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Laignee Barron
AS THE World Bank considers
supplying fresh loans to Cam-
bodia, a new study uses the
country as exhibit A for how
the financer effectively spon-
sors corporate land grabs at
the expense of the rural poor
it purportedly helps.
Three years ago, the banks
own inspectors found it com-
plicit in one of the largest
forced evictions in Cambodia:
more than 20,000 people were
ousted from their homes at
Boeung Kak lake after a bank-
supported program denied the
families land titles.
Consequently, a private
developer headed by a ruling
party senator was granted a
99-year lease of the area. The
subsequent, ongoing dispos-
session of the Boeung Kak
families, the report by envi-
ronmental think tank the Oak-
land Institute claims, indicates
how the banks policies destroy
livelihoods rather than allevi-
ate poverty.
The World Bank follows the
very basic idea that private
World
Bank in
spotlight
Kevin Ponniah and Chhay Channyda
A
S A group of longtime opposi-
tion party activists from across
North America gathered for
their first national convention
at the ballroom of the Marriot hotel in
Long Beach, California, on Saturday, ten-
sions were running unusually high.
There had been threats of protests,
and leaders of the Cambodia National
Rescue Party North America (CNRP-
NA), as the group calls themselves, had
contacted the police in advance to
ensure that nothing went awry.
But the would-be demonstrators
they feared werent ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party supporters living in the
area. They were disgruntled members
of the same party.
Discord between CNRP supporters
of different stripes has been simmering
below the surface in the US and Can-
ada ever since the Sam Rainsy Party
(SRP) and Kem Sokhas Human Rights
Party (HRP) merged well ahead of last
Julys election.
But despite the tension, the fledgling
marriage held fast as supporters band-
ed together to finance the new partys
election campaign and support the
wave of post-poll protests trying to
bring down Prime Minister Hun Sen
that followed.
In recent months, however, as the
political situation has cooled, those
tensions have come to a head, with
supporters splitting largely along
Continental divide for CNRP
Since merger, friction has been rife among opposition supporters in North America
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investment will result in eco-
nomic growth which will bring
development, while ignoring
what is happening on the ground
for hundreds of thousands of
Cambodians and millions of
people around the world, said
Anuradha Mittal, policy director
at the Oakland Institute.
Through global rankings like
its annual Doing Business
Report, the bank rewards coun-
tries with the lowest social and
environmental standards
imposed on businesses
The Banks financial power
and political leverage has made
it difficult for cash-poor coun-
tries to oppose the institution,
the report says.
In Cambodia, a wave of dereg-
ulation reforms starting in 2003
produced the desired increase in
foreign investors, but the boom
also incurred an uptick in land
disputes. Since 2000, over half a
million Cambodians have been
subjected to forced eviction.
By actively promoting and
encouraging countries to attract
investors at all costs, [the bank]
facilitates land grabbing and
increases pressure on resources,
says the report.
Commercialisation is benefi-
cial to the extent that some of it
does trickle down, said Ear
Sophal, a former World Bank
consultant and author of Aid
Dependence in Cambodia: How
Foreign Assistance Undermines
Democracy.
[B]ut are there better ways to
develop than trickle-down eco-
nomics? I think weve discovered
that growth alone cannot be suf-
ficient. Distribution matters
too, he said.
Seeking to limit evictions and
improve land tenure security, the
bank has promoted several
titling programs in Cambodia,
including the Land Management
and Administration Project,
which facilitated the Boeung Kak
communitys eviction.
The bank says their intention
is to strengthen land ownership
for poor and vulnerable people,
but instead, were seeing the
opposite happen, with people
becoming more marginalised
after they are arbitrarily excluded
from titling, said Eang Vuthy,
executive director of Equitable
Cambodia. The bank . . . has to
use its policies and influence to
insure its investments are being
responsibly managed.
After alleging it would not rein-
vest in Cambodia until the Boe-
ung Kak dispute was resolved,
the bank announced in August
it is considering supplying $25
million for a new leg of its land-
titling program.
At the annual bank meeting in
Washington, DC, this week,
human rights groups delivered
a petition against further invest-
ment in Cambodia.
Forcible evictions, lack of due
process and compensation have
become an even more signifi-
cant problem in Cambodia, the
petition says. It makes no sense
for the World Bank to reverse its
loan ban at this time.
Neither the World Bank, nor
the International Finance Com-
mittee responded to repeated
requests for comment.
Meas Sokchea
MINISTER of Cults and Religion
Min Khin has been summonsed
for questioning in the National
Assembly over speculation that
the government plans to sell the
Buddhist Institute to the owner
of NagaWorld casino, an oppo-
sition lawmaker said yesterday.
Cambodia National Rescue
Party lawmaker Lim Bun Si-
dareth, secretary of the Nation-
al Assemblys religious affairs
commission, said fellow oppo-
sition lawmaker and commis-
sion head Yem Ponharith had
issued the request.
We want clear information
on whether [Khin] has sold the
location, Bun Sidareth said.
Have they sold it? Have they
leased it? Because the casino
and the government are say-
ing different things. Thats why
we need real answers from the
minister so people can know
what is really going on.
As NagaCorp has carried out
the expansion of the NagaWorld
casino complex in Phnom Penh
in recent months, speculation
has mounted that the Buddhist
Institute, situated next door, is
under threat.
The rumours prompted
Buddhist monks to take to the
streets in protest last week.
Although the government
has denied it will relinquish the
land, Philip Lee, chief nancial
ofcer of NagaCorp, told inves-
tors and analysts in August that
the company has further devel-
opment plans that would force
the institute to be relocated.
Khin, who has been called to
appear with a number of col-
leagues, could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
Founded in 1930, the institute
has been a centre for the pres-
ervation and development of
Cambodian culture and was the
nations rst major publisher.
Sean Teehan and Taing Vida
Kampong Cham province
O
FF a bumpy, dusty
road about a mile
from Kampong
Chams main square,
few of the 30 or so people mill-
ing about the muddy patch of
land in front of Juhui Footwear
yesterday were involved in the
violent clash with management
on Monday.
One of those who could de-
scribe the incident in front of
the factory, Ma Srey Poev, a 37-
year-old striking worker, said
factory managers provoked
assaults during the largest inci-
dent in the month-long strike.
A factory manager tells a differ-
ent story, saying the mob broke
through their gate and threw
shoes, rocks and other projec-
tiles, injuring three.
We dont call [Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Workers
Democratic Union] a union
anymore, Teng Sambath,
Juhuis human resources
manager said at Juhuis of-
ce yesterday. We call them
representatives of a group of
workers who came to crush.
The 10- to 15-minute me-
lee at about 8am on Monday
was the product of frustration
among workers who began
striking on September 1 after
management had refused a
16-point list of demands. These
included better overtime pay,
and more money for transpor-
tation and lunch, said worker
representative Khan Kolap.
While Mondays clash seems
to have been the climax of the
strike, weary protesters now
seem more interested in get-
ting back to work.
I still want to go back to
work there, because . . . I can
recognise when theres a prob-
lem, said Kolap, who wants to
continue to seek concessions
for workers there.
Sitting at a small cafe on the
same long street as the factory
yesterday, Kolap and Mon Sa-
rem, C.CAWDUs deputy rep-
resentative at Juhui, defended
workers demands. Although
Juhui provides a $7 per month
transportation bonus and
700 riel (about $0.18) per day
for lunch, the truck she rides
to work costs Kolap $10 per
month. Sarem pays 2,000 riel
($0.50) for lunch each day.
C.CAWDU and Juhui had
brought the matter before
the Arbitration Council two
months ago, said a high-rank-
ing Juhui management ofcial
who asked not to be named.
The Council ruled in the facto-
rys favour, cementing Juhuis
denial of the demands.
The Council was unable to
conrm the ruling yesterday
evening.
On September 1, the
C.CAWDU-led walkout of 5,000
workers at the footwear factory
which employs around 6,000
people briey crippled their
operation for about two weeks.
After that, workers began trick-
ling back to work, cognisant of
their need for money for the
upcoming Pchum Ben holiday,
according to Kolap. However,
a core of about 1,000 workers
continued actively protesting.
The Juhui manager said the
strikers actually amounted to
about 300 people, who on a
daily basis terrorised the facto-
ry; blocking trucks, condemn-
ing the factory on loudspeak-
ers and threatening employees
with violence if they continued
showing up to work.
Local police do not do any-
thing, he said. So they can do
whatever they want without
consequence.
But the strikers have strug-
gled and sacriced for their
principles since the walkout,
Kolap and Sarem said.
All the workers [on strike] try
very, very hard; sometimes they
dont have meals to eat, Kolap
said. The mounting resentment
toward the factorys manage-
ment led to Monday morning
when strikers gathered in front
of Juhuis front gates. Workers
say about 1,000 people were
there; management says 500.
Both Juhui and strike repre-
sentatives agree that the mob
broke through the main sliding
gates at 8am, squaring up with
managers and workers who
stepped in front of the factory
down a small road.
Strike and union representa-
tives said that management or-
dered workers to gather rocks,
and that they rst threw water
bottles at strikers, then also
grabbed and slapped women.
Angered, the strikers retali-
ated by throwing anything they
could nd.
Factory ofcials said they
stepped outside and were bar-
raged by projectiles thrown by
the mob. They sought refuge
inside their ofce, where they
spent the rest of the day inside
without food or a bathroom.
Sambath said the majority of
the group never worked there,
but Kolap said that all were for-
mer employees who wore their
nametags.
C.CAWDU will meet with
Juhui tomorrow to present a
new 12-point list of demands.
But the number of strikers
has dwindled to about 300, as
many have either found jobs
elsewhere or were rehired at
Juhui, said Kolap, although as
new employees with base sala-
ries, regardless of experience.
If no progress is made on
Friday, Sarem said, her need
to help her husband feed their
three children will supersede
what she believes Juhui owes
its workers.
I feel a bit hopeless, Sarem
said. If theres no clear result
[on Friday], then I will nd an-
other job.
World
Bank in
spotlight
Minister called over institute land
Strike losing steam after clash
Workers from a neighbouring construction site tear down the entrance
gate to the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Penh in June. HENG CHIVOAN
Garment workers exit the Juhui Footwear factory in Kampong Chams Cheng Prey district yesterday during lunch, where several people were
injured earlier in the week from projectiles thrown by striking workers. VIREAK MAI
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Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
THE two-star general charged
last month with murdering his
mistress and young daughter
in March has confessed to the
crime, according to a judge.
Kim Marintha, a business
owner and former adviser to ex-
military chief Ke Kim Yan, was
deported from Thailand last
month after an extensive inves-
tigation led to an Interpol war-
rant being issued for his arrest.
During his questioning, he
confessed that he killed his
[mistress] and daughter. He ex-
pressed deep regret about his
mistake, Ky Chhay, investiga-
tive judge at Phnom Penh Mu-
nicipal Court, said yesterday.
Chhay added that Marin-
tha had requested charges be
dropped against his son and
son-in-law, who are accused of
being accessories to the murder
of Va Dary and Kem Thavichda,
6, and the attempted cover-
up. He said they were not in-
volved, Chhay said.
Marintha declined to com-
ment outside court yesterday.
According to Cambodias
Penal Code, if they are found
guilty, they will be sentenced
to between 15 years and life
in prison.
Police identied three sus-
pects Marintha, his son Kim
Seng Rithy and his son-in-law
Chea Samnang, 34, who was
arrested on August 9 in Preah
Sihanouk province.
Samnang had ed the capi-
tal after getting wind of the
investigation and was tracked
to Mondulkiri province by
police before his arrest near
Sihanoukville.
Seng Rithy is listed by Inter-
pol as being charged with hid-
ing the bodies and using illegal
weapons.
The whereabouts of Marin-
thas son is still unknown, and
police are continuing attempts
to track him down.
As well as boasting high-level
political connections, Marintha
held substantial business inter-
ests in the Kingdom.
An owner of the GST Express
Bus Company, he is also direc-
tor of the Rubber of Friend-
ship VC Company, the Arra
Best Corporation and Fataco
Corporation.
On September 4, police raided
the home of Marinthas ex-wife,
Eang Kanet, who claimed she
had not seen the major general
in a long time.
Despite her denials, a police
ofcer at the scene said Marin-
tha was thought to have been a
regular guest at the property.
General confesses to
double murder: judge
Officials probe Pailin prison
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Joe Freeman

O
FFICIALS in Pailin
Provincial Prison
have accused its
two top adminis-
trators of extorting money
from prisoners and employ-
ees, according to an ofcial
complaint sent to the Anti-
Corruption Unit and the Gen-
eral Department of Prisons at
the Ministry of Interior.
Dated October 5, the docu-
ment, thumbprinted by 16
guards and other employees,
alleges that Nov Thoeung, the
prison director, and Sok Saru,
his deputy, skimmed funds
off the top of wages, collected
the salary of an employee who
didnt work there, charged
prisoners for food, basic sup-
plies and choice sleeping spots
in a communal area, and even
collected a dead employees
funeral payout, refusing to
give it to the family.
The complaint also alleges
that Thoeung and Saru took
supplies that were intended
for prisoners, allowed alcohol
to be freely consumed and
turned a blind eye to gam-
bling and loan sharking.
Thoeung, speaking on
behalf of himself and his
deputy, vehemently denied
the accusations yesterday.
My salary . . . is enough for
supporting my family, and I
do not have to exploit a little
money, which can affect my
reputation, Thoeung said,
adding that he believed the
accusations were a frame-up
orchestrated by Heng Chan-
dara, director of the correc-
tions ofcers at the prison.
He vowed to le a defa-
mation suit if cleared of all
wrongdoing.
Contacted yesterday, Chan-
dara said an investigation
would show whether the com-
plaint was true or not.
Started in 2011 as a tempo-
rary space to handle the inux
of convicts from the new pro-
vincial court, Pailins prison is
housed in an old movie the-
atre. The building, painted in
yellow and white, and shaped
like a rectangle topped by a
squiggly crown, looks nothing
like a corrections facility.
Rights groups have decried
the less than satisfactory con-
ditions, including a large cage
for male inmates. The prison
houses female inmates, too,
and taken together, there are
a little more than 100 people
serving time within its walls.
On a visit there in August,
an employee told the Post that
the government was almost
nished with a new facility.
Sharon Critoph, a prison
consultant for the rights group
Licadho, said in an email that
the conditions in the prison
have improved, sort of.
Basically they converted
the upper level of the cinema
into an area for the female
inmates and the men are still
downstairs. The cage is still in
the mens area but the men are
not locked in the cage all day
long as they previously were
they can come out into the
main area where they have a
makeshift volleyball court,
she said.
Also there have been some
improvements in terms of
ventilation and natural light.
Saying this, Pailin prison
is still a tough place to be
primarily because there is
absolutely no opportunity to
get outside.
Kuy Bunsorn, the Ministry
of Interiors director general
of prisons, said the govern-
ment is investigating the
complaint.
We will educate and im-
prove the two Pailin prison
managers if we nd out their
faults as accused by their sub-
ordinates, he said.
A prison guard stands in front of Pailin Provincial Prison in August.
Employees of the facility have accused the director and deputy director
of taking money from staff and prisoners. JOE FREEMAN
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For the CNRP, a continental divide
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former party lines. The leaders
of the CNRP-NA are aligned
with the SRP, but numerous
local chapters, including Long
Beach, have stronger links with
the HRP.
The split has threatened to
throw the oppositions key fund-
ing base into disarray.
From the start, the SRP has
not wanted to join us, said Tit-
thana Tith, president of CNRP
Long Beach and a longtime
Kem Sokha supporter. They
say they are the biggest party
and they dont want anybody
[else] to come. They want to be
on top of everything, all of the
US, all of North America.
According to Tith, the CNRP-
NA (formerly known as the SRP-
NA, or Sam Rainsy Party-North
America) has never truly wel-
comed the union with Sokhas
smaller Human Rights Party.
We shut our mouth for the
past two years, Tith said. We
didnt want to have any infight-
ing, because we cant topple the
dictatorship with infighting. So
we shut our mouth and did our
job here in Long Beach.
But suddenly [CNRP] NA has
a problem in the last year, they
want to control us and take
money from us So we asked
the CNRP to eliminate CNRP-
NA, as they are [trying] to create
a party within a party.
Long Beach is home to the
biggest Cambodian diaspora
community in the United States.
A Cambodian-American source
close to the matter who asked
for anonymity because of the
sensitive nature of the dispute
told the Post that the North
American split is merely a mir-
ror of what lies below the sur-
face of the party as a whole, due
to a deficit of trust.
CNRP Long Beach, like many
city or state-level fundraising
chapters in the US, opposes
CNRP-NAs belief that it should
be the official continent-wide
representative of the Cambo-
dian opposition. In February,
at least 15 local CNRP chapters
across the US wrote to
Rainsy and Sokha denouncing
CNRP-NA.
Members of CNRP Long
Beach were only talked out of
protesting at the Marriot event
after a conference call with
opposition leader Sam Rainsy
days before. Rainsy was meant
to fly in and appear at the con-
vention in person, but spoke
via Skype instead, a move
some in the US attributed to
the controversy.
In recent months, the Phnom
Penh leadership has scram-
bled to placate its diverse
range of backers with a series
of directives and statements
aimed at decentralising over-
seas networks statements
that have been interpreted in
different ways.
According to Tith, a new
group called CNRP USA, which
seeks to bring together opposi-
tion groups in 30 states, has now
been formed. Tith claimed
members came from both
sides of the union.
But leaders of CNRP-NA,
which raised more than $1 mil-
lion in 2013 and 2014 for the
party, say that they are the
backbone of the party.
[For] 18 years, weve done a
lot of work, political, financial
to support the party, said Chea
Kim Ly, the groups president.
Because of this, they say they
deserve a degree of autonomy
from the CNRP in Phnom
Penh.
They refute allegations that
they have turned up their noses
at working with former HRP
backers and instead say they
welcome anyone to collaborate
with them.
However, CNRP-NA members
also argue that all funds donat-
ed by North American support-
ers at the city, state and country
level should be going through
them to ensure transparency
and accountability.
The anonymous Cambodian-
American source, a former HRP
fundraiser who says he quit
because of a lack of transpar-
ency, told the Post that smaller
groups aligned with Kem Sokha
have been funnelling money to
him directly and that many are
questioning where those funds
are really going.
While Kim Ly declined to
name names and did not make
the same allegations, he agreed
that these small groups were
mostly aligned with the HRP.
When any group does what-
ever they want, you open up a
lot of room for opportunists
and it is no good for the party,
he said. No institutions or
party can run like this, it
should [have] an organisa-
tional structure.
But it appears Rainsy and
Sokha disagree with that notion.
In a September 29 directive,
they said the situation with
overseas supporters was com-
plicated and that internal
regulations were being
ignored.
So, during this transitional
period, the CNRP would like to
instruct all compatriots who are
members and supporters over-
seas that you can create a sup-
porting group based on your
own will and each group can
contact the central headquar-
ters of the CNRP directly, the
directive said.
This angered some support-
ers aligned with Rainsy, who
accused the CNRP of being cap-
tured by the interests of Sokhas
faction.
Once a leader (Kem Sokha
with his group) puts self interest
beyond national interest, he will
bring down the entire organiza-
tion, a supporter named Ratha
Touch from Lowell, Massachu-
setts, posted on Facebook. After
18 years with Sam Rainsy, it is
the first time that I realize how
incompetent he is. How can a
huge organization with 25 elect-
ed MPs and thousand members
be controlled/hijacked by an
incompetent party with only 3
elected MPs?
CNRP-NA is also perplexed by
rumours that the central leader-
ship is trying to shut them down
on the orders of Sokha.
On September 24, CNRP
information head Meach
Sovannara, a former HRP offi-
cial, blasted the CNRP-NA on
Khmer Post Radio, an online
station that he runs.
Some CNRP supporters who
want to hold a convention are
illegal and violating internal
regulations for overseas
[groups], he said, adding that
although the group had
announced Rainsy was attend-
ing, there had been no approv-
al from the partys permanent
committee.
On September 30, the CNRP-
NA released a statement con-
demning Sovannaras political
assault.
The timing of the assault on
the CNRP-NA and its leaders is
highly questionable, politically
motivated, irresponsible and
extremely divisive. Remarks
made during the interview
[were] not factual, inappropri-
ate and [made] without knowl-
edge or consent of the leader-
ship, the group said.
Despite Sovannaras remarks,
on Saturday, in the Marriots
ballroom, Rainsy greeted his
longtime CNRP-NA support-
ers via Skype to kick off their
convention.
Though Im so far, thousands
of kilometres away, I meet you
all who I used to work together
with I remember all your
devotion and efforts, he reas-
sured them, before addressing
the elephant in the room.
I know that overseas people
have not worked in the same
way as the people in Cambodia,
as one party, Rainsy said.
The Sam Rainsy Party and
Human Rights Party have
merged together, so we have
worked as one, we have no
brawling. We are recognised as
one party. So I would like to
appeal to all CNRP here [in North
America] to unite as one like in
Cambodia. Here, you have no
unity like in Cambodia.
I have received a lot of infor-
mation that this group [over-
seas] is not good or another
group is not good ... I cannot
accept only one group and deny
another group, he said.
Rainsy added that one day an
official overseas entity would be
created to represent the party.
CNRP-NA, however, still
appears to believe that it is the
legitimate representative of the
party in North America.
The convention adopted
recommendations that they
be able to appoint two repre-
sentatives on the partys steer-
ing committee in Phnom Penh
and have the right to ignore
directives from the central
leadership.
Members also want to set up
a joint convention across three
continents.
Its clear they also feel
spurned.
[The CNRP-NA] recom-
mends that CNRP-PP must rec-
ognise and respect CNRP-NA
leadership, which has done its
best to reach out to the CNRP
leadership in Phnom Penh, but
received no proper reply, no
sense of recognition, nor appre-
ciation regardless of our quality
human resources with years of
service and commitment, the
group said.
When reached by email yes-
terday, Rainsy said there was
no unique official representa-
tive of the CNRP in North
America.
He also appeared to admit
that small groups of supporters
were funnelling donations
directly to Sokha rather than
sending funds to the CNRP
treasury.
In free and democratic coun-
tries such as the USA and Can-
ada people can do whatever
they want as long as they are not
engaged in illegal activities, he
said. This applies all the more
to volunteers who spend their
own money the way they want.
Any regulations are difficult to
implement.
But Rainsy rejected the idea
that splits along SRP/HRP lines
in the US were reflective of
wider party divisions, citing his
and Sokhas maturity in leading
the CNRP as a united force.
At the same time, we have
noticed that, among some
CNRP supporters abroad,
there are a lot of ego problems.
Hence the decentralisation
policy we have adopted to deal
with our different overseas
support groups.
Sokha hung up on a Post
reporter yesterday when asked
to address these issues.
Party spokesman Yim Sovann
characterised issues among
North American supporters as
minor and said any antago-
nism was based on personal
opinions.
Of course there are some lit-
tle differences, but everybody
respects the leaders.
Leader of the Cambodia National Rescue party, Sam Rainsy, stands with supporters in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, during a demonstration last year,
calling for fair elections in Cambodia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue party, Kem Sokha, posses for a photo with supporters in San
Jose, California, in April during a forum on the political deadlock in Cambodia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
We didnt want to have any
infighting ... so we shut our
mouth and did our job here in
Long Beach
National
5
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Fall from
window
kills baby
Taing Vida
A TODDLER fell from a twelfth-
oor window to her death in
Phnom Penhs Tuol Kork dis-
trict yesterday, police said.
The 2-year-old gi rl is
believed to have been playing
with her mothers iPad while
sitting next to the open win-
dow at about 11am, according
to police.
Khan Khuntith, police chief
in Boeng Kak II commune, said
that the child, identified as
Souza Aliesrachel Bulk, was the
daughter of Russian and Brazil-
ian nationals.
Her father, Gerrit Bulk, owns
a fabrics business here,
Khuntith added, while her
mother, Brazilian Ana Paula
Brasileira, is a teacher.
Khuntith said police investi-
gators had immediately
opened an investigation and
quickly pieced together the
tragedy, determining that the
girl had been playing near the
open window while her moth-
er was busy elsewhere in the
apartment.
The child fell down and broke
her face and head and died sud-
denly. We could not help her in
time, Khuntith said.
Adult sector sees new rules
Sen David and Charles Rollet

