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PRIME Minister Hun Sen yes-
terday compared Cambodias
deadly government crack-
downs favourably with
attempts in the United States
to quell days of unrest follow-
ing the fatal shooting of an
unarmed black teenager by a
white policeman.
Speaking at a graduation
ceremony at the National
Institute of Education, Hun
Sen said the crackdown on
demonstrations in Ferguson,
Missouri where police offic-
er Darren Wilson shot to
death 18-year-old Michael
Brown on August 9 has not
been met with the same crit-
icism levelled at his forces
when they move in to contain
protests.
In Ferguson, demonstra-
tors just throw bottles of
water [on the authorities]
and they are arrested
immediately, but America
says nothing, he said.
Whereas in our country,
[demonstrators] burned
cars, threw stones and shot
with slingshots when we
tried to control the situa-
tion, and they said that we
abused human rights.
Multiple clashes between
demonstrators in Ferguson
and police from local and
state law enforcement
occurred in the aftermath of
the shooting earlier this
month. Responding to the
protests and instances of live
gunfire, looting and rioting,
a curfew was put in place,
and the governor called in
the National Guard. Dozens
of people, including journal-
ists, have been arrested since
the shooting.
Contrary to the premiers
claim of imbalance, the
heavy-handed actions have
drawn international rebuke
PM looks
to US to
justify use
of force
Daniel Pye and Cheang Sokha
H
IGH-LEVEL bureau-
crats from Australia
have visited several
sites in Cambodia
over the past two months to
view properties where refugees
from its overseas detention cen-
tre on Nauru could be relocate,
the Post has learned.
Separate sources, who cannot
be named because of the sensi-
tivity of the ongoing negotia-
tions, have this week confirmed
that land in Preah Sihanouk
province has been assessed by
the officials.
Properties in Phnom Penh
have also been visited by the
delegation, one source said.
The proposed deal between
the two countries has been
shrouded in secrecy since it was
first made public by Minister of
Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong
after a meeting between Prime
Minister Hun Sen and Austral-
ian Foreign Minister Julie Bish-
op in February. Last week, the
Post reported that a deal was
expected imminently.
Greg Kelly, who previously
Refugee house hunting
Australian, Cambodian ofcials eyeing sites for controversial plan
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and comparisons with abuses
committed during the civil
rights movement in the US.
Hun Sen yesterday went on
to compare the eight-month
lockdown of Freedom Park,
Phnom Penhs designated pro-
test space, with the curfew
imposed on Ferguson after the
governor declared a state of
emergency.
The premier reasoned that
Freedom Park is just a small
area that was closed temporar-
ily because of unrest, while in
Ferguson an entire town was
put into lockdown between
midnight and 5am.
While government investiga-
tions into the fatal violence of
early January when govern-
ment forces opened fire at strik-
ing garment workers, killing at
least five and other clashes
had been cited repeatedly as the
reason for the parks closure,
results of any probe have
remained elusive since the razor
wire came down.
Meach Sovannara, a Cambo-
dia National Rescue Party
member and Cambodian-
American citizen, told the Post
that Hun Sen was lying to the
country and making unfair
comparisons.
He told [his] citizens a lie.
Speaking of the law, in Ameri-
ca, people are given rights to
hold demonstrations. Sovan-
nara said.
Ou Virak, chairman of the
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights, said he agreed that the
US government is no angel,
but said this does not justify the
actions of Hun Sens forces.
The US needs to clean up its
act too, [but] that doesnt mean
that the crackdowns here were
OK, he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY ALICE CUDDY
Chhay Channyda
ABOUT 110,000 teachers and
other education staff across
the country will receive pay
rises between September and
April as part of government
salary reforms, Prime Minister
Hun Sen said yesterday.
Speaking at a graduation
ceremony, Hun Sen said the
reforms will eliminate level
D employees, promoting
them to level C. Teachers at
all other levels, except those
at level A, would receive
increases of about 30 per cent,
he said.
Let the officials who get low
salaries receive the raises first,
he added, referring to a prom-
ise that wage reforms will fol-
low in other ministries.
Rong Chhun, president of
the Cambodian Independent
Teachers Association, who
has in the past lobbied for a
$250 minimum wage for teach-
ers, welcomed the increases
but said the vast majority of
teachers would still earn far
below the salary needed to live
a decent life.
[This] will not make the
lives of teachers and civil serv-
ants better because inflation
is still high, he said.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 22, 2014
Mom Kunthear
THE minister of labour has
sent a stern warning to gar-
ment factories to take mea-
sures to end mass faintings or
face the consequences.
Speaking after a safety work-
shop yesterday, Ith Sam Heng
said the government will get
tougher on factories, ning
those that didn't provide safe
working conditions.
We will be stricter on sani-
tation and safety, he said.
About 130 workers from Vat-
tanac Industrial Park II in the
capital fainted late last week.
Garment Manufacturers As-
sociation in Cambodia secre-
tary-general Ken Loo said the
plan was justied if workers
were fainting due to reasons
such as poor ventilation, but
such a move would be unfair
if the faintings were caused by
other external reasons.
Our position has always
been that factories need to be
up to standard, he said.
Poor nutrition and collective
shock are often cited as causes
of fainting. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY SHANE WORRELL
New nes for faintings
PM fuming at
rude NGOs
May Titthara

A
FTER a stern public
reprimand of his un-
derlings on Monday
for failing to resolve
the countrys myriad land dis-
putes, Prime Minister Hun Sen
lashed out at NGO monitors
yesterday for questioning his
professed lack of knowledge
about certain disputes.
Hun Sen said on Monday
that he had only learned about
a recent highly publicised
land dispute after seeing pro-
testers clutching his portrait
in a newspaper, and blamed
provincial ofcials for often
leaving him in the dark about
events and failing to send in-
formation to Phnom Penh.
But yesterday the premier
slammed rude NGO workers
who had commented on his
apparent lack of knowledge
and questioned whether they
had heads made of iron.
Why did you say I didnt
know anything at all? . . . You
are damn rude, saying the pre-
mier does not know anything
at all, an angry Hun Sen said
during a speech at the Nation-
al Institute for Education.
I was talking about the last
stage [of people coming to the
capital], which no one had re-
ported to me, he continued.
Its simply a matter of a lack of
documents . . . Thats all.
Demonstrating his devotion
to the land issue, the PM refer-
enced numerous past disputes
that he had solved overnight.
You have happiness be-
cause of the premier. The
war ended and you can walk
around the country. NGOs
have been created. But you say
such stupid things. Dont be so
rude, boys.
He also red a warning shot
at civil society, using a Khmer
saying about the importance
of thinking before speaking.
Before speaking out, you need
to move your tongues around
your mouths 5,000 times.
Ny Chakyra, head of human
rights at watchdog Adhoc, who
made comments to VOA fol-
lowing the PMs speech, said
that his criticisms of Hun Sen
were within his rights.
What I said in the past is just
freedom of expression and our
staff have always offered analy-
sis [on issues]. But the analysis
cannot be 100 per cent accept-
ed [by listeners] or considered
as 100 per cent correct.
A factory worker shot by police is carried away during a protest on Veng Sreng Boulevard earlier this year
after a government crackdown. Hun Sen has condemned police violence in Ferguson, Missouri. HENG CHIVOAN
Hun Sen cites US to justify force
Teachers to
receive pay
boost: PM
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Mom Kunthear
RIGHTS group Adhoc is inves-
tigating the case of a 32-year-
old man who died on Wednes-
day night while in pretrial
detention in Ratanakkiri.
Chhay Thy, provincial coor-
dinator for Adhoc, said yester-
day that the death marks the
second time since 2012 that
a suspect in that provincial
prison has died at the hospi-
tal. He did not say whether
the rst case also involved
pretrial detention, a practice
that has drawn scrutiny from
the Ministry of Justice.
They sent the prisoner,
who was seriously sick, to the
provincial hospital intention-
ally so they would die at the
hospital, better than to die in
the prison, Thy said.
Thy plans to meet with
prison ofcials soon and to
talk with inmates.
Ratanakkiri provincial
prison chief Tin Sovanny said
yesterday that the detainee,
Kim Sun, was sent to jail back
in May after being accused of
intentionally murdering his
older brother. He had con-
vulsed before, but not heav-
ily, and prison ofcials were
able to treat him, Sovanny
said. This time was different.
We sent him to hospital
immediately when he had a
high temperature and convul-
sions, Sovanny said, adding
that though the hospital did
not send back a report, he sus-
pects Sun had tetanus, which
can result in body spasms.
Sovanny said he sent a letter
to the provincial prosecutor
requesting Suns release, but it
was too late. He gave the body
to the family.
But Hing Phan Sakunthea,
director of the prison, sug-
gested the cause might have
been malnutrition or mental
illness. He also said that Sun
had asked to go home.
His disease was serious be-
fore he was sent to our hospi-
tal, he said,
Phen Dyna, Ratanakkiri
provinces deputy police chief,
said yesterday that he checked
the victims body in case he
had been beaten, but couldnt
nd any signs of foul play.
As I know, the victim has
been sick for a long time,
Dyna said.
According to Licadho, pre-
trial detainees make up more
than 60 per cent of Cambo-
dias prison population.
Rules to limit their stays
behind bars have not been
widely adopted.
Tetanus thought to be
culprit in prison death
Parties promise KDC solutions
Pech Sotheary
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AWMAKERS from both
the ruling party and the
opposition yesterday
met with and promised
Kampong Chhnang villagers
they would seek a solution in
their 12-year-long land dispute
with KDC International.
Five Cambodia National
Rescue Party representatives
visited the Lorpeang villagers
jailed over their involvement in
the bitter dispute between 82
villagers and an agribusiness
owned by Minister of Mines
and Energy Suy Sems wife.
At the same time, lawmakers
from the Cambodian Peoples
Party met with protesting vil-
lagers camped out in the capi-
tals Boeung Kak community
to protest their case. The ruling
party politicians promised to
help arbitrate a solution, and
asked the villagers to return to
their hometown, according to
Ke Chan Mony, a CPP lawmaker
for Kampong Chhnang.
In response, the village rep-
resentatives delivered a blunt,
three-point petition: rst, re-
lease and drop charges against
the ve jailed representatives;
second, settle their land dispute
with KDC; and third, stop build-
ing fences around their land.
Chan Mony told the villagers
she would intervene regarding
the contested land, but added
the caveat that the ruling party
cannot solve the dispute on
our own.
We will do whatever we can
to get the ve released, but we
have to discuss how, because
it is under the courts jurisdic-
tion, she said.
Om Sophy, a representa-
tive for the Lorpeang villagers,
said shes heard the same luke-
warm promises from the ruling
party representative before.
If she could settle the dis-
pute, she would have done it a
long time ago and not let it drag
on for over 10 years, making
us suffer by getting beaten and
jailed, Sophy said.
At the Kampong Chhnang
provincial prison, CNRP rep-
resentatives echoed similar
promises to four detained vil-
lage representatives. A fth
arrested has been hospital-
ised due to injuries allegedly
sustained during a clash that
led to arrests.
We will work together to get
the ve released and ask the
provincial authorities and ca-
dastral ofces to give back the
land that was seized by KDC,
said Ho Vann, one of the law-
makers visiting the prison.
KDC representatives could
not be reached for comment.
Ruling party lawmakers address a crowd during a visit to Lorpeang villagers staying in the Boeung Kak
community yesterday. PHOTO SUPPLIED
National
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Kevin Ponniah
A SENIOR ofcial at the Min-
istry of Information has called
on the government to review
spokespeople at ministries
and replace those who are not
doing their job properly.
Cambodian journalists have
long complained of difculties
in dealing with key ministries
or government departments,
with appointed spokespeople
often refusing to answer ques-
tions or simply not picking up
the phone.
Ouk Kimseng, a press advis-
er to the MOI and the deputy
director-general of state news
agency AKP, made the com-
ments during a workshop for
spokespeople on Tuesday.
My comments were that I
suggest the government re-
view the appointment of cer-
tain spokespersons at some of
the governmental institutions
because those who have been
appointed as a spokesperson
must know their role and re-
sponsibility with the media,
he said yesterday.
The MOI often receives in-
formal messages from jour-
nalists complaining about the
issue, he added.
