Mom Kunthear

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FTER a garment fac-
tory clash this week-
end that was the
most violent since
deadly protests in January,
police in Kampong Cham
province are holding 10 peo-
ple, several of whom werent
involved, according to union-
ists and witnesses.
Accounts of a melee on Sat-
urday differ between police
and the Coalition of Cambo-
dian Apparel Workers Demo-
cratic Union (C.CAWDU), the
union representing many of
the workers, but both sides
agree that around 7am, police
in riot gear were posted in front
of Juhui Footwear with orders
to keep 2,000 employees out.
The workers returned to the
factory after the factory an-
nounced on October 24 [they
could return], a C.CAWDU
statement says. But when the
workers arrived, police forbade
them, and injured workers with
electric batons and shields.
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Darth voter: an activist from the Ukrai-
nian Internet Party, dressed as a char-
acter from the Star Wars movies, shows
his passport in a polling station in Kiev
yesterday. AFP
A DIVIDED Ukraine voted
Sunday in parliamentary
elections expected to back
President Petro Porosh-
enkos pro-Western reforms
and test support for his plan
to negotiate with pro-Rus-
sian insurgents threatening
to break up the country.
Reformers and national-
ists supporting a drive to
steer Ukraine out of Russias
sphere of influence were
expected to dominate, with
the Petro Poroshenko Bloc
the biggest party, although
needing partners to form a
ruling coalition.
The snap election came
eight months after a street
revolt overthrew Moscow-
backed president Viktor
Yanukovych, sparking con-
flict with Russia and a crisis
in relations between the
Kremlin and Ukraines
Western allies.
The war with pro-Russian
rebels in the industrial east,
in which 3,700 people have
died, and Russias earlier
Vong Sokheng
and Charles Rollet
CAMBODIAS new budget
for the coming fiscal year is
nearly $4 billion, a 10.8 per
cent increase in spending
from 2014, according to a
government statement.
The budget, which could
prove divisive, focuses on
increasing salaries of civil
servants and soldiers, along
with increasing expendi-
tures on health, agriculture,
education, vocational train-
ing, and infrastructure.
The Council of Ministers
is expected to send the draft
law on next years national
budget to the National
Assembly this week for
approval. The Press and
Quick Reaction Unit at the
Council of Ministers released
the statement about the
budget on Friday.
I think the draft 2015
budget law will be sent to
the National Assembly on
Monday or Tuesday, and it
must be in the hands of the
National Assembly in the
first week of November,
said government spokes-
man Phay Siphan.
Siphan declined to give
details of allocations for
each government ministry
before the law was officially
adopted by the National
Assembly.
Last years budget was
passed by the ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party
without any input from
the opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party
due to its boycott of par-
liament.
Siphan said the CNRPs
presence this year would
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
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ISSATISFIED by
wages at home,
thousands of Cam-
bodians have been
lured to Malaysia by the prom-
ise of bigger pay cheques, but
while many have found them-
selves subjected to long hours,
unpaid wages, unsafe working
conditions and even physical
abuse, they have until now
been unable to unionise.
Yesterday, however, dozens
of Cambodians gathered in
Kuala Lumpur for the rst-ever
workers congress, which was
organised by local union In-
dependent Democracy of In-
formal Economy Association
(IDEA) and the Cambodia Do-
mestic Worker Network (DWS),
in cooperation with NGO Dig-
nity International.
At the landmark event, the
Cambodian Migrant Workers
Solidarity Network was ofcial-
ly created.
They cannot form an actual
union so they wanted to form
an association of workers in
Malaysia, explained Chum
Chamm, a program ofcer with
IDEA-DWS.
Adrian Pereira, Dignity Inter-
nationals Asia coordinator, said
the role of the network was to
get migrant workers organised
and empowered.
Pereira told the Post that 57
workers from four different
electronics and garment facto-
ries attended the event at Pearl
International Hotel, which was
also attended by civil society
groups and the International
Labour Organization.
Domestic workers who
have historically suffered abuse
at the hands of their Malaysian
employers will also be repre-
sented. But, highlighting their
poor working conditions, none
could attend the event as they
had no days off, Pereira said.
During the congress, Pereira
said, complaints voiced by
workers included having to
work on holidays without get-
ting the correct OT [overtime].
Some said their passports were
kept and they were just given
photocopies and some [told of]
cases of abuse.
Solidifying its inception,
workers yesterday voted for a
president, vice president and
secretary general of the net-
work, all of whom were female
factory workers.
Speaking after the congress,
newly elected president 34-
year-old Mom Monita a gar-
ment worker who has been
living in Malaysia for 10 years
was condent about the role.
I will help to contact the
Cambodian Embassy to nd
phone numbers for them so
they can nd help or I will help
them to get the documents they
need if they have problems.
Representatives of the Cam-
bodian Embassy, which rights
groups have accused of play-
ing a key role in pressuring
domestic workers to stay in the
country, declined an invite to
yesterdays event after initially
accepting, Pereira said.
While the government in 2011
introduced a moratorium on
sending domestic workers to
Malaysia, an estimated 30,000
Cambodians were left behind
without protection. Meanwhile,
meagre wages in the Kingdoms
factory sectors have pushed
workers to a country where sal-
aries can be three times higher.
Pov Pedour, 31, left Cambodia
to work in a Malaysian electron-
ics factory about four years ago.
I used to work in a factory in
Phnom Penh but the salary is
low so thats why I moved here,
Pedour said.
But in Malaysia, Pedour faces
many of the problems she did
at home.
I always have problems at
work but I have to endure it,
she said. Sometimes the com-
pany cuts our salary or we have
to work extra hours without pay
but I do not dare to le a com-
plaint because I want to work
there.
Pereira of Dignity Interna-
tional said he hoped the cre-
ation of the group would also
help pave the way for greater
transparency in the drafting of
two agreements: one ending a
moratorium on sending maids
to Malaysia and the other focus-
ing on rights of other workers.
In August, Labour Ministry
spokesman Heng Sour told the
Post that both memorandums
would be signed at the same
time. Yesterday, he said there is
no new development.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Meas Sokchea
PAILIN provinces ex-governor and
provincial council president Y Chhien
yesterday denied corruption allega-
tions against him, describing the
claims as politically motivated.
The two opposition Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party members on the
nine-seat provincial council accused
Chhien in mid-October of misusing
$400,000 in state funds and exploiting
Pailins natural resources for personal
gain. They said they would le a com-
plaint to the Anti-Corruption Unit and
ask that Chhien be questioned in the
National Assembly.
In a rare response to his detrac-
tors, Chhien pointed yesterday to his
achievements as governor, and hinted
that the opposition councillors, Ven
Dara and Sou Dina, could be counter-
sued for defamation.
They do not have enough docu-
ments, Chhien said. We have never
thought of political trends, [we] serve
people.
He added that all expenditures
could be accounted for, like the fund
he set up to support the elderly.
I do not want to ght back but let
experts and councillors do this be-
cause it affects their reputation, he
said, alluding to a lawsuit.
Until May of this year, Chhien, a for-
mer bodyguard to Khmer Rouge lead-
er Pol Pot, had been the long-serving
governor, a stint that began when rebel
forces integrated with the government
in 1996. He retired earlier this year at
the mandated age of 63 and became
the president of the council on which
the CNRP members sit.
Chhien was supported by the other
six CPP members on the council who
said in a thumbprinted document
provided to the Post yesterday that the
corruption claims didnt represent the
views of the whole council, and be-
sides, they arent true.
Speaking to the Post yesterday,
CNRP councillor Ven Dara said that
Chhiens properties would have been
hard to obtain without some form of
corruption.
He has a few houses, Dara said.
Let the parliament summon him to
clarify if he denies.
Pailins ex-governor denies
$400,000 corruption claim
Escapee caught in Kratie
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
ONE of the six prisoners who broke out
of Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison last
week was apprehended in Kratie prov-
ince on Saturday night, two days after
the inmates cut through the bars of
their cell window and a chain-link
fence in a night-time escape.
The escape was the latest in a string
of breakouts at the prison, and at least
one observer yesterday said that ques-
tions remained as to whether guards
were involved in providing the inmates
with the tools used to saw through the
window bars.
Prison director Tin Sovanny said yes-
terday that escapee Si Noy was arrested
while meeting his girlfriend at a guest-
house in Kraties Chhlong district.
Now this prisoner is being detained
in our prison. For the other five prison-
ers who escaped, multiple police forc-
es will be able to send them back to our
prison in the near future since we have
deployed our networks everywhere,
he said.
However, Chhay Thy, a coordinator
for the rights group Adhoc, criticised
prison administrators carelessness,
and said that in the past two years there
had been four separate jailbreaks at
Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison, with a
total of 22 prisoners escaping. Of them,
he added, only two have been caught.
For this case, the authorities should
launch a thorough investigation, since
collusion between the prisoners and
prison guards might have gone on,
and thats why the prisoners were
capable of breaking out of the prison,
he said.
Si Noy (bottom left), one of the six prisoners who broke out of Ratanakkiri Provincial
Prison last week, was apprehended in Kratie province on Saturday night. LICADHO
Govt condemns Thais
over moto theft killing
Laignee Barron and Phak Seangly
CAMBODIA has publicly con-
demned Thailand after anoth-
er alleged incident of dispro-
portionate violence committed
by soldiers from the neighbour-
ing country resulted in the
death of a 21-year-old Cambo-
dian on Friday.
Thai soldiers opened fire on
Kampong Cham native Soeun
Vorn due to suspicions that he
was colluding in the burglary of
a Honda motorbike less than 2
kilometres from the OSmach
border checkpoint in Oddar
Meanchey, according to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Vorn was shot in the head,
chest and left kidney, rights
workers who saw the body said.
The Royal Government of
Cambodia strongly protests
against such cruel acts conduct-
ed by the Thai military violating
the most elementary humani-
tarian principles, Cambodias
letter to Thailand reads.
The letter goes on to note that
Cambodia has requested again
and again that Thai authorities
refrain from shooting its citizens,
and instead use legal measure
[sic] against perpetrators.
Shootings of Cambodians on
Thai soil arent uncommon,
though most victims this year
have been alleged illegal loggers.
The Interior Ministry reported
that 12 Cambodian nationals
were shot and killed by the Thai
military in a single day this
March, while dozens more have
been injured by Thai soldiers
fire. By contrast, Thailands Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs last month
claimed that no Cambodian log-
gers were shot between January
and September this year.
Thai armed soldiers always
shoot Cambodian suspects if
they cannot [easily] arrest them,
said Sek Samon, the Cambodia-
Thai Border Relations officer in
charge of information.
Fridays theft attempt also
involved several Thai nationals,
but none of them were killed.
The Thai military is demon-
strating its superiority complex:
they can devalue Cambodian life
without any consequences. They
are above reprimand, said inde-
pendent political analyst Chea
Vannath. [The government]
should take a stronger stance . . .
There should be an investigation
on an international level.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
declined to comment yesterday
on whether Vorns shooting or
Thailands use of force against
Cambodian suspects would be
discussed at scheduled meetings
later this week between Prime
Minister Hun Sen and General
Prayuth Chan-ocha.
During the Thai Prime Minis-
ters two-day visit to Phnom
Penh, the neighbouring coun-
tries are expected to sign three
bilateral agreements relating to
tourism, counter-trafficking
efforts and the cross-border rail-
way project.
Factory workers weld an automobile frame at an assembly line in the
outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. AFP
Malaysia workers organise
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
May Titthara
MORE than 1 million hectares
of forest terrain and land leased
by private companies has been
put under government control
since Prime Minister Hun Sen
initiated a moratorium on new
economic land concessions
(ELCs) in May 2012, the Minis-
try of Land Management, Ur-
ban Planning and Construc-
tion has claimed.
The statement, signed on
October 13 and obtained by
the Post yesterday, also states
that 3.6 million land titles have
been issued since the May
2012 order began a process of
land demarcation.
At least 370,000 hectares
of land has been cut out of
ELCs from 134 companies and
more than 250,000 hectares of
land has been cut from state-
owned land and seized forest
land, the statement reads.
The gures provided in the
statement were not given
as exact and it did not ex-
plain how the ministry had
reached the gure of 1 mil-
lion hectares.
On May 7, 2012, Prime Min-
ister Hun Sen issued a mora-
torium on the granting of new
ELCs to private companies and
ordered authorities around the
country to carry out a nation-
wide land titling program.
In a recent report by the
Ministry of Environment, it
said that more than 50,000
hectares of land had been
cut from 11 companies con-
cessions.
But Chan Soveth, senior
investigator at rights group
Adhoc, said that the land ti-
tling program had tended to
ignore areas where communi-
ties were in disputes with ELC
rms.
They measured some dis-
puted forest land, but people
locked in land disputes with
ELCs do not have their land
measured, so they cannot
seek a solution to the dis-
putes, he said.
Sar Sovann, spokesper-
son for the Ministry of Land
Management, could not be
reached.
Reach Seyma, a resident of
Kampong Chhnang province
who is locked in a land dispute
with the KDC Company, dis-
missed the gures.
What the Prime Ministers
volunteer students do is just a
faade, he said.
Rights group Licadho said in
April that land grabbing had
affected 500,000 people over
the past 13 years.
One million hectares
reclassied, govt says
CNRP activist arrest list grows
Pech Sotheary
Y
ET another Cambodia National
Rescue Party supporter was ar-
rested and detained on Satur-
day after being implicated in a
violent protest at Freedom Park in July
in which demonstrators turned on no-
toriously violent Daun Penh district se-
curity guards, said police and the rights
group Adhoc.
Adhoc senior investigator Chan Soveth
said yesterday that tuk-tuk driver and
long-time opposition supporter Ouk
Pich Samnang was arrested on October
25 while on his way to a meeting with a
group of land disputants staying at the
Samaki Rainsy pagoda in Phnom Penh.
According to Soveth, Pich Samnang
had been placed under judicial supervi-
sion following earlier allegations relating
to the protest, one provision of which was
that he was not allowed to participate in
any public protests.
It means the defendant was not allowed
to appear publicly with any demands, but
in reality, he participated [in a demonstra-
tion] on October 23, Paris [Peace] Accord
Day, and thats the reason he was arrested
and sent to Prey Sar, he said.
In August, the Phnom Penh Municipal
Court charged Pich Samnang with joining
an insurrection against public servants
and committing intentional violence for
his alleged role in the violent protest.
He was arrested on Saturday at the
courts request, said deputy Phnom Penh
police chief Chhuon Narin.
We arrested him on October 25 and
sent him to court, and the court de-
cided to detain him in pre-trial deten-
tion at Prey Sar prison, but I cannot
remember what charges were in the
summons, he said.
CNRP lawmaker Ho Vann, one of a
handful of opposition members and ac-
tivists arrested in the wake of the July pro-
test, said yesterday that Pich Samnang
was not ofcially afliated with the CNRP
but had actively supported the party.
The CNRP has asked two lawyers afli-
ated with the rights group Licado to de-
fend him, he added.
Several opposition supporters were
rounded up and jailed following the July
protest, but most were released shortly
thereafter as an implicit part of the agree-
ment between the CNRP and ruling
Cambodian Peoples Party that ended the
year-long political deadlock.
However, sporadic arrests of alleged
instigators and participants have contin-
ued to take place.
Protesters and Daun Penh district security personnel clash after a demonstration turned violent
at Freedom Park in July. VIREAK MAI
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still not make a difference, since
the CPP has enough votes to
approve the budget itself.
I believe that if the opposition
lawmakers do not support the
draft budget law, lawmakers
from the ruling party can still
vote and adopt it.
Regardless of its passage, it
remains unclear whether the
CNRP will back the proposal.
Deputy chair of the assem-
blys nance and banking com-
mission, Son Chhay, declined
to comment, referring ques-
tions to CNRP spokesmen Yim
Sovann and Nhem Ponharith,
who could not be reached.
Opposition lawmaker Mu
Sochua, however, said she was
sceptical of the proposed bud-
get, although she declined to
comment whether the opposi-
tion party would back it at this
stage in the process.
We will support [the law]
only if the investment is pro-
ductive, Sochua told the Post.
We will look at it.
Sochua criticised the gov-
ernments stated attempt to
increase salaries in the civil
service and its pledge to ramp
up education spending, saying
it was not enough, especially
compared to expected expen-
diture increases for defence.
A 10 per cent increase from
last year is not going to cover
a major increase in salaries,
she said. With a 22 per cent
exam success rate, investment
is really low in education. The
minimum for even any form of
reform is at least 25 per cent of
the budget.
In 2014, education spending
accounted for about 9.5 per
cent of the national budget, a
20 per cent hike from 2013.
Minister of Education Hang
Chuon Naron declined to com-
ment on the specics of the
proposed 2015 budget, but said
he had received assurances that
education spending would in-
crease.
Kem Ley, a political analyst
and the founder of a new so-
cial network called Khmers for
Khmers which he denies is a
third political party said he
hoped the CNRP would support
the law as the budget is to edu-
cate all Cambodian people.
Ley, however, criticised the
budget formulation process,
saying it lacked participation
from civil society and other
government sectors.
In 2013, Cambodias govern-
ment was ranked one of the
worlds worst for budget trans-
parency by the International
Budget Partnership, scoring 15
out of a possible 100 points, the
same score it earned in 2010.
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National budget to grow 10.8 pct Lure of South
Korea is strong
Laignee Barron
and Pech Sotheary
C
AMBODIAN mi-
grant worker hope-
fuls have heard mur-
murs about the poor
work conditions in South
Korea. However, they remain
unfazed even the recent re-
ports of long hours and abu-
sive employers are doing little
to deter their quest to secure
better wages abroad.
Over 51,000 Cambodians
signed-up for the highly selec-
tive Test of Prociency in Kore-
an this weekend, one of several
requirements applicants who
want to work in Korea must
meet, according to Cambodias
Labour Ministry. Only the tests
top 4,000 scorers will even be
considered for a job as a farm
hand or factory worker.
The test takers crammed into
11 exam centres for the promise
of seemingly exorbitant wages.
My friends brother makes
$1,600 in South Korea working
at a farm for eight hours a day,
said Sorith Sok, who by com-
parison makes $100 a month at
the M Canadia Industrial Park.
Sok saved for six months to
afford a $100, three-month lan-
guage class. She never nished
high school, but studied every
day for the test; if she doesnt
pass, she said shell try to save
all over again for more lessons.
I dont want to go to Thailand
or Malaysia, said Sok, who has
never been abroad before. Em-
ployers dont treat their workers
well in those countries, Cambo-
dians have died.
Last week, Amnesty Interna-
tional lambasted South Koreas
long-praised foreign employ-
ment system for the way it ex-
ploits migrants.
Ive heard of problems with
employers not paying salaries
regularly or forcing overtime
hours, said Soun Sokheng, 26.
Of course, the rumours scare
me, but it doesnt sound as bad
as other places and my family is
poor, they need the money.
Cambodias Ministry of La-
bour addressed the Amnesty
report with Korea, according to
ministry spokesman Heng Sour,
who added that the host coun-
try denied the ndings, and that
many workers continue to want
to go there anyway.
Last year, Cambodia sent
some 8,800 workers to Korea.
RCAF personnel at the opening of the Angkor Sentinel training exercise in Kampong Speu in April. The new
national budget will focus on increasing the salaries of civil servants and the armed forces. HENG CHIVOAN
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Burying the past
Nix criminal
checks, say
protesters
A
LMOST 100 workers
rallied outside the
Ministry of Labour
yesterday calling on the
government to scrap a
law forbidding people with
criminal convictions from
registering a union.
Represented by eight
unions, the group gave a pe-
tition to officials demanding
that past convictions not be
used against unionists.
Cambodian Food and
Services Workers Federa-
tion president Sar Mora said
that since late last year, the
ministry has ordered the
top three officials at each
union to provide details of
their criminal records when
registering.
The requirement is an
abuse of union rights, Mora
said.
But Ministry of Labour
spokesman Heng Sour said
some leaders were trying to
cover up their past.
Some union leaders
were previously drug users,
criminals now hiding behind
a union, he said. This has
made them hard to identify.
