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Homeland’s call lures candidates Joe Freeman

ROTANA Pin misses good steak and backyard barbecues. Living in Texas for 28 years will do that to a man.

“I haven’t had American food for six months,” Pin, 49, said in a phone interview from Battambang province where he is on his first-ever campaign for a parliamentary seat with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.

Pin is an American success story. Fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime that murdered his father, he arrived in the US as a teenage refugee via Thailand, speaking zero English, accompanied by his mother and five siblings.

He learned the language and graduated from college in 1985. Like his father, he became an engineer. Pin said years of hard work earned him a senior position at a microchip-manufacturing firm in Austin, the state capital of Texas, and a monthly salary of $10,000.

Short visits to Cambodia ensured a lasting bond. He donated money and helped organise for political parties, but the time to come back never felt right until now, with most of his children out of college and on their own.

As other members of the Cambodian diaspora have done in recent months, Pin left what was once the promised land and returned to what he used to know as hell.

Candidates from Canada, France, Australia and all over the US are taking part in this year’s national elections, throwing on campaign garb and hitting the trails. They are engineers, businessmen, teachers and former activists, all with one goal in common: drumming up votes.

“This is my dream. I always talk about Cambodia, Cambodia,” Pin said. “The majority of people think I’m crazy.”

Should he win, Pin will make $2,000 a month as a lawmaker, one-fifth of his monthly income at his day job. His company is providing him with six months of leave, he said, but the money is neither here nor there.

“I have no interest in my job any more.

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Myanmar mayhem

A fireman makes his way through debris yesterday after Wednesday’s riots in Lashio, Myanmar. A fresh outbreak of religious violence in the country’s northern state of Shan has left one dead and several wounded. Local Muslims are sheltering in a nearby Buddhist monastary. AFP

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‘I accept responsibility’ Justine Drennan

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uon Chea did something unprecedented yesterday.

While responding to civil parties’ questions at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, the co-accused acknowledged a degree of responsibility as a leader of Democratic Kampuchea.

“I, of course, was one of the leaders, so I am not rejecting responsibility,” Chea said, answering a civil parties’ question about how the regime’s

Chea offers limited apology leaders could have led the country to such sorrow. “I share some responsibility. But I was not part of the executive branch.”

“I am bearing the responsibility from my heart,” he later told another civil party, who had lost his parents to the Khmer Rouge. “In my capacity as a member of Democratic Kampuchea, I accept my responsibility . . .

I express my sincere condolences

to you for the loss of your family.”

Media outlets quickly heralded these statements as Chea’s first-ever admission of responsibility. Most tribunal lawyers and court observers agreed the statement was noteworthy but held somewhat more qualified views about both the uniqueness and the intent of Chea’s response.

Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, said

yesterday marked Nuon Chea’s first acknowledgment in court that he bore some responsibility, but he added that Chea had made similar statements outside of court.

“He’s been using this kind of language before,” Chhang said. “When you look at what he’s said in the past 15 years, in his conversations, in his interviews, he’s also said, ‘I was one of the leaders.’ It’s not a full apology.”

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help the prosecution a lot, because he came forward now to admit some responsibility.”

Heather Ryan, court monitor for the Open Society Justice Initiative, said she would not interpret Chea’s statement as an “admission of responsibility of the crimes he is charged with . . . especially in light of his repeated statements of lack of knowledge or control over the situation”.

Civil party lead co-lawyer Elisabeth Simonneau-Fort noted that Chea had not clarified exactly what he acknowledged responsibility for.

Before mentioning responsibility, Chea had told the court: “I was assigned to be the deputy secretary of the communist party of the Democratic Kampuchea. I was in charge of propaganda and education within the party. And I was also in charge of the chairman of the Committee of the People’s Assembly during the Democratic Kampuchea. In the executive branch, I had no power whatsoever.”

Chea later added: “I feel remorseful for the crimes committed, intentionally or unintentionally, whether I had known about it or had not known about it.”

“I don’t know how he is responsible but not responsible,” Simonneau-Fort said.

“But anyway, I think it’s the first step.”

Both she and Son Arun, Chea’s co-lawyer, said it was the unique structure of the victim impact hearings that began this week – during which civil parties asked direct questions of defendants – that prompted Chea to speak up.

“This time, they had the civil parties that asked him to answer,” said Arun, adding that Chea previously had no particular occasion to discuss his responsibility in court.

“I was surprised that he accepted to answer,” said Simonneau-Fort. “I thought that he would decline to answer.

But the question of the victim is something that surprised them.

I think that finally Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea are surprised by the impact of the crimes, and they want to please the victims. It’s difficult for them to keep silent.”

Through the day, victims described starvation, the murder of family members, forced marriage, rape and torture.

Although Samphan referred to pages of notes during his responses, Chea, looking frail and standing supported by two court officers, spoke on an

Homes, trees destroyed, villagers say May Titthara

Nuon Chea, also known as Brother No 2, attends a hearing at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. eccc

apparently impromptu basis by video link from his holding cell, from which he has followed most of the past months’ proceedings due to poor health.

Given his long absence from the trial chamber, his responding at all was surprising, said Panhavuth Long, program officer for the Cambodia Justice Initiative.

“I think that this is a good step, that he collaborates with the court,” said Panhavuth. “He’s admitting more responsibility than he ever had in the past.”

He and Simonneau-Fort said they hoped this week’s precedent would open the door for more engagement from both defendants in the future.

“I’m sure that their lawyers are

not very happy,” SimonneauFort added, noting that Chea’s acknowledgment of responsibility strengthened the prosecution’s case.

International co-prosecutor Andrew Cayley said the Office of the Co-Prosecutors declined to comment.

According to Chhang: “When death is coming near, then you have to pray. I think that Chea is turning the last page of his life story, and there’s a feeling of regret, of apology.”

“I know the civil parties were very happy to have these words,” said Simonneau-Fort, who spoke with civil parties just after the two defendants spoke. “It is very important to have this kind of answer.”

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BOUT 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed.

Sok Da, 41, whose house and more than 1,000 rubber trees in Veal Veng district were allegedly destroyed at about 9:30am, said both she and her mother were slightly injured trying to defend their land.

“My mother is 80,” she said.

“She tried to stop them from demolishing the house and cutting down the trees, but was pushed to the ground. My body is aching too because they beat me when I tried to block them.”

Those affected were wives of soldiers stationed along the Thai border who said they had lived on the land since commune chiefs awarded it to them in 2000.

Da, who also lost mango, cashew and coconut trees, said Try Pheap’s company had threatened to destroy eight other houses, claiming they lay within the firm’s economic land concession.

“They have guns . . . [families here] just have knives. Because we are far away, no one else knows they are using these wild laws. So we must too. It’s

only to protect our houses,” she said.

Fellow villager Khouch Tithida said the authorities and company had been hiding evidence showing how long the families had lived on the land.

She too threatened violence if further evictions occurred.

“If the officers working for the company continue demolishing the houses, we will chop them to death. We’re no longer thinking of anything else because of how badly they’ve treated us,” she said.

A representative of MDS, who declined to be named, said authorities were carrying out the law by not letting the villagers farm the land anymore, but denied the company had knocked down homes.

“My company has no rights to demolish their houses,” he said.

Phoung Sothear, provincial coordinator of human rights group Adhoc, described the treatment of the villagers as “a serious violation of their human rights”.

“The authorities did not find a solution for the people.

Instead, they’ve just used violence against them,” he said.

In 2010, Pheap’s company was granted a 4,402-hectare concession to plant rubber trees in the area.

Veal Veng district governor Che Chei said yesterday he had not received word of the demolition, while Thma Da commune chief Prom Ngorn could not be reached.

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RIME Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned of nationwide mass demonstrations if acting opposition leader Kem Sokha does not apologise over the genocide denial scandal.

The Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president first came under fire just over a week after a government commentator released an audio clip on May 20 in which Sokha is heard in a short sound bite

was “heating” between Sokha and the public, warning that S-21 survivor Chum Mey only had to “ring the bell” to kick off demonstrations everywhere.

“The mass demonstration will occur not only in Phnom Penh but nationwide. A demonstration will happen everywhere he goes,” the premier said, adding any such demonstration should be non-violent and orderly.

Not even “Hollywood” could have twisted the recording, Hun Sen insisted, while chiding Sokha for insulting millions

A demonstration will happen everywhere he goes saying the Khmer Rouge’s notorious Tuol Sleng interrogation facility was a myth staged by the Vietnamese.

Sokha, who flew to the US yesterday for a CNRP fundraiser, has vehemently denied he made any such assertion, insisting the tapes were misleadingly edited from a public forum recorded long before his alleged speech, and has flatly refused to apologise.

Speaking at the inauguration of a pagoda in Kampong Cham district’s Tbong Khmum district, Hun Sen said the temperature

of survivors who were persecuted and declaring the issue was between them and Sokha, not himself.

“If this individual leader of a political party will not apologise to the people in public, the political heat will be serious,” he said. “The demonstrations will occur everywhere, and now it is waiting for Chum Mey to ring the bell,” he said.

On Saturday, Chum Mey, the chairman of the Victims Association of Democratic Kampuchea, gave Sokha 10 days to apologise or face legal action.

Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. pha lina

Fellow Tuol Sleng survivor Bou Meng on Wednesday told the Post that the matter was a dispute between political parties and wanted to remain neutral.

Yesterday, Mey warned if his deadline was not met, people everywhere would join demonstrations based on his appeals.

“There are 1,700 members within my association that are victims of the Khmer Rouge, but I will not force them to at-

tend to demonstrate,” he said.

“If he comes here to apologise, he will no longer have a problem and the demonstration against him will not happen.”

That seems unlikely. CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday Sokha’s position on the matter was cut and dry.

“Mr Kem Sokha did not do anything wrong so he did not apologise because everything the CPP has made is fabricated,

manipulated. He has stated quite clearly already that he did not do anything wrong,” he said.

“I’m not worried at all, because it is their right to organise any demonstration if they respect the law, but if they do not want to create any problem, it should be enough that he made the clarification already.”

Observers are divided on whether they think Sokha’s words were manipulated, and

with the CNRP still unable to locate what they claim was the full speech his words were misleadingly edited from, the matter has been left to speculation.

Political analyst Kem Ley said yesterday he was not convinced

by Sokha’s explanation that he had really been saying the Khmer Rouge had “staged” evidence at Tuol Sleng to convict innocent people.

“Even when he organised the press conference yesterday, I listened, but his original words [he] cannot escape, except when he can explain clearly to the public,” he said.

Ley implored Sokha to apologise so an incident distracting people from the real issues heading into the national election in July could be put to bed.

Whether or not Sokha was guilty of making the remarks should not just be left up to the court of public opinion, another political analyst, Lao Mong Hay, cautioned.

“The parliament could set up an ad-hoc committee to find out what Kem Sokha has actually said. There are bound to be witnesses because he was not making that statement in a vacuum. It would be about the witnesses, what they heard,” he suggested.

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Survey paints good, possibly bad, picture Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah

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Villagers in Kampong Chhnang province’s Phsar Chhnang commune gather at the home of a local farmer to pray and receive blessings from a python. The villagers believe that the large snake possesses magical powers and will bring them good luck. photo supplied

Python prayers pay off for farmer Mom Kunthear

EVER since he found a threemetre long python and its 39 babies near his home on Monday, farmer Chan Tha, 40, has become something of a minor celebrity in his village in Kampong Chhnang province’s Phsar Chhnang commune.

Believing the snake to possess magical powers, hundreds of villagers have arrived daily to Tha’s home to pray to the animal and make donations for

good luck, commune police chief Ngouk Bunthy said yesterday.

“And some pay money,” he added. “Five hundred or 1,000 riel to the python.”

Tha and his son found the 20-kilogram python and its offspring when searching for crickets near his house. The duo took the animals back home and have been caring for them as pets.

Sun Kosal, chief of the provincial forestry administration, declined to comment yesterday,

but Bunthy said the authorities were reluctant to remove the python as villagers feel misfortune would befall them if that happened and might use violence to stop forestry officials.

“We are worried that what they are doing will harm the python and its babies,” he said.

“So we asked the farmer to take the python to the experts for safe-keeping, but he rejected us because he thinks having this python has improved his living standard.”

AMBODIANS were overwhelming happy about the direction the country was headed, a US governmentfunded survey released last week found, and Prime Minister Hun Sen agrees.

The premier yesterday touted the findings from the International Republic Institute’s January survey of 2,000 Cambodians from around the country, which found that 79 per cent of respondents believed the country was “generally heading in the right direction”.

“This is a point we must all see together. I stand here very proud . . . that I am the leader of the Royal Government and have confidence from the people and confidence from the [CPP] allowing me to be prime minister since [a long time],” Hun Sen said, speaking at a pagoda in Kampong Cham yesterday.

Only 60 per cent of Cambodians responded positively to the same question in the IRI’s first Cambodia survey in 2006, with Hun Sen attributing the

improvement to his leadership. The survey, however, also found that 46 per cent of Cambodians said their living standards were worse off or the same as five years ago, with observers yesterday quick to point out the limitations of the poll.

put over the reliability of many of the questions.

IRI country director Jason Smart said the question quoted by Hun Sen was “universally used” in polling, adding the survey was not meant to capture the views of individuals about the government but

People cannot be expected to have a lot of information from different sources Independent political analyst Lao Mong Hay told the Post the survey’s findings should be “taken with a pinch of salt”.

“Considering the political climate prevailing in the country and considering the control and utilization of the media almost exclusively by the government . . . people cannot be expected to have a lot of information from different sources,” he said.

Questions asking people about their direct experiences, rather than vaguely about their opinions, would be “more reasonable”, he added, saying a “big question mark” should be

rather the “general mood” in the country.

“The poll just gives a snapshot of the views of the general population in January 2013,” he said, declining to comment further.

A poll released by US company Gallup last year found only two per cent of Cambodians believed their lives were “thriving” with the country in last place out of 146 countries surveyed for wellbeing.

According to that poll, 72 per cent of Cambodians believed they were struggling while 26 per cent said they were suffering.

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In brief Women jailed for hiring out girls to rich clients

Two women were sentenced to prison after being convicted at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday of procuring two girls, one as young as 16, for prostitution between 2011 and 2012.

Presiding judge Chaing Sinath said Tith Phon, 47, and Chea Kimyenh, 32, were arrested based on the complaint of the two girls, who claim they were brought to have sex with rich male clients for money in exchange for commission.

Phon was sentenced to five years in prison while Kimyenh has been sentenced to two years, with all but nine months of it suspended.

