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THE Cambodia National Rescue Party has initiated a large-scale campaign to rally their supporters by collecting thumbprints for a petition to be submitted to the National Assembly demanding the reinstatement of sacked lawmakers, party officials said yesterday.

Their announcement came as opposition lawmakers submitted a letter to the Constitutional Council yesterday morning appealing for the reinstatement of their parliamentary positions and asking the council to rule the June 5 expulsion of 29 MPs illegal.

Previously, the party has argued that the move was unconstitutional while legal analysts have said it does not comply with the “spirit” of certain laws that the representatives have been accused of breaking.

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday that the petition campaign was collecting thousands of thumbprints from selected local council members at the village, commune, district and provincial level throughout the country, aiming for 20,000 in a week.

“We decided to take thumbprints from [local] council members because we don’t have enough time to do this…before the election campaign kicks off,” Sovann told the Post yesterday, adding that 3,000 thumbprints had already been collected in Continues on page 4

Protesting against defeat Boeung Kak Lake residents protest on the sand dunes of their community in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district after municipal police blocked activists from exiting the perimeter yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN

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‘Welcome to the gutter’ Stuart White Analysis

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N JUNE 1998, during the lead-up to contentious national elections, the body of Funcinpec activist Thong Sophal was found in a dry canal bed in Kandal province.

His fingers and left ear were missing, and the flesh on his legs had been flayed off, leaving only bone, according to numerous international media and NGO reports.

Sophal appeared to have ultimately

How elections evolved from savagery to spin died from at least one heavy blow to the head. Police at the time ruled the death – the fourth royalist killings so far that month – a suicide.

Fifteen years later, as Cambodia enters a new election cycle, there have been no reports of political killings, much less torture on the level of that was undergone by Thong Sophal.

However, with a whirlwind of controversies besetting the leadership of the

newly formed Cambodia National Rescue Party, it’s beginning to look like Cambodian politics have found another, more sophisticated method of

Election 2013 execution – character assassination.

“I think that the resort[ing] to violence has backfired, and undermined the

credibility of the ruling party, and there has been a lot of pressure from inside and outside to end this kind of violence,” political analyst Lao Mong Hay said.

“And now we come to a stage of arousing public disagreements … against the opposition, and also legal action.”

In recent days, CNRP acting president Kem Sokha has found himself at the centre of not one, but two distinct controversies, both of which have

erupted into court cases. In the first, the former Human Rights Party head was accused of referring to the events that took place at infamous Khmer Rouge torture centre S-21 as a Vietnamese fabrication.

Just days later, a woman purporting to be Sokha’s estranged mistress showed up at a CNRP rally demanding money for child support for what she said were the couple’s two adopted children. In the following days, the Continues on page 6

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US envoy speaks up on ouster Kevin Ponniah

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Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (right) enters a meeting with UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh yesterday. pha lina

Thai and Cambodian rulers agree to civility Vong Sokheng

CAMBODIA and Thailand have agreed to maintain stability and peace along the contentious border near Preah Vihear temple, regardless of the decision to be issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) come October, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said yesterday.

The statements were made following a sidelines meeting between Namhong and Irina Bokova, Director General of the UNESCO at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“I thanked UNESCO for listing Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site and for providing a lot of support for culture and education, particularly for sending experts for monitoring and the restoration of Preah Vihear Temple,” Namhong told reporters yesterday.

Namhong said that he informed Bokova that “whatever decision the ICJ makes, the Cambodian government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shi-

nawatra . . . will abide by the court’s decision, and we will maintain friendship, cooperation and serenity along the border,” he said.

After fatal and repeated clashes between 2008 – following the temple’s listing as a World Heritage site – and 2011, Cambodia asked the court to reinterpret its 1962 decision concerning the border area surrounding the temple.

Hearings were held in April.

While the Yingluck government, which is friendly with Cambodia, has assured the international public it will abide by any decision made by the UN court, anti-Yingluck “yellow shirts” have called on the government to ignore the rulings and have threatened mass demonstrations.

Also yesterday, delegates began debates over which sites to newly inscribe on the world heritage list.

“There will be important exchange and debate on endangered world heritage,” Bokova told reporters yesterday, adding that sites in Syria and Mali were especially in danger at the moment.

S AMBASSADOR William E Todd yesterday waded into the debate over the June 5 expulsion of 29 lawmakers from the National Assembly, despite senior government officials warning foreign observers and diplomats to stay out of the issue last week.

Todd, in a personal weekly column published in English and Khmer on local news websites, responded to a reader’s question about why the United States had questioned Cambodia’s democratic process.

“We believe the action taken by the National Assembly limits the space for competing political parties in Cambodia, is contrary to the spirit of democracy, and risks tarnishing Cambodia’s image on the world stage,” he wrote.

The expulsion was “troubling”, he added, given that the world hopes to see “an electoral process that is free from political interference” in the lead-up to July’s election.

“Rather than enabling an honest, straightforward discussion of issues, the National Assembly has chosen to take away the opposition’s voice in

parliament,” Todd continued.

A US State Department announcement on June 8 that criticised the expulsion prompted Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) lawmaker Chheang Vun to label the comments as “unacceptable” last week and re-assert Cambodia’s sovereignty in a specially-convened press conference.

On the same day, Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong also told Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows behind closed doors that Cambodia did not appreciate foreign “interference” in its internal affairs, according to the ministry spokesperson.

Council of Ministers spokesperson Phay Siphan responded to Todd’s words in a softer tone yesterday, emphasising that the decision to strip the lawmakers of their positions was based on law.

“I respect the United States’ voice of concern about this issue but they should be part of strengthening the rule of law . . . and not politicising this issue,” he said.

“The US should help the opposition to behave themselves in the context of [the] state of law.”

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Koy Kuong

US Ambassador to Cambodia William E Todd (right) visits Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province in November. AFP

echoed a similar sentiment in his response.

“The National Assembly implements the law and internal rules of parliament . . . democracy without law is anarchy,” he told the Post.

“Cambodia is an independent country and we have our own law.”

The ruling party has claimed opposition parliamentarians broke the law by joining new political parties, while the opposition, legal experts and rights groups have challenged the constitutionality

of the move made by the assembly’s permanent committee – composed entirely of CPP members.

Since 2009, the US government has spent more than $50 million on initiatives targeting democracy, human rights and good governance in Cambodia, according to State Department data.

Other large governance donors including Australia, France and the EU have remained silent on the issue, despite repeated requests for comment.

More internet scammers busted Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

TWENTY-SIX Taiwanese nationals were arrested yesterday in Preah Sihanouk by the security and information department of the military police for their alleged involvement in a large-scale internet phone scamming scheme, police said yesterday.

Brigadier General Kheng Tito, spokesman for the national military police, said the men were arrested during a raid car-

ried out by local and national military police on three rental villas yesterday morning.

“These people were part of a group of Chinese and Taiwanese scammers who had threatened and extorted money from people in China and Taiwan via [Voice over Internet Protocol] telephones from Cambodia,” he told the Post yesterday.

The group is being questioned at the provincial military police headquarters, and

police will request the court to charge them with extortion and making threats, he said.

National military police believe there were more members of this ring operating in similar set ups across the province, Tito added, and were investigating other villas.

According to a report from the Ministry of Interior, about 600 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals have been arrested from 2010 until early this month on allegations of extorting money by threatening people via phone calls made to China and Taiwan.

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Police block B Kak protesters Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell

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ORE than 100 police and security guards, including riot squad members, were deployed to the capital’s Boeung Kak lake community yesterday to block a protest that, at times, involved only three shouting women.

About 50 members of the Boeung Kak community tried to march from Village 22 in the capital’s Daun Penh district to the Council of Ministers to demand authorities overturn fellow Boeung Kak activist Yorm Bopha’s guilty verdict and resolve their years-long land dispute.

Police and municipal security guards placed roadblocks across the main exits from Boeung Kak at about 7am, preventing activists converging on the Peace Palace, where representatives from more than 120 countries have been convening as part of the UNESCO 37th World Heritage Committee meetings.

The protesters at first tried to push past the barricades before many retreated to the sand dunes of the now filled-in lake, where they burned 11 straw effigies of “corrupt officials” and

Song Srey Leap, a Boeung Kak Lake community resident and activist, attempts to push past a barricade of police officers blocking a street in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district yesterday. heng chivoan

held UNESCO’s and visiting countries’ flags.

This left only three women standing eye to eye with throngs of police.

“We had to block them in,” one police officer told reporters. “We’re afraid they will stop

traffic outside the Council of Ministers.”

Blocked entrances spurned drivers trying to enter or leave, while many of the police protecting the barricades had little to do – a point underscored by the fact some of them were asleep.

Housing Rights Taskforce secretariat director Sia Phearum said he was disappointed the government had denied the protesters their right to freedom of expression.

“The government was afraid they would protest in front of

the Council of Ministers,” he said. “They’re scared to lose their credibility with other countries. But I don’t think this kind of thing works.”

The crackdown brought back memories of police threatening to detain children and other street sellers in order to “protect” world leaders visiting for last November’s ASEAN summit.

It also bore resemblance to the treatment of villagers detained before the same summit for spray-painting SOS on their roofs near the Phnom Penh International Airport to attract the attention of visiting US President Barack Obama.

Chan Putisak, a representative of Boeung Kak’s Village 1 community said yesterday he had wanted to tell the foreign delegates that he had yet to receive a land title.

“And we wanted to . . . ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene,” he said. “But police blocked us.”

Phnom Penh municipal police chief Choun Sovann hung up the phone yesterday when asked about the roadblocks.

Long Dimanche, a spokesman for Phnom Penh Municipal Hall, could not be reached for comment.

Public Health

Malaria rates see big dip in first 5 months

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ALARIA cases have continued to plummet, with an 85 per cent drop in deaths from the mosquito-borne blood disease during the first five months of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to figures released yesterday by the National Centre for Malaria (CNM).

Four people died from malaria between January and June, compared with 27 in 2012. During those months in 2012, 31,099 were confirmed to have contracted the illness.

This year, there have been 13,706 confirmed cases - a 56 per cent reduction.

The government has set a goal of zero malaria deaths by 2015 and zero cases by 2025.

But though there have been stark improvements, combating drug resistant malaria on the Thai-Cambodian border continues to plague public health officials.

In April, the World Health Organisation launched a $400 million, three-year program aimed at staunching the resistant disease. Melissa McMorran

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Driver insists Samphan nice Justine Drennan

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EVERAL witnesses at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have mentioned that, as head of state, co-accused Khieu Samphan rode in a small, wall-less Lambretta car – evidence, they claim, of his modest lifestyle and lack of true power during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Yesterday, the tribunal heard testimony from a driver of that car, Leng Chhoeung, who was just 15 or 16 when tasked with Khieu Samphan’s transportation in 1978.

Like other witnesses called by Samphan’s defence team, Chhoeung described Samphan as a “respectable, gentle, honest and kindhearted person” who lived humbly and instructed Chhoeung to “waste not, want not”.

But despite frequent contact with Samphan, Chhoeung, like Samphan’s wife So Socheat last week, offered few details on Samphan’s activities, frequently pleading ignorance or

forgetfulness because “at that time I was very young” and “don’t want to speculate”.

Chhoeung said that in the seven or so months between his appointment as driver and Vietnam’s overthrow, he drove Samphan about once a week to K-1, Pol Pot’s headquarters, and would see Nuon Chea and Ieng Sary’s drivers there.

To Chhoeung’s knowledge, Samphan never visited any security centres or received any visitors, he said.

Despite learning from the radio that Samphan was president of the state presidium, Chhoeung said he had the impression that Samphan actually was not very powerful and “did not have much work to do”.

In response to prosecutors’ questions, Chhoeung said he had voluntarily joined the Khmer Rouge through its children’s unit in 1973, against his parents’ wishes, and had suffered no hardship under the regime. Court resumes on Wednesday.

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Kampong Speu. According to a copy of the petition sent out to the media yesterday, signatories declare that a “huge demonstration” will be held nationwide if the National Assembly fails to reinstate the lawmakers.

“Currently the National Assembly is no longer valid, so there must be an urgent solution to validate it,” the petition states.

When pressed on whether the CNRP was targeting its own membership because the public would fear putting their names to the petition, Sovann insisted that time was the important factor.