TAINGVIDA
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Mob, moto accident foil
capital theft attempt
A REPEAT offender was arrest-
ed after justice, in the form of
angry villagers and police offic-
ers, caught up with him follow-
ing a robbery. A girl, 16, was on
a motorbike when the man, 27,
allegedly snatched her phone
and tried to escape on a moto in
Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey
district on Friday. The girl
shouted for help and upon see-
ing villagers tailing him, the
suspect fell from his bike in
panic. He was badly beaten
before police arrived. The man
was previously behind bars for
robbery. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Touchy customer exacts
revenge on picky driver
A MAN took a motodops rejec-
tion very personally in Banteay
Meacheys Malai district on Sat-
urday. The suspect, 35, tried to
get a ride from a motodop, 57,
but the driver rejected his offer
after the man struck him as
rude, police said. While the
motodop was out to lunch, the
man allegedly stole the bike
and tried to sell it across the vil-
lage. The villagers didnt take
the bait as the moto had no
papers, and the man was even-
tually arrested. NOKORWAT
Highwaymen mess with
the wrong prahok seller
THE tables were turned after a
vendor was ambushed and
unexpectedly one-upped his
attackers in Kampong Speus
Oral district on Saturday. A
young man, 18, was selling pra-
hok from one village to another
on a motorcycle when two men,
21 and 22, blocked his way at a
remote spot, police said. With a
machete, they allegedly ordered
the vendor to surrender his
moto and earnings. The vendor
instead attacked them, sustain-
ing injuries in the process, and
escaped on the moto. Police
arrested the suspects on the
same day. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Alleged dealer nabbed
after cops get tipped off
POLICE successfully played
detective and intercepted a
drug deal in Kampong
Chhnangs Rolea Baier district
on Friday. Officers were surveil-
ling a man after they received
tips about illegal drug activity in
the area. They then spotted the
suspect and his girlfriend rid-
ing a motorbike. They searched
both suspects and allegedly
found the man in possession of
a small amount of drugs and a
gun. Both were sent to court.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Battambang cops catch
suspected cat burglar
A MAN was wrong when he
thought he could pull a fast
one over a sleeping victim in
Battambang last week. The
man, 34, allegedly broke into a
house on Wednesday and stole
$120, a laptop and a mobile
phone while the owner, 26,
was asleep, police said. The
owner filed a complaint and
police located the man two
days later. The man admitted
to spending all the money and
trying to sell the goods. Police
raided his rental room and
claimed to have found the sto-
len items. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Taing Vida
DAYS after they were arrested for
distributing leaets in Phnom
Penh calling on Cambodians to
protest in front of the Vietnam-
ese Embassy, 10 members of
the Denmark-based dissident
group Khmer National Libera-
tion Front (KNLF) were charged
and imprisoned on Saturday,
rights workers said yesterday.
Am Sam Ath, a technical su-
pervisor for local rights group
Licadho, said the 10 suspects
were sent to Phnom Penhs Prey
Sar prison at around 3pm on
Saturday.
According to Sam Ath, four
families three from Banteay
Meanchey province and one
from Preah Vihear came to Li-
cadhos ofce on the day of the
groups imprisonment seeking
assistance.
We are now in talks with our
NGO partners and considering
how to nd lawyers for them,
he said.
The KNLF has been labelled
as a terrorist organisation by
the government, but Sam Ath
said members of the group do
not even understand what the
movement is.
Chan Soveth, of NGO Adhoc,
said that a further two families
from Battambang province are
meeting with the group today
to discuss legal representation.
Neither Soveth nor Sam Ath
was certain of the charges laid
against the group, but both
believed they were related to
attempting to overthrow the
Cambodian government.
Phak Seangly
TEN tonnes of protected rose-
wood found stashed in a tanker
truck bearing the logo of petro-
leum giant Sokimex was seized
by police in Oddar Meanchey
province on Friday.
The driver and any passen-
gers escaped, police said, in
the second such incident in-
volving a truck bearing the So-
kimex logo since August.
Police yesterday said they
were unsure whether the truck
belonged to Sok Kong, the ty-
coon who owns Sokimex.
The truck bore the Sokimex
Petroleum Companys logo and
was loaded with rosewood,
said Yang Vang, an Anlong Veng
district military police ofcer.
Koy Kanya, Oddar Meanchey
provincial prosecutor, did not
rule out the possibility that the
truck was owned by Sokimex.
We do not know whether
it is Sokimexs truck or not.
But it has Sokimex brand-
ing, he said.
In August, police found 14
tons of rosewood hidden in the
tanker of another truck bearing
the Sokimex logo. Police said
yesterdays haul was logged
in Thailand to be smuggled
through Cambodia.
In February 2013, the col-
lection, storage and transpor-
tation of Siamese rosewood
was banned under an execu-
tive order.
KNLF members charged
and sent to Prey Sar prison
Rosewood haul found in
truck with Sokimex logo
Ten held after violent clash
Continued from page 1
manager and two other high-
ranking ofcials did not re-
spond to phone calls or emails
from the Post yesterday.
C.CAWDU president Ath
Thorn said the standoff esca-
lated when police took away a
microphone and speaker from
jilted workers. Then, Thorn said,
police beat a woman, leading
the crowd to attack authorities.
Kampong Chams Cheung
Prey district police chief Heng
Vuthy said a mob bearing
sling shots, stones and pet-
rol showed up, standing toe-
to-toe with authorities. They
went after police after being
told to disperse, he said.
The protesters did not lis-
ten to the police who tried to
stop them from continuing to
protest, and they considered
police their enemy, Vuthy
said yesterday. It was not a
demonstration or a strike; this
was a riot.
As violence intensied,
workers got through Juhuis
rst gate, where a road leads to
the second gate, behind which
the factory stands, Thorn said.
At that point, about 200
gangsters, led by the Voice
Khmer Union Federation
(VKUF), a union represent-
ing some of the factorys 6,000
workers, bounded out from in-
side the factory and beat work-
ers with sticks, Thorn said.
Worker representative Khan
Kolap, 36, who was at the
scene, said the gangsters in-
jured up to 30 people. Juhui
management, she alleged,
compensated the assailants
for their effort.
I saw with my own eyes
that day, factory ofcials out-
side paid about 200 gangsters
20,000 riel [$5] to beat us, said
Kolap, who added that she was
injured in her arm and body
from blows by iron pipes. Im
afraid for my safety, so I will
hide in a safe place for a while,
but will come back when my
security is assured.
Police arrested eight people
at Juhui, authorities said. By
C.CAWDUs account, they
were handed to authorities
by VKUF members. They later
picked up Juhuis C.CAWDU
factory president and anoth-
er factory activist, who were
brought to the police station
with the others.
At least one of the eight ar-
rested in front of the factory
had no involvement with the
nearly two-month strike or
factory itself, said Chhuth
Thoeun, 53, whose 28-year-
old son Thoeun Bun Thorn
remains locked up.
My son is not a worker at
Juhui, he drives a motorbike
and was drinking coffee near-
by the factory when he saw the
protest, Thoeun said. He was
arrested while driving away.
Vuthy said nine police of-
cers were injured, including
one who was seriously injured
when gasoline got into his eye,
and was hospitalised.
The clash, as well as a con-
tinuing strike at Grand Twins
garment factory and the par-
tial collapse of a Takeo prov-
ince factory oor last week,
casts a dark shadow over what
could be a historic industrial
minimum wage decision for
the garment sector in com-
ing months, said Dave Welsh,
president of labour rights
group Solidarity Center.
Frankly, I think it puts addi-
tional pressure and additional
bad light on the manufactur-
ers and the government at the
same time, Welsh said.
Garment workers exit Juhui factory in Kampong Cham earlier this
month where 10 workers were arrested over the weekend. VIREAK MAI
Factory officials
outside paid about
200 gangsters
20,000 riel to beat us
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Vietnam
arrests top
banker in
fraud case
POLICE have arrested one of
Vietnams richest businessmen
as part of an investigation into
banking fraud that could deep-
en investor concerns about the
troubled sector.
Ha Van Tham, the former
chairman of the private Ocean
Bank, was taken into police cus-
tody Friday, the State Bank of
Vietnam said on its website. It
said serious violations of the
laws by Ha Van Tham were dis-
covered during a probe into a
bank restructuring project,
leading to his removal from his
post and subsequent arrest.
The Ministry of Public Secu-
rity said Tham had been
detained for violating lending
regulations, a crime which
reports said carries a jail term of
up to 20 years. The state-run
Tuoi Tre newspaper reported
that Tham had approved a loan
of 500 billion Vietnamese dong
($23.5 million) in 2012 to the
Trung Dung real estate com-
pany without proper collateral.
Trung Dung is likely to default
on the loan, Tuoi Tre said.
Vietnam has been struggling
to clean up bad debts in the
banking sector, which have
dragged down economic
growth. Bad debts make up
some eight per cent of outstand-
ing loans.
Ocean Groups shares tum-
bled on the Ho Chi Minh City
Stock Exchange in the last week
as rumours of Thams arrest cir-
culated. AFP
Thailands shing industry has come under international scrutiny following allegations that many migrant workers endure slave-like condtions. AFP
Thais defend fishing industry
T
HAILAND went on
a charm offensive in
defence of its prawn
industry this week,
seeking to convince Europe-
ans that it is responding to
allegations of slavery and tor-
ture in its sheries sector.
The shing industry ac-
counts for 40 per cent of Thai
exports of food products and
is a mainstay of the economy.
But its image has been badly
damaged by accounts of abuse
of illegal immigrants forced to
wrok for years on shing boats
without payment.
Thailand pulled out the
stops for the SIAL internation-
al food fair outside Paris this
past week, sending a delega-
tion replete with ofcials from
the labour and sheries minis-
tries, plus police and anti-hu-
man trafcking experts. They
then travelled on to Brussels
to lobby EU ofcials.
We dont deny there is a
problem, said Foreign Min-
istry ofcial Sarun Charoen-
suwan at a special seminar on
the subject. A lot of concrete
measures are on their way.
According to a June article
by the British daily The Guard-
ian, there is a lot to be done by
Thailands prawn industry, the
worlds largest, which sends
about a quarter of its exports
to the United States where
they are known as shrimp, and
15 per cent to Europe.
The newspaper found the
sector relies heavily upon sh
meal, which was often sup-
plied by ships using slave la-
bour, to raise the prawns. It
interviewed numerous escap-
ees from ships, shermen and
ship captains who told of the
trafcking of unsuspecting
workers onto boats where they
could end up being exploited
for years. The workers had
thought they were heading for
factory or construction jobs
in Thailand. They recounted
twenty-hour days and regular
beatings for even those who
worked hard, as well as torture
and execution-style killings.
Frances Carrefour, the sec-
ond-biggest retail group in the
world, suspended its purchas-
es of Thai prawns in June fol-
lowing the publication of the
article in The Guardian.
Seeking to protect the key
industry and its global reputa-
tion, Thailand intends to solve
the problem by bringing il-
legal migrants into the formal
labour market, according to
Charoensuwan.
Military leaders who took
power in a coup in May have
launched a vast programme
to provide ofcial papers to
illegal immigrants. Ofcials
said that 1.4 million work-
ers, including those in sh-
ing dustries. But hundreds of
thousands more more immi-
grants are estimated still to be
working illegally. AFP
Rubber glut
Soft loans
for Thai
farmers

T
HE Thai governments
25-billion-baht ($772 mil-
lion) soft loan program is
ready to help the rubber industry
improve efciency and working
capital at a time when rubber
prices are low, says Industry
Minister Chakramon Phasuka-
vanich. The soft loan is expected
to absorb a glut of 500,000
tonnes of rubber latex a year
from planters.
Chakramon said 10 billion
baht had been earmarked for
borrowing for working capital
by rubber latex processing fac-
tories. This will be a one-year
loan with a 5 per cent interest
rate, with businesses paying 2
per cent and the Finance Minis-
try 3 per cent.
The loan is projected to help
absorb 200,000 tonnes of rubber
latex by year-end, resulting in
a price rise of two to three baht
per kilogram.The price currently
stands at 49 baht per kilogram.
The ministry aims to raise the rub-
ber price to 66 baht per kilogram.
Chakramon said the remain-
ing 15 billion baht would be
for improving the production
process and updating machinery
of rubber-processing factories.
BANGKOK POST
Business
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Myanmar rice exports faltering
A
DRAMATIC fall in
the volume of rice
exports has dragged
prices downwards
and threatens to drive small
farmers off the land, farmers
advocates have warned.
Until just weeks ago, rice
exports to China via the bor-
der crossing at Muse in Shan
State could reach 3,500 tonnes
a day. But following Chinas
seizure of rice from merchants
accused of smuggling, daily
rice exports at Muse have
plummeted around 25 tonnes,
leaving many merchants with
unsold stock and unwilling to
buy more from farmers.
Nationwide exports have
fallen by half since August,
when exports hit 100,000
tonnes a month. As a result,
local rice prices have tumbled,
leading to fears that prices
will fall further still, inicting
heavy losses on farmers who
can no longer turn a prot, in-
dustry observers say.
Emata paddy prices have
now fallen to near the break-
even level of K300,000 ($300)
per 100 baskets, down from
a high of K470,000 when the
China trade was still booming.
U Thein Aung, chair of Myan-
mar Freedom Farmers League,
says making a living through
rice growing is getting harder
than ever, causing many small
farmers to sell their land. Oth-
ers are in search of nancing
after spending a lot on rice
production inputs such as
fertiliser in anticipation of a
strong Chinese market.
Weve told the government
were prepared to pay up to
5 per cent interest on a six-
month loan, said U Thein
Aung. A lot of small farmers
could leave the business if they
can no longer survive. At these
prices, I dont think many
farmers can afford to invest in
next summers crop.
In the past year, many farm-
ers working ve acres or less
have sold their land and gone
to work in big cities as gar-
ment or construction workers,
street vendors or trishaw driv-
ers, he said.
The Chinese market has
played an outsized role for
Myanmar rice exports in the
past two years. It went from
receiving almost no imports
from Myanmar in 2011 to
purchasing 59 per cent of the
countrys exports in 2013, ac-
cording to a World Bank report
released earlier this year.
Commerce Minister U Win
Myint said the government
had been negotiating with
China to ease the blockage.
While the rice trade is legal on
the Myanmar side of the bor-
der, the problem has appar-
ently arisen amid allegations
of illegality on the Chinese
side. Legalising it will require a
health agreement with China,
among other measures.
Weve already signed a
quality control agreement and
I hope we can soon proceed to
the next steps, he said.
Joint secretary of the Myan-
mar Rice Federation U Lu
Maw Myint Maung agreed that
if paddy prices fell much low-
er, farmers could quit, despite
measures brought in over the
past three years to strengthen
the sector. If farmers leave,
the rice industry and export
levels could fall again. All the
effort we have invested would
be in vain, he said.
The sudden collapse threat-
ens a promising rebound in
the rice industry. For three
consecutive years before 2013,
farmers faced heavy losses due
to ooding. The export market
bounced back last year as the
Chinese market boomed and
western countries eased sanc-
tions. MYANMAR TIMES
Rice farmers outside Yangon. Myanmars rice exports to China have fallen in recent months. AFP
Markets
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Business
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Political Specialist
The U.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual for the
Political Specialist position for thePolitical and Economic Ofce.
The Political Specialist will be primarily responsible for monitoring
political parties, general political developmentsincluding elections,
external affairs, and corruption. Theincumbent will report to aPolitical/
Economic (Pol/Econ) Ofcer and will have additional responsibility for
maintaining biographies on key mission contacts, translating for thePol/
Econ Ofce, arranging schedules for visiting ofcials, accompanying
Pol/Econ Ofcers in the eld, and performing other administrative
duties as required.
Grade/Salary: FSN-10; FP-5(Steps5through14)/USD 19,16829,711
annually (full-performancelevel)
FSN-9; FP-5 (Steps 1 through 4)/USD 14,61822,652
annually (training level)
Required Qualications
Masters Degree in Liberal Arts, Political Science, 1.
International Relations, International Political-Economy,
Public Relations, J ournalism, Communications, Law,
Business Administration, Social Science, Education, or
English is required.
Full performance level 2. :Five(5) years of experienceworking
in government or non-government organizations with
responsibilities related to political analysis and reporting.
Training level: Four (4) years of experience working
in government or non-government organizations with
responsibilities related to political analysis and reporting.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Must have solid working knowledge of Cambodian 4.
government systems and structures and in-depth knowledge
of current political and economic situation in Cambodia.
Must be able to produce accurate and well-organized 5.
accounts of breaking events in political issues. Ability
to establish and maintain a broad range of contacts, and
maintain aneutral and approachablestylein dealing with all
parties concerned.
Application Procedure
Theapplication deadlineis November 11, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.gov using
theUniversal Application for Employment as aLocally Employed Staff
or Family Member (DS-174) form. Theapplication formand complete
details on this position can befound at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/
employment_opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must havetherequired
work and/or residency permits to beeligiblefor consideration.
CREDIT Suisse Group and
Citigroup are among banks
grappling with a round of US
probes into mortgage-bond
sales, as the government uses
a 1989 law to extend scrutiny
of Wall Streets role in the credit
crisis and seek additional pen-
alties from the industry.
The US Justice Department
is examining whether both
companies violated the Fi-
nancial Reform, Recovery and
Enforcement Act, which tar-
gets misconduct affecting fed-
erally insured nancial rms,
according to people briefed on
the situation. JPMorgan Chase
and Bank of America also are
facing FIRREA inquiries.
A task force created by Presi-
dent Barack Obama last year is
making use of the law, a relic
of the savings-and-loan crisis
of the 1980s, while examining
mortgage-bond underwriting
that fueled investor losses and
prompted unprecedented gov-
ernment bailouts of banks in
2008. FIRREA carries a 10-year
statute of limitations, giving in-
vestigators twice as much time
as other securities laws to bring
complaints.
The task force, compris-
ing state and federal agen-
cies, issued subpoenas and a
public call for whistleblowers,
amassed millions of docu-
ments and farmed out the work
to about 10 US attorneys of-
ces. The Justice Departments
mortgage-bond inquiries now
focus on about eight banks, a
person familiar with the mat-
ter said earlier this week.
Citigroup, the third-largest
US lender, faces probes by
US attorneys in Colorado and
Brooklyn, according to the
people, who asked not to be
identied because the inqui-
ries arent public. The investi-
gation of Zurich-based Credit
Suisse, Switzerlands second-
biggest bank, is being run by
USattorneys in Colorado and
New Jersey, sources said.
The four banks being exam-
ined for FIRREA violations is-
sued a total of $788 billion of
non-agency mortgage-backed
securities between 2005 and
2007, according to Inside Mort-
gage Finance.
FIRREA provides for penal-
ties of more than $1 million for
each fraudulent statement or
act, and as much as $5 million
for continuing violations of
underlying criminal statutes.
Those limits may be exceeded
to recover ill-gotten gains or
investor losses. BLOOMBERG
New probe for Credit
Suisse and Citigroup
Jack Ma heads to Hollywood
B
ILLIONAIRE Jack Ma
is stepping up his
Hollywood dealmak-
ing push, leading a
team of Alibaba Group Hold-
ing executives meeting with
studios to acquire online con-
tent, people with knowledge of
the situation said.
Alibaba founder Ma will
meet in coming days meet
with major US studios from
LionsGate, to Universal. The
company will seek deals that
give it the right to distribute US
movies and TV shows at home,
or invest in studio stakes, the
people said.
Armed with $25 billion from
a September initial public of-
fering, Alibaba is on the prowl
for entertainment it can sell to
Chinese consumers through
its set-top boxes, which also
offer goods from its e-com-
merce site, the worlds largest.
Like Chinese peers Fosun In-
ternational and Dalian Wanda
Group, Alibaba has expanded
ties in Hollywood while navi-
gating challenges such as pi-
racy and censorship in China.
The lm industry is a really
lucrative business, which will
become an important growth
driver for Alibaba, said Alex
Wang, a Beijing-based analyst
at Internet consulting group
IResearch.
Following Fosuns $200 mil-
lio investment in Studio 8
this June, Alibaba reached an
agreement in July to stream
titles like The Hunger Games
lms and the TV series Mad
Men in China.
Hollywood is looking for
ways to tap into the growth in
China, now the second-largest
theatrical market in the world,
forging partnerships for indi-
vidual lms and larger deals.
Chinas market for online
video probably will reach 17.8
billion yuan ($2.9 billion) this
year and then double to 36.6
billion yuan in 2017, according
to IResearch.
