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INDIAS MARS
CRAFT BEAMS
BACK PHOTOS
WORLD PAGE 15
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Alice Cuddy and
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
THAI government figures
obtained by the Post this week
state that no Cambodian
nationals have been harmed
this year while illegally felling
luxury timber across the bor-
der, contesting numerous
accounts of both shootings and
fatalities from Cambodian offi-
cials and loggers.
Thailands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs told the Post that, accord-
ing to information from the
Border Defence Command,
between January 1 and Septem-
ber 2 there have been no
reports of clashes or losses of
life of loggers on either side of
the border.
Thailand has no policy to
use any forms of violence
against illegal loggers and we
stand firm on respecting human
rights and relevant interna-
tional laws, Dana Darongsu-
wan, third secretary at the Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs
Department of Information,
said in an email this week.
Darongsuwan added that
149 Cambodian illegal loggers
were arrested within the nine-
month period.
Most Cambodian illegal log-
gers who have hitherto been
arrested and prosecuted in
accordance with the Thai judi-
cial system have been found to
commit minor offences and
received minor punishments
according to the law, such as
fines or suspension of sentenc-
es. They are subsequently
released to go back to Cambo-
dia, she said.
But Srey Naren, a coordinator
for local rights group Adhoc in
H S Manjunath
A TEENAGE Cambodian soft ten-
nis player has failed a drug test
at the Asian Games and been
kicked out, the second athlete to
be caught for doping this week,
organisers said yesterday.
Yi Sophany failed a test on
September 16 ahead of the start
of the Games in Incheon, South
Korea. The Olympic Council of
Asia said Sophanys urine sam-
ple tested positive for the
banned stimulant sibutramine.
An OCA statement said the
18-year-old has been disquali-
fied from the Games and her
accreditation withdrawn.
Tajikistan footballer Khurshed
Beknazarov, 20, tested positive
for the stimulant methylhexa-
neamine and was kicked out of
the Games on Tuesday.
Beknazarovs urine sample
was taken after he played one
Thailand
says zero
loggers
harmed
Athlete
fails test
at Asian
Games
Daniel Pye, Kevin Ponniah
and Cheang Sokha
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AMBODIA has agreed
to take an unlimited
number of refugees
under a deal due to
be signed today in Phnom
Penh, Australias minister of
immigration said yesterday.
Scott Morrison, Australias
minister of immigration and
border affairs, told reporters in
Canberra ahead of his visit that
there would be no cap on the
number of refugees allowed to
resettle in Cambodia.
The arrangement is strictly
voluntary. Anyone who choos-
es to go to Cambodia will have
chosen themselves, Morrison
said. Settlement will be per-
manent for those who take up
these arrangements. There is
no cap.
This means that more than
1,000 asylum seekers currently
detained on Nauru could even-
tually make their way to Cam-
bodia if they are found to be
refugees and if they choose
to be resettled here under
the scheme.
Support will be tailored to
the needs of [refugees] as part
of a package of measures that
will go to their resettlement,
which is designed to make
them self-reliant as quickly as
possible, Morrison was quot-
ed by the Associated Press as
saying.
Cambodias Ministry of For-
eign Affairs issued a statement
on Friday ending months of
speculation over the signing of
the controversial deal, which
has been shrouded in secrecy
No cap on refugees
Controversial immigration deal with Australia to be signed today
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Indonesian protesters who oppose a new bill on local elections chant during outside the parliament building in Jakarta
yesterday. Indonesias parliament was set to decide whether to scrap the direct election of local leaders. AFP
Burning issue
STORY > 13
Laignee Barron
S
EEKING to repair the bruised repu-
tation of its notoriously abusive
and migrant worker-dependant
seafood industry, Thailand
announced on Monday a plan to inspect
conditions of the fishing sector beginning
next month.
The survey is intended to address
forced-labour concerns in the industry
after the US State Department relegated
Thailand to the lowest possible ranking
on its human-trafficking watch list ear-
lier this year. The demotion was largely
attributed to brutal and violent condi-
tions aboard Thai fishing vessels, which
are manned almost exclusively by undoc-
umented migrants.
While there are no official figures for how
many employees help float Thailands $7.3
billion seafood industry, independent sur-
veys have estimated the fleet comprises
between 200,000 and 300,000 migrants
from Thailands neighbouring countries,
mostly Cambodia and Myanmar. And
many of the workers arent on the boats of
their own volition an International
Labour Organisation study last year found
that approximately 17 per cent of surveyed
fisherman worked against their will.
Thailands attempts to stymie the abuse
by regularising migrant fishermen have
long failed, and while the juntas current
registration window program has doled
out temporary documents to more than a
million foreign workers, fewer than 50,000
of them are fishermen.
There are few benefits to becoming a
regular migrant, and the time and cost
required are disincentives, said Max
Tunon, a senior program officer at ILO.
Even for registered boats, crew lists are
not always maintained, he added.
In recent years, the Post has published
numerous accounts of Cambodians
tricked into work aboard Thai fishing ves-
sels, where they said they suffered physical
and mental abuse.
The Thai Ministry of Labour last year
estimated that only one in six vessels
were registered.
How Thailands planned survey intends
to tackle the registration shortage and
address the grave human trafficking
problem remains unclear: the govern-
ments announcement included plans for
amending and enacting new labour laws
to protect the fishermen, but observers
are sceptical that laws long stuck in the
drafting phase will reform the industry
anytime soon.
"There is no real reason for another sur-
vey . . . the facts are well-known already,
said Phil Robertson, deputy director of
Human Rights Watch Asia. What's been
lacking all along is political commitment
to systematically address the problem
through law reform, enforcement, and
support for victims to seek redress."
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
Migrant workers stand on the bow of a shing boat as it arrives at the port in the southern Thai
city of Pattani earlier this year. AFP
Thais to inspect boat labour
Vong Sokheng
PRIME Minister Hun Sen an-
nounced during a speech yes-
terday that he had completely
quit smoking after more than
10 failed attempts.
I was not struggling against
natural disasters or others I
was struggling against my-
self, and I announce today
absolute success in my at-
tempt to quit smoking, Hun
Sen said to graduates from
Chamroeun University of
Poly-Technology.
Now, my house is free of
smoke and the smell of ciga-
rettes," he added. "Oh! My
wife was patient with me for
many years, and I feel pity for
my wife.
During his speech, Hun Sen
poked fun at Pol Saroeun,
commander-in-chief of the
Royal Cambodian Armed
Forces, and Pa Socheatvong,
Phnom Penh municipal gov-
ernor, saying they were the
types of smokers who failed to
quit successfully.
Hun Sen claimed in March
that he had smoked his last
cigarette, adding that his then-
11th try at quitting would be
his last.
Mom Kong, executive direc-
tor of the Cambodia Move-
ment for Health, said that ac-
cording to a national survey
in 2011, some 10,000 Cambo-
dian people die from tobacco-
related diseases every year.
I think that Prime Minis-
ter Hun Sens announcement
about successfully quitting
smoking is a good model
for the Cambodian people,
and also for his health,
Kong said.
Hun Sens declaration co-
incides with ministerial-level
discussion of a proposed an-
ti-smoking law which would
ban smoking in places such as
restaurants, hotels and bars.
During his speech, the pre-
mier also promised raises for
all civil servants, with prior-
ity for those in the health and
education sectors, setting the
lowest wage at 550,000 riel per
month ($123) and the highest
at 1.6 million riel ($394.)
PM wins war against
cigarettes, so he says
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
NATIONAL Military Police Cap-
tain Chan Chea, 35, was arrest-
ed on Tuesday night for alleg-
edly shooting a provincial-level
military police ofcer in a dance
oor dispute in Prey Veng prov-
inces Peamro district.
He got very drunk and he
went to dance with a crowd
of youths who were danc-
ing to celebrate the Pchum
Ben festival, Peamror district
Military Police Chief Chhuon
Kimsan said.
During the dance, he got
into a conict with the crowd
of youths. He then drew a pis-
tol from his waist, threatening
to shoot them. He red seven
bullets into the ground, but
one of the bullets ricocheted
to hit a district military police
ofcers left leg."
The victim, Breng Vireak, 35,
of the Peamro District Military
Police, was sent to the provin-
cial referral hospital.
National Military Police
spokesman Kheng Tito said
yesterday that Chea was be-
ing detained at the National
Military Police headquarters in
Phnom Penh but would be sent
to military court for questioning
and potential charges today.
He was preliminarily ac-
cused of a shooting spree and
illegal weapon use, he said.
Military police detain
colleague for gunplay
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No cap on refugees, says Morrison
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since it was rst broached by For-
eign Minister Julie Bishop in a meet-
ing with Prime Minister Hun Sen in
February.
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng told
reporters in Phnom Penh yesterday
that the plan will initially involve a
small number of refugees moving
to Cambodia under a pilot phase of
the project.
We will try to take four or ve peo-
ple, maybe two or three [initially], he
said. We will keep working to ensure
[the deal is in our] interest.
He added that the exact numbers
of refugees who might be resettled in
Cambodia and the amount of money
that Australia would pay under the
deal would be disclosed today after
the signing.
The announcement that an agree-
ment had been reached was met by
condemnation from Australias oppo-
sition and human rights groups, who
have denounced the proposal since
its inception was made public.
Australias shadow minister for im-
migration, Richard Marles, said in a
statement yesterday that the Abbott
administration should reveal the de-
tails of the plan.
Scott Morrison needs to provide
immediate information about what
deal he is about to do with Cambo-
dia, he said. Morrison must also ex-
plain why he believes Cambodia is an
acceptable location for resettlement
when he so fervently denounced
Labors Malaysia Arrangement, he
added, referring to a 2011 deal to
swap refugees with Malaysia that
Morrisons liberal party opposed at
the time. It was later struck down in
an Australian court.
Also yesterday, Morrison tabled
a bill in the Australian parliament
that seeks to introduce a new tem-
porary visa system for refugees and
remove references to the Refugee
Convention from the countrys mi-
gration laws.
However, legal experts yesterday
said the bill, if it passes, would not
affect the refugees on Australias off-
shore detention centre on the Pacic
island of Nauru, who would be of-
fered resettlement in Cambodia.
The Australian government is try-
ing to nd a way through the current
unsustainable situation of thousands
in limbo both in Nauru, [Papua New
Guinea] and on the Australian main-
land, Joyce Chia, senior research as-
sociate at the Kaldor Centre for Inter-
national Refugee Law, told the Post.
[Temporary visas] are intended to
provide a way out of the unsustain-
able problem of not processing asy-
lum seekers within Australia, while
still maintaining their commitment
never to give these people a pathway
to permanent residency.
Australian Greens Senator Sarah
Hanson-Young said most refugees
would not accept the new visas.
Scrapping the Refugee Conven-
tion from Australian law is an appall-
ing move that clearly shows what this
government thinks when it comes to
protecting those in need, she said.
Under these new rules, the road
to permanent residency is long, ex-
tremely narrow and most refugees
will never make it.
UNICEF Australia, Save the Chil-
dren, Plan International Australia,
World Vision, Amnesty International,
the Refugee Council of Australia,
International Detention Coalition
and Childrens Rights International
expressed grave concerns for the
welfare of children who might be re-
settled in a statement yesterday.
This planned deal is inappropri-
ate, immoral and likely illegal, for-
mer Australian Chief Justice Alastair
Nicholson, speaking on behalf of
the alliance, said. It is inappropriate
because Cambodia has no capac-
ity within its social sector to take an
inux of refugees. Immoral because
these vulnerable people are Aus-
tralias responsibility, and while we
await the detail, it appears illegal in
contravening Australias humanitar-
ian and refugee obligations to vulner-
able children and families.
On August 31, there were 1,233 asy-
lum seekers in Australian immigra-
tion detention on Nauru, including
222 children.
But according to Human Rights
Watch, as of September 18, only 250
refugee status determinations had
been carried out, with 206 people
recognised as refugees.
A small, unknown number of the
206 recognised refugees are already
living in communities in Nauru on
temporary visas and would be some
of the rst eligible for resettlement
here.
During a discussion of human
rights in Cambodia at the United Na-
tions Human Rights Council in Gene-
va on Wednesday, Australia sought to
assuage concerns about the scheme.
In a short statement, an Australian
delegate told the council that Aus-
tralia would use its expertise, experi-
ence and funding to help Cambodia
to strengthen settlement support
provided to refugees.
Although Australia had in Janu-
ary criticised Cambodia at the rights
council for abuses including dis-
proportionate violence against
protesters and detention without
trial, it steered away from such top-
ics yesterday.
A refugee at Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australias Kimberly
region works on a vegetable garden in 2012. DIBP
In brief
Traffic fatalities almost
double over Pchum Ben
TRAFFIC fatalities nearly
doubled this Pchum Ben
holiday compared to last
years, with 49 deaths
compared with 2013s 27. The
number of traffic accidents
and injuries also increased
during the five-day period, with
a total of 137 reported crashes
up by 53 from last year and
305 injuries, compared with
227 in 2013, a National Police
report said. The reasons for
the increase in accidents were
motorists speeding, driving
drunk and not obeying the
traffic laws, the report reads.
A total of 171 motorbikes and
52 cars were damaged in the
accidents. SEN DAVID
Accounts differ widely
over beating accusation
A POLICE officer in Koh Kong
provinces Sre Ambel district is
accused of beating a villager
who would not relinquish his
spot on a pool table at a local
bar, an allegation the officers
superior strongly denied. Yin
Neng, 25, suffered a bloodied
jaw and bruises after police
officer Sim Oeun allegedly
attacked him in a drunken
state. Oeun pulled my sons
collar and boxed, kicked and
kneed him and blood flowed
out of his mouth, Nengs
father, Yin Nuong, said
yesterday. District police
yesterday denied the
accusations, saying Neng had
been drinking and acting
aggressively, and to calm him
down, the officer had
accidentally touched [Nengs]
mouth, causing him to bleed.
