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Mud-slinging intensifies Vong Sokheng and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

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RIME Minister Hun Sen claimed yesterday to have ample evidence showing that opposition leader Kem Sokha, along with other party members, has had multiple extramarital affairs, and averred that he had personally intervened after police allegedly discovered one lawmaker trying to purchase sex with an underage girl in 2011.

The salacious accusations were delivered during a speech at the inauguration of the new National Olympic Committee building, and offered almost concurrently with a press conference being held at Calmette hospital across town – where one of the supposed mistresses and her mother were recuperating after, they said, having been beaten up by bodyguards working for Sokha.

Cambodia National Rescue Party members yesterday slammed the accusations as the latest in a series of baseless and below-the-belt attempts by the ruling party to character assassinate Sokha ahead of the July 28 election.

For nearly a week, rumours about Sokha’s alleged mistress have spread across social media and local newspapers. Hun Sen yesterday called on Sokha to meet with the woman and settle the situation amicably. But he also threatened to release information should Sokha deny involvement.

“If you [Sokha] were really strong, you would have filed a complaint against that woman to the court to defend your reputation, but if you dare not complain it means you really had a love affair with her,” Hun Sen said. “I believe that the court will find justice for you if you file a complaint.”

Forestalling the inevitable counterattack that the incident had been staged by the ruling party, Hun Sen insisted

Rain man Children shriek at a man attending the Lok Ta Pring Ka-Ek religious festival in Kandal province yesterday. The annual religious ceremony brought hundreds of villagers together to pray for rain and good fortune. SRENG MENG SRUN

that the party would never stoop to such tricks and threatened to sue should he be accused of doing so.

He then detailed the situation over the past few days, in which the woman – Keo Sophanary – showed up at multiple

CNRP events seeking $10,000 from Sokha for a heart operation and to care for the two young children she claims to have adopted with him.

“If you are really pure gold, [you would meet with her] to resolve the

problem, but you ran out from the back door,” Hun Sen said.

Sophanary, 41, called reporters yesterday to meet her and her mother at Calmette Hospital where, she said, they had been sent for treatment following

an assault by Sokha’s bodyguards yesterday morning in Prey Veng.

“My mother walked to catch [Kem Sokha’s] hand [and tell him] Continues on page 4

Collapses raise concerns over emergency training Shane Worrell

WHEN a bridge and kiosk collapsed into a pond at a Phnom Penh garment factory last month, injuring more than 20 workers, the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit and police rushed to scour the murky water for survivors.

Some hours later, those forces

remained unsure whether any workers from the Top World garment factory remained unaccounted for.

The reason, Phnom Penh municipal police chief Choun Sovann said at the time, was that hundreds of garment workers had defied police orders to return to their stations for a headcount.

“Our request was ignored and

workers just panicked and gathered right near us,” he said. Members of the bodyguard unit watched as workers wandered onto part of the sheltered bridge that balanced on the pond’s bank.

Other workers stepped over debris that protruded from the water or walked in the way of a crane that was lifting concrete out of the pond, caus-

ing the operator to stop his machine and order them back.

“I thought the crane could drop it on the crowd; the number of injured would have risen,” said Cambodian Labour Confederation president Ath Thorn. “The crowd should have been kept away.”

No further injuries occurred and no one remained missing, but the bridge

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collapse was one of three incidents last month that raised questions about the ability of police and other government security forces to respond adequately to emergencies.

Just days before the episode at Top World, the response to the deadly ceiling collapse at Wing Star Shoes in

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PM denies protest role with threats Deminer dies Cheang Sokha

PRIME Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged S-21 survivor Chum Mey to cease protesting against opposition leader Kem Sokha so the country can get back to focusing on the upcoming National Election.

Speaking at the opening of the new National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters in Phnom Penh, the premier also again denied that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party had orchestrated protests against Sokha, saying that if it had then the Cambodia National Rescue Party legislator would have been sent running for refuge.

“Don’t say the government or the ruling CPP is behind this,” he said. “Do you want to taste what a protest led by the CPP would be like?

“If leaders of the CPP, especially Hun Sen or [National Assembly president] Heng Samrin, led a strike . . . Kem Sokha would not be able to stand it. He would be running to hide in foreign embassies.”

On Sunday, Mey passionately addressed a rally of about 10,000 people in Phnom Penh who had gathered to demand Sokha apologise for allegedly saying the Khmer Rouge’s S-21

interrogation facility had been faked by the Vietnamese.

Sokha has denied the allegation, saying a tape purporting to contain the comments was doctored and other remarks he made taken out of context, but has since been confronted by protesters wherever he has gone.

Hun Sen said those outraged

by Sokha’s alleged comments wanted to continue protesting, but it would be in the best interests of all parties if they stopped – at least until after July 28’s ballot.

“I would like to appeal to uncle Chum Mey as well as other demonstrators to please postpone strikes,” he said. “I cannot deny their right to strike but, at the moment, I ask them to postpone their protests temporarily at least until the election is complete.”

Hun Sen, however, said he did not want to ask protesters to stop exercising their right to demonstrate altogether, but encouraged them to do it in ways that would not affect political activity.

Chum Mey said he would honour Hun Sen’s request to desist protesting – but he said he was considering legal action against Sokha as an alternative.

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Former S-21 prisoner Chum Mey speaks to local media during a protest against opposition leader Kem Sokha on Sunday. hong menea

“Of course, we have to respect Hun Sen because he is like a parent to us. We will not protest from now,” he said.

“However, I will discuss with other victims about a plan to file a lawsuit with the court.

The court can take it from there and hear the case according to the law.”

The CNRP issued a statement a few hours after Hun Sen’s speech welcoming his appeal for protesters to postpone their public demonstrations against Sokha.

“The CNRP believes that keeping the situation calm

before the election will improve the atmosphere and will be a factor that encourages political stability and national reconciliation,” a statement said.

The prime minister also said opposition politicians should stop making insulting comments about the CPP during its rallies as a way of inciting ill-will against it.

“I would like to appeal to the opposition party not to use tricks or say the government has to take responsibility for everything you’ve said. You create these bad situations yourself,” he said.

DEMINER was killed near the Cambodian-Thai border on Wednesday when a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO), believed to be an anti-tank mine, went off during a demining operation.

Mol Pisith, 34, from Takeo province’s Samrong district, died in the explosion in Koh Kong province.

Two of his co-workers, Yuth Yuoy, 38 – who was seriously injured – and Kong Vibol, 43, were taken to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh for treatment.

All three men were carrying out work as part of an explosive ordnance disposal team for demining group Halo Trust, which has removed more than 400 UXO from Cham Yeam village, about 30 kilometres northwest of the capital of Koh Kong province, where the accident took place.

“On the day of the incident, the officers lifted the anti-tank mines to take them to safety,” a provincial staff member, who declined to be named, said.

CORRECTION Wednesday’s article “Opposition to boycott law hearing in Senate” should not have stated that Kong Korm is a member of the nine-person Permanent Committee.

As a non-Committee member, Korm is able only to boycott Senate meetings should the law be put up for vote.

“[A mine] exploded, causing one man to die on the spot.”

Halo Trust’s executive director Leng Saren said the body of Pisith, who had worked for the organisation for more than eight years, was transported back to his province via speedboat.

A statement by the Cambodian Mine Action Authority said the organisation will provide support to Piseth’s wife and father.

It will also provide assistance to the two injured workers until they fully recover.

“It is a reminder to us all as to the continued requirement for this critical humanitarian work, and also that we should never forget the dangers posed by such ordnance.”

According to information provided by the database manager for the Cambodia Mine Victims Information System, Nguon Monoketya, four people were killed by unexploded ordnance between January 1 and April.

Of those four, one was a demining professional.

Injuries caused by UXOs during the same period totalled 28.

One quarter of those who were injured were demining professionals.

In January, four American demining instructors were injured at a training site in Kampong Chhnang province.

The men were attempting to dismantle a UXO to use it as a teaching aid when it went off, causing them severe facial and arm injuries.

Several of them had to be airlifted to Bangkok at the time for weeks of further treatment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MELISSA MCMORRAN

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that we are hungry and ask for food. Suddenly, he snatched his hand away and his two guards rushed in and kicked my mother in her chest and stomach and hit her several times on her body, causing blood to come from her mouth,” Sophanary said, adding that she too had been hit “lightly”.

Neither had any visible injuries and doctors and nurses refused to speak with reporters about their condition.

According to Sophanary, Sokha spotted his guards beating her mother but walked away to speak to his followers who, she claimed, surrounded and shouted obscenities at her.

“I suffered greatly when he pretended to ignore us, especially as I have been his second wife for more than 19 years. We just ask him to recognise the truth and ask for some money to treat my illnesses,” she said.

“I will sue him and his guards through the court as soon as possible with accusations of violence against women.”

Sophanary said her woes began months earlier when, after hurting her hand, Sokha refused her $50, leading her to file a court complaint seeking compensation.

Speaking with reporters yesterday for more than two hours,

her story appeared increasingly full of holes. At one point, she claimed the problem with her hand was the catalyst for seeking money from Sokha in February, but later said she hadn’t injured her hand until around Khmer New Year.

A municipal court clerk, Heng Bophea, meanwhile, said he hadn’t heard of any case being filed by Sophanary.

Multiple calls to Kem Sokha went unanswered yesterday, but party spokespeople insisted the story was fabrication and Hun Sen’s comments were little more than the work of a scared politician.

Kem Monovithya, CNRP spokeswoman and Sokha’s daughter, said thousands of supporters had attended the Prey Veng event and none bore witness to any violence.

“I think what she is saying is inaccurate and said in order to cause chaos for Kem Sokha and his guards,” he said.

The party had no intention to file a complaint against her despite Hun Sen’s suggestions.

“We don’t know her background and we think she was hired to disturb,” she said.

After offering advice on how best to address the mistress situation, Hun Sen in his speech claimed he had saved an opposition leader and lawmaker from arrest and scandal after he

was caught attempting to buy a 15-year-old virgin in 2011.

“Your political career would have been finished two years ago when my phone rang because [police] requested to arrest an MP and opposition leader after he deposited $500 to take a 15-year-old girl,” Hun Sen said.

“It was not staged . . . if you want to know, I will post it [on Facebook] and it will be serious if I leak out this embarrassing love affair photo of you.”

The premier said the information came not from military police or spies but directly from an opposition party insider who leaked the information.

Touch Naruth, who at the time of the alleged intervention served as Municipal Police chief, declined to comment last night.

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann urged the CPP to focus their attention on the people, rather than engaging in mud-slinging with political opponents.

Whether the strategy will pay off is difficult to assess.

While Sophanary was vague about the damages she’d seek, there is a chance she could ask for him to be charged under the Adultery Law. If it were to happen, it would make Sokha the first politician to face the charge since Prince Norodom Ranariddh in late 2006. The charge against Rana-

riddh, which was filed by his estranged wife, came shortly after the adultery law was passed. The law was rammed through by the CPP and Funcinpec, and popularly believed to have been enacted to bring down Ranariddh, whose newly formed eponymous party had been steadily gaining power.

If violence charges were filed, meanwhile, Sokha could be swiftly arrested, pointed out political analyst Lao Mong Hay. Having lost immunity with all other opposition lawmakers last week, Sokha could serve a lengthy pre-trial detention whether or not evidence could stand up in trial, he said.

Even without an arrest, the claims could easily “be used to exploit and discredit Kem Sokha. This is part of a series of continuous actions to kill his personality”.

There was a chance the move could misfire, gaining more sympathy for Sokha, he said, with an equal chance the public simply might not care.

“There were such allegations against the PM some years ago with regards to Piseth Pilika’s murder,” Mong Hay said, referring to widespread rumours that the singer had been having an affair with Hun Sen. “That issue has died down and no one revived it.” ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ABBY SEIFF

Witnesses say they saw shots from Bandith May Titthara

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N THE second day of hearings trying Chhouk Bandith, one witness testified that the former Bavet town governor was responsible for shooting three female garment workers at a demonstration last year, while another said he helped the suspect escape.

Despite the absence of both Bandith and his lawyer, 10 witnesses took to the stand yesterday. Long Phorn, deputy Prasat commune police chief, told the court he was metres away from his former boss when the shootings occurred.

