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CAMBODIA’S largest internet service provider Ezecom announced yesterday that it would help build the country’s first submarine communications cable, a move that should strengthen the company’s hold on the market and dramatically improve internet service at a lower cost.

The planned 1,425-kilometre line will connect Cambodia to Malaysia, one of two other partners in the deal, where it will then plug into the AsiaAmerican Gateway (AAG), a 20,000kilometre cable linking Southeast Asia to the United States and much of the rest of the world.

Ezecom CEO Paul Blanche-Horgan signed the memorandum of understanding yesterday at the Cambodiana Hotel with Marzuki Abdullah, Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s special adviser for Global and Wholesale.

Operational by the end of 2014, the cable will cost about $80 million.

Construction is expected to start in September or October this year.

The ambitious project intends to “vastly improve Cambodia’s independence in communications and

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Bandith found guilty May Titthara Svay Rieng

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FTER 16 months of delays and legal wrangling, former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith was found guilty of unintentional violence and sentenced to a year and a half in prison yesterday for shooting three demonstrating garment workers in 2012. As of press time, however, the still-powerful local figure had not been arrested.

In addition to 18 months in jail, Ban-

Sentence is issued but no arrest made dith was also ordered by the Svay Rieng Provincial Court to pay 38 million riel (about $9,500) in compensation to the victims – 20 million to Buot Chenda, 10 million to Nuth Sakhorn and the remaining eight million to Keo Near.

Presiding judge Leang Sour, upon issuing the verdict, said that “the court also issues the warrant for accused Chhouk Bandith today”.

However, Svay Rieng provincial

police chief Hem Saban told the Post that while he had received word of Bandith’s sentencing he had yet to receive a warrant for his arrest.

“When we get the arrest warrant from the court to arrest Chhouk Bandith, we will implement it immediately,” he said.

Despite the conviction and an order for his immediate arrest from the court, Bandith – who was present for

neither his trial nor his sentencing – was still at large yesterday evening, to the consternation of rights monitors and victims alike.

Sakhorn, who delivered a baby earlier this month, applauded the verdict, but expressed concern for her safety with her assailant – who is currently employed by the provincial government – still on the loose.

“I fear that with the perpetrator stay-

ing outside of detention he will come to mistreat me at night,” she said Bandith shot Sakhorn in the back while she demonstrated for better working conditions in front of Kaoway Sports factory – a supplier to sportswear giant Puma – in February 2012. Sakhorn’s fellow protesters, Chenda and Near, were shot through the lung and in the arm, respectively.

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Sokha allies offer to testify May Titthara Prey Veng

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HOUSANDS of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters gathered yesterday to put their thumbprints to a petition declaring themselves possible witnesses to defend party leader Kem Sokha, who is being sued by the mother of his alleged former mistress at the Prey Veng Provincial Court.

Sam Phalla, 62, has claimed that after she and her daughter, Keo Sophannary, 41, pleaded for financial support from Sokha at a Prey Veng rally earlier this month, he ordered his bodyguards to beat her so severely that she required hospital treatment.

At Prey Veng stadium yesterday, however, witnesses to the alleged event remained resolute that nothing untoward had occurred.

Long Vuthy, a bystander who claimed to have escorted the women to their motorbike after they interrupted Sokha, said he could not believe the claims.

“I am the person who intervened and brought the two women to their motorbike to leave. They smiled at me and left but later I heard on the radio that they were both sent to Calmette Hospital for emergency treatment. I was beyond surprised,” he said in front of the crowd.

“I will not only make a thumbprint to become a witness for Kem Sokha but I will also make a toe print!”

Another CNRP supporter, Kong Keub, said that after the women cursed at Sokha and were leaving, he had personally warned the bodyguards not to mistreat the women.

“I wonder whether someone else hit them

NagaWorld striker sent to hospital after clash

Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters including lawmaker Tioulong Samura (centre), the wife of self-exiled politician Sam Rainsy, rally in favour of opposition leader Kem Sokha in Prey Veng province yesterday. vireak mai

and they went to Calmette Hospital and how much they are being paid . . . I hate [this] injustice,” he said.

Purported witness Eal Saron claimed yesterday to have a video of the incident in question and said that the case was a political stunt.

“It’s very clear that politicians are behind this and I am willing to be a witness if the court needs one,” he said.

On June 19, Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened to launch an official complaint against CNRP officials if they con-

tinued to say that Sokha’s alleged affairs – salacious details of which were released by the government’s press unit – were a CPP-created myth.

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said yesterday that although Cambodian society values women’s rights, Sokha had proved that he would be a leader that does not respect women.

“I think that we should not talk about the election campaign and we should talk about human rights. Kem Sokha violated women’s rights,” he said.

ONE striker was hospitalised after NagaWorld guards hit him in the head and stomach, and two others were knocked unconscious during a brief clash yesterday morning between protesters and the casino’s security.

“Our lawyers are preparing a complaint to the judge against the company security because they hit protesters,” said Sok Narith, a former staff delegate and representative of the protesters.

Guards also confiscated the strikers’ loudspeakers, leaving them silenced in front of the casino, where they spent much of yesterday camped out holding homemade signs and huddling under umbrellas shading them from the powerful afternoon sun.

“Workers rights is human rights,” one banner read. “Stop embezzling workers’ wage,” another commanded.

The ongoing strike started on June 13, when hundreds of workers left their posts demanding the minimum wage in the casino be increased to $150 per month. Worker disputes at NagaWorld have been the sub-

ject of five Arbitration Council hearings since early 2009.

Last week the company sent out emails and text messages, informing more than 400 employees allegedly involved in the strike that they were fired.

Union representatives tried on Monday to meet with NagaWorld officials for a conciliation session at the Arbitration Council, but the casino’s representatives failed to show.

“We strike just to ask for some money from the company’s profit, not to ask for the company’s money,” said Chhoum Sophea, a striker.

“But the company does not listen.”

The casino, which is owned by the Hong Kong-listed Nagacorp, earned a net profit of $113 million in 2012, Narith, who is also vice-president of the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers Federation, previously told the Post. The workers demanded wage increases amounting to 1.5 per cent of that net profit, he said.

Employees in NagaWorld’s public relations department declined repeated requests for comment on the strike yesterday. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN

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National In lead-up to election, defection claims mount Meas Sokchea

IN ANOTHER apparent defection from the opposition, former Human Rights Party leader Horl Samnieng announced yesterday that he and more than 100 others were joining the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.

At a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, Samnieng said he and at least 116 Cambodian National Rescue Party and Human Rights Party members were joining the CPP because they had lost confidence in the opposition parties.

CNRP legislators immediately derided the announcement, claiming the defection was a CPP ploy and noting that Samnieng never had been a member of the CNRP. “He was executive committee president of the Human Rights Party from 2008 to 2009,” the current HRP executive committee president, Phuong Sokha, said. “But we learned that he was a CPP spy and so we removed him in 2009. I have been the president since 2010.”

Despite presenting himself at the press conference as a current CNRP leader in Kandal

province, Samnieng later acknowledged to the Post that currently he was a member of neither the CNRP nor the HRP, claiming he had quit the HRP in 2012 because the party did not respect him.

“They never called me for meetings. I don’t know what mistake I made,” he said.

He added that he had decided to join the CPP not out of personal interest but because the CPP, led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, had a clear political platform.

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Chhay Eang, however, said the defection clearly had been organised by the CPP. “But this shows the Cambodian National Rescue Party is strong and they are weak if they pick dismissed people like this [to defect],” he said.

Responding to the claims that the CPP had organised the defection, Press and Quick Reaction Unit spokesman Tith Sothea said yesterday that the CPP had organised a ceremony to receive the newcomers but that the defectors had come on their own.

“There have been continuous defections,” he said. “We could not organise it – this is an unreasonable allegation.”

Governor bans NGO events Phak Seangly

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HE Ratanakkiri provincial governor has told all officials and citizens in the province not to participate in civil society events during the upcoming campaign and election period.

In a letter dated June 13 and obtained by the Post yesterday, provincial governor Pao Ham Pan asks NGOs not to schedule events between June 27 and July 28 because public officials need to focus on organising and overseeing the elections.

“Our hall does not allow any participation from local town, district, commune or village authorities and from citizens in any press conference, meeting or study tour held by any NGO because it is the campaign and election days, so authorities need time to manage their work and citizens need an opportunity to use their political rights,” the letter says.

Clarifying the letter’s contents yesterday, governor Ham Pan said that NGOs would not be punished for failing to heed the letter, which he said was distributed to several organisations earlier in the month.

“It’s an informatory letter, not

Villagers protest against CNRP leader Kem Sokha in Ratanakkiri province in May. Provincial governor Pao Ham Pan issued a letter last week asking all citizens to halt protests during election season. photo supplied

a law, so it is not a case of violating rights,” he said. “It is aimed at easing the election process.”

“The commune chief is the one who has to sign voters’ identification letters and distribute information tickets to citizens. When they are away and busy at events, who is responsible for that?” he said.

Chhay Thy, coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said that

his organisation had not received the letter from the provincial hall but he had read it yesterday after obtaining it from another NGO and found it to be unconstitutional.

“People have a right to participate in meetings and any events, and our constitution does not stop people from doing so during the election time,” he said.

Adhoc would continue to organise meetings with the province’s villagers and authorities in the next month, he said.

National Election Committee secretary general Tep Nytha said he was not aware of the letter and that he would contact Ham Pan to clarify the situation. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JUSTINE DRENNAN

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Bandith guilty Continued from page 1

Kheng, Bandith evaded detention and even saw the charges against him dropped late last year. Prosecutors at the Appeal Court took up the case and judges later ordered the lower court to re-charge Bandith and hold a trial, though Bandith refused to appear during hearings this month, citing a technical error in the summons.

Rights groups said yesterday the outcome was just the latest marring in the poorly-handled case.

“What we’re still worried about is whether law enforcement officials dare to carry out the court’s verdict, and if they do not dare, it means the verdict is only a piece of paper,” said Am Sam Ath, senior investigator for the rights group Licadho, adding that he was disappointed the charge had never been changed to something stronger than unintentional injury.

Moeun Tola, head of the labour program at the Community Legal Education Center, called the sentence a “slap on the wrist” in a joint statement with Licadho, and noted that such “verdicts do nothing to help the international reputation of Cambodia’s vital garment sector”.

Rights group Adhoc had similarly harsh words for the sen-

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Former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith exits the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh in February. heng chivoan

tence and its implementation.

“The sentence against him does not reflect his crimes, and the fact that he remains at large means justice has still not been served in this case,” the group said in a statement. “Adhoc cannot welcome the sentence if in practice it means so little.”

Bandith could not be reached yesterday, and his lawyer, Mao Sam Vuntheary, declined to comment, saying “I am busy”.

Bandith’s co-defendant, criminal police chief Sar

Chantha – who was quietly charged with the shooting last year and widely believed to have been a fall guy – was cleared of allegations of unintentional injury yesterday. He was convicted of illegal weapons use, however, and sentenced to six months probation – a verdict that rights groups similarly decried, though for different reasons.

“The Svay Rieng Provincial Court ordered charges against Sar Chantha, the Bavet [City]

police chief implicated in the shooting, to be dropped,” Adhoc’s statement read.

“He was, however, found guilty of the illegal use of a weapon, fined one million riel and put on probation for six months. There is little credible evidence linking Mr. Chantha to the crime of shooting the garment workers and he appears little more than a scapegoat, punished now in order to save face for those who sought to implicate him.”

HE prosecution at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday began presenting documents “of central importance” to proving co-accused Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are prosecutable as a joint criminal enterprise.

Joint criminal enterprise prosecutions allow for all of the members of a group with a common plan – such as, the prosecution argues, Democratic Kampuchea’s uppermost leaders – to be held responsible for crimes committed by any individual member of that group.

Referring to the Communist Party of Kampuchea’s governing statute, co-prosecutor Dale Lysak made that the case that “party lines to eliminate enemies were a collective understanding”.

