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THE National Assembly
yesterday voted to amend
the constitution and add
new chapters that will
enshrine an overhauled
National Election Commit-
tee made up of members
from both the ruling and
opposition parties.
All 120 lawmakers present
voted for the changes, the
main points of which were
agreed to in July when the
ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party and opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue
Party reached a deal that
ended a year of post-elec-
tion deadlock.
The NEC has long been
castigated by the opposition
and civil society groups as
an institution beholden to
the CPP, and it is hoped that
the changes will provide an
even playing field for the
next national election.
But election watchdogs
have complained that these
amendments were passed
without some of their key
recommendations.
They are demanding they
be consulted immediately
on a new NEC law that will
soon be passed and forth-
coming changes to the elec-
tion law, the details of which
they say will determine
whether yesterdays consti-
tutional changes will really
make a difference.
The key changes pushed
through yesterday are found
in the new Chapter 15 of the
constitution.
As expected, Article 151 of
NA OKs
changes
to law of
the land
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
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RIME Minister Hun Sen
has reportedly said the
Chinese firm contract-
ed to build the contro-
versial Stung Cheay Areng
hydropower dam will not be
allowed to start construction in
the near future.
Opposition Cambodia Nation-
al Rescue Party president Sam
Rainsy yesterday said that Hun
Sen had assured him, on the
sidelines of a parliamentary ses-
sion in which the dam was dis-
cussed, that the dams construc-
tion had not been definitively
decided and that it may be left to
future generations.
Samdech Hun Sen confirmed
to me there is no decision yet [to
build the Areng dam], and [he]
said it might not be done during
this mandate. It may be post-
poned to the next term to let the
next generation decide. Please
do not worry. I was also happy
when I heard this, Rainsy told
reporters after the session.
The prime ministers alleged
comments, which would appear
to directly contradict numerous
government statements prior,
had activists puzzled.
We still think there is some
mystery behind the comments
by the Ministry of Mines and
Areng on back burner?
Rainsy says PM assures him construction on dam wont start soon
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Hacktivists
to undergo
loyalty test
Chhay Channyda
A SENIOR police official yester-
day said the Interior Ministry
would ensure that two recently
freed Anonymous Cambodia
hackers were loyal to the state
before allowing them to join
the police to help combat
cybercrime.
The local arm of the global
hacktivist group waged a self-
declared cyberwar on the gov-
ernment in the aftermath of
last Julys national election but
have gone quiet since five
alleged members were arrested
between April and June.
Bun King Mongkolpanha, 21,
and Chou Songheng, 20, were
arrested in April and handed
two-year jail sentences on
Tuesday that were reduced to
time already served.
In return, the pair has agreed
to join the MOIs internal secu-
rity department, which busted
them in April after a lengthy
investigation with the FBI.
On Tuesday, Chhay Sinarith,
National Police deputy commis-
sioner in charge of internal secu-
rity, said the police were really
proud of the duos skills, but
admitted yesterday that he was
actually not sure how much
they could contribute to help
our police in the IT sector.
We have put them under
probation, both in terms of
their ability and mindset, to see
whether they show that they
are honest now and will really
use their abilities to serve the
police. If so, its good and they
can serve society, he said, add-
ing that he was unaware when
they would start work.
Neither of the two could be
reached for comment yester-
day. Their lawyer said he could
not release contact details due
to a family request.
The last post on Anonymous
Cambodias Facebook page, on
May 28, says down everyday
next to the web address of the
National Police. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
Nauru staffer condemns Aus
Daniel Pye

A
FORMER mental
health worker at
Australias deten-
tion centre on the
island nation of Nauru has
condemned Canberras poli-
cies towards asylum seekers
following allegations of sexual
abuse and an outbreak of self-
harm and attempted suicide
at the facility since inmates
there were told they would be
resettled in Cambodia.
There are lots of people who
work in Nauru for the money,
working with children, and
[background] checks arent
done, the aid worker, who re-
quested anonymity, said. Its
terrible. It changes your life,
[being] over there.
The bullying is shocking
by the security staff . . . The
conditions of the camp are
unbelievable, she said, go-
ing on to describe numerous
instances of asylum seekers
being deliberately denied
medical care by Australias
immigration department.
There was a man own to
Darwin for treatment who was
own back [to Nauru] against
medical advice. He was found
in his tent covered in blood
and excrement . . . at the end
of the day, its all because of
immigration, she said.
The comments follow a rash
of attempted suicides and self-
harm in the facility. This week
Fairfax Media reported allega-
tions of sexual abuse of women
and children on Nauru, includ-
ing a threat of rape and chil-
dren being forced to perform
sex acts in front of a guard.
An adult Iranian couple on
Tuesday evening swallowed
washing powder and pesti-
cides, bringing the number of
attempted suicides since Fri-
day to at least four, while there
have been at least 12 cases of
self-harm. The two Iranians
have not been heard from
since being transferred to the
medical centre.
According to a refugee on
the island, the couples 4-year-
old daughter is in a clinic and
believed to be in a serious
condition, with no appropri-
ate medical treatment avail-
able on the island.
This is all about pushing
them to the brink, pushing
them to the absolute edge. The
arrogant Australian govern-
ment wants them to go back
[to their home countries]. I
dont get it; [the government]
must be psychopaths, the aid
worker said.
The immigration policy is
that refugees and asylum seek-
ers on Nauru are not entitled
to any medical care above and
beyond what locals on Nauru
are allowed. But they send
very, very sick people there.
A female Iranian refugee liv-
ing outside the detention cen-
tre one of 250 people granted
temporary residency on the
island in recent weeks yes-
terday said that it was com-
mon for security guards em-
ployed by Australian private
security rm Wilson Security
to commit sexual assault and
threaten protesters.
When I was in there, they
just irted, but now [it has
gotten worse], she said. The
security used bad behaviour I
will never forget.
The asylum seekers had a
peaceful protest . . . But [Wil-
son Security] were trying to
start a ght . . . the Nauruan
[security guards] were coming
to them with something sharp
while women and children
were at the front, she said.
A worker at the Nauru deten-
tion centre told Fairfax on Tues-
day that she often saw children
sitting on guards laps.
I was told by an Australian
guard who was friends with
the locals that there was an
imminent danger when the
asylum seekers were released
in regards to violence and sex-
ual abuse, she said.
GT Media, a PR rm con-
tracted by Wilson Security,
yesterday referred questions
to Transeld Services, a huge
Australian company with close
ties to the government and
which holds a number of mili-
tary procurement contracts.
A spokesman for Transeld
referred questions to the of-
ce of Australian Immigra-
tion and Border Protection
Minister Scott Morrison, who
signed the agreement to send
the refugees to Cambodia over
utes of champagne on Friday
in Phnom Penh.
A spokesman for Morrison
did not respond to repeated re-
quests for comment. However,
Morrison yesterday told Fair-
fax that there was little or no
substantiation to the allega-
tions, adding that his depart-
ment would conduct an inves-
tigation and that he would be
pretty damn cross if evidence
of abuse was uncovered.
In submissions to the ongo-
ing Australian Human Rights
Commission inquiry into off-
shore detention, children in
the camps also accuse staff
hired by charitable organisa-
tions, such as Save the Chil-
dren, of abuses.
A child protection worker
writes in one submission:
Save the Children hires local
Nauruan people who have very
close contact with children . . .
Children have been sexually
assaulted and threatened with
sexual assault, and they are
not allowed to leave the camp,
even with family members able
to care for them here.
The former aid worker cor-
roborated several of the alle-
gations of abuse.
Sarah Hanson-Young, immi-
gration spokeswoman for the
Australian Greens, yesterday
called for the Nauru detention
centre to be closed after a mo-
tion passed in the Senate call-
ing for the release of les relat-
ed to abuses on the island.
The Australian government
is actively and intentionally de-
stroying women and children
on Nauru, she said. Despite
the ministers claims when it
comes to sending people to
Cambodia, its clear these peo-
ple have no real option.
The Abbott government
has them over a barrel, and the
choice between one hell or an-
other is clearly no choice at all.
According to Australian
media, Naurus minister for
nance, David Adeang, told
the New South Wales Supreme
Court in Sydney that the coun-
try would be unable to operate
by the end of the week as the
politically connected Austra-
lian bank Westpac had frozen
the governments accounts.
New Zealands Foreign Minis-
try conrmed to a radio station
there yesterday that it had fro-
zen aid to Nauru, which owes
more than $26 million to the
US-based Firebird Global Mas-
ter Fund, which has bought the
countrys debt from Japan.
In the middle off this po-
litical wrangling, the refugees
have simple requests.
A Syrian child in Nauru,
speaking through a transla-
tor, said that he would like to
go back to school. I left my
country because it has wars
and is bad now. I want to go
to school and be a doctor, but
here there is no [good] school
and I blame Australia.
Refugees hold signs during a protest against indenite detention on Monday in front of the Australian High
Commission on Nauru. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Cheang Sokha
CAMBODIAN ofcials said
yesterday that they were call-
ing on US authorities to arrest
three Cambodian-American
men accused of threatening to
kill Cambodias leaders.
Police organisation Inter-
pol lists the three men Mao
Khoeun, 50; Bona Bumphoath,
44; and Yoeun Samrithy, 49
as being wanted in Cambodia
over the alleged threats.
According to Interior Minis-
try spokesman Khieu Sopheak,
the threats were made over so-
cial media, and Interpol police
in the US had identied where
the men were living.
I appeal to Interpol police
to arrest them so [they] can
face legal action according to
Cambodian law, he told local
media, adding that they live in
the states of Georgia, Pennsyl-
vania and Washington.
Sopheak couldnt be reached
to elaborate on his comments,
but Lay Samantha, deputy
director of Interpol police in
Cambodia, conrmed that the
government had previously
requested the USs coopera-
tion to help nd the men.
I will have to check if [the
US] has any response, he said,
declining to elaborate further.
Kep Sovandara, a former In-
terpol police deputy director
who helped prepare the case
last year, alleged the three had
used social media to make
threats on the lives of Cambo-
dias leaders during the politi-
cal deadlock that followed the
2013 election. He declined to
say which leaders were said to
have been threatened.
Since moving off this case,
I have received no more infor-
mation, he said.
According to the News Tri-
bune of Tacoma, Washington,
Bumphoath was sentenced to
community service and home
detention in April for unlawfully
trafcking sh and wildlife. One
investigator called him one of
the largest illegal wildlife traf-
ckers in the states history.
On his Facebook page, Bun-
phoath has a number of posts
relating to the Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party, including
a photo of himself posing with
Kem Mona, daughter of CNRP
deputy president Kem Sokha.
Asked yesterday whether
the three men had any formal
connection to the party, CNRP
spokesman Yim Sovann de-
clined to comment in detail.
Im not aware of this case,
he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
SHANE WORRELL
Trio threatened to kill
Cambodian leadership
Welcome to the gun show
Phak Seangly

V
ILLAGERS from three districts
in Kampong Thom province
have turned over more than 300
homemade guns to authorities
after a local safety initiative was intro-
duced that encouraged residents to hand
over their weapons.
Lim Hen, Kampong Thom provincial
deputy police chief, said yesterday that
beginning last week, the weapons, along
with a cache of bullets and projectiles, had
been delivered to ofcials in Santuk, Kam-
pong Svay and Prasat Balang districts.
It is the result of our promotion, so
villagers voluntarily gave them to us. It is
participation in keeping security in each
location, Hen said.
Pictures posted on the National Police
website show weapons crafted of wood
and iron that look similar to extra-long
versions of old hunting ries.
The majority of the guns came from
Santuk district villagers within a seven-
commune area, while Kampong Svay and
Prasat Balang residents accounted for
the remainder, said Hen, adding that the
arms were used for hunting and personal
security, and are capable of ring a variety
of projectiles.
The weapons can be used to kill people
and animals . . . an illegal act. Therefore, it
is a good practice to give them to the au-
thorities. Anyway, some of them are still
out there, but we hope that we will get
more, Hen said.
Private gun ownership has been banned
since 1999, and under Article 490 of the
criminal code, carrying or transporting a
weapon outside of the home is punish-
able by up to three years in prison and up
to 6 million riel ($1,500) in nes.
A weapon refers to any gun that can
be used to kill or injure persons or dam-
age property.
Mai Mort, Pra Huoth village chief and
deputy chief of a local forest community
group in Prasat Balang district, said more
than 10 villagers in his village had decided
to stop using the homemade guns, but
others were still holding onto theirs.
Pich Khal, Santuk district police chief,
said the weapons were surrendered after
ofcials educated the villagers about the
law, but that many were holding onto
them because they were afraid they
would be arrested. Khal said they were
not real weapons.
Khal said he could remember one in-
stance in the past seven years of a home-
made gun being used on a person, and
that it was during a domestic dispute.
Police pose for a photo with homemade ries in Kampong Svay district earlier this week after a
safety initiative encouraged residents to voluntarily hand over the weapons. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Sean Teehan
A GOVERNMENT letter that
responded lukewarmly to an
offer last month from eight
global brands to pay more for
clothes so that garment work-
ers can earn higher wages has
been met with a shrug by some
worker advocates.
Dated September 26, the let-
ter from Labour Minister Ith
Sam Heng is addressed to Rep-
resentatives of Global Brands.
It thanks them for their offer
to increase the price and vol-
ume of orders for garments
purchased from Cambodian
factories, then goes on to de-
scribe the process of meetings
between unions, factories and
government ofcials leading
up to the October 10 decision
on the sectors minimum wage,
which will be implemented on
January 1.
We are very pleased to
hear that you wish to increase
your purchasing volumes and
prices for our products, Sam
Hengs letter reads. Indeed.
[sic] this is really a positive sig-
nal for Employers to consider
the possibilities of increasing
minimum wage.
Advocates for higher sala-
ries were not impressed with
the vague tone of the letter.
Theres no mention of a fair
wage or living wage. Its getting
pretty ridiculous, said Joel Pres-
ton, a consultant for the Com-
munity Legal Education Center.
Kong Athit, vice president
of the Coalition of Cambodia
Apparel Workers Democratic
Union (C.CAWDU), said the
fact that Cambodia responded
at all was a positive sign, but
expressed disappointment at
the letters lack of substance.
Theyre not really being very
clear on the [wage-setting]
mechanism that everyone
would agree on, Athit said.
C.CAWDU is one of seven
unions in the Labour Minis-
trys Labour Advisory Commit-
tee, which mandates the mini-
mum wage.
As tension mounted ahead
of the minimum wage talks,
two other union activists yes-
terday were summonsed to
Svay Rieng Provincial Court for
questioning regarding their in-
volvement in a road-blocking
protest on August 13.
Collective Union of Move-
ment of Workers staffers Cham
Samnang, 28, and Chea Ud-
dom, 23, are due in court on
Tuesday. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
CHHAY CHANNYDA
Continued from page 1
Energy and Prime Minister Hun Sen,
Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, founder of
NGO Mother Nature, told the Post.
The ministry confirms that the project
will be completed in 2020, but the pre-
mier says it will not be built.
Eang Sophalleth, a spokesman for
Hun Sen, declined to answer questions
as he said that he had not heard Rain-
sys comments.
Um Serey Vuth of Sawac Consultants,
which has been contracted to carry out
the environmental impact assessment
at the proposed dam site, said that as
far as he knew, his team was waiting
for authorisation to finish its work
before construction could begin.
The politics I dont know. Were con-
cerned by the environmental aspects.
If we can go to study the environmen-
tal impact, I will go, he said. Until
now, we cannot risk [entering] the area.
Now were waiting for approval.
We have submitted a letter for
approval to the Koh Kong governor. He
said they [will] approve it, but . . . we are
waiting for an answer. We call them
every week.
The comments follow a Tuesday
press conference held by Minister of
Mines and Energy Suy Sem, during
which he said the project would cost
$400 million and be finished by 2020.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that
Sinohydro Resources, which the Post
reported took over the project early this
year, had hired a subcontractor to
carry out the work.
The new companys involvement
prompted concern from environmen-
talists and rights groups.
Two other Chinese companies Chi-
na Southern Power Grid and China
Guodian backed out of the project
after completing environmental and
social impact assessments.
Despite the apparent comments by
Hun Sen, Minister of Environment Say
Sam Al told the National Assembly
yesterday that the dam had not been
cancelled and nor had construction
been postponed.
The Ministry of Environment has to
assess [the site], to collect information
so we can debate seriously without
hiding [the facts], he said.
Sam Als comments came in
response to calls from opposition law-
maker Yim Sovann for the project to
be reassessed.
I notice those reports are not yet
perfect. I would like the government to
be wary of the project implementation
and to study the project once again,
he said.
The Areng dam would displace about
1,300 ethnic Chorng people, according
to government figures released this
week. The local affiliate of Sinohydro
has two of the countrys most influen-
tial tycoons on its board of directors,
including ruling Cambodian Peoples
Party Senator Lao Meng Khin.
Govt letter to brands
lacking in substance
Rainsy claims PM says dam on back burner
Elderly support low: report
Alice Cuddy and
Khouth Sophak Chakrya

