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Suu Kyi: ‘I want to run for president’ MYANMAR opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday declared her intention to run for president, calling for all of the country’s people to share the fruits of its dramatic reforms.

Addressing the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia in the capital Naypyidaw, the Nobel peace laureate appealed for the amendment of the military-drafted constitution which prevents her from leading the country.

“I want to run for president and I’m quite frank about it,” the veteran democracy activist told delegates, as she sets her sights on elections due to be held in 2015.

“If I pretended that I didn’t want to be president, I wouldn’t be honest,” she added.

The current constitution blocks anyone whose spouses or children are overseas citizens from being appointed by parliament for the top job.

Suu Kyi’s two sons with her late husband Michael Aris are British and the clause is widely believed to be targeted at the Nobel laureate.

Changing certain parts of the text

Shane Worrell and Vong Sokheng

A DECISION to strip all opposition and two royalist lawmakers of their parliamentary status and salaries is an unconstitutional move that has by default dissolved the National Assembly, Cambodia National Rescue Party parliamentarians said yesterday.

On Wednesday, the 12-member National Assembly permanent committee – comprising solely of ruling party legislators – barred 24 Sam Rainsy Party, three Human Rights Party and two Norodom Ranariddh Party lawmakers from political debates, including today’s Khmer Rouge crimes-denial law discussion, and froze their salaries.

In a joint statement, the SRP and the HRP said the National Assembly permanent committee’s decision to ban its lawmakers had rendered the parliament invalid.

“According to Article 76 of the Constitution, the National Assembly must have at least 120 members,” the statement says. “If the number of lawmakers is less than the number spelled out in the Constitution, this will lead to the National Assembly being dissolved before the mandate.”

Ruling Cambodian People’s Party legislators mocked their SRP and HRP counterparts last month in parliament, claiming their presence was illegal due to the fact they had resigned from those parties to join the CNRP, a merger formed of the two parties.

On Wednesday, they took it a step further.

“We have not fired them – they have fired themselves,” CPP policymaker Chheang Vun said yesterday. “They have to look at the Constitution and the law on political parties, which says lawmakers who become members of a new political party are automatically no longer members of the National Assembly. It’s about the law.”

But banned opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said no such law existed and he had written to National Assembly President Heng Samrin after the CPP’s demand that their salaries be docked last month to explain just that.

“The National Assembly will lose its functionality,” he said. “The country will be in a constitutional crisis.”

Legal experts yesterday were also concerned over the potential unconstitutionality of the move.

“When they shift or change their party [like this], it shouldn’t affect them. The spirit of

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The denial law dilemma Abby Seiff Analysis

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HEN Cambodia almost certainly passes draft legislation today outlawing the denial of Khmer Rouge crimes, it will join the ranks of more than a dozen countries around the world to boast such laws.

But while those countries have provisos within their constitutions making denial laws legal, Cambodia has none, and the apparent unconstitutionality of the law – coupled with the timing – has raised concerns that it will be little more than a dangerous legal precedent and a cudgel with which to silence dissent.

Constitutionality questioned “According to the constitution, every law has to be in line with the constitution,” noted Panhavuth Long, program officer at the Cambodian Justice Initiative. “That kind of proposed law violates the principle of freedom of expression.”

Article 41 of the constitution enshrines the right to freedom of expression as long as it is not used “to infringe upon the rights of others, to affect the good traditions of the society, to violate public law and order and national security.”

Interpreting that exception in such a broad light is unprecedented,

say lawyers and rights monitors.

“It is an overly broad interpretation. The international norm is that the exception is the exception and not the rule. We have to go with the strictest interpretation of freedom of expression,” said Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak.

On May 20, the Council of Ministers posted a recording on its website in which opposition party leader Kem Sokha can be heard saying that the infamous torture centre S-21 “was staged”.

A day after news of the recording

came out, Sokha said the words had been taken out of context, that he meant only to imply the Khmer Rouge made a theatre of Tuol Sleng by forcing confessions, and stressed he had no doubt “about the torture and cruelty that the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Khmer people”.

But amid outcry over the incident, Prime Minister Hun Sen asked parliament to develop a denial law outlawing such statements.

“In Europe, whoever dares to say that Hitler did not kill those people must be guilty,” the premier said in a speech last week, before asking that similar legislation be drafted here.

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KR, not bombs, emptied city, Schanberg says

Oppositon kicked out Continued from page 1 the Constitution is that you can’t dismiss lawmakers easily,” said Koul Panha, executive director of election watchdog Comfrel.

“As a citizen, it’s legitimacy that is more important – we need to have laws, but the assumption with that is that the text of the law is proper. To me [this decision] is illegitimate,” echoed CLEC executive director Yeng Virak.

Analysts have similar concerns over the legitimacy of laws passed with only the ruling party overseeing them, the first of which is expected to go through today when lawmakers consider the hastily drafted genocide denial law.

Political analyst Lao Mong Hay said decisions made by the National Assembly in this climate would now have a “weaker moral authority”.

“Without the participation of all parties, it is weaker,” he said.

“Actually, [any law passed] would not be much different from a sub-decree. The parliament would not be a legislator, just a government assembly.”

By merely making the controversial decision to strip lawmakers of their posts, meanwhile, the ruling party has

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Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay speaks at a press conference at CNRP headquarters in Phnom Penh last month. Opposition leader Kem Sokha was also present. heng chivoan

some questioning the legitimacy of the government institutions themselves.

“They are not politically independent. From the court to the Constitutional Council, we should have someone independent to interpret the spirit of [these laws]. If people can’t trust in the interpretation, what happens?” asked Comfrel’s Panha.

Development agencies and foreign governments alike have long expressed concern over

ruling party dominance on decision-making councils ranging from the National Election Committee to the courts.

The US Embassy said yesterday it is looking into the matter.

The CNRP, for its part, said it would lodge a complaint with the Constitutional Council but could “predict the outcome, because it is government-controlled”.

Equally predictable is that today’s controversial vote will

be a smooth one, with opposition members saying they will not attend and the government’s coalition partner, Funcinpec, implying it has no intention to fight the permanent committee’s decision.

“I lost two NRP seats, but what can we do?” said Funcinpec general secretary Nhek Bunchhay. “This is about the law.” ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA, KEVIN PONNIAH AND ABBY SEIFF

FTER the fall of P h n o m Penh, some Cambodians who had taken refuge in the French Embassy made urgent marriages of convenience, Sydney Schanberg told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday.

The Khmer Rouge had demanded that all Cambodians leave the embassy and join their fellow nationals in the countryside. Marrying a foreigner was a chance to escape, the American journalist told the court.

When the soldiers found out that Jean Dyrac, the lead Embassy official, was conducting marriages, “they told him that if he didn’t stop – this is what he said – that his staff would be punished”.

The Khmer Rouge then came in to remove the remaining Cambodians, and one Cambodian woman asked Schanberg to take her baby.

“I said ‘I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it’,” Schanberg said.

“At that point, a French woman said, ‘I’ll do it, and I know all these people in relief organisations, and I’ll make sure he finds a family.’”

The wife, weeping, handed over the baby and was ushered out.

Such accounts from Schanberg’s testimony apparently prompted Nuon Chea to ask to give his explanation for the evacuation.

Lying down and speaking to the court from his holding cell, his hands folded on his belly and dark glasses over his eyes, Nuon Chea told the court that the Khmer Rouge

Standing Committee had evacuated the city because of the fear of an American bombing, a Vietnamese invasion and inadequate food supplies.

“Each zone was instructed to give instructions to the cooperatives to have good, positive relations to the evacuees,” he added. “Some areas could do it, but some areas could not, despite detailed instructions.”

Nuon Chea’s lawyer Victor Koppe followed up his client’s statement by asking Schanberg whether dislocations caused by the American bombings and the Lon Nol army might have been responsible for some of the suffering Schanberg attributed to

[Refugees] did not talk about the bombings as something that drove them out of their houses the Khmer Rouge.

Conspicuously vexed, Schanberg replied: “There was enough rice before the Khmer Rouge began to chew up and occupy large portions of the country.”

Koppe noted that Schanberg had been criticised for “too much an American view . . . some might call it an imperialist view”.

“Well, I can tell you that I interviewed lots and lots of refugees,” Schanberg replied, “and they did not talk about the bombings as something that drove them out of their houses.”

Schanberg’s testimony concludes today with more questions from the defence.

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Duch moved to new home Abby Seiff

Kevin Ponniah and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

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ORMER S-21 chairman Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was transferred from his temporary detention quarters at the Khmer Rouge tribunal to Kandal Provincial Prison yesterday, where he will live out the rest of his days.

Some 15 months after the tribunal’s highest body handed down its final verdict against Duch and increased his sentence to life in prison, prosecutors in late May approved a specially constructed cell at the provincial jail and requested the transfer, which was signed off on a week ago, the tribunal announced yesterday.

“While recognising the practical constraints of local prison conditions, the Co-Prosecutors have concluded . . . that the prison accommodation on offer to Kaing Guek Eav is that which will best protect his interests,” reads a court statement.

Planning for post-verdict detention of the crimes against humanity convict has been tricky, with the court expected to ensure international standards and the Cambodian prisons system all but unable to accommodate such needs.

The prison to which Duch was

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Police sit in a pick-up truck leading the transfer convoy of Khmer Rouge S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, to the Kandal Provincial Prison yesterday. Sreng Meng Srun

moved yesterday is arguably the nation’s best – a model prison funded and built by Australia in 2006 at a cost of roughly $1 million. But even there, conditions are far from perfect, and it has taken nearly a year and several thousand dollars to ensure Duch’s cell and the prison meet minimum rights standards, said co-prosecutor Andrew Cayley.

“The government have re-

ally made many, many efforts to make sure these facilities are useful,” he said.

Cayley said prosecutors carried out an “extensive” internal report on prison conditions in the wake of the improvements, which include building work, equipment and furnishings. Among the findings of the report were that Duch would have access to purified drinking

water, adequate meals, acceptable medical facilities and no impediments to the free practice of religion, said Cayley.

“The department of prisons within the Ministry of Interior have been extremely co-operative and supportive,” he said.

“I’m confident that he will be secured and his rights protected.” ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY VONG SOKHENG

A RARE public discussion and debate on political party policy before the upcoming election took place yesterday in Phnom Penh, though one key player was missing – the ruling party itself.

Organised by a coalition of 14 NGOs, the forum featured Funcinpec and Cambodia National Rescue Party representatives discussing key electoral issues and taking questions from an open field of attendees.

In the absence of a Cambodian People’s Party figure who could participate in the debate, however, the party representatives used the event to flog similar populist solutions to issues stretching from land concessions to declining social morality and income tax.

“Will you be the masters of the people or will you allow the people to be the masters of the nation?” asked one passionate Oddar Meanchey villager.

Chhith Sam Ath, executive director of the NGO Forum on Cambodia, said organisers had only invited parties that hold seats in the National Assembly, and despite many invitations, the CPP failed to turn up.

“We think that [it] is important . . . to have more debates like this and . . . to inform Cambodian citizens to make the right decision about which political party they vote for,” he said.

Many attendees, such as 45year-old Chen Rotha, publicly lamented the CPP’s failure to attend. “I am very disappointed that they did not come. I’m desperate to meet with them because I have many specific issues to discuss,” she said.

“People from all parts of society are keen to speak to the CPP . . . If [they] came here today, it would have been a very fruitful discussion,” Sam Ath said.

Despite being heavy on rhetoric, representatives from the two attending parties sought to present a vision for elected government.

The CNRP’s Ky Vandara touted polices that would increase wages paid to civil servants, give handouts to the elderly, set a price-floor for rice and reduce the cost of fuel, in addition to a plan to reduce reliance on foreign debt by streamlining bureaucracy and targeting corruption in the Kingdom.

Funcinpec’s representative promised to strip away economic land concessions and establish a social security fund.

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‘Developed’ by 2050: PM Phak Seangly

FOLLOWING recent speeches praising Cambodia’s stability under his leadership, Prime Minister Hun Sen took to the podium yesterday to gaze into the Kingdom’s future prospects for development and growth.

“Step-by-step from a country that has experienced both war and peace, we have achieved excellent development to this point,” he said in a speech in Prey Veng province, while inaugurating a university.

This year would see Cambodia move from a low-income to a lower-middle-income nation,

Hun Sen claimed, before outlining future development goals.

“We are looking to 2030 for when we become an uppermiddle-income nation, and towards 2050 for when Cambodia turns into a developed country,” he said.

The World Bank classifies economies as low-income if they have a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $1,025 or less, lower-middle income for a GNI of $1,026$4,035 and upper-middle income for $4,036-$12,475.

According to World Bank data, Cambodia’s GNI per capita was $820 in 2011.

Avoiding the “middle-income trap” – in which developing economies struggle to compete with the exports of low-cost manufacturing nations and high-tech developed nations – would be crucial for Cambodia, Hun Sen said.

“The development of human resources is a priority . . . No country manages to develop without strong human resources,” he said, adding that the Kingdom would need to create a highly skilled “knowledge economy”.

“Myself and other leaders may not survive until 2050. But we must prepare our vision.”

Border soldiers teach a pet sun bear tricks in Preah Vihear province in 2012. The bear was placed under the care of Wildlife Alliance and relocated to Phnom Penh yesterday. photo supplied

Three arrested for alleged rape Disorderly bear discharged Kim Sarom

THREE high school students were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly gang-raping a restaurant waitress in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district and were sent yesterday to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to be charged, police said.

The men – Riem Mono, 18; Put Keara, 24; and Kim Phnanha, 22 – had been drinking at the Meanchey district restaurant where the 29-year-old victim

worked on Tuesday night, said deputy district police chief Meng Heng Tith.

When ready to leave, the suspects convinced the victim to go dancing at a nightclub but instead took her to a nearby forest, where they raped her, Heng Tith added.

In her statement to police, the victim claimed she is HIV positive, a fact authorities have not yet confirmed, and that she had warned her assailants of that fact to no avail.

After the attack, she managed to escape, hiding in the forest before finally venturing out at dawn to reach the police, Heng Tith said.