“If we were collecting from [ordinary] people we would have thousands and thousands of thumbprints, but we don’t have time,” he said. “[The public] are not scared at all [to sign the petition], they are brave because they vote for the CNRP,” he said.

The ruling party, however, stuck to their guns yesterday with senior Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap maintaining that the expelled lawmakers broke the law.

“They can do whatever they want but what we did was based on the law. They left their [orig-

Opposition lawmakers Mu Sochua (left) and Son Chhay speak at a press conference in Phnom Penh in February. pha lina

inal] political party . . . and joined with the CNRP, a party which is not entitled to be in the parliament for its fourth mandate,” he told the Post.

Several laws were contravened by party-hopping lawmakers, he added, including articles of the constitution, the law on political parties, election laws and internal National Assembly protocols.

“What they are doing is not scaring the National Assembly.

Even the Constitutional Council supports what the [assembly] did to those lawmakers,” he said.

“They are legal practitioners but they walk above the law,”

he added. Despite CNRP moves to get themselves back into the assembly before the election campaign kicked off, the Constitutional Council was unlikely to rule in their favour, Sovann said.

“I think if they respect the law, if the Constitutional Council is really independent and neutral, we will have a fair decision. But in the past, we have never got a fair trial at all,” he said.

After the 2008 national election, the Sam Rainsy Party – which joined with the Human Rights Party to form the CNRP – filed a complaint with the council against the National Election Committee for omit-

ting names of eligible voters from the voter list.

The council dismissed that complaint in what the party argued was a political decision.

Sovann also refused to rule out the prospect of a CNRP boycott of the election with only nine days before campaigning officially begins.

“There’s an open option about the election. The CNRP are considering several options, changing them from one hour to another,” he said, adding that the party would hold a press conference on June 20 to state its final decision. ADDITIONAL REPORTING

BY KEVIN PONNIAH AND ABBY SEIFF

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After Russian charges, court vows to hold Polonsky trial Cheang Sokha and Shane Worrell

RUSSIAN property tycoon Sergei Polonsky will be prosecuted here on intentional violence charges before any possible extradition to Russia on fraud charges, Cambodian authorities said yesterday – but it remains unclear whether he’s even still in the Kingdom.

Russia’s Ministry of Interior announced on Friday that Polonsky had been charged in absentia with fraud over an alleged $176 million building venture that never went ahead.

But Keo Vanthan, director of Interpol Police at Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior, said Polonsky’s criminal trial in Cambodia must take precedence.

“He has to face legal action in Cambodia,” he said. “We have communicated to Russian authorities that [Polonsky] has been arrested on charges of violence and must be prosecuted here.”

Polonsky, the owner of property company Mirax, was arrested on December 30 for allegedly threatening six

boatmen with a knife and forcing them to jump overboard near his private island off Sihanoukville.

After the boatmen accepted $20,000 to drop the complaints in January, the investigating judge, Sar Lina, proceeded with the case, releasing Polonsky on bail in April with strict orders that he stay in Cambodia until his trial.

It has since been reported that Polonsky has travelled to Switzerland and Israel. But this remains unconfirmed, and Polonsky was last week updating his Facebook page from Siem Reap.

Vanthan said yesterday that Cambodian police received a request from Interpol in Russia to arrest Polonsky in January, but he was already in prison on separate charges.

Polonsky was charged in absentia on Friday with “fraud committed on a large scale”, Russia’s Ministry of Interior said.

Eighty stakeholders in a shared construction residential complex in Moscow were affected by the alleged $176 million fraud, it added.

According to an article in English newspaper The Inde-

pendent, Polonsky’s failure to answer the summons “could now trigger an Interpol search warrant and demands that he is extradited to Russia”.

“Come to Moscow and check building before publish lie,” he tweeted in response to the story.

Lina, the judge in charge of Polonsky’s case at Preak Sihanouk Provincial Court, said she had finished investigating.

“It’s out of my hands [now].

Any decision about a date will be made by the court,” she said.

Lina and Polonsky’s lawyer, Kong Rady, declined to comment on Polonsky’s whereabouts.

“I don’t know anything about his case in Russia and even his case in Cambodia still has not progressed,” Rady said.

Asked via Twitter whether he was still in Cambodia, Polonsky replied to the Post: “I’m not going answer this question.”

He then said he believed his Cambodian case would be held by the “end of summer”. www.phnompenhpost.com check the post website for breaking news

Bodyguard charged over shooting spree Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

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HE bodyguard of a high-ranking official was arrested on Sunday and sent to Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday where he was charged on three counts after allegedly going on a shooting spree and threatening to murder two women in Meanchey district last week.

Kheng Sovann, deputy commander of Phnom Penh municipal military police, said Kheang Seila, 33, was charged with threatening two women and causing damage to their car with gunshots.

“He was accused by our police with three charges: violent acts, threatening and causing damages,” Sovann said.

Declining to provide names of the officials involved, a Meanchey district military police officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the wife of a high-ranking official and a maid filed complaints against Seila.

The pair, he said, claimed Seila was ordered to beat them to death by the wife of

Kheang Seila, 33, a bodyguard of a high-ranking government official is seen exiting Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. pha lina

a second high-ranking official, following a tiff of unknown origins.

“He was driving a car and grazed the victim’s car and fired a bullet at the victim’s car causing the mirror to break,” the officer said.

“After that, he followed the victim’s car to her house and slapped the maid’s mouth, causing her injuries.”

Though she has not been arrested, police said they

were also investigating the role of the woman who allegedly ordered him to beat the victims.

Yeth Yakriya, chief prosecutor of General Prosecutor’s office of Phnom Penh Municipal Court and Sok Roeun, vice prosecutor, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Seila also could not be reached for comment regarding the accusations.

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In brief Gas explosion in shop injures three people

A SMALL explosion injured two women and one man in Battambang province yesterday. The explosion occurred at about 2:30pm, after shop owner Keng Sovanna, 38, of Slaket village in Slaket commune, had filled gas bottles at the shop, Battambang town Police Chief Pen Seng Eun said. “It might be a technical problem with the gas filling,” Seng Eun said. The fire did not spread to neighbouring properties and police are questioning all three injured in the blast. Khoun Leakhana

Rong Chhun turns to old textbook in Koh Tral fight

A HIGH school textbook that is almost 30 years old proves Cambodian land was lost to Vietnam under Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia Watchdog Council Rong Chhun claimed yesterday.

The book, used to teach seventh-graders geography under Hun Sen’s Ministry of Education in 1985, says the island of Koh Tral belonged to Cambodia at the time, Chhun said. Hun Sen has long held that Cambodia lost the land to Vietnam in the 1960s under King Norodom Sihanouk’s rule. The premier last week said that members of the opposition party who say they will seek repatriation of the land from Vietnam could provoke a war. Not impressed by the book Chhun found, minister in charge of border affairs, Va Kimhong, said the land was, indeed, lost before Hun Sen came to power. Meas Sokchea

Protests at provincial hall in K Kong dispute Phak Seangly

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ILLAGERS fighting for their land against two firms in Koh Kong province demanded their cases be resolved before next month’s national election at a protest outside the provincial hall yesterday.

About 80 villagers representing 300 families affected either

by Chinese firm Tianjin Union Development Group’s massive $3.8 billion tourism development in Botum Sakor and Kiri Sakor districts or Heng Huy Agriculture Company’s concession in Sre Ambel district braved the rain to demand a solution.

“We want the authorities to measure and give us land titles before the election or we will continue to protest at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in Phnom Penh,” 45-year-old Boy Dy from Sre Ambel’s Chi Khor Krom district said.

Dy said he had lost 7 hectares to Heng Huy, which had been clearing 58 hectares of his community’s land since 2009.

The affected families claim they were coerced into signing over their land to the firm through intimidation from both the company and provincial authorities in 2010 and were never given promised land titles afterward or any compensation.

Last month, they again demanded the contracts were annulled after threatening suicide early in the year.

Hundreds of families have fought Tianjin Union Development Group since the firm

Chanaiwa appeals the PP court’s bail denial Lieng Sarith

More than 100 villagers affected by land disputes protest in the rain at Koh Kong’s provincial hall yesterday. photo supplied

was granted a 36,000 hectare concession to develop its mega tourism project in 2008 and a subsequent 9,100 hectare concession to build a hydropower dam.

Rong Ki, 42, from Botum Sakor’s Thma Sar commune, said Tianjin Union Development Group had taken away 100 hectares of land from his community of 40 families.

“It is the rainy season, but we cannot cultivate on the land, Ki said. Provincial hall administration director Ouch Touch said

12 representatives had been invited to speak with Deputy Governor Phay Thuon Phlam Kesorn, but declined to say if a solution was reached.

Phay Thuon Phlam Kesorn could not be reached yesterday. Officials from Heng Huy and Tianjin Union Development Group did not return calls. Neang Boratino, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, posed that neither company nor provincial officials had any intention of compromising.

DISBARRED lawyer David Chanaiwa called on the Appeal Court yesterday to accept a bail request shot down last month by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

Chanaiwa, who stands accused of beating a group of journalists earlier this year after they tried to take his photo following a car crash, appeared in court yesterday to beg for lenience. While the lower court rejected the request on the grounds that the lawyer, a Cambodian-American investor and former Chea Sim adviser, posed a flight risk, Chanaiwa sought to assure judges he had no intention of leaving.

“I have a role as a legal advisor to the Senate and a rank equivalent to Secretary of State. I promise not to escape and to come back when the court needs me.

And I will post a bail of 20 million riel ($5,000),” he said.

The badboy lawyer and six others were arrested in March after allegedly assaulting a crew of television and print journalists, who recorded ample documentation of the melee. Chanaiwa separately stands accused of illegal use of a weapon – a charge for which he was convicted in absentia in 2011 but never arrested.

Chanaiwa has repeatedly denied the accusations against him and insisted he was not involved in the crash and appeared on the scene only to help his nephew, who also stands charged in the assault.

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woman claimed that her mother had been beaten by Sokha’s bodyguards and filed a lawsuit against him at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

The suit roughly coincided with one filed by S-21 survivor Chum Mey, who has argued that Sokha’s S-21 denial amounts to defamation.

“Look at Sam Rainsy’s case.

He has committed a crime, and the court has tried him, and sentenced him to prison, and he fled the country. And [the CPP] said we had nothing to do with the judiciary, it is independent,” said Mong Hay, noting that legal proceedings have helped lend an air of legitimacy to past attacks on politicians.

“Of course, they are not independent. Our judges, most of them, are members of the ruling party.” he added.

“Look at the debates on the TV – there are some jurists who are working with the government who are trying to justify this kind of action against Kem Sokha. It seems that the whole system is working in the same direction.”

In both cases, Sokha has gone into denial mode, first maintaining that the government, which had released the tapes of his statements about S-21, had doctored the audio,

and then denying having ever met the woman claiming to be his mistress.

In the absence of proof from either side, there is no more hard evidence suggesting the ruling party has concocted the scandals than there is tying them to the killing of Thong Sophal in 1998.

The CPP, meanwhile, has been having a media field day with Sokha’s predicament, with Prime Minister Hun Sen taunting Sokha through the press, saying if he “were really strong, [he] would have filed a complaint against that woman to the court”.

Hun Sen has also lambasted acting Sam Rainsy Party president Kong Korm in recent days after the government leaked recordings of him apparently claiming that the 1970 Lon Nol coup against then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk had been orchestrated by the prince himself.

The premier even went so far as to call out an unnamed opposition member for allegedly attempting to pay a 15-year-old girl for sex, then threatened to leak proof of the improprieties in the event of a denial.

Far from the killings, intimidation and widespread reports of fraud and vote-buying of elections past, the tenor of this election cycle “sounds a bit more like contemporary Italian

politics,” said Justin Di Lollo, a former political advisor to Australian ministers and parliamentarians.

“There is a political ploy of asking a politician to respond to a baseless rumour – and of course responding to a baseless rumour gives credence to the possibility of the rumour,” said Di Lollo, now the managing director of Hawker Britton, a prominent Australian public affairs consultancy.

“In Cambodian politics, if this has never happened before, it could be a sign of desperation, or the stakes are higher,” he added. “In that sense, it could be seen as a maturing of Cambodian politics. And in that case, welcome to the gutter.”

According to Di Lollo, a forceful smear campaign full of damning accusations can be indicative of larger political trends; though one in which there is a marked lack of evidence on either side can offer as many questions as answers.

