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Pech Sotheary
IN THE first reported fatal
flooding of the wet season,
a weekend deluge across 13
provinces left at least five
people dead, according to
officials, who say that more
destruction could be
approaching.
As of yesterday, two peo-
ple had drowned in Kratie,
one in Stung Treng and
another in Kandal province,
said Keo Vy, cabinet chief of
the National Committee for
Disaster Management. A
local official in Kep reported
a drowning in an open well
obscured by floodwaters.
If the rains continue for
another seven days, there
may be more flooding,
Vy said.
Vy said the exact scope of
the damage isnt yet known,
and the reported death toll
could rise. His office is still
gathering reports from pro-
vincial officials.
In Kratie, according to Vy,
floods inundated 3,000
hectares of farmland, 3,080
houses and 18 schools,
forcing 611 families to be
evacuated. In Kampong
Cham, three rivers spilled
over their banks, although
no houses are reported to
have been affected.
Floodwater overflowed
onto thousands of hectares
of farmland in Prey Veng and
Ratanakkiri as well, he said.
While Kratie Provincial
Governor Sar Chamrong
said he didnt believe the
floods were truly serious yet,
he urged caution given that
Rising
waters
claim
5 lives
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
O
PPOSITION Cambo-
dia National Rescue
Party leaders yester-
day labelled the
arrests of three members of the
partys youth wing on Saturday
an act of intimidation con-
trary to the spirit of the July 22
agreement to end the CNRPs
boycott of parliament.
Kheun Chamreoun, an elected
district councillor and head of
the partys youth movement in
Phnom Penh, councillor San
Kim Heng and 25-year-old Tuol
Kork district youth movement
treasurer Neang Sokhoun
became the latest to be arrested
on charges related to a violent
July 15 protest in Freedom Park.
CNRP president Sam Rainsy
yesterday accused the ruling
Cambodian Peoples Party of
using the threat of legal action
to pressure the opposition to
take its seats in the National
Assembly before stalled work-
ing group negotiations could
reach an agreement.
This is very worrying because
it is contrary to the spirit of the
joint statement that the CNRP
and CPP issued before the July
22 meeting. In that statement
the two parties decided to dif-
fuse political tension, but their
An act of intimidation
CNRP leaders decry new arrests, summonses over July 15 violence
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Nepalese rescue personnel examine the site of a landslide on the Sukoshi River northeast of Kathmandu on Sunday. The massive landslide left at least eight people
dead and dozens missing as ofcials worked to clear debris blocking a major river and avert the possibility of ash oods. AFP
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actions have only increased the
tensions, he said.
Seven opposition lawmakers
and an activist were arrested in
the immediate wake of the July
15 protest, which saw several
irregular security force mem-
bers sustain injuries.
All eight were released hours
after an agreement was reached
to end the deadlock on July 22.
However, outstanding charges
could see them face decades in
prison if found guilty.
On Friday, they were sum-
monsed to appear in court again
later this month to answer fur-
ther questions along with CNRP
deputy president Kem Sokha.
Councillor Chamreoun was
charged with the same offences
as the eight previously detained,
while Kim Heng and Sokhoun
were charged with intentional
violence, joining an insurrec-
tion and violence against civil
servants, according to their
lawyer, Sam Sok Kong.
CNRP lawmaker-elect Mu
Sochua, who was one of those
jailed last month, said the con-
tinued arrests and threats of
legal action were part of a cam-
paign of intimidation.
Its all about intimidation,
about trying to make us live in
fear, she said. Do we accept
to live in fear? We do not.
Several government officials
could not be reached to respond
to the allegations of intimida-
tion yesterday, but a statement
from Prime Minister Hun Sens
Press and Quick Reaction Unit
denied there was a political
motive behind the arrests.
The arrest of these three indi-
viduals is the proper enforce-
ment of procedure, according
to the complaint of the victims,
in taking action against the indi-
viduals who broke the law, the
statement reads.
Ou Virak, chairman of the
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights, said it was fear of a
popular uprising that fuelled
the governments crackdown
on the opposition.
Hun Sen was concerned
that the rising people power
movement would topple the
government, as has happened
in countries in the Middle
East, he said. The govern-
ment seems to be very worried
about this, and we see all the
charges are for insurrection.
Political analyst Kem Ley
painted Hun Sen as a master
tactician accustomed to out-
manoeuvring opponents.
Hun Sen has played the game
of political chess for a very long
time, since 1993. His tactics
were not obvious before, but
later, people began to under-
stand. Even though people are
not used to playing his game,
they can now see that it is polit-
ical manoeuvring, he said.
Rainsy said that while the
party would do all it could to
assist its jailed members, it
would not waver in its demands
for reform.
We will keep insisting that
our goals are met, he said.
Talks between the two work-
ing groups stalled late last week
after a deal was reached to
amend the internal rules of par-
liament, but without reaching a
consensus on how to amend the
constitution and election law.
On Thursday, Interior Minis-
ter Sar Kheng responded to a
set of CNRP draft amendments
by issuing his own, which did
not include a provision for
granting parliamentary immu-
nity to members of the reformed
National Election Committee.
This could throw another span-
ner in the works, as immunity
was a key condition for con-
sensus NEC appointee Pung
Chhiv Kek to accept the job.
The parties are due to hold
further talks this week.
On the progress of the nego-
tiations, Sochua said that disa-
greements were a healthy sign.
Sometimes, I can tell you,
the conversations at a technical
level get heated. But the heated
conversations actually show
that the two sides are starting
to work together, she said.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
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are detained by military personnel last month in Phnom Penh. VIREAK MAI
Arrests an act of intimidation
Scorn heaped
on plan to bar
China brides
Sen David and Alice Cuddy

T
HE governments re-
quest for China to no
longer grant visas to
single Cambodian
women was lambasted by
rights groups yesterday as dis-
criminatory and misguided.
Under increasing pressure,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
released a statement calling
on embassies in neighbour-
ing countries to up their ef-
forts to stop the trafcking of
Cambodian women to China
for marriage.
For this problem, the Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs suggests
that Chinas Ministry of Foreign
Affairs orders its embassies and
consulates-general abroad, es-
pecially in Thailand, Vietnam,
and Laos, to stop providing vi-
sas to Cambodian single wom-
en, the statement reads.
The ministry also advises
the Cambodian Embassy and
Consulates-General in China
not to issue any single status
certicate to the Cambodian
women so that brokers can-
not bring them to marry with
Chinese men.
In the statement, the Minis-
try of Foreign Affairs suggests
that single Cambodian wom-
en should only be granted a
working visa if they can pro-
duce an ofcial letter of invi-
tation, and only be granted
a tourist visa if they deposit
$10,000 in a Chinese bank.
Am Sam Ath, a technical
supervisor for rights group Li-
cadho, said he was shocked
by the ministrys suggestions.
It is very strong; other
countries never take action
like this. I know that it is in
order to protect women . . .
but it could affect other wom-
en who are single and want to
have a holiday, he said.
Moeun Tola, head of the la-
bour program at the Commu-
nity Legal Education Center
(CLEC), agreed.
It is not a logical way to
deal with the situation. It will
affect the people who want . . .
to be tourists in China; its not
fair for them . . . to apply for a
tourist visa and deposit that
amount of money. Im afraid
that would violate individual
rights, he said.
Tola added that he was
unsure why the ministry
was targeting embassies in
Thailand, Vietnam and Laos,
rather than focusing on the
one in Cambodia.
In all the cases that we in-
tervene in, all of [the women]
get visas from the embassy in
Cambodia, he said.
If the government were
serious about stopping traf-
cking, Tola said, it would
prosecute brokers and elim-
inate the corruption of its
own ofcials.
For us its quite common
to hear that the embassy will
ignore the victim, push the
victim to go back to the home
[of their abuser] or the police
station, he said.
Opposition lawmaker-elect
Mu Sochua said that rather
than a blanket ban, stricter
measures should be placed on
those applying for a visa.
When there is a woman
whos never left the country
and a visa is applied for on her
behalf, there should be some
suspicion, she said.
Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Koy Kuong could not be
reached for comment.
It will affect the
people who want . . .
to be tourists in
China; its not fair
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Fateful meal
Girl, 6, dies
after eating
staple food
A
6-YEAR-OLD girl died
and ve girls became
seriously ill after eating
cassava with their family on
Friday morning, Kampong
Chhnang ofcials said.
The girls aunt had cooked
cassava harvested from the
plantation she worked on and
shared the dish with 14 mem-
bers of her family. None of the
adults got sick.
At about 5pm on the
same day, the six girls, aged
between 4 and 7, started vomi-
ting, Seng Dy, police chief in
Boribor districts Chhnok Trou
commune, said yesterday.
The girls were referred to
the provincial hospital, where
6-year-old Lai Chanlis died.
Only her 4-year-old sister
remains hospitalised.
According to Seng Dy, the
family ate the cassava because
they are poor and didnt know
the plant could be poisonous.
Cassava, a staple starch
in much of the world, can
cause cyanide poisoning if not
prepared properly. However,
a cause of death has yet to be
confirmed, according to the
Sorin Ravuthy, director of the
referral hospital. MOMKUNTHEAR
Asset freeze not serious
May Titthara

L
AND rights advocates and evict-
ees are calling on the govern-
ment to be more aggressive in its
pursuit of four prominent busi-
ness owners whose assets the Ministry of
Economy and Finance has asked the Na-
tional Bank of Cambodia to freeze over
outstanding payments for land swaps
involving state-owned property.
The ministry requested the somewhat
unusual step on July 22, explaining to the
bank that Suy Sophan, the president of
development company Phan Imex; Phou
Sivkhen, president of Golden Century
Import Export Co Ltd; Ngin Mono, presi-
dent of construction rm Mono Ratanak;
and Norng Savuth, president of Sovann
Vathanak, are all in delinquency.
However, according to Chan Soveth
with the rights group Adhoc, freezing is
not serious.
They should not just freeze the ac-
counts until they pay, he added. They
should investigate in depth.
Sophan, whose company Phan Imex is
responsible for the notorious Borei Keila
eviction in 2012, owes money to both the
Ministry of Information and the Ministry
of Public Works, though the land swaps
are not related to the Borei Keila dispute.
Sivkhen has yet to pay for a swimming
pool and hotel in Battambang province
formerly owned by the Ministry of Inte-
rior, while Mono is behind on payments
for the citys Monorom Hotel as well as
for a swap with the Ministry of Defence
in which the tycoon bought a medicine
warehouse, according to the letter. Savuth,
the ministry claims, never paid in entirety
for the former antique department of the
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.
The ministry will inform and ask for
you to reopen those accounts when the
parties pay the debts and nes to the gov-
ernment, the letter reads.
Chea Serey, the director-general of the
National Bank of Cambodia, and Minister
of Economy and Finance Minister Aun
Porn Moniroth, who signed the letter, did
not pick up the phone yesterday. Contact
information for Sivkhen, Mono and Sa-
vuth could not immediately be located.
Most of the ire, however, was focused on
Sophan and Phan Imex.
Chhay Kimhorn, representative of the
Borei Keila community, said she was de-
lighted to hear about the action, but said
it wasnt enough.
We do not just want to see her assets
frozen, but we also want to have her im-
prisoned she said.
Sophan did not pick up the phone when
called yesterday.
Suy Sophan, president of Phan Imex, talks at an event in 2010 for evicted families. The government
has asked for Sophans assets to be frozen due to oustanding payments. HENGCHIVOAN
Payments
made to
retirees rise
Vong Sokheng
THE government is upping the
payments made to retired and
disabled civil servants, accord-
ing to a July 31 subdecree by
Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Mut Khiev, secretary of state
at the Ministry of Social Affairs,
said the payments stand
between 200,000 and 300,000
riel per month (about $50 to
$75). But under the new sub-
decree which is back-dated to
April 1 recipients at the lower
end of the pay scale would col-
lect an additional 20,000 riel,
those in the middle would col-
lect another 40,000, and those
at the upper end would receive
another 60,000.
We know that the wage was
not proportionate to the cur-
rent situation of living condi-
tions, he said, adding that a
plan was also in the works to
increase the base retirement pay
to 400,000 riel by 2018, he said.
Opposition spokesman Yim
Sovann said his party supported
the payments but maintained
that the best way to improve
former civil servants quality of
life was to pay higher wages in
proportion with current mar-
ket prices.
Anti-tank mine
Explosion in
remote area
injures three
T
HREE people were
severely hurt when
a tractor in Banteay
Meanchey ran over a buried
anti-tank mine in a former
battleeld on Thursday.
The explosion in Svay Chek
district caused one man to
lose both his legs, while ano-
ther lost his eyes and broke
his feet and the third sustai-
ned minor wounds, according
to Song Sokhon, the districts
deputy police chief.
The men were on their
way home to OChrou district
carrying water when they ran
over the mine, Sokhon said.
They were sent to a nearby
town hospital.
Seven districts in Ban-
teay Meanchey, including
Svay Chek, have yet to be
cleared by demining teams,
according to Tean Sovann
Phalla, provincial director of
the Cambodian Mine Action
Centre (CMAC).
In the first six months of
this year, there have been 101
injuries and 14 people have
been killed due to unexploded
ordnance, up from 65 injuries
and eight deaths in the same
period last year. KIM SAROM
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Namhong
headed to
ASEAN talks
Cheang Sokha
FOREIGN Minister Hor Nam-
hong will head to Myanmar
later this week ahead of a three-
day meeting of ASEAN foreign
ministers beginning on Friday,
with the multilateral talks set to
focus on the ongoing dispute
over the South China Sea.
Namhong will attend an
ASEAN meeting, as well as meet-
ings of the ASEAN Plus Three
countries which includes Chi-
na, South Korea and Japan the
East Asia Summit and the
ASEAN Regional Forum.
All of the meetings will take
place in the capital Naypyidaw.
Namhong will also hold a
number of bilateral meetings
with his counterparts, includ-
ing Australias Julie Bishop.
The diplomats may reignite
talks over a controversial deal to
send refugees from Australian-
run off-shore detention centres
to Cambodia, which was
broached by Bishop in a meeting
with Namhong in February. For-
eign Ministry spokesman Koy
Kuong could not be reached.
Namhong is also scheduled to
hold bilateral meetings with
Chinas foreign minister and his
South Korean counterpart.
Vendors see justice in arrest
Khouth Sophak Chakrya

T
HE Friday arrest of a local busi-
nesswoman who holds the mu-
nicipal contract to collect park-
ing and stall fees from markets
citywide on breach of trust charges came
as no surprise to many vendors, aggrieved
by what they say are her unfair business
practices.
Cheav Vibol, deputy director of the mi-
nor crimes department of the Phnom
Penh Municipal Police Station, said yes-
terday that Roth Sopheaps arrest was
ordered by municipal court judge Pich
Maren for alleged breaches of trust com-
mitted between 2009 and 2013.
After a three-hour interrogation, the
court ordered the authorities to transport
Roth Sopheap to the Phnom Penh Munic-
ipal Police Station [to hold her] for further
questioning on Monday, Vibol said.
Municipal spokesman Long Dimanche
said yesterday that he thought the charges
stemmed from a personal case unrelated
to Sopheaps city contract, but that didnt
stop an outpouring of schadenfreude yes-
terday from disgruntled vendors affected
by her purportedly poor stewardship of
the citys markets.
Chan Vicheka, 35, who lives on
Monivong Boulevard near Central Mar-
ket, said that after receiving the license to
collect market and parking fees, Sopheap
had demanded greater amounts than
those outlined by the Ministry of Finance.
Whats more, he continued, his own prop-
erty was colonised in a recently halted bid
to turn Monivongs sidewalks into paid
parking spaces.
My front yard was used as parking spac-
es by Roth Sopheaps company, Vicheka
said, adding that the awed scheme was a
pain for both residents and motorists.
Second-hand shoe seller Kem Heng, 57,
said that under Sopheaps regime, she had
been forced to pay about $1.40 a day ne-
gotiated down from $2 for a space near
Wat Ounalom she had previously occu-
pied for free, with nary a receipt to show
for it. In order to rst secure her payments,
she added, Sopheaps agents conscated
her goods and held them hostage.
Nonetheless, Heng said, the arrest was
likely a show meant to deect disapproval.
I think that arresting Roth Sopheap is
just a play, and doing this will keep people
and sellers from criticising her, she said.
However, Pov Sopheak, a vendor near
Psar Chas market, hailed the arrest as
a promising development in the ght
against corruption and opportunists,
and said he wasnt ready to write off the
case just yet.
We will wait and see how effectively the
authorities and the Phnom Penh Munici-
pal Court work on this case, he said.
A fruit vendor packs fruit for a customer yesterday at a market in Phnom Penh where Roth
Sopheaps company is responsible for collecting rent from shop owners. PHA LINA
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Authorities stop a bus on the eastern side of Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge yesterday evening after
a ban was placed on vehicles weighing more than 3 tonnes from using the ailing bridge. ELI MEIXLER
Bridge ban enforced
Sen David

