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PM makes rare visit with royals Cheang Sokha and Abby Seiff

LESS than three weeks before voters decide whether he will retain his seat, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday made his first public appearance of the campaign period. After more than a week of restricting his movements to official duties in Phnom Penh, the premier made his way down to Preah Sihanouk province, stopping on the way to greet workers and villagers.

By his side, for the duration of a twoday trip that concludes today, stood a pair of unlikely compatriots: King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath.

“The King and Queen Mother, accompanied by Prime Minister Hun Sen, visited a new rice mill machine in Kandal, then they visited the palm oil farm of Oknha Mong Reththy and looked at some of the products of the company and met workers,” said Kem Gunnawadh, director general of TVK, one of only two media outlets – both government-aligned television stations – permitted to cover the trip.

“In the afternoon of the same day, they visited the port and met about 1,200 port workers.”

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Political eyes on youth vote Kevin Ponniah

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T WILL be the youngest Cambodian election in history. On July 28, more than 3.5 million people between 18 and 30 years of age will have the opportunity to dip their fingers in indelible ink, cast a ballot and vote.

More than 1.5 million of them will do it for the first time, and with many of these new voters likely undecided, political parties are pulling out all the stops to capture the vital demographic.

With far different needs than their parents, however, these voters are looking beyond charismatic speeches and promises of stability.

But be they ruling party youth gyrating to blasting pop songs in central Phnom Penh or teenage garment workers eking out a living at a rural factory, “the youth” are by no means a cohesive unit.

For youngsters like Ou Ritthy, a 26year-old political science graduate who organises informal political discussions in the capital, the election should be less about party shenanigans and more about the issues.

“Even though more youth are participating in politics these days . . . they are still blindly following [the parties],” he said.

“I want everyone around me, youths especially, to know about politics. It’s

very important because we are all in the same boat, and we need to know who the rudder is.”

At Ritthy’s so-called “Politikoffee” meetings, announced via Facebook and Twitter, anywhere from a handful

to several dozen young people gather at a café or public spot for lively, and often contentious, discussion.

Recently, Kem Sokha’s alleged genocide denial comments – and who believes them – were up for analysis.

“The people who live in the rural areas, for example, my father, he thinks [these claims] are true,” 27year-old Ly Malin told the group before Ritthy interrupted and proclaimed that older Cambodians are close-minded.

Malin however, quickly bit back.

“My father is educated. It’s his personal opinion. People who are at the

rural area, they think it’s true, and why [should they] not?”

For this diverse group of youngsters – a teacher, entertainment reporter and even a Ministry of Interior employee were present when the Post attended – discussion is not about parties.

“To us, we don’t discuss whether we support this party or that party, but I think people around us might think [we are opposition] because it’s quite abnormal to talk about politics in a public space,” 31-year-old teacher Chheng Channy said.

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Congressional hearing trains sights on election Abby Seiff

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Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) and King Norodom Sihamoni meet at the Preah Sihanouk autonomous port in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday. stringer

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mark Arbor Day – an annual ceremony presided over by the King but rarely – if ever – attended by Hun Sen. “The tree planting day is being held in Preah Sihanouk, which is far, so the King has to stay overnight and the prime minister has to accompany him,” explained Gunnawadh.

“It is not strange.”

A number of analysts interviewed yesterday respectfully disagreed.

For one, such a trip is all but unprecedented. In January of last year, the premier and King set off on their first joint journey – a two-day bus tour around Mondulkiri province to meet villagers and observe rural development. The Queen Mother and Hun Sen, meanwhile, have never undertaken such travels.

And though there was scant overt campaigning in the course of the day, there could be little doubt that the mere appearance of Hun Sen implied as much, said political analyst Chea Vannath.

“This is happening during the election [campaign] time, so we can speculate that any politician

or political party . . . [would] try to come up with significant and noticeable events.”

Following nearly two decades of rocky relations between the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Hun Sen, the premier has spent much of the last 15 years shoring up at least his perceived relationship with the monarchy. That came to a head upon Sihanouk’s death, after which Hun Sen accompanied the royal family to retrieve the body from Beijing, turned the funeral into a state affair, and even went so far as to make himself the main player in the cremation, claiming that only he had been able to light the funeral pyre thanks to a “miracle” bestowed by Sihanouk.

“This is a new strategy to increase his popularity,” explained political analyst Kem Ley. “[Hun Sen] supports the monarchy, with the understanding that the Cambodian people clearly support the King.”

Whether such a tactic will prove successful is less obvious.

Vannath predicted that the voting populace had grown savvier and “might think that the ruling party is trying to take

advantage of their relationship with the King to come up with the best [campaign strategy] they can.” “[An endorsement] is how the ruling party wants to make that look. But I do not think that the general public thinks that way,” she said.

That very same strategy of involving the monarchy backfired splendidly for the royalist Funcinpec party, pointed out Ley, which failed to “access more popularity”.

Son Soubert, Human Rights Party president and a personal adviser to the King, agreed that voters aren’t likely “to take into account this kind of thing”.

“I’m just sorry for the King and Queen Mother, that they are used by this political party.”

This morning, the trio along with countless other officials will set out to plant saplings.

Almost certainly, as in prior years, they will don special Arbor Day hats and T-shirts.

There is a new insignia this year featuring a hearty young tree.

Above the sapling, sprinkling holy water onto its boughs, floats a familiar angel: the devada from the CPP logo.

HE US Congress is set to hold a hearing today about the Cambodian election and whether the superpower’s foreign aid contributions should be re-examined. The last such hearing was held after the contentious and bloody 1998 elections.

Representatives from Licadho, Human Rights Watch and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) are set to testify, along with the CEO of an emerging markets investment firm called SRP International Group, according to the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Titled none-too-subtly Cambodia’s Looming Political and Social Crisis, the hearing by the Asia-Pacific subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee comes barely a month after a pair of US senators urged that aid outlays be reconsidered.

Licadho director Naly Pilorge said her group’s five-minute statement would focus on the human rights situation more broadly, including “land grabbing and impunity”.

“Basically, it’s the information we’ve always been saying over the past year, though there’s a bit more emphasis on the election since it’s coming up,” she said.

Laura Thornton, NDI senior director, said the election watchdog’s testimony would primarily focus on the Voter Registry Audit. The audit, carried out earlier this year by NDI and the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections, found fundamental flaws in the voter list including that more than 10 per cent of eligible voters who believed they had been registered were left off the list.

In a resolution proposed last

US chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, last month. reuters

month by senators Mark Rubio and Lindsey Graham, the pair called for greater accountability and said if the elections go ahead without significant changes – including the participation of opposition leader Sam Rainsy – US government agencies should “reassess and reduce assistance for Cambodia”, and encourage foreign institutions to follow suit.

The US government has been one of Cambodia’s largest bilateral donors since 1993, and $73.5 million in aid and military assistance has been earmarked for next year alone.

Human Rights Watch Asia Advocacy director John Sifton, one of the four set to testify, said he was fairly confident the hearing would result in a cut to military assistance and direct bilateral aid.

“I think the prospects are very good. Congress is definitely moving forward legislating a cut toward assistance to Cambodia,” he said.

Among the recommendations HRW would present was a call for “the US government to disassociate from Hun Sen”.

“Hun Sen uses his supposed friendship with the US as a shield and a weapon,” he added.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong did not respond to questions regarding how such a hearing could affect diplomatic relationships, but Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan insisted the hearing was simply a façade for the US government to retain more control of Cambodia as a counter to China’s growing influence in the region.

“They should not insult Cambodia like that . . . They shouldn’t use Cambodia as a battleground like they did in 1970,” he said, adding that the hearing was part of a larger anti-Cambodia campaign which threatened to loosen the strong ties between the two nations.

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OLICE will immediately arrest opposition leader Sam Rainsy if he returns to Cambodia as he has vowed to do before the election, a message posted on the National Police website declared yesterday.

The self-exiled Cambodia National Rescue Party leader and his senior party members have declared Rainsy will definitely return to Cambodia, despite facing more than a decade in jail terms, before the July 28 poll.

But the CNRP have refused to commit to an exact date when Rainsy will return, saying the decision must be decided by the party’s permanent committee, which has been unable to meet yet despite news of the opposition leader’s bold gesture filtering out as early as last Friday.

A message posted on the National Police website quoting spokesman Kirt Chantharith said police would enforce existing warrants against Rainsy.

“So far, [we] have not known whether or not he will come. But in the case that Mr Sam Rainsy really comes, the National Police, which is the executive law [enforcement] institution, has no choice beside enforcing the

Sam Rainsy Party supporters participate in a political rally in Phnom Penh last year. heng Chivoan

warrant of the court,” Chantharith was quoted as saying.

On June 13, Rainsy wrote directly to King Norodom Sihamoni requesting the monarch enact his powers to pardon Rainsy from convictions for uprooting demarcation posts on the Vietnamese border, producing maps claiming territorial encroachment and defaming Foreign Minister Hor Namhong.

In that letter, Rainsy wrote that he had interpreted two speeches Prime Minister Hun Sen gave in early June as the premier signalling he was seeking a political compromise to the CNRP leader’s effective expulsion from the elections.

Rainsy continued yesterday to ignore questions from reporters, and no one from his party would be drawn on when

the opposition leader would actually return.

CNRP public affairs head Mu Sochua said the party would announce the date Rainsy would return after the permanent committee met, but declined to specify when that might happen.

“At this moment, we are ready.

This is very serious and we will implement it,” she said.

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said yesterday he was unaware of any efforts by Rainsy to seek a compromise with Prime Minister Hun Sen, but was aware the opposition leader had written to the King. “That’s the game of Sam Rainsy trying to manipulate the King,” he said.

Sok Sam Ouen, Cambodia’s leading legal aid lawyer, said the King could legally pardon Rainsy independently of the government, though to do so was contrary to general procedures and highly unlikely.

Rainsy has long lobbied the international community to intervene on his behalf and declare any election in which he cannot participate invalid.

Yesterday, he sent a letter to 18 countries that were signatories to the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements, imploring them to remain committed to the values of human rights, democracy and rule of law enshrined in that document.

US Embassy spokesman Sean McIntosh wrote in an email yesterday: “We believe free and fair elections require . . . the unfettered participation of opposition parties, including one of the leading opposition leaders.”

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Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge yesterday sentenced a woman to life in prison for the high-profile kidnapping and strangling death of a promising young model last year.

In addition to the life sentence, Judge Suos Sam Ath ordered Sun Kimheng, 23, to pay $28,000 to the family of Lim Srey Pich, the 19-year-old model Kimheng was convicted of kidnapping and killing last October.

The murder occurred less than a month after Srey Pich – also known as Lim Yurimey – the daughter of a wealthy car dealer, won a contest to become the face of Spy Wine Coolers.

Kimheng befriended Srey Pich through Facebook, and lured her to her house in Chamkarmon district, where she strangled her with wire before dumping her body at a pagoda about 35 kilometres outside Phnom Penh on October 25.

After killing her, Kimheng used the victim’s mobile phone to text her parents and demand a $50,000 ransom.

Kimheng can appeal the decision, Sam Ath said. Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

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Like many young voters, the group isn’t particularly inspired by either party and say they will likely vote for the “least bad” choice.

“Older people usually have their own party . . . so it’s not easy to persuade them to change.

Whereas youth voters are undecided, so they are able to make a decision [specifically] for this election,” Koul Panha, director at election monitoring organisation Comfrel, said.

The parties According to political analyst Kem Ley, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has the edge in youth campaigning as they have access to “existing structures”, including universities, political institutions and huge youth associations ranging from scouts on up.

Thousands of young and highly educated students have joined Hun Sen’s land titling volunteer scheme during the past year, while tens of thousands have served as members of the boy and girl scouts, Red Cross youth, and similar organisations.

While powerful, however, such institutions hardly guarantee party loyalty. Nak Piseth Pichey, a medical graduate and former Hun Sen volunteer who spent six months in the provinces measuring villagers’ land, freely admits that some volunteers used the opportunity to find a job.

The program, he noted, inherently drummed up support for the ruling party, but volunteers were never asked to vote for the CPP. “It was out of my own heart and no one forced me to go, I wanted to help villagers . . . Yes, of course I supported this positive policy of the government… but if it did not benefit villagers, I would not volunteer.”

But whether or not youth capitalise on the subtle opportunities available in such organisations, it is clear, said Ley, that “the opposition cannot use government structures to connect with youth at all.”

Kem Monovithya, deputy director of Cambodia National Rescue Party public affairs, which runs the youth wing, said however, that her party is seeing unprecedented youth support

thanks to policies on education and jobs.

“They think that the CNRP has more substance than before, and the issues we talk about now actually target young people . . . It’s actually cool now to be a CNRP youth,” she said.

Without access to youth through mainstream media or universities, Facebook and informal networks have been the biggest factor in drawing young voters to the party, she added.

“I think it’s safe to say that the CNRP has completely taken over Facebook.”

Echoing a sentiment expressed by many observers, Monovithya added that youth join the CPP for “personal privilege”.

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son, Hun Many, who heads the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia – the CPP’s largest youth group – declined to comment for this article.

A number of calls and requests for comment from the UYFC were also declined.

Chea Chheng, 23, an active CPP member who gained notoriety on social media after leading a protest against UN human rights envoy Surya Subedi at a public lecture in May, dismissed the idea that youth join the CPP for privileges.

“As a youth supporting the CPP, I dare to say that everyone wants a bright future and wants society to progress. So if youths believe in the CPP…what the youth will get is a leader who develops the nation.”

He adds that political stability, economic growth and the protection of the monarchy are the key reasons he supports the party, adding that youths joining the CPP campaign get no more than food and water in a “spirit of sharing” at party rallies.

The provinces Although no party could be said to have “captured” the youth vote, the CNRP are likely to gain more votes from young people this election, Kem Ley said.

“But in the rural areas, the remote areas . . . the poor people will probably still vote for the CPP.” The split between educated, Facebook-using, urban-dwelling youth and their rural coun-

Ou Ritthy, 26, leads a nonpartisan political round table discussion with peers at the BBC café in Phnom Penh on Sunday.

terparts is stark – at least on the surface.

A 2011 UNDP study found that just 3.4 per cent of young people nationwide were political party members.

In comparison, a 2012 National Youth Forum survey specifically targeting higher-educated youth found that 68 per cent of them were involved with political parties.

But more young people like Kert Sany, 16, an ethnic Kreung minority from Ratanakkiri province who travelled to Phnom Penh for an NGO-run citizen journalism course, are getting involved because of local issues affecting their communities.

Sany said she started to pay attention to politics when her community began having problems with economic land concessionaires, and now she brings news to older villagers who do not understand Khmer.

“I do not support any party, but I love to listen to all parties’ policies. I will wait and see whether they keep their promises after the election, and then I can decide which party is good and which party is bad,” the future voter said.

According to Chheang Sokha, president of the non-aligned Youth Resource Development Program, although youth interest in politics has surged for this election, many of whom have left their hometowns for work will be unable to return to vote.

A CPP youth member attends a poltical rally in Phnom Penh last week. hong menea

Young CNRP supporters rally through the streets of Phnom Penh on Thursday.

Comfrel statistics show that logistical and registration issues were the main reasons why only 65 per cent of youths turned out to vote in the 2012 commune elections.

A political awakening?

Whether the rise in political interest necessarily means an increase in youth civic engagement, however, is another matter.

A 2010 United Nations Development Program survey commissioned by BBC Media Action found that although threequarters of young people had heard of democracy, the same proportion of them could not say what it meant.

Of those who could, neither elections nor voting were mentioned.

An additional 60 per cent said they had never discussed political issues with anyone and 92 per cent had never voiced their opinion to a public official.

The youth who took part in that survey are likely to be part of the huge numbers of newly eligible young people allowed to vote in this election, said Colin Spurway, project director at BBC Media Action.

His organisation produced Loy 9 – a hugely popular television show aimed at 15- to 24-year-olds that pushes themes of democratic respon-

sibility and civic engagement – directly in response to the 2010 UNDP survey.

The show, recently renewed for a third series, uses a blend of entertainment and education to reach the nearly four million young Cambodians who aren’t part of the urban class.

“We’re aiming at people who’ve spent all day since 5am in a paddy field . . . those people are not looking for a detailed representation of the constitutional council . . . they just need to know that a member of the National Assembly represents [them],” Spurway said.

While Loy 9 focuses on the “basic facts and perceptions of civic engagement” and has never mentioned any political parties, Spurway said there’s little doubt politics is considered a “dangerous” thing to be involved with.

“It is clear that the older generation generally regards it as a dangerous, dirty game and they discourage youth from getting involved.”

Sokha agrees that compared to their parents, young Cambodians born after 1979 are more willing to speak out.

“Young people are smarter in observing the policies of the political parties. They do not just listen to the way [politicians] speak . . . They don’t look

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at the past so much. They look at the future.”

The level of political discussion amongst young Cambodians may remain fairly limited, said Ritthy, the political science graduate. But at least it’s a start.

He cites the example of Chheng and other student protesters at Subedi’s lecture – a video of which went viral on Facebook and kicked off a storm of political discussion.

“Because of [Subedi] and the protest, a lot of youth on Facebook were very curious . . . I have never seen many youths posting videos talking about politics . . . But this time youth labourers, farmers, students, they all put up videos because of the Subedi event,” Ritthy said. “[There is little] constructive criticism . . . but it is good that they come to this [first] stage . . .

It’s much better than before.”

But for many of Ritthy’s generation, the tired faces of decades-old political leaders are simply uninspiring.

