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PM calls for probe of sign vandalism Vong Sokheng

DURING his final speech before taking a month-long speaking sabbatical to coincide with the campaign period, Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a warning to anti-CNRP vandals and vowed to hunt them down.

Speaking to some 10,000 people at the inauguration of a Buddhist temple in Batheay district in Kampong Cham province, the premier denied any Cambodian People’s Party involvement in tearing down and spraypainting 16 opposition signboards in Prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces last week. He then called on the perpetrators to turn themselves in, and promised to go after the delinquents for as long as it took or, conversely, reward them if they surrendered.

“My estimation was that this situation of tearing down political party signboards was not [by] a member of the CPP, and the CPP has no reason to do so,” Hun Sen said. “This case will not be ignored, even if it takes a 10-year investigation. And I would like to appeal to those individual perpetrators to come in and confess, and they will not be handcuffed, and will receive a huge reward from me if that will mean a faster surrender.”

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Feast for the soul A boy covered in mud and banana leaves walks in a procession celebrating the feast day of the revered Catholic saint, John the Baptist, in the village of Bibiclat, Philippines, yesterday. Hundreds of devotees took part in this annual religious tradition, which has been held in the village since 1945. REUTERS

An unequal playing field Sean Teehan

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FTER spending a year fundraising, first-time candidate Rotana Pin boasts a $50,000 war chest for his run for a National Assembly seat in Battambang next month. A member of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, however, Pin will be up against prime competitors who likely extended far less effort for much more money.

The amount of time and energy required to fund a campaign greatly

With no laws, fundraising takes different role depends on the candidate’s party.

And in a country with some of the most lax political finance laws in Southeast Asia, the return on invested effort also very much hinges on that factor.

During the last election, for instance, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party spent 10 times the amount campaigning as did the opposition Human Rights and Sam Rainsy parties, a 2012 analysis by the Commit-

tee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) found. That figure does not take into account valuable perks, such as favourable airtime on TV, the CPP enjoys.

To fund those massive campaigns, the ruling party collects hefty donations from large businesses and the

country’s wealthy elite, explained Koul Panha, Comfrel’s executive director. In return, the companies and the Oknhas who run them often enjoy favouritism in securing contracts for government projects, tax incentives and sometimes even economic land concessions and use of military resources to protect their business interests.

Domestic contributors to the CNRP are almost always from individuals, with businesses occasionally donating

anonymously for fear of reprisal, according to the party.

“It’s not fair competition,” Panha said.

To raise his funds, Rotana crisscrossed America and Cambodia in a dizzying effort to fill election coffers enough to compete. He wasn’t able to rely on the big-money donations CPP members receive on a regular basis.

All told, the CNRP raised about $1 million for their 2013 run, said Yim Sovann, a party spokesman and candidate for a Continues on page 4

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Report rebutted

Gov’t defends progress on trafficking

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HE Cambodian government has hit back at a US State Department report that heavily criticised its efforts to combat human trafficking, claiming it was riddled with false information and vague generalisations.

The 2013 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, released last Friday, downgraded the Kingdom for the first time since 2009 to a level for nations not able to provide sufficient evidence that they are trying to meet minimum anti-trafficking standards.

In a statement released yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government said the report ignored its efforts, and labeled parts of the report “ludicrous”.

“Many of the issues raised in this report are either made from general sweeping assumptions or lacking real evidence in the first place to prove otherwise,” the statement said.

It argues that in recent years the Kingdom has pushed through a number of legislations designed to crack down on trafficking that the report “deliberately” ignored in order to criticise Cambodia’s lack of progress.

Last week’s report slammed the government for “endemic” corruption that it said undermined prosecutions and efforts to hold traffickers to account.

But yesterday’s statement claimed that “real progress” had been made in 2012, with 133 suspects arrested, 458 victims rescued and 300 convicted by the courts.

Those numbers contrast starkly with the report, which said that just 50 traffickers were prosecuted in the reporting period, resulting in 44 convictions between April 1 2012 and 31 March 2013.

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Policy forums see little in the way of ruling party participation Sen David and Kevin Ponniah

THE ruling Cambodian People’s Party once again left their chair empty at a policy debate in Phnom Penh yesterday, even as their past achievements were being examined at another forum in the same hotel.

In one room, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) had gathered a host of representatives from minor parties and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to address electoral concerns raised by citizens.

As at most NGO-led policy debates in the lead up to the election, the CPP failed to send a representative.

But this time their coalition partner, Funcinpec, also refused to show.

“We are sorry about the absence of those main parties . . . by not joining it means that they do not value the concerns and suggestions of the citizens,” CCIM head Pa Ngoun Teang said.

Political analyst Kem Ley, who moderated the debate, said although it was too late for the public’s concerns – that included calls for amendments to the national election law and voter registration reform – to be addressed, parties could hear “the voice of the people” at the forum.

“I think that they must come to share their views to debate with the NGO staff, citizen journalists and the public here . . . the CPP and Funcinpec, they must come . . . and take some time to share and to argue whether what has happened is wrong or right,” he said.

Council of Ministers spokesperson Phay Siphan said the party was focusing on working.

“It’s time to work, not time to talk anymore. Let the parties that like to talk, talk. But we are, as the CPP, a doer . . . we don’t waste time to sit down and talk . . . we don’t work for our own

celebrity but we work for a better life for the people,” he said.

In the absence of the ruling party, National Election Committee representative Keo Phalla was attacked from all sides. Increasingly exasperated, Phalla emphasised that the NEC functions according to tightly-controlled laws laid down by the government.

“When you don’t understand what the law says it’s difficult to have a mature conversation . . . please read more law before you raise any points,” he said, after fielding questions ranging from the voting rights of migrant Cambodian workers to media access for political parties.

“You all know that this is based on the Cambodian constitution and law . . . parliament is the only body that can propose changes to the law . . . the NEC can’t draft any,” he added.

CNRP representative Ou Chanrith said that both the NEC and the government were trying to escape from electoral reform by placing the onus each other.

That point was somewhat underscored by a Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) report released yesterday analysing the government’s policy record since the last election.

Out of 48 total policy pledges made after the last election, only 10 were deemed to have promises tangible enough to evaluate by Comfrel, which found just half of them had been fully implemented during the CPP’s fourth mandate.

Successful polices included raising GDP per capita above $870, reducing the poverty rate by at least one per cent per year and increasing civil servant wages by 20 per cent a year.

Goals that made insufficient progress included mandatory primary school education by 2010 and establishing a social security fund.

Sith Ibrahim, president of the Khmer Islam Movement, announced he has defected from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party in Phnom Penh yesterday. vireak mai

Amid defections, PM offers taunts to CNRP Meas Sokchea

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RIME Minister Hun Sen yesterday claimed that several candidates and local officials from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party had transferred their allegiances to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party in the past few days, with more defections to come.

“Yesterday there was a lawmaker candidate defection in Pursat province. Today there were defections in Kampot, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh . . . and tomorrow, if there is no change, there would be defections in Kampong Cham and Kandal,” the premier said.

He added that the CNRP should not accuse the CPP of buying its candidates, because changing parties was within their political rights.

“They cannot live with all of

you, so they ask to be with the Cambodian People’s Party,” he said.

Sith Ibrahim, president of the Khmer Islam Movement, announced yesterday that he and 45 followers had move from the CNRP to the CPP because of the CNRP’s alleged discrimination against Cham Muslims.

Ibrahim said he had declined to appear on the CNRP’s candidate list because the party had said it would list him below four other candidates in whichever province he ran in.

“They only would have let me stand number five in Siem Reap or Kampong Thom,” he said, referring to six-seat provinces where the CPP won five and four seats, respectively, in 2008.

“I told [the CNRP] any province was okay, provided that I would be elected,” he said. “But they did not listen;

therefore, they discriminated against me.

“I did not join the CPP out of any interest, but whether Prime Minister Hun Sen offers me any position or not is his business,” added Ibrahim, who served as a Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker during the National Assembly’s second mandate and as a Funcinpec party secretary of state at the Ministry of Cults and Religion during the third.

You Sos Fatieny, another member of the Khmer Islam Movement who had been a CNRP reserve candidate in Pursat province, also said she had switched allegiance to the CPP because of the CNRP’s discrimination against Chams.

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday that the party did not care about the defections and asserted that they were organised by the CPP.

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Sokha distorted reality: Mey

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell

HMER Rouge prison survivor Chum Mey appeared in court yesterday to defend a defamation suit filed by him and three other Tuol Sleng victims against acting opposition head Kem Sokha.

The men allege Sokha, who has been summonsed to court for questioning on Thursday, made claims that the Vietnamese fabricated Khmer Rouge crimes committed at the prison after invading in 1979.

The alleged recordings were first released by the government last month. “[The court] questioned me as to why I sued Mr Kem Sokha. I told the court because [he] had distorted reality. He said Tuol Sleng was an artificial prison staged by Vietnam,” Mey told the Post.

His lawyer, Kuoy Thunna, said Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Meas Chanpisith grilled his client for more than one hour yesterday.

“Chum Mey told the court that he got the recording from Beehive Radio. Whether the recording is real or not will depend on the court’s evaluation,” Thunna said.

He added that Mey requested

A STRIKE involving hundreds of casino workers – many who have been told their contracts have been terminated – reached an impasse yesterday after NagaWorld officials did not attend a conciliation session at the Arbitration Council, a union leader said.

“The Arbitration Council could not immediately resolve this case because the casino’s representatives were not here,” said Sok Narith, vice-president of the Cambodian Tourism

NagaWorld employees strike near the casino in Phnom Penh yesterday. Hong Menea

and Service Workers Federation. “The company’s absence means they do not intend to resolve this case and will terminate the jobs of all those they sent the message to.”

Workers say the message – that they had lost their jobs – came in the form of text messages and emails following casino security cracking down on their strike last Tuesday by briefly detaining 19 workers and union leaders.

In a memo sent last week, the company’s human resources department said the workers had been striking illegally and their contracts were therefore “terminated/suspended”.

Hundreds lined the street outside the Phnom Penh casino yesterday morning, resuming their strike that began on June 13.

Narith said workers at the casino, owned by Hong Konglisted Nagacorp, would continue demanding their minimum wage be increased to $150 per month.

“In 2012, the company made $278 million gross profit. For net profit, it was $113 million.

So the demands we’re making are 1.5 per cent of net profit.”

NagaWorld management declined to comment.

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Former S-21 prisoner Chum Mey enters Phnom Penh’s municipal court yesterday.

the court to play recordings of Sokha’s voice to determine whether the offending recordings were edited.

The four plaintiffs are requesting $1,000 in compensation from Sokha to pay for a Buddhist ceremony for those who died at the torture prison.

Chanpisith declined to comment yesterday.

Cambodia National Rescue Party spokesman Yim Sovann said Mey had the right to file a

lawsuit, but the CNRP was not paying attention to the case.

“It is Chum Mey’s business but there are more important issues than this: immigrant issues in Cambodia, the destruction of the forest, people’s land grabbing,” he said.

Sovann told the Post on Sunday that neither Sokha nor a CNRP representative would attend court on Thursday, leading some observers to point out that the CNRP leader could ulti-

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mately be forced to appear if he did not request a delay.

Sokha confirmed last week he had not appointed a lawyer, claiming he was solely focused on the election campaign – which kicks off on Thursday.

Suon Chanthy, a Beehive staffer, said she was not sure whether the station had broadcast the recording as she could not remember hearing it.

Mey’s fellow plaintiffs could not be reached.

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Campaign financing Continues from page 1

Phnom Penh seat on the Assembly.

Candidates running for a seat must contribute according to their location and rank on the candidate list, Sovann said.

For example, the party expects to receive four or five Assembly seats in Phnom Penh. So the top four candidates – including Sovann – who are expected to win a seat, pay the highest rate of all the Phnom Penh candidates at $24,000.

CNRP members also pay 15 per cent of their salaries into the party for operation costs, Sovann said.

When all 27 serving lawmakers were dismissed from the National Assembly earlier this month (a move ruling party Permanent Committee member Chheang Vun said was necessary because they violated the law by changing parties during their terms), the resulting salary loss put a $240,000 dent in the party’s budget.

Fundraising abroad has been a pivotal part of financing CNRP campaigns.

Between 10 and 20 per cent of their total campaign contributions come from Cambodians living in other countries,

according to Sovann. “The president of the party, vicepresident of the party have to go abroad very often to raise funds,” Sovann said. “[Donors] want to contribute, but they need a very big figure, a very influential figure, like Mr Sam Rainsy or Mr Kem Sokha.”

Fundraisers outside Cambodia can be modestly successful without party leadership in attendance, but net far more funds with them, said Pin, who lived in Texas for more than 20 years before returning to run. His own events could bring in between $2,000 and $3,000; those featuring Rainsy or Sokha often rake in upwards of $30,000.

