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CAMBODIAS embassy in
Malaysia yesterday denied
pressuring domestic workers
from the Kingdom into
renewing their visas, after
rights groups told the Post
last week that the embassy
exploited a legal loophole to
keep maids in the country.
The statement came as a
Malaysian employers asso-
ciation, which has observed
the drafting of a new agree-
ment to send more maids to
the country following the
imposition of a ban in 2011,
for the first time revealed
details of the proposed
agreement.
In a letter to Minister of
Foreign Affairs Hor Nam-
hong, Cambodias Ambas-
sador to Malaysia Arun
Rasmey defended the
embassys policy of renew-
ing maids visas.
If a maid decides to con-
tinue working with her
employer, if the embassy
was to delay issuing a visa to
them and they cannot get a
work permit from Malaysian
immigration, they will
become illegal immigrants
and face many problems,
she wrote.
Rasmey added that there
have been cases in which
visas were renewed after a
maid suffered abuse
because, in order for the
embassy to file a com-
plaint, the maid must stay
in the country.
But An Bunhak, president
of local recruitment firm Top
Manpower, said that while
the embassy has conducted
Embassy
defends
handling
of maids
Kevin Ponniah
T
HE Vietnamese govern-
ment has condemned
the burning of its coun-
trys flag by protesters
outside the Vietnamese Embas-
sy in Phnom Penh earlier this
week, labelling it a perverse act
and calling on the Cambodian
government to take action.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman
in Hanoi said Vietnam strongly
protested illegal demonstra-
tions that saw hundreds of
angry protesters from the Kam-
puchea Krom community gath-
er outside the embassy on Mon-
day, Tuesday and Wednesday.
They have been demanding
an apology from Vietnam after
an embassy spokesman said in
early June that the former Kam-
puchea Krom provinces in the
Mekong Delta still home to
many ethnic Khmer, and a sensi-
tive topic for many nationalists
belonged to Vietnam well
before being ceded by colonial
power France in 1949.
The flag was burned by a monk
at the protests on Tuesday.
The acts by the Khmer
VN rallies round the ag
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The week against the strong
A Boeung Kak lake protester shouts through a loudspeaker at a protest in front of Phnom Penhs National Assembly yesterday, demanding
extra compensation for the land they were evicted from. It was one of a growing number of protests in the capital this week. VIREAK MAI
STORY > 2
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Stuart White
THREE widely condemned
laws concerning the operation
of the Kingdoms judiciary were
ofcially signed into effect by
King Norodom Sihamoni last
month, according to recent
copies of the Royal Book.
The laws on the Supreme
Council of Magistracy, the or-
ganisation of the courts and the
roles of judges and prosecutors
were universally slammed out-
side of the ruling party for eras-
ing the wall between the execu-
tive and judicial branches.
Nonetheless, the Royal Book
says that on July 16, the King
signed off on the use of [the
laws] that the National Assem-
bly has approved on May 23
and [which were] completely
approved by the Senate on June
12, and [in] the announcement
from the Constitutional Coun-
cil on the 2nd of July.
Opposition spokesman Yim
Sovann said yesterday that
CNRP lawmakers will review
the laws soon once in parlia-
ment, and if it does not ben-
et the nation, we will request
an amendment.
King OKs judiciary laws
Protesters again fill streets
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Pech Sotheary
and Mom Kunthear
A
NY hopes the ruling party might
have entertained that a political
deal with the opposition signed
almost a month ago would help
to defuse societal tensions would have
faded yesterday, with three separate pro-
tests taking place across the city.
Rights groups say demonstrations have
been on the rise in recent weeks, while
Phnom Penh deputy police chief Chuon
Narin described the current protest situ-
ation as very messy, though he said
authorities were largely refraining from
cracking down.
More than 200 Kampong Speu villag-
ers rallied outside ANZ Royal bank ofc-
es yesterday, demanding compensation
for alleged land grabbing perpetuated by
sugar tycoon Ly Yong Phat, who nanced
his agro-concessions with loans from
the bank.
Village representatives said the bank
reiterated its position that affected fami-
lies would have to deal with Yong Phats
Phnom Penh Sugar directly, because its
dealings with the rm had concluded.
Efforts by a few hundred workers from
Xin Chang Xin garment factory in Russey
Keo district to claim money they say is
owed to them were similarly unsuccessful
after a march to the Ministry of Labour.
We will burn tyres in front of the facto-
ry tomorrow and then walk to Prime Min-
ister Hun Sens house to ask him for help,
because we have lost hope in the Labour
Ministry, said Neak Norm, vice president
of the Workers Union Federation.
A group of Boueng Kak lake evictees
also took to the streets yesterday, protest-
ing outside the National Assembly to ask
for further restitution from City Hall and
private developer Shukaku Inc.
Yesterdays demonstrations follow a
raft of others in recent weeks by groups
including Kampuchea Krom nationalists,
families affected by an Asian Development
Bank-funded railway rehabilitation proj-
ect, youth groups and factory workers.
Provincial communities embroiled in
land disputes have also marched to the
city, such as villagers from Lor Peang
commune in Kampong Chhnang and Sn-
uol district in Kratie.
After being blocked several times by
authorities on their way to Phnom Penh,
including being physically attacked and
having three of their group arrested, 70 Lor
Peang villagers involved in a dispute with
KDC International are now staying with
Boeung Kak lake community members.
Visiting them yesterday, opposition
leader Sam Rainsy decried the actions of
KDC owned by Chea Keng, the wife of
Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy
Suy Sem as cowardly, cruel and vulgar.
Neither Keng nor Sem could be reached
yesterday.
Nay Vanda, deputy head of human rights
at watchdog Adhoc, said it was clear that
the end of political deadlock would not
end protests.
It will not stop; it will only increase more
and more.
A villager from Kampong Speu is escorted from an ANZ bank branch during a protest in Phnom
Penh yesterday where villagers demanded compensation. PHA LINA
Phak Seangly
THE two top ofcials in what
was rst reported as a kidney-
trafcking ring based out of a
military hospital, then later dis-
missed as a training program,
have returned to work, a doctor
employed there said.
Lieutenant General Ly Sovan,
54-year-old director of Preah
Ket Mealea hospital, and his
deputy, 58-year-old Major Gen-
eral Keo Davuth, returned to
work on Monday after being re-
leased from police custody, said
the doctor, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity.
Their problems are resolved,
so they go to work normally,
the doctor said. Everything is
OK. I saw them at work. Noth-
ing has changed.
A police document obtained
by the Post on Sunday said
eight people had been detained
on suspicion of trafcking hu-
man organs. But at a press con-
ference on Monday, Phnom
Penh deputy police chief Prum
Sothor, from the Municipal An-
ti-Human Trafcking and Juve-
nile Protection Ofce, said the
group had not been arrested.
Kidney transplants, he said,
were occurring at the hospital,
but only as part of a training
program involving Chinese
doctors. Furthermore, Sothor
added, the police document, in
which the group was accused of
human trafcking with intent
and being the accomplices of
human trafcking with intent,
was not meant for the media
and could not be trusted.
After the eight were released,
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
released a statement saying that
Chinas Defence Ministry had
donated equipment to the hos-
pital and sent doctors to assist
in a training program, but that
no trafcking had taken place.
Information posted at Preah
Ket Mealea hospital says the
defence ministries of the two
countries have cooperated on
projects. Under one initiative,
seven Chinese doctors have
been sent to the hospital.
But Cheng Hong Bo, spokes-
man for the Chinese Embassy,
said the kidney program was
denitely not a part of the gov-
ernment scheme.
[The] persons concerned are
acting in their private capaci-
ties and its only [the] personal
behaviour of some individuals,
he wrote in an email.
Members of the military yes-
terday refused to speak with a
Post reporter at the hospital,
asking him to leave the grounds.
One civilian staff member said
the case is nished. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Kidney ring generals
back on job at hospital
Risky moves
Jailings are
a threat to
deal: Rainsy
C
AMBODIA National Res-
cue Party president Sam
Rainsy yesterday said
that, contrary to his speech
before the National Assem-
bly last week, the Kingdoms
political crisis would not be
resolved as long as opposi-
tion activists were still being
harassed by the courts.
If there are still CNRP
members who are in jail,
Rainsy told reporters in Daun
Penh district yesterday, and
there are [members] being
followed to provoke them, it
means that the political crisis
has not ended.
Rainsy maintained that
he would ensure that the
ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party respected the spirit of the
agreement under which the
opposition finally entered par-
liament, but didnt elaborate.
The comments come as
three party activists sit in jail on
charges over a violent protest
last month, and days after two
more activists and a party offi-
cial were issued summonses
related to the same protest.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan said yesterday
that the actions were the
order of the court, but political
analyst Kem Ley called them
part of a strategy to defend
the CPPs interests and to
weaken the CNRPs attempts
at reform. MEAS SOKCHEA
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Rkiri row
no drag on
oknha title
Chhay Channyda
T
HE Royal Palace has
granted the prestigious
title of oknha to politi-
cally connected busi-
nesswoman Keat Kolney, who
has been locking horns for a dec-
ade with ethnic Jarai minorities
in Ratanakkiri province over
hundreds of disputed hectares.
Kolney who is married to
Chhan Saphann, an official at
the Ministry of Land Manage-
ment, Urban Planning and Con-
struction, and is the sister of
Deputy Prime Minister Keat
Chhoun was appointed on
June 11, according to the royal
decree. The title was requested
by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Translated most accurately as
tycoon, oknha is an honorific
that has traditionally been
bestowed on powerful officials
who contribute to society,
though reasons for why a given
recipient deserves the title are
rarely, if ever, spelled out.
Villagers in OYadav districts
Kong Yu village accuse Kolney
of soliciting their thumbprints
under false pretenses for the
sale of 450 hectares in 2004.
The complaint has languished
in court, and some fear the new
title can only hurt their case.
It is suitable for her, because
she has money to get the title,
said villager Sven Thvel, 29. The
court keeps quiet because they
fear her power.
Embassy defends handling of maids
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some vetting of maids whose
employers try to renew their
visas, there were no concrete
guidelines and more than one
way to circumvent the system.
We know that the embassy,
before they make extensions,
needs to interview the maids
first to see if they want to con-
tinue working, and to clarify
their salary and so on, he said,
adding that there are no rules
or strict controls.
Its not only the embassy in
Kuala Lumpur that can make
an extension. Employers can
also send passports to Cambo-
dia to make extensions at the
Ministry of Interior, and at the
embassies in Vietnam and
Thailand. So if the employee
doesnt want to follow [the
rules], they can escape it. Thats
why we need clear guidelines,
so other embassies and employ-
ers cant make extensions.
For a few women, such as
Toch Nai, 24, who were able to
return from Malaysia after suf-
fering under abusive employ-
ers, the embassy in Kuala
Lumpur did offer help.
My boss beat me and made
me work long hours. I got
injured on my body and eyes,
so I ran to the embassy and
stayed there until they helped
me come back, she said. I
want to forget my time there. I
cannot see properly, but I came
back to start a new life.
Others have been less fortu-
nate. Soum Saroun, 53, lost
touch with her daughter two
years after she went to Malay-
sia in 2010.
For two years, Ive not had
contact with my daughter,
Saroun said. Im so worried
about her. I dont want her
money, I just want her back.
A moratorium was placed on
sending domestic workers to
Malaysia in 2011 amid mount-
ing concerns over abuses,
including rape and the with-
holding of salaries.
In a bid to restart the pro-
gram, a new memorandum of
understanding (MoU) has been
drafted and is awaiting approv-
al after consultations between
employers and the Malaysian
and Cambodian governments.
Datuk Raja Zulkepley Daha-
lan, president of the Malaysian
Association of Employment
Agencies (PIKAP), told the Post
yesterday that there were sev-
eral points in the new draft that
will help protect workers.
I understand the MoU is fin-
ished now, or very close to fin-
ished. I understand we are only
waiting for the green light from
Cambodia, he said. Under the
MoU, there will be proper train-
ing of at least 200 hours before
they come to Malaysia. Thats
the same as Indonesia. They
must understand our culture
and immigration procedure.
He added that some of the
other requirements included
the drafting of legally binding
contracts that included the
maids salary, the responsibili-
ties and rights of both parties
and a days leave per week.
Employers, however, will be
able to hold the passports of the
maids in their employ, he add-
ed, and that is OK, I think.
Dahalan is concerned that if
the MoU is signed, it will include
a minimum wage for the maids,
whereas he believes that
employers and agencies should
be able to offer market rates.
We prefer that salaries are
limited only by the market. Its
no problem; it should be a mar-
ket rate. They shouldnt fix the
price, he said.
A domestic worker departs Phnom Penh International Airport in 2012 after ying home from Malaysia,
where she was abused by her employer. PHA LINA
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
THE Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday sentenced a
woman to seven years in pris-
on for trafcking Cambodian
women to China to sell them
for marriage, while two more
were sentenced in absentia.
Neth Sokly, 36, was convicted
and sentenced at the court,
which dropped charges against
two others who stood trial, in-
cluding her husband.
Sreang Dara, 45, and Ros
Soeng, 63, both of whom are
on the run, were sentenced to
seven and two years, respec-
tively. All three convicted were
ordered to compensate the
cases two plaintiffs.
They brought many Cam-
bodian girls from poor fami-
lies in Cambodian provinces
to marry Chinese men in
Shanghai, said Colonel Lao
Lin, chief of the anti-human
trafficking and juvenile
protection unit at the Minis-
try of Interior.