“When I heard two to three shots, I rushed to take a look and saw Chhouk Bandith shooting workers. I also saw a girl vomiting blood who then collapsed, with a young man running to help her,” he said.

After that, Bandith shot four more times into the crowd until his gun stopped working and could have killed many

workers, he added. “If Chhouk had not run away after shooting [the workers], he would have been beaten to a pulp.

Deputy Bavet town military police commander Reach Chomnith said that, upon hearing gunshots, he rushed to the scene and saw Bandith shoot into the air, though he did not see him hit anyone.

“Then he shot a second time [before] his gun stopped working,” he said, adding he then helped Bandith escape through a back road.

Chea Sina, deputy Bavet town police chief, told the court that he repaired Bandith’s gun after Chomnith failed to do so.

“The gun belongs to the Bavet town governor. I am the person who repaired his gun and the person who [helped] him to climb a fence,” he said.

Despite the claim, some witnesses in court yesterday maintained Bandith’s innocence.

Bandith could not be reached yesterday and again did not appear at court.

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FTU asks for benefits for fired staff

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HE Free Trade Union on Wednesday wrote to the Ministry of Labour asking the Labour Dispute Department to compel the Sabrina Garment factory to pay compensation and severance benefits to the nearly 300 workers the factory fired on Saturday.

FTU president Chea Mony said the Kampong Speu factory’s officials had forced workers to thumbprint resignation documents without receiving the benefits they were guaranteed under the Labour Law. “The company is famous for five-star standards, but in fact, the company put pressure on the workers to resign. So we ask the Ministry of Labour to intervene,” he wrote in the letter.

The workers were fired after protesting the arrest of eight of their colleagues, who are accused of using violence at a demonstration that left at least 23 people injured.

The Sabrina Garment factory, a Nike supplier, could not be reached yesterday.

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Fresh discord, older clashes arise at KRT Stuart White

The Khmer Rouge tribunal held what Trial Chamber President Nil Nonn called its final trial management meeting yesterday, prompting fresh disagreements over new issues, and renewing older clashes that had long lain dormant.

At the fore was a series of concerns raised by Khieu Samphan’s defence counsel Arthur Vercken, who took issue with what he described as a seeming bait-and-switch.

The court initially asserted that the three prior readings of key documents were solely “for educational purposes” for the public and haven’t addressed the prominent role those documents are likely to play in closing arguments.

“As we approach the close of the proceedings, we have had three document hearings, and we have had no adversarial proceedings and dialogue, and the parties could not react,” Vercken said, highlighting the fact that defence teams were not allowed to challenge the documents being read at the time.

Prosecutor William Smith, however, said all teams had had a chance to challenge documents’ admissibility long before the key document hearings were even held, and painted the Samphan defence team’s objections as indicative of an overall strategy of procedural nitpicking.

“When Khieu Samphan’s counsel states that [their] fair trial rights are being violated because they haven’t had ample opportunity to challenge those documents, they . . . have completely got it wrong.”

In the afternoon, the court returned to matters of trial management, with the Nuon Chea defender Victor Koppe asking why the trial chamber hadn’t yet decided on whether to call his client’s “one and only character witness”, who was also prepared to testify that the Democratic Kampuchea regime had no policy of targeting former Lon Nol officials and soldiers.

The day’s session concluded with the trial chamber announcing that decisions would be made on the various issues in due course.

Work-related deaths, injuries rose in 2012 Sen David

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HE number of officially recorded workplace deaths in Cambodia increased by more than 25 per cent from 2011 to 2012, while the vast majority of those injured at work were women, National Social Security Fund figures released yesterday reveal.

A total of 59 people were reported to have died as a result of work-related accidents last year, while more than 10,000 of the 14,233 injured were women – mostly from the garment and footwear sector – according to the figures.

Most of those who died were construction workers or garment employees travelling to or from their factory.

Recorded deaths overall increased from 47 in 2011, while injuries rose from 12,571.

“These figures are from all sectors and include faintings and accidents on the way to work,” said Leng Tong, director of the occupational health and safety department at the Ministry of Labour.

However, the NSSF’s figures

A labourer at a construction site in Phnom Penh in March. A study reports work related deaths rose last year. vireak mai

relied on employers lodging official reports for compensation and the actual number of injuries could be higher, particularly in the poorly monitored mining sector, Tong added.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity country manager Dave Welsh said the number of workplace deaths was likely higher.

“I’m not saying they’re deliberately whitewashing figures, but they may not be including workers in the informal sector,” he said.

Tuk-tuk drivers and motodops are among the many workers across the country that fall into this category.

Last November, the government announced it would introduce four prakases designed at improving safety in the construction industry by tightening on-site regulations.

Huy Han Song, secretary of state at the Ministry of Labour, said at the time that reform was needed to bring Cambodia up to the standards of its ASEAN neighbours. But eight months on, not one of these prakases has been implemented.

“We are still preparing some of these,” Han Song said yesterday.

The government last month announced plans to introduce a mine safety law to hold companies accountable for working conditions.

Highlighting the dangers workers face, five men and one woman were seriously injured at a quarry in Kampot’s Angkor Chey district on Wednesday night and sent to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh for treatment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SHANE WORRELL AND LIENG SARITH

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Lawyers ask for WikiLeaks Justine Drennan

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Emergency response teams look for workers lost in the rubble at the Wing Star Shoes factory collapse in Kampong Speu province last month. pha lina

Training of officers brought to question following collapses Continued from page 1

Kampong Speu province was also chaotic.

Dozens of officers from the bodyguard unit stood by as cameramen, photographers and onlookers walked over rubble, even as a final search for survivors continued.

And in a separate incident days later, police responded haphazardly to an accident at Dreamland amusement park in which a 33-year-old mother of two died after falling from a highspeed ride.

One police officer, stationed nearby, told the Post he was unable to investigate until he received permission from his superiors to do so. Another arrived in civilian clothes, only for security guards to turn him away, despite the fact he produced police identification, he claimed.

Dreamland staff said police investigated for a short time after the accident and again the next morning. In between the inspections – and within two hours of the death – the ride was operating again with people in it.

John Muller, managing director of Cambodian-based Global Security Solutions, said police and other authorities are hamstrung by a lack of funding, which prevents staff from being properly trained and developing the know-how and technical skills needed to respond appropriately to emergencies.

“Unfortunately, the people in charge of protecting lives are under-trained and underpaid,” he said.

Ideally, Muller said, police and other officials should treat factory collapses and amusement park deaths as a crime scene – at least until it is determined that they aren’t.

“Either way, evidence has to be protected,” he said. “They must completely shut down the area within a couple of hundred metres and wall it off. The biggest mistake is allowing people to trample around, potentially sabotaging evidence.”

According to Muller, safety has improved markedly in the 22 years he has been doing business in Cambodia, but more money and training is needed to bring “related agen-

cies” up to global standards.

Underpaid, undertrained Complaints of police officers being underpaid are hardly new. Indeed, commentators have said that low pay is a major contributor to corruption in police ranks.

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has vowed to introduce a public servant minimum wage of $150 per month – more than double what many officers get now – if it wins July’s national election.

CNRP lawmaker Son Chhay said the government must pour more money into increasing salaries and focus on stamping out “corruption” that enables unqualified people to be put in charge of forces.

Training is another element of the job that desperately needs to be better funded, Chhay said. “You need resources to do the job properly and provide services.”

Steve Morrish, a former seniordetective in Australia and founder and executive director of NGO SISHA, said new police recruits were only getting about 20 to 25 weeks academy training before being sent out to work. The only training many of them received after that, he added, came from NGOs and private security companies like Muller’s.

“Police have to understand how to deal with an emergency situation,” he said. “That can be difficult even for developed police forces.”

Since 2009, Morrish has been running a criminal-investigation training program which teaches police officers how to approach crime scenes.

He is now trying to establish an intensive eight-week detective training program that, once funded, will teach the best and brightest from the CI course more advanced skills.

Morrish said that in his eight years in Cambodia, an increase in police training has sent officers’ capabilities “through the roof”, but there is still a long way to go. But while officers remained inadequately trained in how to control crime scenes, uncertainty prevailed about the extent of the police’s powers to control a situation, and the force struggled for respect from

the community, Morrish said.

“If a major disaster hit, it probably wouldn’t be handled to a standard people and the police themselves would want,” he said.

Working within constraints Even police spokesman Kirt Chantarith admitted police were hampered by budget constraints.

But the government has improved training to better respond to emergency situations like the stampede at Koh Pich in 2010, in which more than 300 people were killed, he added.

“Since what happened at Koh Pich, we have focused on intervention and what is required to respond [to emergencies],” he said.

Officers, including tourist and traffic police, had recently been trained by the Ministry of Health in how to respond to such situations.

But Chantarith said police were working from a “limited” budget and did not have a lot of heavy machinery to call on in the event of something like a factory collapse.

This was evident to reporters after the Wing Star tragedy, when the factory’s excavator was used to clean up what could have been considered a crime scene.

“We’re also trying to install cameras – but the budget is limited,” Chantarith said.

“When we get [more] CCTV, we can know how to move crowds and keep control.”

Chantarith said that since the Koh Pich stampede, the police had focused on better managing large crowds – a staple of the annual Water Festival.

“We have more experience . . . We have to prepare more intervention units to spot and respond . . . so when something happens, we can get in there,” he said.

But Thorn, from CLC, remains sceptical of the police’s abilities to control a scene.

“The authorities were trying to save the lives of workers [at Top World] . . . but to improve their work, I feel I have to say they weren’t really working in a professional way,” he said.

“This is a lesson for our police and government to improve training .” ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHHAY CHANNYDA

HIEU Samphan’s lawyers have asked that 14 US cables made accessible in April by whistleblower website WikiLeaks be considered by the Khmer Rouge tribunal, according to a recent prosecutors’ filing objecting to two of these cables that “relate to alleged political interference and corruption at the ECCC”.

The first of these cables, sent to Washington from then US ambassador Joseph Mussomeli in 2006, states that new staff in the Cambodian prosecutor’s office “are considered politically biased and easily influenced by the government”.

The second, from Mussomeli in 2007, raises questions about Cambodia’s commitment to the tribunal after a series of “Cambodian missteps and mis-statements”,

such as the appointment of co-investigating judge You Bunleng to presidency of the domestic Appeal Court, which threatened to conflict with his position at the tribunal.

The prosecutors say these cables are “irrelevant, repetitious, unsuitable to prove the facts they intend to prove, and/or frivolous”.

“This Chamber has previously held that outside opinions ‘regarding the fairness of proceedings at the ECCC... have no evidential value’,” they add.

Samphan’s lawyers argue that the 12 other cables they seek to admit, dated 1973-1976, show their client’s good character and limited power, the filing says.

The prosecutors note that the defence has opposed as biased or unsuitable all 26 cables the prosecution has asked to admit, including some referring to Khmer Rouge executions of civilians.

Opposition calls foul on PEC conflict of interest Cheang Sokha and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

THE Cambodia National Rescue Party in Pursat has filed a complaint with the National Election Committee asking that the heads of the provincial election committee (PEC) be reshuffled after it was discovered that the wife of one member and sister of another is standing as a ruling party lawmaker candidate.

In the letter dated yesterday and obtained by the Post, five Pursat CNRP candidates call for the replacement of committee chairman Phan Vansith and vice chairman Em Phouriboth who are the husband and brother, respectively, of Cambodian People’s Party candidate Em Ponna.

“We want the NEC to change them [Vansith and Phouriboth] to avoid the conflict of interest,” writes CNRP candidate Ngim Nheng.

“We are competing against each other and her husband is a referee.”

Contacted yesterday, Vansith acknowledged that his wife was standing as a lawmaker for the ruling party but said there was no problem as she had been a CPP lawmaker since the last mandate and he had served in his position without complaint for years.

“They [the CNRP] should have complained at the beginning of when the NEC made its announcements,” he said, adding that he never puts family affairs ahead of his PEC duties.

NEC secretary-general Tep Nytha said he had not received the petition but would review it, adding that Vansith’s appointment was made based on his capacity and that NEC had not realised Phouriboth was his brother-in-law.

“We have to inspect the procedure of the election rules and the internal regulation of the NEC,” he said.

“However, I don’t have the right to make decision and will forward this to NEC [members] to make the decision.”

