Abigail Haworth

V
ANNITH Uy* is the owner of
what translates from Khmer as
a mobile nail salon, although
describing it as a salon is a
stretch. Its a bicycle with a crate on the
back filled with lotions and nail polishes.
Uy, 42, rides it around her Phnom Penh
neighbourhood a tangle of alleys near
the river where the residents domestic
lives spill out of their open front doors
until a customer flags her down. She per-
forms a manicure or pedicure on the spot,
sitting on a stool by the side of the street.
Three years ago, when she arrived from
the countryside, Uy had a different plan.
She wanted to open a hair and beauty
salon on proper premises in the Cambo-
dian capital. But my family could find
only dirty jobs, she says. I wanted a place
where my daughter and I could work
together. So Uy did something she
describes as her only choice: she sold
her 18-year-old daughter Chamnans vir-
ginity to a wealthy local for $1,500.
The man was a police general who fre-
quented the beer garden where Uy
worked as kitchen help, she says. He
bought Chamnan for six days and nights.
He installed her in a hotel room on Phnom
Penhs outskirts and visited her many
times to have sex. She was allowed to call
her mother once a day. By the third day,
Uy recalls, Chamnan was so weak and
distressed that the man summoned a
doctor to give her painkillers and a vita-
min shot so she had the strength to keep
going until the end of the week.
Uy received cash payment in full, but
her planned salon never materialised.
The money that had represented a life-
changing sum equivalent to about five
years salary in her home village in Kan-
dal soon trickled away. After shed paid
her sick husbands medical bills, given
cash to her ageing parents and bought
Sen David
A DAY after Prime Minister Hun
Sen pointed out the need for
more effective child protection
in Cambodia, police in Koh Kong
arrested and released a woman
who admitted to chaining her
4-year-old adopted daughter
inside their house eight hours a
day for the past two years.
Authorities and rights work-
ers placed the girl in a Ministry
of Social Affairs-approved shel-
ter on Friday evening, after fol-
lowing up on a complaint
lodged by a fellow resident of
the house in Kemarak Pumin
towns Smach Meanchey com-
mune, which shelters as many
as 60 farmers.
Police and rights group
Adhoc found the small girl sit-
ting on the floor with a chain
padlocked around her ankle,
securing her to a building post.
She told police that once, des-
perately thirsty, she drank her
own urine.
We think that the mother is
so poor that she did not have any
way of looking after the girl, said
Srey Touch, head of the Koh
Kong polices human rights and
juvenile protection unit. The
[adoptive] mother said the girl
used to get in rainwater and get
messy; she feared her daughter
may leave the house and drown
or get lost.
The girl moved in with the
suspect as collateral for a loan
the girls biological mother bor-
rowed from the woman about
two years ago, she told police.
The suspect, who worked as
a farmer at a plantation a
kilometre or so from the house,
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Laignee Barron
and Mom Kunthear
S
AO Mon* hasnt left
his small, fth-storey
apartment in Thailand
since the May 22 coup.
The 37-year-old asylum
seeker came to Thailand look-
ing for a safe haven ve years
ago, but now fears that at any
moment, he, his wife and two
young daughters will be ar-
rested and added to the swell
of over 250,000 Cambodian re-
turnees. But as Khmer Krom,
Mon and his family could face
more than just economic con-
sequences upon return.
If they arrest us and send
us back to Vietnam, I will die,
said Mon, who sorts chilies in
his living room to make money
without leaving the house.
Mon ed Vietnam in 2008 af-
ter police arrested him and his
father for celebrating a moon
festival observed annually by
the Mekong Deltas indigenous
Khmer Krom families. Police
beat Mons father until he was
permanently crippled.
We are Khmer, so we have
to learn our language, but the
Vietnamese always think for
some reason the people are
against them, Mon said.
Though he shares the lan-
guage, culture and religion of
Cambodia, Mon felt no safer
in the Kingdom, where rights
groups note that while Khmer
Krom are in theory recognised
as citizens of the state, in prac-
tice they struggle to obtain
ID cards and constantly face
the possibility of deportation.
The Minority Rights Organiza-
tion (MIRO) estimates that as
much as 30 per cent of Khmer
Krom in Cambodia are in ef-
fect stateless, living without an
ofcial nationality.
Five months after leaving
Vietnam, Mon raised enough
money to again smuggle his
family across a border, this
time hoping to obtain asylum
through the UN refugee agen-
cy in Thailand. Mon applied
for asylum in October, but in
February the UN rejected his
application. Since then, Mon
and monitoring NGOs attest
that what was already a dicey
security situation for refugees
in Thailand has deteriorated
into complete instability.
For Khmer Krom in Thai-
land, the circumstances have
gotten even worse as Thai au-
thorities [started] raiding to col-
lect illegal migrant workers and
send them back to Cambodia.
Most of [the Khmer Krom] are in
hiding and locking themselves
in their rooms, Ang Chanrith,
MIRO executive director, said.
In 2009 and 2013, groups of
asylum seekers were arrested
and forcibly deported from
Thailand at Cambodias behest
due to their political activities.
But now, Mon and others said
they dont even dare identify
themselves as Khmer Krom.
Its no secret that Thai-
land and Cambodia arent the
friendliest of friends, and that
may have added an unwanted
layer of complexity to the situ-
ation, US-based political ana-
lyst Peter Tan Keo said. The
military junta may be react-
ing, negatively of course, to
Thai dissident Jakrapobs pres-
ence in Cambodia . . . Indeed,
Khmer Kroms are seeking asy-
lum during an extremely inop-
portune time.
Advocates said alternative
options are extremely limited:
no other country in the region
will host them as refugees.
As long as the military is in
power, they will be more vul-
nerable and living in fear, but
I dont see much option, said
Ou Virak, Cambodian Center
for Human Rights chairman.
For now, Mon and his fam-
ily are holding their breath for
an asylum application appeal.
I really miss my homeland . . .
but I cannot go back and I can-
not stay here, he said.
Krom feel heat
after Thai coup
Child chained eight hours a day
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chained the toddler each workday from
7am to 11am and then from 1pm to 5pm,
she told police.
I felt so much pity for [the victim]; it is
so bad. I think that all children have the
right to be cared for, not chained up like a
dog, said Keo Chhon, 60, who recently
moved into the house and filed a complaint
about the girls situation to Adhoc. I won-
der why the other workers didnt report it,
but for me, I had to report it.
Child abuse is common among Cambo-
dias poor, and typically goes unreported,
said Chhan Sokunthea, head of the women
and childrens rights section at Adhoc.
Adults caring for children are typically
unaware of laws protecting their wards, as
are neighbours and family members who
witness the abuse, Sokunthea said. As a
result, children of poor parents are more
often the subject of beatings and other
abuse, and there can be even fewer reper-
cussions for abusive adults compared with
their middle- or upper-class counterparts.
I myself think its unfair, because in
Cambodia 75 to 80 per cent are unedu-
cated and they dont know how to care for
their kids, Sokunthea said. Rarely is there
a case where the neighbour or relative
make a complaint.
The case comes after multiple high-pro-
file instances of child abuse to which police
have recently responded.
A Phnom Penh Municipal investigating
judge last week accused a Meanchey
district couple of human trafficking and
intentional violence for allegedly severely
beating two sisters ages 7 and 14 who
were living and working in the couples
home as maids. Their father worked for
the familys construction company.
When Hun Sen called for greater juvenile
protection efforts on Thursday, he refer-
enced the case of a 9-year-old pagoda boy
allegedly brutalised for months by a monk
in the capital.
Children have special rights, Sokunthea
said. Its not fair for parents or a step-par-
ent or relatives to be violent with them.
Police removed the 4-year-old from the
house on Friday and questioned the sus-
pect at the provincial police station. They
let the woman go after she signed a con-
tract promising not to repeat her crime,
Touch of the Koh Kong police said.
Bon Pel, a deputy in Koh Kongs Social
Affairs department, said the suspect
showed no signs of mental illness, and said
she loved the girl but had no one to look
after her when she went to work.
When informed of the womans arrest,
her years of chaining the girl to a post and
the 4-year-olds move to a childrens shelter,
the girls biological mother, who lives in
Preah Vihear province, said she could not
take back and care for her daughter, Pel
said. But the girl will not be sent back to live
with the suspect, he added.
I told the adoptive mother that it is ille-
gal to chain a child up alone in a house. She
could have brought the daughter with her
to work at the plantation or sent her to a
neighbours to look after her for a while, but
[chaining the girl inside the house] is dam-
aging to childrens mental health, Pel said.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
A 4-year-old girl sits with her leg chained to a pillar in Koh Kong on Friday after reports she was
chained up every day for two years . PHOTO SUPPLIED
Illegal Ratanakkiri gem mine raided
Phak Seangly
DISTRICT and military police
in Ratanakkiri raided an illegal
gem mine inside a Chinese
companys land concession on
Saturday but failed to make any
arrests, according to a rights
group representative.
Chhay Thy, provincial coor-
dinator for Adhoc, said about
200 illegal gem miners had set-
tled on an old rubber planta-
tion granted to the Swift Rub-
ber Company in Laminh
communes Trum village.
The miners set up more than
100 camps at the plantation,
where they used devices such
as iron bars, logs, wood, strings
and baskets for illegal and hap-
hazard mining, he said.
Mao Sun, Bakeo district
police chief, confirmed that no
one was arrested in the raid.
When they saw our forces,
they just ran into the forest,
he said, adding that Swift Rub-
ber had requested that police
evict the miners. They are
Cambodian people who often
search the mine to support
their families.
Chhay Thy said it was unclear
for whom the workers were ille-
gally extracting the gems.
Collusion may have been
behind this case; otherwise,
hundreds of miners would not
have been able to work the
company land. We asked the
miners, and they said they dug
for their boss, but they did not
say who their boss is, he said.
Adhoc is investigating a dis-
pute between Swift Rubber and
120 families in Ratanakkiris
OChum district, who claim
they are being evicted without
compensation from the firms
3,000-hectare concession.
A Swift Rubber representa-
tive who could not be reached
yesterday said in May that the
families are living illegally on
company property.
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Missing mountaineer found
Mining accidents kill two
Laignee Barron
and Vong Sokheng
A SINGAPOREAN teacher-in-
training and amateur moun-
taineer reported missing in
Cambodia last week was found
alive and healthy at the foot of
Kampong Speus Oral Moun-
tain yesterday.
Sanjay Radakrishna, a
26-year-old adventure enthu-
siast, came to Cambodia on a
solo trip to trek his way up the
1,813-metre peak, the King-
doms largest.
Radakrishnas last contact
with family and friends was on
June 30, when he told his girl-
friend that he had been pre-
vented from climbing the
mountain that day due to
inclement weather.
Sanjay going missing was
quite a shock, said Amin Rus-
lan, a friend on the same foot-
ball team. Hes quite an avid
mountain climber, so this trip
shouldnt have been a prob-
lem; hes been to the base
camp of Mount Everest a
few times.
Ruslan added that his friend
is always going on his adven-
tures but also maintains regu-
lar contact and posts updates
and pictures on his Facebook.
But this go around, at least,
Radakrishna appeared to be in
search of a more unplugged
experience. He was last spotted
on July 1 with a guide at the
base of Oral, and nobody had
heard from him since.
While his friends and young-
er brother were frantically rais-
ing money to hire a private
investigator, and the Singapo-
rean Embassy in Phnom Penh
was on high alert and organis-
ing a search and rescue team,
local police stumbled across
the mountain man exactly
where he said he would be.
We deployed our police at
the feet of Oral Mountain and
were ready to send some other
officers to climb the mountain
to find him, but we just found
him at the foot of the moun-
tain, said Met Muth, Kampong
Speus deputy police chief.
Radakrishna was immedi-
ately taken to the Singaporean
Embassy and was unavailable
to comment yesterday. The Sin-
gaporean looked well and
healthy, according to Muth,
who was not able to confirm
why the climber had lost con-
tact with the outside world or
whether he had successfully
made it up the mountain.
Mom Kunthear
TWO artisanal miners died and one was seri-
ously injured in two separate accidents on Sat-
urday, police said yesterday.
One man was killed and one sustained serious
injuries while working for a Chinese mining com-
pany at Kbal Damrei commune in Kratie prov-
inces Sambor district.
A man died and another one was seriously
injured because the rope tied to his body
was cut and they fell into the mine shaft,
Chhin Sambo, Sambor district deputy police
chief, said.
Sambo could not confirm the name of the Chi-
nese company.
Song Sopheak, police chief in Battambang
provinces Phnom Prek district, said another
victim, Chea Sam Eoun, 29, was digging in a
family-run gold mine with three others near
the Cambodia-Thailand border when the mine
collapsed, killing him.
They did not work for companies . . . They
found the mine on their land and knew there was
gold under the ground, he said.
Song Sopheak added that the land where they
were digging is soft with a lot of mud, and the
victim had dug down about 4 metres.
The soft land will easily collapse. The three
men were lucky that they could escape and
climbed up, Sopheak said. At first, we could not
find the dead body since he was under the
ground since 2:30pm. But we found the body . . .
at midnight.
Song Sopheak said there are not many villagers
looking for gold mines since the authorities
warned them about the dangers, but there are a
few still mining illegally.
Capital face-off
Land battle
leads locals
to protest

A
BOUT 100 villagers in the
capitals Por Sen Chey
district who allege two
powerful families are trying to
push them off their land pro-
tested yesterday after workers
fenced off more than 3 hectares
of the land they claim in Kouk
Rokar commune.
Ry Sorphea, 44, a representa-
tive of the villagers, said that 10
years ago, the 400 affected
families bought the 450 plots of
land from local businessman
Kheng Song for between $1,000
and $1,600 each. Song and the
. . . authorities claimed that their
land was not disputed or state
land, she said.
But another businessman,
Keo Bengvoath, has now
claimed the land as legally his.
The villagers want to be paid
the current value of the land,
which they estimate has risen
to between $8,000 and $10,000.
Euong Seakkheng, Songs wife,
said the Bengvoath clan had not
worked in cahoots with her hus-
band, as the villagers allege.
Bengvoaths lawyer, who
requested anonymity, said that
the land had been owned by
his client since 1993. KHOUTH
SOPHAKCHAKRYA
Kratie well claims three lives
Mom Kunthear

