Teenage taekwondo sensation Sorn Seavmey returned home from the 17th Asian Games late on Sunday as Cambodia's first gold medallist in 60 years of participation. Prime minister Hun Sen and members of his Cabinet gave the golden girl and her family members a rousing reception at the peace building. He declared that Seavmey's spectacular gold medal.
Teenage taekwondo sensation Sorn Seavmey returned home from the 17th Asian Games late on Sunday as Cambodia's first gold medallist in 60 years of participation. Prime minister Hun Sen and members of his Cabinet gave the golden girl and her family members a rousing reception at the peace building. He declared that Seavmey's spectacular gold medal.
Teenage taekwondo sensation Sorn Seavmey returned home from the 17th Asian Games late on Sunday as Cambodia's first gold medallist in 60 years of participation. Prime minister Hun Sen and members of his Cabinet gave the golden girl and her family members a rousing reception at the peace building. He declared that Seavmey's spectacular gold medal.
tion Sorn Seavmey returned home from the 17th Asian Games late on Sunday as Cambodias rst gold medal- list in 60 years of participa- tion, receiving a thunderous ovation from a throng of fans at Phnom Penh International Airport. Within a short time of her arrival along with the rest of the Kingdoms sports con- tingent, Seavmey was driven straight to the Peace Build- ing, where Prime Minister Hun Sen and members of his Cabinet gave the golden girl and her family members a rousing reception. Addressing a gathering of prominent sports person- alities, including national ath- letes, coaches, administrators and top ranking ofcials, the prime minister declared that Seavmeys spectacular gold Wage decision delayed TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014 Successful People Read The Post 4000 RIEL I S S U E
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2 0 2 3 CAPITAL BUSES ARE OFF TO A SLOW START NATIONAL PAGE 3 WORLD BANK LOWERS ASIA FORECAST BUSINESS PAGE 8 A NEW HOPE FOR FANS OF STAR WARS LIFESTYLE PAGE 17 CONTINUED PAGE 6 CONTINUED PAGE 22 MP vows again to settle land disputes PM leads ovation for Sorn Seavmey Postponement finds backers on both sides of garment industry debate CONTINUED PAGE 2 A man peers out of a mock house during a demonstration in front of the National Assembly in Phnom Penh yesterday as part of World Habitat Day. HENGCHIVOAN Sean Teehan and Sen David M INISTER of Labour Ith Sam Heng yesterday postponed his ministrys Labour Advisory Commit- tees decision on Cambodias garment sector minimum wage from Friday un- til next month, leaving some optimistic and others dubious. In the original schedule, the mini- mum wage for 2015 was slated to be set in October and go into effect in January. The LAC had been expected to set the minimum wage unilaterally a system that concerned some unionists but according to a statement released by the Labour Ministry yesterday evening, a specic date for the setting of the new wage has yet to be determined. If they come up with a better strat- egy [for setting the wage] in this time, its good, said Kong Athit, vice president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), which is represented on the LAC. But if they dont, it will just make people lose condence and get worried. Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour could not be reached yesterday evening for comment. In past years, the LACs two indepen- dent unions C.CAWDU and the Na- tional Independent Federation Textile Union of Cambodia (NIFTUC) clashed with unions perceived to be govern- ment-leaning, such as the Cambodian Union Federation (CUF). However, this May Titthara and Sean Teehan AS PROTESTERS from some 50 communities marched in the capital to mark World Habitat Day yesterday, a ruling party politician pledged to not only resolve a raft of land disputes but push a policy of on-site development redevelop- ment that does not remove people from their communi- ties over mass relocations. Speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 outside the Na- tional Assembly, Cambodian Peoples Party lawmaker Lork Kheng, deputy chair of the as- semblys Commission on Hu- man Rights and Complaints, said she would push govern- ment departments to solve land disputes an issue rights group Adhoc says has affect- ed more than 700,000 people since 2000. We support on-site devel- opment . . . [and] not pushing people from their homes, Kheng said. We will push for other [government] depart- ments to solve these prob- lems. Every one of your re- quests will be debated within the commission. Its not the rst time Kheng has promised to resolve land disputes through the National Assembly. Early last month, the law- maker vowed to end the years- long dispute between the politically connected KDC In- ternational company and vil- lagers in Kampong Chnnangs Lorpeang district within a week, as well as other disputes within a month. While the government end- ed a long-running conict be- tween villagers in Kratie and a South Korean agricultural National 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) Tender No. RFP-PSK-RQ1754&1985 Populaton Services Khmer (PSK) is a non-prot Cambodian organizaton specializing in social marketng and health service delivery. PSK has received grants from multple donors for expanding health services into rural areas and it is intended that part of the proceeds of the grant will be applied to eligible payments under the contract for Media Placement. 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We did not take any measures to crack down. We tried to compromise in order to let the two sides negotiate a peaceful solution. While Vuthy said the managers were only slightly injured, a factory representative who declined to be named said that about 10 Chinese nationals had been injured. Most of the workers threw rocks at us. They received injuries to their heads, face, arms and bodies, the representative said. Coalition of Cambodia Ap- parel Workers Democratic Union labour dispute ofcer Khun Sokhom, who joined fruitless negotiations between the union and management after the clash, said workers acted in self-de- fence. This had been a nonviolent protest. The [managers] pushed the workers [rst]. Sokhom said the factory was ignoring a court order to reinstate 5,000 workers whose contracts were terminated last month for joining protests. The factory re- ceived a letter from the provincial court ordering them to take back the workers, but they have not. Negotiations will resume on Friday. CHHAY CHANNYDAANDKHOUTH SOPHAKCHAKRYA Decision on wage postponed Continued from page 1
year, all LAC unions met and agreed to seek a minimum monthly wage of $150. The unprecedented unity among the seven unions rep- resented on the LAC the 21-member committee also includes seven government representatives and seven fac- tory representatives is a large part of why the ministry is err- ing on the side of taking its time, said Dave Welsh, country direc- tor for labour rights group Soli- darity Center. I think the fact that there is a very strong unied line . . . is unprecedented and more time to assess how to deal with it is something that the government is looking at, Welsh said. CUF president Chuon Mom Thol yesterday praised the min- istrys decision to postpone a - nal vote until next month. More discussion and workshops on the issue could help avoid a situation like last year, when the ministrys decision to set wages at $60 less than independent unions demanded sparked a 10-day nationwide strike. Previously, we did not have enough time to discuss some of the issues, but now the minis- ters are trying to allow as much discussion as possible, Mom Thol said. He praised Labour Minister Sam Hengs judge- ment that the ministry should also meet with unions not rep- resented in the LAC. Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW), said yes- terday that he also favoured the new policy of meeting with unions outside the LAC. CUMW is a stronger activist union than the independent or pro-gov- ernment unions represented in the LAC, If the ministry only meets with the LAC . . . there would be no chance they would increase the minimum wage enough, Sina said yesterday. Moeun Tola, head of the Community Legal Education Centers labour program, said the Ministry of Labour should do away with the LAC and nd a completely new system of set- ting the minimum wage. While the LAC sets the mini- mum wage, by law, it is only supposed to advise the govern- ment on wages, Tola said. The makeup of the committee and its perceived power allows it to be the governments scapegoat. The LAC only has the power to advise, he said. Giving people enough time to talk out their differences also resonated with Ken Loo, secretary-general of the Gar- ment Manufacturers Associa- tion in Cambodia. GMAC previously offered a minimum monthly wage hike from $100 to $110 saying thats the maximum it could pay and declined to negoti- ate with unions. GMAC also said it would abide by the LACs decision. I understand the basis of the statement, [but] what we said is our numbers informed us that the amount we could afford to pay is $110, Loo told the Post. But the postponement would allow us more time to [speak with] our membership and see if their position has changed, he added. NIFTUC president Morm Nhim said yesterday that she disagreed with the postpone- ment and thought workers have waited long enough for a minimum wage raise. Morm said if they set a minimum wage closer to January 1, when it is scheduled to be imple- mented, unions will have less time to dispute the oor salary if its seen as unfair. If they postpone, we cannot reject the governments deci- sion, Nhim said. Garment workers hold placards and chant in front of the Ministry of Labour during a protest in June calling for higher wages and better working conditions. PHA LINA National 3 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Laignee Barron and Cheang Sokha FIVE people, including three presumed ethnic Uighurs from China, were arrested on Sunday after a retired Thai police ofcer drove them il- legally across the Cambodian border, Thai media reported yesterday. The retired ofcer was stopped after waiting pa- trols spotted his pickup truck speeding away from the border in Thailands Sa Kaeo province. Police claimed to have received a tip that the ve foreigners, who had been hiding in Poi- pet, were going to be smuggled across the border. Two Bangla- deshi passengers with pass- ports but no visas and three suspected Uighurs without documents were questioned and detained. Representatives at the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh and Cambodian government of- cials said they had no informa- tion about the arrests. Hundreds of ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs have report- edly crossed into Cambodia this year alone as they ee vio- lence and persecution in Chi- nas restive northwest Xinjiang province. Despite evidence of well-oiled human smuggling networks that transit eeing Uighurs from China in a route through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and then onwards to Turkey or other destinations, Cambodian of- cials have repeatedly denied allegations that the Kingdom serves as a point of transit for the asylum seekers. It is completely impossible; we have had no foreign na- tional [Uighurs] hiding inside Cambodian territory, said So Channary, commander of the 911 border police unit in Ban- teay Meanchey. In March, 15 Uighurs were arrested in Sa Kaeo hours after they were deported to Thai- land with help from Cambo- dian authorities, according to Human Rights Watch. In July, Indonesian media reported that four extremist Uighurs in the country had rst trav- elled through Cambodia to Thailand, where they obtained fake passports. Cambodia also repatriated 20 Uighurs to China in 2009, where many reportedly met with long prison sentences. Those people were illegal, government spokesman Phay Siphan said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BANGKOK POST Arrested Uighurs might have been in Kingdom New buses off to slow start Charles Rollet and Taing Vida
A CROSS the street from the night market, bus- es from Phnom Penhs second and third new routes pull in to pick up pas- sengers. Its a normal scene at any bus station except the buses are almost empty. Line 2 driver Krey Soechea, 37, said he sometimes goes the entire route from the night market to Takhmao town and back picking up just six or sev- en passengers. There are too many buses, he said. One month after its open- ing, Phnom Penhs new Line 2 has few customers, according to both passengers and drivers. Line 3, which runs east-west from the night market to Cho- am Chao commune, is more popular, but not by much. When Soechea rst started working on Line 3, he saw sig- nicantly more customers, but said that no [buses] were . . . more than half full. However, City Hall spokes- man Long Dimanche said he was very proud of the two new bus lines performance. Dont listen to [the drivers], listen to me, he said. According to City Hall, the original Line 1, which runs along Monivong Boulevard, av- erages 1,171 daily passengers, while Line 2 averages 938 and 1,625 for Line 3. In late July, Prime Minis- ter Hun Sen publicly called on Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong to ensure that a planned 18 routes would be op- erational before the end of his tenure. City Hall had promised that up to 18 lines would be cre- ated by 2035. Some employees are optimis- tic that numbers will pick up as people familiarise themselves with the routes. Even though he sometimes only picks up 10 passengers along an entire route, Line 2 driver Neang Sophea, 30, said it could improve in the long term, while ticket taker Sot Sopheap, 21, said the bus had a comparatively larger number of passengers in the evening. Nevertheless, at least one Phnom Penh resident is con- cerned the project will go south like a short-lived bus experi- ment in 2001. It Samun, 30, who uses the bus every day, said he liked the reasonable cost, but feared for the future. Im afraid City Hall cant afford the service, because I am used to it now, he said. A bus waits for passengers at a stop on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh yesterday. Two new bus lines have failed to draw strong passenger numbers, according to bus drivers. PHA LINA National 5 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Judges (back row) stand before the pronouncement of the verdict in Case 002/01 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in August. ECCC Judges targeted in new filing Stuart White
T HE trial chamber judges of the Khmer Rouge tribunal have ex- hibited a consistent pattern of judicial bias and warrant imme- diate disqualication from the upcoming Case 002/02, according to a 50-page ling from the Nuon Chea defence that was made public yesterday. The ling drawing largely on remarks made by former judge Silvia Cartwright and the trial chambers verdict sentencing co-accused Nuon Chea and Khieu Sam- phan to life in prison argues that over the course of Case 002/01, the chamber repeatedly demonstrated a preformed negative opinion of Chea and a funda- mental lack of open-mindedness on a host of topics. One of the main issues taken with the chambers handling of Case 002/01 was its refusal to call former Khmer Rouge mili- tary commander and current National As- sembly President Heng Samrin, whom the defence characterised as the cases single most important witness overall. Chea, through his defence, has claimed that the crimes attributed to the Khmer Rouge regime were in fact the work of an opposing faction within the regime that actively attempted to sabotage the par- tys central committee. This faction, it is claimed, was led by cadre Sao Phim and counted Samrin as a member. The courts Cambodian judges refusal to hear this evidence, the ling goes on to contend, is an effort to ensure that the ction of the unied, strictly hierarchical CPK pyramid can sustain itself so that the faction led rst by Sao Phim and later Heng Samrin can continue to shift responsibility for its heinous criminal acts to Pol Pot and Nuon Chea. Drawing on remarks made by Cartwright, the former judge, the ling also faults the national-side judges for their perceived inability to impartially judge the leaders of a regime at whose hands they allegedly suffered. But all of the judges, not just the nation- al ones, displayed bias in their apparently dismissive attitude towards evidence and assertions presented by the defence, par- ticularly their allegations of factional divi- sions and outside Vietnamese aggression, the motion argues. Long Panhavuth, a program ofcer with the Cambodian Justice Initiative, said that while he had not read the ling, some of the concerns voiced within reected long- standing concerns with the tribunal. For example, the opacity with which the chamber decided not to call insider wit- nesses like Samrin was troubling, and the trial chambers treatment of the defence throughout Case 002/01 represented a failure to handle in a professional man- ner the defences objections. For the proceedings of Case 002/01, I would say that many of the objections raised by the defence were mostly rejected or denied by the trial chamber, while most of the objections of the prosecution were upheld, he said, adding that a statistical analysis would help determine the extent of the problem. A request for comment from the trial chamber regarding the de- fences accusations was not returned as of press time yesterday. Lawyers for the courts civil parties also sought to lay the groundwork for the upcoming Case 002/02 yesterday, with attorneys and victims gather- ing again to discuss the parties expecta- tions and recommendations for potential reparations ahead of the trials October 17 commencement. Many of the recommendations were offered with the aim of educating the young generation. One civil party from Kampong Cham suggested hiring experts to help maintain the bones of victims found in the hundreds of mass graves dotting the country in order to preserve those remains . . . to prove the atrocities. Multiple civil parties resurrected the long-standing calls for memorial stupas to be built, a request that was denied in the judgement in Case 002/01 due to a lack of funding, though civil party lead co- lawyer Marie Guiraud said that another such request would be made. One civil party suggested setting aside a 5-hectare social land concession to serve as a burial site for Nuon Chea, Khieu Sam- phan and S-21 commandant Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, so that their remains could become a tourist destination and a testa- ment to the regimes crimes. However, civil party lawyer Ven Pov gen- tly put the suggestion to rest, saying that such a thing wasnt that easy: They are bound by the law when are alive . . . [but] the law doesnt govern the dead. Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Alice Cuddy A HUGE haul of endangered wildlife products was found yesterday in a property owned by a high-ranking ofcial and rented by a Chinese national, ofcials said. Forestry Administration of- cials, in cooperation with military police and the Wild- life Alliance (WA), raided the property in the capitals Tuol Sangke commune and uncov- ered an array of animals, skins and bones. Among the items found were 19 clouded leopard skins, 10 otter skins, four eagle claws, six Asian Golden Cat paws and six tortoises. The property is owned by an excellency who rented [it] to a Chinese national, according to the WA. Huy Hean, a Tuol Sangke commune police ofcial, said the Sichuan Chongqing Cam- bodia Development Associa- tion operates out of the proper- ty. Two men who stay [there] were brought for interrogation by the expert police forces, Hean said. A housekeeper has also been questioned by the Forestry Ad- ministration, the WA said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Forestry Admin- istration ofcial who took part in the raid said the two men had claimed they were not involved in the business, and named 48-year-old Liv Ely as the person who rented the property. We are still interrogating the two men. We do not know the real intention for those goods . . . whether they were [going] to be exported to another country [or not], the ofcial said. Elizabeth John, senior com- munications ofcer for wild- life trade-monitoring network TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, said the scale of the raid and the an- imals involved were very wor- rying, citing the otter skins as a particular point of concern. Those kinds of numbers are very large . . . [and] those are some really rare animals, she said. The important thing now is that the people behind this are properly investigated and brought to justice. Traders must be made to realise that there is a cost. Pech Sotheary HUNDREDS of Khmer Krom protesters marched to the French Embassy and the Council of Ministers yester- day, calling for support in their demands for an apology from Vietnam over comments made four months ago by a former embassy spokesman. In early June, then-spokes- man Trung Van Thong said that the former Kampuchea Krom provinces in the Mekong Delta belonged to Vietnam long be- fore being ofcially ceded by colonial power France in 1949. Yesterday marked the third day of the latest round of pro- tests over the comments. If there is no apology, the Cambodian government should temporarily cut off its diplomatic relationship [with Vietnam] until the Vietnamese government [does so], and all Cambodian people both inside and outside the country should stop using Vietnamese prod- ucts and services, said Thach Setha, president of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association. Representatives of the French Embassy and the Council of Ministers accepted the protesters petitions. During yesterdays action, protesters handed out leaets promoting the boycott of Viet- namese products. Motorbike drivers should stop drinking Vietnamese cof- fee and turn to our Cambodi- an products, one said. In front of the Vietnamese Embassy, more protesters gathered and, for the third day running, set re to Viet- namese ags. Analyst Kem Ley said that the unrest may continue in- denitely if the governments fail to explain an agreed- upon history for the disputed territory. Capital raid unearths cache of animal parts Khmer Krom embassy protest enters third day National 6 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Jostling for position leads to tuk-tuk melee AN ARGUMENT among five friends over their tuk-tuk seating arrangement turned into a police matter on Satur- day night in Kampot province. As the friends road in the tuk- tuk, some became jealous of others position in the vehicle, and a verbal argument turned into a physical fight, with one of the men falling out, police said. Police approaching at first thought they were responding to a traffic acci- dent, but then proceeded to arrest all five. DEUM AMPIL Addicted to gambling, and fleeing from police SEVEN gamblers in Poipet rolled the dice one too many times when police arrested them at an illegal gaming den on Sunday. District police raided the rental house where they dis- covered about 15 people addicted to gambling. Upon their arrival, gamblers scram- bled to escape, and all but four men and three women evaded arrest. Authorities confiscated the motorbikes belonging to those who escaped. DEUMAMPIL Rock beatdown serves as mans last course A MANS dinner was rudely interrupted with a vicious beat- ing in Phnom Penhs Poipet district, police there said. The 24-year-old was eating at a market when four men approached, one holding a knife, while the others attacked with rocks, seriously injuring him. The victim knew his attackers, police said. The sus- pects fled the scene before police arrived. Police are searching for the perpetrators. KOHSANTEPHEAP Pair bleeping angry over beeping motorist HONKING is an ever-present sound on Cambodias streets, but two suspects obviously did not take kindly to a car horn on Saturday night, police in Kratie said. The two suspects, aged 25 and 27, were crossing the street when a motorist heading toward them honked his horn to avoid an accident. Annoyed by the perceived insult, the two men picked up rocks and smashed a mirror on his door. Police patrolling the area saw the incident and arrested the men. KOHSANTEPHEAP Cash rustlers wait for buffalo sale, pounce HER husband and three chil- dren away for a party and newly flush from selling her familys buffaloes, a Kandal woman was a sitting duck for a pair of gun- toting robbers on Sunday. Police said the 39-year-old was home alone when two men wearing masks emerged and demanded all the cash in the home. After tossing the house turned up nothing, the suspects checked her person and found 2 million riel (about $500) on her. Luckily, that only represented a quarter of her profits, as the other three buyers had not yet paid. Police believe the men had been aware of the sales and were staking out her home. KOHSANTEPHEAP Translated by Sen David POLICE BLOTTER AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY JOB VACANCY DEFENCE OFFICE MANAGER Locally Engaged Employee (Expatriate) The Australian Embassy invites applications from suitably qualied individuals for the position of Defence Ofce Manager in the Defence Section, Australian Embassy,Phnom Penh. The position is available from 27 October 2014 on a 12 month renewable contract that includes an initial 3 month probationary period. If the employee remains in the role for at least 2 years the contract will automatically revert to an ongoing permanent contract in accordance with Cambodian Labour Law. The basic monthly salary for the position starts at USD2,036and includes participation in a performance management and bonus scheme. As this is a Designated Security Assessed Position an extra allowance will be applied and assessed on an individual basis. Eligibility Successful applicants must be eligible to be granted an Australian Security Clearance. Selection Criteria 1. A demonstrated capacity to respond exibly to changing demands in the workplace and a demonstrated ability to work effectively during periods of high workload and narrow timeframes. 2. Good information managementskills with experience in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook programs. 3. Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to develop good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and networks. 4.Highly developed oral and written communication skills. 5. A general knowledge of the Australian Defence Force and an ability to quickly learn to interpret and apply Australian Defence Force Financial Managementregulations and administrative procedures. Applications must include: A statement (maximum 2 pages) addressing all of the selection criteria; A current resume setting out employment and educational history; Full contact details, and Names and contact details of two referees who have recent knowledge of the applicants work performance. A full job description of the position can be obtained from the Australian Embassys website www.cambodia.embassy.gov.au Applications should be e-mailed to: im.chhourn@dfat.gov.au or mailed to the following address: Defence Section Australian Embassy Phnom Penh No. 16B National Assembly Street, Phnom Penh Late applications or applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered. Only those applicants short listed for interview will be contacted. Applications close 4pm on Friday 10 th October 2014 The Australian Embassy is an equal opportunity employer and the successful candidate will be selected on merit. Our Cambodia Ofce seeks energetic, result driven, change-oriented, creative and proactive service-minded Cambodians to join us. Position:Area Development Program Manager Location: 1.Kralanh District, Siem Reap Province, 2.Varin District, Siem Reap Province 3. One another District, Siem Reap Province 4. Chey Saen District, Preah Vihear Provice 5. Sangkhum Thmey District, Preah Vihear Province 6. Preah Netr Preah District, Banteay Meanchey Province 7. One another District, Banteay Meanchey Province 8. 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DO NOT submit photocopies of other certicates. Closing Date: 17 Oct 2014 An international Christian child focused humanitarian organization working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation and fullness of life for every child Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Athletes take note Scholarship and diploma to be offered A S OF yesterday, there are now two ways to pass Cam- bodias high stakes grade 12 national exam: demonstrate academic prociency absorbed over more than a decade of study, or bring home a gold medal. On Sunday, teenage taekwondo star Sorn Seavmey became the countrys rst student to automatically pass the exam after her historic victory last weekend earned Cambodia long sought gold medal prestige. Her unprecedented win in South Korea ushered into effect an unprecedented policy; from now on, any Cambodian gold medallist at the Asian Games or the Olym- pics will also earn themselves a diploma and university scholar- ship, according to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. Six high school athletes who competed in the Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar and also failed the national exam asked the government for a special allowance, but the request was not granted. This is an extraordinary exception because of a high performance, said Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron. LAIGNEEBARRON MP vows to settle disputes Continued from page 1
company last month, many other disputes including the KDC dispute, remain un- resolved. Contacted after the protest, Kheng did not say which dis- putes would be given priority, nor would she speak about the status of the conict in- volving KDC, a company for whom she is alleged to have at times acted as a repre- sentative. Despite the delay, Kheng said, progress was be- ing made on resolving land disputes. Since Prime Minister Hun Sens announcement, we have done a lot of work on this, she said. Kheng was referring to a speech made by the prime minister in August, when he ab- solved himself of responsibility for evictions instead blaming lazy provincial ofcials for damage caused. We have found solutions in Kratie, Battambang, Kam- pong Chhnang and some other provinces are still under review. We really want to nd justice for the people, but we have a lot of cases, she said. As part of the World Habitat Day event yesterday, demon- strators brought a mock house as a symbol of what many had lost. The crowd left the National Assembly on tuk-tuks, motor- bikes and on foot, chanting and marching toward Wat Botum. A group of about 60 police and Daun Penh security guards stood behind a barricade set up in the street. Speeches by activists including Yorn Bopha continued as a representative from City Hall accepted the groups petition. The Cambodia National Rescue Party also promised to resolve the land disputes at yesterdays event. We cannot allow disputes like the previ- ous ones . . . we urge those in- volved in relevant departments to [solve the problems], law- maker Ke Sovannaroth said. Sia Phearum, secretariat di- rector of the Housing Rights Task Force, welcomed the pledge from the CPP and said that the promise of on-site de- velopment sounds great. [Kheng] said this mandate is different from previous mandates, he said. So we hope that she will not cheat the voters. In practice, however, prom- ises to keep villagers in their own community after redevel- opment have brought mixed results. Borei Keila, for exam- ple, remains unresolved more than a decade after on site redevelopment began. Villagers were promised new housing adjacent to where they lived in exchange for their land, but many were ultimately denied land and shipped to squalid relocation sites outside the capital. Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong promised to end the Borei Keila and Boe- ung Kak disputes almost 18 months ago, but neither have been resolved. The new governor has shown his commitment, Phearum said. He has opened doors, spoken to NGOs . . . but the problem is still slow. Many of yesterdays demon- strators were from provincial areas. Some, including Lor- peang villager Reach Seyma, were dismissive of Khengs promises, saying it was just a performance for a big crowd. They seldom allow the poor to live near their development project, he said. They prefer to buy other land to exchange with us. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SHANE WORRELL Protesters march on the National Assembly in Phnom Penh to mark World Habitat Day. HENG CHIVOAN Kratie MPs accused of extortion Phak Seangly FOUR Kratie military police officers have failed to respond to a court summons after more than 100 villagers accused them of extortion, threats of violence and illegal detention. Two villagers in Sombou dis- tricts OKreung commune, Hear Long and Chum Boeun, said yes- terday that the lawsuit had been filed against Kratie deputy mili- tary police commander Mut Van- nak and three subordinates. The villagers accuse the offic- ers of illegally detaining them at gunpoint and accusing them of illegal logging to extort cash. Vannak and his subordi- nates extorted from $400 to $1,000 from the villagers, who just transported wood to make doors and windows, not for sale, Boeun said. Long a driver for a local tim- ber dealer said that the officers stopped his Lexus on Wednes- day, accused him of transporting wild animals, pointed their guns at his chest and detained him at the 708 security office. They said that my car was loaded with wild animals, but they found nothing. They point- ed their rifles and guns at me and detained me for two days and a night. They demanded $6,000 from my boss for the release, he claimed. Ty Sovin Thal, Kratie provincial court prosecutor, said the case had been forwarded to the pro- vincial prosecutor, while Ros Sarett, a deputy commander of the Kratie provincial military police, said the broker and the provincial military police had settled outside of court. 7 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Business USD / JPY 109.56 USD / SGD 1.2796 USD /CNY 6.1385 USD / HKD 7.7564 USD / THB 32.62 AUD / USD 0.8695 NZD / USD 0.7764 EUR / USD 1.2517 GBP / USD 1.5981 Indicative Exchange Rates as of 6/10/2014. Please contact ANZ Royal Global Markets on 023 999 910 for real time rates. USD / KHR 4,083 Conference rouses calls for better tax system Eddie Morton GOVERNMENT revenue raising was thrust into the limelight dur- ing the first day of this years International Business Chamber of Cambodia (IBC) Investment Conference. More than 300 heads of indus- try and government, including Prime Minister Hun Sen, attend- ed the event in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss the King- doms economic outlook. While forecasting continued above-7-per-cent growth for Cambodia over the next five years, Ahmed Faisal, representa- tive in Cambodia for the Inter- national Monetary Fund urged the government to increase domestic revenue. Improve government revenue mobilisation and expenditure. That is the proxy that investors are looking to as a key sign of quality reform, Faisal said. In Channy, CEO of the coun- trys largest bank, Acleda Bank, also called on the government to support the development of electronic tax payment systems to simplify tax compliance for tax payers. More convenient tax pay- ment options, such as the inter- net, in-branch, and even mobile need the governments support, Channy said. Nguon Sokha, secretary of state for the Ministry of Economy and Finance admitted that the existing tax collection methods needed improvement, however he pointed the finger equally at the private sector for meeting their own tax obligations. You cant get a 100 per cent perfect system, but were work- ing on it, Sokha said. Its the private sectors role to contrib- ute to the economy and they should do more to meet their tax obligations. PM wants energy price review Chan Muyhong
