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JOKO Widodo, Indonesias
first leader from outside the
political and military elite,
was sworn in as president
yesterday and reached out
to political foes to seek sup-
port for his ambitious
reform agenda.
After the inauguration,
Wi dodo capped hi s
remarkable rise from an
upbringing in a riverside
slum by travelling through
the streets of the capital
Jakarta in a horse-drawn
carriage, with tens of thou-
sands of supporters cheer-
ing and shouting his
name.
Widodo, a 53-year-old
former furniture exporter
known by his nickname
Jokowi, won the presidency
in July after a close race
against controversial ex-
general Prabowo Subianto.
The former Jakarta gover-
nor, who won legions of
Laignee Barron
LONG considered the
friendlier and less exploita-
tive option for overseas
Cambodian migrants, South
Korea is now being slammed
by Amnesty International
for a number of abuses
afflicting its migrant-domi-
nated agriculture sector.
The 20,000 foreign work-
ers fuelling South Koreas
farming industry regularly
encounter intimidation, vio-
lence, excessive working
hours, forced labour and no
rest days, according to an
Amnesty report released
yesterday. And because of a
flawed work permit
scheme, the migrants have
few options for recourse.
[South Korea] is clearly
intent on creating a very
compliant, stable work-
force, said Norma Kang
Muico, Asia-Pacific migrant-
rights researcher at Amnesty
International.
The system is really load-
ed against the worker and
against complaining or
changing jobs.
Widely perceived as an
exemplary exception amid a
region notorious for poor
migrant labour laws, South
Koreas Employment Permit
System eschews private
recruiters in favour of govern-
ment agreed-upon quotas.
Employers struggling to
find national workers can
hire foreigners through the
government-run system
from 15 Asian countries, the
top senders being Cambodia,
Vietnam and Indonesia,
according to government
immigration statistics.
An estimated 8,800
Widodo
enters
ofce in
Jakarta
S Korean
farming
industry
slammed
Kevin Ponniah and Taing Vida
A
S A group of Cam-
bodian officials
reportedly departed
for Australia and
asylum seeker detention cen-
tres on the Pacific island of
Nauru last night, the Interior
Ministry said that refugees
would be given a brutally real-
istic summation of contempo-
rary Cambodia before they
choose to come here.
Under an agreement signed
last month, asylum seekers on
Nauru found to be genuine
refugees who have been told
they will never be allowed to
settle on the Australian main-
land will be given the choice
to relocate to Cambodia
instead, with resettlement
costs to be met by Australian
taxpayers.
But Interior Ministry spokes-
man Khieu Sopheak made it
clear yesterday that the govern-
ment would not be pulling its
punches with the refugees
about life in Cambodia, leading
observers to question whether
its professed desire to engage in
On second thought . . .
Govt ofcials vow to give Nauru refugees honest living assessment
CONTINUED PAGE 14
FUEL SMUGGLING
IN INDONESIA
RAMPANT
BUSINESS PAGE 8
LITTLE APPLE:
THE POP SONG
SWEEPING CHINA
LIFESTYLE PAGE 17
BRONCOS
PEYTON MANNING
MAKES HISTORY
SPORT BACK PAGE
CONTINUED PAGE 2 CONTINUED PAGE 2
Authorities attack a villager from Preah Vihear province yesterday in Phnom Penh after a protest regarding an ongoing land
dispute turned violent. VIREAK MAI
No pain, no cane
STORY > 3
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2 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 21, 2014
Cambodians exploited in Korea
Continued from page 1

Cambodian workers were sent
to South Korea in 2013, ac-
cording to Cambodias Minis-
try of Labour.
But while it looks good on
paper, this work scheme di-
rectly contributes to human
and labour rights violations
by severely restricting migrant
workers ability to change jobs
and challenge abusive prac-
tices by employers, says the
Amnesty report.
Employees in the agriculture
industry are omitted from key
labour laws protecting most of
the countrys workforce, and
though employers can sack
the hired hands at any time.
Employees who try to change
their job or address an abusive
situation are often penalised
in a way that threatens their
immigration status.
Under the permit system,
South Korea allows migrant
workers to switch jobs a maxi-
mum of three times, though
any change eliminates the
possibility of a coveted, nearly
ve-year visa extension.
A complaint about an abu-
sive situation should never
count against the worker, but
Ive never come across any cas-
es where the complaint led
doesnt count against them,
Muico said. It is only work-
ers who are in a very desperate
situation when the abuse has
become too awful that they
will go to a job centre and try
to change their employer.
The majority of the dozens
of migrant farm workers inter-
viewed by Amnesty had racked
up debts equivalent to more
than two years annual salary
in their home countries to se-
cure the overseas employment,
a sum that made them loath to
leave a situation. Working on
a farm in South Korea, they
could earn a monthly salary of
$1,158, or over 10 times what
could be earned from the same
work in Cambodia.
I used to have a small prob-
lem with my employer, but I
did not want to make it into a
huge problem because I need
this job in Korea, said Roth
Mony Muth, a 27-year-old from
Svay Rieng. Every day my em-
ployer said I was not working
hard enough and blamed me. I
apologised and tried to do bet-
ter until he forgave me.
Amnestys report found that
on average, the interviewed
migrants worked more than
50 hours over their contracted
amounts, none where ad-
equately if at all compen-
sated for overtime, and no one
was granted annual leave. Few
received a single paid day off.
Sometimes the workers also
faced violence, including beat-
ings and sexual assault, ac-
cording to Amnesty.
One day at work, my back
was hurting so much that I sat
down for a while . . . my manag-
er . . . ordered me to get up and
continue working. So I did and
began cutting . . . incorrectly,
said a 25-year-old Cambo-
dian worker interviewed in
the report. The managers
younger brother. . .held me
by my neck while the man-
ager beat me. They both then
punched me all over my body
and kicked me.
Despite the rampant abuses,
few le complaints. Labour
groups in Cambodia, including
Adhoc and the Community Le-
gal Education Center, could re-
call only a single instance, near-
ly a decade ago, when a migrant
returned with any objections.
Migrant workers who want
to le a complaint in South
Korea nd the burden of proof
becomes their responsibil-
ity and, if they want a place
to sleep and food to eat, they
have to continue working for
their abusive employers while
the case is investigated.
In almost all cases there are
no interpreters . . .so unless the
worker is uent in Korean, it is
very difcult to get informa-
tion about a very complicated
legal system, said Mikyung
Ryu, international director of
the Korean Confederation of
Trade Unions. The employers
treat their workers like slaves
with impunity.
According to government
statistics cited by Amnesty,
only 1 per cent of investigated
complaints in which the rights
of migrant workers were found
to be violated resulted in any
legal sanction.
If South Koreans were
trapped in a similar cycle of
abuse, there would rightly be
outraged, said Muico. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY SEN DAVID
Workers put harvested ginseng into sacks at a eld in South Korea late last year. A new report released by
Amnestry International alleges Cambodian migrant workers were among those being exploited in South
Koreas farming industry. BLOOMBERG
Govt ofcials to visit
refugees in Nauru
humanitarian resettlement
was genuine.
This is not a trip to advertise
[and] to attract tourists to Cam-
bodia, this trip is to tell them
about Cambodia, he told the
Post yesterday. About life, about
culture, about the history of
Cambodia and where we came
from. For example, the three
years, eight months and 20 days
[of the Khmer Rouge regime],
how we suffered. The reality of
Cambodia, not the advertising.
Cambodia is like a developing
country, not a developed coun-
try like where [they] want to stay.
They want to go to Australia.
While a reliable source with
close links to the refugee office
said a group of at least five offi-
cials would be leaving for Aus-
tralia last night and later Nauru,
Sopheak denied this.
Sok Phal, head of the ministrys
immigration department, also
claimed that travel plans were
yet to be finalised.
Suong Sok, a senior official at
the refugee office, said the gov-
ernment was waiting on Aus-
tralia before we can send our
officers there. I truly have no
information about this right
now, he said.
An official that declined to be
named admitted, however, that
plans were highly secretive.
Spokespeople for Australias
immigration minister and the
embassy did not respond to a
request for comment.
A meeting scheduled for today
between acting opposition lead-
er Kem Sokha and the Australian
embassy about the deal has been
postponed by the embassy
because the relevant officials are
away, Sokhas cabinet chief Muth
Youttha said.
Denise Coghlan of the Jesuit
Refugee Service was pleased the
government would be honest
with refugees on Nauru.
I certainly think this is a good
approach to tell the story as it
really is. And if the refugees
decide, well, OK, wed rather take
our chances in Cambodia than
stay on Nauru then its up to
them, she said.
Coghlan added that those who
are really motivated to give it a
go would have the best chances
of succeeding in the Kingdom.
The agreement does say that
they can be reunited with their
families and also that there is a
possibility of getting out to
another place, she said.
A protest on Friday against
the deal saw hundreds march
through Phnom Penh. Some
demonstrators expressed
fears that refugees could take
scarce jobs and even pose a
security risk.
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights chairman Ou Virak said
that the government appears to
be starting to understand how
unpopular the deal is and would
be more receptive to xenophobic
concerns than those related to
human rights.
I think the Cambodian gov-
ernment is now trying to play
down the deal as much as it can
and also making sure it will get
that money. I think they are
probably hoping that not many
refugees are going to come any-
way, he said.
Australia is giving Cambodia
$35 million in extra aid over the
next four years as a sweetener to
the arrangement. Although the
agreement stipulates that how
many refugees eventually come
will be up to Cambodia which
has indicated it will take far few-
er than the 1,000 initially expect-
ed if very few decide to come,
the money wont be forthcom-
ing, said Virak.
They could get the initial $10
million or so. They arent going to
get the next instalment if refugees
arent coming. I think Cambodia
is actually trying to back down on
this deal without appearing to
cave into pressure.
Separately, the International
Organization for Migration will
this week assess the scheme.
Our director-general will
[then] decide whether or not
well be [involved] in resettle-
ment and on what level, IOM
spokesman Joe Lowry said.
I used to have a small problem
with my employer, but I did not
want to make it a huge problem
because I need this job
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 21, 2014
Another protest turns bloody
Pech Sotheary
L
AND protesters from Preah Vihear
province who came to Phnom
Penh seeking a resolution to their
disputes were brutally beaten by se-
curity forces yesterday as they attempted to
deliver petitions to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
About 100 people representing 333 fami-
lies in Choam Ksan districts Kantuot com-
mune and Tbeng Meanchey districts Pal-
hal commune marched yesterday morning
to the Chinese, Russian and Australian em-
bassies before attempting to deliver a peti-
tion to Hun Sens cabinet.
Within metres of the premiers home,
the protesters were met by barricades
guarded by dozens of police and district
security guards, armed with batons, stun
guns and shields.
I do not have a house to live in, there is
no school or hospital to go to; they have
been cleared. Please give land to all of us,
5-year-old Mey Kanha shouted tearfully
through a loud speaker.
When the group attempted to break
through the barricades, the security forces
chased them away, violently attacking men,
women, children and monks, and destroy-
ing a tuk-tuk and protest paraphernalia.
Rights group Licadho, which treated
many of the injured protesters, said yes-
terday evening that at least 18 people had
been injured to varying degrees in the vio-
lence, with an 18-year-old man who had
been beaten on the head by the guards sus-
taining the most serious injuries.
When disproportionate violence of this
kind is used against peaceful protesters,
it perpetuates an atmosphere of fear and
intimidation in which people are afraid to
claim their rights, said Licadho director
Naly Pilorge.
But City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche
defended the security guards actions.
The protesters did not get through the
barricades normally; they mixed pure wa-
ter with acid and threw it on the authorities,
which is against the law, he said. A hand-
ful of people who were not the real victims
used bad language to insult the top leaders.
It was not a protest, it was an incitement
to topple [the government], so we had to
strengthen the law. he said.
No security guards were reported injured
and Dimanche was unable to explain his
allegations of acid-throwing, which were
quickly dismissed by the protesters.
We did throw water at them but without
any acid . . . and we also did not scold [Hun
Sen], we only asked him to help intervene
in the land disputes for us, said commu-
nity representative Phan Phoeun.
In a more peaceful protest, more than
200 people from eight communities in dan-
ger of losing land due to a railroad project
funded by the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) protested outside of its ofces.
We will help bring all of your questions
or issues that come through ADB to the
government and companies involved [so
they can be] discussed and resolved, said
ADB country director Eric Sidgwick. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA AND
ALICE CUDDY
A bloodied villager from Preah Vihear province is escorted away from a protest in Phnom Penh
yesterday after he was hit in the head by authorities. VIREAK MAI
Parties yet to agree on
part of NEC draft law
Meas Sokchea
HOPES that the ruling and
opposition parties would final-
ly reach full accord on a new
National Election Committee
draft law were dashed yester-
day as talks foundered on the
qualifications the secretary-
general of the new institution
must possess.
After a meeting that lasted
more than two hours, Cam-
bodian Peoples Party work-
ing group chief Bin Chhin
and his Cambodia National
Rescue Party counterpart
Kuoy Bunroeun said the par-
ties had reached 90 per cent
agreement.
But regarding the secretary-
general and deputy secretar-
ies-general [of the NEC], we
have disagreed on the qualifi-
cations [they should have],
Chhin said.
The CPP wants to disallow
candidates who have no elec-
tion management experience
and possess any citizenship
other than Khmer. It also wants
candidates to be at least 30 years
old and hold a university degree
in a specific field, such as law,
diplomacy or economics.
The CNRP, on the other hand,
wants an age limit of 25, no sub-
ject requirement for the univer-
sity degree, no requirement that
the candidate have election
experience and for dual citizens
to be considered.
I want to have stability after
the next election and no crises
like in previous elections, thats
why we need to talk further
details, Bunroeun said.
But there is no real problem
because we have many formu-
las to choose from.
Separately, a Japanese gov-
ernment team will arrive today
to follow up on a survey con-
ducted in May about election
reform needs in Cambodia. The
team will present its findings to
the CPP-CNRP working group
during the visit.
Hun Sen officially asked
Japan for electoral reform
assistance last November as
the opposition raged over poll
irregularities.
The NEC has also finished its
annual 20-day voter registra-
tion period. According to cur-
rent secretary-general Tep
Nytha, 148,592 new voters were
registered and 59,656 names
were deleted.
But election reform groups
have criticised the recent regis-
tration blitz as a waste of time
and money given that the new
NEC will likely have to repeat the
process under the new law.
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Census arrests

Vietnamese
citizens held
after raid

T
WELVE Vietnamese na-
tionals were arrested and
temporarily detained on
Sunday amid on ongoing crack-
down against foreigners living
illegally in Cambodia, said Major
Seng Veansa, a police ofcer for
the Interior Ministrys immigra-
tion department yesterday.
According to Veansa, the eight
men and four women were found
after a raid on a Vietnamese
coffee shop on Street 105 in the
capitals Chamkarmon district.
They were arrested because
they stayed and worked without
proper documents in Cambodia,
he said.
Hem Theng, head of the im-
migration department, said the
arrests were part of the current
foreigner census accounting for
non-citizens living and working
in the Kingdom.
For those foreigners who are
living and working illegally here,
we arrest and penalise them
at the immigration department
before sending them back to
their countries.
Theng added that the cam-
paign had been implemented in
20 provinces and cities out of a
planned 25 so far. BUTH REAKSMEY
KONGKEA
Tycoons at heart of protests
May Titthara

