Refugees in Nauru protest

Daniel Pye and Vong Sokheng

R
EFUGEES on Nauru have
said they will reject Austra-
lias offer of resettlement in
Cambodia after a protest on
the island was staged at the Australian
Embassy yesterday amid reports of
three more incidents of self-harm and
attempted suicide.
An Iranian refugee, who cannot be
named and who was speaking on behalf
of residents of the family camp on the
island, yesterday told the Post that the
widely held perception of Cambodia as
a poverty-stricken and violent country
meant that nobody in the camp was
currently willing to voluntarily accept
the offer of resettlement.
The people here think of a bad im-
age of Cambodia in their mind, be-
cause its a very poor country. There is
lots of crime, a history of killings and
abuse, he said. Nobody here wants to
go to Cambodia.
Cambodian ofcials yesterday con-
rmed that a pilot phase of resettlement
is scheduled to begin later this year.
We have nothing to lose there will
be suicides if it carries on like this. They
will only be able to send our dead bod-
ies to Cambodia, the refugee said.
During a protest of some 80 people
yesterday morning outside the Aus-
tralian High Commission in Nauru,
the refugees called on Canberra to is-
sue them temporary protection visas
(TPVs) as ofcials have said they will
do for refugees on Christmas Island,
who arrived on the same boats as
those on Nauru.
[Australia is] trying to force
Kevin Ponniah
and Chhay Channyda
WITH the spectre of potential
garment sector unrest on the
horizon and emboldened com-
munities protesting land dis-
putes, the National Police are
buying what appear to be the
authorities rst water cannon
trucks designed specically to
control demonstrations.
And despite widespread
concerns over the use of ex-
cessive force by security forc-
es over the past year, they are
making no effort to hide it.
In advertisements in yes-
terdays Post and Post Khmer
newspapers, the Ministry of
Interior announced public
bidding for two top-of-the-
line TATA DAEWOO water
cannon trucks to be used
against demonstration.
The DWC model trucks can
carry up to 10,000 litres of wa-
ter and can shoot at a range of
50 metres.
The said trucks are manu-
factured in Korea in 2014,
with 100% quality, to be pro-
vided to national police forces
for use in security, safety and
social order protection opera-
tion, the notice continues.
National Police spokesman
Kirth Chantharith and Interi-
or Ministry spokesman Khieu
Sopheak could not be reached
for further details despite re-
peated calls.
Authorities have used water
cannons a handful of times
over the past 18 months, but
they have been mounted on
traditional re trucks.
In May last year, a woman
was knocked unconscious af-
ter a water cannon was used
on land rights protesters who
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THE ranks of Hong Kong
democracy protesters who
have paralysed parts of the
city swelled into the tens of
thousands yesterday, digging
in for another night of con-
frontation with police in their
campaign for free elections.
In the largest-scale un-
rest since the former British
colony was handed back to
China in 1997, demonstra-
tors fought hours of running
battles with police on Sunday
night, choking on clouds of
tear gas as ofcers attempted
to suppress the crowds.
Riot police retreated yester-
day, handing demonstrators
both a major morale boost
and control of three major
thoroughfares on the key -
nancial hubs main island and
across the harbour.
But protesters deed gov-
ernment calls to go home and
instead readied themselves to
counter any new attempt by
police to retake the streets.
Pro-democracy groups are
locked in a struggle with the
Pro-democracy demonstrators hold up their
mobile phones during a protest near the
Hong Kong government headquarters yes-
terday. The ranks of Hong Kong democracy
protesters who have paralysed parts of the
city swelled into the tens of thousands. AFP
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people to go to Cambodia; we
cant tolerate this. Its a really
dirty game theyre playing, the
Iranian refugee said. [Yester-
day], there were three more
suicide attempts and self-harm
[in the detention centre].
Another refugee, who report-
edly slashed his throat upon
hearing the news that he would
not be offered a temporary visa
to Australia, has not been heard
from, but the mans 14-year-old
daughter has taken to leading
protests against the deal and
has refused to drink or eat for
two days after sewing her lips
shut, the Iranian refugee said.
Another girl, who swallowed
washing powder, causing her
to vomit blood, was recovering
in a Sydney hospital yesterday
after being airlifted from the
island over the weekend.
Yesterday marked the fourth
day of protests on the island
against the resettlement plan,
which have been marked by a
number of suicide attempts and
self-harm among children.
Australian officials from the
embassy in Phnom Penh and
the office of Minister of Immi-
gration and Border Protection
Scott Morrison did not respond
to requests for comment.
Morrison, who is seen as a ris-
ing star in the administration of
Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott, signed the agreement
over glasses of champagne at
Cambodias Ministry of Interior
on Friday at about the same
time that some of the asylum
seekers apparently tried to kill
themselves.
The signing followed seven
months of secretive negotia-
tions between the two countries
since the possibility of sending
refugees to Cambodia was first
brought up in February at a
meeting between Australian
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop
and Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Bishop told ABC television on
Sunday that the agreement
would benefit Cambodia.
Cambodia is very keen to get
people into their country who
can help them grow their econ-
omy, she said. I dont think its
for you or me to tell Cambodia
that they cant offer themselves
as a location for refugees.
Cambodian officials yester-
day defended the agreement,
confirming earlier reports that
the country would only take on
a small number of refugees
initially, after officials had vis-
ited Nauru.
In a speech to university stu-
dents yesterday, Prime Minister
Hun Sen said that there was a
clear roadmap for accepting
the refugees for resettlement.
We will accept some refu-
gees from Australia based on a
voluntary principle; no one can
force them to come to Cambo-
dia, he said. We have a clear
roadmap in accepting those
refugees and nobody will vol-
unteer to come to Cambodia if
they do not know what Cam-
bodia is like.
Long Visalo, secretary of state
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation,
told reporters that a team of
officials would be dispatched to
Nauru to assess the refugees.
We will send officials to
Nauru in order to inform the
refugees about Cambodia
things such as living condi-
tions, cultural traditions and
language, he said.
He added that the number
and timing of the arrival of
refugees had not been decided,
nor had the locations where
they would be housed.
Temporary resettlement
and locations of the first arriv-
als will be in Phnom Penh, but
we still dont know the loca-
tion, he said. Permanent
resettlement and integration
into the Cambodian commu-
nity is still unknown, but it will
be outside Phnom Penh.
We dont how many refugees
will arrive, but there will be
small numbers at first. If there
are problems during the pilot
project, the [agreement] will be
amended, he added.
Visalo said that the UN Refu-
gee Agency (UNHCR) would
cooperate with the authorities;
however, he added that they
had yet to discuss this coop-
eration with the agency.
Vivian Tan, spokeswoman
for the UNHCRs regional office
in Bangkok, said in an email
that if the scheme fails, it could
put the refugees lives at risk
once more.
Tan said that with Cambo-
dias embryonic asylum sys-
tem, potentially different levels
of treatment for existing refu-
gees and those relocated from
Nauru, or refugees simply
being unable to integrate into
Cambodian society, mean
theres a possibility that they
may risk their lives yet again by
moving to another country in
search of safety and stability.
The agency warned on Sun-
day that the continuing crisis
in the Middle East following the
2011 uprisings and the advance
of the Islamic State would see
refugee applications to indus-
trialised countries surge to a
20-year high, while Australias
policies had caused a 20 per
cent drop in applications com-
pared to last year.
The vast majority of refugees
fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria
and elsewhere end up in camps
in neighbouring countries,
such as Turkey and Jordan.
Asked why the refugees had
left their native lands and made
their way to Australia, the Ira-
nian refugee on Nauru said
they had all fled persecution.
In Iran, the main problem is
the government. I think all over
the world there are good peo-
ple and bad governments. Eve-
ryone here has a similar story
of escape.
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Chea, Samphan
appeal verdicts
Charles Rollet and Stuart White

T
HE Nuon Chea and
Khieu Samphan de-
fence teams formally
appealed the verdict
in the recently wrapped Case
002/01 at the Khmer Rouge
tribunal yesterday, with each
laying out myriad grievances
with the lengthy trial that saw
the two defendants handed
life sentences in August.
Though lengthier
documents are to
follow, the Nuon
Chea team none-
theless listed 223
alleged errors in the
courts conduct of
the case and in its
judgement against
its client, including nearly
20 errors concerning the le-
gitimacy and fairness of the
proceedings.
The Case 002/01 Judgment
contorts the evidence and the
applicable legal standards in a
concerted, result-oriented ef-
fort to maximize Nuon Cheas
criminal liability and demon-
ize the leadership of the CPK,
the ling reads. Accordingly,
the Judgment not only fails to
respect Nuon Cheas funda-
mental right to a fair trial, it
calls into question the legiti-
macy of an institution clearly
less concerned with ascertain-
ing truth than with writing the
nal chapter of a propaganda
campaign on behalf of Nuon
Cheas political opponents.
The document goes on to
assert that the courts national
judges had been unduly in-
uenced by their own experi-
ences under the regime, that
errors in the use of evidence
pervade the Judgement, and
that the court had agrant-
ly violated its own rules by
cherry-picking supposedly in-
admissible evidence from out-
side the trials strictly enforced
temporal jurisdiction.
In its own 30-page riposte to
the trial chambers ruling, the
Samphan defence said their
clients right to a fair trial had
been violated by the courts
numerous errors.
According to the defence,
the prosecution incorrectly
presumed Samphans person-
al responsibility and detailed
knowledge of events like the
evacuation of Phnom Penh
and the executions at Tuol Po
Chrey given that the Khmer
Rouge regimes se-
cretive Party Cen-
tre was a blurry
and ever-shifting
group of people.
The Chamber
committed a factual
error by stating that
the evacuation of
Phnom Penh was done by ho-
mogenous armed forces [oper-
ating] in a unied chain of com-
mand under the control of the
Party Centre, the ling reads.
The defence also accused
the prosecution of not taking
into account the context of the
time, such as the US bomb-
ing of Cambodia, Vietnamese
and Chinese power games and
Samphans desire to reform
from the top in a gentle [man-
ner] prior to 1970.
The prosecution also led a
notice of appeal yesterday, but
rather than taking issue with
the factual ndings of the ver-
dict, they argued that the court
should permit the use of a
broader form of joint criminal
enterprise liability, the mode of
responsibility under which the
defendants were found guilty.
With the broader form, the
court would be able to hold the
defendants responsible not only
for crimes they and their peers
explicitly planned to commit,
but also all reasonably foresee-
able crimes that happened as a
result of that plan.
[Australia is] trying to force
people to go to Cambodia; we
cant tolerate this. Its a really
dirty game theyre playing
Refugees
protest on
Nauru
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Listen up
Free advice
offered to
government
A
GROUP of some of
the Kingdoms most
prominent political
analysts and researchers are
banding together to form an
informal think tank to provide
policy recommendations to
the government.
Political analyst Sok Touch
said yesterday that more
than 20 doctorate-holders
were collaborating to set up
an informal research group
called the Social Network.
We have ideas to help poli-
ticians and political parties
because some politicians are
walking in the wrong direc-
tion, he said.
If politicians do not
accept, when the country
falls into crisis, we will tell
people that politicians did
not listen to us and to vote
for the politicians that do.
While the opposition wel-
comed the idea, government
spokesman Phay Siphan was
less enthused.
Although they do not have
a doctorate, [our] leaders
have enough experience
in state functions and have
many advisers with doctora-
tes. MEASSOKCHEA
Monk faces
teen assault
allegations
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
A MONK has been defrocked
and sent to Takeo Provincial
Court yesterday after being
accused of sexually assaulting a
15-year-old girl on Sunday.
Chum Chhoeun, Prey Kabbas
district police chief, told the Post
yesterday morning that the
monk, a 33-year-old who goes
by Ev Ny or Cherm Mean, was
defrocked after being questioned
for several hours.
According to the interroga-
tion by monk officials, the
monk admitted that he has
committed sexual abuse of the
victim, he said.
The victims mother said yes-
terday that she and her husband
brought their daughter to the
monk, because she was sick and
the monk was known for his
healing powers. The assault
allegedly occurred while she was
being treated.
Hoy Som Oeun, a Ministry of
Cults and Religion district direc-
tor, said the parents were irre-
sponsible and may have known
what was going on.
The parents, however, are
demanding 10 million riel (about
$2,500) in compensation, the
district police chief said.
On flooding, patience please
Taing Vida

A
FTER a prolonged
downpour early yes-
terday morning left
much of Phnom Penh
under water and the overtaxed
drainage system struggling
to accommodate the deluge,
Prime Minister Hun Sen urged
city residents to be patient
Speaking at a graduation cer-
emony in the capital, the pre-
mier yesterday promised to ad-
dress the citys clogged sewers,
especially in neighbourhoods
that continued to be mired in
fetid wastewater hours after the
storm had passed.
Rain yesterday caused ood-
ing of 70 to 80 millimeters, even
a larger sewage [system] still
could not solve the problem,
he said. We are now drawing
water out . . . People, please un-
derstand.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said the municipal
government was working hard
to relieve the ooded areas,
but blamed climate change for
leaving ofcials little time to
prepare for storms.
We cannot predict how
many years it will take to stop
this problem . . . because the
rain is difcult to manage, Di-
manche said.
Dissatised with the citys ef-
forts, 50 residents from Boeung
Kak lined up outside City Hall
yesterday to demand someone
address the swamp overtaking
their houses.
The authorities do not care
at all. They not only leave the
sewage systems clogged, but
they also ll in the lakes so that
seven villages in the Boueng Kak
area sink beneath the ood,
said Song Srey Leap.
Expecting the heavy rains
to continue for the next seven
days, City Hall said all pumping
stations are on alert to ensure
against overow.
But Olympic Stadium archi-
tect Vann Molyvann warned
that the government will have
to do more if the seasonal rains
are ever to be prevented from
turning neighbourhoods into
waist-deep ponds.
If we want to solve the
problem, all responsible par-
ties have to use the budget to
properly restore the [drainage]
infrastructure.
According to the Ministry of
Water Resources and Meteorol-
ogy, the annual wet season rains
will continue from now until
the beginning of November.
We are not worried about
the rain. If there is any irregu-
larity, the ministry will inform
the people, said ministry
spokesman Chan Yutha.
A man bails water from his shop front on Sunday in Phnom Penh following heavy rains that inundated many
neighbourhoods in the capital. HONG MENEA
Junta requests extradition of
Thai dissident in Cambodia
Businessmans fraud case heard
Laignee Barron
DURING a military ceremony on Sunday, Thai-
land publicly requested that Cambodia repatri-
ate a student activist wanted on charges of
offending the monarchy.
Red Shirt member Ekkapob Luara, also known
as Tang Acheewa, is seeking political asylum in
Cambodia after Thailands ruling junta put out an
arrest warrant for him in June, Pavin Chachaval-
pongpun, a Thai political analyst and acquaint-
ance of Ekkapobs wrote in the Japan Times earlier
this month.
Cambodia, however, denied any knowledge
of the fugitive, who Pavin attested was chased
by Thai spies during a stay in Sihanoukville.
We have not received any official extradition
request from Thailand, said Foreign Ministry
spokesman Koy Kuong. I do not know if Mr
Ekkapob is even in Cambodia at the moment.
For years, Thai fugitives and members of the
red-shirt movement have sought refuge in
Cambodia in order to avoid strict and often
politically motivated lese majeste charges,
including exiled activist and long-time
Phnom Penh resident Jakrapob Penkair.
Cambodia and Thailand have signed an extra-
dition treaty, but it has not been observed reli-
giously. Cambodia previously refused an extra-
dition request for former Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra on the grounds that the charges were
politically motivated.
Thailands request for Ekkapob Luaras extra-
dition back to Thailand is Prayuths test to Hun
Sen to formally ascertain whether Hun Sens
apparent words of friendship . . . have any sub-
stance, said Paul Chambers, a political analyst
and director of research at the Chiang Mai-based
Institute of South East Asian Affairs.
However, if Ekkapob has indeed applied for asy-
lum, a claim the Ministry of Interior refused to
confirm yesterday, then repatriating him would
constitute a violation of international laws.
Cambodia has ratified the UN refugee conven-
tion and under no circumstances should it be
involved in refouling a person back to their coun-
try of origin if there is a possibility that they could
face persecution for their political views, said
Brad Adams, director of Human Rights Watch
Asia. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY THE BANGKOK POST
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
PHNOM Penh Municipal
Court yesterday heard the case
of a Chinese national accused
of stealing $1.2 million from
the joint business venture in
Phnom Penh of which he was
general director.
Presiding judge Yeth Polin
said that defendant Luix
Lezhong, 45, former general
director of Golden Fortune
Future (Cambodia) Securities
Plc (GFS), was charged by the
courts prosecutor with breach
of special trust by administra-
tors under article 393 of the
Cambodian Penal Code.
He created three different
accounts for himself. He
withdrew a total of $1.2 mil-
lion from his joint venture
company without approval
from his shareholder, and
transferred it into his own
accounts for his own use, she
explained.
Luix was arrested by the
Ministry of Interiors Penal
Police in March of 2014 after
his partner, fellow Chinese
national Yuang Quan, 43, filed
a lawsuit against him.
In early 2014, GFS company
lost a total of $1.2 million from
its account under mysterious
circumstances, Yuang said.
But after checking the mon-
ey transfers, we found that that
lost money had been trans-
ferred to Luix Lezhongs three
different personal accounts,
he added.
Under the penal code,
breach of special trust is pun-
ishable by up to five years in
prison and a fine of up to
$2,500.
During the hearing, Luix
Lezhong admitted his fault,
but maintained that he had
only withdrawn $800,000, and
asked the court to reduce his
sentence.
A verdict is due in the case
on October 6.
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had blocked Monivong Boule-
vard.
It was also deployed when
political demonstrators clashed
with police along the riverside in
September last year and during
a garment worker riot in Stung
Meanchey in November that saw
one woman killed after police
opened fire.
Other procurement notices
put out from the MOI yesterday
request 25 Nissan pickup trucks
for the same social order pur-
poses. The ministry is also pro-
curing more shields, electric
batons and protective clothing
for police.
An official at the MOIs pro-
curement office who would not
give his name said that the water
cannon would be used against
demonstrators who have incit-
ed others.
Its an issue for police to pro-
tect security and keep public
order for the nation.
Phnom Penh deputy police
chief Chuon Narin said the cap-
itals police had not specifically
requested the new gear.
In Phnom Penh, as of now, we
have enough [equipment], he
said, adding, however, that he
supported their purchase.
I think even in a developed
country, their governments
must have this equipment. So
why must a developing country
like us not have it? Its for pub-
lic order.
But Ramana Sorn, freedom of
expression project coordinator
at the Cambodian Center for
Human Rights, said the purchase
of water cannon trucks repre-
sented a concerning trend.
Cambodia pledged before the
UN Human Rights Council in
January that it would ensure
that people could demonstrate
safely without fear or intimida-
tion and accepted a number of
recommendations on the right
to freedom of assembly, she said
in an email.
This recent case is truly
against the spirit of those recom-
mendations, she said. Water
cannons are dangerous and the
authorities lack of control over
the use of force by law enforce-
ment makes water cannons even
more dangerous.
While CCHR believes water
cannons should never be used
by law enforcement, the group
declined to discuss other meth-
ods of crowd control it would
recommend in violent protest
situations.
John Muller, managing direc-
tor of Global Security Solutions,
a Phnom Penh-based private
security firm, said that despite
their risks, water cannons were
a far better option than firing
even rubber bullets.
Most other countries still feel
water cannon technology is
most suitable in terms of achiev-
ing the desired results and min-
imising injury, he said.
But Nay Vanda, deputy head of
human rights and legal aid at
watchdog Adhoc, said the pur-
chase was ridiculous.
It depends on how you use it,
but I dont think they demand
two big cannons to spray the
water weakly.
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Councillor for
CNRP arrested
Chhay Channyda