T
HREE people, includ-
ing a mother and son,
died at the bottom of
a well in Kratie prov-
ince on Saturday after trying
to save a drowning dog, mark-
ing the second such incident
in little more than a month.
Men Bun Theoun, Prek
Prasab district police chief,
told the Post that the incident
happened after a beloved pet
fell down the 10-metre-deep
shaft, leading its 25-year-old
owner Say Phal to go after it in
a desperate bid to save its life.
When Phal failed to surface
from the well, his mother, 64-
year-old Van Soy, and neigh-
bour, 37-year-old Chhorn
Chhum, followed.
The rst person who died
was the owner of the dog. He
climbed into the well using
a rope to help the dog, but
he did not come back. That
caused the second person,
who was his neighbour, to go
into the well to help the rst
man but he did not come back
either, Bun Theoun said.
Finally, Soy made the fatal
descent into the well in hope of
saving the men and the dog.
All three of them and the dog
died . . . and we concluded that
the victims died because of a
lack of oxygen at the bottom of
the well, Bun Theoun said.
According to scientists, at
oxygen levels between 4 and
6 per cent, humans fall into a
coma within 40 seconds, fol-
lowed by convulsions before
respiration ceases. Oxygen
levels above ground are nor-
mally about 21 per cent.
Bun Theoun said a lack of
knowledge about the risks
posed beneath the surface
caused Saturdays tragedy.
The victims were not aware
of the dangers of the well;
thats what caused this to hap-
pen, he said.
Following the incident, vil-
lagers spent more than an
hour hoisting the bodies to
ground-level, Bun Theoun
said, adding that the fate of
the well was now uncertain.
The water in the well is
used every day, but we cov-
ered it up so people would
stop using it. I do not know
yet if it will be destroyed or if
they will keep it.
Suom Sokhim, a Kratie pro-
vincial police ofcer, said that
authorities regularly dissemi-
nate information to locals
about how to stay safe when
using wells.
We have to remember that
in the deep well, there is a lack
of the oxygen, he said, adding
that he believed the incident
could have been avoided.
They could have used a sieve,
plastic bag or basket with rope
tied around it to put into the
well in order to allow the dog
to hang on to it. Their lives
were too short, he said.
Last month, seven people,
including four children, died
at the bottom of a well in Siem
Reap province after the fa-
ther of a poor family dropped
3,000 riel ($0.75) and a ciga-
rette lighter into the 5-me-
tre-deep shaft, leading the
others to follow.
As with Saturdays fatali-
ties, police and health ofcials
attributed the deaths to a
low level of oxygen in the
well shaft.
Villages huddle around a well in Kratie provinces Prek Prasab district after three people perished trying to
save a drowning dog. PHOTO SUPPLIED
We deployed our
police at the feet of
Oral Mountain and
were ready to send
some other officers to
climb . . . to find him
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Inside Cambodias shocking virginity trade
Continued from page 1
Chamnan a gold necklace to
raise her spirits, there wasnt
much left. Uy had underesti-
mated the task of clawing her
way out of hardship; her strick-
en expression as she talks sug-
gests she also miscalculated the
personal costs of selling her
daughters body to try.
Often overlooked for more
dramatic tales of enslavement
in brothels, the trade in virgins
is one of the most endemic
forms of sexual exploitation in
Cambodia. It is a market sus-
tained by severe poverty and
ingrained gender inequality. Its
clients are influential Cambo-
dians and other members of
Asias elite who enjoy impunity
from a corrupt justice system.
Most misunderstood, many of
those involved in the transac-
tions are not hardcore crimi-
nals. They are mothers, fathers,
friends and neighbours.
In Cambodia, the demand for
virgins is big business that
thrives due to cultural myth
and other factors.
Many Asian men, especially
those over 50, believe sex with
virgins gives them magical
powers to stay young and ward
off illness, says Pung Chhiv
Kek, president of rights group
Licadho. Theres a steady sup-
ply of destitute families for the
trade to prey on here, and the
rule of law is very weak.
The belief that sex with vir-
gins increases male vigour has
long held sway among powerful
men in Asia, including Chinas
Chairman Mao Zedong.
Unlike sex-tourist pedo-
philes who seek out children
under 10 years old, local men
dont care so much about a vir-
gins age only her beauty and
the fact shes pure, Kek says.
Parents who sell their daugh-
ters virginity have little con-
cept of child rights. They
regard their offspring as
their property.
Based on Licadhos work
inside communities, Kek esti-
mates that many thousands
of virgins aged between 13 and
18 are sold every year. As well
as rich Cambodians, men from
countries such as China, Sin-
gapore and Thailand are regu-
lar buyers, too.
They travel here on business
and have everything prear-
ranged by brokers: a five-star
hotel, a few rounds of golf and
a night or two with a virgin,
says Eric Meldrum, who works
as an anti-exploitation consult-
ant in Phnom Penh.
The lack of hard figures is
partly due to the trades secrecy,
Meldrum adds. Brokers operate
underground, changing tactics
and locations often. Plus the
fact that close relatives are often
involved means it rarely fits into
strict definitions of sex traffick-
ing, so it doesnt show up in
those statistics either.
But theres another reason the
trade is virtually invisible. Says
Kek: In terms of activism, few
organisations highlight virgin
buying, even though its a dev-
astating abuse of young wom-
en. Its seen as difficult to gen-
erate sympathy among foreign
donors, she explains, so many
NGOs sidestep the issue. The
fear is that, while people might
feel sorry for the girls, theyd be
too outraged about parents
selling their daughters to open
their wallets.
That moral complexities are
sometimes ignored by those
purporting to help was under-
scored in late May. Somaly
Mam, a self-styled former sex
slave and Cambodias most
famous anti-trafficking cam-
paigner, was forced to resign in
disgrace from the US-based
foundation that bears her name.
On the back of heartbreaking
stories, Mam was feted by the
media and raised millions of
dollars at New York galas. Her
downfall came after an investi-
gation revealed significant parts
of her stories were untrue.
The awful irony of Mams fall
is that she didnt need to lie. Sex
trafficking and exploitation
exist in Cambodia, just often in
less made-for-TV ways than her
tragic tales suggested.
People respond to emotion-
al stories, and they hand over
their money without under-
standing underlying causes or
long-term solutions, says
Sebastien Marot, director of
NGO Friends International. But
in the case of the virgin trade,
he says, progress is hard.
At Vannith Uys home, a dark,
room she rents for $17 a week,
she tells me about her struggle
to find work when she first
arrived in Phnom Penh. Her
husband was injured and she
had two children to support.
The only work I could find
was as a kitchen help in a beer
garden. I found Chamnan a job
serving ice at the same place.
Uy hated the atmosphere,
which she says became more
predatory as the night wore on.
Chamnan is pretty, and all the
men loved her. They made
comments about her body.
While prostitution isnt open-
ly advertised, many of the host-
esses and beer girls supplement
their income by selling sex to
customers after-hours. Brokers
also frequent the gardens, tout-
ing for men who want to
buy virgins or who have other
special requests.
Uy says the thought of selling
Chamnans virginity hadnt
occurred to her until the oppor-
tunity arose. A tall customer in
his 50s noticed Chamnan . . .
One evening, he asked me if she
was a virgin, and said he want-
ed to buy her. She found out
before the sale took place that
he was an off-duty police gen-
eral. Uy eventually agreed
because she saw it as a chance
to save Chamnan from becom-
ing drawn into regular sex work.
It was only a matter of time. All
the girls who worked there
seemed to do it eventually.
Economic opportunities are
especially dire for women, who
earn an average of only 27 cents
for every dollar earned by a
man, according to the Asian
Development Bank. Working in
a beer garden or karaoke bar
and doing sex work on the side
can bring in double the mini-
mum garment wage of $100
per month.
But sex work is not only crim-
inalised under the law, leaving
those who do it by choice (or lack
of it) vulnerable to official abuse,
it also brings deep social shame
thanks to enshrined expecta-
tions of female chastity.
That standard is another rea-
son virginity is so valued, of
course. Men typically pay
between $1,000 and $5,100 to
buy a virgin for up to a week. Uy
didnt know the going rates, but
she believed the offer of $1,500
for Chamnan would be enough
to change their fate. I explained
my idea to Chamnan. She
wasnt happy about going with
the man, but she told me
she understood.
In fact, cultural norms also
dictate that women must obey
and help their parents, a rule
that is almost universally fol-
lowed. It would have been dif-
ficult for Chamnan to refuse.
When she came home after-
wards, I knew she was sad, but
we didnt speak about it. We
both felt it was better to forget
it ever happened.
Uy took a better-not-to-know
approach with her husband, too.
To preserve Chamnans virtue in
his eyes, she told him she had
saved up the money from tips.
Cambodian parents love their
children as much as anyone,
says Nget Thy, Cambodian
Center for the Protection of Chil-
drens Rights director. But its
hard to overstate how many
problems exist in some commu-
nities. Any misfortune, from
losing a family member to losing
a game of cards, can push peo-
ple below the level they need to
eat, he says. Attitudes that chil-
dren exist for their parents ben-
efit, and women exist for mens
benefit, are very, very wrong . . .
But its the men who buy virgins
who are the criminals.
At a riverside slum I meet
Dara Keo*. Daras mother,
Rotana*, sold her virginity when
she was just 12 years old, after
her father died leaving gam-
bling debts. The slums shacks
are home to about 1,000 people,
many of whom recycle rubbish
as their only source of income.
Dara, now 18, says almost every
teenage girl there is sold for her
virginity, usually in deals
made with their parents by
female neighbours who work
as brokers. Everyone knows it
happens, but nobody talks
about it openly.
Daras account, and those of
other young women I speak to
in the slum, reveal the trades
dehumanising efficiency.
After my mother sold me for
$500, the broker took me to a
doctor to have my virginity
checked and a blood test for
HIV, Dara says. There were
other girls there. We were made
to take off our clothes and stand
in a line until it was our turn to
be examined. (Buyers insist on
proof of virginity to make sure
they are not being tricked.)
Then she was taken to meet
her buyer in a hotel room. The
man, who was wearing a dark
suit and a gold watch, didnt
speak or look at her at all, Dara
says. He pinned me down on
the bed, unzipped his trousers
and forced himself into me. The
pain was very great.
Over the next week, he came
to the hotel to have sex with her
two or three times a day. He
didnt use a condom. A few
times he asked if he was hurting
me. When I told him yes, he
used even more force.
I ask about the mans identity.
Dara gives me the name of a
Cambodian politician who is still
in office. Its impossible for her
to reveal his name publicly. By
the time she was allowed to
return home, her vagina was
torn and bruised. Her mother
took her to a doctor, who gave
her painkillers and said her inju-
ries would heal on their own.
A senior police officer who
agreed to speak anonymously
says prominent men like poli-
ticians do not fear being caught
because they know the police
wont act.
If you try to enforce the law
with these men, you will have a
big problem, he says, dressed
in civilian clothes in a coffee
shop. I have been threatened,
and some of my colleagues
working on this issue have had
their jobs threatened.
He relates how he has been
warned by people high up not
to pursue cases of virgin buying
(and also rape) because having
sex is human nature and such
issues were not serious.
He mentions a case last year of
a senior military officer diag-
nosed with cancer and given a
year to live. His wife allowed him
use more than $1.7 million of
their family money to enjoy
himself before he died. We
knew he was buying a new virgin
every week, but there was noth-
ing we could do, says the police-
man. (The man died recently).
Men in power or big business
who have a good relationship
with each other are the only
people who can afford to buy
virgins, he adds, so arresting per-
petrators is blocked by corrup-
tion at the very top. Although all
forms of buying and selling sex
are illegal in Cambodia, not one
Khmer man has ever been con-
victed of purchasing virgins.
During her year working at
the beer garden, Uy saw
firsthand how the countrys
male elite bought virgins with
entitled ease. She saw more
than 50 young women being
purchased, like they were deli-
cious food. As well as the police
general who bought Chamnan,
she came to know an ageing
politician from the ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party.
She mentions the politicians
name. (It is not the same politi-
cian who bought Dara.) Uy said
the man went further than pur-
chasing virgins for his immedi-
ate pleasure he reserved
girls for the future. He asked
mothers to bring their under-
age daughters to the beer gar-
den after-hours, she explains.
Then he chose the ones he
liked, and gave their mothers
some money every week to buy
rice until the girls grew up.
Mu Sochua, opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
lawmaker-elect, said increased
education about womens rights
is needed to change attitudes.
We need to win public sup-
port for an effective rule of law
that punishes those who buy
sex, not those who sell it.
But how likely is such a
change? Take the politician
who gave big tips that Uy men-
tioned. Its such an open secret
that he is a prolific buyer of
virgins that a Cambodian jour-
nalist who knows him well
offered to introduce me to him.
He was sure the politician
would talk if I agreed to quote
him anonymously.
The journalist quickly decid-
ed not to get involved. Even so,
the moment suggested the lack
of shame surrounding the prac-
tice and how much men like the
politician must take their impu-
nity for granted. THE OBSERVER
*To protect the safety of wom-
en cited in the article, some
names have been changed.
Hostesses prepare for a performance to entice male customers to use their services at a beer garden in Phnom Penh last year. WILL BAXTER
A group of hostesses wait at the entrance of a beer garden for potential customers in Phnom Penh last year.
It is not uncommon for hostesses to engage in sexual acts for money. WILL BAXTER
National
5
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Meas Sokchea
AS OPPOSITION leaders
marked the anniversary of the
1997 coup on the weekend,
the royalist Funcinpec party
lashed out, criticising the
Cambodia National Rescue
Party for exploiting a tragedy
for political benet.
Funcinpec secretary-general
Nhek Bun Chhay, who com-
manded the royalist forces of
Prince Norodom Ranariddh
against Cambodian Peoples
Party troops led by Hun Sen,
said the event was held to
seek political gain.
Thats why we hold this cer-
emony during Pchum Ben and
Khmer New Year, because [the
spirit] of individuals who died
will come to nd their relatives
[at that time of year], he said.
Some [politicians] have said
we do not dare to hold this cer-
emony on July 5 to 6 because
we are afraid of the Cambodi-
an Peoples Party, but [the CPP]
has never banned us.
Yem Ponharith, CNRP law-
maker-elect, said the Sam
Rainsy Party held the ceremo-
ny for years before the CNRP
was founded in 2012.
We had no intention to
seek [political] gains. We only
thought about the loyalty of
the soldiers who were patriots
and struggle to chase the yuon
out of Cambodia, he said,
using a term for Vietnamese
some consider derogatory.
At the event on Saturday in
Phnom Penhs Meanchey dis-
trict, CNRP deputy leader Kem
Sokha used the platform to an-
nounce the establishment of a
documentation centre to in-
vestigate crimes perpetrated
by the ruling CPP, without ref-
erencing exact incidents.
Why do we need to create
this centre? Because we know
the strategy of dictators. The
centre would be based in an as
yet undetermined country, he
added, in order to protect the
records from destruction.
I have already contacted
some Khmers and foreign
friends to arrange this centre
to store evidence of the crimes
of the current power . . . and to
make sure that your commit-
ment has not been forgotten.
[Your actions] have been
noted; they are only waiting
for [Hun Sens] appearance
at the International Criminal
Court, he said.
Council of Ministers spokes-
man Phay Siphan could not be
reached, and National Assem-
bly spokesman Chheang Vun
declined to comment.
CNRP exploiting coup
anniversary: royalist
Illegal logging reports sought
May Titthara

I
NTERIOR Minister Sar
Kheng has issued a letter
calling on all municipal
and provincial adminis-
trations to le reports to his
ofce on the state of their ef-
forts to combat the illegal ex-
ploitation of natural resources,
including forests and sheries.
The letter, dated July 4 and
obtained by the Post yesterday,
requires the ofcials to le the
reports, which must also cover
legitimate resource exploita-
tion, by July 20.
Please evaluate the activity
of logging and shery crimes
across provinces and areas
where it is happening, the let-
ter says. Provinces with border
checkpoints and [transporta-
tion] corridors are requested to
report the transporting of logs,
both legally and illegally, as well
as the measures the authorities
are taking [in response].
In a story just last week in
the Post, numerous sources
detailed a large bribery net-
work abetting the movement
of illegally logged timber in
Ratanakkiri province. The re-
porter personally witnessed
bribes exchanging hands be-
tween traders and police.
The Kheng letter follows an
April 24 Council of Ministers
directive requesting that guide-
lines on the management, sus-
tainable use and preservation
of protected natural resources
be drawn up. The reports are
expected to lead to a set of rec-
ommendations being passed
on to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
But Chhim Savuth, direc-
tor of the NGO the Natural
Resource Protection Group,
questioned the motives be-
hind the issuance of the let-
ter, suggesting that it might be
little more than a public rela-
tions exercise.
If the government really
wants to prevent forest crimes,
it would not be difcult, be-
cause the logs are transported
by huge trucks and they can-
not be hidden like drugs. But
those ofcers do not dare act,
because those who do this
kind of business are senior
government ofcers, he said.
Forestry Administration di-
rector Chheng Kimsun and
deputy director Ung Samath
could not be reached.
A recent report by the Minis-
try of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries pointed to more than
80,000 hectares of land that
have been reforested from
2008 to 2012.
However, several studies last
year showed deforestation on
a huge scale, with one paper
nding that more than a third
of the countrys forests have
been lost since 1973.
Timber that was allegedly felled illegally sits in a pile in Ratanakkiri province late last month prior to being
transported. HENG CHIVOAN
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Kandal criminal learns
that cops never forget
FOR one Kandal con, the year
2009 seemed a lifetime ago;
for police, it felt like yesterday.
And so it goes in one of the
blotters routine chestnuts,
which repeated itself on Satur-
day. Police said the 24-year-old
suspect fled Ang Snuol district
five years ago after an argu-
ment at a wedding party saw
him beat a man over the head
with a stick. Thinking the mat-
ter had faded into memory, he
returned to his village, only to
find his crime all too fresh in
the minds of the local cops.
Court awaits. NOKORWAT
Motodop hospitalised
after brutal gang attack
A MOTODOP in Poipet is recov-
ering from severe injuries after
a brutal attack left him in hos-
pital on Friday night. Police
said a group of four men in a
car first drove the victim off the
road then proceeded to attack
him with wooden sticks and a
cleaver. As villagers arrived to
attend to the victim, the men
fled, later abandoning the car.
Cops are now hunting for the
quartet. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Not-so-smooth criminal
busted a day after theft
THE case of the missing moto,
cracked in the space of hours,
isnt likely bound for the
annals of capital crime. Police
said the bikes disappearance
occurred on Friday when its
owner locked it away as nor-
mal before retiring for the
night. Hours later, the suspect,
a 28-year-old neighbour,
broke in and made off with the
moto, which soon netted him
$300. But when the victim
confronted him the next morn-
ing in the company of police,
he cracked under the pressure
and fled, leaving little doubt to
his guilt. He confessed after
capture. KOH SANTEPHEAP
No time for deals for
gang caught with drugs
A QUARTET of would-be Tony
Montanas saw real life come
crashing down around them
when stopped by police on Fri-
day. Aged 16 to 24, the four-
some were cruising Siha-
noukville on their regular drug
delivery rounds when pulled
over. The men quickly con-
fessed not only to dealing
drugs for a period of months
but to a previous shootout with
police. Cops confiscated their
motos, phones and yama on
the spot, and they now await a
court hearing. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Man lucky to live after
major traffic accident
HIS vision impaired by the tor-
rential rain, a 27-year-old
blacksmith is lucky to be alive
after a traffic accident on Fri-
day. Police said the injured
man had just returned to the
capital from his home in Kan-
dal when he careered into the
back of a truck loaded with
sand as it backed up in Chbar
Ampos district. The collision
left the smithy with a broken
thigh and serious head injury,
but police declined to arrest
the trucks operator, saying
neither man could be blamed
for the crash. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Company
destroyed
rice eld
Phak Seangly
REPRESENTATIVES of a Chi-
nese firm embroiled in a land
dispute in Preah Vihear prov-
ince have destroyed a hectare of
rice fields to drive a farmer away,
villagers alleged yesterday.
According to 45-year-old vil-
lager Tem Song, on June 28 six
Cambodian and Chinese
employees of Roy Feng com-
pany sprayed a chemical sub-
stance on his rice, which he
says destroyed the crop.
My family has been waiting
for the company to clear
[another area] for us to plant
rice, but because they have not
done it, we returned to farm on
the old land, but the company
destroyed it with a chemical
substance, Song said.
I am preparing lawsuits . . .
and will file them this Wednes-
day to [rights group] Adhoc, the
authorities and the court.
Adhoc provincial coordina-
tor Lor Chhan denounced the
alleged action.
The destruction of the vil-
lagers rice like that is a serious
violation of human rights and
economic rights, he said.
The company could not be
reached for comment.
Bus workers win rejected
Mom Kunthear

T
HE general manager
of Phnom Penh Sorya
Transportation Bus
Company says he will
likely reject a Friday ruling by
the Arbitration Council order-
ing the reinstatement of 15
employees red for trying to
form a labour union.
Sorya Transportation gen-
eral manager Chan Sophanna
yesterday said he had not re-
ceived the councils decision,
but that he would only rehire
the workers if the council
helped him pay their salaries.
If I accept them back, who
will help me to pay their sal-
ary? If [the Arbitration Coun-
cil] helps me pay their salary,
then I will agree with them,
Sophanna said. I do business
to make a prot not lose mon-
ey, so if they try to force me to
accept this, I will appeal to a
higher court.
The case began in April
when, according to Yem Kuy-
ba, vice president of the newly
conceived bus driver union, 17
employees were red for try-
ing to form a chapter at Sorya.
Sophanna at the time said he
red only ve drivers and that
the others left on their own.
More than 60 people went
on strike following the sack-
ings, demanding reinstate-
ments, a salary rise and several
other points. Most drivers later
returned to work, leaving only
those who had been terminat-
ed to continue protesting.
Kuyba led a lawsuit with
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
in April, which was forwarded
to the Arbitration Council.
There were 17 workers red,
whose case the Arbitration
Council heard after workers
protested many times with
no resolution, Kuyba said
yesterday. The council on
Friday announced the com-
pany must rehire 15 workers
and pay benets according to
the law to the other two.
Unsure whether Sorya
Transportation would ac-
cept the councils decision,
Kuyba said he and the other
red workers would continue
ghting the dismissals.
We will have a meeting on
Tuesday to talk about [So-
phannas] decision. Im not yet
sure whether the company will
accept the ruling, Kuyba said.
We will sue Sorya Trans-
portation in court and resume
protests if the company de-
clines the Arbitration Coun-
cils decision.
Striking Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation workers hold placards at the rms bus station in the capitals
Daun Penh district in April. PHA LINA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
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Online registration option to be rolled out to SMEs
Annie Lee
THE Ministry of Industry and Handi-
craft will introduce an online registra-
tion platform for Cambodias small-
and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) this year, a ministry official
confirmed yesterday.
Heng Sok Kong, secretary of state at
the ministry, said the new software for
web registration was built in partner-
ship with the International Finance
Corporation. A three-month pilot
project to teach businesses how to use
it will commence later this year.
The pilot project for the online reg-
istration will operate in regions like
Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, where
more people can access computers.
Sok Kong said SMEs with start-up
capital of $3,000 or more would be
able to register using the new process,
which will take businesses just two to
three days to complete.
If people go to the ministry instead,
starting from handing documents
from the ground level, it usually takes
10 to 15 days to finish the whole proc-
ess, he said.
The online registration can re-
duce corruption, as the process is
operated through internet banking.
There will be more transparency.
According to a 2011 government
survey, only about 3.5 per cent of the
505,000 SMEs in Cambodia were reg-
istered with the government.
The IFC could not be reached for
comment yesterday, but a 2010 report
from the World Banks investment arm
highlighted the importance of legal
protection and fee transparency two
things missing for Cambodias thou-
sands of unregistered SMEs.
While some SMEs are registered
and comply with the law, others pro-
viding the same products and serv-
ices are not complying with the law,
and enjoy unfair advantages and cost
structures, the IFC report found, call-
ing for a streamlining of the process.
Sok Kong said online registration
was one of many reforms being intro-
duced for SMEs, to ensure they were
competitive with ASEAN economic
integration looming in 2015.
Te Taing Por, president of the Fed-
eration of Association for Small and
Medium Enterprises of Cambodia,
welcomed the new system as a means
of cutting through bureaucracy.
In the past, SMEs needed to regis-
ter with all relevant ministries with
different prices, and the processing
time was very long, he said.
It is necessary to have the online
registration to keep in line with glo-
balisation.
However, Por added, not all SME
operators in the Kingdom are internet
savvy, and thus the process may take
some time for local businesses to
adapt to.
According to Sok Kong, the fee for
online registration has yet to be con-
firmed, but traditionally registration
fees have varied depending on a com-
panys start-up capital, with the
smallest businesses having to pay $13
to register.
Registration
of garment
factories up
in rst half
Daniel de Carteret
THE number of garment facto-
ries registered in Cambodia
reached 1,200 at the end of
June, an 8 per cent increase
over six months ago, according
to data released by the Ministry
of Industry and Handicraft.
The report also showed that
the garment sector employed
733,300 workers at the end of
last month, up from 677,600 at
the end of 2013.
It is a good sign for the
industry, Mean Sophea,
undersecretary of state at the
ministry, said.
Sophea refused to comment
on what the growth rate might
mean for the sector following
months of unrest after a nation-
wide minimum wage strike
turned violent in January, with
five people killed when police
opened fire on protesters with
live rounds.
However, Garment Manufac-
turers Association in Cambodia
secretary-general Ken Loo said
on Thursday that while there is
still interest in the sector, the
figures are of registrations only
and factory owners were still
cautious of investing after the
January protest.
For our membership, yes it
has been increased for sure, year
on year, but the rate of increase
is slower if you compare this
year to last year, he said.
ANZ and sugar firm part ways
Daniel de Carteret