The case was sent to district
police. PHAK SEANGLY
CPP lawmaker tells
governor to solve feud
RULING party lawmaker
Chheang Vun yesterday called
for the governor of
Battambang province to
intervene in a long-running
land dispute between 38
villagers and wealthy tycoon
Lem Tealeng. I suggest that
the provincial governor
negotiate with the court not to
take any measures and let the
land be measured, Vun said,
referring to charges laid
against the villagers living on
the land in Kors Kralor district.
Chan Sophal, Battambang
provincial governor, responded
that the authorities are already
measuring the land and
providing villagers with legal
support. PECH SOTHEARY
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Brands pledge questioned
Sean Teehan

A
LETTER from eight
international cloth-
ing brands seemingly
assuring the Cambo-
dian government of plans to in-
crease the amount they pay for
clothing, thus enabling wage
increases for workers in the sec-
tor, has left unionists and advo-
cates sceptical.
Dated September 18, the
message addressed to Deputy
Prime Minister Keat Chhon and
the heads of three ministries
says the increased amount the
companies are willing to pay
reects their commitment to a
fair living wage.
As responsible businesses our
purchasing practices will enable
the payment of a fair living wage
and increased wages will be re-
ected in our [delivered goods]
prices, the letter reads. We
also expect government and
[the Garment Manufacturers
Association in Cambodia] to
establish processes to ensure all
workers receive the new agreed
minimum wage by monitoring
wage implementation.
While the communication
appears to show good faith on
the part of the letters signa-
tories which include H&M,
Inditex, C&A, N Brown Group
plc, Tchibo, Next Retail Ltd,
Primark and New Look it still
seems to leave the government
responsible for setting a mini-
mum wage, without a guaran-
tee of any specic amount, said
Moeun Tola, head of the labour
program at the Community Le-
gal Education Center.
Although these corporations
have engaged with the govern-
ment, none have reached out to
factories or unions, Tola said.
I think at least its good the
brands said something about
the wage, but its still not a clear
position that the brands will
come up with a [deal] with the
unions, Tola said. It seems
that the brands are playing a
trick again; they kick the ball to
the government and GMAC to
set the minimum wage.
After reading the correspon-
dence, Collective Union of
Movement of Workers presi-
dent Pav Sina pointed out that
its wording includes no direct
pledge to increase the amount
brands currently pay factories.
The letter amounts to little
more than what is included in
each signatories code of con-
duct, said a spokesperson for
the Free Trade Union (FTU).
If they want us to believe
them that they really have com-
mitment to pay our workers
[higher] wages, they need to
have a meeting with the suppli-
er factory [and agree] that they
will pay their workers [a higher
amount], the spokesperson
said. If they only talk about liv-
ing wage, it is nothing.
In separate email responses,
signatories H&M and C&A both
said they are working closely
with the International Labour
Organization to ensure prog-
ress on the issue.
Ministry of Labour spokes-
man Heng Sour yesterday said
with or without the brands
letter, Cambodias minimum
wage negotiation process
which concludes in October is
in motion and adheres to inter-
national standards.
The minimum wage is not
based on the international
brands, Sour said. It is based
on the consensus of the [La-
bour Ministrys] Labour Advi-
sory Committee. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY TAING VIDA
Garment workers attend the launch of a campaign at Veng Sreng Boulevard earlier this month to demand the minimum wage be raised to $177 for
their industry. HONG MENEA
Salary hike in the making for local ofcials
Chhay Channyda
A GATHERING of government officials
at the Ministry of Interior yesterday
approved a draft sub-decree that would
see the salaries of Cambodias notori-
ously underpaid civil servants boosted
by up to 60 per cent in some cases.
According to the sub-decree, starting
in January 2015, a commune chief will
get 400,000 riel (about $100) per month,
up from 300,000 riel; first and second
deputy commune chiefs will get 350,000
riel, up from 240,000; commune coun-
cillors will get 300,000 riel , up from
200,000; and village chiefs will get
160,000 riel, a 60 per cent increase
from their current salary of 100,000.
The above payment will be imple-
mented from January 2015, and will
only be for the officers in those posi-
tions, the sub-decree reads.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng who is
also director of the National Committee
for Sub-National Democratic Develop-
ment (NCDD) presided over the
meeting, telling attendees that the draft
sub-decree will be sent to the govern-
ment for approval soon.
The government does not allow low
and high [ranking] officers to have a
large gap between their salaries,
Kheng said.
Moek Chea, first deputy chief of Kan-
dal provinces Koki Thom commune,
said he was happy with the salary
bump, but also noted that the salary
was still not enough for a local official
to live on alone.
Such an amount of wages does not
feed my wife and children. I farm and
grow crops for sale to support my daily
livelihood, he said.
In his remarks yesterday, Kheng also
alluded to vague irregularities in the
disbursement of government funds at
the local level and called on sub-fed-
eral civil servants to take action to
ensure that the funds were spent
appropriately.
Chea said that he had noticed such
irregularities in his own commune.
Citing the example of a road that cost
some $3,300 less than projected to
build, he wondered aloud what had
happened to the funds that were allo-
cated but not spent.
Prime Minister Hun Sen last month
announced similar pay rises in the edu-
cation sector, with some 110,000 edu-
cation officers being bumped up to
500,000 riel (about $125) as of this
month, with an additional 50,000-riel
bump to come in April.
Another 50,000 low-level teachers
were promised a 14 per cent bump to
550,000 riel starting this month, with a
further bump to 640,000 in April.
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Sticks and stones break
bones, ruin dance party
REVENGE is a dish best served
mid-party, or apparently so
thought several alleged brawl-
ers in Kampong Chhnangs
Rolea Baier district on Wednes-
day. According to police, five
men were dancing at a village
party when a marauding group
of local men swooped in and fell
upon them with sticks and
stones. The attackers fled, leav-
ing three of the five victims badly
injured. Police are still searching
for the suspects, whom they
believe were motivated by a
grudge. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Accident trifecta: drunk,
speeding and teenaged
A DRUNKEN teen in Phnom
Penhs Daun Penh district
allegedly broke his leg on Mon-
day and badly injured that of an
unsuspecting fish seller in a
moto accident. Police said the
teen was driving like the wind
with his friend on board when
they attempted to pass a truck.
Unable to get around the vehi-
cle in time, they slammed into
an oncoming moto carrying the
fish seller and his wife. The two
passengers were slightly
injured. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Thieves dial up phone
theft, but cops answer
A PHONE vendor in the capitals
Meanchey district may have
gotten a measure of justice on
Wednesday, but she didnt get
back her merchandise. The
aggrieved shopkeeper filed a
complaint to police after finding
her business burglarised, with
$150 in mobile phones missing.
Police quickly settled on a sus-
pect who reportedly confessed
and immediately turned over
his two accomplices as well.
The three men were hauled off
to jail, but their haul remains
missing. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Customer belts tuk-tuk
driver over theft of bag
THE suspicion of collusion led
to the risk of concussion in an
altercation over a bag-snatch-
ing in Phnom Penhs Daun
Penh district on Sunday.
According to police, a Chinese
woman and her three friends
were stepping out of a tuk-tuk
at the supermarket when the
womans bag was stolen by
men on a moto. Thinking he
was in on the scam, her com-
panion punched the tuk-tuk
driver in the face. Police showed
up at the drivers request and
are trying to get to the bottom of
the matter. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Vicious beatdown ends
with little time to spare
A ROADWAY spat led to a brutal
gang beating in the capitals
Meanchey district on Sunday. A
group of three men exchanged
cross words with a much larger
group of 10, then tried to flee on
moto into a nearby factorys
grounds. One man, abandoning
his moto, tried to flee on foot,
only to trip and quickly find him-
self surrounded. The gang of
ruffians then proceeded to
attack the man with sticks,
stones and machetes, leaving
him unconscious in a pool of
blood. Police said if they had
been any later, the man likely
would have died. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
A new solar-powered bus is displayed during a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. Two new solar
buses will soon see trials on the citys bus lines. PHOTO SUPPLIED
City route goes solar
Taing Vida

T
WO solar-powered
buses will soon be put
to the test on Phnom
Penhs bus line 1, City
Hall spokesman Long Diman-
che said yesterday.
The test buses will oper-
ate from 6am to 6pm, saving
enough energy to run more
than four hours at nighttime
along the route, which goes
south from Monivong Bou-
levards Kilometre 9 near the
Japanese Friendship Bridge
to Chbar Ampov district along
National Road 1.
If the process goes well,
[City] Hall will consider mak-
ing the transition to replace
the old buses in order to re-
duce the use of gasoline, Di-
manche said.
City Hall launched three
public bus lines at the start of
September, using a eet of 45
secondhand buses.
The launch date for the solar
buses has not been announced,
because signs and billboards
need to be organised rst, Di-
manche said.
If the experiment is success-
ful, Phnom Penh will not be
the only Cambodian city with
eco-friendly transport on the
horizon, or even the rst, as
Siem Reap is expected to have a
eet of 50 solar-powered buses
from the same company, Star8,
starting early next year.
A man reveals the entry wound on his leg where he was shot by a Thai
soldier while illegally logging earlier this year. HENG CHIVOAN
Oddar Meanchey province
a common entry point for
Cambodians seeking lucrative
wood across the border said
Thailand was merely trying to
escape accountability.
The Thai government just
doesnt want to be responsible
for what it has done to Cam-
bodian people, he said. We
have the family members of
the victims it is proof.
According to the Ministry of
Interior, 69 Cambodians were
shot dead while illegally cross-
ing the Thai border last year.
Cambodian ofcials said in
March that Thai soldiers had
shot dead 12 Cambodian log-
gers in a single day.
While Bangkok denied the
shootings, in the same month,
a district governor in Preah
Vihear province told the Post
that the Thai military had ad-
mitted to killing three people
accused of illegal logging and
burning their corpses.
Members of a logging cartel
in Oddar Meanchey province
told the Post in May of regular
shootings; one logger showed
evidence of a bullet still em-
bedded in his thigh.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Koy Kuong said Cambodia
had urged Thailand to arrest,
not shoot.
But 19-year-old Mom Phear-
um told the Post yesterday
that just last week, black-uni-
formed Thai paramilitary forc-
es opened re as he attempted
to carry illegally logged rose-
wood into Cambodia.
Phearum said he was trav-
elling in a group of 20 loggers
back to his home in Battam-
bangs Samlot district when
the soldiers opened re and
subsequently arrested three
members of the group, includ-
ing his two brothers.
The Thai soldiers saw us
and started to shoot at us from
the mountain. My brothers
told me to drop the wood and
escape, but they kept carrying
the wood . . . Both of them and
another villager were arrest-
ed, he said.
Lieutenant General Prak
Phan, director of border com-
munication at checkpoint
400, said that Thailand had
denied shooting or arresting
any loggers.
We are still suspicious, he
said, adding that he would
press Thailand for more an-
swers on the incident and
the whereabouts of the three
missing men. ADDITIONAL REPORT-
ING BY MAY TITTHARA
No illegal loggers shot,
Thai authorities claim
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Business
Tourists visit Angkor Wat. Cambodias beach and temple towns saw a large increase in tourist numbers over this years Pchum Ben holiday. HONG MENEA
Pchum Ben tourists turn out
Chan Muyhong
H
OLIDAYMAKERS
ocked to Cambo-
dias temples and
beachside towns
during the September 22-24
Pchum Ben holiday break, of-
cials said yesterday.
Nou Sophal, director of the
Sihanoukville department of
tourism, said the province re-
ceived about 67,600 visitors
over the three-day festival pe-
riod, up some 76 per cent over
the same period last year.
There has been no rain
during these last few days of
the festival, which is good for
travellers and also good for
road conditions, he said.
Neighbouring Kampot
province saw a similarly large
increase in arrivals during
Pchum Ben, during which
Cambodians pray for their an-
cestors for up to 15 days dur-
ing September.
Soy Kinal, director of Kam-
pots tourism department,
said that more than 62,500
visitors rolled into the coastal
province during the break.
Among the holidaymakers,
domestic visitors accounted
for more than 60,000.
Thats about a 65 per cent
increase on last years Pchum
Ben period, with a 66 per cent
increase in locals, Kinal said.
Kinal said Kampot was typi-
cally a secondary destination to
Sihanoukville or Kep, especial-
ly for foreign tourists, and that
the Pchum Ben gures were a
positive sign of the provinces
increasing popularity.
Usually, there are visitors
who drop by Kampot on their
way back from Sihanoukville.
Or they drop in on their way
to Kep province to visit Bokor
Mountain, he added.
In Siem Reap, preliminary
gures from the tourism de-
partment showed that about
118,100 tourists visited the
province between September
22 and September 24, an in-
crease of almost 12 per cent
over the same period last year.
Chhoeuy Chhorn, director
of the Siem Reap provincial
tourism department, said the
increase was driven largely by
locals who took the three-day
holiday as an opportunity to
visit the ancient temples.
This year we have seen
more local tourists coming to
Angkor Wat over the Pchum
Ben holiday compared to pre-
vious years, Chhorn said.
They come from differ-
ent provinces, not only from
Phnom Penh. We have seen an
inux of Cambodian nationals
picnicking around the temple
area over Pchum Ben.
Thats about a 65 per cent
increase on last years Pchum
Ben period, with a 66 per cent
increase in locals
Pawnshop
chain taps
rebound in
Thailand
A GROWING number of Thai
small businesses are turning to
pawnshops to fund their busi-
ness expansion as the economy
rebounds, accounting for 70
per cent of the countrys largest
privately owned pawnshop
operators credit.
Pawnshop chain Easy Mon-
eys lending ratio to small- and
medium-sized enterprises has
recently increased, managing
director Sittiwit Tangthana-
kiat said.
Lending ratio to individual
borrowers has declined to 30
per cent of loans outstanding,
Sittiwit said.
This indicates that SMEs are
in dire need of fresh funds as
most of them do not have
access to funding from banks.
SMEs have been the most vul-
nerable sector in an economy
crippled by the political
impasse and they are urgently
in need of the interim govern-
ments assistance.