Spokespersons are sup-
posed to do something like
journalists. They need to
know a lot, read a lot, [know]
how to talk to the press, how
to convey the message . . . So
they should appoint the right
person and send them for
training about journalism and
the role of a spokesman.
Ignoring phone calls from
reporters, Kimseng con-
tinued, displayed a lack of
responsibility for the ap-
pointed job.
Um Sarin, president of the
Cambodian Association for
Protection of Journalists, said
that only a few ministries had
spokespeople who dare to
speak to reporters, citing the
Council of Ministers, City Hall
and the Foreign Affairs Minis-
try as examples.
The rest are difcult be-
cause some ofcials, they do
not dare to say [anything] be-
cause its a risk for him or her,
and other guys, they say they
do not know clearly about that
point. So all the journalists
have difculty getting com-
ment from them, he said.
Although the government
announced reshufes and
training for spokespeople in
the past, the situation has not
improved, he added.
[For a] long time, the prob-
lem has been the same.
Spokespeople for govt
require review: ofcial
Rainy season timing blamed
Charles Rollet
and Pech Sotheary

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LOODS have claimed
45 lives and forced over
11,500 families to leave
their homes as of Au-
gust 19, according to National
Committee for Disaster Man-
agement vice president Nhim
Vanda, who spoke yesterday
at a conference in the Cambo-
diana Hotel dedicated to ad-
dressing the problem.
The oods have come early
in Cambodia this year. They
usually begin around mid-Sep-
tember, like last year, when 168
people were killed.
Vanda said that even though
waters are currently receding
across the country, it is possible
the oods will come back at the
end of September and in early
October, with potentially dev-
astating results.
If there are storms and rain
like there were in 2013, there
will be a high risk of poverty
and hardship, the prime minis-
ter told me, Vanda said.
According to Caroline Mc-
Causland, country director
for Action Aid, if oods come
again, farmers affected by the
current round could see their
food security at risk.
Many farmers can replant
in mid-September, but if the
oods come back, it will cause
migration and an increased
poverty cycle, she said, adding
that no one was certain wheth-
er the oods would return.
Claire Van der Vaeren, the
UNs resident coordinator
in Cambodia, said this years
weather has been unusual, with
oods coming in early and wa-
ter shortages affecting 10 prov-
inces along with Phnom Penh.
This years rainy season has
the particularity of bringing
both ooding and drought,
making the role of the Na-
tional Committees task force
all the more critical, Van der
Vaeren said.
Some at the conference
blamed climate change for the
irregular weather and called
for aid from richer, high-pol-
luting countries.
This is surely the impact
of climate change. Its [only]
August, said Cambodian
Red Cross director of disaster
management Uy Sam Ath.
If a second ood comes
again according to predic-
tions, then its not over yet. So
we are still in need of support
to save people.
Vanda agreed, saying that
Cambodia needed funds to
combat extreme weather
caused by climate change.
I dont blame the powerful
countries [for climate change]
if I did they wouldnt give us
assistance, Vanda said.
Villagers tend to their ooded crops in Kandal province last week. The National Committee for Disaster
Management yesterday warned that though oods are receding, they could return. HENG CHIVOAN
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Trio sentenced
Madams get
ve years for
brokering
T
HREE women were
sentenced to five years
in prison yesterday for
supplying teenage girls to
have sex with wealthy men in
Phnom Penh hotels last year.
Suos Sam Ath, presiding
judge of Phnom Penh Munici-
pal Court, ruled that Chan Srey
Leak, 25, Soeun Tey, 24, and
Kim Layseak, 18, had supplied
three girls aged between 15
and 16 to three clients.
The court convicted and
sentenced them to five years
each and ordered them to pay
two million riel [$500] each to
the three victims, he said.
He added that they had been
sentenced under articles 26
and 35 of the Law on Suppres-
sion of Human Trafficking and
Sexual Exploitation.
Lieutenant Colonel Keo
Thea, chief of Phnom Penh
Municipal Anti-Human Traffic-
king and Juvenile Protection
Unit, said the clients paid $100
to have sex with the girls, with
the accused taking a 50 per
cent cut.
Srey Leak said she would
appeal the sentence and de-
nied involvement in the crime.
BUTHREAKSMEY KONGKEA
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Parking job earns man
a parallel beatdown
NOTHING raises tensions like a
tough parking job, and this held
true in Phnom Penhs
Meanchey district on Tuesday.
Police said a man had parked
his moto in front of a motorists
home, making it difficult for the
man to squeeze his car past.
The driver hit the moto,
prompting a flurry of curses
from its owner. Not one to take
abuse, the driver and his two
passengers stepped out and
gave the mouthy moto owner a
beating. Police intervened, how-
ever, taking everyone involved
down to the station for ques-
tioning. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Blame enough for all in
beer garden hit-and-run
IN A turn of events all too famil-
iar on Cambodias roads, the
driver of a car fled the scene of a
traffic accident that left a man
on a moto seriously injured in
Phnom Penhs Chamkarmon
district on Tuesday. Police said
the moto driver was on his way
home, when the driver of the
car pulled out of a beer garden,
crashing into him, then drove
off. The crash was the seeming
result of a convergence of bad
decisions, according to passers-
by, who said that the driver
looked drunk, and that the moto
had been speeding. DEUMAMPIL
Farmer sows seeds of
trust, reaps only woe
A POIPET town man was
arrested on Tuesday for alleg-
edly selling his neighbours
tractor. Police said the victim
had agreed to lend the tractor
to the suspect, but grew suspi-
cious when he didnt see him
for three days. He went to the
mans home to inquire after his
property, only to be told by the
suspect, point blank, that he
had sold the tractor already.
The victim filed a complaint,
and police arrested the sus-
pect. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Samurai swords, motos
apparently dont mix
FIVE daredevil neer-do-wells
were seriously injured in an
accident stemming from a
high-speed sword fight in Kra-
tie on Tuesday. Police said the
suspects were racing through
the streets on motos, duelling
with samurai swords as they
went. Unsurprisingly, the
chase ended in an accident,
with injuries all around. One of
the troublesome truants
reportedly told police that the
fight had broken out when one
of the suspects refused to sell
another drugs. DEUMAMPIL
Wrong place, wrong
time for capital dealer
AN ALLEGED drug dealer
walked out of her house and
into the hands of police in
Phnom Penhs Chamkarmon
district on Wednesday. Police
said they had been investigat-
ing the woman to determine
her involvement in the drug
game, and when she decided
to pop down to the market to
find some clients, they were
waiting just outside her door.
Police found eight packets of
drugs in her pocket and sent
her to court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
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Officials eye sites for refugees
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served as co-manager of the
regional support ofce of in-
ternational people smuggling
forum known as the Bali Pro-
cess, took up a position at the
Australian Embassy in Phnom
Penh last Wednesday.
The move coincided with 10
new ofcials being appointed
to the Ministry of Interiors
General Department for Im-
migration in preparation for
the resettlement scheme.
Craig Chittick, Australias am-
bassador for people smuggling
issues, had a reservation made
by the Australian Embassy for
four rooms at a Phnom Penh
hotel on Wednesday, but the
reservation had been can-
celled by Tuesday.
Amanda Vanstone, a former
Australian immigration min-
ister, also visited Phnom Penh
this week, although the Aus-
tralian Embassy and Vanstone
both on Wednesday said her
visit was not connected to the
refugee resettlement scheme.
One source with knowledge
of the discussions said that
the Australian working group
had hoped that the memoran-
dum of understanding (MoU)
would be signed last week,
but the Cambodian side had
requested more time to evalu-
ate the details. Another meet-
ing had been scheduled for
Monday to discuss the MoU,
they added.
Another source said that a
master contractor, probably
a company with political con-
nections to the ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party, would
be given a role to hire service
providers, such as health and
real estate rms.
Australian Embassy ofcials
have ignored several written
requests for comment over the
past week.
Son Chhay, opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
chief whip, said he had been
told that Preah Sihanouk prov-
ince had been considered as
a possible location to house
some of the refugees.
I heard [two months ago]
that they might be put on one
of the islands off Sihanoukville,
but I wasnt able to [indepen-
dently] conrm if this is true,
he said. Normally, they would
look for land owned by a busi-
ness connected to a govern-
ment member, encouraged
by the Council for the Devel-
opment of Cambodia, so they
could prot from it.
As you know, all of the islands
have been sold to their associ-
ates, including [Cambodian-
Australian dual national] Kith
Meng. The hope would be that
they could develop one of the
islands. I think the government
has turned away from that now,
and they might be looking at
land on the mainland.
General Khieu Sopheak,
spokesman for the Ministry
of Interior, referred questions
to the Foreign Ministry. For-
eign Ministry spokesman Koy
Kuong conrmed the deal was
yet to be signed.
We are still in the process
of discussion. We havent done
anything yet, he said. Since
nothing is ofcial, we cannot
say anything specically.
Sister Denise Coghlan of the
Jesuit Refugee Service said that
while she opposes the deal in
principle, if it went ahead, a
great effort must be made to
integrate the refugees into
Cambodian society.
This of course means they
need proper documenta-
tion for residence, for right to
work and identity. I am totally
opposed to any institutiona-
lised form of accommoda-
tion, she said.
A man walks between tents at Australias regional processing centre
on Manus Island. AFP PHOTO/REFUGEE ACTION COALITION
Migrant workers abandoned
Villagers arrested over land row
Laignee Barron, Phak Seangly
and Vong Sokheng
NEARLY 200 Cambodian
migrant workers who were
scammed by their broker and
then abandoned south of Bang-
kok earlier this week are among
the latest victims falling between
the cracks of an ill-defined
labour registration system,
according to rights experts.
The 180 Cambodian migrants
were taken to southern Thailand
on Tuesday by a broker promis-
ing factory jobs for 300 baht ($9)
a day, Thai media reported.
Told they were en route to reg-
ister for employment docu-
ments, the workers were instead
dumped in a field around 2am
on Wednesday morning, said
Sim Sam Arth, chief of the Poi-
pet immigration office.
Some of those defrauded held
passports, and thought they
were migrating legally to Thai-
land. But the neighbouring
countries are still at odds about
the legal system, and while they
signed a memorandum of
understanding in June, the
announced process is still not
in place, monitors said. Instead,
workers are entering a risky grey
area reliant on their employer
registering them for temporary
work and residency cards.
The present situation leaves
hundreds of thousands of Cam-
bodian migrants in a limbo
where it is not clear if they can
be deported back at any time,
said Sara Piazzano, country
director of the USAID-funded
Counter-Trafficking in Persons
Project. It is really urgent that
the Thai and Cambodian Gov-
ernments find an agreement on
these procedures.
But according to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, the current
registration system is seeing
Cambodian workers pour back
into Thailand. More than 420,000
have been granted legal working
status, while another 270,000
have temporary status, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong
said yesterday after a meeting
with the Thai ambassador.
The figures represent a huge
leap beyond any previous tal-
lies; in June, the government
estimated 450,000 undocu-
mented Cambodians had
worked in Thailand before the
post-coup exodus, only 90,000
of whom were documented.
Chhay Channyda
THREE people locked in a land dispute with a
military police officer in Svay Rieng province
were yesterday arrested at their homes, accused
of destroying property, a villager said.
Long Sokheng, 29, said military police arrived
at the disputed land, in Chantrea district, at
6:30am to arrest the villagers, including 65-year-
old Koeut No, who presides over weddings and
funerals. When Uncle Koeut No was preparing
himself for a funeral, military police arrived and
handcuffed him, he said.
The 74 families involved in the dispute say they
lived peacefully on the land from 1980 until Sim
Chheang, a military police officer, claimed in
2004 to have bought the land. The Supreme
Court ruled in his favour in 2012.
Chheang, military police and provincial court
officials could not be reached yesterday.
Has Yet, Chantrea commune police chief, said
he was yet to hear of the arrests, adding that
military police were working with the court on
a case against the villagers.
Cambodian migrant workers leaving Thailand and coming back into the
country on the Poipet border earlier this year . VIREAK MAI
Eddie Morton

T
HE Australian govern-
ment has approved
live cattle exports to
Cambodia for feeder
and slaughter, but the lo-
cal industry has questioned
the move, citing a lack of any
modern slaughterhouse facili-
ties in the Kingdom.