C
ITY Hall on Friday of-
cially issued its ban
on trucks weighing
more than 3 tonnes
from using the Cambodian-
Japanese Friendship Bridge
until cracks discovered last
month in a pillar on the bridges
eastern end are repaired, a city
spokesman said yesterday.
Long Dimanche said po-
lice had been stationed at the
nearly 50-year-old span to
turn back vehicles exceeding
the weight limit, and that such
vehicles would have to use
Prek Phnov Bridge nearly 10
kilometres to the north.
We sent the police to guard
it and to order [trucks] to cross
by Prek Phnov Bridge. We are
not allowing trucks over three
tonnes to cross for safety [rea-
sons], and in order to protect
our bridge after it was found
that it . . . must be repaired by
Japanese engineers, he said.
A policeman at the bridge
yesterday morning said of-
cers had been guarding the
on-ramps since Friday. We
guard it, because we fear some
big truck drivers would not
obey, he said.
Truck driver Sam Chan Ta,
on his way to Siem Reap, said
the detour would affect his
schedule, but was still better
than the alternative.
Now theyve banned us. I
have to drive to Prek Phnov
Bridge, which is so far way,
and takes time [to get to]. But
I have to obey because were
afraid of an accident . . . on the
bridge, he said.
Controversial pagoda closed
Croc release at dam site planned
Phak Seangly
KANDAL provinces Tuol
Reachea pagoda has been
ordered shut for a week after
authorities yesterday broke
into the living quarters of
Thean Vuthy, a man who claims
to be the next Buddha, and
found jewellery and other
irregular items.
The joint force from the Min-
istry of Cults and Religion and
provincial authorities found a
lot of diamonds, platinum,
photos of himself, amulets,
clothes, and more, according
to Phay Bunchhoeun, Kandal
provincial governor.
We do not know if the jewel-
lery is fake or not, Bunchhoe-
un said. Our committee is
investigating the matter and
has thus closed the pagoda for
a week.
On June 27, authorities seized
thousands of Vuthys books,
CDs and photos that were
being sold at the pagoda by
vendors.
The Ministry of Cults and
Religion released a letter last
week saying Vuthy seriously
offends the values of our state
religion of Buddhism.
Vuthy was summonsed to
clarify, educate, and correct
his views in accordance with
Buddhist practices and state
law, but his current wherea-
bouts are unknown.
Seven monks currently at
Tuol Reachea have been sent to
stay at the Brochum Noti pago-
da in Kandals Takhmao town.
Toeu Srun, director of the
Ministry of Cults and Religion
in Kandals Koh Thom district,
said he did not know when the
monks would be allowed to
return.
Daniel Pye
A CONSERVATION group may release 20 baby
Siamese crocodiles into the Areng Valley amid an
ongoing stand-off between villagers and a Chi-
nese firm over the construction of a controversial
hydropower dam in Koh Kong province.
Tuy Serey Vathana, country directory at Flora
and Fauna International, said yesterday that the
group was prepared to release the endangered
crocodiles despite previously saying that it would
not do so unless it had assurances that the Stung
Cheay Areng dam would not be built.
Whether the dam will be built or not is still
unclear, he said. To be honest, we want to do
this as a test, to see if we can keep the crocodiles
in the Areng [Valley].
Vathana met with Minister of Environment Say
Sam Al last week to raise concerns over the pros-
pect of the dam, he added. The new minister is
very good. He said that if he could make the deci-
sion, he would not want the hydro dam, but said
that Cambodia needs electricity.
State-owned Sinohydro Group is the third Chi-
nese firm to be granted permission to assess the
viability and impact of the Areng project.
The last company to conduct studies into the
dam, China Guodian, backed out, saying in its
annual report last year that it had done so because
the project was not economically viable.
Representatives of the Ministry of Mines and
Energy could not be reached.
We informed the minister about the history of
the hydro dam companies there, and the minis-
ter joked that [Sinohydro] might be the last one,
Vathana said.
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Wheels, wings seized
as cops raid cockfight
NIGHTMARE neighbours were
arrested in Pailin town on Sat-
urday for playing host to some
unwanted, feathery guests.
Police said they received com-
plaints from a disgruntled resi-
dent after an illegal cockfight-
ing ring set up shop next to his
house. When police busted the
ring, they found 10 motorbikes
and a quintet of fighting birds
on the property. Five men and
three women were arrested
while many more managed to
escape. DEUMAMPIL
Klepto couple steals one
moto too many in Sville
LOST a moto in Sihanoukville
lately? Chances are it might
have ended up stashed in the
house of a couple busted over
the weekend for numerous
thefts. Police were called out to
a house in the city after receiv-
ing a complaint from one
alleged victim of the duo. At the
station, they admitted to a string
of motorbike thefts, while the
cops confiscated four bikes
from the house. They were sent
to court and are awaiting trial.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Brushed bum leads to
beatdown outside club
SIX men in Phnom Penhs
Chamkarmon district took the
term clubbing literally on Sat-
urday when a night of dancing
turned into a street fight.
Police said the brawl began
after one of the men, who was
dancing in a local nightclub,
felt someone touch his poste-
rior. Enraged at the unwanted
attention, the man and his
friends challenged the offend-
er and his posse to a fight out-
side. Police intervened and
arrested all six. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Three little pigs prove
Pursat thiefs undoing
A THIEF in Pursat provinces
Bakan district learned on Satur-
day that it is not a good idea to
hog a familys pigs. Police said
the 21-year-old suspect snuck
into a local home when he
thought the owners were asleep
and stole three pigs. But, unbe-
knownst to the robber, one fam-
ily member was watching his
every move. After police arrest-
ed him, the pigheaded thief
denied the accusations. Howev-
er, he later confessed and was
sent to the court. DEUMAMPIL
Construction worker
building criminal record
A MAN leading a double life as
a construction worker by day,
thief by night was caught red-
handed in Phnom Penhs
Chamkarmon district yester-
day. Police said a complaint
was filed against the 28-year-
old suspect over his role in a
botched armed robbery on
Saturday night. When police
arrived to arrest the man at a
construction site yesterday,
instead of tools in his pocket,
they uncovered a gun. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER In Pailin, resistance
to malaria drug up
Laignee Barron

R
ESISTANCE to the
most-effective an-
ti-malarial drug is
rapidly increasing
throughout mainland South-
east Asia, and Cambodia is
ground zero, according to a
new study in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
By analysing blood samples
from 1,241 malaria patients in
10 Asian and African countries,
researchers found artemisi-
nin-resistant Plasmodium fal-
ciparum, the deadliest form of
the mosquito-borne parasite,
has spread throughout Thai-
land, Cambodia, Myanmar,
Laos and Vietnam.
Artemisinin, a wormwood
derivative, typically clears
parasites faster than other an-
timalarials. But the Mahidol
Oxford Tropical Medicine Re-
search Unit found that up to 73
per cent of sample patients in
Pailin continued to have para-
sites in their blood 72 hours
after treatment, a widely used
barometer for resistance.
The number represents a
surge of drug-resistant infec-
tions: in 2012, the National Ma-
laria Center estimated that just
26 per cent of Pailins malaria
cases were drug-resistant.
This is the third time the
parasite has developed a resis-
tance to treatment, and each
time resistance emerged from
the Thai-Cambodia border.
Previously [it was] because
of the widespread use of
sub-standard antimalarials
and inux of counterfeits,
said Sonny Krishnan, com-
munications director for the
World Health Organization in
Cambodia. For artemisinin,
it was the use of artemisi-
nin mono therapies . . . now
banned in Cambodia.
Switching up the treatment,
however, only seems to work
for so long; the more a treat-
ment is used, the faster its ef-
cacy erodes. In Cambodia,
where ACTs have been in use
for over 30 years, it now takes
six days to clear parasites in-
stead of the standard three,
the study found.
Stepping up existing con-
trol measures has not worked
we need a more radical ap-
proach, said Nicholas White,
senior author of the study.
Krishnan said that artemisi-
nin derivatives are still our best
rst-line treatment for malaria.
If we lose it, we will lose the war
against malaria.
Continued from page 1
water has risen above warning
levels.
Two people drowned due to
the rain in Kratie, so we would
like to appeal to people to be
very wary, especially young
children, because incidents
can occur if we are careless,
he said.
Soeung Chanthou, 28, died
on Friday afternoon in Kep
provinces OKrasar commune
after she slid into a 9-metre
well, said Hem Soksan, com-
mune police chief.
The victim did not remem-
ber where the opening of the
well was, because it was cov-
ered by the rainwater, which
has been pouring for days,
Soksan said. Her family came
to help, but they were unable
to because the well was so
deep. It took about three hours
to retrieve her body.
The three provinces most
heavily affected by the Me-
kong Rivers inundation were
Kampong Cham, Stung Treng
and Kratie, said Chan Yutha,
spokesman and cabinet chief
at the Ministry of Water Re-
sources and Meteorology.
The river should begin to re-
cede this afternoon, he said.
In Stung Treng, water will
go down tomorrow, and in
Kampong Cham, if it goes up,
it will only go up by a little
bit, Yutha said.
The situation is not seri-
ous yet even though many
provinces have been ooded.
In some provinces just one
district is inundated.
The ministry has already
prepared 200 pieces of heavy
equipment in Phnom Penh
and the provinces of Takeo,
Svay Rieng, Oddar Meanchey
and Battambang to divert wa-
ter or mitigate overows from
inundated homes and farm-
land, Yutha added.
Besides that, we always is-
sue notices about water lev-
els and changes in weather to
people and authorities in or-
der to alert them in advance,
he said.
Floods usually hit Cambodia
between August and October.
The current oods, though
deadly, have been repeatedly
predicted.
Floods in 2013 claimed 168
lives and injured 29 people
Earlier in July, the National
Committee for Disaster Man-
agement said it was ready for
oods, with more than 10,000
tonnes of rice stocked and
emergency supplies and res-
cue vehicles ready to go.
Mao Hak, deputy director
of technical works at the De-
partment of Hydrology and
River Work, told the Post on
Thursday that Phnom Penh
was safe from ooding for the
time being.
Five dead
as water
levels rise
Locals gather at a rivers edge in Kampong Cham yesterday to inspect a
road partially washed away by rising ood waters. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Eddie Morton

A
NZ Royal has been
accused of abandon-
ing the communities
impacted by ruling
party Senator Ly Yong Phats
$220 million sugar plantation
developments, after the bank
last month announced it had
severed all nancial ties with
his controversy-hit rm.
More than 350 members
of Thpong and Oral districts,
which surround plantations
belonging to Yong Phats
Phnom Penh Sugar Company
(PPS) and his wife Lim Heangs
Kampong Speu Sugar Compa-
ny [KSS], signed and delivered
a two-page complaint to the
bank on Friday.
For over four years we have
been subject to hardships and
poverty due to land grabbing
by PPS and Kampong Speu
Sugar, the letter reads.
We have no land for farm-
ing. The companies have
blocked road access to our rice
paddies that are located inside
the sugar plantation and seized
our cattle that graze inside the
plantation. The companies ask
for 100,000 riel to 200,000 riel
[$25 to $50] to have the cattle
returned each time.
The complaint calls for ur-
gent compensation and as-
sistance to the affected house-
holds. If ANZ does not meet
the communitys demands, the
letter states, demonstrations
will be held outside the banks
Phnom Penh head ofce until
a solution is reached.
Environmental audit docu-
ments commissioned by ANZ
and obtained by the Post in
January linked ANZ Royal
Bank a joint venture be-
tween the Australia and New
Zealand Banking Group and
Cambodias Royal Group to
PPS. The documents revealed
that from 2010 to 2013 the
company failed to act on 60
per cent of recommendations
made by Bangkok-based audi-
tor International Environmen-
tal Management, including
ones related to worker health
and safety.
ANZ Royal announced on
July 6 that Yong Phat had paid
out and nalised all loans
with the bank, and that PPS
and KSS, which had long been
at the centre of land disputes
and child labour claims, were
no longer clients.
Full repayment of the loan,
however, does not absolve
ANZ of accountability for the
negative impacts caused by
the companies plantations
from 2010 to 2014, the letter
says. It also claims that ANZ
Royal is in breach of an agree-
ment it made on February 15
in which it promised to inves-
tigate offering fair compensa-
tion for all affected parties.
The letter goes on to accuse
Yong Phats PPS of sending
representatives to the sur-
rounding communities to of-
fer small amounts of compen-
sation as well as to threaten
recipients to keep news of the
settlements secret.
PPS managing director
Seng Nhak rejected the letters
claims and insisted the rm
had continuously engaged the
affected community and is as-
sisting in developing the area.
I can categorically state
that Phnom Penh Sugar does
not use threatening tactics at
any time for any purpose, he
told the Post.
A spokesman from ANZs
head ofce in Melbourne said
the issue was now entirely out
of the banks hands and urged
community representatives
to take up their issues directly
with PPS.
While we had put in place
a detailed action plan to help
PPS improve its performance
in addressing its social and
environmental obligations,
it ultimately decided to pay
out its loan and is no longer a
customer of ANZ, the spokes-
man said.
Eang Vuthy, executive direc-
tor of Equitable Cambodia,
rejected ANZs stance, calling
on the bank to full its obliga-
tions and provide a practical
solution to the 350-plus ef-
fected households.
Paying back the loan does
not end the responsibility of
ANZ to human rights abuses
caused by its client, PPS,
Vuthy said.
ANZ needs to work with its
clients to address these issues
otherwise their reputation will
be further damaged.
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Ination in
Thailand
tamed by
food prices
INFLATION in Thailand eased
further in July on government
price controls, an economic
slowdown, a sluggish con-
struction sector and greater
supply, particularly of fruits
and vegetables.
The consumer price index
based on 450 items slowed to a
2.16 per cent year-on-year rise
against 2.35 per cent in June
and 2.62 per cent in May.
Commerce Ministry adviser
Ampawon Pichalai said July
inflation slowed due to lower
prices for fresh foods, espe-
cially in-season fruits and veg-
etables. Energy prices also
declined in line with the global
market, while the juntas meas-
ures to control living costs con-
tributed to lower inflation.
Higher prices were found in
178 items, mainly meat, poultry
and fish but also seasonings,
condiments and prepared food.
On a monthly basis, prices fell
by 0.08 per cent from June,
while prices in the first seven
months rose 2.23 per cent.
In the first seven months,
core inflation was 1.51 per cent
year-on-year well within the
central banks target range of
0.5 per cent to 3 per cent.
Inflation in Thailand has
been relatively benign,
restrained by government price
controls and subdued domes-
tic demand after months of
political unrest in Bangkok.
Ampawon said the Com-
merce Ministry expected infla-
tion to average 2.4 per cent in
the third quarter and 2.5 per
cent in the fourth quarter.
The rate in the second half is
expected to be 2.45 per cent,
leading to full-year inflation of
2.35 per cent. The ministry is
maintaining its 2014 inflation
target of 2 per cent to 2.8 per
cent. BANGKOK POST
Trafc passes one of ANZ Royal Banks branches in Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district earlier this year. VIREAK MAI
ANZ accused of abandonment
Paying back the loan does not
end the responsibility of ANZ
to human rights abuses
caused by its client
Mobile messaging firm
in Line for Tokyo listing
LINE Corp, operator of Japans
most popular messaging
service, submitted an
application for an initial public
offering to the Tokyo Stock
Exchange, people familiar with
the matter said. Line,
controlled by South Koreas
Naver Corp, plans to appoint
Nomura Holdings Inc as a lead
underwriter for the share sale,
according to the people. The
offering could value Tokyo-
based Line at more than 1
trillion yen ($9.8 billion), the
people said, asking not to be
identified. The companys
planned US listing may come
after its Tokyo trading debut,
another person familiar with
the matter said. BLOOMBERG
Microsoft sue Samsung
in tech licence dispute
MICROSOFT on Friday sued
Samsung in US federal court,
claiming the South Korean
giant had breached a contract
over licensing of technology
used in the smartphone
market. The complaint filed in
federal court in New York
alleges Samsung is balking at
making payments for patented
Microsoft technology used in
smartphones and tablets. The
legal pact involved Samsung
paying to use Microsoft
intellectual property, according
to the post by deputy counsel
David Howard. AFP
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
WTO future in doubt after collapse
T
HE future of the World
Trade Organisation
has been thrown into
doubt after eleventh-
hour attempts to salvage a
global trade deal collapsed.
Talks broke down after In-
dias refusal to back a deal un-
less it included concessions
allowing developing countries
freedom to subsidise and
stockpile food.
An agreement on the deal,
centred on loosening glob-
al customs rules, had been
reached in Bali in December,
with a deadline of midnight on
Thursday to ratify it. But it was
scuppered after the WTOs 160
members failed to reach agree-
ment over Indias demands.
It would have been the rst
global trade deal reached by
the Geneva-based institution
since it was founded almost
two decades ago. The last-
minute failure to reach agree-
ment prompted questions
over the very existence of the
WTO and how it will survive
the deadlock.
Admitting defeat, Roberto
Azevdo, the director general,
was candid about the chal-
lenges facing WTO. Despite
intense negotiations, disagree-
ment between members had
not been resolved, he said.
We have not been able to
nd a solution that would al-
low us to bridge that gap. We
tried everything we could.
But it has not proved pos-
sible, he said. The fact we do
not have a conclusion means
that we are entering a new
phase in our work a phase
which strikes me as being full
of uncertainties.
Created in 1995, the WTO
was set up to help trade ow
smoothly and freely around
the world. It describes its
main tasks as facilitating
trade negotiations and han-
dling trade disputes.
But experts say failure on this
key agreement risks consign-
ing it to the status of a referee
for disputes and could see it
ceasing to exist as a forum for
serious trade talks.
The US was quick to re-
proach India for its refusal to
sign the trade deal. The US
secretary of state, John Kerry,
on a visit to New Delhi, told In-
dias prime minister, Narendra
Modi, that his countrys ac-
tions sent the wrong signal.
Failure to sign the trade
facilitation agreement sent a
confusing signal and under-
mined the very image Prime
Minister Modi is trying to
send about India, a US state
department ofcial said after
Kerrys meeting with Modi.
Other WTO members pub-
licly voiced their frustrations.
Australia is deeply disap-
pointed that it has not been
possible to meet the deadline.
This failure is a great blow
to the condence revived in
Bali that the WTO can deliver
negotiated outcomes, said
Australian Trade Minister
Andrew Robb. There are no
winners from this outcome,
least of all those in develop-
ing countries, which would
see the biggest gains.
For its part, India sought to
reassure fellow WTO members
it was willing to return to the
table. A senior trade ministry
ofcial told Reuters that India
was prepared to engage with
the other countries to sign a
deal in September.
But the country again de-
manded that its calls for con-
cessions on stockpiling food
be granted. Azevdo stressed
that any resurrection of the
talks relied on the will of WTO
members.
I remind you that 31 July is
not my deadline it is a Bali
deadline decided by ministers
and a deadline that many
delegations have made clear
we must observe, he said,
urging WTO delegates to go
back to their governments at
the highest possible level
and stress the importance of
the situation we nd ourselves
in. The future of the multilat-
eral trading system is in your
hands, he said.
When the deal was ham-
mered out in Bali, a tearful
Azevdo told the summits
closing ceremony that, for the
rst time in history, the WTO
has nally delivered on large-
scale negotiations. But, even
at the time, questions were
raised about the fairness of
the deal to developing nations
and critics accused the pact of
favouring big business at the
expense of poor countries.
Some members, includ-
ing the US and the European
Union, have discussed trying
to move forward by leaving In-
dia out of the deal.
But New Zealands minister
of overseas trade, Tim Groser,
told Reuters there had been
too much drama surround-
ing the negotiations and that
talk of excluding India was
naive and counterproductive.
India is the second-biggest
country by population, a vital
part of the world economy and
will become even more impor-
tant. The idea of excluding In-
dia is ridiculous. AFP
World Trade Organisation director general Roberto Azevedo chairs the
opening of a meeting late on Thursday. AFP
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Business
QATARI telecoms rm Oore-
doo began selling low-cost
SIM cards in Myanmar on
Saturday, opening up access
to mobile services in one of
the worlds last virtually un-
tapped phone markets.
Less than 10 per cent of the
population are thought to have
access to a phone in Myanmar
where the exorbitant cost of a
SIM under former junta rule
made mobile phones a luxury.
But last year the reformist
government led by President
Thein Sein awarded telecom
licences to Ooredoo as well
as Norways Telenor, part of a
wider move to open up mar-
kets previously monopolised
by state rms.
This is history that we made
here today, said Ooredoo
Myanmar CEO Ross Cormack
at a press conference in Yan-
gon, adding the rm was bring-
ing the latest technologies to
the long-isolated nation.
The SIM card was ofcially
launched for sale on Saturday
in the major cities of Yangon,
Mandalay and Naypyidaw at
a price of 1,500 kyat ($1.50),
a fraction of the cost of or-
dinary cards in Myanmar
which retail at about $200.
Under junta rule a SIM could
go for more than $1,500.
Several million SIM cards
will be on sale from 6,500 deal-
ers, according to Cormack,
ahead of a wider rollout to cov-
er 68 towns and cities, around
and including the three hubs
launched Saturday, by mid-
August. But some shops were
reported to have started selling
advance stock as early as last
week with cases of vendors de-
manding above the retail price
and even selling out.
Myanmar has generated
huge international investor
interest since wide-ranging
reforms introduced under the
current quasi-civilian gov-
ernment saw most Western
sanctions lifted.
Actual investment has been
tempered by nervousness over
the regulatory framework.
But the telecoms tender pro-
cess eventually won by Tele-
nor and Ooredoo last June saw
some 90 rms compete for the
15-year licences, the rst to be
awarded by Myanmar.
The two foreign rms will
soon compete against each
other and existing state-
owned giant Myanmar Post
and Telecommunication for
a potentially lucrative pool of
customers among the coun-
trys estimated 60 million
people. AFP
Qatari rm sells cheap
SIM cards in Myanmar
Thai cybersecurity slammed
T
HAILAND is the
worlds third-most
dangerous base for
accessing the web, as
the country lacks data secu-
rity measures and law enforce-
ment, says a global computer
security rm.
A report conducted last year
by Englands Sophos found In-
donesia, China, Thailand, the
Philippines, Malaysia, India,
Mexico, the UAE, Taiwan and
Hong Kong were the 10 riski-
est places. Thailand is also the
worlds second-most vulner-
able location to access bank
ATMs, said the European ATM
Security Team.
Nearly 100 Thai government
websites have been hacked
and used to distribute mal-
ware, representing 85 per cent
of all government-hosted mal-
ware in the world, said a report
by English internet services
rm Netcraft Ltd.
All these world records
reect that Thailand ur-
gently needs to set up a na-
tional computer emergency
response team [CERT] as a
command centre to manage
and collaborate on national
cybersecurity threats and
cyberwarfare, said Surang-
kana Wayuparb, director of
the Electronic Transactions
Development Agency (ETDA)
under the ICT Ministry at a
forum entitled 14th Regional
Asia Information Exchange.
The country also needs to
increase its information secu-
rity experts to cope with the
increasing threats. Thailand
currently only has between
200 and 300 specialists, well
below Singapores 1,500.
Surangkana said informa-
tion security threats were no
longer only technical dangers.
They can have a major effect
on the countrys economy and
national physical security.
Cyberattacks pose a serious
challenge to people at all lev-
els, from end-users to enter-
prises and government agen-
cies, Surangkana said.
She said the number of glob-
al internet users was expected
to reach three billion this year.
Thailand has 30 million in-
ternet users out of a popula-
tion of 70 million.
The countrys e-commerce
was valued at 740 billion ($23
billion) baht last year. Several
hundred thousand computers
in Thailand were infected with
malware last year.
Surangkana said the ETDA
would propose a national Cert
to the junta. If approved, the
ETDA expects a centre will be
created by year-end.
The creation of a national
is expected to upgrade the
ETDAs existing computer
emergency response team to
a full national command cen-
tre, she said.
The ETDA plans to spend
one-third of its scal-2015
budget of 429 million baht to
enhance the capacity of its in-
formation security system and
buying new advanced digital
forensic equipment.
Surangkana also said that it
was time for the Thai govern-
ment to impose strict mea-
sures and start enforcing the
law in dealing with increas-
ing cyberthreats.
The government needs to
develop more secure websites
to reduce their vulnerability
to cyberterrorists and educate
consumers about cybersecu-
rity concerns, she said.
Measures to protect person-
al data privacy on social media
channels are also needed to
reduce the security threat in
online transactions, Surang-
kana added. BANGKOK POST
A report has found that Thailands cyber security is woefully inadequate
and with Thailands e-commerce valued at $23 billion it desperately
needs to create a national computer security team to manage threats. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof AUGUST 1, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 1.75% N/A 2.75% N/A 3.50% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo over the Mojave Desert in April, as shown in this handout photo released to the media in April 2013. This was the
rst time the rocket motor was red in ight, taking the craft supersonic. BLOOMBERG
Pioneers of space industry
are pushing the final frontier
Patrick Rahir

