,000).
Cheng Kheng, the president of the
Cambodian Valuers and Estate Agents
Association, said yesterday, the lack of
transparency on how the revenue is
being used discouraged taxpayers from
paying on time.
People know about property tax, but
they do not know what benefits they
get back in return. If people could see
the benefits of paying tax, they will
happily do it, he said.
Since property tax was introduced
in 2011, the GDT has pushed back
the September 30 deadline, saying
that there was a lack of resources
available to handle the claims of
property owners.
An early warning this year may indi-
cate that processes are improving, said
Clint OConnell, a tax partner with firm
VDB Loi.
The goal of the GDT is to increase
efficiency in tax collection and we
believe that they are looking at moving
to E-Filing, and E-Registration, using
online calculators to assist in deter-
mining tax liabilities, also using call
centers and text messages to remind
owners of the due date for property
tax, he said.
O'Connell added that keeping
records on new buildings, changes to
existing properties and encouraging
people and companies to register for
property tax were the future challeng-
es facing the GDT.
Oz casino
opens after
two month
trial period
May Kunmakara
ROXY Casino, a newly reno-
vated casino in Bavet town
owned by publicly listed Aus-
tralian firm Cell Aquaculture
(CAQ), held its official grand
opening today after a two-
month trial period, which
turned mediocre results for
the firm.
In a filing to the Australian
Stock Exchange (ASX) dated
August 8, CAQ states that the
firm experienced operational
and administrative teething
issues during its soft opening
period. Despite the shaky
start, however, the newcomer
to Cambodias gambling
industy managed to attract
modest player traffic, largely
brought on by gamblers bet-
ting on World Cup football
matches.
Since the Casinos soft
opening on May 26, 2014, the
casinos operations have been
viewed as a trail for the pur-
pose of realizing and attending
to teething operational and
administrative issues, the
statement, which was signed
by company secretary Debo-
rah Ho, says.
It was encouraging to note
that during the trial period, a
count of players at gaming
tables were noted every two
hours and yielded a average of
550 patrons daily, the statement
continues, adding that the firm
has recently launched an online
gaming operation.
After purchasing the rights and
title to the casino in March, CAQ
invested some $2 million into
renovating the previously run-
down Roxy Casino, which is now
one of 10 gaming venues pep-
pered along National Highway 1
only metres from the Vietnam-
ese border gate and employs
more than 350 staff.
Vietnamese locals are the
most important market for the
Roxy Casino due to its proximity
to Ho Chi Minh City, which is the
largest city in Vietnam and about
87 kilometres to Bavet," the
statement says.
Marketing programs and
promotions are created to tap
into this primary market, includ-
ing attracting junkets from Viet-
nam, the statement adds.
Hor Chenda, an official at the
Bavet International Border Gate
told the Post yesterday that he
has not seen a decline in the
number of people crossing the
border to play in the notorious
towns casinos.
I have noticed that the
number of gamblers have been
normal. In here, more than 200
gamblers play in the casinos
here every day. Roxy is also doing
well I think, he said.
A plane takes off from Phnom Penh International Airport last year. Cambodia Angkor Air will start training commercial pilots after a 25-year hiatus
in the Kingdom. HENG CHIVOAN
Pilot training makes a return
PS4 sales surge past
10M in less than a year
SONY said yesterday that
global sales of its newest
PlayStation have surged past
the 10 million mark in less
than a year, a record for the
Japanese electronics giant.
The PlayStation 4 console,
released in November, has
been a bright spot for the
struggling firm, which
launched a sweeping
restructuring in a bid to claw
its way back to profitability. The
release of the PS4 in the
United States and other
markets has helped to
improve Sonys fortunes after
a disappointing response to
the consoles predecessor,
the PS3. AFP
Chinas Tencent makes
massive gains over Q2
TENCENT Holdings Ltd
posted a 59 per cent surge in
second-quarter profit as
Asias biggest internet
company offered more games
and shopping to the billion
users of its WeChat and QQ
messaging applications. Net
income rose to 5.84 billion
yuan ($949 million) in the
three months ended June
from 3.68 billion yuan a year
earlier, the Hong Kong-listed
company said in a statement
yesterday. That compares with
the 5.37 billion-yuan average
of 11 analysts estimates
compiled by Bloomberg.
Business
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
China probes over 1,000 auto rms
Japan GDP shrinks most since 2011
MORE than 1,000 companies
in Chinas auto sector, both
domestic and foreign, are
involved in anti-monopoly
probes by the government,
state media said yesterday.
The China Daily quoted an
official at the National Devel-
opment and Reform Commis-
sion (NDRC) saying that probes
into state-owned and Chinese
private enterprises were also
taking place.
In recent months China has
launched high-profile probes
into alleged violations by a host
of foreign firms in a range of
different sectors including
pharmaceuticals, technology
and baby milk, raising fears
that overseas companies are
being targeted.
Auto firms in China are the
latest to be investigated, and
last week the NDRC pledged
to sanction German brand
Audi, owned by Volkswagen,
and Chrysler of the US, now
part of Italys Fiat group, with-
out stating what penalties
they would receive.
On Monday, Audi announced
that it will accept punishment
for breaching Chinese anti-
monopoly laws.
Several car companies have
announced price cuts in
response to the inquiries.
Chinas Ministry of Com-
merce on Saturday released a
statement emphasising that
the six-year-old Anti-Monopo-
ly Law does not discriminate
between foreign and domestic
companies.
The NDRC official, who
decl i ned to be named,
appeared to stress the same
line, telling the China Daily:
Investigations in many
industries started with domes-
tic companies and then spread
to foreign companies.
A monopoly case involving a
state-owned company not in
the auto sector would soon be
disclosed, he added.
But the EU Chamber of Com-
merce said that while some
Chinese firms had been probed,
European businesses were
increasingly considering the
question of whether foreign
companies are being dispro-
portionately targeted.
In some of the industries
under investigation, domestic
companies have not been tar-
geted for similar violations, it
said yesterday.
Furthermore, in some cases
that involve joint ventures, it
has only been the foreign part-
ner that has been named as
being a party to the investiga-
tions. AFP
JAPANS economy contracted the most
since the record earthquake three years ago
as consumption and investment plunged
after an April sales-tax increase aimed at
curbing the worlds biggest debt burden.
Gross domestic product shrank an annu-
alised 6.8 per cent in the three months
through June, the Cabinet Office said. That
was less than the median estimate of 37
economists surveyed by Bloomberg News
for a 7 per cent drop. Unadjusted for price
changes, GDP declined 0.4 per cent.
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is
counting on a quick rebound, the economy
was struggling in June, with output falling
the most since March 2011 as companies
tried to pare elevated inventories. The gov-
ernment is ready to take flexible action if
needed, Economy Minister Akira Amari
said, as Abe weighs whether Japan can bear
another bump in the levy in 2015.
The probability is high that the July-
September quarter will see a rebound, said
Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norin-
chukin Research Institute Co in Tokyo. But
the fall in real incomes and weakness in
production could weigh on the recovery.
The contraction followed a surge in
growth in the three months through March
when consumers and companies rushed
to make purchases before the tax rose. Abe
is striving to sustain a recovery after initial
success in fighting off two decades of eco-
nomic stagnation.
Household consumption plummeted at
an annualised pace of 19.2 per cent from
the previous quarter, while private invest-
ment sank 9.7 per cent, highlighting the
damage to demand by the 3 percentage
point increase in the levy.
The higher sales tax hit consumers who
have seen little growth in incomes and ris-
ing costs of living as the Bank of Japan
stokes inflation with unprecedented eas-
ing. Consumer prices rose 3.6 per cent in
June from a year earlier nine times the
increase in total cash earnings with food
prices climbing 5.1 per cent.
The only apparent bright spot in todays
data was that net trade added to growth for
the first time since the launch of Abenom-
ics, Marcel Thieliant, Singapore-based
economist at Capital Economics wrote in
a note. Unfortunately, this was mostly due
to a collapse in import volumes as a result
of weaker domestic demand, while exports
showed a renewed decline.
Imports tumbled an annualised 20.5 per
cent while exports fell 1.8 per cent. Thats
sapping the manufacturing sector and
shows the yens 16 per cent drop against
the dollar over Abes term has yet to drive
outbound shipments.
Unless the economy posts zero growth
or contracts in the third quarter, Abe may
decide to raise the sales tax further, Yuichi
Kodama, chief economist at Meiji Yasuda
Life Insurance Co in Tokyo, said before the
report. BLOOMBERG
Revenue at
Cathay up
on demand
CATHAY Pacific said yesterday
its first-half net profit soared to
H$347 million ($44.77 million)
on higher passenger demand,
but the Hong Kong flag carrier
warned of a challenging out-
look as surging competition
held down fares.
The figure for the six months
ending June 30 compared with
a net profit of H$24 million in
the same period last year. Rev-
enue in the reported period
jumped 4.6 per cent to H$50.84
billion. But despite its upbeat
performance, the blue-chip air-
line faces several challenges
including persistently high jet
fuel prices, said group chair-
man John Slosar.
The operating environment
for the Cathay Pacific Group
and the aviation industry as a
whole remains challenging,
Slosar said in a filing to the
Hong Kong stock exchange.
On the plus side, we con-
tinue to strengthen our passen-
ger network and the connec-
tions available through Hong
Kong, he said.
The airlines passenger reve-
nue in the reported period was
up 4.4 per cent to H$36.52 bil-
lion compared to the previous
year. AFP
In China, signs
of a slowdown
C
HINAS bank lend-
ing plunged in July
as the weakening
property sector hit
demand for loans, statistics
showed yesterday as other key
indicators slowed, raising con-
cerns for growth in the worlds
second-largest economy.
Domestic banks new yuan
loans amounted to 385.2 bil-
lion yuan ($62.5 billion) last
month, the Peoples Bank of
China (PBoC) said in a state-
ment, a drastic decline from
Junes 1.08 trillion yuan.
Signs of strength in Chinas
economy have been tempered
by nagging worries over the
potential for a downturn in
the huge property sector to
dampen growth.
An ofcial of the PBoC,
Chinas central bank, attrib-
uted the fall in lending to the
real estate market undergo-
ing some adjustments and
downward pressure in the
domestic economy.
An independent survey
of Chinese property prices
showed that their decline ac-
celerated in last month, drop-
ping for the third successive
month. Chinas economy grew
a stronger-than-expected an-
nualised 7.5 per cent in the
April-June quarter, accelerat-
ing from 7.4 per cent during
the rst three months of the
year, which was the worst
since a similar expansion in
July-September 2012.
ANZ Bank economists Liu
Li-Gang and Zhou Hao said
that the July lending data was a
signicant cause for concern.
It means that the nancial
system is engaging [in] a rapid
deleveraging process, which
could have signicant reper-
cussions on the real economy,
they wrote. Such a sharp drop
in credit is in fact a quantita-
tive tightening, which will
lead to high interest rates and
endanger Chinas macroeco-
nomic objective.
Also yesterday, China re-
leased gures for industrial
output, retail sales and xed-
asset investment. Industrial
production, which measures
output at factories, workshops
and mines, rose 9 per cent
year-on-year in July, the Na-
tional Bureau of Statistics said.
Retail sales rose 12.2 per cent
in the same month, the NBS
said, while xed-asset invest-
ment, a measure of government
spending on infrastructure,
rose 17 per cent year-on-year
in the rst seven months.
The industrial output g-
ure marked a slowdown from
the 9.2 per cent recorded in
June, while retail sales growth
slowed from 12.4 per cent.
Fixed-asset investment
which is only released cumu-
latively came in below the
17.3 per cent reading for the
rst six months of the year in
June, and also below the me-
dian 17.3 per cent forecast.
It was a new post-2001 low,
when the increase for the
whole year was 13.7 per cent,
NBS data showed. AFP Chinese banks new yuan loans fell drastically last month. BLOOMBERG
In some of the industries
under investigation, domestic
companies have not been
targeted for similar violations
9
15
12
8
12
10
S O N M M A J A DJ/F
China economy
Source: China National Bureau of Statistics
Industrial output
Monthly changes, (%) y-o-y
2013 2014
J J
9.0
9.2
8.8
S O N M M A J A D J/F
2013 2014
J J
12.2
12.4
12.5
Retail sales
Monthly changes, (%) y-o-y
Young tourists revive hostels
Chadamas Chinmaneevong
H
OSTELS are amaz-
ing places. They
never die, as
youths still prefer
this low-priced accommo-
dation, which they consider
a place to meet like-mind-
ed travellers. Young tour-
ists believe hostels exude
a charm they cannot nd
from a ve-star hotel, which
is why hostels can still at-
tract new investors.
Adrian Chooi, a young Ma-
laysian traveller staying at
Lub D Siam Square, said he
loves to travel alone and pre-
fers to stay in hostels.
He chose this hostel not
only because of its reason-
able price and good location
but also the chance of nd-
ing new friends.