Studios that control lms
and TV shows sell distributors
such as Alibaba the rights to
show them online or on TV for
a fee.Users of Alibabas set-top
boxes can watch TV channels
and high-denition movies,
shop online and play games
on the device.
Chinas set-top box industry
is facing increased govern-
ment scrutiny. Alibabas Tmall
MagicBox, which allows third
party streaming, notied us-
ers in August that it would de-
lete some applications as per
state regulation. BLOOMBERG
Transformers 4 premiere in Hong Kong. China has become a major investor in Hollywood lms. AFP
Business
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Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof OCTOBER 24, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A 5.25% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 1.75% N/A 2.75% N/A 3.50% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Pacic trade deal gaining support
MOMENTUM is building
towards a pan-Pacific trade
agreement, representatives of
Australia and the United States
said Saturday as talks between
trade ministers began in Syd-
ney. The Trans-Pacific Partner-
ship ( TPP) which would
encompass 40 per cent of the
global economy and include 12
nations, has been the subject
of negotiations for years.
Australian Trade Minister
Andrew Robb, hosting the Syd-
ney talks, told the opening ple-
nary that reports from negotia-
tors were that there does seem
to be a real head of steam.
Clearly I think we are work-
ing now to try and conclude this
agreement by the end of this
year, he said.
US Trade Representative
Mike Froman said since the last
TPP meeting in Singapore in
May, trade ministers had been
in almost constant negotia-
tions. However, negotiations
slowed while the US and Tokyo
debated key details, including
Japanese tariffs on agricultural
imports and US access to
Japans auto market.
Froman said there was now
an opportunity to narrow dif-
ferences ahead of leaders meet-
ings in Asia in coming weeks.
The Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation forum in Beijing
and G20 summit in Brisbane
will both take place next
month.
Its very much within our
grasp, he said.
Proponents of the TPP say
any agreement will free up trade
in goods and services across the
region, reduce regulation and
improve opportunities for jobs.
But critics say the pact will
favour corporate rights over
those of the public, and could
result in higher medicine pric-
es, greater damage to the envi-
ronment and fewer internet
freedoms. AFP
New Delhi
smog rivals
Beijing
THICK smoke hung over New
Delhi this week as millions of
Indians lit firecrackers to mark
the Diwali festival, but calls for
a boycott highlighted concerns
over air quality in one of the
worlds most polluted cities.
Pollution in the Indian capi-
tal reached severe levels on
Friday, the day after Diwali,
according to a new air quality
index launched earlier this
month as part of Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modis Clean
India mission. That means the
concentration of airborne par-
ticles known as PM2.5, which
are considered the most harm-
ful, was more than 250 10
times the upper limit recom-
mended by the World Health
Organization (WHO).
Indian authorities regularly
appeal to the public to restrict
their use of firecrackers, which
every year cause injuries as
well as letting off the acrid
smoke that chokes the capital.
But this year the calls had par-
ticular resonance after a WHO
study of 1,600 cities across 91
countries in May found the
Indian capital had the dirtiest
atmosphere in the world a
claim Indian authorities
fiercely denied.
Despite this weeks spike,
Gufran Beig, chief scientist at
Indias state-run System of Air
Quality Weather Forecasting
and Research, said Delhis air
was generally better than the
Chinese capital of Beijing.
A majority of the time, Delhi
air is quite bad, but it is still bet-
ter than Beijing, Beig told AFP,
while conceding that the post-
Diwali air likely rivalled the
Chinese capitals infamous
smog.Its going to be that way
for 24 hours before it gets bet-
ter, he added.
New Delhis air quality has
steadily worsened over the
years, a consequence of rapid
urbanisation that brings pollu-
tion from diesel engines, coal-
fired power plants and indus-
trial emissions. AFP
No easy life for Korean elderly
O
UT of work and out
of pocket, South
Korean retirees are
struggling to force
their way back into an un-
welcoming job market in an
effort to supplement meagre
or nonexistent pensions. But
President Park Geun-hyes vi-
sion of a new creative econo-
my seems to have little space
for a generation that grew up
with shipyards and steel mills
rather than smartphones and
start-ups.
Kim Min-su, 69, receives a
monthly pension of 590,000
won ($562), the sole source of
income for him and his wife
who live in a mini-apartment
in Seoul. I wasnt able to put
much aside when I was work-
ing because nearly all of it
went on raising and school-
ing my four kids, Kim said
after a morning spent scan-
ning job vacancy notices at a
Career Transition Centre for
the elderly.
Kim, who used to earn more
than 4 million won a month as
a head engineer at a manufac-
turing plant in Incheon, esti-
mates he needs a minimum 2
million won a month for liv-
ing expenses. Kim, however,
is better off than many, in that
he has a little pension and help
from his children.
South Korea only intro-
duced a national pension sys-
tem in 1988 and only around
one-third of people aged 65
or older actually receive one.
Many more joined the pen-
sion scheme at the tail end of
their careers and receive very
small sums. Close to 50 per
cent of Koreans over the age
of 65 now live in relative pov-
erty meaning their monthly
income is less than 50 per cent
that of the average household
income, according to the state
data agency, Statistics Korea.
President Park Geun-hye had
promised to give every senior
citizen over 65 a 200,000 won
monthly stipend, but reneged
on the commitment last year
saying the economic situation
would not allow it.
Retirement can come early
in South Korea, with many
companies pushing staff out
in their early- or mid-50s. Most
of those have no option but
to look for work elsewhere,
and the average effective age
at which South Korean men
actually leave the workforce is
71.1 years the second highest
in the OECD behind Mexico.
One 71-year-old at the Ca-
reer Transition Centre in Seoul
was still looking for work.
It used to be quite easy for
elderly people to get simple
jobs, working as gatekeepers
or watchmen, said Kim Yong-
sik.These days, however, they
wont even look at you if youre
over 65.
Like a large number of re-
tirees, Kim tried to go into
business for himself, using
his severance lump sum of
130 million won in 1998 to
open a home appliance store
with his nephew. The venture
folded three years later and
since then hes got by as a low
paid odd-job man. He and his
wife now earn 200,000 won
a month, supplemented by
a 300,000 won handout from
their children.
Its not nearly enough, but
were lucky in that were both
healthy and dont have any real
medical costs, he said.
The government does pro-
vide new skills training, but
Kim said the courses werent
really age appropriate.
I was given a six-month
course on computer web de-
sign, which was a total waste
of time, as nobody is going to
hire somebody my age for that
kind of work, he said.
South Korea made the leap
from war-ravaged backwater
to Asias fourth largest econo-
my in just a few decades an
unusually compressed rate of
development that many strug-
gled to keep pace with.
A lot of people were left be-
hind by the rapid technologi-
cal development, especially
in information technology,
said Lee In-su who heads the
Korean Society of Welfare for
the Aged.
Even those forced into re-
tirement in their early 50s nd
it hard to get a second career
going, and many choose to try
it alone, sinking their savings
into a small grocery store or
restaurant. According to Sta-
tistics Korea, half of all self-em-
ployed, small business owners
are now over the age of 50.
A favoured option is to open
a fast-food outlet specialising
in fried chicken which is the
countrys most popular take-
away, home-delivery snack.
So favoured in fact that there
are now more than 43,000
fried chicken outlets across
South Korea leading to in-
tense competition.
About 900,000 retirees ood
into the self-employment sec-
tor every year, causing cut-
throat competition, Finance
Minister Choi Kyung-hwan
said in September.
The struggling owners of
these businesses are one of
the biggest structural prob-
lems in our economy, he also
said, noting that many are left
destitute when the business
collapses.
In an effort to keep more
people working for longer,
legislation was passed in April
that would ensure no worker
effective 2016 would be
obliged to retire before the age
of 60. AFP
Elderly South Koreans ll out job applications. Most South Korean men do not leave the workforce until they reach 71. AFP
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World
Tight security for historic Tunisia vote
TUNISIANS voted yesterday in an elec-
tion seen as pivotal to establishing
democracy in the cradle of the Arab
Spring uprisings, with security forces
deploying heavily to avert extremist
attacks.
When polls opened at 7am, dozens
of voters were already queueing out-
side one polling station in Marseille
Street in central Tunis, an AFP corre-
spondent reported.
The North African nation has been
hailed as a beacon of hope compared
with other chaos-hit countries like
Libya and Egypt where regimes were
also toppled.
But its transition has been tested at
times by militant attacks and social
unrest.Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa
hailed Sundays vote as historic.
The spotlight is on us and the suc-
cess of this [vote] is a guarantee for the
future . .. a glimmer of hope for this
regions young people, he told local
radio as he voted.
Jomaa had warned of possible jihad-
ist attacks aimed at disrupting the
countrys first post-revolution parlia-
mentary election.
On Friday, Tunisian police killed six
suspected militants five of whom
were women in a raid on a house in
the outskirts of the capital. A police-
man was also killed in an earlier fire-
fight with the suspects. Up to 80,000
troops and police have been deployed
in a bid to protect voters.
The country has flirted with disaster
in recent years, particularly in 2013
when a rise in militant activity and the
assassination of two opposition law-
makers threatened to derail Tunisias
path to democracy after its 2011 upris-
ing that inspired the Arab Spring pro-
tests.
The revolt ousted veteran autocrat
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and ushered in
a coalition government and interim
president that won praise from the
international community.
Several parties competing for seats
in parliament are fronted by former
regime officials.
Although they have publicly sought
to distance themselves from the repres-
sion and intimidation practised under
the ex-president, many voters who
took part in the revolution are angered
at the prospect of Ben Ali associates
returning to parliament.
Others accuse Islamist Ennahda
Tunisias largest party and its secular
allies of failing to address peoples
needs as the economy remains weak
and security incidents are on the rise.
These politicians arent worth a
minute of my time. They are incompe-
tent and have impoverished the peo-
ple, said street vendor Bechir
Bejaoui.
Five million Tunisians are eligible to
vote in a closely monitored election
that interim president Moncef Mar-
zouki has dubbed a defining
moment.
Voters could be seen exiting polling
stations with index fingers dyed in ink
a measure designed to prevent peo-
ple casting multiple ballots held up
in celebration. AFP
UK ends Afghan operations
B
RITISH forces Sun-
day handed over for-
mal control of their
last base in Afghani-
stan to Afghan troops, end-
ing combat operations in the
country after 13 years which
cost hundreds of lives.
The Union Jack was lowered
at Camp Bastion in the south-
ern province of Helmand,
while the Stars and Stripes
came down at the adjacent
Camp Leatherneck the last
US Marine base in the restive
country.
All NATO combat troops
will depart Afghanistan by
December, leaving Afghan
troops and police to battle
Taliban insurgents on their
own.
The huge joint base built in
the desert near the provincial
capital Lashkar Gah was the
most important installation
for the NATO mission in Af-
ghanistan.
Between 2010 to 2011, it
housed almost 40,000 for-
eigners including sub-con-
tractors.
Hundreds of US Marines
and British troops are set to
leave Helmand soon, though
the precise date has not been
revealed for security reasons.
In a ceremony Sunday the
Afghans took formal control
of the base, despite already
being present in a portion of
it. The British and US ags
were lowered, leaving only
Afghanistans national ag to
utter in the breeze.
Britains Defence Secretary
Michael Fallon paid tribute
to his nations role in ghting
the Taliban.
A total of 453 British troops
and 2,349 Americans were
killed in Afghanistan.
It is with pride that we an-
nounce the end of UK com-
bat operations in Helmand,
having given Afghanistan the
best possible chance of a sta-
ble future, he said in a state-
ment from London.
Many facilities such as
pipelines, buildings, roads
and even ofce furniture re-
main in place, with the US
alone estimating $230 million
worth of equipment is being
left behind.
Marine General Daniel D.
Yoo, regional commander,
said the Afghan army is now
now capable of taking over
the reins.
Im cautiously optimistic
they will be able to sustain
themselves. I know from my
experience that they have the
capability and the capacity
if they allocate the resources
properly, he said.
Were very proud of what
weve accomplished here,
added the ofcer, who was
among the rst Marines on
the ground in autumn 2001,
when a US-led coalition
toppled the Taliban who had
been in power since 1996.
General Sayed Malook, who
leads the Afghan forces in the
region and has now estab-
lished his quarters in the base,
said the camp would become
a military training centre and
house 1,800 soldiers.
Im certain we can main-
tain the security, he said
Sunday. Asked about the de-
parture of the NATO troops,
he said: Im happy and sad.
Im happy because they are
going to their home, Im sad
because they are friends.
At Camp Leatherneck
troops busied themselves
with packing up, sorting
out what medical equip-
ment will go and what will
remain.
Corporal Ruf Stevens, in
charge of vehicle transport,
returned to his hut with his
assault rie in one hand and
a guitar he found in a dustbin
in another.
I just think we got the job
done. Its a dirty job but pride
come with it, he said.
The operational command
centre, a small room in a
wooden hut lled with sur-
veillance screens and com-
puters, is seeing out its nal
days.
Surveillance has picked up
little in the way of insurgent
activity in recent days as the
yearly ghting season comes
to an end.
After Camp Leatherneck
and Bastion, the most im-
portant NATO bases will be at
Kandahar, Bagram, Herat and
Mazar-e-Sharif.
There are now about 40,000
foreign troops in Afghanistan,
down from their 2011 peak of
around 140,000.
A residual force of around
12,000 soldiers including
9,800 Americans and 500
Britons will remain after De-
cember as part of a security
pact signed by new president
Ashraf Ghani.
The role of the remaining
troops will be training Afghan
soldiers as well as counter-
terrorism. AFP
British soldiers lower the Union Jack during a handover ceremony
before their military withdrawal from the Camp Bastion yesterday. AFP
Brit who died in Phuket
negative for Ebola
THE British man who died in
Phuket after arriving from
Nigeria has tested negative for
Ebola, Medical Science
Department director-general
Apichai Mongkol said yesterday.
Dr Apichai announced the blood
test result shortly before 3pm.
The latest laboratory tests of the
mans blood revealed he had not
contracted the deadly virus, so
there is no reason for people to
panic, he said. The British man,
aged 68, who has not been
identified, was found dead at a
condominium in tambon Pat-
ong, Kathu district, on October
23. His body was kept at a state-
run hospital under the Public
Health Ministrys super-vision
for the blood tests. He arrived in
Phuket from Lagos, Nigeria,
one of the countries in West
Africa where Ebola is a risk, on
October 7. The man had stayed
at the condominium on Phra
Bara-mee Road since his arrival.
On October 15, he fainted while
walking on a beach and was
taken to a local hospital, where a
doctor found he had a record of
heart disease. The man was
released after his symptoms were
not consistent with Ebola. AFP
Kobane ground fighting
toll tops 800: monitor
MORE than 800 people have
been killed in ground fighting for
Kobane since Islamic State
group militants attacked the
Syrian Kurdish enclave on
September 16, a monitoring
group said yesterday. The jihad-
ists have lost 481 dead, while 313
Kurds have been killed fighting to
defend the area, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
said. The figures do not include
IS losses to US-led air strikes,
which the Pentagon has said run
to several hundred. Civilians
accounted for 21 of the dead. The
jihadist assault prompted nearly
all of the enclaves population to
flee, with some 200,000 refugees
streaming over the border into
neighbouring Turkey. AFP
Kobane ground fighting
toll tops 800: monitor
PAKISTAN police yesterday killed
nine Taliban insurgents in an
exchange of fire in the port city of
Karachi, police said. The clash
broke out in the Mian Khan Goth
area near the National Highway
after police received intelligence
information about the presence
of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
militants in a hideout. The
terrorists opened fire on police
after they were surrounded, forc-
ing us to retaliate, senior police
official Rao Anwar said. AFP
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12
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Continued from page 1
annexation of the southern Crimean
region, overshadowed the election.
Voters in Crimea and in separatist-
controlled areas of the eastern Lugan-
sk and Donetsk provinces about five
million of Ukraines 36.5 million-strong
electorate were unable to vote.
Twenty-seven seats in the 450-seat
parliament will remain empty.
Surprise war zone visit
Dressed in camouflage, Poroshenko
helicoptered in for a surprise visit to
Kramatorsk, a government-held town
in the heart of the conflict zone.
The dramatic gesture was clearly
meant to show that the beleaguered
region has not been forgotten.
However, the disenfranchisement of
the separatist areas and Crimea seemed
likely to further cement the once
peaceful, but now bloody faultline
between Ukraines Russian-speaking
east and Ukrainian-speaking west.
After casting a vote for the radical
nationalist Svoboda party in the cap-
ital Kiev, Tatyana Kryshko, 75, reflect-
ed the grim national mood.
I know things will be hard financially.
I think that we wont live to see a rich and
strong Ukraine, but that our children and
grandchildren will, she told AFP.
Nationalists, not communists
Polls show a majority of Ukrainians
support economic and democratic
reforms especially a crackdown on
corruption leading eventually to
European Union membership.
On the eve of voting, Poroshenko
promised an entirely new parlia-
ment that was reforming, not cor-
rupt, pro-Ukrainian and pro-Europe-
an, not pro-Soviet.
For the first time since the collapse
of the Soviet Union, the Communist
Party was not expected to clear the
five-per cent barrier for entering par-
liament under proportional represen-
tation. Poroshenko, elected president
in May with 55 per cent of the vote,
hopes that failure will symbolise his
attempts to remake Ukraine.
However, there is less unity over how
to resolve the dismemberment of the
country in Russias occupation of Crimea
and the separatist battle in the east.
A Moscow-backed truce signed by Kiev
and the separatists on September 5 has
calmed the worst fighting, although
there are daily violations around the larg-
est rebel-held city Donetsk.
Insurgent leaders, who are not
allowing polling stations to open in
their areas, have announced their own
leadership vote, which Kiev does not
recognise, on November 2.
In theory, residents in places like
Donetsk could leave and vote else-
where, but one young man in the rebel-
held city said that wasnt happening.
I dont know anyone who has any
intention of leaving Donetsk to go and
vote, he said.
Ukrainian soldiers deployed nearby
said that even they had been left out.
I think its really not right that we
dont have a chance to vote. Everyone
should, especially people who are
dying for this country, said Volody-
myr Derchak, 62, a member of the
volunteer Artemovsk battalion.
Peace talks and fear
Poroshenko insisted Saturday that
there can be no military solution to
the conflict and renewed his pledged
to seek a political compromise.
That message was likely to be wel-
come by Ukrainians alarmed at the
prospect of open-ended war against
rebels that most people here believe
are backed by Russia, although Mos-
cow denies this.
Valentina Pavlova, a 65-year-old
pensioner voting in Mariupol, a city
near the separatist war zone, told AFP
she had voted for one of the few par-
ties opposing the radical national-
ists.
I dont like the radical parties that
think they can just beat anyone up,
she said. I think a lot of people here
will vote the same as myself. We are at
the frontier now, we watch the news
every night in fear.
Poroshenkos softer line could meet
resistance in the new parliament,
where deputies are set to include
members of hardline nationalist
groups and soldiers turned politi-
cians.
In Kiev, Tamara Kovalko, 62, said she
had voted for one of the countrys best
known nationalist firebrands, Yulia
Tymoshenko, because shes a strong
leader she can take care of the
east.

A more powerful parliament
The new parliament will have broad
new powers that include the right to
name the prime minister and most of
his cabinet.
Parties expected to pass the five-per
cent threshold include the Radical
Party of the populist Oleg Lyashko and
former defence minister Anatoliy
Grytsenkos Civil Opposition group.
Poroshenko would likely prefer to
strike an alliance with the more
moderate Peoples Front of current
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
an ally instrumental in securing a
$27 billion rescue package designed
to cut Kievs economic dependence
on Moscow. AFP
T
HREE teens were
ghting for their lives
yesterday after a fellow
student shot each in
the head, as it emerged a staff
member attempted to stop the
attack at a US high school.
Two girls, 14, and a boy,
15, were in critical condition
in the hospital after Fridays
bloodshed in the northwest-
ern state of Washington that
also left one student and the
young shooter dead in yet an-
other US school attack.
Another boy, 14, was in a se-
rious condition after he was
shot in the jaw. Both male
students were reportedly
cousins of Jaylen Fryberg, a
popular rst-year student at
the Marysville-Pilchuck High
School who opened re in the
school cafeteria.