A
N OPPOSITION
Cambodia National
Rescue Party district
councillor in Phnom
Penh was arrested yesterday in
connection with a CNRP-led
protest at Freedom Park on July
15 that turned violent.
At least 15 CNRP mem-
bers or supporters have been
charged in connection with the
violence, which saw security
guards attacked by mobs after
they moved to crack down on
previously peaceful protesters.
Chuon Narin, the deputy
Phnom Penh police chief,
said that Chbar Ampov dis-
trict councillor Sum Puthy was
arrested on a court warrant
yesterday but did not specify
the charges.
He was sent to the police sta-
tion and forwarded on to the
court immediately since it was
a court warrant, he said.
According to Puthys wife,
Mak Chan, he must have been
arrested yesterday morning
after dropping her off at a mar-
ket and making his way to a
council meeting. Colleagues
sounded the alarm after he
did not appear, she said.
A group of seven lawmakers
and an activist were arrested in
the immediate aftermath of the
July protest.
They were hit with serious
charges such as insurrec-
tion, but were set free after
a political deal was reached
between the CNRP and the
ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party on July 22 to end the
nearly yearlong post-election
political deadlock.
Three youth activists, in-
cluding a fellow Chbar Ampov
district councillor, were then
arrested on similar charges but
released on bail on August 22
after weeks behind bars.
A handful of other CNRP
members have been sum-
moned to court for questioning,
but Narin, the deputy police
chief, could not conrm yes-
terday whether any other arrest
warrants had been issued.
Opposition spokesman Yim
Sovann yesterday said the ar-
rest was political.
The 15 July event case is a
political issue and both par-
ties have to follow [the July 22
agreement] to end the bad po-
litical situation, he said.
A protester holds on to a barricade as he is blasted with water from a re truck in Phnom Penh last year. The
government will purchase two water cannon trucks for use by the National Police in demonstrations. PHA LINA
Wanted: big
trucks for a
big crowd
No one in
Ofcials out,
Sesan letter
not accepted
H
UNDREDS of villag-
ers threatened by the
Lower Sesan II hydro-
power dam project are vow-
ing to protest at Stung Treng
Provincial Hall if authorities
continue to refuse to accept
their statement opposing the
project, a representative said
yesterday.
Eighteen villager re-
presentatives attempted
to submit a three-page
statement to the provincial
hall yesterday, only to be
rebuffed, representative
Choeurn Sreymom said.
When we do not come to
meet with them, they say
how can they help if the peo-
ple do not come? she said.
In the statement, the com-
munity says it will not move
for money.
Duong Pov, head of admi-
nistration at the provincial
hall, could not be reached.
Adhoc provincial coor-
dinator Hou Sam Ol said
yesterday that the relevant
provincial officials were cur-
rently in Laos and that Adhoc
would submit the document
at the hall again on Wednes-
day. PHAK SEANGLY
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Delinquent
companies
lose ELCs
May Titthara
SEVEN private companies have
had their land concessions
covering a total of more than
10,000 hectares in three prov-
inces recalled for not meeting
their contractual obligations,
Minister of Environment Say
Sam Al said yesterday.
The government withdrew
the licences of Vimean Seyla Co,
Ltd; Sanheng Investment; Blue
Metro Co, Ltd; Heng Bunleap
Co, Ltd; Sann Vatanak Co, Ltd;
Chan Roath Group; and Than-
souk Co, Ltd, which had hold-
ings in Preah Sihanouk, Koh
Kong and Kampong Speu prov-
inces, Sam Al said.
We have seized the land,
because they have had it for
such a long time but they have
not developed [it]. Some land is
occupied by people. We do not
[revoke concessions] without
any reasons, he said.
All the land will be transferred
into preservation areas again
because the forest has not been
cut yet in those areas.
In May 2012, Prime Minister
Hun Sen placed a ban on issu-
ing new economic land conces-
sions and called for a review of
existing ones.
Worker hunger rates high: ILO
Sean Teehan

N
EARLY half of Cam-
bodias garment
workers are anae-
mic, with 15 per
cent considered underweight
by international standards, ac-
cording to data released yester-
day on hunger in the industry.
The International Labour
Organizations Better Factories
Cambodia (BFC) issued some
baseline summary results for
a study on garment workers
health and productivity. The re-
sults shocked chief researcher
Ian Ramage, research director
for Angkor Research and Con-
sulting Ltd, the analysis rm
contracted for the survey.
People just dont have
enough to eat, and thats sur-
prising to me for a population
with a monthly salary, Ramage
said. It is surprising and inter-
esting and disturbing.
The data, which show more
than 43 per cent of garment
workers in Cambodia are anae-
mic and 8 per cent met the
denition for severely food in-
secure, were taken from a sur-
vey of almost 4,000 employees
of 10 factories between May
and June.
Ramage said the data taken
from factories in Phnom Penh,
Kampong Speu and Kandal
provinces roughly match hun-
ger rates in Cambodia as a
whole, which is largely rural.
Such evidence calls for a two-
pronged approach to deal with
worker hunger, which has been
cited as a factor in factory mass
faintings, said Dave Welsh,
country director of labour
rights group Solidarity Center.
Along with raised wages,
Welsh said a memorandum of
understanding regarding ac-
cess to healthy food has been
in the works. In addition, sub-
sidised housing or rent control
could prevent landlords from
hiking prices when salaries
rise, taking money away from
food budgets.
However, Ken Loo, secretary-
general of the Garment Manu-
facturers Association in Cam-
bodia, said yesterday that the
sample study did not neces-
sarily reect the entire indus-
try. Furthermore, he added,
garment workers sometimes
make purchases that call into
question their desperate food
situation.
How can anyone claim that
workers dont earn enough to
eat properly? Loo asked. Most
of them have their own mobile
phones.
A garment worker gives a blood sample during a health study earlier this year. A survey of garment workers
in Cambodia suggests that up to 43 per cent could be anaemic. ANGKOR RESEARCH
Pimping charge
Karaoke
trafcker
case heard
P
HNOM Penh Municipal
Court yesterday heard
the case of a karaoke
video star charged with procu-
ring child prostitution.
Singer Ou Reaksmey, 36, is
accused of having brought a
14-year-old girl to a wealthy
man for a commission.
She lured an underage girl
to have sex with a rich man,
promising the victim that she
will help her and promote her
to become a famous female
singer working with her,
judge Sous Sam Ath said.
Reaksmey has been charged
under two articles in the
anti-trafficking law, including
procurement with regard to
child prostitution.
Reaksmey was arrested in
January after the parents, who
are demanding $50,000, learned
their daughter had been taken
by the singer the month prior
to have sex with the man over
a three-day period.
Reaksmey denied the
charges yesterday, saying the
victims mother was trying
to gain revenge on her for a
previous dispute.
The trial continues next
month. BUTHREAKSMEY KONGKEA
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Brotherly love? Not so
much for these two
SOMETIMES moving in togeth-
er just isnt the right choice.
Two brothers-in-law living with
their wives in a house in Kam-
pong Chhnang town got into a
heated scuffle on Saturday
night, ending with one of them,
38, allegedly hacking the other,
23, with an axe. The younger
brother was injured in the arm
and sent to hospital, police said,
while his alleged attacker con-
fessed, although he claimed he
acted in self-defence as his
brother-in-law was about to
shoot him with a bow and
arrow. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Cops scold mob after
post-theft beatdown
COMMITTING one crime
doesnt excuse another. Angry
villagers in Phnom Penhs
Meanchey district beat an
alleged thief unconscious on
Saturday, leaving him sprawled
on the street after he was spot-
ted sneaking a residents
motorbike out of his home at
night. Neighbours shouted in
alarm when they saw the sup-
posed misdeed and beat up the
31-year-old, only calling police
afterwards. The man was sent
to hospital prior to his detain-
ment, with police telling the
populace that assaulting sus-
pects is also illegal. NOKORWAT
Leave no man behind?
Not in thieves credo
AN UNLUCKY 31-year-old was
the only suspected thief arrest-
ed on Saturday for stealing a
Toyota Camry in Prey Veng
province after his three alleged
partners in crime managed to
escape in the nick of time.
Police stopped the car in Kan-
dal province, leaving the lone
arrestee to confess they were
on their way to Phnom Penh to
sell the car and split the pro-
ceeds. He was sent to court,
while police remain on the
lookout for the slippery trio.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Gang revenge: a fair
fight this was not
A YOUNG man was beaten
unconscious in a decidedly
unfair fight against four men in
Kandals Takhmao town on
Sunday. The 21 year old was
walking alone when he had an
argument with the group, who
tracked him down later and
beat him with wooden sticks,
according to police. Villagers
reported the attack, who sent
the victim to hospital. The rea-
son behind the argument
remains unknown and police
are on the lookout for the sus-
pects. NOKORWAT
Holiday hangover lasts
longer than expected
A 22-YEAR-OLD had an
unpleasant surprise when he
returned home from Pchum
Ben only to be arrested by Bat-
tambang police for breaking into
a hospital and stealing patients
valuables more than a year ago.
The break-in occurred in Sep-
tember of last year when the
man allegedly made off with the
jewellery and mobile phones of
two patients. A warrant for his
arrest was issued in November,
and the suspect was arrested
on Sunday. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Land disputes aired in capital
Pech Sotheary