F
OR 70-year-old Chan
Shay, the choice be-
tween working through
old age and a retirement
in poverty is an obvious one.
Shay, a cyclo driver in Phnom
Penh, said that while he dreams
of retiring to his home in Takeo
province, in reality he can see
no future outside of work.
If the government set a policy
to support old people, I would
be very grateful, he said.
While life expectancy is grow-
ing in Cambodia, government
policies to improve the qual-
ity of life and wellbeing of the
Kingdoms elderly are not ex-
panding, according to a report
released yesterday by interna-
tional NGO HelpAge.
In an index ranking 96 coun-
tries according to the social and
economic wellbeing of older
people, Cambodia placed 79th.
With just 5 per cent of the
elderly population estimated
to receive a formal pension,
compared to a global average of
66 per cent, the report calls for
expansion of pension cover-
age for all older people aged 65
years and above.
But Council of Ministers
spokesman Phay Siphan said
Cambodias elderly were al-
ready cared for.
In Cambodia, we never
abandon our elderly to nursing
homes. Some people dont have
their own kids, so the govern-
ment tries to help them. If they
prove that they cannot afford to
pay medical bills, the govern-
ment pays, he said. In private
companies, the employer has
an obligation to provide a pen-
sion. We [the government] take
care of civil servants.
But a 63-year-old retired civil
servant, who asked not to be
named, said that she had been
forced to take a second job as
a teacher at a private school to
supplement her state pension.
If we compare to market
prices and the price of health
care, the $50 I get [each month]
isnt enough, she said.
But for Shay and thousands of
others, any contribution would
be an improvement.
Opposition lawmaker Mu
Sochua, whose party cam-
paigned last year on a platform
of offering a $10 monthly pen-
sion payment to individuals
over the age of 65, said the poli-
cy needs to change.
Its a good time [now] that
life expectancy has got better;
however, [in terms of] a policy
of protection for the elderly,
there is nothing, she said.
Senior citizens have medical information recorded at a health clinic run by volunteers in Phnom Penhs Daun
Penh district in 2013. SCOTT HOWES
Monks walk through a community forest during a protest against the Stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam in Koh Kong province late
last year. Activists say the forest will be entirely ooded by the proposed $400 million development. DANIEL QUINLAN
Continued from page 1
this chapter says that of the NECs
nine members, four will be chosen
by the ruling party and four will be
chosen by the opposition. The nal
member will be a candidate chosen
by both parties.
The text does not specify how this
would work if more than two parties
won seats.
The parliamentary standing com-
mittee will be responsible for trans-
parently preparing the composition
of NEC members to be voted on.
In the event that the vote fails the
CPP still holds the required majority
of 50 per cent plus one, which it needs
to block it the old composition of
the NEC would remain.
Pung Chhiv Kek, president of
rights group Licadho, was selected
by both parties as the ninth consen-
sus candidate in July but asked for
parliamentary-style immunity for
NEC members to be added to the
constitution.
As expected, there was no such
provision. Kek has declined to speak
to the media in recent weeks to
conrm whether she will still take
the position.
The changes also grant the NEC
autonomy in the drawing up of its
budget, which previously had to be
requested from the government.
Senior CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay
Eang said the constitutional changes
would ensure a free election.
On behalf of the whole National
Assembly, I believe that when this
constitution comes into effect, we will
have an electoral institution that will
fulll its role independently, ensure
that elections are free, fair and just,
and can help to end any political cri-
sis at the next elections, he said.
Speaking outside the assembly yes-
terday, CNRP president Sam Rainsy
was not quite as bold, calling the
changes the rst step in a long
journey.
Rainsy had met privately with Prime
Minister Hun Sen for an hour outside
the session.
He said the pair had talked about
the political situation following their
July 22 agreement.
Each party must respect the spirit
[of the agreement] that we have made
together. We do not need to remind
[Hun Sen about the agreement], as
Samdech [Hun Sen] himself has re-
membered it and has the will to re-
spect this spirit.
Sok Eysan, a senior CPP lawmaker,
said he agreed that the changes would
mean the public could have full con-
dence in the next election, but that it
didnt guarantee smooth sailing.
We have a proper law and we have
a proper procedure already, so if there
are any more protests, it is up to the
voters to judge, he said.
Koul Panha, head of election watch-
dog Comfrel, said that there was a
signicant lack of detail in the consti-
tutional changes, such as what pow-
ers the NEC will have, how its inde-
pendence will be ensured and what
competence it will have to ensure a
free election such as handling voter
registration.
These issues would have to be de-
tailed clearly in the upcoming NEC
law, he said.
But the problem is that both work-
ing groups of the parties have closed
the doors and are not giving space for
our input.
The Senate and the King must still
approve the change, but given the
history of past laws, that step is little
more than a formality.
National Assembly votes
to amend constitution
We have a proper law . . . so
if there are any more
protests, it is up to the
voters to judge
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Phak Seangly
TWO people were questioned
yesterday over a huge haul of
endangered rosewood discov-
ered on Tuesday at a home in
Banteay Meanchey province,
ofcials have said.
Ing Pok, Kampong Svay com-
mune police chief, told the Post
that local authorities, in coop-
eration with the provincial for-
estry administration and the
anti-economic crime police,
uncovered the 510 kilograms of
luxury wood on Tuesday eve-
ning following a tip-off.
The rosewood was covered
with cloth at the home. We do
not know where it came from or
where its next destination [was
set to be] yet, he said.
According to Pok, the hom-
eowner, 63-year-old Nhem Lan,
who rents out the property, de-
nied any involvement.
A woman who rented the
property also denied knowl-
edge of the haul, according to
Chea Phally, director of the pro-
vincial forestry administration.
Phally said authorities were
still searching for the owner of
the timber, and had conscat-
ed and impounded the load at
his ofce.
Rosewood
haul found
in house
Statues reunited by exhibit
Laignee Barron

F
IVE 10th-century
sandstone warriors
from a former Ang-
korian empire capital
were reunited at the National
Museum yesterday, the rst
time they have been seen to-
gether since they were plun-
dered from their remote jungle
temple for the likely prot of
the Khmer Rouge.
The antiquities, which were
repatriated from auction hous-
es and museums in America,
are now on display at a three-
month exhibition in the capi-
tal. Arranged at the museum
as they had appeared for nearly
1,000 years, the museums rec-
reation of the tableau from the
Hindu epic Mahabarata was
sadly still shy a handful of key
cast members.
Two of the missing statues
were discovered by archaeolo-
gists at the original Prasat Chen
site and have been undergoing
conservation, but another two
are still thought to be in private
collections in the US.
We have to exhibit all nine
together to complete the telling
of the scene. We appeal to those
who keep the statues to return
them to Cambodia, Deputy
Prime Minister Sok An said at a
museum ceremony yesterday.
The ve displayed statues
represent the results of a slew of
recent repatriation efforts, fol-
lowing from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New Yorks
unprecedented voluntary re-
turn of the kneeling Pandava
brothers last year. Between 1996
and 2014, Cambodia received a
total of 350 repatriated antiqui-
ties that were looted from its
temples by proteers and crim-
inal networks, museum direc-
tor Kong Vireak said.
Though the antiquities black
market is estimated to now be
worth some $8 billion a year
and a source of cash for terrorist
networks, the exhibition reveals
a more recent, reverse trend of
cultural property.
The idea that cultural ar-
tefacts are the property of the
people of the place in which
they are originated is gaining
recognition, said Anne Lemais-
tre, UNESCO country director.
The museum hopes other
statues from the same site will
also make their way back soon.
This is the point where [mu-
seums and auction houses] re-
ally have to decide if they are on
the right or wrong side of his-
tory, archaeologist and lawyer
Tess Davis said.
Visitors examine one of the recently returned kneeling attendant statues at the National Museum in Phnom
Penh yesterday as part of the opening of a three-month exhibition. HENG CHIVOAN
Prison break
Inmate saws
bars, ees
into night
A
PRISONER who had
already served half of
his ve-year sentence
for stealing a motorbike sawed
the bars off his cells window
and escaped in the dead of the
night on Tuesday in Kampong
Chhnang, prison ofcials said
yesterday.
Ear Tal, 30, was not a trouble-
maker, and his escape surprised
all the prisoners and prison
guards, said Pov Vuthy, Kam-
pong Chhnang provincial prison
chief, adding that he remains on
the loose.
The prison had big and rm
bars that no prisoner could
break without extra support, said
Pol Vuthy, Kampong Chhnang
police chief.
At the moment, our authori-
ties are questioning the guards
at the prison from that night in
order to nd the root cause of
what made this prisoner escape
successfully like this.
On September 10, two prison-
ers working on the construction
site of a new prison in Kampot
escaped by pretending to go to
the bathroom. They have yet to
be found, provincial prison chief
Chea Rithy said. KHOUTH SOPHAK
CHAKRYA
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
POLICE
BLOTTER
Coffee shop boss offers
cutting-edge service
A DRUNKEN motodop was
attacked with a cleaver by his
nephew-in-law after pestering
the man and refusing to leave
his coffee shop. The motodop,
53, was mocking his in-law,
44, who already disliked him
for frequently leaving without
paying. The shop owner asked
his rowdy relative to leave and,
upon his refusal, grabbed a
cleaver and hacked the moto-
dop in the head before fleeing
the scene. The victim was
hospitalised and police are on
the lookout for the suspect.
NOKORWAT
Drunken man keeps
neighbour from driving
A BATTAMBANG man infuriat-
ed at his neighbour for refus-
ing to let him borrow cash for
booze drunkenly destroyed her
motorbike in revenge, accord-
ing to police. The man, 32, was
arrested on Tuesday after his
neighbour, 50, filed a com-
plaint to police, demanding
she be compensated for the
damage done to her new bike.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Man who stole oil was
caught black-handed
DONT steal from the hand
that feeds you. Police in
Tbong Khmum province
arrested a truck driver, 35, for
stealing oil from a company
truck on Monday. The compa-
ny spied on him as he
pumped oil from the truck
and sold it to a store, where
they caught him red-handed
and sent him to the cops. The
driver admitted stealing the
oil, saying he was broke and
needed money, but claimed it
was the first time he commit-
ted the crime. NOKORWAT
Sticks and stones do
hurt worse than words
TWO 30-year-old men were
beaten unconscious after
they unsuccessfully tried to
chase down two other men
who police suggested they
had previously been in an
argument with. With their
would-be attackers in hot
pursuit, the two adversaries
called their backup, who beat
the pair with rocks and sticks
and left them slumped on the
street. Police sent them to
hospital and are on the look-
out for the suspects. NOKORWAT
Time may sail by but
arrest warrants dont
TIME and tide waiteth for no
man. A teenager was arrested
on Monday for allegedly steal-
ing two boats a month ago in
Kandals Muk Kampuol dis-
trict. The 19-year-old was
spotted with the boats by their
owners, who reported him to
the cops. The teen confessed
to stealing the craft, telling
police he was stuck with them
because no one dared pur-
chase them. Police sent the
teen to court and returned
the boats to their owners.
NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Financial Specialist
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh is seeking an individual for the
Financial Specialist position in the Financial Management Ofce.
The incumbent reports to the Financial Management Ofcer (FMO)
and serves as an advisor to the FMO and Management Ofcer, and
assumes charge of the Financial Management Ofce in their absences.
Thejobholder directs Financestaff regarding the$18 million in managed
funds across nineserviced agencies and over $8 million in non-service
funds disbursed by the Finance team. S/he provides guidance and
assistance in the preparation of all nancial reports and other documents
required by theDepartment of Stateor associated agencies represented at
Post. S/he formally trains Finance staff in budget formulation, Financial
Plan and Budget Execution, and accounts for the Financial Management
Section. The jobholder directly supervisesthree employees, and indirectly
four others.
Grade/Salary: -FSN-10; FP-5 (Steps 5 through 14)/USD 19,168
29,711 annually (full-performance level)
-FSN-9; FP-5 (Steps 1 through 4)/USD 14,618
22,652 annually (training level)
Required Qualications
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or 1.
Business Administration is required.
Full-performance level 2. : Seven years of progressive
work experience with a minimum of ve years in budget
and nancial management, and one year of supervisory
experiencearerequired.
Training level: Seven years of progressivework experience
with a minimum of ve years in budget and nancial
management is required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Formulating, monitoring and reporting budgets skills are 4.
required.
Excellent administrativeand analytical skills. Good 5.
interpersonal and supervisory skills, good attention to detail,
ability to work under pressure, ability to articulate complex
issues, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to
effectively utilize computer and nancial software.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is October 14, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.gov using
theUniversal Application for Employment as aLocally Employed Staff
or Family Member (DS-174) form. The application form and complete
details on this position can befound at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/
employment_opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have the required
work and/or residency permits to beeligiblefor consideration.
Position: Management Accountant
The primary function of the role is to manage the nances and the
nancial reporting of the company.
The MA is required to provide a high quality of reporting to assist managers
to control their business division and to operate as interdependent
revenue centers.
The MA will assist the divisional managers to develop commercial
strategies and to provide strategic and tactical advice on the delivery of
business imperatives
The MA will play an integral role in the management of the conceded
and non conceded assets of the Company working with the COO you
will assist in leading the company in its development as an Integrated
Logistics Provider in Cambodia
The MA will work with government departments on matters relating to
asset management and property matters, you will also be an integral
conduit in the managing issues affecting the railway or road transport
development of the Company
The MA will provide advice to senior management on the relevant
aspects of the Cambodian law
The MA will work within the guidelines as stipulated by Company policy,
practice and safety management system in an environment of total
transparency
Qualications you must have an Internationally Accredited University
Degree or Diploma in Financial Management with a minimum15 years
of experience in a Senior Managerial position with a Financial Institution
or with a Transport and Logistics company
Position: HUMAN RELATIONS MANAGER
Main Function of the role is to assist the Senior Management to grow and
build a successful workforce
The Human Relations Manager is required to provide a high quality of
reporting to assist managers to control their business division and to
operate as interdependent revenue centers
The Human Relations Manager will assist the divisional managers
to develop commercial strategies and to provide strategic and tactical
advice on the delivery of business imperatives
The Human Relations Manager will play an integral role in the management
of the conceded and non-conceded assets of the Company. Working
with the COO you will assist in leading the company in its development
as an Integrated Logistics Provider in Cambodia
The Human Relations Manager will work with government departments
on matters relating to asset management and property matters, you will
also be an integral conduit in the managing issues affecting the railway
or road transport development of the Company
The Human Relations Manager will provide advice to senior management
on the relevant aspects of the Cambodian law
The Human Relations Manager will work within the guidelines as
stipulated by Company policy, practice and safety management system
in an environment of total transparency
Qualications you must have an Internationally Accredited University
Degree or Diploma in Resource Management and a min 5 years of
experience in a Senior Managerial position
These 2 positions are report to CEO
Please apply in writing to Mr. John Guiry john.guiry@tollgroup.com
The closing date for receiving applications is 17:00pm on the
10
th
October 2014
City bans
pair of
marches
Taing Vida
CITY Hall has banned street
marches for World Teachers
Day and World Housing Rights
Day, ordering participants to
confine their activities to Free-
dom Park instead.
Through this request, there
would be too much celebration.
We cannot allow the marching
because it could lead to traffic
jams and damage the social
order, spokesman Long Diman-
che said.
World Teachers Day and
World Housing Rights Day
occur on October 5 and 6,
respectively. Planners for both
expressed disappointment in
the ruling, but the housing
rights march organisers say
that they will obey it.
Rong Chhun, president of the
Cambodian Independent
Teachers Association, said he
planned to march with 600 peo-
ple to the Ministry of Education
and the offices of Prime Minis-
ter Hun Sens cabinet to call for
higher teacher salaries.
We still maintain the peace-
ful march, he said.
Meanwhile, Thach Setha,
head of the Khmer Krom Asso-
ciation, said that their latest
demonstration, a five-day pro-
test starting on October 4,
would weave through the city.
Organisers and participants
are holding fast to their demands
that Vietnam rectify comments
made by its Phnom Penh embas-
sy spokesman since removed
that the Khmer Kroms tradi-
tional homeland in Southern
Vietnam had long been part of
Vietnam, and not Cambodia.
Scary stairs story rebutted
Sen David

T
HE Authority for the
Protection and Man-
agement of Angkor
and the Region of Siem
Reap (APSARA) the semi-
private enterprise that oversees
and collects ticket fees for the
Angkor temple complex has
issued a four-page rebuttal to a
CNN article that included a 77-
word description of Angkors
south steps in an article listing
The worlds scariest stairs.
The article, published online,
is a light-hearted list of 13 tour-
ist sites around the world with
particularly steep, long or oth-
erwise heart-quickening stair-
ways with thrills, the article says,
that can leave just as much of
an impact on your memory as
the places they lead you.
APSARA, however, took issue
with possible confusion aris-
ing from the article, and insist-
ed that Angkors historic stone
south steps had been closed
indenitely and that a wooden
staircase had been built over
them to ease the climb.
In its description of Angkors
south stairs, the CNN article
tells readers theres no shame
in bowing down on your hands
and knees or pulling yourself
up with the provided ropes to
scale the nearly 70 percent in-
clined stairs of Angkor Wats up-
permost temples.
Guides claim the steps were
made to be so steep to remind
people that heaven was hard to
reach though you might make
the same argument about Earth
as you try not to tumble on the
way down, it adds.
But according to APSARA,
a photo of the stairs used in
an accompanying slideshow
was outdated, as it did not
depict the new 47-step, 1.2-
metre-wide wooden staircase
complete with railings that
was installed ve years ago.
The news of CNN on Angkor
Wats stairs is not true, and it is
not checked for balance. Local
and international visitors who
visit Cambodia could be a wit-
ness to the new stairs safety,
the rebuttal reads.
APSARA spokesperson Chau
Sun Kerya would not say that
the body was calling for the
articles removal, but that the
clarication was just to avoid
visitors being confused.
So far, there are no tourists
injured. The picture that CNN
used is more than ve years
old, she said. Now all tourists
and guides are happy with our
new stairs, with their safety and
ease, and we have our guards
tell and look after the tourists to
be careful.
A request for comment to
CNN had not been returned as
of press time.
Tourists at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province climb and descend temple stairs in June. HONG MENEA
Undercover bust
Military man,
wife in court
over drugs
A
MILITARY ofcer, his
wife and four others
were tried by Phnom
Penh Municipal Court yester-
day over accusations that they
sold nearly half a kilogram
of drugs to an undercover
cop in Russey Keo district in
February.
Presiding judge Taing Sun-
lay said that Captain El Sarim,
40, a military officer with the
Ministry of Defence; his wife,
Mao Leakhena, 43; motodop
Nay Meth, 45; high school stu-
dent Seng Samnang, 17; and
karaoke hostesses Chan Mey
Mey, 22, and Vong Kannha,
20, were allegedly busted with
263 grams of meth and 230
grams of ketamine as well
as six drug scales and other
drug paraphernalia.
At their hearing yesterday,
the accused said the drugs
and scales had been planted
by police. Buon Sam Ath, chief
of the municipal Anti-Drug
Trafficking Unit, denied the
defendants claims.
If found guilty, the six face
prison terms of two to five
years and fines ranging from
about $1,000 to about $2,500.
A verdict is due on October
17. BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Business
Thailand
approves
$10 billion
stimulus
THAILANDS cabinet has
approved economic stimulus
measures worth 324.46 billion
baht ($10 billion), including 40
billion baht in aid for farmers
and the already approved
investment budget.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-
ocha said economic indicators
had been less than ideal over
the past few months amid the
sluggish global economy, and
that the government was trying
its best to solve the countrys
problems systematically.
Were tackling the issues no
government has ever dared
touch. If this backfires on us, so
be it, he said. We have to keep
in mind our problems are
deep-rooted and were trying to
address them sustainably.
Deputy Prime Minister Prid-
iyathorn Devakula said 129 bil-
lion baht from the 2015 invest-
ment budget would be
expedited to create jobs
through investment projects
across all ministries.
Another 23 billion baht from
the remaining Thai Khem
Kaeng project would be spent
on repair projects of the Educa-
tion Ministry, he said.
Another 147 billion baht is to
be spent on projects slated to
be implemented in the last
three months of the year under
the expenditure budget.
The cabinet also approved
40 billion baht to help low-
income farmers to be paid on
October 20. Some 1.8 million
households with not more
than 15 rai (6 acres) will get
one-time aid for production
costs at the rate of 1,000 baht
a rai, while 1.6 million house-
holds with more than 15 rai
will get 15,000 baht per house-
hold. BANGKOK POST
Myanmar grants rst licences to foreign banks in decades
MYANMARS central bank yesterday
announced it had granted preliminary
approval for nine foreign lenders to
operate in the country for the first time
in decades, the latest tentative opening
of the long-isolated economy.
The nine overseas banks all from
the Asia-Pacific region include Aus-
tralia and New Zealand Banking Group
(ANZ), banking giant Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China and Japans
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
A statement from the central bank
said a licensing committee has decid-
ed to grant preliminary approval to
prepare for commencement of bank-
ing operations in Myanmar to nine
Foreign Banks.
It added that it anticipated the
banks continuous involvement in
the financial sector and economic
development in the country.
Myanmars quasi-civilian govern-
ment, which replaced a military
regime in 2011, is trying to modern-
ise the countrys creaking banking
system and boost capital flows to
local businesses after decades of
economically-ruinous junta rule.
Authorities have implemented
sweeping political and economic
changes that have seen most interna-
tional sanctions lifted and created a
surge of interest from foreign busi-
nesses eager to stake a claim in the
new frontier market.
Three of the banks given licences
were Japanese, with Sumitomo Mitsui
Banking Corporation and Mizuho Bank
also granted permission to operate.
Other lenders given approval for
licences yesterday were Thailands
Bangkok Bank, Malayan Banking Ber-
had (Maybank) and Singapores Over-
sea-Chinese Banking Corporation
and United Overseas Bank.
They will be able to operate for an
initial 12-month period before being
given a final licence to do business in
the country, according to the Central
Bank of Myanmar statement.
Central bank vice governor Set Aung
told parliament in June that foreign
banks would be subject to a range of
restrictions to protect the interests of
local lenders.
Foreign banks will be required to
hold at least $75 million, restricted to
opening only one branch each and
will not be allowed into the retail
banking sector, he said.
It was not clear if these same condi-
tions applied to the licences granted
yesterday as officials were not imme-
diately available for comment.
The International Monetary Fund
has praised Myanmars economic
reforms, including giving autonomy
to the central bank and adopting a
floating rate for the kyat.
However, local people remain
deeply suspicious of the banking sys-
tem after decades of junta rule, and
large swathes of the population deal
only in cash.
Banks in what was then Burma were
nationalised by the military regime
that came to power in 1962.
They disintegrated with the econo-
my during the bungled implementa-
tion of socialist-style policies, which
were laced with superstition the
kyat currency was at one point issued
in denominations of nine, an auspi-
cious number.
That demise was deepened by US
financial sanctions, while in 2003 three
banks collapsed in a crisis exacerbated
by central bank policies, such as recall-
ing loans from borrowers. AFP
Govt says no to calls to raise
minimum income tax level
Chan Muyhong