Joanne Roberts, a doctor at
Providence Regional Medical
Center in the city of Everett,
50 kilometres north of Seattle,
said the girls had undergone
surgery for head wounds.
The next three days are go-
ing to be crucial, Roberts said,
explaining the surgery aimed
to relieve brain swelling.
Student Eric Cervantes told
KIRO-TV that a staff member
intercepted Fryberg who
shot himself in the neck during
a brief tussle. The bullet killed
Fryberg but it was unclear if it
was intentional. Snohomish
County Sheriffs Ofce said
detectives were able to con-
rm that a cafeteria worker at-
tempted to stop the shooter,
while local media said the em-
ployee was a teacher.
Theres all these heroes
in this type of a thing, even
though its a horrendous trag-
edy, Marysville Mayor Jon
Nehring said.
Police are attempting to as-
certain a motive. The student
that died was a girl, though au-
thorities did not immediately
release her name.
Don Hatch, a grandfather
of one of the wounded boys,
said the shooter and the boys
were related. All three of them
are cousins, and they live right
close to each other, he said.
Students gave graphic details
of the moment Fryberg began
his shooting spree.
I could see Jaylen standing
up with a gun, and he started
shooting, Josiah Gould, 14,
told the Seattle Times. They
were sitting down and he was
behind them shooting. After
that I just ran.
A student identied as Aus-
tin told KING 5 television how
the shooter was initially quiet.
He was just sitting there.
Everyone was talking. All of a
sudden I see him stand up, pull
something out of his pocket,
Austin said.
Many in the community
were bafed by the shooting.
Fryberg was a well-liked stu-
dent who had played on the
football team and had been
named a homecoming prince
a week earlier, media reported.
When I saw him, I was like,
oh my gosh, thats Jaylen. I
would have never expected it
would have been him out of all
people, student Rachel He-
ichel said.
Fryberg, a Native American,
had left a series of tortured
posts on Twitter, suggesting
a teenager used to handling
guns, and hinting that a failed
romance may have led to the
shooting. One post on Insta-
gram showed him brandishing
a hunting rie.
In his nal post on Twitter on
Thursday, Fryberg had stated:
It wont last...Itll never last....
In August he had issued
threats to an apparent love ri-
val: Your not gonna like what
happens next.
The Snohomish County
Sheriffs Ofce said investi-
gators recovered a 40-calibre
handgun from the scene; au-
thorities previously said the
weapon was legally acquired.
A law enforcement ofcial
said the gun belonged to Fry-
bergs father.
Fridays attack is likely to re-
new debates over gun control
in the US, a topic already being
considered by voters in Wash-
ington state, with competing
measures on next months ballot.
One aims to tighten background
checks on rearms purchases,
the other aims to limit them.
Previous mass shootings, like
that which killed 20 children
and six adults at an elemen-
tary school in Newtown, Con-
necticut, in December 2012,
have spurred intense debate
about Americas gun laws.
Marysville police chief Rick
Smith said the shooting should
be a wake-up call.
Its time for us to act, and
not just talk anymore, he said.
AFP
Students from Marysville-Pilchuck High School grieve during a vigil at the Grove Church on Friday in Marys-
ville, Washington. AFP
Three fight for life after US shooting
Divided Ukraine votes under shadow of war
A woman casts her ballots in a polling station in Kiev yesterday during Ukraines
parliamentary elections. AFP
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13
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Thailands failed bid for UN
rights seat is a wake-up call
T
HAILANDS failure
to gain a seat on the
UN Human Rights
Council should send
a clear signal to its military
government that it does not
meet international standards
on human rights, analysts said
on Friday.
Thailand failed to secure
one of four seats available to
Asian nations on the council
in voting that took place at UN
headquarters in New York last
week.
The loss in the [Human
Rights Council] election is a
major embarrassment and
should serve as a wake-up call
to Thailands leaders that spin
and public relations are not
going to enable them to gloss
over their severely worsening
human rights record, said
Phil Robertson, deputy direc-
tor of Human Rights Watchs
Asia division.
Thailand was defeated in
voting for 15 new members
to the 47-seat council. India,
Indonesia, Bangladesh and
Qatar were elected to the four
seats available to Asian coun-
tries. New members will serve
three-year terms beginning
January 1.
This vote was a negative
judgment by Thailands peers
at the UN General Assembly,
saying to Bangkok that we
think youre not the right gov-
ernment to be sitting at the
council and talking about hu-
man rights at this time, Rob-
ertson told ucanews.com.
Some analysts said the vote
was sending a message to Thai-
lands military government
that it needed to return the
country to civilian rule. Several
countries that won seats to the
council have been admonished
in previous years over their hu-
man rights records.
Bangladesh at least has a
deconsolidated democracy,
while Qatar has possessed mu-
nicipal elections since 1999. A
choice of Thailand would have
signaled that the UN directly
backs countries moving away
from democracy, said Paul
Chambers, director of research
for the Institute of Southeast
Asian Affairs in Chiang Mai.
What the UN did should
be seen as a direct message to
Thailands military dictators
that most of the international
community does not support
the countrys move to tyranny
and will not legitimise the
current dictatorship there,
Chambers told ucanews.com.
Thailands military govern-
ment seized control of the
country in a May 22 coup, de-
posing a democratically elected
government. Shortly after, the
junta dissolved Parliament,
announced martial law, sus-
pended basic rights to freedom
of speech and assembly and
began rounding up and detain-
ing journalists, academics and
other critics of military rule.
Robertson said if Thailand
wants to claim it has a stronger
human rights record than oth-
er new members of the coun-
cil, then its leaders should
start taking some serious steps
to actually improve human
rights like lifting martial law,
dissolving the NCPO, ending
trials of civilians in military
courts, and respecting basic
civil and political rights.
Prior to the vote, HRW wrote
junta leader Prayut Chan-ocha
insisting that he lift martial
law and dispand the National
Council for Peace and Order
(NCPO).
So long as martial law is in
effect, the rights of the Thai
people are being undermined.
The NCPO should immediate-
ly lift martial law across the en-
tire country and take concrete
steps to restore and enforce
the provisions of law that pro-
tect human rights, the letter
read.
Representatives from
the government could not
be reached for comment.
UNCANEWS.COM
General view of the UN Human Rights Council session after the United
Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria. AFP
Two convicted murderers
publicly shot in Somalia
TWO men convicted of murder-
ing a journalist and a security
official were executed in public in
Somalias capital Mogadishu
yesterday, officials said. The men,
Ali Bashir Osman, 22, and Abdul-
ahi Sharif Osman, 25, were
arrested in southern Mogadishu
during a raid by security forces.
The two men were behind the
killing of journalist Mohamed
Mohamud who worked with
Universal TV and a security
official. The court found them
guilty in August and today they
were executed publicly, national
prosecutor Abdulahi Hussein
Mohamed told reporters.
Witnesses said the victims were
tied to posts and publicly
executed by firing squad at
Mogadishus police academy. AFP
Arrests after clashes
in East Jeruslaem
AT LEAST five Palestinians were
arrested during fresh clashes
overnight yesterday in East
Jerusalem, where hundreds of
extra police have been deployed
to tackle mounting unrest,
authorities said. The clashes
were especially intense in the
flashpoint Silwan neighbour-
hood, an area near the Old City
that was the home of Abdel-
rahman Shaludi, the Palestinian
driver who ploughed into a
Jerusalem crowd, killing an
Israeli baby. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Police fear time bomb in protests
in Hong Kongs less genteel parts
T
HE tinderbox of Hong Kongs
pro-democracy protests is
Mong Kok, where police fear
a riot could erupt and dem-
onstrators stand deant in the face of
violence and threats.
The densely populated area, cover-
ing less than a square mile, is beset by
organised crime and vice. More than
67,000 residents jostle with thou-
sands of tourists along the shopping
district around Nathan Road and its
neon-dazzled alleys, making the area
a strategic choke-hold.
Clearing the blockades in Mong
Kok is a priority for the citys leader,
Leung Chun-ying, who has described
it as a less genteel part of the city.
Students and ofcials alike have said
these protesters, unlike those in the
main protest site outside the govern-
ments ofces in Admiralty, are lead-
erless, complicating negotiations and
efforts to keep order.
The protesters are very frightened
and they are also very angry, especial-
ly at the police and thats why it makes
Mong Kok a very dangerous place,
said Labour Party lawmaker Fernando
Cheung, who has stayed overnight at
the site with fellow legislator Claudia
Mo of the Civic Party. They stood at
the barriers between police and pro-
testers, calling for calm.
Its like a time bomb waiting to ex-
plode, Cheung said. Any small thing
could trigger that bomb to go off.
Near-daily skirmishes have made
Mong Kok the most consistent scene
of antagonism between pro-democ-
racy demonstrators and their oppo-
nents since occupations broke out
across the city from September 26,
sparking police warnings that the
situation is already on the verge of
a riot.
The biggest clash took place October
3, when least 37 people were injured
after hundreds of men, some with sus-
pected links to organised crime gangs,
tried to forcibly remove make-shift
barricades and demonstrators.
On October 22, a drunken man
was arrested after he attempted
to start a fire with a bottle of flam-
mable fluid, while paint and feces
were dropped on protesters from a
building, Chief Superintendent Hui
Chun-tak said Thursday. Officers
arrested 11 people in the preceding
24 hours, including for common as-
sault, indecent assault and posses-
sion of an offensive weapon.
There is an escalating trend to se-
rious public disorder and is on the
verge of riot, Hui said. There are
radical protesters and trouble makers
mixing in the illegal assembly.
In Mong Kok, where a frequent
jeer from anti-protesters is for the
demonstrators to get a job, at least
13,100 people were living on less
than the median monthly income of
HK$12,000 (US$1,547) in 2011, ac-
cording to the most recent govern-
ment census.
Mong Kok has always been a com-
plicated place; its in its nature and in
its history, Vangi Fong, 29, an artist,
said in an interview at the site. Its
the fact that you have people from
all walks of life here, unlike in Ad-
miralty, where they are mostly ofce
workers.
Aside from the two mass-transit
train stations in the area, there are
numerous mini-bus routes that
pass through 24 hours a day from all
parts of Hong Kong, meaning any-
body can easily reach Mong Kok at
any time. The area is filled with al-
leyways that reduce the effective-
ness of crowd control.
No doubt, Mong Kok is special be-
cause of its accessibility, Avery Ng,
vice chairman of the League of Social
Democrats, said in an interview. It
looks like not even the police can to-
tally take hold of this area.
When a call was made by one of the
protest organisers to leave Mong Kok
and head to the Admiralty site after
the October 3 clashes, hundreds opt-
ed to stay and retrenched their posi-
tion, securing banners hanging from
trafc lights and putting up fresh
posters on walls.
The Admiralty occupation is more
organised, while the Mong Kok one is
more organic, said Ng.There isnt a
chief organiser in Mong Kok and peo-
ple just do whatever they want to do
to express themselves.
Protester numbers typically swell
on Friday evenings, with an estimated
9,000 people gathering October17 to
take back streets that the police had
cleared in a dawn raid. Ofcers were
forced to retreat from most of the area
after failing to disperse the crowd with
pepper spray and batons.
The police now have pavilions in
the middle of the streets, which duty
ofcers stand under when it rains.
Both the government and the dem-
onstrators recognise the signicance
of Mong Kok. After Chief Executive
Leung said the site should be cleared,
demonstrators became even more
determined to hold on.
This is a critical moment, said
Todd Lau, 31, a music teacher. When
we leave this place, we will lose our
bargaining power in discussions and
thats why we stay. BLOOMBERG
Hong Kong police ofcers in riot gear use batons on demonstrators holding umbrellas on October 17 in Mong Kok, a densely populated
area beset by organised crime and vice. Students and ofcials alike have said protesters here are leaderless, unlike those at the main
site outside government ofces in Admiralty. BLOOMBER
Tens of thousands march for gay rights in Taiwan
THE Thai partner of Pornch-
anok Chaiyapa, the chief sus-
pect in the murder of her eld-
erly Japanese husband, says he
is guilty of suffocating her pre-
vious Japanese husband in a
case that cast a dark secret
over the family for 11 years.
Somchai Kaewbangyang,
who has allegedly confessed to
colluding with Pornchanok,
47, in last months murder of
teacher Yoshinori Shimato, 79,
admitted he killed the wom-
ans previous Japanese partner,
Kasitosi Tanaka in 2003.
Somchai, who has two
daughters with Pornchanok,
said he had successfully dis-
guised Tanakas death as an
accident. The official cause of
death is that he had suffered a
heart attack after a fall.
The confession came two
days after one of Tanakas
daughters, Keiko Matta, 31,
lodged a complaint seeking to
reopen the investigation into
her fathers death. She never
believed it was an accident.
Somchai re-enacted the
crime at a shophouse in Sam-
ut Prakans Bang Phli district.
He said he pushed Tanaka, 57,
down a staircase and suffo-
cated him.
Somchai said the murder
happened after a party.
Somchai said he did not
show up at the party, but hid
in a room on the third floor.
After the party, Pornchanok
went to her bedroom on the
fourth floor with Tanaka while
Soak and Wichai slept on the
mezzanine floor.
Somchai remained in hiding
and waited for Tanaka to go to
the toilet on the third floor.
When he came downstairs,
Somchai said he hooked Tan-
akas leg and pushed him down
the staircase. He then smoth-
ered him by pressing one foot
on the victims neck.
Somchai then alerted Porn-
chanok and his brother and
father about what he claimed
was an accidental fall.
Over the years Ive been liv-
ing unhappily with this dark
secret of the Japanese mans
death. Ive tried to make mer-
it at several temples just to
make me feel better, but it
didnt work at all, Soak said.
During the re-enactment,
Pornchanok collapsed. But a
police source said she returned
to normal after officers took
her away in a van.
Suwira Songmetta, deputy
national police chief, said yester-
day Somchais confession and
Soaks account of the incident
corresponded with the autopsy
results, which said Tanaka died
as a result of clogged blood ves-
sels and bleeding in the heart.
Police then sought arrest war-
rants for Somchai and Pornch-
anok and charged them with
premeditated murder, he said.
Keiko said she was glad to
learn the details of her fathers
dubious death. She said she
could not believe it was an
accident, but was happy that
it was now resolved. She
thanked the police officers.
BANGKOK POST
TENS of thousands of people took to the streets of
Taipei on Saturday for Asias largest gay rights
parade, with many urging parliament to push
through a controversial bill recognising same-sex
marriage.
Supporters from Taiwan and abroad waved plac-
ards reading equal marriage rights and support
gay marriage as they marched through the capital
for the 12th annual Walk in Queers Shoes
parade.
Gay and lesbian groups in Taiwan, one of Asias
more liberal societies, have been urging the govern-
ment for years to legalise same-sex marriage. Par-
liament started reviewing a bill on the issue last
year.
But activists marching on Saturday expressed
mixed opinions about the future of the bill, with
some predicting it would not survive strong oppo-
sition from anti-gay marriage groups who staged
a massive counter-rally late last year.
Conservative forces have been lobbying hard
against the bill and accused us of demanding priv-
ileges, when we are asking for equal rights, said
organiser Albert Yang.
But others, like graduate student Wang Chun-
ling, were hopeful that Taiwan would join the glo-
bal trend of recognising same-sex unions.
Equal marriage right is a basic human right and
I hope the conservative and religious groups will
be more tolerant and less narrow-minded, Wang
said.
Its a pressing matter for Cindy Su, a 33-year-old
activist who tied the knot with her partner in Canada
in June as they want to start a family soon.
I hope the parliament will pass the bill soon
because we want to have children and we need the
legal status and protection. Even though we are mar-
ried in Canada, legally we are strangers in Taiwan,
said Su, dressed in a white bridal gown.
Last year, around 65,000 gays and lesbians and
their supporters marched in Taiwan in a record
crowd to push for legalising same-sex marriage
and other rights, according to organisers who esti-
mated a similar turnout this year.
Its impossible to have a gay parade or a mass
rally of any kind in China so we are very envious of
Taiwan, said Jane Wang, a lesbian from Hangzhou
in eastern China.
I too hope that Taiwan can pass the same-sex
marriage bill because legal recognition is symbol-
ic and will get more people to accept homosexual-
ity. AFP
Participants pose with their rainbow socks during the an-
nual gay parade in Taipei on Saturday. AFP
Familys
secret is
uncovered
in Thailand
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Japanese hospitals battle for survival
W
ITH an ag-
ing population
thats already the
worlds oldest,
Japan might be a good place to
build more hospitals. Instead,
its shutting them down.
More than 300 medical in-
stitutions closed or became
inactive in the year ended
March, the most on record in
gures going back to 2006, ac-
cording to corporate research
rm Teikoku Databank. Al-
most three-quarters of clinics
are losing money, a survey by
the Japan Hospital Federation
shows, and the government is
cutting payouts to institutions
due to budgetary constraints
even as costs remain high,
KPMG says.
The sector is getting lean,
said Yuji Inokuchi, 59, who
runs a hospital in Tokyo and
is a vice chairman of the All
Japan Hospital Association,
which represents about 2,200
institutions. Theres a battle
for survival looming.
Japan spent more than any
other country in the world
keeping people 65 years or
older in hospital in 2011, with
patients staying 17.5 days on
average, according to Organi-
zation for Economic Coopera-
tion and Development data.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
plans to change that, with new
regulations this month curb-
ing payouts for long stays and
boosting handouts for those
opting for home care and
high-tech treatments.
Anticipating demand for
cash to renovate outdated
facilities, companies includ-
ing Mitsubishi UFJ Lease &
Finance Co have established
funds to invest in the health
care industry.
Those who make it through
the shakeup represent one of
the few growth areas for lend-
ing, according to Nana Otsuki,
a banking analyst at Bank of
America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.
As the population ages, de-
mand for funds will expand.
Jukoukai Hospital, where
Inokuchi is chairman, has cut
more than 100 beds in the past
two decades to 49. Unlike his fa-
ther, who opened the six-storey
institution in Tokyos eastern
Koto ward in 1963, Inokuchi
does house rounds twice a week.
The patients he sees would have
been staying at Jukoukai in his
fathers day, he reckons.
Inokuchis efforts are in line
with Abes goal of reducing the
cost of caring for a population
where one in four people are
65 years or older. Medical ex-
penses are forecast to rise 54
per cent to 54 trillion yen ($506
billion) in scal 2025 com-
pared with 2012, according to
the Ministry of Health. Japans
health expenditure accounted
for 10.3 per cent of economic
output in 2012, versus 9.3 per
cent in Britain and 9.1 per cent
in Australia, OECD data show.
Domestic lenders boosted
loans to medical businesses 11.7
per cent over the ve years to
June 30, compared with a 4.2 per
cent increase to all industries,
Bank of Japan data released in
August show.
A lot of people moved to this
area in the 1970s, and theyre
turning 65, said Eiji Kushibiki,
a Chiba Bank executive. Med-
ical resources arent catching
up with the increase in the el-
derly population.
Kushibiki expects hospitals
in the prefecture to seek as
much as 60 billion yen in funds
to revamp their facilities.
Lenders including Chiba
Bank, Mizuho Bank and Bank
of Yokohama set up a health
care fund in September that will
invest as much as 10 billion yen.
It will acquire shares and extend
subordinated loans to medical
institutions, nursing-care op-
erators and other related busi-
nesses, Jun Watanabe, the exec-
utive managing director of the
state-run Regional Economy
Vitalization Corp, said at a news
conference September 1.
Abes administration is reduc-
ing medical fees set by Japans
universal health care insur-
ance system by 1.26 per cent
from this month, according to
the Health Ministry. His pre-
decessors reduced the amount
hospitals could charge on four
occasions since 2002, trimming
the amount of subsidies paid by
the government in the process.
Hospitalisation costs consist
of about 40 per cent of total
medical bills, according to the
Health Ministry. Decreasing
hospital stays to the OECD
average of 7.4 days could cut
Japans outlays. Japan spends
64 per cent of its hospital inpa-
tient costs on seniors, versus
48 per cent for Canada and 34
per cent for South Korea, ac-
cording to OECD data.