“This is the main thing. Cambodian youth lack political icons and political idols to follow . . . It’s different than Myanmar, where you have Aung San Suu Kyi to inspire. In Cambodia, we don’t have these kinds of people – they are not inspiring.”

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Germans in poster pinch Nuon Chea’s defence Kevin Ponniah

A group of young Germans were questioned by police early on Saturday morning after removing Cambodian People’s Party election posters in Phnom Penh, the German Embassy confirmed yesterday.

Horst Triller, first secretary and deputy head of mission at the embassy, said six German nationals volunteering in the Kingdom were “confronted” by police in Tuol Tumpong district in the early hours.

“At around 1am, these young people . . . after a party . . . thought they were unobserved and had the brilliant idea in a foreign country to tear down election material,” he said.

Spotted by a security guard who called the police, the group was taken to the police station for questioning until 3am, he added, after which they were released with their passports.

According to Triller, although the Germans’ personal data was recorded and they were given a strong warning, no charges have been laid and they do not require consular assistance.

The group, three of whom were placed at the German government-owned German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), are “free” and have “nothing to fear”, Triller said.

A number of police officials denied knowledge of the case yesterday.

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secretary-general Tep Nytha said that, if it was not an election complaint, the group could be charged with the destruction of someone’s property.

GIZ director Adelbert Eberhardt declined to comment on whether his organisation had advised its volunteers to leave the country.

Triller confirmed that immigration authorities have said the group will be allowed to leave the country, although the embassy has not directly advised it.

“I understand they are pretty much in shock . . . I can imagine one or another will decide to leave earlier. I’m sure they are considering it,” he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MAY TITTHARA

CPP wife beaten by husband Cheang Sokha

POLICE in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district arrested an opposition-friendly husband on Sunday after a “war of words” with his ruling partyminded wife turned physical, police said yesterday.

Romeas Hek district police chief Sam Sam Ol, said that his officers arrested Pov Mae, 40 – a man with a history of drunken domestic altercations with his wife – after he allegedly used a

stick to badly beat her during an argument on Sunday night.

“He got drunk and beat his wife on the head with a stick after having a war of words,” Sam Ol said. “He was arrested on the [preliminary] charge of intentional violence.”

According to Sam Ol, Mae had been a Cambodian People’s Party supporter but had jumped ship after several runins with local CPP-affiliated authorities over his numerous domestic disputes, including

when he tried to burn his house down several months ago.

It was unclear whether the two had been talking politics when the alleged beating occurred, but Sam Ol said that Mae was known to argue with his wife after she attended CPP rallies.

Sam Ol said that Mae’s wife was receiving treatment at the district referral hospital.

Riel Khemarin, a local Cambodia National Rescue Party official, said that Mae wasn’t officially a CNRP member.

Police colonel charged in scuffle Cheang Sokha

TYCOON and military police colonel Khy Kimlon with charged yesterday with illegally discharging his firearm into the air during a scuffle between pro-ruling party guests at his home and pro-opposition campaigners parading down his street, a Phnom Penh Municipal Court official said.

Court prosecutor Meas Chanpisith confirmed that he had charged Kimlon but had decided to release his nephew, fellow military police officer Ung Chanthan, after finding he wasn’t directly involved in Friday’s shooting.

“According to the law,” Chanpisith said, “[Kimlon] could face between one and three

years in jail if convicted. Chanpisith added that he had also issued charges for the unknown opposition supporters who damaged Kimlon’s property when their group began exchanging volleys of debris with Kimlon’s guests over the wall of his villa.

Pou Davy, the deputy military police commander who arrested Kimlon, said that the tycoon’s actions had been inappropriate.

“He has the right to carry a gun, but he used it at the wrong time,” Davy said.

Opposition spokesman Yim Sovann said that his party would let the court do its job and welcomed any prosecution against those who had damaged property.

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he defence team of Nuon Chea yesterday challenged the value of several pieces of documentation the prosecution presented to the tribunal late last month.

Co-counsel Victor Koppe asserted that the material – including sections from journalist Thet Sambath’s 2009 documentary Enemies of the People and book Behind the Killing Fields, which include interviews with Nuon Chea – offered no evidence of co-

Chea says in the film. “If I had known then, we would have taken preventative measures to stop that kind of thing.

They’d done nothing wrong; they were normal soldiers, no different from ordinary people.”

On the prosecution’s insistence, however, the court continued the clip to show Nuon Chea stating that the top Lon Nol officers “were to be liquidated. They deserved the severest penalty; they’d betrayed the nation to foreigners”.

The prosecution thinks that Nuon Chea was fairly honest in this video ordinated policies to kill Lon Nol soldiers or force people to marry, as the prosecution had alleged.

To support his claims, Koppe asked the court to play a clip of the film in which Sambath asks Nuon Chea about the killings of defeated Lon Nol soldiers.

“At the time, I didn’t know at all about these killings,” Nuon

“I would like to remind the chamber,” Koppe said, “that the prosecution thinks Nuon Chea was fairly honest in this video.”

He added that his client, who he noted turned 87 on Sunday, “never knew this [interview] was going to be public”.

Koppe claimed the prosecution was framing the soldiers’ killings, which he attributed

to cadres acting independently, so as to “manufacture an impression that this practice was so widespread that it must have been pursuant to a policy”.

In reality, Khmer Rouge statements against allegedly targeted groups were no more than wartime rhetoric, he said, likening them to statements by former US president George W Bush during the war on terror. The court sustained the prosecution’s objections that these comparisons were not relevant.

Koppe also argued that none of the prosecution’s documents demonstrated a policy of forced marriages, adding that such a policy was unlikely to increase the population, the rationale the prosecution suggested.

Nuon Chea co-counsel Son Arun also contested alleged evidence that Chea had significant leadership in the military and said Nuon Chea was “baffled” by the assertion that he had been acting prime minister for a year.

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In brief Khieu Samphan defence team hits back at court

THE KHIEU Samphan defence yesterday responded to a litany of perceived violations of its client’s rights by saying that Samphan would refuse to answer any questions from parties or judges as Case 002/01 draws to a close. “In such conditions, it seems established that before this Chamber, the lawyers of the defence are tolerated as window dressing ‘for the gallery’. . . in the sole interest of legitimising a simulacrum of a criminal trial,” the defence’s filing reads. “In these conditions . . . He will limit himself to making a declaration at the end of the trial.” Samphan defender Arthur Vercken was censured yesterday for being “rude” in his refusal to stand as judges left the courtroom on Thursday – an action he characterised as a silent protest against having his microphone cut during a response. stuart white

Notorious ex-military cop charged in R’kiri

INFAMOUS former military policeman Sath Soeun, 51, who was arrested in Ratanakkiri on Saturday for allegedly firing a dozen shots outside a karaoke parlour, was charged yesterday and sent to pre-trial detention, court officials said. Ratanakkiri Provincial Court judge Ros Sarom said that Soeun had been charged with the illegal use of a weapon. According to military police officials, Soeun was visiting a karaoke parlour in Banlung district on Saturday when he was told his preferred hostess was not there, walked outside and fired 13 shots into the air. Soeun has been linked to a violent slew of past crimes including a 1995 point-blank shooting of a 16-year-old thief. kim sarom

Local journalist shot in the head in Kampot

A journalist was shot to death early on Monday morning in an apparent motorbike robbery, authorities said yesterday.

Smorng Om, a 36-year-old reporter for the monthly Neak Moeul Plauv newspaper, was shot in the head about 1am on Monday while on his way home, Kampot police chief Moa Makthurith said. Police found an intact AK-47 bullet at the scene and believe the shooting occurred during a robbery as his bike was stolen. Neak Moeul Plauv’s managing editor Tem Vandara told police that although Om had threats and at least one physical altercation stemming from previous reporting in Preah Vihear, he had not written any recent stories. kim sarom

PM offers $300k in fire repairs Thik Kaliyann Siem Reap town

Quiet ride turns to scary ordeal, distressing walk A vendor sorts through remains of the Doeum Kralanh market in Siem Reap on Friday.

the 316 destroyed stalls, explaining the damage caused and Hun Sen’s offer of $300,000 for the rebuilding of the market.

“The damages total to about $1.1 million,” Bun Song said.

“We went to the market today to spread our Prime Minister’s words to the vendors. [Hun Sen] announced and ordered

authorities to have a look and rebuild this market again after vendors seek assistance from him.”

Bun Song said officials are meeting to discuss a starting date for the rebuilding today.

At least one vendor was pleased by the news yesterday, but suggested nonetheless that

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the governor find a new owner for the market.

“The [current] owner always thinks about money more than our safety, and she never listens to our suggestions about the dangerously unorganised electricity cables in the whole market,” said a vendor who asked to be identified only as Doeun.

Families complain governor’s crooked Phak Seangly

MORE than 30 families evicted from a former airport site in Preah Vihear province’s Chea Ksan district have filed four complaints with the provincial court since April against district governor Sok Hay. Lor Chan, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said a total of 31 families had filed four complaints to his office, requesting Hay be sued.

“Three lawsuits relate to corruption and another accuses him of destroying property and entering a home without permission,” Lor Chan said.

Tin Sovannara, 41, representative of 25 families, filed a complaint in May after the families were evicted from their homes at the former airport site.

Presence at party gives birthday boy wrong idea

A 27-YEAR-OLD man trying to defend the honour of his girlfriend picked the wrong fight in Kampong Cham town on Sunday. According to police, the man took his lady to a friend’s birthday party, only to find that the birthday boy had designs on his girl. Fists started flying, and three cops showed up to keep the peace. The suspect, however, allegedly turned his ire on the cops, slightly injuring one.

The other two stepped in, and locked him up. The man reportedly confessed – blaming intoxication – and was sent to court. Koh santepheap

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RIME Minister Hun Sen has offered $300,000 for the reconstruction of the Doeum Kralanh market in Siem Reap after a Saturday morning electrical fire destroyed more than 300 of the market’s 600 vendor stalls, causing damages exceeding $1 million.

Tith Narong, Siem Reap city police chief, said firemen used 10 fire trucks to control the blaze, and that the fire – which began about 1am – was finally extinguished at 5am.

The incident at Doeum Kralanh is the third recent market fire caused by faulty electrical wiring. In 2011, Siem Reap River market caught fire, causing damage to more than 30 storefronts. In December last year, eight people lost their lives when the Siem Reap night market burst into flames in the middle of the night, inflicting serious injuries on two others.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire on Saturday, Khim Bun Song said. The governor met with the 157 owners of

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Families affected by land disputes and corruption in Preah Vihear’s Chea Ksan district appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene in Phnom Penh last year. Phak Seangly

“More than 90 families live in the area, but 18 families were given land, and more than 50 other families are allowed to continue living

there,” he said. “Why evict only us?” The last complaint was filed to the court last week by Say Pheary, 28.

Obtained yesterday, the com-

plaint accuses Hay of leading authorities to raid her home for luxury-grade timber.

“We ask for $1,000 compensation and for the offenders to be brought to justice,” the complaint says.

Hay, the district governor, rejected the allegations, saying he had not raided homes and was not corrupt.

“Villagers grabbed and lived on the airport land illegally. Authorities with the court took action against them,” he said.

Long Sitha, deputy chief of the provincial court, said he had received two of the complaints.

One had been withdrawn and another given to the Anti-Corruption Unit for investigation.

Families travelled to Phnom Penh in April seeking the prime minister’s intervention.

Hundreds demonstrate on activist’s behalf May Titthara

TWO days before a land activist’s scheduled sentencing, about 400 people affected by land grabs demonstrated at Pursat Provincial Court in support of the man who frequently protests against the Pheap Imex Company.

Kuch Veng, who last appeared in court on May 21, is charged with fraud for allegedly misappropriating funds donated by other villagers. The previous charge of incitement was dropped.

Villagers yesterday converged on Pursat, setting up tents under a bridge near the courthouse. They plan on marching to the court’s fence today and delivering a letter notifying the public of

what they say are unfair charges against Veng, said Lon Sivy, a Kbal Trach community representative.

“The court changed the charge from incitement to fraud because [the favouritism] is so clear,” Sivy said. “They want to threaten us and not allow us to protest Pheap Imex.”

Veng frequently leads villagers in protesting Pheap Imex’s clearing of farm land. The company is owned by Chheuong Seopheap, wife of Cambodia People’s Party Senator Lao Mengkhim.

About 12,000 families are now involved in land disputes around a Pheap Imex economic land concession that spans more than 315,000 hectares.

IN THE first of a rash of armed robberies over the weekend, three men robbed a woman of her moto at gunpoint in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district on Saturday. Police said the woman was driving in a quiet place when the three men appeared, allegedly waving a gun and demanding the bike. The victim told police she was petrified, but finally managed to muster a shout for help. Nearby police heard the cries, chased the trio down and clapped them in irons. Kampuchea thmey

Fishy business as four rob angler, evade police net THREE more gunmen, along with an accomplice, are suspected of robbing a fisherman in Kampot on Sunday. According to police, the victim reported being approached by four masked men, three of them armed, who demanded his valuables. Unsure whether the guns were real or fake, the man forked over a ring and a necklace, calling police after the men fled. Police arrived too late to make the collar, but are seeking the quartet, who they believe to be repeat offenders. rasmey kampuchea

Masked men spared a familiar face: victim FINALLY, three masked men, one armed with a gun, tried to rob a farmer in Kampong Cham’s Memot district while she was home alone on Sunday. According to police, the trio barged into the house, brandishing the gun and demanding cash. The men repeated their threat several times, but finally fled, exasperated, when the woman insisted she had no money. The victim told police that the men must have known her, otherwise she would have been shot. koh santepheap

Hit-and-run, payout offer floor motodop IN A rare taste of justice for hitand-run victims, police apprehended a driver who badly injured a motodop in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district on Saturday. Police said that after driving his car into the moto driver, the man allegedly hightailed it without so much as offering to take the man to the hospital. Police gave chase just in time, and arrested the suspect, who confessed and offered to compensate the victim. Kampuchea Thmey Translated by Sen David

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cleda Bank is trying to protect its customers from getting bamboozled by a phone scam in which callers allegedly posing as bank employees ask for money transfers in exchange for a prize, according to a statement and ads placed in a local newspaper.

“We would like to announce to all valued customers and the public that, recently, some cheats prove themself [sic] to be staff of Acleda Bank or use Acleda Bank’s name to contact you via phone or other ways,” read an alert dated July 1

and posted on the bank’s official website. “Acleda Bank does not have any program to provide lucky draw or prize to customers and the public,” it added.

In Channy, CEO and president of the bank, could not be reached for comment yesterday, and So Phonnary, executive vice-president, did not immediately respond to questions about how much money was stolen during the alleged scam, or whether there was an investigation under way to catch those said to be posing as staff.

An Acleda employee reached yesterday, who declined to give his name as he was not authorised to

speak to the media, said that Acleda had received dozens of reports from customers over the past two months regarding the ruse, and the bank had not provided compensation.

“They just tell us [about losing their money] and then they go and cry,” he said.

Such scams are not unique, with hoax emails requesting help or promising larger returns and gifts emanating from all over the world.

Anthony Perkins, the CEO of Cambodian mobile payment service provider Wing, said that prior to security enhancements made earlier this year, Wing had experienced “quite a few cases” of similar attacks.

“Customers are sending $100 maybe $200 through Wing and then what they are promised in return varies from cash transferred through a bank” or a prize, he said.

Perkins said agent training and system upgrades had curbed the threat of criminal activity, “Whenever they are assisting a customer to send money [agents were taught] to ask ‘what is the purpose?’, ‘do you know the recipient?’ and we have managed to foil quite a few cases,” he said.

Perkins added that Wing had also updated its system so that the person sending funds must also specify the phone number

of the customer that is going to come and collect it, and the customer who is coming to collect must show that they are holding the right phone.”

During the peak of its confrontations with fraud, Wing worked with the authorities, and scammers were caught and charged.

“We did have some experience previously working with the police to actually identify individuals and in some cases we have got CCTV footage that did lead to prosecution in about seven or eight cases, with issues dating back to January or February,” he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LAURA MA

Goods traffic through Phnom Penh port up 29 pct Rann Reuy

CARGO shipments moving in and out of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) increased 29 per cent in the first six months of this year when compared to the same period in 2012, according to official data.

The figures show that imported and exported goods amounted to about 50,000 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, for the six month period. Last year the port recorded a little under 39,160 TEUs. The port cooperated with Vietnam’s Cai Mep

port to transfer goods from Cambodia to other countries, particularly in shipments to and from Chinese markets.

There was a slight deficit between imports (about 190,000 tonnes) and exports (about 167,000 tonnes), according to the data.

Sin Chanthy, general secretary of Cambodia Freight Forwarders Association and the director general of Linelhaul Express Co Ltd, said transportation of goods through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port is increasing due to demand from local markets and abroad.

Construction materials, especially steel and

supplies of raw materials for the textile industry, made of the majority of imports.

Agricultural products like milled rice dominated exports.

Cambodia’s vast quantity of garment exports and other items destined for the European markets typically travel through the Sihanoukville port.

Chanthy noted that most of the PPAP traffic transport is connected with markets in China, which relies on the Vietnam Port to move goods.

“I think that, although this is high growth in

transportation activities in PPAP, the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port is still more active and busier.”

Lim Bun Heng, President of Loran Company, a rice export company to international markets, said small amounts of his goods, about only about 10 per cent, crossed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port for export to China or Hong Kong.

“Phnom Penh Port is still important and could get even busier if markets in China start ordering more goods from Cambodia,” he said.

