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THE Islamic State militant
group has claimed to have
beheaded an American pho-
tojournalist in retaliation for
US airstrikes in Iraq.
A video posted on
YouTube, later removed,
purported to show the exe-
cution of James Foley after
he recited a statement in
which he called the US gov-
ernment my real killers. A
second prisoner, said to be
Steven Joel Sotloff, like Foley
an American journalist who
disappeared while covering
Syrias civil war, then appears
in the video.
The masked executioner,
speaking in English with
what sounds like a British
accent, identifies Sotloff
and says that the life of
this American citizen,
Obama, depends on your
next decision.
Foley has been missing
since he was seized in Syria
in November 2012.
US intelligence officials
said that they were still
evaluating the video and
could not immediately
Jihadists
behead
reporter
in video
Sen David and Laignee Barron
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N YET another case of
Cambodian women facing
abuse in China, a 19-year-
old told the Post yesterday
that she has taken to living on
the streets after the consulate
in Shanghai refused to pay for
her repatriation.
Kim Sophea*, who claims she
has been forced into marriage in
China three times, said by phone
yesterday that she had no inten-
tion of entering that country as
a bride-to-be. She and her cous-
in left Kampong Cham together
last October with a broker known
to them as Neang Vanou, who
promised an alluring end to their
familys poverty: $500 a month
for factory work in China, five
times the pay they could earn
in Cambodia. But instead of
work, Sophea was stripped of
her identity the broker kept
her passport and changed her
name and age and sold her
to a stranger in Shanghai.
I did not know any of my hus-
bands names, because I do not
know Chinese. I just called them
Ei Ei, she said. I lived with the
In China, nowhere to run
Fleeing a forced marriage, Cambodian nds repatriation no easy task
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Emily Wight
AT THE age of 18, Lim Visal*
was chained to a post by his
parents, who were anxious
about his undiagnosed
schizophrenia and too poor
to refer him to a hospital.
The couple feared their son
might be dangerous, so they
left him like that alone and
restrained most of the time
in a single room for two
years.
That was his home until
the day he escaped and,
confirming his parents
worst fears, killed a young
girl in his village. The crime
earned him 10 years of a dif-
ferent sort of confinement,
this one not much better
than the first.
Visal is one of more than
100 known convicts suffer-
ing from mental health
problems in Cambodias
prisons, where the cramped,
unhygienic conditions and
scarcity of food and water
breed psychological tor-
ment. Sometimes prisoners
live within as little as 0.7
square metres of floor space,
according to rights organisa-
tion Licadho. Punishments
include solitary confine-
ment for those who break
the rules.
At first, Visal refused to
undergo any kind of psy-
chological treatment or
take medicine offered by
the Transcultural Psycho-
social Organisation (TPO),
an NGO supporting the
mentally ill, insisting that
he didnt have any prob-
lems. Eventually, he began
to cooperate, and he now
takes regular doses and
Mentally
ill lack
support
in prison
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rst husband for three months. And then
the broker took me to another man and
then another. They were all the same. They
did not love me, they mistreated me and
kept me as a slave or servant . . . but I could
not do anything, I had to follow the broker
from one man to the next to survive.
On her third husband in less than a year,
and four months pregnant but not given
enough food to eat and often kept locked
in a small room, Sophea couldnt take it
anymore. Two weeks ago, she escaped
while her in-laws were out. Chinese police
took Sophea and her cousin to the Cambo-
dian consulate where they begged for as-
sistance, but instead of reprieve they found
the government ofcials unwilling to pro-
vide a way out of the nightmare.
The embassy told us that they can help
to provide a passport, but said I had to nd
my plane ticket myself. But how could I
nd $400? I escaped with only the clothes
I was wearing and my husband never gave
me any money, she said.
But a Beijing-based Cambodian Em-
bassy ofcial who was aware of the case
said yesterday that embassies in China
do not have enough money to pay for all
the Cambodian womens plane tickets.
In some cases, I have spent my own
money to help the women, the ofcial,
who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said.
Sophea and her cousin, who is two
months pregnant and also escaped an
abusive arranged marriage, are now sleep-
ing on the sidewalk and have no money for
food, she said.
Eventually, she managed to call her
father for help. Though he had nothing
to offer, he contacted rights monitor Ad-
hoc, which has assisted 29 victims sold to
China this year.
The story is the latest in a growing list of
cases in which Cambodian women have
been abused in China and embassies
and consulates have been accused of not
only being unhelpful, but also placing the
women in further danger, sometimes forc-
ing them to return to abusive husbands, or
telling them they cannot leave China until
obtaining a divorce.
We know of cases where women have
been told they could not be granted a
divorce until their babies are born, said
Brandais York, a consultant for Commu-
nity Legal Education Center. Under in-
ternational law, embassies are expected
to help any victim of trafcking . . . They
also have a legal obligation to organise
and coordinate the repatriation of vic-
tims of human trafcking.
In a joint submission to the United Na-
tions last year, labour organisations criti-
cised Cambodian embassies for failing to
provide much needed services such as re-
patriation or legal aid, and urged the con-
sular ofces to offer cost-free repatriation.
In a report released earlier this week,
CLEC found that Cambodian embassies
were taking an average of four weeks to
provide victims with any aid.
Rights groups yesterday singled out the
Cambodian Foreign Ministry as provid-
ing among the worst consulate services
in the region.
Its not rocket science, but its some-
thing the Cambodian government has so
far been completely unable and unmoti-
vated to do, said Phil Robertson, deputy
director of Human Rights Watch in Asia.
Essentially, Cambodians in trouble over-
seas are on their own.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong
could not be reached for comment yester-
day, but told the Post on Monday that the
embassies are trying [their] best to re-
spond promptly.
Land at risk
Families in
Kratie wary
over moves
K
RATIE town and provin-
cial administrators met
with representatives of
families living alongside Kratie
Town Hall yesterday after
receiving a petition express-
ing villagers concern that the
town hall planned to expand its
premises onto their land.
Villager Mov Samnang said
yesterday that families had li-
ved in the area since 1979 and
were given their current plots
by the city when displaced
by the town halls construc-
tion in 1997, but that recent
moves to close a dividing path
had rekindled worries that
their untitled plots would be
annexed.
They want to grab all the
land, he said.
Hang Chandy, Kratie town
governor, said that the land in
question was listed as town
property, and as such, if we
give it to them, we have to be
responsible, so we must have
a meeting and make a correct
report to get the approval from
the higher level. PECHSOTHEARY
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 21, 2014
Hun Many name used for imports
May Titthara
PRIME Minister Hun Sens son Hun Many
filed a complaint yesterday with Phnom
Penh Municipal Court after he was informed
that his name was being used to illegally
import ambulances into the Kingdom.
According to Manys lawyer, Ly Chan
Tola, an autonomous port officer in Preah
Sihanouk province told Many that his
name had been used to evade import tax-
es on three ambulances.
The officer suspected it and then report-
ed it to him, because he knows His Excel-
lency Hun Many never does this kind of
act, Chan Tola said.
Chan Tola added that a suspect had
already been identified.
In a statement released yesterday, Many,
Hun Sens youngest son and lawmaker for
Kampong Speu province, called for the
suspect to be found and prosecuted.
I would like to confirm that I never
allow or support the use of my name and
status for illegal acts. I would like to appeal
. . . to authorities and the court to take
action against the offender seriously by
law, he said.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court officers
could not be reached for comment.
Chan Soveth, a senior investigator with
local rights group Adhoc, said that names
of prominent political figures are regularly
used to evade import taxes and other
costs.
Business people are always using the
names of senior officers as their connections
to defend their businesses, and if their busi-
nesses do not go through the powerful, their
businesses cannot go smoothly, he said.
NGOs want charges dropped
Meas Sokchea

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HARGES brought against op-
position members for their al-
leged role in inciting violence
against district security guards
during a protest at Freedom Park last
month were politically motivated and
should be dropped, civil society leaders
said yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference organised
by the Cambodian Human Rights Action
Committee, leading human rights workers
told reporters that, according to the crimi-
nal code, the charges should be dropped.
Ny Chakrya, a senior investigator for
rights group Adhoc, said there was not
enough evidence to charge the Cambodia
National Rescue Party members.
On July 15, a protest organised by the
CNRP turned violent after Daun Penh dis-
trict security guards attempted to physi-
cally disperse demonstrators calling for
the opening of the long-closed park, only
to see many of their ranks beaten them-
selves. Seven lawmakers and several CNRP
members were charged in the aftermath of
the violence for allegedly inciting it, though
many argue security struck rst.
If we look at the demonstrators, they
had plastic ag poles, but the security
forces had wooden batons, Chakrya said.
This shows [guards] were prepared to
commit violence.
CNRP deputy president Kem Sokha was
summonsed to court shortly after the law-
makers and an activist were bailed in July,
followed by the arrests of a number of party
members, three of whom are in prison.
In a statement yesterday, the rights group
Licadho decried the fact that the jailed ac-
tivists families were barred from visiting.
These restrictions are wholly unneces-
sary, cruel and seemingly politically moti-
vated, said Licadhos Am Sam Ath.
Koul Panha, executive director of election
watchdog Comfrel, said the ruling Cambo-
dian Peoples Party was using the courts to
apply political pressure amid ongoing ne-
gotiations over amendments to the consti-
tution and other laws agreed to on July 22.
I guess that they are using the courts
for their political interests, to intimidate
[CNRP] youths, he said.
But Council of Ministers spokesman Tith
Sothea dismissed the claims, saying crimes
must be resolved according to the law.
A member of the security forces that attempted to clear Freedom Park last month is rushed
away after being attacked by protesters. HENG CHIVOAN
Courtroom
for boy, 15,
over death
Kim Sarom
THE Kampong Cham Provincial
Court has charged a 15-year-old
with the rape and murder of his
four-year-old neighbour.
The girl was found dead in
Tbong Khmum town on Mon-
day after being raped in a near-
by forest, according to police.
The suspect was questioned
and charged yesterday, said
court prosecutor Huot Vuthy.
Chok Sokao, of the Tbong Kh-
mum provincial bureau of seri-
ous crime, said the suspect had
confessed. He added a post-
mortem had found the girl was
badly beaten with a cassette
player and leaves pushed into
her mouth, leading to death
from suffocation.
Sokao added that witnesses
had told police the suspect and
victim, who were neighbours,
had been playing together be-
fore he took her elsewhere.
James McCabe, operations
director for the polices Child
Protection Unit, said forensics
had been performed at the
crime scene.
Sen David
TWO orphanages in Phnom
Penh have been shuttered by
the citys social affairs depart-
ment following complaints
from children in their care.
Son Sophal, head of the mu-
nicipalitys Social Affairs De-
partment, said two non-gov-
ernmental organisations were
ordered to close on Monday
after children reported not hav-
ing enough to eat.
On August 18, the Social Af-
fairs Department decided to
shut down two NGOs who raise
children, he said. We found
that those NGOs did not have a
[memorandum of understand-
ing] with the Ministry of Social
Affairs and were raising chil-
dren without enough food and
poor techniques.
He added that 12 children
had told the department about
the lack of food, prompting the
authorities to search their re-
cords for documents showing
the orphanages were operating
legally. They werent.
We cannot allow them to
carry on looking after children,
Sophal said.
Orphanages have come un-
der increased scrutiny because
of allegations that some exploit
children to draw cash from do-
nors and volunteers.
Sophal added that children
from the closed orphanages
were sent to another NGO.
Two orphanages shut
In China, nowhere to run for help
Hun Many, lawmaker and son of Hun Sen, says
his name was used in scheme. KARA FOX
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Alice Cuddy
THOUGH the USs training of
Cambodias abusive armed
forces has come under re this
year, a visiting senior US mili-
tary ofcial said yesterday such
training would continue, noting
that great progress was being
made on rights violations.
General Vincent Brooks,
commanding general of the
US Army Pacic, said he ex-
pected the same kind of
partnership we have now to
continue, with potential for
increased cooperation.
Brooks made the comments
following a meeting in Phnom
Penh with Royal Cambodian
Armed Forces (RCAF) Com-
mander-in-Chief Pol Saroeun.
In May, Human Rights Watch
(HRW) issued a statement hit-
ting out at US forces for pro-
viding training that would
assist Cambodias military in
government crackdowns on
the political opposition and
civil society activists in its an-
nual Angkor Sentinel exercise.
The group also suggested that
Angkor Sentinel 2014 may have
been in violation of US law,
something the US Embassy
strongly denied. HRW made the
allegations based on allegedly
incriminating photographs and
videos on the joint training ex-
ercises ofcial Facebook page,
which the embassy said is man-
aged by US Army Pacic.
One photograph showed a
Cambodian soldier stopping a
vehicle by standing in front of
it with his assault rie aimed at
the windshield.
Less than two weeks after
the statement was released,
the images were removed.
But Brooks maintained yes-
terday the prime parts of
Angkor Sentinel were training
in peacekeeping and humani-
tarian assistance.
Addressing allegations that
the US military is training
armed forces connected with
rights violations, Brooks said
this is something that is being
worked through.
[We] see great progress be-
ing made by Cambodia [on
human rights] and as a result,
our relationship continues to
improve, he said.
With numerous violent crack-
downs since last years election,
Phil Robertson, deputy direc-
tor of HRWs Asia Division, said
this was a pipe dream. RCAF
is rife with human rights abus-
es . . . The people they are train
ing . . . have checkered pasts on
human rights, he said. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA
Training of RCAF will
go on, US general says
Media got it wrong: official
Vong Sokheng

T
HE head of the parliamentary for-
eign affairs commission yesterday
denied Vietnamese media reports
that National Assembly Presi-
dent Heng Samrin told Vietnamese Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung he would take
strict action to prevent further Khmer
Krom-led protests against Vietnam.
The reports, widely picked up by Cam-
bodian media, said Samrin had painted
protesters as extremists. But senior
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday
claimed that Samrin actually told Viet-
nam on Monday that demonstrations
were allowed in Cambodia and that the
protesters had a legitimate reason to take
to the streets.
I heard media reported that Samdech
Chakrey [Samrin] said that the Cambo-
dian government will take actions against
the protesters, which I would like to afrm
is wrong, he told reporters at a specially
convened press conference.
I would like to be clear in this point
that you [Khmer media] and [we] have to
listen to each other as we are Khmer, and
you have to wait until we are [back] here to
conrm before broadcasting.
Protesters converged outside the Viet-
namese Embassy for three consecutive
days last week to demand an apology
for statements made in early June by a
spokesman about Vietnams long histori-
cal sovereignty over the former Kampu-
chea Krom provinces which they say is a
false interpretation of history.
A Vietnamese ag was burned at one
protest, drawing swift condemnation
from Hanoi. The matter was raised again
with Samrin during an ofcial visit to
Vietnam on Monday, Vun said, but the
assembly president had explained that
Cambodia is a democracy where non-
violent protest is allowed.
What the president told the Vietnam-
ese prime minister means that we know
what we are doing and there is no need
to tell us to do something in a democratic
country, Vun said.
Samdech also afrmed that the dem-
onstration had not just happened without
any reason it had arisen from a wrong
historical interpretation.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong deliv-
ered a similar message to protesters di-
rectly in a private meeting on Tuesday, ac-
cording to activists present.
The government has long been accused
of being subservient to Vietnam, which
occupied Cambodia in the 1980s, but has
largely tolerated the recent protests.
National Assembly President Heng Samrin arrives in Phnom Penh yesterday from a trip to
Vietnam, where he met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. PHA LINA
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Pech Sotheary
MORE than 80 reporters and
citizen journalists from across
23 provinces met in in Phnom
Penh yesterday to discuss how
citizen journalists can circum-
vent government-dominated
media in Cambodia by writing
and sharing information on hu-
man rights and other issues.
The event, organised by the
Cambodian Centre for Inde-
pendent Media (CCIM) and the
Community Legal Education
Center (CLEC), was intended to
help develop a network of citi-
zen journalists that could share
information and help uncover
issues such as land disputes in
far-ung areas, said CLEC rela-
tions ofcer Srey Sophak.
This meeting between re-
porters, community journal-
ists, social analysts and human
rights workers will create a net-
work to share information on
human rights situations in their
communities, he said.
Mob Chhing, a CCIM citizen
journalist from Ratanakkiri,
said people in her community
did not have proper access to
information. She participated
in training sessions to become
a citizen journalist and eventu-
ally shared news at community
meetings and through Face-
book, despite many challenges.
I have gone to cover land
disputes, human rights abus-
es, domestic violence, and
when I went to cover these is-
sues, the community did not
seem to trust it, and the au-
thorities and criminals have
threatened me, she said. But
the more they threaten, the
more I struggle [to report] for
the whole community.