W
ITH spacecraft
that can carry
tourists into orbit
and connect Par-
is to New York in less than two
hours, the new heroes of space
travel are not astronauts but
daring captains of industry.
This new breed of space
pioneers are all using private
money to push the nal fron-
tier as government space pro-
grams fall away.
Times have changed. Once
the space race was led by the
likes of the US space agency
NASA that put the rst man on
the moon in 1969.
Today it is entrepreneur
Elon Musk the founder of
Tesla electric cars and space
exploration company SpaceX
who wants to reach Mars in
the 2020s.
The furthest advanced and
most highly publicised pri-
vate space project is led by
Richard Branson, the British
founder of the Virgin Group.
His shuttle, SpaceShipTwo,
will be launched at high al-
titude from a weird-looking
four-engined mothership
which can carry two pilots and
up to six passengers before
embarking on a three-hour
suborbital ight.
Branson and his sons will
be the rst passengers aboard
the shuttle when it is expected
to launch later this year.
His company Virgin Galac-
tic was given the green light
in May by the US Federal Avi-
ation Agency (FAA) to carry
passengers from a base in
New Mexico, which is named
Spaceport America the
stuff of science ction.
The $250,000 price of a
ticket has not deterred more
than 600 people, includ-
ing celebrities such as actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, from
booking their seats.
The US spaceight compa-
ny XCOR is more affordable,
offering a one-hour subor-
bital ight for $100,000 on a
shuttle that takes off from the
Mojave Desert in California.
The experience has already
sold nearly 300 tickets.
The rst prototype is being
assembled. Hopefully, the test
ights will begin before the
end of the year, and commer-
cial ights before the end of
2015, Michiel Mol, an XCOR
board member, told AFP.
But the new space busi-
ness is not just about pan-
dering to the whims of the
rich, it also hopes to ad-
dress a market for launching
smaller satellites that weigh
less than 250 kilograms.
There is no dedicated
launcher for small satellites,
said Rachel Villain of Eurocon-
sult, a global consulting rm
specialising in space markets.
Everyone has been look-
ing for years for the Holy Grail
of how to reduce costs, other
than to send them as passen-
gers on big launchers.
These new players are
revolutionising the launch
market, said aeronautical ex-
pert Philippe Boissat of con-
sultants Deloitte. They are
smarter, cheaper, and they are
reusable and dont leave de-
bris in space.
Which is exactly what one
newcomer, Swiss Space Sys-
tems, or S3, proposes. With a
shuttle on the back of an Air-
bus A300, its founder Pascal
Jaussi wants to start launch-
ing satellites before going
into intercontinental passen-
ger ights.
The 37-year-old former test
pilot claims he can cut the
price of a 250-kilogram satel-
lite launch to 8 million (al-
most $11 million), a quarter of
what it now costs.
Satellite makers wanting to
launch groups of weather and
surveillance satellites have al-
ready lled our order books,
he said.
The rst test ights are
planned for the end of 2017,
and the rst satellite launch-
es will begin at the end of
the following year from a
base in the Canary Islands,
the Spanish archipelago off
northwest Africa.
For passenger travel, the new
space companies have to be
passed by the regulators who
currently control air travel.
At the moment a passen-
ger plane covers the 5,800
kilometres between Paris
and New York in seven
hours. At Mach 3 speed, the
S3 shuttle will be able to do
the same trip in only one-
and-a-half hours.
We hope to have a ticket
price comparable to a rst-
class transatlantic fare. It
should never be more than
30,000 Swiss francs ($33,100),
he said.
Boissat of Deloitte is already
looking further ahead.
These suborbital ights will
produce a new generation of
ghter pilots at the controls
of space shuttles sent up to
protect satellites or neutralise
ones that pose a threat, he
predicted. AFP
Hopefully, the test flights will
begin before the end of the
year, and commercial flights
before the end of 2015
YOU may know bitcoin as a
kind of digital cash that can
be spent just like the US dollar
and cant be traced to a spe-
cic identity. Maybe youve
even heard it described as a
virtual currency.
Bitcoin supporters are now
distancing themselves from
the word at least as its used
in Florida law.
Advocates of the payment
technology are defending
two men who were accused
this year of using bitcoin in a
money-laundering scheme.
According to documents led
in state court, Pascal Reid and
Michel Abner Espinoza were
approached months ago by
an undercover Miami Beach
police ofcer and a Secret
Service agent.
The law enforcement of-
cers told Reid and Espinoza
that they were interested in
buying bitcoins to obtain sto-
len credit card numbers.
Reid later allegedly sold
$25,000 worth of bitcoins
to the Secret Service agent.
At todays price, that would
amount to 42 bitcoins.
Florida has charged the two
suspects with money laun-
dering and, in Reids case, one
count of being an unauthor-
iSed money transmitter.
The outcome of the court
case, which prosecutors say
may potentially be the rst
time a state has charged
bitcoin users in connection
with money laundering,
could become a bellwether
for bitcoin regulators.
Its the last count that bit-
coin supporters are hoping to
get dismissed. Theyre argu-
ing that bitcoin isnt curren-
cy so Reid cant have been
a money transmitter under
Florida law.
Currency is dened as
the coin and paper money
of the United States or of any
other country which is des-
ignated as legal tender and
which circulates and is cus-
tomarily used and accepted
as a medium of exchange in
the country of issuance, law-
yers for the Bitcoin Founda-
tion, an industry group, wrote
Thursday in an amicus brief
to the state court. Bitcoin
most certainly is not the coin
and paper money of the Unit-
ed States.
The Bitcoin Foundations
former vice chairman, Char-
lie Shrem, was accused this
year of money laundering
and conspiracy in connection
with Silk Road, the online
marketplace where bitcoins
were routinely traded for il-
licit drugs.
Still, the Bitcoin Foundation
may nd support for its posi-
tion, and in an unlikely place:
the federal government. The
Internal Revenue Service
said in March that it consid-
ers bitcoin a form of property
akin to shares of stock. For tax
purposes, at least, bitcoin is
not money.
Reids allies also argue that
a recent Treasury Depart-
ment memo on bitcoin has
exempted individuals from
the regulations associated
with money transmitters.
They say that because Reid
was a lone person engaging
in a peer-to-peer transaction
he falls outside the scope of
the Florida law meant to deal
with money transmitters.
But things are a little less
clear. The Treasury Depart-
ment memo cited by the
Bitcoin Foundation explic-
itly points out that someone
who mines bitcoins and sells
them later on, or buys bit-
coins and trades them for
real currency later, is a mon-
ey transmitter.
Legalese aside, the Bitcoin
Foundation is in the position
of having to answer an un-
comfortable question. Is bit-
coin currency, or isnt it? THE
WASHINGTON POST
Bitcoin not a currency,
backers say in Florida
money-laundering case
11 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
World
Dr Bruce Ribner of the School of Medicines Infectious Diseases Division
speaks at a press conference on Friday. AFP
DOCTORS worked to save
Americas rst Ebola virus
patient on Saturday after he
arrived in the US aboard a pri-
vate air ambulance and was
whisked to a state-of-the-art
hospital isolation unit.
On board was stricken doc-
tor Kent Brantly, one of two
American aid workers in-
fected with Ebola as they
helped to battle an Ebola out-
break that has claimed more
than 700 lives in West Africa
since March.
The Gulfstream jet,
equipped with a collapsible
isolation chamber, landed
at Dobbins Air Reserve Base
outside Atlanta, Georgia just
before 11:50am (1550 GMT).
The jet pulled up at an air-
craft hangar, where it was met
by an ambulance and several
vehicles, and the convoy then
wound its way across Atlanta
to Emory University Hospital.
Images showed three indi-
viduals wearing white bio-
suits emerge from the ambu-
lance, with one, apparently
Brantly, led gingerly into the
hospital.
His wife Amber Brantly
asked for people to pray for
his recovery and that of those
stricken with the virus in
Liberia.
Christian missionary work-
er Nancy Writebol is expected
to be airlifted back to the
United States in the coming
days by the same method
as Brantly.
We thank God that they are
alive and now have access to
the best care in the world,
said Franklin Graham, presi-
dent of Samaritans Purse, the
organisation for which Brantly
was working in West Africa.
The State Department, Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Institutes
of Health, World Health Orga-
nization and Emory Hospital
all helped in the effort.
Brantly and Writebol will be
treated at Emorys cutting-
edge isolation unit, which has
previously been used to care
for individuals infected dur-
ing the SARS epidemic that
erupted in Asia in 2002-2003.
It is one of only four such
facilities in the United States
and is located near the CDC
headquarters in Atlanta.
Brantlys arrival marks the
rst time a patient infected
with Ebola has been treat-
ed anywhere in the United
States, triggering criticism in
some quarters.
Business magnate and tele-
vision personality Donald
Trump argued that the pa-
tients should be barred from
returning to US soil.
However, Bruce Ribner, who
oversees the isolation unit at
Emory, dismissed the criti-
cism. They have gone over on
a humanitarian mission [and]
they have become infected
giving medical care, Ribner
said. We owe them the right
to receive the best medical
care that is available.
The US State Department
said the safety and security
of US citizens remained the
paramount concern.
Every precaution is being
taken to move the patients
safely and securely, to pro-
vide critical care en route on a
noncommercial aircraft, and
to maintain strict isolation
upon arrival, State Depart-
ment deputy spokeswoman
Marie Harf said. AFP
First Ebola case on
American soil as
doctor goes home
Civilians hit in fighting as
MH17 probe gathers pace
Anna Malpas and Sergey Bobok
F
IGHTING between
government forces
and pro-Russian
rebels left at least
10 civilians dead in eastern
Ukraine yesterday, as in-
ternational experts pushed
on with their grim hunt for
remains at the crash site of
downed ight MH17.
The deputy mayor in the
besieged insurgent strong-
hold of Donetsk said that
shooting in a residential sub-
urb had killed six civilians
and injured 13, the latest
victims of more than three
months of civil war that has
claimed at least 1,150 lives.
Local authorities in the
second-largest separatist bas-
tion of Lugansk said shelling
had left three dead and eight
injured, while the city council
in the frontline rebel base of
Gorlivka reported one dead
and 16 hurt in clashes there.
Ukraines military said its
positions in the region con-
tinued to come under heavy
bombardment, including
shellre allegedly from across
the porous border with its
former Soviet master Russia.
Government forces have
made major gains over the
past month and say they are
getting close to cutting off
ghters in Donetsk from the
Russian border and their
comrades in Lugansk.
Kiev has promised to stamp
out the insurgency in the
near future but analysts warn
the ghting could drag on as
rebels have holed up in major
cities and pledged to battle to
the death.
And it is civilians in the
blighted region who are bear-
ing the brunt of the violence.
Lugansk, a city of some
420,000, is trapped in a pun-
ishing government blockade,
with the mayor warning of a
looming humanitarian ca-
tastrophe as electricity has
failed and water and fuel sup-
plies been exhausted.
The United Nations says
over 100,000 people have ed
the ghting for other parts
of Ukraine while Russia
claims some 500,000 have
crossed the border in search
of refuge.
The latest violence came as
scores of Dutch and Austra-
lian police investigators com-
pleted a third day trawling
through wreckage for more
unrecovered remains of the
298 people killed when the
Malaysian passenger jet was
blown out of the sky over sep-
aratist territory almost three
weeks ago.
After days of erce ght-
ing prevented experts reach-
ing the scene of the disaster,
the Dutch-led probe has
now bulked up to near full-
strength with sniffer dogs and
refrigerated ambulance vans
brought in as they scramble
to make up for lost time.
We have already searched
one of the ve zones that we
have divided the crash site
into, Pieter-Jaap Aalbers-
berg, head of the Dutch po-
lice mission, said.
Search crews continue to
turn up body parts and per-
sonal belongings scattered
across some 20 square kilo-
metres (8 square miles) and
those leading the probe say it
could take some three more
weeks despite 220 cofns
already taken to the Nether-
lands for identication.
Another plane carrying an
unspecied number remains
will y out of the government-
held city of Kharkiv today.
Aalbersberg told journalists
in the city that a train wagon
carrying victims possessions
was currently stuck at a rebel-
held train station.
International shock waves
from the crisis continue to
reverberate with tensions be-
tween Russia and the West at
their highest point since the
Cold War.
The United States and the
European Union have hit
Moscow with the tough-
est sanctions seen since the
collapse of the Soviet Union
over the Kremlins alleged
arming and instigation of
the separatist rebellion.
But the punishing measures
are yet to quell the ght-
ing and US President Barack
Obama on Friday expressed
deep concerns about Mos-
cows increased support for
the insurgents in a phone
call with Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin. AFP
A woman walks with her bicycle through the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines ight MH17 in the village of Hrabove, some 80 kilometres east of
Donetsk, on Saturday. AFP
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THE two-hour-long execu-
tion of a US inmate last month
required 15 doses of a rela-
tively untested drug cocktail,
according to documents,
prompting renewed calls for
an independent investigation.
Arizonas July 23 execution
by lethal injection of double
murderer Joseph Wood was
drawn out for 117 minutes-
rather than the the usual 10.
His attorney late on Friday
released 331 pages of docu-
ments he had received from
the Arizona Department of
Corrections, which examined
Wood after the procedure, and
said the use of that quantity of
medication was a violation of
ofcial procedures.
Death penalty opponents
allege that the lengthy execu-
tion of Wood, 55, and others
amount to a form of torture or
the cruel and unusual pun-
ishment forbidden by the US
constitution.
US courts have rejected
several appeals by inmates
concerned by the procedure,
amid predictions that the de-
bate will likely eventually have
to be decided by the US Su-
preme Court. AFP
Botched
killing had
15 doses
Morality key in Thai Downs boy case
A
USTRALIAS Im-
migration Minister
Scott Morrison said
yesterday that a
question of moral responsi-
bility should determine the
fate of a baby born with Down
Syndrome, reportedly aban-
doned by an Australian cou-
ple with its surrogate mother
in Thailand.
Morrisons comments came
as funds raised online by an
Australian charity to pay for
the infants medical care rose
above $190,000 after a ood
of international goodwill over
the infants plight.
The boy, Gammy, and a
twin sister were born to Thai
woman Pattaramon Chan-
bua in December after she
was reportedly paid A$16,000
(US$14,900) to be a surrogate.
An unnamed Australian
couple took the sister, who
was healthy, but left Gammy
behind, according to media
reports. The baby boy also
suffers from a life-threatening
heart condition, and 21-year-
old Pattaramon had earlier
said she could not afford to
pay for the medical treatment
he needs.
I think this is an absolutely
heartbreaking story, it really
is, Morrison said.
I think perhaps this may
fall more into the territory of
what peoples moral respon-
sibilities are here.
I note there was a comment
earlier that the mother of this
child, baby Gammy, wants
the child to remain in Thai-
land and that mothers wishes
also have to be respected.
Pattaramons mother, 53-
year-old Pichaya Nathonchai,
said yesterday that Gammy
had been in a private hospital
in Chonburi province, about
an hour from Bangkok, since
Thursday and his condition
was improving.
He is a quiet, calm boy . . .
His mother and I are taking
turns to see him at the hospi-
tal, Pichaya said, adding her
family was relieved donations
were coming in.
Although we have ben-
eted from the 30 baht ($1)
health scheme, it does not
cover everything he needs,
she said, referring to Thai-
lands universal health care
scheme.
Peter Baines, the founder of
Hands Across The Water, the
charity managing the dona-
tions, said Gammy was in hos-
pital as he was still very ill and
suffering from a lung infection
at the moment.
He said the donations had
far exceeded the initial $25,000
target, and he would be ying
to Thailand from Australia in
the next few weeks to coordi-
nate how the money is used to
fund Gammys healthcare and
his familys needs.
Ill meet with the family and
then we can meet with our
representatives on the ground
and get a good understanding
of what are those needs over
the next six months, and then
three years, and then beyond,
Baines said.
Pattaramon told Fairfax Me-
dia late Saturday she wanted
to take care of the boy in Thai-
land, saying: Ill take care of
Gammy on my own. Ill not
give my baby to anybody.
I wish they will love my
baby . . . I forgive them for ev-
erything. That is the best thing
I can do, forgive . . . It is best
for everybody, she said of the
Australian couple.
I want to see all my children
back together again. I dont
really think too much about
the Australian couple. I cant
blame them . . . I dont feel up-
set or angry about them any-
more. They might have their
own problems too.
Morrison said the surrogacy
case had some serious issues
that needed to be managed
very carefully. But this whole
issue I think is fraught with all
of these difculties, and I can
understand the longing and
anguish of parents in this situ-
ation who want to be parents,
but equally there are some se-
rious issues here that have to
be managed very carefully,
he said.
Fairfax Media earlier report-
ed that a surrogacy agent who
helped coordinate the agree-
ment between Pattaramon
and the Australian couple told
her to abort the pregnancy af-
ter doctors learned one of the
twins had Down Syndrome.
Pattaramon told the news-
paper she refused the abor-
tion because of her Buddhist
faith. Donors to the fund-
raising website criticised the
babys abandonment.
Commercial surrogacy, in
which a woman is paid to car-
ry a child, is not permitted in
Australia, but couples are able
to use an altruistic surrogate
who receives no payment be-
yond medical and other rea-
sonable expenses.
However, Surrogacy Austra-
lia said more couples choose
to go overseas than nd an
altruistic surrogate at home,
with 400 or 500 each year
venturing to India, Thailand,
the US and other places to do
so. AFP
Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua posing for a photo with
baby Gammy, born with Down Syndrome, in Chonburi province. AFP