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Business Asiana’s reputation scrutinised following San Francisco crash

In Thailand, household debt is on the rise, thanks to easy credit

Jung Hawon

Oranan Paweewun

SOUTH Korea’s number two airline Asiana has spent years trying to build a reputation for safety and quality but the San Francisco crash could tarnish its image, business analysts said yesterday as the carrier’s share price dived.

But aviation experts said the damage to its business would probably be limited, even though suspicion is focusing on pilot error as the cause of Saturday’s accident.

South Korea’s two major carriers -- Asiana and flag carrier Korean Air -- made strenuous efforts to improve safety, bringing in overseas experts, after what one expert called a “terrible period” in the later decades of the 20th century.

The crash, which killed two teenage Chinese passengers and injured 182 other people when the plane touched down short of the runway, was Asiana’s first fatal passenger jet crash since 1993. Korean Air’s last deadly passenger jet crash was in 1997.

Asiana’s share price tumbled yesterday, losing 5.76 per cent to 4,825 won ($4.20) as investors digested the impact of the accident.

“You can’t rule out the possibility that such a fatal accident that hurts the firm’s reputation will sap demand for Asiana’s services down the road,” HMC Investment Securities analyst Kang Dong-jin said.

Potentially huge insurance payouts to victims and for the aircraft will raise future premiums and increase financial burdens, he added.

US investigators said the Boeing 777 was travelling much slower than recommended on final approach, and a pilot asked to abort the landing moments before the plane’s tail smashed into the ground.

The flight data recorder

also showed that as the 777 approached the runway its pilots were warned that the aircraft was likely to stall, said US National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Deborah Hersman.

The request to abort the landing was captured on the cockpit voice recorder 1.5 seconds before the crash, Hersman said.

Asiana said the troubled plane was controlled all the way through to landing by a pilot who was undergoing training on a 777.

Lee Kang-Kuk, 46, had only 43 hours of experience in handling this type of aircraft but is a skilled pilot with more than 9,000 flying hours, it said. And Lee was accompanied by an experienced co-pilot, it added.

South Korea’s transport ministry said it could take months to identify the cause of the accident, even though an initial inspection showed the tail struck a sea wall at the end of the runway.

While Korean carriers had a “terrible period” of accidents in previous decades, “in the past 10 years their record has been pretty good”, said Tom Ballantyne, chief correspondent of Orient Aviation magazine.

The fact that an Asiana pilot under training for 777 aircraft was landing the plane was “very normal”, he said. Combined, the pilots had “thousands of hours’ experience in the cockpit”.

Ballantyne said it was “pretty certain” from the debris field that the plane’s tail hit the sea wall and that the evidence pointed to “misjudgment by the person operating the aircraft”.

But Ballantyne said the Asiana cabin crew should take credit for the speedy evacuation of the plane, a point made by passengers. AFP

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OW interest rates for an extended period and easy credit are encouraging Thai households to sink deeper into debt.

Households are vulnerable to the interest rate hike cycle and economic downturn environments, as most of their household debt service ratio is reaching or even exceeds the 40 per cent threshold.

The household debt service ratio is the percentage of monthly debt payments to gross disposable income. To service debt comfortably even amid financial hardship and in order to qualify for borrowing loans from financial institutions, monthly debt payment obligations should not exceed 40 per cent of one’s regular monthly disposable income.

But amid growing economic uncertainty, the Thai Financial Planners Association suggests people be more conservative by capping the maximum debt service ratio at 36 per cent.

The Bank of Thailand has been sounding alarm bells about swelling household debt, and borrowers at the bottom end of the income scale – those making less than 15,000 baht ($476) a month – are the biggest concern. But people are still keen on borrowing. Puntakij Sirisansern, 36, a bus driver for a small garment company, is typical of low-income earners who are saddled with a big debt load. He and his wife earn a combined 25,000 to 26,000 baht a month, and his family, which includes a four-year-old, has hardly anything left for savings at the end of each month.

He is seeking either a personal or a hire purchase loan to buy a new mobile worth 6,000 to 7,000 baht despite to date having paid only two instalments of 4,080 baht a month on a 12-month motorcycle loan.

An ad for personal loans is seen on a phone booth in Bangkok on Saturday. The Thai Financial Planners Association has urged monthly debt payments be no more than 36 per cent of disposable income. bangkok post

His family also pays 2,500 baht a month for rent.

“A motorcycle is essential. I drive it to work and elsewhere.

That’s my biggest debt now,” Puntakij said.

And it is not just low-paid workers who get caught on the debt spiral. Middle-class professionals also risk becoming mired in the debt trap.

Suphot Paisarnkij, 33, an employee at an IT outsourcing company, and his wife now pay 26,000 baht a month on their mortgage and 7,600 baht a month on a car loan out of a combined monthly income of about 80,000 baht.

He bought a new car worth 523,000 baht in late 2011, paying 40 per cent as a down payment and taking out a four-year loan for the rest, and a new 3.8million-baht house this year with no down payment.

“I already planned to buy a car, but the government’s tax rebate scheme for first-time car buyers encouraged me to speed

up the purchase,” he said.

Travelling expenses before and after buying the car are about the same, as he and his wife frequently took a taxi home after working late at night before they had their own wheels.

About 1.2 million new cars were registered at the Excise Department for the tax rebate under the government’s firsttime car buyer programme. The scheme, while helping to boost domestic consumption and new-car sales, has also been blamed for being a major cause of rising household debt.

Prasarn Trairatvorakul, governor of the Bank of Thailand, last month expressed concern about household debt increasing so rapidly.

A recent University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce survey of 1,200 respondents regarding household debt also underscored the central bank’s worries. Some 64.5 per cent had average household debt of 188,774 baht, up by 12 per cent

from a year before and 147,542 baht in 2009.

Suphot said due to concerns about his ability to afford his mortgage payments, he and his wife have tightened theirexpenses by not dining out as often as they used to.

“I don’t want to run up any more debt if it’s not necessary,” he said.

But at least the central bank’s warning has paid off in the case of one unnamed employee at a media company who seems financially precocious. She said she bought a 550,000-baht new car last month with a 60-month car loan after she was confident ofstill having 12,000 a month left for savings after expenses and loan payment.

“I won’t purchase my own home as long as my monthly salary remains less than 70,000 baht a month,” said the employee, who is single. She added that she pays 4,000 baht in rent for her apartment, not counting utilities. BANGKOK POST

Delta Air eyes Asia-Pacific for expansion ASIA-Pacific has become one of the growth engines for Delta Air Lines, which is contemplating more services to the region from its expanded base at New York’s JFK International Airport.

The higher economic growth in many Asian countries compared with Europe and the United States is creating a lot of demand for travel from East to West.

“We’re looking to add more frequencies and routes to Asia -acific. JFK International Airport will be the gateway to Asia,” said Delta CEO Richard Anderson.

Delta on May 24 opened its new Terminal 4 expansion at JFK, where Terminal 3 had served as its hub on the east coast of the United States for 45 years. The new facility will help it reach more Asia-Pacific destinations.

The Terminal 4 project represents an investment of $1.4 billion for Delta, which also has terminals in Seattle and Detroit.

In the United States, the cost of building terminals is often borne by airlines either entirely or in conjunction with airport operating companies.

The complex known as Terminal 4 is in fact 12 years old and was built on the site of the old International Arrivals Building.

The makeover by Delta involved a

32,000-square-metre expansion of Concourse B to bring the terminal’s totalspace to 187,000 square metres, one of the largest in North America.

Terminal 4 is home to numerous airlines including Delta, El Al, Emirates, Etihad, KLM, Singapore, Swiss, and Transaero, but Delta is by far its largest user, serving 11 million passengers per year. The existing Terminal 3 will be demolished and used for aircraft parking eventually.

Delta’s revenue from Asia-Pacific in 2009 was $2.4 billion. The number grew to more than $4 billion in 2012 Anderson said the airline was looking to increase flight capacities to China and Hong Kong over the next three to five years. Non-stop flights from the US east coast to Asian destinations are also being considered.

Delta has used Japan as its hub in AsiaPacific for decades. It operates 14 daily flights from Japan to the US mainland.

Most travellers from Southeast Asian countries including Thailand fly to Japan

to connect to the US. The American carrier currently flies to Beijing and Shanghai via its Asia-Pacific hub in Japan. However, on June 17 it began direct nonstop flights between Seattle and Shanghai. It also offers nonstop flights from Seattle to Beijing, Osaka, Tokyo-Narita and Tokyo-Haneda.

Although China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are all targets for expansion, Anderson said Japan would remain its hub in Asia, despite the flat growth of in US-Japan travel.

Vinay Dube, senior vice-president for AsiaPacific, said gross domestic product growth in Asian countries was directlycorrelated with increasing travel demand, which has been reflected in Delta’s revenue.

“Delta’s revenue from Asia-Pacific in 2009 was $2.4 billion. The number grew to more than $4 billion in 2012, which was 67-68 per cent growth for the past three years,” he said. “The region remains the growth engine of Delta.”

“The expansion of Delta in this region from now on will come from the investment in our products, new routes and the cooperation with our partners so that we can reach out more to Asian travellers and bring them to the US,” Dube added.

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Markets Business Japanese bank sets up office Hor Kimsay

ONE of Japan’s largest banks opened a representative office in Phnom Penh yesterday, targeting foreign, and especially Japanese, investors.

Takeshi Fukui, chief representative of the Mizuho Bank Phnom Penh representative office, said he intends to collect and provide information regarding Cambodia’s investment environment.

Mizuho Bank is the third mega-Japanese bank with a representative office, as opposed to an actual branch, in Phnom Penh. It joins TokyoMitsubishi UFJ Bank and Simitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

Japanese investment in the Kingdom has picked up noticeably in the last three years.

Data from the Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh shows that stated investment in projects totalled $330 million in 2012, a big jump from the $75 million in 2011.

At the end of March, there were 115 members of the Japanese Business Association of Cambodia, compared to 101 at the end of 2012.

Plane sailing for aircraft firm Jasmine Ng and Jonathan Burgos

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IA Engineering Co (SIE), Asia’s second-largest aircraft maintenance company, is set to gain from a travel boom in the region, according to Maybank Kim Eng Holdings Ltd and Samsung Asset Management.

Net income at the unit of Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), Asia’s second-biggest carrier by value, will increase by an average of 6.4 per cent annually over the next three years through to March 2016, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

SIA Engineering has climbed 13 per cent this year, the secondbiggest advance on the benchmark Straits Times Index.

“SIA Engineering is benefiting from industry growth driven by airlines expanding their fleet,” said Alan Richardson, a Hong Kong-based money manager at Samsung Asset Management, which oversees more than $100 billion globally. “The company has a competitive advantage, stable track record and good dividend return.”

SIA Engineering will probably boost its aircraft engine overhaul capacity to meet the rising demand, according to Maybank’s Kim Eng.

Engineers work in a hanger belonging to SIA Engineering Co, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines Ltd, at Changi Airport in Singapore. bloomberg

Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region may order 12,820 aircraft by 2032 to cater to increasing demand, according to Boeing Co’s estimate. Carriers from AirAsia Bhd, Asia’s biggest budget airline, to Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd ordered at least 1,000 new planes in the past five years. About 15 low-cost carriers started flying in the past decade in the region.

SIA Engineering won con-

tracts last year from Vietnam’s VietJet Air as well as Cebu Air Inc, the Philippines’ biggest budget carrier. Singapore Airlines still accounts for about 63 per cent of its revenue, it said.

“I like the company as a play on growing air traffic in Asia,” Marc Faber, managing director of Marc Faber Ltd and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, said in an emailed response to queries.

Myanmar bank next up for reform

The plane orders may not immediately boost SIA Engineering’s business as airlines are unlikely to send their newer aircraft for frequent maintenance check-ups, said Kenneth Ng, head of research at CIMB Group Holdings Bhd in Singapore.

“The main grouse we have is valuation,” said Ng, whose brokerage rates the stock neutral. BLOOMBERG

A DRAFT law that will make the Central Bank of Myanmar independent could be enacted as soon as this week, according to members of parliament.

The legislation was sent to the President’s Office for review on July 3. If President Thein Sein does not call for further revisions it will be enacted within one week of his office receiving it as the constitution stipulates, MPs said. A draft was first submitted to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw in April.

The lower house then sent it to the President’s Office, after which it was revised, said MP U Ti Khun Myat, chairman of the lower house’s bill committee. The revised legislation was brought before the hluttaw again on July 1.

“We amended a few details following the president’s comments,” U Ti Khun Myat added, explaining that the wording of the legislation was changed to ensure there was no ambiguity.

“We amended the law to make it clear that the central bank can intervene in the money market independently. The president’s comments did not oppose this,” he said. Since it was announced last November the draft legislation has passed the desks of the attorney-general, government and parliament.

The first version,written by central bank staff, had 17 chapters with 116 sections.

It was expanded to 18 chapters with 119 sections by MPs who said they clarified the role of the central bank’s governor and made the bank more autonomous in accord with international norms.

U Bharat Singh, deputy director general of the central bank, said the most recent draft is clearer and that it more carefully delineates the role of the central bank’s board, which will allow it to more effectively reform the money market. The main objective of the central bank law is to stabilise prices and develop better payment systems, he added.

Once enacted, the law will give the nine-

member board of directors independence to establish and implement monetary policy. Once it becomes autonomous, the central bank will form new departments to supervise financial institutions, conduct internal audits, oversee payments and settlements, monitor financial markets and manage the currency and monetary policy.

It plans to nearly double its staff from the current 1,200 employees. The draft legislation also elevates the status of the bank’s governor to that of a minister in the President’s Office.

The central bank’s lack of independence has been cited by some as a reason for its apparent inability to control the kyat’s exchange rate with the US dollar.

Some have said that its daily reference rate merely tracks the black market. A week ago the black market rate was about K1,000 to the dollar while the central bank rate was K959 to the greenback.

By July 3 the official rate had climbed to K975. MYANMAR TIMES

Rakhine state prawn farms at risk Myat Nyein Aye

PRAWN farmers in Myanmar’s Rakhine State say they are facing economic ruin as a decadelong decline in yields shows no sign of abating.

Rakhine Fishery Federation vice-chairman U San Hla Kyaw said yields have fallen by 75 per cent over 10 years and that this has driven as many as onethird of the state’s prawn farmers out of business.

Despite the lower competition, however, those still farming are seeing yields continuing to decline.Unlike prawn farmers in the Yangon region who can stock up on hatchlings from nurseries, Rakhine farm-

ers rely on wild prawns to restock their ponds.

The farms yielded about 40 kilograms an acre per harvest a decade ago, but this has fallen to about 10 kilograms per acre on average and as low as four kilograms per acre at some farms, U San Hla Kyaw said.

Prawn farms have two harvests a year.

The number of prawn farms has also fallen by about a third in one year, farmers in the state said. U San Hla Kyaw said the number of ponds had fallen from about 155,000 last year to about 110,000 this year.

Low yields also meant that farmers can no longer survive

with prawn farms of 30 to 40 acres.

U Maung Maung, a farmer in Rakhine State’s Minbya township, said plenty of workers are needed for harvesting and farmers can no longer afford this because yields are too low.

“We no longer make a profit,” he said.

Prawn farms in Rakhine rely on larvae caught in the wild and this led to a depletion of wild prawns as the number of farms expanded over the last decade, U San Hla Kyaw said.

“The environment will be destroyed if we continue to catch so heavily from the wild,” he added.

U Hnin Oo, chairman of the Myanmar Shrimp Association, said Rakhine’s prawn production has plunged because the amount of prawn larvae caught in the wild has fallen by about two-thirds.

“Catches of wild Tiger prawn have plunged so production is less than half what it was,” U Hnin Oo said.

This problem is confined to Rakhine State, he added.

Farmers in Yangon Region’s Kyauktan township, for example, can harvest up to 5 tonnes a hectare (2.4 acres) of Pacific white shrimp and because they rely on hatcheries their production level is steady.

MYANMAR TIMES

FRENCH food group Danone said yesterday it would cuts its prices for baby formula in China by five to 20 per cent, after the government launched an investigation into alleged price-fixing by foreign firms.

Both Danone and Swiss food giant Nestle last week announced plans to lower prices for baby milk.

Their decisions came after China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top economic planner, launched a probe of high prices that it claimed resulted from a monopoly-like situation.

Danone said in a statement its subsidiary Dumex would cut the prices from yesterday and would also “cooperate entirely” with the Chinese probe.

Other foreign companies being investigated include Mead Johnson Nutrition, Abbott Laboratories and Dutch firm Royal FrieslandCampina, Chinese state media said.

The probe comes amid huge demand for foreign baby formula products after a 2008 scandal involving tainted formula that killed six children and sickened more than 300,000.

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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT (Deadline extended to 14 July 2013) The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR-Cambodia) would like to invite all interested qualified/ eligible applicants to apply for the vacancy below: 1. Legal Advocacy Officer Organizational Unit: Rule of Law Unit Contract Type & Level: Fixed Term Appointment, ICS-8 (NO-A) Duty Station: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Minimum Requirements: A completed, advanced university degree (Masters or equivalent) in law, political or social sciences and Bachelor’s degree in Law; admission to practice as an attorney with the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia; up to 2 years of relevant experiences; proficiency in oral and written English and Khmer.