N
EARLY 100 people
from separate dis-
tricts in Pursat
province joined
forces yesterday to seek a
resolution to long-running
land disputes with two well-
connected companies.
The villagers led petitions
at the provincial hall demand-
ing a resolution to their dis-
putes with Pheapimex Group,
owned by the wife of ruling
party lawmaker Lao Meng
Khin, and MDS International,
run by Prime Minister Hun
Sens adviser Try Pheap.
The Post reported on the nd-
ings of an unpublished study
earlier this month claiming
that Pheap, a tycoon with in-
terests ranging from casinos to
cassava, ran a logging scheme
involving the transport and
sale of laundered rosewood
amounting to $220 million in
prot over three years.
Members of Pursats Veal
Veng district charge Pheaps
company with seizing land
in 2010 that mostly belongs
to veterans wives, according
to community representative
Prak Sophal.
We demand our land back
for farming and we need them
to issue land titles to avoid it
being appropriated again,
she said.
Pursats deputy governor,
Khoy Rida, received the peti-
tions and promised to settle
the dispute from Kroko district
against Pheapimex on October
23, and the one in Veal Veng by
November or December.
Pheapimex was granted
over 315 hectares in economic
land concessions (ELCs) from
the government in Pursat and
Kampong Chhnang to grow
acacias, cassava and other ag-
ricultural products.
Even though the provincial
government has promised to
settle the matter soon, Kroko
community representative
Lan Sim said she doesnt trust
the system.
I still think his promise is
just a pretext, because this has
been going on for years and we
never see any resolutions, so I
will sleep in front of the pro-
vincial hall until October 23 to
make sure he keeps his prom-
ise, she said.
If not, we will go to Phnom
Penh.
To put an end to protracted
land disputes, on August 18
Hun Sen said he would take
companies to task and create a
national commission to evalu-
ate how ELCs given to private
companies.
Protesting villagers sit in front of the Pursat provincial hall yesterday as Pursat deputy governor Ty Kimtong
addresses their concerns over an ongoing land dispute. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Labour
talks show
promise
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
THE first of 10 planned nego-
tiation sessions between union,
manufacturer and government
officials on the minimum wage
in Cambodias garment sector
yesterday showed promise,
several who attended the meet-
ing said.
After the meeting of the work-
ing group, which includes nine
members from each stakeholder
group, participants were intro-
duced to each other and given
data to consider.
From my point of view, I think
its good that the government has
brought both parties to the table
to discuss, said Kong Athit, vice
president of the Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Workers
Democratic Union.
The minimum garment wage
is $100 per month. Groups are
requesting raises of up to $77.
When the working group takes
its first day off on Sunday, about
250 people plan to protest out-
side the ministry seeking to
change the countrys stringent
union registration process, which
makes it difficult to create a
union, said Sar Mora, head of
the Cambodian Food and Serv-
ice Workers Federation.
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National
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Robber foolishly sticks
around to be arrested
FIVE machete-wielding men
on motorbikes stole a
21-year-old mans ride in
Phnom Penhs Chbar Ampov
district on Saturday night. The
men chased down and cor-
nered their victim, demanding
he give up his bike or else.
But the following day the man
called the cops when he spot-
ted one of the suspects, a
20-year-old construction
worker. Police arrested the
man, who reportedly con-
fessed to the crime but said
he had no idea where his
alleged accomplices were,
conveniently enough. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Thief makes mistake of
showing off new ride
MORE moto madness
ensued when Phnom Penh
police spotted a 20-year-old
man enjoying a tour of the
capital on a recently stolen
bike and arrested him on
Sunday. The day before, the
man had allegedly stolen the
motorbike off a 40-year-old
street seller while she
wasnt looking. The suspect
confessed to the crime and
the bike was returned to its
rightful owner. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Man in red left bloodied
after lenders attack
TALK about being in the red.
A 29-year-old man was
attacked by two former
friends who slashed his
head with a machete for
failing to pay back a $250
loan in Banteay Meancheys
Sisophon town on Sunday.
The man had tried to jump-
start his small business
with the loan to no avail and
was late on his payment by
a few months. He was hos-
pitalised and police are on
the lookout for his attack-
ers. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Men surprised stolen
bike smuggling illegal
TWO men arrested in
Banteay Meancheys Poipet
town for smuggling two
motorbikes from Thailand
told police they didnt know
sneaking bikes into the
country was illegal and had
no idea who hired them for
the job. The conveniently
bewildered pair, aged 24 and
30, were arrested on Sunday.
Police said many stolen Thai
bikes make their way to
Cambodia to be sold on the
cheap. NOKORWAT
Big day of booze ends in
brutal machete attack
WHETHER in reality TV
shows or Kampong
Chhnang, rice wine and
arguments just dont go
well together. After a group
of villagers in the provinces
Boribor district imbibed a
mammoth 4 litres of the
stuff, a 58-year-old man
was punched by another vil-
lager, 31. The older man
stomped off, only to return
with a machete and hack
his erstwhile attacker in the
head. The victim was hospi-
talised while his attacker
was arrested later that day.
NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Thai nightmare
Ordeal ends
for migrants
left for broke
T
WENTY-FIVE migrant work-
ers, who claim they were
duped out of hundreds of
dollars by a Phnom Penh-based
recruitment agency promising
jobs in Thailand, were repatriated
yesterday after being arrested and
detained by Thai authorities.
Sin Nang Young, commune chief
of Banteay Meanchey provinces
Poipet town where the workers
arrived yesterday said the 25
men and women had been tricked
by Best Power Co Ltd.
Best Power ordered them to
pay money to nd them jobs in
Thailand. But when they arrived,
there were no jobs and they were
arrested by Thai authorities, she
said, adding that the group had
been detained for a day before
being deported.
One of the workers, 27-year-old
Sor Van, said the group paid $300
each on the promise of jobs in a
Thai chicken factory.
I wanted to work in Thailand
and I chose the company to organ-
ise it legally, he said.
Another worker, Sim Chan, said
the 25 were arrested because
the company had held onto their
passports. Contact details for
Best Power could not be found.
SENDAVID
Input floated on traffic law
Phak Seangly