CPP candidates need not travel like their opponents, said Panha. They also need not discuss how much money they raised, where the money comes from, or what might have been promised in exchange.

Ruling party lawmakers and spokesmen declined to respond to repeated questions this week concerning their finances. According to Cambodian law, neither they nor anyone else in the country are required to disclose any party financial information to the public.

Opacity and transparency A 2011 study by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems comparing political finance regulation in six Southeast Asian countries – Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Timor Leste and the Philippines – reported that Cambodia was the only one “where legislation does not specifically note that financial information received from political parties should be made available to the people”.

All political parties are required to submit an annual report of their financial data to the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Economy and Finance by the end of the calendar year, said Sat Phea, a program coordinator for Cambodia’s branch of the foundation; but that data is private.

The Law on Elections of Members of the National Assembly, meanwhile, requires parties to keep records of their income, income sources and expenses. But nothing in the law stipulates they must report this information to the National Election Committee or any other legal entity.

“There’s very little in the law with respect to what the NEC

mandate is with respect to campaign finance,” said Robert Patterson, IFES chief of party in Cambodia.

“There’s only one section in the law that deals with campaign finance, and that’s the review of campaign finance.”

The section gives the NEC authority to look at a party’s campaign finance if they see fit, but does not require parties to report the information, Patterson said.

Since the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia first organised elections in 1993, NEC officials have never examined a political party’s campaign finance records, said NEC Secretary General Tep Nytha.

NEC law does not require parties to elaborate their campaign budgets, Nytha said, and the commission has never received a complaint about a party’s campaign finances.

Laws also place no limit on how much money a party can collect from a single donor, or how much they can spend campaigning. And though laws do prohibit the use of state resources, monitors have made repeated note of the CPP using them while campaigning.

One grey area recorded only weeks ago was when state

An employee folds custom-designed CPP shirts at a printing house in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng Kang 1 district yesterday. vireak mai

vehicles were used to help transport people to anti-Sokha rallies over his alleged comments that Khmer Rouge torture centre Tuol Sleng was “staged”.

Illegal usage of state resources for campaign purposes is punishable under the law, said CPP spokesman, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith, who maintained that the party relies only on its network of supporters and legal income to run their campaign.

The permissive atmosphere and lack of regulation in financing National Assembly campaigns, however, breeds corruption during and after the campaign, said Panha. He and others in an election finance

law working group wrote a draft law that would require parties to report all campaign contributions to the NEC and forbid parties from accepting money obtained through illegal activity, among many other rules.

But the law has drummed up little interest from those with the power to pass it. Just yesterday, Comfrel invited all eight political parties contesting this election to sign an agreement promising to disclose their campaign finances.

The opposition and four out of five small parties signed. The CPP and its coalition partner Funcinpec, however, were nowhere to be seen. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA

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Border police Ex-Oddar Meanchey governor dies add to illegal logging: gov’t Cheang Sokha

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HE number of Cambodians crossing the border to illegally log in Thailand can be blamed, at least to some extent, on border officials complicity with the illegal timber trade, a Ministry of Interior report on rosewood smuggling says.

“Information has come from officials in border provinces and the Department of Border Police and show that people crossing the border illegally may be related to Cambodian forces stationed there,” the three-page report, released Friday, says.

“From May 19 to June 20, Cambodians still continue to secretly cross the borders into Thai territory at a high rate, resulting in Thai soldiers shooting six people dead and detaining six others.”

Crossings were spread over Oddar Meanchey, Preah Vihear and Battambang provinces.

Am Sam Ath, a senior official at rights group Licadho said it

was clear that officials were involved in aiding many of those crossing the border to log.

“The powerful and the rich provide money for people to cross the border illegally to log,” he said. “So in order to protect the lives of the people, the government must scrutinise its officials and take legal action against any official involved.”

Chhim Savuth, a senior officer at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said his investigations had shown some officers along the border were rosewood traders and said action must be taken against them by both the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defence.

“Those who run rosewood business are powerful and close with the government,” he said.

“They are police officers and soldiers along the border.”

Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said officials often tried to educate citizens about the dangers and illegality of crossing the border, but many didn’t listen.

FORMER Oddar Meanchey governor, Pech Sokhen, passed away in a hospital in Thailand Monday morning at the age of 61.

Samroang District Governor Thon Nol, said Sokhen – who served as governor from 2006 to May this year when he resigned due to his declining

health – was admitted to the hospital on the night of June 22.

“When he vomited, it contained blood. The doctor tried to help him but could not save his life,” Nol said, speaking from the funeral.

Nol added that the funeral will be held until June 30 at his home in Samroang commune.

Sokhen’s health worsened last

year ago but he continued to work at his office and would occasionally travel to Thailand’s Surin province for medical checkups. He decided in May to resign from his position as governor to focus on his health.

Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for Ministry of Interior said Sokhen’s death was a big loss as he had done a tremendous job for the

Ministry of Interior for years.

“On behalf of the Ministry of Interior, we would like to share our condolence to his family, he was one of the good people,” Sopheak said.

Sar Thavy, former deputy governor from neighbouring province Preah Vihear, has been appointed to take the role of governor of Oddar Meanchey.

Lawyer tried for journo beating Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

DISBARRED lawyer David Chanaiwa was tried at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday along with his nephew, while a friend was tried in absentia, though the prosecutor recommended the charges be dropped.

All three are accused of beating a group of journalists who had come to document a car wreck in which Chanaiwa was reportedly involved in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district.

Chanaiwa, 41, a former lawyer and adviser to senate; Yean Sina, 44, a former secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice; and Prak Ou Fie, 20, a law student who is Chanaiwa’s nephew, face charges of committing a violent act for

the March incident.

Reading out the complaint, Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Chaing Sinath said Chanaiwa and Ou Fie, were arrested by police March 19 after the journalists filed complaints claiming they were assaulted by the three when trying to take photographs of a traffic accident involving Ou Fie. Yean Sina escaped arrest.

Chanaiwa denied the charges saying he was only at the scene of the accident helping his nephew – whose car had been badly damaged.

Pin Kong, chief of Boeung Raing commune police, told the court he did not see Chanaiwa or Sina committing any act of violence.

“I saw Mr David Chanaiwa and Yean Sina surrounded by a group of journalists and a crowd of people. I did not see them beating those journalists,” Kong said.

“To rescue them from the crowd of people, I immediately brought them to my office for questioning,” he added.

The five journalists withdrew their complaints and did not show up for the court hearing yesterday.

Sovann Rithy, a reporter for Bayon TV, told the Post that during the conflict he was beaten by Chanaiwa’s group and later requested $10,000 in compensation.

“I withdrew my lawsuit from the court against the three accused people because I was

busy with work, and have no time to follow up my lawsuit in court,” he said. “I got a compromise from the accused persons’ families, and have also got compensations from them,” he continued, declining to say how much he received.

Also during their hearing yesterday, the court played video clips of the incident, though no violence could be seen in the clips.

At the close, deputy prosecutor Cheth Khemra asked the charges to be dropped.

“Based on hearings, proof and accused persons’ answers, there’s no evidence to show that they have beaten the victims as accused.” A verdict is due Thursday.

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Document hearings open on extent of KR leaders’ knowledge Stuart White

THE two-week-old objections of the Khieu Samphan defence paid off at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, with the trial chamber announcing that the team would indeed have time to lodge their responses to incriminating documents presented by the prosecution.

As the court began its final round of key document presentations yesterday, Trial Chamber President Nil Nonn seemingly agreed with the Samphan team’s assertion that documentary evidence would play a greater role in the court’s decision-making process than previously thought, and that the hearings should be open to adversarial debate.

“As for the Khieu Samphan defence, they raised that kind of [uncontested document] hearing is a violation to Khieu Samphan, as the defence is not allowed to object or discuss on documents raised by other parties,” Nonn said.

“For that reason, the chamber shall hear further hearings on admissibility of documents as well as the weight of the evidence presented in previous hearings.”

In the court’s three previous rounds of document hearings, parties were not allowed to raise objections to documents being presented.

After today’s hearings, the Samphan team may well have something to respond to, with co-prosecutor Keith Raynor presenting documents undermining Samphan’s long-held stance that he had nothing to do with the Khmer Rouge’s murderous policies.

In one article read aloud in court, author and former tribunal employee Stephen Heder made the case that Samphan had used his unimpeachable reputation to lure Lon Nol soldiers to the Khmer Rouge, who then killed them in droves.

“The esteem in which he was held allowed some of them to become sitting ducks for murder,” Raynor said, quoting Heder’s article.

“Thus as the Communist Party of Kampuchea advanced towards an all-out military victory . . . Khieu Samphan twice signalled those who had been fighting against it that only the seven top leaders among them would be executed.”

Illegal cosmetics chemicals trashed Phak Seangly

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overnment officials yesterday disposed of some 30 tonnes of chemical substances they said Chinese nationals had intended to sell illegally as cosmetics.

Long Sreng, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s antieconomic crime department, said authorities seized the chemicals – some of which already were falsely packaged under known brand names – in March during raids on a house and warehouse in Phnom Penh, where the smugglers were storing them.

“They were attempting to mix and produce cosmetics and skin whitening products that did not comply with the standards and were illegal,” he said. “That is very risky to the consumers.”

Police had made no arrests because they had not had arrest warrants for the raid and, besides, the suspects had escaped through the back door, he said.

Following a court order, officials from the Ministries of Interior, Health and Commerce yesterday took the materials to the Boeung Choeung Ek disposal site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

There, they burned some and poured others into holes in the ground.

Khlang Samet, chief of the Health Ministry’s Regulation Department, said that consumers who used such

Disagreement quickly turns into bad beating

POLICE will have to wait until a seriously injured father and son regain consciousness to learn what caused a group of their neighbours to attack them in Kratie on Sunday. For now, all cops know from witnesses is that the pair were left knocked out after an argument with their neighbours escalated into a fight. The injured two are now being treated in hospital for wounds from stones and axes, while the neighbours who apparently knocked them out have disappeared. Police are investigating. Kampuchea Thmey

Some savvy police work stymies clever crooks

Government officials burn illegal chemical substances meant for cosmetics production outside Phnom Penh yesterday. pha lina

products could face serious future health problems like skin cancer.

He said the Ministry of Health required all cosmetic producers to adhere to the ministry’s rules for contents and list them clearly.

In two separate cases in 2010 and 2011, young women died from reactions to skin whitening creams they had applied in preparation for their weddings, he noted.

Such products are smuggled in through illegal border checkpoints, which “are not under our control”, said Loeung Ratha, deputy general director of the Commerce

Ministry’s solution and policy department.

“There are 27 illegal checkpoints in just Banteay Meanchey province alone,” he said. “However, we do our best to control those illegal products.”

According to the Ministry of Interior, government seizures since 2009 also have included 37.5 tonnes of expired bird meat, 39 tonnes of Chinese medicine, 1,598 litres of safrole oil, 7,951 fake CDs and DVDs and 2,641 cases of expired wine. www.phnompenhpost.com check the post website for breaking news

UNESCO designates 19 new sites

SURPRISED that two local louts had come into some wealth, police in Kampong Cham’s Memot district, who recently had received a complaint about a stolen motorcycle, decided to look into the source of the wealth. After a little investigation, they learned the suspects had in fact sold said moto and then spent the money on assorted booze and gizmos. Connecting the dots, police on Saturday arrested the nouveau riche, who quickly admitted their misdeeds and were sent to court. Rasmey Kampuchea

Gangs and dancefloors – you know the drill

TWO rival gangs laid into each other in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district on Sunday, police said. Local residents said the two groups had a history of ill-will, so when members from each spotted their rivals at a dance club, things were clearly headed for trouble. The two gangs immediately began beating each other, and one group’s members set fire to a motorcycle of their enemies for good measure. Police intervened and managed to arrest five of the ruffians, while the rest escaped. Koh Santepheap

Friend in need learns no good deed unpunished

IT IS uncertain whether a 35-year-old man will survive after he was stabbed – allegedly by a friend – in Kampong Cham town on Sunday. According to neighbours, the so-called friend was returning home drunk from a party when the victim came out of his house to help him find his way. Instead, the good Samaritan was stabbed seven times by the drunken man, who then left him for dead. Police arrested the suspect. Koh Santepheap

Cheang Sokha

THE 37th UNESCO conference has so far examined and listed 19 new world heritage sites, a little more than half the sites requested, as it moves to its final day Thursday.

Of the 19 sites, chosen from 30 that received nominations for consideration, five are natural properties and the other 14 are cultural properties, said Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, chairman of the 37th World Heritage Committee. Chosen sites include eight from the Asia-Pacific region, seven from Europe, two from Africa, one from Latin America and the Caribbean, and one from the Middle East.