Summary of Key Functions:  Coordinate the implementation of the Office’s assistance to lawyers working on key legal cases related to human rights  Provide legal advice and technical assistance to lawyers working on human rights-related cases in order to ensure that human rights arguments are fully incorporated into legal pleadings  Develop training courses and materials for lawyers and other human rights advocates in relation to protecting the human rights of victims and defending the rights of accused in the criminal justice system  Promote the administration of justice in Cambodia in accordance with international human rights standards  Work closely with the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia in order to provide assistance for the strengthening of standards within the legal profession Please visit http://cambodia.ohchr.org/EN/PagesFiles/VacancyIndex.htm for the detailed job description of the position. Applications from individuals must include (1) a cover letter in English with reference to the vacancy announcement post title and (2) a detail UN P-11 form in English (can be downloaded from: http://cambodia.ohchr.org/EN/PagesFiles/VacancyIndex.htm ).

All applicants can submit their applications by email to: jobcambodia@ ohchr.org (strongly encouraged) stating clearly the post title of the job being applied for in the email subject box, or send to: Administration Unit, OHCHR-Cambodia, # 10, St. 302, Boeung Keng Kang I, Phnom Penh.

Tel: 023 993 590.Please note that applications received incomplete or after the deadline will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

OHCHR retains the right to contact referees directly.

The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs (Charter of the United Nations - Chapter 3, article 8). Women and people from diverse groups are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for Application: 14 July 2013

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Business

Little love for France’s Hollande Mark Deen and Francois de Beaupuy

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RENCH business leaders had a message for President Francois Hollande this weekend: Put your own house in order and leave us alone.

They clashed with Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici at a conference in Aix-en-Provence, in southern France, accusing the government of over-taxing business and zigzagging on economic policies, a charge the minister called “inelegant” and “facile”. Business leaders called on Hollande to halt what they said were constant changes in regulations and urged him to focus on shrinking state spending before elections constrain his ability to push through difficult and unpopular policy measures.

“In France, the real problem is the state,” said Christophe de Margerie, chief executive officer of Total SA. “The state must obviously cut public spending and put business back at the heart of the preoccupation of the French. It should mind its own business rather than tell us what to do.”

The remarks from the head of Europe’s third-biggest oil company encapsulate the frustration of business leaders as France enters the third year in which the economy has contracted or barely grown. Hollande, a Socialist who’s in the second year of his presidency, is struggling to balance their needs with demands from his own party to ease the pace of deficit cuts to protect citizens as joblessness rises to a record high.

After about 70 billion euros ($90 billion) in tax increases over three years, French consumer spending has stalled and investment has collapsed. Decades of policies to shrink the work week and limit job cuts have eroded corporate profit margins, which last year fell to the lowest since 1985.

CEO of French car manufacturer Renault, Carlos Ghosn, speaks with journalists during the Economic Forum in Aix-en-Provence on Saturday.

Profit at French non-financial companies is less than 15 per cent of gross domestic product, compared with about 25 per cent in Germany, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data show.

After just over a year in office and with his popularity at a record low, Hollande has 11 months before voters get to voice their anger in European elections on May 25. He needs to accelerate putting in place business-friendly measures before potential electoral losses hamper his ability to steer the nation, business leaders said at the Cercle des Economistes annual conference.

Focus is now turning to Hol-

lande’s ability to deliver spending cuts in the 2014 budget, being prepared by the finance ministry and due to be published on September 25.

Public spending in France accounts for 57 per cent of GDP, the second-highest among the world’s richest countries that form the OECD, just behind Denmark.

“The state has become too large,” said Augustin de Romanet, CEO of Aeroports de Paris, said in Aix. “Are we ready to say that the king is naked, and that we don’t have the means to buy the next election with new social spending?”

Hollande’s own cabinet and Socialist Party have been resist-

ing deficit-cutting efforts. Last week, Hollande fired Delphine Batho from her job as energy and environment minister after she criticised spending cuts in her department, calling his 2014 budget plans “bad”.

Concern that Hollande will seek higher taxes to shrink the budget deficit rather than the difficult task of cutting public spending has created a crisis of confidence among businesses, making them reluctant to invest.

National statistics office Insee said last month that investment by non-financial companies will drop by 2.4 per cent this year, more than the 1.9 per cent decline in 2012.

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Businesses are sagging under the third-highest hourly wages among the 17 nations using the euro, after Belgium and Luxembourg, making reforms more pressing, Ernst and Young said last month in a report entitled France: Last Call.

The best thing the government can do is create “a climate conducive to doing business”, said Marwan Lahoud, strategy head at European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co, the parent of aircraft maker Airbus SAS. High labour charges and shrinking investment have resulted in companies cutting jobs or not hiring. Hollande, who has pledged to reverse

the trend of rising joblessness by the end of the year, is struggling to meet that goal as companies from carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen and phoneequipment maker AlcatelLucent to drugs company Sanofi cut thousands of jobs.

More than 3.26 million people are jobless in France, according to government figures for May, putting the country’s unemployment rate at 10.8 per cent, the highest in 14 years.

“Economic policy needs to accept one simple reality: that it is companies that drive growth and employment in the medium term through investments,” said Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, CEO of glass-maker Cie de Saint-Gobain.

To be sure, Hollande has put policies in place to appease businesses. He pushed through a law in April making firings easier and labour rules more flexible.

In October, under pressure from business lobbies, he watered down a tax increase on capital gains made by entrepreneurs, and unveiled 10 billion euros of 2014 tax credits for companies.

Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, who as head of the French treasury helped engineer a decade of trade surpluses in the 1990s, lauded Hollande for achieving a revamp of labour rules while adding that “a lot remains to be done”. The 2014 budget will be critical, he said, because the government needs to show it is able to carry out “massive” spending cuts compared with what has been done in the past.

While France has taken “the first steps with the competitiveness pact and the labormarket legislation”, the payroll tax needs to be simplified, the services market needs to be freed up and state spending has to become more efficient, said Philippe Aghion, a Harvard University economics professor. BLOOMBERG

EU, US hope to hash out trade Doug Palmer

THE United States and the European Union, after nearly two years of preparation, started talks yesterday aimed at securing a free-trade agreement to squeeze new economic growth out of the world’s largest trade and investment relationship.

“We go into these negotiations with the goal of achieving the broadest possible, most comprehensive agreement that we can,” US Trade Representative Mike Froman said.

But in the months since President Barack Obama and European leaders announced a decision to pursue a landmark trade deal, revelations about US government surveillance of phone and internet records have cast a shadow over the start of the trade talks.

Charges that Washington was spying on the 28-nation

EU soured the atmosphere further, with France suggesting the opening round be delayed for two weeks before softening its stance so talks could proceed.

The United States and the European Union are already each other’s top trade and investment partners, with two-way trade that totaled more than $646 billion last year.

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership pact would be the world’s biggest free-trade deal, covering about 50 per cent of global economic output, 30 per cent of global trade and 20 per cent of global foreign direct investment.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research in London has estimated an ambitious agreement that eliminates tariffs and reduces regulatory barriers, once fully implemented, could boost US and EU economic growth by more

than $100 billion a year. This week’s talks, led by Assistant US Trade Representative Dan Mullaney and his EU counterpart, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, are expected to be mainly organisational, with negotiators split up into 15 different groups to deal with issues ranging from agricultural market access to electronic commerce to investment and competition policy.

One big EU interest is getting exemptions from US “Buy American” requirements on public works projects, while the United States wants the EU to reduce barriers to genetically modified crops that have frustrated US farmers for years.

Former EU Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan called for a US-EU free trade agreement in 1995, but it took the rise of China, the death of world trade talks and the havoc of the global financial crisis to

make the time right. Even then, the two sides have tiptoed up to the talks.

A high-level working group examined the issue for more than a year before releasing its recommendation in February for negotiations on a comprehensive agreement.

US officials, chastened by a decade of fruitless negotiations in the Doha round of world trade talks, said they wanted to be certain of reaching a deal, and reaching it quickly, before launching talks with the EU. “If we’re going to go down this road, we want to get it on one tank of gas,” Froman said earlier this year when he was Obama’s international economic affairs adviser.

For now, one tank of gas for both sides means reaching a deal before the current European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, finishes its term at the end of 2014. REUTERS

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Markets Business

Top billionaire Slim puts millions in app developer

In brief San Miguel Corp holds talks with All Nippon

PHILIPPINE conglomerate San Miguel Corp said yesterday it has held preliminary talks with Japan’s All Nippon Airways for a possible partnership in Philippines Airlines Inc. The diversified conglomerate, however, said it has not been approached by Emirates, reported as one prospective partner in PAL. REUTERS

French and Chinese carmakers team up

Broadcasters refuse to show ads for smart tv

JAPANESE broadcasters are refusing to air ads for Panasonic’s new “smart” television, the manufacturer said yesterday. There is speculation that they feel threatened by its combined TV-internet function, but broadcasters said the device’s split screen could confuse viewers. afp

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AMBITIOUS Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Motor and France’s Renault may sign a deal this month for an 11 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) joint venture after a decade of talks, a report said yesterday. The Wuhan-based project is expected to start production of mainly sports utility vehicles and multipurpose vehicles in 2014, and will have a first-phase capacity of 150,000 units a year, according to the China Business News paper. AFP

Markets

MARTPHONE app developer Shazam has found an unlikely ally in the form of Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men, who is investing $40 million to back the development of the start-up best known for helping music fans identify catchy songs.

The move is surprising for 73-year-old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

Before Shazam, Slim’s only forays into Europe were to plough 4.8 billion euros ($6.1 billion) into stakes in Dutch operator KPN and Telekom Austria, on which he is nursing huge paper losses after their shares declined in the past year.

Slim, ranked the world’s top billionaire by Forbes magazine with a net worth of $73 billion, was brought in by one of Shazam’s venture capital owners, Silicon Valley fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

British-based Shazam will use the funds to accelerate its expansion into television, where its recognition software can tune into an advertisement’s soundtrack then link viewers directly to the brand’s website.

It wants to establish the offer in Britain and the rest of Western Europe and Latin America.

“Within 18 months we expect TV will significantly outperform the music side (of the business) and that’s part of this investment,” Andrew Fisher,

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Given that global TV advertising spending totaled $350 billion in 2012, according to researchers Nielsen, the scale of the opportunity for Shazam is huge, said Fisher, who hopes the TV business

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Slim’s investment takes the total backing that Shazam has secured since 2009 to $72 million. The billionaire businessman’s empire of phone, construction and banking companies often expands by buying stakes in small companies. REUTERS

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THE PHNOM PENH POST july 9, 2013

World Junta crony ‘Godfather of Heroin’ dies aged 80 A NOTORIOUS crony of Myanmar’s former junta, dubbed by the US the “Godfather of Heroin” after decades as a global drug trafficker, has died aged 80, according to a family announcement yesterday.

Lo Hsing Han, a major heroin trafficker since the 1970s, avoided a death sentence in his early drug career only to reinvent himself as a tycoon at the head of one of Myanmar’s largest firms.

Along with his business partner and son Steven Law, he was targeted by the US Treasury with sanctions from 2008. The pair were labelled “two key financial operatives of the Burmese regime” for their close business ties to Myanmar’s former generals.

In an obituary in state media, the family said Lo Hsing Han died late on Saturday night.

Lo Hsing Han rose to prominence at a time when Myanmar, with its so-called “Golden Triangle” neighbours, was at

the epicentre of world heroin production.

“Lo Hsing Han, known as the ‘Godfather of Heroin,’ has been one of the world’s key heroin traffickers dating back to the early 1970s,” the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in 2008.

The drug baron was arrested in 1973 and sentenced to death. But in 1980 he was pardoned and less than a decade later he was thought to have helped the military regime in negotiations with rebel communist fighters.

In 1992 he founded a business, Asia World, that was to become one of Myanmar’s richest – helped by juicy contracts with the junta.

Steven Law “joined his father’s drug empire in the 1990s and has since become one of the wealthiest individuals in Burma”, the 2008 US statement said, referring to the country’s former name. AFP

Thai trouble A member of the security forces inspects the wreckage of a military truck after a bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants at a roadside in Pattani province, south of Bangkok yesterday. Eight soldiers were injured in the explosion, according to police. REUTERS

Islamists call for uprising in Egypt F Jailan Zayan and David Vujanovic

ORTY-TWO loyalists of Egypt’s ousted president were killed yesterday demonstrating against last week’s military coup, triggering an Islamist uprising call and dashing the army’s hopes for an interim civilian administration.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last Wednesday, said its supporters were “massacred” when police and troops fired on them during dawn prayers outside an elite army headquarters in Cairo.

The military blamed “terrorists”, while witnesses, includ-

ing Brotherhood supporters at the scene, said that the armed forces fired only tear gas and warning shots and that “thugs” in civilian clothes had carried out the deadly shooting.

Prominent liberal leader Mohamed ElBaradei called for an independent inquiry into the bloodshed. Turkey strongly condemned the killings.

The conservative Islamist Al-Nur party, which won almost a quarter of votes in a 2011 parliamentary election and had given its support to the army’s overthrow of Morsi, said it was pulling out of talks on a new government in response to the “massacre”.

The bloodshed happened outside the headquarters of the elite Republican Guard,

who the Brotherhood accuses of betraying Morsi.

Brotherhood supporters hurled stones at the security forces who responded with tear gas, as firefighters battled to extinguish a blaze that raged in an apartment block.

“Morsi supporters were praying while the police and army fired live rounds and tear gas at them,” the Brotherhood said.

A senior medical official said at least 42 people were killed and 322 wounded. The army said “armed terrorists” tried to storm the base, leaving one security officer dead and six critically wounded.

The Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, called for “an uprising by the great people of Egypt

against those trying to steal their revolution with tanks”.

It urged “the international community and international groups and all the free people of the world to intervene to stop further massacres . . . and prevent a new Syria in the Arab world”.

A security official said prosecutors later ordered the closure of the FJP’s Cairo headquarters after police discovered weapons they alleged were to be used in attacks against Morsi opponents.

ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate, called for an independent investigation.

“Violence begets violence and should be strongly condemned. Independent investigation a must. Peaceful tran-

sition is only way,” the former UN nuclear watchdog chief said on his official Twitter site.

The bloodshed came hours before the caretaker president installed by the army, chief justice Adly Mansour, had been due to announce his choice of interim prime minister.

The violence followed another day of duelling demonstrations across the Arab world’s most populous nation by supporters and opponents of Morsi, in an escalating crisis that analysts fear could spark an all-out civil war.

The military has come under international pressure to swiftly install a civilian administration to oversee a rapid return to elected government.

But Al-Nur said it would no

longer take part in talks on an interim administration.

“We have decided to withdraw immediately from all negotiations in response to the massacre outside the Republican Guard,” its spokesman Nadder Bakkar said on Twitter.

The party had voiced strong opposition to the appointment of ElBaradei, an outspoken liberal opponent of the Brotherhood, delaying forming an interim government.

Mansour aides said before the deadly violence he was leaning towards appointing centre-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin as prime minister with ElBaradei as vice president and an announcement would be made yesterday. AFP

Former railways minister gets suspended death sentence

Liu Zhijun, attends a trial in Beijing on June 9. REUTERS

CHINA’S former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence yesterday for “especially huge” bribery, becoming the highestranking official to be punished for corruption since new leaders vowed to clean up the Communist Party.

Once hailed as the “father” of China’s flagship high-speed rail network, Liu, 60, was convicted of bribery and abuse of power by a court in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said.

State television showed the diminutive, bespectacled defendant standing impassively in the dock in a dark jacket, flanked by two police.

Liu was sacked as railways minister in 2011 after eight years in the post, and the scandal surrounding him is

reported to have involved as much as 800 million yuan ($130 million).

He was convicted of taking 64.6 million yuan in bribes to help 11 people secure contracts and promotions.

The No2 Intermediate People’s Court held that Liu’s crimes involved an “especially huge amount of money” and “caused colossal losses in the public assets, violating rights and interests of the state and the people”, Xinhua said.

“Liu Zhijun was sentenced to the death penalty with two years’ suspension,” a court official said by phone.

Suspended death sentences in China are normally commuted to life imprisonment.

Under Chinese law capital punish-

ment can be imposed for taking bribes exceeding 100,000 yuan.

The court found that Liu’s offences deserved execution, but he was granted leniency because he had confessed, shown repentance and helped investigators recover assets, Xinhua said.

The court ordered all of Liu’s personal property to be confiscated and issued a separate sentence of 10 years in prison for abuse of power, Xinhua said.

China’s rail system – which has cost hundreds of billions of dollars – has been one of the ruling party’s flagship development projects in recent years, and the country now boasts the world’s longest high-speed network.

But a high-speed crash in the east-

ern city of Wenzhou killed some 40 people in 2011, sparking public criticism that authorities compromised safety in their rush to expand the network.

The railways ministry was disbanded in March, with its administrative functions handed to the transport ministry and its commercial role to a new China Railway Corporation.

The country’s new leaders under President Xi Jinping have vowed to fight corruption, identifying it as a threat to Communist Party rule.

The issue causes widespread popular anger among ordinary Chinese, many of whom believe that the ruling elite are often not held accountable for wrongdoing. AFP

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World

Jet came in to land too slow: data T

HE Asiana Airlines jet that crashed at San Francisco airport killing two Chinese teenagers was travelling much slower than recommended, US investigators said on Sunday, as the carrier confirmed that the pilot was being trained to fly the type of aircraft involved.

The flight data recorder showed that as the Boeing 777 approached the runway its pilots were warned that the aircraft was likely to stall and asked to abort the landing.

Seconds later, the plane struck the ground, bursting into flames, killing two people and injuring 182.

The two teenage Chinese girls killed in San Francisco were best friends and promising students, reports said yesterday, citing grief-stricken classmates and teachers.

Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan studied together at high school in Jiangshan in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the Beijing Morning Post said, citing Ye’s relatives, who speculated they may have sat in the same row on the plane.