A
COALITION of NGOs
will submit to the Na-
tional Assembly today
a list of recommend-
ed additions to the amended
trafc law, a draft of which was
approved by the Council of
Ministers in August.
Road safety advocates hope
the amended law, which creates
higher nes for drunk driving
and mandates that passengers
on motorbikes wear helmets,
among other measures, will
help lower the rate of deaths
from trafc accidents from an
average of ve a day.
Chea Sundaneth, executive
director of the Womens Media
Center of Cambodia, which,
sponsored by the Global Road
Safety Partnership, took park in
the discussion at the Royal Uni-
versity of Phnom Penh yester-
day, said that the law as drafted
cannot adequately address the
crisis, and warned that the av-
erage number of daily fatalities
will increase to eight people per
day by 2020 if nothing is done.
We gathered to get new ideas
and recommendations to add
to the draft law at the National
Assembly, she said, urging for
quick passage of the law with
the added items.
The coalitions recommenda-
tions include creating working
groups to inspect road condi-
tions, especially areas where
accidents are rife; introducing
plans to crack down on drunk
driving and enforce helmet use
and speed limits at the local
level; increasing education and
funding; strengthening driving
school education; and better-
ing the post-crash emergency
response and rehabilitation op-
tions for victims.
However, Chan Dara, the
director general of the public
works and transport depart-
ment within the ministry of
the same name, said the law
is missing no points, and has
been rigorously checked and
reviewed. He said, however,
that a law alone will not solve
the problem.
We together will make the
laws effective, Dara said.
Kong Sovann, country man-
ager for the Global Road Safety
Partnership, said the draft is an
improvement on the old law.
Most importantly, it creates
both harsher penalties for vio-
lations and raises nes.
The debate wont affect Cam-
bodias funding from the Glob-
al Road Safety Parternship,
which comes from Bloomberg
Philanthropies. Last week, the
World Health Organization,
which manages the 2010 to
2015 grant of $125 million,
said it would not be renewed
again for Cambodia.
A policeman directs trafc in Phnom Penh earlier this year. A new draft trafc law is aimed at increasing
road safety and reducing trafc-related fatalities. VIREAK MAI
Hor Kimsay
T
HE launch of an
unrated Laotian
government bond
on Thailands bond
market could pave the way
for Cambodia to issue its
own government bond de-
nominated in Thai Baht.
The Bangkok Post reported
yesterday that Thailands Fi-
nance Ministry and Public
Debt Management Ofce had
allowed Cambodia, Vietnam
and Myanmar to follow in the
steps of Laos and raise capital
through the issue of their own
sovereign bonds on Thailands
nancial market.
Grant Knuckey, chief execu-
tive ofcer of ANZ Royal Bank,
told the Post yesterday by
email that the Thai framework
opened up the opportunity
for Cambodia to permit small
debt issues to a willing high-
yield investor community.
It could possibly serve as a
training ground for Cambo-
dia to prepare for a larger in-
ternational US dollar debt is-
suance in say, one to two years
time, he said.
The Laotian government
became the rst country in
the region to raise capital in
Thailand through a bond sale,
with the issue of 1.5 billion
baht ($50 million), three-year
bonds in May last year. The
notes were priced at a yield of
4.5 per cent. Two more subse-
quent installments of 3 billion
baht and 4.5 billion baht have
since been issued.
Adisorn Singhsacha, man-
aging director of Twin Pine
Consulting Co, a nancial ad-
viser on the Laos bond sale,
told the Bangkok Post that the
Laotian government planned
more bond issues in the future
to raise capital for energy and
infrastructure projects.
His company was also work-
ing with the Myanmar and
Cambodian governments on
possible baht denominated
bonds, Singhsacha added.
Singhsacha said that the
cost of raising funds in Thai-
land was greater than borrow-
ing from international institu-
tions, but that a bond issue did
not come with a lot of the ties
applied to foreign lending.
Svay Hay, president and
CEO of ACLEDA Securities,
said that the offer of unrated
bonds, or a bond that has not
had its creditworthiness as-
sessed by an international
credit rating agency, provides
the Cambodian government
with another tool to raise
capital.
The government and cor-
porations can mobilise funds
from the public investors to
support project and growth,
and the securities sector will
be more active and attract
more investors both local and
overseas, Hay said.
Sufcient sources of funds
would fulll shortages in the
budget for expenditure and
there will be a change in debt
scenarios with [the Cam-
bodian government being]
less dependent on partners
or lenders.
In principle, debt securi-
ties are rated to give investors
trust in the issuer, but in the
instance of an unrated secu-
rity, investors would rely solely
on trusting the country that is-
sues the bond, Hay added.
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Birds nest
producers
eye China
market
Chan Muyhong
EDIBLE birds nest producers
have called on the Ministry of
Commerce (MoC) to facilitate
the industrys access to the
Chinese market.
Nang Sothy, president of the
Cambodia Birds Nest Fed-
eration, said yesterday that
the association had requested
the MoC to include the deli-
cacy on the list of items eliga-
ble to apply for Chinas strict
Sanitary and Phytosanitary
(SPS) protocols.
Cambodia has never offi-
cially exported to China. But
now we want to be their offi-
cial supplier so that we no
longer depend on Vietnam
and Thailand to access the
market, Sothy said.
Currently, Sothy said Cam-
bodia exports the raw edible
birds nest, made from the
saliva of Asian Swiftlet birds,
for about $800 per kilogram to
Vietnam and Thailand where
it is then processed and sent
to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and Korea.
We need SPS protocols to
get into the Chinese market.
We cannot get good prices
when we are forced to sell our
products to Vietnam and
Thailand, he said, citing the
price for processed birds nest
at $2,000.
Cambodias Ministry of
Commerce could not be
reached for comment.
A man looks at an electronic stock board as a woman walks past at the Asia Plus Securities Pcl headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. BLOOMBERG
Cambodia bond a possibility
Business
8
Indonesian fuel smuggling rampant
Dwi Sadmoko, Brian Leonal and
Rieka Rahadiana
I
TS Tuesday morning,
and about three dozen
vehicles are waiting for
the fuel truck to arrive at
a service station on the island
of Belitung, Indonesia. Soon, a
steady stream of cars will buy
all the subsidised diesel and
many of the drivers will then
siphon their ration into jerry
cans to sell at a prot.
The daily ritual is one step
in a series of scams that range
from car owners earning a few
hundred dollars, to organised
crime syndicates making mil-
lions out of Indonesias lop-
sided fuel distribution system.
The pervasive fraud takes ad-
vantage of subsidies that cost
the government more than $20
billion a year and lures hun-
dreds of thousands of Indone-
sians into breaking the law.
With the discrepancy be-
tween the price of subsidised
fuel and market value, smug-
gling, hoarding and deliberate
scarcity are normal, said Ach-
mad Sukarsono, an associate
fellow at the Habibie Center,
a research institute in Jakarta.
It can be a lucrative business
involving soldiers, policemen
and violent incidents.
President-elect Joko Wido-
do is the latest leader of the
country to promise to curtail
the subsidies and their inher-
ent corruption, a strategy that
helped end the three-decade
rule of dictator Suharto and has
eluded four presidents since.
The issue is so entrenched in
the countrys economy that it
touches almost every aspect
of life across the 17,000-island
archipelago, from shermen
selling their marine diesel to
pay for cigarettes, to wealthy
drivers in the capital, unable
to ll their SUVs as gas sta-
tions run dry.
Among the smallest opera-
tors in this nationwide scam
is a tall man in a dark blue
Daihatsu SUV at the lling sta-
tion in Kelapa Kampit district
in Belitung, who declines to
give his name because what
he is about to do is illegal. Hes
waiting to ll up with his daily
quota of 40 litres (10.6 gallons)
of diesel at the subsidised rate
of 5,500 rupiah (45 US cents) a
liter, less than half the market
price. The fuel is subsequently-
sold for 8,000 rupiah or more to
businesses that arent eligible
for the subsidy.
Local government staff
try to prevent people taking
more than their ration, said
Hajanudin, an ofcial who
monitors fuel distribution
in another part of the island.
Like many Indonesians, he
only uses one name. We take
down their plate numbers so
that we dont see any cheat-
ing where one vehicle tries to
line up again, said the thickly
bearded Hajanudin, 49, show-
ing the entries in his book.
The tall man in the Daihatsu
says he circumvents the quota
by driving to another station
to get 40 litres more. He then
siphons the fuel out of the
cars tank and into 20-litre jerry
cans. After he sells it, he splits
the prot with the vehicle
owner, who gets 60 per cent.
Its easy money, he said, and he
has a family to feed.
Basuri Purnama, head of East
Belitung Regency, says that
racketeering and smuggling
are so protable that it draws
people away from getting legal
jobs. Why work? he said. Any-
one can make 200,000 rupiah a
day smuggling fuel. Every day,
just do that and then chill out
in the coffee house.
The diesel mostly is bought
by illegal tin miners on Beli-
tung and the neighbouring is-
land of Bangka, who use diesel-
powered high-pressure hoses
to blast away tin ore in pits or
to suck up the metal-rich sand
from offshore deposits.
Indonesia is the worlds larg-
est exporter of tin and about
90 per cent of its production
comes from these two islands.
Its prohibited to buy diesel
from lling stations using jerry
cans, said an illegal miner in
Sungailiat, on Bangka, who
works a deposit that was once
mined by PT Timah, Indone-
sias biggest tin producer.
The miner, who declined to
give his name, said he buys
fuel from the driver-smugglers,
known as pengerit, to run his
diesel pump. The miners sell
their ore to local smelters and
the rened metal is shipped or
smuggled abroad to Singapore
and other countries.
While the smelters are legal
they also rene metal from li-
censed mines many buy fuel
on a much larger scale than
the rationed pengerit can sup-
ply. Instead, they get fuel from
bigger operators that ofoad
diesel directly from tanker
ships. The diesel is pumped
from the tankers into specially
modied tugboats that can
hold as much as 100 tonnes of
fuel, said a smuggler in Pang-
kalpinang, near the main port
on Bangka, who also declined
to give his name because his
activities are illegal.
Hed arrange a meeting with
the tanker captain using satel-
lite telephones, said the smug-
gler, who became involved in
the illegal trade in 2006. The
deal would begin with enter-
tainment in port. The captain
must be served rst, given
girls, drugs, clubbing services
that usually cost about 5 mil-
lion rupiah a night in total, he
said. Then the smugglers boat
would rendezvous with the
tanker and ll its tanks, with
the shipment paid for in cash.
After expenses, he and his
team earned about 2,000 rupi-
ah a litre in prot more than
60 million rupiah per cargo.
The whole operation would
take place with the knowledge
of the authorities and the navy,
he said. Hed pay about 2
million rupiah in an
envelope to an inter-
mediary. That would
ensure the authorities
closed their eyes and
the unloading op-
eration would be
guarded by a naval
police vessel, he
explained.
As the prots rose,
so did the number of
smugglers. Boat op-
erators like him have
been squeezed out
of the offshore
transfer business
by more powerful
parties, he said.
Now it is controlled
by the navy, and op-
erators like him cant
buy directly from the
tankers, he said.
Police arrested four people
on the island of Batam and one
in Jakarta last month for al-
leged fuel smuggling involving
a local government ofcial and
the armed forces, said Ronny
Sompie, a spokesman for the
national police force. After we
uncovered the case, there were
linkages to ofcers in the navy,
Sompie said by phone.
The ongoing investigation
began after the governments
nancial crimes unit alerted
police to a civil servant hav-
ing deposited 1.3 trillion rupi-
ah-worth of Singapore dollars
into a savings account, ac-
cording to Agus Santoso, head
deputy of the unit.
Navy spokesman Manahan
Simorangkir denied that na-
val ofcers were involved in
smuggling. He said the Batam
investigation involved a con-
tractor working at the naval
base in Dumai, on the island
of Sumatra. So far, there has
been no involvement of of-
cers, but the navy
is monitoring
and explor-
ing the case,
Si mor angk i r
said in a tele-
phone interview. He
said part of the prob-
lem is that Indonesia does not
have a coast guard and so the
tasks are split among 13 dif-
ferent institutions.
Fuel-price controls have
been a bugbear of Indonesias
economy for decades, fostered
by the countrys status as one
of the worlds oldest oil produc-
ers. The nations rst successful
well, sunk by a Dutch planta-
tion owner, began pumping in
1885. By 1962, Indonesia was a
major oil supplier and a mem-
ber of the Organization of Pe-
troleum Exporting Countries.
President Suharto sought
to stamp out subsidies af-
ter seizing power in the late
1960s, but the global oil shock
in the 70s created a widening
gap between government-set
rates and soaring interna-
tional prices. Amid the Asian
nancial
cr i si s in 1998, and
under pressure from the
International Monetary
Fund, Suharto raised fuel
prices by more than 70 per
cent. For Indonesians suffer-
ing from ination and food
shortages, it was the nal
straw. Mass protests broke out
in the capital and within three
weeks Suharto resigned.
As world oil prices increased
10-fold since 1998 and more
Indonesians became able to
afford cars and motorbikes,
the nation became a net fuel
importer and the subsidy
bill climbed.
Widodo, who is known as
Jokowi, urged outgoing-pres-
ident Susilo Bambang Yud-
hoyono to raise fuel prices
before the transfer of power
on October 20. Yudhoyono has
refusedto do so. The 2015 bud-
get lifts subsidies for fuel to 276
trillion rupiah ($23 billion), or
13.5 per cent of government
expenditure.
Jokowi plans to gradually
reduce fuel subsidies within
three years, a faster target
than previously announced.
Jokowi has also said that he
will raise fuel prices once in
power, though the timing and
size of the increase have yet to
be decided. To narrow the na-
tions near-record current-ac-
count gap, Jokowi would have
to raise fuel prices at least 40
per cent, PT Bank Central Asia
said last month.
Not every president would
like to take the risk of deal-
ing with this, said said Vice
Finance Minister Bambang
Brodjonegoro. The politi-
cal aspect hasnt been solved
since the 1970s.
In September, a raid by
armed police in Batam in
the Riau Islands on a ware-
house suspected of housing
subsidised fuel, led to a ght
between the police and the
army, after soldiers were dis-
covered at the building, Brig-
adier-General Bujang Zuhir-
man said in the Jakarta Post.
Four soldiers were wounded
and the army is investigating
the incident, the paper said.
If you go to service stations
in remote places, the vehicles
that line up mostly are not
private cars but large trucks
or modied vans to transport
loads of subsidised fuel, said
Sukarsono at the Habibie
Center. In some regions
that Ive visited,
people have to buy
smuggled fuel be-
cause nothing legal
is available.
And its not only in
distant provinces. On
the congested road to Ja-
karta from Pertaminas gi-
ant Plumpang fuel depot
in the north of the capital,
gangs wait for the state oil
companys tankers to get
stuck in trafc before
they hop on and open
the taps to steal the sup-
ply, a practice known as
peeing fuel.
There is a long list
of vested interests who
stand to lose out if subsi-
dies are scrapped, explains
Keith Loveard, head of risk
analysis at Jakarta-based
security company Concord
Consulting. While rising
prices would reduce the mo-
tivation for smuggling, it
would not stop fuel tapping.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Small boats once dominated fuel smuggling in Indonesia, but insiders say the navy has taken control of the industry. THE WASHINGTON POST
Markets
9
Business
KFC eyes affluent in Myanmar
Jeremy Mullins
K
FC plans to position
its fare as aspiration-
al products when it
opens its doors in
Myanmar in 2015, targeting
the countrys emerging mid-
dle class. KFCs owner, Yum!
Brands, will enter the new
market through an agree-
ment with Yoma Strategic
Holdings, a Singapore-based
investment company.
With $23 billion in annual
sales and more than 18,000
restaurants in 118 countries,
KFC is the largest fast-food
brand to announce plans to
enter Myanmar. Although its
owner Yum! also has restau-
rants like Pizza Hut and Taco
Bell in its portfolio, the current
agreement with Yoma Strate-
gic is for the KFC brand only.
KFC follows the lead of other
competitors like South Koreas
Lotteria and Marrybrown from
Malaysia. However, Yoma Stra-
tegic head of business devel-
opment JR Ching, said that the
market for quick-service res-
taurants is still relatively un-
derdeveloped in the country.
Ching said the taste and
products offered by KFC along
with its quality standards make
it well suited for emerging mar-
kets such as Myanmar. Chick-
en is a staple protein in Myan-
mar and our people recognise
the KFC brand, he said.
Yum! as a corporation is fo-
cused on expanding into new
countries, he also said. If you
think about brands and the
way brands have been posi-
tioned around the world, as
people move up in income
scale they start consuming
different kinds of products.
Yum! Brands expansion
into Myanmar comes after a
disappointing earnings per-
formance in 2014. Yum! sales
have dropped off signicantly
in China its largest geo-
graphic market following a
food contamination scandal
in 2012, forcing the company
to rebrand itself.
Myanmar and Laos are the
two remaining countries in
Southeast Asia without KFC
restaurants. KFC rst opened
its doors in the Philippines in
1967, and has since expanded
to Cambodia, Thailand, Sin-
gapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,
and Brunei.
Yoma Strategic will be op-
erating the rst KFC outlet in
Yangon as a franchisee rather
than as a joint venture, adding
there are currently no plans to
sub-franchise. The rst outlet
is planned to open its doors in
mid-2015. Yoma has extensive
property holdings and inter-
ests in a range of other indus-
tries such as automotive sales,
tourism and agriculture.
Ching said the company
understands the crossover po-
tential of its different business
units, but has approached KFC
on its own merits.
Aside from the fact that
there are synergies, our busi-
ness planning and nancial
assumptions still assume a
standalone entity, he said.
The rm will also try to source
locally as much as possible.
KFC also said it looks for-
ward to the venture. The an-
nouncement of the rst KFC
coming to Myanmar reects
our ongoing strategy of global
expansion in emerging mar-
kets, KFC chief executive of-
cer Micky Pant said in a press
release. MYANMAR TIMES
KFC has already opened its doors across Southeast Asia, including in Vietnam (pictured). Now the fast-food
giant has set its sights on Myanmar and the countrys growing middle class. AFP
Manulife
signs on
with Wing
Eddie Morton
THIRD-PARTY payments pro-
vider Wing yesterday penned a
deal with Canada-based finan-
cial services group, Manulife.
According to a joint statement
issued by the two companies,
Wing customers can now pay
their Manulife insurance bills
via the companys mobile pay-
ments system.
This is in line with our jour-
ney to become a more customer-
centric company, Robert Elliott,
CEO and general manager of
Manulife Cambodia said.
Manulife is the latest financial
firm to be added to Wings stable
of partners, which includes ANZ
Royal, Foreign Trade Bank, Active
People and First Finance micro-
finance institutions.
Anthony Perkins, CEO of
Wing, said that the firm was on
track to double its transaction
traffic volumes from 2.5 million
last year to five million at the
end of this year.
Cambodians are definitely on
their way, moving from a hugely
cash-based economy to one that
is based on electronic transac-
tions, he said. The future of
that commerce will be driven by
mobile devices.
EU set to expand Syria
sanctions: sources
EUROPEAN Union foreign
ministers have agreed to
expand sanctions against
Syria, adding 16 names and
two entities to the blacklist, EU
sources said yesterday. Most of
the new names were targeted
for their role in state
repression in Syria and others
for offering practical support
to President Bashar al-Assad,
one diplomatic source said.
Another source said the
changes were made so as to
include recently appointed
Syrian officials on the
sanctions list. AFP
Israeli company to sell
natural gas to Egypt
AN ISRAELI firm will supply
Egypt with natural gas, a
company spokesman said
yesterday. The Israeli owners
of the Tamar offshore gas field
said they had struck a deal to
export natural gas to the
Egyptian firm Dolphinus
Holdings. A statement said
Tamar was in exclusive
negotiations with Dolphinus
to provide it with up to 2.5
billion cubic metres over a
seven-year span. Experts
estimate the deal to be worth
over $4 billion. AFP
Philips goes into $131M
loss in third quarter
DUTCH electronics giant
Philips plunged into loss in the
third quarter, it said yesterday,
blaming a patent lawsuit and
ever-slowing markets in China
and Russia. The outcome was
a sharp downturn to a net loss
of $131 million. Earlier this
month, a US jury ordered
Philips to pay $466.8 million to
American company Masimo
for violating two medical
device patents. AFP
Business
10
LUFTHANSA pilots launched
a strike yesterday, deepening
Germanys travel chaos after
train drivers stopped work at
the weekend just as school
holidays began.
The top-selling Bild daily
complained that ping-pong
strikes are crippling our econo-
my, Europes biggest, as about
10,000 pilots and 20,000 train
drivers had taken hostage 80
million Germans.
The German Industry Fed-
eration charged that the pilots
strike, following the dispro-
portionate railway stoppage,
harms the entire economy
by impacting logistics, tourism
and business travel.
The Economy Ministry said
the strikes will certainly im-
pact some sectors of the econ-
omy, though there was no rea-
son to change the 2014 growth
forecast which was lowered
this month to 1.2 per cent.
Pilots for Lufthansa, Eu-
ropes biggest airline, said
they would broaden strike ac-
tion to long-haul ights on top
of a previously announced
stoppage on short- and medi-
um-length routes.
The walkout yesterday and
today is expected to affect
some 200,000 passengers.
Pilots were to stop short- and
medium-haul ights depart-
ing between 1100 GMT yes-
terday and 2159 GMT today, as
well as intercontinental ights
scheduled to leave today be-
tween 0400 and 2159 GMT.
The strike will not affect Luf-
thansa subsidiaries Austrian,
Swiss and Brussels Airlines or
Germanwings, the low-cost
carrier whose pilots held a 12-
hour strike last week.
Pilots union Vereinigung
Cockpit launched what was
its ninth action to buffet Luf-
thansa this year in a bid to keep
an early retirement scheme
that management wants to
phase out to reduce costs.
Lufthansa accused the
union of bringing Germany
to a standstill and sought
to draft in qualied pilots in
management positions to en-
sure a third of scheduled ser-
vices still operate. The airline
labelled the strike completely
incomprehensible and dispro-
portionate and demanded
legislation against actions that
cripple Germanys travel infra-
structure. AFP
Lufthansa pilots strike
as Germany reels from
weekend travel chaos
Investors target $2.2 billion Reebok
ADDIDAS Ag, the worlds sec-
ond-biggest sporting-goods
maker, jumped in Frankfurt on
a report that a group of inves-
tors plans to bid about 1.7 bil-
lion ($2.2 billion) for the com-
panys Reebok unit.
The shares gained as much
as 7.2 per cent to 58.57, the
steepest intraday advance
since May 3, 2013.
Jynwel Capital, a Hong Kong-
based private-equity investor,
and funds affiliated with the
government of Abu Dhabi plan
to make an offer to Adidass
directors imminently, the Wall
Street Journal said, citing people
familiar with the matter.
Adidas spokeswoman Katja
Schreiber declined to com-
ment. Jynwel Capital constant-
ly evaluates investment oppor-
tunities, though doesnt
comment on speculation, a
spokeswoman said by e-mail.
Reebok has weighed on Adi-
das since being acquired by the
Herzogenaurach, Germany-
based firm for $3.8 billion in
2006. After helping make step
aerobics a staple in gyms two
decades ago, the brand has
withered, with its share of the
sportswear market sliding.
Reebok is seeking to reposition
itself as a leader in fitness gear
after being replaced as the
National Football Leagues
apparel supplier in 2012.
While the deal may appease
Adidas investors looking for
some quick and easy liquidity,
it would be something of an
admittance of defeat in Adi-
dass global and North Ameri-
can strategy, Jon Copestake,
an analyst at the Economist
Intelligence Unit, said
Its unclear which Abu Dhabi
fund would join Jynwel in its
Reebok bid, the Journal said.
The group plans to maintain
the brands strategy and pro-
vide more financing for mar-
keting and new stores, while
keeping Reeboks executives,
according to the report. The
investors first approached Ree-
boks management about mak-
ing an investment late last year,
the Journal said.
It would be a surprise if the
management team that has
continually backed the acquisi-
tion would want to sell, Julian
Easthope, an analyst at Bar-
clays Plc, said. What it does
show is the parts have value
and that Adidas management
will be under pressure to extract
value from the group.
The firm has had a difficult
year, with its shares tumbling
38 per cent amid tough com-
petition from Nike and Under
Armour, and a declining mar-
ket for golf gear. In July, the
company scrapped its profit
forecast for the year and aban-
doned sales and profit targets
for 2015. BLOOMBERG
Reports suggest that a group of investors will imminently be making a $2.2 billion offer to buy the Reebok
unit of Addidas, the worlds second-largest sporting-goods maker. BLOOMBERG
Germany key to EU recovery
F
RENCH and German
ministers met in Ber-
lin yesterday, amid
growing calls on Ger-
many to do more to boost
growth in Europe, while
France faces a battle in Brus-
sels over its budget.
The meeting comes at a
crucial time for Paris, which
is at loggerheads with Brus-
sels over its 2015 budget as it
is likely to overshoot targets
once again.
French Economy Minis-
ter Emmanuel Macron and
Finance Minister Michel
Sapin were welcomed by
their German counterparts
Sigmar Gabriel and Wolf-
gang Schaeuble for a mini-
summit in preparation for
a wider EU gathering at the
end of the week.
The four ministers were
scheduled to hold a joint
press conference later.
According to a report in the
weekly Der Spiegel, Germany
is helping France to draw up a
pact with the European Com-
mission on decit reduction
and structural reforms to
win Brussels approval of the
2015 budget plans.
Ahead of the mini-summit,
Sapin and Macron called on
Germany to increase invest-
ment by 50 billion ($64 bil-
lion) in the next three years
to match the amount Paris is
seeking to save from public
spending.
Fifty billion euros sav-
ings for us and 50 billion of
additional investment by
you that would be a good
balance, Macron told the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-
tung yesterday. Its in our
collective interest that Ger-
many invests.
Recent data has suggested
that the German economy
traditionally Europes growth
engine is stalling, threaten-
ing to pull the eurozone back
into recession and put the
brakes on the global recovery.
And France, grappling with
sky-high unemployment and
a ballooning budget de-
cit, has been spearheading
a campaign for Germany to
soften its stance on scal
austerity and loosen its purse
strings to provide much-
needed stimulus.
But Berlin remains adamant
that the only way out of crisis
is for eurozone countries to
get their nances in order by
sticking to agreed rules on the
size of their decits.
Asked by the mass-circula-
tion daily Bild whether Europe
should abandon the path of
austerity, Economy Minister
Gabriel said: No.
The minister conceded,
however, that the money we
spend on Europe can be put
to better use for investment
in research and development,
in a fast Internet and in saving
energy.
French President Francois
Hollandes government has
refused to approve further
spending cuts needed to meet
the EUs budget decit target
before 2017, arguing that more
austerity would only further
slow a stagnating economy.
Berlin is concerned about
the lack of progress in Paris
in getting its nances in order
and in reforming its economy,
but has refrained from making
any public comment in recent
weeks on the French budget
so as not to antagonise its key
ally and trading partner.
On Sunday, Macron said
he was absolutely sure that
Brussels would not veto the
French budget, which is ex-
pected to post a 4.3 per cent
decit in 2015 overshooting
the 3 per cent ceiling set by the
EU. The decit the shortfall
between revenue and spend-
ing is not expected to drop to
that level until 2017.
The EUs executive branch
has around two weeks to
decide whether or not coun-
tries budget submissions
breach the rules.
The Commission has new
powers to enforce the decit
limit, and could for the rst
time send the budget back to
Paris for changes.
The outcome will be closely
watched, notably by small eu-
rozone countries which have
had to make huge and difcult
reforms to put their nances
in line with EU rules.
French Economy Minister
Macron openly talked about a
deal between the eurozones
two biggest economies. The
Germans, assured by the work
were doing could invest for
themselves and that would
benet Europe as a whole.
But Finance Minister Sapin
sought to water down the idea
of a pact yesterday, which he
said was too simplistic.Its
not a well give you this if you
give us that sort of deal, he
insisted.
It will be Macrons second
trip to Germany in a month
following a visit at the end of
September with Prime Minis-
ter Manuel Valls.
Both capitals have tasked
economists with drawing
up a catalogue of measures
which could revive growth
and the measures will be
aimed at both Germany and
France. AFP
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (left) and Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron leave the Elysee
presidential palace in Paris on August 27, 2014. The two ministers met their German counterparts Sigmar
Gabriel and Wolfgang Schaeuble yesterday amid calls for Germany to do more to boost growth in Europe. AFP
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Dutch show the whey to go
Jan Hennop