N
EARLY one hundred
people from three
provinces gathered
at Freedom Park yes-
terday to demand that the gov-
ernment help them solve their
long-running land disputes.
Please, [we ask the] National
Assembly to help settle and
help investigate the corruption
in the land disputes, and ask
the government led by Sam-
dech Hun Sen to help speed up
the cases and offer land titles for
us because we are living damn
miserably, said Om Sam Ol, a
representative of 147 families
from Pailins Sala Krao district.
The gathering of families
from Battambang, Pailin and
Preah Sihanouk provinces oc-
curred as a group of former
Khmer Rouge soldiers from
Banteay Meancheys Malai dis-
trict left their temporary base at
a local pagoda and marched to
the Council of Ministers to ask
for help with a feud over nearly
3,000 contested hectares.
Yesterdays show of dissent
marked the latest round of
such protests since August 19
when Hun Sen lashed out at
ofcials for not reporting land
conicts to him, in turn setting
off a slew of marches on the
capital as aggrieved residents
took their opportunity to make
their voices heard.
The government still set-
tles the matter for people, but
the promise is made step by
step, because it is not a nor-
mal case, said Seng Savorn,
a member of the commission
on land disputes at the Coun-
cil of Ministers, who accepted
the petition.
Ith Savoeun, a community
representative from Malai,
warned if there is no resolu-
tion within one week, people
would meet again in front of
the Council of Ministers.
After ling the petition, they
planned to march from Rus-
sian Boulevard to Prime Min-
ister Hun Sens mansion, but
they were stopped by Daun
Penh district security guards
and armed forces.
Pailin and Preah Sihanouk
provincial governors could
not be reached, but Ko Som-
saroeut and Chan Sophal,
Banteay Meanchey and Bat-
tambang provincial governors,
respectively, said that the au-
thorities were trying to cope
with the land disputes.
Families hold placards yesterday in Phnom Penh during a demonstration at Freedom Park calling for the
government to fast track a resolution to their land dispute issues. VIREAK MAI
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
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Property
tax revenue
for this year
tops $1M
Hor Kimsay
WITH the deadline for property
owners to pay their dues passing
today, Acleda Bank one of two
agencies collecting tax for the
government has received over
$1 million in property tax pay-
ments this financial year.
So Phonnary, executive vice
president of Acleda Bank, told
the Post yesterday that her firm
reached the $1 million mark at
the end of August with payments
from about 8,000 people.
Phonnary said the bank
expected that figure to rise once
the September payments had
been totalled.
This month, as the deadline
has nearly arrived, more and
more people are coming to make
a payment, she said.
Contacted yesterday, General
Department for Tax director
Kong Vibol declined to state tax
revenue targets or how collec-
tion was progressing compared
to previous years.
At Canadia Bank, the second
firm collecting taxes for the
department, deputy director
Charles Vann said he expected
revenues to rise this year as peo-
ple became more aware of their
obligations.
People can pay their tax eas-
ier through the banking service
and I know that more people
know more now about tax pay-
ments, he said. He declined to
disclose the amount Canadia
had collected.
Cambodia may miss AEC date
Eddie Morton
T
HE Asian Develop-
ment Bank (ADB) has
cast fresh doubt over
the regions ability to
meet the ASEAN Economic
Communitys (AEC) self-im-
posed 2015 deadline.
According to the ADBs 2014
Economic Update, Brunei, In-
donesia, Malaysia, the Philip-
pines, Singapore and Thailand
have all effectively reduced
tariff rates to almost zero and
are now poised to introduce
a one-stop shop to expedite
customs clearance within
ASEAN called the ASEAN
Single Window by 2015.
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar
and Vietnam, however, are all
lagging, the ADBs September
25 update said.
ASEAN members are pro-
gressing toward establishing
an economic community.
Yet many challenges must be
overcome for the ASEAN Eco-
nomic Community to become
a reality as scheduled at the
end of 2015, the update said.
While unlikely to meet
the 2015 launch deadline,
ASEAN will benet from the
steps taken.
The ADBs lead economist for
the ofce of Regional Econom-
ic Integration, Jayant Menon,
said that while Cambodia is
lagging behind some of its
more developed neighbours,
it remains ahead of Laos, Viet-
nam and Myanmar in terms of
overall preparedness.
Cambodia needs to speed
up its customs reform and to
press ahead with automating
processes in order to reduce
trade costs and minimise the
opportunities for corruption,
and to be ready for live imple-
mentation of its National Sin-
gle Window by 2015, Menon
told the Post.
The other newer members
are also lagging in this area,
which is currently prevent-
ing the implementation of an
ASEAN Single Window by the
AEC deadline.
The Single Window initia-
tive aims to interconnect each
countrys customs check-
points and automatically
share cargo-related data and
information, including dec-
larations and certicates of
origin, in an effort to speed up
cross-border trade.
The ADBs scepticism at
Cambodia meeting the De-
cember 2015 deadline comes
after the National Assembly
in May approved a draft law
aimed at simplifying and
modernising customs pro-
cedures in line with those of
neighbouring nations. More
recently, on September 9, the
Ministry of Commerce an-
nounced that it would imple-
ment a simplied, automated
Certicate of Origin service by
March 2015.
Independent economist
Srey Chanty echoed the ADBs
doubts, saying that Cambo-
dia would need at least until
2017 to be fully prepared for
AEC integration.
I think they might be able
to integrate only elements that
are ready for integration at the
2015 deadline . . . the ADB is
right, Cambodia is not ready
with regards to its customs
processes, Chanty said.
They need to be focused
on the customs procedures
and making sure everything is
automated and computerised,
and also the development of
infrastructure to boost logis-
tics within Cambodia.
Ofcials from the Ministry
of Economy and Finance and
the Ministry of Commerce
declined to comment on the
progress of implementing the
draft law or Cambodias over-
all standing regarding the AEC
2015 deadline.
Meanwhile, global credit
ratings agency Moodys yes-
terday reafrmed the King-
doms credit rating of B2.
Moodys said greater ASEAN
integration in 2015 stands to
be a major investment draw
for Cambodia and could help
sustain the countrys 7 per
cent annual GDP growth rate.
The Moodys report, how-
ever, stated that preparation
measures allowing a freer ow
of goods and services into the
country and across the region,
such as the Single Window ini-
tiative, remained incomplete
in Cambodia.
[The AECs] ongoing im-
plementation would help
diversify Cambodias export
base and improve its busi-
ness climate, encouraging in-
vestment. Cambodia stands
to benet from intra-ASEAN
trade, which is much smaller
than trade with countries out-
side the bloc, the report said.
Moodys also noted that in-
creased foreign direct invest-
ment, particularly ows from
China, would help support
Cambodias development goals
of increasing foreign invest-
ment to 25 per cent of GDP.
The rating agency cau-
tioned that the rapid expan-
sion of credit growth would
need to be monitored and that
an over-dollarised economy
placed restrictions on the ef-
fective use of monetary policy
to control ination.
A moto driver waits for customers in front of the General Department of Customs and Excise yesterday
afternoon in Phnom Penh. PHA LINA
Telenor launches opens
its doors in Myanmar
TELENOR became the third
mobile operator in Myanmar
after launching services in
Mandalay on Saturday, as the
firm positions itself to serve
the mass market in an
increasingly competitive
landscape. The Norway-based
telco has faced challenges in
receiving permission to build
towers, leading to its decision
to delay launching in Nay Pyi
Taw and Yangon until early
October. Telenor has a
commitment to launch
services before October 5 a
deadline it will meet in
Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw, but
its Yangon service will launch a
week later. MYANMAR TIMES
Thailands exports fall
by 7.4 pct in August
THAI exports shrank 7.4 per
cent year-on-year to US$18.9
billion in August, the biggest
drop in 32 months. Imports
contracted by 14.17 per cent to
$17.8 billion last month,
resulting a trade surplus of
$1.15 billion, according to the
Commerce Ministrys
Department of International
Trade Promotion. In the first
eight months of this year,
exports slipped by 1.36 per
cent year-on-year to $150.54
billion while imports fell 12.69
per cent to $150.26 billion,
representing a trade surplus
of $280 million. BANGKOK POST
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Tax hike is
up next for
Thailand
THAILANDS first increase in
value-added tax (VAT) in more
than a decade is expected next
year, to 8 per cent, says Suwit
Rojanavanich, a bond market
adviser to the Public Debt Man-
agement Office.
VAT could then gradually
increase further to the ceiling
of 10 per cent, but the timing
would have to be appropriate,
he said.
The taxation was introduced
in 1992 at a rate of 10 per cent
but immediately reduced to 7
per cent at the request of busi-
ness operators who felt the rate
was too high.
It was supposed to rise to 10
per cent in 1997 but the onset
of the economic crisis prompt-
ed the government to leave the
rate at 7 per cent, and succes-
sive governments have
renewed the reduction several
times since then.
The National Council for
Peace and Order earlier
approved an extension of the 7
per cent rate for another fiscal
year, to September 30, 2015.
Tax reform to foster fairness,
narrow economic disparities
and boost state coffers is at the
heart of the interim govern-
ments agenda. BANGKOK POST
Vietnam shrugs off China riots
V
IETNAMS economy
grew at its fastest
rate for three years in
the rst nine months
of 2014, government gures
showed yesterday, despite
deadly anti-China riots that
targeted factories and threat-
ened foreign investment.
Gross domestic product
(GDP) grew at 5.62 per cent
between January and Septem-
ber this year, up from 5.14 per
cent in the rst three quarters
of 2013 and 4.73 per cent over
the same period in 2012.
While noting the gures
marked a positive change,
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung called for further mea-
sures to boost the countrys
economy, in a statement on
the governments website.
We have to concentrate on
effectively dealing with short-
comings, weaknesses and
difculties that are hinder-
ing production, business and
growth, Dung said.
The Vietnamese government
has targeted full-year growth
of 5.8 per cent.
In May anti-China riots rat-
tled parts of the nation after
Beijing moved a deep-water
oil drilling rig into waters in
the South China Sea claimed
by Hanoi.
Some foreign-backed facto-
ries were set on re, alarming
investors who had previously
been attracted to the commu-
nist country for its reputation
for stability and security.
Immediately after the un-
rest, Dung pledged to step
up economic reforms and
prevent a repeat of the riots,
promising assistance to af-
fected businesses.
China withdrew the rig mid-
July, a month earlier than ini-
tially expected, claiming it had
successfully completed the
drilling mission.
Although Chinese tourist
arrivals have fallen dramati-
cally since Beijing imposed
a travel ban, the wider eco-
nomic fallout from the riots
appears to have been some-
what contained.
For years, Vietnam has
struggled with sluggish growth
due to structural problems in-
cluding toxic loans paralysing
the banking sector and inef-
cient state-owned compa-
nies, which still dominate the
economy.
Last year, Vietnams econo-
my grew 5.42 per cent, picking
up speed slightly after its worst
performance in more than a
decade the previous year.
According to state media,
the Vietnamese government
has revised its GDP growth tar-
get to 6.2 per cent for next year,
higher than the earlier target
of 6 per cent. AFP
Street vendors push their carts along a side street in Hanoi. Despite deadly anti-China riots in May, Vietnam
has reported GDP growth of 5.62 per cent between January and September. BLOOMBERG
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Financial Specialist
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh is seeking an individual for the
Financial Specialist position in the Financial Management Ofce.
The incumbent reports to the Financial Management Ofcer (FMO)
and serves as an advisor to the FMO and Management Ofcer, and
assumes charge of the Financial Management Ofce in their absences.
Thejobholder directs Financestaff regarding the$18 million in managed
funds across nineserviced agencies and over $8 million in non-service
funds disbursed by the Finance team. S/he provides guidance and
assistance in the preparation of all nancial reports and other documents
required by theDepartment of Stateor associated agencies represented at
Post. S/he formally trains Finance staff in budget formulation, Financial
Plan and Budget Execution, and accounts for the Financial Management
Section. The jobholder directly supervisesthree employees, and indirectly
four others.
Grade/Salary: -FSN-10; FP-5 (Steps 5 through 14)/USD 19,168
29,711 annually (full-performance level)
-FSN-9; FP-5 (Steps 1 through 4)/USD 14,618
22,652 annually (training level)
Required Qualications
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or 1.
Business Administration is required.
Full-performance level 2. : Seven years of progressive
work experience with a minimum of ve years in budget
and nancial management, and one year of supervisory
experiencearerequired.
Training level: Seven years of progressivework experience
with a minimum of ve years in budget and nancial
management is required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Formulating, monitoring and reporting budgets skills are 4.
required.
Excellent administrativeand analytical skills. Good 5.
interpersonal and supervisory skills, good attention to detail,
ability to work under pressure, ability to articulate complex
issues, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to
effectively utilize computer and nancial software.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is October 14, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.gov using
theUniversal Application for Employment as aLocally Employed Staff
or Family Member (DS-174) form. The application form and complete
details on this position can befound at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/
employment_opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have the required
work and/or residency permits to beeligiblefor consideration.
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Business
CHINESE e-commerce giant
Alibaba, which completed
the worlds largest stock offer-
ing earlier this month, has re-
ceived approval to set up a pri-
vate bank, it was announced
yesterday.
The China Banking Regula-
tory Commission (CBRC) said
Alibaba would be the major-
ity shareholder with a 30 per
cent stake in a private bank to
be established in the eastern
province of Zhejiang.
Alibabas ambitions extend
beyond e-commerce and it
has already sought to shake
up state banks with a nan-
cial product called Yuebao, an
investment fund that offers
better returns than traditional
deposits.
Other major shareholders in
the newly approved bank in-
clude units of privately-owned
conglomerate Fosun with 25
per cent, auto parts maker
Wanxiang Group with 18 per
cent and investment rm Yin-
tai with 16 per cent.
Alibabas listing on the New
York Stock Exchange raised a
total of $25 billion, making it
the largest stock offer in his-
tory and founder Jack Ma the
richest person in China, ac-
cording to the annual rich list
of luxury magazine publisher
Hurun Report.
Alibaba, estimated to hold
more than 90 per cent of the
Chinese market for consum-
er-to-consumer transactions,
embarked on an acquisition
frenzy before the listing.
Yesterday Shenzhen-listed
Beijing Shiji Information Tech-
nology, which provides IT so-
lutions to the hotel industry,
said a subsidiary of Alibaba
had signed an agreement to
pay 2.81 billion yuan ($457
million) for a 15 per cent stake
in the company, according to
stock exchange lings.
The banking regulator
yesterday also approved a
Shanghai-based private bank
whose major shareholder will
be JuneYao Group, which has
businesses ranging from food
to aviation.
JuneYao will hold 30 per cent
while apparel maker Meters-
bonwe will take 15 per cent,
the CBRC said.
In the past two months the
country has approved ve
private banks including one
invested in by Internet giant
Tencent, parent of Chinas
most popular messaging app
WeChat and a rival of Aliba-
ba. AFP
Alibaba receives OK
to set up private bank
China FTZ reforms disappoint
C
HINA yesterday hailed
the rst anniversary of
its rst free trade zone
(FTZ), but foreign
rms expressed disappoint-
ment over the pace of pledged
reforms as they await real busi-
ness opportunities.
The FTZ was set up in Chi-
nas commercial hub Shanghai
with the promise of a range of
nancial reforms, including
full convertibility of the yuan
currency and freer interest
rates both of which remain
unfullled.
But just two weeks ago, au-
thorities shook up the zones
management, removing Com-
munist Party chief and execu-
tive deputy director Dai Haibo
without giving a reason, after
media reports he was facing
allegations of corruption.
In recent days, a urry of ac-
tivity has surrounded the zone.
Earlier in September, China
launched a gold market in the
FTZ and Premier Li Keqiang
gave his stamp of approval
during a visit. And yesterday,
Microsoft launched its Xbox
One in China made possible
by a new policy for the FTZ.
The results of the reforms
in the pilot FTZ in the rst
year are better than expected,
Shanghais Communist Party
chief Han Zheng said.
Its a major step to further
promote reform and opening-
up under the new scenario.
On Sunday, Chinas cabinet
approved further opening to
27 sectors.
The policies include allow-
ing foreign investors to set
up wholly owned companies
to design yachts and manu-
facture aviation engine com-
ponents. They would also be
allowed to process green tea
through joint ventures with
Chinese partners.
Foreign company execu-
tives say privately they are
disappointed, while publicly
many say they are still wait-
ing to see what opportunities
might arise.
Its [the FTZ] part of the
ecosystem to encourage new
things, out-of-box think-
ing, which nowhere else has.
So were still watching, said
Frank Jiang, head of R&D in
Asia-Pacic for French phar-
maceutical giant Sano.
About 12,266 companies had
registered in the zone by mid-
September but only 13.7 per
cent, or 1,677, were overseas
rms, according to ofcial g-
ures. However, Chinese inves-
tors still cheered the one-year
anniversary yesterday, chasing
stocks of companies related to
the zone.
The launch of an interna-
tional board for gold trading
was the rst major reform
aimed at establishing more
open nancial markets in the
FTZ by allowing more foreign
investors.
The establishment of the
international board is creating
an offshore market in China
with which they can pilot a lot
of measures to internationalise
the nancial markets, said Al-
bert Cheng, Far East managing
director for industry group the
World Gold Council.
Chinese ofcials have made
clear that eagerly anticipated
nancial reforms will be in-
cremental while risk manage-
ment remains a priority.
The opening of the capital
markets and renminbi go-
ing out will depend on the
completion of the supervision
system and strengthening risk
prevention measures, said
Zheng Yang, head of Shang-
hais nancial services ofce.
The government keeps a
tight grip on the yuan, also
known as the renminbi, fear-
ing unpredictable inows or
outows of funds could harm
the economy and reduce its
control over it. AFP
As China celebrated the one-year anniversary of its free trade zone
(pictured), foreign rms expressed disappointment over the pace of the
pledged reforms. BLOOMBERG
At long last, the Xbox One
hits store shelves in China
US TECHNOLOGY giant
Microsoft yesterday launched
its Xbox One game console in
China, the first foreign com-
pany to enter the potentially
massive market after the gov-
ernment lifted a 14-year ban.
The launch, which was
delayed a week for reasons
Microsoft didnt reveal, comes
as the US company faces a
government investigation for
alleged monopoly actions
regarding other products like
its flagship Windows operating
system, used on the majority
of computers in China.
In January China formally
authorised the domestic sale
of game consoles made in its
first free trade zone (FTZ) in
Shanghai, ending a ban in
2000 originally instituted due
to worries over content. The
FTZ was established exactly a
year ago yesterday.
At a branch of Chinese elec-
tronics chain store Suning in
downtown Shanghai, a sales-
man said the outlet sold more
than 30 limited-edition con-
soles priced at 4,299 yuan
($699) after staying open past
midnight. A more basic pack-
age retails for 3,699 yuan
($602) in China.
Buyers were lured by Kinect,
which obeys motion and voice
commands, however some
expressed disappointment
at the lack of available games
in China only 10 ready for
the launch.
Prices are also far higher
than other markets like the
US, where the website price is
$400 for the basic console and
$500 with Kinect.
The console price is too
high, the first batch of games
has no attraction, can we buy
something more practical?
said Diu Dasu in a microblog
posting.
Of the 10 games, half are
sport or racing titles. Others
are aimed at younger players,
like Zoo Tycoon and puzzle-
solving game Max: The Curse
of Brotherhood.
So far absent are first-person
shooter games like the popular
Call of Duty series, although
Microsoft says it has more
than 70 titles in the pipeline to
bring to China.
Under the rules of the FTZ,
games must pass inspection
by cultural authorities, who
conceivably could censor con-
tent that they deem to be
obscene, violent or politically
sensitive.
Microsoft still beats rivals
like Japans Sony, which makes
the PlayStation console, and
Nintendos Wii into the Chi-
nese market.
A joint venture of Sony and
Chinese tourism and cultural
firm Shanghai Oriental Pearl
Group is planning to start
operations in the FTZ from
December.
Microsoft chief executive
officer Satya Nadella last week
visited China for the first time
since taking the post in Febru-
ary, in what Chinese state
media portrayed as an attempt
to appease regulators over the
investigation.
The head of Chinas State
Administration for Industry
and Commerce, which is car-
rying out the investigation,
met Nadella on Thursday and
urged Microsoft to cooperate
in the probe, China Industry
and Commerce News report-
ed. AFP
An Xbox One controller is pictured in a shop in Shanghai yesterday after
the consoles launch in China. AFP
T
HE European Union
is set to accuse US
technology giant
Apple of taking illegal
aid from the Irish state through
sweetheart tax deals over two
decades, the Financial Times
reported yesterday.
A European Commission
investigation into Apples tax
affairs in Ireland, where it has
enjoyed a rate of less than 2
per cent, found that the com-
pany benetted from illegal
state aid, the FT reported citing
sources close to the matter.
Irelands Department of Fi-
nance conrmed that the EU
would be publishing a docu-
ment yesterday but stressed
that the Commission has not
formally decided that there is
state aid at play.
Ireland is condent that
there is no breach of state aid
rules in this case and has al-
ready issued a formal response
to the Commission earlier this
month, addressing in detail
the concerns and some mis-
understandings contained in
the opening decision, the de-
partment added.
The EUs investigations
focus on so-called transfer-
pricing arrangements on tax-
ing commercial transactions
between company units, the
EUs antitrust arm said in
June when it opened formal
tax probes covering rms
including Apple. Regulators
will check whether the tax
deals constituted illegal state
aid. Governments can be or-
dered by the commission to
claw back unfair aid.
The investigation seeks to
determine whether such ar-
rangements offered by Ireland,
Netherlands and Luxembourg
give the rms an unfair com-
petitive advantage and thus
amount to illegal state aid.
Ireland is favoured as a Eu-
ropean base by several major
companies including Amazon,
Facebook, PayPal and Twitter.
Apples European headquar-
ters is in the southwest Irish
city of Cork, where it employs
4,000 people.
The country has a competi-
tive corporate tax rate of 12.5
percent, which has been criti-
cised by some other member
states of the EU as unfair, but
which Dublin has repeatedly
defended.
However, a 2013 investiga-
tion by the US Senate found
that the maker of iPhones and
iPads paid a lower rate by chan-
nelling overseas sales through
subsidiaries in an agreement
that was negotiated with the
Irish government.
The Organisation for Eco-
nomic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) this
month began efforts to crack
down on aggressive tax
avoidance by multinational
companies, such as the noto-
rious mechanism known as
the Double Irish.
Under such arrangements,
a subsidiary based in a high-
er-tax country pays another
subsidiary based in a tax ha-
ven, reducing the amount of
tax the corporation pays on
overall prots. Ireland has
indicated that such loopholes
could be closed amid pres-
sure from the OECD.
The group of 34 OECD na-
tions has proposed new in-
ternational measures aimed
to force companies to report
their prots and holdings
country-by-country, increas-
ing transparency and stop-
ping common methods of
shielding prots from tax.
AFP/BLOOMBERG
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
DreamWorks considering offer from Japans SoftBank
JEFFREY Katzenberg is again
weighing up a sale of Dream-
Works Animation SKG Inc, after
an attempt to build the film stu-
dio into a mini-Walt Disney Co
was rocked by uneven box-of-
fice results.
SoftBank Corp, the Japanese
telecommunications compa-
ny headed by Masayoshi Son,
is in talks to buy Glendale,
California-based DreamWorks
Animation, people with
knowledge of the discussions
said on September 27.
An acquisition hasnt been
formally discussed by senior
executives at SoftBank, and the
chances of reaching a final
agreement are low, said anoth-
er person familiar with matters
at Tokyo-based SoftBank.
The decision to weigh a sale
highlights the challenges faced
by Katzenberg as he seeks to
diversify. DreamWorks Anima-
tion, which previously looked
for a buyer, has expanded its TV
business and acquired Awe-
someness TV, an online video
network, while forming a part-
nership in China that includes
live entertainment. Those
efforts havent grown large
enough to offset film write-offs
that hurt the stock.
SoftBank has offered $32 per
DreamWorks Ani mat ion
share, according to the Holly-
wood Reporter, 43 per cent
more than the stocks closing
price on September 26. The
DreamWorks Animation board
held an emergency meeting
last week to weigh the $3.4 bil-
lion bid, the publication said.
Dreamworks Animation,
taken public by Chief Executive
Officer Katzenberg in 2004, is
open to other offers, one of the
people said.
Twenty-first Century Fox Incs
attempt to buy Time Warner Inc
for $85 billion in August set off
a wave of speculation about
media-industry consolidation.
Independent content compa-
nies are at a disadvantage nego-
tiating distribution terms with
larger pay-TV operators such as
Comcast Corp, which is buying
Time Warner Cable Inc for $44
billion. AT&T Inc is buying sat-
ellite service DirecTV for $48
billion. Starz, the movie chan-
nel controlled by John Malone,
is seeking a buyer, people famil-
iar with the matter said.
SoftBank controls the third-
largest US mobile operator,
Sprint Corp, and has been
looking for more US media and
technology investments. The
firm ended talks to buy the
fourth-largest mobile carrier,
T-Mobile US Inc in August due
to regulatory opposition.
Eric Wold, an analyst at B
Riley & Co in San Francisco,
sees opportunities for well-fi-
nanced Chinese companies to
invest in Hollywood. Besides
DreamWorks Animation, he
said Lions Gate Entertainment
Corp, maker of the Hunger
Games films, is an attractive
target, along with theatrical
technology companies such as
Imax Corp and RealD Inc
Given the surge in the box
office industry within China in
recent years, I believe that it
only makes sense for well-cap-
italized companies to look to
expand and gain access to con-
tent in the worlds largest box
office market, Wold said.
DreamWorks has an impres-
sive library of content and
strong franchises that, I believe,
would resonate well within
China. BLOOMBERG
COMMERZBANK Ag, the Ger-
man lender seeking to resolve
a probe into Iran sanctions
violations, also faces a US in-
quiry into whether it broke
anti-money-laundering laws,
according to a person with
knowledge of the situation.
Federal prosecutors in
Manhattan are conducting
the money-laundering inves-
tigation separately from the
sanctions case, which has
been nearing a settlement,
said the person, requesting
anonymity because the in-
quiry isnt public.
The newer probe looks at
whether the rm failed to
meet obligations for detect-
ing and preventing money
laundering, the Wall Street
Journal reported.
Duncan King, a spokesman
at Commerzbank, and James
Margolin, a spokesman for the
Manhattan US Attorneys of-
ce, declined to comment.
US authorities, including the
Federal Reserve and the Of-
ce of the Comptroller of the
Currency, have been faulting
some of the worlds biggest
banks for lax controls over
transfers that could allow ter-
rorists and drug rings to move
money around the globe.
Commerzbank, Germanys
second-largest lender, prom-
ised the Fed last year that it
will take steps to improve
anti-money-laundering con-
trols at its New York branch.
The company didnt admit or
deny wrongdoing in that ac-
cord. BLOOMBERG
Commerzbank said to
face US investigation
THE Italian Judicial Authority
is investigating past individual
tax lings of Prada SpAs chief
executive ofcers, making the
two fashion executives the
latest target of a government
probe in the country.
Miuccia Prada and Patrizio
Bertelli were informed of the
examination by the author-
ity regarding the accuracy
of certain past tax lings by
them as individuals in respect
of foreign-owned companies,
Milan-based Prada said in a
statement.
The probe isnt the rst into
the tax affairs of luxury-goods
executives by Italian authori-
ties. In March 2013, police
seized more than 46 million
($58 million) of assets from ex-
ecutives linked to jeweler Bul-
gari for alleged tax evasion.
This year, Domenico Dolce
and Stefano Gabbana, the
founding designers of the
Italian fashion company that
bears their name, were sen-
tenced to 18 months in prison
for non-payment of 40 mil-
lion of taxes at one of the de-
signers companies, a charge
they deny. BLOOMBERG
Prada execs
face Italian
tax probe
The EU is reportedly set to accuse Apple of taking illegal state aid from
Ireland through tax deals over the last 20 years. BLOOMBERG
Apple took Irish state aid: EU
Lufthansa pilots strike
on long-haul flights
PILOTS with Germanys
Lufthansa will stage a strike on
long-haul flights today, their
latest walkout in the ongoing
dispute with management over
early retirement provisions.
Vereinigung Cockpit called on
its members to strike on long-
haul flights from Frankfurt
between 0600-2100 GMT
today. AFP
Britains Balfour Beatty
warns of profit drop
BRITISH infrastructure giant
Balfour Beatty saw its share
price slump by more than a
fifth yesterday after the latest
in a series of profit warnings
this year. The company
announced in a dire trading
update that its British
construction arm suffered
another profit shortfall of
about $122 million. AFP
Canadas Encana to buy
USs Athlon for $7 billion
CANADIAN energy company
Encana yesterday said it has
agreed to buy Texas Athlon
Energy for $7.1 billion, in a bid
boost the Calgary-based
natural gas producers shift
into oil. Encana would pay
$5.93 billion in cash, as well as
assume $1.15 billion of
Athlons debt. AFP
FCA targets banks in UK amid rigging
SIX major banks caught up in the investiga-
tion into rigging the currency markets are
being pressed by the regulator to agree to
fines possibly of as much as 1.8 billion
($2.9 billion) in the next eight weeks.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
held discussions with each of the banks this
week to warn them that they faced multi-
million-pound penalties that could surpass
the 160 million levied on the Swiss bank
UBS for rigging Libor the biggest fine the
UK regulator has imposed.
Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays,
Citi, UBS and JP Morgan declined to com-
ment on the talks with the FCA, which is
run by Martin Wheatley and which has
been investigating the 3.5 billion cur-
rency markets for two years.
The regulator, which also refused to com-
ment, is said to be keen to avoid the pro-
tracted talks that characterised the long-
running investigation into Libor rigging.
Barclays was the first bank to be fined in
2012, paying 290 million in the UK and
US for manipulating the benchmark inter-
est rate. There have been six subsequent
fines but the FCA and US investigators have
yet to complete their regulatory actions
against some other banks.
While the FCA is working on a coordi-
nated settlement with the banks being
investigated for currency rigging, it is also
edging closer to concluding the Libor
inquiry, which could result in other fines
and reprimands this year.
It is also uncertain whether the banks will
agree to a settlement, especially without
agreement from the other regulators
around the world also involved in investi-
gations, particularly in the US.
A Sky News estimate of 2 billion of
aggregate fines was later followed by an
estimate from Reuters of 1.8 billion, which
was likely to take into account discounts
applied for settlements,
The allegations over the manipulation of
currency markets were exposed after the
Libor scandal shed light on the potential
rigging of other financial markets includ-
ing in gold and silver which were largely
unregulated before the financial crisis.
The fines and settlements for fixing for-
eign exchange rates are expected to bring
the release of a wave of emails and elec-
tronic chat messages similar to those pub-
lished when Libor rigging fines were lev-
ied, detailing how traders offered each
other bottles of champagne and illustrat-
ing the cavalier way in which traders
regarded their actions.
In February, Wheatley warned that the
banking allegations were every bit as bad
as they had been with Libor as the indus-
try braced for another hit to its reputation.
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Sothebys woos the West Coast
Katya Kazakina
S
OTHEBYS auction house is making a big
push for its latest target the new wealthy
along the West Coast of the US by showing
off more than $200 million of art.
Armed with highlights from its upcoming New
York sales including canvases by Mark Rothko and
Jasper Johns along with Old Master painting and
jewellery, Sothebys starting this month will woo
the rich from San Diego to Seattle with exhibitions,
wine tastings and dinners in private homes.
Our focus is on the next generation of collectors,
the new buyers who will become futures sellers,
Andrea Fiuczynski, Sothebys chairman of West
Coast, said in an interview.
She listed a younger generation of Hollywood
producers and actors including Leonardo Di-
Caprio and Tobey Maguire; venture capital rms
and hedge funds in San Francisco; technology ex-
ecutives in Silicon Valley; and wealthy Chinese and
Indian families all along the coast.
The West Coast is a stepping stone to very sig-
nicant communities, William Ruprecht, Sothe-
bys CEO, said. Theres every imaginable version
of wealth there.
The market already is home to some of the big-
gest American collectors such as David Geffen and
Larry Ellison. Elaine Wynn, a trustee of the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, paid $142.4 mil-
lion for Francis Bacons triptych last year, making it
the most expensive work sold at auction. She then
loaned it to the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.
Next year, top international galleries Hauser &
Wirth and Spruth Magers plan to open outposts
in Los Angeles. The city also will host the rst US
edition of the Paris-based Foire Internationale
dArt Contemporain (FIAC) art fair in March. A
museum built by philanthropists Eli Broad and
his wife Edythe, is set to open next year in down-
town Los Angeles.
The market is getting bigger and deeper, espe-
cially at the high end, said Michael Kohn, who
has operated his Los Angeles gallery since 1985.
I have noticed that you can sell a $1 million plus
painting on a regular basis to new collectors in
California over the last ve years in a way you
never did before.
Sothebys has taken note by expanding its staff in
Los Angeles and San Francisco in the past year. Re-
cent hires are Fiuczynski, who had spent 28 years
at rival Christies, and Scott Schaefer, former cura-
tor of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. So-
thebys is looking to add a trusts and estate lawyer
and Chinese art specialists to its West Coast team.
Last week, about 100 people, mostly from the
tech sector, attended the opening of Sothebys
rst pop-up show in Palo Alto. The draw was 17
photographs for private sale by the 75- year-old
American William Eggleston, who was on hand to
talk about his work from the 1980s, The Democratic
Forest. Prices ranged from $30,000 to $350,000.
A new collector is usually intimidated by
auctions, Fiuczynski said. They have shorter at-
tention span. They want to know what they can
buy now.
Last week, Sothebys Sunset Boulevard space in
Los Angeles showed November auction highlights
including works consigned by the estate of Rachel
Bunny Mellon and the Georgia OKeeffe Museum
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. On last Monday, select
clients attended a dinner at the home of collector
Eugenio Lopez, an heir to the fruit-juice fortune of
Mexicos Jumex Group and trustee of the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
The most expensive lot to be shown is Rothkos
1951 canvas No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange)
consigned by the Schlumberger oil family. The
8-foot-tall canvas could bring more than $50 mil-
lion, Sothebys said. It was exhibited at the Muse-
um of Modern Art in 1952 as part of inuential 15
Americans show. In 1972, the work was acquired
by Pierre and Sao Schlumberger.
Another highlight is a small 1983 Flag painting by
Johns, estimated at $15 million to $20 million. Ac-
quired directly from the artist the year it was made,
the work has been on loan at the Philadelphia Mu-
seum of Art from 2007 to earlier this year.
There will be lower-priced art. Mike Kelleys work
on paper, The Past and The Future, is estimated at
$50,000 to $70,000 and Vija Celminss Pink Pearl
Eraser is valued at $180,000 to $250,000.
To build the brand, Sothebys is investing in cul-
tural sponsorships. Earlier this month, it hosted a
dinner with LACMA director Michael Govan to cel-
ebrate the opening of Variations: Conversations in
and Around Abstract Painting exhibition. In April,
Sothebys was a sponsor for a gala at the San Fran-
cisco Museum of Modern Art, where Fiuczynski
conducted a charity auction.
My MO is to create a vibrant schedule so that
people see Sothebys as a cultural destination and
not just a place to transact, she said. BLOOMBERG
White Flower No 1 by Georgia OKeeffe will be sold by
the Georgia OKeeffe Museum at Sothebys in Novem-
ber. SOTHEBYS
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
World
Tabloid
sting rst
test for UK
regulator
BRITAINS new press regulator
was yesterday asked to con-
sider whether a tabloid sting
operation that prompted a jun-
ior minister to resign broke the
newspaper code of conduct, in
its first real test following the
phone-hacking scandal.
Brooks Newmark, a lawmaker
in Prime Minister David Cam-
erons Conservative party and a
married father of five children,
stepped down on Saturday after
the Sunday Mirror tabloid said
he had sent an explicit photo to
an undercover reporter.
The reporter had posed as a
pretty blonde party activist and
flirted online with the 56-year-
old politician, who had led
efforts to get more female
Tories elected to parliament.
The male reporter also made
contact with several other Con-
servative lawmakers one of
whom, Mark Pritchard, is now
making a complaint to the
media regulator.
IPSO was set up to replace
the Press Complaints Commis-
sion (PCC), which was discred-
ited after the revelation of
widespread phone-hacking at
the News of the World tabloid.
It only started work this
month but critics already ques-
tion how effective it can be
given that, like the PCC, it
involves members of the press
regulating themselves.
The Sunday Mirror defended
the sting operation against
Newmark, which it said was
conducted by a freelance
reporter. The investigation,
which had a clear public inter-
est, was carried out following
information from a reliable
source, the papers weekend
editor, Alison Phillips, told the
Guardian newspaper.
However, media commenta-
tor Roy Greenslade, a professor
of journalism at City University
in London and a former editor
of the Daily Mirror, disagreed.
He noted that so-called fish-
ing expeditions when subter-
fuge is used on the off-chance
of discovering some wrongdo-
ing are not allowed under the
Code of Conduct unless there
are existing grounds for the
investigation and it is in the
public interest.
I dont think one can say
within the code that this was
justified, Greenslade told BBC
radio. He added of Newmark:
He hadnt broken the law, it
was an adult to adult piece of
foolishness. I cant see that this
really advanced investigative
journalism in any way.
It also emerged yesterday
that the photograph on the fake
Twitter account used to com-
municate with the politician
was of a Swedish model, who
had not given her permission.
I feel shocked. Its unpleas-
ant someone used the picture
without permission, 22-year-
old Malin Sahlen said. AFP
Obama admits he underestimated IS threat
PRESIDENT Barack Obama admitted
that the United States underestimated
the threat posed by Islamic State fight-
ers in Syria, as the US-led coalition
pressed its air campaign against the
jihadists on Monday.
Obama said Washington had also
overestimated the effectiveness of the
security forces in neighbouring Iraq,
which it had trained and supplied but
which collapsed across much of the
Sunni Arab heartland north and west of
Baghdad in the face of a lightning offen-
sive led by IS in June.
As the US-led air campaign in Syria
entered its seventh day, coalition strikes
hit IS targets during the night, both in
its Raqa province stronghold and in
Aleppo province further west, a moni-
toring group said.
In neighbouring Iraq, US-led strikes
destroyed two IS checkpoints near
insurgent-held Fallujah on Sunday, the
Pentagon said, as Iraqi troops fought off
a jihadist assault on a strategic Euphra-
tes Valley town downstream.
Speaking to CBS News, Obama
admitted his administration had
underestimated the opportunity that
the three-and-a-half year-old Syrian
civil war would provide for jihadist
militants to regroup and stage a sud-
den comeback.
He said that former Al-Qaeda fighters
driven from Iraq by US forces in the
years before their withdrawal in 2011
with the support of Sunni Arab tribes
had been able to regroup in Syria to
form the even more dangerous IS.
I think our head of the intelligence
community, Jim Clapper, has acknowl-
edged that they underestimated what
had been taking place in Syria, Obama
said, referring to his director of nation-
al intelligence.
Asked whether Washington has also
overestimated the ability or will of Iraqs
US-trained military to fight the jihadists
on its own, Obama said: Thats true.
Thats absolutely true.
The US president said that part of the
solution would be for Syria and Iraq to
resolve their domestic political crises.
An enduring solution, Obama said,
would require a change in how not just
Iraq, but countries like Syria and some
of the other countries in the region,
think about what political accommoda-
tion means.
The Iraqis have to be willing to fight.
And they have to be willing to fight in a
nonsectarian way Shia, Sunni, and
Kurd alongside each other against this
cancer in their midst.
Washington has said it will press on
with near continuous strikes against
IS in both Iraq and Syria with the sup-
port of its coalition allies. AFP
Ghani sworn in as Afghan leader
A
SHRAF Ghani, a one-
time US-based aca-
demic, was sworn
in as new president
of Afghanistan yesterday and
used his inaugural speech to
call for Taliban insurgents to
join peace talks after 13 years
of war.
The militant threat in Kabul
was underlined by a suicide
attack outside the airports
main entrance that killed four
members of the security forc-
es and three civilians shortly
before the inauguration.
The ceremony at the presi-
dential palace marked the
countrys rst democratic
transfer of power and opened
a new era after the rule of
Hamid Karzai, president
since the Taliban regime was
ousted in 2001.
The June presidential elec-
tion was engulfed in disputes
over fraud, but international
donors welcomed yester-
days inauguration as a key
legacy of the costly military
and civilian intervention in
Afghanistan.
Three months before the
end of NATOs US-led combat
mission, the Taliban still pose
a serious challenge to nation-
al stability and have launched
several fresh offensives in re-
cent months.
We ask opponents of the
government, specially the
Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami
[another militant group], to
enter political talks, Ghani
said after being sworn in.
Any problems that they
have, they should tell us, we
will nd a solution.
We ask every villager to
call for peace. We ask Muslim
scholars to advise the Taliban,
and if they dont listen to their
advice, they should cut off
any relations.
Karzai also pursued peace
talks with the insurgents, but
preliminary efforts collapsed
last year when a Taliban of-
ce that opened in Qatar was
styled as an embassy for a
government-in-exile.
The toll in the suicide blast
was four police and intelli-
gence ofcials and three civil-
ians killed, interior ministry
spokesman Sediq Sediqqi
said, adding that ve civilians
were wounded.
The Taliban claimed re-
sponsibility via a Twitter ac-
count for the attack, in which
the bomber walked into a
checkpoint.
Both Ghani and his poll rival
Abdullah Abdullah claimed to
have won the election, plung-
ing Afghanistan into months
of crisis that fuelled the insur-
gency and worsened the coun-
trys dire economic outlook.
Under heavy pressure from
the US and UN, the two can-
didates eventually agreed to
form a national unity gov-
ernment, and Ghani was de-
clared president a week ago
after an audit of nearly eight
million ballot papers.
Abdullah was also sworn in
yesterday as chief executive,
a new role similar to a prime
minister, as part of a power-
sharing deal likely to cause
friction between opposing
camps in the government.
Abdullah struck a positive
tone at the ceremony, saying
that in this critical period
of history, as a team, we are
committed to a national unity
government based on the po-
litical deal.
Afghan dignitaries gath-
ered at the palace from early
morning with helicopters
buzzing overhead ferrying a
guest-list of low-level foreign
representatives.
John Podesta, counsellor to
President Barack Obama, led a
10-strong US delegation, with
President Mamnoon Hussain
representing Pakistan and
Vice President Hamid Ansari
travelling from India.
Many other countries, in-
cluding Britain and France,
were represented only by
their diplomats in Kabul,
while China sent Yin Weimin,
minister of human resources.
Im sure the new leadership
has received the peoples mes-
sage and will make peace and
stability their priority, Karzai
said at the ceremony in his -
nal appearance as president.
There is no progress with-
out peace. If there was peace in
our country, and if there were
no obstacles to it, our country
would have advanced more.
Karzai achieved patchy suc-
cess in improving education,
access to health and womens
rights but was often accused of
failing to tackle rampant cor-
ruption and Taliban violence.
Both Ghani and Abdullah are
moderate, pro-Western lead-
ers who have vowed to push
ahead with reforms at a dif-
cult time as NATO troops leave
and international aid falls.
Only 33 NATO bases are
still active, down from a peak
of 800 leaving local secu-
rity forces to battle the Taliban
with less and less help.
Yesterdays inauguration
opened the way for Ghani to
sign an agreement allowing
12,500 US-led troops to remain
into 2015 to support and train
the national police and army.
Ghani had promised im-
mediately to reverse Karzais
decision not to sign the deal,
and the document is due to
be inked today.
Final results revealed Ghani
beat Abdullah 55 to 45 per cent
in the run-off vote, though the
UN said the election had been
affected by signicant fraud.
Karzai was constitution-
ally barred from running for a
third term in ofce.
In his speech Ghani also
paid tribute to his wife Rula,
an unusual move in Afghani-
stans patriarchal Muslim cul-
ture. AFP
Afghan president-elect Ashraf Ghani (centre) arrives for his swearing in ceremony as the countrys new president at the Presidential Palace in
Kabul yesterday. AFP
Im sure the new leadership
has received the peoples
message and will make peace
and stability their priority
World
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Army retirement parade

