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The Lowdown on Temple Town
The Lowdown on Temple Town
UKRAINE and the West said
yesterday that Russian troops
were actively involved in the
fighting tearing apart the east
of the country, raising fears of
a direct military confrontation
betwewn Kiev and its former
Soviet masters.
NATO said that well over
1,000 troops were on the
ground supporting pro-Krem-
lin separatists who have been
fighting against Kievs rule
since April, but Russia insisted
none of its soldiers were on
Ukrainian soil.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko scrapped a trip to
Turkey and called an urgent
meeting of his security chiefs
over what a top official has
described as a direct inva-
sion by Russia.
The latest rapid-fire develop-
ments have sent alarm bells
ringing in the US and in Europe,
where EU leaders are set to dis-
cuss the crisis on their door-
step at a weekend summit.
US officials have accused
Russian troops of being behind
a lightning counteroffensive
that has seen pro-Moscow
rebels seize swathes of terri-
tory from government forces,
dramatically turning the tide
in the four-month conflict.
The place for the president
today is in Kiev, Poroshenko
said, speaking of a sharp dete-
rioration . . . as Russian troops
have been sent into Ukraine.
Kiev has said Russian sol-
diers have seized control of a
key southeastern border town
and a string of villages in an
area where fighting had been
raging for days.
An increasing number
of Russian troops are interven-
ing directly in fighting on
Russian
boots on
ground in
Ukraine
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
A
FTER a day of cheering
on fighters at boxing
matches in Phnom
Penh, Champei* was
ready to head home to Takeo
province when a woman
approached her as she was going
back to her car.
Her face was covered to hide
her identity. The woman asked
Champei if she would hold her
baby while she bought milk.
[She said] she would return
quickly, Champei recalled.
She didnt.
After waiting for the babys
mother to return, Champei
returned home with the child,
but she later returned to the
capital and reported the inci-
dent to police. Authorities, how-
ever, had received no report of
a missing infant and could not
find the mother.
That night, 11 years ago, was
the first time that Champei
held the boy she now calls
her son.
Adoptions from abroad have
long been debated, but while
the manner in which Champei
came about raising her son
may seem unorthodox, the
concept of parents giving up
their children to be raised by
others in Cambodia is not a
Bringing up anothers baby
Adoptive parents often circumvent courts to rise children given to them
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WOMAN GUILTY
OF TRAFFICKING
DEAF, HIV+ GIRL
NATIONAL PAGE 3
JIHADISTS KILL
160 SYRIAN
GOVT TROOPS
WORLD PAGE 14
INTERNET REELS
OVER HELLO
KITTY REVELATION
LIFESTYLE PAGE 20
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World News
Inside page 17
Fresh clues in search for Flight 370
Righteous anger
Hundreds of monks gathered at Sansam Kosal pagoda in Meanchey district yesterday after municipal ofcials called a monk to a meeting the
monks feared was in retaliation for recent protests outside the Vietnamese Embassy. HONG MENEA STORY > 6
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy

B
ASIC freedoms of assembly and
expression in Cambodia are
shrinking, risking undermining
decades of progress, a rights group
said yesterday, as it called on the govern-
ment to dedicate more time to meet and
debate with civil society organisations.
In its report, The Right to Remain Silenced:
Expressive Rights in the Kingdom of Cambo-
dia, Adhoc says the government is hostile
to freedoms of expression and assembly
as these freedoms provide the legal basis
to expose rights abuses and those behind
them and to protest when they occur.
This hostility shows that the government
has chosen to ignore human rights stan-
dards, it adds.
At a press conference yesterday, Adhoc
director Ny Chakrya called the government
weak for implementing laws which are
in stark contrast to its legal obligations.
Chakrya said that despite relative calm
in the run-up and immediate wake of
last years election, freedom of expres-
sion plummeted to zero at the begin-
ning of 2014, when violent government
crackdowns on demonstrations killed at
least ve.
In the months after Januarys violence,
protests were forcefully dispersed, a ban
on gatherings was introduced, journalists
were targeted, and Freedom Park, the capi-
tals designated protest space, was shut.
Ofcials had previously said the reopen-
ing of the park was dependent on the clo-
sure of government investigations into the
fatal violence of early January and other
clashes, but as it opened earlier this month,
any results remained elusive.
In its report, Adhoc calls on the govern-
ment to pay heed to its own laws.
Freedom of expression, a free press and
the freedom of peaceful assembly must be
protected if the government is sincere in
its commitment to human rights, it says.
Chan Soveth, a senior investigator at Ad-
hoc, called on the government to meet with
civil society groups twice a year to peace-
fully debate the issues.
If the culture of debate is not created,
mistrust still exists, freedom is restricted
and impunity will continue, he said.
Opposition spokesman Yim Sovann said
that greater communication with civil soci-
ety organisations would be a step forward.
It is good. We should have a debate fo-
rum to share information to catch up with
democratic countries, he said.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay
Siphan agreed, adding that the govern-
ment has never stood in the way of such
meetings.
I welcome this, it opens a new era in
Cambodia, he said.
But Siphan added that the governments
crackdowns have been a necessary mea-
sure to protect public order as well as the
law.
We dont want our country to turn into
the Middle East, he said.
Sen David
THREE Cambodian women
trafficked as brides to China
returned home yesterday,
another victim is expected back
today, and a further 15 women
are awaiting money for airfares,
the Post has learned.
The repatriated victims are
the latest among a growing
number of Cambodian women
who seek out assistance from
local NGOs and the Cambodian
Embassy to escape Chinese
men they were forced to wed.
My mother had to borrow
$400 to pay for my ticket, said
one of the victims returning from
China yesterday. She added that
she doesnt know how her fam-
ily in Kampong Cham will be
able to gather the funds to make
a repayment plus interest; they
were already counting on the
never received remittances from
the high-paying factory job that
had lured her abroad last year.
I lived as a wife but I was con-
sidered a sex slave I had to
work as a maid in [my husbands]
house but he did not give me any
money for sending to my mom
at home, the 23-year-old said.
Rights monitor Adhoc said
they have so far received com-
plaints from the parents of 31
women trafficked to China this
year, compared to eight cases
last year.
For the few Cambodian wom-
en who manage to escape, they
find their embassies and consu-
lates unable to provide much
more than legal paperwork.
Costly flights remain an elusive
barrier to repatriation.
Some of the 15 women await-
ing their homecoming have had
paperwork ready for two
months or more but no plane
ticket, said Chhan Sokunthea,
head of the women and chil-
drens section at Adhoc.
Sometimes an internation-
al organisation or the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs will pay, but
the process takes a very long
time, she said, adding that
more help from NGOs in China
was needed.
Koy Kuong, Foreign Ministry
spokesman, and officials at the
Cambodian Embassy in China
could not be reached. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY LAIGNEE BARRON
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 29, 2014
Expression muffled: Adhoc
More brides in China
due to be repatriated
Opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua is blocked by authorities from entering Freedom Park to protest
earlier this year. Adhoc says freedoms of expression and assembly are shrinking. VIREAK MAI
Timber haul in Kratie
found along riverbank
Phak Seangly
FORESTRY officials in Kratie
provinces Sambor district on
Wednesday confiscated six
cubic metres of illegal timber
found by villagers on a river-
bank deep in the forest, author-
ities said yesterday.
Seng Darun, chief of a local
forestry office in Sambor, said
that locals had immediately
contacted his office upon find-
ing the 35 pieces of luxury tim-
ber about a kilometre from
Kbal Damrei commune, one of
the four communes in the dis-
trict overseen by Darun.
Officials seized the wood the
same day, he added.
The timber was logged in
Preah Vihear, and taken on boats
to hide in the forest in Sambor
at night, Darun said. We know
timber is sometimes transport-
ed on boats, but it is difficult to
crack down [on them].
It is easy to confiscate it
when its gathered at one place
on land.
The logs must have come
from Preah Vihear, Darun rea-
soned, because there is no
luxury timber growing in Sam-
bor. There have been no arrests
over the wood so far, and for-
estry officials are searching for
the owner of the timber.
National
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Rainsy says
he will help
x rail feud
Phak Seangly
OPPOSITION leader Sam Rainsy
yesterday talked with families
affected by an Asian Develop-
ment Bank-funded railway reha-
bilitation project to tell them
that he had met with the bank to
try to address their situation.
We have already become
lawmakers, so we will use our
power to help find justice for
you all, he told a crowd of more
than 200 people at Boeung Kak
1 commune.
Rainsy recapped additional
compensation procedures
agreed to between the ADB and
the government in April, includ-
ing payments that would finally
account for miscategorisation of
house valuations and inflation.
What they thought for nearly
10 years is wrong, he said.
In response, City Hall spokes-
man Long Dimanche said that
those who had been living close
to the railway were residing
there illegally and that Rainsy
was wrong.
Eric Sidgwick, ADB country
representative, said the bank did
not discuss the project in detail
with Rainsy but had noted some
of the remedial actions the gov-
ernment had agreed to.
Deaf teen with HIV trafficked
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

P
HNOM Penh Munici-
pal Court yesterday
handed down a 15-
year sentence to a
woman convicted of taking a
deaf-mute, HIV-positive 13-
year-old from the organisa-
tion that was housing her and
forcing her to have sex with
an old man in a Phnom Penh
brothel last year.
Presiding judge Taing Sun-
lay said that 44-year-old de-
fendant Em Sophea, a reputed
casino gambler also known as
Je Srey, was also obligated to
pay some $2,000 in compen-
sation to the victim after being
convicted of selling, buying
or exchanging a person with
intent under Article 15 of the
anti-human trafcking law.
Based on the hearing, and
after clearly considering this
case according to the laws,
the court has found that Em
Sophea is guilty, he said,
adding that Sophea had the
right to appeal.
The conviction came after
a decision in February to re-
investigate the case based on
the defendants claim that
she had been at NagaWorld
at the time of the events in
question.
Sophea was arrested on July
15, 2013, by the Ministry of
Interiors Anti-Human Traf-
cking and Juvenile Protec-
tion Department based on a
complaint from New Hope
for Cambodian Children, an
NGO that assists HIV-positive
children, Sunlay said. Sophea
had taken the girl from the or-
ganisations premises in Kan-
dal provinces Takhmao town,
he continued, and forced her
to have sex with an old man in
a brothel located in the White
Building, a slum in Phnom
Penhs Tonle Bassac com-
mune, on June 16, 2013.
Sok Phalla, executive direc-
tor of New Hope, said that
the girl had been born HIV-
positive and was orphaned at
the age of 5 months. She had
been living with New Hope
since 2007, and had been
transferred from the organisa-
tions Kampong Speu branch
to the Takhmao branch to
make it easier to attend class-
es for the deaf in Phnom Penh,
he added.
She disappeared without
any reason from our orphan-
age centre in Takhmao on the
15th of June, 2013, and she
returned by herself [on foot]
to the centre on the 18th of
June, Phalla said.
When she returned to the
centre, I noted that she was
pale and looked very tired,
and there were many injuries
on both of her arms and legs.
After asking her, she told us
that she was caught by the
accused woman, and got
detained inside her house,
he continued.
She said that she was
brought by this accused wom-
an and forced to have sex with
an old man who was a card
player at a brothel shop in
the White Building area. Af-
ter having sex, she was given
2,000 riel (about $0.50) from
this woman as a fee for having
sex with that old man.
A medical examination,
Phalla added, showed that the
young girl had injuries consis-
tent with rape.
Sophea, however, main-
tained her innocence yester-
day, and vowed to appeal.
Em Sophea leaves Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday after being sentenced to 15 years for trafcking a
13-year-old girl. PHA LINA
When she returned
to the centre, I noted
that she was pale
and looked very tired
National
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National
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National
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Embassy up
in arms over
B Kak egging
Kevin Ponniah
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
THE Singapore Embassy in
Phnom Penh yesterday filed a
police complaint against Boe-
ung Kak lake protesters after
eggs were thrown at the embas-
sy during a demonstration
on Wednesday.
Protesters from the evicted
community have been calling
on the embassy to intervene in
a deal involving Singaporean
firm HLH Group buying land at
the controversial site from lake
developer Shukaku Inc.
HLH Group announced in
June it had bought 1.3 hectares,
but says the sale is still undergo-
ing due-diligence review.
In a statement released on
Wednesday evening, the
embassy said it was in no posi-
tion to comment on the legal-
ity of the arrangement and
could not intervene in a private
commercial transaction.
In addition, the Embassy
wishes to point out that instead
of engaging with the Embassy
in an appropriate manner, one
protester threw around a dozen
eggs at the Embassys signage
and main gate, the statement
said, adding that this act of
vandalism was unacceptable.
Yesterday, a spokesperson
confirmed a police complaint
had been filed and Chuon Cheth,
Chaktomuk commune police
chief, said he had referred the
embassy to immigration police.
Sea Nareth, a representative
of the protesters, admitted eggs
had been thrown and said dem-
onstrators had been angry the
embassy had used security
guards to disperse them and did
not respond to an August 4 peti-
tion until Wednesday. We dont
care about the embassy filing a
complaint or lawsuit against us.
We will continue.
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foreign one, and courts are
often left out of the loop.
They dont have the ability to
care for the kid, so they give them
away to be taken care of by
someone else on behalf of them,
said Chhan Sokunthea, head of
rights group Adhocs women and
childrens rights section.
Factors such as poverty,
divorce and a dysfunctional
family life typically drive par-
ents to give up their children,
Sokunthea said. In order to
legally adopt a child, the new
parents must file a petition in
court and prove either that it is
difficult or inappropriate for
the birth parent[s] to care for the
child, or that a special circum-
stance exists making the adop-
tion necessary, according to a
Ministry of Social Affairs hand-
out on domestic adoption.
But many adoptive parents
largely rural and often poor
sometimes cannot afford the
court fees or live too far away to
make repeated trips to the
courthouse, Sokunthea said.
Many of these parents skip the
process and simply raise their
new children as their own.
Aun Maly*, 29, adopted her
daughter from a Phnom Penh
hospital after a doctor she had
met years earlier told her that a
newborn babys mother had
refused to keep the infant.
If I did not take her to live with
me, she would be abandoned or
would be sent to an orphanage,
said Maly, who never met the
girls biological mother.
