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Eddie Morton
Analysis
AS MUCH as $320 million is being lost
annually as a result of Cambodias reli-
ance on the US dollar, while a long-
standing mistrust in the riel means
there is less of the local currency in cir-
culation, restricting the national banks
ability to respond in times of economic
crisis, the countrys leading voices on
the economy say.
Cambodias loss of seigniorage the
vaule a country gains in producing its
own currency equates to about 2 per
cent of total GDP, Jayant Menon, lead
economist at the ADBs office of region-
al integration, estimates.
Menon is urging the National Bank of
Cambodia to consider installing a new
mechanism that could govern riel
exchange rates and assist in de-dollar-
ising Cambodias economy.
There is a lot of money there. This is
why I have proposed for Cambodia to
consider a currency board arrangement
as an interim measure in the effort
toward de-dollarisation. That would
allow Cambodia to recoup some of the
seigniorage losses, he said.
Cambodia is currently the most dol-
larised economy in all of Asia, with an
estimated 85 per cent of all currency in
circulation being US dollars.
In 2010, however, when the US dol-
lar circulation was at 80 per cent, the
International Monetary Fund esti-
mated Cambodias seigniorage losses
to be as high as 19 per cent of GDP.
May Kalyan, senior adviser to the
Supreme National Economic Council
of Cambodia, said the very idea of
large-scale seigniorage losses should
trigger a change in thinking from the
NBC, the government and the Cam-
bodian people.
[Dollarisation] is not a bad thing in
retrospect, he said, citing Cambodias
7 per cent year-on-year growth and
foriegn direct investment inflows as
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Resettlement
request still
being mulled
Cheang Sokha and Alice Cuddy
CAMBODIA has yet to decide whether
it will agree to a controversial request
to resettle refugees from Australias off-
shore detention centres, the interior
minister said yesterday.
Speaking at the opening of two new
general directorates within the Min-
istry of Interior charged with han-
dling immigration issues and the
provision of identity documents,
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said he is
still considering the proposal.
As of now we have not decided yet,
Kheng told reporters. It is being [con-
sidered], but no decision has been
made at all.
According to Foreign Minister Hor
Namhong, his Australian counterpart,
Julie Bishop, made the request during
a meeting with Prime Minister Hun
Sen in February.
Since then, little has been disclosed
about the details of the request. This
Meas Sokchea
S
ENIOR Cambodian Peoples
Party figures who have been
at the forefront of negotia-
tions with the opposition
party yesterday offered lukewarm
responses to the prospect of restart-
ing talks that would bring an end to
the oppositions seven-month-long
parliamentary boycott.
Their position that the opposition
party was wrong to reject a deal dis-
cussed at length between Prime Min-
ister Hun Sen and Sam Rainsy earlier
this month after weeks of backroom
talks confirmed speculation that
while the political deadlock had shown
promising signs of ending before
Khmer New Year, two weeks on, the
parties are no closer to an agreement.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Interior Sar Kheng responded yes-
terday to reporters questions , with
seeming exasperation about further
negotiations, which stalled after Hun
Sen said on April 10 that Cambodia
National Rescue Party deputy leader
Kem Sokha was holding up a deal.
Now I will ask you two questions.
Who should we meet with? And if we
meet, what are we supposed to talk
about? Where should we start from
now because we have gone all the
way from the lower level to the top
level [in negotiations] and in the end,
the result was kicked out by the
CNRP, he said.
Now where should negotiations
start from? I dont know, said Kheng,
speaking after a ceremony where he
appointed the director-general of the
newly formed Department of Immi-
gration at his ministry.
However, he continued, the CPP
would still be willing to talk with the
CNRP, but with the onus resting on
the opposition to request further
negotiations
Before the New Year holiday, Rainsy
and Hun Sen had reportedly agreed
on a number of aspects of reform,
including the overhaul of the Nation-
al Election Committee and that the
next election be brought forward to
February 2018.
In a move that many interpreted as
part of a divide and conquer
approach, the premier placed the
blame squarely at the feet of Sokha,
Deal falters, blame begins
CPP calls CNRP deputy deant
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who was away in the Unit-
ed States, for not agreeing
to that proposal when the
deal faltered.
In response, Rainsy denied
there was any split between
himself and Sokha, and said
that he had never agreed to a
February 2018 election date.
He added that the CNRP was
holding out for an election
to be held at least a year ear-
lier than the scheduled July
2018 date.
Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam
Yeap yesterday echoed Kheng
in expressing pessimism about
future talks.
Following the prime min-
isters line, he said no agree-
ment could be made while
Sokha remained deant, but
congratulated Rainsys alleged
exibility in comparison, add-
ing that negotiations could re-
sume when Hun Sen returns
from an ofcial visit to Belarus
this Saturday.
Rainsy ew to Europe on
April 13 and Sokha remains
in the United States, though
both are expected to return
to the Kingdom in the com-
ing days.
But [I think] that if the
negotiations cannot reach
a good result, not doing it is
better because it wastes time.
[The parties might] nearly be
in accord but just being nearly
[in agreement] is not an agree-
ment at all, Yeap said.
Rainsy did not respond to
emailed requests for com-
ments before press time.
CNRP spokesman Yem Pon-
harith said he was not sur-
prised that the CPP was not
keen on further negotiations.
He added that his party
was remaining rm on three
key points namely an early
election, NEC overhaul and
a TV licence being granted to
the opposition.
Regarding these three
points that we have taken to
propose, there does not seem
to be any points that the Cam-
bodian Peoples Party [is seri-
ous] about wanting to do at
all, he said.
If they dont want to nego-
tiate . . . we should let people
who are the voters solve this.
Political commentator Kem
Ley yesterday said he was dis-
appointed in both parties for
focusing on political conces-
sions in negotiations instead
of meaningful reforms.
They are organising for
winning an election, not [to
create] a free and fair elec-
tion, he said.
Before Khmer New Year
was just a politicians agenda
. . . [and] not in the countrys
interest. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH
Political deal falters,
blame game begins
Prime Minister Hun Sen and CNRP president Sam Rainsy leave a meet-
ing at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh last year. HENG CHIVOAN
Concerns ahead of trial for 23
Sean Teehan

O
N THE eve of the
trial of 23 people
arrested during a
garment strike in
January, their supporters yes-
terday expressed concern that
politics, rather than the facts,
may determine the verdict.
Nearly four months after
their arrests at protests on
January 2 and 3 the day that
authorities killed at least four
people when they red au-
tomatic ries into crowds on
Veng Sreng Boulevard all 23
will stand trial today.
The [largest] concern for
us is that the ruling party will
keep them as political hos-
tages, said Moeun Tola, head
of the labour program at the
Community Legal Education
Center (CLEC), which is pro-
viding legal representation
for some defendants. If the
court really depends . . . on the
law, the charges against the 23
should be dropped.
Phnom Penh Municipal
Court charged a large majority
of detainees with intentional
violence and damage, crimes
that carry a maximum of ve
years in prison and $2,500 in
nes. The court later reduced
charges against three suspects
including Independent De-
mocracy of Informal Economy
Association (IDEA) president
Vorn Pov to charges carrying
a maximum of two years.
Defendants were arrested
outside the Yakjin garment
factory on January 2 and on
Veng Sreng Boulevard the next
day. Two were later released
on bail, while 21 were held
at Kampong Chams Correc-
tional Centre 3 until they were
brought to Phnom Penhs Prey
Sar prison on Wednesday.
Unsure about what evidence
the prosecution has against
those arrested, Naly Pilorge,
head of rights group Licadho,
which is also providing legal
representation, said the de-
fences evidence includes up to
52 witnesses and video footage.
With the number of [the
defences] witnesses and
documents . . . we expect this
[trial] to be longer than a day,
Pilorge said yesterday.
Evidence has already been
sent to the courthouse, said
Kim Socheat, one of the attor-
neys representing Pov.
I expect the court will re-
lease my client and the other
people, because they are not
guilty, Socheat said.
Representatives from ma-
jor brands, embassies and
unions are expected to attend
the trial. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
MOM KUNTHEAR
Seven men detained by military police lie on the ground with their hands bound at the scene of deadly
clashes on Phnom Penhs Veng Sreng Boulevard in January. RFA
National
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UN envoy hits out at
Freedom Park cutoff
Kevin Ponniah
THE United Nations special
rapporteur on freedom of as-
sembly has called the Cambo-
dian authorities continuous
blockade of Freedom Park, the
enforcement of which saw se-
curity guards attack journalists
and supporters of opposition
lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua on
Monday, deeply disturbing.
The authorities have no le-
gal basis for using violence in
response to a peaceful assem-
bly. They also have no basis for
banning peaceful assemblies,
Maina Kiai, the Kenyan law-
yer who monitors the rights to
freedom of peaceful assembly
and association worldwide as
a special envoy of the UN, said
in an email on Wednesday.
Kiai said he had seen no in-
formation contradicting me-
dia and civil society reports
that the gathering was entire-
ly peaceful, and there was no
legitimate reason to halt it or
to use force in response.