I travel three or four times
a year. I have a lot of friends
from many countries. We
meet at hostels. Its not just a
place to sleep, he said.
Clarissa Eysell, a young
female German also at Lub
D Siam Square, said it was
her rst time at a hostel. She
travelled alone and her travel
agent recommended this
hostel due to its safety.
Im happy with this place.
Its safe and clean, she said
after a chat with new friends.
The popularity of low-cost
airlines and online travel
agents (OTA) are two im-
portant factors driving the
hostel business in Bangkok.
Budget airlines bring more
young travellers, while OTAs
provide marketing and book-
ing channels for hostels.
During the past few years,
old commercial buildings
have undergone a facelift to
appeal to backpackers. Hos-
tel locations are not limited
to downtown either, stretch-
ing to the outer limits of
mass transit.
Hostels have developed to
lure ashpackers high-
tech, socially connected
young travellers.
The United Nations World
Tourism Organization re-
ported youth travel gener-
ated $182 billion in inter-
national tourism receipts in
2012 and represented over 20
per cent of more than 1 bil-
lion international arrivals.
The average cost of a trip
by a young person amount-
ed to $910. The number
of international trips by
youths could increase from
200 million a year at present
to 300 million trips by 2020,
the UN forecast.
Chittipan Srikasikorn, busi-
ness development director of
Lub D, said lifestyle matters
to its guests and design was
important in building a social
atmosphere, more important
for them than service.
Hostels are popular
again, Chittipan said. My
subordinates left Lub D to
rent a house or commercial
building to open a hostel.
It requires a small invest-
ment, so many young inves-
tors under 30 are entering the
business. However, its not
easy to survive over the long
term if they lack knowledge
about operating hotels.
Lub D was established
in 2008 and operates two
branches at Siam Square and
Silom. Most of its customers
come from Europe.
It plans to open a big hos-
tel, Lub D Patong Phuket,
with 200-300 rooms and an
investment of 400 million
baht in mid-2016.
Average occupancy for the
two Lub D hostels is estimat-
ed at 70 per cent year-round.
BANGKOK POST
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Business
MALAYSIAN state energy rm
Petronas said yesterday its sec-
ond-quarter net prot surged
38 per cent year-on-year boost-
ed by higher oil and liqueed
natural gas sales volume.
Petronas, the source of
about half of Malaysias bud-
get revenue, said net prot for
the three months ending June
climbed to 21.06 billion ring-
git ($660.8 million) from 15.26
billion ringgit compared to the
same period last year.
Meanwhile, revenue jumped
15 per cent to 85.36 billion ring-
git during the quarter, helped
by the local ringgit weakening
against the dollar.
On the outlook for the year,
the company said: The
board expects the overall
year-end performance of Pet-
ronas Group to be fair within
the challenging business en-
vironment.
Petronas said total domestic
and international production
rose 6.3 per cent in the second
quarter to 2.21 million barrels
of oil equivalent a day from
2.08 million barrels a day last
year. AFP
Malaysias
Petronas
reports big
prot gains
Youth travel generated $182 billion in international tourism receipts in
2012, according to the UN World Tourism Organization. BLOOMBERG

New Indonesian govt
wont lift iron ore ban
INDONESIAS ban on ore
exports will remain in place
under the next government as
the curbs spur as much as
$18 billion in investment in
processing plants by 2017, the
Energy and Mineral Resources
Ministry said. The
maintenance of the ban after
presidential elections last
month is pivotal to predictions
for further price increases
from banks including BNP
Paribas SA. Joko Widodo, the
Jakarta governor elected to
succeed Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, and Prabowo
Subianto, who challenged the
result, say theyll keep the ban
in place. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Thais face loss of $2.2B
with sale of rotting rice
WITH nearly 17 per cent of the
rice in government
warehouses rotting, the Thai
government may face a loss
of 72 billion baht ($2.2 billion)
by selling it off at rock-bottom
rates. Three million of 18
million tonnes of rice
stockpiled under the former
governments rice-pledging
scheme have deteriorated to
the point where only ethanol
producers may be interested
in it, said Panadda Diskul,
permanent secretary in the
Prime Ministers Office.
BANGKOK POST
Ups and downs
US job market openings
hit 13-year record high
THE number of US job
openings hit a 13-year high in
June and more workers quit
their jobs, pointing to a
tightening labour market,
Labor Department data
showed on Tuesday. Nonfarm
job openings in the private and
public sectors rose to 4.7
million on the last business
day of June, from 4.6 million in
May. That was the largest
number of openings since
February 2001, and increases
were seen across the entire
country. Job openings have
trended upward since January
by an average of 159,000 a
month. AFP
UK unemployment rate
drops to five-year low
BRITAINS jobless rate fell to
6.4 per cent in the quarter to
the end of June, hitting the
lowest level for more than five
years, official data showed
yesterday. The rate for the
April-June period compares
with 6.5 per cent for the three
months to the end of May, the
Office for National Statistics
(ONS) said in a statement. At
6.4 per cent, the rate was at its
lowest level since late 2008.
The ONS added that the
number of unemployed
dropped by 132,000 to stand at
2.08 million people. AFP
Business
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Worrying data for eurozone
I
NDUSTRIAL production
in the eurozone fell by 0.3
per cent last month, of-
cial data revealed yester-
day, dragged lower by a drop
in the output of consumer
goods and energy.
The result was signicantly
below analyst expectations,
and the news the latest sign
that recovery of the eurozone
economy is faltering pushed
down the euro against the
dollar. Analysts had ex-
pected expansion of 0.3 per
cent for the period, and the
data followed a 1.1-per cent
fall a month earlier. Over 12
months, production in the 18-
country bloc was at.
This is a very disappoint-
ing gure after the already
strong contraction in May
[caused by additional holi-
days in some countries], said
analyst Peter Vanden Houte
from ING Bank in Brussels.
For the quarter as whole,
industrial production con-
tracted by 0.4 per cent, which
doesnt bode well for second
quarter GDP growth to be
published tomorrow [where]
a growth gure of 0.2 per cent
now seems to be out of reach,
he went on to say.
Looking ahead, survey mea-
sures continue to point to only
sluggish industrial produc-
tion growth at the start of Q3,
adding to signs that the wider
eurozone recovery may have
already peaked, said Jessica
Hinds of European economist
for Capital Economics.
Broken down by country, the
strongest drops were seen in
the eurozone periphery with a
sharp drop of 16.5 per cent in
Ireland. The Netherlands fell
off by 3 per cent.
Germany eked out a gain of
0.2 per cent, while France rose
by 1.2 per cent.
Across the 28-country EU,
industrial production fell by
0.1 per cent, and gained 0.7
per cent over 12 months.
Meanwhile, ination in Ger-
many, Europes biggest econ-
omy, fell in July to its lowest
level in over four years, ofcial
data showed yesterday.
The federal statistics of-
ce Destatis calculated that
German ination this month
dropped to 0.8 per cent year-
on-year, its lowest level since
February 2010, after rebound-
ing to 1 per cent in June.
Ination has been unusu-
ally low across the 18-nation
eurozone, fuelling concern
the region could slip into de-
ation: a sustained and wide-
spread drop in prices that
hampers economic activity
and threatens job losses.
While falling prices may
sound good for consumers,
deation can trigger a vicious
spiral where businesses and
households delay purchases,
throttling demand and causing
companies to sack workers.
Also this week, Spain re-
ported the steepest slide in
consumer prices in nearly ve
years, a potentially worrying
development as the eurozone
fends off the threat of a dea-
tionary spiral. With Spaniards
cautious about spending in
an economy suffering a 24-
per cent unemployment rate,
consumer prices dropped a
sharper-than-expected 0.4
per cent in the year to July,
Spains National Statistics In-
stitute said.
The fall in prices in July was
the sharpest since October
2009, the institute said, after
revising its initial estimate of a
0.3-per cent decline. In the pre-
vious month, Spains economy,
the fourth-largest in the euro-
zone, had reported an annual
ination rate of zero.
French prices also dropped
sharply in July adding to fears
of deation in the country.
Prices fell by 0.3 per cent
month-on-month in July, the
INSEE national statistics ofce
said in a statement. AFP
Data released from the eurozone shows that the blocs fragile recovery
may be derailed by deationary risks and low productivity. AFP
Japan aid to
build energy
projects in
Bangladesh
BANGLADESH has approved a
$4.6 billion project to build
coal-fired power plants and a
deep-sea port in the Bay of
Bengal with Japanese funding,
as it seeks to ease a chronic
energy shortfall.
Despite major investment in
new plants that has seen elec-
tricity production double in the
last seven years, impoverished
Bangladesh continues to face
major power shortages. The
National Economic Council
approved the project, which
includes two 600-megawatt
coal-fired power plants and a
deep-sea port to bring in coal.
In future, well construct two
more power plants and a LNG
[liquified natural gas] terminal
here, Planning Minister Mus-
tofa Kamal said. The first plant
will go into operation in 2018.
The Planning Ministry said
Japans state-run aid agency
would provide $4 billion of the
estimated $4.6 billion needed.
But the Japanese International
Cooperation Agency said only
that the agency had given $406
million for the first phase of the
project and was considering
further financing. AFP

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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 %
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Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 94.14 -0.23 -0.24% 2:01:52
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 106.59 0.24 0.23% 2:20:38
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.32 -0.01 -0.25% 2:21:10
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 263.56 1.52 0.58% 2:19:18
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 303.81 1.44 0.48% 2:20:50
ICEGasoil USD/MT 906.5 4.25 0.47% 2:20:07
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R
IO Tinto has unveiled a record four ex-
tremely rare red diamonds in an exclu-
sive annual sale, with the miner saying
there was growing interest in the jewels
as collectibles and alternative investments.
The diamond tender, with stones sourced from
Rios Argyle mine in Western Australia, will com-
prise 55 diamonds, including 51 pink and pur-
plish reds and four fancy reds.
The hero jewel at the centre of the sale in its
30th year is the Argyle Cardinal, a 1.21 carat ra-
diant cut fancy red named after a small, northern
American bird.
The jewels routinely fetch between $1 million
and $2 million a carat. As a basic rule of thumb,
pink and red diamonds are worth about 50 times
more than white diamonds.
In the three-decade history of the yearly sale,
only 13 fancy reds have been put on tender and
there are fewer than 30 graded by the Gemologi-
cal Institute of America in the world, Josephine
Johnson, manager of Rios Argyle Pink Diamonds
division, told AFP.
Our traditional markets the heartland of the
business is really in Australia, Japan, United
States and Europe, she said.
However, in the last three to four years, weve
seen the emergence of particularly India and
China, and now we see that the around 50 to 65
diamonds each year really go quite equally to all
corners of the globe.
Johnson said there was also increasing inter-
est in the fancy-coloured diamond market from
nancial institutions.
Five years ago, I would have said that maybe
10 to 20 per cent of our diamonds went into
collections never left the box, held in a vault
somewhere, she said. Now its more like half,
and the level of enquiry that we get around our
tender-quality diamonds from banks and invest-
ment houses has certainly increased over the last
two years.
After Sydney, the diamonds will be viewed by
clients and experts in New York, Hong Kong and
Perth. Bidding in the sale closes on October 8.
The largest red to come from the mine, the 1.56-
carat Argyle Phoenix, sold for more than $2 mil-
lion to a Singapore-based jeweller in October.
It was the highest per-carat price paid for any
diamond from the mine at a tender.
Another record was set at the tender when the
Argyle Dauphine, a 2.51-carat Fancy Deep Pink
diamond, sold for more than $2 million to a US-
based dealer.
It is not known how the diamonds acquire
their pink or red tinge but it is thought to come
from a molecular structure distortion as the
jewel forms in the earths crust or makes its way
to the surface.
The Argyle mine produces more than 90 per
cent of the worlds pink diamonds. AFP
Rio Tinto includes four rare
red diamonds in yearly sale
Four rare red diamonds, including the Argyle Cardinal (second left), a 1.21-carat radiant cut fancy red named after
a small, northern American bird. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
World
At slain teen rally, cops shoot again
Kiev rejects Trojan horse, tightens noose on rebels
Wesley Lowery

T
HE third night of pro-
tests over the killing
of Michael Brown be-
gan with hymns, and
ended with reports of another
police shooting.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch
said that ofcers shot and criti-
cally injured a man near the
main protest site in Ferguson
around 1am yesterday morn-
ing. The report could not be
immediately conrmed .
With tensions still high days
after the death of Brown, an
unarmed 18-year-old killed
by police on Saturday, com-
munity faith leaders and civil
rights activist Reverend Al
Sharpton held a massive rally
in a local church earlier in the
evening. Their purpose was
to call for peace and to, they
hoped, keep residents many
of whom had hit their break-
ing points after what they de-
scribe as years of police mis-
treatment out of the violent
clashes with ofcers that have
taken place each evening.