for leader of Thai junta
THAILANDS coup-making
prime minister Prayuth Chan-
ocha bade farewell to the
military at a formal ceremony
yesterday as he prepared to
retire as army chief and bed in
as a civilian leader. Prayuth, 60,
who toppled the elected
government of Yingluck
Shinawatra in May, retires from
military service today after a
nearly four-decade career with
the coup-prone army. He will,
however, retain extensive
powers as the prime minister
and head of the junta the
National Council for Peace and
Order whose authority has
been guaranteed by an interim
constitution. AFP
Indonesians challenge
scrapping of local polls
INDONESIAN rights groups and
concerned citizens mounted a
legal challenge yesterday to
parliaments decision to scrap
direct elections for local leaders,
a move criticised as weakening
the countrys young democracy.
The decision was an early defeat
for president-elect Joko Widodo
he started his political career
as a directly elected mayor
before winning the presidency in
July, and his party was against
the bill. The bill was also seen
as an act of revenge, as it was
pushed by parties that suppor-
ted his rival for the presidency,
ex-general Prabowo Subianto.
Some independent analysts
have said it is likely the court will
strike down the law. AFP
China sentences two to
death for mosque attack
A COURT in Chinas far west has
sentenced to death two
teenagers for the killing of the
head of the countrys biggest
mosque, state media reported,
in a case that highlighted
divisions in the violence-
wracked Xinjiang region. The
Kashgar Intermediate Peoples
Court on Sunday handed down
the death penalty to Gheni
Hasan and Nurmemet
Abidilimit on charges of
forming and leading terrorist
groups and murder, the official
Xinhua news agency said. A
third person, Atawulla Tursun,
received a life sentence for
taking part in terrorist groups
and murder, Xinhua said. The
court said the gang, led by Gheni
Hasan, was influenced by
religious extremism and trained
its members to murder patriotic
religious figures, the report
said. AFP
Two found dead in faulty
decompression chamber
TWO people have died in a
decompression chamber at a
Japanese spa, news reports
said yesterday, with a police
investigation focusing on a
possible fault with the machine.
A man aged 65 and a 58-year-
old woman were found
collapsed on Sunday in the
chamber at a hot spring in
Saitama north of Tokyo, Nippon
News Network and other media
reported. The door was timed to
open automatically after 45
minutes, but the two victims
were discovered some 50
minutes after the program
began with the door still shut,
the television network said. They
were taken to hospital where
they were confirmed dead. The
cause of death was not
immediately known. AFP
Protesters deant in Hong Kong standoff
Continued from page 1
citys authorities over Chinas refusal to
grant unfettered democracy, in one of
the most significant challenges to Bei-
jings authority since the bloody
Tiananmen protests of 1989.
Public anger over rampant inequal-
ity and Beijings political interference
is at its highest in years in a city once
renowned for its stability.
Last month China said Hong Kongers
could elect their next leader in 2017 but
only candidates who had been vetted
would be allowed to stand a decision
critics branded a fake democracy.
At the largest protest site in Admi-
ralty district, where many internation-
al businesses are based, crowds swelled
to some 20,000 people by the after-
noon, reporters estimated, taking over
nearly a kilometre of highway.
Smaller protests in their low thou-
sands blocked key thoroughfares
throughout the day in Mongkok and
Causeway Bay, two densely packed
shopping districts.
Im staying until the end, until we
get what we want to get, which is true
democracy, 18-year-old high school
student Michael Wan said, surround-
ed by thousands of fellow supporters
sheltering under umbrellas from the
hot sun.
Underlining their assertive stance,
some 1,000 masked protesters gath-
ered outside a police station where
senior officers held a press conference
defending their liberal use of tear gas
against crowds on Sunday night.
Assistant Commissioner Cheung
Tak-keung said tear gas was used 87
times at nine different locations.
Force is used in a situation when we
have no other alternatives, he said,
adding officers were compelled to
deploy the gas when police cordon
lines were heavily charged by some
protesters.
However, the Hong Kong Bar Asso-
ciation condemned excessive and
disproportionate use of force against
crowds which it said were clearly pre-
dominantly peaceful.
Demonstrators are calling on the
citys leader, Leung Chun-ying, to
resign and for Beijing to drop its
demand that candidates standing in
the next leadership election be vetted
by a loyalist committee.
Analysts said it was difficult to pre-
dict what might happen next, with the
protesters pitted against a Beijing lead-
ership that brooks no dissent on the
mainland.
The difficulty is that there seems
to be no going back for both sides,
said Surya Deva, a law professor at the
City University of Hong Kong. Which
side will blink first is difficult to say,
but I think protestors will prevail in
the long run.
Students boycotted classes in the
past week and spearheaded the storm-
ing of the governments headquarters
on the weekend, a move that prompt-
ed pro-democracy group Occupy Cen-
tral to bring forward a mass civil diso-
bedience campaign due to start on
October 1.
Reiterating Chinas hardline stance,
foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua
Chunying said Beijing opposed illegal
actions that undermine the rule of law
and social security.
Hong Kong leader Leung also dis-
missed rumours circulating on social
media that he planned to call in the
Chinese military, which stations a gar-
rison in the city. There is absolutely
no proof of this, he said.
The ongoing protests forced the
closure of many schools and business-
es and caused widespread disruption
to commuters.
The citys stock exchange opened as
usual, but ended the session down 1.9
per cent as investors fretted about the
impact the ongoing disruption could
have on a key regional market.
City authorities also said an annual
public fireworks show planned for the
October 1 National Day holiday would
be cancelled.
Police said 41 people have been
injured, including 12 officers in the
past few days, and 78 arrests made for
offences ranging from forcible entry
into government premises, unlawful
assembly, disorderly conduct in public
place and assaulting public officers.
Britain handed Hong Kong back to
China in 1997 under a one country,
two systems deal that guarantees lib-
erties not seen on the mainland,
including freedom of speech and the
right to protest.
But tensions have been building in
the southern Chinese city over fears
that these freedoms are being eroded,
as well as perceived political interfer-
ence from Beijing.
Britain voiced concern yesterday
about the escalating protests and
called for an upcoming consultation
process to produce a meaningful
advance for democracy in the former
colony. AFP
Japan volcano rescue suspended
F
IVE more bodies were
found near the peak of
an erupting Japanese
volcano yesterday,
as rescuers suspended their
search because of the growing
danger from toxic gas.
The grim discovery takes to
at least 36 the total number
of people feared to have died
when Mount Ontake erupted
without warning during a
busy hiking weekend.
A police spokesman said the
ve bodies were in addition to
31 discovered on Sunday.
Hundreds of reght-
ers, police and troops spent
much of yesterday around
the peak, with helicopters
ying overhead, despite the
gases and steam billowing
from the ruptured crater of
the 3,067-metre (10,121 foot)
volcano.
The rescue operation,
which was called off yester-
day afternoon due to fears
of toxic gas, may be further
hampered today as rain is
forecast in the region.
A Japanese army ofcial
who took part in the search
said rescuers had been wear-
ing helmets, bullet-proof
vests, goggles and masks to
protect themselves from any
fresh eruption.
I saw rocks up to probably
1 metre (3.3 feet) across that
were thrown into the air by the
force of the eruption, he said,
adding the search had been
difcult and involved digging
through ash.
Heartbreaking stories have
begun to emerge from sur-
vivors who made it down the
mountain as rolling clouds of
volcanic debris swept down its
anks, smothering everything
in their path.
Some people were bur-
ied in ash up to their knees
and the two in front of me
seemed to be dead, one
woman told the Asahi televi-
sion network.
Another told how she had
overheard the last moments of
a victim battered by a cascade
of rocks.
There was someone lying
outside the hut after being hit
in the back, she said. He was
saying It hurts, it hurts, but
after about half an hour he
went quiet.
Seiichi Sakurai, who had
been working at one of the
huts around the top of the vol-
cano, told public broadcaster
NHK that he had tried his best
to help people but could not
save them all.
Ash was constantly falling
. . . Some people were buried
alive but I could do nothing
but tell [rescuers] about them
over the radio, he said.
Another survivor told the Yo-
miuri newspaper he had seen
a boy shouting Its hot and I
cant breathe! near the peak,
before the ash clouds brought
blackness and silence.
Yesterday morning, eight
bodies both men and wom-
en were airlifted from the
mountain.
About 60 people suffered in-
juries in the disaster, the gov-
ernment has said, including
people who were hit by ying
rocks and inhaled hot or poi-
sonous fumes.
Addressing a policy speech
in Tokyo, Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe expressed sincere
condolences to victims and
pledged to make utmost ef-
forts in rescue work.
For anguished families, the
wait for news was taking its
toll. A tearful father sobbed as
he held a photo of his son and
the young mans girlfriend,
who had not been heard from
since the eruption.
The meteorological agency
forecast further eruptions,
warning that volcanic debris
may settle as far as 4 kilome-
tres from the peak.
The countrys meteorologi-
cal agency keeps a round-the-
clock watch on 47 volcanos
thought to be at risk of violent
activity over the next century,
including Mount Fuji, whose
eruption could have cata-
strophic effects.
But Toshitsugu Fujii, a vol-
canologist at the agency, ad-
mitted accurate forecasting
was very difcult.
Steam explosions such as
those on Ontake often occur
without warning, he said.
People may say we failed
to predict this [because there
were earthquakes in Septem-
ber] but this is something
that could not be helped, in a
sense. Thats the reality of the
limit of our knowledge, he
said on Sunday. AFP
Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers and rescue workers look for survivors on the ash-covered top of Mount
Ontake before the search was called off. AFP
THE UMBRELLA REVOLUTION TAKES HOLD
P
ROTESTERS armed with little more
than parasols and determination have
brought central Hong Kong to a standstill
with their demands for full democracy, in
a movement that has been dubbed the
umbrella revolution.
The umbrella is fast emerging as the
symbol of the demonstrations that since
Sunday have paralysed the Asian financial
hub a quintessential image in a city
known for its downpours.
The demonstrations that have brought
thousands onto the streets turned violent
on Sunday evening as police used tear gas
and pepper spray against the swelling
crowds.
The protesters mostly university stu-
dents and high school pupils who last
week boycotted classes in an attempt to
pressure Beijing were ill-equipped to
deal with the sudden violent turn.
They wrapped their eyes in clingfilm or
donned goggles, wore paper face masks
and cowered behind umbrellas to try to
protect themselves from the tear gas and
pepper spray.
The umbrella is probably the most
striking symbol of this Hong Kong protest.
Our demonstrations used to be so peace-
ful, even pepper spray was very out of the
ordinary, said Claudia Mo, a pro-democ-
racy lawmaker.
Now that pepper spray has become so
common, were having to use umbrellas
against it. The police have very high-quality
shields we just have our umbrellas.
The phrase umbrella revolution was
trending on social media yesterday, and
was also seen scrawled on a banner flung
across a pile of upturned barricades and
discarded umbrellas that blocked the
entrance to a metro station. AFP
14
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
World