According to a press release
from CCIM and CLEC, because
of the inuence of the gov-
ernment on Khmer-language
media, citizen journalists have
been going it alone and are
changing the media scene by
covering often unreported
news directly from their own
communities.
These citizen journalists
come from many walks of life
they range from factory work-
ers and residents to human
rights activists and indigenous
people, Sophak said.
Participation in the news pro-
cess is vital in a society where
most news comes from Phnom
Penh, said Lao Mong Hay, an
independent social analyst who
spoke at the workshop.
With community journal-
ists, news will be gathered di-
rectly from the provinces and
districts, he said.
Citizens taking news
into their own hands
AEC to help crooks too: UN
Charles Rollet

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ISING economic in-
tegration in South-
east Asia is providing
new opportunities for
criminal networks to expand
methamphetamine and syn-
thetic drug trafcking in the
region, according to delegates
at a UN Ofce on Drugs and
Crime conference in Yangon.
While regional economic
development is often seen as a
boon, its effects have brought
downsides as well, bringing
increased development of
criminal networks, said Da-
vid Harding, technical adviser
at NGO Friends International.
As Southeast Asian countries
work to establish the ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC)
by 2015, strengthening trade
links have left Cambodia in
a perfect situation for these
criminal networks to ourish
due to uneven development
and its own porous borders.
Cambodia has become a
more desirable place to oper-
ate theres more money, bet-
ter transport, its kind of inevi-
table really, said Harding.
Because of trafcking, some
hard drugs such as ice, heroin,
and meth destined for places
from Australia to Japan fall
off and remain in Cambodia
for sale and consumption,
noted Harding, although such
drugs are increasingly pro-
duced in the country itself.
According to the UNODCs
2013 World Drug Report,
Cambodias meth pill seizures
increased 189 per cent be-
tween 2010 and 2011, the larg-
est jump in the region.
Its very difcult to tell if the
situation is improving while
there have been high-prole
discoveries, its possible that as
production increases, theres a
higher chance [the authori-
ties] will nd it, said Harding.
The Royal Government of
Cambodia and other partners
estimated last year that the
country has 13,000 drug us-
ers, though Harding said that
since doing research about il-
legal activities is so difcult,
you can probably multiply
that by ve and come close to
the reality.
This dark side to economic
integration means no country
can combat the drug problem
alone, wrote Jeremy Douglas,
UNODC regional representa-
tive for Southeast Asia and the
Pacic, in an email.
And drug trafcking not
only harms users, but also lo-
cal economies and the rule of
law, says the UN.
It cant be ignored that
the billions generated for or-
ganised crime exceed the size
of several national economies
in the region, Douglas said
in a statement. Where is the
money going?
Authorities in Sen Sok district burn seized drugs in 2009. The United Nations Ofce on Drugs and Crime is
warning that increased economic integration in ASEAN increases the risk of cross-border crime. HENG CHIVOAN
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receives counselling from professionals.
Depression, schizophrenia, anxiety
and trauma are among the mental
health conditions most prevalent in
Cambodias prison system, said Long
Borom, who coordinates TPOs prison
project, launched in 2012 to combat the
problem of mental illness behind bars.
Many inmates didnt even have a his-
tory of these problems before being
sentenced, he added.
Some prisoners are given long sen-
tences, so it makes them depressed, he
explained, speaking at TPOs Phnom
Penh office in June. They dont have an
opportunity to learn, and sometimes
they find it difficult to adapt, to control
their anger or to manage themselves.
A report published by Licadho in June
revealed as many as 500 allegations of
physical and psychological abuse in
Cambodias prisons and police stations
since 2008. Nail extraction, electric
shocks, beatings and sleep deprivation
as well as the threat of rape or death were
among the torture techniques cited.
Inmates with mental health condi-
tions are targets and are at particular risk
of abuse. In a warped kind of downward
spiral, this is bound to have psycho-
logical effects, according to the report.
Clients who cited abuse reported a
wide range of symptoms, from disturbed
sleeping patterns to hearing voices to
depression. Some attempted suicide.
Others had suicidal thoughts.
Mental and physical health problems
can be exacerbated by poor conditions
of detention which, in Cambodia, are
characterised by overcrowding and lim-
ited access to basic needs such as food,
water, ventilation and natural sunlight,
said Sharon Critoph, prison consultant
at Licadho.
Working in just four of Cambodias
28 prisons Kampong Chhang Provin-
cial Prison, Kandal Provincial Prison
and Correctional Centres 1 and 2
TPOs prison project provides three
mental health professionals to offer
psychiatric treatment in the form of
medication, psychological counselling,
meditation, life skills and self-help
groups. Prison staff are trained to iden-
tify inmates who might be mentally ill
and to refer them to TPO specialists for
assessment. A total of 112 people have
been helped through the program,
though there are likely many more in
prisons where TPO cannot work
because of funding shortages.
While some develop illness inside,
many have pre-existing conditions.
Through our assessments, we always
check their history, and we find that some
prisoners committed a crime because of
a psychotic disorder, Borom said.
In some cases, it is those closest to the
mentally ill who may in fact make the
situation worse. Mental health is taboo
in Cambodia, little understood and
rarely spoken about. Phnom Penhs
Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital is the
only facility of its kind in the country to
house a mental health department. For
many, like Visals family, tying up a rela-
tive is the most viable option.
Because of limited understanding, the
mentally ill are generally unable to
access the treatment they need and their
conditions worsen. Some even self-
medicate with drugs or alcohol, exacer-
bating the situation, Borom said.
He cited an example of a man who,
like Visal, had undiagnosed schizophre-
nia. Suffering from delusions and hal-
lucinations, he thought he saw his father
trying to kill him. Terrified for his life, he
eventually murdered his father.
While the program supports inmates,
aftercare once they are discharged
remains a concern. Former inmates find
it difficult to regain peoples trust, and
finding employment can be hard.
TPO does what it can to maintain con-
tact, but with a large number moving
around regularly for work, its not easy.
However, if former inmates are in trou-
ble, TPO has a hotline they can call, and
upon leaving prison, they are given bro-
chures about adapting to regular life.
For Visal, at least, processing informa-
tion from the brochures wont be a prob-
lem. Since acknowledging his condition
and receiving treatment, he has learned
to read and write in Khmer, and can
even speak some English, Borom said.
Its not clear if he is aware of the grief
he caused, but letting his health dete-
riorate further is not an option for men-
tal health advocates. If nothing else, he
knows he is not alone.
*Name has been changed in line with
confidentiality requirements.
Cambodias streets go digital
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POLICE
BLOTTER
Familiar face returns, is
thrown in the slammer
A KAMPONG Chhnang man will
have plenty of time to study up
on the Kingdoms statute of lim-
itations for assault after his
arrest on Tuesday. Police said
the man had been wanted for
drunkenly beating a fellow vil-
lager with a stick last March. He
then fled and stayed out of the
province for more than a year,
only returning when he sur-
mised the court case had been
dropped. Alas, no. Hell face a
judge soon. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Truck driver surprises
all by not fleeing scene
IN A novel turn of events, a
truck driver did not flee the
scene when he was involved in
an accident on Tuesday. Police
said the man was driving a
truck loaded with garment
workers when a 34-year-old
man on a motorbike to his right
turned left in front of him in
Phnom Penhs Dangkor district.
Waiting for authorities paid off
in this instance as police deter-
mined that the accident which
left the biker unconscious and
with a broken leg had been
caused by the motorbike driv-
ers carelessness. NOKORWAT
Axe evens odds in road
rage-related brawl
DELAYED road rage left one
man seriously injured and
another behind bars on Tues-
day. Police said the suspect was
headed home from work when
clipped by a duo on a motor-
bike. Enraged, he cursed at the
men, who quickly wheeled
about, approached the suspect
and kicked him before fleeing.
As luck would have it, when the
suspect finally neared his
home, he saw the pair in a cof-
fee shop with eight friends. He
began chucking stones at the
diners, who promptly rushed
him. Outnumbered, he pro-
duced an axe, which he used to
strike one of his attackers. Hell
explain the convoluted incident
to a judge. DEUMAMPIL
Live by the sword, get
identified by the sword
WHEN youre a wanted crimi-
nal, nothing will give you away
faster than walking around with
your samurai sword. Police said
a man, arrested Tuesday, was
part of a group of three who had
threatened to hack a young
woman into bits if she didnt
relinquish her moto. Panicked,
she surrendered the bike then
went straight to the police. A
week later, one of the trio was
spotted, sword in hand. Police
are on the lookout for his
cohorts. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Debt drives drug dealer
to strike, stab sister
A 23-YEAR-OLD Takeo woman
is recovering in hospital after
being violently attacked by her
own brother, a teen drug dealer.
Police said the victim had gone
to ask her brother to return
money he had borrowed
months ago. The resulting
argument saw the young hood
flip out, hitting her with a chair
then managing to stab her with
a knife before fleeing. Soon
arrested, he confessed not only
to the assault but also to moto
thefts and dealing. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
Google Street Views vantage of Phnom Penhs Royal Palace from Sisowath Quay. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Kevin Ponniah
T
HE imposing facade
of Phnom Penhs
Royal Palace, Mon-
dulkiris towering Bou
Sra waterfall and sweeping vis-
tas from a pagoda atop Bokor
Mountain can now be explored
from all angles online.
Building on its digitisation
in April of the Angkor temples,
tech giant Google today will
launch Street View imagery of
Phnom Penh and more than
10 provinces, allowing users to
essentially walk around Cam-
bodia on the internet using
Google Maps.
The imagery has been col-
lected over the past year by
cars equipped with panoramic
camera gear and by individu-
als wearing specialised cam-
era-mounted backpacks.
While internet penetration is
growing in the Kingdom with
close to four million users as
of last year Google expects
Street View will help create
better awareness of this coun-
try and attract more tourism,
according to a statement.
The Tourism Ministry, which
supported the project, could
not be reached, but Phnom
Penh Tourism Department
director Tang Sochet Krishna
said he believed the imagery
would be useful to both Cam-
bodians and foreigners.
But some of our people who
live in remote or rural areas
cannot use it, he added.
Street View has raised the
heckles of privacy advocates
in many countries as its cam-
eras have often caught people
in compromising situations,
but Krishna dismissed such
concerns.
I do not think it is a big
problem, but it depends on
how it is managed. It is not im-
portant for us to be interested
in such useless things such as
arguments [captured] along
the street or other individual
issues, he said.
According to Google, Street
View blurs faces and other
identifying characteristics such
as licence plates. The com-
pany says it is also extremely
responsive to requests from
individuals for further blurring
of images.
Restaurateur and Cambodia
Hotel Association president
Luu Meng said he believed
that if a certain level of pri-
vacy was ensured, hotel and
restaurant owners would wel-
come the new technology.
Its a great thing for the con-
sumer, he said, adding that
businesses could adapt new
marketing strategies in line
with the technology. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY MOM KUNTHEAR
Mentally ill
lack support
in prisons
PM history
book has
message
Phak Seangly
IN POWER since 1985, Hun Sen
may be the only prime minister
many Cambodians have ever
known. However, the latest
book from veteran journalist
and author Chhay Sophal,
released yesterday, seeks to tell
the stories and, often, the
nasty ends of all 36 Cambodi-
ans to ever hold the office.
Sophal said at a news confer-
ence that the books subtext
was intended to offer a mes-
sage to contemporary politi-
cians: the idea that when the
water is up, the fish eats ants,
and when the water is down,
the ants eat the fish should be
eliminated from politics.
No less than 10 prime min-
isters were assassinated or poi-
soned. Others were arrested
and sent to jail, or to live in exile
until their death, he said.
This is because they took
revenge on each other, he add-
ed, calling such tumult a dan-
gerous opportunity for outside
forces to take advantage of.
While some of the books his-
tory is well known to many,
much is novel. For example, Ek
Yi Un in 1958 served for only a
week, replacing 103-year-old
Sin Var, who resigned.
The book characterises Hun
Sen as prone to playing ene-
mies against each other and
highly concerned with person-
al security after three assassi-
nation attempts.
Although he has never been
prime minister, Sam Rainsy is
included, since he is only the
main candidate [aside from
Hun Sen] vying for power since
1998, Sophal said.
Prisoners are watched over by guards as they sit in the courtyard of Prey Sar prison in
2009. HONG MENEA
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton

M
EASURING in de-
tail the countrys
largest sector in
terms of house-
hold engagement, the govern-
ment yesterday revealed the
results of the rst-ever Agri-
cultural Census a survey wel-
comed yesterday by industry
analysts.
The 33-page report states
that 2.2 million out of a pos-
sible 2.6 million or 85 per cent
of all households are engaged
in some form of agricultural-
related activity, such as grow-
ing rice, raising livestock, sh-
ing or extracting rubber.
Of that number, the census
states that 1.9 million house-
holds are ofcially considered
to have agriculture holdings,
meaning they have at least two
large livestock or three small
livestock or 25 poultry or land
equal to 300 square metres.
Prey Veng province ac-
counted for the largest share
of agricultural holdings at 10.5
per cent, followed by Takeo
and Kampong Speu provinces.
While at the other end of the
scale, the quiet coastal prov-
ince of Kep accounted for the
lowest percentage of agricul-
ture-engaged households with
just 0.3 per cent.
In total, the census estimates
there to be 3.1 million hectares
of agricultural land spread
throughout the country. This
gure does not include land
held under economic land
concessions, Chhay Than, the
minister of planning, said.
While Cambodias agricul-
tural sector contributed some
31.6 per cent to the countrys
total GDP or $15.25 billion in
2013, doing business is seem-
ingly not on the minds of most
households engaged in the
sector. According to the pre-
liminary census results, 73 per
cent of all agriculture-related
households operate only to
serve home consumption,
leaving 27 per cent who are
reportedly selling their crops
and livestock.
This pointed out the
dependence of the rural
households on agriculture
for food, the report states,
adding that on average each
household has about four
members.
Non-aromatic paddy rice is
by far Cambodias largest crop,
with 90 per cent of all holdings
engaged in growing the cheap-
er variety.
This was due to the fact
that the cost of using non-
aromatic paddy was not too
expensive compared with the
aromatic paddy/rice, the re-
port reasons.
Agr i c ul t ur al - e ngage d
households were also record-
ed as housing 472,000 buffa-
lo, 1.4 million pigs, 2.7 million
cattle, 28 million chickens, 5
million ducks and a few thou-
sand goats.
The survey covered all 24
provinces and ve selected
districts in Phnom Penh be-
tween April and June last year
and was welcomed by indus-
try insiders who said the com-
prehensive study will assist re-
searchers and policy makers to
make future decisions about
the industry.
Chan Sophal, spokesman for
the Cambodian Economic As-
sociation, said the all-encom-
passing survey would support
growth in an industry that had
previously relied on less con-
clusive or inaccurate data.
The biggest observations of
the industry so far have been
from a sample eld of just
12,000 to 15,000 households,
he said. This, more accurate
data with detailed informa-
tion will help policy makers
and planners to work easier
and be more successful in
their projects.
Mey Kalyan, a senior ad-
viser to the Supreme National
Economic Council and a co-
writer of the countrys rice ex-
ports policy, said strengthen-
ing industry data would help
improve supply chains and
linkages a long time pitfall of
Cambodias agriculture sector.
Now we have a more accu-
rate data to think about when
preparing the policy, Kalyan
said. Agriculture is a very big
sector. It is not only about pro-
duction, but also supply chain,
market linkage, and others. We
need to use this data for the
maximum benet.
But gathering the informa-
tion across 2.6 million house-
holds was not without its chal-
lenges, said Nina Brandstrup,
representative from the FAO.
Identifying the 4,000 enu-
merators and supervisors and
making sure that they were
trained and equipped to carry
out the census required much
planning, she said.
Funding for the census,
which cost more than $5.5 mil-
lion to complete, was provided
by the Government, AusAid,
the Swedish International De-
velopment Agency, the UNs
Food and Agriculture Organ-
siation and USAID.
A full version of the Agricul-
ture Census is expected to be
released December this year.
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Long-term
plan to ease
congestion
nearly done
Chan Muhong
AFTER more than two years of
research and development, a
transportation plan designed to
ease traffic congestion in Phnom
Penh has been completed and
will be soon submitted to the
government for approval, offi-
cials said yesterday.
Long Dimanche, spokesper-
son of Phnom Penh City Hall told
the Post that the analysis takes in
to account population growth,
urbanisation and the expected
increase in the level of traffic
congestion over the next two
decades. Developed in conjunc-
tion with the Japan Internation-
al Cooperation Agency (JICA),
the plan considers the options
available to reduce the number
of vehicles in the city, including
more busses, a tramway, a sub-
way and even a sky train, Diman-
che said.