This relaxed attitude towards
child custody, however, can
open the door to child abuse,
Sokunthea said.
Adhoc responded to three
cases in the first half of 2014 in
which children out of their birth
parents custody suffered abuse
at the hands of their guardians.
In June, the NGO responded
to a complaint lodged by villag-
ers in Koh Kong who said a
woman who shared a house
with them chained up her
4-year-old adopted daughter
inside the house eight hours per
day while she worked.
When police found the child
the woman was keeping her
as collateral from her mother,
who owed money she recalled
being chained up and deprived
of water for so long that she
drank her own urine.
Two months earlier, the wife
of a well-known tycoon was
tried in absentia on charges of
brutally beating and torturing
her two adopted daughters.
Both victims, who had been
given up by poor rural families,
recounted years of abuse in
which they were treated as little
more than slaves.
The government should
[enforce] the law for adopted
children, said Sokunthea, who
believes that the authorities,
courts and the Ministry of
Social Affairs do not do enough
to protect them.
Officials from the Social Affairs
Ministry refused to speak with a
Post reporter about the issue,
saying they required an official
letter requesting comment.
The act of taking in someone
elses children when they are
unable to raise them is a tradition
in Cambodia that grows from the
countrys Buddhist roots, said
Council of Ministers spokesman
Phay Siphan, who said his fathers
friends adopted him in 1954,
after his father passed away, leav-
ing only his widowed mother to
care for him.
We are Buddhist, we try to
help each other, Siphan said.
Cambodians are very close
with each other . . . I dont think
its complicated like it is in
the West.
*Names changed to protect
identity
Raising anothers baby
Rally after officials call
monk for questioning
Chhay Channyda
M
ORE than 100
monks turned out
to protest at
Sansam Kosal
pagoda in Meanchey district
yesterday after a Khmer Krom
monk who took part in recent
nationalist protests outside the
Vietnamese Embassy was
called to a meeting with district
religious authorities.
The meeting was purported-
ly called by the municipal de-
partment of cults and religion
to talk about administrative
matters in the Stung Meanchey
pagoda, where monk Yen Dara
lives, but demonstrators feared
he was going to be defrocked
for his political activities.
Dara is a member of the
Denmark-based Khmer Na-
tional Liberation Front the
leader of which, Sam Serey, is
wanted for arrest and has been
sentenced in absentia for con-
spiring treason and said he
had distributed hundreds of
books critical of the Vietnam-
ese invasion in 1979 during
Khmer Krom protests earlier
this month.
This is the history to share
with Cambodians to know
the real history, because to-
day [they learn] the fake one,
Dara said yesterday, adding
that he believed authorities
were trying to intimidate him
to keep him away from future
protests.
National Police spokesman
Kirth Chantharith could not
be reached for comment, but
Sok Bunthoeun, a monk who
serves as head of pagoda disci-
pline in Meanchey district, de-
nied the meeting was called to
warn Dara about his politics.
This is just administrative
management, he said.
Stung Meanchey pagoda
chief Thai Bunthoeun said
that he knew nothing about
Daras book distribution and
said he had only been called
to a meeting because the
room he shared with 10 other
monks had seen too many
outside visitors.
People and monks from
outside come every day and
we dont know who they are,
he said. We see that hes the
most powerful in the [room],
after the room chief, so we
want him to help bring order
to Room 45. Its guidance from
the district monk [authori-
ties]. We have to sort out any
rooms where there is anarchy
and we have done the same
for Room 11.
More than 100 monks gather at Sansam Kosal pagoda in Meanchey district yesterday afternoon. HONG MENEA
Factors such as poverty and divorce may drive parents to give their
children up for adoption. CHARLOTTE PERT
National
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Chivalrous husband left
injured in debt dispute
A HUSBAND took one in the
head while trying to protect his
wife over a debt collection dis-
pute in Por Sen Chey district on
Wednesday, police said. It all
started last month, when one
woman, a vendor, borrowed
$120 from another woman and
promised to pay it back within
30 days. She didnt, and after
the deadline passed, the lender
came to collect. The woman
who owed money pulled out a
cleaver and allegedly went to
hack the vendor, but her hus-
band got in the way, leaving him
injured. Police arrested the
suspect. KOHSANTEPHEAP
The perfect crime goes
awry for greedy thieves
THREE suspects in Por Sen
Chey district flew too close to the
sun on Wednesday when they
attempted to repeat a success-
ful scheme that had netted
them a moto and several mobile
phones the first time around,
police said. Last week, the men
allegedly pretended to be staying
at a guesthouse to gain access
to rooms and make off with the
goods. It was the perfect crime,
made imperfect when they tried
to repeat it and were recognised
by a security guard, police said.
Two escaped while one was
arrested. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Time in the slammer is
no deterrent for dealer
POLICE said a woman who was
released last month after a
yearlong prison sentence for
dealing drugs went right back
to the trade on the mean
streets of Kampong Chhnang
town. On Tuesday, the 20-year-
old was arrested with a few
small packages of yama soon
after she allegedly called a
higher-up to replenish her sup-
ply. Police took her phone and
$20. She was sent to court and
authorities are looking for her
client. KOHSANTEPHEAP
First-time thief makes
rookie error at factory
A MAN was caught on Wednes-
day trying to abscond with more
than 100 bicycle parts taken
from the factory where he
worked in Svay Rieng, police
said. The man tried to hide the
spare parts in a trash can, but a
savvy guard noticed that the
man taking out the trash that
day was not a hired cleaner, and
he detained him for the police.
The man allegedly confessed,
saying it was the first time. In all,
132 parts were returned. The
man was sent to court. NOKORWAT
Speedy steal turns into
a long-distance chase
POLICE said several people
successfully chased a moto thief
on Wednesday all the way from
Takeo province to Phnom Penh.
The alleged theft started in
Takeo provinces Tramkork dis-
trict, when a woman parked her
bike by the side of the road to
harvest grass. A man stole it,
but he was quickly followed by a
gang of the womans support-
ers, who trailed him to the city,
where the womans husband, in
touch by phone, came out of
nowhere and pushed him off the
bike. Police showed up and
arrested the man. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
KDC workers counterprotest
Pech Sotheary

W
HILE residents
of Kampong
Chhnang prov-
inces Lorpeang
village continue to push for
community representatives
to be released from jail, 28
workers from the politically-
connected KDC International
company petitioned for them
to be kept under lock and key
and to be prosecuted.
Sin Khim, a KDC construc-
tion worker who said he re-
ceived a head injury in a clash
with the villagers in early July,
believes those who were arrest-
ed demonstrating against the
rm should not be released,
adding that authorities should
arrest ve more suspects.
When we were building
fences on the companys land,
Snguon Nhoeun [a villager ar-
rested in a peaceful Phnom
Penh march on August 12] and
others used catapults, machet-
es and swords to shoot and
slash at us, and they also burnt
down our ve tents, so they
should not be released, Khim
said, speaking at the end of a
two-day petition drive on the
dispute in Phnom Penh.
If they are released, that
means our country has no
laws or regulations.
Khim said that he and the
ve other injured workers
have led a lawsuit against
those in jail for 40 million riel
($9,864).
The workers led their pe-
titions on Wednesday and
yesterday at the Ministry of
Justice, the prime ministers
cabinet, the National Assem-
bly, the Senate, various local
and international NGOs and
Radio Free Asia accepted it.
Am Sam Ath, technical su-
pervisor with rights group Li-
cadho, welcomed the petition,
saying it would be considered,
but cautioned that petitions
should not be led under the
inducement of rich and power-
ful people. He added that the
government and the authori-
ties involved have to resolve
the land dispute in Lorpeang.
KDC is owned by Chea
Kheng, wife of Minister of
Mines and Energy Suy Sem.
Its workers launched their
petition while about 60 villag-
ers from Lorpeang and other
areas are in Phnom Penh to
le their own petition asking
for the release of ve villagers
and for their charges to be dis-
missed, along with the prompt
resolution of the land dispute,
which has festered for years.
Water woes
continue
in Prey Sar
Pech Sotheary and Alice Cuddy
PREY Sar prison continues to
lack basic access to water, with
clean water carted into the
facility increasingly being treat-
ed as a commodity, officials and
rights groups said yesterday.
Khot Dara, director of the
prisons Correctional Centre 2,
said the direct water supply had
been cut off weeks ago.
The water system was cut
because of construction works
on the road from Ang Metrey
pagoda to Chomkar Dong, Dara
said. We can use the water from
the pond nearby so it is OK.
But Naly Pilorge, director of
rights group Licadho, said the
shortage has upped the premi-
um on clean drinking water.
Basic rights such as food,
water and recreation time are
already heavily commodified in
these prisons and we have
already received numerous
reports of the trucked-in water
being sold for profit by guards
and inmates, she said. Licad-
ho is particularly concerned for
those poorer inmates who can-
not buy additional water.
While Pilorge described the
shortage as an emergency situ-
ation, officials could offer no
date for when the situation
would be resolved.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said authorities
would try [their] best to solve
this problem and not keep them
without water for a long time.
Kuy Bunsorn, director-gener-
al of the Interior Ministrys Gen-
eral Department of Prisons, said
his officials were trying to coor-
dinate to solve the problem, but
added that little could be done
before construction finished.
Pilorge called on authorities
to act without delay to restore
the main water supply.
In the meantime, urgent safe-
guards must be put in place to
ensure the distribution of exist-
ing water is fair. Some inmates,
such as pregnant women and
those with children, may need
more water than others and this
must be taken into account.
Sleeping migrant workers miss payout
Sen David and Laignee Barron
SEEKING to appease more than 200 migrant
workers who say they were scammed out
of promised jobs in Thailand, employment
agency Koun Khmer Training Center yes-
terday doled out compensation to some of
the jilted workers they had recruited.
Late on Wednesday night, the companys
owner, Lin Da, relented to demands for
reimbursement and gave 32 workers
camped outside the agencys office $160
each, according to one of the recipients.
We waited all night, but the other work-
ers who left to sleep and came back to the
office again on Thursday [yesterday] found
the centre closed and the bosss phone
turned off, said Khen Chan, 30.
Chan added that the $160 wasnt equal
to the commission the company had
charged; he said he paid a $260 fee for it to
secure him a construction job in Thailand,
while others had paid more than $400.
Complaints about the centre began to
surface at the beginning of the week when
a group of 35 workers were repatriated
from Thailand, where they had waited in
vain to be picked up by an employer. Thai
officials told the group their visas were
fakes and sent them home.
Still, Tan Naven, chief of Teuk Thla com-
mune, where Koun Khmer operates, said
the company had been operating legally
and that there was no need to investigate.
The company agreed to give money
back, so it is a matter between the workers
and the business, he said.
According to Naven, Koun Khmer had
recruited 187 workers as a subcontractor
for APTSE & C, a recruiter recognised by
the Ministry of Labour.
Ministry officials yesterday declined to
comment on whether the training centre
or parent companys licence would be sus-
pended, and instead shifted responsibility
back to the migrants.
Workers: know where you are going and
what you are going to do . . . if you just rush
you will put yourself at risk for exploitation
and trafficking, said Labour Minister Ith
Sam Heng at a safe migration workshop.
According to An Bunhak, director of
recruitment agency Top Manpower, there
has been an increase in scams in the wake
of new labour migration policies.
Turn on the radio and you will hear
many ads of organisations claiming they
will get the workers legal jobs in Thai-
land, but where are all these companies
licences? he said.
Workers meanwhile said they would file
a complaint about Koun Khmer if they do
not receive full reimbursement soon.
A group of villagers attempt to stop a KDC International bulldozer from clearing land early last month in
Kampong Chhnang. More than a dozen people were injured in clashes that ensued. HENG CHIVOAN
Eddie Morton
T
HE Ministry of Econ-
omy and Finance has
installed an incen-
tive program, which
awards employees of the Gen-
eral Department of Taxation
(GDT) a share of the penalties
incurred by rms found to have
unpaid tax accounts.
Director general of the GDT,
Kong Vibol conrmed yester-
day that the GDT introduced
the incentive program at the
beginning of this year. The
scheme grants government
auditors 10 per cent of the to-
tal penalties imposed on any
company, which that employee
has reassessed and found to be
non-compliant.
The Ministry of Economy
and Finance gives incentives
to GTD tax auditors who can
nd more tax revenue, which
the tax payers under-declared
or evaded tax of their payment
to GDT. By law whoever under
declared or evaded of tax will be
penalised, Vibol said, adding
that only auditors were granted
the incentive scheme.
This way government can
get more revenue. This incen-
tive will not affect the budget
but instead increase the rev-
enue to the government.
The GDTs penalties for late or
unpaid taxes range from 10 to
40 per cent of the total amount
owed to the authority. The pen-
alties also carry a monthly 2 per
cent interest charge. Put simply,
if a company is found to owe
$100,000 to the GDT, the rm
could be penalised an addi-
tional $10,000 and the auditor
will personally receive a $1,000
incentive payout once the com-
pany has paid its debts.
The purpose of this scheme
of incentive is to encourage tax
auditors to work hard and re-
ward them for those who can
nd more tax evasion and tax
under-declared in order to pro-
mote tax compliance and en-
forcement of law, Vibol said.
Cambodias GDT is on a mis-
sion to boost tax revenue to $1
billion by the end of the year.
Kol Preap, executive director
of Transparency International
in Cambodia welcomed the
idea of new incentives for GDT
auditors provided there is strict
oversight of the employees
compliance to the Kingdoms
anti-corruption laws.
It could help them to con-
duct their work more effective-
ly, Preap said.
Additionally, it is important
that auditors conduct their
assessments in an open and
transparent manner. The audit-
ing reports must imperatively
be published and the private
rms nancial statements
must be disclosed, Preap said.
During the rst Cambodia
Tax Summit held at the Sotel
Phnom Penh yesterday, Clint
OConnel, a partner at law rm
VDB Loi, said the GDTs scheme
stands to close unpaid tax ac-
counts a lot quicker.
But unfortunately that also
means there is little chance of
receiving a waiver of the penal-
ties. You are essentially taking
money away from the auditor,
OConnel told the audience of
about 300.