We ask that you all contin-
ue to support us in a peaceful
manner, urged civil rights
attorney Benjamin Crump,
who is representing Browns
family, as he addressed the
standing-room-only crowd
at St Marks Family Church
about a quarter mile from
where Brown was killed.
But even as Crump and other
speakers led hundreds in song,
dance and chant, local resi-
dents were again in a standoff
with police in riot gear.
Ground zero for the clashes
has been a burned-out gas
station, which was destroyed
when demonstrations turned
violent on Sunday night. Resi-
dents and others who travel
from other local areas have
demonstrated there, holding
signs declaring Guns down
for Michael and chanting,
hands up, dont shoot.
But, like clockwork, when
the sun goes down each night
those remaining on Fergusons
dark streets are met by heavily
armoured police, prompting
confrontations and injuries.
Unlike other nights, po-
lice moved to clear much of
the street during the early
evening hours on Tuesday,
dispersing most residents
and protesters by 11pm But
some lingered in the wind-
ing suburban streets near the
demonstration site, leading
to several more clashes with
ofcers who used tear gas.
According to the Post-
Dispatch, ofcers shot and
critically injured a man near
Chambers and Shefngdell.
County police told the pa-
per that they received a call
about multiple men with guns
roaming the neighbourhood
in ski masks. When the of-
cers arrived and approached
one of the men, he pulled out
a handgun, prompting the
shooting. The weapon was
recovered at the scene, police
told the paper.
In an earlier incident, a wom-
an was shot in what police de-
scribed as a driveby shooting.
She is expected to survive and
police say they are searching
for four to ve suspects.
The fourth night of violence
comes as community leaders
desperately try to contain the
rage of residents who are an-
gered by the shooting and the
failure of police to release the
name of the ofcer involved.
Respect the family! urged
Sharpton, who begged the
young men in the room to
serve as peacemakers. They
havent even buried their son
dont go out there and start
stuff in his name.
Sharptons passionate ad-
dress, often interrupted by the
crowds chants of no justice,
no peace, came towards the
end of an hours-long service
meant to both rally the com-
munity and get many off the
night streets.
Hundreds turned out for
the rally, dancing and singing
in worship.
Because he lives, I can face
tomorrow. Because he lives, all
fear is gone . . . belted out the
worship leader, with attendees
responding: And life is worth
the living just because I know
he lives. THE WASHINGTON POST
Sim Sim Wissgott and Richard Lein

A MASSIVE Russian aid convoy rum-
bled towards Ukraines border yes-
terday as Kiev vowed to block what
it feared could be a Trojan horse
bringing military assistance to pro-
Kremlin rebels ghting a bloody in-
surgency in the east.
Russian television images showed
a line of nearly 300 lorries moving
through the countryside, covered
with white tarpaulin and stretching
over almost 3 kilometres.
The mission has sparked fears the
four-month conict, which has al-
ready left over 1,500 dead and plunged
relations between Moscow and the
West to a post-Cold War nadir, could
be about to escalate even further.
Western powers say Russia might
use the operation as a Trojan horse
to sneak in troops or weapons for
pro-Moscow insurgents, who have
been losing ground against govern-
ment troops in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraines Interior Minister Arsen
Avakov lashed out at Moscows move
as a provocation by the cynical ag-
gressor and reiterated Kievs insis-
tence that no humanitarian convoy
of [Russian President Vladimir] Putins
will be allowed to cross the territory.
Earlier, it said the trucks would be
stopped at the border, and the aid
unloaded and transported into con-
ict-torn eastern Ukraine with the
help of the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Russia insists it has coordinated
the mission with the ICRC and that
the convoy does not include military
personnel. But the ICRC has denied
it is involved and told AFP they had
not been able to check what was in-
side the convoy.
A journalist from Russian tabloid
Komsomolskaya Pravda travelling
with the convoy wrote on Twitter yes-
terday morning that the lorries had
halted as they waited for political
decisions to be taken. Other Russian
journalists with the convoy said it was
due to arrive at the border by evening.
There were concerns in Kiev that
the vehicles, ofcially bound for
a government-controlled border
checkpoint, could take a different
route to the east across a rebel-held
stretch of the border.
The convoy with between 262
and 287 vehicles, according to Rus-
sias Foreign Ministry left the Mos-
cow region on Tuesday carrying over
1,800 tonnes of humanitarian sup-
plies, including medical equipment,
baby food, sleeping bags, and electric
generators, Russian media reported.
Four months of erce battles be-
tween Ukrainian forces and insur-
gents have left rebel strongholds in
the east without power, running wa-
ter or fuel, and with dwindling food.
ICRCs spokesman in Kiev, Andre
Loersch, said that discussions are
still ongoing with Russia. The ICRC
needs more details of what is in the
convoy. The convoy is on the road
and the ICRC has not had the oppor-
tunity to check what is inside. AFP
OBAMA CALLS FOR CALM
U
S President Barack Obama on Tuesday appealed for calm
after what he called the heartbreaking death of a black
teenager killed in a police shooting in Missouri that sparked
consecutive nights of rioting.
Witnesses and police have given conflicting versions of how
the 18-year-old was shot in broad daylight on Saturday, two
days before he was due to start college.
The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle
and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his
community at this very difficult time, Obama said in a
statement, his first public reaction to the incident, which has
stirred racial tensions.
I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong
passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson,
Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man
through reflection and understanding, Obama added.
We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a
way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our
prayers, thats what Michael and his family, and our broader
American community, deserve. AFP
Lesley McSpadden, the mother of slain teenager Michael Brown, joins a capacity crowd at Greater St Marks
Church to discuss the killing of her son and the resulting civil unrest in St Louis, Missouri on Tuesday. AFP
World
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Japan protests Russian
drill on disputed islands
JAPAN lodged a stern
protest with Russia yesterday
over military exercises that are
being held on the disputed
Kuril islands, the Japanese
Foreign Ministry said. Moscow
launched drills on the long-
contested islands, which are
located off Russias far eastern
coast and just north of Japan.
The exercises are extremely
regrettable, said a Foreign
Ministry spokesman. The
exercises came after Russia
scrapped a meeting with a
Japanese minister in response
to a new round of sanctions by
Tokyo against senior figures
involved in the annexation
Crimea. AFP
Bangladesh ferry owner
arrested over sinking
BANGLADESH said yesterday
it has arrested the owner of a
heavily overloaded river boat
that sank last week, drowning
scores of people. The ferry was
only licensed to carry 85
passengers but was packed
with more than 200 people.
Rescuers have so far recovered
48 bodies; around 60 are still
missing. The government
charged AB Siddique Kalu and
five others, including the
captain, with culpable
homicide not amounting to
murder. If found guilty, they
face up to 10 years in jail. AFP
Tourists body
stuffed inside
suitcase in Bali
A
N AMERICAN tour-
ists battered body
has been found in a
suitcase at an exclu-
sive hotel on Indonesias resort
island of Bali and her daughter
and daughters boyfriend have
been arrested over the killing,
police said yesterday.
The body of Sheila von Wi-
ese Mack was found on Tues-
day stuffed into a suitcase in
the boot of a taxi in front of the
ve-star St Regis hotel in the
upscale Nusa Dua resort area.
The 62-year-old victim
was half naked, had several
wounds to her head and ap-
peared to have put up a strug-
gle, a doctor who examined
the body said. The suitcase
had been wrapped in a bed
sheet and sealed up with tape,
and was smeared with blood.
Mack had been staying in
the hotel with her daughter,
Heather, 19, and her daughters
boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer,
21, local police chief Djoko
Hari Utomo told reporters.
She and her daughter stayed
in the hotel together for sev-
eral days before the boyfriend
joined them on Monday,
Utomo said. Mack was re-
corded on CCTV arguing with
Schaefer in the hotel lobby the
same night, he said.
The next day, the couple
were checking out and sent
several suitcases down to a
taxi, allegedly including the
one that contained the victim.
The body was discovered
when the couple failed to
show up at the waiting taxi,
Utomo said. They were seen
on CCTV leaving the hotel via
a stretch of beach at the back
of the property, instead of the
main entrance.
Police launched a hunt and
the pair was found sleeping
at a hotel in the tourist area
of Legian, north of Nusa Dua,
early yesterday, Utomo said.
This is murder, and we will
decide from our investigation
whether it is premeditated or
spontaneous, he said.
The victims body was sent
to the main hospital in the
Balinese capital Denpasar. A
doctor there said it had sever-
al wounds to the head, which
appeared to have been inict-
ed with blunt tools.
Looking at the wounds,
the victim must have fought
back, said Ida Bagus Alit,
adding that one of her ngers
on her left hand was broken.
St Regis is one of the most
exclusive hotels in Bali with
rooms starting at $470 a night
and a 24-hour butler service.
Police have 24 hours follow-
ing the arrest to ofcially name
the detained pair as suspects.
Once they are suspects, po-
lice can hold them for an initial
20 days while they investigate,
but can seek an extension for
several more weeks if needed.
They will only be formally
charged once police have n-
ished investigating and passed
the details to prosecutors.
They would be charged at an
initial court appearance. AFP
A policeman examines the suitcase in which the body of an American
tourist was found, at a police station in Bali. AFP
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Surrogacy ring?
Thai cops tie
foreign man
to 15 babies

T
HAI police have intensi-
ed an investigation into
a surrogacy case related
to Japanese man Mitsutoki
Shigeta, who is now suspected
of having fathered 15 surro-
gate children.
Shigeta was initially linked
to the discovery of nine sus-
pected surrogate babies found
by police at a Bangkok condo
on August 5.
He ed the country soon
after reports came to light that
he may have fathered the chil-
dren as part of a commercial
surrogacy arrangement.
The children are now under
the care of the Social Develop-
ment and Human Security Min-
istry. Police say initial inquiries
conrm all nine children have
the same father, possibly him.
They also say two twins found
at a Bangkok hospital, and four
other children who Shigeta is
known to have taken out of the
country in recent months may
also have been fathered by him.
Aek Angsananont, deputy
national police chief, said
authorities are trying to bring
Shigeta back to Thailand for
DNA testing. No charges have
yet been laid. BANGKOK POST
World
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Iran bans vasectomies
as birth rate dwindles
MEN in Iran wanting to get
vasectomies will soon be out
of luck now that the countrys
parliament has approved a ban
on surgical, permanent forms
of birth control. Violators will
be punished as having
committed a crime, the official
Islamic Republic News Agency
reported. The bill also bans
similar procedures for women
but includes an exemption for
cases in which the surgery is
urgently needed for health,
IRNA reports. Why pass such
legislation? In two words:
declining birthrates. IRNA
reports that the countrys
birthrate is 1.8 children per
woman. Thats below the 2.1
birthrate needed to replace the
population as people die. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Prince of pot returns
to Canada after US jail
CANADAS self-proclaimed
Prince of Pot Marc Emery
returned home on Tuesday,
vowing political revenge after
spending more than four years
in a US prison for selling
marijuana seeds by mail
across the border. The ardent
advocate of legalising
marijuana was met by his wife,
Jodie, and supporters in
Windsor, Ontario, before
embarking on a speaking tour.
It does smell like a party,
Emery said as smoke
appeared to waft at a televised
press conference. AFP
One in four people will
be African by 2050: UN
A QUARTER of the worlds
population will be African
within 35 years, the UN
childrens agency said on
Tuesday, as the continents
birth rates continue to rapidly
rise. High fertility rates coupled
with a rise in the number of
women of child-bearing age
will see two billion babies born
in the region by 2050, UNICEF
said in a report. By then, 40 per
cent of the worlds children
aged under five years will
come from the continent. AFP
Chile precision
Masked men
steal $7M in
airport heist
E
IGHT masked gunmen
made off with more than
$7 million on Tuesday from
an armoured truck at the airport
in the Chilean capital, the largest
robbery in the countrys history.
The robbers arrived in three
vehicles and held up the guards
escorting the truck from US
security rm Brinks.
Initial investigations indicate
the sum stolen is more than 4
billion pesos [$7 million], but
we still dont have the exact
amount, prosecutor Luis Pablo
Cortes told journalists.
The truck had been ferrying
cash for an air delivery to banks
and mining operations in north-
ern Chile, local reports said.
It was the second major Chilean
heist to hit Brinks in recent years.
The company was also the
target of what was previously
the largest robbery in the South
American countrys history, the
2006 theft of 922 million pesos at
the same airport terminal. AFP
UN bleak on swift Sudan peace
Little time to stop Iraq genocide, UN warns
Waakhe Simon Wudu
U
N SECURITY Council en-
voys said yesterday they
had little hope of a swift
end to South Sudans eight-
month long conict, despite threaten-
ing sanctions during meetings with
the warring leaders.
We did not hear much from them
that gave us hope that there will be
rapid agreement, in peace talks, Brit-
ish Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told
reporters, describing discussions with
leaders as disappointing.