We will not be able to deal
with traffic congestion issue by
that time if we have not devel-
oped a master plan from now,
he said.
The master plan will be used
as a guideline to develop the city
and the possibility of realisation
of the plan will depend on actu-
al demand and possible fund-
ing, he added.
The drafted Transportation
master plan for 2035 will be
revealed to public by JICA on
August 27 before it is submit-
ted to the government for
approval.
Ear Chariya, Independent
Road Safety Specialist, said he
hoped the government would
focus on providing more public
transportation services rather
than building more roads as it
is less expensive and would not
ease long-term congestion.
We need more public trans-
portation services, such as
buses and tram ways or a sub-
way, he said.
Aya Miura, Project Formula-
tion Advisor for Investment Pro-
motion and Economic Develop-
ment Section of JICA, confirmed
in an email yesterday that the
plan is expected to be finalised
this year and is a more compre-
hensive 2001 version.
Farmers pick cucumbers at a farm in Khsach Kandal district in Kandal province last week. HENG CHIVOAN
Agriculture census unveiled,
to the delight of the industry
Volvo returns to profit
on solid China demand
CHINESE-OWNED Volvo Car
Group announced a return to
profit yesterday in an upbeat
half-yearly report that cited
solid demand for the
Swedish brand particularly in
China. The Gothenburg-based
manufacturer bucked dismal
sales trends in the global auto
industry with a 15-per cent
hike in turnover to 64.78 billion
kronor ($9.39 billion). The
group doubled its previous
sales outlook for the year to 10
per cent, partly due to strong
demand from China where
sales grew by 34.4 per cent,
largely offsetting a 10 per cent
fall in US sales. AFP
PwC hid Japan banks
violation, fined $25M
NEW York state has fined
accounting firm Price-
waterhouseCoopers $25
million and suspended some
consulting work for two years
after finding the company hid a
Japanese banks US sanctions
violations. Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi UFJ, Japans
biggest lender, pressured
PwC to scrub a report on wire
transfers that the bank
submitted to regulators to
hide its dealings with
blacklisted Iran, Myanmar
and Sudan, the New York
State Department of Financial
Services said on Monday.
MYANMAR TIMES
Business
8
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM)
would notify the domestic companies (including individual enterprise)
registered properly in the Kingdom of Cambodia that : The MOWRAM
will conduct the public bid to select a contractor for Rehabilitation and
Improvement of Automatic Gate Structure Sub-project Prey Khpos-
Rohat Teuk Irrigation System, in Borvel District, Battambang Province.
The MOWRAM prepares the documents for companies to complete
the bid and sells at secretariat of the Project Management Unit
ADB&BS/MOWRAM (PMU-ADB&BS/MOWRAM) with its ofce address
: Department of Farmer Water User Community, #364 Preah Monivong
BVD, Sangkat Phsar Deumthkov, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh.
Bidding Documents must be delivered to PMU-ADB&BS/MOWRAM
at the above mentioned address on or before 09:00 am on 25
September 2014 and will be opened on the same day at 10:00 am.
The companies with its partners or same source can submit only bid
document. The companies interested in such bid, please communicate
to PMU-ADB&BS/MOWRAM for purchasing bid document and asking
information relating to such bid.
INVITATION FOR BID
Phnom Penh, 20 August 2014
Contact : PMU-ADB&BS/MOWRAM
Tel : 023 210 280
A REBOUND in exports
helped narrow Japans trade
decit in July, data showed
yesterday, but the shortfall
still came in worse than ex-
pected after a marked slow-
down in the worlds number
three economy.
Japans exports in July rose
3.9 per cent on-year to 6.19
trillion, the rst rise in three
months, thanks to robust
shipments of automobiles and
electronic equipment such as
parts for smartphones.
Imports rose 2.3 per cent to
7.15 trillion, underpinned by
purchases of oil and gas, which
have shot up in the wake of
the 2011 Fukushima nuclear
crisis, when Japan shuttered
its nuclear reactors.
Overall, the trade decit last
month came in at 964 bil-
lion ($9.4 billion), narrowing
from 1.03 trillion a year ago,
although it was wider than the
June trade decit.
The latest trade gures will
likely be a relief for Japanese
authorities amid concerns
that the yens plunge since late
2012 has not translated into a
big jump in export growth as
domestic rms shift produc-
tion overseas. AFP
Japan decit
shrinks as
exports rise
China hands out record fines
Amand Wang

C
HINA has ned 10
Japanese auto parts
rms more than
$200 million in to-
tal for price xing, authorities
said yesterday, reportedly the
biggest-ever such penalties, in
the latest step of the countrys
anti-monopoly drive.
Beijing has over the past
year launched a wide-rang-
ing crackdown on alleged
malpractice by foreign rms
across diverse sectors, includ-
ing pharmaceuticals, baby for-
mula and technology, raising
fears overseas companies are
being targeted.
The auto parts companies
were found to have imple-
mented monopoly pricing
agreements for more than 10
years, the National Develop-
ment and Reform Commis-
sion (NDRC) regulator said in a
statement. It ned them a total
of 1.24 billion yuan ($201 mil-
lion), in what state broadcaster
CCTV said was the biggest ne
that China had imposed since
its anti-monopoly law took ef-
fect back in 2008.
The companies . . . unlaw-
fully affected prices of auto
parts, nished vehicles and
bearings in China and harmed
the interests of downstream
manufacturers and consum-
ers, the NDRC said.
Sumitomo Electric was ned
the most 290.4 million yuan
of the seven car parts rms
penalised for xing auto parts
prices between January 2000
and February 2010, according
to the statement, the others
being Denso, Aisan, Mitsubi-
shi Electric, Mitsuba, Yazaki
and Furukawa Electric.
NSK, JTEKT and NTN were
ned for price collusion over
bearings between 2000 and
June 2011, the NDRC added,
with NSK ordered to pay 174.9
million yuan.
Two other companies, Hi-
tachi Auto Parts and Nachi,
which makes roller bearings,
were found culpable but ex-
empted from the penalties for
taking the initiative to inform
authorities and providing
evidence on the monopoly
agreements.
The NDRC, one of several
Chinese government bodies
that investigates monopoly
actions, said in early August
it was probing auto rms in-
cluding Audi and Chrysler as
well as the 12 Japanese com-
panies for possible violations.
It is the latest in a series of
inquiries in various elds
which have raised investor
concerns about the business
climate in China.
State media have reported
that more than 1,000 com-
panies in the countrys auto
sector, both domestic and for-
eign, are currently involved in
anti-monopoly probes by the
government.
Five of the Japanese auto
companies Mitsubishi, Den-
so, Sumitomo, NSK and JTEKT
issued statements conrm-
ing the penalties and pledging
compliance with Chinese law
and regulations.
Mitsubishi Electric said it
takes this matter very seri-
ously and will comply with
the order.
Denso said it was its policy
to comply with all applicable
antimonopoly laws.
Both NSK and JTEKT said
they took the situation with
utmost seriousness while
Sumitomo said its highest
priority was to comply with
competition laws. AFP
A man browses engine parts at the NSK Ltd booth at the Auto Shanghai
2011 car show in Shanghai. NSK is now one of 10 Japanese auto parts
rms that have been ned for price-xing in China. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
COMPETITION among local
electronic payment services
in Thailand looks set to inten-
sify with a new wave of play-
ers jumping into the booming
ASEAN e-commerce market.
Supachai Kanjanasakchai,
director of Pay Solutions Co,
a newly founded e-commerce
service provider, said the com-
pany expects e-payment ser-
vices in the region to grow rap-
idly in 2015 in tandem with the
late-year arrival of the ASEAN
Economic Community.
Pay Solutions was set up in
2013 after Supachai and three
other partners bought Thai
ePay, Thailands rst e-com-
merce system and payment
gateway for e-commerce
business, for an undisclosed
amount of money.
Sompoj Bunnasathien-
sri, chief operating ofcer of
Pay Solutions, said Thai ePay
would be rebranded as Pay
Solutions by year-end, posi-
tioning itself as a regional e-
commerce service provider.
We plan to expand to Sin-
gapore, Malaysia and Cam-
bodia over the next two years
to tap business opportunities
there, he said.
The company is on the verge
of expanding its services to on-
line banking, mobile payment,
bill payment and e-wallet,
rather than focusing on pay-
ment services with credit and
debit cards. Online golf course
reservations and e-shopping
giving customers an instant
shopping cart on a WordPress-
driven website will be added
to increase commission-based
payment fees and set the com-
pany apart from rivals.
Pay Solutions plans to ally
with more partners to at-
tract small and mid-sized
enterprises and increase
the number of merchants to
1,200 by 2015. Sompoj said
diversifying into new servic-
es and customer bases would
reduce the risk of relying on
hotel and travel booking,
which now accounts for half
the companys total transac-
tion value of 400 million baht
($12.5 million).
We aim for our payment
transaction value to surge by
at least 400 per cent by 2015,
helped by a variety of online
payment services and more
partners, he said.
Pawoot Pongvitayapanu,
president of the Thai E-com-
merce Association, said that
local e-commerce has been
growing rapidly on an aver-
age of 30 per cent annually.
BANGKOK POST
New players enter race
for e-commerce in SEA
AEC may worsen poverty
A
PLAN by Southeast
Asian countries to
establish a Europe-
an Union-inspired
single market next year could
worsen inequality and is like-
ly to benet men more than
women, a new study warned
yesterday.
The Association of South-
east Asian Nations (ASEAN)
has set 2015 as the target to
create a single economic
market across the 10-nation
bloc that is home to some 600
million people.
It is aimed at improving the
ow of goods, services, invest-
ment and labour around the
region, whose economic pow-
ers have long faced criticism
for failing to work together
more effectively.
The single market could add
an extra 14 million new jobs
and boost Southeast Asias
annual growth 7.1 per cent by
2025, according to the joint
study by the UNs Internation-
al Labour Organisation and
the Asian Development Bank.
However it also warned the
gains may not be evenly dis-
tributed, and the plan could
increase already large gaps
between rich and poor across
the region.
Unless decisively managed,
this could increase inequal-
ity and worsen existing labour
market decits such as vul-
nerable and informal employ-
ment, and working poverty,
the study said.
It called for Southeast Asian
countries to develop policies
that support inclusive and
fair development and to im-
prove social protection.
The study also found that
the share of new jobs going
to women across the region
would be smaller than those
going to men.
Sukti Dasgupta, an Interna-
tional Labour Organisation
economist and researcher on
the study, said this was due
to the sectors that were likely
to be boosted by integration,
such as construction and
transport.
The study found that inte-
gration would benet Cam-
bodia, as well as other lower-
income countries the most,
while hitting Indonesia,
Southeast Asias top economy,
the hardest.
Growth in Southeast Asias
economies has been impres-
sive in the past 50 years and
helped spawn millions of new
middle class workers and at-
tract foreign investment to
the region.
However, wealth gaps are
huge within the ASEAN bloc,
which includes rich countries
like Singapore, middle-income
nations such as Indonesia and
Malaysia, and lower-income
ones such as Cambodia and
Myanmar. AFP
The ags of the ASEAN nations raised in MH Thamrin Avenue, Jakarta, during the 18th ASEAN Summit on
May 8, 2011. A study has warned that the ASEAN marketplace, due to arrive in 2015, may increase the
disparity between rich and poor and also benet men more than women. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Coining a currency
Czechmate?
New bitcoin
rival minted
T
HE Czech Republic
launched its answer to
bitcoin on Tuesday when
new virtual currency Czech-
CrownCoin started trading.
Early this afternoon we put
a rst test run of 100,000 coins
on the market, CZC project
head Ladislav Faith said. The
total number of coins has been
set at 100 million.
Virtual currencies have
becoming increasingly popular
in recent years since the most
famous example, bitcoin, was
launched by a mysterious
computer guru in 2009.
Faith estimated a total of
430 forms of e-money are now
trading worldwide, allowing
users to transfer funds anony-
mously online and then store
them either virtually.
But regulators argue the
lack of legal framework
governing virtual currency, the
opaque way it is traded and its
volatility make it dangerous.
Some high-prole cases of
its investors being ripped off
have also made users wary,
and last month Europes top
banking regulator called on
the regions banks not to deal
in virtual currencies. AFP
Novartis signs TB deal
with Global Alliance
SWISS-BASED
pharmaceuticals giant
Novartis said yesterday that it
had signed a licensing deal
with an international
organisation that fights
tuberculosis. The group said
that the exclusive worldwide
licensing agreement with the
Global Alliance for TB Drug
Development covered
compounds discovered at the
Novartis Institutes for Tropical
Diseases. AFP
Heineken helped by WC
but net profit declines
BEER drinking during the
World Cup football
extravaganza raised sales
volumes for Dutch brewer
Heineken in the first half of the
year but net profit fell, the
company reported yesterday.
Net profit slipped to 631
million ($839 million) from
639 million at the same time
last year. AFP
Steve Ballmer steps
down from Microsoft
FORMER Microsoft chief
Steven Ballmer has said he is
stepping down as a member of
the software giants board of
directors. I bleed Microsoft
have for 34 years and I always
will, Ballmer said. He will
now be devoting time to the
Los Angeles Clippers NBA
team he acquired. BLOOMBERG
N
EW York states
banking regulator
on Tuesday slapped
Standard Chartered
Bank with a $300 million ne
and restrictions on its dollar-
clearing business for failing
to detect possible money-
laundering.
The New York Department
of Financial Services (DFS)
said the British banks internal
compliance systems had failed
to detect or act on a large num-
ber of potentially high-risk
transactions mostly originat-
ing from Hong Kong and the
United Arab Emirates.
The new punishment came
two years after the bank paid
US regulators $667 million to
settle charges it violated US
sanctions by handling thou-
sands of money transactions
involving Iran, Myanmar, Lib-
ya and Sudan.
A DFS monitor appointed
in 2012 to keep an eye on the
bank discovered that it had not
detected the allegedly high-
risk transactions from Hong
Kong and the UAE or reported
them as it should have, the de-
partment said.
If a bank fails to live up to
its commitments, there should
be consequences. That is par-
ticularly true in an area as seri-
ous as anti-money-laundering
compliance, which is vital to
helping prevent terrorism and
vile human rights abuses, said
DFS head Benjamin Lawsky.
The department gave no
information on the nature of
the transactions, or whether
or not they proved to involve
laundering.
In a settlement agreed
with the bank, DFS ordered
Standard Chartered to halt
dollar-clearing operations
for unnamed high-risk retail
business clients of its Hong
Kong unit. The bank is already
cutting business with high-
risk clients in the UAE, but will
also not be able to process dol-
lar funds through the United
States for them.
Its New York branch also is
forbidden to take on any clear-
ing or deposit accounts from
new customers without the
approval of Lawskys ofce.
Analysts said the sanctions
would have a negative impact
on the banks reputation and
international business, even
though the ne was smaller
than those imposed on other
banks previously
Its really an oversight on
the part of Standard Char-
tered. Theyd already paid a
huge penalty [in 2012] and still
they installed a system that is
useless, Hong Kong-based
independent nancial analyst
Francis Lun told AFP.
It will create tremendous
problems with [some of] their
international clients who
cannot settle their accounts
in US dollars. It will be a seri-
ous blow to Standard Char-
tered groups international
business, Lun said.
Hong Kong-based corpo-
rate governance expert David
Webb, said: The impact on
Standard Chartered is not just
the $300 million ne, but the
deterrent effect to its clients
who are doing business with
the bank.
They will face an excessive
amount of bureaucracy in
trying to operate or open ac-
counts, he said.
Standard Chartered said it
accepted responsibility and
regrets the deciencies in the
anti-money laundering trans-
action surveillance system at
its New York branch. AFP
Business
10
Argentina to pay bondholders
domestically to skirt injunction
Balfour beats off Carillion offer
BUENOS Aires on Tuesday moved to pay bond-
holders domestically after a US bank left it una-
ble to do so, President Cristina Kirchner said.
To protect the payments to bondholders
who took part in the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps,
we are designating the [state] Banco Nacion
Trust as a replacement for Bank of New York
Mellon, however the bondholders decide [to
take payment], voluntarily, Kirchner said in
a televised address.
President Kirchner said late on Tuesday shes
sending a bill to Congress to allow the nation to
pay the foreign bondholders in local accounts as
a way to skirt the ruling. Holdout creditors who
have sued will also have funds deposited locally
under original restructuring terms as a show of
good faith, she said.
In July, US judge Thomas Griesa ordered a
freeze on some Argentine payments until Buenos
Aires simultaneously pays off the hedge funds
which sued the country to demand payment on
their bonds. Argentina placed $539 million into
an account of Bank of New York Mellon at the
Argentine central bank at the end of June to
meet a scheduled payment to holders of the
countrys restructured bonds.