According to OConnel, the
GDT is also currently looking
to install a raft of new reforms
including a new arbitration
committee, which would be
charged with resolving tax re-
lated disputes.
It would be the last stop in
the governments audit pro-
cess, OConnel said about
the proposed arbitration
committee.
But who will sit on this com-
mittee? You dont want tax of-
cers sitting on this arbitration
committee because you want
them to be independent.
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Govt pays auditor incentives
Rice bank
opens to
delight of
industry
Hor Kimsay
CAMBODIA Rice Bank (CRB)
announced yesterday it was
equipped to buy and store up to
100,000 tonnes of local rice.
CRB, which was established
in Battambang province in
2011 but took years to build the
necessary infrastructure like
silos and storage sheds,
emerged yesterday with $30
million in capital.
Phou Puy, chairman and
chief executive officer of CRB,
said the capital will be used to
buy up Cambodias paddy rice
from October the beginning
of new harvest season.
We hope that this bank will
become a big centre in Cambo-
dia to store rice to be ready for
receiving big order from for-
eign buyers, Puy said
He said exporters can loan or
buy rice from the banks stock-
piles while millers can sell to
the mass storage provider.
David Van, acting secretary-
general of Cambodian Rice
Federation (CRF), said the CRB
was a much-needed piece of
infrastructure for the sector
capable of collecting and con-
solidating paddy stock to serve
millers or exporters.
In a harsh operating environ-
ment without much govern-
ment assistance . . . the private
sector in the rice industry has to
take initiative to solve its own
problems hoping that along the
way, a helping hand could be
extended.
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Business
DENMARK has a reputation as
one of the least-corrupt coun-
tries in the world. There are few
Danish companies operating
in Cambodia, but for those that
do, they are required by Danish
law to abide to high standards
of non-corrupt practices when
operating abroad. The Dan-
ish Ambassador to Thailand
and Cambodia Mikael Hem-
niti Winther sat down with
the Post this week to discuss
Danish business interests in
Cambodia, corruption and the
unique relationship his ofce
provides for Danish compa-
nies looking to invest overseas.
What is the current landscape
for Danish businesses in Cam-
bodia?
Theres not a great number
of Danish businesses in Cam-
bodia. One explanation is that
the composition of companies
in Denmark in terms of size is
that we have much more small-
and medium-sized companies
than really large ones. Many of
them do not go very far when
they invest and if they do
they tend to trade and invest
in countries they are familiar
with and that have a similar
business environment as Den-
mark. Only the most resource-
ful and experienced venture to
Asia and they go to countries
such as Japan, China, Vietnam,
Thailand or Malaysia and now
more to Indonesia.
What are the opportunities for
Danish businesses in Cambo-
dia?
I think there are fairly good
opportunities for Danish busi-
nesses in Cambodia. Cambo-
dia provides an open economy
with hard working people and
economic growth. Traditional-
ly, it has been the textile sector
that has attracted foreign in-
vestors to Cambodia, but there
are other areas that could be
attractive for Denmark, in par-
ticular the oil and energy sec-
tor when it is more developed.
What are the challenges?
The challenges are there.
They include, at times, politi-
cal unpredictability and some
unrest that deters investors. It
also includes transparency is-
sues in thepublic sector and
corruption. With some areas
of weak legislation or areas
where enforcement of the law
is insufcient, there are also
reputational risks associated
with investments that Danish
companies are analysing very
carefully before coming to
Cambodia.
The Danish Embassy has a
unique relationship when
working with Danish busi-
nesses. The mechanism
whereby Danish businesses
pay for your services and you
are measured by this. Can you
explain how this works?
The Danish Foreign Service
has a Department called the
Trade Council which is basical-
ly an integrated export and in-
vestment organisation within
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The service is always rooted in
the needs of the business com-
munity as the board of direc-
tors consist of active business
professionals with practical
international experience as
well as industrial and social
insight. The Trade Council fo-
cuses on offering Danish com-
panies individual advice on
all issues important for their
international activities.
Denmark is considered one of
the least corrupt countries in
the world. How do Danish busi-
nesses overcome the issue of
corruption when investing in
countries like Cambodia?
Corruption creates an en-
vironment of unclarity, un-
predictability and costs that
cannot be legally accounted
for. Corruption is illegal and
punishable by law. Danish
companies must therefore op-
erate with partners in Cambo-
dia which has the same values
and always make it very clear
to counterparts that there are
no corrupt practices applied.
How can Danish business ben-
et Cambodia?
I always nd that the prod-
ucts of Denmark are of high
quality and benet the coun-
try as a whole. In terms of in-
vestment, I truly believe that
the high level of private gover-
nance that Danish companies
represent, including signi-
cant CSR that considers the
environment and not least the
employees, is of true benet to
Cambodia, where the legisla-
tion or the enforcement of leg-
islation within certain sensi-
tive areas may not be so high.
This interview has been ed-
ited for length and clarity
Kicking corruption in Cambodia
Mikael Hemniti Winther, the Danish ambassador to Cambodia, spoke to
the Post this week to discuss Danish business interests. PHOTO SUPPLIED

This week in biz
Businesses urged to
stamp out corruption
NGO Transparency
International (TI) this week
urged small- and medium-
sized enterprises (SMEs) to
intensify self-regulatory
efforts against corrupt
practices to help foster a
stronger business
environment. TI Cambodia
executive director Preap Kol
said while government
corruption pressures
businesses into paying bribes,
companies were also actively
engaging in corrupt activities
themselves to gain unfair
competitive advantages.
Slaughterhouse for OZ
cattle almost finished
AMID the Australian
governments approval of live
cattle exports to Cambodia, a
local firm this week revealed
it is nearing completion of
the Kingdoms first modern
slaughterhouse in Preah
Sihanounk province. A
representative from SLN
Meat Supply said that
construction of the $15
million slaughterhouse,
which will have the capacity
to process 3,000 live cattle
per day, was 60 per cent
complete and operations
were expected to commence
in December.
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Business
Japan, India ink mineral deal
T
OKYO and New Delhi
will next week sign
an agreement that
will see around 2,000
tonnes of rare earths imported
from India, a report said yes-
terday, as Japan looks to diver-
sify supply away from China.
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and his Indian
counterpart Narendra Modi
are expected to agree on the
deal at their summit in Tokyo
on Monday, the Nikkei news-
paper reported.
Some 2,000 to 2,300 tonnes
of rare earths roughly 15 per-
cent of what Japans manufac-
turers use each year will be
shipped from India to Japan, it
said, adding that imports will
start as early as February.
China accounts for 95 per
cent of global production of
rare earths, a category of 18
metals vital for the production
of smartphones, hybrid car
batteries, wind turbines, steel
and low-energy light bulbs,
amongst other things.
The country is home to 23
per cent of global reserves of
such metals, and this month
lost an appeal on a ruling by
the World Trade Organiza-
tion that said it had violated
global trade rules by restrict-
ing exports. Beijing says its
restrictions were aimed at
conserving natural resources
and reducing pollution caused
by mining. But critics say the
limits are a bid to drive up
prices and gain market advan-
tage for domestic producers
with cheaper access to the raw
materials. Japan also accuses
China of strangling supply to
score political points.
In 2010, Beijing restricted
rare earth exports when Japan
arrested the captain of a Chi-
nese trawler that was involved
in a run-in with Japanese
coastguards near the disputed
Senkaku Islands, claimed by
China as the Diaoyus.
Under the accord, Indian
Rare Earths (IREL), a wholly
owned subsidiary of Indias
Department of Atomic Energy,
and Japanese trading house
Toyota Tsusho will sign a con-
tract on joint production as
early as September, the Nikkei
said. IREL will make mixed rare
earth materials from uranium
and thorium ores, which Toy-
ota Tsusho will use to produce
neodymium for electric and
hybrid cars, as well as lantha-
num, cerium and praseodym-
ium, the newspaper reported.
A Toyota Tsusho spokesman
conrmed the deal is near.
We are at the nal stages
and close to striking the deal,
the spokesman said. Nego-
tiations have been accelerated
since the power change in
India, he added, referring to
Modis election victory in May.
Japan, which had relied on
China for over 90 per cent of its
imports of rare earths, already
has agreements for joint devel-
opment of resources with Viet-
nam and Kazakhstan.
Modi will visit Japan from
August 30 to September 3 on
his rst trip outside South Asia
since coming to power. Modi,
63, is leading a delegation of
executives, including Muke-
sh Ambani, Indias richest
man. Modi will discuss ways
to boost economic, defence
and energy cooperation with
Japanese Abe, according to
an Indian foreign ministry
ofcial who asked not to be
identied. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Vital component in
high-tech products
China supplies at
least 95 percent of
worlds rare earths
Collection of 18
metals
Source: USGS
Rare earth minerals
Some products
that contain rare earth
elements:
Hybrid vehicles
dysprosium,
lanthanum,
neodymium,
praseodymium
Wind turbines
dysprosium,
neodymium,
praseodymium,
terbium
Energy-efficient
fluorescent
light bulbs
europium,
terbium, yttrium
iPods
dysprosium,
neodymium,
praseodymium,
samarium,
terbium
Fibre optics
erbium,
europium,
terbium,
yttrium
AUSTRALIAN ag carrier Qan-
tas yesterday posted a record
annual net loss of A$2.84 bil-
lion (US$2.65 billion), but chief
executive Alan Joyce insisted
clearer skies lie ahead after ag-
gressively cutting costs.
The result, which was worse
than expected, compared with
a wafer-thin prot last year,
with one-off restructuring and
redundancy payouts hammer-
ing the bottom line.
But the biggest hit came
from an A$2.6 billion ($2.4 bil-
lion) non-cash writedown of
the value of its ageing interna-
tional eet, largely due to the
historic cost of aircraft pur-
chased at a much lower Aus-
tralian dollar exchange rate.
Qantass underlying loss be-
fore tax in the 12 months to
June 30 its preferred mea-
sure of nancial performance,
which excludes one-off costs
and writedowns was A$646
million, slightly better than
forecast. Analysts had expect-
ed a net loss of up to A$1 billion
as the carrier also battles high
fuel costs and erce competi-
tion from subsidised rivals.
Qantas in February said it
was axing 5,000 jobs, de-
ferring aircraft deliveries,
freezing growth at Asian
offshoot Jetstar and cut-
ting routes in a bid to turn
around its fortunes.
Joyce said the worst
was now over.
There is no doubt to-
days numbers are con-
fronting, but they rep-
resent the year that is
past, he said. We have
now come through the
worst. With our accel-
erated Qantas Trans-
formation program we
are already emerging as
a leaner, more focused
and more sustainable
Qantas Group. AFP
Qantas posts record
loss of $2.65 billion
Qantas
Full-year results ending June
Aus$ million
Source: Qantas
Net profit/loss after tax
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
-2,843
1
-245
250
112
Paws for thought
A purrfect
offer from
Russia bank

A
RUSSIAN bank is offering
customers the ultimate
uffy extra with their
mortgage the free loan of a cat to
bring good luck to their new home.
Sberbank, Russias largest
lender, is aiming to beat its com-
petitors by a whisker by offering
30 mortgage holders the choice
of 10 different cats, ranging from
hairless Sphynx cat Kuzya to
Siamese Iriska as well as several
moggies of indeterminate origin.
According to Russian tradition,
a cat can bring the owners luck if
it is the rst to walk through the
front door of a new house or at.
The banks specially trained
cats will attend the housewarm-
ing party for a maximum of two
hours, the bank says. The felines
can be selected on the banks
website www.kotoservice.ru.
though the offer is limited to the
Moscow region.
Those wanting to take ad-
vantage of the deal, which runs
through to December, have to
sign a clause banning cruelty
to the animals and freeing the
lender from responsibility for any
possible catastrophe.
Sberbank is a Soviet-era giant
now trying to turn around its im-
age with Russians. AFP
Deutsche bank fined
$7.8M for transactions
GERMAN lender Deutsche
Bank has been fined more
than 4.7 million ($7.8 million)
for incorrectly reporting some
financial transactions,
regulators said yesterday.
The Financial Conduct
Authority said in a statement
that it had fined the banks
London branch 4,718,800 for
failing to properly report more
than 29.4 million equity swap
contracts-for-difference
transactions between
November 2007 and April
2013. Deutsche Bank is the
eleventh group to be fined by
the FCA for transaction
reporting breaches. AFP
Ricards profit drop by
14 pct, axes 900 jobs
DRINKS giant Pernod Ricard
reported a fall in annual profits
yesterday, blaming in part a
sales slowdown in China, and
cut 900 jobs worldwide. Net
profit over 12 months to the
end of June fell by 14 per cent
to 1.02 billion ($1.35 billion),
and sales fell by 7 per cent to
7.94 billion. Operating profit
fell by 8 per cent to 2.05
billion. Pernod Ricard, a
French group ranking number
two in the worlds spirits drink
industry after Diageo of Britain,
owns the Ricard pastis brand,
Absolut vodka and Ballantines
whisky. They employ 19,000
people around the world. AFP
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Business
Swiss banks lift veil of secrecy
S
WISS private banks
Lombard Odier and
Mirabaud yesterday
published their rst re-
sults for two centuries, as the
ultra-discreet sector puts its
books in the spotlight.
Lombard Odier said that
rst-half net prot was 62.5
million Swiss francs (52 mil-
lion, $68.2 million), while as-
sets under management were
156 billion francs.
These results are in line with
our expectations and reect
both the investments we make
towards our strategic objec-
tives as well as the conserva-
tive use of our balance sheet,
said Patrick Odier, senior
managing partner of the bank
founded in 1797. Our group is
increasingly diversied, more
international and more bal-
anced between private and
asset management clients and
we are expanding our partner-
ships with nancial services
providers, he added.
Fellow private bank Mira-
baud founded in 1819 also
released its results. Its rst-
half prot was 17.5 million
francs, while assets under
management or custody
reached 27 billion francs.
The results urry began on
Tuesday with the private bank
Pictet, founded in 1805.
It announced a rst-half
prot of 203 million francs,
and assets under management
404 billion francs.
Lombard Odier said its tier
one capital ratio a bench-
mark of stability, which mea-
sures a banks own top-notch
funds was 23.8 per cent.
In comparison, Mirabauds
was 19.7 per cent and Pictets,
21.7 per cent.