Neither the two accused women nor their defence lawyers could be reached for comment yesterday. Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

Teacher banned from contact with students

The Kampong Chhnang teacher accused of sexually harassing four underage students after complaints were filed on Monday has been suspended from teaching and moved to a position in the district’s education office. Lay Yung, a deputy village chief in Rolea Ba’ier district, said Education Ministry officials met with local authorities and the school director on Wednesday to make a decision about the 35-yearold. Yung added that although the teacher had already been suspended from teaching, the police were not in a position to detain him and would continue to investigate the case. The parents of the alleged victims are seeking compensation and have called for the teacher to be charged. Mom Kunthear

Police round up sex workers at Wat Phnom

POLICE arrested 14 sex workers operating around Wat Phnom in the capital on Wednesday night. Un Sam Ath, police chief of Daun Penh district’s Wat Phnom commune, said his officers had cracked down on “street anarchy” by detaining the women at about 8:30. “We sent them to the Social Affairs office last night,” he said yesterday. Sam Ath added, however, that the women had not been charged with any crime. They would just be “re-educated” by authorities, he said. Police routinely detain sex workers operating around Wat Phnom. At times, including during last November’s ASEAN summit when a number of world leaders were in town, authorities have also targeted street vendors and child beggars operating in the area. Khouth Sophak Chakrya

Mine safety law on agenda Sen David

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HE government plans to draft a law designed to govern safety standards in the Kingdom’s mining industry, an official said yesterday, little more than a week after at least one gold miner went missing when a shaft collapsed in Preah Vihear province.

Khieu Muth, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Environment, said mining was a thriving sector in Cambodia, but it lacked regulations that protected workers and held companies accountable for dangerous conditions.

“We have many laws in other sectors, but haven’t even completed an environmental impact assessment in the mining sector,” he said. “When we have problems in the mining sector, we do not have laws to arrest or fine those responsible. We must ensure safety by implementing standards.”

The ministry plans to complete an environment impact assessment of the mining, oil and gas sectors with the help of experts from NGOs before drafting a law, Muth added.

Rescue teams called off a search for missing workers at a mine shaft in Prey Vihear’s

National Fundraiser a phony, prosecutor tells court Buth Reaskmey Kongkea

Ry Kuok carries a bag of rocks from a gold mine in Mondulkiri province. The government plans to draft a new safety law designed to protect workers after a gold miner went missing when a shaft collapsed in Preah Vihear province last week. afp

Rovieng district last Thursday after it collapsed three days earlier.

Only one miner, 18-year-old Thy Nath, was officially listed as missing, but it was believed two or three more may have been unaccounted for.

Chhay Sarath, Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency executive director, said

that on behalf of NGOs monitoring the mining sector, he welcomed plans for a draft law.

“We support any law that ensures companies protect the safety of their workers and not just focus on profit,” he said.

Nuth Chanty, a miner in Preah Vihear province, said he, too, welcomed better safety standards due to the

dangers faced underground.

“I’m a miner, but I never received any technical training at school or anything like that. I just learned it all by doing what my manager ordered me to,” he said.

“If we do anything wrong underground, it’s unsafe. But it’s my job – I have to do it to support my family.”

Ex-police official jailed for 29 years Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A FORMER police major was yesterday convicted, sentenced to 29 years in prison and fined 80 million riel ($20,000) for transporting some 30 tonnes of precursor chemicals for methamphetamine production between June and July last year.

Presiding judge Chaing Sinath said former anti-economic crimes police officer Korng Sovannara, 46, had been found guilty under article 40 of the Anti-Drug Law. “The accused person has the right to appeal if he does not accept this court’s decision,” she said.

Colonel San Sothy, chief of the Anti-Drug and Money Laundering police office at the Interior Ministry, said police officers had raided Sovannara’s rented warehouse in Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district last July and found the cache of chemicals.

Sothy said the chemicals – which were addressed to Sovannara – had been smuggled into the country under the guise of “soy oil”.

Sovannara and his defence lawyer could not be reached for comment yesterday, but

Former police major Korng Sovannara, 46, (centre) was convicted yesterday of trafficking over 30 tonnes of chemicals used to make methamphetamines. hong menea

during his previous hearing earlier this month, Sovannara denied that the drugs belonged to him. He claimed he was only facilitating transport of the chemicals for a

Canadian-Vietnamese national named “Nguven Chin Pham”.

The man, who is also known as “Sem”, is still at large.

THE Phnom Penh Municipal Court heard the case of a 33-year-old motortaxi driver yesterday who was charged with fraud after being accused of inflating his credentials and associating himself with an initiative of the Prime Minister Hun Sen’s, to raise funds from an unsuspecting donor.

Chheng Sopha was arrested on November 5 following a complaint from Korng Tola, director of a Korean-language school in Chom Chao commune in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.

Sopha allegedly presented himself as head of fundraising for the general director of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Vocational Training’s administration and finance department.

In that guise, he told Tola that he needed $100 to bring in funds for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s volunteer student initiative, according to Judge Keo Mony.

“He was a motodop. But he pretended to be a personal assistant to [the general director] in charge of raising money on behalf of his boss,” Mony said.

He was arrested while waiting to pick up the money, he added.

Sopha denied the accusation during his trial.

He said a man named Ouch Puthy, who was a passenger on his motorbike, asked him to deliver the letter containing the bogus titles.

When he showed up at the school, the police swarmed in on him.

Sopha added that Puthy, who can’t be found, said he would pay him $10 to deliver the letter on his behalf.

“I was only the victim who was cheated by Ouch Puthy,” he said. “I am an innocent person. I would like to ask the court to drop the charges and release me.”

Court vice prosecutor Ek Chheng Huoth, asked that Sopha be “strongly punished”.

The verdict will be handed down on June 13.

Chanaiwa has cause for celebration, sort of Lieng Sarith

DISBARRED lawyer and former Chea Sim adviser David Chanaiwa – currently awaiting trial for charges of assault – now has one less court case to worry about.

The Court of Appeal yesterday dropped charges of violence that were levelled against Chanaiwa in 2007 over a dispute in a Preah Sihanouk land deal.

Then, businessman Keo Savy had bought a 12-by-40-metre plot of land from Noav Bora, a business associate. Upon inspection of the plot, however, he had found that Cha-

naiwa’s men were building a fence on the land.

Savy made a report to the police, who told the group to stop working – but they refused.

Chanaiwa, a CambodianAmerican investor, was not present in court yesterday, but the court clerk read out a statement he had written claiming he had bought the land for $3,000 but had “lost the contract”.

“I have not grabbed this land, I just fenced my land. I suggest the court acquit me, because I have not committed the crime as accused,” the statement read.

After Chanaiwa’s statement was read, presiding judge Chan Madina told the court there was no violence involved in the case and threw out the conviction made by the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court in 2011.

In 2011, the provincial court sentenced Chanaiwa in absentia to a year in prison and fined him 20 million riel ($5,000) – but until his arrest in March this year for assaulting a group of journalists, Chanaiwa had not spent a day in prison.

Chanaiwa is currently being detained in Prey Sar prison and awaiting trial along with his 20-year-old nephew, Ma Ou Fie.

Phnom Penh’s Court of Appeal dropped an unsettled land-dispute charge against David Chanaiwa yesterday. Chanaiwa is currently awaiting trial for assualt charges filed earlier this month. hong menea

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I’m more interested in my country.”

Between 1975 and 1979, Cambodians fled the country at unprecedented rates. Escaping the Khmer Rouge, and simply surviving, was a priority.

After the regime fell in 1979, Cambodians crossed or were pushed over the border into Thai refugee camps and went on to third countries, creating a diaspora that is estimated to number a million. Over the ensuing years, a much smaller contingent of Cambodian political refugees fled.

Slowly and in stages, some of those who left trickled back.

Former Khmer Rouge cadres returned with the Vietnamesebacked government.

Others rode in on the euphoric wave of the UNbacked elections in 1993. The trend continued every couple

the ruling party. The opposition has also not offered an accurate headcount, estimating that a dozen have made the overseas trip.

The numbers aren’t high, because of the personal costs associated with packing up and moving back to Cambodia. Lives have been established elsewhere. To many, Cambodia is the past.

“It’s a big step, you have to make a full commitment,” said Mu Sochua, a long-time opposition politician who first returned in 1989 and ran for office in 1998. “You have to associate yourself with the country and, psychologically, emotionally, have to readjust.”

Pin’s family is watching from back home; it’s unclear who will move where if he is elected. Third in line on the party’s candidate list, Pin is no shooin for a seat unless the CNRP takes a substantial chunk of

I feel obligated to do something for my homeland.

Even if I lose, I plan to stay of years – in time for the polls.

Today, countless high-ranking government officials, and lawmakers in both houses of parliament, hold dual citizenship. Nothing in the constitution prevents it.

“It’s normal,” said Chheang Vun, 62, a ruling Cambodia People’s Party MP and spokesman for the National Assembly. “We have the possibility to have multiple nationalities.”

Vun said he moved to France on a scholarship in 1970. He lived there for more than 20 years. In 1992, Vun returned to work for the Ministry of Finance. In 1993 he was elected an MP and went on to hold several ambassadorial positions.

A Council of Ministers spokesman could not say how many Cambodians had returned this year to run for

the vote in Battambang on July 28.

CNRP candidate Chamroeun Nhay, 40, running in hotly contested Kampong Cham province, said he wanted to come back for the commune elections last year but stayed behind to take care of his toddler in Las Vegas. His motherin-law is helping babysit now, while he pursues a political dream that ended abruptly after election-related violence in the late 1990s forced him from the country. He came to New York City a few days before 9/11.

After almost 12 years in Philadelphia and Las Vegas, in which he stayed abreast of news in Cambodia and became the head of the Human Rights Party in North America, Nhay resigned from his

Backup arrives for both sides in market scuffle

HELL hath no fury like a scavenger scorned – well, until backup arrives. Police said a 43-year-old woman was collecting recycleables at the capital’s Russei Keo market on Tuesday when a security guard ejected her and then slapped her across the face in the ensuing argument. She was soon joined by her husband and two relatives ready to settle the score. Unfortunately for her, nine other security guards soon arrived and fell upon the quartet with wooden sticks. A complaint has been filed and forwarded to court. Kampuchea thmey

Rotana Pin, 49, is seen in Chicago last year. Pin has lived most of his adult life in Texas and is now campaigning in Battambang province for a CNRP seat in the National Assembly. photo supplied

job and came back for good in April.

He is getting campaign help from friends in Philadelphia, home to one of the larger Cambodian communities in the US, where Nhay first lived before moving to Nevada.

“Over there, everything is good. We had a nice house, nice car, nice government,” he said.

“Everything is beautiful over there compared to this country.

I feel obligated to do something for my homeland.”

“Even if I lose, I plan to stay here for a long time.”

For 57-year-old Siem Reap opposition candidate Seila Chan, who spent 16 years in California and eight in Tyler, Texas, settling down in Cambodia was a chance to play a bigger role in public life – and get back in touch with his family.

“Before, I just visited, but now I have decided to live in Cambodia,” Chan, who arrived in January, said. “First, I want to help my country to build democracy in Cambodia. Second, I want to reunite with my mum. She’s old now: she’s 87 years old. And my siblings, they are poor, so I want to help them to live in Cambodia.” “[My mum] said that it’s okay, win or lose, but just to

Seila Chan, 57, is seen at his office in Siem Reap province yesterday.

Chan, from Tyler, Texas, is a hopeful candidate. Thik Kaliyann

help our country, because she wants to see our country have a democracy. She hopes to see that before she passes away.”

Like his CNRP brethren, Chan, a self-described political junkie who has worked in education and real estate, has few kind words for the ruling CPP. Watching the political process in America may give some of the candidates an edge when campaigning.

Pin says he is “blending the Cambodian and American way right now”, using text messages and social media, going door to door and meeting

as many people as possible. “[It’s] difficult for me. Texas is hot, but this is hotter. It’s very dusty. Conditions are not the same as the US. On the roads, it takes a long time to travel.”

The past is never far away for those who return. Pin tracked down the countryside village where the Khmer Rouge interned him, taking note of one small change.

“My house was built on top of a pond. A very small pond,” he said. When he visited the area “the house was gone and the pond built in. No more house, no more pond”.

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ORE than 20 organisations that promote gender equality yesterday condemned the use of water cannons to disperse city protesters on Wednesday by Phnom Penh municipal authorities, describing it as “violence against women”.

In a press conference, Ros Sopheap, executive director of Gender and Development for Cambodia, said the use of water cannons from three fire engines, which left a woman unconscious, was a serious rights violation.

“It shows clearly that violence against women still occurs,” she said, adding that it also showed authorities’ reluctance to solve the housing problems of the Boeung Kak lake, Borei Keila and Thmor Kol communities.

Thida Khus, executive director of the Cambodian Network Council, said the community would not accept such a response from authorities. “Such acts and the ignorance that comes with them perpetuate problems . . . and push [villagers] further into hopelessness.

This leads to more protests,” she said.

Protesters blocked Monivong Boulevard after about 100 people gathered outside the

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Nget Khun, 73, a Boeung Kak protester speaks out against police brutality at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. shane worrell

municipal hall demanding Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong keep his promise to resolve their disputes.

Images of the crackdown shared on Facebook have attracted hundreds of comments condemning the authorities.

A 38-YEAR-OLD Meanchey district man is recovering from gunshot wounds after a terrifying robbery on Wednesday.

Police said the man was travelling home alone when five men riding motorbikes forced him off the road and robbed him at gunpoint. Perhaps unwisely, the man scuffled with the suspects and was shot twice in the leg. Local cops heard the gunfire, but the assailants had fled before they arrived. The victim is now in hospital. Koh santepheap

Romance ends for lovers when a knife is pulled

Water cannon use decried Jarai villagers ask UN Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell

Thieves shoot legs for loot in capital robbery

MORE than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help.

The group, from Paknhai commune’s Lom village, have in the past directly confronted workers from firms Company 72 and Day Dong Yoeung, and appealed to local authorities to save what they claim is ancestral community land.

Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest laws in Stung Treng province yesterday when they presented UN human rights officers with the petition.

“We have no land, no forest

and no streams because of Vietnamese firms,” the petition said, adding that protesting villagers were threatened with arrest.

Chvat claims to have seen a company map last month that showed plans to clear virtually all 25,000 hectares in the area.

However, Lom village chief Sev Hlin disputed the allegations, saying Company 72 was granted only 900 hectares.

Although authorities are urging villagers to get their land measured by student volunteers, they do not want private land, Chvat said.

“What we want is community land,” he said.

A UN human rights officer who declined to give his name confirmed the petition had been received and would be sent to the UN office in Phnom Penh.

