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SIERRA Leone deployed
troops yesterday to guard
quarantined Ebola patients
as Saudi Arabias first sus-
pected case sparked fears
of a possible global spread
and British Airways can-
celled flights to two West
African countries.
A presidential aide in
Sierra Leone said the sol-
diers would deter relatives
and friends of Ebola
patients from forcefully
taking them from hospitals
without medical consent.
Ebola, a deadly tropical
virus that causes severe fever
and, in the worst cases,
unstoppable bleeding, has
claimed the lives of 932 peo-
ple in four West African
nations since the start of the
year. Sierra Leone has seen
646 cases, the highest
number of any nation, and
273 deaths. But the fight
against its spread has been
Pech Sotheary
and Alice Cuddy
AFTER more than half a
year in lockdown, Phnom
Penhs Freedom Park reo-
pened to the public yester-
day morning, while the
results of an investigation
repeatedly cited as the rea-
son for its ongoing closure
remained elusive.
At about 8am, more than
100 mixed forces along
with Daun Penh district
security guards who
have on numerous occa-
sions beaten people pro-
testing against the parks
closure brought down
the razor-wire barricades
surrounding the area.
The reopening of the park,
part of an agreement
between the Cambodia
National Rescue Party and
the Cambodian Peoples
Party to end the political
deadlock, came a day after
opposition lawmakers were
sworn into the National
Assembly.
CNRP parliamentarian
Mu Sochua, who personally
headed a months-long
campaign to free Freedom
Park, said its reopening
marked a return of freedom
to the Kingdom.
It is a good sign . . . Free-
dom Park is a symbol of free-
dom of assembly and
expression and democracy,
she said. Its not just about
[the park] . . . its also the lift-
ing of all blanket bans on
protests.
In January, the park, which
was established in 2010 as
the capitals designated
space for people to exercise
Soldiers
to guard
Ebola
patients
Opening
marks a
return to
freedom
Stuart White and Sen David
T
HE Khmer Rouge tribu-
nal today will hand
down its verdict on the
responsibility borne by
the senior-most surviving lead-
ers of the regime Nuon Chea
and Khieu Samphan for the
massive crimes purportedly
committed in its name.
The two are being tried for
crimes against humanity alleg-
edly committed during the
evacuation of Phnom Penh after
its fall in 1975 as well as other
subsequent movements of the
population and the politically
motivated executions of officials
believed to be loyal to the former
regime that followed shortly
thereafter.
Though the countrys thou-
sands of mass graves speak
undeniably to the existence of
the regimes wrongdoing, prov-
ing beyond a reasonable doubt
the culpability of the two accused
is another matter, and prognos-
ticators yesterday split along
largely predictable lines as to
whether the delivery of a guilty
verdict was all but guaranteed.
While a verdict of guilty could
arguably be considered a meas-
ure of justice for the victims of
the Khmer Rouge, those self-
same victims wont likely
Judgement day for KR
Top remaining regime leaders face verdict for crimes against humanity
Police pack away razor wire
at Freedom Park after it was
ofcially reopened yesterday.
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consider it a surprise.
When asked if Cambodians
overwhelmingly believed the
two defendants are guilty, victim
and civil party Heng Bun Net
replied, Yes, of course we do.
All Cambodians suffered
from the regime, he said. For
me, now I am orphan. My moth-
er and father died under that
regime, and also my brother
was killed . . . They are evidence.
And other Cambodians were
victims, so they believe and are
confident that they are guilty.
Pen Soeun, a fellow civil par-
ty, agreed yesterday, saying a
guilty verdict was practically
inescapable given that all the
victims throughout the country
have enough evidence.
Not only me, we [all] believe
that they are guilty, because we
had experience under this
regime. We encountered all
those scenes with our own
eyes, so we believe they are
guilty, he said.
Longtime Khmer Rouge
researcher Youk Chhang, direc-
tor of the Documentation
Center of Cambodia and him-
self a victim of the Khmer
Rouge, said that to many vic-
tims, Chea and Samphan are as
good as convicted already.
In the minds of many survi-
vors, having seen them in pris-
on, knowing that they wont be
released, they are already con-
victed, he said. The assump-
tion might not be a legal justifi-
cation but a human instinct.
Even acknowledging the dif-
ference between popular opin-
ion and legal reasoning, Chhang
continued, the evidence before
the court was so overwhelming
that a verdict of not guilty would
require less-than-honest legal
contortions.
You talk about 3,000 mass
graves, hundreds of prisons, the
information showing how the
regime was managed, he said.
Honesty is justice, he add-
ed. Twisting the justification
legally [to arrive at an acquittal]
at the expense of the victims,
that is injustice.
Other veteran court observ-
ers, however, were not so sure.
Long Panhavuth, a program
officer with the Cambodian
Justice Initiative, said yesterday
that while he believe[d] that
people believe they will be con-
victed, it would be too early
to say whether the judgement
will meet expectations or not.
Nuon Chea defender Victor
Koppe also refused to rule out
the possibility of an acquittal,
particularly on the charges per-
taining to Tuol Po Chrey. The
charges relating to the evacua-
tion of Phnom Penh would be
more a matter of legal reason-
ing than fact given that the city
was indisputably emptied, he
continued, but even on those
charges there was hope if the
defences reasoning won out.
Nonetheless, the overwhelm-
ing public opinion and the
body of historical writings
focused on the regimes pur-
ported wrongdoing raised their
own challenges, Koppe said.
Thats the main obstacle to
the presumption of innocence,
obviously, and thats what
makes the trial so difficult for
both of the accused, he said.
We have argued . . . that all the
evidence gathered was just
with one goal: to confirm the
prenotion of guilt.
However, even one of the
people tasked with gathering
that evidence, former prosecu-
tion investigator Craig Etch-
eson, said that a guilty verdict
wasnt set in stone.
I think theres no question
that among the general public
theres a feeling that everybody
believes theyre guilty, Etch-
eson said. But we operate on
the assumption that inside the
court youre dealing with pro-
fessionals who can go into
some sort of willing suspension
of disbelief and uphold that
presumption of innocence
through the legal process.
Im in a wait-and-see mode
. . . I gathered the evidence, I
think that the burden of proof
has been met . . . [but] did [the
bench] examine the case file as
closely as I did? Did they come
to the same conclusions I did?
he added.
Anything can happen in
Cambodia.
A tourist reads about the Khmer Rouge next to a portrait of Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of
state, at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh yesterday. ELI MEIXLER
In the minds of many
survivors, having seen them
in prison . . . they are already
convicted
Strike ends
as sacked
workers
take cash
Pech Sotheary
S
EVEN union leaders
protesting against being
sacked from the Van-
tage River Textile fac-
tory in Preah Sihanouk prov-
ince each agreed yesterday to
accept $300 compensation.
Worker representative and
sacked employee Keo Srey Pich,
22, said three hours of negotia-
tions between the union, work-
ers and the company, in the
presence of the provincial gov-
ernor and labour officials, ended
in the cash being offered and an
agreement to end the strike.
The boss will pay the com-
pensation and promises to
resolve other demands we have
made, Srey Pich said, adding
that the workers had accepted
the compensation in part
because they had no other
money to support themselves.
Yov Khemra, of the Preah
Sihanouk labour department,
was present for the talks and
said that eight points had been
agreed to. These included that
workers who took part in the
strike would receive a reduced
salary for the period in which
they protested.
[They] will return to work
with only their wage being
reduced, he said. We will ask
for complaints from both sides
. . . to be withdrawn.
Workers from Vantage River
began striking on July 31 in pro-
test against the dismissal of 10
workers who were in the throes
of creating a union. Three of
the unionists had previously
accepted compensation.
Workers claim that their
bosses, who could not be
reached for comment, were
violating their rights, including
by forcing them to work over-
time. Factory representatives
said that the workers were fired
for not paying attention to
their duties.
The charges
WHILE the Khmer Rouge tri-
bunals Case 002 as a whole
covers a range of crimes and
crime sites, todays verdict in
Case 002/01 will solely judge
charges of crimes against
humanity falling under two
main themes: forced transfers
of population and the execu-
tions of officials from the top-
pled Lon Nol regime at a site
known as Tuol Po Chrey.
Forced evacuation
On April 17, 1975, the
Khmer Rouge inaugurated
their ultra-Maoist regime by
emptying Phnom Penh, a city
that at the time had swelled to
some two million inhabitants
thanks to an inux of refugees
driven out of the countryside
by ghting there. Practically
all were driven out immedi-
ately under threat of death,
some hauling as many of their
possessions as they could car-
ry, others forced out of packed
hospitals, trailing IV drips as
they marched out of the city.
Beginning just months later,
and lasting for more than
two years, a second round of
forced transfers was imple-
mented, allegedly targeting,
at times, those afliated with
the Lon Nol regime, and the
recent evacuees of Phnom
Penh, whom the Khmer Rouge
considered undesirable.
Tuol Po Chrey
Shortly after the fall of Phnom
Penh, former Lon Nol soldiers
and policemen likely num-
bering in the hundreds, though
the exact figure has been dis-
puted were rounded up at
Pursat Provincial Hall. Accord-
ing to one witness, the soldiers
were told that they would be
re-educated and folded into
the Khmer Rouge under the
same rank that they held at the
time. After eagerly climbing
into a waiting column of trucks,
however, they were allegedly
taken to an execution site at
Tuol Po Chrey and killed, elim-
inated due to fears that their
presence and perceived anti-
revolutionary stances would
be a threat to the new regime.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
Trafcking
charges for
wife broker
Mom Kunthear
AN ALLEGED broker accused
of selling 10 women from
Tbong Khmom province as
brides in China was charged by
the provincial court yesterday
with human trafficking.
Me Seak Lim, 45, was arrested
earlier this month based on the
complaint of a returned victim,
according to Thai Vantha, chief
of the provincial Anti-Human
Trafficking police.
We received a complaint
from the 31-year-old victim who,
in August last year, was tricked
into marrying a Chinese man . . .
She was abused . . . in China, but
she escaped, he said.
Police allege Lim was part of a
larger trafficking ring that lured
women from the provinces to
Phnom Penh, before flying them
to forced marriages in China.
We are investigating to arrest
the mastermind, Vantha said.
For the first six months this
year, rights group Adhoc report-
ed it received 26 forced bride
complaints and helped 10 vic-
tims return to Cambodia.
According to the government,
the Cambodian Embassy in
China has rescued 18 forced
brides so far this year.
Rainsy seeks youths release
Meas Sokchea and Vong Sokheng
F
OLLOWING Tuesdays
swearing in of the 55
elected opposition
lawmakers at the Royal
Palace, Cambodia National
Rescue Party president Sam
Rainsy yesterday wrote to In-
terior Minister Sar Kheng to
seek the release of three party
members jailed over their al-
leged involvement in a violent
protest last month.
In the letter to Kheng, Rainsy
invoked the spirit of the agree-
ment reached on July 22, which
ended the 10-month political
deadlock and paved the way for
the CNRP to end its parliamen-
tary boycott.
In the spirit of the joint polit-
ical resolution reached to end
the tense situation . . . Hun Sen
helped to intervene for the
release of the [CNRP] lawmak-
ers-elect, Rainsy wrote, refer-
ring to seven elected lawmakers
who were jailed after a July 15
protest at Phnom Penhs Free-
dom Park, where several irregu-
lar security forces were
attacked.
I would like His Excellency to
help intervene for the release of
three [CNRP] activists, who
were arrested by the authori-
ties, he added.
Kheun Chumreuon, head of
the CNRPs youth wing in
Phnom Penh, was arrested and
sent to Prey Sar prison on Sat-
urday along with San Kim Heng,
youth wing chief in Tuol Kork
district, and Neang Sokhun,
Chbar Ampov district youth
movement treasurer.
Sam Sok Kong, a lawyer rep-
resenting the three suspects,
said he had yet to get a response
to a Monday request for his cli-
ents release on bail.
Neither Kheng nor Interior
Ministry spokesman Khieu
Sopheak could be reached for
comment yesterday.
The CNRPs lawmakers are
due to attend the first session of
parliament since last years elec-
tion on Friday, when they will
sign off on amendments to the
internal rules of the National
Assembly, according to ruling
Cambodian Peoples Party law-
maker Cheam Yeap.
In his second speech in as
many days, Hun Sen yesterday
sought to quash speculation
that his eldest son, Hun Manet,
would be granted a cabinet posi-
tion in the run-up to the next
election in 2018.
I have five children and five
children-in-law. All of them have
possessed degrees ranging from
bachelors degrees to doctorates
degrees, but I cannot include
them as members of the govern-
ments cabinet, he said.
I can arrange for others com-
petent children to hold this posi-
tion or that position, but I can-
not appoint my own children to
those posts, he added.
A member of the CNRP youth member sits at a desk after being detained by authorities on Saturday in
Phnom Penh. Sam Rainsy yesterday requested all three CNRP youth members be released. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Beggars purged
Kids picked
up, released
in city sweep
S
EVEN children rounded
up this week as part of
City Halls ongoing efforts
to rid the capital of homeless,
beggars and street sellers
were returned to their families
just hours after being put into
an NGOs care.
Pin Sarapich, program direc-
tor at Pour un Sourire dEnfant
(PSE), said the children who
were rounded up on Monday
and taken to the NGO on
Tuesday afternoon were back
at home by that evening.
They have families, we dont
keep kids [with] families, he
said, adding that PSE planned
to offer the children support
as they continued to do for 13
others rounded up in June.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said another street
sweep would be launched
after the needs of those found
Monday were assessed.
In June, the Post found many
of the people picked up were
taken to the notorious Prey
Speu Social Affairs Centre.
Yesterday, a centre staff
member said that since that
was revealed, no one has been
brought to the facility. ALICE
CUDDY AND SEN DAVID
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
Villagers in
KDC row
stand vigil
Chhay Channyda
POLICE failed yesterday to
convince dozens of families
camped outside Kampong
Chhnang Provincial Court to
pack up their mats, blankets
and tents and end their protest
over two village representatives
jailed in a long-running land
dispute with politically con-
nected KDC International.
The 80 Lor Peang villagers
continued to demand the
release of their representatives
as well as the re-examination of
charges against another eight
for allegedly inciting violence
against the company.
A deputy police chief told
people to go back home, but
they didnt leave, Nhork Bunthy,
Kampong Chhnang town dep-
uty police chief, said.
Villagers said they would wait
and sleep at court until the judge
came to discuss a solution.
We will sleep here for two
nights, and then will seek a new
method [if it doesnt work],
because we are worried about
sickness, said Snguon Nhoe-
un, 34, one of the eight accused
representatives.
Court and KDC officials could
not be reached yesterday.
Woman shot dead in capital
Kim Sarom

I
N WHAT police say was a
callous and likely calcu-
lated attack, a 36-year-old
woman was shot dead in
broad daylight as she drove
her mother through Phnom
Penh trafc on a motorbike
yesterday morning.
Witnesses say they saw two
helmeted men on a motor-
bike ride up alongside the
victim, Kim Socheata, and her
mother at about 9am in Por
Sen Cheys Kakab commune.
As both motorbikes contin-
ued along the road, the men
appeared to hesitate before
the man riding pillion opened
re on the victim, striking her
and knocking her to the road.
She died at the scene.
I was so shocked when the
victim fell unconscious in
front of me after I heard so
many gunshots, said Suong
Sophorn, 46, who lives near-
by. I saw and heard their
loud motorbike speed from
the scene.
Sophorn said she had at
rst suspected the two men
intended to rob the women
of jewellery, but noticed they
made no attempt to steal any-
thing. She believed the perpe-
trators knew their victim.
They at rst seemed re-
luctant to shoot, in case they
might have mistaken the iden-
tity, but then they shot her. I
wonder about this, because it
is so cruel, she said.
A second witness recounted
a similar story to a Post report-
er; however, neither could give
detailed descriptions of the
suspects. With helmets mostly
obscuring the faces of both
men, their most distinguish-
ing feature was that they rode
a large black motorcycle.
Yim Saran, Por Sen Chey
district police chief, said of-
cers were still piecing together
what had happened and indi-
cated that they had few leads.
Journalists know already
that it is a shooting, he said
when asked about details of
the case, including the type of
gun used.
He added, however, that of-
cers had found bullet casings
near the body that suggested
six bullets were red. The vic-
tim, medical tests conrmed,
was shot twice in the ribs and
above one of her knees, he said.
Police suspect it is a case of
planned spite, but we are not
able to conclude whether it is
the result of a love triangle,
Saran added.
Bullet casings lie on the ground at the scene of a shooting in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district yesterday
morning. A 36-year-old woman was killed in the attack. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Appeal case heard
Pedophile
blames acts
on disease
A
CONVICTED Austrian
pedophile yesterday
had his appeal case
heard at the Supreme Court
after he was sentenced to 20
years prison for molesting
five underage boys in 2008.
Olaf Achleitner, 64, was
working as a chef in a riversi-
de restaurant in 2007 when he
was found to have committed
the crimes.
Defence lawyer Dun Vibol
argued that his client had a
disease that made him at-
tracted to young boys and that
he should be shown leniency
because of health problems.
My client has a wife and
a daughter, but he had a
disease which made him want
to have sex with boys. In the
lower courts, he admitted his
faults and, as he is growing
older, he has had problems
with incontinence, he said.
Chea Nara, a lawyer
representing the victims, said
that the serious nature of
Achleitners crimes should
rule out a pardon or sentence
reduction.
Presiding judge Khim Ponn
said a verdict is due on Wed-
nesday. KIMSAROM
Mom Kunthear
A 30-YEAR-OLD acid victim
from Banteay Meanchey was
sent to the capital for further
treatment at a rehabilitation
hospital, doctors said yester-
day, while police are continu-
ing to look for the perpetrator.
An acid attack in Poipet town
late last month left Tang Mouy
Chou suffering burns on 20
per cent of her body, including
her head and arm. Chou was
doused in acid while eating
noodles at a market in what po-
lice suspect was an attack mo-
tivated by a love triangle. The
victim has refused to talk about
the incident or name a suspect.