Under global rules, banks
must have a ratio of at least 4.5
percent, while Switzerlands
regulator requires 7.8 per cent.
Swiss private banks have
changed shape amid a tougher
regulatory environment since
the global nancial crisis, and
scandals such as the Madoff
fraud case in the United States
which rippled across the
worlds banking sector.
Traditional Swiss banking
secrecy has been under re
as governments notably the
United States and European
Union crack down on tax
cheats who stash cash abroad.
The private banking sector
caters for the super-wealthy,
an increasingly globalised cli-
ent group. The complex nature
of international nance has
made it difcult for private
bankers to feel safe with their
tradition of putting their per-
sonal assets on the line.
The shake up in the sec-
tor began in January when
Pictet and Lombard Odier
abandoned their old statutes,
followed by Mirabaud and La-
Roche, which is also scheduled
to publish its results.
The old rules made their
handful of wealthy managing
partners bankers for genera-
tions personally responsible
for clients money.
If the bank got into trouble,
the partners could lose all their
assets, not just those they had
invested in the operation.
The banks are now a corpo-
rate partnership, a hybrid sta-
tus making comparison easier
with fully-listed players such
as Credit Suisse and UBS.
It is similar to the limited
company structure in the Brit-
ish Isles, with its well-known
Ltd label. The partners now
risk only the funds they have
invested in the bank, rather
than putting all their personal
assets on the line. Seven lower-
prole private banks have opt-
ed to stick to their traditional
operating model. AFP
A host of private Swiss banks such as Lombard Odier, Mirabaud and
Pictet have all released nancial statements. BLOOMBERG
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Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
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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 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
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NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.02 0.02 0.42% 4:47:38
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ICEGasoil USD/MT 869 1.25 0.14% 4:49:19
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CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.86 -0.04 -0.27% 3:25:32
CME Lumber USD/tbf 343.5 0.1 0.03% 20:13:18
A
MBITIOUS and apolitical,
sel f-descri bed good
Uighur entrepreneur
Abdulhabir Muhammad
initially conceals his proud ethnic
identity from his Chinese clients.
After I solve everything I will tell
them, Hey, Im a Uighur, Im from
Xinjiang, he says, revelling in their
astonishment even while poignantly
aware of the prejudice it implies.
Violence is escalating in and beyond
Xinjiang, the mostly Muslim Uighurs
homeland, blamed by the govern-
ment on separatist terrorists with
the executions of eight announced at
the weekend. In the rest of China,
Uighurs are generally stereotyped as
happy ethnic dancers, curbside
kebab-sellers or, increasingly, Islam-
ist militants.
By contrast Abdulhabir the
24-year-old chief operating officer of
an educational consulting company,
and a Muslim who prays at a mosque
every Friday epitomises the author-
ities preferred vision of Xinjiangs
future.
Im very happy to work in Beijing
to show a lot of people that Uighurs
are great people and we can do big
things, he says.
His father was a poor wheat farmer
who rose to own a chain of supermar-
kets in the region, and Abdulhabir has
come further still. Aged 15, he was
accepted into a Beijing high school
where he mastered Chinese and Eng-
lish, and then earned a degree in
accounting from Binghamton Uni-
versity in New York state, followed by
an MBA in entrepreneurship.
Now his company, which helps Chi-
nese study abroad, has around 20
employees, 15 of them Han, Chinas
dominant ethnic group, and his busi-
ness partner is a Manchu woman.
Telegenic and confident, Abdul-
habir has been featured in state media
along with other young business peo-
ple as positive examples of Uighur
identity.
You know the reason Im in the
media is because I am a good Uighur,
he says. And I want other Uighurs to
see me as a good Uighur as well.
Rights groups and analysts accuse
Chinas government of cultural and
religious repression against Uighurs
such as discouraging veils for wom-
en and beards for men, as well as
limits on fasting during the Islamic
holy month of Ramadan.
A clash in the Yarkand area in late
July left nearly 100 people dead, state
media reported. The government-
appointed imam of the Id Kah mosque
in Kashgar, Chinas largest, was
stabbed to death and one of his
alleged killers, a 19-year-old Uighur,
was shown on state television this
week confessing he had targeted him
for distorting religion.
Local pro-China elements are pan-
ic-stricken, Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman
for the exile World Uyghur Congress
(WUC), said after the murder.
Amid the cycle of violence, Chinese
state media announced Sunday that
eight people had been executed for
terrorist attacks, including three it
described as masterminding a
shocking suicide car crash in Beijings
Tiananmen Square in October 2013.
Abdulhabir said that Uighurs
should channel their energy into edu-
cation.
I hate politics, he says. And thats
why our family are doing well, because
we are far away from politics.
But a good education is no guaran-
tee of success for Uighurs, and even
those accepted can get in trouble.
Rebiya Kadeer, once a prominent
businesswoman, ran afoul of author-
ities and now leads the WUC from
exile. Ilham Tohti, a professor critical
of government policies in Xinjiang,
has been charged with separatism,
which can carry the death penalty.
Reza Hasmath, lecturer in Chinese
politics at Oxford University, says
Uighurs are hamstrung in securing
coveted jobs due to difficulty access-
ing Han social networks, with the two
groups distrusting each other.
What were seeing in Xinjiang is
that Hans dominate all the high sta-
tus, high paying jobs, whereas minor-
ities, and particularly Uighurs, are
dominating the more low status, low
paying jobs, he said. These penal-
ties in the labour market increase
tensions, he said in a presentation in
Beijing.
For some minorities who are not
doing very well in the labour market,
they go to religion, they rediscover
their own culture, he said.
There are tensions surrounding
culture and religion, he acknowledg-
es, but says violence and killing
imams are not the answer.
I want people to become more
open-minded and solve the problem
together peacefully, he said. AFP
Confronting prejudice in China
Abdulhabir Muhammad, chief operating ofcer of an educational consulting company
in his ofce in Beijing. AFP
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World
IS executes 160 Syria govt troops
I
SLAMIC State jihadists have
executed more then 160 eeing
Syrian soldiers, a monitor said
yesterday, the latest in a string
of brutal abuses alarming Western
powers who fear a global spread of
the terror.
News of the killings comes as US
President Barack Obama is report-
edly weighing up airstrikes on IS po-
sitions in Syria and coming closer to
greenlighting a mission to aid Shiite
Turkmen trapped in an Iraqi town by
the jihadists.
Syrian regime airstrikes killed six
IS leaders yesterday, the Syrian Ob-
servatory for Human Rights said,
but Washington has so far baulked
at cooperating with Damascus
against the jihadists.
French President Francois Hol-
lande added his voice to the disquiet
that has been growing since the jiha-
dists marauded through Iraq and be-
headed US journalist James Foley.
The latest killings took place in the
Syrian province of Raqqa, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said,
adding that the victims were soldiers
eeing towards government-held
territory to the west after the jihad-
ists overran their base at Tabqa.
The jihadists boasted on Twitter
that they had killed 200 defeated
troops and posted video of what
they said was the garrison in head-
long ight. IS executed more than
160 Syrian soldiers in three different
places in Raqqa province yesterday
and at dawn today, said Rami Abdel
Rahman, head of the Syrian Obser-
vatory for Human Rights.
The jihadists seized the airport on
Sunday after weeks of bitter ghting
with loyalists, cementing their control
over Raqqa province, capital of their
self-declared Islamic caliphate.
Abdel Rahman said the defeated
garrison comprised 1,400 soldiers,
200 of whom were killed and 700 of
whom managed to escape.
Of the other 500, dozens were cap-
tured on Wednesday night as they
attempted to cross the desert to gov-
ernment-held territory in the Oron-
tes Valley to the west.
Barefooted death march
IS posted video footage show-
ing young men in underwear being
marched barefoot along a desert
road. Militants shouted Islamic
State and Theres no going back.
A UN-mandated probe charged on
Wednesday that public executions,
amputations, lashings and mock
crucixions have become xtures in
jihadist-controlled areas of Syria.
The Syrian air force hit at the jihad-
ists yesterday with a strike on a house
in the eastern town of Mu-Hassan
where IS leaders were meeting, kill-
ing six of them, the Observatory said.
The UN has also highlighted the
plight of the thousands of mainly
Shiite Turkmen residents of the
northern Iraq town of Amerli, who
face danger both because of their
faith, which jihadists consider her-
esy, and their resistance against the
militants, of the sort that has drawn
deadly retribution elsewhere.
The town has been besieged for
more than two months and residents
are desperate for food and water and
fear a massacre if the jihadists push
through their defences.
Washington is weighing up aid
drops and airstrikes to help the town,
US ofcials said on Wednesday.
It could be a humanitarian op-
eration. It could be a military opera-
tion. It could be both, a US defence
ofcial said, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
Iraq is preparing its own effort,
massing forces north and south of
the town in Salaheddin province and
carrying out airstrikes against the
jihadist militants besieging it.
There is no possibility of evacu-
ating them so far, Eliana Nabaa,
spokeswoman for the UN mission in
Iraq, said of Amerli residents.
UN Iraq envoy Nickolay Mladenov
has called for an urgent effort to help
Amerli, saying residents face a possi-
ble massacre if the town is overrun.
Hollande blasts Assad
French President Hollande
launched a bitter tirade against As-
sad yesterday for his suggestion that
the West work with his regime to de-
feat the jihadists.
Assad cannot be a partner in the
ght against terrorism, he is the de
facto ally of jihadists, Hollande said.
He also renewed his proposal to
host an international conference to
organise the coordination of inter-
national action against the Islamic
State on humanitarian, security and
military fronts.
The growing number of Westerners
joining IS and other extremist groups
has raised fears that they could return
home and carry out attacks.
US ofcials have conrmed that
American Douglas McCain, 33, was
killed in Syria ghting for IS, and were
investigating reports that a second
American had been killed ghting for
Al-Qaedas Syria afliate. AFP
Restarting W Africa ights vital to containing Ebola
THE World Health Organization yesterday said
that the suspension of flights to West Africa was
threatening efforts to beat the Ebola epidemic.
The warning came as the toll from the epidemic
topped 1,500 and as Nigeria said a doctor had
died in the oil city of Port Harcourt, in the first
case of the virus outside Lagos.
Right now there is a super risk of the response
effort being choked off because we simply cannot
get enough seats on enough airplanes to get peo-
ple in and out, and get goods and supplies in,
WHO emergency chief Bruce Aylward said as he
launched a nine-month Ebola battle plan.
We assume that the current restrictions on
airlines will stop within the next couple of weeks,
he told reporters. This is absolutely vital.
The WHO has declared Ebola an internation-
al health emergency, but has insisted repeat-
edly that trade and travel restrictions are not the
answer. But in the face of the spiralling Ebola
toll in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria,
airlines have reduced and suspended flights.
Theres got to be global preparedness. Theres
got to be preparedness in major transport hubs.
But bans on travel and trade will not stop this
virus. In fact, you are more likely to compromise
the ability to respond, Aylward said.
Its a self-defeating strategy to ban travel,
he added. Thats not the problem. People with
Ebola are symptomatic. You can exit screen
flights leaving the affected countries by taking
passengers temperatures, which can substan-
tively reduce risk.
On Wednesday, Air France became the latest
carrier to announce a suspension of its service
to Sierra Leone, while British Airways said it was
stopping its flights to Freetown and Monrovia
until next year. Royal Air Morocco is now the
only airline providing a regular service to the
capitals of Sierra Leone and Liberia, while Brus-
sels Airlines offer an irregular schedule.
Meanwhile yesterday in Nigeria, Health Min-
ister Onyebuchi Chukwu said a doctor had died
on August 22 after treating a patient who had
contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer,
who brought the virus to Nigeria and who died
in a Lagos hospital on July 25.
Following the report of this death by the doc-
tors widow the next day, the case had been thor-
oughly investigated and laboratory analysis
showed that this doctor died from EVD [Ebola
Virus Disease], he said in the capital Abuja.
The latest case brings to six the number of
people who have died from the haemorrhagic
fever in Nigeria. Fifteen people have now been
confirmed to have the disease.
On Wednesday, Chukwu had said that the virus
was contained as there were no cases outside
Lagos but warned against complacency in fight-
ing the disease. News that a doctor died 435
kilometres away will raise fears about the spread
of the virus, just as Nigerians began to think that
they had stopped Ebola in its tracks.
Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state, is the
centre of Nigerias oil industry and home to a
number of oil giants, including Anglo-Dutch
giant Shell, Frances Total and US company
Chevron. AFP
Mosul Dam
The jihadist group now controls large areas of Syria and Iraq
Islamic State
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Hawija
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Baquba
Mosul
Samarra
Sharqat
Iraqi government
forces
Syrian government
forces
Other rebel groups
Kurdish peshmerga
fighters
Islamic State
jihadists
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controlled by:
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(Al-Qaedas official
branch in Syria)
Launches offensive
in Iraq, seizes Mosul.
Declares creation
of caliphate in
territories it controls
Beheads US journalist
James Foley
July 2011
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This undated photo shows Islamic State militants marching through Raqqa, Syria. The group claims to have killed more than 160 Syrian regime soldiers. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Prison time for Malaysia
nude games organisers
A MALAYSIAN court sent six
men to prison for a month
yesterday and will try four
other people over a nudist
gathering that triggered
outrage in the Muslim-majority
country. The six men five
Malaysians and a Singaporean
were jailed after pleading
guilty to charges of public
obscenity over the nude games
event, said lawyer S.
Thangaveloo, who represents
Singaporean defendant Loh
Kok Hong. They were all
sentenced to one month jail
and fined [$1,589],
Thangaveloo said. AFP
Japan sees first dengue
cases in seven decades
JAPANESE health officials said
yesterday that three young
people have contracted
dengue fever, the first such
infections in the country in
nearly 70 years. The three are
suspected of having
contracted the disease when
they were bitten by mosquitos
in Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo,
officials said. The patients -- a
man in his 20s in Tokyo as well
as a teen and woman in her
20s in Saitama Prefecture
north of the capital -- go to the
same educational institution in
Tokyo. None of them is in a
life-threatening condition,
officials said. AFP
Fierce critic of Beijing
targeted by graft cops
A
NTI-CORRUPTION
ofcers conducted
an early morning
raid yesterday on
the Hong Kong home of Jim-
my Lai, an outspoken mogul
whose media empire is often
highly critical of Beijing.