D
ESPITE calls from
factory representa-
tives and unions
to review the mini-
mum threshold for income
tax, the General Department
of Taxation (GDT) said yester-
day it would stick to the $125
tax-free limit.
The Garment Manufactur-
ers Association in Cambodia
(GMAC) and the tax depart-
ment held a workshop in
Phnom Penh yesterday aimed
at educating factory workers
on their tax obligations. The
workshop comes days before
a new minimum wage rise is
expected to be announced.
As wages rise, a growing
number of factory workers
are earning a taxable rate, but
attendees at the workshop
called for the threshold to be
raised to accommodate mod-
ern living costs.
Speaking to about 300 repre-
sentatives from various unions
yesterday, GDT director Kong
Vibol ruled out changes to a
1997 tax law that states in-
comes of $125 or more are
subject to taxation.
We cannot delay any lon-
ger because the government
needs income to invest in
public infrastructure to boost
economic growth, Vibol said.
Tax collection has been in-
creased over the last few years,
but we still need more money
to build infrastructure.
Under the law, income be-
tween $125 and $250 will be
taxed at a rate of 5 per cent.
Income between $250 and
$2,125 is taxed at 10 per cent
and income between $2,125
and $3,125 is taxed at 15 per
cent. Everything above $3,125
is taxed at 20 per cent.
Vibol said yesterday, how-
ever, that only workers base
salaries and overtime wages
would be considered taxable;
additional benets such as
food and accommodation
premiums will be excluded.
The Ministry of Economic
and Finance will promulgate
this tax exemption on addi-
tional bonuses for garment
workers very soon, he said.
An announcement on a
rise to the current minimum
wage, now at $100, is due from
the Ministry of Labours La-
bour Advisory Committee on
October 10. Unions are calling
for a raise to $177, while fac-
tory representatives say $110
is the highest the industry
can sustain.
In anticipation of a wage
rise to $125 or more, Rom
Phary, one of the union rep-
resentatives in attendance at
yesterdays workshop, asked
the government to restrict tax
treatments to the workers
base salaries.
Workers have not got a pay
rise yet, but the cost of house
rental, goods in the market,
food and transportation fees
has already increased and
now we are obligated to pay
tax, she said.
I wonder if the government
has been paying attention to
this issue, she added.
Contacted yesterday, Ath
Thon, head of the Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Workers
Democratic Union, called the
tax law out of date and said
lawmakers should raise the
threshold to $250 to better re-
ect the current cost of living.
The law was adopted when
the minimum wage was still
$30 and now the wage has in-
creased to $100, but workers
can hardly survive with the
amount as the cost of living
keeps getting higher, he said.
Albert Tan, an executive
committee member at GMAC,
called on the government to
review the 1997 tax law, which
he said did not reect the cur-
rent economic situation.
It should be the govern-
ments decision to come up
with a reasonable gure for
taxation, Tan said.
This calculation should be
made by the tax department
and the Ministry of Economy
and Finance.
The government should
see the situation in Cambodia
of rising costs of living and a
higher minimum wage. The
tax obligation should be ad-
justed to meet current situa-
tion, not xed to 15 years ago,
he added.
A garment worker checks the stitching on an item of clothing at a factory in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district in June. VIREAK MAI
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Authorities have implemented
sweeping . . . changes that have
seen most international
sanctions lifted
In for a penny. . .
Japan trades
cancelled
after gaffe
H
UNDREDS of billions
of dollars worth of
stock orders in some of
Japans biggest rms had to be
cancelled yesterday, ofcials
said, possibly the result of a
fat nger error.
Over-the-counter orders
were placed for shares in 42
companies worth dozens of
trillions of yen (hundreds of bil-
lions of dollars) in the morning,
but were later cancelled, said
an ofcial at the Japan Securi-
ties Dealers Association.
According to an association
ofcial, the biggest order was
for 1.96 billion Toyota shares,
or about 57 per cent of the
automakers total outstand-
ing stock worth around
$116 billion.
The trades were cancelled by
an unnamed association mem-
ber before being placed.
Ive never heard of orders
this big being cancelled be-
fore, although we havent put
together specific reports on
previously cancelled orders,
the JSDA official said.
A fat finger error is a term
used when transactions are
placed by a dealer after mis-
typing trades. AFP
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Japan auto
sales fall
on tax rise
JAPANS auto sales fell 0.8 per
cent last month, extending a
drop in demand in Asias sec-
ond-largest car market after an
increase in the nations con-
sumption tax.
Vehicle deliveries declined to
518,774 in September from
522,760 a year earlier, according
to industry figures. Sales have
fallen in five of six months since
the April 1 tax increase.
Continued weakness in
domestic demand has prompt-
ed carmakers led by Toyota
Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co
and Honda Motor Co to resume
scaling back production in
Japan, even as the yen drops to
the weakest level since 2008.
Declining output poses a threat
to Prime Minister Shinzo Abes
economic revitalisation efforts,
as the tax increase precipitated
the economys biggest contrac-
tion in five years.
Vehicle production in Japan
fell 6.7 per cent in August, the
second straight month of
declines and the steepest drop
in a year, the Japan Automobile
Manufacturers Association
said. Domestic output in August
fell 10 per cent at Toyota, 21 per
cent at Nissan and 4.7 per cent
at Honda. BLOOMBERG
China loosens property rules
C
HINESE policy mak-
ers eased property re-
strictions for the rst
time since the global
nancial crisis as a real-estate
slumps threat to economic
growth overtakes worries
about housing affordability.
People applying for a loan
to buy a second home may
get lower down payments and
mortgage rates that were pre-
viously only available to rst-
time home buyers so long as
they have paid off their initial
mortgage, the Peoples Bank of
China said in a statement on
its website yesterday.
The central bank also eased
a ban on mortgages for people
buying a third home.
The action marks a rever-
sal in a four-year tightening
campaign, as slowing property
investment and industrial pro-
duction raise risks that 2014
economic growth will drift too
far below Premier Li Keqiangs
target of about 7.5 per cent.
The governments factory
gauge was unchanged in Sep-
tember from the previous
month, suggesting manufac-
turing remains subdued, a re-
port showed yesterday.
Economic growth remains
weak on sluggish domestic
demand, said Chang Jian,
chief China economist at Bar-
clays Plc in Hong Kong. The
property easing will take a few
months to show positive ef-
fects on manufacturing, where
momentum may start to see
a slight increase at the end of
this year, she said.
Under existing rules, rst-
home buyers need to pay a
30 per cent down payment,
rather than at least 60 per cent
required for a second home.
They can also get as much as a
30 per cent discount on mort-
gage rates from the central
bank benchmark.
Banks should decide pru-
dently on the down payment
and interest rates for loans
to applicants buying a third
home, the central bank said in
the statement.
The policy clearly shows
that theres a bottom line in
tolerating an economic slow-
down, said Shen Jianguang,
chief Asia economist at Mi-
zuho Securities Asia Ltd in
Hong Kong. The move great-
ly reduced risks of a hard
landing.
Over a four-year campaign
to curb property speculation
that had driven up housing
prices, China had raised the
minimum down payment for
second homes to 60 per cent,
and suspended third-home
mortgages. BLOOMBERG
Cranes operate at a residential construction site as a worker sits in the cabin of an excavator in Beijing. China
has eased property restrictions as the housing slump threatens economic growth. BLOOMBERG
Indonesia swings back
to surprise trade deficit
INDONESIAS trade balance
unexpectedly swung back to a
deficit in August, official data
showed yesterday, a setback
for Southeast Asias top
economy as it struggles to
recover after a turbulent period.
However, while the statistics
agency attributed the $318.1
million deficit to a surge in
imports, it added that most
were capital goods, such as
machinery for manufacturing,
as opposed to consumer
goods. The government is
trying to ramp up
manufacturing and wean itself
off imports of consumer
products as it tries to get
people, especially the emerging
middle class, to buy Indonesian
rather than foreign goods. AFP
Spore home prices fall
for 4th straight quarter
SINGAPORES home prices
declined for a fourth
consecutive quarter, the
longest losing streak in five
years, as tighter mortgage
measures cooled demand in
Asias second-most expensive
housing market. Prices fell 0.6
per cent in the three months to
October, following a 1 per cent
decline in the previous three-
month period. The
governments five-year
campaign to rein in property
values has led to declines in
prices and demand. BLOOMBERG
Markets
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Business
Samsung ship
firm planning
SE Asia plant
S
AMSUNG Heavy In-
dustries Co, the third-
largest shipbuilder in
the world, plans to set
up its rst overseas facility as it
revamps manufacturing after
the biggest merger within the
Samsung Group.
The company aims to spend
about 1 trillion won ($950
million) on the plant by 2017,
chief nancial ofcer Chun
Tae-heung said. Indonesia,
Vietnam and Malaysia are be-
ing considered for building
bulk ships, tankers and smaller
container vessels, Chun said.
The company, based in
Seoul, plans to focus on mak-
ing oil-exploration products
and larger ships at its domes-
tic operations, and to cut the
costs of producing lower-mar-
gin vessels by building them
overseas. The revamp comes
after Samsung Heavy said
this month it will merge with
Samsung Engineering Co to
compete more effectively with
European rivals.
We believe there will be
demand for offshore oil and
gas projects in the long term,
Chun, 56, said. We want to
make room at our shipyard in
[South] Korea to focus more
on offshore and building high-
er-value ships.
Samsung Heavy expects to
nalise the plan on the over-
seas yard as early as this year,
Chun said.
Samsung Group is merging
its shipbuilding and engineer-
ing units by December as South
Koreas largest conglomerate
prepares for possible succes-
sion. Lee Kun-hee, the 72-year-
old chairman of phone-maker
Samsung Electronics Co, has
been hospitalised since May.
As part of the revamp, the
family plans to take public two
businesses to comply with new
chaebol limits and eventu-
ally help pay inheritance taxes
that could top $5 billion. Sam-
sung Electronics also makes
phones and home appliances
in Vietnam. BLOOMBERG
A man checks on his truck loaded with oil palm fruit. The worlds two biggest palm oil producers have cut
export taxes on most shipments to zero, seeking to lure buyers amid a global glut in edible oils that sent
prices to a ve-year low. Crude shipments of the most-used cooking oil from Indonesia will not attract any
tariff in October, down from 9 per cent this month, said Bayu Krisnamurthi, the deputy trade minister. Its the
rst time since December 2009 that the rate has been zero in Indonesia, the biggest producer. Malaysia, the
second-largest, earlier this month made exports tax-free for two months through October. BLOOMBERG
Palm oil prices slipping
Amazon, Disney said to
be close to peace deal
AMAZON is close to deal with
Disney to end a dispute in
which the online retail giant
stopped making Disney DVDs
available for preorder, the Wall
Street Journal said on
Tuesday. Last week, Amazon
resumed accepting preorders
for upcoming Disney DVDs
such as Maleficent and
Guardians of the Galaxy, the
newspaper said. Amazon has
used the tactic of restricting
preorders or the availability of
an item during several recent
trade negotiations with
publishers. AFP
Microsoft previews new
Windows 10 software
MICROSOFT Corp has showed
a first glimpse of its newest
Windows operating system,
touting new features such as a
custom application store and
added security, seeking to woo
businesses that shunned the
previous version as confusing
and hard to use. Called
Windows 10, the software
restores the Start menu and
will let corporations tailor the
app store for their own users.
The new system, designed to
run on mobile and desktop
devices, will also separate
corporate and personal data
on individual machines to
boost security. BLOOMBERG
Business
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Tesco faces
grilling for
prot miss
BRITAINS financial regulator
yesterday launched a probe
into Tesco after the troubled
supermarket chain massively
overestimated its half-year
profits forecast.
Tesco said the Financial Con-
duct Authority (FCA) has com-
menced a full investigation fol-
lowing the overstatement of
expected profit for the half
year after the error was
revealed last week.
The worlds third-biggest
supermarket group added that
it will continue to co-operate
fully with the FCA and other
relevant authorities consider-
ing this matter.
The dire news prompted
Tescos new chief executive,
Dave Lewis, to suspend four
senior executives and launch
an independent investigation.
Tesco stunned investors on
September 22 when it revealed
that its profit for the six months
to August 23 was overstated by
an estimated 250 million ($408
million). It did not specify
which profit indicator this
referred to. Britains largest
retailer had previously forecast
its half-year trading profit at
1.1 billion. AFP
France slump to last years
C
RISIS-HIT France ad-
mitted it would suffer
from slow growth and
high budget decits
for the next three years at least,
when it unveiled a gloomy an-
nual budget yesterday.
Finance Minister Michel
Sapin told reporters that
Frances budget decit would
stay above the European
Unions maximum limit until
2017, blaming a sluggish euro-
zone economy and unusually
low ination.
The decit, which EU rules
state must be below 3 per cent
of total economic output, will
reach this target only in 2017,
Sapin said, with a forecast of
2.8 per cent.
France had promised Brus-
sels it would get below the 3
per cent limit next year, but in
a dramatic about-turn earlier
this month, pushed back the
commitment by two years
The European Commission,
which oversees European
countries budgets, is sched-
uled to deliver its judgement
on Frances economic woes
next month. In a twist of irony,
it will almost certainly be for-
mer French Finance Minister
Pierre Moscovici appointed
EU economic affairs commis-
sioner who will have to de-
cide on the consequences for
France for breaking the rules.
France is battling through
a deep economic crisis, with
zero growth in the previous
two quarters and sky-high un-
employment.
Sapin forecast a very gradual
recovery for the French econo-
my, which he said would reach
a level of 2 per cent growth
only in 2018.
The economy is projected to
grow by only 0.4 per cent this
year, recovering progressively
to 1 per cent in 2015, 1.7 per
cent in 2016 and 1.9 per cent
in 2017. The minister said the
economy would then grow by
2 per cent in 2018 and 2019.
The response of President
Francois Hollandes deeply
unpopular government to the
crisis has been a controver-
sial package of tax breaks for
companies nanced by cuts in
public spending.
Hollande hopes to offer
businesses some 40 billion
($50 billion) in tax breaks
over three years in return for
creating 500,000 jobs.
But, given the parlous state
of Frances public nances,
he intends to pay for these tax
breaks with 50 billion euros in
public spending cuts a mea-
sure that has proved highly
unpopular with the left ank
of Hollandes Socialist Party.
Sapin stressed that he would
keep the target of 21 billion
of cuts in public spending
this year and 50 billion over
three years. AFP
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin presents Frances 2015 draft
budget yesterday at the Economy Ministry in Paris. AFP
ARGENTINA deposited a $161 million payment
on its restructured debt on Tuesday, defying a
US judge who ruled it in contempt of court and
ordered it to pay two holdout creditors rst.
The Argentine government, forced into de-
fault for the second time in 13 years as a result
of the bitter legal dispute, said it had deposited
the payment in a Buenos Aires account of the
state-run Banco Nacion, just in time for a Tues-
day deadline.
By making said deposits, the Argentine Re-
public has once again demonstrated its un-
breakable commitment to fulll all its obliga-
tions to bondholders and contribute by any
means available to preserve their right to col-
lect payment, the economy ministry said.
The South American country is trying to meet
its obligations to creditors who agreed to take
steep losses on their bonds after it defaulted on
$100 billion in debt during its 2001 economic cri-
sis. But it has been blocked by US federal judge
Thomas Griesa, who has ordered the country to
rst repay two hedge funds demanding the full
$1.3 billion face value of their bonds.
Griesa ruled on Monday that Argentina was
in contempt of court after it passed a law allow-
ing the government to repay creditors in Bue-
nos Aires or Paris skirting the New York judges
freeze on the bank accounts it previously used
to service its debt.
Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich
brushed off the ruling, saying it had no basis or
impact and violated international law.
The judge has unleashed a true legal rigama-
role. Every decision he makes gets worse, Cap-
itanich told journalists in Buenos Aires.
He said any potential contempt penalties
which could amount to a $50,000-a-day civil
ne would be inapplicable.
Sovereign immunity law prohibits contempt
penalties against foreign states, he said.
It remains to be seen whether bondholders
will be able or willing to collect. Many invest-
ment funds will likely be reluctant to defy a US
court ruling, though one major creditor, Mexi-
can billionaire David Martinez, has already said
he has no problem collecting payment in Bue-
nos Aires. AFP
EBAY Inc is spinning off its PayPal division,
throwing the business into direct competition
with Apple Inc and Google Inc as consumers
step up the use of smartphones and computers
to pay for goods and services.
Activist shareholder Carl Icahn had pushed
for a split earlier this year, only to be rebuffed
by Chief Executive Ofcer John Donahoe, who
said in March a separation was not a good
idea. Since then, EBays board reviewed the
companys strategy and decided EBay and Pay-
Pal will be better off as two independent public
companies, the rm said on Tuesday.
An independent PayPal, which could fetch
about $47 billion based on rivals valuations,
would have more latitude to forge alliances with
retailers and other nancial rms as Google
and Apple seek to turn their products into tools
for digital payments.
If done right, this transaction could spring-
board both entities into more competitive play-
ers in their respective industries, said RJ Hot-
tovy, an analyst at Morningstar Inc, who has a
buy rating on EBay.
EBay, whose online marketplace sells ev-
erything from motorcycles to golf clubs via
auctions and at xed prices, bought PayPal in
2002 to add online-payment services. The unit,
which almost tripled sales in the ve years end-
ed in 2012, has since become a growth engine
for the company.
The competitive landscape has also changed
dramatically since EBay bought PayPal. The
business of online payments is increasingly
moving to mobile devices, where PayPal isnt as
dominant. Apple last month announced Apple
Pay, a way for people to use an iPhone to pay for
goods in stores. Mobile payments in the US are
projected to total $118 billion by 2018 accord-
ing to EMarketer Inc. BLOOMBERG
Argentina dees ruling with
$161 million debt payment
EBay to spin off PayPal service
Source: Government
French Budget
Growth forecasts
(as a % of GDP)
Public deficit
(as a % of GDP)
0
1
2
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
-4.4
0.4
1
1.7
1.9
2
-4.3
-3.8
-2.8 -2.8