T
HE powerful Dutch dairy
industry is scrambling to
cash in on exploding de-
mand for whey, a cheese by-
product once used mainly in cattle
feed now turned global nutritional
hit. Over the last decade whey pow-
der, produced when milk separates
into curd during the cheese-making
process, has become a multi-billion-
euro industry.
Analysts say research has proven
that whey, once the ugly step-sister
to its more widely-consumed sibling,
cheese, is in fact one of the planets
best sources of natural protein.
From bodybuilding supplements
to infant formula and fortied meals
for the elderly, demand for whey
has skyrocketed over the last ve
years, with even non-dairy compa-
nies wanting a piece of the action.
And analysts predict that is likely
to keep growing, driven by a taste
for imported dairy products from
Asias growing middle class and the
expanding ranks of elderly around
the world.
Last year whey powder and pro-
teins represented a global market
of 7.6 billion ($9.8 billion), up 36
per cent from 2011, said Tage Affert-
sholt, dairy market specialist at the
Danish-based 3A Business Consult-
ing Group.
By 2017, the market will have ex-
panded to 9 billion, Affertsholt has
predicted. The demand for whey
just keeps growing, irrespective of
the relative poor performance of the
global economy, he told AFP.
Some people used to say whey is
a by-product. Today cheese has be-
come something of a by-product,
Affertsholt said.
Investment in the whey industry
since 2012 has topped 3 billion
globally, including 2 billion in Eu-
rope.
At one stage whey was worth pret-
ty much nothing, only good to go
into cattle feed, Rabobank senior
dairy analyst Kevin Bellamy told AFP.
Today, whey forms a major part of
many dairy companies prots.
The Dutch dairy industry, re-
nowned for its top-quality cheese, is
ghting for its stake in the rapidly ex-
panding market. The Netherlands is
already one of Europes top produc-
ers of demineralised whey powder
a key ingredient of baby formula
and Dutch companies are investing
heavily in the research and develop-
ment of whey-based products.
All the major dairy companies in
the world are squaring up for control
of the liquid whey industry, added
Affertsholt.
One of the worlds largest dairy co-
operatives, FrieslandCampina, now
produces over 350,000 tonnes of
whey dry matter a year.
Whey is a hot product that reso-
nates with the consumer, Fraser
Tooley, FrieslandCampinas business
developer, told AFP.
FrieslandCampina has invested
some 600 million to improve tech-
nology, processing capacity and
quality systems at its plants, includ-
ing whey production. Last year, it
opened an innovation centre at
Wageningen University in the cen-
tral Netherlands, staffed by around
320 researchers, many focused on
whey.
Tooley said the centre is develop-
ing a range of new whey-enhanced
products including high-protein
products for the elderly but de-
clined to go into more detail.Whey
plays a core part in the companys
future strategy, he said.
The worlds top dairy exporter, New
Zealands Fonterra, is also building
a huge whey processing plant next
to a cheese factory in the Nether-
landss northern Friesland province.
Fonterra plans to export whey from
there to the massive half-billion-eu-
ro Chinese market, said Jan Willem
van der Windt, the companys Euro-
pean nancial director.
Whey is not available [in China]
because theres no cheese produc-
tion. We need to source this in Eu-
rope, where the cheese market is,
Willem said.
The Dutch dairy industry, which
produces popular cheeses like
Gouda, is therefore well-positioned
to tap into rising demand for im-
ported childrens milk formula
among Chinese consumers, who
are mistrustful of local products
after several food scares.
The demand for dairy products
has shot up, particularly in devel-
oping countries like in Asia and in
China, said dairy analyst Affert-
sholt. AFP
An employee cuts cheese at the Albert Heijn store in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands.
The Dutch dairy industry is scrambling to cash in on the growing demand for whey, a
by-product in the cheese-making process. BLOOMBERG
World
Sweden on
the lookout
for foreign
submarine
THE Swedish military on Sun-
day presented photographic
evidence of a mysterious for-
eign vessel off the coast of
Stockholm but rejected reports
of being on the hunt for a
damaged submarine.
Ever since the armed forces
received a tip-off about a man-
made object off the coast of
Stockholm on Friday, 200 men,
several stealth ships, mine-
sweepers and helicopters have
been searching the sea around
islands about 50 kilometres
east of the Swedish capital.
This is not ours, its a foreign
vessel, Rear Admiral Anders
Grenstad said, pointing to a
grainy photo taken on Sunday
morning by a source the
third such sighting since Fri-
day. He saw something on the
surface, and after he took the
picture it disappeared again.
Grenstad said it was not
possible to determine the
nationality of the vessel due
to the poor quality of the
photo but said the sightings
followed a pattern built up
over several years.
He rejected media specula-
tion that the armed forces
were submarine hunting and
stressed that the mobilisation
one of the biggest, barring
purely training exercises, since
the Cold War was an intelli-
gence operation.
He dismissed a report from
the respected daily Svenska
Dagbladet on Saturday sug-
gesting that a Russian emer-
gency transmission had been
intercepted, indicating that a
Russian submarine was in
trouble in the area.
From the information we
have, we cannot draw the
same conclusion as the media
that there is a damaged
U-boat. We have no informa-
tion about an emergency sig-
nal or the use of an emergen-
cy channel, he said.
Weve not singled out Russia
but said it is foreign underwa-
ter activity . . . It can be a
U-boat, a mini U-boat or divers
in an underwater vehicle.
Grenstad also confirmed that
a Swedish naval exercise,
involving a NATO submarine
from the Netherlands, had
been under way off the Stock-
holm coast and further out in
the Baltic Sea at the time of the
first sightings.
The Netherlands yesterday
denied a Russian claim that a
mystery submarine that the
Swedish military has been
looking for could be Dutch.
During the 1980s and early
90s the then neutral and now
non-aligned Nordic country
was regularly on alert following
Russian submarine sightings,
including one notable case in
1981 when a Soviet U-boat, the
U137, ran aground several
miles from one of Swedens
largest naval base. AFP
Boko attacks cast doubt on girls release deal
NIGERIAN military and intel-
ligence officials raised doubts
on Sunday about the validity
of a ceasefire with Boko Har-
am, with reports of fresh
attacks and fighting in the
countrys northeast.
The chief of defence staff
and a senior presidential aide
announced on Friday that
an agreement had been
reached to end hostilities and
secure the possible release of
more than 200 kidnapped
schoolgirls.
Air Marshal Alex Badeh said
he had instructed all armed
forces chiefs to ensure the
immediate compliance with
the development.
But a senior army officer in
the violence-wracked north-
east, who asked to remain
anonymous, said: Honestly,
we are yet to receive any oper-
ational order on the ceasefire.
As such, we are battle-ready
and would confront the terror-
ists if we see them.
A senior intelligence official
in the region also indicated that
he had not received word about
the purported ceasefire.
On Sunday evening, troops
from the 7th Division of the
Nigerian Army fought dozens
of suspected members of Boko
Haram in the town of Damboa
in Borno state, witnesses and
security sources said.
Earlier, a group of insurgents
attacked the Borno town of
Sabon Gida, said one military
officer, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because
he was not authorised to speak
to the media.
The fight was tough and it
seems the insurgents wanted
to destroy everything in Sabon
Gida. They came around 5pm
[1600 GMT] and by 6pm, the
fight was over, added local
trader Bilyaminu Aliyu.
Boko Haram took over
Damboa, which is about 90
kilometres (56 miles) south-
west of the Borno state capital
Maiduguri, in July, destroy-
ing much of the town and
forcing thousands to flee.
The groups leader Abubakar
Shekau claimed that they left
voluntarily but the military
said they recaptured it in early
August. Residents have since
begun returning.
Elsewhere, locals said that
dozens of suspected Boko
Haram gunmen had stormed
the town of Abadam, north of
Maiduguri near Lake Chad,
on Thursday, before the sup-
posed ceasefire.
A number of residents said
at least 30 people were killed
on Thursday and Friday after
the purported deal while
hundreds of others were forced
to flee across the border into
neighbouring Niger.
We all heard of the ceasefire
over the radio but it seems the
insurgents are not perturbed at
all, another resident, Mallam
Babagana, said on Sunday.
To me, they [the militants]
dont even care about it
because they increased their
attacks from Friday, the very
day the ceasefire was
announced. By Saturday, they
hoisted their flags.
Meanwhile, Enoch Mark,
whose daughter and niece are
among the 219 schoolgirls who
have been held by Boko Haram
since mid-April, said there had
been another attack in neigh-
bouring Adamawa state.
He said the attack, in the
village of Wagga on Saturday,
saw some 40 women abduct-
ed an established Boko
Haram tactic in its bloody
five-year insurgency.
On Friday, eight people were
also killed on a road in the
Borno state village of Shaffa
near where a prominent Mus-
lim leader, the Emir of Gwoza,
was ambushed and killed by
Boko Haram fighters in May.
Babagana said local hunters
on their way to recover the
bodies of the eight fought bat-
tles with militants on Saturday
in Azul, also in the Hawul local
government area.
The unrelenting terrorists
waylaid our members at around
9:00am and serious fighting
ensued, said Babagana, who
heads a local vigilante group.
We lost four of our members
and we killed three terrorists.
Independent corroboration
of attacks in the remote north-
east are almost impossible,
with communications devas-
tated by the violence and
access fraught with danger.
The police and the military
have largely stopped commu-
nicating on attacks. AFP
Turkey to help Kurds into Kobane
Stuart Williams
T
URKEY said yesterday that it
was assisting Iraqi Kurdish
peshmerga to cross its border
and join the battle against ji-
hadists for the Syrian town of Kobane,
in a major shift by Ankara which until
now had blocked Kurdish ghters.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
said that Turkey had no desire so see
Kobane fall to the Islamic State (IS) ji-
hadists who have been battling Syrian
Kurdish ghters for over a month for
control of the town.
The inux of the well-trained pesh-
merga ghters into Kobane could be
a major boost for the Kurds, who are
now being helped by US-led airstrikes
and air drops.
We are assisting peshmerga forces
to cross into Kobane, Cavusoglu told
reporters in Ankara in televised com-
ments, without giving further details
on the assistance given .
We have no wish at all to see Ko-
bane fall to the jihadists, he added.
The Kurdish Rudaw news agen-
cy reported earlier that Turkey had
approved a request from Massoud Bar-
zani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdis-
tan region, to allow peshmerga forces
to pass through Turkish territory.
The switch came after the Ameri-
can military dropped weapons, am-
munition and medical supplies to
the Syrian Kurdish ghters who have
been battling jihadists for Kobane
for over a month.
Cavusoglu did not comment directly
on the air drops, saying only that Tur-
key was now evaluating the latest
move by the United States.
But he also did not give any indica-
tion that Turkey was angered by the
air drops, as many commentators
had expected.
We have been in full cooperation
with the coalition. We want to be rid
of all the threats in the region, the
minister said.
Turkey has until now refused to al-
low Kurdish ghters to cross its border
to join the battle against Islamic State
(IS) militants for Kobane, fearing the
creation of a powerful Kurdish ght-
ing force straddling the border.
Turkish security forces have been
waging a 30-year conict with the
ghters of the Kurdistan Workers Par-
ty (PKK), whose battle for self-rule in
the southeast has left 40,000 dead.
However, Turkey in recent years
has built up strong relations with the
Kurdish authorities in the Kurdistan
region of Iraq who control the pesh-
merga forces.
It appears that despite the agree-
ment over the peshmerga, Turkey will
still block any PKK ghters from en-
tering Syria.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
had at the weekend rejected calls for
Turkey to arm the main Kurdish party
in Syria, the Democratic Union Party
(PYD), saying just as the PKK . . . it is a
terrorist organisation.
Cavusoglu reiterated that Turkey
would not give support to the PYD,
saying that like IS, the PYD wants
to control a certain region of Syria
and therefore it posed a threat to the
future of Syria.
The PYD and other groups af-
liated with it need to change their
policies in Syria and give up these
ambitions, he said.
Turkey has long made no secret of
its animosity towards the PYD for
seeking to create a Kurdish region
in northern Syria and refusing to
show sufcient hostility to President
Bashar al-Assad.
But Idris Nassen, an ofcial from
the Kobane region, said Turkey was
wrong to harbour such suspicions
about the PYD.
The PYD is working for the Kurd-
ish areas and the country of Syria
as a whole, he said, adding that the
party was part of a national opposi-
tion coalition.
Turkey has come under increasing
pressure over the last month to step
up its support for the international
coalition ghting the jihadists.
But Ankara has so far refused to use
its own troops or even let US forces
launch their bombing raids on IS
from the Incirlik air base in the nearby
Adana province.
Turkish television, citing Foreign
Ministry sources, said that Turkish air
space had not been used for the US
air drops.
Erdogan wants the United States to
commit to implementing a security
zone inside Syria and create a strat-
egy for bringing down Assad before
Turkey plays a full role in the coali-
tion. AFP
A screen grab taken from a video uploaded by Aamaq News Agency, a YouTube channel that posts videos from areas under the Islamic
State groups control, allegedly shows an IS ghter ring a heavy machine gun in Kobane. AFP
World
HONG Kong pro-democracy
leaders yesterday angrily re-
jected claims by the citys
chief executive that external
forces are orchestrating their
mass rallies, ahead of talks in-
tended to end three weeks of
political stalemate.
The denials came as the US
the implicit target of previ-
ous foreign meddling allega-
tions by Beijing also denied
any involvement in stirring up
tensions in the nancial hub.
In a television interview
broadcast on Sunday evening,
embattled city leader Leung
Chun-ying blamed foreign
forces for the ongoing protests
but refused to identify them.
The claims sparked ridicule
from democracy leaders in the
semi-autonomous Chinese
city, who insist their move-
ment is fuelled by local de-
mands for greater democratic
freedoms and growing discon-
tent at increased inequality.
In a sarcastic post on his
Facebook page yesterday,
teenage student leader Josh-
ua Wong said: My links with
foreign countries are limited
to my Korean cellphone, my
American computer and my
Japanese Gundam [an ani-
mated series featuring robots].
And of course, all of these are
Made in China.
Claudia Mo, a prominent
pro-democracy lawmaker, ac-
cused the Hong Kong govern-
ment of smear tactics.
They cannot succumb to
the protesters and say Maybe
we should make concessions?
so instead they have to black-
en and smear this campaign.
Its all very dirty, she said.
The citys US consulate also
hit out at the claims, accord-
ing to the South China Morn-
ing Post. What is happening
in Hong Kong is about the
people of Hong Kong, and
any assertion otherwise is
an attempt to distract from
the issue at hand, the paper
quoted consulate spokesman
Scott Robinson as saying.
Parts of Hong Kong have
been paralysed by mass rallies
and road blockades demand-
ing free elections in the city, in
one of the biggest challenges
to Beijings authority since the
Tiananmen pro-democracy
protests of 1989.
Talks to end the impasse
were slated for late today be-
tween student leaders and
senior government ofcials.
But there are fears any further
clashes between police and
protesters could derail those
discussions.
Overnight there was no vio-
lence at the three protest sites
where protesters hold sway
the rst peaceful period in
four days.
Mong Kok, scene of the worst
violence, was largely calmed
by the presence of two popu-
lar pro-democracy lawmakers
including Mo who placed
themselves between police
and protester lines. AFP
HK protest leaders deny
claim of external forces
Nigeria declared Ebola-free
Bryan McManus and Ola Awoniyi
N
IGERIA Africas
most populous
country was de-
clared Ebola-free
yesterday as European Union
foreign ministers thrashed
out measures to help halt the
spread of the deadly haem-
orrhagic disease.
The World Health Organiza-
tion said that the situation in
Nigerias was a spectacular
success story that shows to
the world that Ebola can be
contained as the country,
where eight people have died
from the outbreak, defeated
the disease.
In another piece of good
news in the battle against
Ebola, test results show that
a Spanish nurse who was the
rst to have contracted the
virus outside Africa has been
apparently cleared of her
infection.
But the ght was far from
over against the outbreak
that has claimed more than
4,500 lives, most of them in
Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Guinea.
In Luxembourg, EU minis-
ters were discussing wheth-
er to send a civilian mission
to help the three West Afri-
can countries, as diplomats
talked of a tipping point in
the crisis.
Liberian President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf had warned
on Sunday that a generation
of Africans were at risk of be-
ing lost to economic catastro-
phe because of the crisis.
The time for talking or
theorising is over, she said
in an open letter published
by the BBC.
This ght requires a com-
mitment from every nation
that has the capacity to help
whether that is with emer-
gency funds, medical sup-
plies or clinical expertise.
The EU foreign ministers
will look closely at current
efforts and what more needs
to be done, not least in get-
ting more skilled staff on the
ground in Africa.
One proposal is to reassure
medical workers on the Ebo-
la frontline that they will get
the back-up and, crucially,
Western-level care if they fall
sick with a disease for which
there is no vaccine nor mar-
keted cure.
Another priority was to en-
sure that the scattered cases
reported so far in the United
States and Europe are quickly
contained, to prevent Ebola
getting a foothold outside
West Africa.
This is a serious and signif-
icant problem that we should
not underestimate. Its not a
problem that will stay in one
part of the globe, EU foreign
affairs chief Catherine Ashton
told reporters on the way into
the meeting in Luxembourg.
German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said
the bloc should consider set-
ting up a civilian EU mis-
sion to west Africa, which
would serve as a platform for
sending medical staff.
Another diplomat said
there were plans for three na-
tions to spearhead global aid
to the worst-hit countries:
the United States for Liberia,
Britain for Sierra Leone and
France for Guinea.
A global UN appeal for
nearly $1 billion has so far
fallen short, with only $386
million given by governments
and agencies, and a further
$226 million promised.
This is a major health
crisis. We have only a short
time to get on top of it, Brit-
ish Foreign Secretary Philip
Hammond said.
The only way to stop its
spread is to make sure that
people are isolated and treat-
ed earlier.
The Spanish authorities
said on Sunday that Teresa
Romero, a nurse hospitalised
on October 6, had now tested
negative but must take a sec-
ond test before she can be de-
clared free of Ebola.
Romero fell ill after caring
for two Ebola patients who
died at Madrids Carlos III
hospital, in the rst known
case of transmission outside
Africa. I am very happy be-
cause we can say Teresa beat
the disease, Romeros hus-
band Javier Limon said.
The Nigeria cases sparked
huge alarm amid fears the
highly contagious Ebola vi-
rus would spread quickly in
its teeming cities, making the
success in containment even
more signicant. AFP
Home fans have their temperatures taken with infrared thermometers
before the Nigeria-Congo football match in Calabar on September 6. AFP
14
World