Sochua has repeatedly tried
to enter Freedom Park this
month to draw attention to
what she says is the critical
state of freedom of expres-
sion in Cambodia. Despite
the governments lifting of a
general ban on public assem-
bly in February, the capitals
designated protest space has
been kept off limits to demon-
strators and gatherings with
political undertones.
The right to freedom of as-
sembly is about preserving
pluralism, and pluralism is
essential in a democracy. We
might not always agree with
what a person or a group says,
but we must defend their right
to say it, said Kiai, who paid
an unofcial visit to Cambodia
in February when the ban was
in place.
The overall atmosphere for
civil discourse and space in
Cambodia seems to have tak-
en a sour turn in the months
since I visited, particularly
on the legislative front, he
said, referring to proposed
laws on NGOs, cybercrime
and trade unions.
City Hall has characterised
Mondays violence as part of
law enforcement and accused
Sochua of incitement for po-
litical gain. On Tuesday, Soch-
ua announced that she would
take legal action against Daun
Penh Deputy District Governor
Sok Penh Vuth, who reportedly
ordered security guards to at-
tack the crowd on Monday.
Anonymous vows revenge
Kevin Ponniah

A
NONYMOUS Cam-
bodia has pledged to
attract more follow-
ers and ramp up at-
tacks on government websites
in response to the arrest earlier
this month of two members of
the international hacktivist
groups local arm.
We will start [the attacks]
when there are more support-
ers in order to help release
our two members, says a
post on a Facebook page with
the groups name, which was
launched on Tuesday and al-
ready has gained more than
8,000 likes.
Anonymous around the
world will join us in order
to topple the government of
Cambodia, the statement
warned. We will not forget
about [those] who arrested
our members. We will not for-
give them and we will contin-
ue our work.
The group lists the National
Police website, which an-
nounced the previously secret
arrests on Tuesday, as a target.
It has also uploaded a vid-
eo to YouTube purporting to
teach new members how to
conduct Distributed Denial
of Service (DDoS) attacks that
can take websites ofine.
We [will] start 10 times,
1,000 times and 10,000 times
stronger than before. From
now on there is no end, an-
other post warns.
Two 21-year-old members
of the group were arrested
on April 7. Bun King Mong-
kolpanha, or Black Cyber,
and Chu Songheng, or Zoro,
face accusations of computer
hacking that can carry prison
terms of up to two years.
According to the police state-
ment, Songheng had claimed
he had not participated in any
attacks and was merely trying
to learn hacking skills.
Police say they arrested the
pair after eight months of
investigation with the help
of the US Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
Dim Chaoseng, the pairs
lawyer, said on Tuesday that a
trial date had yet to be set and
that he hoped to a receive the
case le next week.
Chaoseng added that he
would seek to convince the
judge that his clients were
merely students trying to learn
about information technol-
ogy through hacking and so
should be re-educated rather
than brought to trial.
Members of Anonymous Cambodia arrested on April 7 pose for photos. Anonymous Cambodia has sworn to
up efforts to recruit more members and increase its assault on government websites. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Joe Freeman
PROSECUTORS at the Khmer
Rouge tribunal are requesting
that alleged acts of sexual vio-
lence be added to the investiga-
tion in government-opposed
Case 004.
According to yesterdays fil-
ing from international co-
prosecutor Nicholas Kou-
mjian, forced marriages, with
instances in which groups of
up to 80 couples were wed in
a single ceremony, rape and
sexual violence outside the
context of forced marriage,
execution following rape and
the killing of women who
reported rapes are all among
the new allegations.
The acts, which took place
sometime in the mid-to-late
1970s during Pol Pots Demo-
cratic Kampuchea, were alleg-
edly perpetrated by Khmer
Rouge cadres in areas where
named suspects in Case 004
held command or political
positions of influence, accord-
ing to the filing.
Though the identities of Case
004s defendants who have
not been officially charged with
a crime are technically confi-
dential, they were long ago
revealed to be Ta An, Ta Tith
and Im Chem.
It will now be up to the Office
of Co-Investigating Judges to
decide whether to pursue the
new evidence or stick with
allegations laid out in the orig-
inal introductory submission
in 2009.
The new evidence became
available from civil party appli-
cations for the current case
against defendants Khieu Sam-
phan and Nuon Chea, and in
statements from witnesses
interviewed for Case 004, which
has yet to come to trial. Claims
of forced marriage will also be
heard in the next phase of Case
002, which is expected to com-
mence in the coming months.
The new evidence in Case
004 constitutes crimes against
humanity including extermi-
nation, murder, enslavement,
imprisonment, torture, rape,
persecution and other inhu-
mane acts, the filing says.
Court rules stipulate that
supplementary submissions
from prosecutors remain con-
fidential, but they allow for an
objective summary to be
made public.
International Co-Investigat-
ing Judge Mark Harmon, who
is also responsible for investi-
gating Case 003, which was split
from Case 004 and is also gov-
ernment-opposed, did not
respond to a request for com-
ment made through the courts
public affairs section. Harmon
is believed to be flying solo on
the investigations, without
active help from his Cambodian
counterpart, You Bunleng.
Long Panhavuth, a lawyer
with the Cambodia Justice Ini-
tiative, welcomed the public
nature of the filing, but urged
more transparency in the case,
in particular more information
on its progress and better
access to the case file for the
relevant parties.
None of them [the suspects],
including their lawyer, have
access to the case file, Pan-
havuth said, a restriction he
called outrageous.
Marc Harmon should under-
stand his role as investigating
judge, he said. I think that
after almost two years from his
arrival in the country, the pub-
lic and the victims should know
what is going on.
National
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Sex charges
Broker in
court over
teen case
A
VIETNAMESE woman was
charged yesterday over
allegations that she sup-
plied a teenager, also from Viet-
nam, to be used as a prostitute by
Chinese businessmen in hotels in
Phnom Penh.
Chea Meth, vice prosecutor at
Phnom Penh Municipal Court,
said 25-year-old Le Thiyim, a
massage parlour worker, was
charged with procurement
of prostitution.
Her case now has been sent
to investigative judge for further
decision, he said yesterday.
Thiyim was arrested at her
rental house in Daun Penh dis-
tricts Phsar Thmey II commune
on Sunday, according to the chief
of Phnom Penhs Anti-Human
Trafcking and Juvenile Protec-
tion Unit, Lieutenant Colonel
Keo Thea.
She was a broker. She brought
a Vietnamese girl aged 14 to have
sex with Chinese men in hotels in
Phnom Penh in exchange for get-
ting commissions, he said.
He added that following
questioning of the victim earlier
this month police understand
that the girl was paid $100 per
encounter, half of which went to
Thiyim. BUTHREAKSMEY KONGKEA
Oz request
is mulled

week, for the first time since the
proposal was made public, the
office of the UN High Commis-
sioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
criticised the plan.
In an email to the Post last
night, Vivian Tan, a spokes-
woman for the UNHCR in
Bangkok, said it goes against
the spirit of resettlement if
refugees are moved to another
country where they may not
be able to enjoy their rights at
the same level.
She added that such a pro-
posal could be an attempt
by a signatory to the refugee
convention to divest itself of
its responsibility.
Earlier this month, specula-
tion was rife that a deal had
been closed when Australian
Immigration Minister Scott
Morrison visited Phnom Penh
to meet with Kheng.
At the time, Morrisons ofce
said that he was here to fur-
ther discussions on regional
cooperation on people-smug-
gling issues.
In an interview with Fairfax
Media in Australia this week,
Morrison said a countrys
economic capacity is irrel-
evant to his planned expan-
sion of a club of nations to
take refugees.
When you have a country
thats willing to be engaged in
it, an experienced country that
is willing to sponsor it and a
third country that is a signatory
country like Nauru that is also
party to all of this . . . That would
seem to be a positive thing.
Phil Robertson, Human
Rights Watch deputy director
for Asia, said that even though
Cambodia had ratied the
refugee convention, any deal
Australia made with the King-
dom would be tarnished.
If you scan the entire region
and look at different govern-
ments, who would be most
likely to take, basically, Austra-
lian blood money, it would be
Cambodia, he said.
They have the protection
of having ratied the refugee
convention . . . If theyre go-
ing to move them from Na-
uru, Nauru has also ratied
the convention. So theyre
trying to say they are moving
them from one signatory to
another.
Australia has processing
centres on Nauru, in the South
Pacic, and Papua New Guin-
eas Manus Island.
Ou Virak, Cambodian Center
for Human Rights chairman,
said Cambodias human rights
record does not bode well for
taking on other countries ref-
ugees. [Australia] knows all
about Cambodias poor record
on human rights, he said.
Sister Denise Coghlan, direc-
tor of the Jesuit Refugee Service,
agreed. Cambodia has enough
poor of its own to care for with-
out taking in Australias, she
said, adding that the legal sys-
tem needs to be strengthened
to protect the rights of refugees
before Cambodia agrees to
the resettlement.