We are continuing the pro-
cess of investigation to seek
the perpetrator, said Im Sop-
hearak, Poipet commune po-
lice chief.
Erin Bourgois, project man-
ager at the Cambodian Acid
Survivors Charity, said this
is the second acid attack this
year, and that acid attacks in
the Kingdom have declined 83
per cent since 2010.
In the years rst acid at-
tack in April, a woman alleg-
edly doused her husband for
threatening to divorce her.
No arrests
yet in July
acid attack
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Flood death toll reaches 11
Pech Sotheary
TWO more Cambodians have
died in flooding-related inci-
dents since Monday, bringing
the total number killed this
rainy season to 11, according
to government figures.
Keo Vy, cabinet director at
the National Committee for
Disaster Management, said
that one of the two victims was
killed by a snake bite after
heavy rains drew the snakes
into populated areas.
There have been 11 deaths:
three in Kampong Cham,
three in Kratie, three in Stung
Treng, three in Kandal, and
one in Tbong Khmum prov-
ince. Most of the victims died
of drowning when they went
fishing, he said.
About 4,500 families in six
provinces have been relocated,
while six houses in Kampong
Cham and 63 houses in Tbong
Khmum were destroyed.
Officials are continuing to
evaluate the toll on property
and crops, but thus far, 164
schools, 95 pagodas and 16
health clinics have been flood-
ed, Vy said, adding that 35,000
hectares of crops have been
inundated.
Accused denies Buddha claims
Phak Seangly
T
HEAN Vuthy the
man accused of pro-
moting himself as the
next Buddha yes-
terday apologised to ofcials
during questioning, admitting
his pagoda contained items
that supported such an allega-
tion, Provincial Governor Phay
Bunchhoeun said.
He confessed that he was
wrong, Bunchhoeun said,
referring to items found in
Vuthys Tuol Reachea pa-
goda in Kandal when ofcials
searched it on Sunday.
But Vuthy, whom Prime Min-
ister Hun Sen earlier this week
ordered ofcials to arrest over
his alleged self-proclaimed
divinity, denied declaring he
was a Buddha. He wanted
only to be reincarnated as a
god through his good deeds,
Bunchhoeun said.
Vuthys appearance yester-
day attracted attention on so-
cial media, with people post-
ing photos and video clips of
the event on Facebook.
I am not afraid, because
everyone dies sooner or later.
Please forgive me, as I did not
understand what I was doing
due to stupidity, Vuthy says in
one clip.
Authorities had discovered a
painting of Vuthy depicted as a
divine gure inside his pagoda,
and he was known to sit in an
area supposedly reserved for
the Buddha himself.
Vuthy agreed to remodel his
pagoda in accordance with
traditional Buddhism, Bunch-
hoeun said.
However, accusations Vuthy
was enriching himself on his
devotees backs after jewellery
was found in his pagoda were
not on yesterdays agenda.
We did not question him
about the jewellery in public
like that. That will be left to the
courts, the governor said.
Vuthy is to meet the Minister
of Cult and Religion Min Khin
today. The ministry and a com-
mittee of monks will then dis-
cuss whether to take any puni-
tive measures.
Thean Vuthy indoctrinated
his followers and made up
things about religion. That is
against the constitution, which
states that Buddhism is the na-
tional religion and no one can
offend it, Bunchhoeun said.
According to Phum Phalla,
adviser and a former secretary
of state at the ministry, Vuthy
did not heed an earlier warn-
ing about his activities because
of his inuential friends in the
religious community.
But this time, because the
information spread through
Facebook, he was stopped,
Phalla said.
Thean Vuthy (centre left) talks to authorities yesterday at the Kandal Provincial Hall yesterday. He was
summonsed for questioning over claims he has promoted himself as the next Buddha. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Children play in oodwater in Kandals Muk Kampoul district on Tuesday. HENG CHIVOAN
Cease and desist
Firm ordered
to stop lling
Kandal lake
T
HE Ministry of Water Re-
sources and Meteorology
has ordered provincial
authorities to stop Vattanac
Properties, a land developer,
from filling in a lake in Kandals
Kien Svay district because it
would affect water supplies to
farms of nearby residents.
Chun Pen Long, the minis-
trys head for Kandal, said the
company attempted to fill a
lake almost 10 hectares in size
but was ordered to temporarily
stop all operations in order for
the ministry to investigate.
Minister Lim Kean Hor
ordered the provincial authori-
ties to stop Vattanacs tractors
from filling the states lake.
If filled, it would affect local
water sources, because there
will be no water for residents
to farm with, he said.
Heng Team, Kien Svay dis-
trict governor, said the com-
pany only owned land near the
lake and had no right to fill it
in. The local authorities didnt
dare to stop the company, so
thats why we referred the
matter to the ministry.
Vattanac Properties could
not be reached for comment
yesterday. SENDAVID
Family, rm still at odds over land
Chhay Channyda
WHILE one of the two Phnom
Penh families embroiled in a
long-running land dispute
with the Khun Sear Import
Export Company this week
accepted a compensation
offer, the other says it has no
plans to back down.
Ly Seav Minh, whose family
claim to have been subjected
to violent attacks, having
snakes thrown into their home
and their pets poisoned, told
the Post that Khun Sear has
made no attempt to compen-
sate them.
No company has
approached our family, but our
stance now is firm. We still want
to live on our land, she said.
Norn Ouny, a legal officer
with the Housing Rights Task
Force, said the deal with the
other family was reached on
Tuesday when Khun Sear
offered an appropriate com-
pensation in form of cash [so
they] could buy a new house.
In the agreement, the two
parties agree to withdraw all
the complaints at the court,
he added.
Company representative Yim
Leang, chief of Senate Presi-
dent Chea Sims bodyguard
unit, said he could not com-
ment on the negotiations.
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
POLICE
BLOTTER
Man places a meagre
price on friendship
WHATS worth more than
friendship? Exactly $37 for
one resident of Tuol Kork dis-
trict. Police said the suspect
approached his friend on
Monday asking to borrow the
sum and pledging to return it
the next day. Much as in the
lent-moto scheme so familiar
to blotter readers, the cash
was not destined to return.
Spotting his mate the next
day, the victim chased him
down the street shouting for
help. Police hauled the man in
for questioning. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Driver taught a violent
lesson about parking
NEXT time a security guard
tells you to park in the proper
area, you may want to consid-
er it. Police said one capital
man who didnt on Tuesday
got a surprising reaction from
a Chamkarmon district rent-
a-cop. After parking next to a
phone shop, the man refused
to repark. When the ensuing
argument escalated, the
guard bashed the man with
his walkie-talkie. Luckily, the
injuries were slight, but the
guard is headed to court. RAS-
MEI KAMPUCHEA
Shortcut a bad choice
for drug-dealing stylist
A HAIRDRESSER looking to
trade highlights for the high
life found her chosen shortcut
a foolish one on Tuesday.
Police said the 27-year-old
was making drug deliveries on
the side for a local dealer.
Onto her, police in Phnom
Penh stopped and searched
her last week. Sure enough,
they found eight packets of
yama hidden inside her
underwear. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Gym members feeling
the sting from workout
NO PAIN, no gain took on a
new meaning for the mem-
bers of a gym in the capitals
Chamkarmon district this
week. While they were inside
pumping iron, a thief, 21, was
cleaning out their lockers.
Police said the suspect would
routinely disguise himself as a
workout enthusiast then roam
the club looking for loot. The
jig was finally up on Tuesday.
After being arrested, the man
confessed to stealing money
and phones on three occa-
sions. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Beggar victim of vicious
attack after argument
A BEGGAR is recovering in
hospital after a violent con-
frontation in Kandals Kien
Svay district on Tuesday. Police
said the inebriated 46-year-old
had gotten into an argument
with a woman in the neigh-
bourhood. When her brother
came to her defence, the beg-
gar promptly punched him in
the face twice. The attack
only served to enrage the
brother, who grabbed an axe
and hit the man in the back
and head an action that sent
the beggar to hospital and the
suspect to jail. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
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Continued from page 1
their freedoms of assembly
and expression, was declared
off limits to demonstrators
and gatherings with political
undertones.
On the eve of Labour Day
demonstrations on May 1,
razor-wire fences were erected
around the park, blocking
all entrances.
Last month, a protest calling
for the government to bring
down the barricades ended in
violence when the crowd
responded to baton-wielding
security guards aggressive
attempts to disperse them with
brutal mob beatings.
Seven CNRP lawmakers and
four other party members
have been arrested for their
alleged role in the violence.
Three of them remain in pris-
on, while the rest as well as
CNRP deputy leader Kem
Sokha have been sum-
monsed to court on various
dates over the next week for
further questioning.
Officials had previously said
the reopening of the park was
dependent on the closure of
government investigations into
the fatal violence of early Janu-
ary and other clashes.
Various government officials
have said that one such inves-
tigation ended months ago.
But no findings have been
released publicly, and as the
fences were dismantled yester-
day, results seemed as distant
as ever before.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said authorities are
still investigating the January
violence, but the park was
opened up again because
security and public order are
back to normal.
While Sochua said she had
no idea what was happening
with the investigation, she told
the Post that the National
Assemblys Human Rights
Commission, which will be
controlled by the CNRP,
would investigate the events.
As the park reopened, local
residents and business own-
ers celebrated.
Food vendor Siv Lin said her
income had plummeted with
the parks closure. Previously,
we commanded some 300,000
riel [$75] per day . . . recently we
have earned only 40,000 riel.
Phuong Chea, a regular at
park protests, said people
could once again express their
freedom.
But Council of Ministers
spokesman Phay Siphan
warned that while Freedom
Park belongs to the public,
the government wont let any
group or person [use it] to cre-
ate a public disturbance.
Ou Virak, chairman of the
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights, said the park reopening
had only symbolic value.
It also shows that the CPP . . .
does whatever it wants, he
said. The implementation of
the ban was never anything to
do with the law.
Virak said that if the govern-
ment was interested in com-
plying with its 2009 Law on
Peaceful Assembly, it should
create a version of Freedom
Park in every province.
This should have happened
six months after it was intro-
duced, he said.
He added that he did not
expect to ever see the results of
any government investigation.
It is no longer politically
convenient for either of the two
parties, he said.
Police ofcers move riot barricades in preparation for the reopening of Phnom Penhs Freedom Park yesterday,
seven months after security forces violently drove opposition supporters out. VIREAK MAI
Parks opening marks a return to freedom
The implementation of the
ban was never anything to do
with the law
Eddie Morton
T
HE World Banks cor-
ruption investigation
unit has banned a
Cambodian construc-
tion rm from entering future
tender processes as punish-
ment for submitting what it
says were fraudulent nancial
documents.
The banks Integrity Vice
Presidency (INT) last week
announced the sanction on
CDW Construction Co for a
period of three years for en-
gaging in fraudulent practices
in connection with the banks
Ketsana Emergency Recon-
struction and Rehabilitation
Project (KERR).
An investigation by the INT
revealed CDW Construction
submitted fraudulent nan-
cial reports and a false state-
ment of construction turnover
in its bid in connection with
the procurement process, the
banks July 29 statement reads.
Announced for tender in late
2010 and ofcially completed
on July 31 this year, the $37 mil-
lion KERR project provided di-
saster relief and restored roads,
water and sanitation services
for communities affected by
2009s Typhoon Ketsana, which
killed 43 and caused $140 mil-
lion in damage.
Chuon Dawin, president of
CDW Construction, admit-
ted that his rm had been
blacklisted after submitting
an unsuccessful proposal to
the World Bank to repair a
typhoon-damaged road in
Kampong Thom province.
But Dawin criticised the
World Banks bidding process,
saying it did not allow enough
time for companies to pull
together accurate nancial
assessments of the proposed
work, and he called the banks
efforts to pursue the matter
unwarranted.
The problem was that my
draft was different to the ex-
ternal auditors assessment
of the project because I had a
very short time to do it and the
World Banks criteria was very
complicated, he said.
I decided not to follow
through with this project,
which we didnt win anyway, so
why is the World Bank still ask-
ing me about it and why is my
company in their blacklist?
According to Dawin, CDW
Construction won a bidding
process in 2007 for a $100,000
contract with the World Bank
to build a structure in Koh
Kong province.
Dawins rm was not alone
in the World Banks recent
round of debarments, with
two Dutch companies also
banned for similar fraudulent
practices in Iraq.
Managing fraud and cor-
ruption risks through corpo-
rate compliance and preven-
tative work in development
projects is a priority particu-
larly in conict-affected situ-
ation where needs for services
and infrastructure cannot be
excused or delayed, World
Bank integrity vice president
Leonard McCarthy was quot-
ed as saying in the statement.
The World Bank in Cambo-
dia declined to comment on
the matter, and the US-based
INT did not return requests
for comment.
According to the World
Banks Internal Advisory
Board (IAB), which worked
with the bank on anti-corrup-
tion and anti-fraud measures
between June 2008 and June
this year, the INTs sanction
and debarment regulations
have so far proven successful,
albeit it with some aws.
The IABs latest annual re-
port, published in February,
shows the INT had 69 active
investigations into fraudulent
and corrupt practices and 78
active debarment cases across
the World Bank group as of
December 31, 2013.
Of the INTs debarment
process, the IAB said: The
object of the sanctions sys-
tem should be efcient dis-
posal of business to protect
the reputation of the Bank
and use the authority of the
Bank as an exemplary lend-
er to make a stand against
fraud, corruption and other
sanctionable activities.
The IABs assessment also
raised concerns of malprac-
tice within the World Banks
ranks, particularly with re-
gards to monitoring and re-
porting corrupt and fraudu-
lent activities, and urged the
bank to maintain its role as a
lending institution rst.
In the course of our on-site
visits, we have been alerted
to possible incidents of indi-
vidual or systemic screening
and ltering of reports within
regional managements . . .
This issue should indeed be
taken very seriously by the
Bank, the IAB said in its
2013 annual report, published
in February.
The IAB has consistently
recommended that the bank
remember that it is a lend-
ing institution not a judicial
body. It does not have the
powers of a judicial body nor
does INT have the powers of a
criminal investigator.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
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Loans across banking industry jump to $9.5 billion
May Kummakara
A RECENT surge in lending
among Cambodias 35 com-
mercial banks has received a
mixed response from some of
the industrys leading financial
companies.
According to figures from the
National Bank of Cambodia,
outstanding loans increased
sharply by 28 per cent over the
first six months of the year,
reaching close to $9.5 billion.
That compares to $7.4 billion
in December last year, while
total deposits increased by 15
per cent to $8.7 billion, com-
pared to $7.56 billion at the
end of 2013.
Grant Knuckey, chief execu-
tive officer of ANZ Royal Bank,
said yesterday that an expand-
ing loan-to-deposit ratio was
stretching the industry thin.
Given that the Cambodia
system loan-to-deposit ratio
was already about 100 per cent
at the end of 2013, then the fact
that commercial bank loans
are growing at twice the rate
of deposits is actually quite
concerning, Knuckey said in
an email.
There will always be more
and more demand for borrow-
ing, but that does not mean all
this demand should be met.
Some lending is imprudent.
Better to slow things a little now
than to create future risks,
he went on to say.
Knuckey called for a loan-
to-deposit ratio cap for indi-
vidual banks, as well as for
the imposition of a 12.5 per
cent limit on lending from off-
shore providers.
However, In Channy, Acleda
Bank president and group CEO,
was less concerned about the
rising rate of lending.
Acledas outstanding loans
rose about 11 per cent in the
first six months of the year,
reaching $1.6 billion, with
deposits up by 20 per cent to
$1.9 billion.
I dont see any potential risk,
as it responds to the surge of
the need for business expan-
sion, he said.
We have three types of
funding [for loans]: from our
own capital, deposits and
international financial institu-
tions, which provide long-
term loans.
In addition, our commercial
banks mostly offer types of pro-
ductive loans [for businesses],
not consumer loans, which are
more risky. So, productive loans
are, of course, beneficial to the
economy, Channy said.
Charles Van, president of the
Association of Banks in Cam-
bodia, said yesterday that while
individually each bank need-
ed to keep a close watch on its
loan-to-deposit ratio, the
overall figures were in line
with industry growth and did
not represent any immediate
cause for concern.
Cambodian banks are very
conservative in terms of lend-
ing; banking laws and regula-
tions are very tough, he said.
The National Bank of Cam-
bodia could not be reached for
comment yesterday.
Travel expo
to draw big
dollars and
big buyers
Chan Muyhong
THE government has squir-
relled away about $500,000 for
the upcoming Pacific Asian
Tourism Association Travel
Mart (PTM), which will run
September 17-19.
Tourism Minister Thong
Khon told the Post yesterday
that the government had
approved the $500,000 budget
for the event, which it is hoped
will attract more tourism busi-
ness to the Kingdom.
The amount is not much
compared to the long-term
benefits the event could bring
to the country, Khon said.
Cambodia could earn three
to four times more than that
amount from tourism-related
business in the year following
the event. That is what the gov-
ernment expects.
The event, co-organised by
the Pacific Asian Tourism Asso-
ciation (PATA), is expected to
cost more than $1 million.
Thoun Sinan, president of the
associations Cambodian chap-
ter, said the co-organiser and
attendees would help fund the
remaining amount.
The income from booth
rentals will be used to cover
the events expenses, which
include paying for accommo-
dation, tickets, food and trans-
portation for invited buyers,
Sinan said.
If there is revenue from the
event, the money will go to
PATA, he added.
More than 600 tourism com-
panies from around the world
are expected to attend the
event, which will be held on
Koh Pich.
Last years PTM was held in
Chengdu, China. It hosted
some 550 tourist industry stalls
and about 473 buyer delegates,
according to PATA.
Labourers work on a construction site in Phnom Penh earlier this year. The World Bank has announced a sanction in place against Cambodias
CDW Construction Co for submitting what is says were fraudulent nancial documents. VIREAK MAI
World Bank bans local firm
There will always be more and
more demand for borrowing,
but that does not mean all
this demand should be met
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
China to punish foreign carmakers
Rats ground India ight
CHINA stepped up pressure on
foreign carmakers in the worlds
biggest auto market yesterday,
pledging to punish German
luxury brand Audi and Chrysler
of the United States for
monopoly behaviour.