Key Communist Party
meet opens in Beijing
LEADERS of Chinas ruling
Communist Party opened a
highly anticipated meeting
yesterday as state media
emphasised the need to
strengthen the countrys legal
system. The meeting, known as
the Fourth Plenum, brings
together the partys 205-strong
Central Committee and around
170 reserve members, along
with officials from bodies
including its much-feared
internal watchdog, the Central
Commission for Discipline
Inspection. Authorities
announced in July that the
theme of the meeting would be
rule of law although experts
caution that in China the phrase
actually refers to a greater
centralisation of control by the
ruling party, rather than a
separation of powers. AFP
Aus drops controversial

niqab segregation plan
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to
make women wearing the
burqa or niqab sit in separate
glassed public enclosures at
Australias Parliament House
due to security concerns was
abandoned yesterday after an
outcry. The backdown followed
a decision on October 2 by
Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and
Senate President Stephen
Parry to seat people wearing
face coverings in areas nor-
mally reserved for noisy school
children while visiting parlia-
ment. The ruling was con-
demned by human rights and
race discrimination groups, and
Prime Minister Tony Abbott
asked that it be reconsidered. AFP
French journalists go on

trial in Indonesian Papua
TWO French journalists went on
trial in Indonesias Papua
yesterday accused of breaching
visa regulations by illegally
reporting on its separatist
movement, a crime punishable
by up to five years in prison.
Thomas Dandois, 40, and
Valentine Bourrat, 29, were
detained at the start of August
while making a documentary for
Franco-German television
channel Arte. They went on trial
in Jayapura, the capital of Papua
province, charged with breaking
immigration laws since they had
tourist, not journalist, visas.
Indonesia is deeply sensitive
about journalists covering
Papua, where a low-level
insurgency against the central
government has simmered for
decades, and rarely grants visas
for foreigners to report inde-
pendently in the region. AFP
Man jailed for making
guns with 3D printer
A JAPANESE court yesterday
jailed a man for two years for
making guns with a 3D printer
in what is believed to be a first in
a nation with strict gun controls.
Yoshitomo Imura, 28, was found
guilty of making two guns at his
home and publishing a video
online detailing the process,
said the Yokohama District
Court. Imura, a former
employee of the Shonan
Institute of Technology, used
internet-based information to
build the two functional guns,
according to the ruling. He then
posted a video online detailing
how he built them. Imuras
lawyers argued he did not know
his acts were illegal, a notion the
court rejected. AFP
Widodo sworn in, reaches out to foes
fans with his man-of-the-people
image, is the countrys first leader since
the end of Suhartos three decades of
dictatorship in 1998 to have no major
links to that era.
Hopes are high for a new style of
leadership in the worlds third-biggest
democracy, but there are also fears an
opposition-dominated parliament
could make it hard for Widodo to enact
reforms to revive the G-20 economy
and help societys poorest.
After taking the oath in parliament
at a ceremony attended by dignitaries
including US Secretary of State John
Kerry and Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott, he called for unity follow-
ing the most bitterly fought election in
Indonesian history.
Unity and working hand in hand are
prerequisites for us to be a great
nation, said Widodo. We will never
become a great nation if we are stuck
with division.
This is a historic moment for us all
to move together, to work and work,
the president urged.
The new leader also referred to
Prabowo as my best friend during the
speech, and the ex-general responded
by standing up and giving a salute, the
latest sign of a thaw between the pair
after recent tensions.
After travelling through the streets
in the carriage, accompanied by Vice
President Jusuf Kalla and a colourful
parade of dancers and musicians, he
was received at the presidential pal-
ace by outgoing leader Susilo Bam-
bang Yudhoyono and watched a
military parade.
Later in the evening, Widodo, a
heavy-metal fan, was expected to take
to the stage with rock bands at a huge
outdoor concert.
About 24,000 police and military
personnel were deployed to secure
the days events, but there was no sign
of trouble and the atmosphere was
festive.
Long life to Jokowi, this is the first
time in our history that the people are
joyfully celebrating the presidential
inauguration, shouted a supporter
outside the palace.
But the euphoria of the inauguration
is likely to be short-lived as Widodo
faces up to the task of leading the
worlds fourth most populous country,
with 250 million people spread over
more than 17,000 islands, at a critical
moment.
The growth rate in Southeast Asias
top economy is at a five-year low, cor-
ruption remains rampant and fears
are mounting that support for the
Islamic State group could spawn a
new generation of radicals in the
worlds most populous Muslim-ma-
jority country.
Kerrys attendance was in part
aimed at seeking support from Indo-
nesia and other Southeast Asian
nations in the fight against the
extremists, who have taken over vast
swathes of Iraq and Syria.
During a meeting later, Kerry also
planned to encourage Widodo to
ensure Indonesia, a major player in
regional diplomacy, paid adequate
attention to foreign affairs, a State
Department official said. There have
been concerns that the new president
will focus solely on domestic issues.
Widodos first test will be to reduce
the huge fuel subsidies that eat up
about a fifth of the nations budget, a
move which economists say is urgent-
ly needed but which risks sparking
street protests.
Prospects for his ambitious reforms
dimmed in recent weeks after Prabowos
supporters in parliament used their
majority to abolish the direct election
of local leaders, a move opposed by
Widodo, and to win key posts in the
legislature.
Prabowos appearance at the inaugu-
ration and an unexpected meeting
with Widodo Friday during which he
pledged support have raised hopes
that tensions are easing. But observers
say the ex-general may still oppose the
new leaders policies.
Widodo is expected to announce his
new cabinet later in the week. AFP
Scandals cost Abe female ministers
J
APANS Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe suffered a
double setback yesterday
with the resignations of
two female cabinet ministers
over claims they misused po-
litical funds, dealing a blow
to his proclaimed gender re-
form drive.
Industry minister Yuko
Obuchi and justice minister
Midori Matsushima quit after
days of allegations that they
had misspent money in what
opponents insisted was an at-
tempt to buy votes.
Their loss reduces to three
the number of women in the
cabinet, after Abes widely
praised move in September to
promote a record-tying ve to
his administration.
Im the person who ap-
pointed the two. As prime
minister, I take responsibility
for this and deeply apologise
for this situation, Abe said.
Yoichi Miyazawa, a law-
maker and nephew of for-
mer prime minister Kiichi
Miyazawa, will replace
Obuchi as industry minis-
ter, Abe said.
Yoko Kamikawa, a 61-
year-old female politician
and former state minister in
charge of Japans declining
birthrate, was named as the
new justice minister.
The double resignations
are the rst signicant prob-
lem for Abe since he swept
to power in December 2012,
ending years of fragile gov-
ernments that swapped
prime ministers on an an-
nual basis.
While commentators gener-
ally agreed that this would not
be the end of the hard-charg-
ing premier, who has moved
to reinvigorate Japans lacklus-
tre economy, they cautioned
that he was now vulnerable.
This is Abes rst major
stumble, said Tomoaki Iwai,
professor of politics at Nihon
University in Tokyo.
His approval rate is likely
to fall and Abe will be under
pressure. If he repeats similar
mistakes, its going to be a fatal
blow to his administration.
Obuchi, who carried on
the dynasty of her father, a
former prime minister, of-
fered a fresh, youthful face
on the front benches a
place generally dominated
by older men.
As a mother of two, her
family-friendly image was
expected to help convince a
sceptical public on the safety
of re-starting Japans stalled
nuclear power plants.
But her elevation had also
reportedly irked some lon-
ger-serving male politicians
who felt they were passed
over in favour of a younger
woman with little cabinet
experience.
Obuchis downfall start-
ed last week when reports
emerged that she had spent
political funds on make-up
and accessories as gifts for
supporters.
They were followed by
claims that she had subsi-
dised theatre trips for voters
from her rural constituency.
The claims, which were
priced at tens of millions of
yen (hundreds of thousands
of dollars) over several years,
were taken as evidence of at-
tempted vote buying.
It is not permissible for
me as minister of economy,
trade and industry to have
economy and energy policies
stalled because of my own
problems, she told a press
conference carried live on
multiple television channels.
I will resign and focus on
probing what has been called
into question, she told re-
porters after a 30-minute
meeting with Abe.
Matsushima has been un-
der re for allegedly giving
out cheap paper fans with her
name and picture printed on
them, in what critics said was
a bid to buy support.
One of those fans was for
sale on an internet auction
site yesterday, with the price
having reached 2,100 yen
($20).
Money scandals are not un-
common in Japanese politics,
where the pork barrel reigns
and rules on spending tend
to be slightly opaque, barring
little except explicit bribery
and vote buying.
The promotion of ve wom-
en to his cabinet was seen as
part of Abes bid to boost the
role of women in society, a
move viewed as vital to help
plug the holes in Japans work-
force and make better use of a
pool of latent talent.
Asked if she felt her rela-
tive youth and her gender
had played a role in the way
the scandal emerged, Obuchi
demurred. I only learnt now
that this issue could be seen
in this light, she said. AFP
Night of the
Long Ma
A French-made mechanical Long
Ma, a dragon-horse in Chinese
mythology, spews re in a
performance near the Birds Nest
Stadium in Beijing on Sunday. The
performance, attended by French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius,
was held as part of celebrations
of 50 years of Sino-French
diplomatic relations. AFP
Butt its art?
Paris sex
toy art work
left deated
A
GIANT inflatable sculp-
ture that caused outrage
in Paris for its resem-
blance to a sex toy will not be
reinstalled after being reduced
to a flaccid heap by vandals, its
creator said on Saturday.
American artist Paul
McCarthy, 69, was slapped
three times in the face by an
outraged passerby as The Tree
was put up on the citys ritzy
Place Vendome on Thursday
next to a column topped by a
statue of Napoleon.
And on Saturday vandals
cut a support cable to leave
the 24-metre high work
which provoked a storm of
mirth on social media for its
resemblance to a butt plug
slumped on the pavement.
The FIAC contemporary art
fair, which organised for the
sculpture to be put up close
to the Ritz Hotel, said that
the artist was worried about
potential trouble if the work
was put back up.
The work slumped down,
the source said, adding that
police were investigating the
incident. A FIAC official said
the offenders also unplugged
the pump that kept the struc-
ture erect. AFP
15
World