Theres no doubt hospital
stays are too long in Japan,
Healthcare Management Part-
nerss Murayama said. Short-
ening them would allow more
patients to be moved through
the system. BLOOMBERG
Yuji Inokuchi, chairman of Jukoukai Hospital (centre) looks at a laptop
computer in the nurses station at the hospital in Tokyo. BLOOMBERG
Church blaze kills four
family members in Japan
FOUR members of one family,
including two young children,
died in a fire that broke out early
yesterday at a church in the
central Ishikawa prefecture of
Japan. The four victims are
believed to be Ayako Takabuchi,
37, her two sons, aged two and
four, and her 68-year-od
mother, local police said. They
had built the church next to their
home in Nonoichi city in order to
practise their Shinto-derived
Tenri-kyo religion, police said.
Rescuers recovered four
bodies from the gutted
building, a police spokesman
said. They are believed to be
Takabuchi, two boys and her
mother as we have not been
able to contact them since the
fire. AFP
Explosion injures 5 at
Canadian industrial park
FIVE people were injured one
seriously when an explosion
ripped through an industrial
plant in Canada on Saturday,
police said. Emergency services
raced to the Veolia ES Canada
Industrial Services site in Sarnia,
Ontario to find a raging fire and
several injuries. Five persons
were transported to a health
centre in Sarnia. One person
was subsequently airlifted to
[Ontario], a police statement
said, adding an investigation had
been launched. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Addis Ababas monorail project keeps
Ethiopia on track for transformation
OUT of the dust and rubble of
decimated junctions, soaring
slabs of concrete are returning
a semblance of order to the
centre of Addis Ababa, Ethio-
pias mushrooming capital.
The edices are there to
prop up Africas rst light rail
system, an arresting sign of
Ethiopias progress since the
dark days of famine and mili-
tary rule in the 1980s. The gov-
ernment hopes the project,
funded and built by China,
will be running next year
possibly in time to transport
voters to polling booths at na-
tional elections in May.
The $475 million (295m)
electried rail is one of many
projects in an ambitious
ve-year growth and trans-
formation plan that ends in
July. Although there will be
shortfalls in the Soviet-style
strategy based more on aspi-
ration than expectation, the
rail is set to be an impres-
sive achievement by a nation
desperate to shed its tag as a
poster child of poverty.
Its magnicent in Addis
to construct 34 kilometres of
railway along the main arteries
of the city which is extremely
busy with pedestrians and
vehicular trafc ows, says
31-year-old project manager
Behailu Sintayehu. In the last
couple of years especially we
have achieved great progress
and now were almost on com-
pletion phase.
Potential commuter Won-
dimagegn Daniel isnt too
sure where the train goes,
where it stops or how much
it will cost, but hes also ex-
cited about it. I have never
seen this kind of thing in our
county, he says. Borrowing
85 per cent of the funds from
the Export-Import Bank of
China is not ideal, but a poor
country like Ethiopia has no
option, the 20-year-old says.
The two lines cross at Meskel
Square, an iconic open space
at the citys core, used for po-
litical demonstrations and
public events such as the 2012
funeral of Meles Zenawi, the
leader who had mastermind-
ed Ethiopias development as
president then prime minister
since 1991.
Beneath that intersection,
Daniel is waiting to catch a
minibus to do his job ferrying
bidding documents. The rail
will become a competitor for
minibus operators, but those
present arent keen to discuss
its impact. Its not good to
talk about the train, as I am
afraid of the government,
says one, opting to remain
anonymous.
As well as pouring funds into
infrastructure and promoting
value-adding industries, Ze-
nawi maintained a security-
heavy state during his 21-year
rule and controlled an ethni-
cally diverse ruling coalition.
The regimes focus has been on
promoting citizens collective
responsibilities to contribute
to development rather than
protecting individual rights.
People are wary of speaking
out, and outspoken activists
from the media, civil society
or opposition can easily nd
themselves on the wrong side
of the law.
Much of recent annual
growth of up to 10 per cent
is credited to infrastructure
spending, often using credit
from Asian partners such as
India and China. Long-term
donors including the US and
World Bank focus their efforts
on more prosaic tasks like sup-
porting the poorest people,
funding local governments
and improving access to wa-
ter, health and education.
The crown jewel of the gov-
ernments programme is a
2.5bn hydroelectric plant on
the Blue Nile river, which it
hopes will power industriali-
sation and turn Ethiopian into
a regional electricity hub. The
scheme is largely self-funded
and promoted as the symbol
of an emerging nation no lon-
ger reliant on outsiders.
If thats the future, Assefa
Tessema is Ethiopias past or
thats how he sees it. He has
lived with his wife in a two-
room government-owned
shack for 47 years thats now
next to the railway. They sur-
vive on his pension of 10.55
a month from 27 years as an
army doctor. Tessema, who is
in his 70s, is sitting outside his
home holding scissors to snip
at his hair its too expensive
these days for the barber to
come round.
Soaring ination makes him
long for communist-era price
xing of the 70s and 80s. The
one thing Assefa is looking for-
ward to is the government re-
locating him to an apartment
when the trains start running.
As for the railway, for the next
generation it will be nice, he
says.
The laying of tracks beside
his house is overseen by the
state-owned Ethiopian Rail-
ways Corporation, which is
building a nationwide net-
work connecting landlocked
Ethiopia to the rest of the
Horn of Africa, with help from
China, Turkey and, the coun-
try hopes, Brazil, Russia and
India.
While praising Ethiopias
growth, the International
Monetary Fund has expressed
concern at rising debt and a
stied private sector. Public
enterprises managing multi-
billion dollar projects are weak
at nancial reporting, adding
uncertainty to the strategy, it
says .
Ofcials argue private com-
panies benet as contractors
and suppliers for the projects.
Schemes like the light rail pro-
vide 2.7 million jobs in a coun-
try short of them, President
Mulatu Teshome recently said.
One of those labouring on the
railway is happy enough with
his Chinese managers, but
says his fee of 50 birr (1.50)
a day is insufcient and that
theres no safety recently
four workers died when a hole
they were digging collapsed,
he says.
Disgruntled drivers also
complain about a lack of
junctions, while observers
speculate about an appar-
ent absence of stations and
pedestrian crossings. Project
manager Behailu says a multi-
agency steering committee is
working out such issues.
In reality, there will be
many more growing pains
for Addis Ababa as radical
efforts continue to remake
a 125-year-old city of over 5
million people. Local gov-
ernment worker Mahlet Tes-
faye is another whose tiny
home will be demolished for
the project. Yet shes more in-
terested in its impact on the
nations image.
As Ethiopians, its hard for
us to get a visa to America or
Europe, she says. Soon for-
eigners will nd it hard to get
a visa to Ethiopia, as we will be
developed. THE GUARDIAN
A man walks past a portion of the Addis Ababa light railway under
construction in January. AFP
India court rules that DNA can be
tested to prove womens indelity
I
NDIAS top court on Wednesday
said DNA tests on a child can be
ordered to prove the infidelity of
its mother, which rights groups
say will set a dangerous precedent in
the country.
Activists and some political leaders
warned this week that the judgment
violates the privacy of women and chil-
dren, and could harm the reputation
of hundreds of innocent women. They
also said they were concerned it would
increase harassment of women.
On the face of it, a DNA test would
seem to be an easy solution but this
would set a dangerous precedent since
adultery is used by many men to jus-
tify domestic violence and divorce,
said Astrid Lobo Gajiwala, a Catholic
woman theologian and medical doctor
based in Mumbai.
Gajiwala said that it would appear
the ethical interests of the child are
being sacrificed to further the interests
of the husband.The childs legitimacy
is at stake and the outcome of the test
can affect its entire future. [Further-
more], the privacy of the child is being
invaded, she told ucanews.com.
The courts verdict came in a family
dispute when a husband said the child
was that of another man and sought
divorce on the grounds of adultery. The
case involving Dipanwita Roy of Kolk-
ata and her husband Ronobroto Roy
came to the Supreme Court when the
wife challenged a Kolkata High Courts
order for a DNA test.
In allowing DNA testing, the two-
judge bench wrote, The interest of
justice is best served by ascertaining
the truth and the court should be fur-
nished with the best available science
and may not be left to bank upon pre-
sumptions, unless science has no
answer to the facts in issue.
The ruling continued: Despite the
consequences of a DNA test, it was
permissible for a court to allow it, if it
was eminently needed, after balancing
the interests of the parties.
Such a judgment violates human
rights and shows women in a poor
light, said Shanimol Usman, secretary
of the All India Congress Committee, a
prominent political party.
Usman, 47, a practicing lawyer based
in Kerala, said the ruling would have
far reaching consequence of damag-
ing the social and moral values of
[Indian] society.
Ordering a DNA test against a mar-
ried woman will put her under the
shadow of suspicion. Its going to hurt
women forever, said Usman, before
asking who will compensate the wom-
an for reputational damages if the test
proves her innocent.
Shabnam Hashmi, a woman rights
activist in Delhi, expressed similar sen-
timents, saying the ruling could
become a tool to intimidate wives.
I question the language itself. What
is the definition of infidelity? I think we
should come out of such archaic atti-
tudes, she said. I hope the woman
appeals.
A Supreme Court verdict cannot be
appealed, but lawyers are permitted to
file petitions for review. They are rare-
ly, however, considered.
Supreme Court lawyer MP Raju told
ucanews.com the existing Indian Evi-
dence Act allows the court to presume
that a child born to a husband and wife
is their legitimate child.
The law disallowed ordinary evi-
dence to prove the legitimacy of the
child because of the sensitivity involv-
ing the family and the child, but
allowed the best evidence.
Until now, he said, the best evidence
to prove a child was born outside wed-
lock was to prove parents non-access
to each other at any time the child
could have been conceived.
But in the past decade we have also
been seeing the court moving progres-
sively toward accepting DNA testing
in paternity and inheritance disputes,
he said. The latest verdict could be seen
as a natural progression, he added.
However, Raju said there should be
restrictions and regulations in imple-
menting the judgment to safeguard
the interest of women and children,
two of societys most vulnerable
groups. UCANEWS.COM
Garden party
Spore prez
takes walk
on wild side
S
INGAPORES President
Tony Tan took a walk on
the wild side Friday with
a trip to the Royal Botanic
Gardens in London as he
wrapped up his state visit to
Britain.
Tan toured the gardens, the
worlds largest collection of
living plants, at the end of a
historic four-day visit, during
which he stayed with Queen
Elizabeth II at Buckingham
Palace.
The rst state visit to
Britain by a Singaporean
president, which formally
began Tuesday, comes ahead
of the city-state celebrating
the 50th anniversary of its
independence next year.
Tan also on Friday visited
the Lloyds of London insur-
ance market for a tour of the
trading oors and a lunch
to discuss ties between the
nancial centres of London
and Singapore.
His nal engagement
before leaving Britain was to
be a visit to Imperial College
London University, where
he was to meet Singaporean
students and hear about
phenome research and cyber
security. AFP
Photo of the double-helical struc-
ture of a section of DNA, discov-
ered by James Watson, Francis
Crick and Maurice Wilkins. AFP
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
World
Google exec completes record skydive
A GOOGLE executive set a new re-
cord Friday by jumping successfully
from near the top of the stratosphere
some 135,000 feet, or 41,000 me-
tres high, his project website said.
The record dive by 57-year-old
Alan Eustace, who is a senior vice
president of knowledge at Google,
was conducted as part of the Strato-
spheric Explorer project to allow
manned exploration of the strato-
sphere above 100,000 feet.
According to a statement from the
Paragon Space Development Corpo-
ration, Eustace completed the four-
hour mission over Roswell, New
Mexico, using a specially designed
space suit and balloon module to
carry him to the stratosphere.
Ascending at about 1,000 feet
per minute, Alan achieved his tar-
get altitude in about two and a half
hours, the statement said.
He spent a short time, around a
half hour, experiencing the won-
ders of the stratosphere before be-
ing released from the balloon. In
rapid free fall, Alan experienced a
short period of near weightlessness
and within 90 seconds exceeded the
speed of sound.
The previous record was set by
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgart-
ner in 2012, jumping from a height
of nearly 128,000 feet or 38,969 me-
tres, also from New Mexico.
Eustaces free-fall into the atmo-
sphere lasted about ve minutes,
and he deployed his parachute at
around 18,000 feet and oated
gently to the ground, the state-
ment said.
Within four hours of launch, Alan
arrived at the launch site where the
team and guests toasted his achieve-
ment and safe return.
Paragon produced the recovery
systems for the project, designed by
the engineering rm ILC Dover with
assistance from several other con-
sultants and companies.
The New York Times, which rst
reported the news, quoted Eustace
as saying, It was amazing. It was
beautiful. You could see the dark-
ness of space and you could see the
layers of atmosphere, which I had
never seen before.
The Times said Eustace was pro-
pelled from the module with a small
explosive charge, sending him trav-
elling briey at supersonic speeds,
creating a sonic boom heard by ob-
servers on the ground.
According to Paragon, the sys-
tem has wide-ranging applications
for the study of the science of the
stratosphere.
These include the development
of means for spaceship crew egress,
the study of dynamics of bodies at
Mach 1, new high altitude aircraft
suits, and setting of records for
space diving, sailplaning and bal-
looning.
Without special equipment, hu-
mans cannot live at that altitude, ac-
cording to Paragon, which says that
besides being unable to breath, ex-
posure to the vacuum of space will
cause uids in the body to boil.
The space suit is similar to those
used for the Apollo missions and on
the International Space Station, the
company said.
The missions by Eustace and
Baumgartner offer hope for res-
cue and evacuation from troubled
spacecraft. The US space shuttle
was tted with a crew evacuation
system after the 1986 Challenger di-
saster. AFP
This picture obtained courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corporation shows
the StratEx team lling a high-altitude balloon to take Googles Alan Eustace to the
stratosphere on Friday in Roswell, New Mexico. AFP/PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORP
Female monkey climbs social ladder at zoo
Stricter rules on Ebola urged
A FEMALE monkey at Takasa-
kiyama Natural Zoological
Garden in Oita, Japan, is
attracting attention as she
makes her mark in the largest
group at the zoo.
How did she learn how to
get along with the group?
asked visitors and zoo staffers
after the 15-year-old Mirusa
got close to the males in the
higher ranks of her group,
earning their trust. Now, she
behaves more powerfully than
some males.
Mirusa is in her late late 40s
in terms of human age. After
the disappearance of the
groups leader, Bentsu, in
January, Mirusa continually
displayed subservience to
monkeys in the groups high-
er ranks such as Zorome, 28,
and Omugi, 13, by grooming
them, and gained their trust.
Bentsu, who made a come-
back as the boss of the group
of about 700 monkeys after
he went missing last year, was
declared dead after going
missing again. Zorome took
Bentsus place.
Mirusas timing in getting
close to the males without
annoying them was miracu-
lously good, according to a
zoo staffer.
Meanwhile, she gradually
came to completely ignore
lower-ranked males and start-
ed to glare at males larger than
her, threatening them by shak-
ing the branches of trees.
Intrigued by such behaviour,
a zoo employee in May tried a
peanuts test, which is used
to determine the ranking
among male monkeys. When
a zoo employee puts a peanut
between two monkeys, the
one who takes the peanut first
is regarded as being ranked
higher. Mirusa was first to take
the peanut in front of a male
monkey ranked fifth.
In a similar test in August,
Mirusa got into fight with
another male, and after she
made loud calls, Omugi rushed
to her aid, scaring the male
monkey away. Her bold action
surprised everybody.
Now, visitors can see such
scenes as Mirusa sitting on a
stump normally reserved for
upper-ranked male monkeys,
cramming her mouth with food,
or making male monkeys groom
her. It is said female monkeys
never lead a group. However,
Yuko Sugamoto, a 41-year-old
zoo staffer who has observed the
monkeys for more than 20 years,
expects Mirusa will become a
star like the late Bentsu.
Ive never seen such a clever
female monkey. As someone of
the same sex, I think I can learn
something from her cleverness
and bold attitude about taking
action, Sugamoto said. THE
YOMIURI SHIMBUN
C
RAIG Spencer crisscrossed
New York City in the days
after he returned from treat-
ing Ebola patients in West
Africa riding the subway, going for a
5-kilometre run, grabbing coffee on the
Highline, bowling in Brooklyn.
And while the 33-year-old doctor
notified authorities when he developed
a fever and was quickly isolated at Bel-
levue Hospital Center, his own Ebola
diagnosis prompted the governors of
New York and New Jersey on Friday to
impose a mandatory 21-day quarantine
for medical workers returning from the
countries hit hardest by the epidemic.
That action all but overshadowed the
days good news: In Washington, a smil-
ing Dallas nurse named Nina Pham
hugged President Barack Obama in the
Oval Office after being declared Ebola-
free by doctors. And in New York, physi-
cians said Spencer remained in stable
condition, even as officials fanned out
to track down anyone he might have
encountered in recent days.
The new quarantine rules, instituted
late Friday by New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov-
ernor Chris Christie, came amid a
deepening debate across the country
over whether federal restrictions need
to be tightened for anyone arriving in
the United States from the Ebola-
stricken countries of West Africa.
Those in favour of strict quarantines
argue that the current federal require-
ment that travellers without symp-
toms take their temperatures regularly
and report them to the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention are too
lax, and that its foolish to allow people
with potential exposure to Ebola to
move freely throughout society.
But those who oppose automatic
quarantines insist that proper self-
monitoring removes almost any likeli-
hood of transmission, given that Ebola
typically is contagious only after symp-
toms appear. They say that requiring a
three-week quarantine would deter
some aid workers from travelling to
West Africa to fight the epidemic.
The Obama administration said it
was weighing the dilemma.
We do want to ensure that whatever
policies we put in place takes as the first
priority the protection of the American
public, White House press secretary Josh
Earnest said on Friday. But at the same
time, we dont want to overly burden
those individuals who are going to great
lengths to try to serve their fellow man
and stop this outbreak at the source.
Some experts worry that it is already
happening.
For everybody who is professionally
trying to go to the three epidemic coun-
tries, the situation has become more
difficult with each passing day and each
Ebola case or alleged Ebola case
named in the United States, said Laurie
Garrett, a senior fellow for global health
at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mark Rothstein, a bioethics professor
at the University of Louisville, said the
government could try to strike a com-
promise, such as recommending
health-care workers returning from
West Africa adhere to a 10-day quaran-
tine followed by self-monitoring.
The lack of consensus among fed-
eral and state governments, as well as
among aid groups, on how to deal with
volunteers returning from Ebola-rav-
aged countries, underscored the con-
fusion, fear and political pressure
caused by the handful of Ebola cases.
But even groups working on the front
lines of the crisis disagree on whether
returning volunteers should face man-
datory isolation for weeks.
Doctors Without Borders, which
employed Spencer in Guinea and has
led the effort to combat Ebola, said that
quarantining is neither warranted nor
recommended in the absence of symp-
toms, and that as long as a returning
staffer remains healthy, normal life
can proceed. The group has specific
guidelines for returning aid workers,
including checking their temperatures
twice daily and contacting the organi-
sation immediately if symptoms devel-
op something Spencer did.
Until this week, the group said in a
statement, out of more than 700 expa-
triate staff deployed so far to West
Africa, no staff person has developed
confirmed Ebola symptoms after
returning to their home country.
Meanwhile, the US-based global
relief group Samaritans Purse, which
has nearly two dozen expatriate staff-
ers working in Liberia, has chosen to
go beyond CDC recommendations.
We just didnt have confidence in
them, quite frankly, Samaritans Purse
vice president Ken Isaacs said of the
existing CDC guidelines. We felt more
strict protocols were in order, so we
created our own.
The relief group began requiring all
returning staff to stay isolated for 21
days, away from family members. The
organisation houses workers within an
hours drive of medical facilities, such
as Emory University or the NIH, which
are equipped to handle Ebola patients,
in case someone gets sick. The workers,
who are paid their normal salaries, are
not allowed to take public transit or
touch anyone, and must take their
temperature multiple times a day.
Thats just a part of the deal, and
they have accepted that, said Isaacs,
who acknowledges that the require-
ments make it potentially more diffi-
cult to recruit volunteers to work in
West Africa. Weve never felt comfort-
able that just coming back and letting
people go about life as normal and take
their temp two times a day was suffi-
cient. THE WASHINGTON POST
Mirusa (centre) has moved quickly up the social order in Takasakiyama
Natural Zoological Gardens large group of monkeys. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
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H
ALLOWEEN is a holiday
shrouded in darkness,
linked to the supernatural
and known for inspiring
fear. So its not surprising that there
are many misconceptions about its
traditions, origins and meaning.