Some SMEs do not have
access to bank funds due to
tough conditions for loan
approval. So pawnshops
become their alternative source
of funding. Normally, SME
operators use pawnshops when
the economy is in a good con-
dition as they require funds for
business expansion, he said.
However, individual borrow-
ers turn to pawnshops when
the economy stalls because
they need money for regular
daily expenses.
Sittiwit said Easy Money had
posted an average annual lend-
ing growth of 50 per cent over
the past five years.
However, loan growth this
year is expected to fall to 40 per
cent due to the high base effect
and the fall in gold prices. The
company also aims for 40 per
cent growth in lending next
year. BANGKOK POST
WITH more than 300,000 employ-
ees across 170 countries and close to
$150 billion in revenue last year, Gen-
eral Electric is one of the worlds larg-
est companies. The US multinational,
which entered Cambodia in 2007, has
over 100 years of experience in the re-
gion developing technology solutions
ranging from power plant infrastruc-
ture to jet engines and household
products. The Posts Daniel de Car-
teret sat down with John Rice, vice
chairman of GE and president and
CEO of GE Global Growth and Opera-
tions, during a visit to Cambodia this
month, to talk about the rms ASEAN
expansion and plans for the future.
What are some of the things that GE
is currently working on in Cambo-
dia and where are the opportunities
to expand?
The rice husk project is one. By the
end of the year we expect to get that
up and running. There are two things;
biofuels and the second is distributor
power, so smaller power block sizes
can be used to get to people who to-
day dont have power transmission
and distribution infrastructure. Much
of the population does not have that
infrastructure, like the wires, so you
look to solve that problem on top of
the power generation.
In health care, we have started our
foundation with capacity building.
You have lots of equipment in coun-
tries, including Cambodia, that has
been purchased or provided by an
NGO for example and you have
to have people to maintain it. We
have trained 30 biomedical techni-
cians, so we can keep stuff running.
And it is not restricted to our equip-
ment, because at some point, hope-
fully, someone will want to buy more
GE equipment, so it is not purely
philanthropic.
How does GEs transition from a
global company to a provider in local
markets play out with ASEAN inte-
gration?
We think it ts hand in glove, be-
cause what we want in all of this is
a level playing eld. Our goal is not
to anticipate the next source of geo-
political strife; we go where there is
a demand for infrastructure, where
people need the kind of stuff that we
have. We go where there are natural
resources and market size and popu-
lation. We believe that any country
that needs infrastructure, we should
be part of. If you look at what we do
in ASEAN today, we have 7,500 em-
ployees, and two-thirds of what we
do in ASEAN countries gets exported
to another country. The simple way
to think about that is that it only
exists because the barriers are low
enough to facilitate that trade. If bar-
riers go down further, we will hire
more people; we will expand what
we do here.
There are few Cambodian companies
with a large international presence
most are very small, which in some
markets can create nervousness
towards opening up to competition.
With ASEAN integration approach-
ing, how does the market ensure a
rising tide lifts all boats?
You have to have some people or
some companies that create some
winners. Because the issue ends up
being, when you lower barriers, from
a macro-perspective, things should
get better. You should create more
economic growth and that should
be a good thing. The tide should rise
and carry a lot of boats with it. But
the problem is that there is always a
dislocation, so nobody wants to deal
with the friction created by the dislo-
cation you either ignore it if youre
a politician at your peril or you have
to retrain, and that is hard work to
convince people that used to be in
farming that there is a better way to
make a living, which is hard.
I think you have to have a way to
short-circuit, if you will, the disloca-
tion and create some winners. You
have to have some people, some in-
vestors, maybe some companies that
take a long-term view. I think that is
part of it.
Corruption and red tape is always
talked about when doing business in
Cambodia. How much of a threat is
this to potential investment?
It will deter some investors; I think
it can have an impact in terms of the
overall level of economic growth.
The other thing I would say is, Cam-
bodia hasnt cornered the market on
corruption. We believe, and I think
our reputation helps us, that you
can do business here the right way
and so we dont think we have to
compromise in any way to do busi-
ness here. We wouldnt compromise
in any way. For us, the effort to do
what we do and to do it here is worth
it. But there is no question that cor-
ruption matters and everybody has
x it in their own way. There isnt any
one size ts all to cleaning up cor-
ruption around the world.
This interview has been edited for
length. Visit the Posts website to read
the Q&A in full
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Electrifying the ASEAN countries
John Rice, vice chairman of GE and CEO of GE Global Growth and Operations, gives a
speech at an AmCHam event at Rafes earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
China finds $10B in
fake currency trade
CHINA uncovered almost $10
billion in fraudulent trade
nationwide as part of an
investigation begun in April
last year, including many
irregularities in the port of
Qingdao, the countrys
currency regulator said
yesterday. Companies faked,
forged and illegally reused
documents for exports and
imports, Wu Ruilin, a deputy
head of the State
Administration of Foreign
Exchanges inspection
department, said at a briefing
in Beijing. The trades have
increased pressure from hot
money inflows and provided an
illegal channel for criminals to
move funds, Wu said, adding
that those involved would be
severely punished. BLOOMBERG
Tesco suspends four
execs after profit error
THE new head of Britains
biggest retailer Tesco has
suspended four senior
executives and launched an
independent investigation after
the troubled supermarket
revealed on Monday it had
massively overestimated
profits. Following initial
investigations into its UK food
business, Tesco said that its
profit for the six months to
August 23 was overstated by
an estimated 250 million
[$408 million]. AFP
Markets
10
Business
APPLE released and then
abruptly pulled back an up-
date for the iOS software pow-
ering the iPhone on Wednes-
day after users complained of
bugs, including one that dis-
abled cellular service.
The apparently botched
update came after a rash of
complaints posted on social
media about the reportedly
fragile body on some of the
large-screen iPhones, which
went on sale last week.
Apple released a tweak to its
iOS 8 operating system, called
iOS 8.0.1, but then pulled the
software after complaints that
the update disabled cellular
service and Apples touch-
identication system.
Apple did not respond to
an AFP query, but in a state-
ment to the news website
TechCrunch, it said: We have
received reports of an issue
with the iOS 8.0.1 update. We
are actively investigating these
reports and will provide infor-
mation as quickly as we can. In
the meantime we have pulled
back the iOS 8.0.1 update.
The news caused further
embarrassment to Apple af-
ter some users posted com-
ments about bends in the
bodies of the iPhone 6 and
iPhone 6 Plus when carried
in trouser pockets. On the
MacRumors forum of Apple
users, one iPhone buyer
noted that, after carrying the
handset in a front pocket for
18 hours, I saw the reection
of the window in the iPhones
slightly distorted.
The user posted a picture of
the bent iPhone, and dozens
more posted similar com-
plaints on Twitter.
Apple said on Monday it
sold more than 10 million of
the new smartphones in the
rst three days since launch-
ing in a handful of countries,
setting a new record for open-
ing weekend sales.
The new iPhones were
launched on Friday in the
United States, Britain, Austra-
lia, Canada, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico
and Singapore.
They will be available in
more than 20 additional
countries on September 26,
and 115 countries by the end
of the year.
Samsung meanwhile said on
Wednesday it was launching its
oversized Galaxy Note smart-
phone earlier than expected,
getting into the key Chinese
market ahead of Apple.
Apple has said that it has de-
vised a workaround for iPhone
6 users who lost voice service
or other features. Users can re-
install the previous version of
iOS to restore past functional-
ity and Apple plans to release
a new version of the operating
system, iOS 8.0.2, in the next
few days.
We apologise for the great
inconvenience experienced by
users, Apple said.
The new iPhones are crucial
to Apple. The devices generate
more than half of the compa-
nys annual $171 billion in rev-
enue and precede a swath of
other products, including new
iPads, an Apple Watch and
a mobile-payments system
called Apple Pay. BLOOMBERG
Complaints of bendy
iPhones, iOS defects
hit Apple after launch
Eddie Morton
THE Asian Development Bank
(ADB) has maintained its
growth projections for Cam-
bodia in 2014.
The ADBs midyear outlook
for Cambodia, released yes-
terday, states that Cambo-
dias economy still stands to
achieve 7 per cent growth by
the end of the year, and poten-
tially 7.3 per cent in 2015.
Cambodias economy is
expected to remain in good
shape over the next two years,
reecting increased political
stability and steady macro-
economic management that
should further lift investors
condence, ADB senior
country economist for Cam-
bodia Jan Hansen said.
Citing rising ination now
estimated at 4.4 per cent and
the governments late 2013
crackdown on customs duty
charges, the ADB reported
that imports had slowed to a 6
per cent year-on-year increase
from 24 per cent a year earlier.
The Kingdoms exports also
moderated to a 20 per cent
increase as of June 30, down
from 27 per cent as at the
same time last year.
ADB rms
up growth
prediction
Air France pilots not budging
Jeremy Talbot
A
IR France pilots re-
fused to budge yes-
terday after man-
agement offered
to scrap plans to expand its
low-cost subsidiary, as their
strike became the longest ever
at Europes second-largest
ag carrier.
The striking pilots brushed
off calls to return to the skies,
leaving half the eet ground-
ed for an 11th day running,
as they sought to push man-
agement even further at talks
later yesterday.
The company proposed
the immediate withdrawal
of plans to expand Transavia
Europe on the continent, but
said that it would pursue the
development of the low-cost
airline in France.
It called for pilots to return
to work immediately, to end
a dispute that has crippled the
airline at a cost of 20 million
($25 million) a day.
But the main pilots union
SNPL said that it had made a
counteroffer that would be
discussed as talks were due to
resume later yesterday.
Many Air France pilots, who
earn up to 250,000 a year, are
angry at the plans to develop
Transavia, which currently
serves holiday destinations
across Europe and the Medi-
terranean.
They fear management will
eventually seek to replace Air
France ights with services
operated by Transavia, whose
pilots earn considerably less.
The withdrawal of plans to
expand Transavia will come
as a blow to the airlines efforts
to be more competitive in the
crowded and changing Euro-
pean skies, increasingly domi-
nated by no-frills airlines.
The MEDEF employers as-
sociation said the conict at
Air France 16 per cent state-
owned encapsulated the
malaise gripping the countrys
crisis-hit economy.
The union action is again
dragging a company into the
red, MEDEF vice president
Jean-Francois Pillard said.
For those who want to in-
vest or travel in France, this
does not contribute, at an al-
ready extremely difcult time,
to improving the image of the
country, he said.
Air France has already imple-
mented an ambitious restruc-
turing plan to reduce costs and
improve efciency.
Low-cost airlines now rep-
resent between 25 and 45 per
cent of air trafc in Europe,
depending on the country,
said Didier Brechemier, an
aviation expert at consultants
Roland Berger.
Air France said the proposal
allows us to end this destruc-
tive conict which yesterday
overtook the record for the
longest pilots strike at the air-
line, of 10 days in 1998.
With the withdrawal of the
Transavia Europe plan, there is
no longer any reason to strike
because there can be no fear of
outsourcing, the airline said
in a statement signed by Air
France-KLM chief executive
Alexandre de Juniac and his
Air France counterpart, Fred-
eric Gagey.
We call on the striking pilots
to return to work immediate-
ly, the statement continued.
The government welcomed
Air Frances proposal and said
it was now the responsibility
of the pilots to end the strike.
While proposing to put the
European expansion on hold,
Air France said that it would
still maintain its plans to devel-
op Transavia France in com-
petitive economic conditions.
It promised that the project
would create more than 1,000
jobs in France, including 250
pilot positions. AFP
Air France pilots continued their strike yesterday for an 11th day despite
management offering to scrap its expansion of a subsidiary. BLOOMBERG
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Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
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Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
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Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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ICEGasoil USD/MT 811 4.25 0.53% 5:02:53
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CME Lumber USD/tbf 329.8 -0.4 -0.12% 21:59:52
A
N ECO-FRIENDLY SWAT
team of 2,000 tiny wasps
was released in Indonesia
on Wednesday to battle
bugs threatening to devour cassava
crops, a major staple and source of
income for millions.
The 2-millimetre A. Lopezi para-
sitic wasps work by laying larvae that
consume the mealybugs from the
inside and mummify them. The
wasps must eat the pest to survive.
The cassava pink mealybug is native
to South America, as is cassava, and
is one of the most destructive pests to
prey on the crop. It likely travelled to
Africa and Asia by hitchhiking on
infected cassava as it was transported
across countries and continents.
Scientists behind the release, from
the Colombia-based International
Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT),
Indonesias Bogor Agricultural Univer-
sity and the UNs Food and Agriculture
Organisation, have dubbed the wasps
an eco-friendly SWAT team.
The mealybugs have been living in
the lap of luxury in their new envi-
ronments, where they face no effec-
tive threats, according to Kris Wyck-
huys, an entomologist from CIAT. Its
time to help nature along.
The wasps, native to Central Amer-
ica, were released in a confined field
covered by a large cage outside Jakar-
ta on Wednesday, which will allow
them to reproduce naturally and be
monitored in local conditions before
being unleashed in an open field.
Indonesia is one of the worlds big-
gest cassava producers and each year
plants some 1 million hectares of the
crop. It is the second most-consumed
staple after rice in the developing
nation of 250 million people.
It is consumed as a vegetable but
also processed into starch to make a
variety of products from noodles to
pharmaceuticals.
The mealybugs are capable of reduc-
ing cassava yields by up to 84 per cent.
Among Asian countries, they were first
reported as a major problem in Thai-
land in 2008. The pest has also been
detected in other Asian nations includ-
ing Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
Although the current area affected
in Indonesia is still low, the scientists
said the pest can spread fast if not
managed, as Thailand found. Wasps
were successfully used there to tack-
le the problem.
If we dont act now, this could be
a major blow to the countrys cas-
sava industry and to the millions of
farmers who depend on this crop for
their incomes, said Aunu Rauf, an
entomologist with Bogor Agricul-
tural University.
