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People wait to be rescued after their helicopter crash-landed in Victoria Harbour yesterday soon after take-off for Macau from the Shun Tak Centre helipad;
the near-intact helicopter (below, left) is kept afloat by inflatable buoys; the craft is lifted by crane onto a barge. Photos: Felix Wong, Danae Edgar
13 plucked to safety after helicopter
to Macau ditches in harbour
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Fanny W. Y. Fung and Amy Nip
Two pilots and 11 passengers were
plucked to safety from Victoria Har-
bour yesterday after their Macau-
bound helicopter was forced to ditch
shortly after take-off from the Shun
Tak Centre helipad.
Minutes after turning to head for
Macau at noon, 500 metres out into
the harbour the pilot-in-command
heard a loud bang and immediately
decided to make an emergency land-
ing in the water.
Before hitting the water the pilot
activated inflatable buoys which kept
the aircraft afloat to allow the passen-
gers to evacuate.
Local fishermen in their boats
were first on the scene and were
quickly joined by police, Marine and
Fire Services Department crews, the
Civil Aviation Department said.
All 13 people on board the 15-seat
Beijing goes global in anti-corruption drive
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Irene Jay Liu
As pressures mount for China to
tackle rampant corruption within its
borders, Beijing is making unprece-
dented moves to take the anti-bri-
bery battle global by co-operating
with foreign law enforcement agen-
cies and international watchdogs.
While the domestic crackdown
against corruption has been escalat-
ing “what is new is that the govern-
ment has taken on an international
dimension by promoting interna-
tional co-operation”, said Liao Ran of
Transparency International, a Berlin-
based independent advocacy group.
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twin-turbine AgustaWestland AW139
made it safely to land and were ad-
mitted to Queen Mary Hospital with
slight injuries. They were all dis-
charged by last night.
Tsui Hing-lan, who was fishing at
the Shun Tak pier when the drama
unfolded, said: “I saw the helicopter
200m
Helicopter
lands here
Sheung Shun Tak
Centre
Wan
SMP GRPAHIC
The moves come as Beijing
counts its multibillion-yuan losses
from the squirreling away of funds by
graft suspects who flee overseas.
“Chinese prosecutors are in con-
tact with other countries’ prosecu-
tors and China is eager for bilateral
co-operation with countries such as
Canada, the United States, the UK
and Australia” because corrupt Chi-
nese officials have defected to those
countries, Liao said. “China is very
eager to get them back and their
money back.”
In June, China and Canada signed
a memorandum of understanding to
“to facilitate co-operation between
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scoring his team’s fourth goal in
their 4-0 World Cup quarter-final
win over Argentina in Cape Town.
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… Unless you’re
Serena, who’s still
hungry for glory
flying from that side [the east]. It fell
slowly into the water. Then I saw yel-
low buoys open but I couldn’t see the
people because it was far away. The
rotor was still rotating when the heli-
copter hit the water. I called the
police at once and saw rescue vessels
arriving about 10 minutes later.”
Yip Ho-cong, who was working on
a construction site overlooking the
West
Kowloon
harbour, said: “I was stunned when I
saw the helicopter falling into the sea.
It was still moving after landing in the
water. Later I saw rescuers come.”
The aircraft’s owner, Sky Shuttle,
suspended its helicopter service
between Hong Kong and Macau.
Towed to The helicopter was manufactured
Wan Chai in Italy and registered in Macau. It
was put into service last year. The
company owns five other aircraft of
the same model and the Civil Avia-
Central tion Department ordered them
grounded for inspection.
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
and the Chinese Ministry of Public
Security”, which resulted from ongo-
ing discussions about the investiga-
tion and repatriation of Chinese cor-
ruption suspects, and the sharing of
the seized proceeds of those crimes.
The Ministry of Public Security re-
leased figures in 2008 stating that
more than 800 Chinese nationals ac-
cused of embezzling more than 70
billion yuan had fled overseas and
that 500 remain at large. Other state-
run media reports have published
much higher estimates.
Beijing has sought extradition
treaties with countries in the West,
Hong Kong
Growing pains for island haven
Mui Wo on Lantau Island has long been a sprawl
of rural villages, prized for its eccentric lifestyle
and cheap housing but now, as one blogger says,
“the yuppies are taking over the asylum”. People
looking for suburban luxury in renovated village
houses have moved in and many long-time Mui
Wo residents don’t like it.
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as 3 vessels turn up in Asian ports
US submarines
emerge in show
of military might
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Greg Torode
sitting on the fence.”
Chief Asia correspondent Inside Other Asian diplomats said it
In a scarcely noticed move last Mon- US-Korean drills
might reflect a rising chorus of con-
day, three of America’s largest sub- Page 7 cern in recent months from China’s
marines surfaced in Asia-Pacific The big stick neighbours, who have been dis-
ports in a show of force by the US Sev- Post Magazine creetly urging the US to do more to
enth Fleet not seen since the end of stand up to China’s growing naval as-
the cold war. sertiveness in East Asia. Chinese
The appearance of the USS Michi- plans and is not directed at a single exercises have been expanding in
gan in Pusan, South Korea, the USS country or crisis – such as intensify- size and scope in recent months, with
Ohio in Subic Bay, in the Philippines, ing tensions on the Korean peninsula vessels appearing beyond Japan’s
and the USS Florida in the strategic following North Korea’s sinking of a offshore islands and appearing deep
Indian Ocean outpost of Diego Gar- South Korean warship – but the mes- in the disputed South China Sea.
cia not only reflects the trend of esca- sage is unlikely to be lost on Beijing. “Japan, South Korea, Indonesia,
lating submarine activity in East Asia, One veteran Asian military atta- Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and
but carries another threat as well. ché, who keeps close ties with both Australia – all these countries have
The three Ohio-class submarines Chinese and US forces, noted that been active behind the scenes in ex-
have all been recently converted “460-odd Tomahawks is a huge pressing concerns,” another Asian
from carrying cold-war-era nuclear amount of potential firepower in diplomat said. “There is no hotter
ballistic missiles to other weapons – anybody’s language”. topic at the moment thanChina’s na-
Leung Yu-keung, acting director- improved intelligence sensors, spe- “It is another sign that the US is val ambitions.”
In Washington, meanwhile, con-
general of civil aviation, said the cial operations troops and, signifi- determined to not just maintain its
pilots experienced mechanical prob- cantly, a vast quantity of Tomahawk military dominance in Asia, but to be cern is mounting about missile de-
lems but the exact cause of the acci- cruise missiles, a manoeuvrable low- seen doing so … that is a message for ployments in East Asia. Pentagon
dent was unknown. flying weapon designed to strike tar- Beijing and for everybody else, estimates suggest China is increasing
The helicopter was lifted from the gets on land. its stocks of short-range ballistic mis-
water minus its rear propeller at 7pm Between them, the three subma- siles and precision cruise missiles,
after being towed to Wan Chai. rines can carry 462 Tomahawks, The US is determined and boosting their capabilities.
Sky Shuttle chief executive officer boosting by an estimated 60 per cent- Its last report on China’s military
Cheyenne Chan said the pilot-in- plus the potential Tomahawk strike to not just maintain modernisation estimated that a Sep-
command was their chief pilot. “He
has about 9,000 hours of flying expe-
force of the entire Japanese-based
Seventh Fleet – the core projection of
military dominance tember 2008 stockpile of between
1,050 and 1,150 short-range ballistic
rience. Five hundred hours involved
the flying of AW139s,” she said.
US military power in East Asia.
While the move has been made
in Asia, but to be seen missiles was rising at a rate of about
100 per year, the bulk concentrated
Jack Lo Chun-kong, who teaches with little fanfare, it is starting to reso- doing so on Taiwan. South Korean estimates
an aircraft maintenance course at the nate across the region. US officials in- ...................................................... show North Korea has fielded more
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational sist it reflects long-term deployment A veteran Asian military attaché • CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Education, said objects could have
hit the propeller on the helicopter’s
tail after it took off. Former civil avia-
tion director general Albert Lam
Kwong-yu said the pilot made the
right judgment to avoid marine traf-
fic and adjacent skyscrapers.
but has faced resistance because
those convicted could face the death
penalty in China. Since 2006, Beijing
has signed extradition treaties with
more than 30 countries and regions,
including Australia, Spain, and
France. China does not have extradi-
tion treaties with the Canada, the US
or the UK.
In the absence of such treaties,
Chinese authorities have managed to
co-operate with international coun-
terparts, particularly the United
States, to prosecute corrupt Chinese
officials in China and abroad. In 2006,
the US repatriated Yu Zhendong, the
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Strains of yuppification are showing in South Lantau town Islamic finance

A laid-back island haven abroad, not for
HK homebuyers
encounters growing pains ......................................................
Michael Martin
He was born and bred in Hong Kong,
to turn Hong Kong into a hub of
Islamic investment, but little pro-
gress has been made to catapult
but as a devout Muslim, Akhtar Hus- Hong Kong into an industry that
...................................................... and students at public hearings. But sain can’t buy a home here. Moody’s Investors Service expects
Christopher DeWolf
those fighting to open a new school Banking giants like HSBC and will exceed US$1 trillion this year.
Last month, two stray dogs were say that aren’t opposed to Zheng Standard Chartered offer Islamic Bringing an Islamic bond market
found dead on a Mui Wo beach. Sheng, they are simply looking out for mortgages structured to comply with to Hong Kong demands a whole new
News of their fate spread quickly the interests of Mui Wo’s families, the tenets of the Islamic faith in Saudi set of banking institutions compliant
through the nearby villages. whose children currently attend Arabia, Indonesia and even Britain, with Islamic law on issues like inter-
“It was definitely a poisoning,” schools in Tung Chung, Kowloon but not in Hong Kong. est and one that doesn’t invest in in-
said a beachside restaurant worker, and on Hong Kong Island. “I went to Hang Seng Bank and dustries prohibited by the faith, such
explaining that hikers often felt in- One third of school-age children the Bank of China, and they agreed to as pornography and liquor.
timidated by the dogs. Property prices in Mui Wo have risen but are still cheaper than in Sai Kung and Discovery Bay. Photo: SMP Pictures in Mui Wo are non-Chinese, said Ro- give me a loan. But it is not In co-operation with Chinese
But who would do such a thing? sa Ma Suet-fan, who is a member of according to Islamic law,” Hussain University, Kuwait-Asia University is
“Those people coming from DB,” she lage life. ”To me, it was a typical situa- here and I thought it was kind of ugly, years ago for HK$3.1million has seen the South Lantau Education Concern said. to open a business school university
said with a scowl, referring to nearby tion where somebody gets a piece of garbage everywhere. I learned to love its value rocket to HK$7 million. Group, so the group is working to Mufti Muhammad Arshad, Hong in the Arab emirates later this year to
Discovery Bay. land, builds a house however they it.” He now pays homage to his vil- “If you’ve been here for a while, convince the government to open a Kong’s chief imam and authority on train new Islamic finance specialists.
Lantau Island’s Mui Wo has long want and moves in without realising lage, Wang Tong, through a blog you remember how low prices used bilingual secondary school. Islamic law, advised Hussain that
been a shabby sprawl of rural villages, what it is going to be like, without tak- called The Toilet Bar, which is named to be,” said Jennifer Bauch, a prop- On a muggy evening earlier this Islam prohibited Muslims from bor-
prized for its eccentric lifestyle and ing into account village customs and after a village shop next to a public erty broker who opened shop in Mui week, Schofield and Ma chatted rowing money with interest. I went to Hang Seng
cheap housing. habits,” she said. toilet that morphed into a popular Wo in 2007. “Now they’re up 60 per about Mui Wo with two other resi- In Islam, riba, translated as usury
But recent years have seen an in- For decades, Mui Wo’s relative hangout. cent and it’s a shock. But if you’re dents, Maria Currie and Louise Pres- or interest, is a sin. Some Muslim Bank … and they
flux of transplants looking for subur-
ban luxury at prices far lower than
isolation made it a popular place to
live for anyone who wanted to get
About three years ago, he said, a
wave of young families, most of them
coming from Sai Kung, the prices are
still relatively low. It’s good business
cott, at the China Bear, a popular
waterfront pub.
scholars argue that the term refers to
usury – which is an excessively high
agreed to give me a
those in Discovery Bay or Sai Kung.
As village houses are bought and
away from the pressures of urban
Hong Kong. It became home to one
expats, began moving to Mui Wo,
drawn partly by the opening of a new
here for brokers because of all the
expats.”
“The rising prices mean that peo-
ple are forced to live further and fur-
rate of interest – and not regular inter-
est, but Mufti Arshad believes the
loan. But the loan is
renovated, property prices have of the most diverse populations in road to Tung Chung. “It sounds hyp- Mui Wo’s population now stands ther out,” said Prescott, an English- terms are synonymous. not according to
more than doubled in the past five Hong Kong, a mix of indigenous vil- ocritical for me to say it, but the place at 6,100, according to an estimate by woman who moved to Mui Wo five Hussain is among an emerging
years, and the government now plans is being colonised by young gweilos,” the Planning Department, and it is years ago from Jakarta. “There’s a class of Muslims who have the means Islamic law
to spend HK$300 million on beautifi- he said. expected to increase to nearly 7,000 snowball effect. Once one house is to look for stable housing, but the lack ......................................................
cation and leisure facilities over the It sounds hypocritical “They ride around in little tricy- over the next several years. The grow- renovated, others follow.” of Islamic financial services keeps Akhtar Hussain, a Hong Kong
native and Muslim
next few years. cles rather than bicycles, with the kids ing population and changing demo- Ma recalled her first encounter them subject to rent increases and
But the changes have met with for me to say it, but in the back seats being chauffeured graphics are straining Mui Wo’s rural with Mui Wo. She was living in Dis- lease renewals. Mufti Arshad num-
opposition from some long-time Mui
Wo residents. “The yuppies are tak-
the place is being by the helpers. I liken them to subur-
ban SUVs. It shows just a little bit of a
infrastructure.
Though the government plans to
covery Bay when she went for a hike
and glimpsed Mui Wo from high up
bers cases like Hussain’s “in the hun-
dreds.” Without other options, some
Yip also said Islamic investment
in Hong Kong may pick up at the end
ing over the asylum” is how one blog-
ger described it.
colonised by young different attitude.”
Feign described his fondness for
spent HK$300 million to build a new
waterfront dining area and recre-
in the hills, she said.
It reminded her of the long-since-
local Muslims are left breaking the
rules, in what the mufti calls a sin tan-
of the year. The Legislative Council is
expected to introduce a bill relaxing
“Sometimes people come to live gweilos the casualness of village life. “The ational facilities, it does not yet plan demolished Ngau Tau Kok village she tamount to eating pork. double stamp duties on international
here and they don’t seem to quite un- ...................................................... kids could go into a local village shop, to address what residents say is most grew up in. When she finally moved The Hussain family arrived in investment. Measures like this
derstand that they’re coming to live Larry Feign, cartoonist and take anything they want and I’d go by sorely needed: a new school and to Mui Wo, “the villagers would Hong Kong 33 years ago from Paki- helped promote Islamic investment
in the country,” said Jacqui Green, an a long-time resident of Mui Wo later and ask how much I need to pay, community gathering space. smile, say hello and offer their freshly stan. Since then, they have worked in in Britain and Singapore. In the
animal welfare advocate who has and they say ‘Oh, just pay when you "I see new people on the ferry al- picked vegetables or bananas retail at Chungking Mansions. meantime, Mufti Arshad says local
lived in Mui Wo for more than 20 lagers, Chinese from other parts of can,’” he said. most every day and most of them straight from the trees,” she said. Between his Islamic book stall and a Muslims still need Islamic banking.
years. She said that she was certain Hong Kong, Filipinos, South Asians One recent morning, his wife al- have young children – they’re going “Of course, when people of differ- mobile phone business, Hussain “Hong Kong banks don’t realise how
the dogs found dead last month had and Western expats. most missed her ferry because water to need a good school," said John ent cultural backgrounds live togeth- makes around HK$50,000 a month big the Muslim community here is,”
been deliberately poisoned by some- Among the expats, there has buffaloes were blocking the entrance Schofield, a member of the Living er, people have different perceptions and hopes to buy a home in Tuen he said.
one who considered them a nui- always been a division between mid- to their house. “You have to like that Islands concern group, which sees it- of how things should be done.” Mun for about HK$1.3 million. The 2008 Hong Kong Yearbook
sance. dle-class professionals and what one it’s a bit sloppy and messy to really self as a watchdog for development One example of those differences Rent increases keep his family – a estimated 220,000 Muslims live in
Many newcomers seem taken resident called “whisky tangos” – a enjoy it here. That kind of thing on Hong Kong’s outlying islands. in perception, she said, are the walls wife and two children aged two and Hong Kong – a figure that includes
aback when they encounter Mui euphemism for “white trash”. makes it charming, and it used to be Mui Wo’s only secondary school that some newcomers build around seven – on the move. “We are living in some 150,000 Indonesian migrant
Wo’s laissez-faire atmosphere, said Some residents admit that the low what put off those people from Dis- closed in 2007. Last year, plans to their houses. “The indigenous villag- Hong Kong. Our kids are living here workers.
Green. On one occasion, a woman prices were what first drew them to covery Bay. But I guess places like DB move a school for troubled youth, the ers never demarcated their property too,” he said. “What we are thinking
who had just built a new house called Mui Wo. “I came here because it was have become too expensive.” Christian Zheng Sheng College, into like that.” about is our kids.”
her to complain that it had been over- cheap,” says cartoonist Larry Feign, Prices for a village house in Mui the building were met with furious The disposal of debris from reno- Ideally, an Islamic bank would Demand, no supply
run by village cats. Green agreed to who has lived in Mui Wo for 19 years. Wo have increased sharply with the opposition. vations and constructions is another purchase Hussain’s dream home Islamic financial services
neuter them, but only after she ex- “I couldn’t afford to live anywhere influx of newcomers. One resident Some Mui Wo residents hurled tricky issue that can lead to resent- from an original owner and, holding
plained that the cats were part of vil- else. A friend of mine brought me out who bought a village house three invective at the school’s principal ment between neighbours. the title to the property, sell it to Hus- are offered across the
sain over several years. Interest region, but none so far in
would be paid in the form of fees
instead of interest, and the bank still Hong Kong
Weather makes a profit.
“Currently in Hong Kong, the
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The number of Muslims living in Hong
Kong, according to the government
Muslim population may not be

220,000
enough to sustain Islamic banking
solely for retail,” said Damian Yip,
Tomorrow Tuesday Wednesday Thursday divisional director of the Hong Kong
HONG KONG mainly fine apart from mainly fine apart from mainly fine apart from fine and hot. branch of the Chartered Institute of ......................................................
FORECAST 28
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isolated showers.
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32
isolated showers.
28
8 32
32
isolated showers.
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8 32 Management Accountants.
HSBC’s only Islamic banking Hameed Jalal, chairman of the
Today ASIA TODAY THE WORLD TODAY facility in Hong Kong is the Hang Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic
fine and very hot apart from one or two
isolated showers in the morning. Dalian Fine 22 29 ASIA-PACIFIC MIN MAX Seng Islamic China index fund, creat- Community Fund of Hong Kong,
28 33 Guilin Cloudy 28 34 ed for retail investors in the city. agreed that a need was not being met.
Adelaide fine 4 14
N Guiyang Cloudy 23 30 Auckland rain 8 13 “Hong Kong may never be a core Muslims in the housing market avoid
Hefei Rain 27 34 Bangalore showers 21 30
Jinan Fine 23 35 Brisbane fine 7 20 capital of Islamic finance due to the mortgages altogether by choosing
Lanzhou Cloudy 18 26 Harbin 22 27 Sapporo 22 27 Brunei showers 23 32 make-up of its population,” said Razi lower-cost properties or pooling re-
Nanchang Cloudy 29 36 Busan (Pusan) showers 22 23 Fakih, deputy chief executive of sources from relations and paying for
Changchun 21 27 Canberra fine -3 11
WIND HUMIDITY UV INDEX POLLUTION Nanjing Rain 26 32 Colombo thunder 24 31 HSBC’s Islamic banking facility, homes in cash.
Force 4 65-90% 13 Low to Medium Nanning Cloudy 26 35 Darwin mainly fine 23 33 HSBC Amanah. The speciality Hussain’s cousin Michael Ansari
Shijiazhuang Fine 27 39 Delhi thunder 28 36
Taiyuan Fine 22 34 Hohhot 20 32 Shenyang 21 31 Denpasar thunder 26 30 branch offers services in seven coun- is also looking to buy a home in Hong
It will be fine. One or two isolated showers overnight. Dhaka thunder 25 33
Urumqi Fine 21 30 Tokyo 23 29 tries, but according to Fakih there Kong without violating his religious
The minimum temperature will be about 28 degrees. Beijing 25 35 Seoul 23 29 Hobart mainly fine 7 15
Very hot durng the day with a maximum temperature
Wenzhou Thunder 25 31 Honolulu fine 23 30 isn’t enough demand to introduce it beliefs. He said the alternatives pre-
Xiamen Cloudy 27 35 Osaka 25 30 Islamabad mainly fine 26 40 to Hong Kong. sented by Jalal were not even an op-
of around 33 degrees in the urban areas, one to two Xining Showers 12 22 Tianjin 24 35 Jakarta thunder 24 31
degrees higher in the New Territories. Moderate Yinchuan Fine 19 30 Karachi cloudy 30 37 In 2007, Chief Executive Donald tion for him. “No one in our commu-
Xian 24 34 Qingdao 23 30 Hiroshima 22 25 Male/Maldives thunder 28 29 Tsang Yam-kuen announced plans nity is that wealthy,” Ansari said.
southwesterly winds. Mainly fine and hot in the Zhengzhou Cloudy 26 36
Melbourne fine 6 15
following few days. Shanghai 25 29 Mumbai showers 26 29
Chengdu 24 30 Wuhan 28 34 Perth fine 2 16
Lhasa 17 28 Sydney fine 8 17
GENERAL SITUATION (11PM YESTERDAY) Tashkent fine 21 38
Hangzhou 28 33 Wellington mainly fine 9 13
A ridge of high pressure is bringing generally fine Chongqing 28 36
weather to southern China. Kathmandu 17 24 Changsha 29 37 Naha 28 32 EUROPE
Kunming 19 28 Fuzhou 28 38 Amsterdam mainly fine 14 25
Calcutta 25 33 Taipei 27 36 Athens fine 22 32
POLLUTION TODAY'S FORECAST Guangzhou 27 Barcelona showers 22 31
FORECAST API LEVEL MIN MAX Kaohsiung 27 29 Belgrade showers 18 26
Hanoi 28 37 Berlin mainly fine 19 34
General Station Low to Medium 15 40 Hong Kong 28 33 Brussels mainly fine 14 25
Roadside Station Medium to High 40 65 Budapest mainly fine 17 27
Haikou 26 35 Copenhagen mainly fine 16 26
Vientiane 23 29 Dublin rain 13 22
Frankfurt showers 21 29
POLLUTION YESTERDAY Yangon 25 32 Geneva showers 16 26
GENERAL STATIONS API LEVEL MIN MAX Manila 26 33 Helsinki fine 15 28
Istanbul fine 19 31
Central/Western Low 11 17 Chennai 26 35 Bangkok 24 31 Phnom Penh 24 30 Lisbon fine 20 36
Eastern Low 16 18 London mainly fine 10 23
Madrid mainly fine 18 35
Kwai Chung Medium 31 38 Ho Chi Minh City 24 33 Milan mainly fine 24 36
Kwun Tong Medium 34 35 Moscow fine 15 28
Munich thunder 19 30
Sha Tin Low 19 23 Phuket 27 29 Oslo few showers 17 24
Sham Shui Po Medium 26 27 Paris mainly fine 14 28
Tai Po Low 16 18 Kuala Lumpur 25 33 Prague fine 14 31
Rome fine 21 31
Tap Mun Low 11 33 Stockholm fine 17 22
Tsuen Wan Medium 26 28 Vienna fine 13 27
Singapore 25 32 Zurich thunder 19 26
Tung Chung Low 14 22
Yuen Long Low 24 26 MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Abu Dhabi fine 28 43
ISOLATED ISOLATED SNOW Amman fine 17 37
ROADSIDE STATIONS API LEVEL MIN MAX SUNNY FOG SHOWER DUST HAIL Bahrain fine 29 37
SHOWERS THUNDER FLURRIES
Causeway Bay High 47 67 Beirut fine 24 32
PARTLY CLOUDY / Cairo fine 23 35
CLOUDY OVERCAST DRIZZLE RAIN THUNDER WINDY SNOW TYPHOON Would-be homebuyers Michael Ansari and Akhtar Hussain. Photo: May Tse
Central/Western Medium 43 52 Cape Town fine 7 22
Mong Kok High 54 58 Casablanca rain 21 24
Doha fine 28 40
API = AIR POLLUTION INDEX WWW.EPD.GOV.HK YESTERDAY'S READINGS ISOBAR CHART Dubai fine 30 41
TEMPERATURES MIN MAX FRONTS Jeddah fine 25 42
Johannesburg fine 6 17 Mark Six
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YMMAP Chek Lap Kok 29.0 34.6 Kuwait fine 30 45
Cheung Chau 27.0 32.0 Riyadh fine 30 43
GUANGZHOU COLD Tel Aviv fine 22 32
Hong Kong Park 28.9 33.1
King's Park 28.2 31.5 THE AMERICAS There was no winner last night so 14, 21, 45, 49 and the extra 19. One ticket
Lau Fau Shan 27.5 34.0 Atlanta fine 19 30 HK$10,727,919 will jackpot to Tuesday won the second prize of HK$1,909,305.
WARM Bogota showers 9 19
Sai Kung 28.1 34.2 1006
night. The numbers drawn were 2, 13, Third prize paid HK$50,910.
Boston mainly fine 22 34
Sha Tin 28.8 33.7 Brasilia fine 13 26
Ta Kwu Ling 25.4 34.1
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OCCLUDED Buenos Aires showers 17 19
Calgary few showers 9 22
Wong Chuk Hang 28.2 31.5 Caracas thunder 26 32
Chicago few showers 17 38
HONG KONG OBSERVATORY Dallas thunder 24 31
Air Temperature 28.3 32.7 STATIONARY Detroit fine 19 33
HONG KONG
Houston thunder 26 30
Grass 27.7 TROUGH Las Vegas fine 25 38
Humidity (%) 65 Lima fine 16 18
Los Angeles fine 16 20
I Pollutant concentrations are well within the air quality standards. Sunshine (Hours) 10.1 AS AT 2PM Mexico City thunder 13 20
II Pollutant concentrations are generally within the air quality standards. Miami thunder 27 34
III Concentrations of individual pollutants may approach or exceed the air quality standards.
Rainfall (mm) 0.0 YESTERDAY
Montreal few showers 19 29
IV Air quality standards are generally exceeded. New York mainly fine 20 41
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Hong Kong 3

On the outside looking in

Hong Kong Singapore (2008)

38,780 20,000 3,768

Number of nurses and midwives Of
Foreigners
Local 3,260
nurses (including enrolled nurses) employed in 41 public hospitals nurses and midwives newly
registered in 2008, the

6% 800
proportion who were foreign was

trained outside HK nurses either retire or leave to

work in private sector each year
23,887
55.8%

SOURCES: HONG KONG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, NURSING COUNCIL OF HONG KONG, HEALTH
SMP GRAPHIC AFFAIRS JOURNAL (US), SINGAPORE NURSING BOARD, INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION

Overseas-trained nurses frustrated by HK red tape

......................................................
Ng Yuk-hang
Four years of nursing experience in
Canada could not help Rachel Chan
get a licence in Hong Kong.
For two years, she has battled the
Nursing Council for permission to sit
a licensing examination held every
April for overseas nurses.
But she was repeatedly rejected as
a result of what she calls bureaucratic
red tape – like being told she must
make up for 141 hours of “theoretical
deficiency”, but never told what
courses she should take to do so.
Her friend, Lam Tsz-ting, got her
nursing licence in Australia last year.
But she was denied a chance to sit the
exam because on her certificate her
name appears as Tsz-ting Lam.
Hong Kong has 29,110 registered
nurses but only 6 per cent, or 1,939
obtained their qualifications outside
Hong Kong, in places such as the
mainland and in Australia, according
to the Nursing Council. Dr Joseph Lee
You spend months Kok-long, legislator and chairman of
the Association of Hong Kong Nurs-
studying but you ing Staff, said it might be because the
never know what city’s examination is tough. Nursing
Council statistics show that over the
you are embarking past five years, about 80 candidates
sat the exam annually but on average,
on fewer than 40 per cent passed.
...................................................... Overseas nurses could potentially
Rachel Chan (top and below), denied ease the city’s nursing shortage.
permission to sit nursing exam The Hospital Authority, which has
20,000 nurses, is losing about 800 a
year to the private sector and over-
seas. It aims to recruit at least 1,200
nurses in the coming financial year
but expects 1,100 posts to be filled.
The local supply is only expected
to grow in a few years’ time when
more nursing students graduate.
Holders of overseas nursing licen-
ces have to pass a written and practi-
cal examination before they can
practise in Hong Kong.
The council decides on a case-by-
case basis on who can take the exami-
nations. A spokeswoman said: “Even
if two candidates are from the same
university, it does not imply that both
have fulfilled the course require-
ments for the examination – they
could have taken different electives.”
Chan describes her struggle with
the Nursing Council as ridiculous
and says she never thought it would
be so complicated.
A Canadian nurse licence holder
since 2005, Chan and her family
planned to return to Hong Kong for
good in 2008. Her first application to
sit the registered nurse exam was
denied in July 2008, the council say-
ing she lacked 141 “theory hours”.
She wrote again to ask the council
what courses she needed to do to
make up for the shortfall but was told
a month later that “the council would
not comment on individual courses”.
She was also told to refer to the
council website, which only listed
Hong Kong schools that obtained
accreditation from the council.
Chan then did a 60-hour distance
course from a Canadian institute
which was accredited by the author-
ities in British Columbia. She finished
the course in September 2008.
In October, the Nursing Council
told her distance learning was not ac-
cepted. Chan said that was not spec-
ified in guidelines for candidates.
Chan said the council was incon-
sistent in determining the number of
hours a candidate could earn from a
course. She took a 16-hour face-to-
face course, and was told later that
only two hours could be counted.
After she complained, the council
decided the course could translate
into 16 theory hours.
“They never tell you how many
hours a course is worth before you
start the course. You spend months
studying but you never know what
you are embarking on,” Chan said.
She said slow responses from the
council led to her missing two sittings
of the examination last year and this
year.
The council still insists Chan lacks
more than 100 theory hours but Chan
said she had in fact taken 200 hours
worth of courses.
Lam, 24, graduated from a univer-
sity in Sydney with a nursing degree.
Her application to sit the registered
nurse exam in Hong Kong was reject-
ed because the name printed on her
nurse certificate was Tsz-ting Lam.
“They asked me to find a notary to
confirm that Tsz-ting Lam is me. This
is ridiculous, a waste of time and
money,” she said.
She said it was not standard prac-
tice as her schoolmate’s application
was approved immediately despite
the fact her name was also printed in
reverse.
After she clarified her name, the
council told her she lacked 161theory
hours, meaning she needed to spend
at least another year taking courses.
Lam and Chan can only work as
clinical assistants at the moment
which means a lot less in the monthly
pay packet and also fewer annual
leave days.
Lee said the fact that overseas
candidates had to go through com-
plicated application procedures was
just bureaucratic. “The council
should clearly tell candidates what
are the approved courses and how
many hours they are worth,” he said.
A council spokeswoman said it
did not list the approved courses
because they wanted to “avoid a con-
flict of interest” and “promotion of a
particular course”.
She said the words Tsz-ting Lam
had been printed in capital letters
and “there was no indication which
word was the surname”, so clarifica-
tion had to be given before the appli-
cation could be processed.

Beijing forges links in graft battle

• CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
first Chinese citizen to be sent back
after China ratified the UN Conven-
tion Against Corruption.
Yu was convicted in a mainland
court of embezzling more than
US$485 million in public funds when
he was head of the Kaiping, Guang-
dong, branch of the state-owned
Bank of China. Last year, Yu’s co-con-
spirators, Xu Chaofan and Xu Guo-
jun, were convicted in a US court.
When it announced the convictions,
the US Department of Justice credit-
ed Chinese authorities for providing
“substantial assistance”.
"We will hold fully accountable
those foreign nationals who abuse
the financial systems of their home
countries and who then, by fraudu-
lent means, seek to live richly off their
ill-gotten gains in the United States,"
said US prosecutor Lanny Breuer.
This type of co-operation be-
tween the United States and China is
unprecedented, according to Joseph
Warin, a partner at Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher LLP in Washington.
Warin predicts that there will be
more parallel investigations.
In addition to its law enforcement
efforts, China is also working more
closely with international partners
on policy.
Over the past few years, China has
attended meetings of the Organisa-
tion for Economic Co-operation and
Development’s anti-bribery working
group as ad hoc observers. At its June
meeting, the Chinese delegation in-
cluded representatives from the Min-
istry of Supervision and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, according to the
group’s chairman, Mark Pieth.
As ad hoc observers, Chinese offi-
cials give regular reports to the work-
ing group on their anti-corruption
efforts.
“There is an interest among the
countries in our group to involve
China in our work,” said Pieth.
Chinese officials have told the
OECD that Beijing is considering
how it would establish a foreign bri-
bery offence, according to Pieth.
Adopting such a law would put China
in the company of countries such as
the US, UK, Australia and the EU.
At home, Chinese authorities
continue to enforce domestic anti-
corruption laws. In a March report to
the National People’s Congress,
Prosecutor General Cao Jianming
told lawmakers that prosecu-
tors investigated roughly 32,000
cases of embezzlement, bribery, der-
eliction of duty and other work-relat-
ed crimes last year.
Prosecutors launched graft
probes against 2,670 officials above
county level, including eight at the
provincial or ministerial level, ac-
cording to the report. Nearly, 3,200
were punished for offering bribes
and observers suggest many reasons
for the anti-corruption push.
Banker Yu Zhendong is arrested at
Beijing airport. Photo: Xinhua
“Corruption remains one of the
[hindrances] for investors coming
into China. The government is keenly
aware of that and they are trying to
address it,” said Violet Ho, head of
China operations for Kroll, a global
risk consulting firm.
The World Bank has also exerted
pressure on Chinese companies,
placing them on blacklists for their
activities in Africa, such as bribery in
road construction.
China was ranked 79th of 180
countries last year on Transparency
International’s Corruption Percep-
tions Index, which scores nations
based on surveys of people working
in the country or abroad. China had
the fourth-lowest ranking of G20 na-
tions, with only Argentina, Indonesia
and Russia scoring lower.
“Every indication has shown that
China has every interest in being part
of the global economy. And part of
that is evening the playing field,” said
Nathan Hochman of the law firm
Bingham McCutchen.
“If China wants to be competitive
with Western economies – and the
Western economies have strong anti-
corruption laws – then China either
needs to become more aggressive in
rooting out corruption, or they will
quickly come to an impasse with
these countries.”
Chinese leaders also face signifi-
cant domestic pressure to tackle cor-
ruption. Corruption consistently
ranks as a top concern in public opin-
ion polls.
“It has a lot to do with the legiti-
macy of the ruling party,” Liao said.
“If they don’t fight against corrup-
tion, then it will erode the very exis-
tence of the ruling party.”

Digest
Crime Reform

Lo Wu fare dodgers tackled at turnstiles Democrats to issue report on reform negotiations

An MTR team especially set up to tackle fare dodgers
who jump over rail station turnstiles has slashed the
number of offenders. In the first four months of this year
there were 1,905 cases of fare evasion at East Rail
stations, down 77 per cent from 8,442 over the same
period last year, the MTR Corporation’s head of
operations, Choi Tak-tsan, said. The corporation set up a
29-person team to tackle the problem last year after
passengers were spotted jumping over turnstiles at the
Lo Wu station. Together with increased random ticket
checks, the team, stationed at East Rail stations, has had
a marked deterrent effect, the MTR said. Team members
include retired disciplined services officers and former
members of the auxiliary police. Travellers have been
entering a station legitimately after buying the cheapest
ticket available, but then hurdling the turnstiles at Lo
Wu. Amy Nip
The Democratic Party will release a report giving a
detailed account of its historic meetings with the central
government’s liaison office about amending the Hong
Kong government’s proposed constitutional reforms.
The party secured an amendment that allowed it to vote
for the reforms, ensuring their passage. A six-member
working group which handled the negotiations is
drafting the report, which the party intends to make
public. Responding to accusations that its talks with the
liaison office had been secret, working group member
and former party chairman Dr Yeung Sum said the
report would detail the process of the negotiations, the
chronology of events and every opinion the party raised.
“We want to build up a culture of transparency and let
the central government know that when it holds
discussions with the Democratic Party in the future,
what was discussed will be made public.” Fanny W. Y. Fung
4 Hong Kong
Mystery over rise in spine disorder cases
......................................................
Vivian Li
When university student Kitty Lo was
nine years old, her parents received
news that was to haunt their daugh-
ter for life.
Lo, now 22, was one of a growing
number of Hong Kong schoolchil-
dren diagnosed with scoliosis, a mys-
terious and irreversible disorder that
causes the spine to bend into a C or S
shape.
The latest Department of Health
figures show that almost one in seven
students last year had the condition
and that the number of known cases
has soared in the past 10 years from
just under 8,000 to almost 38,000.
Experts are unsure of the reason
for the increase but say it could be
due at least in part to the fact that all
students are now checked for the
condition through the Student
Health Service.
The University of Hong Kong and
Chinese University of Hong Kong
have been carrying out research on
the condition and the increase in suf-
ferers but have yet to reach any firm
conclusions.
“The research team, led by Profes-
sor Jack Chun-yiu Cheng, has been
doing this research for more than 10
years, but we still hasn’t found the
reason,” Chinese University research
assistant professor Professor Lam
Tsz-ping said.
“There are many possibilities, in-
cluding congenital or genetic factors,
but there is no conclusive result for
what causes scoliosis. We are still
continuing with our research.”
HKU assistant professor Kelvin
Yeung Wai-kwok said parents are
now more aware of scoliosis, so the
number of suspected patients had
also increased.
Parents meanwhile complain
they are not given enough informa-
tion about the condition.
For journalism and communica-
tions student Lo, little happened after
the initial diagnosis, made after she
went to the health service for a yearly
medical check-up. But in Form One
she began to feel her body was “twist-
ed” and doctors found the curvature
– measured as the “Cobb’s angle” –
had increased from 10 to 30 degrees.
She was advised to wear a brace.
Today, the S-shaped curve is
clearly visible as a hump on her back.
“I look odd, compared to others. I
just look weird. I don’t like to bend
down unnecessarily, so that others
can’t see my back,” Lo said.
Her mother, who did not want to
give her name, said she did not take
much notice of her daughter’s condi-
tion in the beginning. “I thought her
curvature was so mild that it did not
matter,” she said.
Young visitors help bring cheer to the elderly
Ho Wai-fun, 87, and two volunteers who visited her as part of a programme
to help depressed elderly people in Wong Tai Sin. Photo: Ng Yuk-hang
Terrible trend
An increasing number of
Hong Kong children are being
diagnosed with scoliosis
25,000
Females
20,000
15,000
Males
10,000
5,000
1999/00 2008/09
SMP GRAPHIC
The health department provides
only three types of pamphlet about
scoliosis, while there are more than
five about psychosocial health. These
pamphlets are commonly seen at
public hospitals and the Student
Health Service, but are not readily
available at clinics.
A Cobb’s angle – that between
lines drawn horizontally through the
highest and lowest affected vertebrae
– of more than 10 degrees is taken to
indicate scoliosis, Wong Yat-wa,
honorary clinical associate professor
at HKU, said.
A brace – which has to be worn 23
hours day with an hour off for a show-
er and a comfortable dinner break –
I look odd, compared
to others. I just look
weird. I don’t like to
bend … so that others
can’t see my back
......................................................
Kitty Lo, a 22-year-old university
student with scoliosis
cannot correct the condition but only
prevents it from getting worse.
“It will only prevent the Cobb’s
angle from increasing,” Wong said.
Where the angle is 45 degrees or
more, surgery is an option. Screws,
hooks, wires and metal rods are used
to fix the corrected segment of the
spine in place, but even that is not
necessarily a permanent solution.
Wong knows of 150 patients, most
aged 10 to 15, who need an operation
every year. “They’re generally on the
waiting list for two months to a year. It
depends on the seriousness of the
case,” Wong said.
A puzzling aspect of the condition
is that many more girls than boys in
Hong Kong and worldwide are af-
Number of serious cases
referred to hospital
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
1999/00 2008/09
SOURCE: HEALTH DEPARTMENT
fected. “The ratio of boys to girls is 1:8
to 1:9, and this is a common trend
worldwide – the number of girls hav-
ing scoliosis is more than the number
of boys,” Wong said.
A19-year-old man, who refused to
be named, was diagnosed with
S-shaped scoloiosis in 2005 when he
was in Form Three.
The Duchess of Kent Children’s
Hospital calculated that he had a 38-
degree Cobb’s angle in his upper
spine and 45 in his lower spine and he
was advised to wear a brace.
Like Kitty Lo’s mother, his parents
knew nothing of the condition.
“I had no idea what scoliosis was
about – if it was not for my son having
the problem, I would not have heard
about it at all,” his father said.
Not realising how serious the con-
dition could be, he took his son to se-
veral Chinese practitioners trying to
regulate it, but without success.
By September 2006, the angle had
increased to 85 degrees. “I had given
up hope. I asked him to have the sur-
gery,” his father said.
Wong said Chinese cultural inhi-
bitions that stopped parents looking
too closely at a daughter when she
was getting changed also used to hin-
der early diagnosis, as most of the pa-
tients were female.
“Before 1995-96, there was no Stu-
dent Health Service. Now there is, we
can have everyone checked, on a vol-
untary basis.”
Students of Primary Five, Form
One and Form Three are eligible for
scoliosis checks on a voluntary basis.
If they need a follow-up, services will
be available to other school grades.
According to health department
statistics, 274,268 students were
checked under the Student Health
Service last year, and 37,939 (13.8 per
cent) were suspected of having sco-
liosis. Of these, 17.3 per cent are girls,
while only 10.1 per cent are boys.
In the United States, about 10 per
......................................................
Ng Yuk-hang
Depression can strike at any age, but
when it hits in life’s twilight years, the
suffering can be extra-painful.
However, for 87-year-old Ho Wai-
fun, who became depressed after a
fall at home brought into sharp focus
the difficulties of growing old, help
was at hand in the shape of young vis-
itors who encouraged her to remem-
ber the happiest days of her life.
Now she proudly shows off her
‘flight diary’ to her friends. “Here are
the pictures of places I have been to –
I have travelled to many places in the
world,” she says with a smile.
Four months ago Ho was diag-
nosed with mild depression – a level
cent of the adolescent population has
some degree of scoliosis – around
one million children have the condi-
tion, according to the Scoliosis Re-
search Society.
Wong said 80 per cent of curved-
spine patients had idiopathic scolio-
sis, a musculo-skeletal disorder with
no known cause that came on during
puberty.
The Student Health Service pro-
vides X-rays for those suspected of
having scoliosis. If the Cobb’s angle is
over 20 degrees, the student is re-
ferred to the Duchess of Kent Chil-
dren’s Hospital in Sandy Bay or the
Prince of Wales Hospital. The num-
ber referred in 1999-2000 was 886. It
increased to 2,555 in 2008-09.
Wong said most of his patients
with severe scoliosis were new immi-
grants who had not had the check-up
when they were young or had missed
it for some other reason. “Some of
these cases opted for surgery, but
there are a small portion of patients
that are reluctant about the idea. No
matter how serious their Cobb’s an-
gle is, they do not want any opera-
tion,” Wong said.
While no cause has yet been
found, doctors believe scoliosis may
be hereditary. “A normal person has a
3 per cent chance of having a baby
with idiopathic scoliosis. But if either
parent has it, their baby has a 30 per
cent chance,” Wong said.
Dr Leung Kwok-yin, president of
the Obstetrical and Gynaecological
Society of Hong Kong, said there is a 1
per cent chance of women with sco-
liosis developing complications dur-
ing pregnancy.
Asian women are more likely to
have the condition than Western
women, Leung said. Researchers
have yet to determine why it more
often affects females.
“These mothers will have breath-
ing difficulties as the baby grows and
the womb puts pressure on the dia-
phragm,” he said.
Lo is worried that her 54-degree
spine curvature could affect her abil-
ity to conceive. “I am very concerned
that I may not be able to have babies
in the future,” she said.
Pregnant women with scoliosis at
more than 40 degrees are likely to suf-
fer from an imbalanced pelvis and
will need to have a Caesarean section.
For these women, administering
epidural analgaesia is more difficult
because it is injected into the spine.
“We have to be very careful about
not injecting into the wrong area as
there are many nerves,” Leung said.
General anaesthesia could be used
instead, but that runs the risk of
breathing problems, he said, adding
that premature delivery is also more
likely in mothers with scoliosis.
of eight on the Hamilton Depression
rating which measures a patient’s
condition. But home visits from two
teenagers as part of a treatment pro-
gramme have helped bring her rating
down to a normal level of three.
A Chinese University study last
year estimated that 30 per cent of
Hong Kong’s elderly, or about
240,000, suffer from various levels of
depression. About 300 elderly citi-
zens took their own lives in 2008, a
third of all suicides that year.
Ho was one of the 31 who took
part in a treatment programme for
mildly depressed elderly people or-
ganised by the Christian Family Ser-
vice Centre and Kowloon Hospital.
Through home visits and meet-
Extend school drug tests, adviser says
......................................................
Adrian Wan
The pilot drug-testing scheme in sec-
ondary schools should be extended
for a year, says the head of a govern-
ment advisory body.
Daniel Shek Tan-lei, chairman of
the Action Committee Against Nar-
cotics, said the scheme had achieved
its goal of discouraging drug abuse,
but six months was not long enough
to establish if it was totally effective.
“Personally, I think extending it
for another academic year can give us
more statistics to decide if it is [effec-
tive],” said Shek.
Cyber bullying common among schoolchildren
......................................................
Adrian Wan
As many as a third of secondary
school students have fallen victim to
cyber bullies, while one in five have
admitted to abusing others online, a
survey has found.
The Hong Kong Family Welfare
Society, a non-governmental organ-
isation that promotes family well-
being, commissioned the Chinese
University of Hong Kong to survey
secondary school students on cyber
bullying from December last year to
February. More than 1,800 students
Scoliosis is an irreversible
condition which causes the
spine to bend into a C or S
shape. It is not known
what causes the disorder,
but doctors believe it
could be hereditary.
SMP GRAPHIC
ings with occupational therapists
and psychiatric nurses, the elderly
people were reminded of things that
could make them happy, Tong Choi-
ying, the centre’s director of elderly
care programmes, said.
Before the programme, the 31
participants had an average of 9.6 on
the Hamilton Depression rating
scale. After the programme, the
rating dropped to 7.43 – indicating an
improvement from mild- to border-
line depression.
On the Hamilton scale, scores of
seven to 17 indicate mild depression,
18 to 24 moderate depression, and
above 24 severe depression.
Ho developed mild depression at
the start of this year after a fall at
Clean sweep
12,400 pupils were
covered by the scheme
......................................................
After random selection, the number
who took the urine test, with all
1,975
returning negative results, was
......................................................
School violence
has a great
negative impact
on pupils and
will affect their
academic results
......................................................
Dr Chen Ji-kang, assistant professor
of social work at Chinese University
home. This brought on the realis-
ation that her sight and hearing had
deteriorated quickly.
“I always felt bored and did not
want to go out. I felt that my hand-
writing became less clear than be-
fore,” she said.
Ma Ting-ho, a teenage student
who volunteered for the programme,
said the visitors helped Ho rediscover
happiness by reminding her of her
travel experiences.
“Through chatting we realised
that Ho loves travelling. We asked her
to gather her pictures and make a
‘flight diary’,” he said.
Ma and another volunteer spent a
month making the colourful diary
with words and graphics.
The scheme has been imple-
mented in 23 schools in Tai Po. More
than 12,400 pupils were covered by it
and 2,495 of them were randomly se-
lected for screening by urine test. A
total of 1,975 pupils took the test;
none tested positive.
Schools in other districts have
shown interest in the scheme, Shek
said. There was flexibility in how they
could implement it, he said.
He said an interim review would
be completed this month, and the
government was considering wheth-
er to continue with the scheme.
The voluntary drug-testing trial is
responded and about a 30 per cent of
those polled reported they had fallen
victim to cyber bullying.
Close to 20 per cent of respon-
dents said they had bullied others on-
line. For instance, they had threat-
ened, vilified, or insulted others or
distributed private or indecent pho-
tographs of them.
In all cases, more boys than girls
were involved. Spreading messages
of hate was most common.
Students who have been bullied
online may develop depression in the
most serious cases, warned Dr Chen
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
In Brief
Officials to reveal condition of
2,000 trees deemed dangerous
After a series of accidents, officials
will reveal in two weeks the
condition of 2,000 trees deemed
dangerous, acting head of the Tree
Management Office Kathy Ng Tze-
kwun said. The list includes 500 old
and valuable trees, 200 of which are
growing over walls, and others that
are being inspected, Ng said. A tree
that fell on and killed a cyclist in Sha
Tin last month was not on the list of
2,000. In July 2008, a 19-year-old
student was killed by a falling tree in
Stanley.
Department investigating two
reef-fish poisoning cases
The Food and Environmental
Hygiene Department is investigating
two separate cases of ciguatera
poisoning from eating reef fish last
week. A man and a woman, aged 63
and 48, developed symptoms of the
poisoning – including numbness,
diarrhoea, palpitations and hot and
cold flushes – after eating in a
restaurant in the Eastern District on
Thursday. The man was admitted to
Tseung Kwan O Hospital. A man
and a woman aged 34 and 35
developed similar symptoms after
eating a reef fish bought from a wet
market in Nelson Street, Mong Kok,
a day earlier. The woman was
admitted to Kwong Wah Hospital in
stable condition. A Centre for Health
Protection official advised diners not
to eat the head, skin or internal
organs of large reef fish.
Minibus driver dies after
collapsing with heatstroke
Leung Chun-lau, the 81-year-old
minibus driver who collapsed with
suspected heatstroke in his minibus
in Mong Kok on Friday after turning
off its engine to avoid it idling while
stationary, died in Kwong Wah
Hospital. The government issued a
very hot weather warning yesterday
morning, but cancelled it in the
afternoon. It was the second such
warning in three days.
Temperatures rose above 33 degrees
Celsius in most of the New
Territories, with Sheung Shui (34.7
degrees) the hottest. Very hot
weather has been forecast for the
next two days, with the mercury
expected to hit 33 degrees.
6 held over illegal tobacco haul
Six men, aged 44 to 69, were arrested
after customs officers seized nine
boxes of contraband tobacco. The
boxes contained 18,000 illegal
cigarettes valued at HK$37,000, with
a tax value of HK$28,000. They were
found on a fishing boat in waters off
Cheung Chau.
Police to increase beach patrols
The police will step up beach patrols
as the swimming season gets under
way. The move comes after four
cases of theft on beaches in the first
half of the year in Southern district,
the same number as last year. The
items stolen included backpacks,
wallets, cameras and mobile
phones. No one has been arrested.
Police said it was difficult to identify
thieves on beaches as there were
seldom witnesses.
McDonald’s silent on chemical
Fast-food chain McDonald’s has not
confirmed or denied a report that
their chicken nuggets – sold under
the name McNuggets – contain a
chemical substance used in toy Silly
Putty, according to a Cable TV
report. A spokesman said measures
were in place to ensure food safety
and quality, and that the
manufacturing process was within
the law. The chain’s chicken nuggets
sold in the US contained
dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-
foaming agent used in Silly Putty.
Harry’s view estimated to have cost
HK$11 million. Shek
said apart from drug
10 tests, other resources,
such as the number of
social workers stationed in schools,
should also be increased.
Kwok Wing-keung, Tai Po district
chairman of the Association of Heads
of Secondary Schools, said he had
reached a consensus with other
schools in the district that there was
room for improvement in the
scheme. For example, he said, proce-
dures could be simplified to save time
and money.
Ji-kang, assistant professor of social
work at Chinese University, who led
the study.
"School violence has a great nega-
tive impact on pupils and will affect
their academic results, intention to
go to school and their normal school
life. So we should pay close attention
to it," Chen said.
Often, school and peer support
were more important for victims
than support from family, he said.
He suggested that internet service
providers set up a management
mechanisms to curb the problem.
SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
National 5

Police recover
calligraphy lost
for 18 years
......................................................
Minnie Chan
Eighteen years after first being told
about it, police have finally learned
what happened to more than 100
pieces of calligraphy, worth an esti-
mated tens of billions of yuan on the
art market, that were donated to a lo-
cal government in Shaanxi . 1992, after the exhibition’s organiser
The case involves 122 works by Yu
Yu-jen , a famous calligra-
pher and former senior Kuomintang
official during Chiang Kai-shek’s ad-
ministration. In 1986, Zhuo Deng
, a son of one of Yu’s assistants,
decided to give the collection to the
Ethnic Uygur women pass the paramilitary police patrolling a street in Urumqi yesterday, ahead of the first anniversary of the July 5 clashes between the Uygurs and Han Chinese. Photo: AFP political consultative conference in
Xianyang city .Six years later, he
The investigation team did not ex-
plain why the MPCC did not ask for
the return of the works.
Tian yesterday said Cui, then
county party committee consultant
who was in charge of the exhibition,
decided to give 78 pieces of Yu’s work
to a museum in Yu’s hometown in
ran out of money to continue the na-
tional display.
He and his colleague, Zhang, de-
cided to divide up the remaining 24
items, which have now been re-
turned to the Xianyang city govern-
ment.
The whole affair hasn’t been easy
on the 77-year-old Zhuo. He told lo-

Ningxia exercises ahead of Xinjiang riots anniversary happened to discover the works had
disappeared but when he tried to
alert the authorities they ignored
cal media that he started to receive
threatening, mysterious text mes-

him.
I received a SMS that

PLA-Pakistan anti-terror
But in June, Zhuo’s story was sud-
denly picked up by state media, forc-
ing a public outcry. said ‘mind your
The mounting public pressure
forced the Xianyang police to launch
head’, while another
a probe into the whereabouts of the urged me to be

drill a signal to separatists

......................................................
Staff Reporter and Agence France-
Presse in Washington
China and Pakistan yesterday kicked
off a joint anti-terrorist drill in the
mountainous area in Ningxia , ity. Lieutenant General Khalid Sha-
in what state media described as a de-
liberate warning to “East Turkestan
terrorists” two days before the first
anniversary of the riots in Xinjiang.
The drill, coded “Friendship
2010”, will last for 11 days and 113 sol-
diers from each side of the People’s
Liberation Army and Pakistan mili-
tary will take part, China News Ser-
vice reported yesterday.
The exercise simulates anti-ter-
rorist operations in the mountainous
area at the Chinese border, it said.
Wang Guosheng , com-
mander of China’s Lanzhou Military
Area Command, was quoted by Xin-
hua as saying at the opening ceremo-
ny yesterday that the drill would up-
grade the capabilities of both sides in
fighting terrorism together and safe-
guarding regional peace and stabil-
meem Wynne, chief of the general
staff of the Pakistan Army, said the
drill showed the two countries’ deter-
mination to combat the “three
forces” – referring to extremism, sep-
aratism and terrorism, Xinhua said.
While Xinhua made no reference
to Xinjiang , World News Jour-
nal, a publication under the state-run
China Radio International, said the
drill would serve as a warning to the
Xinjiang separatists now hiding in the
mountains bordering Xinjiang and
Pakistan.
It also quoted Li Wei , direc-
tor of the Centre for Counter-Terror-
ism Studies, China Institutes of Con-
temporary International Relations,
as saying Ningxia was chosen for its
mountainous landscape similar to
that at the border of Pakistan.
Xinjiang separatists have been the
targets of two previous joint anti-ter-
rorist drills held by China and Paki-
stan. Their first joint anti-terrorism
exercise was held in Xinjiang in 2004
while the second took place in 2006 in
the hills of northern Pakistan’s
Abbottabad.
Xinjiang has stepped up security
ahead of the first anniversary of the
riots in Urumqi on July 5 in
which nearly 200 people were killed
and about 1,700 injured. Official
media said thousands of high-resolu-
tion, vandal-proof surveillance cam-
eras were installed across Urumqi,
while non-permanent residents in
the city are required to apply for tem-
porary residential permits.
Just ahead of the tense anniver-
sary, the US is urging Beijing to be
more transparent in its restive region.
“We continue to urge China to
handle all detentions and judicial
processes relating to last year’s vio-
lence in Urumqi in a transparent
manner,” State Department spokes-
man Mark Toner said. “We have
urged China to ensure that the legal
rights of all Chinese citizens are res-
pected in accordance with interna-
tional standards of due process.”
Uygur activists charge that Chi-
nese authorities have rounded up
thousands of suspected government
critics since the unrest. At least nine
people, who appear mostly to be Uy-
gurs, have been executed over the
unrest, according to official accounts.
Beijing has announced it is pour-
ing around 10 billion yuan (HK$11.5
billion) in development aid into Xin-
jiang beginning in 2011to raise Uygur
living standards and quell discon-
tent. Amnesty International called on
Beijing on Friday to launch an inde-
pendent inquiry into the July 5 riots.
“The official account leaves too
many questions unanswered. How
many people really died, who killed
them, how did it happen, and why?”
said Catherine Baber, the London-
based rights group’s Asia-Pacific
deputy director. “Instead of stifling
inquiry, blaming outside agitators
and generating fear, the Chinese gov-
ernment should use the anniversary
to launch a proper investigation, in-
cluding into the Uygur community’s
long-simmering grievances that con-
tributed to the unrest.”
calligraphy.
The Municipal Political Consulta-
tive Conference (MPCC) of Xianyang
told a press conference yesterday
that 102 pieces had been “under the
custody” of two former low-level
county officials – former Sanyuan
County Party Committee consultant
Cui Dezhi and former San-
yang County United Front Work De-
partment official Zhang Aili
since May 2001.
The whereabouts of the remain-
ing 20 pieces is still unclear.
Tian Xiaodong , a spokes-
man of the Xianyang MPCC, said
Zhuo had donated Yu’s works in ex-
change for hukou, or urban resi-
dence, for his five family members.
It said Zhuo had also become a
member of Xianyang MPCC since his
donation. An investigation team
formed by 14 members of Xianyang’s
local legislature and police found that
more than 100 of the donated pieces
had been taken on a nationwide
travelling exhibition in 1992. Howev-
er, they were never returned to the
Xianyang MPCC, the China Radio
Network said.
careful of my
personal safety
......................................................
Zhuo Deng, who pushed for
investigation into the theft
sages sent to his mobile phone after
the high-profile coverage began last
– month.
“I received an SMS that said ‘mind
your head’, while another one urged
me to be careful of my personal safe-
ty,” Zhuo told the Metropolis News.
However, the media and several
internet users are criticising the gov-
ernment’s explanation and many
questioned why the government
stopped short of confessing the
works had been divided up between
the officials.
“The officials like power, money
and they like cultural relics … They
crave whatever they see and they take
whatever they like,” said one internet
posting.
Yu is a distant relative of Lawrence
Lau, former vice-chancellor of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tibetan gets 5 years in jail

for inciting separatism
......................................................
Associated Press in Beijing
A Tibetan environmentalist was sen-
tenced to five years in jail yesterday
on a charge of inciting separatism on
the mainland, in the latest sign of
what rights groups call increasing re-
pression of Tibetan intellectuals.
Authorities said an article on the
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai
Lama, was posted on Rinchen Sam-
drup’s website, which is devoted to
environmental protection in the Hi-
malayan region.
Rinchen Samdrup, 44, pleaded
not guilty in a trial that lasted less
than two hours. He told the Chamdo
Intermediate People’s Court he did
not post the article but it was a mis-
take not to delete it quickly.
The government is sensitive
about anything related to the Dalai
Lama, whom it accuses of supporting
independence for Tibet . Riots
in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in
2008 killed at least 22 people.
“I feel regret about this sentence,”
Rinchen Samdrup’s lawyer Xia Jun
said after the verdict. “It was a mis-
take but not a crime.”
The lawyer said someone else had
posted the article, not his client. He
did not say who.
The sentence comes a little over a
week after Rinchen Samdrup’s
brother was sentenced to 15 years in
jail on charges of grave-robbing and
dealing in looted antiquities. Karma
Samdrup, 42, is an environmentalist
well known across the mainland and
was once praised by the government
as a model philanthropist.
Supporters of Karma Samdrup
said the sentence was aimed at pun-
ishing him for his activism, including
his efforts to free Rinchen Samdrup
and another brother, Jigme Namgyal,
from detention. The siblings were de-
tained in August after accusing local
officials in eastern Tibet of poaching
He looked much
thinner than before.
His condition was
not very good.
We couldn’t talk
with him directly
......................................................
Dorje Songmu, daughter
of Rinchen Samdrup (below)
endangered species. Chime Nam-
gyal, 38, is reportedly serving a 21-
month sentence in a labour camp on
a vague charge of harming national
security.
Even after Rinchen Samdrup was
detained, the People’s Daily newspa-
per published stories this year in
praise of his environmental work.
Xia said Rinchen Samdrup had 10
days to appeal. His daughter, Dorje
Songmu, who attended the trial, said:
“This morning, he looked much thin-
ner than before. His condition was
not very good. We couldn’t talk with
him directly.”
Court officials had no comment
yesterday.
Last month, the Washington-
based International Campaign for Ti-
bet published a report saying 31 Ti-
betans were now in prison “after re-
porting or expressing views, writing
poetry or prose, or simply sharing in-
formation about Chinese govern-
ment policies and their impact in
Tibet today”.
The report said it was the first time
since the end of the Cultural Revolu-
tion in 1976 that there had been such
a targeted campaign against Tibetan
singers, artists and writers who ex-
pressed their views peacefully.
New York-based group Human
Rights Watch said the Samdrup
brothers “embody the characteristics
the government says it wants in mod-
ern Tibetans … yet they, too, are
being treated as criminals”.