Here are some of the most common.
Beware of razor blades in candy
apples.
Police in Denver this year are warn-
ing parents about the prospect of pot-
infused candy. We advise that you
should thoroughly check your chil-
drens candy, the department posted
on its Facebook page, and not just
for homemade, opened, or suspicious
items, but also for any marijuana edi-
bles that look eerily close to main-
stream candies kids eat every day.
This is just the latest iteration of a
perennial concern. A 2011 Harris
Interactive poll found that 24 per cent
of parents were fearful that their chil-
dren might be poisoned by tam-
pered-with or spoiled treats. In fact
there is little, if any, evidence that
this has ever happened.
Joel Best, a sociology and criminal
justice professor at the University of
Delaware, has examined reports of
Halloween sadism going back as far
as 1958. I have been unable to find a
substantiated report of a child being
killed or seriously injured by a con-
taminated treat picked up in the
course of trick-or-treating, Best
writes. There have been examples of
product tampering, but not related to
Halloween. And there was one 1974
death blamed on poisoned Pixy Stix
though the 8-year-old Texas boy was
actually murdered by his father, who
was trying to cash in on his sons life
insurance. Other reports of Hallow-
een sadism have turned out to be
hoaxes or have had more benign
explanations.
Halloween is a quintessentially
American holiday.
Traditions focused on accumula-
tion and consumption may seem
very American, and certainly an
American-style Halloween has
evolved. But the origins of the holiday
can be traced back to a pre-Christian
Celtic festival called Samhain (pro-
nounced SAH-wen). For the Celts,
November 1 marked the end of the
harvest and the beginning of the new
year. They believed that the souls of
the dead mingled among the living at
that time. And so they associated the
fruits of the harvest with death, the
afterlife and the supernatural.
Later, after Saint Patrick and other
missionaries converted Ireland to
Christianity, November 1 became
All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day,
and the eve of All Hallows became
known as Halloween. It featured
feasts, the blessing of the hearth,
and the lighting of candles and bon-
fires to welcome wandering souls. It
was and remains a family celebra-
tion in Ireland.
Few early American settlers
observed Halloween. It was Irish
immigrants in the 19th century who
were responsible for bringing many
Halloween customs to the US.
Halloween is Satanic.
This is a concern especially for
some Evangelical Christians. Hal-
loween is a festival for demonic spir-
its, Pat Robertson said this month.
The whole idea of trick-or-treating is
the druids would go to somebodys
house and ask for money, and if they
didnt get money, theyd kill one of
their sheep. I mean, that was the
trick. So it was serious stuff. And all
this business about goblins and jack-
o-lanterns and all that all comes out
of demonic rituals of the druids and
the people who lived in England at
that particular time.
Actually, the devil wasnt part of the
Samhain festival celebrated by the
Celts or the druids, who made up
their priestly caste. They made sacri-
fices in honour of the dead, but those
sacrifices more often took the form of
burned crops rather than animals.
Contrary to some accounts, there
was no human sacrifice.
It was only when the Catholic
Church tried to supplant Samhain
and other native holidays that the
church branded practitioners of rival
religions as devil-worshippers.
Beliefs in the wandering dead per-
sisted, but the supernatural beings
honored by the Celts became associ-
ated with evil. And the Celtic under-
world became associated with the
Christian hell.
Yes, devils remain a symbol of Hal-
loween and you may see a few of
them scurrying from door to door.
But Halloween is a time when people
project their fears in a safe and play-
ful way. When else will you see imag-
es of death on suburban lawns?
Trick-or-treating has long been a
central feature of Halloween.
Wearing costumes and demand-
ing treats can also be traced to the
Celtic period and the first few cen-
turies of the Christian era, when
food and drink were left out to
placate wandering souls, fairies,
witches and demons. As the cen-
turies wore on, people began
dressing like these creatures, per-
forming antics in exchange for
food and drink. By the Middle
Ages, masked solicitations were
associated with All Souls Day and
other holidays in countries inf lu-
enced by Catholicism.
But, according to folklorist Tad
Tuleja, trick-or-treating did not
descend directly from those tradi-
tions. By his account, the practice
as we know it in the United States is
largely a product of an effort by
local governments and businesses
in the 1930s and 40s to promote an
alternative to pranking and the
rowdier aspects of Halloween.
Trick or treat has gradually
replaced buggy stealing as the
appropriate way for children to
enjoy the holiday, he writes.
Indeed, early descriptions of Hal-
loween in the US generally dont refer-
ence any activities that resemble
knocking on doors to ask for treats.
The practice became ubiquitous,
however, in the post-World War II
years, after the lifting of sugar rations
and as suburbanisation made going
from house to house easier than when
people lived far from their neighbors.
You cant have Halloween without
pumpkins.
In Ireland and Scotland, jack-o-
lanterns have traditionally been
made out of large turnips. They are
hollowed out, carved with a face, car-
ried as lanterns and set in spooky
places, such as graveyards. European
settlers first encountered the pump-
kin in the New World. Because it is
already hollow, it is much easier to
carve. So pumpkins replaced turnips
in America.
Why have a jack-o-lantern at all?
The symbolism goes back to an old
European folk tale. A blacksmith
named Jack scoffed at Saint Peter and
tricked the devil, and so was denied
entrance to both heaven and hell. He
scooped up a coal from the embers of
hell in a turnip and uses it to light his
way as he wanders, endlessly,
between two worlds.
So the jack-o-lantern symbolises a
marginal creature, a trickster, danger-
ous but fascinating, like so much else
in this ancient and modern tradition
of Halloween. THE WASHINGTON POST
Five myths about Halloween
Actually, you can have Halloween without pumpkins. AFP
Jack Santino is a folklorist at Bowling
Green State University. His books include
The Hallowed Eve and Halloween and
Other Festivals of Death and Life.
Comment
Jack Santino
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Lifestyle
INDIAS Kama Sutra most
often evokes an exotic bible of
sexual positions regularly con-
sulted for blush-inducing tips
in glossy magazines.
However a new exhibition in
Paris hopes to flip these mis-
conceptions on their head.
For the first time, the Hindu
text dating to the fourth cen-
tury is examined in an exhibi-
tion of some 350 sculptures,
paintings and everyday items.
The aim, says Indian curator
Alka Pande, is to show it is not
a dirty little book and that it is
not [just] a book on sexual
positions.
I want them to see it as a
book of life, as a book of pleas-
ure, as a book of celebrating
the finer nuances of a great
style of living and aesthetics,
she told AFP.
The exhibit, at the Pinaco-
theque gallery through Janu-
ary, is not only erotic, its about
sensuality, its about pleasure,
its all about music, dance, how
to live a good life, she said.
One of the gallerys security
guards told AFP that a few peo-
ple, scandalised at images of
acrobatic intercourse, orgies
and even bestiality in the cur-
rent show, had stormed out.
They didnt take time to
read the explanations, she
shrugged.
In reality, the better-known
erotic side of the Kama Sutra
is only one of seven tomes in a
compilation by Vatsyayana, a
member of the highest priest-
ly class of Hindu society.
The Kama Sutra looks at the
third of four pillars of Hinduism,
which correspond to the differ-
ent stages of life. Having learned
morals and ethics, and attained
professional success, one can
focus on Kama, or desire, not
just sexually, but in drawing
pleasure from the arts, music
and the enjoyment of life.
Its actually a boring little
book otherwise, but I think
when people wanted to illus-
trate it, it became like a pleasure
book and . . . nothing sells better
than sex, said Pande. People
dont know that it is seven books
they just think: Oh my God,
does a man stand on his head
and have sex with six women at
the same time?
Bathed in warm colours of
saffron, green and purple, the
exhibit takes viewers on a jour-
ney through the 36 chapters of
the work, which looks at society
and social concepts, how to find
and woo a wife, even how to
arrange household furniture.
The book suggests both men
and women study the 64 arts,
anything from how to make a
bed to the art of war, magic, and
teaching parrots to speak.
The book also details how to
seduce the wives of others, and
that most mysterious of pur-
suits: examination of the state
of a womans mind.
Images and sculptures of
the gods Shiva and Parvati
the idealised couple scenes
of childbirth, and erotic reliefs
often seen on ancient temples
take their place beside objects
of devotion, such as the phal-
lic lingam.
Sculptures of women sneak-
ily having sex with a man oth-
er than her husband, or a man
with a courtesan, show the
forward-thinking parts of a
book that even mentions tech-
niques of homosexual love-
making. Of course the famous
depiction of yogic sexual posi-
tions abound, alongside pic-
tures of sex with animals.
In ancient Hinduism, the
difference between man and
animal was not as marked as
in our culture. This is explained
by the fact that a man could
have been an animal in a previ-
ous life, read a note alongside
the exhibit.
Pande explains that in tradi-
tional India, sexuality was a
way to view the world, and the
Western guilt around eroticism
made a work like the Kama-
Sutra hard to understand.
It has no concept of sin, it
has no concept that you have
sex only for procreation, it is
really about celebrating the
good life, she said.
This is also seen in the
mythology surrounding Hin-
dus pantheon of gods, each of
whom has a consort.
If in Christianity God is
love, in India god makes love.
The better lover a god is, the
better god he is, said Pinaco-
theque director Marc Restel-
lini. AFP
H
OW do you defend your-
self against scores of tear
gas wielding police while
manning the barricades at
Hong Kongs protest camps? Unleash
the wrath of Chinese deity Guan Yu.
Thats just one of the options avail-
able to players of a new smartphone
game which has swiftly become a hit
among gamers and protesters in the
southern Chinese city.
Yellow Umbrella has been down-
loaded more than 40,000 times from
Google Plays store since its release
on Monday, the games developers
told AFP, although it has yet to re-
ceive approval from Apple and is no-
ticeably absent from Googles online
store in mainland China.
The game puts players on a pro-
tester barricade as it is charged by
lines of police ofcers, triad thugs,
angry locals and even the citys
leader Leung Chun-ying dressed as
a wolf.
Incense sticks, stacks of money and
durian fruit can all be placed in front
of the attackers to slow them down in
a tower defence format similar to the
wildly popular Plants vs Zombies.
And when things get really tough,
protesters can call down Guan Yu a
popular Chinese deity prayed to for
protection.
They [the protesters] like Guan
Yu very much because they want to
resolve the problem but they dont
know how to do it. They dont want
to use violence, so they just ask the
god to help, the games creator Fung
Kam-keung told AFP.
The game itself is lled with cul-
tural references inspired by nearly
a month of mass rallies and road-
blocks calling for Beijing to rescind
its insistence that Hong Kongs next
leader be vetted by a loyalist commit-
tee ahead of elections in 2017.
Yellow umbrellas and ribbons are
used as defensive tools as student
leader Joshua Wong, who has be-
come something of a local celeb-
rity and heart throb, cheers from the
barricades.
Leungs canine appearance is a
nod to a common insult thrown by
detractors at the citys leader, whose
name sounds similar to the Canton-
ese word for a wolf.
But in keeping with the protest
movements non-violent ethos pro-
testers cannot attack their assailants.
I wanted to make a game not only
for fun but also to show our support
to the students and to let others
know that they are very peaceful in
asking for real elections, Fung, the
31-year-old founder of game devel-
oper Awesapp, said from his ofce
in an industrial park in the citys Sha
Tin district.
After the tear gas, after the vio-
lence from gangsters and even po-
lice, I thought we needed to do more
to show our support, he added.
The democracy movement was
galvanised in late September af-
ter police used tear gas 87 times to
clear protesters who took over a ma-
jor road opposite the government
headquarters.
As the protest spread into other
parts of the city, demonstrators have
clashed over the weeks with angry
locals, thugs and police though the
rallies have for the most part been
largely peaceful.
Student leaders held talks with the
government on Tuesday. But the dis-
cussions made little headway and
there are fears a full breakdown in
talks could lead to further clashes.
The game was developed in just
ve days, and so far reviews are
positive.
We play this game in order to
keep ourselves reminded of our
struggle for freedom and democ-
racy. Fight for freedom! one user
Zux Kev, who gave the maximum
ve star rating, commented on the
Google Play store.
If youre a Hong Konger and
love democracy, play it, user Yeung
Tim-wing, who also gave a ve-star
rating to the game, said. AFP
The Umbrella Movement
gets own computer game
Twisted perceptions: Kama Sutra not a dirty little book
Mobile phone app designer Fung Kam-keung, CEO and founder of Awesapp Limited,
holds a smartphone with one of his latest app game called Yellow Umbrella at the
Awesapp Limited ofce in Hong Kong on Thursday. AFP
HUMANS are, in general, a supersti-
tious lot. Our tendency to see patterns
where they dont exist, and to falsely
apply cause to effect, may have helped
keep us alive when we were little more
than a band of frightened critters
scurrying about the savanna. Those
tendencies linger to the present day,
reected in our belief in completely
irrational things: Rabbits feet. Horo-
scopes. UFOs.
The Chapman Survey on American
Fears, a comprehensive study of the
fears, phobias and irrational beliefs of
the American people, was released last
week and contains an interesting sec-
tion on belief in the paranormal.
It nds that belief in certain paranor-
mal phenomenon like inuencing
the world with physical thought, and
foretelling the future with dreams are
widespread.
Its instructive to compare Ameri-
cans belief in the paranormal with
their understanding of science. For
instance, a 2014 AP poll found that 51
per cent of Americans said they were
condent that childhood vaccines are
safe and effective. This is roughly the
same proportion of Americans who
believe houses or rooms can be haunt-
ed by spirits.
Slightly over 40 per cent of Americans
believe in UFOs. This is higher than the
share of Americans who are condent
that global warming is real. About as
many Americans say they believe in
Bigfoot as say theyre condent that
the universe began with a big bang.
The authors provided breakdowns
by party afliation. In general, Demo-
crats were slightly and in some cases
signicantly more likely than Repub-
licans to believe in paranormal phe-
nomena: 75.6 per cent of Democrats
agreed that positive thoughts could in-
uence the physical world, compared
to 68.6 per cent of Republicans.
Democrats were signicantly more
likely than Republicans to believe in
fortune telling, and about twice as
likely to believe in astrology.
On the other hand, Republicans were
signicantly more likely to say that
Satan causes most evil in the world, a
reection of the higher degree of religi-
osity in the Republican party.
There were no signicant partisan
differences on belief in Atlantis, UFOs
or Bigfoot. THE WASHINGTON POST
Dems more likely to
believe in astrology,
fortune-telling: study
Travel
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Yoko Inoue

T
HERES a sightsee-
ing spot in Mem-
phis, Tennessee, that
draws 600,000 people
every year. About 200 adults
were lined up there recently
on a blisteringly hot day, with-
out showing any sign of fatigue
from the heat.
They were waiting to enter
Graceland, where Elvis Presley
lived for about 20 years until
his death in 1977.
Die-hard Presley fan Sandi
Goode, 75, said it was her 26th
visit to the mansion.
She could not stop talking
about the impact of hearing a
Presley song for the very rst
time, saying it was completely
different from any other mu-
sic she had
heard before
then and
that it com-
pelled her to
dance.
M e m -
phis is also
known as the
bi rthpl ace
of the blues,
devel oped
by slaves brought there to work
at cotton plantations along the
Mississippi River.
Born to a poor white family
in 1935 in Mississippi, Presley
grew up hearing the country
music that his parents listened
to and the blues that African-
Americans sang. When he was
13, he moved to Memphis with
his parents, who wanted to
nd jobs there.
In his late teens, Presley was
waiting for the opportunity to
make his debut as a singer while
working as a truck driver.
In July 1954, he sang Thats
All Right to himself while rest-
ing at a music studio (current-
ly Sun Studio) in Memphis.
His song caught the ears of
the studio manager who was
looking for a white singer who
could sing the music of black
people.
Presley recorded the song,
and it was broadcast on local
radio. It was an overnight sen-
sation, and Presleys image as
a rebellious young man spread
throughout the United States.
After that Presley rolled out
one hit song after another,
including Heartbreak Hotel
(1956).
John Doyle, curator of the
Rock n Soul Museum in Mem-
phis, said the environment of
Memphis in those days was
suitable for producing rock n
roll, saying, Elvis was really
the person, the lucky person,
and a very talented person,
who was in that right place at
the right time.
Doyle also said that even be-
fore the civil rights movement,
Presley succeeded in bringing
different races together with
his music.
Reecting on the history of
rock n roll, late John Lennon
once said, Before Elvis, there
was nothing.
However, Presleys popular-
ity fell when a frenzy over the
Beatles swept the US while
he was away from the music
world temporarily as a result
of being drafted into the mili-
tary.
W h e n
Presley sud-
denly died
of a heart
attack at 42,
he became
a legend.
This year
marks the
37th anni-
versary of
his death, but Presleys appeal
has not faded.
A 450-room hotel to accom-
modate Presley fans from all
over the world is scheduled to
be completed next to Grace-
land next year.
Hal Lansky, 62, is the owner
of Lansky Brothers, a clothing
store in Memphis that sup-
plied clothes for Presley even
before his musical debut. He
said Presley never forgot the
people who helped him.
Even now, recordings are
made almost every day at Sun
Studio, as the studio accepts
musicians from all over the
world who yearn to perform
in the place where rock n roll
was created.
Matt Ross-Spang, 27, a lo-
cal engineer who operates the
recording equipment that has
remained almost unchanged
since the old days, said his job
was like that of archaeologist,
as he listened to music from
the 50s and read books relat-
ed to the era.
Elvis Presley is buried next
to his parents in a garden at
the Graceland estate. Fans
around the world visit his
grave every year on August 16,
the anniversary of his death.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
People line up to enter Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley in Memphis.
Visitors include many Elvis fans from overseas. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
A trip through
time: Presley
in Memphis
Entertainment
21
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Thinking caps
Saturdays solution Saturdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO
GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
Alexanders day begins with gum stuck in his hair,
followed by more calamities. At the same time his
mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves
living through their own terrible, horrible, no good,
very bad day.
City Mall: 11:20am, 5:30pm
Tuol Kork: 11:25am, 6:15am
Meanchey: 11:15am, 3:45pm
ANNABELLE
A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural
occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after
their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
City Mall: 1pm, 5:20pm, 10:05pm
Tuol Kork: 11:45am, 1:30pm, 10:05pm
Meanchey: 3:45pm, 7:45pm
BOOK OF LIFE (3D)
Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling
the expectations of his family and following his
heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three
fantastic worlds
City Mall: 9:20am, 3:20pm, 5:45pm
Tuol Kork: 11:35am, 3:15pm, 5:45pm
Meanchey: 9:15am, 11:15am, 3:15pm
DRACULA UNTOLD
As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks,
young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster
feared by his own kingdom in order to obtain the
power needed to protect his own family, and the
families of his kingdom.
City Mall: 11am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 7:20pm
Tuol Kork: 9:25am, 1:15pm, 4:15pm, 5:15pm,
8:05pm
Meanchey: 9:15am, 1:15pm, 5:15pm, 10pm
FURY
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the
European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant
named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and
her five-man crew on a deadly mission.
City Mall: 3:05pm, 7:25pm
Tuol Kork: 1:35pm, 9:30pm
Meanchey: 1:05pm, 9:15pm
NOW SHOWING
Zumba @ Rose Garden
Dance tness based on samba, salsa,
merengue, martial arts and belly
dancing. Ideal for cardiovascular
tness and weight loss. The fee is
$10.
Rose Garden Clubhouse, Building B,
Floor 5B, Norodom Boulevard. 6pm
Pizza @ Show Box
The Katy Peri Peri Peri Chicken and
Pizza chefs serve their wood-red
pizza from their mobile kitchen in
front of Show Box. Reggae music will
be played all night.
Show Box, #11 Street 330. 6pm
Open Mic @ Slur Bar
Graham Cain, the musical comedian,
hosts an open mic night for any
customer who wishes to perform. A
free drink will be given to every
performer.
Slur Bar, #28 Street 172.
9:15pm
Adults Ballet @
Central School of Ballet
The class is structured to provide
students with a rm foundation in
technique, and is intended for those
who danced when they were younger
or are experienced in another genre.