In what is being touted as an
effort to diversify Australias
livestock exports and pen-
etrate the Southeast Asia re-
gions rapid growth, Australias
agriculture minister, Barnaby
Joyce, announced yesterday
that 10,000 head of cattle have
been approved for export to
Cambodia.
This government is serious
about delivering greater mar-
ket access for our agricultural
producers, including cattle
producers many of whom are
doing it tough at the moment
because of drought, Minister
Joyce was quoted as saying in
the statement.
Ben Hindle, CEO of the
Northern Territory Live Ex-
porters Association in Aus-
tralia, said the private sector
had been urging the govern-
ment to open the trade lines
for years.
We have been pushing
this idea for three years, with
one key exporter doing a lot
of work to start exporting to
Cambodia, Hindle said with-
out revealing the name of the
rm involved.
I have 100 per cent con-
dence that the ESCAS pro-
tocol will be followed from
point of sale to slaughter,
all the way down the supply
chain. Our concern is rst
and foremost the welfare of
Australias animals.
Australias ESCAS, or Ex-
porter Supply Chain Assur-
ance System was introduced
by Australias now ex-Labor
government in 2012 follow-
ing a ban on all live exports,
which was prompted by re-
ports of barbaric treatment
of Australian animals in In-
donesia in 2011.
Under the guidelines of ES-
CAS, which were recommend-
ed by the World Organization
for Animal Health, exporters
are required to provide trace-
able documents open to in-
dependent audit on all supply
chain operations, from pad-
dock to slaughter.
Slaughterhouse and export
facilities found to be unsani-
tary, causing undue stress
or excitation, hampering
animals natural behaviours,
tripping, throwing, dropping
or treating the animals inhu-
manely will be subject to cor-
rective action, according Aus-
tralias ESCAS.
But Cambodias slaughter-
houses are a far cry from being
up-to-standard.
In August last year, the Post
reported the gruesome details
of Cambodias rudimentary
slaughterhouses, which are
more recognisable as simple
tin-roof structures with no
walls and cold cement oors.
There, in the middle of the
night, pigs are left to wait only
metres from hanging carcass-
es before being coaxed, beaten
and eventually stabbed quick-
ly in the throat and bled out.
Mong Reththy, among Cam-
bodias biggest agricultural
tycoons, with pig farming,
rubber and mango plantation
operations, said Cambodia
does not have one cow, pig or
even chicken slaughter facility
up to international standards
and that the killing of animals
remains a manual procedure.
Who is the Australian gov-
ernment exporting to?
Now our animal slaugh-
ter is done only by hand. The
word standard implies a basic
need for modern factories to
kill animals in the highest pos-
sible quality. There is no such
standard animal slaughter in
Cambodia, Reththy told the
Post. If they are planning on
exporting their cows here, they
need to build animal slaughter
facilities too.
Sen Sovann, deputy director
general of Cambodias Minis-
try of Agriculture Fisheries and
Forestry declined to comment
on how many up-to-standard
livestock facilities were opera-
tional in the Kingdom.
[But] we welcome the pro-
posal and the open discus-
sion between the two gov-
ernments about the details
of the protocols and what we
need to have and do to meet
them, he said.
Despite the strict demands
Australia is reportedly impos-
ing on Cambodias livestock
trade industry, Lisa Chalk,
spokeswoman for Animals
Australia called for the Austra-
lian and Cambodian govern-
ments to reconsider the deal,
or to rst ensure proper abat-
toir facilities are built.
It doesnt make ethical or
economic sense to put live
animals through the risks
and stress of long distance
sea transport only to be
slaughtered when they arrive
in destination countries, she
explained.
We would urge the Cam-
bodian government to im-
port Australian meat as an
alternative to live animals.
Slaughterhouses in Australia
operate under strict guide-
lines including hygiene re-
quirements that would un-
doubtedly meet Cambodian
requirements. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY HOR KIMSAY
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 22, 2014
Business
East Asia,
LatAm ink
business
agreement
MEMBERS of the 15th Forum
for East Asia-Latin America
Cooperation (FEALAC) have
agreed to set up a business
body to promote cooperation
in trade and investment.
The move comes after the sec-
ond FEALAC business forum
was held in Bangkok on Wednes-
day, which is a meeting on the
sidelines of the FEALAC frame-
work and groups 36 countries
together from two regions.
Songsak Saichuea, the Thai
Foreign Ministrys director-
general of American and South
Pacific affairs, said the meeting
agreed to create a group with
representatives from four East
Asian countries and three from
Latin American countries.
The Joint Standing Commit-
tee on Commerce, Industries
and Banking of Thailand will
act as a coordinator to set up a
FEALAC business forum and
will try to persuade other Asian
countries to participate.
Chile will seek to find anoth-
er two interested countries
from Latin America to join the
core group. The regions also
agreed to increase the volume
of trade and investment with
each other.
Songsak said the meeting
could lead to Latin American
and East Asian countries enjoy-
ing greater benefits from bilat-
eral free trade areas.
On tourism, both sides agreed
to enhance public relations
through the use of social net-
works such as Facebook. Travel
agencies would help promote
air travel between the regions.
Songsak said both sides
agreed in principle to conduct
joint research on alternative
energy and natural disaster risk
management.
Foreign Ministry deputy per-
manent secretary, Narong Sas-
itorn, said at the opening cer-
emony of the business forum
that the two regions have a very
important role to play in the
future expansion of the global
economy. FEALAC represents
40 per cent of the worlds popu-
lation and accounts for 30 per
cent of the worlds total trading.
BANGKOK POST
An Australian farmer feeds his cattle by hand on his property near Toowoomba, west of Brisbane in June 2005. AFP
Industry has beef with imports
If they are planning on
exporting their cows here,
they need to build animal
slaughter facilities too
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This week in biz
Private sector guided to
stamp out corruption
CAMBODIAs Anti-Corruption
Unit (ACU) held the first of in
series consultation meetings
with the private sector last
Friday over a new anti-
corruption guidebook,
encouraging firms to police
themselves in the absence of
any official regulation. The
guidebook is expected to be
completed by December.
SMBC buys out IFC
share in Acleda Bank
JAPANESE financial firm
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation (SMBC) agreed
on Monday to buy out the
International Finance
Corporations (IFC) 12.25 per
cent stake in Acleda Bank for
$110 million. The share sale,
which is awaiting approval
from the National Bank of
Cambodia, concludes a
15-year partnership between
the IFC and Acleda Bank.
Agriculture census
reveals vast industry
THE government this week
revealed the results of the
first-ever Agricultural
Census. The 33-page report
states that 2.2 million out of
a possible 2.6 million or 85
per cent of all households
are engaged in some form of
agricultural-related activity.
Markets
8
Business
WITH some 37.6 million large and
small livestock being cared for by Cam-
bodian farmers and more reportedly
on the way from Australia, the need for
proper hygiene in the livestock trade has
never been so pivotal to the agricultural
industrys success. Marc Deschamps,
CEO at Jebsen & Jessen, a Singapore-
based rm specialising in manufactur-
ing, engineering and more recently ag-
ricultural livestock health and training
in Southeast Asia, talks with the Posts
Eddie Morton about the importance of
technology and programs to improve
the industry.
What are the key challenges for Cam-
bodias animal production industry?
Firstly, there is a regulatory gap to ll.
The industry itself needs to develop
regulations and registration processes,
both in the upstream (animal rais-
ing products) and downstream (live
animal traders, slaughterhouses, meat
dealers and market sellers) market
segments of the industry.
Secondly, the Cambodian animal
raising industry can be described as
backyard-farming, which means that
farms are small, between 10 and 100
heads for swine for example. While
not an infrastructure shortcoming
per se, a fragmented market is by de
facto harder for support infrastruc-
tures to reach. Larger players typically
reach higher production performance
and quality standards thus increasing
meat availability, meat quality and
meat traceability.
Finally, the peripheral industries of
animal raising such as feed ingredients
and additives distribution, and animal
health care products distribution are
still young. Few regional and locally
experienced players are currently op-
erating in the Kingdom. As the indus-
try matures we can expect efciency
and quality improvements through
the proper usage of quality products.
.
What value can healthy livestock bring
to your average Cambodian farmer?
On the animal health side, a good
prevention program can greatly re-
duce the need for disease treatment,
which is always more expensive. Dis-
ease occurrences lead to expensive
and unproductive production losses
mortality, slow growth.
On the animal nutrition side, all
farmers work on improving a parame-
ter of great importance in the industry
called FCR or Feed Conversion Ratio.
This parameter measures the amount
of feed you need to provide to your
livestock in order for it to put on a ki-
logram of weight. It is of paramount
importance because it basically deter-
mines your prots as feeding costs are
typically around 60 to 70 per cent of
your total costs. A sick animal will not
absorb provided nutrients as well as a
healthy animal and thus it will grow
slower, resulting in the farmer losing
money from feed bought but not prop-
erly utilised.

Would you say that poor quality stan-
dards are hampering countrys street
food trade?
Measured by international stan-
dards, the full supply chain from ani-
mal farming to the consumers plate in
a restaurant or street stall needs to be
under control to ensure food security.
It is not an issue limited to street food.
Certied farms providing healthy
animals to certied slaughter houses
who in turn supply certied meat to
certied food stalls and restaurants are
required. Each step of the chain is of
equal importance. You still have very
few compliant and certied meat sup-
pliers in the Kingdom currently. Floor
slaughtering is still very common in
small farms, fresh meat on open dis-
play at meat stalls in wet markets with
ies covering the area are also a very
common sight and very likely still the
main meat supply source.
Such hygienic standards are very
poor and pose a risk to consumer
health. These circumstances also deter
potential investors. The laws on food
security are in place but their applica-
tion and enforcement are still lacking.
Most restaurants catering to interna-
tional clients and enforcing their own
certication standards need to comply
with very strict rules and regulations.
More often than not they are forced
to import their meat from Thailand
or Vietnam because these countries
provide the necessary certication on
food security standards. Importing
meat is both detrimental to the Cam-
bodian consumer as prices are higher
but it also damages the local meat in-
dustry as a whole. If local farmers wish
to participate and benet from this
business, they need to raise their own
standards to the necessary levels.
This interview has been edited for length
and clarity.
Animal welfare good for biz
Marc Deschamps, CEO of Singapore-based
rm Jebsen & Jessen. SUPPLIED
9
Business
Brazils bank announces
$4.5B credit stimulus
BRAZILS central bank said on
Wednesday it would ease
banks reserve requirements
for the second time in less
than a month, freeing up $4.5
billion to stimulate lending and
boost the sluggish economy.
Under the new rules, banks
will be allowed to use up to 60
per cent of reserves for credit
operations, an increase from
the 50-per cent limit
announced on July 25. The
bank said the move would free
up an additional 10 billion
reals ($4.5 billion) in credit. It
comes on the heels of the July
25 stimulus measures, which
the bank said would free up
$13 billion in credit. AFP
Infineon buys up rival
US giant in $3B deal
GERMAN semiconductors
giant Infineon said late on
Wednesday it will acquire its
US rival International Rectifier
for $3 billion. Infineon
Technologies and International
Rectifier announced that they
have signed a definitive
agreement under which
Infineon will acquire
International Rectifier for $40
per share in an all-cash
transaction valued at
approximately $3 billion, the
German company said.
However, the deal was still
subject to regulatory
approvals. AFP
East-West food fight sizzles
R
USSIAN authorities
launched nation-
wide inspections of
McDonalds restau-
rants yesterday after shutting
several wildly popular Mos-
cow locations on apparent
government orders aimed at
striking back against biting
Western sanctions.
It was the latest salvo in Rus-
sias escalating and economi-
cally bruising trade war with
Europe and the United States
over the conict in Ukraine
that has already sent East-West
relations into what some have
dubbed a new Cold War.
Russia has a long history of
using food safety concerns
as a political weapon against
unfriendly countries. It has
used alleged consumer safety
concerns to ban Ukrainian
products and halted imports
of Georgian wide months
before going to war with the
Caucausus nation in 2008.
Washington and its EU al-
lies have unleashed restric-
tions against broad sections of
Russias economy in response
to the Kremlins perceived at-
tempts to split Ukraine in two
as punishment for its deci-
sion to anchor its future with
the West.Russia responded
by banning nearly all US and
European food and threaten-
ing even more drastic mea-
sures that could effectively cut
off the country from Western
goods for the rst time since
the Soviet era.