Envoys met with President Salva Kiir
in Juba, and held talks via video link
with rebel chief Riek Machar.
Both said that they recognise that
there was no military solution to the
crisis, but the two positions remain far
apart, Grant said.
What we are see is the failure of
leadership in the country, the leaders
are at war with each other, he added,
speaking before the 15-member coun-
cil left South Sudan at the end of a two-
day visit. The UN has said the food
crisis is the worst in the world, with
aid workers warning of famine within
weeks if conict continues.
Thousands of people have been
killed and more than 1.5 million have
ed civil war sparked by a power strug-
gle between Kiir and his sacked deputy
Machar, with battles between govern-
ment troops, mutinous soldiers and
ragtag militia forces divided by tribe.
The UN Security Council last week
threatened to slap sanctions on lead-
ers of both sides if ghting contin-
ues, a warning repeated by Grant.
We underlined a very strong mes-
sage that there will be consequences
for those who undermine the peace
process, that are not willing to put
aside their personal agendas in the in-
terest of the people, he said.
Stop-start peace talks in the Ethio-
pian capital Addis Ababa which began
in January ofcially restarted again
last week, but the delegates have made
little if any progress. Three ceasere
agreements have all been broken,
while leaders missed a key deadline on
Sunday to forge a unity government.
US Ambassador to the UN Saman-
tha Power said there were very wor-
rying reports that more weapons
and arms were being brought into
South Sudan for a fresh offensive.
She also warned yesterday of conse-
quences for anyone not pushing for
peace, given the horric human toll
that this conict is taking every day.
The UN envoys are later due to meet
in Kenya regional foreign ministers
from the east African IGAD-bloc, which
is mediating the slow-moving talks.
The diplomats also visited the So-
mali capital Mogadishu yesterday,
meeting with President Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud and top government of-
cials under heavy security.
The US and the EU have already im-
posed penalties on three senior South
Sudanese army commanders from
the government and opposition, while
IGAD nations have suggested they could
follow suit if progress was not made.
The US said on Tuesday it would pro-
vide $180 million in additional aid to
help feed people. The funds would raise
to $636 million the total amount Wash-
ington has put up in humanitarian as-
sistance. The scale of the suffering and
humanitarian need there is shocking,
and the threat of famine is real so
much so that we are using this emer-
gency funding authority for the rst
time since 2008, the White House said.
The UN warns 50,000 children face
death from malnutrition, while half
the countrys population need urgent
food aid. AFP
Continued from page 1
John Kerry said that Washington was
looking at options to bring the trapped
civilians out. We will make a very rapid
and critical assessment because we un-
derstand it is urgent to try to move those
people off the mountains, he said.
Washington has already said it would
ship weapons to the cash-strapped
Kurds and yesterday France followed
in their footsteps.
The president has decided, in agree-
ment with Baghdad, to deliver arms in
the coming hours, President Francois
Hollandes ofce said.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said
the US has sent 130 more military ad-
visors to northern Iraq to assess the
scope of the humanitarian crisis.
Although Hagel did not give details,
he signaled that the Pentagon was lay-
ing the groundwork for a more ambi-
tious rescue mission. Speaking to Ma-
rines at Camp Pendleton, California,
Hagel said the extra troops would take
a closer look and give a more in-depth
assessment of the US relief efforts
that began last week.
A US defence ofcial said the tempo-
rary additional personnel would also
develop humanitarian assistance op-
tions beyond the current airdrop effort
in support of the displaced civilians
trapped on Mount Sinjar.
Britain said it has agreed to trans-
port military supplies for the Kurdish
forces from other contributing states.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Ab-
bott conrmed yesterday his country
would join humanitarian airdrops and
did not rule out the possibility of great-
er military involvement.
Washington has meanwhile urged
Iraqi premier-designate Haidar al-Aba-
di to rapidly form a broad-based gov-
ernment able to unite Iraqis in the ght
against jihadist-led insurgents who
have overrun swathes of the country.
Abadi came from behind in an acri-
monious process to select Iraqs new
premier when President Fuad Masum
on Monday accepted his nomination
and tasked him with forming a govern-
ment. He has 30 days to build a team
which will face the daunting task of
defusing sectarian tensions and, in the
words of US President Barack Obama,
convincing the Sunni Arab minority
that IS is not the only game in town.
Maliki yesterday continued to defy
international pressure to step aside,
declaring that it would take a federal
court ruling for him to quit.
I conrm that the government will
continue and there will not be a re-
placement for it without a decision
from the federal court, Maliki said in
his televised weekly address.
The two-term premier has accused
Masum of violating the constitution
by approving Abadis nomination, and
vowed he would sue. But the prospects
of Maliki who said in 2011 he would
not seek a third term succeeding in
his quest to cling to power appear dim.
Whatever ruling the court might de-
liver, analysts say Maliki has lost too
much backing to stay in power. THE
WASHINGTON POST/AFP
UN peace keepers secure a section of the airport on Tuesday as UN Security Council
members arrive in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. AFP
Reporter killed in Gaza as truce to expire
AN ITALIAN journalist was
among at least ve people
killed yesterday while sappers
were attempting to disable an
Israeli missile, as indirect ne-
gotiations between Palestine
and Israel for a truce in Gaza
resumed with the clock ticking
towards the midnight expiry of
a three-day halt to hostilities.
A spokesman for Gazas In-
terior Ministry said all ve
including the Associated Press
cameraman were killed in
a blast which occurred as ex-
plosives experts were trying
to dismantle an Israeli mis-
sile in Beit Lahiya. Another
six people were seriously
wounded, an emergency ser-
vices spokesman said.
The AP conrmed that one
of its journalists had been
killed, identifying him as Si-
mone Camilli, a 35-year-old
Italian who had worked for the
news agency since 2005.
AP photographer Hatem
Moussa was also badly
wounded in the explosion.
Camilli is the rst foreign
journalist to be killed in more
than a month of bloodshed
between Israel and Hamas
militants which began on July
8. He was at the scene with
the photographer to cover
the story of bomb experts
dismantling unexploded ord-
nance, the AP said.
Meanwhile yesterday, nego-
tiations in Cairo were expect-
ed to last all day as Egyptian
mediators raced to bridge the
gaps between the Israelis and
Palestinians.
The negotiations are in a
very sensitive stage and we
hope to reach an agreement
before midnight (2100 GMT),
Palestinian delegation head
Azzam al-Ahmed said.
Nearly 2,000 Palestinians
have been killed since Israel
launched its Gaza offensive
on July 8 to halt cross-border
rocket re. On the Israeli side,
67 people have been killed,
mostly soldiers.
Egypt brokered the 72-hour
truce which took effect at
12:01am on Monday, and has
urged the warring sides to
make every effort to reach a
comprehensive and perma-
nent ceasere.
The Palestinians, including
representatives of Gazas de
facto rulers Hamas, are de-
manding an end to the eight-
year blockade of Gaza.
Palestinian ofcials said Is-
rael had so far proposed eas-
ing restrictions at two of the six
border crossings it shares with
the small coastal enclave. The
Palestinians, for their part, have
rejected an Israeli demand
for Hamas and other militant
groups in Gaza to disarm.
Hamass negotiating posi-
tion has been strengthened
by support from the mod-
erate Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas, whose aide
Azzam al-Ahmed is heading
the delegation.
Hamas signed a unity deal
with Abbass Palestinian Au-
thority in April, ending a sev-
en-year rift.
The Israeli delegation nego-
tiates with us as a Palestinian
delegation, but the [Hamas-
PA] division is uppermost in
their minds, Ahmed said.
We will defend the Pales-
tinian peoples rights as a pri-
ority, he added. AFP
Simone Camilli. PHOTO SUPPLIED
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit
gives a speech in Juba on Sunday. AFP
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World
Kamikaze horrors lost on young
Shingo Ito

K
AMIKAZE pilot Yu-
taka Kanbe should
have died nearly sev-
en decades ago.
It was only Tokyos surrender
on August 15, 1945, that saved
him from the fate of thousands
whose suicide missions came
to dene Japans unrelenting
pursuit of victory in the clos-
ing stages of World War II.
But as the 91-year-old faces
his own mortality again, he
worries that a rightward politi-
cal shift under Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, and a recent lm
glorifying kamikaze missions,
are proof that the horrors of
war have been lost on genera-
tions of younger Japanese.
It was crazy I cannot sup-
port the idea of glorifying our
mission, the ex-navy pilot said
of young men ordered to crash
their planes into Allied ships.
Japan could go to war again
if our leaders are all like Abe.
Im going to die soon, but I
worry about Japans future.
Kamikaze pilots the term
means divine wind were
heroes in wartime Japan
where their deadly sacrice in
the name of Emperor Hirohito
and the nation made front-
page headlines. The squad-
rons were formed near the
end of the conict in a desper-
ate effort to prevent an Allied
victory. About 4,000 died on
missions that sent chills down
the spine of many enemy
combatants, although most
were shot down before reach-
ing their targets.
There are no ofcial gures
on the number of surviving ka-
mikaze pilots and the squad-
rons have largely faded from
memory, with little mention
in contemporary school text-
books. But a lm called The
Eternal Zero, based on a best-
selling novel, catapulted the
squadrons back into the minds
of the public earlier this year.
The box-ofce hit sees a top
navy pilot refuse to take part in
a suicide mission because he
promised his wife that he would
return home alive. But the pilot
eventually agrees to the death
sentence, leaving a comrade to
take care of his family.
I respect kamikaze pilots
they sacriced their lives for
their families and the coun-
try, 18-year-old Tokyo univer-
sity student Tsurugi Nakamura
said after watching the lm.
Kamikaze pilots are cool. Its
wrong to criticise the mission.
Kozo Kagawa shares little en-
thusiasm for that kind of talk.
The 89-year-old former Ka-
mikaze pilot refuses to judge
the morality of the missions,
but he is still haunted by see-
ing fellow pilots die in vain. His
turn never came.
Its not for survivors like me
to judge whether it was right
or wrong. But Im still mourn-
ing the soul of my late buddy.
Im sorry for letting [him] die
alone, he said.
A Japanese citys unsuccess-
ful effort to have kamikaze pi-
lots farewell letters posted on
a United Nations register earli-
er this year enraged China and
South Korea, which suffered
from Tokyos militarism before
and during the war.
Relations have been fur-
ther strained by Abes bid in
July to loosen Japans pacist
post-war constitution long a
symbol of its peaceful image in
much of the world.
The landmark shift to ex-
pand the use of Japans mili-
tary was met with strong pub-
lic opposition and warnings it
could ultimately see the coun-
try dragged into war, amid ter-
ritorial disputes with Tokyos
neighbours that have stoked
fears of an East Asian conict.
For Kagawa, there is no
question that kamikaze mis-
sions were a mistake, but he
is less sure about restrict-
ing armed forces to a purely
self-defence role. Kamikaze
missions should never hap-
pen again, but peace does not
come without costs, he said.
We cant protect peace with-
out defence.
Any sugar-coating of Japans
wartime past is misplaced,
said Akinori Asano, as he pre-
pares to spend August 15 at
home alone, mourning those
who never made it back.
The 85-year-old belonged
to an infamous force code-
named Cherry Blossom that
aimed single-engine bombers
at their targets, derided as stu-
pid bombers by the Allies.
The 6-metre aircraft were
more like ying bombs, pow-
ered by short-lasting rocket
engines that would run just
long enough to send them spi-
ralling into enemy ships.
It is nonsense to ask why we
obeyed orders and why we had
to die there was no room for
saying no, Asano said.
But it was not a movie. Im
afraid young people cant imag-
ine what it was like all I can
do is pray for peace. AFP
The USS Bunker Hill is hit by kamikazes on May 11, 1945; and kamikaze pilots of Japans 72nd Shinbu
Squadron at Bansei, Kagoshima, on May 26, 1945. PHOTOS SUPPLIED
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I
F THERE was one person in
attendance at this months deft-
ly staged US-Africa Leaders
Summit who wanted the word
Ebola to dominate every headline,
it was probably Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan.
Anything to keep Boko Haram out
of the discussion.
Nigerias bad boys have positioned
themselves from little-known band
of pseudo-Islamic thugs taking self-
ies with unread Qurans to the most
reviled and proudly public terrorist
organisation in the world. When al-
Shabaab hit a suburban Kenyan mall
in 2013, killing 67 innocents and
wounding an additional 175, Boko
Haram not to be outdone muscled
up and, several months later, made
headlines after engineering mass
kidnappings of several hundred
Nigerian schoolgirls. With this, they
confounded the Nigerian military
and triggered unprecedented global
hash-tagging outrage.
To say that luck isnt good for Presi-
dent Jonathan isnt only a corny play
on words but also among the many
understatements we heard out of a
gathering of 50 African leaders plus
one black leader of the free world.
