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Schanberg takes stand at tribunal Justine Drennan

THE Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday heard the first day of testimony from journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose account of his colleague Dith Pran’s experience under the Pol Pot regime inspired the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Schanberg and Pran worked together for The New York Times in Phnom Penh, and when the city fell to the Khmer Rouge they both took shelter in the French embassy. Now 79, Schanberg spoke to the tribunal by video link from New York, where – back in 1975 – he returned after spending two weeks in Khmer Rougeoccupied Phnom Penh. As a Cambodian national, Pran was forced to leave the embassy and join the rest of the evacuees in the countryside. By then, the city was almost empty, Schanberg told the court. “Almost the entire population of almost two million were taken out of the city on that first day.” At a hospital, “we saw people being pushed on beds . . . with bottles of serum hanging from the bed. They were all being forced out of the city. And the avenue that we came out on was scattered with the shoes and sandals that Nget Chet (left) and Vath Thaiseng, motodops who claim Boeung Kak lake activist Yorm Bopha ordered them beaten, protest outside the Court of Appeal yesterday.

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Motodops’ shaky testimony Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell

NE of the three judges in the heavily scrutinised appeal hearing of Boeung Kak lake activist Yorm Bopha yesterday suggested that the testimony of her two alleged victims was contradictory to original accounts used to charge her. Less than two hours later, Bopha left the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh screaming for justice after the case

was adjourned until next Friday and she was ordered back to prison. The 29-year-old, who was sentenced to three years in jail in December for allegedly ordering an axe and screwdriver attack on two motodops, was led to a van bound for PJ prison after court proceedings lasting little more than three hours. “We will continue the trial on June 14 at 2pm because right now it is 6pm and we have to hear the testimony of six witnesses from both sides,” Chay Chantaravann, one of three presiding

judges, said. “We can’t hear this case all night.” During the testimony that was heard, Nget Chet, 28, and his cousin Vath Thaiseng, 24, the two motodops claiming Bopha ordered her two brothers, Yorm Kanlong and Yorm Seth, to beat them last August, contradicted earlier statements they had made to judges. Thaiseng said Kanlong had attacked him with a screwdriver in a bar in the Boeung Kak area, striking him in the temple and on top of the head. “When Yorm Kanlong beat me, Yorm

Seth attacked my friend with an axe, causing him to faint,” he said. But Chantaravann challenged this account, saying Thaiseng had originally told the case’s investigating judge that Bopha’s other brother was his attacker. “You said during the [initial] investigation that Yorm Seth attacked you,” he said. Thaiseng gave no response to this comment. When Chet took the stand, he said Seth struck him twice in the head with

an axe. Chantaravann reminded him that he had previously said Kanlong was his attacker. In the two men’s defence, court prosecutor Tan Seng Narong said their accounts yesterday were the same ones they had provided during Bopha’s trial at the municipal court in late December. “So the court should focus on their injuries instead,” he said. In testimony that differed from Continues on page 4

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National

In brief Battambang man flees prison during outing

POLICE are searching for a Battambang man who escaped from the provincial prison yesterday morning. The prisoner, 33-year-old Soum Vuthy, was convicted of robbery in February 2012, deputy provincial police chief Cheth Vanny said. Vuthy escaped during a routine outing, during which prisoners are accompanied by guards, to take part in work-training schemes or carry out chores, he added. “Now we are looking for him because he may not have managed to get too far away from the prison yet,” Vanny said. Villagers, however, have told police that they saw a man in prison uniform getting into a car outside a village pagoda, which sped off towards a different district. KHOUN LEAKHANA

K Cham trio arrested for dealing in meth

TWO Kampong Cham men and a woman were arrested on Tuesday on allegations of dealing meth, police said yesterday. Pak Cheat, provincial police chief, identified the suspects as Yon Hearb, 31, Ek Borie, 18, and Sroy Cheng, 65, who owns the house in O’Svay commune where the suspects were arrested. The trio are accused of dealing drugs as well as providing a safe haven for drug users, Cheat said, adding that they will be sent to court to be charged today. “They were accused of being drug dealers, and they were accused of providing a place for drug consumers. We have no authority to charge them but, based on the evidence, they are drug dealers,” he said. Twenty small packets of yama were seized during the raid on the Kampong Siem district house, along with drug paraphernalia. According to Cheat, the group admitted to owning the packs of drugs and said they had been purchased from a middleman. KIM SAROM

Strikers rally for jailed leaders May Titthara

ORE than 1,000 workers from Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing factory gathered in the rain at Kampong Speu Provincial Court yesterday to demand the release of eight union members arrested on Monday. At least 23 people – including nine police officers – were injured in clashes that occurred during factory protests, when strikers exchanged volleys of sticks and stones with employees who remained at work. Despite heavy rain yesterday, the almost all-female demonstrators carried placards and peacefully stood outside the court, while many of the 100 or so police and military police officers present sought cover in the court compound. No workers have been able to speak to the arrested since Monday, 29-year-old Srey Pov, who has worked at the Nike supplier for three years, told the Post yesterday. “We went to the prison, but prison officials told us to go to the court, saying they would send them to the court in the evening. We would like the court to set them free because they have done nothing wrong,” she said.

Riot police stand watch across from Sabrina garment factory as workers protest in front of Kampong Speu Provincial Court yesterday. They are seeking the release of eight arrested union leaders. heng chivoan

The protesters would return to the court tomorrow and continue to protest until the Free Trade Union (FTU) representatives and workers were released, she added. Ny Dyna, wife of a detained FTU representative, said she had not been allowed to see her husband since Monday. “They did not allow even the food I brought to get to him. It was also denied,” she said. Speaking outside the court, Kao Ty, a defence lawyer for the unionists, said his eight clients were sent from the Ministry of Interior to Kampong

Speu Provincial Court on June 4 and were charged yesterday with intentional violence and intentional property damage. “I will apply to the court for bail tomorrow morning because I have to study the case clearly,” he said, adding that he saw the names of another eight people yet to be arrested on a court list of suspects. Cheum Rithy, the Kampong Speu Provincial Court judge in charge of the case, confirmed the charges against the eight already in jail yesterday. The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia

(GMAC) has run a strongly worded statement in print media outlets today condemning the strikes that began on May 21 and calling on the government to strictly enforce its laws. “The blocking of factory gates, prohibiting access to and from the factory, the use of verbal and physical threats preventing workers from going to work are all in direct violation of both the Labor Law as well as the Law on Demonstrations,” the statement reads. It calls on the government to “immediately apprehend those responsible and

bring them to justice” in order to bolster investor confidence in the industry. The Sabrina factory is also running a statement in local media today, citing its generous pay rates and blaming the FTU for inciting violence by threatening employees. “The salary structure of Sabrina . . . is already much higher than existing legal requirements. Sabrina has always been one of the factories with best benefits in Cambodia,” the statement from Sabrina president Susan Chen says, citing a minimum monthly wage of $117 for workers, $42 higher than mandated by the government. “We do not deserve the payback of strike and especially not violence,” it reads. Most workers at the Sabrina Garment factory are C.CAWDU members, with the protesters largely drawn from FTU ranks, GMAC secretarygeneral Ken Loo told the Post yesterday. “It’s a case of unions intruding on each other’s rights. There is a majority union and a minority union … if you are a newly established minority union, you are not going to get members by doing nothing … It’s a show of strength, a flexing of muscle [by the FTU],” he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH

Influential businessman’s trial shifts venues Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A WELL-CONNECTED Battambang businessman alleged to have assaulted a student and shot into the air at a restaurant to threaten another man was transferred to the Phnom Penh court system on Tuesday amid fears he had too much sway over provincial judiciary officials, police said yesterday. Huy Heng, 36, was arrested on May 31 by the Ministry of Interior’s penal police, and charged with illegal weapons use and causing injury in a pair of cases that took place months earlier but which local police refused to investigate. On June 4, he was trans-

ferred to Prey Sar prison and his case moved to Phnom Penh Municipal Court, said Cheth Vanny, deputy Battambang provincial police chief. “The reason why we decided to transfer him to jail in Phnom Penh’s prison and have transferred his case from the Battambang court to Phnom Penh for action is because he is a rich man and knows many highranking-officials and other influential people in the province. We are afraid that he would make trouble for the provincial investigative judge in performing his duty in investigating his case,” he added. Though Vanny declined to provide more detail, a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity

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Request for Applications-Protection Grant Winrock International (WI) is a non-profit organization that works with people around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock strengthens the capacity of women, children, youth, and civil society organizations to actively participate in local and national development and to transform their societies. Winrock is now implementing a fouryear Counter Trafficking in Person phase II project (CTIP II) funded by the USAID. Winrock is pleased to announce a Request for Applications under the category of Protection (Grant Maximum is USD100,000) to improve victim service support to survivors of all forms of trafficking in persons. This grant will support local and international NGOs to develop and execute protection activities to improve implementation of service provision for survivors of all forms of trafficking in human beings and best interest of victims. Eligibility Requirements: a) NGOs registered and operating in Cambodia are eligible. b) Prior victim service provision experience and demonstrated success in working on the human trafficking issue; prior victim identification experience with women, children and men victims of trafficking, and prior experience with repatriation is required. c) Prior experience with livelihood, income generation, reintegration and follow up d) Prior victim care experience within shelters or communities based care e) A grant may be awarded to a single NGO, or to a coalition of NGOs within a region, with a lead NGO handling the fiscal reporting, based on detailed specificity of who does what and who is paid for what. f) Project funds may be used – as appropriate – for staff and operational costs, transportation, printing and publishing, or other direct project costs and all funds must be spent in Cambodia. Submission: Please submit your proposal to WI Cambodia: Phnom Penh Center, Building F, Room 787, Sothearos Blvd, Phnom Penh, Tel: 023 212 334/6 or by email: tpin@field.winrock.org by June 21, 2013 at 5:30pm. Detailed RFA for this grant can be obtained by request via email to meng.seang@field.winrock.org

said there was little doubt Heng had undue pull. The complaints, said the source, had been filed in February and March, but no action was taken until they were refiled at the Interior Ministry in May. “The reason why the district and provincial police did not take action on their complaints was because he knows many high-ranking police and military police officials in the province,” the officer said. In February Heng is believed to have fired his pistol a dozen times to frighten a cleaner who shouted at him for urinating outside a nightclub, and in March he allegedly beat up a student whose parking had blocked Heng’s car.

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National

Fears of political ‘attack’ behind Rainsy’s barring

HAILAND said yesterday it had refused entry to Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy because he had planned to “attack a friendly country” ahead of the July national election. The Cambodia National Rescue Party president was turned away on Tuesday after arriving in Bangkok to launch his new autobiography We Didn’t Start the Fire: My Struggle for Democracy in Cambodia at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand. “We have banned Sam Rainsy for using Thailand to launch his book and to attack a friendly country,” foreign ministry spokesman Manasvi Srisodapol told AFP. “We do support democratic rule, but on the other hand, we do not support other people using our country to attack others for political gain,” he added. Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong could not be reached for comment yesterday, but told a

local media outlet that Rainsy’s rejection into the country was a Thai internal affair that had not been prompted by requests from Phnom Penh. “The government of Cambodia has not made any extradition [agreement] with the Thai government to arrest Sam Rainsy for him to be punished in Cambodia.” Rainsy, who lives in exile in France to avoid more than a decade of jail time for charges he says are politically motivated, has been strangely quiet since the snub, only telling the Post on Tuesday that the incident had happened and offering no further elaboration. Senior CNRP members including public affairs director Mu Sochua, her deputy Kem Monovithya, party spokesman Yim Sovann and whip Son Chhay all had their phones switched off yesterday. Party president Kong Koam said he knew no other details than what had already been reported and declined to comment further. AFP/ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA

Foreign monitors dwindling Meas Sokchea

NEARLY 8,000 election monitors have already registered with the National Election Committee, but the number of international monitors has plummeted, an NEC official said yesterday. Of the 7,746 observers registered thus far, only 26 are international, NEC secretary general Tep Nytha said. Though nearly two months remain before the election, the change between this and prior elections is clearly staggering. In 2008, by comparison, nearly 600 international observers were among the 31,862 monitors, while in 2003, 1,156 internationals served alongside 29,637 nationals, said Nytha. “This decrease is because most [international] observers focus on the countries that have just organised their elections. In the countries that have started to have prosperity, the [international] observers have decreased,” he added. But election watchdogs offered a markedly different explanation, pointing to increased frustration among foreign observers over the NEC’s unwillingness to accept recommendations proffered by embassies and develop-

Kingdom of Cambodia Nation Religion King The Administrator of Mfone Co., Ltd. Insolvency and Liquidation Proceedings REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR BIDDING TELECOME NETWORK ASSETS Mfone Co., Ltd (thereafter called the Debtor) is one of a giant mobile cellular service operator in Cambodia. The Debtor had been operating in mobile cellular service industry for almost 20 years. The Debtor had ﬁlled voluntarily for the insolvency and liquidation since early 2013. In accordance with Court’s Orders issued by the Court for First Instance of Kingdom of Cambodia, the insolvency and liquidation proceedings are opened against the Debtor on 14 February 2013 and 12 March 2013 respectively. The Administrator, Mr. Ry OUK has been appointed as trustee and liquidator. During liquidation proceedings, the following telecom network infrastructureare planned to be liquidated accordingly. No.

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Conditions and terms In conformity with the Notification by the Royal Government of Cambodia, both subscribers and Access Codes are temporarily transferred to CamGSM Co., Ltd., (one of mobile operator in Cambodia) for the purpose of Access Codes are the mobile prefix number protecting the interest of subscribers. i.e. 099, 011, 085, 061 and 076. The Court and Royal Government of Cambodia will make the final decision regarding the distribution of this Access Code.

Frequency spectrum and licenses

These include GSM 1800MHz, EGSM 900MHz, CDMA 450MHz, Microwave Link, WiFi, License of Wireless Telecommunications System andService, License of Internet Service, License of Voice Over Internet Protocol, JVA of Wireless Local Loop Services, and License of Cellular Mobile and Telecommunication Network and Services using 3G.

These represent the Base Tower Station (BTS) and telecom equipment and tools used as infrastructure to provide the mobile Networks Assets cellular and other telecom services. There are 1,037 BTSs locate nationwide and each BTS also has telecom infrastructure built-in.

In conformity with the Notification by the Royal Government of Cambodia, all access codes, frequency spectrum, and operation licenses are kept under the control of the Debtor and final decision regarding the distribution of these access codes, frequency spectrum, and operation licenses shall be vested in the Court and Royal Government of Cambodia. The details of frequency spectrum and operation licenses will be given upon being entitled as qualified bidder. The details of network assets will be given upon being entitled as qualified bidder. The Administrator has the power to authorize any decision regarding the liquidation of these assets.

The Administrator would like to invite both eligible international and national bidders to indicate their interest in bidding for the above telecom network assets. Interested bidders must provide information indicating that they are qualified to bid (brochures, description of similar businesses, experiences in similar conditions, availability of appropriate resources, etc.) Bidders will be selected in accordance with the “Guideline for Disposal of Telecom Network Assets” drafted and consented by the Administrator in conjunction with the Creditors’ Committee. Qualified bidders will be given the detail information and data of the Telecom Network Assets and be invited to submit the proposal. Interested bidders may obtain further information from background documents at the address below from 8:00AM to 4:00PM, Cambodian time. The complete Expressions of Interest indicating the application’s interest in bidding the Telecom Network Assets with all relevant information as above with copies of relevant documents verification and full contact address shall submitted in two hard copies to the address mentioned below by 15June 2013 no later than 4:00PM, Cambodian time. No application shall be considered after the deadline. Attention

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Cambodian election officials empty a ballot box in front of monitoring officials during the country’s general elections in July 2008. heng chivoan

ment agencies. “International observers, as I understand it, do not come to observe, because we have not cared about their recommendations,” said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia. Panha noted that the number of national observers appeared on track to be far fewer than in previous elections, a dip he

attributed to a “lack of resources and also being broken hearted [with regards to the election process].” One of the chief and repeated requests of foreign observers has been for the government to permit the return of opposition head Sam Rainsy. His case was even raised by US President Barack Obama in November during the first visit

of a sitting American head of state to Cambodia. Rainsy, who lives in selfimposed exile in Paris and faces 12 years in prison should he return, has urged monitors to stay away. Nytha, for his part, insisted the only reason they have done so is because “the situation in Cambodia was evaluated and seen to have improved elections”.