French right wins upper

house, FN takes seats
THREE years after Frances
upper house Senate made its
first ever swing to the left, the
right has clawed back a
majority, with the far-right
National Front (FN) winning
seats for the first time. The
results were a new setback for
beleaguered Socialist President
Francois Hollande. The
conservative UMP party of
Hollandes predecessor Nicolas
Sarkozy and its allies from the
centrist UDI won 188 seats
according to near-final results
in the late evening 13 seats
more than needed for an
absolute majority. The far-right
FN, meanwhile, entered the
senate for the first time,
securing two seats in what its
leader Marine Le Pen
described as a historic
victory. AFP
Popular Indian politician
appeals graft sentence
INDIAN politician Jayalalithaa
Jayaram launched a flurry of
appeals yesterday against a
four-year jail sentence, in a
long-running corruption case
against the highly popular but
controversial figure, an aide
said. Jayalalithaa, a former
film star and longtime head of
the prosperous southern state
of Tamil Nadu, lodged the
appeals against her jailing
and conviction on Saturday in
the corruption case that
started 18 years ago. Known
as Amma (Mother) to
supporters, Jayalalithaa was
also fined 1 billion rupees
($16 million) and disqualified
from holding office for illegally
amassing wealth including
gold, properties, shoes and
saris. AFP
Third death from Dutch