Heavy fine for wildlife smuggler on the lam Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A 28-YEAR-OLD man was tried in absentia by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday and found guilty of illegally smuggling of 75 kilograms of wildlife, including snakes, turtles and pangolins.

Phuong Kea Ty was attempting to smuggle the wildlife to Vietnam in August 2012 where he planned to sell the animals, judge Chaing Sinath

said. Stopped at a checkpoint, Kea Ty successfully fled, after which Forestry Administration officials discovered the rare animals sealed in a box in his car.

“Based on the evidence, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has found that Phuong Kea Ty is guilty,” Sinath said. “So I have decided to fine him 19 million riel [$4,750] and order his car confiscated [and sold] with the money put it into the national budget.”

police blotter Long-time motorbike thief caught, tells all

A SERIAL motorbike thief who started pinching bikes before puberty has finally been arrested. According to police the 22-year old had stolen more than 10 motorbikes in four provinces over the past 12 years. The crook was finally caught Wednesday after attempting to steal a stolen Stung Treng bike in Preah Vihear province. No one wanted to buy it without the official papers. Police caught up with him and he confessed to his past misdeeds, validating 12 years of police work that may or may not have been conducted.

Kampuchea Thmey

Gambling car thief plays with house chips

A DRIVER for a private company was apprehended Tuesday on suspicion of having pawned a car that was on loan to his firm.

The man, a gambling addict, pawned the car for a large sum.

The car’s owner, 33, who had rented the vehicle to the company for $150 a month, sought police help to track down the ballsy driver when he found out what had transpired. The driver confessed, but without enough money to re-purchase the car from the pawn shop, was sent to court. Kampuchea Thmey

Axe-wielding attacker in hacking escape plan

HACKING with a machete or axe seems to be the preferred dispute resolution mechanism these days, with a 30-year-old living in the capital the latest victim. Police said the victim was having an argument with another man in Chamkarmon district on Wednesday when an axe was drawn by the suspect and taken to his head. The attacker then ran into his nearby home, escaping out the back door while his family blocked police.

The search for the suspect continues while the victim recovers in hospital. Nokorwat

Burglar got by with help from little friend

KANDAL police arrested a 28-year-old for allegedly breaking and entering a Sa’ang district home on Wednesday. The woman and a 13-year-old boy were said to have broken into the home of a garment worker, stealing $100 in cash before escaping. The unlucky victim reported the theft to police after a long day at work. The woman was caught and confessed to the crime, saying that her underage pal had made off with the loot. Nokorwat

Police bust up alleged Siem Reap drug ring

A GANG of 11 men between the ages of 18 and 28 were arrested on Tuesday for planning to distribute drugs around a Siem Reap town. Military police said they raided three different rooms at a large home, arresting 10 men and one women.

Yama, three motorbikes, phone and drug paraphernalia were seized and packed off to court with the suspects for further investigation. Police continue to search for three others associated with the gang. Kampuchea Thmey

Translated by Phak Seangly

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Cambodia showcases gems Hor Kimsay

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ODELS strutted down the catwalk wearing sparkling necklaces and bracelets, a packed audience looking on. The lavish show marked the kick-off yesterday of the 5th International Gems and Jewellery Fair in Phnom Penh.

Lighting up the otherwise drab halls of the Diamond Hall Convention and Exhibition Centre, the flash and fashion were both part of Cambodia’s image of itself as an emerging player in the global precious stones trade.

“The gems and jewellery industry, apart from being one of the key trade promotional areas in Cambodia, is playing an important role in attracting tourists and complementing tourist activity,” Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said in his opening remarks.

“We believe that going forward, with the many tax preferential or tax-free treatments extended to Cambodia as one of the least developed countries by many developed nations including the United States, gems and jewellery traders around the region might move their base to Cambodia to take advantage of the reduced tariffs on imports.”

Whether that will happen is uncertain, but recent developments indicate that Cambodia is at least going in the right directions.

Prasidh described the fair as the most important stage for industry leaders to position themselves as major suppliers. The Cambodian vendors at the expo, who accounted for the majority of sellers, were eager to broadcast the same message, saying that the the raw materials are in place for the sector to develop.

In September 2011, Intertek, a quality checker and certifier of precious stones, established a laboroarty in Cambodia that was supposed to be a new level of professionalism and access to the market.

Cambodia successfully lobbied to join the Kimberlay Process, a United Nations-initiated movement whose

This week in biz Telecom regulator weighs lowering mobile phone rates

THE Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) is considering lowering minimum mobile phone costs in the country to ward off price wars that could send operators into bankruptcy. Lay Mariveau, first member of the TRC, said in a recent interview that the International Telecommunication Union has suggested that the lowest price at which operators can compete with each other is 2.5 cents or 2.6 cents, around two cents lower than the prices spelled out in a government order signed in 2009 to tackle disputes over price-dumping.

Cambodia and Thailand plan for special economic zones

A vendor organises a selection of gems in a display booth at the 5th International Gems and Jewellery Fair on Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island yesterday. pha lina

members vow to shun the trade in so-called conflict diamonds.

This past March, construction began on a diamond-polishing factory and training centre for luxury jewellery brand Tiffany & Co in the the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone.

Intertek’s laboratory manager, Kabir Grover, said the industry needs four or five years to make it and be recognised on the international market.

He called the lab an accelerator for exports, since it will increase trust and confidence in the Kingdom’s gem and jewellery products.

“The market is still slow and it will take time for the industry to grow,” Kabir said, “We are trying to educate local venders to know the benefit of getting certification which plays a key role to build confidence for buyers.”

Despite the fanfare about the industry’s potential and its shiny prospects, Cambodian traders and local venders, who accounted for the lion’s share of the 78 stands at the event, were not able to provide any figures relating to the level of demand.

Dy Ly, owner of Pailin Dy Ly Gem shop, said most gemstones in Cambodia are traded within tight-knit family businesses, and the level of production is not that high.

“Many of Cambodia’s jewellery and gems are sent across the border for processing in Thailand, or if it is locally produced, for instance, gem cutting, polishing and designs are commonly done by hand,” Ly said Grover said that because of the traditional production practices, jewellery and gems are seen as unreliable, scaring away international traders.

According to a report by KPMG, global jewellery sales will grow at 4.6 per cent year-on-year. The global jewellery market could reach $280 billion in 2015, up from $185 billion in 2010.

While the US remains at the top of the table with 30 per cent of the total market share, the report found that India and China are gaining ground.

By 2015, China is expected to see about 22 per cent of the daimond processing market.

“I have been selling gems to many ASEAN countries, and the Chinese market is the largest orderer of my product,” said Tay Heab, a local gem trader.

He said that the price of gems has slightly increased compared to prices last year, and orders for products from from his shop are also on the rise.

CAMBODIA and Thailand agreed on Tuesday to boost bilateral trade and investment by establishing two special economic zones along their shared border and to push for the construction of a 1,800 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Koh Kong province. The moves will “promote the livelihoods of people from the two neighbours”, Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong said after a closed-door border meeting between Cambodia and Thailand in Phnom Penh.

WTO extends waiver, again, on copyright enforcement

THE World Trade Organization confirmed on Wednesday that it extended a waiver for lower developed countries, Cambodia included, which frees them from enforcing intellectual property laws for another eight years. Proponents hailed the decision as a means to allow Cambodia access to products, while critics said a lack of protections would stifle economic growth.

Milled rice exports so far this year balloon 127 pct

CAMBODIAN milled rice exports increased 127 per cent during the first five months of 2013 compared with the same period the year before.

Official figures show that milled rice exports reached 146,854 tonnes at the end of May, up from 2012 when Cambodia sent out 64,581 tonnes in the first five months.

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Business Markets Thai central bankers make moves on baht The Bank of Thailand (BOT) intervened in the foreign exchange market after the baht declined 0.5 per cent to 31.08 to the US dollar yesterday morning, as the Thai stock market plunged for the third consecutive day.

Central Bank governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said the baht’s recent depreciation was not worrying because other currencies in Southeast Asia had also weakened.

The level of fluctuation of the baht was low when compared to other regional currencies.

“In this case, the BoT has already sold some US dollars to prevent further fluctuation, but we won’t move against the market trend,” Prasarn said.

Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong said the weakening baht would benefit Thai exporters, who have long complained the baht was over valued, but admitted it would probably hurt the import sector.

“I would like the central bank to help stabilise the baht by using our large international reserves as a buffer

to ease the impact (on importers) and keep the currency stable and in line with our trading partners and competitors, and not just rely on the US dollar,” Kittiratt said.

The Thai currency traded 0.4 per cent off a nine-month low yesterday and government bonds dropped as overseas investors reduced holdings of the country’s assets amid a worsening global economic outlook, according to Bloomberg News.

The World Bank on Wednesday cut its 2013 growth forecast for developing countries to 5.1 per cent from a January estimate of 5.5 per cent and lowered China to 7.7 per cent from 8.4 per cent, the report said.

China is Thailand’s biggest export market after purchasing 12 per cent of total shipments in the first four months of the year.

The baht declined 0.5 per cent to 31.08 per dollar as of 9.22am in Bangkok yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

It touched 31.19 on Wednesay, the weakest level since September 7. BANGKOK POST

Indonesia raises interest rate Novrida Manurung and Sharon Chen

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NDONESIA’S central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2011 as Governor Agus Martowardojo accelerates efforts to boost confidence in the currency and cool inflation expectations.

Bank Indonesia policy makers increased the reference rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 6 per cent, the central bank said in Jakarta yesterday.

All 19 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News expected no change.

The surprise increase comes after the central bank this week raised the rate it pays lenders on overnight deposits and said it’s ready to buy government bonds from the secondary market to support the weakening rupiah. Martowardojo, who took over as governor last month, joins emerging market policy makers such as those in Brazil in addressing an outflow of capital as concerns mount that developed nations will scale back the liquidity they have been pumping.

“Bank Indonesia has started tightening monetary policy gradually,” Anton Gunawan, chief economist at Bank Da-

Labourers unload boxes of biscuits at a port in Riau province in Indonesia in April. Consumer prices rose 5.47 per cent in May, with the pace of gains slowing for a second month. bloomberg

namon Indonesia (BDMN) in Jakarta, said before the decision. “By raising the rate, it will help support the rupiah, curb inflation expectations on a fuel-price increase and calm market volatility.”

Rupiah forwards rose the most in a year on Wednesday after Bank Indonesia increased the deposit facility rate, also known as the Fasbi, by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25 per cent.

The rupiah is is the worst performing in Asia after the yen in the past year.

This is Martowardojo’s first

rate-decision meeting after taking over from Darmin Nasution last month, and he is contending with slowing growth, while inflation is poised to quicken as the administration prepares to increase fuel prices.

Overseas investors have pulled more than $2 billion from stocks and local-currency bonds in Indonesia in the past two weeks, putting pressure on the rupiah as rising US Treasury yields lure capital from emerging markets.

The World Bank yesterday cut its global growth forecast for this year after emerging

markets from China to Brazil slowed more than projected, while budget cuts and slumping investor confidence deepened Europe’s contraction.

The Indonesian economy grew 6.02 per cent in the first three months of 2013 from a year ago, after expanding 6.11 per cent the previous quarter.

The government earlier lowered its GDP target for 2013 to 6.3 per cent from 6.8 per cent, and predicts inflation will quicken to 7.2 per cent this year from an initial estimate of 4.9 per cent should fuel prices be raised.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has made any boost in fuel prices conditional on Parliament approving compensation programs for the poor. Failure to lower subsidies in 2012 led to a record currentaccount gap, hurting the rupiah as foreign investors lost confidence.

The central bank is “moving toward a tightening bias” as the planned fuel-price increase adds risks to inflation and economic stability, Deputy Governor Perry Warjiyo said May 22. Raising the benchmark rate would be the “most credible” response to damp price expectations, Deputy Governor Halim Alamsyah said in an interview this month. BLOOMBERG

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Aeon Mall’s vision explained Costing more than $200 million, the four-storey Aeon Mall in Phnom Penh, set to open in July 2014, is being hailed as Cambodia’s biggest shopping complex. Makoto Yajima, managing director of Aeon Mall Cambodia, talked to Mak Lawrence Li about the project.

What makes this project stand out among similar ventures in in Phnom Penh?