“If this is a decision that has been made – in other words, if these things aren’t real and are a political tactic – then it is indicative that the party is no longer confident in its ability to win by other means,” he said.

However, he noted, it is important to always keep in mind that such accusations could just as easily be true, or

even what he described as a “double-cross”.

“Could it be that the opposition has created a situation where somebody has come forward to say something about the opposition, in order that the opposition can create the kind of story that you’re looking to write – that the government is looking to use gutter tactics?”

Di Lollo asked.

Such uncertainties could simply be the domain of fledgling democracies, he added, noting that in mature democracies, strong institutions deter unsubstantiated claims, but the lack thereof “increases the possibility for scurrilous behaviour”.

Such “scurrilous behaviour” has the possibility to distract from what’s really at issue, said Koul Panha, head of election watchdog COMFREL. “These personal attacks, personal scandals, controversy – they try to spend a lot of time to talk about personal characters of the leadership, and use bad behaviour . . . This is a little bit more aggressive than before,” Panha said.

Referring to allegations of infidelity and corruption levelled against Prince Norodom Ranariddh in elections past, Panha said that accusations have made it hard for politicians outside of the ruling party to focus on issues.

“Because the voters, they are very emotional with the leadership,” he said. “There were a lot of allegations about Prince Ranariddh. It made it difficult for him to explain something, because the media is controlled by the ruling party, so they can make the information what they want.”

“I found that it’s not so much of a benefit,” he added. “There’s not that rationality. They try to work more emotionally.”

As for whether such emotional distractions will work, Mong Hay, the political analyst, is not so sure.

“It seems that public opinion is more and more aware of what’s going on,” he said, pointing to mounting protests over land grabs whose spread reaches far beyond the communities directly involved.

What’s more, he said, personal attacks in Cambodian politics have backfired in the past.

“We are not so sure whether such extramarital affairs and all that will be condoned or not by the public, but in our history, when people take action against persons who are believed to be honest and working for the people, that kind of action has . . . won sympathy for the victim,” he said.

“You can start with Jesus. The Romans killed him, but later on, he became a hero.”

police blotter Friendly hello leads to a merciless beating A CASE of mistaken identity saw a 23-year-old attacked in the capital on Saturday when he touched the head of a stranger, thinking it was his friend. Police said the victim’s faux pas occurred in Russei Keo district when he greeted the man in a tactile manner from behind. The infuriated recipient of said touching called his friends, and the posse proceeded to pummel the friendly victim. Police caught two of the group, who were sent to court, while the rest escaped.

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Awkward encounter fast turns to marital melee THINGS tend to get awkward when your new wife runs into your old wife at the market.

They can also often get violent.

Such was the case on Sunday when two women met in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet city, with their shared lover in tow. An argument inevitably arose and the women were soon at one another’s throats.

Police had to separate the pair and the current wife has filed a complaint against the ex-wife for attacking her. Deum Ampil

Poor driving skills led to petty thieve’s arrest A 32-YEAR-OLD was arrested after he pinched a car’s side mirror in Kampong Chhnang town on Monday. Police said that he and a friend were drug users and were spotted by officers after nicking the mirror from a parked car outside the owner’s house.

They panicked and fled on a moto, only to tumble off as they tried to evade the cops. One of them managed to escape, while the other was caught and was packed off to court. Koh Santepheap

Gang beating victim unaware of motives A 32-YEAR-OLD was almost beaten to death on Sunday after he was attacked by 10 gangsters in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Police said the man was returning from the pagoda when he was jumped by the masked men who attacked him using their fists and rocks.

He claimed not to know why he had been picked for the vicious assault. Police are looking into the case while the man recovers in hospital. Koh Santepheap

Robbers spill the beans after necklace snatch FEMALE thieves in blotter chronicles are rare, though two Kampong Cham women did their part to reverse that trend when they snatched a farm owner’s necklace on Wednesday. Though the pair escaped into the vegetation after the snatch-and-grab, police managed to catch them and elicit a confession. Kampuchea Thmey Translated by Sen David

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Skyscraper’s woes continue May Kunmakara and Daniel de Carteret

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HE saga of the stalled $240 million Gold Tower 42 was revived last week when it emerged that a supplier for the project had accused the owner and builder of failing to pay out nearly $500,000 in fees, according to an injunction request obtained by the Post.

In a complaint sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on May 7, South Korea-owned subcontractor Do Best Khmer Ltd requested a seizure of assets in the amount it says it is owed from the tower’s builder, Hanil Engineering & Construction, and the tower’s owner, Yon Woo (Cambodia). Both companies also have operations in South Korea.

The complaint alleges that Do Best Khmer was not paid in full for three delivery agreements made since 2010, totalling $476,301.

According to the complaint, the orders were for tile and stone supplies.

When contacted at the end of last week, Leng Souhuoth, an attorney with the P&A Asia law firm representing Do Best Khmer, told the Post he had received a letter from the court requesting changes to the complaint.

“We will discuss with the client on whether or not they want to continue the lawsuit,” he said.

The law firm later said the complaint, which was dated May 22 by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, was ultimately withdrawn. In an official statement sent yesterday, the firm declined to comment or answer questions on whether a settlement was now being sought out of court.

Representatives for both Hanil and Yon Woo both declined to comment.

Sitting on the corner of Sihanouk and Monivong boulevards, Gold Tower 42 got under way in 2008.

The project, however, came to a halt in 2010, due to lack of finances and a global financial crisis that

The Korean-owned Gold Tower 42 building is seen partially constructed at the corner of Sihanouk and Monivong Boulevards in Phnom Penh on Sunday.

crushed the real state industry. Developers once prophesied that Gold Tower 42 would be the tallest building in the city.

Now, the building’s shell, frozen in mid-development, looms over pedestrians and motorists like a cautionary tale of boom and bust.

The May 7 complaint isn’t the first disagreement over the project.

The targets of the injunction, Hanil and Yon Woo, went into arbitration with each other last year, and Hanil was ordered to pay $30 million in compensation to Yon Woo

by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board.

But Yoo Jeoung-hoon, a lawyer at the Jipyong & Jisung firm representing Yon Woo, said the payments had not yet been made, and that the dispute was being settled in Cambodia.

The progress of the tower has been shrouded in secrecy since work stopped a few years ago. In December, a crane was removed from the top of the building without any official explanation, and one of Do Best Khmer’s orders dates to earlier this year.

“Right now, we have suspended it provisionally. We are not sure when we will restart the process,”said Yon Woo (Cambodia)’s assistant manager, Kim Tae Yun, when asked about the status of the project, adding that an official announcement would be made whenever work begins again.

In 2012, the government estimatesdthat investment in construction from domestic and international investors exceeded $2 billion.

At the end of the first quarter of 2013, there were 100 Korean-owned

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companies registered with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Contruction, of which 34 held valid licences.

South Korea was the largest investor in Cambodia last year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct investment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia.

Korea was followed by China, which invested $263.6 million, while Japan was third, with a total investment of about $212.3 million.

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Business

Exports Dip

Singapore’s goods hurt in recovery

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INGAPORE’s exports fell more than economists estimated in May as manufacturers shipped fewer electronics after an uneven global recovery hurt demand.

Non-oil domestic exports slid 4.6 per cent from a year earlier, after falling one per cent in April, the trade promotion agency said yesterday. Shipments of electronics dropped 13.2 per cent from a year ago, extending the slump to a 10th month.

The World Bank last week cut its global growth forecast for 2013 after emerging markets slowed more than projected, weakening prospects for Singapore’s trade-dependent economy. Analysts have lowered their estimate for the island’s export expansion this year to 2.5 per cent from four per cent, according to a survey by the central bank this month.

“The risks Singapore faces are always external,” said Wai Ho Leong, a senior regional economist at Barclays Plc in Singapore. “The external outlook is still fragile, particularly when we’re not well tapped into the smartphone boom that’s going on in North Asia.” BLOOMBERG

banks Asia buyers bullish on waste Thai are gloomy on growth

Michelle Yun

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ILLIONAIRE Li Kashing’s Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd and partners agreed to buy AVR Afvalverwerking BV from Van Gansewinkel Groep BV for €943.7 million ($1.3 billion) to add waste processing in Europe.

The bidding group will consist of Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong, Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd, Li Ka Shing Foundation Ltd, and Power Assets Holdings Ltd, according to a statement yesterday. Eindhoven-based Van Gansewinkel is owned by private equity firms CVC Capital Partners Ltd and KKR & Co. This deal is the second waste treatment investment Cheung Kong made this year, following the NZ$501 million (US$405 million) purchase of New Zealand’s EnviroWaste announced in January.

Buying AVR Afvalverwerking gives Li control of the company with the largest waste treatment capacity in Europe, according to a separate statement.

“AVR’s earnings growth is quite significant,” said Dennis Ip, a Hong Kong-based

Somruedi Banchongduang

A landfill sits on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China in March.

analyst at Standard Chartered Plc. “There’s growth potential in European countries where there’s great focus on environmental protection,” he said.

Net profit at AVR was about €42.3 million in 2012, up from €20.7 million in 2011, according to the statement today.

The company, which isn’t

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publicly traded, is the largest energy from waste company in the the Netherlands, with plants at Rozenburg near Rotterdam and Duiven, close to the German border, the statement said.

Conditions for completion of the acquisition include competition authority clearance, according to the statement.

Cheung Kong Infrastructure “is making good inroads in the area of waste management,” Managing Director Kam Hing Lam said in a separate statement.

“With waste treatment being an imminent issue in most places around the world, we see good growth potential in this business.” BLOOMBERG

COMMERCIAL banks have joined policymakers and state agencies in revising down the Thailaind’s economic growth forecasts for 2013 amid clear signs domestic consumption and exports are losing momentum.

TMB Analytics, TMB Bank’s research unit, plans to cut its gross domestic product growth forecast for this year to between four and 4.5 per cent from five per cent. It also plans to slash export growth projection to less than five per cent from seven per cent. Benjarong Suwankiri, head of the research centre, said uncertainty in the US and China is the key risk factor.

Export-dependent China has been mired in an economic slump for years, while the US FederalReserve will likely wind down its asset-buying spree soon following a set of upbeat economic data, raising fears of an exodus from emerging markets, including Thailand.

The Kasikorn Research Center, a subsidiary of Kasikornbank, is expected to lower economic growth projection by 50 basis points from the current estimate of 4.8 per cent. BANGKOK POST

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Kingdom, Hong Kong boost ties Hor Kimsay

EDC promises more power, sceptics wait Rann Reuy

ECONOMIC cooperation between Cambodia and Hong Kong is on the rise, while the introduction of a new visa extension is also evidence of strengthening relations, officials say.

“We see growing trade ties between Hong Kong and Cambodia, with the average annual growth rate at nine per cent from 2008 to 2012,” Ngai Fong, director of the Singapore-based Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office said yesterday.

He added that Hong Kong was Cambodia’s sixth largest trading partner and is the fifth largest source of imports in 2011.

In Cambodia, there are 56 Hong Kong-owned garment and footwear factories, employing some 35,000 workers.

According to figures from the Singapore office, bilateral trade between Cambodia and Hong Kong amounted to $879 million last year, an 18 per cent increase from the year earlier. On June 1, Cambodian officials will be able to travel to Hong Kong without a visa and stay for 14 days under a new exemption agreement designed to promote trade and development.

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COAL-FIRED plant in Preah Sihanouk province will start supplying power to Phnom Penh and areas of two surrounding provinces this week, cutting down on blackouts that have plagued hotels and residents, according to a statement yesterday from stateowned Electricite du Cambodge (EDC).

The announcement, though welcome, was also met with scepticism from business owners who have fought the shortages for months with pricey generators.

“A new notice, maybe it’s true, because they announced it like that, but in reality, we’ll wait and see,” said So Phonnary, executive vice-president for ACLEDA commercial bank, which has 238 branches and offices. The majority use generators.

In April, the EDC sent letters to some of Phnom Penh’s hotels, asking that they switch to the alternative power source between 8am and 9pm that month.

Kim Chhorng, the general

A monk walks past an electric power plant in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district last year. hong menea

manager of the Pacific Hotel Cambodia in Phnom Penh, said he has not received any notice from the EDC about the new supply. He added that he has operated his own generator for nearly two months.