A
NZ Royal Bank has
severed its ties with
ruling party Senator
Ly Yong Phats con-
troversial sugar plantation,
a $220 million development
that has been at the centre of
years-long land disputes and
child labour scandals.
Environmental audit docu-
ments commissioned by ANZ
and obtained by the Post in Jan-
uary linked ANZ Royal Bank a
joint venture between the Aus-
tralian-New Zealand bank and
Cambodias Royal Group to
Yong Phats Phnom Penh Sugar
Company. The documents re-
vealed that from 2010 to 2013
the company failed to address
60 per cent of recommenda-
tions made by Bangkok-based
auditor International Envi-
ronmental Management, in-
cluding ones related to worker
health and safety.
After the revelations, ANZ
said it would continue its
commercial relationship with
Phnom Penh Sugar and work
with the rm, affected families
and NGOs to address concerns
at the 8,343-hectare land con-
cession in Kampong Speu.
But an ANZ spokesman
conrmed via email yesterday
that the bank had cut its ties
with the company.
While Im limited in what I
can say about individual cus-
tomers, I can conrm that PPS
has paid out its loan and is no
longer a customer of ANZ,
the spokesman said, declining
to go into further detail.
A report on Saturday in The
Australian newspaper said
that Phnom Penh Sugar had
found a new backer for the
part-nancing of its sugar
business, and that its compli-
ance costs made it a cheaper
lending option than ANZ.
Seng Nhak, Phnom Penh
Sugars managing director,
declined to comment on
any new agreement yester-
day; however, he conrmed
that ANZ was no longer in-
volved with his company.
While Phnom Penh Sugar
has very much valued its rela-
tionship with ANZ, the com-
pany has found itself in a posi-
tion whereby it is able to repay
the loan and has now done
so, he said by email.
Nhak added that Phnom
Penh Sugar was regularly
meeting with families affected
by its operations.
Rights groups working with
these families expressed dis-
appointment at ANZs deci-
sion, saying that no prog-
ress has been made since
the banking giant agreed to
work with those evicted from
their homes.
As a major nancier of the
sugar project, which has no
doubt proted handsomely
from it, ANZ has a duty of care
to the people whose land was
grabbed and that duty does
not go away when it recalls its
loan, David Pred, managing
director of Inclusive Develop-
ment International, said.
Eang Vuthy, executive direc-
tor of Equitable Cambodia,
who attended a meeting on
May 8 with ANZ representa-
tives of Australia, Yong Phat
and community representa-
tives, said dozens of issues re-
mained unresolved.
Both the company and
ANZ have a responsibility to
address these issues. They
have to work better to address
these issues, but we have seen
zero solutions on the ground,
he told the Post yesterday.
Of course they have paid
back the loan to the bank, but
the harm is still there.
A 13-year-old labourer works in a sugarcane plantation on land owned by Phnom Penh Sugar Company in Kampong Speu last year. VIREAK MAI
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Merkel in China for economic discussions
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel
arrived in China yesterday for her sev-
enth visit since 2005, with economic ties
topping the agenda and a high-powered
business delegation in tow.
Merkel touched down early yester-
day in the southwestern city of
Chengdu, where she met local officials,
visited a market and toured a factory
operated by German car manufac-
turer Volkswagen.
Merkel was due to arrive later yester-
day in Beijing, where she will wrap up
the first day of the three-day visit by
meeting Premier Li Keqiang for dinner
at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
For the EUs biggest economy, China
is a crucial mass market. Chinese com-
panies want its technology and mil-
lions of newly prosperous citizens
crave German goods ranging from Audi
sedans to luxury home appliances.
Germany last year sold goods worth
67 billion ($91 billion) to China, its
number-two export market outside
Europe after the United States.
Imports from the China, meanwhile,
topped 73 billion.
Merkel angered Beijing in 2007 by
meeting Tibets exiled spiritual leader
the Dalai Lama. During this trip, Mer-
kel is being urged to talk about free-
dom in China.
The past two years have seen an
increase in the use of violence and an
even more heavy-handed approach by
the Chinese in the region, Rebiya
Kadeer, the president of the World
Uighur Congress said in an open letter
addressed to Merkel. We collectively
urge you to use your influence to con-
duct both constructive and positive
dialog with Chinese leadership in hopes
of addressing the human rights con-
cerns for those that have no real voice,
Kadeer said.
But during the latest visit, any discus-
sion of human rights is likely to take
place behind closed doors, an approach
that German officials have argued can
be more effective in China than finger-
wagging reprimands.
In a commentary, Chinas state-run
Xinhua news agency yesterday hailed
Merkels trip.
It is fair to say that China-Germany
relations are at their best in history,
which have been strongly under-
pinned by the pragmatic cooperation
between the two economic heavy-
weights, it said.
Among the companies represented in
Merkels delegation and eyeing deals
that could further cement bilateral ties
are Siemens, VW, Airbus, Lufthansa
and Deutsche Bank, according to Ger-
man media reports.
In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan
province, Merkel attended an urban
forum with provincial Communist
Party secretary Wang Dongming, went
shopping at the Shenxianshu Market
and visited the FAW-Volkswagen fac-
tory, where she was hosted by VW CEO
Martin Winterkorn and FAW group
CEO Xu Jianyi.
Merkel is expected to hold a joint
press conference today with Li and will
also attend the China-Germany Eco-
nomic and Trade Commission before
meeting President Xi Jinping.
On Tuesday she will address students
at Beijings Tsinghua University before
departing for Berlin. AFP / BLOOMBERG

Chinas NQ Mobile drops
four-fifths of its value
NQ MOBILE plunged in New
York after the Chinese
mobile-security service
provider said its audit
committee head will step
down and Pricewaterhouse-
Coopers Zhong Tian Llp
sought to expand its review of
the companys 2013 financial
statements. American
depositary receipts of NQ
Mobile sank 32 per cent to
$4.58, the biggest tumble
since Muddy Waters Llc, the
research firm founded by
short seller Carson Block,
said October 24 that the
company overstated revenue
and misrepresented cash
balances. NQ Mobile has lost
four-fifths of its value in the
eight months since Block
issued the report. BLOOMBERG
Singapores property
prices expected to fall
SINGAPORE Finance Minister
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
said he expects property
prices to fall further, days
after data showed home
values in the city-state
dropped for a third
consecutive quarter. I dont
think the cycle is over,
Shanmugaratnam said on
Thursday at a conference
hosted by DBS Group
Holdings Ltd in Singapore. I
think further correction would
not be unexpected. The
Singapore government has
taken steps since 2009 to curb
speculation in the property
market. An index tracking
private residential prices in
Singapore fell 1.1 per cent to
209.3 points in the three
months ended June 30,
following a 1.3 per cent
decline in the previous three-
month period, according to
preliminary data released by
the Urban Redevelopment
Authority on July 1. BLOOMBERG
China ousts foreign
firms for local servers
CHINA is replacing imported
servers after the successful
trial of a local brand by a
state-owned bank as the
nation steps-up a campaign
for information security, the
official Peoples Daily reported
on Friday. Inspur Group Ltd.s
Tiansuo K1 system has
replaced imported servers in
large quantity after its
successful use by China
Construction Bank Corps
Xinjiang branch citing Wang
Endong, chief designer of the
system. BLOOMBERG
Tokyo puts focus on defence
J
APAN is set to approve
its rst arms export fol-
lowing relaxation of its
self-imposed ban, as the
nation aims to boost its global
military and economic pres-
ence, a report said yesterday.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
plans to export a high-perfor-
mance sensor to the United
States, which will use it in the
Patriot Advanced Capability-2
(PAC-2) missile defence sys-
tem to be exported to Qatar,
the Nikkei business daily said
without citing sources.
Tokyos decision, likely to be-
come ofcial later this month,
comes after Japan in April
amended its traditional strict
ban on arms exports, particu-
larly in cases where the prod-
ucts might be re-exported to
countries engaged in conict.
The government under
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
eased the rules to allow exports
of military products in a move
aimed at letting Japan join in-
ternational joint programmes
to develop weapons and to
grow its defence industry.
Japan has concluded that
the planned US transfer of the
missile to Qatar was unlikely
to escalate any conicts, the
Nikkei said.
Mitsubishi Heavy produces
the PAC-2 sensor for Japans
Self Defense Forces under
licence from Raytheon, the
Nikkei said.
The US company however
is scaling back production of
PAC-2 components, as it is fo-
cusing on the next-generation
PAC-3 missile interceptor sys-
tem, it said.
The sensor is a key compo-
nent of the infrared seeker set
into the tip of the missile to
identify and track incoming
targets, the Nikkei said.
Meanwhile, closer defence
cooperation is also set to take
centre stage when Australia
hosts Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe this week, while
the two allies will also shore up
a burgeoning trade relation-
ship, analysts say.
It is the rst bilateral visit
by a Japanese prime minis-
ter since 2002 and comes just
days after Abe declared his
powerful military had the right
to go into battle in defence of
allies, a move welcomed by
Canberra but condemned by
China as expansionism.
Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott has courted Japan
on security and trade matters
since coming to power in Sep-
tember, describing their rela-
tionship as special, as Asia
adjusts to Chinas growing as-
sertiveness in the region.
At the same time, Japans
long-held pacist stance has
evolved under Abe, with his
country reaching out to Aus-
tralia amid escalating ten-
sions between Beijing and its
neighbours over islands in
the South China Sea and East
China Sea.
The key US allies are tipped
to announce annual leader-
ship meetings during the July
7-10 trip, while the security
theme raised in Abbotts visit
to Tokyo in April will continue
with the expected nalisation
of a submarine deal allowing
Australia to tap Japans defence
technologies.
While defence matters look
set to play a starring role, clos-
er economic ties are also on
the agenda as the two leaders
rubber-stamp a long-awaited
free trade deal agreed in April.
The deal gives many Aus-
tralian producers and export-
ers an important competitive
advantage, with more than 97
per cent of Australias exports
to Japan receiving preferential
or duty-free access.
China is Australias largest
trading partner, with two-way
trade worth more than A$150
billion ($140 million) in 2013,
while Japan is second at al-
most A$70 billion.
Joining Abe will be 25 Japa-
nese chief executives, mirror-
ing a similarly sized delega-
tion of Australian business
leaders that accompanied
Abbott to Tokyo.
After spending Tuesday in
Canberra, Abe will y to the
mining-rich Pilbara region in
Western Australia and Perth, a
reection of Australias role as
a signicant supplier of energy
and resources to Japan.
Abes reforms, dubbed Abe-
nomics, have seen Tokyo
implement big government-
spending policies, ease mon-
etary policy, move towards
more exible labour markets
and sign the free-trade deal
with Australia. AFP
Japans Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami leaving the Kure port in Hiroshima prefecture,
Japan, in June 2008. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Business
THE Customs Departments
working committee will ask
newly appointed director-
general Somchai Sujjapongse
to raise the duty-free limit on
new personal items bought
abroad from 10,000 baht
($308) at present, said a source
at the department.
The proposed new limit is in
the range of 80,000 to 100,000
baht, the source said, adding
that the current duty-free limit
is too low and not in line with
economic circumstances.
The 10,000-baht import du-
ty-free restriction has been in
place for several decades and
is not in accordance with the
increased income of Thais and
foreigners.
The Customs Department
recently raised the limit on the
amount of money each travel-
ler can take out of the country
to 500,000 baht from 50,000
baht previously to comply with
the growing value of cross-
border trade.
The Customs Department
this week caused panic among
both passengers and airline
crews by posting signs an-
nouncing the enforcement of
the limit at Suvarnabhumi air-
port, saying if personal goods
including new clothes, shoes
and bags in non-commercial
form exceeding the 10,000-
baht limit are brought into
Thailand, they must be de-
clared to customs ofcials and
the duty paid before their bag-
gage goes through the X-ray
machine.
Expensive new watches or
bags worth more than 10,000
baht will be liable to duty
even if they are being worn.
However, the displayed signs
were removed shortly after
the issue became the talk of
the town.
The source said the increase
in duty-free restrictions would
be made to facilitate travellers.
Mr Somchai said the depart-
ment must carefully study
whether the increase in the
duty-free restriction would en-
courage the import of luxury
products.
Separately, Mr Somchai said
the department would revise
certain laws to be more fair to
honest operators.
For example, the depart-
ment will amend the law to
allow courts to use their dis-
cretion to ne operators fail-
ing to declare goods up to four
times the value of the items to
help those who did not de-
liberately underestimate the
goods value to avoid paying
tax. BANGKOK POST
Thailand mulls raising
duty-free restrictions
Foreign firms fear Myanmar
Zaw Htike and Nyan Lin Aung

T
HE prominence of
the domestic black
market continues to
discourage prospec-
tive foreign investors from
entering Myanmar, accord-
ing to Minister of Commerce
Win Myint.
Foreign rms are worried
that black market goods are of-
ten sold at unfairly low prices
because importers avoid pay-
ing import duties and taxes as
well as following proper regu-
lations, and in many instances
the products are counterfeit.
Win Myint said the min-
istrys mobile enforcement
teams are crucial to stemming
the ow of illegally imported
and counterfeit goods and im-
proving the domestic business
environment.
If not, the countrys trade
will not increase and foreign
investors will not trust the
market and not come and in-
vest, he said on June 21 at his
Yangon ofce.
Mobile enforcement teams
have been sent to target Yan-
gons main sea and airports
this month, after previously
focusing on illegal land bor-
der trade. The teams are
known partly for suppress-
ing the black market trade
in liquor in December 2013,
which resulted in an alcohol
shortage on many Yangon
shop shelves.
Win Myints comments
come as some large interna-
tional rms have raised con-
cerns about goods being ille-
gally sold in Myanmar.
Traders however say the
black market comes about in
response to unmet demand.
Myo Hlaing Swe, a trader
from Muse on Chinese bor-
der, said that restrictions
on imports of many goods
meant businesspeople are
encouraged to work outside
the rules.
If there is market demand,
businessmen will try to ll it
in various ways, even if there
are ofcial limitations. In
my opinion the government
needs to put its trade policy
in line with the countrys real
situation, he said.
The Ministry of Commerces
mobile enforcement teams
seized goods valued at 17.5 bil-
lion kyat ($17.9 million) from
November 1, 2012, through to
June 26, 2014.
Ministry of Commerce eco-
nomics advisor Maung Aung
said the ministry has been
keen to build a trade policy in
line with international prac-
tices, and has been cooperat-
ing with the World Trade Or-
ganisation on a trade policy
review. MYANMAR TIMES
A man arranges T-shirts with images of US President Barrack Obama at his shop in Yangon on November 18,
2012. BLOOMBERG
GENERAL Motors Co and Bayerische
Motoren Werke Ag halted production
at their South African plants as a strike
by more than 220,000 metalworkers
disrupted car-component makers and
turned violent.
Police arrested 26 people on Satur-
day after several incidents of attacks,
intimidation and vandalism at fac-
tories around Johannesburg. Wage
talks failed after the National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa rejected
an improved offer from the Steel and
Engineering Industries Federation of
Southern Africa, the employer group.
The stoppage that began on July 1
threatens about a third of South Af-
ricas manufacturing output, prompt-
ing Moodys Investors Service to warn
that the nations credit rating may be
at risk. It follows a ve-month strike
by more than 70,000 platinum miners
that caused the economy to contract in
the rst quarter of the year.
Seifsa, as the employers group is
known, said on Saturday its offer to
raise wages for the lowest-paid work-
ers by 10 per cent was the best it could
make. No further talks are planned
with Numsa, which is demanding a 12
percent pay increase and a ban on la-
bor brokers.
General Motors shut its plant in the
eastern coastal city of Port Elizabeth as
the strike in the metal and engineer-
ing sector has impacted upon sup-
ply of components to our production
line, Gishma Johnson, the companys
spokeswoman, said in a statement.
BMW brought forward a week of
planned maintenance at its plant
outside Pretoria, halting production
on July 1, spokesman Guy Kilfoil re-
vealed. The factory will reopen on
July 8 with two shifts instead of the
normal three if the strike continues,
which could result in the loss of 120
vehicles a day, he said.
If the strike goes beyond two weeks,
the risks to vehicle manufacturers and
production plants will increase sub-
stantially, Nico Vermeulen, director of
the National Association of Automobile
Manufacturers of South Africa, said by
phone from Pretoria.
A Numsa strike over pay at carmak-
ers between August and October last
year cost the industry at least 20 billion
rand ($1.8 billion) in revenue, accord-
ing to Naamsa.
Companies including Bell Equip-
ment Ltd and Evraz Highveld Steel &
Vanadium Ltd. as well as units of Mur-
ray & Roberts Holdings Ltd. and Aveng
Ltd are affected by the stoppage. The
strike is also harming construction at
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltds Medupi and
Kusile power plants.
Numsa denied allegations that its
members were involved in violence,
saying in a statement three days ago
that the reports are part of a cheap
ploy by the employers to undermine
the integrity of our struggle for a liv-
ing wage and improved conditions of
employment. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof JUNE 27, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 2.00% N/A 3.00% N/A 3.75% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A