Based on her testimony, police rounded up and arrested the three suspects, who Heng Tith said confessed to the crime.

“The suspects will be questioned by an investigating judge and charged for their crimes, because we have already prepared a report according to their confessions,” Heng Tith said.

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.

Phak Seangly

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REAH Vihear border soldiers have turned over a male sun bear they raised as a pet to Wildlife Alliance after the bear became uncontrollable.

Forestry administrator Prom Nol, working with Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), said border soldiers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district gave the bear – not quite two years old – to his

team yesterday. He believed it would arrive at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Takeo last night, he said.

“When it grew bigger, it turned mean and scratched anyone,” Nol said. “It often stole eggs from nearby villagers to eat, so it was given to us.”

Nol added that the bear was not caged but allowed to roam the garrison and surrounding neighbourhood. The bear was caught in Preah Vihear forest more than a year ago and

has been raised by soldiers as a pet.

Since 2002, more than 60 bears nationwide have been handed over to WRRT. Chuon Vuthy, project manager for Free the Bears at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center, said Cambodian bears are illegally traded to other countries for $200 to $500 per bear.

Although the trade is illegal, he added, people buy bears from traffickers and raise them for pleasure.

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.

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S-21 protest

CPP official set to join in Sokha march CPP lawmaker and National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said yesterday that he would join a protest Sunday calling for a public apology from opposition party leader Kem Sokha for allegedly denying the existence of notorious torture centre S-21.

But Vun backed away from local media reports stating that he said CPP lawmakers were going en masse.

“I don’t know about the other CPP officials, but whether they will join or not I have to join and release my anger,” said Vun. S-21 survivor and victim’s association president Chum Mey said he had received permission from City Hall for the demonstration yesterday.

Mey has said he expects more than 20,000 people to show up for the mass demonstration, which will move from Freedom Park to CNRP headquarters early Sunday morning. Despite the political undertones, as well as the backing off fellow S-21 survivor, Bou Meng, Mey has insisted his march was not brokered by the CPP. Last week, a recording surfaced in which Sokha can be heard saying that Tuol Sleng was “staged,” a statement he has since denied making and insisted was taken out of context.

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B Kak villagers, city officials talking titles Khouth Sophak Chakrya

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OCAL authorities met with Boeung Kak community members yesterday to register villagers left out of the oft-criticised resettlement scheme as a first step to providing them with titles and onsite housing.

More than 10 officials including police, commune and village chiefs as well as representatives of the Land Management Ministry and City Hall made up the two teams who went to the disputed area yesterday.

“We will work on this until it is completed,” said En Saphorn, Srah Chak deputy chief and one of the members of the working group.

According to Saphorn, the group has been able to prepare land certificates for 20 families already.

Both residents and NGOs who have long fought City Hall over the exclusion of scores of families from a 12.44-hectare on-site resettlement plot said yesterday that they were thrilled to see the first concrete action since the site was proposed in 2011.

“I am so happy now,” said Boeung Kak representative Chan Puthisak.

“I believe that the officials

Municipal officials visit residents of the Boeung Kak lake community yesterday. pha lina

will put us into the 12.44 hectares and give all 60 families land certificates,” he said.

In May, newly installed Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong promised to resolve the long-standing Boeung Kak lake land dispute, as well as that of Borei Keila, and quickly met with representatives in an unprecedented move.

“It’s better than before. And I think this latest action is a good sign that will lead to the conclusion of the land disputes in this area,” said Ee Sarom, programs coordinator at

Striking workers from Sabrina Garment factory eat lunch in front of the Kampong Speu Provincial Court yesterday. heng chivoan

Bail requested for unionists May Titthara and Mom Kunthear

THE defence attorney representing eight union members arrested at the Sabrina Garment factory on Monday requested bail for his clients yesterday.

Judge Cheum Rithy said he had received defence attorney Kao Ty’s bail request and would consider it for five days before making a ruling.

About 500 workers stood in front of the Kampong Speu Provincial Court yesterday to show support for the Free Trade Union leaders and members who have been in custody since a demonstration for higher wages in front of the factory turned violent, causing property damage and injuring at least 23 people – including nine police officers.

The melee occurred when

FTU members clashed with police and members of the Coalition of the Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, who continued working at the factory – a supplier for Nike – rather than join the strike.

The three union leaders and five workers are charged with initiating deliberate violence and intentional damages.

Outside the courthouse, Moeun Tom, 32, who has worked at the factory for five years, said the workers would continue protesting until the eight were freed.

“They are not guilty, so the two charges against them are completely wrong,” Tom said.

Eang Luot, a 49-year-old resident of Kong Pisey district’s Trapaing Veng village, cooked 140 cans of her own rice to provide free food for the protesters.

“I feel so much pain for the workers, so I will cook for them until I run out of rice,” Luot said. “My son protested for a higher salary, but he received violence instead.”

Elsewhere yesterday, Kong Athit, vice president of C.CAWDU, said at a press conference that his union would sue the FTU if their president, Chea Mony, continued to publicly state that C.CAWDU instigated the violence.

Responding to the threat of legal action, FTU deputy secretary-general Thorn Thol said the union maintained that C.CAWDU members initiated the clash.

“It is their right to sue us. We cannot prohibit their right,” Thol said. “But the FTU maintains its claim.”

urban housing NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut.

But he and others said they would continue to closely monitor the situation and wouldn’t pull back until residents had been successfully settled.

Last week, Boeung Kak villagers were joined by protesters from Borei Keila and Thmor Kol in blocking the capital’s Monivong Boulevard as they demanded solutions to their respective land disputes. They were dispersed with a powerful water cannon, which knocked one woman unconscious.

National Driver in hit-and-run tragedy fronts court Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

THE medical student who killed three and injured 11 others in a March hit-andrun car crash along Norodom Boulevard told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that she was suffering from meningitis and was on medication that made her drowsy when the accident took place.

Although 23-year-old Keam Piseth Narita said she “deeply regretted her mistake”, she implored the court to drop the charges.

Piseth Narita added that she had not intended to drive that day – her younger brother was supposed to drive her but cancelled at the last minute because he was busy.

“I promise that I will not commit this again in the future,” she told the court. “I would like to ask the court to drop charges against me and release me so that I will be able to continue my studies.”

Piseth Narita, a sixth-year student at the University of Surgery and Medicine, has been charged with “driving causing death and serious injury”.

On the day of the accident

in March, she drove a Toyota Camry into a crowd of motorbikes, cyclists and pedestrians outside the Ministry of Interior, said Kor Vandy, vice-president of the Municipal Court.

She had earlier hit a motorbike and led police on a highspeed chase down Norodom Boulevard, he said.

He added that Piseth Narita’s father – Keam Piseth, deputy director of the Kandal Provincial Hospital – had compensated the families of all the victims, who have since dropped charges against his daughter.

Regardless, Municipal Court vice prosecutor Soeu Vanny pointed out that Piseth Narita had still violated the law and “seriously affected the public order” – causing needless suffering and pain for the families of the victims.

“Although all victims have already received compensation and have also withdrawn their lawsuits against her, it cannot put an end to the case,” she said, urging the court to maintain charges and punish the accused.

The court will hand down a verdict next week.

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police blotter

In brief Garment worker fronts court on pimping charge

A PHNOM PENH judge will hand down his verdict next week in the case of a garment worker who allegedly earned money as a pimp. Sim Da, 27, who appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, was charged with procurement of prostitution last year after she allegedly agreed to bring prostitutes to the hotel room of an undercover police officer.

Police arrested Da in front of a health clinic in Phnom Penh Center, where she was having two women tested for HIV. In court, Da said she was trying to help the women find work as garment workers, not prostitutes. “The reason I decided to bring them to the clinic is because I wanted to help them work in the garment factory,” Da said. “If they had HIV, they would not be allowed to work at the factory.” One of the women is demanding $1,500 in compensation from Da. buth

Second time’s not the charm for teen burglar YOU can’t say the kid doesn’t have chutzpah. A 19-year-old capital resident is behind bars after robbing the house of a Ministry of Interior cop for the second time. Police said the teen broke into the officer’s Daun Penh district home late last month and stole his pistol while he was away on holiday.

On Wednesday, he went back for seconds, only to be caught by the cop, who was waiting for him this time. The teen has confessed, but said he’d already pawned the sidearm for cash. rasmei kampuchea

Hidden camera nails factory jeans jacker Visitors to Choeung Ek in May burn incense and offer prayers at a memorial housing skulls of unidentified victims of the Khmer Rouge.

Denial law’s constitutionality questioned Continued from page 1

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Anti-tobacco ad march has City Hall backing

MUNICIPAL Hall led Red Cross youth, partnership organisations and local authorities on a “No Advertisement of Tobacco” campaign yesterday morning, stopping at shops that sell cigarettes in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. The goal of the campaign was to advise sales clerks to take down any exaggerated cigarette advertisements and make their cigarette stock less conspicuous. According to a 2011 World Health Organization report, nearly 10,000 people die each year from tobacco-related diseases in Cambodia. Mom Kong, director of the Cambodia Movement for Health, said that after the government sub-decree was launched in 2011, tobacco advertisements decreased but did not disappear. Khoun leakhana

Holocaust denial laws are widespread in Western Europe, but have also been ruled unconstitutional when raised before courts in a number of countries including Spain, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Canada.

In those countries that do have such laws, “denial is something they have struggled with a lot,” pointed out Deborah Lipstadt, a noted US historian and Holocaust expert who has written multiple books on Holocaust denial.

“They have very serious problems there of people saying the Holocaust didn’t happen,” she continued, noting that many European countries have also struggled to tamp down neoNazism, whose denial often veers into hate speech, calls for violence and brutal attacks.

In Cambodia, where virtually no one was untouched, either directly or indirectly, by the devastation of the Khmer Rouge, denial is all but nonexistent. The single recent instance in which

it has come up publicly – Sokha’s alleged comments regarding S-21 – was rapidly undermined by his vociferous disavowal of such beliefs.

“If [Sokha] keeps jumping back and forth saying today ‘I don’t’ and tomorrow ‘I do deny,’

CCHR’s Virak. “It has the motive – it was [drafted] after the audio clip of Kem Sokha and speeches [of Hun Sen].

The motive is pretty clear.”

National Assembly spokesman and CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun dismissed criti-

The fight against genocide denial . . . it shouldn’t be a politicised effort to silence opposition that’s one thing. But if he insists he was taken out of context,” it would be wrong to count that as denial, Lipstadt said.

“The fight against genocide denial should be a fight against genocide denial. It shouldn’t be a politicised effort to silence opposition. If this is indeed what is being done, it would be exceptionally disturbing.”

If denial doesn’t exist, if the one widely known instance of denial has been, well, denied, what purpose could such a law serve?

“Let’s be honest, this law is certainly political,” said

cisms and insisted the law was “reasoned” against the constitution and wholly valid.

But some fear the law’s true use will hew more closely to that of Rwanda’s genocide denial legislation – which has been condemned by rights groups for stifling political dissent.

In a 2010 Amnesty International report on the laws against genocide ideology and sectarianism, the group warned that the “broad and ill-defined laws have created a vague legal framework which is misused to criminalise criticism of the

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government and legitimate dissent.”

As with the Rwandan laws, Cambodia’s draft – as it stands – “poses a risk to freedom of expression,” Amnesty International Cambodia researcher Rupert Abbott said.

“Seeing as the freedom of expression situation has worsened in recent years, this could have a general chilling effect on people willing to debate that period.”

Stressing that denial legislation can serve an important purpose when necessary, Abbott urged parliamentarians to undertake a thorough review of the need for and purpose of such a law.

“If the National Assembly deems it necessary to issue a law against hate speech, there should be a wide consultation amongst people, lawyers, judges and civil society to ensure it complies with Cambodia’s human rights obligations,” he said.

“Why does this need to be done so quickly – within a week or so?” ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY VONG SOKHENG

A WOULD-BE black marketeer – or possibly just an extreme denim enthusiast – is behind bars after his latest attempt to heist a truckload of jeans. Police said the 27-year-old is a driver for the SL Garment factory and had been on the company’s radar after one too many pairs of jeans went missing. After installing a camera, the man was caught in the act while putting 30 pairs into the back of his truck. He’s been charged with stealing factory property. koh santepheap

Glass half full: at least it wasn’t a machete BELTS, machetes and wooden sticks – all three are common weapons employed in high school feuds these days, according to cops in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.

Police said this was borne out Tuesday when two men pulled up to the station with a badly injured comrade they said had been beaten with a belt. A pair of arrests quickly followed, with the assailants confessing, but saying they were simply repaying in kind for an attack on them last month. kampuchea thmey

Grocer stabbed while fighting off robbers A YOUNG grocer in Kandal’s Kien Svay district is lucky to be alive after a horrific attack during a robbery on Tuesday. Police say the 27-year-old and her sister were minding their shop at night when two masked suspects raided the store, brandishing a knife. Rather than give up the goods, the two instead screamed for help and scuffled with the two brigands, leading to the elder sister being stabbed five times in the back. She’s now recovering in hospital while police search for the assailants. nokorwat

Lessons of Blotter go unheeded yet again CLASSIC scams never go out of style; still, you’d think people would have caught onto “the borrowed moto” by now. Not so with an 18-year-old in Kandal on Wednesday. Police said the teen visited a pair of “friends” who asked to borrow his bike so they could run to the pawn shop. Instead, they simply kept on driving – straight to a buyer for the stolen moto. One of the duo has since been arrested after the victim ran into him on the street; the other remains at large. koh santepheap Translated by Phak Seangly

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This week in biz Duty-free agreements a concern, says minister DUTY-FREE agreements between regional competitors and foreign importers would put the Cambodian garment industry at risk, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said.

Prasidh warned that the Kingdom’s garment sector would not be able to maintain its competitive edge over the industries of neighbours such as Vietnam and Myanmar should those countries implement free-trade agreements with the US, EU and regional trade partners.

Cambodia’s garment industry still growing

EXPORTS of garment and textile materials went up by 17.5 per cent to reach $1.34 billion from January to March this year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. Meanwhile, $753 million was spent on imports to supply production, an 18.3 per cent increase.