A picture of Wang was stuck in a hedge outside her high school yesterday, surrounded by six white paper lilies and two chrysanthemums, flowers of mourning in China.

In the image Wang wears her school uniform, smiles for the camera and flashes a V-sign.

Wang, 17, was an active and acclaimed student leader, according to her classmates.

“I feel very depressed after learning the news this morning,” said Lu Hao, a fellow student. “She was very friendly to all the classmates.”

Wang was good at Chinese calligraphy and painting, and her works hung in the office of her father, who owns a company, the report said.

Ye, 16, an outstanding student and piano player, and a national aerobics champion, was the pride of her family, the report said, citing teachers and her mother.

“She was learning music from me and was very gifted in singing,” the newspaper quoted a teacher surnamed Ai as saying.

The two were among a group of 30 students flying to the United States with their teachers to take part in a summer camp, previous Chinese media reports said.

Participants had paid nearly 30,000 yuan ($5,000) each for their places, according to the official news agency Xinhua.

Jiangshan is a small but wealthy city, where many locals have made their fortune in construction materials and beekeeping, Xinhua said.

Most students on the trip were their families’ only children, it added.

Wang’s last posting on one of China’s Twitter-like Weibo sites was “Go!”, apparently reflecting her excitement about the journey.

Chinese nationals made up 141 of the 291 passengers aboard the Asiana Airlines

The parents of Wang Linjia, one of the two girls killed during the Asiana Airlines plane crash on Saturday, leave for San Francisco from Shanghai Pudong airport, yesterday. AFP

Boeing 777 that burst into flames after it landed short of the runway, injuring 182.

The two teenagers are the only deaths from the accident so far.

A total of 12 relatives of the dead and injured were to leave for San Francisco on Monday, Xinhua said, citing school officials.

A relative of Liu Yipeng, one of the injured, told state broadcaster CCTV that the girl was still in intensive care.

“We will go to the hospital to see her first. We have got the notice that she is safe, but have no idea about her exact condition,” he said.

The request to abort the landing was captured on the cockpit voice recorder 1.5 seconds before the plane crashed, National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Debo-

rah Hersman, who is leading the probe, said on Sunday.

The plane was landing at a speed well below the recommended 137 knots, Hersman said.

“We are not talking about a few knots here or there. We’re talking about a significant amount of speed below 137,” she said.

Her announcement came minutes after a video obtained by CNN confirmed that the aircraft, carrying more than 300 people, clipped a seawall short of the airport and skidded on its belly onto the runway.

The footage showed the plane with its nose up and its rear hitting the ground. The plane then hit the tarmac, abruptly bounced upward, and spun around 180 degrees. The plane’s tail section

was torn off and separated in the crash.

The findings came as Asiana said pilot Lee Kang-kuk, 46, had 43 hours of experience in piloting the 777 and was still undergoing training, although he had more than 9,000 hours of flight time under his belt.

“It’s true that Lee was on transition training for the Boeing 777,” an Asiana spokeswoman told AFP yesterday.

However, he was accompanied by an experienced trainer, who acted as co-pilot.

Choi Jeong-ho, the head of South Korea’s transportation ministry’s aviation policy bureau, was defensive when he spoke to reporters about the pilot.

“We cannot conclude the accident was caused by a pilot mistake. Whether there was a pilot mistake can be con-

firmed after all related data are analysed and inspected,” Choi said.

On Sunday, Yoon Youngdoo, the CEO of Asiana Airlines, based in Seoul, said “currently we understand that there are no engine or mechanical problems” with the plane, which was bought in 2006.

NTSB chair Hersman refused to comment on whether the flight crew was at fault, stressing that the investigation had just begun.

The plane’s low speed triggered an automatic device called a “stick shaker”, which warns pilots that a plane is about to stall, Hersman said.

The warning came four seconds before the crash – 2.5 seconds before one of the pilots tried to abort the landing. AFP

Singapore coroner rules Companies ask for nuclear restart US man’s death suicide A SINGAPORE coroner ruled yesterday that a US scientist found hanged in the city-state in 2012 committed suicide during a bout of depression and was not murdered as his family had claimed.

The US government, which had expressed strong interest in the case of electronics engineer Shane Todd, said the coroner’s inquiry was “comprehensive, fair and transparent”.

The body of 31-year-old Todd was discovered by his girlfriend in his flat in June 2012, sparking a controversy that reached the highest levels of both governments after his parents refused to accept Singapore police findings that he killed himself.

Singaporean Foreign Minister K Shanmugam speaks yesterday. REUTERS

The family, citing documents found in Todd’s computer files, said he was working on a secret project with military applications and murdered as part of a conspiracy involving a Chinese technology firm and a statelinked Singapore research institute.

There was no immediate reaction from the family to the verdict.

“The evidence before me . . . compels me to find, beyond reasonable doubt, that the deceased had committed suicide by hanging himself,” state coroner Chay Yuen Fatt said in his verdict on Todd’s death.

The coroner’s ruling cannot be appealed.

“The evidence was incontrovertibly consistent with asphyxia due to hanging,” Chay told a packed court, adding that evidence presented during a two-week public inquest in May was “inconsistent with the possibility that there was foul play”.

Chay said the evidence also showed that before his death Todd had suffered a relapse of depression. Witnesses earlier testified that Todd had suffered from the condition as a university student.

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JAPANESE power companies yesterday asked for permission to restart 10 nuclear reactors, a move that could presage a widespread return to atomic energy more than two years after the Fukushima disaster.

The firms submitted applications to regulators for safety assessments on units at five separate plants on the day that new beefed-up rules came into force.

The requests are the first step on a journey that could take many months, but which commentators say is likely to result in the resumption of nuclear power generation in Japan.

All but two of the country’s 50 nuclear reactors are offline, shut down for safety checks after the Fukushima disaster, the worst the world has seen since Chernobyl in 1986.

If the regulator agrees, the companies must then get the nod from national and regional politicians.

Three reactors are at one site on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, while the remaining seven are in four plants in the west of the country, the utilities said separately.

However, Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), said it has yet to submit an application for a safety assessment of two of the

seven units at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant, the world’s biggest.

“We are considering submitting the application, but we have a policy of seeking local agreement on it,” a TEPCO spokesman said.

TEPCO’s chastened approach came after the company’s boss received a public tongue-lashing on Friday from local politicians for announcing it would talk to regulators before having consulted locally.

The crisis at Fukushima, caused when a huge tsunami smashed into the plant and sent reactors into meltdown, fuelled widespread public distrust of nuclear power.

A vocal anti-atomic campaign, whose leading lights say the industry had an overly cosy relationship with its regulators in the decades leading up to Fukushima, nudged the government into establishing a new industry watchdog.

Eager to prove it has teeth, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has set strict new standards that operators must show they can meet before they will be granted permission to re-start mothballed reactors.

Even so, anti-nuclear activists gathered in Tokyo, warning against risks posed by active tectonic plates near

or underneath nuclear reactors in quake-prone Japan.

They also criticised the nuclear watchdog for what they say is a halfhearted risk evaluation.

“The plant is located in a vary dangerous place with three active faults in the ground underneath it,” said Taka Yamaguchi, who came from a community near the Tomari plant in Hokkaido.

“I’m full of anger over the application for the re-start” of three reactors there, she said.

While the NRA determines if a plant meets safety requirements, the decision to allow reactors to come back online rests with politicians.

“It is important that assessment will be done in a strict manner by the Nuclear Regulation Authority based on the new standards,” Katsunobu Kato, deputy chief cabinet secretary, told reporters.

“It is a precondition that host communities agree on the re-firing, so we hope utilities give detailed explanations to local residents,” he added.

The new safety standards require utilities to prepare measures against severe accidents or terrorist attacks and to better protect their plants from tsunamis and earthquakes. AFP

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EVENTY top retailers have pledged to improve worker safety and allow inspection of all of their garment factories in Bangladesh within nine months under a pact signed with unions after a deadly factory collapse, a statement said yesterday.

Repairs and renovations resulting from the inspections will also be carried out, the retailers pledged as part of the legally binding agreement signed after the April collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, which killed 1,129 people.

“Initial inspections at every factory will be completed at the latest within nine months, and plans for renovations and repairs put in place where necessary,” a statement from the pact’s steering committee said.

Western retailers including Carrefour, Primark and Tesco started signing up to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in May to improve shocking factory conditions in Bangladesh, the world’s second biggest apparel maker, with clothing accounting for 80 per cent of its exports.

A Bangladeshi woman cries for a missing relative in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on June 29, at the site of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster. AFP

A headquarters to oversee implementation of the pact will be set up in the Netherlands and inspectors will aim to “identify grave hazards and the need for urgent repairs”, according to the statement, giving details of the pact.

The deal requires retailers to underwrite renovations and make a two-year commitment to the factories

where renovations will be undertaken.

Labour umbrella groups, including Swiss-based IndustriALL, stepped up the pressure on retailers to sign the agreement after the nine-storey building crumbled on April 24, causing one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.

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ers in the Bangladesh garment industry,” said Jyrki Raina, general secretary of IndustriALL. The task of inspecting and improving factories could prove hugely daunting. A survey by a prestigious Dhakabased engineering university last week found that nine out of ten Bangladeshi garment plants are risky structures,

and many were built without qualified engineers.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), which represents 4,500 garment factories, initially welcomed the accord, saying it reflected the retailers’ long term commitment to the country.

But in recent weeks manufacturers have criticised the organisers, saying the BGMEA should have been brought on board.

“They should have definitely included the BGMEA and the knitwear manufacturers in the accord and its decision-making bodies. After all, it’s our factories they are going to inspect,” BGMEA vice-president Reaz-BinMahmood said.

Scott Nova, head of the USbased Worker Rights Consortium, said the BGMEA was not included because “this agreement is focused on the responsibility of the brands to ensure that factories are made safe”.

While leading European retailers have joined the agreement, American brands such as Walmart and Gap snubbed the accord and opted for selfregulation. AFP

No tsunami warning as big quakes strike PNG TWO big earthquakes struck Papua New Guinea early yesterday but no tsunami warnings were issued and seismologists said that, while they would have been felt, damage was unlikely.

A 7.2 magnitude quake hit the Pacific nation at 4:35am local time (1835 GMT Sunday), some 110 kilometres northeast of Taron on the island of New Ireland.

It occurred a depth of 379 kilometres, the US Geological Survey reported.

This was followed two hours later by a shallower 6.8 quake, 62 kilometres deep near the town of Kandrian on New Britain.

Jonathan Bathgate, a seismologist at GeoScience Australia, said his organisation measured the initial quake at 7.1 and said it was too deep to have caused damage.

“Damage is unlikely although it would have been felt,” he said, adding that tsunami warnings were rarely issued for anything more than 100 kilometres in depth. AFP

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CCTV is the key in hunt for bombers

Anti-Muslim riots haunt town

INDIAN police arrested a man yesterday for the weekend attacks at the historic Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex and were studying CCTV footage that appeared to show two men planting explosives at the site.

The Indian government condemned the “terror attack” at one of Buddhism’s holiest sites after nine small bombs exploded on Sunday morning, wounding two monks at the world-renowned pilgrimage destination in eastern Bihar state.

“The police are doing everything to identify the two persons on the basis of the CCTV footage,” local police official

The police are doing everything to identify two persons Chandan Kushwaha said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police arrested a local man who was being questioned in connection with the blasts.

“A man identified as Vinod Mistri was taken into custody in connection with the serial bomb blasts in Bodh Gaya,” state police official SK Bharadwaj said.

Police picked up Mistri in the Barachatti area, a stronghold of Maoist insurgents 129 kilometres south of the state capital Patna, Bharadwaj said.

Delhi police said they had earlier warned officials that Islamic militants could target the temple complex as revenge for Buddhist violence against Muslims in neighbouring Myanmar.

Attacks on Buddhists are rare in India, but there have been tensions in the region recently following clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar, as well as in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Two more bombs were found and defused at the complex on Sunday, one of them near the temple’s celebrated 24-metre statue of the Buddha.

Along with temples, dozens of monasteries housing monks from around the world are located near the complex, which is believed to contain the holy bodhi tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment in 531 BC. After his meditations beneath the tree, the Buddha is said to have devoted the rest of his life to teaching.

The Bodh Gaya complex also houses multiple shrines marking the places where the Buddha is believed to have spent time after his enlightenment.

He founded an order of monks before dying aged 80.

The complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site 110 kilometres south of Patna, is one of the earliest Buddhist temples still standing in India.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama makes frequent trips to the complex. AFP

A resident riding her bicycle past the ruins of destroyed buildings in riot-hit Meiktila, in central Myanmar, last week.

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HE thugs ordered Kyaw not to look as they killed his classmates, but the terrified teenager still caught glimpses of the merciless beatings as a wave of antiMuslim killing engulfed his school town in central Myanmar, leaving dozens dead.

“They used steel chains, sticks and knives . . . there were hundreds of people. They beat anyone who tried to look at them,” the 16-year-old said.

Kyaw’s small madrassa (Islamic school) on the outskirts of Meiktila town was razed during sectarian bloodshed in March that triggered an outbreak of Buddhist-Muslim violence across the country.

Officially 44 people were killed – although some fear the toll was much higher – and thousands were left homeless.

Kyaw, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, escaped serious injury, but his school friends – who he saw as “brothers” – were not so fortunate.

“Five students from my class were killed,” he said, with a quiet precision belying his haunted expression.

March 20 began as usual for

the students, who traded jokes as they gathered in the school’s mosque. But by afternoon the centre of town was already seething after an argument in a gold shop and the brutal murder of a Buddhist monk.

As word spread that Muslim areas were being torched, the students took shelter in nearby undergrowth, hiding overnight as a mob descended and set the school alight.

The next morning, security personnel evacuated local Muslims. Kyaw and his friends were marched through a hostile crowd which hit them with stones and sticks. A few students retaliated. Some strayed or were pulled out and set upon.

The horrors that followed have been pieced together by rights group Physicians for Human Rights who, quoting eyewitnesses, described a Buddhist mob – including men in monks’ robes – hunting down and killing some 20 students and four teachers.

Witnesses recounted seeing one pupil being decapitated and several being burned alive, according to a May report by the US-based group.

Graphic video footage given by activists shows an embankment next to the school turned into a killing ground.

In one sequence, a man is chased out of the undergrowth by an armed mob. One man hits him so hard with a wooden pole that the weapon snaps in two before a robed monk joins the savage beating.

Several more videos show charred corpses dumped in hastily made pyres.

“When I arrived there I saw piles of bodies still burning,” said local Buddhist political activist Myint Myint Aye, adding that she believes the death toll was closer to 100.

She said residents were swept up in the rioting, with a huge crowd cheering and clapping the demolition of Muslim shops.

But, like other observers, she believes the violence was manipulated, perhaps by Buddhist hardliners using hired thugs – a practice widely suspected during the former junta rule.

“If it was only people from Meiktila it would not have been that bad,” she said. “In just a day and a half, everything had been destroyed.”

Attacks against Muslims – who make up an estimated four per cent of Myanmar’s population – have exposed deep fractures in the Buddhist-majority nation and cast a shadow over its emergence from army rule.

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Security forces have been accused of being slow to stop the killing. “Killers and robbers are criminals – [police] have duties to stop them or to arrest them,” said lawyer Thein Than Oo, a Buddhist who has acted on behalf of some Muslim men jailed in May for their part in the monk killing that sparked the Meiktila unrest.

“They said they have no order to interfere. So even the children were brutally killed at Meiktila,” he said.

At least 10 Muslims have been convicted of serious offences in relation to the unrest.

Only one Buddhist is known to have been found guilty of murder over the violence.

Families of the Muslim victims are too afraid to pursue the police over the whereabouts of their loved ones, according to activists who say bodies of the victims were removed and burned by the authorities without being identified.

According to state media, 49 people are on trial for murder with scores more facing court for their roles in the unrest.

“Both sides have been prosecuted,” government spokesman Ye Htut said, without giving further comment.

But rights groups insist the

MYANMAR COURT SENTENCES TWO BUDDHISTS OVER RIOTS

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YANMAR has sentenced two Buddhist men to seven years in prison for murders during religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a local official said yesterday.

The defendants were convicted after separate trials at the district court in Meiktila for their part in deadly rioting in the town, which mainly targeted Muslims and sparked waves of religious unrest across the country.

Meiktila district chairman of Tin Maung Soe said one man, aged 24, was sentenced on June 28, becoming the

first Buddhist known to be sentenced for a serious offence over the rioting, which left at least 44 people dead.

“He was found at the scene where some people were killed during the unrest in Meiktila. That is why he was charged with murder,” he said.

He said the second suspect, aged 21, was handed sentences of seven years and one year with hard labour – to be served concurrently – on Friday for his part in the killings.

Thousands of local Muslims were driven from their homes during the violence, as Buddhist mobs torched

whole neighbourhoods, destroyed shops and damaged mosques.

Human rights groups have accused the police of being slow to stop the killings, while activists have called on authorities to fully investigate and prosecute those responsible.

At least 10 Muslims have so far been handed jail terms for serious offences during the rioting.

In May seven Muslims were sentenced to between two and 28 years for their parts in the murder of a Buddhist monk in Meiktila during the unrest. AFP

official response has been grossly inadequate.

“The message of impunity is shocking,” said PHR report author Holly Atkinson. “In less than 48 hours they were able to drive . . . 30,000 people out of Meiktila. There are basically no Muslims in Meiktila.”

Despite repeated requests, Meiktila police refused to comment.