Humanitarian tragedy
after jihadist takeover
THE capture of the Iraqi town of
Sinjar by jihadist fighters has
sent up to 200,000 people into
flight and sparked a
humanitarian tragedy amid
fears for their lives, the UN said
yesterday. A humanitarian
tragedy is unfolding in Sinjar,
the top UN envoy in Iraq,
Nickolay Mladenov, said after
the Islamic State (IS) group
captured the northern town,
which lies near the Syrian
border and was already home to
thousands of previously
displaced families. The UN
statement said some reports
put the number of people forced
to flee by the IS takeover at
200,000. AFP
Ten Lebanon troops die

in clashes with militants
MILITANTS fired heavy
machine guns and mortar
rounds at Lebanese troops
near the Syrian border
yesterday, in a second day of
clashes that have killed 10
soldiers, with 13 more missing,
possibly being held hostage.
The violence, which has also
killed two civilians, is the worst
to hit the border area of Arsal
since the beginning of the war
in neighbouring Syria in 2011. It
erupted after the detention of a
Syrian man who the army said
had admitted to being a
member of al-Qaedas Syrian
affiliate, al-Nusra Front. AFP
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Libya parliament meets amid violence
L
IBYAS new nation-
alist-dominated par-
liament held its rst
meeting on Saturday,
boycotted by Islamists, in a
sign of deep divisions still
plaguing a violence-racked
country from which thou-
sands are eeing.
The parliament, elected
June 25, is to take over from
the interim General National
Congress (GNC) chosen in
the wake of the 2011 NATO-
backed revolution that oust-
ed longtime dictator Muam-
mar Gadda.
It was to have convened in
Benghazi today, but the meet-
ing was brought forward and
shifted to Tobruk farther east
for security reasons.
Both Benghazi and the capi-
tal, Tripoli, are the scene of
regular ghting that has killed
more than 200 people and
wounded another 1,000 in the
past two weeks.
Growing security problems
have prompted thousands of
people to ee, mostly over-
land to neighbouring Tunisia,
and numerous countries to
close their embassies and urge
their citizens to leave.
Tripoli airport has stayed
closed since gunmen, mostly
Islamists, attacked it on July 13
in a bid to wrest control from
the Zintan brigade of former
rebels who have held it since
the 2011 revolt.
The brigades opponents
view it as the armed wing of
the nationalist movement,
and the battle is seen as part
of a struggle for political inu-
ence as the new parliament
prepares to assume ofce.
Ever since Gadda was
ousted and killed, the new
authorities have struggled in
vain to rein in the many mi-
litias which have carved out
their own efdoms and often
clash. Fighting at the airport
resumed on Saturday after
relative calm on Friday, with
explosions and gunre heard
as far away as the city centre.
There were no immediate re-
ports of casualties.
A blaze at a fuel depot near
the airport also erupted last
Sunday when a rocket hit a
storage tank.
A civil defence ofcial on
Saturday reported progress in
putting out the re engulng
three tanks and threatening
more than 90 million litres
of fuel, as well as natural gas
stocks. But later a fourth tank
was hit by a rocket and set
ablaze, said Mohamed al-
Hrari, spokesman for the Na-
tional Oil Co.
Benghazi, the scene of regu-
lar clashes between Islamists
and forces backing a retired
general who has launched an
offensive against them, was
relatively quiet on Saturday.
During the meeting in To-
bruk, presiding MP Abu Bakr
Biira issued a call for reconcil-
iation between rival factions,
saying: We want to unite the
homeland and put our differ-
ences to one side.
He said Saturdays closed-
door gathering, boycotted by
Islamists, was purely consul-
tative and that a formal inau-
gural session would be held
today, also in Tobruk.
He also said that 160 of the
180 members of the new par-
liament had made their way
to Tobruk, 1,500 kilometres
from the capital, near the
Egyptian border.
It was not possible to inde-
pendently conrm that num-
ber. But while outgoing GNC
president Nuri Abu Sahmein
also said the inaugural session
would be held today, he insist-
ed the venue was Tripoli.
The international com-
munity has pressed the new
legislature to move quickly to
assume power amid the con-
tinuing turmoil.
Analysts say most of the
seats in the new assembly
were won by nationalist fac-
tions, who complain that the
defeated Islamists are stirring
trouble to delay the new legis-
lature taking over.
In response to the growing
chaos, thousands of people
have ed the country.
On Friday, Libyan guards
red warning shots to keep
back a crowd of people, mostly
Egyptian labourers, trying to
enter Tunisia, which shut the
border crossing at Ras Jedir.
The frontier post was re-
opened on Saturday and sev-
eral hundred people managed
to cross. Egypts ambassador
in Tunis, Ayman Musharafa,
announced that Cairo would
y home from Tunisia its citi-
zens who were allowed to en-
ter the country.
More than 400 workers from
China on Saturday joined the
evacuations, crossing to Tuni-
sia in a convoy of cars, Chinese
media said.
Earlier this week, Greece
sent a naval frigate to Libya to
evacuate nearly 200 of its own
citizens as well as people from
other countries. AFP
Smoke billows from a petrol depot following clashes between rival
militias near the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday. AFP