The National Development
and Reform Commission
(NDRC), which polices viola-
tions of Chinas anti-monopo-
ly law, has been investigating
the sector dominated by for-
eign companies and their joint
ventures for more than two
years but had not mentioned
any particular firms.
It is the latest sweeping probe
China has launched into
alleged wrongdoings by foreign
companies in several sectors,
among them pharmaceuticals,
technology and baby milk.
Moves to lower prices can
garner public support, while
Beijing has also shown a ten-
dency to favour building up
national champions, espe-
cially in industries dominated
by foreign companies.
Audi is the luxury car unit of
Volkswagen, Europes biggest
auto group, while Chrysler has
merged with Italys Fiat.
It has been found out that
the two companies showed
monopoly behaviour and they
will be punished accordingly in
the near future, NDRC spokes-
man Li Pumin said at a news
conference in Beijing.
A spokesman for Fiat-Chrys-
ler in China declined to com-
ment, while Audi could not
be reached.
The NDRC announcement
came two days after anti-mo-
nopoly investigators from the
agency raided a Shanghai office
of Mercedes-Benz, a luxury
unit of Germanys Daimler, by
grilling employees and inspect-
ing computers.
Li confirmed the investiga-
tion into Mercedes-Benz,
according to a transcript of the
news conference posted online.
Daimler said on Tuesday that it
was assisting the inquiry.
China is critically important
for foreign automakers, espe-
cially as the European market
has faltered, with total sales of
21.98 million vehicles last year.
Regulators believe prices for
both parts and vehicles are
unfairly high in the country,
but manufacturers say author-
ities impose heavy duties on
imported cars and parts, which
ramp up costs for domestic
consumers.
Li did not clarify what was
meant by monopoly behav-
iour, however China considers
using a dominant market
position to set prices a form
of monopoly.
Violators illegal gains can
be confiscated, and they can
also be fined up to 10 per cent
of their sales revenue in the
previous year.
Another 12 Japanese compa-
nies were under investigation
for monopoly pricing of auto
components and bearings, Li
said, but declined to name
them, adding details would be
released later.
Car companies have rushed
to cut prices in recent weeks in
an apparent bid to appease
Chinese officials. AFP
AIR India has been forced to
ground one of its planes after
the crew spotted rats scurrying
around the cabin.
The plane was on its way
from New Delhi to Calcutta
when staff became aware of the
infestation, a report said.
Rats on board an aircraft can
lead to a catastrophe if they
start chewing up electric wires,
The Times of India quoted an
airline official as saying.
No one at the airline was
immediately available for com-
ment, but an Air India official
speaking on condition of ano-
nymity said rats on planes were
a common phenomenon
worldwide. They follow the
catering vans into the plane
when they smell the food, the
official said.
It is not the first time that
Indias loss-making carrier has
suffered a rodent infestation.
Rats reportedly delayed a
domestic flight from Mumbai
by almost two hours in Febru-
ary, and in 2009 a flight to Toron-
to was delayed for 11 hours as
staff tried to catch rats. AFP
The Apple-Samsung
war is over . . . mostly
Lim Chang-Won
A
RCH-RIVALS Samsung and
Apple agreed yesterday to
drop all patent disputes
except those inside the
United States marking a partial
ceasere in a long-running legal
war between the worlds two largest
smartphone makers.
Both companies have been locked
in a three-year battle of litigative at-
trition in close to a dozen countries,
with each accusing the other of in-
fringing on various patents related
to their agship smartphone and
tablet products.
But neither has managed to deliver
a knock-out blow with, a number of
rulings going different ways, and yes-
terdays announcement suggested a
line was nally being drawn.
Samsung and Apple have agreed
to drop all litigation between the
two companies outside the United
States, Samsung said in a statement.
However, the agreement came
with one key caveat, with the two
giants stressing that they would still
continue to pursue the existing
cases in US courts.
The patent row kicked off in earnest
back in 2011, when Apple sued Sam-
sung in a US court, and swiftly went
trans-continental with cases being
heard in South Korea, Germany, Ja-
pan, Italy, the Netherlands, England,
France and Australia, among others.
Apple has accused its South Korean
rival of massive and wilful copying of
its designs and technology for smart-
phones and tablets, and has asked for
a bar on US sales of Samsung smart-
phones and tablet computers.
Samsung has counter-claimed that
Apple had used some of its technol-
ogy without permission.
The two rms had been pushed into
talks in early February by a US court
order that saw Apple CEO Tim Cook
and his Samsung mobile communi-
cations counterpart JK Shin attend
a full-day negotiation session, along
with their advisors and legal teams.
However, despite several follow-
ups, the mediators settlement pro-
posal was not taken up and the liti-
gation continued.
In the latest development in May,
a jury in federal court in California
awarded Apple close to $120 million
in damages in one of its patent suits
with Samsung.
The award was only a fraction of
the more than $2 billion Apple had
sought at the outset of the trial, and
the result was seen as a partial vic-
tory for both sides.
Law of diminishing returns
Daishin Securities analyst Claire
Kim said the two companies ap-
peared to have tired of a lengthy,
costly process that was producing no
tangible dividends.
They now realise there is no rea-
son to continue their battle outside
the US, because their lawsuits have
produced so little results, Kim said.
When the lawsuits rst started ying
Samsung and Apple were the undis-
puted kings of the global smartphone
market and their legal wrangles were
seen as a ght for supremacy.
But that situation has changed, as
developed markets have become in-
creasingly saturated and emerging
markets more competitive with the
rise of Chinese manufacturers like
Lenovo, Xiaomi and Huawei.
Theres no more merit in the old
strategy of expanding market share
through attacks on rivals, Kim said.
Samsungs share price closed 1.22
per cent lower on Seouls main stock
exchange after yesterdays news.
Samsungs second-quarter net prof-
it plunged 19.6 per cent from a year
ago to 6.25 trillion won ($6.1 billion),
as competition from cheap Chinese
phones and the strong won saw sales
slump in its key mobile business.
Alarm bells have been sounding for
a while over Samsungs reliance on
smartphone sales in mature markets
such as Europe and the US.
Efforts to expand sales in emerging
markets, most notably China, have
stumbled over the growing challenge
posed by smaller rivals producing
cheaper handsets.
There is a general consensus that
smartphone evolution has hit a bar-
rier that will only allow incremental
improvements on existing design
and technology, rather than market-
changing reinvention. AFP
Apples iPhone 4s smartphone and Samsungs Galaxy S3. AFP
Source : IDC
Smartphone market
Apple
35.1
11.9
Samsung
74.3 million
units
25.2% market
share
Others
135.3
39.3
Huawei
20.3
6.9
LG
14.5
4.9
Lenovo
15.8
5.4
Second
quarter,
2014
IPHONE FANS, MARK SEPTEMBER 9
A
pple has reportedly scheduled a
September 9 event to unveil its
long-anticipated large-screen
iPhone. While reports have been
swirling in recent weeks about the
new handsets, this was the first with
a precise date. Apple did not
immediately comment. The website
Re/Code said the event would be to
announce Apples next-generation
iPhones, with screen sizes stretched
to 4.7 and 5.5 inches and with a
faster processor. The iPhone 6 will
also run on Apples new iOS 8
operating software. It also puts a
heavier focus on offering lifestyle and
health care-related apps and
services, allowing users to monitor
things like blood pressure and heart
rate. The HomeKit bundle will
streamline home electronic devices
into one place. For example, telling
Siri that youre going to bed could
dim your lights, lock your doors and
set the air conditioner to your
preferred setting. AFP
SAMSUNG LOSING TO LOCAL RIVALS
S
amsung Electronics, the global
leader in mobile-phone sales, is
being outflanked in the key markets
of China and India by newcomers
catering to domestic tastes. Xiaomi
became the largest smartphone
vendor in China during the second
quarter, while Micromax Informatics
topped Indian mobile-phone
shipments, according to data from
research firms this week. In both
cases, Samsung fell to No 2. Xiaomi
keeps prices down by selling through
its website and tapping social media
to create Apple-like buzz, and
Micromax offers models with longer
battery life and dual-SIM capacity in a
market where wireless carriers dont
subsidise phones. Xiaomi became No
1 in China by shipping 15 million
devices in the second quarter, giving it
a 14 per cent share of the market.
Samsung shipped 13.2 million
smartphones, giving the Suwon,
South Korea-based company 12 per
cent of the market. BLOOMBERG
Egypt to dig new Suez
EGYPTIAN President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi has launched the
construction of a $4 billion
new Suez Canal to speed up
traffic along the existing water-
way and boost the countrys
battered economy.
The project foresees the crea-
tion of one million jobs at a
time when Egypt is struggling
to recover from more than
three years of political turmoil
since the ouster of long-time
autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Sisi, accompanied by gov-
ernment ministers and army
generals, set an ambitious tar-
get of digging the new canal,
which would run parallel to the
original Suez Canal built 145
years ago.
No matter what it takes, this
project must be finished in a
year. That is what Egyptians
expect, Sisi said.
Officials said the new water-
way would be funded by Egyp-
tian and foreign investors.
Sisi said 500 million shares in
the project would be offered to
domestic investors at a rate of
100 Egyptian pounds ($14)
each, and $100 per share for
expatriates. AFP
Audi and Chrysler face penalties for what the Chinese government
claims is monopoly behaviour. AFP
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Business
S OMP HOT E
Ahunai, the
founder of En-
ergy Absolute
Pcl, a Bangkok-
based biodie-
sel producer
and solar plant
operator, be-
came a billion-
aire as the stock
more than tripled this year to
a record high.
Somphote, 46, owns about
40 per cent of Energy Abso-
lute, according to a March 27
ling to the Stock Exchange of
Thailand. The stake is valued
at $1.2 billion.
Investors are betting on
higher earnings from solar
and wind power plants as
Southeast Asias second-big-
gest economy increases its us-
age of renewable energy. The
companys revenue and prot
are expected to climb as solar
and wind power plants begin
operating, said Suwat Sinsa-
dok, an analyst at CIMB Secu-
rities (Thailand) Co.
Somphotes engineering
and nancial background has
been a complete combination
in successfully implement-
ing the solar and power plant
projects, said Suwat, referring
to the wind-power projects.
The companys
earnings will
grow exponen-
tially in the com-
ing years with its
high efciency
and projects.
The compa-
nys share price
rally this year
makes it the sec-
ond-best performer on Thai-
lands Market for Alternative
Investment, which includes
101 small- and medium-sized
companies. Energy Absolute
accounts for more than a third
of the weighting on the index.
Somphote has an engineer-
ing degree from Thailands
Chulalongkorn University and
an MBA from the University of
Pittsburgh, where he met his
Taiwanese wife Blanca Huang.
Somphote was the managing
director of Yuanta Securities
(Thailand) Co, once the na-
tions biggest stock brokerage
by market share. He resigned
from the company in May
2001, less than a week after
the stock exchange suspended
the brokerage from stock trad-
ing. The security company was
then merged to become May-
bank Kim Eng Securities (Thai-
land) Pcl, the countrys biggest
equity trader. BLOOMBERG
Thailand says hello to
its newest billionaire
Traders rushing to Vietnam
Nguyen Kieu Giang
F
RONTIER-MARKET
equity funds from
Sweden to South Afri-
ca are pouring money
into Vietnamese stocks, lured
by Southeast Asias cheapest
valuations and an improving
outlook for economic growth.
Overseas money managers
bought a net $277.1 million of
the countrys shares this year
through Tuesday, 5.3 per cent
more than the whole of 2013.
Thats helped propel a 20 per
cent gain in the benchmark
VN Index of the Ho Chi Minh
City Stock Exchange.
Coeli Asset Management,
RenAsset Management and
Asia Frontier Capital Ltd say
the rally isnt done as econom-
ic growth accelerates, ination
eases and the outlook for ex-
ports improves after the cen-
tral bank devalued the dong
for the rst time in 12 months.
Moodys Investors Service
raised the nations sovereign
rating on July 29, citing an im-
proving balance of payments
and rising forex reserves.
We are adding to existing
positions in Vietnam, Thom-
as Hugger, chief executive of-
cer at Hong Kong-based Asia
Frontier Capital, said. Even
though it has been among the
leading performers in Asia
this year, we still think many
stocks offer value.
James Bannan, who runs the
$110 million Frontier Markets
Fund at Coeli in Sweden, was
very positive on Vietnam.
Still, concerns remain that
soured loans in the coun-
trys banking sector may curb
growth. Increasing bad debts
could signicantly undermine
the resilience of Vietnams
lenders, S&P wrote in a report.
The economy is still expand-
ing, with growth quickening
to 5.25 per cent in the second
quarter, from 5.09 per cent
three months earlier, as the
outlook for exports improved.
The central bank devalued
the dong in June to spur ship-
ments after anti-China pro-
tests in May halted production
at foreign-owned factories.
Its a classic early-stage
emerging market with a lot of
potential, Bannan said.
There are a few very in-
teresting opportunities in
the Vietnamese market and
we are currently adding to
them. BLOOMBERG
Employees inspect a stock board inside the new Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange in June. BLOOMBERG
Somphote Ahunai. FACEBOOK
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Murdoch withdraws
offer for Time Warner
RUPERT Mur-
dochs Twenty-
First Century Fox
has withdrawn its
$80 billion offer
to buy Time War-
ner after being
rebuffed by the
media giant.
Time Warner
management and its Board
refused to engage with us to
explore an offer which was
highly compelling, Murdoch,
the companys CEO, said.
The proposed deal would
have put several powerful me-
dia properties, including HBO,
Fox News, 20th Century Fox
and Warner studios, under a
single umbrella. Such a huge
deal was sure to draw scrutiny
from regulators and consumer
advocates worried about hav-
ing so much power within
a single company.
Time Warner
CEO Jeffrey Bewkes
said last month that
Murdochs offer
undervalued the
companys brands.
Our business
plans will create
signicantly more
value for the company and our
shareholders, and thats supe-
rior to any proposal that Fox is
in a position to offer, he said.
Murdoch is known for his
persistence and analysts say
he may still try to acquire Time
Warner. His bid was expected
to unleash a wave of media
mergers, with companies
scrambling to provide bulk of-
ferings of movies and TV shows
across traditional television,
cable and emerging web plat-
forms. THE WASHINGTONPOST
RUSSIA-BASED hackers stole 1.2 bil-
lion internet credentials from major
US companies and others around the
world in what is likely the biggest data
breach ever, security researchers said
on Tuesday.
The US rm Hold Security said the
gang, which it dubbed CyberVor, col-
lected condential user names and
passwords that were stolen from some
420,000 websites, ranging from little-
known sites to household names.
As long as your data is somewhere
on the World Wide Web, you may be
affected by this breach, Hold said in a
statement on its website.
Your data has not necessarily been
stolen from you directly. It could have
been stolen from the service or goods
providers to whom you entrust your
personal information, from your
employers, even from your friends
and family.
The security rm, which specialises
in research on large data breaches,
said the cybergang acquired databases
of stolen credentials from fellow hack-
ers on the black market, and then in-
stalled malware that allowed them to
gain access to many websites and so-
cial media accounts.
To the best of our knowledge, they
mostly focused on stealing credentials,
eventually ending up with the largest
cache of stolen personal information,
totalling over 1.2 billion unique sets of
emails and passwords.
The CyberVors did not differenti-
ate between small or large sites. They
didnt just target large companies;
instead, they targeted every site that
their victims visited.
With hundreds of thousands [of]
sites affected, the list includes many
leaders in virtually all industries across
the world, as well as a multitude of
small or even personal websites.
The researchers dubbed the hacker
group CyberVor, using the Russian
word vor, for thief.
The New York Times rst reported
the breach, and said the group of hack-
ers based their operation in south cen-
tral Russia, anked by Kazakhstan and
Mongolia, the report said.
The Times said the group includes
fewer than a dozen men in their 20s
and that their computer servers are
believed to be in Russia.
There is a division of labour within
the gang, Hold Security founder Alex
Holden is quoted as saying.
Some are writing the programming,
some are stealing the data. AFP
Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion passwords
Italy slides back into recession
Ella Ide
T
HE Italian economy
shrank by 0.2 per cent
in the second quarter,
dragging the euro-
zones third-biggest economy
back into recession and further
behind EU neighbours, data
from the national statistics
agency showed yesterday.
The contraction, which fol-
lows on the heels of a fall in the
first quarter, will be a sharp
blow for Prime Minister Mat-
teo Renzis government as the
country struggles to pull out of
the worst recession since
World War II.
The news hit the Italian stock
market which was showing a
fall of 3.32 per cent minutes
after the data was published.
The official Istat data agen-
cy said in an initial estimate
that the gross domestic prod-
uct had contracted by 0.3 per
cent from output in the same
period last year, hitting the
lowest second-quarter level
for 14 years.
This is the third time Italy
has slipped into recession
since 2008, pulling free for the
second time in the fourth
quarter of last year with
growth of 0.1 per cent.
The result was worse than
expected, with analysts having
forecast between a 0.1 per cent
contraction to a 0.1 per cent
increase in growth.
The eurozone recovery,
which began in spring last year
and has gradually spread
around most of the currency
area, has not yet taken hold in
Italy, senior Berenberg econo-
mist Christian Schulz said.
While Spain and Portugal
were out of the blocks fast and
have put themselves at or near
the top of the eurozone growth
table courtesy of their sweeping
reforms in the last three years,
Italy continues to struggle.
Azad Zangana, European
economist at Schroders, agreed,
saying the results underscored
the outperformance of coun-
tries that have implemented
structural reforms and
improved their competitive-
ness like Spain and Ireland.
Explaining the drop, Istat said
the total of value added con-
tracted in industry, services and
agriculture. Domestic demand
growth was neutral, whilst net
exports were a drag on growth.
Industrial production rose
0.9 per cent month-on-month
in June but fell by 0.4 per cent
in the second quarter, mainly
due to a lapse in May, separate
data showed yesterday.