“All party leadership organisations must implement collective leadership,” he said, reading the statute aloud. “All of the various decisions of the

party must be made collectively.” A Central Committee memo with the evocative heading “The Right to Smash Inside and Outside the Ranks” was even more specific, outlining the various bodies with the authority to eliminate perceived enemies found “burrowing” within the CPK’s various organs. “[For enemies] Surrounding the Centre Office, [smashing is] to be decided by the Central Office Committee,” read Lysak, referring to a committee whose members included Samphan.

Documents read yesterday revealed that the Khmer Rouge was indeed obliged to deal with more unrest than is commonly acknowledged.

In one incident described in a report, a man was arrested after throwing a grenade into a rice paddy dike. In another, a group of 60 was detained for protesting the Khmer Rouge’s strict atheism and rice rationing with “a white banner with slogans including Long Live Buddhism”.

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UN asked to In politics, gender gap still wide: study avoid bias on rights issues Kevin Ponniah

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INISTER of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong yesterday urged the United Nations high commissioner for human rights representative in Cambodia not to be biased against the government and the ruling party in her evaluation of the state of human rights in Cambodia.

In his meeting with WanHea Lee, who was appointed UN OHCHR Representative in Cambodia in 2012 and is now taking over duties as such, Namhong expressed a positive attitude toward OHCHR’s presence and preparation of its annual report on the country.

He warned, however, that Lee should report on the country’s human rights situation not based “on one side’s information – from the media and civil society, which tend to side with the opposition party”, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said after the meeting.

The government has at times had a difficult relationship with OHCHR; Prime Minister Hun Sen previously threatened to close the office in Cambodia if

then-representative Christophe Peschoux, whom he saw as allied with the opposition, was not fired.

Yesterday, Kuong said: “Hor Namhong expressed a warm welcome to Ms Wan-Hea Lee, and she expressed appreciation with her new appointment.”

Kuong noted that in January 2012, the government had renewed a two-year memorandum of understanding for cooperation with the OHCHR. According to Lee, “the meeting was very productive and cordial. OHCHR provides a significant amount of technical assistance to the Royal Government to help improve the human rights situation in the country. OHCHR has always aimed to be independent and objective in its work.”

Although Kuong said Namhong had asked the OHCHR to monitor the upcoming elections, Lee said that although OHCHR’s monitoring continued through the election period, “the United Nations in Cambodia is not involved in organising or observing the 2013 National Assembly elections”. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JUSTINE DRENNAN

CAMBODIA will fail in meeting UN Millennium Development Goals on elected female representation, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said yesterday, with the proportion of female candidates running in next month’s election coming in just under 20 per cent.

Only 168 females are listed as candidates by the National Election Committee (NEC) for next month’s polls – just 19 per cent of the total 886 candidates, the Comfrel research note says.

In 2008, 14.8 per cent of election candidates were women.

Despite the low figure, however, females listed as candidates in the top three spots on the election ballot almost tripled from 4.16 per cent in 2008 to 12.16 per cent this year.

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has listed 20 female candidates this election – or 16.26 per cent – the same proportion of total candidates as they had in 2008, Sonket Sereyleak, education and gender coordinator at Comfrel, said.

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has listed only 12 female candidates – 9.75 per cent of their total, she added.

“The number of women elected will possibly decrease . . .

Because of the popularity of the big parties . . . these parties will win [the majority] of seats in the election and they have few female candidates,” she said.

Minority parties put up more women as candidates, she added, with some reaching as high as 50 per cent of their total.

CNRP lawmaker candidate and women’s advocate Mu Sochua said, however, that it was hard for her party, as the opposition, to find suitable female candidates.

“It is difficult for us to find professional women with the means,” she said.

Although the party still lacks a female quota, she added, the CNRP has been trying to priori-

tise youth, and particularly female youth, where possible.

“Yesterday in Mondulkiri, we wanted a female candidate. We had her and she was indigenous but she gave up her spot to a male candidate. But because he was a youth we accepted,” she said.

“For men, politics is a man’s arena and they don’t have the [familial] guilt . . . it’s a social issue.”

However, Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak had a different opinion.

“All parties are run by old men, and I can see the lack of concern of these old men on bringing women into politics.”

Ex-colonel tried on heroin charges Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A FORMER military colonel and a Vietnamese woman were tried by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday on accusations that they tried to send 12 kilograms of heroin to Australia by mail.

According to presiding judge Suos Sam Ath, So Rith, 53, formerly of the general infantry command at the Ministry of National Defence, was arrested in November 2012, the same day as Nguven Vanthanh, a 44-yearold Vietnamese national allegedly involved in the international drug trafficking plot.

“They were arrested by police after they have brought a total of four cases of goods in which heroin was hidden, and tried to send them to Australia via Wat Phnom Post Office in Phnom Penh,” Sam Ath said.

Rith and Vanthanh allegedly lined four cases of Yinshin wine with packages of heroin totalling 12 kilograms. Post office staff notified police of the packages after the two dropped them off, said Lieutenant Colonel Un Rithy, deputy chief of the Internal Security Police Office in Ministry of Interior.

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Rith and Vanthanh separately, Rithy said.

Police pulled Rith over in his car as he drove to King Luck Hotel in Prampi Makara district’s Boeung Prolit commune. Vanthanh was arrested at the Sorya Bus Station in Phnom Penh, where she was waiting to board a bus to Vietnam.

Both suspects denied any involvement in drug trafficking during their court hearing yesterday.

“The reason why I went to the post office on that day . . . was because I was asked by Nguven Vanthanh to interpret because she could not speak Khmer,

and she wanted to send the goods to Australia,” Rith said in court. “I was told that the goods, which were sent via the post office to Australia, were Yinshin wines.”

Vanthanh said she was sending the wine for a VietnameseAustralian man – who was not arrested – and was unaware of the heroin inside the boxes.

“I was not the drug trafficker or the owner of these goods seized,” Vanthanh said. “They belonged to a man named Chun Chenda … he has asked to send it for him to Australia.”

Verdicts and sentences will be handed down July 3.

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Khmer Krom protest arrests Phak Seangly

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ORE than 100 monks and other demonstrators railed against the Vietnam government’s continued incarceration of two monks for their alleged affiliation with Kampuchea Krom organisations yesterday.

Protesters at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park held banners and portraits of three monks – one of whom was released – who, their supporters say, were arrested and tortured,

by Vietnamese police on May 21 in an area of southern Vietnam that was once part of the Khmer empire and is referred to by some as Kampuchea Krom.

“We need freedom to live, like Vietnamese people and other nations on the world,” Thach Setha, Executive Director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community said at the rally. “Living without freedom is meaningless.”

On May 21, Kleang provincial police forces in Vietnam surrounded the Prey Chhop and Serei Tasek pagodas, ar-

resting five monks and two members of the pagodas for allegedly associating with foreign Khmer Krom Associations. All were released, except monks Liv Ny and Thach Thoeun.

“Police forces defrocked the monks and put them in rice sacks and then loaded on a truck,” a petition the group handed over to a Phnom Penh Municipal Hall employee for delivery to the Vietnamese embassy says. “Monk Ly Chenda who was freed lost memory . . . we suspect that he was punished [with] drugs that cause him lose memory.”

Signs held by demonstrators bore slogans including “Vietnam has to show respect toward Kampuchea Krom indigenous people” and “Vietnam authorities have to stop threatening Kampuchea Krom monks and people.” “[We] are ready to sacrifice our lives for protecting our religion and race,” venerable Seang Sovannara, 38, shouted to the crowd through a microphone.

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Brotherly advice none too welcome, man learns FAMILY tensions boiled over into assault in Kampong Chhnang, when a man hacked at his brother’s head with a garden hoe. The altercation began when the 32-year-old victim offered his brother some sage advice: work hard and take care of mom. Drunk and apparently offended by the implicating tone, the younger brother lashed out at sibling, who took a swing at him. In retaliation, the know-it-all received a hoe to the head, landing in the hospital while his brother was placed under arrest. Nokorwat

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Kampuchea Krom monks and supporters protest against the Vietnamese government and appeal to the international community at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh yesterday. PHA LINA

director of Phnom Penh Municipal Hall, said the group’s petition will be sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will then forward the document to the Vietnamese embassy.

The Vietnamese embassy could not be reached for comment.

R’kiri reporter alleges illegal logging assault Sen David

A REPORTER from Cheat Sachak newspaper in Ratanakkiri province filed a complaint to provincial military police and rights group Adhoc on Monday, claiming he had been beaten by a group of illegal loggers to stop him from reporting on their activities.

Phon Bun Thoen, 53, said in his complaint that he went to cover illegal logging in Stung Treng’s Sesan district bordering Ratanakkiri province on Saturday, and on his way back he was accosted by seven men he believed to be illegal loggers.

“On the way home, seven men put down three big pieces of wood to stop my car, and then they came to fight me,” Bun Thoen said. “They threat-

ened me and told me that I am not allowed to come to this area. They hurt my head, hand and my waist.”

After the incident, Bun Thoen filed a complaint to military police and the rights group seeking intervention.

Chhay Thy, a provincial coordinator for Adhoc said the group had received the complaint and would investigate.

Siv Samet, a chief criminal officer of Ratanakkiri military police said he also received the complaint from the reporter to open the investigation of this case.

Another journalist reporting illegal logging in Ratanakkiri, Vorakchun Khmer newspaper reporter Hang Serei Oudom, was killed nearly a year ago after writing an article linking illegal logging to a local military police commander.

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A COMBINATION of alcohol, hormones and speed proved nearly fatal after a motorbike accident in Kampong Chnang on Monday left five injured.

That day a drunk 27-year-old man took his girlfriend for a chatty ride on his motorbike.

Flying through an intersection, the distracted Romeo hit another motorbike, leaving the driver and two passengers injured. Police took the bikes into custody and said the man drove carelessly under the influence of alcohol. KAMPUCHEA THMEY

Unwanted advice, again, lands man in hospital AN ARGUMENT between inlaws escalated over the weekend, culminating in a stabbing. Visiting his sister in Kampong Cham, the 38-yearold victim received an ear load concerning her son-in-law. In the hopes of smoothing things over, the uncle-in-law urged the young man to show some respect. Miffed at being told what to do, however, the son-in-law rewarded the advice-giver with four stabs to the stomach. The victim was hospitalised and police are searching for his none-tookind nephew. NOKORWAT

Moto thief tries to rob bike by pushing, fails AN attempted motorbike theft may have gone better had the ignition not failed.

Police arrested the 27-yearold in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district on Monday after he allegedly tried to steal a bike left outside a shop. Unable to start it, the harried would-be robber chose to push it instead, making it mere metres before the shop owner shouted for help and a cop intervened. Nokorwat

In-laws happily take chance to clobber dad ANOTHER family feud between in-laws left someone seriously injured on Monday. The victim visited his son-in-law in Battambang, and asked that his granddaughter pay him a visit.

That devolved into a dispute, leading the son to call his parents for backup. The three then allegedly pummelled pops. The victim was hospitalised and police are searching for the trio. Police noted that the in-laws did not get along well with each other. Nokorwat Translated by Phak Seangly

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Internet users use tablets to surf the web in Phnom Penh last week. A new submarine cable system called Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand is expected to speed up Cambodia’s internet sector’s development.

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internet connections,” BlancheHorgan said. Ezecom is part of Cambodian powerhouse Royal Group.

Landing stations from the cable system, referred to as the MCT, or Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand, will be in Preah Sihanouk province and Kuantan, the state capital of Pahang in Malaysia.

The Thailand segment of the trifecta is in anticipation of a Thai provider joining the consortium by the time construction begins later this year.

“The MCT cable will take us to the next stage of develop-

ment, faster, more cost effective,” Blanche-Horgan said, To date, Cambodia has had to rely on slower connectivity via fiber-optic cable running into neighbouring countries Vietnam and Thailand, who are already connected to the AAG’s submarine line.

“Right now, we will have to go via Thailand or Vietnam to hook in to the AAG cable, BlancheHorgan said. “The MCT cable will allow us direct access.”