monster truck accident
A THIRD person has died after a
souped-up monster truck
ploughed into a crowd during a
show in the Netherlands, the
local mayor said yesterday, with
five people critically injured. The
souped-up truck, sporting
outsized tyres and a powerful
engine, surged off the track
after driving over a line of prop
cars, crashing through a
barricade and into the audience
in the eastern town of
Haaksbergen. A third victim
has died from Sundays
accident, Mayor Hans Gerritsen
said in a statement on Monday.
The dead are a boy, a man and a
woman. Five people are still in
critical condition, he said, with
18 others injured. AFP
Peru quake kills eight,
including four children
AT LEAST eight people died,
including four children, and
half a dozen were injured in a
4.9-magnitude earthquake
that shook a rural Andean
region in Peru, police said on
Sunday. The victims were all
from the community of Mica,
where 90 per cent of the
towns rustic homes collapsed
when the quake struck the
southeastern Cusco region
Saturday night. Civil Defence
officials said at least half a
dozen injured individuals had
received aid. The quake struck
at 10:35pm (0335 GMT) on
Saturday, 19 kilometers (12
miles) southwest of the town
of Urcos at a depth of 43
kilometers, according to the
US Geological Survey. AFP
Top, Ukrainian nationalists, one waving a Ukrainian ag, tear down Lenins statue on Kharkiv central square
on Sunday; bottom left, Ukrainian nationalists dismantle the statue; people celebrate the toppling. AFP
Rock star Modi vows to make India proud
INDIAN Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi basked in a rock star
US welcome as he vowed to
build a strong, confident coun-
try ahead of his first White
House summit yesterday.
In a massive show of support
for a right-wing leader once
shunned by Washington, some
18,500 people of Indian origin
from across the United States
and Canada on Sunday packed
into New Yorks Madison Square
Garden, where they chanted
his name and wore T-shirts
bearing his picture.
Modi, who yesterday was to
enjoy a red carpet welcome at
the White House, renewed
campaign pledges to unlock
Indias economic potential by
streamlining bureaucracy.
He hailed Indian Americans
for showing an example
through their professional
successes.
Modi promised to start life-
time visas for foreigners of
Indian origin and, endorsing a
proposal of the previous gov-
ernment without setting a date,
to issue visas on arrival for US
citizens. This kind of love has
not been given to any Indian
leader ever, he said of the
Indian-American reception.
I will repay that loan by
building the India of your
dreams.
Modi fired back at critics who
have urged him to launch
quicker reforms as he recalled
his humble background run-
ning a tea stall as a teenager.
Im a very modest man,
and thats why I plan to do big
things for modest people, he
said, listing promises that
include building more toilets
and cleaning the Ganges holy
river.
Pointing to US leaders state-
ments that Asia would domi-
nate the 21st century, Modi said:
And some say it will be Indias
century. India has the capacity
to achieve that potential.
More than 30 members of
US Congress took part in the
reception that warmed up
with Bollywood and tradi-
tional dances. But from the
start, the crowd chanted for
Modi, leading an emcee to
warn that the event was not a
campaign rally.
While foreign leaders often
hold community receptions
when visiting the United States,
an event on the scale of Modis
is exceedingly rare, with only
popes packing stadiums.
But US-based supporters
have campaigned for years to
boost the image of Modi, who
was refused a visa by the US in
2005 on human rights grounds
over anti-Muslim riots when
he was leader of the western
state of Gujarat. AFP
Iraq airs jihadist TV comedy show
A
S IRAQI forces struggle to pin
back the Islamic State group
on the ground, Baghdad is
taking its war against the ji-
hadists to the airwaves with a televi-
sion comedy series.
The usually elusive Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi features prominently in the
show, whose promoters argue that
ridiculing the jihadist supremo can
help dent his aura of almost super-
natural villainy.
The fear factor fed by online videos
of mass executions, beheadings and
abductions has been a key aspect
of IS strategy, often handing it victory
before the battle had even started. The
goal of the show is to remove this
phobia that has taken root in a lot of
peoples minds, chief supervisor Thaer
Jiyad said on the set.
But if the show is Baghdads new
weapon in the war against IS, then
its very rst shots were a friendly re
blunder that sparked controversy even
as the series premiered on Saturday.
The trailer that Iraqiya state TV had
been showing several times a day
for weeks plays on a belief widely
held in Iraq that IS was created by the
CIA, Israel and Gulf monarchies to
sow chaos.
With the United States now leading
an aerial bombing campaign which
also involves several Gulf countries
against IS in Iraq and Syria, the Iraqi
Media Network production company
had to order a last-minute reshoot.
The rst version of the trailer, which
is still widely available on the inter-
net, opens with a cartoon-like devil
character brandishing a fork leading
a column of jihadist ghters through
the desert. He is met with open arms
by an ostensibly American character in
full cowboy attire who leads him into a
tent for an arranged marriage.
The bride is a Jewish princess a large
star of David hangs around her neck to
make that clear who is escorted to
her nuptial nest by a woman whose
sunglasses and bright green pantsuit
are an unmistakeable reference to Qa-
tars rst lady Sheikha Mozah.
She and the cowboy were dropped
from the new version of the opening
clip for the series, whose title loosely
translates as State of Superstition
and is a play on the Arabic word
for caliphate.
The Joker of Batman fame, Dracula
and a dwarf are among the random
mix of characters in the background,
all dancing to the series catchy theme
song, a parody of a known IS anthem.
The next scene shows the result of the
union between the Jewish bride and
the devil. The egg hatched, a little IS-
ling emerged, the song goes.
The Baghdadi gure that grows out
of the shell then leads a choir of of-
cers from Saddam Husseins ex-ruling
Baath party into reciting his program
of blood-letting for Iraq with the re-
frain: O beheader, where are you?
In a Pulp Fiction-style slow-motion
nale, the caliph ends up shooting
all the Baathists one by one, a not-so-
subtle Faustian warning that he who
bargains with the devil chooses his
own demise.
Ultimately, with fundamentalist
organisations, the only solution is to
confront them, and that starts with the
leaders, Jiyad said.
The shows rst episode is lighter
on satire and relates the day jihadists
march into a model Iraqi town, with
its candy-coloured buildings and hon-
est denizens.
Despite the shows declared goal of
encouraging Iraqis to overcome their
fear, the thought of possible retribu-
tion for mocking the jihadists caused
a collective bout of stage fright among
the cast.
We encountered many difculties,
notably when some of the artists were
too afraid to take part in the shooting
out of security concerns, director Ali
al-Qassem said.
But those who stuck with the project
feel they are participating in the war
effort, he said.
We all have a duty to defend this
country. We are not good at using
weapons but we can also help defeat
IS through our work. AFP
PRO-UKRAINIAN protesters
in eastern Ukraines city of
Kharkiv on Sunday toppled a
giant Lenin statue seen as a
symbol of Soviet legacy and
Moscows control.
The 8.5-metre (28-foot)
statue of the Bolshevik revolu-
tionary, built in the 1960s and
the biggest in Ukraine, had
been a source of contention
between pro-European activ-
ists and their Communist foes
since Ukraines Euromaidan
protests last year.
In an apparently unplanned
move, protesters who had tak-
en part in a pro-Ukraine rally
of several thousand people on
Sunday then moved towards
the statue, and several scaled
its tall base carrying saws.
In about two hours, by
10pm, they managed to sever
the legs from the base, and
pull the statue to the ground.
Authorities in the eastern but
largely pro-Ukrainian Russian-
speaking city of about 1.5 mil-
lion promised to remove the
remains of the monument, but
members of the crowd were
seen breaking up the Lenin on
their own and carrying away
pieces as souvenirs.
A criminal probe into the
vandalism of the historic
landmark opened late Sunday
was closed just hours later, the
interior ministry said, add-
ing that the falling statue had
caused no injuries.
Lenin? Let him fall. As long
as people are not injured. As
long as this bloody Commu-
nist idol does not add to the
toll of his victims, Interior
Minister Arsen Avakov wrote
on his Facebook page.
Lenin statues have fallen
victim to protests across cen-
tral Ukraine last winter, with
demonstrators felling the So-
viet symbol in a signal of their
turn towards Western Europe.
Lenin monuments, howev-
er, are still widespread in east-
ern Ukraines rebel-held areas
such as Donetsk and Lugansk,
where pro-Russian separatists
have declared independence.
Meanwhile, Ukraines mili-
tary reported yesterday the
loss of nine soldiers in the
past day of ghting with pro-
Russia rebels in the separatist
east, the largest toll since the
two sides agreed a truce at the
start of the month.
Nine soldiers were killed
and 27 wounded in all, said
National Security and De-
fence Council spokesman
Andriy Lysenko, adding that
some of the losses came
when the rebels destroyed a
Ukrainian armoured person-
nel carrier. AFP
Goodbye Lenin: statue
torn down in Ukraine
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
T
HE search for Malaysia Air-
lines Flight MH370 enters a
new underwater phase this
week almost seven months
after the jet went missing, with two
specialist ships to join the hunt.
MH370 disappeared en route from
Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March
8 with 239 people onboard and no
trace of the Boeing 777-200 has been
found despite a massive air, sea and
underwater search.
Authorities have since used tech-
nical data to focus the search in the
southern Indian Ocean far west of
Western Australia along the thin,
long arc from which the plane emit-
ted its last satellite handshake.
Australia has been spearheading
the hunt for the plane, leaving search
teams with a dauntingly vast task
that has been beset by false leads and
initial confusion to the continued
frustration of grieving relatives.
The latest phase to begin in early
October will see two ships Fugro
Discovery and the Malaysian-con-
tracted GO Phoenix send sophis-
ticated sonar systems some 5,000
metres below sea level to search the
ocean oor using sound waves, the
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
(ATSB) said.
The systems, attached to the ships
by tow cables up to 10 kilometres
long, have been programmed to de-
tect the biggest parts of the aircraft
that are likely to be in one piece, such
as engines, landing gear and fuselage,
the ATSBs Peter Foley said.
If abnormalities are detected,
the ships will return to those areas
and pilot the vehicles slower and
lower, using cameras to look at the
sea bed, said Foley who is in charge
of search operations.
Foley said he was cautiously
optimistic the underwater probe
would be successful, but he ac-
knowledged the very challeng-
ing conditions faced by the search
teams at the remote and largely un-
explored location.
On the surface, the ships and their
crew operate in cold, windy condi-
tions and on rough seas with waves
as high as 12 metres.
Underwater, the searchers are
discovering new features in a var-
ied terrain previously mapped with
coarser resolution using limited sat-
ellite data.
Given the area that we are going to
need to potentially search, its an ex-
traordinary challenge, Foley said.
The new phase follows the map-
ping of some 110,000 square kilo-
metres of the remote areas vast sea
oor since May by Chinese survey
ship Zhu Kezhen and the Australian-
contracted Fugro Equator.
With the search zone cutting across
Broken Ridge a mountainous sea
oor structure formed by spreading
plate margins the three-dimension-
al maps produced from the survey by
Geoscience Australia have revealed
an underwater world of volcanoes,
ridges and deep trenches.
The changes in height, with ridges
up to 300 metres high and trenches
some 1,400 metres deep, point to the
tough job ahead. But the data could
also inform other research after the
underwater probe is concluded.
What it is giving us is some back-
ground on the evolution of the con-
tinental plates that exist in this area,
the geology of the sea oor . . . and
it gives us places to look at in future
for biological communities, Stuart
Minchin, from Geoscience Austra-
lia, said.
Having this kind of information
about the sea oor also impacts
our modelling of ocean currents
and provides some background
information for potential tsunami
impact modelling down the track,
Minchin added.
He said the mapping had identi-
ed new features, including a ridge
six kilometres wide, 15 kilometres
long and nearly 2,000 metres above
the sea oor, as well as two volca-
noes and seamounts, which are
remnants of volcanoes.
The ATSB said on September 24
that further renement of com-
munications and ight data from
MH370 would be used to determine
the rst areas to be scoured by the
ships, which will most likely extend
south of the previous priority zone.
The team has also hired a so-
nar specialist who worked with Air
France AF447s recovery team after
that plane crashed in the Atlantic
Ocean in 2009, with many similar
challenges such as water depth and
terrain in the searches, Foley said.
We are totally focused on nding
that aircraft and weve got really ex-
pert help, so optimism is high, he
said. AFP
World
Malaysian transgenders live in fear of arrest, abuse
ARYANA had just returned to
her home one night in June
when Malaysian Islamic-puri-
ty enforcers burst in, ransack-
ing her apartment and arrest-
ing her for cross-dressing.
Using a pseudonym to pro-
tect her identity, Aryana is
transgender born a man but
identifying as a woman and
part of a substantial commu-
nity that complains of rising
persecution in the Muslim-
majority Southeast Asian
country.
The 30-year-old was de-
tained for several hours, dur-
ing which she was roughly
handled, pressured to confess
and charged a ne.
Its difcult. When I wore
mens clothing, it felt like a
lie, said Aryana, a sex worker
with long hair dyed reddish-
brown and a heavily pow-
dered face.
Transgender people are
common in Malaysia, typi-
cally men whose gender
identity as female, but also
vice versa. Some undergo
sex-change surgery.
But their lives are far differ-
ent from the famously toler-
ant stance in Buddhist neigh-
bouring Thailand. Human
Rights Watch said Malaysia
is one of the worlds worst
countries for transgender
people, as it released a report
last week detailing social os-
tracism, discrimination, and
harassment, sexual abuse
and arrest by authorities.
Homosexuality is effectively
banned in Malaysia. Gay sex
considered against the order
of nature brings up to 20
years in jail under federal law.
State-level laws on Islamic
purity also criminalise dress-
ing as the opposite sex, activ-
ists say. Violations can bring
three years prison and a ne.
Three transgender women
who were arrested four years
ago are now boldly ghting
that in court via a lawsuit in
the southern state of Neg-
eri Sembilan that calls such
rules discriminatory and
unconstitutional.
Its chances are uncertain,
but activists hope success
will prompt scrutiny of laws
in other states. A ruling is ex-
pected on November 7.
I hope for success. I have
been waiting so long al-
ready, said one of the parties
to the suit, a slim 28-year-old
dressed in tight jeans, sun-
glasses holding back reddish
dyed hair, who asked to be
unidentied.
Im not a man acting like a
woman. I am a woman.
Activists and transgender
people say past attitudes were
fairly tolerant in the historically
moderate Muslim country.
But conservative Islam is
growing due to a complex mix
of factors. The National Fatwa
Council, Malaysias highest
Muslim authority, banned
sex-reassignment surgery as
un-Islamic in 1982.
Authorities have since taken
a steadily harder line against
transgenders and homosexu-
ality, critics say. A gay rights
festival was banned in 2011.
Prime Minister Najib Razak,
who portrays himself as a
Muslim moderate, has repeat-
edly said in recent years that
gay and transgender rights
initiatives were deviant.
Human Rights Watchs re-
port urged the repeal of all
discriminatory regulations,
saying transgender people
are at constant risk of mis-
treatment by authorities.
In June, 16 transgender
women were arrested in a
raid on a wedding party in a
private home in southern Ma-
laysia. They were sentenced
to a week in prison and ned.
Some transgender people
are sent for counselling ses-
sions on moral values.
Nisha Ayub, now a Muslim
transgender activist, said af-
ter she was arrested in 2000
that a jailer took her from cell
to cell to show male inmates
her breasts. She was later mo-
lested by prisoners.
We are not asking for spe-
cial rights. We are just asking
for equal rights, Nisha said.
Those who opt for sex-
change surgery encounter a
bureaucratic nightmare, un-
able to legally change their
names and genders, com-
plicating access to public
services. Others complain of
discrimination in employ-
ment and other spheres.
Transgender women are
commonly seen, especially
in the capital Kuala Lumpur,
working in restaurants and
retail outlets. But the price
of acceptance is self-denial
they typically wear gender-
neutral clothes, such as trou-
sers and shirts, with their long
hair tied back conservatively.
Deprived of jobs, many are
pushed into sex work, risking
sexually transmitted disease.
Abinaya Jayaraman worked at
a bank but left when her em-
ployer demanded she dress
as a man and use the mens
toilet. A Hindu ethnic Indian
with long hair and dressed in
a bright yellow Indian sari,
Abinaya said she turned to
sex work for 30 ringgit ($10)
per encounter to survive.
It was hell, she said.
Abinaya had sex-change
surgery in 2011 and has found
stability working with a local
NGO that helps the transgen-
dered. But her pain lingers.
She was sexually abused as a
child by a relative, and is now
estranged from her family
over her lifestyle.
Activists said many trans-
gender people become de-
pressed, suicidal, and turn to
drugs and alcohol.
Here we live in fear. We are
treated as criminals. We are
not treated as humans, Abi-
naya said. AFP
MH370 search to enter new phase
One night in June, Islamic-purity enforcers burst into the apartment of
Aryana, ransacking it and arresting her for cross-dressing. AFP
The Fugro Discovery (above) will start a new high-resolution search for missing
Flight MH370 in early October; right, the MH370 search area encompassing the
seabed on and around Broken Ridge, an extensive linear, mountainous sea oor
structure that once formed the margin between two geological plates. AFP
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AST week, Surya Subedi, the
United Nations special rap-
porteur on the situation of
human rights in Cambodia,
presented his last report to the
Human Rights Council (HRC) in
Geneva. At first sight, the report may
appear to give a positive outlook for
the human rights situation in the
country. But if you read it between
the lines, you will find one of the
most powerful indictments of the
Cambodian government in years.
In a nutshell, it shows the govern-
ments failure to implement key rec-
ommendations that the special rap-
porteur made during his six-year
term. These include reforms to the
judiciary, parliament and the elec-
toral system, and land rights.
Despite his unassailable long-term
optimism, Subedi doubts the pros-
pect for meaningful reform, not
because of objective factors, con-
straints or challenges which usual-
ly justify that a country truly seeking
to improve its human rights record
be assisted by the UN (a recent
example is war-plagued Mali) but
because of a lack of political will on
the part of the government.
In a worrying turn of events, as the
HRCs 27th session drew to a close
on Friday, no resolution on Cambo-
dia was adopted. Neither Japan, the
traditional sponsor of resolutions
on Cambodia, nor any other state
felt it necessary to endorse the con-
cerns highlighted by Subedi.
From a technical, procedural per-
spective, the HRC did not have to
adopt a resolution on Cambodia
this year, as the special rapporteurs
mandate was extended last year for
two years, and a memorandum of
understanding between the govern-
ment and the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, which was signed in
early 2014, extended the latters
presence in Cambodia. But the
councils failure to act is a bad sig-
nal. It sends a message to the gov-
ernment that it can get away with
its appalling human rights record,
in a year that witnessed a sharp
increase in the governments use of
violence against its opponents and
voices of dissent.
Other factors may have played a
role, such as the fact that the UN and
NGOs were busy with a range of oth-
er crises, from Syria to Iraq, Gaza
and Ukraine. And, the story goes, in
the past few years, Prime Minister
Hun Sens advisers repeatedly told
him not to care about the UN. It
seems they were right.
The truth is that whatever evi-
dence of widespread human rights
violations and ongoing impunity is
produced by UN expert bodies such
as the special rapporteur, political
bodies such as the HRC are simply
tired of having to deal with the situ-
ation in Cambodia.
The country is at a critical junc-
ture. Now, more than ever, a man-
date of the special rapporteur is
needed. Such a mechanism allows
the UN to monitor the situation of
human rights, to publicly report on
it and to provide Cambodian human
rights defenders and NGOs with
vital attention and visibility.
No one can seriously argue that
international assistance can by itself
reform Cambodia. Its not realistic
nor desirable. No solution should be
imposed on Cambodians. But the
UN can, and must, assist the Cam-
bodian people in finding their way
to a critical mass of reforms that will
ensure better governance, socioeco-
nomic stability and a peaceful politi-
cal transition.
What Cambodia needs is strong
institutions, not strong men. We
know from experiences in Syria,
North Korea and elsewhere what
usually happens when fathers hand
power over to their sons.
On the one hand, Cambodian Peo-
ples Party officials would be right to
try to prevent Hun Sen from impos-
ing his son(s) as successor(s). On the
other hand, Cambodia National Res-
cue Party officials are right when
they claim to capture the Cambodi-
an peoples aspirations for change.
But in both cases, regime change
must be more than a change of per-
sons. It must be a change in the way
that Cambodia is governed. And for
that, a range of truly independent
institutions must be put in place.
Now is perhaps the most impor-
tant post-1991 moment in Cambodi-
an politics. It is now that the country
must establish institutions that will
help it prevent a return to political
violence and ensure a transition that
will be more than a zero-sum game.
As Subedi wrote in his last report:
Change is coming to Cambodia
faster than many had anticipated.
The international community, in
particular those states that can exert
leverage on the government, must
play their role by telling it that the
time for delivering on its promises is
now. The UN may be tired of Cam-
bodia, but this is no time to rest.
Overcoming Cambodia fatigue
Surya Subedi, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, speaks to the media during a press conference in Phnom Penh in January. AFP
Comment
Nicolas Agostini
Nicolas Agostini is the UN delegate at
the International Federation for Human
Rights.
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Lifestyle Lifestyle
WHEN designer Colman Riddell
and her family moved into a con-
verted 19th-century stable in Geor-
getown, she inherited a colossal,
ornate mirror from the previous
owners that stretched more than 8
feet tall. It was, by all accounts, a
statement piece.
Its impossible to ignore, she
said. It dictated just about all of
the decor.
With 23-foot ceilings, Riddell
wasnt concerned about making the
space appear taller, but she did want
the small living room to feel more
airy. The mirror became her handi-
est tool. She placed it above her fire-
place between two sets of stained-
glass windows and, at first glance, it
almost looks like a window itself.
Decorating small spaces is 75 per
cent visual manipulation, she said,
and mirrors are hands-down the
best way to trick the eye. They can
make it seem like youve got way
more square feet, height and light
than you paid for.
Its no secret that mirrors can help
a small space breathe. Often used in
restaurants and hotels, they create
the illusion that an area is larger and
better lighted. And because they take
up very little room, those in cramped
quarters can and should go nuts:
Cluster them on the wall instead of
art, flank the guest bed with a pair of
mirrored nightstands, place a large
floor mirror in the foyer. There are few
rules when it comes to mirrors in
small spaces, but there are ways to get
the most out of them. Here are four.
1. Go big: The smaller the space,
the bigger the mirror, said Rockville
designer Kristin Peake. Its one of
those things that you try once and
never go back. With mirrors, you can
never, ever, go too big.
The advice might sound counter-
intuitive, but choosing a mirror thats
too small can actually make a room
appear cavelike and cluttered. Large
mirrors are particularly effective in
tight areas such as hallways or office
nooks, whereas small mirrors only
emphasise the lack of space. The one
exception to the bigger-is-better rule:
mirrors that are dominated by a
bulky frame. If space is tight, dont
waste it with an elaborate frame.
West Elms 2.5-by-6-foot Floating
Wood Floor Mirror ($399, www.west-
elm.com) and Pottery Barns 3-by-6
.5-foot Oversized Leaning Floor Mir-
ror ($799, www.potterybarn.com)
both emphasise the reflective sur-
face and would be an elegant addi-
tion to any room.
2. Get creative with placement:
Floor mirrors shouldnt be relegated
to the bedroom or closet. Place one
in the living room behind an accent
chair to open up the space, or by the
front door to make a powerful first
impression. Riddell says the most
successful entryway shes ever seen
was a 4-by-4-foot space in which the
door opened to a gigantic leaning
floor mirror. It was the most glam-
orous surprise, she said.
Peake likes to place statement mir-
rors in unexpected places, such as
her office conference room. Theyre
visual architectural details that act
like paintings but are cheaper and
more strategic because they open the
space up, she said. You get a lot of
bang for your buck.
But for some, mirrors suggest nar-
cissism, so be deliberate. Avoid the
dining room, where they could dis-
tract from conversation, or at least
put them at eye level so they wont
be in the way when guests are seat-
ed. And if you want a mirrored ceil-
ing, the detail is best limited to a
hallway, Peake says, and only with
a professional glassworker doing
the installation. Warning: It will be
pricey.
3. Ref lect and amplify light: If
youre looking to add light to a
stuffy space and window or sky-
light construction isnt an option,
a mirror can do the trick. Hang it
directly across from a window to
bounce light off the mirrors reflec-
tive surface and seemingly double
the amount of light. The Hall of
Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles
famously uses 357 mirrors that
amplif y light from 43 hanging
chandeliers and ref lect the win-
dows to the gardens outside. With-
out the mirrors, one could say the
hall would be half as arresting.
4. Consider mirrored furniture,
within reason: When it comes to
mirrored furniture, less is more, lest
the room end up looking chintzy
and garish. Mirrored glass is a state-
ment material, much like clear glass
and crystal, and is most glamorous
when used in small doses, like a mir-
rored jewellery case or knobs on a
white chest of drawers. Anthropolo-
gie sells Silvered Mirrored Knobs in
seven styles ($8-$10 each, www.
anthropologie.com) that make a
perfectly subtle style statement. THE
WASHINGTON POST
O
LD- FASHI ONED
dagashi-ya penny
candy stores that
children used to
frequent for cheap dagashi
confections and the small
toys included in some items
are making a comeback at
shopping centres across Ja-
pan, appealing to adults who
remember them fondly and
young people attracted by the
old-fashioned atmosphere.
Kenichi Hatsumi, a free-
lance writer familiar with the
life of children in the Showa
era (1926-1989), is an expert
on dagashi-ya. Now 47, he
began going to such stores
when he was 4.
Although dagashi-ya have
closed one after another,
mainly due to the declining
number of children, new ones
aimed at adults have been
opening at shopping centres
and elsewhere, according
to Hatsumi. He particularly
recommends Haikara Yoko-
cho at the Yokohama World
Porters shopping facility in
Naka Ward, Yokohama. The
store sells about 500 types of
products, including many da-
gashi snacks that have been
manufactured since around
the mid-1950s.
The store sells toys that
remind me of my childhood
days, such as an eraser in the
shape of a super car, Hat-
sumi said. We can also draw
the same type of lots we drew
in the past [to win a good toy].
The atmosphere makes me
feel like Ive wandered into a
back alley in an old town.
Asked what dagashi he
is particularly attached to,
Hatsumi named sosu sembei
(crackers seasoned with thick
brown sauce), which was sold
by many confectionery com-
panies. The standard sosu
sembei in Shibuya, Tokyo,
where Hatsumi was raised,
was recognisable by the red
panda illustration on its pack-
age and sold by the Isuzu Sei-
ka confectionery company.
Hatsumi said that as a boy it
was a feast for him and other
local children to spread Ume
Jam (plum jam) sold by the
Umenohana Hompo con-
fectionery company on the
cracker before eating it.
It tastes a bit too salty
when I eat it now. But it was
probably good for us chil-
dren, since we sweated a lot
when playing, he said.
Another popular product is
Morocco Yogul, sold by Sanyo
Seika. It weighs a little less than
6 grams and comes in a very
small yogurt-like cup. You
cant eat its small contents in a
bite. Thats the point, Hatsumi
said. Eating it with a small
spoon little by little it made
us feel it was a good buy.
Those who get thirsty
can try powdered juice that
bubbles when the powder is
mixed with water. It disap-
peared from households in
the 1960s, Hatsumi said, but
thrives at dagashi-ya stores
through the American Cola
and Fresh Soda sold by Mat-
suyama Seika, for example.
Dagashi-ya taught children
how to use money and other
elements of the grown-up
world. It was also a chaotic
world that sold shy prod-
ucts that capitalised on vari-
ous fads.
Modern dagashi-ya for
adults present that same cha-
otic, energetic atmosphere to
us, Hatsumi said.
Its a place where we can
forget about our daily life,
which lacks a playful atmo-
sphere, and feel refreshed.
Adults can enjoy alcohol
with dagashi at Dagashi Bars
there are four such chain
bars in Tokyo. An unlimited
amount of dagashi is offered
to customers who pay 500
(about $4.60), plus tax, for
appetizers and order at least
one drink.
Yotchan Ika [a product
made of squid] goes well with
beer. Chocolate-avoured
ones are good for wine and
brandy, said Takuya Kuron-
uma, manager of the chains
Ningyocho outlet.
Toys sold at dagashi-ya
stores are called dagangu.
Some of the toys sold today
are almost completely un-
changed from decades ago.
Most eye-catching for men
is probably the ready-to-as-
semble aircraft sold by Tsub-
ame Gangu Seisakusho, made
of styrene foam and designed
to y with a rubber band.
Women especially like the
polyballoon, a product from
Ishihara Polychemical Kogyo,
which lets users make bal-
loons by blowing air through
a straw into a small glob of
vinyl resin.
Bell Gankas Pyonpyon
Kaeru (Jumping frog) attracts
both children and adults, as it
comically jumps when air is
pumped in through a hand-
operated device. THE YOMIURI
SHIMBUN
Here are some of the candy and toys sold at a modern dagashi-ya store.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Like an adult in a candy store
Design 101: In small spaces, how to pull off the mirror trick
Modeled after a mid-1950s to mid-1960s dagashi-ya store that sold
inexpensive candy and toys, this modern store in Yokohama attracts
grown-up customers familiar with the period and young people who
like its theme park-like atmosphere. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Big mirrors spread light and create a sense of space. DAMIAN RUSSELL/CB2
Its a wrap
Clooneys
end wedding
weekend
N
EWLYWEDS George
Clooney and Amal Ala-
muddin were yesterday
due to wrap up a whirlwind
wedding weekend in Venice by
holding a civil ceremony.
The pair, who have whipped
up a frenzy in Italys floating
city with four days of lavish
nuptial celebrations, are
expected to whizz to the grand
13th-century Palazzo Cavalli
around noon in their vintage
speedboat Amore.
Boats loaded with onlookers
waited outside the couples
hotel in Monday morning
sunshine, as paparazzi lined
the banks of the Grand Canal
ready to capture sought-after
images of the couple.
At city hall, the pair will be
married under Italian law by
former mayor of Rome Walter
Veltroni, a longtime friend of
the silver-screen star.
The pair, who share a pas-
sion for human rights, have
spent the weekend celebra-
ting with family and Hollywood
chums including Matt Damon,
Bill Murray, Cindy Crawford
and her husband Rande
Gerber rumoured to be
Clooneys best man. AFP
Travel
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30
PG 938 Daily 06:20 07:30 PG 931 Daily 08:10 09:25
PG 932 Daily 10:15 11:25 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:20 14:30
PG 934 Daily 15:20 16:30 FD 606 Daily 15:00 16:20
FD 607 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:10 18:20
PG 936 Daily 19:10 20:20 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 21:20 22:30
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
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2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
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MEARSK (MCC)
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SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
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(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
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APL
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COTS
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SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
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Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
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#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
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G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
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(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
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Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
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Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
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CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Battambang is at the cutting edge of Cambodias new art scene. POST STAFF
Cambodias
art and soul
Claire Knox