Workers end strike at electronics

plant over pay and benefits
......................................................
Associated Press in Beijing
Workers at a Japanese-owned elec-
tronics plant in northern China have
ended a strike over pay and benefits
after four days, state media say.
Mitsumi Electric said the plant in
Tianjin resumed production
yesterday, Xinhua reported.
AMitsumi Electric statement gave
no details of any agreement between
the plant and its estimated 2,800
workers. The company could not be
reached for comment, and there was
Mitsumi spokesman said earlier the
workers were probably inspired by
similar strikes in recent weeks at To-
yota Motor and Honda Motor.
About 100 Mitsumi workers were
seen standing and sitting on the steps
leading into the factory on Thursday.
Handwritten signs posted on the fac-
tory gates called on the owners to “re-
Monthly earnings
A worker says new staff earn this
amount in yuan a month for a six-day
week with two hours of overtime a day
turn our blood money” and for local
leaders to give workers a fair wage.
One worker told Xinhua earlier
that recently hired staff earned 1,500
yuan (HK$1,720) a month, working
six days a week with two hours of
overtime a day.
The government has normally
been quick to crush mass protests,
but labour strikes have spread this
summer as it tries to restructure its
export-driven economy to become
more self-sustaining through mea-
sures aimed at increasing the in-

1,500
no update posted on the website for comes of ordinary people.

its Tianjin plant.
The strike was the latest on the
mainland involving foreign-owned
companies as workers grow more de-
manding about better conditions. A
¥
Workers’ salaries as a share of the
economy have declined in the past
two decades, dropping from 57 per
cent of gross domestic product in
...................................................... 1983 to just 37 per cent in 2005.
6 National
Lands officials seen as most corrupt, Reality TV
and a scandal in Jiangxi offers proof ‘material girl’
......................................................
Shi Jiangtao in Beijing
No one is more prone to corruption
on the mainland than the cadres
heading lands bureaus, fellow cadres
say. Even the lands minister in Bei-
jing admits it is a problem.
The reason isn’t hard to fathom –
their control over the supply of land
on which developers keen to exploit
the mainland’s property boom rely
has placed them among the most
powerful of government agencies.
So big has the problem become
that lands officials were disciplined
or penalised for involvement in ille-
gal land acquisitions at the rate of
more than one a day in the first three
months of this year, according to
ministry figures. (One, Wang Haifeng
, the former land chief in
Maanshan , Anhui , was
sentenced to death with a two-year
reprieve in March for accepting
bribes of more than 17 million yuan
(HK$19.5 million).)
And so commonplace have their
crimes become that even an unusu-
ally big scandal in a provincial lands
and resources bureau – such as the
one that has unfolded over the past
year in Jiangxi – barely causes a
ripple among the public any longer.
In what local media say is the
southeastern province’s biggest graft
scandal in a decade, three of the
province’s top five lands officials,
sacked for corruption on the same
day a year ago, were recently sen-
tenced to long jail terms. Since their
detention another 13 officials impli-
cated in the case have fallen from
grace; one has been sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Still, many people say such cases
are the tip of the iceberg. If anything,
they prompt discussion about the
scale of the corruption problem be-
setting the real estate market – the
engine of economic development on
the mainland. Fast-rising property
prices, which leave would-be buyers
frustrated and bewildered, and the
injustices of illegal land clearance for
development – often because of
bribes paid to lands officials – have
become a source of social tension
and of unrest with the potential for
explosive consequences.
The Jiangxi scandal began when
three deputy heads of its Land and
Resources Bureau, Li Jianghua
, Dr Xu Jianbin and
Chen Aimin , were turned
over to graft-busters by their boss,
Digest
Environment
Guilin sees mass rally over rubbish facility
Hundreds of people from 11 villages in the
southwestern region of Guangxi took to
the streets of the popular tourist city of Guilin
yesterday to protest against the
construction of a waste disposal facility,
Xinhua reported. Shouting slogans and waving
banners, protesters from Lingchuan county
marched on the road to Guilin, which
administers Lingchuan. They said they would
not allow the local government to build the
planned waste disposal centre in Silian village,
in Lingtian township. Waste disposal has
become a new flashpoint on the mainland.
Late last year, Guangzhou decided to scrap a
plan to build a rubbish incinerator near a
smart residential district in Panyu after
local residents protested. Staff Reporter
Fowl play. Zhang
Lijun referees a
mock World Cup
soccer match
featuring her two
cockerels in
Shenyang ,
Liaoning
province,
yesterday. She
started training
the cockerels to
play the sport in
2007 and they
have been playing
it regularly since
then.
Photo: EPA
bureau chief Liu Jifu , accord-
ing to The Beijing News. The trio were
sacked in March last year and put un-
der shuanggui, a form of party disci-
plinary punishment.
Like many others brought low by
corruption, they had been seen as
high-fliers.
In 2000, Li, 47, became the youn-
gest official to be promoted to deputy
bureau chief. He was sentenced to
life imprisonment in April for taking
5.74 million yuan in bribes.
Xu, 42, was sent to work in Jiangxi
in 2004, having previously served in
Li Jianghua the Ministry of Land and Resources
in Beijing. It took him only three years
to rise from assistant mayor of Shang-
rao to deputy lands bureau
ANHUI
Hubei chief. Xu was sentenced to 15 years’
imprisonment in January for accept-
ing 2.2 million yuan in bribes.
Nanchang Chen, 56, a former party chief of
Guixi , was also sentenced to 15
years in jail by a county court early
Jiangxi this month for taking bribes of 2.2
million yuan.
Fujian More officials were brought down
Hunan
after the three were sacked.
Zhou Hongwei , the land
resources chief in the provincial capi-
tal, Nanchang , was reportedly
100km
turned over to the graft-busters by Li.
Zhou was jailed for life for taking
SMP GRAPHIC nearly 6 million yuan in bribes.
“Bribe-givers, mostly property
developers, had to queue up outside
his home to bribe him during holi-
days,” one anti-graft official said.
Two Guixi officials were implicat-
ed in Chen’s case. Li Changhua
, the city’s deputy party chief
in charge of real estate, was sen-
tenced to 13 years in prison; Chen Fu-
ren , the land resources chief,
was jailed for 51⁄2 years.
Liu, the provincial lands bureau
chief, appears not to have been tar-
nished in the campaign and held his
Xu Jianbin post until he reached the mandatory
retirement age of 60 and was re-
placed by former Nanchang mayor
Hu Xian in March. The three
deputy posts have yet to be filled, ac-
cording to the bureau’s website.
Some media reports have ques-
tioned the manner in which Li, Xu
and Chen were brought down. A
commentary in the Ningbo
newspaper Modern Jinbao, owned
by Xinhua, argued that the officials’
fall from grace seemed more a case of
departmental infighting.
Chen Aimin
Quoting officials who worked in
the lands bureau, the commentary
Accident
Families reject compensation offer
The owner of the Overseas Chinese Town East
amusement park in Shenzhen yesterday
offered 624,000 yuan (HK$717,000)
compensation to the families of each of the six
people killed in an accident on its Space
Journey ride last week, but they rejected his
offer. They said they had demanded 930,000
yuan compensation for each victim, based on
their potential to earn for another 20 years the
3,892 yuan monthly average salary in
Shenzhen last year, the China News Agency
said. But Overseas Chinese Town said that, by
law, the calculation should be based on 20
years at a 2,600 yuan monthly salary for each
victim. It said the park’s insurer had so far had The amusement park where six people were
paid out at least 1.08 million yuan. Six people killed last week. The cause of the accident is
died and 10 were injured. Minnie Chan yet to be announced. Photo: EPA
said Liu had been at odds with his sector were “persistent” and “hard to
deputies since he was transferred to fight” because of the powerful special
the post in 2005 after serving as Com- interest groups behind the country’s
munist Party boss in Jiujiang . building boom.
Witnesses described the relation- Zhu Lijia , a professor at
ship between Liu and Li, his top- the National School of Administra-
ranking deputy, as “hostile and irrec- tion, said corruption among land re-
oncilable” and said they often fought sources officials was the result of col-
in front of their staff. lusion between government officials
Things turned ugly early last year and business. He blames an “over-
when Liu was tipped off by provincial concentration of government power
party disciplinary officials that some without the necessary checks and
of the conversations in his office had balances” and noted that most cor-
been secretly recorded, according to ruption cases in recent years had to
office staff quoted by the newspaper. do with land-use problems.
Its commentary said that although In a recent online survey of nearly
Liu was not the main target of the 7,000 respondents by the People’s
eavesdropping, which had been or- Forum – a magazine put out by the
chestrated by Xu, Liu was enraged, People’s Daily, a Communist Party
named his three deputies as key sus- mouthpiece – the job of land and re-
pects and demanded a formal inves- sources bureau chief was ranked the
tigation. “The three sacked officials most susceptible to corruption. Ana-
have been under investigation for lysts said that reflected the rapid rise
in land-related corruption compared
to graft involving the police, public
Corruption in the real transport and urban construction
officials – previously believed to be
estate sector hurts the the most corrupt.
interests of the Even Land Resources Minister Xu
Shaoshi admitted that the
majority and amount of corruption in the sector
was worrying. “The land resources
exacerbates social sector is most vulnerable to corrup-
tion. It has had a huge number of
inequality, which … graft scandals,” he said.
could become a Although Beijing has long vowed
to stamp out corruption and rein in
catalyst for social local authorities’ abuse of power,
poor law enforcement and an inabil-
crisis ity to curb official power have ren-
...................................................... dered all such efforts virtually futile.
Ren Jianming, an anti-corruption An anti-corruption expert at
expert at Tsinghua University Tsinghua University, Professor Ren
Jianming , said land-related
corruption by provincial graft-bust- corruption could have dire conse-
ers for a long time, and the eaves- quences. “Corruption in the real
dropping incident has apparently ac- estate sector hurts the interests of the
celerated the process,” an unnamed majority and exacerbates social in-
Jiangxi law enforcement official was equality, which severely undermines
quoted as saying. the government’s credibility and
But provincial officials insisted could become a catalyst for social cri-
the trio faced separate, unrelated cor- sis,” he said.
ruption charges. And in an interview Zhu, at the National School of Ad-
with the Guangdong-based Time ministration, said promoting govern-
Weekly, Liu firmly denied he had ment transparency – which involved,
been responsible for bringing down among other steps, requiring top offi-
three of his deputies. cials to publicly declare their assets –
Whatever the facts behind this was the only way to rein in govern-
case, observers and officials are in no ment power and tackle widespread
doubt as to the seriousness of the cor- land corruption. “Although officials
ruption problems surrounding lands often talk about transparency as well
bureaus.
Ren Yuling , an adviser to
as the need to make public their fam-
ily assets, there is nothing much hap-
the State Council, said corruption
problems in the land and property
pening, apart from publicity stunts,”
he said.
Weather
26 dead, 73 still missing in landslide
Twenty-six people were confirmed dead and
73 others remained missing in the southwest
after heavy rain triggered a landslide last week,
state media reported yesterday. Rescuers were
still searching for signs of life in the massive
expanse of mud and rocks that smothered
Dazhai village in Guizhou province on
Monday, Xinhua said, but there appeared
scant hope of finding any survivors. “Although
the chances are slim we have not given up
looking for survivors,” Pu Jianjiang, head of
search operations, said. More than 100,000
cubic metres of mud and rocks, the equivalent
of 40 Olympic-size swimming pools, engulfed
30 buildings and homes, state press reports
said. One report said up to 30 children were
among the missing. AFP
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
paying the price
Ma Nuo , 22, grew up in the back
streets of Beijing. Before January this Changing
year, she was just a student at an arts
vocational school in the Tongzhou Faces
district of the capital. But after she
took part in a television dating show
entitled Don’t Bother Me Unless You don’t expect him to have a lot of
Are Serious, she became a household money and rich men are not really
name across the mainland. my type because I am too bossy. As
“I would rather cry in a BMW than long as the guy makes about the
smile on the back seat of my same amount of money as I do, that
boyfriend’s bicycle,” Ma said on is enough.
television. The remark made her a One of my ex-boyfriends always
symbol of the “material girl” spent my money. That relationship
phenomenon on the mainland. But lasted a year and a half. I was 17 and
she says people misunderstood her. he was 23 then. After quitting his job
in a health club, he would wake up
Tell me about yourself. at around noon every day, and then
I am a Beijing native and I grew up in play table tennis in the afternoon.
hutong. Both my parents work for He would then call me and ask me to
state-owned companies. I have been buy him supper in the evening.
living with my grandmother since I As someone who started doing
was six. My grandma and my father part-time jobs in middle school, I
like sons, but unfortunately I am a can’t tolerate men who do nothing
girl, so they raised me like a boy. and depend on women, so I broke
They shaved my head bald until I up with that guy.
was 10.
When I was in high school, I
became a part-time model and
posed for magazine covers. My
grades weren’t good and I failed the
national university entrance
examination. I felt sorry for my
parents and started making money
on my own.
Why did you decide to join the TV
dating reality show?
At that time, I had just broken up
with my boyfriend and was upset.
One of my best friends told me there
was a TV dating show in Nanjing
and suggested I give it a try. He
said I might be able to find a new
boyfriend through the show and
that even if I could not find love, I
could still gain an opportunity to be
on television. I took his advice and
went to Nanjing.
Why did you make the statement that
“you would rather cry in a BMW than
smile on the back seat of your
boyfriend’s bicycle”?
That is actually not what I meant. I
just wanted to say no to a male
guest. He asked me on the show As someone who
whether I would sit on the back seat
of his bicycle to tour Nanjing. I started doing part-
didn’t like him and wanted to refuse.
“I would rather cry in a BMW
time jobs in middle
than smile on a bicycle seat” is a
common saying circulating on the
school, I can’t tolerate
internet. At the time, that sentence men who do nothing
popped up in my mind and just ......................................................
burst out. A man’s financial Ma Nuo
situation is not my concern. I don’t
know why so many people were
offended by the remark. If I had
Have you heard you have been banned
from TV by the authorities?
known they would be, I would have No, I haven’t. But I have received no
said “crying in a helicopter” instead invitations from TV stations since
of a BMW. last month. I panicked when people
began calling me “money-
Do you know the reason people were worshipping woman” and attacking
offended? me on the internet. I tried to explain,
I think the remark hurt many but nobody would listen. I am not a
people’s feelings. Maybe some had “money-worshipping woman”. I am
broken up with their girlfriends only a young woman who wants to
because they had no money. Or be famous but does not know how.
maybe some could not afford a And I don’t know how to protect
BMW. What I said seemingly myself in the process.
irritated them. I am now rehearsing for a drama
which will be on stage on July 12.
What type of men do you like? With the TV show, I grew up
People call me a “money- overnight and now realise I will be
worshipping woman” (a term for held responsible for everything I say.
“material girl” in Chinese) and they I did not expect to become so
think I am a woman obsessed with famous. Right now I just hope my
money. Many people think I am life will be as busy as it was before I
only interested in men who at least was banned from TV. I hope I can
own a BMW. But the truth is, as long find more work.
as I have feelings about a guy and ......................................................
like him, I will go out with him. I Ma Nuo spoke to Yu Aitong
SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
Firm may have been used to transfer
money for espionage to Britain
UK probes funds
at charity set up
by alleged spy 462
Television cameras line up
outside the court. Photo: AP
Detained couple
admit to living under
fake identities
A couple detained in the US-Russia
spy scandal confessed to being
Russian citizens living under fake
identities, prosecutors said, as they
prepared to reveal new evidence of
the 11 suspects’ alleged conspiracy
against the US government.
The government said its charges
were now backed by “well over” 100
decrypted messages between
conspirators, compared with just a
handful of other such messages
presented earlier.
Suspects “Michael Zottoli” and
“Patricia Mills”, a married couple,
confessed in post-arrest statements
that their given names were fake and
that they were in fact Russian citizens.
“Zottoli” admitted his true name
was Mikhail Kutzik and that his real
birth date was different to the one
given under his cover, prosecutors
said. “Mills” confessed her real name
was Natalia Pereverzeva. Both had
relatives in Russia, they said.
The couple were ordered by a
judge in Alexandria, Virginia, to be
kept detained along with the third
suspect, Mikhail Semenko.
The court was unlikely to grant the
trio even temporary freedom. US
authorities are still sweating over the
disappearance in the spy saga of 11th
suspect Christopher Metsos, who was
arrested in Cyprus but vanished after
posting a ¤26,500 (HK$258,900) bond
and surrendering his passport.
Ten suspects were arrested in the
Sunday swoop on alleged “deep
cover” agents living in the US.
In searches of Kutzik and
Pereverzeva’s home and rented safe
deposit boxes since their arrest,
prosecutors said that among other
evidence, US$80,000 in cash was
found in eight envelopes, “packaged
in exactly the same way” as those
recovered in New Jersey this week in
search warrants on other suspects.
The charges of trying to infiltrate
US policymaking circles threaten to
upset efforts to “reset” Washington-
Moscow ties. US Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton declined on
Friday to comment on the spy
scandal, saying only that Washington
was committed to building a new and
positive relationship with Russia.
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Agence France-Presse
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ESPIONAGE
The Guardian in London
British counter-intelligence agency
MI5 is investigating a British com-
pany with close ties to an alleged Rus-
sian spy amid concerns that its ac-
counts may have been used to trans-
fer funds for espionage to Britain.
Southern Union was set up by
Anna Chapman – one of 10 people
charged last week in the US with spy-
ing for the Russians – and her now-
divorced husband Alex to wire mon-
ey from Zimbabwe.
Counter-intelligence officers are
examining the company and a num-
ber of related bank accounts, The
Guardianhas learned. The revelation
follows claims that Chapman’s father
was an alleged KGB agent living in
Zimbabwe at the time.
A lawyer for Chapman, 28, said
her father told her to go to police with
a fake passport an undercover FBI
agent had given to her, leading to her
arrest.
Alex Chapman, who was married
to her for three years, has said South-
ern Union was a charity set up in 2002
by the couple to enable Zimbabwean
expats to wire money back home at
competitive rates. The company was
set up by a millionaire South African
friend of Anna’s father who then took
a commission, he said. Company
documents filed by Ms Chapman
show her signature.
The 30-year-old trainee psychia-
trist has said his former wife, whose
Russian name was Anya Kushchen-
ko, told him her father, Vasily Kush-
chenko, was a high-ranking KGB offi-
cial living in Zimbabwe.
It was during her London years
from 2002 to 2007 that Chapman
underwent her meteoric evolution
from callow girl to a sophisticated
young woman who moved easily
across the most influential and
wealthy echelons of society.
Nicholas Camilleri, chief execu-
tive of the Mayfair-based hedge fund
company Navigator Asset Manage-
ment Advisers, said he first met
Chapman in 2005. She was “a ‘green,
wet behind the ears’ type of girl”.
But less than two years later,
Chapman was being wined and
dined at Annabel’s and Cipriani in
the company of Vincent Tchenguiz, a
private equity billionaire.
Chapman was born in 1982 to Iri-
na and Vasily Kushchenko, a diplo-
mat who served as Russian ambassa-
dor in Kenya. Camilleri remembered
the moment he met Chapman. It was
in Cipriani, a restaurant in London’s
upmarket Mayfair, and she was with
London socialite Shoshana Dadoun.
“I joined Shoshana’s table one
evening and she introduced me to
[Anya],” Camilleri said. “I sat down
and almost immediately, Anya asked
Newsmaker if I could give her a job
… She said she was
working for Barclays
9 Bank but wanted to
leave.”
A few weeks later, she had ex-
changed the bank job which she said
made her feel like a slave for the post
of personal assistant at Camilleri’s
glamorous, west London offices.
But those who knew her then
struggle to see signs of the “practised
deceiver” described by US prosecu-
tors. “She was a simple girl,” Camill-
eri said. “She was all about parties
and didn’t seem that bright.”
Her former husband, however,
describes her as “extremely intelli-
gent” and says she has an IQ of 162.
She graduated with a first-class hon-
ours in economics in 2004.
Lawyer Robert Baum, who is rep-
resenting Chapman, said she told
him she reached out to her father a
day after an FBI agent posing as a
Russian consulate employee asked
Anna Chapman, in an undated
photograph. Photo: AP
her to deliver a fraudulent passport to
another woman working as a spy.
“She spoke to her father, and her
father said, ‘Go turn the passport in’,”
Baum said. “Her father said, ‘You’ve
got this passport. It’s forged. Go turn
it into the police,’ and that’s exactly
what she did.”
At a bail hearing on Monday, As-
sistant US Attorney Michael Farbiarz
said investigators on June 27 inter-
cepted phone calls in which Chap-
man was “talking to a man who is ad-
vising her, who is telling her essen-
tially … to make up a story, to say that
she’s being intimidated, that this
might be some other criminal activ-
ity, and who advises her to get out of
the country and to go to the police”.
Baum said he believed the phone
calls cited by prosecutors were con-
versations between Chapman and
her father.
Meanwhile, Southern Union is
facing a second investigation after its
sole director said he was appointed to
the position without his knowledge.
Steve Sugden, 36, said he had nev-
er heard of the firm until contacted by
journalists and had reported the
enterprise to Companies House, the
body which enforces company law.
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Additional reporting by
Associated Press
Show of arms
The three Ohio-class submarines
have been recently upgraded.
They now carry improved
intelligence sensors, special
operations troops and hundreds of
Tomahawk cruise missiles, a
manoeuvrable low-flying weapon
designed to strike targets on land.
Between them, the three
submarines can carry
Tomahawks
USS Florida
Submarines show up in E Asia
ports in show of US military might
• CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
than 650 short-range ballistic mis-
siles. A recent report from the Wash-
ington-based Project 2049 Institute
think tank noted that expanded con-
ventional ballistic and ground-
launched cruise missiles were now
“the centrepiece of [China’s] political
and military strategy”.
Coupled with other improved
aerospace capabilities, such as elec-
tronic sensors, over the next 15 years
China might be “increasingly confi-
dent of its ability to dominate the
skies around its periphery”, the
report said. It noted that the PLA
could challenge the defences of Tai-
wan, Japan and India, as well as US
forces in the western Pacific.
“This may lead Beijing to become
more assertive in its dealings with its
neighbours,” says the report, written
China ‘very opposed to’ US-Korea Yellow Sea drill
Beijing strongly opposes a joint military
drill between the US and South Korea in
the Yellow Sea later this month, a
senior PLA official says.
General Ma Xiaotian , strongest opposition voiced by Beijing
deputy chief of general staff in the
People’s Liberation Army, said: “Since it
is in the Yellow Sea, it is very close to
China’s waters. We are very opposed to
such a drill.”
Ma made the remark during an
interview with Phoenix Television on
July 1. Official news portals, including
Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia
USS Ohio
by analysts Mark Stokes and Ian
Easton.
“A strategic shift in [the] regional
aerospace balance also may increas-
ingly unravel the fabric of US alli-
ances and prompt allies and friends
to consider weapons of mass des-
truction … as an insurance against
unfavourable imbalances,” it says.
In policies drafted under then-
president George W. Bush, a Repub-
lican, and continued by the adminis-
tration of his successor, Democrat
Barack Obama, the Pentagon is shift-
ing 60 per cent of its 53 fast-attack
submarines to the Pacific – a process
that is now virtually complete.
But the presence of the larger
cruise-missile submarines shows
that, at times, the US forward posture
will be significantly larger.
While nominally based on the
west coast of the United States, the
that of the Communist Party’s
mouthpiece People’s Daily, gave
prominent coverage to it yesterday.
His comment represents the
so far. Previously, Beijing had said it is
“extremely concerned” about the drill.
The PLA is staging live-fire naval
exercises in the East China Sea, close to
the Yellow Sea, in an apparent protest
against the possible presence of a US
aircraft carrier on its doorstep. The PLA
drill will end tomorrow.
Ohio, for example, has been operat-
ing out of Guam for most of the last
year, taking advantage of the island’s
expanding facilities to extend its
operations in the western Pacific.
It is due to return soon, but the
Florida and the Michigan are likely to
remain in the region for many
months yet, using Guam and possi-
bly Diego Garcia for essential mainte-
nance and crew changes.
Japan, South Korea,
Indonesia, Vietnam,
Malaysia, Singapore
and Australia … have
expressed concerns
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An Asian diplomat
Even as he expressed opposition to
the US-South Korea drill, Ma said on the
same day that Beijing would welcome a
visit from US Defence Secretary Dr
Robert Gates at an appropriate time –
indicating the complexity of Sino-US
relations.
“Our stance remains that when both
sides consider it’s appropriate, [China
welcomes] his visit,” Ma said, in
comments that might signal Beijing is
ready to resume bilateral military
exchanges.
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SOUTH KOREA
Pusan
PHILIPPINES
Subic Bay
USS Michigan
The presence of the Florida, based
on the US east coast, appears to con-
firm the US is still routinely bringing
submarines under the arctic ice cap
to East Asia. Some US east coast ports
are closer, via this route, to the region
than some west coast bases, such as
San Diego.
Just one other submarine has
been converted from ballistic to
cruise missiles and all four are cur-
rently deployed simultaneously for
the first time.
Announcing the move earlier this
month, Submarine Squadron 19
Commander Captain John Tammen
noted the “transformational capabil-
ities” of the cruise missile subma-
rines. “[They] provide the combatant
commander a significant increase in
war-fighting ability, and options for
resolving and deterring conflict,” he
said.
About a month ago, Beijing turned
down a US proposal that Gates visit
China, a move that Washington
considered a snub to its fence-mending
efforts.
The US-South Korea drill is billed as
a warning to Pyongyang, which Seoul
accuses of sinking its corvette the
Cheonan in March, killing 46 sailors.
The hermit state denies it torpedoed
the vessel.
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Staff Reporter
8 International
Hostage honours. Ingrid Betancourt (centre), her daughter
Melanie Delloye, and members of the Colombian army and
police force who were rescued from leftist rebels, gather on
Chinese student
faces deportation
by US for irate call
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UNITED STATES
The New York Times
Everyone knowledgeable about the
criminal case against Zhai Tiantian
seems to agree on one point: during a
telephone call on April 15 to the Ste-
vens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, New Jersey, Zhai lost his
cool.
What he intended to say during
the call is a matter of dispute. All the
same, Zhai, a former PhD candidate
at Stevens and a Chinese citizen, has
spent the 11 weeks since then in the
Hudson County Correctional Centre
in Kearny, New Jersey, on charges of
making “terroristic threats” and faces
possible deportation.
The case has bloomed into a
minor international incident,
tracked closely by the news media in
China, where it has prompted out-
rage in some quarters. Chinese diplo-
mats in New York have appealed to
the university to help Zhai.
School officials contend that Zhai,
26, angered over his suspension from
the university for disciplinary rea-
sons, called the switchboard at the
campus’ main offices and said, “I’m
going to burn that building down.”
Zhai’s advocates say that while he
used inflammatory language, he was
speaking metaphorically, to describe
the effect of a lawsuit he planned to
file against the university challenging
his suspension.
Jerry Sova, a friend who has stayed
in touch with Zhai and visited him in
jail, said the former student had ad-
mitted using provocative words but
insisted he never had any intention of
committing arson.
“He told me that he said, ‘I’m go-
ing to burn down Stevens by suing
them and going to ABC and CBS’,”
Sova said. “He is impulsive. I think
that was a horrible use of language.”
To make matters worse for every-
one involved in the case, Stevens offi-
cials say, the charge against Zhai has
been misinterpreted, particularly in
the Chinese news media, as accusing
him of acts of terrorism.
The university’s special counsel,
Chris Adams, explained that New Jer-
sey law used the term “terroristic
ANNOUNCEMENT
threats” to describe “statements
made with the purpose to cause seri-
ous public inconvenience”.
“Unfortunately, it shares the
same word as ‘acts of terrorism’,”
Adams said. “No one is suggesting
that this is terrorism.”
If convicted, Zhai faced a penalty
of as much as three to five years in
prison, Adams said.
Zhai, who is from Xian , en-
rolled at Stevens in 2000, said one of
his lawyers, Ming Hai. After receiving
an undergraduate degree and two
master’s degrees, Zhai began pursu-
ing a doctorate in engineering.
His disciplinary case at Stevens
began in the spring. University offi-
cials would not reveal the exact na-
ture of the trouble, but Zhai’s lawyer
and friends say it began when a rela-
tionship with a woman turned sour.
In early March, the woman, a
graduate school instructor at a uni-
versity in New York City, filed a ha-
rassment complaint with the police.
A friend of the woman, a professor
at Stevens, also became involved in
the romantic dispute, complicating
Zhai’s life at the school and perhaps
leading to the university’s action.
On March 11, Zhai received a letter
from an assistant vice-president at
Stevens saying he had been suspend-
ed indefinitely. The letter stated that
Zhai had violated several provisions
He told me that
he said, ‘I’m
going to burn
down Stevens
by suing them’
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Jerry Sova, a friend of
Chinese student Zhai Tiantian
Friday for a wreath-laying ceremony at a monument in
memory of soldiers who have died in captivity, at a military
school in Bogota. Former Franco-Colombian hostage
in the Stevens student code of con-
duct involving harassment, intimida-
tion and “conduct that threatens or
endangers the physical or mental
health or safety of any person”.
“The overall conclusion is that
your presence on campus is a health
and safety risk to members of the Ste-
vens community,” the letter said.
On April 15, Zhai called the main
administration building at Stevens,
officials said. A campus police officer
answered, and Zhai told the officer
what was on his mind. That evening,
the campus police, accompanied by
federal immigration agents, ap-
peared at Zhai’s door and took him
into custody.
Adams said Stevens, as required
by law, had earlier notified immigra-
tion officials that it intended to expel
Zhai – a move that would effectively
cancel his student visa.
Hai said federal authorities were
expected to transfer him to an immi-
gration detention centre.
News of the case has been report-
ed across the mainland, and at least
one newspaper, the English-lan-
guage edition of The Global Times,
which is backed by the Communist
Party, has found geopolitical reso-
nance in the matter.
“The incident lays bare the deep-
seated disrespect for Chinese people
by the US government, which has
long boasted its respect for freedom
and human rights,” a May 27 editorial
said.
“Had the incident taken place in
China, some US media outlets would
have used it to cast blame on China’s
human rights record.”
Officials from the Chinese consul-
ate in New York had visited Zhai in jail
three times, Hai said. And according
to Adams, the consulate has asked
the university to “do whatever it can
to aid this particular student in his
immigration and criminal issues”.
Wang Bangfu, a consul there in
the Department of Overseas Chinese
Affairs, said: “We have been trying
our best to ensure that Mr Zhai’s le-
gitimate rights in jail and during the
judicial procedure are protected. We
hope people working on this case can
find a proper solution in accordance
with the laws as soon as possible.”
Even Republicans blast their chief
for saying Obama chose Afghan war
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UNITED STATES
Associated Press in Washington
Republican Party chairman Michael
Steele is drawing criticism from with-
in his own ranks, including calls to re-
sign, after saying the nine-year-old
commitment of US troops to Afghan-
istan was a mistaken “war of Oba-
ma’s choosing”.
As criticism swelled, Steele (pic-
tured) issued a statement stressing
his support for US troops, but he did
not acknowledge his factual error
about a war launched by former pres-
ident George W. Bush in response for
the terror attacks of September 11,
2001. For Democrats, looking at a dif-
ficult environment ahead of Novem-
ber’s midterm elections, the gaffe
was an opportunity to test their strat-
egy of attacking the Republican Party
with its members’ own words.
Conservative columnist Bill Kris-
tol, writing for The Weekly Standard,
was among the first to say Steele
should resign. “There are, of course,
those who think we should pull out of
Afghanistan, and they’re certainly
entitled to make their case,” wrote
Kristol, a consistent supporter of the
Afghanistan war. “But one of them
shouldn’t be the chairman of the Re-
publican Party.”
In remarks on Thursday, Steele
criticised President Barack Obama
and his handling of the Afghan war
and suggested the war could not be
Is it Unegeew or
Unwomen? UN body
has a difficult birth
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UNITED NATIONS
The New York Times in New York
A certain hallowed ritual around the
United Nations holds that to ensure a
truly auspicious beginning, any new
branch of the world body needs a
really first-rate acronym.
So the new umbrella organisation
for women, which was unanimously
approved by the General Assembly
on Friday after years of haggling,
seemed off to a rocky start, given that
its acronym would be Unegeew.
That shorthand stands for the
United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of
Women. It borders on being unpro-
nounceable, and ends with a rather
unfortunate “eew” sound.
The General Assembly’s resolu-
tion actually christened the fledgling
organisation UN Women, which no-
body likes either. The basic com-
plaint is that it smacks of a social club,
rather than an organisation designed
to lead the transformation of wom-
en’s lot globally.
Of course, there is nothing like a
In Brief
US consulate infiltrated,
Mexican drug kingpin says
MEXICO CITY – A woman who worked
in the Mexican border’s biggest US
consulate had helped a drug gang
obtain American visas, the enforcer
of a rival drug cartel said. And for
that, the enforcer said, he ordered
her killed. Jesus Ernesto Chavez
confessed to ordering the killings,
said Ramon Pequeno, head of anti-
narcotics for the Federal Police.
Pequeno said Chavez led a band of
hit men tied to the Juarez cartel. The
consulate employee, Lesley
Enriquez, and two other people
connected to the US consulate in the
city of Ciudad Juarez were killed on
March 13. The attacks raised
concerns that Americans were being
Betancourt returned to Bogota to celebrate the second
anniversary of her release along with 14 other hostages of the
leftist Farc guerilla group. Photo: AFP
won. “If he’s such a stu-
dent of history, has he
not understood that,
you know, that the one
thing you don’t do is en-
gage in a land war in Afghanistan? All
right? Because everyone who’s tried,
over a thousand years of history, has
failed,” Steele said. “And there are
reasons for that. There are other ways
to engage in Afghanistan.”
Republican officials confirmed
Steele made the comments at a Con-
necticut fund-raiser, which was
closed to the news media. The re-
marks, at odds with the views of most
Biden flies into Baghdad in show of support
US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in
Baghdad yesterday for a surprise visit
aimed at bolstering Iraq’s fledgling
democracy almost four months after an
inconclusive election.
Biden was accompanied on the trip
by his wife Jill, who the White House
said was on her first visit to the war-
torn country. The White House said the
couple were “in Iraq to celebrate the
fourth of July with US troops”.
“During this visit, the vice-president
will meet Iraqi political leaders to re-
affirm the US long-term commitment to
Iraq and to discuss recent develop-
ments,” it said.
Biden was greeted by US
ambassador to Baghdad Christopher
language issue to get the French exer-
cised. French is one of the two official
languages of the United Nations, but
very little work around headquarters
unrolls en français. (To make the
point, a few months ago the French
ambassador to the United Nations,
Gerard Araud, who speaks melliflu-
ous English, refused to start speaking
at a news conference until the often
elusive interpreters were in place to
translate from French to English.)
With the new women’s organisa-
tion, the French managed to get the
official translation included in a foot-
note: ONU Femmes. Now they are
pushing for that name to be used over
the English version.
“ONU Femmes just sounds so
much better than ‘unwomen’,” said
Stephane Crouzat, the spokesman
for the French Mission.
The idea behind UN Women is to
pull together four small, fragmented
agencies that worked on women’s
issues, with much duplication.
Negotiations dragged on because
of resistance among some members
to the very idea that women needed
their own organisation.
caught up in drug-related border
violence. AP
Key planner of 1972 Munich
Olympics attack dies
DAMASCUS – Mohammed Oudeh, the
key planner of the 1972 Munich
Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli
athletes, has died in Damascus, his
daughter said. He was 73. Oudeh –
also known by his guerilla name Abu
Daoud – died of kidney failure a day
after he was taken to Damascus’
Andalus hospital, Hana Oudeh said.
He did not take part in the
September 5, 1972, attack, which
shocked the world as the most
brazen assault on a sports team and
led to a wave of assassinations of top
Palestinian officials. AP
members of the Republican Party,
were caught on camera and posted
on the internet. “This was a war of
Obama’s choosing,” Steele said.
“This is not something the United
States has actively prosecuted or
wanted to engage in.”
The US and allies overthrew Af-
ghanistan’s Taliban government
after the 9/11 attacks on New York
and Washington. The war lagged as
the US shifted its focus to Iraq, but
Obama shifted the focus to Afghani-
stan and planned to send 30,000
more troops to the country.
Looking to mitigate the political
Hill, US commander in Iraq General Ray
Odierno and Iraqi Foreign Minister
Hoshyar Zebari upon his arrival.
Minutes after landing, he also met
John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and
Lindsey Graham, US senators who
arrived on Friday night on a visit.
The US has stepped up its
diplomatic efforts in the past few weeks
to help Iraq fill the prolonged power
vacuum since the general election.
Biden would meet Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki and his main rival for the
premier’s post, Iyad Allawi, the White
House said.
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Agence France-Presse
More than 220 killed in
Congo fuel tanker blast
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CONGO
Agence France-Presse in Sange
Excitement turned to horror for foot-
ball fans gathered to watch the World
Cup, as they were among hundreds
killed in a fire from a fuel tanker ex-
plosion in the Democratic Republic
of Congo.
More than 220 people were killed
when the fuel tanker overturned and
exploded late on Friday in Sange, a
small town of some 50,000 people in
the east of the country. Officials yes-
terday said 110 people were injured,
adding that the death toll could rise.
“People tried to escape but were
caught by the fire and reduced to ash-
es,” one local said.
Flames from the explosion spread
rapidly to the local cinema, where “a
big crowd was gathered to watch the
Brazil-Netherlands match that had
just finished and they were waiting
for the Ghana-Uruguay clash”, Ton-
do Sahizira, 28, a teacher, said.
“They were taken by surprise and
we could not save them. It’s terrible!”
another resident, Mbaka Munyerere,
said.
Villagers, many of them children,
had crowded around the tanker after
12 sailors kidnapped off Nigeria
LAGOS – Gunmen attacked a cargo
vessel and kidnapped 12 foreign
sailors in the waters off the coast of
Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region,
a navy officer said yesterday. “One of
the crew members was injured from
gunshots,” Nigerian navy
spokesman David Nabaida said. The
navy managed to board the vessel,
the BBC Polonia, and sailed it to
safety at Bonny anchorage, an oil
port in southern Nigeria, Nabaida
said. AFP
Boatpeople a priority, says Gillard
SYDNEY – New Australian leader Julia
Gillard vowed to provide “solutions
not slogans” on the sensitive issue of
boatpeople as she shores up her
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
fallout, Steele, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee
(RNC), issued a statement saying:
“There is no question that America
must win the war on terror. And, for
the sake of the security of the free
world, our country must give our
troops the support necessary to win
this war.” He said: “The stakes are too
high for us to accept anything but
success in Afghanistan.”
Erick Erickson, the editor of the
popular conservative website Red-
State.com and an opinion leader
among younger Republicans, also
called for Steele’s ouster.
“Michael Steele must resign. He
has lost all moral authority to lead”
the Republican Party, Erickson said.
RNC spokesman Doug Heye said
Steele “clearly supports our troops
but believes that success of the war
effort in Afghanistan requires the on-
going support of the American peo-
ple. The responsibility for building
and maintaining that strategy falls
squarely on the shoulders of the
president”.
Democratic National Committee
spokesman Brad Woodhouse said it
was “simply unconscionable that Mi-
chael Steele would undermine the
morale of our troops when what they
need is our support and encourage-
ment. Michael Steele would do well
to remember that we are not in Af-
ghanistan by our own choosing, that
we were attacked and that his words
have consequences”.
it overturned, hoping to scope up the
spilling fuel. Sahizira said the driver
managed to escape from his vehicle,
though injured, and told the villagers
to get away because of the risk of an
explosion. “Petrol began to leak out,
but instead of fleeing people came to
collect the fuel,” he said.
A few minutes later there was an
explosion and flames burst from the
truck, spreading fast.
United Nations helicopters were
airlifting the injured to hospital, while
Congo’s army, which lost a number
of men in the blast, sent soldiers in to
help with the rescue. “The latest we
have is 220 dead and 111wounded,” a
spokesman for the UN mission said.
It was not clear what caused the
accident, but locals said the truck,
which was part of a convoy, stopped
when the road seemed to crumble,
toppling the vehicle and spilling fuel.
Fire then erupted.
Most of the bodies, covered with
white shrouds, still lay near the
charred skeleton of the truck many
hours after the accident, where a few
flames flickered. A woman wailed
nearby, screaming: “We have lost our
men, our children. I am dead.”
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Additional reporting by Reuters
position ahead of elections. Gillard
said her attention was focused on
the steady stream of asylum-seeker
boats, and that turning boats away
was impractical and carried
unacceptable risks. AFP
Teen gored to death in bull run
MADRID – A 19-year-old man was
gored to death during a bull run in a
small town in northern Spain,
medical sources said. The animals
were released at 3am through the
streets of the town of Fuentesauco in
Zamora province. The man, from
the Madrid region, was gored in the
chest about 90 minutes later and
was pronounced dead at a health
centre, a source at the clinic
said. AFP
SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
International 9
ILLUSTRATION: TERRY PONTIKOS

‘Illegals’ found in US just latest skirmish in war that

didn’t end with the Soviet Union. Jim Heintz reports

Cold war is history,

but Russia and US
still play spy games
A
rock in a Moscow square
allegedly concealing
electronic spy equipment.
A Jaguar-driving double
agent contacting handlers
by leaving chalk marks on a mailbox.
A dazed Russian man found on a
bench claiming the CIA fed him
drugs.
The end of the cold war may have
lulled many into believing that
cloak-and-dagger days were long
gone, but Russian and Western
intelligence operations have stayed
active – and the network of “illegals”
apparently uncovered in the United
States is the latest in a line of spy
cases with plot lines evoking airport
thrillers.
Driven by decades-old
suspicions and new strategic
concerns, both sides retain an urge
to unearth the other’s secrets,
despite professions of mutual
respect and common goals of peace
and prosperity.
The alleged ring revealed by US
officials last week seemed straight
out of the “red scare” propaganda of
the 1950s: Russians disguising
themselves as normal couples in
quiet neighbourhoods and gradually
expanding social and professional
networks to rake in secrets.
How much sensitive information
they may have passed on remains
unclear, though the charges seem to
indicate they didn’t do serious
damage – 10 of the 11 are charged
with acting as unregistered foreign
agents, which carries a maximum
five years in prison.
By contrast, the two most
damaging Russian spies convicted
in the United States since the 1991
collapse of the Soviet Union are in
prison for life.
Aldrich Ames, a CIA counter-
intelligence official, revealed the
identities of US operatives to
Moscow, information that is
believed to have led to the killing of
at least nine agents. To request
meetings with his contacts, he
would make a chalk mark on a
NEWSMAKER
mailbox in Washington’s
cosmopolitan Georgetown
neighbourhood.
Ames apparently did it for
money; he was heavily in debt when
he started working for the Soviets in
1985. He wasn’t shy about showing
off his new wealth, buying a half-
million-dollar house with cash and
driving a Jaguar that cost almost as
much as his annual CIA salary. Yet
he remained undetected until his
arrest in 1994.
Robert Hanssen was an FBI agent
who provided an array of classified
information to Moscow in what is
sometimes described as the worst
US intelligence failure.
You don’t need spies
to find out what
Obama wants from
Russia; it’s all on the
internet
......................................................
Yulia Latynina, a Russian
political analyst
Convicted in 2001, he said he also
was motivated by money rather
than ideology. He was arrested while
taping a garbage bag full of secrets to
the underside of a footbridge in a
park.
Russia in turn has its own list of
complaints about Western spycraft,
both clever and crude.
In 2006, Russia accused four
British diplomats of espionage,
saying they received secret
information from a radio transmitter
hidden in a rock.
A few years earlier, Russia said a
Defence Ministry employee was
found dazed on a bench after
visiting the US Embassy in an
unspecified former Soviet republic.
The man reportedly said he was
drugged at the embassy while asking
about a missing relative, and that the
CIA tried to recruit him while his
brain was addled.
There’s much that each side
wants to know about the other.
Russia suspects the United States
of plotting to seduce former Soviet
states into Western alliances and
ideologies; the West watches Russia
with the wary suspicion that it wants
to re-establish its empire, a concern
that grew strongly under the
presidency of Vladimir Putin, a
former director of the KGB’s
successor agency.
Russia and the West both state
publicly that they want Iranian
nuclear tensions resolved
peacefully, but each clearly suspects
the other. Russia is concerned the
United States will launch an attack;
Washington regards Moscow as
often being too lenient with Iran,
even obstructive to negotiations.
Russia is also consistently edgy
and angry about US missile-defence
plans in Europe. The latest spying
allegations centre on a group known
as “illegals”. In the lore of Soviet
spycraft, few figures command as
much respect as these spies, steel-
jawed agents with the intelligence of
a chess grandmaster and the
fortitude of a cosmonaut.
Painstakingly trained in the
KGB’s Directorate S, the illegals
spent years assuming a fake
biography, known as a “legend”,
then awaited orders undercover for
years or even decades. Unlike their
“legal” counterparts, they worked
without a diplomatic cover, which
would offer them immunity from
prosecution. They were rewarded
with the kind of adulation
Americans reserve for movie stars.
Illegals like Rudolf Abel and
Konon Molody became such
national heroes that Russia’s
External Intelligence Service, or SVR,
still posts their biographies on its
website. A beloved television serial
chronicled the fictional life of one
undercover agent, Max Otto von
Stirlitz, as he penetrated Hitler’s
inner circle. Putin, who served as a
KGB officer in East Germany in the
1980s, has said the Stirlitz character
helped shape an entire generation of
Soviet youth.
If US prosecutors are correct, two
things seem clear: First, that Russia’s
network of illegals has survived, and
perhaps even grown, since the
Soviet Union’s collapse. And
second, that the agents’ assignment
– collecting information about
politics and getting to know
policymakers – can now be achieved
through more straightforward
means.
“It strikes me as a very well-
organised, very well-thought-out
and very out-of date approach,” said
Olga Oliker, a senior policy analyst
for the RAND think tank. “I would
lay money on bureaucratic inertia.
It’s a terribly ineffective approach,
but it’s something that might have
made sense in a previous period.”
Russian independent political
analyst Yulia Latynina contends her
country’s intelligence activities in
the US are useless – done to make
Russian leaders feel powerful.
“Russia has spies in America as
an imitation of imperialism.”
“You don’t need spies to find out
what Obama wants from Russia; it’s
all on the internet, PR, press
conferences. Do Russia’s leaders
really think that someone will pull
their spies aside and tell them
something that Obama didn’t say in
his briefing?”
But Alexei Zudin of the Centre for
Political Technologies sees spying as
part of any country’s national life.
“Nations conduct exploration
activities” not only with spies but
with diplomats and journalists, he
said. “It was so always and it will be
so always.”
......................................................
Associated Press. Additional
reporting by The New York Times

The Other Side

People Facts &

Judge drops charges
in paparazzo attack
A California judge has dismissed assault
charges against two men accused of
attacking a celebrity photographer who
was taking pictures of actor Matthew
McConaughey (pictured) while he was
surfing in Malibu. Judge Lawrence Mira,
whose court resides in the seaside
enclave just north of Los
Angeles, dismissed the
charges against the two
men at the request of
prosecutors after jurors
deadlocked.
“After evaluating the case, we felt
Paris Hilton cleared of marijuana charges
Facebook fans go ga-ga over glam-pop singer
Glam-pop singer Lady Gaga has become
Figures
$
45,000
A court in South Africa has dropped a marijuana-smoking case against the first living person to have more than
Paris Hilton (pictured). The socialite appeared late on Friday in a Fifa 10 million fans on a single social
World Cup courtroom after being arrested on suspicion of possession networking site, having overtaken
of marijuana at a quarter-final match between Brazil and the United States President Barack Obama ......................................................
Netherlands. on Facebook, a British group that The amount, in US dollars, that a set
The authorities dropped the charges against Hilton, after her measures online popularity said. of three Marilyn Monroe chest X-rays
co-accused, Jennifer Rovero, “acknowledged to be in possession of Famecount.com said Lady Gaga was from a 1954 hospital visit sold for at
cannabis, and pleaded guilty”, said a spokeswoman for South African already the most popular living the Hollywood Legends auction in Las
police. Rovero, 31, from New York, was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 musician online, according to her Vegas. Julien’s Auctions, which sold
rand (HK$1,010) or 30 days’ imprisonment, the spokeswoman said. following on Facebook, Twitter and the X-rays, estmated that they would
A publicist for Hilton said the incident was a “misunderstanding”. YouTube. only fetch a total of about US$3,000.
“Paris Hilton was questioned today by police in South Africa on Yesterday, the provocative Bad Other Monroe-abilia included a chair
allegations of smoking marijuana,” Dawn Miller, a publicist for Romance and Paparazzi singer had from her last photo shoot that went
Hilton, said. “I can confirm that the incident was a complete 10,160,709 Facebook fans and 4.7 by a long margin is the online game Texas for US$35,000. AP
misunderstanding and it was actually another person in the million Twitter followers. Hold’em Poker which has more than 20

that a mistrial would not result in any
different type of result, so we decided
not to proceed,” said a spokeswoman
for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s
Office. Back in 2008, Richid
Altmbareckouhammou was working for
a French news agency taking pictures
of the actor as he surfed the waves off
Malibu, when the two accused
attackers allegedly threw him into the
water during a brawl. Reuters
group who did it,” the statement said. “The case has been The 24-year-old performer, who
dropped against Paris and no charges will be made.” released her first album two years ago,
When told the case had been dropped, Hilton said “thank overtook Obama last week. The US
you” and left the courtroom. Hilton wrote on Twitter later: president has 9.4 million Facebook fans
“Hey guys, there’s a lot of crazy rumours going around. Just and 4.4 million Twitter followers.
want you all to know the truth. Everything is completely But Lady Gaga faces some stiff
fine. I was not charged or arrested, cause I didn’t do competition before she achieves total
anything.” dominance of the social networking
She said she was helping police with world.
their investigation. AP The late Michael Jackson has some
14 million Facebook fans, but the winner
million.
Famecount.com, based in southern
England, aggregates online popularity
worldwide across multiple social media
channels.
Lady Gaga made her debut on the
Forbes magazine 2010 Celebrity 100
power list for the first time this week,
entering in 4th place with estimated
earnings over the past 12 months of
US$62 million. Reuters
8%
......................................................
The proportion of Russians who
believe their national team will win
the World Cup – despite the fact that
it never qualified for the tournament,
an independent poll has showed.
Russian pride was shattered when its
team was denied a place at the
sporting event currently underway in
South Africa when they were defeated
by Slovenia in the qualifying stage.