Egypt raises fuel prices
amid Sisis overhaul
EGYPT drastically raised fuel
prices overnight to tackle a
bloated subsidy system, in a
potentially unpopular move
that could blow back on newly
elected President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi. With the economy
battered by three years of
unrest, successive
governments have said the
subsidies that allowed
Egyptians to buy petrol at
some of the worlds cheapest
prices must be lifted. Ex-army
chief Sisi, elected by a
landslide in May, has
advocated austerity to narrow
the budget deficit, and a severe
law and order platform to rein
in Islamist supporters of
Mohamed Morsi. AFP
US energy firm pens
$1.2B deal with Iran
A US company has signed a
preliminary agreement to
invest $1.175 billion in Iran, in
a rare joint commercial
project to turn rubbish and
human waste into electricity.
California-based World Eco
Energy told AFP it plans to
produce 250 megawatts daily
by burning trash and by
processing algae and salt and
waste water into power. Iran
will match the US investment,
the company said. A company
spokesman said the project,
in the southwestern province
of Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari,
would create 600-700 jobs. It
is scheduled to start in
September 2014. AFP
Greece govt orders
strikers back to work
GREECES government said
on Saturday that it was
ordering striking electricity
workers back to their posts to
ensure a vital public service,
after an Athens court ruled
their industrial action illegal.
The demand sought to end a
rolling stoppage launched on
Thursday by employees of the
state-controlled Public Power
Corporation in anger at
government plans to break up
the countrys main electricity
provider. AFP
Out of Africa
Madagascar
budget hit
hard by graft
M
ADAGASCARS Prime
Minister Roger Kolo has
vowed to stamp out cor-
ruption after revealing that 40
per cent of his countrys budget
is lost to graft.
Forty per cent of the states
budget is diverted. Thats unac-
ceptable, Kolo told reporters
on Thursday.
The independent anti-
corruption bureau, created in
2004, will be restructured and
the second national stage of the
ght against corruption will be
adopted soon, said Kolo, who
was named as prime minister
of Madagascar back in April.
According to Madagascars
2014 Finance Act, its national
budget should be 940 million
($1.3 billion) but rampant corrup-
tion has seen a large portion of
the budget go missing.
The island nation is one of
the poorest in the world and
suffers from one of the highest
corruption rates, coming 127th
out of 177 nations on Transpar-
ency Internationals annual graft
ranking. AFP
IMF chiefs investment plea
G
OVERNMENTS must
increase public in-
vestment to help
drive the global re-
covery and help boost less ro-
bust than expected economic
growth, IMF chief Christine
Lagarde said yesterday.
The head of the Wash-
ington-based International
Monetary Fund predicted
global economic growth,
which has been subdued in
the rst months of 2014, will
strengthen in the second half
and accelerate next year.
Growth in China, the
worlds second-largest econ-
omy and a key driver of in-
ternational trade, is unlikely
to slow sharply and is mov-
ing into a more qualitative
and more sustainable phase,
Lagarde said.
But she warned loose mon-
etary policies pursued by cen-
tral banks to help the world
economy recover from the
global nancial crisis were
nding their limit and gov-
ernments now needed to act.
Global activity is picking
up, but the momentum could
be less robust than expected
because potential growth
is weaker . . . [and] invest-
ment remains lacklustre,
Lagarde told a conference in
the southern French town of
Aix-en-Provence.
Evidently, from our point of
view, we must therefore rein-
force supply capacity in order
to strengthen the recovery.
She called for politicians to
take advantage of very fa-
vourable conditions in nan-
cial markets to revive public
investments [to] give a neces-
sary boost to growth, particu-
larly in advanced economies
while ensuring debt remains
at sustainable levels.
The IMF will give its ofcial
global economic forecasts in
two weeks.
Last month the global cri-
sis lender slashed its 2014
forecast for the United States
to 2 per cent, down from 2.8
per cent, after bad weather
sparked an unexpected con-
traction in the rst quarter.
Lagarde predicted growth
would pick up in the next
quarter as long as the Federal
Reserves tightening of its easy
monetary policy is orderly and
there is a precise medium term
budget framework.
The Fed, like many central
banks around the world, has
kept interest rates at historic
lows and pumped money into
the USs nancial system to
help drive growth.
Last month the European
Central Bank cut its key in-
terest rates, including taking
one into negative territory for
the rst time, in a bid to help
the regions stalling economy
emerge from the Eurozone
debt crisis.
In the 18 nations that share
the single currency, which are
only slowly emerging from
recession, the recovery is far
from being enough to lower
debt and unemployment,
Lagarde said.
Emerging economies,
meanwhile, continue to en-
sure most of global growth
but at a slower pace than be-
fore, Lagarde said. AFP
South African strike halts car manufacturers
Cuba set to examine weak economy
CUBAS National Assembly
opened its semiannual session
on Saturday, with the commu-
nist islands faltering economy
topping the agenda, but no
plans unveiled for change.
President Raul Castro, 83,
addressed the assembly,
which discussed why one of
the worlds last command
economies has not grown
faster, after six years of very
tentative reforms.
Our growth rate is not some-
thing we are pleased with, but
it does not discourage us in the
least, the president said.
Castro urged Cuban work-
ers, who earn the equivalent
of $20 a month, to work hard
and optimistically, to turn this
around and guarantee growth
rates that will make socialist
development possible.
But he failed to unveil new
strategies at the daylong meet-
ing of 612 legislators and other
senior ofcials.
The government has said
that it plans to end an unpop-
ular dual currency system,
but has not given a timeframe
for doing so.
The dual currency system is
blamed for aggravating social
inequality, which also worries
the government.
Castro blames US sanctions
for Cubas economic hardship.
Yet however keen for growth,
Cuba the only communist-
run one-party state in the
Americas has refused to
adopt market economics as
have allies China and Vietnam.
It fears such reforms would
cause social strife.
The government has
pared state payrolls, and
allowed more Cubans to be
self-employed.
But it produces little outside
the mining sector. One of its
key exports are government
health workers on state con-
tracts. AFP
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks during a discussion at
the International Monetary Fund on July 2 in Washington. AFP
11 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
World
Germany
urges swift
answers on
spy claims
GERMAN ministers yesterday
called for a swift response
from the US to allegations of
spying by a suspected double
agent, which have raised fears
of fresh tensions between the
two allies.
If reports are correct, we are
not talking here about small
potatoes, Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier tweet-
ed, following reports of US spy-
ing that have sparked anger in
Germany after revelations the
NSA allegedly tapped Chancel-
lor Angela Merkels phone.
The US ambassador, who
was called to a meeting at the
Foreign Ministry late on Friday,
had been told Washington is
expected to shed light on the
reports as quickly as possible,
he added.
Interior Minister Thomas de
Maiziere in pre-released
excerpts from todays Bild
newspaper called for a quick
and clear statement by the US
on the allegations.
The 31-year-old employee of
the German foreign intelli-
gence agency known as the
BND arrested last week had
been working for the CIA for
around two years, local media
reported yesterday.
All signs indicate that he was
acting for the Americans, the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Son-
ntagszeitung Sunday newspa-
per quoted an unnamed senior
official at Germanys foreign
intelligence service as saying.
The Bild am Sonntag news-
paper, citing information from
security authorities, also said
the man had worked for the
CIA and handed over secret
documents as recently as July 1.
Germanys federal prosecu-
tor general confirmed a man
was arrested last Wednesday on
suspicion of acting for a foreign
intelligence service, but did not
specify which one.
Both newspapers said the
suspect had passed on two
documents about a parliamen-
tary panel established earlier
this year to investigate NSA
surveillance after revelations
by fugitive former intelligence
contractor Edward Snowden.
German authorities were
alerted whenthe suspect sent
an email with attached files at
the end of May to the Russian
consulate offering to supply
information, reports said.
President Joachim Gauck
said in excerpts from a ZDF
public TV broadcast also
released early that, should the
suspicions about the US be
confirmed, then it probably
really has to be said, now its
enough.
Bild am Sonntag reported the
suspect had confessed to hand-
ing more than 200 documents
to the Americans over the
course of two years for which
he was paid 25,000 ($34,000),
during questioning by author-
ities. AFP
Extremists held over teen murder
Shatha Yaish

I
SRAELI police have ar-
rested a group of Jewish
extremists in connec-
tion with the kidnap
and murder of a Palestinian
teenager who was burned
to death in a suspected re-
venge killing.
The brutal killing on July
2 has triggered four days of
violent clashes which began
in east Jerusalem and have
since spread to more than
half a dozen Arab towns in
Israel, with hordes of angry
protesters hurling stones at
Israeli riot police.
Apparently the people ar-
rested in relation to the case
belong to an extremist Jew-
ish group, an ofcial said,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity.
The website of Haaretz
newspaper said six people
had been arrested, but details
of the case have been subject-
ed to a strict gag order.
Earlier, police acknowl-
edged for the rst time
indications that the back-
ground to the killing was
nationalistic.
It followed days of growing
suspicion that Wednesdays
murder was carried out by ex-
tremist Jews in revenge for last
months abduction and mur-
der of three Israeli teenagers
in the occupied West Bank.
Tensions continued to rise
in the south yesterday with
Gaza militants ring another
15 rockets over the border, de-
spite a night of 10 air strikes.
The air force also staged an-
other strike in the afternoon,
which caused no casualties,
Gazan ofcials said.
But Israel appeared bent on
containing the situation, with
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu urging his cabinet to
keep a cool head over how to
handle growing tensions in
and around Gaza.
Overnight, Israel police ar-
rested 35 people as violent
protests over the teenagers
murder swept more than half
a dozen Arab Israeli towns.
The violence exploded as a
top Palestinian legal ofcial
conrmed that initial nd-
ings from the post mortem
showed there was smoke in
the lungs of 16-year-old Mo-
hammed Abu Khder, indicat-
ing he was still alive when he
was set on re.
The grisly murder has
sparked shock, disgust and
an outpouring of condemna-
tion from both Israeli and Pal-
estinian leaders.
But until yesterday, police
said they were unsure of the
motive for the killing, contrib-
uting to the rising tensions.
Around 35 people were
arrested overnight, almost
half of them minors, police
spokeswoman Luba Samri
saidafter violence raged into
the early hours of yesterday.
Of those, 22 were detained
in and around the northern
city of Nazareth, Israels most
populous Arab town.
The rest were arrested in
the so-called Triangle, a con-
centration of Arab towns and
villages close to the north-
western sector of the Green
Line Taibe, Tira, Qalansuwa,
Jaljulia and Umm el-Fahm.
We are demonstrating
against this incitement to ha-
tred by Israelis online, who
are saying death to Arabs,
one demonstrator in Qalan-
suwa told army radio.
In a related development, a
Jerusalem court freed a Pal-
estinian American teenager,
who was allegedly beaten in
police custody, to house ar-
rest for nine days pending
an investigation into stone-
throwing allegations.
Tariq Abu Khder, 15, a cous-
in of the murdered teen, was
arrested on Thursday in the
east Jerusalem neighbour-
hood of Shuafat as clashes
raged, and his parents said
he was badly beaten in po-
lice custody.
A day after his arrest, a
video surfaced on YouTube
showing Israeli border po-
lice beating and kicking a
handcuffed semi-conscious
gure on the ground, before
dragging him away.
Washington said it was
profoundly troubled by the
report, prompting the Israeli
Justice Ministrys police in-
vestigations department to
begin an investigation.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu de-
manded that his cabinet keep
a cool head about growing
tensions in Gaza.
Over the past three weeks,
militants there have stepped
up rocket re on southern Is-
rael, causing damage but no
injuries, prompting demands
for a new military operation
in the coastal enclave.
So far, Israel has responded
with air strikes, subsequently
killing three militants, but
Netanyahu has resisted calls
for tougher action.
Experience has proved
that at moments like this,
we have to act responsibly
and with a cool head and
not with harsh words and
impetuousness, he told the
weekly cabinet meeting.
Ministers are ercely di-
vided over how to respond
to mounting militant rocket
re, with far right Economy
Minister Naftali Bennett and
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lie-
berman pushing for a broad
operation against Gaza.
Overnight, the air force
staged 10 strikes on Gaza after
militants red 15 rockets and
mortar rounds at Israel, two
of which targeted the south-
ern city of Beersheva some 40
kilometres (25 miles) away.
There was another air strike
yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the army arrest-
ed a Palestinian in the ash-
point southern West Bank city
of Hebron, with unconrmed
reports saying he was con-
nected to the murder of the
three Israeli teens. AFP
Burn out
A Taliban bomb attack on the outskirts of Kabul set re to some 200 fuel tankers the militants claimed were supplying foreign troops in Afghanistan, ofcials said on Saturday. The
tankers were set ablaze as they sat in a parking lot waiting to enter the Afghan capital, which is currently gripped by a fraud dispute over presidential elections last month. Taliban
insurgents ghting a 13-year-war against US-led forces in Afghanistan often attack western supply convoys and claimed responsibility for the late Friday night attack. At around
10.30pm dozens of fuel tankers belonging to private companies caught re, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said, adding that there had been no casualties. Kabul police
director Gul Aghan Hashimi said a magnetic bomb had been used in the attack while a NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces spokesman said they were investigating
whether the fuel was intended for foreign troops. The Afghan Interior Ministry said initial investigations found that 200 trucks had been damaged. AFP
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Positions Available and Qualications:
Finance and Operations Manager based in Battambang province (1 position) 1-
Roles purpose
The Finance and Operations Manager (FOM) is responsible for overseeing project nances and other operational and administrative duties
for the integrated program funded by USAID. The FOM will supervise all grant management and reporting on grant performance as well
as provide nancial and technical management to ensure best use of resources by preparing sound budgets, monitoring project expenses,
project human resource and ensuring timely preparation of donor nancial reports.
Qualications and experience
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In-depth knowledge of USAID nancial management, rules, and regulations;
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Demonstrated strong analytical, leadership and interpersonal skills;
Excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations;
Proven ability to prepare budgets and donor nancial reports;
Demonstrated capacity and prior experience in supervising others as a coach/mentor to train staff and develop nancial skills of colleagues.
Excellent oral and written communication skills for both English and Khmer languages.
Desirable
Experience with conditional cash transfer practices and policies.
Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist based in Phnom Penh with 50% travel to project sites (1 position) 2-
Roles purpose
The position will be responsible to lead all of Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation Program efforts related to communications and
knowledge management. This includes building relationships with media, management of public events, development and dissemination of
project-level publicity materials and document editing.
Qualications and experience
Essential
Master in journalism, mass communications, development or a related eld (preferred);
Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in communications in development or in a corporate setting;
Excellent written and spoken in both Khmer and English and a thorough understanding of the role and importance of communications,
Extensive experience editing
Experience working with a variety of partners in multiple sectors
Strong interpersonal skills
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Highly developed cultural awareness and an appreciation for diversity;
Commitment to Save the Children values.
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist based in Battambang province (1 position) 3-
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The Monitoring and Evaluations (M&E) Specialist will guide and oversee the implementation of the Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
strategies and related requirements for the USAID-funded Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation program and Save the Children
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data and lessons of programs easily accessible.The specialist will support accountability and learning, including the development of feedback
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Qualications and experience
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At least seven years working experience including at least ve in the M&E of international development projects preferably with
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Related experience in project frameworks, performance measurement, indicator selection, quantitative and qualitative data collection
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Proven ability to prepare M&E plans and reports;
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Kiev win dims truce hopes
R
ESURGENT Ukrai-
nian forces yesterday
pursued retreating
pro-Russian rebels af-
ter seizing their symbolic bas-
tion in a morale-boosting win
that appeared to dim hopes for
a ceasere in the bloody sepa-
ratist insurgency.
Western-backed President
Petro Poroshenko called the
moment when his troops
hoisted the Ukrainian ag over
the militias seat of power in
Slavyansk a turning point
in a campaign that has killed
nearly 500 people and in-
amed East-West ties.
The rebels admitted suffer-
ing heavy losses while aban-
doning the strategic city near-
ly three months ago to the day
after its capture marked the
onset of a new and even more
bloody chapter in Ukraines
worst crisis since indepen-
dence in 1991.
Most analysts think Po-
roshenko desperately need-
ed a battleeld success one
month into his presidency to
secure the trust of Ukrainians
frustrated by their under-
funded armys inability to
stand up to what they see as
Russian aggression.
This is not a full victory
and no time for reworks,
the 48-year-old chocolate
baron cautioned in a national
television address.
He noted the insurgents
were now regrouping around
the million-strong eastern in-
dustrial hub of Donetsk and
vowed to ush out terrorists
who are entrenching them-
selves in large cities.
A commander in the Ukrai-
nian irregular forces Donbass
battalion yesterday reported
recapturing the cities of Dru-
zhkivka and Kostiantynivka
just south of Slavyansk.
We left Druzhkivka and Ko-
stiantynivka overnight, top
Donetsk rebel leader Denis
Pushilin conrmed. Yes, we
are losing a lot, but I am sure
our defence of Donetsk will
mark a turning point, he add-
ed. We will win.
The surge of optimism in
Kiev has only added to already
strong pressure on Poroshen-
ko not to agree to bow to pres-
sure from his Western allies
and sign another truce with
the insurgents.
Saturdays triumph in
Slavyansk justies the po-
sition of those who favour a
stepped-up military cam-
paign over endless negotia-
tions that turn this into a fro-
zen conict, said Volodymyr
Gorbach of the Institute of
Euro-Atlantic Cooperation.
Poroshenko tore up a 10-day
ceasere last Monday because
of unceasing rebel attacks that
killed more than 20 soldiers
and according to Washington
and Kiev allowed the sepa-
ratists to stock up on new sup-
plies of heavy Russian arms.
Uneasy EU leaders are hop-
ing that a new truce and a
Kremlin promise not to med-
dle can take pressure off the
bloc to adopt sweeping sanc-
tions that could damage their
own strong energy and nan-
cial ties with Russia.
Poroshenko hesitantly in-
vited separatist leaders and a
Russian envoy to attend Eu-
ropean-brokered discussions
about a new ceasere on Sat-
urday. The call had gone un-
answered by Moscow and the
rebel command. But Russia
appeared ready to talk again
after the fall of Slavyansk.
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov stressed to his
French and German coun-
terparts late on Saturday the
importance of reaching an
agreement between Kiev and
the southeast of Ukraine on
an unconditional and lasting
ceasere.
Lavrov specically cited the
rapid escalation of the situ-
ation that comes amid an in-
tensied military operation by
Ukrainian authorities. AFP
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) bearing the Ukrainian ag
drives past a burnt out pro-Russian militant APC on Saturday. AFP
AN EGYPTIAN court sen-
tenced Muslim Brotherhood
leader Mohamed Badie and 36
other Islamists to life in pris-
on Saturday, and conrmed
death sentences for 10 others,
most of them on the run.
Badie, convicted of involve-
ment in deadly protests, had
already received death sen-
tences in two other cases
in a crackdown on Islamist
opposition after last years
military ouster of president
Mohamed Morsi.
Of the 10 defendants con-
demned to death last month
in the same case, whose sen-
tences were conrmed, an
Islamic cleric has since been
arrested. Another defendant
was sentenced to three years.
Egyptian courts have
sparked international concern
over a spate of death sentenc-
es for more than 200 people in
several mass trials.
On Saturday, presiding
Judge Hassan Farid said the
defendants were involved in
violence and the murder of
two people during protests
last July after the army over-
threw Morsi, who belonged to
the Brotherhood.
He said the defendants had
committed the violence to
achieve terrorist goals.
The Brotherhood has been
designated as a terrorist move-
ment, with much of its leader-
ship imprisoned, including
the former president.
Following Morsis overthrow,
Islamists staged rallies that of-
ten ended in clashes with po-
lice and their opponents.
At least 1,400 people, mostly
Islamists, have been killed in
street clashes, and scores of
policemen and soldiers have
died in militant attacks.
About 700 Morsi supporters
were killed in just one day in
August, when police broke up
two protest camps in Cairo.
Morsis supporters ram-
paged across the country, at-
tacking police stations and
torching dozens of churches
and Christian properties,
blaming the minority for back-
ing the Islamists overthrow.
President Abdel Fattah al-
Sisi, the ex-army chief who
toppled Morsi and was elect-
ed in May to succeed him,
has pledged to wipe out the
Brotherhood.
The movement, founded in
1928, was banned for decades
before an early 2011 uprising
that overthrew veteran strong-
man Hosni Mubarak. It went
on to win every election be-
fore Morsis overthrow. AFP
Brotherhood chief and
36 Islamists given life
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Wall collapse in south
India kills 11: officials
A WALL collapsed yesterday in
southern India killing 11 people
including a child, just a week
after a building crumbled in the
same state claiming 61 lives,
officials said. The compound
wall collapsed onto the huts of
labourers following heavy
monsoon rains in Tamil Nadu
state, a local government official
said. Four women and a child
were among those killed,
Tiruvallur district collector K
Veera Raghava Rao said. The
labourers had been working on
a warehouse, Rao said. The
countrys millions of labourers
and their families often live at
their site or nearby. AFP
Malawi frees 403 cons

for independence day
MALAWIS new President Peter
Mutharika pardoned 403
prisoners on Saturday ahead of
celebrations to mark 50 years
since the country gained
independence from Britain.
The pardon of the prisoners
[was] a symbol of forgiveness as
the country commemorate[d] its
golden jubilee of independence
yesterday, the home affairs
ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said those
pardoned have served at least
half of their prison sentences,
with good behaviour and were
not convicted of serious
offences. AFP
Caliph orders Muslims to obey
Prashant Rao