Politics had nothing to do with any decisions made by the committee, which opted not to inscribe the Old City of Jerusalem, An said.

“We try to get everybody to concentrate on technical issues from heritage, and to avoid speaking about politics in the world heritage committee,” An said. “I think this is the philosophy, not to get involve with politics.”

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A Cambodian People’s Party signboard was also vandalised, in Pailin province, last week.

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be at risk of being murdered in an attempt to prevent their evidence from coming to light.

“The case allegedly implicates the authorities and activists of the ruling party, therefore there needs to be an investigation to restore the honour of the authorities, even if it takes one month, one year, two years, three years or 10 years,” the premier said. “Whoever it is, they

have to take responsibility, even if it’s member of the CPP.” Yim Sovann, spokesman for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, called on the CPP to take action to arrest those responsible, rather than simply making proclamations.

“The Ministry of Interior has to arrest the perpetrator before [Hun Sen] sends out his mass message irresponsibly,” said Sovann. “I am not accusing anyone, but the ruling party is the

strongest competitor of the CNRP, so the ruling party has to take responsibility.”

In his remarks, Hun Sen went on to reiterate his intent to refrain from public speeches during the official campaign period – starting Thursday – leading up to the July 28 elections, and called on authorities to maintain the so-far violencefree political environment.

“Within three days, the electoral campaign will kick off,

and all levels of authorities are to maintain security and public order in order to ensure a smooth, transparent, and nonviolent election campaign by all political parties,” Hun Sen said, before noting that an unnamed woman and her children were attempting to import pepper spray into Cambodia from the US. The premier called on the American authorities to investigate.

A 24-year-old man who found himself on the wrong end of a couple’s dispute in Kandal town wound up in hospital on Saturday. Police said the young man had tried to intervene when he saw the husband beating his wife but instead further angered the husband, who stabbed him in the arm with a knife. Police detained the couple to try to find a resolution for their marital problems, while the unsuccessful intermediary complained that the couple had a history of violent quarrels. Kampuchea Thmey Translated by Sen David

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EUR / USD

AUD / USD

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USD /CNY

4,088

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0.9209

0.7745

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6.1385

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USD / HKD

98.22

7.7565

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ANZ bank opens an office in Myanmar May Kunmakara

A motorist stops to exchange currency at an informal money exchange stand at the Phsar Kabkor market in Phnom Penh in March.

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Confidence at central bank Daniel de Carteret

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S volatility strikes Asian markets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve winding down quantitative easing – the practice of injecting money into the economy – the National Bank of Cambodia says the Kingdom will remain largely insulated thanks to an investment market still in its infancy.

National Bank of Cambodia director general Nguon Sokha told the Post yesterday that while the country may have benefited from the Fed’s stimulus that began in 2008 in response to the global financial crisis, the expected wind-down will have little impact

due to the Kingdom’s nascent securities market, its non-existent bond market and its favourable conditions for foreign investment.

“For Cambodia, we have a different environment compared to other countries in Asia,” she said.

Asian markets tumbled yesterday, continuing a slide from last week after the Fed indicated it would pull back from stimulus later this year, AFP reported.

Cambodia’s emerging market “means capital coming in is mostly in the form of foreign direct investment, which means long-term and not speculative investment [short-term capital flow],” Sokha said. She said other countries in

the region with short-term markets are vulnerable because capital could flow just as quickly in or out.

Sokha said Cambodia’s welcoming economic climate will also mitigate any impact from the potential slowing of foreign direct investment from a lack of global liquidity.

“In terms of competition for FDI, we have to look at whether Cambodia has favourable conditions for investors to come compared to Myanmar, compared to Vietnam. Our legal framework, our infrastructure, our administration, are good enough for foreign investors to have a longterm interest in our economy, that is the difference between foreign direct

investor versus a portfolio investor [short-term investor].”

On the question of currency pressure, Sokha expected the riel to remain stable if the demand for the US dollar increases.

“We are also a dollarised economy . . . which means we don’t need to sterilise; if other countries have to sterilise, they have to absorb the capital inflow by issuing local currency,” she said.

Kang Chandararot, president of the Cambodian Institute for Development Study, is more cautious.

“Tightening the quantity of the dollar would directly constrain Cambodia’s growth. We will face stiffer competition to attract FDIs.” he said.

AUSTRALIA and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd opened a representative office in Myanmar yesterday, joining a long list of regional and international companies making inroads into a country undergoing widespread political and economic reforms.

ANZ’s chief executive officer for the Asia Pacific region Gilles Plante said the move – typically seen as an initial step in emerging markets before establishing a branch – reflects the expansion of the bank’s network in the region.

“ANZ’s representative office in Myanmar is the first point of contact for customers interested in doing business in Myanmar, and for businesses in Myanmar looking for opportunities in the 33 markets where ANZ operates across Asia-Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, America and the Middle East,” Plante said.

Since taking power two years ago, Myanmar President Thein Sein has enacted reforms that have eased sanctions and attracted companies such as Coca-Cola Co, Ford Motor Co, Unilever NV and MasterCard Inc. Local and regional companies have also got in on the act.

Acleda, the largest locally owned bank in Cambodia, started a Myanmar microfinance institution in September, while Japanese-owned Maruhan Bank also opened a representative office in July.

Plante said ANZ’s representative office positions the company as “clearly the best connected bank for customers across the Greater Mekong [region]”.

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Business

Low prices still hurting zinc smelter Pathom Sangwongwanich

THAILAND’s SET-listed Padaeng Industry Plc, Southeast Asia’s sole zinc smelter, says its financial performance has remained weak in the second quarter, as zinc prices are unprofitable.

Managing director Francis Vanbellen said the company’s first-quarter net profit was generated mainly from hedging on zinc prices at $2,141 a tonne.

Baht appreciation against the US dollar reduced the zinc price in local currency by four per cent.

PDI posted a first-quarter net profit of 34.3 million baht ($1.1 million) compared with a net loss of 47 million baht in the same period last year.

The hedging strategy was pursued because the current zinc price of $1,850 a tonne will incur losses, Vanbellen said, adding that PDI has reduced output to 82,500 from 110,000 tonnes to cut costs.

He said with a 75-80 per cent share of the domestic zinc market, the company plans to extract more domestic ores since it imports these raw materials from Australia and South America. BANGKOK POST

Thais to get budget airline Bonsoong Kositchotethana

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HE plan to create a Thai offshoot of Vietnam’s no-frills carrier VietJet Air has been firmed up with a joint venture agreement set to conclude in Bangkok on Wednesday.

Somphong Sooksanguan, president of the Thai commuter airline Kan Air and owner of the debt-collecting firm Kannithi Co has confirmed holding a 51 per cent share in Thai VietJet Air, with the Ho Chi Minh Citybased VietJet Aviation owning 49 per cent.

The conclusion of the accord, in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be witnessed by a Vietnamese deputy prime minister, will trigger the entry of yet another foreign player into Thailand’s hotly contested budget airline stakes.

Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest low-cost carrier, and AirAsia X, the long-haul no-frills affiliate of Malaysia’s AirAsia Group, will also descend into Thailand in the coming months on the pretext of being Thai-registered subsidiary airlines with Thai stakeholders.

Thai VietJet Air’s corporate structure is in line with minimum requirements set by Thailand’s Civil Aviation De-

A VietJetAir A320 aircraft flies over Ho Chi Minh City in April. photo supplied

partment. Namely, a 49-51 ownership split between foreign and Thai entities, and initial registered capital of 200 million baht ($6.5 million).

Somphong told the Bangkok Post that Thai VietJet Air is expected to take to the skies in November with two Airbus 320-200 single-aisle jets based at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.

Thai VietJet Air’s maiden flights are planned to be domestic trunk routes such as those from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and Phuket as well as flights to certain neighbouring

countries such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

After Wednesday’s MoU, both Thai and Vietnamese partners will proceed to finalise pending details of the joint venture and obtain the necessary permits.

VietJet Air commenced a daily Bangkok-Ho Chi Minh City flight on February 10, adding daily Bangkok-Hanoi service on June 1.

Somphong acknowledged making overtures to establish the joint venture with Vietnam’s first privately owned airline and LCC, which was launched in December 2011.

“Having an alliance with existing facilities, support and experience is the best and quickest way to start up a new airline,” he said.

Thai VietJet Air will be another major extension of Somphong’s aviation-related business, which now envisages a fleet expansion for Kan Air and building a small airport on Koh Phangan, the Gulf of Thailand island popular for its full-moon parties and as a backpacker destination.

Somphong’s Kannithi Aviation Co, the Thai stakeholder in Thai VietJet Air, has prepared a team of Thai personnel comprising 30 cabin attendants, eight cockpit staff and four aviation engineering specialists to support the new airline.

VietJet Air currently boasts a network of 11 domestic Vietnamese routes and its two Bangkok routes. On the radar screen is service to Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.

The carrier operates 300 flights a week.

This month VietJet Air took delivery of two more brandnew A320 jets, thus ramping up its fleet of such aircraft to eight overall. It will take delivery of 18 more new A320s in the coming years. BANGKOK POST

Religious travel

Indonesian carrier may ferry faithful

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T Garuda Indonesia is considering the purchase of Airbus SAS A380s or Boeing Co 747-8 jumbo jets in partnership with its government to help ferry religious pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

A purchase of three to five of the planes may come “very soon”, contingent on an agreement with Indonesian officials, Chief Executive Officer Emirsyah Satar said last week at the Paris Air Show.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim state and needs the four-engine jets to fly travellers to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, Satar said.

The airliners could be in service as early as 2015, he said, as Boeing and Airbus seek to fill near-term production slot vacancies for their largest planes.

Garuda will conduct a longterm fleet review this year to determine its aircraft needs through 2025, Satar said.

The assessment will include examining long-range models such as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and 777X and the Airbus A350, along with short-haul jets.

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Myanmar telecom troubles Jared Ferrie

COMPANIES awarded telecommunications licences in Myanmar this week will need to spend billions on networks in a country that has yet to pass a law on the sector and where opaque, stateowned enterprises will remain players.

The process is being watched closely as a test case for reform in Myanmar, although the risks did not stop 90 international firms and groups from joining the initial phase.

Faced with big investments and uncertain returns however, Vodafone Group Plc and China Mobile Ltd dropped their joint bid for a license, saying it did not meet their “internal investment criteria.” The remaining 11 short-listed contenders include Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, KDDI Corp and Telenor ASA. “Nobody has any experience or any idea how the government is going to regulate the sector,” said Edwin Vanderbruggen of Yangon-based law firm VDB Loi, which advises telecom companies hoping to do business here.

After decades of isolation and economic mismanagement under the military, mobile phone penetration in Myanmar is put at 4 to 9 per cent of its 60 million people, lower even than North Korea.

The government of President Thein Sein has pushed through a series of political and economic reforms since 2011, and the award of mobile licenses on June 27 should bring a leap forward in digital technology that could speed up economic development.

Vanderbruggen said potential foreign investors in other sectors are watching the process closely.

One bad omen for the whole process though is a telecoms bill stuck in parliament.

Human Rights Watch warned the draft bill incorporated proposals drawn up under the junta that violate freedom of expression. A confidential tender invitation obtained by Reuters says firms might be required to restrict or intercept communications or let the government “utilize telecommunications equipment” during any public emergency, which was not defined. REUTERS

Thai book group looks ahead Saengwit Kewaleewongstatorn

SMALL and medium-sized publishers need improvement ahead of the kick-off for the Asean Economic Community in 2016, says the new president of the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand.

Charun Hormthienthong, the managing director of Saeng Dao Publishing, on Friday was elected Pubat’s new president.

After the election, Charun vowed to focus more on small and medium-sized publishers, which have had less access to Pubat’s financial resources and activities such as book fairs in recent years.

“If small and medium-sized publishers are allowed to attend more book fairs, they’ll get more

breathing room. They’ll sell more books and catch up with bookstore expansion and the proliferation of digital media,” he said.

To survive under the AEC, these small and medium-sized publishers will have to emulate the big publishers.

Pubat will encourage rural Thais to read more while at the same time providing new expertise to publishers in the areas of digital media and international book rights.

Charun believes this will boost the value of Thailand’s book industry to 20 billion baht ($642 million), an acceptable level by international standards.

Last year, small and mediumsized publishers opposed a warehouse fee of 1 per cent of

their books’ value charged by the major chains Se-Ed Book Center and Amarin Book Center.

Apart from the warehouse fee, book publishers must also pay a distribution fee of 40 per cent of their books’ prices. They called on the previous Pubat president to solve this problem and the group organised a special team to study the issue.