Japanese oil study has found positive results The national flag flies atop the National Bank of Cambodia in Phnom Penh.

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Web hacks a risk for banks Mak Lawrence Li

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rowing cyber attacks on government institutions and infrastructure could pose a threat to Cambodia’s vulnerable banking sector, officials with the National Cambodia Computer Emergency Response Team (CamCert) said yesterday.

Speaking at the fifth annual Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh yesterday, Ou Phannarith, head of CamCert, said the increase in cyber crimes would harm the worldwide banking network.

But in Cambodia, with relatively weak internet security systems in

place, the threat was more serious.

“Banks in Cambodia are getting more threats from attacks of hackers, cyber criminals and even other nation states,” he said. “They are mainly for money or political attacks.”

Phannarith quoted a 2013 report from the information security company MTrends, which said that cyber attacks in the finance field accounted for about 11 per cent of the international total.

He also referred to findings from the anti-virus protection firm Kaspersky Lab, which lumped Cambodia together with a host of countries whose internet infrastructure remained vulnerable to global viruses.

Cambodia has weathered web attacks before. In June of last year, the National

Bank was hacked, and information – including administration usernames and passwords – was leaked.

Months later, in September, the Post reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was hacked by the crusading web organization Anonymous in retaliation for Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg’s deportation. Internet banking certificate depos and papers from various governmental bodies were leaked.

Area bank executives, however, feel confident about the status of their internet security setup.

Grant Knuckey, CEO of Australianowned ANZ Royal Bank, said a security apparatus to protect customer data is already in place.

“We have our secure program in verifying each client’s identity and also tight protection of their information and privacy,” he said, adding that the bank may launch an upgrade later this year.

So Phonnary, executive vice president of ACLEDA Bank Plc, the largest bank in Cambodia, said the company had not experienced any attacks from hackers, and their IT department was strong enough to “kick the thefts out”.

“When we release a new product or new service functions, such as mobile or internet banking, we will encrypt the private information of clients and secure the whole system,” she said.

She admitted, however, that cyber attacks could become a worrying problem.

THE hunt for oil around northwestern Cambodia has unearthed “positive” results for Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), which intends to continue exploring the area in a project that could last at least six more years, a government spokesman said.

JOGMEC’s survey has also led “to numerous new geological information and understanding of Cambodia onshore petroleum potential.”

Ford recall makes only small dent in Kingdom

SOME 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.

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Business Markets Juneyao Airlines tries flights from Shanghai Low Wei Xiang and Mak Lawrence Li

PRIVATE Chinese carrier Juneyao Airlines is planning to launch direct flights from Shanghai to Cambodia as soon as this month. The move – which has been labelled unrealistic – would also see the airline potentially break into the monopolised route from the Chinese city.

The Shanghai-based carrier has applied to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to fly to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh from June and July, respectively, according to a release earlier this week on the CAAC website.

The scheduled Airbus A320 flights would take place once a day. According to the release, CAAC will wait until next Wednesday for other parties to submit their “views” about Juneyao’s plans.

This means other airlines can, for example, inform CAAC that they are also interested in flying the same route, said a CAAC spokesperson. These “views” would aid CAAC in deciding whether to approve Juneyao’s plans, since capacity for new flights, such as air space, is limited, he added.

Currently, flights from Shanghai to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap are being served only by China Eastern Airlines. But national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) is also rushing to break up the monopoly, aiming to launch flights to Shanghai by August.

Juneyao, however, might be aiming too high with plans to enter the market this month, said Vann Chanty, director of air transport with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation. “I have not received any application [from Juneyao],” he said. Airlines must receive approval from both nations’ civil aviation authorities.

In addition, the process of launching flights is not immediate, he said. “Do you think the airline can sell tickets today and fly tomorrow?”

According to the government-private sector working group on tourism co-chair, Ho Vandy, existing flights to Shanghai receive lower demand among Cambodians than for Guangzhou or Hong Kong. Having more flights would hopefully lower prices and boost travel there, he said.

About 334,000 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia last year, a 35 per cent leap from 2011.

expo is Thais livid at rating ICT planned for agency assessment next month Rann Reuy

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HE Thai government has rejected the claim by Moody’s Investors Service that losses from the rice-pledging scheme totalled 200 billion baht (about $6.5 billion) for the 2011-12 harvest season.

Speaking after a meeting between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and key cabinet ministers to discuss the scheme yesterday, PM’s Office Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan said the international credit rating agency used the wrong figures in its assessment.

Moody’s warned on Monday that Thailand’s credit rating faced a possible downgrade due to accumulated and potential losses from the ricepledging scheme.

The agency noted the losses could exceed 200 billion baht for 2011-12, more than double the Finance Ministry’s forecast of 70-100 billion baht.

Niwatthamrong, however, said this estimate was exaggerated. He said the 200-billion-

A worker walks through a rice stockpile in Bangkok. As a fight develops between Moody’s and the government over the scope of budget losses, rice purchases continue to fill warehouses around the country. afp

baht figure was most likely the amount of money the government spent to purchase rice from farmers rather than the loss incurred.

Government economic affairs spokesman Wim Rungwattanajinda said Yingluck was concerned about the scheme’s losses following the warning from Moody’s. He said the premier’s concern was partly due to the Commerce Ministry’s failure to keep the

government updated on the scheme’s implementation.

Yingluck expected to receive an update from Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom today, and the information would be passed on to Moody’s, Wim added.

Boonsong said yesterday that the Commerce Ministry and the Finance Ministry would clarify the scheme’s losses a press conference today. BANGKOK POST

AN INFORMATION and communications technology (ICT) event will be held from July 5-7 this year, offering sales and networking opportunities amid a surge in ICT growth in the Kingdom.

Expected to draw about 100 companies, the Mobile Social Commerce International Conference and Expo at Phnom Penh’s City Mall will see a range of IT products on sale, most of which come from Malaysian companies, said Shaifubahrim Saleh, a president and CEO of the National ICT Association of Malaysia.

Other countries involved include the US, Middle Eastern countries, and Singapore.

The association is organising the event with local IT solution company Resolvo. Resolvo’s managing director Tov Reaksmey said that her company cooperated with the Malaysian association in the hopes of bringing in other companies who have networked with it into Cambodia.

The event will “develop our country in the [area of ] technology,” she said.

Exchanges appeal for calm Anuchit Nguyen, Norman Aquino and Ian Sayson

STOCK exchanges in the Philippines and Thailand have moved to soothe investors after speculation the US Federal Reserve may scale back bond purchases prompted selloffs by overseas investors.

Stock Exchange of Thailand president Charamporn Jotikasthira yesterday urged investors not to panic, saying economic and corporate earnings growth in Southeast Asia’s secondbiggest economy remains strong. The benchmark SET Index dropped to two-month low.

Philippine Stock Exchange president Hans Sicat described the selloff as an “extreme overreaction.”

The Philippines benchmark index has slumped 11 per cent and the Thai gauge 8.4 per cent since May 22, when Fed Chairman Ben S Bernanke said policymakers could consider reducing the pace of monetary stimulus if the nation’s labour market improves. Overseas investors have sold a net $414 million of Thai stocks and $147 million of Philippine shares this month.

“Foreign net selling is an extreme overreac-

tion to Bernanke’s” outlook on possible stimulus cuts, Sicat said in a televised interview with ABS-CBN News yesterday. “Technical corrections tend to be buying opportunities for others who are more conservative.”

The Philippine Stock Exchange Index gained yesterday, adding 0.8 per cent to 6,609.01 at the close, after the recent losses cut valuations to 18.3 times projected 12-month earnings, the least expensive since February. Its 50-day volatility measure rose to 21.3 yesterday, the highest level since July.

Thailand’s SET Index declined 2.13 per cent to 1,490.21 in Bangkok yesterday. The measure is trading at 13 times forecast profits, the cheapest since January. Its 50-day volatility gauge climbed to 20.2 yesterday, the highest level since December 2011.

The Thai exchange isn’t planning any measures to contain the slump in share prices, Charamporn said yesterday.

“Trading is still normal,” he said. “Investors should not panic. Thailand’s economic fundamentals and corporate earnings remain strong.”

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Vietnam asks for investors Nguyen Kieu Giang

VIETNAMESE regulators will submit a proposal next month to ease restrictions on foreign ownership in companies as they lure more international investors to a stock market that’s 14 times smaller than Singapore’s.

The proposal would raise the foreign ownership limit for publicly traded companies from the existing 49 per cent, Vu Bang, chairman of the State Securities Commission, said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Finance will submit the plan, which the commission has helped prepare, to the government next month for consid-

eration, he said, adding that the government will decide the new ownership limit.

Vietnamese regulators see foreign investment as one key to the stock market’s growth, as the biggest year-to-date stock purchases by international investors since 2008 made the benchmark VN Index Southeast Asia’s best performer. The nation’s stocks are valued at $45 billion, compared with $614.7 billion in Singapore, the region’s largest market.

“If there is a breakthrough in foreign investment, it will positively impact the development of the stock market,” Bang said.

“In previous years, there were recommendations, but they

were just at a low level. Now we are having official discussions and have been consulting with the relevant ministries.”

The proposal will include allowing foreign investors to buy non-voting shares to boost their holdings, he said.

The VN Index closed 1.2 per cent higher yesterday, the biggest increase in Asia, at a oneweek high of 520.9. The gauge has climbed 26 per cent this year, at least 10 percentage points more than any other Southeast Asian benchmark gauge tracked by Bloomberg.

The Jakarta Composite Index was the next best performer with a 16 per cent gain.

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Business

ANZ official on Cambodia’s banks ers into plastic rather than keeping cash under the pillow?

This is very much a cash economy.

As in many of the emerging markets, people are very wary about using credit cards. Our role as pioneers is to educate customers and increase the usage of cards, explain to customers that cards are actually a convenient way of paying, rather than using cash.

Because whether it’s cards, whether it’s opening an account, whether it’s giving loans, whether its mortgages, you have to build trust.

In Cambodia, personal banking services are expanding and customers are increasingly expecting more out of the institution that handles their money. One of the key players in the country is ANZ Royal Bank, a joint venture between Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited and Cambodia’s Royal Group of Companies. Anne Renzenbrink sat down with ANZ’s managing director for retail banking in the Asia Pacific, Sanjoy Sen, to get a fuller picture of retail banking.

Where would you say Cambodia stands compared to other ASEAN countries?

If you look at our ANZ retail business in the Asia Pacific, we can cluster the countries into some markets which are very evolved and developed, such as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

I would put Cambodia as a very strong emerging market. It is a strong area of focus for us. From a retail perspective, I think that consumer spending in Cambodia is significantly lower and lags behind other ASEAN markets.

Spending on groceries, jewelry, travel, tourism, vehicle purchases, it’s growing, but it’s still behind markets like

How would you compare the challenges of the more developed markets with Cambodia’s?

Sanjoy Sen, Managing Director for Retail Banking Asia Pacific for ANZ, at the ANZ office at the Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore. photo supplied

Indonesia by significant proportions, not just 10 per cent behind, but multiples behind.

What about the level of progress in the sector? Where can improvements be made?

There has been robust GDP growth, a young population, people are getting more educated and employment levels are high. Where there is less progress is investment in infrastruc-

ture, which is really something that spurs the growth of the economy. The percentage of people that are banked in Cambodia is significantly lower and lagging behind many other markets. Cambodia still has to make progress when it comes to equity markets, stock exchange, wealth management products and insurance. These are very basic products. We are getting there, but still steps behind.

How will ANZ try to steer its custom-

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.

Let’s take, specifically, challenges between Indonesia and Cambodia because we have a large retail business in Indonesia. The revenue pool in Indonesia is much bigger because all product lines are there, there is investment, there is insurance, there is a stock market, mutual funds. The challenge is, because the revenue pool is bigger, there is that much more stiff competition. In a market like Cambodia, we have a leadership position.

And when you educate the customers in that process, customer loyalty is easier achieved than in places like Indonesia because there are so many choices there and the customers are so savvy that they keep switching. To

get customer satisfaction is tougher; to get loyalty from customers is tougher. Another challenge is that the customer’s expectation benchmark is much higher. You cannot in any of those other markets expect the customer to wait for 45 minutes to withdraw money. Here, you can.

What do you expect will happen to the retail banking sector and the banking sector in general in Cambodia?

Banking penetration has to go up.

More and more people will open bank accounts, companies will refuse to pay by cash. As wages increase and salaries increase it will be important for people to have bank accounts. At the same speed as banking penetration goes up, I think there will be a leapfrog effect with the internet and mobile revolutions, and that’s what I’ve seen in emerging markets. Because there are customers that have [a] mobile but they don’t have a bank account. In the past it was a very step by step process. The customer would first go to the branch, then get educated about internet or how to use a mobile. I think in a market like Cambodia, retail banks with strong internet and mobile strategies will be successful. That’s part of our strategy too.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Business IMF admits to host of mistakes made amid Greek bailout efforts Jeremy Tordjman

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday admitted to significant failures in the first Greek rescue that forced a second, larger bailout and left the country in a deep recession.

However, the global lender placed much of the blame on its Greek and European partners, saying they were unprepared for the crisis and the harsh choices – including a deep debt restructuring – that may have made the first bailout work better.

The IMF said in a review of the 2010 rescue that it over-

ity,” it said. At the time there was “a tension between the need to support Greece and the concern that debt was not sustainable with high probability.”

That forced the Fund to lower its own standards to approve the bailout, but even then, it admitted, it used data that was too optimistic.

The result was the much more drastic second rescue last year, which included the sweeping debt restructuring rejected the first time around.

The IMF’s mea culpa came in the wake of an earlier admission that the troika’s push for tough austerity to radically

The Greek program was also subject to considerable uncertainty as the euro area policy response evolved estimated both Greece’s debt sustainability and Athens’s ability to implement structural reforms.

It said there were some problems coordinating with the European Commission and the European Central Bank, its troika partners in the €110 billion ($144 billion) program, and that they lacked expertise and harmonised goals.