T
HE rst appearance
of self-proclaimed
caliph Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi in a
video shot in an Iraqi mosque
illustrates the extent of his
jihadist groups control and
condence, experts say.
Baghdadi, whose Islamic
State (IS) group holds terri-
tory in both Iraq and Syria,
called for Muslims to obey
him during the prayer sermon
at the Al-Nur mosque in Mo-
sul on Friday, according to the
video distributed online the
following day.
The appearance was sur-
prising for a militant who cul-
tivated an image of a reclusive
battleeld commander.
It is the latest in a series of
moves that have brought IS
back to prominence after it
had been on the ropes cul-
minating in the offensive it
led last month that captured
chunks of Iraqi territory.
Put simply, one of the most
wanted men on earth was able
to travel into central Mosul
and give a 30-minute sermon
in the most venerated mosque
in the largest city under con-
trol of the most notorious ji-
hadist group of our time, said
Charles Lister, a visiting fellow
at the Brookings Doha Center.
The fact that Baghdadi has
appeared publicly at all in
such a central location under-
lines the extent of condence
felt within his organisation.
The Islamic State spear-
headed a Sunni Arab militant
offensive that captured Mosul,
the second largest city in Iraq,
on June 10.
The video posted Saturday
showed a portly man clad in
a long black robe and turban
with a thick greying beard
purportedly Baghdadi ad-
dressing worshippers at week-
ly prayers in central Mosul.
Superimposed text identi-
ed the man as Caliph Ibra-
him, the name Baghdadi took
when the group on June 29
declared a caliphate, a pan-
Islamic state last seen in Otto-
man times, in which the leader
is both political and religious.
It marked a remarkable
turnaround for IS under Bagh-
dadis leadership.
When he took over the
group, then an al-Qaeda afli-
ate and known as the Islamic
State of Iraq, it was believed to
be reeling from the US mili-
tarys surge of troops and the
decision of Sunni tribal mili-
tias to turn against it and ght
alongside American forces.
But it slowly rebuilt its re-
sources and command struc-
ture, later capitalising on the
chaos caused by the civil war in
neighbouring Syria to expand
into the country last year.
Baghdadi subsequently cut
all ties to al-Qaida, and his in-
uence now rivals that of the
groups global chief, Ayman al-
Zawahiri. His group is known
across both Iraq and Syria for
its brutality, having executed
and crucied its opponents in
Syria and carried out a litany
of bombings across Iraq.
Everything about the
group . . . has been daring, so
it makes sense that Baghdadi
would step out of the shadows
and into the limelight, said
Will McCants, a former coun-
ter-terrorism adviser at the US
State Department.
Baghdadis sermon doesnt
make sense from a security
perspective but it does make
a lot of sense in the context of
his competition with al-Qaida
for leadership of the global
jihad, said McCants, now a
fellow at the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy.
The jihadist group has at-
tracted thousands of foreign
ghters to its cause, including
many from Western countries,
drawn in particular to Bagh-
dadi, who is believed to have
joined the insurgency in Iraq
following the US-led invasion
in 2003 and spent time in an
American military prison in
the country.
The would-be militants are
also attracted, experts say, to
the fact that IS is seen as work-
ing towards an ideal Islamic
emirate and, compared with
al-Qaidas franchise in Syria,
has lower entry barriers.
It has also sought to appeal
to non-Arabs by producing
magazines and videos in Eng-
lish as well as other European
languages.
This video will likely fea-
ture in future . . . recruitment
videos, said Ahmed Ali of the
Institute of the Study of War.
Baghdadi has long sought
to position himself as the
leader of global jihad in com-
petition with Zawahiri and
other gures in the al-Qaeda
central structure. The control
of Mosul and other areas in
Iraq is the perfect moment for
him to establish himself as the
main jihadi leader.
Therefore, a public ap-
pearance is important for a
caliph. AFP
A screen grab from a video released on Saturday allegedly showing
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi adressing Muslim worshippers in Mosul. AFP
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Plane crash kills 11 at
Polish parachute club
ELEVEN people were killed and
one person seriously injured
after a plane from a parachute
club crashed in southern
Poland, with local media
suggesting the aircraft may
have been carrying too many
passengers. The light twin-
engine aircraft, a Piper Navajo,
took off from an airfield near
Czestochowa with 11 para-
chutists and a pilot on board.
The cause of the crash was not
immediately known, but Polish
media suggested the planes
engine may have failed due to
there being too many
passengers on board. AFP
Forty dead as Ugandan
troops fight gunmen
UGANDAN troops have killed 41
attackers in a major battle with
tribal gunmen in a western
district near the border with the
DR of Congo, an army
spokesman said yesterday. It
was not immediately clear what
sparked the violence, but the
region has been hit by recent
clashes between Christians and
Muslims, and is also an area
where an Islamist rebel group
operates. There was an attack
by tribal gunmen on our
barracks and we repulsed them,
killing so far 41 of the attackers.
The operation is ongoing,
Ugandan army spokesman
Paddy Ankunda said. AFP
Hot-dog eating
Champ drops
to one knee

for big prize

A
MERICAS reigning hot
dog-eating champion
earned his eighth consecu-
tive world title in New York on
Friday, but took a moment before
inhaling 61 dogs to propose to his
girlfriend who said yes.
Joey Jaws Chestnut, 30,
completed the feat in 10 minutes,
but devoured fewer of the cooked
sausages in buns than last year,
when he ate 69 during a world-
record setting performance at the
annual competition.
But Chestnut made sure the
day was memorable, dropping
to one knee before live televi-
sion and a crowd of some 30,000
spectators to propose to his
girlfriend Neslie Ricasa, also a
competitive eater.
Defending womens champion
Sonya Thomas was dethroned by
28-year-old newcomer Miki Sudo,
who inhaled 34 hot dogs.
Sudo described beating Thom-
as, also known as the Black
Widow for her ability to eat more
than males, as surreal.
Thomas, 46, set the womens
world record in 2012, when she
ate 45 hot dogs.
During Fridays annual Fourth
of July event, however, she man-
aged to down only 27.75. AFP
At least 18 die in Kenya attacks
N
EW attacks have
claimed the lives of
at least 18 people
in Kenyas Lamu
coastal region, the same area
where some 60 people were
massacred last month, the Ke-
nyan Red Cross said yesterday.
A spokesman for Somalias
al-Shebaab rebels claimed
that the al-Qaeda-linked
groups ghters had carried
out another attack in the area.
The Red Cross said nine
people died and one person
was missing in the locality of
Gamba in Tana River coun-
ty, while nine people were
killed in Hindi, a trading post
in Lamu county. The areas
were attacked late on Satur-
day, authorities said.
Police said unidentied
gunmen also torched several
houses and attacked Gambas
police station, freeing a sus-
pect held over last months
attacks. One policeman was
among the dead, ofcials said.
An AFP reporter in Hindi
said all the dead in the town
were men, apart from a teen-
age boy, who was reportedly
shot as he tried to run away.
The attackers also left mes-
sages scribbled in English
and Swahili on a blackboard
taken from a school. You in-
vade Muslim country and you
want to stay in peace, one
message read in an appar-
ently rhetorical question.
Resident Elizabeth Opindo
said she spoke to the attack-
ers, who torched her home
but let her alive, saying they
did not kill women.
They said they were attack-
ing because Muslims lands
were being taken, she said.
In a statement issued just
hours after the violence, So-
malias al-Shebaab rebels said
they were responsible for the
killings. The attackers came
back home safely to their
base, al-Shebaab military
spokesman Abdulaziz Abu
Musab said, adding the mili-
tants had killed 10 people.
Survivors of the massacre in
Mpeketoni, and another at-
tack the following night in a
nearby village, reported how
gunmen speaking Somali and
carrying Shebaab ags killed
non-Muslims in revenge for
Kenyas presence in Somalia.
Kenyan President Uhuru
Kenyatta, however, denied al-
Shebaab were involved and
blamed local political net-
works and criminal gangs,
saying victims were singled
out because of their ethnicity.
Mpeketoni is a mainly
Christian settlement in
the Muslim-majority coastal
region, which was settled
decades ago by the Kikuyu
people from central Kenya,
the same tribe as Kenyatta.
Police also arrested alleged
separatists from the Mom-
basa Republican Council,
a group that campaigns for
independence of the coastal
region, as well as the oppo-
sition-afliated governor of
Lamu county.
The unrest in the coastal re-
gion has badly dented Kenyas
tourist industry a key foreign
currency earner and massive
employer for the country at
one of its traditionally busiest
times of the year.
Police said yesterday that a
Russian tourist was shot and
killed touring a historical site
in Kenyas port city of Mom-
basa. It is unfortunate the
lady who was shot has suc-
cumbed to injuries, Momba-
sas deputy divisional police
chief Tom Okoth said.
According to police, the
tourist was touring Fort Jesus
a 16th century Portuguese-
built fort and a UNESCO
World Heritage Site with two
other people when three gun-
men opened re and grabbed
a bag containing cameras,
phones and other personal
belongings. AFP
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani addresses a press conference in Kabul on Saturday. AFP
Afghans reject Facebook
ban as poll tensions rise
THE Afghan government yes-
terday rejected a proposal to
ban Facebook during an ongo-
ing deadlock over the presi-
dential election, despite fears
that social media postings
have fanned ethnic hatred.
The dispute between candi-
dates Ashraf Ghani and Abdul-
lah Abdullah over alleged fraud
in the June 14 election has trig-
gered bitter internet exchanges
between rival supporters that
threaten to spill into violence.
Ghani attracts much of his
support from the Pashtun
tribes of the south and east,
while Abdullahs loyalists are
Tajiks and other northern
Afghan groups echoing the
ethnic divisions of the bloody
1992-96 civil war.
The national security coun-
cil discussed [the] banning of
Facebook in their meeting,
deputy presidential spokes-
man Fayeq Wahedi said.
There are people on Face-
book who spread hatred and
cause damage to national unity,
but after talks the council
decided not to ban Facebook.
Internet use has rocketed in
Afghanistan in recent years,
and supporters of both sides
have been posting hostile mes-
sages and photographs since
the fraud allegations erupted.
Two weeks ago, the United
Nations issued a warning that
the internet activity could
spark civil unrest.
There has been a disturbing
tone in some social media plat-
forms, and we urge supporters
. . . to refrain from inflamma-
tory statements, hate speech or
statements that promote divi-
sive ethnic mobilisation, UN
mission chief Jan Kubis said.
He added that some postings
were rhetoric that brings back
memories of tragic, fratricidal,
factional conflicts in the 1990s
that cost the lives of tens of
thousands of civilians.
Abdullah has vowed to reject
the election result due out
today, alleging he is the victim
of industrial-scale fraud and
calling for a thorough audit of
ballot papers.
But Ghani claims he won
fairly by at least a million votes
and said the result must be
released on schedule after pre-
vious delays.
The dispute has thrown
Afghanistans first democratic
transfer of power into turmoil
as US-led troops withdraw
after 13 years of fighting the
Taliban insurgents and with
aid money to the country set
to fall in coming years. AFP
A burnt home stands yesterday in a village that suffered a new attack
overnight on Saturday along the Kenyan coast at Lamu county. AFP
World
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Mother kills
teacher in
front of kids
A PRIMARY school in southern
France was in shock on Friday
after a teacher was stabbed to
death in front of her young
pupils by a students mother
described as having psychiat-
ric problems.
After what Education Minis-
ter Benoit Hamon described
as an appalling crime, the
47-year-old assailant fled to
her home but was quickly
detained by police.
The attack on the 34-year-
old teacher took place around
9am (0700 GMT) as classes
began on the last day of term
at Albis Edouard Herriot pri-
mary school, which is attend-
ed by 284 students aged from
three to 11.
Officials said the mother
showed up in the classroom
with a knife and stabbed the
teacher, Fabienne Terral-
Calmes, a mother of two young
girls, in front of her horrified
pupils. The teacher died at the
scene while being treated by
emergency services.
The assailants daughter had
been enrolled at the school for
a month and a half, officials
said, but it was unclear if the
girl was in the classroom at the
time of the stabbing. AFP
T
WO retired mili-
tary ofcers were
sentenced to life in
prison on Friday
for the murder of a Catholic
bishop during Argentinas
1976-1983 dictatorship.
Former general Luciano Me-
nendez, 87, was found guilty
of ordering the murder of En-
rique Angelelli, bishop of the
northwestern province of La
Rioja, in August 1976. Retired
commodore Luis Estrella was
also found guilty in the case.
The convictions marked the
rst time that junta-era of-
cials have been found guilty
in the killing of a high-rank-
ing church cleric.
The military regime had
claimed that Angelelli, then 53,
was killed in a car accident.
Also travelling in the car
was the bishops aide, a priest
named Esteban Pinto, who
survived the accident and sub-
sequently led the lawsuit.
On the day of the accident
Angelelli was returning from
an event honouring the late
Longueville and Murias, both
known for their work with the
poor in La Rioja.
The bishops car ipped
over after it was struck by an-
other vehicle. Angelelli was
then taken out of the dam-
aged car, struck on the back
of his neck, and his lifeless
body dragged into the middle
of the road and abandoned.
Pinto, the survivor, led a
case with the authorities over
the crash. Regime ofcials
claimed it was a mere road
accident and closed the case.
In 1986, once democracy
was restored in Argentina,
the case was reopened and
the bishops death was ruled
a homicide. But the case was
led away when a blanket
amnesty for regime crimes,
not revoked until 2003, went
into effect. Menendez had
earlier been found guilty in
seven cases of human rights
abuses and was already serv-
ing a life sentence.
Scores of Catholic priests
and nuns were disappeared,
tortured and killed during the
dictatorship years. The vic-
tims include two French nuns
and the bishop of San Carlos,
Ponce de Leon.
In all, some 30,000 people,
mostly regime opponents,
were killed or went miss-
ing during the Dirty War
waged against leftist activists,
according to human rights
groups. AFP
Ofcers in Dirty War
guilty of killing bishop
Rescue mission
Three of 11 trapped miners are freed from a collapsed gold mine in the Honduran department of Choluteca,
160 kilometres south of Tegucigalpa, on Friday. At least 11 miners were trapped in the San Juan mine, when
a cave-in on Wednesday struck the mine near El Corpus at a depth of 80 metres (260 feet). The rescued men
were taken to hospital, authorities said, who gave no word as to the fate of the other mine workers. AFP
World
16
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
NORTH Korean leader Kim
Jong-un warned the South
would regret bitterly any in-
cursion of their disputed sea
border as he directed a large-
scale mock assault on an island,
state media said on Saturday.
The joint landing drill involv-
ing the army, navy and air force
followed a series of missile tests
in the past week seen by some
a display of pique over Chinas
President Xi Jinpings two-day
state visit to Seoul.
The mock assault is appar-
ently aimed at ve islands
controlled by the South near
the southwestern part of
North Korea. Seoul suspects
these islands, which provide
outposts for the South, would
be the rst target for the North
in case of an armed conict.
Participating were com-
batants, artillery pieces of
various calibres, combat ships
including submarines, and
formations of pursuit ghters,
bombers and transport planes
of units, the Norths Korean
Central News Agency said.
Kim watched the North
Korean forces successively
pounding the mock en-
emy positions through the
well-organised coordinated
operation as required by the
modern warfare.
Deadly repower strikes
on the island were followed
by infantry landings and para-
troops, the agency said. It did
not give the venue of the ex-
ercise which apparently took
place on Friday when Xi was
wrapping up his visit to Seoul.
Kim said the Norths south-
western waters were exposed
to frequent threats from the
South, repeating Pyongyangs
allegations that shells red
by the South dropped in the
Norths territorial waters some
days ago.
KCNA said Kim took it
very seriously and strongly
warned that should the
enemies repeat the wrong
choice on the wrong day in
the hotspot waters, he would
make them regret bitterly for
their action.
Kim was apparently refer-
ring to a live-re exercise last
month by South Korean ma-
rines based on islands near the
disputed western sea border.
The Chinese presidents
decision to visit Seoul be-
fore Pyongyang was seen as a
pointed snub to North Korea,
with Beijings patience over
the nuclear brinksmanship by
its wayward ally wearing thin.
Kim is still waiting for an invi-
tation to Beijing. AFP
N Korea leader directs
assault drill on island
Mob burns Mandalay school
M
USLIMS in
Myanmars sec-
ond-largest city
accused police
on Saturday of standing by
as a Buddhist mob went on
a rampage, torching a school
and other buildings.
Angry mourners, some car-
rying crude weapons, rioted
in Mandalay after the funeral
of a 36-year-old Buddhist
victim of the countrys latest
eruption of religious unrest,
witnesses said.
A school and dormitory in
the Muslim area of a cem-
etery on the outskirts of the
city were seen charred and
damaged on Saturday.
More than 70 police were
here but did nothing, said
Win Naing, a Muslim donor
to the school, who watched
the attack from his hiding
place in the home of a Bud-
dhist friend.
He said some of the rioters
were armed with sticks, met-
al pipes and even saws. No
children were believed to be
in the school at the time and
nobody was thought to have
been injured in the attack.
Several days of violence,
sparked by an accusation of
rape, have also left a Muslim
dead and 14 other people
injured.
Police could have stopped
the mob but they did not,
said Zaw Zaw Latt, a Mus-
lim member of an interfaith
group in the city.
Police said they did not
provide extra security for
the crowds because they did
not believe they would turn
violent.
Yesterday we did not stop
the mob because we thought
they were just taking part the
funeral, not an attack, said Ye
Htut of the Myanmar regional
police ofce.
At least 250 people have
been killed across Myanmar
since 2012 in Buddhist-Mus-
lim clashes that have cast a
shadow over the countrys
political reforms.
Police have been accused
of inaction in the past and
the government has deployed
soldiers in some cases to re-
store order.
A night-time curfew has
been imposed in Mandalay
and nine people have been
arrested in connection with
the recent violence.
Police said they were boost-
ing security measures as a
precaution in other cities, in-
cluding the main city Yangon
which has a diverse popula-
tion of religious and ethnic
minorities.
Social media users were un-
able to access Facebook for
the second straight evening
Friday, amid speculation that
Myanmar had blocked the
site to curb the spread of in-
ammatory comment online.
The website was working nor-
mally on Saturday.
Radical monks have been
accused of whipping up re-
ligious tensions, with ery
warnings that the countrys
main religion is under threat
from Islam.
A friend of the slain Bud-
dhist man said that a Muslim
gang had used a sword in
the attack.
The dead Muslim man, a
popular local bicycle shop
owner, was later killed while
on his way to attend early
morning prayers. AFP
A building destroyed by rioters on the outskirts of Mandalay, central
Myanmar, on Saturday. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
World
The Saudi chemist sparking air fears
Ewen MacAskill
C
ONCERN about the prow-
ess of al-Qaedas bomb-
maker in chief and his
willingness to work with
ISIS insurgents in Syria and Iraq
underlies the decision to increase
security at European airports.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, a Saudi
chemist who became a bomb-
maker, has for years been high on
Americas most-wanted list, because
he is believed to be behind many
audacious attempts to bring down
transatlantic ights, using his skills
as a chemist to devise increasingly
imaginative ways to conceal explo-
sives, with the best known being
used the underwear bomber.
The new element that led to the
present scare is intelligence link-
ing Asiri to two groups in Syria and
Iraq, the Nusra Front and the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
The worry is that Asiris skillfully dis-
guised bombs may be carried onto
transatlantic airlines by passport-
holders from the US or Europe.
Asiri has survived several assassi-
nation attempts in Yemen, the latest
a drone attack in April. He has been
reported killed, only to resurface.
The other reason for the heightened
threat is the increasingly familiar
warning from US, British and other
European intelligence agencies who
have been voicing concern for more
than a year of the threat posed by the
thousands of young jihadists from
America and Europe who have joined
the ght in Syria and now Iraq. The
heightened security in Europe is pri-
marily for trans-Atlantic ights, and it
came at the July 4 Independence Day
peak travel period for the US.
Politicians said the changes would
be permanent, with UK Prime Minis-
ter David Cameron saying the safety
of passengers must come rst. The
prime minister said he hoped the
measures would not cause unneces-
sary delays, but stressed that no risks
could be taken with passenger safety.
He told the BBC: We take these deci-
sions looking at the evidence in front
of us and working with our partners.
This is something weve discussed
with the Americans, and what we
have done is put in place some extra
precautions and extra checks.
The government highlighted the
importance of vigilance, but said
the extra security measures details
of which have not been disclosed
were not expected to cause signi-
cant disruption to passengers. The
ofcial UK threat status remained
unaltered at substantial, the third
grade in the ve-level rating. Earlier
on Thursday, deputy prime minister
Nick Clegg warned of the dangers
posed by a medieval, violent, revolt-
ing ideology.
He said that I dont think we
should expect this to be a one-off
temporary thing that was part of
what he described as an evolving
and constant review about whether
the checks keep up with the nature
of the threats we face.
The secretary of the US Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, Jeh
Johnson, said on Wednesday that
information about the aviation in-
dustry was being shared with our
foreign allies, while US ofcials said
that the increased security at Euro-
pean airports was because al-Qaeda
operatives in Syria and Yemen had
teamed up to develop bombs that
could be smuggled on to planes.
Jonathan Wood, a global issues
analyst at security consultants Con-
trol Risks, judged the present threat
plausible given that the leader of
al-Qaeda in Yemen called for an at-
tack on the US in a video in April.
Wood said he did not know of any-
one who had been personally trained
by Asiri going to Syria or Iraq, but it
was not improbable that some of his
experience had ended up in these
countries, given the link between al-
Qaeda and Nusra.
Asiri, 32, was born in Riyadh, grew
up near the Saudi border with Ye-
men, studied chemistry at university
in Riyadh and fought in Iraq.
There is no suggestion that Asiri is
in Syria or Iraq training militants or
that he has sent them any devices. It
is thought to be more likely that peo-
ple trained by him or devices he has
designed have ended up in Syria or
Iraq. US intelligence ofcials, brief-
ing reporters, warned of creatively
designed, non-metallic explosive de-
vices that could avoid detection. But
they do not have a specic device or
design in mind.
Asiri has proved inventive, even
if so far largely unsuccessful. In the
December 2009 attempt to detonate
a bomb on a ight from Europe to
Detroit, the explosive was hidden in
the underpants of a Nigerian.
In a separate attempt, British
bomb disposal experts found explo-
sives hidden in printer cartridges in a
courier package in 2010. Some of the
designs attributed to him sound like
the stuff of fantasy, such as having
explosives surgically implanted. But
he may already have tried this.
One of the most audacious, imagi-
native and ruthless attacks was a sui-
cide attack in Saudi Arabia in 2009.
The attacker was his younger
brother and the target the deputy
Saudi interior minister, and his
brother was killed. The bomb was ei-
ther hidden in his rectum or surgi-
cally implanted. THE GUARDIAN
A handout picture combo released by the Yemeni interior ministry in April 2009
showing suspected Yemen-based Saudi al-Qaeda expert Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. AFP
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O
VER the past year, we have
repeatedly heard some
European countries par-
ticularly Spain and Italy,
who are leading the pack express
concern over a sudden increase of
Cambodian rice imports into the
European Union. This surge, they
say, has distorted the market, cre-
ating unfair conditions for those
countries exporting rice within
the EU.
More recently, Italy returned to the
forefront, making noise and plead-
ing for the EU to remove Cambodia
from the Everything But Arms
scheme, under which all imports to
the EU from states on the UNs list of
least-developed countries are duty-
free. Italys concern has been picked
up by the media, despite the fact
that the country has yet to officially
lodge a complaint with the EU.
It would be good for all parties,
especially the EU, to have the facts
stated clearly.
1. General rice imports into the EU
from Cambodia have not increased
as much as statistics for the full year
of 2013 might suggest. While the
amount of rice from Cambodia did
see an increase, imports from else-
where, such as Thailand, decreased,
thereby enlarging Cambodias pres-
ence. Cambodian rice hardly dis-
torted the market as certain south-
ern European countries claimed.
2. There are some varieties of rice
that cannot be grown in Europe,
such as jasmine rice. I believe such
varieties should not be included in
any complaint that suggests Cambo-
dian rice is hurting Italian growers
and millers. The only jasmine type
grown in Italy produces a small crop
of a few hundred tonnes a year,
which is negligible.
3. The managing director of Italys
National Agency for Rice (NAR)
reportedly criticised the new Com-
mon Agricultural Policy (CAP) for
European Union member states,
saying that it has failed to protect
Italian and other European rice
farmers from foreign competitors.
The NAR managing director said the
new CAP sets the intervention price
the price at which the European
Commission purchases paddy rice
from farmers at 150 ($205) per
tonne. This, he said, is very low and
does not cover production costs,
which are about 320-330 per
tonne. He also said that, since its
introduction, the intervention price
has never been set at an appropriate
level. Also, the European Commis-
sion has specified that it may
increase the intervention price if the
quality of rice received is different
from the specified quality.
I imagine that the resistance Cam-
bodian rice is receiving from the
Italian rice industry can be traced to
CAP. Its reform is changing the
structure of EU support for farmers.
In the case of Italian rice farmers,
this means they will receive less
funds per hectare than previously.
This makes Cambodian long-grain
rice more competitive, which makes
Italian rice producers nervous.
4. That the Italian rice industry
lobbies to prevent Cambodian
access to the EU market is highly
unfair in light of the fact that Italian
rice farmers receive substantial sub-
sidies. The EU provides hundreds of
euros per hectare annually to Italian
rice farmers for keeping the produc-
tion of paddy and rice fields in oper-
ation. These are the very farmers
lobbying against Cambodian rice,
which is not subsidised in any way
by the Cambodian government. The
government here does not provide a
yearly cash boon to rice farmers, it
does not subsidise in any way the
credit system that finances new
crops and it does not provide subsi-
dies for the cost of agricultural
machinery and equipment.
To its credit, the Cambodian gov-
ernment has only intervened to ease
some logistical and documentation
costs to increase local farmers com-
petitiveness within the regional
rice industry.
5. Italian farmers are complaining
about one product that they say they
cannot compete against: Cambo-
dias long-grain white rice. It is
worth noting that Italian farmers
have been quiet about other rice
varieties that have been successful
in EU markets: arborio, medium-
grain varieties and round grain vari-
eties (in general, japonica). This is
because Cambodia offers no com-
petitive threat for these types of rice.
(However, soon say in one to three
years Myanmar will start to export
more japonica varieties to the Euro-
pean Union, and then Italians will
surely raise a fuss again).
6. According to a World Bank
report, in 2013 paddy occupied 75
per cent of cultivated land in the
Kingdom. Rice production, process-
ing and marketing were estimated to
employ three million people, about a
fifth of the countrys population. In
the past decade, Cambodias poverty
rate has dropped sharply, from 53.2
per cent in 2004 to 19.5 per cent in
2013. Half of this amazing reduction
has been attributed to the increase
of rice production, higher rice prices
and higher farm wages. That is
exactly the purpose of the EBA sta-
tus granted by the EU eradicating
poverty and improving farmers
standard of living.
Cambodia has always strictly
adhered to the terms and conditions
of the EBA agreement and expects
the EU to continue to reciprocate so
long as the Kingdom is still consid-
ered a least-developed country.
Comment
David Van
A response to Italian rice farmers
A Thai truck in Pailin transports Cambodian rice. The rice industry employs about a fth of Cambodias population and is credited with
helping slash the Kingdoms poverty rate. AFP
David Van is acting secretary-general of
the Cambodia Rice Federation.
Vandy Muong