A COUPLE’S quiet moonlit idyll ended abruptly on Tuesday when three men pulled a knife on them as they cuddled on a park bench in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district. The three brigands lifted a phone, a ring and $100 cash, but were caught by police who heard the couple’s cries for help. Two of the suspects escaped and the man left behind not only confessed but quickly squealed on his comrades. Police are now searching for them. kampuchea thmey

Takeover move lands moto rider in hospital

AN ATTEMPT to overtake somene on a busy road in the capital’s Meanchey district has left a 30-year-old man in critical condition. Police said the man was hurtling past another moto when they collided, sending him into oncoming traffic. Unable to stop in time, a truck ran into him, leaving the victim with a severe head injury. Although police agreed the injured motorist was at fault, the truck driver paid compensation to end his role in the case. nokorwat

Instagram shots swiped by riverside hooligans A WOULD-BE shutterbug had her photo ruined on Tuesday when the iPhone she was using to snap pics on the capital’s riverside was snatched from her hands. Police said the 25-yearold was strolling near the riverbank while taking a break from work when two men, aged 20 and 24, ran the ol’ snatch-andgrab. Their success was shortlived however as patrolling cops managed to snare them before they got away. The woman got her phone back and the young punks were sent to court.

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This week in biz Cambodian trust in banks gain, survey says

NEARLY nine out of 10 Cambodians have confidence in local financial institutions, a trend that stands in sharp contrast to Europe and the US, a poll published last week found. However, industry insiders question the results, as the Kingdom’s financial services are still underdeveloped.

Students set to receive schooling in tourism

ACCORDING to the new curriculum for public education that was launched this week, young Cambodians will now learn about tourism in grades 11 and 12. The development is aimed at enhancing quality in the tourism sector, officials said during a press conference.

Cambodia Airlines to get $20m investment

Living on hold Former Mfone employees protest at the company’s former headquarters in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. Protests continued on to the Singaporean embassy.

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Rice exports to Thailand rise E Hor Kimsay

XPORTS of Cambodian unpolished rice to Thailand are increasing, and the trend is promising if the Thai government continues its intervention policy to guarantee the minimum paddy price for their farmers, industry insiders said.

Reuters reported recently

that Thailand’s government has pledged to renew its rice buying scheme, which started in October 2011.

Lim Bunheng, president and CEO of rice miller Loran Group, said he had seen increasing exports of milled rice from Cambodia to Thailand, mostly in a semi-final state.

He said it is not polished or packaged but packed into

bags that go to Thailand for the finishing process.

“Some Thai traders have increased their buying of Cambodia unpolished rice and do further processing in their country,” said Lim Bunheng, “They might find our milled rice price more competitive because rice millers here can buy paddy at lower prices.”

Government figures show

that in the first four months of this year, Cambodian milled rice exports to Thailand reached 14,250 tonnes, while total Cambodian overseas exports was 118,504 tonnes.

During that period, Lim Bunheng said, the Thai rice mortgage program will not influence Cambodia’s rice industry, but exports to Thailand would increase as Cambodian

milled rice could see more demand from Thai traders.

Cambodian commerce minister Cham Prasidh said yesterday that it is not going to change Cambodia’s rice industry. However, “when the price in Thailand increases, it makes prices on international markets increase as well”, he said. “Cambodian farmers will benefit from this increase.”

CAMBODIA Airlines is expected to receive an initial investment of about $20 million, a sum an airline expert says contradicts the new flag carrier’s “aggressive” expansion plans, which would probably come with a higher price tag.

Workers of bankrupt Mfone seek advance

AN employee representative of bankrupt telco Mfone said he is seeking a cash advance of $4.4 million from Singapore-based Shenington Investment Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Thaicom, to compensate more than 1,000 unpaid employees with their salaries and sincerity fees.

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Markets Business

No new telco rules meeting ADB advises region to combine grids

Anne Renzenbrink and Rann Reuy

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HE Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC), says it does “not yet” have plans for a new meeting between the TRC and the Kingdom’s mobile operators to discuss the 2009 inter-ministerial prakas, after a meeting scheduled for May 6 was cancelled.

However, TRC director Mao Chakrya told the Post on Wednesday that “the TRC still studies the issue” of the conflict over promotions among the nine operators.

Earlier this month, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications scrapped an unpopular restriction forbidding telecoms operators from offering special promotions. Since then, some operators have brought back their prior offerings.

The decision followed a long-running dispute over the use of promotions and special tariffs between the operators in Cambodia’s crowded telecoms industry and the TRC, as some of it violated Prakas 232, signed in response to price disputes and to set minimum tariffs.

Ashraf Mokhtar Sahab, commercial director of mobile operator Beeline told the Post that he would welcome a new meeting to get more clarity about the regulation of the telecoms market.

“Since we are back to what it is, yes, we have an understanding of the prakas. But would it be open for discussion again? Would it not be?” he said.

“Well, it’s clear what we are in today. I’m just saying I’m not sure if there will be any

A boy listens to music stored on his mobile phone in Phnom Penh.

further discussion coming up . . . having us do any changes,” he said. “It could be great if there’s a confirmation of some sort or something like that, that nothing is going change in the near future,” he said.

“We don’t want to be in a situation where we have to sort of retract some of our products or stop it or create any inconvenience to the customer.”

Neither market leader Cellcard nor second-largest operator Smart could be reached for comment.

Anthony Galliano, CEO of Cambodian Investment Management, however, said it is “very encouraging that ultimately the TRC left the market to determine

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pricing”, adding that it benefits the consumer and reduces operating costs for corporate customers.

“The majority of the operators, if not an overwhelming majority, desire an open market with the capacity to package promotions and pricing as they see fit,” he said.

“Resistance to this open competitive market philosophy is only in small pockets,” he continued. “The evolution of the telecoms market in Cambodia is likely to result in an open and fair market going forward, ultimately resulting in two to three operators dominating 90 per cent of the market.”

Employment Opportunities Initially established in 1996 as a project of International HIV/AIDS Alliance, KHANA operated as an NGO from 1997 and was officially registered as a local NGO in 2000. Since then it has operated as a linking organization of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and is so far a leading non-governmental organization in Cambodia that has made outstanding contributions to the HIV response. KHANA’s work has been made possible through support from USAID, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, European Commission, World Food Programme and AusAID. We are now seeking qualified Cambodian nationals for the following vacancies: Policy Manager (USD1,200-1,500) Key Responsibilities: The incumbent is responsible for advising the Executive Director and the Senior Management Team on the policy and advocacy issues which both underpin KHANA Strategic Plan (KSP15) and which will emerge from the new strategic directions in Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Tuberculosis (TB) and Livelihoods which KHANA is pursuing over the next 5 years. S/he will also have the responsibility for representing KHANA’s agenda tor on drugs: Community advocacy for harm reduction project, funded by the European Commission (hereafter ‘EC harm reduction advocacy project’). The project runs from January 2013 to December 2015.

Selection Criteria:  Master Degree in Political Science, Law, Journalism or other related academic disciplines  In-depth knowledge of HIV, drug use and harm reduction and the impact of drug control on HIV transmission  3 year experience in implementation of advocacy projects, ideally in the area of HIV, harm reduction or drug policy reform  Strong written and verbal English communication skills  Ability to communicate effectively with government officials and decision makers, along with people who use drugs, their families and supporters  A credible mediator and communicator Admin and Procurement Team Leader Key Responsibilities:  Ensuring that contracts/agreements between KHANA and relevant agencies, contractors/suppliers and sub-recipients are in compliance with KHANA’s and relevant donors’ rules and regulations as well as relevant Cambodian’s laws.  Developing, preparing and enforcing agreements/contracts with sub-recipients, suppliers, contractors, etc.  Ensuring that KHANA has well-functioning procurement and admin systems and are understood across the organization and implementing partners.

Selection Criteria:  Bachelor degree in Business Administration, English Literature or other relevant academic disciplines  Minimum 4 years of relevant experiences (procurement, administration and contract/ agreement writing)  High Proficient in writing and speaking English  Experience in working with donors’ rules and regulations, mainly USAID and GFAT is a plus.

Procurement Officer Key Responsibilities:  Conduct procurement activities for KHANA and relevant partner and ensure compliance with KHANA’s and donors’ rules and regulations.  Contribute to well-functioning of KHANA procurement functions and system.  Ensuring that in all procurement, KHANA achieves value for money with systems that are transparent and open to inspection by all interested parties.

Criteria:  Bachelor degree in Business Administration, English Literature or other relevant academic disciplines  Minimum 2 years of relevant experiences  Good Command of written and spoken English  Experience in working with donors’ rules and regulations, mainly USAID and GFAT is a plus.

For more information about the job specifications, required qualifications and detailed job descriptions, please visit KHANA’s website at www.khana.org.kh.

Interested candidates must apply online via www.khana.org.kh(Employment Opportunities Section) by13 June 2013 at 5 p.m.Only short-listed candidates will be notified for further process. Applications via email or hard copies will not be considered.

KHANA is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from appropriate qualified people from all sections of the community. Qualified people living with HIV, MSM, disabled people and women are particularly encouraged to apply.

CAMBODIA is expected to be able to produce about half the energy it needs by 2035, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), but the Kingdom – along with its neighbours – should also consider integrating their energy grids, which would bring about more competitive prices, as well as savings worth billions.

Cambodia is currently “not that far off” from meeting its projected energy self-sufficiency rate of 52 per cent in 2035, said Donghyun Park, a principal economist with ADB’s economics and research department. He was speaking at an ADB workshop yesterday on Asia’s energy outlook.

To boost its energy security, Cambodia and the rest of the Greater Mekong Subregion – Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and parts of China – should connect their electricity and natural gas grids, he said.

“This is a region that is very heterogeneous. Some countries are energy exporters, some are energy importers.

So there are large gains from regional energy cooperation.”

For example, $14 billion would

be saved over 20 years by substituting hydropower for fossil fuels in the region, he said.

Another benefit is that the standardised pricings and regulations involved would result in a “more competitive energy market”, he added. High energy prices, as well as sudden power cuts, are common complaints among investors in Cambodia.

But Park said such market integration faces resistance.

“It’s difficult because electricity [supply] tends to be a monopoly,” he said, and “to embrace new regulations and prices erodes the market power” for the supplier.

Electricite du Cambodge’s director general, Keo Rottanak, said last week that “ASEAN countries, including Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and others, are facing a shortage in their power grids”, presenting a challenge to regional integration.

CLARIFICATION We inadvertently used an old photo of the gym at the InterContinental Hotel to accompany an article on the fitness industry in Phnom Penh. The gym was renamed The InterContinental Fitness Center two years ago.

Myanmar’s economy could quadruple by 2030, says study MYANMAR has the potential to quadruple the value of its economy to $200 billion by 2030 if it presses on with reforms, embraces technology and shifts away from agriculture, according to a study released yesterday.

The nation, whose economy was stifled by decades of corruption and mismanagement under the former junta, could add 10 million jobs and lift 18 million people out of poverty, according to consultants at the McKinsey Global Institute.

“There is everything to play for − but also a major risk of disappointment,” the report said, warning the government’s task is to continue economic and political reforms in the face of major social challenges.

It estimated that Myanmar’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average of 4.7 per cent a year from 1990 to 2010, lagging regional neighbours, but could potentially expand at an average annual rate of roughly eight per cent until 2030.

Myanmar, one of Asia’s poorest nations, is battling bouts of deadly religious violence that threatens to undermine reforms under a nominally civilian government which replaced military rule two years ago.

Buddhist-Muslim clashes this week in the eastern state of Shan have left one dead and several wounded so far.

Investors “want reassurance that the government can resolve ethnic and communal violence, maintain its momen-

Farmers sell mangoes in a boat on the Yangon River this month.

Economists say Myanmar can quadruple its economy over the next 20 years by shifting away from its agriculturally based economy. reuters

tum towards political and economic reform, and ease constraints on doing business” the study said.

But “Myanmar does have intrinsic strengths” in terms of its location between China, India and Southeast Asia, and is fortunate to have started reforms “during the digital era.”

The nation can leap ahead of usual development patterns by grasping new technology to educate its people − the population has an average of just four years’ schooling − and to provide healthcare and modern banking and business services.

Manufacturing will be integral to the pace of economic growth and may create 10 million jobs, McKinsey said, urging a shift away from farming to higher-paid work such as in the textile industry.

The manufacturing sector can add $70 billion to GDP by 2030 – a sevenfold increase on today – and overtake agriculture, which currently adds $21.2 billion, as the economy’s main driver, the study added.

Managed carefully, infrastructure, mining and energy, tourism and telecoms sectors will all also boost the economy, but only if Myanmar invests around $320 billion to build modern transport networks and power plants, it said.

But progress is contingent on the government widening reforms and ensuring stability to attract long-term inward investment.

“If it fails to build a compelling growth plan and implement it effectively, today’s goodwill and cautious optimism could evaporate all too rapidly,” it warned. AFP

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Angkor finds visible gold in Ratanakkiri Low Wei Xiang

CANADIAN miner Angkor Gold has found “visible gold in the soil samples” in the Otray prospect in Ratanakkiri province, which hints at possibly larger reserves, said CEO and chairman Mike Weeks in a press release published on Wednesday.

The company had just completed its first phase of exploration in the area. The results “are very encouraging as they are strongly suggestive of a high sulphidation zone in a gold-copper epithermal environment,” the press release said.

“It vindicates our faith in the potential of Cambodia by giving us another large prospect that has significant gold and copper potential,” Weeks added.

Angkor Gold is the first North American publicly traded mineral exploration company in Cambodia, and has invested about $11 million into its activities in the Kingdom.

Airports operator looks to expand What will be the next step?

While Cambodia Airports, of which France-based Vinci Group is major stakeholder, sees tourist numbers taking off, eviction issues are gnawing at the company’s image. Emmanuel Menanteau, chief executive of Cambodia Airports, talked to the Post’s Sarah Thust about the expansion plans.

How many tourist arrivals do you expect this year?

Last year, we crossed the two million passengers for the two main airports. This year, we expect around 2.3 to 2.4 million passengers each – in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. This is why we plan to increase the capacity of the two terminals to around four million to five million passengers.

We also decided to increase the size of our cargo terminal at the Phnom Penh International Airport. In 2012, we had a more than 50 per cent increase in cargo import and export, mainly in Phnom Penh.

will be for the committee to meet and to mandate an independent consultant to identify who are the people affected.

Once this will be done, the committee and the management of the government will make sure that the families are fairly compensated.

As we believe that Phnom Penh will reach soon capacity, we decided to launch a terminal in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap for an investment of about $100 million, and it will start this year after the [project has been validated by] the government. We expect to start the first phase of construction

by December.