Jonathan is, arguably, the start of a
long-awaited experiment in Nigerian
democracy since the end of ultramil-
itary rule in the West African behe-
moth since 2007, the year that his
predecessor, the late Alhaji Umaru
YarAdua, was sworn in after the two
terms of former military head of state
General Olusegun Obasanjo.
Faced with a re-election bid in
2015, Jonathan is, for the most part,
viewed as a sure shot for four more
years (even though rivals are build-
ing a constitutional case that his two
terms are up). But in his countrys
very disenchanted northeast is the
nasty uprising that wont go away.
Granted, Boko Haram and #Bring-
BackOurGirls suddenly lost their
steady top-10 trend on Twitter after
fresher global crises, from Ukraine to
Gaza to Iraq, took away headlines.
But Jonathan knows better, as the
insurgency is increasingly more
sophisticated and brazen in its
attacks. Boko Haram is aiming for a
strict Shariah franchise as it gradual-
ly expands activities beyond its
northeastern grass roots. While
recent car bombs in major Nigerian
cities like Lagos and the capital, Abu-
ja, may have looked clumsy com-
pared with similar incidents in Iraq,
clearly its a sign that Boko Haram
wants to play outside its lane.
That Jonathan cant rein in Boko
Haram is both embarrassing and
telling. According to the most recent
Global Firepower ranking, he has
one of the five largest armies on the
continent at his disposal. Continued
corruption, though, eats away at the
core of his armys brass, and Boko
Haram is lining up its agenda with
political resentment in the north-
east, tinged with Muslims rejection
of Jonathan as the Christian compro-
mise president from the south.
Of the many storylines that
emerged from the US-Africa summit
was highlighting Nigeria as a pillar of
continental growth. Its like a big
bank on Wall Street: too big to fail.
Even if Freedom House ranks it in
the partly free category, Nigeria
has a president who is still leader of a
half-democratic country in a vast
region where nearly half the neigh-
bours are despots. Its population of
175 million is Africas largest, and the
seventh largest in the world. And this
year, Nigerias economy surpassed
South Africas with the continents
top gross domestic product.
Thats both a blessing and a curse.
All eyes will look to Nigeria as both
an economic and a political linchpin
for Africa. But Jonathan is faced with
pressure to keep the Boko Haram
crisis contained. Growing worries
focus on Boko Haram as potentially
destabilising, since Nigeria is still
one of the 10 top oil suppliers to the
United States, even as imports have
decreased substantially over the past
decade. If a separate anti-oil-compa-
ny uprising in the South is fully
refreshed by the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta,
that could irreparably squeeze Nige-
rian security resources stretched
thin from Boko Haram, and further
reduce the countrys appeal as a
once prominent oil centre.
All said, Nigeria is still the top
recipient of US foreign direct
investment in Africa, and rising
hubs like Lagos are putting it on the
map as a centre of global com-
merce. If Nigeria falls apart, it wont
only find itself left behind by other
emerging economies it could also
take the rest of the Motherland
down with it. THE ROOT
Comment
Charles D Ellison
Nigeria: too big to fail
A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014, from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram shows the leader, Abubakar Shekau (centre). AFP
Charles D Ellison is Washington corre-
spondent for the Philadelphia Tribune.
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Lifestyle
Avant-garde fashion show
offers glimpse of the abyss
Chelsea Chapman
A
VANT-garde fashion
show Glamazon will
kick off Friday night,
featuring real women
(and one man) revealing their
inner model on the runway
and nishing with a parade of
extravagant outts inspired by
an abyss theme.
Started three years ago by
salon The Dollhouse, the an-
nual event exhibits haute cou-
ture fashion designed by the
hairdressers this year neon
and translucent materials will
dominate the stage.
The abyss it is mysteri-
ous, a little bit scary, says
Ryan Drewe Taylor, owner of
The Dollhouse and one of the
founders of Glamazon.
The theme was inspired by a
James Cameron documentary,
he said.
We took the shapes from the
deep, from shells and spirals . . .
A lot of metals and plastic and
things that are moldable, we
actually contracted building
constructers to work with us
on melding, he said.
Hosting the evening will be
last years guest star, Ameri-
can drag queen Jujubee, best
known as a contestant on Sea-
son 2 of RuPauls Drag Race and
RuPauls All Stars Drag Race.
It will be the second trip to
the region for Jujubee, whose
parents are Laotian.
Cambodian pop star Nikki
Nikki, who is also a nalist in
the Cambodian original music
competition Song Kites, will
also be performing.
Friday nights event consists
of two sections. The rst half
will feature nine women and a
man who will be transformed
into models for the night.
The transformation is im-
portant because it has always
been about female empower-
ment. We get the real women
and then transform them,
said Taylor. Weve never really
used men before. He is a sur-
prise, he is a part of the show.
The ten transformation mod-
els receive a complete makeover
with their hair being coloured
and cut into a new style, by the
team at Dollhouse.
They will then be outtted in a
specially made dress by Phnom
Penh-based fashion designer
Romyda Keth and invited to
walk down the catwalk.
The expat community is
quite small everybody knows
each other, so your friend
comes on the stage and she
looks like a fabulous women
on the catwalk and you just
go wow, said Yulia Khouri,
CEO of Innov8, partners with
The Dollhouse.
This years installment of
Glamazon will be the last show
of its kind, but Taylor promises
a new formula for 2015.
We didnt want to keep
milking a formula which peo-
ple got tired of, so next year we
will come up with a complete
new kind of show, he said.
Taylors advice on how to pre-
pare for Fridays show is: Ex-
pect the unexpected, you never
know what youre going to see.
Glamazon will be held at Co-
deRed Friday night. The show
is by invite only.
The after party is open to all
and will start at 11pm, music
by Kimchi Collective.
The organisers of Glamazon, pictured in hair salon The Dollhouse. From left: Ryan Drewe Taylor, Brandon Lee and Yulia Khouri. ELI MEIXLER
Icon passes
Film legend
Bacall dead
dead at 89
L
EGENDARY actress
Lauren Bacall, an
icon of Hollywoods
golden age who lit up the
silver screen in a series of
classic movies opposite her
husband Humphrey Bogart,
died Tuesday aged 89, her
family said.
With deep sorrow, yet
with great gratitude for her
amazing life, we confirm the
passing of Lauren Bacall,
the Bogart estate said in a
brief statement.
US media reports said
Bacall had died after suf-
fering a massive stroke at
her home in New York on
Tuesday morning.
Born Betty Joan Perske
a nice Jewish girl from the
Bronx, as she later put it
Bacall electrified Hollywood
in her 1944 screen debut To
Have and Have Not, when
she famously met Bogart.
With her smouldering
gaze and deep, husky voice,
she soon became a scor-
ching-hot property both in
Hollywood and on Broadway.
Bacall spent much of the
rest of her life coming to terms
with her early superstardom,
which grew into a seven-de-
cade screen and stage career.
She cemented her sultry
bombshell status in To
Have and Have Not, when
she cooed to Harry Steve
Morgan, played by a smitten
Bogart: You know how to
whistle, dont you, Steve?
You just put your lips to-
gether and blow. AFP
We took the shapes
from the deep ... We
actually contracted
building constructors
Heres looking at you, kid. AFP
Food
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Jane Black

A
UTHOR Paul Green-
berg was standing in
his Manhattan kitch-
en, cleaver in hand.
He had already uidly removed
two llets from a gleaming red
snapper, shipped overnight
from the Gulf of Mexico. Now
it was time to take off the head,
which he would use to make a
spicy Korean soup. This, he
said with a laugh, is where it
gets gnarly. Then with a swift
chop he severed the shs head
from its body.
It wouldve been easier to buy
a few llets or, for this dish, to
ask a shmonger for the head.
(Sometimes theyll give it to
you free.) But Greenberg, best-
selling author of Four Fish:
The Future of the Last Wild
Food, wanted to make use of a
whole snapper in service of a
larger point: Westerners need
to eat more seafood.
There are many reasons
why Westerners, Americans
in particular, dont cook more
seafood. One of the biggest is
that we are scared of sh. Ac-
cording to Greenbergs sourc-
es in the seafood industry,
surveys show that Americans
tend to have three complaints
about sh: One, I dont want
to touch it. Two, I dont know
how to cook it. And three, I
dont want it smelling up my
kitchen, he said. Thats why
so much of the sh the US
imports, such as tilapia, is
odourless and all but taste-
less: a fried-dough delivery
system, Greenberg calls it. Its
also a lot cheaper.
And so, dressed in shorts, a
green buttoned-down and a
well-worn apron, Greenberg,
46, set out to show me that
cooking sh need not be scary
or super expensive. He started
with a whole sh, which cut
the cost considerably. By us-
ing almost everything, Green-
berg would make three meals
for four from a single 5-pound
(2.25 kilograms) sh. For the
recipes, he chose a trio of
Asian dishes from Vietnam,
South Korea and China.
Greenberg grew up in Green-
wich, Connecticut. He learned
to sh during what he calls
divorced dad shing week-
ends, and it soon became a
consuming passion. Green-
berg got his rst boat when
he was 13. At 16, he sold his
rst piece of journalism, a
how-to on catching Marthas
Vineyard bonito, to a maga-
zine called the New England
Fisherman. Though now re-
vered as a guru on seafood
and sustainability, Green-
berg admits he wasnt al-
ways thoughtful about how
he shed or how much he
caught. There werent a lot of
rules in the 1970s, he recalls,
and when the sh were bit-
ing, it was hard to stop.
Writing books about eat-
ing sh changed the way he
thought about shing and
cooking sh at home. After
Four Fish, the question I al-
ways got from people was,
How can you sh when you
know sh are in such trou-
ble? he said. At that point, I
think even I thought of sher-
ies as something that someone
else was supposed to manage.
I realised that I needed to be
more mindful, too.
Which brings us back to the
sh head.
In most Western countries,
we usually throw it away. In-
deed, according to the Food
and Agriculture Organiza-
tion of the United Nations,
Americans waste about 30
per cent of the seafood they
buy. But there is plenty of
good meat in and around the
head. Using a small paring
knife and his ngers, Green-
berg removed chunks of esh
from whats known as the col-
lar, or throat, and, after a few
minutes in simmering water,
the snappers cheeks as well.
He also strummed his ngers
along the bones (also called a
rack) to remove any shreds of
meat left behind after the l-
lets were removed. All told, he
was able to salvage 6 ounces
of meat, plenty for his Korean
sh head soup. I think of it as
an honor to the sh, Green-
berg says. If you are going to
kill it, you should eat it all.
The whole
thing once I got past the
yuck factor was a cinch. Into
a large pot went the sh head
and the rack and enough wa-
ter to cover. After it had sim-
mered for 10 minutes, Green-
berg strained the liquid and
added his vegetables and two
kinds of Korean chilies, a pow-
der called gochukaru and the
spicy paste gochujang, made
from chilies and fermented
soybeans. Just before the stew
came off the stove, Greenberg
added the reserved sh meat.
The result was a light but
hearty broth that was magi-
cally refreshing and satisfying
at the same time.
That left us with two llets.
With the rst, Greenberg de-
cided to make one of his fa-
vourite Vietnamese recipes,
cha ca thang long, chunks of
fried sh wrapped in lettuce
with an array of sweet
and spicy con-
diments. It
was a bit
of an
odd
choice for a super-fresh l-
let, which you might think to
steam or serve as seviche. But
Greenberg had his reasons. If
youre new to lleting sh, you
may not end up with a perfect
llet, he said. (Google How
to llet a whole sh.)
That is a plus, but its hard-
ly the only one. The dish is
fresh (thanks, dill and mint),
crunchy (ditto, peanuts),
bright, sweet and plenty
spicy, if thats how you like it.
But Greenberg also loves the
lettuce wraps because this is
what he calls a stone soup
recipe. You can use whatever
you like in the dish (or what-
ever you have on hand): ses-
ame seeds, basil, cucumber,
even tomatoes.
For the second llet,
Greenberg wanted a rec-
ipe with strong avours
avours that could mask
any shiness after a few
days in the fridge. Just the
word shy is enough to
make me blanch. If a sh
smells, shouldnt you throw
it away? A little shiness
is normal and ne if a sh
isnt right out of the water,
says Greenberg. Thats why
every cuisine has a way of
dealing with it.
For the Chinese, two go-
tos are ginger and vinegar.
They combined beautifully
with mushrooms and ground
pork in a classic Beijing dish
that Greenberg describes as
what perfect Chinese take-
out would taste like if takeout
were perfect. He cut the sh
into chunks, marinated them
with ginger, sugar, sherry
and egg, then coated them
in cornstarch. Then he fried
them in a wok until they were
a gorgeous golden brown.
Next, he stir-fried the pork
and mushrooms with more
ginger, garlic and scallions.
From start to nish, the whole
dish took 30 minutes.
Greenberg had at least one
convert: me. Working with
a whole sh made culinary
and economic sense. But, I
asked him, couldnt I just buy
a whole sh and ask the sh-
monger to llet it (at no extra
charge) and give me the head,
even the rack?