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National

More trouble at Thai border

Motodop’s testimony challenged Continued from page 1

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Thaiseng’s, Chet denied fainting and said he clearly saw the events that followed. “Did you know [Bopha’s brothers] before the attack?” Chantaravann asked. Chet replied that he didn’t and, when pressed to explain how he knew which brother was which, said he “heard someone saying that these two brothers had [beaten] us”. “You heard from someone or you knew for sure it was the two brothers?” Chantaravann asked. “I heard from someone,” Chet replied. When asked how many glasses of herbal wine they had drunk before they were attacked, Thaiseng said “about three or four”. Asked a second time, he said “four or five”. Bopha was arrested on September 4 and convicted on December 27 of intentional violence. Her husband, Lous Sakhorn, 56, was arrested the same day but later released. He was also found guilty but had received a suspended sentence. Kanlong and Seth were sen-

Yorm Bopha leaves the Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday after the court postponed the verdict of her trial. Bopha has been jailed since September. vireak mai

tenced in absentia to three years in prison. Bopha, who rights groups say was targeted due to her activism, said yesterday that her brothers had not visited Boeung Kak lake since 2011. Sakhorn said he and Bopha had witnessed a fight at the front of the dimly lit guesthouse after hearing cries for help. “I saw, but not clearly, two men fighting each other,” he said. “My wife and I walked back to [a friend’s] house and 20 minutes later, I saw two men walk past with blood on their faces. They did not accuse us of anything.”

At times in the crowded courtroom, Sakhorn and Bopha shared the same row of five seats with Thaiseng and Chet. Outside the court, hundreds of people from two opposing groups – the land rights community supporting Bopha and motodops supporting their two colleagues – shared the same road. Following the postponement, Boeung Kak lake activist Tep Vanny said she felt upset that the court had again delayed justice for Bopha. “They’re trying to detain her even longer. She must be released,” she

said. E Sophors, president of motodops group the Cambodia for Confederation Development Association, addressed his members through a megaphone upon hearing the court’s announcement. “Bravo! This is a victory for us,” he shouted. But Am Sam Ath, technical adviser for rights group Licadho, said he believed the delay would disappoint both sides. “They want a verdict soon,” he said. “I think this will prolong the protests and in ways, that is concerning.”

NE Cambodian man was arrested by Thai authorities on Monday while three others escaped after the foursome attempted to cross the border to allegedly log rosewood in Thailand’s Sisaket province opposite Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. Toch Ra, director of Cambodian-Thai Border Relations at Chorm International Border Checkpoint in Anlong Veng district, told the Post yesterday that his Thai counterpart informed him that Chheang Phat, 41, had been detained and was awaiting to stand trial in a Thai court. “We don’t have information about the number of arrests or how many have been shot dead at the border if our Thai counterpart, himself, is not informed,” Ra said. He said his Thai counterpart told him that from January until now, he knew of two Cambodian men who had been shot to death while logging rosewood in Thailand. In late April, reports emerged that at least three and as many

as seven Cambodians who had crossed into Thailand to illegally log from Oddar Meanchey province had been killed, though a final number of dead was never confirmed. In 2012, at least 45 Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers while crossing the border, a tripling of the 2011 death count. That grisly toll and potential measures to prevent future shootings will be among the issues on the table when Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong meets with his Thai counterpart, Surapong Tovichakchaikul, next week in Phnom Penh. The two foreign ministers are set are set to meet on Tuesday to discuss a broad number of border-related issues, following up from a meeting in May that was organised to address the continual shootings. Long Visalo, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said late last month that Cambodia and Thailand each planned to create 15 new border patrol teams that would interact and share information about Cambodians crossing the border into Thailand.

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Schanberg describes Can’t stop the music evacuation of capital Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

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people had lost as they were forced to walk quickly in those huge crowds.” As to the fate of the sick, Schanberg said: “I can only guess. But two weeks later, when we were being taken out of Phnom Penh, there were bodies along the roads that they were forced to leave.” Amid the massive outflow of people, Khmer Rouge officers arrested Schanberg, photogra-

record their victory.” Pran eventually managed to convince officers to take him on a motorbike to ask their superiors’ permission for their release, Schanberg said. Meanwhile, fearing for their lives, the three Westerners had no idea what was happening. Twenty or 30 minutes later, Pran returned with the officers, who freed them. “Pran is very persuasive,”

When we were being taken out of Phnom Penh, there were bodies along the roads pher Al Rockoff and journalist Jon Swain – an incident familiar from The Killing Fields, Schanberg’s book, as well as Rockoff’s testimony in January. According to Schanberg, as Khmer Rouge cadres pointed guns at the foreigners, “Dith Pran, my assistant and brother – he kept going up to these officers and saying that we weren’t Americans, that we were Canadians, and we were here to

Schanberg noted of his friend, who died in 2008. “He saved our lives and he was a great man . . . and he suffered badly under the Khmer Rouge.” Schanberg often has expressed guilt for not doing more to help Pran – who was not the only Cambodian to help him before facing evacuation, Schanberg said yesterday. Through a university teacher he had hired to listen to the

radio, Schanberg said he learned that defeated Lon Nol officers had been asked to go to the Ministry of Information. The teacher “came back to the hotel just when we came back to the hotel, and he had his family in the car. He passed me the notes through the window”, and the car headed out. Schanberg doubted the family survived the next years. Meanwhile, the remaining Lon Nol leaders did not survive the next days. Schanberg arrived at the Ministry of Information to see about 50 former officials arrested, including Prime Minister Long Boret. “They later announced they’d killed him.” Later, Khmer Rouge soldiers came to the embassy and took away several high-ranking former officials, including Prince Sirik Matak, who was killed shortly thereafter. The French Vice-Consul in charge “obviously felt terrible about it, but he had no choice”. Schanberg’s testimony continues today.

A WEDDING band’s refusal to keep playing led to a melee between the quintet and the groom’s father on Sunday, resulting in injury and property damage. At about 10:30pm, Tith Savorn, the band’s leader, announced they would play five more songs before ending their set, said Major Moeun Sarun, chief of the Samrong district police. But with the party in full swing, Khat Touch, 45, the groom’s father, asked the band to extend their set to midnight,

an hour later than the agreedupon time. When band members declined, an angry Touch, along with his brother Khat Buntheng – a military officer who worked at the Artillery Intervention Brigade – began throwing plastic chairs and beer bottles at the band, Sarun said. “Soon after that, the two parties started beating and throwing the bottles or the cans of beers at each other, causing injury to the five band members,” Sarun said. Touch sustained a cut to the head. Party guests broke up the fight, and all six were treated

and released at a local health clinic. The five band members are now demanding $5,000 from Touch for their injuries, as well as instruments that were damaged during the fight, Sarun said. Touch, in turn, claims the band must pay him $3,700 for his injuries and his iPad, which was broken during the fight, Sarun said. Police are trying to mediate a compromise between Touch and the band, Sarun said. But if they cannot reach a solution, the case will go to Takeo Provincial Court.

Police wary of woman’s claim Kim Sarom

A WOMAN from Takeo province has claimed she is the mother of the woman whose body was found at a dumpsite in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Tuesday. Han Sina, 38, from Takeo’s Tram Kak district, travelled to the capital yesterday with her family to identify the body, said Yem Saran, Dangkor district police chief. The body was found naked two days ago with a rope around its throat, and police suspect foul play as there were visible injuries on the corpse.

Sina requested the body be turned over to her so she could arrange the appropriate funeral rites, but because the body’s thumbprint did not match that of Sina’s daughter, 21-year-old Moa Napa, police refused, Saran said. “We cannot give the body to her because the thumb print is different,” he added. “We have decided to cremate the body even though Napa’s father, mother, siblings and aunt have said it was her.” According to Saran, Sina claims her daughter – who was a garment factory worker – had lived with her husband in Dangkor district and went missing on Monday.

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National

police blotter

R’kiri dispute case drags on Phak Seangly

VILLAGE chief and an ethnic minority Tompuon villager were the latest people brought before the Ratanakkiri court for questioning after a private company accused villagers of destroying its property. Kvas Cheav, 57, village chief of Par Or in Keh Chung commune, told the Post that he and villager Rochom Preang were questioned in provincial court yesterday about the alleged March protest against Ly Sokkim Co, Ltd, which bought the land in 2007. “We went to court, though we were afraid we may be detained,” Cheav said after he was questioned yesterday. “I told the truth, and I did nothing wrong.” The land dispute dates back to the company’s purchase of 22 hectares of land from eight villagers, who prosecutor Ros Saram said owned and cleared the land. But more than 30 other families claim they also legally live on the land. Some villagers assert that they also helped clear the land but weren’t paid. Others who live and farm on the land have said

they will be forced from their homes if the company develops. In March, company officials came into the village with construction materials, intending to build houses on land where villagers live. But they allegedly protested the construction and kicked workers out of the area. Last month, another local official and four other villagers appeared in court for questioning about the incident. The court plans to bring in 20 more people for questioning, including three next Monday. “When they saw me at the protest, they accused me of being an initiator,” Chaev said. “I do not have land there, but I just went there to see my people because I am an authority.” Chaev added that the company did not notify any local authorities before attempting to build on the land. The recent questioning is just the latest example of villagers facing court for their dissent of the land deal, said Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc. “The court has been used as a tool for intimidate the villagers, so that they do not protest.”

‘Soldier’ busted by cops with a little friend

POLICE on Tuesday tried to stop two men riding on a motorbike without a licence plate in the capital’s Sen Sok district, giving chase for about a kilometre before the pair finally gave themselves up. The bike turned out not to be the only thing without a licence when a gun was found on one of the men. He claimed to be a soldier, but police were sceptical of his defence and are still investigating. Kampuchea Thmey

Necklace thief catches a moto he never hailed Members of the Cambodian Youth Network demonstrate in front of the National Assembly on World Environment Day in Phnom Penh yesterday. VIREAK MAI

Calls to guard environment May Titthara

ABOUT 200 youths from environmental groups yesterday submitted a petition asking parliament to intervene to stop illegal deforestation and rein in economic land concessionaires wreaking havoc on the Kingdom’s natural resources. The demonstrators, hailing from universities in Phnom Penh and communities in Prey

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: Technical Support HUB Business Manager Purpose of position: The TS Hub Business Manager is expected to deliver technical support to countries in the region as necessary and the share of working time spent delivering technical support is expected to grow to approximately 50%. Key Responsibilities: Technical Support Hub Business Manager is responsible for the development of the Hub as an effective and efficient technical support provider providing quality technical support to organizations in Cambodia and in the region in the following thematic areas: HIV prevention, care and treatment or impact mitigation, health systems strengthening, organisational development, strategic information, M & E, financial management, knowledge management, resource mobilization, training. TS Hub Business Manager will be responsible for effective and targeted marketing and branding of the TS Hub services. Help to develop, train and quality-assure a team of technical support providers who will deliver technical support The TS Hub is committed to ensuring evidence based programming to inform best practice in South-East Asia and the Pacific Selection Criteria: Essential:  Proven experience, excellence and credibility in marketing and business development and technical support provision.  Experience of working in more than one country in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.  Sound business oriented background/experiences.  5-year experience in public health, development or other relevant sectors.  Experience in mentoring and coaching staff.  Proven experience in designing, developing, implementing and monitoring interventions.  Experience of networking and representation at national or international levels.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Able to travel extensively within the region.  Self-motivated, proactive, flexible and effective team worker. Desirable:  Experience of working with civil society and with vulnerable populations.  Extensive donor liaison experience.  Ability to oversee and manage TS Hub finances  Experience of managing projects and budgets  Relevant post-graduate qualification

Lang – a forest in northern Cambodia where illegal logging is rampant – painted their faces green and marched around the gardens of the National Assembly to make their point on World Environment Day yesterday. “Stop threatening the forest, natural resources and those who protect the environment,” the petition reads. It went on to say that the loss of forests had caused floods throughout the

country – which have killed 247 and destroyed 232,377 hectares of crops since 2011. Addressed to National Assembly President Heng Samrin, the six-point petition urged the government to review the activities of rubber concessionaires and closely monitor the environmental impacts of hydropower dams and other mining and economic land concessions.

VACANCY: PROJECT MANAGER Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) is recruiting a Project Manager to be responsible for oversee all aspects of start-up process of the establishment of the Cambodian Garment Training Institute (CGTI). The Project Manager is required to coordinate the construction of CGTI starting with land procurement until the completion of the construction and retrofitting of CGTI. Primary Responsibilities  Land procurement for the building of the training institute  Selection and proposal for suitable building contractors, architects, interior designers & suppliers of equipment and related services.  Application with the relevant government agencies for approval of building plans, utilities, electrical work, and any other amenities related to a training institute, including accreditation of the training institute  Manage the expenditure of construction within approved budget.  Process the approval of expenditure, billing, and financial statements, reports and analysis  Selection, proposal and procurement of suitable furniture, fittings and equipment for the institute  Establish & maintain appropriate internal control safeguards.  Interact with contractors, architects, interior designers to ensure compliance with governmental building requirements  Establish systems, processes and procedures for keeping all construction related records in proper manner  Monitor, supervise and review all work-in-progress status with contractors, architects and interior designers on a regular basis  Work with GMAC or Exe.Director to establish procurement and payment SOPs. Key Performance Indicators  Clear & Accurate presentation of construction status on a fortnight basis  Accurate record of costs, billing and payments on a monthly basis  Ensure implementation and adherence of SOPs. SOPs to be kept updated as all time to reflect correct situations.  Monthly operational budget proposal and control.  Completion of the construction of CGTI within the proposed deadline  Administrative efficiency of all documents and records

Interested candidates must apply online via www.khana.org.kh(Employment Opportunities Section) by17thJune 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.

Knowledge & Skill Requirements (i) Minimum first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience at an executive level or project management (ii) Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting & cost control principles (iii) Knowledge of requirements of a training institute. (iv) Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact under different and difficult situations with building contractors, suppliers, architects, interior designers, government officials, CGTI Board, Executive Director and AFD. (v) Ability to motivate people to produce quality work within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects (vi) Possess professional written & verbal communication (vii) Ability to number & data crunch (viii) Ability to organize, prioritize & be meticulous (ix) 2-5 years experience in project management and/or educational or training institute (x) Ability to use relevant computer technology and software

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.