“The Fund’s program experience and ability to move rapidly in formulating policy recommendations were skills that the European institutions lacked,” it said.

The IMF, which has been assailed by member countries for committing huge funds to what some fear is an open-ended rescue, defended its actions as necessary to keep the Greek crisis from spreading through Europe and elsewhere.

“Given the danger of contagion, the report judges the program to have been a necessity, even though the Fund had misgivings about debt sustainabil-

reduce Athens’ deficit was based on poor assumptions that have left the country in a protracted recession.

In the past several months the IMF has urged the European Commission and the European Central Bank to ease some of the austerity conditions of the second bailout to try and turn the Greek economy around.

In a remarkable admission, the Fund said the troika members had significant problems harmonizing their aims and roles, in part due to the Europeans’ lack of experience in sovereign rescues.

“The Greek program was also subject to considerable uncertainty as the euro area policy response evolved,” it said.

There was no clarity over which troika member was responsible for what, and the European Commission was more focused on ensuring compliance with EU standards than on figuring out how to revive Greek growth, the review said. AFP

Beijing taxis hail fare hike Tien Ying

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eijing will raise taxi fares for the first time since 2006 to boost driver incomes after customer complaints that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to hail a cab in China’s capital city.

Starting from June 10, the base fare will be increased 30 per cent to 13 yuan ($2.12) for the first 3 kilometres, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform said in a statement posted on its website. Each additional kilometre will cost 2.3 yuan, up from 2 yuan currently, according to the statement.

Worsening traffic jams and below-average driver incomes have led to the proliferation of smartphone applications that allow commuters to book a taxi by offering to pay more than the metered fare.

Beijing, which has been voted as having the world’s worst commute, is raising taxi fares to entice cab drivers to brave the morning and evening rush hours, when demand by the city’s 20.7 million residents is

A taxi driver awaits passengers in the central business district of Beijing. bloomberg

highest and traffic jams are at their most severe.

“Beijing traffic jams are really bad, so we spend a lot of time on the road but our passenger turnover is much lower,” said Chen Baiwen, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Beijing. “I’ll sometimes meet up with friends somewhere or if it’s evening I’ll go home for dinner” during rush hour.

Even after the fare increase, it remains cheaper to hail

a cab in China than many other countries. Costs start at the equivalent of $7 in Tokyo, $3.30 in London and $3 in Washington.

Beijing’s cab drivers earned an average 53,892 yuan in income last year, lower than the city average of 56,061 yuan, even though cabbies usually work longer hours at about 10 hours a day, according to the local government.

Beijing currently has 66,646

taxis in operation for about 700 million trips in a city that’s about half the size of Belgium, according to the local government.

About 6.6 per cent of residents use taxis as their primary mode of transportation, with 70 per cent travelling less than eight kilometers per trip.

Worsening traffic jams and below-average driver incomes have led to the proliferation of smartphone applications that allow commuters to book a taxi by offering to pay more than the metered fare. The China Daily newspaper reported that the city will ban such apps from this month.

Shanghai, where the practice has also become widespread, will ban taxi drivers from accepting such bookings, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Sun Jianping, head of the municipal transport authority.

In the past seven years, Shanghai has raised taxi fares twice, while Guangzhou and Shenzhen had one increase, according to the Beijing government. BLOOMBERG

China and Latin America team up CHINESE President Xi Jinping on Wednesday heralded the dawn of a new “golden era” for Latin America during a visit to Mexico and urged the region to hitch its economic development to China’s solid growth.

“New contact with the region, so full of hope and dynamism, makes me convinced Latin America has unbeatable conditions favouring its development,” the Chinese leader told Mexico’s Senate on the second day of his visit.

In recent years China has expanded trade and investment ties with Latin America as the world’s second-biggest economy taps into the region’s mineral and oil wealth. Now Beijing is also keenly interested in increasing food supply chains as it seeks to counterbalance US geopolitical heft.

By around 2016, China will overtake the European Union as the second-largest market for Latin America’s exports, UN data show.

Xi predicted China’s economic growth would remain “relatively fast” and appealed to countries across the region to deepen ties with the Asian giant and its outsized role in the global economy.

China “will invest more than $500 billion overseas in the next five years,” Xi said, while Chinese nationals will make an estimated 400 million trips abroad during that same period, with great economic implications.

Xi had earlier met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. The two leaders vowed to work jointly to access international markets, like the lucrative US market, as part of a new strategic partnership.

They pledged to enhance diplomatic and trade ties and to smooth over their longstanding rivalry on exporting products to the United States.

Mexico is a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), along with the United States and Canada.

Xi arrived in Mexico after visiting Costa Rica, and after meeting Caribbean leaders in Trinidad and Tobago. Today Xi travels to the United States for a much-anticipated weekend summit with US President Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, a famed soprano in her home country, and Mexico’s first lady, former telenovela star Angelica Rivera, toured a facility producing soap operas, a hugely successful Mexican export. AFP

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RITAIN has agreed to compensate Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule in the 1950s, Foreign Secretary William Hague said yesterday.

Hague expressed “sincere regret” that the abuses had taken place and told parliament the government would pay a total of £19.9 million, ($30.8 million) to 5,228 clients represented by a British law firm.

Lawyers for Britain’s Foreign Office had unsuccessfully argued that legal responsibility for what happened under the colonial government had been inherited by the Kenyan government when the country was granted independence in 1963.

But the Foreign Office confirmed last month it was negotiating settlements for elderly Kenyans who accuse British imperial forces of severe mistreatment, including torture and sexual abuse.

Hague told parliament yesterday: “The British government recognises that Kenyans were subject to torture and other forms of ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration.

“The British government sincerely regrets that these abuses took place and that they marred Kenya’s progress towards independence. Torture and ill-treatment are abhorrent violations of human dignity that we unreservedly condemn.”

Hague said Britain would also support the construction in Nairobi of a memorial to the victims of ill-treatment during the colonial era.

Lawyers for the Foreign Office had unsuccessfully argued that legal responsibility for what happened under the colonial government had

Soldiers guard suspected Mau Mau fighters behind barbed wire in the Kikuyu reserve in Kenya in 1952.

been inherited by the Kenyan government when the country was granted independence in 1963.

In a test case, claimants Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara last year told the High Court in London how they were subjected to torture and sexual mutilation.

Lawyers said that Nzili was castrated, Nyingi severely beaten and Mara subjected to appalling sexual abuse in detention camps during the Mau Mau rebellion.

A fourth claimant, Susan Ngondi, has died since legal proceedings began.

“We are looking forward to the statement by William Hague in the House of Commons,” their lawyer Martyn Day said.

“We very much hope that this will be the final resolution of

this legal battle that has been ongoing for so many years.”

In its statement last month on negotiating a settlement, the Foreign Office accepted “there should be a debate about the past”.

“It is an enduring feature of our democracy that we are willing to learn from our history,” it added.

“We understand the pain and grievance felt by those, on all sides, who were involved in the divisive and bloody events of the Emergency period in Kenya.

“Our relationship with Kenya and its people has moved on and is characterised by close cooperation and partnership, building on the many positives from our shared history.”

More than 10,000 people were killed during the 1952 to 1960 Mau Mau uprising,

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with some figures going much higher.

Tens of thousands were detained, including US President Barack Obama’s grandfather.

Lawyers for the Kenyan claimants have said the cases were not brought sooner because the research piecing together the paper trail to London had not been done, while the Mau Mau had been a taboo subject in Kenya until recent years.

The discovery of a vast archive of colonial-era documents which the FCO had kept hidden for decades revealed the extent of the mistreatment.

That has led to suggestions that London could also face fresh claims from other former colonial administrations.

Boxes of secret files relating

to Kenya were spirited out of the east African country just before independence.

Some of those documents, released in November, showed how British colonial authorities in Kenya tried to hush up the March 1959 Hola detention camp massacre, in which 11 men were beaten to death and many more were injured.

The files shed more light on the deaths, which were initially blamed on contaminated water, though autopsies found the men were severely beaten. No prosecutions were ever brought.

The papers revealed that prison camp staff made no attempt to tell the truth about what happened, while the government minister for Britain’s colonies wanted the incident to “drop out of sight”, according to the files. AFP

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requires the support of more than 75 per cent of the members of the fledgling parliament, a quarter of whom are unelected military officials, she noted.

“This constitution is said by experts to be the most difficult constitution in the world to amend. So we must start by amending the requirements for amendments,” Suu Kyi said.

President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government has surprised the world since coming to power two years ago with dramatic political and economic changes that have led to the lifting of most Western sanctions.

Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed, democracy champion Suu Kyi has been welcomed into a new parliament and tentative ceasefires have been reached in the country’s multiple ethnic civil wars.

Suu Kyi, who was herself locked up by the former junta for a total of 15 years, remains hugely popular in Myanmar and her National League for Democracy party is widely expected to win the elections if they are free and fair.

The opposition leader called for all of the Myanmar people to be included in the reform process, warning that otherwise the changes could be jeopardised.

“If the people feel that they’re included in this reform process then it will not be reversible – or at least it will not be easily reversible,” she said.

“But if there are too many people who feel excluded then the dangers of a reversal of the situation would be very great,” Suu Kyi added.

Some 900 delegates from more than 50 countries are gathered in the capital Naypyidaw for the three-day WEF on East Asia – a regional edition of

the annual gathering of business and political luminaries held in the Swiss resort of Davos.

Foreign firms are queuing up to enter the country formerly known as Burma, tantalised by the prospect of a largely untapped market with a potential 60 million new consumers in addition to Myanmar’s pool of cheap labour.

But experts say businesses entering Myanmar face major hurdles, including an opaque legal framework as well as a lack of basic infrastructure and government, and private-sector expertise.

“Look at the poverty in the country,” said Martin Sorrell, chief executive of British advertising giant WPP. “As you land you look at this capital and you see oxen and ploughs. And getting the balance right I think in terms of expectation is critically important because it’s going to build ex-

pectations to a level . . . which I think will be unrealistic,” he said.

The forum is a huge logistical challenge for Myanmar’s government, which is more used to hosting smaller business and diplomatic delegations as well as the occasional influx of Chinese visitors for jade emporiums.

For many of the delegates, it is also their first glimpse of the sprawling capital built in secret by the former military rulers, who surprised the world in 2005 by suddenly shifting the seat of government from Yangon.

Home to luxury hotels, broad roads and even a 20-lane boulevard leading to the new parliament, the city’s lack of nightlife, restaurants and cafes has not gone unnoticed by delegates.

“Traffic condition is very nice,” one Korean delegate said of the city’s near empty multi-lane highways. “Here no traffic – but nowhere to go.” AFP

SINGAPOREAN bloggers blacked out their homepages yesterday to protest new licensing rules for news websites they say will muzzle freedom of expression.

Some 134 participants, including individual bloggers and community-based blogs, replaced their homepages with black screens featuring the words “#FreeMyInternet”, as well as the time and venue of a rally to be held on Saturday. The 24-hour blackout was to last until midnight.

The protest comes after surprise regulations came into force on June 1 requiring news websites – including one operated by US-based Yahoo! – to obtain licences from the citystate’s official media regulator.

“This is not just a movement by sociopolitical blogs. The participating websites are from all genres, from lifestyle and food to technology,” said Choo Zheng Xi, a spokesman for the “Free My Internet” group that organised the protest.

“The diversity reflects an awareness that the new regulations can affect anyone because it has been framed so widely,” added Choo, the cofounder of popular political website The Online Citizen.

A rally will be held Saturday at a designated free-speech area, where police permits are not required.

Volunteer-run blogs focusing on social and political issues have gained popularity as an alternative source of news and opinion in Singapore, where the mainstream media is widely seen as progovernment.

Singapore’s media regulator, the Media Development Authority (MDA), and government leaders have sought to allay fears that the new rules were aimed at the feisty blogging community, pointing out that blogs were not considered news portals.

Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim on Tuesday dismissed claims by bloggers that the new rules would impinge on internet freedom.

“I think the best way for people to see, after the licences are issued, is whether the activists are indeed limited in their public discourse,” he told local media.

Reuben Wong, an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore, said: “My sense is that there is a great deal of suspicion because Singapore is the first to introduce such licencing, and because it has always been on the cutting edge of social and media control.” AFP

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North, South Korea on road to new talks

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ORTH and South Korea agreed in principle yesterday to hold their first official talks for years, signalling a possible breakthrough in crossborder ties after months of escalated military tensions.

A surprise offer from Pyongyang proposed discussions on a range of commercial and humanitarian issues, from reopening a joint industrial complex to resuming cross-border family reunions.

The South replied within hours, with the Unification Ministry saying it viewed the offer “positively” and would announce a date, venue and agenda later.

“We hope that South and North Korea can build trust through this opportunity,” the ministry added.

China, the North’s sole major ally, reacted positively.

“China is happy and welcomes that the DPRK and ROK [North and South Korea] agreed to resume their engagement and dialogue,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Analysts also welcomed the development, but some advised

caution, saying the precise nature and agenda of the dialogue might create insurmountable sticking points.

“I think this is an attempt by the North to seize the initiative, but it’s premature to say whether the offer is likely to lead to a sincere dialogue,” said Yang Moo-Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

Official contacts between Seoul and Pyongyang have been essentially frozen since South Korea accused the North of torpedoing one of its warships in March 2010 with the loss of 46 lives.

April and May this year saw tensions soar to worrying levels as the North, angered by joint South-US military drills and UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test in February, threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

The situation has calmed in recent weeks, with both sides circling warily around the idea of opening some sort of dialogue.

The North’s proposal, carried in a statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), said the venue and date for talks “can be

Assad troops retake Golan border post

Indian police arrest Nepali truckers over rape of tourist

SYRIAN regime forces yesterday retook the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights after it was seized earlier by rebels, a correspondent and a security source said.

Regime tanks were seen on the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing approaching the ceasefire line, the correspondent said, after clashes there between rebels and the Syrian army that involved small-arms fire and shelling.

A security source, who requested anonymity, separately confirmed: “The Syrian army has recovered control of the crossing. There are sounds of explosions from time to time but far less than in the morning.”