Rebels downed MH17
with seized missiles
GERMAN intelligence has
accused pro-Russian rebels of
shooting down a Malaysian
passenger jet over Ukraine
using missiles captured from
government forces, a media
report said on Sunday. Kiev and
the West have previously
charged that Flight MH17 was
blown out of the sky in July by
separatist fighters using a Buk
surface-to-air system supplied
by Russia, charges denied by
Moscow. But the head of
Germanys BND foreign spy
agency Gerhard Schindler said
intelligence indicated the rebels
had captured a Buk system
from a Ukrainian base, Spiegel
magazine reported. AFP
Life for man who shot
teen dead over music
A FLORIDA man who fatally shot
a black teenager during an
argument over loud music was
sentenced on Friday to life in
prison without the possibility of
parole. Michael Dunn, a
47-year-old white man, was
convicted October 1 of first-
degree murder in the death of
Jordan Davis, 17, in November
2012. At his trial, Dunn said he
approached a group of teens in
an SUV and asked them to turn
down their music but they
refused. Dunn said he feared for
his life when one started to get
out of the car and approach him.
Dunn pulled a pistol out of his
glove box and opened fire. In
addition to the life sentence,
Davis was also sentenced to 105
years for having shot at the
three other teenagers. AFP
To counter lionsh, divers feed them to sharks
IN THE war against invasive lionfish,
Andres Jimenez took up one of the old-
est weapons used by humans: the spear.
Jimenez thought this was a novel
approach to help rid the Caribbean
Ocean of a growing menace. He skewers
the colourful fish, swims to coral in a
marine sanctuary off the coast of Cuba
and holds it bleeding and squirming
under the jaws of reef sharks.
The idea is to get sharks to develop a
taste for a fish they are not accustomed
to eating. Jimenez, who co-manages a
dive operation in the Gardens of the
Queen National Marine Park, is trying
to teach one of the Caribbeans biggest
predators to eat a new type of fish.
The lionfish is an exotic glutton that
eats everything it can stuff in its mouth
and the fish are destroying life on the
coral reef. Native to the Pacific, the fish
were widely traded for their looks and
were first spotted near Miami in the
mid-1980s before proliferating in the
Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and the Car-
ibbean near the turn of the century.
They have been called the Norway rats
of the Atlantic and Caribbean because
they are voracious eaters that wolf down
scores of reef animals from Florida to
Venezuela but have no predator in those
waters. Spoon-feeding sharks, as Jimen-
ez has done in recent weeks, is the latest
desperate attempt to restore the balance
of an ecosystem humans have thrown
out of whack.
Reef sharks are thought to be one of a
few animals that can choke down a lion-
fish. To avoid the toxic spikes on its back
and tail fin, said Antonio Busiello, they
eat the fish starting at its mouth.
But marine ecologist Serena Hacker-
ott and her colleagues at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said
feeding lionfish to sharks is crazy. Sharks
are going to associate divers with food,
she said.
In a test of 71 ocean sites in Mexico,
Belize, Honduras, Cuba and the Baha-
mas UNC researchers found nothing
to show that lionfish are shark bait,
according to a paper published last year
in the journal PLOS One.
Ive been a diver for more than 10
years and have never felt threatened by
a shark, Hackerott wrote in a recent
blog post. I might not feel so comfort-
able, though, if sharks began to expect
snacks every time I enter the water.
Its a justifiable fear that often plays
out at the sanctuary, Jimenez said. In an
email from Cuba, he wrote that sharks
dont seem to be hunting for lionfish
naturally, but they are really mad for
dead or injured lionfish, and they get
used to being fed lionfish by divers. They
learn fast and improve ways to get the
lionfish once the diver captures it.
When Jimenez dives with groups of
divers and photographers, the sight-
seeing can become tense and danger-
ous. For example, he wrote, An injured
lionfish escapes the sharks and then the
sharks get really mad. They start looking
for the prey everywhere, and in this
quest they . . . sometimes hit divers with
the nose, or can even try to bite the
spear, the rocks where the lionfish is
hiding or the cameras. Then the situa-
tion sometimes gets out of control.
When a big shark, a six- to seven-foot
shark, hits you, you feel it.
Somehow the recommended
approach to reducing lionfish was twist-
ed around, Hackerott said: They should
be overfished for human consumption,
not reef sharks. The pretty fish is poison-
ous but, when a chef rips out its spine
and cooks it, lionfish are delicious.
Theres no witness to an instance of
someone releasing lionfish into the
waters in Florida, but thats the largely
agreed upon working theory for how
they ended up there. This sort of thing
keeps happening in the United States,
the second largest market for the legal
trade of wildlife.
Florida in particular is overrun with
Burmese pythons, tegu lizards from
South America and Cuban tree frogs to
name only a few invasive animals.
The Chesapeake Bay region is fight-
ing the aggressive Asian northern
snakehead fish that eats native fish,
and efforts to harvest it from rivers
have done little to stop it. Asian carp
that spread from Arkansas to the Great
Lakes region and Louisiana have out-
muscled native fish for food, leaving
many to starve.
The voracious appetite of lionfish is
why divers and marine biologists want
to eliminate them, but feeding them to
sharks is a scary task, Jimenez said. I
am [spearing them] very seldom, as it
gets dangerous, he said. You cant do
it in all spots, only in places with small
shark populations.
Teaching sharks to eat lionfish is a
double-edged sword, said Ian Drysdale,
Honduras coordinator for the Healthy
Reefs Initiative. You dont want to relate
human divers with shark feed. It can get
out of hand. THE WASHINGTON POST
Lynching underlines Indias curse
Jason Burke and Manoj Chaurasiat
I
N ANOTHER time, an-
other place, Sai Ram
might have escaped seri-
ous harm. But he died in
great pain last week, a casu-
alty of a bitter, barely reported
conict that still claims many
lives every year.
Ram, 15, was a goatherd in
a village in the poor eastern
Indian state of Bihar. He was
a Dalit, from the lowest rung
of the caste hierarchy that still
denes the lives, and some-
times the deaths, of millions
of people in the emerging eco-
nomic power.
His alleged killer, currently
being held by local police, is
from a higher land-owning
caste. He took offence when
one of the teenagers goats
strayed on to his paddy eld
and grazed on his crops. Ram
was overpowered by the land-
owner and a group of other
men. He was badly beaten.
Then petrol was poured over
him and lit, Rams father, Jiut
Ram, said. He was crying for
help, then went silent, the 50-
year-old labourer said.
The incident took place at
Mohanpur village, about 200
kilometres southwest of Bi-
hars capital, Patna, in an area
known for caste tensions. It
was the latest in a series of
violent incidents that have
once again highlighted the
problems and discrimination
linked to caste, particularly in
lawless and impoverished ru-
ral areas.
Earlier this month, ve Dalit
women were allegedly gang-
raped by upper-caste men in
central Bihars Bhojpur dis-
trict. In September, hundreds
of Dalit families were forced
from their homes in two other
districts of Bihar after a man
from the community tried to
contest a local election against
higher caste candidates.
Several political, social and
economic factors usually
lie behind such upsurges in
caste-related violence. One
reason for Bihars recent inci-
dents may be the appointment
in May of Jitan Ram Manjhi, a
Dalit, as the chief minister of
the state.
Since taking power Manjhi
has announced measures to
help other Dalits in Bihar, one
of Indias poorest states, and
is reported to have urged the
community to have more chil-
dren to become a more pow-
erful political force. Dalits ac-
count for some 15 per cent of
Bihars 103.8 million people.
The chief ministers call was
not well received by members
of other castes, local observ-
ers said.
Sachindra Narayan, a prom-
inent Patna-based social sci-
entist with the National Hu-
man Rights Commission in
Delhi, said: The prime rea-
son [for the violence] is that
[Dalits] feel empowered after
seeing someone from their
community at the head of the
state and have begun to as-
sert their rights. This is purely
a retaliation from the domi-
nant social groups.
Manjhi claims a temple in
northern Bihar was ritually
cleaned and idols washed with
holy water after his visit to
the shrine. Such ceremonies
are still performed by upper
castes to eradicate pollution
left by lower-caste visitors.
A deep-rooted bias pre-
vails against those from
the downtrodden sections of
society . . . I have myself been
a victim of caste bias, the 70-
year-old said.
Opponents claim Manjhi
was stoking caste tensions for
political advantage.
In the vast neighbouring
state of Uttar Pradesh, caste
is also a major political issue,
with power contested by two
parties that broadly represent
two different caste communi-
ties. That of Mayawati explic-
ity campaigns for Dalits, while
the ruling Samajwadi party is
seen by many as representing
the Yadav community, once
pastoralists.
Caste became a factor in
recent national elections
too. Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi comes from a poor
family from the lower-caste
Ghanchi community, which
is associated with selling oil.
His rise from humble origins
to leader of 1.25 billion people
has inspired many but also
provoked scorn from elite pol-
iticians who have mocked his
background.
The origins of caste are con-
tested. Some point to ancient
religious texts, others to rigid
classications of more local
denitions of community and
identities by British impe-
rial administrators. The word
caste is of Portuguese origin.
Regardless of its origins,
the word still has the power
to stir controversy. Arundhati
Roy, the Booker prize-winning
author, recently accused Ma-
hatma Gandhi, Indias revered
independence leader, of dis-
crimination and called for
institutions bearing his name
to be renamed because of his
attitude to caste.
She said: It is time to unveil
a few truths about a person
whose doctrine of non-vio-
lence was based on the accep-
tance of the most brutal social
hierarchy ever known, the caste
system . . . Do we need to name
our universities after him?
Sociologists say the rapid ur-
banisation of India has weak-
ened the caste system as the
realities of living in overcrowd-
ed Indian cities make reinforc-
ing social separation and dis-
crimination through rituals or
violence much harder.
But if change is coming to
places like rural Bihar, it is of-
ten accompanied by violence.
Last October a roadside
bomb killed Sunil Pandey, a
landowner who was alleged to
be a senior gure in a militia
formed in 1994 to enforce the
interests of higher castes in
the state, but which has been
largely dormant recently.
The Ranvir Sena militia,
formed by men of the Bhu-
mihar caste of landlords, is
held responsible for a series
of massacres of Dalits in the
1990s. These murders, in effect
reprisals against local Mao-
ist guerrillas, who have also
killed many, reached a bloody
climax with the deaths of 58
men, women and children
with no connection to extrem-
ism in the village of Lakshman
Bathe in 1998. Ranvir Sena
and Pandey were blamed.
Last year 24 men had their
convictions for that massacre
overturned by Bihars high
court, prompting renewed
clashes.
The authorities have
pledged rapid justice for Ram,
the 15-year-old burned to
death last week. But of nearly
17,000 pending trials in Bihar
involving charges of violence
against Dalits only a 10th were
dealt with last year.
For the teenagers father,
nothing can compensate for
the death of his son. My en-
tire world is lost now, he said.
THE GUARDIAN
Demonstrating villagers shout slogans against the government in New Delhi on April 22 during a protest
against the rape of a lower caste Dalit in nearby Haryana state. AFP
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HEY are dark, unseen ene-
mies, come from far away
and they are scaring us wit-
less. ISIS is not a disease, and
Ebola is not a terror organisation. But
fear is their common currency: inten-
tional for one, inevitable for the oth-
er. Today they can seem to be work-
ing in tandem, a pincer movement
paralysing the worlds governments
as it terrifies the worlds people. Each
time one advances, the space for the
other expands.
From the vantage point of the West,
the similarities are obvious. It starts
with a menace that was once obscure
and understood by few, with a name
that keeps shifting (is it ISIS, ISIL or
IS?) or a pronunciation that is uncer-
tain (is it ee-boh-la or ebb-ola?), and
which suddenly becomes all-perva-
sive, threatening catastrophe.
In both cases, the turning point
came when the victims were no
longer distant others, but people
deemed to be like us. So the Islamic
State became impossible to ignore
not when it conducted mass execu-
tions, on camera, of hundreds of Ira-
qi and Syrian fighters, but when it
beheaded Western hostages: James
Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines,
Alan Henning. Ebola was an African
problem until cases surfaced in
places we could point to on a map:
Madrid or Dallas. The ISIS and Ebola
stories are both captured by a simple
Andre Carrilho cartoon showing a
ward full of dying black people
with a cluster of TV cameras hud-
dling around the lone white victim.
But the greater similarity is the
feeling of impotence that both crises
prompt. The US, the most armed
nation in the history of humankind,
which spends more on weapons than
the 10 next highest-spending nations
combined along with five European
allies and partners from the Gulf
states is pounding ISIS from the air
and yet making only marginal
progress. No one is talking of victory
over ISIS; most speak of merely con-
taining it. Meanwhile, the same US,
with all its state-of-the-art technolo-
gy and germproof suits, couldnt pre-
vent one of its nurses catching Ebola.
Against that impotence rages the
cry that something must be done. It
loses little ardour when it is con-
fronted with evidence that that
something is likely to do no good.
From the start, strategists pointed
out the obvious defects in a policy of
airstrikes against ISIS. Surely its
fighters would hide themselves and
their (serious) military kit rather than
remain in plain sight. And if ISIS did
hide among civilians, then Western
attacks would end up killing inno-
cents not militants, thereby creating
sympathy, and recruits, for the jihad-
ists. As for the British (and European)
willingness to hit ISIS in Iraq but not
Syria, that surely was to insist on a
border that had been erased by war.
ISIS operates in both countries, com-
bining them into a single battlefield.
Surely it was quaintly legalistic of
Americas allies to preserve a distinc-
tion that events had made defunct.
The errors in the anti-Ebola strate-
gy were just as obvious. Enhanced
screening at British airports and
Eurostar terminals carries the
smack of firm, decisive action. But
health experts coughed politely and
noted that such screening would not
pick up those whose symptoms were
not yet visible, and would be no pro-
tection at all against those who lied
about their movements.
The experts further warned that a
likely product of such measures
would be increased anxiety, which
might hinder the one action that
really would make a difference: get-
ting doctors and nurses to go to Afri-
ca and combat Ebola on the ground.
Its not as if policymakers dont
hear these warnings. They do. As
chief of staff to former British prime
minister Tony Blair during a decade
in government, Jonathan Powell
managed a fair few crises. He says of
President Obama and ISIS: He
knows bombing has no chance. He
wants to be the man who ends wars,
not starts them. Hes taking action he
knows cant succeed. Theres a logical
dissonance there and it shows.
Current UK Prime Minister David
Cameron is, no doubt, similarly con-
flicted, though for different reasons.
He surely believes airstrikes over
Iraq but not Syria make little sense,
but political reality given parlia-
ments veto of action against Syria
last year means he can act in one
area but not the other. On both ISIS
and Ebola politicians are aware of
the limits on their capabilities, yet
have to make a show of mastery and
control. Last week, Obama appoint-
ed an Ebola csar, a title that suggests
a contagious disease can be
instructed to recede by imperial fiat.
But the biggest problem might also
be the most prosaic. It is simply that
these two big crises have struck at
once. In 1999, during the Kosovo
war, I asked a White House official
about progress on the Israeli-Pales-
tinian peace process. He confessed
to me that even the White House
imagined by Hollywood as the
throbbing heart of power could
only cope with one major interna-
tional issue at a time.
Powell puts the capacity a bit high-
er, recalling his rule of six, by which
he could cope with six problems
small, medium or large at once, but
no more. He pictured himself run-
ning between spinning plates. If
there was too much going on, lack of
time, lack of space, meant you
couldnt get back to that first plate.
That is especially true in presiden-
tial or quasi-presidential systems,
where any big decision has to be tak-
en by the person at the top. There
are only so many hours in the day,
only so much room in the leaders
head. When people speak of limited
bandwidth, this is what they mean.
Of course, thats always been true:
leaders have to deal with both the
crises the public know about and
those boiling away below the sur-
face, as well as trying to advance
their own agenda, rather than mere-
ly reacting to events. But in an age
that Michael Ignatieff describes as
the new world disorder, where ISIS
and Ebola take their place alongside
a war in Ukraine, and where the
authoritarian behemoths Russia and
China are becoming more assertive,
that is becoming harder than ever.
There is not enough capacity to
deal with all these problems at once.
We make mistakes in handling of
each of them, and so they all get
worse. ISIS feeds Ebola, and Ebola
feeds ISIS and our fear feeds them
both. THE GUARDIAN
Revealing our impotence
The twin emergencies of Ebola and the Islamic State leave many feeling the world is seemingly spinning out of control. AFP
Jonathan Freedland is the Guardians
executive editor of opinion and editorial.
Comment
Jonathan Freedland
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Lifestyle Lifestyle
ALL the rage in the 1990s, so-called
gyaru or gal fashion is now losing
steam. Total sales at Shibuya 109 fash-
ion complex in Tokyo, dubbed a gyaru
fashion mecca, peaked at 28.65 billion
yen (about $289 million) in the year
ending March 2009. But its sales for the
year ending March 2014 are projected
to be 18.8 billion yen, or about 60 per
cent of the 2009 figure.
On August 24, a Love Boat shop on
the first underground floor of the com-
plex closed its doors. The fall of Love
Boat, regarded as one of the first gyaru
brands along with Alba Rosa and
me Jane in the 90s, should be seen
as a symbolic move signalling the end
is near for gyaru culture.
Gyaru magazines have gone out of
print one after another, too. Happie nuts
and Koakuma Ageha were discontin-
ued after the collapse of their publisher.
Taiyohtoshos Egg, Kadokawa Harukis
Blenda and Futabasha Publishers Edge
Style also ceased publication.
But what exactly is gyaru fashion?
Its a style that usually involves tanned
makeup, golden or other flashy col-
oured hair, false eyelashes, coloured
contact lenses, platform shoes, deco-
rated nails and revealing clothes.
Especially popular among middle
and high school girls, gyaru girls usu-
ally aged 15-20 were often found in
Shibuya in the 90s. They would gath-
er at Shibuya clubs after school, some-
times coming all the way from sub-
urbs. Their idols were singers Namie
Amuro, born in 1977, and Ayumi
Hamasaki, who was born in 1978.
There are also those who go for plain,
casual attire with almost no makeup.
Known as Harajuku-kei or Harajuku-
style, these women who are believed
to pay no heed to the eyes of boys and
men got their name from often hang-
ing around Tokyos Harajuku district,
which neighbours Shibuya.
There are four reasons for gyaru
fashions decline. First, the number of
gyaru themselves dropped due to the
low birth rate. Secondly, young women
came to spend their time and money
not in Shibuya but at shopping centres
like Aeon Co malls in their local areas.
Thirdly, gyaru also became attracted
to fast fashion brands such as H&M
and Forever21, which both recently
entered the Japanese market. Finally,
high schools started tightening rules
including bans on dying hair.
So where will these gyaru go? And
how will their style change?
According to a recent survey con-
ducted by WWD Japan on young
women in Tokyo, conventional gyaru
fashion seems to have grown up into
girlie or other types of fashion. Young
women today prefer less makeup and
simple fashion with undyed hair.
The initial print run of girlie-style
fashion magazine Larme, which was
launched in September 2012, totalled
35,000. But with print runs now at
200,000, it can be said that the current
trend of late-teen fashion is summed
up in the magazine.
Larme editor-in-chief Haruna Nak-
agori, born in 1986, who successfully
proposed the idea of the magazine as
a sweet and pretty girlie fashion pic-
ture book to Tokuma Shoten Publish-
ing, was an editor of the now out-of-
print Koakuma Ageha. According to
Nakagori, the downturn of gyaru
brands was due to the change of the
minds of women around 20. I was
sure my magazine plan would sell well
since there already were Web and
social network communities of wom-
en favouring sweet and pretty things.
There were also models who like girlie
fashion, Nakagori said.
In Tokyo, girlie girls may stay as late-
teen fashion leaders for a while.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
H
AS China found
its own Gangnam
Style? From Beijing
parks to Shanghai
skyscrapers and in Guangzhou
factories to karaoke rooms in
Macau, people are singing Lit-
tle Apple a song apparently so
catchy it has even won over the
army and police.
Calling themselves the
Chopstick Brothers, Xiao
Yang and Wang Taili are nei-
ther brothers nor composers,
but are responsible for a hit
that has become a nationwide
phenomenon.
Xiao Pingguo (Little Apple)
was originally intended to pro-
mote their latest lm when it
was released in July, but has
proved to be an earworm the
kind of song so insistent it gets
stuck in the brain.
The accompanying music
video has notched up more
than 50 million views on
Chinese sites such as Sohu,
iQiyi and Youku. The surreal
six-minute clip begins with a
botched operation before cut-
ting to Xiao and Wang naked
in the Garden of Eden. They
then appear in a number of se-
quences, including dressed as
mermaids on a beach or acting
as village children.
The lyrics are largely non-
sense, with the chorus running
Youre my little apple, youre
my little apple.
Even so, the tune has become
ubiquitous whether play-
ing on smartphone ringtones
to shopping malls, nightclubs
and gyms.
The Peoples Liberation
Army in the city of Xian has
used the song in a recruitment
video, while police in Shan-
dong last month modied the
lyrics for a broadcast warning
about phone-banking scams.
And a clip showing soldiers
dancing to Xiao Pingguo with
child survivors of an August
earthquake that killed 600 peo-
ple in the southwest became
an online sensation.
One parody brings together
North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, Barack Obama, Vladimir
Putin, Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and UN Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon.
The songs success has also
put a spotlight on Da Ma the
old ladies who gather every
morning and evening to dance
in city squares across China.
Zheng Xiaomin, a 76-year-
old retiree in Beijing, said the
Xiao Pingguo phenomenon has
brought more people together.
In a park, it is usually em-
barrassing to be seen putting
your hands on the shoulder or
hip of a partner, said the for-
mer typographer. But with
Xiao Pingguo thats not the
case, she went on to say.
Despite its nationwide ap-
peal, there are few expectations
that Little Apple will become
the kind of phenomenon that
was Gangnam Style, the 2012
hit by South Koreas Psy that
has been viewed on YouTube
more than 2.1 billion times.
In contrast, the Chopstick
Brothers video has only
clocked up three million hits
on the site, which is blocked
in China by the countrys vast
network of internet controls,
despite South Korean K-pop
singer and actress Bae Seul-ki
also featuring prominently.
Experts say Xiao Pingguo
lacks the Westernised ingredi-
ents that helped Psy nd suc-
cess. Chinese pop music has
remained within its borders
unlike K-pop which has assimi-
lated various inuences to help
it conquer Southeast Asia and
Japan as well as gain attention
beyond the continent, Chinese
music critic Hao Fang said.
China does not focus on
the development of its cultural
and creative industries in the
way South Korea does, he said.
The songs are stylistically out-
dated. Xiao Pingguo takes on a
disco beat heard in 1980s and
1990s China. This prevents it
from competing with current
pop music from the rest of the
world, said Fang.
And for all its appeal, it seems
Xiao Pingguo still has a long
way to go before it wins the
hearts and minds of the state.
After President Xi Jinping
called on artists to promote
socialism and serve the peo-
ple last week, Chinas news
agency Xinhua decried vul-
gar, repetitive and fast-food
art works.
Not a single Chinese pop
song has gained as much
international popularity as
Gangnam Style did, it la-
mented. AFP
Little Apple: the hit song
all of China is singing
Japan sees decline in gyaru fashion style
The cover of the fashion magazine Koa-
kuma Ageha is shown at a bookshop in
Tokyo in 2010. The magazine went out of
business as the gyaru trend faded.
THEYOMIURI SHIMBUN
Paramilitary soldiers dancing to Xiao Pingguo , which means little apple in Mandarin Chinese. AFP
FOR a moment there, it seemed
as if the red-carpet proces-
sion was going to be a serious
affair not quite what youd
expect at a gathering of some
of comedys heaviest hitters
for an evening of mirth at the
ceremony for the Mark Twain
Prize for American Humor.
At rst, the celebs, who were
chatting up reporters along the
velvet ropes leading to the Ken-
nedy Centers Concert Hall on
Sunday, were so eager to heap
praise on Jay Leno, the long-
time Tonight Show host and
the events honoree, that things
were getting a bit . . . sincere.
Jay showed everybody how
important the monologue is,
said Seth Meyers, who inher-
ited his Late Night hosting du-
ties on NBC from Jimmy Fallon,
who replaced Leno earlier this
year on The Tonight Show.
Jerry Seinfeld said Leno
played a big role in his own co-
medic career. He showed me
the way of what I wanted to be
to let your inner crankiness
out, Seinfeld said. That can
make good comedy. Entertain-
ing complaining is a lot of what
stand-up comedy is about.
Leno himself was in a reec-
tive mood. Comedys a bit
like golf, said Leno, who just
announced that he is heading
back to the airwaves to host a
car-centric prime-time show
on CNBC. You can do it until
youre 80, if you pace yourself
and play it right.
But the cutting-up eventu-
ally commenced. The funny
folks walking the carpet could
hold out only so long.
While being interviewed on
camera, Fallon became so dis-
tracted by Seinfeld, who was
talking to a reporter just a few
feet away, that Fallon launched
into an amped-up impression
of the elder comedian. I cant
hear myself think! Fallon yelled
as he ran a safe distance away.
Smoove showed off his best
Leno impersonation. He not-
ed that while hosting The To-
night Show for two decades,
Leno had a habit of pointing
at guests as he broke for com-
mercials. Smoove mimicked
the move in a contortion akin
to the Heisman Trophy pose.
Amid all the praise,
Mathews threw a playful barb
at Leno, mocking his former
bosss penchant for wear-
ing whats known as a Cana-
dian tuxedo. Im a man who
takes a bold fashion risk, he
said, motioning to his own
silver-brocade tuxedo jacket.
Im not bold enough to do
denim-on-denim. God bless
you, but I cant pull that off.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Jay Leno accepts
Mark Twain Prize
Jay Leno (centre) is introduced at the 17th Annual Mark Twain Prize
for American Humor in Washington on Sunday. THE WASHINGTON POST
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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
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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
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Mount Nyiragongo in the Northern Kivu province of the Congo is as
dangerous as the notoriously unstable region. THE WASHINGTON POST
Glimpsing the
mouth of Hell
Henry Wismayer