But the most emotive at-
tack on the United States
came on Wednesday when
Moscow health authorities
locked up a McDonalds res-
taurant that had opened its
doors in the final years of
communism and became a
symbol of Russias gradual
acceptance of the West. The
Moscow authorities also or-
dered three other central Mc-
Donalds locations to close
immediately. One of them
continued operations yester-
day without an explanation.
But the federal ofce of the
Rospotrebnadzor consumer
safety watchdog took the cam-
paign to a new level by order-
ing checks into McDonalds
locations stretching from the
European portion of Russia
across the Ural Mountains and
into Siberia.
We have a letter it is
an order from the federal
[Rospotrebnadzor] service
that that is based on a govern-
ment decree, an ofcial at the
consumer watchdogs Ivanovo
district ofce in central Russia
told the Interfax news agency.
Moscows Kommersant
business daily suggested that
the authorities had no im-
mediate complaints against
Burger King because the Rus-
sian operations of the num-
ber two US fast food chain
is nearly half-owned by the
investment arm of the state
bank VTB.
The paper cited a senior
source as saying that the Mc-
Donalds checks were being
conducted on government or-
ders that apparently had little
relation to health or consumer
safety concerns.
That is why the [Moscow]
restaurants were immediately
closed, even though when
scheduled [safety] checks
are conducted, rst a written
warning is usually issued,
the unnamed source in one of
Russias federal agencies told
the paper.
McDonalds itself has said
little about the inspections
and is promising to cooperate
with the authorities.
The company said in a state-
ment it was studying the com-
plaints and that McDonalds
top priority is to provide safe
and quality products. AFP
People walk in front of a closed McDonalds restaurant, the rst to be
opened in the Soviet Union in 1990. Russian authorities have shuttered
four Moscow McDonalds due to alleged sanitary violations. AFP
Markets
10
Business
HEWLETT-PACKARD on
Wednesday reported that its
quarterly revenue rose for
the rst time in three years,
nudged by improved com-
puter sales everywhere except
Russia and China.
Net revenue for the quarter
that ended July 31 was $27.6
billion, a 1 per cent improve-
ment from the same period
last year when they took in
$27.2 billion.
Meanwhile, HP prot in the
recently ended quarter ebbed
to $985 million compared to
$1.39 billion in the same pe-
riod a year earlier, due in part
to cost savings from a massive
effort by chief executive Meg
Whitman to nd new momen-
tum as lifestyles shift from
personal computers to smart-
phones and tablets.
Overall, Im very pleased
with the progress weve
made, Whitman said in the
earnings release.
When I look at the way the
business is performing, the
pipeline of innovation and
the daily feedback that I re-
ceive from our customers and
partners, my condence in
the turnaround grows stron-
ger. AFP
HP revenue
climbs rst
time in years
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Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
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Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
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COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 96.07 0 0.00% 14:29:48
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 101.53 -0.75 -0.73% 4:28:01
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.86 0.04 1.05% 4:26:00
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 270.5 -0.76 -0.28% 4:27:22
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 281 -1.58 -0.56% 4:27:37
ICEGasoil USD/MT 855 -2.5 -0.29% 4:27:31
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.93 -0.01 -0.04% 1:53:03
CME Lumber USD/tbf 356.3 1.3 0.37% 21:58:26
S
MALL campers are enjoying
brisk sales in Japan. There is
strong interest in buying and
driving lower-priced models,
converted from minicars and mini-
vans, particularly among people in
their 50s or older who love to travel.
Of particular appeal is the conven-
ience afforded by small camping
vehicles. Once they decide to travel
somewhere, camper owners do not
have to waste time before setting off
on a journey.
In the year 2000, about 2,000 units
were sold. The figure has risen to about
5,000 annually in recent years.
Mini campers, which are modified
vehicles in the minicar category up
to 3.4 metres long and 1.48 metres
wide with engine displacements of up
to 660cc are especially popular.
Mamoru Shibuya, 58, in Isesaki,
Gunma Prefecture, signed a contract
to buy a mini camper, based on Suzu-
ki Motor Corps Every Wagon model,
in June. Both he and his wife love trav-
elling. Because he retired in March
before the mandatory retirement age,
he decided to buy a camper.
As we dont have to bother about
hotels or train tickets, we can quickly
leave at anytime, he said.
Camper users can sleep on a make-
shift bed in the rear part of the vehicle.
By opening the so-called pop-up roof,
users can stand up inside the car.
The price is about 2.9 million
($28,000), which is nearly double that
of normal Every Wagon models. But
Shibuya said, Because we dont need
to spend [money] on accommodation
or transportation, I dont feel the price
is high.
After their camper is delivered in
September, the Shibuyas plan to visit
areas near Mt Fuji and the Kamikochi
highland area in Nagano Prefecture in
the early autumn season.
According to the Japan Recreational
Vehicle Association (JRVA), which
comprises manufacturers and dealers
of campers, domestic sales of campers
in Japan began a rapid steep increase
in 2007, when the first group of post-
war baby boomers reached their man-
datory retirement age.
In 2013, sales units of the mini
campers rose 10.8 per cent. The mod-
els have been a bigger presence in the
car market.
Campers are sold by dealers who
specialise in the vehicles.
Trailers and types of modified
microbuses are more fully equipped
with toilets, kitchens and facing seats.
Some of these models are priced at
more than 10 million.
Compared with them, prices of the
minicar type of campers start from
about 2 million.
According to Camping Car Park, a
dealer of campers in Shibukawa, Gun-
ma Prefecture, most buyers of camp-
ers 10 years ago were lovers of outdoor
recreations who purchased fully
equipped vehicles.
Takuya Saito, manager of the dealers
showroom, said, In recent years,
more than half of campers weve sold
have been minicampers bought by
ordinary couples in their 50s to 60s.
Tatsuya Yakubo, chief of the secre-
tariat of JRVA, said: Many senior citi-
zens, who are no longer satisfied with
package tours, have bought campers.
They combine stays in the vehicles
and stays in ryokan inns, or travelling
with their pets. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Camper sales on rise in Japan
People visit the Dream Outdoor Camping & RV Show in February 2007. AFP

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Stand tall,
giant duck
People crowd a pier to watch as
the six-storey tall Rubber Duck
leads a procession of tall ships
into Los Angeles harbour in San
Pedro, California on Wednes-
day. The procession was held
to mark the opening of the Tall
Ships Festival, which runs until
Sunday. The giant inatable duck,
which has drawn big crowds on
its travels throughout Asia, is the
creation of Dutch artist Florentijn
Hofman. AFP
Thai junta leader adds PM to title
T
HAI military ruler General Pr-
ayuth Chan-ocha had already
given himself absolute power as
head of the junta that controls
the country. Now, in what analysts say is
a bid for legitimacy, hes taken on the role
of prime minister.
The coup leader was elected prime
minister yesterday by the kingdoms jun-
ta-appointed legislature without a single
opposing vote, raising fears of a new era
of strongman leadership.
Thailands National Legislative Assem-
bly voted 191-0 to approve the nomina-
tion of Prayuth for the post.
It may be tough for Prayuth to con-
vince critics that his appointment by
his hand-picked legislature is anything
more than the consolidation of power
by a junta that has used the threat of de-
tention and military trial to crack down
on all dissent since ousting the elected
government on May 22, in the countrys
12th coup in 82 years.
Thai strongmen have long wanted to
dignify their illegal hold on the country
by assuming the title of prime minister,
said Michael Montesano at the Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies. And General
Prayuth clearly sees himself as the latest
in a long line of such strongmen.
The army rulers say they want to re-
form Thailand to end years of political
turbulence, but critics see the takeover
as an attempt to wipe out the inuence
of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
The junta has vowed to remain in place
in parallel to the future government,
which will be nominated by the premier.
He was backed by 191 members of the
197-strong assembly, with three absten-
tions and three voters absent. No other
candidate stood against him.
Before seizing power, the golf lover and
father of twin daughters had said he would
not allow Thailand to become another
Ukraine or Egypt. Since seizing power,
the junta has abrogated the constitution,
curtailed civil liberties under martial law
and summoned hundreds of opponents,
activists and academics for questioning.
This is not a climate for an election to
be held freely and fairly, said Sunai Pha-
suk at Human Rights Watch. Even after
the next election, scheduled for the
end of 2015, the NCPO will stay
on with overarching power. This
is a military rule that gives no
hope for democracy to be re-
stored in Thailand.
The UN human rights
ofce warned of chilling
effects on freedom of ex-
pression under the junta,
following recent arrests
and jail sentences for
insulting the monarchy.
BLOOMBERG/AFP
Obama warns of jihadist cancer
Jerome Cartillier
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama
has demanded the world take
action against the cancer of
jihadist extremism in Iraq.
It came a day after the Islam-
ic State group, which has seized
much of eastern Syria and
northern Iraq, released a video
showing a masked militant
beheading US reporter James
Foley, provoking worldwide
revulsion and condemnation.
As US jets continued to strike
IS targets in Iraq, despite a
threat to kill a second American
reporter, Obama said: When
people harm Americans any-
where, we do whats necessary
to see that justice is done.
Shortly after he spoke, the
State Department asked for 300
more US troops to be sent to
Iraq to protect US facilities.
In the execution video, a
black-clad man said that Foley,
a 40-year-old freelance jour-
nalist, was killed to avenge US
airstrikes against IS.
The man then paraded a sec-
ond US reporter, Steven Sotloff,
before the camera and said he
too would die unless Obama
changes course. Any aggres-
sion toward the Islamic State is
an aggression toward Muslims
from all walks of life who have
accepted the Islamic caliphate
as their leadership, the masked
militant declares.
IS had asked for a multimil-
lion-dollar ransom for Foley
and killed him after Washing-
ton refused to deliver, The New
York Times reported.
Obama paid tribute to Foley
and said IS must be defeated.
Jim Foleys life stands in
stark contrast to his killers, he
said, branding the militants
genocidal murderers who tar-
get civilians and subject wom-
en and children to torture and
rape and slavery.
Their victims are over-
whelmingly Muslim and no
faith teaches people to massa-
cre innocents, he said, dis-
missing the IS claim to repre-
sent the aspirations of a global
Muslim caliphate.
No just god would stand for
what they did yesterday and
what they do every single day.
We will be vigilant and we
will be relentless . . . From gov-
ernments and peoples across
the Middle East, there has to be
a common effort to extract this
cancer so it does not spread.
US intelligence believes the
video is genuine, and the Brit-
ish government held a crisis
meeting to launch an investiga-
tion because Foleys execu-
tioner spoke English with a
London accent.
The president of the worlds
most populous Muslim-major-
ity country, Indonesia, called
the actions of IS militants
embarrassing to the religion
and urged Islamic leaders to
unite in tackling extremism.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
said the scale of the slaughter
wrought by the extremists in
overrunning large swathes of
Iraq and Syria and the level of
violence being used was appall-
ing. It is shocking. It is becom-
ing out of control, he said.
This is a new wake-up call
to international leaders all over
the world, including Islamic
leaders, he said, adding that
the actions of IS were not only
embarrassing to Islam but
humiliating. AFP
US TRIED RESCUE IN SYRIA
U
S SPECIAL Operations
forces staged an
unsuccessful operation this
summer to rescue
photojournalist James Foley
and other Americans being
held in Syria by IS militants,
according to senior Obama
administration officials.
The attempt, involving
several dozen US
commandos, one of whom
was injured in a fierce
firefight with the militants,
was the first known US
ground operation in Syria
since the countrys descent
into civil war. It came after at
least six European hostages
freed by the militants last
spring had been debriefed by
US intelligence.
The president authorised
earlier this summer an
operation to attempt the
rescue of American citizens
held by ISIL, one of the
acronyms used to refer to the
Islamic State, said one of two
senior officials who provided
information on the mission.
We had a combination of
. . . intelligence that was
sufficient to enable us to act
on it, the official said, and
the military moved very
aggressively, very quickly to
try and recover our citizens.
The official said the effort
was not ultimately
successful because the
hostages were not present . . .
at the site of the operation.