He said that before, he spent about $5,200 per month for electricity from EDC, while the expense rose to nearly $7,000 per month on his own. The generator “makes a lot of noise” and is difficult to maintain, he added.

A representative with the Cambodia Hotel Association, which promotes the industry, declined to comment.

Keo Ratanak, EDC’s directorgeneral, said that 50 megawatts of power will be available starting this week, calling it “a step toward the stability for supplying Phnom Penh”.

Ratanak also paid gratitude to hotels for operating generators so EDC could supply homeowners.

Markets Business Cambodia shrugs at Gambia’s import ban Hor Kimsay

GAMBIA’s recent announcement that it would ban rice imports in about three years to spur local demand will only have a small impact on Cambodia, which sends a portion of its annual output to the west African country and other nations on the continent, data shows.

“Come 2016, we will ban the importation of rice into this country in order to strengthen local food industries as well as promote food self-sufficiency and good health,” the president said in a speech transmitted by a public broadcaster on Sunday, Rice is one of Gambia’s food staples, but imports, mainly from Southeast Asia, account for a large share of what the population consumes.

Song Saran, chairman and chief executive officer of AMRU Rice, the second largest exporter of milled rice, said the coming prohibition would not impact Cambodia’s rice market.

“It is true that the African region is the new market for our product, but Gambia is just a small market of our rice, and it is only for long grain white rice

[as opposed to the other main export, fragrant rice],” Saran said. “Gabon, Ivory Coast and Senegal are among other major importers in Africa, and those nations are more important.”

According to the secretariat of the one window service for rice exports, in the first five months of this year, Cambodia exported 146,854 tonnes of its rice, a 127 per cent increase compared to same period last year.

Among major market destinations, Africa imported at least 10,000 tonnes, almost 10 per cent of Cambodia’s total market output during the period. In the same time span, Gambia imported from Cambodia a mere 144 tonnes.

A large portion of the current output is heading to countries in the European Union because of tax exemptions and preferential trade agreements.

France topped the list of importers with a little more than 23,000 tonnes during the first five months of this year, followed by Poland with about 22,000, then Thailand, Malaysia and China.

Cambodia plans to export at least 1 million tonnes of its rice by the end of 2015. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP

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Business

A dogfight for business at airshow T

HE world’s biggest air show took to the skies yesterday with a battle between Boeing and Airbus for orders in the lucrative market for wide-body planes set to dominate the Paris event.

European manufacturer Airbus managed to steal a march on its American rival before the show at Le Bourget, just north of Paris, with a successful maiden flight of its new A350 long-haul plane.

Airbus is pinning its hopes on the fuel-efficient A350 to compete in the long-haul sector after gradually winning more than half of the market for medium-haul, single-aisle planes that carry an average of 150 passengers.

The A350 is expected to conduct a fly-by of the air show towards the end of the week, hoping to woo potential customers.

During the show, famous for highprofile announcements of big-money deals, Airbus hopes to add a slew of orders for the plane, set for delivery at the end of 2014, to confirmed contracts with Qatar Airways, British Airways and Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific.

Nevertheless, Boeing is also entering the show in bullish mood as it seeks to move on from its difficulties with the trouble-prone 787 Dreamliner.

Technical problems with overheating batteries forced the worldwide grounding of the Dreamliner fleet in a major setback for the Seattle-based manufacturer.

Engineers check the engines of a Sukhoi Su-35 fighter plane two days before the Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, on Saturday. The Paris Air Show runs from June 17 to 23. reuters

Boeing will showcase the Dreamliner at the event and the firm is expected to announce the launch of its 787-10X, a longer version of the original Dreamliner, which can accommodate up to 330 passengers.

The US firm is also set to announce in the coming months an up-to-date version of its existing 777, with wings

made of fuel-saving composite material like the Dreamliner. Boeing boss Ray Conner said it was going to be a “great competition” and said that airlines would “benefit from the fact that both companies are going to have a good wide-body product line”.

“I think we have the better products and at the end of the day, hopefully

the better product wins,” Conner told reporters on Sunday.

Airbus has positioned the A350 for the market between the popular 777 and the 787, hoping to steal share away from both planes. The European firm argues that its craft will consume six per cent less fuel than the 787 and a quarter less than the 777.

Boeing’s strategy, on the other hand, is to offer its clients a wider choice of long-haul airliners, but Tom Enders, boss of Airbus parent company EADS, said “the jury was still out” in terms of the firms’ respective market situation.

“It’s premature to draw any conclusion and it’s not necessarily the one who has more products who is also better positioned on the market.”

Analysts warned that Boeing’s recent technical troubles may yet haunt the US firm.

“Airbus can, and will, argue that Boeing’s ability to execute is questionable and that the A350 is a better bet in terms of timing and availability,” said Richard Aboulafia, a US-based aviation expert.

Another expert, Christophe Menard, from Kepler Capital Markets in Paris, also noted that Airbus had developed the A350 faster than the Dreamliner, which suffered three years of delays before finally taking off.

At last year’s Farnborough show in Britain, which alternates with Le Bourget, Boeing came out on top, securing orders worth about $35.5 billion, more than double the Airbus haul.

However, while the big two still dominate the shows, other players are entering the market, with Canada’s Bombardier hoping to win orders in the medium-haul segment with its CSeries, a plane with 110 to 130 seats.

The Paris Air Show runs from June 17 to 23. AFP

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Markets Business Telefonica denies sale to AT&T Clare Kane

In Europe, dispute goes on over economic vision

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TELEFONICA said yesterday it had not received any indication of interest from AT&T, following a Spanish newspaper report that the government had halted a 70 billion-euro ($93 billion) offer from the US company.

An AT&T representative told the government about the company’s plans to buy Telefonica and take on its 52 billion euros of debt, leading the state to stop the sale, El Mundo said yesterday, citing sources with knowledge of the deal.

“Telefonica has not received any approach or spoken or written indication of interest,” a spokesman for Telefonica said.

The government has mechanisms to block the sale of any company deemed strategic to the national economy, El Mundo reported. According to the paper, the matter was debated in the Economy and Industry ministries, as well as in Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s office.

AT&T has been looking this year at ways it can grow outside the United States, including via acquisitions and expanding its business serving enterprise customers. A takeover of Telefonica would make it the biggest telecoms company in the world, with a market capitalisation of almost 300 billion euros, according to El Mundo. REUTERS

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RANCE’S ruling Socialists have called for a weaker euro and changes to EU rules on budget deficits, accusing the centerright governments of Britain and Germany of creating economic hardship across the European Union.

At a Sunday conference on Europe, Francois Hollande’s party adopted a policy paper that toned down earlier attacks on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, providing some relief to the French president as he seeks to ease tensions with Berlin.

“Right-wingers have ruined Europe and thrown Europeans into precariousness,” read the preamble to the 13page policy paper which seeks to woo voters ahead of European Parliament elections in early 2014.

“The ambition of the (European) community has been destroyed by an alliance of convenience between British conservatives who only want a Europe on the cheap and a la carte, and the free-market intransigence of the German right,” it concluded.

That was a watering-down of an earlier draft which accused a “self-centered” Merkel of wounding Europe with an austerity drive. The text also resisted demands from the left wing of the party for an outright suspension of EU budget deficit rules.

Instead, the paper said the EU Stability Pact, limiting national deficits: “should be revised to incorporate a spirit of cooperation rather than pun-

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France’s President Francois Hollande (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris last month. reuters

ishment and to prioritise support for growth in each country, respecting (national) specificities”.

The text also called for a re-opening of EU austerity plans agreed for Greece, Portugal and Spain; the issue of Eurobonds; coordinated steps to allow a devaluation of the euro, notably against the Chinese and Japanese currencies; an easing of EU state aid rules; and increased funding for the EU. The paper, while expressing the view

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World Syria set to dominate G8 meeting U

S President Barack Obama and world leaders arrived in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit yesterday looking to put pressure on Russia to back away from its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Hours before the summit was due to begin, host Prime Minister David Cameron said his priority for the meeting was to ensure a peace conference on the Syria conflict takes place later this year.

But amid rising tensions over Syria, talks between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were set to be prickly, with both leaders now offering military support to opposing sides in the war.

“What we can try and do here at the G8 is have further pressure for the peace conference and the transition that is needed to bring this conflict to an end,” Cameron said in a round of television interviews before the summit began.

“We (Britain) haven’t made a decision to give any arms to the Syrian opposition but what

we do need to do is bring about this peace conference and this transition, so that people in Syria can have a government that represents them, rather than a government that’s trying to butcher them,” he said.

Obama’s Air Force One jet landed in a rainy Belfast shortly after 8:35am (0735 GMT) and he headed to a local conference centre to speak to an audience of 2,000 mostly young people, touching on Northern Ireland’s peace process.

“You are the first generation in this land to inherit more than just hardened attitudes, and the bitter prejudices of the past. You are an inheritor of a just and harder peace,” Obama said.

After meeting Cameron in London on Sunday, Putin insisted that Moscow had abided by international law when supplying weapons to Assad’s regime and demanded that Western countries considering arming rebels do the same.

“We are not breaching any rules and norms and we call on all our partners to act in the same fashion,” Putin said.

Obama will emphasise to Putin that Washington wants

US President Barack Obama speaks during an event yesterday at the Belfast Water Front in Northern Ireland.

to keep alive the mooted peace conference in Geneva coorganised with Moscow, which appears to be slipping down the list of priorities.

Cameron also hopes the G8 summit, held in the lakefringed Lough Erne golf resort, will see the formal start of negotiations on a vast free trade pact between the European Union and the United States.

EU nations agreed to go ahead with the talks after late-night discussions in Luxembourg on

Friday to convince France that its prized cultural industries would not be under threat from the pact.

The British hosts of the gathering also want to forge consensus on cracking down on tax evasion and making multinational companies more transparent.

Counter-terror measures will also feature with Britain pushing for a commitment that ransoms will not be paid in the event of kidnapping by militants – something it feels is not being

adhered to by all G8 nations.

Britain is keen to push the issue following a hostage crisis at a gas plant in Algeria in January in which 37 foreign hostages were killed, among them six Britons.

The summit is surrounded by the biggest security operation in Northern Ireland’s troubled history, with about 8,000 officers on duty.

Heavily armed police in armoured Land Rovers are stationed at frequent intervals along the country roads leading

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to the summit venue near the town of Enniskillen.

Police say the expected antiglobalisation demonstrations have been smaller than expected so far.

Cameron will host Obama, Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the summit. AFP

Japan losing to China in battle of diplomatic buffets BELT-TIGHTENING in Japan’s diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapés on offer abroad, the foreign ministry has said, leading to fears Tokyo is losing the battle of the buffets to Beijing.

Diplomats in Tokyo say China appears to be ramping up its spending on its missions while Japanese diplomats are being forced to scrimp, the ministry said.

Allowances for embassy bashes have dropped 40 per cent over the last dec-

ade, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a parliamentary committee earlier this month.

Foreign guests invited to mark occasions such as the Emperor’s birthday have noted the second-rate sake and substandard snacks, Kishida said.

One diplomat reportedly complained the Middle East mission where he worked had been unable to afford to serve the popular shrimp tempura, and this had turned off invitees.

In contrast, Chinese diplomatic missions appear to be hosting evermore lavish receptions.

One senior Japanese ministry official lamented “the gap in momentum” between the two countries, which are locked in a tense territorial dispute, Jiji reported.

Another diplomat said that a Japanese embassy in a western African country “is located in a multi-tenant building, and when you go down from your floor,

shoe-shiners approach you”. “There is no private electric generator inside the building so blackouts happen frequently,” he said.

“In contrast, China has nice premises . . . and when I was there a few years ago it was constructing a brand new building,” he added.

An official from the governing Liberal Democratic Party said party food was sometimes paltry. “There are some cases where the contents of meals are

so poor that holding a reception just has no meaning,” he said.

However, a senior official at a government agency handling economic affairs dismissed the complaints.

“The quality of food or wine does not dictate the quality of diplomacy,” the official told Jiji Press.

Despite the downsizing, Japan remains one of the world’s largest donors of foreign aid and prides itself on having a positive reputation abroad. AFP

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Rains arrive early in India H

EAVY rains lashed parts of north India yesterday, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 people, as the annual monsoon covered the country nearly two weeks ahead of schedule, officials said.