T
HE resemblance is
rather striking. With
his dark hair swept
to the side and bee-
stung lips, Cambodian painter
Chov Theanly is often told
hes the dapper doppelganger
of the countrys most well-
known crooner, the late Sinn
Sisamouth, the Frank Sinatra
of Cambodia during the 60s,
the countrys golden age.
When Khmer Rouge soldiers
marched through Cambo-
dias cities in 1975, sending its
people to oppressive labour
camps, lm stars and musi-
cians were some of the brutal
regimes rst targets and, like
many of his peers, Sisamouth
disappeared.
But today, the arts are thriv-
ing once again, and no more
so than in Battambang. While
construction has rocketed
along at breakneck speeds
elsewhere, Battambang has,
despite being the countrys
second-largest city, remained
relatively untainted by tourism
and mass development.
I meet 28-year-old Theanly at
a small, artist-run space called
Sammaki in the middle of
town for an informal art tour.
A graphic designer and painter
who works from a cool, airy at-
tic above his fathers Chinese
shophouse on the riverbank,
Theanly is one of a wave of
home-grown artists enjoying
recent success his exhibition,
titled Surviving, sold out on its
opening night in Phnom Penh
last year.
Everything is just very open
and creative and collaborative
in Battambang, he tells me.
Theres an honesty here.
Perhaps at the core of the
citys artistic revival is the vi-
sual arts centre Phare Ponleu
Selpak. The sprawling arts
school teaches visual, applied
and performing arts, provides
a formal state education cur-
riculum for almost 1,000 stu-
dents and welcomes tourists
through its gates almost every
day of the year, with a circus
troupe performance twice a
week in the bright big top tent.
Phares visual arts graduates
are now opening their own
contemporary art galleries,
studios and workshops, and
we visit artist-curator Mao
Soviet who runs Make Maek,
and the newly opened artist-
collective space called Studio
Art Battambang. Its a cavern-
ous old shophouse that exhib-
its large, bamboo sculptures
and huge canvases.
Besides the contemporary
art scene, Battambangs strik-
ing architecture adds to its al-
lure. To the north of town lies
the magnicent Sala Khaet,
the old Governors Residence.
In 1905 the last Thai lord gov-
ernor, Chhum Aphaiwong,
hired Italian architects to erect
this sweeping European-style
palace. Elsewhere, French co-
lonial villas and art deco struc-
tures rub shoulders with strik-
ing modernist New Khmer
buildings erected in the 60s.
I venture out of town on my
last day and join a half-day
cycling tour. Weaving along
palm-fringed roads in the ear-
ly morning haze is a dreamy
experience. We continue
down red-dirt roads, through
a maze of bamboo trees and
lush countryside. Women
with checked kramas (cotton
scarves) wrapped around their
heads smile and wave at us.
Later, we see women wearing
hijabs in a rainbow of colours
do the same. This northwest-
ern area is home to many Mus-
lim Cham villages, and is stud-
ded with ornate mosques. This
melting pot is what Theanly
nds captivating about Bat-
tambang, and something he
thinks makes it a great spot for
creativity. THEGUARDIAN
TV PICKS

1:55pm - THE KITE RUNNER: Afer spending years in
California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan
to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
HBO
4pm - HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: Dracula, who operates a
high-end resort away from the human world, goes into
overprotectve mode when a boy discovers the resort and
falls for the counts teenage daughter. HBO
5:30pm - CLUELESS: A rich high school student tries to boost
a new pupils popularity, but reckons without afairs of the
heart getng in the way. HBO
7:05pm - RED LIGHTS: Psychologist Margaret Matheson
and her assistant study paranormal actvity, which leads
them to investgate a world-renowned psychic. HBO
9pm - THE MATRIX: A computer hacker learns from
mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and
his role in the war against its controllers. Starring Keanu
Reeves. HBO
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Go up, as a ladder
6 Not much
10 Acts on an afterthought
14 Good Samaritan, e.g.
15 Song for one
16 Pay-per-view event, sometimes
17 Payment to a mobster, perhaps
20 Do the Right Thing role
21 Comet or kite feature
22 Move like Elvis
23 F or H preceder
24 Seemingly limitless
25 Upholstery trim
28 $.01
29 Work a shuttle
32 Computer system developed at
Bell Labs
33 Title in Hamburg
35 Make accustomed
37 Quack remedies
40 Booster cable hookup
41 Scandinavian war god
42 Dispatched
43 Capitol VIP
44 Do-others separator
46 Acapulco party
48 Tried partner
49 Plural of 15-Across
50 Where Noah landed
53 Sagan or Perkins
54 Quick, as a study
57 Its in the heart
60 A short distance
61 Oft-bruised items
62 Food-wrap trademark
63 Dumbos claim to fame
64 ___ Bell (fast-food chain)
65 Make scholarly revisions
DOWN
1 Bottle and salary
2 Coin for Fellini
3 Golden calf, for instance
4 We have ___ the enemy ...
5 Cape ___ Island, Nova Scotia
6 Resting no more
7 One way to cook eggs
8 Nobel Prize-winning U.N. work-
ers grp.
9 Friendly Islands native
10 Cancel, to NASA
11 Portuguese lady
12 You cant do it alone
13 Eyelid problem
18 Captured
19 Word before Pizza or River,
in films
23 Repaired
24 Aida composer
25 Pre-imago insects
26 Really stupid
27 Mountain climbing accessory
28 Formal belief
29 Music selections
30 Well, ___ you something!
31 Seed covering
34 Play to the back of the room
36 Second-generation Japanese/
American
38 Relating to the nervous system
39 Break the news to
45 Peach stone
47 Treat badly
48 Vacation jaunts
49 Ability to green-light
50 Part of a church
51 Pro ___ (in proportion)
52 Seer-and-doer
53 Big reptile, informally
54 About 4,050 square meters
55 Prepare for the future
56 Watch the bar
58 Khans title
59 Yosemite ___
HERE COMES THE NIGHT
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns
the tables on her captors and transforms into a mer-
ciless warrior evolved beyond human logic. Stars:
Scarlet Johansson, Morgan Freeman and Min-sik
Choi.
City Mall: 11:30am, 3:45pm
Tuol Kork: 3:50pm, 8pm, 10:05pm
NOVEMBER MAN
An ex-CIA operatve is brought back in on a very
personal mission and fnds himself pited against his
former pupil in a deadly game involving high-level
CIA ofcials and the Russian president-elect. Stars
the actors Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey and Olga
Kurylenko.
City Mall: 7:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:55pm
IF I STAY
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall afer
a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-
of-body experience, she must decide whether to
wake up and live a life far diferent than she had
imagined. Stars: Chloe Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos,
Jamie Blackley.
City Mall: 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 5:45pm
THE MAZE RUNNER
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys afer
his memory is erased, soon learning theyre all
trapped in a maze that will require him to join
forces with fellow runners for a shot at escape.
Stars: Dylan OBrien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter.
City Mall: 9:30am, 2:10pm, 4:55pm, 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:45am, 12:05pm, 2:25pm, 7:05pm
MINISCULE: VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic trigger
a ruthless war between rival ant colonies, obsessed
with gaining control of the same prize: a box of
sugar cubes! Amidst this struggle a young ladybug
befriends a black ant and helps him save his people
from the horrible red ants...
City Mall: 5:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:25am
Dodgeball @
Street 123
A lesson for students with
intermediate abilities at 8pm,
followed by a party afterward. The
lesson costs $5. The party is free.
The Groove, #1C Street 282 on top of
Terrazza Italian Restaurant. 8pm
NOW SHOWING
Get networking tonight at The Willow. BLOOMBERG
Keanu Reeves plays Neo in The Matrix series. The
rst lm is on HBO tonight. BLOOMBERG
Networking event with nger food
from Suzi Phipps. Meet professionals,
have a drink or three, and help raise
funds for the Cambodian Childrens
Fund. Ticket cost is $15 for members
or $17 for nonmembers.
The Willow, #1 Street 21. 6pm
Networking @ Willow
Salsa @ The Groove
+++
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge again
at this regular exercise class, which
provides a good workout and a lot of
fun. All men and women are welcome,
beginners and experienced. $1.50 per
person.
#55-57 Street 123. 7:30pm
Hosted by Brecht van der Lann.
Winning team receives a bottle of
Cutty Sark Scotch Whiskey and
mixers.
Equinox, #3A Street 278. 8pm
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Entertainment
19
Music quiz @
Equinox
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from your balcony, price $500/m
with free internet, water, cable TV,
maintenance Location: #112, St.
Tonle Sap (peninsular)
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 4 For RENT, a luxurious
2bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, monthly price 1,040$,
free for internet, water, cable TV.
Location: #247, ST.51 St. 360, BKK1
012 569 832| 012 944 191
www.vtrustproperty.com
VTRUST OFFICE
Centers- $10/M2 Facilities Included:
A/Cs, Carpeting oor, Lighting
system, exhausted fans, External
partition and large parking space
Location: Parkway Square, Mao
Tse Toung Blvd, Phnom Penh
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com

Please visit VTRUSTServiced
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fully furnished studio room, one
bedroom & 2 bedrooms with price
starts from $275/Month
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30 , 2014 20
VILLA FOR RENT IN BKKI
4 bed with 5 bath located in BKKI,
Basic furnished, clean, Western
kitchen, big living room, big balcony,
& nice garden, closed to ISPP, Super
market, UN ofce, and riverside.
Rent: $2500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, & safe, swimming
pool, gym, quiet. Rent: 2500 $/m
Location: BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL VILLA IN DP
for rent 05 bed with bath located in
DP, Basic furnished, clean, western
kitchen, big living room, nice
swimming pool, big parking.
Rent: $3800 /m Tel: 012 879 231
GARDEN VILLA NEAR BKKI FOR
rent 05 bed with bath located near
BKKI, Basic furnished, clean,
western kitchen, big living room,
nice garden, big parking.
closed to New ISPP, super market,
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 2 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, included all except electricity,
safe, swimming pool. BKKI.
Rent:$ 1500/m Tel: 012 503 356

WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
rent 2 beds, 2 bath, available near
Independence, fully furnished
quiet, many trees around, western
kitchen, bright inside
Price : $ 1400/m. 012 503 356
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
100sqm to 400sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24h security, elevator
Spacious 5 meter high ceilings Lots
of plants & light + 60 sqm.
Tel: 012 869 111 yellow-tower.com
STEVES STEAKHOUSE STEAK
Super Specials. Sirloin
(USA) $10.50 Or T-Bone (AUS) $11.50
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
LAO-Z FOOD
(At Steves Steakhouse)
Fresh Spring Rolls, Grilled Beef and
Stcky Rice @ only $5.50!
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
STEVES STEAKHOUSE CIGARS
Cuban or Cuban Quality Nicaraguan
Startng at $9. Buy any 2 cigars and shot of
single malt for free.
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
RESTAURANT FOR SALE
Location at Riverside area near
Night Market. 2 oors. Lease
$1000/M, 4 years left. Price $24,000.
Include Deposit 5000$
Contact: 070 475 230 (Eng),
: 010 66 56 92 (Kh & Eng)
UNIT SIZE: 4M X 12M
1 bed 1 bathroom 1 living room
1 kitchen 2 air-cons Fully furnished
Safe and quiet area Parking space
Free Internet and cable TV
Address: No. 36, Street 592 Z, in
Toulkork area, nearby international
schools, super markets, restau-
rants, coffee shop, hospitals
Price: 450$/ unit
Please contact 077 766 866 or
010 414072
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30 , 2014 21
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent InBassakGardenCity, 04
bed, very largelivingroom, very nice
design, fully andmodernfurnished,
modernkitchen, nicebalcony, big
parkingandplayground, quiet &safe.
thebest locationfor residence.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKKI area 04 bedrooms, large &
open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
big parking and playground, quiet
& safety. the best location for resi-
dence and ofce. Price: $3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Daun Penh area (close to Inde-
pendent Monument), 04 bed , large
&open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
playground, quiet & safety. the best
location for residence and ofce.
Price: US$4,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00


MODERN SWIMMING POOL
Villa For Rent In North bridge area,
05 bed plus 01 ofce room, large
living room, very nice design, fully
& modern furnished, nice pool &
garden, western kitchen, nice bal-
cony, big parking Price: $3,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed , large
living room, nice design, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, big parking &
playground, nice garden and trees,
quiet & safe. Price: $2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
RENOVATED VILLA FOR RENT
In BKK3 area, 05 bedrooms, big
living room, western kitchen, park-
ing and play ground, very good for
residence and ofce, very quiet and
safety area.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
1ST FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
For Rent In Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 03
bedrooms, large and open living
room, basic furniture, western
kitchen, garden and trees, quiet &
safety. Price: US$1,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
3RD FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
For Rent In Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 1 bed,
large and open living room, basic
furniture, western kitchen, very big
balcony with many owers, quiet &
safety. Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
1ST FLOOR KHMER HOUSE
For Rent In Boeung Trobek area,
02 bed, large and open living room,
basic furniture, western kitchen,
garden and trees, quiet & safety.
the best location for residence.
Price: US$650/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW APARTMENT
For Rent BKK1, 01-02 Bedrooms,
very nice interior designed, large
living room, very light, fully and
modern furniture, western Kitchen,
good condition for living, quiet &
safe. Price: US$800-1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, Large living room, fully
and modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
very good condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in East of Russian
Market, 01-03 bed, large living
room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, roof top pool and
gym, nice balcony, lots of light, very
good condition for living.
Price: US$850-US$1,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed-
rooms, large living room, fully and
nice furnished, western kitchen,
very big balcony, very good condi-
tion for living, big parking lot.
Price: US$800-US$1,200/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in
BKKI, 01&02&03 bed, roof top pool
& gym, open living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, very safety area,
Price: $1,200-$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODER ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in Tonle
Bassak area (near Independent
Monument), 01&02 bed, roof top
pool & gym, open living room, fully
&modernfurnished, modernkitchen,
Price: $1,100-$1,400 m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in Daun Penh area
(near BKKI), 02 bed, open living
room, fully and nice furnished,
western kitchen, nice balcony, very
good condition for living, very quiet
and safety. Price: US$750/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Daun Penh
Area, 01-02-03 bed, modern design
and lots of light, open living room,
fully & modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, nice pool &
gym, very good condition for living.
Price: $1,200-1,500-2,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Wat Phnom
Area, 01-02-03 bedrooms, modern
design and lots of light, open living
room, fully and modern furnished,
western kitchen, very nice balcony,
nice pool and gym, good condition
for living. Price: $1,200-1,500m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
located in on the main street (near
Independent Monument),
230 sqm and $3000 per month,
big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
located in on the main street,
200sqm plus and 300 sqm plus
and $14 per sqm per month,
big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed,
large living room, very modern
designed, some furniture, western
kitchen, nice balcony, big parking
and playground, very safety, The
best location for residence.
Price: US$2,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At Tonle Bassak area,
04bedrooms, some furnished,
western kitchen, very safety, very
nice trees, very good condition for
living and ofce.
Price: US$1,800/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
COLONIAL WOODEN HOUSE
For Rent In Daun Penh, 03
bedrooms, some furnished, very
nice and clean kitchen, very safety,
very nice garden and many trees,
very good condition for living.
Price: US$3,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN-CLASSIC VILLA FOR
Rent At Toul Kork area, 03bed,
some furnished, western kitchen,
very safety and very quiet, very nice
trees, very good condition for living
and ofce. Price: US$1,500 /month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At BKKI, 03bedrooms, some
furnished, very niceandcleankitchen,
very safety, very nicetrees, very good
conditionfor livingandoffice.
Price: US$2,000/month
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com

TRADITIONAL 1ST FLOOR VILLA
For Rent Near Independent
Monument, 03 bedrooms, very
big and open living room, western
kitchen, big balcony, very good for
residence, very quiet and safety
area. Price: US$800/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