Ezecom gained the rights to the project through it’s acquisition of AAG’s only Cambodian member, Telcotech Ltd, in 2011.

Prakash Velayudhan, director

of special projects at Telcotech, said that while the Cambodian consumer currently experiences top speeds of 512 kilo bits per second, they will be able to enjoy speeds upwards of two mega bits per second once they install the cable.

“In Europe and the US we can see a connection of eight mega bits per second” he said, providing examples of the future potential.

Velayudhan said that businesses can also expect better rates with more diverse service offerings.

Kevin Der Arslanian, business analyst at China Market Research Group, said that it was

only a matter of time before the cable went live, as Telcotech is part of the consortium of 19 members that owns a piece of the AAG cable network.

“This very same firm has been active in Cambodia building a fiber-optic network throughout the country, showing that full and direct connection was expected down the road. This move, therefore, doesn’t come as much of a surprise,” he said, adding that the results are “fairly clear: a faster and more reliable internet connection.”

On the question of market dominance, Der Arslanian cautions that regulators may need to intervene.

“It will be up to Cambodian regulations to ensure that Ezecom is made to lease access to its infrastructure at fair prices in order to avoid a monopoly situation,” he said.

Blanche-Horgan said that Telcotech (which is responsible for a third of the costs for the project) is 100 per cent owned by Ezecom, and anyone making use of the submarine cable will have to pay for the usage, but “the fees are of yet not established”.

The chairman of the ICT Association of Cambodia, Ken Chanthan, sees benefits not just for the Cambodian consumer but as a technological foun-

dation for economic growth.

“When we integrate with ASEAN in 2015, we will not only have the free flow of goods and services, but also [a foundation] for banking and for government to government exchange of information or public services.”

Velayudhan, of Telcotech, said services could also improve in the mobile phone sector, as “a lot of the data usage now is on the mobile”.

Thomas Hundt, CEO of mobile operator Smart, said: “Cambodia needs fast access to the internet, direct access, and obviously this is helping to lower the costs as well for internet, so it’s a good move.”

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Noodle maker tries instant route Inside Business Rann Reuy

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AMBODIA has always been a source for a broad variety of raw materials from the agricultural sector. The country exports many of these materials to neighbouring countries and other markets in the world – without turning them into new products.

This lack of domestic processing has made Cambodia lose potential income, as the country has to import most products from its neighbours, rather than selling them, because of insufficient technologies and equipment, not enough capital and a gap in trust in locally produced goods.

Some, however, are defying the status quo, using their own efforts to process raw materials and turning them into their own products.

They create techniques to serve the local market, and at the same time challenge imported products.

One example is Phnom Penh Healthy Rice Noodle, a local company that has been producing wet rice noodles for 30 years. Five months ago, they transitioned and started making packaged instant rice noodles.

Bun Song, Managing Director of Phnom Penh Healthy Rice Noodle, speaks to the Post at the company’s distribution plant in Phnom Penh on Monday. pha lina

“The reason we produce instant noodles is because there were so many suggestions [coming] from our clients who consumed our wet noodles,” says Bun Song, marketing manager of Phnom Penh Healthy Rice Noodle.

The 34-year old says his family has been selling wet rice noodles

for five generations, but the current generation decided to produce instant noodles – a decision that costed nearly $200,000 to buy a new processing machine.

“We have studied [the way to package products] for two years prior to the investment decision for producing the packaged in-

stant noodles,” he said, adding that “we think carefully about how to make it hygienic without using chemicals.”

The enterprise is located in Bakheng Leu village in Bakheng commune of Russei Keo district in Phnom Penh and employs about 60 to 70 staff.

The business needs more than one tonne of milled rice in order to produce nearly 1,000 cases of instant noodles. One case consist of 30 packages.

For the last five months, Song said the product has circulated in 15 provinces across the country, except for remote areas such as Mondulkiri, Ratanakkiri and Banteay Meanchey.

He said he tried to market the product by cooking for people in front of crowded markets, with 30 to 40 cases of noodles given away for free to curious customers every morning.

“My project [has to] capture the local market first, to make people recognise our products in all provinces,” he said, adding that “in the future, I believe our products will [be sold] throughout the [whole] country”.

Because there are already similar products in Cambodia’s food sector, his product has competitors, especialy from imported goods.

But Song says the most important thing is that people are satisfied with the taste and that the products meet the quality expectations of the customers, an exchange that will win trust.

“It is normal [to have] competition from similar products from other countries, but I think Cambodian products do not stand lower [in quality than] foreign products,” he said.

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Hong Kong’s finance chief visits Cambodia

A message from Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary

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t is a great pleasure for me to be in Cambodia to explore the exciting opportunities for business and investment between Cambodia and our city Hong Kong, which serves as the premier international gateway to markets in Mainland China as well as the East Asia region.

My visit comes just two months after Hong Kong and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Cambodia, agreed to pursue a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). We will be working with all relevant parties for the early and successful conclusion of the ASEAN-Hong Kong FTA. This will enhance the flow of trade and investment between us and contribute to our common goal of regional economic integration. I firmly believe that the FTA will enable all parties to fully capitalise on the huge opportunities in our region.

The rapid economic development in Cambodia presents huge opportunities for the Hong Kong business community.

Having

one of the most liberal investment regimes in ASEAN, coupled with other advantages including a young workforce and duty- and quota-free access to key export markets, Cambodia has a lot to offer foreign investors, Hong Kong among them. In fact, there is a huge contingent of Hong Kong garment manufacturers who have already established factories in Cambodia, creating employment opportunities as well as supporting services needs such as trading, logistics and financing. Given Hong Kong’s status as a leading provider of foreign direct investment in the region coupled with the forthcoming ASEAN-Hong Kong FTA as a timely and strong catalyst, I envisage that more investment will be channelled from Hong Kong to Cambodia.

Located right in the heart of East Asia, Hong Kong already has very strong links with ASEAN through its role in regional supply chains and our position as an international business and financial centre. Last year, more than a quarter of total trade by value between

competitive edge as a free and open economy with partners here in Cambodia.

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Cambodia and Mainland China was channelled through Hong Kong. Cambodian companies can take full advantage of our business regime with open borders and free flows of capital, information and ideas. We have a low and simple tax regime and a common law system that is underpinned by an independent judiciary. These are some of the reasons why Hong Kong has been ranked as the world’s freest economy for the past 19 years. We look forward to sharing our city’s

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ong Kong thrives as a free and open economy in the heart of East Asia and on the southeastern tip of Mainland China.

The city has been ranked as the world’s freest economy for the past 19 years by the US-based Heritage Foundation. It is also the 2nd easiest place in the world to do business according to the World Bank’s ease of doing business index. All companies in Hong Kong can take full advantage of the city’s commitment to the rule of law, clean and efficient governance, level playing field for business and low and simple tax system. In Hong Kong profits tax is capped at 16.5% and salaries tax is no more than 15% and there is no VAT or GST and no inheritance tax, capital gains tax or with-

holding tax on dividends and interest.

Cambodian companies incorporated in Hong Kong can also take advantage of a free trade pact, namely, Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement or CEPA in short.

Under CEPA, Hong Kong products meeting CEPA rules of origin enjoy tariff-free entry to Mainland China market. CEPA also provides preferential access to 48 services sectors in Mainland China. A strong transport infrastructure network supports the city’s position as a trade and logistics centre for the dynamic Pearl River Delta region with the world’s busiest cargo airport and one of the busiest container ports.

As China’s global financial

hub, Hong Kong serves as an offshore centre for business using the Chinese currency, the Renminbi (RMB). Foreign firms, including Cambodian companies, can use Hong Kong’s financial expertise to settle trade with partners in Mainland China using RMB. They can also issue offshore RMB bonds in Hong Kong or expand their RMB portfolios.

Around 7,250 companies from Mainland China and around the world have operations in Hong Kong, more than half of which serve as regional headquarters or regional offices. There is plenty of room for Cambodian businesses to come to Hong Kong and take advantage of the city’s international connectivity and business-friendly environment.

During this visit, I will meet top officials and business leaders to discuss the opportunities to grow our bilateral trade and investment and devise ways to strengthen relations between Hong Kong and Cambodia. I will also highlight the great advantages that Cambodian companies can enjoy through our free trade pact with Mainland China called the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) and through our role as China’s global financial hub and offshore centre for business using the Mainland currency, the Renminbi.

I also hope that my visit will offer the business sectors of Hong Kong a broader and deeper perspective of the market here, and encourage greater investment and economic co-operation in future.

I am confident that, with firm commitment from both sides, we can look ahead to a new era and bright future for collaboration between Cambodia and Hong Kong.

Cambodia-Hong Kong trade ready for lift-off

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s Hong Kong and ASEAN prepare to negotiate a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a high-level delegation from Hong Kong is in Phnom Penh to promote economic cooperation with Cambodia. Last year, the total value of trade between Cambodia and Hong Kong reached US$879 million, representing an 18% increase year-on-year. In 2011, Hong Kong was Cambodia’s 6th largest trading partner and 5th largest source of imports.

Mr Yum Sui Sang, Chairman of the China Hong Kong and Macau Expatriate and Business Association of Cambodia, expects this growth trend to continue. “Increasing trade will lead to increasing investment provided that Cambodia’s work force remains increasingly competitive and the country’s political stability remains even more so. With increasing openness and good governance, the pattern of growth should be the same,” Mr Yum said.

Also in 2012, 26.5% of trade value between Cambodia and

Mainland China, worth over US$775 million, was routed through Hong Kong, highlighting the city’s effectiveness as a premier gateway to the huge China market. “Hong Kong has been a port of entry into China for almost 200 years, and has enough skilled workers experienced in import and export businesses to serve the needs of Cambodian exporters,” Mr Yum said.

The majority of bilateral trade is linked to the textile industry which accounted for 60% of Hong Kong’s re-exports to Cambodia last year. A growing number of Hong Kong tourists are coming to Cambodia to experience the country’s unique history and culture while entrepreneurs are attracted by Cambodia’s many investment opportunities and young and well-educated work force. Closer co-operation between Hong Kong and ASEAN, including the FTA initiative, will help to further bring down barriers to trade and investment and open up more opportunities for business between Cambodia and Hong Kong.

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AirAsia to break with All Nippon this week JAPAN’S All Nippon Airways and AirAsia said yesterday they have agreed to terminate their budget carrier joint venture as business slumped amid management clashes, dealing a blow to the country’s fledgling low-cost sector.

Malaysia-based AirAsia said AirAsia Japan would cut service by the end of October, just over a year after it started flying out of Tokyo’s Narita airport in August.

“The joint venture . . . faced many challenges since its launch,” AirAsia said in a statement.

The company also cited “fundamental difference of opinion between its shareholders on how the business should be managed from cost management to where the domestic business operations should be based”.

However, Shinzo Shimizu, senior vice-president of ANA Holdings, told a press briefing in Tokyo yesterday that the venture dissolved because “its name didn’t spread in Japan and it couldn’t make profits”. AFP

Myanmar rethinks its deals

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HE Myanmar government plans to renegotiate billions of dollars of natural resource deals as it imposes tougher environmental standards and clamps down on corruption, a leading US think tank said yesterday.

The country’s powerful military and Chinese firms could be most affected by the move as the government pursues a radical reform agenda, turning away from decades of junta rule, the Asia Society said.

Myanmar has huge reserves of resources – ranging from petroleum to tin, timber and precious gems – which have become notorious for corruption and crony capitalism.

“Apparently, the government is preparing to renegotiate all previously agreed-upon projects to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place and to subject future projects to stricter social and environmental controls,” said a report by the society, which has worked closely with the old junta and new government.

Chinese firms dominate the foreign presence in Myanmar and could suffer.

“Contracts negotiated with the former government need to be reviewed as the new government enacts new poli-

A worker waters jade stones at a precious gems expo in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in 2011.

cies and signs on to new international standards, so I don’t think anyone is immune to that approach,” Suzanne DiMaggio, an Asia Society vicepresident said.