2016
2016
2019
Limit set for
eurozone
countries
2019
2014
2014
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
RFP-9114519
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), Cambodia Country Ofce is seeking to hire Institutional
consultancy rm to conduct a study on Commune/Sangkat Planning and Budgeting for Social Services
Understanding Expenditure Trend and Factors that promote and hamper Social Service Delivery.
Objectives of the Study:
To analyze the trends in commune development expenditures with particular focus on expenditures
for women, youth, children, people with disabilities and ethnic minorities across provinces using
available primary and secondary data from 2010 through 2014.
To identify factors that enable and hamper social service planning, budgeting and implementation
(barriersand bottlenecks) through desk review and eld surveys to (a) identify the demand for social
services among the poor and non-poor with particular focus on poor and vulnerable women and
children, youth,children, people with disabilities and ethnic minorities, and their opportunities
and capacity to inuenceplanning and budgeting process; (b) examine the existing commune capacity
and challenges inimplementation of social interventions; (c) identify key stakeholders and partners
best positioned toadvance childrens rights at community level; and (d) to review relevant institutional
arrangement andlegal framework and identify strengths and weakness for learning and corrective
actions respectively.
Specic outputs of the study:
Analysis of commune expenditures trend for the period of 2010 through 2014 and opportunities for
additional revenue streams;
Analysis of demand for social services by the most vulnerable people (children, women, youth,
personswith disability and ethnic minorities), and their level of satisfaction with availability/delivery
of socialservices;
Analysis of platforms, key partners, and scope and opportunities for the poorest and most
vulnerableincluding children, women, youth, persons with disability and ethnic minorities, to
participate in localdecision making and governance;
Analysis of barriers and opportunities for improved planning, budgeting and delivery inclusive
social services and initiatives (barriers may be related to both supply and with demand, legal
framework andpolicy, human resources, supervisory capacity, availability of technical support,
mechanisms for qualityassurance and/or other issues);
4 publishable case studies: 2 focusing on communes that are performing well in socially inclusive
localgovernance and 2 focusing on communes that that are not performing well;
Recommendations for actions to be taken by different stakeholders at national, sub national and
communelevel to improve local governance that is socially inclusive and meeting the needs and
demands of themost vulnerable and poor.
Duration of Contract:
78 working days starting from December 2014 through March 2015.
Submission of Proposals:
Proposals MUST include the title, RFP number and all required documentation as detailed in the
RFP document. Information on required qualications, submission of proposals and complete Terms of
Reference are available at http://www.unicef.org/cambodia/overview_17867.html
The deadline for receipt of proposals is Wednesday 15 October 2014 10:00AM
(GMT + 7 hours).
Markets
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Markets
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FTSE Straits Times Index, Sep 30 FTSEBursaMalaysiaKLCI, Sep 30
Hang Seng Index, Sep 30 CSI 300 Index, Sep 30
Nikkei 225, Sep 30 Taiwan Taiex Index, Sep 30
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Laos Composite Index, Sep 30 Jakarta Composite Index, Sep 30
BSE Sensex 30 Index, Sep 30 Karachi 100 Index, Sep 30
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Sep 30 NZX 50 Index, Sep 30
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Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 91.5 0.34 0.37% 5:03:52
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 94.76 0.09 0.10% 5:03:24
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.14 0.02 0.39% 5:03:29
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 258.7 0.01 0.00% 14:29:39
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 266.27 1.22 0.46% 5:04:18
ICEGasoil USD/MT 804 -4.25 -0.53% 5:03:51
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.77 0.02 0.16% 23:48:51
CME Lumber USD/tbf 333.2 0.3 0.09% 21:04:04
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
Tender No. RFP-PSK-RQ1754&1985
Populaton Services Khmer (PSK) is a non-prot Cambodian organizaton
specializing in social marketng and health service delivery. PSK has received
grants from multple donors for expanding health services into rural areas
and it is intended that part of the proceeds of the grant will be applied to
eligible payments under the contract for Media Placement.
In this regards, Populaton Services Khmer (PSK) seeks a qualied agency to
oer the best value of budget by proving highest possibility of HRUM and
sweetheart (EW) exposed to the campaign materials audiovisual (video &
Radio).
Populaton Services Khmer (PSK) wishes to invite all qualied agencies/com-
panies to contact the Procurement Department at the address below to re-
ceive RFP Document (this document are available for free of charge).
The brieng meetng will be held on Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at
10:00am at Oce of PSK.
The Proposal must be delivered to Populaton Services Khmer (PSK) at the
address below no later than 22 October 2014 at 4:00pm local tme in a
sealed envelope marked Proposal document for Media Placement.
Please note that only quotes, which are materially compliant with the speci-
catons and requirements as outlined in the RFP Documents, may be ac-
cepted.
Populaton Services Khmer (PSK)
House #29, Street 334, Boeung Keng Kang I, Chamcar Mon,
Phnom Pehn, Cambodia
Tel: 855-23 210 814, Fax: 855-23 218 735.
Atn: Mr. Chea Ratana
Procurement Manager
Email: cratana@psk.org.kh
Five ways firms
fight burnout
F
OR the overworked modern
employee, the policies and
perks offered by some of the
most generous companies
sound like manna from the corpo-
rate gods. Onsite climbing walls. Free
housekeeping. Chef-catered meals
for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yet however nice such benets may
be, they can also end up as subtle
ways to get employees to work more.
Well provide you everything here,
so you never really have to leave.
A few companies, however, have
policies, perks and even ofce de-
signs that say the opposite: Get out
of here. As the evidence piles up that
people need time off to be more pro-
ductive, some employers are nding
clever ways to actually suggest em-
ployees stop working. Here are a few
of the boldest workplace moves:
Paying people to take vacations:
Its one thing to get vacation days
as part of your salary. Its quite an-
other to be paid extra to take them.
Thats exactly what a few companies
especially those trying to lure hard-
working (and hard-to-recruit) tech
employees have been doing.
The startup FullContact began
offering what it calls paid, paid va-
cation. It gives employees $7,500 a
year if they take time off from work.
No surprise, use of vacation time re-
portedly went up after it introduced
that policy. As CEO Brad Lorang
wrote in a blog post, theres often a
hero syndrome in startups where
employees think theyre the last line
of defence. Thats not heroic. Thats
a single point of failure. Its not good
for the employee or the company, he
writes. If people know they will be
disconnecting and going off the grid
for an extended period of time, they
might actually keep that in mind as
they help build the company.
Making the desks disappear:
Someone who wants to work late
at the Amsterdam ofces of Dutch
design rm Heldergroen will have to
do so without a desk. At 6pm every
day, the companys desks are lifted
via steel cables to the ceiling and the
oor is cleared of other furniture. In
the evening, the space is rented for
free to the community to be used
as a dance oor, reception space or
yoga studio. The transition is made
using a cable system for theatrical
productions thats operated by the
turn of a key.
The idea has gone viral, and its
easy to see why. Heldergroen cre-
ative director Sander Veenendaal
said its helping the rm build its
brand, establish its culture and im-
prove workers lives. We think that
doing activities like this makes it eas-
ier for people to work here, he told
the publication. You know when it
is time to relax or do something else
that inspires you.
Enforcing rest time: During past
recessions, some companies shut
their doors over the holidays or for
part of the summer to help save on
cash, forcing employees to use va-
cation days or take unpaid time off.
But enforced breaks can also be de-
signed another way: as a perk, rather
than a stopgap.
For instance, TED, the conference
and media company, shuts down
for a two-week break in the sum-
mer and a one-week break during
the holidays, then gives employees a
fourth paid week of vacation to use
as they wish. The coordinated vaca-
tion time makes the company more
efcient, and also better rested.
Most of us would feel too guilty to
even take two weeks off, if it werent
pre-planned for us, TED Media ex-
ecutive producer June Cohen said.
This creates an enforced rest pe-
riod, which is so important for both
productivity and happiness.
Reducing off-hours email: For
years, companies have tried to make
it easier for workers to send and
receive emails at all hours. Now, a
growing number are discouraging
the practice. About 25 per cent of
companies, one study reports, have
created some kind of formal or in-
formal rule to discourage off-hours
emails. Some companies set time
limits (such as not sending emails
between 7pm and 7am), some of-
fer pledges from management that
nighttime email isnt expected, and
some actually silence email servers
once the workday ends.
Keeping tech in the ofce: Richard
Sheridan, the CEO of a small soft-
ware design rm called Menlo Inno-
vations, tries to keep his employees
work week at the increasingly rare 40
hours in part by limiting work-relat-
ed technology outside the ofce.
You cant take work home with
you, Sheridan said. The rm does
not offer tech tools for remote work,
such as employer-provided laptops,
virtual private networks or remote
access software. It also forbids em-
ployees from checking email on va-
cation and had to have a sit-down
with one worker who kept working
60-hour weeks. THE WASHINGTON POST
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
World
Ebola case
rst outside
Africa to be
diagnosed
THE United States has diag-
nosed its first case of Ebola in
a man who was infected in
Liberia and travelled to Texas,
US health officials said on
Tuesday, pledging to contain
the virus that has killed more
than 3,000.
The man is also the first to be
diagnosed outside Africa, the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said, caution-
ing that since he was not sick
on the plane he was unlikely to
have infected other travellers.
CDC chief Tom Frieden
vowed that US health authori-
ties would be able to contain
the virus and the White House
said President Barack Obama
had been briefed by the CDC
about the Texas case.
We are stopping this in its
tracks, said Frieden, describ-
ing the man as critically ill.
The worlds largest outbreak
of Ebola has infected more
than 6,500 people across five
West African countries and
killed 3,091 since the start of
the year, according to the World
Health Organization.
The CDC warned last week
that a worst-case scenario
could see Ebola cases explode
to 1.4 million worldwide by
January, but that such dire pre-
dictions could be avoided if
resources are scaled up.
The US has already treated
several patients who acquired
Ebola during the West African
outbreak, including Christian
missionary doctors Kent Brant-
ly and Rick Sacra, who have
been declared virus-free.
Another patient with sus-
pected exposure to Ebola was
hospitalised outside the US
capital over the weekend, but
it remains unclear whether that
person has Ebola or not.
There is no vaccine or drug to
treat Ebola, which first emerged
in Africa in 1976.
Frieden said the Texas
patient, whose identity and
nationality were not revealed,
left Liberia on September 19
and arrived in the United
States a day later to visit fam-
ily in Texas.
He did not begin experienc-
ing symptoms until the 24th.
He sought treatment on the
26th and was placed in hospital
isolation on the 28th.
Ebola is not contagious until
patients show symptoms,
which can include fatigue,
fever, muscle aches, vomiting,
diarrhoea and bleeding.
At this point there is zero risk
of transmission on the flight.
The illness of Ebola would not
have gone on for 10 days before
diagnosis, Frieden said.
Frieden said a handful of
people, mainly family mem-
bers, are believed to have come
in contact with the man while
he was sick. They are being
monitored closely for symp-
toms. AFP
Protesters defiant on China Day
Kurds battle to defend key Syrian town
Aaron Tam
H
UGE crowds of
pr o- democr acy
protesters from all
walks of life gath-
ered in Hong Kong yesterday
in deant mood on Chinas
National Day as support for
the movement spread around
the world.
Hong Kong leader Leung
Chun-ying has faced mount-
ing calls to resign and accusa-
tions of failing to engage with
protesters after their Umbrel-
la Revolution campaign for
unfettered universal suffrage
sparked the biggest civil unrest
in the city for decades.
Demonstrators packed a
500-metre stretch of road be-
tween downtown neighbour-
hoods Wanchai and Admiralty
yesterday afternoon after Hong
Kong and Beijing politicians
gathered to mark Communist
Chinas 65th anniversary.
With ofces closed through-
out the semi-autonomous
Chinese city for a two-day
public holiday, there were
much larger daytime crowds
than on the previous three
days of protest, when num-
bers increased after dark.
International support has
also been growing a Facebook
group calling itself United for
Democracy: Global Solidarity
with Hong Kong said it was
planning events from Australia
to the United States.
Around 300 people gathered
in New Zealands capital Auck-
land, one of the rst protests,
while organisers in Taiwan
said they were expecting thou-
sands to attend a rally yeser-
day evening.
After an early-morning ag-
raising ceremony to mark
National Day, Leung chinked
glasses of champagne with
Chinese ofcials including
Zhang Xiaoming, Beijings top
man in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong and the main-
land are closely linked in their
development. We must work
hand in hand to make the
Chinese dream come true,
he told dignitaries at the citys
convention centre, urging the
community to work together.
Protesters outside booed as
two helicopters ew overhead,
one bearing a large Chinese
ag and the other a smaller
Hong Kong banner, while
those on the streets later criti-
cised Leung.
Close to tears, Occupy co-
founder Chan Kin-man apolo-
gised to residents for the dis-
ruption the sit-ins have caused
and asked for tolerance. With
this short-term inconvenience,
we hope to bring about a sys-
tem that is more fair, he said.
The protests have paraly-
sed much of the citys cen-
tral nancial district and two
other areas, disrupting surface
transport and shutting down
businesses.
Beijing has been left grap-
pling with one of the biggest
challenges to its rule over the
city at a time when the Com-
munist Party is cracking down
on dissent on the mainland.
Beijing has stayed deant,
saying it supports Hong Kongs
handling of the protests. Ana-
lysts say the chance of the
Chinese government backing
down is virtually non-existent.
In comments to mark the Na-
tional Day anniversary, Chinas
President Xi Jinping said all
tumours grown on the healthy
organism of the Communist
Party must be removed.
We must never waver in our
faith and must never separate
ourselves from the people, Xi
added at the commemoration
on Tuesday, according to Xin-
hua news agency.
While students have been
at the forefront of the demon-
strations in Hong Kong, others
have joined them, particularly
since police tear-gassed pro-
testers on Sunday night and
triggered an outpouring of
support for the crowds.
We want to ght for our
freedom and for everyone to
have one vote, said one 65-
year-old man surnamed Le-
ung, who had joined the dem-
onstrations with his wife for
the rst time.
I wanted to show support
for the students, its for their
future, 58-year-old retiree S
Lam said.
One mainland demon-
strator said he had travelled
by train to support Hong
Kongers. AFP
KURDISH ghters backed by US-led
coalition airstrikes were locked in a
erce battle yesterday to prevent a key
Syrian border town from falling into
the hands of jihadists.
The airstrikes and heavy clashes in
Ain al-Arab on the border with Turkey
a crucial recent battleground in the
ght against the Islamic State group
left at least 18 people dead, including
nine jihadists and nine Kurdish ght-
ers, monitors said.
Ambulances ferried wounded ght-
ers for treatment in Turkey as mortar
exchanges continued yesterday, with
some rounds hitting very close to the
border, a correspondent on the Turkish
side reported.
As the battle raged, Syrias three-and-
a-half-year civil war claimed more
lives with twin car bombings in the
government-controlled city of Homs
killing at least 18 people and Kurdish
ghters in Iraq pursued their own ad-
vance against IS jihadists.
At Ain al-Arab, Kurdish forces have
been on the retreat for more than two
weeks in the face of a jihadist assault
that sent tens of thousands of refu-
gees streaming across the border.
With IS ghters less than 3 kilome-
tres from the town, the US-led coali-
tion carried out at least ve airstrikes
yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said.
The Britain-based monitoring group
said the strikes hit IS fronts south and
southeast of the town, known as Ko-
bane by the Kurds, adding that at least
eight jihadist ghters were killed in one
of them. One other jihadist and nine
Kurdish ghters were killed in the over-
night clashes, it said.
A recent refugee from the ghting
said that the light weapons available
to the towns defenders meant that
they could only engage the jihadists
at close quarters.
The Kurdish militia do not have
tanks but possess Kalashnikov ries
and a few mortar bombs, Henanu
Muhammed said.
Ain al-Arab would be a key prize for
IS, giving it unbroken control of a long
stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
In Homs, children were among the
18 people killed in the twin car bombs
near a school, the Observatory said.
The blasts struck in a neighbourhood
of the city mainly inhabited by the Ala-
wite community of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad which has been fre-
quently targeted by the mainly Sunni
Muslim rebels.
The US-led coalition of Western and
Arab allies is providing air support to
local forces in their ground war against
IS, an extremist Sunni group that has
seized control of large parts of Syria
and Iraq. The US launched strikes in
Iraq in August and has been joined by
Western allies. Last week, Washington
and Arab states also began hitting IS
targets in Syria.
In Iraq, Kurdish ghters were advanc-
ing against IS militants on three fronts,
with support from British and US air-
strikes. Backed by 11 coalition strikes,
Kurdish forces went on the offensive
on Tuesday in the town of Rabia on the
Syrian border, north of jihadist-con-
trolled second city Mosul, and south of
oil hub Kirkuk, commanders said.
Further south, Sunni Arab tribes-
men opposed to IS repelled a re-
newed jihadist attack on their neigh-
bourhood in the town of Dhuluiyah in
ghting that killed 14 people, police
and medics said.
The Pentagon appealed for patience,
warning that there would be no quick
and easy end to the ghting.
A long-term effort will be needed to
train and arm Syrian rebel forces and
strengthen Iraqs army, he said.
NATO member Turkey, after months
of caution in the ght against IS, has
decided to harden its policy, and the
government asked parliament on
Tuesday to authorise military action
against IS in Iraq and Syria. Lawmakers
are due to debate a motion today that
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc
said would meet all the demands and
eliminate the risks and threats.
Australia announced that its mili-
tary jets were joining the US-led air
campaign in neighbouring Iraq in a
support capacity, a day after Britain
carried out its rst strikes on IS tar-
gets there.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Ab-
bott, who has described IS as an apoc-
alyptic death cult said the aircraft
would provide reconnaissance and re-
fuelling support only for now. AFP
People walk past Chinese ags during an event to celebrate the 65th anniversary
of the founding of Communist China at Victoria park in Hong Kong yesterday; left,
demonstrators chat next to a pro-democracy banner. AFP
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13
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
UKRAINES largest rebel-
controlled city of Donetsk was
shaken by violence yesterday
as 10 people were killed, some
of them teachers and parents
showing up for the rst day of
school.
Terried children were
forced to shelter in the base-
ment as the shelling yielded
the highest daily civilian toll
since a tenuous ceasere
was struck between Kiev and
pro-Russian separatists last
month.
Since then there have been
clashes at several ashpoints
around the region, with both
sides blaming the other for
violating the agreement that
commits both to withdrawing
weapons and establishing a
buffer zone.
The US has decried the
violence while the European
Union decided on Tuesday
to keep Russian sanctions
in place, maintaining pres-
sure on Moscow in what has
become the worst East-West
standoff since the Cold War.
European Commission
chief Jose Manuel Barroso
also warned Russian President
Vladimir Putin against intro-
ducing any new trade barriers
against Kiev in a letter to the
Russian leader.
The pro-Kiev regional gov-
ernment of Donetsk, which
is now based in the govern-
ment-controlled city of Mari-
upol, accused pro-Russian
separatists of the Donetsk
Peoples Republic of shelling
the school.
The Donetsk Peoples Re-
public used rocket launchers
to shoot at a school... the shell
exploded ve metres away
from the building, the region-
al administration said. Four
adults were killed, it said.
Russian media and sepa-
ratist websites showed rebels
launching attacks from posi-
tions in apartment buildings
near Donetsk airport, which is
still controlled by government
troops. It lies about four kilo-
metres from the school.
A source in Donetsk city
hall said the strike happened
right after the schools 70 pu-
pils lined up for an assembly
to mark the rst day of class
held nationally on September
1 but pushed back because of
the conict.
The children were taken
to the basement, they are still
there, the source said.
Six more people died when
another shell struck a public
minibus in Donetsk, the re-
gional authorities said. AFP
Ten killed in Donetsk
on back-to-school day
I was a true friend to Muslims
A
DEFIANT Radovan
Karadzic yesterday
told the Yugoslav war
crimes court that he
was a true friend to Bosnias
Muslims, against who he is ac-
cused of committing some of
Europes worst atrocities since
World War II.
Speaking during closing ar-
guments in his genocide and
war crimes trial, Karadzic, 69,
told the Hague-based UN tri-
bunal I was really a true friend
to the Muslims.
But this was all swept under
the carpet, by the prosecu-
tion, said Karadzic, who is be-
ing tried on 11 counts includ-
ing genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
Although he has taken
moral responsibility for the
atrocities committed by Bos-
nian Serbs during the Balkans
bloody 1992-95 war, Karadzic
denies the criminal charges,
including for his part in the
1995 Srebrenica massacre in
which 8,000 people died.
Dressed in a crumpled char-
coal suit, Karadzic assumed
the pose of a schoolmaster as
he lectured prosecutors.
I know the truth, the pros-
ecution knows the truth, they
are trying to delude the court,
said Karadzic, his glasses
perched on his nose and
sporting his trademark bouf-
fant hairstyle.
Earlier he told the four-judge
bench it is the Serb people
that stand accused.
Karadzic is accused of being
one of the masterminds of eth-
nic cleansing during Bosnias
brutal 1990s war that claimed
more than 100,000 lives and
uprooted 2.2 million others.
A nal verdict in the mara-
thon ve-year trial is not ex-
pected before late 2015.
The president of the for-
mer self-proclaimed Bosnian
Serb republic faces a genocide
charge for his alleged role in
the Srebrenica massacre.
Almost 8,000 Muslim men
and boys were slaughtered
and their bodies dumped in
mass graves after Bosnian Serb
forces overran the UN-pro-
tected enclave in eastern Bos-
nia in July 1995. Karadzic said
he would address the court on
Srebrenica today.
In his nal trial brief led this
week, he asked judges to look
at mitigating factors should he
be sentenced, including per-
sonal circumstances and his
lack of prior convictions.
Despite still claiming his in-
nocence, Karadzic also apolo-
gised to victims of the crimes,
accepting responsibility as
the serving president at the
time.
Prosecutors wrapped up
their arguments on Tuesday
saying life behind bars would
be the only appropriate sen-
tence. They said Karadzic,
along with late Serbian presi-
dent Slobodan Milosevic and
Bosnian Serb general Ratko
Mladic, acted together to
cleanse Bosnias Muslims
and Croats from Serb-claimed
territories after the collapse of
Yugoslavia in 1991.
Karadzic is also facing charg-
es over the 44-month-long
siege of the Bosnian capital
Sarajevo, which ended in No-
vember 1995 with some 10,000
people killed.
Milosevic died midway
through his own trial in March
2006 and Mladic went on trial
in May 2012.
Karadzic was arrested on a
Belgrade bus in July 2008 dis-
guised as a faith healer. His
trial opened in October the
following year.
He was absent at the start,
telling judges he had not had
adequate time to prepare.
When he nally made his
opening statement in March
2010, he told judges the war-
time atrocities blamed on Bos-
nian Serbs were staged by
their Muslim enemies and that
the Srebrenica massacre was a
myth. AFP
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic appears in court at
The Hague in The Netherlands on July 11, 2013. AFP
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Malaysian court set to
scrutinise Sedition Act
A MALAYSIAN court yesterday
authorised an attempt to
challenge the constitutionality
of the Sedition Act, a lawyer
revealed, following a string of
charges under the law against
opposition politicians and other
opponents of the government.
In recent months numerous
government critics, including
opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim, have been
investigated, charged or
convicted under the colonial-
era act, despite a 2011 promise
by Prime Minister Najib Razak
to abolish it. A district court
approved an application by
lawyers acting for an academic
charged last month to have a
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Japan volcano toll hits
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THE death toll from a sudden
volcanic eruption in Japan hit
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Ontake the worst volcanic
disaster in Japan for almost 90
years. The grim news of more
deaths came after media
reports earlier suggested as
many as 20 people remained
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Yudhoyono intervenes
US keeps Myanmar
on child soldier list
O
UTGOING Indo-
nesian President
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono an-
nounced on Tuesday that
he would issue a decree to
reverse a controversial law
which scraps the direct elec-
tion of local leaders.
The law that strips the
people of the power to elect
district leaders, mayors and
governors was passed by par-
liament in the early hours of
Friday morning and is seen
as a major blow to Indonesias
young democracy.
It states that such leaders
will be chosen by local par-
liaments, prompting a major
backlash from everyday In-
donesians who accused the
president of supporting the
law after his party refused to
vote and handed victory to its
supporters.
This is politics I will take
the risk and have decided to
issue a presidential decree.
We will see whether or not
the House fully accepts it,
he told reporters in Jakarta
after returning from the UN
climate summit in New York,
where he was during the par-
liamentary vote.
Yudhoyono has borne the
brunt of criticism since the
bill passed, with netizens
tweeting feverishly with the
hash tag #ShameOnYouSBY.
Yudhoyono was Indonesias
rst directly-elected presi-
dent. He steps down on Octo-
ber 20 after serving the maxi-
mum two ve-year terms.
The vast majority of the
members of parliament from
his Democratic Party had
opposed handing the power
to elect leaders over to local
parliaments.
But they abstained from
voting after their 11th-hour
proposal to keep direct elec-
tions on 10 conditions or
improvements was rej-
ected by the House speaker.
The parties that supported
the bill were those which
back former general Prabowo
Subianto, the only opponent
of President-elect Joko Wido-
do in the July election.
The laws passage is seen by
analysts as revenge and a way
to stop gures like Widodo
rising through the ranks.
Parliament ended its ve-
year term on Tuesday, and any
opposition to Yudhoyonos
decree will be voiced by newly
elected members, the major-
ity of whom are in Prabowos
coalition. AFP
PRESIDENT Barack Obama
has decided to keep Myanmar
on the list of nations that are
subject to US sanctions over
its use of child soldiers.
The decision, announced
on Tuesday came despite
signs of progress in the dis-
charge of underage recruits
from the formerly military-
ruled nations armed forces,
known as the Tatmadaw.
A US ofcial said that
Obama had not granted
Myanmar a waiver from the
sanctions applied under the
Child Soldier Prevention Act
(CPSA).
The law prevents US mili-
tary assistance to or the sale of
licences for commercial mili-
tary sales to cited nations.
In his annual determina-
tion, Obama also declined
to grant waivers to Syria and
Sudan, which like Myan-
mar were among nine states
named on a CPSA list re-
leased by the State Depart-
ment in June.
Obama did however grant
waivers under the law to
Rwanda, Somalia and Yemen.
He granted partial waivers
to the Central African Repub-
lic, the Democratic Republic
of Congo and South Sudan.
The United Nations praised
Myanmar last week for mak-
ing progress in thinning the
numbers of child soldiers in
the ranks of its armed forces.
The military released 109
children and young people
from service, in the largest
single release of child recruits
since the formerly junta-ruled
nation committed to ending
the recruitment and use of
children in June 2012.
A total of 472 children and
young people have been re-
leased since then as the mili-
tary has slowed but not yet
completely halted its use of
children.
There are no veriable
gures on how many chil-
dren are currently serving
in Myanmars huge military,
which has faced a slew of ac-
cusations over rights abuses,
including the forced recruit-
ment of children to work as
porters or even human mine
detectors.
A quasi-civilian regime led
by former general Thein Sein
has steered Myanmar out of
decades of isolation and has
won the support of the United
States, which has lifted many
economic sanctions imposed
on the former junta. AFP
Outgoing Indonesian President Yudhoyono announced on Tuesday that
he would issue a decree to reverse a controversial election law. AFP
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World
Cossack commander is his own boss
Israeli airline urged to stop bullying of women
US Secret Service: a history of slip-ups since FDR
Michel Moutot