Please send your CV to #175, Street 215, Phnom Penh. Dateline: 15th June 2013 E-mail: info@gmac-cambodia.org

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

A 24-YEAR-OLD was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly snatching the necklace of a young female university student in Phnom Penh’s well-heeled Tuol Kork district. The young woman was heading home from class when two men on a motorbike sped by and grabbed the necklace. Luckily, brave local motodops stepped in, chasing the men until they came off their bike at an intersection. One managed to escape with the loot but the other was turned over to police. Koh Santepheap

Drunk cyclist duped by not so generous offer

ONE PHNOM Penh man was clearly never told by his mother not to accept lifts from strangers. According to police, after a drinking session in Chamkarmon district on Tuesday night, the man was too sloshed to ride his own bike home. Three seemingly charitable men appeared, offering to drive him home, which he slurringly accepted. On a quiet road, the men purportedly stopped to relieve their bladders, after which they nicked his bike and $30 in cash before fleeing Koh santepheap

Moto thief misses key to a successful score

A 23-year-old man was seriously beaten on Monday when caught trying to steal a motorbike. Police said a Por Sen Chey man had parked outside his home when the suspect tried to nick his bike. Alas, the thief could get nowhere without a key and began scuffling with the bike owner after the man noticed what was happening. Luckily, neighbours heard his cries for help and intervened. As per usual, they beat the suspect to a pulp before he was packed off to hospital by police. Koh Santepheap

Security guard shot twice in the line of duty

A YOUNG security guard was left with critical injuries yesterday morning when he tried to stop a robbery in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district. According to police, a customer had parked outside a restaurant when three suspects, pretending to also be customers, tried to quietly walk his bike away. The security guard tried to stop them but was halted when a gun was drawn. He was shot twice in the leg before the victims sped away on another bike. Police continue to search for the suspects. Koh Santepheap Translated by Sen David

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Mass Ford recall makes local dent Low Wei Xiang and May Kunmakara

OME 24 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles in Cambodia are being recalled to fix a potential fuel leak that could cause a fire, company representatives said. The move comes amid a much larger recall of 465,000 units manufactured by the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker, raising doubts over whether there are enough available parts to meet the demand. Models heading back to the dealership include the 2013 Taurus, Flex, Fusion, Interceptor Utility, Interceptor Sedan, and Lincoln MKS, MKT and MKZ. Of the total, 390,000 vehicles are in the US, while a significant amount of the remaining units are from Canada and Mexico. The recall represents more bad press for the midsize Fusion sedan, which the company redesigned in 2012. One of Ford’s best-selling models, it has been the subject of several recalls since its launch, according to Reuters. About 80,000 2013 Fusions were recalled in December to check for engine leaks that could result in a fire, Reuters reported, while an-

Workers assemble an engine at Ford Motors assembly plant in Chicago. The US-based carmaker has recalled 24 SUVs in Cambodia.

other 19,000 Fusions were brought back in November to correct problems with the lighting systems. Ford said a fuel delivery module in the tank could leak and that the problem

had prompted 600 consumer complaints as of March 31 A Ford statement released Monday said that while a fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source may result in a fire, “there have been no

reports of fires [and] we are not aware of any accidents or injuries attributed to this condition.” Car owners in the Kingdom avoided almost entirely a broader recall because the

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country’s authorised Ford dealer, RMA Cambodia, has sold few or none of the affected models. RMA sold about 500 Ford vehicles in 2012, making it the second-largest seller

in terms of market share in Cambodia’s car industry, after Toyota. RMA’s service manager Mell Manin explained the problem in more detail. He said two of the fuel pipes in the Ford Explorer are situated close together, and once the car is up and running, friction between the pipes could cause a leak. The division manager at RMA Cambodia, Seng Voeung, said that with respect to the two-dozen recalled units, “We are already calling the car owners.” Ford said it would not have enough replacement parts for all owners until September, and Manin told the Post that RMA is starting to order the fuel delivery modules. If the parts are available, the fix would take just “a few hours,” he added. Authorised car dealers in Cambodia, including Ford, have often complained about vehicles being sold here through other nonofficial channels, such as parallel imports. RMA expressed willingness to fix these vehicles if they fall under the models being recalled, but whether it is free or not is at the discretion of Ford. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY REUTERS

Room for improvement in Cambodia’s bank sector Rann Reuy and Mak Lawrence Li

WHILE Cambodia has made considerable strides in its banking sector, it still lags behind countries in the region in the areas of e-banking and access to services, industry experts attending the Fifth Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Interconti-

nental Hotel in Phnom Penh said yesterday. Past success and future hurdles were prime topics of conversation at the conference. Ros Sokha, senior manager of cards and e-banking at the Foreign Trade Bank of Cambodia , said information technology and connectivity would help drive an industry that currently trails behind region-

al neighbours Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. “As of 2015, countries in Asia, especially those in the Southeast region, will be more integrated and there will be a huge opportunity in banking, when large amounts of banking experts will be trained up to meet the [sector’s] needs,” he said. Chea Phalarin, the Chief

Executive Officer at Amret Microfinance, said Amret is pursuing a service-oriented strategy going forward by installing more ATMs and mobile-banking opportunities for customers. But while he believes banking technology in Cambodia is progressing fast, “right now we are still far from other countries,” he said.

At the end of March, Cambodia had 713 ATMs, compared with 613 after the first three months of 2012, data from the National Bank of Cambodia show. At the end of 2011, meanwhile, the Kingdom counted only 500 machines. Cambodia has 33 commercial banks and seven specialised banks, according to the same data.

Hiroshi Suzuki, Chief Economist of the Business Research Institute for Cambodia (BRIC) said there was plenty of room for improvement in the industry. “Areas such as the use of an ID system and internet banking can be strengthened,” he said, adding that the government should also incorporate stronger oversight.

Business Thai PM: clarify rice policy cost Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat

THAI Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has told her commerce minister to clarify the cost of the government’s rice intervention scheme, after a warning this week that mounting losses could affect the country’s credit rating. A newspaper report that put losses from the scheme in the 2011-12 harvest year at 200 billion Thai baht ($6.6 billion), equivalent to around eight per cent of the total budget, prompted the warning from ratings agency Moody’s. The government buys from farmers at prices that have made Thai rice uncompetitive on world markets, leading to growing stockpiles and costing Thailand its spot as the world’s number one exporter. It said last week it would extend the politically popular intervention for a third year. “The prime minister has given the Commerce Ministry the job of making all the figures clear and the commerce minister is expected to hold a press briefing over the next few days,” Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan told reporters. REUTERS

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at Coca-Cola invades Myanmar Security trade office Duane D. Stanford and Haslinda Amin

oca-Cola Co chief executive Muhtar Kent marked the return of the world’s largest soda maker to Myanmar after 60 years by opening a bottling plant and pledging more investment in the newly opened economy. The company will invest $200 million in the next five years and a second plant will open in a month’s time, Kent said in an interview with Haslinda Amin on Bloomberg Television. “It’s a great moment in history, just like it used to be when we opened up our business in east and central Europe in the former Soviet Union right after the fall of the Berlin wall,” Kent said. “We can retain and grow our leadership that we already have in this market today.” Coca-Cola’s new plant begins in earnest a race with PepsiCo Inc to control beverage markets in the Southeast Asia nation, which reopened its borders last year to foreign investment. Myanmar President Thein Sein has allowed more po-

A Buddhist nun walks past a Coca-Cola banner at a market in Yangon. Coca-Cola plans to invest $200 million over the next five years into Myanmar’s recently opened market. bloomberg

litical freedom and loosened economic controls since coming to power two years ago, attracting companies such as Ford Motor Co, MasterCard Inc and Unilever NV. The country is boosting economic, military and political ties with Western nations after years of isolation that left its 64 million people among Asia’s poorest.

Its transition to democracy last year after about five decades of military rule prompted the US to ease sanctions last May. Coca-Cola will need to focus on distribution to win over the nation’s consumers, Kent said. PepsiCo has been building drinks distribution in the country, will soon distribute

snacks there and is pursuing plans for a factory. “As important as price, it is availability, it is serving the product in the right conditions, making it available, making it at an arms reach of desire,” Kent said. “We have plans to ensure that we have the best, most modern 21st century consumer distribution system in the country.” While Coca-Cola left Myanmar about 60 years ago, PepsiCo has more recent experience in the nation. The world’s largest snack maker pulled out of Myanmar in 1997 after activists urged the company to sever ties with the military dictatorship because of humanrights violations. Unilever has said it will focus on opportunities in new markets in Southeast Asia, such as Myanmar, which could be “another Vietnam” in 20 years, according to Peter Ter-Kulve, the London- and Rotterdam-based company’s chief executive officer for Southeast Asia. The company is already selling its products through 100,000 outlets in the country, he said in an interview last month. BLOOMBERG

tightened Phusadee Arunmas

THE Thai Foreign Trade Department in Nonthaburi has installed biometric security locks on doors leading to the offices of the director-general and deputies to deter theft and leaks of documents. A fingerprint scanner has been installed at the entry to director-general’s office at the Foreign Trade Department, as security is boosted following unauthorised visits. An official at the department said the new security system was proposed by former director-general Manas Soyploy, but the budget was recently approved. Manas proposed improving security as there were several problems involving strangers, journalists and vendors intruding into executives’ offices. Another source said there were also problems with mis-sing documents. The source declined to say which documents, but journalists suspect they relate to the rice pledging scheme. The department has a duty to sell rice bought under the government’s rice pledging scheme. BANGKOK POST

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Visas on Myanmar agenda May Kunmakara

n a move to facilitate a more unencumbered travel experience in the region, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines plan to develop a mutually beneficial system that would allow tourists to enter the four countries with one single visa. Collaborating with relevant government agencies and stakeholders, the countries have signed the “Statement of Intent on SMART Visa” yesterday at the World Economic Forum on East Asia taking place in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw through Friday. The single smart visa could be one of many new projects and plans to emerge out of the forum, which is buzzing with optimism as the country emerges out of decades of military rule. According to India Blooms News Service, the statement of intent is part of a joint effort to improve growth and “social integration” in the national and regional tourism sectors. “Considering that tourism is a priority sector under the ASEAN Economic Community and that it constitutes

A Buddhist monk walks on the grounds of Myanmar’s iconic Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon in March. reuters

a significant contribution to the integration of ASEAN countries, it is important to be ‘smart’ about visa facilitation for travel,” Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, said yesterday at conference. U Htay Aung, Union Minister of Hotels and Tourism of Myanmar, said “by signing this letter of intent, ministers and tourism authorities agree to work hand-in-hand for the implementation of

this system, whose objective will be that of eliminating those barriers to the movement of tourists which are currently creating disincentives to travel.” “Such objectives will be achieved in close coordination with the governmental entities in each of their respective countries,” he added. A private sector representative said the initiative is one step forward towards the realisation of the longpromised ASEAN’s single

visa scheme. Ang Kim Eang, chairman of the Cambodia Association of Travel Agents, said it was a good idea for the four countries to promote tourism as well as to help increase investment flows among them. “This [smart visa] will help to eliminate barriers and facilitate tourists to visit the four countries, [similar to what] we did already with Thailand. It is another attraction for us to get more tourists even if they didn’t plan to visit us [initially] but when they apply for a visa to Indonesia or the Philippines, they will see that they can visit us [as well] – this is another promotion,” he said. “If we implement [this] successfully, it will be a great benefit to attract tourists and investment.” ASEAN tourism ministers have agreed to collaborate on working towards the ASEAN common visa initiative as agreed on by the region’s leaders at the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta in November 2011. Cambodia and Thailand implemented a single visa scheme early January this year, and Laos is considering the same deal with Cambodia.

Markets Business Cambodia feels drop in Asian rubber prices Hor Kimsay and Mak Lawrence Li

THE end of export restrictions in Thailand and a lowering of economic growth forecasts out of top rubber importers China, the United States and Germany have caused natural rubber prices around Asia − and in Cambodia’s local industry − to fall from a two-month high. Future prices dipped 3.9 per cent to $2,550 per tonne last week on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, about 23 per cent lower than this year’s peak in February. Shanghai’s rubber prices also declined about three per cent. Men Sopheak, deputy director-general of the Chop Rubber Plantation, a large rubber exporter in Cambodia, told the Post that movements on the international stage are being felt in his own backyard. Normally he sells rubber for $2,600 per tonne. The price dropped to $2,570 yesterday. “We saw the decreasing trend of the rubber price in the international mar-

ket, and that could affect the local Cambodia market as well”, said Sopheak, who has customers abroad in Malaysia, China and European countries. Government officials, however, chalked up the decline to a seasonal dip that did not pose a huge threat to the local market over the long term. Ly Phalla, the director general of the Rubber Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said yesterday that the price change would not put a dent in the aimed-for goal of an annual 25 per cent increase in rubber exports from Cambodia. “Our export [of rubber] increases at a steady pace, and we have been supplying to China, Japan and even other exporters, such as Vietnam”, he said. In late April, the Post reported that new countries entering the market resulted in a decline in prices. But Phalla said that authorities were confident in the local market’s ability to stay competitive amid the more crowded sector. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY REUTERS

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Business

In brief Abe vows investment in Japan energy sector

JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to spur investment in the nation’s electricity industry to about 30 trillion yen ($299 billion) in the next decade as he seeks to revive the world’s thirdbiggest economy. Investment in wind, geothermal and other renewable sources will be accelerated by “drastically” speeding up environmental assessment processes, Abe said in prepared comments for a speech in Tokyo yesterday to preview his government’s economic growth strategy. BLOOMBERG

HTC COO steps down amid phone delays

HTC Corp Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello stepped down after less than three years at Taiwan’s biggest smartphone maker amid slumping sales that have pushed down its shares about 76 per cent in the past two years. Fred Liu, who is president of engineering and operations, took on Costello’s responsibilities in an expanded role covering operations, quality, sales operations and services, Liu said in an email to employees obtained by Bloomberg News. BLOOMBERG

Eurozone slump eases slightly Andy Bruce

UROZONE business activity shrank at a slightly slower pace last month, but a chronic shortage of new orders means an economic recovery still looks some way off, business surveys showed on Wednesday. Markit’s Eurozone Composite PMI, which gauges how thousands of businesses across the region fare each month, rose in May to 47.7 from 46.9, unchanged from a preliminary reading. Although the index improved for the second month in a row, it has been rooted below the 50 threshold that signals growth for all but one month since September 2011. Survey compiler Markit said the figures suggest the eurozone’s longest-ever recession will extend into the current quarter with a roughly 0.2 per cent economic contraction. “Policymakers and politicians will nevertheless seek solace in the fact that the rate of decline has now eased for two consecutive months, and that Germany is stabilising,”

A waiter awaits the arrival of customers at a restaurant in the Alfama neighbourhood in Lisbon. reuters

said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. “Downturns have also eased in France, Italy and especially Spain since earlier in the year.” Still, Williamson said it was

1st June 2013 Dear Respected Stakeholders, Sabrina Factory has been suffering a strike by the minority workers attributed to the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC) since 21 May 2013. The strike was not conducted in compliance with legal procedures. Striking workers have blocked the factory gates and obstructed the majority workers from entering the factory to work. With each passing day, the situation has escalated and several violent clashes have occurred. On 27 May and again on 3 June, FTUWKC obstructors charged into the factory wielding iron sticks and wooden poles, threatened the working employees, and destroyed factory properties. Slingshots were also used to fire home made metal bits at glass windows. We sincerely inform you with our highest respect as below: 1. The salary structure of Sabrina factory is already much higher than existing legal requirements. Sabrina has always been one of the factories with best benefits in Cambodia. We have always endeavored to offer the best remuneration to our employees while balancing the costs of maintaining factory daily operation. Our employees receive a minimum of USD 117 each month before overtime. 2. Sabrina has been operating in Kingdom of Cambodia for 15 years. In all these years, we have always had a cordial working relationship with the majority union in our enterprise and we even have a Collective Bargaining Agreement in place. We have always received high praise from all quarters for our contribution to the country. We DO NOT deserve the payback of strike and especially not violence. We would like to express our gratitude to the Committee to resolve Strikes and Demonstrations for all the assistance they have given to us during this trying period, particularly for organizing the intervention forces that helped to protect factory property during the invasions. At the same time, we urge the Royal Government of Cambodia to firmly uphold the rights of law-abiding bona fide investors such as Sabrina factory. If investors are not provided with the legal protection we deserve, it will seriously affect the image of Kingdom of Cambodia and deter potential investors from all over the world. Most importantly, this will mitigate the working rights of the Cambodian workers. We would like to appeal to the Government of Cambodia to immediately enforce existing laws to protect the rights of investors as well as our workers, and immediately bring to justice the perpetrators that employ violence and abuse their rights and disrupt the public order. Susan Chen President, Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing Co. National Road 4, Phum Trapaing Reussey Village, Sambo Commue, Samrong Torng District, Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia.

hard to see what could drive a return to growth outright anytime soon, adding that stabilisation is perhaps the best the eurozone economy will see in the next few months.

The recession has resulted in the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone’s history, reaching 12.2 per cent and leaving 19.4 million people out of work. The PMI suggested there

was little chance of that being reversed soon, as the composite employment index slipped to 47.2 in May, a three-month low, from 47.4 in April. A dearth of new orders in the services sector, which accounts for the bulk of the private economy, means it is by no means certain the surveys will improve again next month. The services PMI, which covers companies ranging from banks to caterers, ticked up to 47.2 in May from 47.0, but showed order books shrinking at a slightly faster rate. The individual eurozone country PMIs released earlier yesterday showed services companies in all of the four of the bloc’s biggest economies – Germany, France, Italy and Spain – suffered declining business activity last month. Firms became less optimistic about the prospects for the coming year, which counters data last week showing that confidence in the eurozone economy grew more than expected in May. The services business expectations index slipped to 54.2 in May, its weakest reading this year. REUTERS

Open letter from The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia To The Royal Government of Cambodia and All other stakeholders of the Garment Industry It is with much regret that we bear witness to yet another violent strike, this time at Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing. This trend in recent months of increasing use of violence and other strong-arm coercion techniques is disturbing and require the immediate attention of the Royal Government of Cambodia. The issue of illegal strikes has plagued our industry for too long. GMAC has always tried to raise this problem to the attention of all stakeholders and especially the relevant authorities. We have asked for strict enforcement of existing laws and urged the Government to punish workers and unions that repeatedly flout the law and continue organizing strikes that do not comply with legal requirements. The blocking of factory gates prohibiting access to and from the factory, the use of verbal and physical threats preventing workers from going to work are all in direct violation of both the Labor Law as well as the Law on Demonstrations. It has NEVER been our intention to violate workers rights to freedom of association and freedom to demonstrate but we are obliged to protect and uphold the rights of our members. The rights of workers to freedom of association and bargain must also be respected by the trade unions. Various stakeholders including GMAC have been promoting the use of Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) and the rights of the Most Representative Union for years. Strikes organized at factories by minority unions and especially where a CBA is in place should not be tolerated and the offenders severely punished. We strongly condemn the use of violence in any dispute and call on the Royal Government to immediately apprehend those responsible and bring them to justice. Bona fide investors should never fall victim to outbursts of violence such as those exhibited in the attacks on Sabrina. These perpetrators must be punished to the fullest extent of the law to prevent similar incidents from ever repeating. We urge the Royal Government of Cambodia to: (1) Strictly enforce laws: Striking workers must not verbally or physically prevent other workers from working. Any form of coercion or threat on workers who want to work should not be tolerated. (2) Ensure Public Order: Relevant authorities must ensure that striking workers do not demonstrate in front of factory gates preventing access to and from the factory. Picketing should be conducted on the sides of the gates instead. More importantly workers must never be allowed to block public roads affecting public order. (3) Administer Zero Tolerance policy towards Violence: All strikes MUST be peaceful. Any hint of violence must be stopped immediately and those responsible punished in accordance with existing laws. The relevant authorities MUST be delegated and empowered to take immediate actions instead of having to rely on further instructions from higher up in the hierarchy. Timely actions will be vital to ensure investor confidence and allow the garment industry to continue to provide more than 500,000 employment opportunities for Cambodian.