You could, he admitted.
But it was clear Greenberg
thought that would ruin some
of the fun. As one sherman
told me recently, Americans
arent hip to sh, he said.
We should be. THE WASHING-
TON POST
A whole different kettle of fish
Korean Spicy Fish Stew
1 large fsh head (about 1 1/2
pounds)
1 fsh rack (optional; see
headnote)
8 cups water
1/2 block (7 ounces) frm tofu
8 ounces daikon radish,
peeled and cut into 1-inch
pieces that are 1/8-inch thick
1/2 zucchini, halved length-
wise, then cut into 1/4-inch
slices
1 small red chili pepper,
seeded if desired, then cut
thinly on the bias
1 small green chili pepper,
seeded if desired, then cut
thinly on the bias
1 sweet onion, cut into strips
2 scallions, cut into 1-inch
pieces
2 cloves garlic, crushed and
chopped
1 tablespoon regular or low-
sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon gochugaru (Ko-
rean crushed red chili pepper
powder)
3 tablespoons gochujang
(Korean chili pepper paste)
4 ounces edible chrysanthe-
mum leaves (optional)
Kosher or sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
3 tablespoons chopped fresh
cilantro, for garnish
Steps: Rinse the sh head and
pat it dry.
Use your ngers and/or a
small paring knife to extract
any esh from sh head and
the collar. If you are also using
a sh rack, you can extract
a signicant amount of esh
from it by holding one end and
strumming your ngers along
the bones. Reserve all of the
esh in a bowl.
Place the picked-over sh
head and rack in a stockpot,
then add the water. Bring to a
boil over medium-high heat;
cook for 10 minutes, turning
the head over once during that
time. (If you like, you can use
a spoon to remove the sh
cheeks about halfway through
cooking. Add them to the esh
reserved from the head and
collar.)
Meanwhile, wrap the tofu in
paper towels and use a heavy
plate to weight it (to help extract
any liquid).
Strain the cooking liquid
through a ne-mesh strainer
into a separate pot; discard
the bones. Bring to a boil over
medium-high heat, then add
the radish, zucchini, chili pep-
pers, sweet onion, scallions,
garlic, soy sauce, gochukaru
and gojuchang; reduce the
heat to medium and cook for
six or seven minutes, until the
vegetables are tender.
Reduce the heat to medium-
low. Stir in the reserved sh
esh; cook for about two
minutes or until it is tender and
opaque.
Unweight/unwrap the tofu
and cut it into large cubes. Add
them and the edible chrysan-
themum, if using, to the pot;
cook for two to three minutes
without stirring.
Season lightly with salt and
pepper. Divide among individual
bowls. Garnish each portion
with the cilantro. Serve hot.
Nutrition per serving (using
low-sodium soy sauce): 190
calories, 17g protein, 21g
carbohydrates, 6g fat, 1g satu-
rated fat, 10mg cholesterol,
550mg sodium, 3g dietary ber
8g sugar
Why waste it? Food author Paul
Greenberg wants you to use more
whole sh. THE WASHINGTON POST
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Stop the tiger
selfies, wildlife
charity asks
A
N ANIMAL protec-
tion charity is calling
on tourists to turn
down opportunities
to take photos of themselves
with wild animals, as a grow-
ing number of such images,
including tiger seles, sur-
face online.
Coinciding with Global Ti-
ger Day, Care for the Wild In-
ternational, which is pushing
their No Photos, Please! cam-
paign into
Thailand next
month, wants
to highlight
the impact
photos have
on wildlife.
The plea
comes at a
time when
a particu-
larly reckless craze has been
catching the attention of the
media men taking photos
with tigers to use on their
Tindr proles.
Speaking to the Guardian,
the charitys campaigns and
communications manager
Chris Pitt said: People want
to copy the photos theyve
seen online, which leads to
more animal suffering.
He added: A lot of us when
weve travelled have seen an
opportunity to take a photo
with a monkey on your shoul-
der. In Thailand its very popu-
lar to have a photo with a slow
loris people . . . think theyre
cute and good for a photo but
these are nocturnal animals
from the jungle being dragged
around neon-lit resorts, with
their teeth and claws clipped,
having cameras ashed in
their eyes.
As well as the risk to wild-
life, tourists are also be put-
ting themselves at danger for
the sake of a photo. Care for
the Wild International esti-
mates that at the Tiger Temple
in Kanchanaburi, Thailand,
a popular tourist destination
for Brits, Australians and New
Zealanders, there are up to 60
incidents a year (of varying se-
verity) of captive tigers maul-
ing tourists or volunteers.
In a statement, the char-
itys CEO Philip Mansbridge
said: I know people will im-
me d i a t e l y
think were
over-reacting
or just out to
spoil peoples
fun. But the
reality is, one
quick pic for
you means
a lifetime of
suffering for
that animal. If you really want
that Facebook photo this
summer, then I challenge you
to do a couple of things rst
check that the animal still has
its teeth and claws, check the
conditions it sleeps in, check
for marks where its been beat-
en, and check where its going
to end up when its no longer
cute enough for photos.
According to the charity,
photo opportunities with wild
animals are also prevalent in
Mexico, parts of Europe and
Morocco, often in so-called
sanctuaries. Lion and tiger
cubs are available to pet in
Mexico and lion cubs are a
speciality in South Africa.
Last year the Association
for British Travel Agents pub-
lished guidance on the issue,
stating that commercial ex-
ploitation of animals as pho-
tographic props should not
occur at any attraction claim-
ing to be an animal sanctuary.
THE GUARDIAN
A tourist poses for a photo with a tiger at the Buddhist Tiger Temple in
Karnchanaburi province, western Thailand. AFP
You can still pose with this Tiger. AFP
Entertainment
20
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Mr. Ripken
4 Orange Free ___
9 Embarrass
14 Folksy DiFranco
15 Matron of ___
16 Clay court mallet-and-ball game
17 Hide out, in a way
20 Like Hamelins piper
21 Liszts ___ in B Minor
22 Finds the right combination
26 Uninterrupted sequence
27 Kind of sheet for a felon
30 Unclean milieu
31 Do a grand jete
33 Road marking
35 Really enjoy
37 Knock out of a tournament
38 Find a scapegoat
42 Patriotic lapel pin
43 Gave props to
44 He used to follow the news
47 Brownish song bird
48 Busy activity
51 Nos. person
52 Cains destination
54 Used a Q-Tip
56 Succession
59 I thought ___ never ask!
60 Make noise illegally
65 Carpet calculations
66 Post-review reward
67 Hi-___ (having fine detail)
68 Difficult to endure
69 Sharp, narrow mountain ridge
70 Spring ahead abbr.
DOWN
1 College setting
2 Put holy oil on
3 Full of pep
4 Moo ___ (Chinese dish)
5 2,000 pounds
6 Laurel/Hardy separator
7 Pedicurists concern
8 It keeps a run from being earned
9 Without qualification
10 Ranchers footwear
11 Fish habitat
12 Great ball of fire
13 ___ be a fool not to!
18 Tokyo, once
19 Maned antelopes
23 Time-signature preceder
24 Salmon that has spawned
25 Speaks like King James
28 Church recess
29 Favorite, as a project
32 Dont give me that! old-style
34 Kind of rage or map
35 Fixes the outcome
36 Legacy recipients
38 Personal affront
39 Pesky sort
40 Sounded, as a horn
41 She played Glinda in The Wiz
42 TV watchdog
45 Headlong assault
46 Cafe ___
48 On a train
49 Twos, in cards
50 Most peculiar
53 Messing or Winger
55 Sayonara!
57 JFK predictions
58 Dipper unit
60 Telegraphers syllable
61 Nest egg, for short
62 Get a move on
63 Hrs. in NY
64 Third of September?
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The famous group of pizza-loving, sword wielding
mutated warrior turtles named after famous
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kingpin who wants to take over New York.
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Tuol Kork: 9:30am, 11:20am, 2:40pm, 5:50pm,
10:10pm
Meanchey: 9:35am, 2:40pm, 6:50pm
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Light-years from Earth and 26 years after being
abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target
of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by
Ronan the Accuser.
City Mall: 9:15am, 11:45am, 4:25pm
Tuol Kork: 12:10am, 4:50pm
Meanchey: 4:30pm, 9:10pm
HERCULES
Having endured his legendary 12 labours,
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: 5:50pm
Tuol Kork: 10:10pm
Meanchey: 7pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the wake of a disaster that changed the world,
the growing and genetically evolving apes find
themselves at a critical point with the critically
endangered human race.
City Mall: 9:35pm
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
(See above.)
9:20am, 11:10am, 3pm, 6:50pm, 8:40pm
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(See above.)
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receive one free bottle of 12-year-old
whiskey, a bottle of vodka or one free
carafe of a cocktail.
Nova, #19 Street 214.
9pm
Pasta @ The Willow
All-Italian pasta night with wine, salads,
desserts and pasta dishes at only $3.50
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The menu changes each week with two
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Swing @ CodeRED
Locals, expats, visitors and everyone else
is welcome to CodeRED for a night of
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Charleston, Lindy Hop, and many more.
The price is $5 for a drop-in class.
CodeRED, opposite NagaWorld. Beginner
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TV PICKS
10am - SCHOOL OF ROCK: A wannabe rock star in need
of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school,
and tries to turn his class into a rock band. HBO
12:15pm - WAR HORSE: Young Albert enlists to serve in
World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry.
Alberts hopeful journey takes him out of England and to
the front lines as the war rages on. HBO
2:40pm - THE PRINCE OF EGYPT: The Egyptian prince
Moses discovers his Hebrew lineage and leads his tribe
to freedom with the help of a wrathful god who kills
every firstborn Egyptian child. Based on the ancient
biblical story as told in the Book of Exodus. HBO
9pm - THE AVENGERS: Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. assembles
a team of superheroes, including Captain America, Iron
Man, Thor and the Incredible Hulk to save the planet
from Loki and his army. HBO
Pasta dinners are $3.50 tonight at The Willow. BLOOMBERG
Jeremy Irvine stars in War Horse. BLOOMBERG
DJ Party @ Meta
The renowned Cambodian artist
Sopheap Pich will mix an eclectic
blend of indie sounds and rened
electronica.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos
Boulevard. 9pm
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
21
Emperors face test of Dragons
H S Manjunath

A
WELL-FILLED card of
four games over the
weekend is dominated
by Saturdays hot match-
up between Emperors and Smart
Dragons at the Olympic Stadium
indoor arena in the Angkor Beer
Cambodian Basketball League, co-
sponsored by Pepsi and Smart.
The Dragons are cock-a-hoop af-
ter beating GL Concrete out of sight
111-63, cracking in the bargain the
century mark for the rst time in
CBL history. But the side cannot
rest on that laurel when they face
the mighty Emperors, who like the
prowling Mekong Tigers are yet to
taste defeat.
The Dragons will have to play a
lot smarter than they did against
Concrete, the mammoth triple-digit
score notwithstanding, since the
Emperors are all brain and brawn
and not brick and mortar.
With captain Monh Ratana lord-
ing it over the perimeter, the return
to the centre of Kim Vengngoun has
given Emperors greater strength
under the rim. This combo could
pose serious problems for the Drag-
ons if they are allowed too much of
a leeway.
Dragons point guard Nuon Vath
Sothearith could inject the much
vaunted speed with the help of Leng
Seng and Chhim Chandara, but of
crucial importance under the rim
will be the towering presence of Ga-
brielle Castaldo and Jordan Bergren,
who is back from the Philipines after
missing the Concrete rout.
Whoever wins this game will have
the luxury of moving up to the third
slot in the standings.
Saturdays opening game features
Pate 310 and CCPL Warriors.
With victories over Extra Joss
Fighters and Sabay Tiger Mosqui-
toes, Pate were far from disgraced in
that narrow defeat by Davies Paints.
The team is not only in the best of
shape but is also high in spirit.
Ouch Phanat, Taing Peng Kuy and
Sok Tour have put up consistently
good shows in offence so far and
manager Chea Koktry will place
this trio right at the heart of his
game plan.
Warriors manager Jon Naval has
to come up with a sound strat-
egy to counter Pates all-round
strength, revolving round his two
key players Vince Del Mundo and
Sovann Panha.
In Sundays action, Extra Joss
Fighters tackle Sabay Tiger Mosqui-
toes in the rst game billed. The two
sides match each other on their re-
cord of one win and two defeats so
far, but the trends distinctly differ.
The Fighters began with a heavy
loss in their opening game but
showed greater ghting spirit
against the all powerful Mekong
Tigers before weakening out in
the fourth quarter. They picked up
some momentum on that display
and went on to stomp Concrete in
their third outing.
In contrast, the Mosquitoes be-
gan strongly but lost their next
two games by over 20 points. Jay
Rodens absence has been a setback
for their offence.