Italy is struggling to pull out
of the recession because it is a
very deep one, Finance Minis-
ter Pier Carlo Padoan said.
He insisted, however, that the
country would not breach the
EUs 3 per cent deficit ceiling
either in 2014 or 2015, saying:
There are no shortcuts to a
return to growth. We have to
remove the obstacles in our
path through reforms.
European Commission eco-
nomic affairs spokesman
Simon OConnor agreed, say-
ing that only through struc-
tural reforms . . . can the condi-
tions be put in place for a
sustainable recovery.
Renzi, who came to power in
February after ousting his pred-
ecessor for failing to do enough
to revive growth in Italy, has
made difficult and often con-
tentious reforms the keystone
of his leadership. AFP
A worker repairs the entrance of a bank branch in Rome. BLOOMBERG
SERVICE industries in the US
expanded in July at the fastest
pace since back in December
2005, showing that the econ-
omy was building more
momentum at the start of the
second half of this year.
The Institute for Supply Man-
agements nonmanufacturing
index increased to 58.7 from
the prior months 56, the group
said on Tuesday. A reading
greater than 50 shows expan-
sion. The median estimate in a
Bloomberg survey of econo-
mists was 56.5. A measure of
orders climbed to an almost
nine-year high.
The pickup among service
providers, combined with the
strongest rate of growth in more
than three years at American
factories, shows the worlds larg-
est economy was strengthening
at the start of the third quarter.
Faster payroll growth is helping
fuel consumer demand, raising
the odds a self- reinforcing cycle
of increased hiring and spend-
ing is under way.
The services part of the
economy looks to be just fine,
International Strategy & Invest-
ment Group economist Stan
Shipley said. Were on a trajec-
tory of roughly 3 per cent GDP
growth. To see that, you need
the housing sector to kick in,
and we think youre going to
start to see that.
Other reports on Tuesday
showed the performance of
nonmanufacturing companies
globally was mixed. Services in
China stagnated in July as an
index fell to the lowest in data
going back to 2005. In the euro
area, nonmanufacturing indus-
tries expanded last month less
than initially estimated, while
UK services last month strength-
ened more than economists
forecast and wages picked up.
The ISM services survey cov-
ers an array of industries
including utilities, retailing,
health care and finance that
make up almost 90 per cent of
the economy. It also factors in
construction and agriculture.
Sixteen nonmanufacturing
industries reported growth in
July, led by construction and
educational services.
Conditions are definitely
improving, Anthony Nieves,
chair of the ISMs nonmanufac-
turing survey, said.
Its coming out of just about
every industry that makes up
this non manufacturing sec-
tor. BLOOMBERG
US service sector expands
at fastest pace since 2005
New laundering probe
for Standard Chartered
STANDARD Chartered
confirmed yesterday that it
faces fresh US fines over
alleged breaches in its anti-
money laundering systems,
two years after it paid massive
penalties for violating US
sanctions. Reports said the
probe by New Yorks financial
regulator followed allegations
that the London-based, Hong
Kong-listed lender failed to
spot millions of risky
transactions flowing through
its US operations. The bank
said it was bracing to pay fines
following the new investigation.
The New York Times reported
that regulators were seeking a
nine-figure penalty. Certain
issues have been identified
with respect to the groups
post-transaction surveillance
system, which is part of its
anti-money laundering
systems and controls and is
separate from the groups
sanctions screening systems,
the bank said. AFP
German factories see
orders decline in June
GERMAN industrial orders, a
key measure of demand for
German-made goods both at
home and abroad, fell in June,
weighed down by declining
foreign orders, data showed
yesterday. Industrial orders
were down 3.2 per cent in June
compared with the previous
month, the statistics office
Destatis said in a statement. In
May, German factory orders
had already declined by 1.6 per
cent. The office said that
domestic orders declined by
1.9 per cent and export orders
were down by 4.1 per cent
compared with the previous
month. AFP
Ashamed Russian
Apology for
pension cut
goes viral
A
N APOLOGY posted
on the Facebook page
of a Russian deputy
economy minister for stupid
government policies to do
with diverting pension money
went viral online yesterday,
fuelling already wide criticism
over the move.
I am sorry in front of
everyone for the stupid things
we do and for not being true
to our word, read the apology
on the page of the minister,
Sergei Belyakov.
The unusual expression of
regret was called a personal
opinion of Belyakov, who has
served as deputy economy
minister since August 2012.
Belyakov said he was asha-
med of a harmful decision
extending a measure introdu-
ced last year that diverts some
money allocated for future
pensions to investments by
private funds in the economy.
The move has been broadly
criticised as a means of
plugging budget holes at the
expense of future retirees.
President Vladimir Putin has
denied that the money was
being confiscated, but Finance
Minister Anton Siluanov said
the money was used for crisis
measures and for developing
the Crimean peninsula. AFP
2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014
II I
IV
III II I IV III II I IV III
Italy back in recession
*Estimate **Forecast
2011
2012 2009
2010
0.4
2013
2014
0.6%**
-0.2%*
-5.5
-2.4
-1.9
1.7
-0.1 -0.1
0.1
-0.2
-0.7
-1.1
-0.6
-0.5
-0.4
-0.9
-0.3
Sources: Istat
Annual change
GDP in percent
Change on previous quarter
C
ELEBRATING his long-shot
victory at Galway Races, lo-
cal lawyer Joseph OHara
headed to the champagne
tent to spend some of his 1,000
($1,300) winnings.
The seven-day festival is the biggest
of its kind in Ireland and has served as
a barometer for the economy. During
the Celtic Tiger boom, it buzzed with
helicopters, alerting punters to the
arrival of the nations richest builders
and bankers. Then came the collapse
of the real estate market and an in-
ternational bailout, and attendances
and betting fell away.
With investors back buying Irish
securities, now the punters are re-
turning, albeit cautiously. The crowd
of 140,000 last week was 9 per cent
larger than in 2013, thronging the
course and its Laurent Perrier cham-
pagne and Guinness tent, serving
stout, oysters and smoked salmon.
The general feeling is that the
worst is over, said OHara, 53, after
backing a horse called Legatissimo
that gave him odds of 20/1. Weve
endured six years of austerity and its
been pretty miserable.
Employment is rising, home prices
in Dublin are surging and the coun-
try is back in international credit
markets at record low yields four
years after bond investors turned
their backs on Ireland. Consumer
spending, which amounts to about
half of GDP, will rise this year for the
rst time in four years, the countrys
central bank forecast last week.
There have been clear signs of
stronger personal expenditure,
said Alan McQuaid, an economist
at Merrion Stockbrokers in Dublin.
Although there is still a general air
of caution among consumers, there
seems to be a view that the worst is
over following the downturn.
While about 217,000 people
showed up at the Galway festival at
Ballybrit at the height of the Irish
boom in 2006, renewed condence
is rippling through.
Racing has always been a great
barometer for the economy, course
manager John Moloney said in an
interview close to the track on the
second day of the festival. There
was a terric crowd here last night.
The betting was good. There must be
more money around.
Unemployment fell in July to the
lowest since April 2009, the statis-
tics ofce said. Retail sales rose 4.8
per cent in June from a year earlier,
driven by rising car purchases.
Last week, Bank of Ireland Plc said it
posted its rst prot since 2011 in the
rst half. The week at Galway gener-
ated bets of 13.5 million, according
to gures from the race organiser.
British bookmaker Ladbrokes
Plc took in 1.5 million, said Justin
Carthy, head of racecourse manage-
ment at the company. Thats double
what was staked just after the crash.
When things are going well in
Ireland, you can see it on the race-
course, Carthy said. Last year the
turnover came back slightly. Its still
a long, long way behind where we
were at the crazy times.
Those times are a memory at the
195-room Clayton, the hotel closest
to the race course. It has 16 executive
suites. In 2011, manager Rory Fitz-
patrick cancelled the champagne
and oyster bars after a total disaster
in 2010, the year Ireland was forced
to seek a 67.5 billion bailout from
its European partners and the IMF.
Disposable income fell 4.8 per cent in
the rst quarter from the fourth quar-
ter, according to the statistics ofce.
Things are picking up, he said. The
real difference in the last couple of
years is not that youre seeing a huge
increase in the amount of people
travelling to Galway for the races, but
theyre willing to pay for the extras,
he said. In 2011, there was never any
hope of people paying extra for the
suites. Now they are again.
Pat Golden, 56, a part-time book-
maker from Dublin who has attend-
ed the Galway festival since he was
12, said he hadnt seen much of an
increase in business this year.
While the attendance was strong,
race-goers werent gambling enough,
he said. By Tuesday evening, he had
only received one 100 bet. During
the good years, customers would
wager 300 or 400, he said.
People are still afraid to spend
whatever they have, said Golden,
as he stood on a wooden box taking
bets on the rst race. Its mostly all
small money thats around now.
Even the winners arent getting
carried away. Punter OHara urged
caution as he left the champagne
tent. The recovery as I see it is frag-
ile. We cant lose the run of ourselves
the way we did in the past. Just mind
the recovery. BLOOMBERG
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Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
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Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
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World
Prabowo
starts court
challenge to
poll results
INDONESIAN former general
Prabowo Subianto angrily
claimed widespread cheating
cost him victory in the coun-
trys presidential election at the
start of a legal challenge to the
results yesterday, as hundreds
of flag-waving supporters
staged a rally.
In a fiery speech at the Con-
stitutional Court, Prabowo
lashed out at the dishonesty
and injustice of the poll
which he lost to Joko Widodo
and compared politics in the
worlds third-biggest democ-
racy to Stalinist North Korea.
Widodo, a former furniture
exporter known by his nick-
name Jokowi, won legions of
fans with his down-to-earth
style as Jakarta governor and
is the countrys first leader
from outside the political and
military elites.
Prabowo, a controversial
former military figure with
roots in the era of dictator
Suharto, also declared victory
at the July 9 presidential elec-
tion, but official results two
weeks later confirmed Widodo
won a decisive victory.
However, the ex-general who
has been seeking the presiden-
cy for a decade has still refused
to accept the results. His team
has filed a lengthy complaint
against the election commis-
sion with the Constitutional
Court in the capital Jakarta,
which rules on poll disputes.
They claim he is the true win-
ner of the election, that fraud
occurred at tens of thousands
of polling stations, and that
election officials failed to order
recounts in numerous places
where they should have.
While the challenge is widely
expected to fail, it has never-
theless dragged out the lengthy
election process for a few more
weeks. The court must issue a
ruling by August 21, which can-
not be appealed.
At yesterdays preliminary
hearing, Prabowo delivered a
typically fierce speech, saying
his side had tens of thousands
of witnesses who could back up
his claims. He said the election
had been hit by distortion, dis-
honesty and injustice.
There are hundreds of poll-
ing stations where our coalition
. . . received zero votes. This
could only happen in a totali-
tarian country like North
Korea, he said.
While there were some
instances of vote fraud during
the poll, most analysts consider
the countrys third direct presi-
dential election since the end
of authoritarian rule in 1998 to
have been free and fair.
Prabowo said he was seeking
justice for the Indonesian
people. He insisted: If justice
cannot be served, we are very,
very worried for the future of
Indonesias democracy, Indo-
nesias people. AFP
Afghan soldier guns down US
major general in Kabul attack
War gives Hamas shot in arm but for how long?
Usman SHari

A
US general has been shot
dead in Afghanistan, be-
coming the highest-ranking
American ofcer to be killed
since 9/11, in an insider attack that
left more than a dozen wounded in-
cluding a senior German ofcer.
The shooting, which killed Major
General Harold J Greene, rocked the
US-led project to train up the Afghan
army as NATO combat forces withdraw
after 13 years of ghting the Taliban.
The assault is the rst time a US
general has been killed in a combat
zone since the Vietnam War, and will
do little to alleviate deep mistrust
between international troops and
their Afghan allies.
Greene, who was the deputy for
acquisitions at the US Army head-
quarters in Washington, was also the
highest-ranking US ofcer slain since
the September 11, 2001 attacks, when
Lieutenant General Timothy Joseph
Maude was killed by a hijacked airlin-
er that crashed into the Pentagon.
The Afghan soldier was himself killed
after he opened re during a high-level
visit by NATO ofcers on Tuesday to
the Marshal Fahim National Defense
University, a sprawling training com-
plex on the outskirts of the capital.
Our thoughts and prayers are with
Major General Harold J Greenes fam-
ily, and the families of our soldiers
who were injured today in the tragic
events, said US army chief General
Ray Odierno.
A US ofcial, speaking anonymous-
ly, said that around 15 people were in-
jured, including eight Americans.
The nationalities of the other vic-
tims were unclear, but the German
army said that one of its generals
was wounded, while ofcials in Ka-
bul said at least three Afghan ofcers
were also hurt.
Afghan ofcials had earlier described
the attacker as a man wearing Afghan
uniform, suggesting he may not have
been a soldier. But US ofcials later
conrmed the assailant was a soldier.
The shooting was by far the highest
prole insider attack of the Afghan
conict, in which scores of US-led
NATO troops have been killed by Af-
ghan soldiers turning their guns on
their allies. Also known as green on
blue attacks, the killings have bred
erce mistrust among soldiers and
forced joint patrols to be overseen by
armed guards.
The Taliban did not immediately
claim responsibility for the attack,
and Western ofcials say that most
such attacks stem from personal
grudges and cultural misunderstand-
ings rather than insurgent plots.
Insider attacks declined rapidly
last year as NATO combat troops
closed many bases and reduced
operations before their complete
withdrawal by the end of this year.
Screening of Afghan army recruits
has also been tightened.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral
John Kirby described the attack as an
isolated incident, and credited Af-
ghan troops for their work in securing
national elections.
Its impossible to eliminate com-
pletely eliminate that threat, I think,
particularly in a place like Afghanistan,
but you can work hard to mitigate it,
he said. AFP
Adel Zaanoun
Analysis
HAMAS may have haemor-
rhaged rockets and ghters,
but its latest war with Israel
has boosted its popularity in
the Gaza Strip even if long-
term gains look remote, ana-
lysts say.
A three-day truce entered
its second day yesterday, with
talks under way in Cairo to
extend it, a lull in four weeks
of bitter ghting which has
killed more than 1,860 Pales-
tinians, of whom the UN says
at least 1,312 were civilians.
Israel lost three civilians
one of them a Thai agri-
cultural worker and 64
soldiers, a staggering num-
ber for an offensive in Gaza
and its worst loss since the
2006 war against Lebanons
Hezbollah.
The conict followed a pe-
riod of protracted isolation
for Hamas, whose rule in
Gaza has been choked by an
eight-year Israeli blockade
and withering ties with Cairo
since the Egyptian army de-
posed its Islamist ally, presi-
dent Mohamed Morsi.
Founded in 1987, Hamas
won elections in 2006 in Gaza
before taking power in the en-
clave a year later, and is clas-
sied by the EU and the US as
a terrorist group.
Mired in economic crisis,
Hamas was in April forced to
reconcile with Fatah, the rival
Palestinian nationalist move-
ment, and hand over the reins
of power in Gaza to a Ramal-
lah-based government.
But experts in Gaza say the
group has clawed back some
respect. The conict showed
off the movements military
prowess. Estimates vary as
to its size, but the British-
based International Institute
for Strategic Studies believes
Hamas has 20,000 ghters.
Hamas has red 3,360 rock-
ets at Israeli towns and cities.
Even if the vast majority were
intercepted by Israels mis-
sile defence system, some fell
near Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion
international airport, forcing
a 24-hour suspension of US
and other European ights.
Adnan Abu Aamir, profes-
sor of political sciences at
Al-Umma University, said the
war proved Israel had been
unable to crush Hamas mili-
tarily or politically, despite
the blockade. The conduct
of Hamas ghters has im-
pressed everyone, he said.
That Hamas inicted rela-
tively heavy losses on Israel
means its popularity has
risen among Palestinians,
says Jamal al-Fadi, professor
of international relations at
the University of Gaza.
But Paul Schulte, a senior
research fellow at the depart-
ment of war studies at Kings
College London, questioned
what Hamas had been able
to achieve other than embar-
rassing Israel.
With talks on a perma-
nent ceasere scheduled
to get under way in Cairo,
Hamas demands that Israel
and Egypt reopen the border
crossings, lifting the siege on
the tiny Palestinian enclave.
None of the objectives that
Hamas has set seem deliver-
able, Schulte said.
He believes that popular-
ity will ebb in the medium
term, with little sign that the
blockade will be lifted or that
Hamas will become any less
isolated in the Arab world.
Beyond the deaths of so
many Israeli soldiers, the
week after, months after, there
will be this question of what
has been achieved, he said.
Given the hostile attitude of
the new Egyptian government
and the Gulf monarchies,
all they have is Iranian sup-
port. But since their demand
to break the Israeli blockade
seems to have failed, they
are facing a very unpromis-
ing situation, and this will not
eventually go unnoticed by
the population of Gaza.
George Giacaman, professor
at Bir Zeit University and di-
rector of the Ramallah-based
Palestinian Institute for the
Study of Democracy, agrees.
It is still too early to talk
about a strengthening of
Hamass role because that
depends a great deal on what
comes later, he said.
The demands of Hamas
and the Palestinian factions
are hitherto the key demands
of Gazans, and taking them
on has bolstered Hamas, but
if results dont tally with at-
tacks then Hamas wont come
out stronger, quite the con-
trary, he added.
Wajih Abu Zarifa, profes-
sor at Palestine University,
said Hamas should distance
itself from Egypts now out-
lawed Muslim Brotherhood,
improve relations with Cairo
and cement its reconciliation
with the PLO.
Hamas needs to take steps
to prove it is a Palestinian na-
tional movement and . . . cut
any ties to the Brotherhood
because it is outlawed in Arab
states, he said.
That could open the gate
for improving relations with
Egypt and bolster support
among other Arab nations
for its place in the Palestinian
political landscape. AFP
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier (right) and a policeman keep watch at a checkpoint near the Marshal Fahim National Defense
University, a training complex on the outskirts of Kabul, where Major General Harold J Greene (inset) was killed on Tuesday. AFP
World
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Troops to guard Ebola patients in Sierra Leone
Continued from page 1

hampered by distrustful rela-
tives discharging highly con-
tagious patients from hos-
pitals and taking them back
to die in their villages, where
countless individuals may
have contact with them.