Surprise showers struck the capital New Delhi over the weekend, flooding the arrival halls in the international and domestic airports and leading to traffic jams in some parts of the city, the Press Trust of India reported.

More than a dozen people lost their lives due to record downpours in Uttarakhand state, situated in the foothills of the Himalayas, a local official said.

“Fourteen people have died and more than 50 persons are missing, due to landslides and building collapses caused by heavy rain,” Piyush Rautela, director of Uttarakhand’s disaster management centre, said.

Three members of a single family, including a boy, died when their house collapsed, crushing them in the state capital Dehradun, Rautela said.

“Dehradun received a record 220 millimetres (8.7 inches) of rain in a 24-hour-period yesterday. It has been raining non-

Indian commuters stand under the roof of a bus stop as they shield themselves from a heavy downpour during the morning commute in New Delhi yesterday. AFP

stop since Saturday morning,” he said.

River water levels are continuing to rise across the states, clogging roads and leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded on their way to visit Hindu shrines, he added.

Four people died and five others are feared dead due to landslides in the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh, a

local police official said by telephone. “A family of five, including three children, were buried alive when boulders fell on their house in Chagaon village of Kinnaur,” G Shiva, the police chief of Kinnaur district, said.

“The family was asleep . . .

Rescue teams are on their way to the spot, but villagers say there is only a minimal chance of anybody surviving,” he said.

A few villages close to the Tibet border have also seen unseasonal snowfall, leaving dozens of shepherds and thousands of sheep stranded, a village headman said.

The rains also caused traffic snarls and delays in train services in India’s financial capital Mumbai.

“This is the first time that the rains have covered the country

so early. Before this, the earliest was on June 21, 1960,” BP Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department, told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

The early onset of the annual monsoon has boosted hopes for the country’s farming sector and its slowing economy.

The rains that lash the subcontinent from June to September are dubbed the “economic lifeline” of India, one of the world’s leading producers of rice, sugar, wheat and cotton.

The weather department has forecast India will receive normal rains this year, raising prospects of a stronger performance

by Asia’s third-largest economy.

Last year India had belownormal rain in the first half of the wet season. The rains picked up in some areas later, but large areas of west and south India did not benefit.

The monsoon will be crucial for parts of Maharashtra state, India’s biggest sugar-producer, which have been reeling from the worst drought in more than four decades.

Agriculture contributes about 15 per cent to gross domestic product but the livelihood of hundreds of millions of Indians living in rural areas depends on the farming sector. AFP

In brief China’s supercomputer eases into the top spot

A CHINESE supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced yesterday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second. Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed

by China’s National University of Defense Technology, achieved processing speeds of 33.86 petaflops (1000 trillion calculations) per second on a benchmarking test, earning it the number one spot in the Top 500 survey of supercomputers. afp

Bomb attacks kill at least 10 in Iraq violence

BOMBINGS near Baghdad killed at least 10 people yesterday in a second day of deadly violence that, coupled with a prolonged political stalemate, has spurred fears of a revival of full-blown sectarian war.

The attacks in Taji and Fallujah struck a day after a string of car bombs and shootings, mostly in the Shiite-majority southern Iraq, killed 33, the latest in a surge in nationwide unrest with violence at its highest levels since 2008.

AFP

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World

MERS outbreak

Saudi Arabia says four die of virus

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OUR people have died from the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry said on its website yesterday.

Two people died in the western city of Taif and the other two were pronounced dead in Eastern province, where most cases have been registered, said the statement.

The ministry announced three more confirmed cases of people in Saudi Arabia infected with the virus, which the World Health Organisation has dubbed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS. One case of infection was in Eastern province and another in the capital Riyadh, while the third was of a twoyear-old boy in the western city of Jeddah who was suffering from a “chronic� lung problem.

The ministry said the total number of MERS infections in the kingdom now stood at 49, including the 32 fatalities. AFP

Price-rise plans fuel protests Scientist killed self:

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HOUSANDS of protesters rallied across Indonesia yesterday against government plans to raise the price of fuel, with police in one city firing tear gas to stop hundreds storming the local parliament.

Demonstrations were held in the capital Jakarta and other cities as lawmakers gathered to decide on budget amendments that will pave the way for the government to announce the first price rise since 2008.

Fuel prices have long been a flashpoint issue in Indonesia, with economists arguing that huge government subsidies are damaging Southeast Asia’s top economy.

Millions are opposed to lowering the payouts, which keep down the cost of living.

In Jambi, a city on Sumatra island, hundreds of protesters tried to push through the gate in front of the local legislature, provincial police spokesman Almansyah said. “The situation became somewhat chaotic and the police had to fire tear gas to disperse them,� said the spokesman, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

Nobody managed to enter and the situation was under control, he added.

Singapore

A petrol station attendant fills fuel into a customer’s car in Jakarta yesterday as Indonesians awaited a contentious government decision over fuel prices. AFP

A male journalist was hit near the eye by a tear gas shell casing and was receiving hospital treatment, the spokesman said.

In Jakarta, some 3,000 demonstrators gathered outside the national parliament in light rain, setting fire to tyres and waving banners that read “Reject the fuel price rise� and “hang SBY� (President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono).

“Get ready to occupy the parliament building if they raise the fuel price,� shouted one protester through a loudspeaker.

About 19,000 police and military personnel were deployed across Jakarta, police said.

In the city of Makassar, on Sulawesi island, around 500 university students and teachers protested, burning tyres and yelling “revolution�.

While only a small percentage of Indonesians are private car owners, the plan to increase the price of petrol by 44 per cent is expected to push up the cost of everyday goods as they will be more expensive to transport.

The state budget amendments will provide financial assistance to poor households, paving the way for Yudhoyono to announce an increase. AFP

LAWYERS for the Singapore government told a coroner’s inquest yesterday that an American scientist found hanged in the city-state last year killed himself and was not murdered as his family claims.

Summing up state agencies’ findings on the death of electronics engineer Shane Todd in 2012, they said “it is clear from the medical forensic evidence that the medical cause of Shane’s death was asphyxia due to hanging�.

The coroner’s verdict, which cannot be appealed, is scheduled to be handed down on July 8.

Todd’s family stormed out of the hearings on May 21, saying they had “lost faith� in the proceedings and describing it as one-sided. They later said they may have the body exhumed in California for further tests.

The Singapore government lawyers cited suicide notes left by Todd on his laptop computer, a psychiatrist’s testimony that he suffered from depression, and a browsing history showing he accessed suicide websites before his death. AFP

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Environment Indonesian smoke hits Singapore SINGAPORE was shrouded in a smoky-smelling haze yesterday as pollution from numerous forest fires in Indonesia’s Sumatra island spread to neighbouring countries.

The Pollutant Standards Index reading at noon stood at 80, in the higher range of the “moderate” band, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA) website. Any reading above 100 is considered unhealthy.

The haze was visible at street level in Singapore’s central business district but has so far not affected business or air transport. Singapore schools are on holiday.

People with heart and lung disease, those over 65 and children are advised to “reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion” even in moderate conditions.

“The hazy conditions are expected to persist for the next few days,” the NEA said.

Malaysia has also been affected by the recurring haze problem, which occurs in the dry season as a result of forest fires in the sprawling Indonesian archipelago, some of them deliberately started to clear land for cultivation. AFP

A long wait for cleaner air

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HINA’S newly announced measures to combat pollution by slashing emissions from major polluting industries and holding local officials responsible could take 18 years to bring air quality within acceptable standards, analysts said yesterday.

The problem of air pollution has stoked popular discontent across the country, with levels of particulate matter in Beijing measured at 40 times above World Health Organization limits this year.

The measures announced by the State Council, including holding local officials responsible for air quality, and reducing emissions from key polluting industries by 30 per cent within five years, amount to a “milestone in the country’s antipollution campaign”, Deutsche Bank said in a report.

But the bank cautioned that efforts to improve air quality “could last for 18 years, before Chinese cities’ average PM2.5 falls to 30”. PM2.5 is a measure of tiny particulate matter which causes smog and breathing problems.

Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, one of China’s

best-known environmental advocacy groups, said the measures announced late Friday were “a response to public concerns”, but cautioned that “it will be a huge challenge to put the measures into action”.

“The main reason [for pollution] is that the local governments protect polluting industries for the sake of GDP,” he said.

While China has pledged to improve its environment, local officials are incentivised to rank economic growth above pollution reduction.

The new measures, which include a pledge to give local leaders targets for improving air quality, could provide them with “new motivation” to reduce pollution, Ma said, adding: “its not clear how important the environmental goals are in the overall system”.

Ma praised a new requirement that heavy polluters such as power plants must release detailed environmental information to the general public.

“This will change the dynamic,” Ma said. “It’s a big step forward for corporate disclosure, which has always lagged behind in China.”

“I think that these measures

A man wearing a mask is seen on a street in Beijing in May. Newly announced measures to combat China’s air pollution may take 18 years to take effect, experts say. REUTERS

are great, but the challenge is giving the government the motivation to enforce them,” he said.

“The pressure needs to come from the public, because the power of the public is large, and they can push forward air pollution control in China.”

The China Daily, one of the country’s state-run newspa-

pers which have grown increasingly outspoken on the issue of air pollution, said yesterday in an editorial that if local governments obeyed the new measures, “the day would not be too far away when we would be able to enjoy clean air”.

Air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths

and 25 million healthy years of life lost in China in 2010, the US-based Health Effects Institute reported in March, basing its figures on a global survey published in British medical journal The Lancet.

China’s pollution problems are blamed on rapid urbanisation and decades of dramatic economic development. AFP

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Emily Rafferty, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, places a jasmine garland over one of the repatriated Koh Ker statues during the opening session of the 37th World Heritage Committee at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on Monday. heng chivoan

Closure to a tragic time period Dear Editor, On June 11, 2013, after more than 40 years away from home, two 10th-century Pandava statues – also known as the Kneeling Attendants – were returned to Cambodia from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the US. The statues were brought to the Peace Palace of the Council of Ministers where they are on display for the World Heritage Committee Conference.

The act of returning these statues is clearly significant and Cambodia should take advantage by showcasing their return.

But while it is important that Cambodia showcases the successful return of these statues, it is equally important that we complete their journey home.

Returning these statues to their original location will serve as a pow-

erful symbol of Cambodia’s success in restoring its past.

Indeed, the long journey of these statues, and their restoration to their historic home, will carry great symbolic meaning for the long struggle that Cambodians have waged in coming to grips with their past.

Cambodian history has come to be defined by two events: the illustrious Angkor period and the traumatic years of genocide.

In stark contrast to its beautiful Angkorian past, Cambodia has suffered decades of war and mass atrocities.

Beyond causing the tragic loss of life, these events have devastated Cambodia’s social fabric.

While partly a consequence of these events, illegal looting and trafficking of cultural property threatens Cambodia’s rich cultural identity.

Cambodia’s treasured artifacts even today continue to face the risk of being stolen and sold on illicit markets.

Cambodia today is striving to move from the horrors of its past through a variety of efforts and mechanisms.

The prosecution of Khmer Rouge crimes is underway at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), and genocide education programs blanket the countryside.

Under the umbrella of international and Cambodian law, the ECCC is seeking to bring a sense of justice and closure for victims of the Khmer Rouge.

In addition, the genocide education program teaches the younger generation about the history of this tragic time period.

With an eye toward dialogue, reconciliation and public awareness, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and DC-Cam are seeking to build a lasting foundation of truth and memory.

Likewise, the restoration of Cambodia’s cultural heritage plays an important role in helping Cambodians heal and achieve reconciliation.

Reconciliation is about bringing people together, restoring relationships and building a better society.

The protection and restoration of Cambodia’s cultural heritage contributes to this process by rooting Cambodians in their shared glorious past.

In this vein, the return of the Pandavas statues is significant to the people of Cambodia.

The statues’ return symbolizes the restoration of the kingdom’s spiritual and cultural identity.

In addition, with the public display

and discussion of their return, Cambodians will develop a greater awareness of their shared cultural heritage.

It is the combination of these effects that makes the public repatriation display an important piece of the statues’ return.

In addition, the repatriation of the statues comes on the occasion when Cambodia takes a role as a host country for the 37th World Heritage Committee Conference.