But Griesa forbade the bank from transferring
the money to the bondholders, in line with his
previous 2012 ruling.
Argentina, he said, must first comply with an
order that hedge funds which did not join the
bond restructuring program after the countrys
2001 default be paid in full for the $1.3 billion in
bonds they hold.
Argentina says the hedge funds gave up the
chance for payment when they rejected the
restructuring deal, which was accepted by 92
percent of the countrys creditors.
But Griesa has repeatedly ruled in favour of the
hedge funds, NML Capital and Aurelius Capital
Management, and threatened to hold Bank of
New York in contempt if it transfers the money.
He also forbade the bank from returning the
money to the Argentine government.
Holders of eurobonds and other non-dollar-
denominated Argentine debt say the New York
court does not have jurisdiction over their bonds,
and that their payments should not be held up
by the claims of the hedge funds.
Argentina and the hedge funds have sought to
find a compromise, most recently exploring
whether another group of investors, mainly
banks, could buy the hedge funds bonds to sat-
isfy their claims. AFP/BLOOMBERG
BALFOUR Beatty Plc rejected
an increased bid from rival Car-
illion Plc to form Britains big-
gest builder with a market
value of more than 3 billion
($5 billion), saying the plan is
too risky.
There are considerable risks
associated with the proposed
business plan, including the
strategy to significantly reduce
the scale of the UK construction
business when it is poised to
benefit from a recovery in the
market, Balfour said. The com-
pany still opposes Carillions
plan to keep Balfour Beattys
Parsons Brinckerhoff engineer-
ing-consulting business.
Carillion on Tuesday made a
new merger bid for Balfour
Beatty, valuing it at 2.1 bil-
lion. The offer would have
given Balfour Beatty investors
58.3 per cent of the new com-
pany and a cash dividend of
8.5 pence per Balfour Beatty
share. That represents a pre-
mium of 36 per cent to the
weighted average share price.
A previous offer would have
given Balfour Beatty share-
holders a 56.5 per cent stake.
The chairman has clearly
spoken to the top few share-
holders to feel confident to
reject this proposal in our
view thats the end of the proc-
ess, said Andrew Gibb, a Lon-
don-based analyst at Investec.
But standalone Balfour Beatty
without Parsons Brinckerhoff
has significant risks. There is no
certainty this team is able to
turn around the business.
A deadline, by which British
regulations stipulate that Caril-
lion must make a new offer or
abandon a deal for at six
months, expires at 5pm in Lon-
don today. BLOOMBERG
The Standard Chartered bank headquarters building (centre) in Hong
Kong. The bank has been ned $300 million for failing to detect
possible money laundering. AFP
Standard fined $300M by US
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Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 95.76 1.28 1.35% 4:43:51
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 102.07 0.51 0.50% 4:43:17
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.84 -0.03 -0.88% 4:44:00
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 271.94 2.4 0.89% 4:43:01
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 282.51 0.8 0.28% 4:42:57
ICEGasoil USD/MT 860 4.25 0.50% 4:43:38
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 13 0.04 0.31% 3:54:15
CME Lumber USD/tbf 354.5 1.9 0.54% 21:14:09
How bad weather is
threatening Nutella
T
HERES bad news for fans of
Nutella, the chocolaty hazel-
nut spread.
Poor weather in Turkey,
the worlds largest producer of hazel-
nuts, is causing a major shortage of
the nuts. The Turkish industry, which
is responsible for growing some 70
per cent of the worlds hazelnuts is
facing what could be a hazelnut crop
thats more than 30 per cent below
original expectations, according to
the Guardian. As a result, the price of
hazelnuts has spiked by more than
60 per cent so far this year and more
than doubled since last fall.
While rising hazelnut prices are
likely to prove a nuisance for a num-
ber of global chocolate-makers, the
most vulnerable appears to be Nu-
tella-maker Ferrero group. Thats be-
cause Ferrero now buys as much as a
quarter of the worlds hazelnuts, and
relies heavily on Turkey to supply the
50 hazelnuts it takes to produce each
13-ounce jar of Nutella.
Nutellas global value chain, which
the Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development mapped
out last year, spans the entire globe.
Ferrero might be headquartered in It-
aly, but it has factories on several con-
tinents, and sources its ingredients
from several others. The hazelnuts it
uses are, indeed, from Turkey, but the
palm oil comes from Malaysia, and
the cocoa is grown in Nigeria.
The good news for Nutella lovers is
that Ferrero acquired Turkish com-
pany Oltan Group, a leading manu-
facturer of Turkish hazelnuts. Having
its hand in the cookie jar, so to speak,
allows Ferrero to protect itself some-
what from market pressures, like the
current hazelnut shortage. Ferrero
has protected itself from the supply
issues to an extent, Julian Gale, the
deputy editor of Foodnews, said.
The bad news is that the odds ap-
pear to be stacking up against the
worlds favourite hazelnut spread.
Hazelnut prices arent the only Nu-
tella ingredient with a rising cost.
Palm oil, which is roughly 20 per cent
of the spread, has also been getting
more expensive on the heels of ris-
ing demand and weather-dampened
supply. So too has cocoa,
another key ingredient
cocoa prices are up by
more than 40 per cent
since last year.
None of this means
there wont be enough
Nutella to go around this
year, or even next. Ferrero
has yet to tweak the price
or warn of an imminent
adjustment. But if the
circumstances in Turkey,
Nigeria and Southeast
Asia persist, dont be sur-
prised if the 250,000 tons
of Nutella Ferrero sells in
more than 75 countries
around the world starts
carrying a slightly higher
sticker price. BLOOMBERG
World
Not very
amusing
An amusement park is sub-
merged by oodwater yesterday
in Lishui, east Chinas Zhejiang
province, following days of heavy
rainfall. More than 20,000 resi-
dents have been evacuated due
to the ood, as the water level in
Ou River keeps rising as storms
continue to move into the area,
local media reported. AFP
Iceland braces as volcano rumbles
T
OURISTS and hikers
were evacuated yes-
terday near a massive
rumbling volcano in
Iceland as the threat of erup-
tion raised fears of a replay
of the air trafc chaos caused
when another peak blew four
years ago.
Icelands Civil Protection
Authority (CPA) said it had
nished the evacuation from
around the Bardarbunga vol-
cano but that further air pa-
trols would be carried out to
ensure no one remained.
The authority said the vol-
cano was stable yesterday, but
still in danger of erupting.
The eruption of Icelands
smaller Eyjafjoell volcano
in April 2010 caused global
travel chaos, stranding more
than eight million travellers
as volcanic ash spread across
Europe.
Scientists have registered
hundreds of earthquakes at
Bardarbunga since midnight
Monday. It is believed the vol-
cano is large enough to disrupt
air trafc over northern Eu-
rope and the northern Atlantic
as well as cause major damage
to the island nation by volca-
nic ash and glacial ooding.
Up to 300 people were be-
lieved to be have been evacu-
ated in the area around the
volcano, located in eastern
Iceland under the countrys
largest glacier Vatnajoekull.
The area is uninhabited,
with only trekking cabins and
campsites used by tourists
and hunters in the summer
months.
We of course dont know
about all hikers and such,
but we are going to look over
the area with the aid of the
Coast Guard and after that we
should be very certain that
no one is in the area, Vidir
Reynisson at the CPA said.
On Monday, seismologists
recorded an earthquake of 4.5
on the Richter scale, the stron-
gest in the region one of the
most active seismic areas on
the planet since 1996.
Also on Monday, Icelands
Met Ofce raised the alert lev-
el at Bardarbunga to orange,
indicating heightened or es-
calating unrest with increased
potential of eruption.
On Tuesday evening Icelan-
dic authorities warned that
there may be a long wait be-
fore there is any change.
There is no change in the
seismic activity at the moment
and no sign of an eruption,
said the CPA in a statement,
adding that experience shows
that seismic activity can be go-
ing on for a long time without
an eruption going off.
When the Eyjafjoell volcano
further to the south erupted in
2010, it shot a massive plume of
volcanic debris up to 9 kilome-
tres into the sky, blowing ash
across to mainland Europe.
The ash cloud caused the
planets biggest airspace shut-
down since World War II, and
yesterday airlines were on
alert against the new threat.
The aviation industry has
developed better tools to
monitor volcanic clouds since
the Eyjafjallajokull eruption,
according to a statement from
Eurocontrol, the regions air
trafc manager.
Europe is more prepared to
deal with volcanic ash these
days; we have better mecha-
nisms in place than we did in
2010, Eurocontrol said.
The Eyjafjallajokull inci-
dent prompted European of-
cials to close the majority
of airspace in the region for
six days, stranding 10 million
passengers.
There was less disruption to
travel from a 2011 eruption,
which was smaller and only
affected airports in Iceland
and northern Germany for a
few hours.
Air France, Deutsche Luf-
thansa, EasyJet and Delta
Air Lines are among carriers
watching the Bardarbunga
volcano. THE WASHINGTON POST/
BLOOMBERG/AFP
Vietnam, Myanmar testing three patients for Ebola
VIETNAM and Myanmar are testing three
patients for the deadly Ebola virus after
they arrived in the Southeast Asian coun-
tries from Africa while suffering from
fever, health officials said.
Two Nigerians were sent to Ho Chi
Minh Citys Tropical Diseases Hospital for
isolation after they arrived in the city by
plane, Vietnams health ministry said,
adding that they did not have symptoms
other than fever.
Airline passengers sitting next to the
pair who travelled to Vietnam on Mon-
day from Nigeria via Qatar have been
advised to monitor their own health.
In Myanmar, a 22-year-old local man
was taken to hospital in Yangon after
arriving at the citys main airport on Tues-
day, the Myanmar Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention said in a state-
ment on its official Facebook.
It said the man is believed to have
returned from Guinea, having also trav-
elled to Liberia, two of the countries worst
hit by the Ebola outbreak.
Four people who accompanied the man
to hospital were also being kept under
observation, although they have not
shown signs of illness.
We have to send the samples to India
for laboratory testing to see whether it is
Ebola or not. The process will take three
to four days, Tun Tin, deputy director of
the ministry of health, said. He added that
authorities were working closely with the
World Health Organization.
Myanmar, which began emerging from
harsh junta rule in 2011, has one of the
worlds worst funded and poorly equipped
health care systems, with many people
cut off from even basic medical help.
Vietnam has introduced mandatory
temperature checks at its two major inter-
national airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City to try to prevent passengers
bringing the virus into the country.
The global death toll from Ebola stands
at 1,229, with the bulk of cases in Liberia,
Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Medical charity MSF has said the out-
break is moving faster than aid groups can
handle, while the WHO has said the scale
of the epidemic had been vastly underes-
timated. AFP
Health workers monitor the temperatures of passengers at Yangons
international airport yesterday. Fever is an Ebola symptom. AFP
World
13

Pakistan anti-govt rally
blockades parliament
PROTESTERS demanding the
fall of the Pakistani government
blockaded parliament and key
ministries yesterday in the
latest round of a weeklong
political drama that has shaken
the restive nuclear-armed
nation. Cricketer-turned-
politician Imran Khan and
populist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri
had Tuesday led followers in a
late-night march. Khan and
Qadri say last years general
election was rigged and are
demanding Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharifs resignation.
Activists occupied the main
entrances to parliament but
MPs left the building by a back
entrance without incident. AFP
Test show Japan man
father of surrogate kids
A DNA test of a Japanese man
embroiled in a surrogacy
scandal in Thailand shows that
he is the biological father of at
least 15 babies, police said
yesterday. But his motives
remained a mystery two weeks
after the discovery of nine
babies in a Bangkok apartment
triggered a human-trafficking
probe. The man, who is
reported to be the son of an IT
millionaire, has left Thailand but
voluntarily sent the DNA
sample to try to clear his name.
Police still hope he will return to
help with the investigation. AFP
Assembly to make Prayuth PM today: sources
THAILANDS coup leader is expected to
be picked as premier by the kingdoms
new army-dominated National Assem-
bly, sources said yesterday, cementing
the militarys grip on power.
Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is
likely to be the sole candidate for the
premiership when the 197-strong
appointed assembly convenes today to
select a new leader for the country, the
sources told AFP. It was difficult to find
people to become prime minister other
than General Prayuth. If its not him,
who else should it be? one junta official
said on condition of anonymity.
He staged a coup. He has to be
responsible for solving all the problems
by himself. By becoming prime minis-
ter, he will have full power.
Another member of the junta said
Prayuth was set to be chosen because
he is suitable for the job.
According to polls, he enjoys public
popularity and people also admire the
NCPOs work, the source said.
Candidates will need at least 99 votes
from the National Legislative Council to
win but will not need to be present in
the chamber during the vote, in which
members are to verbally name their
choice in a roll call, according to assem-
bly spokesman Jate Siratharanont.
Prayuth seized power from an elected
government in a bloodless coup on May
22, shortly after Yingluck Shinawatra
was dismissed as prime minister in a
controversial court ruling. The army
says it wants to introduce political
reforms before holding a general elec-
tion late next year. AFP/BANGKOK POST
Landslides hit Japan
H
UGE landslides
in western Japan
killed at least 36
people and left res-
cuers scrambling to nd an-
other seven still missing, au-
thorities said yesterday, after
a wall of mud smashed into
their homes.
Dozens of houses were bur-
ied when hillsides collapsed
after torrential downpours in
Hiroshima, television pictures
showed, leaving rescuers to
pick through the devastation
for any signs of life.
A spokesman for Hiroshima
police told AFP the death toll
was still climbing.
The gures may change as
the rescue efforts continue,
he warned.
The number of dead had
risen rapidly from an initial
four, which included a 2-year-
old boy. Among the dead was a
53-year-old rescuer, who was
killed by a secondary landslide
after he had pulled ve people
to safety, the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency said.
Aerial footage showed hous-
es buried in thick slurry, their
wooden frames splintered by
the weight of the mud.
Torrents of water raced off
mountains behind the homes
and through the wrecked
buildings, hampering efforts
to nd anyone still trapped.
Emergency workers were
seen climbing up to the sec-
ond oors and roofs of half-
collapsed houses some of
which were oating to try to
reach any survivors.
Pictures showed there had
been at least ve different
landslides. Some uprooted
trees and carried rocks down
the hillside into the tightly
packed houses that sit on the
edge of a commuter belt.
One man, gesturing to the
mud-covered remains of a
house, said: My house is over
there, attened.
Pointing elsewhere, he said:
A leg was seen [sticking out
of the mud] and they are try-
ing to conrm if the person is
alive. The rst thing we have
to do is to help that person.
Another man told report-
ers he had seen everything he
owned swept away.
We could hear the earth
rumbling and all of a sudden,
things roared past us, he said.
Troops were deployed to
assist in the rescue efforts fol-
lowing a request from the lo-
cal government.
Japans weather agency
warned more heavy rain was
on the way to the area, raising
the risk of further landslides
where tonnes of mud have al-
ready been displaced. AFP
This aerial view shows the damage caused by a landslide after heavy
rains hit the city of Hiroshima yesterday. AFP
A&A AUTO Co., Ltd is the authorized Distributor of KIA car Brand in Cambodia. To expand
our operation nationwide, we are looking for the dynamic and qualied candidates to fulll
the following positions.
1-Sales Manager (Very urgent)
Requirements
Bachelor degree or Master Degree is preferable
at least 5 years experiences in sales, preferably in the eld of Automotive Business
Age between ( 25-35) years old
Willing to develop knowledge in technical products
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills in English
2-Sales Supervisors ( Very Urgent)
Requirements
Bachelor degree or Master Degree related eld is preferable
at least 4 years experiences in sales, preferably in the eld of Automotive Business
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills in English or Korean or
Chinese are advantage.
3-Sales Supervisors for tires( Very Urgent)
Requirements
at least 3 years experiences in car tires eld
4-Sales Supervisors for engine oil ( Very Urgent)
Requirements
at least 3 years experiences in engine oil selling
5-Sales consultants many positions (Very urgent)
Requirements
Bachelor Degree of sales or marketing
At least 3 years experiences in sales for automotive industry is preferable
Age 20-35 years old
6-After Sale (Part & Service) Manager (Very urgent)
Automotive Engineer Background
At least 5 years experiences in automotive industrial or garage
management eld.
Good at English communication
Good organizational skills, Ability to lead a team
7-After Sale Service Supervisor (Very urgent)
Requirements
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At least 4 years of car repair experience
Knowledgeable about Servicing, Maintenance, Electrical repair, Mechanical
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Have degree in related eld automotive engineering.
8-Purchase order ofcer
Requirements
Bachelor Degree of Business administration.