The shape of our mall is in a “Two Anchors with one Mall” format, which consist of two or more large-scale anchor stores connected with a mall area occupied by specialty stores. While other facilities in Cambodia are mainly in tall buildings, ours is long on the site which is quite different. Our mall includes a huge cinema complex and a brand new bowling centre, which is comfortable and exciting for customers to visit.

Why come to Cambodia now?

The economic growth is

Aeon Mall Cambodia managing director Makoto Yajima talks about plans for Aeon Mall. hong menea

rapid here in Phnom Penh, and it is also a dynamic market with such a huge younger generation. There is no special reason for the timing.

Time is now for us, and from now on we will do our best for Cambodia.

What does Aeon Mall bring to Cambodia?

A new style of shopping is coming here. Citizens, especially for the younger generations, always seek new fashion, services and amusement

facilities. What we want them to realise is that shopping can indeed combine with entertainment, all together as a whole in one place. We would also like to offer three things: high quality products, excellent services and adequate parking space. Many malls in the city do not consist of enough parking spaces, but we do and there will be 1,400 for cars and 1,800 for motorbikes.

What are your marketing strategies? Any targeted

customers or income groups?

confident in serving clients.

We call it the ‘one-stop solution’. Four aspects: shopping, community, entertainment and ecology. Customers can fulfill all their needs here.

And the location we choose is located very near to the city centre so people can get here easily, which is already another strategy. We are very confident we will be competitive because of our services provided. Every citizen in Phnom Penh will be our target; we offer high quality products and services with affordable prices.

How about volume and spending? Any estimates or predictions?

What do you want to accomplish in the long term?

Our primary aim is to introduce our brand to citizens, letting them know about the unique styles of Aeon. The second thing is training up local staff with Aeon Mall standards, which is ‘serving with hospitality’. We have looked at some of the shopping situations here and staff used to eat or sleep inside the stores, they don’t pay much care to the customers. We want all our customers to enjoy proper services and staff will also be

Regarding sales or revenue, it is hard for us to disclose at the moment but we hope for up to 10 million visitors at the mall in the first year.

What are your future plans in Cambodia?

We will consider opening two or three malls in Phnom Penh, if the first one is successful enough. We want to stick as the closest retailing company in every place for serving our customers, and the Aeon Mall Cambodia Company would want to become a local enterprise eventually.

How would you foresee malls developing in Cambodia?

There will be more and more competitors and I think it is good news for us.

Keen competition means fast growth and the customers will have more choices too.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity

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India seeks to enhance trade links Rann Reuy and Mak Lawrence Li

An Indian business delegation visiting Cambodia hopes to boost bilateral cooperation in trade, tourism and transport, officials said yesterday.

Meeting with key Cambodian officials, Director General of the Indian Chamber of Commerce said the Kingdom presented many opportunities for India.

“There is great demand for agricultural products in the Northeast of India and it is costeffective buying from Cambodia,” he said.

Paban Singh Ghatowar in the Ministry of Development of the North East Region said that there was also potential to increase tourism numbers to Cambodia.

“When I go back home, we will discuss with airlines in India for them to fly to Cambodia either from New Delhi or Kolkata ,” he said.

Debasish Pattnaik, President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, said in 2012 the total trade volume between Cambodia and India was $95 million, while he anticipated trade to be more than $100 million for 2013.

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Markets Business

In brief South Korea leaves key rate unchanged at 2.5%

THE central bank of South Korea’s left its key interest rate unchanged as expected at 2.5 per cent yesterday after a surprise rate cut last month. The Bank of Korea’s decision to freeze the rate followed hints of a recovery in Asia’s fourth-largest economy whose exports grew at a faster-than-expected pace in May. Industrial output for April also rose for the first time in four months, fanning hopes for an economy that posted its slowest growth for three years in 2012. The central bank in early May cut the rate by 0.25 percentage points. AFP

Airbus new A350 plane is due to take off today

AIRBUS’S new A350 plane is due to take off on its muchanticipated maiden flight today, a milestone for an aircraft the firm hopes will help close the gap with rival Boeing in the lucrative longhaul market. Weather permitting, the nextgeneration plane will lift off from the southwestern French city of Toulouse with six people on board – a British and a French test pilot, a flight engineer and three other engineers at the back. AFP

World Bank cuts growth forecast Sandrine Rastello

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HE World Bank cut its global growth forecast for this year after emerging markets from China to Brazil slowed more than projected, while budget cuts and slumping investor confidence deepened Europe’s contraction.

The world economy will expand 2.2 per cent, less than a January forecast for 2.4 per cent growth and slower than last year’s 2.3 per cent, the bank said in a report released on Wednesday in Washington.

It lowered its prediction for developing economies and sees the euro region’s gross domestic product shrinking 0.6 per cent. In contrast, forecasts were raised for the US and Japan, which was helped by fiscal and monetary stimulus.

“Hard data so far this year point to a global economy that is slowly getting back on its feet,” the Washington-based lender said in its twice-yearly report. “However, the recovery remains hesitant and uneven.”

Efforts by European policy makers to stem the region’s debt crisis have alleviated the main risk to global growth and financial-market stability,

A man sleeps on a sofa at a bicycle repair shop along a road in central Beijing earlier this month. China’s economy is showing mounting signs of deterioration, from manufacturers to banks. reuters

according to the lender. The bank now sees smaller threats, including lower commodity prices and the impact of unwinding unprecedented monetary stimulus in advanced economies including the US, the talk of which has sent cur-

rencies from India to Thailand lower and Mexican bond yields higher in recent weeks.

Asian equities tumbled yesterday, with the region’s benchmark index headed towards a correction, and the yen rose to the strongest in two

months against the dollar after the World Bank cut its growth forecast amid concern central banks may pare monetary stimulus. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped three per cent, erasing this year’s gains.

Bond risk in Asia climbed, and

emerging-market stocks slid to a nine-month low, led by Chinese and Thai shares.

Debate among US policy makers over when and how to dial back the Federal Reserve’s $85-billion-a-month program of asset purchases has shaken financial markets in developing nations. More than $2.5 trillion has been erased from the value of global equities since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said May 22 that the Fed could scale back stimulus efforts if the employment outlook shows “sustainable improvement”.

“In the short run, if the US becomes a little more attractive, there will be some marginal movement of money,” World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu said. “I don’t think this is the kind of fluctuation that will last past two months or so.”

For next year, the World Bank said it expects three per cent growth worldwide, compared with a 3.1 per cent advance in its January forecast.

China’s growth outlook was cut to 7.7 per cent from 8.4 per cent, according to the World Bank’s report. The 6.1 per cent forecast for India was reduced to 5.7 per cent and Brazil’s was lowered to 2.9 per cent from 3.4 per cent. BLOOMBERG

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Business

Record rice crop expected in India due to early rains Prabhudatta Mishra & Pratik Parija

Rice output in India, the world’s second-largest grower, is set to climb to a record as early arrival of monsoon rains over the biggest growing regions spurs planting, potentially boosting exports.

The monsoon crop may increase 2.4 per cent to 95 million tonnes from 92.75 million tonnes a year earlier, said P Chengal Reddy, secretary general of the Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations.

The rain-fed crop is planted from June and harvested from October and accounts for almost 90 per cent of the nation’s total production.

A bigger harvest may help India retain its position as the

523,000 hectares (1.29 million acres) as of June 7, compared with 622,000 hectares a year earlier, according to data from the Agriculture Ministry.

The monsoon, which accounts for more than 70 per cent of the country’s annual rainfall, covered Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal states a day earlier than normal, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Showers have been 23 per cent more than a 50-year average since June 1, with Andhra Pradesh getting at least 70 per cent more rains, bureau data showed. Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal are the nation’s top growers, representing about 29 per cent of the crop.

India may continue to ex-

Given the forecast for a normal monsoon, the area under rice will certainly be more than last year top exporter and further lower global food costs tracked by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, which fell in May for the first time in four months.

While rice prices are poised for a third year of gains in Chicago, corn and wheat have tumbled into bear markets after surging last year when the worst drought since the 1930s wilted crops in the US. “Given the forecast for a normal monsoon, the area under rice will certainly be more than last year,” Trilochan Mohapatra, director of the Central Rice Research Institute, said in a phone interview from Delhi. “The production of rice is going to exceed” last season’s levels, he said.

Farmers have sown rice in

port as a normal monsoon and reserves of 33.3 million tonnes will leave enough for shipments, Angel Commodities Broking Pvt said on June 10. Exports totalled 10.25 million tonnes in 2012, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture.

Rough rice for delivery in July was little changed at $16.28 per 100 pounds on the Chicago Board of Trade at 2pm yesterday in Mumbai.

Futures have advanced 7.3 per cent this year after gaining in the past two years. Global rice production may expand to 470 million tonnes in 20122013 from 466 million tonnes a year earlier, according to the International Grains Council.

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Apple rethinks the iPhone Clare Jim and Reiji Murai

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pple Inc is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors, over the next year, said four people with knowledge of the matter, as it takes a cue from rival Samsung Electronics.

The moves, which are still under discussion, underscore how the California-based firm that once ruled the smartphone market is increasingly under threat from its aggressive South Korean competitor. Samsung has overtaken Apple in market share through the popularity of its biggerscreen Galaxy “phablets” and by flooding the market with a range of products at different prices.

Apple is looking at introducing at least two bigger iPhones next year - one with a 4.7-inch screen and one with a 5.7inch screen - said the sources, including those in the supply chain in Asia. They said suppliers have been approached with plans for the larger screens, but noted it is still unclear whether Apple will actually launch its flagship product in the larger sizes.

“They constantly change product specifications almost

Attendees take a break at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. Apple Inc is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens and in different colours over the next year. reuters

to the final moment, so you’re not really sure whether this is the final prototype,” said one person with direct knowledge of the matter. Apple declined to comment.

Apple’s possible shift to offer what is often referred to as “phablets” – chunkier smartphones not quite big enough to qualify as tablets – comes as the long-time consumer and investor darling faces pressure to deliver more than one new handset model a year. Critics say its pace of innovation has slowed since the death of legendary co-founder Steve Jobs.

The iPhone 5 launched last September was the first to veer away from the Apple phone’s 3.5-inch screen, which Jobs famously deemed “the perfect size for consumers” and had been used in every iPhone since the iconic device was unveiled in 2007.

The current iPhone 5 has one of the smaller screens among the bestselling smartphones, where consumers spend more time browsing the web and streaming content. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 have 5-inch and 5.5-inch screens, respectively.

For this year, Apple is expected to launch two new models, widely referred to as the iPhone 5S, with new fingerprint technology and a cheaper version in plastic casing, supply chain sources have said. Apple plans to dress up the cheaper phone in a range of five or six colours to differentiate it from the more expensive model that has traditionally come only in black or white.

The US firm has discussed a price of $99 for the cheaper phone, the timing of which could be next year, one of the people said. It’s not yet clear what the final price would be.

Apple – whose revenue growth has decelerated from the heady days of 2010 when it introduced the iPad and when the iPhone was the world’s top selling smartphone – has sought ways to re-energise its flagship line.

Analysts say the company needs a cheaper gadget to push on in growth markets in China and India, and to counter Samsung’s edge in having phones priced up and down the spectrum.

China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, is set to grow 48 per cent this year, outpacing the global increase of 31 per cent, according to industry forecasts. BLOOMBERG

Myanmar on EU trade scheme THE European Union on Wednesday readmitted Myanmar to its trade preference scheme, saying it wanted to support reform in the once pariah state through economic development.

Myanmar’s membership of the scheme was withdrawn in 1997 due to concerns over the use of forced labour under the then military junta.

But the EU said the International Labour Organisation had last year reported “necessary improvements” to labour practices in Myanmar, which was formerly known as Burma.

The Irish presidency of the EU and the

president of the European parliament signed legislation on Wednesday confirming Myanmar’s readmission to the trade scheme.

“Given the positive developments in Myanmar/Burma in the recent past, it is important that the EU supports this by facilitating economic growth and development opportunities,” Ireland’s jobs and enterprise minister Richard Bruton said.

The EU scheme grants developing nations preferential access to the 27-nation bloc for several products in the form of lower tariffs.

In London, Justine Greening, the international development secretary, welcomed the news.

“We have been calling for the EU to recognise that Burma’s standards are improving and this is great news,” Greening said.