S
URPRISINGLY, I had a
cellphone signal. For
one giddy instant, I ac-
tually considered call-
ing home and then thought
better of it. For if there was
one thing sure to put Mothers
nose out of joint, one thing
guaranteed to catapult her
into a torment of parental
panic, it would be the revela-
tion that her son was standing
on top of a hyperactive volca-
no in the Congo.
At 11,382 feet, Mount Nyi-
ragongo isnt the largest of the
eight volcanoes, known col-
lectively as the Virungas, that
stud the border between Con-
go, Rwanda and Uganda. But
deep within its crater there
broods a special treasure: the
largest and most accessible
lava lake on Earth, one of the
most spectacular natural mar-
vels in all of Africa.
Since mid-1994, the prov-
ince of North Kivu where
Mount Nyiragongo is located
has been at the epicentre of
Central Africas Great War, the
desultory and shamefully un-
derreported conict that has
claimed an estimated ve mil-
lion lives and displaced mil-
lions more. Virunga National
Park, the 3,000-square-mile
tract of verdant highlands,
equatorial forest and Rift Val-
ley lakes in which Nyiragongo
resides, was closed during
the ghting. But following a
truce between insurgents and
security forces in November
2013, the park Africas oldest
protected area, established in
1925 nally reopened to visi-
tors in early 2014.
And with the embattled park
unlocking its gates to visitors,
the mists have once again be-
gun to lift on Nyiragongo and
its extraordinary lava lake.
Although the trail to the vol-
canos summit remains closed
at the time of writing, park of-
cials are hopeful that it, too,
will open before the end of the
year. That footpath starts 12
miles north of Goma, along
a heavily UN-fortied road. I
would be in, up, down and out
within 36 hours hardly pen-
etrating the heart of darkness,
just taking a quick foray along
a peripheral capillary.
From what wed seen, the
reputation seemed well de-
served. Quite apart from the
regions continued instability,
Africas most active volcano
conceals a violence of its own,
and its latest major eruption
had dened our trip so far. The
tsunamis of craggy rock that
loomed behind the makeshift
homesteads along the Goma
road, the chink of ankle-twist-
ing rocks under our boots, the
charred stumps of incinerated
trees: all were remnants of the
molten river that had spewed
from the mountain in Janu-
ary 2002 before hurtling to-
ward Goma, engulng 14,000
homes and forcing 350,000
people to ee the city.
It could hardly be described
as a welcoming place. Up
here, the mountain is desolate
a cold and lifeless jumble of
carnelian-coloured lava termi-
nating at the serrated lip of the
crater rim. At rst, all we got
was a hint of what lay within.
Standing at the brink of a great
void inundated with swirling
cloud, we had only the heat
on our faces and the sulphu-
rous smell to go by. That, and
the sound a churning, roil-
ing monotone of something
very restless down below.
Only at the onset of dusk
was Nyiragongos secret nally
revealed. Beyond the rim, the
ground fell away, sheer and
hellish, down to a point where
some seams of bright orange
had begun to slice through the
fog. The picture sharpened as
the light dwindled. By night-
fall we were looking at the lava
lake in full cry: a giant disk of
molten rock 800 feet wide,
surfaced with a mosaic of
crusty plates that you could
watch harden and tremble
under the mighty pressure
before imploding back into
the roiling cauldron.
The whole scene seemed
to breathe, each exhalation
spitting out coronas of liquid
re that faded from orange to
black as they cooled. It was a
window into the forces that
shaped the world, our inani-
mate planet at its most alive.
THE WASHINGTON POST
TV PICKS

9:10am - CATCH AND RELEASE: Afer the sudden death
of her fanc, Gray comes to see new sides of the man
she thought she knew, and fnds herself drawn to the last
man shed ever expected to fall for. HBO
12pm - THE WORLDS END: In this fnal instalment of
director Edgar Wrights trilogy of comedies, fve childhood
friends reunite 20 years afer atemptng an epic pub crawl.
HBO
2:15pm - ROLLERBALL: Jonathan Cross is the most popular
player in the most extreme sport of all tme: Rollerball.
Things go wrong when the creator of Rollerball realizes that
serious on-court accidents bring higher ratngs. HBO
5:30pm - MULAN: When her country is forced into war
by the invading Hun army, Mulan takes her ailing fathers
conscripton notce, and joins the Chinese army. HBO
7pm - BIG FISH: Edward Bloom is a teller of tall tales about
his oversized life as a young man, when his wanderlust led
him on an unlikely journey. HBO
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Minor quarrel
5 Killed, as a dragon
9 River deposits
14 Abbr. at the end of a list
15 Scrabble piece
16 Baby berths?
17 Ranch unit
18 Go through volumes
19 Acted the maniac
20 Get going in the morning
23 Ensured, as victory
24 Hold it!
25 Assault on Everest
29 Abets partner?
30 Some gas stations
33 Spring bloomer
34 Edible root of the taro
36 Lip balm ingredient
37 Tell it to the judge
40 Lift a weight
41 Change, often
42 Broadcast
43 Picnic pest
44 Auto grille covering
45 Milk
suppliers
46 The ___
of All Fears (Clancy novel)
47 Ranis
wraparound
49 Places for knickknacks
57 Standard
58 Sorvino
of films
59 Iridescent stone
60 ___-cochere (covered driveway)
61 ___ Rapids, Minnesota
62 Despicable
63 February forecast, perhaps
64 Writer Rice
65 Got 100 on, as a test
DOWN
1 Earl Grey, for one
2 Rash reaction?
3 Casino card game
4 Took a jet
5 Uncompromising
6 Feudal subject
7 Spiral-horned antelope
8 Says I do
9 Rode the waves
10 Boot-shaped land
11 Name on many jeans labels
12 Like pork and shellfish, to some
13 Them or us
21 ___ when?
22 School in Athens, briefly
25 First of the Greeks?
26 Outdoor warning
27 Chin crease
28 It may be due
29 Commotions
30 Be loud, as a radio
31 Difficult question
32 What navel oranges lack
34 Anagram for ante
35 Blondes secret, sometimes
36 Battery contents
38 ___ Jean (Marilyns birth name)
39 Bicycle spokes, e.g.
44 Faster than a speeding ___!
45 Polished and suave
46 Excessive amount
47 Shoot cut for grafting
48 Brother of Moses
49 Ice cream cone units
50 Golden calf, for one
51 Sun-cracked
52 Pantomimed disco hit
53 Exploding star
54 Long, sweeping story
55 Fireside yarn
56 Go downhill, in winter
ON EXHIBIT
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO
GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
Alexanders day begins with gum stuck in his hair,
followed by more calamites. He begins to wonder
whether bad things only happen to him, but his mom,
dad, brother, and sister all fnd themselves living
through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very
bad day.
Citymall: 11:20am, 3:15pm, 5.05pm, 7.40pm
Tuol Kork: 9.20am, 3.20pm, 5.10pm
Meanchey: 9.15am, 3.15pm, 5.30pm
ANNABELLE
A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural
occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly afer their
home is invaded by satanic cultsts.
Citymall: 9.20am, 1.10pm, 3.40pm, 5.45pm
Tuol Kork: 9.15am, 11.10am, 1.15pm, 8pm
Meanchey: 9.15am, 1.25pm, 3.25pm, 8pm
DRACULA UNTOLD
Facing threats to his kingdom and his family, Vlad
Tepes makes a deal with dangerous supernatural
forces - whilst trying to avoid succumbing to the dark-
ness himself.
Citymall: 9.20am, 11.25am, 1.40pm, 5.40pm, 7.50pm
Tuol Kork: 11.20am, 1.45pm, 5.25pm, 7.25pm,
10.05pm
Meanchey: 9.15am, 1.25pm, 7.20pm, 10.05pm
THE BOXTOLLS (3D)
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-
dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from
an evil exterminator.
Citymall: 9.20am
Tuol Kork: 6pm
Meanchey: 11.05am
THE EQUALIZER
A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind
him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new,
quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the
control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he cant
stand idly by - he has to help her.
Citymall: 9.30pm
Tuol Kork: 9.25pm
Meanchey: 5.05pm
Missing Indigenous
Women @ RUFA
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
The role of women in Cambodias indigenous communities is discussed at RUFA this evening. CHARLOTTE PERT
Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman and Nick Frost star in
The Worlds End, tonight on HBO. SUPPLIED
Corn tortillas made from scratch and
prepared in authentic taqueria style.
For the entire day, customers can buy
one cocktail and get a taco with their
meal for free.
Corcina Cartel, #198b Street 19.
11:30am
Tacos @ Cocina Cartel
Salsa @ The Groove
+++
A presentation looking to highlight the
integral role played by women in
indigenous communities, focussing on
the stories of women from Ratanakkiri
province.
Royal University of Fine Arts, #72 Street
19. 6pm
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge again
at this regular exercise class, which
provides a good workout and a lot of
fun. $1.50 per person.
House #55-57 Street 123.
7:30pm
Entertainment
19
Dodgeball @
Street 123
SWIMMING POOL VILLA FOR
Rent: $2500/M near Russian
Market 2Living room, 4Bedroom,
5Baths Some Furniture, for Living
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
www.greathomerealestate.com
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $600/M near St169 and St128
1Livingroom 2Bedroom & 2Bath
Fully Furbished, Motor Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958

WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent $900/M in Tonle Basac area
1Livingroom 2Bedroom & 2Bath
Fully Furbished, 1Car Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
3BEDROOM: NICE VILLA FOR
Rent $2600/MTonle Basac Area
Big Living room, Wester Kitchen
3Bedroom, 4Bath, Full Furniture
Nice Garden Good for Resident
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
PENT-HOUSE APARTMENT
Rent $1900/M Mao Tse Tong &
St173, Terrace, Big Living room
3Bedroom, 3Bathroom, Western
Kitchen, Very Nice River Views
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
777 697
BIG BALCONY APARTMENT
Rent: $600/M near Central Market
1Living room, 2Bedrooms, 2Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958

2BR WESTERN APARTMENT
Rent $700/Mnear Russian Market
1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 1 For RENT at monthly
price $275-$700, fully furnished,
receptionists, security guards, backup
power, elevator, safe environment
and security camera Location: #37,
ST. 111, Boeung Brolit
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
www.vtrustproperty.com
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 2 For RENT at monthly
price $620-$900. Fully furnished
1&2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, balcony, internet,
water, cable TV included. Location:
#31, ST. 113, Boeung Brolit
012 944 191 | 012 912 651

VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 3 For RENT, a fully
furnished 1 bedroom, nice river view
from your balcony, price $500/m
with free internet, water, cable TV,
maintenance Location: #112, St.
Tonle Sap (peninsular)
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
VTRUST APARTMENT
Building 4 For RENT, a luxurious
2bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
dining room, monthly price 1,040$,
free for internet, water, cable TV.
Location: #247, ST.51 St. 360, BKK1
012 569 832| 012 944 191
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

Please visit VTRUSTServiced
Apartments for requirement of
fully furnished studio room, one
bedroom & 2 bedrooms with price
starts from $275/Month
012 944 191 | 012 912 651
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 21 , 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

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
4BEDROOM APARTMENT 4
Rent $750/Mon Boeung Kang
Kang3 1Living room, 4Bed , 4Bath
Fully Furnished, 1Car Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
UNIT SIZE: 4M X 12M
1 bed 1 bathroom 1 living room
1 kitchen 2 air-cons Fully furnished
Safe and quiet area Parking space
Free Internet and cable TV
Address: No. 36, Street 592 Z, in
Toulkork area, nearby international
schools, super markets, restau-
rants, coffee shop, hospitals
Price: 450$/ unit
Please contact 077 766 866 or
010 414072
Rent $550/M Tonle Basac Area
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
Rent $650/M near Russian Market
Fully Furnished, Big Balcony
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
Rent $450/M Free Internet, BKK3
Fully Furnished, 1Car Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
3BR SWIM- POOL APARTMENT:
for Rent: Loc Daun Penh Area
$1400/Month 3Bedroom, 2Bath
$1000/Month 1Bedroom, 1Bath
Big Livinroom, Western Kitchen
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
Rent Swimming Pool &Gym,
Russian Market or Toul Tom
Poung area $1400/M 3Bedr 2Bath
$850/Month 1Bedroom 1Bath
Fully Furbished, 1Car Parking
Tel 077 777 697 / 012 939 958
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 21, 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.
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
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.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
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
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
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

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
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

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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
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.
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
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

NICE VILLA FOR RENT
At BKKI, 03bedrooms, some
furnished, very niceandcleankitchen,
very safety, very nicetrees, very good
conditionfor livingandoffice.
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000

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

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
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
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
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Cheika agrees to coach
Wallabies, says report
SUPER Rugby-winning coach
Michael Cheika has agreed to
take charge of the Wallabies
after the shock resignation of
Ewen McKenzie and is
negotiating the details, a
report said yesterday.
McKenzie dropped his
bombshell shortly after New
Zealand narrowly beat
Australia 29-28 in the final
Bledisloe Cup Test in Brisbane
on Saturday, throwing the
Wallabies upcoming European
tour into chaos. The Australian
newspaper, citing an
informed source, said online
that NSW Waratahs coach
Cheika met with Australian
Rugby Union chief Bill Pulver
on Sunday and again
yesterday, and had agreed to
take the Wallabies job. AFP
Ilonen wins Volvo World
Match Play golf title
MIKKO Ilonen of Finland pulled
off the biggest victory of his
career at London Golf Club on
Sunday, defeating top seed
Henrik Stenson of Sweden
three-and-one in the final of
the Volvo World Match Play
championship. Ilonen clinched
the win, in what was the 50th
anniversary of the celebrated
European PGA Tour
tournament, on the 17th green
when Stenson, already two
down, conceded after missing
with a long birdie putt. The
game plan was not to make
any mistakes and I didnt make
any, said Ilonen, who won the
Irish Open this summer. AFP
Late surge lifts Martin
to first US PGA Tour win
BEN Martin played his last four
holes in four-under par on
Sunday to capture his first US
PGA Tour title at the Shriners
Hospitals Open. The 27-year-
old American fired a three-
under par final round of 68 at
TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas
for a 20-under par total of 268
and a two-stroke victory over
Kevin Streelman. Martin, who
was one-over par for the day
through 14 holes, followed a
birdie at 15 with an eagle at the
par-five 16th that put him in
the lead, and capped his round
with another birdie. It was an
awesome way to finish,
Martin said. I didnt feel like I
had much going all day. Four-
under on my last four to cap
my first win was just
awesome. AFP
Freak injury puts Svindal
in doubt for the worlds
NORWEGIAN ski great Aksel
Lund Svindal could miss the
world championships after
tearing his Achilles tendon while
playing football with his friends.
The five-time world champion
and 2010 Olympic super-G gold
medallist suffered the freak
injury after finishing a training
session with his team at
Soelden in Austria on Saturday.
He underwent surgery on
Sunday and could be ruled out
of the world championships in
the United States in February
where he would have been
defending his downhill title.
Shit happens, and thats
exactly what happened, wrote
the two-time overall World Cup
winner on his Facebook page.
Suddenly I felt something snap
in my leg and I knew right away
that something was wrong.
Achilles. AFP
Sport
Mosquitoes fill last playoff
spot by shattering Dream
H S Manjunath