Tall Stories The poll, conducted between June 18

and 22, surveyed 1,600 Russian adults
across 130 cities. Reuters
Leave the holy water to the Catholic pilgrimage site in France – and Man facing three years in South African man applying for Belgian PM blames heat for Moscow governor’s traffic
professionals, inventor told preserved its supposed healing powers German jail for Hitler ringtone passport told he was deceased Twitter ‘misunderstanding’ advice: buy a helicopter

A South Korean medical professor who
invented a digital device he claimed
could transform tap water into holy
water is facing fraud charges, Seoul
police say. They said the professor
claimed to have digitally captured the
supposed curative powers of holy water
on devices that he sold to more than
5,000 people for a total profit of nearly
1.7 billion won (HK$10.76 million). Eight
other people including the professor’s
wife and brother-in-law faced charges
for manufacturing and selling the
devices, an officer heading the
investigation said. Police said the 53-
year-old professor claimed he obtained
holy water from the shrine to the Virgin
Mary at Lourdes – a world-famous
in digital form. He claimed to be able to
digitally transfer those powers onto
ceramic and paper filters and plastic
cards. AFP
Tired of circus, alligator found
loitering near motorcycle shop
See you later, gator. Police have
returned an alligator to its circus home
after it escaped and was found loitering
outside a motorcycle shop in a small
German town. Police say they
apprehended the one-metre reptile in
Gross-Rohrheim, south of Frankfurt,
after a caller reported spotting the
creature in a town street. Officers took
the creature into custody while they
figured out where it had come from. AP
A German man who had a speech by
Adolf Hitler as his ringtone and a picture
of the Nazi dictator in front of a swastika
on his mobile phone could face up to
three years in jail, police said.
Authorities seized the 54-year-old’s
phone at Harburg station, near the
northern city of Hamburg, after fellow
train passengers, shocked by the sound
of Hitler screaming, alerted police. “It
was an original speech by Adolf Hitler
which ended with the phrase ‘Sieg
Heil’,” police spokesman Ruediger
Carstens said. “He also had a photo of
Hitler standing in front of a swastika.”
Under German law, the man could face
up to three years in prison or a fine.
AFP
A South African man mistakenly listed
as dead by authorities has been fighting
to prove he is alive so he can get a
passport, register a car and change his
wife’s marital status from “widowed”.
Claude Pretorius has been battling the
bureaucratic error since 2006, when he
discovered while applying for a passport
the Department of Home Affairs had
listed him as dead, reported The Star.
“They told me that I could not apply for
a passport as I am deceased,” the man
said. Pretorius said he got a sworn
affidavit from police affirming that he
was alive and was issued a new identity
number, enabling him to buy a car. But
the problem resurfaced last year when
he tried to register the car. AFP
Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme
blamed the sweltering heat of Africa
after posting a cryptic message on his
Twitter account during a trip, sparking a
frenzy of media speculation. During an
official visit to the Democratic Republic
of Congo for its 50th year of
independence from Belgium, Leterme
wrote in awkward English on the
website: “Not at all. Want to learn to
know you. You to?” The message was
quickly deleted from the website, but
not before it was caught by Belgian
media. Leterme replaced the message
with a new post explaining it had been a
“misunderstanding” and was originally
intended for a “correspondent” he had
run into at a reception. AFP
As Moscow residents sweltered in an
unprecedented traffic snarl-up, the
governor of the region around Moscow
offered an unusual solution: buy a
helicopter. “I fly in a helicopter. [You]
should also buy helicopters instead of
cars – then you do not need roads,”
Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov
told journalists, the RIA Novosti news
agency reported. His comment came as
ill-timed roadworks on the main road to
a Moscow airport delayed thousands of
people flying on summer holidays.
Residents of the Moscow region have
around 400 private helicopters, Gromov
said, but he omitted to mention that
private aircraft are not allowed to fly
into Moscow airspace. AFP
13,000
$
......................................................
The amount, in US dollars, that a lock
of hair cut from Napoleon
Bonaparte’s head after he died has
sold for at an auction in New Zealand.
Extra phone lines were installed for
the sale to cope with a rush of
international buyers seeking to snip
up the hair cut from the head of the
former French Emperor a day after
his death in 1821. The hair was part of
a collection brought to New Zealand in
1864 by Denzil Ibbetson, a British
commissary officer and artist. Reuters
10 SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST

Schools about more

Morning Post Centre, Dai Fat Street, Tai Po Harry’s Week than academic results
The suicide in May of a student in

Prepare for the crippling front of his fellow students and

teachers in Tung Chung shocked
society. The pupil had been

cost of an ageing society suffering from mental illness.

This tragedy showed
shortcomings in Hong Kong’s
school system.
There is clearly a need to

W
hen the Beatles recorded When I’m Sixty-four more re-evaluate what should be done
than 40 years ago, the love song about ageing did not when dealing with students who
resonate with the group’s young fans. Now, it has more have psychological and other
relevance for that generation, for reasons which were problems.
Our schools focus on
not foreseen. As it has grown older, so has much of the providing pupils with academic
world’s population. As a result, dementia has become an epidemic of training but neglect the
the 21st century. importance of mental or
Populations in many parts of the world are growing older because emotional training and support.
they are having fewer children and people are living longer, thanks Juveniles going through
partly to medical science. But science, so far, has no answer to one of puberty inevitably have mood
the serious consequences – the rapid rise of Alzheimer’s disease and swings.
They often feel stressed and
other forms of dementia. irritated and can be easily
When it strikes, the most loving family sooner or later needs discouraged.
outside help. Current nursing, specialist and intensive care and day- Teachers and social workers
care resources dedicated to dementia patients do not meet demand are crucial, but sometimes
now, let alone in the future. Conventional nursing facilities are not teachers take on a passive role
equipped to deal with a fatal disease that progressively disables the and this is not helpful.
memory, the mind and the body. As we reported this week, Asia I think schools should hold
faces the biggest burden, largely because of the ageing welfare crisis workshops where young people
can get together and be helped to
looming in China – partly the result of the one-child policy. The understand and to handle their
region’s fast-ageing population is expected to account for more than emotions.
half the world’s dementia patients within 40 years. At the same time, Peer counselling should also
the 35 million current Alzheimer’s patients worldwide will double by be encouraged.
2030 and pass 115 million by 2050, according to activists. With few Young people are best able to
specialist facilities or plans to build more, Asia is ill prepared to cope. help fellow students deal with
The problem is here already, as a growing number of Hong Kong their negative emotions.
families can attest. The city has 110,000 dementia patients but only
300 places in four day-care centres and no residential care facility.
HK’s political system
is fundamentally Sceptical about survey which shows When it comes to tragedies
like the one in May there is no
point in blaming anyone and
Experts say the one in 10 people who will get dementia in their 70s undemocratic
rises to three in 10 in their 80s. As it is now common for people to live
into their 80s – and Hong Kong has one of the world’s highest life In her article on Hong Kong’s
support for expansion of bag levy seeking to get people to take
responsibility.
What we need to do is find
expectancies – every extended family should expect to experience political reform struggle (“The more effective ways to protect the
dementia, according to Peter Yuen, director of the Public Policy deal is what counts, not endless British politician Benjamin Disraeli said that there they have been taught at school. I would also like to younger generation and help
debate”, June 27), Regina Ip Lau were “lies, damn lies and statistics”. know how the questions were put to respondents. teens deal with their emotional
Research Institute at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong,
Suk-yee uses her enthusiasm for Once again people are being misled by a study This is also important because people answering problems.
like the United States, expects people over 65 to account for a quarter political history and theory to conducted by a group with an agenda. The survey surveys try to respond so as to both please the Also the methods that are
of the population by the 2030s. By then, the mainland, with 8 million clear the air. which shows that two out of three favour expansion interviewer and appear in a socially acceptable light, adopted should be subject to
dementia patients already, will have a similar proportion of over-60s. She invokes Joseph of a plastic bag levy was conducted by Friends of the regardless of their true opinion. We call this social regular reviews.
Few societies have come to terms with the cost implications. Schumpeter’s observation that in Earth. However the statistics are incomplete and desirability bias, and it is the bane of opinion Schools have to realise that
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, US governments, insurers a representative democracy misleading. researchers, especially when the topic is they should not just be focusing
and individuals will spend more than US$1.08 trillion on care for people do not govern directly “by In order to understand them, we need to know controversial. Even those who are professionally on academic results.
dementia victims by 2050 – a sixfold rise. choosing individuals who will how the people whose answers are added to yield trained in this kind of research sometimes have Jay Ho, Tsing Yi
assemble to put their will into these percentages were selected for the study. Was it trouble dealing with this bias, especially when the
Studies have confirmed a genetic link to Alzheimer’s disease, but action”, rather, “they merely at random so that everyone had an equal chance of sample is large as in the reported study.
scientists do not yet understand how it happens. The best hope of an select those who will make being selected? Or were they selected in a biased I do not believe that two-thirds of the people in
Abuse of Christians an
early breakthrough, at least in terms of predicting risk, lies in genetic political decisions on their fashion likely to produce supportive results? Hong Kong support this environmental silliness. In international disgrace
and stem-cell research. In the US, where the over-85s are the fastest- behalf”. What were the sample demographics? Was the order for our environment to be improved, we have
growing age group, the National Institute on Ageing collects blood She says that if “the people percentage of people based on gender, age, income to take a systems approach that seriously makes a The report (“Christians held to
samples and information from thousands of families worldwide, and disapprove of the decisions, they and education, a really good match for the people of dent in the problem. Then, truly two out of three of extort cash, say wife, lawyer”,
stores DNA and other clinical information for researchers. can punish their representatives Hong Kong, or were the demographics biased us, if not more, will implement and support the plan June 29) is sadly all too true.
in the next round of elections”. toward a given age group or gender? This is wholeheartedly. Using misleading statistical Officials in Henan
Meanwhile, governments and non-government organisations
“Legislators who procrastinate important because we know that people do not methods does not get us anywhere near that goal province have for some years
must prepare for the massive new demands that ageing will place on and prevaricate, on the grounds support the bag tax uniformly across demographics. and makes all research – including well done policy been holding and even torturing
health-care and welfare resources. The cost to families of proper care of inadequate consultation, are For example, my young children and teens support studies – suspect. Christians for no apparent reason
during the slow progress of Alzheimer’s is crippling. The Hong Kong arguably abdicating their it more than the adults I know because that is what Bob Carson, Sha Tin other than to extort money from
government’s proposals for reform of health-care financing do not responsibility to make decisions their families. I found a complete
tackle it. Since the need for a major expansion of dedicated care and on behalf of the people.” account of this issue in Paul
nursing services is inevitable and predictable, officials need to look at Has it not dawned on Mrs Ip Hattaway’s Henan, the Galilee of
that Hong Kong is in no way a
Urban stage. Street artists fear prosecution despite a government move to China.
policy and financing options to ensure they are available. promote street performances to cultivate an artistic atmosphere. What should
representative democracy? China really needs to deal with
Those who “procrastinate and be done to try to make life easier for them? Write to us. this, because it has already
prevaricate”, might be resorting become, very literally, an
to procedural tactics because it is international disgrace.

World Cup can learn from the only way to delay the
workings and decisions of a
political system that is
tell the rest of us what to do than
would many other special interest
groups, for example, university
They would stir things up. And
guessing what the hairdressers
would wear to Legco would be a
administers the scholarship is
also the director of admissions
and financial aid at the university
Paul Flynn, Clear Water Bay

Strange bedfellows
the humility of Wimbledon fundamentally undemocratic;
one in which a full half of so-
called representatives and
students, gay and lesbian rights
activists or maids.
If we can’t get rid of these
lot more fun than guessing how
the current crop of functional
seats are likely to vote.
is a cause of concern.
It is also claimed that students
of CUHK got more awards
in Legco chamber
precisely those who hold up seats, why don’t we rotate some Rhea Briones-Shaw, Causeway Bay because more of them applied. Is it only me or does anyone else
reforms are unelected. of them every four years and let But then, if its students do find it ironic that in Hong Kong

A
s a feast of summer sport loomed this year, fans and Mrs Ip talked of legislators the electorate propose entirely perceive that they have a higher alone, the vested interests of our
with “a growing awareness of new groups?
Rhodes Scholarship chance of success, they naturally super rich tycoons are zealously
commentators questioned how the plain white canvas of
Wimbledon would be able to compete with the explosion their responsibility”. For the next election the two review is needed will be more enthusiastic in defended by the de facto
May I ask, responsibility to finance functional constituencies applying. communists in the legislative and
of colour at soccer’s World Cup. The conservative whom? Democracy is won, never could be replaced by, let’s say, I am shocked by the unusual By contrast, students from executive branches of our
traditions of Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament, ceded. sports fishermen and cyclists. connection between the Rhodes other institutions just would not government?
appeared staid compared with the festival in South Africa. Yes, politics involves We could lose the real estate Scholarship and the Chinese bother, if they somehow think This is done at the expense of
The World Cup has gripped millions around the world with its compromise. But democratic and construction seat and replace University (“Question over who that they would not be treated the public in general.
thrills and passion. Hopefully, the best games are yet to come. But politics are difficult to achieve it with one made up of gets HK Rhodes Scholarships”). equally. Stuart Brookes, Sheung Wan
Wimbledon has held its own, providing a timely reminder of the when so many “representatives” hairdressers and manicurists. This has given rise to In any event, the over-
need for values and perspective in sport. are unelected. Or lose the accountancy seat suggestions of favouritism, where whelming award decisions in
There has been much excellence on display in the World Cup but Jonathan London, Kowloon Tong and replace it with a group of the lion’s share of the scholarship favour of the Chinese University
inventors and scientists. awards have been given to CUHK in the past 16 years cannot merely
the tournament has been tarnished by some teams disgracing The point is that we all have a students ever since the local arm be explained away by application
themselves with infighting and certain players treating referees, Hairdressing seat stake in the outcome, regardless of the scholarship came under its statistics.
coaching staff and, worst of all, fans, without respect. Fifa, the sport’s a cut above the rest of our career and identity choices. administration of that university The Rhodes Trust must reform
governing body, did not help by tactlessly rejecting initial calls for a And longstanding functional in 1995. the system and remove the
reopening of the debate on video replay technology after glaring Why are the functional constituencies run the risk of While CUHK has defended aforementioned doubts in order We welcome all letters
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ow that the 2012 election format is
settled, however unsatisfactorily,
it is time to focus on how the sys-
tem contributes to bad govern-
ment and what can be done about
it. The abuses which stem from the corrup-
tion implicit in narrowly based functional
constituencies are recorded in these pages
almost daily. Pride of place surely goes to the
Heung Yee Kuk for turning its New Territor-
ies feudal fiefdom into a no-go land for gov-
ernment officials who prove powerless to
enforce laws.
Then there are the assorted transport
interests who successfully resist efforts to
clean up the ferries, the buses, the trucks,
and have for years stood in the way of the
government improving traffic flow. If only
all users of transport had a right to vote for
the Legislative Council representative – how
different policy would be.
The connivance of the government with
the abuses committed by the big developers
close to the chief executive are well enough
known. They recently showed their con-
tempt for private property rights by lower-
Philip
Bowring
ing the threshold for compulsory acquisi-
tion. But perhaps less recognised are how
the interests of the likes of engineers and
contractors are linked to those of the gov-
ernment departments responsible for
building billion-dollar bridges to nowhere.
As for the long delayed and still feeble
attempts to outlaw oligopoly, most repre-
sentatives of the business community con-
tinue to act in the interests of the few big
businesses which benefit from their stran-
glehold on various sectors, rather than the
interests of the small businesses which are
Hong Kong’s lifeblood.
In addition, Legco harbours plenty of
members who seem more concerned with
representing the government to their con-
stituents than vice versa. David Li Kwok-
po’s long career as an often absent banking
legislator and his more recent one as cheer-
leader for Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is a case
in point. And now we have the Hong Kong
General Chamber of Commerce being
chaired by the head of the quasi-govern-
ment so-called think tank, the Bauhinia
Foundation Research Centre. The cham-
ber’s deputy chairman is the head of a gov-
ernment-controlled company, the MTR
Corporation, and it already has a former civil
servant as its chief executive. Once, the party
and army were as one. Now, in Hong Kong
as on the mainland, the communists’ shad-
ow party and big business are as one.
And all this is set in stone, at least until
2016, now that the Democratic Party has
caved in to the self-deluding notion that a
tiny improvement in a bad system is better
than standing for real change.
So what can be done? For now, the
democracy forces and independents should
focus not on constitutional issues but on
governance ones. They must do more re-
search. They must constantly expose the in-
iquities which result from this system, em-
barrass the government at every opportuni-
ty, take issue with the connivance between
officials and vested interests, present coher-
ent budget, social policy, public investment
options which put the public interest first.
This is the only way they can both help
the community and show up the abuses of
the current system. However disgusted
many pro-democracy people are with the
Democratic Party’s performance, the
groups must set aside their differences on
this matter and focus on governance specif-
ics. The outlook is not encouraging. They all
lack serious research capabilities and finan-
cial resources; the League of Social Demo-
crats will probably prefer to remain an agita-
tor; the Civic Party will continue to be dom-
inated by lawyers; the Democrats will still
lack strong leadership.
But, for now, a focus on the specifics of
government, good proposals and well
researched attacks on pork-barrel conniv-
ance between the administration and Legco
functional constituencies is the only way
forward.
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Philip Bowring is a Hong Kong-based
journalist and commentator
SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
With the centenary of the Xinhai revolution to be marked around the world next year,
Beijing and Taipei hold widely disparate views on its central figure, Mark O’Neill writes
Who is the Father of China?
T
he souvenir shop at the
ancestral home of Sun
Yat-sen in Guangdong’s
Cuiheng village sells
commemorative plates
of him and of the young
Mao Zedong ; Two American politicians helped form
you can also buy a
statue of Mao for 9,800
yuan (HK$11,243) – but not of Sun.
“For those of us educated on the
mainland, Mao and the first generation of
Communist leaders are the great men,”
said Wang Min , a student from
Zhuhai visiting the museum. “Sun is
a secondary figure. The films and television
series are about Mao, Zhou Enlai , strong central government, an
Zhu De and the wars with Japan and the
Kuomintang, not the 1911 revolution.”
Next year marks the centenary of the
Xinhai revolution that overthrew the last
imperial dynasty, in which Sun played a
central role. This will be celebrated on the
mainland, in Taiwan and by the Chinese
diaspora around the world.
But Sun means different things to
different people. People on both sides of
the strait call him “Guofu” (Father of the
Nation). In Taiwan, they mean “Father of
the Republic of China”. On the mainland,
they mean the man who helped bring
down the Qing, a pre-condition for the
Communist state founded in 1949; the
father of “New China” is Mao.
These differences have torpedoed joint
commemorations next year.
On May 15, Taiwanese President Ma
Ying-jeou said the island would not take
part in events organised by Beijing. “We
will celebrate the occasion separately
because the revolution made possible the
establishment of the Republic of China,” he
said. “It has been 100 years since our
country was founded, which is what
matters most to us.
“The celebrations should be turned into
a one-year ‘Taiwan expo’. We must do our
utmost to display the significance, value
The British treat nations
as the silkworm farmer
treats his worms … when
they stop [producing], he
feeds them to the fish
...............................................................
Sun Yat-sen (below), on the trading system
that imperial powers had imposed on China
and spirit of the centennial, as well as
elaborate a vision for the future.”
Ma’s decision disappointed Beijing,
which sees Sun as the most important
historical figure uniting the two sides.
“Events to celebrate the Xinhai revolution
promote the efforts of compatriots on both
sides of the strait and the revival of the
Chinese nation,” said Yang Yi , new liberalism and Western democracy.
spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
Ma’s decision reflects the radically
different place that Sun occupies in Taiwan
to that on the mainland.
His face stares out of the NT$100
banknote, as Mao stares out of the 100 yuan
note. Schoolchildren and soldiers repeat
Sun’s words every time they sing the
national anthem. His portrait hangs next to
that of the president in government offices
and schools, and his statue sits in parks and
in front of public buildings. The largest is in
the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in central
Taipei, one of its biggest indoor auditoria.
These statues survived the purges of the
eight years of the Chen Shui-bian
presidency, which removed most of the
images of Chiang Kai-shek and stacked
them in a park in Taoyuan, where curious
mainland tourists are the main visitors.
All this shows the historical continuum
between the Republic of China of 1912, of
which Sun was provisional president, and
the Taiwan of today. Its system of
government is the one Sun outlined in the
“Three Principles of the People”, which he
announced in 1905. It copies the US system
of three independent branches –
presidency, legislature and judiciary – with
two more because of the special conditions
of China: the Investigative Yuan and
Examination Yuan. Sun added these to
combat widespread corruption.
For 60 years after Sun’s death in 1925,
the Kuomintang controlled all five
branches of the government; none was
independent. But with growth of
opposition parties and popular election for
major posts from the president down,
Taiwan now has the system of checks and
balances that Sun envisaged. Chen’s arrest
and sentencing is proof of the judiciary’s
ability to supervise the executive.
At the age of 13, Sun left Cuiheng to
11
study in Hawaii, living with his brother, 15
years his senior, who had become a
prosperous merchant. His high school
years in Hawaii and later visits there
influenced him greatly. He became a
Congregationalist Protestant.
his political and economic thinking –
Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton.
The Three Principles of the People –
nationalism, democracy and people’s
livelihood – were inspired by Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address, in which he spoke of
“government of the people, for the people
and by the people”.
From Hamilton, he took the idea of a
interventionist central bank, protection of
national industries and rejection of the
laissez-faire trading system. “Ever since
China began trading with the West, all the
privileges and profits of that trade have
been seized by the West,” he wrote. “Why is
this so? It is because they have been
protecting their commerce while we have
not. The only goods that should flow freely
throughout a country are the goods made
by that country and goods a country does
not have the technology to make.”
He said the US became the world’s
dominant industrial power by protecting
through tariffs its domestic industries, and
not allowing them to be overwhelmed by
imports, as China had done. “Political
power is essential to protect home
industries from undue competition.”
He bitterly opposed the trading system
that Britain and other imperial powers
imposed on China. “The British treat
nations as the silkworm farmer treats his
worms: as long as they produce silk, he
cares for them well; when they stop, he
feeds them to the fish,” he wrote in 1917.
He also saw the crucial importance of
railways, as set out by Lincoln’s Republican
Party in its 1860 and 1864 manifestoes. His
book The International Development of
China, published in 1919, is his most
detailed blueprint for the economy; he
proposed 300,000 kilometres of railway to
link the populated and developed east to
the poor and under-populated west. These
railways would deliver grain in times of
famine and transport agricultural and
industrial raw materials.
He dismissed Karl Marx: “What Marx
knew after his years of research into social
questions were facts, but he failed to
anticipate the changing conditions and
new developments of the future. Not
knowing these new theories, he drew false
conclusions from his own suppositions.
Class war is not the cause of social progress
but a disease developed in the course of
social progress.”
So it is Taiwan, not the mainland, that is
Sun’s political legacy and is implementing
the system he envisaged. In May, Ma said:
“The Republic of China in Taiwan has
established a full-fledged democracy and a
pluralistic and open society, developments
unprecedented in ethnic Chinese
communities in the world.”
Beijing, on the other hand, has
consistently rejected Sun’s political model,
saying it is unsuitable for China.
The most recent exposition came in a
5,000-word essay in the latest issue of Qiu
Shi (Seeking Truth), the Communist Party’s
top theoretical magazine, on the “South
African experience”. It said those who
proposed copying the post-apartheid
model in South Africa were denying
China’s special political path. “We must
absolutely oppose the political ideology of
The Communist Party is the political
representative of all the Chinese people.” It
argues that only the centralisation of power
in the party can provide the political and
social stability to develop the economy; the
remarkable success of the last 30 years is
evidence of the correctness of this theory.
Consequently, Sun occupies a
secondary role in history lessons on the Workers dust off a giant
mainland. It is the first generation of portrait of Sun Yat-sen
Communist leaders who fought the before hanging it in
Japanese, defeated the Kuomintang and Tiananmen Square.
established the new state that are the Photo: AFP
central figures. The blockbuster film of
2009 was Jianguo Daye (Founding the
Country); it was about the 1949 revolution,
not the one in 1911.
In the economic field, both Taipei and
Beijing belatedly followed Sun’s advice.
After he moved to Taiwan, Chiang’s
priority was national defence and
From the kitchen to the helm of the nation
recapturing the mainland. It fell to his son,
Chiang Ching-kuo, to emphasise economic The story goes that, having spent all his money ordered the mass killing of Communists in one of two vice-chairmen of the country
development. on 11 failed revolutions and unable to raise Shanghai in 1927, which poisoned relations between 1959 and 1975 and became honorary
For three decades, the Communists more funds, Sun Yat-sen was washing dishes in between the two. president on May 17, 1981. But she died in
emphasised military spending and political a Hawaian restaurant. Suddenly, one While successor Chiang took the Nationalist Beijing 12 days later.
campaigns. Only since the era of Deng co-worker in the kitchen said to him: “You can government to Taiwan, Sun’s second wife, Soong’s high status saved her from
Xiaoping have they stressed put down the dishes now, your revolution has Soong Ching-ling, sided with the Communists. persecution in the anti-rightist movement and
economic construction. won. You can go home and be president.” She was the only one in her family to stay back the Cultural Revolution, but its terror
The projects of the last 20 years would Apocryphal or not, the story is true to the on the mainland after 1949. Her sister was the persuaded her to throw most of her belongings
have made Sun proud. “The building of extent that Sun was out of the country during wife of Chiang. into a furnace. In January 1979, she returned to
railways on the Tibetan plateau involves the Wuchang uprising of 1911. He returned to Sun and Soong married on October 25, 1915, her Shanghai home for the last time and
more complicated engineering and greater become president but remained in the post for when he was 48 and she 22. The marriage destroyed most of her letters there.
costs than other lines and brings a small only three months. contract contained three clauses, including: A giant portrait of Sun hangs in Tiananmen
profit,” he wrote in 1919. “Once we have It is told by those who want to stress Sun’s “The two will forever maintain the relations Square on May Day and National Day. In the
completed the other lines and built this weakness and failure: without his own army, between man and wife and work together to 1980s, there were five – Sun, Karl Marx, Lenin,
one, it will lead to a good result.” he was never able to consolidate power and promote mutual good fortune”. Stalin and Mao.
Sun proposed eight lines from Lhasa died in 1925, the country still weak and divided Some historians interpret this as a promise “Of course, we will have major events next
, including ones to Lanzhou and among rival warlords and warring political by Soong to remain faithful to Sun after his year to mark the 100th anniversary,” said an
Chengdu . It could have been drawn parties. passing; in any event, she did not remarry. official of Sun’s museum in Cuiheng. “Without
up to persuade the State Council to finance His early death is one reason why both Some believe that since she was “the mother his role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty,
the first railway into Tibet 80 years later – Nationalists and Communists can revere him. of the nation”, the government would not allow there would be no ‘New China’,” she said.
the 1,142-kilometre line from Golmud Sun advocated co-operation between the her to remarry. ...............................................................
to Lhasa opened in July 2006. parties and died before Chiang Kai-shek After 1949, Soong held high office. She was Mark O’Neill
12 Agenda
The British co-founder of a Beijing-based travel company has helped thousands of
adventure seekers visit North Korea. Now he’s branching out, he tells Gary Jones
Opening doors, minds to N Korea
I
f North Korea’s state-owned
airline, Air Koryo, had a
frequent-flyer programme,
travel-industry entrepreneur
Nick Bonner would be a
platinum VIP cardholder.
Co-founder of Beijing-based
Koryo Group, the original travel
company – and still one of very
few worldwide – with the clout
and contacts to take international visitors
into that most enigmatic of destinations,
the 48-year-old Briton has, he suspects,
visited North Korea on more occasions
than any other person from the western
hemisphere.
“That kind of stuff is daft, a bit Guinness
World Records,” Bonner says. “But I’d
guess I’m Air Koryo’s most frequent flyer in
the world. Ever. I’ve no idea exactly how
many times I’ve been in. Hundreds,
hundreds of times.”
By the end of June, in fact, Bonner had
already spent close to two months of this
year in Pyongyang, capital city of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (to
use the North’s official name). Over the
previous 17 years, his operation has opened
the off-the-beaten-track nation to nearly
10,000 visitors, including world-music DJ
Andy Kershaw, comedian Dom Joly and
Tony Wheeler, the independent-travel
pioneer behind the Lonely Planet
publishing empire.
Surprisingly, Bonner insists that the
totalitarian North’s frequent anti-Western
sabre rattling in the news media, and even
its nuclear tests, have had no noticeable
negative effect on business. “In fact,
anything that keeps North Korea in the
public eye works to our advantage.”
The North was not always so welcoming
to, or equipped with the necessary
infrastructure to cope with, international
visitors. Though it began issuing tourist
visas as early as 1987, fewer than 50 had
poked their heads in each year by 1993,
when Bonner and his friend and
compatriot Joshua Green, who had
previously set up courier service TNT’s
minimal operation in North Korea, were
invited into the country by a Korean
acquaintance to explore opportunities in
his homeland. Bonner and the Korean,
who by then was employed by the North’s
fledgling state-run travel bureau in
Pyongyang, had first met as opponents on
a Sunday league football pitch in the
Chinese capital. And so, as much by good
fortune as solid judgment, Koryo Tours was
established.
The British pair – with a few rare if
intrepid travellers in tow – began visiting
North Korea once a month. “We had no
clue where we would go with it,” says
Bonner, who had relocated to Beijing that
same year to learn Putonghua, and with
vague hopes of securing a steady job
teaching landscape architecture (“Beijing
was being ripped apart back then”), which
he had studied at the Leeds Polytechnic.
Nick Bonner with North Korean artists barred from Australia this year. Photo: SMP Pictures
Education a luxury for Shanghai’s impoverished youth
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McClatchy Tribune in Shanghai
Qu Ting was 12 years old and alone in a city
of 20 million people. Her father had died.
Her mother had abandoned her. As for her
education, it seemed as if middle school
was as far as she would go.
“I didn’t have money to study,” said Qu,
who’s now 23. “I had no choice … At that
time I felt very lonely, and no one can help
me because I am too small and my mother
did not want to see me, did not want to talk
to me, even did not want to bring me
home.”
Shanghai is a booming metropolis that
is leading the nation’s charge to prosperity,
but Qu, like thousands of other poor
students on the mainland, seemed
destined to be left in the dust.
Education up to middle school has been
compulsory and free since 2007, but it is
upon leaving middle school that the
problems start for poor and disadvantaged
students. After that, families must foot the
bill themselves, and poorer students are
faced with the reality that high school may
not be a viable option.
That leaves students such as Qu with
the daunting task of making a life-altering
decision at a tender age.
There are several factors for these
youngsters to consider: Will they have to
join the workforce right out of middle
A visitor looks at two paintings, President Kim Il Sung with artists and Together on the path for the people, by Ri Tong Gon, part of an exhibition at the Austrian museum for contemporary art in Vienna. Photo: EPA
“For us, it was nothing more than a
fantastic opportunity to visit a country that
very few foreigners had access to. We didn’t
consider it as a proper business for a
moment. It was simply something
fascinating for us.”
Today, Koryo Tours is the globe’s
foremost provider of travel packages to
North Korea. Koryo catered to 1,000
curious globetrotters in 2009 alone, and
Bonner predicts his company (Green
moved on in 1997, but still holds an
advisory role) will take in 1,500 travellers
this year, including more Americans than
in any previous year due to North Korea’s
recent lifting of travel restrictions on US
citizens. Each visitor will hand over up to
¤3,180 (HK$26,775) for the peculiar
privilege of joining state-controlled tours
lasting between three and 10 days. (The
euro is North Korea’s preferred currency,
school to support themselves and their
families? Will the law require them to
return to their parents’ hometowns for an
education? Could a trade school offer an
education comparable with the highly
competitive high schools?
The choice is burdensome, and
although most poor students say they want
to attend high school and college, the odds
often are stacked against them.
Qu chose to fight those odds.
“I think I have a strong personality; I
don’t want other people to look down on
me,” she said. “I am strong. I’m tough.”
Qu’s fortitude paid off. School officials
took notice of her situation and put her in
touch with Shanghai Sunrise, an
organisation that foreigners formed in the
country to sponsor poor students who
want to further their education.
She was connected with an American
woman living in Shanghai, who helped her
attend high school and college. Ten years
after Shanghai Sunrise sponsored Qu, she
became the organisation’s first full-time
employee.
Qu’s story had a happy ending, as do
those of thousands of other disadvantaged
children who have come to the attention of
organisations such as Shanghai Sunrise,
which has sponsored more than 1,300
students. Bu they are able to help only a
fraction of Shanghai’s poor teenagers.
alongside the yuan, for foreign
transactions.) Sightseeing will include the
mausoleum of “Eternal President” Kim Il-
sung, the heavily fortified demilitarised
zone that bisects the Korean Peninsula
(former US president Bill Clinton once
called it “the scariest place on earth”) and,
if travelling in September or October,
Pyongyang’s annual Mass Games in which
100,000 dancers, gymnasts and acrobats
perform in robotic unison. The visual
spectacle has been dubbed “Cirque de
Soleil on steroids”.
Bonner, meanwhile, an accepted North
Korea pundit regularly called upon for
comment by the BBC, CNN and the likes,
has in recent years largely taken a back seat
in the day-to-day running of Koryo Tours.
With eight full-time staff at its headquarters
in Beijing’s Sanlitun nightlife area (“Beijing
is the entry point for access to the DPRK,”
says Bonner. “For us, it is the only place to
be”), and more than 20 agencies worldwide
providing sales support, he chooses to
focus on artistic, cultural and sports-
related projects that promote international
engagement with North Korea.
In collaboration with filmmaker Daniel
Gordon, based in the English city of
Sheffield, Bonner has produced three
award-winning documentaries filmed in
North Korea.
The Game of Their Lives (2002) recalls,
and emotionally reunites, the North
Korean football squad of 1966 responsible
for one of the biggest upsets in World Cup
history, when they knocked Italy out of the
finals. A State of Mind (2004) trails two
schoolgirls as they train for the Mass
Games, while in Crossing the Line (2006)
the filmmakers quiz US servicemen who
defected to North Korea in the 1960s. One
still resides in Pyongyang to this day.
Though the documentaries were made
for non-commercial reasons (“Ask anyone
working in the film business; the first aim is
High school tuition costs about 3,000
yuan (HK$3,450) per year, a big amount for
a minimum-wage worker in Shanghai, who
earns 1,100 yuan a month.
Although the Shanghai government has
increased its efforts to provide more
assistance to poor students, including
US$1.9 billion last year to help the urban
poor with their education, there is no
guarantee that the government will provide
a family with assistance.
Sun Weiguo is one of those minimum-
wage workers who have found that
education for his children is out of reach.
He turned to Shanghai Sunrise, which
provided the financial boost he needed to
send his son, Sun Xuliang, to high school.
Sun Xuliang’s mother, Feng Qin, said
she was determined to give her son a better
education than the one she had received
during the Cultural Revolution, which left
her with only a middle school education.
Still, many students are beginning to
question whether a high school diploma is
worth the effort. Chinese children don’t
aspire just to high school diplomas; high
school is considered preparation for the
extremely competitive college entrance
examination. If a university degree is not in
the picture, high school usually isn’t, either.
As workers with university degrees grow
more numerous, especially in prosperous
cities such as Shanghai, poorer teenagers
to try and not lose money”), Bonner was
gratified to discover they unwittingly
proved effective marketing tools for his
business.
“They had a very favourable impact,” he
says. “Many viewers discovered for the first
time that they could actually visit North
Korea. That’s a big problem, traditionally,
that we’ve had: people in Europe, North
America, Australia, they know North Korea
is out there, but still think it out of bounds.”
Bonner’s current creative project is the
first foreign-produced, full-length feature
film to be shot there. Its working title is
Comrade Kim Goes Flying. Shooting on the
romantic comedy about trapeze artists
That is what the Koreans
have been forced to
suffer for 65 years, and
isolation has not worked.
It’s an appalling attitude
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Nick Bonner, co-founder of Koryo Group
started in May, and the film makes use of a
Korean cast and crew. It took four years for
Bonner to secure official approval. “The
cast are all merited artists,” he says, “which
shows the importance the Korean
government is giving this movie. I do
believe this is going to turn out to be a
strong piece of filmmaking.”
As well as its silver-screen dabblings,
Koryo has also long been involved in grass-
roots North Korean sporting events that
feature foreign participation, including
2004’s Pyongyang Open, an informal golf
tourney eventually won by a British editor
of the US issue of Golf Digest magazine,
and a soccer tournament between North
Korean, Dutch and Hong Kong teams.
I think I have a strong
personality; I don’t
want other people
to look down on me
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Qu Ting, 23, reflecting on her struggle to
pursue education even after her father died
and her mother abandoned her in Shanghai
Koryo has published photographic
books, and promotes contemporary North
Korean art via Bonner’s own gallery that is
an adjunct to Koryo’s Beijing headquarters.
With Bonner’s support, from December
2009 until April of this year, works by 10
artists from Pyongyang’s state-run
Mansudae Art Studio were exhibited at the
6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art held in Brisbane, Australia. The event
became an international incident when the
Australian government refused to issue
visas to five North Korean artists aiming to
attend the opening.
“The Australian press was unbelievably
supportive, and rightfully condemning of
the government’s attitude. Like us, they
recognised the potential benefit of artistic
engagement.”
Bonner is a strident supporter of any
means for North Koreans and other
nationalities to interact, and he has no time
for those who accuse his operation of
indirectly supporting a brutal dictatorship.
“Having visited the country over many
years, I am well aware of the situation in
Korea,” he says. “And, over time, I’ve
become acutely aware of the benefits of
engaging. The results speak for themselves.
“Take tourism. KITC [the Korea
International Travel Company] is a
government-run organisation, yes, but
effectively it is a company involved in
tourism, nothing more. It provides
accommodation, transportation, meals,
just like any travel company anywhere. The
money they bring in goes towards
providing those services, building tourism
infrastructure, training staff, etc. And the
more tourists who visit North Korea, the
more that industry grows, the more young
Koreans are learning English at school to
service that industry, the more interaction
takes place and the better we come to
understand each other.
“Basically, to those who choose to take
are questioning whether trade school or
simply entering the workforce might be
better options.
That was the case for Zhu Yu, who grew
up in a Shanghai orphanage and
postponed his education after middle
school. The 19-year-old with a restrained
Mohawk haircut and worn basketball
shoes thought that vocational school was
more practical and “quite reasonable”.
Zhu is a student at what may be one of
Shanghai’s most interesting vocational
schools. French bakers in the city created
Shanghai Young Bakers to teach orphans
and other disadvantaged children how to
make high-end bread and pastries. It is a
one-year programme, and, upon
completion, students receive certificates –
but never tuition bills.
“One cannot change where he is born,
but he can change his fate by his efforts and
his practices,” said Huang Yongfang, the
petite and energetic programme director.
Aside from learning how to bake French
pastries, students receive paid internships
at five-star hotels and classes in English, an
essential subject for students with
aspirations. The programme, which started
in 2008, has 25 students aged 17 to 23.
For the approximately 500,000 students
in Shanghai who were born to families that
migrated from rural areas, however,
vocational schools or entering the
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
some sort of misinformed moral high
ground about travel to the DPRK, I say,
‘Nice try,’ but that is what the Koreans have
been forced to suffer for 65 years [since the
North’s founding in 1945], and isolation
has not worked. It’s an appalling attitude.
Make the comparison with China; all the
time and energy the West puts into
engaging. There are still differences of
opinion, but everyone accepts the need for
engagement. Why not with the DPRK?”
Bonner, did, however, suffer serious
doubts about whether to continue visiting
the country during the famine of the mid
and late 1990s, a period now referred to as
the “arduous march” when between 2.5
million to 3 million North Koreans
perished. “Our Korean colleagues told us
we were needed, and not to stop the work
we were doing. We still continue in a small
way with humanitarian projects, but I
believe strongly that tourism and business
projects will have the greatest influence on
the country.”
In 1993, Koryo was the only company
offering Western travellers access to North
Korea. Though that has changed in recent
years, and competition is growing, Bonner
says he would prefer Koryo not to expand
much beyond its current size, preferring to
provide what he believes is a premium
product to a discerning clientele. “The
DPRK is not a backpacker destination, and
that won’t be happening for a long time.
Consumers can shop around and might
find cheaper deals, but what Koryo offers is
hard-won experience. It’s not the simplest
place to visit without occasional hiccups,
and in-depth knowledge of the place is
needed.”
Regarding Koryo’s turnover, Bonner is
as secretive as the country his operation
relies upon.
“Not telling,” he says. “Not enough, but
enough to give me the balls – or
foolhardiness – to fund a feature film.”
workforce may be the only options if they
don’t want to leave their families after
middle school.
This is due to the hukou system, a type
of identity registration that determines
social rights. A child’s hukou usually
corresponds to the territory that his parents
travelled from, meaning that is where he
must return for high school. Changing a
hukou is essentially out of the question.
“For most of the migrants, it’s
impossible,” said Corrine Hua, the
founding director of the Stepping Stones
Foundation, a charity that specialises in
helping migrant children.
High school “is very, very tough”, Hua
said. “So they might [prefer that] the kid
goes out to work or does vocational
training, which will probably improve their
chances of getting a decent job in a couple
of years’ time.”
Still, some Shanghai teachers continue
to push migrant children to persevere.
One of these teachers is Zhang Yichao,
the leader of a migrant-tutoring
programme. “They fear there is no hope for
them,” said Zhang, who works in a
prominent school during the day and
volunteers with the migrants in the
evening. “I think that is where there is a
disaster, because so many kids when they
grow up think this society did refuse them
… and they will hate the society.”
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CRYSTAL BALL
Calum Gordon picks the cars offering the
best value for money on the market today
Five stars: the smartest
deals on wheels in town
The Honda Jazz is fun to drive, has plenty of space for a compact and won’t
break the bank at HK$159,880. It is also fuel-efficient. Photos: SCMP Pictures
The E250CGI Elegance. Mercedes’ E-class costs half a million, but it’s packed
with features and one of the safest sedans on wheels.
Nissan’s Qashqai (HK$236,800) is a contradiction in terms, a city-friendly,
green SUV. It also performs surprisingly well and is safe.
Dramatic lines, eye-popping acceleration and a soft top that retracts in a
hurry make the Nissan 370Z roadster the sports car to own.
Flows Turbulence
Hong Kong investors should not Global financial markets will
assume emerging market stocks face “renewed turbulence” as
are the only game in town. Savvy structural deficits and public
investors will see heavy fund debt in Europe and the US
flows into emerging markets as hamper growth, according to
creating opportunities in the US Aberdeen Asset Management.
equity market. Buying Hong Kong stocks,
Liz Ann Sonders, chief given the currency’s link to the
investment strategist, US dollar, probably is not a
Charles Schwab good idea, it says.
COMPACT
There are plenty of makes and mod-
els to choose from in the best-value
compact category, but one car that
stands out for its practicality is the
five-door Honda Jazz (HK$159,880).
Car of choice for rental compa-
nies around the world, the latest Jazz
is deceptively spacious thanks to
Honda’s “forward shifted” body –
where the windscreen has been
brought forward and integrated with
a panoramic sunroof – which lends
the cabin an airy feel and helps to
optimise legroom front and rear.
The ergonomically designed cab-
in has a flexible layout, which allows
the rear seats to split and fold flat –
backwards to create extra luggage
space internally or forward for more
space at the rear. The Jazz seats five
and has decent luggage space for a
compact, while proving frugal
around town or on long hauls.
While its no road monster, the
Jazz manages to remain entertaining
to drive and prefers gentle accelera-
tion to maximise its fuel efficiency –
which makes it perfectly suited to
Hong Kong’s slow traffic speeds.
SEDAN
When it comes to buying the best-
value sedan, you might be wary
about forking out a cool half million,
but that’s still good value for the latest
generation Mercedes E-class.
While there are very capable se-
dans that can be had for under
HK$300,000, the new range of Es
comes with some built-in advantages
from the off. Whether you choose a
sedan (HK$460,000 for the E250CGI
Elegance), coupe (HK$550,000) or
estate (HK$536,000), each model car-
ries hi-tech safety features until now
seen only in luxury S-Class Mercs.
For example, a new adaptive
braking system includes a dry-brak-
ing function where brief braking im-
pulses skim off the layer of water
formed on the brake discs in wet driv-
ing conditions, so that if needed the
brakes can act with full effect.
Adaptive brake lights show
following traffic that an emergency
stop is taking place if the driver
brakes suddenly, while a new E-Class
option includes radar and camera
technology that “senses” road condi-
tions ahead and warns the driver.
So, the new E-class is safe, nice to
look at and good to drive – but
Mercedes’ Blue Efficiency models
also manage to turn out some of the
most impressive emissions figures of
any sedan around. For example, the
1.8-litre E250CGI Blue Efficiency
model meets Euro 5 emissions stan-
dards and cuts fuel consumption by
over 20 per cent compared with its
predecessor – 7.3 litres/100km com-
bined, with CO2 emissions as low as
174g/km.
If you’re still not convinced this
shows value for money, consider this:
Mercedes have long been regarded
as a sort of automotive currency in
Hong Kong, which will help to ensure
rock-solid resale value.
SUV
When it comes to choosing the best-
value SUV, there’s a surfeit of models
and a baffling array of crossovers and
specialist 4x4s to take into account.
If you’re in the market for a genu-
ine off-roader, meaty mud-sliders
like the Toyota Landcruiser or Land
Rover Range Rover will certainly
serve you well, but they’re not cheap
to buy or run – and hardly practical
propositions for the city. The Land
Rover Freelander 2 (HK$430,000)
currently remains the best SUV
around, combining genuine off-road
capability with city-friendly propor-
tions – but it’s due to be replaced next
year by the sharper Land Rover LRX.
13
Rebound Better
Mainland stocks will probably Better buying opportunities will
rebound after plunging below emerge in the second half of
counterparts listed in Hong this year ahead of a rally in 2011,
Kong, says Morgan Stanley. It says Fidelity International’s
holds Shanghai stocks are director of asset allocation,
oversold. They will outperform Trevor Greetham. Though
the property market in two leading indicators are
years as asset values and weakening, it is “no more than
yields narrow closer to their a moderation in recovery”.
historic spread, says RBS.
SOURCES: SCMP, BLOOMBERG
If you don’t have the budget for
the Freelander and still want a capa-
ble old-guard 4x4 that can get you
through the slippy stuff, then the Mit-
subishi Outlander is a similarly
named, similarly capable SUV, and a
snip at HK$265,000. Just don’t expect
the Freelander’s smooth, quiet deliv-
ery and high residual values.
But our choice for the most flexi-
ble SUV suited to Hong Kong driving
is Nissan’s city-friendly urban cross-
over, the Qashqai (HK$236,800).
Looking something like a scaled-
down Cayenne, the Qashqai not only
lacks the leviathan dimensions and The Alfa Romeo MiTo, a most compact three-
price tag of Porsche’s uber-4x4, but door at just four metres long, will be the first
when Nissan Japan teamed up with new Alfa intended for general audiences.
its European counterparts, Nissan
Design Europe, it set about creating HOT HATCH
the antithesis of the Cayenne – a
green SUV for the city. Our pick for the best-value hot hatch Premium package (HK$219,800) adds a around town, with the DNA system
The Qashqai combines some of could have been the excellent new VW smart leather interior and extras like a maintaining the standard vehicle
the most useful features of an SUV – Golf GTi (HK$318,000), but the Alfa fire prevention system and rain stability setting but sharpening up the
high ground clearance (some MiTo (HK$189,800 to HK$219,800) is a sensors. power steering to correct oversteer. In
200mm), a raised line of sight and more charming prospect with its mix of All models boast Alfa Romeo’s DNA Dynamic mode, the engine torque curve
extra headroom – with sedan-like good looks, willing performance and transmission, which gives the MiTo its changes for a prompter throttle
handling and generous equipment pocket-book price tag. characteristic sporty zing. response, pushing more power to the
levels as standard. The Qashqai is The MiTo is Alfa’s most compact In Normal mode, the MiTo is nimble front wheels while the power steering
easy to drive and shows surprisingly three-door, at just four metres long, firms up to a heavier weighting, giving a
sprightly performance and cornering and comes with three levels of tighter turn-in.
around town, and comes with an ex-
tensive list of safety features as stan-
specifications. The entry-level
Progression model sports 16-inch alloys
Don’t listen to the The turbocharged, 1.4-litre engine is
punchy and – much in the spirit of
dard – including ABS, brake assist,
and electronic brake-force distribu-
and a stylish interior combining a
distinctively crafted dashboard, sports
purists, the MiTo sporting Alfas – enjoys being revved
hard. In Dynamic mode especially, the
tion. It also notched up the highest seats and quality fabric seats is 100 per cent MiTo is a blast to drive. Its light kerb
score for safety in its class, achieving a (HK$189,800). weight (1,145kg) and turbocharged low-
Euro NCAP five-star safety rating. An extra HK$10,000 buys you the Alfa Romeo: to mid-range pull are bolstered by an
However you describe the Qash-
qai – an urban 4x4, a hatchback SUV
mid-range Sport version, aluminium
pedals and kick plates, bi-xenon
fast, agile – and impressive chassis.
Don’t listen to the purists, the MiTo
or a compact crossover – Nissan has
created an economical, easy-to-han-
headlamps, red brake calipers, 17-inch
alloys and a rear spoiler – while the
now – affordable is 100 per cent Alfa Romeo: fast, agile –
and now – affordable.
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dle SUV that lives up to the hype.
SPORTS CAR
If you’re looking for the best-value
sports car, there are of course plenty
of sharp suitors for your money on
the market today. German offerings
such as BMW’s 135i pocket rocket
stand out from the crowd, as does
Mercedes’ sinisterly overpowered
C63 AMG – and there are plenty of
Porsche options to consider also. But
there’s one sports car that stands out
from the rest this year, and it is Japa-
nese: the Nissan 370Z roadster
(HK$639,000).
Based on the latest generation
370Z coupe – with its shorter wheel-
base, reduced weight and lusty 3.7-
litre engine – the new convertible Z
offers the same deft handling and ac-
celeration as the tin-top but with an
alfresco interior.
With dramatic, flowing lines, the
370Z’s long-nose-to-short-cockpit
proportions blend linear styling cues
from the Nissan GT with fluid curves
reminiscent of the Datsun 240Zs
from the 1970s. The interior features
trimmed hide, large sport dials, alu-
minium pedals and an eight-speaker
Bose sound system. The seats have
internal air conditioning, and the
convertible’s fully automatic soft top
takes just 20 seconds to retract.
On the road, the roadster is ap-
pealing with its urgent – and vocal –
V6 propelling you forward with eye-
popping acceleration à la GT-R. The
seven-speed automatic transmis-
sion, which features a manual shift
mode with downshift rev matching
and adaptive shift control, is the star
of the show, making deft work of
channelling the linear thrust from the
V6 down to the tarmac. Better still,
the system works so seamlessly that
you can flick between automatic and
manual modes at any speed.
The 370Z is technically refined,
great to look at, rewarding to drive
and surprisingly good value. Wheth-
er in coupe or roadster form, the 370Z
delivers nearly all the thrill of Nissan’s
monster GT-R – minus the fear factor
– for about half the money.
Back Soon
The Road Warrior is
taking a break and will
return next month
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SAM Asia Value Formula 2.76 -1.44 3 3.41 32.52 16.43 BGF Euro Small & Mid Cap Opps A2 EUR -1.41 -15.31 5 -15.29 5.21 -15.07 408.21 3 ipac Multi-Manager HK Eq 2.66 -4.27 8 -2.41 16.94 3.33 4 ING (L) Invest Consumer Goods P Acc -3.92 -7.76 2 -3.21 17.21 -9.32 47.13 2
EK Asia 4.04 -1.77 4 10.37 42.11 5.06 129 3 Parvest Europe Mid Cap C -0.18 -15.46 6 -13.8 7.49 -15.87 367.9 4 Tracker Fund of Hong Kong 2.12 -4.5 9 -4.92 11.84 1.7 5048.22 3 ING (L) Invest Prestige & Luxe P Acc 0.4 -7.89 3 -1.4 31.74 -11.2 49.66 2
First State Asian Growth I Acc 5.53 -3.49 5 1.21 21.13 2.3 318.72 5 JF Europe Small Cap A (dist)-EUR -1.65 -15.73 7 -11.83 9.26 -20.42 276.72 2 Schroder ISF Hong Kong Eq A 3.93 -4.69 10 -2.04 20.33 3.22 654.43 4 SGAM Fund Eqs Luxury & Lifestyle A -1.09 -8.08 4 -2.46 32 -7.66 29.03 2
Macquarie Asia New Stars Fund A1 2.27 -3.98 6 5.46 46.52 10.92 Robeco European MidCap Eq D EUR -2.78 -16.04 8 -15.86 3.96 -15.18 184.2 2 Allianz RCM Hong Kong A 0.71 -4.79 11 -2.2 20.38 5.74 165.32 4 Pictet-Premium Brands-P EURtyle Acs -1.77 -8.16 5 -1.85 31.01 -7.68 151.36 3
Templeton Asian Smaller Co A Acc $ 3.37 -4.1 7 4.77 41.14 34.37 Robeco European Stars D EUR -0.51 -16.99 9 -15.85 6.69 -21.85 30.78 1 JF Hong Kong A (dist)-USD 2.37 -4.92 12 -3.88 10.32 0.98 166.96 2 Fortis L Equity Consumer Goods Wrld Acc -0.71 -8.74 6 -4.21 15.07 -4 76.95 3
Aberdeen Global Asia Pacific Equity A2 5.18 -4.16 8 0.2 26.74 0.59 5498.43 5 PineBridge Europe Small & Mid Cap A -0.78 -17.43 10 -15.69 4.26 -18.89 64.26 2 PineBridge Hong Kong Equity 1.87 -5.09 13 -5.8 11.74 1.48 662 3 ING (L) Invest Food & Bev P USD Acc -0.58 -8.98 7 -6.17 12.61 -0.5 72.73 4
Amundi Funds Asian Growth C C 3.15 -4.32 9 -2.8 18.65 -2.85 284.26 3 UBS (Lux) EF Mid Caps Europe EUR P -2.37 -18.63 11 -15.93 2.64 -17.24 76.52 3 BOCHK IF - HK Equity A 1.75 -5.28 14 -5.7 10.23 0.9 91.92 3 MS INVF Global Brands A 1.96 -9.02 8 -3.98 17.52 -5.23 1526.05 3
Manulife GF Asia Value Dividend Eq AA 2.53 -4.39 10 -1.18 Pru IOF Pan European A -1.83 -20.96 12 -19.87 -6.19 -16.14 77.73 3 JF SAR Hong Kong A 2.37 -5.29 15 -4.29 12.08 1.23 310.11 3 Parvest Global Brands C -5.4 -10.6 9 -5.94 17.48 -9.34 17.81 2
Principal LSF Asian Equity Ret 2.47 -4.7 11 -4.01 18.58 -3.53 283.1 4 M&G Pan European A EUR -2.74 -20.99 13 -20.11 -3.55 -15.04 402.94 3 Fortis L Equity Consumer Durable Wld Acc -5.81 -10.89 10 -4.57 18.75 -9.61 27.6 2
First State Asian Eq Plus I Inc 3.8 -4.8 12 -2.28 21.16 2.99 1863.1 5 HS Consumer Sect Flexipower A1 0.64 -11.18 11 -5.33 29.54 1.43 85.26 4
AXA Unit Trusts - Pacific 2.06 -5 13 -0.59 24.74 -1.95 147.32 3 India Equity FF - Global Consumer Industries A Euro -5.97 -12.86 12 -8.5 10.24 -3.17 157.59 4
HSBC GIF Asia ex Jap Eq Sm Co A 3.03 -5.04 14 -1.12 35.04 -2.77 52.03 2 Europe Small-Cap Equity SGAM Fund Eqs Euroland Cyclicals A -1.44 -13.34 13 -15.11 4.15 -13.55 42.92 1
BEA Asia Strategic Growth A 1.43 -5.28 15 -3.78 21.56 -3.44 116.44 4 Invesco Global Leisure A -10.68 -13.47 14 -7.19 14.19 -11.48 55.56 2
MSCI India NR USD 7.09 -4.5 1.03 28.64 1.74
MSCI Europe Small Cap NR USD -1.99 -16.28 -11.85 11.13 -15.58 India Equity 6.1 -3.5 2.3 29.77
Asia/Pacific with Japan Equity Europe Small-Cap Equity 0.38 -13.52 -10.98 11.38 Sector Equity Ecology
JF India Smaller Companies 5.69 4.59 1 11.25 45.47 -0.26 32.87 3
MSCI AC Asia Pac NR USD -0.07 -10.81 -5.95 10.94 -6.87 Threadneedle(Lux) Pan European Sm Cos AE 2.67 -8 1 -3.38 23.44 -14.83 2.89 3 First State Indian Subcontinent I Acc 7.58 0.39 2 7.19 42.23 7.67 205.49 5 MSCI World NR EUR -2.99 -13.94 -10.28 8.65-10.66
MFS Meridian Europ Sm Cos A1 EUR 0.14 -8.88 2 -7.37 18.46 -12.82 12.91 5 BGF India A2 USD 7.18 0.12 3 5.13 33.57 0.8 667.14 3 Sector Equity Ecology -1.73 -13.86 -15.91 -1.55
Asia/Pacific with Japan Equity -0.29 -10.25 -6 10.21 Threadneedle Pan Eurp Sm Cos RN GBP 2.54 -9.06 3 -5.42 16.08 -13.6 464.86 4 Lloyd George India 6.11 -0.43 4 3.61 38.15 -0.8 219.42 2
Standard Life SICAV Euro Smaller Co’s A -1.53 -13.49 4 -11.76 15.02 62.43 PineBridge India Equity A 5.61 -0.55 5 10.53 41.3 12.58 392.37 5 Fortis L Green Future C Acc -1.53 -10.37 1 -13.99 -2.44 -19.72 113 2
JF AsiaOne 1.5 -5.5 1 -2.57 12.59 0.03 154.86 5 Pictet-Small Cap Europe-P EUR -0.45 -13.74 5 -11.58 9.84 -16.23 250.15 4 JF India 5.09 -0.76 6 6.18 31.03 0.46 1523.78 4
Adequity Lyxor Strat Eq AsianPower2 6.36 -6.32 2 -7.31 10.06 -12.4 4.3 1 Fortis L Equity Small Caps Europe C Acc -1.29 -14.15 6 -13.83 6.84 -23.42 189.68 3 Amundi Funds India C C 4.99 -0.86 7 3.93 28.42 -0.57 991.16 2 ING (L) Invest Climate Focus P Acc -1.29 -11.16 2 -13.94 -2.82 11.74
JF Pacific Smaller Companies 0.48 -6.81 3 -1.41 20.4 -8.19 41.51 3 Henderson Horizon Pan Eurp Smlr Coms A2 -0.69 -14.98 7 -10.09 24.26 -17.98 325.79 2 Aberdeen Global Indian Equity A2 6.71 -0.92 8 8.28 41.65 4.26 3459.24 5 Fortis L Green Tigers Acc -1.06 -11.43 3 -13.07 4.48 30.89
Wells Fargo(LUX)WF-Global Equity A Acc -1.84 -9.07 4 -6.99 11.12 5.46 FF - European Smaller Cos A Acc Euro -3.3 -15.09 8 -12.82 8.72 -15.26 994.42 3 db x-trackers S&P CNX NIFTY ETF 4.94 -1.68 9 3.63 28.34 292.75 Jupiter JGF Climate Change Solu L £áAcc -2.84 -11.49 4 -12.34 2.29 -14.35 14.42 3
Comgest Asia 0.07 -10.14 5 -6.72 8.08 -11.7 174.52 3 PineBridge Europe Small Companies Y -0.5 -15.39 9 -13.99 3.02 -22.86 71.8 3 Parvest India C 4.84 -1.82 10 3.02 31.6 -0.23 214.2 2 Parvest Global Environment C -2.54 -11.81 5 -11.75 3.78 62.18
Invesco Pacific Equity A -2.23 -10.39 6 -5.82 11.81 -0.91 192.72 4 Schroder ISF Eur Smaller Co A Acc -0.94 -15.61 10 -13.98 5.44 -18.37 115.28 3 Fortis L Equity India Classic Acc 7.09 -1.94 11 4.21 29.04 2.41 312.88 4 Schroder ISF Glbl Clmt Chg Eq A USD -1.86 -13.36 6 -14.86 4.38 187.33
Fortis L Equity High Div Pacific Acc -1.03 -10.64 7 -2.9 22.53 -4.11 20.39 4 Invesco Pan European Sm Cap Eq A -3.88 -16.16 11 -15.47 7.06 -22.56 110.93 2 Lyxor ETF MSCI India B 4.49 -2.29 12 2.82 30.25 1.19 3 HSBC GIF Climate Change A Inc -3.05 -15.05 7 -16.02 -0.82 35.76
FF - Pacific A USD -1.36 -10.96 8 -1.65 19.66 -9.02 654.87 2 MS INVF European Sm Cap Val A -4.07 -19.91 12 -17.87 4.26 -18.79 16.41 2 Jupiter JGF India Select L USD 7.14 -2.48 13 3.18 41.55 2.94 4 Generali IS Futur DX -0.01 -15.26 8 -18.34 -0.49 36.08
Robeco Asia Pacific Equities D EUR -2.65 -11.52 9 -7.01 12 -7.01 772.7 4 iShares BSE SENSEX India Index ETF 5.19 -2.58 14 2.59 25.8 0.17 3 Pioneer Fds Global Ecology A EUR ND -4.99 -17.65 9 -17.08 -0.89 -13.21 1193.91 4
JF Pacific Securities -3.15 -11.91 10 -6.12 10.08 -0.93 399 4 Allianz RCM India I USD 6.04 -2.73 15 2.5 6.4 UBS (Lux) EF Global Innovators EUR P -1.38 -18.47 10 -22.92 -12.5 -17.11 442.32 2
Amundi Funds Asia Pac Renaissance C C -2.06 -12.45 11 -9.17 8.52 -7.56 20.36 3 Europe ex-UK Large-Cap Equity Allianz RCM Global EcoTrends A EUR -5.55 -18.81 11 -21.32 -15.5 -15.91 405.84 2
BGF Pacific Equity A2 USD -2.51 -13.84 12 -9.04 5.18 -6.66 175.61 3
GAM Star Asia-Pacific Equity £á Acc -4.58 -17.49 13 -11.98 -4.47 -11.79 435.62 3 MSCI Europe Ex UK NR USD -0.74 -17.54 -18.36 0.92 -15.36
Islamic Equity Sector Equity Energy
Australia and New Zealand Equity Europe ex-UK Large-Cap Equity 2.02 -15.13 -16.17 3.72 FTSE Shariah All-World TR USD -2.88 -13.99 -11.37 8.1 -5.77
MSCI World/Energy NR USD -4.16 -18.3 -17.58 -3.26 -7.38
Threadneedle Eurp Sel Ret Net EUR 2.85 -10.64 1 -8.32 11.17 -12.87 1060.9 4 Islamic Equity 1.26 -7.8 -0.62 18.21
MSCI Australia NR USD -4.51 -21.6 -17.68 17.53 -6.39 AXA Rosenberg Europe ex-UK Eq Alpha B 0.67 -12.79 2 -15.25 6.4 -19.42 59.41 2
Sector Equity Energy -2.93 -15.89 -16.2 1.18
Hang Seng Islamic China Idx A 3.58 -2.41 1 0.75 17.39 19.8
MFS Meridian Continental Europ Eq A2 GBP 0.63 -12.83 3 -15.39 10.03 -9.07 37.99 4
Australia and New Zealand Equity -4.33 -21.6 -17.37 18.26 Threadneedle European Ret Net EUR 2.24 -14.12 4 -14.35 1.78 -13.23 844.89 4 Barclays Power Select Income A 0.04 -7.7 1 -9.65 -0.98 -3.3 9.49 5
JF Australia -3.98 -19.57 1 -14.68 16.47 -5.93 119.69 3
Hang Seng Cont European A
GAM Star Cont European Equity GBP Acc
-0.37
0.77
-14.39
-14.6
5 -17.47
6 -15.71
0.94 -15.82
5.32 -12.55
169.99
134.57
3
4
Italy Equity Schroder ISF Global Energy A
Investec GSF Glbl Energy A Inc Grs USD
-2.67
0.05
-13.68
-13.77
2
3
-12.47
-12.12
12.18 -4.02
3.61 -5.04
1033.82
1189.37
3
5
Parvest Australia C -5.1 -19.92 2 -13.67 23.94 -5.23 172.09 4 BGF Continental European Flexible A2 EUR 1.38 -14.75 7 -12.72 16.5 -7.21 312.64 4 MFS Meridian Global Energy A1 EUR -5.23 -13.85 4 -15.23 2.06 23.5
Aberdeen Global Australasian Equity A2 -2.78 -20.12 3 -17.16 13.93 -4.81 74.38 5 Aberdeen Global European Eq (ex-UK) A2 1.32 -15.3 8 -17.71 5.8 -17.71 59.84 2 MSCI Italy NR USD -0.18 -22.97 -27.48 -12.83 -22.81 Franklin Natural Resources A Acc $ -0.13 -15.62 5 -10.81 13.79 104.95
FF - Australia A AUD -5.12 -21.85 4 -16.68 20.62 -6.34 821.66 2 Investec GSF Cont Eurpn Eq A Inc Grs USD 0.44 -15.7 9 -16.25 1.79 -17.35 57.91 2 Threadneedle(Lux) Global Energy Eqs AU -0.26 -15.84 6 -15.04 -0.41 -9.34 40.7 2
UBS (Lux) EF Australia B AUD P -4.41 -21.98 5 -18.93 17.9 -5.55 149.88 3 Invesco Cont European Equity A 0.3 -16.59 10 -17.4 3.03 -13.86 103.84 4 Italy Equity 0.54 -19.31 -23.62 -9.62 ING (L) Invest Energy P USD Acc -6.48 -16.13 7 -18.46 -3.79 -10.45 155.66 3
Baring Australia A Class -3.6 -22.78 6 -19.27 17.05 -4.69 181.45 2 BNY Mellon Continental Eurp Eq A USD 2.49 -16.79 11 -20.21 -3.61 -13.99 61.24 4 Invesco Energy A -5.81 -16.96 8 -18.77 -0.59 -8.73 290.53 3
HSBC European Index Retail Inc 1.69 -18.36 12 -19.78 -0.43 -14.92 168.57 3 Schroder ISF Italian Eq A Acc 0.29 -21.4 1 -24.9 -9.96 -24.43 121.8 3 BGF World Energy A2 USD -3.96 -17.67 9 -16.01 -1.19 -7.28 3735.69 3
Standard Life SICAV Euro Equity Uncons A -0.2 -18.89 13 -18.67 1.19 57.08 FF - Italy A Euro -2.03 -23.94 2 -26.7 -10.89 -23.87 272.04 4 Fortis L Equity Energy World C Acc -7.54 -17.76 10 -18.84 -2.54 -6.59 232.49 3
BRIC Equity Henderson Horizon Cont Europ Eq A2 -1.49 -19.95 14 -21.96 -4.42 -17.94 98.2 2 SGAM Fund Eqs Global Energy A -6.74 -18.56 11 -20.74 -5.38 -11.21 8.17 3
Baring European Growth Trust -0.11 -21.22 15 -21.17 -3.44 -17.89 162.2 2 Robeco Natural Resources Equities D EUR -6.55 -18.91 12 -18.48 0.6 -7.93 362.15 3
MSCI BRIC USD 0.9 -12.52 -10.15 15.03 -0.32 Japan Large-Cap Equity iShares CSI A-Share Energy Index ETF -8.33 -20.42 13 -32.02
BRIC Equity 0.44 -12.06 -10.05 17.32 Europe ex-UK Small/Mid-Cap Equity MSCI Japan NR USD -1.66 -10.14 -2.67 1.14 -11.5 Sector Equity Financial Services
HSBC GIF BRIC Markets Z 0.09 -8.7 1 -6.16 22.35 3.03 56.38 3 MSCI Europe Ex UK Small Cap NR USD -1.98-19.04 -14.92 8.84 -15.45 Japan Large-Cap Equity -2.8 -11.06 -3.59 -0.02
HSBC GIF BRIC Equity M2 Acc 0.31 -8.71 2 -7.12 25.5 -0.06 1748.3 3 MSCI World/Financials NR USD -3.83 -17.17 -12.51 5.87 -21.91
Principal BRIC Em Economies -0.01 -9.06 3 -7.47 20.12 -0.71 21.04 3 Europe ex-UK Small/Mid-Cap Equity 1.22 -13.02 -10.19 14.48 Permal Long Japan A USD 0.85 0.31 1 4.52 10.26 -26.46 104.07 2
HSBC GIF BRIC Markets Equity A Acc 0.01 -9.29 4 -8.61 14.29 0.18 618.02 3 Lyxor Alpha Equity Nikkei 225 3.36 -5.26 2 -1.6 1.23 -15.47 35.5 1
Sector Equity Financial Services -1.71 -13.86 -9.7 10.19
Parvest BRIC C 0 -9.6 5 -8.46 17.58 -0.97 658.02 3 Threadneedle Eurp Sm Cos Ret Net EUR Acc 3.72 -9.72 1 -6.01 13.47 -12.73 1064.66 4 Jupiter JGF Japan Select L USD -2.11 -7.54 3 1.43 6.7 29.82
Schroder ISF BRIC A 1.15 -10.9 6 -11.24 14.08 -0.24 3660.16 3 AXA Rosenberg Eur ex UK Sm Cp Alp B -0.03 -14.73 2 -12.68 12.34 -20.43 10.87 3 MS INVF Japanese Equity Advtg A -1.38 -8.1 4 0.11 5.12 -4.31 69.25 5 HS Fincl Sect Flexipower A 1.37 -7.18 1 -6.88 6.01 5.21 29.95 5
Allianz RCM BRIC Equity AT USD 0.65 -12.27 7 -11.26 18.73 276.17 Invesco Cont European Sm Co Eq A -1.68 -15.75 3 -12.79 25.67 -15.7 55.19 2 Aberdeen Global Japanese Equity A2 -0.81 -8.36 5 -0.46 7.71 -11.28 186.73 4 Davis Financial A USD -2.23 -11.31 2 -7.84 13.63 -13.23 12.8 4
Templeton BRIC A Acc $ -1.01 -16.04 8 -12.34 14.6 -3.9 2673.96 2 DB Platinum IV CROCI Japan R1C -1.04 -8.4 6 -0.2 8.7 -9.45 78.05 5 BGF World Financials A2 USD -2.81 -15.59 3 -12.83 4.68 -20.78 230.63 4
Baring Europe Select Trust GBP 1.01 -16.37 4 -13.65 9.56 -9.87 658.18 5 ICBC Global Financial Opportunities -3.92 -15.64 4 -11.74 4.44
JPM Jpn Behav.Finance Eq A (acc)-USD -1 -8.62 7 -2.06 1.57 -15.18 6.83 2
Threadneedle(Lux) Japanese Equities AJ -0.52 -8.79 8 -1.12 1.99 -7.28 7.87 5 Fortis L Equity Finance World Acc -4.3 -16.09 5 -12.19 5.66 -26.83 81.8 2
Brazil Equity Eurozone Large-Cap Equity Franklin Templeton Japan A Acc JPY -2.41 -8.88 9 -2.6 0.49 -19.15 87.19 2 JPM Global Financials A (acc)-USD -1.93 -16.87 6 -12.84 5.07 -21.44 156.15 3
Pictet-Japanese Equities 130/30-P JPYD -2.61 -9.16 10 -2.38 4.17 -10.8 67.61 3 Amundi Funds Global Finance C C -3.96 -17.17 7 -14.42 -0.93 -17.13 30.54 4
Lyxor ETF Japan (TOPIX) E -0.67 -9.18 11 -1.69 -0.67 iShares CSI A-Share Financials Index ETF -1.14 -17.99 8 -22.16
MSCI Brazil NR BRL -1.44 -16.38 -14.87 20.95 8.01 UBS (Lux) EF Financial Svcs EUR P Acc -4.45 -18.04 9 -9.92 11.91 -20.35 58.41 3
MSCI EMU NR USD -1.7-19.46 -22.14 -4.03 -17.23 Schroder ISF Japanese Large Cap A Inc -3.54 -9.48 12 -0.28 1.7 -11.31 57.42 3
Brazil Equity 0.63 -9.76 -10.92 32.58 Schroder ISF Japanese Eq A Acc -3.28 -9.62 13 -1.22 5.39 -11.09 300.13 4 FF - Glbl Financial Services A Euro -6.71 -18.07 10 -15.05 2.34 -16.35 344.34 4
Eurozone Large-Cap Equity 0.25 -17.4 -20.4 -1.74 BOCHK IF - Japan Eq A -0.74 -9.64 14 -5.98 1.89 -13.24 11.9 4 Parvest Europe Financials C -0.89 -19.2 11 -22.14 -1.37 -27.36 28.62 2
HSBC GIF Brazil Equity A Inc -0.66 -10.45 1 -11.71 39.45 -3.99 791.81 2 BEA Union Investment Japan Growth A -1.33 -9.72 15 -5.51 -0.15 -13.62 12.09 3
Allianz RCM Euroland Eq Growth AT EUR 3.04 -11.91 1 -9.59 15.67 -8.49 248.23 4
Amundi Funds Brazil C C 0.55 -10.94 2 -12.95 34.39 188.09
Parvest Euro Equities C -1.47 -16.1 2 -20.91 -0.51 -18.31 255.08 2 Sector Equity Healthcare
Parvest Brazil C
Fortis L Equity Brazil Acc
-0.22
0.29
-11.97
-14.35
3 -14.12
4 -13.34
24.17
25
3.13 653.42
500.17
3 DB Platinum IV CROCI Euro R1 Acc -3.47 -16.64 3 -20.71 -1.22 -13.55 557.06 4 Japan Small/Mid-Cap Equity
AXA Rosenberg Eurobloc Eq Alpha B -1.52 -16.66 4 -21.16 0.34 -20.51 751.82 2 MSCI World/Health Care NR USD -0.13 -12.11 -10.31 7.6 -6.4
db x-trackers MSCI Brazil TRN Index 2C -1.67 -14.46 5 -15.45 274.11 JF Euroland Eq A (dist)-USD 0.92 -17.63 5 -20.98 -2.31 -20.56 747.91 2
Generali IS Euro Equities Opport DX -1.38 -17.98 6 -22.52 -3.76 -17.13 96.62 2 MSCI Japan Small Cap NR USD 0.82 -4.02 4.51 2.77 -8.92 Sector Equity Healthcare -0.43 -12.39 -10.02 5.25
China Equity Templeton Euroland A Acc £á -1.15 -17.99 7 -19.73 -2.93 -20.45 166.68 4 Japan Small/Mid-Cap Equity -1.54 -6.67 -0.1 2.13
Standard Life SICAV Eurozone Eqs A -0.73 -18.21 8 -21.03 -3.35 -19.7 11.02 2 Pictet-Generics-P USDre USD EurocTF 0.52 -1.93 1 10.12 30.97 3.18 388.39 5
Amundi Funds Euro Quant C C -1.97 -18.25 9 -23.61 -4.42 -19.79 74.12 2 Aberdeen Global Japanese Smaller Cos A2 1.82 -0.41 1 7.59 16 -6.63 90.88 4 AXA WF Frm Health AC EUR -1.42 -10.28 2 -3.21 12.47 -5.02 23.58 4
MSCI China NR USD 3.44 -6.52 -6.24 10.74 4.11 ING (L) Invest Euro Hi Dividend P Acc -3.01 -18.27 10 -22.42 -1.49 -15.38 1345.76 5 PineBridge Japan Smaller Com Plus Y -0.84 -1.82 2 2.92 6.23 -6.62 51.67 4 FF - Global Health Care A Euro -2.47 -11.53 3 -8.35 10.49 -3.82 562.26 4
BGF Euro-Markets A2 EUR -0.66 -18.42 11 -20.9 -0.82 -12.89 1822.53 4 Schroder ISF Japanese Sm Comp A Acc -0.91 -2.45 3 6.33 9.96 -8.29 88.13 4 Fortis L Equity Health Care World C Acc -1.53 -12.82 4 -12.12 5.09 -7.72 167.53 2
China Equity 0.94 -9.72 -9.67 8.57 SGAM Fund Eqs Euroland Value A -2.69 -18.48 12 -22.81 -3.12 -17.76 702.08 3 SGAM Fund Eqs Japan Small Cap A -0.23 -2.58 4 -0.8 4.37 -13.43 7.04 1 Invesco Global Health Care A -3.35 -13.09 5 -10.22 4.29 -5.37 143.35 3
MS INVF Eurozone Equity Alpha A -1.19 -18.73 13 -18.47 0.95 -14.85 60.5 4 UBS (Lux) EF Small & Mid Caps Japan P -0.57 -4.21 5 5.65 3.34 -8.81 48.26 2 AB SICAV Intl Health Care A -0.81 -13.29 6 -9.17 6.82 -9.07 285.85 3
Value Partners Chinese Mld Foc -2.99 3.26 1 2.04 34.5 9.8 121.52 4 FF - Euro Blue Chip A Euro -3.21 -19.43 14 -21.38 -1.71 -15.76 555.88 4 JF Japan OTC 1.41 -4.69 6 1.81 6.44 -17.12 57.64 1 Manulife GF Healthcare AA -4.53 -13.9 7 -8.37 8.86
Value Partners China Convergence -2.99 3.03 2 1 32.3 6.06 209.55 5 Schroder ISF Euro Dynamic Gr A Acc -0.31 -19.88 15 -23.37 -5.01 -20.26 228.57 2 BGF Japan Small & MidCap Opps A2 JPY -0.59 -4.86 7 1.42 6.36 -11.39 174.37 3 Janus Global Life Sciences A USD -2.35 -14.51 8 -10.75 5.95 -5.17 62.37 2
HSBC China Momentum Class A -0.87 -2.75 3 -7.72 8.9 -5.1 196.5 Henderson Horizon Japanese Smlr Coms A2 -3.17 -4.91 8 6.47 6.95 -0.76 34.61 4 UBS (Lux) EF Health Care (USD) P Acc -2.72 -15.44 9 -13.06 4.86 -7.2 147.71 3
db x-trackers FTSE/XINHUA China 25 2.22 -3.55 4 -3.35 6.68 287.09 Eurozone Small-Cap Equity Invesco Nippon Small/Mid Cap Equity A -1.79 -6.2 9 -8.1 3.73 -10.55 71.45 2 BGF World Healthscience A2 USD -5.23 -16.38 10 -12.68 2.56 -2.25 422.84 4
BOCHK IF China Consumption Gr A 2.52 -3.64 5 -1.17 25.97 5.77 Invesco Japanese Sm & Mid Cap Eq A -2.8 -6.66 10 -8.56 3.14 -10.58 70.15 2
Barclays China Accelerated Gr A HKD
ING China Access A
8.1
0.94
-3.66
-3.73
6
7
-9.34
-4.86
0.28
6.95
30.35
60.4 MSCI EMU Small Cap NR USD -1.89 -19.2 -17.53 3.34 -16.63
AXA Rosenberg Jap Sm-Cp Alpha B
JF Japan Small Cap A (dist)-USD
0.15
-3.44
-7.11
-7.76
11
12
1.33
-0.96
-4.5 -10.88
3.87 -15.28
502.14
40.12
3
2
Sector Equity Industrial Materials
Hang Seng China Index A Acc 2.17 -3.85 8 -3.79 5.72 2.01 24.32 2 Eurozone Small-Cap Equity -0.7-16.34 -14.07 7.36 Threadneedle Jap Sm Cos Ret Net JPY -1.91 -8.16 13 0.49 -2.69 -11.65 158.37 2
Principal LSF China Eq ret 1.55 -4.29 9 -3.59 12.94 117.94 FF - Japan Smaller Companies A JPY -4.36 -11.55 14 -5.41 -1.12 -6.37 107.8 3 MSCI World/Materials NR USD -4.04 -18.3 -14.79 12.52 -7.05
Hang Seng FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF 1.58 -4.37 10 -4.22 5.03 1.22 32.72 4 JF Ultra Japan A JPY -4.11 -11.88 15 -12.62 -7.6 4.53 7.8 5
Lyxor China A/H Shares Opportunities 8.7 -4.88 11 -6.87 7.38 15.72 Parvest Euro Small Cap C -1.93 -16.78 1 -17.22 2.09 -16.59 36.52 3 Sector Equity Industrial Materials -3.22 -14.93 -9.88 15.21
DBS China Multi Access Opportunities 2.46 -4.93 12 -7.17 6.76 13.09 HSBC GIF Euroland Eq Smaller Co A -5.07 -23.16 2 -17.82 0.7 -15.97 82.31 3
NCB China Equity A 0.92 -5.03 13 -6.12 2.3 151.39 Korea Equity ING (L) Invest Industrials P Acc -1.89 -9.05 1 -1.81 27.32 -10.94 47.13 3
First State China Growth I Acc 4.25 -5.25 14 -2.09 29.22 6.61 3614.17 5 Fortis L Equity Industrials World Acc -4.72 -12.31 2 -6.93 14.49 -13.38 23.11 2
iShares MSCI China Index ETF 1.48 -5.29 15 -4.46 9.61 3.15 3 France Large-Cap Equity MSCI Korea NR USD 1.21 -11.28 -5.71 26.99 -6.58 FF - Global Industrials A Euro -6.48 -17.36 3 -12.99 11.59 -3.77 285 5
Fortis L Equity Materials World Acc -4.41 -17.51 4 -16.33 9.4 -12.21 163.49 1
Derivative Commodities Euronext Paris CAC 40 TR EUR -3.05 -22.05 -24.61 -5.55-16.34 Korea Equity 2.26 -9.6 -5.37 23.29 ING (L) Invest Materials P Acc -3.94 -17.75 5 -17.5 13.81 -9.94 127.02 2
iShares CSI A-Share Materials Index ETF -7.89 -17.94 6 -27.5
France Large-Cap Equity -1.42 -19.41 -21.89 -2.16 JF Ultra Korea 0.69 -2.76 1 -0.12 5.61 -5.85 3.23 5
DJ UBS Commodity PR EUR 0.6 -6.84 -10.4 0.9 -10.28
Parvest France C -2.65 -19.78 1 -23.33 -4.11 -17.68 95.23 2
MiraeAsset Korea Eq I $
Amundi Funds Korea C C
5.65 -3.61
2.51 -5.56
2
3
2.27
-2.81
34.93
34.66
-1.24
-9.28
38.79
99.52
5
3
Sector Equity Infrastructure
Derivative Commodities 1.12 -9.82 -15.13 -2.88 FF - France A Euro -3.98 -21.12 2 -22.06 -3.09 -14.74 313.84 4 Invesco Korean Equity A 4.28 -7.2 4 -2.04 29.99 -8.27 443.51 3
Allianz RCM Korea Fund A 4.52 -7.3 5 -2.59 21.73 -10.18 40.77 3 S&P Global Infrastructure TR USD -0.2 -13.09 -13.2 5.48 -10.51
Schroder Alt Sol Agri A USD Acc 0.64 -3.08 1 -12.56 -5.25 -4.35 1113.5 Lyxor ETF MSCI Korea B 1.43 -8.28 6 -4.49 30.85 -6.77 3
Parvest Agriculture (USD) C 1.21 -3.61 2 -14.26 -6.85 85.66 Germany Large-Cap Equity db x-trackers MSCI Korea TRN Index 1.21 -8.29 7 -4.44 31.14 154.04 Sector Equity Infrastructure 1.11 -9.73 -7.55 12.06
Barclays Global Agri Delta A USD Acc 1.02 -4.21 3 -12.17 -4.48 101.92 Baring Korea Feeder 2.44 -8.7 8 -4.08 26.63 -12.91 124.34 3
Schroder AS Gold & Metals A USD Acc -0.61 -4.89 4 -2.7 21.93 186.45 Baring Korea Trust 1.05 -9.03 9 -3.47 27.44 -11.9 265.83 3 Amundi Funds India Infrastructure C C 5.17 -0.52 1 3.2 25.41 98.16
Fortis L Commodity World Acc -0.33 -5.45 5 -9.65 1.16 -4.59 383.87 FSE DAX TR EUR 0.46 -13.15 -14.22 10.85 -11.64 JF Korea Fund 2.58 -10 10 -5.22 22.94 -4.91 707.26 5 Pru IOF Asian Infra Equity A 3.26 -5.54 2 -1.74 12.1 93.06
Lyxor ETF Commodities CRB E 1.63 -5.68 6 -9.12 2.89 -5.79 Germany Large-Cap Equity 1.71 -12.6 -13.64 8.16 Schroder ISF Korean Eq A Acc 2.39 -10.2 11 -7.21 24.27 -9.52 32.91 4 ICBC Asia Infrastructure & Redevelopment 1.16 -6.94 3 -5.71 4.65
Schroder Alt Sol Com A USD Acc 0.65 -7.2 7 -9.87 -1.71 -2.62 4972.69 JF Korea Eq A (acc)-USD 2.17 -10.59 12 -4.41 21.7 34.05 UBS (Lux) EF Emerg Mks Infras USD P Acc 2.61 -7.9 4 -7.09 17.09 207.49
DB Platinum IV Agriculture USD R1C -2.36 -7.78 8 -19.19 -13.35 100.94 Baring German Growth GBP Acc 2.37 -11.87 1 -12.99 11.52 -10.97 289.9 4 HSBC GIF Korean Equity A Inc 1.19 -10.81 13 -7.38 22.75 -12.11 115.42 2 First State Global Listed Infra I 0.54 -9.96 5 -9.94 9.17 24.92
DB Platinum Commodity USD R1C -1.76 -8.13 9 -14.11 3.91 5.84 350.11 Templeton Korea A Acc $ -0.22 -16.94 14 -16.17 3.92 -12.77 88.36 1 Invesco Asia Infrastructure A Inc 1.63 -10.65 6 -8.79 8.57 -6.74 2571.82 2
Barclays Glbl Commodity Delta B USD -0.12 -8.26 10 -10.91 -0.95 142.22 Fortis L Equity Germany Classic Acc -0.18 -11.88 2 -14.63 7.92 -16.55 108.41 2 UBS (Lux) EF Infrastructure (EUR) P Acc -0.77 -14.16 7 -10.99 7.39 42.57
Lyxor Agriculture A USD -3.18 -8.68 11 -16.81 -7.8 18.69 JF Germany Eq A (dist)-EUR 0.31 -13.99 3 -13.81 6.38 -12.99 310.32 3 Robeco Infrastructure Eq D EUR -5.59 -16.35 8 -14.82 9.32 201.26
MS INVF Commodities Active GSLE A -0.11 -8.83 12 -11.99 -4.62 170.66 FF - Germany A EUR Inc -2.13 -14.5 4 -13.88 8.61 -13 457.35 4 Latin America Equity iShares CSI A-Share Infrastrct Index ETF -2.82 -17.8 9 -20.89