In line with the ASEAN meetings in Cambodia in 2012 we have already finished new aircraft parking.

How does your expansion affect the people who live around the airport in Phnom Penh?

The issue of evictions is not related to the extension of the terminal I mentioned.

The terminal will be set up within our own boundaries, not affecting anybody living outside. The area related to the eviction issue is located at the end of our runway, along National Road 4.

The discussion about the eviction in the affected area started in 2005, and is related to security and safety issues.

In the last few years, we have seen more and more houses

Who will pay the compensation?

Emmanuel Menanteau, CEO of Cambodia Airports, speaks to the Post at his office in Phnom Penh on Monday. vireak mai

developing near the runway.

But we need to meet the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, for example by avoiding housing near the runway How will this issue be solved?

Last year the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to find a solution in order to make sure we will be able to meet these safety standards.

To meet the necessary security standards during the ASEAN meetings last year, we proposed to create a second fence inside our boundaries, but this is not solving the safety issue for the people living nearby.

For that, the government has created a committee to study how we can solve the problem.

At the moment, we’re doing a technical review to set up this committee. The second step

First of all, it’s the responsibility of the government to make sure that the surroundings of the airport meets international standards, and that in case of relocation rules and regulations are met. But as a company engaged in sustainable development, it is our responsibility to engage in such issues. This is part of our commitment to Cambodia.

What role does Cambodia play in the Vinci portfolio?

Coming to Cambodia was Vinci’s first step in its development in Asia, and it will be the model for our potential development in Myanmar, in the Philippines, in Indonesia. So far, it has been a big success for us to work with the Royal Government of Cambodia.

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Business SoftBank’s takeover of Sprint securtity cleared Sophie Estienne

US national security officials have approved Japanese telecoms giant SoftBank’s planned $20 billion takeover of Sprint, the third-largest US mobile carrier, the companies said on Wednesday.

The US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) completed the investigation with “no unresolved national security issues relating to the transaction,” the companies said.

The deal still awaits Sprint Nextel Corp shareholder approval and clearance from the US Federal Communications Commission. The Sprint vote is set for June 12.

Under the agreement with CFIUS, the companies must appoint an independent member to the Sprint board of directors to serve as security director, according to a Sprint filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The security director, who must be approved by US authorities, will oversee national security matters and serve

as a point of contact for US agencies on securities matters, the SEC filing said.

The agreement also requires that US agencies will have a one-time authority to demand Sprint remove and decommission equipment as part of Sprint’s proposed takeover of the broadband firm Clearwire, a transaction separate from the SoftBankSprint deal, the filing said.

Clearwire owns some Chinese-made telecoms equipment in the US that has been seen by US politicians as a national security risk.

US legislators have previously indicated SoftBank agreed to remove any network equipment from Chinese giant Huawei due to national security concerns. Responding to the prospect of being excluded, Huawei’s US vicepresident William Plummer said the company was facing “political protectionism”.

“The proposals such as the one being made in the SprintSoftBank case are ineffective remedies,” Plummer told AFP. AFP

China optimism declines Kevin Hamlin

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UROPEAN companies’ optimism for business prospects in China is declining amid slowing growth, rising labour costs, regulatory obstacles and intensified competition, a survey showed.

Optimism for future revenue growth among 526 respondents dropped to a four-year low of 71 per cent, while 62 per cent lack confidence or aren’t sure the government has the resolve to introduce marketdriven change, according to a business confidence survey released yesterday in Beijing.

It was conducted in March by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that China needs “decisive” policy changes to put its economy on a more sustainable path and last month the Asian Development Bank said surging wages and costs threaten the nation’s growth potential. The EU Chamber survey showed optimism on profits in the next

A Chinese worker carries materials as he walks along a road in Beijing. The International Monetary Fund cut its 2013 growth forecast for China on Wednesday. afp

two years fell to 29 per cent, the lowest since the report started a decade ago.

“Optimism is waning,” the chamber’s report said. “Significant economic reforms are needed more than ever before to ensure continued strong economic growth, mitigate cost increases, unlock market opportunities and create an overall well-functioning and an efficient business environment.”

The executive committee

and regional boards of the chamber in China include representatives of Deutsche Bank AG, Siemens AG and Novo Nordisk, according to the group’s website.

Sixty-two per cent of companies are pessimistic about the outlook for labour costs and 63 per cent ranked employee expenses as their most significant challenge, the report said.

Sixteen per cent of the survey’s respondents reported a decline in revenue last year, compared

with six per cent for 2011.

Amid deteriorating air pollution in Beijing and other cities this year, 72 per cent of European companies rated China’s living environment as one of the top three challenges in hiring and retaining foreign staff, the survey said.

Fifty-eight per cent of respondents were either neutral or pessimistic about the potential for productivity increases in their industries, up from 53 per cent in the 2012 survey, the report said.

European companies also said they are facing increased competition in China from privately owned local firms improving in sales and marketing and brand recognition, the report said.

“There is a marked lack of optimism among survey respondents about future reforms to create a level playing field,” the survey said.

Even so, companies still see China as having among the best opportunities globally and it is an increasingly important part of global strategy for 64 per cent of survey respondents, down from 74 per cent in 2012, the report said. BLOOMBERG

Philippine growth up to defy regional slowdown Cecilia Yap and Karl Lester M Yap

PHILIPPINE growth unexpectedly quickened to the fastest pace in almost three years, defying a regional slowdown as President Benigno Aquino boosted investment and state spending. The peso reversed its decline.

Gross domestic product rose 7.8 per cent in the three months through March from a year earlier, compared with a revised 7.1 per cent gain in the previous quarter, the National Statistical Coordination Board said in Manila yesterday. The figure beat all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of 22 economists, whose median was six per cent.

The peso rose from an 11-month

low after the data showed Philippine resilience to a cooling in Asian economies that has prompted policy makers in India, Vietnam and Thailand to cut interest rates this month.

Aquino, who won control of Congress in May elections, has cracked down on corruption, narrowed the budget deficit, and this year procured the first investment-grade rankings from Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s.

“It’s showing domestic demand in the Philippines is very resilient in the face of slowing growth regionally,” said Trinh Nguyen, Hong Kongbased economist at HSBC Holdings Plc. “Government spending surprised on the upside, raising opti-

mism that investment in the country is picking up.”

The peso rose 0.3 per cent to 42.3 per dollar. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index fell 3.8 per cent at the close in Manila yesterday. It surged

Domestic demand in the Philippines is very resilient in the face of slowing growth regionally to a record earlier this month.

Aquino has raised tobacco and liquor levies, pursued tax evaders and is seeking more than $17 billion in infrastructure investment to increase revenues and create jobs. Companies including San Miguel Corp, Ayala Corp

and JG Summit Holdings Inc are bidding for airport and railway projects.

The economy grew 2.2 per cent in the first quarter from the previous three months, yesterday’s report showed.

Investment surged 47.7 per cent last quarter from a year earlier, compared with a 9.5 per cent gain in the earlier period. Household consumption increased 5.1 per cent and government spending rose 13.2 per cent.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, which has held borrowing costs at a recordlow 3.5 per cent for four meetings, has cut the rate on its special deposit accounts three times this year to two per cent as it stepped up efforts to curb capital inflows.

The nation is moving at a “new

growth trajectory” and the government is committed to ensure stability as it sees the risk of attracting “too much flows,” economic planning secretary Arsenio Balisacan said at a briefing yesterday.

Inflation isn’t likely to pick up soon, Balisacan said. Consumer-price gains eased to a 13-month low in April, rising 2.6 per cent from a year earlier.

The government is sticking to its growth target of six per cent to seven per cent this year, even as weakening exports are likely to persist, Balisacan said. Overseas shipments, which make up the equivalent of about 30 per cent of the economy, fell in two out of three months through March, data showed. BLOOMBERG

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World Russian missiles are in Syria Assad says RUSSIA has delivered to Syria promised air defence missiles, President Bashar al-Assad implied in an interview to be aired yesterday, in a move that could complicate any foreign intervention in his war-torn country.

Moscow announced this week it intends to honour its contract to supply Syria with S-300 missiles, prompting fears of the country’s conflict spreading.

Meanwhile, the opposition National Coalition launched an urgent appeal for the rescue of 1,000 wounded civilians in the central-west town of Qusayr, which Assad’s forces and Hezbollah fighters are trying to recapture from rebels.

The Assad interview was scheduled to be broadcast on Al-Manar, the channel of Lebanese Shi’ite movement Hezbollah, his close regional ally, at 1800 GMT yesterday.

In it, the embattled Syrian leader implicitly acknowledged Russia has already delivered some of the S-300 missiles.

Al-Manar said that when asked about the delivery of the surface-to-air missiles, Assad replied: “All the agreements with Russia will be honoured and some already have been recently.” AFP

Shear determination

Farmers shear an alpaca in its enclosure at a zoo in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China yesterday.

Myanmar and Kachin agree to a ceasfire deal MYANMAR yesterday reached a preliminary ceasefire deal with ethnic minority Kachin rebels, the last major armed group to agree to stop fighting after decades of civil war, a negotiator said.

Meeting on home soil for the first time since the conflict flared up again in 2011, Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and government representatives signed a sevenpoint plan including a vow to halt hostilities that have displaced tens of thousands of people, Min Zaw Oo said.

“I think we have achieved a breakthrough,” said Min Zaw Oo, a director of the EU-funded Myanmar Peace Center who took part in the negotiations in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina.

“The agreement is to stop fighting at this point and afterwards there are going to be detailed discussions about the repositioning of troops,” he added.

The bloodshed in the northern state of Kachin, which borders China has – along with religious unrest elsewhere in the country – overshadowed widely praised political changes as Myanmar emerges

from decades of military rule.

Representatives of the KIA and President Thein Sein’s reformist government held three days of talks in Myitkyina. Previous rounds of negotiations had been held across the border in China.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special adviser on Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, also joined the meeting for the first time as an observer, along with representatives of China and other ethnic minorities.

Civil war has plagued parts of the country since it won independence from Britain in 1948.

While the KIA is the last major rebel army to agree to stop fighting, skirmishes occasionally break out on the ground between the government and other groups.

Min Zaw Oo, who has been involved in several peace agreements, said yesterday’s deal was “more comprehensive” than some of the deals signed with Myanmar’s other rebel groups.

There was no immediate comment from the KIA, while a presidential spokesman hailed the agreement as “really good news”. AFP

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Muslims hide from mobs Jared Ferrie

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UNDREDS of Muslim families sheltered in a heavily guarded Buddhist monastery yesterday after two days of violence in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio left Muslim properties in ruins and raised alarm over a widening religious conflict.

About 1,200 Muslims were taken to Mansu Monastery after Buddhist mobs terrorised the city on Wednesday, a move that could signal the resolve of a government criticised for its slow response to previous religious violence.

The unrest in Lashio, a city about 700 kilometres from Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon, shows how far antiMuslim violence has spread in the Buddhist-dominated country as it emerges from decades of hardline military rule.

One man was killed and five people wounded in Wednesday’s clashes, presidential spokesman Ye Htut said in a statement.

A senior police officer, who declined to be identified, said the dead man was a Muslim and the five injured were Buddhists, including a journalist

attacked by a Buddhist mob.

He said 300 soldiers and 200 police were enforcing security in Lashio, a city of 130,000 people near Myanmar’s northeastern border with China.

The authorities moved quickly to stem the violence in Lashio by deploying troops, banning unlawful assembly under a state of emergency, and setting up roadblocks to stop troublemakers entering the city. Spokesman Ye Htut said 25 people were under investigation for the violence.

When religious unrest erupted in the central city of Meikhtila in March, it took three days of fighting before the authorities took decisive action. At least 44 people died there.

Khaing Aung, directorgeneral of the religious affairs ministry, said the government had learned from past experiences.

“Since we are taking action, people understand there should be no more violence,” he said.

Thein Maing, who sheltered at the monastery with his wife and six children, said they only dared leave their house when they saw soldiers patrolling the streets on

Wednesday. “I approached the soldiers and said, ‘We are afraid and we don’t know where to go. Please help us,’ and they sent us here.”

Khin Kyi’s family hid in the house of an ethnic Chinese neighbour, while Buddhist men with sticks and swords prowled the area.

“We were very scared. This has never happened before,” she said, sitting amid bags of clothes in the crowded prayer hall, overlooked by statues of Buddha.

Badanta Ponnya Nanda, the

We are afraid and we don’t know where to go Please help us head monk, said he hoped the city would be secure enough for Muslims to return to their homes within a week. “Today we need to calm everything down,” he said.

Shops reopened as police and soldiers patrolled the streets. There was no sign of the Buddhist youths who had marauded through town, burning Muslims out of their homes a day before.

Kyaw Kyaw Han, a soldier, stood guard outside a ran-

sacked mosque littered with broken glass and religious books. Benches had been overturned and air conditioning units ripped out.

“We are here to guard against people starting fires,” he said.

Spokesman Ye Htut said three religious buildings were destroyed, including a large mosque in the city centre, along with 32 shops and a cinema. Ruins smouldered on Thursday and the area was cordoned off.

There did not appear to be any Muslims nearby.

The violence was sparked by reports on Tuesday that a Muslim man had badly burnt a Buddhist woman. State-run MRTV television said Ne Win, 48, had poured petrol over Aye Aye Win, 24, who sold fuel by the side of the road, and set her on fire.

After police detained Ne Win, Buddhists surrounded the police station and demanded he be handed over.

Badanta Ponnya Nanda, head monk of Mansu Monastery, said he tried to reason with the crowd, telling them to respect the law.

“After that they went and burned the mosque,” he said.

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Customers riled over toilet water

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STARBUCKS café in Hong Kong's posh financial district that used water from a tap near a urinal to brew coffee prompted a torrent of angry reactions from customers yesterday.

The coffee shop, in the famous Bank of China Tower, has been using the water from a tap in a toilet to make beverages since its opening in October 2011.

Images from local newspaper Apple Daily showed the tap with a sign that said "Starbucks only" a few feet away from a urinal in the dingy washroom, which the paper said was in the building's carpark.

"Totally disappointed! The initial decision by Starbucks to use water from toilet is a clear sign of your company's vision and the level of (dis) respect your company has for the health and mind of your customers." Kevin L wrote on the Starbucks Hong Kong Facebook wall.

"I'm now really worried when I purchase coffee from Starbucks. Who knows which other stores are using the similar practice! Scary!!" Kevin L wrote. AFP

Femen activist goes on trial

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TUNISAN activist with the women’s topless protest group Femen went on trial yesterday for illegal possession of pepper spray, a day after three Europeans bared their breasts in the capital Tunis.