“Boosting trade and exports is vital if Burma is to develop its economy and escape years of poverty.”

The EU in April agreed to lift the last of the bloc’s trade, economic and individual sanctions against Myanmar in response to the military’s progressive ceding of power to civilians. AFP

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World Hong Kong battle looms

Turkey mulls holding referendum on park

Jonathan Kaiman

TURKEY yesterday urged thousands of protesters to evacuate an Istanbul park, saying it might hold a referendum on a controversial development project there in a bid to end nearly two weeks of antigovernment unrest.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in the capital Ankara in the early hours while the mood was subdued in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, which has witnessed nights of running battles.

The mass street protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan erupted after police cracked down on a campaign to save Gazi Park, a rare

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ONG KONG is bracing itself for what could become a protracted legal battle after the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed to a local newspaper that he had no plans to leave the territory.

“I am not here to hide from justice, I am here to reveal criminality,” Snowden told the South China Morning Post, adding that he had evidence of US-led cyberespionage in both Hong Kong and mainland China, and that Washington had been “trying to bully” the territory into extraditing him.

Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong’s legislature who was once the city’s top security official, said: “It’s not a question of bullying or not bullying. I can’t speak for the Hong Kong government now, but if the US gives a request, the government will deal with it in accordance with due process.”

Hong Kong, a city of seven million people, is technically a part of China but maintains an independent judiciary, media and education system. The territory has an extradition agreement with the US but can offer protection for fugitives who face political persecution or torture at home.

Chinese web portals and newspapers were awash with news of the scandal yesterday morning, the first business day after a three-day national holiday. Snowden’s revelations were “certain to stain Washington’s overseas image and test developing Sino-US ties,” said the China Daily newspaper in a front-page ar-

Protesters supporting Edward Snowden demonstrate outside the US Consulate in Hong Kong yesterday. REUTERS

ticle, the first in China’s staterun media to address Beijing’s stance on the NSA leaks.

“For months, Washington has been accusing China of cyberespionage, but it turns out that the biggest threat to the pursuit of individual freedom and privacy in the US is the unbridled power of the government,” Li Haidong, a researcher of American studies at China Foreign Affairs University, told the paper.

The article continued: “How the case is handled could pose a challenge to the burgeoning goodwill between Beijing and Washington given that Snowden is in Chinese territory and the Sino-US relationship is constantly soured on cybersecurity.”

Beijing could intervene in Snowden’s case if it decides

that the outcome would affect its interests “in matters of defence or foreign affairs”.

Snowden told the South China Morning Post that the NSA had hundreds of cyberespionage targets in mainland China and Hong Kong. “We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

He named one target as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, home to a handful of advanced internet research facilities such as the Hong Kong Internet Exchange, which “essentially connects all of the city’s internet access providers to a single infrastructure,” the newspaper reported.

The university said in a statement that it had not detected any intrusions. “Every effort is made to protect the university’s backbone network as well as the Hong Kong Internet Exchange operated by the information technology services centre of CUHK, which are closely monitored round-the-clock to ensure normal operation and defend against network threats,” it said. “The university has not detected any form of hacking to the network, which has been running normally.”

Local activists and civil society groups plan to express support for Snowden by marching in front of the city’s government headquarters and US consulate on Saturday afternoon.

Hong Kong politicians expressed scepticism that Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s cyberespionage in the territory would change the city government’s attitude towards his case.

“I don’t think this changes the game that much; he hasn’t said a lot or given any detail,” said Charles Mok, a legislative councillor and former chairman of the Hong Kong Internet Servers Providers Association. “I think the Hong Kong government is still playing wait and see.”

Emily Lau, chair of the city’s Democratic party, said: “For those of us in the political field, we always feel as if we’re under surveillance anyway, whether it’s from Hong Kong authorities or mainland authorities or the US. Hong Kong for many years has been known as a spy centre – many people come here to pursue espionage activities.” THE GUARDIAN

park were “no longer sustainable” and urged the thousands camped out there “evacuate the grounds to avoid further tensions” with the police.

Hundreds of protesters were still swarming the area, however, defying repeated ultimatums from the authorities to go home and voicing caution over the Erdogan olive branch.

“There is already a court decision which orders the suspension of work in Gezi Park,” said Tayfun Kahraman from Taksim Solidarity, the representative of the core environmentalist groups fighting to save the area.

He said it was “not even legal

Are they going to ask us whether we approve chopping down trees? patch of green near Taksim.

“We might put it to a referendum . . . In democracies only the will of the people counts,” government spokesman Huseyin Celik said on Wednesday after Erdogan met protest leaders for the first time.

The police action on the Gezi campaigners on May 31 snowballed into a nationwide outpouring of anger against Erdogan, seen as increasingly authoritarian after more than a decade in power .

The US said it had been following the events with “great concern” and cautioned Turkish authorities, a key regional ally, against seeking to punish demonstrators for exercising their right to free speech.

Turkish interior minister Muammer Guler said on Thursday that protests in the

to consider a referendum” on such an issue, saying such votes could only be held to decide on constitutional matters.

“Are they going to ask us whether we approve chopping down trees? What would the result change anyway,” said Arzu, a 22-year-old law student who was returning home for a rest after a peaceful night of protests in Taksim Square.

The referendum gesture came after Erdogan held talks with the loose coalition of environmentalists, who critics say do not speak for the most of the protesters and were cherrypicked for the meeting.

Erdogan, who has branded the protesters “extremists” and “looters” has faced international condemnation over his handling of the crisis. AFP Analysis: Page 17

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World Australian military in sex scandal THE Australian military was embroiled in another sex scandal yesterday with 17 serving personnel, including officers, under investigation after “explicit and repugnant” emails and images demeaning women were uncovered.

Army chief Lieutenant-General David Morrison said he was appalled at the revelations, which follow a government report last year detailing more than 1,000 claims of sexual or other abuse in the forces from the 1950s to the present day.

That report was sparked by the so-called Skype scandal in 2011, when footage of a young male recruit having sex with a female classmate was streamed online to cadets in another room without her knowledge.

“I’d say it’s worse than the Skype matter,” Morrison told a media conference.

“I view the allegations that are being made in the gravest light.”

He said they involve the alleged production and distribution of “highly inappropriate” material across both defence computer systems and the public internet over the last three years. Illicit drug use may also be involved. AFP

Malaysia looks to repatriation

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ALAYSIA said yesterday it would work with Myanmar to repatriate thousands of their nationals following clashes in the community that left at least four dead and led to a security sweep.

The two Southeast Asian nations insisted that violence – beginning in May at a wholesale market in Kuala Lumpur – linked to strife between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims in Myanmar was under control.

Malaysian authorities have suggested Buddhists came under attack from Muslim countrymen seeking vengeance over deadly sectarian strife back in Myanmar.

“It is a clash of Myanmars among themselves . . . The quarrel they have back home is brought to our country,” Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Jaafar said.

He said some 257,000 Myanmar nationals work in Muslimmajority Malaysia – 144,000 of these illegally – filling mostly lowly paid jobs in plantation, construction and other sectors shunned by locals.

Some 250 people remain in detention here after a security sweep last week following the deadly clashes, in addition

In brief Maoists attack train in India and kill policeman

MAOIST guerrillas attacked a passenger train in the eastern Indian state of Bihar yesterday, killing a policeman and two other people, police and officials said. Around 100 guerrillas opened fire on the train which was travelling from the town of Dhanbad to the state capital of Patna, senior police officer SK Bharadwaj said. afp

Taiwan upholds death sentence for woman

A Myanmar Muslim living in Malaysia during a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur on March 25.

to illegals held previously.

“We have 4,400 Myanmars detained in immigration detention centres now, and we have invited the Myanmar authorities, especially the embassy, to . . . bring them back,” Wan Junaidi said.

He also called on the United Nations refugee agency to swiftly process those who say they are refugees and feel unsafe to return to Myanmar.

The agency has documented

some 95,000 Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, which does not grant them any legal status but allows temporary stays.

Of them, 28,000 are Muslimethnic Rohingyas, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.The United Nations has described them as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

Deadly sectarian strife pitting Buddhists against the Rohingyas has continued since last year in Myanmar’s

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western state of Rakhine.

Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Zin Yaw said in separate comments to reporters that the attacks in Malaysia were believed to be“gang related” and not necessarily religious.

“We ask help from the Malaysian government to protect our people working here. Some want to go back to Myanmar so [we will] make arrangements for them to go back quickly,” he said. AFP

A TAIWAN court yesterday upheld a death sentence on a "merciless" woman who murdered three close family members in an insurance scam. The final ruling in the high-profile case made Lin Yu-ru the first woman to be sentenced to death in Taiwan for 23 years. afp

Mandela ‘responding’ well to treatment'

NELSON Mandela has been “responding well to treatment”, the South African government said yesterday, the frail former president's sixth day in hospital battling a lung infection.Members of the cabinet wished the revered anti-apartheid icon a quick recovery in a statement. afp

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Cocaine haul found with bananas

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TAFF at a Danish supermarket found a massive stash of 100 kilograms of cocaine in what was meant to be a shipment of bananas from Colombia, the second haul in a week, their employer said on Wednesday.

Danish police said they were inquiring into the discovery of a “large amount of powder in a batch of bananas delivered to the Coop in Brondby,� adding that analyses were needed to prove that it was cocaine.

Coop supermarkets spokesman Jens Juul Nielsen told the Jyllands-Posten daily that there was little doubt about the nature of the powder, as 80 kilograms of cocaine had already been found the week before in Aarhus. “Like last week we have alerted our supplier in Colombia on this matter,� Nielsen said. “He was a bit perplexed about how this could have happened and he is working on tightening controls,� the spokesman said as quoted on the paper’s website.

He also told DR public television that there was no danger for purchasers of bananas as both the fruit and the cocaine were “very well wrapped�. AFP

Thai impatience grows T

HAILAND yesterday expressed impatience at continuing insurgent violence in its Muslim-majority south as delegates began a third round of peace talks in the Malaysian capital with the rebels.

Thai National Security Council chief Paradorn Pattanatabut told reporters he needed “concrete outcomes� to violence that has killed more than 5,500 in the past decade “so I can answer to the people�. “Our agenda is to reduce violence in a particular timeframe or by area. Today we must get clear on the facts [behind the recent spike in violence],� Paradorn, Bangkok’s lead negotiator, said before meeting rebel representatives.

Talks which began on March 28 have so far failed to end near-daily violence in the three provinces bordering Malaysia.

Thai authorities had floated the idea of handing some local decision-making to provinces dominated by ethnic Malay Muslims. But Paradorn said the issue was unlikely to come up in this round, which would be dominated by the violence.

Five Thai security person-

Security personnel inspect the site of a roadside bomb attack that wounded a ranger in the southern province of Pattani yesterday. REUTERS

nel were killed in a fresh spate of gun and bomb attacks two weeks ago, which the government blamed on insurgents seeking to disrupt the fragile peace process.

Despite two rounds of peace talks since March, near-daily bloodshed has raised questions over how much control

rebel leaders have over radical militants.

But a Thai delegation official expressed confidence yesterday that “they are the real representatives of all groups� in southern Thailand. “Every group, they are now together. They are talking to us,� deputy permanent

secretary for defence Nipat Thonglek said.

The rebels had in April demanded “liberation� from the Thai kingdom and made a series of demands. But Paradorn has insisted that discussions are not about autonomy but about local administration. AFP

Philippines may charge coastguards over killing PHILIPPINE investigators said yesterday they had recommended that criminal charges be filed against coastguards involved in the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters.

The announcement follows weeks of tension between Taiwan and the Philippines, after coastguard chiefs in Manila initially insisted the fishing vessel had tried to ram the coastguard boat and their personnel had fired in self-defence. “The NBI [National Bureau of Investigation] has recommended the filing of criminal and administrative charges against the Philippine coastguard personnel,� justice secretary Leila de Lima said.

De Lima said she could not disclose the specific charges pending clearance from President Benigno Aquino, whose office is reviewing the recommendation and will decide what action to take.

The May 9 incident occurred in waters near a Philippine island Taiwan claims as part of its economic zone. AFP

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Trial in Thailand gives new hope in HIV fight Simeon Bennett

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ILEAD Sciences’ Viread pill reduced the risk of injecteddrug users contracting the AIDS virus by half in a study in Thailand, a finding that may give public health officials a new weapon to fight HIV’s spread.