[The victims] were shown
pictures telling them they
would work as garment work-
ers there instead.
Sokly and her Chinese hus-
band, Tao Yue Hong, 35, were
arrested based on lawsuits
from four women on July 5,
2013, at Phnom Penh Interna-
tional Airport as they returned
from China. Taos charges were
dropped yesterday.
One 23-year-old victim who
lives in Kampong Cham prov-
ince, said she and two girls left
for Shanghai on May 25, 2013,
for garment sector jobs.
When we arrived at Shang-
hai Airport, a Khmer woman
named Neth Sokly and her
Chinese husband came to re-
ceive us. After welcoming and
meeting us, they brought us
into their car and sent us to
stay at another Chinese human
trafckers house in Shanghai,
she said.
Later, they held our pass-
ports and made us marry old
Chinese men in Shanghai. They
sold us for between $10,000 and
$15,000 each.
Another victim, 20, said Sokly
and her husband sold her to
an old Chinese farmer living
on the outskirts of Shanghai,
saying she slept with the man
every day and night until she
was rescued by the Cambodian
Embassy and returned to Cam-
bodia in July 2013.
Sokly said yesterday the
courts decision was unjust.
I cannot accept this verdict. I
will appeal to the upper court,
she said.
Woman gets 7 years
for bride trafcking
Bodies pulled from rubble
Vong Sokheng
and Laignee Barron

A
FTER four days
of waiting amid a
mounting death
count, Yat Meng got
a call that his younger brother,
Pheng, was found dead yester-
day, buried under the concrete
slabs of a collapsed condomini-
um just north of Bangkok.
Pheng, 20, was one of two
dead Cambodian migrant work-
ers pulled from the debris yes-
terday. The other was Im Pheur,
a 27-year-old from Prey Vengs
Mesang district. Thai police be-
lieve that several others remain
buried in the rubble, including
a third Cambodian man, as up
to 16 people have been killed by
the fallen six-storey building.
Meng, also a construction
worker in Thailand though em-
ployed at a different site, said
his brother had earned 320 baht
($10) a day at the U Condomin-
ium project, one of several jobs
he had held after migrating to
Thailand two years ago.
The [Thai authorities] may
cremate him [today], Meng
said. All I can do is bring the
bones of my brother back
home to Prey Veng for a tradi-
tional funeral.
The Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs told the Post that as many
as 30 Cambodians had worked
at the construction site at the
time of its collapse; all were
undocumented though in the
process of legalisation.
Another of the Cambodian
workers, Chhim Chan, 60,
remained in the hospital yes-
terday along with four other
critically injured Thai work-
ers. Twenty others have al-
ready been released from the
hospital.
Theres been no improve-
ment in the safety standards
for construction sites over the
last 20 years, said Phil Robert-
son, deputy director of Human
Rights Watch Asia. These mi-
grant workers are seen as com-
pletely dispensable.
After surveying the project
yesterday, the head of the En-
gineering Institute of Thailand
concluded the Pathum Thani
district building had collapsed
because of a poor design:
four pillars at the edges of the
structure could not bear all the
weight.
The building was one of six
condominiums under con-
struction or already built by
Thai company Plook Plang
Co. Ltd. Five members of the
company faulted for the dead-
ly collapse were charged on
Wednesday with negligence
resulting in death.
If convicted, they face up to
10 years in jail. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY BANGKOK POST AND AFP
Rescue workers look for survivors at a building collapse earlier this week in Thailand. Authorities have
conrmed two Cambodians were among the estimated 16 fatalities. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Loves labours lost for
one suspected dealer
A BAD breakup was an unex-
pected boon for police in Kan-
dals Snuol district after a
woman told authorities on
Wednesday that her boyfriend
was dealing. The couple had
broken up after an argument,
and the woman, 28, decided to
take revenge on the man, 30,
police say. Authorities raided
the mans room and found sev-
en small packages of yama.
The man was sent to court.
Police, who are still investigat-
ing, said the woman should
have mentioned the allegations
beforehand. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Police chase down men
accused of taking moto
A HIGH-SPEED chase occurred
after two men allegedly stole a
motorbike from a farmer in
Kampong Thoms Santuk dis-
trict on Wednesday. Police say a
farmer, 45, parked his motor-
bike outside his home when the
two men, aged 21 and 26, broke
its lock and made off with it. The
farmer called the police, who
arrested the duo after a
15-minute chase. Villagers were
furious, punching and kicking
the men before police inter-
vened. The bike was returned.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Suspect answers call to
arms by going after ear
A MANS ear was reportedly
sliced off in Battambangs Kam-
rieng district on Wednesday.
Police said that the night before,
someone stole money from the
mans pocket as he was playing
cards at a funeral. Angered, the
man shouted for the thief. A few
minutes later, a villager
appeared with a cleaver and
attempted to hack the man in
the head, cutting off his right
ear. The man was admitted to
hospital. The alleged hacker
was arrested the next day. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Flirtation gets ugly real
fast when sword pulled
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was
charged yesterday with injuring
one of two men who were flirt-
ing with his girlfriend in
Banteay Meancheys Sisophon
town. Police said the couple
was leaving a nightclub on
Monday night when the two
started catcalling. After return-
ing home, the man, 21,
grabbed a samurai sword and
went rogue, hacking one in the
back before fleeing the scene.
The victim was admitted to
hospital. Family reported the
incident to police, who arrested
the suspect. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Moto swerves to avoid
pothole, slams into car
A MOTORIST broke his left leg in
an apparent hit-and-run on
Wednesday night in Kandals
Takmao town. Police said the
man was riding fast when he
swerved to avoid hitting a pot-
hole and a car crashed into him.
The 24-year-old man broke his
left leg but the car escaped. A
bystander saw the accident and
called police, who sent the vic-
tim to hospital. Police are look-
ing for the cars driver, but said
the accident was caused by the
mans reckless moto driving.
RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Translated by Phak Seangly
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Kingdoms
visa fees set
to increase
Cheang Sokha
V
ISAS for foreigners
entering Cambodia
will increase by $10 in
October, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs said in a state-
ment yesterday.
Under the new pricing sys-
tem, those holidaying here will
pay $30 upon arrival, while
those on business will have to
hand over $35.
The new visa fees will take
effect on October 1, the state-
ment says.
Minister of Tourism Thong
Khon said officials from his min-
istry and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs approved the increase
based on the cost of visas in
neighbouring countries and
because Cambodias fees have
not been raised since 1997.
We need to increase the
budget, too, he said, adding
that he believed the increase
would not have any negative
effect on tourist numbers to
the Kingdom.
Despite the increase, Khon
said the government was con-
sidering extending its list of
countries whose citizens can
travel to Cambodia without
a visa.
Angry Vietnam rallies round the ag
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Kampuchea Krom extremists
are perverse, with the intention
of seriously insulting the good
traditional friendship and coop-
eration between Vietnam and
Cambodia, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Le Hai Binh said in
a statement on Wednesday that
was released in Vietnamese on
the ministrys website.
We request Cambodia strict-
ly deal with the case in line with
the law and adopt effective pre-
ventative measures so as to avoid
similar action [in the future].
Cambodian Foreign Ministry
spokesman Koy Kuong could
not be reached yesterday to
confirm whether the govern-
ment had received the message
directly.
But Council of Ministers
spokesman Phay Siphan said
that the government did not
support the burning of any
nations flag and would take
appropriate action after Viet-
nams statement, but could not
confirm what such action
would entail.
If we feel that the public
order has been offended we are
going to manage it, he said.
After clashes between protest-
ers and security forces outside
the embassy on July 9, Vietnam
accused demonstrators of inter-
fering in its internal affairs.
Embassy spokesman Trung
Van Thong, who made the orig-
inal comments, has been
unreachable in recent days, but
has repeatedly stated that he has
no interest in apologising.
Thach Setha, executive direc-
tor of the Khmer Kampuchea
Krom Community group,
which led this weeks protests,
said Vietnams statement rep-
resented the country wanting
to flex its muscles and show
that it is the boss of Cambodia
and can order Cambodia to do
what it wants.
Setha said that the protests
would continue unless an
apology was forthcoming.
If Cambodia takes any action
to ban its own people [from hav-
ing] the right to protest, it means
Cambodia is a puppet of Viet-
nam, he said, before praising
the authorities handling of the
recent demonstrations.
Setha, who is also a senior
opposition party official, said he
did not condone the burning of
flags, though he questioned why
Vietnam was condemning it,
given Chinese flags were recent-
ly been burned in that country.
Separately yesterday, Um
Sam An, an opposition Cambo-
dia National Rescue Party law-
maker in Siem Reap province,
said he planned to summon
Foreign Minister Hor Nam-
hong to parliament to answer
questions on the issue.
I would ask Hor Namhong
why he didnt react to the Viet-
namese spokesman in Cambo-
dia . . . and I want him to invite
the Vietnamese ambassador to
Cambodia to answer some
questions about why the Viet-
namese government did not
reply to [our] petition, he said.
Vietnams official line on the
flag burning was reported wide-
ly in the local media there, but
online, netizens expressed dif-
fering reactions to the incident.
On one forum, Vietnamese
weighed in to back Cambodi-
ans right to public protest.
It looks like [Vietnam] is
overreacting and its attitude is
interfering in other countries
internal affairs. [Cambodia]
absolutely has the right to burn
the flag. VN cannot ban people
like Iraq, Iran, [North] Korea and
so on, one user posted.
But a Vietnamese nationalist
Facebook page with almost
200,000 likes called Patriots
Journal said that Khmer Krom
activists were treading on Viet-
namese sovereignty.
One comment referred to
Khmer Krom as Vietnams land
raiders. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
PECH SOTHEARY
A monk burns a Vietnamese ag near that countrys embassy during a
Khmer Krom rally in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Eddie Morton
P
RIVATE-sector repre-
sentatives will today
conclude a two-day
consultation forum
with the government over the
controversial new draft tele-
communications law.
The Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications (MPT)
yet-to-be-approved draft law
includes provisions that grant
the ministry judicial powers to
indict telecom service-related
operators and even everyday
users of communications de-
vices over breaches of the pro-
posed laws, according to an
unofcially translated version
of the condential document.
The ofcials of the MPT and
the [Telecommunication Regu-
lator of Cambodia] have a legal
status as judicial police ofcers
with a function as specied in
the Code of Criminal Proce-
dures on the function of judi-
cial police, the draft law states.
Telecom rms will face
hefty consequences if found
to have breached any of the
laws set out, including selling
services to customers without
proper ID, refusing to provide
nancial documents to the
MPT or making telecom-net-
work changes without gov-
ernment consent.
Anyone found to have dam-
aged telecom networks or
infrastructure, even acciden-
tally, or to have made threats,
conspired to commit a crime
or threatened public order via
telecommunications devices,
will also be in the MPTs ring
line, according to the draft.
Penalties, as stated by the
MPT, range from $2,400 to as
much as $1.2 million, carry be-
tween six months and 15 years
in prison and, in severe cases,
can lead to people being pro-
hibited from living in Cambo-
dia for up to 10 years.
Sorn Ramana, coordinator
of the Cambodian Center for
Human Rights freedom of
expression and Sithi projects,
said the proposed laws for
people found to be using tele-
com means to make threats or
conspire to commit a crime
were overly punitive.
The prison sentences pro-
vided for in these two articles
are very harsh and dispropor-
tionate to the crimes, she said.
The way they are worded
also leaves too much room
for interpretation and could
be used to restrict freedom of
expression.
But the laws harsh penalties
are not all that have telecom
rms concerned.
If this law passes, it will
surely stie the industry. It
allows the government to
change what they want when
they want, an industry rep-
resentative who wished to re-
main anonymous said, citing
numerous clauses in the law
allowing the MPT to make
changes at its own discretion.
I dont think existing provid-
ers will go as far as to withdraw
their services, but it could signif-
icantly deter new investment in
the country, the person said.
According to the draft, the
MPT and the Telecommunica-
tions Regulator of Cambodia
(TRC) will have authority to
order telecom service-related
providers to hand over data,
systems and equipment in the
interest of national security,
stability and public order.
Government ofcials can ad-
ditionally demand any nan-
cial or nonnancial documents
from organisations including
but not limited to mobile oper-
ators, infrastructure providers,
equipment importers, internet
cafes and even TV repairers.
And while the law com-
mands all telecom service-re-
lated rms to reapply for new
frequencies and licences, the
government has reserved its
right to dene additional con-
ditions, modify or even revoke
said new licences, according
to the draft law, which is yet
to go before the Council of
Ministers for approval.
The MPT has also set pro-
visions to issue compulsory
standards and formulas for
calculating the cost of inter-
connection and customer ser-
vice fees and discounts.
[The] MPT shall have the
competence to manage, in-
spect and follow up telecom-
munication service fee to
ensure legal and honest com-
petition, the law states.
Roy Vivek, Asia-Pacic
telecommunications industry
analyst for global research rm,
Ovum, said that while construc-
tive policy often helps to protect
existing investments, harsh reg-
ulation can do the opposite.
Evidently, the telecom in-
dustry will require cash ow to
support capital expenditures.
Strict laws discouraging new
investments will affect service
quality and technology levels,
and reduce market attractive-
ness, Vivek said.