T
HE Ministry of Labour
launched a ministe-
rial regulation yester-
day aimed at improv-
ing working conditions for
those employed at entertain-
ment establishments such as
nightclubs, karaoke parlours,
and beer gardens.
Labour Minister Ith Sam
Heng said that under the pra-
kas, or regulation, entertain-
ment workers will be trained
about their rights as employees
to protect them from issues
rampant in the industry, such
as sexual harassment, exces-
sive overtime hours, and forced
alcohol and drug consumption,
among others.
This prakas targets enter-
tainment workers, [and] we will
fully reach them to enforce the
labour law, Sam Heng said, be-
fore then joking that inspectors
should not blame the ministry
if their wives get mad at them
for inspecting adult entertain-
ment establishments.
The International Labour Or-
ganization has been pushing
for the law, and praised it for
reach[ing] into a sector where
most governments fail to pro-
vide adequate protection, ac-
cording to a press release.
Sar Mora, head of the Cam-
bodian Food and Service Work-
ers Federation, said the prakas
marked the rst time that en-
tertainment workers were pro-
tected by the law.
We urge the government
to inspect any entertainment
[establishment] which reports
sexual harassment to workers,
or mistreats them to ensure
they work safely and healthily,
he said.
However, if certain entertain-
ment establishments refuse to
cooperate, trainers will simply
have to move on, as the training
sessions are not mandatory.
We have to start where we
can. Eventually, workers will
move [to better workplaces] if
you create a core of good prac-
tices, said Richard Howard, the
ILOs HIV/AIDS specialist for
the Asia Pacic.
Prostitution remains com-
pletely and totally banned
in the Kingdom, said Chuong
Por, the ILOs HIV and gender
director for Cambodia, and the
prakas does not address the
continued use of condoms as
evidence in prostitution busts,
which critics say discourages
their use.
But ofcials from the coun-
trys National AIDS Alliance
said the regulation will help
cut down the HIV rate by mak-
ing entertainment workers less
susceptible to sexual harass-
ment and forced consumption
of drugs and alcohol.
As we know, entertainment
workers face [increased expo-
sure] to HIV infection. If they
are not sexually harassed, they
will avoid HIV infection, said
Dr Tia Phalla, vice-chair of the
National AIDS Alliance.
The goal is zero new infec-
tions, zero death[s], and zero
discrimination, said Phalla, cit-
ing Cambodias decline in HIV
rates from 68 infections per day
in 1995 to only two by 2013.
Minister of Tourism Thong
Khon also praised the prakas,
saying that as tourist arrivals
increase and ASEAN integration
approaches, the sector, com-
posed of 659 establishments
that employ more than 10,000
people, needs to put an end to
discrimination, noncompli-
ance with gender principles,
sexual assault, HIV, et cetera.
Women will face harassment
if there is no law or regulation to
protect them like in any other
sector, Khon said.
Kim Sereiroath, director of
the Ministry of Tourisms in-
dustry department, agreed
that reforms were especially
needed for the Kingdoms bur-
geoning tourism sector.
Women near Wat Phnom wait for potential customers late at night in 2009. The Ministry of Labour has
released a new prakas aimed at protecting entertainment workers. SOVAN PHILONG
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
POLICE
BLOTTER
Picky thieves deem
stolen moto tough sell
THREE men beat up a man
and his wife after stealing their
motorbike in Phnom Penhs
Por Sen Chey district on Tues-
day night, but dumped the bike
only a kilometre later after
finding out it was too old to
sell, police said. The man, 47,
and his wife, 48, were beat up
by the trio after the husband
refused to hand over the bike.
Police sent the couple to hos-
pital and are on the lookout for
the perps. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Vigilance begets beating
in foiled Sen Sok theft
A 26-YEAR-OLD man was
arrested for breaking and
injuring on Tuesday after he
allegedly beat an attentive
landlady who attempted to foil
his plan to rob a home in
Phnom Penhs Sen Sok dis-
trict. The landlady caught the
man red-handed as he tried to
break a windows lock, but he
quickly started punching and
kicking her. Neighbours
rushed to her aid and
restrained the alleged thief,
who was handed over to police
and sent to court. DEUM AMPIL
Eagle-eyed policemen
bust driver of stolen car
CAR thieves are advised to
avoid Phnom Penhs Por Sen
Chey district. Watchful police-
men on Tuesday found a
30-year-old man driving a car
that had been reported as
stolen last week, promptly
arresting its driver when he
was unable to show any proof
he actually owned the car. The
car was returned to its right-
ful owner and police are
searching for any potential
accomplices. DEUM AMPIL
Testy locals take up for
robbed out-of-towner
SOMETIMES its best not to
mess with backpackers,
especially if they have a
righteous mob backing them
up. A 25-year-old man was
beaten up by a motley crew
of angry villagers and a
motodop after he snatched a
phone off a Chinese tourist,
also 25, in the capitals Daun
Penh district on Tuesday.
Police arrested him and
returned the phone to the
woman, but not before warn-
ing villagers not to injure any
suspects lest they be arrest-
ed as well. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Big bag of meth lands
trio in a heap of trouble
TWENTY-TWO proved to be an
unlucky number for some
alleged meth dealers on
Tuesday. The three youths
were arrested after they were
found with 22 packets of the
drug in Oddar Meancheys
Anglong Veng district. The
men, aged 17 to 22, said
theyd bought the drugs from
another dealer to sell for
cash, but claimed they had no
idea who the dealer was, con-
veniently enough. They were
sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Phak Seangly
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.
Mekong River Commission
The role of MRC is to promote and coordinate sustainable management and development of water and
related resources for the countries mutual benet and the peoples well-being
MRC Secretariat is looking for a high calibre Riparian Professional Candidate to ll the position of:
Chief Executive Ofcer (CEO)
(Re-announcement)
Level M-15
The Chief Executive Ofcer (CEO) leads the MRC Secretariat; which has two ofce locations in Vientiane, Lao
PDR, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to become a world class, nancially secure, professional, international
organisation, serving Mekong countries to achieve the Basin Vision. It ensures that the organisation actively
works for the implementation of the MRC Mission through all its programmes and activities.
The CEO is the strategic, structured, result-oriented, and neutral leader responsible for inspiring the MRC
Secretariat and other stakeholders to work together to achieve a vision for a Mekong River Basin that is
economically prosperous, socially just and environmentally sound.
The CEO position is based at MRC Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The application instructions and job
description can be obtained at MRC website http://www.mrcmekong.org/working-with-mrc/employment.
Candidates up to the age of 62 years old at the time of job transfer from the incumbent or the Ofce-
in-Charge in April 2015 may apply. Women are encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be
notied.
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2014
Candidates who submitted applications on the rst round need not re-apply. Only nationals of Cambodia,
Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam are eligible to apply. An expression of interest should be sent to the National
Mekong Committee of the applicants home country as per details below, with a copy to MRC Secretariat
addressed to Ms. Pinthong Thipphavongsa at mrcs@mrcmekong.org.
An expression of interest for the position should include the followings:
1. Personal Details 2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Candidates statement 4. MRC Personal History Form
Please nd detailed expression of interest in the Application Instructions
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P.O.Box 623, 364 Monivong Blvd.,
Sangkat Phsar Doerm Thkouv, Khan Chamkar Mon,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel. (855-23) 216 514 Fax. (855-23) 218 506
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Khunbulom Road, Chantabouly District, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Tel. (856-21) 260 983 Fax. (856-21) 260 984
E-mail: lnmcs@monre.gov.la
Thai National Mekong Committee
Department of Water Resources
180/3 Rama 6 Road, Soi Phibul
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Fax. (66-2) 298 6605
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23 Hang Tre, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Tel. (84-4) 825 4785 Fax. (84-4) 825 6929
E-mail: vnmc.personnel@gmail.com
Vong Sokheng
DEPUTY Prime Minister Sar
Kheng pledged to rid the gar-
ment industry of corruption
yesterday as a way of cushion-
ing factories against an upcom-
ing minimum wage increase.
In a meeting with Van Sou
Ieng, president of the Gar-
ment Manufacturers Asso-
ciation in Cambodia, Kheng
said ridding Cambodias big-
gest export industry of brib-
ery particularly between
factory owners and corrupt
government ofcials would
make it easier to increase the
minimum wage.
However, the minister did not
give specics on how to tackle
corruption or what he believed
the minimum wage should be.
We will eliminate under-the-
table fees and resolve the issue
[of the minimum wage] with
transparency, he said during
the meeting. I hope I can work
with Sam Rainsy, president of
the Cambodia National Rescue
Party, to create a better envi-
ronment for business.
Unions have been demand-
ing a minimum living wage
of $177 per month, nearly
double the current wage. The
Ministry of Labour this week
postponed a decision on a
wage increase due to take ef-
fect in January.
Kheng also vowed yesterday
to speed up the passing of a
new trade union law, a draft of
which an International Labour
Organization ofcial said in
May was a step backwards
for labour rights. Kheng said
the law would help control
the Kingdoms 4,000 unions.
Sou Ieng told reporters after
the meeting that GMAC had
urged the deputy prime minis-
ter to protect factories against
violence caused by workers
demanding a minimum wage
increase. During wage pro-
tests last year, security forces
shot dead at least ve people
when strikes turned violent in
Phnom Penh.
Orders across all factories
have decreased by 36 per cent
this year and wage increases
could force some factories to
close and brands to look to
neighbouring countries, Sou
Ieng said.
I am concerned about fac-
tories closing and the employ-
er having no money to pay
workers, he said. It is difcult
to understand [unions de-
mands] as the minimum wage
was raised 30 to 40 per cent
. . . and now [they demand] 70
per cent.
Eliminate corruption,
raise wage: Sar Kheng
Protests result in little
Pech Sotheary
and Meas Sokchea

A
FIVE-DAY protest
aimed at demanding
an apology from Viet-
nam for comments
made by a former embassy
spokesman wrapped up yester-
day. But while the rallies brought
petitions, ag-burning and
even an alleged death threat, it
seemed to bring demonstrators
no closer to their goal.
This weeks protests are just
the latest action to be taken
since ex-spokesman Trung Van
Thong said in early June 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, hundreds of pro-
testers gathered in Freedom
Park and marched along the
streets, handing out petitions
calling for a boycott of Vietnam-
ese products. Outside of the
Vietnamese Embassy, demon-
strators set re to ags in what
they said was a show of anger at
the lack of apology.
One of the protesters, Roeun
Nen, said she was disappoint-
ed that the days of action had
brought no tangible result.
I will continue protesting
until an ofcial apology is made
publicly, she said.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan said the protests
had done nothing in fracturing
the relationship with Vietnam.
But Thach Setha, president of
the Khmer Kampuchea Krom
Association, said that despite
not receiving an apology or gov-
ernment support, the protests
had been a success as they had
avoided violence and attracted
more participants.
Cambodians now dare
to do something against the
yuon government to ask them
to apologise, he said, using a
word for Vietnamese often seen
as derogatory.
Setha also accepted responsi-
bility for the ag burning.
Earlier in the day, Setha said
he received an anonymous
phone call from someone
speaking Vietnamese who
threatened to kill him if he did
not stop protesting.
But he vowed to continue
leading demonstrations until
Vietnam apologised.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said that while au-
thorities had taken a tolerant
approach to the ve-day dem-
onstration, the activities of
those involved had been closely
monitored. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY ALICE CUDDY
Khmer Krom supporters and Buddhist monks march through the
streets of Phnom Penh yesterday during a rally. HONG MENEA
Chan Muyhong
and Eddie Morton