At 2 experiences in this parts ordering.
Acknowledgeable about part accessories and vehicles specications.
English both good writing and speaking as needed.
Have considerable knowledge of Microsoft word & Excel and Microsoft Outlook.
Have strong organizational skills & ability to handle multiple tasks under
deadlines and pressure.
9-Logistic Ofcers
Requirements
Bachelors degree or higher in related eld with professional
qualication in purchasing, Logistic & warehouse.
1 years working and experience in purchasing, Logistic &
warehouse.
Good sourcing skill and hands on management.
Proactive, self-motivated, interpersonal skill, positive attitude and
can work hard under pressure with tight deadline.
Good command of English both written and computer literacy.
10-Graphic Designer
Requirements
Associated Degree of graphic design or related elds
At least two years experience in graphic design with a strong awareness of
marketing, publishing works and advertising trends
English both writing and speaking as needed
Have considerable knowledge of PC operations, desktop and publishing software
(Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Quark Xpress), Web-design a bonus
The deadline for applications is 30
th
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RICK Perry, the Republican
governor of Texas, made a
show of deance in front of
a cheering crowd outside an
Austin courthouse as he ar-
rived to be ngerprinted and
have his mugshot taken after
his indictment on charges of
abuse of ofcial power and
coercion of a public servant.
Media and supporters of the
governor gathered outside, and
Perry arrived to a few jeers but
mostly cheers and applause.
Perry was indicted by a
grand jury in Austin last Friday
over his veto of $7.5 million in
funding to a public integrity
unit headed by Rosemary Leh-
mberg, the district attorney for
Travis County. Perry called for
her resignation after she was
convicted of drunk-driving in
April last year and carried out
the veto when she didnt quit.
Gesturing with arms aloft
and speaking slowly and rm-
ly, the governor delivered a
speech in front of the entrance
in which he said he would
ght this injustice with every
bre of my being and prevail.
The charges Perry faces carry
a maximum prison sentence
together of 109 years. He has
strongly insisted that he acted
within the law and has assem-
bled a formidable legal team,
part-funded by taxpayers.
Perry said he lost condence
in Lehmberg, a Democrat, after
her arrest and conviction. Em-
barrassing video of her aggres-
sive behaviour towards ofcers
is certain to be a central plank
of his defence. THE GUARDIAN
Gov Perry
turns self
in for his
mugshot
Peaceful Ferguson rally degenerates; 47 arrests
authenticate it. A White House
statement said: We have seen
a video that purports to be the
murder of US citizen James
Foley by ISIL, one of several
acronyms associated with
the militants.
The intelligence community
is working as quickly as possible
to determine its authenticity,
said the statement by National
Security Council spokeswoman
Caitlin Hayden. If genuine, we
are appalled by the brutal mur-
der of an innocent American
journalist and we express our
deepest condolences to his
family and friends. We will pro-
vide more information when it
is available.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel said she was horrified
by the revelations, while Foleys
mother paid tribute to her son,
who she said had died trying to
expose the suffering of the Syr-
ian people.
We have never been prouder
of our son Jim. He gave his life
trying to expose the world to the
suffering of the Syrian people,
Foleys mum Diane said.
Both prisoners in the video
are wearing orange shirts and
pants, similar to orange jump-
suits worn by detainees at the
US military prison at Guan-
tanamo Bay, Cuba. A similar
outfit, believed to be a jihadist
symbol of the prison, was worn
by Nicholas Berg, an American
businessman kidnapped in Iraq
in 2004 whose execution by an
IS precursor organisation was
videotaped and posted online.
Foley, 40, was working in Syria
for Boston-based news site Glo-
balPost when he disappeared on
Thanksgiving in 2012.
Philip Balboni, GlobalPosts
chief executive and co-founder,
made the following statement:
On behalf of John and Diane
Foley, and also GlobalPost, we
deeply appreciate all of the
messages of sympathy and sup-
port that have poured in since
the news of Jims possible exe-
cution first broke. We have been
informed that the FBI is in the
process of evaluating the video
posted by the Islamic State to
determine if it is authentic.
Until we have that determina-
tion, we will not be in a position
to make any further statement.
We ask for your prayers for Jim
and his family.
The apparent prisoner, Sot-
loff, is a freelancer who worked
for several news organisations.
He disappeared in Syria in
August 2013.
In addition to Foley and Sot-
loff, at least three other Ameri-
cans are believed to be captive
in Syria, including Austin Tice,
a freelance journalist whose
articles appeared in McClatchy
publications and The Washing-
ton Post before his disappear-
ance in August 2012. No one has
claimed to be holding them. THE
WASHINGTONPOST/ AFP
POLICE said yesterday they had arrest-
ed 47 people as tensions rose after an
otherwise peaceful night of protests in
Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by
violence over the police shooting of an
unarmed black teenager.
Three guns were seized in the latest
protest rally in Ferguson, which has
become ground zero of a new national
debate on police treatment of minori-
ties after Michael Brown, 18, was shot
on August 9 by a white police officer.
Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri
Highway Patrol said protesters threw
glass and plastic bottles of water and
urine at police towards the end of Tues-
day nights protest, prompting officers
to intervene and make the arrests.
Johnson stressed that unlike a violent
protest on Monday night, this time pro-
testers did not fire guns at police and
officers refrained from using tear gas to
break up the rally. Tonight we saw a
different dynamic, he said.
He attributed this to a concerted effort
by community leaders, activists and
clergy to keep the rally peaceful and
prevent it from being taken over by what
he described as violent agitators.
Fears that the fatal shooting of a knife-
wielding black man might renew ten-
sions failed to materialise, after succes-
sive nights of clashes. Officers shot dead
the agitated man, who yelled kill me
now as he rushed at them with a knife
during an apparent store robbery.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Captain
Ed Kuntz told reporters at the scene that
an investigation had been launched, but,
based on what he had heard, it seems
reasonable to say it was justifiable.
In contrast to previous nights, rather
than firing tear gas head-on into the
crowd, police with riot shields and
armoured vehicles kept a lower profile,
finally intervening around midmight.
A grand jury was to begin yesterday
hearing witnesses to Browns killing,
amid calls for the police officer, Darren
Wilson, to be put on trial for murder.
Meanwhile, Browns family was pre-
paring for his funeral on Monday. AFP
Strikes, death return to Gaza
I
SRAELI planes pounded
Gaza yesterday as furi-
ous mourners buried
the wife and infant son
of Hamass top military com-
mander, braying for revenge
as eight days of calm exploded
into bloodshed.
But Hamas said the com-
mander, Mohammed Deif, was
alive and still calling the shots.
The head of the Ezzedine
al-Qassam Brigades Abu
Khaled is still alive and lead-
ing the military operation,
a source close to the Islamist
movement said, using Deifs
nom de guerre.
The strike at Deif, who has
topped Israels most wanted
list for more than a decade,
pulverised a six-storey building
in Gaza City late on Tuesday.
At least 18 Palestinians have
been killed in Gaza since mili-
tants launched a barrage of
rockets on southern Israel and
F16 ghter jets launched re-
taliatory airstrikes, Palestinian
medics say.
The violence left Egyptian
truce efforts in tatters, with Is-
raeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu immediately order-
ing the delegation back from
Cairo. Israel has repeatedly re-
fused to negotiate under re.
The fresh bloodshed pushed
the Palestinian death toll to
more than 2,030 since July 8
when Israel and Hamas mili-
tants started their bloodiest
confrontation since the sec-
ond intifada (2000-2005).
Another 67 people have died
on the Israeli side. The UN
says around three-quarters of
the victims in Gaza have been
civilians. Sixty-four of the Is-
raeli dead were soldiers.
Egyptian mediators scram-
bled for weeks to push the
warring sides to agree a de-
cisive end to the bloodshed,
but their latest attempts col-
lapsed on Tuesday when the
ghting resumed.
Several thousand angry
mourners joined the funeral
procession for Deifs 27-year-
old wife and 7-month-old
son, shouting Allahu Akbar
(God is greatest) and de-
manding revenge.
Firing Kalashnikovs into the
air, they carried the bodies of
Widad and her son Ali, who
were among at least four peo-
ple killed in the rst deadly
strike since August 10.
Their bodies were wrapped
in green Hamas ags and
they were carried to the cem-
etery with the bodies of two
men killed in a strike on a
motorcycle, both presumed
Hamas militants.
Widads grief-stricken father
Mustafa Harb Asfura, 56, car-
ried his tiny grandson from
the familys small home for
prayers at the mosque, his
body wrapped in a white sheet
exposing his white face with
bruising around the eyes.
In Israel, Interior Minister
Gideon Saar justied the at-
tack, calling Deif a legitimate
target. AFP
Relatives of Widad Deif, wife of Hamas military commander Mohammed
Deif, carry her body during her funeral in the Gaza Strip yesterday. AFP
James Foley Steven Sotloff
Germany ready to arm Kurds
GERMANY is ready to send weapons
to support Iraqi Kurds in their battle
against the barbaric jihadist
militants of the Islamic State,
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier said yesterday. After
other European countries said they
would send arms to help the
embattled Kurdish forces in northern
Iraq, we are ready to do the same,
Steinmeier said at a joint press
conference with Defence Minister
Ursula von der Leyen. He called the
onslaught of the IS barbaric, the
suffering of refugees unimaginable
and warned that the sweeping
advance of the radicals spells an
existential threat to Iraq and
threatens a regional conflagration.
The ministers said Germany would
first send more humanitarian aid and
nonlethal equipment such as
helmets, night-vision goggles and
explosives detectors while it checked
what weapons shipments would
make sense. AFP
Hollande to hold anti-IS meet
FRENCH President Francois
Hollande will arrange a conference
next month on the threat posed by
Islamic extremists in Iraq, describing
the current international situation as
the most serious since 2001.
Hollande said he would lay out an
initiative . . . from September. We
need a global strategy against this
group which is well structured,
which is well financed and has very
sophisticated weapons and which is
threatening countries like Iraq, Syria
and Lebanon, he added. France
announced last week it would deliver
weapons to Kurdish troops fighting
IS fighters in northern Iraq. AFP
Jihadists behead reporter
Sheikh
Radwan
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Israeli air strike
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Death toll on August 20
Sources: HCR, OCHA, Palestinian Ministry of Health
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3 civilians
Israelis killed
6 killed
during an
Israeli strike
I SRAEL
2,028
15
World
Space travel confuses
your immune system
Rachel Feltman
C
AN an astronaut
survive a long-term
spaceight? With
NASA looking ahead
to missions on Mars and be-
yond, its an important ques-
tion and one we havent
even come close to answering
through practice.
The longest space ight ever
only lasted 437.7 days, and
most astronauts have spent
less than a year at the space
station during their longest
stretches in orbit.
But a NASA study published
in the Journal of Interferon &
Cytokine Research has taken
a small step for mans jour-
ney to distant planets. NASA
scientists analysed blood
samples taken before, dur-
ing, and after missions to
the International Space Sta-
tion, looking for indications
of how astronauts immune
systems handle the unusual
environment. The results in-
dicate that things get a little
bit wonky.
Some immune cells are
heightened by the process
of space travel, the research-
ers found, but others get
depressed. Thats why astro-
nauts can experience the ef-
fects of a weakened immune
system (like the asymptom-
atic viral seen in some, where
a dormant virus starts pro-
ducing new cells but not new
symptoms) along with the
effects of a heightened one
(like increased allergies and
persistent rashes).
This immune dysregula-
tion, NASA scientists said
in a statement, is probably
the result of a combination
of factors. Things like radia-
tion, microbes, stress, micro-
gravity, altered sleep cycles
and isolation could all have
an effect on crew member
immune systems, Brian Cru-
cian, a NASA biological stud-
ies and immunology expert,
said. If this situation per-
sisted for longer deep space
missions, it could possibly
increase risk of infection,
hypersensitivity, or auto-
immune issues for explo-
ration astronauts.
But it isnt certain that
these changes would
signicantly increase
the risks of long-term
spaceight. An upcoming
yearlong mission will provide
further data for study.
If the evidence suggests
that immune system confu-
sion could pose a threat to as-
tronauts, the next step will be
guring out how to counter-
act it. Whatever they develop
could make its way back to
earth, providing new tools to
help immune-compromised
patients here at home. THE
WASHINGTON POST
Clock cleaners
Technicians carry out cleaning and maintenance work on one of the faces of the Great Clock atop the land-
mark Elizabeth Tower that houses Big Ben, attached to the Houses of Parliament, in London on Tuesday. A
team of abseilers is busy this week cleaning up the clock faces at the Houses of Parliament. The specialist
technicians descend the landmark by rope to clean and inspect the four clock faces. The clock on the Eliza-
beth Tower was last cleaned in 2010. Besides clearing away any dirt that has accumulated since then, the
experts will conduct a photographic survey to check the dials for damage. AFP
Opinion
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N 1966, Martin Luther King
started to campaign against
segregation in Chicago only to
find his efforts thwarted by
mobs and a scheming mayor. Mar-
ginalised by the citys establish-
ment, he could feel that nonviolence
both as a strategy and as a principle
was eroding among his supporters.
I need some help in getting this
method across, he said. A lot of
people have lost faith in the estab-
lishment . . . Theyve lost faith in the
democratic process. Theyve lost
faith in nonviolence . . . [T]hose who
make this peaceful revolution
impossible will make a violent revo-
lution inevitable . . . I need some vic-
tories, I need concessions.
He never got them. The next year
there were more than 150 riots
across the US, from Minneapolis
to Tampa.
As the situation escalates in Fergu-
son, Missouri, where police recently
shot an unarmed black man as he
walked down the street, many are
clearly losing faith. As the first day of
curfew drew to a close, hundreds of
police in riot gear swept through the
streets, using tear gas, smoke canis-
ters and rubber bullets against an
agitated crowd. Earlier this week the
governor, Jay Nixon, deployed the
National Guard.
Protesters insist the police action
was unprovoked. Police say it fol-
lowed shootings, firebombs, looting
and, crucially, an attempted attack
on the area they are using as a com-
mand centre. Ronald Johnson, the
Missouri highway patrol captain
drafted by the governor to take over
security and calm the situation
down, blamed premeditated crimi-
nal acts. Late last week, Johnson
was the darling of the crowds as he
expressed sympathy with their
cause and frustration with the tac-
tics of the local police. Now the situ-
ation seems polarised once again.
Johnson said the attacks were
provocations. We had to act to pro-
tect lives and property, he says. In a
statement explaining his deploy-
ment of the national guard, the Nix-
on blamed deliberate, coordinated
and intensifying violent acts.
Tonight, he said. A day of hope,
prayers and peaceful protests was
marred by the violent criminal acts
of an organised and growing number
of individuals, many from outside
the community and state, whose
actions are putting the residents and
businesses of Ferguson at risk.
Such statements ignore the nature,
scale and source of the problem.
When an 18-year-old is shot in day-
light for walking down the middle of
the street holding his arms up; and
when his shooter is whisked out of
town by the state, then the residents
of Ferguson were clearly already at
risk from those who would commit
premeditated criminal acts. What
could be more deliberate and
coordinated than releasing a video
that claims to be of Michael Brown
stealing cigarillos the same day the
police finally release the name of the
policeman who shot him, when the
alleged theft had nothing to do with
the shooting?
According to a preliminary autop-
sy, Brown was shot six times, includ-
ing twice in the head. Dr Michael
Baden, the former chief medical
examiner for the City of New York,
who performed the autopsy, said: In
my capacity as the forensic examiner
for the New York State Police, I would
say, Youre not supposed to shoot so
many times. Right now there is too
little information to forensically
reconstruct the shooting.
For some then, the police have
come too late to the notion that they
are there to protect lives. The
law, wrote James Baldwin, is
meant to be my servant and not my
master, still less my torturer and my
murderer. Those who call for law
and order now must understand that
there is no order because men with
badges have been acting lawlessly.
As I wrote after the riots in London
three years ago: Insisting on the
criminality of those involved, as
though that alone explains their
motivations and the context is irrel-
evant, is fatuous. To stress criminal-
ity does not deny the political nature
of what took place, it simply chooses
to only partially describe it. They
were looting, not shoplifting, and
challenging the police for control of
the streets, not stealing [police-
mens] hubcaps. When a group of
people join forces to flout both law
and social convention, they are act-
ing politically.
For good reason, such rebellions
troubles many. They attract oppor-
tunists as well as the righteously
indignant and politically militant.
Resistance to occupation is never
pretty. And Ferguson a mostly
black town under curfew in which
the entire political power structure
is white, with a militarised police
force that killed a black child was
under occupation.
Riots are also polarising. They nar-
row the base of support for cam-
paigns, sending potential sympa-
thisers into the arms of the state,
demanding a police crackdown.