Other officials said they were
believed to have been there,
but that they had been moved
up to several weeks before
the raid. The White House
and Pentagon confirmed that
President Barack Obama had
authorised the mission. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Cult members on trial
for McDonalds murder
FIVE members of a fringe
religious group in China went
on trial yesterday for beating a
woman to death at a
McDonalds restaurant,
reportedly after she rebuffed
their attempts to recruit her.
The five are all members of a
cult called Quannengshen, the
state news agency Xinhua said,
adding that they attacked the
woman after she refused to
give them her phone number.
The group, whose name can be
translated as Church of
Almighty God, believe that
Jesus has been reincarnated
as a Chinese woman. It was
outlawed in the mid-1990s. AFP
Pakistan crisis rolls on

as Khan calls off talks
PAKISTANI opposition
politician Imran Khan
yesterday called off talks with
the government aimed at
ending protests seeking the
fall of the prime minister,
which have destabilised the
nuclear-armed nation. Khan
and populist cleric Tahir-ul-
Qadri have led followers
protesting outside parliament
for the past two days
demanding Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif quit. Talks to end
the standoff which began a
week ago with long marches
from the eastern city of Lahore
started on Wednesday but
made little headway. AFP
World
13
Israel kills three Hamas chiefs
T
HREE senior Hamas
commanders and
four children were
among at least 15 Pal-
estinians killed in Gaza yes-
terday, as Israel stepped up
airstrikes on day 45 of the
bloody conict.
The leaders in the Ezzedine
al-Qassam Brigades were
among at least seven people
killed when Israeli missiles
totally destroyed a four-storey
home in the southern city of
Rafah before dawn, emergen-
cy services spokesman Ashraf
al-Qudra said.
The Brigades, the military
wing of Hamas which holds de
facto power in Gaza, identied
the three as Mohammed Abu
Shamala, Raed al-Atar and
Mohammed Barhum.
The deadly raid came 36
hours after the wife and infant
son of the Brigades top mili-
tary leader, Mohammed Deif,
were killed in an Israeli strike
on Gaza City late on Tuesday.
The body of Deifs 3-year-
old daughter was pulled from
the ruins of the building yes-
terday, a medic said.
Emergency services spokes-
man Ashraf al-Qudra identi-
ed the girl as Sara, daughter
of Ezzedine al-Qassam Bri-
gades commander Moham-
med Deif.
The six-storey building was
totally destroyed when sev-
eral Israeli missiles slammed
into it, but the Brigades said
that Deif had escaped the at-
tack, the sixth Israeli assassi-
nation attempt in his decades-
long career.
Shortly following the raid
yesterday that killed the three
chiefs, another person was
killed in a raid on Nusseirat
refugee camp in central Gaza.
During the morning, two
strikes targeted groups of peo-
ple in the street in the north-
ern town of Beit Lahiya and in
Gaza City, killing another sev-
en Palestinians, four of them
children, Qudra said.
The strike in Beit Lahiya
killed a man and a 13-year-
old boy, while ve people,
including three children died
in Gaza City, he said, without
giving their ages.
As well as the 15 killed in
airstrikes, another person in
Nusseirat camp died of inju-
ries sustained earlier in the
conict, Qudra said.
The latest deaths bring to
2,065 the number of Pales-
tinians who have been killed
during six weeks of ghting be-
tween Israel and Hamas. AFP
Family members hold back grief-stricken Tarek al-Ri, the father of one of three children from the Al-Ri
family killed in an Israeli military strike, at Gaza citys Al-Shifa hospital yesterday. AFP
AN INDONESIAN court yes-
terday upheld the victory of
Joko Widodo at last months
presidential election, rejecting
claims of widespread cheating
from his opponent and ending
weeks of political uncertainty.
After two weeks of hearings,
the Constitutional Court said
it was rejecting ex-general
Prabowo Subiantos challenge
of the July 9 elections results.
It clears the way for Jakarta
Governor Widodo, the coun-
trys rst leader from outside
the political and military elites,
to focus on preparing for gov-
ernment ahead of his October
20 inauguration.
The nal day of the long
election season was not with-
out drama, however; as the
judges started reading their
verdict, police red volleys of
tear gas and water cannon at
thousands of angry Prabowo
supporters near the court.
The protesters had tried to
force their way past lines of
riot police and barbed wire
blocking the road to the court.
Three people were injured and
four arrested. AFP
Court call
clears way
for Widodo
presidency
Ferguson protests cool
PROTESTS in the strife-torn
town of Ferguson cooled late
on Wednesday after the top US
law enforcement official
pledged a full investigation into
the slaying of teenager
Michael Brown. Police said six
people were arrested, down
from 47 on Tuesday, and that
demonstrators refrained from
throwing projectiles and firing
weapons as they had in the
worst moments of rioting.
Earlier on Wednesday,
Attorney General Eric Holder
met with the parents of Brown,
a black unarmed 18-year-old
who was shot dead by a white
police officer on August 9, and
promised a fair and
independent inquiry into the
death of their son. AFP
Irish PM Reynolds dies
FORMER Irish prime minister
Albert Reynolds, a central
figure in the Northern Ireland
peace process who helped
broker the 1994 IRA ceasefire,
has died aged 81, Premier
Enda Kenny said yesterday.
Reynolds served twice as
prime minister, once in 1992
and then again in 1993-94. He
sat in parliament from 1977 to
2002. In 1993, Reynolds and
then-British prime minister
John Major signed the
Downing Street Declaration,
which affirms the right to self-
determination for the people of
Northern Ireland. AFP
World
Liberias clampdown
on Ebola gets violent
V
IOLENCE erupted
in an Ebola quaran-
tine zone in Liberias
capital on Wednes-
day when soldiers opened re
and used tear gas on protest-
ing crowds as they evacuated
a state ofcial and her family.
Four residents were injured
in the clashes that ared in
Monrovias West Point slum,
which has been sealed off as
part of new security measures
aimed at containing the virus.
The crackdown in Liberia
comes as authorities around
the world scramble to stem
the worst-ever outbreak of
Ebola, which has killed at least
1,350 people across West Af-
rica this year.
Liberian President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf quarantined
West Point and Dolo Town, to
the east of the capital, and im-
posed a night-time curfew as
part of new drastic measures
to ght the disease.
Residents of West Point,
where club-wielding youths
stormed an Ebola medical
facility on Saturday, reacted
with fury to the crackdown,
hurling stones and shouting
at the security forces.
It is inhumane, resident
Patrick Wesseh told AFP. They
cant suddenly lock us up
without any warning, how are
our children going to eat?
Liberia, with 576 deaths
from 972 diagnosed cases, has
seen the biggest toll among
the four West African coun-
tries hit by Ebola.
The UNs new pointman on
Ebola was due to arrive in West
Africa late yesterday for a visit
aimed at shoring up health
services in the region.
David Nabarro, a British
physician appointed last week
by UN chief Ban Ki-moon,
said he would focus on revi-
talising the health sectors in
Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and
Sierra Leone.
Vietnam says cases not Ebola
Also yesterday, Vietnam re-
leased two Nigerians isolated
after arriving from West Africa
with fevers, saying they show
no symptoms of Ebola.
Ebola test results for the
pair are not yet known, but
the Health Ministry said their
condition had improved.
After 24 hours of monitoring,
the two patients were without
fever, showing no abnormal
signs or symptoms related to
Ebola, it said in a statement
released late on Wednesday.
The two men will be put un-
der community surveillance
for three weeks from the date
they left the affected area, the
ministry said.
Airline passengers sitting
next to the pair who trav-
elled to Vietnam on Monday
from Nigeria via Qatar have
also been advised to monitor
their health conditions.
Mandatory checks of passen-
gers temperatures have been
introduced at Vietnams two
major international airports in
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
In Myanmar yesterday, a lo-
cal man was still undergoing
tests after arriving from Guin-
ea with a fever.
In a statement yesterday,
Myanmars Ministry of Infor-
mation said the man was found
to be suffering from malaria.
After he was given treat-
ment for malaria, his health
condition has improved this
morning, it said, adding that
authorities still planned to
send samples to India for Eb-
ola testing.
The state-backed New Light
of Myanmar newspaper said
the 22-year-old man, who is
being kept in isolation in a
Yangon hospital, had worked
in Guinea and Liberia for
13 months.
Four people who accom-
panied him from the airport
to the hospital are also being
monitored, although they do
not have symptoms.
The report said health of-
cials are screening people for
fever at points of entry to the
country and authorities had
disinfected the plane that the
man was travelling in, as well
as parts of Yangons interna-
tional airport. AFP
A soldier stands guard and a street market sits empty as part of a
quarantine in Monrovias West Point slum on Wednesday. AFP
World
15
W
E KNOW that mo-
dern humans won
an evolutionary
race against our
Neanderthal relatives, but ex-
actly how and when did they
leave us? According to a new
study published in Nature,
the shift may have happened
quite gradually.
Using recent advances in
radiocarbon dating technol-
ogy, the researchers dated re-
mains found at more than 40
archaeological sites across Eu-
rope. By accurately dating the
remnants of human and Ne-
anderthal life, theyve pieced
together a more complete pic-
ture of the transition.
The results reveal a sig-
nicant overlap of 2,600-5,400
years, wrote the researchers,
who used improved technol-
ogy to date about 200 samples
of bone, charcoal and shell
from the 40 archaeological
sites, located from Russia
to Spain.
This was ample time for in-
teraction and interbreeding,
said a press statement.
Around 45,000 years ago,
the researchers report, hu-
mans started to appear in
small clusters dotted around
Europe. But gradually, the bal-
ance shifted and over the
next 5,000 years, humans be-
gan to proliferate as Neander-
thals disappeared. Instead of
being quickly obliterated, the
Neanderthals just became less
common, and soon they were
the species dotted around
the continent.
While some areas lost all
Neanderthals within a few
hundred years, it seems that
others maintained small pop-
ulations, even as early humans
moved in.
Its not news that humans
and Neanderthals interacted
(and probably even interbred),
but scientists had no idea that
some regions experienced so
much overlap.
On the other hand, the new
study seems to prove that
while they spent a surprising
amount of time in the same
place, humans and Neander-
thals shared less time together
on the Earth overall.
While some scientists have
suggested that Neanderthals
held out in Iberia until less
than 40,000 years ago, the new
study was unable to nd any
evidence of such a population.
Instead, the authors report,
the last Neanderthals slowly
took up less and less of a mo-
saic culture spread across Eu-
rope, giving them plenty of
time to exchange ideas (and
genes) with our ancestors.
The study did not reach a
conclusion on whether there
had been a single human-
Neanderthal interbreeding
event, or several over time.
Of course the Neanderthals
are not completely extinct,
because some of their genes
are in most of us today, said
study leader Thomas Higham
of Oxford University. THE WASH-
INGTON POST/AFP
Mystery source of ozone-killing chemical bafes NASA
A CHEMICAL used in dry cleaning
and fire extinguishers has been phased
out in recent years, but NASA says that
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is still
being spewed into the atmosphere
from an unknown source.
The world agreed to stop using CC14
as part of the Vienna Convention on
Protection of the Ozone Layer and its
Montreal Protocol, which attained
universal ratification in 2009.
Parties to the Montreal Protocol
reported zero new CCl4 emissions
between 2007-2012, the US space
agency said in a statement.
However, the new research shows
worldwide emissions of CCl4 average
39 kilotons per year, approximately 30
per cent of peak emissions prior to the
international treaty going into effect.
CC14 levels are not enough to
reverse the decreasing trend of ozone-
depletion, but experts are still mysti-
fied as to where it is coming from.
With no new reported emissions,
atmospheric concentrations of the
compound should have declined at
an expected rate of 4 per cent per year
since 2007. However, observations
from the ground showed atmospher-
ic concentrations were only declining
1 per cent per year.
We are not supposed to be seeing
this at all, said Qing Liang, an
atmospheric scientist at NASAs God-
dard Space Flight Center in Green-
belt, Maryland. It is now apparent
there are either unidentified indus-
trial leakages, large emissions from
contaminated sites, or unknown
CCl4 sources.
Researchers used NASAs 3-D GEOS
Chemistry Climate Model and data
from global networks of ground-based
observations to establish the first esti-
mate of average global CC14 emis-
sions from 2000 to 2012.