Central School of Ballet Phnom Penh,
#10 Street 183. 7:15pm
ACROSS
1 Approach
5 Abbr. at the end of a list
9 Absolute bedlam
14 Unlock
15 Plum type
16 Cause of a red face?
17 Facing up to expected hardship
20 Gain in the polls
21 Duffers dream
22 Beware the ___ of March!
23 Brief period of time
26 Terrycloth term
28 French farewell
30 Fertilizer compound
34 Venomous snake
37 With a discount of
39 Alternative to window
40 Prepares for sailing
44 More than whats needed
45 Forms by carving
46 Thumbs-up vote
47 Connectors of stories
49 Marsh growth
52 Unwrap fruit
54 Showered?
57 Bit of smoke
60 Like FDRs deal
62 Hindu attire
64 Rise to
preeminence
68 Plight light
69 Out with it!
70 Periphery
71 Not relaxed
72 Gathering clouds, for one
73 What some students write on
DOWN
1 Corn holders
2 Narcotic from a poppy
3 Bygone Geo model
4 Its puzzling
5 Coop ovoid
6 What Tweety tawt he taw
7 Title for a big Turk (Var.)
8 Aquatic worm
9 Fine-wine-producing vineyard
10 Kind of medicine
11 ___ Lang Syne
12 S-shaped molding
13 Places for props
18 Financial aid basis
19 Dinner interruption, 90s-style
24 Musician Lofgren
25 Choppers, so to speak
27 Bay in the stable
29 Bride or groom? asker
31 Pale
32 ___ gin fizz
33 First lady on Mount Olympus
34 Creates wonderment
35 Canonical hour
36 Bread for a gyro
38 Rat residence
41 Tongs, e.g.
42 Relative of a rabbit
43 On the briny
48 Fax button
50 Piece of dinnerware
51 Caught, in a way
53 Send packing
55 Destroy gradually
56 Chrome blemishes
57 Drift, as an aroma
58 Part of an archipelago
59 Examine in detail
61 Fanciful notion
63 Run for, as public office
65 Born as, for women
66 First family member
67 ___ Little Indians
THE MIDDLE
TV PICKS
Ballerinas in Argentina. Classes in Phnom Penh are for experienced students. AFP
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in The Great Gatsby. AFP

10:55am CHILDREN OF MEN: A disillusioned federal
agent must battle his inner demons and protect
a young woman who holds the key to humanitys
survival. HBO
12:40pm KING KONG: A movie producer and hired
ship crew travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where
they encounter Kong, a giant ape who instantly falls for
the leading lady. HBO
6:40pm THE GREAT GATSBY: Would-be writer Nick
Carraway arrives in New York in 1922. Chasing his own
American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious
millionaire Gatsby and his cousin Daisy. HBO
11:45pm DIANA: A biographical drama that features
Princess Diana during the last two years of her life, as
she embarks on a final rite of passage. HBO
Lifestyle
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
22
Sontery and Engly
Social Life Team
Ngo Menghourng from CBM and Ty Ty
Sok Nareth, Chorn Chanreaksmey, Ung Uatana,
Ung Nimal and Chorn Chandara Nakeo
Jay, Yong Rith, Boyoon, Raksmey, Him Nary and Young Seang Hak
On Sunday, October 19, Aeon Mall welcomed a new line of cosmetics to its shelves the popular Korean skincare and makeup brand VDL.
Founded in 2012, VDL (Violet Dream Luminous to give it its full title) is made by LG, better known globally for electronics. Fittingly for the
brand, the launch event was a glamorous affair, featuring a fashion show and live makeup by professional makeup artists. All guests who at-
tended had the chance to win a draw bag of VDL cosmetic to take home with them.
Grand Opening VDL
@Aeon Mall
Rainnie and Marrie
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
23
Launch of the Art of Liv-
ing and CIA @ Intercon-
tinental Hotel
Global Youth Entrepreneurs
Forum 2014 @ Hong Kong
Petter Ng Meng Cheng, president at the Singa-
pore Club, and Sandeep Majumpar Sayed Ali Baba and Thomas Mathew
So Heng Votey, So Heng Vattana, Mam Mary and
Ra Nareth
Halley, Angela and Mikki
SP Venugopal, director at Realight Health Care
Limited, Sunitarao and Shilpanjali Sunitarao
Jamine, business development manager at Sram
& Mram Ltd, and Chansomaly Yeth, secretary to
chairman at Sram & Mram Ltd
Sailesh Hirnanadani, founder of CIA
Sandeep Majumpar Indian Ambassador Dinesh K. Patnaik
Guests Vanty, Chhaleta, Monypich and Chaknak
Dragon 100 Delegates Quinn Lai, Winky
On October 13, four Cambodians were among the lucky teenagers selected to participate
in this years Global Youth Entrepreneurs Forum. Taking place in Hong Kong, the event
brought 400 young people with keen business brains together to hear practical tips on
nding capital for investment, generating ideas and how best to manage their market-
ing strategies. As well as the scheduled talks, the event was an opportunity for promis-
ing entrepreneurs to start collecting business cards, and to build useful connections in
the world in which they hope to soon succeed. Although speakers came from around the
globe, including the US and Europe, the event focussed on local business opportunities,
with one talk entitled Why Asia is Competitive for Entrepreneurs.
On October 20, two NGOs hosted an ofcial inauguration ceremony at Intercontinen-
tal Hotel. The Art of Living is non-prot educational and humanitarian foundation,
whose mission is to help busy individuals minimize stress and achieve some inner
Zen. Organising the event was The Cambodia-Indian Association (CIA) a vibrant
organization that works to promote the richness and diversity of Indian art and culture
among the local people in Cambodia. During this inaugural event, guests were treated
to lessons in how to minimize stress, breathing techniques, meditation and even yoga
all of which are taught by the team at The Art of Living. Indian Ambassador Dinesh
K. Patnaik was the guest of honour, alongside some 250 individuals from the govern-
ment, NGOs and various embassies. Hong Menea
24
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Repsol Honda Team MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain performs a wheelie as he crosses the nish line during the Malaysian Grand Prix race at the Sepang International Circuit yesterday. AFP
Marquez equals record in Sepang
R
ECENTLY crowned world
champion Marc Marquez
romped to his 12th win of
the season in an eventful
Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday.
The Spanish Honda rider was fol-
lowed by Yamaha teammates Valen-
tino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. Mar-
quez, who completed the Sepang
circuit in 40 minutes 45.523 seconds,
now equals Australian Mick Doohans
record of 12 wins in a season. Crowd
favourite Rossi, who briey held the
lead after overtaking Lorenzo, n-
ished 2.445 seconds behind Marquez
to settle in second place.
Lorenzo, who started from third
and blitzed off the blocks in rapid-
re fashion, couldnt maintain the
momentum, nishing third, 3.508
seconds off his compatriot, who had
started from pole.
Marquez teammate, Dani Pedrosa,
who won the Malaysian Grand Prix
in the last two years, fell behind early
on after crashing out while trying to
challenge Lorenzo.
The Spaniard, who had started in
second place, came off his machine
again in the later stages and could
not complete the race.
The top trio was followed after a
sizable gap of more than 21 seconds
to the race leader by Germanys
Stefan Bradl on a Honda and Briton
Bradley Smith on a Yamaha Tech 3.
Spanish Yamaha Tech 3 rider Pol Es-
pargaro came in sixth despite break-
ing a bone in his left foot in a fall dur-
ing practice on Saturday.
Italian legend Rossi, who has won
seven premier class world titles, now
has 275 points in the standings, just
12 points ahead of two-time champi-
on Lorenzo. That means the ght for
runner-up will continue into the next
and last race in Valencia, where
Marquez will look to top the 12-wins-
per-season record.
The 21-year-old, who crashed
out of the Australian Grand Prix last
weekend, already clinched the cham-
pionship two races ago in Japan.
Last year Marquez became the
youngest MotoGP champion. AFP
Ecclestone grants Caterham team a two-race break
FORMULA One supremo
Bernie Ecclestone has told the
ailing Caterham team they can
miss the next two Grand Prix
without penalty as administra-
tors continue their quest to
find a buyer for the perennial
backmarkers.
Caterhams new owners and
previous chief Tony Fernandes
have been locked in a bitter
and public war of words, while
the teams factory in England
was closed on Thursday,
putting at risk the future of
some 200 staff.
Administrators confirmed on
Friday that Caterham would
not be in a position to compete
in both next weekends United
States Grand Prix and the ensu-
ing race in Brazil a week later.
Such action would normally
lead to a penalty being
imposed by Ecclestone but, in
light of Caterhams situation,
he has decided against any
punishment in the hope a
buyer can be found for the
struggling marque, with
admi ni st rat or Fi nbarr
OConnell optimistic someone
of proper financial backing
will eventually charge.
A statement issued on behalf
of Ecclestone on Friday said:
In a telephone conversation
today between Finbarr
OConnell and Bernie Eccle-
stone, Mr Ecclestone agreed to
support the administrators in
their wish to sell the Formula
One team to a party with the
financial strength to sustain it
into the future.
Mr Ecclestone also agreed to
give dispensation to Caterham
F1 such that it could, if neces-
sary, miss the US and Brazilian
Grands Prix, but hoped that a
new owner would be in a posi-
tion to race the team at the Abu
Dhabi Grand Prix.
The administrator has also
been placed in charge of
1MRT, the company which
owns Caterhams licence to
race in Formula One.
Major hope
Ecclestones statement add-
ed: Mr Colin Kolles, the previ-
ous principal of the team,
offered today to hand over
management control of 1MRT
to the administrators.
Lawyers for the administra-
tors and Mr Kolles are cur-
rently working on the paper-
work to effect this transfer.
It is hoped that any pur-
chaser of the F1 team will take
over the employees and they
will be able to recommence
their work including that at the
Leafield site.
The option of skipping races
will give OConnell additional
time to address concerns
regarding the safety of Cater-
hams cars raised by Japanese
driver Kamui Kobayashi.
You will know one of the
drivers complained about
technical difficulties with the
car and feared for his safety,
OConnell said earlier on Fri-
day. So we are looking into
those because clearly the cars
have to be safe before they
can be driven, so thats the
main issue I have at the
moment.
He added: Our objective is
to get this team racing on a
proper financial standing, and
hopefully if a funder comes
through, this team can run
again.
Its early days, but there is a
major hope that all of that can
happen.
On Thursday, the combative
Fernandes accused the con-
sortium of Swiss and Middle
Eastern businessmen who
took charge of the outfit in
June of failing to honour their
obligations.
If you agree to buy a busi-
ness, you must pay its bills,
Fernandes said.
They have breached that
promise and now, sadly, it is
others such as the employees
and the fans of the Caterham
F1 team that will suffer if the
team ceases to race.
His accusation came just 24
hours after Engavest, which
represents the group, threat-
ened legal action against the
Malaysian, with Kolles saying:
You have to understand this
deal was done on full disclo-
sure basis. AFP
Caterham team will be allowed to skip the next two F1 Grands Prix as they attempt to nd a buyer. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014 25
Malaysian Invasion sensations
Dan Riley
M
ALAYSIAN cage ght-
ing fans were treated
to a top night of home-
grown amateur action
on Saturday as well as some explo-
sive international bouts.
The second season of Malay-
sian Invasion Mixed Martial Arts
(MIMMA) concluded at Kuala Lum-
purs Stadium Negara with all seven
weight division titles on the line.
The card kicked off with a profes-
sional female yweight showdown
between Brazilian jiu-jitsu blue belt
Zhen Wei of Malaysia and Englands
Rachael Short. It was a one-sided
ght with The Iron Rose Wei tak-
ing the win via submission in the
rst round.
Stephen Onn, who blazed through
his preliminary ghts, took on de-
fending MIMMA middleweight
champion Jim Chong Jing Yi. Ex-
perience proved to be the deciding
factor as Yi dictated the whole ght,
which lasted only 36 seconds, to
come away with the TKO victory.
Fighting to retain his MIMMA
bantamweight title, Prabu Super-
man Somanaidu appeared cau-
tious early on but in the second
round he took things up a notch to
land a few good strikes and force a
referee stoppage.
The local crowd went crazy as po-
liceman Muhammad Hasrul entered
the cage to battle it out with Richie
Celestial for the lightweight belt.
Silat practitioner Hasrul knew that
he needed to stay off the ground
and avoid the BJJ superiority of Ce-
lestial. His heavy hands produced
the second knockout of the night.
Canadian Krav Maga specialist
Lenny Wheeler and Italian import
Massimo Capusella then battled it
out in the cage in their professional
lightweight bout. Wheeler denitely
lived up to his Show Stealer nick-
name, with aggressive attacks re-
sulting in a referee stoppage.
Kenny Yap, who chalked up three
professional wins since winning the
yweight title at last years MIMMA
nals, returned to the cage to face
Seah Zhang Yu, a late replacement
for Muhammad Aiman, who failed
to make weight. Evidently, 24 hours
was more than enough time for
Seah to prepare as he defeated Yap
with a knockout in the rst round
to grab the belt.
Fighting over the heavyweight
title vacated by last years champi-
on Adrian Tham were BJJ specialist
Darren Low and Mohammad Zul-
hanizam, also known as 50 Caliber.
Right from the start, both parties
pumped up the crowd as they trad-
ed strikes. However, Low emerged
victorious after completing a take-
down and Kimura arm submission
in the rst round.
In the welterweight title contest,
Agilan Thani locked horns with Ooi
Aik Tong, who was back to defend his
belt for the second successive year.
Agilan kept coming at Ooi, manag-
ing to oor him in the second round
and go on to win through grounding
and pounding.
Filipino-American sensation Mark
Mugen Striegl was in dominant
mood against veteran Kaiwhare Kai
Kara-France of New Zealand in the
co-main event of the evening, a pro-
fessional bantamweight encounter.
Striegl executed a ne rear naked
choke in the rst round, leaving Ka-
ra-France no choice but to tap out.
Headlining Saturdays card was
the much-talked about profession-
al open weight match between Will
The Kill Chope and MMA debu-
tant Matt Pellino, also known as
Liquid Monkey.
Pellino gave a good display of his
grappling skills in the rst round but
couldnt stop the highly experienced
Chope succeeding in the second
stanza with a triangle choke.
Jim Chong Jing Yi (left) grounds and pounds Stephen Onn in their Malaysian Invasion Mixed Martial Arts middleweight champion-
ship ght at Stadium Negara on Saturday. PHOTO SUPPLIED BY MIMMA
JAPANS Tatsuki Machida
got his post-Olympic figure
skating season off to a rous-
ing start Saturday, blitzing
the competition to defend
his Skate America title.
Machida, who led after Fri-
days short programme, eas-
ily won the mens free skate
to finish with a total 269.09
points at the Sears Centre
Arena.
American runner-up Jason
Brown finished almost 35
points back with a total of
234.17 points. Canadas Nam
Nguyen, making his senior
grand prix debut, was third
at 232.24.
Skating to Beethovens
Symphony No. 9, Machidas
flawless routine included a
quadruple toe loop-double
toe loop combination, and
a triple axel-triple toe loop
combination.
Japanese men have won
Skate America eight of the
last 10 years.
Machidas major contend-
ers fell by the wayside as
Denis Ten of Kazakhstan and
Jeremy Abbott both com-
pleted error-filled routines.
Abbott skated well and
had the home crowd on his
side but the USA Olympian
lost points when he botched
several of his jumps.
Canadas Nguyen, who is
the reigning world junior
champion, made the most
of his senior grand prix de-
but by reaching the podium.
The 16-year-old skated with
an air of confidence and
ease, finishing second in the
free skate behind Machida
(175.70) with 158.53 points.
Nguyen did not take part
in the Sochi Games but he
performed an exhibition
skate at the 2010 Vancouver
Olympics at age 11.
Madison Chock and Evan
Bates easily won the ice
dance with a score of 171.03,
finishing ahead of fellow
Americans Maia and Alex
Shibutani (160.33).
Olympic champions Meryl
Davis and Charlie White of
the US and Tessa Virtue and
Scott Moir of Canada are not
competing this season.
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
skated a clean routine to
lead after the ladies short
programme with 67.41
points. Tuktamysheva, 17,
didnt make the Russian
team that competed at the
Sochi Olympics in February.
Two-time reigning world
junior champion Elena Ra-
dionova, 15, who was too
young to compete during
the 2014 Winter Games, is
second with 65.57 points.
Radionova is hoping to im-
prove on her third place
finish at Skate America last
year.
She skated to the music
of Jennifer Lopezs Aint it
Funny and included the
lyrics, a new twist in the ISU
series this season. AFP
Japans Machida defends
his Skate America crown
Female fans boost Blackhawks
ALMOST half of the Chicago
Blackhawks followers are
women, forming a critical part
of the teams support and suc-
cess, said John McDonough,
president of the National
Hockey League club.
The franchise has a fan base
that is about 45 per cent
female, McDonough said yes-
terday at the Bloomberg Chi-
cago Sports Forum. Hockey
moms and millennials are key
parts of the teams female fol-
lowing, team owner Rocky
Wirtz said in an interview
after a panel discussion.
Theres 60 minutes of
action, Wirtz said. Theyre
having a good time.
Keeping that fan base
engaged is critical to the con-
tinued growth of the franchise
and other professional sports
teams. The increasing influ-
ence and importance of wom-
en as fans of professional
sports comes as the National
Football League has faced
criticism this year for its
response to domestic violence
by players, including former
Baltimore Ravens running
back Ray Rice.
Earlier this week, the NHL
suspended Los Angeles Kings
defenseman Slava Voynov
indefinitely from all club activ-
ities pending a formal investi-
gation by the league of an
arrest on charges of domestic
violence.
The female fan percentage
for the Blackhawks is higher
than the NHL, which stands at
37 per cent. The NFLs is 45 per
cent. Female fans are a very,
very important demographic
to us, McDonough said. Along
with younger fans, they have
been part of the teams resur-
gence after it failed to make
the playoffs in nine out of 10
seasons from the 1997-1998
season through the 2007-2008
season. Wirtz took over the
franchise from his father, Wil-
liam, who died in 2007.
Growing up in Chicago and
being a Blackhawks fan my
entire life, I was disappointed
and saddened by it,
McDonough said of the decline
before Rocky Wirtz took over.
There was just the period of
time where the Blackhawks
became somewhat of a
rumor.
One of the younger Wirtzs
first moves after taking over
the team was hi ri ng
McDonough, a former presi-
dent ofMajor League Baseballs
Chicago Cubs.
For years, the Blackhawks
were irrelevant locally, said
Marc Ganis, president of
Sportscorp Ltd., a Chicago-
based sports consulting firm.
Now the Blackhawks are con-
sistently ranked the No. 1 or
No. 2 most-popular team in
surveys of local sports fans,
Ganis said.
This is an extraordinary
turnaround weve had in Chi-
cago, Ganis said.
Before winning the Stanley
Cup in 2010, the Blackhawks
had the longest championship
drought in the NHL at 49 years.
The Blackhawks, who earlier
won the Stanley Cup in 1934,
1938 and 1961, also won the
championship trophy in 2013.
The Wirtz familys other
businesses include real estate
operations and a liquor-distri-
bution business, Wirtz Bever-
age Group. BLOOMBERG
Fans watch warm-ups before the Chicago Blackhawks take on the Minnesota Wild in Game Two of the 2014
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the United Center on May 4. AFP
Medals bagged on the
international mats
CAMBODIAN martial artists
grabbed a medley of medals at
the 3rd Southeast Asian
Vovinam Championship, which
was held over the weekend in
the Myanmar capital of
Naypyidaw. The Kingdom sent
16 individuals to compete in
events, and their return home
yesterday brought back a total
of three golds, three silvers
and nine bronzes. Meanwhile,
the Cambodian wrestling team
yielded a few podium places in
Singapore at the 2014
Southeast Asian and
Australian Championships.
Veteran mat master Chov
Sothera took bronze while
Chham Pisin struck silver, but
compatriots Ni Samnang and
Dorn Sreymao were unable to
add to the haul. CHHORN NORN,
TRANSLATED BY IN SOPHENG
Police team athletes top
podiums in aquathlon
MEMBERS of the National
Police Sports Club took a clean
sweep of the gold medals in the
aquathlon (running and
swimming) events of the 2014
National Triathlon
Championships, which were
held over the weekend at the
National Sports Complex.