Also under the law, the MPT
will aim to set up two funds:
one to assist in providing uni-
versal telecommunications
to the entire country and
the other to promote capac-
ity building. Both will demand
telecommunications rms to
donate 1 to 5 per cent of their
gross revenue annually.
This looks to be a good move,
yes, the anonymous industry
representative told the Post pri-
or to the two-day consultative
meeting beginning yesterday.
But this fund will quickly
add up to millions of dollars.
Who will be trusted to manage
this fund and who will ensure
there is no corruption?
In addition, the MPT has
taken steps to ensure co-op-
eration in the industry and
ensure reliable interconnec-
tion between operators.
[Licensed telecom opera-
tors must] authorise other li-
cence bearers to access their
telecommunication services
. . . without any discrimination
and in accordance with stan-
dard conditions, techniques,
service quality, transpar-
ent principle and affordable
price, the law states.
The MPT did not return the
requests for comment.
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Thailand to change rice sale rules
THAI authorities are preparing
to propose that the junta amend
conditions concerning the auc-
tion of state rice stocks to make
it more enticing to buyers.
The proposal came after the
government failed to sell all the
rice it put up for auction. The
National Council for Peace and
Order last Thursday put 167,000
tonnes of rice from state stocks
up for auction.
The bidding drew an active
response from buyers, but man-
aged to secure deals for only
tens of thousands of tonnes.
Last weeks auction drew 46
exporters, millers and rice
packers, but most of them pro-
posed buying prices below the
floor prices set by the panel
handling rice sales. The figures
were not disclosed.
Duangporn Rodphaya, direc-
tor-general of the Foreign Trade
Department, said on Wednes-
day that the panel handling rice
sales would be asked to amend
the condition to a price range
basis to make it more flexible.
She also insisted that the gov-
ernment would sell the stocks
with no mixture with low-qual-
ity grain.
Charoen Laothamatas, presi-
dent of the Thai Rice Exporters
Association, said most bidders
last week offered prices which
were deemed reasonable and
close to market prices.
For instance, he said, the bid-
ders offered to buy Hom Mali
fragrant rice at 28.50 baht
($0.89) per kilogram which is
much higher than 23-25 baht
sold during the previous gov-
ernment, while offers for white
rice were 11 baht to 11.50 baht
per kilogram compared with 8
baht to 9 baht.
The offers are considered
realistic enough, as the rice put
up for auction is sold at the ex-
warehouse price in which the
buyers have to bear the cost of
transportation, sacks and
labour, he said.
Moreover, the bidders have
to pay withholding tax at 1 per
cent of the value of the rice they
buy plus export tax at 0.75 per
cent of the export value if the
grain is slated for exports. BANG-
KOK POST
People talk on mobile phones in Phnom Penhs Chamkarmon district. A new draft law would force telecommunication companies to provide data,
systems and equipment to the government in the interest of national security. PHA LINA
Telecom law grants police powers
May Kunmakara
A 246-MEGAWATT Stung Tatay
Hydropower plant owned by
China National Heavy Ma-
chinery Corporation (CHMC)
started generating electricity
on Wednesday, Chinese media
reported yesterday.
CHMC invested $540 million
into the hydropower plant,
located in Koh Kong prov-
ince, after receiving a 40-year
build-operate-transfer (BOT)
agreement from the Cambo-
dian government in 2010. It
marks the second Chinese-
owned hydropower plant in
Koh Kong province to start
producing power this year.
In February, China Huadian
Corp, which has also been
granted a 35-year BOT licence,
commenced producing elec-
tricity at its $500 million, 338-
megawatt plant located on
Lower Russei Chrum River.
According to the Ministry
of Mines and Energy, Chinese
rms have invested $1.6 billion
to construct six hydroelectric
dams in Cambodia, with a to-
tal capacity of 928 megawatts.
All are now operational.
China power plant open
I dont think existing providers
will . . . withdraw their services,
but it could significantly deter
new investment

This week in biz
Nagacorp announces
purchase of new aircraft
NAGACORP announced this
week it had purchased a
number of Airbus A320s to fly
VIP junkets between Phnom
Penh and China. The move is
part of the gaming operators
long-running efforts to boost
the high-roller patronage at
its casino. The announcement
came as the gaming firm
posted a 61 per cent rise in
VIP gaming revenue for the
first half of the year.
Chevron sells stake in
Cambodia offshore site
SINGAPOREAN-listed oil and
gas firm KrisEnergy
announced this week it had
agreed to buy out Chevrons
30 per cent stake in an
offshore site in the Gulf of
Thailand for $65 million.
KrisEnergy already holds a 25
per cent share in the 4,709-
square-kilometre site known
as Block A.
Cambodia Angkor Air
sign on for pilot school
CAMBODIA Angkor Air (CAA)
on Tuesday signed an
agreement with Viet Flight
Training Joint Stock
Company (VFT) to restart
training local pilots, decades
after Cambodia ceased
schooling locals to fly
commercial aircraft.
Markets
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Business
CAMBODIAS rst e-commerce
platform, Saamnang.com,
launched just last month, but
it has already gained a great
deal of attention from internet
users. French-born co-founder
and CEO of Saamnang.com,
Paul Simbsler, sat down with
the Post to discuss his online
business in a country where the
concept is still very new.
How was Saamnang founded?
My partner and I have been
working on this project for al-
most two years. We rst start-
ed this concept in France and
we tried to nd another coun-
try to develop it in. We tried to
make it in China because we
studied in China, but it was
a bit complicated to start. So
we kept this idea in our head
while searching for a place.
My other co-founder arrived
first in Cambodia while I
was still in China. And we
started our first company,
Mealtemple, a food delivery
service company. From time
to time, we developed the
concept further and finally
started in Cambodia.
How is the progress of Saam-
nang at the moment?
Our customers are Cambo-
dians and age from 17 to 30.
We have 3,000 registered ac-
counts on Saamnang. Most
of them have smartphones. In
just two weeks, we got 16,000
likes on Facebook and we are
the 700th most-visited website
in Cambodia, which is a good
start for us. For the moment,
we only sell electronic gadgets
such as iPhones, iPads, tablets,
Samsung products, Huawei
products, TVs and motorbikes,
because of high demand for
those products.
How does the process work?
You have to register and buy
some credits. You can buy
credits from Wing. For a private
sale, we have original price,
maximum price and price per
option and countdown days.
The game is to place a price
option during the countdown
days. To become the winner,
you have to respect two con-
ditions, you have to be unique
and have a low price.
For example the original
price of an iPhone is around
$600 and is being sold for $54,
the maximum price with 10
days countdown. And price
per option is 20 credits. You
put in price option at $5.93.
You spend 20 credits to buy
$5.93. At the end of the 10 days,
if $5.93 is the most unique and
the lowest price, you can have
your iPhone for $5.93.
Why Cambodia and why do you
think it will be a successful
business?
At the age of 17 to 30 years
old, people need smart-
phones. And they need to
save for two to three months
to buy one. We want to give
them a way to get what they
dream of easily without tak-
ing a lot of risk. We want
people to be able to buy their
dream products with a 90 per
cent discount. How many
companies can do that? We
are the rst company in Cam-
bodia to start e-shopping.
E-shopping in Cambodia
now is less developed com-
pared to other developed
countries like France, but Cam-
bodia e-shopping will take off
fast because Cambodians are
advancing in technology.
Saamnang is very new to Cam-
bodians, what are your strate-
gies to attract customer?
We have already made one
video with Meas Soksophea
and Rolin just to explain how
it works. It has been viewed by
thousands of people.
We need brand ambassadors
like Meas Soksophea and Ro-
lin because we need to build
trust. We are arriving with a
new concept. We want people
to trust us. We have registered
with the Ministry of Com-
merce. We pay tax and we are
under the law, we are not just
a random website playing with
people money.
What are the plans for Saam-
nang?
In Cambodia now, we are
developing a hotline for cus-
tomers who have problems
understanding how Saam-
nang works. Once everyone
understands, it will be easy.
We also want to run Saam-
nang in Thailand or in Lao in
the future.
This interview has been edited
for length and clarity.
Bag a bargain with Saamnang
Paul Simbsler, CEO and co-founder of Saamnang, talks to the Post from
a cafe in Phnom Penh late last week. VIREAK MAI
Lenovo reports 23 per
cent surge in profits
LENOVO yesterday posted a 23
per cent jump in quarterly net
profit, beating market
estimates as the Chinese tech
giant logged strong sales of
personal computers and
smartphones. The worlds
biggest maker of PCs said net
profit for the three months
ended June 30 climbed to
$214 million from $174 million
in the same period last year.
Revenue for the quarter was
up 18 per cent at $10.39
billion, the company said. AFP
Bank of Korea shaves
interest rate to 2.25 pct
SOUTH Koreas central bank
has cut its interest rate for the
first time in more than a year,
risking inflaming record
household debt as it backs
government attempts to
kickstart Asias fourth-biggest
economy. Governor Lee Ju
Yeol and his board lowered the
seven-day repurchase rate to
2.25 per cent from 2.5 per
cent, the Bank of Korea said
in a statement in Seoul
yesterday. Fourteen of 18
economists surveyed by
Bloomberg News forecast the
move, with the rest seeing no
change. Policy makers are
pumping up the economy
through all possible means,
Daewoo Securities Co. fixed-
income analyst Yoon Yeo Sam
said. BLOOMBERG
Markets
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Business
ECONOMIC recovery in the
18-country eurozone ap-
peared to stall in the second
quarter, as the main growth
engines, France and Germany,
ground to a standstill, data
showed yesterday.
In Germany, Europes big-
gest economy, activity actually
contracted slightly by 0.2 per
cent, hit by weak exports and
falling investment, according
to a ash estimate by the fed-
eral statistics ofce Destatis.
And the regions number
two economy, France, showed
zero growth for the second
consecutive quarter, accord-
ing to the national statistics
ofce INSEE.
In Germany, analysts had
been forecasting zero growth
or even a minimal contraction
in the second quarter after the
unusually mild winter boost-
ed activity in the rst three
months of the year.
Destatis explained that, as
a result of the mild weather,
construction investment that
would normally have been
made later in the year was
brought forward. Exports were
also weak, not climbing as
strongly as imports, with the
result that the net contribution
of foreign trade to GDP growth
was negative in the second
quarter. On the positive side,
both private household and
public sector spending in-
creased, Destatis noted.
In France, the ongoing stag-
nation prompted the nance
minister to slash the govern-
ments forecast for growth in
2014 to around 0.5 per cent
compared with a previous
projection of 1 per cent.
Michel Sapin said that
growth has broken down, in
Europe and in France. With
zero growth in the second
quarter, thereby extending the
stagnation we saw in the rst,
our country is slowing down
and will not achieve the one
percent growth observers were
predicting three months ago,
Sapin wrote in an opinion ar-
ticle in the daily Le Monde.
This year, growth in France
will be around 0.5 per cent,
and there is nothing that
would allow us to forecast, at
the moment, that growth in
2015 will be much above 1 per
cent, he added.
Analysts have warned for
months that France, the sec-
ond biggest economy in the
eurozone, looks increasingly
the weak link in a halting re-
covery as the government
battles to push through much-
needed reforms.
In Berlin, economic think-
tank DIW said with weak in-
dustrial orders expected in the
third quarter, it is possible
that the German economy
could slip into a shallow reces-
sion. But as long as the crisis
remains under control and the
eurozone economy gradually
recovers, the German econo-
my should nd its way back
to a moderate recovery, said
DIW economist Ferdinand
Fichtner.
However, Natixis economist
Johannes Gareis said he ex-
pected solid domestic funda-
mentals to pull the German
economy out of the doldrums
again soon. AFP
FOUR Chinese dealers for
German auto maker BMW
have been ned about 1.6
million yuan ($260,000), au-
thorities have said, as the
government steps up a high-
prole anti-monopoly cam-
paign involving a number of
foreign brands.
The dealers in Wuhan in
the central province of Hubei
have been ordered to pay the
penalties for forming a price
alliance, provincial authori-
ties said in a statement on
Wednesday.
They agreed to consistently
charge a fee for the pre-deliv-
ery inspection of cars, which
falls under the obligations
and responsibilities of the
auto maker and its dealers, ac-
cording to the statement.
This is price swindling be-
haviour and must be resolute-
ly stopped immediately, the
authorities added.
China has in recent months
launched high-prole probes
into alleged violations by a
host of foreign rms in a range
of different sectors including
pharmaceuticals, technology
and baby milk, raising fears
that overseas companies are
being targeted. AFP
New data piles on the
pressure for eurozone
as key economies stall
BMW latest
to face ne
in China
Sanctions bare teeth in Russia
U
S SANCTIONS that
have been placed
against Moscow ap-
peared yesterday to
have claimed their rst major
victim when the head of Rus-
sias largest oil company was
reported to have asked the
government for help to cover
its massive debt.
The well-connected Vedo-
mosti business daily said Ros-
neft chief Igor Sechin had writ-
ten to the cabinet outlining ve
ways it could help repay nearly
$45 billion. More than half the
amount comes due by the end
of next year.
Rosneft became the worlds
largest publically traded oil
rm after taking over the TNK-
BP joint venture from its Rus-
sian owners and the British gi-
ant for $54 billion in 2013.
BP also secured a 19.75-per
cent stake in government-run
Rosneft in return and remains
its largest minority share-
holder. The London-based
group warned last month that
Western action over Russias
stance on Ukraine could hit
its future prots.