Charun said he will continue the main policies instituted under his predecessor, such as organising book fairs up country and supporting Bangkok’s status as the 2013 World Book Capital.

A 2011 Pubat report listed 398 publishers in Thailand. The value of the book industry increased by five per cent last year. BANGKOK POST

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Markets Business Airline will offer more China trips Anne Renzenbrink

CAMBODIA Angkor Air plans to launch chartered flights between Siem Reap and the southeastern coastal Chinese city of Xiamen next month.

The national flag carrier plans to take off for China for the first time on July 11, CAA Chairman Tek Reth Samrach said yesterday, the same month it plans its first scheduled flight to the Chinese city of Guangzhou.

Tek Reth Samrach said besides Xiamen, the airline seeks to serve two, three or fours destinations in China with chartered flights. “We are now negotiating with the [tour] operators,” he said.

The announcement comes amid expansion plans for CAA – which launched operations in 2009 – to destinations including South Korea, Hong Kong and India.

Statistics from the Ministry of Tourism show that 25,906 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia in the first quarter of this year, a 6.9 per cent increase compared with 24,225 in the same period the year before.

Tourists ask, what the fog?

Pooja Thakur and Kenneth Foo

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RASHANT Changrani and his family were looking forward to a week-long holiday in Singapore that was set to start on Sunday. That was until the island state was engulfed in hazardous fire haze wafting across from Sumatra.

“Health comes before holiday,” businessman Changrani, 41, said in a phone interview from Mumbai after canceling the trip.

Forest fires raging on the neighbouring Indonesian island sent Singapore’s Pollutant Standards Index to a record 401 on June 21, a level deemed hazardous. Singapore’s air quality has improved to good yesterday after the haze shifted north into Malaysia over the weekend. A state of emergency was called in parts of Johor in Malaysia on Sunday, The haze may prompt more visitors to reconsider trips to Singapore, which was ranked Asia’s most-popular business destination in the first half of 2012 with hotel occupancy rates averaging 86 per cent in the past three years.

“It’s a bit early days at the moment, but if it goes on any longer, it must have some ad-

Tourists take photos near the Merlion statue in Singapore’s Marina Bay area as air quality in the city slowly improved on Saturday. reuters

verse impact on tourism numbers,” said Robert McIntosh, Asia Pacific executive director at CBRE Group Inc. The pollution will hit tourism-related industries in Singapore, which make up as much as 6 per cent of the economy, as well as construction, Joey Chew, an economist at Barclays Plc, said in a research note on June 20. A disruption for one week could cost the economy about $1 billion, Barclays economist Wai Ho Leong said in an email on June 19.

Conventions, conferences

and trade shows rose 46 per cent to 2,130 in 2011 from 2010, according to the Singapore Tourism Board.

The haze has prompted daily health warnings in Singapore and forced some tourist attractions to shut.

The Singapore Flyer, which operates the city-state’s ferris wheel, suspended operations last week, while Gardens by the Bay, a newly built botanical park near the Marina Bay financial district, halted some outdoor activities.

Fairmont Singapore and

Swissotel The Stamford have received queries from clients and guests expressing concern about the haze situation, Lim Ee Jin, director of marketing communications, said in response to Bloomberg News queries.

“In terms of overall business, we see a slower pace in dining reservations,” Lim said. “There have also been a few cancellations of room bookings as a direct result of the haze situation, but it is too early to tell if it will have significant impact on the business.”

Some inhabitants of Singapore, which number 5.3 million with foreigners accounting for about a third, are trying to escape the island state.

Airlines are using the haze to sell flights. Singapore Airlines Ltd’s budget carrier Scoot ran an advertising campaign titled “What The Fog” enticing Singapore residents to “Get Outta Here”, offering flights to Bangkok from S$88 ($69), and to Sydney and the Gold Coast for S$178.

Jetstar Airways, the budget carrier owned by Quantas Airways Ltd, offered fares to Bangkok from Singapore starting at S$78 with a campaign saying “You can’t vacuum the haze away and you can’t stay indoors forever”. BLOOMBERG

Small biz

Competition could hurt SME future

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UE to a lack of awareness and human resources, small and medium enterprise owners could suffer from competition as ASEAN moves toward economic integration, industry insiders say.

Chan Virath, an organiser of a career forum over the weekend, said that most small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, in Cambodia still lack business strategies.

“Even though we have tried to call and invite them to join the event, nobody was interested in the program,” Virath said. “Most of them are family operated and do not understand the advantage of an enhanced brand or recruiting quality human resource.”

SMEs are playing increasingly important role in Cambodia as engines of economic growth.

Nguon Meng Tech, director general of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce, said that SMEs also provide job opportunities for low-cost workers.

SMEs operate almost entirely in the unregistered, informal sector, according to the Federation of Association of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia. HOR KIMSAY

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Business

Another China central bank worry Aileen Wang, Lu Jianxin and Pete Sweeney

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HINESE companies are getting more creative in the business of money lending as they struggle to keep profits ticking over in a cooling economy, raising concerns they are adding to the mountain of debt risks building in the world’s No 2 economy.

Big state companies in industries struggling with over-capacity but with easy access to credit are borrowing funds, not to invest in their business but to lend to smaller firms sometimes at several times the official interest rate, part of an informal lending market in China that authorities are taking aim at.

China’s central bank increased pressure on banks to rein in such informal lending and speculative trading last week in money markets, letting short-term interest rates spike to extraordinary levels.

In the $3.7 trillion so-called shadow banking market, the fastest growing area is in so-called entrusted loans, which are arranged by banks on the companies’ behalf, and in bankers’ acceptance notes, tradable securities that give a steady flow of cash.

Issuance of entrusted loans and bankers’ acceptance notes has more than doubled to 1.6 trillion yuan ($261 billion) in the first four months of this year from 636 billion yuan a year ago.

“Can we use the money to expand production? Definitely not,” said a deputy general manager at a stateowned steel firm in the eastern Shandong province, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“We will lose more if we produce more. We can only rely on other channels,” he added, noting the firm loses an average 100-200 yuan per tonne (1.1023 tonnes) of steel sold.

China’s economic growth is widely

The headquarters of China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, pictured behind an iron chain in Beijing last week.

expected to slow further in the current quarter as exporters struggle with weak global markets, making lending money an increasingly attractive business option.

But there are concerns that some of the money is going into areas the government would rather it did not, for example real estate speculation, raising the risk of it turning bad while not helping the economy out of its current slowdown.

Indeed, debt is shaping up to be China’s biggest financial problem.

The cabinet has said it would control the flow of new money into industries struggling with overcapacity.

Beijing worries the shadow bank-

IMF scandal brings in French tycoon Tapie FRENCH investigators yesterday placed disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie in custody as they prepared to interrogate him in a corruption probe that has embroiled IMF chief Christine Lagarde.

Tapie, who can be held for up to four days without charge, was to be questioned over a 400-million-euro ($525 million) state payout he received in 2008 when Lagarde was France’s finance minister.

of staff when, in 2008, she sanctioned the payout to Tapie.

Lagarde is suspected of having rigged the process that led to the payout, thus ensuring that Tapie would get the cash in return for supporting her boss, Nicolas Sarkozy, in his successful 2007 presidential election campaign. The IMF chief was questioned for two days in May about her role in the affair. She was not placed under formal investigation – the French equiv-

Three people have been charged, including the head of telecommunications giant Orange.

A combative Tapie played down the procedure, telling Europe 1 radio: “I have had six or seven such appointments.

The result: six acquittals and a discharge.”

Three people have been charged over the scandal since May, including Stephane Richard, the head of telecommunications giant Orange.

The board of Orange, in which the French state is a major shareholder, has voted to let him remain company boss.

Richard was Lagarde’s chief

alent of being charged in other legal systems – but she remains what is termed an “assisted witness”, which means judges can summon her for further interrogation at any time.

The cash payout to Tapie, who served a prison sentence for match-fixing during his time as president of France’s biggest football club, Olympique Marseille, related to a dispute between the businessman and partly state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais over his 1993 sale of sports group Adidas. AFP

ing market is creating asset-price bubbles, and the central bank has tried to put a barrier in the way of it in recent weeks by declining to inject major funds into money markets.

The shadow banking system has arisen because main stream banking is focused on the needs of big stateowned enterprises.

Ratings agency S&P has estimated that outstanding shadow banking credit totaled $3.7 trillion by the end of 2012, equal to 44 per cent of GDP. Fitch has put it at about 60 per cent, saying “torrid growth” has made the total of all forms of credit, including regular lending, shadow and hidden underground lending, as much as

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200 per cent of GDP. This is a very, very big problem for the economy,” said Wei Yao, China economist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong.

“The existence of all these arbitrage efforts shows that in the real economy, there are few opportunities. You’ve limited all the opportunities for real growth, then you open a window in the financial markets; of course everyone goes there!”

With entrusted loans, a company provides the funds but, to circumvent a ban on direct lending to other firms, it designates a commercial bank to lend the money to a specific borrower.

The lender stipulates the amount,

tenor, and rate of the loan, while the banks earn fees from both sides without the loans showing up on their balance sheets.

The average monthly amount of new entrusted loans was 179 billion yuan in the first four months of 2013, up from an average of 106 billion yuan a month last year.

The steel company manager said he borrows from banks around the six per cent official rate, then issues an entrusted loan to a borrower at up to twice that rate.

The general manager of a local government-controlled glass company in the northern province of Hebei said his company has increased the use of such practices as business slowed, lending about 30 to 40 million yuan so far this year at around six to seven per cent mainly to related firms.

Some private companies are also cashing in. Zhejiang Longsheng Group Co Ltd, a specialty chemicals maker based near Shanghai, detailed 50 entrusted loans worth 3 billion yuan outstanding in its 2012 annual report.

The company lent to subsidiaries at rates of six to seven per cent, but unrelated companies were charged as much as 25 per cent. It said one of the loans, with a rate of 20 per cent, would be rolled over as the borrower had difficulty repaying it.

Companies are also buying bank acceptance notes, transferable bills issued by other banks that can be sold for cash. These companies sell the bills and use part of the cash raised to make loans and the rest to buy more bills, thus ensuring a continuous churn of funds and income.

The average monthly amount of bank acceptance bills issued so far this year has more than doubled to 222.8 billion yuan compared with an average of 87.5 billion yuan for all of 2012. REUTERS

Vodafone buys Kabel Deutschland Kate Holton and Harro Ten Wolde

VODAFONE has agreed to buy Germany’s largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland for 7.7 billion euros ($10 billion), betting on TV and fixed-line services in its biggest deal since 2007.

Announcing its second major acquisition for a European fixed-line network in 12 months, Vodafone said it would pay 87 euros ($110) per share for the group to enable it to offer more competitive packages with TV, fixed-line and broadband services to its mobile customers.

The world’s second-largest mobile operator, following up its acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide, is however paying a rich price for the German firm and its 8.5 million homes, which it considered buying before it went public in March 2010 at 22 euros per share.

One trader who asked not to be named said the offer, Vodafone’s biggest since a 2007 Indian acquisition, valued Kabel Deutschland at 12 times enterprise value against 2013 core earnings, a 35 per cent premium to the sector.

However, this falls to 8.5 times when taking into consideration the synergies Vodafone expects

A monitor wall at the Kabel Deutschland playout centre in Frankfurt in February. Reuters

to extract. “We believe this is a decent deal for Vodafone,” the trader said.

Shares in the group had been trading at 63 euros before Vodafone’s initial interest was reported in February.

The UK-based company was forced to raise its offer in the last week after John Malone’s Liberty Global entered the fray, forcing it to up the stakes or face losing ground to Liberty’s own cable operator Unity Media and to Deutsche Telekom.

“German consumer and business demand for fast broadband and data services continues to

grow substantially, as customers increasingly access TV, fixed and mobile broadband services from multiple devices,” Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said.

“The combination of Vodafone Germany and Kabel Deutschland will greatly enhance our offerings in response to those needs.”

The board of Kabel Deutschland said it expected to recommend the offer to its shareholders, although some analysts thought Liberty Global could still return with a counter offer even though it would likely face

high regulatory barriers. “The Vodafone offer has a bigger chance of succeeding over any potential offer from Liberty Global, as it will be in cash and will face no antitrust hurdles,” said a shareholder, who holds both Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland.

The investor declined to be named as it is his fund’s policy not to comment in public about separate stocks.

“There remains the possibility of a counter-offer from Liberty Global, however we believe Liberty’s appetite may be tempered by the significant regulatory risks of such a transaction,” analysts at JPMorgan said in a note.

The combination of Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland will result in a group with 11.5 billion euros of revenue in Germany, from 32.4 million mobile customers, 5 million broadband and 7.6 million TV customers.