Buddhist-Muslim clashes first erupted in the western state of Rakhine last year, leaving about 200 people dead, mostly minority Muslim Rohingya who are denied citizenship by Myanmar.

Some robed monks – revered in the country and who were at the forefront of past democracy campaigns – have taken part in the clashes.

“If there are monks who incite such harm, arson or murder . . . I boldly say that they are wrong,” said Buddhist clergyman Sein Ni Ta, who was part of crossfaith relief efforts after what he termed a “systematic massacre” in Meiktila.

Senior monks urged peace after talks on the violence in June. But the meeting was used by radical cleric Wirathu – who has campaigned for a boycott of Muslim shops – as a platform to call for restrictions on marriages between Buddhist women and men from other faiths.

Blaming “Muslim extremists”, he said that Buddhists were provoked “to commit arson, destroy shops and to set fire to mosques”.

Meiktila remains under a state of emergency. Life for Buddhists has assumed some semblance of normality, but fear shudders beneath the surface.

Kyaw, who is back with his family in another part of Myanmar, struggles to sleep and is receiving counselling after his ordeal. Little remains of his Meiktila school – just a few scorched books among the rubble. AFP

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Poor and vulnerable need help Comment Chhith Sam Ath

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ITH the national election looming on July 28, 2013 – less one month away – there are many challenges for fifth mandate Royal Government of Cambodia and civil society to face together to ensure improvements in the lives of Cambodians for the future.

The NGO Forum on Cambodia, which represents almost 100 NGOs, works continually with communities to raise the standard of living of the poor and vulnerable of Cambodia.

Much of our work is on behalf of NGO members and communities affected by land and environmental policies, areas in which significant improvements are needed and possible.

The fifth mandate Royal Government of Cambodia should continue to recognise that land reform is vital to enhance social stability and to meet the overall goal of poverty reduction. Several efforts have been made by the government through the formulation of the regulations and other legal frameworks.

They have introduced some important initiatives in the past year, especially in the allocation of individual and collective land titles in several provinces. We congratulate the current government on this important initiative, but more remains to be done.

Land issues have become extremely serious in the past 12 months, with increasing violence and arrests as people try to save their homes and land.

Our experience with communities confirms that forced evictions continue in Cambodia both in rural and urban areas. Current statistics show that Cambodian land size is 17.65 million hectares of which the state owns approximately 80 per cent of the area, while private entities own 3.6 million, or 20 per cent of land size.

Recent NGO figures have shown that since 2000 there have been recorded disputes involving 150,000 families, some 700,000 people, nationwide.

While land grabbing is a critical issue, it is important that the current position of the granting of Economic Land Concessions is clarified. The

A homeless family sits under the shade of trees in Phnom Penh’s Hun Sen Park last week.

transparency and consultation with affected communities, NGOs related to the development projects need also improvement.

Progress in these areas will greatly assist the lives of the poor and vulnerable. At present landlessness is estimated between 20-25 per cent of the whole population. In addition, 23 per cent of households are considered to be “land poor”, holding less than 0.5 hectares of land, which is not enough to survive by subsidence farming.

In urban areas, where land prices are increasing, poor households are especially vulnerable to evictions. To this end, there is a need to ensure that Circular 03, supporting sub-national level initiatives, is supported through openness of authorities in identifying decent housing solutions and clarification of the processes surrounding its implementation.

The position of indigenous people needs our collective continual support in the process of applying for communal

land titles which is required to accelerate to ensure equity in land distribution.

Although efforts have been made to crack down on illegal logging and development of policies and legal frameworks, deforestation and forest degradation has continued in the nation.

The size of Community Forestry (CFs) and Community Protected Areas (CPAs) should be increased dramatically in terms of size and speed of attention by RGC, with decentralized forest management help to stabilize the climate and provide multi benefits of ecosystem services to assist human beings and natural forest tenure and management.

As we work with our communities, a major area of concern is hydropower schemes. Each proposed dam needs proper environmental assessment, and full consultation with communities so that issues of relocation and compensation can be appropriately addressed (such as the Lower Sesan 2

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Dam, currently the subject of government legislation which is being questioned by CSOs) and the Laos government’s clear reversal of its mandate to undertake appropriate studies on Xayaburi Dam with its neighbours before any decisions will be made.

It is extremely important that Cambodia tackles seriously, adaptation measures for climate change, as one of the most affected countries in the region.

To this end we are very pleased to be working with the government on its new Climate Change Strategic Plan for Cambodia.

There is much for Cambodians to do in the next month.

There will be eight parties contesting the election, of which the three most prominent are the ruling Cambodian Peoples’ Party, Funcinpec and the new Cambodian National Rescue Party.

We appeal to all parties to make clear the highlighted issues of their policies to ensure the sustainable and equitable development of Cambodia.

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As these issues are critical in the month leading up to the election, NGOs have been holding major briefing meetings on a national and provincial basis for people to come and be informed about the issues that have a very important bearing on the lives of Cambodians for the next many years to come.

We encourage all Cambodians to become informed and involved in this election.

There is plenty of opportunity for government to work together with civil society on the wide range of issues we need to address.

We welcome the opportunity to work closely with future government, as well as our communities, as we seek to improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable and achieve the sustainable and equitable development.

Together I am confident we are up to the task.

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Lifestyle Factory alarm fails to stem demand for cheap fashion C Cara Kelly

ATHY Anderson likes clothes – trendy, cutting-edge clothes that look as if they’ve come right off the runway. And she wants them now, and she wants them at bargain prices.

Anderson, a 28-year-old Washington, DC resident, could be a poster child for those who graduated in a down economy but still feel the need to look fashionable. Anderson, who worked at Cosmo Girl and People magazine’s StyleWatch, created Poor Little It Girl, a blog that focuses on items that are right on trend and relatively cheap, usually under $100.

Young men and women like Anderson have turned to stores such as H&M, Zara and the Gap. Inexpensive clothing has always existed, but these retailers have racked up huge sales by mastering the art of “fast fashion”: identifying hot designer trends immediately, ordering up inexpensive copies and stocking their stores with the look-alikes, often within weeks of their runway debuts. And they do so at a fraction of the designer price, making them accessible to a broad range of consumers.

In April, a factory in Bangladesh involved in producing “fast fashion” collapsed, killing nearly 1,300 people and seriously injuring scores of others.

Advocacy campaigns for safe conditions and worker protections swung into high gear. Protests, including one scheduled for Saturday at a Gap in downtown Washington, are part of an effort to urge – some would say

In brief Elderly shoplifters outstrip teens in Tokyo THE number of elderly people caught shoplifting in Japan’s capital city has outstripped that of teenagers for the first time since records began, a report released yesterday says.

A quarter of the people arrested on suspicion of the crime in Tokyo last year were at least 65 years old, figures showed, amid warnings of increasing isolation in the age group. “Even though the total number of arrests for shoplifting has been declining, the ratio of elderly people are on the rise,” a Tokyo metropolitan police spokesman said.

“Our survey shows that elderly shoplifters tend to be lonely, having no one to talk to, and having no hobby to enjoy,” he said. AFP

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Mannequins on show at a Swedish branch of fast fashion store H&M.

shame – retailers into signing a legally binding accord aimed at improving safety conditions and standards in Bangladesh factories. H&M and Zara have already signed on; the Gap has declined and is pushing its own agreement.

Have the revelations about the dangers to faraway workers turned off consumers – often educated and otherwise globally conscience consumers – from clamouring for the latest peplum top or high-low skirt?

Not really. Although profits for many of fast fashions’ biggest names dipped in the first months of the year, fluctuations in currency and diversion of

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money for long-term investments seem to be the most prevalent causes. And global sales at H&M have recently bounced back, with a 14 per cent spike in the first two weeks of June, reports trade publication Women’s Wear Daily.

Positive reinforcement for snatching up trendy clothes at bargain prices drives some consumers. Haul videos – clips on YouTube showing shoppers brandishing piles of new purchases – can rack up hundreds of thousands of views. Public figures such as first lady Michelle Obama and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are hailed for wearing inexpensive,

fashionable brands including Zara and Asos.

Salvatore Giardina, an adjunct assistant professor of textile development and marketing at FIT, thinks customers would be willing to pay a little more for eco- and labour-conscious items. But not that much more.

“You’ll still sell them but not at the rate which would make your company profitable.”

The head-in-the-sand approach doesn’t cut it, worker advocates like Liana Foxvog of the International Labour Rights Forum say. “On the one hand, we can watch where we shop. On the other hand, we should very vocally be pressuring corpora-

tions to improve conditions in supply chains and accept their responsibility for their workers that sew the clothing these companies sell.”

But it will be tough to persuade shoppers to cut out fast fashion entirely. “I love mixing high-end with Forever 21 and thrift and vintage,” says Kara Perry, manager of resale store Buffalo Exchange in DC’s Georgetown distric.

“I feel like people are too aware at this point that they don’t need to spend that kind of money on clothing,” she says, “And once the public is aware, there is kind of no taking it back.” the washington post

Fright but no gore in Spain’s bull run

Participants run in front of bulls during the first bull run of the San Fermin Festival on Sunday in Pamplona. afp

HUGE crowds of thrill-seekers got a scare on Sunday as they fled half-tonne, sharp-horned fighting bulls charging through Pamplona in the opening run of Spain’s San Fermin Festival, which resulted in four light injuries.

Six huge bulls and six steers carved a path through masses of runners dressed in white with red scarves around their necks and packed into the winding streets of the northern Spanish city.

Hundreds of people ran with the bulls, some of which skidded as they charged in four minutes and six seconds from a holding pen along an 848.6-metre course to the city’s bull ring, where they will be slayed in a bullfight.

Many people dared to touch the charging beasts on their sides or even to run just a few steps in front of the bulls’ horns as thousands looked on from the sides or from overhanging balconies.

A medical report from regional medical authorities showed four people taken to hospital with light injuries and no gorings: a 24-year-old Australian, a 44-yearold Briton, a 26-year-old American and a 36-year-old resident of Pamplona.

But one lone bull gave runners a fright when the animal hung back and stopped just before the bull ring as its way forward was blocked by people.

The bull turned around to face a dense crowd that had built up behind it, sending panicky runners scrambling over wooden fence barriers for safety.

Desperate to prevent the bull from charging into the crowd, herders finally enticed the bull into the ring.

The daily bull runs are the highlight of a nine-day mix of partying and thrill-seeking, which draws hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

The festival in this city of 200,000 residents was made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

The bull runs are believed to have started when butchers began running ahead of the beasts they were bringing from the countryside to the San Fermin festival.

Last year 38 people were taken to hospital during the festival’s eight bull runs. afp

A 2.55-metre Chinese man who is among the world’s tallest living people has been hospitalised for a hip replacement, media reported yesterday. Wang Fengjun has been measured as 29 centimetres taller than China’s towering former NBA basketball player Yao Ming.

According to the Zhengzhou Evening, a paper in his home province of Henan, Wang’s hands are 30 centimetres long and he wears specially made size-75 shoes. afp

TV presenter Michael Parkinson has cancer VETERAN British chat show host Michael Parkinson revealed on Sunday that he had prostate cancer but said he was living a normal life and hoped to make a full recovery.

Parkinson, 78, who interviewed Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire and Orson Welles in a career spanning 50 years, said he was diagnosed with the disease in May, was undergoing radiotherapy and suffering no side effects or pain. “I’m 78 and I have had a good life,” said Parkinson, who announced his retirement in 2007. “I shall be around for a while yet, to the delight of my friends and the dismay of my enemies.” AFP

Despicable minions upset Lone Ranger THE small yellow minions of Despicable Me 2 upstaged Johnny Depp at the weekend movie box office. The animated Despicable sequel hauled in an impressive $82.5 million in the United States and Canada from Friday through Sunday, more than double the weak $29.4 million for Walt Disney Co’s big-budget western The Lone Ranger, which stars Depp as the masked man’s Native American partner Tonto. The two films began their box office battle on Tuesday night ahead of Thursday’s US Independence Day holiday. reuters

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

INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE FROM PHNOM PENH Flighs

Days

Dep

TO PHNOM PENH Arrival

PHNOM PENH - BANGKOK

Flighs

Days

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Arrival

BANGKOK - PHNOM PENH

K6 720

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01:10

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PG 938

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06:40

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16:05

CZ 323

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20:50

PHNOM PENH - DOHA ( Via HCMC)

DOHA - PHNOM PENH ( Via HCMC)

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1.2..5.6

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05:15+1

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08:00

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15:50

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11:40

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QR - Qatar Airways

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SQ - Singapore Airlines

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Under its new owners, the QE2 will be turned into a floating 400-room luxury hotel. bloomberg

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17:05

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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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PAKSE,VIENTIANE-PP

6:45

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3. 6

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21:35

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3. 6

16:45

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TO SIEM REAP

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

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UBAI will spend another $90 million to refurbish the ocean liner QE2 before it steams out of the emirate in October to be moored in Asia as a 400-room luxury hotel, its new owners said on Sunday.

The QE2, launched more than 40 years ago by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, will be owned by a consortium of investors under a Dubai-based entity called QE2 Shipping, Khamis Juma Buamim, the chairman of the new company said at a press conference.

The identity of the individual investors was not revealed and neither was the final destination of the vessel. But the ship will be moored in Asia and will not return to Dubai.

“We are going to do what we think is right as this is our ship, but we won’t scrap it and we won’t destroy it,” Buamim said. “This is a piece of history. We are going to deliver the project in a timely manner,” he added.

Dubai World’s investment arm Istithmar bought the vessel from Cunard for $100 million back in 2007, but the 2008 debt crunch that left the conglomerate heavily indebted resulted in the vessel being largely left unused.

Hit by the global economic slowdown the emirate scaled back on plans to turn the ocean liner into a luxury hotel at the tip of the emirate’s famous palm-shaped island last year and said she would be moored in an unglamorous part of town instead.

Dubai, however, in January announced the decision that the ship would be moved to Asia where it would become a floating hotel.

The QE2 will steam out of Dubai on October 18, after which she is expected to reach

Singapore on November 1 where she will stay for three days before proceeding to Hong Kong for another three and thereafter leave for the selected shipyard in China to complete her transformation, the new owner’s said.

The ship’s memorabilia will be sent to Singapore and stored in a specially secured warehouse and reassembled after renovation.

The QE2, which undertook its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City in May 1969, will continue to be owned by Dubai and there are no plans to sell the ship, Buamim said, dismissing media reports that the ship would be sold to Chinese investors.

“We have already spent the money . . . a large amount was spent on it. Now it’s a recovery cycle and we expect a 10-year cycle,” Buamim said, adding that he expects the all-suite hotel to turn profitable by 2024.

The profits from the new hotel, expected to be functional in 2014, will be shared among the consortium of investors. He did not specify where the funds to convert the cruise liner into a hotel are coming from.

The annual maintenance cost of the hotel, which will have 400 suite-size rooms varying in size from 60 to 150 square metres, has been estimated to be around $2.5 million. Some larger suites in the hotel will be for long-stay residences.

Buamim said discussions are under way with two to three countries in Asia, which may be QE2’s final destination.

Dubai shipbuilder Drydocks World and Oceanic Group, an Asian cruise company, will be carrying out repairs to enable the voyage to the Far East, Buamin said. reuters

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This Barking Dog: The Strange Story of U.G. Krishnamurti by comic artist Nicolas C Grey and writer James Farley is a graphic novel tells the story of Indian ‘anti-guru’ UG Krishnamurti, who rejected the concept enlightenment.

MAN OF STEEL A young itinerant worker is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race. Henry Cavil plays the caped superhero.

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WORLD WAR Z United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. Brad Pitt produces and stars.

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

WHITE HOUSE DOWN While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

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11:45am, 2:20pm, 6:35pm, 9:20pm MONSTERS UNIVERSITY A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University - when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends.

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Close by, to poets Knickknack displayer Gets ready for a second offensive Crumble into the sea, as shoreline North Dakota fair city Perfume emanation Smaller in amount Passes over intentionally Course concluder Extends Like 24-karat gold “Hurray!” and “Oh, no!”

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M. Hulot’s player, in films Place for an oil change Like some medication Richard of “American Gigolo” “Won’t Get Fooled ___” What dues need to be Popular ’20s design style Put to a purpose Some eating utensils Lab technician, perhaps Very, musically speaking Check your arithmetic Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby ___” Those on high horses Throw the horsehide Like dry land Aussie gemstone One-time Turkish governors “What ___ supposed to say?”

At the BKK restaurant and bar, Filipino and Khmer musicians will play a set featuring a variety of cover songs of all genres. From pop, rock, to rhythm and blues and contem-porary jazz, all tastes will be catered for.

The Village, #1, Street 360 7:30pm

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

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

3G Field, National Assembly Road, 8pm

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NewArt Gallery Contemporary Southeast Asia Art paintings, Posters & Photographs Expert Matting & Framing Paintings by khmer, Chiness, Viethamese and Thai artists No 20 St.9,next to phsar kapko,Phnom Penh Tel: 012 824 570

Luxurious Villa For Rent In BKKI area, 05 beds, large living room, very nice design, fully and modern furnished, western kitchen, big balcony and terrace, garden & trees, big parking and playground, quiet & safe. Price: US$4,200/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Wooden House For Rent In Beoung Trobek Area (near Monivong corner Mao Tse Toung BLVD), 03 Bedrooms, open living room, very nice kitchen, garden and many trees, very quiet and safety area, cars parking.