Washingtons measures pre-
vent Rosneft and Novatek a
private gas rm run by allies of
President Vladimir Putin as
well as two state-held banks
from raising anything but
short-term debt that matures
within 90 days on the US mar-
ket. European banks are obli-
gated to comply if they want to
keep their US operations.
Vedomosti said Sechin had
asked the government to use
one of its two rainy-day funds
to purchase 1.5 trillion rubles
($42 billion) in specially issued
Rosneft bonds. Another pro-
posal was for granting Rosneft
the right to gain control of new
Arctic and onshore elds with-
out a bidding process.
Moodys reports that Rosneft
will need to repay $26.2 billion
between July 2014 and De-
cember 2015. More than $21
billion of that amount comes
due between October and
March. It added that nearly $6
billion of that sum will need to
be renanced.
Moodys estimated that Ros-
neft had $17.5 billion in cash
and more than $4 billion in
committed backup facilities at
the end of March.
But both the Fitch ratings
agency and several top US
banks warned that Rosnefts
cash ows may be severely
dented by new European
sanctions on the Russian en-
ergy sector. AFP
A gas station operated by Rosneft sits in front of a Russian Orthodox church. The sanctions imposed on Russia
have seemingly borne their rst victim with the oil company asking for state help to cover it debt. BLOOMBERG
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L
ONG, black and lucrative:
sacks bulging with human
hair spill onto the streets of a
rural county whose farmers
have helped make China the worlds
biggest exporter of products made
from the material.
As dawn broke over the market in
Taihe, vendors bringing hairy wares
from across China haggled with doz-
ens of buyers, and tempers frayed.
We have to bargain for hair, said
buyer Liu Yanwen, 35, who sported a
buzzcut and arrived at the market at
5:30am in search of deals.
We have a factory where well turn
it into products for export overseas,
he added, clutching a heads worth of
straight, thick black locks.
Gao Pu, a vendor whose head was
also shaved, opened a knapsack con-
taining dozens of bunches of hair onto
the ground and said: It comes from
the heads of ordinary Chinese folks.
Prices can go as high as 5,400 yuan
($880) per kilogram.
Taihe, in the eastern province of
Anhui, is home to more than 400 com-
panies processing human hair into an
array of curly extensions, wigs and
other products which end up on heads
in the US, Europe and Africa.
Fu Quanguo, 64, pioneered the trade
in the 1970s. We used to collect the
human hair locally, he said. But now
it comes from all kinds of countries,
Myanmar, Vietnam, countries like
that. In the past making hair products
was tough, and we did it all by hand.
Now weve gone from small to big and
are selling internationally.
China exported nearly 75 per cent of
the worlds bird skin, feathers, artifi-
cial flowers, human hair products, in
2012, according to the World Trade
Organizations International Trade
Centre. The humble hair markets,
ramshackle workshops and factories
dotting the cornfields of Taihe gener-
ated $88 million of exports in 2012,
nearly half the countys total, accord-
ing to the local government.
It is one of many industrial clusters
areas specialising in a single kind of
product, which have sprung up in
recent decades as Chinas export econ-
omy has boomed. They are especially
common in the countrys east, where
poor farmers have pioneered small
businesses since the 1980s, and now
entire areas are dedicated to creating
light bulbs, socks or bra hooks.
Fus heir, his 36-year-old son Fu
Qianwei, has a company with the Eng-
lish name Anna and export sales of $8
million a year, mostly to the US.
Each country has different demands
on length, thickness and quality, Fu
said, as workers sewed and curled
clumps of hair destined for Africa
often seen as primarily a source of raw
materials for China, but which also
buys its finished goods.
As Africas economy grows, the mar-
ket is growing and moving towards
higher quality, he said, standing
beside boxes filled with Afro Curly
extensions, featuring illustrations of
smiling black female models.
In the factory, the hair is first disin-
fected in two huge barrels, before
workers use paddles to stir clumps of
strands in vats of steaming water.
It is dyed in colours from blonde to
black via red and purple before
being dried in ovens, brushed and
sewn into hair extensions by the most-
ly female staff.
I thread parts together, in a day I
can do 1,500, said Zhang Qing, 23, as
she fed bunches of hair into a clatter-
ing sewing machine.
Zhang Hongmeis low stool was
surrounded by piles of dyed red
hair which she straightened with a
large brush.
Like most in the factory, she used to
be a labourer in the fields. If I wasnt
here Id be working on the farm, but
this work is less tiring and earns more
money, she said.
Hair product manufacturing is by
far the biggest industry in Taihe, says
the younger Fu, and now local author-
ities plan to create a huge industrial
park devoted entirely to the sector.
I owe my income to the hair
industry, Fu said. Because the val-
ue of hair is so high, people call it
black gold. AFP
Rural Chinas bald ambition
Long, black and lucrative: the farmers of a rural Chinese county have helped make
China the worlds biggest exporter of products made from human hair. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
World
Far fewer
trapped in
Iraq, rescue
less likely
AN AMERICAN assessment
team found far fewer Yazidis
trapped in northern Iraq than
expected, making an evacua-
tion mission less likely, as the
flight of minority groups from
advancing jihadists showed no
let-up Thursday.
The UN refugee agency had
said tens of thousands of civil-
ians, many of them from the
Yazidi religious minority, were
trapped on Mount Sinjar by
jihadists of the Islamic State (IS)
militant group, which has over-
run swathes of Iraq and Syria.
But the Pentagon said that
based on a firsthand assess-
ment by a small party of US
military personnel the plight
of those on the mountain was
not as bad as had been feared,
and an evacuation mission was
therefore far less likely.
A US military official said the
special forces personnel had
returned safely to Arbil, the
capital of Iraqs autonomous
Kurdish region.
Pentagon press secretary
Rear Admiral John Kirby said
the fewer than 20 troops did
not engage in any combat.
The team has assessed that
there are far fewer Yazidis on
Mount Sinjar than previously
feared, in part because of the
success of humanitarian air
drops, air strikes on [IS] targets,
the efforts of the [Kurdish forc-
es] and the ability of thousands
of Yazidis to evacuate from the
mountain each night over the
last several days, he said.
The Yazidis who remain are
in better condition than previ-
ously believed.
Iraqi helicopters and Kurdish
forces have been trying to reach
those trapped by jihadists who
are targeting Yazidis, Christians
and other minorities, and
Washington and its allies have
been studying ways to bring
them out.
The Yazidis are a closed Kurd-
ish-speaking community that
follows their own non-Muslim
faith and are despised by the
jihadists as devil worshippers.
Various countries are ramp-
ing up their efforts to aid the
trapped civilians and Kurdish
forces battling the militants,
and the US has launched a
series of airstrikes.
Thousands of people have
poured across a border bridge
into camps in Iraqs Kurdish
region after trekking through
neighbouring Syria to find ref-
uge, most with nothing but the
clothes on their backs.
For those who managed to
escape the siege, the relief of
reaching relative safety was
tempered by the spartan
conditions of the camps hur-
riedly erected by the Iraqi Kurd-
ish authorities to accommo-
date them.
We went from hunger in Sin-
jar to hunger in this camp, said
Khodr Hussein. AFP
Reporters arrested as Missouri unrest persists
MISSOURI police fired tear gas and
smoke bombs late on Wednesday at pro-
testers demonstrating over the killing of
an unarmed black teen by an officer.
CNN and other media reported that
police officers in riot gear marched
towards the protesters near a burned-
out gas station where demonstrators
have gathered in the town of Ferguson,
a St Louis suburb.
Television footage of the fifth day of
unrest there showed thick clouds of
smoke and protesters scurrying through
it in the dark. Police also used sonic
devices that make a loud ear-splitting
sound to try to disperse the crowd, the
St Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Demonstrators taunted the police.
Were not dogs, so what the hell youve
got those whipping sticks for? Because
you want to whip us like dogs, one pro-
tester said, according to the paper.
Police separately arrested two jour-
nalists reporting on the unrest that has
roiled Ferguson since aspiring college
student Michael Brown, 18, died Satur-
day in a police shooting.
His death has triggered rioting and
stirred comparisons with the February
2012 fatal shooting of unarmed teen-
ager Trayvon Martin in Florida.
Wesley Lowery, a Washington Post
political reporter, and Ryan Reilly, a
Huffington Post reporter, were arrested
in a McDonalds restaurant after police
entered the restaurant and ordered peo-
ple to leave, the pair wrote on Twitter.
In a series of tweets, Lowery said they
were given no explanation for their
arrest other than trespassing and were
not charged with any offenses before
being released.
Lowery also said the police officers
assaulted him because the two report-
ers were not leaving the McDonalds
quickly enough.
Earlier, police fired several shots at a
19-year-old who pointed a handgun in
their direction as they dispersed around
30 people who had gathered near where
the rioting had occurred, the St Louis
Post-Dispatch said. The young man was
taken to hospital and his name has not
been released.
In Los Angeles, police shot and killed
a black man on Monday during what
they called an investigative stop.
It is unknown if the suspect has any
gang affiliations, the Los Angeles Police
Department said in a statement. The
suspect was transported to a local hos-
pital, and after lifesaving efforts he suc-
cumbed to his injuries.
Officials in Ferguson urged demon-
strators to remain calm. Mayor James
Knowles called for any groups wishing
to assemble in prayer or in protest do
so only during daylight. AFP
South Korean President Park Geun-hye walks with Pope Francis before a welcoming ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul yesterday. AFP
Historic papal trip marked by
prayer in SK, rockets in North
Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere
P
OPE Francis called for
an end to displays of
force on the divided
Korean Peninsula yes-
terday, as North Korea marked
his arrival in Seoul for a ve-
day visit by ring short-range
rockets into the sea.
In a speech to South Korean
President Park Geun-hye and
top ofcials, Francis acknowl-
edged the challenge of break-
ing down walls of distrust
and hatred but said the quest
for inter-Korean reconciliation
was one that had implications
for the stability of the entire
area and indeed of the whole
war-weary world.
Peace could only be achieved
through dialogue, rather than
mutual recriminations, fruit-
less criticisms and displays of
force, he added.
Just minutes before he
stepped off his plane, the nu-
clear-armed North red three
rockets into the Sea of Japan
(East Sea), and two more later
in the day.
North Korea had been in-
vited to send a group of Catho-
lics to attend a special inter-
Korean reconciliation mass
by Francis next week, but de-
clined, citing upcoming South
Korea-US military drills.
The choice of South Korea for
the rst papal visit to Asia in 15
years was a reward for one of
the regions fastest-growing,
most devoted and most inu-
ential Roman Catholic com-
munities.
Smiling broadly and waving,
Francis was welcomed at the
airport by Park and a recep-
tion committee that included
two North Korean defectors
and relatives of those killed in
Aprils ferry disaster, which left
300 people mostly school-
children dead.
In line with his no-frills pa-
pacy, Francis then squeezed
into the back of a compact Kia
hatchback that he had special-
ly requested for his visit.
Since the early days of his
ponticate, Francis has made
it clear that the Vatican regards
Asia as a priority, as it seeks
to offset dwindling Catholic
membership in Europe.
The last papal visit to Asia
was by John Paul II to India
in 1999, a glaring gap for a re-
gion where the church is mak-
ing some big gains but where
Catholics still only account for
3.2 per cent of the population.
The popes ight to South
Korea took him over China
potentially the greatest prize
of all, but also the hardest
to claim. Beijing maintains
a state-controlled Catholic
Church, which rejects the Vati-
cans authority.
On entering Chinese air-
space, Francis exercised papal
protocol to send an unprec-
edented good-will message of
divine blessings to President
Xi Jinping.
Beijing and the Vatican have
been at loggerheads since Chi-
na severed ties in 1951.
Francis will have a chance
to address believers across
the region on Friday when he
meets several thousand young
Catholics gathered in South
Korea for Asian Youth Day.
Reports said a dozen Chinese
priests attending the event
had been warned by Beijing of
repercussions if they attended
the popes address.
Though Catholics comprise
just over 10 per cent of South
Koreas 50 million people, the
visit has generated a lot of public
excitement, with welcome ban-
ners lining streets, and shops
doing a brisk trade in everything
from mini Francis dolls to com-
memorative coins. AFP
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World
13
Heavy shelling as aid
convoy nears Ukraine
A
MASSIVE Russian
humanitarian con-
voy closed in on
Ukraines border yes-
terday despite doubts over
whether the trucks would be
allowed across, and as deadly
ghting rocked rebel-held
strongholds.
The nearly 300 vehicles
headed towards southeastern
Ukraine, even as intense shell-
ing there in the insurgent bas-
tions of Donetsk and Lugansk
where the trucks appear
headed sharply increased
the death toll from ghting.
Health authorities in Do-
netsk, the centre of which
was under heavy shelling by
the army, said 74 people were
killed in ghting over the past
three days.
Government forces at the
same time reported nine dead
and 18 injured among its
troops, following four months
of ghting that have left over
2,000 dead and many resi-
dents without power, running
water and with dwindling
food supplies.
Meanwhile, Ukraine dis-
patched aid convoys of its own
from three cities to a govern-
ment-held eastern town as it
tried to race Moscow to hand
out much-needed aid to resi-
dents in the blighted region.
The Russian convoy, a 3-kilo-
metre le of white-tarpaulin-
covered lorries, reached the
Rostov region in southwestern
Russia yesterday, a spokesman
for the Russian emergencies
ministry in Moscow said.