Vodafone said it expected synergies from the deal to exceed an annual 300 million euros before integration costs, by the fourth full-year post completion.

Vodafone also believes there is the potential for revenue synergies of 1.5 billion euros from cross-selling products and improved customer loyalty. REUTERS

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Markets Business Suntory’s share sale falls short JAPANESE drinks giant Suntory said yesterday that a sale of shares in its food-and-beverage unit raised a less-thanexpected $3.94 billion, but the IPO is still set to be the biggest on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this year.

About 125 million shares were sold in the privately held company’s Suntory Beverage & Food unit, an initial public offering valued at 387.5 billion yen based on a sale price of 3,100 yen per share.

Suntory had previously said the listing could fetch as much as 475.76 billion yen, or 3,800 yen per share.

Shares of the unit, which produces non-alcoholic beverages including soft drinks and bottled tea, would be listed on Japan’s premier bourse on July 3.

The division’s sales last year totalled 992.1 billion yen, or more than half of the Suntory group’s 1.85 trillion yen in revenue.

Suntory, which three years ago scrapped plans to merge with Japanese beverage giant Kirin to create one of the world’s largest beer and softdr ink companies, has announced a number of overseas acquisitions as part of its overall strategy to offset a shrinking domestic food and beverage market. AFP

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s EUROPE slaps duties on $15 billion of solar panels, their Chinese producers are preparing to counter-attack with devices assembled from South Africa to Istanbul that will avoid the import taxes.

Trina Solar Ltd, JinkoSolar Holding Co and Canadian Solar Inc are among Chinese companies preparing to shift manufacturing abroad, dodging penalties imposed by the European Union in the bloc’s biggest ever antidumping action.

China is pivoting as the EU this month set provisional tariffs on solar goods of 11.8 per cent, a rate set to quintuple in August. At stake are imports from Yingli Green Energy Holding, the world’s largest panel maker, and more than 100 other Chinese makers of silicon-based panels, cells and wafers.

Jinko’s yet-to-be-completed factories in South Africa and Europe could be used as “back-up solutions” depending on how high the EU raises its duties, Dany Qian, the company’s global branding director, said in an interview in Munich.

As Chinese and EU officials held talks in Beijing last week to head off the planned jump in duties, its companies are preparing for the worst – a years’ long battle over whether Chinese suppliers unfairly benefit from state subsidies and by dumping, or selling below cost, in the biggest solar market.

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China, the largest solar products maker, and the EU threaten a relationship that generated about 434 billion euros ($690 billion) of exports and imports of all kinds last year, according to European Commission statistics.

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THE PHNOM PENH POST june 25, 2013

World Indonesia steps up its efforts to put out fires

Tears for the missing A Bangladeshi family member yesterday cries for her missing relative, believed to have died in the rubble, two months after the nine-storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Hundreds of garment workers staged demonstrations at the site of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster, demanding compensation for the survivors and a full account of the missing labourers. AFP

INDONESIA stepped up aerial operations yesterday to extinguish forest fires raging on Sumatra island as Malaysia remained smothered by smog and Singapore enjoyed sunny skies thanks to favourable winds.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia’s national disaster agency, said a fourth helicopter was deployed Monday for “water bombing” sorties in addition to two airplanes conducting cloud-seeding runs to induce rain over the parched island.

“We have carried out 14 water-bombings, dropping a total of 7,000 litres of water onto the fires. To boost the operation, we have deployed an extra helicopter for water bombing today,” he said in a text message to media.

Local police in Sumatra’s Riau province said a landowner and a smallholder had been arrested for causing more than 400 hectares of peat land to catch fire. Firefighters earlier said they were having difficulty fighting fires on such soil.

Smog from Sumatra is a recurring problem during the June-September dry season, when plantations and smallholders allegedly set off fires to prepare land for cultivation despite a legal ban.

So far, attempts by Indonesia to induce rain have had little success.

“The cloud-seeding technology is meant to speed up rainfall, but with few clouds, there’s little we can do. The rain was more like a drizzle,” Indonesian disaster agency official Agus Wibowo said.

Officials in Singapore, which bore the brunt of the smog last week, warned against complacency, saying the situation could deteriorate again if monsoon winds carrying smoke and particulates from Sumatra changed direction.

Malaysia called on Indonesia yesterday to stop “finger-pointing” after its larger neighbour claimed several Malaysian companies are also responsible for forest fires. AFP

Russia defies US over Snowden R

USSIA defied White House pressure yesterday to expel former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to the United States before he flees Moscow on the next stop of his globe-crossing escape from US prosecution.

Snowden, whose exposure of secret US government surveillance raised questions about intrusions into private lives, was allowed to leave Hong Kong on Sunday after Washington asked the Chinese territory to arrest him on espionage charges.

The 29-year-old flew to Moscow as a transit stop before heading elsewhere, several sources said. But reports he would fly to Cuba were put in doubt when witnesses could not see him on the plane, despite heightened security before take-off.

Ecuador, which has sheltered the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy

organisation, Julian Assange, said it was considering Snowden’s request for asylum. There is no direct flight to Quito from Moscow.

“He didn’t take the flight [to Havana],” a source at Russia’s national airline Aeroflot said.

As speculation mounted about where he would go next – Ecuador, Venezuela or Havana at a later date to escape the crowd of journalists on board yesterday’s flight – Washington was stung by Russian defiance.

Snowden’s flight to Russia, which like China challenges US dominance of global diplomacy, is an embarrassment to President Barack Obama who has tried to “reset” ties with Moscow and build a partnership with Beijing.

The White House said it expected the Russian government to send Snowden back to the United States and lodged “strong objections” to Hong Kong and

China for letting him go. But the Russian government ignored the appeal and President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary denied any knowledge of Snowden’s movements.

Asked if Snowden had spoken to the Russian authorities, Peskov said: “Overall, we have no information about him.”

He declined comment on the expulsion request, but other Russian officials said Moscow had no obligation to cooperate with Washington, after it passed legislation to impose visa bans and asset freezes on Russians accused of violating human rights.

“Why should the United States expect restraint and understanding from Russia?” said Alexei Pushkov, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament.

Putin has missed few chances to champion public figures who chal-

lenge Western governments and to portray Washington as an overzealous global policeman. But Russian leaders have not paraded Snowden before the cameras or trumpeted his arrival.

Since leaving Hong Kong, where he feared arrest and extradition, Snowden has been searching for a country that can guarantee his security.

Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, on a trip to Vietnam, said Quito would analyse his asylum request with a “lot of responsibility”.

A source at Aeroflot said on Sunday that Snowden was booked on the flight due to depart for Havana yesterday at 2:05 pm. But a correspondent aboard could not see him and the seat he was supposed to occupy, 17A, was taken by another passenger.

A State Department official said Washington had told countries in the Western Hemisphere that Snowden

“should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States”.

Despite the Kremlin denials, US Senator Charles Schumer said Putin had probably known about and approved Snowden’s flight to Russia.

“Putin always seems almost eager to stick a finger in the eye of the United States,” Schumer, a senior Senate Democrat, told CNN’s “State of the Union”. He also saw “the hand of Beijing” in Hong Kong’s decision to let Snowden leave.

But taking the higher ground after being accused of hacking computers abroad, the Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed “grave concern” over Snowden’s allegations that the United States had hacked computers in China.

It said it had taken up the issue with Washington. REUTERS

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World Malaysian police detain dozens over election fraud MALAYSIAN police yesterday detained at least two dozen people protesting alleged election fraud as parliament convened for the first time since divisive polls last month.

About 300 people, clad mostly in the black colour of a post-election protest campaign, demonstrated on a road leading to parliament in the capital Kuala Lumpur, calling for a re-balloting.

Police, backed up by a dozen riot officers armed with shields, batons and tear gas, moved in after several hours, dragging away protesters and bundling them into police trucks.

Khalid Samad, an opposition legislator, said at least 25 people were arrested. A police spokesman, when contacted, could not immediately confirm the number.

Politicians from both the ruling coalition and three-party opposition were sworn in Monday, marking the start of a fresh five-year term following May 5 elections won by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional (National Front).

The 56-year ruling coalition won the polls but with a reduced majority.

It also lost the popular vote, gaining just 47 per cent, but retained power due to a favourable landscape of seat apportionment.

The opposition has alleged that widespread fraud cost them a historic election victory, but has grudgingly accepted the result.

They claim widespread irregularities in the electoral roll, and have highlighted a debacle over supposedly indelible ink that was introduced to prevent multiplevoting but washed off easily.

Najib has denied any fraud took place, but the ink fiasco has not been explained.

The opposition also says gerrymandering and redistricting over the years make it difficult to dislodge Barisan, and are pushing for deep election reforms.

The opposition has staged a series of demonstrations around the country to highlight such grievances, but the movement appears to be ebbing. AFP

‘Buddhist terror’ causes stir M YANMAR has reacted angrily to a Time magazine cover story on a prominent radical monk accused of fuelling anti-Muslim violence, accompanied by the headline “The Face of Buddhist Terror”.

Social media users in the former junta-ruled nation also voiced dismay at the US magazine’s July front page, which shows a photograph of controversial Mandalay monk Wirathu, whose anti-Muslim remarks have come under scrutiny following a wave of deadly religious violence.

The Time report “creates a misunderstanding of Buddhism which has existed for thousands of years and is the religion of the majority of our citizens,” said a statement posted on the presidential office website late on Sunday.

“The government is currently striving with religious leaders, political parties, media and the people to rid Myanmar of unwanted conflicts,” it said, adding that the issue of religion should be handled respectfully by the media.

In a sign of the strength of feeling, one online petition started over the weekend to condemn the magazine had collected almost 40,000 names by yesterday.

The use of the words “Buddhist” and “Terror” upset all followers of the faith, which is peaceful “and not for terrorists,” a message accompanying the petition said.

A man reads a copy of the July 1 issue of Time magazine in Bangkok yesterday.

Witnesses to violence that flared in March in central Myanmar said people dressed in monks’ robes were involved in the unrest, which left scores dead, mainly Muslims.

Radical monks have led a campaign to shun shops owned by Muslims.

Wirathu has also called for a law to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men of other faiths.

Senior monks, however, have accused foreign media of one-sided

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reporting of the Buddhist-Muslim conflict.

Facebook users accused Time of deepening divisions and defaming Myanmar’s main religion.

“Insulting the monk Wirathu, a son of Buddha, is the same as insulting Buddhism,” said one post

by Wai Phyo.

“What Wirathu is doing now is to protect our own nationality and religion,” Wai Phyo wrote.

“Obviously this writer doesn’t understand Myanmar and Buddhism well,” another post said.

In March at least 44 people were killed in sectarian strife in central Myanmar with thousands of homes set ablaze.

Communal unrest last year in the western state of Rakhine left about 200 people dead and up to 140,000 displaced, mainly Rohingya Muslims. AFP

Bangladesh orders trial of UK-based Muslim A BANGLADESH war crimes court yesterday ordered a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen to be tried in absentia for the murder of 19 intellectuals during the 1971 independence war, prosecutors said.

The country’s much criticised International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) charged Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan with 11 “crimes against humanity” counts including murder, confinement, abduction and torture.

“They have been charged with the

murder of 19 top intellectuals during the war. They included writers, university professors, doctors and journalists,” senior prosecutor Ziad Al Malum said, adding that both face the death penalty if convicted.

Rana Dasgupta, another prosecutor, said the court “has fixed July 15 for the opening statement” in their trial.

Some of the intellectuals the two men are accused of murdering, Malum said, are Sirajuddin Hossain, the executive editor of the Ittefaq daily newspaper; top playwright and

Dhaka University professor Muneer Chowdhury; and the popular novelist Shahidullah Kaiser.

Both Mueen-Uddin and Khan were born in what was then East Pakistan before the nine-month war of independence against West Pakistan that ended in December 1971. They fled the country after Bangladesh successfully proclaimed its independence.

“Mueen-Uddin is living in Britain and Khan in the United States. The court has ordered the trial to be held in absentia and has provided defence

lawyers for them,” Malum said, adding the court was not seeking their extradition.

“It’s up to the British people and their government whether they are going to extradite a top war crime accused or not,” he said.

Mueen-Uddin, 64, has held positions in a host of top Islamic organisations in his adopted homeland of Britain and was involved in setting up the Muslim Council of Britain – the largest umbrella group in the UK representing Muslims. AFP

Child asylum seekers ‘locked up’ Pakistan cancels trips INDONESIA is locking up hundreds of child asylum seekers and migrants in squalid detention centres where they are sometimes assaulted, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

They are held alongside adults in centres where detainees are tied up, gagged, beaten with sticks, burned with cigarettes and given electric shocks, the rights group said in a new report.