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Markets Business

Samsung wins latest fight against Apple Rob Lever

SAMSUNG won a round in its long-running patent battle with Apple on Tuesday when a US trade panel banned the import and sale of some older models of the iPhone and iPad. The quasi-judicial International Trade Commission said it issued a “limited exclusion order” for certain devices made by Apple, in a victory for the South Korean firm after a huge loss in a court fight with its US rival last year. The loss dealt to Apple by the ITC could make the Cupertino, California-based company more amenable to negotiating settlements on some of the many legal fronts where it is waging war with Samsung. “Up to now, Apple has been winning the big judgments, which means there was no reason to come to the table,” said independent Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle. “It looked like Apple held all the cards,” he said. “But if this holds up and both companies have something to lose, you can get negotiation.” Tuesday’s victory could be largely symbolic because the ban covers devices that are no

longer actively sold in the US market - the AT&T iPhone 4 and iPhone 3 and 3GS, as well as the iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G, also sold by AT&T. But it is likely that Samsung will explore the feasibility of launching similar legal attacks at newer products from the company, according to Enderle. “Typically, once you win something like this you try to apply it to the new products,” the analyst said. “This may put enough risk on Apple to get them more open to talking with Samsung.” The ITC ruling is a final order but may be appealed in the US Court of Appeals or reversed by presidential order. “We believe the ITC’s final determination has confirmed Apple’s history of free-riding on Samsung’s technological innovations,” a Samsung statement said. “Our decades of research and development in mobile technologies will continue, and we will continue to offer innovative products to consumers in the United States.” Apple did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment. AFP

China opens EU wine probe

EIJING has begun an anti-dumping probe into European wine, the commerce ministry said yesterday after the EU imposed tariffs on solar panel imports from China, in a dramatic broadening of the trade dispute. “The Chinese government has initiated an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation procedure into wines from the European Union,” commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said in a statement. China is the EU’s secondlargest trading partner, but the move is a major widening of a row that has already involved solar equipment and telecoms, chemicals and seamless pipes. No figures were immediately available for total EU wine exports to China, but the largest individual wine supplier nation in 2012 was France, with 140 million litres sold, worth $788 million. On Tuesday the European Commission imposed antidumping duties on imports of Chinese solar panels, defying German-led opposition and warnings from Beijing. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said they were

A waitress polishes a wine glass in Hainan, China, in April. Beijing began an anti-dumping probe into European wine yesterday after the EU imposed tariffs on solar panel imports from China. reuters

being sold at up to 88 per cent below cost in the European market and the “dumping” was harming the European solar panel industry. The Commission would levy an initial average tariff of 11.8 per cent from Thursday, rising to 47.6 per cent on August 6 in the absence of negotiations based on a Chinese commitment to address the problem. China “firmly opposes” the EU move, Shen said in the

ministry statement, describing the tariffs as “unfair taxes against China’s photovoltaic products exports to Europe”. “The Chinese government and industry have shown great sincerity and made enormous efforts in resolving the issue via dialogues and consultations,” he said. “We hope the European side will show further sincerity and flexibility and find a solution that is acceptable to both sides via consultations.”

The statement came after China’s official news agency Xinhua said the Commission’s imposition of duties showed the “bizarreness” of EU decision-making. “As the EU’s second-largest trade partner, China could have joined in efforts to help pull the bloc out of recession with the power of its massive demand,” it said. “But the EU has continued to test China’s patience and limitations, a situation that is unrealistic for China to accept. Protectionism on one side is bound to trigger protectionism on the other.” Germany had led growing opposition to the tariffs in recent weeks while hundreds of companies belonging to the Alliance for Affordable Solar Energy had warned they could “very significantly” harm business. Xinhua said the approval of the duties regardless “points to the bizarreness of the EU’s decision-making mechanism, or simply the the obstinacy of the European Commission”. German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said it was “a serious mistake”, with Berlin firmly opposed. AFP

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Prayer protest FEMEN feminist activist group members take part in a protest calling to support jailed FEMEN activists on trial in Tunis outside the Tunisian Embassy in Paris yesterday. Three European women went on trial in Tunis yesterday for holding a topless anti-Islamist protest. AFP

North Korea accuses South of brainwashing NORTH Korea yesterday accused the South of having lured, kidnapped and brainwashed nine young North Korean refugees who were recently forcibly repatriated from Laos to Pyongyang via China. Their case has attracted international concern and condemnation, with the United Nations and human rights groups warning the North that it would be held responsible for the safety of the refugees – aged between 14 and 18. But a lengthy statement attributed to a spokesman for the central committee of the North Korean Red Cross Society said the nine were among many people lured away from the country by South Korean government-sponsored human traffickers, posing as religious activists. “It is an unprecedented and heinous class-A crime – luring our young children, confining and brainwashing them against their will and trying to drag them to the South,” the spokesman said. The nine refugees were ar-

rested in Laos on May 10 for illegal entry and were eventually returned to North Korea via China. The Lao foreign ministry said two South Koreans accompanying the refugees were detained for alleged human trafficking and later handed over to the South’s embassy in Vientiane. The foreign ministry in Seoul rejected the “trafficker” label and said the two were acting as “guides” and trying to secure the refugees’ permanent escape from the North. Most North Korean refugees begin their journey by crossing into China, where they face repatriation if caught. They then try to make it to a third country – Thailand is the most popular choice – from where they generally seek permission to resettle in South Korea. Those who are caught and deported back to the North face severe punishment including a jail term at a labour camp, defectors in Seoul and rights groups say. AFP

A SOUTH Korean government probe into nuclear safety has uncovered cables with forged safety certificates at two power plants under construction, a source at the sector’s regulator said yesterday. The source at the state-run Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said the findings were part of an investigation that began almost two months ago. South Korea’s 23 nuclear reactors generate a third of its electricity needs, and power supplies are tight because three of these reactors are offline after the government probe revealed components with fake documents. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Corp, which is owned by state-run Korea Electric Power Corp, manages all of South Korea’s nuclear power plants. A Korea Hydro spokesman said the company’s president and chief executive Kim Kyun-seop had tendered his resignation last week, but declined to say whether his decision was linked to the forged parts scandal. “Our president tendered his resignation last week. We are not sure if the resignation is accepted, and why he submitted the resignation,” the spokesman said. AFP

New Pakistan PM takes reins, calls for end to drone strikes

AKISTAN’S new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called yesterday for an end to US drone strikes in the country’s northwest, after politicians endorsed him for an unprecedented third term in office. Some 13 years after he was deposed in a coup and exiled, the 63-year-old was formally chosen by a vote in the National Assembly and was set to take the oath from President Asif Ali Zardari later in the day. The country faces a daunting array of problems, from crippling power cuts to Taliban militancy, and the new prime minister said citizens should be in no doubt about the challenges that lay ahead. Sharif has advocated peace talks with the Taliban, though the military has voiced deep scepticism about the idea of doing deals with the militants. He publicly criticised the drone strike that killed Taliban deputy Waliur Rehman last week, echoing long-held

Pakistani complaints that the US campaign violates national sovereignty. Yesterday Sharif used his first speech as PM to reiterate his concerns. “We respect the sovereignty of others and they should respect our sovereignty and independence. This campaign should end,” he said, calling for a comprehensive strategy to root out extremism.

draws the bulk of its forces from neighbouring Afghanistan by the end of next year after more than 12 years of war. Sharif has said Pakistan will cooperate with NATO as it pulls out, but warned that Washington must take Islamabad’s concerns about drone strikes seriously. In yesterday’s National Assembly session, Sharif took

The enormity of the challenges he faces . . . will likely make him change his style of politics Missile strikes by unmanned US aircraft have been very unpopular in Pakistan, but Washington views them as a vital tool in the fight against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants holed up in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas. Ties with Washington will be a key part of Sharif’s tenure, particularly as NATO with-

244 votes – beating nearest rival Amin Faheem, of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) who took 42 and Javed Hashmi of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party with 31. The new premier has said tackling energy shortages will be a priority and he has vowed to build new power plants. Years of mismanage-

ment, under-investment and corruption in the power sector have led to blackouts of up to 20 hours a day in the blistering heat of summer. Analyst Imtiaz Gul said he expected a sober, conciliatory approach to government from Sharif. “The enormity of the challenges that he faces and that confront Pakistan today will likely make him change his style of politics even if he does not want to,” Gul said Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N scored a comfortable win in the May 11 general election as Zardari’s PPP was routed, blamed by voters for five years that saw the hated power shortages worsen and militancy continue almost unabated. But the very fact that the PPP completed its five-year term was seen as important in a country that has suffered three coups and been ruled for more than half of its 65-year history by the military. AFP

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Deaths in custody tarnish police Shannon Teoh

RUCK driver N Dhamendran entered a Malaysian police station on May 11 to record a statement over a scuffle he was involved in, and never came out alive. Ten days later, police produced the 32-year-old’s battered corpse, his ears grotesquely pierced with a stapler, and said he died of a heart attack. The case has brought new focus to a shocking and persistent scandal tarnishing Malaysia’s security forces – routine deaths at the hands of police widely viewed as corrupt and brutal. More than 160 such deaths have been reported since 2000, three in an 11-day span beginning with Dhamendran’s. “Nowadays, we don’t have to be afraid of gangsters, we must be afraid of them [police],” a distraught M Marry, Dhamendran’s widow, said. Yesterday the government charged three police officers with murder in connection with the death. The dead man’s lawyer N Surendran said it was thought to be the first murder charge since the 1990s in response to a custodial death. The episode also highlighted the comparatively sorry state of Malaysia’s ethnic Indians, who make up eight per cent of the multiracial country’s 28 million people. Like Dhamendran, those dying in police custody are typically ethnic Indians, in what activists see as a deadly symptom of their marginalisation. Imported under British colonial rule since the mid1800s as plantation workers, Indians have fared poorly relative to majority Malays, who control politics, and the large Chinese minority who dominates the economy. “Indians, who have the least amount of political and economic power, are dehu-

Marry Mariaysusay, wife of deceased truck driver N Dhamendran, speaking during an interview at the Opposition People’s Justice Party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. AFP

manised,” said Michelle Yesudas, of rights group Lawyers for Liberty. The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the ruling party that has towered over politics since independence in 1957, maintains policies that give Muslim Malays business and educational advantages. The measures increasingly anger other races and, activists say, have set a tone of racial bias in key government bodies. “The custodial deaths clearly show the police force is institutionally racist and the

Indians are seen as soft targets,” said longtime Indian rights activist P Waythamoorthy, who was recently appointed a deputy minister in a gesture to his community. Indian rights group Hindraf says nearly a million Indians lost their jobs in plantations due to an influx of cheap foreign labour in recent decades and some 350,000 remain stateless, lacking proper citizenship documents. Faced with mounting disgust, Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government has announced the formation of a task force led by the national

police chief to look into preventative steps – but not to investigate past deaths. Lawyer Surendran, an ethnic Indian vice-president of the opposition People’s Justice Party, called the task force a “complete whitewash”, noting previous pledges to end such custodial deaths fell flat. Dhamendran’s widow Marry said she faced threats and extortion at two police stations in the capital Kuala Lumpur – handing over food, soft drinks and cigarettes – before she was allowed to visit her husband. It was the last time she saw

him alive. Police did not respond to requests for detailed comment, or to visit police lock-ups, but officials have vowed action. “I assure the public that as long as we are entrusted [with resolving the problem], we will not compromise on the issue of deaths in custody,” Home Minister Zahid Hamidi has said. His ministry controls the police. Najib’s government says crime is down sharply but critics allege official data is tampered with to hide police failures, amid widespread public perception of rising robberies and assaults. Media reports have said that in the past month even the well-guarded homes of relatives of the national police chief and deputy prime minister were burgled. Police, meanwhile, aggressively bring charges against the political opposition or activists, prompting allegations of bias. Several people have been charged with sedition after calling for protests against alleged electoral fraud by the coalition in May 5 elections. Malaysian politics is bitterly polarised but the issue of brutality has prompted calls from across the political divide for an independent commission on police misconduct that was recommended by a 2005 Malaysian royal inquiry. Najib’s Malay-dominated government and police, however, have resisted, saying an existing commission was sufficient. That commission was reported to have one investigator to probe complaints against 19 enforcement bodies. Surendran, who said he witnessed a beating in a police station eight years ago but was threatened with criminal charges when he lodged a report, expects little real reform. “They wait until people forget about it and sweep it under the carpet,” he said. AFP

Fukushima operator admits to more leaks THE operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant yesterday admitted it had found another leak of radioactive water, the latest episode in a growing catalogue of mishaps. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), said one of its workers spotted drips coming from a tank used to store radioactive water at the site on Japan’s tsunami-wrecked coast. Water was leaking at the rate of one drop every three or four seconds, the company said, adding that absorbent material had been placed under the leak and workers were trying to stem the flow. An increasing volume of water made radioactive after being used to cool the melted cores of broken reactors has become a growing headache for TEPCO, which has hundreds of tanks on the site. Critics say improvised fixes put in place at Fukushima since the disaster leave it vulnerable to mishaps and at the mercy of nature. Underwater storage pools have previously sprung leaks and a rat knocked out electricity supplies to cooling systems after it found its way onto a circuit board earlier this year. On Monday TEPCO announced it had detected radioactive cesium in groundwater samples taken from the site, reversing an earlier announcement that the water was harmless. The company had been intending to release the groundwater into the sea but suspended the plan in the face of strong protest from local fishermen. Although the natural disaster that sparked the meltdowns claimed more than 18,000 lives, no one is officially recorded as having died as a direct result of the nuclear catastrophe. AFP

Metro fire sparks evacuation Rights group condemns charges SEVEN commuters were hospitalised and thousands evacuated from the Moscow metro yesterday after a high-voltage electric cable caught fire, filling station platforms with smoke at the height of the rush hour, emergency officials said. The affected section of the metro was shut down temporarily as firefighters worked to put out the blaze. A total of 47 people sought medical attention and seven were hospitalised, the emergencies ministry said, while the fire was extinguished in just over 40 minutes. The health ministry said those hospitalised

People wait for the reopening of Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow yesterday. AFP

were suffering from smoke inhalation, while some of those who asked for medical help were suffering “from a serious reaction to stress.” Psychologists were working at the scene. The emergencies ministry said around 4,500 people were evacuated after the fire broke out in a tunnel between the Okhotny Ryad and Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Lenin Library) stations close to the Kremlin at around 8:20am (0420 GMT). Russian television showed footage shot by witnesses of dense smoke filling the Okhotny Ryad station, one of the system’s oldest, which has exits close to the Kremlin and the Bolshoi Theatre. Crowds built up on the platforms as loudspeakers told passengers the station was closed for a “technical reason”, with many filming the smoke on their mobile phones and no apparent panic. Passengers exiting the station washed soot from their faces using fire hydrants. The head of the Moscow metro system, Ivan Besedin, told the Interfax news agency that the fire started in a “complicated technical junction linked to the contact rail.” The fire appeared to have been caused by a short circuit, a law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency. AFP

against six opposition organisers

HUMAN Rights Watch yesterday condemned criminal charges being brought against organisers of rallies protesting Malaysia’s May 5 election, which the opposition claims was marred by fraud. At least six people have been charged since the end of May with violating Malaysia’s Peaceful Assembly Act by not giving police 10-days notice before holding demonstrations – something HRW said runs contrary to human rights standards. “Prosecuting activists for organising peaceful protests makes a mockery of the prime minister’s promises to establish a rights-respecting government in Malaysia,” said Phil Robertson, the New York-based group’s deputy Asia director. Tens of thousands have

continued to attend a series of rallies led by Anwar Ibrahim’s opposition party – which claims it was denied victory last month by abuses of the electoral process – in defiance of a government crackdown. The government has warned that protestors will “pay the