In going through the data, research-
ers also learned that the chemical
stays in the atmosphere 40 per cent
longer than previously thought.
People believe the emissions of
ozone-depleting substances have
stopped because of the Montreal Pro-
tocol, said Paul Newman, chief sci-
entist for atmospheres at NASA.
Unfortunately, there is still a major
source of CCl4 out in the world.
The study was published in Geo-
physical Research Letters. AFP
Humans, Neanderthals coexisted for millennia
World
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T
HE scandal is more than
2,500 years old; but to the
Chinese internet, it feels
fresh and exciting. State
media Peoples Daily has called it an
ancient celebrity divorce storm,
and one reader on microblogging
platform Weibo asked, hopefully as a
joke, whether it was just a rumour.
This tempest in a fine China teacup is
the perpetually surprising fact that
Confucius the famous Chinese phi-
losopher born in 551 BC whose teach-
ings in The Analects emphasised the
primacy of family obligations was a
divorced single dad.
The story of how Confucius married
at 19, had a son, and split from his
wife has been around for thousands
of years. But it found renewed reso-
nance in China when the Ministry of
Civil Affairs announced on June 17
that 3.5 million couples had filed for
divorce there in 2013, up 12.8 per cent
from the previous year. The ministry
added that this capped 10 years of
steadily rising divorce numbers.
Less than a month after those fig-
ures came out, an essay by Li Jingh-
eng, a young history scholar in the
large city of Chengdu, Sichuan, from
April 2011 got recycled and began
pinging around the Chinese internet.
It showed up on a forum hosted by
Peoples Daily and a popular news
feed on mobile chat platform
WeChat.
The facts themselves are old news,
but Lis essay, which reads more like
self-help than scholarship, has won
over modern readers. One wrote on
Weibo that the piece was lively and
interesting. When the image of the
sage is filled out with such detail, it
narrows the distance between saints
and mortals. Another Weibo user
cryptically but movingly wrote, As
someone who has led the life of a
restless loser, I took no small comfort
in reading this story. For so many
years, Ive felt that I let my mother
and father down.
Because most details of Confucius
marriage and divorce have been lost
to history, Li uses a few scant clues
in Chinese idiom, spider silk and
horse tracks to construct a portrait
of Confucius as an open-minded
humanist, someone who valued
compassion over ceremony. Li writes
that Confucius raised his son, Bo Yu,
as a single dad after the sage divorced
his wife for unknown reasons. (Sam
Crane, an expert on ancient Chinese
philosophy at Williams College, and
others have argued that Li is making
a leap to label the arrangement
divorce, but records do indicate
that the sage was long estranged
from his wife.)
After Bo Yus death many years lat-
er, when the scholar was 67, Confu-
cius gave his daughter-in-law permis-
sion to remarry. The marriage of
Confucius grandson, Zi Si, also end-
ed in divorce, Li writes, creating
three generations of unions that did
not fit the socially acceptable norm.
Its a somewhat radical reimagining
of the scholar and his family. It cer-
tainly runs counter to the popular
image of the infallible robed philoso-
pher who laid the foundation of a
patriarchal system that still pervades
much of Chinese society today.
Li argues that Confucius era was
more tolerant than people realise and
that some mistakenly confuse Con-
fucius ideas with those of neo-Con-
fucian conservatives, who took his
precepts to extremes. He writes that
Confucius was compassionate and
lacked the hypocritical moralism of
the philosophers in the Song and
Ming dynasties. He notes that in
ancient China, new brides could
chose to leave their marriage within
the first three months if they didnt
get along with their spouse.
Scholars in Confucius time were
more hedonistic, he writes, and una-
bashed about their fondness for food,
drink and sex: Passion between a
man and a woman was considered
natural. Li also argues not terribly
convincingly that Confucius
showed something of a feminist side
in the Book of Rites when he noted
that men should lie with their concu-
bines, even the older ones, once every
five days until the woman reaches
her 50th year. This showed that Con-
fucius believed the sexual needs of
mature women ought to be met, Li
explains. He concludes that this is
helpful background for under-
standing Confucius divorce and why
he let his daughter-in-law remarry.
The story has gained traction
against the backdrop of spiralling
divorce rates but also comes amid
growing fatigue and disillusionment
over outdated moral commandments
emanating from the ruling Commu-
nist Party. A sweeping anti-corrup-
tion campaign that kicked off in late
2012 has been targeting bribe takers,
but also adulterers. Half a dozen offi-
cials were expelled from the party
this summer for adultery, the state-
run China Daily said. On August 6,
Shen Peiping, former vice governor of
southern Yunnan province, was
booted from the party for the same.
But this morality campaign marks a
level of state-mandated prudishness
that strikes many as absurd. In this
social context, its likely reassuring
for people to learn that even Confu-
cius, who is widely respected and
venerated in China schoolchildren
recite his teachings and President Xi
Jinping recommends that cadres
read him struggled with matrimo-
ny. FOREIGN POLICY
Chinas most famous single dad
Visitors walk past a statue on the grounds of a Confucius Temple, named for the Chinese philosopher who is best known for promoting lial piety in the sixth century BC. Recently,
he has also become known for being the patriarch of a family with three generations of divorces. AFP
Comment
Alexa Alesen
Alexa Alesen writes for Tea Leaf Nation, a
Foreign Policy blog about news and major
trends in China.
Anthony Gierzynski
T
HE idea that enter-
tainment has an ef-
fect on our politics
might seem ludicrous
to some. Many would scoff at
the notion that the Star Wars
saga might have inuenced
the political socialisation of
Generation X. Or that the mu-
sic that the baby boomers lis-
tened to played a supporting
role in the development of that
generations politics.
And perhaps, most ridicu-
lous of all, is the idea that JK
Rowlings popular tale of the
boy-who-lived could have
played a role in the political
development of that genera-
tion, the millennials. Let alone
an election result. But this is
exactly what some recent re-
search of mine indicates.
I found empirical support for
the idea that the Harry Potter
series inuenced the political
values and perspectives of the
generation that came of age
with these books. Reading the
books correlated with greater
levels of acceptance for out-
groups, higher political toler-
ance, less predisposition to au-
thoritarianism, greater support
for equality and greater oppo-
sition to the use of violence.
As Harry Potter fans will
have noted, these are major
themes throughout the series.
These correlations remained
signicant even when apply-
ing more sophisticated statis-
tical analyses when control-
ling for, among other things,
parental inuence.
Im not saying, like one com-
mentator, that Harry Potter
helped Obama get elected or
that Harry Potter books brain-
washed millennials, as much
of the coverage of my research
indicated. Its of course much
more nuanced.
Scepticism of the notion that
our entertainment consump-
tion shapes our political per-
spectives only has traction if
you think that we arrive at our
political views rationally. And
theres a long record of research
in multiple disciplines (psy-
chology, sociology and politi-
cal science) that debunks the
notion that we acquire political
values and attitudes through a
rational process.
And research into how we
immerse ourselves in stories
has demonstrated that we do
not process ideas in entertain-
ment the same way we process
information we react on a
more emotional level, at a dis-
tance from real-world facts.
The next scornful retort is
that peoples choice of enter-
tainment will reect their pre-
existing political views. But the
argument of selective exposure
that we only consume media
that is congruent with our ex-
isting beliefs is less applicable
to entertainment than it is to
overly political media.
Were often drawn to sto-
ries for reasons that may have
nothing to do with our views.
This may be its popularity, at-
tention given to it in the media,
critical reviews, special effects,
advertising, boredom, inadver-
tent exposure when we have
little choice the reasons go
on. And once were immersed
in the book, TV program, lm
or whatever, once weve come
to identify with certain char-
acters we are, as communica-
tions scholars have demon-
strated, likely to internalise the
lessons of the narrative, and
emulate the qualities of those
with whom we identify.
Selective exposure is also
complicated by the fact that
the relevant lessons of a narra-
tive or the qualities of ctional
characters are not always evi-
dent early on in the story. And
they may evolve throughout it.
Take that of Darth Vader, a cul-
tural icon of evil, for example
he turns out to still have some
good in him at the end.
When were consuming en-
tertainment stories its likely
that were susceptible to po-
litically relevant messages
were relaxing, having fun,
our guard is down. Indeed,
most people are unaware of
the politically relevant con-
tent of that which they watch
or read because they are not
looking for it. And politically
relevant messages are so
ubiquitous throughout
our culture that they
become invisible to
us. Take the positive
portray of guns in US
media its rare to see
a hero without a gun.
Selective exposure
is also less likely to
occur among
younger me-
dia consum-
ers who
have yet to
fully form
their politi-
cal views. This is a point espe-
cially applicable to the media
teenagers consume, like the
Harry Potter series.
A great volume of research
has been devoted to the effects
of entertainment on social phe-
nomena such as violence, sex,
smoking and drinking. In this
light, perhaps it doesnt seem
so ridiculous to give some at-
tention to how entertainment
shapes our politics.
In addition to Harry Potter,
I also have preliminary results
from two other recent studies.
One, an experiment that found
that exposure to different types
of science ction and fan-
tasy villains affected attitudes
about criminal justice. And an-
other that found that exposure
to Game of Thrones and House
of Cards reduced the tendency
to believe in a just world.
There are certainly method-
ological issues with teasing out
entertainment media effects,
but those difculties have
not stopped research-
ers on other similarly
sticky subjects. We
need to consider the
role of entertainment
media in the develop-
ment of political per-
spectives, in how citizens
see their governments,
leaders, and policies.
This is something
that is ever more im-
portant in our era of
unlimited media
choice. THE WASHING-
TON POST
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Conceal, like a magician
5 What have we here
9 Favorites defeat
14 On the safe side, nautically
15 Tobacco dryer
16 Like one born yesterday
17 They can supersize your work
20 Come on stage
21 Theyre dyeing for a job
22 Sugar substitute?
25 Ballpark figure
26 Drinks to excess
28 Library penalty
32 Standard of perfection
37 One with candy and flowers
38 Certain wire stripper
41 Like morning air, sometimes
42 Residents
of Mashhad
43 Riot queller
44 Certain
possessive
46 Sandra, Ruby
or Kiki
47 Is a nuisance to
53 Pressed
for time
58 Like some columns
59 Its in Rio de Janeiro
62 Give off, as perspiration
63 Like an angel or butterfly
64 News blurb
65 Puts into piles
66 Easter preparation
67 Notorious Roman emperor
DOWN
1 Strode back and forth
2 One way to go it
3 Greek penny
4 Ganglands Lansky
5 Truck-weight unit
6 Halloween costume option
7 Schools of thought
8 Lady Liberty, e.g.
9 Not groovy, man
10 Physical suffering
11 Geometric function
12 Happily ___ after
13 Dicks Truehart
18 Anger
19 Machinery parts
23 Mix together
24 Carry-on bag
27 Shrubby evergreen plant
28 Centers of interest
29 Minuscule amount
30 Popular gas in Vegas
31 Acts human?
32 Titan or Minuteman, e.g.
33 Young toon explorer
34 Long and impressive, as a film
35 Altars place
36 Albanian buck
37 White as a ghost
39 Ungraceful entrance?
40 Barely broiled
44 Prefix meaning trillion
45 Like many teas
46 Where some tears are found
48 Blood relative
49 Drive a nail at an angle
50 On moms side
51 Kitchen device
52 Blockhead
53 Italian coolers
54 NASA scrub
55 One mimicking
56 Biblical verb, with thou
57 Ivy League campus
60 Berts twin sister, in fiction
61 Guggenheim procurement
THREE ON THE BEAT
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
How the Harry Potter series shaped
the political culture of a generation
German children dressed as characters from the Harry Potter series wait in line in a bookstore. The Harry
Potter series has inuenced the politics of children who grew up reading the books. AFP
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Kazuhiko Makita
A
BOUT 2,500 years
ago in war-torn Chi-
na, Sun Tzu wrote
what would become
the worlds most well-known
military text.
Born during Chinas Chun-
qiu period, the famed tactician
who wrote The Art of War is
called a military saint in Chi-
na and is considered one of its
greatest ancient philosophers.
Studied by Japanese gen-
erals and US
pr e s i de nt s ,
Sun Tzus ideas
have inu-
enced people
of the East and
West, from an-
cient to mod-
ern times.