S
ROUR Sorkunthika, 18,
was shocked when she
was asked to represent
the United States at
the United Nations. For a rst-
year international studies stu-
dent at the Royal University
of Phnom Penhs Institute of
Foreign Languages, taking on
the role of the worlds most
powerful country seemed a
heavy burden.
The United States is a pow-
erful country compared to
Cambodia, and at the time, I
felt worried inside and I didnt
know what I needed to focus
on, she said.
Sorkunthika was among
39 Cambodian students im-
mersed into the cutthroat
world of international diplo-
macy on Saturday as they
role-played UN delegates at
the Phnom Penh Model Unit-
ed Nations.
The conference, which was
held at the Cambodia-Korea
Cooperation Center and or-
ganised by the UN Volunteers
program in conjunction with
the Royal University of Phnom
Penhs Department of Inter-
national Studies at the Insti-
tute of Foreign Languages,
saw 39 Cambodian students
from ve universities playing
delegates at the UN Economic
and Social Council.
The delegates voted 38-1 to
pass a resolution, which de-
ned ctional terms for the
UNs real-life Post-2015 Devel-
opment Agenda.
Isabelle Devylder, the UN
Volunteers program ofcer in
Cambodia, said that Model
UN programs play an effective
role in educating young people
about the inner-workings of
international relations while
teaching important skill sets.
This is the great learning
opportunity for the students
to practice speaking skills,
negotiation skills, problem
solving skills and team work,
she said.
The fake assembly was
chaired by Sam Ath Sambath
Sreysour, a 21-year-old stu-
dent from the Institute of For-
eign Languages Department
of International Studies.
Sreysour, who lled the role
of the French delegate at last
years Security Council simu-
lation, said that it was an even
greater challenge to mediate
between all 39 participants.
She said: I have learnt a lot
of skills from school and the
conference by practicing the
UN system, diplomacy, public
speaking skills, writing skills,
exibility and understanding
the process of the interna-
tional system especially the
culture of sharing.
Khieu Sunpheng, the 21-
year-old Institute of Foreign
Languages student who played
the Kyrgyzstani delegate, said
that he could now better ap-
preciate issues common to de-
veloping countries.
Even though the situation
of this country was not far dif-
ferent from Cambodia, I can
learn how to raise solutions
and to defend arguments of
[Kyrgyzstan], which meant
that I had to challenge other
countries and to cooperate
with other delegates.
United States delegate
Sorkunthika said that being
in the shoes of the worlds
foremost superpower put her
world knowledge to the test.
I tried my best to work on
my research of the United
States situation, the back-
ground of the countries that
are under the power of the
United States, and I was com-
mitted to learn different things
until the end because it could
help me, as well as society as
a whole, to understand more
about diplomatic situations
around the world.
Although this is the fourth
Model UN held at the Royal
University, where the Insti-
tute of Foreign Languages or-
ganised the event, this is the
rst year that the UN ofcially
endorsed the event through
its UN Volunteers program.
Chandarith Neak, lecturer at
the Department of Interna-
tional Studies, said that the
partnership with the UN made
the conference stronger.
It was an inspiration to work
in international diplomacy
and leadership, he said.
THEY are Londons world-beating band
of art detectives, the men and women
who quietly piece together clues to the
identity of a succession of lost and mis-
laid artworks. And this weekend they
are getting the recognition they de-
serve in a celebration of their work at
London Art Week.
A striking image of a young girl
kneeling at prayer is one of several im-
portant, rediscovered works that will
cast light on the investigative talents
deployed by a group of dealers and art
historians based in the capital.
The solemn scene, painted by the
19th-century Scot Sir David Wilkie, was
last heard of in 1872 but turned up at
an auction in New York, listed as artist
unknown. It was spotted by dealer Ben
Elwes, who bought it for a fraction of
what it is now thought to be worth and,
as London Art Week gets under way, it
is now expected to sell for more than
250,000 ($430,000). Elwes recognised
Wilkies hand straightaway, his wife
and business partner Rachel Elwes
said. Ben has a photographic memory,
which has certainly helped him build
up his comprehensive knowledge, she
said. It serves Ben very well in the com-
mercial art world, because he remem-
bers images and features and prices
and attributions. And all this interest-
ing detective work we do often leads to
giving a title, or a proper attribution, to
a painting that may have been missing
for more than 100 years.
The capital, due to its proximity to
museums, revered auction houses and
to academic expertise has established
itself as a centre of international art
knowledge. The organisers of the week
believe their event will strongly un-
derline the unrivalled connoisseurship
and expertise to be found in the city.
New attributions include a drawing
by Giovanni di Benedetto Bandini in
which the artist works out the design
for the marble relief gures that deco-
rate the Duomo in Florence. Art expert
Crispian Riley-Smith spotted the true
worth of the image, in black chalk, pen
and brown ink, because he had previ-
ously sold another in the series to a
museum in Cambridge. This attri-
bution was made because, when you
work in the eld, you become quite
tuned into it. It is a bit like trainspot-
ting, Riley-Smith said.
Colnaghi, an Old Bond Street deal-
ership, will be uncovering a pair of re-
cently discovered masterpieces two
wing panels from a lost altarpiece dated
from about 1521 and by Simon Franck
(1513-circa1541), a talented follower of
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who became
court painter to Cranachs great patron,
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg. The
last record of these panels was in 1962,
but their whereabouts had been un-
known since then.
Ben and Rachel Elwes have more than
one of their discoveries on show this
year with a new attribution for a work
Uncle Tom: A Study from the Life, by
Thomas Uwins, an English painter, that
is a testament to the campaigning of the
abolitionist movement in Britain. We
looked at the image of the man, with his
eyes cast to heaven, at a small commer-
cial auction and knew there had to be a
story behind it, Rachel Elwes said.
We realised, too, that the frame had
to be a Royal Academy frame. On the
reverse of the canvas was a stamp for
the supplier and so we went to the won-
derful archive at the National Portrait
Gallery to check which of the various
artists suppliers had sold it. People had
not spotted it before because it is a late
Uwins, but Jan Marsh at the NPG agrees
with our attribution. THE OBSERVER
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Lifestyle
In brief
Iraqi mosques, shrines
destroyed by jihadists
JIHADISTS who overran Mosul
last month have demolished
ancient shrines and mosques
in and around the historic
northern Iraqi city, residents
and social media posts said on
Saturday. At least four shrines
to Sunni Arab or Sufi figures
have been demolished, while
six Shiite mosques have also
been destroyed across militant-
held parts of northern Nineveh
province, of which Mosul is the
capital. Pictures posted on the
internet by the Islamic State
jihadist group showed the
Sunni and Sufi shrines were
demolished by bulldozers,
while the Shiite mosques and
shrines were all destroyed by
explosives. The photographs
were part of an online
statement titled Demolishing
shrines and idols in the state of
Nineveh. Local residents
confirmed that the buildings
had been destroyed and that
militants had occupied two
cathedrals as well. We feel
very sad for the demolition of
these shrines, which we
inherited from our fathers and
grandfathers, said Ahmed, a
51-year-old resident of Mosul.
They are landmarks in the
city. AFP
Skeleton find sheds new
light on pre-Hispanic life
JAPANESE and Salvadoran
archaeologists said on Friday
they have found three human
skeletons in El Salvador from
more than 1,600 years ago that
could shed new light on early
human settlements in the
region. The three nearly
complete human skeletons,
preserved in volcanic ash,
were found near the Pacific
coast at a dig called Nueva
Esperanza, about 90
kilometres southeast of the
capital. The area was buried in
ash from gigantic eruptions
between the fifth and sixth
centuries, which has helped
preserve evidence of a the pre-
Hispanic coastal settlement,
possibly dedicated to salt
production and fishing. AFP
Abuse survivor invited to
paint over Harris mural
A MURAL by Rolf Harris that
has adorned the wall of a
Melbourne hardware store
for more than 20 years will
now be painted over. The
longtime owner of
Penhalluriacks Building
Supplies has asked a
survivor of sexual abuse to
cover over the mural, at his
Caulfield store, at midday
today. I have asked a victim
to perform the obliteration
using bright red paint,
Frank Penhalluriack said
yesterday. I invite any others
who have been affected by
immoral behaviour to join in
painting the wall. Some may
prefer to undertake [this]
away from the media
spotlight, so I will make a
can of paint available for any
to use in private for the rest
of the week. THE OBSERVER
Local students hold tough
talks at national Model UN
London Art Week celebrates art sleuths
Cambodian university students role-played UN delegates from 39 different countries. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Travel
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Instructors yodel during a workshop. A yodelling festival in Davos is a
magnet for lovers of mountain music and centuries-old traditions. AFP
Jonathan Fowler
I
N ROUND black hats and
red waistcoats, the huddled
circle of men burst into
song, their falsetto voices
echoing across the mountain
valley: Yodelayheehoo.
High in the Alps, the resort
of Davos is playing host to the
Swiss Federal Yodelling Fes-
tival, a three-yearly magnet
for lovers of mountain folk mu-
sic and the regions centuries-
old traditions.
Its all in the technique, said
Roger Bider, 35, as bystand-
ers applauded his eight-man
groups spontaneous perfor-
mance on a station platform.
You ip between singing
from your head and your dia-
phragm, said the soft-spoken
Bider, one of two yodellers
whose fellow singers provided
a bass-voice backing.
Known internationally for
the annual World Economic
Forum gathering of business
and political leaders, this is the
rst time Davos is hosting the
four-day yodelling festival.
The national event, which
wraps up Sunday and is broad-
cast live on Swiss television and
radio, rst began in 1924 and
draws 10,000 traditionally clad
participants and 100,000 fans.
While the events have juries,
its hardly a battle of the bands:
there are no prizes, beyond re-
spect. But for many attendees,
yodelling is about more than
just music.
You get hooked, explained
Paul Mettler, 62, of the Swiss
Yodelling Association, which
supervises the event.
Theres also the camaraderie.
At events, you meet people you
know, and make new friends
too, said Mettler, who took up
yodelling in 1993.
Most of the those participat-
ing are from Switzerlands ma-
jority German-language can-
tons the equivalent of states
in the US whose guttural
dialects bemuse outsiders.
Traditional Swiss yodel songs
include lyrics in dialect but, like
folk music worldwide, tell sto-
ries of love and hardship.
When I listen to vintage
blues, I hear similar rhythms,
harmonies and themes, Met-
tler said.
Peter Sutter, a yodeller for 30
years, said it was his passion for
a host of reasons.
Culture and tradition are im-
portant, said the 59-year-old
from the small, central canton
of Schwyz, which gave Switzer-
land its name. The key is to be
able to sing, to get the idea of
sound, rhythm and scales.
Sutter is unimpressed by the
Schlager pop pumped out in
local bars and popular in cen-
tral Europe, which mixes tra-
ditional accordion and yodel
sounds with simple electronic
beats. But thats not to say he
doesnt appreciate more mod-
ern music: I also like AC/DC,
Creedence Clearwater Revival
and Deep Purple!
Yodelling is not uniquely
Swiss. It is a hallmark of Aus-
trias Tyrol region, and variants
are found along central Eu-
ropes mountain chains, from
Poland to Romania.
The festival also holds recit-
als featuring alphorns a 3.6-
metre pipe-shaped instrument
as well as ag-throwers, who
hurl banners aloft and deftly
catch them.
In a eld, a crowd sat silently
on benches listening to an al-
phorns mournful tones.
Musical passion isnt cheap:
an alphorn, hand-crafted from
spruce, metal and reeds, costs
the equivalent of $3,800 and a
single instrument can require
55 to 60 hours to make.
But for committed players,
the outlay is worth it.
Playing keeps you calm and
gives you a kind of inner peace.
Its like yoga with a twist, said
Katrin Christen, 28, who plays
in a 10-piece group. AFP
In Davos, the
hills are alive
with yodelling
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13 SINS
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risks for Elliot, a down-on-his luck salesman. The
game promises increasing rewards for completing 13
tasks, each more sinister than the last.
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TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make
a discovery that brings down the Autobots and
Decepticons and a paranoid government official
on them.
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EDGE OF TOMORROW
A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself
caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle,
though he becomes better skilled along the way.
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave
that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and
the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find
themselves at the centre of a battle.
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MALEFICENT
A vindictive fairy is driven to curse an infant princess
only to realise the child may be the only one who
can restore peace.
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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an
acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love
that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship
is all the more miraculous given that Hazels other
constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes
about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love
at a cancer support group.
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Margaritas sold in a variety of avours
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Mashup tunes and remixes will be spun
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Chicken and Pizza will come to Show
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Show Box, #11 Street 330.
6pm
Exhibition @
Romeet Gallery
For his third exhibition at Romeet,
Phare Ponleu Selpak art school
graduate and painter Hour Seyha will
present Frog in the Well, which depicts
rural Cambodia.
Romeet Contemporary Art Space.
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1 Theatrical hit, in slang
5 Isle ___ (site off England)
10 Draws to a close
14 Wrinkly Jamaican fruit
15 Grassland or rain forest
16 Calm under pressure
17 Make indistinct
18 Very unfit
20 Trouble persistently
22 Supermans symbol
23 Marveled aloud
24 Holds fast
26 Capitol Hill figure (Abbr.)
28 Have a premonition
30 Two-handed log cutter
35 Simple figures
38 Frozen spear
39 Lake ___ (Blue Nile source)
40 Go with the flow
42 Crescents tip
43 Blows
45 Nut
47 Walks leisurely
48 Wigwam kin
49 ___ usual
51 Cigar with square-cut ends
55 Speak to the people
59 United
61 Barrel strip
62 Tailless simian
65 Between islands
66 Mental conception
67 Hops driers
68 Parker and Waterman
69 Old autocrat (Var.)
70 Rollicking good time
71 Start of North Carolinas motto
DOWN
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2 Gave the twice-over
3 Impressive poker hand
4 Emergency exit of sorts
5 Kimono belt
6 Used extreme subtlety
7 Groups of rioters
8 Stock up on
9 Flanders on TV
10 Yodelers feedback
11 Russell Crowe film
12 Unlikely Mensa candidate
13 Kanes Rosebud, e.g.
19 Kind of barrier or boom
21 Slog
25 Collectively
27 Words carved in stone?
29 Create a statute
31 Old-time Broadway greeting
32 Porgy
33 Besides which
34 Sobbed
35 Originate
36 Starchy tropical root
37 ... and the truth is not ___
41 Rules of personal conduct
44 High-powered personality
46 Mediocre grades
50 Flush of a sort
52 Green regions of desert
53 Theyre found on the range
54 Make fun of
55 Brief notice in passing
56 X-ray dosages
57 Type of rug or code
58 Certain mountain climber
60 It plans long trips
63 Knock off
64 Winning finish?
MONKEYS UNCLE
TV PICKS
Artist Hour Seyha depicts rural Cambodia in a somewhat grim light. HOUR SEYHA
Actors Liv Tyler, Justin Theroux and Amy Brenneman
attend The Leftovers premiere. AFP
9:45am -THE LEFTOVERS: In this pilot episode of HBOs
newest drama, residents of a small American town
cope after two per cent of the worlds population
mysteriously disappears. HBO
10:20am - TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES: A
robotic warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels
back in time to protect a 20-year old drifter from evil
robots. FOX MOVIES
5:15pm - THE MUPPETS: Kermit reunites the Muppets
to stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise
the $10 million needed to save the Muppet Theatre
from demolition. HBO
8pm - RED DAWN: A group of teenagers look to save
their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers
who have taken over the USA. FOX MOVIES
Lifestyle
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Socheata and Sontery
Social Life Team
Soft Opening Major Cineplex @ Aeon Mall
Ofcially opening @ Brown Roastery
Thai-based movie theatre company
Major Cineplex had its soft open-
ing at Aeon Mall last week.
The theatre featured a special,
trendily designed room and
VIP hall with comfortable sofas
and a big screen. This event saw
Cambodian celebrities attend a
screening of Transformers: Age
of Extinction in 3D over bags
of fresh popcorn. Photos by
Chhim Sreyneang.
On June 27, Brown Coffee launched
its newest store and concept on
Street 57. Titled Brown Roastery
and Eatery, the new restaurant ac-
tually roasts its beans onsite, un-
like the other branches, which
had their beans roasted in
Bangkok. The ofcial grand
opening featured differ-
ent kinds of coffee beans
to demonstrate the new
method. The night also
featured a fashion show
with trendy clothes and
pretty owers being
worn by both local and
foreign models. Originally
launched in 2009, Brown
Coffee now owns eight cof-
fee shops, including a new
one in Aeon Mall. Photos by
Post staff.
Zirk Torres and Don Protasio Kate Sutherland and Thierry Chantha Bin
Team Paperdoll and Paper Boy
Tisam Mazza and Yulia Khori.
Ross Whebl, Dara Theng, division manager at Jebsen
and Jessen, and Victor Harris
Nikki Nikki, singer
Thorn Leakhena, presenter from CTN
GiGi
Zaky and Tim Ratha Oun Ousa and Phen Sodalis
Saroj Anansitthichock, marketing
manager at Major Cineplex Group, May
Pisey, key account marketing manager
of Cambodia Beverage Company
Cambodian celebrities attend the Major Cineplex opening
Pha No and Khat Sokhem, singer
David Nou, marketing manager of Yamaha Cambodia,
Chea Sothida Chhour Srey Sros, Pich Ponnaka, Thavra Pich
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
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Toyota Media Test Drive @ Sihanoukville
The Finishing Post business network @ Cambodiana Hotel
On June 28, Toyota Cambodia organised the rst ever Media Test Drive from Phnom Penh
to Sihanoukville province. This event was intended to impress the automotive press in
Cambodia, as well as to allow particpants to test drive the latest showcased models, such
a Toyota Corolla, Avanza and Camry 2014. Potential car-buyers can test drive the latest
Toyota models at the Toyota showroom on Street 110 in Sangkat Teuk Thla, Khan Sen Sok
in Phnom Penh before purchasing. Photos by Chanrasmey Koam.
Every two months, Post Media holds its own business networking event for its clients
and partners. Last months event was hosted at the Cambodiana Hotel on June 27, where
many business clients and partners exchanged business cards and chatted about their
experiences in business while sipping wine and munching on snacks. The event also
featured a special breakdance and Philippine band performance. Photos by Chhim
Sreyneang and Vireak Mai.
Toyota Cambodia Team
Models on the road to Sihanoukville Sam Samon from Sinchew Daily
Sovichettra Kim and Abigail Gilbert from Northbridge
Carlijn Popelier, Emma Armstrong, Sebastian
Melgado, Jessica Albania and Rebocca Kent. Saveeta Roberts, Billy Pick and Jenne Roberts
from USAID.
Claire Caseris, marketing Manager at Celliers
DAsia.
Sebastien Gertgen; Alexander Demau of Leboost;
and Pascal Brandt-Gagnon, resident manager at
Cambodiana Hotel.
Nuy Loem; Thoeun Sreyneth; Saraboth Ea, man-
aging director; Muyleang Seng; and Sokun Sao
from Maxem Property
Yusuke Ota, CEO, and Ai Yamazaki, director of
Denriche Asia Co, Ltd
Vanny Dok, Sendra Sothea, Mengchou Kit, Van-
nary Bou, Gyle Gonzales
Jan Robinson and Rupert Winchester
Sara Marron Garcia, marketing communication
manager; Stefan Voogel of GM; and Pov Borany
Him, assistant sales manager, at InterContinental
Barry Hammond, Kevin Britten, Daved Pin, from
Top Recruitment
Anthony Galliano, CEO at Cambodia Investment
Management; Ziad Ghon, director of architecture at
UC Design Build; Simon David Vancliff of ING Hold-
ing Co,Ltd; and Saraboth Ea of Maxem Property
Lee Cheehooi, Nicole Jeanette Phoon, Tram Lyrat-
tanak and Sethy Thon
Sar Monyneath, HR admin ofce at ING Holding
Co, Ltd; Pao Nalin, and Lim Phousithavery
Silver Jang, Long Te, Sam Chantou, H-P Execu-
tive at Cambodia Broadcastiong Service, and Tun
Sinet, HR executive at Cambodia Broadcasting
Seervice Co, Ltd
Oung Ping Ann, Khek Khemrath of Blue Medias, Ok
Sopheaktra of Blue Media, and Thann Dara
Lan Rors, public relations at CCC, and Rhalyn
Make, marketing manager at CCC.
Sok Monineath, corporate sales adviser, and Chea
Chamroeun, sales project executive for Online.
POLE vault king Renaud Lavil-
lenie headlined a night to
remember for French athletes
at the Paris Diamond League
meet on Saturday, but there
were mixed results for a host of
potential Commonwealth
Games medal contenders.
While Lavillenies facile vic-
tory, winning his sixth straight
competition at the Stade de
France with his first clearance
at 5.70m doing what I had to
do in swirling wind could
well have been predicted, his
French teammates also largely
thrived in front of 42,154 home
spectators north of Paris.
Unheralded Eloyse Lesueur
won the long jump in a per-
sonal best of 6.92m, ahead of
Brittney Reese, the reigning
Olympic champ and defending
three-time world gold medallist
from the United States.
Lesueurs success followed
that of Benjamin Compaore
who leaped 17.12m in the tri-
ple jump for a shock victory
over Olympic gold and silver
medallists Christian Taylor
and Will Claye.
There was also a personal
best of 13.05sec for Pascal
Martinot-Lagarde, who had to
settle for second in the 110m
hurdles behind Jamaicas
Hansle Parchment, who set a
national record of 12.94sec to
win in imperious style.
I must admit I was not think-
ing to run that fast today!
acknowledged the 24-year-old
Jamaican after clocking the
fastest time run over the high
hurdles since September 2012.
Now after the race I actually
have the feeling I can run even
faster as I felt I made some mis-
takes. I can improve on that.
Lemaitres 100m proved to be
a damp squib, albeit he timed
a seasons best of 10.28sec in
finishing eighth and last.
In the absence of world and
Olympic champion Usain Bolt
and Jamaican teammate Asa-
fa Powell, American Mike
Rodgers won in 10 seconds
flat after recently crowned
Jamaican champion Nickel
Ashmeade was disqualified
for a false start which he vehe-
mently protested.
While Parchments hurdles
performance was arguably the
stand-out of the night, there
was mixed bag of results for
other high-profile athletes in
the warm-up for the July 23-Au-
gust 3 Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow.
Australian Olympic champi-
on Sally Pearsons return to
form after injury took another
small step when she finished
sixth (12.89) in the 100m hur-
dles, won by newly-crowned US
champion Dawn Harper-Nel-
son in 12.44sec.
But Nigerias Blessing Okag-
bare, who won 200m bronze
and long jump silver at the
Moscow world champion-
ships last year, stormed home
in the womens 200m after
trailing American Allyson
Felix off the bend.
A savage dip at the line saw
the 25-year-old Nigerian finish
in 22.32sec, with three-time
world champion and current
Olympic gold medallist Felix in
second at just two-hundredths
of a second.
However, Jamaican Shelly-
Ann Fraser-Pryce, the reign-
ing double Olympic 100m
champion, laboured in fifth
(22.63) in a boost for Okag-
bares sprint intentions come
Glasgow. AFP
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Sport