Prosecuting . . . makes a mockery of the prime minister’s promises price” and has pressed ahead with charging four others – including an opposition MP – under the Sedition Act, a much-criticised piece of legislation which Prime Minister Najib Razak had pledged to repeal last year. Anwar’s opposition pact took 51 per cent of the popular vote but the ruling coali-

tion, which has been in power for 56-years, still won the election with 133 of the 222 parliamentary seats. The opposition is now planning a mass gathering in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur on June 15. But authorities are unlikely to tolerate a street demonstration. Previous marches calling for electoral reform have ended with police firing tear gas, water cannons and arresting hundreds of protestors. The three-party opposition plans to file court challenges to the result in 27 parliamentary seats. If all are successful, it would give them victory. However, critics claim the courts and Election Commission are in thrall to the ruling coalition, making it highly unlikely the opposition would prevail. AFP

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Big cover-up

Police warn women over miniskirts

OLICE in the Chinese captial have warned women not to wear miniskirts, hot pants or other skimpy clothing on buses and subways during the hot summer in order to avoid sexual harassment, Chinese media reported yesterday. Women should also shield themselves with bags or newspapers, and sit or stand in lower areas rather than in raised seats to avoid being surreptitiously photographed, according to guidelines issued by the traffic department of the Beijing Public Security Bureau and cited by the official China Daily. Women often complain of groping and other harassment in Beijing’s crowded buses and subways. Most buses in the capital do not have security cameras so it is difficult for authorities to collect evidence of harassment, police officer Xing Wei was quoted as saying. The heaviest penalty for sexual harassment is 15 days in detention, according to Xing. AFP

Belief in sorcery on rise: experts

ELIEF in sorcery and witchcraft is on the rise in the Pacific, experts warned yesterday after a young woman accused of killing a boy with black magic was burned alive in Papua New Guinea. Lawrence Foana’ota, formerly the director of the Solomon Islands National Museum, said people were increasingly turning to witchcraft in the Melanesian country. “The reason why it’s growing is because there is some kind of economic benefits people are receiving from these practices,” he said before speaking at a conference in Canberra to tackle the issue. Unless the problem was addressed quickly, especially among the young, “it might end up in the same situation as in Papua New Guinea where they are actually physically killing people”, he said. The brutal killing in February in Papua New Guinea of a 20-year-old mother accused of witchcraft sparked international outrage. The woman was stripped, bound and burned before a crowd of onlookers including schoolchildren.

A young mother accused of sorcery who was stripped naked, reportedly tortured with a branding iron, tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tyres in Mount Hagen city in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea in February. AFP

In another attack in April, an elderly woman was beheaded after being accused of black magic. The February murder helped push Papua New Guinea (PNG) to re-introduce the death penalty for violent crimes including sorcery, a

move criticised by rights group Amnesty International and the United Nations. Reverend Jack Urame, from the Melanesian Institute, said Christian organisations could do more to stamp out the widespread belief in sorcery in PNG, where many people

do not accept natural causes as an explanation for misfortune and death. “There is an alarming comeback of the belief, and I believe there are several factors why the belief is coming back again,” Urame told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“Because there is a generation gap, the Christian values is not being passed on to the next generation and so I think people are resorting back to the traditional belief as an answer to explain sickness and death.” Australian National University academic Miranda Forsyth, co-convenor of the conference in Canberra, said the belief in sorcery and witchcraft was widespread in countries such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. “These beliefs and practices impede economic development, because people are often afraid to be too successful because they are then accused of sorcery,” she said. “They also impact on understandings of health as people are not inclined to seek medical assistance because they attribute illness to sorcery. “They also lead to increased crime, because women or men who are accused of sorcery are attacked by the population who think that this is the only way to stop a misfortune that has fallen upon their community.” AFP

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Science

Lizard King gets his reptile Darryl Fears

IM Morrison was a king of sorts, at least in his own mind. The lead singer of the Doors sang in one cover song that he was “a king bee.” In another, he said, “I’m the crawlin’ king snake.” But Morrison most famously wrote in a poem that he was “the Lizard King”, a name that stuck. So naturally, when a paleontologist who happens to be a Doors fan came across the fossil of a giant lizard, one of the largest ever to trod the planet, he named it Barbaturex morrisoni, after the enigmatic singer of the Doors. “I’ve been a Doors fan since college,” said Jason Head, an assistant professor in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Head had read Morrison’s poem Celebration of the Lizard, the basis of the Doors’ Not to Touch the Earth, which ended with the line about his being the Lizard King. A description of the fossils, which existed 40 million years before Morrison, was published this week in the biological science journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Head’s co-authors are Patricia Holroyd of the University of California at Berkeley, Gregg Gunnell of Duke University and Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa. Weighing in at nearly 60 and measuring 1.8 metres, the “lizard king” would dwarf today’s plant-eating iguanas, measuring about a metre and weighing five kilograms. But B. morrisoni would probably be smaller than its distant relative, the island-dwelling Komodo dragon, which eats meat and can grow to 3.5 metres and weigh over 90 kilograms. Head said the fossils came from Myanmar, but that’s not where they found them. They had been sitting in a museum collection at the

An artists impression released on Tuesday shows Barbatuex morrisoni (Morrison’s bearded King) named after Jim Morrison, the singer of the Doors whose nickname was the Lizard King. AFP

University of California Museum of Paleontology since the 1970s, along with other lizard remains that had not been thoroughly examined. The museum’s holdings include more than 15,000 specimens, fossils from tens of thousands of places, awaiting further study, according to its website. Head was looking at other fossils in 2006 when a Berkeley researcher said, as he recalled, “We have these lizards too. Maybe you should look at those.’” As the team worked, Head noticed

the herbivore teeth and a jaw that held beneath it some spiky material, a telltale sign that the creature resembled modern lizards that are much smaller. In time, the scientists realised that they were looking at something special. “It’s a plant-eating lizard from a time period and a place from which we don’t have a lot of information,” Head said. When he studied its modern relatives, “I realised just how big this lizard was,” Head said. “It struck me that we had some-

thing here that was quite large and quite unique.” The researchers theorise that at a time when no ice existed at Earth’s poles, carbon dioxide was high and the diversity of plant life was tremendous, these lizards ate their fill and evolved into giants in spite of the presence of animals that preyed on plant eaters. “You’ve got to figure out a name that fits,” Head said. Because of the stuff hanging from the lizard’s jaw, he thought it was like a bearded king. Then

his writhing singing idol came to mind. The name was appropriate in so many ways. Research suggests that today’s reptiles could go the way of Morrison, who died under mysterious circumstance in 1971 at age 27. “We’re changing the atmosphere so fast that the rate of climate change is probably faster than most biological systems can adapt to. So instead of seeing the growth of reptiles, what you might see is extinction,” he said. THE WASHINGTON POST

Top physicist says there’s plenty to discover Robert Evans

FRANÇOIS Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain’s Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe. And he predicted that new signs of the real makeup of the cosmos, and what might lie beyond, should emerge from 2015 when the world’s most powerful research machine – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN Englert – goes back into operation. “Things cannot be as simple as our Standard Model,” Englert said, referring to the draft concept of how the universe works for which the last missing element was provided when the longsought particle named for Higgs was spotted last year. “There are so many questions that the model doesn’t answer. There must be much, much more. And we look to getting closer to understanding what that is when the data starts emerging from a more powerful LHC,” he said. Englert, 81, spoke during a visit to

CERN, the research centre near Geneva where discovery of the boson – which with its linked force field made creation of stars and planets possible after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago – was made. The giant subterranean LHC was shut down in February to be equipped to collide particles at close to the speed of light with twice as much force as during its first three years of operations, crowned with the Higgs’ appearance. Englert’s visit, with Belgium’s prime minister Elio Di Rupo, came amid discussion among scientists on whether the particle should remain tied to the name of Higgs or also bear a reference to Englert and another Belgian physicist Robert Brout. The concept of a particle and field that turned flying matter into mass after the primeval explosion that gave birth to the universe emerged in 1964 – the product of three separate research efforts by six physicists in all. While Higgs, now 83, worked largely alone, Brout and Englert combined their investigations in Belgium while another team – two Americans,Gerald Guralnik

Belgian physicist François Englert at his home in Brussels in October. reuters

and Carl Hagen and Briton Tom Kibble – worked on the idea in London. Brout, who died in 2011, and Englert published a paper on their research at the end of August 1964, and Higgs of the University of Edinburgh issued his own six weeks later, followed by Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble a month after that.

But as interest grew in the idea of what was initially called a “scalar” field and boson, the concept became popularly associated with Higgs. Exactly how this happened has never become clear, although there are several theories. In Belgium it was dubbed the “BroutEnglert-Higgs” or BEH mechanism, a term used by Englert in a short speech to CERN researchers and students on Tuesday. Belgian newspapers have championed the idea of renaming it that way. Others, including Hagen himself, have insisted that the work of his London team, which was based at the British capital’s Imperial College, should be recognised. The issue has gained spice because it is likely that the Nobel committee will award its annual physics prize this autumn for discovery of the boson – and such an honour can, under current rules, go to no more than three living people. CERN, and its US counterpart Fermilab near Chicago, decline to take a position, either on the prize or a name change. “One thing is clear, the Nobel people have a helluva problem to resolve,” said one senior CERN official. REUTERS

Amphibian back from dead in an Israeli pond THE first amphibian to have been declared extinct by the world’s conservation watchdog has been named a “living fossil” after it was rediscovered alive and well in northern Israel, researchers reported on Tuesday. In 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put the Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) in the same sad category as the dodo after its sole known habitat, Hula Lake in northern Israel, had been drained. But Israeli, German and French researchers, writing in the journal Nature Communications, say the white-spotted brownish frog is not only still around – it can also be classified, rather remarkably, as a “living fossil”. In October 2011, a patrol in the nature reserve found an adult Hula painted frog close to a small pond, they reported. “Since then, we have recorded 10 more specimens [five males, one female and four juveniles] all within a restricted area of about 1.25 hectares,” they said. Seven were located in a mass of reeds and blackberry bushes, and three were collected after they had been taken by kingfisher birds. The team then carried out a DNA test on the specimens, and compared the genome, body shape and bones against painted frogs from northern and western Africa. To their surprise, D. nigriventer was found to be quite different from the other painted frogs. In fact, it is the only surviving member of a clan (or species group) called the Latonia frogs. All its relatives died out in Europe about a million years ago, a few of which became preserved in fossilised form. The Hula painted frog was first spotted in the early 1940s, when two adults and two tadpoles were found in the eastern part of the Hula Valley. It was next sighted in 1955 during the drainage of the valley – and thereafter was not seen again. “Not only has this species survived undetected in its type locality for almost 60 years, but also ... it is a surviving member of an otherwise extinct genus,” said the paper. “The survival of this living fossil is a striking example of resilience to severe habitat degradation during the past century by an amphibian.” The frog’s chances of survival are being boosted by plans to reflood parts of the Hula Valley and restore the original swamp habitat. The announcement is a rare bit of good news for amphibians. Nearly a third of frog and toad species are described by the IUCN’s Red List as threatened by extinction. Habitat loss, the spread of pathogens by global warming and globalised trade and pollution are the main causes of the decline. AFP

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China turns on the charm

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ANALYSIS

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ENIOR Chinese military officials came to Singapore ready to talk at a major regional security forum last weekend, surprising delegates with a new sense of openness at a time when Beijing is making strident claims to territory across Asia’s seas. No one expected any resolution of disputes over maritime boundaries, accusations of Chinese cyber-espionage, Beijing’s suspicions about the US “pivot” to Asia or other prickly issues at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. But the charm offensive by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, less than a week before Chinese President Xi Jinping meets US President Barack Obama for an informal summit, appeared to be designed to tone down the recent assertiveness by emphasising cooperation and discussion. “There’s no question that this year the PLA delegation has come very prepared to engage in dialogue,” said John Chipman, director-general of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, which convenes the forum. “The intensity of the Chinese engagement and the manner of their engagement is different.” The defence minister of the Philippines, Voltaire Gazmin, also noted a shift. “It’s a total turnaround. They have been talking about peaceful resolutions, no outward acts,” Gazmin said. “But we still hope to see that these words are put into action.” China claims large swathes of the South China Sea, which could be rich in oil and gas. The Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations have challenged Beijing over those claims. Beijing is also embroiled in a row with Tokyo over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, which are also believed to contain large energy deposits. China, the world’s second-largest economy and a rising military power, is aware it needs what it calls a “stable and peaceful external environment” for its own development. Indeed, Chinese officials at the forum sought to ease concerns about Beijing’s intentions. “China’s development and prosperity is a major opportunity instead of a challenge or even threat to countries in the Asia-Pacific region,” Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo, the PLA’s deputy

While there was a fair amount of scepticism about China’s position from security analysts during the various sessions, Chinese officials were not shy about taking tough questions or asking their own from the floor. Major General Yao Yunzhu from the PLA’s Academy of Military Science asked Hagel after his speech how Washington could reassure Beijing that the US focus on Asia was not an “attempt to counter China’s rising influence”. “China is not convinced,” she said in fluent English. “That’s really the whole point behind closer military-to-military relationships,” Hagel replied. “We don’t want miscalculations and misunderstandings and misinterpretations.” The higher-ranking Chinese delegation this year and their participation in the sessions shows “a more active effort on the part of the Chinese to reach out”, Canada’s defence minister, Peter MacKay, said. “I see that as positive.” The Chinese worked “with a very courteous style, with a much less

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combative style”, Chipman said, noting the remarks by “a young officer of the PLA congratulating the defence minister of Japan for his very important and serious speech”. Japan, a US ally, is strengthening its economy and military to play a responsible international role, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said in his speech. Onodera, addressing lingering suspicion about his country’s intentions given its role in World War Two, said Japan “caused tremendous damage and suffering” to its neighbours in the past but wanted to look to the future by promoting cooperation. Those comments were what won public praise from the PLA officer, who also spoke in English. “The other Asians are saying the Chinese have decided to play the game, that is to pitch up, make an impression and do so in the right way,” said Chipman. “How that has an impact on the ground, at sea, in space, in cyber . . . is a different question.” PROJECT SYNDICATE

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chief of general staff, told a session on regional security. Qi, China’s top official at the forum, said dialogue “by no means denotes unconditional compromise” and he gave no ground on sovereignty claims, calling the presence of Chinese warships in the East China Sea and the South China Sea “totally legitimate and uncontroversial to patrol within our own territory”. But he said “China is a peace-loving nation” and went on to answer more than a dozen questions from delegates. Unlike most other countries, China has sent its defence minister to the Shangri-La Dialogue only once – in 2011. Despite that absence, a senior US official accompanying Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to the forum saw a big change in the Chinese delegation. “Last year China had a very, very small contingent, a relatively juniorranking contingent. This year they came in force . . . and have been very active in the panels,” said the official. “That’s very, very good. We want everybody to engage.”