The halting of the Chinesebacked Myitesone Dam in Kachin state in 2011 was “the first bell indicating that the

rules would be changing”, DiMaggio said.

Myanmar is a candidate to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which requires countries to abide by international standards.

Since the dam was halted, the government has faced new controversy over a Chinese-

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backed copper mine development near Monywa in northern Myanmar where there were clashes between security forces and local people last year.

The Asia Society said the government will have to work with local communities to make sure all share from the resource profits. AFP

Grounded

New airlines in Thailand face scrutiny

THAI authorities are moving to toughen regulations on the establishment of start-up airlines, seeking to bar entry to those with limited resources.

The Civil Aviation Department will introduce a 15-year age cap on aircraft to be deployed, in contrast to the current openended regime.

The tighter regulations are expected to take effect later this year, the aviation department’s director-general Woradej Harnprasert said yesterday.

New regulations will only affect new airlines, meaning prior licence holders will have up to two years to meet the requisites.

The terms are in response to calls for new rules for start-ups after Thai-owned PC Air’s sole aircraft was refused permission to take off from South Korea’s Incheon airport last year.

About 400 Thais were stranded at the airport because of a conflict between the airline and its South Korean agent, Skyjet, over unpaid bills totalling more than 10 million baht (a little more than $323,000) for airport charges and fuel. BANGKOK POST

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The sweet tunes of fracking music David Wethe

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GOSSAMER-THIN glass line threaded a kilometre underground is allowing oilfield engineers to listen to a new kind of music: the sounds of fracking.

Halliburton Co and competing providers of drilling gear are adapting acoustic spy technology used by US submarines to record sounds made deep in the earth that can guide engineers in finishing a well and predicting how much oil will flow.

The ability to hear inside a well enables producers to fine-tune hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process that blasts underground rock with water, sand and chemicals to free trapped oil and natural gas. The technology is targeted at an estimated $31 billion that will be spent this year on fracking stages that yield less-than-optimal results, a majority of the work at 26,100 US wells set to be pressure-pumped in 2013, according to PacWest Consulting Partners LLC. “We’re creating a new science,” said Magnus McEwen-King, managing director for OptaSense, a Qinetiq Group Plc unit that’s one of the fibre-optics pioneers for the energy industry. “From an acoustic perspective, this is very much the start of what I think is going to be a revolutionary technology.”

Fracking has helped US oil production reach a 21-year high. Environmental groups have criticised the practice because of concerns it may affect drinking water supplies.

Energy companies are fuelling the booming business of so-called distributed fibre-optic lines, where the cord itself is a sensor for sound and temperature throughout its entire length.

The US market for such lines, used across industries from energy to military, will almost double to $1.1 billion by 2016 from an estimated $586 million this year, according to a study published by Information Gatekeepers and revised this month by Light Wave Venture LLC, which helps develop new companies using fibreoptic technology.

The prospect of fine-tuning energy discovery has the world’s largest oilfield service providers joining companies with ties to the defence industry

An employee at Halliburton, the world’s largest provider of hydraulic-fracturing services, works at the company’s lab facility in Houston, Texas, in May. BLOOMBERG

including OptaSense and US Seismic Systems Inc, a unit of Acorn Energy Inc, to develop ways to eavesdrop on wells. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Chevron Corp and Statoil ASA are among customers testing the technology.

“This market is evolving very, very aggressively,” said Dave Krohn, a Connecticut-based materials engineer who wrote the market study. “Clearly the driver is oil and gas.”

Halliburton, the world’s largest provider of fracking services, is working on cataloguing the combination of sounds that signal the perfect frack: an explosion, cracking rock, and eventually the gurgle of hydrocarbons seeping into the well bore, said Glenn McColpin, director of reservoir monitoring at Halliburton’s Houston-based Pinnacle unit. A bad frack means the rock didn’t crack as much as it could have.

When perfected, a computer will convert the sounds to a graph that will show how deeply and thoroughly cracks penetrate the rock surround-

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ing the well, indicating the success of each frack stage. The longer and more numerous the cracks, the more oil and gas will flow.

One fracking stage can cost about $100,000 and a typical well now will have about 15 stages, said Alex Robart, principal at PacWest. The effectiveness of each stage varies wildly.

The industry generally subscribes to the 80-20 rule, meaning 80 per cent of North American production comes from about 20 percent of the fracking stages, he said.

Finding out immediately which fracks were successful allows a company to repeat the process to improve flow.

“Our whole goal is to make the perfect frack every time,” McColpin said.

“You’re spending millions of dollars pumping millions of gallons of fluid, and if you’re only getting a third of the rock, you’re getting a third of the production.”

A fibre-optic line consists of a stainless steel cable encasing one long,

thin string of glass that vibrates when struck by sound waves. The sound waves are converted to light pulses reflected through the line, then converted by computer software back into sound that McColpin can monitor from his laptop.

“Bink, bank, boink” is what McColpin hears as a small metal ball rolls down the well bore and lands in a “ball seat” that triggers the rock’s first fracture. The fibre line captures the noise of the ball and the reverberating blast of the perforation gun firing into the rock. Computer software converts those sounds into a coloured graph on his laptop screen, etching a bright red fever line across a green background.

“Our whole goal is to make the earth transparent,” McColpin said. “Now we’ve got a window into the well to see exactly what’s happening.”

The oil industry started experimenting with fibre-optic lines’ temperature-sensing abilities about a decade ago, and five years later started testing it with sounds.

In August 2009 OptaSense travelled to Alberta, Canada, to show off its acoustic fibre-optic line to Shell. Executives from both companies piled into an observation truck parked near the well site to oversee a fracking job while OptaSense’s McEwenKing sat in his office back in England monitoring the real-time results on his computer.

As the perforation gun exploded, sound waves travelling along the fibre optic line were transformed into data that lit up his screen with a brightly coloured graph illustrating the results.

“You guys just turned the lights on down there!” McEwen-King told his colleagues back in Canada. “The whole well-bore imaged instantaneously,” he recalled in an interview earlier this month. Three years later, OptaSense announced an agreement with Shell to provide global frackmonitoring services using the acoustic lines.

Some of the world’s largest oil producers are interested in the stillevolving technology, Joseph Elkhoury, general manager of microseismic services at Schlumberger Ltd. “There’s always this wide enthusiasm around a new technology,” he said. Inevitably, that’s followed months or years later by a drop in the adoption curve as customers realise the technology isn’t everything they hoped it would be. Once the service companies fix some of the challenges, adoption picks up again, he said.

One of the biggest challenges for acoustic fibre in the oilfield is making the business case to use it onshore, Robart said. Installing the technology can cost as much as several hundred thousand dollars a well, meaning it doesn’t pay off as easily on a $6 million land well as it would on a $50 million offshore well, he said.

To confirm how large a fracture was and where it went, companies still need to use a network of specific sensors called geophones to listen from a nearby monitoring well, measuring subtle earth movements from the rock cracking. Some service companies want to one day ditch these microseismic tools and get the same listening sensitivity from their one fibre-optic line, helping bring costs down and becoming more efficient. BLOOMBERG

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World Brawls in parliament ‘natural’, says activist

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (right) and his wife Yuan Weijing prepare to leave after Chen’s speech ‘Human Rights and Cross-Strait Peace’ at Taiwan Parliament in Taipei yesterday. AFP

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HINA rebuked the United States yesterday for accusing it of facilitating the flight of fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, and said suggestions that it had done so were “baseless and unacceptable”.

The remarks from the Chinese foreign ministry and earlier comments from state media have underscored the strain in ties between the two countries since Snowden, who is wanted by the US government on charges of espionage, fled Hong Kong on Sunday.

The White House said the decision by the Chinese ter-

ritory to allow Snowden to leave was “a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the US-China relationship.”

China rejected the accusation. “The US side has no reason to call into question the Hong Kong government’s handling of affairs according to law,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing.

“The United States’ criticism of China’s central government is baseless. China absolutely cannot accept it.”

Hua also defended the

Hong Kong government’s decision to let Snowden go, saying it “handled the relevant case completely according to law.

“This is beyond dispute. All parties should respect this.”

Experts on both sides how-

The US side has no reason to call into question Hong Kong ever said the tirade should quickly blow over, and that neither country would be keen to let ties deteriorate permanently a matter of weeks after a successful summit meeting between

President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping.

“China does not want this to affect the overall situation, the central government has always maintained a relatively calm and restrained attitude because Sino-US relations are important,” said Zhao Kejing, a professor of international relations at China’s elite Tsinghua University.

“The United States has no reason to exert greater pressure, otherwise it would lose moral support.”

Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution who was an Asia adviser in Bill Clinton’s White House, said sanctioning Bei-

jing was “inconceivable” and linking Snowden to other issues would undo careful policy aimed at handling issues in separate lanes to avoid big ruptures in ties.

“Over the years, we’ve sought to prevent any serious disagreement in one issue area from spilling over and degrading the entire relationship,” he said.

At the summit earlier this month, Obama confronted Xi over allegations of cyber-theft.

Xi earlier told a news conference with Obama that China itself was a victim of cyber attacks but that the two sides should work together to develop a common approach. AFP

FIGHTING broke out in Taiwan’s parliament yesterday as legislators scuffled over a tax bill, while a visiting Chinese activist delivered a speech praising the island’s democracy in a neighbouring room.

Discussions were brought to a standstill after dozens of lawmakers from the ruling Kuomintang party clashed with opposition members as both groups tried to seize the chamber’s podium.

TV images of the parliamentary row, broadcast live nationwide, showed two angry women legislators scuffling and an opposition lawmaker spraying coffee at her Kuomintang counterparts.

A female legislator from the Kuomintang was also seen bursting into tears after she was forced off the podium by a male opponent.

Exiled blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who was delivering a speech in parliament at the time of the row, called it a “natural phenomenon” when asked to comment on the incident.

“I would rather see brawls in parliament than tanks driving in streets and squares,” Chen said to applause in a packed auditorium, referring to China’s bloody crackdown on prodemocracy students on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

“Protest is a form to exercise civil rights in the free world. It’s a natural phenomenon, there is nothing strange about it.”

Chen, 41, had been in New York since May last year after he escaped house arrest and fled to the US embassy in Beijing, triggering a brief crisis in relations between China and America.

The self-taught lawyer arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a 19-day visit he described as a “learning trip” to observe its democratic system, rule of law and freedom of speech. AFP

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World Qatar’s emir bows out in son’s favour THE emir of Qatar, a major actor on the world diplomatic stage and key backer of Arab Spring uprisings, abdicated in favour of his 33-year-old son Sheikh Tamim yesterday.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 61, hands over a Gulf state that under his 18-year rule has developed into a political and economic powerhouse with multi-billion-dollar investments across the world.

Sheikh Hamad suffers from kidney problems, but diplomats insist his motivation for stepping down was not related to his health but rather a determination to bring a younger leadership to the fore.

“I address you today to announce that I am handing the rule over to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani,” the emir told Qataris in a televised speech.

“Sons of Qatar, I hope I have succeeded in living up to my responsibility,” he said.

The decision marks the beginning of “a new era in which a young leadership will hold the banner that would place the hopes of the coming generation upon its priorities”, he added. AFP

Thais reject Ramadan truce

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EBELS in Thailand’s Mu s l i m - m a j o r i t y south called yesterday for the army to return to their bases over Ramadan in exchange for a ceasefire during the holy month, a condition swiftly rejected by the kingdom’s government.

More than 5,500 people have died in the near decade-long insurgency in Thailand’s south, but optimism for peace has flickered recently after talks between authorities and some rebel groups including the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN).

Near-daily attacks on security forces and civilians have continued despite a successful round of talks on June 14 that saw both sides agree to work towards curbing violence over Ramadan.

Listing its conditions for a ceasefire, a BRN spokesman said the group would stop its operations for the holy month if Thailand meets demands including pulling security forces back from villages to their bases.