F
OREIGN food and
beverage suppliers
converged on Phnom
Penh yesterday in
search of a local distributor
to help expand their brands
into the Kingdoms hospital-
ity industry.
The rst day of the Cam-
Food and CamHotel expo
kicked off yesterday at Dia-
mond Island Convention
Centre. More than 300 com-
panies, including meat sup-
pliers, coffee roasters, wine
makers and oven manufac-
tures registered for the expos
third installment since 2010.
This is a professional-
to-professional event, not
so much about the public,
Luu Meng, head of the new-
ly established Cambodia
Tourism Federation, said
yesterday while judging the
Cambodian National Culi-
nary Competition.
Today is about bringing to
Cambodia quality rst. Qual-
ity rst means everything and
everyone moving towards the
one goal of improving stan-
dards across Cambodias hos-
pitality and food and bever-
age industry together.
But while Meng was fo-
cused on grading the student
Cambodian chefs cooking in
the national competition,
the expo floor was a frenzied
maze of handshakes, busi-
ness cards and sales pitches.
Jim Cromzigt, CEO of the
Thailand-based Coffee Group
Asia was just one of the rms
vying for a chance to expand
into the local marketplace.
In Asia, there has become
this sort of desire to consume
European. So Im really just
here trying to nd a distribu-
tor, Cromzigt said.
I hope to nd one potential
distributor at the least. Then
start a partnership, and may-
be consider expanding our
business to Cambodia. If this
expo brings me one potential
lead, I will be satised.
At the end of day-one of his
rst CamFood and CamHotel
expo, Cromzigt said that he
had yet to nd a distributor
for his Catunambu branded
coffee beans.
Francesco Paganelli, export
manager of Romagna Coop
Food, a cooperative of small-
scale food producers from Italy,
was in a very similar position as
the stalls wound up yesterday
afternoon.
There has been growth in
the number of Italian restau-
rants opening up here. So nat-
urally, we want to expand our
business to Cambodia as we
have already expanded to Viet-
nam and Thailand, he said,
adding that he was yet to make
any partnership prospects.
While some of the foreign
businesses came to the expo
with high hopes and little
knowledge of Cambodias
business environment, oth-
ers were well aware of the po-
tential barriers to trade.
Its a great expo and it does
give us a real chance at nd-
ing a local to help us enter
the market and learn more
about how business is done
here, Fahmy Ahmad, CEO of
Malaysian health food maker
Wangsa Interaktif, said.
That said, we understood
very quickly, before even ar-
riving, that customs proce-
dures in Cambodia would
be an issue for our natural-
ly-made products, and then
transport and in-country
logistics also looks to be a
challenge.
The CamFood and Cam-
Hotel exhibition started in
2010 with some 60 stall hold-
ers, according Andrew Siow,
director of the Singaporean-
based event organiser, AMB
Events Group.
That number increased to
more than 90 in 2012 and to
170 stalls this year.
During the 2012 expo, Siow
estimated that exhibiting
companies achieved more
than $670,000 worth of sales
and later went on to strike $2
million worth of post-event
deals and partnerships.
The hotel and restaurant
scene was very new back in
2010 and we were the only
business-to-business trade
show operator looking at the
country, Siow said.
But now, we are condently
seeing growth in exhibitors and
attendees. Cambodias purchas-
ing power is increasing, slowly,
which is driving some growth
in the franchise industry and
encouraging more exhibitors to
come to the expos.
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ADB urged
to shelve
Malaysia
dam loan
ACTIVISTS warned yesterday
that planned power lines on
Malaysias Borneo would
threaten the islands tribses-
people, urging the Asian Devel-
opment Bank to shelve a $45
million loan to export electric-
ity from controversial dams.
The proposed loan would be
used to build cross-border
transmission lines from
Sarawak state where protests
against dam building have
increased in recent years to
West Kalimantan on Borneo's
Indonesian side.
Peter Kallang, head of NGO
Save Rivers said the ADB loan
did not constitute a win for
the state's local people.
The rivers that are planned
to be dammed by Sarawak
Energy to generate this elec-
tricity are our lifeblood.
Investing in this company to
build transmission lines
means becoming complicit in
destruction, he explained in
a statement.
Some 40 environmental and
human rights groups had on
Monday in a letter warned ADB
that there was "reputational
and financial risks against the
lines associated with the loan
to dam-building firm Sarawak
Energy.
Officials in the Malaysian
state of Sarawak have for years
been accused of ramming
through controversial dams
while natives in the state have
staged increasingly frequent
demonstrations and road
blockades in recent years over
the dams.
Malaysia's biggest dam,
Sarawak's Bakun hydroelectric
facility, has been called a mon-
ument to corruption by Trans-
parency International, displac-
ing more than 10,000 people,
many now living in squalid
resettlements. AFP
Attendees of the CamFood and CamHotel expo peruse exhibits from international suppliers at Diamond Island convention centre yesterday. PHA LINA
Expo: A match made in food
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Philippines
aims to stop
rice imports
THE Philippines has pushed
back its 2013 target to attain
self-sufficiency in rice produc-
tion by another two years, an
official said on Tuesday, adding
that the country will likely have
to import hundreds of thou-
sands of tonnes next year.
Were pretty set at 1.7 mil-
lion metric tonnes of rice
imports for this year, said Fran-
cis Pangilinan, an adviser to
President Benigno Aquino on
food security. Asked if the Phil-
ippines planned to import more
than 1.7 million tonnes next
year, Pangilinan said: Thats a
possibility. He also said the
Philippines is now aiming to end
rice imports in 2016 three years
later than its target.
Last year the Philippines
imported a million tonnes of
rice, making it the eighth largest
importer in the world, accord-
ing to the US agriculture depart-
ment. During the global food
crisis in 2008, the Philippines
imported a record 2.34 million
tonnes of rice, the largest for
any country.
Bad weather, including fre-
quent typhoons, had repeat-
edly stymied the countrys
efforts to produce enough rice,
Pangilinan said. AFP
ANZ complaint taken to the OECD
Daniel de Carteret