The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation is a common transit point for asylum seekers, normally hoping to reach Australia by boat, but many are caught by the authorities.

They include children who risk “life and limb” to flee violence and poverty from countries such as Somalia and Afghanistan, only to find themselves locked up in detention centres in Indonesia, said the rights group.

A young Myanmar Muslim Rohingya refugee at Indonesia’s Belawan immigration detention centre in Medan city on April 8. AFP

“Each year, hundreds are detained in sordid conditions, without access to lawyers, and sometimes beaten,” Human Rights Watch said.

“Both adults and children described guards kicking, punching and slapping them or other detainees.”

More than 1,000 unaccompanied children arrived in Indonesia last year, the rights group said in the report, for which it interviewed 42 people who were children when they came to Indonesia, as well as immigration officials and NGOs.

While many are held in detention centres, others are left on the streets with no legal or material assistance, as there is no government agency responsible for their guardianship, the report said.

The group urged Indonesia to clean up its detention facilities – which it said were often overcrowded and unsanitary – and institute fair and thorough processing for asylum seekers.

“Desperate children will keep coming to Indonesia and the government should step up to give them decent care,” said the group’s children’s rights researcher Alice Farmer.

But Indonesian immigration official Subandriyani, who goes by one name, described the claims in the report as “untrue and baseless”, and said guards would not dare abuse detainees as they would be sacked. AFP

after 10 tourists killed PAKISTAN yesterday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak and evacuated climbers after Islamist gunmen shot dead 10 foreign trekkers, braced for the collapse of its tiny tourist industry.

Attackers dressed in police uniforms stormed a base camp at the foot of Nanga Parbat late on Saturday, shooting dead the climbers and a Pakistani guide at point-blank range, officials said.

The victims have been identified as an American with dual Chinese citizenship, three Ukrainians, two Slovakians, two others from China, a Lithuanian and a climber from Nepal.

Pakistan’s umbrella Taliban movement claimed responsibility, saying it had set up a new faction, Junood ul-Hifsa,

to kill foreigners to avenge US drone strikes on Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives.

It was the worst attack on foreigners for a decade in Pakistan and an unprecedented attack on mountaineers drawn to the intrepid climbing of the north, which until Saturday’s shootings was considered immune from militancy plaguing other areas.

It is a major blow to foreign trekking expeditions, which provide the last vestige of international tourism in a country where Islamist militants have killed thousand of people in recent years.

Naiknam Karim, general secretary of the Pakistan Association of Tour Operators, said the killings were a “disaster” for Gilgit-Baltistan, where tourism is the main source of income. AFP

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World

India counts the toll after flash floods cause havoc AROUND 1,000 people have been killed in flash floods and landslides in northern India, as heavy rains halted the search yesterday for thousands of tourists still stranded in the devastated Himalayan regions, officials said.

Indian priests were preparing to cremate hundreds of victims even as 8,000 mainly pilgrims and tourists were still awaiting rescue nine days after flash floods and landslides hit the state of Uttarakhand.

“The official information with us is that about 1,000 people have died,” Yashpal Arya, the disaster relief minister for Uttarakhand, said.

Senior officials warned that the death toll could rise above 1,000 as flood waters recede and debris is cleared by emergency workers, showing the full extent of the disaster in the mountainous region.

Floods and landslides from monsoon rains have also struck neighbouring Nepal, leaving at least 39 people dead, according to the government in Kathmandu. AFP

Pakistan may try Musharraf P

AKISTAN’S new government said yesterday it would put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, charges that are punishable by death or life imprisonment.

The retired general, who returned from four years of self-imposed exile in March, has been under house arrest at his villa on the edge of Islamabad since April 19.

He is fighting a series of cases dating back to his 19992008 rule, which began when he seized power from then prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned to office this month after winning landmark elections.

“Musharraf’s actions came under the purview of high treason,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told parliament. “He should face trial . . . and will have to answer for his guilt before the court,” he added.

The attorney general delivered the same statement on behalf of the government in the Supreme Court, where a treason trial can be initiated only by the state.

Pakistan’s highest court has for months been hearing a pe-

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf (centre) is escorted by soldiers and police commandos as he leaves an anti-terrorism court after a hearing in Islamabad on April 20. AFP

tition from lawyers demanding that Musharraf be tried for treason for subverting the constitution by imposing emergency rule and sacking judges in 2007.

Before May 11 general elections swept Sharif back to power, a caretaker government had refused to initiate

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.

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the trial against Musharraf, saying it was beyond its mandate and up to the new, elected government.

Premier Sharif did not mince his words.

“Musharraf violated the constitution twice. He overthrew an elected government in 1999 and put everything

into jeopardy. He sacked judges and imprisoned them,” said Sharif.

“We will follow the process of law and all political forces will be taken into confidence,” he added.

The position will complicate the chances of a quiet deal that Musharraf’s legal

team had hoped would allow him to win bail and quietly leave the country.

It could also put the civilian government at loggerheads with the powerful army, which vehemently opposes the prospect of its former chief facing the courts in Pakistan.

But it was welcomed by the two main opposition parties, Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by politician Imran Khan.

“This house should have another resolution against all dictators so that no one can cast an evil eye on this house,” Syed Khurshid Shah, PPP opposition leader in the national assembly, said.

PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his party would support the prime minister on “every move towards supremacy of the constitution and law.”

Musharraf faces three other cases dating back to his rule.

He has won bail for sacking judges and in connection with the 2007 murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, but remains under house arrest over the 2006 killing of a Baluch rebel leader. AFP

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Environment Call of the wild

Lion’s roar, wolf’s pee in deer fight

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RANSPORT operators in northern Japan are sprinkling wolf urine near roads and broadcasting the roar of lions near train tracks in a bid to keep deer away and reduce accidents, officials said yesterday.

Nexco East, an expressway operator, imports wolf urine from the United States to spray on the highways it operates in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands.

“Even though we have increased the height of fences to 2.5 metres from 1.5 metres, fences sometimes break because of heavy snow, so we need this stop-gap measure while mending them,” a company official said.

“The effect lasts about a month, but it won’t be effective forever because deer get used to the smell,” he said.

The deer population in Hokkaido was nearly wiped out in the early 20th century because of overhunting and sometimes brutal winters.

But conservation efforts – and the extinction of the indigenous wild wolf population – led to their recovery.

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Tide is high A group of boys runs away as they avoid waves whipped up by tropical storm Bebinca at the coastline of Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Sunday.

Tropical storm Bebinca has brought strong rain to Hainan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the South China Sea after it made landfall in Hainan province on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported. AFP

Obama’s climate speech set to stir strong reaction Suzanne Goldenberg

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ARACK Obama will unveil a national climate change plan today, offering the first real glimpse of how he intends to make good on one of the most stirring promises of his inaugural address.

In a video posted on the White House website on Saturday, the US president reiterated his view that climate change was the challenge of a generation.

The goals he will outline in his speech at Georgetown University will be equally ambitious, encompassing “a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it”, Obama said.

There will likely be strong reactions from Republicans in Congress, who oppose action on climate change as well as from fellow Democrats. Some campaigners will also doubtless argue Obama should do much more to stop global warming.

In concrete terms, there are widespread expectations that Obama will announce that he is using his executive powers as president to direct federal government agencies to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and to encourage energy efficiency.

He is also expected to step up government programs promoting the expansion of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, especially on public land.

The video also seemed to suggest that Obama would seek to involve his council of scientific advisors in drawing up a strategy for protecting American cities and coastlines from the worst consequences of climate change.

Some of the policy elements in Obama’s address were previewed earlier in the week in a speech by the White House climate advisor, Heather Zichal.

US President Barack Obama is set to make a widely anticipated speech on climate change today. The subject was a strong feature of his inaugural speech. AFP

In a forum sponsored by the New Republic magazine, Zichal suggested Obama would direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions from coalfired power plants.

Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of America’s greenhouse gas emissions – responsible for up to 40 per cent of carbon pollution – and have long been a target of campaigners.

The Obama administration has already taken steps to raising standards on new power plants.

But it has baulked until now at imposing tougher standards on existing power plants – a measure which would deliver the biggest cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

There was intense speculation ahead of Tuesday’s speech about whether Obama would promise to curb the emissions of existing facilities.

The president’s comments in a speech in Berlin this week seemed to suggest he was prepared for bolder action.

“Our dangerous carbon emissions have come down, but we know we have to do more, and we will do more,” Obama told the crowd.

Zichal, in her remarks this week, also indicated that EPA regulations would be part of Obama’s climate plan.

“Going forward, obviously the EPA is going to be working very hard on rules that focus specifically on greenhouse gas emissions from the coal sector,” she said. “They’re doing a lot of important work on that space.”

Today’s speech is likely to provoke strong reactions across the political spectrum.

John Boehner, the house speaker, pre-empted the speech by several days, telling Fox news on Thursday it would be “absolutely crazy” to use the EPA to reduce carbon emissions.

On the opposite end of the political divide, Obama will be under intense pressure today to offer some assurances to opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The project, intended to carry tar sands crude from Alberta to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast, has become a key issue for campaigners, who say it is a core test of Obama’s environmental commitments.

A number of prominent Democrats – as well as 145 veterans of Obama’s election campaigns – have come out against the pipeline. THE GUARDIAN

Pesticides found in traditional herbs: group TRADITIONAL Chinese herbs are being contaminated with a toxic cocktail of pesticides that poses a threat to consumer health and the environment, campaign group Greenpeace said yesterday.

Some residue levels were hundreds of times higher than European Union food safety standards, according to tests carried out for a Greenpeace report, Chinese herbs: Elixir of health or pesticides cocktail?, the latest to focus on the harmful effects of China’s large-scale farming industry.

“These test results expose the cracks in the current industrial agriculture system that is heavily reliant on toxic chemicals at the expense of human and environmental health,” said Greenpeace ecological farming campaigner Jing Wang.

“Chinese herbs are trusted and used as food ingredients for healing purposes by millions of people around the world. They are an iconic part of our heritage we must preserve. Chinese herbs should heal, not harm people, and must be pesticide free.”

Exposure to pesticide residue causes toxic chemicals to accumulate inside the body, leading to learning difficulties, hormone disruption and reproductive abnormalities, according to Greenpeace.

AFP

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Wanted: a level playing field COMMENT Curtis S Chin

A

S the countdown continues to Cambodia’s general elections scheduled for July 28, all parties – indeed all of the nation’s citizens – would benefit from a real discussion of the impact of foreign investment and development programs and policies this past decade that have helped grow the nation’s economy, but also have been perceived by some as contributing to a widening divide between the nation’s haves and the have nots, and between the connected and disconnected.

The reality remains that a significant gap exists between the richest and poorest families in Cambodia just as in numerous countries across Asia and the Pacific region. Visitors to the Kingdom may well contrast their luxury accommodations in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap with the images of rural and urban poverty that remain all too common today.

There is no denying that Cambodia today is much better off than under the murderous policies of the Khmer Rouge. Indeed, Asia today has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty over the past few decades.

The inconvenient truth remains, however, that the vast majority of the world’s poor people still live in Asia.

Stretching from the Caucusus to the distant Pacific islands, the region remains home to two-thirds of the world’s poor, and an estimated 1.7 billion people still struggle on less than $2 a day in Asia, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a regional financial institution focused on poverty reduction and that has provided a range of development assistance to Cambodia.

From urban slums to impoverished rural areas, some 700 million still live on less than US$1 a day, according to the ADB. Too often, ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples are among those

who remain marginalised and excluded from the benefits of the region’s growth.

This remains the case in many parts of Southeast Asia, including in the once pariah nation of Myanmar, as well as in nations that, like Malaysia and Thailand, have succeeded by many economic measures in overcoming the Asian financial crisis of more than a decade ago.

Indeed, some 43 per cent of the Asia-Pacific region’s population still do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and Asia’s cities, burdened by burgeoning populations, often are marked by deteriorating sanitation and environmental conditions and inadequate housing and infrastructure.

For three and one-half years, under presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, I served on the Board of Directors of the ADB, representing the United States. Now based in Thailand, I was struck by the answers from students at Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, when I posed the question: “Which nation in Asia is the most ‘unequal’ when it comes to the much-discussed Gini coefficient, or index – a measure of income inequality?”

India, Vietnam and Pakistan were among the responses. How, I wonder, would Cambodia’s citizens respond to that question? Perhaps, like those Thai students, many would be surprised by how “unequal” or equal their countries are.

According to the CIA World Factbook, the widely referenced resource site, while sub-Saharan African nations top the charts as the most unequal in the world, Thailand and Hong Kong are described as the most unequal in Asia.