The Thai army must leave “the villages and go back to their camps”, the BRN’s Hassan Taib said in a video posted on YouTube, also calling for a

In brief US factory boss held captive in China factory

AN American factory boss in China held hostage in his office for five days by workers said he won’t be released until a labour dispute is resolved and that authorities have declined to intervene. Chip Starnes, who had come from the US-based Specialty Medical Supplies company to lay off 30 employees, said the remaining 100 then barred him from leaving until they reached a resolution. “They adamantly said: I’m here to stay, live in my office and live on the cot until this gets done,” he said. afp

Philippines suspends two pilots after incident

Thai security personnel gather around the body of a killed militant after a clash in the southern province of Yala on Thursday. REUTERS

suspension of “ambushes, road blocks or arrests” in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces which border Malaysia.

Thailand must announce its official response to the demands by July 3, he said.

Ramadan starts around the first week of July.

The demands were given short shrift by Thai government officials.

Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat told reporters the BRN’s demands were “impossible to implement” and accused Taib of insincerity “about making peace or stopping violence”.

His comments were echoed

by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung who said “there was no way” the government would concede

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to pulling security forces back to their bases. Chalerm, who oversees Bangkok’s response to the southern unrest, also cast doubt on the BRN’s capacity to curb the violence.

“The BRN cannot control their people,” he added. “I don’t believe that violence will decrease – we have to have our own [security] measures.” AFP

PHILIPPINE aviation authorities yesterday suspended two pilots from budget carrier Cebu Pacific after their plane overshot a runway, saying they should have aborted the landing and failed to evacuate the aircraft which could have exploded.

The plane skidded off the runway in bad weather on June 2 at the airport in the southern city of Davao. All 165 people on board escaped unharmed, but angry passengers have criticised the pilots and crew, saying they were given no assistance. afp

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Getting the needle

PM’s knitting project has a royal flavour

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USTRALIAN Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revealed she is knitting a red kangaroo for the first baby of Prince William and his wife, Kate.

The nation’s first woman leader, battling a tough final week in parliament ahead of September elections amid renewed speculation that she could be ousted from within her own party, found time to tell the Australian Women’s Weekly she had set herself the task of making the toy.

Gillard, known globally for her stance against sexism, said it was important people saw a different side of her beyond the politics.

“In terms of knitting for Kate Middleton’s baby – I knit for babies – in part, they are the smaller projects. I’ve got not that much time in my life,” Gillard told the magazine to be published today.

“I just thought that it would be a cute project to work on.

I thought I would set myself the challenge of knitting a little stuffed toy, and why not a kangaroo?” AFP

Jakarta apologises for blazes I NDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has apologised to Singapore and Malaysia over fires that have cloaked the countries in thick haze, as thousands more emergency workers were deployed Tuesday to tackle the blazes.

Southeast Asia’s worst smog crisis for years pushed haze levels in Singapore to a record high last week, with residential buildings and skyscrapers shrouded and daily life for millions in the city-state dramatically affected.

The smog has drifted north and is now badly affecting Malaysia, while in a badly hit province on Indonesia’s Sumatra island – where the fires are raging in peatland – hundreds gathered to pray for rain.

The crisis has triggered a war of words between Jakarta and its neighbours, with an Indonesian minister accusing Singapore of acting “like a child”.

But Yudhoyono sought to ease tensions by issuing a public apology late Monday.

“As the president of Indonesia, I apologise for what has happened and ask for the understanding of the people of Malaysia and Singapore,” he said.

A handout picture taken on Sunday and released by Greenpeace yesterday shows Indonesian firefighters battling forest fires in Riau province on Sumatra island. AFP

“We accept it is our responsibility to tackle the problem.”

Singapore and Malaysia have been pressing Indonesia to step up action to fight the blazes, but Jakarta has hit back, insisting some fires are in plantations owned by companies from its neighbours.

However, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the question of who owns the plantations “is not the issue here”, national news agency Bernama reported.

“There should be no concern about whether the plantations are owned by Indonesia, Ma-

laysia or Singapore, but rather action should be taken against those responsible,” he said.

Najib said he had sent Yudhoyono a letter demanding Jakarta act to punish those who had caused the fires.

Police in Riau province, where the fires are centred,

said they had arrested nine people so far on suspicion of starting the blazes, all small palm oil farmers.

Smog from Sumatra is a recurring problem during the JuneSeptember dry season, when big companies and smallholders alike light fires to clear land, in a cheap but illegal method of clearing space for planting.

Southeast Asia suffered its worst smog outbreak in 199798, which cost the region an estimated $9 billion, and was hit with a recurrence in 2006.

Indonesia’s national disaster agency said yesterday that more than 3,000 emergency workers would be sent over the next two days to Riau to join some 2,300 already tackling the blazes.

Firefighters are backed by helicopters and planes dropping water and attempting to chemically induce rain through cloud-seeding, but agency official Agus Wibowo said the airborne efforts were proving ineffective.

The agency was shifting its focus to “sending more men to the affected areas to fight the blazes on land”, he said. The blazes are difficult to tackle as they are burning under the surface of the peat. AFP

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Technology

South Korea issues alert after rash of cyber attacks

Robot rock

Members of the robot rock band Z-Machines, guitarist Mach (front) and keyboardist Cosmo perform during the band’s debut live concert in Tokyo on Monday. Three robot rockers took to the stage in Tokyo to perform three songs, including one in collaboration with Japanese pop girl duo Amoyamo. REUTERS

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You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWc q o S Z m C h w g t M Y Tr M 7 HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorising it.

Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters – in this case, generated by an online password generator – are as good as it gets when it comes to securing your virtual life.

But as millions of internet users have learned the hard way, no password is safe when hackers can, and do, pilfer them en masse from banks, email services, retailers or social media websites that fail to fully protect their servers.

And besides, with technology growing by leaps and bounds, why does the username-and-password formula – a relic of computing’s Jurassic era – remain the norm?

“The incredibly short answer is, it’s cheap,” said Per Thorsheim, a Norwegian online security expert and organizer of PasswordsCon, the world’s only conference dedicated to passwords, taking place in Las Vegas in July.

“If you want anything else, if you want some kind of two-factor authentication that involves using a softwarebased token, a hardware-based token or biometric authentication, you need something extra,” said.

“And that will cost you extra money.”

Back in the beginning, it was all so easy.

The very first computers were not only room-sized mainframes, but also stand-alone devices. They didn’t connect to each other, so passwords were needed only by a few operators who likely knew each other anyway.

Then along came the internet, binding a growing number of computers, smartphones and tablets into a globe-girdling web that required some virtual means for strangers to identify each other.

Passwords have thus proliferated so much that it’s a daily struggle for users to cope with dozens of them – and

Password time again. Can you remember all your passwords?

not just on one personal computer, but across several devices.

There’s even a name for the syndrome: password fatigue.

“People never took passwords very seriously, and then we had a number of really big password breaches,” said Marian Merritt, internet security advocate for software provider Norton.

“As people are increasingly accessing websites from smartphones and tablets, typing passwords is becoming an ever bigger pain,” added Sarah Needham of Confident Technologies, developers of a picture-based password alternative.

In a 24-nation survey last year, Norton found that 40 per cent of users don’t bother with complex passwords or fail to change their passwords on a regular basis.

Rival security app firm McAfee says its research indicates that more than 60 per cent of users regularly visit five to 20 websites that require passwords, and that a like-sized proportion preferred easy-to-use passwords.

The most popular passwords, infamously, are “password” and “123456”, according to Mark Burnett, whose 2005 book Perfect Password: Selection, Pro-

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tection, Authentication was among the first on the topic.

Carl Windsor, director of product management at California-based network security firm Fortinet, said he once ran John the Ripper, a free program to crack passwords, through an employer’s Unix system with its consent.

Within seconds, Windsor had onethird of its passwords. Within minutes, he had another third. “I also won a bet by finding the ‘super secure’ password of a colleague in less than five minutes,” he said by email.

Password alternatives are in the pipeline. Google is toying with the idea of users tapping their devices with personalised coded finger rings or inserting unique ID cards called Yubikeys into the USB ports of their computers.

The FIDO Alliance, a consortium that includes PayPal, is pushing an opensource system in which, for instance, websites would ask smartphone users to identify themselves by placing their fingertips on their touchscreens.

“These (biometric) technologies are coming to a place where they are highly mature, cost effective and in a position to roll out into the consumer market

today,” FIDO’s vice-president Ramesh Kesanupalli said.

Kesanupalli said FIDO technology could be available as early as this year, bettering IBM fellow David Nahamoo’s prediction in 2011 that biometrics would replace passwords within five years.

In Washington, the US Patent and Trademark Office has recently published several patent applications from Apple that envision facial recognition and fingerprint scanning.

Motorola’s head of research Regina Dugan has gone further, proposing a “password pill” with a microchip and a battery that would be activated by stomach acid. The resulting signal would emit an unique ID radio signal.

“I take a vitamin every morning. What if I take vitamin authentication?” said Dugan at the D11 tech conference in California last month, quoted by TechWeekEurope.co.uk.

For now, many internet services are embracing two-factor authentication, that challenges users with a bonus security question – like “What is your dog’s name?” – or emits a one-use-only numeric code via SMS messaging.

Online password managers with names like Lastpass, KeePass, 1Password, Dashlane and Apple’s just-announced iCloud Keychain have also been popping up like mushrooms.

They pledge to securely stash an individual’s entire password collection, accessible via one master password.

Some experts, however, consider the idea a Band-Aid solution pending the definitive password replacement.

Until then, security experts widely agree on two core principles: make your passwords as long as possible, mixing up words with some numbers and symbols, and never ever use the same password for more than one website.

Beyond that, just cross your fingers and pray that the website you’re using is doing all it can at its end to protect the mental keys to your virtual world.

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SOUTH Korea issued a cyber attack alert yesterday after hackers penetrated a number of official websites, including the presidential Blue House, on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. “The government can confirm a cyber attack by unidentified hackers that shut down several sites including the Blue House,” the science ministry said, adding that the five-stage national cyber alert had been raised from level one to two.

A number of news media websites and several government agencies, including the office for Government Policy Coordination and the ruling New Frontier Party, were also affected by what seemed to be a coordinated attack beginning at 10:45am (0145 GMT).

The hacking coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War on June 25, 1950.

The ministry statement did not speculate on who might be responsible. Investigations into several recent large-scale cyber assaults on South Korean media groups and financial institutions concluded that they originated in North Korea.

A number of posts left on the hacked sites claimed to be the work of the global “hacktivist” group Anonymous and included messages praising North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. As of 0300 GMT, the Blue House website was closed down, with a message saying the site was “under maintenance”.

Anonymous denied any involvement on its official Twitter account, but said it had succeeded in hacking a number of North Korean media websites yesterday, including the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and the ruling party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun.

Both sites were briefly inaccessible on Tuesday morning but appeared to be running normally a few hours later.

South Korea has sought to beef up its cyber defences since a March 20 attack completely shut down the networks of TV broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN, and halted financial services and crippled operations at three banks.

An official investigation determined North Korea’s military intelligence agency was responsible, with a joint team of civilian and government experts tracing the origin to six personal computers used in North Korea.

In order to spread malware in target computers, the hackers went through 49 different places in 10 countries including South Korea, the investigation found.

The North had used 22 of the places in past attacks.

About 48,700 machines including PCs, automatic teller machines and server computers were damaged in the attack, which coincided with heightened military tensions on the Korean peninsula, following Pyongyang’s nuclear test in February.

North Korea was also blamed for cyber attacks in 2009 and 2011. AFP

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Gareth Evans

USTRALIAN politics should, on the face of it, hold as much interest for the rest of the world as Tuvan throat singing or Bantu funerary rites.

But I have found otherwise in my recent travels in North America, Europe and Asia. Much more than one might expect, there is an eerie fascination in political and media circles with the death throes of the current Australian Labor Party (ALP) government.

How is it, policymakers and analysts ask, that a government that steered Australia comfortably through the global financial crisis, and that has presided for the last six years over a period of almost unprecedented prosperity, could be facing electoral extinction in September, as every opinion poll is now predicting?