C
OLONEL Pavel Dre-
mov salutes the ag of
the Great Army of the
Don Cossacks. And he
answers to no one.
Cutting a striking gure in his as-
trakan cap, the stocky 38-year-old
shows me into his ofce, a police
station commandeered by his men,
a stones throw from a bronze statue
of Alexei Stakhanov a socialist hero
of Ukraines eastern rustbelt.
Sandbags protect the windows
and slabs of reinforced concrete
shore up the main wall, while inside
women in camouage trousers stir
pots of borscht.
The town of Stakhanov is on
Dremovs section of the frontline
between pro-Russian separatists
and Ukrainian soldiers his private
efdom that amounts to a rebellion
within a rebellion.
If I had to obey someone it would
be my ataman [chief ], Nikolai
Ivanovich Kozitsyn, Dremov said,
referring to the head of the Cossacks
of the Don River, an eclectic mainly
eastern Slavic group with military
and cultural traditions dating back
to 16th-century Russian Tsar Ivan
the Terrible.
He is my direct superior. We Cos-
sacks are ghting for a cause, a faith,
an ideal: the New Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
set off alarm bells when he used the
phrase New Russia when referring
to eastern Ukraine. In Russian, No-
vorossiya is an archaic term for an
area that was controlled by Russia
under the tsars.
Though Dremov is adamantly his
own boss, it is clear where his sym-
pathies lie. Of course I am collabo-
rating with the forces of the Donetsk
and Lugansk peoples republics
proclaimed in April by the pro-Rus-
sian separatists.
I am waiting for the Lugansk de-
fence minister. Hes a close friend,
adds Dremov, whose green uniform
without insignia is similar to that
worn by Russian soldiers who en-
tered Crimea in March before Mos-
cow annexed the peninsula.
He even says he organised and
took part in an assault on the Ukrai-
nian secret service building in Lu-
gansk, some 50 kilometres (30 miles)
east of Stakhanov.
Then, lowering his voice, Dremov
says: I am going to tell you a se-
cret: I have 1,200 ghters under my
command, but only one broken-
down tank and a troop transport.
That is all.
There is no way of verifying the
claims of the colonel, who gets
around in a Japanese SUV painted
in camouage colours, shuttling
between Stakhanov and the nearby
town of Pervobmaisk.
On September 12, when observ-
ers of the European security body
OSCE met Dremov, he told them
that he had 700 Cossacks and three
122mm Howitzers.
Rebel authorities in Lugansk con-
rmed to the observers that Dremov
did not receive orders from them.
Dremov says the shaky ceasere
accord reached in Minsk between
Kiev and Lugansk and Donetsk on
September 5 is a sham.
This agreement in Minsk only calls
for the withdrawal of weapons of
more than 100 mm calibre, he says.
Do you think that an 82mm mor-
tar doesnt kill? The accord says
nothing about tanks. Last night, the
Ukrainians hid nine of them three
kilometres from here. And they red
an 82mm mortar on civilian build-
ings. Thats not a violation?
What I think is that the Ukraini-
ans have understood that we were
using much better artillery than
theirs, and they found this way to
[reduce our capability]. This accord
is a trap. I dont recognise it.
In the Ukrainian press and on
internet sites, the colonel is ac-
cused of being Russian, a secret
agent, an ofcer sent by Moscow
like the mercenaries or soldiers
sent en masse into Ukraine which
Moscow denies.
In fact, I was born here in Stakha-
nov, Dremov says. My passports in
the car; my assistant can go get it for
you if you want.
Dremov, a mason by trade, says he
served in the Ukrainian army from
1994 to 1996 near Odessa, showing
a tattoo on his chest giving his blood
type in Ukrainian as proof.
But he also admits ghting along-
side pro-Russian rebels during the
1992 conict in Transdniestr, a strip
of land in eastern Moldova with a
population of half a million that
won independence with Russian
help but never gained international
recognition.
They say I have Russian volun-
teers. Yes, its true. Of my 1,200 men
there are 13 of them, including two
doctors, he smiles. I never asked
to become a commander. When all
this started I was a mason working
in Moscow. What I want is for peo-
ple to be able to express themselves
freely. Me, what I want is the inde-
pendence of New Russia. But the
people will decide, he said.
The separatists have called elec-
tions for November 2.
And when that is over, Dremov
said, I have promised to go back
to being a mason, to live peaceably
on my land. To rebuild everything
theyve destroyed. AFP
ISRAELS national airline, El Al,
has been criticised for allow-
ing ultra-orthodox Jewish men
to disrupt ights by refusing to
be seated next to women.
A change.org petition is de-
manding that the carrier stop
the bullying, intimidation and
discrimination against wom-
en on your ights.
One ight last week, from
New Yorks JFK Airport to Tel
Avivs Ben Gurion Airport, de-
scended into chaos, accord-
ing to passengers, after a large
group of haredim, or ultra-
orthodox Jews, refused to take
their seats next to women, in
accordance with strict reli-
gious customs.
The episode has prompted
other women to come forward
with similar stories on inter-
national ights to and from
Tel Aviv.
Amit Ben-Natan, a passen-
ger on last weeks El Al ight
from New York, said takeoff
was delayed after numerous
and repeated requests by ul-
tra-orthodox men for female
passengers to be moved.
People stood in the aisles
and refused to go forward,
she told the Ynet website. Al-
though everyone had tickets
with seat numbers that they
purchased in advance, they
asked us to trade seats with
them, and even offered to pay
money, since they cannot sit
next to a woman. It was obvi-
ous that the plane wont take
off as long as they keep stand-
ing in the aisles.
Another passenger on the
ight, named only as Galit,
said ultra-orthodox passen-
gers had suggested she and
her husband sit separately to
accommodate their religious
requirements.
She refused, but added:
I ended up sitting next to a
haredi man who jumped out
of his seat the moment we had
nished taking off and pro-
ceeded to stand in the aisle.
Sharon Shapiro, from Chi-
cago, the organiser of the pe-
tition which had more than
2,100 backers by last night
said it was not right that
female passengers are being
intimidated or harassed.
Its one thing to ask nicely,
but if someone says no, they
should not be put under
pressure. There was a genu-
ine dilemma for some ultra-
orthodox Jews. What most
people dont understand is
that its not personal, but
considered by some to be
a religious obligation.
Airlines should seek a way
of accommodating the reli-
gious requirements of pas-
sengers without breaching
others civil rights, she said.
Im not quite sure why El
Al asks passengers to sort
these things out among them-
selves. It would be better if
people can get on a plane
knowing theyre sitting some-
where they feel comfortable.
Otherwise, it adds to ten-
sions and misunderstandings
between [passengers].
The petition says: If a pas-
senger was being verbally or
physically abusive to airline
staff, they would immediately
be removed from the plane . . .
If a passenger was openly en-
gaging in racial or religious
discrimination against
another passenger or
ight attendant, they
would im-
mediately be removed from
the plane. Why then, does El
Al Airlines allow gender dis-
crimination against women?
The outcry over ights
comes against a backdrop
of moves by hardline ultra-
orthodox communities in Is-
rael to impose dress codes on
women, restrictions on where
they can sit on public buses,
segregated checkout queues
in supermarkets and the re-
moval of womens images
from advertising hoardings.
THE GUARDIAN
THE head of the US Secret Service
pledged to revamp her elite agency
on Tuesday as she was subjected to
withering criticism from angry law-
makers outraged over White House
security breaches.
Julia Piersons grilling before a
House of Representatives panel
came as a federal grand jury indicted
a US Army veteran over a Septem-
ber 19 incident at the White House
in which he allegedly scaled a fence
and made it deep into the presiden-
tial mansion armed with a knife.
Omar Gonzalez, 42, was indicted
on three counts, including unlaw-
fully entering a restricted building
or grounds with a deadly or danger-
ous weapon. He was scheduled to
appear in court yesterday for a de-
tention hearing.
The Washington Post, meanwhile,
reported a fresh breach in which a
security contractor with a gun and
a criminal record for assault and
battery was allowed into an eleva-
tor with Barack Obama when the
president visited Atlanta, Georgia in
mid-September. The lapse contra-
vened a protocol that only members
of the Secret Service are allowed to
carry weapons in the presence of
the president, the BBC reported.
The Secret Services history of blun-
ders extends much further back than
this week. Over the past ve years,
there have been 16 cases of intruders
scaling the White House fence, and
a 2011 incident involving a White
House shooting while President
Obamas daughter was home.
Here are a list of the agencys top
slip-ups and scandals from FDR to
the present:
Colombian prostitution scandal
In 2012, a prostitution scandal in-
volving the presidents security de-
tail tarnished the agencys reputa-
tion and embarrassed the president,
who was in Colombia for the annual
Summit of the Americas.
A dozen Secret Service agents were
implicated in the scandal, which was
made public after reports emerged
of a dispute over payment between
a woman and a Secret Service agent
in the resort of Cartagena.
In the aftermath of the scandal,
the agency tightened its standards
of conduct, which included ban-
ning agents from non-reputable es-
tablishments including strip clubs,
and bringing foreign nationals to
their hotel rooms, CBS reported.
Emergency landing
One of the most outrageous at-
tempts to breach White House se-
curity occurred in February 1974,
when US soldier Robert Pres-
ton stole a helicopter from Fort
Meade in Maryland and ew it to
the White House.
Preston hovered over the White
House for several minutes before
landing on the south lawn. The
Secret Service did not initially at-
tempt to shoot down the aircraft,
according to a White House secu-
rity review.
Preston took off again and ew
back towards Maryland. He was
then chased by Maryland state po-
lice helicopters, one of which he
out-manoeuvered.
Preston then ew back to the
mansion, and as he lowered the
helicopter, Secret Service agents
sprayed the aircraft with shotguns
and submachine gunre. Slightly
injured, Preston quickly landed
the stolen helicopter and was ap-
prehended.
President Nixon and his wife were
not home at the time.
Pass the popcorn
One evening in the 1940s, Franklin
D Roosevelts eldest son, Jimmy, was
at the White House, on leave from
Second World War duty. The story
goes that after dinner he and his par-
ents decided to watch a movie. When
the credits rolled and the lights
icked on, a neatly dressed stranger
was standing next to the president.
Harry Trumans daughter Marga-
ret, who wrote about the incident
in her book The Presidents House,
a history of the White House, said:
Instead of brandishing a weapon,
however, the interloper asked for
the presidents autograph.
FDR gave the young man his au-
tograph and the embarrassed Secret
Service agents whom the young
man had to pass to enter the private
area of the mansion escorted him
out of the building. AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Pavel Dremov, self-proclaimed Cossack commander of the Stakhanov and Pervomaisk
areas, sits in an ofce at a command centre in Stakhanov on Sunday. AFP
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HINAS National Day could
not have come at a worse
time for Beijing. Following a
lull in protests on Con-
naught Road and Causeway Bay on
Tuesday afternoon, tens of thousands
of people in Hong Kong joined rallies
yesterday as the Communist Party
celebrated 65 years of rule on the
mainland.
But can Occupy Central maintain
its recent momentum? Beijing and
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung
clearly think not. They believe Occu-
py Central now finds itself in a diffi-
cult position after making the deci-
sion to withdraw riot police on
Sunday following increasingly physi-
cal confrontations with protesters.
After protest leaders altered their
stance from calling for dialogue with
Leung to demanding his resignation,
the chief executive responded on
Tuesday by reminding protesters that
if he steps down or is forced aside by
Beijing a nominating committee
will choose his replacement, as hap-
pened in 2012. In other words, pro-
testers face a choice between two dif-
ferent brands of Chinese Commu-
nist-style democracy.
In withdrawing police, Leung has
gained the upper hand for the time
being. First, Occupy Central said it
would halt demonstrations if things
got out of hand, which it has yet to do.
Similarly, withdrawal of riot police
plays into the pro-Beijing message
that the lingering protesters are using
physical intimidation and even vio-
lence against the authorities.
Propaganda is likely to be decisive:
In East Asia, only the Japanese have a
greater appetite for reading newspa-
pers than Hong Kongs seven million
people, and here again the authori-
ties have an advantage.
Of the top three newspapers in
Hong Kong by circulation, two are
pro-Beijing the free Headline Daily
and the long-running Oriental Daily.
Mirroring the party line in main-
land China, these papers have char-
acterised Occupy Central as violent
rule-breakers who represent an
extreme minority. Many have also
portrayed Occupy Central as a brain-
washing force on vulnerable stu-
dents who started their own protest
last Monday.
Some have even created links
between protest leaders and foreign
meddlers, a favourite Communist
Party strategy. Last week, the pro-Be-
ijing Wen Wei Po newspaper accused
student leader Joshua Wong, a Chris-
tian, of being manipulated by the
American government.
This approach was echoed on Mon-
day when the pro-Beijing Oriental
Daily, which claims a circulation of
half a million copies, drew parallels
with the colour revolutions in East-
ern Europe.
This is a game between powers
against the bigger backdrop of the
United States pivot to the Asia-Pa-
cific, and an inevitable result of Hong
Kongs internal affairs under the
influence of international politics, it
printed in an editorial.
Only the Apple Daily, a staunchly
pro-democracy Chinese-language
paper, has anywhere near the circu-
lation to challenge the pro-Beijing
papers in the ongoing propaganda
war last year it recorded over a
quarter of a million daily readers.
Its a tough audience, however. In a
city that boasts among the highest
property prices in the world, worry-
ing about money comes before taking
to the streets in protest. As such, peo-
ple here are considered to have a low-
er threshold for long, disruptive ral-
lies more commonly seen in other
cities, such as Bangkok and Kiev.
This is not lost on the Communist
Party. The state-run China Daily, the
highest-circulation Chinese-lan-
guage newspaper in the world, ran a
front-page article on Tuesday on the
1.9 per cent decline on Hong Kongs
stock exchange on Monday. It then
went on to quote a 60-year-old wom-
an who had problems going to a
doctors appointment because of
the protests.
Whether or not some of the more
far-fetched claims stick that Apple
Daily founder Jimmy Lai has been
linked to the CIA, for instance is
largely irrelevant.
Directly or through proxies, the
Communist Party controls most of
Hong Kongs media, and its censor-
ship shackles newspapers and televi-
sion stations on the mainland. Its
political control in both China and
Hong Kong works in a similar way.
In biding its time and withdrawing
riot police, authorities are clearly
hoping the protests will burn them-
selves out as an increasing majority is
influenced by the anti-protest media
messages that surround them and
gets tired of disruption.
As the protests enter a critical
phase, its these challenges that will
determine whether the pro-democ-
racy movement can further test Bei-
jings staunch resolve. UNCANEWS.COM
China plays the waiting game
A woman holds a placard at a large pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
Comment
Dan Long
Dan Long is the pseudonym of a journalist
based in Beijing who has reported on the
region for more than a decade.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Lifestyle
WITH Octobers arrival,
beer lovers are buzzing in
anticipation. But theres
bad news: Even though its
cool and breezy out, your
beer can still get skunked.
Although many think that
skunking, or the phenom-
enon of beer developing a
putrid taste and smell, is
caused by heat, its actually
caused by light exposure.
(The American Chemical
Society explains the process
in their latest video at http://
wapo.st/1xuwcOl).
When hops are boiled down to
make beer, they release chemical
compounds called Iso-Alpha Acids.
Theyre bitter on their own, but
when exposed to sunlight they break
down and interact with other mol-
ecules in the beer to produce a mol-
ecule thats almost identical
to the one in a skunks smelly
spray.
And its so strong that if
you put one eyedropper of
the chemical in an Olympic
pool full of beer, youd change
the taste which would sure-
ly ruin your boozy back-
stroke.
Hot beer can get stale more
quickly, but it wont skunk.
Its all about that sunshine,
which is why most beers are
sold in dark glass containers
or solid aluminium cans. If a beer
comes in a light glass bottle, it
probably uses a chemically modi-
fied form of hops instead of the
real thing but skunking can still
occur. So whatever your brew of
choice at Oktoberfest, stay in the
shade. THE WASHINGTON POST
Bennett Murray
T
HE UN-backed
1993 elections,
which gave Cambo-
dians a largely free
and fair vote for the rst time
but still didnt stop the losing
Prime Minister Hun Sen from
holding onto power, remain a
source of academic debate.
But for ve university art
professors, the period has
been an unlikely source of
creative inspiration.
Transition, which opened
last night at Meta House,
showcases the works of ve
local art professors who have
chosen to celebrate the pe-
riod between 1992 and 1993,
during which the UN effec-
tively ruled Cambodia as it
transitioned from a single-
party state to a multiparty
democracy.
Although the ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party refused
to relinquish full power to the
opposing Funcinpec Party,
which won the election, Tran-
sitions participants said that
the election was nonetheless
a momentous event worth
celebrating.
Why come up with some-
thing [negative] about the
history, but something that
is happy about history? said
Tith Veasna, the 30-year-old
Royal University of Fine Arts
(RUFA) professor who or-
ganised the exhibition.
The artists, who are all lec-
turers at RUFA, come from
different generations and
bring different memories to
the exhibition.
Veasna own contribution,
titled In Between, is the only
piece that is not a painting.
Hundreds of small squares of
blue cloth are stitched togeth-
er with pins, and a copper net
is stitched to the back.
The blue represents the
UN peacekeepers blue hel-
mets, while the pins repre-
sent the Cambodian people.
The copper net, which is par-
tially covered by the cloth,
represents the closed society
that preceded the arrival of
the UN.
It was like a prison you
could not get out, she said.
Following the fall of the Pol
Pot regime in 1979, the coun-
try was occupied by the Viet-
namese army for 10 years.
During this period, said Veas-
na, her mother could not nd
work as the economy was at a
standstill.
She applied for many jobs,
but no one accepted her even
to clean, said Veasna.
But the arrival of the UN
in 1991 rejuvenated the job
market, said Veasna, and her
mother became an ofcer in
the UNTAC civil police force.
The UNs injection of the
US dollar into the economy,
which was the rst time regu-
lar Cambodians had access to
foreign hard currency since
before 1975, also helped pro-
pel development.
Most of the paintings in the
exhibition are abstract, said
Veasna.
The elections controversial
aftermath, which led to Prime
Minister Hun Sen retaining
power despite losing to the
opposition Funcinpec Party,
is not referenced.
Suos Sodavy, 60, who was
studying art in Hungary on a
scholarship during the elec-
tion, decided to use lively
patterns and natural colours
to draw a metaphor between
movements in nature and po-
litical evolution.
The UNTAC period, he said,
paved the way for artistic
venues such as Meta House to
exist by creating a more open
society.
It was good for Cambodia,
because we can have [exhibi-
tions] like this, he said.
Inspired by UNTAC, five
artists reflect on transition
Friends dont let friends
consume skunky beer
Mixed media by Chan Vitharin. ELI MEIXLER
Prince is back with two albums
AFTER an unparalleled run of pop
brilliance that lasted from 1979 to
1992, weve learned to adjust our
expectations for new Prince albums.
Best-case scenario: the music is a little
freaky and the maestro isnt being too
control-freaky about it.
In recent years, hes managed to
pluck nearly all of his music off
YouTube, earning him a reputation for
being web-phobic and out of touch.
But its important to remember that
Prince, now 56, began experimenting
with self-distribution and give-away
album releases long before it was fash-
ionable and before it was sponsored
by titans of telecom and consumer
electronics. Ten years ago, Princes
sales spiked when he included a copy
of his latest album, Musicology, in the
price of a concert ticket.
Still, His Purpleness never managed
to establish a sustainable business
model and has recently re-signed with
Warner Bros, the label that first
launched his career. Their break-up
in the 90s was more historic for its
ugliness, causing Prince to change his
name to a symbol. Now, the artist and
his label are back together and every-
thing appears to be peachy.
To celebrate, Prince has released
two separate albums this week. The
first is an all-over-the-place romp
called Art Official Age, while the other,
PlectrumElectrum, finds him march-
ing his new band, 3rdEyeGirl, through
a sequence of airtight rock riffs.
If youre nut for Princes guitar
playing, the 3rdEyeGirl album is
for you. And only you. The songs
are crunchy and colourful,
but too pristine, at times
evoking a less-funky Par-
liament-Funkadelic or
non-grungy grunge.
Art Official Age is the
stranger, spottier, but ulti-
mately stronger recording. Its a
concept album about waking up
from cryogenic naptime in an
enlightened utopian future and
partying like its 1999 (we think). And
while there are plenty of propulsive
funk numbers to go around, theyre
often deflated by their brittle elec-
tronic timbres.
The albums slow jams, however,
vibrate with the electricity that Prince
has mastered over the past four dec-
ades. U Know offers some quirks while
This Could Be Us sounds like Prince
might have penned it in the late-80s.
The best in the bunch is Breakfast Can
Wait, a sly ode to morning canoodling.
It surfaced online a year ago, but it
c a me with hilarious cover art:
comedian Dave Chappelle
dressed as Prince, offering
up a plate of pancakes. A
year later, listen to Break-
fast Can Wait with your
eyes closed. Youll hear
something frisky, funny, and
masterfully wrought some-
thing only Prince could make,
let alone get away with. THE
WASHINGTONPOST
A real blockbuster
Tetris to be
made into
a movie