Femen said the young women arrested on Wednesday outside the central courthouse, two French and one German, would at midday appear before the public prosecutor, who would decide if they would be charged.

Their protest was the first of its kind in the Arab world and shocked some in Tunisia, which has seen a rise in the activity of hardline Islamists since the country's January 2011 revolution.

In Kairouan, 150 kilometres south of Tunis, Amina Sboui, known by her pseudonym Tyler, was brought before the judge wearing a safsari, the traditional Tunisian veil.

Arrested on May 19 after painting the word Femen on a wall in Tunisia’s religious capital, where radical Salafists were planning to hold an illegal congress, she told the judge she had carried the pepper spray for two months, for self-defence.

Her lawyer Souheib Bahri said the charges against her carry a prison sentence of up to five years, but added he was confident she only risked a maximum six-month sentence for possessing the self-defence spray.

Sboui sparked both scandal and a wave of online support in socially conservative Tunisia for posting topless pictures of herself on Facebook.

In brief Suspect in killing of UK soldier appears in court

ONE of the chief suspects in the brutal killing of a British soldier on a London street appeared in court yesterday charged with murder and possession of a firearm.

Michael Adebowale, 22, spoke only to confirm his name and address at the brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, before being taken back into custody. Another man, Michael Adebolajo, 28, has also been arrested but remains in hospital after he and Adebowale were shot by police at the scene of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby on May 22. afp

UN expert calls for ban on use of robot weapons Women from the Femen feminist activist group call for the freeing of jailed Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler, yesterday, in front of the Tunisian embassy in Brussels. AFP

Her actions reportedly incurred death threats from hardline Islamists, dozens of whom protested outside the court yesterday, chanting slogans including “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and “The people want the application of Islamic law”.

Dozens of other Tunisians outraged by the topless protests demonstrated outside the courthouse, shouting insults at the lawyers of the young woman and where a police cordon was erected

to protect the building. Lawyers said to be representing the residents of the city appeared in court asking to take part in the trial as civilian participants and as the accusations against the young woman grew.

“There was a desire to sow trouble and sedition in Kairouan and we want the file to be transferred [on this basis] to the public prosecutor. It is not just a case of possessing pepper spray,” said lawyer Hamed El Maghreb. AFP

THE international community must impose a moratorium on robot weapons, a UN expert told the world body's top human rights forum Thursday, warning that they could enable war crimes to go unpunished. "Human rights requires that human beings should in one way or another retain meaningful control over weapons of war," Christof Heyns said in a debate at the UN Human Rights Council on lethal autonomous robots, or LARs. afp

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stops the sale of New internet rules defended Firm whale meat pet treats

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INGAPORE’S media regulator yesterday sought to allay fears that a controversial new rule requiring news websites to obtain licences was aimed at stifling internet freedom.

The surprise requirement, which takes effect on Saturday, triggered an outcry in the online community after a popular news site operated by US-based Yahoo! was included among 10 sites subject to licencing.

The rest are all local mainstream news sites and there are fears among bloggers critical of the government that they could be targeted next.

“The new licencing framework is not intended to clamp down on Internet freedom,” the Media Development Authority (MDA) said in reply to queries from AFP, adding that it was “not MDA’s intent to place onerous obligations” on the licencees.

The MDA on Tuesday said websites that have at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore every month and publish at least one local news article per week over a period of two months must obtain an annual licence.

Websites granted a licence will have to remove “prohibited content” such as articles that undermine “racial or religious harmony” within 24 hours of being notified by the authorities.

“The new framework provides greater clarity on prevailing content standards in the Internet Code of Practice and there is no change in content standards,” the MDA said, referring to earlier regulations first issued in 1997.

Under the code, prohibited content includes “material that is objectionable on the

A person browses the internet in Singapore yesterday. Singapore’s official media watchdog refuted claims by online critics over new internet licensing rules. AFP

grounds of public interest, public morality, public order, public security, national harmony, or is otherwise prohibited by applicable Singapore laws.”

The MDA said guidelines within the new licencing scheme will clarify the prohibitions.

It cited the “Innocence of Muslims” video that angered the global Islamic community last year as an example of banned content.

Licenced websites will have to put up S$50,000 ($39,500) as a “performance bond” that can be forfeited if MDA regulations are not complied with.

“Should any licencee experience difficulties in meeting their licensing requirements,

we welcome them to discuss their concerns with us,” the MDA said.

Singapore’s feisty blogging community has slammed the new rule as the latest government attempt to suppress dissent and encumber independent reporting.

Yahoo! Singapore, which has a team of reporters producing independent coverage, has become a magnet for anti-government comments posted by readers in reaction to local news stories.

The MDA said the licence guidelines will “apply to all content on the news sites, including readers’ comments on the news sites”. AFP

A JAPANESE firm has stopped selling luxury pet food made from endangered fin whales, following a campaign by conservation groups.

Michinoku Farm, based in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, had advertised jerkylike snacks for dogs made from North Atlantic fin whales imported from Iceland. The treats were removed from its website hours after protests from four groups, including the UKbased Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) in the US. Michinoku’s president, Takuma Konno, said he had decided to pull the product even though its sale is legal in Japan.

“Dogs are like family members for many people in Japan.

We just wanted to sell a wide variety of food for dogs,” he said “Campaigners look at whales as important animals, but we consider dogs to be just as important.

“Maybe I was ignorant of the debate over whaling, but it’s not worth selling the product if it risks angering some people.”

The firm, which also sells pet snacks made from kangaroo and Mongolian horse, had been selling the whale chews

in packets of three sizes, including a 500 gram bag for ¥3,780 ($37.56).

Japan has imported Icelandic fin whale for human consumption since 2008, but appears to have moved into the pet food business amid a dramatic decline in consumption of all types of whale meat among diners.

“The most likely reason for shops to sell the whalemeat dog treat is to target affluent Japanese who want to show off their wealth with something different,” said Nanami Kurasawa, executive director of the Japan-based Dolphin and Whale Action Network. “The product description identifies the meat as being fin whale of Icelandic origin. Its use in pet food suggests that new markets are being explored.”

Susan Milward, executive director of AWI, said: “We are extremely pleased to see Michinoku Farm respond in such a progressive, compassionate and prompt manner, and we would strongly urge all other businesses to follow suit and end such sales.”

Similar products are still available elsewhere on the internet, however, including through Rakuten, Japan’s biggest online retailer. THE GUARDIAN

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School can be a drag Students pose for pictures with "big cigarette models" during a campaign ahead of the World No Tobacco Day, which falls today, at a primary school in Handan, Hebei province, on Wednesday. According to local media, students made the models with waste paper to advocate not smoking. AFP

Uighurs ‘bewildered’ by regulations

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HINA has imposed a “bewildering” array of regulations on the practice of Islam by its minority Uighur population that have severely impeded religious freedom, an advocacy group warned yesterday.

The US-based Uighur Human Rights Project, in a study based on witness interviews,

said China has pursued an “unrelenting drive” of “everrepressive measures” against the mostly Muslim people in northwestern Xinjiang region.

The study said China has taken a more subtle approach than simply banning religious practices and instead has “progressively narrowed” the scope of legal activity through national regulations

on religion imposed in 2005.

“What we found is there is a bewildering number of regulations that Uighurs face every day. There is confusion and people are not too sure what is legal and what isn’t,” report co-author Henryk Szadziewski told a panel discussion.

“The fact is that even customary practices are being questioned,” he said on Capi-

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tol Hill. The study said that residents of Xinjiang, which activists call East Turkestan, were not allowed to enter mosques if they were under 18 years old or employed by the government.

The report said rules were particularly strict during the holy month of Ramadan when restaurants were forced to stay open during the day,

when Muslims traditionally fast, and students and government workers were pressured to eat.

Chinese authorities have imposed prison sentences for “illegal” religious practices and banned Uighurs with Islamic attire such as beards and veils from entering certain buildings, including public assistance offices, it said. AFP

Bland to tie up with Dull and Boring

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ED up with people ridiculing its name, Bland Shire in Australia wants to cash in on it by hooking up with Dull in Scotland and the American town of Boring.

Long considered a dreary destination due to its name, Bland's tourism committee is exploring promoting the area by establishing sister relationships with other towns with odd names.

The village of Dull, in Perthshire, and Boring, in Oregon, have already joined forces to draw in tourists and forge closer links between their communities.

"I think over the years we've had our share of fun poked at us," Bland Shire councillor Tony Lord told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, adding that having a joke about the name could bring benefits.

"Wherever there's a deemed threat or a deemed negative, there's always an opportunity.

"I think that's where we need to think positively and look ahead at all the opportunities that may occur or that we can generate." AFP

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Vietnam’s ‘invisible’ disabled

Cat Barton

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HE six-day-old baby with excessive fluid in the brain was left outside an orphanage – just one of thousands of disabled children to have been abandoned in Vietnam.

The communist country of 89 million has some of the highest rates of child disability in the world – the legacy of decades of war, including use of defoliant Agent Orange – but experts say it is not equipped to provide adequate care.

At the Bo De Pagoda orphanage, where the baby was abandoned last week, dozens of disabled children – from teenagers with Down Syndrome to two-month-old blind babies – are cared for by a team of 34 volunteers.

“The parents leave the kids at the pagoda gate or abandon them at hospitals. With the more severely disabled ones, the families bring them here when they simply can’t care for them anymore,” volunteer Nguyen Thi Thanh Hue said.

Hanoi says up to three million Vietnamese people were exposed to dioxin in Agent Orange, and that one million suffer grave health repercussions today, including at least 150,000 children born with birth defects.

Disabled children are among the most marginalised in the world, facing bullying and other discrimination, according to a UN report launched yesterday in the Vietnamese city of Danang – a dioxin “hotspot” where victim groups say rates of cancer and birth deformities are higher than the national average.

Vietnam has roughly 20,000 children in institutional care and over half are disabled, according to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) executive director Anthony Lake.

“Kids in institutions simply aren’t getting the kind of stimulus and, I don’t want to sound too sentimental, but love, that allows the brain to develop for the rest of their lives,” he said.

Even outside of institutional care, life is a daily struggle for Vietnam’s disabled children.

Linh Chi’s family say her grandfather was exposed to Agent Orange during the war.

Abandoned and HIV-positive nine-month-old girl Kieu Binh An has a drink inside a dormitory room at the Bo De Pagoda orphanage in Hanoi on Tuesday.

She was born with no limbs and is often stared at and sometimes bullied at school.

“I just wish our community could pay her a bit of attention. It would boost her self-esteem. Now she feels so different from everyone else,” her mother Trinh Ngoc Thuy said by telephone from Yen Bai province where they live.

“I really find it hard to answer her questions like: why am I like this? Why don’t I have arms and legs? When will my arms get longer?” she said.

The family have received minimal support from Vietnamese authorities and say surviving on their joint income – she and her husband both

work – of four million dong ($190) a month is hard.

Caring for a child with a disability places “an incredible burden” on families, UNICEF’s Lake said.

The UN report argues the solution is to change attitudes to disability and support families to help include them in society rather than to institutionalise children.

“There is no group of children who are not just left behind but nearly invisible as much as children with disabilities,” Lake said.

UNICEF has a pilot scheme in Danang to provide day care to children with disabilities, which if successful could be expanded.

The communist government has publicly committed to action to help the country’s disabled population, which it says numbers 6.7 million but does not break out age groups.

Vietnam, which has signed but not ratified the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, is also looking at piloting cash benefits to support families with disabled children next year, Lake said.

In the meantime, families must cover costs and take on the burden of care – such as that of Nguyen Phuong Anh, who has osteogenesis imperfecta or “brittle bone disease”, which left her wheelchair bound.

Phuong Anh’s mother gave up her job

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to care for her disabled daughter, and has literally become “her legs” in order to allow the 16-year-old to attend a normal state-run school and live a full and active life.

“It is still hard because . . . the facilities and the platform at public school are not made for people in wheelchairs.

That’s a fact in Vietnam and I just really hope for that to change,” she said.

Phuong Anh recently appeared as a contestant on Vietnam’s version of the Got Talent television show – and said she hopes to use her local celebrity to change attitudes in her country.

“The most important thing is for other people to treat us equally,” she said. AFP

Condemnation follows repatriations HUMAN rights monitors and North Korean defector groups voiced anger and concern yesterday over the forced repatriation to Pyongyang of nine young refugees captured in Laos.

The case has aroused strong public feeling in South Korea.

Some have accused the foreign ministry, which has declined to comment on the issue in any detail, of failing in its duty to protect the refugees once they got to Laos.

Most North Korean refugees begin their escape by crossing into China and then try to make it to third countries – often in Southeast Asia – where they seek permission to resettle in South Korea. If they are caught and returned to the North, they can face severe punishment.

The nine arrested in Laos around three weeks ago were returned to China on Monday and then flown back to Pyongyang the next day.

Laos had previously been seen as a relatively safe and popular transit point, and its

decision in this case to return the nine refugees – aged between 15 and 23 – prompted strong expressions of concern.

“Laos and China demonstrated their disregard for human rights by allowing the North Korean government to forcibly return these nine people without fulfilling their obligations to allow refugee status determination,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch.

“These three governments will share the blame if further harm comes to these people,” he said.

In South Korea, the foreign ministry came under fire after it emerged that its embassy in Vientiane had been aware of the refugees’ arrest but had been unable to prevent their return to China.

“The South Korean embassy in Laos should be held accountable for their tragic journey home,” the JoongAng Daily said in an editorial.

“It seems the embassy simply

watched them be repatriated,” the newspaper said.

The Seoul-based North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association was equally scathing.

“This happened because of the South Korean foreign ministry’s lack of care for North Korean refugees,” association president Kim Yong-Hwa said.

In a regular press briefing yesterday, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho TaiYoung suggested Seoul was reluctant to comment for fear of worsening the situation for the repatriated refugees.

“We’re not trying to cover things up. We are doing this because the safety of these people are our top priority,” Cho said.

He did note that the foreign ministry had conveyed its feelings on the matter to Laos and had raised the issue with the UN. In a further development, South Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper yesterday quoted an unidentified diplomatic source

as saying one of the repatriated refugees was the son of a Japanese woman abducted to North Korea in the 1970s.

North Korea’s abduction of Japanese people decades ago to train its spies is a running sore in relations between the two countries.

Human Rights Watch urged North Korea to reveal the whereabouts of the nine returnees and to demonstrate they were not being ill-treated.

“North Korea has to come clean on where these nine refugees are and publicly guarantee that they will not be harmed or retaliated against for having fled the country,” said Robertson.

Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, some 25,000 North Koreans have escaped and settled in the South.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is believed to have tightened border controls since he came to power after the death of his father Kim Jong-Il in December 2011. AFP

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See the child, not the disability COMMENT Rana Flowers

CHANTREA is very clever. He always completes his assignments and because of his active involvement in the classroom, we made him chief of the class. He really is a good role model for others.”

These are the words of Chantrea’s physics teacher. Thirteen-year-old Chantrea, who is in grade 7 at lower secondary school in Stung Treng, has a form of muscular dystrophy, yet because his parents and teachers focussed on his potential rather than his physical impairment, he is thriving.

Children with disabilities and their communities benefit if society focuses on what children can achieve, rather than what they cannot.

This is the central message in the latest UNICEF State of the World’s Children report, which lays out how societies can include children with disabilities.

For many children with disabilities, exclusion begins in the first days of life with their birth going unregistered. If they are poor, they are among the least likely to receive health care or attend school and they are more vulnerable to violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect and negative name-calling.

Gender is another key factor in marginalisation as girls with disabilities are less likely than boys to receive food and care.

A child does not have a disability because they find it difficult to see, learn, walk or hear. Disability is when physical, social and legal barriers prevent a child with impairments from taking part in the life of the community on an equal basis.

Every stair is an obstacle for children with physical impairments to enter and exit a school, pagoda or health centre.

If infrastructure access was included at the planning and design stage, the World Bank estimates that the additional building costs would be lower than 1 per cent. That is a lot less than adding ramps, hand-rails and adequate toilet facilities to buildings after construction.

UNICEF recognises that special efforts have to be made to secure respect for and protection of the rights of children with disabilities. We must all be proactive to ensure that all children, including those with disabilities, can participate in their communities and enjoy their rights.

Inclusive education, for example,

Children learn how to paint at an NGO-sponsored program in Phnom Penh. HENG CHIVOAN

broadens the horizons of all children. When teachers are equipped with the appropriate knowledge to teach children with disabilities, and schools provide the right infrastructure, communication and technology, children with disabilities have the opportunity to fulfill their ambitions and reach their potential.

In Cambodia, progress is being made toward the inclusion of children with disabilities, albeit slowly and unevenly. Inclusive primary education has gradually expanded from one province in 2000 to 15 provinces today.

However, delivering “Education for All” in Cambodia, so that every child with a disability has access to quality education, cannot be achieved with a “quick fix”.

It requires targeted interventions and strategies that are well-budgeted with timelines for implementation.

Cambodia is to be commended for its ratification in December 2012 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The State of the World’s Children

report urges all governments to meet the legal obligations of the convention by ensuring that policies are enforced and monitored, budgets assigned and administrative measures applied for quality services for all children with disabilities; and support provided to families and communities so they can meet the demands of caring for their children with disabilities.

The agenda for further action outlined in The State of the World’s Children report includes the need to obtain accurate data on the number of children with disabilities, what disabilities they have and how disabilities affect their lives.

Cambodia, like many other governments, has no dependable guide for allocating resources to assist children with disabilities and their families.

A concerted research agenda on disability by national and international agencies would generate data and analysis to guide planning and resource allocation.

Finally, it is important to involve

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children and adolescents, like Chantrea, by consulting them on the design and evaluation of programs and services for them. Physical barriers can be dissolved with strong government leadership and clear legislation for buildings and transportation.

Social barriers also need government commitment to fight discrimination among the general public, decision-makers and providers of essential services such as schooling and health care.

Efforts to support the integration of children with disabilities help tackle the discrimination that pushes them further into the margins of society. Each of us must also actively break down the barriers.

We must learn to see the child before their disability, otherwise it deprives society of all that child has to offer.

When children with disabilities gain, a country is enriched.

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Swimming pool Western Apartment for rent in BKK I 02 bed 1350$ 03 bedr 2350$ 2 bath, Big living room Good kitchen. Very cleanand Western style. Furnished Very big Pool and Gym.Tel: 077 77 78 69

Brand New Warehouse For Rent Near Prey Sor Area (Warehouse zone), Size: 1,450sqm plus to 3,000sqm, electricity and water are connected. Price: US$1,7/sqm Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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Brand New Warehouse For Rent Near Prey Sor Area (Warehouse zone), Size: 1,450sqm plus to 3,000sqm, electricity and water are connected. Price: US$1,7/sqm Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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Traditional Garden Villa For Rent​In BKK1, 03-04 bedrooms, large living room, very light, some furnished, western kitchen, big balcony and terrace, very nice garden and trees, big parking and playground, quiet Price: US$3,500/m Tel: 092 23 26 23

Modern Apartment For Rent BKK1, 3 Bedrooms, large living room, very light, Fully Furnished, western Kitchen, Steam & Sauna, roof top garden, gym, very good condition for living, quiet & safe.

Price: $3,000/m Tel: 092 23 26 23

Apartment For Rent (ARC009432) 3rd floor unit available in CKM , 1-bed, 2-bed, large rooftop swim- pool , nice garden, fully furnished, free wifi, 24h secu- guard,Price:$1,100/m Tel:016 666 192 | www.arc.com.kh

Condo for Sale (ARC010748) In Bassac garden city, 24h-secu guard,10mn drive, all facilities & services available, plus pool, size: 160sqm, Price :$210,000, Tel : 097 6182 888. | www.arc.com.kh

Brand New Modern Villa For Rent In Bassac Garden Compound, 4-5 Bed, very large living room perfect interior design, modern kitchen, big balcony and big terrace, it will be complete in June, very quiet & safety area, cars parking, roof top steam & sauna.$4,000/m. Tel: 092 23 26 23

Office Building For Rent located in on the main street, 100 to 1700 sqm and $10-14 per sqm per month, big parking lot.

Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com NICE VILLA-SWIMMING POOL In TouAl kork area, decoration with 7 bedrooms & bathrooms, big beautiful Garden, living room, kitchen, fully furnished. Tel: 011994168 Office Space for Rent $12/sqm. New building Good location Available for 150 sqm per floor Tel: 077 777 869

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NEW CONDO FOR RENT 2 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1 Kitchen 1 Living Room Price: USD 500 per month Location: Near Russian Market H/P: 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 (English) : 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86 (Chinese) 24 HOURS SECURITY

NEW CONDO FOR SELL 1Bed,1Kitchen,1Bath,1Living Room, $29,900, 2Beds, 2Baths, 1Kitchen, 1Living Room, $39,990, Payment: 2years, Rate: 0%, Near Russian Market. 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 (Eng), 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86 (Chinese)

NEW VILLA FOR SELL 5 Bedrooms 6 Bathrooms 1 Kitchen 1 Living Room 2 Cars Park Price: USD 138900 Location: In front of Toek Thla Market H/P: 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 (English) : 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86(Chinese) 24 HOURS SECURITY

NEW VILLA FOR RENT 5 Bedrooms 6 Bathrooms 1Kitchen 1 Living Room 2 Cars Park Price: USD 1000 per month Location: Next Basak River H/P: 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 : 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86 (Chinese) 24 HOURS SECU

NEW VILLA FOR RENT Land: 20m x 30m 8 Bedrooms 10 Bathrooms 2 Kitchens 3 Living Rooms 4 Cars Park Price:$ 2000/ m Location: Near Russian Market H/P: 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 : 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86 (Chinese)

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NEW FLAT (Eo) FOR SELL 2 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1 Kitchen 1 Living Room 2 Cars Park Price: USD 44990 Location: St.371, Near PC Market H/P: 015 62 39 53 / 085 43 29 99 : 016 22 06 22/ 012 68 05 86 (Chinese) 24 HOURS SECURITY

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PROPERTIES Apart for Sale (ARC003514) Centrally located in BPL, 7-unit service apartment, all furnishing, 4 floors & 24h guard, L-Size: 190m Price : $ 530,000,Tel: 097 6182 888 NO BLESS APARTMENT FOR SALE with lowet price. 12 floor with 3 bedroom. Tel: 012 840 069 Apartment for rent No.15, St.1126, ToulKok Tel:012 667875, Em:royalhomeplace@gmail.com Apartment for rent (Borey NewWorld, NationalHigh way5, Km6, ReusseyKeo). 4 bedr, 6 bathr, liv.r, kitchen, laundry room, office room, parking. Furnished, A/ Cs, hot water, cable TV, internet.

24h security. $600/m. 012 327 161 or visethhs@yahoo.com

Swimming Pool Villa for Rent Teuk Thlar Northbridge School $3000/M, Swimming Pool Very nice Garden, Western Style Big Living room, 5Bed 5Bath Full Furnished and Big Balcony Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Luxury Apartment, 1200$/M, 2 beds, 2 baths, Swimming Pool, Gym, Fully furnished, including internet, cleaning 24h security, quiet & safe, car parking. Tonle Bassac, near market. 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Single villa for rent, 800$/M, 4 beds, 4 baths, Fully furnished, internet, Western kitchen big living room, Big garden & trees, no flooding, safe area. Near Toul Tompong, car parking. 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Big terrace penthouse, 500$/M, 2 beds, 2 baths, Fully furnished, internetquiet & safe, flowers and plants, fresh air, big kitchen with full stuff & big living room. Beong Prolit, near the market Tel: 012 510 610

First floor apartment, Price: 300$/M1 bed, 1 bath, Fully furnished, internet, nice kitchen big living room, quiet. Nice balcony with green around the unit Tonle Bassac, moto parking. 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Apartment share with owner 400$/M, 2 beds, 2 baths,Fully furnished, internet, nice kitchen big living room, quiet. Nice balcony with green around the unit. BKK 3, moto parking Call : 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Villa for rent in Bassac Garden City Location Tonle Bassac, Price: 1200$ 3 bed, 3 bath, fully furnished, nice garden, very safe security 24/7, very modern style Tel: 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz for more

Small villa for rent, 700$/M, 2 beds, 3 baths, Some furnishing, internet, Western kitchen big living room, Big garden &trees, no flooding, safe area. Near Toul Tompong, car parking. 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Villa in Bassac Garden City, 2,300$/M, 3 beds, 4 baths, fully furnished, internet, Western kitchen big living room, quiet nice garden & trees, safe area, Tonle Bassac, car parking Tel: 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Big Villa for Rent: $1900/M Near Toul Tompoung Market $1900 per Month Very Big Yard 1Living room, 5Bedroom, 5Bath Some Furniture, 5Cars Parking Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Rare villa with natural garden in BKK1​​The absolute natural garden with grass and trees, for rent in BKK1 will comes available in June, 3 bed, 3 baths It stays on street 302, some furniture Tel : 012 510 610 ; Price: 3000$ / m

Office Space for rent: 6.6 $ per sqm Price incluing 10% with holding tax On 2nd floor 160 sqm &4th 260 sqm Lift, stair, back up generator, 24 security Enough cars parking and moto parking Partition decoration nego tiable. 012 510 610

House for rent Price: 1,500$/m Size: W9m x H24m Tel: 097 737 00 46

Villa in North Bridge for rent, 3,000$/M​, 5 beds, 5 baths, fully furnished, internet, Western​​kitchen big living room, nice garden & trees, Big Swimming Pool, Norh Bridge School, car parking. Tel:012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Apartment Business for sale in Siem Reap 25 units, parking gardens etc. good busines / turnover. sell for cheap price due to ill health Tel: 089 986 398

Factory for rent: 1.8 $ per sqm: Dangkor District Available 2900sqm to 10000 sqm High standard construction, Brand new easy to find worker, EDC electricity City water, 4 companies are running Container access to road no 4 easy.Tel: 012 510 610

Big Balcony Apartment Rent Location: near Central Market $650/M: 2Bed, 2Bath Western Style, Big Living room Big Balcony, Western Kitchen Contact to View: 012 939 958

Western Apartment for Rent $600/M in 7Makara Area Real Western Style, Furniture Living Room, 1Bedroom A/c Nice Kitchen, 1Car Parking Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Price: 450$/d, 450$/m Color: gray, year, 1999 Tel: 012 524 599

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STEUNG SIEMREAP Residence(Apartment) Price: US$ 1300 up, Mob: 012 985 638 Wood house for rent, 950$/M​​, 3 beds, 4 baths,Some furniture, internet,Western kitchen big living room, quiet. Big balcony garden & trees, no flooding Boeung Trabek, car parking Tel: 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Nice Swimming Pool villa , 3200$/M 5 beds, 5 baths, fully furnished, internet, Western kitchen, big living room, quiet nice garden, trees, natural.East of Russian market, 3 cars park. 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Warehouse for rent, Size: 1960 sqm Price: 2500$ per month,Mean Chey District,Standard construction, new and clean No flooding, EDC electricity and City water, Container easy access .Tel: 012 510 610 www.cambodiarealestate.biz

Basac Garden Villa For Rent 2000$/m. 3 bedrooms, Big living room and dining area Nice Garden and some trees Contact Tel: 077 777869 www.ppgroup.biz

Western Apartment Located in BKKI Rent: $700/m for one bed 1 Living room, nice balcony Fully Furnished, Nice Kitchen More light, Motor Parking Contact Tel: 077 777 869

5 bedrooms Villa for Rent Located in Boeung Trabek. 1500/m 1 big Living room, big yard Some furniture. Nice Kitchen Big Space for Parking 4 cars. Very good for living and office Tel: 077 777 657

EDUCATION Western International School - Siem Reap Branch is looking qualify foreign teacher for kindergarten And adult classes.

Call us: 012 757 700/088 98 913 98 jamesrath_svwiu@yahoo.com SeaQuest BCD+Regulator Octopus w/Depth/Press Gauge + Compass. Mens med.