Earlier, the army confirmed that the Quneitra crossing and the nearly town of the same name had been “overrun” by rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria’s more than two-year civil war.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the conflict, also reported the rebel takeover.

The crossing is seen as strategically important because of its position in a demilitarised zone of the Golan Heights, most of which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. Syria’s conflict has spilled over into the Israeli-occupied Golan several times over the past few months, with army vehicles coming under fire from Assad’s troops and stray shells landing on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line. AFP

INDIAN police arrested three Nepali truckers yesterday over the gang rape of a US tourist who was attacked after she hitched a ride late at night, officers said.

The 30-year-old American accepted a lift in a truck on Monday night in Manali, a tourist destination in the foothills of the Himalayas, after struggling to find a taxi to return to her hotel.

The latest assault comes as India faces intense scrutiny over its efforts to curb violence against women, following the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi last December, which sparked violent protests.

“Three men have been arrested in connection with the rape,” said Vinod Dhawan, police chief of Kullu district in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, where the incident happened.

The men, all aged in their 20s and from Nepal, were being interrogated by police, and their truck has been seized, a police

set to the convenience of the South side”.

Initial subjects for discussion would be the Kaesong joint industrial zone, which was closed at the height of the recent tensions, and the resumption of cross-border tours to the North’s Mount Kumgang resort, the CPRK said.

Humanitarian issues such as reuniting family members separated after the 1950-53 Korean War could also be discussed.

The CPRK said a positive response would see the North consider rolling back measures it took when relations went into a tailspin in April, including restoring a cross-border hotline.

South Korea had already offered working-level talks on Kaesong, and Seoul is likely to be wary of agreeing to a much wider ranging agenda.

While President Park GeunHye has spoken of the need for dialogue, she has made it clear – with US backing – that substantive talks would require the North to show commitment to abandoning its nuclear weapons programme.

Pyongyang has repeatedly insisted that its nuclear deterrent

statement said.

Two were arrested in the resort town of Manali, where they were living, while the third was seized as he tried to leave the district.

The owner of the truck told police he had hired one of those arrested, a 22-year-old named Arjun, as a driver just four to five days earlier, the statement said.

The American told police the truck driver and two accomplices took her to a secluded spot, where they raped her for over an hour.

She gave police a description of the men and also identified the truck model, which is commonly used to transport construction materials in the state.

Police said a team has gathered forensic evidence from the seized truck that has been sent for analysis. The investigation was continuing with personal items stolen from the women not yet recovered, the statement said.

The three, identified as Arjun, 22, Lakki, 24, and Som Bahadur

A visitor looks through binoculars toward North Korea yesterday from a South Korean observation post in the border city of Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. AFP

is not up for negotiation.

“There could be some trouble in setting the agenda, and it’s natural to doubt North Korea’s sincerity,” said Paik Hak-Soon, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think-tank in Seoul.

“But this a typically strategic change of direction by the North, which puts the ball in the South’s court and I think it presents a genuine opportunity,” Paik said.

The Kaesong complex, established inside North Korea in 2004, was the most high-profile casualty of the recent tensions.

Born out of the “Sunshine Pol-

Tamang, 24, will appear before a court for remand, it said.

The woman, who cannot be identified under Indian law, is staying under police protection at a hotel in the Manali area, some 500 kilometres north of the capital New Delhi.

The incident follows the alleged rape of a 21-year-old Irish charity worker in the eastern city of Kolkata over the weekend, and comes as India tries to fight widespread sex crime with tougher laws.

Mass protests erupted across India in December and January following the fatal gang rape of the student in New Delhi, a crime that brought simmering anger about the treatment of women in India to the surface.

A survey by an Indian trade body this year found that the number of female tourists visiting the country had dropped by 35 percent following several sex attacks that made global headlines. AFP

S Lanka may weaken local councils SRI Lanka plans to reduce the power of local councils before the first-ever provincial elections in the island’s former war zone, a leading politician said yesterday, in a bid to deny minority Tamils greater autonomy.

The ruling coalition promised to share limited power with Tamils, pointing to elections to local councils, after the military crushed separatist Tamil rebels in May 2009 and ended 37 years of ethnic bloodshed.

President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government has so far not held elections in the Tamil-dominated north.

Under pressure from India and Western governments, it has set local elections for September – prompting a move to reduce the power of the

provincial councils.

Members of the coalition met on Tuesday to discuss the plan, a senior ruling party member said on condition of anonymity.

The 13th amendment of the constitution granted limited autonomy to provincial councils.

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksehas publicly declared that holding the northern election without reducing council powers could undermine national security and territorial integrity.

The councils were established in line with an agreement with neighbouring India, which promised to rein in Tamil separatists on its soil provided Colombo shared political power with the Tamil minority. AFP

icy” of inter-Korean reconciliation initiated in the late 1990s

by South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, Kaesong was a crucial hard currency source for the impoverished North, through taxes and revenues and its cut of workers’ wages.

Operations ground to a halt after the North pulled all its 53,000 workers out in early April. The South withdrew its managers and officials soon afterwards.

An association of South Korean businessmen who run factories in Kaesong welcomed the North’s proposal and called for the quick opening of dialogue.

“We welcome North Korea’s proposal and South Korea’s positive response,” it said in a statement.

The Mount Kumgang resort, developed by the South’s Hyundai Asan company, opened in 1998 as a symbol of reconciliation. It once earned the North tens of millions of dollars a year.

But Seoul suspended tours by its citizens after a North Korean soldier shot dead a South Korean housewife there in July 2008.

In response, the North scrapped a deal with Hyundai Asan and seized its properties there. AFP

Job Announcement GIZ is a federally owned enterprise and supporting the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

We are seeking candidates for the position of an Advisor-Cooperation with ASEAN supreme audit institutions, located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one of the German Technical Cooperation Projects financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development supports ASEANSAI, the association of supreme audit institutions of all ASEAN member states.

The supreme audit institutions play a key role in ensuring transparency in public finances and improving the monitoring of government action. As external financial audit institutions, they make a positive contribution towards the efficient and effective use of public funds to provide state services. They are a key element of good financial governance.GIZ cooperates with the regional organization of ASEAN supreme audit institutions (ASEANSAI) with the objective to strengthen all audit institutions in the region.

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Islamists vow no Miss World Myanmar nationals

held in security sweep

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SLAMIC hardliners vowed yesterday to stop the “immoral” Miss World beauty pageant taking place in Indonesia even after organisers agreed this year’s contestants would not wear bikinis.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir group slammed the show as like “selling women’s bodies” and threatened to hold demonstrations against it, while a group in the province where the final is due to take place also voiced strong opposition.

More than 130 women will compete in the September event, with some rounds on the resort island of Bali and the final in Bogor outside Jakarta.

Bogor is in West Java province, parts of which are considered a stronghold for radicals.

Organisers confirmed on Wednesday the contestants would not wear bikinis during the beach fashion section, to be held in Bali, and would instead wear more conservative attire such as traditional sarongs.

However, the concession was not enough for hardline groups in Indonesia, where some 90 per cent of the 240 million population are Muslim.

“Supporting this event is the same as supporting the sell-

A Muslim woman wearing a veil sits in front of foreign tourists wearing bikinis on Kuta beach in Bali yesterday. AFP

ing of women’s bodies,” said Ismail Yusanto, spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia, who also warned the group may organise protests.

“Women are lowering themselves by allowing themselves to be turned into objects, to be stared at and have their bodies measured.”

Hardline group the Islam Reformist Movement (Garis), which is affiliated with prom-

inent radicals the Islamic Defenders Front, also said the bikini ban was not enough.

“They will still wear outfits that will encourage sex and immoral acts,” said Chep Hernawan, the head of Garis which has its base in West Java province.

The organisers have insisted the decision not to have bikinis was taken when the deal was struck last year to

host the show, and not after pressure from radicals.

Vocal protesters have succeeded in getting events cancelled in the past in Indonesia. Last year, pop sensation Lady Gaga axed a concert after hardliners threatened to burn down the venue and criticised her for wearing only “a bra and panties”.

Most Indonesians practise a moderate form of Islam. AFP

MALAYSIAN police said yesterday they had detained more than 900 Myanmar nationals in a security sweep after at least two were killed last week in clashes believed to be linked to sectarian violence back home.

The two dead were likely Myanmar Buddhists killed during a spate of violent incidents in Kuala Lumpur since May 30, said Amar Singh Ishar Singh, the Malaysian capital’s deputy police chief.

He added that two other people were in critical condition and the attacks were “believed to be the result of violence in Myanmar”.

“The operation is to send a message to stop this nonsense and not bring the violence over to Malaysia,” he said.

He gave no details on the attacks but Malaysian media reports have suggested Buddhists came under attack from their Muslim countrymen seeking vengeance over violence back in Myanmar.

Deadly sectarian strife pitting Myanmar’s majority Buddhists against the Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority has flared since last year in the country’s Rakhine state.

Muslim-majority Malaysia says it is home to more than 80,000 Myanmar nationals, many of them Rohingya fleeing alleged persecution

by Myanmar’s Buddhist authorities and, more recently, the Rakhine violence.

Amar said more than 250 of those detained in Malaysia were handed over to immigration authorities as they lacked proper documentation.

The rest were released and no formal arrests have yet been made as investigations continue, he said.

Myanmar on Tuesday called on Malaysia to take action against those responsible for the attacks and protect Myanmar citizens.

U Maung Hla, who heads the Burma Refugee Organisation in Malaysia, said violence between exiled Myanmar communities here was not uncommon and was “sometimes due to religion”.

The Rohingya have been described by the UN as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

Malaysia does not grant Rohingyas refugee status but has turned a blind eye to the steady arrivals. AFP

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Lady in red dress an icon

Luke Harding

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T is a two-minute walk from Ceyda Sungur’s second-floor office to Gezi Park, a rare green space in Istanbul’s teeming centre. Last Tuesday, Sungur was among a small group of people who made their way to the park to defend it from the diggers that had moved in to flatten it. The bulldozers had begun tearing out chunks the previous day.

What happened next would transform Sungur – an academic at Istanbul’s Technical University – into a global symbol of anti-government resistance. She had dashed out from the university’s urban planning department in a red cotton summer dress. She wore a simple necklace and carried a white shoulder bag.

When Sungur arrived she found a line of riot police.

One of them crouched down and fired pepper spray directly into her face. The jet sent her hair billowing upwards.

As she turned, the masked policeman leapt forward and hosed down her back. The unprovoked attack left her and other activists choking and gasping for breath; afterwards Sungur collapsed on a bench.

A photographer, Osman Orsal, captured the moment, creating an image which in the ensuing days went viral – shared via Facebook, Twitter and other social media. It

has sprung up as a cartoon on posters and stickers.

In Turkey’s third city, Izmir, one of the many scenes of violent protests against prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it has been transformed into a giant billboard. You can poke your head through the face and pose for pictures.

The photo sums up the protests that have gripped Turkey over the past 10 days, driven by secular, middle-class Turks incensed by Erdogan’s neoIslamist social agenda and abrasive ruling style.

But the image also feels universal. It shows one peaceful protester, dressed as if for a summer garden party, standing up for basic human and green values against an arrogant and mighty state.

Sungur is a reluctant figurehead. On Wednesday, she declined to discuss May 28’s drama and her sudden fame as the “lady in the red dress”.

In brief remarks last week to the Turkish media she pointed out that she was a tiny part of a huge grassroots movement. “A lot of people no different from me were out protecting the park, defending their rights, defending democracy,” she said. “They also got gassed.”

But speaking from her bright university office, in room 204, her colleagues gave an account of what happened.

“There were about 50 people in the park when the police first attacked us on Monday [May 27] ,” Eren Kurkcuoglu, a research assistant, said. “They

A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas against Ceyda Sungur in Taksim Square in central Istanbul on May 28.

stormed in again on Tuesday morning. We went in the afternoon. Ceyda and some friends arrived first. We and other friends followed at 3pm.

“We found her lying on a bench after the police attacked her. She was trying to get her contact lenses out.”

Dr Aliye Ahu Akgun, an associate professor, and Sungur’s friend, who was also gassed at the protests, said the experience was deeply unpleasant.

“Your eyes start to burn. You want to cry but you can’t. Your lungs hurt. I’m a smoker but it was worse than that.”

Ironically, the authorities’ brutal behaviour acted as a catalyst, as more people flooded into Gezi Park and the adjoining Taksim Square.

“The resistance grew more solid. At first there were 10 to 15 tents. Then the number tripled,” Kurkcuoglu said.

The protests spread across Turkey. In Istanbul, the police changed tactics: arriving at night and lobbing gas can-

isters at activists encamped there. Despite her ordeal, Sungur returned to defend the park every day, her friends said, the gas wafting daily into her office a reminder of the encounter, they added.

On Wednesday the scene around Gezi Park was one of devastation. Immediately in front of Sungur’s university building were several trashed and vandalised buses.

The road winding down the hill to the Bosphorus was filled with makeshift barricades; anti-Erdogan graffiti covered practically every wall, built by students to try and keep the riot police out.

They eventually succeeded.

The police abandoned the area earlier this week, with Turkey’s deputy prime minister on Tuesday apologising for last week’s violence.

The grassy spot where Sungur was gassed is next to a shady alley of elegant plane trees. It is now the hub of a vast, vibrant open-air democracy festival. Dozens of young

people have pitched tents; at night crowds pack every available corner; banners proclaim numerous slogans – ecological, socialist and pro-alcohol. The bulldozers demolished a few trees and a cobbled pedestrian bridge.

But remarkably most of the enclave was saved.

Sungur’s urban planning department had long wrestled with the theme of how to reconcile Turkey’s economic and building boom with the fundamental needs of citizens.

A petition which she and other members of the architecture faculty signed says that the rapid changes to Istanbul threaten not only “our professional field but also our living environment”.

The petition adds: “All these top-down decisions disregarding planning and urban management principles are not approved by Istanbul’s citizens. We don’t accept them.”

Akgun, Sungur’s colleague, said: “The park is one of the last surviving green public

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spaces here. It’s calming to walk through it. You feel good.”