It was not immediately clear
when the trucks would ar-
rive at the border or whether
Ukrainian ofcials would al-
low them to pass.
The convoy had earlier
headed for government-con-
trolled territory in the region of
Kharkiv further west, with Kiev
insisting only the aid and not
the lorries would be allowed to
cross the border.
On Wednesday however,
President Petro Poroshenkos
ofce suggested the aid could
travel more directly to the
stricken east and be allowed in
under certain conditions. Also
on Wednesday, Ukraines par-
liament approved a law paving
the way for a string of sanc-
tions on Russian businesses
and nationals accused of back-
ing a separatist uprising in the
east of the country. AFP
A woman collects shrapnel after shelling in Donetsk yesterday. AFP
BRAZILIAN presi-
dential candidate
Eduardo Campos
died yesterday in an
airplane crash in the
southeastern city of
Santos. He was 49.
Campos died after
a nine-seater Cess-
na 560XL crashed at
about 10am after an aborted
landing because of bad weath-
er, the air force said. The two
pilots and four members of
Campos campaign team on
board all died when the plane
crashed into a gym.
Brazil loses a young leader
with a promising future,
President Dilma Rousseff said
in a speech. A man who could
climb to the highest posi-
tions. She declared three days
of mourning.
The death of Campos upends
the presidential election 53
days before Brazilians go to the
ballot boxes. Polling third in the
race against Rousseff and Sena-
tor Aecio Neves, Campos and
his running mate Marina Silva,
who may replace him, were
garnering enough support to
limit the incumbents chance
of a rst-round victory.
Houses around the crash
site were damaged and smoke
billowed from the debris as
rescue workers
sifted through the
wreckage, TV images
showed. Six people
on the ground where
treated for minor in-
juries at a local hos-
pital. Nobody on the
ground was killed.
Campos is sur-
vived by his wife, Renata de
Andrade Lima Campos, and
ve children: Maria Eduarda,
Joao, Pedro, Jose Henrique
and Miguel.
The memory I want to keep
of him is from our farewell
yesterday, which was full of
happiness, full of dreams, full
of commitment, Silva said.
Silva, whos better known
than Campos by voters, prob-
ably will be named as a candi-
date for the Brazilian Socialist
Party, Luiz Carvalho, a manag-
ing partner at New York-based
Tree Capital, said by phone.
Campos in April picked Silva
as his vice presidential run-
ning mate. She came third in
the 2010 presidential race with
19.6 per cent of the vote and
her candidacy could jeopar-
dise Nevess place in a possible
runoff, Garman said. Its re-
ally a toss-up at this juncture
between Neves and Silva.
BLOOMBERG
Brazil vote upended as
candidate dies in crash
Russian to delete
Hacktivists
resign for
PM in tweet
H
ACKERS broke into
Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedevs Twitter
account yesterday, tweeting his
resignation and criticising Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin.
Im resigning. Im ashamed of
the governments actions. Forgive
me, said Medvedevs Russian-
language Twitter account.
Ive wanted to say this for a
long time: Vova youre wrong!
said another tweet, using the
nickname for Vladimir.
Medvedev, even when he
served as president, was consid-
ered second ddle to Putin.
Medvedevs Twitter account
has been hacked, the messages
are not genuine. Were working
on the problem, a government
spokesman told the state-tun RIA
Novosti news agency.
However, hacked messages
continued to appear, and his
account quickly became the top
trender in Moscow, with the
number of followers of his ac-
count swiftly rising by 10,000 to
over 2.5 million.
Many of the hacked tweets criti-
cised the Russian governments
policies, such as one reading:
Crimea isnt ours. Please
retweet. AFP
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New five-day truce in
Gaza off to shaky start
ISRAEL and militants in Gaza
were holding fire yesterday
after a new truce got off to a
bumpy start, with night-time
Palestinian rocket fire followed
by Israeli air strikes. Late on
Wednesday, negotiators in
Cairo brokered an 11th-hour
extension to an existing truce,
with the warring sides
agreeing to hold their fire for
another five days to allow for
continued negotiations over a
long-term ceasefire. But even
before the renewal of the
72-hour truce was announced,
at least one rocket hit Israel
with five others striking in the
following hours, the army
said. AFP
Mass rallies to unseat
govt set off in Pakistan
THOUSANDS of protesters set
off from the Pakistani city of
Lahore yesterday to march on
the capital in a bid to unseat
the government they claim
was elected by fraud. Sup-
porters of cricketer-turned-
politician Imran Khan and
populist preacher Tahir-ul-
Qadri massed separately
ahead of the rally. Both Khan
and Qadri say the last general
election was rigged and want
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
to resign and hold new polls.
Sharif won by a landslide in
May 2013. AFP
Beijing dictates patriotic TV
C
HINA has ordered the
countrys television
broadcasters to air
patriotic or anti-fas-
cist series for two months from
September, reports said, step-
ping up its propaganda efforts
amid disputes with Japan and
ahead of national holidays.
Such programs are already
a staple of Chinese television,
but news portal Netease, cit-
ing unnamed industry insid-
ers, said satellite channels all
controlled by provincial gov-
ernments had been ordered
to broadcast them in prime
time until the end of October.
The National Day holiday,
which marks the founding of
Communist China in 1949,
falls on October 1.
Patriotic dramas prob-
ably include those with
themes of defending the coun-
try, creating a business, ethnic
solidarity and family relations
but excluding ghts between
relatives a Shanghai satellite
television staffer said.
The order follows a marked
rise in confessions on state-run
TV aimed at consolidating the
Communist Partys control.
Over the last year, China has
paraded a series of high-prole
detainees on television, rang-
ing from 70-year-old journal-
ist Gao Yu to Peter Humphrey,
the British investigator jailed
last week for illegally obtain-
ing private information.
Many have confessed their
guilt to the nation before they
have been indicted, let alone
tried and convicted. Most have
been held for weeks before
their admissions were aired.
Gao, a prominent advocate
of press freedom, expressed
deep remorse for obtaining a
secret document and sending
it to an overseas website. Sym-
pathisers believe the claims
relate to an internal party edict
warning of the dangers posed
to China by the spread of ideas
such as universal values and
constitutional democracy.
Confessions have long played
a central role in Chinese crimi-
nal justice, said Glenn Tiffert,
who researches Chinese crimi-
nal justice at the University of
California, Berkeley.
For the party, confessions are
not only about proving the case
against the suspect, but reform-
ing the individuals thought and
setting an example.
These are model perfor-
mances meant to publicly
abase high-prole gures,
demonstrate their submission
to party and state authority,
communicate new standards
of behaviour and warn others
to conform, and reclaim pop-
ular legitimacy, Tiffert said.
AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Chinese people gather to watch the National Day military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. AFP
JAIL ABUSE
OF LAWYER
C
HINESE rights lawyer
Gao Zhisheng suffered
malnutrition and psycho-
logical abuse in prison, his
wife said as she called for
Beijing to let him seek
treatment in the US.
Gao who has defended
some of Chinas most
vulnerable people was
released last week after a
three-year prison sentence.
His wife, who fled with their
two children to the US, said
she Gao lost 22.5 kilograms
after being fed only a slice of
bread and cabbage each day.
Gao can no longer speak
intelligibly after being
deprived of any interaction
with people and kept in a
small cell with little light and
no reading material, she
said. He remains under
surveillance and is being
prevented from seeing a
doctor, Freedom Now said.
China still imprisons many
high-profile critics, including
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Liu Xiaobo. AFP
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15
Girl, puppy survive 11
days in Siberian forest
A
4-YEAR-OLD girl
was recovering in
hospital on Wednes-
day after being lost
for nearly two weeks in a bear-
infested forest in the Russian
north with only her puppy to
defend her.
Karina Chikitova was found
emaciated but alive, having
survived 11 days in the Siberi-
an wilderness, where tempera-
tures plunge below freezing at
night, with only berries to sus-
tain her in what rescuers said
was nothing short of a miracle.
The little girl had left her tiny
village in Russias Sakha region
with her dog on July 29 to go
and stay with her father who
lived in a neighbouring ham-
let. But her father had gone to
ght a wildre and the girl ap-
parently set off by herself into
the forest to nd him.
With no mobile phone sig-
nal in the sparsely populated
region where native Yakut peo-
ple live off hunting and rein-
deer herding, her mother only
realised after four days that
her daughter had set off on her
own into the Siberian taiga.
Despite a massive search,
the breakthrough only came
when Karinas puppy traipsed
back to the hamlet in which
only eight people live allow-
ing rescuers to send search
dogs on the puppys trail.
We were sure that the pup-
py was next to the little girl all
this time, warming her at night
and scaring away wild ani-
mals, rescuer Afanasiy Niko-
layev said.
The search party kept to
creeks and meadows, going
into the forest only in the pres-
ence of special forces because
there are so many bears in the
area. They came across Kari-
nas footprints two days later
and found her lying in tall grass
about 6 kilometres from her vil-
lage, shaken but alive. She had
lost her shoes and a consider-
able amount of weight.
She didnt say a thing . . . she
just cried quietly and reached
out her arms, the volunteer
who spotted Karina said.
She said she ate berries and
drank water from the river to
survive. Doctors said that her
feet were so sore she was stay-
ing in bed and keeping her
mother close, but that she was
in good spirits. AFP
A PILOT for a British budget
airline briey lost control of
a ight after his articial arm
came loose during landing, an
air accident report says.
The Flybe plane with 47 pas-
sengers was coming in to land
at Belfast City Airport from Bir-
mingham on February 12 when
the pilots prosthetic forearm
detached from a special clamp
tted to the planes yoke.
This caused the plane to
land with a bounce, but no
one was injured.
Flybe said it was proud to
be an equal opportunity em-
ployer. The senior captain re-
ferred to in this report is one of
Flybes most experienced and
trusted pilots, said Captain
Ian Baston, the rms director
of ight operations and safety.
The airline conrms that
at no time was the safety
of its passengers or crew
compromised in
any way, nor was
the aircraft dam-
aged, Baston added.
The Air Accidents Investi-
gation Branch report said the
pilot, 46, had checked that his
prosthetic arm was securely
attached to the clamp shortly
before landing.
He had disconnected the
autopilot and was landing the
plane manually when
the arm came loose,
forcing him to try to
regain control with his
right arm.
He did this, but with
power still applied and
possibly a gust affect-
ing the aircraft, a normal
touchdown was followed by
a bounce, from which the air-
craft landed heavily, the re-
port said.
The captain has pledged to
be more careful in the future
about checking the attach-
ment on his articial limb and
brieng his co-pilots about
the issue, it added. AFP
Pilot loses his arm, control of plane
A 2-YEAR-OLD girl, Parichat
Noopinit, has been in a coma
for more than a week since
being electrocuted when she
touched a bank ATM at a gas
station in Thailand.
The girls much older sister
Panadda Bamrund said on
Wednesday that she took her
little sister along with her to
withdraw money at a gas sta-
tion in Trang provinces Yan Ta
Khao district.
She withdrew cash from
an ATM of the Bangkok Bank
situated next to an ATM op-
erated by Siam Commercial
Bank. Panadda said her sister
touched the SCB machine
and fell down. She thought
little Parichat had slipped and
fallen over, but when she tried
to help her up she received
an electric shock too. A friend
driving by at that moment
rushed them to hospital.
Her younger sisters heart
stopped and she was given car-
diopulmonary resuscitation.
She survived but is in a coma.
Sukalaya Noopinit, 39, the
girls mother, said Parichat
was in a critical condition. The
doctor said she had only a 40
per cent chance of survival be-
cause of the serious damage
caused to her brain.
A reporter found out that the
SCBs ATM at this location had
been broken for some time
and that other people alleg-
edly received electric shocks
there before.
In a statement yesterday,
SCB said it would be respon-
sible for all the young girls
medical expenses. A bank of-
cial had been to visit the girl at
the hospital and already given
50,000 baht ($1,500) towards
expenses. BANGKOK POST
ATM shock puts Thai tot in coma A girl, 4, survived freezing temperatures in bear-infested forest. AFP
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H
OW fitting it would be if
the latest return visit to
Southeast Asia by Ameri-
cas top diplomat, US Sec-
retary of State John Kerry, on behalf
of Americas first African-American
president, also helped push the
region to move beyond stereotypes
and towards reconciliation. This is
critical if Asia, including Cambodia,
is to progress towards greater peace
and prosperity.
Whether China, with its large
Uighur and Tibetan populations, or
Myanmar, with more than 130 dis-
tinct ethnic groups, Asia is facing
growing protests and unrest among
minority communities who feel
poorly served by national govern-
ments. Use of ethnicity, race or reli-
gion to divide or define ones own
citizens should have no place in the
Asia of today, whether in giant India
under newly elected Prime Minister
Nahendra Modi or the smallest
Pacific island nation.
Each of Kerrys scheduled desti-
nations whether Myanmar, Aus-
tralia or the Solomon Islands has
had its share of race-based contro-
versy, religious antipathy or identi-
ty-based politics. In Australia,
debate continues over the govern-
ments contentious policy of stop-
ping would-be asylum seekers at
sea and housing some might say
detaining them at processing
facilities on the island of Nauru or
on Papua New Guinea. The Solo-
mon Islands remains plagued by
tensions stemming in part from
polarised Malaitan and Guadal-
canal identities.