The Australian Embassy de-
clined to comment. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY DANIEL PYE
Prime Minister Hun Sen welcomes Australian Foreign Minister Julie
Bishop for a meeting in Phnom Penh in February. AFP
Sean Teehan
T
HE president of Cam-
bodias largest inde-
pendent garment
worker union is ap-
pealing conditions of his bail,
which comes with a $25,000
bond and forbids him from
holding public gatherings.
Attorneys for Ath Thorn,
president of the Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Work-
ers Democratic Union
(C.CAWDU), led an appeal
to the Court of Appeal on
Wednesday, Thorn said.
We plan to complain
against the judge and also
the prosecutor, because . . .
we are not related with this
[complaint], and also they are
charging too much money.
The complaint that led to the
bail and the restrictions was
led against Thorn in Phnom
Penh Municipal Court by Sath
Sophai, a security guard at
the SL Garment factory who
alleges Thorn and co-defen-
dant Pav Phanna incited sev-
eral violent incidents during a
C.CAWDU-led strike between
August and December.
Thorn and supporters began
raising money for bail at the
beginning of the week, Thorn
said. Initially thought to be due
earlier, the money can now
be paid in early May, because
Thorn did not receive notica-
tion of the bail requirement im-
mediately after it was issued.
Due to the restrictions,
Thorn will not take a leader-
ship role in a planned Interna-
tional Labour Day gathering in
the capital on May 1, he said.
Thorns comments came
after he spoke at the begin-
ning of a two-day workshop
of union, government and in-
dustry members yesterday.
By the conferences end today,
Tun Sophorn, national project
director of the International
Labour Organization, hopes
the group will agree on a new
system of setting a minimum
wage. They could then propose
it to the Ministry of Labours
Labour Advisory Committee.
While the country is in need
of a mechanism for setting
minimum wages, there is also
an immediate need for higher
wages, said Dave Welsh, coun-
try manager for labour rights
group Solidarity Center.
Have as many workshops
as you wish . . . but raise wages
now, Welsh said.
Union leader
rejects ruling
People attend the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
during a session of the Khmer Rouge trials in 2012. ECCC
Request made to add acts of
sexual violence to Case 004
Med students wont boycott test
Years rst acid attack to trial
Chhay Channyda
MEDICAL students who vowed
on Sunday to boycott the first
government-ordered national
exams under claims of discrim-
ination backtracked on their
threats yesterday.
Da Nhel, 27, a representative
of the student doctors, said that
just hours after threatening to
boycott the exams, which were
approved by the Council of
Ministers and the Ministry of
Health, all 133 students decid-
ed to register for the tests.
Our protest failed. We had no
choice but to register to take the
exam because its [a decision]
from the ministry, we cant
confront them, Nhel said.
A staff member at the Univer-
sity of Health Sciences who
declined to be named con-
firmed that 100 per cent of
medical students are now
signed up to sit the tests.
A representative of the
dentistry students could not
be reached.
The exams to be taken at the
end of medical and dentistry
degrees to determine whether
students can qualify to practise
were approved under a sub-
decree in 2007, but this is the
first year they are being held.
More than 180 medical and
dentistry students from the
University of Health Sciences
had threatened to join the boy-
cott, claiming that the exams
discriminate against state uni-
versity students as they are not
compulsory for those studying
at private institutions.
The students said that
because the sub-decree was
signed after they had started
their studies, the exams should
not be compulsory.
One student, who asked not
to be named, said Minister of
Health Mam Bunheng tricked
them into signing their names
on a document that said they
supported the national exams.
Bunheng could not be
reached for comment. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Mom Kunthear and
Amelia Woodside
A 26-YEAR-OLD woman
accused of attacking her sleep-
ing husband with acid on Tues-
day in Banteay Meanchey will
be the third person tried under
the Acid Law, a court official
and NGO said yesterday.
In what was the first recorded
attack this year, Tor Rachany
allegedly threw acid on Hak Ay,
41, after he threatened to divorce
her during an argument, author-
ities said on Wednesday.
Rachany will be tried under
Article 20 of the Acid Law,
accused of intentionally violent
use of concentrated acid, pro-
vincial deputy prosecutor Long
Cheap said.
The maximum sentence is
five years paired with a potential
fine of 10 million riel ($2,500).
However, lengthier terms can
be handed down to those who
plan the attack in advance, stage
an ambush or commit torture
before or during the attack.
Ay was transferred yesterday
from Sisophon Referral Hospital
to Mongkol Borei Referral Hos-
pital because of the severity of
his injuries, said Sin Sarou, an
emergency department officer.
We are concerned with his
left eye because it was so seri-
ously attacked by the acid and
may be lost, Sarou said.
Mongkol Borei Referral Hos-
pital officials could not be
reached yesterday.
Were monitoring the situa-
tion so we can follow up with
the survivor and offer medical
and psychological support,
said Erin Bourgois, program
manager at the Cambodian
Acid Survivors Charity.
Passed in November 2011, the
Acid Law, which imposed harsh
new sentences for perpetrators,
was designed to deter attacks.
Statistics suggest that it has
been successful. The reported
number of acid attacks fell dra-
matically to just three in 2013,
since peaking at 27 in 2010.
But while reported acid
attacks have decreased signifi-
cantly, sentences have been
handed down in only two
instances under the new law.
The first case, in Kampong
Cham, saw a man sentenced to
a decade in prison and fined
$5,000 in June 2012 for brutally
dousing a woman in acid, while
the second, in Phnom Penh,
saw a man sentenced in Janu-
ary 2013 to five years for throw-
ing battery acid at his ex-wife
after she told him she planned
to remarry.
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Eager to make friends,
man makes enemies
WHEN youre blind drunk, you
often want to be everyones
friend. Equally as often, those
less drunk dont feel the same
way. One man in the capitals
Meanchey district learned this
the hard way when he awoke to
a very sobering assault charge
on Friday morning. The night
before, the man, already inebri-
ated, approached six men
drinking beer on the street and
demanded they let him join in
the fun. Unimpressed, the men
gave him a can and urged him
on his way. When the drunkard
kept hanging around, the men
asked a security guard to escort
him away. Reacting with anger,
the man hit the guard in the
face with his beer can. He was
arrested. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Police arrest woman in
suspected dealing case
A FORMERLY retired criminal in
Poipet town is regretting her
decision to return to her old
ways after being arrested for
drug dealing on Wednesday.
The woman, 31, had quite a
delivery business going on
before sensing authorities wis-
ing up to her operation. She lay
low for a while, but unable to
help herself, soon reopened for
business. Villagers tipped the
police off and she was arrested
with 16 packages of metham-
phetamine. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Bored friends spice up
day with alleged theft
IT WAS as amateurish an auto
theft as it gets. Two men, 25
and 27, decided during the
Khmer New Year to end their
unemployment blues by dab-
bling, for the first time, in crime.
When a woman, 32, parked her
motorbike outside a market in
Poipet, the two wannabe crime
kings stole it. The owner need-
ed only to shout for help and
police nearby came to her aid,
arresting the men with ease. A
confession, though perhaps
redundant given the circum-
stances, came swiftly. NOKORWAT
Motorbike madness in
capital hospitalises two
TEENAGE gang rivalry isnt the
harmless fun it used to be. Two
high school students were left
in hospital on Wednesday night
after being attacked with what
police described as machetes.
The students, both 18, were
enjoying a motorbike cruise
through the streets of the capi-
tals Chamkarmon district with
others when 10 men on motor-
bikes gave chase. It ended in
the thugs hacking the teenag-
ers in the head and back. Police
believe revenge was a motive
and are on the hunt for the cul-
prits. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Hit-and-run puts man in
hospital with broken leg
A HIT-AND-RUN left a 35-year-
old with a broken leg in the cap-
ital on Wednesday. The man
was riding a motorbike home
from work in Prampi Makara
district when a speeding car
crashed into him in a desperate
bid to overtake. The driver sped
off into the distance. Police said
the suspect will face a number
of charges when or if he is
hauled in. KOHSANTEPHEAP

Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Employment Opportunites
Initally established in 1996 as a project of Internatonal HIV/AIDS Alliance,
KHANA operated as an NGO from 1997 and was ocially registered as a
local NGO in 2000. Since then it has operated as a linking organizaton of the
Internatonal HIV/AIDS Alliance and is so far a leading non-governmental
organizaton in Cambodia that has made outstanding contributons to the
HIV response. KHANAs work has been made possible through support from
USAID, the Global Fund to ght AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, European
Union, World Food Programme and AusAID.
We are now seeking a qualied Cambodian natonal for the following
vacancies:
1. Technical Ofcer - HIV Prevention, MSM and TG (Extended Deadline)
Key Responsibilities:
The post-holder will be responsible for providing technical expertise,
and supporting innovations in the area of HIV prevention with men
who have sex with men (MSM), gay men and Transgender people
(TG). Technical ofcer will also provide technical and programmatic
support to implementing partners and other agencies to ensure high
quality programming and policy making.