In China, 37 civilians, 59
terrorists killed in riots
CHINESE state media said
yesterday that 37 civilians and
59 terrorists had been killed
in an attack earlier in the week
in Xinjiang, home to Chinas
mainly Muslim Uighur
minority. The total toll makes
the incident by far the
bloodiest since rioting involving
Uighurs and members of
Chinas Han majority killed
around 200 people in the
regional capital Urumqi in
2009. Police had arrested 215
terrorists while 13 civilians
were also wounded in
Mondays attack on a police
station and government offices
in Shache county, or Yarkand
in the Uighur language, in
Kashgar prefecture, according
to the Xinhua news agency. AFP
Museveni: anti-gay law
not scrapped due to US
UGANDAN President Yoweri
Museveni denied on Saturday
that the scrapping of a tough
anti-gay law he had
championed had anything to
do with an Africa-US summit
next week. The legislation,
which would have seen
homosexuals jailed for life,
caused an international outcry
and was overturned by the
countrys constitutional court
on Friday. Museveni, who is
due in Washington for a
summit between African
leaders and US President
Barack Obama on Tuesday,
said the courts decision had
nothing to do with his visit
nor the sanctions the United
States had slapped on its east
African ally because of the
laws. US Secretary of State
John Kerry had likened the law
to anti-Semitic legislation in
Nazi Germany, and several
international donors
suspended aid to Uganda in
protest. AFP
Huge rally for Kurdish
candidate in Istanbul
THOUSANDS of people
yesterday turned out for a
mass rally in support of the
Kurdish candidate in Turkeys
presidential elections, in a
rare large-scale show of
Kurdish nationalism in the
centre of Istanbul. Some
10,000 people rallied by the
shores of the Bosphorus in
Kadikoy, the main hub of the
Asian side of Istanbul, for the
address by Kurdish candidate
Selahattin Demirtas. Many
waved flags with the face of
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed
leader of the banned
Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK) that waged a deadly
insurgency against the
Turkish authorities in
southeast Turkey for years.
Others waved banners with
Demirtas main slogan for the
August 10 polls: For
democratic change, for
peace. AFP
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No hope of survivors after Nepal landslide
RESCUERS yesterday ruled out finding
any more survivors of a landslide in
northeast Nepal feared to have buried
at least 100 people under tonnes of mud
and rocks.
Nine bodies have been pulled from
the rubble after the landslide caused by
heavy monsoon rains smashed into
hamlets along a river in Sindhupalchok
district before dawn on Saturday, an
official said.
It has been over 24 hours that people
would have been buried in mud. We
have no hope of finding anyone alive,
government disaster management head
Yadav Prasad Koirala said.
We recovered one more dead body,
bringing our toll up to nine people, he
said after returning from the site yester-
day, adding according to our data, 155
people are still missing.
As police and soldiers kept up their
search for the victims, thousands of
people downstream across the border
in India were being evacuated amid
fears of flash floods from the land-
slide. Nepalise workers were attempt-
ing to clear landslide debris which
dammed the Sunkoshi river and cre-
ated a large lake. The river runs down-
stream into Indias eastern state of
Bihar as the Kosi river.
Authorities in Bihar have evacuated
more than 44,000 people amid fears that
a torrent of water could inundate vil-
lages and farms if the dam across the
border suddenly broke, officials said.
Disaster response teams and their
boats have been deployed in Bihar,
along with soldiers, while six military
helicopters and navy diving teams were
on standby, the Indian government said
in a statement.
A military plane was also preparing to
leave for Bihar carrying medical teams
and equipment, the statement said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who
is visiting Nepal, has expressed con-
cern over the possible flooding and
directed that all possible assistance
should be made available, the state-
ment said. Water discharge so far is
not alarming. But it cannot be pre-
dicted when the flow might increase
suddenly, it added.
The Kosi river burst its banks in 2008
and shifted away from its normal
course, engulfing swathes of Bihar and
killing hundreds of people.
Nepalese workers on Saturday carried
out small explosions to clear the debris
and break open the dam which had cre-
ated a large 110-metre (360-feet) deep
lake in the river.
At least two hydropower stations have
been flooded at the site, forcing them
to shut down. A 3-kilometre stretch of
the Arniko Highway, which connects
Nepal with Tibet in China, has also been
submerged and been closed. As India
stepped up evacautions, Nepals Koi-
rala said the risk of flooding appeared
to be reducing. Officials have also
opened a barrage on the river near the
India-Nepal border to allow more water
to flow downstream, he said.
The water is gradually clearing out,
the artificial lake created due to the
blockage is shrinking, so the danger is
lessening, he said.
Rescuers on Saturday airlifted 34 peo-
ple to safety from the landslide site,
including 19 who suffered serious inju-
ries. Scores of people die every year
from flooding and landslides during
Nepals monsoon season.
Nepals landslide came as some 150
people were feared dead in neighbour-
ing India following a landslide which
destroyed a village in western Mahar-
ashtra state on Wednesday. Ninety two
bodies have so far been recovered. AFP
At least 150 killed in China quake
A
T LEAST 150 peo-
ple were killed and
1,300 injured after
a strong earthquake
hit southwest Chinas moun-
tainous Yunnan province yes-
terday, state media said.
The quake in Zhaotong
prefecture, in the provinces
northeast, toppled buildings
and left residents frantically
searching for survivors be-
neath the rubble, images on
social media showed.
At least 150 people were
killed, the ofcial news agen-
cy Xinhua reported.
Too many buildings were
damaged and we are collect-
ing data on deaths and inju-
ries, Xinhua quoted a local
ofcial as saying from the
township of Longtoushan, at
the epicentre of the quake.
China News Service, the
countrys second state news
agency, said more than 1,300
people had been injured and
12,000 houses had collapsed.
State television broadcast
footage of people running
from their homes and gather-
ing in the street, as witnesses
described the devastation on
social media.
The walls of several build-
ings crumbled, and water
pipes were ruptured. The
electricity was cut off, wrote
a user who said they lived in
Ludian county, 23 kilometres
(14 miles) from the epicentre,
on Chinas Twitter-like Weibo.
The users message was
accompanied by images of
cracked walls and a pile of
bricks strewn across the road.
Another Ludian resident
described the scene as resem-
bling a battleeld after bom-
bardment, telling Xinhua I
have never felt [such] strong
tremors before. What I can
see are all ruins.
Ludian has a population of
265,900, and sits more than
300 kilometres (185 miles)
from the provincial capital of
Kunming.
Zhaotong City, the capital
of the prefecture, dispatched
more than 300 police ofcers
and reghters to the quake-
hit areas.
The province also sent 392
rescuers and sniffer dogs.
The United States Geo-
logical Survey (USGS) had
warned that the popula-
tion of the region resided in
structures highly vulner-
able to earthquake shaking.
USGS reported the quake at
a magnitude of 6.1 and said
it struck at a relatively shal-
low depth of 10 kilometres at
4:30pm (0830 GMT).
Chinese state media put the
magnitude at 6.5, citing the
China Earthquake Networks
Center.
Complicating matters, the
road leading to Longtoushan
was damaged in a landslide
before the quake.
Southwest China lies
where the Eurasian and In-
dian plates meet and is prone
to earthquakes. In 1974, a
6.8-magnitude quake in the
same area killed more than
1,500 people.
In September 2012, 80
people were killed when
twin earthquakes struck the
mountainous border area of
Yunnan and Guizhou.
In May 2008, an 8.0-magni-
tude quake rocked Sichuan,
which neighbours Yunnan,
killing tens of thousands of
people and attening swathes
of the province. AFP
Rescuers carry an injured child on a stretcher after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the area in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest Chinas
Yunnan province. AFP
World
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Strike on UN Gaza school kills 10
as Israel pulls out some soldiers
Sakher Abu El Oun
A
T LEAST 10 people died
in a fresh strike on a UN
school in Gaza yesterday
shortly after Israel con-
rmed it had begun withdrawing
some troops from the enclave.
The strike on the school shel-
tering displaced Palestinians in
the southern city of Rafah came
as Israel pounded the region fol-
lowing the suspected capture of a
soldier by militants, who was later
declared dead.
It was the third time in 10 days
that a UN school had been hit and
came four days after Israeli tank
shells slammed into a school in
the northern town of Jabaliya,
killing 16 in an attack furiously
denounced by UN chief Ban Ki-
moon as reprehensible.
An AFP correspondent said there
were scenes of chaos at the site,
with rescuers trying to evacuate
the wounded any way they could,
while adults were seen sprinting
frantically away through pools of
blood, young children clutched
in their arms. Chris Gunness,
spokesman for the UN agency for
Palestinian refugees (UNRWA),
said the school had been housing
thousands of internally displaced
people (IDPs) who had been forced
to ee their homes by the ongoing
violence in Gaza.
Shelling incident in vicinity of
UNRWA school in Rafah shelter-
ing almost 3,000 IDP. Initial reports
say multiple deaths and injury, he
wrote on his Twitter feed.
Images of the carnage in Gaza,
where medics say 1,766 Palestin-
ians have been killed and another
9,320 wounded in the past 27 days,
have shocked the public worldwide
with British Foreign Secretary Phil-
ip Hammond demanding an un-
conditional ceasere to resolve the
intolerable situation for civilians
trapped in Gaza.
We have to get the killing to
stop, Hammond told the Sunday
Telegraph, saying many people
were deeply disturbed by the ci-
vilian loss of life.
Intensive international attempts
to broker a diplomatic end to the
ghting between Israel and Hamas
have so far proved fruitless but the
efforts are still continuing.
A Palestinian delegation was to
hold truce talks yesterday in Cairo
with senior US and Egyptian of-
cials, although Israel has said it sees
no point in sending its negotiators
to the meeting, citing what it says
are Hamas breaches of previous
agreed truces.
Islamic Jihad was also expected to
join along with US Middle East en-
voy Frank Lowenstein.
Several Israeli newspapers re-
ported that cabinet ministers have
taken a decision not to seek a fur-
ther negotiated ceasere agree-
ment with Hamas and were consid-
ering ending the military operation
unilaterally.
Israels army conrmed on yester-
day it had begun withdrawing some
troops from Gaza.
We are removing some [forc-
es], Lieutenant Colonel Peter
Lerner said, saying troops were
extremely close to completing a
mission to destroy a network of at-
tack tunnels.
We are redeploying within the
Gaza Strip, taking out other posi-
tions, and relieving other forces
from within, so it wont be the same
type of ground operation, he said.
But indeed we will continue to
operate . . . [and] have a rapid re-
action force on the ground that
can engage Hamas if required.
Its changing gear but it is still
ongoing.
Israels assault on Rafah began
early on Friday in the opening
hours of a 72-hour humanitarian
truce, which was quickly shattered
when militants ambushed a group
of soldiers, killing two of them.
A third was reported missing, be-
lieved snatched in a development
which drew sharp condemnation
from top US and UN ofcials.
But early on yesterday, the Is-
raeli army formally announced
the death the soldier, 23-year-old
Hadar Goldin, saying he had been
killed in battle in the Gaza Strip on
Friday.
Army radio said no body had
been recovered, rendering the de-
cision to announce his death very
delicate. There was no word on the
whereabouts of his remains.
Hamass Ezzedine al-Qassam Bri-
gades acknowledged its militants
had staged an ambush in which two
other Israeli soldiers were killed,
but denied holding Goldin.
His death raised to 64 the total
number of soldiers killed since the
start of the operation on July 8, its
heaviest toll since the Lebanon
war of 2006.
Nonetheless, Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to
press on with the offensive, prom-
ising that Hamas would pay an
insufferable price for continued
cross-border rocket re.
We will take as much time as
necessary, and will exert as much
force as needed, he said late on
Saturday.
Netanyahus remarks came after
the army gave a rst indication it
was ending operations in parts of
Gaza, informing residents of Beit
Lahiya and Al-Atatra in the north
that it was safe to return home.
Witnesses in the north conrmed
seeing troops leaving the area as
others were seen pulling out of
villages east of Khan Yunis in the
south, with commentators suggest-
ing it was the start of a unilateral
withdrawal. AFP
THE head of the company al-
legedly responsible for deadly
explosions that rocked Tai-
wans second city apologised
yesterday, as authorities said
the rm failed to notify them
quickly enough of a gas leak
blamed for the blasts.
Regarding the Kaohsiung
explosion, I would like to
make an apology to the pub-
lic on behalf of the company,
Bowei Lee, CEO and chair-
man of LCY Chemical Corp,
told reporters with a deep
bow of respect.
The blasts sparked massive
res which tore through the
city of Kaohsiungs Cianjhen
district late on Thursday, kill-
ing at least 28 people and in-
juring more than 300.
The powerful gas explosions
the worst in Taiwans history
shattered thousands of win-
dows and left doors twisted in
their frames, while vehicles
were thrown onto the roofs of
buildings several stories high.
The company, which dis-
tributes propene gas through
its pipe network beneath the
city, has argued that there was
not a leak in its system.
Lee declined to provide more
details of what happened on
the night of the incident.
The Kaohsiung city govern-
ment has insisted that LCY
Chemical was the sole com-
pany transporting dozens of
tonnes of propene through
the pipelines, backed up by
documents that were seized
from the company.
The casualties could have
been less serious should the
company have reported the
leak to the authorities and tak-
en emergency measures after
it happened, said Chen Chin-
teh, chief of environmental
protection bureau in the city
government.
He estimated that more than
10 tonnes of propene might
had been leaked in the hours
before the rst explosion.
President Ma Ying-jeou,
who visited a Kaohsiung hos-
pital where the injured were
recuperating on Saturday, has
vowed a full investigation into
the cause of the incident, and
a review of the pipe network.
Kaohsiung lies adjacent to a
huge petrochemical complex
housing dozens of plants and
many pipelines run under the
densely packed city.
Firm sorry as Taiwan
probes fatal gas blast
A local resident looks at the site of a gas explosion in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung on Friday. A series of powerful gas blasts killed at
least 22 people and injured up to 270 in the city, overturning cars and ripping open roads, ofcials said. AFP