Many indigenous people
living in the forested border
areas that straddle Sierra Le-
one, Liberia and Guinea be-
lieve the virus was introduced
deliberately by outsiders, or is
a hoax fabricated by the West,
designed to subjugate them.
The presidency did not give
exact numbers or locations
for the army deployment, but
most of the countrys Ebola
clinics are in Kailahun and
Kenema, the eastern districts
hit hardest by the outbreak.
The announcement came
after British Airways said it
had suspended ights to Li-
beria and Sierra Leone until
the end of August due to the
deteriorating public health
situation in both countries.
The safety of our custom-
ers, crew and ground teams
is always our top priority
and we will keep the routes
under constant review in the
coming weeks, it said in a
statement.
The threat of a spread
outside of Africa was un-
derlined as Saudi Arabia
said doctors were testing a
patient suspected of having
contracted Ebola during a
trip to Sierra Leone.
The Health Ministry said
the Saudi man was admit-
ted to hospital in the Red Sea
city of Jeddah after showing
Ebola-like symptoms upon
his return.
Meanwhile an American
woman infected with Ebola
the second US patient evacu-
ated from the growing out-
break in west Africa arrived
Tuesday in the United States
from Liberia for treatment.
After landing at a military
air strip aboard a small medi-
cal evacuation plane, Nancy
Writebol, 60, was transported
by ambulance to Emory Uni-
versity Hospital in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Television crews followed
the ambulance by helicopter,
and images showed a patient
wrapped in a white protec-
tive suit being transported
on a stretcher to the hospital
entrance.
The womans colleague,
missionary doctor Kent
Brantly, 33, is also receiving
care at a special containment
unit at the same hospital.
Both Writebol and Brantly
worked for Christian aid
agencies in Liberia and were
infected with Ebola while car-
ing for patients in Monrovia.
Three foreign missionar-
ies a Spaniard, a Congolese
and an Equatorial Guinean
have also tested positive
for the virus in the Liberian
capital Monrovia, the Span-
ish charity St John of God
said on Tuesday.
They were named as Span-
ish priest Miguel Pajares,
75, Chantal Pascaline Mut-
wamene of Congo and Pa-
ciencia Melgar of Equatorial
Guinea.
Spains Defence Ministry
said it was sending an air
force plane to Liberia to bring
Pajares home for treatment.
Also Tuesday, Sierra Leones
President Ernest Bai Koroma
toured health facilities being
set up to combat Ebola in the
capital Freetown.
A 20-bed treatment centre
and laboratory under con-
struction in the western sub-
urb of Lakka will be the rst in
the city of 1.2 million, which
reported its rst Ebola case
nine days ago.
Business returned to nor-
mal in the capital after a stay
at home day called to give
the authorities breathing
space to reorganise the re-
sponse to the outbreak. Many
shops were screening cus-
tomers temperatures with
high-tech gadgets at their
entrances while others pro-
vided chlorinated water and
soap for customers to wash
their hands.
No handshakes please,
read a poster on display at a
bank in the central business
district.
Health ofcials have been
forced to issue warnings
over the danger of excessive
use of chlorine, however, fol-
lowing reports of people sip-
ping solutions of the poison-
ous chemical and washing
with it.
It is detrimental to the us-
ers health and can cause se-
rious internal injury, health
ministry spokesman Yahya
Tunis said in a public an-
nouncement broadcast on
television and radio.
People should return to the
traditional hygiene practice
of hand-washing with soap.
In Sierra Leone on Tuesday,
a former youth and education
minister, Lansana Nyallah,
told state television he has
lost nine members of his fam-
ily to Ebola and warned: To
those who still believe that
Ebola does not exist, please
take heed. AFP
Sierra Leone has deployed troops to guard quarantined Ebola patients to deter friends and relatives of
sufferers from taking them from hospitals without medical consent. AFP
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US drone strike kills
seven in north Pakistan
AT LEAST seven militants were
killed in a US drone attack
targeting a Pakistani Taliban
compound near the border with
Afghanistan yesterday, officials
said, the latest such strike since
Islamabad began a major
offensive in June. The incident
took place in the Lawara Mandi
border village, some 60
kilometres (40 miles) west of
Miranshah, the main town of
North Waziristan tribal district.
US drone strikes have picked up
since the military offensive in
Waziristan after a near six-
month hiatus. Since June 12 five
drone strikes have been
reported in the tribal areas by
Pakistani officials. AFP
Nepal says 156 dead in
landslide, ends search
NEPALESE rescuers said
yesterday that 156 people were
presumed killed in a landslide
that struck on the weekend, as
they called off their search for
remaining bodies buried in the
debris. Thirty-four bodies,
including those of seven
children, have been pulled from
the rubble since the landslide
on Saturday. But rescuers said
they have been forced to
abandon the search for dozens
still missing, fearing excavators
and other heavy machinery
being used could trigger more
landslides in the muddy,
mountainous area. AFP
Activist finds her stolen grandson
A
N ARGENTINIAN
grandmother whose
rights group has
fought to nd babies
stolen during the 1976-83 mil-
itary dictatorship nally found
her long-lost grandson on
Tuesday, 36 years after he was
snatched from his mother.
Estela Carlotto, the 83-year-
old leader of the Grandmoth-
ers of the Plaza de Mayo group,
was told that her dead daugh-
ters missing son was found
after DNA tests conrmed the
36-year-old mans identity.
I thank all of you, God and
life, because I didnt want to
die without hugging him,
Carlotto said with a broad
smile at her organisations
headquarters, surrounded by
her colleagues, three surviv-
ing children, 14 grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
The white-haired grand-
mother said she could not wait
to nally meet her missing
grandson, who was taken away
from his mother, Laura, after
she gave birth while detained
during the dictatorships dirty
war against leftists.
I want to touch him, look
at him, Carlotto said. She
added that she learned that
her grandson was an art-
ist, a musician like many of
his cousins.
Laura is smiling from the
heavens, she said. Some
said that he looks like me. Hes
shaken up. Now he knows,
she added, explaining his ab-
sence at a press conference.
President Cristina [Kirch-
ner] phoned me. And we cried
together, Carlotto added.
The president later tweeted
that: Argentina is a bit more
fair a nation today than it
was yesterday.
Laura Carlotto, a leftist mili-
tant, was three months preg-
nant when she was taken to a
prison camp by the right-wing
authoritarian regime in 1977.
She gave birth on June 26,
1978, while in captivity. She
had named the boy Guido but
was killed two months after
he was born. The womans
body was later handed to
her mother.
Ever since then, Estela Car-
lotto searched desperately for
her grandson, convinced that
the boy had to be alive.
The baby was taken away
by a military ofcial who
handed him to a family
that raised him well, maybe
innocently, Carlotto said.
He was among 500 children
taken by the regime.
Laura was with her baby
for just ve hours before he
was taken from her, accord-
ing to her brother, lawmaker
Remo Carlotto.
The man was identied as
Ignacio Hurban, who lives in
Olavarria, a city 350 kilome-
tres (217 miles) southwest of
Buenos Aires.
He had voluntarily presented
himself to a national commis-
sion that identies missing
people about a month ago, a
judge and relatives said.
Carlottos other daughter,
Claudia, said she was able to
speak with her nephew.
He was very happy and
emotional, and we will all see
him soon, she said.
The Grandmothers of the
Plaza de Mayo and a sister
group, Mothers of the Plaza
de Mayo, have led a nation-
wide effort to reunite the 500
children who were taken from
leftists and government oppo-
nents during the dictatorship.
Many stolen children were
raised by military and police
ofcials. Others were even
taken in by their parents kill-
ers. An estimated 30,000 peo-
ple were killed or abducted
and presumed killed during
the dictatorship.
In 2012, former dictators
Jorge Videla, who has since
died, and Reynaldo Bignone
were sentenced to 50 years
and 15 years in prison, re-
spectively, over the regimes
theft of babies. Carlottos
grandson is the 114th child
to have been found, and she
vowed to continue her strug-
gle to nd the others.
News of the discovery was
delivered to Carlotto by fed-
eral judge Maria Servini de
Cubria, who is in charge of
several cases of babies who
were stolen by the right-wing
military regime.
I have located several chil-
dren, but this is the biggest
thrill. I always told Estela: I am
going to nd your grandson,
Servini de Cubria told Del Pla-
ta radio.
Judge Servini de Cubria said
the mans DNA was compared
to the remains of his father.
When it was known that he
could be Estelas grandson,
we worked all weekend and
the Genetics Database did an
excellent job, Servini de Cu-
bria said.
During her desperate search,
Carlotto learned the identity
of her grandsons father, Oscar
Montoya, whose family was
also thrilled at the news.
Her life was immortalised in
the 2011 lm Verdades Verdad-
eras (Real Truths). AFP
Estela de Carlotto announces the recovery of her grandson Guido in
Buenos Aires on Tuesday. AFP
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World

Slain Southeast Asian
militant is alive: Manila
THE Philippine military said
yesterday that one of
Southeast Asias top Islamic
militants was alive, more than
two years after jubilantly
declaring he had been killed in
a US-backed airstrike. Zulkifli
bin Abdul Hir, alias Marwan, a
Malaysian bomb maker with a
$5 million US-government
bounty on his head, is roaming
the southern Philippines,
senior military officials said.
He is alive and we continue to
monitor him, Lieutenant
Colonel Ramon Zagala said.
Zulkifli is regarded as an
expert bomb-maker and a
senior leader of Jemaah
Islamiyah who first went into
hiding in the southern Philip-
pines in 2003. In 2007 the US
government offered a $5
million reward for his capture,
making him one of the United
States most-wanted men. AFP
Russia bans Siberian

independence march
RUSSIAN authorities have
banned a Siberian
independence march and
threatened to block the BBC
Russian service over its
coverage of separatist protests.
In sharp contrast to the
treatment of separatists in
Crimea and eastern Ukraine,
Moscow has made it clear that
it does not welcome similar
aspirations at home. The media
watchdog may block the
website of the BBC Russian
service over an interview with
Artyom Loskutov, an organiser
of the March for Siberian
Federalisation, the newspaper
Izvestiya reported on Tuesday.
The march was due to take
place on August 17 in
Novosibirsk, Siberias largest
city. THEGUARDIAN
People power
Trapped man
is freed after
train tilted

D
OZENS of Australians
tilted a train yesterday to
free a commuter whose
leg was trapped between a
carriage and a platform, with
authorities praising their efforts
as an example of people power.
The man was boarding in the
Western Australia city of Perth
when he slipped and became
jammed in the ve-centimetre
gap between the carriage and the
station, operator Transperth said.
Passengers were initially told
to move to the opposite side of
the train in the hope their weight
would shift it away from his leg,
a passenger who gave his name
as Nic told the West Australian
newspaper.
But when that failed, staff told
commuters to get off the train
and about 50 of them lined up in a
row along the platform to tilt the
carriage away from the man so he
could be lifted out.
It is the rst time weve seen
something like this happen,
Transperth spokeswoman Claire
Krol said.
This is a real case of pas-
sengers of working together . . .
and people power are the perfect
words to describe it.
Transperth said the man was
treated by paramedics but was
able to catch a later train. AFP
Hiroshima marks anniversary
Pope Francis reinstates revolutionary priest
T
ENS of thousands of
people gathered for
peace ceremonies in
Hiroshima yesterday,
marking the 69th anniversary
of the US atomic bombing of
the city, as anti-nuclear senti-
ment runs high in Japan.
Bells tolled as ageing sur-
vivors, relatives, government
ofcials and foreign delegates
observed a moment of silence
in the rain at 8:15am local
time (2315 GMT), when the
detonation turned the western
Japanese city into an inferno.
People attending yester-
days ceremony placed ow-
ers in front of the cenotaph
at Peace Memorial Park in
downtown Hiroshima.
The citys mayor, Kazumi
Matsui, recalled the grim
memories of one survivor at a
ceremony attended by Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe and US
ambassador to Japan Caro-
line Kennedy.
The survivor, a 15-year-old
pupil at the time, remem-
bered hearing voices from
the brink of death begging
for water, please.
The pleas were from
younger students, the mayor
said, recounting the survivors
grisly description of their
badly burned, grotesquely
swollen faces, eyebrows and
eyelashes singed off, school
uniforms in ragged tatters.
Many survivors known in
Japan as hibakusha feel pro-
found guilt over living through
the attack, Matsui said.
But people who rarely
talked about the past because
of their ghastly experiences
are now, in old age, starting to
open up, he added.
Shigeji Yonekura, an 81-
year-old Hiroshima survivor,
said: Its sad to see my fel-
low hibakusha die year after
year, but I want to keep telling
young people about my hor-
ric experience for as long as
I live.
An American B-29 bomber
named Enola Gay dropped an
atomic bomb on Hiroshima
on August 6, 1945, in one of
the nal chapters of World
War II. It had killed an esti-
mated 140,000 by December
that year.
On August 9, the port city of
Nagasaki was also bombed,
killing an estimated 70,000
people. Japan surrendered
days later on August 15, 1945
bringing the war to a close.
Opinion remains divided
over whether the twin attacks
were justied. While some
historians say that it prevent-
ed many more casualties in a
planned land invasion, critics
have said the attacks were not
necessary to end the war, ar-
guing that Japan was anyway
heading for imminent defeat.
Paul Tibbets, pilot of the
Enola Gay, said he never had
any second thoughts about
dropping the bomb, telling a
newspaper in 2002, ve years
before his death, that: I knew
we did the right thing.
The last surviving crewman
of the Enola Gay, Theodore
Van Kirk, died only last week,
at the age of 93.
Washington, a close ally of
Tokyo since the war, has nev-
er ofcially apologised for the
bombings, however, leaked
diplomatic cables from 2009
suggested that the Japanese
government had rebuffed
the idea of a US apology and
a visit to Hiroshima by Presi-
dent Barack Obama.
But US diplomats have at-
tended the annual commem-
orations of the attacks. And
two years ago, a grandson of
former US President Harry
Truman, who gave the order
to drop the bombs, attended
ceremonies in Hiroshima.
Anti-nuclear sentiment
ared in Japan after an earth-
quake-sparked tsunami left
some 19,000 dead or missing
and knocked out cooling sys-
tems at the Fukushima nu-
clear plant on the northeast
coast in 2011. AFP
POPE Francis faces the wrath of right-
wing conservatives after reinstating a
priest who joined the revolutionary,
left-wing government of Nicaraguas
Sandinistas and once served as presi-
dent of the UN General Assembly.
Pope John Paul II suspended Father
Miguel dEscoto Brockmann in 1985,
as part of a broader crackdown on
adherents of liberation theology a
school of thought he criticised for im-
porting Marxist values into the church.
The edict meant DEscoto was, among
other things, forbidden to say Mass.
A brief statement from the Maryknoll
religious order to which the 81-year-old
priest belongs, announced that Francis
had lifted the suspension on August 1. I
am happy to be able to celebrate Mass
again, DEscoto was reported as say-
ing from the Nicaraguan capital of Ma-
nagua. I am really pleased.
A few months ago he wrote to the
pope asking to be able to celebrate
the Holy Eucharist before dying.
Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, rector of the
Pontical Lateran University in Rome,
told the Italian daily La Stampa that
Francis response did not mean he had
taken a political stance and should be
understood in the context of his em-
phasis on the importance of mercy.
But the right-wing US website Truth
Revolt said: The decision will likely
anger most conservative Catholics.
Indeed: a comment posted to anoth-
er conservative site, Free Republic,
branded it a terrible decision and a
slap in the face to all true and faithful
Catholics.
After the Sandinistas overthrew the
pro-US regime of Anastasio Somoza in
1979, DEscoto became foreign min-
ister in Daniel Ortegas government, a
post he held until 1990. From 2008-9,
he served as president of the UN Gen-
eral Assembly.
In the 1980s the Sandinistas accused
the CIA of trying to assassinate him
with a bottle of poisoned Benedictine
liqueur. DEscoto once referred to
President Reagan as the butcher of
my people and only last year told Ba-
rack Obama in a letter that the US was
hooked on wars of aggression and
possessed by the demons of greed
and domination.
Francis relationship with the libera-
tion theologists is complex. As head of
the Jesuits in Argentina in the 1970s he
supported John Pauls policies and has
even been accused of complicity in the
kidnapping of two left-leaning priests
during the countrys dirty war, some-
thing his aides have always denied.
But he has dedicated his ponti-
cate to the cause of the poor and de-
nounced free-market capitalism as an
economy of exclusion and inequal-
ity. It is likely that Francis papacy will
see the beatication of archbishop
Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who was
assassinated in 1980 and was widely
admired by liberation theologists.
No less complex have been the re-
lations between the Sandinistas and
the Catholic church. Ortega was voted
from ofce in 1990 but returned as
president in 2006 after backing a total
ban on abortion, also supported by Ni-
caraguas deeply conservative Catholic
hierarchy.
His victory was achieved despite a
long-running scandal over claims by
his adopted stepdaughter denied by
Ortega that he sexually abused her
while he was leader of the Sandinista
government. THE GUARDIAN
People gather near the monument (centre) in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome (background) at the Peace
Memorial Park yesterday to pray for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima. AFP
Man held over bomb hoax on Qatar-UK ight
BRITISH police on Tuesday
arrested a man suspected of
making a hoax bomb threat
aboard a Qatar Airways plane
that caused it to be escorted
down by a military fighter jet.
The Guardian reported yes-
terday that the man has been
sectioned under the Mental
Health Act, police said.
Greater Manchester police
said the man was assessed by a
mental health team following
the mid-air incident, it said.
A Royal Air Force (RAF)
Typhoon guided the plane,
which was travelling from Doha
with 282 people on board, to
Manchester airport in north-
west England.
Witnesses on board the
plane said armed police
entered the aircraft and escort-
ed the suspect off with his
hands on his head.