According to Cambodian
Triathlon Federation general
secretary Ngin Sopanha, the
competition attracted 79 male
and 21 female athletes from
various clubs and associations.
The U18 boys and girls races
were comprised of a 150-metre
swim and a 2.6km run, while
the over-18 womens and
mens sections involved a 250m
swim and a 4km run. CHHORN
NORN, TRANSLATEDBY INSOPHENG
Murdaca wins event to
qualify for the Masters
AUSTRALIAS Antonio
Murdaca will play in the 2015
Augusta Masters and the
British Open Qualifying Series
this year after winning the
Asia-Pacific Amateur
Championship at Royal
Melbourne yesterday.
Murdaca, 19, from Adelaide,
became the first Australian
winner of the regional
championship, closing with a
one-under-par 71 to finish
seven shots clear of the field
for the biggest winning margin
in the events history. AFP
Giants steam-roll Royals
to level the World Series
THE San Francisco Giants
piled up runs relentlessly in an
11-4 victory over the Kansas
City Royals on Saturday to level
the 110th World Series at two
games apiece. With the win,
the Giants gained some much-
needed breathing room,
ensuring that Major League
Baseballs best-of-seven
championship showcase will
return to Kansas City for game
six tomorrow night. AFP
Toulon, Toulouse give
French away day cheer
TWO-TIME defending
European champions Toulon
took a big step towards the
European Champions Rugby
Cup knockout stages with a
solid 23-13 victory over 1999
winners Ulster in Belfast on
Saturday. Elsewhere fellow Top
14 side Toulouse recorded
their first away victory of the
season, beating English side
Bath 21-19. AFP
26
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 27, 2014
Sport
Bishop ring backed for lil girl Poulter row
PGA commissioner Tim
Finchem and the LPGA both
came out solidly Saturday in
support of the firing of Ted
Bishop as PGA of America
president after inappropri-
ate remarks on Twitter.
Bishop called British golfer
Ian Poulter a lil girl on
Twitter and a Facebook post-
ing, prompting the PGA of
America board of directors
to remove Bishop, who later
apologised for his com-
ments.
The PGA of Americas
quick and decisive action
sent a strong message, rein-
forcing a consistent belief
that with so many positive
gains being made among
golfs leading organizations,
there is simply no room, nor
willingness, to take a step
backwards, the LPGA wom-
ens tour said on Saturday.
Finchem praised Bishops
contributions to the sport
but backed the move also.
We understand and
respect the PGA of Americas
decision regarding Ted Bish-
op, Finchem said.
During Teds presidency,
he accomplished many pos-
itive things and the PGA of
America and the PGA Tour
have worked in a much
more collaborative and pos-
itive way as a result of his
leadership.
While his remarks on
social media were unfortu-
nate and inappropriate,
Teds apology was heartfelt
and sincere.
We will always appreciate
Teds commitment to the
game of golf.
Bishop declined to resign
when asked by PGA of Amer-
ica officials but did issue an
apology.
I want to apologize to Ian
Poulter and anyone else that
I might have offended with
my remarks on social media,
Bishop said.
Particularly, I have great
remorse that my comments
contained the words little
girl because I have always
been a great advocate for
girls and women in golf.
This is a classic example
of poor use of social media
on my part.
Bishop had helped bind
the PGA closer with the
tours, one deal prompting
the PGA Championship to
change its motto from Glo-
rys Last Shot as the final
major of each year to pro-
vide greater respect for the
PGA Tours season-ending
events that follow it.
Another will see the LPGA
Championship rebranded as
the Womens PGA Champi-
onship starting next year.
The PGA of America
understands the enormous
responsibility it has to lead
this great game and to enrich
lives in our society through
golf, PGA chief executive
officer Pete Bevacqua said.
We must demand of our-
selves that we make golf
both welcoming and inclu-
sive to all who want to expe-
rience it and everyone at the
PGA of America must lead by
example.
PGA vote next month
PGA of America vice presi-
dent Derek Sprague will
replace Bishop on an interim
basis for the final month of
his term until new national
officers are elected on
November 22.
On Thursday, Bishop
tweeted to Poulter [Nick]
Faldos record stands by
itself. Six majors and all-time
Ryder Cup points. Yours or
His? Lil Girl.
Bishop added fuel to the
fire on his Facebook page,
accusing Poulter of belittling
Tom Watson and Faldo.
Sounds like a little school
girl squealing during recess.
CMON MAN! , Bishop
wrote.
Bishops comments were in
reaction to Poulters recently
released autobiography.
In the book, Poulter stated
that players had lost a lot of
respect for Faldo, who said
Sergio Garcia was useless at
the 2008 Ryder Cup. AFP
PGA of America president Ted Bishop was red over inappropriate
remarks made on Twitter about British golfer Ian Poulter. AFP
Mosquitoes
bite Emperors
again, Paints
streak ahead
H S Manjunath
A
RESURGENT Sabay Tiger
Mosquitoes edged out Em-
perors 59-57 in the rst of
their three-game quarter-
nal playoff series in the Angkor Beer
Cambodian Basketball League at the
Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena on
Saturday.
Earlier in the day, top ranked Da-
vies Paints went one game up on
CCPL Warriors with a 94-69 win built
around stellar performances from
Janno Cunanan and Aimar Sabayo.
When they took the court, the Mos-
quitoes had a point to prove that their
55-25 win over Emperors last Wednes-
day in the nal round-robin game was
no ash in the pan. On the other hand,
the second ranked Emperors were
equally keen to show that they were
not their true selves in that defeat, hav-
ing rested some of the key players.
These extraordinary set of circum-
stances contrived to produce a game
full of drama and exciting twists.
After getting off to a good start, the
Mosquitoes made their size count
by taking an 11-point half time ad-
vantage.
While Kim Vengngoun pushed the
Emperors in offence, Steve Chunn
kept the Mosquitoes going in the third
quarter so that they could hold on to
their lead.
The intensity was quite high deep
into the nal session as the Emperors
crept closer to the Mosquitoes. With 40
seconds left of the 10-minute quarter,
Hour Pichbounchour made the best
of a steal and brought the Emperors
to within one basket of knotting up
the scores.
But on the ip side, the Emperors
were also committing quick fouls to
stop the clock and put the Mosquitoes
on the free throw line. Both Steven
Chunn and Andy Pontius kept their
nerve and turned those crucial free
throws into winning baskets for the
Mosquitoes.
A speedy start by Paints saw them
taking rm control of the rst quarter
even as Sabayo came into his own in
the second with some crafty play un-
der the rim.
The Warriors suffered an unex-
pected blow on the court when one
of their starting ve, Ray Cabrera,
was elbow checked by Paints Nigel
Doughan leading to a bleeding injury.
The game, however, resumed after a
long break as Cabrera got medical at-
tention but there was no respite for
the Warriors.
The Paints were pushing faster in
transitions and Sabayo, in tandem with
Victoriaro De Luna, stretched the lead
to 39-26 to an eventual half-time score
of 50-34. The Warriors were quickly
under pressure in the third quarter as
Paints opened up a huge gap which
kept widening, despite Fred Babida
doing his bit to reduce the margin.
Score Summaries
Davies Paints 94 (Janno Cunanan 27,
Aimar Sabayo 25, John Cornito 13) CCPL
Warriors 59 (Fred Babida 18, Jeff Cruz
15. David Sanders 13)
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes 59 (Jeff Kane
12, Steve Chunn 10, Colin Meyn 9) Em-
perors 57 (Hour Pichbounchour 14, Kim
Vengngoun 14, Monh Ratana 10)
A CCPL Warriors player goes up for a lay up during their CBL playoff quarter-nal Game 1
at the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena on Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Pires suspended, fined
for India league scuffle
FORMER French and Arsenal
midfielder Robert Pires was on
Saturday suspended for two
matches after a bust-up with a
rival coach during half-time in
an Indian Super League
football match, organisers said.
The incident took place
between Pires, who plays for
FC Goa, and Atletico Kolkata
coach Antonio Lopez Habas
during the break of an ill-
tempered match in Goa last
Thursday. Brazilian great Zico,
who coaches FC Goa, said after
the game that Pires mentioned
he was hit on the face by
Habas as the teams came off
the field at half-time. Habas
was suspended for the next
four matches by the leagues
disciplinary committee, while
both Pires and he were fined
500,000 rupees (US$8,200), a
statement from the organisers
said. AFP

Pellegrini stays defiant
despite Hammer blow
MANUEL Pellegrini has insisted
it is too early to write off
Manchester Citys chances of
retaining the Premier League
title after their 2-1 defeat at
West Ham United. Saturdays
loss at Upton Park was Citys
second league defeat of the
season and capped a bad week
for Pellegrinis side, who days
earlier had squandered a two-
goal lead in a draw away to
CSKA Moscow that left their
hopes of qualifying for the
knockout stages of the
Champions League in the
balance. But City manager
Pellegrini insisted his men were
unfortunate to lose at West Ham
and denied he was feeling any
extra pressure after an
inconsistent start to the
campaign. We will continue
fighting because there is no title
being handed out at the
moment, Pellegrini said. AFP
Football
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Suarez laments bittersweet
defeat on Barcelona debut
B
ARCELONA striker Luis Su-
arez described his return to
action from a four-month ban
for biting as bittersweet after
the Catalans suffered their rst league
defeat of the season 3-1 away to Real
Madrid on Saturday.
I am very happy to return to playing,
it is a great relief to have this time be-
hind me, said Suarez, who was substi-
tuted after 68 minutes.
The feeling is bittersweet because of
the result, but this team has lifted itself
many times before.
It took the Uruguayan just three min-
utes to make an impact as he set up
Neymar for the opening goal.
But after Cristiano Ronaldo had lev-
elled from the penalty spot 10 minutes
before the break, Barca were blown
away in the second-half by goals from
Pepe and Karim Benzema.
Obviously what everyone wants on
a debut is a victory, even more so in a
game of this magnitude. I think that we
did everything we could to get a good
result, but it wasnt to be, added Su-
arez.
We need to forget this game and
think about our next opponents.
After they equalised to make it 1-1
we controlled the game, we had chanc-
es to score and its always difcult if you
dont take your chances. In the second-
half they surprised us with their speed
on the counter and killed the game.
We have to move on and think about
our next opponent, we are still a point
ahead of Real Madrid.
Barca boss Luis Enrique claimed he
had no regrets about throwing Suarez
back into the thick of the action.
I dont regret it at all, said Enrique.
He did more than I expected. He
played more and with rhythm. We
brought him off because it is very dif-
cult to play the 90 minutes after such
a long time.
However, Enrique admitted Madrid
had been deserving winners on the
day.
We started well, but as soon as we
scored they started to create chances.
There was a period where we could
have made it 2-0, but in the second-
half they punished us at the key
moments and deserved to win the
game.
Barcas only two defeats this season
have come in their two real tests away
at Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in
the Champions League.
And Enrique recognised they need-
ed to cut out the sloppy errors that had
cost them against top opposition.
This shows clearly that there are
opponents just as good if not better
than us, as was the case today. We
need to rectify that because the errors
allowed them to win clearly.
A ninth consecutive victory in all
competitions for Madrid moves them
back to within a point of Barcelona at
the top of the table.
Real boss Carlo Ancelotti lauded his
sides calm reaction to falling behind
so early on.
We didnt lose our head after losing
the early goal, said the Italian.
I liked many things about the team,
above all the high tempo we played
with. The team recovered well with
just two days rest after Wednesday
and played very well.
Defender Sergio Ramos, meanwhile,
was more effusive in his praise of just
Reals second home league win over
Barca in seven seasons.
The team was incredible in all as-
pects and positions, despite the goal
we conceded, said the Spanish inter-
national.
We were very clear in our ideas,
and we dominated not only in posses-
sion but on the counter-attack. It was
a complete performance. AFP
Barcelonas Luis Suarez vies with Real Madrids Sergio Ramos during their Spanish league match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. AFP
Wanderers halfway to something special
COACH Tony Popovic says his
Western Sydney Wanderers
team is close to something
special after edging out Sau-
di Arabias Al Hilal 1-0 in the
AFC Champions League final
first leg.
The Wanderers, in only their
third season, will attempt to
become the first Australian
side to win the Asian show-
piece in the return leg at the
King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh
next Saturday.
Striker Tomi Juric was West-
ern Sydneys hero in Saturdays
first leg at Parramatta Stadium,
scoring the winner seven min-
utes after coming on as a sec-
ond-half substitute.
Popovic, who has crafted the
Wanderers into Asian cham-
pion contenders after taking
his team to two consecutive
A-League finals, said his team
is on the cusp of a great
achievement.
Were halfway towards
achieving something very spe-
cial. We have set the platform
now but the jobs not done, he
said after Saturdays victory
before a 20,000 home record
crowd in Sydney.
Were looking forward to
another tough game and a big
crowd.
The stadium will be full,
supporting their team and we
expect that.
But we have played tough
matches and we have a lot of
experience from playing
against Guangzhou Evergrande
and FC Seoul and we can draw
on that experience.
The Wanderers are the
standard bearers for Austral-
ian football in Asia and are
attempting to go one better
than Adelaide United, who
lost the two-leg AFC Champi-
ons League final to Japans
Gamba Osaka in 2008.
You always want to win the
home leg, the first leg, if its
possible, Popovic said.
We have shown we can score
away from home and this result
has filled us with confidence.
We have to recover well
and were in for a tough battle
next week, but theyre (Al
Hilal) going home knowing
theyre up against a very tough
opponent who can win the
title over there.
Jurics impact
Popovic reserved special
praise for 23-year-old Juric,
whose introduction changed
the match for Wanderers after
they had absorbed enormous
pressure from the Saudis in
the first half.
His impact was fantastic.
Its been seven weeks since he
played, he said.
Tomi scored a fantastic goal,
it was a great overlap and a real
strikers finish. Its just a shame
he didnt get that second one.
In any game in the world
that was a great goal and Im
very proud of him.
Juric troubled the Al Hilal
defence and came close to giv-
ing his team a two-goal buffer
only for his shot to come off the
post, with goalkeeper Abdullah
Al Sdairy well beaten.
It definitely was one of my
biggest goals, Juric said. AFP
Western Sydney Wanderers substitute Tomi Juric celebrates scoring against Al Hilal in the rst leg of their
AFC Champions League nal in Sydney on Saturday. AFP
English Premier League
West Ham 2 Man City 1
Liverpool 0 Hull 0
Southampton 1 Stoke 0
Sunderland 0 Arsenal 2
West Brom 2 Crystal Palace 2
Swansea 2 Leicester 0
Spanish La Liga
Almeria 0 Athletic Bilbao 1
Valencia 3 Elche 1
Cordoba 1 Real Sociedad 1
Eibar 1 Granada 1
On Friday
Celta de Vigo 3 Levante 0
German Bundesliga
Bor Dortmund 0 Hannover 1
Eint Frankfurt 4 Stuttgart 5
Augsburg 2 Freiburg 0
Hertha Berlin 3 Hamburg 0
Hoffenheim 1 Paderborn 0
B Leverkusen 1 Schalke 0
On Friday
Werder Bremen 0 FC Koln 1
Italian Serie A
Empoli 0 Cagliari 4
Parma 1 Sassuolo 3
Sampdoria 0 Roma 0
French Ligue 1
Paris SG 3 Bordeaux 0
Bastia 1 Monaco 3
Caen 2 Lorient 1
Evian TG 0 Nantes 2
Reims 1 Montpellier 0
On Friday
Toulouse 0 Lens 2
SATURDAYS RESULTS
English Premier League
QPR v Aston Villa 3am
TONIGHTS FIXTURES
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28
Sport
Mud men
Swedens Simon Sandin drives his
motorcycle through the muddy
waters during the 2014 Gotland
Grand National race at Gotland
island in the Baltic Sea in Sweden
on Saturday. French rider Pierre
Alexandre Renet triumphed in the
31st edition of the annual event,
which is billed as the worlds larg-
est enduro competition. AFP
Spurs seek repeat as LeBron
James revives the Cavaliers
Jim Slater

A
S THE San Antonio Spurs
face the possible end of an
era, they attempt to repeat as
NBA champions after a tur-
bulent off-season topped by LeBron
James returning to Cleveland.
Racism issues forced two team
ownership changes, injuries hit stars
Kevin Durant and Paul George and
the league signed a nine-year televi-
sion deal worth US$24 billion that
begins in 2016 in the four months
since the Spurs won their fth crown
by beating Miami in the NBA Finals.
For all the Spurs have done over the
past 16 seasons under coach Gregg
Popovich, defending a crown has not
been achieved, San Antonios cham-
pionships coming in 1999, 2003,
2005, 2007 and 2014.
Spurs star big man Tim Duncan,
who played on all ve title teams, is in
the nal year of his contract and will
turn 39 during the next NBA playoffs.
The three-time NBA Finals Most
Valuable Player (MVP) and two-time
NBA MVP could be in his nal sea-
son, as might Argentine star guard
Manu Ginobili, who missed this years
World Cup with a leg stress fracture.
But the Spurs are largely unchanged
from last year, with French star guard
and scoring leader Tony Parker sign-
ing a contract extension in the off-
season, countryman Boris Diaw back
in a set-up role and 2014 NBA Finals
MVP Kawhi Leonard returning with
higher expectations.
Australian reserve playmaker Patty
Mills has a shoulder injury but also
will return this season.
The Spurs dethroned King James
and the two-time reigning champi-
on Miami Heat last June, only weeks
before the four-time NBA MVP left
Miami for the Cavaliers, the home-
region team he had spurned in 2010
to join the Heat.
James signed a two-year deal with
the team where he began his NBA
career setting up greater riches
when new television money kicks
in and vowed to bring Cleveland
a championship team, something
it has not had in any major sport in
half a century.
I understand what it takes to win
a championship. I understand win-
ning a championship is the hard-
est thing you could ever do, James
said. My expectations are still high,
but Im more patient now than I was
four years ago.
Cavs also land Love
The Cavaliers inked a long-term
deal with young star guard Kyrie Ir-
ving to show James they were serious
about surrounding him with top tal-
ent for a title run, then made a trade
deal to bring star big man Kevin Love
from Minnesota.
Were still putting things together
on the court. Its still a process, Love
said. Well get better. We just have
to have some continuity out there. It
will take us a while to get on the same
page.
The Cavaliers also have a new
coach in David Blatt who has never
guided an NBA club, although he
coached Tel Aviv to a 2014 Eurole-
ague title and Russia to 2012 Olym-
pic bronze.
The NBA faced adversity as racist
remarks forced ownership changes
for the Los Angeles Clippers and At-
lanta Hawks.
The Clippers sordid saga surround-
ing Donald Sterlings taped remarks
about not wanting his would-be girl-
friend to bring black people to Clip-
pers games ended with him banned
from the NBA for life and selling the
club for a record $2 billion to former
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer.
The Clippers boast star point guard
Chris Paul and playmaker Blake Grif-
n and a top coach in Doc Rivers.
Not having the nightly soap opera
of scandal surrounding a playoff run
could make the team a contender.
Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson
said last month he would sell his
controlling interest in the Hawks in
the wake of a 2012 email becoming
public in which he said, among other
things, that the black crowd scared
away the whites.
Hawks general manager Danny
Ferry is also on an indenite leave of
absence after making racist remarks
about African-born British NBA star
Luol Deng.
Gasol joins Bulls
Kobe Bryant will return to the Los
Angeles Lakers but with star big
man Pau Gasol now with the Chica-
go Bulls, little is expected from the
once-mighty Lakers.
The Bulls gure to be a contender
with Gasol joining Joakim Noah and
the much-awaited return of Derrick
Rose, trying to overcome injuries
that have sidelined him for most of
the past two seasons.
Also with diminished expectations
are the Indiana Pacers, who lost
Lance Stephenson to free agency
and George for the season to a bro-
ken leg in an inter-squad scrimmage
for the US team that went on to win
the World Cup.
Oklahoma City has lost four-time
NBA scoring champion and reign-
ing MVP Durant to a broken foot
that could sideline him for up to two
months, but with Russell Westbrook
sparking the Thunder they should
be able to hold rm until the for-
wards return. AFP
Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs
dunks against Fenerbahce Ulker during
their friendly game on October 11 at the
Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. AFP