In a trial involving 2,413 HIV-negative drug users in Bangkok over five years, those who received Viread daily were 49 per cent less likely to get infected with HIV than those who got a placebo, researchers from the Thai Ministry of Public Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday in The Lancet.

The findings confirm the results of earlier studies that show Foster City, Californiabased Gilead’s Viread and Truvada can prevent infections among people at risk of catching the virus, an approach called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. Health officials are planning pilot programs to turn the promising study into a real-world

public health intervention.

“In this population now we have an additional tool to help protect against HIV infection,” Michael Martin, a researcher with the Atlantabased CDC who helped lead the trial, said in a telephone interview. “In some ways the work starts now to determine how PrEP can be effectively integrated into current strat-

percent in gay and bisexual men, and by as much as 75 per cent in heterosexual couples in which one member is infected. Another trial among heterosexual women in Africa failed because the women didn’t consistently take the pills. This study is the first to show it also works for illicit drug users.

Participants in the trial were

The important part about the study is that the proof of concept is clear egies to reduce HIV infection around the world.”

Injected drug use is one of the main means of transmission of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where new infections rose 7.7 per cent from 2001 to 2011, defying a global downturn in the virus’s spread, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS. Previous studies have shown PrEP can help reduce the risk of HIV infection by 44

The hand of a patient living with HIV/AIDS at a hospice at an Buddhist temple in Lopburi province, 150 kilometres north of Bangkok in December 2010. AFP

chosen at random to receive either Viread or placebo. Still, not everyone took the pill every day. Among those who did, the risk reduction was as much as 74 per cent. Those who contracted HIV were referred for care to Thailand’s health system, while those who remained HIV negative are being offered Viread for another year.

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riskiness of their behaviour, condoms and home visits if they didn’t show up for an appointment, a level of support that drug users may not have outside of a trial, said Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“In the real world they’re not going to have the close following that they have when they’re in a study,” Fauci said in a telephone interview. “The important part about the study

is that the proof of concept is clear. Now we’ve just got to do a better job of making sure we implement it in a way that you get an effective response outside a clinical trial.”

The Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada, a combination of Viread and another Gilead drug called Emtriva, almost a year ago for use by healthy heterosexual or homosexual people who are at high risk of being infected with HIV.

Drug users will need more than a daily pill to keep them from becoming infected, said Peter GodfreyFaussett, UNAIDS’s senior science adviser.

“HIV is only one of the many threats to many injecting drug users’ daily lives,” he said in an email. “On the other hand, additional effective prevention tools are very welcome. The challenge is how to build prevention literacy.”

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World Faces of Lego figures have become angrier, say researchers in NZ LEGO hasn’t just become astronomically expensive in the past 35 years. According to a new study from researchers in New Zealand, the popular kids’ toys have also developed a bit of an attitude problem.

Lego characters released since the early ’90s are proportionately more angry, the study found. Authors of the study hypothesised that the spike in negativity could be related to the release of more thematic Lego sets – such as pirates or Harry Potter – that include weapons, along with mini figurines representing “good guys” and “bad guys”.

“It is our impression that the themes have been increasingly based on conflicts,” wrote researchers Christoph Bartneck, Mohammad Obaid and Karolina Zawieska. Two of the authors work for the University of Canterbury; the third is from the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements.

Researchers arrived at this conclusion through a scientific process that can read as almost comical, given the subject matter: After cataloguing and photographing the 3,655 Lego characters released between 1975 and 2010, the researchers asked 264 American adults to characterize the figures’ expressions as angry, happy, sad, disgusted, surprised or fearful.

The researchers found a proportional growth of angry faces since the early ’90s. Variables such as skin colour and whether the figure’s head is attached to a body didn’t substantially

throw off their conclusions.

That’s pretty alarming in a world in which chewing a PopTart into a gun shape is grounds for school suspension – as a Maryland boy learned in the spring – and the psychological effect of violent video games remains hotly debated.

One would predict that conflict-oriented figurines are the last thing parents want in their kids’ toy chests. In fact, the researchers themselves sounded concerned about the implications for child psychology, saying: “We cannot help but wonder how the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts how children play . . . The children that grow up with Lego today will remember not only smileys, but also anger and fear in the Minifigures’ faces.”

But before you confiscate your kids’ Lego, consider the good that even angry Legos can do. The study’s authors said that a range of emotional expressions connect “to the complex interaction scenarios of today’s users”. And some child psychologists have suggested that conflict-driven games, even those with toy weapons, help kids grapple with issues like “the struggle between good and evil”, a point made by George Washington University’s Jonathan Turley in a controversial 2011 op-ed in USA Today.

Lego does still sell boring old building blocks. They may lack flashy movie tie-ins – Hobbit Lego, anyone? – but experts agree they’re still great for kids.

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An exhibitor passes a Lego exhibit at the Toy Fair 2012 at the Olympia Grand Hall in London in January 2012. REUTERS

Razor wire surrounds the Lough Erne Golf Resort in County Fermanagh where the G8 summit is being held next week.

Irish isolation for G8 summit Peter Muhly

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IGHT of the world’s most powerful leaders will shut themselves away in splendid isolation for the G8 summit from Monday in a resort in a picturesque area of Northern Ireland that was once a bastion of the Irish Republican Army.

US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among the leaders holding two days of talks at the exclusive Lough Erne golf and spa resort, surrounded by freshwater lakes and located eight kilometres from the town of Enniskillen.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, the summit host, has chosen the secluded location for security reasons and to stave off protests from anti-capitalism demonstrators who have haunted recent G8 summits.

Despite its remote location, the meeting will be surrounded by the biggest police operation in Northern Ireland’s history, involving 8,000 officers, although many will be deployed 80 miles away in the capital, Belfast, where demonstrations are expected.

Police also fear that dissident republican extremists

opposed to the peace process in Northern Ireland might seek to launch a headlinegrabbing attack in Belfast.

A forbidding security fence has been erected around the perimeter of the summit venue and an 11-kilometre stretch of the lough, or lake, has been shut.

Yet the choice of the venue is also highly symbolic, designed to highlight the progress made by the British province in the 15 years since the end of three decades of

extraordinary part of our country,”said Cameron.

Today, although the economy of Northern Ireland is sluggish, Enniskillen is an attractive, bustling town that has undergone a substantial facelift for the G8 summit.

The local authorities say the revelation that two empty shops in the nearby village of Belcoo have been given fake shopfronts – hiding the fact that they are out of business – is misleading.

“Enniskillen has never

Frankly, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, it would have been unthinkable to hold a G8 in Northern Ireland bombings and shootings in the sectarian conflict known as the Troubles.

Enniskillen itself was the site of a notorious IRA bombing in 1987, when 11 people were killed and 63 injured as they paid their respects to the war dead at a Remembrance Day ceremony.

“Frankly, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, it would have been unthinkable to hold a G8 in Northern Ireland in County Fermanagh, and I’m really proud that we’re taking the G8 there to showcase this

looked better,” Brendan Hegarty, chief executive of Fermanagh District Council, said. “On the island of Enniskillen more than 140 properties have had new signage so when you take it in that context the window dressing to these shops is marginal.”

The town of around 13,000 residents, nicknamed the Venice of Ireland for its watery abundance, has a proud history, and writers Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde went to school there.

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best face to the leaders, although no visit is officially scheduled.

“There would be a general air of expectation that someone would come out from the event [to visit the town] – and there would be a degree of disappointment if that did not happen,” Hegarty said.

“We understand the security and logistical issues, but if they do come out, we’re here and we’re prepared to show the world leaders what a fantastic area this is.”

Police have voiced fears that dissident republicans – those splinter groups fighting for a united Ireland which refuse to abide to the peace process – will seek to use the summit to attack the security forces.

The focus of concerns is Belfast, though many of the dissidents know the terrain of County Fermanagh well.

“We expect something all the time. That’s our normal business – that’s the sad reality of Northern Ireland,” said Alistair Finlay, the assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

The two main organised protests against the G8 will take place in Belfast tomorrow, when a total of 10,000 people are expected to take part. AFP

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Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday.

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Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

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URKEY’S economy has been booming for a decade, earning praise not only from financial markets, but also from development economists like Jeffrey Sachs. ceful demonstrations that began in Istanbul’s landmark Taksim Square turned into a nationwide protest movement, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in opposition to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government?

Sachs, and others, have rightly acknowledged and praised the Erdoğan government for its economic policies, which have led to a higher growth rate.

But the question is whether a developing country like Turkey can sustain rapid economic growth if the same government is undermining basic liberties and impeding the advance of key institutions needed for long-term success.

The Erdoğan government’s brutal response to the protests highlights this dilemma. Initially, fewer than 200 peaceful demonstrators gathered in an effort to protect Taksim Square – the last green space left in central Istanbul – against the construction of yet another shopping mall.

As the government cracked down, with Erdoğan adopting an uncompromising position in defiant speeches, the protests grew – and continue to grow, despite (or per-

haps because of ) the use of excessive police force.

Unofficial figures indicate that more than 1,000 people have been injured so far, and more than 1,000 have been arrested.

True, Turkey’s annual GDP growth has averaged 5 per cent over the last decade of rule by Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).

But this should not lead anyone to conclude that Turkey is a development success story.

If we have learned anything from the extensive research on growth and development that now exists, the key to sustainable progress lies in a country’s institutional design.

Institutions embody and reinforce a society’s rules. They consist of both informal constraints (traditions and cultural norms) and formal rules (constitutions, laws and regulations).

They shape the structure of an economy.

There is an important distinction between policies and institutions.

Policies reflect choices that are made within a political and social structure – that is, within a set of institutions.

It is the institutions within which policies are framed that ultimately affect economic performance.

Property rights, for example, influence investment decisions by protecting entrepreneurs against the risk of expropriation, and an independent judiciary is necessary to ensure credible enforcement of such rights.

Turkey still lacks the institutions that are critical for long-term progress.

Its International Country Risk Guide score (a commonly used index that measures the overall quality of a country’s institutions) is one of the lowest in the OECD. Turkey also ranks last in the OECD’s Better Life Index. Only 31 per cent of adults aged 25-64 have completed secondary school; inequality is dangerously high; and, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more journalists are imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country, including China and Iran.

The 2013 report by the democracy watchdog Freedom House indicates that civil liberties in Turkey are increasingly threatened.

In recent years, much research has investigated the complex relationship between culture and institutions, with the former creating a set of informal constraints on the latter.

Can Turkey lead the way among Muslim-majority countries in showing that a rather conservative culture is not a constraint on the type of institutions that are needed for sustainable growth and development?

Turkey’s success, as measured in terms of economic growth, is impressive indeed. Prudent monetary and fiscal policies, a clean-up of the banking system after the 20002001 crisis and investment in infrastructure surely played a part.

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These policies set in motion a process of transitional/catch-up growth, with Turkey steadily closing the income gap vis-à-vis rich countries.

But we should not mistake transitional growth with long-term success, which requires strong institutions, including protection of property rights and civil liberties.

This, in turn, will help to realise investments in education (especially for women) and technology, together with structural reforms, all of which have been highlighted as areas of concern in several studies of Turkey in recent years.

It is far too early to ask “how did Turkey do it?” and declare an answer based on policies that will boost short-run growth but that will run out of steam if not properly augmented.

Whether or not Turkey is a longrun development success remains to be seen. The indicators so far are not very favourable.

The recent events in Taksim Square and in other Turkish cities are a stark reminder of the country’s still-weak institutional infrastructure.

People are still in the streets – and they seem in no hurry to go home. I hear them chanting as I write this: “Democracy without liberty is no democracy.”

Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is Senior Resident Scholar at the International Monetary Fund.

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PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG 1.2.4.7

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Church of The Birth of Holy Mother in Rila Monastery, Sofia: Bulgaria’s 365 Association runs free tours in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. afp

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12:20

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MI 622

2.4

08:40

11:25

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12:35

15:55

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1.3.6

10:40

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‘Free’ city tours gain popularity Vicky Baker

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HEN is a free tour not a free tour? When it is, more accurately speaking, a pay-what-youwant tour.