P RIME Minister Hun Sen has called on his government to review electricity pricing for industrial consumption in a bid to increase Cambodias attractiveness as an invest- ment destination. Speaking at the opening of the International Investment Conference 2014 held yesterday in Phnom Penh, the prime min- ister said Cambodias electricity supply had reached a turning point in 2014, with several ma- jor development projects in- cluding hydro- and coal-fuelled power plants beginning op- erations this year. To meet electricity demand for the expansion of the indus- try sector and to ensure Cam- bodias investment attractive- ness, I would like to instruct the Ministry of Mine and Energy, Cambodia Electricity Authority and Electricit du Cambodge and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to work together to access the possibility of revis- ing electricity tariffs for indus- trial consumption during night time, large commercial cus- tomers and prioritised zones, he said. The prime minister said the commencement of new power producing facilities had led to a surplus of about 246 megawatts during the rainy season. This was yet to be fully tapped how- ever due to a shortage of trans- mission infrastructure. Hun Sen remained condent that despite still relatively high electricity costs compared to neighbouring countries, progress was being made to increase Cambodias competi- tiveness in attracting foreign investment. From now to 2018, electricity tariffs will not increase, but will gradually decrease, the prime minister pledged. Teng Sokhomal, director of Tariff and Monitoring Licens- ees Account Department, told the Post yesterday that work to reprice electricity for large-scale enterprises was already under way with the announcement of new tariffs for industrial, com- mercial and agricultural use set by the Electricity Authority of Cambodia in late August. There is unused power at night that is wasted. The new tariffs will encourage indus- tries to use more electricity at night to reduce power short- ages during peak times, he said yesterday. The new pricing structure offers a cheaper rate for night time use, but varies depending on the source of energy. It ranges from 13.90 to 19.00 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), from 7am to 9pm, to between 9.50 and 15 cents per kWh between the hours of 9pm and 7am. Companies can weigh up the advantage of the new rates to the standard 24-hour prices which ranges from be- tween 12.90 and 18.18 cents per kWh. Depending on their loca- tion, a business can access energy from one of four differ- ent sources within the national supply, which will determine their rate of pay. For those who think they can take advantage from this tariff by operating a night shift can do it, while at the same time it reduces unused elec- tricity waste, Sokhomal he told the Post. Large energy-consuming businesses, such as factories and even large hotels, can ap- ply for the new tariffs with the state-owned Electricite du Cambodge, Sokomal added. Further incentives could well come in the future he said. Ken Loo, secretary-general of the Garment Manufactur- ers Association in Cambodia, welcomed greater choices for power pricing. It is good news for those who are affected. It also gives more exibility because they are now trying to introduce night tariffs which are lower than the day tariffs, so this might encourage factories to consider opening a second shift or a night shift, Loo said. For factories that are already running a night shift, they will see lower electricity cost. For factories that are currently con- sidering running a night shift, the new tariff will be some- thing to consider as it will help to lower, or subsidise the labor wage working the night shift, he added. Last year, Cambodia pro- duced about 2,050 million kilo watts of power and imported around 2,300 million kilo watts to support its energy needs. Hiroshi Suzuki, Chief Econo- mist Business Research Insti- tute for Cambodia (BRIC), said if successful, effective energy pricing will encourage further investment. Expensive electricity is one of the biggest bottlenecks for Cambodia to attract foreign di- rect investment, he said If the government is success- ful, it would be highly effective to attract [foreign direct invest- ment, he added. A worker installs new electricity lines in Phnom Penh in July. The government recently announced that it will implement discounts for industrial consumption during off-peak times. HENG CHIVOAN Founder of Taiwans Fubon Group Tsai dies FUBON Group founder Tsai Wan-tsai, Taiwans second- richest man, died on Sunday, according to the firm, which gave his age as 86. Fubon Financial Holding Co, Taiwans second-largest listed lender by market capitalisation, didnt provide details in its statement about Tsais death. He was ranked the worlds 154th- richest person with a net worth of $7.9 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tsai founded Cathay Insurance with two of his brothers, Tsai Wan-chun and Tsai Wan-lin, in 1961 when Taiwan removed restrictions on private capital. BLOOMBERG China a drag on global steel demand: WSA GLOBAL demand for steel will grow by just 2 per cent this year owing to a rebalancing of the Chinese economy and a slowdown in other emerging countries, the sectors trade body said yesterday. The growth forecast to 1,562 million tonnes in steel use by the World Steel Association is down from the 3.1 per cent rate it forecast in April and the 3.8 per cent recorded in 2013. The WSA now expects just 1 per cent growth in Chinas steel use this year to 748.3 million tonnes, and 0.8 per cent growth in 2015. AFP Business 8 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 World Bank cuts Asia outlook T HE World Bank yes- terday trimmed its growth forecasts for developing East Asian economies this year and next, as Chinas economic expan- sion loses momentum and policymakers face tighter global monetary conditions. Developing countries in East Asia and the Pacic are likely to see a growth of 6.9 per cent this year and in 2015, slower than the 7.1 per cent the bank had forecast in April, it said in an updated report. Chinas economy is forecast to grow 7.4 per cent this year and 7.2 per cent next year, compared with 7.6 per cent and 7.5 per cent projected in April as the government ad- dresses nancial vulnerabili- ties and structural constraints. Chinas economy expanded 7.7 per cent in 2013. However, the banks chief Asia economist Suhdir Shetty said Chinas slowdown is un- likely to be dramatic enough to have a major impact on the region as a whole. Chinas slowdown is gradu- al . . . It is slower but its not the bottom falling out of Chinas growth, he said. Shetty also said that the link between the giant Chinese economy and the rest of Asia does not only involve demand, which is expected to weaken due to the slowdown. Chinas links also involve investments which could even increase to parts of Asia as Chinese rms venture out of the country.. Developing East Asian coun- tries, excluding China, are expected to grow 4.8 per cent this year and 5.3 per cent in 2015 from 5.2 per cent in 2013. Growth in Southeast Asias ve biggest economies In- donesia, Malaysia, the Philip- pines, Thailand and Vietnam is forecast to slow down to 4.5 per cent this year from 5 per cent in 2013, but is likely to pick up and expand 5 per cent next year as demand for exports grow. The good news for the ASEAN Five is that there will be a period of rising demand for their exports, Shetty said, adding however that these countries must continue to implement structural reforms, invest in infrastructure and im- prove their investment climate in order to sustain growth. Malaysias growth is forecast to rise to 5.7 per cent this year from 4.7 per cent last year, be- fore easing to 4.9 per cent in 2015. Thailand is likely to grow 1.5 per cent this year and 3.5 per cent next year from 2.9 per cent in 2013 as the political situation stabilises. Vietnam is expected to grow 5.4 per cent this year and 5.5 per cent next year. It expanded 5.4 per cent in 2013. Shetty said that a key risk for regional economies is a disorderly tightening of monetary policy in the Unit- ed States, Europe and Japan which would lead to a steep rise in interest rates. He said there was no reason to doubt that a tightening of monetary policy in the de- veloped economies would be gradual, but there was also a risk that it could be abrupt. To be completely frank, these are uncharted waters . . . Yes, there is a possibility it will happen in a disorderly fashion and thats when there could be risks, Shetty said. Sharply higher interest rates could lead to a reduction in capital ows and affect coun- tries which are dependent on them to nance their decits, he said. Higher rates could hurt the property markets in several countries, he added. AFP Samsung to build $15 billion chip plant SAMSUNG Electronics Co will spend 15.6 trillion won ($15 bil- lion) building a chip plant in South Korea as it heads for the roughest quarterly result in years amid competition from Apple Inc and Xiaomi Corp smartphones. Construction in Gyeonggi province, south of Seoul, will begin in the first half of next year with semiconductor oper- ations due to commence in 2017, Suwon, South Korea- based Samsung said. Samsung is shifting toward more compli- cated and lucrative processors to be the brains for new busi- nesses such as wearable devic- es and smart cars. The biggest memory-chip maker is investing as its smart- phone business struggles to stay dominant with Apple intro- ducing bigger-screen iPhones and Xiaomi selling low-cost devices in more overseas mar- kets. Its third-quarter operating profit, due to be released tomor- row, is projected to plunge 47 per cent. Sales may drop 15 per cent in the steepest declines since at least 2009, according to analyst estimates. BLOOMBERG The World Bank headquarters located in Washington, DC. PHOTO SUPPLIED Automobile in Cambodia The 4 th edition special report of Sat, 11 October 2014 Offers the latest news, analysis, lifestyle, entertainment and much, much more. 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Thailand targeting corruption T HAILANDS Customs Department has set up a channel to allow the public, exporters and importers direct access to the heads of units to make complaints against ofcials. The move is part of its effort to address corruption. The Customs Bell project is aimed at solving problems at a faster rate, said director-gen- eral Somchai Sujjapongse. Under the project, the de- partment allows service users to know the telephone num- bers of heads of units. People can also lodge complaints through the Customs Depart- ments 1331 hotline. Eradicating corruption is a priority of Somchai since he took ofce recently as the Cus- toms Department has received numerous complaints about its lack of transparency. The project is part of its at- tempt to improve its image. In 2009, the Customs Depart- ment set up a centre to en- hance transparency and good governance of its ofcials. Shortly after Somchai took the helm, the Customs De- partment began tracking more than 400 supercars that disap- peared from private warehous- es in a bid to nd their owners and recover the tax owed. The department later threatened to le complaints against any importers, own- ers of bonded warehouses and customs ofcials found to be involved in avoiding duty pay- ment on these luxury cars. The Customs Department also plans to lower the reward given to customs ofcials and third-party whistleblowers on any customs avoidance, and reduce the penalty to make investigations more transparent and reduce of- cials overzealous crackdown on tax evasion driven by high rewards. The current reward-sharing system offers 55 per cent of the penalty recovered from an offender to be distributed as a reward. Of this amount, 30 per cent is given to third-party whistleblowers. The remaining 25 per cent is shared among the customs ofcials who iden- tied and handled the case. The department has said that it will cut the maximum paid to ofcials to 15 per cent of the penalty, or 5 million baht (about $150,000), which- ever is lower. For outsiders, the ceiling amount will be set at 10 million but the maximum remains at 30 per cent of the penalty, whichever is lower. BANGKOK POST Thai demonstrators rally against corruption and the Yingluck Shinawatra-led government last year. The Customs Department has started the Customs Bell project aimed at curbing graft. BLOOMBERG Hor Kimsay NEW startup airline, Bas- saka Air (BA), was yesterday granted its aircraft opera- tion certicate (AOC) from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA). Representatives from BA, which has partnered with the state-owned China Interna- tional Travel Services (CITS) and will lease its two Airbus A320 aircraft from casino rm Nagacorp to ferry in Chinese tourists, said the rst ight is yet to be conrmed. This is only the rst step. We have many more steps to go before we can schedule our ight, Joseph Stecker, Chief Executive Ofcer of BA said. The fact is that now we have AOC. Others steps have to take place before we can take ight and I cannot give any specic date. Yesterdays approval comes just weeks after the Post re- vealed NagaCorps plan to launch its own commercial ights between Phnom Penh and China under the lessor name, Bassaka Air, in an ef- fort to boost its Chinese VIP junket program. Stecker denied the casino operator had any nancial interest in BA, however con- rmed the aircraft were leased from NagaCorp. Sin Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of SSCA, said there are many Chinese businesses in Cambodia that need easy connections between the two nations. He also said there are many Chinese tourists who come to Cambodia purely for gambling. What do Chinese tourists like? We know. They like eating and gambling. I cannot say that the company [BA] focus- es only Chinese gamblers as it might also focus on business- man or tourists, he said. Meanwhile, NagaCorp, owner of Cambodias larg- est gaming operation, Naga- World, yesterday published nancial results for the rst nine months of the year. According to the rms un- audited statement, gross gam- ing revenue totalled $271.9 million, up 26 per cent from $215 million during the same period last year. VIP junket rollings for Na- gaCorp totalled almost $4.1 billion at the end of Septem- ber, according to the October 3 statement, up 25 per cent compared to the same period in 2013. Bassaka Air approved to y in China gamers Business 10 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 HP set to split into two companies H EWLETT-PACKARD Co has announced plans to split into two separate companies, a personal- computer and printer business, and corporate hardware and services op- erations, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The rm was to announce the move yesterday, said the person, who asked not to be identied because the plans arent public. The breakup will be a tax-free distribution of shares to shareholders next year, according to the Wall Street Journal, which rst re- ported the split-up of Hewlett-Pack- ard on Sunday. The separation of Hewlett-Pack- ard into two businesses has been oated as an idea before. In 2011, chief executive ofcer Meg Whitman ended plans by her predecessor Leo Apotheker to spin off the PC unit. A split would be a major turning point for the iconic company, which was founded 75 years ago by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. While Hewlett-Packard put Silicon Valley on the map and spawned oth- er successful technology companies, it and other rivals such as Dell Inc and International Business Machines Corp are facing major transforma- tions as the industry shifts away from traditional computing to mobile de- vices and web-based software. Efforts to spin off businesses are gathering steam at other technology companies. IBM has been shedding its hardware operations, including the sale of its PC unit to Chinas Leno- vo Group Ltd in 2005, and last month, EBay Inc announced that it would spin off its PayPal unit. EMC Corp, a maker of storage com- puters, is exploring strategic options that could include a full or partial sale, or a spinoff of VMware Inc, and has also held merger talks with Hewl- ett-Packard, people familiar with the matter have said. The idea of Hewl- ett-Packard spinning off or separat- ing the printers and PCs businesses came up in those discussions, a per- son familiar with the matter said. The idea would have been to have a com- bined company focusing on areas such as storage, servers, software and security, the person said. Whitman will be CEO of the en- terprise business and chairman of the PC and printer company, the newspaper reported. Current lead independent director Patricia Rus- so will be chairman of the enter- prise company and Dion Weisler, the vice president in charge of the PC and printer operation, will be- come CEO of that business, the Journal reported. Whitman has been introducing new products and cutting jobs to trim costs since she took over as CEO in September 2011, seeking to turn around the iconic Silicon Valley com- pany. Hewlett-Packard has fallen be- hind in mobile computing at a time when consumers have migrated to smartphones and tablets, and last year lost its place as the largest maker of PCs to Lenovo. Spinning off the legacy PC and printer business will have a small long-term effect on shareholder value unless the enterprise business takes off, said Erik Gordon, a University of Michigan business professor. It is a little troubling to see Whit- man split her time between a full- time job as CEO of the enterprise business and time-consuming duties as chairwoman of the legacy business that will require a lot of attention at the strategic level, Gordon said in an emailed statement. BLOOMBERG Hewlett-Packard has announced that it is to split its personal-computer and printer business, and corporate hardware and services operations to make two separate businesses. BLOOMBERG Cybercrime is costing the US billions, says FBI chief Euro Disney to recapitalise Israel plans $4B in privatisations CHINA is waging an aggressive cyberwar against the United States which costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said on Sunday. The FBI chief told CBS tele- visions 60 Minutes program that China topped the list of countries seeking to pilfer secrets from US firms, sug- gesting that almost every major company in America had been targeted. There are two kinds of big companies in the United States, Comey said. There are those whove been hacked by the Chinese, and those who dont know theyve been hacked by the Chinese. Annual losses from cyberat- tacks launched from China were impossible to count, Comey said, but measured in billions. Asked which countries were targeting the United States, Comey replied: I dont want to give you a complete list. But . . . I cant tell you top of the list is the Chinese. Comey cited the historic case of five members of Chinas Peo- ples Liberation Army indicted with hacking US companies for trade secrets, a move which outraged Chi na when announced in May. The case is the first-ever fed- eral prosecution of state actors over cyberespionage. The PLA unit is accused of hacking into US computers to benefit Chinese state-owned companies, leading to job loss- es in the United States in steel, solar and other industries. They are extremely aggres- sive and widespread in their efforts to break into American systems to steal information that would benefit their industry, Comey said of Chi- nas hackers. Comey said China was seek- ing to obtain information thats useful to them so they dont have to invent. They can copy or steal to learn about how a company might approach negotiations with a Chinese company all manner of things, he said. But Chinas hacking efforts were often easy to detect, Comey said. I liken them a bit to a drunk burglar. Theyre kickin in the front door, knocking over the vase, while theyre walking out with your television set, he said. Theyre just prolific. Their strategy seems to be, Well just be everywhere all the time. And theres no way they can stop us. Asked for a dollar estimate of the intellectual property stolen by China, Comey said it was incalculable. Impossible to count, he said. Billions. Last week, big bank JPMorgan Chase revealed that a hack it had reported in August had compro- mised data on 76 million house- hold customers and seven mil- lion businesses, including their names, email addresses and tel- ephone numbers. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, speaking on ABC television, declined top address the JPMor- gan Chase case specifically. But he stressed: we have made enormous efforts to bring attention to this and resources to this. The president [Barack Obama] has taken action through an executive order. Ive spoken to it publicly as recently as this summer in New York and met with CEOs in the financial sector quite financial sector quite regu- larly since becoming secre- tary. Theyre taking it seri- ously. I dont think theres a CEO in the financial sector that doesnt wake up in the morni ng wit h t hi s on their mind. AFP EURO Disney, which runs Dis- neyland Paris, one of Europes top tourist attractions, said yes- terday it was receiving a billion- euro refinancing package to overcome a crisis after a drastic fall in visitor numbers. The news sent shares in the company plummeting by as much as 21 per cent on the Paris stock market, which was marginally in positive territory overall for the day. The plan, unveiled at a crisis meeting early yesterday before markets opened, includes a cash infusion of 420 million ($526 million) by US parent company Disney and a conver- sion of 600 million of debt owed to Disney into equity. Tom Wolber, president of Euro Disney, blamed the diffi- cult economic environment in Europe for the problems. Disneyland Paris is Europes number one tourist destina- tion, but the ongoing econom- ic challenges in Europe and our debt burden have signifi- cantly decreased operating revenues and liquidity, he said in a statement. The emergency plan is essen- tial to improve our financial health and enable us to con- tinue making investments in the resort that enhance the guest experience. Disneyland Paris, once described as a cultural Cher- nobyl for its blend of French and US traditions, opened in 1992 on the eastern outskirts of Paris in a blaze of publicity. But it took time to take off and has since run into a series of crises and struggled to turn a profit. Nevertheless, the site eventually built up its visitor numbers and has welcomed more than 275 million guests, making it Europes top private tourist attraction. It draws more than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum and Pariss iconic Eiffel Tower combined, according to the most recent figures from City Hall. AFP ISRAEL plans to fully or partly privatise a number of state-owned companies in a move aimed at boosting efficiency, reducing the national debt and fighting corruption. The decision, approved by the ministerial socioeconomic cabinet, was expected to add 15 billion shekels ($4.07 billion) to state coffers over the next three years, the finance ministry said on Sunday. Minority stocks will be issued for firms in which the state has an interest in retaining long- term governmental control such as Israels electricity corporation, aviation, trains, water, mail and natural gas industries, a ministry state- ment read. It will also sell companies in which it has no long-term interest, such as the ports at Ashdod and Haifa, a modified and declassified military industry (with the state retaining the right to determine the ownership), the Dead Sea Works and others. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement the reform will increase the states income and enable greater transparency in gov- ernment companies. Finance Minister Yair Lapid called the move an additional measure to end the politicisation of companies and reduce corruption in them. Netanyahu had previously overseen a series of privatisations when he was himself finance min- ister some 10 years ago. But the companies sold off then were easy compared to what was currently on the privatisa- tion list, one economics expert said. AFP MEG WHITMAN HITS REVERSE M EG Whitman shelved plans to spin off Hewlett-Packard Cos personal-computer business when she became chief executive officer three years ago. Now, shes reversing her position. After struggling to turn around the company since becoming CEO in 2011, Whitman is adopting a plan to split Hewlett-Packards PC and printer divisions off from its enterprise hardware and service groups, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Its a scenario she rejected as recently as last year, saying more time was needed to restore the companys stature as the innovator that put Silicon Valley on the map. If you try to hive a division off, its really hard because you almost have to recreate the whole thing, Whitman told Bloomberg News in 2011. Last year, Whitman defended her strategy for the company, saying it will be one of the great comeback stories in American business. She may have to shift gears now, from having been a very prudent, careful CEO, to being a CEO whos getting the ball moving, said Erik Gordon, a University of Michigan business professor. 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E VERY morning, food sam- ples are laid out on a long table at a pristine laboratory run by a German rm in Sin- gapore but theyre not meant for chefs or gourmets. Testing company TUV SUD is watching out for con- taminants that could harm consum- ers in Singapore and other parts of Asia, which has recently been rocked by food-safety scandals. Sales of US fast food giant McDon- alds in China were hammered this year following news reports alleging that a supplier mixed expired meat with fresh deliveries. A Taiwan company is currently embroiled in a widening scare af- ter it was found selling hundreds of tonnes of waste gutter oil to food makers, bakeries and restaurants forcing the recall of cakes, bread, instant noodles, cookies, dumplings and other food items at home and in Hong Kong. Ive been working in the industry for the past 25 years and every few years theres something major, said Chong Kok Yong, a vice president responsible for food safety at TUV SUD in Singapore. Its an ongoing challenge because there are parties who want to make more from less, so they are always trying to make poor- quality food look good. So theres always temptation for them to do something illegal. Changing consumption patterns driven by Asias expanding middle class, the globalisation of the food chain and the transfer of new dis- eases from animals to humans have made it more complicated to com- bat the risks, experts warned. Sivapuram VRK Prabhakar, a senior policy researcher at the Japan-based Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), said many coun- tries still handle the issue by hand- ing over bits and pieces of the food safety puzzle to various ministries and agencies without much coordi- nation and collaboration. The intensication of food produc- tion has also given rise to concerns over the excessive and improper use of pesticides in crops and antibiotics in animals. India uses less pesticides per hect- are than Taiwan and Japan but still reports a bigger number of pesti- cide residue cases due mainly to im- proper application and the type of chemicals used, a study co-written by Prabhakar said. Hiroyuki Konuma, who heads the UN Food and Agriculture Organiza- tion in Asia Pacic, said unsafe food causes a great number of acute and lifelong diseases ranging from diar- rhoea to various forms of cancer, with more than 200 diseases spread through contaminated food. Unsafe food can also have adverse effects on productivity, tourism and trade, and can result in economic losses through wastage, he said. Expenses incurred by food pro- ducers directly associated with product recalls due to safety issues averaged 9.4 per cent of annual rev- enue, a TUV SUD study showed. This could severely hurt prot in an industry where gross margins range between 5 and 15 per cent, it said. The infrastructure needed to ensure food safety throughout the entire production chain such as refrig- erated storage facilities is lacking, and laws governing food safety are not keeping pace with the emerging trends, they said. Konuma said that once a hazard enters the food chain, it is not always possible to remove it, making it nec- essary to implement safety measures across the entire process to ensure a product is safe to sell and consume. Ishan Palit, chief executive at TUV SUD Global Product Services, said most checks are being done at the tail end of the chain, although more countries are hiring third-party rms to conduct tests at source. Strong control at the border is not good enough, Palit said. Unlike an electronic device where each part can be stamped with a part number that is traceable to the factory where it came from in food you cannot do that. Government policymakers must also update food-safety policies, ex- perts said. Very few countries have stand alone laws on food safety. However, relevant laws are under re- view in several countries, according to Konuma. AFP A chemist at the Singapore laboratory of German testing company TUV SUD. The company tests for contaminants in a variety of food products. AFP 12 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 World Thai king improving after op on gall bladder THAILANDS revered 86-year- old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has had his gall bladder removed, the palace said yes- terday, two days after he was rushed to hospital sparking fears for his health in the polit- ically turbulent nation. Bhumibol, who is the worlds longest-serving monarch but has suffered from numerous ailments in recent years, is treated as a near-deity in Thai- land and his health is a subject of great public concern. The nation is beset by anxi- ety over the future once Bhu- mibols more than six-decade reign comes to an end. The king was driven from his coastal palace to Bangkoks Sir- iraj hospital with a fever on Friday evening. Tests over the weekend found he had a swollen gall bladder, prompting the opera- tion to remove the organ late on Sunday, the Royal House- hold Bureau said. Doctors were satisfied with the surgery and the kings condition was improv- ing early yesterday, the state- ment added. Surgery to remove the gall bladder is common and patients tend to recovery quickly from the operation. Bhumibol, who is officially King Rama IX, left the Siriraj last month after a stay of almost six weeks for a check-up. He lived in the same hospi- tal for nearly four years after being admitted with respira- tory problems in 2009 but there was no explanation from the palace over his pro- longed stay. As a constitutional monarch the king has no official politi- cal role, but Thais see him as a unifying figure and a moral force during a long reign that has been flecked by political turmoil. In August he formal ly endorsed the kingdoms new pri me mi nister, Prayuth Chan-ocha who seized pow- er from the elected adminis- tration on May 22 as head of t he army, short ly af ter Yingluck Shinawatra was removed from office by a con- troversial court ruling. Prayut led his military- stacked cabinet to the hospital on Monday morning to sign a book of well wishing for the monarch. On October 2 the king endorsed a 250-strong list of members of a reform council, according to a notice in the Royal Gazette yesterday. The junta has charged the appointed council many of whose members have been outspoken enemies of Thaksin with crafting wide-ranging reforms that many believe will chisel away at Thaksins power bases. AFP Incumbent Rousseff to face Neves in runoff BRAZILS leftist president, Dilma Rous- seff, won a first-round election on Sun- day and will face business favourite Aecio Neves in what is shaping up to be a hard-fought runoff. With nearly all ballots counted, Rous- seff had 41 per cent of the vote and Neves 34 per cent, leaving popular envi- ronmentalist Marina Silva who once looked set to become Brazils first black president relegated with 21 per cent. The incumbent, who is looking to win a second four-year term and extend 12 years of Workers Party (PT) govern- ment, is the favourite three weeks out from the October 26 runoff. But Neves, a former governor with a reputation as a smooth operator, has momentum in his favour after fending off the once unstoppable-looking Silva and finishing the first round well above the 27 per cent support pollsters had given him on the eve of the vote. After a campaign packed with all the twists and turns of a telenovela a can- didates death in a fiery plane crash, a poor maids rise to the cusp of the pres- idency, a seedy oil scandal the election produced a traditional-looking second round between the two parties that have led the worlds seventh-largest economy for the past 20 years. But Neves, the scion of a powerful political family, vowed to carry the man- tle of change, the buzzword of the campaign after four years of economic slowdown, corruption allegations, frus- tration with poor public services and record spending for the World Cup. He made an emotional appeal to Sil- vas Socialist party supporters, whose electoral race was thrown into turmoil on August 13 when their original can- didate, Eduardo Campos, was killed in a plane crash. Silva, his running mate, took Cam- poss place and initially leapt in the polls with her broad-based appeal. But despite her compelling person- al story a one-time maid, she rose from illiteracy and poverty to become a respected conservation activist, senator and environment minister she lost steam in the last month of the campaign. Neves paid warm tribute to Campos and told Socialist voters: Its time to unite our forces. But Silva, a former PT stalwart who remains close with some in the party, did not rush to endorse anyone. Rousseff for her part said four more years of PT rule was the best path to change. AFP Exhausted protesters dwindle Aaron Tam and Laura Mannering H ONG Kong pro- testers were under pressure yesterday to end their pro- democracy campaign as their numbers dwindled after a chaotic week of mass rallies, and frustration grew over dis- ruption and trafc gridlock. The demonstrations that had drawn tens of thousands evaporated on Sunday night in the face of a warning from Hong Kongs embattled leader Leung Chun-ying to leave the streets and allow government ofces to reopen. Crowds ebbed to just a few hundred weary activists at their main site in the harbour- side Admiralty district but were beginning to gradually pick up again as people left work and headed back to the streets late yesterday. Student leaders denied their campaign for free elections had lost momentum, saying they were dug in and would remain until the government agrees to conditions for talks on political reform. But Leung issued another warning to disperse, saying they should leave the ash- point district of Mongkok on the Kowloon peninsula, which has seen ugly scufes with triad mobs, as soon as possible. To prevent violent crime and to reduce the amount of injuries, police will take action at the right time, Leung said in a televised address, describ- ing the area as high risk. The protesters and their well-organised campaign have enjoyed strong public support, with sympathy soar- ing after police used tear gas on the crowds. But after shut- ting down parts of the city for more than a week, irritation has grown. Highways were jammed with trafc and subway trains were packed yesterday as frustrated commuters tried to nd their way to and from work, battling cancelled bus routes and road diversions. They have to let the cars through as soon as possible they are blocking the way, 25- year-old Michael Lau said as he travelled on the citys iconic tram network. However, secondary schools closures in affected areas, which had been a particular headache for families, were lifted and the government said primary schools would reopen today. To demonstrate is one thing, but dont affect our live- lihoods any more because we have rent to pay, said a fruit juice seller who gave her name as Mrs Hau. From her small shop in Admiralty she de- scribed the blockaded streets as a dead city. The property tycoons are not going to say: Lets re- duce the rent this month it still has to be paid, her hus- band said. Those protesters who re- mained were battling fatigue yesterday, as the energy of a once-euphoric campaign be- gan to subside. I hoped that something would happen so we could end this thing quickly, said Otto Ng Chun-lung, an 18- year-old sociology student. Everyone is just exhausted and we cant go a long time. But student leader Alex Chow said the occupation of the streets would continue until the government agrees to preconditions the demonstra- tors have set for negotiations. All our energy is going into preparing for the talks and ensuring the students are on equal footing with the gov- ernment, Chow, leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Stu- dents, said. I