V
ILLAGERS displaced
by a sugar plantation
in Kampong Speu
have led a complaint
with the Organisation for Eco-
nomic Cooperation and Devel-
opment (OECD) against bank-
ing giant ANZ, which partially
nanced the project. The plan-
tation is owned by Cambodian
Peoples Party Senator Ly Yong
Phat of through his rm, the
Phnom Penh Sugar Company.
Some 680 families lodged the
complaint on Tuesday, claim-
ing that ANZ was complicit in
the sugar companys violations
of villagers rights after having
proted from a loan agreement
with Phats rm.
PPS holds an 8,343-hectare
land concession in Kampong
Speu that has been at the cen-
tre of years-long land disputes
and child labour scandals. The
17-page submission details
a raft of breaches under the
OECD Guidelines for Multina-
tional Enterprises.
This complaint boils down
to the basic premise that ANZ
should not be allowed to get
away with proting from the
grand theft of hundreds of poor
families land and livelihoods,
David Pred, Managing Director
of Inclusive Development In-
ternational one of two NGOs
representing affected villagers
said in a statement yesterday.
If ANZ wants to continue
advertising itself as an ethical
business, then it must divest
itself of this ill-gotten gain and
use those funds to help the
victims get back on their feet,
Pred said.
Environmental audit docu-
ments commissioned by ANZ
and obtained by the Post in
January revealed PPSs link with
ANZ Royal Bank a joint ven-
ture between the ANZ Group
and Cambodias Royal Group.
The documents stated that
from 2010 to 2013 the sugar
company failed to address 60
per cent of recommendations
made by an independent audi-
tor, including those related to
worker health and safety.
Following the January revela-
tions, ANZ held several meet-
ings with villagers and said it
was working with PPS to make
changes. But the bank cut ties
with the sugar company in July
after it paid out the banks loan.
Since the July announce-
ment, villagers have held sev-
eral protests outside ANZ Royal
headquarters in Phnom Penh
demanding compensation and
assistance for lost land as well
as calling for a public boycott of
the banks services.
In an October 1 letter ad-
dressed to community rep-
resentatives, ANZs head of
sustainability, Ben Walker, said
the company was offering sup-
port to the Governments Ad
Hoc committee that deals with
land disputes at Cambodias
sugar plantations and that ANZ
was open to a meeting to discuss
things further. But given that
PPS was no longer a customer
of ANZ, the bank was limited in
what it could achieve.
Ultimately, the core of your
dispute relates to land and re-
settlement from land. These are
issues that can only be resolved
by Phnom Penh Sugar and
the Cambodian government,
through the Governments Ad
Hoc Committee forum, the
October 1 letter reads.
A spokesman from ANZ con-
rmed yesterday that the bank
was reviewing the complaint
and would respond formally in
the coming days.
According to civil society net-
work, OECD watch, if an intial
complaint is deemed to have
merit, the OECD will try to help
mediate a solution.
Kampong Speu villagers affected by a sugar plantation urge a boycott of ANZ Royal Bank outside a branch in
Phnom Penh last month. HONG MENEA
RACHAwasrecentlyawardedacooperativeagreement withUSAIDtodeliver theEmpoweringCommunityfor Health(ECH) project over aperiodof
ve years. The geographical coverage of this project will be eight provinces. This project will focus on three key elements that underpin community
empowerment: 1. Financial and institutional sustainability, 2.Gender differentiated strategies and activities in communities, 3. Linkages to national
level policy makers. RACHA is seeking a qualied candidate to ll the following job vacancy.
OPEN TO : ALL INTERESTED CANDIDATES
OPENING DATE : OCTOBER 8, 2014
CLOSING DATE : OCTOBER 24, 2014
Chief of Party, COP
General Aspects:
The Chief of Party (COP) must have at least 10 years senior level experience in designing, implementing and managing large scale, complex,
comprehensive and multi-site health improvement projects. Experience in managing a community health-related program (preferably related to the
above stated USAID project). S/he will have at least a Masters Degree in public health or social sciences, or an advanced degree relevant to the
eld of public health, management or other related eld. Additionally, the COP must bring to the project a strategic vision; leadership qualities; depth
and breadth of technical and management expertise and experience; positive professional reputation; and strong interpersonal, writing, and oral
presentation skills. The COP must also have demonstrated experience in advocating to and working in partnership with governments and counter-
parts and international donor agencies and Local NGOs; and the ability to work effectively and harmoniously with the USAID team that oversees the
implementation of the ECH project.
Duties:
Work closely with technical experts, the technical advisor panel (TAP), key personnel, and the project team, as well as other related teams, on
technical and programmatic leads to ensure effective implementation and coordination of project activities and monitor progress toward the
achievement of the project goals and objectives;
Contribute to RACHAs strategic and operational plans, supporting policy and procedural reviews and other related tasks;
Strategically inuence negotiations with commune councils and related committees to secure commitment to sustain health initiatives;
Supervise and manage a team of highly qualied staff and align their efforts with planned project activities;
Provide technical leadership in project planning (including budget), design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions, and share lessons learned
to related partners, NGOs, donors etc.
Work with the nance and project teams to plan and keep track of the project budgets;
Coordinate with the Chief of Procurement to ensure that project-related requisitions, price quotation, bidding, technical evaluation and quality
control of products or services to be procured are carried out in an efcient and transparent manner according to the policy;
Supervise and manage material and nancial resources appropriate for the project;
Hold responsibility for quality control elements, particularly in terms of the production of reports and presentation of progress, achievements and
lessons learned to key stakeholders including donors and partners;
Ensure timely and accurate reporting of project activities and results to USAID, and related counterparts;
Work with the project team at all levels to coordinate with stakeholders to focus on institutionalizing efforts in local government systems ensuring
nancial and institutional sustainability of the project particularly in the area of village health support groups.
Troubleshoot in a timely manner to prevent and resolve potential problems and review outputs for quality control.
Create strategic relationships with other agencies and align the project work plan according to each project unit and related donors.
Required Qualications:
Advanced degree in public health or relevant eld;
Background and expertise in Community MCH, and good governance at all level;
10 years senior level experience in program development, implementation and management of large health programs. 5+ years previous Chief
of Party experience (for USAID) is an asset;
Demonstrated experience in managing USAID or other donor-nanced projects.
Knowledge of effective budget monitoring/compliance monitoring
Expertise in effective and efcient management of project development andstrategic planning
Demonstrated expertise in strategic relationship development, particularly for the purposes ofrepresentation, negotiation and advocacy;
Knowledge of USAIDs rules and regulations, and other compliances;
Proven track record of directing, motivating, and managing project teams composed of technical experts, regional directors, team leaders, and
administrative staff;
Good written and spoken English and uency in Khmer;
Ability to travel to the project sites, regionally and internationally.
TO APPLY:Candidates who are interested in applying for the above positions MUST submit a current detailed resume or curriculum vitae with
a cover letter to: RACHA Human Resources Ofce #160, Street 71, SangkatTonleBassac, Khan Chamcarmon, Phnom Penh, or e-mail to
jobads@racha.org.kh.
(CLOSING DATE FOR THE POSITION: OCTOBER 24, 2014)
Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submitted CVs will not be returned
RACHA is committed to child protection. All candidates will subject to RACHAs Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
#442-JA-001-10/14-ECH
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is looking for:
National Advisor on Waste to Energy Technologies
To be based in Phnom Penh with frequent travel
Background
SNV with nancial support of the European Union SWITCH Asia programmeis implementing a project
called Waste to Energy for the Rice Milling Sector in Cambodia.
This 4 year project (2012-2015)is addressing the development of a viable market for the gasication
technology by focusing on three main results areas;
The establishment of a high quality, professional, manufacturing sector which can produce the tech- -
nology in Cambodia
The development of a national standard for the technology, combined with an operational licensing -
procedure to ensure high quality application of the technology and minimizing health & safety and
environmental hazards
The development of business plans with rice mill owners to invest in the installation of the technology -
and the capacity development of their staff for the operation of the gasiers.
We are looking for a competent, motivated, result-oriented individual to ll the available vacancy of
National Advisor on Waste to Energy Technologies.
Specic Tasks for the position
Under the overall guidance of SNV Management and project team leader the expert will provide adviso-
ry services to the partners in the project and the project associates on the steps needed in the process
to establish a viable gasier technology manufacturing industry in Cambodia.
Specic tasks include:
Coordinate with project partners the selection and testing of gasifying technologies for the standard -
setting process;
Advise project partners on training curriculum design for training of technicians, manufacturers and -
selected government experts;
Provide expert inputs to the multi-stakeholder drafting process of a national quality standards for -
gasication technology;
Provide expert inputs to the business development and investment component of the project; and -
Contribute to knowledge development and documentation of the project as well as reporting to the EU -
Qualications of the Candidate
A Master Degree (or higher) in Renewable Energy or other technology development eld -
At least 5 years of experience in Participatory Technology Development and Vocational Training -
Experiences in providing advisory services to Government, Private Enterprises and NGOs -
Experience in contributing to multi-stakeholder processes -
Strong Intercultural capacity development skills -
Proven experience with planning, monitoring, evaluation and program management. -
Excellent leadership, teamwork, coaching and communication skills in English and Khmer -
Good writing skills in English and Khmer; able to write case studies and share knowledge. -
A self-motivated achiever with excellent leadership, teamwork, coaching, communication, networking -
and organisational skills. Procient in MS word & excel at advanced level.
Willingness to travel in Cambodia -
Contract period: 12months with possible extension
Desired Start Date: November 2014
How to apply?
Applications should be sent via email to SNVCambodiaJobs@snvworld.org
Deadline: before 17:00 (Cambodian time), 24
th
October, 2014
A motivation letter; i)
An updated Curriculum Vitae; ii)
Names and contact details of two professional referees. iii)
Concrete examples of proven experiences as indicated above will be an added value. iv)
For more information on SNV, please refer to our website: www.snvworld.org/Cambodia
We do not appreciate third-party mediation based on this advertisement.Qualied women are encouraged to apply
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Money Matters
C
AMBODIA has been a
relatively laissez-faire
environment for for-
eign business owners
and expatriates working here,
however that may all be about to
change if government ministries
get their way.
The rst sign that times may
be changing came from a recent
announcement from the Minis-
try of Labour that it will enforce
a law requiring foreigners
working in Cambodia to obtain
a labour card and permit. The
law has been on the books since
1992, but it has been irregularly
enforced.
This policy shift follows the
recent overhaul and trans-
formation of the General
Department of Taxation. The
department intends to be more
assertive, if not aggressive, in
casting its net for higher tax
revenue collection.
Together these changes could
become a lethal combination for
expatriates who own registered
businesses.
It is also problematic for the
vast community of expatriate
freelancers, consultants and
business owners who operate
without business licences. The
result is that the cost of doing
in business Cambodia is rising
rapidly. If the trend continues, it
may price small foreign investors
out of the Cambodian market.
The minimum capital require-
ment of only $1,000 to start and
register a company in Cam-
bodia is still very competitive
compared with most countries.
Also lucrative is the fact that a
foreigner can own 100 per cent
of a Cambodian company, thus
no need for the so-called local
partner. This has historically
created a conducive environ-
ment for foreign investors to
enter the Cambodian market.
Likewise the generally lax en-
forcement of local tax and labour
laws has created a haven for
expatriate freelancers and con-
sultants seeking an economical
and less-stressful lifestyle in the
Kingdom.
The only signicant regulatory
compliance cost in the past was
obtaining the Business Visa (E
Visa), which allows extended
stays of three, six and 12 months.
Existing expatriate-owned
registered companies that
havent complied with the
Labour Law are now faced with
new and signicant cost of doing
business in Cambodia. These
include a company level registra-
tion with Ministry of Labour
and Vocational Training or for
companies with 100 employ-
ees or less, the Department of
Labour and Vocational Training.
The company registration cost is
generally about $180.
However that is not as simple
as it seems. There are addi-
tional costs and documents
required for companies with
more than 10 employees, more
than 40 employees and so on.
Navigating through the exact
requirements and paperwork
will probably require legal
advice or at least a trusted agent
who will ensure compliance
without excessive fees.
The company must then
register its employees in order
to obtain labour books and
work permits. Costs for Khmer
employees range from $7-$10.
Expatriates must retroactively
pay $100, starting from the
year of issuance of their rst
Business Visa. There is also a
quota charge, book charge and
medical exam fee, the quota,
and medical exam fee being an-
nual charges.
Additionally, there is the 10
per cent rule that limits foreign
workers to 10 per cent of the total
workforce at any one company.
Companies must obtain special
permission and pay additional
fees for waivers.
Foreigners who are freelanc-
ers, own businesses, or work for
businesses that are not regis-
tered either with the Ministry of
Commerce or other ministries,
are faced with a more challeng-
ing dilemma.
Unregistered businesses
would need to register a business
either as a sole proprietorship or
company, and then register with
the Tax Department. To comply
with the Labour Law and obtain
a work permit, an unregistered
business or person will also need
to register with the tax depart-
ment.
While the government is tout-
ing Labour Law compliance, the
consequential outcomes are also
bringing in foreign workers and
business into the tax net, with all
the associated costs of registra-
tion and monthly tax payments.
Although initial compliance
with the Labour Law is costly, it is
relatively low compared to Asian
neighbours. The same cannot be
said, however, for the Cambo-
dian tax system which punishes
those who pay taxes with an
increasingly uncompetitive
environment, while not going
after tax evaders.
Expatriates who have are
accustomed to a relatively unre-
strictive and inexpensive living
in Cambodia are unfortunately
in for a rude awakening.
Red tape up ahead for expatriates
COLUMNIST
ANTHONY GALLIANO
BASED IN CAMBODIA FOR MORE THAN SIX
YEARS, MR GALLIANO IS THE CEO OF PHNOM
PENH-BASED CAMBODIAN INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT
These changes could be a
lethal combination for
expatriates who own
registered businesses
Ex-IMF chief summoned
over spending scandal
A SPANISH judge yesterday
summoned ex-IMF head
Rodrigo Rato for questioning
over allegations that he and
other former banking
executives went on spending
sprees with company credit
cards, a judicial source said.
Audit documents submitted by
prosecutors to Spains
National Court, revealed last
week, detailed a total of $19.2
million of spending by former
managers of the bailed-out
group Bankia. A string of
Spanish officials resigned last
week over the scandal. AFP
Ebola crisis could cost
West Africa $32 billion
THE deadly Ebola epidemic
could deal a $32 billion-plus
blow to the West African
economy over the next year if
officials cannot get it under
control, the World Bank
warned yesterday. If efforts to
halt its spread out of a three-
country core Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea are not
successful by December, the
entire region faces a real
threat of economic
catastrophe. In the best case,
Ebola being brought under
control by the end of 2014, the
Bank says, the economic cost
will be about $359 million in
the three countries this year
and another $129 million next
year. AFP
S
TRUGGLING Air
France yesterday re-
vealed that a record
pilots strike last month
cost around 500 million, in a
dire prot warning that sent its
stock price into a tailspin.
The Air France-KLM group,
Europes second-biggest air-
line, was already in difculty
in a ercely competitive sec-
tor completely revolutionised
by low-cost upstarts such as
easyJet and Ryanair.
But nance director Pierre-
Francois Riolacci told report-
ers that the combined impact
of the 14-day strike and the
loss of future custom from dis-
gruntled passengers would be
in the order of 500 million
($632 million).
We need a few more days
to nalise completely our esti-
mates. But we think the impact
on the third quarter will be in
a range of 320-350 million,
Riolacci said.
The news sent Air France
shares diving on the Paris mar-
ket, losing more than ve per
cent while the overall market
was broadly at.
Riolacci said the knock-on
consequences were harder to
calculate exactly but warned
there would be an impact both
on the last quarter of the year
and the rst part of next year
as Air France, Europes sec-
ond-largest airline, battles to
win back its reputation.
We made some savings
[like in aviation fuel] because
the planes were not ying,
he noted.
On the other hand, we had
additional costs: putting pas-
sengers up, compensation
or buying tickets from our
competitors for some of our
passengers, which we did not
always get at the best price,
he said.
Pilots at Air France waged
the record strike between Sep-
tember 15 and 28 in protest at
the groups plans to expand its
low-cost subsidiary Transavia
France.
The airline, which is 16-per
cent state-backed, sees the de-
velopment of Transavia France
as crucial to compete in the
cut-throat world of aviation,
particularly on short-distance
routes in its home market.
But in a concession to end
the strike, Air France manage-
ment abandoned a strategy to
expand Transavia into Europe.
The pilots, some of whom
earn up to 250,000 ($316,000)
per year, were worried their
ights could be replaced by
Transavia services or that the
company would seek to use
the cheaper Transavia pilots.
The strike knocked out more
than 50 per cent of Air France
services and sparked politi-
cal fury, with Prime Minister
Manuel Valls saying the indus-
trial action was harming the
image of France abroad.
It also, at the same time,
boosted Air Frances rivals.
With competitors like that
its not hard to see why Rya-
nair is the fastest-growing
airline in Europe, company
boss Michael OLeary said dis-
missively.
The other leading European
low-cost airline easyJet has
also said that it was boosted
by the Air France strike.
Air France-KLM said its
passenger gures were down
15.9 per cent in September
compared with gures for the
same month last year.
The wider group, including
Dutch airline KLM, Transavia
and Hop!, welcomed 5.7 mil-
lion passengers aboard last
month a drop of 16.3 per
cent compared to 2013. AFP
Business
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Pierre-Francois Riolacci, chief nancial ofcer of Air France-KLM
Group, said that the 14-day strike would cost in the order of 500
million. BLOOMBERG
Air France: strike cost 500M
Twitter sues
US over spy
numbers
TWITTER sued the US govern-
ment on Tuesday, claiming its
free speech rights are being vio-
lated by restrictions on its abil-
ity to disclose numbers of secret
orders to hand over user data.
The lawsuit filed in California
steps up the battle between the
tech sector and US authorities
over how much information
may be disclosed about vast
electronic surveillance in the
name of national security.
Its our belief that we are
entitled under the First Amend-
ment to respond to our users
concerns and to the statements
of US government officials by
providing information about
the scope of US government
surveillance including what
types of legal process have not
been received, Twitter vice
president Benjamin Lee said.
Lee said the FBI and Justice
Department have refused to
allow Twitter to publish any
specific numbers in its trans-
parency report other than the
ranges agreed upon with sev-
eral other tech firms.
The accord with five major
tech companies allows the pub-
lication of requests in a range
such as zero to 999, or 1,000 to
1,999. AFP
Markets
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Nikkei 225, Oct 7 Taiwan Taiex Index, Oct 7
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 87.8 -1.05 -1.18% 5:34:40
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 91.12 -0.99 -1.07% 5:34:45
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.91 -0.05 -1.21% 5:35:00
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 232.69 -4.14 -1.75% 5:35:29
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 258.22 -2.51 -0.96% 5:34:00
ICEGasoil USD/MT 775.75 -4.5 -0.58% 5:35:22
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.76 0.02 0.12% 5:21:02
CME Lumber USD/tbf 349.8 2.5 0.72% 21:41:12
Lego builds global dominance
L
EGO is making global domi-
nation look like childs play, as
the worlds biggest toy-maker
puts the building blocks in
place to lead rivals in Asia and buck
an industry-wide revenue dip.
The Danish toys juggernaut over-
took Mattel in the rst half of the
year. That was partly thanks to the
runaway success of The Lego Movie,
which sent children scrambling for
the coloured bricks, and partly be-
cause parents fell out of love with
Mattels Barbie, seen by some as
promoting an unhealthy body image
and outdated gender roles.
All in all, Lego seems to be having
a lot of fun.
Theyve done something similar
to what Apple has done, which is
known as transcending a category,
said Niels Lunde, author of The Mir-
acle at Lego, a Danish book about the
company.
They dont just make toys, they
make the stuff toys are made of. A
Lego brick is not just a toy, its an
educational material that stimulates
childrens creativity, he added.
The childrens market isnt always
an easy game.
More traditional toy sales face
competition from an onslaught of
video games and smartphone apps
many of which are free leaving
industry giants such as Hasbro and
Mattel scrambling to come up with
a digital strategy. Lego, arguably, has
gone the other way.
In the 1990s, they feared this
primitive brick of plastic couldnt
withstand the competition from the
digital world, Lunde said.
They tried branching out into ev-
erything from video games to chil-
drens fashion, but this brought the
group to the brink of bankruptcy,
and in 2004 Lego heir Kjeld Kirk Kris-
tiansen was forced to inject $135 mil-
lion of his own money.
Incoming chief executive Joergen
Vig Knudstorp brought the company
back to basics bricks but with the
twist of earning licensing fees on
things like Legoland theme parks,
which were spun off and merged
with Merlin Entertainment.
Their turnaround came when
they understood that this plastic
brick is really a brilliant toy material,
Lunde said.
By the rst half of this year revenue
had more than tripled since 2008. It
is a very satisfactory result that shows
our signicant growth in recent years
in a tough economic environment,
Knudstorp said in a statement.
Meanwhile, at Mattel sales contin-
ued to fall by 9.1 per cent in the sec-
ond quarter this year.
Barbie sales have seen double-
digit losses in four of the ve past
quarters and the California-based
group has been unable to compen-
sate for the shortfall through other
dolls, like the horror movie-inspired
Monster High range.
Perhaps the old adage of if you
cant beat them, join them applies
to Mattels $366 million purchase in
February of Canadian Lego-clone
Mega Bloks. That may have been a
wise choice as it prepares to face off
with its Danish rival in the booming
Chinese market.
In China you have a nation of
only children and parents are will-
ing to spend a lot, said James But-
ton, consumer markets director at
Shanghai-based consultancy Smith-
Street. When you just have one
child, parents arent really sparing
any expense, he added.
One difference with Western mar-
kets, however, is that Chinese par-
ents are very focused on education,
meaning toy-makers also compete
for the time and money families
spend on schools and extracurricu-
lar classes.
Lego is going to play better with
consumers because it does have
some educational value, Button
went on to say.
Lego sales in China rose by more
than 50 per cent in the rst half of
this year and the company began
building its rst factory in the coun-
try. It also opened a Shanghai ofce
as part of plans to make its manage-
ment more international.
The Billund-based company con-
tinues to claim that digital devices
cannot fully replicate the experi-
ence of playing with the bricks, lik-
ening it to the difference between
playing football on a computer and
on a pitch.
On the off-chance that preferences
do change, the group isnt taking any
chances. We should see it before
anybody else because we are at the
frontier of the technology, Knud-
storp said. AFP
Lego sculptures are displayed before the openeing of the new Lego store in New York
on September 17. Lego appears to be laying down the building blocks for global
supremacy in the toy-making industry. BLOOMBERG
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
World
European
Ebola cases
cannot be
avoided
CASES of Ebola in Europe are
unavoidable, but the risk of
the disease spreading is
extremely low, a top UN health
official said yesterday, amid
growing fears over infections
in Spain.
Sporadic cases of Ebola virus
disease in Europe are unavoid-
able. This is due to travel
between Europe and affected
countries, said Zsuzsanna
Jakab, regional director for
Europe at the World Health
Organization.
However, the risk of spread
of Ebola in Europe is avoidable
and extremely low, she said in
a statement, adding that Euro-
pean nations were among the
best prepared in the world.
Six people have now been
quarantined at a Madrid hos-
pital, including a nurse who
was diagnosed with Ebola on
Monday in the first case of
transmission of the disease
outside Africa.
The nurse had cared for two
elderly Spanish missionaries
who died from the virus fol-
lowing their return from West
Africa.
There is a risk of accidental
contamination for people
exposed to Ebola patients. This
risk can be and must be miti-
gated with strict infection con-
trol measures, said Jakab.
Health care workers are on
the frontline of the Ebola fight
and they are those most at risk
of infection. They need to be
protected and supported by all
means, she added.
Among the six people hospi-
talised in Madrid are the wom-
ans husband, considered at
high risk by Spanish authori-
ties, and two other nurses.
Officials said they were mon-
itoring as a precaution 52 other
people mostly health workers
who had been in contact with
the infected nurse.
All countries have protocols
and procedures that must be
implemented when a case is
suspected and it is important
that these are followed dili-
gently. WHO is, as always, ready
to provide help and support
where requested, said Jakab.
Ebola has killed 3,439 people
in West Africa since the start of
the year, according to the latest
WHO toll, with health workers
making up around 6 per cent
of the victims.
Meanwhile, Spains Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy
appealed for calm yesterday
after a Madrid nurse contract-
ed the deadly Ebola virus,
promising transparency over
the scare which has sparked
fierce criticism of national
health safeguards.
Rajoy told parliament that
officials would provide all the
information possible to the
public with total transparency,
after the nurse became infected
with the disease. AFP
Kobane anger leaves 14 dead
Mexico pressed to solve disappearance
A
T LEAST 14 people
were killed as pro-
Kurdish protests
raged across Turkey
yesterday over the govern-
ments failure to act against
jihadists attacking the major-
ity-Kurdish Syrian border city
of Kobane.
The disturbances are the
worst outbreak of such vio-
lence in years and risk derail-
ing Turkeys peace process
with the Kurds.
In a move unprecedented
since the deadliest days of
the Kurdish insurgency in the
1990s, the army was deployed
to impose a curfew in several
cities in the east.
The violence was concen-
trated in the mainly Kurdish
southeast but also ared in
Istanbul, Ankara and other
cities, with empty buses re-
bombed and protesters hurl-
ing stones at police.
The ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP)
government has so far not
intervened militarily against
Islamic State (IS) jihadists
trying to take Kobane, to the
fury of Turkeys Kurds.
Eight of the deaths came in
Turkeys main Kurdish city of
Diyarbakir, where the most
intense rioting took place
overnight yesterday, a local
security ofcial said.
Five of these deaths were
blamed on clashes between
Kurdish activists and sup-
porters of Islamist groups in
the southeast who are sym-
pathetic to IS.
The clashes caused exten-
sive damage in the city with
shop fronts burned-out and
buses set on re.
Two people were reported
killed in Mardin, two in Si-
irt, and one in Batman and
another in Mus, all cities
in the southeast of Turkey
with large populations of
Kurds. Further protests be-
ing planned yesterday.
The Turkish army has been
deployed on the streets of the
cities of Diyarbakir, Mardin
and Van to enforce a curfew.
In Diyarbakir, Turkish troops
and tanks were patrolling the
city of 1.5 million people with
the streets deserted after the
night of violence, an AFP cor-
respondent reported.
The worlds largest state-
less people, Kurds are spread
across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and
Syria. Kurdish militants have
waged a deadly insurgency
for three decades for self-rule
in Turkey.
However, a peace process
with the Turkish government
appeared to be making prog-
ress until the Kobane standoff,
and the latest protests threat-
en to derail the talks entirely.
We will never tolerate van-
dalism and other acts of vio-
lence aimed at disturbing the
peace, Deputy Prime Minis-
ter Yalcin Akdogan said.
Attempts at violence and
harm threatening the peace
of our people will never be
taken lightly, he added.
Schools were closed in Di-
yarbakir and ights were
cancelled, reports said. The
protests rst broke out on
Monday night but Tuesdays
clashes were more severe.
Police also used tear gas
and water cannon to disperse
angry pro-Kurdish protests in
Istanbul and Ankara. In Istan-
bul, 98 demonstrators were
arrested and dozens injured,
Turkish television reported.
Eight police were also injured.
The violence even spread
outside Turkeys borders,
with street clashes between
hundreds of Kurdish and
Islamist supporters in Ger-
manys northern port city of
Hamburg leaving 23 people
wounded overnight.
In one act that enraged sec-
ular Turks, Kurdish demon-
strators in Mardin set re to a
statue of the secular founder
of modern Turkey, Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk.
The outlawed Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), which
battled Turkish forces since
1984 in an insurgency that
has claimed 40,000 lives, has
largely observed a ceasere
since March last year.
But jailed PKK leader Ab-
dullah Ocalan said in a mes-
sage relayed by his brother
from his prison on the island
of Imrali on the Sea of Mar-
mara that the government
had until mid-October to
show it was serious about the
peace process. AFP
MEXICO faced growing international
pressure on Tuesday to solve the disap-
pearance of 43 students who vanished
after they were attacked by police
linked to a drug gang.
The United States and the Organiza-
tion of American States joined appeals
for the country to nd the young men,
who were last seen 10 days ago in Ig-
uala, a city in the violence-plagued
southern state of Guerrero.
Fears over their fate rose over the
weekend after authorities found a
mass grave up a steep hill outside Ig-
uala containing 28 unidentied and
badly burned bodies.
Two gang hitmen told investigators
they had executed 17 of the 43 young
men and dumped them in pits. But
authorities say it will take at least two
weeks for DNA tests to conrm the vic-
tims identities.
OAS secretary-general Jose Miguel
Insulza called for the clarication of
the murders that have brought grief
not only to the Mexican people, but to
all the countries of the Americas.
While authorities say the motive re-
mains under investigation, Guerreros
governor said one theory is that the
police attacked the students because
the mayors wife was concerned they
would disrupt a speech she was due to
be giving that day.
The attorney generals ofce dis-
patched 30 investigators, criminolo-
gists and forensic experts to crack the
case, which could rank among the
most horric in a drug war that has left
80,000 people dead and 22,000 missing
since 2006.
But families of the missing refuse to
believe they are dead. And hundreds of
members of a civilian militia, formed
last year to combat cartels, arrived in
Iguala to help with the search.
Authorities say the municipal police
and its gang allies shot at buses carry-
ing the students on the night of Sep-
tember 26. Several students, from a
teacher training college where radical
students often have commandeered
buses, were later seen bundled into
patrol cars.
Another bus carrying a football
team was attacked outside the city. Six
people, including three students, were
killed before the 43 went missing.
Authorities have detained around 30
people in the case, including 22 Iguala
police ofcers, while the mayor and
city security chief are on the run.
The rest of the police force was hauled
to a military base in central Mexico on
Tuesday to undergo evaluations while
investigators check if their guns were
used in any crimes.
As prosecutors investigated the mo-
tive, Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his
wife, who is the president of the local
family services department, came un-
der the spotlight.
The couple, who have apparently
gone into hiding, have links to the Bel-
tran Leyva cartel through the wom-
ans family, Senator Dolores Padierna,
a member of the mayors leftist PRD
party said.
El Universal daily cited a CISEN intel-
ligence services report as saying Pine-
da told her security chief to ask the po-
lice to repel the students because she
feared they would interrupt her event.
After a clash, the public security di-
rector ordered his men to stop the stu-
dents buses. When the students got
out, the ofcers began to shoot, killing
three, the document says.
While the mayor has denied knowing
about the attack, the CISEN document
says he told the police director to chase
and punish the students.
An ofcial in the attorney generals
ofce refused to conrm the docu-
ments authenticity, citing secrecy con-
cerns. AFP
Kurdish protesters are pictured in a street on Tuesday night in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir during a
demonstration to demand more western intervention against IS in Syria and Iraq. AFP
INDONESIAS RELEASED MILITANTS FEARED TO JOIN IS
T
HE looming release of hundreds of
militants from Indonesias prisons,
hotbeds of radicalism where
influential Islamists preach extremist
ideology, is ringing alarm bells and raising
fears some will join forces with IS.
More than a decade after Indonesia
vowed to dismantle terrorist networks to
stem a series of attacks, neglect of jails
has allowed top detainees to promote their
views behind bars.
About 200 convicted militants are due for
release in the next two years, and experts
say inadequate deradicalisation efforts
mean many will leave jail with their
ideology intact.
Prisons are still the epicentre of
terrorism in Indonesia. The most dangerous
militants are behind bars and recruitment is
going on, said terrorism expert Taufik
Andrie from the Jakarta-based Institute for
International Peace Building.
The alarming trend in the worlds most
populous Muslim-majority country comes
despite authorities growing concern about
Islamic militancy and in particular IS which
has declared an Islamic caliphate across
swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Authorities say about 60 Indonesians are
believed to have joined IS, although most
analysts believe the true figure is up to 200,
and concerns are mounting they could
return and revive militant networks.
Singapore has said that IS jihadists from
Malaysia and Indonesia have formed their
own group Katibah Nusantara Lid Daulah
Islamiyyah, or Malay Archipelago Unit for
the Islamic State which poses a clear
security threat to Southeast Asia. AFP
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13
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
A NEW geological fault capa-
ble of generating a 7.1-mag-
nitude earthquake has been
found in Wellington, conrm-
ing the New Zealand capitals
status as one of the worlds
most seismically active cities,
scientists revealed yesterday.
Geologists from the ofcial
NIWA research agency said
the Aotea fault began on the
oor of Wellington Harbour
and was believed to extend
through the central city and
southern suburbs.
NIWA marine geologist Phil-
ip Barnes said there was evi-
dence the most recent quake
caused by the fault occurred
about 6,200 years ago and it
was impossible to know if an-
other was overdue.
We do believe that it has
recurrence intervals of several
thousand years, he said. We
have no idea when it might
rupture in the future.
New Zealand Prime Minister
John Key said it was fanciful
to suggest the countrys capi-
tal should be moved because
of the quake threat.
It doesnt actually change
anything there are other big
fault lines in Wellington, he
said. This just shows were
getting better at nding out
where they are.
GeoNet earthquake ge-
ologist Russ Van Dissen said
that the latest discovery was
just one of dozens of active
faults crisscrossing the Wel-
lington terrain, the biggest
capable of generating an 8.5-
magnitude tremor.
He said that the citys exist-
ing construction codes should
deal with any quake from the
new fault.
Van Dissen said there were
probably more undiscovered
faults beneath the city.
New Zealand lies on the
boundary of the Australian
and Pacic tectonic plates,
forming part of the so-called
Ring of Fire, and experiences
up to 15,000 tremors a year.
In 2011, a devastating
6.3-magnitude quake on a
previously unknown fault
in the South Island city of
Christchurch killed 185 people
one of the nations deadliest
disasters of the modern era.
Wellington was the scene of
the countrys most powerful
earthquake in 1855.
That 8.2-magnitude jolt
changed the citys entire ge-
ography, pushing the shore-
line out 200 metres as it
thrust the harbour oor up-
wards, but only caused four
deaths. AFP
Major new fault found
in New Zealand capital
Koh Tao pair claim torture
T
WO Myanmar sus-
pects charged with
the premeditated
murder of two British
tourists on Surat Thanis Koh
Tao on September 15 have told
Myanmar Embassy ofcials
they were physically assaulted
prior to their confession, the
embassy says.
The ve-member Myanmar
delegation led by Tun Aye, in
charge of consular affairs, met
a police investigation team in
Surat Thani. They also met sus-
pects Win and Zaw Rim, both
aged 21, and talked to correc-
tional ofcials on Monday.
The delegation on Tuesday
observed police handing over
the case to prosecutors.
Contradicting earlier re-
ports that Myanmar Embassy
ofcials were satised with
explanations provided by Thai
authorities over the arrest of
their nationals, Tun Aye, the
embassys second secretary,
said it was too early to say
whether his team was satised
with all the information they
were given by authorities.
Police and diplomatic sourc-
es also said the British am-
bassador or a senior embassy
ofcial would attend a press
conference on Tuesday to in-
sist on the accuracy of the in
vestigation which had result-
ed in charges against the two
Myanmar men. Instead, the
embassy was not represented.
We have to analyse all the
information we gathered be-
fore we can get a response
from our ambassador, Tun
Aye said.
Another Myanmar delegate,
Moewai, said the embassy
team had been told by the two
Myanmar suspects that they
had been tortured while they
underwent interrogation.
Moewai said the two also
told him they did not know
who abused them, though
they thought policemen could
be responsible.
We havent received any
appeal letters from NGOs yet
[media reports said migrant
worker networks have ap-
pealed to the embassy about
abuse during the probe]. But
the suspects told us they were
assaulted, Moewai said.
The team discussed the in-
formation they obtained over
the two-day trip and will sub-
mit a report to the ambassa-
dor, he said.
Thai authorities provided a
lawyer for the two Myanmar
suspects but the embassy task
force investigating the matter
was considering providing
another lawyer to help them,
Moewai said.
Meanwhile, human rights
activists have pleaded for
more transparency and hope
the upcoming prosecution
phase of the case will be car-
ried out more fairly.
Pornpen Kongkachornkiat,
Cross-Cultural Foundation
director and National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC)
sub-committee member on
civil and political rights, said
she wanted to tackle the con-
cerns of many people over ju-
dicial process.
The circumstances sur-
rounding the arrest of the two
Myanmar workers the forced
DNA sampling and lack of ac-
cess to a lawyer before being
charged were dubious, lead-
ing to impressions the sus-
pects were not aware of their
rights and that justice had not
been done, said Pornpen.
She and other human rights
advocates from the Human
Rights and Development
Foundation (HRDF) and Mi-
grant Worker Rights Network
were in Surat Thani to discuss
the case with investigators but
they were not allowed to meet
the suspects.
Only NHRC member Prinya
Sirisakan was allowed to meet
them at Koh Samui prison.
Now that the case is out of
police hands, we expect pros-
ecutors will complete the case
with due process, Pornpen
said. BANGKOK POST
The suspects in the murders of two British tourists in Thailand, Zaw
Rim and Win, after their court appearance on Tuesday. BANGKOK POST
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US urges Myanmar: free