This event is important both for Cambodia and the world, and the statues will form an important piece of this event by encouraging the world community to take greater responsibility in protecting and restoring the cultural heritage of looted nations.

But after they are restored and their symbolic message is achieved, we should complete the statues’ journey home.

Returning the statues to their original location will bring a sense of closure to this tragic time period, and it will symbolise another milestone in Cambodia’s renewal of its past.

Sirik Savina, Director, Museum of Memory

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Lifestyle HK eyes up Cambodian art Claire Knox

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EADING figures from Hong Kong’s flourishing art scene have turned their attention to contemporary Cambodian art ahead of a new exhibition in the metropolis, poised to open on Saturday.

Five Cambodian artists who work across different mediums – from the jagged discarded wood and debris sculptures of Mao Soviet to painter Phousera Ing’s moody ink, charcoal and oil swirls – will exhibit their work in the show, named SITE/ CAMBODIA, at the Karin Weber gallery.

The artists hail from vastly different backgrounds: Soviet is from a poor rural village in Battambang, photographer Kim Hak grew up in the same city but under different socio-economic conditions, while Sera fled the Khmer Rouge with his French mother in 1975, never seeing his father again.

Multimedia artist Anida Yoeu Ali was born in Cambodia but raised in Chicago and will be featured through three vivid, stylised performance images and a video piece, while Battambang-born art teacher Srey Bandaul’s organ-like, colourful sculptures round out the exhibition. Hak’s poignant images allude to the Khmer Rouge’s mass evacuation of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Themes of space, memory and identity lace the pieces together.

In brief Head blow leaves Aussie speaking French

AN Australian woman who now speaks with a Frenchsounding accent after a head injury eight years ago has revealed the experience has left her feeling frustrated and reclusive. Leanne Rowe, born and raised on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, was in a serious car crash that left her with a broken back and jaw. “It makes me so angry because I am Australian,” she said. “I am not French [but] I do not have anything against the French people,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late Sunday. afp

Pope blesses bikers for Harley anniversary

Enter the Field #3 / Lift Pose: A photograph by multimedia artist Anida Yoeu that will be shown in Hong Kong.

“There is a wonderful evolution of art happening at the nascent stages in Cambodia,” Hong Kong-based art dealer and curator Katie de Tilly said in an email yesterday.

“I look forward to more artists being exhibited on the international stage from Cambodia. With the lack of Cambodian collectors [in Hong Kong] I assume it will

27: An image from Kim Hak’s Daun Penh collection.

KIM HAK

first be appreciated from Western or other Asian collectors leading the way to a confidence in certain artists, much as was done in China in the early days.”

De Tilly, whose gallery hosted the first survey of contemporary Cambodian art in 2009, has championed Asian art for the past two decades, having shown the celebrated, politically charged paintings and mixed media of Chinese artist Huang Rui, Wang Keping and the Hong Kong based art group MAP office, at her slick SoHo gallery, 10 Chancery Lane.

She has also represented bodies of work by Southeast Asian artists, including Phnom Penh sculptor Sopheap Pich’s glossy, latticed grids and curvaceous bamboo and rattan sculptures to the idiosyncratic Saigon-based production mob The Propeller Group, along with Cambodian artists Vandy

ANIDA YOEU ALI

Rattana, Leang Seckon and Khvay Samnang.

Keen collectors should look at art from the entire Asian region rather than focusing on the contemporary, often radical, Chinese art currently in vogue, said Hong Kong art critic John Batten.

“The Chinese contemporary art juggernaut and its promoters overwhelms attention away from the excellent art being done in Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia.

Smart art viewers never look at the obvious and hyped – but search out what is artistically good. Contemporary Cambodian art is good.”

The interest in Cambodia specifically, can be attributed in part to the ripple effect of New York arts festival Season of Cambodia in April and May, said Jade Ouk, an account manager for arts communications giant Sutton Asia PR. “No doubt that has influ-

enced international collectors and piqued people’s interest in contemporary Cambodian arts,” she said.

SITE/CAMBODIA curator Kate O’Hara from Phnom Penh’s Romeet gallery said she had been interested in bringing together diaspora and local artists.

Artist Yoeu Ali saw the exhibition as a “natural course … in terms of contemporary art becoming more recognised.

“I think it is all part of what has been happening with Season of Cambodia, all the things that have been happening … many other great exhibitions – Chancery Lane in Hong Kong, Singapore Biennale, in Berlin – new artists are being recognised. It shifts the focus on it all being about European and American markets too and highlights that Hong Kong is one of most important and rapidly growing places for art and art centres.”

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CHORAL music mixed with the sound of revving engines in the Vatican as Pope Francis blessed crowds of motorcyclists in Rome for the 110th anniversary of HarleyDavidson. Leather-clad bikers lifted their arms to greet the pontiff as he was driven up the avenue leading to St Peter’s Square to celebrate mass and give his Sunday angelus. Some had “Papa Francesco” flags fixed to their bikes. Emmanuele Jaconi, an Italian biker, said he saw nothing strange in the juxtaposition. “Just because we’re motorcyclists doesn’t mean we’re not Catholics.” the guardian

Superman reboot soars at US box office

SUPERMAN blockbuster Man of Steel soared to the top of the North American box office this weekend, scoring a $113 million opening despite mixed reviews, provisional figures showed Sunday. The Zach Snyder-directed movie stars British actor Henry Cavill as the iconic superhero, with Oscarnominated actress Amy Adams playing Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane in a cast that also includes Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. The movie is the latest attempt to build a money-spinning franchise around the superhero. afp

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12:00

13:45

CZ 6060

2.4.7

14:45

18:10

CZ 323

Daily

19:05

20:50

09:40

13:00

PHNOM PENH - HANOI Daily

17:30

20:35

VN 841

Daily

HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

VN 841

Daily

14:00

14:45

VN 920

Daily

15:50

16:30

VN 3856

Daily

19:20

20:05

VN 3857

Daily

18:00

18:45

PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG 1.2.4.7

11:25

15:05

KA 208

1.2.4.6.7 08:50

10:25

KA 207

6

11:45

22:25

KA 206

3.5.7

14:30

16:05

KA 209

1

18:30

22:05

KA 206

1

15:25

17:00

KA 209

3.5.7

17:25

21:00

KA 206

2

15:50

17:25

KA 205

2

19:00

22:35

PHNOM PENH - INCHEON Daily

23:40

06:40

KE 689

Daily

18:30

22:20

OZ 740

Daily

23:50

06:50

OZ 739

Daily

19:10

22:50

PHNOM PENH - KUALA LUMPUR

5J - CEBU Airways.

MH - Malaysia Airlines

2 Tuesday

AK - Air Asia

MI - SilkAir

3 Wednesday

BR - EVA Airways

OZ - Asiana Airlines

4 Thursday

CI - China Airlines

PG - Bangkok Airways

5 Friday

CZ - China Southern

QR - Qatar Airways

6 Saturday

FD - Thai Air Asia

QV - Lao Airlines

7 Sunday

FM - Shanghai Air

SQ - Singapore Airlines

K6- Cambodia Angkor Air

TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines

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

AIRLINES

KUALA LUMPUR - PHNOM PENH

AK 1473

Daily

08:35

11:20

AK 1474

Daily

15:15

16:00

MH 755

Daily

11:10

14:00

MH 754

Daily

09:30

10:20

MH 763

Daily

17:10

20:00

MH 762

Daily

3:20

4:10

20:05

06:05

PHNOM PENH- PARIS

PHNOM PENH - PARIS 20:05

06:05

PHNOM PENH - SHANGHAI 2.3.4.5.7

1 Monday

INCHEON - PHNOM PENH

KE 690

FM 833

KA - Dragon Air

HONG KONG - PHNOM PENH

KA 207

2

COLOUR CODE

2817 - 16 Tigerairways

HANOI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

AF 273

AIRLINES CODE

GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

CZ 324

VN 840

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

19:50

AF 273

2

SHANGHAI - PHNOM PENH 23:05

PHNOM PENH - SINGAPORE

FM 833

2.3.4.5.7 19:30

22:40

SINGAPORE - PHNOM PENH

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

Cambodia Angkor Air (K6) PP Office, #90+92+94Eo, St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.7Makara, PP, Cambodia.

Tel: 023 881 178/77-718-333 Fax: (+855)-23-886-677 E: mai@royalaviationexpert.com

Jetstar Asia (3K) PP: No. 333B Monivong Blvd.

Myanmar Airways International Tel: 023 220909.Siem Reap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.Tel: 063 964388 #90+92+94Eo, St. 217, www.jetstar.com Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677 www.maiair.com

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

Cebu Pacific (5J) Phnom Penh: No. 333B Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161 Siem Reap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.

Tel: 063 965487 E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com www.cebupacificair.com

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

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

MI 601

1.3.5.6.7

09:30 12:30

MI 602

1.3.5.6.7 07:40

08:40

MI 622

2.4

12:20

15:20

MI 622

2.4

08:40

11:25

3K 594

1.3.6

12:35

15:55

3K 593

1.3.6

10:40

11:50

3K 599

2.4.7

17:25

20:25

3K 591

5

18:45

20:00

3K 592

5

20:45

23:45

3K 591

5

18:45

20:00

MI 607

Daily

18:10

21:10

MI 608

Daily

16:20

17:15

2817

1.3

16:40

19:40

2816

1.3

15:00

15:50

2817

2.4.5

09:10

12:00

2816

2.4.5

07:20

08:10

2817

6

14:50

17:50

2816

6

13:00

14:00

2817

7

13:20

16:10

2816

7

11:30

12:30

12:45

17:05

09:10

11:35

PHNOM PENH SORYA BUS TRANSPORT SCHEDULE INTERNATIONAL ROUTES

TAIPEI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH -TAIPEI BR 266

Daily

PHNOM PENH - VIENTIANE

BR 265

Daily

VIENTIANE - PHNOM PENH

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

VN 840

Daily

17:30

18:50

VN 841

Daily

11:30

13:00

PP-HO CHI MINH DEPATURE

HO CHI MINH-PP

QV 920

Daily

17:50

19:10

QV 921

Daily

11:45

13:15

6:45, 8:30, 11:45

6:45, 8:00,11:30

PP-BANGKOK

BANGKOK-PP

20:10

21:35

8M 403

6:30

6:30

PP-PAKSE,VIENTIANE

PAKSE,VIENTIANE-PP

6:45

7:30

PHNOM PENH - YANGON 8M 404

3. 6

YANGON - PHNOM PENH 3. 6

16:45

FROM SIEM REAP

TO SIEM REAP

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

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

19:10

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

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

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

REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES CALLING PORT ROTATION LINE RCL (12calls/moth)

CALLING SCHEDULES

FREEQUENCY ROTATION PORTS

1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00

1 Call/week

2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00

1 Call/week

SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG (HPH-TXGKEL) SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN - HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB - BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN - SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN

3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59

1 Call/week

1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00

1 Call/week

2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01

1 Call/week

SITC (BEN LINE (4 calls/onth)

Sun 09:00-23:00

1 Call/week

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

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

Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00

1 Call/week

SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ

Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00

1 call/week

SIN-SHV-SIN

MEARSK (MCC) (4 calls/moth)

Irregula

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

34 call/month BUS= Busan, Korea HKG= HongKong kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC Kob= Kebe, Japan KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand NBO= Ningbo, China OSA= Osaka, Japan SGN= Saigon, Vietnam

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

FLY DIRECT TO MYANMAR WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY YANGON - PHNOM PENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON FLY DIRECT TO SIEM REAP MONDAY & FRIDAY SIEM REAP - YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP #90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com

Jars of mustard are displayed on a shelf in Gravelbourg, Canada. The town is a prime producer of mustard seeds. afp

Canadian prairie strives for mustard Clement Sabourin

W

ITH its church and main street, sleepy Gravelbourg seems like just another Canadian prairie town. But it has a little known claim to fame – as prime producer of the world’s mustard seeds.

And growing beneath its placid exterior is a movement to depose France’s Dijon as the globe’s condiment king.

A two-hour drive through farm country from the Saskatchewan provincial capital Regina, the town of 1,200 established in 1906 by four brothers from Quebec “is now at the heart of mustard production”, boasts its mayor, Real Forest.

Canada produces 35 to 40 per cent of the world’s mustard seeds, with Gravelbourg at the core of this output.