People ask: what could violent pro-
test possibly achieve? It is a good
question. But it only has any validity
if they also question the nature of
the peace preceding it. Those who
call for calm must question how
calm anyone can be in the knowl-
edge that their son, brother or lover
could be shot in such a way.
People have a right to resist occu-
pation, even if we dont necessarily
agree with every method they use
to do so.
As I also wrote following the British
disturbances: One should not over-
state the case: [throwing firebombs
and shooting at police] are not the
hallmarks of political sophistication.
But then nor are riots. They are the
crudest tool for those who have few
options. By definition, they are cha-
otic. Rich people dont riot because
they have other forms of influence.
Riots are a class act.
Nobody in their right mind wants
more violent protests. But nobody
wants more Michael Browns either.
And those two things the violence
of the state and the violence of the
street are connected. A riot, said
Martin Luther King, is the language
of the unheard. The people on the
streets dont donate thousands of
dollars to anyones campaign. They
dont get a seat at any table where
decisions are made or have the ear of
the powerful. But with four black
men killed by the police in the coun-
try in the last four weeks, they have a
lot to say and precious few avenues
through which to say it. The question
now is: whos listening? THE GUARDIAN
State violence begets street riots
Police ofcers charge into a group of demonstrators to make an arrest on Tuesday in Ferguson, Missouri. AFP
Comment
Gary Younge
Gary Younge is a feature writer and col-
umnist for the Guardian based in the US.
Chilling out
After fame,
the Arctic
Monkeys rest
A
WARD-WINNING British
rockers Arctic Monkeys,
whose cheeky garage
punk origins have evolved seam-
lessly into stadium-lling suc-
cess across America, are ready
for a break.
Shrugging off the label of
Worlds Biggest Band in some
sections of the music press, the
indie-rock stars told AFP in an
interview at Tokyos Summer
Sonic festival that they were
looking forward to some down-
time after taking the United
States by storm.
There isnt any rush to do
something else yet, said drum-
mer Matt Helders. For now
this album seems like a place
to leave it for a bit. Weve never
really had an indenite chunk of
time off.
The release of their fth album
AM in September triggered a
ood of acclaim and accolades
but their transformation from
teenagers to biker chic pin-ups
means they can barely get
through a show without being
pelted with womens underwear.
More bras this year, said
Helders. Like nearly every
gig. People write their email
addresses on them. Its the rst
time weve had a lot of radio
play and played bigger shows in
America, denitely.
We were never looking for
more in America. Youre still
thousands of miles away from
home so just not playing to an
empty room in America was suc-
cess for us.
The four-piece shot to fame in
2006 with the explosive teenage
energy of Whatever People Say I
Am, Thats What Im Not Brit-
ains fastest-selling debut album
ever. AFP
17
Lifestyle
Japans Morning Musume 14
ready for their Big Apple gig
Takamasa Sakurai
M
ORNING Mus-
ume 14, one of
the most popu-
lar idol groups in
Japan, will give a concert on
Broadway in New York on Oc-
tober 5. I think it is the most
important overseas live con-
cert for the Japanese enter-
tainment world this year, as
it is the rst full-scale, admis-
sion-charging live concert by
a Japanese female idol group
in such a top-notch city.
Morning Musume 14 made
its debut as Morning Musume
in 1998 and now has 10 mem-
bers. I rst saw them in 2010
in Paris, which was their rst
admission-charging live con-
cert to be held overseas. The
concert attracted as many as
4,000 people.
More surprising for me
was their impressive per-
formance, which drastically
changed my preconceived
idea that Japanese music cant
attract a global audience.
Of the eight members who
performed in Paris, only Sayu-
mi Michishige, the groups
current leader, remains. How-
ever, she will leave the group
this year.
Morning Musume has been
able to keep a top position in
the Japanese music business
for more than 15 years as
their marvelous performing
skills and group spirit have
always been handed down
from older members to new-
er members.
When former members Ai
Takahashi and Reina Tanaka
left the group, I assumed my
interest in the group would
also go. They were special to
me because they were like the
forwards of a football team
when they performed at that
Paris concert.
Nevertheless, I believe the
current members are the
strongest ever in the groups
history. I can say this with ab-
solute condence because I
have watched the nine mem-
bers grow since they joined in
2011 and 2012. Their average
age is only 16, so I look for-
ward to seeing their further
growth.
Many renowned anime
artists and other creators
in Japan also like Morning
Musume. When I talk with
them, I often nd they have
feelings and expectations
regarding the group that are
similar to my own.
I asked some current mem-
bers about how they learned
from Takahashi and other
former members.
I learned from them, most of
all, their overwhelmingly ear-
nest attitude toward perform-
ing, said Erina Ikuta. [When
preparing for a tour], I saw
them take notes. They wrote
down their goals and how
much they could or could not
achieve those goals, in detail. I
keep the notebook in my room
as a treasure . . . We rehearsed
for as long as two months for
the tour. The two months were
very precious for me.
Kanon Suzuki said: I
was a great fan of Morning
Musume in what was called
the platinum period with
Takahashi-san as the leader.
When I joined the group, I
was very happy, but I was
also sad as the platinum pe-
riod came to an end with our
joining the group. After that,
we have had no option but to
just do what we can as zeal-
ously as possible.
Sakura Oda said: I became
a member 20 months after
Ikuta-san and Suzuki-san.
At the time, I was amazed by
the performance of Mich-
ishige-san, who has a career
spanning 10 years. But I also
thought I probably couldnt
make it like her by just being
a member passively for 10
years. So, now I use my time
differently from the time
when I was a fan of the group
by thinking about how I can
learn and perform as well as
the former members.
When I spoke with them, I
was always impressed with
their sincere wishes and ef-
forts to maintain the groups
fame, which has been handed
over like a baton to them. I see
their spirit is similar to what
can be found in Japans tradi-
tional performing arts.
Morning Musume can
be nothing but Morning
Musume, Oda said, indicat-
ing their responsibility to
carry on traditions.
Regarding the upcoming
New York live concert, Suzu-
ki, Ikuta and Oda all said they
would make the event worth-
while for overseas fans who
have only heard and seen the
groups performances on CDs
and the Internet.
Im going to see the concert,
too, keeping my promise to
them that I would go to their
rst overseas live concert. I
also want to see the excite-
ment rsthand, with con-
dence that the group will
leave their mark on the Big
Apple. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Morning Musume perform in Tokyo in 2009. The idol group now has 10 members and is looking to make a
splash in New York City in October. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Return the Parthenon marbles to Athens where they belong
WHAT can you do with the worlds
most beautiful art? Where does it
belong? How should it be cared for
and displayed?
The art in question is the array of
sculpture created in Athens in the fifth
century BC to decorate the Parthenon,
the temple to Athena that still domi-
nates the skyline of the Greek capital.
The best-preserved stone carvings
that survived on the temple in the 19th
century were removed by Lord Elgin
and brought to London, where they
have been a fixture of the British Muse-
um ever since. Greece wants the Par-
thenon marbles back and in 2009
opened a state-of-the-art museum
beneath the Acropolis hill on which the
Parthenon stands, to house them.
Where do the Parthenon sculptures
really belong? To get to the just, right,
sensible answer I have to start from my
opening claim: this is the worlds most
beautiful art. It has only a handful of
rivals in the highest rank of artistic
achievement think Leonardo da
Vinci, think Michelangelo.
But the sculptures of the Parthenon
were created 2,000 years before the
masterpieces of the Renaissance. They
have a life, energy, calm and grandeur
all their own. The figures of reclining
goddesses from the east pediment, for
instance, are daunting yet yielding syn-
theses of mass and grace that are more
like dreams than objects. The veins that
throb on the horse-flanks of a centaur;
the pathos of animals lowing at the sky
as they are led to be sacrificed; such
details add up to a consummate beau-
ty that is rivalled only by the greatest
art of the Renaissance.
If the Sistine Chapel frescoes had
been detached from their ceiling and
hung on the walls of Londons Nation-
al Gallery, would people appreciate
them as much? No. Theyd struggle to
imagine the power of Michelangelos
paintings in their original location.
The sad truth is that in the British
Museum, the Parthenon sculptures are
not experienced at their best. For one
thing, theyre shown in a grey, neoclas-
sical hall whose stone walls dont con-
trast enough with these stone artworks
it is a deathly space that mutes the
great art instead of illuminating it. So
if the museum wants to keep these
masterpieces it needs to redisplay
them in a modern way.
Or, it could give them to Greece,
which has built a superb museum to
do just that. The great thing about the
Acropolis Museums display of the Par-
thenon sculptures which includes
pieces left by Elgin, plus casts is that
it makes it easy to see how the they
fitted on the building, and how they
work as an ensemble. It also has an
advantage London cant rival you can
look from the sculptures to the muse-
ums glass wall and see the Parthenon
itself, making a sensual connection.
The first time I ever visited the Par-
thenon I was entranced by its unique
lightness and perfection and thought
it absolutely obvious that the Parthe-
non marbles need to be in Athens.
Then I found out more about the cam-
paign to return them. It seemed to be
too much about national pride, and
not enough about art. I dont care about
nationalism, only about the best way
to show this stupendous art so every-
one can feel its power. The way the
Elgin Marbles debate has turned art
into an ideological plaything is a ter-
rible distraction.
I got so alienated by the rhetoric sur-
rounding the Parthenon marbles that
I argued (at the Cambridge Union
debating society) against returning
them. A lot of the Greek case remains
untrue or unfair. At the new Acropolis
Museum, for instance, a video
denounces Elgin for carrying off the
sculptures. Its not as simple as that. An
honest case for returning this art to
Greece has to acknowledge that it has
been looked after well by the British
Museum. The pieces of the sculpture
in London are in superb physical con-
dition. That is not true of the examples
in Athens they have suffered damage
from pollution and many have lost all
but their rudimentary form.
But thats the past. In the 70s, they
were safer in London. Today, they
belong in the Acropolis Museum.
Nationalist or not, Greece has proved
it loves this art and sees it for what it is.
It is Greece, and not the British Muse-
um, that deserves to be custodian of
the worlds greatest art, for the world.
And for art. THE GUARDIAN
A scene of the east frieze of the Parthenon, housed in the British Museum. PHOTOSUPPLIED
Food
18
Joe Yonan

A
S MUCH as I love cold soups,
they can get tiresome, espe-
cially because chilling mutes
avours. Even in the heat of
summer, I frequently crave something
hot as long as its easy and quick to
put together.
Fresh-from-the-cob corn often
makes its way into those hot dishes,
sometimes starring in them. Every
year, I try different strategies for maxi-
mising and clarifying corns essence,
including using the cobs, husks and
silks to make a vibrant broth. Sooner
or later (usually sooner), corn soup
combined with poblanos or white
beans or sweet potatoes shows up on
my summertime table.
Some combinations corn and dairy,
for instance are classic, and thats
what attracted me to Nina Plancks
corn soup in The Real Food Cookbook.
Planck knows her way around fresh
ingredients: She grew up on a farm in
Loudoun County, Virginia; is former
director of New Yorks Greenmarkets;
and set up a company that runs mul-
tiple markets in London.
To Planck, corn soup requires little
fussing, but she does simmer the cobs
in the milk to draw out more of that
sweet taste, and she makes a quick red
pepper puree to dollop in the
centre of each bowl.
Oh, and heres the brilliant addi-
tion: a little apple cider for a touch
of brightness. If you have ev-
erything else but the cider
on hand, the soup is
plenty tasty with-
out it.
But always
keep in
mind: Its
summer
so dont
sweat it.
THE WASHING-
TON POST Cream of corn soup
with red-pepper sauce

2 tablespoons unsalted but-
ter (may substitute olive oil)
1 red bell pepper, stemmed,
seeded and sliced
1 small yellow onion, finely
chopped
3 ears fresh corn, husks and
silks removed
2 tablespoons apple cider
(optional)
1/4 teaspoon sea salt, plus
more to taste
1 cup whole milk (may
substitute low- or nonfat), plus
more as needed
Pinch ground cayenne pepper
(optional), plus more to taste
(also optional)
Make ahead: The soup and
the red pepper sauce can be
refrigerated, separately, for up
to one week or frozen for up to
three months. Reheat the soup
before serving.
Steps: Melt the butter in a large
pot over medium heat. Add the
red bell pepper and stir to coat.
Cover and cook until it is very
soft, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove
with a slotted spoon, leaving as
much butter in the pot as pos-
sible; transfer to a food proces-
sor. Puree until smooth.
Add the onion to the pot and
stir to coat; cook (over medium
heat) until very soft, eight to 10
minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cut the kernels from the
corn cobs, then cut the cobs
into 2-inch pieces. Add the
corn to the pot and cook until it
barely starts to soften and turns
brighter, a few minutes.
Add the milk, cider, if using,
and cob pieces to the pot; adjust
the heat so that the liquid is
barely bubbling around the
edges. Cover and cook for about
10 minutes, until the corn is
very soft. Discard the cob piec-
es. Add the salt and cayenne
pepper, if using. Taste, and add
more of each if desired.
Working in batches, transfer
the mixture to a blender;
remove the centre knob in the
lid so steam can escape. Hold
a towel over the opening; puree
until smooth. If the soup is
too thick, add milk as needed.
(Alternatively, you can blend the
soup in a food processor or with
an immersion [stick] blender,
but you may want to then push
it through a ne-mesh strainer
if the texture of the corn kernel
skins is bothersome.)
Divide the soup among bowls.
Top each portion with a dollop
of the red pepper sauce.
Nutrition per serving: 160
calories, 5g protein, 19g carbo-
hydrates, 9g fat, 5g saturated
fat, 20mg cholesterol, 170mg
sodium, 3g dietary br and 7g
sugar.
Simple and summery: Fresh corn with a little milk and butter, a touch of cayenne, and a quick sauce
made out of pureed red bell pepper. Makes about four servings of one cup each.
A classic summer soup
Its time to sharpen up your salad skills
SALADS arent just for summer, but summer is when they hit
their stride. Seasonal vegetables overow from your farmers
market basket and herbs pop out of your container garden,
demanding to be made into dressings. Summers pace not to
mention heat compels you to cook quickly (if you cook at all).
Vegetarians who dont have their salad-making skills down
would be wise to remedy the situation, because salads can
showcase vegetables, grains and legumes like nothing else. They
can make use of ingredients that youve cooked or prepped days
earlier; they can usually last for many more days in the refrigera-
tor (particularly if you leave them undressed); they pack well for
brown-bagging; and they are most often perfectly happy being
served at room temperature. That means theyre exible, which
means theyre invaluable.
For salad inspiration, I can think of few sources better than
the new cookbook Salad Samurai, by Terry Hope Romero. Co-
author of the mammoth Veganomicon, Romero brings her fun-
loving sensibility and unerring palate to the table. Her recipes,
with their brilliant combinations (grilled kale and spicy lentils;
hazelnuts, shiitakes and butternut squash), span the seasons,
but the biggest chapter concentrates just where you would ex-
pect: on summer.
Thats where I found a new favorite salad: cauliower and
potatoes with a pesto dressing. My denition of pesto includes
cheese. Romero is a vegan, so hers doesnt, but that doesnt mean
her pesto tastes like an omission. It tastes like a salad dressing,
and a really good one at that. THE WASHINGTON POST
Pesto cauliflower & potato salad
8 ounces cauliflower (from
half of a small cauliflower)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
8 ounces waxy yellow or
white potatoes
1 cup fresh or frozen/de-
frosted green peas
1 1/2 cups lightly packed
fresh basil leaves
1 tablespoon white wine
vinegar
1/2 teaspoon finely grated
lemon zest and 1 tablespoon
fresh lemon juice (from 1/2
lemon)
3 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon sea salt, plus
more as needed
1/4 cup chopped, toasted
walnuts (see note below)
Make ahead: The salad can be
refrigerated for up to a week.
Steps: Preheat a cast-iron grill
pan over high heat.
Remove/discard the thick
inner stem from the cauli-
ower; slice the cauliower
into 1-inch-thick slices. Use
1 tablespoon of the oil to coat
them on both sides. Arrange
the slices in a single layer in the
pan. Grill until charred on the
outside and crisp-tender inside,
four to ve minutes, ipping the
cauliower halfway through.
Transfer the slices to a cutting
board and chop into bite-size
pieces, transferring them to a
large mixing bowl as you work.
Peel and dice the potato into
1/2-inch pieces. Transfer them
to a large saucepan, cover with
4 inches of cold water and bring
to a rolling boil over high heat.