Drive north-
east for about
two hours from
Jinan, the capi-
tal of Shan-
dong province,
and you arrive
in Guangrao
county.
Take a look
around and
you will nd
Sun Tzu Road
and Bingsheng
(the Saint of
War) Road. Go into a restau-
rant, and you can try a local
liquor with a name that trans-
lates roughly as military saint
king alcohol.
The county claims Sun
Tzu was born nearby and
has dubbed itself Sun Tzus
hometown. On the outskirts
of Guangrao is a memorial
temple dedicated to Sun Tzu.
In the 1990s, the county re-
built the mausoleum, which
was originally constructed in
the 12th century. Inside, panel
exhibits and miniature models
give a detailed introduction
to Sun Tzus life and The Art of
War. Just inside the entrance
stands an imposing 3-metre-
high statue of Sun Tzu.
If you know the enemy and
know yourself, you need not fear
the result of a hundred battles.
This quote from The Art of
War is displayed prominently
in the exhibition room. It may
be the most well-known quote
in China and was frequently
referenced by Mao Zedong.
Zhao Chengfeng, 70, chair-
man of the Shandong SunZi
Research Association, has long
been entranced by Sun Tzus
philosophy. Sun Tzus The Art
of War is not constrained by
time or national boundaries,
Zhao said. It has a universality
that can be accepted by a wide
range of aca-
demic elds.
A l t h o u g h
Guangrao is
little known
outside of Sun
Tzu research-
ers, it could be
on the verge of
a major trans-
formation. In
March 2012, it
established the
Sun Tzu Cul-
tural Tourist
Area Manage-
ment Com-
mittee and is
pushing ahead
with tourism
developments.
The man-
made Sun Tzu
Lake is sur-
rounded by a huge, 42-square-
kilometer tourism district that
is to include a theme park, re-
search institute, hot spring ho-
tel and other facilities.
It will be a base for trans-
mitting Sun Tzus philosophy
to the world, said Wang Ting-
wen, director of the Center for
Sun Tzu Studies of Guangrao.
Though expectations are
great, the theme park will re-
quire 1.6 billion yuan ($257
million) in investments and
more than 3 billion yuan for
the entire district.
Engaging in unreasonable
battles with smaller forces will
only make you the prey of an
enemy with a larger force.
Amid the hammering, I
seemed to hear the words of a
wise man warning against im-
prudence. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
The art of
bringing in
the tourists
Guangrao county is pushing tourism developments aimed at selling it-
self as Sun Tzus hometown, including a theme park, research institute,
hot spring hotel and other facilities. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Sun Tzu
Born in the sixth century BC
in the Qi Kingdom, Sun Tzu
moved to the Wu Kingdom
because of civil war. At about
age 30, he wrote the original
version of The Art of War. He
was made a general by King
Helu of Wu and gained fame
by defeating enemies, includ-
ing the Chu Kingdom.
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 22, 2014 21

Ki Chong Tran meets Mike in
MMA cage at Phuket club
MIXED martial artist Ki Chong Tran of
Phnom Penhs A Fighter gym will face
Thai featherweight Siwa Kontieng in the
cage of Full Metal Dojo 2 at Seduction
Nightclub on the island of Phuket
tomorrow night. American-born
Cambodian Ki chong will look to exert
his dominance on the ground against
his Chiang Mai-based opponent, who
has a 3-1 MMA record and a nickname
of Mike. Headlining the nine-bout card
is a welterweight clash between
Finnish knockout specialist Glenn
Sparv (9-3), who triumphed over Mikael
Dubois of Canada in the inaugural Full
Metal Dojo main event on June 7, and
Frenchman Jason Ponet (9-8). DANRILEY
Grieving Tony Stewart to
miss another NASCAR race
TONY Stewart will sit out tomorrows
NASCAR race in Bristol, Tennessee, the
third Sprint Cup race hes missed since
his car struck and killed a fellow driver
in a dirt-track race. Kevin Ward Jr was
killed on August 9 during a lower-level
dirt track race at Canandaigua
Motorsports Park in New York state.
Ward had exited his damaged vehicle
and was walking on the track when
Stewarts car hit and killed him. The
cars of both drivers had tangled on a
prior lap, with Ward hitting the wall.
Police said in the days after the incident
they had found no criminal behaviour
on the part of Stewart, but an
investigation into the crash is ongoing.
Brett Frood, executive vice president of
Stewart Haas Racing, said last week
that Stewart was grieving and that
there was no timetable for his return to
racing. AFP
Pollard, Ramdin rescue
troubled Windies in ODI
KIERON Pollard and Denesh Ramdin
saved the West Indies from a
humiliating defeat and engineered a
three-wicket victory over Bangladesh in
the first one-day international at the
National Stadium in Grenada on
Wednesday. Reeling at 34 for five in
reply to the tourists total of 217 for nine,
Pollards commanding 89 and
Ramdins polished 74 turned the match
on its head, their 145-run sixth-wicket
partnership transforming the
improbability of victory into a leisurely
canter by the time the winning runs
were hit by Jason Holder in the 40th
over. They played positively and exposed
the limitations of the Bangladeshi
bowling attack as visiting captain
Mushfiqur Rahim was at his wits end
to stem the flow of runs following the
early clatter of wickets. AFP
Sochi F1 track to get FIA
licence says safety official
THE Formula 1 track in Russias Black
Sea city of Sochi has been given the
green light by F1 race director and
safety delegate Charlie Whiting. The
circuit is in very good condition and will
be issued with a [FIA] license, said
Whiting, in Sochi with an inspection
team from the world motorsports
governing body, the FIA. The
inspection team visited the recent host
city of the Winter Olympics to evaluate
the quality of the track and the venue
itself to ensure that it fit the purpose of
hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix race,
scheduled for October 10-12. AFP
Stuart Broad sets September
4 date for his knee surgery
ENGLAND pace bowler Stuart Broad
will undergo knee surgery on
September 4 as he targets full fitness in
time for the 2015 World Cup. The
England and Wales Cricket Board had
already confirmed that the 28-year-old
needed to go under the knife to cure a
long-standing tendonitis problem.
Broad helped England to a 3-1 Test
series win over India despite having
suffered a broken nose in the innings
and 54-run fourth Test victory. AFP
McIlroy seeks fourth win
in a row as playoffs start
Ref admitted Test blunders, says All Blacks coach
T
OP-RANKED Rory McIlroy
is trying to become only
the fth player in PGA his-
tory to win four consecutive
starts in the season-ending US tour
playoffs, which began yesterday
with The Barclays.
The 25-year-old from Northern
Ireland won last months British
Open and followed with his rst
World Golf Championships title at
Akron, Ohio, before claiming the
PGA Championship two weeks ago
for his fourth major title.
Whenever youre on a run like
this, your expectations are sky
high, McIlroy said on Wednesday.
When you get on a run like this and
momentum is on your side, a lot of
things fall your way.
McIlroy, the rst winner of back-to-
back majors since Irishman Padraig
Harrington in 2008, could join an
exclusive list by winning this week at
Ridgewood Country Club in subur-
ban New York.
Four players in PGA history have
produced win streaks of at least four
tournaments, with Byron Nelson
claiming the record at 11 wins in
1945, Tiger Woods taking a career-
best seven in a row in 2006 and early
2007, Ben Hogan having a run of six
in a row in 1948 and Jack Burke win-
ning four straight in 1952.
Woods has previously had runs of
ve and six in a row as well as seven
and is the only man since Hogan
won ve in a row in 1953 to win at
least four in a row.
McIlroy could carve his name
onto that list with a victory and take
a major step toward winning the
playoff crown.
For me it would just be gratifying if
I could nish off this season well and
nish off the season the way it should
be nished, McIlroy said. Im play-
ing this good golf. Ive had a great
year, an awesome summer. I want
to be up there in contention week-in
and week-out.
I feel like the season Ive had de-
serves a nish like that. Im going to
just grind out every week that I can.
Its a big four weeks coming up.
It just means you have to play well
right until the end and I dont mind
that. Im going to go for as long as I
can playing well.
Australias Adam Scott is the de-
fending champion and hopeful of
adding the playoff crown after going
without a major title this year follow-
ing his breakthrough rst major vic-
tory at last years Masters.
If you asked me Sunday night at
the Masters when I won, if I would
win one of the next seven, I could
have assured you I would, Scott
said. But it hasnt happened that
way and thats not a surprise now.
Its just the way the game is. Its not
easy to win.
Scott, who won last years title on a
different course, had two top-10 ef-
forts at majors this year but won only
once in 15 US PGA starts this season.
After falling ill during the last play-
off event last year to miss out on a
playoff crown, a strong nish would
help spark Scott into next season.
It will feel like Ive achieved some-
thing this year, Scott said.
Obviously to go through and not
win a major when my mind was re-
ally set on that, it was disappointing.
But theres always something to play
for, whether its this week or over the
next month. Id like to walk away with
at least another PGA Tour win this
season and hopefully maybe two.
Scott praised McIlroys run, noting
how his prior struggles in second
rounds had been a hot topic before
his British Open win and have faded
with his streak of success over the
past month.
In the week before the Open it
was the Friday curse and Rory is
cursed and since then he has been
blessed, Scott said.
Rory has had a whole career in
four weeks. Thats a Hall of Fame
career in four weeks out here. Thats
amazing golf. AFP
ALL Blacks coach Steve Hansen yesterday said
referee Jaco Peyper admitted a series of blun-
ders during last weeks record-denying Test draw
with Australia but added it was no excuse for
his teams poor performance.
Coach Steve Hansen, who sought a meeting
with the South African whistleblower after the
12-12 draw in Sydney, said Peyper put his hand
up and confessed he was wrong with one yel-
low card and several free kicks.
But Hansen said the All Blacks also had an off-
day as they were halted one short of a record
18th straight Test win by the red-up Wallabies.
I know why we didnt perform at the weekend.
There were certain areas of our game we were
very poor at, Hanson said, as he announced
three changes to his starting line up for the re-
turn Test in Auckland tomorrow.
But as much as the All Blacks were outplayed,
Hansen said the refereeing did not help.
Weve spoken to the referee about the scrum-
maging. He put his hand up, said he got the free-
kicks wrong, he said.
The rst yellow card [against prop Wyatt
Crockett] was wrong the ball was out. It was a
good conversation, I respect the man for his hon-
esty. Hes no different than players. Some days
you have a bad day. He had a bad day at the ofce
and put his hand up.
But Ive got to emphasise, it wasnt just his
problem. We had a hell of a bad day ourselves so
well forget about him and concentrate on what
we can do.
Hansen said he would meet with French ref-
eree Romaine Poite, who is handling Saturdays
match, before kick-off on Saturday.
The All Blacks have made two injury-enforced
changes, with Liam Messam and Ryan Crotty
coming in for Jerome Kaino and Maa Nonu,
while Conrad Smith returns to outside centre
after missing the first Test due to the birth of
his son.
Argentina make two changes for South Africa
Argentina have made two changes to the start-
ing team for the return Rugby Championship
match against South Africa in Salta Saturday.
Centre Juan Martin Hernandez, a late with-
drawal from the side defeated 13-6 in Pretoria
last weekend, returns at inside centre in place of
Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias.
The other change is also in the backline with
Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino coming in on the
right wing for Horacio Agulla.
Worcester Warriors hooker Agustin Creevy skip-
pers the Pumas and there are two ex-captains,
Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe and Juan Manuel
Leguizamon, in the back row.
Coach Daniel Hourcade has also made two al-
terations to the eight-man replacements list as
Argentina seek a rst Championship victory after
a draw and 12 defeats.
Prop Bruno Postiglioni gets the nod ahead of
Lucas Noguera Paz and Agulla takes the place of
Amorosino. AFP
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday August 23
New Zealand v Australia 2:35pm
Sunday August 24
Argentina v South Africa 2:40am
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays a shot during the pro am event prior to The Barclays at The Ridgewood Country Club on
Wednesday in Paramus, New Jersey. AFP
Sport
H S Manjunath
A
FTER some easy kills,
unbeaten Mekong Tigers
may face their sternest
test of strength when
they face the Emperors in tomor-
rows key contest at the Olympic
Stadium Indoor Arena, the home
of the Angkor Beer Cambodian
Basketball League co-sponsored
by Pepsi and Smart.