The mustard seed was only introduced in the Canadian province in the 1940s, five centuries after Dijon in eastern France, which made it famous.

But France’s Burgundy region no longer mass-produces the seeds and the last big mustard manufacturing plant in Dijon was shuttered in 2008 after being taken over

by Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.

So Gravelbourg now has the chance to step up and seize mustard glory.

The problem is “we sell the raw materials which go elsewhere . . . and the benefits also go elsewhere,” laments Forest, who is searching for investors to help locals kickstart their dreams.

More and more Canadian resource sectors – such as

forestry and diamond mining – are seeking to process raw materials into finished products for export to reap greater economic benefits.

Acknowledging past failures to help farmers turn their crops into value-added products and struggles ahead, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart is adamant: his government wants “more agriculture products to be processed here with brand names”.

“We need to sell not only mustard but also to add value to more of our agriculture products,” he said.

Some have already started getting Gravelbourg’s name out. One local family, for example, started Gravelbourg Gourmet Mustard two years ago, offering a line of condiments made from local harvests.

“Our objective was to use local resources,” says owner Val Michaud, who started the company with her husband.

It is currently the only mustard maker in the province, but its wares are sold in specialty stores throughout Western Canada, and it is soon slated to expand nationwide and beyond.

At present, however, it does not even own its kitchen. Instead, the mustards are prepared at facilities at the local school.

“I’d really like to have our own kitchen next year,” said Michaud, offering tastes of her traditional wholegrain mustard, hot [Dijon] mustard, and a unique garlic and berries blend.

“With our company, I hope to put Gravelbourg on the map.”afp

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Entertainment NOW SHOWING

Cambodia Kampuchea @ Meta House

Legend Cinema

Cambodia Kampuchea, about the nightmare of the Khmer Rouge revolution, features in-depth interviews with the late King Father Sihanouk. Stick around to catch Dreams and Nightmares: Cambodia Ten Years After Pol Pot.

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

9:30am, 2:15pm, 5:35pm

Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard, 8pm

FAST AND FURIOUS 6 Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew in order to take down a mastermind who commands an organisation of mercenary drivers across 12 countries. Payment? Full pardons for them all.

9:35am, 4:20pm, 6:55pm, 9:15pm

Stretch @ lunch yoga Limber up and take a break from the workday heat at Slow Flow Yoga, a class for all abilities.

NOW YOU SEE ME An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

9:30pm AFTER EARTH A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help 12:10pm, 3:35pm, 7:40pm

Phnom Penh Yoga, #172 z2, Norodom Boulevard, 12:15 to 1:30pm

Quiz Night @ Score The late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath make their way from the Royal Palace in 1995. Meta House will show a film with in-depth interviews with Sihanouk tonight. REUTERS

TV PICKS

Cineplex cinema AFTER EARTH (See above.)

9:15am, 1pm

9:20am - THE BOOK OF ELI: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. FOX MOVIES 1pm - JOHN CARTER: Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War vet discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot-tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess who is in desperate need of a saviour. FOX MOVIES

FAST AND FURIOUS 6 (See above.)

4:30pm RAPTURE PALOOZA Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist. Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist. Starring Anna Kendrick.

7:15pm

3:15pm - THE VOW: A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

FOX MOVIES

Justin Timberlake stars alongside Amanda Seyfried in sci-fi thriller In Time, on Fox Movies. BLOOMBERG

8pm - IN TIME: In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. FOX MOVIES

Thinking caps “PRIME TIME” ACROSS

DOWN

1 5 9 13

1 2 3 4 5 6

14 16 17 18 19 20 22 24 26 27 31 34 35

Monday’s solution

Monday’s solution

37 39 41 43 44 46 48 49 51 53 55 56 61 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73

Thing that may be streamed Italian coin, once Gumbo pod “Summertime,” in “Porgy and Bess,” e.g.

Line of cliffs “Muy ___” (very good) “Got other plans, sorry” Gift recipient Act the pawnbroker Hazardous precipitation Cat’s blessing, so they say New Mexico tourist town Tel ___ Not electric, as a guitar An anagram for “times” Luftwaffe battlers (abbr.)

Member of the lowest Hindu caste Marveled audibly Author Bagnold Yuletide strains Hirschfeld’s daughter Ear bone Dud on wheels Go bad Obliging replies Gymnasium for Spartan wrestlers Malign Biblical brother Cable TV sports award Place for the deliriously happy Some window treatments “His” counterpart Breakdown of societal norms (var.)

Tehran tender One time Lucknow’s land Look ___ (explore) Avoid flunking Bark like a dog Trial

7 8 9 10 11 12 15 21 23 25 27 28 29 30 32 33 36 38 40 42 45 47 50 52 54 56 57 58 59 60 62 63 66

Cul-de-___ (dead-end roads) Like some vaccines and exams Span of a typical work day Light, custard-filled cake Hallucinatory stuff Thing between you and an open window?

Asian princess Pro basketball game site Forgotten state Ukraine city Painter Magritte “No ifs, ___ or buts” Source of irritation Carnival-game motion A chauffeur often comes with it Cause to be immobile Rug figure Astute Pedestal percher Grow along the ground Number of Hitchcock’s steps Address south of the border ___ mater Analysis candidates They’re thrown at meets Boot bottom Take charge on the dance floor Turtle or dove’s retreat Ten Commandments mount Genie or poltergeist A big silly Karate move “Love Me or Leave Me” singer Horne “The Lord of the Rings” monsters Botanical branch point “The Last Command” Oscarwinner Jannings Makes lace Keycard receiver Mouth, slangily

The sports bar will host a winner takes all quiz night tonight. Entry for $2 per person. For the unlucky who miss out on the big haul itself, a range of other prizes are up for grabs.

Score Bar, #5, Street 282 7:30pm

Touch Rugby @ 3G Fields Social touch rugby twice a week.

Tuesday nights at 3G Field across the street from the Australian Embassy, and Saturday afternoons at 2:30 at Northbridge International School. All abilities are welcome.

3G Field, National Assembly Road, 8pm

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Sport

Volleyball championship hits off in five provincial centres

The opening round of the 2nd Leo’s National Volleyball Cup got under way yesterday at five locations across the Kingdom, with teams vying for a place in the final phase, to be played at Beeline Arena from October 18-26.

Group matches in the provincial capitals of Kampong Cham, Battambang, Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk, as well as Phnom Penh, will run until September 17. CHORN NORN, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

England qualify for Champions Trophy semi-finals with win Hosts England advanced to the Champions Trophy semi-finals on Sunday after defeating New Zealand by 10 runs in a rain-reduced Group A match in Cardiff which looked likely at one stage to end in a washout. Steady rain fell for most of the day after New Zealand won the toss and elected to field but it eventually cleared in the middle of the afternoon to allow time for a 24 overs a side match. REUTERS

Patched up Lions brace for Brumbies challenge today

The British and Irish Lions’ hopes of victory in their last tour match before facing Australia will be tested by a hastily-assembled backline and an ACT Brumbies side keen to inflict a timely psychological blow in Canberra today. Like all the provincial sides thrown to the Lions, the Brumbies will front up with a starting 15 robbed of their best Wallabies players. The match kicks off at 4:30pm Cambodian time. REUTERS

Spurs on brink of another title

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HE San Antonio Spurs moved within one victory of a fifth NBA title on Sunday by beating the Miami Heat 114-104 behind a game-high 26 points from Tony Parker and 24 from Danny Green.

The Spurs seized a 3-2 lead and can wrap up the best-of-seven series against the reigning champion Heat with a victory tonight in Miami.

The Spurs came out swinging in game five, jumping out to a quick 8-4 lead and never trailing in front of a crowd of 18,581 at the AT&T Center. Their lead ballooned to as many as 20 in the fourth quarter.

Of the previous 27 times the finals have been tied 2-2, the winner of game five has gone on to win the series 20 times.

Green went six-of-10 from beyond the arc to set an NBA finals record with 25 three-pointers so far. He recorded his record-setting 23rd three pointer of the series – to break Ray Allen’s previous mark – with a 25-foot bomb with 9:40 left in the third to make it 66-59. Green also helped seal the win with a late three pointer from the right side to make it 114-101 with 1:06 left in regulation.

Manu Ginobili finished with 24 points and 10 assists as all five Spurs

starters scored in double figures.

Dwyane Wade and LeBron James had 25 points apiece for the Heat, who once again failed to win backto-back games after taking game four in San Antonio.

This was a breakout game for the 35-year-old Ginobili, who had averaged just 7.5 points per game during the first four games of the series.

Coach Gregg Popovich decided to start the Argentinian veteran in game five for the first time in the series and it paid off.

Once again Parker was also dangerous in the early going, despite playing with an injured hamstring.

San Antonio ended the first quarter on a 15-2 run that included eight points from Parker. Kawhi Leonard drained a 23-foot three pointer to cap the scoring and give the Spurs a 13-point lead at the end of the first.

Heading into game five, Green needed three three-pointers to tie Allen’s NBA finals record. Allen set the record in 2008 while playing for the Boston Celtics. Green got all three in the first half as he shot three-of-four from beyond the arc. Green nailed a 26-foot three pointer five minutes into the second to tie Allen, who now plays for Miami and was guarding Green on the shot. AFP

San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili (left) defends against Miami Heat’s Ray Allen during the fourth quarter in Game 5 of their NBA Finals series in San Antonio. REUTERS

Murray wins Queen’s title

From June 16 and running through to June 27, for the first time and as second nation in Asia ever, Cambodia has the honour to be chairman of the 37th yearly convention of the World Heritage Committee.

In the eight to 16 pages strong reports published in Khmer and English version of the Post, our newspaper will give insights into how Cambodia's UNESCO chairmanship will contribute to a robust future of the national tourism industry and the conversation of our World Heritage Sites such as Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear During the convention the Kingdom will host more than 1400 delegates of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee coming from 190 different countries and more than 200 members of the international press.

The Post will publish messages of welcome from the Royal Government as well as a schedule of events and highlights of what's on the agenda.

In the June 28 report two weeks later, we will publish what happened during the important series of meetings, including the Siem Reap closing ceremony on June 27.

This is not only a chance for travel agencies, airlines, hotels, restaurants, banks, telecoms and all kinds of providers to highlight their companies in the special reports but all companies that are proud of Cambodia.

For the special occasion the Post will increase its production by several thousands and distribute the papers to the international guests. Advertisers will be offered special discount rates for inclusion in both publications on June 14 and 28.

Phnom Penh To advertise, contact borom.chea@phnompenhpost.com - call 012 76 34 81 or Siem Reap: Sophearith Blondeel - call 092 752 801 | 063 964 151 | Email:Sophearith.Blondeel@phnompenhpost.com This is a chance to show how much your company cares about the preservation of Cambodia's antiquities.

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Andy Murray gave his fans a fright before recovering to beat Croatia’s Marin Cilic to win the Aegon Championships for the third time at Queen’s Club on Sunday.

The world number two, who missed the French Open with a back injury, won a raindelayed final 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 to give himself a timely boost for Wimbledon, which starts in six days.

Murray, runner-up at Wimbledon last year, suffered a painful looking slip when leading 4-3 in the first set, yelping in pain and rolling to the turf in apparent distress, and went on to lose the opener against the defending champion.

“The courts had taken a bit of a pounding this week and it’s been extremely wet,” Murray, who had a break point when he took his tumble, said on court before preparing for

Andy Murray after defeating Marin Cilic at the Queen’s Club.

a doubles exhibition match against coach Ivan Lendl, in aid of a cancer charity.

“It was just a bit sore on the groin area but thankfully it wasn’t too bad.”

US Open champion Murray,

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who will be trying to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936 when the grasscourt slam begins next Monday, also won the Queens title in 2009 and 2011. REUTERS

Lee wins fifth Indonesia Open title World badminton number one Lee Chong Wei easily defeated Germany’s Marc Zwiebler on Sunday to win the Indonesia Open for a fifth time.

The Malaysian ace hardly broke a sweat against the unseeded Zwiebler in the men’s singles final in Jakarta, winning the match 21-15, 21-14 in just 40 minutes.

Lee dominated from start to finish, with a string of smashes which proved too difficult for his left-handed opponent to return.

“As I had expected, it was a very hard match against Lee Chong Wei,” Zwiebler said.