Seaquest Flippers 42-43 $500 Neg/obo Ph 077-411-933

Pub Street, Siem Reap Restaurant for sale Two separate restaurants,( 1 aircon - 650 sq feet and one open - 850 sq feet)in a new mall with movable kitchen, fully equipped. Buy lease rights for $50,000 for three years remaining, renewable Dec. 2015 on low rent of $1200 per month. Stfrancare@ juno.com. Phone 088 55 12 979 Steung Siemreap Residence Price: US$ 1300 up, Mob: 012 985 638

Architect Danish Architect

Tel: 016757356 House for Rent in Siem Reap 1- Wooden house $70 per month 2- The house has 2 rooms,one room with Air-conditioned,kitchen, Situate behind Angkor villa resort about 300m,Price: $120/month Tel: 012 99 43 47/ 088 71 91 260

education Female Foreign Teachers for kindergarten class needed at Western International School-Siem Reap branch. Interested candidates contact James at (855) 88 98 913 98, email: infosiemreap@western.edu.kh

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Travel PREAH SIHANOUK - SIEM REAP Flighs Days Dep Arrival K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55

INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE FROM PHNOM PENH Flighs

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TO PHNOM PENH Arrival

PHNOM PENH - BANGKOK Daily

12:05

01:10

K6 721

Daily

02:25

03:30

Daily

06:40

08:15

PG 931

Daily

07:55

09:05

PG 932

Daily

09:55

11:10

TG 580

Daily

07:55

09:05

TG 581

Daily

10:05

11:10

PG 933

Daily

13:30

14:40

PG 934

Daily

15:30

16:40

FD 3616

Daily

15:15

16:20

FD 3617

Daily

17:05

18:15

PG 935

Daily

17:30

18:40

PG 936

Daily

19:30

20:40

TG 584

Daily

18:25

19:40

TG 585

Daily

20:40

21:45

PG 937

Daily

20:15

21:50

Daily

BEIJING - PHNOM PENH 08:00

16:05

14:30

20:50

QR 605

1.2..5.6

22:35

05:15+1

QR 604

1.2..5.6

08:00

21:00

QR 603

..34..7

15:50

22:25

QR 602

..3.4..7

01:25

14:20

CZ 324

Daily

08:00

11:40

CZ 6059

2.4.7

12:00

13:45

CZ 6060

2.4.7

14:45

18:10

CZ 323

Daily

19:05

20:50

09:40

13:00

Daily

17:30

20:35

VN 841

Daily

HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

VN 841

Daily

14:00

14:45

VN 920

Daily

15:50

16:30

VN 3856

Daily

19:20

20:05

VN 3857

Daily

18:00

18:45

1.2.4.7

11:25

15:05

KA 208

1.2.4.6.7 08:50

10:25

KA 207

6

11:45

22:25

KA 206

3.5.7

14:30

16:05

KA 209

1

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22:05

KA 206

1

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17:00

KA 209

3.5.7

17:25

21:00

KA 206

2

15:50

17:25

KA 205

2

19:00

22:35

PHNOM PENH - INCHEON Daily

23:40

06:40

KE 689

Daily

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22:20

OZ 740

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06:50

OZ 739

Daily

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22:50

PHNOM PENH - KUALA LUMPUR

5J - CEBU Airways.

MH - Malaysia Airlines

2 Tuesday

AK - Air Asia

MI - SilkAir

3 Wednesday

BR - EVA Airways

OZ - Asiana Airlines

4 Thursday

CI - China Airlines

PG - Bangkok Airways

5 Friday

CZ - China Southern

QR - Qatar Airways

6 Saturday

FD - Thai Air Asia

QV - Lao Airlines

7 Sunday

FM - Shanghai Air

SQ - Singapore Airlines

K6- Cambodia Angkor Air

TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines

This flight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information, please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for flight schedule information.

AIRLINES

KUALA LUMPUR - PHNOM PENH

AK 1473

Daily

08:35

11:20

AK 1474

Daily

15:15

16:00

MH 755

Daily

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14:00

MH 754

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MH 763

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MH 762

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PHNOM PENH- PARIS

PHNOM PENH - PARIS 20:05

06:05

PHNOM PENH - SHANGHAI 2.3.4.5.7

1 Monday

INCHEON - PHNOM PENH

KE 690

FM 833

KA - Dragon Air

HONG KONG - PHNOM PENH

KA 207

2

COLOUR CODE

2817 - 16 Tigerairways

HANOI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

AF 273

AIRLINES CODE

GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG

S

Daily

DOHA - PHNOM PENH ( Via HCMC)

VN 840

INGAPORE’S love affair with hawker cuisine will be celebrated from May 31 to June 9 at the inaugural World Street Food Congress, a 10-day festival where 37 vendors from 10 countries will roll up to serve their dishes on the southeast of the island – including taco stands from Mexico, food carts from Malaysia, mobile kiosks from India and gourmet food trucks from the US, as well as participants from the host country and elsewhere.

As well as the street chefs and stalls, there will be food writers and street-food specialists, including American TV chef Anthony Bourdain and Claus Meyer, the cofounder of Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant, three-time winner of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. The event will also host the first World Street Food Awards, intended to raise global awareness of the genre. To whet your appetite, here’s our pick of the best spots in Singapore.

328 Katong Laksa Katong is Singapore’s old Peranakan neighbourhood, where the blending of Chinese ingredients with Malay spices and cooking created nyonya cuisine. It also forms part of the name of “328 Katong Laksa”. This friendly coffee shop, run by a former beauty queen, serves one of the best laksa soups you’ll find – a delicious mix of spicy lemak coconut milk, prawns, cockles, tofu, beansprouts and noodles.

Andhra Curry Little India, to the east of Orchard Road, is one of Singapore’s liveliest quarters, with scores of reasonably priced restaurants, cafes and shops selling colourful silks, fragrant incense and glitzy bangles.

Andhra stands out because of

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And though the speciality here is south Indian vegetarian dishes, it is also known for its Hyderabadi biryani and Mysore mutton (cooked with green chillies and coriander).

Azmi Chapatis The sign outside may read “Thye Chong Restaurant since 1941”, but the Chinese owner of this ancient coffee shop has long leased out the premises to Muslim chefs, who make arguably the island’s best chapatis. Two aged gentlemen share rolling and cooking duties, turning out a piping hot flatbread every couple of minutes.

Tian Tian, Maxwell Food Centre, Chinatown Everyone in Singapore has their own favourite Hainanese chicken rice stall. Tender steamed chicken is served with slightly cooled, fluffy rice, sliced cucumber, coriander – and two key ingredients – a homemade chili sauce and bowl of chicken broth. In Chinatown’s Maxwell Food Centre, the longest queues are at Tian Tian, where chicken rice goes for less than S$4 (US$3.20).

Chinatown Complex Food Court For exciting food, step into the dilapidated Chinatown Complex, which houses a brilliant wet (fresh food) market and buzzing food court upstairs. For once, this isn’t sanitised Singapore, and customers take more notice of how delicious the cooking is than the hygiene rating.

Satay Bee Hoon can claim to be a genuine Singapore invention, a fusion of Chinese and Malay influences, where delicate rice vermicelli, cuttle fish, cockles, pork and kangkong (water spinach) are smothered in a spicy, crunchy satay sauce, all for US$2.25 a portion. the guardian

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Seabrook’s overtime winner lifts Blackhawks past Wings B

rett Seabrook scored 3:35 into overtime to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Detroit on Wednesday as the Blackhawks stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to win their quarter-final series in seven games.

Defenceman Seabrook collected a loose puck in the neutral zone then carried it into the Red Wings end before firing a wrist shot that beat Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard to the glove side. Seabrook’s shot appeared to change direction slightly after it hit the left leg of Red Wings defenceman Niklas Kronwall.

“I was just trying to step up.

The coach has been telling us defence to jump into the play.

I felt like I got a lot of room and I just tried to shoot it,” Seabrook said.

Chicago advances to the semi-finals to face the defending National Hockey League champion Los Angeles Kings, who also needed a game seven to punch their ticket by beating the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.

Chicago opens their Western Conference series against the Kings on Saturday at home.

The Hawks or Kings will meet the winner of the other semi-final between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Bos-

Chicago Blackhawks centre Jonathan Toews (left) and Patrick Sharp (centre) join a mob of teammates as they celebrate Brent Seabrook’s game winning overtime goal against the Detroit Red Wings. REUTERS

ton Bruins for the Stanley Cup title. Their best-of-seven series also gets under way on Saturday.

After taking game one, Chicago lost three straight to the seventh-seeded Red Wings to trail 3-1 in the series.

But Chicago fought back recording a 4-1 win at home ice in game five and then tied the series at 3-3 with Monday’s

4-3 victory on the road. Dave Bolland helped spring Seabrook free on the winner by placing a big hit on Detroit’s Gustav Nyquist. That opened up the middle of the ice for former Lethbridge Hurricane Seabrook who moved the puck quickly towards the Detroit goal then got the fortunate bounce off Kronwall.

Seabrook said he wasn’t

aiming for any particular spot on Howard just trying to see if he could force the Detroit goaltender to make a save.

“Kronwall is like me, he likes to block a lot of pucks so I was just trying to get it past him,” Seabrook said.

The goal was almost justice for a controversial call by game official Stephen Walkom late in the third pe-

riod that disallowed an apparent Blackhawks’ goal by Niklas Hjalmarsson.

Trailing the play and seeing two players fall to the ice in front of the Detroit bench, Walkom blew his whistle quickly with 1:49 left in regulation and called co-incidental penalties just as Hjalmarsson was up ice beating Howard with a high slap shot.

Chicago protested the call on the grounds they had possession and were in the middle of a scoring chance but to no avail, setting the stage for Seabrook’s dramatic overtime winner.

Seabrook said by the time overtime began they were no longer thinking of Walkom’s call. “We forgot about that. We were excited and looking forward to getting the overtime started,” Seabrook said.

Howard had been Detroit’s best player in the series but on Wednesday Hawks goalie Corey Crawford matched him with a superb 26-save performance.

“All our guys are just as tired.

It was a heck of an effort by everyone,” Crawford said.

This was just the third game seven between the two Original Six clubs and the first one since 1965. Chicago also won that game seven in the semifinals. AFP

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Floyd Mayweather Jr of the US (left) will step up a weight class to fight Saul Alvarez of Mexico in Las Vegas on September 14.

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Mayweather to fight Alvarez World welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather will put his undefeated record on the line when he fights Mexican champ Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 14 in Las Vegas.

“I chose my opponent for September 14th, and it’s Canelo Alvarez,” the 36-year-old Mayweather tweeted on Wednesday night. “I’m giving the fans what they want.”

Mayweather fought May 4 and remained unbeaten with a unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero to keep his World Boxing Council wel-

terweight belt. The two will meet at the MGM Grand Hotel where Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) will try to wrestle more belts from World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association light middleweight title holder Alvarez.

Alvarez posted a 12-round unanimous decision over Austin Trout on April 20 to unify those titles.

Mayweather is moving up in weight to face light middleweight boxer Alvarez, who is 14 years younger than the veteran American.

Manny Pacquiao has been trying for several years to get Mayweather into the ring but the Filipino and Mayweather’s feisty camp couldn’t come to an agreement on how to split the revenue from what would be one of the biggest fights in boxinghistory.

So Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KOs) is a bigger, more powerful and younger opponent for Mayweather who is coming off a win over hand-picked opponent Guerrero.

“I will be the first to beat Floyd,” Alvarez tweeted. AFP

The Philippines said yesterday it would send a tiny delegation to this year’s Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar to protest at the host’s “unfair” exclusion of mainstream sports.

Between 30 and 50 Filipino athletes are expected to compete in Myanmar compared with 512 at the 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia, Philippine Sports Commission chairman Richie Garcia told AFP. “We’re doing this to protest the unfair changes to the event that Myanmar is making,” Garcia said.

Myanmar announced in January that it was excluding Olympic sports such as tennis and gymnastics from the Games, prompting accusations by rivals it was cherry-picking events to help home athletes.

Myanmar has included events such as chinlone, a dance-like sport, and bodybuilding.

Garcia said he would not attend the Games in December, and was urging his colleagues on the sports commission also to boycott them.

He said he would like to see a standardised roster of events in time for the 2015SEA Games in Singapore.

But Singapore Games organising chief Lim Teck Yin this week backed Myanmar’s move to include homegrown sports, telling AFP it helped maintain tradition and develop regional character. AFP

Athletes to splash and dash at CCC Aquathlon

The Cambodian Triathlon Federation hosts its second CCC Aquathlon event at the Cambodian Country Club tomorrow from 7am. CTF President Kong Rithy Chup told the Post yesterday that a total of 183 athletes including 26 females have registered for the five categories of the swimming and running race.

65 technical staff will help steward the event while 120 members of athletics clubs and associations are expected to turn out in support.

Information Minister and CTF Honorary President Khieu Kanharith will preside over the closing ceremony. DAN RILEY

Vovinam team capture medals in Siem Reap

Cambodia stormed to a medal haul of 16 golds, 3 silvers and 13 bronzes at the 2nd Southeast Asian Vovinam Championships in Siem Reap this week to finish second in the overall standings behind the martial arts’ country of origin, Vietnam. The tournament, held on Wednesday and yesterday at the Sokhalay Hotel, also included delegations from Indonesia (who came in third), Myanmar and Laos.

Female Cambodian competitor Pal Chhorraksmey boasted the best individual record with a gold, silver and bronze from her events. CHORN NORN, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

Yamaha’s Lorenzo eyes hat-trick at Italian GP

The MotoGP World Championship heads to the Mugello circuit in Tuscany this weekend for the Italian Grand Prix, with reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo of Spain hoping to bounce back from a disappointing race last time out in France. The Yamaha Factory Racing rider is currently third in the overall standings heading into the season’s fifth stage, but will look to clinch his third win at Mugello in as many years.

The main race gets under way on Sunday at 7pm Cambodian time. DAN RILEY

Woods seeks to put Garcia spat behind him

Tiger Woods said on Wednesday he has not spoken to Sergio Garcia and has no plans to do so a week after the golfers got into a spat that was sparked by racially tinged comments from the Spaniard.

Speaking at the Memorial Tournament, Woods said he does not expect to broach the subject when the two compete at the US Open in two weeks’ time. “That’s already done with,” said world number one Woods, the day before he tees it up to try and defend his title at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in London, Ohio. AFP

All Blacks look to play rugby fixtures in Japan

The mighty All Blacks are to play Japan later this year on their way to a European tour, a report said yesterday, in what would be their first trip to the country in 26 years. The New Zealand powerhouses will take on the Brave Blossoms national side in Tokyo on November 2, the Sankei Sports daily reported, in the run-up to matches against France, England and Ireland later in the month. AFP

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Serena says ‘psycho’ side under wraps T

op seed Serena Williams said her “psycho” side is under wraps after motoring into the third round of the French Open with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of French wildcard Caroline Garcia on Wednesday.

The American world number one has courted controversy in the past with her on-court behaviour but after a controlled and powerful demolition of the 19-year-old Garcia she gave the impression that all is calm.

“I haven’t seen her either in a while,” she said, answering a question referring to a TV documentary in which she gave her various moods different names.

“I have been trying to keep that one under wraps.

“I think that’s a girl that gets really crazy on the tennis court and just really fights really hard. Just, you know, takes it a little too far sometimes.”

Williams famously ranted at a line

judge in the US Open semi-final in 2009 and was effectively defaulted after receiving a point penalty on match point down to Kim Clijsters.

There was no need for her to get angry on Phillipe Chatrier Court against an opponent who gave Maria Sharapova a run for her money on her previous appearance on the big stage in Paris.

Williams roared into a 5-0 lead in the opening set before Garcia, ranked 114 in the world, held serve to generous applause from the crowd who had earlier witnessed victories for Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils.