Typically, Erdogan’s government had taken an “upsidedown” approach to planning, she said, building first and considering the consequences afterwards.

Akgun said she respected Sungur’s reluctance to become a poster girl for the anti-government movement, less of a revolution than a spontaneous citizens’ revolt.

Virtually all of Sungur’s students have taken part in the protests. Some of them are sitting finals – the dean refused a plea for exams to be postponed.

On Wednesday several of them were tinkering with architectural models in a large room next to her office. Others sat in a shady courtyard below and talked softly.

Akgun admitted: “I’ve been trying to teach my students for four years about the importance of urban planning. Now they finally understand what we are saying.” THE GUARDIAN

First Pakistani woman on Everest hopes to inspire THE first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women of her troubled country that they can achieve their dreams.

Samina Baig last month became the first woman from the South Asian country to reach the 8,848 metre summit of the world’s tallest mountain, after a gruelling expedition in rough weather.

As she unfurled the green and white Pakistani flag on the peak, tears of joy and pride rolled down her cheeks, she said in an interview at her Islamabad home.

The 22-year-old said that as she stood with the world at her feet, her mind turned to the millions of women back home denied opportunities because of their gender in Pakistan’s conservative, patriarchal society.

“I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life,” she said.

“I hope the families will understand that the contribution of women is

important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.”

Human rights groups say Pakistani women suffer severe discrimination, domestic violence and so-called “honour” killings – when a victim is murdered for allegedly bringing dishonour upon her family.

They say women have borne the brunt of rising Islamist extremism in Pakistan, where the Taliban threaten parts of the northwest.

In October the Taliban tried to murder schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai in the northwest Swat area for the “crime” of campaigning for the right of young women to get an education.

Baig, from the small town of Shimshal in the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous north said she hoped to empower the women of Pakistan through her achievements.

“Mountain climbing is my passion and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women,” she said.

“The reason behind this expedition was to convey the message that if Samina can climb a mountain other

Pakistani female climber Samina Baig holding her national flag on the peak of Mount Everest, Nepal on May 19. AFP

girls can do anything they want in their life.”

The Everest climb was not Baig’s first achievement – after taking up climbing three years ago she became

the first person to reach the summit of the 6,400-metre Chashkin Sar peak in northern Pakistan in 2010.

“Chashkin Sar was virgin and we climbed it for the first time and after-

wards the people renamed it as Samina Baig,” she said. Training for the Everest expedition, which she accomplished with her brother Mirza Ali with financial help from New Zealand, began 12 months ago in the frozen wastes of her home district.

“It took us one year. Me and my brother were planning for last one year. We went for training in winter on glaciers. We went to Shimshal pass in the winter to prepare, stamina building and technical training,” she said.

Northern Pakistan is home to some of the world’s most impressive mountains and glaciers and challenging climbs, and Baig urged the government to relax the rigid visa regime that she said was holding it back as a destination for mountaineers.

“The problem is the visa issue. People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan,” she said.

With Everest in the bag, Baig’s next target is to summit the highest peaks in each of the world’s seven continents – all while studying for a degree in tourism management. AFP

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BANGLADESHI seamstress trapped in the rubble for 17 days after the country’s garment factory disaster in April emerged from hospital yesterday, saying she felt “great” and was looking forward to a new job at a luxury hotel.

Reshma, 18, who became a national heroine after the tragedy which claimed more than 1,100 lives, was in good spirits and looked healthy at a ceremony at the military facility where she was admitted on May 10.

“I feel great now. I am recovered mentally and physically,” she said, smiling.

But after nearly a month of treatment, initially in intensive care, she admitted she was still troubled by nightmares about her ordeal beneath the wreckage of the collapsed Rana Plaza building.

“I still get frightened in the night,” she told reporters, dressed in a peacock green dress and headscarf.

“Whenever I think of those days I feel bad and frightened.

I have forgotten most of what I did under the rubble.”

The teenager, who uses only one name, drank rainwater and foraged food from co-workers’ lunch boxes to survive after

her nine-storey workplace collapsed on April 24.

Two days after her rescue, she said she would never return to the accident-prone Bangladesh garment sector, the world’s second biggest, worth $20 billion a year.

Reshma, from a remote village in the western border district of Dinajpurhad, began work in the building just 22 days before it fell down. She was being paid a monthly salary of 4,700 taka ($60).

She has since been offered jobs in various hotels and charities, but decided to take up an opportunity at the luxury Westin Hotel in the capital Dhaka.

“I never thought that I would get my life back again when I was trapped under the rubble,” she told the packed press conference in Savar, the Dhaka suburb where the disaster took place.

Azim Shah, general manager of the Hotel Westin, told reporters he was proud Reshma was joining his team.

“We’re sure this young girl will be exceptional in her new job,” he said.

At the time of the collapse more than 3,000 garment workers were on shift at the complex housing five factories, where they made clothing for Western

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Bangladeshi garment worker Reshma, who survived for seventeen days after a nine-storey building collapse, talks to the media at Savar Cantonment Hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday. afp

retailers including Italy’s Benetton and Britain’s Primark.

They were ordered back to their production lines even as cracks developed on the outside of the complex.

The industry has since promised to clean up its act. Most major European buyers have signed up to a new accord

promising better working conditions, as well as fire and building inspections.

On Wednesday hundreds of employees working in a factory making sweaters for Western brands fell ill after drinking suspected contaminated water at their workplace.

Earlier in the day, police had

fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a protest by the families of missing garment workers whose bodies have not been found at the site of the factory.

The relatives were demanding that authorities publish a full list of missing workers to allow families to claim compensation. AFP

ORTH KOREA'S state broadcaster has begun providing live streams of selected programming, including news bulletins, on its official Facebook page.

The move marks a further step by the reclusive state to develop its internet presence and use of social networks to disseminate state-approved propaganda.

Yesterday's Korean Central Television (KCTV) live stream began at 5:00 pm with a news broadcast that led with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting a mushroom farm.

North Korea's main internet presence is through its Uriminzokkiri website, which has Twitter and Flickr feeds and is best known for posting propaganda videos excoriating South Korea and the United States.

South Korea blocks broadcasts from the North and bars its nationals from accessing official North Korean internet sites, saying the material violates its national security law. AFP

Elton urges compassion for injecting drug users ELTON John has urged compassion for people who inject drugs, saying “stigma and criminalisation” robbed them of their humanity and exposed them to a life of addiction and disease.

Clean needles, opiate substitution therapy and sound advice can help drug users reduce the risk of overdose and HIV and set them on the path towards overcoming addiction, he said.

“In the 1980s and 1990s, we saw HIV cut down hundreds of thousands of people while governments did nothing,” the British rock musician and AIDS campaigner said.

“It was clear then, and is still clear, that many governments don’t value the lives of their own citizens because of needless stigma and criminalisation of drugs and sex.”

John, who has in the past admitted to narcotics use, was speaking in an email exchange ahead of an International Harm Reduction Conference opening in Vilnius, Lithuania on Sunday.

His Elton John AIDS Foundation supports the conference, which will gather hundreds of scientists, politicians, researchers, health workers, doctors and activists from about 70 countries.

“Harm reduction” refers to programs that seek to help intravenous drug users, one of the highest-risk population groups for the AIDS virus.

Injecting drug users may be addicted, poor and marginalised, which makes them more at risk of contracting – or spreading – a virus by sharing a syringe or working in the sex industry to pay for drugs.

The four-day conference will focus on an HIV hotspot: Central and Eastern Europe and central Asia, where there are more than 3.7 million injecting drug users, almost a quarter of the worldwide tally.

Eastern and Central Europe has the fastestgrowing HIV epidemic of any region in the world, with injecting drug use accounting for around three-quarters of new cases, according to the UN agency UNAIDS. In Russia, some 1.5 million people are living with HIV compared to some 100,000 a decade ago.

John blasted politicians who, he said, appealed to selfishness rather than compassion.

“Laws are passed that shun the poor, show no forgiveness for those who break the law

Elton John performs at Gran Parque Central stadium in Montevideo on March 4. AFP

and discriminate against immigrants and minority communities.”

But the United States was a good example of how progress was possible, he said.

“Conservative politicians have banned the use of national government funding for syringe exchange,” he said.

“But at state and city level, governments are changing laws to reduce restrictions on pharmacy sales of syringes, allow people to legally carry syringes and through national healthcare reform there will likely be increased access to medical care, mental health care, opiate substitution therapy and overdose prevention.”

The flamboyant artist said his foundation spent about $1 million a year on harm reduction in the United States, mainly for syringe access.

John appealed for tolerance.

Everyone is susceptible at some point to a bad choice or situation that exposed them or others to harm, he said, citing reckless driving, smoking, teenage drinking or depression.

“None of us is perfect,” said John. AFP

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Clarifying rights of civil parties Dear Editor, It would appear that the author of the article “Case 003, 004 victims told how to apply as civil parties” published on June 4, 2013, has misinterpreted a simple expression of respect for the presumption of innocence during judicial investigations in our new information leaflet for Civil Party Applicants.

After having quoted a third party’s suggestion that the future of cases 003 and 004 before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) “remained far from certain”, the reporter appears to substantiate this claim by referring to a phrase from our information leaflet: “Indeed, the new leaflet discusses trials for cases 003 and 004 in conditional terms: If a case goes to trial, all Civil Parties will form one consolidated group.”

On the contrary, the terms “if a case goes to trial” simply recognise the legal reality of judicial investigations. Indeed, any defendant

Dear Editor, “For a spokesman, there is nothing called off the record,” declared Information Minister Khieu Kanharith during a friendship lunch he hosted for a group of senior journalists.

Over the years, the minister has taken the lead in communicating with the media and responding to any questions posed by journalists.

The Ministry of Information has even organised training for many spokespeople and information officers at different ministries and departments across the country.

Nevertheless, unlike the Information Minister, who has a strong experience in dealing with the media, the newly trained spokespeople and other government officials still find it very difficult in answering journalists’ questions and providing useful information that the public needs.

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Garden Villa For Rent 2500$/m. In Tonle Basac area, 3 bedrooms, big living room Very quiet, very safety Nice Garden and some trees Contact Tel: 077 777 657

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

1st Floor Villa For Rent, In BKKI area, 02 Bedrooms, big living room, very big balcony, very safety area, very good condition for living. Price: US$600/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

Small Villa For Rent South of Russian Market, 03 bedr ,fully furnished, nice kitchen, very quiet and safety, many trees, very good condition for living. $700/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

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

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

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

ESCAPE FROM PHNOM PENH at Nearby Kingdom Resort (20min) Fri or Sat night specials 1 Dinner + 1 Night + 1 Breakfast From $39 for 2 people. Get away this weekend!

Tel: 023 72 15 14 | 012 528 534 Email: info@thekingdomresort.net LAO-Z- RESTAURANT JUNE Special: Grilled Chicken, Sticky Rice and Papaya Salad just for $5.

Lao beer for just a buck! #8, St.240 TEL 023 215 415 MORE JUNE SPECIALS AT Steve’s Steakhouse!​Chicken Curry, Fried Rice in a Pineapple, Fish And Chips and all for just $5.50. And red wine at $1.75 #8, St.240 TEL 023 215 415 Now Open: Kingdom Guesthouse. Nice Cozy place to stay with WiFi, Cable TV, hot water showers connected lounge & Kitchenette starting at only $25, Located (guess where?) @ Steve’s Steakhouse #8, St.240 Tel: 023 215 415

TRY THE KINGDOM RESORT for your next Meeting, Conferences, Party, or Retreat. Reasonable rates Beautiful surroundings, Full Facilities! Only 20min from town.

For more Info call: 023 72 15 14 or Email:toinfo@thekingdomresort.net SUPER JUNE SPECIALS AT Steve’s Steakhouse! Big Cheese Burger Meal, Grilled Chicken Meal, Souvlaki,Mezes, or Spaghetti Bolognese for Just $5.50! #8, St.240 TEL 023 215 415

ផ�ះ���ងស��ប់ជួល ពីរ�ន់កន�ះ �ប់ផ�វធំ 390$/��ទី�ំង�� អន�រ�តិណត��ិតទំហំ៖4មx16ម ទំ�ក់ទំនង៖085 51 92 72 Modern Roof Pool And Gym For Rent Located in BKKI, 1-2 bed, big living room, fully and modern furniture, modern kitchen, very roof top pool and gym, open big terrace, very quiet and safety. $1,500 -$2,500 /m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Swimming Pool Garden Villa For Rent In Chamkamorn District, 04 Bed, large living room, very nice interior design, modern kitchen, big balcony, very nice pool and garden very quiet and safety area, cars parking, very quite and safety. $3,200/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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

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

Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

5 story apartment building On Sisowath Quay for rent.

Prime location for residential, Restaurant, guesthouse or Other business. Tel: 069 679 696 Building For Rent (ARC010670) Commercial office on main road in CKM, suited location for bank & MFI office or business purpose. large parking lot, Price:$15,000 / m Tel :016 654 572 | www.arc.com.kh

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SERVICE EAR & HEARING HEALTHCARE ‘All Ears Cambodia’ Ear infection treatment Hearing assessments Hearing aids – new/repairs Private Appointments Tel: 077759104 American Chiropractic Centre Website: usaChiropractic.info 077-961-876 Neck & back pain healing program without drugs or surgery

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

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

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

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

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

24 HOURS SECURITY

24 HOURS SECURITY

EVENT Koniginnedag 2013 Phnom Penh -Locatie: terrein Celliers d`Asie # 62B street 432 (tussen str.163 en 167) -Tijd:16.00 - 19.00 -Entree 10 USD per volwassene (inclusief consumptiebonnen + oranje petje) - Kinderen en gezinnen aangesloten bij de Nederlandse school gratis entree.