A massive aerial wasp drop in the
1980s in sub-Saharan Africa was
credited with saving the cassava
industry from $20 billion in potential
damages. AFP
SWAT team to the rescue
of Indonesian cassava crop
These cassava plants in Bogor, Indonesia, are being protected by an eco-friendly SWAT team of 2,000 tiny wasps. AFP
World
SK leader:
tear down
Cold War
frontier
SOUTH Korean President Park
Geun-hye urged the world on
Wednesday to help bring down
the worlds last Cold War fron-
tier with the North, 25 years
after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Addressing the UN General
Assembly, Park made note of
the Berlin Wall anniversary
coming up in November and
said that the Korean Penin-
sula remains stifled by a wall
of division.
I call on the international
community to stand with us in
tearing down the worlds last
remaining wall of division,
she said.
Park reiterated her call for an
international peace park on
the tense Demilitarized Zone
and her pledge to engage North
Korea if it pursues a different
path that includes giving up
nuclear weapons.
Should it choose to do so,
the Republic of Korea, together
with the international commu-
nity, will provide our strong
support for developing the
[Norths] economy, she said.
North Koreas communist
dynasty has carried out three
nuclear weapons tests, saying
that it needs the arms to guard
against hostility from the US
and its South Korean ally.
The United States and South
Korea have repeatedly pressed
North Korea to give up its
weapons and have increas-
ingly put a greater emphasis
on its human rights record,
which rights groups say is
among the worlds most dire.
Park called for greater pro-
tections for North Korean
refugees, a veiled allusion to
China which according to
rights groups regularly sends
defectors back to near certain
persecution.
The international commu-
nity should also pay greater
attention to the human rights
situation of North Korean
defectors, Park said. AFP
Chinese Uighur scholar jailed over lecture: Xinhua
A PROMINENT Chinese scholar from
the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic
group was jailed for life because of
remarks he made in a university class
about the restive Xinjiang region,
state media reported yesterday.
Ilham Tohti, a former professor,
was handed the sentence on a charge
of separatism by a court in the vast
western region on Tuesday, provok-
ing an outcry from rights groups, as
well as the US and European Union.
The case against Tohti was in part
based on recordings of university
lectures in which he said that Xin-
jiang firstly belonged to the Uighur
ethnic group, rather than Chinas
Han majority, the state-run Xinhua
news agency reported.
State prosecutors said the speech,
along with other remarks in which he
questioned the governments account
of a violent incident in Xinjiang last
year, had encouraged others to join
separatist groups.
Tohti argued that Chinas constitu-
tion guarantees citizens freedom
of speech, but prosecutors said
that Chinese citizens must not dam-
age the interests of the state while
executing their freedom, according
to Xinhua.
Foreign media was not allowed
access to the court for Tohtis trial
last week and police kept the area
sealed off.
Tohtis lawyer Li Fangping said
that several remarks quoted by Xin-
hua were inaccurate, and that he
had lodged a complaint on the
grounds that publishing evidence
before Tohti had a chance to appeal
was illegal.
We were not given access to this
evidence before the trial because we
were told it was too sensitive. Now,
before the verdict is even effective,
this evidence is released by the media,
in the name of state media, he said.
Publishing this inaccurate account,
I suspect, is intended to influence the
publics opinion of Ilham.
A Chinese official who handles eth-
nic affairs yesterday maintained that
Tohtis case was handled in accord-
ance with Chinese law.
Luo Liming, deputy director of the
State Ethnic Affairs Commission, said
in Beijing that safeguarding minority
rights and meting out punishment to
lawbreakers are different matters.
He has violated Chinas law, there-
fore he was punished, Luo said of
Tohti, according to China National
Radio. It is not an issue of safeguard-
ing the legitimate rights and interests
of minorities or not.
Xinjiang is home to about 10 mil-
lion Uighurs, and in the last year has
been hit by a string of attacks on civil-
ians and clashes which have killed at
least 200 people.
China blames unrest on militant
groups seeking independence for
Xinjiang. Rights groups say discrimi-
nation and government repression of
the Uighurs religion and language
has fuelled violence.
Local officials have carried out a
campaign against Muslim women
wearing face-covering veils and men
who grow long beards.
Xinhua said that Tohti praised
locals who attacked police in Xin-
jiangs Bachu county in 2013 a clash
which left at least 21 dead in class
at Beijings Minzu University.
Li said that Tohti had not praised
the attackers, but cited a report that
locals had resisted after government
officials forcibly entered homes to
confiscate veils from local Muslims.
He said that if it was my wife having
her veil removed, I would resist as
well, Li said, adding that Tohtis appeal
was likely to be submitted yesterday.
Chinas courts are controlled by
Chinas ruling Communist party, and
appeals in criminal cases are rarely
successful. AFP
Britain prepares to strike at IS
B
RITISH Prime Minister Da-
vid Cameron was preparing
yesterday for a key vote on
joining airstrikes in Iraq as
police arrested nine people, including
a notorious radical preacher accused
of having links to Islamist extremism.
Cameron was meeting ministers
after returning from the UN General
Assembly in New York, where he an-
nounced that parliament would vote
today on British planes joining US-led
strikes against the Islamic State (IS)
group in Iraq.
With the prime minister set to ar-
gue that the jihadists pose a direct
threat to Britain, nine people were
arrested in London yesterday on
suspicion of encouraging terrorism
and belonging to and supporting a
banned organisation.
They are accused of being mem-
bers of the extremist Islamist group
al-Muhajiroun, co-founded by one of
the detained men, Anjem Choudary,
Britains Press Association reported.
The arrests are part of an ongoing
investigation into Islamist-related
terrorism and are not in response to
any immediate public safety risk,
Scotland Yard said.
Police are also searching 19 proper-
ties following the arrests, all but one
in London.
Al-Muhajiroun aims to overthrow
the British government and replace it
with an Islamic state before establish-
ing a global Islamic caliphate, accord-
ing to the London-based International
Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
and Political Violence.
US planes, joined last week by
French ghter jets, have been launch-
ing strikes on IS targets since early Au-
gust after the jihadists seized swathes
of land in Iraq and Syria. Dutch ghter
jets are also set to join in the strikes.
Islamic State ghters have beheaded
a British aid worker and two US jour-
nalists, while an organisation linked
to IS has also executed a French tour-
ist in Algeria.
IS is also holding two other Britons.
While securing British support may
not be crucial to the US-led offensive,
Cameron told the UN Security Coun-
cil he wanted it to play its part after
US President Barack Obama urged the
global community to unite against a
network of death.
Cameron has taken a cautious ap-
proach to military action against Iraq,
haunted by a damaging House of
Commons defeat over military action
against President Bashar al-Assads
regime in Syria last year.
Although he has ruled out sending
in ground forces, many lawmakers are
also likely to be cautious about air-
strikes on Iraq as Britains involvement
in the 2003 US-led invasion of the
country remains deeply unpopular.
A total of 179 British personnel died
in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
Cameron has warned MPs not to be
so frozen with fear by past events
that we dont do anything at all.
Although Cameron could face some
hard questions during todays debate,
the main opposition Labour party
and his coalition partners the Liberal
Democrats have pledged to support
him in the vote.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters
were expected to protest outside
Downing Street yesterday against the
action.
Ofcials believe that around 500
Britons have travelled to ght along-
side IS jihadists and British media re-
ported yesterday that up to ve British
passport holders have been killed by
air strikes in Syria.
Coalition targets oil reneries
The US-led coalition has bombed
oil facilities used by IS jihadists in
Syria, as the world moves to choke off
funding for what President Obama
branded a network of death.
American, Saudi and Emirati jets
hit oil installations in eastern Syria
controlled by IS, broadening the
campaign that they launched this
week beyond military targets to eco-
nomic assets.
IS, which has imposed its brutal
rule over swaths of Syria and Iraq,
has been using such small-scale mo-
bile reneries to generate up to $2
million in revenues per day, Wash-
ington said.
The strikes against the reneries
killed 14 jihadists but also left ve ci-
vilians dead, including a child, said
the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, a Britain-based monitoring
group. AFP
UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday;
right, an F/A-18F ies over the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush after conducting
strike missions against Islamic State targets on the same day. AFP
PHILIPPINES RULES OUT TALKS WITH MILITANTS HOLDING GERMANS
T
HE Philippines said yesterday that it would not
negotiate with a militant group threatening to
behead one of two German hostages, saying it was a
criminal gang seeking to cash in on its self-
proclaimed allegiance to Islamic State jihadists.
The SITE terrorism monitoring group said on Tuesday
that the Abu Sayyaf warned it would carry out its threat
within 15 days unless a huge ransom is paid and Berlin
halts support for the US-led campaign against the
Islamic State group.
We do not negotiate with terrorists, Philippine
Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin told reporters when
asked about the 250 million peso ($5.62 million) ransom
demand. Germany also insisted it would not withdraw
support for US action against the jihadists in Iraq and
Syria despite the ultimatum.
Gazmin confirmed that the Abu Sayyaf, a small band
of Islamic militants based in the southern Philippines,
abducted a German man and woman at sea earlier this
year as they sailed a yacht off the island of Palawan.
What the Abu Sayyaf is doing is like propaganda, so
that the government will give in to their demands. We
will not be intimidated by these gestures and actions,
he said in a separate radio interview, adding that the
group was weakened and contained to small areas.
They saw what the ISIS (Islamic State) has been
doing, so they used that to increase the ransom, he
said, after SITE released a picture attributed to the
group showing a masked militant with a machete beside
a grey-haired white man. AFP
World
13
UKRAINIAN President Petro
Poroshenko said yesterday
that he was condent that his
peace deal with pro-Russian
insurgents means the most
dangerous part of the ve-
month conict is over.
I have no doubt that my
peace plan will work. I have no
doubt that the biggest, most
dangerous part of the war is
already behind us, thanks to
the heroism of Ukrainian sol-
diers, Poroshenko said at his
rst press conference since he
assumed ofce in early June.
The separatist uprising has
killed more than 3,200 people
and driven 650,000 from their
homes. The ex-Soviet coun-
trys worst crisis since its 1991
independence has also dam-
aged East-West relations and
stoked fears of Russian territo-
rial ambitions.
Ukraines parliament last
week backed Poroshenkos
plan for rebel-held parts of
the Russian-speaking east to
hold local council elections on
December 7 that would help
restore law and order, but not
pursue independence.
However, guerrillas brushed
off the offer and announced
plans to set up their own par-
liaments in self-organised No-
vember 2 polls. Poroshenko
said he hoped neither Russia
nor the rest of the interna-
tional community would rec-
ognise the legitimacy of the
separatist vote.
I hope neither Russia nor
the rest of the world rec-
ognise elections called by
self-proclaimed terrorist or-
ganisations in violation of
Ukrainian law, he said.
He further vowed to preserve
Ukraines territorial integrity
and make sure that an iron
curtain does not halt Kievs
efforts to join the European
Union and NATO.
We suffered for too long
in the socialist camp to let
someone lower an iron cur-
tain across our western bor-
der, he said.
Poroshenko yesterday or-
dered a temporary closure of
Ukraines porous border with
Russia and voiced plans to
apply for EU membership in
2020 as part of his former-So-
viet countrys Westward shift.
A senior Ukrainian security
source said the border secu-
rity measures were designed
to halt the alleged smuggling
of weapons into the separat-
ist east and would enter into
force soon. AFP
Poroshenko: Ukraine
crisis approaching end
Indonesia vote ignites anger
P
ROTESTERS burnt
tyres outside Indo-
nesias parliament
yesterday as law-
makers were set to decide
whether to scrap the direct
election of local leaders, a
move activists warn will
roll back a key reform in the
young democracy.
Lawmakers were expected
to vote on a proposal that
would end the current sys-
tem of mayors, provincial
governors and district heads
being chosen by the public,
and hand power to local par-
liaments to pick them.
Supporters argue that the
hundreds of polls held across
the worlds biggest archipela-
go nation every few years are
enormously costly and in re-
ality only allow the wealthy to
win election.
However, critics say the
move is an attempt by the
elite to reverse the decentrali-
sation of power from Jakarta
introduced after the downfall
of dictator Suharto back in
1998, and argue that it will in-
crease corruption as would-
be leaders may have to strike
deals with local MPs.
The proposal has sparked
much public anger, and as
lawmakers began to debate
the measure yesterday 400
pro-democracy activists
staged a noisy demonstration
outside parliament.
They burnt tyres, chanted
and rattled the gates at the
entrance to the legislature, as
hundreds of riot police and
armoured vehicles guarded
the building.
It is the right of the peo-
ple to choose their leaders,
said Jumhur Hidayat, the
head of activist group The
Peoples Movement for Di-
rect Elections.
If the regional legislatures
make the decision, they
could just be paid to decide
whoever they want, who will
serve their interests, not the
peoples interests. This will
weaken the whole system.
Critics also view it as an at-
tempt at revenge by the op-
ponents of Joko Widodo, who
was elected as president in
July and will be inaugurated
next month he is an out-
sider who started his political
career by being directly elect-
ed as a local mayor.
The draft bill to abolish
the direct elections is being
pushed by parties that backed
his opponent for the presi-
dency, Prabowo Subianto, a
former general with a che-
quered human rights record.
While it would do away
with local leaders being
picked by the public, it would
still allow for the election of
local legislatures.
However, with the 560-
strong House of Representa-
tives in Jakarta gearing up to
decide on the proposal, it was
still not clear which way MPs
would vote.
Six parties who had backed
Prabowo at the election orig-
inally supported the pro-
posal, and only three were
opposed, meaning it looked
likely to pass.
However President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono has
voiced his opposition and
ordered members of his
Democratic Party, which
had backed Prabowo, to vote
against it.
This should have given op-
ponents enough support
but now divisions have ap-
peared in the Democrats. It
was not clear when the vote
would be nished as parlia-
mentary sessions in Indone-
sia sometimes run late into
the night. AFP
Indonesian students and activists stage a protest against a new bill on
local elections in Jakarta yesterday. AFP
World

Prophet on death row
shot in Pakistan prison
A 70-YEAR-OLD Scottish man
sentenced to death in Pakistan
for committing blasphemy was
shot and wounded in prison
yesterday, officials said.