think it may drag on for some time because we havent seen any progress at all in terms of negotiation, said po- litical analyst Ma Ngok. University leaders and other movement supporters have been trying to persuade the remaining students that they should beat a tactical retreat. I think its a wise decision to make a strategic draw down [of people on the ground] as its hard to convince the public that continuing the blockade would achieve results, politi- cal analyst Willy Lam said. If talks between the stu- dents and the government prove totally futile . . . and [Chinese president] Xi Jinping is against concessions, then its possible to switch on the movement again. AFP NOBEL HK PLANET MEETING SCRAPPED A FOUR-DAY environment symposium that was to gather 11 Nobel laureates in Hong Kong beginning Wednesday has been scrapped due to sustained disruptions in the city, the organisers said yesterday. Efforts will be made to reschedule the event in Hong Kong, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre (ASHK) said in a statement received in Paris. Called the Nobel Laureates Symposium on Global Sustainability, the event was to focus on Asias urbanisation in the face of worsening scenarios for global warming. The organisers took the difficult decision to cancel the event due to the sustained disruptions in the city, the statement said. They will intensely explore options to reschedule the symposium . . . for Hong Kong, which is an important laboratory of urbanisation for all of Asia, it said. AFP A pro-democracy protester sleeps on the roof of an MTR station as others occupy a street in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong early yesterday. AFP World 13 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 IS flags flying on hill overlooking Kobane K URDISH militia in Kobane came un- der renewed assault by the Islamic State yesterday, as 20 jihadists were reportedly killed after enter- ing the key Syrian town for the rst time. IS militants were trying to storm Kobane on the border with Turkey from both east and west of a strategic hill to the south, but Kurdish ghters repulsed the attack, the Syr- ian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said at least 20 jihadists were killed late on Sunday af- ter entering an eastern neigh- bourhood and being am- bushed by Peoples Protection Units (YPG) ghters. The jihadists died in an ambush by the YPG after they entered Street 48 in the east of Kobane overnight, Observa- tory director Rami Abdel Rah- man said. Their assault appeared to be the rst time IS ghters had entered Kobane since their advance on it began nearly three weeks ago. A Syrian Kurdish ofcial in- side Kobane said it had come under heavy bombardment. Idris Nahsen said by tele- phone that he could not conrm if IS jihadists were inside the town, but an AFP photographer reported from the Turkish border that two IS ags were ying yesterday on Kobanes eastern side. IS ghters seized part of Mishtenur Hill, which over- looks Kobane, late on Sat- urday, but US-led air strikes slowed their advance. Nahsen had said Saturday from Kobane that airstrikes alone were not enough to stop the IS assault. Kobane might fall to IS soon, an ofcial there said, the BBC reported. In a sign of mounting des- peration, a Kurdish female ghter blew herself up at an IS position east of Kobane on Sunday, the Observatory said. It was the rst reported in- stance of a female Kurdish ghter employing a tactic of- ten used by the jihadists, said the Britain-based watchdog, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria. The bomber, in her 20s, was a full-time YPG ghter identi- ed as Dilar Gencxemis, alias Arin Mirkan, from Kurdish- controlled Afrin in northwest- ern Syria. The Syrian Kurdish YPG, like its ally in Turkey the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, has a large number of women under arms. She killed dozens of gang members and demonstrated the YPG ghters determined resistance, the group said in a statement carried by the pro- Kurdish Firat news agency. If necessary, all YPG ght- ers will follow her example. Sundays ghting around Kobane also known as Ain al- Arab killed at least 19 Kurd- ish ghters and 27 IS jihadists, the Observatory said. The town has become a crucial battleground in the ght against the jihadists, who sparked further outrage at the weekend with the release of a video showing the beheading of Briton Alan Henning. The video the latest in a se- ries of on-camera beheadings of Western hostages also in- cluded a threat to another hostage, US aid worker Peter Kassig. His parents have is- sued a video plea for their sons release, urging his cap- tors to show mercy towards the 26-year-old former US soldier who has converted to Islam. AFP An IS ag is placed on a hill above the Syrian town known as Kobane by Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border yesterday. AFP Dewani pleads not guilty in honeymoon murder BRITISH millionaire Shrien Dewani pleaded not guilty to murdering his young bride while on a honeymoon in Cape Town and admitted he was bisexual, in an explosive opening to his long-awaited trial yesterday. Dewani told the court he was not guilty of charges of murder, kidnapping and obstructing justice. For three years he had fought extradition to South Africa, where he is now being tried for killing Swedish-born bride Anni (nee Hindocha), who was shot dead on November 13, 2010, aged 28. AFP British McCann troll
found dead in hotel A BRITISH woman accused by a television station of directing Twitter abuse at the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann has been found dead, press reports said on Sunday. Brenda Leyland, 63, was confronted on the street by a Sky News reporter who accused her of being in a group of online trolls who directed abuse at the McCanns, whose daughter has been missing since 2007. The death is not being treated as suspicious, a police spokes- man said. British press have reported that police are invest- igating abuse on social media towards the McCanns. AFP EX-FRENCH AGENT IS SYRIA JIHADIST A FORMER French intelligence officer who defected to al-Qaeda was targeted by US strikes in Syria last month, US press group McClatchy said, in a report almost immediately denied by Paris. According to the report, European intelligence sources describe the former agent who allegedly defected from either French military intelligence services or the countrys foreign spy agency the DGSE as the highest ranking defector ever to go over to the terrorist group. The article adds that the man, who reportedly joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and went to Syria, was one of the targets of a round of US strikes in the war-torn country aimed at the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaedas Syrian affiliate. AFP THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 entered a new phase yesterday with the resumption of the under- water search for the aircraft, officials said. Until now experts had been concentrating on mapping the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean search zone where the plane carrying 239 people is thought to have crashed in March. The Malaysian-contracted GO Phoenix vessel has now arrived in the area and begun its work scanning the ocean floor for the jet, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said. Australia has been spear- heading the hunt for the plane which is believed to have hit the ocean after mysteriously diverting off-course from Kua- la Lumpur to Beijing and run- ning out of fuel. The search for MH370 has been frustrated by a lack of solid information about the jetliners final hours and the vast and largely unexplored area in which it is presumed to have crashed. Given that the unknown nature of the ocean floor in that area since found to include extinct volcanoes, sheer ridges and deep trench- es a bathymetric survey to map the seabed was consid- ered vital before an underwa- ter search could start. This survey, which has mapped some 110,000 square kilometres (44,000 square miles) of the remote area since May, has paved the way for the work of the GO Phoenix that will conduct a deep-water, side scan sonar search. The GO Phoenix will tow sensitive underwater equip- ment over the seabed in the hunt for irregularities, such as large parts of the aircraft that could still be in intact like the engines and fuselage, the ATSB has said. Australian authorities have said they are cautiously opti- mistic that the plane will be located in the refined search zone, although they have said the process could take up to a year. AFP 14 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 World
Decapitation killer dad hangs himself: reports THE father of a 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who confessed to decapitating a classmate earlier this year has killed himself, news reports said yesterday. The 53-year-old, whose name was withheld, was found hanged in his home on Sunday in Sasebo, southwest Japan, Jiji Press said. His daughter was arrested in late July on suspicion of murdering her 15-year-old fellow student after police discovered a dismembered body on a bed in the suspects home. My daughters act can never be forgiven for any reason or cause, her father said in August. When I think of the shock and sorrow felt by the bereaved family, it breaks my heart, he said. I cant find the words for an apology. AFP Two Swiss shot dead in
Philippines, police say TWO Swiss nationals have been shot dead in a southern Philippine resort town, police said yesterday. The victims, 67-year-old Robert Erich Loever and 78-year-old Baltazar Johann Erni, had just stepped out from a beach resort at 1pm (0500 GMT) on Sunday in Opol town, Misamis Oriental province, when unidentified gunmen shot them in the head, municipal police chief Senior Inspector Alwin Baclao said. The assailants fled on foot, Baclao said, according to the victims two female companions who witnessed the attack. Police ruled out robbery as motive after the suspects ran away without taking the victims belongings, Baclao said, adding an investigation was under way. AFP Oz chef cooked parts of girlfriends body: paper AUSTRALIAN police said yesterday that they had begun a murder probe after they found human remains in an apartment, but refused to confirm reports that body parts were cooking on the stove. Authorities went to the home in an upmarket area of Brisbane on Saturday night after neighbours reported a terrible smell. Police have given few details on the case, but confirmed that human remains were found inside the apartment in Teneriffe and that a mans body was found in a nearby street. Queenslands Courier- Mail said the dead man was a 28-year-old chef who had recently moved into the apartment with his Indonesian girlfriend. Police would not comment on the papers report that the man slit his own throat after he fled the apartment, or that they had found parts of the womans body cooking in an industrial pot on the stove. AFP Seven crewmen aboard missing gunboat safe THE commander of a Malaysian gunboat that went missing on Sunday has confirmed the safety of all seven crew onboard after establishing radio contact, however rough seas were hampering rescue operations, the navy said yesterday. The vessel went missing after it set out for a routine sea patrol in the South China Sea on Sunday near Mengalum island off Borneo. AFP Malaysia urged not to deport Uighur migrants Next phase of MH370 search begins A MALAYSIAN human rights group called on the government on Sunday not to forcibly deport 155 Chinese eth- nic Uighurs reported to be in the coun- try illegally, amid concerns for their fate in China. Malaysian media reported on Friday that the Uighurs, including 76 children, were found in a pair of cramped apart- ments in the capital Kuala Lumpur in a raid two days earlier by immigration authorities. The Malaysian government, which has sought closer trade ties with Beijing, came under criticism 18 months ago from human rights groups and the UN refugee agency for sending six Uighurs back to China in an earlier case. Malaysian rights group Suaram said there was concern that deporting the Uighurs might put their life at risk, especially since there are 76 children involved. Malaysia is not a signatory to the UNs key refugee treaty, but the government is bound by international principles against deporting persons to places where they may face persecu- tion, Suaram said. Xinjiang tensions have soared amid a wave of violence over the past year, including deadly attacks on civilians, which China blames on terrorists. A Malaysian immigration department official reached on Sunday declined to comment. Malaysia is a major trans- shipment point on regional refugee and people-smuggling routes. Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have expressed growing alarm over reports that scores of its citizens had gone to Syria to take part in its civil war, prompting fears they could join the radical Islamic State group and import extremist ideas on their return home. Similar fears have been expressed in neighbouring Indonesia. Indonesian police said in mid-September that they had arrested four Uighurs suspected of being linked to the Islamic State. Suaram said any detained Uighurs should have their cases adjudicated by Malaysian courts, and urged the gov- ernment to work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the matter. A UNHCR spokeswoman said the agency was still seeking information from authorities on the report of the 155 Uighurs and declined comment. Malaysia deported six Uighurs in December 2012 while the UNHCR was processing their refugee claims, spark- ing an outcry. It deported an earlier batch of 11 Uighurs in 2011, saying they were involved in a human-smuggling syndi- cate. AFP Typhoon slams into Japan Miwa Suzuki S TRONG typhoon Phanfone slammed into Japan yesterday, packing gusting winds and huge waves that swept three US military ofcials out to sea in another stark reminder of the countrys vulner- ability to nature. Just over a week after a volcano killed dozens of hikers when it erupted with- out warning, winds of up to 180 kilo- metres (112 miles) per hour whipped ashore, bringing heavy rain and travel chaos throughout a swathe of the archipelago. The storm whirled over Tokyo at around 11:00am (0200 GMT) and then headed northeast, dumping rain fur- ther up the coast of Honshu while its eye moved out over the Pacic Ocean. Seven people were left dead or miss- ing, including the three US military ofcials who had been photographing the storm, Japanese police and coast guards said. Typhoon Phanfone grounded more than 600 ights, and caused the can- cellation of dozens of bullet train services, leaving travellers stranded in stations. The leading edge of the storm brought a nasty commute to Tokyos morning rush hour, with hun- dreds of thousands of ofce workers caught up in the driving rain that lashed the streets. Localised ooding was reported while television footage showed around 15 of the 20-metre high poles holding up the netting at a golf driv- ing range had collapsed, crashing into houses in Chiba, east of Tokyo. The storm also battered Japans auto industries. Toyota Motor temporarily suspend- ed operations at its 12 factories in Aichi, central Japan, due to the impact of the typhoon on its parts supplies, a company spokeswoman said, adding that production lines reopened by yes- terday evening. The weather agency warned that even as the storm passed out to sea landslides and oods were still a risk in a country where a relatively wet sum- mer brought numerous landslides, in- cluding in Hiroshima where more than 70 people died. In the central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, more than 50,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes, while around 1.7 million others were advised to take refuge, local authori- ties said. The three US military ofcials were engulfed by high waves triggered by the storm on the southern island of Okinawa. Three ofcials were taking pictures with high waves whipped up by the typhoon in the background, a local police spokesman said. One has been found dead, with the two others still missing, he said early yesterday. A 21-year-old surfer was also missing in the Pacic off Fujisawa, southwest of Tokyo, a coast guard spokesman said. And rescuers were searching through the mess left by two separate land- slides in Yokohama, southwest of To- kyo, where two people were missing. A junior high school boy had also disappeared after being swamped by high waves on the coast at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, a city ofcial said. About 57 people were injured across the country in storm-related accidents, public broadcaster NHK said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, the opera- tor of the tsunami-crippled Fukushi- ma Daiichi nuclear power plant on the northeastern Pacic coast, said it had halted ground and sea operations, and bundled away cables and hoses. We are also patrolling and checking where water may ow in, a company spokesman said. In the mountainous centre of the country, the typhoon meant the sus- pension of the search for the bodies of at least 12 hikers believed to be ly- ing on the still-smouldering Mount Ontake. The mountain has already yielded 51. The volcano was packed with walk- ers when it burst angrily to life on Sep- tember 27, with many there to witness the spectacular colours of the country- side as summer turned to autumn. The eruption was Japans deadliest in almost 90 years and nearly 1,000 troops, reghters and police have participated in a search made treach- erous by the gases still rising from the peak, as well as a knee-deep layer of sticky ash. We want to resume operations as soon as possible when weather per- mits, said an ofcial of the crisis man- agement ofce of Nagano, where the volcano sits. AFP High waves batter a breakwater at a port at Kihou town in Mie prefecture, central Japan, yesterday. AFP Source: ASTB/JACC Flight MH370 search area AUSTRALI A Perth Exmouth Indian Ocean 500 km The fnal arc of satellite radar bands that MH370 is calculated to have crossed Priority search Medium search Wide search Latest planned search areas Broken Ridge Zenith Plateau Burst his bubble Bermuda in ball venturer left deated A MARATHON runner attempting a bizarre crossing from Florida to Bermuda inside an inflatable bubble has been rescued after succumbing to exhaustion, the US Coast Guard said. US citizen Reza Baluchi was pulled from the water off the coast of Florida on Saturday after triggering a radio beacon signalling he needed help, a press release said. The US Coast Guard said it had first become aware of Ba- luchis odyssey on Wednesday when personnel received a report of a US citizen floating in an inflatable bubble. Baluchi was reportedly disoriented and asking for directions to Bermuda, it said. A US Coast Guard vessel ar- rived on the scene and urged Baluchi to halt his trip after conveying the dangers of his voyage. Baluchi ignored the advice and continued. However, he finally threw in the towel on Saturday, floating 70 nautical miles (130 kilome- tres) off the Florida coast. AFP 15 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 World