Reduce the heat to medium and
cook the potatoes until almost
tender, six to eight minutes. Stir
in the peas and cook another
minute, until they are barely ten-
der. Save 1/4 cup of the cooking
water, then drain the potatoes
and peas and rinse with cold
water. Transfer the vegetables to
the bowl with the cauliower.
Combine 2 tablespoons of
the reserved cooking water, the
remaining tablespoon of oil, the
basil, vinegar, lemon zest and
juice, garlic and salt in a food
processor; puree until smooth.
Add some of the remaining
cooking water as needed.
Taste; add salt, if desired. Let
the dressing sit for at least 10
minutes to allow the avors
to blend, then pour over the
vegetables and toss to coat.
Divide the salad among plates
or bowls and top with the wal-
nuts. Serve right away.
Note: Toast the nuts in a
small, dry skillet over medium-
low heat until fragrant and
lightly browned, shaking the
pan to avoid scorching. Cool
completely before using.
Nutrition per serving: 200
calories, 12g fat, 2g saturated
fat, 330mg sodium, 21g carbo-
hydrates, 5g dietary bre, 4g
sugar, and 6g protein
Green goodness: A vegan take on pesto (a dressing without the cheese) combines with the classic pota-
toes and gets lighter with the addition of charred cauliflower. For something more substantial, replace
half of the cauliflower with pasta, such as gemelli. Youll need a cast-iron grill pan. Makes four servings.
Travel
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A
CCORDING to our
host, we were having
a quintessential New
York experience in
Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle
Hotel. I was enjoying a local
brew, while my wife sipped a
signature Carlyle cocktail.
All around us, the walls were
covered in murals by Ludwig
Bemelmans, depicting whim-
sical scenes of Central Park
in all four seasons: elephants
skating in Central Park, sheep
frolicking on the Sheep Mead-
ow, a brass band playing.
Bemelmans, of course, is best
known as the creator of the
Madeline books, about a spirit-
ed little French girl who lives in
a house covered in vines with
11 other girls watched over by
the long-suffering Miss Clavel.
Madeline and her classmates
appear in the paintings, walk-
ing in two straight lines in front
of Miss Clavel.
Jamie Beck, the Carlyles
marketing manager, sees the
murals almost every day, but
I always nd something new,
she told us. The bar is cozy
and intimate, dominated by a
grand piano that provides en-
tertainment every night.
This was all part of our Mad-
eline day in New York, where
wed come to celebrate the 75th
birthday of the adventurous
girl. After our drink at Bemel-
mans Bar, we took a crosstown
bus to the New-York Historical
Society Museum and Library
on Central Park West to see the
new exhibit, Madeline in New
York: The Art of Ludwig Bemel-
mans. Framed drawings from
the rst Madeline book, pub-
lished in 1939, greet me like old
friends. Among them are the
childrens sadness at seeing the
wounded soldier, Paris in the
rain and the two rows of girls
leaving the house. The images
evoke priceless memories of
sharing Madeline and her ad-
ventures with my children.
Dominating the room is a
beautiful framed blue-shaded
Madeline at the Paris Flower
Market. Theres also a proto-
type Madeleine, who appeared
as a character in Bemelmanss
1936 book The Golden Basket.
Bemelmans is such an un-
usual character, it sort of in-
forms the show, said chief cu-
rator Stephen Edidin. He knew
all sorts of people thieves and
millionaires.
He never forgot his life in
hotels, though. On one wall of
the exhibit is a bittersweet se-
ries drawn for Town & Coun-
try magazine, depicting the
life and people of the old Ritz,
where Bemelmans started out
as a busboy.
Bemelmans wrote other
books for children and adults,
and illustrations from these
are also on display. He did cov-
ers for the New Yorker and a se-
ries of murals for a restaurant
in Paris that he briey owned.
He even painted murals for the
playroom of Aristotle Onassis
yacht, two of which are on dis-
play. He was a bon vivant who
knew everybody. He loved the
city, and New York remained
his home for the rest of his life.
And thats the point of the
exhibit.
Madeline is a real New York-
er in many ways. Shes feisty,
said Edidin, pointing out that
the character was created right
in New York at Petes Tavern, on
East 18th Street near Gramercy
Park, close to where Bemel-
mans used to live.
And so we ended our day
where Madeline was born, at
Petes, saluting her birthday
with a glass.
Even Miss Clavel couldnt ob-
ject to that. THEWASHINGTONPOST
Even at 75,
Madeline is
still a NY girl
Whimsical murals by Ludwig Bemelmans, creator of the Madeline
books, decorate the walls in the cozy, glamorous Bemelmans Bar in the
Carlyle Hotel in New York City. THE WASHINGTON POST
Entertainment
20
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Pipe down!
5 Latin egg
9 Earthenware containers
14 The Iron Chancellor Bismarck
15 Shankar piece
16 Its tucked under the chin
17 It doesnt leak
20 Revealed fallibility
21 The best knife, compared
to others
22 Refusal to conform
25 USCG rank
26 Calls for attention
28 Couchs cousin
32 Alaskan islander
37 Item on a pirates flag
38 Currently seasick
41 Russian playwright Chekhov
42 Laments loudly
43 Quarterbacks option
44 Xenophobes bugaboo
46 Singer-poet Yoko
47 Flew the coop
53 Some wave catchers
58 Functional
59 Official OKs
62 Break a sentence?
63 Lake at southernmost point of
Canada
64 Insignificant speck
65 Winter mix
66 Prime for picking
67 French holy women (Abbr.)
DOWN
1 Washed (down), as a sidewalk
2 Centers of early development
3 They sell movie tickets
4 Elias and Gordie
5 Legendary No. 4 of the Bruins
6 Wine container
7 Theyre uttered with shudders
8 Tumult
9 Once-___ (quick examinations)
10 Challenge for a speech coach
11 Receive fewer votes
12 Pub purchase
13 Table condiment
18 Honorific poem
19 Delivery vehicles
23 Itll make you lose hair
24 Takeout choice
27 Yawners feeling
28 Gull-like bird of cold regions
29 Force from office
30 Exit quickly
31 Sigh of resignation
32 Letters on a rush job
33 Green moth
34 Terrestrial newts
35 ETs vehicles
36 Bakers dozen minus three
37 Bando or Mineo
39 Choral singers club
40 Sisterhood members
44 The A of A.D.
45 Sluggard
46 Start of an attack
48 Mailmans bane
49 Molecules components
50 Turning point
51 Make ones day
52 Removes from copy
53 Venomous strikers
54 Curly of the Harlem Globetrotters
55 Weight not counted in pricing
56 Option in a threat
57 Garment made of several yards of
cloth
60 Small seed
61 Carolinas ___ Dee River
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Sport
21
No fear as Peaty takes European breaststroke crown
WHEN Adam Peaty was a
child, his fear of water led to
tears at bathtime. Now he is
the European 100 metres
breaststroke champion.
The 19-year-old added the
European title to the Common-
wealth gold he won three weeks
ago to lead a British one-two
ahead of Ross Murdoch.
Peaty also swam the breast-
stroke leg as Great Britain won
the mixed medley relay in a
new world record time.
It was a memorable evening
for the British who enjoyed
their most successful session
in their swimming history with
seven medals and a world
record.
Other winners on the second
night of swimming at the
Europa-Sportpark were Brit-
ains Chris Walker-Hebborn in
the 100m backstroke and
Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in
the 50m butterfly.
Duane Da Rocha Marce of
Spain claimed the 200m back-
stroke while Olympic 50m
freestyle champion Florent
Manaudou of France and
Yauhen Tsurkin of Belarus
shared the mens 50m butter-
fly title.
On Monday, Peaty swam to
within 0.22 of Cameron van
der Burghs world record, low-
ering his own British mark to
58.68.
But on Tuesday night it was
all about victory, achieved in
58.96, 0.47 ahead of Murdoch
with Lithuanias Giedrius
Titenis third.
It was a far cry from the child
whose fear of water led him to
detest the pool.
Such was his determination
after the Commonwealth
Games that he texted his
coach, former swimmer Mel
Marshall, to ask if he could
return from his break early.
He smiled: I wanted to get
back in and feed the hunger
and its paid off.
That was going to be hard
getting under the time from
last night: 58.6, that was a mas-
sive high, he added.
Came here tonight objec-
tive completed. I just train my
best and the results are com-
ing now so hopefully I can
carry that on for a few more
years now and perform my
best each time.
Walker-Hebborn also added
the European title to his Com-
monwealth gold in the 100m
backstroke.
The Briton has shown mass-
es of potential for a few years
now, but 2014 has been the
year where he has started to do
his talent justice.
On Tuesday he was com-
posed, turning fourth at half-
way before easing through the
field to win in 53.32 ahead of
Jeremy Stravius of France and
Germanys Jan-Philip Glania.
I am getting there. I still
think there is a lot more to play
with and Ive still got to drop a
couple of tenths to play with
the big boys.
But Ive had a great season,
Ive got a lot to work on and I
move on from here really.
The Great Britain quartet of
Walker-Hebborn, Peaty, Jem-
ma Lowe and Fran Halsall won
the mixed relay in 3:44.02.
The time is a new world
record and while the event was
only introduced in 2013, a
strong Australian squad set a
benchmark time of 3:46.52 in
Perth in January 2014.
But the British quartet, on a
high in the final event of the
night, lowered it by some
way.
World 50m butterfly record
holder Sarah Sjostrom is con-
sistently dipping inside 25
seconds and she returned lit-
tle more than 15 minutes
after her 100m freestyle semi-
final to win the one-length
race in 24.98 ahead of Den-
marks Jeanette Ottesen and
Halsall .
There were ties for first and
third in the mens 50m butter-
fly, the first final of the night.
Olympic 50m freestyle
champion Manaudou and
Tsurkin touched together for
gold in 23.00.
Great Britains Ben Proud
and Andriy Govorov of Ukraine
shared the bronze in 23.21.
Da Rocha Marce beat Brit-
ains Lizzie Simmonds to the
200m backstroke title, the
Spaniard winning by 0.29 in
2:09.37.
In the semifinals, Femke
Heemskerk and Rikke Moeller
Pedersen headed the 100m
freestyle and 100m breast-
stroke qualifiers respectively.
Laszlo Cseh was fastest into
the 200m individual medley
final as he seeks his fifth
straight title while world record
holder Paul Biedermann leads
the 200m freestyle. AFP
Britains Adam Peaty swims the mens 100m breaststroke nal of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Cham-
pionships on Tuesday in Berlin. AFP
Tennis Fed presents activity report
H S Manjunath
T
ENNIS Cambodia is setting
a new trend in open-stance
governance by keeping the
higher echelons of coun-
trys sports administration and the
tennis community fully informed of
its year-round activities.
In a signicant rst step, an activ-
ity report covering the rst seven
months of this year was presented
to National Olympic Committee of
Cambodia secretary-general Vath
Chamroeun and Ouk Sethycheat,
Ministry of Education, Youth and
Sports general director of sports at
tennis, at Cambodias new head of-
ce located in the National Sports
Complex.
The report, which was in the form
of an hour-long slide show, highlight-
ed the various ongoing programs
and Cambodias Davis Cup mission
to Iran, besides major tennis events
unfolding in the next four months.
The other invitees to the presenta-
tion were National Sports Training
Center manager Phun Sok, Tennis
Cambodias global goodwill ambas-
sador Hisae Arai and her sister Kiko
Arai, who is the goodwill ambassador
for Kep province.
It is indeed a privilege to have the
NOCC secretary-general and general
director of the Education Ministry
visiting our new ofce, which opened
in April this year. I take this opportu-
nity to thank both for their support
in helping us move to this ideal loca-
tion next to the tennis courts, Ten-
nis Cambodia secretary-general Tep
Rithivit told the Post.
We now have a new logo, a new
well-equipped ofce and a renewed
commitment to take tennis to the
highest levels of excellence. Going
open like this with our actions and
aims is the best way to keep the trust
of the higher powers and condence
of the tennis community both at
home and abroad.
We want to lead by example. We
will make every effort to ensure that
there is never a dull moment in ten-
nis for anyone involved at any level,
added Tep Rithivit.
Vath Chamroeun told the Post:
Tennis Cambodia can be a role
model for other federations. Grass-
roots development is central to our
strategic plan for the future.
Sethycheat, meanwhile, com-
mended the federations junior pro-
grams and initiatives. As part of our
national drive, the Education Min-
istry and NOCC would like federa-
tions like tennis to nurture talent in
provinces and create a strong base
of players for centralised training,
which we would like to strongly sup-
port, he said.
Some of the major activities listed in
the report were the inaugural Tennis
10s Festival in January, introduction
of camping for junior players from
other provinces by providing them
tents around the National Training
Center, three national junior tourna-
ments involving six categories and a
Tennis For All program that offered
two weekly sessions on Fridays and
Saturdays at the riverfront, open to
people of all ages.
A coaches conference to bring uni-
formity of coaching methods and
a JTI clinic in which national coach
Braen Aneiros shared his experi-
ences of attending an ITF organised
JTI workshop in Bangkok was also
discussed, along with the celebra-
tion of World Tennis Day, the smooth
running of an adult tennis program
and two visits to Kep of Singapores
top player, Sarah Pang, who is also
the senior executive of the Singapore
Sports Council.
Another activity getting a promi-
nent mention was the wheelchair
tennis program held in Battambang
during April.
The rest of the 2014 calendar of
events include next weeks Tennis
10s Festival followed by the fourth
National Junior Tournament, Cam-
bodian national teams participa-
tion in the Incheon Asian Games,
ITFs wheelchair clinic in October
and three Cambodian ITF Futures
tournaments held back-to-back in
Phnom Penh from November 16 to
December 6.
Tennis Cambodia secretary-general Tep Rithivit (centre) presents their activity report during a meeting at head ofce yesterday at the National Sports Complex. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sport

Eight picked to vie for next
Kubota Championship title
FOLLOWING the successful
completion of the Kubota Cambodian
Boxing Championship for 57kg
fighters last Sunday, the agricultural
machinery company, in cooperation
with the Cambodian Amateur Boxing
Federation and Bayon TV, is set to
launch a new tournament for 65kg
combatants. We would like to
organise the second edition, which we
expect to be even better, although the
objective of the championship
remains the same to promote
Cambodian boxing and showcase the
fighters strength and bravery, chief
event organiser Virakpong Virakbutra
told reporters during a press
conference at Bayon TV station in
Steung Meanchey district yesterday.
Eight boxers have already been
selected to contest the preliminary
stage on August 31 at the Vietnam
Circus Centre opposite the National
Assembly: Keo Virak, Phan Sovan,
Nov Sitha, Som Ang Douch, Thai Bun
Han, Phan Bunmao, Thea Nureach
and Sol Bunhov. CHHORN NORN,
TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
West Indies part ways with
cricket coach Ottis Gibson
THE West Indies parted ways with
coach Ottis Gibson on Tuesday, just a
day ahead of a home one-day series
against Bangladesh. The West Indies
Cricket Board said the two sides
mutually agreed to terminate their
association with team manager
Richie Richardson stepping in as
interim coach. No reason was given
for the departure of Gibson, who had
been in charge since 2010 and led the
West Indies to the World Twenty20
title in 2012. However, West Indies are
currently eighth in the Test rankings,
the lowest among the established
nations, eighth in the one-day
rankings and seventh in the Twenty20
rankings. AFP
Davis Cup door ajar for Del
Potro as captain Jaite quits
ARGENTINA tennis star Juan Martin
Del Potros boycott of the Davis Cup
team could be at an end after captain
Martin Jaite announced on Tuesday he
would be stepping down after their
playoff with Israel in September. Del
Potro, who is presently recovering
from wrist surgery and will not be able
to try and regain the US Open title he
won in 2009, has not played Davis Cup
for the past two seasons after a falling
out. Jaite, who reached a career high
10 in the world in 1990, said that he
had never intended to stay on past this
year. My objective was to see out my
contract, said the 49-year-old, who
has been in charge for three years and
guided the Argentinians to the semi-
finals last year. AFP
Kluwe and Vikings reach
settlement over his release
FORMER punter Chris Kluwe and the
Minnesota Vikings have reached a
settlement that will stop the ex-Viking
from suing the team over his release.
Kluwe had accused the Vikings of
cutting him in May of 2013 because of
his vocal support of marriage equality
and gay rights. Terms of the
settlement were not disclosed. As
part of the settlement, Minnesota
have agreed to provide financial
support for human rights causes. The
team will also continue to enhance its
sensitivity training policy and will help
raise awareness in professional
sports about LGBT issues. Kluwe
claimed in a January that special
teams coordinator Mike Priefer made
an anti-gay comment at a team
gathering. The National Football
League club conducted an internal
probe and suspended Priefer for
three games in July. Kluwe averaged
44.4 yards per punt over his eight
seasons with Minnesota. AFP
Bertuzzi settles suit
with Moore, report
STEVE Moore, whose career ended
when he suffered a serious con-
cussion in a hockey altercation,
has reached a settlement in a law-
suit against his attacker, media
reports said.