Emerging Europe Equity Global Small/Mid-Cap Equity MSCI EM Latin America NR USD -0.95 -13.21 -10.42 23.96 3.69 Sector Equity Natural Resources
Latin America Equity -0.75 -11.45 -9.53 28.95
MSCI EM Eastern Europe NR USD -5.97 -21.54 -14.18 15.47 -11.51 MSCI World Small Cap NR USD -3.6 -12.1 -4.43 18.57 -8.51 S&P Global Natural Resources TR EUR -5.3 -18.9 -18.87 -1.02 -3.02
PineBridge Latin America Small/Mid Cap Y 2.95 -5.23 1 -0.39 61.18 0.05 70.72 2
Emerging Europe Equity -2.7 -16.6 -8.61 26.63 Global Small/Mid-Cap Equity -1.57 -11.35 -8.98 9.81 MFS Meridian Latin Amer Eq A1 USD 0.21 -10.44 2 -6.71 38.09 74.35 Sector Equity Natural Resources -3.5 -15.96 -12.58 15.11
ING (L) Invest Latin America P Acc -0.92 -10.65 3 -8.44 33.02 0.49 328.69 4
Pioneer Fds Emerg Eur+Med Eq A EUR ND -3.34 -13.95 1 -5.6 29.58 -6.56 764.64 5 Lyxor Dynamic Water A 4.8 -4.51 1 -10.84 8.2 -14.31 75.23 3 Threadneedle Latin Amer Ret Net USD 0.44 -10.73 4 -9.18 32.39 1.08 1505.51 4 SGAM Fund Eqs Global Resources A -1.14 -4.68 1 -5.02 20.81 -3.97 39.41 3
MS INVF Emerg Euro MENA Eq A -4.69 -15.13 2 -8.93 20.25 -8.31 337.25 5 Pictet-Security-P USD -1.92 -5.56 2 -3.06 17.48 -4.75 151.22 5 Fortis L Equity Latin America C Acc -0.56 -10.77 5 -10.3 29.02 -3.84 571.61 2 Amundi Funds Global Resources C C -2.21 -8.43 2 -7.44 13.85 67.35
Parvest Emerging Markets Europe C -3.88 -15.33 3 -9.14 32.26 -9.47 146.98 3 Invesco SR Strategic Growth GP 0.04 -6.32 3 -6.78 7.03 -5.89 8.37 4 FF - Latin America A USD -0.97 -11.1 6 -9.34 29.86 1.99 1220.54 4 Manulife GF Global Resources AA -1.8 -8.63 3 -8.05 13.27 -4.8 3
Fortis L Equity Europe Emerg Acc -4.06 -15.48 4 -9.1 28 -11.48 354.47 2 Pictet-Water-P EURc Growth GP Acc -1.04 -7.99 4 -7.36 7.94 -9.33 2906.69 4 Amundi Funds Latin America Equities C C -0.26 -11.13 7 -10.98 34.13 3.68 1736.62 4 NCB China Res Opp A -2.86 -9.93 4 -13.87 5.18 236.57
Amundi Funds Emerging Europe C C -3.45 -15.96 5 -9.09 30.35 -11.5 41.12 2 Invesco Global Small Cap Eq A -1.62 -9.53 5 -3.43 22.94 -8.1 107.86 3 Parvest Latin America C -0.67 -11.17 8 -11.5 27.25 0.61 442.46 3 Pictet-Timber-P EUR -4.16 -10.07 5 -7.86 28.98 107.6
Pictet-Eastern Europe-P EUR C C NDTF -4.64 -17.12 6 -6.78 39.48 -9.16 524.34 3 Pictet-Global Megatrend Selection-P USD -2.03 -9.99 6 -6.98 13.69 312.19 JF Latin America Equity A (dist) - USD 0.58 -11.25 9 -8.5 33.24 -1.24 1265.32 3 Investec GSF Glbl Dyn Res A Inc Grs USD -0.75 -10.34 6 -6.64 14.15 106.49
ING (L) Invest Emerging Europe P Acc -4.4 -17.43 7 -9.58 33.25 -11.41 184.44 3 Templeton Global Smaller Co A YDis $ -2.57 -10 7 -2.09 24.19 -13.45 239.27 3 Templeton Latin America A YDis $ 1.03 -11.48 10 -8.11 27.18 1.84 2946.75 4 JF Five Elements -0.85 -12.91 7 -10.74 12.82 51.8
Invesco Emerging Europe Equity A -3 -17.5 8 -10.04 24.14 -13.51 31.82 Schroder ISF Global Smaller Comp A Inc -2.21 -10.51 8 -6.93 13.31 -8.01 79.93 4 Manulife GF Latin America Eq AA -1.94 -11.63 11 -10.47 28.61 -1.15 2 JPM Global Natural Resources A (dis)-EUR -4.9 -16.01 8 -9.05 23.2 -7.85 2340.03 3
JF Eastern Europe Eq A (dist)-EUR -4.17 -17.98 9 -6.34 35.25 -7.68 1164.11 3 Fortis L Equity SRI World Classic Acc -2.6 -11.57 9 -12.88 2.09 36.15 Schroder ISF Latin Amer A USD -1.26 -12.01 12 -10.65 24.78 -2.54 1222.93 3 First State Glbl Resources I -4.26 -17.43 9 -13.46 20 -1.25 184.64 3
Baring Eastern Europe USD -2.3 -18.16 10 -12.86 27.4 -8.37 3057.58 4 BGF Global SmallCap A2 USD -3.58 -12.5 10 -8.7 9.88 -6.44 353.51 4 PineBridge Latin America Y -0.47 -12.15 13 -10.25 27.93 -2.19 286.91 3 BEA Union Investment Global Resources A -4.48 -17.95 10 -15.79 8.47 10.14
BGF Emerging Europe A2 EUR -3.96 -18.3 11 -8.96 28.25 -10.8 2654.75 3 Amundi Funds Aqua Global C C -1.46 -12.59 11 -12.75 2.44 -11.23 51.1 3 BGF Latin American A2 USD 0.13 -12.31 14 -11.18 27.6 0.26 6220.81 3 Parvest Global Resources C -6.14 -18.62 11 -19.68 -2.23 -7.05 117.9 3
Manulife Emerg Eastern Europe A -2.27 -18.53 12 -12.54 27.76 -8.7 411.35 4 MS INVF Global Small Cap Value A -4.59 -12.63 12 -5.5 11.34 -8.35 111.29 4 Baring Latin America USD -1.87 -12.65 15 -11.24 26.49 -3.33 884.44 2 Martin Currie GF Glbl Resources -4.1 -19.5 12 -14.16 5.37 -7.64 155.23 4
Schroder ISF Emerg Europe A Acc -3.31 -18.83 13 -10.87 29.75 -8.03 298.03 3 Threadneedle(Lux) Global Innovation AU -2.66 -12.74 13 -8.9 10.44 -7.55 15.44 4 BGF World Mining A2 USD -4.32 -20.92 13 -14.85 20.44 -6.45 13015.03 3
Templeton Eastern Europe A Acc £á -4.71 -19.27 14 -11.47 20.6 -11.57 915.5 3 Baring Global Resources -5.05 -21.26 14 -17.39 5.06 -11.55 996.22 2
PineBridge Emerging Europe Equity Y -5.24 -19.84 15 -10.75 27.23 -7.17 110.92 3
Henderson Horizon Inds of Future A1
AXA Rosenberg Glbl Sm Cp Alpha B
-3.72
-4.83
-12.98
-13.01
14 -9.93
15 -6.24
5.97
13.69 -15.58
17.86
224.78 2 Malaysia Equity
Sector Equity Precious Metals
Emerging Europe ex-Russia Equity Global Large-Cap Blend Equity KLSE Composite Malaysia 4.49 -1.38 8.77 31.94 -0.2
Malaysia Equity 5.01 -1.59 9.9 28.23 HSBC Global Gold TR 5.5 16.17 12.76 32.68 11.57
Emerging Europe ex-Russia Equity -2.62-18.66 -12.79 12.72 MSCI World Free NR USD -2.99 -13.94 -10.29 8.65-10.66 JF Malaysia 5.78 -0.17 1 12.7 39.38 0.1 160.31 3 Sector Equity Precious Metals 1.9 3.98 3.35 27.79
Parvest Converging Europe C -7.13 -21.82 1 -18.82 11.76 -17.75 93.51 3 Global Large-Cap Blend Equity -1.6 -12.25 -10.71 7.01 Pru IOF Malaysia Equity A 4.68 -0.78 2 9.23 30.89 31.59
UBS (Lux) EF Central Europe EUR P -5.02 -23.8 2 -17.02 11.04 -13.41 196 3 Allianz RCM Malaysia A 3.89 -1.81 3 6.58 30.66 -5.16 17.84 2 SGAM Fund Eqs Gold Mines A 2.57 13.34 1 10.84 37.37 8.77 203.1 3
Lyxor Oracle Stars 2.44 -1.41 1 0.47 4.68 -5.89 4.49 5 FF - Malaysia A USD 3.6 -3.06 4 9 32.23 1.59 178.38 3 BGF World Gold A2 USD 3.12 5.76 2 6.67 29.02 10.28 6892.34 4
Access PCP Global Opportunities 0.68 -3.4 2 -3.52 12.82 -10.9 2.53 3 Investec GSF Glbl Gold A Inc Grs USD 1.65 4.82 3 7.82 29.59 8.38 318.49 3
Emerging Markets Equity HSBC Global Themes A -0.56 -6.68 3 -5.16 11.27 -4.22 51.89 5 Franklin Gold and Prec Mtls A Acc $ 0.84 4 5.1
Schroder Growth USD -0.51 -7.18 4 -4.43 14.79 -3.02 171.91 5 Nordic Equity Invesco Gold & Precious Mtls A 5
MSCI EM NR USD 0.42 -10.75 -7.05 20.11 -0.75 Manulife GF Glbl Contrarian AA -1.76 -7.81 5 -1.14 29.06
Invesco Global Structured Eq A USD -1.18 -8.11 6 -3.92 9.5 -16.29 32.06 2
Emerging Markets Equity 0.27-10.08 -6.11 21.37 Hang Seng Glbl High Growth A -1.55 -9.42 7 -8 5.73 -7.85 19.33 4 MSCI Nordic Countries NR USD -2.1 -14.83 -7.97 10.35 -13.17 Sector Equity Private Equity
ipac Multi-Manager Growth -1 -9.43 8 -8.03 8.76 -7.03 4 Nordic Equity -1.35 -16.47 -10.33 14.79
Aberdeen Global Emerging Mkts Sm Cos A2 4.99 1.95 1 10.14 55.98 4.61 284.53 5 Investec GSF Global Franchise A Acc 0.22 -9.77 9 -7.35 13.45 155.54
Access PCP Emerging Markets USD 1.76 -2.64 2 -1.16 22.43 -6.94 4.23 2 HSBC Managed Growth HKD Inc A 0.27 -9.86 10 -9.12 9.3 -6.07 318.85 4 FF - Nordic A SEK -3.52 -16.61 1 -7.8 12.04 -14.65 278.43 2 Red Rocks Gbl Listed Private Eqty TR EUR -4.11 -15.65 -5.81 22.55 -20.7
Schroder ISF QEP Global Quality A 0.08 -10.22 11 -5.77 12.64 277.35
Lloyd George Antenna 6.54 -2.81 3 -1.91 27 -3.77 10.81 4 BNY Mellon Global Intrepid A USD -1.5 -10.24 12 -9.1 7.35 -11.05 197.68 3 Sector Equity Private Equity -2.63 -13.35 -4.65 22.8
First State Glbl Emerg Mkts Leader I
JF SAR Global Emerging Markets A
3.3
1.89
-3.93
-5.37
4
5
-1.94
-1.82
21.33 3.62 500.65
41.9
5 Amundi Funds Global Equities C C -2.64 -10.26 13 -9.28 11.95 -12.51 97.09 2 Other Asia-Pacific Equity Lyxor Dynamic Listed Private Eq A 1.53 -12.63 1 -3.63 12.16 0.63
db x-trackers MSCI EM Asia TRN Index 2C 2.12 -5.72 6 -3.17 491.9 Janus Global Fundamental Eq A USD -0.24 -10.53 14 -6.77 7.56 -10.64 3.36 3
Aberdeen Global Emerging Markets Eq A2 2.69 -6.05 7 -0.22 29.42 5.45 3665.69 5 Franklin World Perspectives A Acc $ -1.2 -10.76 15 -7.54 14.16 34.02
MSCI AC Asia Pac NR USD -0.07 -10.81 -5.95 10.94 -6.87 Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect
Amundi Funds Emerging Intern Demand C C 2.19 -6.91 8 -3.28 30.37 121.53
MFS Meridian Emerg Mkts Equity A1 USD 0.09 -7.52 9 -3.91 24.38 -4.25 65.76 3 Global Large-Cap Growth Equity Other Asia-Pacific Equity 5.1 -2.78 6.56 36.24
Templeton Emerging Mkts Sm Cos A Acc $ 0.42 -8.34 10 1.42 31.98 258.62 MSCI World/Real Estate NR USD -0.73 -8.88 -5.62 17.97 -16.75
Parvest Emerging Markets C -0.28 -8.39 11 -6.35 18.92 -3.44 314.78 3 Allianz RCM Thailand A USD 18.38 8.24 1 20.29 62.44 3.44 35.99
Lyxor ETF MSCI Emerging Markets B 0.16 -8.64 12 -5.95 21.52 MSCI World Free Growth NR USD -2.82 -13.4 -9.85 9.14 -8.65 JF Philippine 4.79 8.21 2 22.1 67.53 -7.21 63.13 Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect -1.08 -8.85 -6.58 20.27
Robeco Emerging Markets Eq D EUR -0.85 -8.78 13 -7.73 23.9 -0.02 3527.78 3 Global Large-Cap Growth Equity -1.83 -12.52 -10.56 7.81 Allianz RCM Philippines A 1.88 4.64 3 14.95 52.21 -9.95 24.13
Robeco Emerg Stars Equities DL EUR -0.58 -8.98 14 -9.81 26.1 1079.43 JF Indonesia 11.88 3.92 4 16.48 68.56 13.06 52.71 Pru IOF Asian Property Sec A 2.66 -3.89 1 -0.79 24.41 -16.6 10.48 3
Templeton Frontier Markets A Acc $ -1.6 -9.07 15 1.17 23.06 299.13 JF Thailand 11.1 3.74 5 16.82 52.59 8.31 342.18 JPMorgan Global Property Income -2.17 -4.77 2 -0.31 28.77 -16.65 26.57 3
Invesco SR Growth GP -0.45 -8.35 1 -8.54 8.93 -6.15 50.34 5 Pru IOF Indonesia Equity A 7.1 3.12 6 17.22 61.49 169.06
Parvest Global Equities C -1.64 -10.31 2 -9.17 4.8 -13.44 56.08 2 Franklin Glbl Real Estate A QDis $ -1.53 -4.79 3 -0.36 29.32 -18.72 65.33 3
Pru IOF Philippines Equity A 2.21 2.81 7 13.55 52.44 11.92
Europe Large-Cap Blend Equity ING (L) Invest Global Opps P EUR -2.39 -11.71 3 -10.59 11.21 -5.71 628.19 5 db x-trackers FTSE Vietnam -0.76 1.46 8 -5.2 0.79 180.88
Davis Real Estate A
MS INVF US Property A
-3.57
-5.24
-5.17
-5.34
4
5
1.61
2.66
40.27 -15.93
48.5 -12.16
15.33
140.2
2
3
Janus Global Research A USD -0.76 -11.72 4 -7.17 12.21 -8.46 12.2 3 Fortis L Equity Indonesia Acc 6.01 1.39 9 16.7 58.3 12.68 121.85 Invesco Global Income Rel Est Secs A Acc -0.71 -5.44 6 -2.91 19.97 -13.93 6.19 4
MSCI Europe NR USD -1.87 -17.21 -17.42 2.17 -14.82 Threadneedle(Lux) World Equities AU -1.55 -12.45 5 -7.95 12.25 -10.67 39.88 3 FF - Indonesia A USD 6.33 1.13 10 17.62 60.44 15.04 691.96 SIS Intl Property Secs Ordinary USD -1.6 -5.71 7 -1.17 35.72 -19.93 32.16 1
Baring Global Select USD -2.86 -12.47 6 -10.38 5.09 -6.92 47.97 4 FF - Thailand A USD 7.68 0.62 11 14.78 41.6 5.43 401.98 JPM Gl Rel Est Sec (USD) A(acc)-USD -0.59 -7.97 8 -4.96 22.94 -18.46 28.96 3
Europe Large-Cap Blend Equity 0.17 -15.67 -15.96 3.08 Henderson Horizon Global Opps A2 -2.37 -12.82 7 -7.99 11.35 -9.2 13.18 3 Allianz RCM Indonesia A 7.64 0.6 12 13.17 46.51 9.25 70.78 Henderson Horizon Glbl Prpty Eqs A2 -0.8 -8.01 9 -4.38 24.61 -14.43 538.42 4
MFS Meridian Glbl Growth A1 USD Acc -2.76 -12.85 8 -11.59 11.38 -7.67 87.35 4 Amundi Funds Thailand C C 10.78 0.44 13 13.67 48.77 1.74 35.26 Standard Life SICAV Glbl REIT Focus A -4.27 -8.41 10 -4.79 29.8 -19.24 84.53 2
Parvest Europe Growth C 1.79 -11.08 1 -12.62 7.94 -15.6 496.9 3 Threadneedle Glbl Select Ret Net USD -1.06 -12.86 9 -10.48 9.64 -9.39 822.17 4 First State Singapore and Malaysia Gr I 5.64 0.29 14 7.79 32.12 -0.71 68.75 Janus Global Real Estate A USD Inc -0.89 -8.5 11 -2.38 31.51 -13.87 152.1 2
Fortis L Equity Growth Europe 0.91 -11.19 2 -14.27 8.58 -12.52 435.2 3 Franklin Temp Glbl Gth & Val A Acc $ -1.34 -13.28 10 -11.3 11.78 -9.55 70.17 3 HSBC GIF Thai Equity A Inc 9.71 -1.01 15 9.2 32.08 -1.93 109.34 ING Global Real Estate Dis $ -1.8 -9 12 -6.93 20.18 -14.73 45.59 4
Franklin Mutual European A Acc £á 0.45 -12.12 3 -11.99 3.91 -12.73 3036.08 4 INTECH Global Risk Mgd Core I USD Dis -2.16 -13.61 11 -10.14 6.74 7.93 Robeco Property Equities D EUR -2.8 -9.1 13 -5.87 23.24 -15.55 260.61 3
FF - Global Focus A USD -4.55 -13.69 12 -8.78 10.15 -8.71 117.04 4
Threadneedle Pan Eurp Ret Net EUR
AXA WF Frm Europe Opportunities AC EUR
2.19
0.79
-12.21
-12.48
4 -11.15
5 -14.37
8.39
5
-10.66
-18.17
133.04
16.62
5
2 FF - Global Sector A USD -4.04 -14.44 13 -11.33 10.44 -7.41 276.12 4 Russia Equity Schroder ISF Glbl Prop Sec A
Manulife GF Global Property AA
-0.62
-2.5
-9.39
-9.62
14
15
-7.27
-6.02
17.75 -17.21
21.57 -13.81
384 3
4
Invesco European Growth Equity A 1 -12.72 6 -11.72 8.91 -14.07 84.59 4 Allianz RCM Global Equity AT USD -2.36 -14.81 14 -12.14 4.46 -12.04 67.37 3
MFS Meridian Europ Equity A1 EUR -0.67 -13.11 7 -15.08 8.44 -13.83 589.18 5 Fortis L Equity Best Sel World Acc -5.39 -15.11 15 -12.97 2.22 -13.8 45.9 2
MSCI Russia NR USD -6.42-20.54 -12.88 16.49 -11.07 Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect - Asia
Robeco Active Quant European Eq DL 0.03 -13.49 8 -14.12 6.87 6.84
SGAM Fund Eqs Concentrated Europe A -0.66 -13.74 9 -17.51 0.79 -18.86 50.82 1 Global Large-Cap Value Equity Russia Equity -3.22 -17.56 -5.06 41.91
Fortis L Equity Europe C Acc -0.75 -14.05 10 -17.62 4.25 -16.48 1157.31 2 FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Dvlp Asia TR USD 1.32 -9.31 -7.96 5.96 -8.96
Parvest Europe Alpha C -0.37 -14.59 11 -17.47 0.98 -16.47 844.65 2 Parvest Russia C -2.51 -12.22 1 -2.1 45.92 39.93
Skandia European Opportunities A1 2.62 -14.8 12 -16.93 2.56 -14.41 32.76 3 MSCI World Free Value NR USD -3.16-14.49 -10.72 8.14 -12.75 Lyxor ETF Russia E -4.52 -13.83 2 -6.84 27.59 -8.75 4 Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect - Asia 1.67 -8.77 -6.41 5.67
Invesco Pan European Equity A Acc 0.08 -14.81 13 -14.63 8.75 -13.65 553.91 2 Global Large-Cap Value Equity -1.16 -12.33 -11.4 7.36 Fortis L Equity Russia Acc -3.64 -15.23 3 -2.11 42.4 -4.22 856.66 4
Pictet-European Equity Select-P EUR -0.51 -14.98 14 -15.99 4.54 -18.26 335.12 2 db x-trackers MSCI Russia Capped Idx 2D -3.04 -15.98 4 -9.55 283.5 ING Asia Pacific Real Estate Secs A 0.1 3.15 1 -4.43 54.73 0.18
Jupiter JGF European Opportunities L £á 0.36 -15.36 15 -14.19 5.42 -12.62 93.57 5 JPM Russia A (dist) - USD -3.29 -17.17 5 -6.07 42.38 -8.9 2091.85 2 Schroder ISF Asia Pac Prty Sec A USD Acc 1.31 -6.95 2 -4.26 10.82 -8.23 128.44 5
Schroder ISF Glbl Eq Yield A 1.08 -8.48 1 -11.01 8 -14.47 46.88 3 Manulife GF Russia Equity AA -2.61 -17.24 6 -2.52 37.42
Threadneedle Global Eq Inc Retl USD Acc 1.34 -9.95 2 -9.29 12.05 40.08 Henderson Horizon Asia Pac Prpty A1 2.52 -7.87 3 -4.84 8.51 -12 327.87 3
Pictet-Russian Equities-P EUR -4.9 -17.49 7 -4.17 47.09 372.41
Europe Large-Cap Growth Equity Franklin Mutual Beacon A Acc $ -4.02 -11.1 3 -5.53 14.36 -11.05 1242.54 4 HSBC GIF Russia Equity A Inc -6.72 -20.23 8 -9.55 31.45 35.08
Fortis L Real Estate Secs Pac Acc
SGAM Asian Real Estate Dividend
-0.15 -9.22
3 -9.84
4 -5.95
5 -6.98
6.99 -14.45
1.7 -13.32
92.34
58.07
2
3
MFS Meridian Global Value A1 EUR -2.17 -11.16 4 -8.73 7.41 4.64 UBS (Lux) ES Russia USD P -6.35 -20.95 9 -12.67 28.21 -4.34 659.08 3 FF - Asia Pacific Property A USD -0.95 -10.04 6 -8.28 3.93 -14.52 56.9 3
MSCI Europe Growth NR USD -1.05 -14.71 -13.39 5.85 -11.72 Schroder ISF QEP Glbl Act Val A Acc -0.37 -11.28 5 -7.67 13.71 -11.32 568.62 3 First State Asian Property Sec I Inc 1.26 -10.37 7 -9.16 3.48 31.8
Aberdeen Global Responsible World Eq A2 0.69 -11.47 6 -10.5 12.94 218.93
Europe Large-Cap Growth Equity 1.57 -13.59 -11.55 8.41 ING (L) Invest Glbl Hi Div P EUR Acc -1.86 -11.68 7 -9.46 10.23 -13.83 967.64 4 Sector Equity Alternative Energy BOCHK IF Asia Pacific Property A
Invesco Asia Pacific Rel Est Secs A Acc
1.42 -10.48
0.89 -10.75
8 -10.12
9 -10.35
-4.04
0.38
-17 2.87
2.94
2
BGF Global Enhanced Eq Yield A2 USD -2.2 -12.27 8 -12.07 6.09 -10.27 222.02 4 MS INVF Asian Property A 1.3 -11.19 10 -8.93 0.45 -12.45 685.92 3
Comgest Europe 0.9 -8.7 1 -7.94 9.05 -7.47 98.02 4 JPM Global Dividend A (acc)-USD -0.43 -12.62 9 -12.63 4.94 39.12 JF Asia Property 0.27 -11.63 11 -8.36 -0.67 2.07
AXA Rosenberg Global Eq Alpha B USD -3.68 -13.16 10 -10 7.74 -14.48 776.73 2 S&P Global Clean Energy TR EUR 0.68 -21.83 -32.84 -34.73 -29.57
MFS Meridian Europ Core Equity Gr A1 EUR 0.89 -9.67 2 -9.87 13.86 -11.28 11.8 3 AXA WF II Global Masters Equities AD USD -4.22 -13.87 11 -13.72 3.46 -12.27 26.64 3 Hang Seng Prpty Sect FlexiPower A 0.53 -14.76 12 -13.16 -9.63 -5.79 17.62 4
Allianz RCM Europe Eq Growth AT EUR 3.29 -9.89 3 -5.43 22.35 -4.88 555.79 4 Sector Equity Alternative Energy -1.33 -17.42 -24.78 -16.62
Threadneedle(Lux) Pan European Eqs AE 0.24 -12.41 4 -10.72 7.31 -8.9 33.68 4 MS INVF Global Value Eq A -2.23 -13.9 12 -9.95 4.33 -15.63 297.02 3
FF - European Dynamic Growth A Euro Inc -1.37 -14.16 5 -9.79 10.5 -12.27 380.87 3 Pru IOF World Value Equity A -3.57 -14.31 13 -11.14 8.2 -12.79 310.08 3 Pictet-Clean Energy-P USD -2.13 -13.14 1 -17.89 -3 -11.99 643.91 4