The investigation comes at
a time of growing disquiet in
Hong Kong over the erosion of
press freedom and perceived
inuence Beijing holds over
the semi-autonomous city.
Ofcers from the citys Inde-
pendent Commission Against
Corruption (ICAC) visited Lais
mansion shortly after 7am.
ICAC was here and theyre
all gone now, Lai told a host
of reporters waiting outside his
home in the upscale neighbour-
hood of Ho Man Tin. There is
no further comment.
The commission declined to
detail what sparked the raid,
saying it would not comment
on individual cases.
Lai recently made headlines
when documents were leaked
to the media alleging he made
a series of major donations
to pro-democracy lawmakers
who are critical of Beijing.
He has denied any wrongdo-
ing and there are no laws that
require the disclosure of politi-
cal donations in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy lawmaker
Lee Cheuk-yan told Cable Tele-
vision News that he was also
visited by anti-corruption of-
cers and said the investigation
revolved around donations Lai
had made to his party.
Pan-democrat lawmaker
Claudia Mo Man-ching ques-
tioned the timing of the visit to
Lai, calling it clear-cut politi-
cal persecution.
Chinas top legislature is
likely to approve on Sunday a
restrictive framework for Hong
Kongs 2017 leadership elec-
tion, which would give Beijing
veto power over candidates.
Why did [the ICAC] not take
action last week or the next
week? she asked. It is clear-
cut political persecution. What
else could it be? Political dona-
tion is so ordinary Obama
gets it and Cameron gets it.
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Lai is a colourful character
whose outspoken criticism of
Beijing has angered local and
mainland ofcials as well as
media rivals.
Two weeks ago a rival paper
published a fake obituary for
Lai, claiming he had died of
AIDS and cancer. Lai hit back
with a caustic video.
They want me to die? Is
it really that easy? Lai said.
Sorry to disappoint you.
The website of Apple Daily,
a prominent tabloid newspa-
per owned by Lai, suffered a
blackout for several hours in
June in what it described as a
large-scale attack launched by
sophisticated hackers.
Concerns over press freedom
have grown this year following
several attacks on Hong Kong
media workers. The former
editor of a respected liberal
newspaper, Kevin Lau, was
savagely stabbed in broad day-
light in February.
Political discontent in Hong
Kong is at its highest level
in years as fears mount that
the freedoms enjoyed in the
southern Chinese city are be-
ing eroded. AFP
ACCEPT IMPERFECT DEMOCRACY: SCHOLAR
H
ONGKONGERS must
accept Beijings version of
democracy even if they think it
is imperfect, because the
interests of the citys business
community have to be
safeguarded, one of Chinas top
legal experts said yesterday.
Wang Zhenmin, a regular
adviser to Beijing, said greater
democratic freedom in the city
must be balanced against the
citys powerful business elite
who would have to share their
slice of the pie with voters.
Universal suffrage means
redistribution of economic
interests. We have to take care
of every class, every group of
people, every person, the rich
and the poor, said Wang.
Beijing has promised the
former British colony will be
able to vote for its own leader
in 2017. But it has insisted on
vetting candidates via a
nominating committee. The
top committee of Chinas
rubber-stamp legislature is
meeting in Beijing this week to
discuss a framework of
reforms, which is expected to
be announced on Sunday. AFP
Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai stands inside the
ofces of the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong. AFP
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Fresh clue in 370 hunt
T
HE hunt for miss-
ing Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 will fo-
cus on the southern
part of the existing search zone
after a new clue to the planes
possible location emerged,
Australia said yesterday.
Fresh data suggested the jet
may have turned south earli-
er than thought, Deputy Prime
Minister Warren Truss said.
The detail came to light after
further renement of satel-
lite data and as investigators
attempted to map the planes
position in a failed bid to con-
tact it earlier in its ight path.
The search area remains
the same, but some of the in-
formation that we now have
suggests to us that areas a little
further to the south within
the search area, but a little fur-
ther to the south are of par-
ticular interest and priority in
the search area, he said.
His comments came as Aus-
tralia and Malaysia inked a
pact over the next phase of the
hunt for the plane, which dis-
appeared on March 8 with 239
people en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing.
Call traced, volcanos found
The plane is believed to have
crashed into the southern In-
dian Ocean far off the west
coast of Australia after mys-
teriously diverting off-course,
but a massive air, sea and un-
derwater search has failed to
nd any wreckage.
Experts have used technical
data to nalise its most likely
resting place deep under the
Indian Ocean and are prepar-
ing for a more intense under-
water search next month. It
will focus on a dauntingly vast
stretch of ocean measuring
60,000 square kilometres.
Truss said that during ef-
forts to map MH370s loca-
tion when Malaysia Airlines
tried to contact the jet, it was
suggested to us that the air-
craft may have turned south a
little earlier than we had pre-
viously expected.
After MH370 disappeared
from the radar, Malaysia Air-
lines ground staff sought to
make contact using a satellite
phone. That was unsuccessful.
But the detailed research thats
being done now has been able
to . . . trace that phone call and
help position the aircraft and
the direction it was travelling.
He added that ongoing
mapping of the ocean oor
had uncovered quite remark-
able geographical features,
including new volcanos up to
2,000 metres high. AFP
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Ukrainian territory, the US
Ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey
Pyatt wrote on Twitter.
A NATO official said the sup-
ply of arms to the rebels had
also increased in both volume
and quantity.
But Russia swiftly denied the
allegations, with its envoy to the
OSCE pan-European security
body insisting: There are no
Russian soldiers in eastern
Ukraine.
Kiev had called on the West
for urgent help after a rebel
counteroffensive from the
southeast border appeared to
smash through an army block-
ade around the separatist
stronghold of Donetsk and
threaten the government-held
port city of Mariupol.
The gains by the separatist
fighters come after weeks of
government offensives that had
seen troops push deep into the
last holdout rebel bastions in
Ukraines industrial heartland.
Ukraines Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk blasted Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
for having deliberately
unleashed a war in Europe
and called for an emergency
United Nations Security Coun-
cil meeting.
A top rebel leader, Alexander
Zakharchenko, admitted on
Wednesday that Russian troops
were fighting alongside his
insurgents, but said they were
on holiday after volunteering
to join the battle.
The spiralling tensions come
only days after Poroshenko and
Putin held their first meeting in
three months on Tuesday but
failed to achieve any concrete
breakthrough despite talk of a
peace road map.
The EU said it was extremely
concerned about the escalat-
ing developments on its eastern
flank and called on Russia to
end its border hostility.
The US and the EU have
already imposed a series of
punishing sanctions on Russia
over the crisis, the worst stand-
off between Moscow and the
West since the Cold War.
Kiev said Russian troops on
Wednesday seized control of
the key border town of Novoa-
zovsk and a string of surround-
ing villages along the south-
eastern strip of the frontier.
A volunteer pro-Kiev com-
mander said government
troops were surrounded in the
key transport hub of Ilovaysk
some 50 kilometres southeast
of Donetsk and were running
out of ammunition.
Ukraine said yesterday its
forces had clashed with a recon-
naissance group that had
entered its territory from the
Russian-controlled Crimean
peninsula. AFP
Russian
boots on
ground in
Ukraine
Source: ASTB/JACC
AUSTRALIA
Perth
Exmouth
INDIAN
OCEAN
500 km
7th arc
The final arc of satellite
radar bands that MH370
is calculated to have crossed
Priority search
Medium search
Wide search
Latest planned search areas
As of Aug 21
Flight MH370 search area
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EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Cultural Affairs Assistant
TheU.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual for the
Cultural Affairs Assistant position in thePublic Affairs Section.
Under the supervision of the Public Affairs (PA) Specialist, the
Assistant Public Affairs Ofcer (APAO), and the Public Affairs
Ofcer (PAO), the Cultural Affairs Assistant (CAA) coordinates
the recruitment of candidates for U.S. Government-sponsored
educational and cultural exchange programs; makes international
travel arrangements and provides visa assistance to exchange
participants; develops and organizes outreach activities to youth;
establishes and maintains local contacts with ministry ofcials and
education institutions; and assists with Post-initiated educational
and cultural programs. Under the guidance from the Program
Management Specialist (PMS), the APAO, and the PAO, the
incumbent is responsiblefor theadministration and management of
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Where can a child own a
firearm? In 30 US states
I
N THE wake of the accidental
death of a gun instructor in Ari-
zona, many are likely asking how
a 9-year old was allowed to hold
and re an automatic weapon. But
gun laws in the US specically those
concerning minimum legal age re-
quirements for gun possession are
actually still surprisingly lax.
The tragedy occurred on Mon-
day at the Last Stop roadside resort,
where the girl had been taken by her
parents for a rearms lesson, the lo-
cal sheriffs ofce said.
The little girl had successfully man-
aged to control the military-grade
weapon in the single shot mode at
the Bullets and Burgers gun range,
part of the 30-acre Last Stop facility.
But when shooting instructor
Charles Vacca, 39, switched the Uzi
into the fully automatic setting,
the force of the gunre caused the
weapon to rebound upward, and an
errant bullet red by the child struck
him in the head. He died in hospital
a short time later.
Federal US law prohibits handgun
ownership by any person under the
age 18, with a handful of exceptions.
But there is no minimum age for long
gun (rie and shotgun) ownership.
Twenty states and the District of Co-
lumbia have set their own minimum
age laws ranging from 14 in Montana
to 21 in Illinois, but in the remaining
30 states its technically legal for a
child to possess a long gun.
That doesnt mean that a child can
walk into a gun show and purchase a
gun. There are federal laws for mini-
mum age purchasing of rearms,
said Daniel Webster, the director of
the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun
Policy and Research. Technically,
anybody selling a gun in that context
should look for age verication that
someone is at least 18 years old.
But a childs parent could. If dad
wants to give his son a rie or a shot-
gun on his 13th or 14th birthday, hes
pretty much free to do that in most
states, Webster said.
Its also perfectly legal in many
states for children to re guns of all
types at shooting ranges, like the
one where the accidental shooting
in Arizona occurred, so long as an
adult or instructor is present.
The gun used at the shooting
range incident, an Uzi, is a subma-
chine gun that could be classied
as either a handgun or a long gun
depending on the model and any
modications to the gun. While fed-
eral law would prohibit minors from
owning the pistol version of the gun,
there are no such federal restrictions
on the rie version. The laws arent
designed in essence to protect chil-
dren from accidental shootings of
this nature, Webster said. Theres a
mindset thats fairly prevalent in the
US that theres nothing wrong with
kids ring guns.
The industry pitch for the gun has
revolved around the efciency of its
operation and thrill of its use. Shoot-
ing the UZI pistol is just pure, eco-
nomical recreation with a ton of fun
thrown in, Richard Turner, the vice
president of sales and marketing for
Umarex USA, which manufactures
the gun, told the magazine Guns &
Ammo in 2012.
Tuesdays incident, however, high-
lights the guns potential for dan-
ger, and the potential danger in gun
use more generally. Accidental gun
deaths make up a signicant portion
of overall gun deaths in the United
States. The good news is that while
gun injury statistics are notoriously
spotty (by design), gun fatality data
from the CDC shows that accidental
gun deaths have been on a steady
downward trajectory since at least
1999. Theres a similar, though less
pronounced, trend for all accidental
gun injuries.
But its important to note that these
numbers could be too low. A recent
study found that federal reports of
accidental child gun deaths are sig-
nicantly underreported. Theres
good reason to assume that acciden-
tal gun deaths and injuries are under-
reported for all ages.
You are potentially looking at ac-
cidental shootings that are twice cur-
rent estimates, said Sam Bieler, an
Urban Institute researcher who stud-
ies gun violence.
Webster believes that there are
both cognitive and physical limita-
tions in children that make it more
difcult for children to understand
and apply rules they are taught from
a young age. A very common view
of gun-owning parents is that what
gun safety is all about is teaching
your children rules, he said. What
they dont consider are the develop-
mental issues and physical abilities
of children to actually follow these
instructions. It was obvious to me
when I saw this 9-year-old girl hold-
ing an incredibly powerful gun like
an Uzi. Why anyone was surprised
when she couldnt handle the recoil
is beyond me.
The National Rie Association
didnt immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment. THE WASHINGTON
POST/AFP
DISNEYS imagineers are
no strangers to using complex
machinery to create spec-
tacles. And patents lings
from last week show the com-
pany is interested in exploring
drones as a way to spice up
events at the companys chain
of theme parks including y-
ing screens and blimp-sized
puppets suspended and ani-
mated by drones.
The puppet patent, titled
Aerial display system with
marionettes articulated and
supported by airborne devic-
es describes huge, potentially
modular, gures that could be
manipulated by unmanned
aerial systems. It includes an
example of a giant Jack Skel-
lington marionette that looks
like it could have stepped
straight out of a nightmare, be-
fore Christmas or otherwise.
Two other patents deal with
ying visual displays. One, ti-
tled Aerial display system with
oating projection screens
is pretty self-explanatory. An-
other is for an aerial display
system with oating pixels,
of ixels which would turn
the sky or some other airspace
into a display screen.
But just because Disney pat-
ented these drone-driven de-
vices doesnt mean theyll be
used in Disney parks or other
venues anytime soon. Compa-
nies patent technologies that
never come to fruition all the
time, either to simply lay claim
to an idea rather than deploy
it or because the technology
turns out to be too complicat-
ed or costly to execute at the
time. THE WASHINGTON POST
Disney led a patent
for drone-controlled
blimp-size puppets
Shooting instructor Charles Vacca stands next to a 9-year-old girl. An errant bullet
red by the child fatally struck Vacca. MOHAVE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
An illustration
from a patent led
by Disney for Aer-
ial display system
with marionettes
articulated and
supported by
airborne devices.
Or, in English,
enormous pup-
pets controlled by
drones. DISNEY/US
PATENT OFFICE OFFICE
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N RECENT weeks, and in very
different environments, journal-
ists have found themselves in
the unusual position of becom-
ing the subject of news stories rather
than the people telling them. First,
my Washington Post colleague Wesley
Lowery and the Huffington Posts
Ryan J Reilly were arrested in a Fer-
guson, Missouri, McDonalds while
covering protests against police bru-
tality. Soon after, we learned that
James Foley, a freelance journalist,
was murdered by his Islamic State
captors, an act that communicated
the lethal tactics of that organisation
in the ugliest possible terms.