And, of course, in Myanmar, inter-
national organisations still report
that in Rakhine state, the persecu-
tion of the Muslim minority, who call
themselves the Rohingya a term
and identity unrecognised by the
government continues. Tensions
remain high also between the nomi-
nally civilian and predominantly
ethnic Bamar government and the
Shan, Kachin and Karen peoples,
among others, who long for greater
freedom and autonomy.
Strikingly, Kerry also is the first in
a long while of what had traditionally
been the face and stereotype of
Americas top diplomat that of a
distinguished, white male states-
man. In the nearly two decades prior,
Americas secretaries of state includ-
ed a white woman (Hillary Clinton),
two African Americans (Condoleez-
za Rice and Colin Powell) and a Jew-
ish-American woman (Madeline
Albright), dating back to January
1997. One can only imagine an eth-
nic Tibetan serving as Chinas minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs or a Muslim
from Rakhine becoming Myanmars
next top diplomat.
Whether speaking of religious
minorities being attacked in Myan-
mar or by ISIS in Iraq, Kerry should
make clear that Americas values
remain clear. A rebalanced pivot to
Asia includes support for efforts not
just to drive business growth but also
to end government actions in Asia
and the Pacific that are defined by
the dividing politics of race, religion
and ethnicity.
I am reminded of the derogatory
words coming from China this Feb-
ruary as US Ambassador Gary
Locke, the first Chinese-American
to serve as the top US envoy to Chi-
na, prepared to depart that country.
At that time, a major Chinese gov-
ernment news service issued an
opinion piece, Farewell, Gary Locke,
calling the third-generation
descendant of Chinese immigrants
a banana. That term is used by
some Chinese to describe Asians
who identify too closely with sup-
posedly Western values (such as
freedom of speech and religion, and
the concept of human rights)
despite their skin colour.
In essence, yellow on the outside,
white on the inside. (I should know
having served as the USs fourth
ambassador of Chinese heritage and
pressed for reforms at the Asian
Development Bank, I have been
called one too.)
But when a banana sits out for
long, its yellow peel will always rot,
not only revealing its white core but
also turning into the stomach-
churning colour of black, read the
China News Service commentary
apparently modelled after Mao
Zedongs 1949 piece, Farewell, Leight-
on Stewart, written of the departure
of the last US Ambassador to the
rival Nationalist Chinese govern-
ment then in Nanjing.
Respect for culture, it seems, was
not a priority for the state-run China
News Service. And as such, it is
understandable should some Tibet-
ans, Uighurs or others among Chi-
nas 55 recognised ethnic groups be
uncomfortable and feel as if they are
viewed by authorities and fellow citi-
zens as targets of suspicion.
The sentiments voiced in the anti-
Locke editorial also do little to help
the tens of millions of ethnic Chi-
nese around the world who are
proud citizens of Indonesia, Malay-
sia, Kenya, Brazil or elsewhere. To
the contrary, it may well reinforce
suspicions and a lack of trust of eth-
nic Chinese.
It remains time for Asia to move
beyond a nationalism narrowly
defined by ethnicity, religion or any
of the many other ways to divide a
people. Should such nationalism
continue, Asia may well face a future
that harkens more back to the wars
and divisions of the last century than
one of extended peace and prosperi-
ty. Thats sad for all of us.
One lesson from Americas own
struggles with race and racism is
that sustained business and eco-
nomic growth should leverage every
individuals abilities to succeed
and to fail regardless of back-
ground, ethnicity, race or religion.
Thats clearly a battle still being
fought in America and certainly
remains the case in many parts of
Asia, given recent headlines from
Myanmar and elsewhere.
Sectarianism has now joined what
I call the little bric bureaucracy,
regulation, interventionism and cor-
ruption that too often holds back
progress and development.
The US secretary of state can do his
part to bring attention to this grow-
ing constraint on growth in Asia, and
so can every citizen.
Asia and identity politics
Malaysian Muslim activists display ags and banners during a peaceful protest against Myanmars alleged persecution of the
Rohingya people, outside the Myanmar Embassy in Kuala Lumpur in February. AFP
Comment
Curtis S Chin
Curtis S Chin, a former US ambassador
to the Asian Development Bank under
presidents Barack Obama and George W
Bush, is managing director of advisory
rm RiverPeak Group, LLC. Follow him on
Twitter at @CurtisSChin
HUNGARIAN grandmaster Ju-
dit Polgar, widely recognised
as the greatest female chess
player of all time, said on
Wednesday that she is retiring
from competition to dedicate
more time to her family and
chess foundation.
The 38-year-old, who
has been the top-
ranked female player for
25 years, told the Times
newspaper she no lon-
ger had the concentra-
tion levels required and
railed against the sexism
she experienced during
her career.
She recalled how
one coach told her
she was an exception,
not a girl and that there
was the general impression
among the leading players
that there were men, women
and Judit Polgar.
Asked if there was a female
world champion on the hori-
zon, she replied: I hope in the
next 20 years. But Im not sure
shes been born yet.
The eight-time Chess Os-
car winner also criticised
todays game for being ob-
sessed with technology, saying
that so many competitions
are driven by who has the
best computer.
Polgar, who is currently
competing for the Hun-
garian team at the Chess
Olympiad in Norway,
credits her career on an
educational research
project carried out by
her father Laszlo.
He pulled Judit and
her two sisters Susan and
Soa out of school, de-
ciding that their lives
would be a living
example, that would
prove that any healthy
child if taught early and
intensively can be brought
up to be exceptionally suc-
cessful in any eld.
She won her rst interna-
tional chess tournament at
9 and was only 12 when she
teamed up with her sisters
to claim Hungarys rst-ever
womens Olympic gold chess
medal. AFP
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Brightest star in Cygnus
6 Copied reasonably
10 Fat-sounding fish
14 Candidates concern
15 Pie a la ___
16 Large green moth
17 They may yield good ideas
20 The first multimillionaire
21 Units equal to 10,000 gauss
22 Wife of Saturn
24 Peace talks result
27 Della the TV angel
28 Raccoonlike carnivore
31 Native village in South Africa
33 Proposition response, often
34 Symbols, as of esteem
36 Sock hop song
38 Tabloids interest
42 Holy Arks homes
43 Begin to blush
45 Chinese menu word
48 Olympians blades
50 Hindu dignitary
51 Closer to full strength
53 Sunoco rival
55 Profitable periods
56 Eclipse shadows
58 Wee hooter
61 Doesnt stutter?
66 Atlantic fliers
67 Drop, as from a list
68 Having more upstairs
69 Food regimen
70 Bowlers targets
71 ___ Frutti
DOWN
1 Prefix with respect
2 Very large bird
3 Japanese port city
4 Breakfast choice
5 Borscht veggie
6 U.S. rail
7 Luau lunch
8 Samurais home
9 Minor job for a body shop
10 Near
11 Brave New World author
12 Nervous feeling
13 Parts of many quartets
18 Conciliatory bribe
19 Certain German
22 Mo. of falling leaves
23 Noted honey eater
25 Double-___ (rat)
26 Powder type
29 Theyre often next to fives
30 Buck naked
32 Sixth month in the Hebrew
calendar
35 Gazpacho, e.g.
37 Icelandic tales
39 Long-haired dogs bane
40 Military aide
41 Jump
44 British medical org.
45 Spewed forth
46 Skeleton parts
47 Suave and polished
49 Hustles
52 Dadaist painter Max ____
54 Not rent
57 Do some bargain-hunting
59 Heaven forbid that
60 Son of Isaac
62 What Kind of Fool ___?
63 Container for some breath mints
64 Despite that ...
65 ___ Lanka
LESS DIRECT
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Hungarian female
chess great retires
The youngest international chess grand master, 17-year-old Judit
Polgar, writes down her rst move in her last match with Russian-born
chess champion Boris Spassky in Budapest, February 1993. AFP
Lifestyle
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Mystery trunk conjures
stories of World War II
S
OMETIMES, things get
left behind.
Things such as the
green wooden trunk
in the basement of the apart-
ment building in Washington,
DC. It was old and battered,
the sort of thing you might eas-
ily overlook. And overlooked it
had been, for something close
to 60 years.
Jaime Steve found it. He lives
in Virginia, but he used to live
in a building in DC down the
street from the USs National
Zoo. It was there that Jaime
became good friends with
Ace Rosner. Ace lost an arm
at Anzio during World War II
but went on to join the CIA
and collect and race clas-
sic cars, dozens of which he
kept in 2800 Woodleys under-
ground garage.
When Ace died at age 94 in
2011, Jaime helped clear out
his apartment. In February,
Jaime heard that the apart-
ments managers wanted some
old junk cleared out, including
a bunch of stuff everyone as-
sumed was Aces. Stuff like the
battered green footlocker.
It was all covered in dust,
Jaime said. When he wiped the
dust away, he saw a stenciled
name: Maj FM Rogers. And
when Jaime opened the trunk,
he met a remarkable man.
Felix Michael Rogers was a
Massachusetts native who en-
listed in the US army as a pri-
vate in 1942 and retired from
the air force in 1978 as a four-
star general. Google him and
youll learn that during World
War II, Rogers ew a P-51
Mustang called the Beantown
Banshee from bases in Eng-
land, Italy and France.
He was a bona de ying
ace, notching 12 conrmed
kills. Rogers looked the part,
too, with a killer moustache.
Among the trunks contents:
Rogerss dog tags, a four-leaf
clover encased in plastic, a
handwritten prayer, a small
bottle of whiskey, a razor,and
three medals, including the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Jaime was able to nd con-
tact information for Rogers
in California, but when Jaime
phoned in April, Rogers wife,
Catherine, said he had passed
away just a few weeks earlier.
She put Jaime in touch with
the generals children, two of
whom Stephen Rogers and
Ginna Rogers-Gould live in
the Washington area.
Ginna said her parents lived
in DC in the early 1950s.
They probably just couldnt
take everything they had with
them to the overseas posting,
Ginna said. What Im guess-
ing is they just asked Ace if they
could store a locker there, and
then it became forgotten.
The family had no idea the
trunk existed. The small mira-
cle of its appearance just weeks
after Rogerss death provided
some comfort in their grief.
When I started to go
through it, it just was like it
was a gift from heaven, Gin-
na said. It was almost like my
dads hand reaching out to his
family and saying: Dont for-
get some of the things I taught
you. Dont forget what it is to
be an American.
General Rogers will be bur-
ied in October at Arlington
Cemetery next to his rst wife,
Virginia. Ginnais working on a
biography of her father.
So, a Rosebud rescued from
the re. But theres more: In the
Woodley basement Jaime found
a second Army-issue trunk.
It belonged to a fellow who
was in the 87th Infantry Divi-
sion, and he was one of the guys
who liberated the Buchenwald
concentration camp, said Jai-
me. Inside were photographs
of the camp and scrip issued
by the SS. The trunk belonged
to Lieutenant Daniel Grear of
Illinois. Jaime is trying to nd
out what became of him. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Felix Michael Rogers was a
World War II ghter pilot (his
plane marked the Nazis he
shot down). An Army trunk that
belonged to him was found in the
basement of a Washington build-
ing. THE WASHINGTON POST
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 1-2-3 bed,
large living room, fully and modern
furnished, western kitchen, very
big balcony, very quiet and safety
area, big parking lots, good
condition for living.
Price: $800-US$1,200-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN SWIMMING POOL
Apartment for Rent Located in Wat
Phnom, 01&02&03 bed, big pool
and gym, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, very safety
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Price: 1,00-$1,200-1,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
COLONIAL STYLE APARTMENT
for Rent Located a long riverside,
02 bedrooms, elevator, open living
room, fully and classic furnished,
nice kitchen, nice and big balcony,
river view, very safety area, very
good condition for living.1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW MODERN
Apartment For Rent BKK1, 01-02-
03&Penthouse, Real Modern interior
designed, large living room,light,
and modern furniture, western
Kitchen, roof top pool &gym
$1,500-2,000-3,500-4,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Daun Penh
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& lots of light, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very nice balcony, very nice
pool and gym, condition for living.
Price: $1,300-1,700-2,200/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02
Bedrooms, very nice interior
designed, large living room, very
light, fully and modern furniture,
western kitchen, very good condi-
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Price: US$600-1,100/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located near independent
monument, 02 bedrooms, open
living room and kitchen, fully and
modern furnished, very safety area,
very quiet, very good condition for
living. Price: USD770/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 05
bed, large living room, very modern
designed, fully &modern furniture,
modern kitchen, big balcony, play-
ground, very safety and quiet, will
becompletedinSeptember. $5,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
TRADITIONAL WOODEN HOUSE
For Rent At Chhroy Changeva area,
river view, ground oor, 03bed,
fully furnished, very lights, western
kitchen, very safety and quite, very
nice garden, very good condition
for living. Price: $1,700/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
SERVICE OFFICE AVAILABLE ON
A monthly basis with receptionist
security and excellent location.
Call 016 503 727 012 380 710
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
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K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30
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QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
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PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
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KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
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KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
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MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
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AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
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FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
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Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
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VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
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Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
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#168, Monireth, PP
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Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
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Teuk, Chamkarmorn
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SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
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QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
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A
WHIFF of jasmine,
cigarette smoke and
the furtive shadow of
a cat darting across
the silver screen summer-
time in Greece means open-air
cinema, a well-loved tradition
for nearly a century.