Four fighters honoured
after France title wins
A QUARTET of triumphant
Cambodian kickboxers
returned home to the Kingdom
on Saturday evening after
winning title bouts at an Asia-
Europe tournament in
southern France the previous
weekend. Ministry of Defence
Clubs Vong Noy, who won a
brace of belts, Roeung Sophan
of Mokod Reach Sey Club,
Ministry of Interior Clubs Sen
Bunthon and Victorious
Dragon Clubs female fighter
Vi Srey Khouch were warmly
welcomed by Cambodian
Boxing Federation president
Tem Moeun, CBF general
secretary Mil Kado and Bayon
TV boxing promoter Neang Si
Sovatha at Phnom Penh
International Airport. Each
fighter was to receive a cash
bonus of $1,200 from the
federation while Vi Srey
Khouch would be granted a
motorbike from Hun Sens
bodyguard departments vice
commander Deang Sarun,
according to Neng Si Sovatha.
YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG
SERYRITH
Trio of young tennis
stars head to Vietnam
THE Ministry of Interior Sports
Club have sent three of their
top young tennis players
reigning U18 boys national
champion Cheng Rongreach,
U12 girls winner Cheng
Seryvathey and U18 boys
prospect Yi Sarsarith to the
Vietnam ITF U18 tournament
at Can Tho Sports Complex.
The weeklong event, which
begins today, features
participants from Thailand,
Laos, the US, China, Japan,
Malaysia, Kazakhstan, India
and Cambodia. Club president
Chea Bunheng told media
repsresentatives yesterday:
We expect [our players] to
get official world ranking
points by passing the first
round [of the singles com-
petition], rather than become
champions or get runner-up
berths. YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED
BY CHENG SERYRITH
Strauss mortified as
KP insult goes out on air
ANDREW Strauss has
apologised for an offensive
comment he made about
Kevin Pietersen when he
thought he was off the air
while commentating at Lords.
Strauss was heard by
Australian Fox Sports viewers
calling Pietersen a c---
during the MCC v Rest of the
World fixture. He was
discussing his former England
colleague with his fellow
commentator Nick Knight in
the bluntest of terms, believing
mistakenly that an
advertising break was taking
place all around the world. The
comments were not heard by
Sky viewers in Britain. The
former England captain
apologised on air later. I
apologise unreservedly,
particularly to Kevin
Pietersen, he said. I am
mortified and profusely sorry.
THE GUARDIAN
French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie competes in the mens event dur-
ing the IAAF Diamond League competition in Saint-Denis, near Paris. AFP
Lavillenie headlines French night to remember
Shinya Aoki of Japan (left) produces a winning rear naked choke on his compatriot Kotetsu Boku in their lightweight title ght at ONE FC Kings & Champions in Singapore last year. ONEFC.COM
Incredible card set for Dubai
Dan Riley

O
NE FIGHTING Champion-
ship announced arguably
their most high prole ght
card in the organisations
three-year history with no less than
four world title bouts slated for August
29 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Three of these matches will feature
Japanese cage ghters defending their
ONE FC world championship belts,
while a fourth contest will be for the
vacant middleweight title.
Asias largest mixed martial arts or-
ganisation will enter the Middle East
for the rst time on August 29. Dubai
will be treated to a night of adrenaline-
pumping mixed martial arts action
from world-class mixed martial art-
ists, ONE FC CEO Victor Cui stated in
a news release.
The main event sees revered Japa-
nese lightweight champion Shinya
Aoki (35-6-1) make his rst title de-
fence against Iranian contender Kamal
Shalorus (9-3-2).
Meanwhile, another mouthwatering
meet for the yet to be titled ght night
is welterweight champion Nobutatsu
Suzuki (11-1-2) of Japan taking on un-
defeated American Ben Askren (13-0),
who made a triumphant ONE FC de-
but in the headline bout of Honor &
Glory last month in Singapore.
Featherweight belt holder Koji Oishi
(25-9-10) will also be in action against
a top prospect to be conrmed at a
later date, who will look to steal the
Japanese veterans accolade.
Former DREAM lightweight cham-
pion Aoki is known as one of the most
dangerous submission artists in cage
ghting today, earning the nickname
Tobikan Judan, which translates as
the Grand Master of Flying Submis-
sions. Having captured the ONE FC
belt with victory over compatriot Ko-
tetsu Boku at Kings & Champions in
Singapore last year, the 31-year-old is
a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under
the legendary Yuki Nakai and boasts
23 wins via submission.
Shalorus studied MMA in both the
UK and the US, beginning his career
in Austin, Texas, in 2008. After a string
of victories at various promotions, the
36-year-old Prince of Persia: lost all
three of his ghts at the esteemed UFC
before his move to ONE FC, where he
has won his two matches to date.
Acclaimed striker Suzuki, 36, has
demonstrated the effectiveness of
karate in MMA, becoming the inau-
gural ONE FC welterweight world
champion by defeating Brock Larson
of the US at ONE FC: War of Nations
on March 14 in Kuala Lumpur. Ten of
his 11 wins have been knockouts and
he will look to add Askren to the list of
opponents he has nished.
Funky: Ben Askren is a legend in
collegiate wrestling with four all-
American awards and a stellar record
of 153-8 during his career at the Uni-
versity of Missouri. He also wrestled
on the US Olympics team in 2008 be-
fore transitioning to MMA, where he
has blazed a trail in the welterweight
division.
Oishi, 37, is a former lightweight King
of Pancrase and a seasoned ghter who
has consistently facing some of the
best opposition in the world. He suc-
cessfully achieved a lifelong ambition
of becoming a world champion last
year by knocking out Honorio Banario
of the Philippines in the second round
of their Manila bout. He then defended
his title six months later against the
same rival and at the same venue with
a third-round stoppage.
Basketball
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A CCPL Warriors player (in red) goes up for a layup during a Cambodian Basketball League game
against NSK Dream at Olympic Stadium indoor hall on Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Warriors win CBL
opener in overtime
H S Manjunath

T
HE Angkor Beer Cambo-
dian Basketball League got
off to a rip-roaring start at
its new home in the Olym-
pic Stadiums indoor hall on Satur-
day with the opening game of the
season producing an 85-81 over-
time win for CCPL Warriors over
NSK Dream, the youngest squad
in the 10-team competition.
In the days second xture, solid
preseason prep worked wonders
for Mekong Tigers in their impres-
sive 87-61 win over Phnom Penh
Dragons, who were forced to eld
a weaker line-up due to the ab-
sence of three key players.
When the Warriors and NSK
Dream hit the newly laid wooden
oor for the opener, the arena was
lled with an air of sentimentality
big-time basketball taking cen-
ter stage in this iconic venue built
in the early 60s.
Bench strength and experience
saw the Warriors take the momen-
tum early over their youthful rivals.
Filipino Chris Bolado showed the
way for the Warriors, who came
out marginally better in the high-
scoring rst quarter.
Bolados compatriot Vince
Delmundo, making his rst ap-
pearance in the league, stamped
his mark in the second quarter
with some excellent long-range
baskets, draining several three
pointers to earn a 36-32 half-time
lead for the Warriors.
The third quarter saw NSK
Dream push back hard enough to
take a one-point lead at 56-57 and
set up a thrilling nal dash.
With just 22 seconds to go it was
all square at 71. Phorn Rithysak,
who had an excellent chance to
wrap up the game for NSK Dream
from the free-throw line, missed
both his shots.
That drove the nish to a ve-
minute extra time period, during
which both sides were more or less
even until Delmundos four free
throws changed the course of the
contest in favour of the Warriors.
The battle-ready Mekong Tigers
showed up with their best line-up,
unlike their rivals, who missed out
on a few vital cogs in their attacking
machine. The absence of Ben Laird,
Kelvin Chan and Chhim Chandara
hurt the Dragons no end.
The Tigers pounced on the
Dragons from the get-go, with
Pheng Darath excelling at the
three-point line. He had a total
of six for the game but his three
in the rst quarter alone were
enough to send the Dragons a
chilling message.
The Dragons desperate re-
sponse was to switch to 3-2 zone
defence, leaving more open space
for the Tigers inside the paint.
With the Tigers defence stand-
ing tight, the Dragons found
outside baskets hard to come by.
Thats an area of expertise Laird
and Chan normally brought to
the side and thats where it cost
the Dragons the most.
The Tigers Meas Ravuth and Sok
Samnang worked out some nice
combinations to ensure that the
ow was smooth all the way.
Score Summaries
CCPL Warriors 85 (Sovann Pan-
ha 20, Vince Delmundo 29 points)
NSK Dream 81 (Phorn Rithysak 21,
Sok Pagna 18)
Mekong Tigers 87 (Pheng
Darath 24, Seath Socheat 15)
Phnom Penh Dragons: 67 (Jordan
Bergren 16, Leng Seng,, Chhim
Taingyou 12)
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Sport