T
HE classic videogame
Tetris, in which players
slot a cascade of tumbling
blocks together, is being turned
into a science-ction movie, the
projects developers said Tuesday.
Tetris has been a mainstay of
computer gaming since it was
created 30 years ago, but the
shape-slotting puzzle may not
seem like an obvious subject for a
big-screen adaptation.
Threshold Entertainment said
in a statement that it was part-
nering with The Tetris Company
to develop the lm.
Everyone knows that Tetris
is one of the best known, most
beloved brands in the world,
Threshold chairman Larry
Kasanoff said. What everyone
doesnt know yet is this epic
sci story that were going to tell.
Thats whats really exciting.
Threshold has already scored
some game-to-movie successes,
notably two Mortal Kombat lms.
Henk Rogers, the managing
director of The Tetris Company,
said the game feeds our innate
desire to create order out of
chaos. Youll soon nd out,
theres much more to Tetris than
simply clearing lines, he said.
Tetris has been downloaded
more than 425 million times on
mobile devices, and is played more
than a billion times online annually,
according to the statement. AFP
Its gonna be epic. GETTY IMAGES
Food
18
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Bonnie S Benwick

I
KNOW. Its not even October, and here in the US you cant
swing a reusable shopping tote without hitting some form of
pumpkinised food or drink.
However, to paraphrase Monty Python, this hasnt got much
pumpkin in it. The puree adds body to the sauce, plus ber, potassium and
vitamin A.
Instead of piling this sloppy Joe on buns and watching it squish out onto
the placemats, warm up atbread or naan, tear it into big pieces and then
alternate layers of sloppy Joe and the thin bread. It makes an impressive, if
homely, heap. THE WASHINGTON POST
A seasonal sloppy Joe
Pumpkin
sloppy Joes
1/2 medium onion
1 clove garlic
8 ounces lean ground
pork
1/2 cup plain canned
pumpkin puree (may
substitute sweet potato
or butternut squash
puree)
4 ounces plain tomato
sauce
1 tablespoon light
brown sugar
1 tablespoon yellow
or Dijon-style mustard
1 teaspoon chili
powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher
salt
1/4 teaspoon
pumpkin pie spice (see
NOTE)
4 whole-wheat Medi-
terranean flatbreads or
whole-wheat naan
Cotija cheese, queso
fresco or goat cheese,
for garnish (optional)
Note: To make pumpkin
pie spice, whisk together
1 tablespoon ground
cinnamon, 2 1/2 tea-
spoons ground ginger, 1
teaspoon freshly grated
nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon
ground allspice and
1/4 teaspoon ground
cloves in a small bowl.
Transfer to a clean spice
container; seal and store
at room temperature for
up to six months.
Steps: Heat a large
nonstick skillet over me-
dium heat. Finely chop
the onion and garlic.
Add those ingredients
to the skillet, along with
the pork. Cook, stirring
occasionally, until the
meat loses its raw look.
Stir in the pumpkin,
tomato sauce, brown
sugar, mustard, chili
powder, salt and
pumpkin pie spice. Once
the mixture starts to
bubble, reduce the heat
to medium-low; partially
cover and cook for 10
minutes.
Meanwhile, position
an oven rack 4 to 6
inches from the broiling
element. Arrange the
atbreads or naan on
a rimmed baking sheet
(overlapping slightly is
OK). Broil for one to two
minutes on each side,
using tongs to turn them
over.
Tear the atbread or
naan into large pieces;
alternate them with the
sloppy Joe as you create
each portion. Crumble a
little of the cheese over
the top of each one, if
desired. Serve warm.
Nutrition per serving:
420 calories, 24g pro-
tein, 45g carbohydrates,
15g fat, 5g saturated
fat, 55mg cholesterol,
1,000mg sodium, 8g
dietary ber and
6g sugar
Makes two generous cups, good for four servings.
Serve with coleslaw or a kale salad..
Ellie Krieger

BECAUSE I am constantly in the kitchen cre-
ating new recipes, I hardly ever eat the same
thing twice. So if a meal has made it into my
regular rotation, you know it has got to be
something special. This salad has earned its
place as my ofcial go-to lunch; I have made
it dozens of times and I never tire of it. Its as
simple as simple can be and takes less than
10 minutes to whip up, so it is ideal for a busy
weekday lunch or light dinner.
It is really a showcase for one sublime ingre-
dient: Italian tuna packed in olive oil, which
can be found in glass jars at most high-end
grocery stores. Although its price tag might
give you a bit of sticker shock, once you try it
you will see why it is a worthwhile indulgence.
Put your typical canned-sh experience
out of your mind completely. This
tuna has a luxe steakiness and pleasant aroma,
and the oil in the jar is easily put to good use
as the dressing base. Because you use just half
a jar per serving, it is a pretty good value when
you break it down and consider the quality of
the meal you can create with it.
I usually enjoy it as paired here, with pep-
pery arugula and crisp slivers of fresh fennel,
but I will use whatever type of greens I have
on hand and add tomatoes, cucumber, red
bell pepper, fresh parsley or whatever vegeta-
ble or herb is in my refrigerator at the time. A
squeeze of lemon juice is all thats needed to
complete the dressing.
I have written it up here to serve four, but
the recipe is easily divided to serve one or two.
Personally, I turn to it mostly as a lunch for
one; the remaining jarred tuna can be refrig-
erated for up to three days. Its a satisfying way
to fuel a busy afternoon. THE WASHINGTON POST
Arugula & fennel tuna salad
1 large fennel bulb, cored and thinly
sliced (preferably with a mandoline)
1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, each
cut in half
Two 6- or 7-ounce jars Italian olive-
oil-packed tuna
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper
Kosher salt (optional)
Steps: Combine the
arugula, fennel and to-
matoes in a mixing bowl.
Break up the tuna a bit
with a fork to create bite-
size chunks; add them
to the bowl along with 2
tablespoons of oil from
the tuna jars. Add the
lemon juice and pepper;
toss to incorporate. The
saltiness of different tuna
brands varies widely, so
taste rst, then season
lightly with salt only if
needed.
Divide salad among
individual bowls and
serve right away.
Nutrition per serving:
250 calories, 24 gprotein,
7g carbohydrates, 14g
fat, 2g saturated fat,
25mg cholesterol, 380mg
sodium, 3g dietary ber
and 2g sugar
This five-minute, six-ingredient salad is destined to become your go-to lunch on a
busy day. The star ingredient, olive-oil-packed Italian tuna, is a bit of an indulgence
but a worthy one, as one taste of the delicate, rich flesh will prove. Use pre-washed
arugula to make preparation even speedier, and feel free to use any vegetable you
have on hand instead of the fennel.
Travel
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
The Caribbean Motels lodgings are a technicolour throwback, and
jukebox tunes are even piped into rooms (if you can hear them over the
retro palette). THE WASHINGTON POST
Doo-wopping
the night away
Andrea Sachs