Two teams struggling at the bot-
tom of the standings, NSK Dream
and GL Concrete, polishes off the
schedule. Either side will be desper-
ate for a victory to keep the hopes
of a playoff berth alive.
Weekend Schedule
Saturday August 16
Pate 310 v CCPL Warriors 2pm
Emperors v Smart Dragons 4pm
Sunday August 17
NSK Dream v GL Concrete 2pm
Extra Joss Fighters v
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 4pm
An Emporers player (right) tries to knock the ball away from his CCPL Warriors opponent during their CBL game at the Olympic Stadium indoor hall on Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Djokovic outlasts Simon to advance at Cincinnati
NOVAK Djokovic pulled his
championship tennis back
together after last weeks
early exit, beating Gilles
Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to reach
the third round of the ATP-
WTA Cincinnati Masters on
Tuesday.
The world number one was
ambushed at the same stage
in Toronto a week ago by
eventual champion Jo-Wil-
fried Tsonga.
But Djokovic made sure he
did not commit the same error
twice as he began a bid to win
the only Masters 1000 title
missing from his resume. But
he was tested by his French
opponent, who took Tuesdays
contest into a final set.
Hes not going to give you
too many unforced errors and
free points, so I knew that,
Djokovic said. But I managed
to get a win in the end, and
thats what matters.
Djokovic went down a serv-
ice break in the opening set
but got it back and added
another to take the early lead.
In the second set, he went up
a break for 2-1 but could not
stay the course. A break for
4-3 in the third kept him on
the road to recovery.
He ended on his second
match point after more than
two hours.
Four-time Cincinnati final-
ist Djokovic improved his
record over Frances Simon to
8-1. He is playing the pre-US
Open Masters tournament
for the 10th time.
In the only other second-
round match played, Austral-
ian Open winner Stan
Wawrinka was broken while
serving for victory but pulled
out a win over German Ben-
jamin Becker 6-3, 7-6 (7/5).
Toronto winner Tsonga
crashed back down to earth
in his opening match, losing
6-1, 6-4 to Russian Mikhail
Youzhny.
The 29-year-old 12th seed
found himself back on court
48 hours after beating Roger
Federer to win the title in
Toronto, the second at the
Masters 1000 level of his
career.
But he failed to find the
inspiration he had in Toronto
where he also beat Djokovic
and Andy Murray with canny
veteran Youzhny taking full
advantage of the physical state
of last weeks champion.
Its never easy, you have to
get used to the conditions
really quick, said Tsonga.
I was not able to hit yester-
day because the rainstorm.
But thats not the main
thing. I just give everything
on court, but I didnt have
enough today to compete at
a good level.
I gave everything last
week. Before the match I
believed I was able to play at
a good level, but on the court
I realised its gonna be impos-
sible. And it was.
I gave my best and it was
tough.
Latvian Ernests Gulbis
needed a pair of tiebreakers
to advance over Ivan Dodig
7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/4).
Croatian 14th seed Marin
Cilic advanced into the sec-
ond round over Toronto
semifinalist Feliciano Lopez
6-3, 6-4 while British quali-
fier James Ward surprised
Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-
Lopez 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
Canadian Vasek Pospisil
rallied to put out Czech Radek
Stepanek 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (7/4)
as wild card Robby Ginepri
beat Dominic Thiem of Aus-
tria 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.
In womens play, fifth seed
Maria Sharapova overcame
American Madison Keys 6-1,
3-6, 6-3, with the Russian
changing clothes at the end
of the second set and starting
the third refreshed.
I guess maybe thats just
what dry clothes does to you
they get you a bit calmer. It
was obviously time to change.
Its quite humid here.
Czech 16th seed Lucie Safa-
rova knocked out Montreal
finalist Venus Williams, 6-7
(2/7), 6-3, 6-4. AFP
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns to Gilles Simon of France during their match on day four of the Western &
Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tuesday. AFP
Sport
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
School asks and receives
from NOCC and ministry
THE National Olympic
Committee of Cambodia
(NOCC) on Tuesday made a
donation of sports equipment
to Samdach Preah Norodom
Sihamoni High School, located
in Kampot provinces Angkor
Chhey district, following the
approval of their request by the
Ministry of Royal Palace.
NOCC general secretary Vath
Chamroeun and Royal Palace
Minister adviser Chhey Chab
handed over sport equipment,
including 50 sports kits,
footballs, football nets,
volleyballs, volleyball nets and
posts, basketballs and sports
stopwatches, worth a total of
$4,000. During his address at
the school, Vath Chamrouen
said: We decided to accept
the request of support for the
school, where there are 216
students and 11 teachers but
only two sport coaches who
are in real need of sports
equipment. YEUN PONLOK,
TRANSLATEDY BY CHENG SERYRITH
Singh looks to break
drought on home soil
FIJIAN former world number
one Vijay Singh aims to end a
six-year title drought this week
when he returns to his Pacific
island homeland to compete in
the inaugural Fiji International
tournament. Singh has an
advantage over his competitors
in the $1 million event he
designed the tournaments
Natadola Bay course, which
opened in 2009 and takes
advantage of stunning coral reef
and Pacific ocean backdrops.
Singh said participating in the
new tournament, co-sanctioned
by the PGA Tour of Australasia
and OneAsia, was his way of
returning something to Fiji. Its
been a little while since Ive been
back but this is a great
opportunity and I hope that I can
contribute to its success and
give a little back to Fiji, said the
51-year-old, who lives in the
United States. AFP
South Africa overrun
Zimbabwe in one-off
DANE Piedt recorded the best
figures by a South African
spinner on his debut as the
tourists wrapped up a nine-
wicket win over Zimbabwe in the
one-off Test at Harare Sports
Club on Tuesday. Piedts four for
62 in the second innings helped
bowl Zimbabwe out for 181
midway through the final
session of day four, before South
Africas top three knocked off
the 41 runs required for victory.
It also gave Piedt match figures
of eight for 162, which eclipsed
the seven for 189 taken by leg
spinner Ian Smith on his debut
against England in 1947. AFP
Wales Warburton to
miss Cardiff friendly
SAM Warburton is to miss
Cardiff Blues opening pre-
season friendly at home to
Exeter on Friday as a result of
the ongoing civil war within
Welsh rugby, his club confirmed
Tuesday. Warburton, who when
fit has been Wales captain,
signed a controversial central
contract with the WRU which he
believed would enable him to
stay with his home region. But
the bitter dispute between the
WRU and the four regions over
funding and competition
structures, means the forward
will be sidelined. AFP
Pavey the
golden girl
in Zurich
J
UST a month short of her 41st
birthday, Britains Jo Pavey ran
her way into the record books
on the opening night of the Eu-
ropean Athletics Championships in
Zurich by becoming the oldest ever
female gold winner in the history of
the continental event.
The mother of two saved her at-
tack for the last of the 25 laps in the
womens 10,000m nal and pulled
clear in the home straight to win in 32
mins 22.39sec, with French duo Clem-
ence Calvin (32.23.58) and Laila Traby
(32.26.03) taking silver and bronze.
In doing so, Pavey, who lives in the
English west country at Tiverton in De-
von, eclipsed Irina Khaborova as the
oldest ever female gold medallist.
The Russian was 40 years and 27 days
when she helped her country win the 4
x 100m relay in Helsinki in 1994.
Pavey, who gave birth to her sec-
ond child in September last year, is
40 years and 325 days.
Its just unbelievable, said Pavey,
whose rst major victory was at the
1997 world outdoor championships.
I just gritted my teeth when we
came to the bell and went for it.
Its so funny. I didnt know Id still
be able to run at this age.
I feel like I must be dreaming. It feels
like its not real. Its all a bit surreal.
To be honest, I didnt necessarily feel
that condent towards the end. It felt
like a long way. I was thinking to my-
self, I dont feel very good here.
I thought, Ive just got to for it and
give it all Ive got. I just cant believe Ive
come away with a gold at this age.
Its taken me a long time to learn the
things that I needed to about running
- just to relax. Being a busy mum has
done me a lot of good.
Pavey produced a similarly gritty run
to claim a 5,000m bronze medal at the
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on
August 2 and was bidding for her sec-
ond medal over 10,000m at the Euro-
pean Championships.
Two years ago she picked up silver
in Helsinki, behind Dulce Felix of
Portugal.
Felix was attempting to become the
rst two-time winner of the title, while
the 25-strong eld also included Sara
Moriera, the Portuguese athlete who
won the European indoor 3,000m title
in Gothenburg last year.
The leading contenders were content
to sit back in the pack as the race un-
folded at near-pedestrian pace.
There were still 12 women in con-
tention with three of the 25 laps re-
maining.
It was at that point that Calvin made
the rst move of signicance, opening
a small gap, but Pavey closed it and
then pounced with a lap to go.
The rst gold of the championships
was secured just before the women
reached halfway.
It came in the nal of the mens
shot put, Germanys David Storl re-
taining the title he won in Helsinki
two years ago.
The 24-year-old, winner of the last
two World Championships, claims
to eat ve meals and 6,000 calories a
day and his hunger was evident from
the start.
He took the lead with his opening
round effort, 21.41m, and that proved
sufcient to win him the gold.
Spains Borja Vivas took silver with
20.86m and Olympic champion
Tomasz Majewski of Poland bronze
with 20.83m.
The chase for medals in the mens
100m promises to be a Franco-Brit-
ish ght.
All ve rst round heats were won
by French or British sprinters. The
fastest was European indoor 60m
champion Jimmy Vicaut (10.06),
and of his French teammate Chris-
tophe Lemaitre (10.16) and the Brit-
ons Dwain Chambers (10.18), Harry
Aikines-Aryeetey (10.19) and James
Dasaolou (10.22).
Vicaut, however, suffered a recurrence
of the hamstring problem that has trou-
bled him lately and is unsure whether
he will line up for the semi-nals.
In the rst round of the womens
100m, the French sprinter Myriam
Soumare clocked the fastest time,
11.03sec, ahead of Dutch favourite
Dafne Schippers (11.10). AFP
Great Britains Jo Pavey wins the womens 10,000m nal during the European Athletics
Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich on Tuesday. AFP
Jayawardene, the elegant run-machine, bids adieu
TEST cricket will bid farewell
to one of its most elegant
strokemakers when Sri Lankas
Mahela Jayawardene quits the
longer format after the second
Test against Pakistan, starting
in Colombo today.
Few cricketers have exempli-
fied the spirit of the game bet-
ter than the gentlemanly
37-year-old, even though his
pleasant demeanour hides
nerves of steel, a calculating
street-smart mind and an
obsessive drive for perfection.
The elegant right-hander
retired from Twenty20 interna-
tionals after Sri Lankas title-
winning campaign in the
World T20 in April, but still
hopes to compete in next
years one-day World Cup
Down Under.
Jayawardene is one of only
five batsmen to score more
than 11,000 runs in both Test
and one-day cricket the
others being Sachin Ten-
dulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques
Kallis and teammate Kumar
Sangakkara.
An average of 50.02 over
148 Tests with 34 centuries
illustrates his hunger for runs
through a 17-year-career.
Although his form outside
Asia has been inconsistent,
he has set a deluge of records
at home.
He scored a monumental
374 during a world record
partnership of 624 with San-
gakkara (287) against a South
African attack that included
Dale Steyn and Makhya Ntini
on his home ground at the Sin-
halese Sports Club (SSC) in
Colombo in 2006.
Jayawardene looked set to
surpass Brian Laras record of
400 when he was bowled
against the run of play. Ever
the teammate, he preferred to
rejoice in his teams huge win
by an innings and 153 runs.
He got a taste of big scores
on his Test debut itself as a
20-year-old in 1997, when Sri
Lanka piled up a world record
total of 952-6 declared against
India at the Premadasa stadi-
um in Colombo.
Slated to bat at number six,
the young Jayawardene saw
Sanath Jayasuriya make 340,
supported by Roshan Mahan-
ama (225), before himself
scoring 66.
Jayawardenes farewell Test
was originally scheduled to be
played at the P Sara Oval in
Colombo before thoughtful
officials accepted a request to
move it to the SSC. His 2,863
runs in 26 Tests at the SSC are
the most by any batsman at a
single ground, marked by an
average of 77.37 with 11 cen-
turies and eight 50s.
Last month, against Hashim
Amlas South African team,
Jayawardene showed his skills
had not diminished as he once
again revelled in the serene
surroundings of the SSC to
make a fluent 165.
He bid farewell to another
happy hunting ground in Gal-
le on Sunday by making 59 in
the first innings, and 26 in the
unfamiliar role of an opener in
the second as Sri Lanka beat
fading light and approaching
rain to chase down a target of
99 with 4.2 overs to spare
against Pakistan.
Jayawardene admitted it was
not an easy decision to retire.
It has been a great privilege
and honour representing my
country during the past 17
years, he said.