A 47-year-old man from the
northwest [of England] has
been arrested on suspicion of
making a bomb hoax and
remains in police custody for
questioning, said chief super-
intendent John OHare of
Greater Manchester Police.
A full search of the aircraft
has now finished and nothing
suspicious was found. The
incident arose when the pilot
received information about a
possible device on board the
plane, having been handed a
note from a passenger.
Several emergency response
vehicles could be seen parked
around the plane.
Passenger Aurang Zeb, 60,
said: I saw all the police with
guns. [There were] lots of police
everywhere. Kids were crying,
some people looked very wor-
ried because of rumours theres
a bomb on the plane.
He said two armed police
officers came on board and
removed the suspect passen-
ger, adding: They sat him up
and said, Put your hands up.
He did not say anything.
Qatar Airways said there were
269 passengers and 13 crew
aboard the Airbus A330-300
plane. The crew had received
a threat about a possible device
on board and Qatar Airways
immediately took all the neces-
sary precautions to alert British
authorities, the airline said.
The crew is now fully assist-
ing police at the airport with
their inquiries.
An RAF spokesman said: We
can confirm that Typhoon air-
craft were launched from RAF
Coningsby in their quick reac-
tion alert role this afternoon to
investigate a civilian aircraft
whose pilot had requested
assistance. The aircraft was
escorted to Manchester where
it landed safely.
Passenger Matthew Cox, 24,
from nearby Chester, said:
There was a general kind of
nervousness but there was no
full-scale panic once on the
ground. He said all the pas-
sengers luggage was searched
before they were allowed to
leave the airport.
Manchester Airport said nine
incoming flights had been
diverted to other destinations,
five of them to Leeds Bradford
Airport, 70 kilometres away.
The airport soon resumed
business as usual.
Defence Ministry figures
given to parliament in June said
that fighter jets were scrambled
on quick reaction alert on 17
days last year, 21 the year
before and 20 in 2011.
Not every launch resulted in
an interception as some inci-
dents were resolved before-
hand. AFP
World
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Wide blue yonder
Blue icebergs rest in Jokulsarlon, the largest glacier lagoon in Iceland. Blue icebergs are visible after the ice above the water melts, causing the
smooth portion of ice from below the water to overturn. This rare blue ice is formed from the compression of pure snow, which then develops
into glacial ice. Icebergs may also appear blue due to light refraction and age. Older icebergs reveal vivid hues of green and blue, resulting from
a high concentration of colour, micro-organisms and compacted ice. One of the better known blue icebergs rests in the waters off Sermilik fjord
near Greenland. It is described as an electric blue iceberg and is known to locals as the blue diamond. AFP
A PENGUIN species that lived
millions of years ago would
have dwarfed todays biggest
living penguins and stood
taller than most humans,
according to analysis of fos-
sils by a team of researchers
from the La Plata Museum in
Argentina.
Palaeeudyptes klekowskii
has already been dubbed the
colossus penguin, and is the
most complete fossil to ever
be uncovered from the Ant-
arctic. The unearthed bones
are 37 million years old and
include the longest recorded
fused ankle-foot bone as well
as parts of a wing bone.
From those bones, re-
searchers have estimated
the species would have
stood 2 meres tall from toe
to beak tip, and weighed
as much as 115 kilograms.
Standing normally, beak
down, the penguin would
have been around 1.6 me-
tres tall, the team said in the
journal Geobios.
By comparison, the tall-
est and heaviest living spe-
cies, the emperor penguin
(Aptenodytes forsteri), stands
1.1 metres high and weighs
just under 50 kilograms.
Being of a larger build has
its advantages, as bigger
penguins could dive under-
water to hunt sh for sig-
nicantly longer periods of
time compared to smaller
species. A penguin the size
of Palaeeudyptes klekowskii
could stay underwater for up
to 40 minutes.
The bones were found at
the La Meseta formation,
Seymour Island, which is
part of the Antarctic pen-
insula with a wide range
and abundance of penguin
bones. In prehistoric times,
the region was warmer with
10 to 14 different penguin
species living together.
P. klekowskii is not the only
giant prehistoric penguin dis-
covered in 2007 a fossil of
a penguin species known as
Icadyptes salasi, was found in
Peru, living 36 million years
ago. It hwas slightly smaller at
1.5 metres tall. THE GUARDIAN
Penguin species was
taller than humans
Rosetta makes rendezvous with comet: ESA
Aspirin reduces risk from some cancers: study
T
HE European space probe
Rosetta yesterday made a
historic rendezvous with
a comet, climaxing a 10-
year, 6-billion kilometre (3.7-bil-
lion-mile) chase through the Solar
System, the European Space Agen-
cy (ESA) said.
Were at the comet, Rosettas
ight operations manager, Sylvain
Lodiot, declared in a webcast made
from mission control in Darmstadt,
Germany.
It is the rst time that a spacecraft
has ever gone into orbit around a
comet, a wanderer of the Solar Sys-
tem whose primeval dust and ice
could hold insights into how the
planets formed.
In November, a robot scientic
lab called Philae will be sent down
to the surface to make the rst-ever
landing on a comet.
Rosettas rendezvous with Comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was
conrmed at 0929 GMT, at a dis-
tance of 400 million kilometres from
Earth, according to signals received
at ground stations.
ESAs director-general Jean-
Jacques Dordain hailed the achieve-
ment, the fruit of 20 years work to
design, build and launch the 3-tonne
spacecraft and steer it to its target.
It makes 2014 the year of Ro-
setta, he said. Rosetta is a unique
mission, unique by its scientic
goal, Dordain said. Understanding
our origins is certainly the best way
to understand our future.
It entered a 31-month hibernation
as light from the distant Sun be-
came too weak for its solar panels.
That period ended in January with a
wake-up call sent from Earth.
It then began a complex series of
manoeuvres to slow down to walk-
ing speed with the comet.
The nal one was a small ring of
thrusters, lasting just six minutes
and 26 seconds, from 0900 GMT,
it said. This burn will tip Rosetta
into the rst leg of a series of three-
legged triangular paths about the
comet, ESA said.
The signals conrming the start
and stop of the crucial nal opera-
tion were received by ground mon-
itoring stations 22 minutes later.
The pyramidal orbits will put
the craft at a height of about 100
kilometres (60 miles) above the
comet, said Lodiot. Each leg of the
triangle will be around 100 kilo-
metres and take Rosetta between
three and four days to complete.
Comets are believed by astrophys-
icists to be ancient ice and dust left
from the building of the Solar Sys-
tem around 4.6 billion years ago.
This cosmic rubble is the oldest,
least touched material in our stel-
lar neighbourhood. Understanding
its chemical ID and physical com-
position will give insights into how
the planets coalesced after the Sun
ared into light, it is hoped.
It could also determine the fate
of a theory called pan-spermia,
which suggests comets, by smash-
ing into the infant Earth, sowed our
home with water and precious or-
ganic molecules, providing us with
a kickstart for life.
Rosetta met up with Comet C-G
more than 400 million kilometres
from where it was launched. Get-
ting there has been an unprece-
dented navigational exploit.
Launched in March 2004, the
3-tonne craft has had to make four
ybys of Mars and Earth, using their
gravitational force as a slingshot to
build up speed.
The spacecraft is named after the
famous stone, now in the British Mu-
seum, that explained Egyptian hiero-
glyphics, while its payload Philae is
named after an obelisk that in turn
helped decipher the Rosetta stone.
The 4-kilometre duck-shaped
comet is named after the two Ukrai-
nian astronomers who rst spotted
it in 1969. AFP
DAILY, long-term doses of
aspirin can slash the risk of
cancer of the digestive tract,
according to an overview of
research published yesterday.
Aspirin greatly reduces the
risk of developing and dying
from bowel, stomach and
oesophageal cancer, its au-
thors said. They found that
taking aspirin for 10 years
could cut bowel cancer cases
by around 35 per cent and
deaths by 40 per cent.
Rates of oesophageal and
stomach cancers were cut by
30 per cent and deaths from
these cancers by 35 to 50 per
cent. To gain these benets
meant people had to start
taking a daily dose of 75-100
mg for at least ve years and
probably 10 years between
the ages of 50 and 65.
No benet could be seen
while they took aspirin for the
rst three years, and death
rates were only reduced after
ve years.
Aspirin has long been con-
sidered to be a boost in the
ght against cardiovascular
disease and has also been
investigated for reputed anti-
cancer effects.
This is the rst to throw up
broad evidence that it can be
a shield against these types of
cancer, the scientists said.
The study, which was pub-
lished in the European cancer
journal Annals of Oncology,
was led by Jack Cuzick, a pro-
fessor at the Centre for Can-
cer Prevention at Queen Mary
University of London.
It looked at more than 200
clinical trials and other stud-
ies that explored aspirins
anti-cancer effects.
Our study shows that if ev-
eryone aged between 50 and
65 started taking aspirin daily
for at least 10 years, there
would be a 9-per cent reduc-
tion in the number of can-
cers, strokes and heart attacks
overall in men and around 7
per cent in women, Cuzick
said in a press release.
The total number of deaths
from any cause would also be
lower, by about 4 per cent
over a 20-year period. The
benets of aspirin use would
be most visible in the reduc-
tion in deaths due to cancer.
The research said there was a
downside to taking daily doses
of aspirin potential side-
effects such as peptic ulcers
and bleeding in the digestive
tract. In a very small number
of elderly people, the bleeding
could be life-threatening.
It said further work was
needed to see who would
benet most from taking as-
pirin and determining the
right dose to maximise the
protective effect.
It has long been known
that aspirin one of the
cheapest and most common
drugs on the market can
protect against certain types
of cancer, Cuzick said.
But until our study, where
we analysed all the avail-
able evidence, it was unclear
whether the pros of taking as-
pirin outweighed the cons.
Cuzick added: Whilst there
are some serious side effects
that cant be ignored, tak-
ing aspirin daily looks to be
the most important thing we
can do to reduce cancer after
stopping smoking and reduc-
ing obesity, and will prob-
ably be much easier to imple-
ment. AFP
Sources: ESA, CNES
Rosetta arrives at Comet 67P/T
Sun
2004 2007 2010 Jan 20, 2014
Orbit
around
Earth
Orbit
around
Earth
The comits
orbit
The comits
orbit
Solar
panels
Solar
panels
Measuring,
analysing
instrumentss
Measuring,
analysing
instrumentss
Propulsion
system
Propulsion
system
Telecommunications
antenna
Telecommunications
antenna
Rosettas
trajectory
Rosettas
trajectory
Launch of
the probe
Flight
past
Mars
Flight past
the Lutetia
asteroid
Rosetta
reactivated
Diameter: 4 km
Mass unknown
Temperature:
May 15 March 28
Philae comes
out of
hibernation
Mission
First images
of the comet
Aug. 6
End August October
Comes within
100 km of
comet
Studies 4 or 5
possible
landing sites
Rosetta orbits
at 30 km from
the comet
August 2015
The probe comes
closest to the Sun
November
Launches the Philae robot
at 2/3 km for its landing on
the comet
A journey of more than 6 billion km
Comet
Churyumov-
Gerasimenko
Double core
Cost: 1.3 billion euros
Probes mission to better understand the origins of the solar system Probes mission to better understand the origins of the solar system
Philae
-70on surface
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R
ETRIBUTIVE justice
becomes a reality today as
the Extraordinary Cham-
bers in the Courts of Cam-
bodia (ECCC) pronounces a verdict
against Nuon Chea, former ideologue
of the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime, and
Khieu Samphan, former KR head of
state. This legal current challenges
previous concern that retributive jus-
tice would provoke instability and
harm Cambodias peace process that
began immediately after the civil war
(1979-1998). At that time, people had
mixed thoughts on whether they
should let bygones be bygones by
making a socio-political compromise
and leave the KR leaders to be con-
demned in Buddhist Hell, or whether
they should prosecute KR leaders
through judicial means.
With the collaborative efforts of the
people, the Cambodian government
and the international community, a
retributive approach to justice, that
is, retribution through the judicial
process, has since been adopted. This
form of justice has been widely
regarded as a critical step towards
reconciliation for the Cambodian
people, who have eagerly awaited a
verdict for more than three decades.
August 7, 2014, now marks a histori-
cal date for Cambodian people of all
generations and the field of interna-
tional criminal justice. Successful
adjudication of some of the worst
human rights violations in Cambodia
may be attributed to the endeavors of
the Cambodian government and the
UN, although it was not always easy
for the two sides to work together.
While many Cambodians have
long awaited this day of judgment,
some will not be so satisfied to
hear the announcement of the ver-
dict, or rather with the verdict
alone. Undeniably, even a guilty
verdict is only one of many
approaches toward national recon-
ciliation. A verdict is not a pana-
cea. Retribution is merely one of
the many means to consider when
deciding whether reconciliation is
possible. However, the grassroots
approaches towards the reconcilia-
tion play a long-lasting role in
shaping Cambodian society.
It is evident that when it comes to
retributive justice, one should not
forget about the work of the Peoples
Revolutionary Tribunal (PRT) in
August 1979. Despite its arguable
imperfections and procedural flaws,
the PRT provided a glimpse of justice
for survivors. The PRT was one of the
first reconciliatory efforts that Cam-
bodians and the people made to
come to terms with the past since the
fall of the KR regime.
Although the verdict of Case 002/01
is certainly not the only means to
heal and reconcile, this moment in
international legal justice is one that
many have been waiting for. Regard-
less of how varied their views are, due
process, a fair trial and the notion of
retribution is of great significance for
all survivors.
Comment
Sok-Kheang Ly
Justice for reconciliations sake
Today, August 7, 2014, marks a historic date for Cambodia, as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
hands down a verdict against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan. AFP
Dr Sok-Kheang Ly is the director of the
Anlong Veng Peace Center, Sleuk Rith
Institute.
Thailands hard look at orphanages
IN THAILAND, where the number of single women
with financial security is rising, why are they still
barred from seeking adoption and surrogacy serv-
ices, just because the authorities want to protect
the traditional mum-and-dad family model that is
quickly crumbling?
This question sprang to mind when I read the
draft surrogacy law, which makes only legally mar-
ried couples eligible for surrogacy services.
Does the law imply single mothers do not make
good mothers? Its not uncommon to find dedicat-
ed single fathers these days. Why discriminate
against them if they want to adopt or seek surro-
gate assistance? And why do some of us think gay
men and women cannot make good parents?
Lawmakers have been sitting on this draft surro-
gacy bill for years due to the moral issues involved.
It returned to the spotlight this week following the
story of baby Gammy. The Australian couple took
Gammys healthy twin sister and allegedly left him
behind because he was born with Downs syn-
drome. The surrogate mother, Pattharamon Jan-
bua, is struggling financially to care for him.
At present, there is no law governing surrogacy.
The Medical Council, however, has rules prohibit-
ing commercial surrogacy. The services only allow
infertile parents using blood relatives as surro-
gates. The draft surrogacy law also prohibits com-
mercial surrogacy. But it relaxes the rules by allow-
ing nonrelatives to carry pregnancies for others.
According to medical authorities, this will allow
infertile couples to forgo the brokers and go direct-
ly to hospitals for the services.
I dont understand this reasoning. Where there is
a need, there is always a market. By not recognis-
ing that reality, laws cannot stop the black market
activities of commercial surrogacy.
There are also questions over who gets to decide
what constitutes good parenthood. And when a
woman allows her body to carry a pregnancy to
help another become a mother, who has the big-
gest say in setting the rules? The medical authori-
ties? The law-makers? The parents-to-be? The sur-
rogate mothers?
What Pattharamon said made much sense. She
asked that surrogates be fully informed about what
they are getting into, from possible health prob-
lems for themselves and the newborns to the legal
issues and channels for assistance if things do not
go as planned.
Amid the media attention surrounding baby
Gammy, I cannot help thinking about thousands
of abandoned children now languishing in state
orphanages across the country.
They are waiting to be adopted and loved. Why
cant authorities cut the red tape and revamp the
inefficient and complex adoption system
Its true that prejudice still lingers against adop-
tion in Thai society. This proverb says it all: Yah
Ao Look Khao Ma Liang, Yah Ao Miang Khao Ma
Om. Translation: Dont raise the child of other
people. Dont chew others betel nuts. In short:
Dont adopt.
Raising kids is never easy. But when problems
arise with adopted children, the frustrated parents
and their relatives often blame the kids for bad
blood. This is why adoptions here mainly happen
between family members.
But this is not the reason why the children face
hardship in state orphanages.
Overcrowded facilities. Staff shortages. Frequent
changes among the top management with no
knowledge of childrens needs nor a heart for them.
All this creates a harsh environment for children
growing up. Not loved, they do not know how to
love nor how to bond with others. Abuse is not
uncommon.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 foreign parents are
on the waiting list ready to adopt. Yet they are kept
waiting by red tape and inefficiency.
For abandoned children to be eligible for adop-
tion, action is needed to prove their parents and
relatives cannot be traced. A simple announce-
ment in newspapers would suffice. Yet this basic
process is not followed. So most children remain
unclear cases, thus unavailable for adoption. Isnt
it maddening?
Baby Gammy needs love and help. So do thou-
sands of abandoned children in orphanages. Lets
hope they are not forgotten. BANGKOK POST
Sanitsuda Ekachai is editorial pages editor for the
Bangkok Post.
18
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
Lifestyle
Diary a window into US Civil War era
M
ARY Baxter Gresh-
am was 42 when
her invalid son,
LeRoy, died in June
1865. She had already lost two
infant children and just lived
through the upheaval of the
Civil War in Macon, Georgia.
But when 17-year-old LeRoy,
know as Loy, died on June
18 in the house where he was
born, she was devastated.
God has tried me often
and in many ways but never
has my heart been so wrung
as now, she wrote to her sis-
ter Sallie on July 12. And yet
the trial had so much mercy
mixed with it that my soul
swells within me when I think
it all over.
Last week, Mary Greshams
moving letter was posted on-
line by the US Library of Con-
gress, along with her sons
extraordinary seven-volume,
ve-year journal.
The library featured selected
pages from the little-known di-
ary in a Civil War sesquicenten-
nial exhibit in 2012 and 2013
and has since had it, along with
some family correspondence,
prepared for the internet.