How did a diverse, socially tolerant country with living standards that are the envy of much of the world become roiled by so much political divisiveness and bitterness? Is there a message for democratic governments generally, or center-left governments elsewhere, or just for the ALP? It may be that certain peculiarities of the Australian situation are creating more tensions than would be likely elsewhere. A ludicrously short three-year electoral cycle makes it almost impossible to govern in a campaign-free atmosphere.

Party rules allow for leaders – including serving prime ministers – to be politically executed overnight by their parliamentary colleagues.

Our media’s preoccupation with trivia – and collective lack of conscience – is impressive even by British tabloid standards.

But none of these factors is new.

They might have compounded the tensions, but they don’t explain how, in 2010, a party less than three years into its term dispatched a leader, Kevin Rudd, who had brought it to power after 11 years in the political wilderness and still commanded a majority of the public’s support.

Nor do they explain why now, three years after she replaced Rudd, Julia Gillard enjoys practically no public support at all and seems destined to lead the ALP back into exile for another generation, if not for good.

Even if Gillard is dropped by her panicking colleagues – and that could happen at any time in the Grand Guignol theater that Australian politics has become – the situation for the world’s oldest labor party is dire indeed.

Those like me who have been out of

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard attends a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra last month. REUTERS

public office for a long time need to be wary about offering gratuitous commentary – or, worse, advice. It is unlikely to be gratefully received by one’s successors, and it suggests a severe case of what I call “relevance deprivation syndrome”.

But there do seem to be some fundamental rules of political survival that have been ignored in Australia in recent years. Perhaps spelling them out will help others to remember them, not least those parties in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere that share some of the ALP’s social-democratic and center-left ideological traditions and are also struggling to win or retain electoral support.

The first rule is to have a philosophy – and to stick to it. The hugely successful Labor governments led by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating two decades ago did just that, essentially inventing the “third way” model that later became associated with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Britain.

Its elements were clear: dry, freemarket economics (but in our case with low-paid workers benefiting enormously from “social wage” increases in medical care and retirement pensions); compassionate social policy; and a liberal internationalist foreign policy.

Australia’s current government, by contrast, has struggled to re-create anything as compelling. It seems torn between old industrial labor

preoccupations, the new environmentalism and capitulating to populist anxiety on issues like asylumseeking “boat people”.

The second rule is to have a narrative – and to stick to it. Confused and ever-changing messages don’t win votes. The most wounding criticism of the ALP government is that no one really knows what it stands for.

It has initiated visionary national policies in areas like broadband access, disability support and education, but it has struggled to maintain a coherent and consistent overall story line.

The third rule is to have a decent governing process – and to stick to it.

The Rudd administration successfully navigated the global financial crisis largely because the prime minister, with a small inner group, bypassed traditional Cabinet processes.

But, with the crisis over, the bypassing continued – increasingly by the prime minister alone. Genuinely collective decision-making can be a painfully difficult process, but, in government as elsewhere, there is wisdom in crowds.

The fourth rule is that leaders should surround themselves with well-weathered colleagues and advisers who will remind them, as often as necessary, of their mortality. Self-confidence, bordering on hubris, gets most leaders to the top.

If that is not occasionally punc-

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tured, things are bound to end in tears.

The last rule is that one should never trash the brand. Those who mounted the coup against Rudd three years ago felt it necessary to explain that it was because his government was, beneath the surface, a dysfunctional mess. The public hadn’t actually noticed that at the time, but has been prepared to believe it ever since.

The tragedy is that both Rudd and Gillard are superbly capable and have complementary skill sets; working together effectively, they were as good as it gets in Australian politics.

Adherence to these rules will not ensure that a governing party stays in office forever. Many other factors, domestic and international, are always in play. Over time, electorates will tire of even the best-run governments, and look for reasons to vote for change.

But following all of these rules should ensure that a party maintains credibility and respect, and that, in defeat, it at least remains competitive for the next election. Observing none of them guarantees catastrophe.

PROJECT SYNDICATE Gareth Evans, Australia’s foreign minister for eight years and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, is now Chancellor of the Australian National University and co-chair of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect. He also played a leading role in bringing peace to Cambodia.

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Lifestyle In Asia, ancient writing collides with digital age In brief

Miwa Suzuki

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S a schoolboy, Akihiro Matsumura spent hundreds of hours learning the intricate Chinese characters that make up a part of written Japanese. Now, the graduate student can rely on his smartphone, tablet and laptop to remember them for him.

“Sometimes I don’t even bother to take notes in seminars. I just take out my tablet to shoot pictures of what instructors write on blackboards,” he told AFP. Like millions of people across East Asia, 23-year-old Matsumura is forgetting the pictographs and ideographs that have been used in Japan and greater China for centuries.

While some bemoan what they see as the loss of history and culture, others say the shift frees up brainpower for more useful things, like foreign languages, and even improves writing as a whole.

Naoko Matsumoto, a professor of law who heads international legal studies at the prestigious Sophia University near Tokyo, said students in her classes now write more fluently than their predecessors.

“I’m in my 40s and, compared with my generation, they have more and more opportunities to write using Twitter” and other social networking services, she said.

Priorities are changing with more emphasis placed on building logical thinking strategies – a case of content becoming more important than form.

“The skill of handwriting kanji [Chinese characters] perfectly is becoming less necessary compared with earlier times,” the professor said.

Akihiro Matsumura, a university student uses his tablet computer in Tokyo.

Kanji developed in China as a mixture of pictographs – characters that represent a thing, like “mountain” – and ideographs – those that depict an abstract concept, like “think”.

Greater China uses only these characters – a simplified version on the mainland and the traditional form in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Japan imported kanji some time during the first millennium to use as a writing system, despite there being no linguistic link between Japanese and Chinese.

By around the 8th to 9th centuries it developed a syllabary – a system of consonant-vowel blends – called “hiragana”.

Where kanji contain a meaning but no inherent sound, each hiragana character represents a sound, but has no inherent meaning

– like a letter in the Latin alphabet. Unlike the alphabet, however, each syllable only ever has one sound.

A second syllabary, called “katakana”, also developed.

Modern-day written Japanese is a mixture of kanji, hiragana and katakana, with an increasing amount of Western script also thrown in (known as “romaji” or Roman letters).

In both Chinese and Japanese, computer and smartphone users need only type the pronunciation of the kanji from the constituent sounds using either the syllabary or the alphabet. They then choose one of several options offered by the device.

Very different meanings can come from the same sounds.

For example, in Japanese, “shigaisen” produces “street fighting” and “ultra-violet rays”.

“It’s easy to forget even

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the easiest of characters,” Zhang Wentong, an assistant at a calligraphy centre in Beijing said.

“Sometimes you’ve got to think for ages. Occasionally I’ll repeatedly type the character out phonetically in my phone” until the right one pops up.

Graduate student Matsumura said his reliance on devices leaves him adrift when faced with filling in forms for repairs at the electronics shop where he works part-time.

“I sometimes can’t recall kanji on the spot while a customer is watching me,” he said. “I remember their rough shapes but can’t remember exact strokes . . . It’s foggy.”

Traditionalists fear that forgetting kanji means the irrevocable loss of a fundamental part of culture.

In Hong Kong, Rebecca Ko said her 11-year-old daughter

uses the computer more and more, but she insists the child learn traditional characters, and sends her to a Chinese calligraphy class.

“We cannot rely too much on computers. We should be able to write . . . [and] we should be able to write neatly, it’s a basic thing about being Chinese,” she said.

But, says Matsumura, times change and the spread of technology gives people opportunities to develop their language capability in other ways, for example allowing some to read more.

“I’m one of them. I used to listen to music blankly on trains, but I now read news and other things,” he said.

Guardians of the characters say there is no evidence of any drop-off in enthusiasm.

The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, a Kyotobased organisation, says the number of people who take its exam every year is holding steady at around two million.

People are “increasingly using text messages rather than making phone calls”, and need to know which characters to use, said a spokeswoman.

Yusuke Kinouchi, a 24-yearold graduate student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, thought children should keep learning the characters in the way they have done for hundreds of years.

Kanji provide a certain economy, he said, where one character can stand in for the sounds made by several letters in a language such as English – something particularly useful on Twitter, for example, with its 140-character limit.

But beyond the economy, there is one other good reason to keep them alive, he said.

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Chinese director urges social change A LEADING Chinese director has warned the country faces a rising tide of violence unless it tackles its social problems, as he discussed his graphic new film.

While A Touch of Sin’s themes of injustice and exploitation are familiar territory for Jia Zhangke, its style is a stark departure from his usual contemplative tone. Critics have described it as “ultra violent” and compared it to Quentin Tarantino’s work.

The slight, unassuming 43-year-old said he drew inspiration from morally inflected westerns and martial arts movies. His four tales, which draw on real events, include that of a spa receptionist fighting off a lecherous customer and a miner armed with a gun and intent on revenge against corrupt officials. “I don’t admire or worship violence,” Jia said. “To fight violence with violence is a tragedy. This film seeks the roots of violence.”

In the past, he said, social changes had led to personal crises, but the problems had been par-

tially hidden. “Partly, it’s that social problems have been more intense than before . . . In the past, the corruption was not beyond imagination, but now the reality is surreal to us . . . The [former] minister for railways went on trial and it was said he had more than 300 properties.

“The gap between rich and poor is also increasing,” Jia said. “The bigger the difference is, the more [these] hidden, disturbed emotions grow.”

But ordinary people were also increasingly aware of the injustices, he said, and their tolerance was shrinking. “In recent years people have chosen to solve [their personal crises] in a violent way,” the filmmaker added.

This month, 47 people died in a bus fire that police say was started by a man suicidal after a long dispute with local officials over welfare payments. “In China there is more and more [violence]. You just saw the bus case. Last year in Guangdong a man didn’t get his salary from the boss and set fire to an

underwear factory [killing 14 young female workers],” he noted.

Jia sees silence in the face of wrongs as a sin, but not everyone agrees, he said: “Chinese society is strange – people feel if you talk about sad or tragic things it will have even more of a negative impact on society. It’s really strange logic. If you can’t even face it in a film, how can you face it in reality? If even films cannot refer to [violence], it will always be unfamiliar to us and violent incidents will increase.”

A Touch of Sin scooped the best screenplay award at Cannes last month. Jia has long received international acclaim for films such as Still Life, which won the Golden Lion at Venice, and 24 City.

But the reaction of authorities at home is perhaps more remarkable.

His producer urged him not to make the movie because it would be banned, like his early works.

Instead, it has been approved for release later this year with only minor changes. the guardian

Will Smith not starring in Independence Day 2

WILL Smith is “too expensive” to reprise his career-defining turn in the forthcoming sequel to sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day, according to the project’s director, Roland Emmerich.

The German film-maker, whose $816 million film was 1996’s highest-grossing movie, said Smith would not be suitable for the follow-up, which is pencilled in for release in 2015. There have been suggestions it could be the first of two sequels, shot back to back. the guardian

Clinton mail, Lewinsky gifts are up for auction

A COLLECTION of items used in the investigation of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky’s sexual encounters with then US President Bill Clinton is being auctioned online. The 32-item collection was submitted by Lewinsky’s former lover Andy Bleiler to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr during his investigation of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal in the 1990s. Among the items is a signed Clinton letter to the Bleilers, photos and cards from Lewinsky and clothing sent by Lewinsky to Bleiler’s wife. reuters

Yeah Yeah Yeahs film at Empire State Building

YEAH Yeah Yeahs have become the first band to shoot a video at the top of New York’s Empire State Building. The clip for Despair – a small part of which has been posted online – was made in the early morning, 373 metres off the ground, before the tower’s viewing platform was open to the public. “It’s like the American dream for us, singing your song on top of the Empire State Building,” singer Karen O told New York Times. the guardian

Jim Carrey dismisses own film as too violent JIM Carrey has shocked producers of forthcoming comic-book sequel Kick-Ass 2, in which he stars as a baseball bat-wielding masked crimefighter, after denouncing the “level of violence” in the film in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. Carrey, an outspoken proponent of increased gun control in the wake of the shootings by gunman Adam Lanza in December, tweeted on Sunday that he could no longer support the film. the guardian

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Health

Boot camps are booming on the sunny shores of Australia Madeleine Coorey

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HE sun is rising over Sydney’s Bondi Beach and in the pre-dawn cool, about 30 people are making their way through a set of arduous exercises – tossing weights onto the sand, doing chin-ups and flexing an enormous rope up and down.