The concept of a city tour where there is no set charge and tourists show their appreciation by leaving a tip is becoming increasingly popular across Europe and beyond. An increase in budget-conscious travel, a growth of savvy operators, and the ease of wordof-mouth internet marketing is helping drive the trend.

For the tourist, the approach is simple: you check the tour’s website to find the daily meeting place; take the tour alongside anyone else who happens to turn up; and then leave a tip at the end (knowing full well that “free” is loosely employed as a marketing tactic and you are expected to part company with more than a handshake).

For the operator, it can be surprisingly lucrative on a good day and favourable reviews are pushing the best ones up the ranks on peerto-peer review sites. (On Tripadvisor, Bowl of Chalk’s paywhat-you-like tours of London are currently rated number 15 out of the 431 activities listed in the capital.)

Europe is firmly at the centre of this growing trend, with research by Bulgaria’s 365 Association (which runs free tours in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna) showing that there are now 67 “free” tours across the continent, with the largest number in recession-hit Spain.

The tours are akin to Berlin’s long-established “honesty” bars and restaurants, where patrons pay what they think the meal is worth. Many of the new tours are set up by lone entrepreneurs, but a handful have found success as multicity businesses.

The nature of the tour brings no hard and fast rules; some operators are more up front than others. Some avoid

the word “free” or state that tips are not obligatory; some are run by certified guides as a business; others are just a weekend hobby.

Jonnie Fielding from Bowl of Chalk, who offers three different tours of London, says he set up his tours as a more alternative to another “free tour” he took, which ended with “a sob story, guilt-tripping people into handing over cash”.

Fielding, who initially advertised the tours by putting posters up around east London, says the model has worked well from him.

“If people have paid up front for something, they tend to complain about stuff: the weather [one woman demanded her money back because it rained], the fact they thought it was a bus tour, it was not quite what was billed on the website, if others in the group are slow et cetera.”

For tourists, the other advantage is that it allows for spontaneous travel: if you oversleep or the weather is bad, you just try again next time.

Jonathan Evans – a British expat who runs the similarly principled Buenos Aires Local Tours and who, like Fielding, took to outdoor guiding to escape an office job – says he doesn’t suggest how much his tourists should tip.

“I would feel very uncomfortable suggesting how much people tip because I advertise it as free. If I get to the end and tell you how much to give then it’s not free.”

Evans also says attempts to deviate from this approach or lay down rules can backfire: “I went on a free tour in another city and I had an amount in my head that I was going to leave, but at the end he gave us a suggested amount, which was actually half the tip I was going to give.”

The UK-based Guild of Registered Tour Guides says they do not support the model.

“Being a tour guide is a professional job,” says spokesperson Maggie Barnes. the guardian

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Sport NHL Stanley Cup

Hawks stun the Bruins in third overtime

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Horseplay A local man rides a horse during the Lok Ta Pring Ka-Ek religious festival in Kandal province yesterday. The festival included bareback horse races as entertainment.

SRENG MENG SRUN

ndrew Shaw scored with 7:52 left in the third overtime to lift the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday.

Shaw was positioned in front of the net when the puck deflected off his right knee and past Boston goalie Tuukka Rask, as Chicago took the opening game of the first ever Stanley Cup finals showdown between the two Original Six franchises.

Michal Rozsival’s long shot from the blue line first deflected off the stick of Blackhawks forward Dave Bolland before changing direction a second time when it hit Canadian Shaw, capping the 112-minute marathon contest, the fifth-longest game in Stanley Cup finals history.

Bolland, Brandon Saad, of the United States, and Sweden’s Johnny Oduya also scored for Chicago, who are seeking their second Stanley Cup title in four years.

“It’s huge comeback from 3-1 down,” Bolland said. “With us we have been down before and we do a great job of coming back. We made a few mistakes but we capitalized on others.”

Milan Lucic had two goals and one assist, and Patrice Bergeron had a goal for the Bruins, who were coming off a four game sweep over Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins in the league semifinals.

Game two tomorrow in Chicago. AFP

Spanish MotoGP trio target victory at Catalonia circuit

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eigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo is looking to build on his impressive victory at the Italian Grand Prix a fortnight ago when attention switches to the Catalan Grand Prix this weekend.

Lorenzo, who has won twice at the Montmelo track in 2010 and 2012, still trails compatriot Dani Pedrosa by 12 points in this season’s championship after five races, but brought himself right back into contention with a dominant ride in Italy after a disappointing seventh placed finish at the French Grand Prix last month.

“I’m quite satisfied after our great result at Mugello that completed an almost perfect weekend,” he told Yahama Team Racing’s website.

“Compared to Mugello, Montmelo is a little bit slower but at least there are no first gear corners and hopefully that will help us a lot. This is a good track for us and we have to profit from it and try to repeat the victory. It could be great for the Championship.”

Pedrosa though is hoping home advantage can spur him onto a third victory of the season.

The 27-year-old Honda rider hails from Sabadell barely a half an hour drive from the circuit in Montmelo and believes it is difficult to say who will have the advantage as Yamaha and Honda go headto-head once more.

VACANCY - CLERK The Embassy of India, Phnom Penh invites application for the post of a clerk.

Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha team rides to win the Italian MotoGP at Mugello’s racetrack on June 2.

“It is obviously a good feeling to be coming back to this race because it is always an exciting one for me,” he told motogp.com.

“It’s difficult to say now whether it will be a Honda circuit or a Yamaha circuit, but I hope that the bike goes well there and that we can have a good race against the Yamahas. I would say that victories are key at this stage of the championship and, with strong rivals, it is important to be on the podium.”

And there is another Spanish rider in the championship shake-up as Pedrosa’s young team-mate Marc Marquez currently stands third in the

stadings in his first season in MotoGP. After a stunning start to the season in which he finished on the podium in each of the first four races, including becoming the youngest rider to win a MotoGPwhen he won the Grand Prix of the Americas in the United States, 20-year-old Marquez lost ground on his compatriots at Mugello as he crashed out when seemingly set for runners-up spot after passing Pedrosa.

However, he has been cleared to race again this weekend and can’t wait to get back on the track.

“After crashing out at

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Mugello, I really can’t wait to get back on the bike at my home Grand Prix in Montmelo!” he also told motogp.com “I am more relaxed after seeing Dr Mir last week and he confirmed there are no complications with my injuries and I am on my way to feeling 100 per cent again.

“This is another track where all the other riders have much more experience than me and they will be extra tough to beat, but we will keep to our own program, work hard and try our best.”

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

The prospective candidate must be proficient in English and Khmer languages and should be computer literate.

Interested candidates may send their application by 21st June 2013 to the Embassy of India, No. 5. Street 466, Phnom Penh at Email: hocembindia@online.com.kh or Fax: 023-210914/ 213640.

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Sport

2014 Major League Baseball season to open in Sydney

Australia scored a major coup yesterday when it was announced that the 2014 US Major League Baseball season will open in Sydney with the sixtime World Series winners LA Dodgers facing the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Sydney Cricket Ground will host two games between the rivals on March 22 and 23, marking the first time a competitive US baseball fixture will be held in Australia and only the sixth time one has been staged outside the United States. AFP

Three-way tussle for lead at Queen’s Cup in Koh Samui

Japan’s Daisuke Kataoka continued his fine form by firing a flawless six under par 65 to grab a share of the first round lead with Finland’s Jaakko Makitalo and Malaysia’s Danny Chia at the 9.6 million Thai baht ($312,000) Queen’s Cup yesterday. Bangladesh’s Siddikur stayed close to the leaders by posting a 66 to trail by one in fourth place at the Santiburi Samui Country Club. THE ASIAN TOUR

Turkey protests do not affect Istanbul’s 2020 Games bid

Violent protests that have hit Turkey over recent days need to end swiftly but will have no bearing on Istanbul’s candidacy to host the 2020 Olympics, bid leaders said on Wednesday.

Turkey is also scheduled to host the U20 soccer World Cup, starting on June 21, and the sport’s world governing body FIFA said the tournament would go ahead as planned. REUTERS

Kickboxers walk in front of the new NOCC headquarters building before taking seats for the official opening ceremony yesterday morning at the National Sport Complex. HENG CHIVOAN

Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) stands with NOCC general secretary Vath Chamroeun during the ceremony yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN

PM honours sport veterans C Yeun Ponlok

ambodia’s sporting fraternity turning out in full force for yesterday morning’s official opening ceremony of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters, with former star athletes, coaches and many of the Kingdom’s top sports officials receiving honorific titles and medals from Prime Minister Hun Sen, who presided over the event.

During his address to the 2,000strong crowd, the premier noted his

desire to honour some of the surviving sports heroes of the past and asked the NOCC to try to help find more worthy of recognition.

Topping the honours list of 50 names was Pong Khiev Se, director of local construction firm OCIC which built the NOCC’s new home.

The director had the title Chea Tobkar bestowed upon him.

Meanwhile, NOCC general secretary Vath Chamroeun, NOCC vicegeneral secretary Hem Samnang, Cambodian Vovinam Federation president Roth Sokhon and national taekwondo coach Choi Yong Sok

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Bachelor’s degree in journalism or an equivalent degree At least threes years’ experience in journalism Must be able to speak and write articles in both Khmer in English Computer litraty (must be able to type Khmer Unicode well) Female candidates are highly encouraged Age 25 to 40 He/she will be required to serve on the National News Desk of both the Khmer and English Newspapers - Candidates must have no political agendas, no bias, no nepotism or discrimination - Must be fully aware of and obey all the codes and ethics for journalism - Available to work in a high pressure environment Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and CV to the human resource office of The Phnom Penh Post at the below address: Post Media Co. Ltd, #888, Floor 8, Building F, Phnom Penh Center, Corner of Sothearos and Preah Sihanouk boulevards, Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh or through email address: jobs@phnompenhpost.com; Tel: 023 214 311 or Fax: 023 214 318 Deadline: June 17, 2013 Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.

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of South Korea were given the title Moha Seryvath.

Athletes and coaches who gained international success during the 1960s and 1970s, were granted the title of Moha Sena by the Royal Government.

The veteran sports aces included Um Kim Phin, Doung Samay, Teab Kim San, Hor Vannara, Chan Leang Chhiv, Eab Sodaneth and Ten Sem, while San Kim Sean, Hok Chhean Kim, Chhoun Leng, Bou Vylong, Chhoam Chhary, Nov Pheng, Em Heang and Khong Kim Sim made the list as coaches.

NOCC Advisors Stefano Podini of Italy and Ken Gadaffi of Nigeria received the Moha Sena title from the premier, as did North Korean wrestling coaches Paek Su Nam and Ri Cho Nam. NOCC officials honoured with the title Tep Baden included international cooperation department head Noy Phanna, information department head Kang Sothea, financial department head Tob Panha.

Ban Ratha, chief engineer for the NOCC headquarters building project, was also handed the same honour. TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

Billy Twelvetrees called up

by Lions for Australia tour Billy Twelvetrees has become the fourth replacement called up by the British and Lions inside six days as injury concerns continue to disrupt the touring team’s preparations for next week’s first Test against Australia.

The Gloucester centre has been summoned as cover amid continuing uncertainty over the current fitness of Jonathan Sexton, Owen Farrell and Manu Tuilagi.

The 24-year-old Twelvetrees can play at centre or fly-half and was within an ace of being selected in the original party.

After a fine game for England in their win over Argentina last weekend, he is now due to arrive in Sydney today, barely 24 hours before the Lions face the NSW Waratahs in their penultimate match prior to the Test series.

The starting line-up for the Waratahs fixture has yet to be confirmed but Gatland’s squad clearly has lingering injury issues with the first Test 10 days away. “The nature of a Lions tour means there will inevitably be knocks which take time to recover from,” said Gatland.

“The whole squad have worked hard but a lot of the backs have doubled up over the last two games, either starting or from the bench.

Billy played well in the first Test for England and he provides that versatility to cover a variety of positions.”

From the moment Gatland named only two specialist flyhalves and two inside centres there was always a possibility

Gloucester centre Billy Twelvetrees (right) has been handed a British and Irish Lions call-up because of injury concerns to the back line. AFP

the Lions’s would be stretched at some stage. Neither James Hook nor Jonny Wilkinson is touring with their respective countries, leaving Twelvetrees and Ireland’s Ian Madigan as the leading candidates.