The diary, which the library
thinks has never been pub-
lished, is a fascinating look at
the war through the eyes of a
precocious Southern young-
ster who was largely house-
bound by illness. He had a host
of afictions that appeared
to stem from an improperly
healed broken leg, which was
drawn up and useless.
It is also a portrait of a well-
to-do, slave-owning house-
hold, its family and slave dy-
namic, and the inrmities that
tormented the frail author up
to his death. Mary Greshams
letter, which the Library thinks
has never before appeared in a
public forum, is a voice from
outside the journal.
She is simply Mother in her
sons narrative making peri-
odic appearances, at one point
because she dropped him
while carrying him around the
house. He weighed 63 pounds.
She is the offstage presence
but has been watching her
sons deteriorating health and
approaching death. She
and her husband,
John, a local poli-
tician, business-
man and planta-
tion owner, had
two other chil-
dren a younger
daughter, Min-
nie, and an older
son, Thomas.
The family had
51 slaves, eight at its
elegant home on Col-
lege Street and 43 on its
nearby plantation, according to
the library. (The Gresham home
still exists in Macon as an inn.)
The letter is a window into a
bygone era and a timeless epis-
tle from a grieving parent.
Mrs Greshams deep grief
at the loss of her son is so pal-
pable on every page, Michelle
A Krowl, Civil War and Recon-
struction specialist at the li-
brary, wrote in an email.
Her heartbreak is fa-
miliar to anyone who
has lost a loved
one.
The eight-page
letter opens: I
will try to write to
you my dear sis-
ter, though when
I attempt to put
on paper anything
of my departed
treasures last days I
feel it so poor and cold
compared with the emo-
tions of my aching heart, that
for a sense of duty I would not
write at all.
LeRoy had been disabled for
years, suffering from what ap-
peared to be painful bedsores,
as well as a chronic cough. His
health was a roller coaster of
illness, recovery and relapse.
He began his diary in June
1860, when he was 13. His -
nal entry was June 9, 1865,
two months after the close of
the war and nine days before
he died.
His mother described his -
nal hours.
I had for some days lost
hope, but would not give
way for fear of trying him, for
watchful to the last, he was
quick to see any sign of grief
upon my face [and] racked
with suffering as he was, his
ready sympathy was for me
[and] for us all, she wrote.
The day before he left us,
while Mr. G. and the children
were at dinner, he suddenly
said to me . . . Mother this is
the end. I said What do you
mean my son. I am dying aint
I, was his reply. Oh my God
I thank thee for the strength
given me then . . .
He had suffered so much
from nausea during the last
week that his countenance
had a look of distress which
I never saw . . . before, she
wrote. And his tongue was so
sore and stiff that it was pain-
ful to speak . . .
It had been our dread to
see him struggle or strangle in
coughing, but God dealt mer-
cifully with him and us. For his
departure was so quiet that we
watched to see him breathe
again, and his face assumed
in death the quiet serenity ha-
bitual to it in life . . .
I could scarce tear myself
away from his precious body,
it was so sweet and peaceful,
she wrote. How am I to live
without him who has been the
star of my life [and] my hearts
delight for 17 yrs.
She told her sister that she,
her husband and son, Thom-
as, washed and dressed Le-
Roys body for burial.
In an aside, she expressed
bitterness that none of the
familys slaves, who pro-
fessed to love him, paid their
respects. God forgive them,
she wrote. I humbly hope that
I may never see them again.
But, as LeRoy had noted in
his diary, with the end of the
war and slavery, most of the
familys servants had em-
braced their freedom and left.
The same loving hands that
ministered to him in life per-
formed the last duties, his
mother wrote. Those who
bore him away from the house
consecrated by his birth, life
and death were just such as he
would have preferred.
She added, The Saviour
took him from our arms and
now no more pain, no days
of weariness, and nights of
wakefulness, no more sighing
and longing for rest.
Below the last entry in Le-
Roys journal, someone else,
perhaps his mother, wrote:
(LeRoy Wiley Gresham, au-
thor of this diary, died in Ma-
con. Ga. June 18th 1865.)
Twenty-four years later, in
1889, Mary Gresham died at
the age of 66. She was buried
in Macons Rose Hill Cemetery
beside the grave of her son.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Director James Cameron returns to the abyss
IM NOT sure whether the target audi-
ence for James Camerons Deepsea
Challenge 3D is aficionados of under-
sea adventure or of James Cameron.
The movie, which documents the
filmmakers 2012 expedition in his
own personal submarine to the
deepest point in all of Earths oceans,
features less 3D footage of sea cucum-
bers and exotic octopi than of Cam-
erons nose. Its a movie about explor-
ing the vast, dark continent of the
oceans deepest places (to quote Cam-
eron, who produced and narrates the
film) that ends up feeling claustropho-
bic. Much of it was shot inside a met-
al sphere the size of a fitness ball.
Thats because that is where Cam-
eron is for much of the movie. He paid
for the submersible, christened the
Deepsea Challenger, so of course he
gets to ride it to the bottom of the
Pacifics Mariana Trench. He also gets
to take all the risk. At nearly 36,000 feet
below sea level, the trench is the deep-
est known point on the planet, and it
hadnt been visited by a manned vehi-
cle since 1960, when Jacques Piccard
and Don Walsh piloted the Trieste to
the spot known as Challenger Deep.
The trip is very dangerous, but, admit-
tedly, also pretty exciting.
The Titanic director is well known
for his underwater exploits, both on
screen and off, having visited (and
documented) the site of the Titanic
more than 30 times and having made
the deep-sea thriller The Abyss in
1989. Along with footage of those
projects, the movie features a drama-
tised prologue showing a young ver-
sion of the filmmaker playing, as a
boy, in a cardboard box that he imag-
ines to be a submarine.
Despite the personal nature of those
scenes, the movie makes it clear that
Camerons interest in a voyage to the
bottom of the sea is more than ego-
tism. Scientific advancement is the
true goal, in the form of knowledge
about how tsunamis are formed and
in the discovery of new species.
Yet the film pays scant attention to
this stated goal, relegating the discov-
eries achieved by Camerons mission
to a brief on-screen title at the very
end of the film. Even a scene in which
Cameron is shown collecting sedi-
ment and rock samples seems per-
functory, as though the work is sec-
ondary to how cool it is to be floating
around underwater.
Speaking of which, those robotic
arms give out at one point, having
sprung leaks in their hydraulic con-
duits. Why did this happen? And why
was it not anticipated? And what is
that scary cracking sound that we
hear during one of Camerons early
practice dives, that sounds like the
filmmaker, to use his own words, is
about to get chummed into a meat-
cloud in about two microseconds by
an implosion of the hull?
The movie doesnt say. It also isnt
clear whether the deaths of the films
co-director, Andrew Wight, and cam-
eraman Michael deGruy, who died in
a 2012 helicopter crash, were directly
related to the filmmaking or inciden-
tal. Cameron seems certain, however,
that Wight and deGruy would have
wanted him to continue.
Maybe they would have. What is
certain is that, even after that tragedy,
Cameron has a movie and a message
to deliver: His heart, if nothing else,
will go on. THE WASHINGTON POST
LeRoy Gresham chronicled the US Civil War in his seven-volume diary from his home in Georgia. The diary provides a portrait of a wealthy, slave-
owning household, its family and slave dynamic, and the inrmities that tormented the frail author up to his death at 17. THE WASHINGTON POST
A letter from the mother of LeRoy
Gresham to her sister describ-
ing the last days of the invalid
teenager who died in June 1865.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Travel
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
You cancel, you
pay. They cancel,
and you still pay?
C
HANGE your mind
when travelling, and
the consequences
can be costly.
Most airline tickets are non-
refundable and require a hefty
change fee plus any fare differ-
ential. And many hotel rooms
are totally nonrefundable and
nonchangeable, so you could
lose the entire value of your
room. So, why doesnt it work
the other way around?
After Alaska Airlines recently
changed his ight schedule,
Art Ellis, a retired researcher
from Sacramento, California,
wanted to know.
Ellis and his wife, Marianne,
were scheduled to return from
Anchorage to Sacramento at
8:20pm, but Alaska shifted the
ight to a longer stopover, ar-
riving at 11:20pm. The ight
arrived 20 minutes late, and
the tired couple didnt get to
their house until the next day.
It took us all day and night to
get home from our cruise in
Alaska, Ellis says. I felt like I
was being jerked around.
If Ellis is getting jerked
around, hes not alone. Air-
lines, cruise lines and hotels
routinely alter their schedules
or delete reservations to ac-
commodate a large group or
to renovate a building. When
they do, their one-sided adhe-
sion contract an agreement
that applies to you but not
necessarily to the company
allows them to get away with it
without paying the customer a
dime in damages. Some busi-
nesses, notably tour operators,
give themselves permission to
keep your money and issue a
voucher for a future vacation.
Travellers say this isnt fair.
After all, when their plans
change, even for events be-
yond their control, they must
pay fees and possibly lose
some or all of the value of their
ticket. Ellis, who paid $825 for
his tickets, would have had
to fork over another $125 to
change each one, plus a fare
differential. Alaska told Ellis of
the change about two months
before the ight, but occasion-
ally travel companies dont
bother telling affected con-
sumers, even when they have
their contact information.
In the past, the divide be-
tween the rights of travellers
and travel companies was
known only to insiders, be-
cause it rarely became an is-
sue. As a practical matter, air-
lines, hotels and cruise lines
accommodated their guests
even when they didnt have
to, in the interests of customer
service and because it was the
right thing to do.
But today, its not difcult
to nd customers who were
dismissed. Their stories offer
creative ways to tip the travel
industrys no-fault rules a
little in your favour.
When Haruko Terada and his
family were returning recently
from Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina, on Spirit, the airline
decided to cancel their Sunday
ight, citing weather condi-
tions. When was the next avail-
able ight? In three days, an
airline representative told him.
I was lucky enough to nd
out quickly, says Terada. I
was one of the rst ones to
get the refund, made a quick
reservation for a rental car
online, and we left the airport
before midnight.
The takeaway? Sometimes
its possible to book a ight,
or a hotel room, too far in ad-
vance, as Ellis probably did.
Then again, you could roll
the dice and book a schedule
you know is likely to change,
which would allow you to in-
voke an airlines change policy
to score a seat on a desirable,
but far more expensive ight
a risky move, to be sure.
None of these strategies
should be necessary. The
one-sided contracts that al-
low travel companies to can-
cel their ights, rooms and
cars with little or no compen-
sation shouldnt be legal. THE
WASHINGTON POST
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CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Entertainment
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Enjoy a hot tub?
6 More than angry
11 Part of a semi
14 Lateral to the keel
15 Acid type
16 Musketeer motto word
17 They work with your dough
19 Slugger Gehrig
20 Much baby talk
21 Irene in a Sherlock Holmes tale
23 Leaves no doubt about
27 Spawn, as offspring
29 They may be pulled up
30 To an extent
33 Makes even
34 Legendary Bette
35 Bird of the Outback
36 Diana with the voice
37 It may precede four
38 Small brown singer
39 Abbr. on a rap sheet
40 Tasty
41 Weeper of myth
42 Envoys assignment
44 Single in a wallet
45 Main or blessed thing
46 Chow
47 Food processor setting
49 Underling
50 She married a rock star
51 Slatted furniture item
58 Final amt.
59 Tomato plant swelling
60 Ospreys abode
61 Costa del ___
62 Befitting a queen
63 Hat or race
DOWN
1 You might stand a round here
2 Human blood classification
system
3 ___ Aviv
4 Holbrook of Hollywood
5 Defectors
6 Nigerian metropolis
7 Rascally tots
8 Dinner hour for Caesar?
9 Business with staying power?
10 Amounts to take
11 Do a homeroom chore
12 Burn-soothing plant
13 Hazy vision
18 Contrary-minded answers
22 Early moisture
23 From the stars
24 Swimmers choice
25 Pastry sold at pizzerias
26 Hilo instruments
27 Ox, sheep or goat
28 Give off or send forth
30 Fabric for a bride
31 Single-celled critters (Var.)
32 Specialists with forks
34 Bus stop
37 Prerequisite for gain?
38 NBA great Chamberlain
40 Three-card monte shill
41 Reporters item
43 Ventnor or Vermont, e.g.
44 Queen who founded Carthage
46 Like some statistics or organs
47 Fishing traps
48 Golden Rule word
49 Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock
52 Tribute with stanzas
53 Tripod part
54 Just-passing grade
55 Make a misplay
56 Bro, to Sis
57 Good thing to sing in
BOWL ELIGIBLE
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays 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.
Citymall: 11:40am, 1:30pm, 9:30pm
Tuol Kork: 9:15am, 11:50am, 4:15pm
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot named
Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt
after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan.
Citymall: 9:10am, 2:14pm, 4:45pm, 7:15pm, 9:45pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am, 1:45pm, 4:40pm, 7:10pm,
9:40pm
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.
Citymall: 11:30am, 3:50pm, 7:50pm
Tuol Kork: 1:50pm, 5:50pm, 7:55pm
THE PURGE: ANARCHY
A young couple works to survive on the streets
after their car breaks down right as the annual
purge commences.
Tuol Kork: 9:40pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
(See above.)
9:30am, 11:45am, 2pm, 4:10pm, 6:20pm, 8:30pm
HERCULES
(See above.)
11:10am, 1pm, 6:40pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
(See above.)
8:30pm
NOW SHOWING
Shameless @ Pontoon
Firefox and full cabaret show with live
drag who and wild entertainment.
With Rob Bianche and Alex Shaman. Free
entry.
Pontoon, #80 Street 172. 10pm
The Willows new pasta night with wine,
salads, desserts and pasta all for $3.50
each.
The menu is set to change each week but
will always have two pastas, one
vegetarian, one meat, Italian salads and a
dessert. Expect to be served on a red and
white checked table cloth to a soundtrack
of Italian music and to get stuck into the
$3.50 carafes of wine.
The Willow, #1 Street 21. 6pm
Knitting @ Joma Cafe
A group of knitters, crocheters,
embroiderers and cross stitchers from
around the world.
They can help you nd yarn and tools in
the Kingdom as well.
Joma Cafe, corner of Norodom Boulevard
and Street 294. 6:30pm
TV PICKS
5am - ELIZABETHTOWN: During an outrageous memorial
for a Southern patriarch, an unexpected romance blooms
between a young woman and man. HBO
11:30am - FORREST GUMP: Forrest Gump, while not
intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic
moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. HBO
1:50pm - 42: The story of Jackie Robinson from his
signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945
to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the
colour barrier in Major League Baseball. HBO
5:30pm - KINGPIN: Roy Munson is an embittered
ex-bowling champ with a rubber hand, whose career
has been blighted by a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken.
His chance for redemption comes in the form of
Ishmael Boorg, a potential ace. The time for the annual
championships rolls around and the stage is set for some
hilarious bowling action. HBO
The Willow guest house and restaurant has started up a weekly cheap pasta night. BLOOMBERG
Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford star as Jackie
Robinson and Branch Rickey in 42. BLOOMBERG
Swing @ Code Red
Learn the Charleston, Lindy Hop and
many more swing dances. More info at
swingpenh.com.
Code Red, opposite Naga World.
Intermediate 6:30pm, beginners
7:40pm
Cheap pasta @ Willow
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
21
England seek repeat Test victory
E
NGLAND face the
welcome problem of
dealing with the con-
sequences of win-
ning ahead of the fourth Test
against India at Old Trafford
starting today.
Victory by the huge margin
of 266 runs in the third Test at
Southampton last week saw
England level the ve-match
series at 1-1.
It also ended a run of
10 Tests without a win for
Alastair Cooks side and saw
the captain himself return
to form with two fties, al-
though it could all have been
so different had he been
caught in the slips on 15 in
the rst innings.
Now everyone knows what
its like [to win], the challenge
is can we repeat that at Old
Trafford, and try to win the
series?, Cook said.
England had another vic-
tory less than a day after
their Southampton success.
James Anderson escaped
a ban after International
Cricket Council code of con-
duct commissioner Gordon
Lewis dismissed disciplinary
charges brought against him
by India following his alleged
confrontation with Ravindra
Jadeja during the drawn rst
Test in Nottingham.
Given the fast-medium
bowler, man-of-the-match
in Southampton with a re-
turn of seven for 77, is the
series leading wicket-taker
with 16, Englands relief was
understandable.
However, the ICC said on
Tuesday that they were look-
ing into Lewiss decision to
both clear Anderson and
rescind Jadejas 50 per cent
match fee ne.
Nevertheless, Anderson
now just 12 shy of equalling
Ian Bothams England Test re-
cord of 383 wickets remains
free to play at Old Trafford, his
Lancashire home ground.
While Moeen Ali produced
a decisive second-innings re-
turn of six for 67 in Southamp-
ton to quieten talk regarding
his part-time off-spin, the
performance of Englands
back-up seamers in support
of Anderson and Stuart Broad
was a concern.
An injury to Liam Plunkett,
dropped from the third Test
team, has seen England recall
Steven Finn.
The Middlesex fast bowler
was sent home early from
Englands disastrous tour of
Australia, having not featured
in the 5-0 Ashes thrashing and
been deemed unselectable
by then one-day coach Ashley
Giles after losing his action.
Remedial work, designed
to sort out run-up problems
and a habit of knocking the
stumps over with his right
knee, under the guidance of
Middlesex coach and England
selector Angus Fraser, has seen
the 6-foot 7-inch Finn take 44
County Championship wick-
ets at under 30 apiece so far
this season.
The pitch at Old Trafford is
known for being lively and
all-rounder Chris Jordan,
with England having no need
of his batting in Southamp-
ton after Cook declared twice,
could lose his place to Finn
after a poor bowling display
last time out.
It will depend on what
England see in the pitch over
whether Steven plays, Fraser
told the Daily Telegraph.
But is he bowling as well as
when he played for England in
the past. The answer is yes.