Cambodia is rated as the 73rd most unequal nation in the world – a relatively “good” or more equal rating. Sweden is described as having the most equal distribution of average family income. (The United States is described as the 41st most unequal nation.)

Some of these figures are startling, particularly for those who have seen first-hand the extremes of wealth and poverty in Cambodia. Indeed, the rankings underscore one of the fundamental challenges of policy.

That is, the accuracy of data. The numbers are only as good as the source data.

While Gini index calculations are often reliant on government provided data, some governments may well deem it too sensitive, or not in their interest, to provide accurate data.

Cambodia’s figures are based on a 2008 estimate.

In 2012, ADB economist Juzhong Zhuang put out a thought piece noting that while some might argue that the 1960s and 1970s saw greater “growth with equity” – perhaps easier given relatively low bases – recent growth has been much more uneven.

Zhuang noted that inequality has widened in 12 of the 28 economies with comparable data, including the three most populous countries and the drivers of the region’s rapid growth, namely China, India and Indonesia.

So, does the “official” Gini index really matter in Cambodia or elsewhere? Or more importantly, as the index is really only an attempt to measure inequality, does growing inequality really matter?

For all of its success in achieving a “most equal” Gini ranking, Sweden has been rocked recently by riots, with buildings and cars set ablaze in areas characterised by some as having large numbers of young, unemployed immigrants, perhaps testimony to the reality that inequality exists everywhere.

Cambodia has seen its own recent share of unrest at factories over wages, and protests related to the environment and land use.

Whether Sweden or Cambodia, perhaps more important than official Gini coefficients, are trends and attitudes and the reality of whether or not things are unequal or getting better.

Cambodia’s economy is the thirdsmallest in Southeast Asia, and grew 7.2 per cent last year on higher levels of investment and consumption, according to an ADB report this April. The nation’s gross domestic product, according to the ADB, will match that rate of expansion this year due in part to increased exports of Cambodiamade garments and footwear to Europe and the United States.

Critically, Cambodia’s leaders – whether in power or in opposition – must also focus on drivers of inequality of opportunity. These may well include unequal access to public services, such as education, electricity, water and sanitation.

Certainly, Asia broadly speaking has enjoyed tremendous growth, overcoming the region’s financial crisis of the late 1990s and withstanding the ongoing global economic slowdown in good shape.

Asia is rising once again, and the world should welcome this development. Poverty has decreased and tens of millions now live better lives, but from fighting corruption to advancing human rights, much work is still to be done.

With the twin genies of technological progress and globalisation long out of the bottle, there is no putting them back in. It is now time for us to ask ourselves, why does inequality matter?

In answering that question, all of us in Asia will be better able to define who we are – as individuals, as a country and as a region.

This holds especially true today for Cambodia as its leaders, whether in the ruling party or in opposition, present their visions of a way forward for a more prosperous and peaceful, if not more equal, nation.

Curtis S Chin served as US Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank (2007-2010) under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.

He is senior fellow and executive-in-residence at the Asian Institute of Technology, and a managing director with advisory firm RiverPeak Group, LLC.

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THE PHNOM PENH POST june 25, 2013

Lifestyle Artist shows deformed side of society with surreal show I

In brief

Claire Knox

N a powerful painting from Phnom Penh-based artist Sokuntevy Oeur’s recent Singapore exhibition, Feeding Cambodia, an old and weathered woman sits washing dishes behind a restaurant’s peeling, wooden walls.

The ashen grey, naked figure, laden with grotesque folds of loose skin, is hunched over a wooden plank.

The work could be defined as Cambodian folk art but a surrealist influence is apparent – the woman’s face is exaggerated, contorted into Dali-esque curves. The background is heavy with symbols and metaphors, according to Sokuntevy, who prefers to be known as Tevy.

Dishwasher Dreaming is a bold and brave analysis of the ever-widening gap between the rich and elite and the impoverished in Cambodia.

The artist, schooled at the well-established Phare Ponleu Selpak art school in Battambang, has demonstrated an insight into the social mechanisms and nuances at play in her home country.

In her imagery – from female buddhas, wiry prostitutes to symbols of western excess –

Sokuntevy Oeur, 29, is based in Phnom Penh but was schooled at Battambang’s Phare Ponleu Selpak art school.

SCOTT HOWES

Tevy is unafraid to court controversy.

“This old woman isn’t someone specific, she’s someone we see here all the time,” said Tevy in an interview yesterday. A dishwasher can be seen inside the woman’s head.

“She works so hard, she’s dirt poor. She’s thinking about what

There are great sides to this culture and religion – respecting and the deep connection to family, which can be lost in the West, I think. And yet there are great problems with our society.

“The treatment of women.

Don’t wear a short skirt. Don’t put your feet up on the chair, don’t laugh too loud. These things get to me. This is Cambodia now and I want those things to change.”

In other works Tevy references the encroachment of western culture – huge, dripping burgers and skimpy clothing.

While her harshest critics have said her work to be derivative of Dali, or Van Gogh, she said that influence informed all artists.

“Isn’t it good that my work is influenced by great art rather than s*** art? Every artist, writer, musician is influenced by something.”

“Every artist is individual and tells their own story, what is happening in their minds. That is most important, the technique you can find [later].”

Dishwasher Dreaming, a painting from Sokuntevy Oeur’s collection Feeding Cambodia. PHOTO SUPPLIED

the wealthy people have. It’s sad.

She sees that contrast between her and them, barang or Khmer.

Everyone sees this, the divide between the rich, the super rich and the poor. She’s stuck.”

Four of the 12 vibrant, acrylic paintings sold in less than a week since the exhibition’s opening at Utterly Art gallery on June 13. There are plans to exhibit the collection at other international galleries.

The work, she said, was a result of relentless practice with colour and movement.

“I just mix and play around with colour and shading, perspective and light and movement and texture – really I played around with this for six months. When I was at Phare [Ponleu Selpak] it was all so realist and figurative . . . I tried hard at this but found it boring and limiting.”

Born in a countryside village on the rural fringes of Battambang, the 29-year-old said she didn’t approach painting with a theme or idea in mind. Rather,

her work evolved naturally, also commenting on gender inequality and religion.

“I think I have a distinct style and there’s a bit of a narrative, but I think the process is more intuitive.” She hasn’t shied away from controversy, and statements that risk offending either locals or foreigners.

In another macabre work, The Sixth Sense, a faceless woman grasps the leash of a dog and skeletons and ghouls float about the figures. Tevy was inspired by the Cambodian spiritual belief that animals can see ghosts.

“A lot of locals are shocked by my work, they say they are terrified but this encourages me.”

Also tied into supernatural relief is The Enlightened One, a painting in which an old woman has taken off her head, which is connected to a bucket of limbs and a vessel of lotus flowers. It has been replaced with that of a glowing, kaleidoscopic Buddha – a female one – “they say Buddha’s a man but why can’t she be a woman?

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Giant panda gives birth to twins in China

A RARE giant panda has given birth to twins in China, the first pair of the endangered species born in the world this year, conservation workers told state media on Sunday. They were born to a panda named Haizi at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China’s southwest Sichuan province on Saturday evening, according to the Xinhua news agency. The first cub arrived at 4:54pm and the second 10 minutes later, said workers at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda on the reserve. The mother is still holding the first cub in her arms so staff have been unable to weigh it or determine its gender. But they said it should be healthy, given its size and the sounds it has been making. afp

US daredevil’s Grand Canyon tightrope walk

US daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first man to cross a Grand Canyon-area gorge on a tightrope on Sunday, completing his latest recordbreaking feat in under 23 minutes.The 34-year-old, who walked across the Niagara Falls last year, prayed constantly as he crossed a tributary gorge of the US landmark on a quarter-mile long high wire some 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River. Wind gusts were higher than expected, and he twice crouched down on the wire.

“Those winds (were) so unpredictable . . . just out of the blue there would be a 56 kilometres an hour gust,” he said. AFP

Square roots? Plants are good at math: study

PLANTS do complex arithmetic calculations to make sure they have enough food to get them through the night, new research published in journal eLife shows.

Scientists at Britain’s John Innes Centre said plants adjust their rate of starch consumption to prevent starvation during the night when they are unable to feed themselves with energy from the sun. They can even compensate for an unexpected early night.“This is the first concrete example in a fundamental biological process of such a sophisticated arithmetic calculation,” mathematical modeler Martin Howard of John Innes Centre said. afp

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Festival keeps the Aboriginal flame burning Kate Hennessy

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Y father from the sunrise but my mother a saltwater woman.”

On paper, the words have a kind of epic poetry, but that’s the opposite of the way they are said, muttered even, by an elder of the Dalabon clan called Queenie. She’s sitting amid a sea of upturned white faces, mine included, eager to learn some of her language.

I’m one of a few hundred “whitefellas” far outnumbered by “blackfellas” at an indigenous festival four hours south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Now in its 28th year, Barunga is Australia’s oldest and largest remotecommunity festival.

It peaked in popularity in the 1990s but declined in recent years and, last year, nearly collapsed. It has been reinvigorated this year by new management: Darwin record label Skinnyfish Music, who also manage the country’s most popular indigenous musician in decades, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, who will headline.

It’s mid-morning on day one and indigenous families cluster in the shade watching kids play Australian rules football (AFL).

Slide guitar virtuoso John Butler is headlining alongside Gurrumul tomorrow.

His name has attracted many white visitors, mostly from Darwin, and that has left festival coordinator Michelle Wild a little fretful: “We need to be careful Barunga’s not a victim of its own success.”

Skinnyfish managing director Mark Grose is more direct: “If this turned into a festival where everything was geared to please whitefellas, the Aboriginal people would just walk away.”

Suddenly, my reporter’s hat feels like it’s on at a silly angle. I’d planned to stress the festival’s importance on the cultural calendar for any Australian or visiting tourist – but would I be doing it a disser-

vice if I urged more to come?

Grose sets me straight.

“Previous coordinators tried to make this something more sophisticated than it should be, but the community gets lost in that.”

Near the football field is a dense pocket of stalls. From a distance, they’re merry with colour, activity, and workers in matching shirts. Closer in, they’re colourful in the same way flowers brighten a hospital ward. There’s the Department of Health (Alcohol and other Drugs), Jobfind, a mobile dialysis bus and the Family Violence Legal Service.

There are stalls on quitting petrol sniffing, chemists giving advice on meds, and the Northern Territory Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation says it’s “flat out” all weekend, fielding enquiries about missing family members. It’s a long way from the escapism of the festivals that I usually attend.

As the sun sets, traditional dance (bungul), didgeridoos and clapsticks launch the festivities. Dancers from Beswick – a community nearby – ask everyone to dance.

The next day is filled with a spear-throwing competition, damper (bush bread) making and watching nimble kids navigate a climbing wall. There’s comedy in the small moments, such as an excitement-filled AFL grand final, with young Aboriginal men leaping and twirling like ballerinas.

I leave early the next day.

I take the 20-minute detour from Katherine to Nitmiluk, a national park of deep sandstone-carved gorges and waterfalls.

Five English tourists sit there. One sees my wristband: “You went to Barunga?” I talk passionately about why they should go too, next year. Then I dive into the gorge.

When I emerge, they’ve moved on. “Have you heard of Burning Man festival?” the girl asks. “It’s in the desert, in America. They set up a whole city and burn it all after.” the guardian

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Entertainment NOW SHOWING

Carte Blanche @ Meta House

Legend Cinema

Heidi Specogna’s documentary Carte Blanche was the first to capture the Hague’s International Criminal Court (ICC) on film. The ICC legal workers try, despite danger, to bring Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to trial.

MAN OF STEEL A young itinerant worker is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race.

09:30 (Hall 2) 14:25 (Hall 2) 15:50 (Hall 1) 18:30 (Hall 1) 21:15 (Hall 1)

Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard, 7pm

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. Vin Diesel stars.

9:25pm

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.

11:45am 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.

With Jaden Smith and his father, Will Smith, and Isabelle Fuhrman.

5:05pm, 9:50pm

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

Quiz Night @ Score Tonight’s documentary at Meta House follows attempts to bring Congolese rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to an ICC trial in 2010 for atrocities allegedly committed in the Central African Republic. PHOTO SUPPLIED

TV PICKS

PEE MAK Thai romance, horror and comedy film. The story is an adaptation of the Mae Nak Phra Khanong legend of Thai folklore.