Interestingly enough, the Em-
perors, who were runners-up
as IRB The Lord in the previ-
ous campaign, are themselves
wounded beasts in a way after last
weeks loss to Smart Dragons and
are highly motivated to take that
frustration out on Mekong Tigers,
who are yet to put a foot wrong.
Managed by Josh Galt, the Ti-
gers are bound to rely as always
on their power of youth just as
the Emperors lean back so heav-
ily on experience.
Sok Samnang and his team-
mates are well aware that the
Emperors, driven by national
players Monh Ratana and Kim
Vengngoun, are by far the stron-
gest outt crossing their path.
In contrast, a team that enjoyed
an uncontested run of success last
season, the Patriots, now named
Davies Paints, were beaten by the
Emperors in their opening game.
The Paints have put that de-
feat behind and are showing an
upward trend after two succes-
sive wins. Manager Chris Borja
will be counting on his players
to keep that momentum going
against CCPL Warriors in tomor-
rows opening xture.
Pressure is gradually mounting
on the Warriors after back-to-
back defeats that saw them slide
over to the bottom half of the
standings.
The absence of Vince Del Mun-
do clearly hurt the side and to
add to manager Jan Novals wor-
ries, former Heat players Sovann
Panha and Sin Davuth have not
been gelling as well as he would
have wanted.
A tight nish is well on the
cards when two teams blazing
the track, Smart Dragons and
Pate 310, square off in Sundays
rst match.
The Dragons have struck a good
balance with Chimm Chandara
and Phillip Elliot manning the de-
fence, while Ben Laird and Leng
Seng are doing the bull work at
the other end. A strong Dragons
bench has also made it known
that everyone can chip in.
It is this imposing Dragons look
that should cause some alarm in
the Pate camp. For their part, Pate
have had a good season so far with
three wins by double digit margins
and one narrow defeat by Davies
Paints of a mere three points.
The teams fortunes have been
guided by the trio of Ouch Phanat,
Taing Pengkuy and Sok Tour.
However, two key players from
the support cast, Adam Tayyaba
and Dyna Thong, may not be
available for this game.
The weekends nal xture will
pit a struggling GL Concrete against
Extra Joss Fighters, who have found
a new set of springs in their heels
with the arrival of Stephen Surima.
The Filipino has brightened up the
scene for the Fighters with a lively
performance in the previous out-
ing and in all likelihood, will tor-
ment his markers.
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday August 23
CCPL Warriors v Davies Paints
2pm
Mekong Tigers v Emperors 4pm
Sunday August 24
Smart Dragons v Pate 310 2pm
GL Concrete v
Extra Joss Fighters 4pm
Unbeaten Tigers to face
Emperors in CBL clash
An Emperors player jumps for a lay up during their Cambodian Basketball League game
against Davies Paints on July 19 at the Olympic Stadium indoor hall. SRENG MENG SRUN
23
Football

Tan file sparks FA probe
as Moody quits Palace
IAIN Moody resigned as
sporting director of Premier
League side Crystal Palace
yesterday after a file alleging
misconduct during his time
with Cardiff was sent by the
Welsh club to the Football
Association. According to a
report in Britains Daily Mail,
the file alleges that both Moody
and Malky Mackay, who was
sacked as Cardiff manager by
Malaysian owner Vincent Tan in
December 2013, two months
after right-hand man Moody
was fired from his role with the
club, sent a series of racist,
sexist and homophobic text
messages to one another
during their time with the
Welsh side. A Palace statement
issued yesterday said: In light
of the events of yesterday,
sporting director Iain Moody
has tendered his resignation
and it has been accepted with
immediate effect. AFP
Mendy the star pick in
Indian league draft
FORMER French defender
Bernard Mendy emerged the
top attraction at yesterdays
draft for the troubled new
franchised-based Indian Super
League set to kick off in
October. The ex-Paris Saint-
Germain star will be paid
$80,000 per season to play for
last-minute entrants Team
Chennai following the draft held
in financial hub Mumbai. AFP
Barca need star treatment
Bayern face selection headache for opener
A
FTER a year of political tur-
moil in the board and court-
rooms, and disappointment
on the pitch, Barcelona have
not taken a rst trophyless season in
six years lying down.
Facing two transfer window signing
bans, a summer of revolution in the
Catalan capital saw former captain
Luis Enrique installed as coach and
over 150 million ($200 million) in-
vested in the squad.
However, doubts remain over how
wisely that money has been spent and
whether Barca have truly addressed
their weaknesses from last season.
The headline purchase has been
the 81 million capture of Luis Suarez
from Liverpool.
The Uruguayan wont even be able
to play a minute of competitive ac-
tion until late October, though, as he
serves a four-month play ban for bit-
ing Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini
at the World Cup.
Moreover, whilst a trio of Suarez,
four-time World Player of the Year
Lionel Messi and Brazilian superstar
Neymar is beyond the budgets of
even the majority of fantasy football
managers, it remains to be seen how
the three dovetail.
All are coming off bitter disap-
pointment at the World Cup in their
own way.
Suarezs tournament ended in dis-
grace, Neymars in a very nearly crip-
pling back injury and, despite being
named player of the tournament,
Messi failed to secure his place as one
of the best of all time as his Argentina
side lost out to Germany in the nal.
Yet, it is a triumvirate Barca need to
work if they are to have any chance
of challenging European champions
Real Madrid and La Liga title holders
Atletico Madrid over the course of the
season with more major concerns in
other areas of the pitch.
Veterans Victor Valdes and Carles
Puyol ended their playing days with
the club at the end of last season,
signifying the breakup of the side
coached by Pep Guardiola that domi-
nated Europe in his rst few years
in charge.
Chile captain Claudio Bravo and
22-year-old Marc-Andre Ter Stegen
will battle it out to be Enriques num-
ber one keeper after being signed
for 12 million each with Bravo set
to start the campaign after the Ger-
man picked up a back injury.
Of even more concern has been
the recruitment of two new centre-
backs in the form of 30-year-old
Jeremy Mathieu from Valencia and
Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen
for nearly 40 million.
Mathieu has spent most of his ca-
reer at left-back before moving to a
central position last season, whilst
Vermaelen had lost his place in the
Arsenal side over the last two years.
Both signings, though, give Barca
some much needed depth at the
heart of the defence and should al-
low Javier Mascherano to return to
his favoured position in midfield,
where he shone at the World Cup.
Mascheranos own future has been
secured by a new contract that will
run until 2018 and his aggression is
what Enrique hopes to return to a
midfield that has become lethargic
in recent seasons.
I am very happy with the desire
and ambition with which the play-
ers are training. That makes me op-
timistic, Enrique said of his prepa-
ration for the new season.
We need to press in an organised
and concrete manner. Obviously it is
important to have the ball, but so is
to recover it as quickly as possible.
Enrique has already had coaching
success at Barca as he succeeded
Guardiola as Barca B coach and led
them into the second tier of Spanish
football in 2010.
However, his coaching style is a lit-
tle more pragmatic than his former
team-mate.
Gerardo Martino was criticised
throughout his sole season in charge
for not being loyal to the Barca style
of play.
But with the figurehead of tiki-
taka Xavi Hernandez also likely to
play a much reduced role this sea-
son, Enrique will continue a trend
towards moving the ball quicker
into the final third.
A style and season that will suc-
ceed or fail by how their star attack-
ing trio click. AFP
BAYERN Munich manager
Pep Guardiola faces a se-
lection headache ahead of
the defending champions
Bundesliga opener against
VfL Wolfsburg tonight.
Defender Jerome Boateng
is suspended, while versatile
Spanish international Javi
Martinez tore his cruciate
ligament during last weeks
German Supercup loss at Bo-
russia Dortmund.
Injured midelders Bastian
Schweinsteiger, Franck Ribery
and Thiago, as well as Bra-
zilian full-back Ranha, are
also set to miss the game at
Munichs Allianz Arena. Guar-
diola has expressed concern
that his squad, which includes
six World Cup winners, may
struggle to hit the ground run-
ning following this summers
tournament in Brazil.
Thomas Mueller, who
scored his 100th competitive
goal for Bayern in last week-
ends 4-1 German Cup win
over Preussen Munster, be-
lieves that his side should be
able to cope.
Were used to that kind of
preparation, the German in-
ternational told Sport Bild.
FC Bayern now have a lot
of internationals in the squad
but also a lot of very good op-
tions in order to compensate
for big tournaments.
New signing Robert Lewan-
dowski, who turned 26 yes-
terday, should lead the line
for Bayern.
Visitors Wolfsburg, who
scraped past second division
Darmstadt on penalties in
their cup match, will also be
under-strength.
Attacking midelder Ivan
Perisic fractured his shoulder
in a friendly against Bayern in
late July, while goalkeeper and
captain Diego Benaglio could
miss out due to an infection.
Max Grun, who saved two
penalties in Sundays shoo-
tout, would deputise for the
Swiss international.
Former Bayern midelder
Luiz Gustavo may not feature
after returning late from the
World Cup, while tonights
game might also come too
soon for former Arsenal strik-
er Nicklas Bendtner.
Well go into the game with
the best possible attitude
and if they show weakness,
we want to take advantage,
Wolfsburg manager Dieter
Hecking said.
We need to have a re-
ally good day to cause them
problems.
Tomorrow, Borussia Dort-
mund will hope to contin-
ue their ne early-season
form when they host Bayer
Leverkusen. Last seasons
Bundesliga runners-up fol-
lowed up their 2-0 win in the
Supercup with a 4-1 German
Cup success at third division
Stuttgart Kickers.
After losing Lewandowski,
Dortmund bolstered their
strike-force by signing Ciro
Immobile and Adrian Ramos
this summer.
Key midelder Marco Reus
returned from injury in their
cup game and Erik Durm be-
lieves that Dortmund are well
placed to capitalise if Bayern
make a sluggish start.
This year the start is huge-
ly important for us, the Ger-
man left-back said.
I think that with the new
signings and players coming
back, were even better set up
than last season. AFP
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday August 23
Bayern Munich v Wolfsburg
1:30am
Cologne v Hamburg 8:30pm
Eintracht Frankfurt v Freiburg
8:30pm
Hannover v Schalke 8:30pm
Hertha Berlin v
Werder Bremen 8:30pm
Hoffenheim v Augsburg
8:30pm
Borussia Dortmund v
Bayer Leverkusen 11:30pm
Sunday August 24
Paderborn v Mainz 8:30pm
Borussia Mnchengladbach
v Stuttgart 10:30pm
Barcelonas Luis Suarez plays during the 49th Joan Gamper Trophy match against Leon Club at the Camp Nou stadium on Monday. AFP
Bayern Munich kick off their Bundesliga title defence tonight with coach
Pep Guardiola hit by a raft of injuries to his star players. AFP
Champions League play-offs
Aalborg BK 1 Apoel Nicosia 1
Lille 0 FC Porto 1
NK Maribor 1 Celtic 1
Slovan Bratislava 1
BATE Borisov 1
Standard Liege 0
Zenit St Petersburg 1
WEDNESDAYS RESULTS
English Premier League
Saturday August 23
Aston Villa v Newcastle
6:45pm
Chelsea v Leicester 9pm
Crystal Palace v West Ham
9pm
Southampton v West Brom
9pm
Swansea v Burnley 9pm
Everton v Arsenal 11:30pm
Sunday August 24
Hull v Stoke 7:30pm
Tottenham v QPR 7:30pm
Sunderland v Man United
10pm
Spanish La Liga
Sunday August 24
Mlaga v Athletic Bilbao
12am
Granada v
Deportivo La Coruna 2am
Sevilla v Valencia 2am
Almeria v Espanyol 4am
Monday August 25
Eibar v Real Sociedad 12am
Barcelona v Elche 2am
Celta de Vigo v Getafe 2am
Levante v Villarreal 4am
French Ligue 1
Saturday August 23
Evian TG v Paris St-Germain
1:30am
Guingamp v Marseille 10pm
Sunday August 24
Bastia v Toulouse 1am
Lille v Lorient 1am
Montpellier v Metz 1am
Nice v Bordeaux 1am
Reims v Caen 1am
Lyon v Lens 7pm
St Etienne v Rennes 10pm
Monday August 24
Nantes v Monaco 2am
WEEKEND FIXTURES

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