In both cases, the treatment of
journalists crystallised evolving con-
flicts. But there was discomfort, too,
a sense that when journalists become
the story, something has gone wrong
in the practice of the profession. I
think it is true that media figures
react strongly to the mistreatment of
our own, amplifying cases that arent
necessarily different from the vio-
lence or injustice suffered by other
civilians. But stories like these can be
sadly clarifying.
The treatment of journalists in
wartime or at scenes of civil unrest is
a test of whether the people they are
covering share some basic values and
views of what is taking place. Do both
protesters and police or the people in
two clashing armies believe that
there is a public interest in citizens
far from the conflict receiving accu-
rate and timely accounts of conflicts?
Are police, protesters and combat-
ants confident that their conduct
would hold up to public examina-
tion? If police or soldiers let journal-
ists keep doing their work and refrain
from arresting, kidnapping or killing
them, we know that they feel bound
by rules we understand.
But when people involved in civil
unrest or foreign wars try to stop
journalists from doing their jobs,
whether that means that my col-
leagues get detained in Iran or in Fer-
guson or whether that means the
awful killing of Foley by members of
the Islamic State, it is profoundly dis-
concerting. And it ought to be. We
want to know there are rules govern-
ing our wars and common interests
that lend restraint to the conduct of
protesters and police in the streets.
It should be frightening to recog-
nise how far that wish is from being
fulfilled. When these disagreements
are revealed, they are part of the sto-
ry. It is not unprofessional to make
them so. But we can also debate what
the conduct of journalists and media
organisations ought to be.
Last week, Ryan Schuessler, a free-
lance journalist who had been cover-
ing the standoff between citizens and
police in Ferguson for Al Jazeera
America, wrote a blog post explain-
ing that he would be withdrawing
from the assignment because he had
become uncomfortable with the way
his professional peers were behaving.
I am not sure that I think it is a sin
for a major TV network [to rent] out a
gated parking lot for their one cam-
era, not letting people in. Safely
reporting the news on the other side
of a tall fence, especially when
Schuessler is also upset that journal-
ists have become part of the story.
But if journalists are going to claim
the special status in these events that
I think they deserve, we should cer-
tainly talk about whether journalists
are exhibiting callousness
(Schuessler says he saw TV crews
making small talk and laughing at
the spot where Mike Brown was
killed, as residents prayed) or inter-
fering with events to try to arrange
better shots or feeds.
We should also talk about the
organisational imperatives that pro-
duce such behaviour, as outlets find
themselves competing for eyeballs
and quick hits in a fracturing media
market. Why might journalists be
hanging around the site of Browns
death, hoping to capture emotional
reactions or bad behaviour, rather
than be off reporting stories about
his life? And how do news organisa-
tions decide what constitutes
acceptable risk for the people who
work for them?
We should also discuss the chang-
ing business practices that influ-
enced Foleys career. Writing about
the conditions that meant that Foley
and his fellow freelancers had oppor-
tunities to sell stories and images
from Middle Eastern conflict zones,
Martin Chulov noted in the Guardian
that just because these journalists
were valuable to their client outlets
does not mean that they were valued.
Many freelance reporters worked
with no insurance, no expenses, or
even airfares to get them home
again, he wrote. Stripped down,
pared-back journalism has created
opportunities for those who dare, but
it has also allowed outlets to hide
behind flaky bottom lines as a means
of abdicating responsibility. Radio
stations, television networks and
print outlets continue to outsource
their coverage to reporters who often
work without basic protection.
I would hope that journalists
become the subjects of news stories
as infrequently as possible, if only for
what it means about the nature of
conflicts both foreign and domestic.
But when they do, it is an important
opportunity for us to learn more
about the conflicts they have been
swept up in and sometimes, about
the changing business models of
journalism itself. THE WASHINGTON POST
When journalists are the story
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson elds questions from the media. Arrests during protests in the Missouri town and the beheading of a journalist by the Islamic State jihadist
group have opened up debate about the role of the media and its behaviour. AFP
Comment
Alyssa Rosenberg
Alyssa Rosenberg blogs about culture for
the Washington Posts Opinions section.
H
ELLO Kitty is not a
cat, the company
behind Japans
global icon of cute
insisted yesterday, despite
an uproar from internet us-
ers who spluttered: But shes
got whiskers!
The moon-faced creation
that adorns everything from
pencil cases to pyjamas the
world over is, in fact, human.
Hello Kitty is a cheerful and
happy little girl with a heart of
gold, brand owner Sanrio says
on its website.
The shocking revelation
came to light when a Hawaii-
based academic specialising in
the epitome of kawaii (cute
in Japanese) asked Sanrio to
fact-check captions for an ex-
hibition she was curating to
mark the 40th anniversary of
Hello Kitty. Christine Yano, an
anthropologist from the Uni-
versity of Hawaii, told the Los
Angeles Times that she was
corrected very rmly by
Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat.
Thats one correction San-
rio made for my script for the
show, she said.
Hello Kitty is not a cat. Shes
a cartoon character. She is a lit-
tle girl. She is a friend. But she
is not a cat. Shes never depict-
ed on all fours. She walks and
sits like a two-legged creature.
And indeed, an AFP enquiry
as to the status of one of Japans
most famous exports con-
rmed her noncat identity.
It is a 100 per cent per-
sonied character, a Sanrio
spokesman told AFP in Tokyo.
The design takes the motif of
a cat, but there is no element of
a cat in Hello Kittys setting.
Her name is Kitty White, he
explained, and she was born in
England on November 1, 1974.
She is a Scorpio and has a twin
sister, Minny White, and lives in
a London suburb with father
George and mother Mary, ac-
cording to her prole on the
web. Despite her whiskers and
pointy ears, like the rest of her
family, Kitty has her own pet
a real cat named Charmmy
Kitty. Her life story has always
been there, the spokesman
said, adding the personica-
tion is meant to make her fans
feel close to the character.
Internet users were agog at
the news.
Asked about the reaction to
the shock revelation Hello Kitty
is not a cat, the spokesman of-
fered: I dont think anyone in
Japan found it surprising.
There is an explanation we
have made the whole time,
and I think thats how people
have understood it. AFP
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Pallid
4 Less covered
9 Toward the stern
14 St. Louis-to-Cincinnati dir.
15 Napoleon, on Elba
16 Astronomical flare-ups
17 Popular 20s song
20 Symphonic finishes
21 Man of many marches
22 Karenina of fiction
23 Jazz styles
26 Its often iced in summer
29 New York ballplayer
30 Watergate figure Sam
31 Feels under the weather
32 Oil-well firefighter Red
33 What software may be stored on
35 They move during pedaling
38 Showing signs of age
39 West Side Story girl
40 AARP part (Abbr.)
41 Armor plate
42 Drinking spree
45 Bobby, the legendary Bruin
46 Nile waders
48 Sci-fi writers award
49 TV trophies
51 Author H. ___ Haggard
52 How encores are given
57 Pageant entrants asset
58 Dik-dik relative
59 Grooms guarantee
60 Work on the runway
61 Lengthy narratives
62 Has the wherewithal
DOWN
1 Online film maker
2 Tennis, ___?
3 Should not have to
4 High-ranking Turks
5 Slasher film weapon
6 Eves genesis
7 Certain addition
8 Motive
9 Elephant goad
10 Short hairdos
11 Earharts field
12 War film A Bridge Too ___
13 Lou Grants anchorman
18 Sheeps plaint
19 Patrolman
23 Knee protector
24 Word with eye or temper
25 Galleys with two banks of oars
27 Colonnade trees
28 Zebra kin
30 Tranquil scene
31 Solo for Sills
32 Kind of rain or test
33 Funny Rock
34 Roast stand
35 Tap output
36 Fearless
37 Hamsters home
38 Hit-show letters
41 Paths between pews
42 Like bar mitzvahs
43 Sometimes theyre hidden
44 Flash of comics
46 Urge
47 Provo campus
48 Self starter?
50 Jazzman Allison
51 Some wines
52 Heart-rate abbr.
53 ___-hoo!
54 A near-Miss. state
55 Cleaning cloth
56 Evidence in a paternity case
NO BUY ZONE
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Hello Kitty isnt a cat and
never has been: company
Not only has Hello Kitty literally been to space (yes, really), she isnt even a cat. AFP
Lifestyle
20
Huck-chin
Leno to be
feted with
Twain award
J
AY Leno will be socia-
bly sassed by fellow TV
staples as he accepts the
Kennedy Centers 17th annual
Mark Twain Prize for Ame-
rican Humor on October 19.
On Wednesday, the Kennedy
Center named a half-dozen
celebrities who will skewer
and salaam before the die-
hard stand-up comedian and
retired Tonight Show host.
The bill includes Lenos To-
night Show successor Jimmy
Fallon, who returned NBCs
nighttime franchise from
Burbank, California, to New
York with the hosting handoff
last winter. Also slated to
appear: Kevin Eubanks, the
amiable jazz guitarist who led
the Tonight Show band from
1995 until 2010.
Jerry Seinfeld will be among
the comics honouring Leno.
As Lenos decades-long
Tonight Show stretch ended
in February, Seinfeld played
diplomat by crosscutting
respectful (and apparently
unsolicited) tributes between
Leno and late-night rival
David Letterman from his Web
series Comedians in Cars Get-
ting Coffee. THEWASHINGTONPOST
In brief
Japans Aska pleads
guilty to drug charges
JAPANESE pop star Aska
yesterday pleaded guilty to drug
charges after his May arrest
made headlines across the
country. More than 2,600
people queued in the rain to get
one of just 21 seats in a Tokyo
courtroom where the well-
known celebrity was making
his first public appearance
since being released on bail
last month. The 56-year-old,
part of the popular music duo
Chage and Aska, admitted
during his one-day trial in
Tokyo District Court that he
purchased illegal stimulants
earlier this year. AFP
S Korean acquitted of
lauding North in tweets
SOUTH Koreas top court
yesterday acquitted a man
accused of sympathising with
North Korea by retweeting
posts by its government,
arguing his action poses little
threat to national security. Park
Jeong-geun, a 26-year-old
photographer, was arrested
and charged in 2012 of violating
the National Security Law by
retweeting posts by the Norths
official Twitter account. Under
the notorious anti-communist
law, South Koreans are banned
from activities deemed to be
praising or sympathising with
the North, which still remains
at war with the South
technically. AFP
NYM Book Club
@nymbc
So Hello Kitty isnt a cat? Ev-
erything I know is a lie
Eisaku Iwanaka
@eisakuivan
Sanrio conrms that Hello
Kitty is NOT a cat. One of
the many reasons why I have
trust issues
deadface
@killedbydying
Hello Kitty is not actually a
cat. MIND BLOWN
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BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
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Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
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2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
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- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
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(4 calls/onth)
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NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
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APL
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COTS
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Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
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2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
O
FF the main tour-
ist drag of La Ram-
bla in Barcelona, La
Boqueria market
is a tangle of colours, sounds,
smells and avours. La Bo-
queria has colourful displays
of fresh fruit and vegetables,
gaping fresh sh, beady-eyed
poultry and giant hanging ja-
mon. It has generous heaps of
dried and candied fruits, rain-
bows of herbs and spices and
piles and piles of irresistibly
pretty chocolates. There are
lively seafood restaurants and
thriving street food stands, re-
freshing fresh juices and entic-
ing tapas bars all around.
While there are less touristy
and more authentic food mar-
kets in Barcelona, if you want
a market x and have limited
time to search for them, La
Boqueria hits the spot. Unless,
you are accustomed to even
more intense market delights.
A friend who regularly goes
to Morocco was a little less im-
pressed. For her, it would take
a lot to beat Moroccan souks
on food, atmosphere and ex-
perience. Moroccan markets
sell leather goods and clothes,
but the main section of a souk
is food, she said. Natural,
predominantly organic, fresh,
locally produced food, the kind
we would spend a fortune on
in the UK.
Giant vats of olives, and spices
of vibrant colours bright red
paprika, cumin seeds, saffron,
turmeric presented in huge
cones, chickens running about,
mules pulling carts, a throng of
people going about their busi-
ness . . . It beats a trip to the su-
permarket. Markets are natural
attractions for hungry tourists;
a rich, fun experience reect-
ing local cuisine, culture and
lifestyle. There is plenty of room
for interaction with locals, the
chance to try out iffy language
skills and the draw of a fresh,
cheap lunch too.
Some of the more popular
markets may have become
such an attraction that you
nd your interactions are
mostly with other tourists
who keep stepping on your
sandalled toes. The market of
Uzes in France, with fresh local
produce including fabulous
cheese, charcuterie and artisan
bread, is wonderful, but it can
get hard to navigate the pretty
streets during tourist season
without being caught up in a
browsing bottleneck.
My current local market in
a suburb of Toulouse, south-
west France, may not be as
spectacular as La Boqueria or
as pretty as Uzes and other,
fancier French counterparts,
but every week the alleys be-
tween stalls are crammed with
local shoppers. There are larg-
er-scale importers of produce,
but you can easily opt to buy
your food from stalls run by
the people who grew it. There
are local producers who drive
small vans, and those who
come in the car with a small
table laden with produce from
their vegetable patches.
Several cheesemongers sell
a ne array of French cheese,
from large, round trufed brie
to tiny goats cheeses. Local
butchers set up a grill to entice
shoppers with a taste of Tou-
louse sausages, and while not
all service comes with a smile,
there is a jocular onion seller
who calls everyone tu rather
than the usual formal vous.
Markets, wherever they are,
offer a chaotic walking tour of
cuisine and culture, and a deli-
cious way to mark the seasons.
Beefheart tomatoes, plump
courgettes and aubergines
in the heat of summer; wild
mushrooms that draw crowds
in the autumn; and spring gar-
lic and early strawberries to
remind you the warm weather
is on its way back. Other mar-
kets are amazing to visit, but
this is my favourite place to
shop. THE GUARDIAN
Food markets
offer tour of
local culture
For some, it would take a lot to beat Moroccan souks on atmosphere,
food or experience. AFP
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VILLA FOR RENT IN BKKI
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Rent: 2400 USD/month Location:
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Tel: 012 879 231
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Web: www.aps.edu.kh
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thebest locationfor residence.