S
IZE advantage played a huge
part in Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes
74-30 win over NSK Dream at
the Olympic Stadium Indoor
Arena on Sunday that gave the buzzers
the eighth and the last playoff seat in
the Angkor Beer Cambodian League.
With their playoff hopes shattered
once more, NSK Dream went out of
the round-robin phase to join the
winless GL Concrete on the sidelines.
Earlier in the day, Concrete had sur-
prised one and all by giving a stiff
ght to the top ranked Davies Paints
before last seasons champs ran out
92-81 winners on the back of Aimar
Sabayos 32-point effort.
Indisputably, it was the biggest
game of the league for both the Mos-
quitoes and Dream since they were
bitterly ghting for the last of the
playoff places and defeat was not an
option for either of them.
After a slow start, the Mosquitoes
managed to stay ahead 10-7 in the
rst quarter. But it was in the second
quarter that the Mosquitoes stepped
up the tempo through Steve Chunn
and Jeff Kane.
Reeling under this pressure,
Dreams defence nearly collapsed as
the Mosquitoes built up a 36-13 ad-
vantage at half time.
The next two sessions were mere ex-
tensions of the misery for Dream as the
Mosquitoes kept stretching away to-
wards a comfortable win that brought
them up to the eighth in the rankings.
The Mosquitoes meet the Emperors
tomorrow in their nal league game.
In Sundays third match, third
ranked Emperors scored a 54-48 win
over second placed Pate 310.
In the remaining round-robin
matches, Smart Dragons met Extra
Joss Warriors late last night while Me-
kong Tigers face CCPL Warriors today.
The eight team playoffs will begin on
October 25.
An NSK Dream player (in yellow) tries to drive past a Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes player during their Cambodian Basketball League game on
Sunday at the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena. SRENG MENG SRUN
CRICKET Australia yesterday
announced an amnesty for
anyone coming forward with
information relating to match-
xing or doping as it steps up
its ght against corruption
ahead of the World Cup.
Currently, players and of-
cials can be suspended for
up to ve years and ned for
failing to report a corrupt ap-
proach without delay or for
not disclosing information
about a cheating third party.
But, in a bid to encourage
people to come forward, an
amnesty applying only to
the reporting of information
and not to players who have
committed illegal acts them-
selves will be in place until
the end of November.
We think this is a respon-
sible approach to protecting
the game under our jurisdic-
tion, said CA senior manager
of integrity Iain Roy.
We need to ensure the Aus-
tralian public has full faith in
the integrity of the game and
the way it is administered.
Roy said there were no sug-
gestions Australian players,
ofcials or administrators
were corrupt, but the amnesty
would help ush out nefarious
characters ahead of next years
World Cup, hosted by Austra-
lia and New Zealand.
We hope that granting a
short amnesty period in rela-
tion to any previous non-re-
porting of relevant facts will
encourage anyone with in-
formation to come forward,
he went on to say.
Facilitating greater shar-
ing of information will as-
sist us in building a more
complete picture of the na-
ture and extent of corrupt
approaches that may have
taken place previously.
While we have a culture
of reporting, we think there
are still some who are not as
forthcoming as we would like.
We encourage players and of-
cials to subscribe to the mes-
sage that if you see it or hear it,
you should report it.
Proteas seek World Cup edge
South Africa opens a one-
day series against New Zea-
land today looking to strike
a psychological blow against
the Black Caps ahead of
the Cricket World Cup early
next year.
The three-match series,
which begins in the North
Islands picturesque Mount
Maunganui, will also give the
Proteas a chance to famil-
iarise themselves with local
conditions in preparation for
the World Cup pool matches
they will play at New Zea-
land venues. On paper, the
series should be a mismatch,
with South Africa ranked
the worlds second-best ODI
team, just behind Australia,
while New Zealand languish
at seventh. AFP
Australia amnesty to
dob in cricket cheats
Carter, Sonny Bill back
NEW Zealand yesterday wel-
comed back superstars Dan
Carter and Sonny Bill Williams
for next months northern
hemisphere tour but dropped
pivot Colin Slade, despite his
heroics against Australia at the
weekend.
Fly-half Carter, the worlds
most prolific international
points scorer, has not played
for New Zealand since break-
ing his leg in the Super 15 final
in August, while Williams
returns to the All Blacks after
two seasons playing rugby
league in Australia.
Coach Steve Hansen also
recalled flanker Victor Vito at
the expense of Steven Luatua,
and included promising scrum-
half Augustine Pulu as the only
uncapped player in the squad
for the four-Test tour.
Hansen admitted Slade, who
nervelessly slotted a conversion
after the siren to give the All
Blacks a 29-28 win over Aus-
tralia in Brisbane, was desper-
ately unlucky not to make the
34-man squad.
But he said the world cham-
pions have an embarrassment
of riches at fly-half with Carter,
Slade, Beauden Barrett and
Aaron Cruden.
Theres not much between
all four, he told reporters. Its
just unfortunate that one of
them has to miss out.
He said medics had reported
some nerve damage in Carters
injured leg but were confident
the 32-year-old, who has
played just 40 minutes of rug-
by since being sidelined,
would be fit by the time the
squad departs on Friday.
Hes damaged the nerve and
when he gets a bang on it, he
cant feel it. At first it took quite
a while to recover, now its
recovering within a day and
getting shorter and shorter all
the time, he said. So Im pret-
ty confident hell be available
to tour, otherwise we wouldnt
have named him.
Hansen said Williams, who
played the last of his 19 Tests
in August 2012, would con-
centrate on the inside-centre
role as he eases back into
rugby, rather than being used
as a utility back as he has been
in the past.
Realistically, what we want
to do with Sonny is get him
back into rugby and under-
standing what were trying to
do [so] limiting the number of
positions he has to learn at
this point would be sensible,
he explained.
New Zealand normally has a
33-man touring squad, but
Hansen said the All Blacks
decided to take an extra body
in Luke Romano, who is also
recovering from a broken leg
sustained on Super 15 duties,
as back-up for locks Brodie
Retallick and Sam Whitelock.
The tour opens with a Test
against the United States in
Chicago on November 1, then
England at Twickenham on
November 8, Scotland at Mur-
rayfield on November 15 and
Wales at the Millennium Sta-
dium on November 22. AFP
Dan Carter (front) returns to the All Blacks squad for the rst time
since he broke his leg in the Super 15 nal in August. AFP
Testing start at Chile
Homeless World Cup
CAMBODIAS Homeless World
Cup team were poles apart
from their Polish rivals on
Sundays opening day of the
2014 edition playing out in
Santiago, Chile. The diminutive
players from the Kingdom
struggled to contend with the
physicality imposed by the
Poland squad, who soundly
beat them 10-0. Team coach
Chao Vibol bemoaned the
absence of head coach Jimmy
Campbell, who was forced to
remain at home due to lack of
funds. Today was my first
game as coach after being
Jimmy Campbells assistant
for five years. Its a difficult job
and we miss Jimmy. The
players tried their best and
they learned a lot today, he
said, adding that their fitness
was good. Cambodias
Langeng Theng, meanwhile,
said: The Polish players were
very big and strong but we
gave our best. I know we will
improve as the tournament
goes on. The Kingdom have
been drawn in the intimidating
Group E including reigning
champions Brazil, Switzerland
and Namibia. DAN RILEY
Rodgers salutes his
resilient winger Sterling
BRENDAN Rodgers saluted
Raheem Sterlings courageous
display as the Liverpool star
ignored a week of criticism to
lead his side to an
unforgettable 3-2 win at QPR.
Sterling had endured
widespread derision after
England manager Roy
Hodgson revealed the Reds
winger had told him he was too
tired to play in last weekends
Euro 2016 qualifier against
Estonia. The 19-year-olds
commitment to his country and
passion for the sport were
subsequently questioned, but
Sterling made a point to the
critics as he produced two key
contributions at Loftus Road
on Sunday to seal the points
for Rodgerss men in one of the
most astonishing matches in
recent Premier League history.
With Hodgson watching from
the stands, former QPR
trainee Sterling silenced the
jibes of the home fans, who
chanted he sleeps when he
wants at the youngster, by
instigating the move that lead
to Liverpools opener and then
their unlikely winner deep into
stoppage-time. The best
players come alive when the
game goes dead, Rodgers
said. AFP
Football
23
AS Romas Marco Borriello (right) vies with Bayern Munichs Daniel van Buyten during their Group E Champions League match on November 23, 2010 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. AFP
Man City play behind closed
doors, Pep returns to Rome
M
ANCHESTER City con-
tinue their search for a
rst Champions League
win this season when
they face CSKA Moscow tonight, while
Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Barcelona
and Paris Saint-Germain are among
the sides in action elsewhere.
Group E
CSKA Moscow v Man City 11pm
After taking just one point from their
opening two matches, Premier League
champions City go to Russia to face
CSKA still looking for their rst win.
Manuel Pellegrinis men are fresh
from a 4-1 win against Tottenham
Hotspur at the weekend thanks to
four Sergio Aguero goals, although a
thigh injury suffered by Frank Lam-
pard in that game means he is set to
miss the trip.
The in-form Aguero also scored twice
when City won 2-1 against the same
opponents at the Arena Khimki in last
seasons competition, although that
match was overshadowed by racist
taunts from home supporters aimed at
Citys Yaya Toure.
More misbehaviour from CSKA fans
in their defeat at Roma last month saw
them punished by UEFA and this game
will be played behind closed doors as a
result, something that is likely to work
against the home side, who beat Kuban
Krasnodar 6-0 in the Russian Premier
League on Saturday.
Roma v Bayern Munich 1:45am
The match at the Stadio Olimpico
has the makings of being the standout
xture tonight.
Pep Guardiola takes his Bayern side
to the stadium where he led Barcelona
to victory in the Champions League -
nal in 2009, and the German champi-
ons will be looking to extend their un-
beaten start to the season. They have
won both games in Group E so far and
have gone eight matches without con-
ceding a goal in all competitions.
Group F
Apoel Nicosia v Paris Saint-Germain
1:45am
French champions PSG have yet to
lose in this campaign despite rarely
performing anywhere near their free-
owing best from last season. How-
ever, they were outstanding in defeat-
ing Barcelona 3-2 three weeks ago and
are fresh from a 3-1 win against Lens in
Ligue 1 on Friday.
Coach Laurent Blanc is still without
Marquinhos, Ezequiel Lavezzi and tal-
isman Zlatan Ibrahimovic but skipper
Thiago Silva returns to the squad for
the rst time since suffering a thigh in-
jury more than two months ago.
Barcelona v Ajax 1:45am
These clubs are meeting for the sec-
ond consecutive season in the Cham-
pions League, with Barcelona hoping
for a repeat of their 4-0 win over Ajax at
the Camp Nou in September last year.
The Catalans have won seven out of
eight games in La Liga this season and
are yet to concede a goal domestically,
but they lost 3-2 at PSG in their last
Group F outing and may have one eye
on Saturdays trip to face eternal rivals
Real Madrid.
Visitors Ajax will perhaps be re-
lieved that this will be the last game of
former Ajax star Luis Suarezs suspen-
sion for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the
World Cup.
Group G
Schalke 04 v Sporting Lisbon 1:45am
Roberto di Matteo, who won the
Champions League with Chelsea as
coach in 2012, leads his new club Schal-
ke in the competition for the rst time.
The Italian got off to a winning start
with the Gelsenkirchen side, leading
them to a 2-0 win over Hertha Berlin in
the Bundesliga on Saturday. And now
they could desperately do with another
victory after drawing their opening two
matches in Group G.
Chelsea v Maribor 1:45am
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho
has said that striker Diego Costa will
miss the visit of Slovenian champions
Maribor to Stamford Bridge with the
hamstring problem that kept him out
of the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace at the
weekend. However, even without the
prolic Spanish international, the Pre-
mier League leaders should be far too
strong for their visitors.
The London club have recorded nine
wins and two draws in 11 games this
season, although they were held 1-1 by
Schalke in their only previous home
outing in Group G.
Group H
Bate Borisov v Shakhtar Donetsk
1:45am
This encounter at the Borisov Arena
is likely to be pivotal to both teams
chances of progressing from Group
H, with BATE second on three points
from two games and Shakhtar a point
behind.
BATE, who have won eight consecu-
tive Belarusian titles, are unbeaten at
their recently-opened new stadium.
Indeed, they have not lost at home in
more than a year.
Unsettled by the conict in eastern
Ukraine, Shakhtar are not quite the
fearsome proposition they once were,
but they come into this game off the
back of a 6-2 win against Volyn Lutsk in
their domestic league on Friday.
Porto v Athletic Bilbao 1:45am
Athletic make the short trip to north-
ern Portugal in urgent need of a posi-
tive result after taking just one point
from their opening two matches.
The Basque side have gone eight
matches without a win in all competi-
tions but coach Ernesto Valverde be-
lieves they are on the right road after
drawing 1-1 with Celta Vigo in La Liga
on Saturday. And they will hope that
history repeats itself, having won 2-1
away to Porto in their rst ever Euro-
pean match in the European Cup pre-
liminary round in 1956. AFP
Goal celebration costs India hopeful his life
A YOUNG footballer lost his
life in Indias northeast over
the weekend after severely
injuring his spinal cord while
celebrating a goal he had
scored, newspapers reported
yesterday.
Peter Biaksangzuala, 23, fell
backwards on his head as he
took a series of somersaults
after scoring the equaliser for
his team in a local match in
Khawzawl town close to
Indias eastern border with
Myanmar last Tuesday, the
Times of India said.
As he lay on the ground in
pain, unsuspecting team-
mates jumped on him to cel-
ebrate before they realised
the extent of the injury and
summoned a stretcher to rush
him to hospital.
Biaksangzuala died on
Sunday after his condition
deteriorated in hospital as
doctors attempted to repair
his damaged spi ne, t he
newspaper quoted hospital
staff as saying.
Lal Hmar, a football official
in Mizoram state, told report-
ers in capital Aizawl that the
young footballer had donated
his eyes before his death.
Peter was a very talented
player who dreamt of playing
in the national league, Hmar
said. His death has come as
a big shock to all of us. We all
thought he will recover.
Hmar said the local associa-
tion was planning to hold a
charity match in Biaksang-
zualas memory.
Footballers are known to
injure themselves while cel-
ebrating a goal, however there
is no recorded instance of it
causing a death. AFP
English Premier League
Stoke 2 Swansea 1
Spanish La Liga
Atletico Madrid 2 Espanyol 0
Deportivo de La Coruna 3
Valencia 0
Elche 0 Sevilla 2
Villarreal 2 Almeria 0
German Bundesliga
Hamburg 1 Hoffenheim 1
Paderborn 3 E Frankfurt 1
Italian Serie A
Fiorentina 0 Lazio 2
Atalanta 1 Parma 0
Cagliari 2 Sampdoria 2
Palermo 2 Cesena 1
Torino 1 Udinese 0
Verona 1 AC Milan 3
Inter Milan 2 Napoli 2
French Ligue 1
Marseille 2 Toulouse 0
Bordeaux 1 Caen 1
Lyon 5 Montpellier 1
SUNDAYS RESULTS
Sport
Giants, Royals in World Series
Jim Slater

A
SAN Francisco Giants dy-
nasty seeking its third
crown in ve seasons faces
a team of destiny in the
Kansas City Royals when the 110th
World Series begins tonight.
The Royals, who host the rst two
games of Major League Baseballs
best-of-seven nal, snapped a 29-
year playoff drought this season
what had been the longest active
futility streak in major North Ameri-
can sport and have become the rst
team to start a playoff run with eight
wins in a row.
Were just clicking at the right
moment, Royals outelder Lorenzo
Cain said.
Were changing lives, Royals
outelder Jarrod Dyson said. Were
bringing excitement back. Thats
our goal.
Add three straight triumphs to close
out their only World series triumph in
1985 to their current run and the Roy-
als would match the all-time multi-
season playoff win streak of 12, set by
the New York Yankees, with a game-
one triumph.
This is a wonderful time for Amer-
ica to watch our team and I think
what they have done is theyve fallen
in love with our team, said Royals
manager Ned Yost.
They love our athleticism. They
love our energy. They love the way
these guys play hard and enjoy each
other. And they love the way that they
stand up and get clutch hits and make
fantastic plays, Yost added.
I think they just love the way we
play the game.
The Royals, a wildcard playoff qual-
ier like the Giants, dispatched Oak-
land in a one-game qualier, then
shockingly swept both the Los Ange-
les Angels and Baltimore Orioles to
win the American League crown.
Its a lot of pride, Royals general
manager Dayton Moore said. But at
the same time, we know its a really
special opportunity moving forward.
And were looking forward to that
challenge.
Giants battle tested
The Giants, who lost all three reg-
ular-season games against the Roy-
als, ousted Pittsburgh to start the
post-season, then downed Washing-
ton and St Louis to win the National
League title and book another World
Series for a team whose core players
took championships in 2010 over
Texas and 2012 over Detroit.
These guys have been through it.
They have been battle-tested and
they know how to handle them-
selves on this type of stage, Gi-
ants manager Bruce Bochy said. It
played such a huge role in this run
that weve had.
Giants pitcher Madison Bumgar-
ner says younger players have seen
the poise of veterans during the
playoff drive and learned from it.
Weve got a lot of guys thats been
through this and they know what
to expect and they are not afraid of
the moment, Bumgarner said. The
young guys that we have that have
not been through it, they see that
and then they feed off it and know
they dont have to be afraid either.
They are stepping up and mak-
ing some big plays for us and getting
some big hits. I really like the group
of guys that we have and its going to
be a fun series against Kansas City.
Yost, the rst manager to win his
rst eight playoff appearances, has
enjoyed watching his young team
come of age at just the right mo-
ment to put long-time losers on the
brink of baseball supremacy.
Understanding that these guys
have a timetable and when its right
its going to hit, to watch it grow and
develop in front of your eyes, this is
by far the most rewarding thing Ive
ever done in baseball, Yost said.
The Royals have rallied late when
trailing, battled through extra in-
nings, stolen bases with aggressive
play and hit home runs to overcome
all obstacles so far.
They grind away. They have a
lot of condence in themselves,
Yost said. Right from the beginning
of the playoffs, I dont know what
clicked for them, but something
clicked and they were totally used to
this atmosphere. There was no pres-
sure. They were loose. They were on
the attack and very condent.
Game One gets underway from
7:07am Cambodian time tomorrow
morning. AFP
The Kansas City Royals, who last made the MLB playoffs 29 years ago, will host Game One of the World Series against the San Francisco Giants at Kauffman Stadium tonight. AFP
Manning makes history on sensational NFL Sunday
PEYTON Manning broke Brett
Favres all-time record for
touchdown passes, leading
Denver to a 42-17 rout of San
Francisco to cap a scintillating
Sunday in the NFL.
Manning went into the game
needing three TD throws to
eclipse the record of 508 estab-
lished by Favre before he retired
after the 2010 season.
Manning had done it by half-
time, and added on a fourth
TD early in the third quarter to
stretch his record to 510 and
counting.
It was a special night, Man-
ning said. Its one Ill always
remember.
The five-time NFL Most
Valuable Player fired touch-
down passes on three of Den-
vers first four drives.
His eight-yard throw to
Demaryius Thomas on a third-
and-goal in the front right part
of the end zone broke the
record with 3:09 to play in the
second quarter.
Favre congratulated Man-
ning on Twitter shortly after.
Well deserved Peyton, Con-
gratulations on breaking my
record. #Onto600, he said.
However, Manning wasnt
the only NFL record-breaker
in week seven.
Dallass DeMarco Murray
became the first running back
in NFL history to open a sea-
son with seven straight 100-
plus yard games.
Murray gained 128 yards and
scored a touchdown in the
Cowboys 31-21 victory over
NFC East division rivals the
New York Giants.
He had matched Jim Browns
record of six 100-yard games to
start a season in the Cowboys
win over Seattle last week.
The Super Bowl champions
Seahawks fell short in their
effort to bounce back from that
defeat as they were stunned
28-26 by the St Louis Rams.
Rams quarterback Austin
Davis completed 18 of his 21
passing attempts with two
touchdowns and the Rams
added a punt return TD and
converted a gutsy fake punt
late in the game to seal the dra-
matic victory.
The defeat spoiled a record-
setting performance by Sea-
hawks signal-caller Russell
Wilson, who threw for 313
yards with two touchdowns
and also rushed for a game-
high 106 yards and a score.
Wilson became the first
player in NFL history with
300-plus passing yards and
100-plus rushing yards in a
single game.
The Rams narrow victory
was just one of the days nail-
biters.
Cairo Santos, Kansas Citys
rookie kicker from Brazil, boot-
ed a game-winning field goal
with 21 seconds to play in the
Chiefs 23-20 victory over AFC
West rivals San Diego.
Washington cut it even closer,
with Kai Forbath kicking his
fourth field goal of the game as
time expired to lift the Redskins
19-17 over Tennessee.
Corey Fullers touchdown
catch with less than two min-
utes to play capped a late
Detroit rally, lifting the Lions to
a 24-23 triumph over the New
Orleans Saints.
Buffalo quarterback Kyle
Orton connected with Sammy
Watkins for a two-yard touch-
down with one second remain-
ing in the Bills 17-16 win over
Minnesota.
The Bills overcame four turn-
overs and the loss of running
backs Fred Jackson and CJ
Spiller with injuries to pull off
the victory. AFP
Sundays Results
Baltimore 29 Atlanta 7
Jacksonville 24 Cleveland 6
Indianapolis 27 Cincinnati 0
Miami 27 Chicago 14
Green Bay 38 Carolina 17
Arizona 24 Oakland 13
Quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos passes against the
San Francisco 49ers during their NFL game on Sunday. AFP

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