all political prisoners
THE US on Tuesday called on
Myanmar to release all
remaining political prisoners,
while welcoming reports that a
large-scale amnesty was under
way. Washington was seeking
details about reports that
President Thein Sein had
pardoned some 3,073 people
including former military
intelligence figures, Psaki said.
However, an estimated 30 to 40
remain incarcerated, she said.
The reformist regime, which is
preparing to host a landmark
November meeting of
international and regional
leaders, has granted a series of
amnesties as part of reforms
since the end of outright military
rule in 2011. US President
Obama is to travel to Myanmar
to attend the upcoming East
Asia summit, which will happen
alongside a meeting of ASEAN
next month. AFP
HK protesters sceptical

over Fridays govt talks
FORMAL talks between the
Hong Kong government and
students are set for Friday, but
pro-democracy protesters said
yesterday they were sceptical
over what the negotiations
would achieve. After three
rounds of preparatory talks,
formal talks are now set for
Friday afternoon between
students and Chief Secretary
Carrie Lam the deputy to
Hong Kongs embattled leader
Leung Chun-ying. Im not very
hopeful about the outcome,
said student Timothy Sun, 17,
who has spent 10 days at the
main Admiralty protest site. AFP
Beijing builds military

airstrip on disputed isle
BEIJING has completed a
runway for military aircraft on a
South China Sea island also
claimed by Vietnam, state-run
media reported, as it asserts its
territorial claims in the area.
The newly built facility stretches
across Woody Island, part of the
Paracel chain, Chinas Xinhua
news agency said late on
Tuesday. The Paracels are also
claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan,
and tensions between Beijing
and Hanoi rose this year over
Chinese construction and oil
exploration there. The runway is
Beijings latest physical
assertion of control in the area,
two years after it declared a city
named Sansha centred on
Woody Island to administer vast
swaths of the South China Sea.
Parts of the sea are also
claimed by the Philippines,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and
Taiwan. AFP
NK seeks to defuse UN

human rights criticism
NORTH Korea on Tuesday
sought to defuse criticism of its
human rights record, as the
European Union and Japan
prepared a UN resolution
harshly condemning
Pyongyangs brutality. North
Korean officials told a rare UN
briefing that there were no
prison camps in their country,
but rather reform-through-
labour detention centres.
Japan and the EU are due to
present a resolution to the UN
General Assembly in the
coming weeks that is expected
to harshly condemn rights
abuses in North Korea, based
on the findings of a recent UN
report. AFP
One killed,
300 hurt in
China quake
T
HOUSANDS of res-
cuers were deployed
in southwest China
yesterday after a
strong earthquake left one
person dead and more than
300 injured, with over 100,000
displaced, state-run media
reported.
The shallow 6.0 magnitude
tremor hit late on Tuesday
in Yunnan province, close to
Chinas borders with Myan-
mar and Laos, Chinas ofcial
Xinhua news agency said.
School buildings were widely
damaged in the area, reports
said, although the quake
struck during the night and no
pupil deaths were recorded.
Xinhua said 100 schools
were damaged and cited a lo-
cal ofcial as saying an esti-
mated 170,000 square metres
of buildings needed repairs.
School construction is a
touchy subject in China,
where more than 5,000 chil-
dren died as their schools
collapsed on top of them in
a huge 2008 earthquake in
neighbouring Sichuan prov-
ince. Shoddy buildings, with
corruption playing a key role,
were widely blamed, provok-
ing public anger.
The latest quake had taken
only one life so far, Xinhua
said, citing local ofcials.
More than 124,000 people
had been forced from their
homes by the quake, Xinhua
added, but there had been
little to no rain in the region
in recent days, reducing the
risk of landslides.
The US Geological Survey
(USGS) measured the earth-
quake as magnitude 6.0.
Many houses collapsed
and we are investigating the
casualties, a local ofcial
told Xinhua. The aftershocks
seem nonstopping.
Chinas President Xi Jinping
and Premier Li Keqiang were
both quoted in state-media
urging rescue efforts, with
3,200 troops dispatched in a
race to save more lives, ac-
cording to Xinhua.
More than 800 reght-
ers were taking part, with 35
sniffer dogs, it said.
The epicentre was in Jinggu
county, 85 kilometres from
Puer city, in a region famous
for its tea plantations. The
quake was also felt in Yunnans
provincial capital Kunming.
China uses a different mag-
nitude scale to the US and
Xinhua said the China Earth-
quake Networks Center gave it
a reading of 6.6.
The agency said buildings
shook for several seconds,
while some towns in the area
had lost power supply and
telecommunications.
The whole building was
shaking terribly with a loud
cracking sound. Plates fell
off in the kitchen. We all ran
out and the streets are now
packed with people, Li Anq-
in, a woman living in Weiyuan
town, the county seat of Jing-
gu, told Xinhua via telephone.
Thousands of homes were
also damaged in neighbour-
ing Lincang, it said.
Photographs posted on so-
cial media showed damaged
homes, cracked walls and fall-
en roof tiles, and crowds gath-
ered outside into the night.
The epicentre of the quake
was in a densely populated
but underdeveloped area that
is home to a number of ethnic
minorities.
It is also a well-known tour-
ism site, thanks to its local
production of Puer tea, and
population of wild elephants.
Yunnan is acutely vulner-
able to earthquakes. The re-
gion sees frequent seismic ac-
tivity from the collision of the
Indian and Eurasian tectonic
plates, which form the vast
Himalayan mountain range.
In August, a 6.1-magnitude
quake struck the province
killing more than 600 people.
More than 3,000 people were
injured, while more than
80,000 homes were complete-
ly or partially destroyed.
Rescuers said the destruc-
tion did not initially appear to
be on the scale of the August
earthquake.
Its not like last time in Lu-
dian there are no massive
collapse of buildings. Its such
a relief, rescue chief Chen Xi-
anhe told Xinhua. AFP
A man walks through his damaged home in Yongping township in Puer city, southwestern Chinas Yunnan
province, early yesterday. AFP
Calls for Afghan hangings to be stayed
Ancient prophecies of apocalypse rally IS
HOURS before ve men in Afghani-
stan were due to be executed yester-
day for gang rape, the UN and human
rights groups criticised their trial and
called for the new president to stay
the death penalties.
The case poses a major test for new
President Ashraf Ghani, whose gov-
ernment has been lauded for vowing
widespread legal reforms. He faces
huge public pressure to not stay the
executions, but could damage his cre-
dentials with donor nations if the men
are hanged.
The brutal attack outside Kabul in
August provoked a national outcry
with many Afghans demanding the
men be hanged, and then president
Hamid Karzai signed their death sen-
tences shortly before leaving ofce
last week.
The armed gang members, wearing
police uniforms, stopped a convoy of
cars returning to the capital at night
from a wedding in Paghman, a scenic
spot popular with day-trippers.
The attackers tied up men in the
group before raping at least four of the
women and stealing valuables from
their victims.
But the court process raised major
concerns, with the trial lasting only a
few hours, allegations of the suspects
confessing under torture and Karzai
calling for the men to be hanged even
before the case was heard. In a state-
ment released from Geneva, the UN
High Commission for Human Rights
called on President Ghani to refer the
cases back to the courts given the very
serious due process concerns.
Amnesty said the trial had been
rushed, giving lawyers little time to
prepare the defence. It was only nine
days between the arrests and the
handing down of death sentences by
the primary court.
The trial was marred by inconsisten-
cies, uninvestigated torture claims and
political interference, Amnesty said.
[Karzai] himself said that he urged the
Supreme Court to hand down death
sentences.
The group said Ghani, who was
sworn in on August 29, must ensure
that the alleged torture by police of the
defendants is independently and thor-
oughly investigated.
The crime in the early hours of Au-
gust 23 has become a symbol of the
violence that women face in Afghani-
stan, despite reforms since the Taliban
regime fell in 2001. Womens rights
have been central to the multi-billion-
dollar international development ef-
fort in Afghanistan, but they still en-
dure routine discrimination, abuse
and violence. AFP
AN INFIDEL horde ying 80
banners meets a Muslim army
at the Syrian town of Dabiq
in an apocalyptic battle. The
Muslims are decimated but
ultimately prevail, ushering
in the end of days.
This ancient Sunni Mus-
lim prophecy mentioned
in canonical accounts of the
Prophet Muhammads sayings
has become a rallying cry for
Islamic State jihadists in Iraq
and Syria, especially since
they seized Dabiq in August.
The town itself has negligi-
ble military value compared
with the strategic IS-con-
trolled cities of Raqa in Syria
and Mosul in Iraq.
But as IS jihadists come un-
der a US-led aerial onslaught
to stop their advance, its im-
portance as a symbol has be-
come clear. It raises morale,
said Shadi Hamid, a fellow at
the Brookings Institution. It
is fair to assume that the vast
majority of [IS] ghters be-
lieve in this type of talk.
Among IS supporters on
social media, Dabiq has be-
come a byword for a struggle
against the West, with Wash-
ington and its allies bombing
jihadists portrayed as mod-
ern-day Crusaders.
IS has even named its ofcial
magazine simply Dabiq.
The lions of Islam have
raised the banner of the Ca-
liphate in Dabiq, one Tunisian
IS supporter wrote recently on
Twitter. Now they await the
arrival of the Crusader army.
The prophecy has been
passed down in different ver-
sions, but in all cases it fea-
tures a great battle between
a Muslim army and the forces
of nonbelievers.
Recent weeks have seen
IS supporters interpreting a
wide range of events as fur-
ther evidence of its truth.
Some keep a close count of
the US-led coalitions mem-
bers now at more than 60
countries in anticipation of
when the prophecys 80 ban-
ners are reached. Others have
interpreted comments by top
US General Martin Dempsey
on the possible need for
ground forces as a signal of
the foretold battle, writing on
Twitter using the hashtag: It
is Dabiq, by God.
Some versions of the
prophecy mention the Mus-
lim army moving on after the
great battle to take Constan-
tinople, the former capital of
the Christian Byzantines and
present-day Istanbul.
When Turkey decided last
week to join the ght against
the jihadists, that too was
greeted as an omen by some
IS supporters.
When IS earlier this year
seized large parts of Iraq and
proclaimed current leader Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph, it
again turned to prophecy to
rally supporters to its cause.
One of Muhammads proph-
ecies is of the rise of a caliph-
ate on the path of the Prophet
and shortly before the proc-
lamation IS spokesman Abu
Mohamed al-Adnani pledged
that Gods promise was
imminent.
Some IS supporters on so-
cial media have rallied be-
hind Baghdadi as the foretold
caliph, but have been more
circumspect regarding the
advent of the battle in Dabiq.
God knows, maybe. The
hadith [prophetic saying]
says they will ght you under
80 banners. At the moment
theres 60 banners I think, a
British IS ghter in Syria said.
Yet some IS supporters are
convinced the destined battle
is near. Dabiq will happen
for certain. The US and its al-
lies will descend on Syria once
they see that the air campaign
has failed. That is a promise by
God and his Messenger, one
wrote on Twitter. AFP
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
World
Court lifts gay wedding

bans in more US states
A US federal court swept away
bans on same-sex marriage in
up to five more US states
Tuesday, bringing the number
where gay weddings are
permissible or likely soon will
be to 35. In the second piece of
good news for same-sex
marriage supporters in as
many days, the appeals court
handed down rulings covering
Nevada and Idaho, but likely to
also cover Alaska, Arizona and
Montana which are under its
jurisdiction. Gay rights
campaigners welcomed the
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that the cause of death was
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with a motor vehicle collision.
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Digital new age: God is the internet
Mark Piesing