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WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
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open living room, basic furniture,
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big parking and playground, quiet
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
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TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Daun Penh area (close to Inde-
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MODERN SWIMMING POOL
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MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
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nice balcony, big parking &
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1ST FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
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bedrooms, large and open living
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
3RD FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
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to Independent Monument), 1 bed,
large and open living room, basic
furniture, western kitchen, very big
balcony with many owers, quiet &
safety. Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
1ST FLOOR KHMER HOUSE
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basic furniture, western kitchen,
garden and trees, quiet & safety.
the best location for residence.
Price: US$650/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW APARTMENT
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modern furniture, western Kitchen,
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bedrooms, Large living room, fully
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kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
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Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
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MODERN APARTMENT FOR
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room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, roof top pool and
gym, nice balcony, lots of light, very
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Price: US$850-US$1,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
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nice furnished, western kitchen,
very big balcony, very good condi-
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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BKKI, 01&02&03 bed, roof top pool
& gym, open living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, very safety area,
Price: $1,200-$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODER ROOFTOP POOL
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Bassak area (near Independent
Monument), 01&02 bed, roof top
pool & gym, open living room, fully
&modernfurnished, modernkitchen,
Price: $1,100-$1,400 m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
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300m from pub street (Siem Reap)
Size: 2136m
2
, Price: 234$/m
2
Only
Tel: 097 45 55 877
-Available 1bed, 2bed & 3bed
-Very safe, quiet locaton next to
Chinese Embassy.
-Spacious Parking, Lif, and Generator
(Safe for Blackout)
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-24h security system/18 CCTV/Smoke
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Tel: Khmer/Eng - 017562750
Korean/Eng - 010365253
NEW APARTMENT FOR RENT
WANTED
Full exper ienced
Garage/gate fitters
Sectional doors
Motorization
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Best money for the right pepole
English: 095 734 155
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STEVES STEAKHOUSE STEAK
Super Specials. Sirloin (USA)
$10.50 Or T-Bone (AUS) $11.50
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STEVES STEAKHOUSE CIGARS
Cuban or Cuban Quality
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Startng at $9. Buy any 2 cigars
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LAO-Z FOOD
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HOUSE FOR RENT (BUSINESS)
Location: near russian market
House size: 4m x 20m
Tel: 016 721 266/ 077 494 976
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Rent $750/MIndependent Monument
1Living room, 2Bedrooms, 2Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Rent $950/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
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Rent $400/m Loc: BKK3 Area
1Living room 1Bedroom 1Bath
Include Internet, 1Car Parking
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 29 , 2014 23
Sport
Latoel fills Colossa void
on Phnom Penh fight card
ONE FIGHTING Championship
announced yesterday that
Dutch cage fighting veteran
Vincent Latoel will replace
Vuyisile Colossa of South
Africa in the co-main event of
the mixed martial arts
organisations inaugural
Cambodian card to be held at
Koh Pich Theatre on
September 12. The 35-year-
old Latoel (15-14-2) will face
American Caros Fodor (9-4) in
a lightweight showdown, with
both fighters coming off wins
at ONE FC: Honor & Glory in
Singapore on May 30. DAN RILEY
Marquez and Pedrosa
ready for Silverstone
MARC Marquez and Dani
Pedrosa head to the 12th round
of the 2014 MotoGP World
Championship this weekend at
Silverstone looking to continue
the Repsol Honda team
dominance of this season. The
most recent round in the Czech
Republic saw Pedrosa end
Marquez run of 10 straight
victories. Sundays main race
gets under way at 7pm
Cambodian time. DANRILEY
The IRB logo is seen on the ofcial ball for the 2011 rugby union World Cup in New Zealand. AFP
THE International Rugby
Board (IRB) is to change its
name to World Rugby, the
global governing body for
rugby union announced
yesterday.
The change will take effect
from November 19, with the
new brand and logo to be
launched at the IRB World
Rugby Conference and Exhi-
bition in London on Novem-
ber 17.
In a statement, the IRB said
that global rugby participation
had increased by more than
two million to 6.6 million play-
ers over the past four years,
driven by the commercial suc-
cess of Rugby World Cup, the
IRBs development strategies
and record investment, strong
national unions and rugbys
reintroduction to the Olympic
Games through the abbrevi-
ated format of Sevens.
The name change and re-
brand was, ofcials said, a re-
ection of the IRBs mission
to build a stronger connection
with fans, players and new au-
diences worldwide.
IRB chairman Bernard
Lapasset said: Rugby contin-
ues to thrive, reach out and
engage new audiences and
participants in record num-
bers and the IRB has been at
the heart of that growth.
The Frenchman added: We
are committed to furthering
that growth beyond our tradi-
tional family and fan base with
a public that expects to be en-
tertained, informed and inter-
acted with. This move is more
than just a name change, it is a
mission statement.
IRB chief executive Brett
Gosper said the change was
also indicative of the global
governing bodys expanded
role.
In a crowded global enter-
tainment and sporting mar-
ketplace, the role of the IRB
has evolved from game regula-
tor to game inspirer.
With this we must con-
tinue to appeal to those who
know and love the sport and
its heritage, whilst attracting,
engaging and inspiring those
who have no connection with
the sport across multiple cul-
tures and languages around
the world.
Rugbys global appeal is
founded and positioned on its
unique character-building val-
ues and inclusive ethos and we
want everyone to feel connect-
ed with the sport and Rugbys
ongoing success story, the
Australian added.
World Rugby, clearly aligns
our name with our mission
and allows us to organise new
and existing consumer facing
properties in a way that they
will be more impactful and
more appealing to the sports
growing global fan base.
The next Rugby World Cup
takes place in the sports birth-
place England in September
and October next year. AFP
IRB to become World Rugby
China showcases future stars
A
GLITTERING ceremony
yesterday closed the Youth
Olympics in Chinas eastern
city of Nanjing after 12 days
of competition that showcased the
sporting superstars of the future.
No ofcial medals table is pub-
lished for the multisports event which
focuses on a program promoting
friendship and sportsmanship, rather
than winning.
But unofcial sources put China on
top with 38 gold medals, followed by
Russia on 27 and the United States
with 10.
Tennis starlet Ye Shilin, 16, who is
being tipped by state media to eclipse
the achievements of 32-year-old
double Grand Slam winner Li Na as
Chinas greatest player, won the girls
singles.
Another home-grown talent, 17-
year-old Shen Duo, swept to six gold
medals in the swimming pool, despite
suffering from u.
In table tennis a sport long domi-
nated by China 17-year-old rising
star Fan Zhendong claimed gold in
both the boys singles and mixed team
doubles events.
China also dominated the girls foot-
ball, beating Venezuela 5-0 in the nal
on Wednesday evening.
Chinese basketball phenomenon Yao
Ming an eight-time NBA All-Star
made an appearance at the Games and
backed the noncompetitive emphasis,
saying that events for young athletes
should do away with the results, the
records, the medals.
Whatever you are and no matter
what size you are, we are all members
of a group, Chinas ofcial news agen-
cy Xinhua quoted Yao who is listed as
2.29 metres tall as saying.
More than 3,700 competitors aged 15
to 18 took part, where golf and rugby, in
the form of sevens, made their return
to the Olympic fold, after gaps of 110
and 90 years respectively.
The only cloud over the event was
cast by the West Africa Ebola virus
outbreak which prevented 25 athletes
from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and
Nigeria from travelling to Nanjing.
The Cambodian contingent, consist-
ing of mens 50m freestyle swimmer
Cheng Sopha, womens 100m sprinter
Sokha Panha Viriyak Vatey and wom-
ens 52kg freestyle wrestler Dorn Srey
Mao failed to get a sniff of a podium
place. Srey Mao managed to win a bout
4-0 against an El Salvador opponent on
Tuesday but lost by the same imposing
scoreline against an Egyptian, a Japa-
nese and an Uzbekistani.
The second Youth Olympic Games
is awesome and well organised, chef
de mission Nhan Sokvisal told the Post,
noting that the only complaint was a
repetitive albeit varied menu at the
Olympic village canteen.
The athletes made lot of friends
from all over the world they learned
about each others lifestyles and cul-
tures. Its not only about the compe-
tition but about friendship, respect
and excellence. We also enjoyed the
cultural exchanged programs, healthy
cooking classes and other activities in
the village, he added. AFP, ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY DAN RILEY
Athletes dive into the water at the start of the mens triathlon at the 2014 Youth Olympic
Games in Nanjing, in eastern Chinas Jiangsu province on August 18. AFP
US Open outcomes
Sharapova goes
through; new
low for US men
M
ARIA Sharapova booked her
US Open third-round berth
on Wednesday with a gritty
three-set victory over Alexandra Dul-
gheru as US men produced an histo-
ric low in their home Grand Slam.
Sharapova, who lifted her fifth
Grand Slam title at the French Open
this year, fought back from a set
down to beat 95th-ranked Romanian
Dulgheru 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The fifth-seeded Russian was
reluctant to blame the windy condi-
tions in the cavernous Arthur Ashe
Stadium court for her difficulties,
which included 46 unforced errors.
And after two hours and 26 minu-
tes on court in a match that began
in hot sunshine and ended under the
floodlights she had her 17th three-
set win of the season, the most on
the WTA tour.
If US fans were looking for home-
grown heroes to cheer among the
men, they were in for a disappoint-
ment. The first-round exits of Steve
Johnson and Ryan Harrison on Wed-
nesday meant just three American
men reached the second round, the
fewest in US Open history.
John Isner, the 13th-seeded US
number one, Sam Querrey and wil-
dcard Tim Smyczek all booked their
second-round berths on Tuesday. AFP
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Tennis
Peng tells Li
Na: Wish you
were here
P
ENG Shuai admits she feels
the huge burden of Chi-
nese expectation in the
absence of superstar Li Na
after stunning Polish fourth seed Ag-
nieszka Radwanska at the US Open
on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old, ranked at No 39,
clinched a shock 6-3, 6-4 win for a
fourth career victory over a top ve
player but rst at a Grand Slam.
The win immediately swung the
spotlight on the softly spoken Tian-
jin native after world number three
compatriot Li, the Australian Open
champion and 2011 French Open
winner, was forced to skip the tour-
nament with a knee injury.
I prefer to have Li Na here. They
[Chinese fans] didnt watch me . . .
now there is more pressure. Its not
easy to handle that. I just want to
focus and enjoy my tennis, said
Peng who added that at least having
ve other Chinese in the main draw
helped ease the burden.
When they say Lis not going to
play Montreal, Cincinnati, and also
the US Open, it was big news. But this
year is one of the best with six Chi-
nese girls in the main draw.
Of those six, three remain with Peng
in the last 32 while qualiers Wang
Qiang and Zheng Saisai have made
the second round.
Wednesdays win was a repeat
of Pengs defeat of Radwanska, the
champion in Montreal in the run-up
to the tournament, at the same stage
in New York in 2010, her only triumph
in four meetings with the Pole.
Peng also wiped out the mis-
ery of her last clash against Rad-
wanska when she squandered two
match points in losing their fourth
round encounter at the 2011 Austra-
lian Open.
Peng, who has reached six singles
nals in her career but has yet to lift
a title, said she had been inspired by
Li to keep playing despite twice being
tempted to call a halt to her career.
I have learned a lot from Li. She is
one of the best players in the world.
Now I will try to keep going.
There is still a lot of work to do but
I want to keep enjoying my tennis.
Despite her admiration for her com-
patriot, Peng has already achieved
something that Li has not.
In February this year she became
the rst Chinese player to reach num-
ber one in the world when she went
top of the doubles charts thanks to
her success with Taiwanese partner
Hsieh Su-wei.
Peng sent down 28 winners on
Wednesday in a gruelling clash on the
Louis Armstrong Stadium which fea-
tured a series of brutal at-hitting ral-
lies in temperatures bursting through
the 30-degree barrier.
Radwanska is a tough player. I had
to do a lot of running, but I fought,
said Peng who took victory on a third
match point.
I wanted to make it this time. I
had two match points against her in
2011 in Australia and lost. This is just
amazing. AFP
Peng Shuai of China reacts after defeating Agnieszka Radwanska in their second-
round US Open match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. AFP
Football
Platini says he will not
challenge FIFAs Blatter
UEFA president Michel Platini
announced yesterday that he
will not challenge Sepp Blatter
for the leadership of footballs
world body but made a new call
for Blatter to stand down when
his term ends. The 59-year-old
French football legend said he
would concentrate on a new
term as head of Europes
governing body instead of taking
on Blatter. His decision leaves
the path open for Blatter, 78, to
win a fifth four-year term in
charge of FIFA in an election
next year. This is not the time, it
is not my time. Not yet, Platini
told reporters. I thought long
and hard, but never managed to
convince myself during these
months of reflection that I had
to go to FIFA for these elections.
Its as simple as that. AFP
Ground Zero as Aguirre
names first Japan squad
JAPAN coach Javier Aguirre
declared yesterday the reigning
Asian champions were starting
from zero as he named his first
squad for next months
friendlies against Uruguay and
Venezuela with playmaker Shinji
Kagawa the most notable
absentee. Kagawa, seemingly
surplus to requirements at
Manchester United and linked
with Valencia and Juventus, will
miss the home games on
September 5 and 9 after
suffering a concussion in
midweek, while only 12 of
Japans World Cup flops
survived the cull. I dont care if
players have been part of the
Japan set-up in the past,
Aguirre told reporters. Thats
not a condition for being
selected. Its about quality. AFP
Wayne Rooney named
new England captain
MANCHESTER United striker
Wayne Rooney will take over
from Steven Gerrard as
England captain, manager Roy
Hodgson announced during a
press conference at Wembley
Stadium yesterday. The
28-year-old forward has won
95 caps since making his debut
against Australia in February
2003, scoring 40 goals, and was
also named captain of United
two weeks ago. He succeeds
Liverpool midfielder Gerrard,
who stepped down after
Englands group-phase exit at
the World Cup, and will begin
his tenure as permanent
captain in next weeks friendly
at home to Norway. AFP
US parents sue FIFA
over headers concerns
A GROUP of American parents
is suing FIFA to force it to limit
the number of times young
soccer players can head the
ball. The class action suit was
filed on Wednesday in California
to demand more protection
from concussions, and also
names as defendants the
United States Soccer
Federation and the US Youth
Soccer Association. There is
an epidemic of concussion
injuries in soccer at all levels
around the world, including in
the United States, from youth to
professionals, the complaint
alleges. The suit calls for
limiting the number of headers
that young players can
perform, arguing that their
neck muscles are weaker and
less able to absorb the impact
of the ball. AFP
Wenger backs
new signing
Sanchez to fill
Girouds shoes
A
RSENAL manager Arsene
Wenger has backed Alexis
Sanchez to prove an able
deputy for the injured Olivi-
er Giroud after the Chilean forward
red his new club into the Champi-
ons League group stages.