For India, the need to match
Alis threat could see off-spin-
ner Ravichandran Ashwin
play his rst Test this year in
a bid to bolster an attack that
looked a bowler light at the
Ageas Bowl.
Moeen bowled well [at
Southampton] but we let him
bowl well, India captain Ma-
hendra Singh Dhoni said.
Its important to be posi-
tive against spinners.
In the absence of injured
Lords star Ishant Sharma,
also ruled out of the fourth
Test, India lacked pace and a
physical threat.
Jharkand fast bowler Varun
Aaron, who played his only
Test two years ago, could
come into the side although
it would be tough on Pankaj
Singh were he the bowler to
make way.
Singh recorded the worst
wicketless gures by a Test
debutant none for 179 in
Southampton but was un-
lucky with both dropped
catches and lbw appeals.
Someone with far less cause
for complaint were he to be
omitted is opener Shikhar
Dhawan, who has scored just
122 runs in six innings this se-
ries with a top score of 37.
Fellow left-hander Gautam
Gambhir, who played the last
of his 54 Tests against England
in December 2012, is waiting
in the wings. AFP
Alastair Cook will look to lead his England side to another Test win over India this week at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Greater Manchester. AFP
THE NBA champion San Antonio
Spurs have hired Becky Hammon
as an assistant coach, making her
the second female to join a regu-
lar-season coaching staff.
Hammon, 37, becomes the first
female coach since Lisa Boyer
helped coach the Cleveland Cava-
liers in 2001-02.
Boyer worked part-time while
Hammon has been brought on
as a full-time employee starting
next season.
This is a great organisation,
Hammon said on Tuesday. I am
also a little overwhelmed right now
to be perfectly honest. As great as
this opportunity is, it is also in-
credibly humbling.
Hammon plays for the San Anto-
nio Stars in the Womens National
Basketball Association but has an-
nounced she will retire at the end
of the season.
Hammon has spent 16 years
in the WNBA and ranks seventh
in history in points (5,809), fourth
in assists (1,687) and sixth in
games (445).
I look forward to the addition of
Becky Hammon to our staff, Spurs
head coach Gregg Popovich said
on Tuesday.
I am confident her basketball
IQ, work ethic and interpersonal
skills will be a great benefit to
the Spurs.
Asked about the signicance
of becoming just the second fe-
male coach in league history, Ham-
mon said, the bigger point is that I
am getting hired because I am ca-
pable. I am just thrilled for the op-
portunity to coach these unbeliev-
able athletes.
Hammon, who plays point guard,
said she has always wanted to move
into coaching when she ended her
playing career.
There has been a tremendous
amount of time in lm sessions and
game planning so I am comfortable
with my basketball IQ.
Coaching just comes naturally to
me. This is obviously a huge oppor-
tunity, she said.
Hammon, who is a six-time WNBA
all-star, has spent the last eight sea-
sons with the Stars after going un-
drafted in the 1999 draft and spend-
ing the rst eight years of her career
with the New York Liberty.
She is the Stars all-time leader in
assists (1,112) and three-point eld
goals made (493) while ranking sec-
ond in franchise history in points
(3,442) and games (218).
In her WNBA career, Hammon has
averages of 13.1 points, 3.8 assists
and 2.5 rebounds. AFP
Champion Spurs hire
female assistant coach
Phelps return hits acid test
OLYMPIC superstar Michael Phelps
will tackle the toughest test of his
comeback this week at the US
Swimming Championships, with a
return to international competition
on the line.
The 29-year-old swimmers 18
Olympic gold medals include his glit-
tering eight-gold campaign of the
2008 Games organised with military
precision by coach Bob Bowman.
But hes still feeling his way through
the comeback he launched in April
after a near two-year retirement, not
quite sure just how its going.
I feel like obviously it could be bet-
ter, he said. It could be worse. I think
its been pretty decent, where Ive
been training and where I am.
Bowman said the championships,
a qualifying meet for this months
Pan Pacific Championships and for
next years World Championships in
Russia, will be the truest gauge to
date of how far Phelps has come
since he resumed serious training
late last year.
After this week, well have a good
picture of if hes ahead or behind,
Bowman said.
With the start of the 2016 Rio Games
precisely two years away from Tues-
day, the meeting could offer a starting
point for serious discussion of anoth-
er Olympic campaign by Phelps.
While Phelps has spoken of goals he
has yet to accomplish in the sport, he
has been coy as to whether he is tar-
geting Rio in his return.
We just talked about it yesterday,
Bowman said. I think its a nice little
milestone.
I think well see how it goes this
week. And maybe if there is anything
after that, well see how that goes and
kind of go from there.
Phelps is entered in four events,
the 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly,
100m backstroke and 200m indi-
vidual medley.
In four meets since his return to
competition, Phelps has raced four
events only once, at the Santa Clara
Grand Prix in June.
Coming off of altitude training there,
he tied for first in the 100m fly, finished
second in the 100m and 200m free and
was third in the 200m medley.
Probably the 100 fly feels the
best, Phelps said of the race he has
swum the most since April. Felt
pretty good yesterday in the water.
Hopefully I can hit a wall and turn
and not botch a wall like I have in
the past couple races. AFP
Olympic superstar Michael Phelps will tackle the toughest test of his comeback this
week at the US Swimming Championships in Irvine, California. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
23
Boeung Ket aiming to
recapture MCL glory
OFFICIALS of Boeung Ket
Rubber Field, who finished
runners up in the Metfone
C-League for the second
successive season, vowed to
recreate their triumph of 2012
during the clubs annual awards
ceremony at Mean Mean
Restaurant in Boeung Keng
Kang II commune on Tuesday
night. With the support and
inspiration from the whole
Boeung Ket staff, I strongly
believe that Boeung Ket will lift
the trophy next season, team
manager Be Makara said
during his address. The
Kampong Thom club won 15
matches, drew two and lost five
to finish seven points off the
pace of champions Phnom
Penh Crown. We may recruit a
new foreign coach next term,
but we will likely not part ways
with our current coach Prak
Vuthy. He will probably go to
lead our youth academy, he
added. CHHORNNORN, TRANSLATEDBY
CHENGSERYRITH
Judge orders release of
Briton accused of scam
A BRITISH World Cup ticketing
executive who allegedly took
part in a scam to sell millions of
dollars worth of fraudulent
tickets was ordered to be
released from prison on
Tuesday while awaiting trial in
Brazil. Supreme Court justice
Marco Aurelio Mello ordered
Briton Ray Whelan would be
freed for now, but said he must
remain in the Rio de Janeiro
area, according to court
documents. Whelan has been in
jail since July 14 when he
surrendered to authorities after
four days on the run. Police
believe Whelan sold VIP tickets
originally earmarked for non-
governmental organisations,
sponsors and players relatives
for resale via intermediaries. AFP
Reina to sign for Bayern
Munich, Rummenigge
SPANISH international
goalkeeper Pepe Reina is set
to sign for German champions
Bayern Munich from English
Premier League runners-up
Liverpool, the buying club
announced via Twitter on
Tuesday. The 31-year-old
who spent last season on loan
with Serie A outfit Napoli is
ready to join Bayern according
to the clubs president Karl-
Heinz Rummenigge, who
added he was just the type of
goalkeeper they were looking
for. Reina who would be
second choice behind German
World Cup winning goalkeeper
Manuel Neuer is due to
travel to Munich in the next
few days to undergo a medical
and sign his contract,
according to Rummenigge. AFP
Jack Rodwell joins Black
Cats after Man City stint
ENGLISH midfielder Jack
Rodwell will attempt to
resurrect his career at
Sunderland after the Premier
League club on Tuesday
announced his arrival from
Manchester City on a five-year
contract. Rodwell, 23, spent two
years at City after signing from
Everton in 2012, but injuries
prevented him from making an
impact. Sunderland did not
disclose the fee they had paid
for Rodwell, but British media
reports said it was around 10
million ($16.9 million). AFP
Philippine national team in
disarray after player revolt
T
HE Philippines football team
has been rocked by a player
revolt, with two Azkals senior
players refusing to suit up for
American head coach Thomas Dooley.
Midelder Stephan Schrock and fel-
low mainstay Dennis Cagara declared
on social media this week they had
played their last match under Dooley,
amid speculation they were unhap-
py over a policy perceived to favour
younger players.
As long as coach Dooley will lead
the team I wont wear the jersey of Az-
kals again, Schrock, 27, told fans on
his Twitter and Facebook pages.
I hope I will give my comeback one
day!! added German-born Schrock,
who has a Filipina mother and scored
three goals in 17 senior caps.
He plays club football with
Greuther Furth in the Bundesliga
second division.
Left-back Cagara, who was born and
plays in Denmark, also tweeted that he
would not suit up for the Azkals under
its current manager.
Dooley is also the reason why I wont
play for the Azkals for the moment,
added the 29-year-old Lyngby BK de-
fender, who has 13 national caps.
The Philippine Football Federa-
tion said management was still to
fully address the issue, as the players
had only made their statements on
social media.
This is best resolved by the team
management. It is looking into this,
federation general secretary Edwin
Gastanes said from Hanoi.
Dooley and Gastanes had attended
Tuesdays draw in Vietnam for South-
east Asias Suzuki Cup, which kicks
off on November 22.
Neither Dooley, Schrock nor Cagara
could be reached for comment yes-
terday, however local press reports
said the veterans had both com-
plained about their reduced roles in
the side.
Former US international Dooley
was named Azkals head coach in
February and led the former South-
east Asian minnows to a runners-up
nish in the Asian Football Confed-
eration Challenge Cup in May.
The Azkals 0-1 defeat in the nal
to Palestine, which featured many
younger Filipino players, meant they
just missed out on qualifying for their
rst ever Asian Cup.
Schrock was substituted at half
time in the nal, while Cagara had
played in two of the group games.
After the nal, Dooley highlighted
the strong performance of younger
players throughout the tournament
although he insisted there was still a
role for veterans.
It doesnt mean we want to kick
the old players out, but maybe the
pace of the game will be better and it
is good to have ... young players who
can develop, Dooley told the Chal-
lenge Cups website. AFP
The Philippines Stephan Schrock (right) vies with Kuwaits Fahad Enezi during their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualier in Manila in 2011. AFP
Navas up for challenge
COSTA Rica goalkeeper Keylor
Navas on Tuesday said he was
ready for the challenge of beat-
ing off the competition for
places at Real Madrid after
completing his move to the
Santiago Bernabeu.
I know I will have to work
extremely hard. Madrid have
the best players in the world
in every position, they have
two excellent goalkeepers,
said Navas as he was unveiled
to fans and the media at
the home of the European
champions.
Navas is tipped to get the
nod ahead of club legend Iker
Casillas to start in goal for
Carlo Ancelottis side, while
Diego Lopez looks likely to be
forced out.
Only God knows what will
happen. It is up to me to train
hard every day so that I am
ready if my opportunity comes
around, Navas said.
I have always looked up to
Casillas and Diego Lopez, who
have shown themselves to be
the best in the world over
many years.
It will be a learning curve for
me every day. They are a refer-
ence for me in my career.
Last season, Lopez was
Ancelottis first choice in goal
in La Liga but captain Casillas
was used in the triumphant
Copa del Rey and Champions
League campaigns.
Navas, 27, arrives in the
Spanish capital from Levante
on a six-year deal after Real
reportedly paid the 10 million
($13.4 million) release clause
in his contract with the Valen-
cia-based side.
He rose to international
prominence with his perform-
ances at the World Cup, when
he starred during unfancied
Costa Ricas run to the quarter-
finals, where they only suc-
cumbed on penalties to the
Netherlands.
The World Cup was won-
derful for me. Playing against
the best teams makes one
improve, said Navas, who was
warmly welcomed by Madrid
president Florentino Perez.
You will have the pride and
the honour of being the first
man from your country to play
for this club, Perez told his
new recruit, who was named
as the winner of the Golden
Glove by FIFA as the best goal-
keeper of the recent tourna-
ment in Brazil. AFP
Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas poses before a press conference for
his ofcial presentation at Real Madrids Santiago Bernabeu stadium. AFP
PLAYERS suspected of having
lost consciousness during
Premier League games will
be compulsorily substituted
under new rules concern-
ing concussion published
by the Football Association
on Tuesday.
After a number of cases
last season and at the World
Cup when players continued
to play after taking heavy
blows to the head, the FA has
tightened up its procedures
in order to reduce the risk
of concussion.
The new guidelines state: If
there has been a conrmed or
suspected period of loss of con-
sciousness, the player must be
removed from the eld of play,
and not be allowed to return.
If there is any doubt as to
the course of events, elucida-
tion may be sought from of-
cials or other players. In the
event that there is video re-
play available pitch-side or in
the players tunnel, this could
be used to clarify the course
of events.
Where no loss of con-
sciousness is apparent, an
on-eld or touchline assess-
ment will take place.
All Premier League matches
must also feature a tunnel
doctor, who will support
teams medical staff in recogn-
ising the signs of concussion.
Previously, the FAs rules
stated that players who had
sustained head injuries could
resume playing if they received
clearance from a qualied
medical practitioner.
Concussion became a hot
topic last season after Tot-
tenham Hotspur goalkeeper
Hugo Lloris continued playing
after appearing to momentari-
ly lose consciousness during a
game at Everton in November.
The France international
looked dazed after being
struck in the head by the knee
of Everton striker Romelu
Lukaku, but he insisted on
playing on.
Brain injury charity Head-
way said that Spurs had been
guilty of an irresponsible and
cavalier attitude by allowing
Lloris to continue.
At the World Cup, Alvaro
Pereira of Uruguay played
on after being knocked out
in a collision with Raheem
Sterling during a group game
against England. AFP
Concussion rules for
new Premier League
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 7, 2014
Sport
Home slice
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada returns a shot to Shelby Rogers of the USA during their womens singles match of the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium in Montreal on Tuesday. Rogers beat the host nations fth seed 6-0, 2-6,
6-0 to progress to the third round of the hard court tournament, also known as the Canadian Open. AFP
McIlroy, Scott eye PGA crown
R
ORY McIlroy is condent
he can keep dominating
while Adam Scott wants to
make a sizzling start today
at the 96th PGA Championship and
Tiger Woods is nowhere in sight.
The years nal major tournament
tees off today at Valhalla in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, with almost all of the
worlds 100 top players chasing the
Wanamaker Trophy.
New world number one McIlroy
comes off winning his third major
title at last months British Open
and taking his rst World Golf
Championships crown last Sunday
at Akron, Ohio.
I said at the beginning of the year
that golf was looking for someone
to put their hand up and sort of be-
come one of the dominant players
in the game, McIlroy said. I felt like
I had the ability to do that.
While McIlroy has been stellar, 14-
time major winner Woods has been
in Florida receiving treatment for
the back injury he suffered on Sun-
day in Akron, where he withdrew af-
ter his ninth-hole tee shot.
Woods, who underwent back sur-
gery on March 31 to ease a pinched
nerve, has played only nine com-
plete rounds since and had his worst
72-hole showing at a major at the
British Open with a share of 69th,
poor omens even if healthy for Val-
halla, where he won the 2000 PGA.
Tiger Woods will be allowed to de-
lay his decision on whether to take
part in the US PGA Championship
until 10 minutes before he is sched-
uled to tee off today at Valhalla.
Woods ofcially had until 5pm
local time yesterday (4am Cambo-
dian time) to register for the event,
but his request to delay the deci-
sion until just before his scheduled
8.35am local tee time this morning
has been granted.
If he fails to take part, Woods ap-
pears unlikely to make the cut as
one of the Ryder Cup captain Tom
Watsons three Captains selections.
Tiger would be a great addition
to our team, Watson said of Woods,
who is currently down in 69th posi-
tion on the US points standings.
As Ive said all along, I would
pick Tiger Woods if hes healthy and
playing well. This doesnt bode well
right now.
All three had won majors before
this year, so this could be the rst
year since back in 2000 where all
four major winners had won at
least one before.
Youre just seeing the cycle of
this decades great players start-
ing to write their part of golf his-
tory, said Scott.
Its always handy to have some
kind of experience if you are play-
ing in contention in a major. If
youve won a major, then you have
that knowledge you can do it and
I think thats very helpful when
youre playing.
McIlroy misred at the 2011 Mas-
ters when he led until the back nine
on Sunday, then responded with
wins at the 2011 US Open and 2012
PGA Championship.
It helps those guys and myself
[to] have been in those positions
before. Weve won majors so we
know what it feels like on the back
nine on Sunday, McIlroy said.
Experience and knowing what
it feels like to be in that position
is a huge thing. Some of the guys
coming through now have gotten
that experience and have a little bit
more knowhow into how to handle
that situation better.
It took me a couple of goes to
get comfortable with the position
of being in the mix in a major in
the back nine on Sunday. You need
those experiences. Its a very im-
portant part of trying to close out
tournaments.
McIlroy has four top-10s includ-
ing a win in prior PGAs, which use
a set-up he enjoys. And hes arriv-
ing in top form.
Game feels in really good shape,
he said. Coming in here with a lot
of condence. It has been a tourna-
ment that Ive really enjoyed and
had some success at, so hopefully I
can continue that trend this week.
Scott has watched Kaymer and
McIlroy pull away to big leads on
the way to winning majors and says
a big start, something he hopes to
have this morning, will be critical.
Weve seen the last couple of
majors guys really putting their
foot down and shooting some
good scores, Scott said. And if
youre behind in a major its even
harder to come back. It doesnt
happen very often.
My game is generally in good
shape. I think the swing is falling
into a nice kind of rhythm so Im
excited for this week. Its like they
have rolled the carpet out for a
fairway," he went on to say.
Five-time major winner Phil
Mickelson, coming off a season-low
62 Sunday at Akron, says birdies
could be as abundant as they were
at the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla,
the only edition since 1999 won by
the Americans over Europe.
If you are within 15 to 20 feet you
have a very good chance to make
it. You have a consistent breaking
putt, Mickelson said. If youre
outside 40 feet, its difcult because
youre not in the proper section and
you have a lot of humps and bumps
and challenges. AFP/THE GUARDIAN
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits an approach shot during a Tuesday practice
round prior to the start of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. AFP