Price: US$800/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

High Class Apartment For Rent Located in Daun Penh Area, 03 bedrooms, very large living room, fully and modern furnished, modern kitchen, very nice balcony, very high class in town, very good condition for living Price: US$3,500/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

E-mail: newart_gallery007@ yahoo.com Facbook:Tep Toma(new art)

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Modern Design Villa For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 03 bedrooms, open living room, very nice interior design, modern kitchen, nice balcony, nice garden, very quiet and safety area, cars parking. Price: US$3,000/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Small Villa For Rent In BKKI area, 03 beds, large living room, very light, some furnished, western kitchen, very nice garden & trees, big parking and playground, quiet & safe, very good for residence, other business, possible for long-term lease contract. Price: US$3,500/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

Modern Apartment For Rent Located south of Royal Palace, 02-03 beds, large living room, fully and modern furnished, western kitchen, very big balcony and safety area,big parking lots, roof top pool & gym, steam & sauna, very good condition for living .Price: $1,300-$2,000/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Traditional Garden Villa For Rent In Tonle Bassak area, 05 bedrs, large living room, very light, some furnished, western kitchen, big balcony and terrace, very nice garden and trees, big parking and playground, quiet & safe. Price: US$3,000/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Brand New Apartment For Rent BKK1, 1-2-3 Beds, large living room, very light, Fully Furnished, western Kitchen, Steam & Sauna, roof top garden, gym, very good condition for living, quiet & safe.

Price: $ 900- $ 1,300 - $ 3,000/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Modern Apartment For Rent Located near Russian Market, 01 bedroom, open living room, fully and modern furnished, western kitchen, very nice balcony, very quiet and safety area, roof top pool and gym, very good condition for living.

Price: US$800-US$900/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

2nd Floor Villa For Rent Near Independent Monument, 01 bed , fully furnished, very lights, western kitchen, very safety, very big terrace, very good condition for living.

Price: US$750/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Modern Apartment For Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bedrooms, Large living room, fully and modern furnished, modern kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym, very good condition for living Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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

Link-Villa For Rent In Grand Phnom Penh, 03 Beds, open living room, very nice interior design, modern kitchen, nice balcony, nice garden, very quiet and safety area, cars parking.Price: US$800/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Warehouse For Rent Located on National Road Nº 4 (Warehouse zone), Size: 6,300sqm, price: US$1.6 per sqm electricity and water are connected. possible for trucks across. Price: US$1,6/sqm Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Traditional Villa For Rent In Beoung Trobek Area (near Monivong corner Mao Tse Toung BLVD), 02 Bedrooms, open living room, vey nice kitchen, nice garden and many trees, very quiet and safety area, cars parking.​Price: $950/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Modern Classic Apartment For Rent Located in BKKI, 02-03 bedrooms, fully and modern furnished, modern kitchen, gym and nice balcony, very quiet and safety.

Price: US$1,400 US$1,900/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

Western Apartment For Rent Located in Daun Penh, very close to Independent Monument, 02 beds, large living room, fully and modern furnished,western kitchen, nice balcony, very good condition for living, big parking lot.Price: $1,000/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Modern Apartment For Rent Located in Tonle Bassak area, 02-03 beds, open living room, fully & modern furnished, western kitchen,very nice balcony, quiet & safety area, very nice pools & gym, steam & sauna, good condition ​for living. Price: $1,300-$1,700/m Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Traditional Villa For Rent, In Beoung Trobek Area, 05 Bedrooms, big front yard, many trees, very quiet and safety, the best location for living and office.

Price: US$1,500/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

Building For Rent located in on the BLVD street, 5000 sqm and price is US$35000 per month, 07 floors, very big parking lot, very good for schools, office and other business purpose.

Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

High Class Apartment For Rent Located in BKKI Area, 03 beds very large living room, fully & modern furnished, modern kitchen, very nice balcony, very high class in town, pool and gym, very good condition for living.

Price: US$2,500/m / 081 23 00 00

SERVICES RENT NO BLESS APARTMENT FOR SALE with lowet price. 12 floor with 3 bedroom. Tel: 012 840 0691 Bedroom Apartment 4 Rent $400/Month near Royal Palace 1Bedroom 1Bath, Roof Terrace Western Style, Fully Furnished Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 APARTMENT FOR RENT Price: $250/m,Bedroom 1 Fully furnished, Near Royal Tel: 078 85 58 85 LAO-Z- RESTAURANT JUNE Special: Grilled Chicken, Sticky Rice and Papaya Salad just for $5.

Lao beer for just a buck! #8, St.240 TEL 023 215 415

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SRENG BOU CAR SERVICE FOR RENT Long contract and Short contract Rental Per Month • Property Investment • Lexus Lx 470 year 2000 : 1250 $ • Villa for Sale • Lexus Lx 470 year 1999 : 1200 $ • Villa for Rent • Lexus Rx 300 year 2000 : 700 $ • Lexus Rx 300 year 1999 : 650 $ • Apartment for Sale • Honda CRV year 2000 : 500 $ • Apartment for Rent • Honda CRV year 1999 : 450 $ • Land for Sale • Toyota RAV4 year 2002 : 650 $ • Toyota RAV4 year 1999 : 500 $ • Land for Rent • Toyota RAV4 year 1998 : 450 $ Kindly to show in city or out of city • Toyota Highlander 2002 : 750 $ • Camry year 2002 : 650 $ #35 St 310, BKK I ,Phnom Penh • Camry year 2000 -2001 : 500 $ H/P : 012 891 845 / 016 33 00 25 • Camry year 1997-1999 : 450 $ Email : srengbou@yahoo.com • Landcruiser Year 2000 : 1200 $ Included Insurance Full Coverage address :#35 St 310, BKK I ,P.Penh H/P : 012 891 845 / 016 33 00 25 Email : srengbou@yahoo.com

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American Pacic School High quality programs for ESL: Preschool – Gr8, Khmer: Kindergarten – Gr6 and Foreign teachers who are native speakers. Register now for 2013-2014 Classes start: August 05, 2013 #100 St. Pasteur (St.51 St.200) Tel: (855)23 214 825 (Khmer/English) (855)15 716 727 (Khmer)/ (855)89 23 00 12 (Chinese).

E-mail: ppapsacis@gmail.com Web: www.aps.edu.kh

American Chinese International School (English - Chinese and Khmer) Pre-school, Kindergarten, Grade 1-2. Highly qualied teachers who are native speakers of English & Chinese.

Register now for 2013-2014 Classes start: August 26, 2013 #100 St. Pasteur (St.51 St.200) Tel: (855)23 214 825 (Khmer/English) (855)15 716 727 (Khmer) (855)89 23 00 12 (Chinese).

E-mail: ppapsacis@gmail.com Website: www.acis.edu.kh

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Now Enrolling for 2013-2014 Classes start: September 02, 2013 H/P: 023 998 244 / 077 851 852 / 012 231 885 www.ewiscambodia.org

BKK1 Area Apartment for Rent $550/M for 1Bedroom, 1Bath $600/Month for 2Bedroom, 2Bath Living room, Big Balcony, Nice Kitchen, Free Internet, Security Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 2Bedroom Apartment for Rent Near Central Market, Daun Penh $500/Month 2Bedroom 2Bath Big Living room, Nice Kitchen Fully Furnished, Big Balcony Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 2Bedroom Apartment 4 Rent $650/Month in BKK3 Area 2Bedroom 2Bath, Big Balcony Western Style, Fully Furnished Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 Villa for Rent: Good for Office $1500/Month Boeung Trobek Area 2Living room, 5Bedroom, 5Bath 4Cars Parking, Good for Office Nice Garden and Quiet Place Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 6Bedrooms Villa for Rent: $1800/Month near Russian Market 2Living room, 6Bedroom, 6Bath 7Cars Parking, Good for Office Nice Garden and Quiet Place Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958 6Bedrooms Villa for Rent: $3000/Month near Independent Monument, 2Living room 6Bedroom, 6Bath 4Cars Park Good for Living or Office Space Nice Garden and Quiet Place Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Western Apartment For Rent Located near Independent Monument, 02 beds, open living room, fully and modern furnished, western kitchen, very nice balcony, very quiet and safety area, very big parking lots, very good condition for living.Price: US$700/month Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Corner Office Space For Rent Located on the BLVD street, 150 sqm and US$2000 per month, big parking lot. Tel: 092 23 26 23 www.towncityrealestate.com

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

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

Tel: 012 96 66 05

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PROPERTIES House for sale, near Olympic market 15 by 25 meters, 2 floors, 11 rooms Call 017 996 241 Apart for Sale (ARC003514) Centrally located in BPL, 7-unit service apartment, all furnishing, 4 floors & 24h guard, L-Size: 190m Price : $ 530,000,Tel: 097 6182 888 NO BLESS APARTMENT FOR SALE with lowet price. 12 floor with 3 bedroom. Tel: 012 840 069 Apartment for rent No.15, St.1126, ToulKok Tel:012 667875, Em:royalhomeplace@gmail.com

2Bedroom Apartment for Rent $1200/Month in BKK1 Area Classic Design Big Living room 2Bedroom, 2Bath, Big Balcony Western Kitchen, 1Car Parking Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

24 HOURS SECURITY

Ultimate design swimming pool villa Area: Toul Kork, 5 beds, 7 baths Big swimming pool, Secure Cam, 3 floorModern furniture , Lot of light, Western Kitchen Price: 4000$/m Tel: 012 510 610

Penthouse 3 bedrooms near Russian Market 1 car park, Fully furnished modern, Western kitchen, very safe and quiet 24/7 h security guard, around 220sqm area Price: 1000$ / m, Tel: 012 510 610

Modern villa for rent in Basacc Garden City 4 beds, 5 baths, Nice interior design Big kitchen, big living rooms, 2 cars parking Very safe, 24/7h security guard, quiet Price: 2500$/m; Tel: 0122 510 610

Colonial villa, fully furnished in Toul Kork 3 bedrooms, 3bath, Western Kitchen Big yard, very safe, Near French Embassy Price: 1500$/m Tel: 012 510 610 www.cl-realty.com

Apartment 2 bedrooms, 2 baths 2mins walk to Independent Monument Fully furnished, western kitchen,Nice sitting balcony, many windows Price: 750$/ m, Tel: 012 510 610/ www.cl-realty.com

Penthouse on the forty floor, 2 beds Face to Independent monument is Park Very European design, Fully furnished Big open glass wall, fresh air comes inand light shine in from every corner Price: 800$/ m, Tel: 012 510 610

Big big villa with 8bedrooms 10 baths 2 big living rooms, good for OFFICE, 30 cars parking, Brand new building Location: Toul Kork, Price: 5000$ / m Tel: 012 510 610; www.cl-realty.com

Brand new service apartment with roof top swimming pool and gym, inclusive all utilities except electricity 1bed, 1bath, price: 750$, 3 beds price: 1400$, Area: Beoung Trabek Tel: 012 510 610.

Hidden villa for rent along quiet street 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, many trees, flowers western kitchen, fully furnished, 2 cars park Price: 1200$/m; Tel: 012 510 610 www.cl-realty.com

3Bedroom Apartment for Rent $1600/M near Independent Monument, Open Living room 3Bedroom, 4Bath, Free Internet Western Kitchen, 1Car Parking Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

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

Swimming Pool French villa in BKK1 Lots of trees and flowers, 5 bedrooms Renovating the whole house, fully furnished 2 floors, western kitchen, Price: 5000$/m Tel: 012 510 610; www.cl-realty.com

Town house in Bassacc Garden City 3 floors, 4 beds, 5 baths, furnished Western kitchen, safe for kids play outside big swimming pool and gym, Price: 1300$/m Tel: 012 510 610, www.cl-realty.com

Single floor house for rent in BKK1, 3 big beds with bath, big living room Big western kitchen, nice and lovely garden Some furniture, Big yard, Nice owner Price: 1900$/m; Tel: 012 510 610

Rent: $850 It is a nice and furnished apartment available for rent close to Independent Monument. It has 2 beds , 2 baths, living room, western kitchen and balcony. Tel: 067 960 999

Little house near Russian Market on street 420 Only 2 beds with baths, nice kitchen Medium size living room, fully furnished big garden with trees and flowers, small hut in the yard​. Price: 950$/m Tel: 012 510 610

Handy craft Swimming Pool Apartment for Ren: $850/M to $950/M Toul Tompoung or Russian Market Open Living room, 2Beds 2Baths, Balcony, Free Internet Western Kitchen, 1Car Parking Tel: 077 777 697

3 bedrooms new renovated villa in Toul Kok New furniture and fully furnished Big yard, very safe with security 24/7H Near French Embassy and Wat Phnom Price: 1300$/ m, Tel: 012 510 610

Nice villa 5 bedrooms, Area: Beoung Trabek 2 floors, nice and modern furniture, 5 cars parking, Good for office or resident Price: 1400$/ m, Tel: 012 510 610 www.cl-realty.com

FOR SALE

Suzuki sidekick 1992 for sale Price: 3000 Tel: 077 718 965 Western Apartment for Rent$600/Month near Independent Monument, Western Style 1Living room 1Bedroom 1Bath Free Internet and Cleaning Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Swimming pool on the roof top with gym apartment with lift, available 2 beds fully furnished, on street 57, Area: BKK1 Price: 1200$/ m; Tel: 012 510 610 / www.cl-realty.com

FOR SALE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER 1996 106 000 KM EXPAT MAINTAINED PERFECT FOR NGO 11 500 USD NEGOTIABLE PATRICE 012 644 169 SIEM REAP

Swimming Pool apartment in BKK1, 2 beds, 2 baths, big gym big pool, services available in there 24/7h security guard, lift and big balcony Price: 1350$/m; Tel: 012 510 610 www.cl-realty.com 5 bedrooms Villa for Rent Located in Boeung Trabek. 1500/m 1 big Living room, big yard Some furniture. Nice Kitchen Big Space for Parking 4 cars. Very good for living and office Tel: 077 777 657 Basac Garden Villa For Rent 2000$/m. 3 bedrooms, Big living room and dining area Nice Garden and some trees Contact Tel: 077 777869 www.cl-realty.com

Khmer Craft Collection is designing the products which is converted from traditional lepironia mat to modern material or equipments. Our products such as handbag, boxes, hat, and office/home/hotel materials. The action is impact on living condition of farmers and it conserves culture and natural environment. All products are handmade.Tel: 012 666 400 / 077 777 949. Email: khmercraft. collection@yahoo.com

FOR SALE Swimming Pool Apartment for Rent: Located BKK1 Area Free Internet, Swim-Pool, Gym $900/Month, Western Style 1Living room, 1Bedroom, 1Bath Tel: 077 777 697/ 012 939 958

Rent: $3500 It is a nice villa in Daun Penh area.

It has 5 beds, 5 baths and some furniture. It has big balcony, big yard & some tree.It is located in a very safe & quiet area. Tel: 017 45 70 70

Rent: $2000 per month It is western small villa available for rent in BKK. It has 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, large living room, large yard and nice garden.

Tel: 017 45 70 70

SIEM REAP

ModernVillaForRent(ARC011474) Located in Phnom Penh Tmei, gated community, 24h security, all fully furnished, nice interior design, 5-bed with bath, price: USD 1,500/ m Tel:016 666 192 | www.arc.com.kh Apartment For Rent (ARC009432) 3rd floor unit available in CKM , 1-bed, 2-bed, large rooftop swim- pool , nice garden, fully furnished, free wifi, 24h secu- guard,Price:$1,100/m Tel:016 666 192 | www.arc.com.kh Building For Rent (ARC010670) Commercial office on main road in CKM, suited location for bank & MFI office or business purpose. large parking lot, Price:$15,000 / m Tel :016 654 572 | www.arc.com.kh Building for Sale (ARC001170) On the main road, corner lot, in 7 Makara, all facilities included, large car park,7 floors , 2 elevators Price : $5,000,000 Tel : 097 6182 888 Hotel for Sale (ARC005892) Centrally located in S-Reap town, new building with all en-suite & fur nishing,large parking, elevator ,L-Size:2400m2, Price:$7,500,000, Tel 097 6182 888 | www.arc.com.kh NO BLESS APARTMENT FOR SALE with lowet price. 12 floor with 3 bedroom. Tel: 012 840 069 Nice Apartment in BKK 2 Rent: $500/month for two beds 1 Living room, nice balcony Fully Furnished, Nice Kitchen More light ,Motor Parking Tel: 077 777 657

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

FOR SALE For Sale Akira 34 inch tv, sony home Entertainment system, Hyundai, 30 watt computer stereo system, Sony dvd player, akira rotating fan with remote. Please call 095 982 692 Hotel for Sale (ARC006609) In heart of DP, 80 units en-suite bath and furnishing,8 floors & rooftop swimming pool, L-Size: 480m2, Price : $3,00,000,Tel : 097 6182 888 Condo For Rent (ARC009415) Brand new ,3- bed rooms en-suite, open kitchen & dining room, well decorated and fully furnished, all facilities available,Price: $1,600/m Tel: 016 666 192 | www.arc.com.kh Condo for Sale (ARC010748) In Bassac garden city, 24h-secu guard,10mn drive, all facilities & services available, plus pool, size: 160sqm, Price :$210,000, Tel : 097 6182 888. | www.arc.com.kh Building For Rent (ARC009987) Located in main business area ,on the main road in 7 Makara, corner lot, convenient floor, large parking lot, a/c 26, price:$ 10,900 / month Tel:016 807 817 | www.arc.com.kh

Tel: 012 96 66 05

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Sport Gunners target Higuain set to complete transfer

Gonzalo Higuain is on the verge of signing for Arsenal for £23 million ($34 million). The Argentinian striker is hoping to fly to London on Thursday evening to complete the move after Real Madrid gave him permission to formally reach agreement with the London club. Higuain, who has been talking to Arsenal for some time, had also received an offer from Juventus. But the Italians’ bid failed to convince Madrid and they instead signed Carlos Tevez. Higuain is expected to sign a deal on £100,000 ($150,000) a week, putting him among the club’s top earners, and Arsenal remain keen to pair him up front with Wayne Rooney should Manchester United be willing to let him go. tHE GUARDIAN

Hayne returns to NSW squad for Origin decider

Utility back Jarryd Hayne was named in an extended 20-man New South Wales squad on Sunday for next week’s State of Origin series decider against holders Queensland in Sydney.