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MFS Meridian UK Eq A2 GBP 0.87 -9.21 1 -8.24 15.97 -11.05 46.93 4 Dollar Government Bond 1.15 2.94 4.25 7.1 Non-Euro Inflation Linked Bond 2.76 -0.33 -1.6 3.11
Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect - Europe Threadneedle UK Gr&Inc Ret Net GBP
Invesco UK Equity A
-0.72
0.41
-11.47
-11.69
2 -12.45
3 -14.31
5.16 -12.55
3.57 -20.31
368.46
136.11
4
2 Parvest US Dollar Bond C 1.81 4.59 1 5.02 5.85 6.6 158.26 3 MFS Meridian Infl Adj Bond A2 USD 1.33 4.18 1 3.29 8.05 5.23 179.64 4
Threadneedle UK Eq Inc Ret Net GBP -0.26 -12.01 4 -13.95 0.77 -12.35 977.35 4 JPM US Aggregate Bond A (inc) - USD 1.18 3.62 2 5.57 11.15 7.58 905.32 4 Manulife GF US Trs Infl-Prot AA 0.98 3.65 2 3.98 8.4 5.69 4
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Dvlp Eur TR EUR -0.35 -16.72 -17.97 10.12-35.86 Threadneedle UK Monthly Inc RN GBP 0.49 -12.07 5 -12.82 1.91 -14.3 697.8 4 Franklin US Government A MDis $ 0.91 3.2 3 4.64 7.02 6.18 2439 4 BGF Global Inflation Lnkd Bd A2 1.01 2.51 3 3.76 9.31 151.18
Sector Equity Real Estate Indirect - Europe 1.55 -15.47 -16.16 10.31 BNY Mellon UK Equity A GBP -0.22 -12.11 6 -13.09 3.06 -16.02 43.34 3 MFS Meridian US Gov Bond A2 USD 1.27 3.09 4 4.3 6.74 6.74 492.75 4 Standard Life SICAV Glbl Infl-Lnkd Bd A 0.66 2.25 4 3.55 8.59 5.86 45.14 5
Aberdeen Global UK Equity A2 -0.39 -12.32 7 -10.88 12.97 -17.56 50.23 2 BGF Global Government Bond A2 USD 1.06 2.51 5 4.58 7.89 4.63 551.87 2 PIMCO GIS Glbl Real Ret E Acc 0.95 1.47 5 3.9 11.07 5.76 1465.72 5
Henderson Horizon Pan Eurp Prpty Eqs A2 -0.91 -17.54 1 -19.24 4.16 -29.12 259.46 2 BGF US Government Mortgage A1 USD 0.92 2.37 6 3.33 4.75 5.83 220.92 3 Parvest Global Inflation-Linked Bond C -0.1 -6.44 6 -11.67 -5.9 2.13 94.86 3
MS INVF European Property A 0.28 -18 2 -18.11 11.98 -26.53 213.97 2 UK Mid-Cap Equity LM WA US Short-Term Govt A Acc $ 0.4 1.16 7 1.63 3.41 3.91 55.43 2
Parvest Europe Real Estate Securities C 0.12 -18.48 3 -19.39 5.04 -25.93 14.59 2 Sterling Corporate Bond
FTSE 250 Ex Investment Trust TR GBP -3.36 -12.86 -7.67 14.06 -13.86 Dollar High Yield Bond
Sector Equity Technology UK Mid-Cap Equity -0.28 -10.44 -9.68 11.04 IBOXX GBP Corp TR 4.09 -0.01 -0.88 9.86 -6.89
BarCap US Corporate High Yield TR USD 1.31 -0.24 4.44 26.31 5.46 Sterling Corporate Bond 3.31 -0.43 -1.19 8.69
Threadneedle UK Mid 250 Ret Net GBP 0.19 -11.72 1 -8.38 8.83 -11.03 81.41 4
MSCI World/Information Tech NR USD -5.3 -13.63 -10.27 11.78 -4.49 Dollar High Yield Bond 1.23 -2.25 1.27 20.67
Aberdeen Global Sterling Corp Bond D1 2.62 0.11 1 -0.44 4.21 -8.06 20.74 3
Sector Equity Technology -3.92 -12.34 -10.2 13.42 UK Small-Cap Equity PIMCO GIS Diversified Inc E Acc 2 1.1 1 5.53 19.17 6.12 916 5 Threadneedle UK Corp Bd Ret Net GBP 1.52 -3.1 2 -5.09 1.57 -6.26 900.13 3
Federated High Income Adv USD ISS 1.33 0.53 2 4.72 26.11 4.74 25.29 4
Parvest Global Technology C -3.47 -6.64 1 -4.46 26.58 -7.15 39.74 2 Wells Fargo(LUX)WF-US Hi Yld Bd A Acc 1.41 0.51 3 4.19 18.94 67.45
First State Asia Innov I USD 2.2 -7.26 2 -4.46 24.21 -1.85 58.61 4 FTSE Small Cap Ex Invest Trust TR GBP -2.5 -8.98 -12.39 6.43 -23.41 Pru IOF US High Yield A 1.44 -0.2 4 3.08 19.84 0.03 293.62 3 Sterling Diversified Bond
Aberdeen Global Technology A2 -1.48 -9.18 3 -6.32 17.62 -3.95 170.07 3 UK Small-Cap Equity 1.47 -5.31 -6.07 13.6 BGF USD High Yield Bond A2 USD 1.08 -0.3 5 4.57 23.99 2.23 1027.63 3
Franklin Technology A Acc $ -3.66 -9.51 4 -6.28 21.32 0.29 259.6 4 Franklin High Yield A MDis $ 1.41 -0.41 6 2.54 19.58 1.19 2674.63 3
AB SICAV Intl Technology A -3.83 -10.43 5 -8.53 17.51 -5.72 194.73 3 Threadneedle UK Sm Cos Ret Net GBX 0.37 -8.8 1 -7.78 7.05 -17.33 188.02 3 FF - US High Yield A USD 0.98 -0.44 7 3.37 25.49 4.43 3787.61 4 BarCap Sterling Agg TR GBP 4.63 2.7 -0.38 2.24 -4.49
JF US Technology A (dist)-USD -5.77 -10.91 6 -7.55 20.49 -4.43 53.28 2 MFS Meridian US Hi Yld Bond A2 USD 1.14 -0.52 8 2.93 21.07 -0.03 450.23 2 Sterling Diversified Bond 3.21 0 -2.04 4.27
Janus Global Technology A USD -4.29 -11.19 7 -5.56 16.67 -1.45 66.35 4 PIMCO GIS High Yield Bd E Acc 1.49 -0.54 9 4.31 24.85 0.95 1373.96 3
Hang Seng Global Technology A -6.65 -11.37 8 -8.68 11.67 -5.83 6.35 3 Asia Balanced Invesco Global High Income A 1.37 -0.65 10 4.36 24.69 4.2 544.72 5 FF - Sterling Bond A GBP 3.21 0.94 1 -0.73 6.26 -3.86 243.47 4
Allianz RCM Global High Tech Growth A -4.39 -11.52 9 -11.06 11.55 -5.49 94.82 4 Threadneedle(Lux) USD High Inc Bds AU 1.03 -0.77 11 2.23 17.18 2.86 9.47 3
Lyxor ETF NASDAQ-100 B -6.18 -11.54 10 -7.3 17.68 -0.99 5 LM WA US High Yield A Acc $ 1.2 -0.77 12 3.47 24.27 1.01 110.03 3 BOCHK Sterling Income A 3.85 0.47 2 -5.22 -7.19 -6.38 2.38 3
Invesco Global Technology A -6.59 -11.55 11 -10.08 14.87 -6.78 82.37 2 Cat 50%JPM Asia Plus&50%MSCI AC AP 0.01 -5.44 -2.82 5.39 -1.26 Invesco UK Investment Grade Bd A GBP 2.75 0.21 3 -2.56 -0.4 -5.35 79.22 3
Janus US High Yield A USD Inc 1.03 -0.79 13 2.8 20.84 2.4 865.37 3
Threadneedle(Lux) Global Technology AU -4.9 -11.57 12 -8.8 16.08 -1.62 25.81 5 NR LM WA Global High Yield A Acc $ 1.38 -0.87 14 3.61 25.28 1.85 318.94 3 Aberdeen Global Sterling Financ Bond A2 2.13 -1.31 4 -4.99 -3.43 -5.57 47.05 3
BGF World Technology A2 USD -3.97 -11.95 13 -8.05 15.83 -6.64 129.7 2 Asia Balanced 2.06 -5.13 -0.69 15.9 BGF Global High Yield Bond A2 USD 0.62 -0.94 15 4.11 23.97 510.16
JF Pacific Technology -3.52 -12.2 14 -7.48 14.63 -2.24 79.74 5
Henderson Horizon Global Tech A2 -4.96 -12.43 15 -9.32 16.34 -0.66 1158.18 3
BOCHK IF - HK Income A 1.71 -0.93 1 0.27 4.85 0.57 7.43 3 Dollar Short Bond Sterling Global Bond
First State Asian Bridge 2.42 -1.6 2 1.84 19.07 -0.4 92.03 2
Sector Equity Utilities NCB China Balanced A 0.42 -1.64 3 -1.11 1.2 9.91
Dollar Short Bond 0.33 -0.31 0.65 6.03 Citi WGBI GBP 2.96 1.51 0.17 4.04 7.01
BOCHK IF - China Inc A 0.27 -1.74 4 -1.59 2.36 4.46 27.08 4 Sterling Global Bond 2.09 -0.67 -1.19 5.62
Invesco Asia Balanced A Inc 1.32 -2.68 5 1.26 19.16 1.13 283.39 4
MSCI World/Utilities NR USD -0.11 -10.13 -12.7 -2.17-10.86 Invesco SR Capital Stable SA 0.77 -2.79 6 -3.92 4.68 2.16 29.06 3 LM WA US Adj Rate A Acc $ 0.51 2.53 1 5.23 25.69 -3.27 25.88 1
Sector Equity Utilities -0.86 -10.37 -14.66 -5.01 Legg Mason Asia Tilt Bal - A Ord. USD -1.38 -5.67 7 -4.25 8.9 -3.29 9.57 2 Threadneedle(Lux) USD S/T Bds AU 0.62 1.47 2 2.39 3.4 0.74 11.15 3 Aberdeen Global World Bond D1 0.84 -0.77 1 -2 2.78 5.43 32.11 3
FF - LiveEasy A 0.05 -5.74 8 -4.52 7.09 0.12 Pictet-USD Short Mid-Term Bonds-P 0.19 0.75 3 1.35 2.67 4.58 284.41 4 Threadneedle Glbl Bd Ret Grs EUR 0.1 -1.12 2 -0.34 3.87 5.34 502.14 4
ING (L) Invest Utilities P Acc -0.71 -9.39 1 -15.65 -5 -14.51 37.49 2 JF Pacific Balanced A (dist)-USD 0.38 -5.8 9 -1.11 9.93 -1.49 109.21 2 MFS Meridian Limited Maturity A2 USD 0.45 0.7 4 1.77 6.11 2.43 762.74 3 Investec GSF Ccy Alpha A Inc Grs GBP 2.69 -2.38 3 -6.36 -7.25 -5.73 17.44 2
Invesco SR Balanced SA 0.04 -6.36 10 -6.86 6.9 -2.9 139.07 2 BGF USD Short Duration Bond A1 USD 0.12 0.7 5 1.53 5.77 1.14 135.78 2
Fortis L Equity Utilities World Acc -1.26 -10.39 2 -16.09 -4.15 -13.95 145.3 2 PineBridge Asia Balanced L 1.15 -6.61 11 -4.73 18.81 -0.52 52.47 3 Janus US Short-Term Bond A USD Inc 0.37 0.65 6 1.76 5.32 5.55 112.47 5
BOCHK IF - Australia Inc A 0 -8.6 12 -5.81 11.86 2.23 15.49 3 PIMCO GIS Low Average Dur E Acc 0.52 0.35 7 1.76 5.47 2204.43 Sterling Government Bond
Singapore Equity Baring Asia Balanced Acc
Allianz RCM Oriental Income P
0.65
-0.05
-8.67
-11.37
13
14
-7.78
-8.84
6.55
7.33
-2.51
-3.35
68.16
552.58
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3
AB Short Maturity Dollar A
Franklin Floating Rate A Dis $
0.16
-0.3
-0.24
-0.69
8
9
0.81
2.42
9.46
10.61
-3.84
-0.16
44.39
476
2
2
Citi UK GBI USD 4.84 3.71 -0.54 -0.46 -2.63
MSCI Singapore NR USD 5.82 -2.57 -1.88 27.18 -2.51 Dollar Aggressive Balanced Dollar/Global Convertible Bond Sterling Government Bond 4.13 2.67 -1.23 -1.32
Singapore Equity 4.82 -3.32 -1.78 28.51 Invesco Gilt A 3.21 2.4 1 -1.59 -2.45 -3.78 133.83 3
Allianz RCM Singapore A 5.56 -1.14 1 0.85 35.96 -5.98 10.64 2 Cat 25%BarCap Euro Agg&75%FTSE World -2.23 -12.68 -10.58 5.54 -5.85 BofAML All Convertible All Qualities -2.21 -6.68 -0.81 22.24 -1.38 Threadneedle Sterling Bd Retl Gross 3.06 1.47 2 -1.1 0.33 -4.25 314.94 2
JF Singapore A (dist) - USD 5.19 -2.39 2 -0.57 29.8 -8.27 175.07 2 Dollar Aggressive Balanced -1.05 -10.44 -8.4 8.21 Dollar/Global Convertible Bond 0.77 -7.37 -7.21 4.58 BNY Mellon Sterling Bond A GBP 2.92 0.99 3 -2.57 -1.48 -3.91 10.76 4
HSBC GIF Singapore Equity P Inc 4.99 -4.05 3 -3.28 26.96 -12.27 74.8 1 MS INVF Glbl Conv Bond A Acc -1.48 -5.88 1 -4.1 7.72 -2.94 800.34 3
UBS (Lux) EF Singapore (USD) P Acc 5.07 -4.18 4 -4.92 20.57 -4.83 226.14 3 Barclays Dynamic Golden Allocation A 3.72 7.21 1 63.92
FF - Singapore A USD 3.58 -4.53 5 -1.73 30.2 -1.96 167.94 4 Access PCP Global Balanced -0.26 -3.74 2 -2.03 12.87 -8.75 3.25 2
Sterling High Yield Bond
DBS Shenton Thrift 4.4 -5.64 6 -3.05 29.51 -5.32 117.14 3 Indocam Hong Kong Global Balanced Acc 1.81 -4.22 3 -5.48 7.36 -4.92 10.94 4 Emerging Europe Bond
AXA Growth USD 3.97 -5 4 -3.05 17.15 -6.52 22.74 3 BofAML GBP HY TR USD 4.69 -1.93 6.46 49.35 6.15
Spain Equity Hang Seng Global Balanced A
ipac Multi-Manager Balanced
-0.86
-0.5
-6.68 5
-7.13 6
-4.94
-6.05
7.51
8.46
-4.44
-4.81
36.38 3
3 BofAML EUR EMS Europe/Middle East/ 1.68 -8.88 -11 0.35 5.2 Sterling High Yield Bond 2.73 -3.43 -2.64 15.15
Threadneedle(Lux) Global Asset Alloc AU 0.12 -7.31 7 -4.7 8.61 -2.88 167.11 4 Africa
MSCI Spain NR USD 1.24 -21.46 -32.26 -14.57 -14.02 HSBC Portfolios World Selection 4 A -1.56 -7.35 8 -4.56 46.5 Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret Net GBP 1.69 -4.74 1 -6.63 1.5 -6.22 570.6 4
BOCHK IF Aggressive Gr A 0.06 -7.43 9 -6.85 8.14 -0.96 29.16 4 Emerging Europe Bond 0.82 -9.34 -8.63 2.1 Threadneedle High Yld Bd Ret Net 1.39 -6.02 2 -7.22 4.5 -5.33 875.81 3
Spain Equity 0.31 -22.27 -29.32 -12.5 Janus US Balanced A USD -0.97 -7.53 10 -4.18 9.64 0.21 113.25 4 Aberdeen Global High Yield Bd D1 -0.67 -7.95 3 -4.79 38.24 -2.39 42.58 2
FF - Iberia A EUR Inc -1.43 -24.4 1 -31.05 -13.72 -17.44 176.5 3 HSBC Managed Balanced Inc A 0.42 -8.4 11 -8.18 6.92 -4.18 298.93 3 Schroder ISF Em Eur Debt Abs Ret A Acc -0.65 -10.02 1 -13.56 -5.66 3.9 192.49 4
Legg Mason Asia Tilt Gr - A Ord. USD -2.3 -8.56 12 -7.23 8.83 -6.05 10.15 3 SGAM Fund Bonds Converging Europe A -1.59 -11.5 2 -10 -2.71 0.79 105.99 3
BEA Union Investment Growth A -0.85 -8.94 13 -7.71 9.74 -6.15 6.58 3 CHF Money Market
Switzerland Large-Cap Equity Investec GSF Glbl Str Mgd A Inc Grs USD
HSBC Portfolios World Selection 5 A
-1.01
-2.5
-9.18 14
-10.39 15
-4.82
-7.21
12.07 -5.42 435.44
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Emerging Markets Bond Citi CHF EuroDep 1 Mon USD 8.53 -1.44 -2.67 1.54 3.26
MSCI Switzerland NR USD 3.11 -13.37 -9.01 13.56 -9.37 Dollar Cautious Balanced CHF Money Market 8.54 -1.43 -2.6 1.87
JPM EMBI Plus TR USD 2 1.16 4.94 16.92 6.63
Switzerland Large-Cap Equity 5.71 -11.71 -6.51 15.61 FF II - Swiss Franc Currency 6.91 -2.92 1 -4.13 0 2.65 30.37 2
Emerging Markets Bond 1.98 -3.06 0.18 13.27
Amundi Funds Switzerland C C 4.44 -11.39 1 -7.96 14.63 -12.81 9.87 2 Dollar Cautious Balanced 0 -5.19 -5.45 4.45
Schroder ISF Swiss Eq A Acc 4.04 -14.7 2 -8.28 12.21 -12.72 145.01 1 Pictet-LATAM Lc Ccy Dbt-P EUR 2.25 1.57 1 4.54 16.69 140.33 Dollar Money Market
AXA Capital Stable USD 1.17 -0.27 1 -0.09 5.3 1.34 22.69 4 First State Glbl Emerg Mkt Debt III 1.89 1.48 2 4.38 10.44 -7.09 7.08 1
FF - Switzerland A CHF 1.73 -16.09 3 -10.73 10.03 -9.68 508.65 3 HSBC Portfolios World Selection 1 A 0.33 -0.51 2 1.88 97.5 BGF Emerging Markets Bond A2 USD 3 1.39 3 5.14 17.52 5.18 355.06 4
Schroder Capital Stable USD 0.83 -1.22 3 0.41 7.56 4.11 217.74 4 Skandia Emerging Market Debt A1 Acc 2.62 1.11 4 5.08 20.48 4.88 330.01 3 Citi USD EuroDep 3 Mon USD 0.03 0.07 0.13 0.33 2.54
Switzerland Small/Mid-Cap Equity BOCHK IF Conservative Gr A
MFS Meridian Glbl Conservative A1 USD
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0.51
-2.82
-3.49
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5
-2.81
-3.4
4.21
5.18
2.9 9.79
29.63
5 Parvest Emerging Markets Bond C
PIMCO GIS Emerg Mkts Bond Inst Acc
2.07
2.49
0.8
0.75
5
6
4.53
5.12
21.59
18.18
6.37
5.6
69.65
2609.42
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4 Dollar Money Market 0.1 -0.46 -0.61 0.24
JPM Gl Cap Preserv.(USD) A (acc)-USD 0.42 -3.52 6 -2.08 3.4 1.28 76.34 3 JPM Em Mkts Bond A (acc)-USD 2.26 0.56 7 5.06 20.19 -0.74 131.45 2
MSCI Switzerland Small Cap NR USD 6.35 -10.43 2.41 25.87 -8.91 BEA Union Investment Stable A 0.44 -3.73 7 -4.05 4.89 -0.61 1.5 3 Aberdeen Global Emerging Markets Bond A2 2.65 0.54 8 6.53 26.1 4.11 469.96 4 Invesco SR US$ Money Market GP 0.08 0.08 1 0 -0.08 1.82 2.24 3
SIS Defensive Growth -0.48 -3.95 8 -3.47 7.24 -3.52 6.93 2 LM WA Emerging Markets Bd A Inc (D) $ 2.87 0.27 9 4.24 19.38 5.76 136.93 4 SGAM Fund Money Market USD A 0.04 0.07 2 0.09 0.17 2.09 302.93 4
Switzerland Small/Mid-Cap Equity 7.09 -9.13 -1.43 20.86 Invesco Emerging Mkts Bond A Inc 1.73 0.22 10 4.86 20.47 3.14 267.58 4 PineBridge International MMkt Instl Sh 0.02 0.05 3 0.08 0.15 1.68 870.27 4
BGF Swiss Small & Mid Cap Opps A2 CHF 7.05 -10.07 1 -1.7 24.09 -1.44 172.69 5 Dollar Moderate Balanced MFS Meridian Emerg Mkts Dbt A2 USD 2.05 0.02 11 4.36 19.37 6.45 1381.97 5 Parvest Short Term (Dollar) C 0.02 0.04 4 0.07 0.13 1.7 724.4 3
HSBC GIF Glbl Emerging Markets Bd A Inc 2.14 -0.05 12 5.24 20.71 6.64 912.92 4 BOCHK IF - USD Money Market A 0.03 0.03 5 0.05 0.15 1.92 11.51 3
Schroder ISF Em Mkts Debt Abs Ret A Acc 0.61 -0.08 13 0.46 8.79 6.16 7147.04 4 Western Asset USD Liquidity D 0.02 0.02 6 0.03 0.13 0.32 4919.41 2
Taiwan Large-Cap Equity Cat 50%BarCap USD Agg&50%FTSE World -0.59 -5.41 -2.55 10.08 -0.67 PineBridge Emerging Markets Bond Y
MS INVF Emerging Markets Debt A
2.6
2.31
-0.14
-0.65
14
15
4.22
3.55
18.17
17.27
2.54
4.2
123.73
360.82
3
4
GS USD Liquid Reserve Inst Inc
HSBC Global Money USD
0.01
0.01
0.02
0.02
7
8
0.02
0.02
0.1
0
1.99
1.45
24442.15
85.95
4
3
Dollar Moderate Balanced -0.55 -7.77 -6.29 8.25 FF - US Dollar Cash A USD 0 0.01 9 0.02 0.05 1.7 568.72 3
MSCI Taiwan NR USD -1.49 -11.78 -14.13 11.03 -2.68 FF II - US Dollar Currency 0 0.01 10 0.02 0.05 1.47 186.14 3
Taiwan Large-Cap Equity -1.12 -11.25 -14 10.57 AXA Capital Growth USD 2.2 -2.11 1 -0.77 11.11 -1.24 15.02 4 Euro Convertible Bond db x-trackers US Dollar Money Market 1C 0 0.01 11 0.01 0 62.94
HSBC Portfolios World Selection 2 A -0.18 -2.79 2 -0.29 67.3 Coutts US Dollar Liquidity 0 0.01 12 0.02 0.05 2.01 4
Schroder Stable Growth HKD 0.13 -3.5 3 -1.33 9.77 1.98 314.16 5 UBS Europe Convertible TR 0.52-14.39 -14.13 2.37 -4.33 Skandia USD Reserve A1 0 0.01 13 0.03 0.05 1.54 229.41 3
Lyxor ETF MSCI Taiwan A -0.08 -8.96 1 -10.94 15.4 -3.84 2 AXA Balanced 3.04 -3.5 4 -1.78 14.69 -4.03 35.19 3 LM WA US Money Market A Inc (D) $ 0 0.01 14 0.02 0.04 1.76 3999.04 3
db x-trackers MSCI Taiwan TRN Index -0.91 -9.93 2 -11.7 14.71 134.84 AB Global Conservative A -0.35 -3.95 5 -1.85 8.18 -2.59 97.91 3 Euro Convertible Bond 1.31 -11.95 -13.57 0.17 Amundi Funds USD Reserve C C 0 0 15 0.08 0.08 1.74 130.81 3
Manulife GF Taiwan Equity AA -0.36 -10.07 3 -12.88 11.62 -0.8 3 HSBC Managed Stable Inc A 0.79 -4.02 6 -5.2 3.31 -0.2 143.74 4
Schroder ISF Taiwanese Eq A -0.11 -10.08 4 -13.17 10.17 -2.54 209.07 3 F&C Global Convertible Bond A -0.38 -8.8 1 -8.39 8.18 -0.75 5
Hang Seng Taiwan Index A -1.04 -10.34 5 -11.73 13.49 45.44
Franklin Income A MDis $
JPMorgan Evergreen
0.29
-0.48
-4.06
-4.39
7
8
-1.12
-1.77
18.17
9.43
-3.3
-0.3
657.02
28.19
4
5 Parvest European Small Convertible Bd C 0.32 -11.94 2 -9.11 8.32 -2.37 21.78 4
Euro Money Market Stable
Pru IOF Taiwan Equity A -1.65 -11.68 6 -14.26 11.97 4.29 JF Global Balanced (USD) A (acc)-USD -1.03 -5.17 9 -2.46 9.78 -0.88 301.39 4 Amundi Funds Global Convertible Bond C C -2.13 -13.4 3 -18.49 -5.62 -8.27 39.53 2
Polaris Taiwan Top 50 Tracker -1.4 -11.69 7 -13.79 11.82 -0.35 1479.46 3 Hang Seng Glbl Conservative A -0.44 -5.32 10 -3.39 8.91 0.24 8.93 4 Fortis L Bond Convert World Acc -1.92 -13.72 4 -16.41 -1.57 -6.95 1489.55 2 Citi EUR EuroDep 1 Mon EUR 1.39 -7.94 -13.08 -11.6 -0.49
UBS (Lux) EF Taiwan (USD) P Acc -2.97 -11.95 8 -15.15 10.93 0.03 169.79 3 Schroder Balanced Investment HKD -0.22 -5.38 11 -2.85 12.64 -1.08 405.79 4 Parvest European Convertible Bond C 0.14 -13.73 5 -16.01 -0.35 -8.27 463.43 2
JF Taiwan A (dist) - USD -1.3 -12.7 9 -15.68 5.96 -7.26 370.97 1 HSBC Portfolios World Selection 3 A -0.96 -5.58 12 -2.85 69.6 JF Gl Convert.(EUR) A (dist)-USD 0.8 -14.5 6 -17.6 -4.37 -6.98 3529.79 2 Euro Money Market Stable 1.37 -7.97 -13.09 -11.45
FF - Taiwan A USD -3.2 -14.79 10 -17.64 0.63 -4.05 419.41 1 BOCHK IF - Balanced Growth A 0.13 -5.86 13 -5.38 6.3 1.53 26.17 5
BEA Union Investment Balanced A -0.17 -6.31 14 -5.62 7.91 -2.95 9.08 3 GS Euro Liquid Res Inst Inc 1.52 -7.94 1 -13.1 -11.58 -0.59 12966.62 4
Taiwan Small/Mid-Cap Equity MFS Meridian Glbl Total Return A1 USD -0.67 -6.87 15 -6.15 6.13 -2.5 1036.95 4 Euro Corporate Bond Amundi Funds Euro Reserve C C -0.59 -8.66 2 -14.28 -12.46 -0.81 590.17 3
SGAM Fund Money Market Euro A -0.64 -8.67 3 -14.21 -12.33 -0.52 3856.84 4
Euro Aggressive Balanced IBOXX GBP Corp TR 4.09 -0.01 -0.88 9.86 -6.89 Parvest Short Term (Euro) C -0.66 -8.71 4 -14.29 -12.52 -0.83 1686.52 3
MSCI Taiwan NR USD -1.49 -11.78 -14.13 11.03 -2.68 Fortis L Short Term Euro Acc -0.71 -8.83 5 -14.32 -11.8 -1.17 1005.93 3
Taiwan Small/Mid-Cap Equity -1.8 -10.95 -13.98 12.03 Euro Corporate Bond 1.34 -8.17 -10.23 -0.38 Invesco Euro Reserve A -0.3 -9.49 6 -14.55 -13.15 -0.82 498.11 3
Cat 25%BarCap Euro Agg&75%FTSE World -2.23 -12.68 -10.58 5.54 -5.85 FF II - Euro Currency -0.31 -9.5 7 -14.6 -13.28 -1.25 71.11 2
Pioneer Fds Euro Corp Bond A EUR ND 1.22 -8.13 1 -10 0.71 0.3 2017.49 3 FF - Euro Cash A Euro -0.31 -9.51 8 -14.6 -13.27 -1.01 468.45 3
Value Partners Taiwan 0.3 0.3 1 1.41 31.25 44.44 Euro Aggressive Balanced 0.32 -10.96 -12.37 0.51 MS INVF Euro Liquidity A -0.31 -9.51 9 -14.62 -13.3 -0.95 214.05 3
HSBC GIF Taiwan Equity A USD Inc -1.08 -11.05 2 -14.26 8.19 6.3 BGF Euro Corporate Bond A2 EUR 0.1 -8.14 2 -10.45 -1.6 0.17 107.67 3
Intl Opp European Invest Grade 4 4 -0.31 -9.05 3 -11.43 -1.72 0.5 290.49 3 JF EUR -0.31 -9.52 10 -14.34 -13.19 -0.7 105.59 3
Fortis L Model 4 Classic Acc -2.74 -11.37 1 -12.29 1.33 -7.47 295.6 3 FF - Euro Corp Bond A Euro Acc -0.18 -9.16 4 -10.05 4.75 -4.02 87.75 1 BGF Euro Reserve A2 -0.31 -9.53 11 -14.61 258.18
Turkey Equity Fortis L Model 5 Classic Acc -3.1 -12.15 2 -11.82 6.03 -11.34 85.57 2 Henderson Horizon Euro Corp Bond A Acc -0.63 -9.29 5 -9.46 17.68
Schroder ISF European Allc A -1.75 -16.79 3 -21.16 -7.25 -15.58 129.28 1 Generali IS Euro Corporate Bonds DX
Standard Life SICAV Eurp Corp Bd A Acc
-0.19 -9.57
-0.23 -9.87
6
7
-12.18
-12.19
-4.4
-3.38
0.58
1.52
369.2
2053.08
3
3
Euro Money Mkt Dynamic
MSCI Turkey NR TRY 0.54 -7.3 -1.08 41 -0.83 MS INVF Euro Corporate Bond A -0.28 -10.42 8 -13.27 -4.89 1.29 2553.65 3
Turkey Equity 1.44 -6.16 1.6 43.83
Euro Cautious Balanced Threadneedle Eurp Corp Bd Ret Grs -0.59 -10.48 9 -10.43 3.75 -1.33 57.66 2 Citi EUR EuroDep 3 Mon EUR 1.4 -7.9 -13.01 -11.34 -0.1
Amundi Funds Euro Corporate Bond C C -1.2 -10.84 10 -13.18 -0.03 0.87 599.2 3
Invesco Euro Corporate Bond A Acc -0.52 -11.02 11 -12.28 -0.42 4.17 1732.37 5 Euro Money Mkt Dynamic 1.2 -8.16 -11.72 -5.83
Parvest Turkey C -1.28 -5.2 1 1.47 43.86 0.25 61.53 4 Cat 75%BarCap Euro Agg&25%FTSE World -1.14 -10.43 -11.6 -2.98 0.35 Schroder ISF Euro Corporate Bond A Acc -0.5 -11.89 12 -13.96 -6.21 1.99 6898.63 4
Manulife GF Turkey Equity AA 3.19 -6.21 2 1 47.13 Euro Cautious Balanced 0.99 -8.9 -11.93 -4.77 Investec GSF Euro Mny A Inc Grs EUR 1.34 -8.04 1 -13.22 -11.94 -0.68 103.02 4
Templeton Euro Liquid Reserve A YDis £á 0.91 -8.62 2 -13.58 -11.26 -1.6 138.13 3
Fortis L Model 1 Classic Acc -1.21 -8.86 1 -13.46 -10.64 0.9 29.57 4
Euro Diversified Bond Pictet-EUR Liquidity-P -0.66 -8.73 3 -14.3 -12.41 -0.93 2089.93 4
US Large-Cap Blend Equity Fortis L Model 2 Classic Acc -1.67 -9.57 2 -12.91 -6.44 -1.85 77.37 3
Coutts Euro Liquidity -0.31 -9.52 4 -14.62 -13.26 -0.79 4
BarCap Euro Agg Bond TR EUR 1.1 -7.78 -10.67 -5.54 3.04 Schroder ISF Euro Liquidity A -0.31 -9.57 5 -14.62 -12.97 -0.61 2011.95 4
Invesco Pan European High Income A Inc 1.26 -11.54 3 -8.36 18.04 0.83 38.55 Generali IS Euro Liquidity DX -0.28 -9.84 6 -14.83 -13.35 -0.51 937.18 4
MSCI USA NR USD -3.95 -12.61 -7.31 12.79 -9.13 Euro Diversified Bond 1.25 -7.37 -10.46 -4.89
US Large-Cap Blend Equity -5.36 -13.69 -10.22 8.98 Euro Moderate Balanced HKD Money Market
UBS (Lux) BF EUR P Acc 1.37 -7.33 1 -10.07 -4.69 2.49 1431.65 3
Hang Seng American Index A -5.35 -10.55 1 -7.71 11.35 -10.31 217.99 4 Parvest Euro Bond C -1.25 -8.21 2 -11.56 -5.39 3.72 877.45 4
LM CB US Appreciation A Acc $ -3.02 -10.77 2 -6.52 9.07 -6.5 97.73 5 Cat 50%BarCap Euro Agg&50%FTSE World -1.68 -11.54 -11.06 1.25 -2.62 Parvest Euro Medium Term Bond C -1.05 -8.59 3 -12.19 -6.39 3.36 1290.22 3 Citi HKD EuroDep 3 Mon USD -0.05 -0.35 -0.51 -0.5 2.05
Invesco US 130/30 Equity A Acc -5.63 -11.43 3 -9.88 6.81 4.19 Fortis L Opportunities Euro Plus Acc 1.12 -8.82 4 -13.1 -9.96 -0.44 244.15 2
BNY Mellon US Equity A USD -5.07 -11.52 4 -8.74 14.82 -12.8 17.65 2
Euro Moderate Balanced 0.75 -9.78 -12.26 -3.28 Fortis L Bond Euro Acc -1.13 -8.94 5 -12.2 -6.05 -0.53 3847.78 2 HKD Money Market -0.01 -0.3 -0.41 -0.39
Davis Value A -4.49 -11.58 5 -9.13 12.7 -11.02 1117.72 4 Schroder ISF Euro Bond A Acc -0.64 -9.04 6 -11.14 -3.34 3.21 563.1 4
Janus INTECH US Risk Mgd Core A USD -4.03 -11.78 6 -6.7 11.49 -9.75 175.55 3 Invesco SR Stable Growth GP 0.47 -4.62 1 -5.32 5.63 -0.25 10.01 5 FF - Euro Bond A Euro -0.66 -9.05 7 -9.72 1.56 1.33 1111.09 3 NCB HK Dollar Money Market A 0.04 -0.24 1 -0.34 -0.41 0.96
PineBridge American Equity Y -3.88 -11.81 7 -7.21 12.39 -7.28 93.72 4 Fortis L Model 3 Classic Acc -2.26 -10.45 2 -12.41 -2.15 -4.68 315.22 3 MS INVF Alpha Advtg Eurp Fxd-Inc A -0.34 -9.16 8 -11.16 -3.1 120.04 HSBC Global Money HKD 0.02 -0.25 2 -0.36 -0.41 1.51 294.35 3
Lyxor ETF FTSE RAFI US 1000 B -5.94 -11.82 8 -4.78 22.79 BGF Flexible Multi-Asset A2 -2.59 -12.59 3 -12.58 1.54 -4.11 94.72 3 BGF Euro Bond A2 EUR -0.7 -9.21 9 -11.68 -5.25 3.49 1321.36 4 BOCHK IF - HKD Money Mkt A 0.02 -0.26 3 -0.36 -0.36 1.68 36.06 2
Manulife American Growth A -5.22 -11.92 9 -8.76 10.66 -12.13 140.45 2 FF - Euro Balanced A Euro -2.18 -15.17 4 -16.58 -0.28 -8.55 676.35 3 MS INVF Euro Strategic Bond A -0.4 -9.27 10 -11.91 -3.8 2.15 168.11 3 Hang Seng HKD Money Market A 0 -0.28 4 -0.37 -0.32 2.23 4.32 5
db x-trackers MSCI USA TRN Index T -5.37 -11.97 10 -7.98 13.53 -9.11 1611.94 4 CIF Euro Bond B -0.63 -9.52 11 -12.55 -7.3 2.18 157.54 2 Principal LSF HKD Savings Ret 0 -0.29 5 -0.31 -0.2 1.9 133.08 3
BNY Mellon S&P 500 Idx Tracker A USD -5.4 -12.16 11 -8.46 12.2 -10.42 242.11 3 Amundi Funds Euro Bond C C -1.08 -10.59 12 -14.64 -8.24 1.94 371.56 3 JF Money HKD -0.01 -0.35 6 -0.5 -0.49 1.68 164.88 3
Jupiter JGF North American Eqs L USD -5.5 -12.54 12 -8.75 10.04 Sterling Aggressive Balanced PineBridge Hong Kong Money Market
ipac Multi-Manager HK Liq
-0.02
-0.02
-0.36
-0.38
7
8
-0.55
-0.49
-0.62
-0.47
1.7
1.9
293.98
17.15
3
4
Franklin US Equity A Acc $
CIF US Growth and Income B
-3.69 -12.55
-5.72 -12.56
13
14
-7.76
-8.52
9.73
13.16
-6.96
-6.75
709.52
132.25
4
4
Euro Global Bond Invesco SR HK$ Money Market GP -0.06 -0.42 9 -0.61 -0.75 1.5 13.07 2
PineBridge US Large Cap Research Enhnd Y -4.29 -12.62 15 -6.85 11.49 -9.17 89.44 3 Cat 40%BarCap Sterling Agg60%MSCI Wld -0.54 -8.05 -6.82 5.77 -7.59 BOCI-Prud HK Dollar Money Market 0.04 10 0.64
Fr Citi WGBI EUR 2.96 1.51 0.17 4.03 7
US Large-Cap Growth Equity Sterling Aggressive Balanced 0.36 -7.74 -8.17 5.73 Euro Global Bond 1.73 -5.2 -7.25 -1.57 Sterling Money Market
Threadneedle Monthly Extra Inc Ret Net 0.03 -10.13 1 -11.15 2.52 -11.98 152.22 4 Threadneedle(Lux) Global Bds EUR AE 3.05 3.42 1 3.15 6.29 5.16 21.09 3
MSCI USA Growth NR USD -4.13 -12.72 -8.27 12.35 -6.26 BofAML GBP LIBOR 3 Mon CM TR USD 2.88 -0.95 -6.12 -7.56 -6.16
Pictet-World Government Bonds-P USD 2.03 0.88 2 -0.38 3.23 6.1 223.62 3
US Large-Cap Growth Equity -5.07 -13.03 -9.82 10.65 TWD Aggressive Balanced Fortis L Bond World C Acc 1.8 -0.65 3 -1.8 4.37 5.92 188.75 3 Sterling Money Market 2.81 -1.08 -6.27 -7.73
PIMCO GIS Euro Bond E Acc 2.14 -6.02 4 -8.36 -1.32 0.22 1128.69 3
Fortis L Opportunities USA Acc -1.76 -3.07 1 -5.58 10.38 1.38 1118.29 5 JPM Global Enhanced Bd A (acc)-EUR 0.09 -7.22 5 -7.3 2.25 -7.43 29.17 1 Parvest Short Term (Sterling) C 3.49 -0.93 1 -6.49 -9.04 -7.31 70 3
Parvest USA C -5.43 -10.48 2 -9.29 3.04 -10.04 1271.79 3 TWD Aggressive Balanced -0.14 -5.84 -7.3 8.62 LM WA Euro Core+ Bd A Inc (D) £á 1.06 -8.41 6 -10.22 -0.78 -2.88 10.08 1 GS Sterling Liquid Reserve Inst Inc 4.07 -0.97 2 -6.21 -7.84 -6.89 5576.03 4
Janus US All Cap Growth A USD -3.03 -10.76 3 -1.93 32.7 -2.15 355.06 3 Polaris Taiwan Equity -2.98 -11.85 1 -11.98 -3.53 Schroder ISF Glbl Credit Dur Hdgd A -0.77 -12.31 7 -16 -9.83 -2.58 461.11 2 Investec GSF Stlg Mny C Inc Grs GBP 2.71 -1.41 3 -7.01 -9.47 -8.3 131.76 1
Threadneedle Amer Ret Net USD -4.38 -10.87 4 -8.08 15.04 -6.52 1719.72 4 Coutts Sterling Liquidity Ser 4 1.79 -2.06 4 -7.27 -9.02 -7.05 67.41 4
JF GBP 1.78 -2.08 5 -6.53 -9.16 -7.07 99.24 3
MS INVF US Growth A
MFS Meridian US Large Cap Gr A1 USD
-5.89
-4.38
-11.34
-12.09
5
6
-7.19
-10.03
20.58 -5.38
11.46 -6.09
420.35
210.18
3
2 AUD Bond and Cash Euro Global Bond - Hedged FF II - Sterling Currency 1.78 -2.09 6 -7.33 -9.18 -7.56 227.34 2
Threadneedle(Lux) US Equities AU -3.81 -12.37 7 -7.81 12.53 -1.38 359.57 4 BGF US Dollar Reserve Hedged A2 GBP 1.76 -2.13 7 -7.34 -9.19 -9.35 324.37 2
Skandia US Large Cap Growth A1 -5.84 -12.38 8 -10.33 10.06 -7.87 67.76 2
Citi Australian GBI AUD 0.86 -5.3 -2.33 10.82 7.65 Citi WGBI 10 Mkt Hdg EUR 2.75 -4.57 -9.01 -6.28 3.06
Threadneedle Amer Sel Ret Net USD
Janus US Research A USD
-5.49
-4.49
-12.48
-12.64
9
10
-10.29
-8.52
9.66 -6.76
11.6 -8.94
2123.79
9.06
3
3 Euro Global Bond - Hedged 2.52 -5.01 -7.98 -2.84 Euro Absolute Return
AUD Bond and Cash -0.1 -8.12 -5.85 6.11
BGF US Growth A2 USD -5.33 -12.7 11 -9.6 11.39 -10.72 183.44 2 Robeco Global Bonds B 0.49 -8.03 1 -12.1 -8.07 0.67 628.4 3
Skandia US Capital Growth A1 -6.98 -12.7 12 -8.66 11.84 -7.48 159.81 3 FF II - Australian Dollar Currency 0.67 -7.54 1 -4.64 7.28 4.72 112.21 1 BofAML Euro LIBOR 1 Mon CM LCL 1.4 -7.91 -13.01 -10.77 -0.33
LM Capital Mgmt Gr A Inc (A) $ -3.52 -12.71 13 -9.6 13.54 -19.38 48.93 1
SGAM Fund Eqs US Concentrated Core A -5.07 -12.74 14 -10.49 9.64 -6.17 29.13 3 Euro Government Bond Euro Absolute Return 1.07 -8.22 -11.71 -8.77
Henderson Horizon American Eq A2 -5.17 -12.76 15 -9.25 8.78 -9.61 282.15 3 Asia Bond
Threadneedle Target Ret USD Hdg -0.15 -1.05 1 -0.8 -0.78 1387.8
US Large-Cap Value Equity HSBC Asian USD Bond TR 1.66 2.25 5.53 15.9 8.12 Citi EMU GBI EUR 0.79 -7.96 -11.13 -7.11 3.34 MS INVF FX Alpha Plus RC 800 A 0.97 -7.38 2 -9.62 -6.38 -4.42 83.28 2
Fortis L V350 Classic Acc 0.31 -7.66 3 -12.71 105.35
Asia Bond 1.81 1.1 4.31 11.78 Euro Government Bond 1.13 -7.17 -10.5 -6.62 Fortis L V150 Cl Acc -0.46 -8.48 4 -14.04 -12.27 260.88
MSCI USA Value NR USD -3.78 -12.5 -6.34 13.23 -12.1 MS INVF FX Alpha Plus RC 400 A 0.31 -8.53 5 -12.39 -10.19 -2.88 165.91 3
Schroder ISF Asian Bond A Acc 1.99 4.96 1 6.78 11.03 1.72 1413.03 3 BGF Global Government Bond Hedged A2 EUR 0.66 -7.34 1 -10.88 -6.77 1.54 551.87 2 MS INVF FX Alpha Plus RC 200 A -0.08 -9.24 6 -13.87 -12.38 -2.19 28.24 3
US Large-Cap Value Equity -4.97 -13.83 -9.79 11 First State GUF HKD Bond III 1 3.06 2 4.53 6.22 5.28 17.53 3 Schroder ISF EURO Gov Bond A Acc -0.54 -8.67 2 -12.08 -8.21 0.99 186.23 2 Pictet-Absolute Return Glo Cons-P EURA -0.75 -10.34 7 -14.94 -12.39 97.07
Hang Seng Hong Kong Bond A Acc 1.27 2.72 3 4.05 7.02 5.99 7.34 3 Parvest Euro Government Bond C -1.43 -8.71 3 -12.33 -7.86 3.22 1041.81 3 MS INVF Diversified Alpha Plus A -1.43 -10.9 8 -10.48 -8.96 218.71
Fortis L Equity High Div USA Acc -3.31 -7.88 1 -4.09 15.47 -14.63 27.04 2 Schroder ISF Hong Kong Dollar Bd A Acc 0.89 2.55 4 3.71 4.84 4.27 35.92 2 Robeco Euro Government Bds D EUR -0.53 -8.81 4 -12.29 -8.64 2.39 914.05 2 Henderson Horizon Abs Return Fix Inc A2 -0.54 -11.55 9 -16.04 -12.98 -8.58 30.66 1
ING (L) Invest US High Dividend P Acc -2.57 -7.92 2 -4.37 16.19 -8.2 522.28 4 JF SAR HK$ Bond A 0.96 2.13 5 4.07 5.78 5.28 74.14 3 Standard Life SICAV Euro Govt All St A -0.65 -9.05 5 -12.75 -9.34 2.14 4211.31 2 Pictet-Absolute Return Glo Div-P EURA2 -1.28 -12.01 10 -16.59 -13.11 -3.68 879.47 3
MS INVF US Advantage A -1.8 -8.81 3 -3.58 22.93 -5.39 248.05 5 Amundi Funds Asian Income C C 1.7 1.81 6 4.65 16.74 1.69 18.69 3 Generali IS Euro Bonds DX -0.26 -9.33 6 -12.65 -9.41 1.77 503.05 1
Standard Life SICAV Euro Gov Bd A -1.41 -9.75 7 -12.3 -7.72 2.55 43.82 2
JF US Value A (dist)-USD
MFS Meridian US Value A1 USD
-4.87 -11.51
-4.79 -11.72
4 -6.62
5 -8.79
14.25 -10.43
7.76 -9.64
629.64
633.14
4
4
BGF Asian Tiger Bond A2 USD
BOCHK IF - HK Dollar Income A
1.87
0.72
1.79
1.59
7
8
5.87
3.14
16.85
4.5
6.03
5.57
179.77
108.89
4
3 Templeton Euro Government Bd A YDis £á -1.21 -11.06 8 -14.26 -9.89 0.04 23.76 1 Long-Short Funds
Robeco US Premium Equities D USD -5.89 -12.28 6 -7.58 14.55 -5.23 3433.64 5 First State Asian Quality Bond I 1.12 1.53 9 5.62 17.21 2.71 488.66 2
Skandia US Value A1 -6.13 -12.44 7 -4.98 16.95 -16.49 66.3 2 Pru IOF Asian Bond A Acc 1.35 1.5 10 5.07 15.83 4.75 853.09 3 Euro High Yield Bond Long-Short Funds 0.31 -8 -10.88 -7.33
MS INVF US Value Equity A -4.8 -13.23 8 -7.67 14.39 -11.09 206.21 3 Hang Seng Mainland China Bond A Acc 0.34 1.5 11 3 3.37 7.89 140.7 5
Invesco US Equity A -5.52 -13.37 9 -11.55 6.62 -12.26 29.69 2 BEA Hong Kong Dollar HKD Bond A 0.45 1.41 12 2.19 3.4 26.09 Robeco All Weather Global Equities D -0.35 -10.72 1 -16.37 -16.72 9.16
AB American Value A -3.85 -13.62 10 -9.26 4.45 -12.4 33.91 3 HSBC IF Asian Bond 1.54 1.35 13 4.54 14.31 6.46 921.75 5 BarCap Pan Euro HY Euro TR EUR 1.78 -10.6 -8.61 15.81 1.75 JPM HiBdge Stat.Mkt Neutral A (acc)-USD 0.75 -11.17 2 -16.19 -16.31 -1.71 2179.92
BNY Mellon US Dynamic Val A USD -7.38 -14 11 -10.24 7.36 -11.47 395.3 3 ABF Hong Kong Bond Index 0.6 1.32 14 -0.12 1.04 5.31 4
Pru IOF North America A -5.84 -14.01 12 -8.91 14.57 -12.2 744.13 3 ING (L) Renta Asian Debt P Acc 1.59 1.32 15 5.95 19.93 6.72 88.45 4
Euro High Yield Bond 1.74 -9.05 -8.38 13.33
Pioneer Fds North Amer Bas Val A EUR ND
SGAM Fund Eqs US Relative Value A
-3.3 -14.04
-7.62 -14.42
13 -10.25
14 -10.38
5.75 -10.01
11.74 -15.12
857.53
716.72
4
2 JPM Gl High Yield Bd A USD Mth 1.38 0.35 1 3.57 24.09 606.69
Target Date 2000-2014
BGF US Basic Value A2 USD -4.33 -14.52 15 -9.82 10.58 -10.7 2251.71 4 Asia/Japan Convertible Bond Pioneer Fds Euro Strat Bd C EUR ND 0.75 -7.85 2 -1.24 31.16 4.66 756.35 3
Robeco High Yield Bonds D EUR 2.26 -9.64 3 -10.84 11.05 0.48 2165.46 5 Cat 50%Citi WGBI Euros50%FTSE World 0.1 -6.32 -4.91 7.33 -0.59
Pioneer Fds Euro High Yield A EUR ND 0.31 -9.66 4 -4.58 40.78 2.99 254.31 3
US Mid-Cap Equity UBS Asia Convertible TR USD 5.72 Fortis L Bond High Yield World Acc 0.24 -9.92 5 -12.3 3.24 -2.19 310.83 2 Target Date 2000-2014 1.33 -8.52 -11.62 -4.86
Asia/Japan Convertible Bond 3.63 -7.94 -8.03 4.14 BGF Global High Yield Bond Hedged A2 EUR 0.15 -10.77 6 -11.57 6.56 -2.51 510.16 2
UBS (Lux) BF Euro High Yield P Acc 0.91 -11.53 7 -8.17 18.49 2.01 634.49 3 BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2010 0.05 -0.05 1 0.07 0.5 2.81 8.61
MSCI US Mid Cap 450 GR USD -4.03 -11.16 -2.49 25.57 -7.14 Generali IS Eurp High Yield Bds DX -0.27 -11.71 8 -11.88 3.73 -3.26 199.87 2 FF - Target 2010 A USDlick (USD) 2010 0.24 -2.24 2 -1.86 9.65 -5.03 12.67
Parvest Asian Convertible Bond C 2.48 -3.56 1 -1.35 11.14 4.84 267.82 5
US Mid-Cap Equity -4.55 -11.29 -7.33 13.85 Fortis L Bond Convert Asia Acc -0.1 -14.24 2 -14.26 -2.98 -8 119.36 1 Standard Life SICAV Euro Hi Yld Bd A Acc 0.29 -11.92 9 -11.69 6.58 -1.84 177.51 3
MFS Meridian Euro High Yield Bond A2 EUR -0.64 -12.14 10 -12.53 7.18 -4.31 72.52 3
Wells Fargo(LUX)WF-US All Cap Gr A Acc -4.52 -8.49 1 -4.17 21.54 6.16 FF - Euro High Yield A Euro -0.59 -12.29 11 -10.54 15.97 1.41 1749.68 4 Target Date 2015+
Threadneedle Amer Sm Cos Ret Net Acc -6.84 -8.84 2 -2.56 20.97 -2.84 248.58 4 Dollar Corporate Bond SGAM Fund Bonds Europe High Yield A
Threadneedle Eurp Hi-Yld Bd Ret Grs
-0.82 -12.35
-1.67 -13.15
12
13
-12.2
-7.69
8.35
10.27
-5.11
0.79
144.27
1014.98
2
5
Schroder ISF US Sm & MdCp Eq A USD -3.91 -9.46 3 -5.6 13.97 -3.74 2020.42 5
HSBC GIF Euro High Yield Bond A Acc -0.76 -13.36 14 -11.61 6.57 0.94 148.37 4
Cat 25%Citi WGBI Euros75%FTSE Wd -1.34 -10.13 -7.52 8.7 -4.83
MFS Meridian US Mid Cap Gr A1 USD -5.87 -9.72 4 -2.45 23.34 -12.24 152.23 2
UBS (Lux) EF Small Caps USA USD P -3.92 -9.76 5 -1.55 19.09 -9.47 135.64 2 BarCap US Credit TR USD 2.07 3.52 5.78 14.85 6.55 Aberdeen Global Euro High Yield Bond A2 -1.88 -13.36 15 -10.66 27.61 -4.93 239.68 1 Target Date 2015+ -0.43 -11.22 -11.02 3.21
SGAM Fund Eqs US Mid Cap Growth A -5.68 -9.97 6 -3.01 22.93 -3.38 45.89 3 Dollar Corporate Bond 1.59 -0.49 1.31 11.67
Threadneedle(Lux) US Mid&Sm Cap Eqs AU -2.18 -10.62 7 -6.34 10.37 -13.97 5.92 2 Euro Inflation Linked Bond BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2020 2.36 2.81 1 4.51 11.1 1.62 7.22
Franklin US Sm-Md Cap Growth A Acc $ -3.99 -10.67 8 -3.89 19.18 -7.17 38.11 3 Pru IOF US Investment Grade Bond A 2.21 2.9 1 5.91 19.31 5.77 395.57 3 BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2025 2.06 1.82 2 2.57 10.44 -0.76 2.45
Perkins US Strategic Value A USD -3.24 -10.7 9 -5.72 13.42 -4.37 873.73 4 BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2015 1.45 1.81 3 3.57 7.98 3.28 15.04
Skandia US All Cap Value A1 -5.87 -11.1 10 -7.05 14.82 -9.35 177.9 3 Pru IOF US High Inv Grd Bd A 1.95 2.73 2 4.66 14.71 3.57 219.81 2 EuroMTS InfltionLinkd Aggregate TR EUR -1.1 -10.53 -14.38 -9.28 2.5 BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2030 1.37 -0.72 4 -0.72 9.32 -2.32 1.81
Parvest US Mid Cap C -4.91 -11.15 11 -4.76 34.31 -4.38 281.51 3 Hang Seng Mainland & HK Corp Bd A 1.63 1.54 3 5.24 13.2 21.62 BNP Paribas Plan Target Click (USD) 2035 1.26 -1.82 5 -2.19 8.74 -1.61 88.49
Davis Opportunities A -4.33 -11.17 12 -9.15 10.67 -10.8 29.99 3 Schroder ISF Glbl Corp Bond A Acc 0.84 1.21 4 3.46 13.7 5.67 1542.9 4 Euro Inflation Linked Bond 0.94 -7.53 -11.57 -6.48 FF - Target 2015 (Euro) Ak (USD) 2035 -2.66 -13.64 6 -13.34 1.58 -7.53 198.48
BGF US Small & MidCap Opps A2 USD -5.54 -11.66 13 -6.47 15.95 -3.01 409.56 4 PIMCO GIS Glbl Inv Grd Crdt E Acc 1.32 1.15 5 4.69 16.18 6415.69 FF - Target 2020 A USD Ak (USD) 2035 -5.23 -15.34 7 -11.97 5.38 -10.78 35.12
Franklin US Opportunities A Acc $ -3.07 -12.19 14 -8.08 15.18 -3.84 920.08 3 BGF Global Corporate Bond A2 USD 1.12 0.81 6 4.42 15.48 499.01 FF - Glbl Inflatn Lkd Bd Acc USD 2.03 -0.4 1 -1.67 5.07 165.16 FF - Target 2020 (Euro) Ak (USD) 2035 -3.68 -15.56 8 -14.98 0.44 -11.58 249.78
UBS (Lux) EF Mid Caps USA USD P -3.96 -12.26 15 -2.69 22 -4.14 110.99 4 Invesco Global Invmt Grd Corp Bd A 1 0.49 7 3.31 13.5 Schroder ISF Glbl Infl Lnk Bd A 0.26 -8.36 2 -12.71 -7.89 1.15 543.39 2
Investec GSF Invmt Grd Corp Bd A Inc USD -0.87 -1.69 8 1.42 10.62 -2.23 270.46 Amundi Funds Euro Inflation Bond C D -1.59 -8.72 3 -13.56 -8.42 2.47 460.92 3
Principal Preferred Secs A -0.79 -5.3 9 -0.83 19.28 -1.94 141.52 1
US Small-Cap Equity Standard Life SICAV Euro Infl-Lnkd Bd A
Invesco Euro Inflation-Linked Bond A
-0.9
-1.36
-9.05
-9.64
4 -13.07
5 -14.15
-8.33
-9.2
2.55
1.06
63.69
109.98
3
3 The information on these pages is for guidance only.
Dollar Diversified Bond
MSCI USA Small Cap NR USD -5.28 -11.49 -2.27 22.91 -5.71
US Small-Cap Equity -6.04 -11.21 -4.64 16.88 BarCap US Agg Bond TR USD 1.58 3.69 5.39 9.52 6.88 Euro Short Bond
Listed are the up to top 15 performing funds authorized for sale in Hong Kong in
Parvest US Small Cap C -4.2 -7.84 1 -3.59 15.6 -5.57 409.09 4 Dollar Diversified Bond 1.64 1.07 2.65 10.2 Citi EMU GBI 1-3 Yr EUR 0.95 -8.31 -12.62 -10.25 1.89
Schroder ISF US Smaller Comp A Acc -4.16 -8.18 2 -4.05 16.96 -3.76 804.08 4
each of Morningstar’s proprietary categories, based on the trailing three month
First State Long Term Bd III 2.48 7.16 1 8.02 9.42 8.47 130.47 4 Euro Short Bond 1.21 -8.1 -12.44 -9.61
Janus US Venture A USD
MS INVF US Sm Cap Growth A
-3.49 -10.05
-6.71 -10.17
3
4
-1.34
-3.78
18.77 -8.76
13.62 -10.24
72.32
28.8
2
2 JPM US Bd A Acc 1.33 4.56 2 6.93 18.79 -0.98 58.97 2 total returns. Returns over 1-year are annualized and through month end. All
Fortis L Bond USD C Acc 2.07 3.79 3 5.24 10.61 6.53 170.16 4 Threadneedle(Lux) European S/T Bds AE 1.19 -7.74 1 -12.1 -10.34 0.41 4.56 3
LM Royce Smlr Coms A Inc (A) $
JPM US Small Cap Growth A (dist)-USD
-4.56 -11.05
-7.32 -11.15
5
6
-4.72
-3.9
15.76 -4.44
17.28 -5.92
159.7
38.91
3
2 FF - US Dollar Bond A USD 1.74 3.67 4 6.3 14.72 4.87 407.21 3 FF - Euro Short Term Bond A Euro -0.49 -8.71 2 -11.31 -4.71 -0.69 101.22 2 returns are in US$ terms, as are fund sizes. The fund size data is in thousands and
LM PCM US Equity A Acc $ -6.55 -11.78 7 -8.01 10.01 0.68 BGF US Dollar Core Bond A1 USD 1.38 3.25 5 4.72 8.96 3.77 360.26 3 Pictet-EUR Short Mid-Term Bonds-P EURApe -0.9 -9.58 3 -14.39 -11.49 1.09 1016.13 3 from the latest documents fund companies provide to Morningstar.
Manulife GF US Small Cap Eq AA -10.23 -12.69 8 0.18 28.39 -8.34 2 Threadneedle Dollar Bd Ret Grs 1.71 3.21 6 7.21 15.74 3.08 91.55 2 Schroder ISF Euro S/T Bd A Acc -0.61 -9.79 4 -14.11 -11.6 0.83 2393.81 4
LM Royce US Small Cap Opp A Inc (A) $ -7.55 -13.6 9 -1.54 30.73 -7.56 206.4 1 SGAM Fund Bonds US Opp Core Plus A 1.62 3.08 7 4.62 13.2 8.36 46.89 4 MS INVF Short Maturity Euro Bd A -0.57 -9.95 5 -14.22 -11.11 0.54 1156.08 3 The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted average of
Schroder ISF US Dollar Bond A Acc 1.39 2.99 8 4.76 10.72 7.06 470.76 4 BGF Euro Short Duration Bond A2 EUR -0.74 -10.03 6 -14.01 -9.83 2.62 3215.92 4
First State Hi Quality Bd I 1.49 2.79 9 4.01 7.99 6.06 58.03 3 the risk-adjusted performance figures associated with its 3-, 5-, and 10-year (if
UK Large-Cap Blend Equity LM WA US Core Bd A Inc (D) $ 1.6 2.75 10 6.84 15.57 -0.35 13.92 1
European Bond
HSBC GIF USD Core Plus Bond P Inc 1.06 2.59 11 4.18 9.5 3.5 87.35 3 applicable) rating metrics. Funds are rated within the Morningstar Europe/Asia
Janus US Flexible Income A USD Inc 1.43 2.51 12 4.52 11.95 7.69 545.94 4
FTSE 100 TR GBP -5.05 -17.34 -16.14 4.05 -13.45 Skandia Total Return USD Bond A1 Acc 1.54 2.5 13 5.87 14.46 8.26 407.33 5
UK Large-Cap Blend Equity -0.66 -13.08 -11.95 7.89 Legg Mason USD Core Bond A USD 1.4 2.38 14 4.94 17.88 4.58 23.17 3 BarCap Pan Euro Agg TR EUR 1.75 -6.17 -8.87 -3.96 1.97 categories.
Manulife GF US Bond AA 1.35 2.33 15 5.44 16.02 7.6 4 European Bond 1.24 -7.34 -9.49 -2.51
Threadneedle UK Overseas Earnings IN Inc -0.68 -11.47 1 -11.81 6.87 -12.69 148.95 4
Hang Seng UK Index B -2.1 -12.94 2 -13.13 5.44 -16.97 480.17 1 Dollar Global Bond Threadneedle(Lux) European Bds AE 2.48 -5.02 1 -7.6 -3.32 2.98 21.38 4 Wherever possible, sectors are shown with an appropriate benchmark index in bold.
Schroder ISF UK Equity A Acc -1.43 -13.37 3 -11.66 8.93 -14.29 336.29 3 Parvest European Bond C 0.17 -5.3 2 -8.95 -4.05 2.51 170.25 3
Threadneedle UK Select Ret Net GBX -0.76 -13.93 4 -13.59 0.38 -13.92 342.07 3 Fortis L Bond Europe Plus Acc 0.73 -6.07 3 -9.73 -4.97 0.25 1058.86 2
Threadneedle UK Fund Retail -0.47 -14.33 5 -11.81 6.69 -12.2 1405.89 4 Citi WGBI USD 2.96 1.51 0.17 4.04 7 Threadneedle European Bd Ret Grs 0.28 -6.57 4 -7.67 0.26 3.63 245.52 4
Parvest UK C -2.15 -14.81 6 -14.91 4.15 -14.86 29.77 2 Dollar Global Bond 1.68 -1.09 0.3 9.6 SGAM Fund Bonds Europe A 0.32 -7.24 5 -11.05 -7.67 1.23 45.73 3 Performance periods for this listing run to: July 1, 2010 .
Threadneedle UK Instl Ret Net GBP -1.03 -14.94 7 -13.1 5.52 -12.8 2055.53 3 Invesco European Bond A Acc 0.31 -7.63 6 -10.4 -5.13 1.11 59.26 3
BGF United Kingdom A2 USD -2.41 -15.46 8 -12.88 5.64 -14.18 464.43 3 BNY Mellon Euroland Bond A EUR -0.68 -7.94 7 -10.68 -1.54 5.45 1384.55 5
HSBC GIF UK Equity A Inc -3.52 -15.6 9 -16.22 1.79 -17.48 68.54 2 LM WA US Core+ Bond A Acc $ 1.58 3.56 1 6.77 17.8 4.78 27.8 3 AB European Income A 0.65 -9.43 8 -10.87 4.81 0.52 374.04 2
Investec GSF UK Eq A Inc Grs GBP -2.97 -16.65 10 -13.16 2.7 -14.6 42.78 4 PIMCO GIS Global Bond Ins Acc 1.22 3.17 2 7.22 17.45 6.87 4657.03 4 FF - MoneyBuilder European Bond A Euro -0.65 -9.56 9 -9.84 3.44 2.41 4.77 4 The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its
HSBC FTSE 100 Index Retail Inc -1.8 -17.04 11 -16.23 2.93 -13.82 481.07 3 BGF Fixed Income Global Opps A2 USD 1.21 2.83 3 6.03 15.94 2.29 67.8 2 Robeco All Strategy Euro Bonds D -0.97 -9.97 10 -12.12 -6.22 0.86 2387.29 3
ipac Multi-Manager Global Bond HKD Hdgd 1.22 2.75 4 4.32 9.54 3.45 2 content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; (3) is not warranted to be
JF Global Bd (USD) A (acc)-USD 0.64 2.68 5 5.18 8.46 -6.46 60.93 1
UK Large-Cap Growth Equity AXA FI USD Hedged Global Bond 0.9 2.27 6 3.29 5.35 4.76 54.79 3 JPY Bond accurate, complete or timely; (4) for reference only. Neither Morningstar nor its
ICBC Global Total Return Bond 2.47 1.72 7 4.53 13.81
MSCI UK Growth NR USD -3.46 -15.25 -12.28 9.4 -11.28
SGAM Fund Bonds World A 1.74 1.71 8 -0.51 4.34 6.4 56.54 3 Citi Japanese GBI USD 6.33 10.46 9.52 15.02 13.16 content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of
LM BW Glbl Fixed Inc A Inc (S) $ 2.39 1.57 9 3.95 14.73 6.43 333.43 3
UK Large-Cap Growth Equity -0.81 -13.52 -11.56 8.53 Standard Life SICAV Global Bd D 2.7 1.36 10 -0.28 4.13 7.09 271.19 3 JPY Bond 4.99 7.18 6.62 10.35 this information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. All
AXA UT Currency and Bond 1.44 1.21 11 0.15 5.97 7.55 94 4
FF - United Kingdom A GBP -5.54 -17.18 1 -14.36 4.42 -13.65 142.67 3 PineBridge Global Bond Y 2.92 1.17 12 -0.06 4.35 6.12 66.04 3 UBS (Lux) BF JPY P Acc 5.87 8.37 1 7.62 16.89 11.86 47.74 3 investments involve risk.
BNY Mellon Global Bond A USD 2.29 1.16 13 0.91 6.77 5.26 912.52 3 Parvest Japan Yen Bond C 4.07 7.7 2 6.84 14.21 12.12 127.08 3
ipac Multi-Manager Global Bond 1.86 1.06 14 0.35 7.39 3.46 2
UK Large-Cap Value Equity HSBC Inv Grade Bd 2013 A -0.21 0.93 15 2.24 10.76 61.86
Non-Euro Inflation Linked Bond
MSCI UK Value NR USD -4.97 -18.2 -19.1 -0.34-16.68 Dollar Government Bond Performance data supplied by
UK Large-Cap Value Equity 0.06 -11.76 -11.7 7.45 BofAML Global Govts Inflation Linked 1.77 -0.96 -2.14 3.85 3.66
Citi US GBI EUR 1.89 4.82 5.86 6.65 7.11 © 2007 Morningstar Asia Limited. All right reserved