Sanchez scored the only goal of the
game against Besiktas at the Emir-
ates Stadium on Wednesday to earn
Arsenal a 1-0 win that propelled
them into the Champions League
group phase for the 17th consecu-
tive season.
With Wenger revealing afterwards
that Giroud could be out for up to
four months after undergoing sur-
gery on a broken tibia, it was the ide-
al moment for Sanchez to showcase
his ability to lead the line.
Asked if Sanchez could play at cen-
tre-forward during the period of Gi-
rouds absence, Wenger replied: For
three or four months? He can play his
whole life at centre-forward.
I bought him to play striker, not to
play only on the anks.
Sanchezs goal was his rst since
his 30 million ($50.4 million, 37.6
million) move from Barcelona, but
Wenger said that he did not see the
25-year-olds strike as the rst repay-
ment on his hefty fee.
I dont see it like that, said the
Frenchman.
He had a good game, not only on
the technical side, but on the ghting
side. He was mobile, dangerous, and
showed as well he has great ghting
spirit; qualities that will be very im-
portant in the Premier League.
While Wenger admitted that he
was open to making new signings
before the transfer window closes
on September 1, he said that buying
players was not the solution to the
injuries suffered by players such as
Giroud and Mikel Arteta.
If you want to make anybody
happy, you just buy all these play-
ers, said Wenger, who dismissed
links with Manchester United for-
ward Danny Welbeck, Serbian striker
Nikola Zigic, and former Arsenal
midelder Alex Song.
But whats important is the perfor-
mance on the football pitch and the
solidarity we have shown tonight.
If you look at the players we had on
the bench and those who are injured,
we have players. You cannot every
time buy when a players injured.
Asked if Monacos prolic Colom-
bian striker Radamel Falcao was
within Arsenals price range, Wenger
responded succinctly: No.
Wenger also praised England
midelder Jack Wilshere, who pro-
vided the spark of inspiration that
led to Sanchezs goal in rst-half
stoppage time.
From game to game, he grows,
Wenger said. He got some critics
recently and the best response is to
show on the pitch that hes getting
better and better.
He has found a little burst back
to get away from people, which he
hadnt had for a while. In the last
two, three games, you see it slowly
coming back.
Wenger admitted that Wilshere had
been lucky not to concede a pen-
alty for sliding in from behind on Ra-
mon Motta when the score was 0-0.
Mathieu Debuchy, who was later
sent off for two bookable offences, also
escaped sanction after sending Mus-
tafa Pektemek tumbling in the box, but
Besiktas coach Slaven Bilic was reluc-
tant to discuss either incident.
The former Croatia coach watched
the match from the stands after be-
ing sent off in last weeks 0-0 draw
in Istanbul and when asked to com-
ment, he replied: You know where I
sat tonight.
You arent going to be angry if I re-
fuse to answer those questions.
Bilic admitted that the result had
left him gutted, but he said that his
side would draw encouragement from
their performance over the two legs.
Im proud, and well come out of
this with positives, he told his post-
match press conference. Were not
just in the Europa League to partici-
pate. Were going to do business there
and we want to go very, very far.
If we continue to play like this, with
a couple more players, we can go far
in the Europa League and ght in the
Turkish championship, which is al-
ways a priority for this club. AFP
Wednesdays Results
Athletic Bilbao 3 Napoli 1
(agg 4-2)
Bayer Leverkusen 4 Copenhagen 0
(agg 7-2)
Ludogorets Razgrad 1
Steaua Bucharest 0 (agg 1-1)
Ludogorets win 6-5 on penalties
Malmo 3 Red Bull Salzburg 0
(agg 4-2)
Arsenals Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez (right) has an unsuccessful shot on goal as
Besiktas Austrian midelder Veli Kavlak defends during their UEFA Champions League
qualifying round play-off second round at the Emirates Stadium in London on Tuesday. AFP
National team off to Takeo
Chhorn Norn and Dan Riley
THE Football Federation of
Cambodia released a list of
names of 30 players for the
national team on Tuesday as
selected by South Korean head
coach Lee Tae Hoon.
The squad was to travel to the
National Football Centre in
Tonle Bati district, Take prov-
ince, for training ahead of their
participation in the upcoming
2014 Suzuki Cup qualification
tournament in Vientiane.
Cambodia are chasing their
first place in the group stage
since 2008, and will kick off
their campaign on October 12
against hosts Laos at the New
Laos National Stadium.
They will then face over the
following week East Timor,
Myanmar and Brunei for one of
the two spots up for grabs in the
next phase, which will be co-
hosted by Vietnam and Singa-
pore from November 22 to
December 20.
Lees staff members for the
Takeo training include team
manager Chhang Piseth, assist-
ant coaches Meas Channa, Um
Savong and Ung Kanyanith,
goalkeeper coach Prak Vanny,
doctor Hai Sakary and inter-
preter Lem Vanny. TRANSLATED BY
CHENG SERYRITH
Squad list (clubs)
Goalkeepers
Sou Yaty (PP Crown)
Um Vichet (MND)
Sor Sophea (Svay Rieng)
Defenders
Touch Pacharong (Boeung Ket)
Ros Samoeun (Boeung Ket)
Sok Sovan (Boeung Ket)
Boris Kok (Crown)
Hong Pheng (Crown)
Ngoy Srin (Crown)
Khek Khemarin (MND)
Sun Sovannrithy (Naga Corp)
Say Piseth (Police)
Soeuy Visal (Svay Rieng)
Mol Daravan (Svay Rieng)
Lay Raksmey (Svay Rieng)
Midfielders
Chan Vathanaka (Boeung Ket)
Chhun Sothearoth (Boeung Ket)
Uk Sothy (Crown)
Bin Chantha Thierry (Crown)
Sos Souhana (Crown)
Chhin Chhoeun (MND)
Prak Mony Udom (Svay Rieng)
Hoy Phallin (Svay Rieng)
Nob Tola (Svay Rieng)
Nuth Sinoun (TriAsia)
Suong Virak (TriAsia)
Forwards
Khoun Laboravy (Boeung Ket)
Kouch Sokumpheak (Crown)
Phoung Soksana (MND)
Sok Chanraksmey (TriAsia)
English Premier League
Saturday August 30
Burnley v Man United 6:45pm
Man City v Stoke 9pm
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
9pm
QPR v Sunderland 9pm
Swansea v West Brom 9pm
West Ham v Southampton
9pm
Everton v Chelsea 11:30pm
Sunday August 31
Aston Villa v Hull 7:30pm
Tottenham v Liverpool
7:30pm
Leicester v Arsenal 10pm
Spanish La Liga
Saturday August 30
Getafe v Almeria 1am
Valencia v Malaga 3am
Sunday August 31
Athl Bilbao v Levante 12am
Cordoba v Celta Vigo 12am
Atl Madrid v Eibar 2am
Espanyol v Sevilla 4am
Monday September 1
Villarreal v Barcelona 12am
Deportivo de La Coruna v
Rayo Vallecano 2am
Real Sociedad v
Real Madrid 2am
Elche v Granada 4am
German Bundesliga
Saturday August 30
Augsburg v
Borussia Dortmund 1:30am
Bayer Leverkusen v
Hertha Berlin 8:30pm
Hamburg v Paderborn
8:30pm
Werder Bremen v
Hoffenheim 8:30pm
Stuttgart v Cologne 8:30pm
Wolfsburg v
Eintracht Frankfurt 8:30pm
Schalke v Bayern Munich
11:30pm
Sunday August 31
Mainz v Hannover 8:30pm
Freiburg v Borussia
Mgladbach 10:30pm
Italian Serie A
Saturday August 30
Chievo v Juventus 11pm
Sunday August 31
Roma v Fiorentina 1:45am
Atalanta v Verona 11pm
AC Milan v Lazio 11pm
Monday September 1
Cesena v Parma 1:45am
Genoa v Napoli 1:45am
Palermo v Sampdoria
1:45am
Sassuolo v Cagliari 1:45am
Torino v Inter Milan 1:45am
Udinese v Empoli 1:45am
French Ligue 1
Saturday August 30
Marseille v Nice 1:30am
Monaco v Lille 10pm
Sunday August 31
Caen v Rennes 1am
Lens v Reims 1am
Lorient v Guingamp 1am
Nantes v Montpellier 1am
Toulouse v Evian TG 1am
Bordeaux v Bastia 7pm
Metz v Lyon 10pm
Monday September 1
Paris SG v St Etienne 2am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
The Cambodian national team line up for a photo before departing for
the National Football Centre in Takeo on Tuesday. KEM SOVANNA
27
Football
No regrets claims Singapore fixer
N
OTORIOUS Sin-
gaporean football
match-xer Wilson
Raj Perumal has
said he has no regrets despite
gambling away the millions he
earned through rigging nearly
100 games worldwide over
two decades.
In a wide-ranging interview
with CNN, Perumal said he
earned ve to six million dol-
lars from inuencing 80 to
100 matches in his two-de-
cade xing career.
But the 49-year-old Sin-
gaporean Tamil said he had
squandered away all his illicit
earnings because of a gam-
bling habit.
I have no regrets. It was
like, it was a phase of my life
and I enjoyed it and I trav-
elled around the world. I had
a good time, Perumal ex-
plained in the interview, pub-
lished late on Wednesday on
the CNN website.
Perumal, who claims he in-
uenced top-tier games in-
cluding those at the Beijing
Olympics in 2008 and the At-
lanta Olympics in 1994, said
there was little guilt involved
in being a match-xer.
It [football] is no longer a
sport. It is more like a busi-
ness now. We are just trying
to make money out of this
business, he said.
He said about 80 per cent
of fixed matches were suc-
cessful.
I was on the bench at times,
and telling players what to do,
giving orders to the coach. It
was that easy. There was no
policing whatsoever, he said.
But things could still go
awry if players promise to
throw a match but fail to fol-
low through during a game.
There is no litmus to a
players honesty or commit-
ment level, Perumal said.
Perumal is currently in Hun-
gary, where he is under po-
lice protection and assisting
match-xing investigators.
He was arrested in Finland in
2011 and served one year of a
two-year sentence for xing
top-tier games there.
In April, Perumal released
a tell-all autobiography titled
Kelong Kings, detailing how
he learned the trade by rig-
ging games in Singapore and
neighbouring Malaysia in the
early 1990s.
Perumal claims he was ar-
rested in Finland because he
was double-crossed by Dan
Tan, the alleged leader of a
global match-xing ring cur-
rently in indenite detention
in Singapore along with three
other associates.
Perumal is wanted in Sin-
gapore for skipping bail back
in 2010.
He had ed the Southeast
Asian city-state after being
sentenced to ve years in jail
for assaulting a law enforce-
ment ofcial over a park-
ing ticket.
He had previously served
jail sentences in Singapore for
xing domestic games and
attacking a player to harm his
sides chances in a match.
Singapore police have said
they are exploring ways to se-
cure Perumals return to serve
out his sentence. AFP
Convicted football match-xer Wilson Maj Perumal of Singapore looks on in the Lapland district court in Rovaniemi, on June 22, 2011. AFP
Wanderers targeted by lasers,
crashes during Chinese trip
W
ESTERN Sydney Wanderers
weathered an orchestrat-
ed disruption campaign in-
cluding car crashes and laser
beams before upsetting Chinese holders
Guangzhou Evergrande in the AFC Cham-
pions League, reports said yesterday.
Australian newspapers claimed players
were woken by people knocking on their
doors and ringing their hotel phones
throughout the night before the match
in southern China.
Despite the incidents, the debutants
sent the deep-pocketed champions and
tournament favourites crashing out on
away goals over their two-legged quar-
ternal, in one of the competitions
great shocks.
The Daily Telegraph said the Wanderers
were involved in two trafc accidents on
the way to Guangzhous Tianhe stadium.
A car scraped the side of the team bus,
forcing them to brake hard and a bus
containing 20 tourists travelling behind
rammed into them, the newspaper said.
Players and ofcials had to get into a
support bus, but minutes later two cars
smashed into each other and further de-
layed the team in an orchestrated plan to
upset the Sydney team, it added.
The newspaper said that during the
match Wanderers players had laser beams
shone into their eyes by home fans, while
bottles were also thrown from the stands.
Guangzhou won Wednesdays second
leg 2-1 but the Wanderers reached the
semis on away goals following their 1-0
victory in Sydney last week. Guangzhou
coach Marcello Lippi received a touchline
ban after storming onto the pitch in Syd-
ney to complain about two late red cards.
Upon the Wanderers arrival in Guang-
zhou, home fans at the airport held up
placards warning players against diving,
in reference to the incidents in Sydney.
The result was particularly surpris-
ing given Guangzhous exalted nancial
status compared with the Wanderers,
a club that is only two years old and
that has a salary cap of A$2.5 million
(US$2.34 million).
The wealthiest club in Asia will cry poor
and feel robbed but ultimately they were
let down by themselves over the course of
a tie where everything conspired against
them, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
They are the reigning Asian cham-
pions who are accustomed to winning,
yet here they stumbled against a team
built on a fraction of their budget, a
team that didnt exist when this incred-
ible run began. AFP
Haliti Labinot (left) of Australias Western Sydney Wanderers takes a shot at goal during his teams AFC Champions
League quarternal second leg against Chinas Guangzhou Evergrande at Tianhe Sports Center in Guangzhou. AFP
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