Selection Criteria:
Degree in sociology, communicatons, social work or related
eld or 3 or more years of experience working on MSM and/or
TG programming with an internatonal development, health or
community organizaton/program.
Experience developing and managing budgets and work plans.
Good communicatons and strong presentaton skills.
2. Program Ofcer (Volunteer)
Key Responsibilities:
The Program Ofcer (Volunteer) is a key member of a programs
unit that manages sub-grants to implementing partners (activity,
coverage and targets)and ensures overall IP programmanagement and
performance to meet donors indicators and the success indicators of
Boosted KSP15.
Selection Criteria:
Fresh graduate with bachelor degree in English, IT, Social Sciences,
Business Administraton or other related elds
Experience is not required
At least one-year commitment for the applied positon.
Interested candidates for positon #1 must apply online via
www.khana.org.kh(Employment Opportunites Secton,) and for other
volunteer positon #2 please send your resume to our email address
recruitment@khana.org.khby 9
th
May 2014 at 5 P.M. Only short-listed
candidates will be noted for further process. Detailed job descriptons
for these positons are available for download through above website.
Applicatons via email or hard copies will not be considered.
KHANA is commited to equal opportunites and welcomes applicatons
from appropriate qualied people from all sectons of the community.
Qualied people living with HIV, MSM, disabled people and women are
partcularly encouraged to apply.
Heritage preserved
Park status
to protect
ancient site
A
NCIENT ironwork at a site
in Preah Vihear province
that predates the civilisa-
tion of Angkor will fall within a
new national park formed by royal
decree last week.
More than 200 pre-Angkor
era industrial sites have been
discovered since 2010, but the
newly created national park of
Russey Treb in Preah Vihears
Cheb district is the rst such site
to get ofcial protection.
The creation aims to maintain
the cultural heritage of Russey
Trebs ancient ironwork industry,
archaeology, history, environ-
ment . . . and to develop a cultural,
historical and natural tourist at-
traction, the royal decree reads.
Thuy Chanthourn, an archae-
ologist and deputy director of the
Institute of Culture and Fine Arts
at the Royal Academy of Cambo-
dia, said the decree should help
preserve the cultural and environ-
mental treasures of Russey Treb.
It is the rst national park with
ancient iron industry . . . there are
millions of cubic metres of iron
left, forests, many animals, he
said of the site, which he has dat-
ed to the mid-seventh century. If
there was no iron industry, there
would have been no Angkor Wat,
Chanthourn said. PHAKSEANGLY
Loud and clear
Protesters from the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila communities gather outside the Phnom Penh ofce of the World Bank yesterday to petition for
a resolution to their land disputes. Borei Keila residents and evictees from the Boeung Kak and Thmor Koul communities have in recent years
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Request for Quotation for Constructing and
Installing New Steel Security Fence
The U.S. Embassy invites all interested bidders to participate in bidding
on Constructing and Installing New Steel Security Fence Tender.
The general scope of this work consists of constructing and installing
new steel security fence over existing steel fence and concrete wall of the
Embassys compound perimeter fence. The estimated linear meters of
new steel security fence needs to be installed above existing steel fence
is 335 linear meters and 16 linear meters above existing concrete wall. The
magnitude of the whole work is estimated between $ 65,000 and $ 75,000.
Firms wishing to be considered for this project should submit the following
information:
Relevant, professional qualications of the rm and technical
competence;
Demonstrated a minimum of 2 years of professional metal,
masonry, and construction work experience
Availability of appropriate resources.
The solicitation document including detailed scope of work and required
qualications is downloadable via http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/
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All quotations shall be submitted to the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh,
GSO-Procurement Section, #1, Street 96, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
or be sent by email to PhnomPenhProcurement@state.gov on or
before 4:00 PM on May 07, 2014.
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multi-donor funded project to support the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts
of Cambodia (ECCC) and a GFATM funded programme to help contain and
eliminate malaria in Cambodia.
UNOPS Cambodia has recently agreed to provide procurement services to UNEP
for the purpose of providing equipment for the refrigeration and air conditioning
sector to selected countries in East, Pacifc, South, and South-East Asia sub-regions
with, in order to assist these countries in their eforts to reduce their reliance on
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supports and further expansion, the Cambodia Ofce is looking for one
qualifed Procurement Associate and two talented Procurement Interns to join its
professional procurement and supply chain team in Phnom Penh.
Position Level Duty Station Deadline
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Garment
maker to
list at $2.41
per share
Daniel de Carteret
GRAND Twins International,
Cambodias second stock
exchange listing, will list at the
lower end of its expected buy-
in range, an announcement on
the Phnom Penh Securities
(PPS) website said yesterday.
GTI is to begin trading on
May 29 with nine million
shares at $2.41 each, according
to the statement. The Post
reported in March that GTI was
hoping for a price of between
$1.85 and $3.50.
The $2.41 price tag means the
Taiwanese garment manufac-
turer will raise $9.6 million in
its IPO, which it plans to use to
further expand its business
in Cambodia.
PPS chief exec Stephen Hsu
said the final price was a strong
showing for GTI and hailed it
as a win for investors.
The price $2.41 a share
means the cost for investors is
near zero after two to three
years because the company
intends to pay dividends to
shareholders and . . . retain
GTIs earnings of around $33
million, as at end of 2013, he
said in an email.
After several weeks of book
building, almost all 3.36 million
shares allotted were sold, with
over 90 per cent taken by for-
eign investors, Hsu revealed.
The next phase of the IPO
public subscriptions will run
May 2-9 ahead of the listing.
SECC targets investor scams
Kimsay Hor and
Daniel de Carteret

T
HE Securities and Ex-
change Commission
of Cambodia (SECC)
is investigating a rise
in fraudulent get-rich-quick
schemes that prey on Cam-
bodian investors, the market
watchdog said yesterday.
Unlicensed investment
schemes operating inside
Cambodia will go under the
SECCs microscope, while
multilevel marketing rms
that appeal to vulnerable in-
vestors with promises of huge
prots for little investment
will also be scrutinised.
If we have not allowed any
company to operate (in Cam-
bodia) and there are some
doing this secretly, the con-
sequences of this can destroy
the condence of the public
on the (capital) market, Se-
ang Thirith, director of the
SECCs legal affairs depart-
ment, said yesterday.
In a statement on their
website, the regulator calls on
consumers to be wary of in-
vesting in such companies.
The SECC would like to
appeal to the public to be
cautious in putting money in
any form of investment like
a CIS (collective investment
scheme) and network mar-
keting, the statement reads.
The SECC statement makes
reference to US-owned Telex-
Free, which was charged last
week by the US Securities and
Stock Exchange Commission
with operating an elaborate
pyramid scheme.
TelexFree, which has un-
licensed operators in Cam-
bodia, advertises voice over
internet protocol (VoIP) calls
as an alternative to landline
telephone services.
People invested in the com-
pany were promised returns
of up to 200 per cent annually
for simply posting TelexFree
advertisements online and
recruiting new members, ac-
cording to an April 17 state-
ment by the US commission.
The US regulator alleges
that TelexFree, in a clas-
sic pyramid scheme, made
just $1.3 million from Au-
gust 2012 through to March
2014 through VoIP services,
which accounted for barely 1
per cent of the $1.1 billion it
promised to investors.
This is one of several
pyramid-scheme cases that
the SEC has led recently
where parties claim that in-
vestors can earn prots by
recruiting other members
or investors instead of doing
any real work, Paul Leven-
son, director of the SECs
Boston regional ofce, was
quoted as saying in the US
regulators statement.
Just days before the April
15 fraud charges were laid,
the TelexFree pyramid col-
lapsed and the rm led for
bankruptcy in a Nevada fed-
eral court.
Contacted yesterday, Thea
Sochet, a team builder with
TelexFree in Cambodia, ex-
pressed regret over the com-
panys demise, but was reso-
lute that the business model
could still work.
On my behalf, I am the one
who introduced the business
to Cambodia, I am not hap-
py, he said.
I am really sorry as many
people trust the TelexFree
and could have earned prot
from this.
Sochet said he has intro-
duced about 20 investors to
TelexFree since bringing the
business to Cambodia late
last year. He conceded, how-
ever, that those who joined
more recently would lose out
on their investment.
Considered an unsustain-
able business model, pyra-
mid schemes are illegal in the
United States.
Participants who sign
up for the money-making
scheme are promised huge
returns for simply recruiting
new members.
In November the Post re-
ported that US-listed Herb-
alife ofcially started opera-
tions in Cambodia at a time
that its marketing practices
were being challenged by for-
mer members, rights groups
and hedge fund managers in
the US, who alleged that the
company operates as a pyra-
mid scheme something the
company has long denied.
Herbalife announced in
March that the US Fed-
eral Trade Commission had
launched a probe into its
business practices.
Herbalife welcomes the
inquiry given the tremendous
amount of misinformation in
the marketplace, the Cay-
man Islands-based rm said
in a March 12 statement.