There was precious little hope of a hat-trick of home wins on Chatrier though with Williams, who came into the match on a career-best 25match winning streak, wrapping up the opening set in 27 minutes.

Garcia offered more resistance in the second set but was still no match for the 15-times grand slam

Serena Williams hits a shot to Caroline Garcia during their French Open match at Roland Garros stadium in Paris.

champion who looks in the mood to add to her single French Open title.

The 31-year-old said she might even ask for a little help from “Summer” – another one of her character

traits, when she takes on Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in the third round.

“Summer is my assistant who lives inside my body. It’s weird.

She’s very effective. She’s unbeliev-

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able. She’s really like organised and she’s amazing. I love her.”

But one thing for certain is that “Laquanda” is “not allowed to come out. She’s on probation!” REUTERS

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Wrestling’s chances of regaining its place on the Olympic sports roster moved a step closer on Wednesday as the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) included it in a shortlist of three to be voted on in September by the wider membership.

Wrestling is one of the Olympics’ most historic sports but was surprisingly voted off the list in February by the same Executive Board.

It will compete against squash and a joint softball/ baseball bid in Buenos Aires on September 8.

Both softball and baseball were voted off as separate sports in 2009 and replaced by golf and rugby sevens, which will each make their debuts in 2016. Only one sport will be added to the roster.

Wrestling federation president Nenad Lalovic, who has spearheaded the campaign to regain their place since taking over after the decision to oust it, used a wrestling analogy to describe where they stood.

“The match is not finished, we heard that we got a second match to fight,” said the Serbian. “But be careful because we are still fighters.”

Wrestling, one of the rare sports to transcend the ancient and modern Games, has introduced a sweeping range of reforms under Lalovic since it was voted off.

“For sure, it [the reforms] helps us,” he said. “We had to do it much earlier. Probably, we wouldn’t have been in such a position.”

Squash great Nicol David,

who appeared as part of the presentation team, was ecstatic at the result.

“This is a great day for squash as it takes us one step closer to realising our long held ambition to join the Olympic Games,” said the seven-time women’s world champion.

“I said to the Executive Board that the one big regret in my career is that I have never had the chance to compete in the Olympic Games, but I would happily trade all my seven world titles for the chance of Olympic Gold.

“Hopefully that showed what competing in the Games means to me,” added David, who will be 37 should squash win the spot for the 2020 Games.

IOC President Jacques Rogge, who himself will be replaced in September when he steps down after 12 years in charge, said that all the sports had given a good account of themselves to him and his fellow 14

members of the Executive Board.

“The Executive Board received excellent presentations today from eight International Federations,” said Rogge.

“It was never going to be an easy decision but I feel my colleagues on the board made a good decision in selecting baseball/softball, squash and wrestling to be put forward in Buenos Aires.

“I wish the three shortlisted sports the best of luck in the run-up to the vote in September and would like to thank the other sports for their hard work and dedication.”

Five other sports failed to get on the shortlist after making their presentations to the Executive Board: climbing, karate – which had been thought to be in with a good chance of making the list – martial art wushu, nautical sport wakeboarding and roller sports. AFP

Japan’s Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (right) fights Canada’s Haislan Veranes Garcia duirng the London 2012 Olympic Games. REUTERS

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Football

Boeung Ket ready to strike in Singapore Cup tonight HS Manjunath

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HE narrow loss to West Bank champions Hilal Al-Quds in the AFC President’s Cup early this month might still be rankling, but Boeung Ket Rubber Field manager Be Makara is quite emphatic that the side are sharply focused on doing well in the 2013 RHB Singapore Cup. A heady mix of six attackers, six midfielders, and as many defenders, as well as two goalkeepers left for Singapore on Wednesday ahead of Boeung Ket’s opening round clash tonight against local S League side Tanjong Pagar United at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

The 20-player squad was accompanied by head coach Prak Vuthy, manager Be Makara, assistant coach Sam An and media officer Ken Gadaffi.

Unlike in the 15 previous editions, when teams had a clear route to the final, each round will have a draw to determine match-ups. Boeung Ket are one of the four foreign invitees alongside Loyola Meralco Sparks and Global FC from the Philippines and Lao Police Club from Laos.

The rest of the field of 16 is made up of a dozen S League teams in this knockout tournament, which carries cash prizes of $100,000 for the winners, $60,000 for the runners-up and $40,000 for the team finishing third, an increase of nearly 25 per cent in the prize fund compared with last year.

The 2012 Cambodian Metfone CLeague champions, who have reeled off 10 wins on the run in their defence of the title, are hoping that their unbeaten domestic streak will keep them in good spirits and shape when they take to the pitch at 7pm (6pm Cambodian time) under lights against Tanjong Pagar, who finished 12th in the S League last season. In fact, Tanjong

One of the fiercest domestic season rivalries will play out on Sunday when NagaCorp and Svay Rieng face off in a Metfone C-League tie at Olympic Stadium.

The 2pm kickoff will mark another one of those heavyweight Cambodian contests.

Apart from the impact the out-

Phnom Penh Crown Academy face a daunting task tomorrow in the 2013 FAM-Frenz U15 ASEAN Champions Trophy as they welcome co-organisers and tournament favourites Frenz Malaysia A for a 4:30pm kickoff at Olympic Stadium.

The Cambodians lost their first Group A match 4-0 against Vietnam PVF Academy last weekend. DAN RILEY

Hughes appointed as manager of Stoke City

Premier League Stoke City have appointed Mark Hughes as their new manager in place of his fellow Welshman Tony Pulis, who left the club by mutual consent after seven years in charge last week, the BBC reported yesterday.

Former Manchester United striker Hughes was most recently employed by Queens Park Rangers, who sacked him last November before being relegated, and has also had spells in charge at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City and Fulham. Hughes, 49, was sacked by QPR after a miserable start to last season, with his team the only club in England’s four professional divisions without a win. REUTERS The Boeung Ket squad line up in training yesterday at the Jalan Besar Stadium ahead of their Singapore Cup clash tonight.

only returned to the league in 2011 after being forced out due to financial constraints in 2004.

Boeung Ket will be banking on the striking prowess of Nigerian Bisan George, who will reinforce the frontline after sitting out the AFC President’s Cup. Chan Vathanaka has been a revelation this season and the 19year-old’s precocious talent could be an asset to the side.

The midpark versatility of Momoh Deguile and the brilliance of Chukwuma Ohuruogu as a trusted linkman between the midfield and the backline could all add up in good measure to give Boeung Ket a well-rounded look.

Before leaving Phnom Penh, manager Be Makara expressed confidence in his outfit, saying that the side had the gumption and quality to perform well in an event of this stature, despite the fact the team’s experience outside of the country has been very limited.

Concerns about the team playing under lights, which is quite unusual back home for Boeung Ket, was downplayed by the manager, who insisted that his players would quickly adjust to the conditions.

Meanwhile, head coach Prak Vuthy points to the balance in the team as one of the key factors. Though Tan-

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jong Pagar is an unknown quantity for Boeung Ket, the team’s current level of self belief should be a redeeming feature.

Unlike domestic and AFC-sanctioned competitions, the Singapore Cup allows Boeung Ket the chance to field all five of their foreign players at the same time.

According to press officer Ken Gadaffi, coach Vuthy will take full advantage by selecting the aforementioned Nigerian trio along with compatriot forward Gerard Chinedu and Cameroonian midfielder Befolo Mbarga in his starting line-up. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY DAN RILEY

Naga, Svay Rieng slugfest Suarez admits interest HS Manjunath

Crown host Malaysian side in ASEAN U15 clash

come may have on the shape of the top four, there is so much of pride at stake when these two sides meet.

Svay Rieng are buoyant after bouncing back in dramatic fashion to split points and honours with Kirivong Sok Sen Chey in a 2-2 draw on Wednesday. But the same afternoon, Naga were feeling pretty good too after shooting 12 goals past

Naga’s Prak Chanrathana (right) shoots through Svay Rieng’s Hoy Phallin in their Metfone C-League match on March 3. SRENG MENG SRUN

a clueless Senate Secretariat.

Naga are well aware that goals will not be that easy to come against one of the toughest backlines in the league.

Naga’s greater worry will be how best to contain the likes of Khoun Laboravy, who despite being way out of his absolute fitness is still capable of causing a stir in the box as he demonstrated as a sub in the game against Kirivong and the one before that against Build Bright United.

Svay Rieng are currently second in the standings with 23 points behind Boeung Ket and no matter what the outcome is going to be, they will retain that placing.

Naga, who managed to get past Phnom Penh Crown into the third position, will be looking for all three points, just like their rivals, to ensure the safety of a Super 4 playoffs berth, though there is still quite a lot standing in the race.

In Sunday’s second fixture at 4pm, Crown face bottom of the table Senate.

In the only match on Saturday sees Asia Europe University take on National Police at 2pm at Olympic Stadium.

in Real Madrid transfer Luis Suarez has encouraged Real Madrid’s hopes of luring him away from Liverpool this summer by admitting he would find it hard to resist an approach from the Spanish institution.

Real are one of the few clubs with the means to activate a release clause in the Uruguayan’s contract, believed to be in excess of £40 million ($60.7 milion).

Liverpool have repeatedly stated that their leading goalscorer is not for sale, a stance reiterated by Brendan Rodgers only last week, but they fear Suarez may request a move in search of Champions League football.

Those concerns deepened on Wednesday when Suarez gave the clearest signal yet that he is prepared to leave Anfield following another turbulent season in English football.

The 26-year-old scored 30 goals for Liverpool last season but collected a 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic, a suspension that will apply to the first six games of next

season and which has left him considering his future in England.

In an interview with the Uruguayan radio station 890 Sport, Suarez said: “I love Liverpool, but if there is a chance of playing somewhere else …

I suffered too much as a kid to get where I am to be attacked unfairly by the English press.

“They haven’t appreciated me as a player, they’ve just judged my attitude.

“I’m happy at Liverpool; I’m happy because of the fans. I made a mistake, I’m human, but [the press] talked about me in ways they shouldn’t have.

“My family have suffered and things got out of hand.

My daughter and my wife have suffered. I’m not prepared to continue to put up with the English press.”

The admission came on the same day that Liverpool agreed a €9 million ($11.7 million) deal to sign Iago Aspas from Celta Vigo. This will strengthen the belief that they have begun preparing for life without Suarez. THE GUARDIAN

Treble-chasing Bayern take tilt at ‘immortality’

Having smashed a load of records and steamrollered the likes of Barcelona and Juventus, all-conquering Bayern Munich can crown their season by becoming the first German side to win the league, cup and Champions League treble tomorrow. Their cup final opponents VfB Stuttgart, who finished in the lower half of the Bundesliga after their familiar winter slump, are all that stand between Bayern and what chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge described as “immortality”. The match at 1am Cambodian time tomorrow at Berlin’s Olympic stadium will be the last for Bayern’s Jupp Heynckes before he makes way for Pep Guardiola. REUTERS

Wednesday’s Results International Friendlies England 1 Rep of Ireland 1 Ecuador 2 Germany 4 Canada 0 Costa Rica 1 USA 2 Belgium 4

weekend fixtures Spanish La Liga

Saturday June 1 Real Madrid v Osasuna – 10pm Sunday June 2 Barcelona v Malaga – 12am Celta Vigo v Espanyol – 2am Deportivo v Real Sociedad 2am Granada v Getafe – 2am Levante v Real Betis – 2am Mallorca v Valladolid – 2am Rayo Vallecano v Athl Bilbao 2am Real Zaragoza v Atl Madrid 2am Sevilla v Valencia – 2am

International Friendlies

Saturday June 1 Turkey v Slovenia – 12am Italy v San Marino – 1:45am Mexico v Nigeria – 8am Sunday June 2 Panama v Peru – 3:30am Republic of Ireland v Georgia 11:30pm Monday June 3 Ukraine v Cameroon – 1am USA v Germany – 1:30am Brazil v England – 5am Honduras v Israel – 4:30am

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Sport O’Connell to captain Lions in tour opener Michael Flaherty

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reland’s Paul O’Connell will captain the side in place of Sam Warburton, but nine other Welshman were included in Warren Gatland’s first British and Irish Lions team for tomorrow’s match against the Barbarians.

Lock O’Connell, who skippered the tourists in South Africa four years ago, will lead 17 new Lions out before the match at Hong Kong Stadium, with Wales flanker Warburton rested after taking a knock in training.

Gatland described the injury as “slight” damage to the medial collateral ligament in his knee and scrumhalf Mike Phillips said he did not expect it to keep Warburton out of the tour for long.

“He’s a world class player,”

Phillips, who is on his second Lions tour, said of O’Connell.

“It’s sad for Sam but he’ll be back as soon as possible.”

England’s Owen Farrell gets the first chance to impress at flyhalf in his personal battle for the number 10 shirt with Ireland’s Jonny Sexton, who is on the bench.

Otherwise, though, the backline has a distinctly Welsh feel with Jamie Roberts and Jonathan Davies pairing up in the centres, Phillips at halfback and Alex Cuthbert on one wing.

Another Welsh winger, George North, is among the replacements, allowing New Zealand-born Sean Maitland a start in the back three alongside his Scotland team mate Stuart Hogg.

Even in the absence of Warburton, the back row is an

entirely Welsh unit, with Toby Faletau at number eight, Justin Tipuric on the openside and Dan Lydiate wearing number six.

O’Connoll is joined in the second row by the third Scot in the tour squad, Richie Gray, behind a front row comprised of Welsh tighthead prop Adam Jones and hooker Richard Hibbard as well as England’s Mako Vunipola, who will start at loosehead.

New Zealander Gatland has not started any players involved in the climax of the European season last weekend.

“We have a hardcore of experience, with the six former Lions sharing 430 caps between them and 19 Lions tests,” Gatland said in the statement. “Some of the boys who played last weekend are on the bench as cover, and

generally everyone in the camp is raring to go.”

The bench, which some believe could be the difference between the Lions and Australia come the three-test series in June and July, has a powerful front row including Ireland’s Cian Healy and experienced Lions lock Alun Wyn-Jones.

One factor heading into Saturday’s match is Hong Kong’s tropical heat and humidity, which can be brutal in the summer months and is expected to keep the tourists’ bench active. Temperatures are expected to hit 33 degrees Celsius, with relative humidity to stay in the 65 per cent to the 90 per cent range tomorrow, according to the Hong Kong observatory.

The match kicks off at 8:30pm Cambodian time. REUTERS

Paul O’Connell will captain the Lions in their opening match tomorrow in place of Sam Warburton, who is resting a sore knee. AFP