Iran releases the wife of detained WP journalist IRAN has released the journalist Yeganeh Salehi who was arrested almost three months ago with her husband, the Washington Posts Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian, an official said yesterday. Rezaian, who holds dual US-Iranian citizenship, remains in custody but Salehi, an Iranian, was freed on bail in the middle of last week, the official said. The couples detention has attracted considerable attention given the talks between Iran and the US and other world powers over the Islamic republics nuclear program. AFP Man marries stepmum
after French court battle A FORMER stepson and stepmother finally tied the knot on Saturday after fighting for months with French authorities for the right to marry. Elisabeth Lorentz, 48, married Eric Holder, three years her junior, in the small village of Dabo in northeastern France. She was previously married to Holders father but the couple are not blood relatives. Nonetheless, French law prohibits all unions between stepchildren and step- parents even former ones. They finally obtained the right to marry from a local court in June. The ex-husband of the bride, father of the groom, was reportedly among the guests. AFP India-Pakistan border clash kills five civilians INDIAN and Pakistan security forces traded fire along their troubled frontier, leaving five civilians dead in Indian Kashmir and four in Pakistan, marring the Muslim festival of Eid, officials on the two sides said yesterday. The countries accused each other of provoking the firing, which stoked fresh tensions between the nuclear-armed nations that have fought three wars, two over Muslim-majority Kashmir. AFP Kohl chides Merkel, Gorbachev in new book ANGELA Merkel could barely hold a knife and fork properly, while Mikhail Gorbachev left behind a pretty forget- table legacy. Such are the musings of Helmut Kohl according to a new book, which also shows the formidable former German chancellor in less than chari- table mood towards the East German civil rights activists who helped bring down the Berlin Wall 25 years ago. In Legacy: the Kohl Transcripts, a series of interview transcripts to be published without Kohls consent this week, the longest-serving German chancellor cautions against overestimating the role of the civil rights movement, which sprung up in cities like Dresden and Leipzig in the late 1980s, in bringing about German reunification. It would be wrong to pretend that the Holy Ghost has suddenly descended over Leipzig and changed the world, Kohl said in reference to the 1989 pro- tests that saw hundreds of thousands of citizens take to the street against the East German regime. Instead, he the fall of the wall was above all the result of the Soviet Unions struggling economy. Gorbachev went through the books and had to concede that his game was up, and that he could not prop up the regime. The former chancellors verdict on his Soviet counterpart is surprisingly reserved. Gorbachevs legacy is he called time on Communism, partially against his will, but de facto he finished it off. Without bloodshed. Beyond that I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy. The current chancellor Angela Mer- kel, who Kohl promoted but turned against after an expenses scandal in 1999, is described in even less flattering terms: Ms Merkel couldnt even hold her fork and knife properly. She loitered at state dinners so that I had to repeat- edly tell her to pull herself together. The frank tone of the 84-year-olds comments suggests that he probably never expected them to be published in his lifetime. Recorded during a series of more than 100 interviews with the jour- nalist Heribert Schwan in 2001 and 2002 after the suicide of his first wife Han- nelore, the transcripts were originally intended to form the basis for the fourth volume of his autobiography. Schwan claims that he was sacked as Kohls biographer and ordered to return the tapes after falling out with his new wife, Maike Kohl-Richter. Now Schwan has gone ahead and published the tapes anyway a decision that could yet have legal repercussions. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel, which has printed excerpts from the book in its current edition, the Kohl transcripts show a man smarting from not having received the full recog- nition he felt he deserved. His Social Democrat predecessors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt enjoyed reputations as cosmopolitan statesman, but Kohls bulky frame, strong regional accent and taste for hearty German cuisine often invited ridicule in Germany, meaning his repu- tation abroad often exceeded that in his home country. THE GUARDIAN IS turning us all into recruiters Owen Jones Analysis T HEY are eeing Lati- ya a city just out- side Baghdad in their thousands. A few months ago, it had a pop- ulation of 200,000, but now only 50,000 remain. This is a town of horror. According to Human Rights Watch, Islamist militias are summarily executing civil- ians. People are being taken out of cars, ordered to kneel on the pavement and then shot in the head. On June 11, 137 men were seized from the towns Um Weilha market. Thirty bodies have so far been recovered; the fate of the oth- ers remains a mystery. More evidence of the need for Western air power to pum- mel these barbarians, you might think. But the persecu- tors here are not the Islamic State (IS). They are Shia ght- ers under the control of former Western-backed prime minis- ter Nouri al-Maliki, whose vio- lent sectarianism did so much to fuel the rise of IS. They are murdering and torturing Sunni Muslims, victims whose lives have been deemed to be of no sig- nicance. As Human Rights Watch points out, their sto- ries are falling on deaf ears. No white Westerners were forced to recite chilling mes- sages in videos before being murdered, so no horror is expressed by Western politi- cians. There arent ever louder and more irresistible calls to do something. None of this is to understate the barbarity of IS. We grow more terried of it; we ex- press our terror, and so help to spread it. Western media compete over inammatory language to express the evil of IS, and add to its almost oth- erworldly, terrifying mystique a mystique IS has depended on to conquer large swaths of Iraq and Syria, because its opponents are left too fright- ened to resist. Stills of its videos are plas- tered on front pages and vi- cious anti-Muslim diatribes are posted on Twitter which must delight IS: the more ha- tred of Muslims ratchets up, the better chance it has of winning support. Some belated realisation we are simply following ISs script is ltering through. This weeks Independent on Sunday front page featured simply white text on black. Social media abounds with calls to share pictures of the murdered British taxi driv- er Alan Henning hugging a Syrian child to showcase his kindness, rather than his last moments, as IS would want. The fact is, we are playing the part IS has written for us in an even more profound way. We must do something has too often proved to be the cry of a man pouring a can of petrol over a burning home. IS knows that, which is why it is doing everything it can to incite Western intervention. A British jihadi has called for the UK to send all your forces so IS can send them all back in cofns. In the up- setting propaganda videos he has made under duress, the British hostage John Cantlie says IS cannot be defeated by air power, but only with ground forces. As General Jonathan Shaw the former assistant chief of the UKs defence staff says: What possible advantage is there to [IS] of bringing us into the campaign? Answer: to unite the Muslim world against the Christian world. We played into their hands. Weve done what they wanted us to do. Far from stemming its ad- vance, since the bombs began to fall, IS has continued its on- ward march. Heet, near Bagh- dad, is believed to have fallen; IS could already be within ar- tillery range of the capital; and it appears to be on the verge of seizing the northern Syrian town of Kobane. In the initial phase of bombing, IS is believed to have added 6,000 recruits to its ranks. Its growing online support intensied after the bombing raids, says the FBI director, James Comey. So what can be done? At the moment, many Iraqi Sunni Muslims prefer IS to the sec- tarian Shia militias. Until that is addressed through a process of national reconcili- ation and by integrating the Sunni minority reversing the damage done by Maliki- style sectarianism little will change. Murderous Shia militias must be dismantled. Kurdish peshmerga must, undoubt- edly, be properly armed. The Western-backed dictator- ships of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar must be compelled to crack down on the funding networks helping to sustain IS and other terrorists. External military interven- tion in Iraq and Syria must be led by regional powers, not by estern forces as IS craves. Will common sense prevail? Unlikely, given the more-than- understandable revulsion that has swept Britain and beyond since the brutality against Alan Henning. But that, of course, is what IS intends. We cannot bomb an ideol- ogy out of existence. One can only imagine the satisfaction among IS ranks that we are following a script it has writ- ten to the letter. THE GUARDIAN Towering achievement Members of the Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls human tower team form a castell during the 25th human towers, or castells, competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday. These human towers, built traditionally in festivals within Catalonia, gather several teams tha attempt to safely build and dismantle a human tower structure. 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The title The Phnom Penh Post in either English or Khmer languages, its associated logos or devices and the contents of this publica- tion may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of Post Media Co Ltd. www.phnompenhpost.com www.phnompenhpost.com I T IS not wholly true to say that the eyes of the entire world are on Hong Kong. They would be, of course, if people in mainland China were allowed to know what is happening in their countrys most successful city. But Chinas govern- ment has tried to block any news about the Hong Kong democracy demonstrations from reaching the rest of the country not exactly a sign of confidence on the part of Chi- nas rulers in their system of authori- tarian government. Before suggesting a way forward for Hong Kongs ham-fisted authori- ties, three things need to be made clear. First, it is a slur on the integrity and principles of Hong Kongs citi- zens to assert, as the Chinese gov- ernments propaganda machine does, that they are being manipulat- ed by outside forces. What motivates Hong Kongs tens of thousands of demonstrators is a passionate belief that they should be able to run their affairs as they were promised, choos- ing those who govern them in free and fair elections. Second, others outside of Hong Kong have a legitimate interest in what happens in the city. Hong Kong is a great international centre, whose freedoms and autonomy were guar- anteed in a treaty registered at the UN. In particular, the United King- dom, the other party to this Sino- British Joint Declaration, sought and received guarantees that Hong Kongs autonomy and liberties would be guaranteed for 50 years. So it is ridiculous to suggest that British ministers and parliamentari- ans should keep their noses out of Hong Kongs affairs. In fact, they have a right and a moral obligation to continue to check on whether China is keeping its side of the bargain as, to be fair, it has mostly done so far. But, third, the biggest problems have arisen because of a dispute about where Hong Kongs promised path to democracy should take it, and when. No one told Hong Kongers when they were assured of universal suffrage that it would not mean being able to choose for whom they could vote. No one said that Iran was the democratic model that Chinas Communist bureaucracy had in mind, with the Chinese government authorized to exercise an effective veto over candidates. In fact, that is not what China had in mind. As early as 1993, Chinas chief negotiator on Hong Kong, Lu Ping, told Peoples Daily, the Communist Partys mouthpiece, The [method of universal suffrage] should be reported to [Chinas Parliament] for the record, whereas the central governments agreement is not necessary. How Hong Kong develops its democracy in the future is completely within the sphere of the autonomy of Hong Kong. The central government will not inter- fere. The following year, Chinas for- eign ministry confirmed this. The British Parliament summa- rized what had been said and prom- ised in a report on Hong Kong in 2000. The Chinese government has therefore formally accepted that it is for the Hong Kong government to determine the extent and nature of democracy in Hong Kong. So, what next? The peaceful demonstrators in Hong Kong, with their umbrellas and refuse-collection bags, will not themselves be swept off the streets like garbage or bullied into submis- sion by tear gas and pepper spray. Any attempt to do so would present a terrible and damaging picture of Hong Kong and China to the world, and would be an affront to all that China should aspire to be. The Hong Kong authorities have gravely miscalculated the views of their citizens. Like the bad courtiers against whom Confucius warned, they went to Beijing and told the emperor what they thought he want- ed to hear, not what the situation really was in the city. They must think again. Under the existing plans, there is supposed to be a second phase of consultations on democratic devel- opment to follow what turned out to be a counterfeit start to the process. Hong Kongs government should now offer its people a proper second round of consultation, one that is open and honest. Dialogue is the only sensible way forward. Hong Kongs citizens are not irresponsible or unreasonable. A decent compro- mise that allows for elections that people can recognize as fair, not fixed, is surely available. The demonstrators in Hong Kong, young and old, represent the citys future. Their hopes are for a peaceful and prosperous life in which they can enjoy the freedoms and rule of law that they were promised. That is not only in the interest of their city; it is in Chinas interest, too. Hong Kongs future is the main issue; but so, too, is Chinas honor and its standing in the world. PROJECT SYNDICATE The way ahead in Hong Kong Umbrellas with messages of support are displayed at a pro-democracy protest site in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong yesterday. AFP Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, is chancellor of the University of Oxford. Comment Chris Patten 17 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Lifestyle Lifestyle THANK you, Bill Murray, and thank you, curiously enough, Mickey Mouse: Star Wars Rebels, a new ani- mated series that premiered on Fri- day in the US on the Disney Channel, is a shipshape, neato-burrito side project that finds the right balance between hype and hyperspace. The first double-length episode, subtitled Spark of Rebellion, is a per- fectly acceptable entry in the Star Wars universe. Its also clearly meant for 10-year-olds, so whats with all the 45-year-olds asking me if Ive seen it yet? Well, you know, this is religious stuff for some of us original fanboys, and Rebels is the first indication of what will become of Star Wars under the stewardship of Disney, which acquired the entire Lucasfilm opera- tion a couple of years ago and prompt- ly floated a number of ways in which it intends to amp up the brand. To everyones surprise, this included a green light for Episode VII, which is due in movie theatres in time for Christmas 2015 and brings Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill back as Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker. One thing is certain about the new ownership: Disney intends to make as much money as it can on Star Wars, no offence to your sacred childhood memories. These days, you can have as much or as little going on in your own pri- vate Star Wars-sphere as you like. For some, the movies are plenty. Most of us can admit almost with- out twitching that George Lucass prequel trilogy pretty much soured the relationship. The bright spot in the prequels, I suppose, was that they taught us to not take Star Wars personally. This was a problem. Of course, Rebels is not the first trip to cartoonland for Star Wars. Anima- tor Dave Filonis Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuted in 2008 and ran for an impressive 125 episodes on Cartoon Network. Clone Wars had a style all its own, filling in the huge blanks between Lucass Epsiode II: The Attack of the Clones (2002) and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), in which Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and the old guard actually fought and experienced the so-called Clone Wars that everyone in the films talked so much about. Clone Wars was harmless fun a toy commercial with a noticeable moral code and a willing- ness to experiment. Snuffed out by the Disney deal, Clone Wars nevertheless left Filoni and his Rebels co-creators, Carrie Beck and Simon Kinberg, with a reli- able blueprint for how to do Star Wars purely for kids (after all, Star Wars