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China’s People’s Liberation Army Deputy Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo (right), welcomes US Navy Admiral Samuel Locklear, the commander of US forces in the Pacific region, to The Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Monday. REUTERS

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Lifestyle Using sport, the CFR aims to teach important social lessons

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OSCAR-WINNING British actress Kate Winslet is expecting her first child with third husband Ned Rocknroll, whom she married last year, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. “Kate and Ned are delighted” at the news, a publicist told Hollywood celebrity magazine People, while another spokeswoman confirmed the information to AFP but made no comment. The 37-year-old married Rocknroll − a nephew of British tycoon Richard Branson − last December. She was given away by Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio. afp

ROWING up as one of the first Cambodian refugees in the United States, I was teased at school for looking different. But that didn’t stop me, and I channelled my energy toward sports and recreation. Playing sports made me feel as part of a family, and I never received negative comments from my team-mates, despite not being a good player. Sport is a universal language that can bring people together, and we need to continue to implement sports programs in Cambodia. The Cambodian Federation Rugby (CFR) works with schools such as Krousar Thmey, a charity school for the hearing impaired, supporting them with not just the basic necessities of food and medical care, but promoting a healthy lifestyle and teaching them the values of strength, teamwork, health, discipline and respect. “Many of our players come from low socio-economic backgrounds, and we want to provide opportunity for something for them to look forward to every week,” said Dan Wetherall, Rugby Development Officer and coach. “We believe rugby builds character and self-esteem. We want to empower our players to see the opportunities that rugby can create for them.” Established in 2001 by Madam Theany Than, (UNESCO secretary-general of Cambo-

In brief

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Dan Wetherall with the children at Krousar Thmey School, a charity school for the hearing impaired.

dia), the Cambodian Federation Rugby’s goal is to promote sport as a medium for healthy lifestyle and social interaction. In 2005, as recognition for its social responsibility and outreach programs, CFR was honoured with the International Rugby Board Development Award. Another one of CFR’s grassroots programs is the Good Men in Rugby project, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence. With support from Spanish NGO Paz Y Desarrollo, the campaign in-

cludes short lesson videos (in Khmer language) that disseminate the important message about gender equality to the young men in Cambodia. “The Good Men in Rugby is an education campaign which focuses on men, and that the women are their equal and violent behaviour towards women is not acceptable,” said Sophoan, a staff member and trainer at CFR. “We hope our players will be able to be role models as well as participants in this important campaign.”

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With more than 700 children benefitting from CFR’s programs, it also gives them a sense of belonging, as many are orphans and vulnerable children. “Rugby is a fraternity around the world and we all share a similar mentality. Most of all, we want the kids to enjoy what is known as the game they play in heaven,” added Wetherall, also a rugby player on the national team. The kids can dream to one day become great rugby players like Australian’s Simon Poidevin and George Smith, or Cambodia’s

Vannak Vong and Vannak Vireak, but as for now, their greatest gift is the smiles they bring when they play the sport of rugby. CFR and Innov8 International Group, (who handles the strategic and operational management and public and donor relations for CFR), will be hosting the Cambodia Rugby Charity Gala on June 8, 2013, at Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh. Proceeds will go to support grassroots rugby development in Cambodia. For information, contact: info@innov8international.

Great Wall of trouble for ‘Emperor Yang’ Sebastien Blanc

AT the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect “privatising” it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. “At the beginning people didn’t understand why I took on this project. They called me crazy,” said the 52-yearold. The Great Wall is not a single unbroken structure. In places it is so dilapidated that estimates of its total length vary from 9,000 to 21,000 kilometres, depending on whether missing sectors are included. It was little more than a ruin when he started work in 2000, but now 790 metres of ochre wall run out from a small fort across a stony plain, snaking upwards over a bare hillside via several watchtowers. Built of bricks and rendered with earth, his wall averages around 4.5 metres high, topped with battlements. “People were sceptical, because they thought renovating the wall was the job of the government,” said Yang.

“I was surprised at the success I had. But this could also be considered an act of patriotism.” He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife, Tao Huiping, collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth. “Today about 30 people came,” she said, holding up the ticket stubs, beaming proudly and praising her husband’s “phenomenal” work. “People call him Emperor Yang,” she said laughing. Their opportunity came about in 1999, Yang said, when local authorities called on residents to renovate the Wall themselves, and officials gave him authorisation to do so. The money came from savings and loans from relatives. In recent decades the Wall has suffered the depredations of farmers stealing its stones for building, and construction crews cutting through it with roads and railways. Some of the greatest damage came during the turmoil of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. But as China has become wealthier the government can better afford to take on the burden of restoration. At the same time the Communist Party uses nationalism to bolster its claim to a right to rule, and in

recent years authorities have become keener custodians of symbols of China, from historic monuments to giant pandas. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics – making Yang’s project illegal. His business continues to operate, but he and the local authorities have been through several rounds of negotiations over transferring the rights to the wall. They have so far failed to reach an agreement. “I never received any support from the government, and they accused me of constructing a fake wall. That’s what makes me angry,” Yang said. Yang admits still owing one million yuan. “I have cried tears of despair,” he said, but “regretted nothing”. Jiayuguan city’s head of cultural heritage Ye Yong explained that Yang’s work was approved in “a unique time in which the government did not have enough money to renovate or protect its heritage”, he said. “But going forward, with the new laws and regulations about the protection of cultural relics in place, individuals will no longer be able to do renovations.” Even so, the farmer could yet reap a windfall from his investment if the government decides to “renationalise” it by including it in an official preservation project, Ye signalled. “We will consider buying it,” he said. afp

A POPULAR popular Chinese microblogging service banned searches for “yellow duck” after users circulated a mocked-up image of a famous 1989 Tiananmen square tank protest with the military vehicles replaced by plastic ducks, results yesterday showed. The picture, a parody of the iconic Tank Man photograph of a civilian staring down a long row of tanks, circulated on Tuesday, the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests’ suppression. A large yellow duck artwork is on display in Hong Kong, and imitations have followed. afp

Rabbi minister gets the giggles in parliament

A REFERENCE to “penetration” in a speech to parliament caused Israel’s education minister to burst into a laughing fit that went viral on Tuesday on Israeli websites. Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, could not get past the first sentence of his address, on a proposed law against smuggling cell phones into Israel’s prisons, before beginning to chuckle. He broke down again when the word came up in the text for a second time. AFP

David Lynch to release second solo album

DAVID Lynch is to release a second solo album, described as a “tighter” and “more confident” follow-up to 2011’s Crazy Clown Time. The Big Dream, due on July 15, includes a cover of a Bob Dylan song and a collaboration with Swedish indie star Lykke Li. Whereas Lynch’s last LP was generally portrayed as a weird dance album, The Big Dream is described as “a hybrid, modernised form of low-down blues”. afp

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Motoring

Luxury Chevrolet an oxymoron? Not with the latest Impala sedan Y Jason Harper

OU’VE hit that point when you deserve a little leather in your life. You’ve logged countless hours during the daily commute, staring at a hard plastic dashboard, and it’s time to move onwards and upwards. You’re not a person of pretensions, though. No sportscar for you, middle-age crisis or not, and perhaps you’d like to buy American. I have a proposition – a Chevy. The Impala, specifically: a full-size sedan with a long and storied history, some of it stylish and grand, some not. The new incarnation, the 2014 model, falls on the good side, mostly. While the base price is $27,500, the 2LTZ is the package you’ll want, with leather and great safety features and a V6 engine that’ll get you places, starting at $36,500. The Impala has been totally redesigned, and along the way it filched technology and features from upscale General Motors (GM) brethren Cadillac and Buick. While a luxurious Chevy may sound like an oxymoron, the Impala certainly tilts in that direction. With front-wheel-drive and no option for all-wheel-drive, it’s no sports car. Yet the 3.6 litre V6, married to a six-speed automatic transmission, has plenty of pull at 305 horsepower, and the overall drive is pleasant. The sedan is roomy, seating five comfortably. The boot is huge. And it has a real sense of road presence, with masculine lines, a tall bonnet and an authoritative grille. The fully equipped Impala

The 2014 Impala has been totally redesigned and has a real sense of road presence, with masculine lines, a tall bonnet and an authoritative grille.

even has LED running lights at the corners of the fascia, proving that automobile fads are a lot like fashion fads. They begin at the top (in this case, Audi was the first major carmaker to use them as a design element) and eventually trickle downward. The Impala got its start in the late 1950s, and it was a stylish machine indeed. Various model years had long, extended trunks, with expressive design cues like wild rear fins sometimes described as “bat wings.” By the late 1970s the Impala was downgrad-

ed to an entry-level car, its stylish days at an end. (The 2013 model Impala? Not a pretty sight.) Today, the all-new interior is perhaps the best return to form. My test model, pushing $40,000 with options (a ticket of $39,510) had a black and tan colour scheme and even at first glance was a surprise. A swath of tan-stitched leather sat atop the dashboard, spread over soft-touch plastic as if it were a bearskin rug thrown over flooring. The leather panels were thick, begging to be squeezed.

There was laminated wood on the doors, hide-bound seats and a steering wheel of wood and leather. Chevy craftsman had to work around a number of complicated interior angles, and while the fit and finish wasn’t perfect – I’m not sure it would pass an Audi inspector – it was still pretty darn good. The array of convenience features on the 2LTZ also struck me. It has one-touch power windows throughout, a rear-vision camera, lanedeparture warning and rear cross-traffic alert (which

proved quite helpful when backing out of a tricky parking spot). A power sunroof and second-row skylight are standard on the upmarket model, as are the heated seats. You get 10 airbags, too. The GPS and infotainment system is similar to Cadillac’s CUE, with an eight-inch touchscreen. Unlike the Cadillac, though, it still has buttons and knobs, making the controls far easier to access. You want to turn up the air? There’s a knob with a digital read-out inside. Simple and genius.

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In terms of overall comfort, luxury and driveability, in many ways I preferred the Impala over another flagship sedan – the Acura RLX. Both are front-wheel drive. The steering and feel of the pedals were firm on the Impala and far too slack on the RLX. The Impala’s exterior was more interesting than the RLX’s generic lines. And ultimately the Chevrolet is less expensive. There’s value at that $36,500 price, making it a pretty good way to introduce some leather to your daily commute. BLOOMBERG

Peugeot recaptures old joys with 208 GTi Sam Wollaston

With the 208 GTi, Peugeot has recaptured the joy of the iconic 205GTi.

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I TRY to involve my family in my motoring journalism. My son, especially – he loves cars so much, it’s actually the only thing he’s bothered learning the word for. Caaaaaar. Which makes his initial response to this one rather strange – he’s sick on it. Actually, “is sick” doesn’t do it justice; nor even does “projectile vomits”. This is a vomit cannon, from distance. Not on the front, fortunately – but all over the side, including the GTi badge. Hmm, that’s not right, is it? Projectile vomit, the nice lady says. And has he gone a bit floppy? A bit, yes. Take him to A&E, she says, just to be safe. Jesus – again – A&E! And suddenly I’m happy to have 197 horsepower available under my right foot. Of course, it doesn’t actually make any difference how powerful your car

is in town – it doesn’t get you there any quicker – but a few extra horses can add drama to the occasion, as well as what, under less stressful circumstances, might be a pleasing engine note. Later, I drive it out of town to enjoy that note, and the car. It’s a lot of fun. Not crazy-wild – these are obedient horses that have been properly broken in, will happily walk, trot and canter. But they’ll gallop, too, when you want them to. That’s reflected in the car’s looks: it’s not very different from an ordinary 208, with just a few hints: the grille, the badge (before it got splattered). Inside, it’s mainly black, but there are splashes of red about the place that, coupled with the pleasingly arse-cupping seats and a small, fat, grippy steering wheel, whisper, “Go on – enjoy yourself a bit.” Peugeot has recaptured the joy of the iconic 205 GTi, which went

missing from the 206 and 207. Oh, and the Big Drama – you want to know how that one panned out? So we go to A&E, quite slowly, but making a lot of noise, revving and honking and shouting out of the window. And into the back – hang on in there, little fella. Obviously, by this time, I’m thinking his floppiness is floppier. I’ve diagnosed meningitis, 99 per cent sure. We park, anywhere, and badly (scuffing two alloys. Sorry, Peugeot, but who cares, frankly?), run in . . . By which time he’s looking a bit cheerier. And when we get seen, he’s happily toddling around, being quite charming to people, boring them with his one word. A bit embarrassing, really. Just a tummy bug, the doc says – it’s not unusual to go a bit floppy afterwards. “Caaaaaar,” he says, often and happily, on the way home. Good, he likes it after all. We both do. the guardian

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21:00

KA 206

15:50

17:25

KA 205

19:00

22:35

PHNOM PENH - INCHEON Daily

23:40

06:40

KE 689

Daily

18:30

22:20

It’s snow joke: North Korean ski resort set to be ‘world class’

OZ 740

Daily

23:50

06:50

OZ 739

Daily

19:10

22:50

ORTH Korean leader Kim Jongun has issued a national appeal to speed up work on a “world class” ski resort, which is being built as rival South Korea prepares to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Describing the Masik Pass resort in the northeast of the impoverished country as a “gigantic patriotic work”, Kim urged greater effort to complete the project – with 110 kilometres (70 miles) of multilevel ski runs, a hotel, heliport and cable cars. The ruling Workers’ Party “remains unchanged in its resolution to build a world-

Kim Jong-un has largely followed the same path, while paying lip service to a policy of joint military and economic development which has yet to show tangible progress on the economic side. Despite a reported rise in staple food output, daily life for millions is an ongoing struggle with under-nutrition, according to a recent World Food Programme report. In February, the United Nations’ resident coordinator in North Korea, Desiree Jongsma, said that two thirds of the secretive state’s 24 million population were chronically food insecure and nearly 28 per cent of children

[The Party] remains unchanged in its resolution to build a world-class skiing ground within this year class skiing ground within this year”, the Swiss-educated Kim said in a message carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday. The resort, which is being built by the military, will “provide the people and school youth and children with highly civilised and happy living conditions”, said the message addressed to service personnel and the country at large. When Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, died in December 2011 he left a country in dire economic straits – the result of a “military first” policy that fed an ambitious missile and nuclear program at the expense of a malnourished population.

under five were stunted from malnutrition. Kim had paid a publicised “work guidance” visit to the Masik Pass resort last week and observers have offered a number of theories for why the resort has been made such a priority. Some speculate that the North might consider making a late bid to co-host some events of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will take place in the South Korean resort of Pyeongchang. At the same time, it might be a genuine bid to boost tourism, which Pyongyang increasingly sees as a relatively risk-free way of earning much-needed foreign currency. afp

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

11:10

14:00

MH 754

Daily

09:30

10:20

MH 763

Daily

17:10

20:00

MH 762

Daily

3:20

4:10

20:05

06:05

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

COLOUR CODE

2817 - 16 Tigerairways

HANOI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

AF 273

AIRLINES CODE

GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HANOI

Off piste: The construction site of the Masik Pass Skiing Ground, which Kim Jong-un has called a ‘gigantic patriotic work’. afp

Flighs

SIEM REAP - PREAH SIHANOUK Flighs Days Dep Arrival K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20

19:50

AF 273

SHANGHAI - PHNOM PENH 23:05

PHNOM PENH - SINGAPORE

FM 833

2.3.4.5.7 19:30

22:40

SINGAPORE - PHNOM PENH

Air Asia (AK) Room T6, PP International Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555 Fax: 023 890 071 www.airasia.com

Cambodia Angkor Air (K6) PP Office, #90+92+94Eo, St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.7Makara, PP, Cambodia. Tel: 023 881 178/77-718-333 Fax: (+855)-23-886-677 E: mai@royalaviationexpert.com

Jetstar Asia (3K) PP: No. 333B Monivong Blvd. Myanmar Airways International Tel: 023 220909.Siem Reap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.Tel: 063 964388 #90+92+94Eo, St. 217, www.jetstar.com Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677 www.maiair.com

Dragon Air (KA) #168, Monireth, PP Tel: 023 424 300 Fax: 023 424 304 www.dragonair.com/kh

Cebu Pacific (5J) Phnom Penh: No. 333B Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161 Siem Reap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd. Tel: 063 965487 E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com www.cebupacificair.com

Tiger airways G. floor, Regency square, Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205, Sk Chamkarmorn, PP Tel: (855) 95 969 888 (855) 23 5515 888/5525888 E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

SilkAir (MI) Regency C,Unit 2-4,Tumnorb Teuk, Chamkarmorn Phnom Penh Tel:023 988 629 www.silkair.com

MI 601

1.3.5.6.7

09:30 12:30

MI 602

1.3.5.6.7 07:40

08:40

MI 622

2.4

12:20

15:20

MI 622

2.4

08:40

11:25

3K 594

1.3.6

12:35

15:55

3K 593

1.3.6

10:40

11:50

3K 599

2.4.7

17:25

20:25

3K 591

18:45

20:00

3K 592

20:45

23:45

3K 591

18:45

20:00

MI 607

Daily

18:10

21:10

MI 608

Daily

16:20

17:15

2817

1.3

16:40

19:40

2816

1.3

15:00

15:50

2817

2.4.5

09:10

12:00

2816

2.4.5

07:20

08:10

2817

14:50

17:50

2816

13:00

14:00

2817

13:20

16:10

2816

11:30

12:30

09:10

11:35

PHNOM PENH SORYA BUS TRANSPORT SCHEDULE INTERNATIONAL ROUTES

TAIPEI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH -TAIPEI BR 266

Daily

12:45

17:05

PHNOM PENH - VIENTIANE

BR 265

Daily

VIENTIANE - PHNOM PENH

Qatar Airways No. 296 Blvd. Mao Tse Toung (St. 245), Ground floor, Intercontinental Hotel PP Tel: +23 42 40 12/13/14 www.qatarairways.com