Trafc passes the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia in Phnom Penhs Sen Sok district yes-
terday. The commission said it is investigating unlicensed investment schemes. HONG MENEA
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Business
Rice candidate says teamwork is key
IN MARCH, Prime Minister Hun Sen
announced the establishment of a
national Cambodia Rice Federa-
tion (CRF). Soon after, the process of
electing a president for the new peak
body began. Five candidates applied
for the CRFs top job including Yon
Sovann, the president of agricultural
exporter Bayon Cereal. This week,
Post reporter Chan Muyhong sat
down with Yon Sovann one of the
lesser-known but equally as enthusi-
astic candidates in the rice sector to
talk about his reasons for standing in
the May elections.
Tell us about your company, Bayon
Cereal?
Bayon Cereal started in 2012 as a
rice exporter. We export to distribu-
tion partners in EU countries such
as Germany, the Netherlands and
Poland. Currently we export in small
numbers because we have just start-
ed. In the rst three months of 2014,
Bayon Cereal has exported around
200 tonnes of milled rice. I will ex-
pand the volume once I gain more
trust from buyers and rice millers.
What did you do before venturing
into rice?
I was in charge of customs clear-
ance from 1997 for a Taiwanese com-
pany who took orders and exported
agricultural products between coun-
tries. So I gained all the experience
from there.
I came to be involved in rice export-
ing because one day a friend (buyer)
told me they wanted to buy Cambo-
dian rice. I told them, Yes, Cambodia
has a lot of rice. Then things started.
I asked them to send me their rice
specication and immediately con-
tacted rice millers. I managed to ship
their orders on time and they trusted
me and kept contacting me.
What are your thoughts on the rice
sectors development?
Since the National Policy on Promo-
tion of paddy rice production and rice
export in 2010 came into effect, Ive
seen great improvement. Now more
rice millers are equipped with mod-
ern machines and they have enough
needed to produce rice for export.
Farmers are informed about farm-
ing techniques, seeds and so on. They
have a better standard of living and
they can afford a harvest machine.
Why are you standing as candidate for
the president position for CRF?
We still need more human resources
to improve the sector and I feel the
urge to help. We lack someone who
can nd new markets and the industry
is not working as a team yet. When it
comes to big orders from buyers, no
one dares to take the order because
there is no one to oversee its progress
or collect the rice needed to ll the
order. For example, recently, Vietnam
won the Philippiness rice auction,
which awarded Vietnam a contract to
sell white long grain rice for more than
$400 per tonne. Cambodia can eas-
ily match that, but we did not join the
auction because we didnt have a team
in place to ensure that the orders will
be delivered on time. As a result we fail
to capture big markets.
What is your opinion of the other can-
didates?
What is important in being a leader is
sticking to common interest principles
and commitment to the improvement
of the whole sector. Industry knowl-
edge can be learnt. As for my fellow
candidates, those who do not own a
rice miller or are exporters, their inter-
ests will not conict with their job.
Kith Meng, for example, his language
ability and experience in leading busi-
ness is enough to lead CRF. The other
candidates do have more potential
than I do, but my advantage is that I
hold common interest principles.
If you are elected president, how do
you plan to boost the sector?
There are quite a few rice associa-
tions and federations, but they do not
represent farmers and millers. The cre-
ation of the CRF allows both the rice
and paddy rice sectors to work togeth-
er to serve the common interests of ev-
eryone in the business. When a team
focuses on common interests, I believe
we can boost the market for all.
My main goal is to increase the
market for the millers and provide
relevant information to them, good
prices and market demand. Also
we are often absent at international
rice industry events, so I will set up a
team to promote us on the interna-
tional stage.
I will be bringing buyers to local rice
millers and, if they need me to, help by
working as a middleman in their deal-
ings. I will look over the membership
requirements, principles and mission
of the CRF again. CRF should be an
independent institution serving the
common interest of the rice indus-
try and be unbiased to any party, and
nepotism should not be allowed.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity.
Yon Savann, president of Bayon Cereal Company, talks to the Post from his house in
Phnom Penh earlier this week. VIREAK MAI
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Business
Markets
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Business
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all domestc and foreign suppliers that Ministry
intends to supply Diesel Oil rst semester &
Oxygene which are described in Technical
Specicaton .
Bids forms could be obtained from the
Ministry Of Health at the following addresses :
Procurement Unit Ministry of Health
# 151 153 Avenue Kampuchea Krom Phnom
Penh Cambodia ,
Tel : 023 723 849
Bids must be delivered to the Ministry Of Health,
Procurement Unit at the above address before
14 h 30 Oclock on 28 / 05 / 2014 .
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30 Oclock on 28 / 05 / 2014 in the present of the
Bidders representatves who wish to atend.
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This week in biz
New year sees tourism
boom in provinces
THE number of domestic and
foreign tourists visiting
historical sites and the
Kingdoms coastal areas
increased sharply during this
years three-day Khmer New
Year, according to provincial
tourism departments. Data
from Siem Reaps tourism
department show 258,000
tourists visited the city of
ancient temples, an increase
of 44 per cent compared with
the same period last year.
Local tourists reached
240,000, up 46 per cent, while
foreign tourists rose 17 per
cent to 18,000.
HAGL confirms plans
to expand into corn
CONTROVERSIAL
Vietnamese rubber giant
Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL)
Group is to expand its
agricultural business in
Cambodia to include corn,
according to the companys
CEO Nguyen Van Su. Bloom-
berg reported Monday that
Su said HAGL is investing
more in food commodities to
support increasing demand
across the region. The
company also plans to list its
farming business on the
Singapore stock exchange
next year to raise funds for
further growth, according to
Bloomberg.
ADB says AEC labour
flow to be minimal
CROSS-BORDER flows of
skilled migrants will be
minimal when the ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC)
takes shape in 2015, an
economist from the Asian
Development Bank said
Wednesday. Speaking at a
conference at the banks
Phnom Penh headquarters,
Jayant Menon, lead econo-
mist at the ADBs office of
regional integration, said he
expected the 2015 integration
deadline to achieve little in
terms of skilled labour
mobility and that more
attention is needed on low-
skilled migration policy, which
is not a focus of the AEC.
Tax department lacks
staff, resources: report
CAMBODIAS tax department
is under-resourced and
understaffed, hindering its
ability to generate revenue,
according to an Asian Devel-
opment Bank (ADB) analysis
released earlier this month.
The analysis, which took into
account survey results from
22 tax revenue bodies across
Asia between 2012 and 2013,
says the GDT does not have
authority to design its own
organisational structure,
allocate budgeted
administrative funds, set
staffing levels, hire and
dismiss staff or negotiate
staff remuneration levels.
Minister calls for old car
ban amid emission fears
IMPORTS of older cars and
vans should be banned to
help reduce pollution, the
Minister of Industry and
Handicrafts Cham Prasidh
said on Monday. He added
that Cambodia should look at
the environmental impact of
its used car market.
Kaliyann Thik
UNESCO, the Battambang
provicial government and
tourism ofcials held talks yes-
terday on plans to list the prov-
ince on the UN arms World
Heritage Cities Program.
As part of the rst of several
conferences on sustainable
tourism for the conservation
of cultural and natural heri-
tage and the Tonle Sap Bio-
sphere Reserve, leaders of the
three institutions discussed
the inclusion of Battambang in
the UNESCO program, which
could ensure the protection of
the provinces natural and cul-
tural heritage sites.
This program also aims to
provide the provincial gov-
ernment with assistance in
protecting and managing its
heritage and thus promote so-
cio-economic development.
We are discussing to list Bat-
tambang as a UNESCO heri-
tage city, as Battambang has its
own potential, including eco-
nomic potential, said Anne
Lemaistre, UNESCO country
director for Cambodia.
Lemaistre hopes the UNES-
CO framework will encourage
more tourists to visit the town
and province by linking the
preservation of cultural heri-
tage and nature with develop-
ing tourist attractions.
The idea would be to have
at least a million tourists going
to Angkor Wat and then on to
Battambang, she said.
Ang Kim Eang, president of
the Cambodia Association of
Travel Agents said Battam-
bang was already popular
with Cambodian tourists for
its unique architecture. Eang
said to be listed as a UNESCO
World Heritage City would in-
crease foreign tourists.
Battambang was named by
UNESCO as the City of Perform-
ing Arts, because it has more
than 100 ancient Khmer and
colonial buildings and 1,000 an-
cient pagodas and temples, and
the circus school Phare Ponleu
Selpak, which could attract
lots of tourists, said Provincial
Governor Chan Sophal.
Provincial authorities plan
to upgrade infrastructure with
road repairs and improved air-
port connectivity, he added.
Sophal also expressed the
need for protection of cultural
and natural heritage, which
could be a pathway for the
reduction of poverty through
increased economic activity
with bigger tourist numbers.