WE ARE OPEN FOR KHMER NEW YEAR (14, 15, 16) Steve’s Steakhouse

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

#8, St.240. Tel: 023 215 415

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Western Apartment for Rent $750/Month, 6th Floor, BKK1 Open Living room 1Bedroom 1Bath, Free Internet, Cleaning and Balcony, Western Kitchen Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

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

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

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

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

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

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

2Bedroom Roof Swimming Pool Apartment for Rent: $1800/Month Located Tonle Basac, Nice Views Western Style, 2Bedroom, 2Bath Open Living room, Nice Kitchen Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Swimming Pool Apartment for Rent: Located BKK1 Area Free Internet, Swim-Pool, Gym $1350/Month, Western Style 1Living room, 2Bedroom, 2Bath Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

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

Your trusted real estate guide in sihanoukville/kampot/kep translation services and more 4 call now 012610904/099683352 marykann86@hotmail.co.uk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Architect Danish Architect

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

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

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

INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE FROM PHNOM PENH Flighs

Days

Dep

TO PHNOM PENH Arrival

PHNOM PENH - BANGKOK

Flighs

Days

Dep

Arrival

BANGKOK - PHNOM PENH

K6 720

Daily

12:05

01:10

K6 721

Daily

02:25

03:30

PG 938

Daily

06:40

08:15

PG 931

Daily

07:55

09:05

PG 932

Daily

09:55

11:10

TG 580

Daily

07:55

09:05

TG 581

Daily

10:05

11:10

PG 933

Daily

13:30

14:40

PG 934

Daily

15:30

16:40

FD 3616

Daily

15:15

16:20

FD 3617

Daily

17:05

18:15

PG 935

Daily

17:30

18:40

PG 936

Daily

19:30

20:40

TG 584

Daily

18:25

19:40

TG 585

Daily

20:40

21:45

PG 937

Daily

20:15

21:50

PHNOM PENH - BEIJING CZ 324

Daily

BEIJING - PHNOM PENH 08:00

16:05

CZ 323

Daily

14:30

20:50

PHNOM PENH - DOHA ( Via HCMC)

DOHA - PHNOM PENH ( Via HCMC)

QR 605

1.2..5.6

22:35

05:15+1

QR 604

1.2..5.6

08:00

21:00

QR 603

..34..7

15:50

22:25

QR 602

..3.4..7

01:25

14:20

PHNOM PENH - GUANGZHOU Daily

08:00

11:40

CZ 6059

2.4.7

12:00

13:45

CZ 6060

2.4.7

14:45

18:10

CZ 323

Daily

19:05

20:50

09:40

13:00

PHNOM PENH - HANOI Daily

17:30

20:35

VN 841

Daily

HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

VN 841

Daily

14:00

14:45

VN 920

Daily

15:50

16:30

VN 3856

Daily

19:20

20:05

VN 3857

Daily

18:00

18:45

PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG 1.2.4.7

11:25

15:05

KA 208

1.2.4.6.7 08:50

10:25

KA 207

6

11:45

22:25

KA 206

3.5.7

14:30

16:05

KA 209

1

18:30

22:05

KA 206

1

15:25

17:00

KA 209

3.5.7

17:25

21:00

KA 206

2

15:50

17:25

KA 205

2

19:00

22:35

PHNOM PENH - INCHEON Daily

23:40

06:40

KE 689

Daily

18:30

22:20

OZ 740

Daily

23:50

06:50

OZ 739

Daily

19:10

22:50

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.

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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

2

COLOUR CODE

2817 - 16 Tigerairways

HANOI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

AF 273

AIRLINES CODE

GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

CZ 324

VN 840

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

19:50

AF 273

2

SHANGHAI - PHNOM PENH 23:05

PHNOM PENH - SINGAPORE

FM 833

2.3.4.5.7 19:30

22:40

SINGAPORE - PHNOM PENH

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

5

18:45

20:00

3K 592

5

20:45

23:45

3K 591

5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2817

6

14:50

17:50

2816

6

13:00

14:00

2817

7

13:20

16:10

2816

7

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

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

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

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Tiki time?

San Fran’s best bars Noelle Chun

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AN Francisco’s bars are made for drinking it all in. Take your pick from a speakeasy within a speakeasy, tiki and cocktail bars, and even family-friendly soda and icecream hangouts.

Rickhouse Beautiful wood interiors (mimicking the inside of a cask), stunningly tall liquor shelves (so high that they need a rolling ladder), live music and a good crowd make Rickhouse the quintessential San Francisco cocktail bar.

On choice nights, a bluegrass band sets up in the back, and enthusiasts can gather around or climb up to the second floor – a modest loft space – and watch the band from above while leaning on the railings.

Wilson & Wilson The Wilson & Wilson is not any old speakeasy – it’s a speakeasy within a speakeasy.

Hidden within the famed prohibition-style Bourbon & Branch – one of the first pioneers in San Francisco’s craft cocktail movement – the Wilson & Wilson is detectiveagency themed, with a filmnoir atmosphere, complete with 1920s-style wallpaper, old cash registers and cocktail menus fashioned to look like detective cases.

In California style, the Wilson focuses on a culinary approach to cocktails. Fresh flavour combinations take the stage with unique, housemade syrups and tinctures such as tobacco and tea.

The Slanted Door At Slanted Door, bartenders sling perfectly tweaked classics against the backdrop

of the gorgeous Bay view and famously tasty Vietnamese food. Led by bar luminary Erik Adkins, The Slanted Door’s bar serves bright, rich cocktails in a modern, restaurantoriented environment.

Whether catching up with an old friend or on a date, The Slanted Door is a sophisticated bar spot for solid cocktails, delicious food, and a breathtaking view of the Bay bridge over the water.

Shotwell’s History buffs and beer lovers alike will find a home at Shotwell’s bar in the Mission district. The neighbourhood hangout draws an easy stream of locals with pool tables, pinball machines, and a low-key atmosphere.

The menu is comprised of a wide variety of beers sourced both locally and internationally. Shotwell’s is one of San Francisco’s few remaining saloons from the late 19th century (it first opened in 1891) and features the original wooden back bar, which was shipped from Maine to California in 1906, and still has gunshot holes from an unknown incident.

Smuggler’s Cove One of the most celebrated tiki bars in the world, Smuggler’s Cove offers a vast selection of rums and historically grounded tiki drinks that range from fun to zany to seriously boozy. Even on the coldest San Francisco nights, Smuggler’s Cove brings patrons into a pirate wonderland with Disneyland-esque flair.

The three-level space sports designs of movie-set proportions, delighting with embellishments such as long ship beams, rum barrels, anchors, colourful water buoys, and an indoor waterfall. the guardian

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Sport Nadal, Djokovic set up Paris semi O Kevin Mitchell

n a warm day that dulled the senses but not the reflexes or the perspective of the favourites, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic cruised in different gears towards a semifinal today that has been billed as the “real final” of this French Open.

That might be harsh on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or David Ferrer, who contest the other semi-final, but it reflects the almost universal view, so accustomed are we to seeing one of the Big Four in a major decider.

Tsonga’s three-set win over Roger Federer on Tuesday briefly disturbed that perception and, for the first time since Tomas Berdych intruded on the 2010 final at Wimbledon, there will be a chance for someone else to stand tall in a major.

But can either of those beat either of these? Tsonga has the better chance.

“The draw is what it is,” said Djokovic, who beat Nadal on clay in Monte Carlo. “I don’t want to talk about ‘what if’. We’re in a semi-final, I have a big challenge in front of me and I’m ready for it. We’ve played each other over 30 times. He’s lost only a few times since he came back and you’ve got to respect that.”

If there were any form-line to be drawn through their quarter-finals, it may be that Tommy Haas, the 35year-old German who has rebuilt his career to stand at No 14 in the world, gave Djokovic a harder time of it over three sets in two and a quarter hours than the 9th seed, Stanislas Wawrinka, did in just under two hours against Nadal.

“It was a good performance in general,” Djokovic said. “In the important points I came up with some good shots but I could have done better, could have done the job earlier but he came back with some good points.”

Rafael Nadal hits a return to Stanislas Wawrinka during their men’s singles quarter-final match at the French Open at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris.

Nadal was slightly more upbeat.

“It was my best match of the tournament, without any doubt,” he said. “The numbers were good but the most important thing is the feeling. I’m happy.”

He might have bagelled – the Swiss had an outrageous, flat-on-his-back volley at the net not inched wide in the sixth game of the third set. He settled for serving out to love to win 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 and had that muscular air of old about him.

The Spaniard may be a slight

favourite to repeat last year’s final, when he handled the overnight break in play better than Djokovic to win his seventh title – whereas a couple of days ago the sentiment was with the Serb, who, until he dropped a set against Philipp Kohlschreiber in the fourth round, had a clean sheet.

Nadal, in that spell, twice had to come from a set down to reach the second week.

Now the conditions are near-perfect for Nadal, a mild blast of sun

(with more to come) having given his favoured red dirt more grip and bounce, turning him from just plain formidable into a nightmare, with his top-spun forehands steepling into armpits again.

Nadal also embarrassed Wawrinka in the final set with brutal hitting down both flanks, some from outrageous angles, a few on the run, testimony to the solidity of his suspect knee.

“Probably he was a little bit tired,” Nadal said, charitably. “I feel sorry

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for him – he’s having a great season. But I’m really happy the way I played today. I had a difficult week but the last two matches were more positive.”

No sooner had Nadal towelled down, changed his shirt (to the delight of the fans) and given his on-court summary, than Djokovic closed Haas out at 6-3, 7-6, 7-5. The US-based German had a 2013 win over Djokovic in his mental kitbag and it clearly lifted him – but not far enough. THE GUARDIAN

Vettel chasing elusive F1 win at Canadian Grand Prix Sebastien Vettel has been winning Formula One races all over the world for the past three years with ruthless efficiency. In chalking up three successive world drivers’

championship victories, the German has added his name to the honour roll of winners at almost every track on the circuit.

Only a few races have eluded

him, most notably in his homeland Germany, but also the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

The demanding street circuit, with its long straights

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel in last year’s Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

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and slow, tight corners, does not suit Vettel’s Red Bull but his failure to win there has had little to do with his car. In 2011, he seemingly had the race at his mercy when he charged to the lead after a long rain delay only to make a mistake on the last lap, sliding wide and allowing Jenson Button to overtake him for the checkered flag.

“Obviously one of the craziest moments was in 2011,” he recalled as he looked ahead to Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix.

“I made my first mistake of the race which cost us the win. But that’s racing.”

Determined to make amends, Vettel started last year’s Grand Prix from pole position and led the early part of the 70-lap race.

But he lost pace over the final laps and was lucky to finish fourth after skimming the wall near the end.

Although he leads the world standings with 107 points, a

victory on Sunday is anything but assured.

There have been four different winners from the six races this season. Only Vettel and Fernando Alonso have won twice.

Unlike Vettel, Alonso has tasted victory at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit before, winning in 2006, en route to his second world title with Renault.

Alonso is third in the title race, 29 points behind Vettel, and Ferrari have not won at the track since 2004, when Michael Schumacher was behind the controls.

Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, is second on 86 points. He won the seasonopener in Australia for Lotus and finished runner-up in three successive races before fading to 10th at the last race in Monaco.

The race in Montreal gets under way at 1am Cambodian time on Sunday night.

Mercedes called before FIA Mercedes face the prospect of being penalised for their tyre test with Pirelli in Barcelona last month. The FIA, Formula One’s governing body, has referred the case to its international tribunal for further investigation following a report from the stewards of the Monaco Grand Prix.

It was at Monaco, during the last race weekend, that Red Bull and Ferrari lodged an official protest. The FIA has decided now that Mercedes – and Pirelli – have a case to answer.

If found guilty Mercedes may face any one of a number of penalties including a hefty fine, a points deduction or even being thrown out of this year’s championship, though that is extremely unlikely.

Ferrari also had a test with Pirelli but in accordance with FIA rules they used a two-yearold car. Mercedes used their current 2013 model. REUTERS & THE GUARDIAN

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Sport

Rugby players to vie for places in national team

The Cambodian Federation of Rugby will host a game at 3pm tomorrow at the Old Stadium between two sides comprised of locally based players to help select members for the national team, which takes on Brunei in two matches on July 5 and 7 at the same ground as part of the 2013 HSBC Asian 5 Nations Division V competition. Watching from the stands tomorrow will be Scottish rugby legend Gavin Hastings, who will also attend grassroots training sessions this morning at 3G Field and this evening at Krousar Thmey school. The former British & Irish Lions fullback is the keynote speaker at tomorrow night’s black tie CFR Gala Dinner held at Raffles Hotel Le Royal from 7pm. DAN RILEY

Buttler service delights captain Cook in ODI

Alastair Cook forecast Jos Buttler’s decisive innings against New Zealand at Trent Bridge would be the first of many occasions the talented shotmaker swung a match England’s way. The 22-year-old Somerset wicket-keeper/ batsman was outscored by England team-mates Ian Bell (82) and Eoin Morgan (49) in Wednesday’s day/night clash.

But it was Buttler’s 47 not out off just 16 balls that was pivotal in setting up a 34-run win in the third one-day international, albeit New Zealand took the series 2-1. AFP

Reds name strong team to face Lions Q

ueensland have named nine capped Wallabies in a strong starting line-up for their tour match against the British and Irish Lions in Brisbane tomorrow.

Following stinging criticism from former England coach Clive Woodward of an under-strength Western Force team for Wednesday’s Australian tour opener, the Reds selected their best available players.

The Reds, 2011 Super Rugby champions, are without seven current Wallaby squad members in camp, but will field a strong backline headed by playmaker Quade Cooper, bidding to make the final Australia squad for the three Tests against the Lions.

Cooper was left out of the preliminary squad but coach Robbie Deans will be checking the fly-half’s form tomorrow before announcing six additions to his final line-up on June 11.

Queensland’s squad boasts a total of 127 Australian caps while each member of the starting team has commenced a Super Rugby match for the Reds this season.

Apart from Cooper, four other players have featured in all 15 regular season Super Rugby matches to date, including hooker James Hanson, prop Greg Holmes and backrowers Eddie Quirk and Jake Schatz.

“Playing against The British and Irish Lions is a once in a career type opportunity, so to be running out in front of a sold-out Suncorp Stadium crowd on Saturday night will be an experience these 23 players will never forget,” Reds coaching director Ewen McKenzie said.