VN 840

Daily

17:30

18:50

VN 841

Daily

11:30

13:00

PP-HO CHI MINH DEPATURE

HO CHI MINH-PP

QV 920

Daily

17:50

19:10

QV 921

Daily

11:45

13:15

6:45, 8:30, 11:45

6:45, 8:00,11:30

PP-BANGKOK

BANGKOK-PP

6:30

PP-PAKSE,VIENTIANE

PAKSE,VIENTIANE-PP

6:45

7:30

PHNOM PENH - YANGON 8M 404

3. 6

YANGON - PHNOM PENH 20:10

21:35

8M 403

3. 6

16:45

FROM SIEM REAP

TO SIEM REAP

SIEM REAP - BANGKOK Flighs Days Dep Arrival K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 SIEM REAP - GUANGZHOU CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 SIEM REAP -HANOI K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 SIEM REAP - HO CHI MINH CITY VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 SIEM REAP - INCHEON KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 SIEM REAP - MANILA 5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 SIEM REAP - SINGAPORE MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 3K 599 2.4.7 15:50 20:25 SIEM REAP - VIENTIANE QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 SIEM REAP - YANGON 8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25

BANGKOK - SIEM REAP Flighs Days Dep K6 701 Daily 02:55 PG 903 Daily 08:00 PG 905 Daily 11:35 PG 913 Daily 13:35 PG 907 Daily 17:00 PG 909 Daily 18:45 GUANGZHOU - SIEM REAP CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 HANOI - SIEM REAP K6 851 Daily 19:30 VN 843 Daily 15:25 VN 845 Daily 17:05 VN 845 Daily 17:45 VN 801 Daily 18:20 HO CHI MINH CITY - SIEM REAP VN 3809 Daily 09:15 VN 827 Daily 11:35 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 VN 829 Daily 16:20 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 INCHEON - SIEM REAP KE 687 Daily 18:30 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP AK 280 Daily 06:50 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 MANILA - SIEM REAP 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 SINGAPORE - SIEM REAP MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 MI 622 2.4 08:40 MI 616 7 10:40 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 MI 630 5 07:55 MI 618 5 16:35 3K599 2.4.7 13:50 VIENTIANE - SIEM REAP QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 YANGON - SIEM REAP 8M 401 1. 5 17:05

19:10

Arrival 04:05 09:00 12:45 14:35 18:10 19:55 10:30 18:30 21:15 17:10 18:50 19:30 20:00

10:35 12:35 16:55 17:40 20:45 22:15 22:40 07:50 13:15 21:30 15:45 09:50 11:50 17:40 11:35 17:45 15:05 09:25 19:15

DOMESTIC ROUTES PP-SIEM REAP SIEM REAP-PP 6:15, 7:00- 12:00, 13:00, 14:00 5:30, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:30,12:30, 13:30 PP -SIHANOUK SIHANOUK-PP 7:00 To 12:00, 13:00, 14:30, 16:30 7:10, 8:00, 10:30,12:15, 14:00,15:30,17:30 PP-BATTAMBANG BATTAMBANG-PP 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 5:30, 6:45, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30,10:30 PP-MONDULKIRI MONDULKIRI-PP 8:30 8:30 Further information, please contact: Tel: 023 210 359, Email:168@ppsoryatransport.com

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1 Call/week

2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00

1 Call/week

3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59

1 Call/week

1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00

1 Call/week

2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01

1 Call/week

SITC (BEN LINE (4 calls/onth)

Sun 09:00-23:00

1 Call/week

HCM-SHV-LZP-HCMNBO-SGH-OSA-KOBBUS-SGH-HGK-CHM

ITL (ACL) (4 calls/month) APL (4 calls/month) COTS (2 calls/month)

Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00

1 Call/week

SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ

Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00

1 call/week

SIN-SHV-SIN

RCL (12calls/moth) MEARSK (MCC) (4 calls/moth)

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2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)

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SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia SIN= Singapore TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia TYO= Tokyo, Japan TXG= Taichung, Taiwan YAT= Yantian, China YOK= Yokohama, Japan

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Entertainment NOW SHOWING

Yoga Phnom Penh

legend cinema

Feeling lacklustre? Reinvigorate the mind and body with a lunchtime yoga session.

EPIC A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world - and ours. 9:30am

Today's Swat and Samadhi class features long restorative holds, pranayama (breathwork) and meditation to burn off impurities and improve flexibility, posture and balance. All levels welcome, drop in class $8

FAST AND FURIOUS 6 Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew in order to take down a mastermind who commands an organization of mercenary drivers across 12 countries. Payment? Full pardons for them all. 11:50am, 2pm, 7pm, 9:20pm

Yoga Phnom Penh, #172 z2 Norodom Boulevard, 12.15pm

Grappling @ K1 Gym Submission wrestling is a colourful combination of Japanese style combat wrestling, with long holds chokes and escapes, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and other martial arts. In tonight's class, all levels are welcome and a drop in pass is $10.

NOW YOU SEE ME An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward the audience with the money. Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson star. | 11:35am, 4:35pm, 6:55pm, 9:25pm STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. 9:15am

cineplex cinema

K1 Gym, #131, Street 199, 6:45pm

TV PICKS

PEE MAK (KHMER DUB) This Thai romance, horror and comedy film is an adaptation of the Mae Nak Phra Khanong legend. 9:15am, 11:15am, 1:15pm, 3:15pm, 5:15pm, 8:45pm

1:10pm – THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE: In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing. FOX MOVIES 3:05pm – STUART LITTLE: The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him. Loosely based on the novel Stuart Little by EB White. FOX MOVIES

EPIC (See above) 9:15am, 1pm

5:55pm – NATIONAL TREASURE: A treasure hunter is in hot pursuit of a mythical treasure that has been passed down for centuries, while his employer turned enemy is onto the same path that he's on. FOX MOVIES

FAST AND FURIOUS 6 (See above) 3:45pm, 8:20pm NOW YOU SEE ME (See above) 11am, 6:50pm

Swing @ Equinox

Feel rejuvenated after a yoga session at Yoga Phnom Penh. Lunch can be ordered from ARTillery afterwards. SUPPLIED

Eddie Murphy stars alongside Ben Stiller in Tower Heist, on Sky Movies at 8pm. BLOOMBERG

8pm – TOWER HEIST: When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. Featuring Ben Stiller. FOX MOVIES

Each Thursday, dancers get together for a night of spinning, swinging and Lindy Hopping around Equinox's tiled floor. Relax after working up a sweat with Anchor draft and sweet, chocolatey crepes.

Equinox, #3A, Street 278, 9pm

Storm @ Meta House The Goethe-Institute presents HansChristian Schmid’s Storm – a drama about the search for justice for crimes committed during the war in Bosnia. Entrance is free.

Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard, 7pm

Thinking caps “DANGLE A CARROT” ACROSS 1 4 9 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 26 27 30 31 33 35 37 38 42 43 44 47 48 51 52 54 56 59 60 65 66 67 68 69 70

Slot machine symbol “Full steam ___!” Supply with fresh troops Hole in one First of a trilogy Love to pieces Be overly confident, say Inventor’s brilliant notion Boat basin Carries off for a ransom Bro’s partner Nine-sound signal Authority to make decisions High-tech speed unit “Zip your lip!” Cause of strain pain Type type Seller’s scam Display, as a picture Excluding nothing Open Become bored or weary Make a sheepshank Copy cats? Turn ___ (start making money) Leftover piece Barnum’s exit Pantyhose shade What many wouldbe-starlets succumb to Where some sports events are held Borden’s cash cow? Historic astronaut Jemison Drink that may be hard or sweet Underlings Some are personal

DOWN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 19 23 24 25 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 39 40 41 42 45 46 48 49 50 53 55 57 58 60 61 62 63 64

Hand-dyed fabrics Deadly sin of sloth It’s good for what ails you Well-chosen WWII general Arnold, informally Make a goof What the Bohr model models Agents’ handfuls Pungent salad bar item Tree of life site Austere and reclusive Rainbow shape Wedding notice word Forty-niner’s need Flower painted by van Gogh Assist illegally Trooper front? Largest branch of Islam Cry of pain Hydromassage facility “Why ___ you tell me!” “What’ve you been ___?” Forecast extreme Sunrise state Cause of misery Reacted verbally Put on, as a uniform “Big-ticket” thing Smooth engine sound Pandemonium Not allowed on certain diets Puget Sound seaport Sudden raid Chopin selections Milo of “Mystics” Hot off the presses Part of a pool Arias, e.g. Fond du ___, Wis. Controversial mentalist Geller Flashback causer Truth decay Doorbell-answerer’s word

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THE PHNOM PENH POST june 6, 2013

Sport

Sydney club to bond with Tennis Cambodia, players HS Manjunath

popular Australian tennis academy will be bonding with the Cambodian tennis community in a unique way when six to 10 members of the Sydney-based Umina Tennis and Sporting Club Inc pay a visit to the Kingdom in October. “Expression of interest in this trip among members has been very encouraging. Six have already confirmed and I am confident a few more will make up their minds soon to join this cultural exchange tour,” Umina club president Neil Packer, who was in Cambodia recently on vacation, told the Post. “We have gone on similar trips to Japan and China and we are excited to include Cambodia to this Umina tradition,” added the level two Tennis Australia coach. The veteran, whose life revolves round the game took interest in Cambodian tennis while on a holiday nearly two years ago. The first thing he did then was an internet search for ‘tennis Cambodia’, reaching the Tennis Federation of Cambodia website and noting down its address before legging it up to TFC Secretary General Tep Rithivit’s office. The rest is now history. There have been frequent contacts between the two and on his latest visit to the Kingdom a couple of weeks ago, Packer put forward a proposal to the TFC on this tennis exchange idea of his. In fact it is a lot more than a bunch of enthusiastic club level players from Australia visiting Cambodia. They may not bring the expertise or the ex-

Umina Tennis and Sporting Club president Neil Packer (left) receives a Cambodian Davis Cup shirt from TFC Secretary General Tep Rithivit last week. SRENG MENG RUN

cellence of present day professionals but for these Umina members, tennis is a strong medium to know the community better. “It is not high level nor is it grassroots. It is mid-level and pure and simple community tennis. That is what exactly we need to get our own

club level players involved,” Tep Rithivit told the Post. “It just fits very well into our own vision of tennis for all. We do lot of programmes for juniors, we take care of our national team, its time regular club players in Phnom Penh and other towns and cities get a chance to

play with their own peers from a tennis rich country like Australia.” The name Packer carries quite a punch in Australia with media magnate Kerry Packer revolutionising the short version of cricket with the introduction of one day games in coloured clothing back in the 1970s. Neil is no relation to Kerry, the pioneering rebel as they branded him then, but in a way he loves to create a small wave with tennis. “I have the same name which is good to have. That is just about it,” Neil said with a grin when the Kerry Packer Circus got into the conversation. The touring party from Australia will be delivering to the TFC a package of souvenirs that Tennis Australia has already sanctioned. “Tennis Australia is very keen on helping Cambodia’s tennis development. I am in the process of discussing with Tennis Australia a proposal to invite Cambodian Davis Cuppers Bun Kenny and Long Samneang to train at the famous Australian Institute of sports for a couple of weeks,” Packer said. As the TFC Secretary General presented Packer with a Cambodian Davis Cup shirt as a memento at the end of their fruitful meeting, he remarked: “This is the kind of cheery news that we love to hear and it’s great if these two players make it to Australia for training.” Tennis wise it may not be much to enthuse about, but the link that has now been firmly established between Umina and TFC could brighten up the scene for mid-level tennis players in the months and years to come.

is on the Dragons A-Rod facing dope ban Heat in CBL season opener Major League Baseball will seek doping suspensions on about 20 players, including New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, in the wake of a probe at a Miami clinic, ESPN reported Tuesday. If so many bans are imposed for performance-enhancing drugs, it would be the largest drug scandal in North American sports history, according to the report, which said the suspensions could be handed down in the next few weeks. ESPN, citing unnamed

sources, said Tony Bosch, founder of the Biogenesis clinic in Miami, reached a deal this week to help a Major League Baseball investigation into reports the clinic provided players with banned substances. That could give officials the evidence they need to impose bans. ESPN said in the website report that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig might seek 100-game suspensions for Rodriguez, Milwau-

Major League Baseball will seek drug suspensions for about 20 players, including former Most Valuable Players Alex Rodriguez, because of their connections to a Miami-area clinic. REUTERS

kee’s Ryan Braun and other players. That would be the penalty for a second doping violation, with having a connection to Bosch being considered a first offence and statements denying any such link or doping as a repeat violation. Investigators have had records with player names for more than a month but no word from Bosch as to their accuracy. Bosch could start naming players within a week, possibly some whose names do not appear on seized records. Others who could face suspension, according to the report, include Toronto’s Melky Cabrera, Oakland’s Bartolo Colon, Nelson Cruz of Texas, San Diego’s Yasmani Grandal, the Yankees’ Francisco Cervelli and Washington pitcher Gio Gonzalez. Cabrera, Colon and Grandal were all hit with 50-game bans last year. The report said Gonzalez received only legal substances from the clinic, as he claimed when reports of the clinic’s doping links to players began in January, and might be exonerated. Rodriguez and Braun were among those who denied any wrongdoing when the story broke five months ago. AFP

HS Manjunath

Last year’s Challenge runners-up Phnom Penh Dragons mount their bid for the inaugural Cambodian Basketball League Presented by Western Union on Saturday at the Beeline Arena, facing their familiar foes CCPL Heat in the season opener for both sides. The two teams are well known for a brand of aggression that is built on fast pace and quick transitions and whoever can manage a greater chunk of the possession will obviously gain the day. Heat can take some comfort in the fact that they squeaked out an over-time win over the Dragons in a tune-up game a couple of weeks ago. “We will have to switch between different defence systems to find the best way to get early ball possession and prevent the Heat from scoring three pointers,” Dragons coach Michael Dibbern, who is also a CBL coordinator, told the Post yesterday. The newly formed Post Buffaloes are eagerly awaiting their league start, and they have drawn the all-Chinese Galaxy team in their first

round tie. The Galaxy, being a totally unknown quantity, may be hard to gauge when it comes to their strengths and weaknesses. They were the last to register and thus were left with very little time for scrimmage games. When Extra Joss Warriors and Pate 310 enter the court, the difference in heights will be startling. The Warriors will line up Chris Baloda (2.01 metres), Ken Gabriel (1.98m) and Joshua Schmitz (1.95m). Pate comes nowhere near that kind of loftiness. If at all, Pate will have to rely on speed and hope to click in their field shooting as the rebounds may well be dominated by the Warriors. Experience may count a lot in favour of the Warriors with Chris Baloda, who has had professional stints in the Philippines, leading the charge.