A
T THE Caribbean Mo-
tel, I patted the top of
my head, wishing for
a pair of cat-eye sun-
glasses to slip on. The stylish
accessory would have matched
the 50s decor perfectly. Plus,
the dark lenses would have
protected my peepers from the
blinding colours and patterns
in my room. Based on empiri-
cal evidence, staring too long
at avocado-green walls can
cause tear ducts to leak.
The motel in Wildwood, on
the Jersey Shore, is one of the
items preserved in the beach
towns living time capsule.
The Doo Wop Motel District,
a 2-mile stretch between At-
lantic and Ocean avenues, is
neon-lit with more than 50
motels including the Carib-
bean dating from the era of
drive-ins, bobby socks and
skyscraper-high hairstyles.
Built in 1957, the motel was
an original cast member as
well as a trendsetter. It intro-
duced the landscaping practice
of planting plastic palm trees
(species: Palmus plasticus)
around the pool, an idea the
neighbours borrowed. In 2005,
the National Register of Histor-
ic Places added the property to
its esteemed roster.
According to the National
Park Service, which oversees
the register, the motel was
an important witness to the
growth spurt of beachy tour-
ism in New Jersey. In addition,
it displays signicant design
elements that characterise
the mid-century resort motel
style. (Yes, that really is an ar-
chitectural genre.)
Along Ocean Avenue, a large
neon-blue sign hollered like a
crossing guard for me to stop.
(The Park Service calls the
signs cursive font Fabulous
and notes the star dotting the
i.) I parked beneath the car-
port, half expecting a peppy
waitress to appear at my win-
dow with fries and a shake. At
the check-in station, a cube of
glass with a high counter, the
clerk handed me two keys on
green plastic fobs. He told me
of coffee service in the morn-
ing and provided directions
to the boardwalk, two blocks
north and a half-block towards
the ocean. Then he drew down
his lids like heavy curtains.
The two-storey building ac-
commodates 30 guest rooms,
including ve with modern-
line furniture sets by Hey-
wood-Wakeeld, an American
manufacturer that collectors
covet. My ground-level room
was within watermelon seed-
spitting distance of the cres-
cent-shaped pool. The swim-
ming area was empty except
for two giggly girls who dared
one another to take a dip in
the cool night air. Though the
pool is heated, neither took the
bait and instead fake-baked
beneath the moonless sky.
Inside my room, a riot of
colours hit me like a giant pi-
nata: an olive-green table, a
lemon-curd-yellow dresser,
turquoise-blue chairs, a mint-
green ceiling and Astroturf-in-
spired carpeting. But the decor
didnt stop at the bold palette.
This room had moxie, kid, and
expressed it through texture
(stucco, grass cloth, tongue-
and-groove pine wood pan-
els), patterns (striped com-
forters, animal-print stool)
and fake vegetation (a pair of
wood-cut palm trees pinned
to the back wall).
In the morning, for a jolt of
cardio, I climbed the curved
ramp to the cabana, which re-
sembled a wing of Judy Jetsons
Orbit High School. I stood on
the sun deck and looked down
at the timeless scene below.
No matter the decade, kids
will always splash in the pool,
and parents will always tell
them to knock it off. THE WASH-
INGTON POST
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SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
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VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
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VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
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Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
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#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Phnom Penh: No. 333B
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Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
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8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
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Entertainment
20
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Wordless summons
5 Word with bubble or bird
9 Genuine theyre not
14 Wise to the tricks of
15 Penultimate word in a Heming-
way title
16 Artists stand
17 Bided ones time
20 Lie with limbs spread out
21 Cents color?
22 Took care of
23 Pasturelands
25 What reducers weigh
27 It comes before beauty
30 Muddy the waters
32 Lower in spirits
36 Bacon unit for a butcher
38 Chimney duct
40 ___ Rae (1979 film)
41 Slow servers comment
44 Crosswise, in a ship
45 Predatory Arctic bird
46 Luxor waterway
47 M*A*S*H figures
49 Bathroom fixture
51 NASCAR legend Jarrett
52 Big wine valley
54 Schusses or wedels
56 Faux ___ (goof)
58 Follower of Santa?
60 Uncut
64 Samuel Beckett classic
67 Down for a pillow
68 Seaside raptor
69 Bulging earthenware vessel
70 Swelling in some plants
71 Odor anagram that will make
you cross?
72 Barrel-bottom contents
DOWN
1 Batman TV sound effects
2 Cookie, bean or photo
3 Be up and about
4 Wreck completely
5 In sorry shape
6 Weisshorn, for one
7 Top Romanov (Var.)
8 Place to stay
9 Meet, in poker
10 6:30 on a watch?
11 Italian wine center
12 Alloy
13 Shrewd
18 Very fancy jug
19 Beware the ___ of March
24 Airtight storage buildings
26 Sober-minded
27 Indian state
28 Bards theater
29 Having a handle, as a mug
31 Hides in the shadows
33 Exhaust, as strength
34 Nana novelist Zola
35 Assigned a PG, e.g.
37 Medulla oblongata structure
39 Small ornamental cases
42 Hit song from the Village People
43 Had a craving (with for)
48 Bridge measurement
50 Checkers double-decker
53 Hot temper
55 Bar staple
56 Discharged a debt
57 Assistant coach, e.g.
59 Large, round hairdo
61 Not doing much
62 Youll get credit for it
63 Pilots approximations, briefly
64 Early, as hours
65 Savings plan
66 Yoko who married Lennon
IN LINE
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
IF I STAY
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after
a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-
of-body experience, she must decide whether to
wake up and live a life far different than she had
imagined.
Citymall: 5:40pm
NOVEMBER MAN
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very
personal mission and finds himself pitted against
his former pupil in a deadly game involving high-
level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Citymall: 9:40pm
Tuol Kork: 8pm
LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns
the tables on her captors and transforms into a
merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Citymall: 11:30am, 7:55pm
Tuol Kork: 6:05pm, 10:15pm
THE EQUALIZER
A former black ops commando who faked his
death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of
retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself
face to face with Russian gangsters.
Citymall: 9:35am, 2:10pm, 4:45pm, 7:10pm
Tuol Kork: 11:45am, 2:20pm, 7:10pm, 9:35pm
THE MAZE RUNNER
A group of boys, with no memories of their past
lives, must escape a massive maze infested with
deadly creatures.
Citymall: 9:30am, 1:25pm, 9:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:25am, 2:30pm, 7:15pm
VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic
trigger a ruthless war between rival ant colonies,
obsessed with gaining control of the same prize: a
box of sugar cubes! Amidst this struggle a young
ladybug befriends a black ant and helps him save
his people from the horrible red ants.
Citymall: 3:45pm
Tuol Kork: 11:40am
NOW SHOWING
Hip hop @ D-Club
DJ Shade plays hip hop. Ladies night
specials include buy one drink, get one
free for women, with groups of ve
women getting a free bottle of vodka.
D-Club (Duplex upstairs), #3 Street 278.
9pm
Kundalini meditation is a fast, intense
and thorough way to break old, ingrained
patterns in the body-mind that keep one
imprisoned in the past, and to experience
the energy, freedom, witnessing, silence
and peace. Sessions last an hour,
preceded by 10-15 minutes of
instructions and discussions. Fee is $100
for 10 sessions. Contact info@phnompenh
communitycollege.com for more details.
First oor, NOCC Building, National Sport
Complex (East Side), Street 163. 6:30pm
Pasta @ The Willow
All Italian pasta night with wine, salads,
desserts and pasta dishes all for only
$3.50 each. The menu changes each
week with two pastas (one vegetarian
and one meat), a salad and a variety of
desserts.
The Willow Boutique Hotel, #1 Street 21.
6pm
TV PICKS
8:40am - CHILDREN OF MEN: In 2027, in a chaotic world
in which women have become somehow infertile, a
former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously
pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. HBO
12:20pm - THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE
COWARD ROBERT FORD: Robert Ford, whos idolised
Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the
reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually
becomes resentful of the bandit leader. HBO
3pm - THE MEXICAN: A man tries to transport an ancient
gun called The Mexican, believed to carry a curse, back
across the border, while his girlfriend pressures him to
give up his criminal ways. HBO
7:20pm - LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER: Video game
adventuress Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where
she races against time and villains to recover powerful
ancient artefacts. Starring Angelina Jolie and John Voigt.
HBO
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Party with DJ Kraut Funder playing the
genre maligned by some and loved by
others with tracks from Can, Popol
Vuh, Ashra Temple and others.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos
Boulevard. 9pm
Meditation @ Stadium
Asian Games
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
21
Syrian karate fighter
fails Incheon doping test
A SYRIAN male karate
competitor failed a drug test at
the Asian Games and has been
kicked out, the Olympic
Council of Asia (OCA) said
yesterday. Nour-Aldin al-Kurdi,
the fifth athlete to be expelled
for doping, tested positive for
clenbuterol, which is widely
used to build muscle bulk.
The competitor has been
disqualified from the
competition as well as these
Games, said an OCA
statement, released the day
after a wushu gold medal-
winner from Malaysia was
expelled for a failed test.
Al-Kurdi, 19, won a silver
medal in the mens 70kg class
at the Asian junior
championships in Malaysia
last month. None of the karate
medal contests have yet been
held at the Incheon Asian
Games. AFP
Sailing victory is kids
stuff for Park, aged 13
A 13-YEAR-OLD South Korean
sailor won a battle of the
youngsters at the Asian Games
and then said how much he
missed his mum and dad. Park
Sung-bin said, I love you, mum
and dad! after he claimed gold
in the mens optimist one-man
dinghy event in Incheon, South
Korea. I miss my mum and
dad so much. Also my coach,
said Park, adding that his mind
was also on food. I want to go
grab some food. I have lost
weight until now. Im so
hungry, he said. AFP
A flat end for cyclist
Hong Kong cyclist Diao
XIAO JUAN suffered a
puncture 100 metres from the
finish while leading the 126-
kilometre womens road race
and wound up out of the
medals. After three-and-a-half
hours of hard racing, Diao was
headed for victory when
disaster struck and a rear-tyre
puncture left her fourth. I feel
sorry for my teammate [Meng
Zhaojuan] and all the support
staff behind me, Diao said,
according to the South China
Morning Post. AFP
Mind your language,
Games media despair
ORGANISERS have brought in
Arabic and Russian translators
after problems at athletics
press conferences. After the
mens 1,500 metres race,
Qatari winner Mohamad
Al-Garni helped translate
comments from Bahrains
Rashid Ramzi. And with no
Russian translators, Uzbek
and Kazakh winners could not
be asked or answer questions,
exasperating those present.
My head was in my hands,
said one AFP journalist. AFP
The weight pays off as
Hadadi trebles on golds
IRANS Olympic discus silver
medallist Ehsan Hadadi won
his third consecutive Asian
Games gold following a
difficult season after he lost 15
kilograms in weight through
illness. He packed back on the
pounds, vital for his discipline,
by eating hearty German food
while training in the European
country, according to his
doctor. Now the 29-year-old
says he wants two Asian
Games more and then I can
retire and go to sleep. AFP
Incheon is a
good learning
process, says
NOCC official
H S Manjunath

C
AMBODIAS top sports ad-
ministrator Vath Chamroeun
is hopeful that the countrys
clamouring for a medal of any
colour may well produce its desired
impact in Fridays taekwondo quarter-
nal ghts involving the irrepressible
Sorn sisters, Seavmey and Davin.
They are one win away from a med-
al and this is as close as we can get af-
ter wrestler Ngoun Makara went out in
the last eight [on Monday]. We know
the burden of expectation is weighing
heavily on them. We are trying to keep
them focused and we are eagerly wait-
ing for that moment of glory, said Vath
Chamroeun, the secretary-general of
the National Olympic Committee of
Cambodia, setting out his perspec-
tive in an email to the Post on Cambo-
dias campaign so far at the 17th Asian
Games in Incheon, South Korea.
An Olympic wrestler in the early 90s,
Vath Chamroeun is into his second
term in ofce, but his vision of the fu-
ture stretches way ahead to 2023 when
Cambodia will host for the rst time
the SEA Games, of which it was one of
the ve founding members.
I must commend Incheon for put-
ting together a great event. It is a good
learning process for Cambodia as
we set our sights on hosting the SEA
Games, he said.
On Cambodias performances so far
in tennis, beach volleyball, wrestling,
swimming and one event in athletics,
the NOCC secretary-general felt that
disappointing as they may sound, there
was nothing to be disheartened about.
I feel that the emphasis should be
on the distance we have travelled to
get this far after missing the games for
20 years and spending another decade
rebuilding. Overall, we have not really
done badly because our athletes are
competing with others, which means
that they are no longer mere partici-
pants but contenders.
We do need a long-term sports
policy and sound strategy to raise our
competitiveness. That will be our pri-
ority to put the valuable lessons we
have learnt here to good use.
Mam Phalkun won his singles rst
round and with Andrea Ka made it to
the second round of the mixed dou-
bles; the beach volleyball players won
one of the three matches they played;
Ngoun Makara lost to an experienced
wrestler and I hope Hem Bunting and
Neko Hiroshi perform well in [Fridays]
marathon, he added.
Doping fallout
One unfortunate event Vath Cham-
roeun noted was the the fate that befell
soft tennis player Yi Sophany, who was
disqualied from the Games after trac-
es of a prohibited substance was found
in her sample.
It is important to note that the sub-
stance found was not a drug but a spe-
cial stimulant, so there was no mala
de intention on the part of the ath-
lete, said the NOCC secretary.
We now know that she was taking
the medication to lose weight. There
are so many banned substances listed
by the World Anti Doping Agency. They
are not easy for Cambodian athletes to
know because these lists of names are
not in Cambodian.
Besides, it is hard for our athletes
to gure out some of these over-the-
counter medications. The solution is
for our athletes to seek medical advice
before they do something like this on
their own and our duty is to fully edu-
cate our athletes and evolve a sound
mechanism to prevent such cases.
Benets from sidelines
While the Cambodian athletes have
been busy on the eld of play Vath
Chamroeun, along with NOCC presi-
dent Thong Khon and the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sports repre-
sentative Ouk Sethycheat, have been
engaged in several fruitful discussions
with other delegations to create a net-
work that would help Cambodia build
on its capacity.
Several International Olympic Com-
mittee partners and sponsors made
presentations during a summit on Sep-
tember 21, opening up an opportunity
for NOCs to seek support for their own
programs.
The OCA General Assembly and the
Partnership Summit provided an ex-
cellent platform for Cambodia to in-
tegrate with other NOCs as Siem Reap
prepares to host the annual OCA gath-
ering in 2016.
NOCC secretary general Vath Chamroeun (left) sits with Ministry of Educational, Youth and
Sports representative Ouk Sethycheat at Incheons Dowon Gymnasium during the Asian
Games wrestling competition. PHOTO SUPPLIED
India, Pakistan end 32-year wait for hockey nal
ARCHRIVALS India and Paki-
stan face off in a mouth-water-
ing field hockey final at the
Asian Games from 5pm Cam-
bodian time today with a place
in the 2016 Olympics at stake.
Millions of fans in both
nations will be glued to their
television screens for the title
clash, which earns the winner
a ticket to Rio de Janeiro and the
loser left facing a hazardous
qualification route.
India and Pakistan last met in
an Asiad final way back at New
Delhi in 1982 where the Indians
suffered a stunning 1-7 rout in
front of their own fans that
included then prime minister
Indira Gandhi.
In Beijing in 1990 when Paki-
stan claimed the gold and India
the silver, there was no final
since the winner was decided
after a round-robin league.
Eight-time Olympic champi-
ons India have won the Asiad
title just twice, both in the Thai
capital of Bangkok in 1966 and
1998. In contrast, defending
champions Pakistan are the
most successful team in the
continental games with eight
golds, highlighted by four suc-
cessive wins over India in a final
from 1970 to 1982.
Pakistan, coached by former
international Shahnaz Sheikh,
start as favourites following
their 2-1 win over India in the
preliminary league.
But Sheikh was worried by
the failure of his strikers to score
against Malaysia in Tuesdays
semifinal, which ended in a 0-0
draw before Pakistan edged
ahead 6-5 in the tie-breaker.
We played better than them
but just could not score, said
Sheikh, a former striker hismelf.
We dont want to make the
same mistake again. Fans love
an India-Pakistan game. I am
sure the final will be exciting.
India upset hosts South
Korea 1-0 in the semifinal
through Akashdeep Singhs
44th minute winner, but face
a tougher test against Paki-
stans goalkeeper Imran Butt,
the star of the shoot-out win
against Malaysia.
South Korea and Malaysia will
contest the bronze medal play-
off ahead of the final. AFP
Indias Gurwinder Ramandeep Singh (right) vies with South Koreas Nam Hyun-Woo in their mens seminal. AFP
Rank NOC
Medals
Gold Silver Bronze Total
1