Bryan bros stunned by
Wimbledon debutants
JACK Sock and Vasek Pospisil,
the American/Canadian pair
playing in their first Grand Slam
final, stunned US top seeds
Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6 (7/5),
6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to win
the Wimbledon mens doubles
on Saturday. Sock and Pospisil
became the first team to win a
Grand Slam in their first major
together since Lleyton Hewitt
and Max Mirnyi completed
such a feat in 2000 at the US
Open. Defending champions
the Bryan brothers who were
defending champions and
riding a 16-match win streak at
the All England Club after
winning the 2012 London
Olympics were playing in a 26th
Grand Slam final. AFP
Errani, Vinci complete
career Grand Slam
ITALYS Sara Errani and
Roberta Vinci became just the
fifth pair to complete a
womens doubles career Grand
Slam when they beat Timea
Babos and Kristina Mladenovic
in the Wimbledon final on
Saturday. The Italian second
seeds won 6-1, 6-3 under the
roof on Centre Court in just 56
minutes against the 14th-
seeded Hungarian/French
team. We are friends and we
are like a team together all the
day with our families, our
coaches, said Errani. We all
help each other very much so
this is important when you go
on the court. The pair also won
the Australian Open final this
year before finishing runners-
up at the French Open. AFP
Amir Khan arrested for
alleged Bolton assault
BRITAINS former world
champion boxer Amir Khan has
been arrested after allegedly
attacking two teenagers in a
street assault as they were
returning from a mosque. The
27-year-old Olympic silver
medallist was arrested in the
early hours of Friday after an
incident in his home town,
Bolton, in which two men were
hurt but not seriously injured. A
spokesman of the boxer
confirmed he had been
arrested and subsequently
released on bail pending
further inquiries. THEGUARDIAN
Nowitzki agrees deal
with Dallas Mavericks
GERMAN NBA star Dirk
Nowitzki is reportedly poised to
finish his career with the Dallas
Mavericks after agreeing a
three-year deal with his
longtime club. The deal is
thought to be worth some
US$30 million, ESPN said, and
will maintain the no-trade
clause that was in the previous
contract Nowitzki signed in
2010. Nowitzki has spent all 16
of his NBA seasons with the
Mavericks, earning 12 All-Star
appearances. AFP
Oakland Athletics beef
up their pitching staff
THE Oakland Athletics acquired
pitchers Jeff Samardzija and
Jason Hammel on Saturday
from the Chicago Cubs in a
bold move to enhance their
starting rotation. The six-player
deal sees the Cubs receive two
promising young players,
shortstop Addison Russell and
outfielder Billy McKinney, as
well as pitcher Dan Straily and
a player to be named later. AFP
Finch shines among stars in Lords bicentenary
AUSTRALIAS Aaron Finch seized his
chance to shine among some of crickets
greatest players with a commanding
innings of 181 not out as MCC beat the
Rest of the World in the Lords bicente-
nary match on Saturday.
Set 294 to win a one-day match mark-
ing the 200th anniversary of the home
of cricket, MCC finished on 296 for
three with 25 balls to spare against a
star-studded Rest of the World team.
Finch, already in England playing for
Yorkshire, was involved in partnerships
with three of the best batsmen cricket
has known to cap a memorable Lords
debut for the 27-year-old Victoria
right-hander.
He put on 107 for the first wicket with
Indian hero Sachin Tendulkar, crickets
leading run-scorer in both Tests and
one-day internationals.
Finch then added 67 and 122 with two
contrasting West Indies left-handers in
Brian Lara (23) and Shivnarine Chand-
erpaul (37 not out) respectively.
Tendulkar said that it would not be
long before Finch, who made a Twen-
ty20 world-record 156 against Eng-
land at Southampton last year, made
his Test debut.
It was a special innings, I was telling
him it was a joy to watch you play,
Tendulkar said.
Im sure well see him in the long
form of the game as well.
However, one sadness for a capacity
crowd was that Rest of the World captain
Shane Warne was unable to bowl after
his first ball batting saw the leg-spin leg-
end suffer a broken right hand when he
was struck by an accidental beamer
from fast bowler Brett Lee.
Asked if he and his former Australia
team-mate were still friends, Warne jok-
ingly said: We were.
As for Finch, his fellow Victorian,
Warne said: Hes a fantastic player, I
would love to see him in Australian
colours in Test matches.
Earlier, Yuvraj Singhs blistering 132
off 134 balls took the Rest of the World
to 293 for seven after they had col-
lapsed to 68 for five following four
cheap wickets Adam Gilchrist,
Tamim Iqbal, Kevin Pietersen and
Shahid Afridi for Pakistan off-spin-
ner Saeed Ajmal.
Tendulkar, who only retired in Novem-
ber, gave his adoring fans in a capacity
Lords crowd plenty to remember him
by with the pick of his seven fours a
straight drive down the ground off cur-
rent Australia fast bowler Peter Siddle.
The Little Master, cheered to the
echo throughout the match by his ador-
ing fans, thanked the public for their
support but said it had been tough going
out in the middle.
Forty-four runs, a little more than
how old I am, the 41-year-old Tendulkar
said. It shows on me, doesnt it? I have
been enjoying my retirement, doing the
things I didnt get to do for 24 years.
Tendulkar fell when he bottom edged
an intended cut off Sri Lanka off-spinner
Muttiah Muralitharan, Test crickets
most successful bowler.
Left-hander Lara also showed his
enduring class with a cracking drive
behind point off West Indies paceman
Tino Best and a booming drive off medi-
um-pacer Paul Collingwood.
But Durham captain and former
England all-rounder Collingwood
proved an unlikely bowling hero with
two wickets in two balls as Lara was
caught behind and India star Rahul
Dravid bowled off the inside edge for
a golden duck. Chanderpaul survived
the hat-trick ball. AFP
Australias Aaron Finch (left) plays a shot for MCC during their Lords bicentenary match
against the Rest of the World at Lords Cricket ground in London on Saturday. AFP
Cav pulls out of Le Tour
B
RITISH former world
champion Mark
Cavendish was dev-
astated after being
forced to pull out of the Tour
de France with a separated
collarbone, he said yesterday.
The 29-year-old sprinter
suffered the injury when he
fell heavily in a high-speed
crash after colliding with Aus-
tralian Simon Gerrans close to
the nishing line of Saturdays
190.5 kilometre opening stage
from Leeds to Harrogate.
Although his Omega Phar-
ma-Quick Step team said they
would wait until yesterday to
decide if he would continue,
the sprint ace, a 25-time Tour
stage winner, said he never
held out much hope.
I knew, normally I bounce
well when I crash, I always
have done, Cavendish told
reporters outside his teams
bus at the start of yesterdays
second stage in York.
When I was on the oor
[on Saturday] I knew some-
thing was wrong. Its the rst
time in my career I knew
something was wrong.
I wanted to cross the nish
line, I was in Harrogate, the
fans had come to see me, I got
on my bike but it was impos-
sible to hold the handlebars.
I saw there was something
wrong with my shoulder, it
was sticking out a bit so we
went to get it checked out.
I was in a lot of pain, I cant
move my shoulder.
I held a bit of optimism
that maybe it was just a bit of
swelling and would go down
this morning, but its actually
worse this morning. Im gut-
ted, Im major disappointed
but I guess it could be worse.
Cavendish said he expected
to face a lengthy spell on the
sidelines and maybe even an
operation. Ive got to go and
get an MRI and see if it needs
surgery, the chances are it
probably does and unfortu-
nately Im likely to be out for a
few weeks now.
But while he said he was
devastated to be out of the
Tour, he said some perspec-
tive was needed.
It could be worse, Ive got
friends like Taylor Phinney
whos out for the rest of the
season [with a broken leg],
added the Manxman.
Ive got friends whove
come back from Afghanistan
with the Armed Forces. I think
you saw my Help for Heroes
helmet yesterday and my
friend Josh was messaging me.
Hes a double amputee on his
legs and amputee on his arm
as well. He sent me a message
joking Ive got a spare arm
for you.
Things could be worse, Ive
got everything. It was my fault
at the end of the day.
Cavendish had undergone
X-rays and an ultrasound in
hospital on Saturday night,
which revealed that he had
not broken anything but
merely suffered a dislocated
collarbone.
Cavendish had been red
up to win the opening stage
in Harrogate, where his
mother was born.
He had been well-placed
on the run-in before the dra-
matic crash, which saw him
hit the tarmac heavily on his
right shoulder and brought a
number of other riders tum-
bling down with him, includ-
ing Gerrans.
The Manxman was seen
slumped on the ground,
clutching his collarbone and
clearly in pain.
But he held his hands up
and admitted it was his fault.
I spoke to Simon, I spoke to
him after the stage and asked
if he was alright, I spoke to
him on the phone and apolo-
gised, Cavendish said.
I hope hes OK, todays a
good stage for him and I re-
ally wish him the best for the
rest of the tour.
We came up and I think
there were two of us going for
Peter Sagans wheel.
There was room to the left,
I went to go but Gerrans was
there, I was using my head
to not go into him and take
us across the road but Si-
mon wasnt budging, I wasnt
budging, but at the end of the
day at any other race Id have
stopped. The stage was lost
but I wanted it that bad that I
tried to nd a gap that wasnt
there, he explained.
German Marcel Kittel won
the opening stage to capture
the yellow jersey, with Slovak
Peter Sagan taking second
and Ramunas Navardauskas
of Lithuania in third. AFP
Britains Mark Cavendish lies injured after a fall near the nish line at the end of the rst stage of the 2014 Tour de France cycling race on Saturday. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 7, 2014 27

Newcastles Debuchy
set to sign for Arsenal
MATHIEU Debuchy says he is
still in talks to join Arsenal
despite earlier telling French
television he was on his way to
the Emirates this summer. In a
possible deal understood to be
worth around 8 million
(US$13.7 million) rising to 12
million with add-ons the
France defender would provide
a ready-made replacement for
his national team-mate Bacary
Sagna, who left to join
Manchester City on a free
transfer at the end of the
season. After Frances World
Cup quarter-final defeat by
Germany, he spoke to a pitch-
side reporter, telling TF1: Yes, I
will be joining Arsenal for next
season. There has been no
confirmation of the transfer
from Arsenal, but the move has
been widely mooted for several
weeks and now appears to be a
formality pending a medical.
Newcastle signed Debuchy
from Lille last January, for 5
million, and he has since been
an ever-present member of
Alan Pardews side. His
impressive form in the Premier
League led to interest from
Monaco and Paris Saint-
Germain, and he made it clear
last season that he wanted to
pursue Champions League
football for the coming
campaign. THEGUARDIAN
Brazil spokesman gets
silenced for 3 matches
FIFA on Saturday banned
Brazils team spokesman for
three matches for hitting a
Chilean player during their
countries World Cup match.
The media specialist, Rodrigo
Paiva, hit Chilean player
Mauricio Pinilla in the stadium
tunnel at half time in the last
16 match last Saturday. Paiva
was banned for three matches,
with a fourth match
suspended for two years, and
fined 10,000 Swiss francs
(US$11,180 dollars), the world
governing body announced.
One match of the ban has
already been served, but the
action means that Paiva will
not be allowed into the rest of
the World Cup, even if the
hosts reach the final. AFP
Di Stefano stable after
heart attack in Madrid
REAL Madrid legend Alfredo di
Stefano remained in a serious
but stable condition in a
Madrid hospital yesterday, a
day after he went into a coma
after suffering a heart attack,
the hospital said. Rescuers
battled for nearly 20 minutes to
revive the 88-year-old, one of
the greatest footballers in
history, after his heart and
breathing stopped while he was
eating with his family near
Reals Santiago Bernabeu
stadium. The Argentina-born
forward was taken in a serious
condition to the Gregorio
Maranon hospital which later
said he was in a coma, had
been sedated and was
breathing with the help of a
machine. In a new medical
report issued yesterday, the
hospital said he remained in its
coronary unit in a serious but
stable condition. Newspaper
El Pais said Di Stefano had
been eating with his family
when he felt ill and sat down in
his wheelchair. By the time an
ambulance arrived he was in
cardiorespiratory arrest. AFP
Western Universitys Oeurn Sotheara (left) bundles over TriAsias Seng Kosen during their
Metfone C-League match at the Olympic Stadium yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Kirivongs Savor Ratanakvisa (right) tries to control the ball ahead of BBUs Ugwu
Anuyochukwu (left) and Sean Phisa during their MCL game on Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Boeung Ket draw with Army
sees Crown well out in front
H S Manjunath

F
OUR-TIME champions Phnom
Penh Crown took a giant step
towards their fth title as they
stretched their lead at the top
of the Metfone C-League standings
to seven points with a comfortable
3-1 win over Commissariat of Na-
tional Police at the Olympic Stadium
on Saturday.
Crown notched up their seventh
straight win to keep at a safe distance
the hard chasing Boeung Ket Rubber
Field who were frustrated no end in
their 1-1 draw with Ministry of Nation-
al Defence yesterday.
The draw may have dealt a serious
blow to Boeung Kets hopes of taking
the title race to the wire.
With two more matches to go for
the leading pair before their own
classic confrontation in the last week
of this month, neither could afford a
blow out, but the seven-point buffer
should keep Crown in good stead.
There is now a distinct possibility
that Crown could seal the deal well
before their much anticipated clash
with the Rubbermen.
The ever consistent and combative
George Bisan hammered his 19th goal
of the season to give Crown a 23rd
minute lead. With the golden boot
his for the asking, the striker proved a
thorn in the Police esh.
Crown was also well served by Odion
Obadin, whose towering presence in
the box during set pieces has been a
notable feature. It was another rm
Obadin header off a Pellegrino corner
that helped Crown double the lead in
the 40th minute.
By the hour mark, Crown had put
the game well beyond the Police reach
when Kouch Sokumpheak came with
the third goal that gave the front run-
ners a 3-0 advantage. For the Police,
Tit Dinas 75th minute goal was too
little too late.
Boeung Ket yesterday opened the
scoring with a stroke of pure luck, a
clearance on the line ricocheting off
Mohammed Tijani midway through
the second half.
Minutes later, however, a resilient
looking Army team levelled through a
converted penalty by Ung Dara.
In Saturdays rst xture, this years
Hun Sen Cup runners-up Build Bright
United asserted themselves with a
2-1 win over Kirivong Sok Sen Chey,
who continue to dwell in the shadow
of relegation.
Two rst half goals gave BBU an up-
per hand and the visitors from Takeo
could hardly make a match of it. Thai
Phalla opened the scoring for BBU
in the 24th minute and just before
the breather, Ota Takahito added one
more to the teams kitty. The discern-
ibly struggling Kirivong could only
grab a poor consolation goal bang on
the 90th minute through In Savoy.
Away at the Old Stadium, Yusuki Ue-
das goal deep into injury time helped
bottom enders Albirex Niigata hold
Asia Europe University safe 2-2.
After an unproductive rst half, AEU
took control of the game with goals in
quick succession from Geoge Kelechi
and Toeung Saroeung. But Albirex
staged a brilliant rearguard with Ny
Wadanak inspiring a ghtback with
a 74th minute goal and Ueda making
certain that the spoils were shared.
Yesterdays afternoon kickoff at the
Olympic Stadium witnessed Western
University maintain their push for sur-
vival with a 1-0 win over TriAsia. Reo
Nakamura notched the decisive goal
late on. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY DAN RILEY
Krul saves Netherlands as Costa Rica downed
DUTCH goalkeeper Tim Krul
was the hero as the Nether-
lands beat Costa Rica to seal a
showdown with Argentina in a
heavyweight World Cup semi-
final lineup on Saturday.
Netherlands coach Louis
van Gaal stunned onlookers
at Salvadors Fonte Nova Are-
na by bringing on Krul to
replace Jasper Cillessen in the
final seconds of extra-time
after 120 minutes had finished
deadlocked at 0-0.
But van Gaals audacious
move paid dividends as New-
castle keeper Krul saved
Costa Rican penalties from
Bryan Rui z and Michael
Umana to send the Dutch
through to the last four.
The Netherlands will now
play Argentina on Wednesday
for a place in the July 13 final
after hosts Brazil face Ger-
many, who beat France 1-0, in
Belo Horizonte tomorrow.
The Dutch had won only
one penalty shootout in five
previous attempts at major
championships. But penalty
takers Robin van Persie, Arjen
Robben, Wesley Sneijder and
Dirk Kuyt all made no mistake
from the spot to beat Costa
Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
Its a dream come true for
me, said Krul. I watched the
penalties. Weve been prepar-
ing with all the goalkeepers
and the goalkeeper coach.
Van Gaal later said Krul was
introduced because he could
have a better chance of success
in a shootout.
Every keeper has specific
qualities and we felt that he had
a better reach, and a better
track record to stop penalties,
van Gaal said.
Wed discussed it with Tim,
how Costa Rica would shoot
their penalties, their sequence.
So he was prepared.
Fortunately it worked out,
because if it hadnt worked out,
I would have taken the wrong
decision. Thats usually how it
works out in football.
The unforgettable shootout
drama came after a gritty duel
that saw the Netherlands dom-
inate for long periods without
being able to score.
Sneijder came closest, twice
hitting the woodwork in nor-
mal and extra-time.
The win means the Nether-
lands are set for another chap-
ter of their World Cup rivalry
wit h Argent i na, which
includes the 1978 final won by
the South Americans.
Argentina advanced to the
semi-final for the first time in
24 years on Saturday after a
Gonzalo Higuain strike secured
a 1-0 win over Belgium.
Napoli striker Higuain lashed
in an instinctive first time shot
after eight minutes as Belgiums
hopes of qualifying for the last
four wilted in Brasilia.
Argentinas win snapped a
run of two successive World
Cup quarter-final exits follow-
ing failures against Germany in
2006 and 2010.
It is the first time the South
Americans have qualified for
the last four since the 1990
finals in Italy.
We produced a very com-
plete match. We werent able to
create that many chances, but
they didnt make that many
clear chances either, Argenti-
na captain Lionel Messi said.
Argentina have now won all
five of their matches at the tour-
nament, but they laboured in
the group phase and were crit-
icised for a lacklustre display in
their 1-0 victory over Switzer-
land in the last 16. AFP
Netherlands keeper Tim Krul celebrates after saving a penalty during the
shootout after extra time in their quarter-nal against Costa Rica. AFP
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Sport
Tears as Neymar exits
A
N EMOTIONAL Ney-
mar had to hold back
the tears as he ad-
dressed a nation in
mourning the day after Bra-
zils talisman was ruled out of
the rest of the World Cup with
a broken vertebra.
Live television pictures
showed a medical helicopter
airlifting the 22-year-old from
Brazils training camp in Teres-
opolis to his home in Guaruj
in So Paulo state, where he
will continue to undergo treat-
ment for the injury sustained
in Fridays 1-0 quarternal vic-
tory over Colombia.
Still sporting his trademark
baseball cap, Neymar waved
briey from his stretcher in-
side the helicopter before the
doors were closed and the air-
craft ew away.
He later released a video
message via the Brazilian
Soccer Federation and urged
his teammates to complete
their quest to win a sixth
World Cup.
My dream isnt over. It was
interrupted by a play but it
continues, a red-eyed Ney-
mar said. Im certain that my
teammates will do everything
possible so that my dream,
which is to be a champion,
comes true. My dream was
also to play in a World Cup -
nal, but this time it didnt work
out. I am sure they will win
this cup and be champions,
and I will be with them, and
all Brazilians will soon be cel-
ebrating all of that.
Its a very difcult moment,
I have no words to translate
what is going through my head
and my heart, Id just like to say
I will be back as quickly as pos-
sible, when you least expect it,
Ill be back.
Neymar later conducted a
live television interview via a
satellite link and reduced the
presenter and members of
the studio audience to tears.
FIFAs disciplinary committee
is studying the challenge that
led to the injury and will de-
cide whether to punish the Co-
lombia defender Juan Ziga.
Ziga who plays his club
football in Italy for Napoli is-
sued an apology, having origi-
nally stated after the match he
had only been defending his
shirt, in reference to the per-
sistent fouling by Brazils play-
ers during the rst 45 minutes
in Fortaleza.
I dont think it was normal
football play. I do believe it was
aggressive, he said. Although
I feel that these situations are a
normal part of the game, there
was no intent to injure, malice
nor negligence on my part. I
want to reach out to Neymar,
who I admire, respect and con-
sider one of the best players in
the world. I hope you recover
quickly and return to the game
soon, so we can all support
a sport full of the virtues and
qualities that Ive tried to fol-
low in my 12 years as a profes-
sional player. THE GUARDIAN
Brazil star Neymar ashing the V-sign before his departure to his home in Guaruj, at Granja Comary train-
ing centre in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, on Saturday. AFP
Kvitova savours second Slam title
PETRA Kvitova insists winning Wimble-
don for the second time was such a sweet
success that even becoming the world
number one couldnt be more fulfilling.
Kvitova ended three years of undera-
chievement as she powered to her sec-
ond Grand Slam title with a ruthless 6-3,
6-0 thrashing of Canadas Eugenie Bou-
chard in Saturdays final.
The 24-year-old had endured a difficult
time since her first major triumph at
Wimbledon in 2011, with the expecta-
tions created by that breakthrough vic-
tory against Maria Sharapova proving a
huge burden for the shy Czech.
She had failed to make it back to a
Grand Slam final until this weekend, but
all her pent up anger and frustration was
taken out on 13th seed Bouchard in the
quickest Wimbledon womens final for
31 years.
Kvitova will rise to fourth in the world
rankings next week, but asked if she
would now set her sights on replacing
Serena Williams as the number one, she
made it clear that ending her wait for
another major title at her favourite Grand
Slam was more than enough for now.
I was pretty close to No 1 before and
I feel this is something more special, to
have this Grand Slam, especially Wim-
bledon, she said.
Of course the No 1 means a lot to
everyone. Well see what the future holds.
For me, Im just glad that I have this
Grand Slam.
I was really up and down after my title
here in 2011. I wasnt really imagining
this situation again. I still believed I
could win another Grand Slam, but it was
hard to imagine at Wimbledon because
I wanted it so much.
It was certainly a great journey for me
here.
When Kvitova last won Wimbledon she
seems posed to dominate the womens
tour with her potent power game.
But instead she felt uncomfortable in
the spotlight and regularly crashed out
of the Grand Slams in the early stages.
Those barren years made this emphat-
ic victory even more memorable than her
first Wimbledon and Kvitova was reduced
to tears as the magnitude of her achieve-
ment sunk in.
This means more than 2011 because
I really played a great tournament this
time, Kvitova said.
It means everything. Its Wimbledon.
Tennis here is tennis history.
The Centre Court always feels great to
play on. I feel really at home. AFP
Czech Republics Petra Kvitova holds the Venus Rosewater Dish after beating Canadas Eugenie
Bouchard in the womens singles nal of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships on Saturday. AFP