“He was not that kind of

player who will give any mercy if I made weak shots. He was always in control. I have tried everything I can.”

Lee praised his opponent: “Zwiebler played well today.

He showed a lot of progress.”

The 30-year-old said he was “very happy” to win the title, which has prizemoney of US$52,500, for the fifth time.

But he added he was anxious to return to Malaysia to be with his son Kingston, who was born in April and is his first child.

“I just want to go home. I am going back to Malaysia tonight.

I miss my son,” he said.

The victory came on Father’s

Day, the first for Lee as a father.

He said he would participate in the tournament again next year.

“I know I am not 25-years-old anymore, but I’ll try to forget my age. I’ll just have to make sure I stay away from injuries,” he said.

In the women’s singles final, world number one Li Xuerui of China beat Germany’s Juliane Schenk.

The three-set match ended 21-16, 18-21, 21-17 and lasted 63 minutes.

The Indonesia Open has prize money of $700,000 across all categories. AFP

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Football

‘Tears of blood’ jibe stokes Korea-Iran ire ahead of tie

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outh Korea and Iran appear headed for one of Asia’s worst-tempered World Cup qualifiers tonight after their coaches traded barbs and one player said he would make Iran’s captain cry “tears of blood”.

The gloves-off verbal sparring has dramatically raised temperatures ahead of their crunch meeting in Seoul, where South Korea need just a point but Iran need a win to guarantee an automatic 2014 World Cup berth.

After Korean boss Choi Kang-Hee’s promise to “make life painful” for Iran drew a strong response from their coach Carlos Queiroz and captain Javad Nekounam, the home players launched a fresh salvo.

“I will make him [Nekounam] shed tears of blood,” said Germany-based forward Son Heung-Min. Son added: “Nekounam is known for talking too much. I will let my action on the pitch do the talking.

We will beat them by three to four goals.”

The dispute follows South Korean complaints of ill-treatment during their visit to Tehran last October, with gripes including visa problems and poor training facilities. In a feisty encounter, South Korea lost 1-0.

Choi said memories of the trip were still fresh in his players minds, and vowed to return suit to Iran this week – in comments that were slammed by Nekounam and Queiroz, who called them “shameful”.

But the South Korean coach was unrepentant, predicting that Queiroz would be watching next year’s World Cup in Brazil from his home in Portugal.

In tonight’s qualifier at a packed and fervent Seoul World Cup Stadium, 2002 semi-finalists South Korea will be aiming to seal their eighth consecutive berth at the tournament and ninth overall. Iran have contested three World Cups.

Ahead of the final round of games,

The National Football Training Centre in Bati district of Takeo province, some 40 kilometres south of Phnom Penh along National Highway No 4, will be officially opened this morning with a ceremony presided over

by Prime Minister Hun Sen. The event, which starts at 7am, will also be attended by new Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, who will act as a representative of FIFA, and Football Federation of Cambodia President Sao Sokha.

A friendly match between the Cambodian U16 squad and an U16 team from Vietnamese club Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC will round off proceedings. IN SOPHENG

Kinnear stuns fans by returning to Newcastle

Joe Kinnear has insisted there are “no issues whatsoever” with Alan Pardew after his surprise appointment as Newcastle United’s director of football, a role that apparently includes the final say on incoming and outgoing transfers, appeared to undermine the manager’s authority at St James’ Park. In a move that has bewildered supporters on Tyneside, Kinnear confirmed he had signed a three-year contract with the Newcastle owner, Mike Ashley, on Sunday to return to the club where he endured a volatile six-month spell as manager that ended in early 2009 after he suffered health problems. THE GUARDIAN A hotly-contested and volatile clash is expected for tonight’s 2012 World Cup qualifier between Iran and South Korea in Seoul.

South Korea lead Group A on 14 points, with Iran on 13 and Uzbekistan 11.

The top two teams qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The thirdplaced side enter a play-off series.

Meanwhile, Australia captain Lucas Neill yesterday said his players had been told to forget about dancing the samba as they aim to take the final step to Brazil against Iraq.

Victory over the former Asian champions would guarantee a third consecutive World Cup for the Socceroos, who lie in Group B’s second

automatic qualifying spot and a point ahead of third-placed Oman with one game left.

But despite last week’s emphatic 4-0 win over Jordan, which included Neill’s first goal in 91 appearances for Australia, the veteran ex-Premier League defender said no one was celebrating prematurely.

“It’s very calm. The manager and the senior players have made sure no one’s talking about dancing the samba. Nobody’s in Brazil yet,” said Neill.

“We need one game, one win. Then

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we can start thinking about all the dreams coming true.”

Bottom-placed Iraq are already out of contention for a fairytale World Cup berth and are missing captain Younis Mahmoud and midfield maestro Nashat Akram, who did not make the trip to Australia. AFP

Tonight’s Fixtures Uzbekistan v Qatar – 7pm Jordan v Oman – 11pm Australia v Iraq – 4:30pm Korea Republic v Iran – 7pm

Spain off to flyer against Uruguay in Brazil Italy coach Cesare Prandelli tore a strip off tearaway striker Mario Balotelli despite the controversial star grabbing the winner in the 2-1 Confedera-

PM to open new training centre in Takeo province

tions Cup victory over Mexico at the Maracana.

Balotelli sealed the win 12 minutes from time with a fine, muscular finish, but Prandelli

was furious after the Milan striker was booked for stripping off his shirt in celebration.

“Mario needs to stop taking

Italy’s forward Mario Balotelli celebrates shirtless with team-mates after scoring against Mexico during their FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 Group A match in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. AFP

his shirt off after scoring a goal.

Picking up silly bookings is not a good idea in a tournament as difficult as this one,” said Prandelli, having already castigated Balotelli for his sending off in the recent World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic.

But as regards the performance, sparked by a sumptuous opening free-kick goal from evergreen cap centurion Andrea Pirlo, Prandelli pronounced himself satisfied with the Italians having shrugged off a limp warm-up draw against Haiti.

“It was a very tactical match but we dominated it for the most part. Mexico were trying to get into it on the counterattack when we made mistakes.

But we stopped them from finding their game and dictating the place. That’s what we tried to do and we managed it,” said Prandelli.

“Mexico came up against a very solid Italian team.”

Italy now head for Recife in the north to meet a Japan side beaten by Brazil in their opening game and coached by fel-

low Italian Alberto Zaccheroni as they look to keep pace with the Brazilians before their final pool showdown.

Meanwhile, world champions Spain got their Confederations Cup campaign off to a winning start with a 2-1 win over South American champions Uruguay in Recife.

The Spaniards dominated throughout but after Pedro Rodriguez’s opener deflected had cause to be grateful to Pedro Soldado’s 32nd-minute clincher as Luis Suarez netted a late free kick for the Uruguayans.

Although the Uruguayans came closer to pinching a point than they deserved, Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque was exultant afterwards as his side laid the foundation for reaching the last four from a group also containing Uruguay and minnows Tahiti.

“These are three magnificent points which stand us in great stead when it comes to reaching the semi-finals,” said Del Bosque. AFP

Ethiopia end South Africa’s hopes of Brazil

Ethiopia ended the hopes of 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa from making next year’s finals in Brazil after a dramatic round of African group stage qualifying matches on Sunday.

The Ethiopians join Algeria, Egypt, the Ivory Coast and Tunisia through to the third and final phase of the African preliminaries. Five places are yet to be decided with the last cycle of Round 2 group matches remaining. REUTERS

Lewandowski at Bayern for 2014/15, reports

Robert Lewandowski will see out his Borussia Dortmund contract then join Champions League winners Bayern Munich for the 2014/15 season, turning down offers from England’s Premier League, according to reports yesterday.

German daily Bild report Bayern are only planning on having the 24-year-old Poland striker in their squad for the start of the 2014/15 season. AFP

saturday’s results 2014 World Cup Qualifiers Mali 2 Benin 2 Equatorial Guinea 1 Tunisia 1 Guinea 1 Zimbabwe 0 Ethiopia 2 South Africa 1 Liberia 0 Senegal 2 Rwanda 0 Algeria 1 Congo DR 0 Cameroon 0 Tanzania 2 Ivory Coast 4 Lesotho 0 Ghana 2 Mozambique 0 Egypt 1

tonight’s fixtures 2014 World Cup Qualifiers USA v Honduras – 8:06am Costa Rica v Panama – 9am

European U21 Cup Final Spain v Italy – 11pm

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Sport Hard road to success for Rose Allan Kelly

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ustin Rose completed the long and, at times, painful journey from boy wonder to failed pro and then on to major winner at the US Open on Sunday.

The 32-year-old Englishman held his nerve down Merion Golf Club’s testing home stretch to win his first major title by two strokes from Phil Mickelson and Jason Day on a day of high drama.

He then spoke of the doubts and heartaches he had endured to get to this stage of his life when it all came together in spectacular fashion.

Rose first entered the spotlight when he finished in a tie for fourth as an amateur teen at the 1998 British Open at Royal Birkdale.

He turned professional immediately afterwards, but he endured what he called “a traumatic start” to his career, missing the cut in the first 21 tournaments he took part in.

His father and coach, Ken Rose, then died when Rose was just 21 and he was left alone to try and claw his way back up the ladder.

Slowly but surely, he succeeded, winning the 2007 European Order of Merit title and notching up regular wins on the US PGA Tour.

But it was a win in one of the four majors that was the priority for him

Justin Rose chips onto the 18th green during the final round of the 113th US Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

and after a few near misses, notably at last year’s PGA Championship when he tied for third, he finally came good at Merion in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

“When I was missing 21 cuts in a row, I was just trying to not fade away, really,” he said.

“I just didn’t want to be known as a one hit wonder – flash in the pan.

“I believed in myself inherently.

Deep down I always knew that I had a talent to play the game.

“At times it feels 25 years since Birkdale and other times it feels like it was just yesterday.

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“There’s a lot of water under the bridge. My learning curve has been steep from that point. Sort of announced myself on the golfing scene probably before I was ready to handle it. And golf can be a cruel game.

“Definitely I have had the ups and down, but I think that ultimately it

has made me stronger and able to handle the situations like today.”

Influences there have been for Rose over the years, starting with his father, who Rose spoke emotionally about on what was Father’s Day, and Sean Foley, the coach he now shares with Tiger Woods.

And he also had words of praise for Adam Scott, the Australian and close friend who won his first major title, also at the age of 32, at the Masters in April, nine months after blowing a winning position at the British Open.

“I consider him a contemporary of mine and a great friend of mine. He sent me a text message after I congratulated him. He said to me, ’This is your time, this is our time, to win these tournaments.’

“At 32 we have been around quite a while. We paid our dues in some senses.”

Rose was also proud of becoming the first Englishman since Tony Jacklin 43 years ago to win the US Open and the first since Nick Faldo at the Masters 17 years ago to win a major.

He now hopes his win will open the door for the likes of close friends and compatriots Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Paul Casey and Lee Westwood – none of whom have to date won a major. AFP

Jorge Lorenzo seals his third Catalunya MotoGP win Reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo cut compatriot Dani Pedrosa's lead in the championship standings to just seven points with his third career win at the Catalunya MotoGP on Sunday.

The 26-year-old Spaniard, who was winning for the third time this season following his

victories in the Qatar and Italian Grands Prix, moved from third on the grid to first on his Yamaha before the first corner and was never overtaken.

Pe d r o s a , m e a n w h i l e, extended his run of podium finishes to five races as he held off a late charge from his Honda team-mate Marc Mar-

quez to finish second with the rookie back in third.

Lorenzo, who has hit back strongly in the title race having won the last two races with Pedrosa having won the previous two, said that it had been hell riding in the race.

“I knew that the start would be crucial and I couldn't

afford to let Dani get away from me,” said Lorenzo, who also won the world title in 2010.

“I got lucky and actually passed him and although he pressured me for a while he let up at halfway and I was able to relax a bit. It was a nightmare race to ride in

because of the temperature.”

Lorenzo revealed touchingly that the special designed helmet – it was designed by a friend of his who suffers from Downs Syndrome – he had worn for the race would now be offered up for sale.

Pedrosa was not too disappointed at the end result even

if it saw his lead reduced in a category he has yet to emerge from victorious having finished runner-up in the world championship three times.

“I had to ride a defensive race for most of it as Marc [Marquez] was really attacking me,” said the 27-year-old.

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