What we are trying to do is
[attract] at least two million
visitors, [of which] 25 per cent
will visit Battambang after
they visit Siem Reap. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY MARIA WIRTH
Battambang, tourism,
UNESCO ofcials talk
World Heritage plans
Trust in riel needed for stability

dollarisations most positive
inuences. But in the grand
scheme of things, its an issue
of trust, rst and foremost, Ka-
lyan said.
A trust that the local currency
has struggled to establish for
decades.
Following the abolishment
of all currencies and trading by
the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s,
bartering in goods, gold, Thai
baht and Vietnamese dong be-
came commonplace before the
riel was reinstalled in 1980.
Two subsequent ination
crises one in 1993, which saw
a 100 per cent rise in daily liv-
ing costs, and another in 2008,
which saw a 40 per cent rise
in food and fuel prices com-
bined with an inux of foreign
UNTAC workers beginning
in 1992 cemented the dollars
place as Cambodias dominant
legal tender.
Trust is the major issue here.
When people have condence
in the regulator and the gov-
ernments ability to control
monetary policy, then people
will be willing to hold the local
currency in higher regard, the
ADBs Menon said.
The NBCs ability to establish
rm monetary policies is ham-
pered by the countrys depen-
dence on the US dollar.
Consequently, the NBCs abil-
ity to pull levers as a reserve
bank in a time of need, also
faces increased risk, as the
economy matures.
Being a bank of last resort
cannot be achieved if the bank
itself cannot get its people to
hold its own currency. They
may not be able to support the
banking system if there is a re-
cession, Menon said.
Chea Serey, director-general
of the National Bank of Cambo-
dia, said the bank is working on
a raft of regulatory and policy
changes to foster de-dollarisa-
tion in Cambodia and promote
greater use of national currency,
however progress is slow.
Dollarisation in Cambodia
is deeply rooted; therefore, it
will only decline gradually over
time, Serey said, adding that an
ofcial action plan for de-dol-
larisation, which will focus on
improving the countrys macro-
economic stability rather than
installing short-term monetary
controls, is expected soon.
A foreign exchange market,
an inter-bank market where
banks can trade foreign cur-
rencies among themselves a
securities market and sufcient
regulatory framework in which
they operate are all currently
lacking, Serey added.
In Channy, CEO of Cambo-
dias largest banking rm, Acle-
da Bank, said that by bolstering
Cambodias agricultural sector
riel acceptance would improve.
But if we continue to focus
exports in garments, which are
primarily shipped to the US and
rely on imported raw materials,
offshore trade will stay depen-
dent on the dollar, he said.
Faisal Ahmed, the IMF repre-
sentative for Cambodia, said a
gradual approach to de-dollar-
ising is the safest route.
In Cambodia, continuing
macroeconomic stability, pro-
moting intermediation in the
riel, building monetary policy
tools and establishing an inter-
bank market and promoting
the use of the riel as a unit of ac-
count would support increased
usage of riel.
Hosted by Cambodia Eco-
nomic Association, economists
will meet on Monday to discuss
the revival of the riel.
A vendor at a food stall takes money from a customer at Phnom Penhs Kabkor market yesterday afternoon.
It is estimated that 85 per cent of currency in circulation in Cambodia is US dollars. PHA LINA
The idea would be to have at
least one million tourists going
to Angkor Wat and then on to
Battambang province
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Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 109.48 0.37 0.34% 8:34:27
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.77 0.04 0.93% 8:34:20
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 310.45 1.1 0.36% 8:34:26
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 298.94 -1.32 -0.44% 8:34:51
ICEGasoil USD/MT 918.25 2.25 0.25% 8:34:05
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CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.35 0.05 0.33% 8:20:40
CME Lumber USD/tbf 328 0.1 0.03% 8:30:01
Impressive revenue
for Apple, Facebook
A
PPLE and Face-
book have posted
positive results,
with iPhone sales
beating projections and
Facebook prots tripling
to $642 million in the rst
quarter on a 72 per cent
surge in revenues helped by
strong gains in mobile users
and mobile advertising.
Demonstrating that it is
successfully following the
shift from personal com-
puters to mobile devices
which a year ago appeared
to pose a huge challenge for
the company Facebook
said on Wednesday that ad-
vertising revenues were up
82 per cent to $2.27 billion
from a year ago.
Of that, earnings from
mobile adverts comprised
59 per cent of the total. One
year ago, mobile ads were
less than a third, and three
months ago they were 53
per cent.
After announcing $21 bil-
lion in ambitious acquisi-
tions during the quarter,
Facebook chief exec Mark
Zuckerberg said the results
show the company never-
theless is staying focused
on execution and carefully
improving the companys
core business.
These results show Fa-
cebooks business is strong
and growing, and were in
great position to continue
making progress towards
our mission.
Total revenue, which also
include payments and fees,
was up 72 per cent year-on-
year to $2.5 billion.
Helped by a jump in op-
erating margins, net prots
rose from $219 million to
$642 million.
Earnings per share came in
at 25 cents; operating earn-
ings per share jumped to 34
cents, handily beating the 24
cents expected by analysts.
Facebook users continued
to increase and shift over to
mobile devices, underscor-
ing the need for the compa-
ny to grow its revenue there.
Total daily active users
were up 21 per cent from a
year ago to 802 million, and
of them mobile users totalled
609 million, a year-on-year
gain of 43 per cent. Monthly
active users meanwhile rose
to 1.28 billion, one billion of
them on mobile.
Zuckerberg said in a phone
brieng with analysts that
the company is focused on
developing new apps to help
users share different content
in different ways.
That includes over What-
sApp, the smartphone mes-
saging service Facebook is
paying $19 billion for.
Meanwhile, Apple court-
ed investors with stock split
plans as hot iPhone sales
pushed up prots while
underscoring pressure for
the company to unveil the
next big thing.
Apple shares jumped more
than 7 per cent to $566.15 in
after-market trade following
the release of January-March
earnings gures showing
prot of $10.2 billion on
$45.6 billion in revenue.
The earnings report came
with Apple chief Tim Cook
hinting that new products
are on the way from the
maker of iPhones, iPads and
Macintosh computers.
Were very proud of our
quarterly results, especially
our strong iPhone sales and
record revenue from servic-
es, Cook said.
Were eagerly looking for-
ward to introducing more
new products and services
that only Apple could bring
to market.
Apple will spend an ad-
ditional $30 billion to buy
back shares, taking to $130
billion how much the com-
pany plans to spend on re-
purchases and dividends by
the end of next year.
Apple is pouring $90 bil-
lion into buying back shares
because it believes the stock
is undervalued in the mar-
ket, according to executives.
Were condent in Apples
future and see tremendous
value in Apples stock, so
were continuing to allocate
the majority of our pro-
gram to share repurchases,
Cook said.
Were also happy to be
increasing our dividend for
the second time in less than
two years.
Apple will raise its quar-
terly dividend to $3.29 per
common share and said that
it plans to bump up the g-
ure annually.
Its board endorsed a sev-
en-for-one stock split, with
each shareholder of record
as of June 2 receiving six ad-
ditional shares for each one
they hold. We are taking
this action to make Apple
stock more accessible to a
larger number of investors,
Cook added.
While iPhone sales hand-
ily beat Wall Street expec-
tations in the quarter, the
performance underscored
how heavily Apples revenue
relies on its hit smartphones,
according to Gartner analyst
Van Baker.
Powerful iPhone sales g-
ures also offset less than
stunning iPad sales, the
analyst noted. Apples de-
pendence on the iPhone is
even higher than it used to
be, Baker said.
It is even more important
to bring some new prod-
ucts. AFP
An iPhone user logs onto the Apple Facebook app. BLOOMBERG
Ferry call
boys body
recovered,
say reports
THE body of a high school stu-
dent who made the first dis-
tress call from a sinking South
Korean ferry was recovered
from the submerged vessel yes-
terday, news reports said.
The student, identified by his
surname Choi, had called the
emergency 119 number at
8:52am on Wednesday last
week, three minutes before the
crew of the 6,825-tonne Sewol
sent their first distress signal.
The timing of his terrified
message Save us. The ship is
sinking has fuelled anger
over the slow response of the
Sewols captain and crew as the
disaster unfolded.
Yonhap news agency said
divers had retrieved the boys
body from inside the ferry yes-
terday morning and it had been
identified by his parents. A
DNA test was being carried out
to formally confirm his iden-
tity, Yonhap said.
The boy was one of 325 stu-
dents from the same high
school who were on the ferry,
bound for the southern resort
island of Jeju, when it cap-
sized. During his 119 call, Choi
was bombarded with ques-
tions about the ferrys coordi-
nates and the number of
people on board.
A coastguard official later
told reporters that emergency
services had mistaken him for
a crew member.
The captain and 11 crew
members have either been
arrested or taken into police
custody awaiting charges.
Angry parents of victims of
South Koreas ferry disaster
assaulted a top official yester-
day, accusing him of lying
about efforts to retrieve bodies
still trapped in the submerged
ship. About 20 relatives of the
victims attacked Choi Sang-
hwan, deputy head of the Korea
Coastguard, after storming his
temporary office at Jindo port,
a journalist on the scene said.