The England player has won just five caps since making a try-scoring debut against Scotland in February but his passing and kicking games are outstanding and he also possesses the physical attributes to match.

He will now join the two loose-head props Alex Corbisiero and Ryan Grant and the Ireland wing Simon Zebo in the Lions party, as the tour medics continue to treat Farrell (dead leg), Sexton (hamstring) and Manu Tuilagi (shoulder). Twelvetrees, who also scored a try in England’s 32-3 victory in Salta, will fly out of Argentina with the

blessing of his national coach Stuart Lancaster.

“All the England players and management are delighted for Billy,” said Lancaster. “He’s played well for England this year, underlined that form with his display against Argentina at the weekend and goes with our full support and blessing.”

Bath’s Kyle Eastmond is now poised for his first start at inside centre for England against the Pumas in Buenos Aires this weekend. THE GUARDIAN

Weekend fixtures Saturday June 15 Japan v Wales – 12pm New Zealand v France – 2:35pm Waratahs v British & Irish Lions 4:30pm Sunday June 16 Argentina v England – 2:10am Canada v Ireland – 7am

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Football

Boeung Ket face stern test HS Manjunath

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ooking solid and seemingly unbeatable less than a month ago in domestic competition, defending Metfone C-League champions Boeung Ket have suffered a baffling dip in form, highlighted by Wednesday’s 7-5 beating at the hands of Kirivong Sok Sen Chey.

If good things happened to Boeung Ket during the first phase of the season, with 10 wins on the trot, trouble has come of late.

Nothing has gone right for Boeung Ket after their narrow defeat by Palestine champs Hilal Al-Quds in the AFC President’s Cup group phase last month. Local side Tanjong Pagar United cut them down to size in the Singapore Cup two weeks back.

Upon their return to the second half of the MCL campaign, there has been one setback after another.

The first to rub Boeung Ket on the wrong side was Asia Europe University, who forced a fighting draw.

Then the Kampong Cham side were done in by an own goal against Build Bright United. To add insult to injury, Boeung Ket blew a 5-3 lead and saw Kirivong produce a four-goal blitz in the dash home.

It is against the backdrop of this disappointing turn of events that Boeung Ket get down to play former league winners Phnom Penh Crown in a crucial tie at Olympic Stadium at 2pm tomorrow.

Crown will be eager to get back at Boeung Ket and avenge their firstround loss. The four-time champions are currently third in the standings at 22, just a point ahead of Naga Corp and Kirivong. Boeung Ket are on 31 points.

Stressed as they are going into this game, Boeung Ket will have to stand up to the tough test of resilience Crown are bound to put them through.

Another high stakes match-up has been fixed for 4pm when Kirivong and Naga get down to fight for better running position in the standings.

Naga’s patchy form continues to be a source of worry for the team’s management. Kirivong, on the other hand, can take a lot of heart from their latest pyrotechnics against the table-toppers.

Bayer Leverkusen have confirmed the signing of South Korean forward Son Heung-min from Hamburg and have agreed the transfer of winger Andre Schuerrle with Chelsea as the club prepare for next season’s Champions League, they said yesterday. The 20-year-old Son, who was outstanding last season, signed a five-year deal with Leverkusen, paving the way for Schuerrle’s much-expected transfer to the London club.

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Namibia derail Nigeria’s early qualification hopes

Namibia derailed Nigeria’s hopes of becoming the first side through to the last round of African World Cup qualifying by holding the continental champions to a 1-1 draw in Windhoek on Wednesday.

Nigeria defender Godfrey Oboabona struck home an 83rdminute freekick to deny Namibia an upset after the plucky hosts had gone ahead through substitute Deon Hotto in the 77th minute. Nigeria stay top of Group F, two points ahead of Malawi, who drew 2-2 with Kenya earlier on Wednesday, going into the last round of matches in September. REUTERS

Swedish club reports itself to police on fixing

Crown captain Bin Thierry (right) battles with Boeung Ket captain Keo Sokngorn during their MCL match on April 3.

One team happy over the diminishing lead at the top of the standings will be Svay Rieng, who are chasing Boeung Ket hard in second position.

Four points separate the top two and Svay Rieng will be hoping to grab the full set of points from Ministry of National Defence when the two sides kick off Saturday’s only fixture at the Old Stadium at 3pm.

Svay Rieng’s time-tested striker

Khoun Laboravy was on a roll against Senate Secretariat last weekend and his blazing form should be a comforting thought for Svay Rieng, though they have to deal with a bunch of tough customers in MND. The battle of the backmarkers features in Sunday’s first game. Asia Europe University has earned a lot of friends through gritty displays against some of the top tier’s most

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seasoned teams, and the Universitybacked side clearly comes out as the form choice when they meet the much tormented Senate.

National Police Commissary are not far from the teams crowding behind Boeung Ket and Svay Rieng, and they will be looking for nothing less than a win over Build Bright United, who received an unexpected midweek gift from Boeung Ket nine days ago.

Messi accused of tax fraud Brazil will be ready for Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and his father denied wrongdoing on Wednesday after the Spanish tax authorities accused them of defrauding the state of more than €4 million ($5.3 million).

The World Player of the Year and his father Jorge allegedly filed fraudulent tax returns for the years 2006 to 2009, according to Jose Miguel Company, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office for tax crimes in Catalonia.

“We learned about the action begun by the Spanish prosecutor through the media,” Rosario, Argentina-born Messi, who has been resident in Barcelona since 2000 and gained Spanish citizenship in 2005, wrote in a statement on his official Facebook page.

“It is something that surprises us because we have never committed any offence,” the statement added.

“We have always fulfilled all our tax obligations following

Leverkusen sign Son, Schuerrle close to move

Lionel Messi and his father have been accused of tax fraud by Spanish tax authorities. AFP

the advice of our tax consultants, who will take care of clarifying this situation.”

Via a complex web of shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, income from the sale of Messi’s image rights was effectively hidden from

the Spanish authorities, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The pair could face up to four years in jail if found guilty, according to Spanish law.

Messi, who will be 26 this month, is one of the world’s highest-paid athletes with a salary of just over $20 million a season, according to Forbes magazine.

On top of his Barca wages, he pulls in about $21 million in endorsements from sponsors including Adidas, PepsiCo and P&G, and is 10th on Forbes’s latest list of top-earning athletes.

As well as income he received from the three companies mentioned above, Messi also avoided paying tax on earnings from selling his image rights to the Aspire Academy in Qatar and from a trip he made with Barca teammates to Uzbekistan in 2008, the prosecutor’s office said.

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World Cup, says FIFA Three days before the start of the Confederations Cup and exactly a year before the World Cup kickoff, FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke dismissed concerns that Brazil will not be ready for the bigger tournament.

Flanked by soccer great Pele, who urged Brazilian fans to stand unified behind their still evolving national team, Valcke unveiled a clock in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday counting down the days until the World Cup starts.

Valcke said that 12 months is enough time to finish work at airport terminals and the 12 stadiums that will play host to the event.

Aldo Rebelo, Brazil’s sports minister, has said repeatedly that the stadiums will be completed by a December deadline.

“That is going to happen,” Valcke said, echoing the com-

ments by Rebelo, who was also at the unveiling of the clock.

“There is no Plan B. There is no solution other than having those 12 stadiums,” Valcke said.

Six of the stadiums, including in Rio, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and three cities in Brazil’s northeast, are mostly completed and are gearing up for the two-week Confederations Cup. The smaller tournament, an eight-team competition that starts tomorrow, will serve as a World Cup warm-up and will help organisers test facilities ahead of the marquee event. REUTERS

Weekend fixtures

Sunday June 15 Brazil v Japan – 2am Monday June 16 Mexico v Italy – 2am Spain v Uruguay – 5am

Swedish fourth-tier side Syrianska Kerburan have taken the unusual step of reporting themselves to police over suspicions of match fixing, according to a club statement.

Bookmakers stopped taking money on Syrianska’s home league game against Kvarnshedens IK after large bets were placed on the away side. Syrianska lost the tie 5-1.

The club said they took the “unanimous decision” to report the situation to police to ensure a thorough investigation takes place and to clear their name.

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Roma appoint new coach AS Roma appointed former Lille boss Rudi Garcia as their new coach on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of managers tasked with trying to turn vast potential into elusive silverware. REUTERS

weekend fixtures 2014 World Cup qualifiers

Friday June 14 Libya v Togo – 11pm Saturday June 15 Botswana v Central African Republic – 8pm Zambia v Sudan – 8pm Uganda v Angola – 8pm Congo v Burkina Faso – 9:30pm Gabon v Niger – 10pm Sunday June 16 Cape Verde Islands v Sierra Leone – 12:30am Morocco v Gambia – 3am Tanzania v Ivory Coast – 7pm Lesotho v Ghana – 8pm Mozambique v Egypt – 8pm Ethiopia v South Africa – 8pm Rwanda v Algeria – 8:30pm Congo DR v Cameroon 9:30pm Liberia v Senegal – 11pm Equatorial Guinea v Tunisia 11pm Monday June 17 Guinea v Zimbabwe – 12am Mali v Benin – 1am

International friendlies

Saturday June 15 Moldova v Kyrgyzstan – 12am Guatemala v Argentina – 9am China v Thailand – 6:30pm

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End of a legend Indonesia’s former Olympic and world champion Taufik Hidayat hits a return in his match against India’s B Sai Praneethon during the Indonesian Open in Jakarta on Wednesday. Hidayat bid an emotional farewell to a colourful career that made him one of badminton’s biggest stars in front of a roaring home crowd. With hundreds of fans cheering “Taufik can” and waving banners that read “Legend”, the 31-year-old played his final professional match at the Indonesia Open, a tournament he has won six times. AFP

Warner suspended until Ashes D

avid Warner has been suspended until the first match of the Ashes and fined A$11,500 (US$11,000) after a disciplinary hearing yesterday morning over allegations he launched an “unprovoked physical attack” on England’s Joe Root.

Warner pleaded guilty to breaching Cricket Australia’s code of behaviour during the incident, which occurred in Birmingham’s Walkabout Australia theme pub in the early hours of Sunday morning following England’s 48-run win over their old rivals at Edgbaston.

Warner had faced the possibility of being sent home and missing the remainder of the English summer but, despite being banned from the remainder of the Champions Trophy and both Ashes warm-up matches, he will be available for the series opener at Trent Bridge next month.

A statement released by the governing body read: “Cricket Australia advises that David Warner has been

David Warner has been suspended until the first Ashes Test by Australia over allegations he attacked England’s Joe Root in a theme pub. REUTERS

suspended and fined for breaching the Cricket Australia Code of Behaviour.

“At a hearing tonight, Warner pleaded guilty to breaching Rule 6:

Unbecoming Behaviour. [He was] fined A$11,500 and suspended from the remainder of Australia’s ICC Champions Trophy campaign as well as the Australian team’s two

tour matches before the first Ashes Test against Somerset and Worcestershire. Warner will be eligible for selection for the first Test.”

The Australian batsman was withdrawn from Wednesday’s Champions Trophy draw against New Zealand as reports emerged that he attacked Root in the early hours of Sunday morning.

England and Australia players had been in the Walkabout after England’s 48-run success at Edgbaston on Saturday, when Warner was alleged to have struck Root, who is understood to have been wearing a fancy dress wig at the time.

Warner was charged with breaking Cricket Australia’s code of conduct regarding “unbecoming behaviour” and a hearing was held yesterday morning via teleconference. Cricket Australia’s code of behaviour commissioner The Hon Justice Gordon Lewis AM was in charge of the case.

Rain provided further frustration for Australia, with Wednesday’s washout at Edgbaston leaving defending

champions Australia facing a tough battle to qualify for the semi-finals.

New Zealand, chasing 244 to win, were on 51 for two off 15 overs when rain stopped play in the Group A clash at 3.40pm local time (9:40pm Cambodian time).

Under the Duckworth-Lewis method for rain-affected matches, a minimum of 20 overs had to be bowled in the second innings for either side to win this fixture.

But at 6.25pm the umpires decided no further play was possible.

The first no result of the tournament saw both sides take a point apiece. THE GUARDIAN/AFP

Weekend fixtures

All matches to start at 4:30pm Cambodian time Friday June 14 South Africa v West Indies Saturday June 15 India v Pakistan Sunday June 16 England v New Zealand