In the projection room of
Palas (Palace), one of Ath-
enss oldest movie theatres
in the middle-class district of
Pangrati, second-generation
owner Matthaios Potagas is a
whirl of motion that belies his
gaunt 86-year-old frame and
white beard.
As the latest group of mov-
iegoers settle into their seats,
he checks the reel, readies the
projector and throws a fresh
set of drinks into the cooler,
ready to sell.
I do everything except act,
he jokes.
His sister sells the tickets and
he says that for all purposes, he
was born in this cinema.
Potagass father and uncles
rst opened the Palas in 1925,
three years before his birth,
and the place is essentially un-
changed to this day.
Past the blue-and-red neon
marquee at the entrance, a
staircase leads to a leafy terrace
with two long, narrow rows of
folding chairs.
Lovers prefer it here, winks
Potagas, who has been running
the business since 1953.
Open-air cinemas are part
of summer life in Greece, a
fact conceded by many indoor
screen owners who prefer to
shutter shop and take a break
until September.
This year, there are around
90 terraces and gardens serv-
ing as open-air movie theatres
in the greater Athens area.
Summer cinema is roman-
tic, says Eleni Barka, a woman
in her 30s about to enjoy an
early evening performance.
Its a completely different
experience to being in a dark
room theatre. Here you can see
the sky and the moon, she says.
When the weather heats up in
Greece, the rst thing you think
of is the open-air cinema.
Consider that in the 60s,
there were 600 open-air cin-
emas in Athens, says Dimitris
Fyssas, an author of a study on
Greek movie theatres in the
capital dating to 1896.
As few families had access to
television at the time, this was
the main source of entertain-
ment, he adds.
Pangrati alone boasted 10
screens, recalls Dia Kotira, a
retired singer and owner of the
Cine Oasis in the district.
Life changed with television,
people became accustomed to
staying at home, Dia says.
In the early 80s, we reached
80,000 ticket sales. Today its
more like 6,000, she said.
But we have regulars who
remain faithful to us. In fact,
many of these are gifts, she
adds, pointing to a variety of
trinkets decorating the cinema
entrance.
Dia sits at the ticket booth,
beneath a portrait of John
Wayne. Maria, who lives above
the cinema, runs the bar. Their
projectionist, Yiannis, battles
with the theatres Italian-made
projector, a 1965 antiquity op-
erating on carbon arc lamps.
People prefer outdoor cin-
emas, everyone tells us, Maria
Kotira says. They wait for the
summer to come and watch
the lms they missed during
the winter. They truly love it.
In recent years, there have
been efforts to spruce up the
experience for moviegoers
several screens now offer
lounge chairs, cocktail bars
and 3D technology.
But the other essential ele-
ments of the open-air experi-
ence in Greek summer the
sound of cicadas, the sweet
smell of honeysuckle and on-
lookers stealing a peek from
neighbouring balconies re-
main the same. AFP
The allure of
Greek summer
movie houses
A lm is projected in the screening booth of Palas, one of Athens oldest
cinemas. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014 21
Swimmers splashed
with cash after Qatar
NATIONAL team swimmers
were yesterday rewarded for
their exploits in Junes 12th
FINA World Swimming
Championship, which was held
in Qatar, with cash prizes
donated by Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Interior
Sar Kheng. During a ceremony
at the National Olympic
Committee of Cambodia
headquarters presided over by
the Ministrys Sports Club chief
Chea Bunheng, female silver
medalist Nen Somaly and male
teammate Cheng Sopha, who
came fourth in Qatar, collected
$300 and $150 respectively,
while coach Hem Kiry received
$200. I and my fellow team-
mates really appreciate the
prizes from Deputy Prime
Minister Sar Kheng, who
always cares about us, and we
pledge to make our results
even better at [future
competitions]. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
England to play Canada
in womens rugby final
ENGLAND will play Canada in
the final of the womens Rugby
World Cup after recording
semifinal victories on
Wednesday over Ireland and
France respectively. England,
for whom goal-kicking centre
Emily Scarratt was
outstanding, withstood an
early Irish firestorm to win
40-7 in their bid to go one
better than their last three
World Cup outings when they
were beaten in the final. But
Canada, who drew 13-all with
England in the pool stage, had
to weather a late storm
against France, eventually
running out 18-16 winners in a
thriller at Stade Jean Bouin,
home to Top 14 club Stade
Francais. Sunday nights grand
final kicks off at the Stade
Jean Bouin from 1:45am
Cambodian time. AFP
Cavs James to return
to Miami on Christmas
NBA SUPERSTAR LeBron
James, back home in
Cleveland this season to lead
the Cavaliers, will still be
spending Christmas in Miami.
The Heat, which captured two
NBA titles in Jamess four
seasons with the team, will
host the Cavs in one of five
Christmas Day games
highlighting the 2014-15
schedule released on
Wednesday by the league. The
other four games on
Christmas are Washington at
the New York Knicks,
Oklahoma City at San Antonio,
the Los Angeles Lakers at the
Chicago Bulls and the Golden
State Warriors at the Los
Angeles Clippers. The San
Antonio Spurs will unveil their
fifth championship banner on
October 28 against the Dallas
Mavericks, one of three
Opening Night games. AFP
Federer advances with
milestone Masters win
ROGER Federer became the
first man to win 300 matches
at the ATP Masters 1000 level,
beating Vasek Pospisil 7-6
(7/4), 5-7, 6-2 on Wednesday in
Cincinnati. The victory in just
over two hours put the
33-year-old world number
three into the third round of his
final tune-up tournament for
the US Open. AFP
Farah bounces back to take
European 10,000m victory
N
ORMAL service was re-
sumed by Mo Farah as the
world and Olympic 5,000m
and 10,000m champion
emerged from months of illness and
disappointing form to win the 10,000m
title at the European Athletics Champi-
onships on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old Briton pulled clear of
Ali Kaya, the naturalised Turkish run-
ner formerly known as Stanley Kiprot-
ich Mukche of Kenya in the nal 100m
to win the fourth European track title
of his career in 28 mins 08.11sec.
I really wanted to run the Com-
monwealth Games but couldnt, so this
means a lot to me, said Farah, who
was congratulated on his lap of honour
by his good friend, Olympic 100m and
200m champion Usain Bolt.
Farahs Great Britain teammate Andy
Vernon snatched the silver medal from
Kaya, clocking 28:08.66.
Farah was one of three British win-
ners, making four golds in two days fol-
lowing Jo Paveys victory in the womens
10,000m on Tuesday.
The withdrawal of French sprinter
Jimmy Vicaut with a hamstring injury
left the door open for James Dasaolu
in the mens 100m and the 26-year-old
Londoner - who lost the European in-
door 60m title to Vicaut by the thick-
ness of his vest last year - seized his
opportunity.
He prevailed in 10.06sec, nishing
0.07sec clear of two-time winner Chris-
tophe Lemaitre of France.
The battle for bronze was even closer,
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey edging out vet-
eran British teammate Dwain Cham-
bers by 0.02sec with a time of 10.22sec.
Its a great feeling to be the Europe-
an champion, said Dasaolu. Im still
trying to take it all in.
The other British triumph came in
the 100m hurdles, the US-born Tif-
fany Porter edging out Cindy Billaud of
France by 0.03sec with a winning time
of 12.76sec.
There was joy for France in the wom-
ens long jump, however.
World indoor champion Eloyse Le-
seur retained the continental title she
won in Helsinki two years ago, cour-
tesy of a fourth round leap of 6.85m.
There was an historic moment in
the womens 100m nal, the heptath-
lete turned sprinter Dafne Schippers
becoming the rst Dutch winner
since the great Fanny Blankers-Koen
in 1950.
Schippers started the clear favourite
but had to dig deep to resist the chal-
lenge of Myriam Soumaire, beating the
Frenchwoman by 0.04sec in 11.12sec,
with Britains Ashleigh Nelson taking
bronze in 11.22sec.
It is a great honour, Schippers said.
I hope that my fans and my country
are as happy as I am.
Robert Harting was so happy to re-
tain his discus title he removed his
German vest and kissed the badge,
resisting the temptation to rip it in
two a trademark celebration that
has drawn the threat of a lawsuit from
one disgruntled fellow countryman
on the grounds of insulting the state
and its symbols.
Hartings third round throw of
66.07m earned him victory ahead of
Estonias Gerd Kanter (64.75m) and
Pole Robert Urbanek (63.81)
Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus
emerged from the ten events of the
decathlon with a winning tally of
8,616 points.
The rst medals on day two were
claimed in the morning in the mens
20km walk, just two seconds separat-
ing the rst four athletes at the nish.
Spains Miguel Angel Lopez won by
a solitary second in 1hr 19min 44sec,
edging out Aleksandr Ivanov of Russia.
Ivanovs team mate Denis Strelkov was
just a second further back, snatching
the bronze medal by an even tighter
margin, clocking the same time as
Ukraines Rusian Dmytrenko. AFP
Britains Mohamed Farah crosses the nish line to win the mens 10,000m nal during the European Athletics Championships in Zurich. AFP
India hope for Ishant Sharma return
HAD India, whove now won
just one of their last 18 Tests on
foreign soil, been offered the
chance to arrive at The Oval
2-1 down with one to play in
this five-match series before
their tour started, they might
have taken up the offer.
A tightly packed schedule of
five Tests in the space of 42
days has done India few
favours as they head to south
London for todays start of the
series finale.
Just a few weeks ago, India
beat England by 95 runs in the
second Test at Lords to go 1-0
up in the series. But that suc-
cess was sealed by fast bowler
Ishant Sharma exploiting Eng-
lands vulnerability against the
short ball with a Test-best
return of seven for 74.
Since then Sharma has
missed both Indias 266-run
defeat in the third Test at
Southampton and their even
more crushing innings and
54-run loss in the fourth Test
at Old Trafford last week with
a leg injury.
However, India are increas-
ingly optimistic he could
return to action in the fifth
Test.
Despite losing inside three
days in Manchester, India did
again make Englands bats-
men look decidedly jumpy
when confronted with the
short ball to the extent that
all-rounder Stuart Broad suf-
fered a broken nose trying to
hook Varun Aaron when the
ball found its way between
the peak of his helmet and
the grille.
But the Oval is not the fast
pitch it once was or indeed Old
Trafford currently is.
If it stays true to recent type,
a slow low surface should
remind India of home but will
also make the job of bouncing
out England that much more
difficult.
The biggest recent problem
for an India side coached by
former England boss Duncan
Fletcher has been their bat-
ting, as exemplified by the
teams struggles to barely get
beyond 150 in both innings at
Old Trafford.
No one has exemplified their
batting difficulties better than
the talented Virat Kohli, who
has so far scored only 108 runs
this series at an average of 13.5.
But it was the manner of Indias
collapse, which saw nine wick-
ets lost after tea on Saturday
that was perhaps the most
concerning aspect of the Old
Trafford debacle.
There were was no back-
bone shown by India, former
Indian opening great Sunil
Gavaskar told BBC Radios Test
Match Special as he reflected
on the humbling loss.
Alastair Cooks men still have
problems to address as well as
their bouncer issues, particu-
larly the extent of the gap
between the threat of the new-
ball pairing of Broad and James
Anderson and back-up seam-
ers Chris Woakes and Chris
Jordan.
Anderson now needs just
eight wickets to surpass Ian
Bothams England Test record
of 383 and Broad, who could
play in a face mask, will be
keen to follow up his man-of-
the-match effort in taking six
for 25 in Indias first innings in
Manchester. AFP
India will hope fast bowler Ishant Sharma is t for the fourth Test
against England, which starts at The Oval in London today. AFP
Malaysia edge Cambodia in
storm-hit Brunei battle
THE Cambodian U21 team suffered
the first loss of their 2014 Hassanal
Bolkiah Trophy campaign in Brunei on
Wednesday night, going down 1-0 to
Malaysia in a rain-soaked match at the
Track & Field Sports Complex in
Bandar Seri Begawan. A first-half
downpour held up play for 16 minutes,
with neither side able to break the
deadlock before the interval. In the
66th minute, defender Mohamad Asri
Mardzuki capitalised on some slack
Cambodian defending from a corner
kick to blast a strike through a sea of
players and score the games only
goal. With the win, Malaysia shot to the
top of the Group B table on seven
points, one ahead of Vietnam, hosts
Brunei and Cambodia, who now face
Indonesia from 3pm Cambodian time
tomorrow at the Hassanal Bolkiah
National Stadium. DANRILEY
Uniteds Shaw out for a month
MANCHESTER United defender Luke
Shaw has suffered a hamstring injury
and will miss the opening game of the
season against Swansea City on
Saturday, the club announced on
Wednesday. The England international,
a pre-season signing from
Southampton, is likely to be sidelined
for around four weeks after the
19-year-old became the worlds most
expensive teenage footballer when he
joined United for 27 million (US$45
million) in June. Shaw missed the 2-1
friendly victory against Valencia at Old
Trafford on Tuesday due to the problem
and now faces a frustrating wait before
making his United debut. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Football
S Korea suffer Son snub
S
OUTH Korea winger Son
Heung-Mins hopes of rep-
resenting the host country
at the Asian Games have
been dashed by German club Bay-
er Leverkusen, who have refused
to let him travel.
The Korea Football Association
(KFA) said attempts to try to per-
suade the Bundesliga side to al-
low the 22-year-old to play at the
Incheon Games, which begin next
month, had failed.
Leverkusen informed us that
they cannot release Son for the
Asian Games, KFA officials said
on Wednesday.