Mohammad Asghar was
sentenced to death in January
for claiming to be a prophet of
Islam. Asghar, who was
diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia in Britain in 2010,
had declared his prophethood in
court and included a reference
to it on his business card, it was
said at his trial. A member of his
legal team, who requested
anonymity, said Asghar was
shot in the back and a criminal
case had been started against a
constable at the prison. AFP
Myanmar releases 109
child soldiers from army
MYANMARS army yesterday
released 109 children and young
people from its armed forces,
the UN said, commending the
countrys accelerated efforts
to end the use of child soldiers.
The move was the largest single
release of child recruits since
the nation committed to ending
the recruitment and use of
children in its army in a June
2012 pact with the UN. A total of
472 children and young people
have been released since then
as the military has slowed but
not yet completely halted its
use of children. AFP
Covert ops
Shortage of
implants hits

boob jobs

I
N VENEZUELA, cosmetic pro-
cedures are often regarded as a
normal, even necessary, rite of
passage for young women. But the
currency crisis, which has already
caused chronic shortages of staple
foods, medical supplies and even
toilet paper, has now created a
scarcity of breast implants.
Venezuela is believed to have
one of the worlds highest rates of
plastic surgery, with 85,000 implant
operations last year, according to
the International Society of Aes-
thetic Plastic Surgery.
But plastic surgery clinics in
Caracas say brand-name implants
are now nearly impossible to
obtain, and some now offer the op-
tion to use Chinese-made implants,
which are often of lower quality.
Our doctors dont like Chinese-
made prosthetics because they find
them too hard, and they often lack
the cohesiveness they prefer, said
Marisela Sira, an administrative
assistant at one of the citys best-
known clinics.
Plastic surgeons say strict cur-
rency controls have deprived them
of the cash to buy foreign goods.
Some have turned to the internet,
where a black market in implants
of uncertain origin thrives. THE
GUARDIAN
Boko Haram chief dead: Nigeria
N
IGERIAS military
claimed for the rst
time on Wednesday
that Boko Haram
leader Abubakar Shekau was
dead, as it said troops had
killed a lookalike who had
been posing as the militant
commander.
Defence spokesman Chris
Olukolade told reporters in
Abuja that a heavily bearded
Islamist ghter identied as
Mohammed Bashir died dur-
ing ghting in the town of
Konduga, in Borno state.
Bashir, who was said to have
had several aliases, had been
acting or posing on videos as
the deceased Abubakar Shek-
au, the eccentric character
known as leader of the group,
he added.
The announcement is the
rst time the military has said
publicly that Shekau was dead
after two previous claims by
security sources that he had
died in July 2009 and in late
June 2013. The military did
not, however, say how or when
Shekau died.
Earlier this year, the spokes-
woman for the countrys se-
cret police, Marilyn Ogar, said
the original Shekau is dead
and that the person appearing
in numerous videos was an
imposter.
Olukolade said on Wednes-
day that the actual identity of
Boko Harams leader was not
relevant. The name Shekau
had become a brand name
for the terrorists, he said.
The United States last year
put up a $7 million reward for
Shekaus capture as part of its
Rewards for Justice program
and designated him a global
terrorist.
There has long been specu-
lation in Nigeria and beyond
about whether he was actually
still alive.
It has been claimed that he
actually died in 2003 and his
name has since been used by
at least two others.
They include Boko Haram
members called Abdullahi
Damasak, who was succeeded
on his death by a Mustapha
Chad, according to sources
close to the group.
Olukolade told the brieng
that Bashir had several identi-
ties: Bashir Mohammed, alias
Abubakar Shekau, alias Aba-
cha Abdullahi Geidam, alias
Damasak, etc.
Whether the announce-
ment will end speculation
about Shekaus true identity
or death is unclear and there
was no independent verica-
tion of the claims. The military
showed footage of an amateur
video recording of the ghting
in Konduga, in which bodies
littered the streets.
That character tallies with
the one that has been show-
ing himself on the video,
said Olukolade, pointing to a
bearded man lying dead on
the ground alongside another
slain ghter.
A close-up still photograph
of the mans face was also
shown alongside a screengrab
from a Boko Haram video of
Shekau holding an assault
rie. An arrow pointed to a
small growth on the forehead
of both men.
Analysts said earlier this
week that they were sceptical
about claims that he had been
killed, as the same photograph
shown by the military had cir-
culated online. AFP
1965, 1969 or 1975
Born in Yobe
state, Nigeria
From 2000
Studies theology in Maiduguri.
Meets Boko Haram chief
Mohammed Yusuf
2009 Yusuf killed, Shekau
takes over the group
From April 2011
January 2012
Launches attacks on
schools and churches,
strikes at the UN
headquarters in Abuja
Leads a war against
Christians in Nigeria
and the countrys
president Goodluck
Jonathan
24 March 2014
Organises a break-out of
2,000 prisoners in
the town of Giwa
April 14
May 5
May 12
More than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped
Threatens to sell the hostages
as slaves
Says girls will
only be released if
its fighters are freed
from jail
Nigerian army
says Shekau
is dead
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
Sources: State department, CTC, USMA
Sept
24
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15
Indias Mars craft beams back first photos
I
NDIAS spacecraft has
beamed back its rst pho-
tos of Mars, showing its
crater-marked surface, as
the country glowed with pride
yesterday after winning Asias
race to the Red Planet.
The Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) uploaded
one of the photos onto its Fa-
cebook page, showing an or-
ange surface and dark holes,
taken from a height of 7.3 kilo-
metres (4.5 miles).
ISRO also posted the photo
on Twitter, with the caption
The view is nice up here.
A senior ISRO ofcial said
several photos had been suc-
cessfully received, while a
spokesman for the govern-
ment agency said the space-
craft was working well.
India became the rst
Asian country to reach Mars
on Wednesday when its un-
manned Mangalyaan space-
craft entered the orbit after a
10-month journey on a shoe-
string budget.
The mission, which is
designed to search for evi-
dence of life on the planet,
is a huge source of national
pride for India as it competes
with Asian rivals for success
in space.
India beat rival neighbour
China, which saw its rst
attempt op in 2011 despite
the Asian superpower pour-
ing billions of dollars into
its program.
At just $74 million, Indias
mission cost is less than the
estimated $100 million budget
of sci- blockbuster Gravity.
It also represents just a frac-
tion of the cost of NASAs $671
million MAVEN spacecraft,
which successfully began or-
biting the fourth planet from
the sun on Sunday.
India now joins an elite club
of the United States, Russia
and Europe that can boast of
reaching Mars. More than half
of all missions to the planet
have ended in failure.
The missions success re-
ceived front-page coverage in
Indian newspapers yesterday,
with the Hindustan Times
declaring MARTIAN RACE
WON and the Times of India
saying India enters super ex-
clusive Mars club.
Indians, from government
ministers to ofce workers
and cricketers, poured onto
Twitter to show their national
pride, while school students
celebrated by eating tradi-
tional Indian sweets.
Water found on another planet
Meanwhile, astronomers
have detected water vapour
in the atmosphere of a planet
that orbits a star far beyond
our solar system.
Observations of the Nep-
tune-sized planet, which lies
120 light years from Earth in
the constellation of Cygnus,
revealed that its atmosphere
was mostly hydrogen with
around 25 per cent made up
of water vapour.
Until now, researchers had
been frustrated in their efforts
to study the atmospheres of
planets much smaller than
Jupiter, because their skies
were thick with clouds. The
problem was so persistent
that astronomers had begun
to think that all warm, small
planets formed with substan-
tial cloud cover.
But writing in the journal
Nature, scientists in the US de-
scribe how they found a Nep-
tune-sized planet with cloud-
free skies, enabling them to
make detailed measurements
of a small planets atmosphere
for the rst time.
The planet, named HAT-P-
11b, is about four times the
diameter of Earth. It orbits so
close to its star that surface
temperatures reach more than
600C and a year passes in ve
Earth days. Like our own Nep-
tune, the planet lacks a rocky
surface its a ball of gas and
is thought to be lifeless.
Although this planet is not
classically habitable, it reveals
to us that when we nd Earth
2.0, we will be able to use this
technique, transmission spec-
troscopy, to understand its at-
mosphere and determine the
quality of life available on its
shores, said Jonathan Fraine,
a graduate student and rst
author on the study.
If cloud cover were wide-
spread on smaller planets be-
yond the solar system, astron-
omers would need radically
different approaches or far
more advanced technology to
probe their atmospheres.
Now we know that not all
warm Neptunes form with
high-altitude clouds, we can
again explore the diversity of
planet formation and gain
greater context for our
own creation,
Fraine said.
Future stud-
ies of alien
atmospheres may detect pro-
portions of gases that point
to life below. On Earth, meth-
ane, ammonia and nitrous
oxide are produced mostly by
bacteria, while oxygen comes
from plants and other photo-
synthesising organisms. Be-
cause the gases are not made
in large amounts by anything
else, they are considered bio-
signatures, or signs of life.
Biosignatures are much
harder to nd, but with bigger,
exoplanet-specic telescopes
and precise instruments, we
should be able to start looking
for them too, Fraine said. We
may be far from analysing an
Earth analogue, but now we
know that our train is on the
right tracks.
In 2018, NASA is due to
launch its successor to Hub-
ble, the James Webb Space
Telescope. The observatory
has been designed to pick
up signals much fainter than
Fraines team spotted with
the Hubble camera. AFP/THE
GUARDIAN
The surface of Mars as seen from the ISRO MOM spacecraft; the James
Webb Space Telescope will launch in 2018. AFP/PHOTO SUPPLIED
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ENERALS, they say, tend to
fight the last war. In the case
of the US-led campaign
against the Islamic State, so
do some prominent news firms.
The last war in this case is the
2003 invasion of Iraq, a catastrophic
strategic mistake. The threats cited to
make such expensive and destabilis-
ing carnage necessary weapons of
mass destruction and an Iraqi al-Qae-
da presence were false. The United
States introduced war and a raft of
unwanted consequences to a fragile
country that was in a state of (repres-
sive) peace. Many US and British
media organisations remain scarred
by their failure to question their gov-
ernments claims more aggressively.
Now that the US has launched air-
strikes in Syria many of those same
news groups, including the New York
Times, are concerned that this marks
the start of yet another ill-considered
US war in the Middle East one with
no good cause or outcome, fraught
with potential unintended conse-
quences. This time, they are deter-
mined not to get caught out again by
suspect intelligence claims, such as
that a hitherto unknown terrorist
group in Syria was about to launch an
attack on the US. The instinct is hon-
ourable, but its worth spelling out the
reasons that the campaign against the
Islamic State in Syria is not like the
invasion of Iraq:
There is no peace to destroy in
Syria. According to the United
Nations, about 200,000 people have
been killed during Syrias civil war,
and the body count is not slowing.
Indeed, the Islamic State is now
expanding the war into the Kurdish
areas of Syria, not to mention Iraq.
There is no fragile unity to unbal-
ance. Syria is already a fragmented,
failed state with melting borders, in
which President Bashar al-Assad is
merely first among warlords.
Al-Qaeda is present. The al-Nusra
Front is an al-Qaeda franchise, and
the Islamic State is the former al-Qae-
da in Iraq one that has fallen out
with the al-Qaeda leadership in Paki-
stan and Afghanistan, which thinks
the group is too savage, locally
focused and uppity.
The Khorasan Group may or
may not be a concocted mirage of the
kind that former secretary of state
Colin Powell held up at the UN Secu-
rity Council in 2003, to gain support
for invasion of Iraq. Yet Khorasans
imminent plot is not needed to justify
intervention.
Not one Arab state joined former
president George W Bushs coalition
of the willing in Iraq. By contrast, all
five participants in the US-led air-
strikes in Syria were from the region,
suggesting they agree about the reali-
ty of the threat posed and the need to
confront it.
The US isnt providing the boots on
the ground to fight the Islamic state in
Iraq or Syria. (Advisers and special
forces spotters for airstrikes do not
constitute a gotcha.) Almost 200,000
coalition troops took part in the Iraq
invasion of 2003, compared with the
roughly 1,600 in Iraq and zero (that we
know about) in Syria now.
Finally, President Barack Obama
and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
are reluctant warriors, who have
clearly learned the lessons of Iraq and
Afghanistan but have been forced by
events to take action they have long
resisted. They do not resemble Bush
and former secretary of defense Don-
ald Rumsfeld in any way.
Whether this campaign will succeed
in destroying the Islamic State is a dif-
ferent question. The outlook is poor,
precisely because the disintegration
of Syria and Iraq is so far advanced
and the ground forces on which suc-
cess depends are weak. In addition,
the Islamic State is a terrorist organi-
sation that has metastasised into a
more traditional fighting force. If
defeated in the field, the group wont
disappear; it will simply shrink back
to its original form.
Yet precisely because this is not an
interstate war that must have a clear
outcome, the question is wrongly
framed. Instead of asking whether the
group can be destroyed, the better
questions are these: Can US airstrikes
and advisers prevent the Islamic State
from destroying the only stable parts
of Iraq and Syria? Can they prevent
genocide against religious minorities
in the two countries?
More broadly, can airstrikes avert
the spread of a Sunni-Shiite blood-
bath, and the collapse of Jordan,
Lebanon and even the gulf monar-
chies? Can they turn the Islamic
State from a success story, which has
attracted a flood of recruits since
June, into just another embattled
group of Islamist radicals? These
goals may well be achievable, and
they require attacking the Islamic
State in Syria as well as Iraq.
Most importantly, the costs of a
long air and assistance campaign do
not outweigh the risks posed by
allowing a terrorist organisation to
run an oil-rich territory at the heart of
the Middle East. The only reason to
think the cost too high is if you are
confident this petro-Caliphate, run by
an al-Qaeda splinter group that likes
to behead Shiites, Americans and
Europeans on video, would decide
against using its money to attack infi-
del countries, or to deny its territory
to groups that do.