Human leg from murder
victim, say Irish police
A LEG and other human
remains found at a Dublin
recycling plant belonged to a
murder victim, Irish police have
confirmed. The limb was
discovered in a bin at the waste
recycling plant in the
Ballyfermot area of west
Dublin. Further human
remains, including limbs, were
found near the site on Saturday
evening. The refuse worker
who made the initial discovery
has been offered counselling. A
postmortem was to take place
on Sunday, but so far the Garda
Siochana has not established
the victims identity or gender.
A forensic search of the area
around the plant is expected
to continue for several days.
THEGUARDIAN
Paris drugs cop held
over missing cocaine
A FRENCH narcotics police
officer was arrested on Satur-
day on suspicion of stealing
over 50 kilograms of seized
cocaine from the Paris police
head-quarters in a case that
has become a major embar-
rassment for the force. The
34-year-old officer was thought
to have made off with the illegal
drugs which have a value of
up to 2 million ($2.7 million)
after security cameras spotted
a person resembling him
entering the headquarters with
two bags, according to a
statement from police and
prosecutors. The officer, who
works with the citys drugs unit,
was arrested near Perpignan
close to the Spanish border
where he was on holiday. AFP
Raise a glass
Wine bar to
help patients
in nal days
T
HE French have long
been famed for their
unshakeable belief in
the health benefits of a glass
of wine. Now one French
hospital plans to take things
a step further by opening a
wine bar aimed at improving
the quality of life of terminally
ill patients.
The bar at Clermont-
Ferrand University Hospital
in central France will open in
September. It will be housed
in the palliative care centre
and patients will be able to
invite friends and family to
share a drink with them.
The first of its kind in
France, the bar would cheer
up the difficult day-to-day
existence of patients, head
of the centre Virginie Guas-
tella said.
The aim is to re-huma-
nise patients by improving
the quality of their day-to-day
existence and also by giving
them the pleasure of being
able to offer and receive,
she said. The bar would also
allow families facing berea-
vement to create moments
of conviviality despite being
in a hospital environment,
she added.
Staff at the hospital will re-
ceive special training from a
social anthropologist on how
to handle patients who come
to the bar. AFP
World
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Union set to occupy Gibraltar
A
UNION in Andalu-
sia has announced
plans to occupy Gi-
braltar for one day
at the end of this month with
the goal of denouncing tax
havens, dismantling the Brit-
ish military base, protecting
small-scale shing in the area
and reclaiming Gibraltar as
Andalusian territory.
The decision to take action
against Gibraltar on August 29
was made at a recent national
assembly, said Andalusian
Workers Union spokesperson
Diego Canamero Valle. Em-
phasising that this would be
a peaceful protest, he added
that this was primarily an ac-
tion against tax havens. Its a
crucial topic right now in Eu-
rope, as there are more than a
dozen tax havens where mon-
ey is hidden, allowing people
to dodge taxes.
The details have yet to be
worked out, he said, includ-
ing how many of the groups
20,000 members would par-
ticipate and how exactly
they would get around bor-
der security.
Were going to enter peace-
fully. Were not going to face
off against anyone or break
anything, said Canamero
Valle. Its sincerely an act of
peaceful protest in the face of
the economic situation that
were living right now. Un-
employment is around 25 per
cent and even higher in An-
dalusia. Theres little access to
credit and no money for pub-
lic services like hospitals and
education. Meanwhile tax ha-
vens continue to exist.
The Andalusian Workers
Union has made headlines in
the past, often for its collabor-
ative actions with Marinaleda
mayor Juan Manuel Sanchez
Gordillo, dubbed a Spanish
Robin Hood by local media.
Together they have occupied
lands and turned them over
to cooperatives to be farmed
and carried out raids on
Spanish supermarkets, leav-
ing with trolleys laden with
food and school supplies to
hand out to families in need
in Andalusia.
The groups interest in Gi-
braltar comes after a year of
high tension between Lon-
don and Madrid over the cre-
ation of an articial reef by
Gibraltar. The move angered
Spain, which argued that the
reef disrupted Spanish sh-
ing boats.
In a move that many saw
as retaliatory, Spain imposed
tighter controls at the border,
leading to long queues for
people trying to enter Gibral-
tar. Spanish authorities said
the stricter border controls
were necessary to crackdown
on tobacco smuggling.
Last week the European
commission said that Gibral-
tar had not violated EU envi-
ronmental regulations in the
creation of an articial reef,
as Spain had previously al-
leged in various complaints.
THE GUARDIAN
A sherman holds a Spanish ag during a protest near the Rock of Gibraltar on August 18, 2013. A Spanish
union has announced plans to occupy Gibraltar later this month. AFP
Veronique Martinache
A
FTER a decade-long
quest spanning 6
billion kilometres, a
European probe will
come face to face on Wednes-
day with a comet, one of the
Solar Systems enigmatic
wanderers.
The moment will mark a key
phase of the most ambitious
project ever undertaken by
the European Space Agency
(ESA) a 1.3 billion ($1.76 bil-
lion) bid to get to know these
timeless space rovers.
More than 400 million ki-
lometres from where it was
launched in March 2004, the
spacecraft Rosetta will meet
up with its prey, Comet 67P/
Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
To get there, Rosetta has had
to make four ybys of Mars
and Earth, using their gravi-
tational force as a slingshot
to build up speed, and then
entering a 31-month hiberna-
tion as light from the distant
Sun became too weak for its
solar panels.
It was awakened in January.
After braking manoeuvres,
the three-tonne craft should
on Wednesday be about 100
kilometres from the comet
a navigational feat that, if all
goes well, will be followed by
glittering scientic rewards.
Its taken more than 10
years to get here, said Sylvain
Lodiot, spacecraft operations
manager.
Now we have to learn how
to dock with the comet, and
stay with it for the months
ahead.
Blazing across the sky as
they loop around the Sun,
comets have long been con-
sidered portents of wonderful
or terrible events the birth
and death of kings, bountiful
harvests or famines, oods or
earthquakes.
Astrophysicists, though, see
them rather differently. Com-
ets, they believe, are clusters
of the oldest dust and ice in
the Solar System the rubble
left from the formation of the
planets 4.6 billion years ago.
These so-called dirty snow-
balls could be the key to un-
derstanding how the planets
coalesced after the Sun ared
into life, say some.
Indeed, one theory the
pan-spermia hypothesis
is that comets, by bom-
barding the edgling Earth,
helped kick-start life here by
bringing water and organic
molecules.
Until now, though, explora-
tions of comets have been rare
and mainly entailed ybys by
probes on unrelated missions
snatching pictures from thou-
sands of kilometres away.
Exceptions were the US probe
Stardust, which brought home
dust snatched from a comets
wake, while Europes Giotto
ventured to within 200 kilome-
tres of a comets surface.
On November 11, the plan
is for Rosetta to inch to within
a few kilometres of the comet
to send down a 100-kilogram
refrigerator-sized robot labo-
ratory, Philae.
Anchored to the surface, Phi-
lae will carry out experiments
in cometary chemistry and
texture for up to six months.
After the lander expires, Ro-
setta will accompany C-G as
it passes around the Sun and
heads out towards Jupiter.
Before Novembers land-
ing, though, Rosettas opera-
tors have a mountain of work
to do. The rst few weeks will
be a get to know you exer-
cise, as the spacecraft gingerly
carries out elongated loops
around the comet, scanning
its surface.
The probe will have to avoid
ice crystals and dust particles
that are stripped from the
comets outer layers as it nears
the Sun a trail that is reect-
ed in solar rays as its wake.
And it will have to look for a
suitable landing site for Philae.
Last month, as Rosetta came
ever closer to the comet, its
cameras revealed that the
target body, far from being
shaped like a potato as many
had expected, rather resem-
bled a duck two lobes, one
big and the other small, con-
nected by a neck.
That was a bit of a surprise,
said Philippe Lamy of the As-
trophysics Laboratory of Mar-
seille, in southern France.
Several theories have al-
ready been aired to explain
this shape, but the likeliest in
my book is that it came from
two bodies which fused while
the Solar System was being
formed.
The unexpected shape will
limit the choice of a land-
ing site, Lamy said. You
can reasonably argue that it
will impose additional con-
straints. AFP
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World
Comet-chaser about to hit its target
After a 400-million-kilometre journey, Rosetta is due to meet the duck-shaped
comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday. AFP
Opinion
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Strikers demand
violates constitution,
international treaties
Dear Editor,
In a recent article, you reported on
a demand by unionists and striking
garment factory workers that two
administrators be red (At factory in
Kandal, ght over protest, July 25)
Under the law, their demand is not
only illegal but also a serious abuse of
the right to employment a right that
protects all workers, even managers
and administrators.
The Cambodian Constitution is the
highest law in the Kingdom and it
accords all Cambodians with equal
rights. Article 31 of the constitution
ensures citizens equality before the
law and that they all have the same
rights and freedoms. The article also
adds that the exercise of personal
rights and freedoms by any individual
shall not adversely affect the rights
and freedom of others. Moreover,
Article 36 clearly states that citizens
shall have the right to choose their
employment according their ability
and the needs of society.
Article 23 of the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights spells out these rights: (1)
Everyone has the right to work, to free
choice of employment, to just and
favourable conditions of work and to
protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimi-
nation, has the right to equal pay for
equal work. (3) Everyone who works
has the right to just and favourable
remuneration ensuring for himself
and his family an existence worthy of
human dignity, and supplemented,
if necessary, by other means of social
protection. (4) Everyone has the right
to form and to join trade unions for
the protection of his interests.
In addition, Article 6 of the Interna-
tional Covenant on Economic Social
and Cultural Rights says that the
states party to the covenant recognise
the right to work.
According to my observations, there
have been numerous other cases of
striking workers demanding the ring
of supervisors or administrators who
are also employees at their factories.
Although the workers have the right
to strike, their demands should not
affect others rights and freedom.
Thus, the demand of the strikers at
Tae Young seriously violates the right
to employment of other employees.
The two administrators cannot be
red unless they committed serious
misconduct, according to Article 83 of
Labour Law.
Suppose the factory agreed to the
demand to re the two administra-
tors; the administrators would be fully
within their legal right to le a court
complaint on the grounds of illegal
dismissal. They could also request
compensation and/or reinstatement.
A demand like this poses a di-
lemma to an employer. As advocates
of labour and human rights, unions
should stop making such demands.
Say Thearith
Master in Private Law
Royal University of Law and Eco-
nomics
Letter to the editor
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T
HIS summer marks the cen-
tennial of the outbreak of
World War I. Ignited in
Europe, it caused devasta-
tion unparalleled by any war the
world had witnessed before. We
must learn from the tragedy, the
protracted battles of which left
about 13 million people dead.
World War I was triggered in June
1914 by the assassination of the heir
presumptive to the Austrian throne
by a young Serbian man. In retalia-
tion, Austria declared war on Serbia.
Early in August that year, Germa-
ny launched a military campaign
based on its alliance with Austria,
leading to all-out war between the
Germany-led Central Powers and
the Allies, which included Britain,
France and Russia.
In those days, many people pre-
dicted an early conclusion to the war
and believed that their own coun-
trys side would be victorious.
When the fighting was finally
over, the world was left with a
weighty lesson: that a war should
never be launched.
Former US president John F
Kennedy took what he learned from
studying the failures of World War I
and used these lessons in dealing
with the Cuban missile crisis of
October 1962, when the confronta-
tion between the United States and
the Soviet Union escalated to the
verge of nuclear war.
Having read The Guns of August by
Barbara Tuchman, which chroni-
cled in detail the developments
leading to the start of World War I,
Kennedy reportedly said he did not
want somebody writing a book
called The Missiles of October in
the future.
Based on unbridled discussions
with his aides, Kennedy worked on
possible Soviet actions and consid-
ered responses to each scenario, as
well as the likely resulting outcomes.
He prioritised averting a military
clash and decided on a maritime
blockade of Cuba instead of launch-
ing attacks on the island.
While confirming Soviet inten-
tions, Kennedy entered negotiations
with the Eastern Bloc for it to with-
draw its missiles from Cuba, nipping
a potential World War III in the bud.
We should never forget what the
president accomplished.
It is important to bear in mind that
peace is at risk when an internation-
al balance of power crumbles. World
War I occurred just as Britain lost its
hegemonic status, which coincided
with the rise of Germany.
The world today is confronting
a shift similar to the changing
power balance seen in Europe 100
years ago.
In January, Japanese Prime Minis-
ter Shinzo Abe likened the current
relationship between Japan and a
rising China to that of Britain and
Germany before the First World War,
stirring widespread controversy and
putting him on the defensive. None-
theless, it is true that stabilising the
bilateral relationship has emerged
as a major issue.
It is necessary for the two nations
to prevent accidental military clash-
es by establishing a hotline between
the leaders and between defence
units. The two nations should
urgently build a mechanism to be
used in the event of a clash to pre-
vent it from escalating into a full-
blown conflict.
History proves that a war, once
started, will play out without
restraint. Once again, the impor-
tance of striving to prevent war has
come to the fore. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Comment
We must heed lessons of WWI
The front page of the Daily Mirror on August 10, 1914, reporting on an early victory by
French troops against Germany during the First World War. AFP
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Lifestyle
Get on Up: The rage, genius
of soul singer James Brown
Nsenga K Burton
T
HE life story of leg-
endary soul singer
James Brown is a com-
plicated one. Brown is
as well known for being a mu-
sical genius as he is for being
a tyrannical, abusive band-
leader and spouse. The man
who grew up in abject poverty
in South Carolina and Georgia
danced, sang and shouted his
way into a world of fame, for-
tune and greatness. Not satis-
ed with just being a perform-
er, Brown grabbed the reins of
his management in order to
maximise business opportu-
nities and ownership.
A man who was known and
respected for his business acu-
men early in his career, Brown
was mocked in his later years
for poor business decisions
and tax problems. He was able
to stop violence in the after-
math of the assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr but was
unable to quiet the chaos that
dwelled inside him or quell his
penchant for violence against
women. Director Tate Taylor
(The Help) and screenwriters
Jez and John-Henry Butter-
worth (Edge of Tomorrow) do
an admirable job of capturing
the demons and the delight of
James Brown in the highly an-
ticipated biopic Get on Up.
Thanks to the acting chops
of Chadwick Boseman (42),
who seems to be building a
career playing iconic gures,
Browns duality is on full dis-
play throughout the lm.
Boseman, whose stoic perfor-
mance as Jackie Robinson in
42 reected the self-restraint
required of Robinson in his
quest to break the color barri-
er in baseball, is set free in his
depiction of the Godfather of
Soul. In Get on Up, Boseman
who practised six hours a day
to nail the legendary perform-
ers signature dance moves
unleashes the passion, rage
and genius of Brown, who was
obsessed with bringing the
funk to the world.
Academy Award winner
Octavia Spencer and Oscar-
nominated actress Viola Davis
do what they do: offer superb
performances with seriously
limited screen time as the
troubled women of Browns
childhood. Daviss turn as
Browns tormented mother,
Susie, is reminiscent of Daviss
tour de force performance as
Mrs Miller in the lm Doubt
(2008). The gut-wrenching
scene in which Susie resurfac-
es after Brown has become a
superstar demonstrates Bose-
mans skill as an actor and
certies that Davis is the best
actress working in Hollywood
right now.
Nelsan Ellis, of True Blood
fame, gives a stellar perfor-
mance as Bobby Byrd, Browns
underappreciated and ercely
loyal best friend. Elliss matter-
of-fact portrayal of Byrd adds
value to a lm rife with dra-
matic performances. In the
way that Byrd was the yin to
Browns yang in real life, Elliss
staid performance comple-
ments Bosemans during their
many shared scenes.
Film and music buffs will
get a kick out of seeing soul
singers Jill Scott, Aloe Blacc
and rapper-musician Black
Thought playing a variety of
Browns musical peers, but
will also lament the exclusion
of Browns contemporary
Tammi Terrell, a singer with
the voice of an angel, who
had a tumultuous relation-
ship with Brown at the peak
of their careers.
While Browns GOP leanings
and bootstrap philosophy are
never mentioned in the lm,
the lmmakers made sure
to expose viewers to Browns
connection to politics, social
change and making a way
out of no way. With rock n
roll legend Mick Jagger serv-
ing as a producer on the lm,
along with the Reverend Al
Sharpton and Nelson George
as consultants, Get on Up does
an excellent job of showing
the unpredictable conditions
black performers like Brown
faced when trying to make
great music.
Get on Up is peppered with
historic scenes, like Browns
performances on the TAMI
Show and at the world fa-
mous Apollo Theater. With
amazing musical and acting
performances, the lm will
have you ready to dance in
the aisles and cry your eyes
out simultaneously. Brown
sums it up best: Aint noth-
ing to cry about. Im James
Brown. THE ROOT
How the players picked up ladies in the 18th century
Emily Brand
ITS a truth universally acknowledged
that a gaggle of girls on a night out
will face an onslaught of pick-up lines
some charming, many (many) more
dumb, cheesy or downright creepy.
What happened, you may wonder, to
romance, word play and sophisti-
cated seduction?
If you think it can be found in the
1700s the century in which Jane
Austen was raised think again.
There were handbooks for clueless
American men in search of love 200
years ago, but the advice was more
Playboy than Pride & Prejudice. Pub-
lished in New York in 1799, The New
Academy of Compliments was full of
advice for proceeding in Amours to
the highest Perfection, including
good manners, how to impress a lady
with your meat-carving skills, pick-up
lines and a seduction technique wor-
thy of Robin Thicke.
Gentleman readers, follow the sug-
gested plan of attack at your peril. I,
for one, have a new-found respect
for the beleaguered ladies of
18th century New York it seems
the modern experience of court-
ship wasnt so different as we
might think.
Presenting six steps to seducing a
woman, from the The New Academy
of Compliments.
1. Tell her that you think shes hot.
Suggested pick up lines include:
Madam, as you are fair and beau-
teous, be generous and merciful to
him that is your slave.
Sweet lady, your virtues have so
strangely taken up my thoughts, that
therein they encrease and multiply in
abundant felicity.
I have a long time been broiling
on the flames of ardent affection
towards your dear self.
2. If necessary, catch her off guard
by insulting her first.
I am as lantern-jawd as you are
platter-facd; but yet perhaps we
may have lovely babes when we
come together, if we can but tell how
to get them.
3. Make a dramatic entrance
When all eyes are on you, make the
most of it preferably with a bit of
fancy footwork:
If a young man enters into a room,
on his approaching those he intends
to pay his respects to, he must . . . bow
with his hat in his right hand, and then
advancing three steps traverse ways,
and by degrees approach the party,
and if there be more than one, he must
salute them severally: if a man, by a
genteel embrace, in pressing the left
side with his right arm: if a woman, a
proferred salute, if not a real one.
4. Dont start with the conversation
Assessing her suitability by quizzing
her about her virginity is probably not
a very good idea. (This one is actually
pretty sensible.)
When a young gentleman has
found a conqueress of his affection,
let him not rudely accost her if she be
a virgin, lest his good meaning be
taken in evil part.
5. Keep within her sights
Because there is nothing more effec-
tive than a bit of light stalking.
Then it is his business to walk
before her window, or watch her going
abroad, that she may have a perfect
sight of him, which commonly creates
a liking love.
6. Dont give up, even if she rejects
you
At which point it all gets a bit
Blurred Lines.
There is no way after the ice is once
broke, like opportunity and resolu-
tion, in spight of all resistance, not to
be denied, to haunt her like her shad-
ow, and fill her ears with themes of
love, settled with a few scattered prot-
estations, which is the only way to
obtain her. THE WASHINGTON POST
American soul legend James Brown performs in Beirut. AFP
Stupid is . . .
Internet
dares end
tragically
O
NLINE challenges
daring people to set
themselves ablaze or
douse themselves in ice wa-
ter are racking up casualties
and fuelling wonder regar-
ding idiocy in the internet age.
US media reported that a
teenager was recovering on
Friday from second-degree
burns caused by pouring
rubbing alcohol on himself
and igniting it in a take on a
dangerous fire challenge
shown in videos posted at
YouTube and Facebook.
A glance online at Twitter
posts with hashtag #firechal-
lenge showed a video clip
of a young man apparently
setting fire to himself in a
bathtub, only to fall out in a
desperate scramble to douse
the flames and remove his
burning shorts.
Are humans getting more
stupid or is this just my
perception? a Twitter user
asked rhetorically in a post
with the same hashtag.
Youve got to be a
complete #dumbass to
set yourself on fire for five
minutes of fame, another
member of the one-to-many
message service contended
in a different post.
An array of people who
took part in a lively online
exchange sparked by the
teenagers self-inflicted burns
reasoned that it could be
natural selection playing out
on the internet stage.
News outlets in Germany
earlier last week reported
that a man there was crushed
to death by a large piece of
digging machinery being
used to take part in another
Facebook craze called the
cold water challenge.
A huge bucket holding
thousands of litres of water
was being hoisted to dump
on a small group of men
when the digger toppled,
killing one of them and inju-
ring five others, according to
reports. AFP
Travel
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Sailboats are berthed at a pier in Phuket. AFP
Sailing away
in Thailand
Peerawat Jariyasombat

F
AR away, waves form,
foaming white at their
crests. This indicates
that a big gust of wind
is coming. Finally, it arrives.
The sail catches it. Ropes
tighten ercely. The boat leans
to one side and cruises for-
ward against the wind.
A loose sail aps. The cap-
tain shouts an order. The crew
rush to pull and rig ropes.
Another strong gust pulls the
sail up and pushes the boat
forward. The vessel leans so
much that waves reach its port
side. I climb to sit starboard,
hanging my legs over
the waves as natural
power pushes the
small boat ahead.
It might seem
dangerous, the
boat leaning as
much as it does.
But my fears are
quickly staunched.
Do not be afraid of
capsizing. You can see that the
boat has a keel, which weighs
around 2 tonnes. It helps
to balance the boat when it
leans, the captain, Wutthi-
chai Chanmoon, says.
Under the bright sun, we are
cruising against a strong wind
that pushes the boat through
the high waves. The crew
members are busy but excited
to see their boat going so fast.
The boat I am on board is
cruising in the middle of a
group of other, similar water-
craft. Big sails are scattered
about the sea, travelling to-
gether in the same direction.
It takes about 10 hours to
learn how to use the ropes re-
quired to sail a Platu sailboat.
For a long time I believed
that sailboats could only travel
downwind. Now, Ive learned
they can sail in any direction.
When the boat is 90 degrees
to the wind, it will travel at
the fastest pace. Facing
downwind, it actually
moves the slowest.
We leave bustling
Pattaya behind,
sailing south,
close to the
Bang Sa Re
shing vil-
lages.
Later, the skipper tells me to
be prepared: When I make a
turn, keep your head low and
move to sit on the other side.
Are you ready?
He turns the boat and the
boom swings over my head as
the wind direction changes.
I duck and move to the other
side of the boat, where I help
the crew for a bit. The boat is
sailing about 45 degrees to the
wind, zigzagging towards our
destination.
Within an hour, we are ap-
proaching a rock that blocks
the wind. Our boat slows, lin-
gering in the quiet bay.
Platu sailboats, the type
that we are using, are
named after mack-
erel, a small sh of-
ten eaten in Thai-
land. Around 7.5
metres long, the
boats were de-
signed by yacht
designer Bruce
Farr to be especially
suited to the waters in
the Gulf of Thailand. The de-
sign also allows inexperienced
crew members to learn to sail
in safety but requires precise
skills to move at high speeds.
A Platu requires ve crew
members. As this is my rst
sailing trip, I am a bit clumsy,
so others have to do my share
of the rigging. It has been busy
and exhausting, but a good ex-
perience all around.
On the way back, the boat
sails with the wind, making
its way slowly on the quiet
sea. There are no big waves
and the boat doesnt lean. It is
quite a boring, really, making
me feel like a sun-dried sh
on the deck.
At times like these,
some use a parachute-
like spinnaker
sail, which lls
with wind and
pulls the boat
forward faster.
The ocean is
now dotted
with colour-
ful sails as
the boats
race back
to the
mari na.
BANGKOK
POST
TRAVEL
INFO