The Top 150

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Rank Stock $ billion P/E price high low % chg $ chg Rank Stock $ billion P/E price high low % chg $ chg Rank Stock $ billion P/E price high low % chg $ chg Rank Stock $ billion P/E price high low % chg $ chg

1 China Mobile 1560.871 11.9 77.80 80.05 70.54 -1.52 -1.20 37 Belle Int’l 89.572 31.1 10.62 11.90 8.02 -3.28 -0.36 75 Gome Elec App 36.584 20.8 2.43 3.14 1.97 -2.80 -0.07 113 Chaoda Modern 24.351 4.4 7.71 10.00 6.01 -5.40 -0.44
2 CCB 1393.072 11.9 6.20 6.72 5.49 -4.16 -0.27 38 Want Want Ch 85.739 35.1 6.49 6.79 4.68 -0.15 -0.01 76 Country Garden 35.736 14.8 2.14 3.04 1.95 -1.83 -0.04 114 ASM Pacific 24.314 25.9 61.65 80.45 52.75 -4.71 -3.05
3 HSBC Holdings 1255.442 27.0 71.70 91.40 68.95 -4.78 -3.60 39 China Res Power 81.685 14.6 17.38 17.92 13.32 +1.76 +0.30 77 Renhe Commercial 35.640 7.4 1.62 2.08 1.44 -3.28 -0.06 115 Hysan Dev 23.669 8.7 22.50 23.30 18.46 +0.22 +0.05
4 CNOOC 578.019 17.2 12.94 14.08 10.58 -4.15 -0.56 40 Alibaba.com 77.633 67.5 15.40 19.96 12.50 -6.44 -1.06 78 Fosun Int’l 35.190 6.7 5.48 6.46 4.63 +1.48 +0.08 116 SOHO China 23.448 6.2 4.52 4.62 3.37 -0.22 -0.01
5 ICBC 466.778 12.8 5.62 6.33 5.19 -4.26 -0.25 41 Hengan Int’l 74.561 34.6 61.15 65.15 49.20 -4.00 -2.55 79 Orient Overseas 35.170 - 56.20 63.50 36.05 -3.93 -2.30 117 Tsingtao Brewery 23.353 32.9 35.65 45.82 32.50 -7.16 -2.75
6 Std Chartered 389.317 14.5 190.10 219.20 163.11 -7.00 -14.30 42 China Res Land 74.042 16.3 14.72 17.90 12.72 -2.77 -0.42 80 ANTA Sports 34.889 24.5 14.00 15.48 9.56 -6.67 -1.00 118 Chalco 22.993 - 5.83 10.66 5.81 -7.17 -0.45
7 Bank of China 301.800 10.9 3.97 4.29 3.40 -2.22 -0.09 43 China Mer Bank 70.936 16.8 18.14 21.76 15.84 -5.52 -1.06 81 Foxconn Int’l 34.859 114.6 4.88 11.68 4.76 -13.32 -0.75 119 Zijin Mining 22.711 20.4 5.67 8.39 5.27 -3.57 -0.21
8 SHK Properties 271.139 26.1 105.50 123.80 96.65 -5.21 -5.80 44 Sino Land 69.030 18.3 14.08 15.88 12.22 -1.95 -0.28 82 China Agri-Ind 34.279 17.2 8.88 12.88 7.81 -3.27 -0.30 120 Guangdong Inv 22.679 11.1 3.65 4.54 3.25 -2.41 -0.09
9 China Life 254.860 25.9 34.25 38.80 31.45 -3.52 -1.25 45 China Resources Ent 68.788 23.5 28.70 30.65 24.15 -2.38 -0.70 83 TST Properties 33.797 18.3 22.80 32.40 -0.10 -2.98 -0.70 121 Brightoil-new 22.622 17.0 3.50 4.23 1.86 -8.85 -0.34
10 China Unicom 248.816 23.1 10.56 10.84 7.93 +2.92 +0.30 46 China Pac Insurance 67.395 28.6 30.85 36.11 27.95 -2.68 -0.85 84 Evergrande 33.450 26.5 2.23 4.28 1.83 -3.88 -0.09 122 GCL-Poly Energy 22.434 - 1.45 2.43 1.20 -8.81 -0.14
11 Tencent Holdings 237.087 39.8 129.60 176.10 120.40 -0.08 -0.10 47 Wynn Macau 64.740 30.4 12.48 14.52 8.79 -6.73 -0.90 85 Shanghai Industrial H 33.365 11.7 30.90 42.20 28.95 -4.48 -1.45 123 Fushan Energy 22.362 17.7 4.16 8.66 4.02 -11.30 -0.53
12 Cheung Kong 210.539 10.6 90.90 104.30 85.05 -3.25 -3.05 48 CKI Holdings 64.245 11.5 28.50 29.70 27.12 +0.88 +0.25 86 Air China 33.351 16.2 7.57 9.18 5.67 -8.13 -0.67 124 Wing Hang Bk 21.612 17.9 73.25 81.50 61.95 -3.36 -2.55
13 Manulife Financial 206.628 19.4 117.00 157.91 114.90 -5.19 -6.40 49 China Mer Holdings 62.041 19.2 25.50 30.18 22.80 -2.11 -0.55 87 Ch Comm Cons 31.391 12.9 7.09 8.30 6.00 -1.94 -0.14 125 Sinofert Holdings 21.265 - 3.03 5.72 3.00 -7.90 -0.26
14 Hutchison Wham 204.429 14.4 47.95 58.38 46.25 -4.00 -2.00 50 Cathay Pac Airways 60.328 12.9 15.34 16.86 12.42 -3.40 -0.54 88 Sino-Ocean Land 31.114 14.4 5.52 7.93 5.06 -7.23 -0.43 126 China Res Cement 21.253 8.1 3.26 4.10 3.00 -3.26 -0.11
15 Hang Seng Bank 199.405 15.1 104.30 113.00 101.00 -1.14 -1.20 51 CITIC Bank 59.405 11.4 4.79 6.65 4.16 -7.88 -0.41 89 SJM Holdings 31.040 33.9 6.15 7.09 3.51 -8.62 -0.58 127 China Railway 20.700 13.4 4.92 6.45 4.58 -4.65 -0.24
16 Bank of Comm 187.053 12.1 8.11 9.18 6.96 -7.31 -0.64 52 Beijing Ent (HK) 58.575 24.4 51.50 63.25 42.65 +2.59 +1.30 90 Golden Eagle 30.955 102.4 15.94 18.54 9.88 -4.32 -0.72 128 China Rail Cons 20.535 16.3 9.89 10.96 8.61 — —
17 BOC Hong Kong 186.292 13.6 17.62 18.93 15.35 -3.50 -0.64 53 Bank of East Asia 57.599 20.8 28.35 30.67 25.67 -1.73 -0.50 91 NWS Holdings 30.549 11.4 14.02 15.10 11.98 -1.54 -0.22 129 First Pacific 20.498 5.8 5.28 5.62 3.99 -2.94 -0.16
18 Ping An Insurance 183.895 29.9 64.35 71.66 57.16 -3.01 -2.00 54 Hang Lung Group 56.448 21.3 42.15 43.60 32.66 -0.59 -0.25 92 Huabao Int’l 30.281 22.5 9.70 10.78 7.32 +1.57 +0.15 130 China COSCO 20.154 - 7.81 11.40 7.70 -6.47 -0.54
19 PetroChina 180.607 13.3 8.56 10.13 7.78 -3.93 -0.35 55 Esprit Holdings 53.743 11.0 42.00 64.45 40.50 -5.51 -2.45 93 Agile Property 29.648 14.2 8.34 12.08 7.28 -1.77 -0.15 131 VTech Holdings 20.105 12.5 81.40 93.00 69.00 -5.57 -4.80
20 MTR Corp 154.269 15.8 26.75 29.90 24.42 -3.25 -0.90 56 CITIC Pacific 52.322 8.8 14.34 21.70 12.50 -5.66 -0.86 94 Yanzhou Coal 28.749 15.4 14.68 22.11 14.19 -13.44 -2.28 132 Jiangxi Copper 20.063 16.1 14.46 20.09 14.02 -5.98 -0.92
21 Prudential 146.512 - 57.70 68.00 56.60 -8.99 -5.70 57 China Telecom 50.791 18.0 3.66 4.01 3.06 -1.88 -0.07 95 China Dongxiang 28.615 17.2 5.05 5.95 4.24 -8.01 -0.44 133 Ch Transmission 19.946 18.2 16.02 19.90 14.22 -5.43 -0.92
22 HK & China Gas 140.055 24.8 19.50 19.70 14.52 +1.04 +0.20 58 New World Dev 50.307 23.4 12.84 16.20 11.60 -0.16 -0.02 96 Minsheng Bank 28.188 9.5 6.83 7.37 5.99 +1.34 +0.09 134 Anhui Conch 19.624 20.1 22.65 28.05 21.25 -9.22 -2.30
23 CLP Holdings 136.067 16.6 56.55 57.00 50.36 -0.62 -0.35 59 Kunlun Energy 48.495 36.7 9.82 11.93 8.13 -2.19 -0.22 97 ICBC (Asia) 27.920 10.6 20.65 21.75 14.43 -3.28 -0.70 135 Hopewell Holdings 19.457 11.7 22.20 25.45 20.50 +1.14 +0.25
24 Li & Fung 132.844 38.3 34.85 41.96 29.36 -10.41 -4.05 60 Nine Dragon Paper 48.240 24.0 10.42 14.42 9.69 -9.86 -1.14 98 China EB Ltd 27.705 5.8 17.40 23.20 15.80 -8.90 -1.70 136 Franshion Prp 19.422 15.5 2.12 2.81 1.98 -5.36 -0.12
25 Swire Pac (Total) 131.715 61 Kerry Properties 48.058 10.9 33.50 43.45 29.50 -3.74 -1.30 99 KB Chemical 27.665 11.5 32.75 43.80 28.75 -4.66 -1.60 137 Sinopharm 19.362 52.8 28.05 38.59 26.10 -2.94 -0.85
Swire Pacific À’ 81.276 6.8 89.75 97.80 77.85 -0.94 -0.85 62 BYD 44.731 28.0 56.40 83.63 51.88 -8.96 -5.55 100 Li Ning 26.785 24.7 25.50 31.69 21.94 -5.90 -1.60 138 Zhongsheng Group 19.237 - 10.08 14.60 8.30 +10.53 +0.96
Swire Pacific B̀’ 50.440 6.4 16.84 17.64 14.82 +1.08 +0.18 63 Link Reit 43.835 - 20.10 20.45 17.77 +1.01 +0.20 101 Wheelock Prop 26.781 18.4 12.94 12.96 -0.08 +0.15 +0.02 139 KB Laminates 19.080 11.6 6.36 8.56 5.15 -4.50 -0.30
26 HKEx 130.858 27.7 121.40 151.91 115.00 -3.57 -4.50 64 Shimao Property 43.735 10.7 12.34 14.89 10.13 -2.22 -0.28 102 Chinese Estate H 26.750 3.2 14.00 14.24 11.32 -0.85 -0.12 140 China Longyuan 19.056 35.5 7.03 11.18 6.63 -6.76 -0.51
27 Hang Lung Prp 125.602 30.3 30.20 32.85 25.18 -1.31 -0.40 65 Wheelock 43.482 4.5 21.40 25.30 18.70 -2.95 -0.65 103 Denway Motors 26.315 12.1 3.50 5.28 -0.07 -11.62 -0.46 141 HK&S Hotels 18.688 8.1 12.66 13.06 10.26 -1.40 -0.18
28 China Overseas 120.620 16.1 14.76 18.35 13.35 -4.03 -0.62 66 Mengniu Dairy 43.430 32.3 25.00 28.49 19.89 -0.79 -0.20 104 Ch Zhongwang 26.082 5.9 4.83 7.94 -0.26 -6.76 -0.35 142 Xinao Gas Hold 17.913 20.1 17.74 25.58 13.44 +2.90 +0.50
29 Wharf (Holdings) 106.712 6.1 38.75 47.16 34.41 -3.49 -1.40 67 China Taiping 42.728 47.7 25.10 30.60 21.65 -4.56 -1.20 105 Poly (Hong Kong) 25.497 26.5 7.96 10.62 -0.04 -2.21 -0.18 143 Sany Heavy Equ 17.741 23.9 8.55 10.30 7.24 -2.17 -0.19
30 Rusal 105.955 13.9 7.00 9.95 6.72 -7.04 -0.53 68 Lenovo Group 41.132 - 4.20 6.34 3.93 -7.49 -0.34 106 PICC P&C 25.436 40.6 7.36 8.62 6.51 -3.41 -0.26 144 Haeco 17.464 25.4 105.00 106.50 79.90 -0.10 -0.10
31 Tingyi 105.143 35.2 18.82 20.33 14.87 -4.08 -0.80 69 Shangri-La Asia 41.115 20.5 14.24 16.18 12.64 -3.26 -0.48 107 Guoco Group 25.436 52.8 77.30 85.30 74.20 -0.26 -0.20 145 Shineway Pharm 17.326 19.9 20.95 28.25 12.45 -10.09 -2.35
32 Sinopec Corp 104.207 7.7 6.21 6.83 5.54 -4.61 -0.30 70 Yurun Food 40.408 22.2 24.15 26.35 18.28 -2.82 -0.70 108 Dongfeng Motor 25.416 10.8 8.90 14.26 7.67 -10.37 -1.03 146 Sinotruk (HK) 17.229 12.5 6.24 11.52 5.62 -5.74 -0.38
33 Henderson Land 99.823 10.4 46.10 59.80 42.20 -3.35 -1.60 71 Yue Yuen Industrial 40.316 11.1 24.45 28.36 -0.34 +0.16 +0.04 109 Lifestyle Int’l 25.407 22.1 15.14 16.03 12.21 -1.94 -0.30 147 Geely Automobile 16.981 11.9 2.31 4.48 2.30 -11.83 -0.31
34 HK Electric 98.176 14.6 46.00 48.65 40.71 -0.65 -0.30 72 Longfor Properties 39.707 12.7 7.71 8.87 6.80 +1.85 +0.14 110 Lee & Man Paper 25.117 13.7 5.52 7.14 4.30 -9.95 -0.61 148 SouthGobi Energy Res 16.906 - 91.95 130.00 75.00 -1.71 -1.60
35 China Shenhua 93.631 15.2 27.55 41.40 27.20 -10.41 -3.20 73 China Coal 38.849 14.1 9.46 16.23 9.41 -15.69 -1.76 111 COSCO Pacific 24.594 15.3 9.07 13.51 8.50 -4.73 -0.45 149 Glorious Property 16.832 5.0 2.16 3.53 2.13 -9.24 -0.22
36 Sands China 89.975 43.4 11.18 13.50 9.71 -6.05 -0.72 74 Parkson Retail 37.287 35.9 13.28 15.09 10.04 +0.15 +0.02 112 L’Occitane Int’l 24.370 - 16.50 18.62 13.80 -0.60 -0.10 150 Champion Reit 16.670 - 3.60 3.86 3.07 -0.28 -0.01