I, too, am sceptical of the conven-
iently imminent Khorasan plot that
US officials say they sought to foil
with airstrikes. But the threat posed
by an estimated 2,000 foreign fighters
with European or US passports now
in Syria is no mirage. BLOOMBERG
Syrian war is not 2003s mistake
Then-US president George W Bush (right) speaks to reporters with then-US secretary of state Colin Powell after Powell addressed the
United Nations Security Council in February 2003. AFP
Comment
Marc Champion
Marc Champion writes editorials on
international affairs for Bloomberg View.
T
HE US Central Intel-
ligence Agency has
been hiding some-
thing from us: It once
had a sense of humour not
to mention Maurice Sendak-
esque artistic skills, all before
the unfunny news of the agen-
cys role in the Iran-Contra
scandal broke in 1986.
The 1982 fall edition of
Studies in Intelligence, the CIA
internal newsletter, describes
a collection of strange fauna
known as the Bestiary of In-
telligence Writing. It was an
illustrated guide for national
security writers on cringe-
worthy cliches, with apologies
to A Political Bestiary, a book
by James Kilpatrick, former
US senator Eugene McCarthy
and editorial cartoonist Jeff
MacNelly.
Older employees may re-
call that when the Headquar-
ters Building was being con-
structed, guard dogs stalked
the corridors by night to sniff
out trespassers. Practically no
one is aware, however, of the
collection of strange fauna in
a corner of a sub-basement,
the location of which must
remain secret, writes the au-
thor, whose name was redact-
ed in the version approved
for public release. Now for
the rst time, the Curator of
the Collection has received
permission to reveal the ex-
istence of the Bestiary and
identify some of its principal
specimens for the enlighten-
ment, education and general
edication of CIA writers.
According to the Mediums
War is Boring blog, the news-
letter was one of 200 docu-
ments recently declassied
in an effort to settle a lawsuit
led by former employee Jef-
frey Scudder.
It turns out that there
are the 15 phrases that CIA
editors hate. At the top of
the list: multidisciplinary
analysis, which has only re-
cently been discovered as a
species separate from other
kinds of analysis.
Viable alternatives is an-
other loathed phrase. In the
Bestiary, they are dened as
natures born troubleshoot-
ers. They are moody and
shy and apparently resem-
ble iguanas. They also wan-
der off when times are good
because governments and
ofcials tend to ignore them;
when times are bad, ofcials
are dismayed to discover
they dont have any. Little
is known of the origin of this
species other than it repro-
duces asexually.
Broad outlines are glut-
tonous predators that prob-
ably evolved out of regular
outlines sometime in the
past, the result of too rich a
diet of academic nuts roasted
in professional hot air.
Another animal that is
linked to academia is the
foreseeable future. These
rat-like creatures are moody
and dangerous and fre-
quently turn upon their mas-
ters, causing them great pub-
lic humiliation.
Mounting crises are rare,
though frequently detected
by intelligence analysts.
They look like a stegosaurus
with buttery wings. There
is considerable non-scientif-
ic thinking about how they
end their days: some believe
that crises disappear . . . or
are resolved.
Heightened tensions are
recognisable by their long
bird-like legs and devilish
ears. They thrive on a rich
diet of poverty, malnutrition
and especially alienation.
They were once primarily
military in nature and ob-
servable only in the narrow
no-mans land on the bor-
ders between countries. But
in the 1980s, it seems they
evolved into a political beast,
appearing wherever there
are masses of people.
Another beast to emerge in
modern times is the econom-
ic constraint. Now a common
pest, it was introduced to the
United States by returning
World War II soldiers. In the
1980s it ourished. Muta-
tions of the species politi-
cal constraints and military
constraints were observed
in political literature and by
Pentagon analysts.
Then there are the non-
starters, one of natures sad-
dest species. Despite an
intense desire to compete,
these creatures are perpetual
losers. They are fond of con-
soling each other that they
are merely ideas whose times
have not yet come, the Besti-
arys author writes.
In truth, however, they are
often worn out or refurbished
ideas and never were legiti-
mate starters.
Dire straits come in sev-
eral genders, according to
the Bestiary; however, dire
economic straits are more
common than the political,
military and social varieties.
They never appear as a
single strait, only in groups of
two or three.
Another beast that trav-
els in pairs is the parameter.
These are legless creatures
that must be established by
the analyst.
Heres the full list of disfa-
vored cliches, all of which
thrive today in Washington
anyway:
Multidisciplinary analysis.
Viable alternatives.
Mounting crises.
Parameters
Heightened tensions.
Dire straits.
Far-reaching implication.
Available evidence.
Foreseeable future.
Almost inevitable.
Nonstarter.
Economic constraints.
Broad outlines.
Net effect.
Overwhelming majority. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Hit the bottle hard
5 ___ In Boots
9 Oft-pressed dress item
14 High spot
15 Whatve you been ___?
16 Like freakish coincidences
17 Dietary, in ads
18 Set of players
19 Poet T.S.
20 Theyre all over the field
23 Sport ___ (all-purpose vehicle)
24 Go on ...
25 Letters from your folks?
26 It might go over your head
29 Indian metropolis
31 Exhausted, as funds
33 Thar-blows link
34 Sked approximation
36 Major division of geological time
37 Two or more of 36-Across (Var.)
38 Time of great trickery
42 Make level
43 Deep-six
44 Bishops territory
45 Winter delivery, for many
46 Coral producer
48 Purposeless
52 Inner circle member
53 ... yadda, yadda, yadda
54 PC-to-PC hookup
56 Yours might be pulled by a joker
57 Span of some romances?
61 Post-pupa insect
63 Dear partner?
64 Senate assistant
65 Haystacks painter
66 ... or ___!
67 Anonymous John and Jane
68 Outlaws bane
69 Bassoon, for one
70 Line pair
DOWN
1 Jewish law book
2 A narcotic drug
3 Stormy bird
4 Board member, for short
5 Ill ___ a good word for you
6 Turns over
7 Bambis father, for one
8 Chihuahuan hat
9 Witnessed in the area of
10 Didnt buckle
11 Isle of Man location
12 Copacabana setting
13 Offensive of 1968
21 Half of Hispaniola
22 Chronicle
27 Hello, sailor!
28 Lacrosse squad count
30 California, ___ I come ...
32 Buttercup relative
35 Creator of several Marches
37 Gulf of ___, off the coast of
Yemen
38 Opera solo
39 Luxurious passenger cars
40 Hawk trainer
41 Large fishnet
42 First half of an inning
46 Hallucinogenic cactus
47 The magic word
49 Poetic England
50 Necessary
51 Exit, to P.T. Barnum
55 With much land
58 Forever
59 Out, to an editor
60 Created
61 Troublesome child
62 Dairy farm sound
ONE QUARTER
Saturdays solution Saturdays solution
The comic guide to security jargon
A recently declassied 1982 CIA newsletter mocking cliches describes
these creatures as dire straits (top left), heightened tensions (top
right) and multidisciplinary analysis. CIA
Lifestyle
17
Bum rap
Indonesia
to censor
Japan toon
A
POPULAR Japanese
cartoon in which the
main character regu-
larly displays his buttocks
will be censored in Indonesia
after regulators criticised it
as somewhat pornographic,
officials said yesterday.
The TV network that shows
animation Crayon Shin-chan
in the Muslim country has
agreed to tone down scenes
after the broadcasting wat-
chdog voiced concerns.
The show follows the adven-
tures of 5-year-old Shinno-
suke Shin Nohara and his
family, often depictied being
mischievous, such as dropping
his trousers or making inap-
propriate jokes, like asking
elderly people: When are you
going to die?
The Indonesian Broadcas-
ting Commission put the
program in the category
caution, a level below
danger on the bodys scale
of how disturbing a program
is, commission member
Agatha Lily said: Many
scenes considered humorous
. . . are actually indecent and
inappropriate for children. For
instance, Shin-chan pulling
down his trousers to show
his underwear or peeping at
couples making out, scenes of
sexy women in mini skirts and
men flirting. AFP
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Jamie Rich
A
LOCAL woman in a
tailored sarong and
a blond-haired man
wearing a sport coat
stood smiling at the top of the
gangplank, holding glasses
of fresh-pressed mango juice
to welcome me and my hus-
band, Brian, on our three-
night luxury cruise aboard the
Road to Mandalay along the
Irrawaddy River.
Drink in one hand and lug-
gage in the other, we stepped
over the threshold of the 333-
foot vessels entrance and set
off a barrage of hospitality. Is
it OK if we skip the safety brief-
ing? I asked the receptionist.
Minutes later, a petite mas-
sage therapist was sinking her
oil-softened hands deep into
my shoulders. And the peace
inside the tiny teak-trimmed
cabin was disturbed only by
the welcome hum of the en-
gines and the sound of water
lapping against the hull as we
pulled away from the shore.
Brian and I had booked this
cruise to pamper ourselves
and to reconnect far from dis-
tractions back home in Florida.
But you dont travel across the
globe to a country emerging
from decades of isolation just
to sip champagne and read
Burmese Days by the pool. You
cruise Myanmar for a holiday
with some gumption.
Luxury hospitality brand
Belmond has offered glam-
our and grit on the Irrawaddy
since 1996 with its 50-year-old
German river cruiser Road to
Mandalay. The atmosphere
on the long, slender boat re-
ects a decidedly vintage but
also eclectic mix of Burmese,
British, modern and tradition-
al styles. Polished teak oor-
ing and molding give the boat
a rich, timeless appeal. .
Some of Myanmars best
old-world culinary traditions
commingle with
new-world
avours in the dining room,
which is decorated with oil-
lamp sconces and white table-
cloths. For our rst lunch, we
ate medleys of local salads,
sipped spicy soups and sam-
pled curries off the buffet.
Not long after lunch, we
docked a few miles upriver
from our starting point and
disembarked for a tour of
Mandalay. Our groups Bel-
mond guide, Thet, led us on a
barefoot stroll through Kuth-
odaw Pagoda, with its long
rows of 729 white domed stu-
pas, each containing a marble
slab inscribed with ancient
Buddhist scriptures.
At our last stop, U Bein
Bridge, our group scattered.
Brian and I wandered along the
200-year-old teak boardwalk
that stretches three-quarters
of a mile over Taungthaman
Lake. The smell of fried sh
wafted from waterfront ca-
fes. Packs of children hawked
jade necklaces. Fishermen
waded in the lake, and tour-
ists snapped photos of the sun
sinking lower in the sky.
On day two, Brian and I slept
late in our cozy stateroom, skip-
ping a photo-op with monks
collecting alms near the ships
berth. Anchored in Bagan for
our last day, we ditched the
afternoon group tour to go cy-
cling with Road to Mandalays
Kiwi manager, Steve.
Perched atop a well-worn
mountain bike, I pedaled
down sandy paths winding
through Bagans peanut and
bean farms. Red-brick pago-
das with pointy bell-shaped
stupas appeared in every di-
rection. We ascended a nar-
row, dark, crumbling staircase
up a large, vacant pagoda.
A stunning 360-degree vista
greeted us at the top. A sum-
mer breeze blew off the Ir-
rawaddy in the distance. As
I stood near the edge of the
terrace, I made a memory
Ill never forget. THE
WASHINGTON POST
An Irrawaddy
cruise, in style
Guests aboard the Road to Mandalay can sip poolside drinks and watch
passing villages, pagodas and rice paddies. THE WASHINGTON POST
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 21
Cambodian kicked out of Incheon Games after positive test
half of Tajikistans 1-0 win over
Singapore on September 14.
According to medication
information website drugs.
com, sibutramine is used as
a dietary aid to treat obesity.
It has been withdrawn from
the US market since 2010.
However, Tennis Cambodia
secretary general Tep Rithivit,
speaking to the Post yesterday
from Incheon, said he believed
a cold/flu remedy to be the
cause of the positive test, with
results from the B sample yet
to be announced.
Soft tennis is a demonstra-
tion sport in Incheon, with a
total of 87 players from 13
countries set to compete in
mens and womens singles,
doubles and team events as
well as mixed doubles games
from next Monday.
It differs from regular ten-
nis in that it uses soft rubber
balls in place of hard yellow
balls.
Hijab row hits off
The Olympic Council of
Asia has squarely blamed the
world governing bodies of
basketball (FIBA) and tennis
(ITF) for the controversial
incidents that has rocked the
17th Asian Games during the
first week of competition.
The Qatar womens basket-
ball team forfeited their group
matches against Mongolia on
Wednesday and Nepal yester-
day after refusing to remove the
Islamic head scarf, the hijab, as
demanded by the officials
before the game at the Hwa-
seong Sports Complex.
Meanwhile six tennis players
withdrew from the Games to
play in the China Open, a pro-
fessional tour event in Beijing,
for fear of being slapped with a
fine of US$100,000 and a three-
year suspension.
In a statement, the OCA said
the blame for those incidents
lay at the feet of the interna-
tional federations, contending
that both FIBA and ITF violated
the Olympic Charter as they
prevented athletes from repre-
senting their flag at interna-
tional events.
Every athlete has the right to
represent their countrys flag
without discrimination or
without the threat of a financial
penalty, OCA director general
Husain Al-Musallam said.
This information came to us
at a late stage, on [Monday],
after the Asian Games had
started, but the Asian sports
federations concerned FIBA
Asia and the Asian Tennis Fed-
eration have been engaged
with their international federa-
tions FIBA and ITF since
2008 for the preparation of the
Games.
The authorities of both fed-
erations have the duty to pro-
tect their athletes and allow
them to exercise their right of
freedom of choice with digni-
ty, he added.
Footballs world governing
body FIFA lifted the ban on reli-
gious headdress earlier this
year and other sports at the
Asian Games allow athletes to
wear the hijab. All four mem-
bers of the Iranian lightweight
womens quadruple sculls team
wore it as they rowed to a
bronze medal on Wednesday.