Platu boat sailing
courses are held at
Sattahip Navy Base,
Chon Buri. The one-day
course is 15,000 baht,
with room for ve
crew members.
Entertainment
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Thinking caps
Saturdays solution Saturdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by
Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors
of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived,
as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that
will determine who will emerge as Earths dominant
species.
City Mall:9:10am, 1:50pm, 6:30pm
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HERCULES
Having endured his legendary 12 Labours, Hercules,
the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire
tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter
seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.
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7:55pm
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7:50pm
Meanchey: 12pm, 2:05pm, 5:45pm, 7:05pm, 9:45pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a
discovery that brings the Autobots and Decepticons
on them, as well as a dangerously paranoid
government official.
City Mall: 9:05pm
Tuol Kork: 1:30pm, 9pm
Meanchey: 9:45am, 4:10pm
THE PURGE: ANARCHY
A young couple works to survive on the streets after
their car breaks down right as the annual purge
commences.
City Mall: 5:40pm, 10:05pm
Tuol Kork: 4:40pm, 6:50pm
THE UGLY GHOST
Thai horror movie dubbed in Khmer.
City Mall: 9:10am, 11:25am, 1:10pm, 3:25pm,
5:40pm, 7:50pm, 10pm
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7:10pm, 9:55pm
NOW SHOWING
Zumba @ Rose Garden
Dance tness based on samba, salsa,
merengue, martial arts and belly
dancing. Ideal for cardio, building
muscles and for weight loss. Free is
$10.
Rose Garden Clubhouse, Floor 5B
Norodom Boulevard. 6pm
Margarita @ Riverhouse
Special buy one, get one free deal on
margaritas of all avours all night
long. Tunes, including mash ups and
remixes, will be provided by DJ Kakada.
Riverhouse Lounge, #157 Sisowath
Quay. 8pm
Pizza @ Show Box
The Katy Peri Peri Peri Chicken and
Pizza chefs serve their wood-red
pizza from their mobile kitchen in
front of Show Box. Reggae music will
be played all night.
Show Box, #11 Street 330.
6pm
Ballet Classes @
Ballet Phnom Penh
Classes are attended for adults who
danced when they were younger, or
have a lot of experience in a dierent
style of dance and want to learn a new
style. Cost is $12.
Central School of Ballet, #10 Street 183.
7:15pm
ACROSS
1 Not now or the future
5 Tolkien villains
9 Tea-producing state in India
14 Creative input
15 Not a happy fate
16 Neutral shade
17 Very pleasing
20 Arm counterparts of fibulae
21 Parceled out
22 Continuing indefinitely
25 Van Gogh lost one
26 Primitive percussion instrument
28 Filly, after maturing
32 Collapsible topper
37 Ready for a break
38 Good time for a walk hand-inhand
41 Chats
42 Become very thin
43 Lid lump
44 Mortal danger
46 Appliance with blades
47 Violent storm
53 Birds of a region
58 Helper, essentially
59 Like some suburban roads
62 Bring to mind
63 Saharalike
64 Masseuses supplies
65 Palindromists principle
66 Long-gone bird
67 Twiggy digs
DOWN
1 Excite, as interest or curiosity
2 Grown up
3 View from the Left Bank
4 Golden Horde member
5 ___ man out
6 Sturgeon product
7 Carbonated beverage
8 Grin bearer
9 More than hate
10 Small paving stone
11 Recipe directive
12 Malaria symptom
13 Pinochle combo
18 Poetic time after dusk
19 Feeling happy appreciation
23 Turkish commander (Var.)
24 Give money, and expect it back
27 Absolute
28 Kind of computer
29 Stirring solo performance
30 Its overhead
31 Honers target
32 Withdraws (with out)
33 Land map part
34 Hard to hang on to
35 Tool for deciduous foliage
36 Cousin of a zebra
37 Gumshoe
39 Send out matter
40 Dell, poetically
44 Revere in history
45 Cluster of nine
46 Diamond side
48 Daisy ___ of Dogpatch
49 Blame for, as a crime
50 Murphy who played Klumps
51 Unloads
52 Secret encounter
53 Lookout, perhaps
54 On the qui ___ (watchful)
55 Macintosh screen symbol
56 Bag-shaped fish trap
57 Prominent 70s hairstyle
60 Get ___ of (discard)
61 Words of commitment
SWEET!
TV PICKS
The Central School of Ballet is intended for adults with prior experience. BLOOMBERG
Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush reprise their former
roles in On Stranger Tides. BLOOMBERG
12pm - SUPERMAN RETURNS: After a long visit to the
lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel
returns to Earth to become the peoples savior once
again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane. HBO
5pm - GATTACA: A genetically inferior man assumes the
identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong
dream of space travel. HBO
6:45pm - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER
TIDES: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to
find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that
Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. HBO
9pm - SILICON VALLEY: Richard and his programmer
friends dream of making it big. Instead, theyre living
in a communal Hacker Hostel owned by former
programmer Erlich. Pilot episode. HBO
Lifestyle
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22
Socheata and Sontery
Social Life Team
Grand opening LOccitane
en Provence @ Aeon Mall
BMW Show Room @ Aeon Mall
The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University perform
@ the Victoria Angkor Resort and Spa
On July 28, LOccitane en Provence hosted an exclusive event for VIPs at its newly opened
store in Aeon Mall. Its new Immortelle Brightening Skincare Range combines two owers:
the Immortelle ower from Corsica, which is said to provide oil to smooth wrinkles, and
Bellis Perennis, which is said to impart a radiant look of youth. The new Brighten-
ing Essence helps keep skin youthful, radiant and even-toned, advertises the com-
pany. LOccitane en Provence was founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, who is based in
Manosque, France. Baussan continues to expand his cosmetic and beauty care empire
through the LOccitane en Provence stores, which are located in cities around the world.
Photos by Hong Menea
On July 27, Premium Auto imports Co Ltd, Cambodias exclusive importer and dis-
tributor of BMW vehicles and spare parts, opened its BMW show room at Aeon
Mall. This is the rst time that a
vehicle show room has opened
in a Cambodian shopping
mall. Various vehicles, includ-
ing luxury sedans, sports cars
and SUVs were displayed. The
show rooms highlight is the
M6 Coupe. With a $231,800
price tag, there is only one
currently in the Kingdom.
Whoever buys the ultra-lux-
urious set of wheels will be
offered an all expense paid
trip for two to the BMW Dy-
namic Drive Experience in
Clark, Philippines. Pho-
tos by Hong Menea
On July 27, The Whiffenpoofs from Yale
University performed in Siem Reap. Es-
tablished in 1909, it is the oldest collegiate
a cappella group in the United States.
They are currently on an international
tour of 27 countries, which also includes
Thailand, Japan and Australia. The event
at Victoria saw a lot of local and foreign
guests attend the $30 performance, which
included a barbecue, buffet and cocktails.
The Whiffenpoofs, which comprises all
men, performed their music from the side
of the hotels swimming pool. Photos by
Chhim Sreyneang
Special guests attend the opening of LOccitane en
Provence
Greg Hooker, Jan Dowling, Neil Dowling and Chan
Sophea, executive assistant manager of Victoria
Angkor Resort
Alfred R Dejaager, associate professor director
of choral activities of West Liberty University, and
Khemra Bour
Russel Cowan and Bina Manley
Jeanette Dwyer and Michael Dwyer
Aline Chanvin and Hubert de Murard, rooms divi-
sion manager of Victoria Angkor Resort
Tov Chihoung, owner of New Hill Resort and Spa,
and Andy Each, GM of New Hill Report and Spa
Giovanna Carrozza and Corae Chanvin
Amanda Breit and Steve Breit Bruno Chanvin and Reine Nathae Sinacarpin
Marleen Holten and Christian Carsson
Kelly Chandara, Hanno Stamm, GM of Victoria
Angkor Resort, and Saron Khan.
Paula Harrigan, Bina Manley, Arlene Gormley and
Sokhom Sam Ol, sales and marketing manager of
Victoria Angkor Resort
Ly Leakhean, Peter Brongers and Meluin How
Sher Han The M6 costs $231,800
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
23
On July 26, Pedro celebrated its Fall Col-
lection 2014 at its newest store in Aeon Mall. The
store was ablaze with lights, colour and music
for the invited fashion acionados of the city.
More than 200 VIP guests showed up
to the fashion show, includ-
ing international models and
Cambodian celebrities. Pedro
stores have high-end fash-
ion forward shoes, handbags
and accessories. Pedro stores
already exist on Sihanouk
Boulevard, TK Avenue and at
a Siem Reap location. Photos
by Hong Menea
Gary Ng, Jenny Vo and Peang Nara
MC Yan Linda
Pedro Fall
Collection
2014
Hak Lanin and York Chanda
Michael Sethika Norodom, Narak Potter and Hung Chin
Jean Benoit Lasselin and Elodie Barria
Yim Molika and Lily Sok
Touch Kanhasothea, managing director of
Darapich Thmey Guesthouse and Om Seng
Borey, catering manager of Wisdom Park
Ly Ing, and Yok Chenda
Roth Dara, Rolin and Sok Keang
Ho Puthida, Som Somara, Hay
Nariman, and BoBo
Tt Law, Natacha Van and Bruno Van
Criztian Velayo, Sieng Vanny, Remy Hou and
Mealyann Saing
Pedro fall collection preview
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24
Sport
Invitation for Bids
Flood DamageEmergency Reconstruction Project-Additional Financing
Grant No. 0285-CAM (EF) and Loan No. 3125-CAM (SF)
IFB No. FDERP-AF-MOWRAMICB01
Issuance Date: 04 August 2014
Procurement of Goods for
FDERP-AF-MOWRAM-ICB01: Supply, installation and commissioning of Hydromet Stations
and Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), equipment for discharge measurement,
including on-site training
TheRoyal Government of Cambodia(RGC) represented by theMinistry of Economy and Financehas 1.
received agrant fromtheGovernment of Australia(DFAT) and aloan fromtheAsian Development
Bank (ADB) for theFlood DamageEmergency Reconstruction Project-Additional Financing (FDERP-
AF), and intends to apply part of theLoan and Grant to payments under theContract/Bids No. FDERP-
AF-MOWRAM-ICB01 for theSupply, installation and commissioning of Hydromet Stations and
Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), equipment for discharge measurement,including on-site
training.
The Project Implementation Unit-3, Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology, now invite 2.
sealed bids from eligible and qualied bidders for the Supply, installation and commissioning
of Hydromet Stations and Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), equipment for discharge
measurement,including on-site training.
International competitive bidding will be conducted in accordance with ADBs Single-Stage: Two- 3.
Envelopeprocedureand is open to all Bidders fromeligiblemember countries of ADB.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information fromthe address below and inspect the 4.
bidding documents at theaddress below fromMonday to Friday during ofce hours from 8:30 to
12:00 and from14:00 to 17:00 hours.
A completeset of bidding documents in English may bepurchased by interested bidders on submission 5.
of awritten application to theaddress in paragraph 8 and upon payment of anon-refundablefeeof
USD 55.00or equivalent in Cambodian Riel being 220,000. 00. Themethod of payment will bein cash.
Thebidding document will becollected in person at thediscretion of bidder or sent by courier when
requested by the Bidder, upon conrmation of payment and additional courier fee of USD50. No
liability will beaccepted for loss or latedelivery.
Bids must bedelivered to theaddress given below on or before 6. 15:00 hours (local time) on 18 September
2014. All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Securing Declaration as described in the form specied
under sub-clause21.1 of Section II, Bid DataSheet.Latebids will berejected. Technical Proposal/
Bids will beopened in thepresenceof thebidders representatives and other interested person(s) who
chooseto attend at theaddress below at 15:30 hours (local time) on 11 September 2014.
The Project Implementation Unit-3, Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology will not be 7.
responsiblefor any costs or expenses incurred by Bidders in connection with thepreparation or delivery
of bids.
Theaddress referred to aboveis: 8.
Attn.: Mr. Chann Sinath, Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs,
and Project Director of FDERP- AF
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
#364, Monivong Boulevard, PhsarDoeumThkov, PhnomPenh, CAMBODIA
FDERP-AF Project Implementation Unit, 2
nd
Floor of Department of Farmer Water User Community
(FWUC)
Tel. (855) 12 528 777
Email: chansinath78@gmail.com
Usian Bolt steals
show in Glasgow
S
PRINT superstar Usain
Bolt anchored the Ja-
maican team to victory
in the mens 4x100m
relay on Saturday as England
topped the Commonwealth
Games medals table for the
rst time in 28 years.
In a fitting end to the track
and field program at Hamp-
den Park, Jason Livermore,
100m gold medallist Ke-
mar Bailey-Cole and bronze
medallist Nickel Ashmeade
all safely negotiated their
legs before the baton was
passed on to the towering
figure of Bolt.
The 27-year-old, who has
won six Olympic gold medals
and eight world titles but was
making his Commonwealth
Games debut, made no mis-
take with his anchor run
in light drizzle on a soaked
track, charging through the
line in a Games record of
37.58 seconds.
In the womens 4x100m
relay, Jamaica were also tri-
umphant, courtesy of Kerron
Stewart, Veronica Campbell-
Brown, Schillonie Calvert and
double Olympic 100m cham-
pion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Kenyas middle- and long-
distance team continued
their amazing form.
Mercy Cherono and Ja-
net Kisa won gold and silver
in the womens 5,000m, the
bronze going to Englands
40-year-old Jo Pavey. It meant
the Kenyan women won 13 of
the 18 medals on offer.
Cherono and Kisas double
feat was then replicated in the
mens 1,500m by James Magut
and Ronald Kwemoi.
Maguts gold was the mens
third after those in the 5,000m
and 3,000m steeplechase. Ke-
nyan Julius Yego then claimed
victory in the mens javelin.
With a day to spare at the
Games, England secured top
of the medals table with 165
of which 56 are gold while
Australia had 132 in total with
45 in gold.
Only 11 golds were left to
be decided on Sunday leaving
England to nudge Australia
off the top of the medals table
for the rst time since the
1986 Games in Edinburgh.
The Games, however, were
rocked on Saturday when it
was announced that former
womens world 400m cham-
pion Amantle Montsho had
failed a drugs test.
The Botswanan, who won
the world title in 2011, test-
ed positive for the banned
stimulant methylhexaneam-
ine after the final of the 400
metres.
On Friday, Nigerian teenage
weightlifter Chika Amalaha
was stripped of her Com-
monwealth womens 53kg
gold medal after also failing a
drugs test.
Englands boxing team
brought home a glut of ve
golds from 13 nals thanks to
Nicola Adams, Joseph Joyce,
Savannah Marshall, Scott
Fitzgerald and team captain
Antony Fowler.
Olympic champion Adams
started the gold rush after win-
ning by the narrowest of mar-
gins in the womens yweight
nal, beating Northern Ire-
lands Michaela Walsh to be-
come the rst womens Com-
monwealth boxing champion.
Australia won their fourth
successive womens hockey
gold medal with a 3-1 shoot-
out win over England. But the
English came agonisingly
close to a shock win when
they led 1-0 with just seconds
left of normal time.
Englands Tom Daley won
a second successive 10m
platform Games diving
gold with Australias Esther
Qin taking the womens 3m
springboard title.
England were dealt a dou-
ble blow in team events with
defeats in the seminals of
netball and mens hockey.
The netballers went down
35-34 to New Zealand with
Marai Tutaia sinking the
winner in the final two sec-
onds as the defending cham-
pion Silver Fearns booked a
Sunday final against top-
ranked Australia, which de-
feated Jamaica.
Australia comfortably saw
off England 4-1 in the mens
hockey semis and will face
India, which came back from
0-2 down to defeat New Zea-
land 3-2, for their fth con-
secutive gold.
Joshana Chinappa and
Dipika Pallikal ensured
Indias maiden Common-
wealth Games squash medal
was a gold as they shocked
top seeds Laura Massaro and
Jenny Duncalf of England
with an 11-6, 11-8 win in the
womens doubles nal.
We are really excited, not
only for us but for Indian
squash in general, said Pal-
likal, who missed her home
Games in Delhi four years
ago due to illness.
Singapore nished the
Games with six table tennis
golds out of a possible seven
after Zhan Jian won the mens
singles and Feng Tianwei se-
cured her third gold of the
Games with Yu Mengyu in
the womens doubles. AFP
Jamaicas Usain Bolt (left) leads the last leg of the mens 4x100m relay nal at Hampden Park during the
2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday. AFP
Cambodian team set for debut
in Pattaya to Phnom Penh rally
H S Manjunath
HISTORY is in the making
when Ho Sittikun and his co-
drivers Som Sokosal and Vong
Kim Huoth rev up their Black
Toyota Tundra pick-up as
Cambodias first four-wheel
racers at the start of the 2014
Asia Cross Country rally from
Thailands coastal city of Pat-
taya this Saturday.
The 2,200km Thailand-Cam-
bodia rally, regarded as a
gruelling test of courage and
endurance for both man and
the machine, ends on August
15 in Kampong Speu, with the
participants making another
short trip the same day to
Phnom Penh for the awards
ceremony.
The three-member team is
the first from the Kingdom to
go on an automobile adven-
ture at this highly competitive
level, raising the profile of the
Cambodian Motor Sport Fed-
eration (CMSF), which was
formed just over two years ago.
The Asia Cross Country Rally,
first held in 1996, is an interna-
tional status event sanctioned
by both the FIA and FIM, with
eight competitive selective sec-
tions and 15 road sectors across
Thailand and Cambodia.
After the mandatory Bira Cir-
cuit scrutiny, the 22 rally cars
will be flagged off from Pattaya
beach for the first leg to Sakaeo
and a special stage within that
Thai province.
The rallyists will cross over
to Cambodia on August 12 for
the Angkor Wat to Battambang
section before hitting the
home stretch from Battam-
bang to Kampong Speu and
Phnom Penh.
Meanwhile, three Cambodi-
ans will be among the 16
motorcyclists taking part in
the two-wheel competition of
the rally, which will run con-
currently.
On a sturdy Yamaha WR 450F,
Chea Lykheang will be leading
the countrys charge for a good
spot in the pegging order. Join-
ing Lykheang will be Touch
Thach on a KTM 250EXC and
Koun Phandara on a 2013 KTM
350EXCF
In a marked departure from
the routine end of the rally in
Siem Reap like the previous
years, the final destination has
been moved to the Cambodian
capital.
Explaining the rationale
behind this move, CMSF Pres-
ident Lt Gen Meach Sophana
told the Post: We wanted the
participants to enjoy greater
parts of our countryside and
experience the diversity of
terrain.
We are very happy that we
have our first four wheel team
taking part in this rally. It is a
big first step, and we hope this
team will a learn a lot from this
experience and inspire others,
added Meach Sophana, who is
also under secretary of state at
the Ministry of Interior.