SUNDAY MORNING POST JULY 4, 2010
In the last part of a series
on health insurance,
Glen Norris says
the regulatory
system gives
consumers
a raw deal
Perils of
self-medication
W
hen Tsoi Hau-ling, an
usher in a seafood res-
taurant, slipped and
injured her back while
at work more than a
decade ago, she spent several painful
days in hospital.
It was an injury serious enough
that the Employees’ Compensation
Division of the Labour Department
awarded her HK$15,000. But when
she went to make a claim from her
own insurer, Pacific Century Insur-
ance, they rejected her out of hand.
The reason was a paragraph in her
policy that stated that an injury re-
quired evidence of a “visible contu-
sion or wound”. In her case, there
was no external evidence of bleeding,
contusions or bruising, although the
internal injury was clearly serious
enough to warrant hospitalisation.
That reasoning by Pacific Century
caused a stir of sympathy for Tsoi
even among Hong Kong’s hard-
headed health insurers. Tsoi ap-
pealed to the industry-run Insurance
Claims Complaints Panel (ICCP) and
was successful – Pacific Century was
ordered to pay up.
Pacific Century, however, was so
aggrieved by the decision that it ap-
pealed to the High Court for a judicial
review of the panel’s power. It
claimed the decision “would open a
floodgate of having to argue each and
every case on the purported spirit of
each policy” rather than on the word-
ing of the policy.
The landmark case revealed the
limitations of an industry trying to be
judge and jury in regards to consum-
er complaints. Unlike Britain and
Australia, there is no independent,
statutory body empowered to hear
complaints against insurers.
It was therefore a legal battle over
the contractual interpretation of the
insurance policy and whether the
ICCP had the power to enforce a rul-
ing that went beyond the black letter
of the policy.
The company was successful in
getting the decision overturned be-
cause the judge in the case ruled the
panel, which he described as provid-
ing a “quick, cheap method of self-
regulation”, had gone beyond its
powers. Its job was to determine
whether the strict wording of the
policy had been abided by. In this
case, despite the substantial injury
sustained by Tsoi, the insurance
company was in the right.
It pays to read policy’s fine print
It pays to read the small print on health
insurance policies to avoid unnecessary
hassles in later years, says the Hong
Kong Consumer Council.
Consumers are particularly urged to
pay attention to provisions and
exclusions. For example what is
“medically necessary” treatment and
who decides? A council survey last year
of 39 hospital and health insurance
The case exposed the ICCP’s limi-
tations. While the panel’s powers
were subsequently widened so it
could consider issues beyond the
strict wording of a policy, what has
not changed since then is consum-
ers’ lack of access to a transparent
and accountable complaints system.
Michael Tsui, a barrister and
chairman of the panel, argues that
the panel has more flexibility than a
statutory body. For example, as well
as now having the power to look be-
yond the contractual terms of a
policy, the panel can recommend ex
gratia payments in cases where the
ruling goes against the complainant.
But even he concedes the question of
transparency remains.
With the government planning a
major overhaul of insurance regula-
tions, the adequacy of self regulation
is again under the spotlight. Com-
Hong Kong is
different … there is
no family physician
platform so people
do doctor shopping
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Audrey Chan, chairwoman,
Medical Insurance Association
plaints to the panel rose from 344 in
2005 to 518 last year, mostly from
people with medical and critical ill-
ness policies.
Hong Kong will begin a long-
awaited consultation later this year
on whether to set up a new, powerful
insurance authority. The govern-
ment will issue a consultation paper
on the role of the new agency. It will
also seek views on the regulator’s in-
vestigative and sanctioning powers.
Also on the cards is a government-
sanctioned health insurance scheme
to reduce costs as the population
ages and medical costs skyrocket.
The Obama health-care reforms
in the United States, which extend
health cover to almost all Americans,
are being watched closely by the in-
dustry in Hong Kong. The sweeping
reforms passed in March give insur-
ers until September to implement se-
veral big changes including an end to
terminating policies such as
rescission.
The new law will standardise the
plans by 10 insurers found policies
defined “medically necessary” as
something “consistent with the
diagnosis” or “not for the convenience
of the insured or the doctor”.
Some insurance companies say they
have absolute discretion over whether a
hospital visit is medically necessary.
The council notes that disclosure of
medical history is of the utmost
Smart wheels
rules and allow insurers to cancel
coverage only if they can prove fraud
or intentional misrepresentation.
Health insurers fought a bitter battle
against the reform that bans prac-
tices such as refusing to cover people
with pre-existing illnesses and cap-
ping lifetime payouts.
If a government-subsidised insur-
ance scheme is introduced in Hong
Kong, there are doubts the current
system of self-regulation would sur-
vive. Insurers would certainly be un-
der pressure to be less rigid in deter-
mining claims.
For example, would private insur-
ance companies be able to exclude
payment to people like Tsoi, the res-
taurant worker? What about people
with pre-existing conditions or
chronic illnesses? Under the current
system they would likely be rejected
by insurers or face exorbitant
premiums.
Insurers say they are reluctant to
include people with pre-existing con-
ditions in any scheme, meaning
chronically ill patients would have to
pay a higher premium for coverage.
The government in February asked
the industry to reconsider its
position.
Audrey Chan, chairwoman of the
Medical Insurance Association, said
under the current system, private
health insurance policy terms such as
disclosure requirements are strictly
interpreted. A non-disclosed fact
may be totally unrelated to the dis-
ease. For example, a person suffering
from throat cancer who fails to men-
tion a past visit to the doctor for a sore
throat may find their claim rejected
and the policy cancelled.
Insurers say non-disclosure goes
to the very heart of the insurer-in-
sured relationship – that of trust. One
of the reasons Hong Kong insurers
are so strict with policy terms such as
disclosure is “doctor shopping”, ac-
cording to Chan.
“Hong Kong is different from
other countries in that there is no
family physician platform so people
do doctor shopping,” Chan said.
“There are therefore difficulties in
tracking down medical history.”
Chan said a mandatory health in-
surance scheme could be seen as ei-
ther an opportunity or threat for the
industry. A key issue would be man-
aging risk if people with pre-existing
conditions were accepted into the
scheme.
importance and is the responsibility of
an applicant when applying for cover.
Some policies also contain a
“waiting period”, which means no
indemnity will be paid for medical
expenses incurred due to all sicknesses
within 15-30 days after the inception of
the policies.
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Glen Norris
The best value for money
on the market PAGE 13
ILLUSTRATION: BAY LEUNG
Jake’s view
Smoking ban’s messy
fallout shows it went
too far, too fast
Bars, nightclubs turn blind eye as
customers continue to light up
SCMP headline, July 2
I
have a confession to make. I’m a
smoker.
This is not to say I smoke any
longer. I threw out my last pack
of cigarettes at midnight on New
Year’s Eve of 2006 and since then I
haven’t touched any, bar one or two
transgressions while under the
influence.
But I was a heavy smoker for
many years and stopping doesn’t
make me a non-smoker. It’s like
people in Alcoholics Anonymous
who quit drinking but still call
themselves alcoholics. The urge to
pick up a cigarette has weakened but
not entirely gone. As I write this I
have a toothpick between my teeth
and no illusions about why.
I quit with the first smoking ban
that came into effect on New Year’s
Day 2007. It applied to the Foreign
Correspondents Club and I told
myself I had my choice of giving up
smoking or giving up my local. In
fact, this only provided the occasion.
I rate myself a sensible man and I
had become increasingly unhappy
with my tobacco addiction.
I suppose my story qualifies me
as a poster subject for anti-smoking
campaigners. The ban was meant to
wean people from the weed and
here is an obvious case in which it
was instrumental in doing so. Notch
another one up for the ban.
But I’m not entirely happy to be
that notch. In the first place I am not
Inbox happy with the clamour for ever
Write to us higher tobacco taxes, as if the 50 per
If you want to share with readers your experience with cent hike little more than a year ago
health insurance policies in Hong Kong, please e-mail was not already stinging the poor
us at yourmoney@scmp.com heavily enough.
Yes, stinging the poor. It is
Your article headlined “Health s(care)” on June predominantly the poor who smoke.
27 is exactly how I If you want to target a tax at the poor
feel not only about health insurance programme
s in Hong Kong but also you could do no better than a tax on
about home insurance coverage. You only need
to take the examples you used smoking. The poor will pay away
for health, replace people with houses, and you
would get the same outcome. HK$3 billion on that tax this year.
The blanket reason for rejecting every claim is “wear
and tear”. Just try It is actually counterproductive.
finding a company that will, transparently (pun
intended), cover something It may or may not stop some poor
like a broken window. Or try finding someone who
will accept a claim for pipes people from smoking (mostly not)
bursting.
but it certainly makes the
I paid premiums on one home insurance for many government addicted to tobacco
years,
covered for various things, until I found out otherwise. thinking I was taxes.
That started a useless
hunt for a readable policy that would actually insure On the other hand, if you want to
me against common
household incidents. No such luck. target a tax at the rich you could do
Jim Kushner no better than a tax on wine. Thus
when you next hear government
officials talk righteously about
you start a narrowing the income gap, just
I would like to point out your apparent bias where
” Going by figures provided remember that they pushed the
paragraph by asking “were complaints successful? some form of financial
in tobacco tax way up and abolished
by you, 54 per cent of resolved complaints resulted
your question must be “yes”, not the wine tax. The word you’re
benefit to the complainant! So the answer to
looking for is “hypocrite”.
your comment, “most would have said no”.
Me and my wife have had worldwide hospital
medical coverage for 15 years I also think that anti-tobacco
campaigners often misrepresent the
had two expensive
with the same insurer. During this 15 years I have 2006 legislation that created the ban.
admissions in Hong Kong.
operations in the UK and two investigative hospital They treat it as a direct government
one single penny, or cent, of
During all these admissions I have not paid out measure to stop smokers from
my own money. I have only praise for the company. Morgan Majurey smoking.
It was not presented as such to
SMP GRAPHIC
legislators at the time. Its stated
with Jake van der Kamp
jake.vanderkamp@scmp.com
purpose was to protect workers in
bars, restaurants and other indoor
facilities from the health effects of
second-hand smoke. The law did
not say, “Thou shalt not smoke”. It
only said, “Thou shalt not make
others ill by smoking”.
This is more than a quibble. It
gets to the heart of why the smoking
ban has met widespread defiance. It
is widely regarded as government
trying to take the place of God by
prescribing the moral conduct of
our lives. People find this
objectionable and their feelings are
easily expressed in defiance of the
law as a gesture of resentment.
It does no good then to argue
that perhaps public officials should
have something to say about
smoking if the public purse pays the
cost of treating tobacco-related
disease. Once you have people’s
hackles up, you can’t talk reason
with them.
And this is clearly what tobacco
control officers are finding at the
moment. They go for the easy
Just picture a
weakling bartender
telling a triad thug
to stub out or he’ll
call the cops. It
won’t happen
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targets – kids in game centres, out-
of-place labourers in shopping malls
and isolated smokers in restaurants,
who have no sympathy from people
at neighbouring tables. But there
have been few arrests in bars and
none in nightclubs or saunas (so-
called).
These tobacco control officers
don’t want a fight on their hands.
They can easily call the police in, of
course, but, still, who wants it? I also
suspect that many of them are in
fundamental sympathy with the
smokers’ point of view – if you don’t
like my smoking, go find another
bar. It resonates with this town’s
traditional free-living ways.
While this way of thinking
persists, fining the bar instead of the
smoker in the bar may also not
work. All that it will do is pass the
tobacco control officer’s job to the
bartender and he likes fights even
less. Just picture a weakling
bartender telling a triad thug to stub
out or he’ll call the cops. It won’t
happen and it’s unfair anyway to
load that stress and personal risk on
the bartender’s shoulders.
In my opinion we went too fast
and too far with this smoking ban
and we now have the messy
repercussions. They were
unavoidable.
BASKETBALL Free agents weigh their options Page 2 SAILING Teen sailor wants to go global again Page 7
SUNDAY MORNING POST JULY 4, 2010
Germany’s striker Miroslav Klose celebrates after scoring his team’s fourth goal in the surprising rout of Argentina. Klose struck twice, taking his all-time World Cup finals tally to 14, one goal shy of the record. He has four goals in this tournament. Photo: AFP
Klose closes in on scoring record as Low wins battle of tactics with Maradona
Rampant Germany demolish Argentina
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SOCCER
Agence France-Presse in Cape Town
Germany stormed into the World
Cup semi-finals yesterday with a 4-0
demolition of Diego Maradona’s out-
classed Argentina as Miroslav Klose
edged towards becoming the tourna-
ment’s greatest ever goal-scorer.
Germany now face either Spain or
Paraguay, who were meeting in the
late game yesterday, in Durban next
Wednesday with a place in the final at
Johannesburg’s Soccer City on July 11
at stake.
It was the third time at these finals
that rampant Germany had scored
four goals in a match, having also
done the same to Australia and Eng-
land, while Argentina superstar Lio-
Armstrong fury at new dope report
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CYCLING
Agence France-Presse
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Seven-time champion Lance Arm-
strong hit out yesterday only hours
before the start of his final Tour de
France campaign at more “false”
doping accusations levelled by for-
mer teammate Floyd Landis.
Disgraced champion Landis was
Odds-on to be back to square one at Sha Tin
......................................................
RACING
Alan Aitken
After 730 races and a tortuous contest
over the past 10 months, Douglas
Whyte and Brett Prebble are odds-on
to be back where they started early in
today’s Sha Tin card to set up an ex-
traordinary finish to an amazing
jockeys’ championship.
For Whyte, at the end lies a 10th
Sport Digest
Golf
Canizares holds French lead
Play began four hours late in yesterday’s French
Open third round because of thunderstorms and
rain in the Versailles area. Spain’s Alejandro
Canizares (pictured) held a one-shot lead at the
halfway stage after a second successive 66 at Le
Golf National. Four birdies in the last five holes
gave the Spaniard a 10-under par 132 to lead
defending champion Martin Kaymer of
Germany. Kaymer, who beat Lee Westwood in a
play-off at this event last year, birdied the 10th,
14th and 17th holes to add a 67 to his opening
round of 66. Overnight leader Robert-Jan
Derksen was sitting a further shot back after the
Dutchman added a level-par 71 to his stunning
opening round 63. AFP
Trailblazer Trinh-Duc spreading the rugby gospel Page 2
nel Messi once again failed to reach
Scoring four goals the heights expected of him.
A third-minute goal by Thomas
against Argentina Muller gave Germany a 1-0 lead, be-
you just have to say fore the three-time champions
turned the screw after the interval.
that that was class Klose, winning his 100th cap, net-
ted in the 68th minute, centre-back
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German manager Joachim Low, who Arne Friedrich scored his first for his
tactically outwitted Diego Maradona country six minutes later before
Klose completed the rout with an
89th-minute strike which gave him a
14th World Cup goal, level with com-
patriot Gerd Muller and just one be-
hind Ronaldo’s record of 15.
German coach Joachim Low got
the better tactically of a bewildered
Maradona as the men in black de-
fended doggedly and attacked in
numbers.
“We really turned in an incredible
stripped of his yellow jersey in 2006 Lance’s last from Landis, including
after testing positive for testosterone Tour allegations that team bi-
but spent millions of dollars trying to cycles were sold, and
clear his name.
After four years of denials Landis
6 not given, to members
of Armstrong and Lan-
caused a sensation recently by finally dis’s former team US Postal by sup-
confessing to doping. But in so doing plier Trek to help pay for the team’s
he also claimed that Armstrong and doping programme.
other former teammates also doped Doping allegations have dogged
throughout their careers. Armstrong through much of his ca-
Yesterday The Wall Street Journal reer. He has denied them and has
carried further damaging claims never failed a doping test.
sure they are back to square one by
Fightt to winning the griffin event for Whyte.
Though Prebble has led most of
the finish the season, it won’t be the first time
Prebble(96 wins) v Whyte(95)
Whyte has drawn level – he actually
led by three wins at one stage in April
straight title. For Prebble the honour before the Australian surged back
of taking Whyte’s crown and becom- again.
ing the first Australian champion The ace in the hole for Prebble is
jockey since Noel Barker 19 years ago. that two of the final three meetings
Neither will let it rest easily and are at Happy Valley, where he has
John Size-trained Fay Fay should en- dominated all term, but he will be
Motorcycling Golf
Lorenzo claims Catalan MotoGP pole
Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo will start from pole
position in today’s Catalan MotoGP after posting
the quickest time of the day on his Yamaha in the
last minute of qualifying in Barcelona. The 23-
year-old, who holds a 47-point lead at the top of upstaging Chinese number one Liang
the championship, produced a final lap of one Wenchong. In-form Hendry, who won the Fiji
minute 42.046 seconds to grab pole from Open two weeks, ago, fired a five-under-par 67
Australian Casey Stoner who was 0.364 seconds
slower on his Ducati. Frenchman Randy de
for a one-shot lead over Liang to lead the OneAsia
event on 12-under-par 204. Liang carded a 71.
Puniet completes the front row on his Honda
while Spanish teammate Dani Pedrosa, who lies
Liang had started the day with a two-stroke lead
after matching the course record with a 64 at the
second in the championship race behind Damai Indah Golf Club, in Jakarta but had a
Lorenzo, was fourth and begins on the second frustrating day on the greens. Taiwan’s Hsieh
row with American Ben Spies (Yamaha) and Tung-shu carded a 69 for third place, three
Italian Andrea Dozioso (Honda). AFP behind Hendry. AFP
showing. Scoring four goals against
Argentina you just have to say that
that was class. And we closed down
Messi very well – without resorting to
fouls, so that was great,” said Low.
“We really stepped on the gas in
the second half and played a liberat-
ed style of attacking football.”
Low added: “I have been proud of
my team for a long time, not only to-
day. We played some really great
football in the second-half and the
team has shown the will of champi-
ons. This result and the amount of
goals we scored was almost unimag-
inable before the game.”
World footballer of the year Messi
was tightly marked by Muller and
Bastian Schweinsteiger as Argen-
tina’s star-studded side failed to
shine. The only blot on Germany’s
“Today’s Wall Street Journal ar-
ticle is full of false accusations and
more of the same old news from
Floyd Landis, a person with zero
credibility and an established pattern
of recanting tomorrow what he
swears to today,” the 38-year-old
Armstrong said.
“Landis’ credibility is like a carton
of sour milk: once you take the first
sip, you don’t have to drink the rest to
know it has all gone bad.”
desperate to go there on Wednesday
in front. He missed out on Thursday
with five minor placings to Whyte’s
three wins, but no one expects Preb-
ble to go winless for long and he has
the ammunition today to at least hold
his own.
Whyte’s “gimme’ on Fay Fay is
vital if he is to put himself back in the
driver’s seat, but Amedeo and
Whyte’s partnership with John Size
look strong factors late in the day.
Hendry leads Indonesia Open
New Zealand’s Michael Hendry, a
former first-class cricketer, took the
third-round lead in the million-
dollar Indonesia Open yesterday,
copybook was Muller’s first-half yel-
low card for handball. It sees him sus-
pended for the semi-final.
“Everything went off superbly and
to send Argentina packing 4-0, well,
what can you say?,” said Muller. “But
we did it as a team and I can’t pick out
any individuals. We all pulled togeth-
er for this and it’s just great.”
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez
said defeat was a huge disappoint-
ment. “It’s a huge pain. We knew it
would be complicated and that they
wouldn’t let us attack,” said Tevez.
“We didn’t score. There’s nothing we
can say about their victory.”
Klose was lucky not to receive a
yellow card in the opening minute,
when he fouled Argentina captain
Javier Mascherano. But the Germans
were in front two minutes later, Mull-
Serena Williams holds the Venus Rosewater Dish after winning the final 6-3, 6-2 yesterday. Photo: Reuters
Serena reigns supreme to
keep Wimbledon crown
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TENNIS
Agencies in London
Serena Williams again showed the
gaping chasm between her and the
rest of the field when she retained her
Wimbledon singles crown with a
crushing 6-3, 6-2 win over Russia’s
Vera Zvonareva yesterday.
Williams displayed all her trade-
mark power and poise to overwhelm
Zvonareva on Centre Court and
clinch her fourth women’s singles
title at Wimbledon, the 13th grand
slam crown of her career.
The 28-year-old’s triumph means
the Venus Rosewater Dish awarded
to the women’s champion was held
aloft by a Williams for the ninth time
in 11 years, sister Venus accounting
for the others.
Serena, who pocketed £1 million
(HK$11.83 million)in prize money,
has been by far the most impressive
performer in the women’s event this
year and moves up to sixth on the list
of all-time grand slam winners,
ahead of American compatriot Billie
Jean King.
Inside
New ‘hand of God’ 4
African hopes doused 5
Disbelief in Brazil 4
er heading home a Schweinsteiger
free-kick for his fourth goal of the
tournament, the ball deflecting in off
goalkeeper Sergio Romero’s leg.
The South Americans’ first sight of
goal came when Messi slid a pass
through the German defence to Te-
vez, but goalkeeper Manuel Neuer
raced from his line to deal with the
threat.
Argentina had an encouraging
start to the second-half as Real Ma-
Not one of Serena’s seven oppo-
nents over the fortnight ever seri-
ously threatened to upset her and it
would be no surprise if the world
number one was back to collect an-
other title in 12 months time.
“I just feel like at Wimbledon,
whenever I come on this grass and
play on this amazing court I start
serving well. Everyone’s dreams can
come true if you keep believing.”
Although Zvonareva was unable
to make any impact in her first grand
slam final, the Russian can at least
take consolation from seeing her
ranking rise into the top 10 in the
world.
Congratulations. She
was just playing
really well and
deserved to win. She
is a great champion
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Russian Vera Zvonareva, after
losing the final in straight sets
drid new boy Angel Di Maria fired a
long-range shot which had Neuer at
full-stretch on 48 minutes and Per
Mertesacker blocked a shot from Te-
vez on 54 minutes.
But Germany extended their lead
when Lukas Podolski found space on
the left flank and passed back inside
for Klose to score on 68 minutes.
Schweinsteiger helped make sure
of Germany’s place in the last four
when he darted through the Argen-
tinian defence to give Friedrich a sim-
ple tap in on 74 minutes to claim his
first international goal on his 77th ap-
pearance.
Argentina’s defence crumbled as
Klose completed the demolition with
his 52nd goal for Germany as he side-
foot volleyed home a cross from Me-
sut Ozil just before the final whistle.
Zvonareva said: “I’m
Nadal
hungry a little bit disappointed
at the moment, maybe I
3 was not able to show my
best but I think Serena
just didn’t allow me to do that.
“Congratulations to her. She was
just playing really well and deserved
to win. She is a great champion.”
Zvonareva had knocked out three
seeds on her way to the final, with
fourth seed Jelana Jankovic and US
Open champion Kim Clijsters among
her scalps.
Taking on Serena in a final was an-
other matter entirely.
Serena’s three previous Wimble-
don titles were all clinched with final
victories over Venus, but her sister
had suffered a quarter-final exit
against Tsvetana Pironkova this year.
Watched by a cavalcade of former
Wimbledon champions, including
King, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley,
Martina Navratilova and Jana Novot-
na, Serena showed why she deserved
to be mentioned in the same breath
as the tournament’s all-time greats.
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2 Roundup
First Asian to play for France spreads the word
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RUGBY UNION
Alvin Sallay
Francois Trinh-Duc is not the least
bit fazed that France’s rugby World
Cup hopes next year in New Zealand
lie in his hands. With Vietnamese
blood coursing through his veins, the
French-born fly half is looking for-
ward to the challenge of providing a
little bit of Asian spice to traditional
Gallic flair.
“I like to take responsibility but I
play for pleasure,” said the laid-back
Trinh-Duc (pictured) who conduct-
ed a community youth coaching
clinic at King’s Park yesterday. “I
manage to replace stress by an over-
whelming desire to play and repre-
sent my country.”
The 23-year-old pivot, the first
Asian to represent France at the high-
est level, is on an Asian swing spend-
ing two days in Hong Kong and also
Cambodia and Laos – places he has
never visited before – trying to spread
the word that anything is possible for
people of any background in sport.
“It is an honour being the first
Asian to play for France, and espe-
cially to have gained that recognition
in Asia. But I don’t think and dwell too
much on it,” Trinh-Duc said. “I don’t
think that because I’m Asian I have to
prove myself. But as a top athlete, you
have to call yourself into question
every time you go out on the pitch.”
Trinh-Duc, whose paternal
grandfather migrated to France dur-
ing the first Indochina war, is a prod-
uct of French club Montpellier’s
Elite free-agent crop weigh their options
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BASKETBALL
Agence France-Presse in Cleveland
Dwyane Wade and LeBron James
had the most tongues wagging as
NBA teams tried to woo free agents
this week.
Miami Heat star Wade started Fri-
day meeting the New York Knicks,
and said he came away from a meet-
ing lasting more than two hours
“intrigued”.
He later met for the second time in
as many days with the Chicago Bulls,
who are also due to join the queue of
teams wooing James.
Wade declined to say if the Bulls
had made him an offer, responding
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youth system. “I started
playing when I was just
four, following in the
footsteps of my elder
brother.” He plays fly
half or outside centre for Montpellier
in the French Top 14 competition,
and won his first international cap for
France in 2008 against Scotland.
The Hong Kong Rugby Football
Union is hoping his visit will inspire
Chinese children to take up the sport
and follow in his footsteps. More than
150 children from the mini and youth
The idea is to bring
rugby stars with
Asian heritage to the
region to raise the
profile of the game
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Robbie McRobbie, Hong Kong
Rugby Football Union
sections, including those from the
union’s Operation Breakthrough
programme were involved yesterday.
“The idea is to bring rugby stars
with Asian heritage to the region to
raise the profile of the game and act
as role models for the community,’
said Robbie McRobbie, HKRFU
managing director for clubs and
community.
“Last year Standard Chartered,
the HKRFU community rugby spon-
sor, helped us bring the two Hong
Kong-born Scottish internationals
only that “things are getting very
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Thursday.
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make a move or stay in Cleveland,
where he has spent all seven of his
NBA seasons.
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Graeme Morrison and John Barclay
back. This time the bank supported
Francois’ visit,” McRobbie said.
“I am delighted to be here in Asia,”
Trnih-Duc said. “I’ve never been to
these three places before and I’m
looking forward to meeting members
of the French community and rugby
players, and also visiting some really
great charity projects.”
The country of his roots – Vietnam
– is not a stopover. Organisers have
left it for next time as they feel local
development in Cambodia and Laos
is a bit more advanced and will there-
fore gain more benefit from Trinh-
Duc’s presence.
McRobbie said: “In each country
the French community will have the
opportunity to meet and interact
with Francois,” McRobbie said. “Sec-
ondly the three unions have arranged
for Francois to engage with the local
rugby community through coaching
sessions.”
Trinh-Duc is the French fly half
flavour of the moment, warding off
challenges from other heavyweights
like Frederic Michalak, Lionel Beaux-
is and David Skrela. Since coach
Marc Lievremont took charge two
years ago, he has tried at least half a
dozen players in this crucial position.
Before his period, France went
through 11fly halves in eight years. So
Trinh-Duc could be forgiven for
thinking the sword is always hanging
perilously over his head.
But the gifted Trinh-Duc is
unworried. He has the job now, and is
increasingly looking as the person
France will depend on to guide them
Knicks, James welcomed the Heat
and the Los Angeles Clippers.
But the Cavaliers’ brand new
coach, Byron Scott, made it clear he
thinks James will stay in Ohio.
“I think at the end of the day, he’s
going to make the right decision, and
he’ll be here in Cleveland for the rest
of his career,” Scott said.
“His legacy of winning champion-
ships in his hometown will be like
nothing he’s seen in his life.
“There’s nothing like winning at
home. I won three titles in my home-
town, and there’s no better feeling.”
In addition to James, Miami have
also talked to Amare Stoudemire and
Chris Bosh.
“This is a very fluid process,”
Dwyane Wade
Skipper Gibson’s winning start
......................................................
BASEBALL
Associated Press in Phoenix, Arizona
The final out of his first win in the
books, Kirk Gibson turned to his
coaches and calmly shook a few
hands. He repeated the process with
the procession of players coming off
the field and nonchalantly snagged
the game ball on a toss from Adam
LaRoche before heading into the
clubhouse.
Unflappable as ever, Gibson
treated his first game as manager
with typical coolness even if his stom-
ach filled with a ball of twisted nerves.
The Arizona Diamondbacks
made sure their new icon-turned-
skipper won his debut with an early
offensive outburst and a big homer
by Chris Young late to roll over the
Los Angeles Dodgers 12-5.
After 17 seasons filled with World
Series titles and an MVP as a player,
Gibson was thrilled to be a rookie
again. “I felt like it was my first major
Parr conquers gruelling
7-day race in the Gobi
......................................................
ATHLETICS
Alvin Sallay
Former Hong Kong Football Club fly-
ing rugby winger Dan Parr proved his
stamina by winning the gruelling Ra-
cingThePlanet Gobi March endur-
ance running race yesterday.
Parr finished first in a field of more
than 150 competitors from 30 coun-
tries taking part in the 250-kilometre
race stretching over seven days in
China’s Gobi Desert. A relieved Parr’s
first thoughts after the race were of
his young family. “When I get home, I
will see my wife, take my boy for a
swim and maybe put my little girl to
bed,” he said.
in the World Cup. He cemented his
case by leading France to a grand
slam victory in the Six Nations in
March.
“That is my best moment in rugby
so far. My worst was losing against
New Zealand in Marseille last
November.”
Last weekend’s 41-13 hiding at the
hands of Argentina in a one-off test in
Buenos Aires must also rate as a close
second. The Pumas achieved their
highest score and biggest margin
against France, which completed a
disastrous two-test tour of the south-
ern hemisphere, including a worst-
ever loss to South Africa – a 42-17
mauling.
Trinh-Duc remains upbeat and
sees these results as mere blips. But
he acknowledges the fight for his po-
sition will be intense. “There is no
secure position in the French team.
The competition is tough and you
always have to prove you deserve a
place in the team.”
A player with quick hands and
superb vision, Trinh-Duc seems to
have brought flair back into the
French game, perhaps with a dash of
Asian adventure?
“The most important message I
try to pass on to people, especially
Asians, is that we are lucky to be part
of the rugby world with all the values
it brings. Being an Asian, it wasn’t
harder or easier growing up learning
the game.
“Rugby has given me a lot. It is a
great way to meet people. The only
advice I can give is to go out there,
give your best and enjoy yourself.”
Miami president Pat Riley said.
“We’ve had five meetings across the
country in the span of 40 hours. We
will continue with the process. It’s
still early in free agency, but we feel
very good with how our presenta-
tions have gone thus far.”
Phoenix star Stoudemire was
headed to New York for a meeting
with the Knicks amid reports that the
Suns had made contract offers to
other players that insured Stoude-
mire would make a move.
Paul Pierce, meanwhile, has re-
portedly already agreed to stay with
the Boston Celtics, while the Dallas
Mavericks were doing their best to
keep Dirk Nowitzki.
Mavericks president Donnie Nel-
Amare Stoudemire
league game again,” Gibson said. “It
was a great feeling. I don’t know how
many people get to enjoy that feeling.
It’s like euphoric.”
Arizona gave Gibson some stom-
ach-acid relief by battering Hiroki
Kuroda (7-6) early and scoring nine
runs on 11 hits in the first three in-
nings. Miguel Montero and Mark
Reynolds had two RBIs each, and
Young provided the breathe-easy
cushion in the seventh inning with a
three-run homer off Justin Miller that
put Arizona up seven.
Young matched a career high with
five RBIs from his once-familiar spot
atop the lineup, Edwin Jackson (6-6)
labored through five innings in the
follow-up to his no-hitter and the Di-
amondbacks had 13 hits to keep Gib-
son from sweating it out after a whirl-
wind 24 hours that ended with the
new manager giving a very brief post-
game talk.
Arizona fired general manager
Josh Byrnes and manager A.J. Hinch
on Thursday with the team still hug-
“The experience was fabulous.
Everything I hoped it would be. It was
a great race, tough terrain, great peo-
ple. It’s not about who finished one or
two, but the people who finished
when they were sick and the 61-year-
old woman from Japan who stuck it
out and finished the race.
“Everyone is here for different rea-
sons, whether to race or to finish. The
camaraderie at the end was great …
everybody applauding for the last
person to come across the finish.”
The RacingThePlanet series com-
prises races in four deserts – the Gobi,
the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Sa-
hara in Egypt and Antarctica.
Parr said he had no immediate
plans to tackle the rest.
French fly half Francois Trinh-Duc during a youth coaching clinic at King’s Park yesterday. Photo: Felix Wong
son said he made a “significant” con-
tract offer to Nowitzki’s adviser dur-
ing a meeting which took place on
Friday.
No free agent signings can be con-
firmed until July 8.
The wealth of quality free agents
available has made for a hectic pur-
suit of talent.
Bosh, who met the Houston
Rockets in Texas on Thursday before
flying to Chicago to talk to the Heat
and the Nets, said he felt “like a kid at
Christmas”.
“You’ve got to enjoy this,” said
Bosh, who has spent seven seasons in
Toronto. But asked if there were any
hard offers he said, “No, not yet.
Everything is still pending.”
ging the bottom of the NL West. In
their place for the rest of the season
will be former big league pitcher Jerry
Dipoto and Gibson, the fiery former
player whose career was epitomized
by an iconic, limp-around-the-bases
homer against Oakland in the 1988
World Series.
The hope for Arizona was that
Gibson would imprint his never-
hold-back personality on the some-
times-blase Diamondbacks, get
them to treat every pitch as if it were
their last, just as he did. Sporting a re-
tro, bushy mustache, Gibson made
only one lineup change, moving
Young back into the lead-off spot for
the first time this season.
The Diamondbacks responded to
the shakeups with a bat-swinging
fury, swatting Kuroda around for
three runs in the first inning on four
hits and two walks. Three more came
across with two outs in the second,
set up by Kuroda’s wild pitch and
subsequent throwing error by catch-
er Russell Martin.
Dan Parr on his way to winning the
Gobi March. Photo: SMP Pictures
F1 focus put
back on track
after fighting
in paddock
......................................................
MOTOR RACING
Alan Baldwin in London
Martin Whitmarsh has had a spring
in his step of late, and not just be-
cause his McLaren team are leading
both Formula One championships
into next week’s British Grand Prix.
After a tough 2009, the battle-
hardened Formula One Teams’ As-
sociation (Fota) chairman is enjoying
a season where the main focus is the
contest on the track rather than the
fighting in the grand prix paddock.
A year ago, the teams were split
and the threat of a breakaway series
hung over the sport but that seems
like ancient history now, even if some
participants are still wary of tempting
fate.
The departure of Max Mosley as
International Automobile Feder-
ation (FIA) boss, replaced by former
Ferrari boss Jean Todt last October,
has changed the landscape as has a
new commercial deal with Formula
One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
The result, so far, has been a sea-
son where the racing – thrilling and
with five different championship
It’s just so much
more enjoyable
trying to beat each
other fairly and
squarely
......................................................
Martin Whitmarsh, Formula One
Teams’ Association chairman
leaders already after nine rounds –
has taken centre stage.
“This could go down as one of the
greatest championships,” Whit-
marsh (pictured) said. “For all of us,
and I think you sense it, it’s just so
much more enjoyable when our
energies are expended on trying to
beat each other fairly and squarely on
the other side of the pit wall [rather]
than get pummelled over here in
some political maelstrom,” the Brit-
on said.
“That [the paddock politics] may
create some headlines and specula-
tion but it is deeply depressing to be
involved in for months on end.”
Mosley’s reign was always contro-
versial, even if measures he rammed
through have made the sport safe
enough for drivers such as Red Bull’s
Mark Webber to walk away from the
huge crash he had in Valencia last
Sunday. Adept at wielding both a car-
rot and stick, he branded some of the
team bosses “loonies” at Silverstone
last year as relations plunged into
crisis.
Todt, who has been a low-key
presence and attended just two races
this year, has started off with a very
different approach. The Frenchman
has appeared hands-off, delegating
to others and setting up a system of
former drivers assisting the stewards
on race weekends, while there has
also been an absence of political spin.
“It’s good news,” Mercedes motor
sport vice-president Norbert Haug
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
said. “People know they
need to behave, they
need to work together
and that’s how it should
be; work together and
have a fair fight on the racetrack.”
The teams, through Fota, have ap-
peared united as never before and are
working together to reach a consen-
sus on issues such as the new tyre
supplier and affordable technology.
“I think there is starting to be a
much better working relationship
between Fota and FOM (Ecclestone’s
Formula One Management) and the
FIA,” said Whitmarsh, who took over
from Ron Dennis at McLaren last
year. “I think Jean has had a style
which is thought not to be generally
confrontational, recognising that all
of the parties need to work together.
“I also think that Jean’s introduc-
tion of a driver amongst the stewards
has actually given quite a good calm-
ing effect on the stewarding system
and it’s brought an understanding to
racing.”
Problems thrown up by the de-
ployment of the safety car, in Monaco
and Valencia, have had the immedi-
ate sting drawn by the governing
body agreeing to revisit the
regulations.
Last year was poisoned by scandal
and controversy, as well as a stand-
off over cost cuts and direction of the
sport.
Whitmarsh was involved in one
row when he had to apologise unre-
servedly to the FIA for McLaren and
2008 world champion Lewis Hamil-
ton misleading stewards to gain an
advantage in the season-opening
Australian race.
Renault were then given a sus-
pended permanent ban after a plot to
rig the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
This season’s flare-ups have so far
been nothing unusual for the in-
tensely competitive sport – Renault’s
unhappiness with McLaren’s “F-
duct” before everyone decided to
copy it, Ferrari’s fury at the stewards’
tardiness in punishing Hamilton for
overtaking the safety car in Valencia.
“I think there’s been a gradual
process over a number of years of
people learning to work together a lot
better,” said Mercedes GP chief exec-
utive Nick Fry.
“From a team point of view we all
get on remarkably well. I think the
change in some of the characters in
the teams has probably helped that,”
he said.
“Jean has started off with a much
more communicative and concilia-
tory attitude than his predecessor
and I think that’s helped the situa-
tion. I think all you are seeing is prob-
ably a maturing of Formula One.”
Whitmarsh said the recent debate
over the 2011 tyre contract was an
example of everyone pulling together
and the big teams helping the smaller
ones, in contrast to the past.
“The greater good won out,” he
said. “There was a compromise on
the part of the teams, the FIA and the
commercial rights holder to get us to
a solution which is what the sport
needs.”
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SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
Isner hopes his
tall story will
grow and grow
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Harvey Araton
The last thing John Isner needs is a
top-10 list to explain why he wishes to
not be primarily remembered for
winning the longest tennis match in
history. Two reasons will suffice.
“I want to be a top-10 player and I
want to win a grand slam tourna-
ment,” he said.
In the past 14 months, Isner has
made the climb from the world’s
150th-ranked player to No 19. But he
knows that his current claim to fame
is as the winner – or survivor – of a
three-day, 11-hour-five-minute
Wimbledon first-rounder that culmi-
nated last week with a can’t-happen-
but-did 70-68 fifth-set victory over
Nicolas Mahut of France.
So while the tournament reaches
its climax this weekend, Isner, after
losing in the second round, has
joined the New York celebrity studio
circuit.
On Monday, he visited the Late
Show with David Letterman, where
he enjoyed sharing his top-10
thoughts of the exhausting and
record-obliterating fifth set.
Number one was, “Larry King has
had marriages that didn’t last this
My best tennis is still
three years ahead of
me. Physically, I’m
fresh. Even though
I’m 25, I don’t have
the wear and tear like
all these guys who
started at 18
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John Isner, who won the longest
tennis match in history
long”, which perhaps means Isner
has one less appearance with which
to concern himself.
Crossover fame came so unex-
pectedly to Isner that it has not even
had time to go to his head. After
breakfast with a reporter at a restau-
rant near his hotel on Central Park
West, he offered to pick up the
cheque. Isner will learn about the
perks and protocol of a more lasting
stardom, especially if he achieves the
goals he has set.
“I think my best tennis is still three
years ahead of me,” he said over a
hearty plate of oatmeal, eggs, sausage
and muffins. “Physically, I’m fresh.
Even though I’m 25, I don’t have the
wear and tear like all these guys who
started at 18.”
He laughed at the contradiction of
the claim, made less than a week after
he stumbled around the grass on
Wimbledon’s Court 18, “punch
drunk, to the point where I really
wasn’t aware of my surroundings,
where the only thing that kept me go-
ing was trying to get to that change-
over to sit down”.
But therein lies the story’s trium-
phant charm. A year ago, Isner could
not even play Wimbledon because he
was bedridden with mononucleosis.
Going further back to when he was a
John Isner outside Central Park in New York. While enjoying the notoriety if
his epic five-setter he hopes to achieve more in tennis. Photo: NYT
Rose blooms as Woods just cuts it
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GOLF
Reuters
in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Britain’s Justin Rose fired six birdies
and had the day’s lowest score to earn
a one-stroke lead following the sec-
ond round at the AT&T National
while Tiger Woods barely made the
cut.
Rose (pictured), who squandered
a three-shot lead in the final round of
last week’s Travelers Championship,
took advantage of benign afternoon
conditions for a bogey-free six-un-
der-par 64.
“I didn’t really go out with the
intention of going low. The round just
evolved and happened,” Rose said
after signing for a seven-under 133
halfway total at Aronimink.
Just one shot back are Australia’s
Jason Day (68) and South Korea’s
scholarship player at Georgia, the no-
tion of turning professional like the
rest of the world’s teenage prodigies
was almost laughable because Isner
was skinny as a rake and still adjust-
ing to an unplanned life at an uncom-
mon tennis altitude, 2.06 metres.
His parents, he says, are each
about 1.83 metres. His older brothers
are 1.91 metres and 1.93 metres.
Entering high school in Greensboro,
North Carolina, Isner was 1.88 me-
tres, a top-10 junior player but also a
skilful if undernourished forward in a
competitive basketball environment.
“I got bounced around because I
was so skinny, but I was a pretty good
player. I just knew if I wanted to get a
college scholarship, I had to focus on
one sport, so I chose tennis.
“Then I grew [15cm] after I turned
17. I had no idea I was going to be this
tall. Had I known that, I honestly
would have stuck to basketball.”
Since Isner made his debut on the
ATP tour in the summer of 2007 with
a resounding run to the finals of a
tournament in Washington, there
has never been a question that he had
the serve and forehand to blow an
opponent off the court.
But at his height, did he have the
ability to stay on it against smaller,
more athletic opponents?
Conditioning and movement will
always be the most daunting chal-
lenge for a player his size. Isner, in
fact, skipped the pre-Wimbledon
grass-court tournaments because he
was drained by the clay-court season
and decided he was better off putting
in more work in the gym.
Still, Mahut was the fresher player
throughout their ordeal. Asked for
the most surprising moment of the
match, Isner cited Mahut’s all-out
sprint and futile stretch dive for a vol-
ley Isner had punched into the open
court. “At that point, all I could do
was chuckle, him risking life and limb
like that,” Isner said.
Isner said his fretting mother, Ka-
ren, and others in his box – including
his college roommate and teammate,
an Australian Serb named Stracky
Bobusic – should have known he was
not going to quit, no matter how
wobbled he was.
Isner actually woke up on June 25
thinking he could play his second-
round match at noon and then meet
a doubles draw commitment.
Reality set in early; he was too sore
to walk to the practice courts for a
warm-up before losing in straight
sets to Thiemo de Bakker.
Five rounds from the final, Isner
left London believing his amazing
demonstration of resolve had moved
him closer to his ultimate destina-
tion, a grand slam winner’s circle.
“Prior to that match, I was a no-
body at Wimbledon,” he said. “Now I
think people know what I have inside
me.”
The tall young man people used
to mistake for the basketball player
he might have been has been getting
the once-over since last week and the
question: “Are you that guy?”
He is the guy, not yet in the top 10
but with more reason to believe he
will be there soon.
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New York Times
Charlie Wi (65), while
another 10 players
headed into the week-
end within four strokes
of the outright lead.
Defending champion Woods,
who made the cut with no shots to
spare, offset four bogeys with four
birdies for an even-par 70 that left
him 10 shots off the pace.
Woods drove the ball nicely but
missed a couple of short putts, in-
cluding one from two feet at his pen-
ultimate hole.
“It is frustrating,” the world num-
ber one said. “The first two days is the
best I’ve driven it in a long time.”
While Rose, who won the Memo-
rial tournament in Ohio last month,
hopes to hang onto his lead this
weekend, he is also hoping to secure
a late exemption into the British
Open this month at St Andrews.
He is almost certain to qualify this
Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych give vent to their feelings in their respective Wimbledon semi-final victories over Andy Murray and Novak Djokovich. Photo: Reuters, AP
New ace on grand-slam block stands in Spaniard’s way
Nadal tries to regain the reign
injury forced him to give up
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TENNIS
Howard Fendrich in London
About an hour after Rafael Nadal fin-
ished off Andy Murray in the Wim-
bledon semi-finals, a question in
Spanish began in this way:
“One year later, another final ...”
The guy quickly was cut off. And
corrected. “No,” Nadal said, “two
years later.”
The way Nadal’s playing at the
moment, it seems like he never left.
Still, don’t forget that he missed Wim-
bledon in 2009, sidelined by sore
knees that made him only the fifth
player in the history of the tourna-
ment unable to defend his title be-
cause of injury.
Which is why, 12 months ago, the
men’s final at the All England Club
went on without him for the only
time in the past five years.
“I watched at home,” Nadal said.
“On the sofa.”
Now the Spaniard is front and
centre on Centre Court once again,
on top of his forehand-whipping,
every-shot-retrieving game. The
No 1-ranked and No 2-seeded Nadal
will be bidding for his second Wim-
bledon championship and eighth
grand slam title overall today, when
he plays 12th-seeded Tomas Berdych
of the Czech Republic in the final.
“For sure, that makes it more spe-
cial,” Nadal said after beating Murray
6-4, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in the semi-finals,
“because I worked a lot to be back,
Murray looks to US Open after falling short yet again
Andy Murray insists the heartache of
his semi-final defeat against Rafael
Nadal will provide all the motivation he
needs to finally end his grand slam
drought.
Murray’s bid to become the first
British man since 1938 to reach the final
of the men’s singles at the All England
Club ended in bitter disappointment as
he was overwhelmed 6-4, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4
by Nadal.
The Scot had dropped just one set
en route to the last four and looked in
his best form of the year.
But he was dismissed from the
tournament in comprehensive fashion
as Nadal produced one of the most
complete performances of his career.
Murray hardly disgraced himself
and, on another day against another
opponent, his display might even have
been enough to win. But Nadal was
year, regardless of where he places
this weekend, since he made the top
two on a mini money list based on the
last five tournaments on tour.
Rose said not making the British
Open in 2000 and again in 2005 when
he was the first alternate, is not an
experience he wants to go through
again.
“You see all your buddies teeing it
up and going out there and experi-
encing the Old Course [at St An-
drews] in an Open, and I was left on
the driving range as a spare part. I
never wanted to do that again.”
Day, meanwhile, sprayed his tee
shots into the rough more often than
not, but a deft short game kept him in
contention.
“I hit it pretty awful on the back
nine,” said the 22-year-old who won
the Byron Nelson Championship in
May. “It’s going to be tough if I have to
do this for the next two days.”
playing my best tennis. I did, so that’s
very important. Personal satisfact-
ion, no?”
Nadal has won his past 13 match-
es at the grass-court major, and 25 of
27, with the only losses coming
against Roger Federer in the 2006 and
2007 finals. Nadal beat Federer in the
epic 2008 title match, which ended at
9-7 in the fifth set as darkness
descended.
This time, a new foe will be across
the net: Berdych, who followed up his
quarter-final upset of six-time cham-
Rafael Nadal
1 1
Owns seven grand slam titles
including Wimbledon in 2008
when he beat Roger Federer
9-7 in the fifth set, an all-time
classic
2
Has won French Open five
times and the Australian Open
once
3
Trails only Federer for most
singles titles among active
players with 40
4
Has dropped five sets on his
way to this final, matching the
most he has lost on the way to
any of his grand slam finals
5
Has beaten Kei Nishikori,
Robin Haase, No 33 Philipp
Petzschner, Paul-Henri
Mathieu, No 6 Robin
Soderling, No 4 Andy Murray
en route to the final
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awesome. His serve was so accurate
that he was broken only once and his
fearsome forehand kept the world
number four from taking control at any
stage of the match.
Murray’s competitive instincts were
dulled in the aftermath of an equally
chastening defeat by Roger Federer in
the Australian Open final and his form
slumped badly as a result. He is
adamant that won’t be the case this
time as he prepares for the American
hard-court season and the US Open.
“I hope it does make me more
determined to win a grand slam. In the
past it has made me work harder. It
happened to me once that I suffered a
bit, whether it was to do with the loss in
Australia, whether it was other things
going on, you never know.
“But I work hard and I hope it
doesn’t happen again. I’ve normally
In Brief
Toni signs with Genoa
Striker Luca Toni has completed his
move to Serie A side Genoa after
being snubbed by Bayern Munich,
AS Roma and Italy in the past two
months. “I’ve received a great
welcome. It’s up to me to repay that
faith on the field. Genoa play
football that suits my
characteristics,” Toni, released by
Bayern, told the club website. The
tall 33-year-old, a 2006 World Cup
winner, fell out with the Bayern
hierarchy and spent the second half
of the season at Roma where his
goals helped them run Inter Milan
close in the Italian title race. Reuters
Weightlifter tests positive
Bulgarian weightlifter Boyan
Polejanov has tested positive for
steroids, the Bulgarian weightlifting
federation said on Friday. Polejanov,
pion Federer by ousting No 3 Novak
Djokovic of Serbia 6-3, 7-6 (11-9), 6-3.
This will be Nadal’s 10th grand
slam final; Berdych’s first. Might Ber-
dych feel some pressure because of
that?
“I hope so,” Nadal said with a
smile, “but I don’t think so.”
With English soccer superstar Da-
vid Beckham seated in the front row
behind Murray’s guest box at Centre
Court, and about 15,000 others pull-
ing for the Scotsman, too, Nadal was
a picture of perpetual motion.
He repeatedly sprinted from one
corner to another, tracking down
strokes that would be clean winners
against anyone else. A few times,
members of the eager-to-roar crowd
would applaud, thinking Murray
won a point, only to be hushed by
other spectators as play carried on.
“His backhand’s good. His serve’s
good. His forehand’s good. His
movement is good,” Murray said
afterwards. “He does everything
really, really well.”
Two qualities Murray neglected to
mention: Nadal’s all-out intensity,
and his propensity for coming up big
at the biggest times.
“In the crucial points today, Ra-
fael was really good,” said Nadal’s un-
cle and coach, Toni, “and Murray was
not too good.”
Nadal faced a set point at 6-5 in
the tiebreaker, but won the last three
points. Then he trailed 4-2 in the third
set, but reeled off the final four games
of the match.
played well in the American hard-court
stretch after Wimbledon. Hopefully I’ll
play well again now.”
Murray’s semi-final loss was the
10th failure by a British man at the
semi-final stage since Bunny Austin’s
1938 final appearance.
Murray, defeated by Andy Roddick
at this stage last year, refused to blame
the pressure and scrutiny that comes
with being the only serious home-based
contender for the title.
“There’s a lot of pressure playing
here. But it doesn’t affect the outcome
of the matches. It’s not a valid excuse to
make,” he said. “I’ve played really well
the whole tournament. I obviously want
to win for myself. I want to win for the
guys I work with. I want to win for, you
know, the UK.
“It’s definitely a little bit more
disappointing than other grand slams
who finished seventh in the +105 kg
category at the European
Championships in Minsk in April,
tested positive for the banned
substance methandienone. The 25-
year-old has denied any wrongdoing
but announced he would retire and
not seek a B sample test. “The whole
situation is very confusing as no one
can still explain where it came
from,” Polejanov said. Reuters
NFL coach Coryell dies
Former NFL coach Don Coryell,
whose innovations in the passing
game earned him the moniker “Air
Coryell”, has died at the age of 85.
The former coach of the St Louis
Cardinals and San Diego Chargers
had battled a lengthy illness and
died at a hospital in La Mesa,
California, the Chargers said. Coryell
was creator of the “vertical offence”
Afterwards, Murray said some-
thing Berdych might want to ponder.
“You’re not going to be able to
play every single point on your terms
against the best player in the world,
one of the best players ever.”
Nadal is 7-3 against Berdych, with
victories in their past six matches. But
the 24-year-old Berdych has never
played with the confidence and pa-
tience he’s displayed while becoming
the first Czech man to reach the Wim-
bledon final since Ivan Lendl in 1987.
“The feeling is absolutely amaz-
Tomas Berdych
Made this, his first grand slam
final, at the 28th attempt the
second-longest wait for any
player behind Aussie Kim
Warwick who played 32
majors before his debut
2
Has five career titles, most
recently winning at Munich in
2009
3
Is first Czech to reach
Wimbledon men’s singles final
since Ivan Lendl in 1987
4
Is one of only four players
with three career victories
over Rafael Nadal and Roger
Federer
5
Has beaten Andrey Golubev,
Benjamin Becker, Denis
Istomin, Daniel Brands, No 1
Federer and No 3 Novak
Djokovic en route to the final
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I’ll probably go
on holiday now
and stay away
from the tennis
court for a while
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Andy Murray after his semi-final
defeat by Rafael Nadal
that stretched defences. He was the
first to split the tight end wide, away
from the formation, to better use the
position as an offensive threat.
Although he never reached the
Super Bowl, Coryell had a 111-83-1
regular season record in 14 seasons
as an NFL head coach. Reuters
Tyson on Mecca pilgrimage
Former boxing champion Mike
Tyson, who converted to Islam while
in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the
Muslim holy cities of Mecca and
Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily
reported yesterday. Tyson, who was
world heavyweight champion from
1986 to 1990, arrived on Friday in
Medina with the Canadian Dawah
Association for the umrah, or minor
pilgrimage, the newspaper Okaz
said. From Medina he will travel on
to Mecca and also plans to visit
Roundup 3
ing. It is really tough to describe,” Ber-
dych said. “Every young kid, from the
first time he hits the ball and thinks to
be a tennis player, this is the dream.”
He showed promise at age 18 by
upsetting Federer at the 2004 Athens
Olympics, but has taken a while to
develop as an elite player. His boom-
ing serve and forehand, though, car-
ried Berdych to the French Open se-
mi-finals a month ago, past the top-
seeded Federer on Wednesday and
past Djokovic on Friday.
The toughest test of all remains.
“I’m looking forward to the next
one,” Berdych said, “and definitely
not fearing anybody.”
Berdych’s major final debut
comes in his 28th try, the second-
most major tournaments anyone has
played before reaching a title match.
Nadal, meanwhile, won his fifth
French Open last month, regaining
that title after losing in the fourth
round a year ago. He later would say
his knees were hurting, part of a
tough 2009. Nadal missed Wimble-
don, began a drought of 11 months
without a title, gave up the No 1rank-
ing, and had to deal with his parents’
separation.
“A very difficult year. Many prob-
lems with the knees. Then our loss in
Roland Garros. Altogether, it was a
bad year,” Toni said.
Rafael Nadal’s coach sighed, then
broke into a wide grin. “Now,” he
added, “life has changed.”
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Associated Press
because this one is the biggest one of
the year for me.”
Murray believes he can be satisfied
with his fortnight’s work at the
championships, but inevitably a
nagging sense of regret will accompany
him when he jets off for a much-needed
holiday next week.
“A few weeks ago no one would have
given me much of a hope of getting to
the semis because I wasn’t doing well,
then I played a good tournament here,”
he said.
“But right now I’m very
disappointed at the match. I’ll look back
at the tournament as a whole in a few
weeks as a good one, just not great.
“I’ll probably go on holiday now and
stay away from the tennis court for a
while.”
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Agence France-Presse in London
other Saudi cities, it reported. Tyson,
44, converted to Islam while serving
a 10-year prison sentence, later
commuted to three years, for rape in
1991. AFP
Woods to play at Whistling Straits
Tiger Woods has officially entered
the fourth major championship of
2010, sending in his entry form to the
PGA Championship, officials said.
The PGA of America said that Woods
was among the first four players to
enter. The others were Masters
champion Phil Mickelson, US Open
champion Graeme McDowell of
Northern Ireland and two-time PGA
Champion Vijay Singh of Fiji. The
PGA Championship will be played
on August 12-15 at Whistling Straits
in Kohler, Wisconsin, where Singh
prervailed in a three-man play-off in
2004. AFP
4 Soccer
Uruguay team rally behind striker whose handball denied Ghana semi-final place
I’m the new ‘hand of God’: Suarez
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez stops the ball with his hands. Photo: AP
Disbelief among fans
as Brazil eliminated
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Bradley Brooks in Rio de Janeiro
Tears rolled down Paulo Gama’s face
and his girlfriend sobbed in his arms
as he stared in disbelief at the video
screen on Copacabana beach.
The final whistle signalled that
Brazil – colossus of the soccer world
and favourites to win the World Cup –
were eliminated from the tourna-
ment in a 2-1loss to the Netherlands.
Across the famous beach, heads
bowed and many of the 20,000 peo-
ple there crumpled to the white sand.
Grandfathers holding babies cried.
Brazil’s colours of canary yellow and
green streaked down faces painted
with the national flag.
“Tomorrow, the sun will not rise,”
Gama said. That was all he could say.
It was all anyone could say in this land
of Carnival and samba, where a pas-
The happiness in
the Brazilian heart
remains. We’ll be
back in 2014 and
the cup will be ours
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Claudia Ressea, among supporters
at Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro
sionate people mourn as acutely as
they celebrate.
“It’s over. It’s over. I cannot
believe that it is over,” said Luciano
Barreto, using the Brazil jersey in his
hand to wipe his face. Earlier, when
top-ranked Brazil took a 1-0 lead and
looked like they were cruising toward
an easy victory, that same shirt was
proudly waved in the air with the cer-
tainty of a win and heading toward a
sixth World Cup title.
Robinho, the nimble-footed,
goal-scoring wizard, had given Brazil
the lead in the 10th minute.
But the Netherlands found their
footing and equalised in the 53rd
minute when a cross glanced off the
head of Brazil’s Felipe Melo into his
own goal. The goal that crushed the
hearts of 190 million Brazilian fans
came in the 68th minute, when Wes-
World Cup Digest
Italy
Federation cuts number of foreigners
Italian clubs will only be allowed to buy one
non-European Union player in the coming
season after the soccer federation voted to
change the rules following the Azzurri’s World
Cup flop. Teams had previously been allowed
to buy two non-EU players per season but
action has been taken to increase the pool of
Italian talent after the world champions
crashed out in the group stage in South Africa.
But the Serie A reacted angrily. “The reduction
was approved by the federation board with
Serie A voting against. The decision does not
resolve Italian soccer’s problems,” Serie A
boss Maurizio Beretta said. Reuters
Ghana’s midfielder Asamoah Gyan, right, misses from the spot in the last minute of extra time. Photo: AP
ley Sneijder scored with a header
following a corner kick.
“Oh, my God, only a miracle can
save us now,” Vera Lucia said to the
brilliant blue Brazilian sky seconds
later. “Oh lord, save us.”
A minute after the final result,
Lucia gathered her two teenage girls
in her arms, hugged them fiercely
and wept. “I cannot find the words. I
feel so much frustration, so much
anger – but I do not know for whom,”
she said. “I’m so disappointed. This
was our year.”
The nation had indeed been on a
roll. After winning the right to host
the 2014 World Cup, last year Rio was
awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics.
President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva
is one of the globe’s most popular
politicians. Perennially beaten down
by economic crises in the past, Brazil
weathered the financial meltdown
and saw record economic growth in
the first quarter of this year.
In short, Brazil seemingly had
been winning at everything. Until
they lost at the one thing they win
most. Now, fans will have four years
to debate what went wrong.
But if there is any country emo-
tionally equipped to deal with such a
defeat, it is Brazil. In the Portuguese
language there is a word that Brazil-
ians swear cannot be translated: sau-
dades (sow-dah-gees) – to painfully
enjoy longing, to recognise and cher-
ish the ache of someone or some-
thing that is beyond one’s grasp.
The joy Brazil is known for and
with which its teams have always
played is the result of embracing a
long journey through agony. Waiting
at the end is the moment of elation:
the return of a loved one, a long-
awaited kiss, a game-winning goal.
Twenty minutes after the game
ended, samba drummers took the
stage on Copacabana beach, their
rhythm soothing a restive crowd.
“Tears may fall today, but the hap-
piness in the Brazilian heart re-
mains,” said Claudia Ressea, as she
moved her hips to the beat. “You will
see. The world will see. We’ll be back
in 2014 and the cup will be ours.”
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Associated Press
Bangladesh
Hospital treats 15 after Brazil defeat
At least 15 people were hurt and Bangladesh’s
largest hospital recorded a jump in cases of
sedative poisoning following Brazil’s exit. The
injured and poisoned were taken to Dhaka
Medical College Hospital after Brazil lost their
quarter-final match, , a game watched by
nearly 80 million Bangladeshis. Firoz Ahmed,
a doctor at the hospital, said among those
treated were at least 15 Brazil or Argentina
supporters. “They fought after some Argentine
supporters celebrated Brazil’s shock defeat.
Most have head injuries, hit by sticks or
stones,” he said. Most Bangladeshis support
either of the two Latin American giants. AFP
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Robert Smith in Johannesburg
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez claimed
yesterday that his deliberate extra-
time, last-minute handball, which
denied Ghana a semi-final place, was
the 2010 version of the “hand of God”.
Suarez was red-carded by Portu-
guese referee Olegario Benquerenca
for the illegal goal-line clearance
which kept out substitute Dominic
Gold in sight for Adiyiah’s header but resulted in a
Ghana penalty.
Orange heroes, However, Asamoah Gyan then
says Dutch paper sent his penalty – the last kick of the
game – crashing off the crossbar to
The Dutch press waxed lyrical give the Uruguayans a reprieve
yesterday about the Orange XI’s which they exploited by prevailing
elimination of Brazil. 4-2 in the shootout which followed.
“World Class,” headlined the front “This was the end of the World
page of the popular De Telegraaf Cup. I had no choice. I have the ‘hand
newspaper about the encounter in of God’ now,” said Suarez.
Port Elizabeth, asking: “Who can stop Diego Maradona famously credit-
this team?” ed a goal against England at the 1986
With photographs of all 11 players, World Cup to the “hand of God” after
the daily named them heroes and said he scored with his hand.
they were on the road to the “I did it so that my teammates
Netherlands’ first World Cup final could win the penalty shootout.
since 1978. “Gold in sight,” it said. When I saw Gyan miss the penalty it
The popular Algemeen Dagblad was a great joy,” added Suarez, who
called the Dutch victory “Grandiose”. misses the semi-final.
“Top favourite Brazil sent home Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez de-
2-1 in a grandiose football thriller,” it fended Suarez whose handball
continued, dedicating several pages
to party photographs and quotes
from Dutch fans celebrating their
team’s victory.
For its part, the leftist daily
Africa’s last chance for glory fades as Ghana exits
Volkskrant asked: “Will Oranje
[Orange] win the World Cup? It is
possible.”
South Africa’s World Cup party took a
sad turn as Ghana, the last African
Next to a photograph of Inter team in the tournament, were sent
Milan star Wesley Sneijder whose home by Uruguay.
second-half header put the Despite holding their own for 120
Netherlands in the lead, the minutes, Ghana were unable to match
newspaper said: “There is still room the South Americans from the penalty
for their play to improve.” spot, going down 4-2 in a shootout after
The Dutch next face Uruguay in a the score stayed locked at 1-1 through
semi-final in Cape Town on Tuesday. extra time.
................................................. Takalani Neluheni, a Johannesburg
Agence France-Presse fan with a Ghana flag painted on one
cheek and a South African flag on the
other, summed up the host country’s
heartbreak after the match.
“I’m very disappointed. The last
African team are out and now there’s
no one to represent Africa. I’m just
really mad and upset about it,” she
said.
“I was kind of hoping that Ghana
would keep the Cup in Africa but now
that dream is gone,” she said. “I don’t
know who to support any more.”
Uruguay fans meanwhile expressed
Dutch fans at a fountain in remorse amid their post-match
Rotterdam celebrate their team’s festivities after helping to knock out the
victory over Brazil. Photo: EPA hosts during group play then sending
home the last African side.
Brazil
Mick Jagger blamed for losses
Brazil found a scapegoat for their World Cup
loss in the shape of Rolling Stones frontman
Mick Jagger. Internet sites noted that Jagger
had backed the five-times champions to beat
the Netherlands. The rock star had previously
lent his support to the US and England, both of
whom crashed out in the last 16 and, noting
Jagger’s appearance with Lucas, his Brazilian
son by fashion model and TV show hostess
Luciana Gimenez, at Friday’s game against the
Dutch, the media made him an easy target.
“Who will the Rolling Stones frontman support
next?” several sites asked. “The curse of Mick
Jagger continues,” said sports daily Lance. AFP
Uruguay goalkeeper Muslera saves from Adiyiah in the shootout. Photo: AP
allowed the South Americans to
Honestly, there was claim their first World Cup semi-final
appearance since 1970. Tabarez,
nothing to think whose side had battled from a goal
about, I was calm, I
down to draw 1-1at the end of regula-
tion time, said Suarez’s desperate act
tried to put him off was a reflex action.
“It was instinctive, he instinctively
and luckily he missed put his hand out to the ball and was
...................................................... red-carded and will miss the next
Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando game,” Tabarez said.
Muslera, below, on Gyan’s failed shot
“He has paid for the conse-
quences of his actions. He wasn’t to
know that Ghana would miss the re-
sulting penalty. It is not fair to say that
we cheated our way to victory.”
Two-time champions Uruguay
will now play the Netherlands in the
semi-finals in Cape Town on Tues-
day.
Man of the match Diego Forlan,
whose equalising free kick kept Uru-
guay in the match, said: “It’s a pity [for
Suarez that he will miss the semi], he
made a good save today, we’ll try to
do our best. He played his part. He
didn’t score a goal but he saved one
and now we go to the semi-final.”
Tabarez said now that his team
were in the semi-finals, where they
face the Dutch who knocked out Bra-
zil earlier in the day, they can be con-
sidered as one of the four best sides in
“I feel a little bad.
First we knocked out
“We join everybody on the continent
and in the diaspora in wishing you
South Africa, and now success in the tournament going
Ghana. It’s unfortunate. forward,” Mandela said in a letter to
But I feel very happy for Ghana’s football association.
Uruguay,” Mingo Denis said. The sentiment was echoed across
Nelson Mandela (pictured) had led Johannesburg ahead of the match at
Soccer City stadium, as street vendors
largely swapped their Bafana kit for
We join everybody on scarves, beanies and flags in Ghana’s
colours.
the continent and in Even South Africa’s World Cup
the diaspora in organisers had abandoned any
pretence of neutrality when it came to
wishing you success the team.
“By the kind of excitement that
in the tournament Ghana have generated throughout the
...................................................... continent, we want to wish them well
Nelson Mandela, in a letter to the tonight and we hope the whole
Ghana team before the match continent as well as the whole world
will support them to be the first African
the country in rallying around Ghana team to win the World Cup,” said Rich
for their quarter-final match after Mkhondo, spokesman for the local
South Africa’s Bafana Bafana were organising committee.
knocked out in the first round. For local fans, Ghana’s match
Ghana, only the third African team overshadowed powerhouse Brazil’s
ever to reach the quarter-finals, were shock 2-1 loss to the Netherlands in Port
adopted as “BaGhana BaGhana” and Elizabeth, in the first of two days of
cheered as the home side. quarter-finals.
Redknapp urges change
......................................................
Agence France-Presse in London
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry
Redknapp has told Fabio Capello to
make changes after the Italian was
confirmed as England manager
following the team’s World Cup flop.
Redknapp (pictured) was one of
the leading candidates to succeed
Capello, whose position was under
threat after England were beaten 4-1
by Germany in the last 16.
But although Redknapp has been
vocal in his belief the England man-
ager should be English, he insisted
now was the time to support Capello
after the Football Association said the
former AC Milan and Real Madrid
Mick Jagger cheers on England when being manager would oversee the team’s
beaten by Germany. Photo: AFP bid to qualify for the 2012 European
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
the world. “We didn’t play good foot-
ball tonight but we fought very hard,”
he said.
“We are amongst the four best
teams at this World Cup. This is
something we would never have
imagined before coming to South
Africa.
“My players are very united. I
don’t know how far we can go in the
tournament. The Netherlands have
some great players, but we cannot
betray this group of players.
“If there is a glimmer of hope we
must hang on. We will certainly not
throw in the towel before playing that
match.”
Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando
Muslera, who saved skipper John
Mensah and Adiyiah’s attempts in
the penalty shootout, said he felt
calm while making those match-win-
ning saves.
“It was one of my calmest mo-
ments. I was lucky I had the right in-
stincts,” the Lazio shot-stopper said.
“I felt nothing when Gyan took his
extra-time penalty, my mind went
blank. Honestly, there was nothing to
think about, I was calm, I tried to put
him off and luckily he missed.”
......................................................
Agence France-Presse
Despite the shooting of an American
backpacker in an armed robbery on
Wednesday, South Africa has largely
overcome fears about its high crime
rate and fledgling public transportation
system, pulling off the World Cup
without major incident.
President Jacob Zuma said his
country was ready to host the Olympics,
after the confidence inspired by the
World Cup.
“This has proved to the world that
we are capable of hosting any
international event, we have the
resources and infrastructure,” Zuma
said in an interview with Fifa.
“I don’t see why we can’t bid to host
the Olympics in the future. It’s
important for Africa,” he said.
Fifa officials have showered praise
on the country, despite initial hurdles
like a transportation logjam that saw
many fans arrive late for the opening
ceremony on June 11.
“We will break records in many
areas here in South Africa in terms of
ticket sales, in terms of ratings,” Fifa
secretary general Jerome Valcke said.
on local radio.
Championships. How-
ever, Redknapp urged
Capello to bring in new
players and revamp the
England set-up.
“I wasn’t surprised, I couldn’t see
them getting rid of him,” Redknapp
told Talksport Radio.
“He has kept it now and we have
got to get behind him and get ready
for the European Championship –
and to turn in a better performance
than we have at the World Cup.
“He has got to make a lot of
changes, as he has said, he needs
some new blood. We have got to find
some young players who can come in
and play at that level,” Redknapp
said. “We keep playing the same way,
we don’t change it.”
SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
Soccer 5

Michael Church The dreaded kick that can

in South Africa
make grown men weep
...................................................... in Wakayama, Komano’s hometown. never have started that game, much
Agencies in Pretoria

F
or every George Weah or Nwankwo Kanu, there are That missed kick, that tiny miscalcu- less played 120 minutes on a dam-
hundreds – if not thousands – of young African footballers It is the cruelest and most contrived lation from a player whose primary aged hamstring. His shot sailed high
drifting around the outer reaches of the global game, moment in soccer: the penalty role is defence, ultimately led not above the crossbar, unbelievably
scraping together a living and being exploited by the shootout that decides which of two only to the end of Japan’s participa- high for a shot taker of his reputation.
unscrupulous. exhausted teams will be eliminated tion in the 2010 World Cup, but also of Brazil won, Italy lost and to this day
The stories are as common as they are familiar: teenage players from the World Cup. And it must Asia’s. It is wicked to load on one man that moment lives with Baggio.
who have gone months without being paid, tied to clubs or agents have a fall guy. the hopes of a continent, but that is “It affected me for years,” said
who provide these young men with little beyond the bare essentials Yuichi Komano was that unfortu- how the modern media hype these Baggio. “It was the worst moment of
to survive, being fed lies to maintain the myth that financial security nate individual after his Japan team events. It is soulless to blame one in- my career. If I could erase a moment
and stardom are just around the corner. In the worst cases, the were eliminated by Paraguay on dividual for one slight misdirection it would be that one.”
players are left stranded with no money, no support and no way Tuesday. Komano’s penalty kick when he is weary and when shooting England’s Stuart Pearce shared
home from countries far from the familiar. missed by inches, striking the cross- is far from his best skill. that sentiment after missing in a 1990
Youngsters – many of whom are still essentially children – are bar. Komano then had to wait as one, The agony was shared by two semi-final defeat to Germany. “My
taken to all corners of the world, their services offered to whoever will two, three penalty takers converted Ghanaian players in their loss to Uru- world collapsed. The walk back to the
pay the most to the agents while the player sees little, if any, of the their shots. He was on his knees, head guay on Friday when John Mensah centre circle was a nightmare as the
money from the deal. It’s no exaggeration to refer to these practices bowed, and we could tell from his and Dominic Adiyiah each had first rush of tears pricked my eyes,”
as a form of modern day slavery as these aspiring footballers are quivering body that he was sobbing. shootout shots saved. And they were Pearce said years later.
convinced to part with their services in return for next to nothing. Komano, like everyone else on only put on the spot because team- Baggio, at least, can set a glorious
This trade in African – and South American – players is one of the that field in Loftus Versfeld Stadium, mate Asamoah Gyan rattled the bar career against an inglorious mo-
great shames of modern football, the seething, seedy underbelly of had not had a great game, or a bad It is doubtful in the with a potential game-clinching pen- ment. Komano cannot. His is a jour-
the game that is often forgotten amid the glitz and glamour of the one. Japan and Paraguay were equal alty in the final minute of extra-time. neyman’s career. He is not always the
sport’s showcase events. in their inability to conquer nerves, extreme that Komano It is doubtful in the extreme that first choice for Japan, not after sus-
Yet it is the prospect of playing on the greatest stages – the World
Cup, the European Champions League, the English Premier League –
scoreless throughout 90 minutes and
then 30 minutes more of extra-time.
draws a crumb of Komano, Mensah or Adiyiah draw a
crumb of comfort from the fact that
taining a serious knee injury and an
eye infection that threatened his
that fuels this underground industry. How many teenage footballers
would not make sacrifices to have the chance to join Manchester
No one scored, no one dared, no
one wanted to be a hero strongly
comfort from the fact more famous players than he have
missed the target by more spectacu-
sight. At 28, and at the end of his 56th
national team game, Komano be-
United, Real Madrid or AC Milan? It is an easy sell to the naïve and enough. So the penalty lottery ap- that more famous lar margins. Roberto Baggio, the Di- came fated to be the loser.
the hopeful and there are plenty prepared to exploit the ill-educated plied. Man after tired man strode up vine Ponytail of Italy, a hero of mag- But Baggio could tell Komano that
dreamers who believe that one day they can walk out onto the pitch like a soldier. Each was trying to do players than he have ical goals and wonderful artistry, is there is life after a penalty miss. After
at Wembley, San Siro or the Camp Nou.
That is where the 1Goal project and others like it are trying to play
his duty for his country, trying to ad-
vance his team further than they had
missed the target by perhaps the most renowned penalty
shootout fall guy of them all.
his miss in 1994 he stepped up again
four years later to score, albeit in an-
a role in changing the landscape within world football. By providing
education for children in disadvantaged countries, footballers – and
been in the World Cup.
It was Komano’s turn. He aimed,
more spectacular Baggio’s miss came in the 1994
final between Italy and Brazil. It was
other defeat against France. “Only
those who have the courage to take a
the rest of society – are less likely to be exploited. he fired high, he beat the goalkeeper margins another barren game, goal-less in a penalty miss them,” said Baggio.
“Especially in African countries, but also in Latin America, a lot of ... and the bar beat him. showpiece match with the world ......................................................
footballers come from very humble backgrounds and they can have It was 6.35pm local time, 1.35am watching. Baggio should probably The New York Times, Reuters
problems with agents who
are crooked, who have really
This trade in African duped players,” says former
Ghana captain Anthony
players is one of the Baffoe, one of 1Goal’s
great shames of ambassadors.
“Players used to sign
modern football, the contracts which were in
Arabic or in another
seething, seedy language and they didn’t
understand them.
underbelly of “So, we created the
the game Professional Footballers
...................................................... Association of Ghana and
our concept, as well, is that
we are working very closely
with 1Goal to educate the
young footballers because
the agents will always be
there. But if we give the
young guys an education
then this is a big step
forward.
“There was a player who
went on trial to Tunisia and I
was listening to the radio
when they asked him why he
didn’t sign for the club in
Tunisia and he said it was
because the contract was in
Arabic.
“That for me is a success
because he saw it was not in
his own language. We
educated him before to ask:
‘Can I show it to my lawyer,
let me check it’. ”
It is the knowledge and
experience of the older Italy’s Roberto Baggio puts his penalty over the bar in the World Cup final against Brazil at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California in 1994. Photo: Reuters
generation of African players
– Baffoe was only the second player from the continent to play in

Choosing their colours with care

Germany’s Bundesliga when he signed for FC Koln in the early 1980s
– that is helping to steer the future generations along a path free of
the perils that have previously existed. Indeed, Baffoe was one of the
fortunate ones. Born in Germany to a Ghanaian diplomat father, he
had opportunities few other African footballers have had in the past.
“I tell the young lads of today that if I didn’t have any education, I
wouldn’t be able to express myself,” says the 45-year-old, who spent
...................................................... But soccer isn’t like the Olympics portunities, and no doubt some are. Scotland, and went to games at Pitto-
Nancy Armour in Johannesburg
a season playing in Hong Kong for Golden. “We, the footballers, the these days, where nationalities are The World Cup is the pinnacle for drie and Hampden Park when he was
past footballers and the current footballers, have signed up for this Pick a country, any country. Better about as hard and fast as rubber any top-level player, and it’s a lot easi- a kid. Eoin Jess, who scored two goals
because we knew how we grew up, we are obliged to carry it on and yet, pick two. bands. According to current Fifa er to get here if you grew up in, say, in 18 appearances for Scotland from
make it a success. We still have a long way to go. This is the right way National pride can be a complicat- rules, players with dual nationalities Denmark, than football-mad Brazil, 1992-99, was at his birthday party
forward. Only together can we move things forward.” ed thing at the World Cup. While most are free to switch sides at any age – so where above-average talent won’t when he turned seven.
Football is the cornerstone for the promotion of the 1Goal players are representing the countries long as you haven’t appeared in an even get you an invitation to a youth But Holden moved to the United
educational campaign and it is backed by Fifa as well as leading clubs where they were born, others – for official game (think World Cup or Eu- camp. States when he was 10 (his late father,
and players – both past and present – from around the world. The various reasons – are like UN ambas- ropean championship) with a senior National federations, meanwhile, Brian, worked for Chevron), and
aim is to ensure governments pledge to provide basic education for sadors. One Boateng brother plays for national team. Make an appearance, would be shortsighted if they didn’t quickly found himself Americanised –
children all over the world and the drive has been created by the Germany, the other for Ghana. Alge- even just for a few minutes, and you go after talented players who have a right down to his Texas twang.
Global Campaign for Education, a coalition of 100 organisations from ria’s Hassan Yebda won an under-17 connection to their countries, regard- While Scotland seemed to have no
100 countries. world title with France. Winston Reid less of how tenuous. A spot at the interest in him, the United States defi-
More than 72 million children – more than the number of is a Kiwi by way of Denmark. Stuart It was a no-brainer World Cup means big bucks – a mini- nitely did. He made 11appearances at World Cup on TV
children in Europe and the United States combined – around the Holden was born in Scotland and still mum of US$9 million this time the under-20 level, and would have
world are denied access to basic education and South African has a UK passport, yet now wears the for me. I didn’t think around – and no advantage is too been part of the squad for the 2005 iCable Super Soccer C61
president Jacob Zuma will host a summit on July 11 in Pretoria to
encourage leaders to commit to increase expenditure on teaching.
colours of the US.
“Moving to the States at 10 and be-
about it for a second. small to ignore.
“It’s a business,” said Marcelo Bal-
world championship if he had his US
passport. Holden and his family all
6.00 Daily Highlights
8.00 Paraguay v Spain
The meeting in Pretoria will be followed in September by a major
push during the United Nations General Assembly in New York
coming ingrained in the culture and
considering myself an American – I
It’s a decision I made, boa, who admits he would have had a
tough choice if Argentina, his father’s
became citizens in 2006, and he was
part of the US team at the Beijing 10.00 Argentina v Germany
when leaders will discuss the goal of placing all children in school by still have that Scottish tradition and and a decision I’ll country, had expressed interest in Olympics. 12.00 Daily Highlights
2015. culture that I’ll never forget,” Holden him before he’d played for the United A few months later, US coach Bob
“Education is vital for the whole future of a child’s life,” says said. “But being able to represent the never look back on States. “The options and the rules Bradley called him up.
1.00 Paraguay v Spain
Owain James, 1Goal Campaign Director. “We know it affect things US in a World Cup is something that is ...................................................... aren’t being broken, they’re just being “It was a no-brainer for me. I 3.00 Daily Highlights
like their health. The chance of catching HIV/Aids falls by more than really prideful to me, and something Stuart Holden on his decision to explored.” didn’t think about it for a second,” 4.00 Argentina v Germany
half if a girl completes primary school. We know it affects income and I’ll carry with me for the rest of my opt for the US over Scotland But there are more personal, Holden said. “It’s a decision I made, 6.00 Paraguay v Spain
future income doubles if even a basic course of schooling is life.” heartfelt reasons for country-swap- and a decision I’ll never look back on.”
completed. We know it even affects future children’s health. For Switching allegiances is nothing better know the words to that coun- ping, too. Cacau moved to Germany And it’s a decision his younger 8.00 Daily Highlights
every year of primary school completed by a mother, the life new in sport, soccer in particular. Joe try’s national anthem because you’ll from his native Brazil to escape pover- brother, Euan, might have to make, 9.00 Netherlands v Brazil
expectancy of her child will increase by 11 per cent. Education is vital Gaetjens, who scored the only goal in be hearing it for the rest of your career. ty, and playing for Germany was his too. Euan Holden plays for Vejle in 11.00 Uruguay v Ghana
for individuals and vital for countries as well. More than the number the US’ monumental upset of Eng- That means Holden can’t decide way of paying back his adopted coun- Denmark, where Scottish officials
of children in Europe and the US combined do not go to school. We land in 1950, was from Haiti. Alfredo in a year or two that he would rather try for the opportunities it gave him. have been keeping an eye on him. 1.00 Daily Highlights
hope as the world unites to watch football in Africa, that the world di Stefano, one of the game’s greatest play for Scotland. But the Berlin-born Mesut Oezil, coveted by both Germa- “I’ll never push him one way or the 2.00 Argentina v Germany
can unite to do something great as well.” players, played for Spain and Colom- Kevin-Prince Boateng was free to be- ny and Turkey, said his choice was other,” Holden said. “I’d love to play 4.00 Paraguay v Spain
The campaign’s goal is to mobilise as many people as possible in bia as well as his native Argentina. Fe- come a Ghanaian because he’d only “never a question”. His parents are with him. And if I’m playing against
support of the project. Since April, 12 million people have signed the renc Puskas, the mightiest of Hunga- played on Germany’s youth teams. Turkish, but he was born in Germany him, I’ll give him a big kick.” Matches are also on C64 and hd201
online petition. To join them or for further information, go to ry’s “Magical Magyars”, finished his Cynics will say that players – and and said he felt German. ......................................................
www.join1goal.org. international career with Spain. teams – are shopping for the best op- Holden was born in Aberdeen, Associated Press
6 Tour de France SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST

This is it – Armstrong’s final Tour

Seven-time champion hopes to bow out on a high, but Contador stands in the way

I
AG2R-LA MONDIALE t has been a rocky road leading to
France
the Tour de France but seven-
time winner Lance Armstrong is
Top riders ready to sign off in style in his
Nicolas Roche beloved race.
(Ireland) The 38-year-old American
claimed third place overall in his
Christophe Riblon comeback year in 2009 and he
(France) seems ready for a last challenge
on the Tour despite a crash and
ASTANA more doping allegations against him.
Kazakhstan A man to shine in adversity, cancer
survivor Armstrong has had plenty of
difficulties this season, possibly his last as a
Alberto Contador full-time professional rider.
(Spain) One problem the Texan has had to face
Alexandre Vinokourov is the time spent away from his family. A
(Kazakhstan) father of four, soon to be five, Armstrong
has been missing his girlfriend and
BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM children, trying to see them as often as
Spain possible in his busy schedule.
Whether he continues to ride another
season is anyone’s guess but Armstrong
Thomas Voeckler will not be seen on the French roads in July
(France) after this year’s Tour.
“This will be [my] final Tour de France.
Pierrick Fedrigo It’s been a great ride. Looking forward to
(France) three great weeks,” he said on Twitter this
week.
BMC RACING TEAM
His long-time friend and mentor, Johan
United States Bruyneel, said during a disrupted spring
that Armstrong needed a training routine
and racing days after missing the Milan-
Cadel Evans San Remo classic and the Circuit de la
(Australia) Sarthe because of stomach upsets.
George Hincapie It all seemed to get better when the
(US) American lined up for the Tour of
California in May but, on the very day his
CAISSE D’EPARGNE former US Postal teammate Floyd Landis
Spain accused him of doping, Armstrong crashed
after a few kilometres of the fifth stage,
sustaining an elbow injury and a cut under
Luis Leon Sanchez his left eye.
(Spain) Armstrong, who came under fire after
French daily L’Equipe reported in 2005 that
Christophe Moreau
he had used EPO in his first Tour triumph
(France)
Organisers hope to stave off shadow of doping
The Tour de France has often provided the
arena for cycling’s dark side to emerge into the
light. After a doping-free tour in 2009, however,
organisers are hoping for a clean race again
this month, notwithstanding the voluntary
withdrawal yesterday of Spanish rider Xavier
Florencio by his Cervelo TestTeam for using a
substance containing the banned stimulant
ephedrine.
Though no rider was actually caught for
doping during last year’s race – stage winner
Mikel Astarloza was suspended shortly after
the tour for failing a test during the event – the
2009 edition was not without controversy.
The head of the French anti-doping agency
AFLD, Pierre Bordry accused the International
Cycling Union (UCI) of not fully respecting
six years earlier, denied the Landis allega-
tions. “It’s our word against his word. I like
our word. We like our credibility. Floyd lost
his credibility a long time ago,” Armstrong,
who has never tested positive in his career,
said at the time.
Often seen as arrogant, Armstrong has
softened up since winning his last Tour in
2005. His 2009 campaign, after more than
three years in retirement, was a success in
terms of image.
Bracelets and T-shirts linked to his
Livestrong charity were all over the place
on the race and the most successful Tour
rider even succeeded in gaining long
overdue popularity with the French public.
Armstrong followed up nicely in the
Criterium International in Corsica, where
he got a warm reception from the French
crowd.
That, however, was before the Landis
allegations. In Luxembourg earlier this
month, Armstrong was booed by a
testing procedures. The subsequent row led the
UCI to cease its co-operation with the agency
for this tour.
UCI president Pat McQuaid won support for
the decision from the World Anti-Doping
Agency (Wada), which will send observers to
ensure all testing conforms to its code.
“Without doubt the UCI is one of the most
active and most effective international
federations in terms of the fight against
doping,” said McQuaid. “I asked Wada to send
independent observers to the 2010 Tour de
France so our activities can be submitted to
their impartial examination. I look forward to
their conclusions with every confidence.”
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spectator who called him a “cheat” and a
“liar”. The American went to a security
fence and barked three times at the
spectator: “Come and do that to my face.”
Although Bruyneel said Alberto
Contador, who was part of last year’s
Astana team with Armstrong, was the
overwhelming favourite to retain his
crown, both the Belgian and the American
believe an upset is possible.
“I would not be here in Adelaide if I did
not think I could win the Tour de France,”
Armstrong said at the Tour Down Under at
the beginning of the season.
After the California crash and the Landis
saga, Armstrong made up for lost time at
the low-key Tour of Luxembourg. Now his
own boss after launching his RadioShack
outfit this season, the Texan rode strongly
in the duchy, finishing third overall.
Was it enough to give him the appetite
for an extra season even without the Tour ?
“I have not decided yet. That’s the
biggest factor, the time away, but I have not
decided yet. As soon as I decide I’m going HTC-COLUMBIA
to say,” he said at the Tour of Luxembourg.
United States
“I have options. It’s full schedule or
there’s nothing, full retirement. Or there’s a Top riders
hybrid: it could be a mix of the two as well.” Mark Cavendish
No half measures will be allowed on the (Britain)
Tour, however, and Armstrong knows that
well. Michael Rogers
He stepped up a gear at the Tour of (Australia)
Switzerland, finishing second overall after
keeping up with the best in the mountains, KATUSHA
a clear indication that he will be fully fit for Russia
the Tour. “Third in Luxembourg, second in
Switzerland, I’ll do the math for the next
race,” he said. “All I have to do now is stay Vladimir Karpets
healthy and find that extra 1 per cent. This (Russia)
race [in Switzerland] attracted all sorts of Robbie McEwen
favourites and it’s a good indication of (Australia)
what’s coming up.”
Armstrong, Andreas Kloeden and Levi LAMPRE
Leipheimer will be supported by Chris Italy
Horner, Janez Brajkovic, Sergio Paulinho,
Yaroslav Popovych, Gregory Rast and
Dmitriy Muravyev during the Tour. Damiano Cunego
“We have one of the strongest, one of (Italy)
the best teams,” Armstrong said. “I don’t
think any of us go in as a favourite for the Alessandro Petacchi
Tour, but between the three of us you (Italy)
never know. It’s safe to say we’ll always
LIQUIGAS
have the three of us in the final selection.”
A three-leader strategy, however, is not Italy
a guarantee of success. In 2005, the former
T-Mobile team, fielding former Tour
winner Jan Ullrich, Alexandre Vinokourov Ivan Basso
and Kloeden failed in their bid to destroy (Italy)
Armstrong’s goal to win a seventh straight Roman Kreuziger
Tour. (Czech Republic)
“I want to believe that nobody is
unbeatable, especially at the Tour de MILRAM
France,” Bruyneel said at the Tour of Germany
Switzerland. “Anything can happen and we
have a strong team. With three guys who
have finished on the podium, I hope that Linus Gerdemann
we can give a tough challenge to Alberto.” (Germany)
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Gerald Ciolek
Reuters, Associated Press
(Germany)

CERVELO TEST TEAM Alberto Contador (Spain, Astana) Lance Armstrong (US, RadioShack) Cadel Evans (Australia, BMC) OMEGA-PHARMA
Switzerland STRENGTHS: Arguably the top STRENGTHS: Experience – with seven Tour titles STRENGTHS: The Australian has Belgium
stage-race rider. One of only five men to his name, Armstrong knows how to win the dramatically changed since he became
to have won the Giro (2008), the Vuelta race. He has an iron will that helped him to road race world champion last year,
Carlos Sastre (2008) and the Tour (2007, 2009), triumph on the French roads from 1999 to 2005. showing more attacking skills. His Jurgen Van den Broeck
(Spain) Contador is a natural climber and has WEAKNESSES: Eighteen months after his self-confidence has been boosted by (Belgium)
dramatically improved in time trials. comeback from retirement, Armstrong has not his title. A great all-rounder.
Thor Hushovd Will enjoy full support from his Astana team with Kazakh Matthew Lloyd
(Norway) yet shown his previous brilliance. Now 38, he looked his age in the WEAKNESSES: Rode the Giro in May flat out, usually (Australia)
Alexandre Vinokourov a potential perfect lieutenant. toughest mountain stages in last year’s Tour when he finished not the best way to prepare for the Tour. Finished fifth.
COFIDIS WEAKNESSES: Can be nervous sometimes and does not third to Contador though he finished a decent second in the recent Team not exceptionally strong for the mountain stages. QUICK STEP
like long, windswept flat stages. Tour of Switzerland after illness and a crash in California in May.
France Belgium
Andy Schleck (Luxembourg,
START Stage Saxo Bank)
Rein Taaramae July 3 Sylvain Chavanel
(Estonia) Rotterdam
NETHERL ANDS Stage start
STRENGTHS: A natural climber,
(France)
probably the only one able to make
Stephane Auge Stage finish Contador suffer in the mountain Tom Boonen
(France) Brussels stages with repeated attacks. Second (Belgium)
Stage start / finish last year, will benefit from the help of
EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI Arenberg Spa his brother Frank who has an outside chance of making RABOBANK
Porte du Hainaut Wanze Individual time-trial it to the podium after a fifth-place finish in 2009.
Spain Netherlands
Cambrai WEAKNESSES: Has slightly improved in time trials but
BELGIUM Rest day
he is not yet a credible challenger to Contador in solo
Samuel Sanchez Mountain stage Denis Menchov
FINISH: July 25 efforts against the clock.
(Spain) Paris Champs-Elysees Reims (Russia)
Egoi Martinez Epernay Stage July km Oscar Freire
(Spain) Denis Menchov (Russia, Rabobank) (Spain)
Longjumeau P 3 8 STRENGTHS: Very good in the
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 1 4 224 mountains and time trials, the 2009 RADIO SHACK
France Montargis 2 5 192 Giro champion is sometimes United States
reminiscent of five-times winner
3 6 207
Miguel Indurain.
Christophe Le Mevel 4 7 150 WEAKNESSES: Seemingly, lack of luck. Lance Armstrong
(France) Station 5 8 185 Crashed in his only attack in the 2008 Tour, repeatedly (US)
Tournus des Rousses crashed in last year’s race. Low-key this season.
Sandy Casar Gueugnon 6 9 225 Levi Leipheimer
(France) Morzine- 7 10 161 (US)
Avoriaz 8 11 189
FOOTON-SERVETTO Bradley Wiggins (Britain, SAXO BANK
FRANCE 9 13 204 Team Sky)
Spain Chambery Denmark
10 14 179 STRENGTHS: Having shed 10kgs
Bourg-de- last year, Wiggins finished fourth
Pauillac Peage 11 15 180 overall as he kept up with the best
Eros Capecchi Andy Schleck
(Italy) Saint-Jean- 12 16 210 in the mountains. Could do it again (Luxembourg)
Bordeaux Mende de-Maurienne this year.
Manuel Cardoso Gap 13 17 195 Frank Schleck
Rodez WEAKNESSES: Possibly his team. He may struggle
(Portugal) Bourg-les- 14 18 184 (Luxembourg)
Valence Sisteron to find support in the mountains.
GARMIN TRANSITIONS 15 19 187 SKY
Salies-
United States de-Bearn 16 20 196 UK
Pau Revel Ivan Basso (Italy, Liquigas)
17 22 174
Pamiers STRENGTHS: Excellent climber with
18 23 190 very strong team at his disposal. Won
Christian Vande Velde Bradley Wiggins
(US) Ax-3 Domaines 19 24 51 Giro in May for second time. (Britain)
Tyler Farrar Col du Tourmalet Bagneres- 20 25 105 WEAKNESSES: Nobody has done the Thomas Lofkvist
(US) de-Luchon Total 3,596 Giro/Tour double in the same year (Sweden)
since Marco Pantani in 1998.

Everything you need to know about the greatest race on earth ... and then some more
Q: Is Lance Armstrong too old to win the Tour
again?
A: If history is to be taken into account, then yes,
Armstrong might be a little too old for an eighth
Tour victory at 38. The oldest Tour winner was
Belgian Firmin Lambot in 1922, at 36, while the
average age for Tour winners is just over 27,
which is exactly Alberto Contador’s age. Yet
nobody before Armstrong had won seven Tours.
the overall time clocked by each rider, adding the
time of each stage. Time gaps in mountain stages
are far bigger than in flat stages, giving climbers
a huge advantage over sprinters. On the other
hand, climbers, who are usually diminutive and
light, often lose precious time in individual time
trials, which favour powerful riders. In the last
few years, the event has been won by climbers –
Oscar Pereiro, Contador and Carlos Sastre – yet
Q: Why is the Tour overall leader’s jersey yellow?
Colourful sight A: In 1919, Tour organisers decided the race
The race awards the leader should wear a special jersey, making him
easy to identify by spectators. They picked yellow
yellow jersey to the as it was the colour of the paper on which
overall leader of the Tour L’Auto, the sports daily sponsoring the race, was
............................................................... printed.
Race organisers decided to distinguish special
Q: What is the green jersey?
Q: Why do riders often finish in the same time?
A: Because only seconds are taken into account
in the overall standings and not fractions of
seconds. It is the convention in road cycling that
all the riders included in the same group are
given the same time on the finish line regardless
of whether they are at the front or the back.
Another rule, applying only to flat stages, states
that a rider who crashes in the last three
Q: What is a “bordure” ?
A: Also called an echelon, it is one of the
nightmares of the peloton. This is because when
the wind is strong and blowing sideways, it can
split the bunch into little groups which are no
longer sheltered inside the main bunch. They
lose contact, find themselves on the most
exposed side of the road and can lose
considerable time. It happened to Contador last

Q: Why is the Tour starting in Rotterdam, not
France,
A: The Tour de France left its borders as early as
1907 when it took off from Metz, which was a
German town at the time. The second time the
Tour started from abroad was in 1954, when the
peloton left from Amsterdam. In 1974, a stage
was raced in England for the first time. The race
has since regularly visited neighbouring
countries. In 1987, it started at the foot of the
Berlin Wall, while in 1992 the riders went through
the six founding members of the European
Union. Its most distant start was in 1998 in
Dublin.
Q: Why will Mark Cavendish never win the Tour
de France?
A: Because the Briton, arguably the best sprinter
in the world, is not a good climber. Since 1913, the
final standings of the Tour have been based on
most great Tour riders are all-rounders.
Q: Do bicycles have engines?
A: This might have read like a silly question
before allegations this season that some
professional riders may have used bikes
equipped with miniature engines concealed in
the frame. All those accused have vigorously
denied any wrongdoing but the International
Cycling Union (UCI) took the issue seriously
enough to announce that all bikes on the Tour
would be scanned to detect engines.
Q: How come Tour riders will climb the
Tourmalet mountain pass in the Pyrenees twice?
A: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first
Tourmalet ascent in 1910. The Tourmalet was the
first high-altitude summit to be included on the
Tour route and it stopped many riders from
entering the race. First to the top a century ago
was Frenchman Octave Lapize.
1919
riders from others in the year
...............................................................
The rider who wears the coveted yellow
jersey is always the centre of attention.
A: It is the jersey awarded for the points
classification and a great consolation prize for
sprinters as they usually win more stages, albeit
by a slimmer margin. Points are awarded to the
top 20 finishers in each stage; the rider finishing
with the most points wins the jersey. The record
green jersey winner is German Erik Zabel, who
won it six times.
Q: What is the polka dot jersey?
A: It is the jersey awarded to the best climber of
the Tour or “King of the Mountains”. Points are
awarded at the top of each hill or mountain,
which are rated from fourth to first category
depending on their difficulty. Some exceptionally
tough climbs are rated “hors categorie” (out of
category). The polka dot design was chosen as it
was the same as one of the jersey’s sponsors. The
record winner of the King of the Mountains jersey
is Frenchman Richard Virenque, who earned it
seven times.
kilometres will be awarded the same time as the
group he was in before crashing.
Q: Cycling is an individual sport so why are there
teams?
A: The Tour is raced by 20 teams of nine riders.
Each team usually includes a leader – the man
with the best chance for the final classification –
sprinters, climbers and every type of rider who
can help the team to win a stage, take a jersey
and bring home prize money. When some 200
competitors ride in a bunch at around 50km/h,
the riders at the front waste much more energy
than the ones immediately behind, who are
sheltered from the headwind. This is why
teammates are often seen riding ahead of their
leader – they are protecting him from the wind.
Teammates often act to help their leaders in
other ways, passing on one of their wheels if he
punctures or picking up bottles and bags at the
feeding zone.
year in a stage finish in La Grande Motte. The first
four stages in this Tour in the Netherlands,
Belgium and the north of France could be subject
to echelons.
Q: What is the “omnibus”?
A: Also called the “gruppetto” (Italian for small
group), it is the group formed by poor climbers in
the mountain stages to help each other make it
to the finish line at a reasonable pace, but inside
the time limits.
Q: How do riders pee during a stage?
Spending some five hours on the bike, riders
sometimes have to urinate during a stage. If the
race is raging at full speed, riders do so on their
bikes but most of the time they stop early in the
stage when the pace is leisurely. As a general rule
of the peloton, you do not attack (when a rider or
riders decide to ride faster) when a rider or a
group has stopped to urinate.
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Insight 7

Results Roundup
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball. Today’s Sport
Bad behaviour blamed
on brain damage
American League.
Toronto 6 NY Yankees 1 (11 innings); Oakland 3 INTERNATIONAL
Cleveland 0; Detroit 7 Seattle 1; Boston 3 Baltimore Cycling: Tour de France.
2; Chicago White Sox 5 Texas 3; Minnesota 2 Tampa Golf: US PGA Tour, AT&T National,
Bay 1; Kansas City 2 LA Angels 1 (10 innings). Newtown Square, Pennsylvania; European
East Division Tour, French Open, Paris; OneAsia Tour,
W L Pct GB
New York 48 31 .608 — Indonesian Open, Jakarta.
Boston 48 32 .600 1
⁄2 Motorcycling: Catalan MotoGP,
Tampa Bay 46 33 .582 2 Barcelona.
Toronto 41 40 .506 8
Baltimore 24 55 .304 24 Tennis: Wimbledon championships,

Minnesota
Detroit
Central Division
W
44
42
L
36
36
Pct
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.538
GB
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1
London.
Off-field incidents being linked to injuries, writes Alan Schwarz
70, Jennifer Rosales (Philippines) 72-72, Mariajo

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Chicago 41 37 .526 2
Kansas City 35 45 .438 9 Uribe (Colombia) 69-75; 145 Minea Blomqvist
Cleveland 31 48 .392 121⁄2 (Finland) 73-72, Anna Rawson (Australia) 73-72; 146
ean Morey had just G. Ellenbogen, the new co-chairman of the What is true for the group may not be
Tania Elosegui Mayor (Spain) 75-71, Joo Mi Kim 71-75; tucked in his daughter NFL’s head, neck and spine medical for individuals. Disability boards and
West Division
W L Pct GB 147 Jimin Jeong 74-73, Sarah Lee 75-72, Young-A this week when he committee. “We really need to be careful to worker compensation laws are only now
Texas 47 32 .595 — Yang 76-71. learned about Chris parse out the underlying personality issues considering whether they can conscionably
Los Angeles 45 37 .549 31⁄2
Oakland 40 41 .494 8 Henry, the troubled from the underlying injuries. This is deny four to avoid overcompensating one.
Seattle 33 46 .418 14 MOTORCYCLING NFL wide receiver who probably just one factor among many that Although a CTE diagnosis after death
National League. Catalan Grand Prix, Barcelona, Spain. died last December and can put someone over the edge.” cannot crystallise exactly why a player
MotoGP qualifying: 1. Jorge Lorenzo, Spain,
Cincinnati 12 Chicago Cubs 0; NY Mets 5 Washington
Yamaha, 1 minute, 42.046 seconds. 2. Casey Stoner,
was recently found to Indeed, if concussions turned every might have died demented or depressed or
3; Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 0; Atlanta 4 Florida 3 (11 have trauma-induced player felonious, Troy Aikman and Steve even psychotic, like the 36-year-old former
innings); Colorado 6 San Francisco 3; St. Louis 5 Australia, Ducati, 1:42.410. 3. Randy de Puniet,
Milwaukee 0; Arizona 12 LA Dodgers 5; San Diego 3 France, Honda, 1:42.512. 4. Dani Pedrosa, Spain, brain damage. Chronic Young would be broadcasting games from Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Justin
Houston 0. Honda, 1:42.592. 5. Ben Spies, United States, United traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) isn’t just C-block. Many players later found with Strzelczyk, the information does console
East Division States, 1:42.710. 6. Andrea Dovizioso, Italy, Honda,
W L Pct GB 1:42.866. 7. Loris Capirossi, Italy, Suzuki, 1:42.903. 8. for retired players anymore. CTE managed not to commit crimes. family members seeking some whiff of
Atlanta 47 33 .588 — Aleix Espargaro, Spain, Ducati, 1:42.931. 9. Marco “Oh my God,” said Morey, a special- When Ben Roethlisberger – who has a explanation for their loved one’s behaviour.
New York 45 35 .563 2 Simoncelli, Italy, Honda, 1:42.994. 10. Alvaro
Philadelphia 41 37 .526 5 teams standout who just signed with the long history of concussions, one from a The most stirring evidence of this came
Florida 37 42 .468 91⁄2 Bautista, Spain, Suzuki, 1:43.025.
Washington 35 46 .432 121⁄2 250: 1. Andrea Iannone, Italy, Speed Up, 1 minute Seattle Seahawks. He took a few seconds to motorcycle crash while not wearing a last month when Lisa McHale, whose ex-
47.493 seconds. 2. Yuki Takahashi, Japan, Tech 3, compose himself. “I played against him. helmet – was accused of sexually assaulting husband, Tom, was suddenly sucked into
Central Division
W L Pct GB
1:47.760. 3. Thomas Luthi, Switzerland, Moriwaki, That’s sobering.” women in two states and rained the whirlpool of depression and drug abuse
Cincinnati 46 35 .568 — 1:47.973. 4. Toni Elias, Spain, Moriwaki, 1:48.089. 5. When West Virginia University embarrassment on the league, published after his retirement from the NFL and then
St. Louis 44 36 .550 11⁄2 Jules Cluzel, France, Suter, 1:48.133. 6. Carmelo
Milwaukee 36 44 .450 91⁄2 Morales, Spain, Pons Kalex, 1:48.164. 7. Shoya announced the finding about Henry on speculation began to bubble over whether fatally overdosed at 45, spoke to retired
Chicago 34 46 .425 111⁄2 Tomizawa, Japan, Suter, 1:48.192. 8. Ratthapark Monday, its significance derived less from the tau did it. players at a meeting of the Gay
Houston 32 49 .395 14
Pittsburgh 29 51 .363 16 ⁄2
1 Wilairot, Thailand, Bimota, 1:48.224 9. Kenny Noyes, the fact that he was a football player – 22 The Henry finding may stoke questions Culverhouse Players’ Outreach
United States, Promoharris, 1:48.291. 10. Roberto
West Division Rolfo, Italy, Suter, 1:48.366. others have been identified with chronic of whether commissioner Roger Goodell Programme.
W L Pct GB 125cc: 1. Marc Marquez, Spain, Derbi, 1 minute, traumatic encephalopathy since 2002 – but might need to rethink some aspects of the “I often think of how painful it must
San Diego 47 33 .588 —
Los Angeles 43 36 .544 31⁄2 50.543 seconds. 2. Pol Espargaro, Spain, Derbi, that at just 26, he was still playing in the NFL’s personal-conduct policy, through have been for Tom, in the last few months
Colorado 43 37 .538 4 1:50.809. 3. Bradley Smith, Britain, Aprilia, 1:51.019. 4.
San Francisco 40 39 .506 61⁄2 Nicolas Terol, Spain, Aprilia, 1:51.066. 5. Sandro
NFL and was closer in age to high school which he suspended Henry more than Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver of his life, when he looked into my eyes and
Arizona 32 48 .400 15 Cortese, Germany, Derbi, 1:51.546. 6. Tomoyoshi players than to dozens of his fellow once. To this the league spokesman, Brian Chris Henry died in December during saw what he perceived to be, and may in
Koyama, Japan, Aprilia, 1:51.824. 7. Esteve Rabat, professionals. McCarthy, replied, “Our medical a frenzied domestic dispute. Photo: AP truth very well have been,
CRICKET Spain, Aprilia, 1:51.890. 8. Efren Vazquez, Spain,
Derbi, 1:51.951. 9. Alexis Masbou, France, Aprilia,
The finding raised the question of how committee does not have information that disappointment,” Lisa McHale said.
English county scores, Twenty20. 1:52.316. 10. Johann Zarco, France, Aprilia, 1:52.478. many current players of all ages may be would prompt a change” in the code of “Would Tom have recognised himself? And
North Division, at Chesterfield: Leicestershire
212-5 (W Jefferson 83) v Derbyshire 196-8,
playing with the disease and experiencing conduct. We really need to be would it have made a difference for him to
125cc: 1. Marc Marquez (Spain/Derbi) 1 minute its effects, which include depression, Even before the 2010 season starts, one know that his failure to live up to the
Leicestershire beat Derbyshire by 16 runs; at
Chester-le-Street: Durham 117-8 v Warwickshire
50.043 seconds; 2. Nicolas Terol (Spain/Aprilia)
1:50.911; 3. Pol Espargaro (Spain/Derbi) 1:51.314; 4.
impaired decision-making and ultimately player has already tried to leverage careful to parse out the expectations he set for himself, that caused
120-5, Warwickshire beat Durham by 5 wkts; at
Northampton: Yorkshire 180-3 (H Gibbs 101 no) v
Efren Vazquez (Spain/Derbi) 1:51.443; 5. Sandro
Cortese (Germany/Derbi) 1:51.559; 6. Bradley Smith
dementia.
Given those symptoms, it was tempting
heightened sensitivity to concussions. The
Jets’ Darrelle Revis sat out some practice
underlying personality him such pain, could very well have had a
neurological cause?
Northamptonshire 180-5 (C Vaas 53),
Northamptonshire tied with Yorkshire.
(Britain/Aprilia) 1:51.577; 7. Randy Krummenacher
(Switzerland/Aprilia) 1:51.863; 8. Esteve Rabat
to work back the Henry timeline: Perhaps
his death during a frenzied domestic
plays a few weeks ago after telling a staff
member his head hurt. Only later, and after
issues from the “I’ll never know,” she said. “But I can’t
help but think it would have.”
(Spain/Aprilia) 1:51.988; 9. Luis Salom (Spain/Aprilia)
South Division, at Bristol: Glamorgan 153-7 v
Gloucestershire 154-2 (W Porterfield 65),
1:52.298; 10. Johann Zarco (France/Aprilia) 1:52.353. dispute, maybe the driving under the coach Rex Ryan acknowledged Revis’ underlying injuries. To be truly valuable moving forward,
influence and even his several other arrests discretion, did Revis admit that he was the legacy of the Chris Henry finding will
Gloucestershire beat Glamorgan by 8 wkts; at
Canterbury: Hampshire 139 v Kent 94 (D Briggs 3-5, RUGBY LEAGUE and suspensions derived in part from the merely flexing muscle for a better contract. This is probably not be to look back and assign blame for
S Jones 3-20), Hampshire beat Kent by 45 runs; at
The Oval: Surrey 171-6 (J Roy 74) v Somerset 132-9,
Super League.
Salford 17 Harlequins RL 14.
tau protein deposits stifling his
neurological function.
With no test to diagnose CTE in living
persons, only guesswork can distinguish
just one factor among players’ past acts, but to look ahead at how
future behaviour among players at all levels
Surrey beat Somerset by 39 runs; at Hove: Sussex
140-9 v Middlesex 143-5, Middlesex beat Sussex by 5
wkts.
Wigan
Warrington
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And if that were true, maybe the
confounding behaviour displayed by other
those guided by damage to the brain.
This uncertainty is particularly
many that can put will derive from a cocktail of factors –
psychological, neurological, societal,
India A v West Indies A, triangular series
St Helens
Hull
Leeds
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NFL public relations nightmares could be maddening when one examines how someone over the edge genetic, or sometimes, just being a jerk.
Huddersfield 19 10 1 8 496 320 21 ascribed to an occupational condition retired players now in their 60s and 70s ............................................................... Assuming every boorish football player has
one-day match, Leicester, England. Hull K R 19 9 1 9 403 456 19 beyond wealth and entitlement. appear to have dementia at about four Dr Richard G. Ellenbogen, CTE, even out of compassion, would be to
India A 340-6 (C Pujara 114, A Rahane 90, S Dhawan Bradford 19 8 1 10 354 440 17
59) v West Indies A 287-7 (D Bravo 83; A Mithun 3- Wakefield 19 8 0 11 410 451 16 “I’m really worried that we’re going to times the rate of other American men: That co-chairman of the NFL’s head, neck drown this sapling of a science just when it
Castleford 19 8 0 11 408 514 16 and spine medical committee
49), India A beat West Indies A by 53 runs. Crusaders 18 7 0 11 337 520 14 get to where if you have a challenging still leaves one in five with it through no needs to breathe.
Salford
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personality, it must be CTE – that’s really a fault of football, with no way to distinguish ...............................................................
GOLF Catalans 19 3 0 16 258 523 6 dangerous way of going,” said Dr Richard among them. The New York Times

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Pennsylvania.
Leading second-round scores (US unless noted):
SOCCER
133 Justin Rose (Britain) 69-64; 134 Jason Day
World Cup, South Africa.
Quarter-finals.
(Australia) 66-68, Charlie Wi (South Korea) 69-65;
In Cape Town: Argentina 0 Germany 4 (Thomas
136 Jeff Overton 68-68, Charley Hoffman 69-67; 137
Muller 3, Miroslav Klose 68, 89, Arne Friedrich 74),
Ryan Moore 67-70, Bo Van Pelt 69-68, Robert
HT: 0-1, Att: 64,100.
Allenby (Australia) 70-67, John Mallinger 67-70, Kris
In Johannesburg: Uruguay 1 (Forlan 55) Ghana 1
Blanks 69-68, Brian Gay 67-70, J.B. Holmes 70-67,
(Muntari 45+2), red card: Luis Suarez (Uruguay)
Nick Watney 66-71; 138 Joe Ogilvie 66-72, Arjun
120+1, HT: 0-1, after extra-time, Uruguay win 4-2 on
Atwal (India) 66-72, Ryuji Imada (Japan) 68-70; 139
penalties, Att: 84,017. Penalty scorers (Uruguay:
Steve Marino 68-71, Bryce Molder 69-70, Graham
Diego Forlan, Mauricio Victorino, Andres Scotti, Maxi
DeLaet (Canada) 70-69, Andres Romero (Argentina)
Pereira-missed, Sebastian Abreu; Ghana: Asamoah
71-68, Carl Pettersson (Sweden) 67-72, Billy Mayfair
Gyan, Stephen Appiah, John Mensah-saved, Dominic
68-71, Nicholas Thompson 72-67, Ted Purdy 69-70,
Adiyiah-saved).
Daniel Chopra (Sweden) 69-70, Jim Furyk 69-70,
Lucas Glover 71-68, Sean O’Hair 71-68, Aaron
Top scorers: 6 Miroslav Klose (Germany); 4 Gonzalo
Baddeley (Australia) 69-70; 140 George McNeill 71-
Higuain (Argentina), David Villa (Spain), Robert
69, Brett Quigley 67-73, Garrett Willis 71-69, Jonathan
Vittek (Slovakia); 3 Thomas Muller (Germany), Luis
Byrd 70-70, Jimmy Walker 71-69, Stuart Appleby
Fabiano (Brazil), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands),
(Australia) 71-69, Nathan Green (Australia) 71-69,
Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Diego Forlan (Uruguay),
Justin Leonard 71-69; 141 Marc Leishman (Australia)
Luis Suarez (Uruguay), Landon Donovan (US); 2
71-70, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 71-70; 142 Richard S. Johnson
Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon), Lukas Podolski
(Sweden) 72-70, Brendon de Jonge (Zimbabwe) 70-
(Germany), Carlos Tevez (Argentina), Javier
72; 143 Steve Elkington (Australia) 73-70, Fredrik
Hernandez (Mexico), Keisuke Honda (Japan), Lee
Jacobson (Sweden) 70-73, Tiger Woods 73-70.
Chung-yong (South Korea), Lee Jung-soo (South
Korea), Brett Holman (Australia), Kalu Uche
French Open, Versailles. (Nigeria), Robinho (Brazil), Elano (Brazil).
Leading second-round scores (Britain unless
noted): 132 Alejandro Canizares (Spain) 66-66; 133
Martin Kaymer (Germany) 66-67; 134 Robert-Jan
Derksen (Netherlands) 63-71; 135 Steve Webster 69-
SOFTBALL
World Championship, Venezuela.
66; 136 Jyoti Randhawa (India) 67-69; 137 Peter Final: US 7 Japan 0.
Hanson (Sweden) 68-69, Gregory Bourdy (France)
68-69, Graeme Storm 70-67; 138 Robert Rock 67-71,
Francesco Molinari (Italy) 69-69, Charl Schwartzel
(South Africa) 68-70, Adam Scott (Australia) 69-69,
TABLE TENNIS
Japan Open, Kobe.
Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 71-67, Benjamin Hebert Men’s singles third round (prefix denotes
(France) 72-66; 139 Danny Willett 72-67, Lee seeds): 1-Timo Boll (Germany) beat 9-Seiya
Westwood 70-69, Alvaro Quiros (Spain) 70-69, Ian Kishikawa (Japan) 11-3, 11-7, 11-5, 11-6; 8-Alexey
Poulter 72-67, Mark Foster 76-63, Anders Hansen Smirnov (Russia) beat Taku Takakiwa (Japan) 9-11,
(Denmark) 71-68, Oliver Wilson 68-71, Edoardo 11-3, 11-9, 14-12, 11-8; 6-Gao Ning (Singapore) beat
Molinari (Italy) 70-69, Rory McIlroy 68-71, Luke Jiang Tianyi (HK) 2-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-13, 11-8, 11-9; 3-Joo Se-
Donald 70-69, Damien McGrane (Ireland) 68-71, Hyuk (Korea) beat 15-Kim Jung-Hoon (Korea) 5-11,
Alastair Forsyth 71-68; 140 Christian Cevaer (France) 11-7, 11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 11-3; 4-Oh Sang-Eun (Korea) beat 10-
69-71, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 71-69, Matteo Lee Jung-Woo (Korea) 7-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-6, 11-4; 7-Li
Manassero (Italy) 71-69, Raphael Jacquelin (France) Ching (HK) beat Kenji Matsudaira (Japan) 11-5, 15-13,
73-67. 141 Romain Wattel (AMT) 74-67, Chris Wood 9-11, 11-8, 11-4; Jung Young-Sik (Korea) beat 11-Yoon
(Britain) 70-71, Angel Cabrera 72-69, Marcus Jae-Young (Korea) 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-4, 11-6; 2-Jun
Franceser (Australia) 69-72, Scott Strange (Australia) Mizutani (Japan) beat 14-Kim Min-Seok (Korea) 12-14,
67-74. 11-5, 11-6, 11-9, 10-12, 11-8.
Indonesia Open, Jakarta. Men’s doubles quarter-finals: 1-Seiya Kishikawa/
Leading third-round scores: 204 Michael Hendry Jun Mizutani (Japan) beat 8-Cho Eon-Rae/Lee Jung-
(New Zealand) 70-67-67; 205 Liang Wenchong Woo (Korea) 11-6, 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 11-5; 4-Kenta
(China) 70-64-71; 207 Hsieh Tung-shu (Taiwan) 68- Matsudaira/Koki Niwa (Japan) beat Chen Chien-an/
70-69; 208 Mardan Mamat (Singapore) 71-69-68, Hung Tze-hsiang (Taiwan) 11-9, 11-5, 11-2, 11-4; Ko Lai-
Steven Jones (Australia) 71-67-70, Anthony Brown chak/Li Ching (HK) beat 3-Kim Jung-Hoon/Oh Sang-
(Australia) 67-69-72; 211 Thailandworn Wiratchant Eun (Korea) 11-6, 11-9, 10-12, 7-11, 11-4,11-7; 6-Jiang Abby Sunderland, 16, waves to supporters on her sailboat in Marina del Rey, California, before her attempt at a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Photo: EPA
(Thailand) 71-68-72, Tsai Chi-huang (Taiwan) 67-76- Tianyi/Leung Chu-yan (HK) beat Hidetoshi Oya/Taku
68, Simon Yates (Scotland) 71-72-68; 212 Chan Shih-
chang (Taiwan) 75-69-68, Michael Long (New
Zealand) 74-69-69, Andrew Martin (Australia) 70-72-
70, Stephen Darnell (Australia) 72-69-71, Anthony
Summers (Australia) 68-70-74, Wu Kangchun (China)
Takakiwa (Japan) 14-12, 11-3, 12-14, 11-9, 13-11.

Women’s singles second round: 1-Kim Kyung-Ah

73-73-66.
LPGA Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic,
Ohio.
Leading second-round scores (South Koreaea
unless noted): 131 Na Yeon Choi 64-67; 133
Christina Kim (US) 66-67, Inbee Park 67-66, Alena
Sharp (Canada) 65-68; 136 In-Kyung Kim 70-66,
Song-Hee Kim 70-66, Stacy Lewis (US) 67-69, Kristy
McPherson (US) 68-68, Stacy Prammanasudh (US)
69-67, Beatriz Recari (Spain) 69-67; 137 Chella Choi
71-66, Meaghan Francencella (US) 69-68, Hee-Won
Han 71-66, MJ Hur 68-69, Pernilla LIndiaberg
(Sweden) 69-68, Jean Reynolds (US) 69-68, Jiyai
Shin 67-70, Karin Sjodin (Sweden) 71-66; 138 Marisa
Baena (Colombia) 66-72, Maria Hjorth (Sweden) 69-
69, Katherine Hull (Australia) 67-71, Karine Icher
(France) 66-72, Soo-Yun Kang 68-70, Meena Lee 71-
67, Azahara Munoz (Spain) 70-68, Hee Young Park
70-68, Amy Yang 68-70; 139 Kyeong Bae 74-65, Mi-
Sun Cho 69-70, Russamee Gulyanamitta (Thailand)
68-71, Amy Hung (Taiwan) 68-71, MIndiay Kim 70-69,
Na On Min 68-71, Marianne Skarpnord (Norway) 72-
67, Momoko Ueda (Japan) 67-72, Eunjung Yi 71-68;
140 Il Mi Chung 69-71, Maria Hernandez (Spain) 70-
70, Eun-Hee Ji 69-71, Jimin Kang 72-68, Canadadie
Kung (Taiwan) 70-70, Jee Young Lee 69-71, Giulia
Sergas (Italy) 69-71; 141 Jeong Jang 70-71, Haeji Kang
72-69, Sarah Kemp (Australia) 74-67, Karen Stupples
(Germany) 70-71, Sun Young Yoo 70-71; 142 Louise
Friberg (Sweden) 73-69, Lorie Kane (Canada) 72-70,
Janice Moodie (Germany) 72-70, Gwladys Nocera
(France) 70-72, Mikaela Parmlid (Sweden) 77-65,
Iben Tinning (Denmark) 74-68.
Failed to quaify: 143 Sandra Gal (Germany) 74-69,
Mi Hyun Kim 73-70, Seon Hwa Lee 72-71, Becky
Morgan (Germany) 71-72, Grace Park 75-68, Sarah
Jane Smith (Australia) 74-69, Louise Stahle (Sweden)
71-72; 144 Laura Davies (Germany) 72-72, Michelle
Ellis (Australia) 72-72, Julieta Granada (Paraguay) 73-
71, Yoo-Kyeong Kim 72-72, Mhairi McKay (Germany)
73-71, Mika Miyazato (Japan) 74-70, Gloria Park 74-
(Korea) beat 15-Li Jiawei (Singapore) 12-10, 5-11, 11-8,
11-2, 11-9; 7-Sun Beibei (Singapore) beat 12-Seok Ha-
Jung (Korea) 11-6, 3-11, 11-3, 6-11, 11-9, 12-10; 13-Kasumi
Ishikawa (Japan) beat 8-Daniela Dodean (Romania)
11-8, 11-5, 11-7, 6-11, 13-11; 3-Wang Yuegu (Singapore)
beat 16-Melek Hu (Turkey) 11-7, 11-5, 11-7, 11-13, 11-7; 14-Li
Jie (Netherlands) beat Cheng I-ching (Taiwan) 13-11,
11-4, 11-3, 6-11, 11-7; 5-Park Mi-Young (Korea) beat 11-
Elizabeta Samara (Romania) 3-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-2, 11-8;
Zhu Yuling (China) beat 9-Krisztina Toth (Hungary)
4-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9, 11-8; 2-Ai Fukuhara (Japan) beat 10-
Huang Hi-hua (Taiwan) 11-2, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6.
Doubles quarter-finals: 1-Kim Kyung-Ah/Park Mi-
Young (Korea) beat 7-Lee Eun-Hee/Park Young-Sook
(Korea) 4-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-3, 8-11, 13-11; Yuka Ishigaki/
Yuri Yamanashi (Japan) beat Li Jiawei/Wang Yuegu
(Singapore) 12-10, 13-11, 10-12, 11-5, 14-12; Cheng I-
ching/Huang Yi-hua (Taiwan) beat Shen Yanfei/Zhu
Fang (Spain) 11-2, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 8-11, 11-9; 3-Ai
Fukuhara/Misaki Morizono (Japan) beat Sirin He/
Melek Hu (Turkey) disqualified.
TENNIS
Wimbledon Championship, London.
Men’s singles semi-final (prefix denotes
seeding): 2-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat 4-Andy Murray
(Britain) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4.
Women’s singles final: 1-Serena Williams (US) beat
21-Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles semi-finals: Elena Vesnina/Vera
Zvonareva (Russia) beat 4-Gisela Dulko/Flavia
Pennetta (Argentina/Italy) 6-3, 6-1; Vania King/
Yaroslava Shvedova (US/Kazakhstan) beat 5-Liezel
Huber/Bethanie Mattek-Sands (US) 6-4, 6-4.
Mixed doubles semi-finals: 11-Wesley Moodie/Lisa
Raymond (South Africa/US) beat 10-Marcelo Melo/
Rennae Stubbs (Brazil/Australia) 6-4, 6-4; 2-Leander
Paes/Cara Black (India/Zimbabwe) beat 9-Lukas
Dlouhy/Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) 6-3, 6-3.
Undeterred, teen sailor says she’s ready to go solo again
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Jacob Adelman
Abby Sunderland faced down moments of
terror on the high seas after her boat was
rolled over by a huge wave as she tried to
sail solo around the world. Still, the 16-year-
old said this week she was proud of her
effort, hoped it might inspire others and
wasn’t ready to abandon sailing.
In her first statements since returning
home on Monday, Sunderland said she
was below deck working on her boat Wild
Eyes as a fierce storm was letting up in the
Indian Ocean. “I was hit by a rogue wave
once the storm was already dying down,”
she said. “I didn’t have a lot of warning.”
Sunderland had just spoken to her
family by satellite phone when the wave
knocked over the 40-foot boat and sent her
tumbling in its hold.
She hit her head, and “things went black
for a second”, she said. When she regained
consciousness and rushed to the deck, she
found a one-inch fibreglass stump where
the mast once stood. Back in the hold, she
tested the engine she had just repaired. It
would not start.
Sunderland set off her emergency
beacons and waited. She was amazed
when a plane dispatched from Australia to
find her flew overhead the next day. Two
days later a fishing boat arrived.
“As you probably all really know, I’d
much rather be sailing Wild Eyes back in
here. But the plane was really
comfortable,” Sunderland deadpanned,
looking poised and comfortable as she sat
next to her 18-year-old brother Zac at a
news conference in Marina del Rey,
California, where she set sail in January.
She thanked her rescuers and other
people who helped with her trip and
singled out her brother as a source of
inspiration. Zac Sunderland, 18,
successfully completed a round-the-world
voyage last year, briefly becoming the
youngest person to do so. His record has
since been broken.
“I’m living proof that things don’t
always work out the way you plan, but you
can only plan so far in an adventure,” Abby
Sunderland said. “You can reduce risk but
you can never completely eliminate it.”
Since her voyage went awry,
Sunderland’s parents have come under
relentless criticism for allowing the
teenager to set sail alone.
Sunderland once again defended her
attempt, saying the question of her age
should have been settled after she became
the youngest person to sail solo around
Cape Horn. “Growing up on boats and
feeling, you know, that you know what to
do in case of an emergency, it really helps,”
she said. “I knew when I headed out for this
I’m living proof that trip that I was going to be testing myself,
and I was going to have to push myself to
things don’t always my limits.”
work out the way you Sunderland acknowledged, however,
there were moments when she was
plan ... You can reduce terrified. “You get scared and then you
have to get over it because being scared, it
risk but you can never doesn’t do anything good,” she said. “It just
makes you hesitate and makes more
completely eliminate it problems start coming.”
............................................................... Sunderland’s parents said the criticism
Abby Sunderland, had crossed the line of decency.
pictured with her brother Zac “To hear the intensity of the personal
hatred spewed by some in the media and
on blogs was shocking to us,” Laurence
Sunderland said. “Abby should not be
subjected to these hurtful attacks against
members of her family, especially as what
was being said was based, at best, on
twisting facts out of context and, at worst,
on total fabricated lies.”
Abby Sunderland said she was as
prepared as possible for the trip. Every
sailor knew there was risk in trying to sail
around the world, she added.
Sunderland plans to keep sailing but for
now has other things to do. “I’m just going
to be focusing on school, a driver’s licence,
all that, getting back to a normal life.”
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Associated Press
8 SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010 SUNDAY MORNING POST
This Week – The crying game Alvin Sallay
S
epp Blatter is a Luddite. The
head of world soccer has
made no secret that he is
totally against modern
technology. It was people
like him who were against change
in the 19th century, destroying
mechanised looms during the
Industrial Revolution.
Only now has the Fifa boss
grudgingly accepted there might be
a case for goal-line technology. It
will come too late for England and
Frank Lampard, who must still be
hurt by the unjustness of it all.
Let’s get one thing straight,
England were rubbish for most of
the 90 minutes against Germany.
But they were robbed, too.
Consider this. If they had equalised
at 2-2, wouldn’t the game have
been different? Wouldn’t they have
sat back and defended instead of
having to go in search of a goal?
The end result was it opened up
the England defence for counter-
attacks, and the Germans feasted
like a famished beggar at a banquet.
Where was centreback John
Terry for Germany’s third and
fourth goals. He was up field trying
to help out a toothless attack
desperately seeking a goal, and was
caught out badly.
Agony of defeat. Switzerland’s Roger Federer can’t hide his disappointment during a post- England might still have lost,
even if it had gone to penalty kicks,
match press conference following his shock quarter-final defeat by Tomas Berdych of the but the truth of the matter is they
Czech Republic at Wimbledon. Berdych won 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in one of the biggest upsets in have a case for saying they were
robbed. Thanks to Blatter’s disdain
years, showing that Federer, a six-time Wimbledon champion, can be beaten on his favourite for technology.
surface – it is the first time since 2002 that Federer has missed the semi-finals. Photo: EPA Before the tournament began,
Batter said” “No matter which
technology is applied, at the end of
the day a decision will have to be
Monday Tuesday taken by a human being. This being
the case, why remove the
responsibility from the referee to
There was a controversial incident And yes, this will be [my] final Tour
give it to someone else?”
He believes the human element
shown on the giant screens and this de France. It’s been a great ride. – of making errors – is what gives
soccer its uniqueness. Unlike other
should not have happened Looking forward to 3 great weeks sports such as tennis, cricket or
................................................................................................. ................................................................................................. rugby, which have all gone down
the modern road and use video
Fifa official spokesman Nicolas Maingot on the TV replay of the Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong of the
controversial Carlos Tevez goal in Argentina’s 3-1 victory against United States on competing in the world’s greatest race for technology to rule on close calls,
Mexico in the last 16 of the World Cup at Soccer City the last time on his Twitter page soccer has chosen to stay in the
dark ages. Blatter says this gives
people the chance to talk about con
Wednesday Thursday Friday topics for years to come.
The 74-year-old is set in his
ways. It shouldn’t come as a
surprise, for here is a man who once
I am struggling with a As far as other ICC Nobody wants to have a suggested women should play in
hot pants, or that the World Cup
little bit of a back and nations were concerned title that doesn’t exist. It’s
a leg issue. That just ... They regard Howard not in the statutes. I’d WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do you agree or disagree with what Alvin has to say? E-mail us at alvin.sallay@scmp.com
doesn’t quite allow me as a backwoodsman; have done the same
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to play the way I would about as progressive Barcelona FC chairman Sandro Rosell on the
like to. It’s frustrating, to
say the least
as an umbrella
...............................................................
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter Roebuck
decision by former club great Johan Cruyff
to step down from the apparently bogus
position of honorary president to which he
Jason Dasey
............................................................... was appointed in March
after former Australian Prime Minister John
Switzerland’s Wimbledon champion Roger Howard was rejected in his bid for the vice-
Federer after his shock quarter-final defeat presidency
to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic of the International Cricket Council
I
f the dodgy decisions and
Monday Tuesday vuvuzelas don’t get to you, the
thin air and Jabulani certainly
will.
In years to come, if the 2010
Fifa World Cup isn’t remembered
with any particular fondness, much
of the blame will be placed squarely
on the self-conscious shoulders of
the sport’s governing body.
Seriously guys, what were you
thinking?
For a start, you stage the most
watched sporting event of all time
with a bunch of mostly mediocre
referees – with a rather too obvious
tendency to favour first-world
football nations at the expense of
emerging (including AFC) teams –
and then you don’t give them the
benefit of TV technology.
South Africa’s Mark Boucher unsuccessfully appeals for a wicket Saxo Bank rider Fabian Cancellara waits before a training session What are we more likely to
in the third test against the West Indies in Bridgetown. Photo: AFP for the Tour de France in Rotterdam. Photo: Reuters remember: four goals from
Slovakia’s Robert Vittek, Yasuhito
Endo’s fantastic free kick to dazzle
Wednesday Thursday Friday the Danes or the almost criminal
disallowing of Frank Lampard’s fair
strike for England against Germany?
But far worse was Fifa’s decision
to introduce a synthetic
abomination otherwise known as
the adidas Jabulani ball at a
tournament where seven of the 10
stadiums are at high altitude.
Controlling this shocking sphere at
venues like Johannesburg’s (`1,753
metres) has proved to be about as
easy as tap-dancing on the moon.
“The Jabulani ball is an
unmitigated disaster that has
already committed many crimes
against football,” Craig Johnston, the
South African-born former
Liverpool midfielder, said. “This is
the worst World Cup ever for poor
football, in terms of shots off target,
passes off-target, free kicks not
scored and goals not scored.”
Johnston, says he is writing to
Fifa president Sepp Blatter to
demand that the Jabulani be binned.
“A ‘cheap supermarket ball’ were
the words that I used when I first
Australia’s Shane Watson fails to hold a Tiger Woods lines up his shot on the 10th Max Scherzer of the Detroit Tigers pitches kicked it,” he said. “The Jabulani has
catch off England’s Andrew Strauss during green in the opening round of the AT&T in the sixth inning of his team’s 7-1 win a mind of its own and does not
the fourth ODI at the Oval. Photo: AP National in Pennsylvania. Photo: MCT over the Seattle Mariners. Photo: AFP interpret the special language that
the players use to shape each pass or
shot: instead moving erratically and
unpredictably.”
The Jabulani is constructed with
should be held every two years. At
least he had the grace to apologise
for this mistake.
“It is obvious that after the
experiences so far it would be a
nonsense not to reopen the file on
goal-line technology,” he said. But
it will be no consolation for England
and their fans, who can rightly feel
hard done by.
Now Blatter says the debate on
goal-line technology will be re-
opened. I would bet Fifa approves
this at its meeting this month.
It will be too late for England and
its much-touted “golden
generation” of players. Another
campaign, another sorry exit.
It was the same story four years
ago in Germany. England came
with high expectations, mostly built
up by the British media, and
flopped badly. Nothing has
changed.
Some people see a delicious
irony in last Sunday’s 4-1
hammering. Germany said it was
payback time for 1966 when
England won the World Cup final
4-2 with Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-
trick, including a disputed goal
similar to the one denied England a
few days ago.
In that case, it was proved later
the ball didn’t cross the line. But it
has been a talking point for
generations, fuelling Blatter’s belief
the game should stick to old ways so
as to provide entertainment after a
match has ended.
Here is a man who
once suggested
women should play
in hot pants, or that
the World Cup
should be held every
two years
just eight three-dimensional panels,
down from 14 at Germany 2006.
Most players are more familiar with
the 32 panel Buckminster footballs.
Johnston said the “jumpy”
Jabulani and the disappointing
standard of refereeing were
connected. “Because the ball has an
artificial, jumpy feel, the players are
making simple mistakes and the
referees simply can’t keep up,” he
said. “With the Lampard goal, the
referees and assistants didn’t even
know the ball went three feet over
the goal-line, but everybody else in
the world did.
“And then Australia’s Harry
Kewell tried to chest the ball clear in
the match against Ghana but the
ball moved in the air at the last
second and hit his arm – meaning a
controversial penalty and red card.”
The relentless drone of the
vuvuzelas just seems to add to the
confused on-pitch atmosphere for
players and officials alike.
Gary Phillips, coach of Sabah in
the Malaysian Premier League, says
that while Fifa erred in not testing
the Jabulani at last year’s
Confederations Cup on South
Harry Kewell tried to
chest the ball clear
but it moved in the
air at the last second
and hit his arm –
meaning a
controversial penalty
and red card
......................................................
Craig Johnston, the South African-
born former Liverpool midfielder
Yet, with the advance of
technology in the past 44 years –
Hawk-Eye could have transmitted a
message to the referee in a flash as
to whether the ball crossed the line
or not. There is no excuse for Fifa
and Blatter to deny teams a just
result.
Not that Germany didn’t
deserve to win as they were clearly
the more inventive and
adventurous team. It goes to prove
that despite all the noise about the
English Premier League being the
best in the world, it has failed to
provide 11 players who can gel as a
team and become world beaters.
This is a lesson from which even
Hong Kong can learn. You will fall
flat on your face unless you give the
youngsters the opportunity to excel
at the highest level.
The EPL is brimming with
foreign talent. England’s most
promising young players are
consigned to the lower divisions,
denied the chance by the foreign
legion. Perhaps the FA should rule
that every EPL team should have at
least six locally born players on the
field at any one time.
But in this crass modern world
where big bucks count, that is
unlikely to happen. England have
the Terrys, the Rooneys and the
Lampards, but they shine because
they feed off a host of overseas stars
at their clubs.
Yet there is hope for the
beleaguered English fan. The
England under-17 team recently
beat their Spanish counterparts in
the European Cup final, and by all
accounts did it in style.
This squad should be the core
for the next World Cup in 2014.
These players should be given the
opportunity to continue honing
their skills at the highest levels by
playing in the EPL.
But will this happen? With club
bosses under intense pressure from
team owners who have ploughed in
millions of pounds, they take the
quickest route which is to sign a
foreign mercenary. It is no surprise
then that when England field a
national side, they flop.
When historians look back at the
2010 World Cup, they are most
likely to pin England’s failure on
that goal which wasn’t.
Yes, England were robbed but
they got their just deserts.
African soil, it has bigger problems it
must address. The ball was
introduced into selected
competitions only in January. “It’s
too late now to ‘probe’ the ball – just
allow earlier access to the new
technology for Brazil 2014,” Phillips
said.
“Instead, Fifa should launch an
investigation into the embarrassing
state of playing surfaces and training
venues so it doesn’t happen again.”
Phillips said South Africa’s
“windy, wintry weather” combined
with the elevation meant a light ball
of dubious design to start with had
become even more of a liability.
More than a decade ago, I was a
keen tennis player while living at the
foot of the Rocky Mountains in
Denver, with an elevation slightly
less than Johannesburg where the
final will be played next Sunday.
In all competitions, including the
Colorado State Open, high altitude
tennis balls were mandatory. Using
the faster and bouncier regular balls
on court in the mile-high city made
it almost impossible to have
meaningful matches.
Fifa’s decision to push through
with its Jabulani, despite the unique
circumstances of Africa’s first World
Cup, reeks of a commercial decision
over a footballing one. Adidas argues
it gave the ball to all 32 teams to test
well before the tournament but the
below-par standard of the first
round – with 16 fewer goals than in
2006 – suggests that most needed a
lot more time to adjust.
Indeed, the Zulu meaning of
Jabulani – “rejoice” or “bring joy or
happiness” – seems to have
developed an opposite definition
among the performers on the pitch.
“Quite simply, it is like a golfer giving
up his favourite clubs the day before
a major tournament or a tennis
player like Roger Federer changing
his racquet at the last moment
before walking onto centre court,”
Johnston said. “These things play on
your touch and feel and then play on
your mind.
“There’s a simple solution: apply
exactly the same Jabulani graphics
onto the sponsor’s previous Buck-
minster construction balls. But this
is not a call a sponsor can make.”