Parramatta’s Hayne, one of the stars of NSW’s 14-6 win in the opening game, missed the second game won by Queensland with a hamstring injury. Hayne was one of three players heading into a training camp yesterday with fitness doubts along with skipper Paul Gallen (foot) and backrower Greg Bird (ankle). Josh Dugan was named at fullback with Hayne on the wing. AFp

McDowell takes French Open in ‘curious’ year

Graeme McDowell’s rollercoaster but brilliantly successful year continued with victory at the French Open near Paris. He has now claimed the Heritage Championship, the Volvo World Match Play Championship and the French title since the start of the year.

Until that run began McDowell had gone three years without a win. This season alone McDowell’s form his been curious. He has missed cuts at the PGA Championship, US Open, Irish Open, Players Championship, Northern Trust Open and the Masters. “It’s very special after the last couple of months,” McDowell said of his win, which earned him €500,000 ($643,000). tHE GUARDIAN

Corbin ends drought to see ’Backs past Rockies

Patrick Corbin earned his first win in more than a month as the Arizona Diamondbacks marched to a 6-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday. The 23-year-old Corbin (10-1), who last enjoyed a winning start on June 2, ended his drought just one day after being named a National League All Star. Corbin tossed eight strong innings and had 10 strikeouts for first-place Arizona (47-41), winners of five straight.

The Rockies suffered an injury to outfielder Carlos Gonzalez and pitcher Roy Oswalt with a hamstring ailment. REUTERS

BBU leave it late to shoot down Army HS Manjunath

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fter several tantalising twists and turns, Build Bright United snatched a 2-1 win over Ministry of National Defence deep into injury time to grab a place in the title-deciding Super Four contests as the 18-match double round Metfone C League phase concluded at the Olympic Stadium yesterday.

The match-winning goal

by Chan Chaya in the dying seconds of the game instantly killed NagaCorp’s hopes of making it to the last four. In the first fixture of the day, the Casino-backed side had drawn 1-1 with defending Champions Boeung Ket Rubber to go two points clear of BBU, leaving the universitybacked side in a desperately hard must-win situation.

Boeung Ket, who had grabbed the league honours with a couple of games to spare, had Svay Rieng and Phnom Penh Crown already lined up behind them in the Super Four frame.

A game that was clearly bereft of creativity in any shape or form most of the way, was seemingly heading to an inevitable draw when MND’s usually reliable and efficient goalkeeper Sou Yathy fumbled with a straight forward free kick collection.

Among a bunch of BBU players pouncing on the loose ball, Chan Chaya’s tapin proved decisive. In the most cruel fashion possible, two-time champions Naga, who would have celebrated any other outcome, were dealt a mortal blow.

Though the Army men shot into an early lead when Lam

Chan Dara of NagaWorld gets onto the end of a long ball as Sok Pheng of Boeung Ket Rubber Field looks on in their game at Olympic Stadium yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN

Sothin found the mark with a tidy finish on the run, it didn’t take long for BBU to draw level through Roeng Bunheang.

A second half of aimless exchanges produced nothing of note even as the Naga squad members were praying for any result other than a victory for BBU, who had seemed the most unlikely semi-final candidates after stumbling over one crisis after another during

the first half of the season.

In Saturday’s semi-finals, Boeung Ket will take on Build Bright United and Svay Rieng will go up against Phnom Penh Crown.

Taking the pitch earlier in the day, just one point ahead of BBU, Naga also shouldered the burden of having to beat the mighty Boeung Ket at all costs if they were to seal the Super Four deal without anxieties.

After both sets of forwards had kept the rival goalkeepers busy, a set piece success came Naga’s way when Teab Vathanak got round the Boeung Ket defensive wall with his free kick to find the net.

But the Naga cheer was to be shortlived as Boeung Ket levelled the score through substitute Sok Pheng. There were some close calls for both sides but neither could capitalise on their chances.

McKenzie to replace Deans as Wallabies coach Australian rugby chiefs are to fire national coach Robbie Deans and replace him with Queensland’s Ewen McKenzie today, reports said yesterday following the Wallabies’ series loss to the British and Irish Lions.

Deans will be sacked six months before his contract ends, as the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) seeks to rebuild after the national team’s 41-16 thrashing by the Lions in Saturday’s series-deciding third Test, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

ARU chief Bill Pulver met Deans yesterday, and reports said McKenzie had beaten off competition from the ACT Brumbies’ South African coach Jake White to take over the Wallabies.

News Limited said McKenzie, an Australian who is director of coaching at the Queensland Reds, would be unveiled as the new national trainer

today. An ARU spokesman would not confirm the reports. “We won’t be commenting on speculation,” he told AFP. McKenzie said in March that he would quit the Reds at the end of the Super Rugby season, saying he was ready to move to “the next level”. After joining in 2009, he guided the franchise to a first Super 15 championship in 2011 in addition to back-to-back Australian conference titles.

Deans, a New Zealander, has been in charge of the Wallabies for five years and is contracted until the end of the year. But the ARU is reportedly keen for a fresh start ahead of the Rugby Championship next month.

Earlier yesterday, British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland rallied behind his fellow Kiwi, highlighting his achievements and expressing

empathy for his plight. “I’ve got a huge amount of respect for what Robbie’s achieved in rugby,” he told reporters.

“I know it’s been really tough for him being here. There’s a lot of people split about whether he should carry on the job. There’s been a lot of criticism.

“It’s tough to have a Kiwi involved coaching an Australian side. I admire him for what he’s achieved in rugby.”

He added that he and Deans, the Wallabies’ first foreign coach who has been in charge of a record 74 Tests since 2008, chatted after Saturday’s game.

“He said he might get to see us in November but that depends on what happens in the next few weeks,” said Gatland, who is also the coach of Wales, referring to the Wallabies’ European tour later this year. “I do feel for him and want to wish him all the best. I hope it works out for him.”

Peter McGrath, the ARU chairman when Deans was hired and re-hired in 2011, also had words of encouragement, saying that he had not received enough credit for his achievements. ‘’I personally think Robbie is a fantastic human being and has done a great service for Australian rugby,’’ McGrath told the Herald.

“We were number five in the world when Robbie was appointed, we rose to number two and now we are number three. The board have to make a decision about how you get to number one – that is their task.’’

Australia’s next Test is against the world champion All Blacks in Sydney on August 17 – their opening match of the Rugby Championship, which includes South Africa and Argentina.

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Sky feel the heat as Tour rivals strike back One day after destroying the field in the first Pyrenean stage of the Tour de France, Team Sky were under the microscope on Sunday with only leader Chris Froome surviving the heat.

Garmin-Sharp riders, soon followed by the Movistar and Saxo-Tinkoff teams, attacked relentlessly in the first of five climbs on the 168.5 kilometre ninth stage in a bid to isolate Froome.

The plan worked as the Briton was quickly without a team-mate and left to fend off attacks on his own.

“Since the beginning we saw that Sky were in difficulty,” Ireland’s stage winner Dan Martin, one of the early attackers, told a news conference.

Although Froome eventually escaped unscathed in the overall standings, still leading Spain’s Alejandro Valverde by 1 minute, 25 seconds, the moves knocked out Sky’s Belarussian Vasil Kiryienka, who was eliminated from the race after finishing outside the time limit.

“It’s a huge thing,” Froome said. “He’s one of the big

engines in our team, we’re going to miss him in the next couple of weeks.”

Kiryienka was one of the riders with the task of setting the tempo in the climbs, which he did perfectly on Saturday.

Sky also had an early fright when Peter Kennaugh fell off his bike and into a ditch but the Briton recovered quickly.

Australian Richie Porte, second overall at the start of the stage in St Girons, was rapidly dropped and, after almost making contact with the lead group again, cracked to finish 17 minutes and 59 seconds off

the pace on the ninth stage.

He is now outside the top 30 overall and has lost all hope of a podium finish in Paris, which was one of Team Sky’s tactical goals.

“Definitely it’s always better to have two cards to play in that respect and having Richie in second place was a huge boost,” Froome said. “For me, that he was right there and could at any point put other riders under pressure was great. It leaves us a bit exposed.”

Froome, however, never panicked. “I wasn’t complete-

ly on my own, I had ([sports director] Nicolas Portal in the car talking to me,” he said.

Sky team principal Dave Brailsford said they could not take the race for granted. “Last night, everyone was saying ‘game over, let’s go and watch the tennis’, but no one knows what’s around the corner.”

With two weeks and a gruelling few days in the Alps left, Froome could be worried. He is not. “I don’t think it helps to worry about things. We’re here with what we’ve got,” he added referring to the yellow jersey. REUTERS

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Murray ends Britain’s long wait Martyn Herman

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HE last few heart-pounding strides towards the summit proved the most precarious for Andy Murray as he beat Novak Djokovic to end a 77-year British jinx at Wimbledon on a Sunday that will forever be etched in the nation’s sporting fabric.

The record books will show an almost routine 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win for the boy from Dunblane, but the three hours nine minutes it took to finish off a slightly below-par Djokovic felt like an eternity.

It was more tortuous than any of the five-set thrillers that Murray has contested in his career – most recently when he came from two sets down to beat Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals to keep the dream alive.

With the 15,000 people on a baking Centre Court bellowing his name and millions glued to TV screens around the country, Murray stepped up to serve at 5-4 needing four points to emulate Fred Perry, who won the last of his three titles here in 1936.

Three points later, amid a cacophony of sound that even surpassed the decibel level reached when he won Olympic gold on the same stage last year, it was 40-0.

But this most unpredictable of Wimbledons, a tournament stacked with shocks and unexpected turns, was not about to let Murray achieve British sporting immortality without one final, stomach-churning, twist.

World number one Djokovic, who was ahead in both the second and third sets only to be engulfed by a tide of patriotic fervour, saved all three and then had a point to make it 5-5 after dribbling a drop volley off the net tape.

Had he done so the statue of Perry perched in the grounds of the All England Club might still be casting a shadow over British tennis. But Murray, whose broad shoulders have carried home hopes for nearly

Andy Murray of Britain holds the trophy under a statue of former British champion Fred Perry at Wimbledon yesterday. Murray wiped out 77 years of pain on Sunday when he became the first British man since 1936 to win the Wimbledon men’s title. REUTERS

a decade, would not stumble. With his pulse racing and nerves on fire he conjured up a fourth matchpoint and this time Djokovic succumbed, netting a backhand to spark cheers from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

“It’s the hardest few points I’ve had to play in my life,” a dazed Murray said. “That last game went, my head was everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I’ll play in my career, ever.”

Twelve months ago Murray’s Wimbledon dream was crushed by Roger Federer on the same stage – yet that tear-jerking defeat proved to be a watershed for the obstinate 26-year-old.

A few weeks later he claimed the Olympic gold medal before beating Djokovic to win the US Open and his first grand slam title after four times falling at the final hurdle.

Despite those milestones, Murray knew that becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon in shorts would ultimately define his career.

“For the last four or five years it’s been very, very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure,” Murray said.

“I felt a little bit better this year than I did last year. But it’s not easy.

I think now it will become easier – I hope it will.”

When Perry thrashed Germany’s Gotfried von Cramm 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 in 1936 – the same year the BBC made the world’s first television broadcast and Jesse Owens won four Olympic golds in pre-war Berlin, it proved to be his swansong.

Approaching his athletic peak and with age and injuries catching up with 17-time grand slam champion Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, Murray could have several more memo-

rable Sundays on Centre Court in the next few years.

The opening three games on Sunday took 20 minutes with a succession of punishing baseline rallies leaving both men gasping in the hottest temperatures of the fortnight.

“The first few games were brutal,” said Murray, who climbed into the stands to hug every member of his sizeable entourage, beginning with coach Ivan Lendl, after kneeling with his head bowed on the grass.

“It was a physically, incredibly demanding match.”

Murray was the early aggressor, earning the first break of serve in the third game – by which time both players were sweat-soaked.

Djokovic hit back immediately, but Murray broke again for a 4-3 lead and clinched an absorbing opening set in an hour – just as he had done

against Federer a year earlier when he went on to lose the next three.

Murray trailed 4-1 in the second set, but Djokovic handed back the break of serve with a double-fault and Murray levelled for 4-4 after saving two break points.

Serving at 5-5 Djokovic began to lose his cool, arguing with umpire Mohamed Lahyani about a line call and Murray pounced to move ahead 6-5 before claiming the second set with an ace.

Six-time grand slam champion Djokovic seemed to have given up on a second Wimbledon crown when he went 2-0 down in the third set – but then he reeled off four consecutive games.

There was a sigh of relief as Murray stopped the rot, and at 4-4 the Scot played two incredible points to move to within one successful service game of glory.

Even the statue of the late Perry might have perspired during the next 13 minutes, but Murray would not be denied.

“The bottom line is he was a better player in decisive moments,” Djokovic said. “He played fantastic tennis, no question about it. He deserved to win.”

After Sunday’s drama, though with little rest, Murray said yesterday that he is determined to push on from his stunning Wimbledon win and add further Grand Slam titles to his achievements.

Speaking after a near sleepless night, Murray returned to his press duties in the early morning hailed as a national hero.

“I need to try and improve and use this hopefully as a springboard to try and get better,” he told BBC Five Live.

“I may never win another slam, I don’t know, but I’m going to try as hard as I can and keep working hard and not worry about all of the other stuff that comes along with winning Wimbledon. And after a few days I will enjoy this and get back to work. REUTERS/AFP

Vettel takes German GP as safety fears again at fore Safety concerns were again to the fore in Formula One after a cameraman was struck by a loose wheel during a German Grand Prix that ended with Sebastian Vettel finally winning on home soil.

Seven days after a succession of dangerous blowouts at Silverstone left the drivers threatening a boycott of the race at the Nurburgring, the sport experienced another serious incident.

Briton Paul Allen, who works for Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Management company, was hit on the back by a careering wheel that passed through four teams in the pit lane, forcing mechanics to dive out of the way.

The right rear wheel had ripped loose and bounced up after being incorrectly fitted to Mark Webber’s Red Bull at his first pit stop after eight laps.

Allen was bowled over and hit his head on the tarmac.

Mechanics rushed to his aid and, still conscious, he was taken on a stretcher to the medical centre before being transferred by helicopter to Koblenz hospital 65 kilometres away.

Allen suffered two broken ribs, a broken collarbone, concussion and bruising. It is understood he was being kept in hospital for observation.

McLaren’s team principal, Martin Whitmarsh, said: “The wheel came bouncing through our pit area; it was pretty scary. Those of us who were around 25 years ago without speed limits could smell the inherent danger.

“We have become a little bit complacent. I have to say he is going to be sore because the wheel came past at a huge rate and I saw it hit him in the back. They are bloody heavy.

At that speed you’d have known all about it.”

Red Bull were fined €30,000 (£25,800) for the unsafe release of the car. Their team principal, Christian Horner, calling for a review of pit-lane safety, said: “The wheel did not locate properly, and then it detached itself from the car with a lot of energy.

“The most important thing is that fundamentally he is OK. It is definitely a timely reminder that life in the pit lane is still pretty dangerous. We did not tell Mark until after the race.”

The incident comes four weeks after marshal Mark Robinson, 38, was killed after being run over by a recovery crane during the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

There was no repeat of the blowouts at the British Grand Prix after Pirelli reintroduced tyres with stronger Kevlar belts and teams had to conform with set-up and camber limits on safety grounds.

However, in another bizarre incident, the Marussia of Jules Bianchi – which he had parked on the grass after his Cosworth engine exploded into flames and white smoke – started rolling backwards onto the circuit just as the tractor arrived to tow it away. It rolled across the track as Vettel and Romain Grosjean came into view.

With both drivers forced to slow, the car continued to trundle across the grass on the other side of the circuit, its momentum halted by an advertising board. The safety car was deployed, bunching up the field, but Vettel had already powered past pole winner Lewis Hamilton.

That was the end of Hamilton’s hopes of claiming his first

Red Bull Racing’s Mark Webber loses a tyre as he leaves the pits at the Nurburgring on Sunday .

win for Mercedes with the car’s weak point – tyre wear – dropping him down the field.

It took a thrilling move on Jenson Button, who had started ninth in his McLaren, for Hamilton to snatch fifth on the final lap from his former team-mate.

“I’ve got nothing positive to say about these tyres,” said Hamilton, still fourth overall but 58 points behind the world champion Vettel.

“Clearly, we’ve got a good car but it just doesn’t work on these tyres. There is no point thinking about the championship now.”

Vettel’s only threat came from the Lotus duo of Kimi Raikkonen and Grosjean, who adopted different tyre strategies. Raikkonen led until pitting late for a “maximum attack” on soft tyres. But despite Grosjean being ordered to let him pass with five laps

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left, Vettel held on to win his 30th GP by one second.

“It is incredible to finally win at home – unbelievable really,” said Vettel, who leads Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, who finished fourth, by 34 points with Raikkonen seven further adrift going into the next race in Hungary in three weeks’ time.

“It just feels very, very sweet to have succeeded after a couple of tries.” THE GUARDIAN