Acrobatic kickers head to
annual Thai tournament
A DELEGATION of 16 national sepak
takraw players, two coaches and two
officials departed Cambodia yesterday
to join the prestigious 2014 Kings Cup
World Championships in Bangkok. A
deal between the Cambodian Sepak
Takraw Federation and the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sport on July 22
has helped fund the cost of seven
players to make the nine-day trip,
while the federation has received other
support to send the rest of the team,
according to CSF secretary-general
Chhoun Leng. Cambodia will be
playing in Regu categories, which
involves sides of three players on each
team with two substitutes, added
Chhoun Leng, who is leading the
delegation to Thailand. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Waratahs beat Crusaders for
first Super Rugby title win
BERNARD Foley kicked a long-range
penalty goal in the last minute to
clinch the New South Wales Waratahs
first Super Rugby title against the
Canterbury Crusaders in Sydney on
Saturday. Fly-half Foley landed the
pressure 45-metre penalty to deliver
the Waratahs a fighting 33-32 win over
the seven-time champion Crusaders
and end a 19-year wait for a Southern
Hemisphere provincial title. It was the
Waratahs first Super Rugby title after
losing both their previous finals to the
Crusaders in 2005 and 2008. It
culminated a sensational finish to the
season for the Waratahs, winning their
last nine matches and going through
the season unbeaten at home. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014 25
Advantage coaches after
junior tennis workshop
H S Manjunath
T
ENNIS Cambodias techni-
cal director and national
coach Braen Aneiros con-
ducted a two-day work-
shop on the Junior Tennis Initiative
in Phnom Penh to bring the entire
coaching staff up to speed on the
latest concepts and trends that
would help them efciently handle
this vital developmental project.
The workshop, which concluded
on Saturday at the National Train-
ing Center, was attended by nine
coaches with Aneiros and head of
junior development Mam Phalkun
taking the participants step by step
through the JTI objectives to opera-
tional demands.
At the rst session, Aneiros stressed
on the need for the coaches to focus
on the JTIs main goal of achieving
a healthy progression of competent
tennis players with the Tennis 10s as
the base and then reaching out to
U12 and U14 high performers.
The opening day at the courts of
the National Sports Complex end-
ed with the participants running a
mock competition for kids 10 and
under on the ve red courts that
were specially set up. The group
moved over to the National Training
Center the next day to learn more
about new competition formats.
The whole point of these com-
petitions is that it enables kids to
start thinking for themselves on the
court. Tennis players are often very
smart. So there is no reason why we
should not test their ability to think
just because they are young, Anei-
ros told the Post yesterday.
Two of Phnom Penhs most prom-
ising juniors, Klang Ponlok and
Chheang Vannasith, were drawn in
as experimental models for what
was virtually practical session for
the coaches.
The coaches were split into two
groups of ve each and assigned
one player to work with for ve min-
utes on one aspect of his game that
needed improvement.
To judge which group had done
a better job, the two players were
asked to play a tie-breaker and, for
the record, the Ponlok corner came
out on top.
The workshop concluded with
attention of the participants be-
ing drawn to tness workouts that
could be completed on court to help
a players balance, co-ordination
and agility.
Overall it was a very successful
workshop and I think the coach-
es are inspired to get back on the
court with the kids soon, said Mam
Phalkun.
Braen Aneiros (front right) gives instructions to local coaches during a JTI session at the National Training Centre. SRENG MENG SRUN
26
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Smart Dragons hit century
H S Manjunath
S
MART Dragons wrote a piece
of history by becoming the
rst team to post a century
in the Cambodian Basketball
League in their 111-63 drubbing of
GL Concrete at the Olympic Stadi-
um indoor arena on Saturday.
Mauled by the Mekong Tigers 87-
66 in their opening game, Smart
Dragons were bent on sending a
positive message about the teams
worth and succeeded, doing it in the
most spectacular fashion possible.
Unlike in the previous game, the
Dragons could rely on a full roster
this time except for Jordan Bergen
and Kelvin Chan and this was re-
ected in their dominant display.
Making his CBL debut, Gabrielle
Castaldo capped his rst fast break
with a two-handed dunk for the
Dragons a seemingly ominous sig-
nal to their opposition of the ram-
page that was to follow.
Castaldo was quickly fouled out,
lasting only 12 minutes in all, but
Leng Seng, Chhim Chandara and
Chhim Taingyou kept the offensive
going. When it came to Dragons
defence, Philip Elliot was the man
of the hour, with ve blocks and 14
rebounds to his name.
For GL Concrete only Ran Noren
was able to deal with the half-court
defence that the Dragons so suc-
cessfully orchestrated.
In the rst game of the day, Me-
kong Tigers rolled over NSK Dream
72-56 to complete their third win in
a row.
The rst quarter was tight with
both teams searching the wings in
the hope of drive and dish until Sok
Samnang gave the Tigers a seven-
point advantage by sinking two
three-pointers back to back.
The Tigers lead doubled in the
second quarter and stretched to 19
by the end of the third, leaving NSK
Dream plenty of work to do. The Ti-
gers were on cruise control in the
fourth, though NSK Dream did show
some improvement.
Speed not size counted in Pate 310
fashioning a 65-43 win over Sabay
Tigers Mosquitoes.
The most striking sight when the
teams got on to the court was the
size difference the Mosquitoes
were easily at least 20cm taller on
average than their rivals.
Ouch Phanat and Sok Tour en-
sured a 14-3 advantage for Pate at
the end of the rst quarter and in
the next 10 minutes nothing much
changed
The Mosquitoes did well in the
third quarter, but the 12-point de-
cit was weighing heavily on them
and Pate drew away in the fourth.
Scores Summaries
Mekong Tigers 72 (Pheng Darath 19,
Sok Samnang 18, Seath Socheat 10)
NSK Dream 56 (Chanchan Borey
10, Phorn Rithysak 9, Sok Pagna 9)
Pate 310 65 (Ouch Phanat 21,
Tayyaba Adam 10. Taing Peng Kuy 9)
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 43 (Geoff
Harry 11, Steve Chann 10, Colin Meyn 8)
Smart Dragons 111 (Leng Seng 15,
Chhim Chandara 14, Ben Laird 14,
Phillip Elliott 13, Chhim Taingyou 13)
GL Concrete 63 (Ran Noren 15,
Adam Noah 9, Lim Pich 8)
A player from Sabay Tigers Mosquitoes goes up for a shot under pressure from a Pate
310 player during their CBl game at the Olympic Stadium indoor hall. SRENG MENG SRUN

Australian Formula One
Grand Prix extended to 2020
THE Australian Formula One Grand
Prix will stay in Melbourne until 2020,
the Victorian state government said
yesterday, after the conclusion of 12
months of negotiations in London.
Victorian Premier Denis Napthine
hailed the extension of the race from
2016 to 2020, and said he looked
forward to Australian Daniel Ricciardo
of Red Bull winning the Albert Park
race during that time. He said the new
contract was agreed to last week after
a year of negotiations in London. This
is a terrific announcement that
reaffirms Melbourne and Victoria as
the major events and sporting capital of
the world, Napthine told Fairfax Radio.
The GP is funded by the Victorian state
government, and has consistently lost
money since Melbourne replaced
Adelaide as Australias Formula One
venue in 1996. AFP
Russia to play Uruguay for
final Rugby World Cup spot
RUSSIA will play Uruguay in a two-
legged play-off for the final spot at
the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The
Russians, bidding to reach a second
consecutive tournament, beat
Zimbabwe 23-15 on Saturday in the
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk while
Uruguay ran out 28-3 winners over
Hong Kong in Montevideo. Russia
now play Uruguay, who played in the
1999 and 2003 World Cups, for the
right to join hosts England, Australia,
Wales and Fiji in a daunting Pool A at
RWC 2015. The dates for the home
and away play-offs have yet to be
decided. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 4, 2014 27

Pellegrini confirms
Lampards City loan
MANCHESTER City manager
Manuel Pellegrini has
confirmed former Chelsea
midfielder Frank Lampards
move to the Premier League
champions on loan from his
new club, New York City FC.
The 36-year-old, who spent 13
years at Chelsea, recently
signed for New York, but as the
next Major League Soccer
season does not start until
next year, he has opted to
return to England to maintain
fitness. New York are one of
Manchester Citys two sister
clubs, the other being
Australian side Melbourne
City. Lampard has a strong
emotional attachment to
Chelsea, having become the
clubs all-time leading scorer
with 211 goals, and Pellegrini
suggested he could be spared
from facing his former club
when Jose Mourinhos side
visit the Etihad Stadium on
September 21. Lampards
move echoes that of fellow
New York new boy David Villa,
the Spain striker, who has
joined Melbourne City on a
short-term loan deal. AFP
Wenger enthused by
Sanogo and Campbell
ARSENAL manager Arsene
Wenger said Yaya Sanogo and
Joel Campbell would be given
chances to shine this season
after both youngsters
impressed in the 5-1 friendly
demolition of Benfica. Sanogo,
a 2013 signing from Auxerre,
scored four times in Saturdays
Emirates Cup encounter, while
Campbell, who has spent the
last three seasons out on loan,
scored once and supplied one
assist. Football surprises you
always. Not only you, but me
as well, Wenger told
journalists at the Emirates
Stadium. [Sanogo] has a big
future here, of course. AFP
Defender Galloway joins
Everton from MK Dons
EVERTON have signed
England youth international
defender Brendan Galloway on
a five-year deal from League
One side MK Dons. The
18-year-old, who was born in
Zimbabwe, will join up with the
U21 side at Goodison Park. It
means an awful lot to me
coming to such a great club.
Im now looking forward to
learning off some of the more
senior players the likes of
Sylvain Distin and Phil
Jagielka, Galloway told the
official Everton website. AFP
Spurs complete signing
of Dier from Sporting
TOTTENHAM Hotspur have
completed the signing of the
defender Eric Dier from
Sporting Lisbon on a five-year
deal. No fee was disclosed but
reports say Spurs paid around
4 million ($6.73 million) for
the England U21 international.
It has always been my
ambition and my dream to
come back to England and
play in the Premier League,
the 20-year-old told the club
website. Ive watched a lot of
Tottenham and Ive always
enjoyed the way they play, their
attacking football. I think,
coming from Portugal, that
suits me and this season I just
want to adapt really quickly to
the Premier League and do
the best I can. THE GUARDIAN
Falcao returns for Monaco
MONACO striker Radamel Fal-
cao made his first appearance
for over six months as a sec-
ond-half substitute in his sides
2-2 friendly draw against Valen-
cia in London on Saturday.
The 28-year-old Colombia
international had not played
since rupturing the anterior
cruciate ligament in his left
knee during a French Cup
game against amateur side
Chasselay on January 22.
The injury cut short his
debut season at the big-spend-
ing Ligue 1 club and prevented
him from appearing at the
World Cup, where Colombia
reached the quarter-finals.
Falcao replaced Dimitar Ber-
batov with 18 minutes to play
at the Emirates Stadium, tak-
ing up a central role alongside
Valere Germain in a 4-4-2 sys-
tem, but did not manage any
attempts on goal.
Falcao played for 20 min-
utes to help him overcome his
anxiety, which is natural when
you come back after six months
without playing, said Monaco
coach Leonardo Jardim.
Falcao later took to Twitter
to say Simply thank you!!! He
added: Thanks to God for
consoling me and giving me
encouragement over the last
six months ... Thanks to every-
one for a simple message of
encouragement.
He has been linked with a
move to Real Madrid, who
have already signed his inter-
national team-mate James
Rodriguez from Monaco in a
deal worth around 80 million
($108 million).
But Jardim said: At this
moment, regardless of what
people say, Falcao is with us.
Hes in the final stages of his
recovery. I count on him for
this season.
The match was the opening
game of the Emirates Cup
pre-season tournament,
which also features hosts
Arsenal and Benfica.
Monaco took the lead in the
30th minute when Joao
Moutinhos left-wing corner
was met by Aymen Abdennour
and flicked into the net off
Ruben Vezo for an own goal.
A Ricardo Carvalho own goal
six minutes later levelled the
scores and Valencia went in
front 20 minutes from full-
time when substitute Paco
Alcacer tapped in a low cross
from Aly Cissokho.
But after Falcao had made
his entrance from the bench,
Lucas Ocampos struck an
80th-minute equaliser for
Monaco, running from deep
and planting a shot in the
bottom-left corner from out-
side the box.
Monaco, runners-up to Paris
Saint-Germain last season,
open their Ligue 1 campaign at
home to Lorient next Sunday.
Valencias season does not
begin until August 23, when
they visit Sevilla in La Liga.
AFP
Monacos Colombian forward Radamel Falcao reacts during the pre-
season friendly against Valencia at The Emirates Stadium in London. AFP
Youngs brace
lifts United to
win over Real
A
SHLEY Young struck twice
Saturday to help Manchester
United to a 3-1 friendly win
over Real Madrid in front
of the biggest crowd ever to watch a
football match in the United States.
Javier Chicharito Hernandez also
scored for Manchester United, whose
lone goal was Gareth Bales strike
from the penalty spot.
Madrid trailed 2-1 in the second
half when manager Carlo Ancelotti
departed from his previously an-
nounced plan and introduced for-
mer United star Cristiano Ronaldo
off the bench.
The move did little for the Euro-
pean champions quest for an equa-
liser, but it delighted the crowd of
109,318 at Michigan Stadium, home
of the University of Michigan Wolver-
ines that is fondly known as The Big
House.
The attendance surpassed the pri-
or record 101,799 who watched the
1984 Olympic nal between Brazil
and France at Pasadenas Rose Bowl.
Young opened the scoring in the
21st minute, but Real Madrid pulled
level six minutes later after Bale
converted a penalty and was fouled
by Michael Keane. Louis van Gaals
side went ahead again in the 37th
as Young curled a ball into the net,
Wayne Rooney coming close to get-
ting the nal touch.
Hernandez sealed the result in the
80th when he headed in a cross from
Shinji Kagawa.
The victory sends Manchester
United into tonights nal of the In-
ternational Champions Cup, a series
of friendlies involving eight Euro-
pean clubs all preparing for their do-
mestic campaigns.
Van Gaal who took the helm of
United at the start of their US tour
will experience rst-hand his new
clubs rivalry with Liverpool, which
have already booked their berth with
a match remaining against AC Milan
on Saturday. The match kicks off at
7am Cambodian time on Tuesday
morning.
Liverpool were assured of going
through after English Premier League
champions Manchester City fell 5-4
on penalties to Olympiakos after a
2-2 fulltime draw in Minneapolis.
In an all-Italian clash on Saturday,
Inter Milan defeated AS Roma 2-0 in
Philadelphia. AFP
Ashley Young of Manchester United celebrates his rst half goal against Real Madrid dur-
ing their Guinness International Champions Cup at Michigan Stadium on Saturday. AFP
UD ALMERIAS arrival in Thai-
land for the LFP World Chal-
lenge Tour has aroused great
expectation in the country,
thanks to Thai star Teerasil
Dangda, one of the Andalu-
sian outts recent signings.
The 26-year-old player,
in an interview with LFP.
es, spoke of his enthusiasm
for playing the preseason in
front of his own people.
Its great that the Spanish
league has come to Thailand.
People are really interested
and now a lot of them sup-
port UD Almeria. Since Spain
won the 2010 World Cup, Thai
society has really got into the
Spanish league, revealed
Teerasil, who is on loan from
Thai Premier League side
SCG Muang Thong United
for one season.
The Thai player is very
grateful for the welcome he
received when he arrived in
Spain.
Im still getting used to the
city, culture and Spanish life,
because it is very different to
where I come from. Almeria
is a very peaceful city, I was
surprised at the generosity
of the people. Im very happy
there. My teammates made
me feel welcome. They help
me a lot with the language,
said the 26-year-old Thailand
international.
Teerasil, affectionately
called in Thailand by his nick-
name Mui, also said that he
was very happy to play in the
best league in the world.
He said: The Spanish
league has great players. I
look up to Cristiano Ronal-
do [of Real Madrid] and Lio-
nel Messi [of Barcelona]. Im
really excited about playing
against Barcelona and Real
Madrid.
The Thai star said he want-
ed to show his thanks for the
welcome he received when
he arrived in Bangkok on the
LFP World Challenge Tour.
Im really happy about the
welcome we have been given
since we arrived. The wel-
come at the airport was very
emotional, Teerasil said.
He played for Alme-
ria against his parent club
Muang Thong United at SCG
Stadium last Wednesday in
a friendly which ended in a
1-1 draw. Almeria will take on
Phuket FC in a friendly at Sur-
akul Stadium in Phuket this
Wednesday. BANGKOK POST
Teerasil happy to embrace
higher home expectations
Thailands Teerasil Dangda returns
home to feature in friendlies with
his new Spanish club Almeria. AFP