The group are part of one of the fastest-growing sectors in the fitness market – boot camp – where the confines of the gym and private, individual exercise are shunned in favour of training with a group in the great outdoors, often being pushed by a military-style trainer to a high-intensity workout.

“I think I am never going to do this again. I throw up. I hate every minute of it . . . but the satisfaction . . . there’s nothing more rewarding,” explains Kristie Webster after her session at Bondi.

So why does the 26-yearold drag herself out of bed in the dark several times a week, knowing that she’s in for such physical discomfort? “Because I’m insane? No, just purely for the fact to get fit, to get healthy.”

“We push them as hard as they can be pushed, but we do it in a motivational way.

We’re not like a drill sergeant, we’re there to sort of encourage them,” explains her trainer Dan Clay, who is originally from Essex in Britain.

Clay, who runs the Dangerously Fit company, has seen the popularity of boot camps skyrocket in Sydney in the past five years, as they have elsewhere in the world.

“People don’t want to always be stuck in a gym. They want to come down first thing in the morning, they get the beach, they get the sunrise, they get the

Boot camp enthusiasts work out on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach.

fresh air. And it’s good for the soul, it’s good for the body, so it’s got really popular,” he says.

Training in a group provides additional motivation, he adds.

“People want to get outdoors and train with their friends,” he says simply.

Without the costs of major chains and few overheads, boot camps have sprung up around Australia, while other physical challenges such as Tough Mudder – hardcore 15-kilometre obstacle courses which can include electric shocks, steep cliffs and walls, and fire – have also proved popular.

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James “Chief” Brabon, the former Australian army infantry soldier behind Sydney’s Original Bootcamp, is considered a pioneer of the industry.

After initially developing his training regime for fellow soldiers, and then their impressed wives and girlfriends, he eventually re-established the brand with gusto in 2003, using one of Bondi’s near neighbours, Coogee Beach.

He said he struck scepticism at first, particularly given the trend in fitness at the time towards more gentle exercise such as yoga and pilates.

“And then we came out with this disciplined, high-intensity sweat-till-you-drop sort of training, and people were saying ‘No, it won’t work. Won’t work, won’t last, nobody wants to be told what to do’. And what we’ve found, is that everybody wants to be told what to do,” he says.

“We don’t believe in berating people, and demeaning them, and yelling and screaming – no one would come back. But basically they want to just be guided.

They want to know they are doing the exercises the right way, doing the right type of training.”

Chief, who teaches five

mornings a week, says the military element is just an excuse to be able to push people to a higher intensity.

“It’s not play acting so much as window dressing,” he says.

“It’s very high intensity sportsstyle training and we use military-style overtones to help strip away a lot of the excuses that people have.

“I suppose we’re seen as controversial in our industry because we don’t believe just moving is enough. We’ve staked our whole reputation on the fact that you have to work. There’s no use just turning up. If you

don’t challenge yourself you will not improve.”

Back in Bondi, the group are happy to have had the tough workout – an activity which is at odds with Australia’s growing problem with obesity.

“The pain can sometimes be great but it’s always worth it at the end, you push yourself because you know it’s only 45 minutes,” says Stafford Hamilton, who credits Dangerously Fit with helping him shed more than 11 kilograms since he started nine months ago.

“And afterwards you feel fantastic.” afp

Breast is best for getting ahead, study shows

Eva Uzcategui feeds her baby with a bottle in Caracas, Venezuela.

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PEOPLE breastfed as infants have a 24 per cent better chance than their formulafed counterparts of climbing the social ladder, a study released yesterday revealed.

Conversely, being fed mothers’ milk as a baby also reduced one’s chances of social demotion later in life by as much as 20 per cent, said the findings published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.

“Our study adds to evidence on the health benefits of breast feeding by showing that there may be lifelong social benefits,” wrote the British research team.

The researchers looked at data on 17,419 people born in Britain in 1958 and another 16,771 born in 1970 – comparing their social class at the age of 10 or 11 to that aged 33/34, and whether or not they had been breastfed.

Social class was catego-

rised on a four-point scale ranging from unskilled or semi-skilled to professional or managerial.

In the 1958 group, 68 per cent had been breastfed compared with only 36 per cent in the 1970 group, said the study, which claims to be the largest yet to probe the relationship between breastfeeding and social mobility.

The researchers gathered data during regular followups every few years and took into account a range of other potential factors such as brain development and emotional stress levels.

“Intellect and stress accounted for around a third (36 per cent) of the total impact of breastfeeding: breastfeeding enhances brain development, which boosts intellect, which in turn increases upwards social mobility. Breastfed children also showed fewer signs

of stress,” said a statement.

The authors said breast milk contained so-called long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids or LCPUFA’s, which were essential for brain development.

Previous studies, however, have suggested that LCPUFA’s alone may not improve cognitive growth The team said it was impossible to tell which was more beneficial to the child: the nutrients found in breast milk, the skin-go-skin contact and bonding between a nursing mother and her infant, or perhaps a combination of the two.

Further research was needed, they said, to determine whether mothers who fed their infants formula could aid their long-term development by mimicking the skin contact between breastfeeding women and their offspring. afp

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21:50

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14:30

20:50

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DOHA - PHNOM PENH ( Via HCMC)

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A Chinese tourist poses for a picture next to “Sky Wheel”, a sculpture

by Chinese artist Xu Hongfei, in Sydney. reuters

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10:40

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17:25

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5

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20:00

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5

20:45

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16:20

17:15

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2816

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2817

2.4.5

09:10

12:00

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2.4.5

07:20

08:10

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6

14:50

17:50

2816

6

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14:00

2817

7

13:20

16:10

2816

7

11:30

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09:10

11:35

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17:05

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BR 265

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

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PP-PAKSE,VIENTIANE

PAKSE,VIENTIANE-PP

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3. 6

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21:35

8M 403

3. 6

16:45

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Oz sets out to woo visitors from China

A

USTRALIA’S coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn’t high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists.

But the local mayor and a Chinese businessman have big plans to change that – by building a A$500 million ($480 million) theme park that will include a full-size replica of Beijing’s Forbidden City and a nine-storey temple housing a giant Buddha.

“We were the fourth or fifth [local government] council they approached after everybody else laughed in their face,” said Wyong’s mayor Doug Eaton, who hopes to have the last laugh with a development projected to attract millions of Chinese tourists.

News of the park has already made headlines in China, and the theory is it will attract visitors in a similar way to Americans travelling to EuroDisney – a familiar cultural icon in a new and exotic location. In the US there was a proposal last year to build a replica of the Great Wall on a mountain range overlooking LA, but it never got off the ground.

The Australian park, due to start construction next year, is one of the more unusual attempts by Australia to win a slice of the world’s largest outbound tourism market as it looks for an economic boost to replace its fading mining boom.

As some economists voice concerns Australia may fall into its first recession in 22 years, the nation is again turning to its biggest trading partner – this time targeting China’s affluent globetrotters.

Chinese tourists spent $102 billion worldwide last year, according to the UN World Tourism Organization, contributing some A$3.8 billion to the Australian economy.

Overall, direct tourism contributes A$41 billion, or 2.8 per cent of Australian gross domestic product, and employs half a million people, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

With an eye on the revenue prize, Prime Minister Julia Gillard took a delegation to China in April, announcing an annual trade and tourism fair and agreeing to make the Australian dollar only the third currency to be directly traded against the yuan after the US dollar and the yen.

Australian travel agents say Chinese visitors are initially sold on the country by images of wide open skies, a rugged outback, unique wildlife and outdoor pursuits. But the reality is that they want casinos, not koalas.

“The behaviour is different to the motivation,” said Andrew McEvoy, head of peak tourism body Destination Australia. “They arrive here and find nature in the city, and the highlights for them are shopping, dining and gaming or entertainment.”

Liu Jiaxuan, a visitor from northeastern China in her mid-20s, planned to spend most of her 10-day stay in Sydney and Melbourne.

“I am very interested in those small cafes, small galleries, you know, those places with a distinct individuality,” Liu, strolling near Sydney’s waterfront Opera House, said.

Shopping was also a must-do on her list.

Businesses are getting on board. Australia’s second-largest department store, David Jones, last month launched a partnership with UnionPay, China’s dominant payment card supplier. Global hotel operator Accor, which operates chains including Sofitel, Novotel and Ibis, is putting Chinese dishes on menus and providing Chinese newspapers. reuters

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Entertainment NOW SHOWING

Rockabilly @ Showbox

legend cinema

Alternative music haunt Showbox hosts a night of rockabily tonight. Conrad Keely, the lead singer with American alt rock band And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead heads up the lineup, which also includes bluegrass maestros Grass Snake Union, and more.

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

9:30am

Music accompanied by BBQ and beers. Fix up, fifties style.

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.

1:55pm, 4:25pm, 7:30pm

Showbox, #11, Street 330 8pm

Trivia @ The Willow Test your trivia prowess at one of Phnom Penh’s biggest trivia nights.

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

9:45pm AFTER EARTH A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

12:10am, 4:40pm, 9:45pm MAN OF STEEL A young journalist is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race.

9:30am, 1:55pm, 4:25pm, 6:40pm, 9:15pm

Set among orchids and potted plants in The Willow’s pretty courtyard, up to $100 in prize money can be won. Entry is $2, with a maximum of seven people per team.

The Willow, #1 Street 21, 7:30pm

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Football

Casino sides go heads-up HS Manjunath

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he clash between two former champions and casinobacked clubs Phnom Penh Crown and NagaCorp in a key Metfone C-League encounter today at Olympic Stadium has a peculiar air about it.

Crown are bouncing around with immense confidence on the back of two solid displays, while Naga are struggling to find the kind of form that won them the 2013 Hun Sen Cup not so long ago.

When the game kicks off at 2pm, Crown will obviously be in a stronger mental state, having treated with some disdain Svay Rieng in their previous outing. Naga, on the other hand, are in recovery mode after Build Bright United snatched a victory from the throes of a seemingly certain draw.

Crown’s prolific Dutch striker Elroy van der Hooft wasn’t around for the sides’ previous league meeting on February 24 which ended 1-1, but is rapidly ticking off goals in a manner that should make rival backlines creak.

Meanwhile, the absence of a goalscoring spearhead has been hurting Naga almost throughout the entire league season.

For the two-time winners, goals have been coming in odd drops and, against a side as buoyant as Crown are at the moment, scoring will be of paramount importance.

If lack of goals is one major worry for Naga, the other is the side caving in quite often under pressure, just like they did against Build Bright United.

Given the current trends, Crown should go out as the market fancies, a clear four points ahead of their rivals in the standings.

Unless Naga find a way to lift themselves, their chances of making it to the Super Four play-offs could be in

Thailand avoided FIFA sanctions after a lowly fourthtier club withdrew its lawsuit to stop the country’s football association (FAT) from going ahead with controversial electoral reforms. FAT chief and FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi was forced to postpone the presidential elections indefinitely due to the court injunction after Pattaya FC filed a case. The argument centres on a FIFAbacked reform that would slash the number of eligible voters from around 180 to 72. REUTERS

Chinese sack Camacho after costly coach spell

Jose Antonio Camacho has been sacked by China after a dismal and expensive two-year spell in charge, the CFA said on Monday. The former Real Madrid and Spain coach oversaw three home friendly defeats in June, including an embarrassing 5-1 thrashing by Thailand, and suffered an early exit in World Cup qualifying last year. “Having consulted with related parties and informed coach Camacho, the authority made a primary decision of terminating the cooperation with the Spaniard,” the Chinese Football Association (CFA) said in a statement carried by the state news agency Xinhua. REUTERS

FIFA, Brazil government hit back at Cup criticism

Crown’s Hong Pheng (left) and Naga’s Chan Dara vie for the ball during their match at Olympic Stadium on February 24.

danger since Kirivong Sok Sen Chey and Build Bright United are closing in on their fourth placing.