They forced their way through
some 10 officers blocking the
entrance and pounced on Choi
as he sat behind a desk, punch-
ing him in the face and body.
They then grabbed him by
the neck and pulled him out of
the office. Ripping his shirt,
they took him to a nearby tent
calling for his superior Kim
Suk-kyun, the coastguard chief,
to meet them there.
The parents held Choi for a
while, with some mothers slap-
ping him continuously, until
Kim arrived. Parents then
forced the coastguard chiefs to
tell their officers by radio to
mobilise more divers and speed
up efforts to recover bodies.
There is widespread anger
among families over the slow-
ness of initial rescue efforts
after the ferry sank on April 16
with 476 people on board,
most of them high school
students. AFP
Three Americans killed in Kabul attack
AN AFGHAN policeman opened fire at
a Kabul hospital run by a US charity
yesterday, killing three Americans,
including a doctor in the latest attack
targeting foreign civilians in the city.
The gunman was injured in the inci-
dent outside the CURE International
hospital and he was swiftly detained
by police, officials said, adding that the
motive for the shooting was not imme-
diately known.
He opened fire as the foreign nation-
als were entering the hospital, killing
three and injuring one more, interior
ministry spokesman Seddiq Sediqqi
said. Another policeman in the area
shot the attacker, injuring him.
Health Minister Soraya Dalil told
reporters the victims were a US doctor
who had worked for CURE for seven
years and an American father and son
visiting the hospital. She added that
the attacker, who had been on duty
guarding the hospital, was now being
treated inside for his injuries.
With great sadness we confirm that
three Americans were killed in the
attack on CURE Hospital, the US
embassy said on its Twitter account.
No other information will be released
at this time.
Kabul has been hit by a spate of
attacks targeting foreign civilians this
year, including a Lebanese restaurant
where 21 people died, an attack on a
luxury hotel and the daylight shooting
of a Swedish radio journalist.
Last month Taliban militants attacked
a Kabul guesthouse used by Roots of
Peace, a US anti-landmine charity, kill-
ing two people including a girl.
And this month Associated Press
photographer Anja Niedringhaus was
shot dead by a police commander in
the eastern province of Khost in an
attack which also left her Canadian
col league Kathy Gannon badly
wounded.
That killing came on the eve of presi-
dential elections to choose a successor
to Hamid Karzai as US-led combat
troops withdraw from Afghanistan after
13 years of fighting Taliban insurgents.
CURE International is a non-profit
organisation founded in 1998, based
in Pennsylvania and working in 29
countries including conservative Mus-
lim Afghanistan.
It describes itself as an unapolo-
getically Christian organisation on its
website, but says that it offers treat-
ment regardless of gender, religion,
ethnicity, or ability to pay.
Its hospitals and health programs
specialise in treating children with
conditions including clubfoot, cleft
lips, burn injuries and brain diseases.
CURE International took over the
hospital in west Kabul in 2005 at the
invitation of the Afghan government,
and runs obstetrics, gynaecology,
pathology and surgery departments
as well as training schemes for doc-
tors and nurses.
There was no immediate comment
from Taliban spokesmen after the hos-
pital shooting.
Preliminary results from the presi-
dential election on April 5 are due to
be released on Saturday.
After half of the ballots were count-
ed, former foreign minister Abdullah
Abdullah was ahead of his main rival
Ashraf Ghani. AFP
Kiev launches assault on rebels
U
KRAINES military
launched assaults
to retake rebel-
held eastern towns
yesterday in which up to ve
people were reportedly killed,
a move Russian President
Vladimir Putin warned would
have consequences.
The offensive sent interna-
tional tensions soaring and
oil prices up on the prospect
of Russia making good on its
threat of a massive response
in the former Soviet republic.
In Slavyansk, a ashpoint
eastern Ukrainian town held
by rebels since mid-April,
armoured military vehicles
drove past an abandoned
roadblock in ames to take
up position. Shots were heard
as a helicopter ew overhead,
and the pro-Kremlin rebels
ordered all civilians out of the
town hall to take up defensive
positions inside.
During the clashes, up to
ve terrorists were eliminat-
ed, and three checkpoints
destroyed, the interior min-
istry said in a statement. Re-
gional medical authorities
conrmed one death and one
person wounded.
Hours later, the armoured
vehicles withdrew, leaving
the town calm but tense.
The rebels, which the Kiev
government and its Western
backers believe are controlled
and supported by Moscow,
have been occupying around
10 towns in Ukraines east
since mid-April.
An international accord in
Geneva last week was meant
to defuse the crisis, but was
swiftly dismissed by the reb-
els. A brief truce collapsed
over the weekend, prompt-
ing Ukraines acting President
Oleksandr Turchynov to order
a resumption of an anti-ter-
rorist offensive to ush the
militants out.
Also yesterday, Ukrainian
special forces seized back
control of the town hall in the
southeastern port city of Mar-
iupol with no casualties, In-
terior Minister Arsen Avakov
said. Separatist sources con-
rmed the loss of the building
in the port city, whose popu-
lation is nearly 500,000.
And an army base in the
eastern town of Artemivsk
overnight repelled an at-
tack by heavily-armed reb-
els using machine-guns and
grenades, the interior and
defence ministries said. One
soldier was wounded.
It was the worst violence
to erupt in Ukraine since the
signing the Geneva accord
a week ago. Putin called the
armed offensive a crime.
If Kiev has really begun
to use the army against the
countrys population . . . that
is a very serious crime against
its own people, he said.
He warned of consequenc-
es, including for our intergov-
ernmental relations.
Russia, which has an esti-
mated 40,000 troops massed
on Ukraines border, has al-
ready threatened to respond
as it did when it invaded
Georgia in 2008 if it sees its
interests in Ukraine attacked.
Shortly after Putin spoke,
Russias defence ministry an-
nounced new military ex-
ercises near the border in
response to the Ukrainian
military operations.
US President Barack Obama
yesterday accused Russia of
not abiding by the Geneva
deal and warned more sanc-
tions could be imposed on
Moscow within days.
We continue to see mali-
cious, armed men taking over
buildings, harassing folks who
are disagreeing with them,
destabilising the region and
we havent seen Russia step
out and discouraging it, he
said yesterday in Japan.
Russia, though, claims
Washington and the Ukrai-
nian government are reneg-
ing on their responsibilities,
despite Kiev vowing to give an
amnesty to the rebels, protect
the Russian language and de-
centralise power.
While Obama has ruled out
sending US or NATO forces
into Ukraine, Washington
has begun deploying 600 US
troops to boost NATOs de-
fences in nearby eastern Eu-
ropean states.
France said it was also send-
ing four ghter jets to NATO
air patrols over the Baltics.
The Ukrainian government
announced its renewed of-
fensive against the rebels after
the body of an abducted local
politician who belonged to
Turchynovs party was found
weighted down in a river near
Slavyansk.
Volodymyr Rybaks funeral
was held yesterday in his
home town of Horlivka. His
wife and friends wept before
his body, which was covered
in owers, before prayers
were said and it was taken
away for burial.
Ukraines acting president
said he had been brutally
tortured and blamed the reb-
els, while his wife said he had
been stabbed multiple times.
Meanwhile, when pro-
Russia protesters stormed a
police station in Slavyansk, in
eastern Ukraine, they seized
several hundred rearms.
They also gained control of
the biggest weapons cache
in eastern Europe, which lies
beneath their feet.
Since March a group of pro-
testers have been guarding
the entrance to the Volodar-
sky salt mine, where the only
way in is through a single
elevator and which holds an
underground collection of at
least a million rearms rang-
ing from rst world war heavy
machine guns to Soviet-era
Kalashnikovs.
The protesters say they
are there to prevent the new
government from using the
weapons, but analysts worry
that pro-Russia militias could
seize the guns.
If such a large amount of
weapons fell into hands of
separatists, it would be a ca-
tastrophe, said Alexei Melnik,
a defence analyst at the Ra-
zumkov centre in Kiev. When
Melnik visited the cache in
2002 it held about 3.5 million
rearms, he said.
The mine is near the village
of Paraskoviyevka, 25 miles
from Slavyansk, the centre of
the uprising by armed pro-
Russia militias demanding re-
gional referendums on greater
independence from Kiev.
Melnik is concerned about
the continued security of the
cache. The contingent that
guards the weapons can guar-
antee their security in peace-
time against small groups,
he said. But now that we see
seizures by big groups with
Russian agents, I fear they
cant hold out for long. AFP/THE
GUARDIAN
World
Moscow warns of consequences after Kiev deploys military forces in east of country
Crisis in Ukraine
KIEV KIEV
Kramatorsk Kramatorsk
Towns hit by
separatist
actions
Makiivka Makiivka
Crimea Crimea
Odessa Odessa
Lviv Lviv
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Russian
soldiers
Clashes
25,000
1,750
NATO
troops
40,000
massed near
border
200 km
* 2001 census
Gorlivka Gorlivka
Donetsk Donetsk
Mariupol Mariupol
Lugansk Lugansk
Novorossiysk Novorossiysk
% Russian speakers*
0-24% 25-49 50-74 75-100%
Insurgents
killed in
military
assault
Slavyansk Slavyansk
Artemivsk Artemivsk
World
13
TENS of millions voted yes-
terday in different regions of
India in the latest stage of a
massive ve-week election,
but militant threats kept many
Kashmiris away from polling
stations while others clashed
with police.