“Our approach was always going to be to field as strong a line-up as possible and I’ve got every confidence in the group we’ve chosen to go out and compete against a very talented Lions squad.”

The Reds are bidding to become the first Australian provincial team to beat the Lions in a tour-game since Queensland defeated their rivals 1511 in 1971.

“We’ve spoken as a group about the significance of these opportunities and there isn’t a player out there who

The British and Irish Lions will tomorrow face the Queensland Reds, spearheaded by Quade Cooper, who is looking to secure a place in the Wallabies side. REUTERS

wouldn’t want to replicate the heroics of the 1971 Queensland side,” McKenzie said.

“History suggests that’s a mammoth challenge, but we’ll go out there on Saturday with plenty of good intentions and with a commitment to giving

China’s Feng set to defend LPGA crown

IPL team owner told not to leave India

Feng Shanshan, who became China’s first major golf champion by capturing last year’s LPGA Championship, returns to defend her title at the US$2.25 million event which started yesterday in Pittsford, New York. Seventh-ranked Feng and the rest of the world’s top 50 players will take aim at a $337,500 top prize at Locust Hill Country Club, where Feng fired the best round of last year’s event, a five-under 67, on Sunday to win by two shots.

“People didn’t know much about golf in China, so we had a great chance to promote it,” said Feng. AFP

White Sox best Mariners in 16-inning MLB saga

Alejandro De Aza drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the 16th inning on Wednesday as the Chicago White Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 7-5 in a 16-inning saga. Neither team could get a run on the board over the first 13 innings, then both scored five in the 14th to extend a contest that eventually stretched to five hours and 42 minutes. AFP

weekend fixtures ICC Champions Trophy

All cricket ODIs below start at 4:30pm Cambodian time

Friday June 7 Pakistan v West Indies Saturday June 8 England v Australia Sunday June 9 New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Rugby Internationals

Saturday June 8 USA v Ireland – 7:30am Japan v Wales – 12pm New Zealand v France 2:35pm Sunday June 9 Argentina v England – 2:10am

a strong account of ourselves across the entire 80 minutes.”

The Lions kicked off their tour with an easy 67-17 thrashing of Western Force in Perth on Wednesday.

Tomorrow’s match kicks off at 4:30pm Cambodian time. AFP

Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Tomas Vokoun lets in the game winning goal, scored by Boston Bruins’ Patrice Bergeron, during double overtime in Game 3 of their NHL Eastern Conference finals. REUTERS

Bruins near series sweep Patrice Bergeron’s goal with 4:41 remaining in the second overtime lifted the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh on Wednesday and within one win of reaching the NHL’s Stanley Cup finals.

The Bruins took a commanding 3-0 lead in the bestof-seven Eastern Conference finals. The winner of the series will face either the Chicago Blackhawks or reigning champion Los Angeles Kings for the National Hockey League crown.

Boston will try to complete the sweep when they host game four tonight.

Both teams were fighting fatigue late in the second overtime period when Jaromir Jagr won a battle along the leftwing boards against Evgeni Malkin and fed ahead to Brad Marchand.

Marchand waited until Bergeron had a step on Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik then sent the puck toward the slot, where Bergeron deflected it into the net.

“It was first of all a great play

by Jags to take that puck on the wall there, just fighting and getting the loose puck to March,” Bergeron said. “We do have that chemistry where we know where we’re going on the ice, so I knew that he was going to try to find me.

“I just went to the net and tried to have my stick on the ice and he found me.”

It was Bergeron’s second overtime goal of these playoffs.

The other, also set up by Marchand, clinched game seven in the first round against Toronto.

He said he and his Bruins teammates would take a little time to recover, then focus on

putting the Penguins away. “[I’m] pretty tired but it’s rewarding when you get the result,” Bergeron said on Wednesday. “We have tomorrow to rest and we’ll think about game four after that.”

David Krejci scored early in regulation for Boston, and goalie Tuukka Rask stopped a playoff-high 53 shots for the win.

Chris Kunitz scored in the second period for Pittsburgh and Tomas Vokoun stopped 38 shots.

“That was a hard-fought game,” Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. “It was hardfought all over the ice. We threw a lot at them.

“We threw a lot at them in regulation, threw 50-plus shots. We did play how we wanted to play, we just couldn’t find the second goal.” AFP

Police in New Delhi investigating a spot-fixing cricket scandal yesterday ordered the owner of an Indian Premier League (IPL) team not to leave India, an officer told AFP. Raj Kundra, husband of actress Shilpa Shetty and one of the owners of Rajasthan Royals, was ordered to hand over his passport to a police team trying to establish a link between corrupt players and organised crime syndicates.

“As Kundra is part of our investigations, he has been told not to leave the country and hand over his passport,” the senior officer said on condition of anonymity.

Kundra was questioned by police for 10 hours on Wednesday.

So far, three players from his Rajasthan Royals team have been arrested over allegations of spot-fixing during the sixth edition of the cashrich Twenty20 IPL tournament.

“He is basically found involved in betting and we have not yet been able to connect him to (spot) fixing,” the investigator said as police quizzed Kundra in New Delhi.

Police are unlikely to book Kundra under India’s antigambling law which is a bailable offence.

“We don’t want to lose focus from our main investigation into the involvement of crime syndicates” in the IPL, the officer said in an interview.

Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two of his team-mates were arrested last month, accused of deliberately bowling badly in specific IPL matches in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars from bookmakers.

A court denied the players bail on Tuesday after police said they had evidence to prove organised crime syndicates were involved in the scandal.

Delhi’s police commissioner has said that players for some of the eight other IPL teams were also under suspicion.

The developments came two days after a Mumbai court granted bail to the sonin-law of India’s cricket chief who was also arrested last month over the illegal betting scandal.

Gurunath Meiyappan, part of the management of the Chennai Super Kings team, has been accused of placing bets on matches through a Bollywood actor who was also arrested.

Spot-fixing, in which a specific part of the match but not the outcome is fixed, is illegal. Betting on the IPL is also illegal under India’s laws which ban gambling on all sports except horse-racing.

Meiyappan is the son-inlaw of Indian cricket board chief N Srinivasan, who on Sunday stepped aside pending the outcome of an internal probe into allegations of spot-fixing in IPL matches.

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Football

Resurgent MND face Crown W HS Manjunath

ith the wind of revival at their back, Ministry of National Defence will be jostling for a better position in the Metfone C-league standings now that they have seen a bit of daylight following their midweek win over National Police.

The Army men run into former champions Phnom Penh Crown in Sunday’s feature game at Olympic Stadium, having won only once in the past five head-to-head battles between the two.

In their last meeting early this season, Crown had decisively beaten MND 2-0. So the form line is clearly in favour of the casino-backed side to land the spoils and consolidate their chances of a Super 4 playoffs berth.

Dutch striker Elroy van der Hooft has already fired seven goals for Crown after getting into the side midway through the season. The team will again be relying on Hooft’s magic boot to haul them past a robust MND, who on their day can trouble the best with their rugged style of play.

Meak Chhordaravuth, with four goals so far to his credit, has come good for the Army in two vital wins that has helped the side strongly push back demotion worries, at least for the time being. Nothing would please MND coach Op Sam An more than a good showing by his squad in their back to the wall fight for a better placing.

Firmly holding on to their second slot behind league leaders Boeung Ket Rubber, Svay Rieng should feast on their known strengths against the bottom-most Senate Secretariat, who have so far been nothing but easy meat, when the two sides take the pitch at 4pm on Sunday.

A win would help Svay Rieng kick away from teams fast closing in on them.

Tomorrow’s program of three games will be dominated by the contest between two teams of near-equal strength, National Police and Kirivong

Nigeria shrugged off travel weariness and missing stars to defeat Kenya 1-0 on Wednesday and take a significant step towards reaching the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The triumph in Nairobi gave the Super Eagles a two-point Group F lead as closest challengers Malawi could only draw 0-0 at home against third-place Namibia. Diminutive Russiabased Ahmed Musa, 20, was the Nigerian star as his 81st-minute goal sunk bottom-of-the-table Kenya before a capacity crowd at the Moi International Sports Centre. AFP

Schuerrle Chelsea deal trumps Ballack farewell

Former Germany captain Michael Ballack’s farewell match in Leipzig on Wednesday was overshadowed by the potential transfer of Andre Schuerrle to Chelsea with German media reporting a deal has been agreed. New Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who coached Ballack at the English club, was in Leipzig and the longspeculated transfer of Bayer Leverkusen winger Schuerrle to the Premier League club looked to be heading towards completion. REUTERS Crown’s Hong Pheng (above) goes up for a header against MND’s Chhin Chhoeun during their MCL match on March 10.

Sok Sen Chey. This standout Olympic Stadium fixture at 2pm holds out the promise of a tough affair.

The Police have plenty of ground to make to keep their Super Four hopes alive, while the visitors from Takeo, who have so far run a good campaign this season, need to build on their impressive work.

Boeung Ket Rubber Field, who were freewheeling in front until Wednesday’s rude jolt, remain unbeaten though their winning run was ended, ironically, by one of the two teams now battling for survival in the league,

Asia Europe University. The 2-2 draw, coming on top of Boeung Ket’s 10 wins in a row, should be a timely reminder for the team to take one good look at the chasing pack and keep their solid lead going.

Boeung Ket will take on Build Bright United at 4pm. Unless Boeung Ket allow Wednesday’s shenanigans to return, the 2012 champs should see the University-backed side off without much ado.

The only game at Old Stadium tomorrow will be a stern test for Naga Corp at 3pm when they cross paths

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with AEU, who can now boast of causing a flutter of sorts following their fighting draw with the table toppers.

After blowing a 3-1 lead and eventually settling for a 3-3 deadlock with Svay Rieng last week, Naga desperately want the feel of a good win to avoid a late season scramble for one of the top four spots.

Right now the team is not without anxiety that they may well miss the four-team frame if they keep sliding down from prominent positions the way they have done in the past few games.

Libya hope for happy World Cup homecoming Libya enjoy home advantage today in a competitive game for the first time since 2010 when they continue the quest for a maiden World Cup appearance.

The civil war that ended the four-decade rule of Muam-

Weary winners Nigeria closer to the World Cup

mar Gaddafi prevented the national team playing in the country since winning an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Zambia.

But despite having to stage “home” games in Mali, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, the

“Mediterranean Knights” were ranked 13 in the May FIFA Africa rankings.

Now the oil-rich North African country have their sights set on topping Group I, winning a play-off and claiming one of five places reserved for

Ahmed Zuway of Libya (centre) is challenged by Cheikh MBengue (left) and Mohamed Diame of Senegal during their African Nations Cup Group A match at Estadio de Bata in Bata January 29, 2012. REUTERS

Africa at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Democratic Republic of Congo are the opponents this weekend and, having forced a 0-0 draw in Kinshasa last March, Libya can be justifiably confident of securing maximum points.

“Libyans believe we can go all the way in the World Cup qualifying competition and reach the finals for the first time,” national football federation president Anwar al-Tashani told reporters.

The Knights trail fallen giants Cameroon by one point in a four-team mini-league despite having beaten the six-time World Cup qualifiers 2-1 in Tunisia last June.

And they face the “Indomitable Lions” again this September in Yaounde, hopefully as group leaders after home fixtures against DR Congo, and Togo on June 14 in Benina, outside Benghazi.

While the Knights enjoy home advantage on successive weekends, Samuel Eto’o-less Cameroon are away to Togo in Lome on Sunday and DR Congo on June 16 in Kinshasa.

Libyan football authorities are taking no chances ahead

of the clash with the Congolese “Leopards” at the 60,000capacity national stadium in the capital Tripoli.

Police and soldiers will man checkpoints outside the match venue in a city where postuprising armed violence and lawlessness can flare. AFP

Weekend Fixtures Friday June 7 Libya v Congo DR – 10:30pm Saturday June 8 Sudan v Ghana – 12am Botswana v Ethiopia – 8pm Zambia v Lesotho – 8pm Uganda v Liberia – 8pm Central African Republic v South Africa – 9pm Gabon v Congo – 9:30pm Angola v Senegal – 10pm Sierra Leone v Tunisia 11:30pm Gambia v Ivory Coast – 11:30pm Sunday June 9 Cape Verde Islands v Equatorial Guinea – 12:30am Morocco v Tanzania – 3am Zimbabwe v Egypt – 8pm Niger v Burkina Faso – 10pm Benin v Algeria – 10pm Togo v Cameroon – 10:30pm Monday June 10 Guinea v Mozambique – 12am Mali v Rwanda – 1am

Hughes set to cut seven players loose at Stoke

Newly appointed Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has sanctioned the release of seven players, the Premier League club revealed yesterday. The players leaving the club include former Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant, one-time England centre-back Matthew Upson and Irish midfielder Rory Delap, whose long throwins were a renowned feature of the team’s strategy under Hughes’s predecessor, Tony Pulis. AFP

weekend fixtures World Cup Qualifiers

Friday June 7 Finland v Belarus – 11pm Armenia v Malta – 11pm Azerbaijan v Luxembourg 11pm Latvia v Bosnia-Herzegovina 11:30pm Saturday June 8 Liechtenstein v Slovakia – 1am Croatia v Scotland – 1:15am Moldova v Poland – 1:15am Albania v Norway – 1:30am Montenegro v Ukraine 1:30am Republic of Ireland v Faroe Islands – 1:45am Belgium v Serbia – 1:45am Czech Rep v Italy – 1:45am Austria v Sweden – 1:45am Lithuania v Greece – 1:45am Iceland v Slovenia – 2am Portugal v Russia – 2:45am Bolivia v Venezuela – 3am Argentina v Colombia – 3:05am Paraguay v Chile – 7:10am Jamaica v USA – 8:30am Panama v Mexico – 9:05am Costa Rica v Honduras 9:10am Peru v Ecuador – 9:10am Switzerland v Cyprus 10:30pm

International Friendlies

Friday June 7 Indonesia v Netherlands 8:30pm Saturday June 8 Estonia v Trinidad and Tobago – 12am Sunday June 9 Spain v Haiti – 3am Monday June 10 Brazil v France – 2am