should rightfully belong to kids) in a half-hour format, while appeasing the childlike devotion in adult fans. In addition to a slightly more sophisticated animation style, Rebels has the benefit of taking place in what is undoubtedly the proven sweet spot of Star Wars: Its set five years before the events seen in the original 1977 film. That means that Rebels is more recognisably and vis- ually Star Wars-ish than the stories set in the failed art-deco/hotel atri- um aesthetics of the prequel era. In Rebels, there are once again stormtroopers, Imperial officers, Star Destroyers, TIE fighters and AT- ATs, all with their attendant sound effects and movements and John Williams music cues. At long last we are home, where the obfuscation between good guys and bad guys has fallen away. As fans already know, the Rebels animators looked for inspiration to the paintings and sketches of the late conceptual art ist Ralph McQuarrie, whom Lucas hired in the early 1970s when Star Wars was just a germ of an idea. Before anyone really knew what Star Wars would look and feel like, McQuarrie had begun drawing rudimentary notions of droids, Wookiees and Sith Lords. One of the good guys in Rebels, a lumbering creature named Zeb Orrelios (voiced by Steven Blum), is a dead-ringer for McQuarries earli- est take on Chewbacca. Theres a story here too, by the way: On a far-off planet thats recently come under Imperial occupation, a skilled teenage thief named Ezra Bridger (Taylor Gray) runs into a band of thieves headed by Kanan Jar- rus (Freddie Prinze Jr) and unwit- tingly foils their latest heist. The more Ezra hangs out with Kanans crew, it begins to dawn on him that theyre working for a larger, secret alliance dedicated to overthrowing the Galactic Empire. And thats where the fun begins. Thats where it always did. THE WASH- INGTON POST Katya Kazakina M ULTIMILLION- AIRE British col- lector Frank Co- hen waited eight years for the Jeff Koons sculp- ture he had purchased to be completed. It turned out that Balloon Monkey (Orange) was too big for his nonprot art centre in London. So now hes selling it. The 2006-2013 orange stainless steel creature is heading to Christies with an estimate of $20 million to $30 million and will be among the high- lights of the bellwether post- war and contemporary eve- ning sale on November 12 in New York. Sothebys also has a Koons artwork up for sale on November 11. It will offer Moon (Yellow), a stainless- steel sculpture of a mylar bal- loon that can be mounted on a wall. Its estimated at $12 million to $18 million. Koons became the most ex- pensive living artist at auction after his 1994-2000 sculpture, Balloon Dog (Orange), fetched $58.4 million at Christies in November 2013. His total auc- tion sales in 2013 jumped 84 per cent from the previous year to $71.1 million, according to Paris-based arts data research- er Artprice. For six weeks starting Oc- tober 6, the 12.5-foot-tall, 20- foot-long Balloon Monkey (Or- ange) will be displayed in front of Christies Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. Its an incredible outdoor piece, said Nicolai Frahm, who co-founded with Cohen the Dairy Art Centre near the British Museum in London in 2013 and who conrmed Cohen is selling it. He origi- nally had a specic place for it, which didnt work out. Its too massive, unfortunately. He thought it didnt make sense to keep something incredible like this in storage. Cohen unsuccessfully ap- proached a number of mu- seums once he realised the sculpture wouldnt t indoors and was too big for the space outside, Frahm said. It would look ridiculous. Manchester, England-born Cohen is ranked as one of the worlds top 200 collectors by ArtNews in 2014. His collection includes art by Tracey Emin, Stanley Spencer and Ai Weiwei. Im opening this space be- cause of my passion for art, Cohen said in a Bloomberg News interview last year about Dairy Art Centre. Koonss career retrospec- tive at the Whitney Museum of American Art has attracted 250,000 people from its open- ing in June through September 30, making it one of the best attended exhibitions in the museums history, according to the museum. The show closes on October 19. Jeff wanted something that had a sense of abstraction and was very recognisable, Brett Gorvy, Christies international head of contemporary art, said about the monkey sculpture. Everything he did with Balloon Dog he took a step further. The work is one of ve unique versions, each in a dif- ferent colour. Another monkey was exhibited at Gagosian Gal- lery in New York in 2013, along with two other inatable crea- tures, a rabbit and a swan. The monkeys are important to Jeff, Gorvy said. Its a very lovable, peevish character. In Chinese symbolism, its some- thing very positive. Balloon Dog (Orange), which was bought by New York art collector Jose Mugrabi, attract- ed bidders from the Middle East, Asia, Mexico and Europe, according to Gorvy. He said he expects similarly global com- petition for the monkey. So many of our clients are looking for large-scale, outdoor sculpture whether its by Koons or Calder, Gorvy said. The Sothebys Moon (Yel- low) Koons sculpture is part of the artists Celebration series that includes Balloon Dog and some of the other most expen- sive Koons works sold at auc- tion. Works from the series are owned by billionaire collectors Francois Pinault, Steven Co- hen and Victor Pinchuk, deal- ers said. Each of the ve versions of the moon sculpture is painted in a different colour and mea- sures 11 feet in diameter. They have never appeared at auction until now, according to Alexan- der Rotter, co-head of Sothe- bys worldwide contemporary art department. The reective light pink version is currently on view at the Whitney. It was always considered very desirable because you can hang it on the wall, Rot- ter said. I chased it for a long time. BLOOMBERG Koonss Balloon Monkey heading to Christies, looking for a price of $30M Star Wars Rebels: In visuals and in spirit, its a new hope Jeff Koonss sculptures Balloon Swan (Blue), Balloon Monkey (Red) and Balloon Rabbit (Yellow) on display at Gagosian New York in May 2013. AFP The Disney Channels Star Wars Rebels revolves around the character Ezra Bridger, voiced by Taylor Gray. DISNEY XD Udderly sexist? Bollywood star in media cleavage row I NDIAN director Homi Ada- jania has thrown his support behind Bollywood star Deepika Padukone in her spat with a leading newspaper over remarks it made about her cleavage on social media. Last month the Times of India posted a link on Twitter to a year-old clip of Padukone which was shot from above, adding the caption OMG! Deepika Padukones cleavage show. The post sparked furious debate about media standards across India, and Bollywood stars rushed to offer their support for Padukone, 28. At some level you have to realise that your star is a human being and needs to be given that respect, said Ada- jania, speaking at the Busan Film Festival on Sunday. If a person like Dee- pika didnt draw the line now, where will it go? he added, describing such coverage as totally ruthless. Padukone has starred in blockbuster Bollywood hits such as Om Shanti Om (2007) and Chennai Express, as well as Adajanias latest feature Finding Fanny. AFP d Travel 18 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Weaver Chalard Saowanont prepares cotton for her loom. BANGKOKPOST A holiday looms in Ban Na Or Karnjana Karnjanatawe
C HALARD Saowanont, 66, has weaved cot- ton cloth since she was young. She also grows cotton plants and opens her home to visitors as a weav- ing and learning centre in Ban Na Or, a Tai Lue village, about 540km northeast of Bangkok. Weaving is one of the skills that has been passed on through generations, said Chalard, the president of Thai- Loei Weavers Club. Their ancestors were Tai Lue people who emigrated from Lu- ang Prabang and Vientiane in 1683. They still keep old weav- ing patterns, one of which is called kang pla, meaning sh bones. The design is a geomet- ric pattern requiring high skill and concentration to control the special design of loom used for it, with four heddles and six treadlers, she said. The Tai-Loei Weavers Club of Ban Na Or also demon- strates to visitors how they collect cotton from the plants as they grow the cotton at the centre. One of the highlights is the yellowish brown cotton. In fact, we do not call the colour brown. We call it si tui, as the colour is naturally mixed between yellow to orange shades and brown, like the peel of a ripe santol, said Chalard. In addition to cotton plants, the group also has small cot- ton gins made of wood used for removing cotton seeds. They also have mai kong, a tool which looks like a bow and is used to make the cotton uffy by repeatedly plucking the string. The cotton is then spun into yarn for weaving. Chalard and her team are also willing to teach and let visitors try each step, includ- ing weaving, in the cotton yarn-making process. Apart from the weavers club, Ban Na Or also has other at- tractions, such as Wat Sri Chan Pradit, the villages rst temple. It houses a local museum that displays many old items found in the village earthenware, looms, and tools for farming and shing. Thaweesak Charoenprawat, 76, a volunteer village guide, loves to show visitors around the temple. One of the high- lights is a group of traditional Tai Lue houses. We have some traditional houses scattered around the village, but in Wat Sri Chan visitors can see several of them in one place, he said. Those houses have been converted into living quarters for monks. Visitors are not al- lowed to enter, but they can walk around to observe the structure and design. The Tai Lue houses are made completely from wood and built on stilts, which are placed on bricks, not attached to the soil. Like other farmers houses, the area underneath was used as a living space and storage for farming tools, said Thaweesak. The roof is high and the tiles made of baked clay. The ladder must have ve steps, represent- ing the ve precepts of Bud- dhism [abstaining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and consuming addictive substances], he said. Thaweesak also likes to lead visitors to his village, where he shows them a granary that is used to store rice, visits elderly residents and stops by houses where trees bearing fruit such as longan are grown. Ban Na Or also offers home stays. 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MODERN APARTMENT FOR Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02 Bed, very nice interior designed, large living room, very light, fully & modern furniture, western kitchen, very good condition for living, quiet & safe. Price: $600-1,100/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 Two Sri Lankan athletes missing in South Korea TWO Sri Lankan sportsmen were missing from their Asian Games village and believed to have run away looking for jobs in the host nation South Korea, official sources said yesterday. A hockey player and a member of the beach volleyball team were unaccounted for at the time Sri Lankas 80-strong contingent prepared to leave on Saturday. Official sources identified the missing hockey player as Prasanna Dissanayake, a Sri Lankan soldier, and speculated that he may have run away to look for a job in South Korea. The missing beach volleyball player was not immediately identified but was also thought to be a member of the armed forces. Sri Lanka secured a gold and a bronze, both for cricket, at the games. AFP Pakistan, Australia focus on spin for ODI series PAKISTAN and Australia will focus on spin when they start a three-match one-day series in Sharjah today, despite the absence of top bowler Saeed Ajmal, who is suspended over his suspect bowling action. Pakistan have been hard pressed to compensate for the missing Ajmal, who has single-handedly won them matches in all three formats of the game in the last five years. He was reported for a suspect bowling action on Pakistans August tour of Sri Lanka and was subsequently banned from international cricket after a biomechanic analysis found his action illegal. AFP Djokovic batters Berdych to triumph at China Open WORLD number one Novak Djokovic crushed Tomas Berdych 6-0, 6-2 on Sunday to win the China Open and maintain a remarkable 100 per cent record in the Beijing tournament. The Serb was 5-0 ahead in the second set one game from serving up a double bagel but his Czech opponent staged a brief fightback before Djokovic marched on to claim his fifth title in Beijing, an event he has won the five times he has entered. AFP LeBron, Cavs rip Tel Aviv in preseason opener LEBRON James was a winner in his first NBA appearance for Cleveland since leaving for Miami in 2010 as the Cavaliers defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 107- 80 in an international exhibition game on Sunday. James started but played only 20 minutes and did not take the court in the second half, finishing with 12 points on 4-of-11 shooting with four rebounds and four assists. The preseason tuneup was his first game for Cleveland since a playoff loss to Boston four years ago. AFP World No 792 Wilson wins Alfred Dunhill OLIVER Wilson held his nerve down the stretch to win his first career EPGA title as the world number 792 upset the field at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The 34-year- old Englishman, a losing player on the 2008 European Ryder Cup team, finally tasted victory with a 72-hole total of 17-under par at St Andrews. AFP 22 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Sport PM leads ovation for Seavmey Continued from page 1
medal success in the womens under- 73kg class on Friday was a great hon- our she had brought to the country. Every Cambodian should be proud of what she has achieved and I greatly admire her for dedicating this medal to the country and its people, Hun Sen said. Hailing her performance in South Korea as an inspiration for generations to come, the prime minister, who has been reported to be an avid follower of Cambodian sports, said Seavmey had made the countrys painfully long wait for a coveted Asian Games medal worthwhile. While recalling Seavmeys career re- cord of two gold medals and four sil- vers, Hun Sen urged her not to slow down but to pursue with greater vigour the 2016 Olympics qualication and a medal in Rio de Janeiro. After his enthusiastic address, the premier rewarded Seavmey with a na- tional award and a personal donation of $10,000, a laptop computer, an iPad and an annual payment of $1,500 to go towards her university studies. The prime ministers cash incentive is in addition to a $20,000 bonus that Seavmey is entitled to under a govern- ment subdecree passed by the Min- istry of Education, Youth and Sport that rewards sportsmen and women for their excellence and outstanding achievements in major international competitions. National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) partners Naga- World and Angkor Beer are also giving cash incentives to the gold medalist. While Naga is yet to announce the ex- act amount, Angkor Beer declared yes- terday that a $10,000 reward would be handed over to the taekwondo star. On top of these gifts, the Post has learned that more money will ow to- wards Seavmey for her achievement from several private donors including government ofcials. Thanking Hun Sen and the people of Cambodia for the admiration and af- fection showered on her, Seavmey said she could not have won the gold with- out the solid support from her fam- ily, the professional help from coach Choi Yung Sok and the blessings of the Cambodian people. Seavmey shared her Asian Games experiences when she presented her- self before the local and international media at the NOCC headquarters yes- terday morning. The gold medal winner said she had not thought of a medal to begin with, but once she won her quarternal ght she had a feeling she could do it. I won the gold medal because I overcame the strongest opponents in the quarternals and seminals. My technique was what helped me achieve this, Seavmey said. NOCC secretary-general Vath Cham- roeun said the committee was over the moon that the target it had in mind be- fore the Games had been met. Seavmey has shown the way that if our athletes work hard and raise their competitive levels like she has now done, we can achieve bigger prizes in international competition, Chamroe- un told the Post. We have won the gold medal not by chance but after setting a target during the National Sports Forum in 2010. We continue to pursue this policy with all the vigour at our command as we set our sights on hosting the 2023 SEA Games, he said. Local TV channel CNC announced yesterday that it would set up the Sorn Seavmey Foundation to help collect donations for the athlete. In a gesture that won universal praise yesterday, Seavmey said she would do- nate 20 per cent of the foundations fund to the Cambodian Red Cross and another 20 per cent to Kantha Bopha Childrens Hospital. Even as the country is going gaga over the Incheon success, sports chroniclers are rewinding history to remind the country where and how the Asian Games journey began in 1954 in Manila. It wasnt until 1962 that Cambodia got its rst medal, a bronze, through boxer You Chin Hong, who lost a close seminal ght in the 60kg light- weight class. It was at the 1970 Games in Bangkok that Cambodia met with its biggest success. Boxers Khiev Soeun and Ouk Savoeun won silver medals while Phat Sam On made a splash with breast- stroke bronze. The popularity of volleyball among women in the country at the time was reected when the national team n- ished third to pick up a bronze medal. You Chin Hong, who now resides in Canada, is the only individual medalist from these times still alive today. Cambodias medals dried up after the 1970 Games and the rst decade of the new millennium ended on a sad note when wrestler Chov Sotheara and taekwondo ghter Sorn Davin were beaten at the quarternal stages in Guangzhou, China, four years ago. Davin was not so fortunate again in Incheon, suffering a broken arm during her over-73kg quarternal clash with Akram Khodabandeh of Iran on Friday. But where Davin failed, her little sis- ter succeeded to the collective relief a country for which the Seavmey saga will remain in the collective conscious- ness for a long time to come at least till another gold heist. Sorn