I
T IS two years since Al-
exander Bard founded
a new religion called
Syntheism in which he
claimed that the the internet
is God.
Activist, musician and now
religious leader and playing
the nasty judge on the Swed-
ish Pop Idol Bard now has a
new way to spread the word
with the publication of his lat-
est book, Syntheism: Creating
God in the Internet Age, out
this week.
In Christianity, one of the
last things Jesus said to his
disciples was I will always be
with you, meaning that the
Holy Ghost is the manifesta-
tion of God when the believ-
ers are together, says Bard.
The internet is 7 billion
people connected in real time,
and if that isnt the holy spirit
then I dont know what it is.
In Bards analysis of history,
where feudalism had Chris-
tianity to keep people on the
land and capitalism had in-
dividualism to keep people
consuming, so the internet
age is going to have Synthe-
ism to keep people online.
What we have been lacking
up to now is the storytelling.
Someone has to do the Im-
manuel Kant for the new age.
So Syntheism is preparing
the way for a new elite and I
am one of its storytellers. For
my friend Julian Assange what
Syntheism does is to create a
bigger story for WikiLeaks. It
is the popular movement that
could support something like
WikiLeaks eventually.
While St Paul had his vision
on the road to Damascus, Bard
had his while spending the
night lying next to a beautiful
naked actress at Burning Man,
during which I realised that,
rather than carry on writing
books about the problems the
internet was causing, I should
write about Syntheism.
Burning Man, the annual
weeklong festival in Nevadas
Black Rock Desert, embodies
the same anarchistic values
of the opposition to hierar-
chical authority and belief in
voluntary self-government
that are central to the ethos of
the internet, says Bard.
He describes it as an ex-
perimental temporary utopia
that is the worlds rst physi-
cal manifestation of the inter-
net itself.
Burning Man shows that
digital natives under 25
now see the online world
as the real world and the
real world as a reection of
the online world, says Bard.
Religion is rst practised
then formulated. St Paul wrote
his letters after Christianity
was being practised across the
Roman Empire. I rmly be-
lieve that Syntheism is already
being practised and we are
just formulating it.
Since 2000 Bard has written
three books about the internet
revolution in collaboration
with the media theorist Jan
Soderqvist that together form
The Futurica Trilogy.
Bard helped to found Syn-
theism in 2012. It is based on
the idea that if man creates
God, then its about time we
created a religion relevant to
the 21st century.
Syntheism comes from
Greek syntheos, meaning
humanity creates God as
opposed to the God creates
humanity basis of the tradi-
tional monotheistic religions.
It is inspired by the writ-
ings of the French surrealist
philosopher Georges Bataille
in the 1950s and now has
thousands of followers of its
online forums.
What WikiLeaks and the Pi-
rate movement have under-
stood and what Syntheism is
all about is, he believes, that
the internet is actually going
to overturn our sense of our-
selves as individuals.
It teaches us, rather, that our
value is as social nodes in the
networks created online. Bard
dismisses those who see the
internet as creating a culture
of narcissism as completely
missing the point.
But Bard warns about the
dark side of Syntheism. Much
like the wars of religion that
followed the invention of the
printing press and then the
Reformation, Bard says the
major conicts of the 21st cen-
tury are going to be between
the old and new elites.
The state and the big corpo-
rations will want to control the
web the new netocracy will
want it to be free and open,
he says, drifting further from
lucidity. He claims to believe
that controversy over net neu-
trality and mass surveillance
will lead to physical conicts.
It will be a physical con-
ict, and the netocrats online
will start the revolution, not
the workers in the factory. We
dont know who will win, but
we hope its the young people,
unless they throw too many
atomic bombs. THE GUARDIAN
Alexander Bard, activist, musician, religious leader and the nasty
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T
HERES no shortage of
awards and prizes out there
for diplomacy, peacemaking
and humanitarian achieve-
ment. But the one that will be handed
out on Friday, bestowed by a commit-
tee selected by the Norwegian parlia-
ment in honour of the man who
invented dynamite, is considered the
most important and most deserving
of media attention.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
has made some bad calls in the past
(Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger and
Teddy Roosevelt come to mind), and
little evidence suggests the prize does
anything to promote peace. At its
best, though, the Nobel Prizes media
spotlight gives the committee the
opportunity to highlight important
issues: climate change in 2007, wom-
ens rights in 2011, and the elimina-
tion of chemical weapons last year.
This year the committee could best
serve its mission by giving the prize
to the person who most deserves it:
nobody. Such a move would highlight
that this has been a particularly vio-
lent year globally.
The emergence of Islamic State and
the disintegration of Iraq and Syria
have taken place at alarming speed.
Theres a lot of blame to go around
here, to the governments involved
and those that intervened from the
outside. But it shouldnt be surprising
that an unchecked civil war in Syria
and years of shortsighted sectarian
governance in Iraq would lead to a
situation like this.
The United States, and former
Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack
Obama, will not win any awards for
peace promotion this year. In 2009,
President Obama raised eyebrows in
Oslo by using his Nobel acceptance
speech to make the argument that
there are times when the use of force
by governments in the name of pre-
serving overall peace and stability is
not only necessary but morally justi-
fied. Five years later its harder to
make the case that the world has
become more peaceful as a result of
the judicious deployment of Ameri-
can violence. A global drone war may
have decimated al-Qaeda, but its
local franchises and splinter groups
are as potent as ever. NATO airpower
ousted a tyrant in Libya but left a
chaotic power vacuum in his place.
The breakup of the Soviet Union is
justifiably seen today as a major
advance for the cause of human free-
dom. Mikhail Gorbachev deservedly
received the Peace Prize during the
final days of the Soviet empire in
1990. But this years crisis in Ukraine
showed that everything is not hunky-
dory in the former USSR. For the first
time in decades, a European border
was redrawn by force, and the inter-
national community was exposed as
utterly unable to stop it. Ukraine has
been invaded by Russia without Mos-
cow admitting anything of the sort.
More than 2,000 people, most of
them civilians, died in Gaza and Isra-
el over the summer, the latest in a
recurring cycle of violence in which
both sides seem increasingly indif-
ferent to casualties.
This was the year that the interna-
tional media finally, if briefly, started
paying attention to Boko Harams
campaign of terror in Nigeria. But
that conflicts been developing for a
long while as well. The worlds newest
country, South Sudan, also collapsed
into a civil war that seemed inevita-
ble since its founding.
This was the year that three coun-
tries in West Africa were devastated
by a disease that would probably
have been containable if decades of
civil war and kleptocratic rule hadnt
left those countries with threadbare
public health systems and a populace
sceptical of those in power.
And this was also the year that we
learned that the side with tear gas,
truncheons and pepper spray gets
the right to decide what one country,
two systems really means.
I dont think the world is a hopeless
maelstrom of violence. Good things
have happened in the past 12 months
as well. Three of the worlds five larg-
est countries India, Indonesia and,
this week, Brazil held democratic
elections, and theres been major
progress on containing AIDS and
tuberculosis, which are among the
worlds deadliest diseases.
Even so, its hard to find anyone
deserving of a Peace Prize in 2014.
The purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize
is to reward the person who shall
have done the most or the best work
for fraternity between nations, the
abolition or reduction of standing
armies and for the holding and pro-
motion of peace congresses. And on
that score, there was not much to
report this year.
The committee should follow the
example of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for
Achievement in African Leadership,
the worlds most generous prize given
to individuals, with an outlay of $5
million over 10 years plus $200,000
per annum after that. The prize has
simply not been granted in three of
the six years it has existed because no
suitable candidates were found. This
has served the prizes goal high-
lighting and compensating former
African heads of state who governed
well while in office and stepped
down when they were supposed to.
The Nobel Peace Prize was not
awarded on 19 occasions, including
for most of the duration of the two
world wars.
The most recent year in which the
prize wasnt granted was 1972.
Some of the names up for discus-
sion this year are quite deserving.
Malala Yousafzai, who has promoted
the education of girls in rural Paki-
stan in the face of Taliban violence,
and Denis Mukwege, who has advo-
cated on behalf of victims of sexual
violence in the Democratic Republic
of Congo, are both doing remarkable
work. And I certainly dont mean to
denigrate the efforts of the many
activists, aid workers and officials
working for peace in difficult circum-
stances around the world.
But if the committee really wants to
send a powerful message to world
leaders after a not-so-peaceful year,
theres only one way to do that: Give
one of the worlds most famous
awards to absolutely no one. SLATE
2014s peace prize winner: No one
International failures, including (clockwise from top left) the rise of IS, civil war in Libya, Russian involvement in Ukraine, the conict in
Gaza, Boko Harams kidnapping of girls, inability to stem Ebola and China showing its authoritarian intentions in Hong Kong, suggests no
one is worthy of this years Nobel Peace Prize. AFP
Comment
Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating is a staff writer at Slate
focusing on international news, social sci-
ence and related topics. He was previously
an editor at Foreign Policy magazine.
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Lifestyle
SOME historic buildings in Japan on
Nagasakis Hashima island, also
known as Gunkanjima, which once
thrived on coal mining, have been
deemed in danger of collapsing,
according to city officials.
Gunkanjima, meaning battleship
island after its appearance, is one of
a group of legacy sites remaining
from the Meiji-era (1868-1912) indus-
trial revolution that the government
wants to add to UNESCOs World
Heritage list. Four apartment build-
ings, including the nations oldest
high-rise reinforced-concrete apart-
ment, and part of another building
are regarded by the Architectural
Institute of Japan as seriously dam-
aged or in imminent danger of col-
lapse, the officials said.
According to the Cultural Affairs
Agency, experts have yet to devise
techniques to repair reinforced con-
crete when it has seriously deterio-
rated. Researchers, therefore, will
hold an international conference in
the city in June next year, hoping to
come up with a method to preserve
and restore the buildings.
The 6.3-hectare island, located
about 19 kilometres from central
Nagasaki, prospered on seabed coal
mining. In 1960, about 5,300 people
lived on the island, with about 30 rein-
forced concrete buildings, including
apartments, a school and a hospital,
built from the Taisho era (1912-1926)
to the Showa era (1926-1989). After the
mine was closed in 1974, the island
became deserted. The buildings have
been abandoned for 40 years, exposed
to high tides, wind and rain. After a
ban on entry to the island was lifted
in April 2009, it became popular with
tourists, but approaching the build-
ings is prohibited.
After a request by Nagasaki city
government, the institute conducted
research on the buildings from 2011
to 2013. The institute inspected 12
buildings for signs of deterioration,
including Building No 30 the
nations oldest high-rise apartment,
comprising seven floors, which was
built in 1916. As a result, four build-
ings were determined to be serious-
ly damaged. In estimating the
number of years remaining before
the buildings collapsed, Building No
30 was calculated at minus five years,
meaning it should have collapsed
five years before 2012, when it was
inspected.
An international conference will
be held by the Japan Concrete Insti-
tute, which about 150 researchers
including experts from Western
countries are scheduled to attend.
Takafumi Noguchi, a professor at the
University of Tokyo who studies
building materials, says the worth of
the island will be greatly reduced if
its buildings collapse. He is head of
the institutes research group and
also the chairman of the interna-
tional conference.
We hope we can gather the latest
knowledge and experience of each
member for preservation and resto-
ration [of the buildings], Noguchi
said. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Harriet Fitch Little
U
NDER the ornate,
fan-shaped roof
of the Chaktomuk
Theatre a battle
of the elements is raging as
dancers from the Sophiline
Arts Ensemble rehearse for
the opening night of their
new show.
The jealous giant Ream
Eyso chases Moni Mekahala,
guardian of the seas, through
the skies. He ings his axe
towards his rival, but it hits
the clouds instead and a re-
sounding boom echoes. In
response, Moni Mekahala
throws a precious jewel into
the air, creating a glare that
blinds the giant. Through this
celestial duel, thunder and
lightning are born.
The tale, performed from
tonight until Sunday under
the title Thunder and Light-
ning, will be familiar to many
Cambodians as a centuries-
old prayer for agricultural
fertility.
Its traditionalism may
come as a surprise to those
familiar with the work of its
choreographer: Sophiline
Shapiro, a driving force in the
modernisation of Cambo-
dian dance whose 2013 show
A Bend in the River toured in-
ternationally and featured a
set design by abstract sculp-
tor Sopheap Pich.
But she says that this ca-
nonical performance has an
equally important impetus:
the need to document a dance
preserved only in the memo-
ries of a handful of teachers,
and on a badly worn video
cassette that Shapiro was
handed in 1996.
When the choreographer
and her husband John Sha-
piro founded the Sophiline
Arts Ensemble in 2007, re-
mastering this particular
dance was an early priority:
I started to train my dancers
straight away, she says, The
tape was in such a bad condi-
tion it was important to learn
it quickly.
With the help of some of
the original dancers, Shapiro
pieced together the two-hour
production and hastily lmed
a new master copy.
Before this evenings per-
formance, Shapiro will take
to the stage to introduce the
piece. Although she expects
audiences to be familiar with
the general outline of the
story, she wants to explain
its subtler themes: the need
to balance opposing forces;
our daily inner struggle to
have good win out over evil;
the majesty of a powerful
woman.
In Cambodian mythology
a lot of women play pretty
princesses, she says, but
Moni Mekahala is a leader.
Although she carries the most
powerful jewel she doesnt
use it to intimidate, she uses
it to protect the world.
She hopes that she will
be looking out at a sold-out
auditorium, but its hard to
know for sure. Because, as
Shapiro explains, the real in-
novation of this piece isnt the
show itself, its the production
model behind it.
Rather than performing as
they used to, as part of a fes-
tival or for free in their small
Takhmao Theatre in Kandal
province, the company is
pushing forward with a new
model of selling tickets. With
the exception of pop music
and tourist shows there is no
history of ticketed shows in
Cambodia, he says. Going
back to Ankorian times [pub-
lic dance] has been achieved
through patronage.
Shapiro admits that the
engrained expectation of get-
ting something for nothing in
Cambodia makes the project
a risky experiment, as does
the absence of any infrastruc-
ture for online ticketing, but
the signs are positive.
In June the companys
inaugural run of paid-for
performances sold out com-
pletely, with a waiting list for
the last night.
Provided that the new
model proves durable, the
Shapiros plan to ease back on
international touring and de-
vote their energies to putting
on three seasons of dance per
year at the Chaktomuk.
The aim, Shapiro says, is
to be the local equivalent of
the New York City Ballet, al-
though he hopes that Cam-
bodian spectators will prove
different in one important
respect. In lots of countries
half your audiences are nod-
ding off because theyre so
old. You cant survive with an
audience thats geriatric.
Tickets for this show start at
$3 for students. Its like going
to Brown and getting a cap-
puccino and a mufn, says
Shapiro.
Thunder and Lightning herald a
new season from Sophiline Arts
Historic buildings on Hashima in danger
Historic Gunkanjima buildings on Hashima island are in danger of collapsing. THE
YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Robot reboot
Kafka work
gets Japan
treatment
F
RANZ Kafkas seminal
work The Metamorphosis
is famous for its themes
of alienation, absurdity and
now androids, as a robot takes
centre stage in a new theatrical
adaptation.
Acclaimed Japanese director
Oriza Hirata worked with lea-
ding roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro
to create the star of the show,
a tall gangly robot with a white
human-like face and hands.
Even though people react
when they see a robot, you can
tell people are not moved by it,
Hirata told AFP.
I wanted to create a situation
in which a robot could move an
audience.
In Kafkas 1915 novella,
travelling salesman Gregor
Samsa wakes up one morning
inexplicably transformed into a
repulsive insect, causing his fa-
mily to hide him away in shame
and disgust. Hiratas production
swaps the big bug for a cold
silver frame and an automated
voice, testing the dramatic
timing of four French actors
chosen to play his family.
The show, titled La Metamor-
phose version Androide, opens
in Yokohama today and then
travels to Europe to kick off the
Autumn Festival Normandy
next month in France. AFP
Dancers from the Sophiline Arts Ensemble rehearse for Thunder and Lightning. PHOTO SUPPLIED
BILL Murray is an
endearing mess in his
new movie St Vincent,
which had its New
York screening at the
Ziegfeld Theater on
Monday night.
As the film opens, the
smoking, drinking
Vincent (Murray) is out
of money, leaving him
unable to pay a pretty,
funny and pregnant
pole dancer with a
heavy Russian accent
(Naomi Watts).
But hes about to be rehabilitated,
thanks to Oliver, the boy who moves
next door (Jaeden Lieberher) with
his single mom (Melissa McCarthy).
Olivers teacher (Chris ODowd) and
the pole dancer also assist in the
road to the sainthood of the title,
which has Murray donning a smoke-
ring halo in the movie poster.
The first film from director and
screenwriter Theodore Melfi shows
the financial and emotional stress-
es of an aging Vietnam vet.
As a veteran, Vincent does have
healt h i nsurance,
though it cant pay for
his wifes extended
stay in an assisted-
living facility.
In my mind, what
we do to veterans is
completely unaccept-
able, Melfi said in a
red-carpet interview.
They go and they
serve, and they come
back and we dont
support them. This
movie is about a guy
whos actually won
medals in war, and how his life has
just kind of faded away. I wanted to
call attention to that. We need to do
more and do better.
Harvey Weinstein introduced the
film, saying of Melfi, My choice for
saint is Saint Ted.
But Murray insisted on giving
Melfi a hard time.
I have two bags of popcorn, not
because the film is that long, but
there was no telling when a first-
time director would shut up, Mur-
ray said. THE WASHINGTON POST
Bill Murray on the skids
and on the red carpet
Food
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Joe Yonan

O
NE of the best things about casting
a wide net for recipes is that, bit
by bit, I build my knowledge. Take
beets (or beetroot): I had always
cooked them (wrapping, roasting, cooling
and peeling) until one day, years ago, I came
across a Moroccan treatment that had me
shredding them raw for a salad.
Another day, a smart cookbook author
taught me to forgo the peeling altogether
when I was using the baby variety and to not
worry about the relatively thin skin.
And yet another, a chef showed me how
even a larger beet, when roasted at high heat,
doesnt necessarily need peeling, either and
that it could be presented whole, draped in a
mole sauce.
Those were all welcome diversions from
the same-old roasting, which lets face it
is often really more like baking or steaming
when those beets are wrapped.
Frankly, the technique doesnt always bring
out their best qualities. They seem to take
forever to cook through, but leave them in
the oven a touch too long and they can turn
soft enough to lose their appeal although at
that point, I usually puree them into a spread
or soup.
Another summer, another lesson: This
year, Im grilling beets. Im scrubbing but
not peeling them, and then Im cutting them
into thick slices for a quick trip to the grill,
where the kiss of smoke and flame chars
and ever-so-slightly tenderises them, leav-
ing them supremely satisfying to eat. My fa-
vourite recipe for this treatment comes from
Summer Food, a new book by Paul Lowe,
Nina Dreyer Hensley and Jim Hensley.
Lowe, the Norwegian-born founder of
Sweet Paul magazine, and his photographer
partners bring a positively sun-kissed look,
feel and now that Ive cooked from it
taste to the book. (Flip through it, and youll
see what I mean; if you can resist planning a
cookout, youre stronger than I am, although
perhaps not as much fun.)
Lowe and the co-authors dont call for
leaving the beets unpeeled, but my previous
experience told me to try it, and Im glad I
did: The peel picked up even more char than
the beets interior, and leaving it on gives
the dish beets combined with grilled hal-
loumi cheese and a sharp mustard sauce a
particularly rustic feel.
The authors call for fresh dill sprigs for
garnish, but since I was pulling the beets
straight from my front-yard garden, I had a
better idea: the smallest beet greens I could
find. They brought everything together,
once again. THE WASHINGTON POST
Grilled baby beets
with mustard sauce