9:15am, 11:20am, 2:40pm, 4:40pm, 8:20pm

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

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6:25pm – SAFE: Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter. FOX MOVIES

AFTER EARTH (See above) 11:45am MAN OF STEEL (See above) 9:15am, 1:35pm, 5:50pm, 8:20pm

1pm – JOHN CARTER: Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War vet discovers a 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

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 ageing 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 “SINGING A HUE” ACROSS

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Falcon’s weapon Not getting any younger Use a colander Dust particle Followed suit precisely Painter Joan Chaotic happenings Brightly colored salamander

The sports bar will host a winner takes all quiz night tonight. Entry is $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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THE PHNOM PENH POST june 25, 2013

Sport Thailand to help train SEA Games boxers

England’s Jonathan Trott looks back to see he is stumped by India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni during the ICC Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston cricket ground on Sunday.

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Loss won’t affect Ashes: Cook E

ngland captain Alastair Cook voiced confidence that his side can banish the pain of their Champions Trophy final loss to India by the time they begin the defence of the Ashes.

England, still to win a global oneday international title after what was their fifth defeat in a final, were 110 for four come the 18th over at Edgbaston on Sunday chasing 130 after World Cup holders India made 129 for seven in a match reduced by rain from 50 to 20 overs per side.

But Ishant Sharma took two wickets in two balls to remove Eoin Morgan (33) and Ravi Bopara (30) after they had rescued England from the depths of 46 for four with a stand of 64.

That started a collapse that saw four wickets lost for three runs in

eight balls, with tailender James Tredwell unable to hit the six off the final delivery of the match that would have given England victory.

However, while Cook – who said Sunday’s match was his worst day as England captain – is set to feature in the Ashes, the likes of Morgan and Bopara are not Test regulars.

Meanwhile, star batsman Kevin Pietersen, who missed the Champions Trophy with a knee injury, was on course to return in the first Test against Australia at Trent Bridge on July 10 after marking his comeback on Sunday with 177 not out for Surrey in a County Championship match away to Yorkshire.

Australia sack coach Arthur Australia’s Ashes campaign was in

turmoil yesterday just weeks before the series against England starts with coach Mickey Arthur sensationally sacked and Darren Lehmann expected to take over.

In a day of stunning developments, skipper Michael Clarke also reportedly quit as a selector as part of the coaching restructure.

Although Cricket Australia did not officially announce Arthur’s sacking, Queensland Cricket said the governing body had confirmed his termination.

“I’ve spoken to Cricket Australia here in Australia and they’ve sent through a note saying that Mickey Arthur has been relieved of his coaching position,” Queensland Cricket chief executive Richard Powell told the ABC.

Australian media outlets said Lehmann, who is in England coaching Australia A, would replace Arthur, 45, whose contract was due to run until the end of the World Cup in March 2015.

Lehmann, 43, has strong credentials to take over the national job after coaching success with Queensland, Brisbane Heat and in the Indian Premier League.

He played 27 Tests and 117 one-day internationals and is regarded as one of cricket’s shrewdest thinkers.

Australia play the first Test against England in Nottingham on July 10.

The Ashes squad met for the first time in Taunton in England yesterday, with their first pre-Ashes tour match against English county Somerset beginning tomorrow. AFP

Duke gets first PGA win in play-off over Stroud Ken Duke notched his first career PGA Tour title in his 187th start by beating Chris Stroud with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off to win the Travelers Championship on Sunday.

The 44-year-old became the oldest first-time winner in 18 years when he claimed victory by sinking a two-foot birdie putt after fellow American Stroud’s long birdie try trickled just past the hole on the 18th green.

“Worked hard,” said Duke, who had been a runner-up three times on the tour.

“I knocked on the door a lot and here we are.”

Both players parred the 18th in the first hole of suddendeath before returning to the 18th tee for what turned out to be the decider at the TPC River Highlands course.

Duke became the oldest firsttime winner on the tour since

all want to win. I gave it everything I had.”

Duke fired a final-round of four-under-par 66 and Stroud posted 67 to tie on 12-underpar 268. Graham DeLaet of Canada finished one stroke out of the play-off on 269 after shooting 69.

Els holds on to win in Munich

Ken Duke defeated fellow American Chris Stroud on Sunday to win the US$6.1 million Travelers Championship for his first US PGA title. REUTERS

Ed Dougherty, who was 47 when he won the 1995 Deposit Guaranty Classic.

Stroud forced the play-off by chipping in from across the green for birdie after sending his approach shot long after

blasting a drive of some 340 yards.

“I’m glad I gave myself a chance in the play-offs,” said Stroud, who was also chasing his maiden victory. “I wish that I would’ve won. Obviously, we

South Africa’s Ernie Els held off final round challenges from Thomas Bjorn and Alexander Levy to seal a one-shot start to finish victory at the BMW International Open in Munich on Sunday.

The British Open champion led the field from the opening round and started Sunday tied with France’s Levy and Sweden’s Alex Noren.

The 43-year-old’s lead slipped during the final round to both Denmark’s Bjorn and tour rookie Levy, but his third consecutive card of three-

under par 69 was enough for an 18-under par total, following his stunning 63 on the opening day.

“I just felt good this week,” Els told the europeantour.com website.

“I just felt my game was there and lucky enough it was one shot good enough.

“I really had it going and then I made it tough for myself again. Thomas was playing great, he stumbled on 14, I was watching the kid – I played with him yesterday and he looked like he had a great game – but he stumbled as well on the back nine.

“It’s great to get my name on this wonderful trophy.

The victory was Els’ 28th on the European Tour, but first title since winning his fourth major at last year’s Open.

His defence of that title begins at Muirfield from July 18. REUTERS

The Thai Boxing Association have accepted a request from the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to help train eight fighters in preparation for the boxing competition at the SEA Games in Myanmar this December. The training, which is to start this month and continue up until November, is to feature eight men selected from the 16-strong national team.

According to NOCC Secretary General Vath Chamroeun, the Thai organisation will provide food, accommodation, international standard coaches and equipment for the Cambodians. National team coach Chhaom Chhary said of the chosen squad members, four had impressed him with their ability, including Svay Ratha, Long Lamda, Phal Saphorn and Chhoeun Sokleng, who goes by the name Vorn Viva. However, the coach said he believed some fighters would decline the offer of training, especially Vorn Viva, who is on a salaried contract with CTN. YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

Lions blow as O’Connell ruled out of rest of tour

Experienced lock Paul O’Connell has been ruled out of the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia with a broken arm. The Irish forward, 33, suffered a fractured lower right arm in Saturday’s 23-21 victory over the Wallabies in the first Test at Brisbane, in what is a massive blow for the tourists. His setback follows news on Sunday that England prop Alex Corbisiero is unlikely to be fit for this Saturday’s second Test in Melbourne with a calf injury.

Team management have already drafted in Ireland’s Tom Court as a replacement for Corbisiero and named him among the replacements for today’s tour game with the Melbourne Rebels, which kicks off at 4:40pm Cambodian time. AFP

Top-ranked Park wins fifth LPGA title of year

World number one Park In-Bee birdied the first play-off hole to defeat fellow South Korean Ryu So-Yeon and win the LPGA Northwest Arkansas Championship for her fifth triumph of the season. Park, who has captured the first two women’s major titles this year, took the US$300,000 top prize and a confidence boost from winning the 54-hole tune-up for next week’s third major, the US Women’s Open. AFP

Gay set for Moscow double after 200m win

Tyson Gay flew to the year’s fastest 200m of 19.74 seconds at the US athletics championships on Sunday to set himself up for a World Championship sprint double challenge. Gay again demonstrated he is fit and ready to take on six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and his fellow Jamaican sprinters at the World Championships in Moscow on August 10-18. AFP

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THE PHNOM PENH POST june 25, 2013

CTN secure TV rights to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Dan Riley

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ocal broadcaster Cambodian Television Network (CTN) has announced the acquisition of exclusive free-to-air and pay-TV rights to screen the 2014 FIFA World Cup live from Brazil.

The company, owned by the Royal Group and operated by Cambodian Broadcast Service (CBS), outbid other TV stations to secure their second successive rights to the quadrennial tournament after South Africa’s 2010 edition. “The total amount in US dollars was significantly higher than the last World Cup, however, CTN is unable to disclose the value,� CBS general manager Bernard Anthony told the Post. “CTN’s impressive track record of airing major sporting events helped close the FIFA World Cup deal. Our [experience in broadcasting] the 2010 World Cup taught us the importance of detail when covering FIFA events – FIFA is very strict on detail. The expectation is that we carry through on their standards in their entirety.�

CBS general manager Bernard Anthony (right) and CTN director of sport Ma Serey hold an official 2014 FIFA World Cup football. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Anthony noted that World Cup coverage, set to be run on both CTN and its sister channel MyTV, would extend well beyond the actual tournament, with official FIFA football events during the build-up to next

summer being partially or fully covered by the station.

Such events include the ongoing 2013 Confederations Cup and 2013 U20 World Cup, the 2013 Beach Soccer World Cup in September

Spain top group with 3-0 win over Nigeria World and European champions Spain stayed on course for the title they have never won when they beat African champions Nigeria 3-0 to reach the Confederations Cup semi-finals on Sunday.

Two excellent goals from defender Jordi Alba, one of eight Barcelona players in the starting line-up, and a fifth of the tournament from Fernando Torres gave Spain a third successive win and top spot in Group B. They stretched their unbeaten run in competitive games to 28, going back to their 1-0 defeat to Switzerland at the 2010 World Cup, and have not lost at all since England beat them in a friendly in November 2011.

They will face Italy, who they beat 4-0 to win the European title in Kiev a year ago, back at Fortaleza’s Castelao in Thursday’s semi-final.

A young and largely experimental Nigeria team, after beating Tahiti 6-1, finished third after defeats to Uruguay and Spain and must now concentrate of qualifying for the World Cup. They need a draw against Malawi in September to top their African qualifying group and will then have to play off over two legs with another group winner to earn a return trip to Brazil next year.

Meanwhile, in Recife, Abel Hernandez grabbed four goals as Uruguay’s reserves won 8-0 against Tahiti, taking the South Americans into a Confederations Cup semi-final with Brazil

and the 2013 U17 World Cup in November and December.

According to the CBS manager, “Road to the FIFA World Cup� programming would begin during the second quarter or 2014 with the usual CTN experts and commentators, plus a few new presenters. “There will be exciting preview programs before the competition and CTN’s sports team will be using its impressive knowledge of football to provide up-to-the-minute analysis and predictions,� Anthony said.

Live matches from the World Cup are set to be broadcast between the hours of 11pm and 7am Cambodian time, something which Anthony claims will affect all but hardcore fans and students. “We expect that more viewers may stay tuned for repeats on both CTN and MyTV. The repeats [will be] in non-prime time slots and vary across the channels,� he added. “Definitely, Cambodian football fans can expect to experience more with CTN and MyTV this time. CBS is currently working with sponsor partners on details, including the possibility of sending a lucky fan to the finals in Brazil.�

Football Hong named South Korea’s new national team coach

South Korea have named former skipper Hong Myung-bo as the new head coach of the national team, the Korean Football Association announced yesterday. Hong, who captained the Koreans to fourth place at the 2002 World Cup on home soil, takes over from Choi Kang-hee, who stepped down last week after guiding South Korea to their eighth consecutive World Cup finals appearance. Hong led the Korean Olympic team to a bronze medal at the London Olympics last year and had long been viewed as a national team coach of the future. He faces a tough challenge in injecting fresh confidence and motivation into the current national team that only managed to qualify for Brazil on goal difference. REUTERS

Poyet learns of Seagulls sacking while on BBC duty

Gus Poyet will appeal against his sacking by Brighton and Hove Albion after finding out about his dismissal while working as a pundit for the BBC. “I think the BBC have a great story forever because a manager getting information that he is being released from his employment by the BBC is quite surprising,� he said.

Poyet has been sacked after an internal disciplinary hearing at Brighton. The Uruguayan, part of the BBC’s Confederations Cup team, was informed that his tenure had come to an end only when a member of the broadcaster’s production team informed him when on air on Sunday evening. THE GUARDIAN

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and sending the Pacific islanders home after a third successive drubbing. “I never imagined this, it was brilliant, but we need to keep it up. The important thing for the team was qualifying for the next stage,� the 22-year old Hernandez told reporters. “I always dreamed of playing, and I always wanted to get a chance, but I know there are phenomenal players like [Luis] Suarez and [Diego] Forlan ahead of me. But that’s my goal.�

Looking ahead to tomorrow’s semi-final against Group A winners Brazil in Belo Horizonte, he said Uruguay will

not be overawed by facing the hosts. “They’ve shown they are a good team, but we also have a good team,� he said. “We’ll see what happens.�

Amateurs Tahiti, champions of Oceania, have been outclassed in the tournament, conceding 24 goals in their three games against Uruguay, Nigeria and world champions Spain.

They used their third goalkeeper on Sunday but, although Meriel did not disgrace himself, they never looked like avoiding defeat even against Uruguay’s second string side. REUTERS

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