Seavmey holds up her Asian Games gold medal during a press conference at NOCC headquarters yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN Dragons put down Warriors, Emporers rule H S Manjunath TEAM chemistry worked well for Smart Dragons in their 85-73 victory over CCPL War- riors, and Emperors came out on top against Extra Joss Fight- ers, 57-42, in a game that was marked by some low sec- tionals in the Angkor Beer Cambodian Basketball League at the Olympic Indoor Stadium on Sunday. The CBL has so far mainly stuck to weekend action, but for the first time this season the organisers have scheduled evening matches from 7pm over the next four days to wind down the league phase ahead of the eight-team play- off competition. A breezy start by Emperors through Kim Vengngoun sent an ominous warning to the Fighters, who in going for a fast tempo missed a few easy layups. It took nearly four minutes for the Fighters to open their scoring, but by the end of the first quarter they were just one point behind at 13-12. The second quarter saw missed baskets by both sides before the tight zone defence employed by the Emperors seemed to shut down the Fighters for a while. Emperors were more than happy to take an eight-point advantage into the second half. When Monh Ratana began to click with his three-point- ers, the Emperors lead stretched to 13 after four min- utes into the third quarter. The Fighters could only reduce the gap by two points going into the business end of the contest. The Fighters did manage a few steals, with Stephen Siruma doing plenty of good work with the drive ins. But that was not enough to rope in the Emperors. Dragons do it smart The sixth-ranked Dragons set out to get a good playoff seat, and they got what they wanted. Despite the absence of two prime scorers in Ben Laird and Gabriele Castaldo, the Dragons bench showed its might. Marginally ahead after the first quarter, the Dragons had worked themselves to a hap- pier position by half time with a seven-point cushion. The third quarter was more about Dragons consolida- tion, with Norodom Rindra regularly driving to the basket and flipping the ball to the 2-metre-tall American Jordan Bergren to do the honours under the rim. Though the Dragons had to bench lively Leng Seng after his fourth foul, his replacement, Chhim Taingy- ou, produced a fabulous run of 11 points to give his side a huge lead. As has been their wont this season, Warriors warmed up late with Vince Del Mundo and Fred Babida working in tandem to bring a 20-point deficit to nine at the end of the third quarter. If the Warriors thought they could use the momentum to rattle the Dragons, they had no idea what was in store for them from Cham Nou. Upon his first contact with the ball, he hit a three-point- er and quickly followed it up with a nice long basket and a layup from a fast break and the game was irretrievably lost for the Warriors. Score Summaries Emperors 57 (Kim Vengngoun 18, Monh Ratana 14, Hour Pich- bounchour 6) Extra Joss Fight- ers 42 (Stephen Siruma 20, Arjhay De La Rosa 6) Smart Dragons 85 (Jordan Bergren 20, Chhim Taingyou 11, Hon Wei Chan 11) CCPL War- riors 73 (Vince Del Mundo 27, Fred Babida 14 points, Sovann Panha 13) Football THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 23 Qatar to play host to Italian Super Cup clash THE 2014 Italian Super Cup between champions Juventus and Cup holders Napoli will be played in Qatar on December 22, it was announced yesterday. Serie A President Maurizio Beretta made the announcement at a press conference in Paris along with the Qatar Football Association General Secretary Saoud Al Mohannadi. An announcement on the exact venue will be made at a later date, while Beretta said that the agreement is only for this years event as it stands. The match is usually staged in August as the curtain-raiser to the Italian season and has been played abroad several times in the recent past, in Libya, the United States and in Beijing, which hosted the Super Cup in 2009, 2011 and 2012. AFP Soccer great Romario elected to Brazil senate BRAZILIAN striker-turned- politician Romario was elected on Sunday to the senate with 63.4 per cent of the vote for the Rio de Janeiro seat. The 48-year-old former soccer star a 1994 World Champion and Socialist Party candidate finished well ahead of Democratic Party rival Cesar Maia, who had received 20.5 per cent with 90 per cent of votes counted. In the 2010 general election Romario was elected a congressman for the Socialists. A trenchant critic of the World Cup held in his homeland earlier this year, Romario alleged corruption through over billing on swanky new stadiums. The former PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona striker also slammed the Brazilian Football Confederation as plagued by corruption. AFP Hamilton win at Celtic for first time since 1938 ALI Crawfords second-half goal gave Hamilton a dramatic 1-0 victory over Scottish champions Celtic to win at Parkhead for the first time in 76 years and go top of the Premiership table on Sunday. Hamilton midfielder Crawford silenced the home support when he struck four minutes after the break to give Hamilton the lead. Celtic then missed numerous chances as Hamilton hung on to record their first win at the home of the Glasgow giants since 1938, with victory catapulting the visitors to the top of the table. AFP Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring during their Spanish league match against Athletic Club Bilbao at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Sunday. AFP Ronaldo hits another treble C RISTIANO Ronaldo scored his third hat- trick in ve games as Real Madrid moved into the top four for the rst time this season with a 5-0 win over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. It took Ronaldo just two minutes to extend his scoring streak to eight games as he headed home Gareth Bales cross and Karim Benzema made the game safe when he doubled Madrids lead just before half-time. Bale teed up Ronaldo once more to make it 3-0 and the Portuguese then turned provider for Benzema to tap home his second of the game. Ronaldo rounded off the scoring two minutes from time when he unintentionally deected Pepes effort home to take his tally for the season to 17 goals in just 11 matches in all competitions. Victory takes Real back to within four points of lead- ers Barcelona behind Valen- cia and Sevilla, but ahead of champions Atletico Madrid who drop down to fth. A fourth defeat in ve league games for Athletic, meanwhile, means Ernesto Valverdes men end the week- end in the relegation zone. We are improving in some aspects and we are growing, said Ronaldo, who equalled the record of scoring 22 hat- tricks in La Liga also held by Telmo Zarra and Real Madrid legend Alfredo di Stefano. The team played a great game and scored ve with- out conceding, so we are very happy. And Madrid boss Carlo An- celotti lauded the contribu- tion of his front three. All of the front three were fanastic. Cristiano scored three, Karim two and Gareth gave two assists and worked very hard for the team. Having the three of them working together is funda- mental for the team. Bale provided the opener on his weaker right foot as he managed to pick out a perfect cross for the unmarked Ron- aldo to head home at the back post. Athletic keeper Gorka Iraizoz then made a smart save low to his right to deny Ronal- do a second and Benzema just couldnt stretch to turn home another Bale cross as the hosts piled on the pressure. However, the Basques set- tled midway through the half and Iker Muniains spectacu- lar dipping volley from the edge of the area forced Iker Casillas into action with a n- gertip save. Crucially Real managed to get the second goal before half-time, though, as Ben- zema rose highest to head Luka Modrics corner in via the crossbar. Bale wasted a great op- portunity to make it 3-0 ve minutes into the second-half as he blazed over with just Iraizoz to beat. However, the Welshman made amends ve minutes later when he raced onto Benzemas pass and squared for Ronaldo to tap home his second of the night. Bale came close again when he shot just wide after being set up by a lovely backheel from James Rodriguez and was then agged offside when he did nally have the ball in the net. Madrid were continuing to open up the Athletic de- fence at will and made it 4-0 21 minutes from time when Ronaldo unselshly squared for Benzema to roll into an empty net rather than going for a hat-trick. Ronaldo did then go in search of his third hat-trick in ve games, forcing Iraizoz into a ying save with a pow- erful header. However, the World Player of the Year wasnt to be de- nied and registered his 26th hat-trick for the club, albeit with some fortune when he deected Pepes effort past the helpless Iraizoz. Earlier, Sevilla moved into third with a convincing 4-1 home win over bottom side Deportivo La Coruna. Cameroonian midelder Stephane Mbia continued his ne scoring form as he opened the scoring midway through the rst-half, but Deportivo levelled soon after thanks to Haris Medunjanins free-kick. However, Sevilla responded as Colombian international Carlos Bacca restored their lead before half-time and Mbia and Vitolo secured the three points with further goals after the break. AFP Sundays Results Celta de Vigo 1 Villarreal 3 Espanyol 2 Real Sociedad 0 Alex Read, Molly Heath share gameweek 7 spoils Dan Riley THE Cellcard Fantasy League offered up its latest unheralded hero in gameweek 7, with Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher reaping rich rewards for the four managers out of every thousand opting to pick him. The 27-year-old Scot set up the Black Cats opener against Stoke and then notched his first goal in nearly a year for the club. A second strike from Fletcher meant he walked away with a top tally of 15 fantasy points. Newcastle saviour Papiss Demba Cisse and the midfield trio of Man Unit- eds Angel Di Maria, Leicesters Riyad Mahrez and Liverpools Jordan Hend- erson all earned 13 points apiece for their goal scoring exploits and accom- panying performance bonuses. In a turn up for the books, two man- agers split a share of the Cellcard prize of a $20 phone credit for the round after Alex Reads YoungBoysofPhnom- Penh and Molly Heaths Mysterious Molly both ended on 86 points with two transfers each. Alex boasted squad selections of Henderson and Di Maria along with Chelseas Diego Costa as his skipper for 12 points, while Molly made the most of having her captain Stevan Jovetic remain on the bench to see her vice captain Hendersons score dou- bled to 26 points. Di Maria, Sunder- lands Connor Wickman (11 points) and Tottenhams Christian Eriksen (11) were also in Mollys ranks. The Cellcard Fantasy Facebook page competition was an interesting affair in that for the second time this cam- paign, the correct answer was given as an example. Fifteen users rightly stated that the final score would be 2-0 to Chelsea in their match against cross-city rivals Arsenal, but nobody posted Hazard as their tiebreaker. Thus the weekly prize of $10 phone credit moves to gameweek 8, which will begin on October 18 after the international fixtures break. English Premier League Man United 2 Everton 1 Chelsea 2 Arsenal 0 Tottenham 1 Southampton 0 West Ham 2 QPR 0 German Bundesliga Wolfsburg 1 Augsburg 0 Bor Mgladbach 1 Mainz 1 Italian Serie A Empoli 3 Palermo 0 Lazio 3 Sassuolo 2 Parma 1 Genoa 2 Sampdoria 1 Atalanta 0 Udinese 1 Cesena 1 Juventus 3 Roma 2 Fiorentina 3 Inter Milan 0 Napoli 2 Torino 1 French Ligue 1 St Etienne 0 Toulouse 1 Guingamp 0 Nantes 1 Lyon 3 Lille 0 Paris SG 1 Monaco 1 SUNDAYS RESULTS 24 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 7, 2014 Sport Manning reaches milestone D ENVER quarterback Pey- ton Manning notched another milestone on Sunday with his 500th career touchdown pass in the Broncos 41-20 NFL win over pre- viously unbeaten Arizona. Manning threw his 500th touch- down pass in the first quarter, connecting with tight end Julius Thomas for a 7-yard score. The ve-time NFL Most Valuable Player joined Brett Favre as the only other quarterback to throw 500 TD passes, and by the end of the con- test, Manning was just ve short of matching Favres record of 508. Manning connected with De- maryius Thomas on a pair of scor- ing passes, including an 86-yard strike, and threw a 12-yard scoring pass to Julius Thomas in the fourth as he finished the game with a ca- reer-high 479 passing yards. The Broncos outscored Arizona 17-0 in the fourth quarter to pull away for the win. I do think about how many peo- ple helped me throughout my ca- reer, and when something like this happens, how grateful I am for that support, Manning said of reach- ing yet another NFL benchmark. Football is the ultimate team game. One man has to accept the honor, but I really accept it on behalf of a lot of coaches and teammates. Another superstar quarterback, New Englands three-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady, silenced doubters as he led the Patriots to a 43-17 triumph over Cincinnati the only other team that went into the fth week of the season unbeaten. Brady and the Patriots had been under intense scrutiny all week in the wake of a 41-14 loss to Kansas City on the previous Monday. It was a long week, Brady admitted. A lot of guys dug re- ally deep this week coming off a tough loss like we did. Brady threw two touchdown passes for the Patriots. He com- pleted 23 of 35 passes for 292 yards, becoming the sixth quar- terback in NFL history to throw for 50,000 yards midway through the first quarter. Quarterbacks were in a less wel- come spotlight in San Diego, where the Chargers romped past the hap- less New York Jets 31-0. San Diegos Philip Rivers passed for three touchdowns and was rest- ed late with the game in hand. Meanwhile, the Jets Geno Smith and Michael Vick combined to go 13-of-32 for 74 yards and one interception. Jets coach Rex Ryan pulled sec- ond-year signal-caller Smith at halftime, with New York trailing 21-0. Vick, however, fared no better, completing nine of 20 passes for 47 yards and enduring two sacks.
Saints rebound at home New Orleans bounced back from an embarrassing loss to Dallas with a 37-31 overtime victory over Tam- pa Bay. The Saints scored 17 unan- swered points and Khiry Robinson ran for an 18-yard touchdown in overtime to seal the victory. The Cowboys also worked over- time for a win, Dan Baileys 49- yard eld goal lifting Dallas 20-17 over the Houston Texans, who had scored the last 10 points in regula- tion to force the extra session. Buffalos Dan Carpenter nailed a 58-yard eld goal with four seconds to play to lift the Bills to a 17-14 vic- tory at Detroit. Bills cornerback Ron Brooks was stretchered off the eld in the rst quarter with a neck injury af- ter he was up-ended covering a punt return. Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck passed for a touchdown and ran for another score, overcoming four Colts turnovers in a 20-13 vic- tory over Baltimore. In other games, Cleveland rallied from a 25-point rst-half decit to edge Tennessee 29-28. Pittsburgh beat Jacksonville 17-9, Philadelphia defeated St. Louis 34- 28, the New York Giants defeated Atlanta 30-20, Carolina defeated Chicago 31-24 and San Francisco got ve eld goals from Phil Daw- son in a 22-17 victory over Kansas City. AFP Quarterback Peyton Manning (centre) of the Denver Broncos passes against the Arizona Cardinals during a game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on Sunday. AFP Orioles, Royals book American League showdown THE Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals, both com- ing off long Major League Base- ball playoff droughts, complet- ed series sweeps on Sunday to reach the American League Championship Series. The Orioles edged Detroit 2-1, while the Royals out- slugged the Angels of Anaheim 8-3 to take victory in their best- of-five matchups three games to none. The best-of-seven American League final opens on Friday in Baltimore with the winner advancing to the World Series to face off against the National League champion. It means we won an oppor- tunity, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. Its a step. Its so hard against a team like Detroit that has a great pedigree and experience . . . Its a challenge and it will con- tinue to be. The Royals had not reached the playoffs since winning the 1985 World Series, while the Orioles have not played in the league final since 1997 and have not won a World Series since 1983. Nelson Cruzs two-run home run in the sixth inning gave the Orioles the only scoring they needed to win at Detroit. Cruz lofted the ball just over the right-field wall and barely inside the foul pole, tucking it 330 yards away in the shortest area of the park for a 2-0 lead. It was Cruzs fourth career homer off the left-handed Detroit starting pitcher David Price, who scattered five hits and struck out six over eight innings but still took the loss. Baltimore starter Bud Norris surrendered only two hits in six and one-third innings and Andrew Miller followed with one and two-thirds innings of hitless relief. Southpaw Zach Britton entered for the Orioles in the ninth and surrendered back-to- back doubles to Victor Martinez and JD Martinez to give the Tigers their only run. Detroits Bryan Holaday struck out and Hernan Perez grounded into a series-ending double play. At Kansas City, Mike Trout opened the scoring for the Angels with a solo homer in the first but the Royals answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning on Alex Gordons bases-loaded double. That chased Angels starting pitcher CJ Wilson, who allowed three runs on three hits before he was lifted after recording only two outs. Eric Hosmer and Mike Mous- takas homered for the Royals, whose 95 regular-season home runs were the fewest of any major league team. But the long ball has been key for Kansas City in the playoffs.
Royals catching re Moustakas delivered an 11th inning homer for the Royals in their game-one victory and Hosmers two-run homer in the 11th inning set them up for the win in game two. Were catching fire at the right time, said Hosmer, who hit a two-run homer off Hec- tor Santiago in the third inning. AFP Nelson Cruz of the Baltimore Orioles bats against the Detroit Tigers dur- ing Game 3 of their American League Division Series on Sunday. AFP