We re-requested they partially
allow him to play but Leverkusen
declined, citing that they cant re-
lease a player for matches that are
not included in the FIFA calendar.
Clubs are not obliged to release
players for international duty for
matches which do not fall under
the jurisdiction of footballs world
governing body.
But Hoffenheim defender Kim
Jin-Su and midfielder Park Joo-Ho
of Mainz 05 were named among
the 20-man South Korea squad,
the only two included who are cur-
rently playing in Europe.
Leverkusens tough stance is
a double blow for Son as a gold
medal at the Asian Games, an U23
competition, automatically means
an exemption from mandatory
military service in South Korea.
The Koreans, whose senior side fa-
mously reached the semi-nals of
the 2002 World Cup on home soil,
last won the Asian Games football
tournament in Seoul back in 1986.
Coach Lee Kwang-jong is pin-
ning his hopes on towering striker
Kim Shin-wook, last seasons South
Korean player of the year.
He has great skills for a player
his size, Lee told local media.
I think he should thrive against
Asian opponents.
The football competition runs
from September 14 five days be-
fore the Asian Games officially be-
gin to October 3. AFP
South Korea midelder Son Heung-Min (left) vies with Algeria defender Djamel Mesbah during their 2014 FIFA World Cup Group H
match at the Beira-Rio Stadium in Porto Alegre on June 22. AFP

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Job Vacancies
Damco Cambodia Ltd.,
The Maersk Group was founded in 1904 in Denmark. Since then, the Group has grown into the largest shipping
& logistics provider in the world. Maersk Logistics / Damco is an independent company under the Danish Maersk
Group. Our group activities includes: Retail, oil & gas, tankers & offshore, terminals and container business. We
are a truly global company with over 300 ofces in 90 + countries and employ over 11,300 employees.
Damco is part of the Maersk Group. The company was set up in Phnom Penh in 2003 as Maersk Logistics with
commitment to grow in Cambodian market. With the groups growth and business needs, Maersk Logistics was
later re-branded in September 2009 to be known today as Damco Cambodia Ltd,.
We are focus in providing second to none logistics solutions to our customers which include:
- Import Export Logistics
- Warehousing and Distribution
- Ocean and Air Freight Forwarding
- Customs Clearance and Inland Haulage
I f you are looking for a challenged and dynamic j ob, j oin us now to be a part of winning team to
expose your potentiality and ambition for achievement.
Trade Lane and Network Sales Manager 1.
Trade Lane management and Network sales are integral parts of Cambodias commercial strategy, directly
supporting both regional and global strategic initiatives.
The role is designed to drive volume and prot (CM1) performance for both the AIR and OCEAN (OCE)
product suite (this includes Value Added Service - VAS bundling), on specied focus trade lanes for Cambodia
(US/Northern Europe/China/Japan). This includes actively promoting both internally and externally Damco
Cambodia as a differentiated and credible service provider on each focus trade lane as well as participating in
and leading commercial opportunities towards successful closure in cooperation with the dened stakeholders
in the focus trade lanes.
The role is responsible for developing a collaborative go-to-market strategy for each focus trade lane and
thereafter collaborating both locally and within the Damco Network to ensure that growth targets, action plan,
tools and work processes are designed, developed, coordinated and deployed, through mobilizing local and
network resources to secure targeted results.
Driving the focus trade lanes to success will require extensive interaction and collaboration with Commercial
Management, Field and Strategic Sales Channels, OCE and AIR Products, Procurement/Carrier Management
both locally and within focus trade lane partners.
In addition to the above, the Trade Lane and Network Sales Manager is responsible for driving and supporting
Network business generation relating to specic opportunities that fall outside of the focus trade lanes. This
includes for example supporting, as local owner, global Supply Chain Management new business opportunities
with a link into Cambodia.
J ob Scope& Responsibility
Accountable for the strategy and campaign development for each focus trade lane, in collaboration with
paired Network locations
Responsible for the delivery of budgets and targets on each focus trade lane, from both volume and
prot margin perspectives
Responsible for the development of trade lane-specic presentation collateral and campaign material
Responsible for generating Sales leads that contribute to the development of a robust pipeline controlled
at Network paired locations in focus trade lanes.
Responsible for developing and maintaining a must-win customer list, containing controlled and
non-controlled business opportunities in focus trade lanes from all the Sales channels and across all
products.
Responsible for both directly owning opportunities and personally contributing to the closure of the Field
Sales-owned opportunities.
The Trade Lane and Network Sales Manager will be the single point of contact and owner at origin of all
Supply Chain Management related opportunities.
Collaborate with Product and Carrier Management/Procurement teams both locally and in network paired
locations to develop new and differentiated trade lane-specic products, customer value propositions
and go to market strategies
Responsible for providing a point of escalation for focus trade Lanes
Responsible for visiting existing and potential customers overseas and contributing to the closure of
opportunities in focus trade lanes controlled in Network countries.
Responsible for supporting Network paired locations in the tender process for large opportunities in
focus trade lanes.
Condition and Requirement
Minimum of 2 years in some sort of commercial management responsibility within an international
business environment
Proven track record in Logistics and Freight Forwarding and preferably in trade lane
management/development
Driving commercial development in a complex, network business environment (competitive
market, multicultural organization, global network, matrix structure, many and changing
stakeholders)
Written and spoken English and Mandarin prociency
Working experience in one or more of the Trade Lane countries is an advantage
Business Controller 2.
The Business Controller is responsible to support and monitor the quality of the job costing activity in the
Customer Service Ofce. The Business Controller reports into the Operations function, preferably with a solid
line to the Area CEO, but works very closely with Finance. The key objective of the role is to ensure that the
nancials handed over to Finance teams are accurate and in time to enable
Financial reporting on time
Subsequent nancial processes to be carried out effectively
Avoid revenue leakages and cost overpayments
Ensure no accruals are made with no estimates in system
Job Scope& Responsibility
Monitoring timely and accurate creation of cost and revenue estimates
Monitoring timely and accurate invoicingand job closing process
Assist team leader/manager in monitoring the negative prot margin jobs and check for other
inaccuracies in job protability
Monitor difcult leakage charges like demurrage, detention, waiting time etc. and ensure they are being
billed to customers
Monitor interface and tickets in the system
Propose monthly operational cost accruals including ageing to Finance
Establish and implement process measures relevant for Business Controller activities
Verify that ad-hoc charges received are billed to the customer
Monitor all void billings done by the Error handlers
Ensure that Bill of Ladings and Cargo are released according to Internal Operations Procedure and credit terms
Monitoring timely resolution of invoice verication process exceptions
Proactively monitor master data quality from customers and vendors
Condition and Requirement

At least 2 years experience in managing large Operations / Customer service teams with minimum 3
years experience in the Logistics sector
Experience in Sea Operations and wide exposure across all the logistics products & processes- Sea,
Air, Value Added Service as including Trucking, Customs House Brokerage, Warehousing and Cargo-
Insurance
Strong operations excellence mindset coupled with an excellent understanding of the business
Conveys a sense of urgency and persistently drives issues to closure
Has ability to work under pressure to deadline
Interested candidates should send CV with recent photo, and cover letter to:
Damco (Cambodia) Ltd., Human Resources Department
No. 8A, Regency Complex A (3
rd
Floor), near Intercontinental Hotel, 298 Mao TseToung Blvd,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel: +(855-23) 96 56 68, Fax: +(855-23) 424 708 www.damco.com
Or send an email to channary.kong@damco.com no later than31
st
Aug 2014.
Please state the position name in the subject eld of your email and indicate your salary expectation on your
application. The applications will be considered in orders until the position is lled.
Only shortlisted candidates will be notied. Late applicants or applications without the subject eld of an email will
not be considered.
Cambodian Eagles and Bangkok Tigers players contest a ball-up during
their 2013 Indochina Cup game in Pattaya. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Eagles AFL side
set off for 2014
Indochina Cup
H S Manjunath

T
HE Cambodian Eagles
are heading to Thai-
lands beach town of
Pattaya in quest of the
Indochina Cup the symbol of
Australian Rules Football su-
premacy in the region which
plays out tomorrow.
The one-day event is shap-
ing up to be one of the biggest
in the tournaments eight-year
history, with new entrants the
Myanmar Fighting Cocks join-
ing regulars the Thailand Ti-
gers, the Laos Elephants, the
Cambodian Eagles and the
title-holding Vietnam Swans.
The Eagles are well prepped
this year, with the bench
considerably reinforced both
in quantity and quality to
meet the stiffest footy chal-
lenge there is in this part of
the world.
Having gone close but not
close enough to lift the cup in
previous years, the Eagles are
all the wiser for those close
calls and are ready to strike
it rich at Horseshoe Point,
where the event runs its excit-
ing daylong course.
Away from the animal plan-
et of tigers, elephants and
eagles, a unique new intro-
duction is likely to change the
face of Aussie rules footy not
just in this region but across
the continent.
The competition will extend
a warm welcome to the In-
doChina Indigenous All Stars
made up of seven Thais, as
many Laotians, six Cambodi-
ans and four Vietnamese. The
All Stars will play an exhibi-
tion game against a combined
Kangaroos team to wind down
a ercely competitive day.
Even before they launch
themselves into competi-
tion, the All Stars are already
looking far ahead to the 2017
Melbourne Cup, while seek-
ing approval from the AFL to
eld a combined team in this
prestigious tournament.
The star tag goes well be-
yond the team to superstar
coach Andrew Embley, the
former West Coast Eagles
wingman and winner of the
2006 Norm Smith Medal.
Embley lost no time in sign-
ing on after learning how
strongly the game was grow-
ing in the Indochina region,
and he will be at Horseshoe
Point to guide his new team.
The West Eagles premier-
ship player will also bring
cheer to players from the
Bangkok Tigers and the Patta-
ya Pirates, who can train with
him in a short Auskick session
during the lunch break.
Taiwanese match-fixing
players avoid jail terms
SEVERAL former Taiwanese
professional baseball players
convicted of match fixing are
expected to avoid prison terms
by paying fines, after a
controversial ruling on one of
Taiwans worst sport scandals.
The high court said in a
statement late on Wednesday it
had reduced the prison terms
of six former players to up to
three years in a final ruling. All
except Tseng Han-chou who
was convicted of extortion
can pay fines in exchange for
imprisonment. Former star
pitcher Chang Chih-chias jail
term was reduced to four
months, down from a sentence
of two years and two months
imposed by a district court in
2011. He can pay a fine of
NT$120,000 (US$4,000) to stay
out of jail. AFP
Ultramarathon traces
Berlin Wall, 25 years on
MORE than 300 ultramarathon
runners will start a gruelling
race tomorrow along the161-
kilometre (100-mile) path of the
old Berlin Wall, a quarter-
century after it fell in the heady
days that brought down
communism. Extreme athletes
from around the world will join
the third event of its kind in the
German capital, which will also
be a historical pilgrimage along
the symbol of the Cold War. AFP
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 15, 2014
Sport
Woods ruled out of Ryder Cup
T
IGER Woods ruled
himself out of
the Ryder Cup on
Wednesday, saying
he will not return to competi-
tion until December because
he needs time to strengthen
his ailing back.
The 14-time major cham-
pion missed the cut at last
weeks PGA Championship
with back spasms, a week
after he withdrew from the
World Golf Championships
event in Akron, Ohio, with
similar trouble.
Even so, US Ryder Cup cap-
tain Tom Watson said on Mon-
day he would still consider
making Woods a captains pick
for the team to face Europe
in September if the former
world number one was sure he
was healthy.
I have already spoken to
Tom about the Ryder Cup, and
while I greatly appreciate his
thinking about me for a possi-
ble captains pick, I took myself
out of consideration, Woods,
38, wrote on his website. The
US team and the Ryder Cup
mean too much to me not to
be able to give it my best.
Woods said he would return
to competition at the World
Challenge unofcial tourna-
ment he hosts, which will be
held December 4-7 in Orlan-
do, Florida.
Ive been told by my doc-
tors and trainer that my back
muscles need to be rehabili-
tated and healed, he said.
Theyve advised me not to
play or practise now. I was for-
tunate that my recent back in-
jury was not related to my sur-
gery and was muscular only.
Woods, chasing the record 18
majors won by Jack Nicklaus,
admitted last week at Valhalla
that he was stubbornly trying
to play through pain.
It was sore, he said after
missing the cut on Friday. It
went out on me on the range.
Nagged by various knee and
leg troubles over the past few
years, Woods stressed the lat-
est injury is in a different loca-
tion than that of a March 31
operation to ease a pinched
nerve one that sidelined him
for nearly four months.
Woods missed the Masters
and US Open while recov-
ering from the surgery and
played his rst event since
the operation in late June,
missing the cut at Congres-
sional Country Club.
Last month, Woods nished
joint 69th at the British Open,
marking the worst 72-hole
major nish of his pro career.
He didnt qualify for the US
PGA Tours FedEx Cup play-
offs, which start next week
with the Barclays tournament
in New Jersey.
Nor did he have any chance
to make the US Ryder Cup
team on points.
The United States will be
trying to recapture the trophy
from Europe when they meet
in the biennial trans-Atlantic
tussle September 23-28 at Gle-
neagles in Scotland. AFP
Tiger Woods hits an approach shot from the rough on the sixth hole during the second round of the 96th PGA
Championship at Valhalla Golf Club last week in Louisville, Kentucky. AFP