The lawsuit against NHL player
Todd Bertuzzi has been settled but
isnt yet official because there are
still papers to be signed, Canadian
sports broadcaster TSN.ca reported
on Tuesday.
Moore suffered a concussion and
three fractured vertebrae during a
March 8, 2004, game in Vancouver.
Bertuzzi, who was playing for the
Vancouver Canucks at the time,
skated after and grabbed the Colo-
rado Avalanche forward, punching
him from behind and then driving
him head-first to the ice. Moores
teammate Andrei Nikolishin then
jumped on top of the two and
Moores head hit the ice a second
time. Others followed and jumped
on the pile.
Bertuzzi was alleged to have been
seeking retribution for a hit made by
Moore on Canucks captain Markus
Naslund in an earlier meeting.
Moore never played again. Ber-
tuzzi, now 39 and a free agent, plead-
ed guilty to criminal assault causing
bodily harm and was sentenced in
2006 to one year of probation and 80
hours of community service.
Moore was seeking up to $68 mil-
lion in damages.
The case was scheduled to go
trial on September 8. AFP
Rosberg rivalry like poker,
says Mercedes Hamilton
F
ORMER world
champion Lewis
Hamilton has lik-
ened his tussle for
this seasons Formula One
title with Mercedes col-
league Nico Rosberg to a
game of poker.
Rosberg currently has an
11-point lead over his Brit-
ish teammate with eight rac-
es of the season remaining
and their rivalry has become
increasingly heated over the
course of the year.
Hamilton disobeyed team
orders by refusing to allow
Rosberg to pass him dur-
ing last months Hungarian
Grand Prix, and he admits
that there is an edge to his re-
lationship with the German.
The battle does feel a lot
more intense this year, said
Hamilton, who was speak-
ing at an event for Mercedes
team partner Puma.
When I was racing against
Kimi Raikkonen [in 2007]
and Felipe Massa [in 2008],
they were in a different team
and their cars had different
strengths and weaknesses
to my car and, in my team,
it was just me that was really
competing with them.
Now Im racing against
a guy who has the same car
as me. We both have access
to exactly the same data
and feedback, so it is really
hard to try and be ahead.
Its a little bit like playing
poker.
You have a set of cards
and the other guy is not sup-
posed to know what youve
got, but Nico and I can see
each others cards, so then
its more difcult to beat
each other.
While the relationship be-
tween the pair has appeared
strained at times, Hamilton
says that he is enjoying the
competition.
It is denitely more chal-
lenging [than competing
against someone from an-
other team], because you
have to nd ways to create
small margins, said the
29-year-old, who won the
world championship in
2008.
And so what you do is
bring your skills, things that
youve learnt, things you
can put into the mix. And
you always have to move
forward.
You cant just be good
and that will be enough
you have to keep pushing
the boundaries, because ev-
ery time you take a step for-
ward the other guy makes
an equal step, so you have
to keep doing it.
The Formula One world
champi onshi psret ur ns
from its mid-season break
this weekend for the Bel-
gian Grand Prix at Spa-
Francorchamps. AFP
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg (left) celebrates his victory next to teammate Lewis Hamilton after the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring racing circuit on July 20. AFP
Vancouver Canucks Todd Bertuzzi wipes away tears as he addresses media prior to
facing an NHL disciplinary hearing in Toronto in March 2004, for his hit on Colorado
Avalanches Steve Moore two days previously. AFP
Football
23

Luis Suarez sought help
after third bite incident
BARCELONA striker Luis
Suarez said he has received
professional help after receiving
a four-month ban for biting an
opponent for the third time in
his career when he clashed with
Italys Giorgio Chiellini at the
World Cup. Suarez made his
debut for the Catalans in a 6-0
friendly win over Mexican side
Club Leon on Monday, but will
not be able to play a competitive
game for Barca until late
October after his appeal against
the ban was thrown out by the
Court of Arbitration for Sport
last week. The suspension is
what it is and I have to accept it.
It is a personal matter but I have
worked with the adequate
professionals, the Uruguayan
said at his first press conference
as a Barca player on Tuesday. I
have tried to forget this game
and this situation as well. It is a
difficult moment for me and I
would say to all the fans to not
worry because I am not doing
that anymore. AFP
Martino names squad
for Cup final rematch
NEW Argentinian national coach
Gerardo Martino kept faith on
Tuesday with the players who
got Argentina to their first World
Cup final since 1990 and lost 1-0
to Germany when he named his
first squad for a friendly with the
same opponents in Duesseldorf
on September 3. Martino, who
stood down from the Barcelona
job at the end of last season
after they finished trophyless,
was named as the new coach
only last week and replaced
Alejandro Sabella, who declined
to extend his contract after the
World Cup final. AFP
Lambert slams Koeman
over Ron Vlaar pursuit
ASTON Villa manager Paul
Lambert spoke out to criticise
Ronald Koeman on Tuesday
after the Southampton head
coach expressed an interest in
signing Villa captain Ron Vlaar.
Koeman, who managed Vlaar
at Feyenoord, has revealed that
he would really like to bring
the Netherlands centre-back to
St Marys, and Lambert believes
he was wrong to go public with
his admiration of the player. I
think he is disrespecting when
talking about other teams
players when they are still their
players. I think thats wrong,
the Villa manager told Sky
Sports. I wouldnt mind if he
picked up the phone, but you
dont go public on it. Thats the
thing that annoyed me the most
and the stance is still exactly the
same with Ron. AFP
Bayerns Schweinsteiger
ruled out for weeks
BAYERN Munich chairman
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said
on Tuesday that German
World Cup-winning midfielder
Bastian Schweinsteiger will be
out for several weeks with a
knee problem, according to a
report. It wont only be a case
of one or two weeks, but
rather a bit longer, said
Rummenigge, adding that
several weeks of patience
would be required.
Schweinsteiger is suffering
from a ligament problem in
his left knee and will miss
Fridays game against
Wolfsburg which will see
Bayern begin their defence of
the Bundesliga title. AFP
Simeone hails Di Maria
ATLETICO Madrid coach
Diego Simeone claimed com-
patriot Angel di Maria is Real
Madrids best player after the
Argentine midfielder started
on the bench as the Champi-
ons League finalists drew 1-1
in the first leg of the Spanish
Super Cup on Tuesday.
There are runours that Di
Maria will move away from the
Spanish capital, given the
wealth of attacking options
after the arrival of World Cup
star James Rodriguez, with
Manchester United and Paris
Saint-Germain reportedly
interested.
However, Simeone claimed
he is even more important to
Real than World Player of the
Year Cristiano Ronaldo and
Gareth Bale.
In the first half, despite
defending close to our area, we
had three or four chances to
score a goal, he said.
The second half was more
or less the same, with a little
bit better play from Madrid
with the introduction of D
i Maria.
That was logical because he
is the best player they have. It
is an important draw and
allows us to play a for the tro-
phy at home with a 50-50
chance.
It is my opinion that Di
Maria is Madrids best player
for sure. His ability to change
games in the middle of the
park helps everyone else to
play well.
Real boss Carlo Ancelotti
rebuked Simeone for failing to
mention Ronaldo and Bale,
who both scored as Real beat
Atletico 4-1 after extra time in
the Champions League final in
Lisbon back in May.
He has forgotten the World
Player of the Year and Bale,
who scored in Lisbon. He has
forgotten many players, but it
is true Di Maria is one of many
great players we have.
He is a Real Madrid player
and I will use him as I think
is best.
Ronaldo was replaced at
half-time due to a minor mus-
cle injury, but Ancelotti is con-
vinced the Portuguese wont
be sidelined for any prolonged
period of time.
He had a strain after the
first-half and he wasnt com-
fortable. We will evaluate him
tomorrow and do all the prop-
er checks, but it doesnt appear
anything too serious, said
the Italian.
Rodriguez had also surpris-
ingly started on the bench, but
he made his presence felt after
replacing Ronaldo in the sec-
ond-half as he scored his first
goal for Madrid 10 minutes
from time to open the scoring.
However, Atletico werent to
be denied and Raul Garcia
flicked home two minutes
from time to give them a vital
away goal heading into the
return leg at the Vicente Cal-
deron on Friday. AFP
Arsenals Euro hopes still alive
after Istanbul cauldron draw
A
RSENAL head for the home
leg of their Champions
League playoff against Be-
siktas with their hopes intact
after surviving the test of a raucous
Istanbul crowd and hugely energised
opponents to leave Turkey with a
goalless draw.
In the rst leg of the playoff, Arsenal
failed to score the all-important away
goal but were relieved to have es-
caped from Istanbuls cauldron-like
atmosphere with a 0-0 scoreline and
still every hope they will qualify in the
home leg for the group stages.
However, the only sour note was
they ended the match with 10 men as
key Welsh midelder Aaron Ramsey
was sent off 10 minutes from time.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
acknowledged that his sides goalless
draw was a fair result for a difcult
game but blasted the performance of
the referee.
I think not the rst not the second
yellow card was deserved for Ram-
sey, Wenger told reporters.
When you see some of the fouls
committed and you go home with a
red card for Ramsey it is somewhat
unbelievable.
Wenger whose 100 per cent win
record in Champions League playoff
matches came to an end after 12 wins
in 12 described the game as a dif-
cult match played at a high pace and
praised the opposition for playing at
100 per cent.
Maybe a draw is a fair result as
both teams had chances to win
the game.
On the return leg in London, he
said: We know that Besiktas is a good
team, we know the game will be tight,
but the task is clear.
The prospect of entry into the lu-
crative group stages of the Cham-
pions League dynamised Besiktas,
who came third in the Turkish league
last season under Croatian manager
Slaven Bilic.
Helped by the noisy, partisan home
crowd, Besiktas caused the London
side trouble from the start with new
signing Demba Ba a potent threat.
Everything was at stake for Arsenal
who came into the game with a 100
per cent record in Champions League
playoffs, having played 12 and won 12.
For Wenger, failing to make the lu-
crative group stage of Europes elite
club competition for a 17th consecu-
tive campaign would be nothing
short of a disaster.
Wenger had said he was tempted
to eld German World Cup-winning
trio Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker and
Lukas Podolski for the rst time this
season given the potential difculty
of the tie but in the end opted to leave
them out.
The home fans treated Arsenal to
the traditional and notorious Is-
tanbul hostile welcome for foreign
sides of deafening whistling, smoke
ares and taunts as the handful of
Gunners fans who made the trip
looked on mutely.
Besiktas had no problem creating
chances but failed to land the clinical
blow in front of goal that could have
left Arsenals early season in tatters.
But in a testy second half that lacked
the sparkle of the rst, Arsenal could
also make no headway past the solid
Besiktas defence and the Istanbul side
scrambled to thwart English attacks
before heading out on the break.
Bilic was himself sent to the stands
in the dying minutes for protesting at
a failure to penalise an Arsenal player
for a foul on one of his team but ex-
pressed satisfaction with the result.
It was a great game of football; it
was not a dull 0-0. I am really proud
of my players, they stuck to their
plan, Bilic said.
From my point of view we were
closer to beating them.
Bilic expressed optimism that his
side could spring an upset on the re-
turn leg in London.
If we play like this we are capa-
ble to creating chances against any
team, he said.
We are going to go to London
not just for shopping in Harrods but
we are going to go to full some
would say our dream I would say
our plan.
Bilic said he had apologised to the
referee at the end of the game for the
argument that saw him sent off but
insisted he had not misbehaved.
It was not swearing, I was just un-
happy and after the game I apolo-
gised. Maybe I overreacted, my mis-
take, nothing serious happened, he
said. AFP
Tuesdays Results
FC Copenhagen 2
Bayer Leverkusen 3
Red Bull Salzburg 2 Malm 1
Napoli 1 Athletic Bilbao 1
Steaua Bucharest 1
Ludogorets Razgrad 0
Arsenals Aaron Ramsey (centre) vies with Besiktas Olcay Sahan (above) and Veli Kavlak during
their UEFA Champions League play-off rst at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. AFP
ENGLISH Premier League gi-
ants Manchester United have
agreed a deal for Sporting Lis-
bons Argentine international
defender Marcos Rojo with
Nani heading in the other di-
rection, the Portuguese club
announced on Tuesday.
Sporting said in a statement
that the two clubs had agreed
a transfer fee of 20 million
($26.7million) with Nani re-
turning to his former team on
a season-long loan as part of
the deal. United followed suit
later on Tuesday with a brief
statement on their website
conrming the move.
Manchester United is de-
lighted to announce it has
reached an agreement with
Sporting Lisbon to sign de-
fender Marcos Rojo, subject
to a medical and agreeing per-
sonal terms, it read.
The 24-year-old Rojo, who
can play in both central de-
fence and at left-back, was
one of Argentinas standout
performers at the World Cup
in Brazil where he helped his
country reach the nal before
losing to Germany. He spent
the past two seasons at Sport-
ing having joined from Spartak
Moscow in July 2012.
Nani, 27, returns to Portugal
seven years after leaving Sport-
ing for Old Trafford. AFP
United agree Rojo deal,
Nani to rejoin Sporting
Argentinean defender Marcos Rojo
will join Man United from Sporting
Lisbon, subject to a medical. AFP
Sport
Brave the wave
American CJ Hobgood rides a wave on Monday during the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the Association of Surng Professionals world tour, in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island Tahiti. AFP
US men braced for more misery
T
HE 2014 US Open begins
on Monday with Ameri-
can men seeking to end a
Grand Slam drought now
more than a decade long. The signs,
however, are not promising.
Andy Roddicks 2003 US Open
triumph marks the last time an
American man hoisted a Grand
Slam trophy.
For a nation that has produced 51
mens major winners in the Open
era more than twice as many as
any other country its a bafing
lack of success.
For Americas current number
one, 15th-ranked John Isner, its not
something to dwell on as the nal
Grand Slam of the year approaches.
American tennis right now isnt
the best it has been, Isner said in
July. Im just worried about myself
right now and trying to get back
into the top 10.
Unfortunately, Isners buildup to
the Open hasnt gone as planned.
The former world number nine
won the title in Atlanta, but won
only one match in Washington,
Toronto and Cincinnati combined
before heading to Winston-Salem
for a last tune-up. Even with a
top-10 ranking, and with defend-
ing champion Rafael Nadal side-
lined by injury, Isner would hardly
be a pre-Open favourite lining up
against the likes of world num-
ber one Novak Djokovic, 17-time
Grand Slam champion Roger
Federer and former Wimbledon
winner Andy Murray.
While Isner lays claim to a Grand
Slam historic footnote having
played the longest match in major
history with his marathon rst-
round win over Nicolas Mahut at
Wimbledon in 2010 his best Grand
Slam performance was a quarter-
nal run at the 2011 US Open.
He insists that his status as the
top-ranked American doesnt press
him to try to match the feats of an
earlier generation of stars Pete
Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier
and Michael Chang.
I dont think it puts too much
pressure on me, he says. I was
never pegged to be the next num-
ber one guy.
If hes not, however, then who is?
That dubious honor once be-
longed to Donald Young, who in
2007 was the youngest player to n-
ish the year ranked in the top 100 at
18 years and ve months.
Young was ranked as high as 38th
in the world in 2012, but had fallen
to 202nd last year and worked his
way back into the top 100 via a de-
tour to the Challenger circuit and is
now the second-ranked American
at 46th in the world.
Steve Johnson has also squeezed
into the top 50 as the US Open ap-
proaches, at number 49, while 21-
year-old Jack Sock has progressed
from 100th to start the year to his
current 55th.
Sock teamed with Vasek Pospisil
to win the Wimbledon mens dou-
bles title, but has yet to reach an
ATP level nal.
Assessing the bleak landscape
prior to the French Open, Courier
told the New York Times that lack of
talent was not the problem.
There are plenty of talented
players who are not getting the
most out of their talent, the US
Davis Cup captain said, declining
to name names.
A lacklustre French Open show-
ing, with no American men in the
quarternals, was followed by a
dismal Wimbledon campaign that
saw ninth-seeded Isner, the last US
man standing, knocked out in the
third round.
A similarly uninspiring perfor-
mance would be more keenly felt
at Flushing Meadows, where native
sons like Jimmy Connors and John
McEnroe once set the New York
nights alight.
Even so, Isner, for one, relishes
the challenge on the hard courts of
his homeland.
This is my favourite time of
year, he says. AFP
John Isner serves to Bradley Klahn during the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest
University on Tuesday in Winston Salem, North Carolina. AFP

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