Saturday’s Fixtures

Post Buffaloes v Galaxy – 2pm Extra Joss Warriors v Pate 310 – 4pm Phnom Penh Dragons v CCPL Heat – 6pm

Ministry meeting talks upcoming competitions

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport held their Sports Advisory Committee meeting on Monday at the Department of Sport office at Olympic Stadium, which included discussing the organisation of this year’s competitions and plans to select athletes for national teams. Also on the agenda was the schedule for the annual National Student Championships, set to start next Monday and run until June 20. Twenty-six universities and Technical Institutes from across the Kingdom are slated to send teams to compete in football, volleyball, basketball and gymnastics tournaments. The Ministry is to fund the running costs for the competitions as well as prizes, food and accommodation for students. YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

Lions outclass Force to kick off Australia tour

The British and Irish Lions shrugged off a biting controversy as they started their Australian tour with an emphatic 69-17 win against an undermanned Western Force in Perth yesterday. In what was a little more than a glorified training run against a secondstring Force, the Lions cruised to a nine-try victory helped by a remarkable 100 per cent kicking record from fullback Leigh Halfpenny. However, there was some bad news for the Lions with prop Cian Healy suffering what initially appeared to be a serious leg injury, as well as finding himself embroiled in an alleged biting incident. Healy, who was the subject of a video review after the biting claim from Force scrum-half Brett Sheehan, wrenched his left ankle in a tackle in the 36th minute and had to be stretchered off in great pain and with the rest of his tour in doubt. AFP

NSW take Origin opener from Queensland rivals

New South Wales made a big down payment on ending Queensland’s seven-year dominance of Australia’s State of Origin by winning the series opener yesterday. The Blues, inspired by backrowers Greg Bird and Luke Lewis, repelled the Maroons’ late comeback to win the first game of the threematch rugby league series 14-6 before over 80,000 fans at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium. NSW, whose last Origin series win was back in 2005, were outstanding in the first half and dominated Queensland to lead 14-0 at half-time. AFP

LA Kings win to trim Chicago’s playoff lead

Jonathan Quick made 19 saves and the defending National Hockey League champion Los Angeles Kings defeated Chicago 3-1 on Tuesday, trimming the Blackhawks’ lead in their playoff series to 2-1. The Kings will try to equalise the best-ofseven Western Conference final at two wins each by capturing Game Four tonight before the series shifts back to Chicago. The winner plays either Boston or Pittsburgh for the Stanley Cup. AFP

THE PHNOM PENH POST june 6, 2013

Sport

Australia embarrassed in 243-run thrashing by India

On the 20th anniversary of Shane Warne’s spectacular entry into Ashes cricket at Old Trafford the vulnerability of the current Australia team was starkly illustrated as they were skittled for 65 in a Champions Trophy warm-up game against India in Cardiff on Tuesday after the withdrawal of their captain, Michael Clarke, with a recurrence of his back problems. Clarke was to have treatment in London yesterday in the hope of being fit to lead Australia in the first of their many encounters with England over the next seven months, a Champions Trophy group match at Edgbaston on Saturday. But the 32-year-old’s inability to take part in either of their warm-up fixtures must raise worrying questions – for Australia, at least – about their captain’s capacity to survive the gruelling schedule ahead, with 10 Ashes Tests in back-to-back series between July and January. THE GUARDIAN

May quits as players’ chief and slams world body ICC

Tim May yesterday quit as head of cricket’s international players’ union after eight years, lashing out at the sport’s powerbrokers and their alleged “threats, intimidation and backroom deals”. May, who was last month controversially ousted from an International Cricket Council players’ committee amid allegations of pressure from India, said he was tired of battling the governing body. “More and more we see allegations of corruption and malpractice on and off the field dominating headlines,” he said. afp

Runners line up for race Yeun Ponlok

ver 2,000 runners have already signed up to participate in this year’s Phnom Penh International Half Marathon, officials from the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, who are hosting the event, told the Post on Monday. Registered athletes for the Sunday June 16 street race also currently included 300 foreign athletes from 21 nations, will a deadline for new entries set for this Sunday. Registration can be made at the NOCC headquarters (No 1, Street 278) or at eight other locations which can be found on the runningincambodia. org website. NOCC Secretary General Vath Chamroeun said participation has increased on last year in each of the three distance categories for men and women – half marathon (21km), 10km, and 3km fun run – whilst adding that they will allow a maximum field of 5,000. Vath Chamroeun describes the competition, now in its third year, as the Kingdom’s second biggest athletics event after the Angkor Wat International Half Marathon, held in Siem Reap since 1996. The event will also help Cambodia mark the Queen Mother’s Birthday (June 18) and World Environment Day (June 5), as well as serving as

Athletes sprint off at the start of last year’s Phnom Penh International Half Marathon in front of the Royal Palace.

an Olympic Day Run to celebrate Olympic Day (June 23). The NOCC intend to donate some of the proceeds to Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital in Phnom Penh and local anti-landmine organisation CMAC. According to Vath Chamroeun,

the half marathon race is for male and female professional runners or keen fitness enthusiasts, while the 10km run is for those that wish to test themselves. The 3km dash is for youngsters and parents running with their children and anyone who just wants to have fun.

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“Besides ordinary runners, there are some singers, musicians and comedians that have registered for this event, but they are entered in the third category [93km] for fun, added the NOCC official” TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH, ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY DAN RILEY

Bolt ready to kickstart Euro season in Rome Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt said he is ready to put his injury woes behind him when he lines up at the Rome Golden Gala for his first appearance of the year in Europe today. Bolt’s start to the season has been hampered by hamstring problems and, a month ago, American rival Justin Gatlin posted an impressive time of 9.97sec at the opening Diamond League event of the season in Doha. Meanwhile, Bolt was clocking a comparatively mediocre time of 10.09sec for the 100 metres at the Cayman Invitational, way behind his world record time of 9.58. But, ahead of his European debut at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, the 26-year-old Jamaican said he is now up to competition speed. “I’m feeling great, [I’ve] been doing a lot of work, working on my speed and endurance for the past couple of weeks,” Bolt told reporters in Rome on Tuesday. The Rome Golden Gala is the fifth meet in the 14-leg Diamond League season, at the conclusion of which the athletes (men and women) with the highest number of accumulated points win The Diamond Race. In the absence of Bolt, Gatlin followed up his Doha performance by winning the Prefontaine Classic last weekend – the fourth leg in the Diamond League series. The 2004 Olympic champion, who since Athens has seen his rollercoaster career get back on

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt gestures on Tuesday during a news conference in Rome ahead of the IAFF Diamond League meeting.

track following a positive drug test and a four-year ban, should be Bolt’s biggest threat today. Bolt, however, indicated that he was not too worried about his American rival right now. He says what matters is the world championships later this year. Two years ago in Daegu, South Korea Bolt failed to defend his 100m world title from Berlin (2009) when he was disqualified for a false start. “He [Gatlin] has proven this season he’s really getting into great shape but I never try to worry about one athlete,” Bolt said. “One-off runs is never the focus for me. I always go to the [world] championships and prove myself there. “For me what matters is showing up at the championships and proving yourself there.”

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Bolt won last year’s Diamond Race for the 100 metres, and in Olympic terms he is now looking at stretching his impressive list of records at the 2016 Games in Rio. At the London Games in 2012, Bolt became the first man in history to successfully defend 100m and 200m titles and then added a sixth Olympic gold by helping Jamaica defend their 4x100m title. Although evasive when asked how far he could take his world record, saying, “I never put a limit on anything. For me anything is possible”, Bolt already has one eye on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Having flirted with converting to other sports, from football to cricket, Bolt hinted he could end his athletics career after the next Games. AFP

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Football Miroslav Djukic confirmed as new coach of Valencia

Serbian Miroslav Djukic has been appointed as the new coach of Valencia on a two-year deal, the Liga club confirmed yesterday. Djukic has signed a deal to the end of the 2014-15 season and replaces Ernesto Valverde, who had been in charge at the Mestalla since last December. The 47-year-old, who has spent the last two seasons in charge of Real Valladolid, previously spent six years with Valencia as a player, featuring in their Champions League final defeats in 2000 and 2001. Valencia finished fifth in La Liga in the season just finished, qualifying for next season’s Europa League. AFP

Mexicans edge past Jamaica and grab 2014 qualifying lead

Aldo de Nigris scored in the 48th minute to give unbeaten Mexico a 1-0 victory over Jamaica on Tuesday in a North American qualifying match for the 2014 World Cup. De Nigris, a 29-year-old forward who plays for Monterrey of the Mexican league, headed home a crossing pass from defender Carlos Salcido for the only goal to lift the Mexicans atop the sixteam CONCACAF regional qualifying group. AFP

Tahiti get 7-0 thumping in Confederations Cup warm-up

Muddied record Boeung Ket Rubber Fields’s Bisan George (left) tries to break away from Asia Europe University captain Nuth Sinoun in their Metfone C-League match at Olympic Stadium yesterday. Both players got on the scoresheet in a shock 2-2 draw that saw reigning champions Boeung Ket drop points for the first time this season to have their winning run end at 10 games. AEU’s Ear Phiroth quickly cancelled out Keo Sokngorn’s fifth-minute opener, with Bisan George and Nuth Sinoun also trading strikes for their teams either side of the break. In yesterday’s earlier kick-off, Ministry of National Defence shot down National Police Commissary 2-0 with goals at opposite ends of regulation time. Chhin Chhoeun put the Army boys in front in the 3rd minute and then Meak Chhordaravuth sealed victory in the fifth minute of stoppage time. In between, Police’s Japanese signing An Jinya missed a penalty and Soup Ravy was sent off. The win lifted MND out of the relegation zone at the expense of AEU. WORDS BY CHORN NORN AND DAN RILEY, PHOTO BY PHA LINA

Iran win revives hopes

ran got their World Cup qualifying campaign back on track after Reza Ghoochannejhad’s 66th-minute strike gave them a 1-0 win against Qatar at Doha’s Al Sadd Stadium on Tuesday. Carlos Queiroz’s team stay third in Group A on 10 points from six games, a point behind second-placed Uzbekistan and leaders South Korea, who drew 1-1 with bottom side Lebanon in Beirut. “We will not celebrate as we have still two matches remaining,” Iran’s assistant coach Antonio Simoes said. “We have achieved an important three points and a good victory and I want to thank the players who followed the tactics and this helped us to get a positive result.” The defeat all but ended Qatar’s hopes of a first World Cup finals appearance as they are now three points behind Iran and have only one game left away to Uzbekistan. The top two from the group qualify directly for next year’s finals in Brazil, while the third-placed team will still be in with a chance of joining them via the playoffs. There was little goalmouth action in the early stages in Doha with Mojtaba Jabari’s 21st-minute effort for Iran from the edge of the box presenting the first goalkeeping test. The hosts maiden opportunity came when Ibrahim Khalfan rolled the ball to Hasan al Haydos but his effort hit the bar. Qatar keeper Qasem Burhan then made two outstanding saves, tipping Masoud Soleimani Shojaei’s curling free-kick over the bar and beating out Ghoochannejhad’s point-blank header with one hand while moving in the other direction.

Iran’s Masoud Shojaei (right) tries to head the ball off the boot of Qatar’s Wesam Rizik during their 2014 World Cup qualifying match in Doha on Tuesday. REUTERS

The second half was more physical and Iran’s sustained pressure eventually paid off when a defensive error sent the ball to Ghoochannejhad who scored past the advancing Burhan. Iran could have doubled their lead in the 79th minute but this time Ghoochannejhad could not beat Burhan who charged out of the box, earning himself a yellow card for a foul on the forward but denying the visitors another goal.

Qatar coach Fahad Thani said a draw would have been fair, adding: “Iran were physically strong and were good in defence. We played well but didn’t take advantage of the chances we had as we were without the player who could finish those chances.” Meanwhile on Tuesday, Ismail AlAjmi’s header in first-half stoppage time proved the difference as hosts Oman beat Iraq 1-0 to move within sight of the first World Cup in their history. REUTERS/AFP

Schaefer out as Thailand look for new head coach Thailand have terminated the contract of national team coach Winfried Schaefer, ending the colourful German’s near two-year tenure, the kingdom’s football association said on Tuesday. Schaefer, renowned for his exuberant touchline presence and white bouffant hairstyle, enjoyed a chequered time in Thailand’s top job, overseeing a disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign but progressing to the final of the regional Suzuki Cup in December only to narrowly lose on home soil. “The association has finished its contract with Winfried,” Ongart Kosinka, secretary-general of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), told AFP, adding that both sides agreed to annul the agreement. “I was not there when the two sides talked but the FAT decision was based on several reasons including coach performance,” he added, saying no decision had been made on his successor. Schaefer, who replaced former Manchester United and England captain Bryan Robson in July 2011, has been widely linked in local reports with a role at Muangthong United, holders of the Thai Premier League crown. Schaefer led Cameroon to victory in the 2002 African Nations Cup. He has also coached United Arab Emirates side Al Ain and FK Baku of Azerbaijan. AFP

Minnows Tahiti suffered a humiliating defeat ahead of the Confederations Cup when they lost 7-0 to the Chile under20 side in the Chilean city of Chillan on Tuesday night. Manchester United striker Angelo Henriquez netted a hattrick for the Chileans, who are preparing for this summer’s under-20 World Cup in Turkey. “They are the South American champions at under20 level and, in my opinion, will make a strong impression at the under-20 World Cup,” said Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta. “I really hope this defeat will act as a trigger for us and that we will react to this spanking.” The Pacific Islanders earned a place at this month’s Confederations Cup in Brazil thanks to their victory in last year’s Oceania Cup of Nations. AFP

Nice’s Anin possibly paralysed after car crash, say reports

Nice midfielder Kevin Anin could be left paralysed after suffering serious injuries in a car crash on Monday night, according to French media reports yesterday. Anin, 26, suffered an injured spinal column and several fractures to both arms when the car he was travelling in crashed around 60 kilometres to the northeast of the Normandy city of Rouen, his Ligue 1 club revealed. The sports daily L’Equipe reported that Anin was sitting in the back of the car, a Volkswagen Polo, when the driver lost control of the vehicle, which flipped several times. AFP

Zidane not yet ready to coach Real says president Perez

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez says Zinedine Zidane has all the right coaching qualifications needed to replace Jose Mourinho in the dugout at the Santiago Bernabeu, but the Spanish giants believe he needs more experience before being considered for the position. “Zidane could do it. He has the qualifications and fulfils all the requirements, but we have not thought about it yet,” Perez told Spanish television station Telecinco. AFP

Tuesday’s Results International Friendlies

Poland 2 Liechtenstein 0 Romania 4 Trinidad and Tobago 0 Kazakhstan 1 Bulgaria 2

TONIGHT’S fixtures International Friendlies

China v Uzbekistan – 6:35pm Hungary v Kuwait – 1:30am

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Sport Tsonga crushes Federer in Paris E

ven in defeat Roger Federer holds centre stage. Yet the hastily convened press conference after his exit from the French Open, in three quick and disjointed sets at the hands of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on a warm Tuesday afternoon on Court Philippe Chatrier, had the air of the reading of a will, as if the man who has won 17 grand slams and may yet win another was expected to hand on his gifts to those arriving behind him. The Swiss was not much concerned, however, that for the first time since Tomas Berdych gate-crashed Wimbledon in 2010 this major would have a finalist from outside the Big Four (himself, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and the absent Andy Murray). Nor, understandably, did he feel compelled to dwell on his own quarter-final except to acknowledge that Tsonga, who has not dropped a set in the first 10 days of the tournament, thoroughly deserved a

Switzerland's Roger Federer (left) is comforted by France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the end of their French Tennis Open quarter-final match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Tuesday. AFP

7-5, 6-3, 6-3 win that pits him against the relentless David Ferrer in the semi-finals tomorrow. Ferrer, dogged as ever, simultaneously made mince meat of his fellow Spaniard

Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 on Court Suzanne Lenglen and, even though it was a low-key sideshow compared with the drama on the main court, it ensured one of them will reach the final.

Federer, although cordial, seemed eager to leave the scene of his grief. “There’s more fun things to do than this,” he said, “so we might as well get it out of the way. For me this is already

pretty much past now, even though it’s only been like half an hour. “This is obviously a crushing loss but I look forward to other things. I have not had any holidays. Paris is a nice place. We’ll see. [Then] going to Halle. Don’t know when.” So the grass of Germany awaits him before Wimbledon, where he will, as ever, gather his resources on a more favoured surface and do his best to defend his title. There is a purity about Federer’s tennis that he refuses to compromise, going for the shot he thinks appropriate, whether or not the net intervenes or the ball slides away from the scoring zone. He trusts his talent and here it let him down too often. Tsonga stayed solid. After recovering in the first set he had a blip early in the third, then closed it out with a zest in his strokes that left Federer thrashing at thin air. “I should have never been broken at 4-3, 40-15,” Federer

said. He agreed, however, that Tsonga “was in all areas better than me today. That’s why the result was pretty clean, no doubt about it.” There were no fitness issues, no excuses, just fleeting sadness, maybe. His new short haircut even made him look a little boyish. But he is 32 in August. Time is not his friend – although it most certainly is on Tsonga’s side. At 28 he is in the form of his life. He may not just make the final – he could win it. “Since a couple of months I tried to manage my career as well as possible,” he said. “I was waiting for a reward, because I'm practising hard every day. Today I got the reward. I played the right shot every time I hit the ball. I worked it out with Roger [Rasheed, his new coach of the past few months].” One Roger might have engineered the embarrassment of another, but it was no ordinary Jo hitting the shots. THE GUARDIAN