But I believe this is the
right time. The younger play-
ers in the side are doing well
and Angelo [Mathews] has
settled in as captain. My job
is done. AFP
Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene plays a shot during the nal day of their
opening Test against Pakistan at Galle International Cricket Stadium. AFP
Football
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23
Japan, Iran agree to
a partnership deal
ASIAN champions Japan and
rival Iran have struck a deal to
cooperate in promoting football
at home, with a focus on the
womens game, the Japan
Football Association announced
yesterday. The so-called
partnership agreement would
see the countries share and
exchange personnel, including
coaches and referees, as well
cooperate in areas such as
sports medicine and profes-
sional league management. The
association said it signed the
deal with its Iranian counterpart
in Tehran on Tuesday with plans
to work together on invigor-
ating womens football, as Iran
reportedly plans to launch a
female league next month.
Japan won the 2011 womens
World Cup as the first Asian
nation to lift the global
football trophy for either sex,
having come a long way since
it launched a womens league
in 1989. They also lifted their
first womens Asian Cup this
year. AFP

Martino named as the
new coach of Argentina
GERARDO Martino was named
coach of Argentina on Tuesday
replacing Alejandro Sabella
who stood down after they lost
1-0 to Germany in Julys World
Cup final. Martino, 51, gets the
job despite a trophyless
season with Spanish giants
Barcelona that resulted in him
being sacked. Martinos first
target will be next years Copa
America in Chile. AFP
PSG without their captain
Silva for several weeks
PARIS Saint-Germain captain
Thiago Silva will be out for
several weeks with the
hamstring injury that forced
him off early in Mondays
friendly against Napoli, the
French champions confirmed
yesterday. The Brazilian
centre-back lasted just 12
minutes of Mondays 2-1 win in
Italy before having to come off
after back-heeling the ball in
his own penalty box. He is now
unlikely to return until after
the international break at the
start of September, meaning
he will miss Ligue 1 games
against SC Bastia, Evian and
Saint-Etienne and probably
Brazils friendlies in the United
States next month against
Colombia and Ecuador. AFP
Bookmakers take bets
on pick-up football game
PROSECUTORS are
investigating whether there
was betting fraud after two of
Asias biggest sports
bookmakers offered wagers
on what one party described
as a pick-up game among
friends in a small Portuguese
town. Philippines-based
SBOBET and IBCbet were
among at least six betting
companies to offer odds on the
half-time and final scores of
what was supposed to be an
August 4 exhibition game
between Spains Ponferradina
and Freamunde of Portugal,
according to Chris Eaton,
director at Doha, Qatar-based
International Center for Sport
Security. They received
incorrect information about
the game from Perform Group
Plcs RunningBall unit, which
provides real-time match data.
BLOOMBERG
Ancelotti predicts new
cycle for Real Madrid
R
EAL Madrid coach Carlo An-
celotti said his side were on
the verge of a new cycle of
success after they beat Sevil-
la 2-0 to win the UEFA Super Cup.
The European champions began
Tuesdays game in Cardiff with new
signings James Rodriguez and Toni
Kroos in the starting XI, but it was Cris-
tiano Ronaldo who proved the match-
winner with a well-taken double.
Along with Gareth Bale and Karim
Benzema, Madrid now boast an at-
tack that cost around 310 million
($414 million) to assemble, and An-
celotti has set them a target of win-
ning all six of the trophies on offer
this season.
I think we might be starting a
very important cycle, because we
have a squad of extraordinary qual-
ity, he said.
Im fortunate to coach some out-
standing players. We need to work very
hard and make the necessary sacri-
ces. We can reach the highest heights
and compete in all the competitions.
He added: Its hard to improve this
team. We have an outstanding set of
players and whats important is to
use the squad to its full capacity.
I cant think that with this squad I
can have a permanent starting XI be-
cause theyre all outstanding players
and to be competitive in all competi-
tions, we need to rotate our players
and use the whole squad.
Madrid employed a rapid, coun-
ter-attacking style last season,
which ended with successes in both
the Copa del Rey and the Champi-
ons League.
Kroos and Rodriguez are both
more considered players than the
jet-heeled Ronaldo and Bale, but
Ancelotti does not believe that Ma-
drid will have to change their tacti-
cal approach in order to accommo-
date them.
I dont think the style will change
from last year, he said.
We can still use counter-attacks
and fast breaks. Kroos played in the
same position as Xabi Alonso and
with the same purpose, to circulate
the ball and whenever possible, to
use the speed of our forwards.
Ronaldo, who has now scored 18
goals against Sevilla in his career,
praised Madrids two new recruits.
Kroos and James are integrating
very well and I wish them all the best
in their adaptation, he said. They
did well. Theyre fantastic players.
Colombian World Cup star Ro-
driguez, an 80 million acquisition
from Monaco, told reporters: Im
very happy. I hope its the first of
many titles.
Ronaldo struggled with a knee prob-
lem during the World Cup and having
played only once in pre-season prior
to Tuesdays game, he admitted that
he had been apprehensive about his
return to competitive action.
It was my rst ofcial match this
season and I wasnt sure what would
happen, but I felt good, he said, af-
ter receiving the man-of-the-match
award from his former Manchester
United mentor Alex Ferguson.
Its the trophy I wanted because I
hadnt won it yet. I was a bit nervous
to see how Id feel on the pitch. I think
I managed to work well with the team
and Im happy with both goals.
Ancelotti described Ronaldo as the
best player on the pitch.
He scored two fantastic goals and
played really well all game, the Ital-
ian added.
Sevilla have accepted a bid from
Liverpool for left-back Alberto
Moreno, who was omitted from
their match-day squad by coach
Unai Emery.
The 22-year-old Spain internation-
al is poised to follow Barcelona new
recruit Ivan Rakitic out of the club,
but Emery said that Sevilla could still
prosper without them.
Sevilla has had outstanding play-
ers who have left and Sevilla have
continued to be successful, he said.
We could talk about Alberto
Moreno, Rakitic, Jesus Navas, Fred-
eric Kanoute, Adriano, Seydou Keita.
And Sevilla have always returned and
come back as a strong squad.
We know how to rebuild our
team and continue to be successful.
Change doesnt scare me. AFP
Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas lifts the trophy as teammates celebrate their UEFA Super Cup victory over Sevilla Cardiff on Tuesday. AFP
JOSE Mourinho claims Chel-
seas Diego Costa will prove a
bargain buy after the Spain
striker marked his home de-
but with a clinical double in
the 2-0 friendly win over Real
Sociedad.
Mourinho splashed out
32 million ($53 million)
to lure Costa from Spanish
champions Atletico Madrid
and the Blues boss is con-
vinced even that hefty price
tag will look cheap by the
end of the season.
The 25-year-old certainly
looks capable of justifying
Mourinhos faith after mak-
ing a condent bow for his
new club at Stamford Bridge.
He took just 57 seconds to
open the scoring with a cool
finish from an acute angle
and bagged his second with
a tap-in after Andre Schur-
rles shot hit a post in the
seventh minute.
As well as his goals,
Mourinho was also im-
pressed with the way Costa
linked with attacking mid-
field trio Schurrle, Eden
Hazard and Cesc Fabregas,
while working tirelessly to
close down Sociedad when
they were in possession.
His qualities look ideally
suited to the Premier League
and Mourinho said: Diego is
a team player, he works a lot,
he is not just about goals. He
is about defensive work, his
mentality, his ambition.
This is why we didnt buy
a striker in the last transfer
window we were waiting
for him.
He looks very adapted to
his team-mates and the style
of play. AFP
Mourinho hails his
bargain buy Costa
Fantasy League kick off
Dan Riley
SATURDAYS start to the Pre-
mier Leagues 2014-15 cam-
paign carries a fair weight of
expectations, with action-
starved football fans eager to
see the many new summer
signings making their debuts
for respective clubs.
Whether these fresh faces
will be worth their latest
price tags remains to be seen
in the accompanying Cell-
card Fantasy League, and of
course every fantasy man-
ager will want to find the
next bargain gem.
As previously announced in
the Post, this coming season
offers even more chances to
win than past years, including
smartphones for the top three
squads both overall and at the
halfway stage.
An Alcatel C9 phone will be
winging its way to the two
table toppers at the end of
gameweeks 19 and 38, while
second placed teams will get
an Alcatel Mini and third spots
earn an Alcatel C5.
All six managers will also
each receive a Cellcard SIM
card (worth $60), as will the
fourth and fifth place finishers
of the standings at the two
points of the season.
New sides entering the com-
petition can join the league by
using the code 282488-75835
after constructing their squads
at www.fantasy.premierleague.
com. Managers wishing to be
eligible for Cellcard prizes
must register their fantasy
team name, manager name,
real name, Cambodian phone
number and occupation by
email to dan.riley@phnom-
penhpost.com.
Existing teams need not re-
register, although updated
details such as a change in
phone number need to be
notified.
The gameweek winners
bonuses of US$20 phone
vouchers are still in play, with
the usual constraint of allowing
four transfers per team (regard-
less of wildcards). In the result
of a tied set of scores, the side
with the least number of trans-
fers wins, otherwise the prize
will be shared evenly.
Last seasons winner Sabina
Lawreniuk is back to defend
her title with her team Why
always me?, and will likely
meet some stiff opposition
from the 700-plus fellow
competitors.
Following on from the suc-
cess of its inaugural edition,
Cellcard Fantasys facebook
page contest is also set to
return with prizes of $10
phone vouchers for each
round under the past terms
and conditions. Check the
facebook page (www.face-
book.com/Cellcard.Fantasy)
for the weekly questions.
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 14, 2014
Sport
Put it that way
Czech Republics Jan Marcell competes in the mens shot put nal during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich on Tuesday. For more on the championships, see page 22. AFP
Ballmer takes control of Clippers
F
ORMER Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer ofcially became the
new owner of the Los Angeles
Clippers on Tuesday in an es-
timated $2 billion deal after months
of legal wrangling, the National Bas-
ketball Association said.
Ballmer said he was humbled and
honoured after the transaction was
sealed when a California court or-
der went into effect conrming that
Shelly Sterling had the authority to
sell the team.
The team went on the block after
the NBA slapped a life ban on her
estranged husband and its owner,
Donald Sterling, who bought the
club in 1981 for $12.5 million.
The action was in response to a
video aired on celebrity website TMZ
that showed Donald Sterling criticis-
ing his girlfriend for having her pic-
ture taken with black people.
In the storm that followed, the 80-
year-old billionaire initially agreed to
the sale of the team, but then abrupt-
ly withdrew his support.
His wife Shelly, however, moved to
sell the Clippers as a trustee of the
family trust that owned the team af-
ter Sterling had been declared men-
tally incapacitated.
The NBA Board of Governors had
previously approved the sale and
Ballmer now takes on the title of
Clippers Governor.
Ballmer thanked Clippers fans
for remaining ercely loyal to our
franchise through some extraordi-
nary times.
I will be hardcore in giving the
team, our great coach, staff and play-
ers the support they need to do their
best work on the court, he said.
And we will do whatever necessary
to provide our fans and their families
with the best game-night experience
in the NBA.
Ballmer is expected to travel to
California later this week and have
dinner with head coach Doc Riv-
ers and the players, then meet with
Clippers employees and fans at an
event next Monday.
Rivers said they can now focus on
winning a rst title.
This is an amazing new day in
Clippers history, Rivers said. I
couldnt be more excited to work
together with Steve as we continue
to build a rst-class, championship
organisation.
I am already inspired by Steves
passion for the game, his love of com-
petition and desire to win the right
way, and I know our players and fans
are going to be inspired as well.
On Monday, the NBA led a coun-
terclaim in US federal court saying
Donald Sterling caused incalculable
harm to the league.
The counterclaim says that Shelly
Sterling signed an agreement three
months ago on behalf of the family
trust, indemnifying the NBA for any
litigation costs in connection with
the sale of the Clippers.
The suit also notes that similar in-
demnication agreements are in the
leagues constitution and in another
document signed by Donald Ster-
ling in 2005.
Ballmers purchase would make
the Clippers the second most ex-
pensive franchise in US profession-
al sports. It is the highest price ever
paid for an NBA team.
On July 28, after a three-week trial,
Judge Michael Levanas gave the green
light to the sale, nding no evidence
of a secret plot against Sterling.
Sterling contended he had been
duped by his wife into submitting to
the medical tests as part of a plot to
have him ousted from the trust so the
sale could move forward.
Donald Sterling appealed the de-
cision to a court in Los Angles, but it
was rejected.
I am thrilled that the Clippers now
have such a wonderful new owner,
Shelly Sterling said. I am happy for
the team, the fans, the sponsors and
the city of Los Angeles.
I am condent that Steve will
bring the city a championship team
in the very near future. I cannot wait
for the new season to begin.
Donald Sterling has said he would
not go down without a ght and still
is reportedly expected to launch an-
other appeal of the sale. AFP
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ofcially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers,
the National Basketball Assoc announced on Tuesday. AFP