China 130 87 69 286
2

South Korea 61 58 66 185
3

Japan 38 60 58 156
4

Kazakhstan 18 17 27 62
5

Iran 15 11 12 38
6

North Korea 9 10 12 31
7

Thailand 9 6 23 38
8

Qatar 9 0 3 12
9

Taiwan 8 9 14 31
10

India 7 9 33 49
Sport
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Nishikori fires to victory
in opening Tokyo match
KEI Nishikori thrilled his home
fans as the US Open finalist
posted a 6-3, 6-4 opening
victory over Ivan Dodig
yesterday to reach the second
round of the Japan Open. The
fourth-seeded Nishikori could
do no wrong at the Ariake
Colosseum, where the roof
was closed due to intermittent
rain after two days of sunshine
in the capital. Nishikori, last
weeks champion in Kuala
Lumpur, next faces Donald
Young after beating the
American in both of their
previous ATP matches. He
beat Dodig for the second time
this season after a win in
Madrid. AFP
Phelps gets arrested on
drunken driving charge
OLYMPIC swimming superstar
Michael Phelps was arrested on
Tuesday in his home state of
Maryland for driving under the
influence of alcohol and
speeding, police said. Phelps
the most decorated Olympian of
all time with 18 golds out of 22
total medals and an eye on
another run at the 2016 Games
in Rio later apologised,
saying he was deeply sorry
for his actions. The 29-year-
old was pulled over early
Tuesday after his white Land
Rover was clocked at 84 miles
(135 kilometres) per hour in a
45mph zone in Baltimores
Fort McHenry Tunnel,
Maryland Transportation
Authority Police said. AFP
Kvitova beats Peng as
Wozniacki crashes out
WORLD number three Petra
Kvitova opened her campaign to
win a second consecutive
tournament in commanding
style Wednesday, while Caroline
Wozniacki crashed out of the
$5.4 million China Open in
straight sets. Kvitova defeated
home-crowd favourite Peng
Shuai 6-4, 6-2 in her first match
since her victory at the Wuhan
Open last Saturday, advancing in
Beijing with the same
confidence she showed at the
earlier tournament. Peng, who
made the semifinals at the US
Open last month, took a 2-0 lead
before the Wimbledon
champion stormed back,
winning 12 of the next 16 games
and wrapping up the match in
just 66 minutes. AFP
World champ Chan to
take skating sabbatical
CANADIAN triple world
champion Patrick Chan has
decided to skip the upcoming
figure skating season but
plans to return for the 2015-16
campaign, Skate Canada
announced on Tuesday. The
23-year-old agonisingly
missed out on becoming the
first Canadian man to win
Olympic gold at Sochi earlier
this year, when he had to settle
for silver behind Japans
Yuzuru Hanyu. The seven-time
Canadian champion already
missed the world
championships in March, also
won by Hanyu, and has now
decided to skip the rest of the
season in order to be better
prepared next year. However,
Chan, who also won silver in
the team event at Sochi,
assured he wasnt retiring.
My goal is to return to a full
competitive schedule after this
year, Chan said. AFP
Afghan youths play cricket as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif. Afghanistan wants international cricket teams to start touring as the country resolves its security issues. AFP
Afghanistan tells the cricket
world to play in their land
A
F GHANI S TAN S
cricket chief yester-
day called on top
nations to tour the
country, insisting it is safe
and has world class facilities
boosted by foreign money.
Money from Germany is
being used to build a stadium
in the war-torn nation and
interest is growing as Afghan-
istan has qualied for next
years World Cup.
I am telling the players to
come to my country and play
there. They will treasure those
memories forever, Afghani-
stan Cricket Board chairman
Shahzada Masoud told AFP at
the Asian Games.
We want support from
other nations. We had lots of
problems in the last 30 years
because of the uncertain
security situation, but that
needs to be erased from our
minds and heart now.
Because sport unites peo-
ple. Cricket is one of our fa-
vourite sports. You get 20,000-
30,000 people watching our
local league matches. The se-
curity is good, especially for
cricketers.
Our teams travels around
the country without guards.
We dont need those guards.
People love them because they
represent the country.
Masoud said a new stadium
in Jalalabad was comparable
to any stadium in Asia and had
already hosted club and rst-
class teams from Pakistan.
Foreign assistance is boost-
ing cricket facilities in Afghan-
istan. The Indian government
has given a grant of $1 million
for the construction of a new
stadium in Kandahar.
German boost to cricket
And Germany, a noncrick-
eting nation, has sanctioned
700,000 for a stadium in Khost
province, Masoud said.
We are grateful to both
India and Germany for their
support, he said. But what
we want now is for teams like
India to come any play on
our grounds.
It would have been so ex-
citing if Sachin Tendulkar had
come and played in our coun-
try. I hope Mahendra Singh
Dhoni can make it.
Afghanistan has come a long
way since the national team
was formed in 2001 and played
its rst Asian Cricket Council
tournament for non-Test na-
tions in 2003.
They qualied for the World
Twenty20 in the Caribbean in
2010 and have already taken
part in subsequent tourna-
ments in 2012 in Sri Lanka and
in Bangladesh earlier this year.
But Afghanistans greatest
achievement so far is qualify-
ing for next years showpiece
50-over World Cup in Australia
and New Zealand.
We have achieved a lot
in a short time. I dont think
anyone expected us to get
this far, Masoud, a minister
in the Hamid Karzai govern-
ment, said.
The future of cricket is
bright in our country. It is
played in 32 of our 34 prov-
inces and matches are shown
on local television.
Masoud said thousands
turned out to get a glimpse of
the World Cup trophy when
it was brought to Afghanistan
during a world tour organised
by the International Cricket
Council recently.
The World Cup is big news
in Afghanistan, he said. The
youth of the country want
the team to do well there. We
know it will be a tough tour-
nament, but our target is to
defeat established teams like
Bangladesh.
We beat them on their
soil in the Asia Cup this year,
so there is no reason why we
cant do it again.
Afghanistan are currently
touring Australia under new
coach Andy Moles, a former
English rst-class cricketer, to
prepare for the World Cup.
But keen to match, or sur-
pass, their silver-medal win-
ning performance at the pre-
vious Asian Games four years
ago, the team management
ew down four top players,
including captain Moham-
mad Nabi, from Australia to
Incheon to reinforce the sec-
ond-string team.
Afghanistan will also play
four one-dayers in the United
Arab Emirates in December
and take part in a one-day
tournament in the West Indies
in January to prepare for the
World Cup.
Assistant coach Raees Ah-
madzai, who is looking after
the team at the Asian Games,
said the management wanted
to build a true cricket culture
among the players.
That includes better t-
ness and learning how to
perform in front of live TV
because most of our big
matches are televised these
days, Ahmadzai said. Also,
they need to learn to face the
media. AFP
Student swimmer
ready for splash off
Dan Riley
THE International Schools Sports
Association of Phnom Penh launches
its swimming campaign with the first
of five events slated for the Northbridge
pool this Saturday.
Warm-up laps will begin at 7.30am,
with races continuing throughout the
morning and an awards ceremony
expected to conclude by 11am.
Male and female students from
iCAN, Hope, ISPP, Logos and North-
bridge international schools will
compete across four age categories
U9, U11, U13, and U18 in races
including 50-metre freestyle, breast-
stroke, butterfly and backstroke as
well as individual and team mixed
medley relays and relays in freestyle
and breaststroke.
There will be two heats for each race
division, with graded points available
for the top finishers to be tabulated
over the season. Fun heats will also
be held for those wishing to swim
without having their times recorded.
Other events scheduled are Decem-
ber 13 at the Cambodian Country
Club, January 31 at Olympic Stadium
pool, March 21 at ISPP and May 8 at
the same venue.
A special meet at ISPP on November
29 will see Phnom Penh students race
against their international school coun-
terparts based in Vietnam and Thailand,
and potentially other countries. Results
will not affect the league statistics.
Schoolchildren compete during a swimming competition at Northbridge International
School on March 15. SRENG MENG SRUN
EUROPEAN football greats
Francesco Totti and Xavi Her-
nandez set Champions League
records for oldest goalscorer
and appearances on Tuesday
but neither could cap that
personal landmark with vic-
tory for their sides Roma and
Barcelona respectively.
Totti turned 38 last weekend
and he made sure he would
remember it as he scored
against Manchester City to
level the game at 1-1 Sergio
Aguero having given the hosts
the lead with a penalty to
break Ryan Giggs record set
when he was 37 years and 289
days old.
The game finished 1-1, a
result that is of more help to
the Italian side than the Eng-
lish champions.
Bayern Munich top the
group with six points from
two matches having beaten
CSKA Moscow 1-0 in a match
played behind closed doors
after UEFA punished the
Russians for unrest at a group
game last season, with Roma
on four and City struggling
to avoid bowing out in the
group stage for the third time
in four years.
When you talk about Totti,
you can only say really banal
things [in comparison with
what he does], said Roma
coach Rudi Garcia.
I took great pleasure from
his goal today. His talent is
what made the difference in
front of the goalkeeper. I hope
its the start of a fantastic story
for Roma.
Xavi, who is now no longer
first choice after a career at
Barcelona that has brought
him three Champions League
trophies among many other
winners medals, broke com-
patriot Rauls appearances
record of 142 when he came
on as a substitute in the sec-
ond-half of their game with
Paris Saint-Germain.
However, the 34-year-old was
unable to help turn around a
gripping encounter as the
French champions prevailed
3-2 at the Parc des Princes to
split the group wide open.
PSG who were only denied
a semi-final spot by Barcelona
on away goals two years ago
top the group on four points
with Barcelona a point back
while Ajax, who were held 1-1
by APOEL Nicosia, are third on
two points.
I am very satisfied. It was an
extraordinary match and what
I will take away from it was our
collective performance, said
PSG coach Laurent Blanc, who
had come in for some criticism
after a stuttering start to the
defence of their league crown.
I think for those who like
Paris Saint-Germain and
French football it was a good
evening.
Elsewhere, 2012 champions
Chelsea gave manager Jose
Mourinho a joyful return to his
home town of Lisbon as anoth-
er former resident of the Portu-
guese city Nemanja Matic, who
played for Benfica, scored the
only goal in a 1-0 victory over
Sporting Lisbon. AFP
Tuesdays Results
Apoel Nicosia 1 Ajax 1
Schalke 1 NK Maribor 1
BATE Borisov 2 Athl Bilbao 1
Shakhtar Donetsk 2 FC Porto 2
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
23
Pinnick wins Nigeria FA
vote as rival disqualified
NIGERIAS scandal-hit football
association elected Amaju
Pinnick as its new president on
Tuesday, after the front-runner
was disqualified hours before
the vote. The Nigerian Football
Federation (NFF) polls in the
southern city of Warri were also
delayed for several hours by the
detention of election chief
Samson Ebomhe. After
reportedly being quizzed by
agents from Nigerias main
intelligence branch, the
Department of State Services,
Ebomhe returned to the
conference hall to announce
that the leading candidate,
Shehu Dikko, would be removed
from the ballot. Dikko had been
favoured to take over the NFF,
which has been plagued by a
series of controversies since the
end of the World Cup in Brazil
and sanctioned by FIFA. The
businessman, who helped
arrange a tour of Nigeria by
Manchester United in 2008, is
thought to have powerful
enemies in Nigerian politics.
But the reasons for his last-
minute disqualification were not
immediately clear. Ebomhe told
AFP that Dikko was removed
because he was absent from
the conference. AFP
Austrian football fans to
demolish own stadium
AUSTRIAS Rapid Vienna have
invited fans to help demolish the
football clubs stadium, offering
the chance to unscrew seats,
chisel walls and cut out bits of
the goalnets to take home.
Prices at Saturdays Demolition
Party include 19.77
(US$24.94) the year the
Gerhard Hanappi Stadium was
built per seat, 18.99 for some
net and 5 for a slice of turf. We
will provide the necessary tools,
naturally with all safety
precautions taken into account
and with employees standing
by, the club said. Thirty-two-
time Austrian champions Rapid
Vienna are currently
constructing a new, 22,000-
seater stadium which is due to
be completed in 2016. In the
meantime they will play in the
Ernst Happel Stadium, the
Austrian capitals biggest. AFP
Former Rangers owner
Whyte gets 15-year ban
FORMER Rangers owner Craig
Whyte has been banned from
serving as a director for 15
years. An Edinburgh court
handed out the maximum
disqualification available under
its powers for failing to avoid
conflict of interest in the running
of the club. Whyte took
Rangers into administration in
February 2012 and they entered
liquidation in June the same
year, 13 months after he took
over the club. Whyte had
previously received a 7-year ban
as a director in 2000, a fact that
did not become public after he
bought a majority stake in
Rangers from Sir David
Murrays company for a
symbolic 1 in May 2011. He
was cited for causing the club to
enter into an agreement to
effectively fund the purchase of
its own shares, conducting the
clubs affairs without reference
to other board directors,
preventing RFC from being
subject to proper corporate
governance and causing the
club to fail to comply with its tax
obligations. AFP
McGlynn looks to guide
Boeung Ket back to top
Dan Riley

B
OEUNG Ket Rubber Field,
champions of the Metfone
C-League in 2012 and run-
ners up in the past two sea-
sons, have marked their intentions
on returning to the top with the
appointment of British-Australian
coach John McGlynn.
The Liverpool-born 46-year-old
spent the majority of his playing ca-
reer in Sydney, featuring for the Aus-
tralian Defence Forces from 1986 to
1997 and also the Australian Amateurs
squad in 1992 as a striker.
McGlynn is no stranger to the King-
dom, having rst arrived back in 1993
as part of the United Nations Transi-
tional Authority in Cambodia (UN-
TAC) whilst serving as a soldier para-
trooper for the Australian Army.
I decided to come back to Cambodia
as I had very fond memories of my time
back then, McGlynn told the Post.
I remembered how welcoming and
grateful the people of Cambodia were
for our assistance at the time. This
time came around as I heard football
was back in action and running again.
With my qualications, experience
and knowledge I felt I could have a
positive impact within the country
and assist in developing and educat-
ing the players and staff to improve
the game.
As chief assistant coach to Sam
Schweingruber, McGlynn helped
Phnom Penh Crown clinch their fth
league title in emphatic fashion ear-
lier this year.
I was initially brought in to improve
the playing style along with the vision
and philosophy of [Crown]. Also to
educate the head coach, coaching
staff and players alike as well as every-
thing else you can think of that made
us win the league last season not
to mention I had a couple of months
with the clubs academy also assisting
the Cambodian national U16s squad
that entered the U16s ASEAN Youth
Championships. On their return to
the Kingdom, strangely enough they
won every competition they entered,
just about.
McGlynn was, however, very ex-
cited to take up his new assignment
with Kampong Cham-based outt
Boeung Ket.
[Boeung Ket] have huge plans for
the future to be the biggest and best
club in the country, with develop-
ments concerning their new stadium
and youth academy out in the prov-
ince along with social change within
the region, said the coach.
I am very grateful to the clubs man-
agement and Mr Makara for giving
me this opportunity. I like the vi-
sion that they have and Im looking
forward to being part of the clubs
history to assist and bring back more
successes to the club.
In replacing the outgoing Prak
Vuthy, McGlynn noted that he would
be giving all the players currently at
Boeung Ket a fresh start and a new
opportunity they deserve to impress.
So far I have been very impressed
with the response of all players and
staff of the current group that I am
working with, he said.
We still have the national teams
talented players to come back in, so
I am looking forward to meeting and
working with them soon. My initial
targets will be to get the players enjoy-
ing themselves again, working on their
tness and condence along the way.
Although Boeung Ket have yet to
conrm the signing of their new
coach, McGlynn says he is expecting
a year-long contract with the option
to extend for a further year depending
on his success with the team.
As a western coach, I bring experi-
ence of coaching at state representa-
tive level and state international level.
I will also bring organisation along
with a disciplined, positive more spe-
cic modern style of coaching.
New Boeung Ket Rubber Field head coach John McGlynn (right) blows a whistle during a training session at Navy Field. SRENG MENG SRUN
Romas Francesco Totti celebrates scoring the equalising goal during
their Champions League Group E match against Man City on Tuesday. AFP
Recordbreakers Totti, Xavi fail to deliver
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 2, 2014
Sport
Indias Kom targets Rio gold
I
NDIAS ve-time world
champion boxer Mag-
nicent Mary Kom
claimed another major
title yesterday and vowed to
make up for her failure at the
2012 Olympics by claiming
gold in Rio in two years.
My plan is to go to world
championships and use that
to qualify for the Olympics,
Kom said after taking the
Asian Games yweight gold in
a punishing bout with Zhaina
Shekerbekova of Kazakhstan.
Kom, one of the biggest stars
of Indian sport, is now 31, but
vowed not to end her career.
Always the Olympics gold.
That is the major goal and fo-
cus, she told reporters.
Kom wore a huge beaming
smile as she stood proudly
draped in the Indian ag to
receive the gold after her
hard-fought split decision
over Shekerbekova in the
51kg class.
Kom admitted she had
struggled at the start of the
bout against the quick and
elusive Kazakh ghter.
It was 50-50 if I got the de-
cision, Kom told reporters.
The rst two rounds I could
not catch her. My opponent
was very fast and very strong.
A very good boxer.
It was affecting my timing
and I couldnt do much. In the
third and fourth rounds it was
a little bit easier to connect
with my punches.
Fears that Kom is past her
best were raised when she
failed to qualify for this years
Commonwealth Games after
losing in the trials to a younger
opponent, Pinky Jangra.
Kom said she used that as
a motivation for the Asian
Games. I dont think that
trial was fair, so this provid-
ed me with the challenge to
prove who I am at these Asian
Games.
So I worked hard, twice as
hard as usual. I proved who I
am.
Kom, dubbed Magnicent,
Queen and even Holy by
Indias media, proved her crit-
ics wrong by beating Jangra in
a rematch to book her place at
the Asian Games.
She revealed how much she
had given up in her family life
to achieve gold at last.
Actually Im a mother of
three kids. I made a sacrice
because I left my kids and I
left my family and Im always
focused on my training, she
added.
Kom lost in the seminal
four years ago in Guangzhou
but her biggest disappoint-
ment came at the London
Olympics where she again only
took away a bronze medal.
I felt I had let the country
down, Kom said. So I am
very thankful and proud to
win a gold medal for my coun-
try, she said.
Devi refuses bronze medal
Attention yesterday also fo-
cused on Indias Sarita Devi af-
ter she refused her lightweight
bronze medal and tried to
hang it around the neck of the
South Korean she lost to in the
seminals.
Devis highly controversial
defeat to Park Ji-na on Tues-
day had caused chaotic scenes
with her husband scufing
with security and launching
an expletives-laden tirade.
Yesterday, Devi burst into
tears as she walked to the po-
dium with her arms folded
and her head down.
As she was presented with
the bronze she held up her
hands and said she would not
accept it. Twice ofcials tried
to put it round her neck but
she would not comply.
After the other medals had
been awarded, Devi stepped
off the podium, took the
bronze from the ofcial and
went to shake silver medallist
Parks hand.
As Park gave a traditional
Korean bow, Devi put the
bronze round the bemused
ghters neck.
I said, This is for you and
all Korea, because you only
deserve a bronze, Devi told
AFP afterwards.
It was a protest for all the
sportsmen and women of
the world against injustice in
sport.
A spokesman told AFP that
the Incheon Asian Games
Organising Committee mem-
bers present had been of-
fended by Devis gesture.
If she wanted to refuse the
medal she should have not
come to the ceremony, he
said. AFP
More than gold on the line in Korean shootout
NORTH and South Korea will be play-
ing for more than just a gold medal
when they clash in the Asian Games
football final tonight from 6pm Cam-
bodian time.
The countries remain technically
at war after the 1950-53 Korean War
ended in a truce, not a peace treaty,
and the tournament decider at
Incheons Munhak Stadium takes
place, symbolically, just 195km from
the worlds most fortified border.
The rewards for giving their ideo-
logical enemies a bloody nose will
have a considerable impact on both
sets of players.
South Koreas players will be
excused two years of mandatory
military service if they end a
28-year title drought and win the
mens competition, which is played
under the same U23 format as the
Olympics.
Victory over the hosts and tourna-
ment favourites, who are under
intense pressure to win, would be a
valuable propaganda tool for the
communist North.
Should they upset the odds, their
players can expect a heros welcome
in Pyongyang, known to lavish cars
and apartments on athletes who
bring glory to the state.
North Koreas athletes and officials
held a special longing for the leader
gathering at the Asian Games, dedicat-
ing tear-jerking songs and poems to
the countrys leader Kim Jong-un, who
is reportedly suffering with gout after
eating too much imported cheese.
The North fired the opening volley
on the eve of the football final, coach
Yun Jong-su criticising the refereeing
of his sides 1-0 extra-time victory over
Iraq in the semifinals.
Did you people see the match
against Iraq yesterday? he asked jour-
nalists at a news conference. What
did you make of it? Correct calls are
an essential part of fair play, but things
are not like that here.

Bad calls
There were a lot of bad calls in the
match yesterday, he added. Perhaps
the referees cant see things from a dis-
tance, but he failed to see things hap-
pened when he was close to the play.
We hope the final is refereed fairly. If
so, we will fight fairly and squarely.
South Korea coach Lee Kwang-jong
insisted his players would manage
their emotions in a gold medal game
brimming with political and historical
overtones.
Mentally, as well as physically, the
players are ready, he said the morn-
ing after South Koreas 2-0 win over
Thailand. We have focused through-
out on winning gold and were looking
forward to a great game.
Lee will give beanpole forward Kim
Shin-Wook a late fitness test as he
recovers from a calf injury, while North
Korea will be without prolific striker
Jong Il-gwan, sent off moments after
scoring his sides winner against Iraq.
The North last won mens football
gold at the 1978 Asian Games in
Bangkok when they shared it with
South Korea after a drawn final.
Organisers will beef up security
after South Korea fans waved a polit-
ical banner during their quarterfinal
win over bitter rivals Japan, prompt-
ing the Japanese delegation to lodge
a formal protest.
Of course its a sensitive issue that
the two countries [North and South
Korea] are playing each other, said
Kim Bae-ok, director of the organis-
ing committees media support
bureau. We will do everything we
can to ensure the game is conducted
safely. AFP
Gold medallist Indias Mary Kom is splashed with cold water between rounds of the 2014 Asian Games womens yweight boxing nal against Kazakhstans Shekerbekova Zhaina yesterday. AFP