Basketball remains one of the
exceptions although the sports
world governing body indi-
cated earlier this month that it
had plans to introduce a two-
year testing phase on what
players can wear. World basket-
ball regulations list headgear
and hair accessories among the
items that are prohibited on
the court.
Qatari player Amal Mohamed
A Mohamed said they had been
assured before they travelled to
the Games in Incheon that they
would be able to wear the hijab
and warned that her team
would continue to boycott
matches if the rule remained
unchanged.
OCA Assembly
The 33rd Olympic Council of
Asias General Assembly was
held at the Songdo Convensia
last Saturday, with the formal
contract signing for Jakarta to
host the next edition of the
Asian Games in 2018 taking
place in the morning session.
Hanoi had originally been
named in 2012 to stage the
games in 2019, one year before
the Tokyo Olympics, but the
Vietnamese capital backed out
earlier this year citing severe
economic pressures.
Even though the Indonesian
city of Surabaya had lost out to
Hanoi then, the National Olym-
pic Committee with the sup-
port of the government renewed
its bid to organise the games in
Jakarta, with Palembang also
backing the proposal.
The OCA president Sheikh
Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah
explained that Indonesia
wanted to host the 18th Asian
Games in 2018, rather than
2019, because of presidential
elections that year and met all
the requirements of the OCA
for hosting.
Following a presentation
from Indonesia, headed by
IOC member, OCA executive
board member and Indone-
sian Olympic Committee
president Rita Subowo, Sheikh
Ahmad urged the delegates to
approve the bid, and this was
subsequently met with a
round of applause.
The president of the Inter-
national Olympic Committee
Thomas Bach told the Assem-
bly that the really great open-
ing ceremony displayed in a
unique way the harmony and
sport in Asia.
You have worked with great
determination and consist-
ency to reach new heights for
sport in Asia, and the IOC is
very grateful for this great suc-
cess. The cooperation between
the OCA and IOC has never
been closer or better than
now, the IOC president said.
The six OCA Merit Award
winners for distinguished
service to sport in Asia were
also announced during the
Assembly.
They are IAGOC president
Kim Young Soo, OCA vice pres-
ident Park Yong Sung, Myanmar
Olympic Committee joint sec-
retary general Khin Maung,
Uzbekistan NOC president
Mirabror Usmanov and Kuwaits
Khaled Al Hamad and Yousef
Shaheen Alghanim Lwin.
The Sheikh Fahad Hiroshi-
ma Asia Fund Science Award
went to the Qatar Sport Med-
icine Committee and to Dr
Lotfali Pourkazemi, president
of the Sports Medicine Fed-
eration of Iran.
There was also a signing
ceremony for the Olympic
Academy in Doha between the
OCA and the Qatar Olympic
Committee.
The Assembly included
presentations from the Court
of Arbitration for Sport,
which is running an ad hoc
division at the Asian Games
for the first time to arbitrate
in any disputes, by Olympic
Solidarity, the Association of
National Olympic Commit-
tees and by the organising
committees of Rio 2016 and
Pyeongchang 2018.
Meanwhile, the first OCA
Partner Summit for Olympic
sponsorship of NOCs was held
the next day at the same ven-
ue. During the summit, the
delegates heard presentations
from major sports sponsors
such as Aon, BP, Coca-Cola
and Heineken and panel dis-
cussions between industry
experts. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
AFP AND DAN RILEY
Europe have edge as USA
chase Ryder Cup revenge
O
N THE face of it, Europe
are ideally placed to ex-
tend their domination over
the United States when the
40th staging of the Ryder Cup gets
under way at Gleneagles today.
The Europeans have won seven
out of the last nine editions and ve
out of the last six and there has not
been an American win on foreign
soil since 1993.
Current form shows that four Eu-
ropeans are in the world top six,
including top-ranked Rory McIlroy,
while the Americans are without the
injured Tiger Woods.
The competition is taking place in
Scotland on a course set up to repli-
cate European Tour courses and Eu-
rope needs just 14 points to retain
the cup. The Americans need 14 1/2
to retain it.
And if that were not enough,
Europe also have legendary Man-
chester United manager Alex Fer-
guson in their corner as a motiva-
tional speaker.
Success breeds success in golf, Eu-
rope captain Paul McGinley believes.
I see the template thats in place,
McGinley said.
Theres reasons weve been win-
ning these Ryder Cups. Weve come
from underdog positions and won
the Ryder Cups. So its not always
that we have the best players.
Theres a template and I see my
role as enhancing that template, try-
ing to make it better and roll it out
again. The fact that Ive ridden shot-
gun on that twice as a vice captain
[2010, 2012] has been huge.
McIlroy apart, Henrik Stenson,
Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose are
all in the world top six and there is a
wealth of past Ryder Cup experience
in Lee Westwood, Thomas Bjorn,
Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and
Martin Kaymer.
Even two of the three European
rookies Stephen Gallacher and Ja-
mie Donaldson are hardly unknown
quantities at 39 and 38 respectively.
Lefty is the leader
On the American side Phil Mick-
elson will be the leader in the locker
room as he makes a record 10th
straight Ryder Cup appearance for
the United States.
With Tom Watson the oldest ever
Ryder Cup captain at 65 and return-
ing to the competition for the rst
time in 21 years, Mickelsons role
with the players is likely to be dou-
bly important.
The ve-time major winner be-
lieves that the Americans have a
winning formula provided they all
pull together.
Certainly were here without Tiger
Woods. Were without Dustin John-
son. Were without Jason Dufner. And
were playing a team that has players
like McIlroy and Stenson who have
played just incredible golf over the
years, he said.
Im sure theyre going to play every
match, and theyre going to be ex-
tremely tough to beat, whoever gets
paired against them.
Certainly we are the underdog.
But rather than focus on what we
dont have, what we do have is a great
group of 12 guys that really enjoy each
others company, have a lot of fun to-
gether, and are hopefully bringing our
best games to Scotland, because we
are going to need it to make it a tight
race and a close one for Sunday.
The Americans, who last won the
Ryder Cup at Valhalla, Kentucky in
2008, will also look to Jim Furyk, Zach
Johnson, Bubba Watson and Hunter
Mahan for their past experience of
the competition.
But much will also depend on the
performance of their three rook-
ies, Jimmy Walker, Patrick Reed and
above all Jordan Spieth, the most
exiting emerging star on the US Tour
and at 21 by far the youngest player
at Gleneagles.
Unlike in the past two times the
Ryder Cup has been played on Eu-
ropean soil at the K-Club outside
Dublin in 2006 and at Celtic Manor
in South Wales in 2010 the weather
is forecast set fair through the week-
end with just an isolated shower or
two expected.
The Jack Nicklaus-designed PGA
Centenary Course is expected to
play host to 45,000 fans daily as golfs
greatest competition is held in Scot-
land for just the second time, 41 years
after Muireld. AFP
Europe captain Paul McGinley thinks his team will follow the template of their previous victories in the Ryder Cup. AFP
Break key to Ronaldos
stunning form: Ancelotti
REAL Madrid boss Carlo
Ancelotti believes Cristiano
Ronaldos three-week break
at the start of the season to
ease knee and hamstring
injuries is the reason for the
Portugueses sensational
form. Ronaldo scored four
goals in a 5-1 thrashing of
Elche on Wednesday to
register his 25th hat-trick for
the club and his second in
four days. AFP
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The preparing of the 2
nd
Phnom Penh International Auto Show 2014 at Koh Pich
Interview with Auto Show 2014 exhibitors
New luxury cars arrived in Cambodian market
Which driving school should be considered? Whats its requirements?
Interview with president of Cambodia automobile federation and presidents of car distributors
Interview with all car engine experts
Car price in Cambodia compared with neighbor countries and global market
Big motorbike market catching Cambodian youths interest
Start of luxurious bike selling in Phnom Penh
Knowing about usage, maintenances, check, prepare, lubricant change, spare parts
and car-wash in raining season.
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CambodiaWeekend or Kampuchea Chong Sabada
Sihanoukville Rovers
race away to victory
Dan Riley
L
EICESTER Citys Ja-
mie Vardy stole all the
headlines over the
weekend with his re-
markable performance during
the teams 5-3 comeback win
over Man United.
The 27-year-old Englishman
not only notched his rst goal
in the Premier League, he was
credited with assisting all of
his sides other goals (two were
for winning penalties).
Understandably, Vardy
topped the charts in Game-
week 5 of the Cellcard Fantasy
League, bagging a sensational
21 points for the one in a 100
managers who bought him
for just 4.9 million. Vardys
Argentinean strike partner
Leonardo Ulloa also graced
the Dream team thanks to his
brilliant brace for 12 points.
Meanwhile, Arsenal mid-
elder Mesut Ozil nally re-
discovered his scoring touch
against Aston Villa, with his
goal and assist amassing 13
points for the German.
The weekly competition saw
managers struggle to total up
top tallies as many big guns
failEd to re. However, Thida
Nhims Sihanoukville Rovers
rose above on 79 points to cap-
ture the Cellcard prize of a $20
phone card.
Thida handed Man Uniteds
Angel di Maria the captains
armband for 22 points, and
his Rovers squad also includ-
ed Dream teamers Leighton
Baines of Everton (10 points),
Arsenals Kieron Gibbs (10)
and Liverpools Raheem
Sterling (10), along with Ar-
senals Danny Welbeck (12).
The concurrently run Cellcard
Fantasy Facebook fanpage
contest was without a win-
ner, with its question of which
player would grab the three-
point bonus from the match
between Man City and Chel-
sea stumping everyone.
The answer was Citys James
Milner. This weekends ques-
tion will be worth a $20 phone
card.
Gameweek 6 serves up a
sizzling Saturday of action
kicking off with the Mersey-
side derby of Liverpool versus
Everton and concluding with
the North London derby of Ar-
senal versus Spurs.
English Premier League
Saturday September 27
Liverpool v Everton 6:45pm
Chelsea v Aston Villa 9pm
Crystal Palace v Leicester
9pm
Hull v Man City 9pm
Man United v West Ham
9pm
Southampton v QPR 9pm
Sunderland v Swansea
9pm
Arsenal v Tottenham
11:30pm
Sunday September 28
West Brom v Burnley 10pm
Spanish La Liga
Elche v Celta de Vigo 2am
Villarreal v Real Madrid
9pm
Barcelona v Granada 11pm
Sunday September 28
Atletico Madrid v Sevilla
1am
Athletic Bilbao v Eibar 3am
Levante v Rayo Vallecano
3am
Getafe v Mlaga 5pm
Deportivo de La Coruna v
Almeria 10pm
Monday September 29
Real Sociedad v Valencia
12am
Cordoba v Espanyol 2am
German Bundesliga
Mainz v Hoffenheim 1:30am
Cologne v Bayern Munich
8:30pm
Schalke v Borussia
Dortmund 8:30pm
Paderborn v Borussia
Moenchengladbach 8:30pm
Freiburg v
Bayer Leverkusen 8:30pm
Stuttgart v Hannover
8:30pm
Wolfsburg v
Werder Bremen 11:30pm
Sunday September 28
Augsburg v Hertha Berlin
8:30pm
Hamburg v Eintracht
Frankfurt 10:30pm
Italian Serie A
Roma v Verona 11pm
Sunday September 28
Atalanta v Juventus 1:45am
Sassuolo v Napoli 5:30pm
Cesena v Milan 8pm
Chievo v Empoli 8pm
Inter Milan v Cagliari 8pm
Torino v Fiorentina 8pm
Monday September 29
Genoa v Sampdoria 1:45am
French Ligue 1
Monaco v Nice 7pm
Toulouse v Paris SG 10pm
Sunday September 28
Lille v Bastia 1am
Lorient v Evian TG 1am
Metz v Reims 1am
Montpellier v Guingamp
1am
Bordeaux v Rennes 7pm
Lens v Caen 10pm
Nantes v Lyon 10pm
Monday September 29
Marseille v St Etienne 2am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
Referee Mark Clattenburg (right) awards a penalty after a tackle on Leic-
ester Citys Jamie Vardy (left) during their game against Man United. AFP
Spanish La Liga
Almeria 0 Atletico Madrid 1
Eibar 1 Villarreal 1
Rayo Vallecano 2 Athl Bilbao 1
Granada 0 Levante 1
Malaga 0 Barcelona 0
Sevilla 1 Real Sociedad 0
German Bundesliga
B Leverkusen 1 Augsburg 0
Bor Dortmund 2 Stuttgart 2
Bor Mgladbach 1 Hamburg 0
Hannover 1 Cologne 0
Hertha Berlin 1 Wolfsburg 0
Italian Serie A
Cagliari 1 Torino 2
Fiorentina 0 Sassuolo 0
Inter Milan 2 Atalanta 0
Juventus 3 Cesena 0
Napoli 3 Palermo 3
Parma 1 Roma 2
Sampdoria 2 Chievo 1
Verona 2 Genoa 2
French Ligue 1
Bastia 0 Nantes 0
Evian TG 2 Lens 1
Guingamp 0 Metz 1
Lyon 4 Lorient 0
Montpellier 0 Monaco 1
Nice 1 Lille 0
Caen 0 Paris SG 2
WEDNESDAYS RESULTS
H S Manjunath

T
HE Angkor Beer Cambodian
Basketball League swings
back into action after the
Pchum Ben holiday break
with a four-game line-up over the
weekend at the Olympic Stadium In-
door Arena.
Saturdays standout game is be-
tween the top two in the rankings,
Pate 310 and Mekong Tigers, who
both will hit the court with differing
moods but an identical track record
of four wins and a loss.
It took a late swoop for Pate to touch
off Smart Dragons 61-59 in their last
outing even as the Tigers were beaten
for the rst time this season by Em-
perors 77-74 in a sensational nip and
tip nish.
It is this pre-match build up that is
promising a game of high intensity
as both sides look for top spot before
the start of the play-offs in the next
few weeks.
Tigers top shooter Sok Samnang
will be eager to lead the charge after
his early exit against Emperors game,
fouled out barely 10 minutes into the
game. Pheng Daraths three-point
shooting could be crucial for Tigers
in dealing with a fully rounded side
like Pate.