16 baby golden and/or red
beets, preferably no bigger
than golf balls (1 1/2 pounds
total); reserve a handful of
small beet greens for garnish
8 ounces halloumi cheese,
cut into four thick slabs
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil,
plus more for brushing
1/2 small red onion, sliced
2 tablespoons Dijon-style
mustard
1 teaspoon finely chopped
fresh thyme leaves
1 tablespoon fresh lemon
juice
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt,
plus more as needed
Make ahead: The grilled beets
and the mustard sauce can be
refrigerated, separately, for up
to a week; bring them to room
temperature before serving.
The cheese is best grilled right
before you assemble the salad,
but it can be grilled, refriger-
ated for a day or two and then
gently warmed in the micro-
wave or in a hot skillet just to
soften before serving.
Steps: Scrub the beets well, but
dont peel them. Cut them in
half lengthwise. (If using beets
larger than golf ball size, cut
them into 1/2-inch lengthwise
slices.) Brush the beets and
halloumi slices with a little of
the oil.
Prepare the grill for direct
heat. If using a gas grill,
preheat to medium-high (400
to 450 degrees). If using a
charcoal grill, light the char-
coal; when the coals are ready,
distribute them evenly under
the cooking area.
For a medium-hot re, you
should be able to hold your
hand about 6 inches above the
coals for four or ve seconds.
Have a spray water bottle at
hand for taming any ames.
Arrange the halloumi slices
on the grill; cook, uncovered, for
about one minute per side or
until charred in spots. Transfer
to a serving platter.
Arrange the beets on the
grill; cook, uncovered, for three
to four minutes per side, turn-
ing them carefully with tongs
or a spatula, until charred in
spots and barely tender when
pierced with a skewer. Transfer
the beets to the platter with the
cheese.
Top with the onion slices and
garnish with the small beet
greens.
Whisk together the 1/4
cup oil, the mustard, thyme,
lemon juice and salt in a liquid
measuring cup to form an
emulsied dressing. Taste, and
add salt as needed. Dollop over
the beet salad and serve.
Nutrition per serving: 380 calo-
ries, 15g protein, 19g carbohy-
drates, 30g fat, 12g saturated
fat, 40mg cholesterol, 1,040mg
sodium, 5g dietary ber and
12g sugar
Makes four servings.
When the beet meets the heat
A sweet baked good, without the baking
Lisa Yockelson
HANDMADE fruit bars, created with a selection of dried fruit and an assort-
ment of other elements, are a avourful item to add to your no-bake reper-
toire of treats.
The key to a tasty result is to use a variety of sticky dried fruit, nuts and
seeds; integrating a little coconut oil helps to bind the mixture, while a good
splosh of vanilla extract rounds out and deepens the avour.
Once pasty (honestly, that condition is the ideal) and
pressed into a loaf pan, the confection is refrigerated
until rm and easy to slice. If you like, a generous
sprinkle of additional coconut akes, nuts and/
or seeds can be pressed right on the top of the
loaf just before chilling. THE WASHINGTON POST
Fruit bars
12/3 cups moist dried apri-
cot halves (about 61/3 ounces),
snipped into small pieces
1/2 cup moist pitted dates (about
23/4 ounces), snipped into small
pieces
1/4 cup moist dried apples
(about 13/5 ounces), snipped into
small pieces
2 tablespoons coconut oil, at
room temperature (may substitute
coconut butter)
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup unsweetened coconut
flakes (about 1 ounce), plus more
for optional garnish
1 tablespoon brown rice syrup or
honey (optional)
1/2 cup raw cashew pieces, plus
more for optional garnish
1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds, plus
more for optional garnish
1/8 teaspoon salt, preferably
flaked sea salt
Make ahead: The fruit-mixture loaf
needs to be refrigerated for at least
ve hours and up to overnight. The
uncut loaf or sliced bars can be
refrigerated for up to two weeks,
individually wrapped for long-term
storage.
Steps: Line the bottom and sides of
the loaf pan with a double layer of
plastic wrap wide enough to allow
the long sides to eventually overlap
and seal the fruit bar loaf.
Combine the apricots, dates and
apples in a food processor. Pulse
for 30 seconds, or until chopped.
Add the coconut oil, vanilla extract,
coconut akes and the brown rice
syrup or honey, if using; pulse for
45 seconds to a minute. Add the
cashew pieces, pumpkin seeds and
salt; pulse for a minute.
Continue to pulse for about one
more minute, until the mixture
is dense, comes together in big,
clinging clumps and becomes
pasty. If the mixture balls up during
this time, stop and carefully break
it up. (If the mixture is not thor-
oughly processed until pasty, it will
not adhere to itself well enough,
and will not cut cleanly once
thoroughly chilled.) You should be
able to see small bits and ecks of
the nuts and seeds rather than one
solid colour.
Carefully remove the blade from
the food processor, and use a
sturdy offset knife to dislodge any
fruit bar paste that might cling to
the blade, then use the knife to
scrape and transfer globs of the
fruit mixture to the loaf pan.
Use a exible spatula to rmly
press the mixture into an even
layer. If desired, coarsely chop extra
coconut akes, cashews and/or
pumpkin seeds (about 4 teaspoons
total) and distribute evenly over
the surface, gently pressing them
in place while the mixture is
still sticky. Fold over the aps of
plastic wrap directly on the surface.
Refrigerate for ve hours, or up to
overnight, until quite rm.
Use a sharp chefs knife to cut
the loaf into 16 equal slices (bars),
or store the fruit-bar block whole in
the loaf pan and slice to order. Keep
refrigerated, either way.
Nutrition per bar: 110 calories, 2g
protein, 17g carbohydrates, 5g fat,
3g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol,
25mg sodium, 2g dietary ber and
14g sugar
Heres an intensely flavourful no-bake snack packed with a variety of dried fruits, nuts and coconut. Youll need a
7-by-4-inch loaf pan. A heavy-duty food processor is essential for this recipe. Do not substitute a blender or low-
powered food processor, and do not leave the processor unattended as it runs. Makes 16 servings.
Travel
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Google Flight
Search hasnt
taken off yet
Christopher Elliott

W
HEN David Sun
is in need of a
cheap ticket, he
Googles it. When
James Pillow wants to y
somewhere, he doesnt.
Googling, in both cases, re-
fers to Googles Flight Search
tool (google.com/ights),
which is the result of the In-
ternet behemoths controver-
sial 2010 acquisition of ITA
Software, an airfare pricing
and shopping application.
The deal had to be approved
by the US Justice Department
and was subject to a restrictive
consent decree.
Now, four years later, experts
and travellers are wonder-
ing whether they got a better
search engine out of it.
Google Flight Search, loved
by some and ignored by others,
hasnt turned into the compe-
tition-crushing website that its
critics predicted it would be.
Rather, it quietly evolved into
a useful site for air travellers,
one that you should consider
including in your next fare
search if you want to save time
and money.
Sun, the president of Sun-
Block Systems, a digital foren-
sics company in Reston, Vir-
ginia, turns to Googles Flight
Search tool for last-minute
airline tickets. Its my default
ight search tool, he says. He
favours the simplicity of its in-
terface and the way it adjusts
to his travel preferences, auto-
matically excluding Baltimore
from searches, for example.
I like the way it takes me to
the airlines website for nal
booking and payment, he
says. I can avoid the booking
fees that other travel sites re-
quire for their services.
But Pillow, who works for
a sports memorabilia site in
Orlando, is unimpressed with
Flight Search. I nd it very
clunky, he says. The fact that
he cant make a direct purchase
but is referred to another site
annoys him. It will probably
be the go-to tool in the future,
he says. But it seems very
much in beta at the moment,
when compared to Expedia
and others.
You have to look closely to
see the differences between
Google Flight Search in 2011
and today. The interface hasnt
changed vastly. At the top of
the screen, you can enter your
destination. (Google tries to
guess your home airport.) You
can search by stops, price, air-
line and duration.
Google has made several
noteworthy improvements.
You can now search for in-
ternational ights and book
directly through most major
online travel agencies and air-
lines. Theres a new map that
shows live fares, which tell
you what it costs to y from
your home airport to another.
If youre trying to save a little
money, click on the little bar to
nd out when the lowest air-
fares are available.
Perhaps Flight Searchs best
qualities are its speed and
comprehensiveness. Its blaz-
ingly fast, and if you run a few
searches, youll nd that it of-
fers a mind-numbing number
of ight options and possible
combinations.
When Google bought ITA
and used its technology to
create Flight Search, competi-
tors were worried that it would
quickly put them out of busi-
ness. Four years later, however,
Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia, and
Travelocity are still here.
I dont think that Fare
Search has had much impact
on consumers, says Edward
Hasbrouck, a critic of the ITA
purchase. But he thinks that
were not out of the woods yet.
After the Justice Depart-
ments consent decree expires
in October 2016, Google will
be able to do what it pleases
with ITA, and that makes
people like Hasbrouck ner-
vous. The real danger is of
Google dominance of per-
sonalised pricing, he said.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Tools like Google Flight Search have reduced the need for travel agents
and airline booking staff, but it isnt the giant-killer critics feared. AFP
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30
PG 938 Daily 06:20 07:30 PG 931 Daily 08:10 09:25
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PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
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PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
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SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
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YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
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2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Entertainment
20
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Member in a frame job
5 Did a lawn chore
10 30-day mo.
13 Safe, on board
14 Certain Arab
15 Actors accessory
17 Philanthropists errors?
19 Change the decor
20 The U in ICU
21 Surrounded by
23 Artificial water channel
26 Blood clots
28 Reddish-brown colors
29 Chutzpah in the extreme
30 Curiosity killed it
33 Meet expectations?
34 Cast your ballot
35 Santa ___ (California city)
36 Midmonth date
37 Tiny parasites
38 EPA concern
39 Certain evergreen tree
40 Dirty film character
41 Feature of some parks
42 Big blast maker
43 Italian wine center
44 Invite oneself to participate
45 Behaves like a brat
47 Became a figure of speech?
48 Useless
50 Speech problem
51 You may get a hand here
52 Discomfort
58 London art gallery
59 What ___ thou?
60 Give off, as light
61 Sandwich selection
62 Fencing equipment
63 Lawless of Xena fame
DOWN
1 Block signals
2 Ex-heavyweight champ
3 Bonjour, ___ amis!
4 Some ballroom dances
5 Cinema
6 Forget to put in
7 Blanched
8 Changs Siamese twin
9 Renders nonfunctional
10 Eliots cruel month
11 Fine how-do-you-do
12 Fishing poles
16 It may cook your goose
18 Ancient Peruvians
22 Jell-O shaper
23 With short, an unsympathetic
rejection
24 Introduction
25 Doubtfulness
26 Voyage of vanity?
27 Buddy, in Britain
31 Absence of societal values
32 Random scrap
34 Objets dart
37 Female massager
38 Artillery fragments
40 Theyre sometimes felt
41 They may have abs of stone
44 Lifting devices
46 Australian cry
48 Food bit for Fido
49 Duct product
50 Give off intense light
53 40 winks
54 Pupils place
55 Large flightless bird
56 Attack, dog!
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JU-ON 3
In this seventh installment of the Ju-on franchise,
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been absent from school for a long period of time,
unaware of the horrific tragedy that occurred in the
boys household many years ago.
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LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns
the tables on her captors and transforms into a
merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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NOVEMBER MAN
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very
personal mission and finds himself pitted against his
former pupil in a deadly game involving high level
CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
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A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-
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Sport
Japans Tomita to be
suspended for stealing
DISGRACED Japanese
swimmer Naoya Tomita will be
banned from competing for
around 18 months over his
theft of a camera during the
Asian Games, the nations
swimming authority said
yesterday. The Japan
Swimming Federation said in a
statement, dated Tuesday, that
its committees were
recommending the governing
bodys board suspend Tomita
until March 2016. An
extraordinary board session
will be convened on [October]
30 to discuss the proposal,
which would likely be adopted,
a federation spokesman told
AFP. Japan expelled Tomita
from the Asian Games and
promised strict punishment
after he admitted stealing the
$7,600 camera, belonging to a
journalist for a South Korean
news agency. AFP
Wawrinka crashes out
in Shanghai opener
AUSTRALIAN Open champion
Stan Wawrinka crashed out of
his second successive
tournament at the first hurdle
yesterday, losing his Shanghai
Masters opener against Gilles
Simon of France after
squandering a 3-0 lead in the
final set. It was a misery for
the fourth seed in Shanghai,
who was in need of a morale-
boosting victory after his last
outing resulted in a first round
exit at the Japan Open to 103-
ranked Tatsuma Ito. AFP
Former All Black player
Thomson signs for Reds
FORMER All Blacks back-row
forward Adam Thomson
yesterday signed for the
Queensland Reds in a boost to
their pack heading into the
2015 Super Rugby season.
Capped 29 times for New
Zealand, Thomson was a
member of the All Blacks 2011
World Cup-winning squad
before moving to Japan with
the Canon Eagles. A veteran of
seven Super Rugby seasons
with the Otago Highlanders, he
is currently the top try scorer in
the Japanese Top League. AFP
Depleted Pakistan lose
paceman Junaid Khan
UNDER-STRENGTH Pakistan
received further blow yesterday
when frontline paceman Junaid
Khan was ruled out of the ODI
and two-Test series against
Australia after injuring his knee
in practice. Pakistan are already
without off-spinner Saeed Ajmal
who was last month suspended
from all international cricket for
an illegal bowling action. Last
week all-rounder Mohammad
Hafeez suffered a hand injury
which forced him out of the
limited-overs series. Pakistan
lost the only Twenty20 match by
six wickets in Dubai on Sunday
and started the three-match
one-day international series
with a 93-run defeat in Sharjah
on Tuesday. Junaid, 24, twisted
his knee in practice and, after an
MRI scan, was advised to rest
for up to six weeks, team
manager Moin Khan said. AFP
Cardinals, Giants advance
with MLB playoff victories
T
HE St Louis Cardinals
and San Francisco
Giants booked a Na-
tional League nals
showdown after each team
won on Tuesday to advance
in the Major League Baseball
playoffs.
Matt Adams smashed a
three-run home run in the
seventh inning to lift St Louis
over the Los Angeles Dodgers
3-2, while Joe Panik scored on
a bases-loaded wild pitch in
the seventh to give the Giants
a victory over the Washington
Nationals by the same score.
Both the Cardinals and Gi-
ants captured their best-of-
ve series three games to one
to reach the best-of-seven Na-
tional League Championship
Series that opens on Saturday.
It marks the fourth NL nals
appearance in a row for the
Cardinals, who seek their sec-
ond World Series title in four
seasons after having lost last
years nal to Boston.
The Giants will try to claim
their third World Series crown
in ve campaigns after their
record seventh consecutive
playoff series victory.
We just go as hard as we
can, give it everything weve
got, Giants star Hunter Pence
said. Good pitching and good
elding has been a foundation
for everything weve done.
It has been a remarkable
journey. I wouldnt trade it for
the world.
Either the Giants or Cardi-
nals will face the American
League champion, the Balti-
more Orioles or Kansas City
Royals, in the World Series
starting October 21.
At St Louis, Dodgers star
pitcher Clayton Kershaw
struck out nine, including all
three St Louis batters in the
sixth inning, but the 26-year-
old left-hander was undone
in the seventh inning by a
Cardinals rally.
Our guys kept ghting and
kept pushing and never got
down, Cardinals standout
Matt Holliday said. Right now
we are feeling as good as we
have all season.
Holliday and Jhonny Peralta
each singled to open the sev-
enth and Adams followed with
his blast over the right-eld
fence to give the Cardinals
their margin of victory.
I took a step back, took a
deep breath and tried to get
focused back into the strike
zone, Adams said. I had a
pretty good idea it was gone
when I hit it.
Kershaw went 21-3 this sea-
son but fell to 1-5 in career
playoff games, four of them
losses to St Louis.
We will look at everything
about how we need to im-
prove to get better, Dodgers
manager Don Mattingly said.
The Dodgers put runners
on rst and second base in
the ninth but Carl Crawford
then grounded into a game-
ending elders choice.
The Dodgers scored twice in
the sixth inning in a urry that
began when Crawford opened
with a single, advanced to third
on an Adrian Gonzalez single
and scored when Matt Kemp
grounded into a double play.
Hanley Ramirez was hit by a
pitch and took rst base, then
reached second when Andre
Ethier walked and scored
when Juan Uribe followed
with a single.
At San Francisco, the Gi-
ants jumped on top 2-0 in the
second inning after Brandon
Crawford singled and took
second on a elding error by
Nationals pitcher Gio Gon-
zalez that allowed Juan Perez
to reach rst. Ryan Vogelsong
loaded the bases with a bunt
single and Gonzalez walked
Gregor Blanco to give the Gi-
ants their rst run. Panik fol-
lowed with a ground out that
allowed Perez to score.
Washington answered in
the fth inning when Ian
Desmond singled to left eld
and scored on Bryce Harpers
double to left.
Harper smashed a solo hom-
er in the seventh that pulled
the Nationals level at 2-2, the
21-year-old slugger belting his
third homer of the series.
San Francisco plated the de-
ciding run in the bottom half
of the inning when Panik sin-
gled, took second on a Buster
Posey single, went to third
when Hunter Pence walked
and scored on a wild pitch by
Aaron Bennett to produce the
winning margin. AFP
Matt Adams of the St Louis Cardinals reacts after hitting a three-run home run in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game
Four of their National League Divison Series at Busch Stadium on Tuesday in St Louis, Missouri. AFP
US Justin Gatlin competes in the mens 100m
sprint at the 44th IAAF Grand Prix athletics
meeting in Rieti, Italy, in September. AFP
Coe has big problems with Gatlin nomination
TWO-TIME drugs cheat Justin Gatlins
nomination for the International Asso-
ciation of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
athlete of the year doesnt sit comfort-
ably with IAAF vice president and British
athletics legend Sebastian Coe, he
admitted on Tuesday.
The nomination of Gatlin, who
received a six-year ban reduced to four
the second time he tested positive in
2006, that time for testosterone, has
already caused a furore with Germanys
discus star Robert Harting demanding
to have his name withdrawn from the
nominees list in protest.
Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100m gold
medallist and double sprint world
champion in 2005, belied his 32 years
during an incredible season which
saw him record the three fastest times
this year in the 100 metres, and the
fastest times in the 100 metres and 200
metres ever by a man in his 30s.
Coe, also chairman of the British
Olympic Association (BOA), said he
wasnt happy with the fact Gatlin was
competing and agreed with a recent
University of Oslo study that the after
effects of taking steroids and other
performance enhancing drugs can
last decades.
The only thing I would say is that he
is entitled to be competing, said
58-year-old Coe, who won 1,500 metres
Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984.
Im not particularly comfortable
about it. I think youd be pretty sur-
prised if I did sit here and was sanguine
about that. I personally have big prob-
lems with that.
I have long since believed that, par-
ticularly anabolic steroids, but per-
formance-enhancing, muscle-devel-
oping drugs, have a long-term effect.
I dont wish to be dismissive about
the Oslo research, but I think anybody
in the last 20 years that Ive known in
that world, particularly in sports phys-
iology and biochemistry would tell you
thats certainly the case.
The effect is certainly not transient
and weve seen that in the performance
of athletes for some time, added Coe,
who was speaking at the Securing Sport
Conference in London.
Coe, who masterminded the out-
standing hosting of the 2012 Olympic
Games, said he is hoping to succeed
long-time IAAF president Lamine
Diack when the Senegalese steps down
next year.
Ive always been clear, if Im given
the opportunity to shape the future of
my sport, I will certainly take it.
If there is a presidential election, I
will want to stand for that. AFP
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IT COULD be weeks before
doctors know how badly
damaged Jules Bianchis brain
is after his sickening crash in
the Japanese Grand Prix, a
specialist warned yesterday.
The French Formula One
driver was under constant
supervision following the
weekend smash, with his
worried parents regularly by
his bedside.
Jules remains in the Inten-
sive Care Unit of the Mie Gen-
eral Medical Center in Yokka-
ichi. He has suffered a diffuse
axonal injury and is in a criti-
cal but stable condition, said
a statement issued by the
family and the hospital.
The medical professionals
at the hospital are providing
the very best treatment and
care and we are grateful for
everything they have done for
Jules since his accident.
The 25-year-old Bianchi
was knocked unconscious in
a horric high-speed crash
into a recovery vehicle during
Sundays rain-sodden Japa-
nese Grand Prix.
He underwent emergency
brain surgery, with doctors
saying he was critically ill.
A diffuse axonal injury
describes trauma that is
spread across the brain,
rather than in one place, and
is caused by the shockwave
from the sudden impact of a
crash travelling through the
brain. This causes bruising
and kills cells.
The bodys response to the
injury swelling exacer-
bates the problem because
it restricts blood ow to the
brain, causing more damage.
Experts say recovery rates
from this kind of injury,
which is frequently caused
by vehicle crashes, are not
encouraging.
Whether a patient regains
consciousness and recuper-
ates fully or suffers after-ef-
fects depend on the degree
of the injury and which part
of the brain was hurt, said
Shinji Nagahiro, professor of
the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Tokushima in
western Japan.
Some have to stay in bed
for years with their bodies
paralysed, while others re-
spond to rehabilitation, said
Nagahiro, incoming chair-
man of the Japan Society of
Neuro-traumatology.
Generally speaking, doc-
tors have to wait weeks or at
least a month to give a prog-
nosis of the injury or its after-
effects, he said. AFP
Bianchi injury extent
unknown for weeks
Sabayo fashions Paints win
H S Manjunath