3RD FLOOR APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in Daun Penh area
(close to Independent Monument),
01 bedrooms, large living room,
some furnished, nice kitchen, quiet
& safe. big balcony, the best location
for residence.: US$450/m per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01 bedroom,
open living room and kitchen, fully
and modern furnished, very safety
area, very quiet,
very good condition for living.
Price: USD750/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in Tonle Bassak area
(close to BKKI), 01 bedroom, open
living room and kitchen, fully and
modern furnished, very safety area,
very quiet, very good condition for
living. Price: 450/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
LocatedalongNorodomBlvd, 100to
1700sqm, bigparkinglot, bigelevator,
bigstaircase, 24hsecurity andmany
facilitiesaround.
Price: US$12- $14/monthper sqm.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com

OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT
Located a long Norodom Blvd,
400 sqm , parking lot, big
elevator, big staircase, 24h
security and many facilities
around.
Price: US $15/month per sqm.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
02FLATS ON BLVD STREET FOR
Rent located in on the main street,
size: 8x20m, 07bedrooms, 04
stories, very good for showrooms,
banks, micronance, and other
business purpose, big parking lot.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
Price: US$5,500/sqm
www.towncityrealestate.com
02FLATS ON BLVD STREET FOR
Rent located in on the main street,
size: ground oor 8x20m and
rst oor is 12x16m, 03 stories,
very good for showrooms, banks,
micronance, and other business
purpose, big parking lot.
Price: US$3,500/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRANDNEWFACTORYFORRENT
A long road No 04 (Factory zone),
Size: 6600 sqm, electricity and
water are connected, very standard
quality, good environment, very
easy to nd workers. $1.8/sqm
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02
Bed, very nice interior designed,
large living room, very light, fully &
modern furniture, western kitchen,
very good condition for living, quiet
& safe. Price: $600-1,100/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

Eintracht Frankfurt pile on
misery for hapless Hamburg
LUCAS Piazons spectacular 90th-
minute free kick gave Eintracht
Frankfurt a 2-1 victory at Hamburg over
on Sunday as the former European
champs remain rooted to the foot of the
Bundesliga. Haris Seferovic gave
Frankfurt the lead in the 44th minute,
striking home Timothy Chandlers pass.
Hamburg finally found the back of the
net for the first time this season in the
58th minute as Lewis Holtby crossed to
Nicolai Mueller. Hamburgs first goal
came 508 minutes into the season,
comfortably snapping VfL Bochums
previous Bundesliga record of 475
minutes without a goal to start the
1979-89 season. AFP
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Interview with Auto Show 2014 exhibitors
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Car price in Cambodia compared with neighbor countries and global market
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Champions League clashes
Group E
CSKA Moscow v Bayern Munich 11pm
Bayern beat CSKA home and away
in the group stage of last seasons
Champions League and the Russian
champions hopes of getting a result
this time will not be helped by the
fact the match will be played behind
closed doors at the Arena Khimki.
CSKA, who trail leaders Zenit by
four points at the top of the Russian
Premier League, are being punished
by UEFA for the bad behaviour of
their fans during a group stage match
last season.
Manchester City v Roma 1:45am
After conceding late to go down 1-0
to Bayern in their group opener, the
visit of Roma is already a must-win
game for Manuel Pellegrinis English
champions.
Manchester City have scored 11
goals in winning their last two match-
es, but a meeting with a Roma side
who have won all ve Serie A games
so far and thumped CSKA Moscow
5-1 two weeks ago promises to be a
stiff test.
City have not beaten Italian oppo-
nents since a 3-0 victory over AC Mi-
lan in the UEFA Cup in 1978-79, and
Roma coach Rudi Garcia said: All the
pressure is on them. They need to get
a result at their home ground.
Group F
Apoel v Ajax 1:45am
Cypriot champions APOEL earned
plenty of plaudits for their perfor-
mance in losing 1-0 to Barcelona at
the Camp Nou in their Group F open-
er, but if they are to stand any pros-
pect of progressing they will need to
beat Ajax in Nicosia.
Paris SG v Barcelona 1:45am
The Parc des Princes will be the
scene for the heavyweight showdown
of the French champions and Luis En-
riques Barcelona. The clubs clashed
in the quarter-nals 18 months ago,
when Paris held their more illustrious
opponents in both legs but lost on
away goals.
PSG are desperate to win the most
prestigious trophy in European foot-
ball, but they have had a cumber-
some start to the season and have
drawn four of their last ve matches.
Group G
Schalke 04 v Maribor 1:45am
Schalke drew at Chelsea on match-
day one, and should fancy their
chances of reaching the last 16 from
Group G as they prepare to host
Slovenian champions Maribor in
Gelsenkirchen.
Sporting Lisbon v Chelsea 1:45am
Chelsea are yet to lose this season,
although while Jose Mourinhos side
have been in imperious form in the
Premier League, they stuttered to
a 1-1 draw against Schalke in their
Group G opener.
Jens Kellers side are also fresh from
beating bitter rivals Borussia Dort-
mund 2-1 in the Ruhr derby on Satur-
day, conrming their upturn in form
after a slow start to the campaign.

Group H
Bate Borisov v Atheltic Bilbao 1:45am
Athletic will be eager to get back
to winning ways when they become
the rst visitors to BATEs new Bori-
sov Arena in a Champions League
group game.
Shakhtar Donetsk v FC Porto 1:45am
Shakhtars status as one of the
emerging powers in the European
game has been diminished by the
bloody conict that continues to
rage around their home in Donetsk
in eastern Ukraine.
Their state-of-the-art Donbass
Arena was last month damaged by
shell re and they are now forced
to host Porto in Lviv, over 1,000 ki-
lometres away in the west of the
country. AFP
Bayerns Javi Martinez (right) vies with CSKAs Georgi Milanov during their UEFA
Champions League Group D match in November 2013 in Moscow. AFP
English Premier League
West Brom 4 Burnley 0
Spanish La Liga
Getafe 1 Malaga 0
Deportivo de la Coruna 0 Almeria 1
Real Sociedad 1 Valencia 1
Cordoba 0 Espanyol 0
German Bundesliga
Augsburg 1 Hertha Berlin 0
Italian Serie A
Sassuolo 0 Napoli 1
Cesena 1 Milan 1
Chievo 1 Empoli 1
Inter Milan 1 Cagliari 4
Torino 1 Fiorentina 1
Genoa 0 Sampdoria 1
French Ligue 1
Bordeaux 2 Rennes 1
Lens 0 Caen 0
Nantes 1 Lyon 1
Marseille 2 St Etienne 1
SUNDAYS RESULTS
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
23

Lorenzo wins crash-hit
Aragon Grand Prix race
SPANIARD Jorge Lorenzo won
his first Grand Prix of the season
in a thrilling rain-affected race
at Aragon on Sunday. The
Yamaha riders decision to come
into the pits and change bikes
with just four laps to go proved
correct as he cruised home in
the final stages ahead of
compatriot Aleix Espargaro with
Britains Cal Crutchlow in third
on a Ducati. World
championship leader Marc
Marquez of Spain finished 13th
after crashing his Honda in the
wet conditions, but still extended
his overall lead by a point from
team-mate Dani Pedrosa as he
also crashed and finished 14th.
The early stages of the race
were also dominated by two
huge crashes as Andrea
Iannone and seven-time world
champion Valentino Rossi flew
off their bikes as they came off
the track. AFP
Zimmermann closes
season with no-hitter
JORDAN Zimmermann sent
the Washington Nationals into
baseballs playoffs in style, with
a no-hitter against the Miami
Marlins in their last game of
the regular season on Sunday.
The National League East
division champion Nationals
defeated the Marlins 1-0.
Zimmermanns no-hitter was
preserved at the final out by
Nationals outfielder Steven
Souza, who made a
spectacular diving catch of
Christian Yelichs drive to left
field to end the game.
Meanwhile, After a week
packed with celebration and
sentiment, iconic Yankees
captain Derek Jeter played his
last Major League Baseball
game on Sunday, a contributor
up to the last. Honoured by the
Boston prior to the season
finale between the bitter
American League East rivals,
Jeter played as designated
hitter in the Yankees 9-5
victory over the Red Sox. AFP
Bridgewater leads
Vikings to victory
MINNESOTA rookie quarterback
Teddy Bridgewater outgunned
Atlantas Matt Ryan on Sunday
to lead the Vikings to a 41-28
victory before limping out of his
first NFL start with an ankle
injury. First-round draft pick
Bridgewater was pressed into
service sooner than expected
after Vikings quarterback Matt
Cassel broke a foot in a defeat at
New Orleans last week. The
rookie took the helm of a team
troubled not only by the loss of
its seasoned signal-caller but
also by the controversy over
the child abuse charge facing
star running back Adrian
Peterson. Meanwhile, Ryan
Tannehill, whose status as
Miamis quarterback had been
rumoured to be in jeopardy,
staked his claim to the starting
job as he guided the Dolphins
to a 38-14 victory over winless
Oakland at Londons Wembley
Stadium. AFP
A GL Concrete player (centre) goes up for a layup during their CBL game
against Emporers at the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena. SRENG MENG SRUN
Easy going for Emperors, Dragons in CBL
H S Manjunath
SUNDAYS action in the Ang-
kor Beer Cambodian Basket-
ball League produced blood-
less wins for Emperors and
Smart Dragons at the Olympic
Stadium Indoor Arena, as the
second season heads towards
the crucial playoffs in the com-
ing weeks.
Touted as one of the top fan-
cies for the title, Emperors
were surprisingly not so lordly
in beating the winless GL Con-
crete 76-61 while Smart Drag-
ons, looking for a correction of
course after two defeats, deft-
ly handled Sabay Tiger Mos-
quitoes in their 64-50 victory.
Emperors win helped them
draw level with Pate 310 at the
top of the standings but what
the side had not foreseen was
a first quarter shock of sorts
that saw the table-trailing
Concrete end up with a 20-16
lead, which was as big as 10 at
one point.
Realising that the slow tem-
po was to blame, Emperors
stepped up the pace through
Kim Vengngoun with Monh
Ratana often driving to the
basket and feeding the open
man Hour Pichbounchour
under the rim. The strategy
worked well as the Emperors
steadily built up a 39-32 half
time advantage.
Once the Emperors tidied up
their defence, they stood to
gain in terms of some fast
breaks that kept stretching the
lead in the third quarter and
the final session was all about
margins.
With four successive defeats
nagging them, Mosquitoes
were desperate for a good start
and they made one using their
size advantage to come out
marginally better at 14-13 in
the first quarter.
The Dragons moved to 2-1-2
zone defense with play maker
Noun Vath Sothearith inject-
ing some pace even as Hon
Wei Chan was using the space
created by his teammates to
drive through the paint to
score 10 points in a row. With
only seven players to choose
from Mosquitoes were clearly
feeling the pinch as the Drag-
ons crossed over with a 38-22
lead.
Though the Dragons slow
tempo in the third quarter
allowed Jeff Kane and new
addition Andy Pontius to add
a few baskets to the Mosqui-
toes score, they could hardly
break their rivals control.
The Dragons kept pushing
for more in the fourth quarter
through Jordan Bergren under
the rim and Chhim Taingyou
from outside.
Score Summaries
Emperors 76 (Kim Vengngoun
23, Hour Pichbounchour 20,
Monh Ratana 15)
GL Concrete 61 (Ran Noren 14,
Tun Chamnan 13 So Kungkea 6)
Smart Dragons 64 (Hon Wei
Chan 17, Jordan Bergren 13,
Gabriele Castaldo 10)
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 50
(Jeff Kane 24, Andy Pontius 17,
Brendan Petit 5)
Sorn sisters set for quarters
H S Manjunath
C
AMBODIAS riveting atten-
tion will turn to the Ganghwa
Dolmens Gymnasium in
Incheon this coming Friday
in lively anticipation of a taekwondo
medal at the 17th Asian Games as the
Sorn sisters, Seavmey and Davin, get
down to ght their quarternal rivals.
A victory would imminently put
them in line for a podium place a
bronze guaranteed even if they fail to
make the next grade.
The younger of the two, Seavmey,
who is competing in the under-73kg
category, drew a bye into the last eight
and takes on the winner of a pre-
quarternal ght. The 2013 Myanmar
SEA Games gold medalist is not un-
duly worried who her opponent will
be, according to her coach Choi Yong
Sok, who strikes a condent note that
the sisters are in high spirits and com-
bat ready.
They have had very useful training
stints at various clubs here in [South]
Korea since we arrived nearly 12 days
ago. Both are in good shape. Repu-
tations do not bother them because
both have strong mental make-up,
said Choi Yung Sok, a South Korean
native who regards Cambodia as a
home away from home having served
as a national coach since 1994.
Contrary to Seavmey waiting to ght
her unknown opponent, Davin, who
picked up a silver at the Myanmar SEA
Games, will be up against a familiar foe
in Iranian Khadabandeh Akram in the
over-73kg class.
The two met at the 2014 Asian Cham-
pionships at the Universal Palace in
Tashkent, Uzbekistan during the last
week of May and the Iranian won the
hard-fought seminal 5-2 before she
lost the nal to Chinas Li Donghua.
Akram then followed up that perfor-
mance with a gold medal in the 3rd
Islamic Solidarity Games.
There were a lot of positives in that
Tashkent ght and we have worked on
areas that needed sharpening up. I am
hopeful she can reverse the verdict,
said coach Choi.
It was at the 2012 London Olympics
that Sorn Davin left a grand impres-
sion of her erce ghting abilities after
going down 3-2 to the defending gold
medalist Maria Espinoza of Mexico in
an unforgettable rst round match-up.
Meanwhile the third member of the
Cambodian taekwondo squad, Ban
Makara, will face Zaizai Abdulwahab of
Afghanistan in a round of 32 contest of
the mens under-54kg category.
Wrestler Makara close to glory
Japanese veteran Takatsuka Nori-
yuki took precisely 56 seconds to oor
Cambodias Ngoun Makara in the
quarternals of the mens 61kg free-
style wrestling event at Dowon gym-
nasium yesterday.
The 29-year-old Japanese grappler,
whose career best performance was
a third place at the World Champion-
ships way back in 2006, used his im-
mense experience to bring down the
Cambodian teenager 5-0 in the rst
period for a verdict of Victory by Fall.
The prospect of a medal for Ma-
kara was kept alive for a little longer
yesterday, since the youngster had a
potential chance to ght for a bronze
medal placement via the repechage
round. The French word repechage
roughly translates to rescue, and is
used in many combat sports to refer
to the practice that allows partici-
pants who failed to meet qualifying
standards by a small margin to con-
tinue to the next round.
However, Noriyuki lost on points
3-1 to Indias Bajrang, a result which
saw Makara out of the event for good.
Earlier in the day, Makara gave Cam-
bodian contingent something to cheer
when he won his rst round bout 4-1 in
slightly less than three minutes against
Abdulhadi Zakaria Ali of Saudi Arabia.
Makaras other team-mates Chov So-
theara, Dorn Srey Mao and Dorn Sao
all bowed out of the competition on
Sunday after rst round defeats.
Marathon men eye tting nale
Cambodias most successful long
distance runner Hem Bunting and
his teammate Neko Hiroshi, the re-
cent winner of the countrys rst full
marathon in Siem Reap during mid-
August, will gure in Fridays 42km
race on the last day of competition.
Bunting, who is back in the national
team after a break of nearly four years,
is keen on putting up a good perfor-
mance and hopes to reproduce his
personal best of two hours and 23
minutes that he recorded in the Paris
Marathon last year.
Cambodian taekwondo star Sorn Davin (left) trains with coach Choi Yong Sok during a pre-Asian Games session at the National Sports
Complex in Phnom Penh on September 9. Davin will feature in the womens over-73kg quarter-nals on Friday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Ngoun Makara was a win away from a guar-
anteed wrestling bronze medal. KEN GADAFFI
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SUNDAYS RESULTS
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Sport
Team Europe retain Ryder Cup
E
UROPES nest golfers de-
feated the United States
for the sixth time in seven
tries on Sunday to retain the
Ryder Cup, delivering a resounding
16 1/2 to 11 1/2 beating to the once-
dominant Americans.
Welshman Jamie Donaldson, a 38-
year-old Ryder Cup rookie, dropped
his approach at the 15th hole just
inches from the hole to clinch a 4 and
3 victory over Keegan Bradley that
gave Europe an unbeatable total of
14 1/2 points at Gleneagles.
Hit the wedge of my life to close
the game out, Donaldson said.
You cant really put words to it. Its
unbelievable.
Europeans matched their longest
win streak in the series with a third
consecutive triumph while Tom
Watsons US squad failed in its bid
for a rst victory in Europe since
Watson captained a 1993 triumph at
The Belfry.
Proud is the rst word, Euro-
pean captain Paul McGinley said. It
has been a huge team effort.
Trailing 10-6 when Sundays 12
nal singles matches began, the
Americans needed the greatest rally
ever on European soil to pull off a
stunner in Scotland.
Instead, Europe emerged with
the trophy for the eighth time in
10 starts.
Its amazing, Donaldson said. Ev-
erybody played so well to retain the
Cup. Thats what its really all about.
Early triumphs by talisman Rory
McIlroy and 2010 Cup-clincher
Graeme McDowell plus reigning
US Open champion Martin Kaymer
lifted the hosts.
A halved match by Englands un-
beaten Justin Rose, who won three
and halved two to lead all point pro-
ducers, put Europe on the brink.
Attention then turned to Donald-
son, who had birdied to win the ninth,
11th and 12th holes for a 4-up lead
over Bradley, who sank a short putt to
halve 13 before Donaldson, who had
to play the Czech Open in the penul-
timate week of qualifying just to seal
a spot on Europes team, halved 14
and 15 to seal Americas fate.
Its a pretty incredible experience
for me to get on the team and then
be part of a winning team, Donald-
son said. It has been an amazing
few weeks.
Americans lead the overall series
25-13 with two halved, but Europe-
ans have a 10-7 with one halved edge
since the team was expanded beyond
British-Irish talent in 1979.
They played better than we did,
Watson said. It would have been a
tough go to beat them but we came
in thinking we could. It just didnt
work out.
Europe built a four-point lead enter-
ing singles thanks to a 7-1 foursomes
edge, equalling the 1975 US squad for
the formats most lopsided domina-
tion. You killed us in the foursomes,
man, Watson told McGinley.
World number one McIlroy, com-
ing off major wins at the British Open
and PGA Championship, won 5 and
4 over Rickie Fowler, a top-ver in
every major this year but winless in
eight Cup matches.
It would be nice to get a win one
day soon, Fowler said.
McIlroy opened birdie-eagle-birdie
for a 3-up lead, birdied the fth and
sixth to go 5-up, lost the seventh with
a bogey but won 13 with a birdie and
halved 14 to win.
Very satisfying. I knew what was
expected of me and what I expect of
myself, McIlroy said. I was probably
more up for this day than I was the
last day of the majors I won. There for
no option other than to win.
McDowell, McIlroys Northern Ire-
land compatriot, rallied from 3-down
at the turn to beat US rookie Jordan
Spieth 2 and 1 and nish 3-0 in the
event, his rst perfect Cup run. AFP
Team Europe captain Paul McGinley is showered with champagne as he holds the
Ryder Cup trophy on Sundays nal day at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. AFP