Having shaken off relegation worries, Ministry of National Defence

may find Senate Secretariat easy meat in today’s second fixture at 4pm.

Victory for the Army team will guarantee top tier survival, condemning the impressive league debutants Asia

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Europe University to a relegation play-off against one of the top two Division A1 sides at the end of the season. Senate are already confirmed to feature in the other play-off.

Brazil wary of Uruguay Money men to trade Brazil may have waltzed through their group to reach the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup but they are only too aware of the party pooping abilities of tonight’s rivals Uruguay.

It was the Uruguayans who delivered Brazilian football its arguably greatest ever blow in winning the 1950 final in Rio’s famed Maracana stadium, the revamped version of which will host Sunday’s final, where either world champions Spain or Italy await.

That “Maracanazo” loss sent shockwaves around Brazil and they only made up for the reverse eight years later when, with a teenaged Pele in the team, they finally lifted the trophy for the first time in Sweden.

More recently, Uruguay have also shown they can mix it with their more powerful neighbours, the nation of barely 3.5 million lifting the 2011 Copa America in Argentina, where Brazil lost in the quarter-finals to Paraguay.

Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar on Monday warned the host nation they must beware if they are not to suffer an ambush in Belo Horizonte, a venue which earned its own place in World

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Uruguay’s Diego Forlan is one of their formidable attacking threats for tonight’s Confederations Cup semi-final against Brazil. REUTERS

Cup folklore in the 1950 event by hosting a United States win over England.

Uruguay have shown some mediocre recent form in World Cup qualifying, but the 2011 South American champions have found some form with wins in Brazil over Nigeria and minnows Tahiti.

Moreover, Julio Cesar points out that in Edinson Cavani, Diego Forlan – match winner against Nigeria with a record 34th goal for the Celeste – and Luis Suarez the Uruguayans have no shortage of firepower.

“They are very strong in attack and can decide a game on their own,” the shot-stopper said.

The trio are set to return after being rested for the 8-0 whipping of Tahiti.

“I know them all well and we shall have to beware. The tiniest thing can decide a match,” added Cesar, who faces the prospect of playing second tier English football next season after being relegated with Queens Park Rangers.

The match kicks off tonight at 2am Cambodian time. AFP

The inaugural edition of the Financial Challenge Cup, which is to launch on July 7 at Beeline Arena, will see fivea-side teams comprised from the staff of companies based in the financial sector vie for local bragging rights.

Eligible companies include banks, microfinance institutions, audit firms, and law and security firms licensed by the stock exchange. “[The competition] gives companies an opportunity to share in something unique and also offer an opportunity to network and to build lasting relationships in a competitive but friendly environment,” tournament organiser Jimmy Campbell told the Post.

All registered players must be employed by the company that they represent.

The majority of games will be held on successive Sundays between 8am and noon, with a midweek round scheduled during the national elections. Standard futsal rules will be in play, although matches will feature two 15minute halves.

Half of the eight team slots have already been taken, with sides from KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Hwang DBS and Maruhan Japan.

Each team will play each other once, with a league table drawn up to determine brackets for four playoffs on August 4 at Beeline Arena, including a top two clash in the grand final.

The winning team will be presented with the Financial Challenge Cup trophy, while awards will also be awarded for Fair Play, Top Goal Scorer and Player of the Tournament.

To register a team, send an email to events@excelevents.com.

The logo for the 2013 Financial Challenge Cup. photo supplied

FIFA and the Brazilian government dismissed suggestions on Monday that next year’s World Cup will be staged at the cost of health and education as they hit back at criticism at the cost of the event.

“None of the money earmarked for health and education has been diverted to the building of World Cup stadiums,” Brazil’s sports minister Aldo Rebelo told reporters. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke added: “FIFA is not making four billion reais [$1.77 billion] to run away in a big Mercedes Benz. We are using our money to develop football, and we are one of the most transparent sporting organisations in the world.”

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Guardiola prepared for Bayern pressure-cooker

Treble-winning Bayern Munich unveiled their new coach Pep Guardiola amid a media frenzy on Monday as the Bavarians prepare to extend their domination at home and in Europe. The former Barcelona coach said he was ready to accept the challenge of coaching a team that has just played an outstanding season under Jupp Heynckes, winning the domestic league and cup double, and topping it off with the Champions League title. “I must accept the comparison,” Guardiola, dressed in a dapper threepiece grey suit and burgundy tie and speaking in German throughout, told an overflowing news conference at the club’s Allianz Arena. “I am under pressure, of course, but I know this and I accept this challenge without fear and that is why I am the coach.” REUTERS

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Sport

Confident Lions put down Rebels 35-0

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he British and Irish Lions will head into the second test against Australia this Saturday with a head full of steam after subjecting the Melbourne Rebels to a 35-0 thrashing in their tour match yesterday.

Eager to impress coach Warren Gatland in their last non-Test tour match, the midweek Lions ran in four tries and were awarded a fifth by penalty as they completely outclassed the Super Rugby strugglers at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.

England centre Manu Tuilagi celebrated his return to action after a niggling shoulder injury by contributing to the first two tries for the Lions for scrumhalf Conor Murray and winger Sean Maitland.

Openside flanker Sean O’Brien and replacement scrumhalf Ben Youngs crossed over after the break as the Dan Lydiate-captained Lions dominated on all fronts.

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ACT Brumbies last week, with their set pieces a mess and well beaten at the breakdown, but their forwards made amends against the Rebels, setting up scoring chances with sharp work at the lineout. “We definitely had to up our game coming here, we wanted to get the result and keep the momentum going for the weekend,� said Lydiate, a re-

placement for the Brisbane Test last weekend. “It’s a massive game for us this weekend and some of the boys put their hands up for selection tonight. “The main thing was to get the win but also play well as a team and play well as individuals . . . All credit to the Rebels guys, they gave us a good game tonight.� REUTERS

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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

A special report that reviews what’s available and what’s new in Cambodia for:

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.

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Sport

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disconsolate and shellshocked Rafael Nadal refused to blame injury after crashing out of Wimbledon in the first round to a 1,500-1 outsider in straight sets.

The Spaniard, who two weeks ago was celebrating his return from a severe knee injury by winning his 12th grand slam title at Roland Garros, was beaten 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 by the Belgian Steve Darcis, a player ranked 130 places below him.

It was the first time in his career that Nadal had ever been defeated in the first round of a grand slam. Before Monday, he was the only player to have held a number one ranking who could claim such a record. Nadal refused to be drawn on whether he was affected by injury, but appeared unwilling to slide on his knee and during the final set gingerly tested it several times and appeared to be limping.

“It is not the right day [to talk about it]. I tried my best out there in every moment. The opponent played well, I had my chances. I didn’t make it,” he said.

“The only thing that I can say today is to congratulate Steve Darcis.

He played a fantastic match. Everything that I will say today about my knee is an excuse, and I don’t like to put [forward] any excuse when I’m losing a match like I lost today. He deserves not one excuse.”

Nadal, seeded fifth here following

on and making himself a force to be reckoned with once again.

Hewitt underwent a radical operation in February 2012 when he had bone cut from the big toe of his left foot and two screws and a metal plate permanently locked in.

Hewitt stormed into the second round of Wimbledon, which he won in 2002, in impressive fashion, knocking out Swiss 11th seed Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3, on Monday.

Lu hopes for Murray victory repeat

Rafael Nadal (left) is consoled by Steve Darcis after defeat in their men’s singles first round tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on Monday. REUTERS

his injury problems and scheduled to meet Roger Federer in the quarter-finals, was out for seven months after losing at Wimbledon last year in the second round.

So much of the speculation before this year’s Wimbledon had centred on which side of the draw Nadal would find himself in (Andy Murray’s) and what that meant for the chances of Murray.

All that talk was rendered redun-

dant at the racquet of Darcis, who had never beaten a top-five player in three previous attempts but gave a masterclass in grass court tennis that left Nadal bemused and broken.

Hewitt defies seven surgeons Seven surgeons told Lleyton Hewitt his tennis career was finished if he had an operation on his troublesome toe, but the gritty Australian is merrily defying them by battling

Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun hopes to draw inspiration from his 2008 Olympics victory over Andy Murray when he clashes with the world number two for a place in the Wimbledon third round on Wednesday.

Lu, the world number 75, has no fear of the big stage.

As well as defeating Murray in Beijing, the 29-year-old also stunned three-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick at the All England Club in 2010.

But he admits that Murray, the US Open and 2012 Olympic champion, is a better, wiser player than the man he beat in China.

“It’ll be very tough for me. He has just won Queen’s, and also he’s number two in the world,” said Lu, who made the second round by defeating another Briton, wildcard James Ward, in four sets on Monday.

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SEA Games boost

Cambodian Fed lands six new boat donations

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hokken Narita, executive board member of the International Canoe Federation and president of the Asian Canoe Confederation, donated three canoes and three kayaks to the Cambodian Canoeing Rowing & Traditional Boat Race Federation during a ceremony held yesterday morning at the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters.

During an address, Bun Sok, secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, said the donation of six top-of-the-range racing craft was “very important for the Cambodian Canoeing Rowing & Traditional Boat Race Federation in its preparations for this year’s SEA Games [in Myanmar in December].”

The secretary noted that national teams in canoeing and kayaking had not yet been finalised, with squad members to be selected soon from traditional boat racing crews. Training sessions would be conducted along the Mekong river and Bassac river near Chhroy Changvar peninsular and Takhmao town respectively.

NOCC General Secretary Vath Chamroeun also stated that he was looking for other countries to help host training camps abroad. YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH

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Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews celebrates with the Stanley Cup after his team beat the Boston Bruins in Game Six of their NHL Stanley Cup Final series. REUTERS

National Hockey League season that nearly never was will be remembered as one of the greatest after the Chicago Blackhawks stunned the Boston Bruins on Monday for their second Stanley Cup in four years.

A labour dispute that delayed the start of the season by four months was all but forgotten when the bestof-seven Stanley Cup Final came to a close with a wild Game Six that saw Chicago score 17 seconds apart in the final 76 seconds for a 3-2 win.

For Chicago, it was their third consecutive win and ended a season that began with the team setting an NHL record by going on a remarkable run in which they earned at least one point in their first 24 games.

“It was one of those seasons we were saying, we’re almost charmed

the way we started the season and the way we ended,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville told reporters. “Nobody saw that one coming either way.

“A lot of great things in between, some great challenges in this playoff series or this playoff round, and then let alone the other three [series]. But it was one of those seasons – fairytale ending and an amazing season.”

Chicago winger Patrick Kane was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

While it was a fairytale finish for the Blackhawks, it was a nightmare end to the season for Boston.

Bruins fans had believed the series was headed back to the Madhouse on Madison in Chicago for a winner-takes-all Game Seven after Milan Lucic scored late in the third period to put the Bruins 2-1 ahead.

But with the TD Garden in full

party mode, the Blackhawks staged an improbable rally that is sure to go down as one of the most spectacular comebacks in a Stanley Cup clinching game.

With Chicago goalie Corey Crawford pulled in favour of an extra attacker, Bryan Bickell tied the game with a tap-in from the side of the net moments before Dave Bolland crushed Boston’s dreams when he drove a loose puck into the Bruins goal.

As the final seconds ticked off the clock the Blackhawks players poured off the team bench and tossed their sticks and gloves into the air as the arena fell silent.

By the time the Blackhawks paraded the treasured silver mug around the ice it was to a mostly deserted arena as Bruins fans had no interest in watching their Original Six rivals celebrate. REUTERS