G
ALVANISED by
Aimar Sabayos 30-
point effort, Da-
vies Paints shook
off Extra Joss Fighters 71-60
in Tuesday evenings Angkor
Beer Cambodian Basketball
League xture at the Olympic
Stadium Indoor Arena.
The Filipino star came up
with a cameo performance
that seemingly stood out
among several of his compa-
triots involved in a tense game
on either side of the divide.
Paints took a small but sig-
nicant rst-quarter lead,
only to see the Fighters pivot
Stephen Siruma turn things
around to wrest the initiative
for his side with three minutes
of the second quarter left. But
Sabayos steal-and-score runs
helped Paints take the lemon
break eight points ahead.
A change of ends brought
about a slight change of for-
tune for the Fighters, as they
rallied to level the scores at
43. But then the side had to
contend yet again with Sa-
bayo, who took it upon him-
self to redo the math in favour
of Paints.
Carrying over the eight-
point advantage into the
fourth quarter, Paints were not
hard pressed riding it home.
In tonights only game start-
ing at 7pm NSK Dream, fresh
from their win over Pate 310,
will take on Smart Dragons,
who got the measure of the
Warriors three days ago.
Score Summary
Davies Paints 71 (Aimar Sa-
bayo 30, John Cornito 10, Janno
Cunanan 9) Extra Joss Fighters
60 (Stephen Siruma 28, Joseph
Cortes 110, Chhin Prasith 6)
A Davies Paints player goes up for a layup during their CBL game against Extra Joss Fighters. SRENG MENG SRUN
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
23
UEFA punishes Italian FA
boss over racist remarks
UEFA ON Tuesday banned
Italian Football Federation
boss Carlo Tavecchio from its
next congress and ordered
him to hold an anti-racism
event in punishment for widely
condemned remarks. In a
statement, European footballs
governing body said that its
ethics division had decided to
impose the penalty after
wrapping up a probe launched
in August. It said that it had
taken into account Tavecchios
decision to refrain from any
UEFA-related activity pending
a resolution of the issue. At a
public meeting in July, during
the Italian federations election
campaign, 71-year-old
Tavecchio contrasted what he
claimed was the wrongheaded
player-recruitment approach
of Italian clubs compared to
the wisdom of their English
counterparts. Here we get
Opti Poba who previously ate
bananas and then suddenly
becomes a first-team player at
Lazio, he said. AFP
Former hero Ferdinand
returns to work at QPR
FORMER England and QPR
striker Les Ferdinand answered
his former clubs call on
Tuesday and agreed to become
head of football operations in a
bid to help turn around the
fortunes of the Premier
Leagues bottom club. The
47-year-old whose previous
coaching experience was as
assistant to Tim Sherwood at
Tottenham Hotspur last season
will be involved with coaching
all the different QPR teams and
act as a go-between on the
footballing side between the
coaching staff and the board of
directors. Ferdinand, who
scored 80 goals in 163
appearances for QPR from
1987-95, joins the team with
them having lost five of their
seven games so far, although
they are just two points off
fourth-bottom Everton. AFP
Former Man United
chief Gill eyes FIFA post
FORMER Manchester United
chief executive David Gill
announced on Tuesday that he
has decided to stand for
Britains FIFA vice presidency
when Northern Irelands Jim
Boyce retires next May. Gill, who
is the Football Associations vice
chairman and also sits on
UEFAs executive committee,
had previously declared that he
would not stand for the post, but
he explained he had had a
change of heart. This is a
decision I have been thinking
about for some time, the
57-year-old stated. AFP
Juves Caceres ruled
out for a month: club
JUVENTUS defender Martin
Caceres will be sidelined for at
least a month after suffering a
thigh injury in a 3-2 Serie A win
over Roma, the Italian league
champions announced. Caceres
was forced off late in the first
half and replaced by Angelo
Ogbonna after pulling up
holding the back of his left thigh
in Sundays bad-tempered clash
in Turin. After undergoing tests,
the Uruguayan international
was diagnosed with a first-
second degree tear of the
semitendinosus muscle,
according to Juventus in a club
statement. AFP
Leading nations to play
catch-up in race for Euros
T
HE campaign to qualify for
Euro 2016 intensies with
two rounds of matches played
back-to-back over six days,
starting from tonight, offering the
chance for those countries who started
badly last month to play catch-up.
That is the case for Guus Hiddinks
Netherlands, who entertain Kazakh-
stan and then go to Iceland looking
to bounce back from a defeat in the
Czech Republic, and for Group A rivals
Turkey, who were beaten in Iceland last
time out and now host the Czechs be-
fore an awkward trip to Latvia.
Meanwhile, Portugal will play their
rst match under new coach Fernando
Santos when they go to France for a
friendly on Saturday before taking on
Denmark away next Tuesday.
Santos has replaced Paulo Bento,
who departed following the shock 1-0
home defeat to Albania in September,
and has resorted to recalling experi-
enced faces in 33-year-old Tiago Men-
des, Danny, 31, and Monaco defender
Ricardo Carvalho, 36.
Former Greece coach Santos, who is
serving a touchline ban, said of Car-
valho: He was punished for a year for
his attitude. I know what I want and
which players can serve me best. Per-
haps other players will emerge in the
next month, but we are thinking about
the present.
Carvalho added: As we lost our rst
match, this has become more impor-
tant for us. We need to stick together
and adapt to one another as quickly as
possible so we come into the Denmark
game at as high a level as possible.
Attention will also be drawn to the
Group G meeting of Sweden and Rus-
sia, with the home side set to give
captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who last
month won his 100th cap, until the
last minute as he bids to recover from
a heel injury.
Elsewhere, England entertain the
whipping boys of world football, San
Marino, at Wembley before a trip to
Tallinn to face Estonia in a Group E
double-header that should provide few
problems to Roy Hodgsons side.
Indeed, for England, after winning
2-0 in Switzerland in their opening
qualier last month, failure to beat
San Marino, who have lost their last 59
matches, is unthinkable. You cant let
your standards drop. Everyone knows
it is a game we should win and we want
to keep improving and play better if we
can. You can only beat what is in front
of you, said midelder James Milner,
who could see Southamptons Nathan-
iel Clyne make his international debut
at right-back.

Potential banana skin
Reigning European champions
Spain are on the road for two Group C
xtures against Slovakia and Luxem-
bourg, with the rst game in Zilina a
potential banana skin for Vicente del
Bosques men.
Theres going to be Spanish fever
because everyone wants to see a game
involving one of the top teams in the
world, said Robert Mak of Slovakia,
whose team will rely on Napoli star
Marek Hamsik to trouble the visitors
as they look to build on a 1-0 win in
Ukraine last month.
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos
will miss the trip east with a calf injury,
but Gerard Pique of Barcelona is back
in the squad.
Valencia strike duo Rodrigo and
Paco Alcacer, who scored in the open-
ing 5-1 win over Macedonia, also fea-
ture, while Diego Costa is eager to get
his rst international goal.
I have still not scored here, but if
you see the matches that I have played
I have not had a genuine chance
anyway. I need to keep working and
be ready to take the chance when it
comes, said the Brazilian-born Chel-
sea star.
Italy coach Antonio Conte has re-
called Andrea Pirlo, 35, for the Azzurris
Group H matches against Azerbaijan
in Palermo tomorrow and Malta away
on Monday.
Germany, winners against Scotland
in September, go to Poland in Group
D before hosting the Republic of Ire-
land in Gelsenkirchen, and will do so
without Schalkes Julian Draxler, who
has joined the likes of Bastian Sch-
weinsteiger and Marco Reus on the
sidelines.
The World Cup winners superb re-
cord in qualiers could come under
threat from a Robert Lewandowski-
inspired Poland, who need results in
a tough section in which Scotland will
host Georgia and Ireland take on Gi-
braltar this weekend.
All matches tonight kick off at 1:45am
Cambodian time. AFP
Tonight Fixtures
Belarus v Ukraine
Macedonia v Luxembourg
Slovakia v Spain
England v San Marino
Lithuania v Estonia
Slovenia v Switzerland
Liechtenstein v Montenegro
Moldova v Austria
Sweden v Russia
Portugal coach Fernando Santos takes part in a training session on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming friendly against France. AFP
FORMER FIFA member Franz
Beckenbauer declared on
Tuesday that his vote on the
2018 and 2022 World Cup bids
would remain secret but said
he was not offered any bribes.
Beckenbauer was on the
FIFA executive committee that
awarded the rights to host the
2018 and 2022 World Cups to
Russia and Qatar respectively
in 2010.
The bidding process has
been dogged by accusations
of corruption and horse-trad-
ing, but Beckenbauer refused
to reveal how he had voted,
telling the Securing Sport con-
ference in London: Thats my
secret.
When asked whether he had
been offered any nancial in-
ducements to vote in a par-
ticular way, the former West
Germany captain and coach
responded: Thats a clear no.
How shall I say this? No-
body approached me directly,
nobody offered me anything
in order to inuence my vote.
No, this did not happen.
He added: It was a secret
ballot and I have to observe
this agreement made at the
time. I was surprised, too,
that Qatar was chosen. That
was my rst reaction. The bid
was very good by Qatar, like
all the others.
Beckenbauer also added his
voice to calls for FIFA, world
footballs governing body, to
release the ndings of a report
into the bidding process.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter
says the report into corrup-
tion allegations by American
attorney Michael Garcia will
be kept condential to honour
promises made to witnesses,
but Beckenbauer believes it
should be made public. AFP
Beckenbauer claims he
was not offered bribes
EPL to look abroad again
THE English Premier League
is believed to be open to resur-
recting the controversial idea
of playing a round of compet-
itive matches outside of the
UK, given its ever-growing
popularity overseas.
The so-called 39th game
idea, which would have
meant an extra round of fix-
tures played abroad, was
abandoned in 2008 under a
hail of criticism from fans,
the media and governing
bodies and ruled out again by
the Premier League chief
executive, Richard Scuda-
more, in 2010.
But, given the widespread
acceptance of playing regular-
season NFL and NBA games in
London, there is a growing
belief that a version of the idea
could be dusted down before
the end of the decade.
Building on the lessons of
the previous aborted attempt,
it would be likely to take the
form of an existing round of
fixtures played over a single
weekend a 38th game rath-
er than a 39th.
That would remove some of
the concerns around desta-
bilising the integrity of the
competition, although there
would still be complications
around the fact that half of
the clubs in the league would
play one home fixture fewer
per season.
Any attempt to put the idea
back on the table at least five
years away given that the ten-
der for the next three-year TV
contract based on the current
format is presently being
drawn up would be likely to
encounter resistance from
fans.
But Scudamore has already
said that the idea would be
likely to find favour with clubs
that are increasingly looking
overseas to build revenues,
particularly in the financial
fair play era. At the Premier
Leagues season launch in
August, Scudamore said: The
clubs wanted it then and they
all would still probably want it
now. It will happen at some
point. Whether it is on my
watch, who knows?
The popularity of overseas
pre-season matches, particu-
larly in the US, has embold-
ened clubs to look at other
ways of maximising income
abroad. Manchester United, in
particular, have targeted the
US as a huge growth opportu-
nity. More than 109,000 fans
watched the team play Real
Madrid in a friendly in Michi-
gan in August.
Of the current 5.5 billion
($8.84 billion) Premier League
TV deal, around 2.1 billion is
contributed by overseas
broadcasters. THE GUARDIAN
Sport
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 9, 2014
Japans Kohei Uchimura performs on the horizontal bar during the mens team nal of the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, China. AFP
Judge dread for Japan
after China team gold
J
APANS gymnasts have hit
out at judging standards
after China pipped them
to the mens team gold
by just 0.1 points at the world
championships saying this is
what we dread.
Hosts China, the 2008 and
2012 Olympic champions, had
to rely on their last performer,
2010 world high bar champion
Zhang Chenglong, to overtake
their archrivals on Tuesday
night at the Guangxi Gymna-
sium in Nanning.
On his favourite apparatus
and needing 15.867 for victo-
ry, the captain of the Chinese
squad mixed complicated
aerial skills with giant swings
to score 15.966 points before a
roaring capacity crowd.
Japans four-time world
all-around champion Kohei
Uchimura had scored 15.400,
the nights previous highest, in
his teams performance.
We have rmly done what
we could. I want to say many
things but I wont, a stunned
Uchimura told Japanese re-
porters after China secured
a record sixth straight world
mens team title, denying Ja-
pan their rst in 36 years.
I guess it is all about where
you perform, he said.
His teammate Ryohei Kato,
the all-around runner-up
to Uchimura at last years
worlds, said: This is what we
dread about sports based on
judging.
Defending world oor cham-
pion Kenzo Shirai, just 18, also
told Japanese media, I dont
think we have ever lost at all.
Japan won the 2004 Olym-
pic team gold when China
nished fth, but have not
triumphed at the world cham-
pionships since 1978, nishing
second behind China in their
last three encounters.
But Uchimura, 25, the 2012
Olympic champion who is
goes for a fth straight all-
around title today, said China
had proven strong by holding
steady under pressure at home.
As always, they have shown
their mettle, he added.
Chinas coach Wang Hong-
wei said though his gymnasts
performed high-difculty
routines they still lagged be-
hind Japan in execution and
artistry.
In the future we intend to
improve our execution and
hopefully we will be once
again beating our nemesis.
Known for an array of event
specialists, China slipped to
fth after their opening oor
exercise but gradually closed
on Japan, hitting the top team
scores on the rings, vault,
parallel bars and nally high
bar. AFP
McIlroys Masters, Tigers return
RORY McIlroy seeking a third consecu-
tive major triumph and Tiger Woods
making his comeback from a nagging
back injury will highlight the 2014-15 US
PGA season that begins today.
Just 25 days after American Billy
Horschel won the season-ending Tour
Championship to claim the playoff title,
the next championship chase begins
with the Frys.com Open at Silverado in
Scottsdale, Arizona, as American Jimmy
Walker defends his title.
World number one McIlroy, who helped
inspire Europe to victory over the United
States in the Ryder Cup last month, was
named the US PGA Tour Player of the
Year for last season after winning back-
to-back major titles at the British Open
and PGA Championship, the third and
fourth majors of his career.
It sets the stage for McIlroy to complete
a career grand slam at the age of 25 with
a victory next April at the Masters. And
if the Northern Ireland star dons a green
jacket, he could complete a Rory Slam
by winning next years US Open at Cham-
bers Bay.
Woods, the 14-time major champion
chasing the all-time record of 18 majors
won by Jack Nicklaus, is expected to
return in December at the Hero World
Challenge event he hosts in Florida.
Woods, who turns 39 in December,
missed most of last season after under-
going back surgery on March 31 and has
not played since the PGA Championship
in August as he works to strengthen his
back.
The former world number one has not
won a major title since the 2008 US Open.
He did not win in 2014 but won five times
in 2013, most recently at the WGC event
in Akron, Ohio.
No player has ever won four major titles
past his 39th birthday, as Woods must now
in order to match Nicklaus. But another
target is within reach in the new season
if he regains top form. Woods has 79
career PGA titles, three shy of the all-time
record held by the late Sam Snead.
Six tournaments outside the majors
will be played on new courses in the new
campaign, including the National,
another event owned by Woods that ben-
efits his charity foundation. It moves to
the Robert Trent Jones course from Con-
gressional Country Club, both in the
Washington suburbs.
The new campaign will conclude next
October with the Presidents Cup in South
Korea, the team events first stop in Asia
with holders United States facing the
Internationals collection of non-Europe-
an talent.
In addition, the start of 2015 will mark
the beginning of the final calendar year
for the ban on anchored putting, which
could cause some issues for players who
use it such as Australian star Adam Scott.
They might begin making transitions in
style during the upcoming season.
The Masters figures to feature McIlroy
against Bubba Watson, who has won two
of the last three Masters, while McIlroy
takes aim at the US Open with German
Martin Kaymer defending his title and Phil
Mickelson, a six-time US Open runner-up,
seeking to finally capture the crown and
complete his career slam.
After that, McIlroy will defend major
titles at the British Open at St Andrews and
the PGA at Whistling Straits, where Kaymer
beat Watson in a playoff in 2010 the last
time the course hosted the event. AFP