The trio of Sok Tour, Taing Peng
Kuy and Ouch Phanat will again be
Pates mainstay in attack and team
manager Chea Koktry is expecting
the return of guard Adam Tayyaba
who missed the last game.
Fifth ranked Extra Joss Fighters,
whose fortunes seemed to have
turned for the better with the arrival
of Filipino Stephen Siruma, take on
seventh ranked CCPL Warriors in to-
morrows second game.
After starting the season on the
wrong foot with two defeats, the
Fighters have recovered well enough
to post three wins in a row on the back
of Sirumas inspired showing.
At the other end, the Warriors over-
turned a three-game losing streak by
beating Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes on
September 14. The return of Vince
Del Mundo, who top scored against
the Mosquitoes, is a huge relief for
the side but manager Jon Naval will
be hoping for better court chemistry
between Sovann Panha, Del Mundo
and Jeff Cruz to haul the Warriors
over the line.
Sundays action begins with a mis-
match of sorts. Emperors, who are
one of the top market fancies for the
title will be up against GL Concrete,
who have lost all their games so far
with the dubious record of being the
worst defence in the league, conced-
ing on an average of 88 points every
game.
In the fourth and the nal game
of the weekend, Smart Dragons will
face Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes.
The Dragons were swamped by Da-
vies Paints in their last outing, a loss
that has triggered some critical review
of the sides performances on several
fronts.
Shooting guard Leng Seng will miss
this game but Dragons are happy to
have back on court Rindra Norodom,
who was injured for a long time.
The Mosquitoes will be desperate to
turn around four successive defeats,
hugely impacted by several injury
concerns with key players Jay Rod-
den and Trent Fechter ruled out of the
season.
Weekend Fixtures
Pate 310 v Mekong Tigers 2pm
Extra Joss Fighters v
CCPL Warriors 4pm
Sunday September 28
Emperors v GL Concrete 2pm
Smart Dragons v
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 4pm
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Sport
Wiggins eyes the hour
record, Paris-Roubaix
HAVING finally added the
world title to his Olympic
timetrial crown from two years
ago, Bradley Wiggins has set
himself two new targets:
winning Paris-Roubaix and
setting a new hour record. The
34-year-old Briton beat three-
time reigning champion Tony
Martin of Germany to the
world title in Ponferrada,
Spain, on Wednesday, with
Dutch youngster Tom
Dumoulin taking third place.
But now the 2012 Tour de
France winner, a four-time
Olympic champion and winner
of prestigious races such as
the Criterium du Dauphine
(twice), Tour de Romandie and
Paris-Nice not to mention
lower key events such as his
home Tour of Britain and the
Tour of California says he will
target Paris-Roubaix and the
world hour record next year,
before focusing on the track
and the team pursuit at the
Olympics in Rio in 2016. But he
said he will not compete at
another World Championships,
having won silver medals in
2011 and 2013. AFP
Hansen names his All
Blacks to play Argentina
NEW Zealand coach Steve
Hansen has made five changes
to his starting line-up for the
Rugby Champion Test against
Argentina in La Plata on
Saturday, predicting a bruising
encounter against Los Pumas.
With Aaron Cruden dropped
after getting drunk and missing
the teams flight from
Auckland, Beauden Barrett
takes over the crucial fly-half
position, while Malakai Fekitoa
replaces the injured Maa Nonu
at inside centre. In the
forwards, lock Sam Whitelock
and flanker Jerome Kaino
return from injury, with hooker
Keven Mealamu coming in for
Dane Coles, who has returned
to New Zealand to attend the
birth of his first child. AFP
Kvitova and Bouchard
power to Wuhan semis
WORLD number three Petra
Kvitova overcame Caroline
Garcia to power through to the
semi-finals of theS$2.4 million
WTA Wuhan Open Thursday,
while Canadian sixth seed
Eugenie Bouchard also made it
into the last four. Garcia had
previously performed heroics at
the inaugural tournament,
beating Venus Williams and
world number six Agnieszka
Radwanska to make the
quarterfinals. AFP
Atapattu to coach Sri
Lanka for World Cup
SRI Lanka Cricket on
Wednesday appointed former
Test captain Marvan Atapattu
as head coach to prepare for
the 2015 World Cup hosted by
Australia and New Zealand.
Atapattu, 43, becomes the
island nations seventh coach
in the last four years and is the
first Sri Lankan in 15 years to
hold the position of full time
national coach. AFP
Pate set to
take Tigers
by the tail
A Pate 310 player (front, left) defends against a Sabay Tiger Mosquitos player during their
CBL game at the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena on August 2. SRENG MENG SRUN
Dan Riley
ONE FIGHTING Champion-
ship, in partnership with AMC
Live, will hold its rst mixed
martial arts event in China on
October 31.
The ght card, titled ONE
FC: Dynasty of Champions
and set to pack out Beijings
7,000-seater National Olympic
Sports Centre Gymnasium, will
be headlined by a top Chinese
bantamweight battle between
former Pan-Pacic champion
Xian Ji and the undefeated
Song Ya Dong.
Meanwhile, Australias light-
weight contender Adrian Pang
will clash with Vincent Latoel
of the Netherlands in the co-
main event.
Xian (11-2) has made a
reputation for himself as one
of the top grapplers in Asian
MMA. The Executioner has
a background in the Chinese
kickboxing discipline of San-
shou, going undefeated in his
rst eight professional MMA
ghts. All of his 11 career vic-
tories to date have come from
submissions.
Song (4-0) is one of the
brightest prospects in the
world of cage ghting hav-
ing won four bouts before his
20th birthday and is one of
the most highly touted mixed
martial artists to ever emerge
from China. Best known for
his takedowns, Song will face
his biggest test to date in com-
patriot Xian as they both make
their debuts at ONE FC.
Pang (20-8-2) has made
a remarkable return from a
horric assault at the hands
of security guards in Queen-
sland two years ago. He is the
former Legend FC lightweight
champion (a title he lost to
new ONE FC featherweight
champion Jadamba Naran-
tungalag of Mongolia).
Latoel (15-15-2) has estab-
lished himself as one of the
most exciting lightweights
on the ONE FC roster. Begin-
ning his career as a Dutch
kickboxer, he has developed
an all-action style that will be
a tough litmus test for Pang
as both veteran ghters look
to make a statement on Oc-
tober 31.
ONE FC breaks in China
with Beijing blockbuster
The end looms for Jeter
DEREK Jeter will bring the cur-
tain down on his all-star MLB
career at the end of the regular
season after the New York Yan-
kees were officially eliminated
from postseason contention on
Wednesday.
The retiring captain failed
to get a hit in four at-bats for
the Yankees, who were routed
9-5 by the Baltimore Orioles
in the third game of a four-
game series at the famed Yan-
kee Stadium.
The Yankees had been
clinging to faint playoff hopes
for the past month but that
defeat sealed their fate. This
is the first time since 1992-93
that the Yankees have not
participated in consecutive
postseasons.
The Yankees dropped to
81-77 on the season.
Its a rough feeling it
should be a rough feeling for
everyone in here, said Jeter,
40. We didnt play well
enough. You put a lot of work
into an offseason and see it as
a good opportunity to go to the
playoffs, and unfortunately
were not going.
Jeter, the Yankees all-time
leader in games played, at
bat, hits, doubles and stolen
bases, was scheduled to play
his final Major League Base-
ball game at Yankee Stadium
yesterday.
The Yankees final three reg-
ular season games are today,
Saturday and Sunday at Fen-
way Park against the Boston
Red Sox.
Jeter had his seven-game
hitting streak snapped on
Wednesday in front of a crowd
of 46,056. Ive always appreci-
ated what the fans have done,
he said.
Nick Markakis and Ryan Fla-
herty each knocked in two runs
during a six-run fourth inning
for the Orioles, who finished
with 15 hits.
Adam Jones and David Lough
ended with two RBI apiece in
the win. Nelson Cruz went
four-for-five with an RBI and a
run scored. AFP
Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees looks on from the dugout during
the rst inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. AFP
Rugby Championship
South Africa v Australia
10:05pm
Sunday September 28
Argentina v New Zealand
5:10am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
H S Manjunath
C
AMBODIAS 44-year medal
jinx at the Asian Games con-
tinued to cast its spell on the
Kingdoms tennis players,
swimmers and beach volleyball pair
during the rst week of action at the
South Korean city of Incheon.
Taekwondo star Sorn Sivmey led
Cambodias march as its flag bearer
in last Fridays opening ceremony,
marking the 60th anniversary of
the countrys participation in the
worlds second-biggest sporting
spectacle after the Olympics.
Even as the Kingdoms medal fo-
cus now shifts to the wrestling, tae-
kwondo and athletics in the com-
ing days, the sporting community
is mulling over the performances
of the tennis, swimming and beach
volleyball teams.
Saturdays opening day of the
17th edition of the quadrennial
competition, involving 439 events
over a flaming fortnight, was
marked by an astounding world
record weightlifting feat by North
Korean Om Yun Chul and shocking
expulsion of the United Arab Emir-
ates mens judo team.
But away from these headlining
events, Cambodias unbeaten Davis
Cup record in the last three years
against Turkmenistan came crashing
down in the rst round of the mens
team tennis event after the Kingdom
suffered a 3-0 reverse at the newly
built Yeorumul Tennis Centre.
In the absence of Bun Kenny and
Mam Panhara, who had steered
Cambodia to decisive wins over
the Turkmens in the Asia Oceania
zone campaigns in 2012 (Doha)
and 2014 (Tehran), the pressure
was squarely on Long Samneang
and Mam Phalkun to keep the
record intact. However, they fell
painfully short.
Turkmenistan began on a bright
note when Mammetgulyyev Isa
outplayed Long Samneang 6-1,
6-0. In the second singles, Cambo-
dias No 1 pick Phalkun had a good
chance to level the tie and drive
the finish to the decisive doubles
but he lost a very close call against
Ernepesov Aleksandr in three pul-
sating sets 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 after blow-
ing away three match points.
The differing moods of joy and
sorrow were well reflected in the
dead doubles that the Turkmeni-
stan pair of Isa and Pochay Georgiy
won without much ado 6-0, 6-1
against Phalkun and Samneang.
Cambodian-French player An-
drea Ka, who is pursuing her stud-
ies in the United States, went out of
the womens singles rst round on
Wednesday, beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Uz-
bekistans 11th seeded Akgul Aman-
muradova, the six-foot plus giant
literally towering over her rival.
There was some cheer in the
Cambodian camp as Mam Phalkun
raced away to a 6-1, 6-3 win over
Saudi Arabias Ahmed Omar Fahmi
in the mens singles first round to
set up a clash with seventh seeded
Zhang Ze of China.
Currently ranked 190 in the
Emirates ATP Rankings, Zhang Ze
was totally unforgiving in his 6-0,
6-1 rout of Phalkun yesterday.
All I could do was try to return
his shots. I could not or did not
have the ability to think about
where to place or how deep to hit
because every ball he hit was so
forceful and penetrating, Mam
Phalkun told the Post by email af-
ter his match.
I did have chances to be aggres-
sive when he would mishit but I
was very tentative even then.
In quick time, 16th seeded Dani-
ar Duldaev of Krygyzstan disposed
of Long Samneang 6-1, 6-1 yester-
day, bringing to an end Cambodias
mens tennis campaign.
In an evening match yesterday,
Phalkun and Andrea progressed
to the second round of the mixed
doubles event with a 6-0, 6-1 de-
molition of Nepals Ira Mehernissa
Rawat and Sakchyam Karki.
Swimmers fade away
Swimmers Hem Thon Ponleu and
Hem Thon Vithiny, who are Cam-
bodias most internationally expe-
rienced competitors, failed to make
a splash in the pool at the Munhak
Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center,
nding themselves out of depth af-
ter the initial phase.
Though Ponleu won his mens 50m
freestyle heat on Tuesday ahead of
a Laotian and a Yemenese rival in a
time of 27.46 seconds, he was more
than three seconds off the pace of
qualication for the nal held later
that day.
The gold went to Chinas Ning
Zetao in 21.95 ahead of Japanese pair
of Shinri Shioura (22.11) and Kenta
Ito (22.16).
Vithiny nished sixth in yesterdays
Heat 3 of the womens 50m breast-
stroke with a time of 39.59, way be-
hind the winner He Yuzhe of China at
31.83. Vithinys timing pushed her to
18th among 21 competitors and thus
barred her advance to the next stage.
She will race in Heat 1 of the wom-
ens 50m freestyle event this morn-
ing, while her uncle Ponleu will com-
pete in the mens 50m breaststroke
qualiers.
Volleyballers beached
Meanwhile, Cambodias mens
beach volleyball pair of Sim Khlouk
and Lim Samart were slotted into
Group B alongside second seeds
Santos-Pereira of Qatar, Perera-Was-
antha of Sri Lanka and Hossain Mo-
hammed Monir and Biswas Horosit
of Bangladesh. The paired event had
a eld of 32 teams split into eight
groups of four each.
The Cambodian duo crashed out
of the competition on Wednesday
after a 23-21, 21-15 loss to the Qatari
team. In the lead up to this make or
break encounter, Cambodia had on
Monday beaten the Bangladeshis
21-13, 21-18 after losing the open-
ing round to the Sri Lankans at 23-
21, 18-21, 15-12 on Sunday.
Sport
Knees up
Japans Masanori Hayashi (left)
strikes the ball against South Ko-
reas Im An-Soo in the mens team
sepaktakraw preliminary match
during the 2014 Asian Games at
Bucheon Gymnasium in Bucheon,
east of Incheon, on Wednesday.
The host nation won the game
3-0. Thailand are the reigning
champions from four years ago in
Guangzhou. AFP
No cheer yet at Incheon Games
Cambodias Asian Games tennis players Long Samneang (left), Mam Phalkun (centre) and
Andrea Ka perform stretches at the Yeorumul Tennis Centre in Incheon. PHOTOSUPPLIED

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