Constituents in the teem-
ing nancial capital Mumbai,
the home of Bollywood and
sprawling slums, were among
the 180 million eligible voters
yesterday, as were residents of
the electorally crucial south-
ern state of Tamil Nadu.
The parliamentary election
has been staggered in a bid to
ensure the safety of the 814-
million-strong electorate, with
results due on May 16 when
the opposition Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party (BJP) is forecast to
take power.
The Muslim-majority and
volatile Kashmir valley, where
a separatist movement against
Indian rule is centred, posed
a heightened challenge for
security forces on the rst of
three days of polling there.
Police faced stone-throw-
ing protesters in 20 differ-
ent locations in Anantnag
constituency, forcing them
to use tear gas and batons to
disperse the crowds, one se-
nior ofcer said.
Voting was light at the heav-
ily guarded polling stations af-
ter a campaign of intimidation
by local militant groups, who
killed three people this week
and warned locals not to take
part. Turnout was a mere 23.5
per cent at 5pm, the Election
Commission said.
Very few in the picturesque
Himalayan valley would be
expected to support national
election frontrunner Naren-
dra Modi, a hardline Hindu
nationalist who is leading
campaigning for the BJP.
Modi, the chief minister of
the western state of Gujarat,
remains a divisive gure due
to his association with anti-
Muslim riots in 2002 shortly
after he came to power. The
unrest cost at least 1,000 lives.
The 63-year-old appeared
before hundreds of thousands
of cheering supporters yes-
terday as he led his nomina-
tion papers to contest a seat
from the holy Hindu city of
Varanasi in the northern state
of Uttar Pradesh.
All polls show him as vastly
more popular than his ri-
val Rahul Gandhi from the
scandal-racked ruling Con-
gress party, which has been in
power for 10 years but faces its
heaviest ever defeat. AFP
Kashmir sees clashes as
India heads back to polls
Israel mulls Palestine reprisals
I
SRAELS security cabinet
met yesterday to weigh
up its retaliation to a uni-
ty deal struck between
the Palestinian leadership and
the Hamas rulers of Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu reacted angrily
to Wednesdays agreement
between the rival factions ac-
cusing Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas of choosing
Hamas, not peace.
Public radio said ministers
were likely to announce fresh
retaliatory measures on top
of a raft of nancial sanctions
unveiled this month when the
Palestinians applied to join 15
international treaties.
They were not expected to
order a complete halt to US-
brokered peace talks with the
Palestinians, however, de-
spite the announcement by a
Netanyahu aide of the cancel-
lation of a scheduled meeting
on Wednesday evening, the
broadcaster said.
Netanyahus ofce de-
scribed the deal between
Abbas and Hamas, which op-
poses all peace talks with Is-
rael, as very serious.
But it said it was for minis-
ters to decide whether to an-
nounce any new measures
after yesterdays meeting.
By tying itself to Hamas,
the Palestinian leadership is
turning its back on peace, a
Netanyahu aide said.
A close aide of Netanyahu,
MP Tzahi Hanegbi, said Is-
rael was unlikely to halt the
US-brokered peace talks
launched in July.
But Foreign Minister Avig-
dor Lieberman said that in his
opinion an agreement was
impossible while there is an
alliance involving Hamas.
Israel already announced
on April 10 that it was freez-
ing the transfer of some 80
million ($111 million) in taxes
it collects on behalf of Abbass
Palestinian Authority, which
account for some two-thirds
of its revenues.
The deal between the Pal-
estinian leadership and
Hamas came as the US-led
peace talks teetered on the
brink of collapse just days
before their scheduled April
29 conclusion.
US envoy Martin Indyk has
repeatedly held meetings
with the two sides in a last-
ditch attempt to salvage the
negotiations.
Palestinian chief negotia-
tor Saeb Erakat denied any
three-way meeting has been
planned for Wednesday but
acknowledged Abbas would
meet Indyk yesterday with-
out the Israelis.
US Secretary of State John
Kerry was also set to speak
with the Palestinian president
on the phone yesterday after-
noon, a day after Washington
disappointed over the Pal-
estinian deal.
In Ramallah, Abbas was
set to begin consultations on
the formation of a national
consensus government he
would head, comprised of in-
dependent members.
Abbas says he will not ex-
tend the negotiations unless
Israel agrees to a freeze on all
settlement construction in the
occupied West Bank, including
annexed east Jerusalem, and
frees a group of Arab prison-
ers who had been earmarked
for release this month.
He has also demanded the
two sides launch straight into
negotiations on the future
borders of the Palestinians
promised state.
Israel has dismissed all three
conditions as unacceptable.
Jibril Rajub, a Fatah leader,
said that the next national
consensus government will
proclaim loud and clear that
it accepts the Quartets condi-
tions. AFP
Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed (left) speaks with
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza City on Wednesday. AFP
World
Marshall Islands to sue nuclear powers
Egypt FM off to US as Apache deal OKd
THE Marshall Islands is suing
the nine countries with nuclear
weapons at the International
Court of Justice at The Hague in
an unprecedented legal action,
arguing they have violated their
legal obligation to disarm.
In nine separate cases
brought before the ICJ yester-
day, accusing the nuclear
weapons states of a flagrant
denial of human justice, the
Republic of the Marshall
Islands argues it is justified in
taking the action because of
the harm it suffered as a result
of the nuclear arms race.
The Pacific chain of islands
including Bikini Atoll was the
site of 67 nuclear tests from
1946-58, including the Bravo
shot, a 15-megatonne device
equivalent to a thousand Hiro-
shima blasts, detonated in
1954. The Marshall Islanders
say they have been suffering
serious health and environ-
mental effects ever since.
The island republic is suing
the five established nuclear
weapons states recognised in
the 1968 nuclear non-prolifer-
ation treaty (NPT) the US,
Russia (which inherited the
Soviet arsenal), China, France
and the UK as well as the
three countries outside the
NPT who have declared nucle-
ar arsenals India, Pakistan
and North Korea, and the one
undeclared nuclear weapons
state, Israel.
The NPT, in force since 1970,
is essentially a contract
between the non-weapon
states, which pledged to not
acquire nuclear weapons, and
the weapons states, who in
return undertook to disarm
under Article VI of the treaty.
Although the size of the arse-
nals are sharply down from the
height of the Cold War, the
Marshall Island legal case
notes there remain over 17,000
warheads in existence, 16,000
of them owned by Russia and
the US enough to destroy all
life on the planet.
The long delay in fulfilling
the obligations in Article VI of
the NPT constitutes a flagrant
denial of human justice, the
court documents say.
The Marshall Islands case
draws attention to the fact that
the weapons states are cur-
rently in the process of mod-
ernising their nuclear weap-
ons, which it portrays as a
clear violation of the NPT.
The case against Britain,
which has an estimated total
inventory of 225 warheads and
is in the process of replacing its
submarine-launched Trident
arsenal, states: The UK has not
pursued in good faith negotia-
tions to cease the nuclear arms
race at an early date through
comprehensive nuclear disar-
mament or other measures,
and instead is taking actions to
improve its nuclear weapons
system and to maintain it for
the indefinite future.
The Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmaments general secre-
tary, Kate Hudson, said: The
nuclear-armed states continue
to peddle the myth that they
are committed to multilateral
disarmament initiatives, while
squandering billions to mod-
ernise their nuclear arsenals.
The UK governments plans
to replace Trident make a
mockery of its professed belief
in multilateral frameworks
and now in addition to huge
public opposition in the UK, it
will also face an international
legal challenge to expose its
hypocrisy. THE GUARDIAN
NABIL Fahmy, Egypts foreign minister,
was travelling to the US on Wednesday,
his ministry said, a day after Washington
decided to provide Cairo with 10 Apache
military helicopters.
Washington had imposed a temporary
freeze on the delivery of major weapons
to Egypt, including the Apaches, follow-
ing the military-installed authorities
brutal crackdown on supporters of
Islamist president Mohamed Morsi since
his ousting last July.
Fahmy is expected to meet officials in
Washington and UN chief Ban Ki-moon
during his visit. He is also due to meet
representatives of think tanks and will
speak at a seminar in San Francisco, the
ministry said, without specifying how
long the trip will last.
US officials said on Tuesday that Wash-
ington will provide Cairo with the 10
Apache aircraft to strengthen Egypts
counter-terrorism operations in the res-
tive Sinai Peninsula where it is fighting a
growing militancy.
But a Pentagon spokesman said on
Wednesday that the delivery of other
weapons, including F-16 fighter jets,
would remain temporarily suspended.
Because were not yet able to certify
that Egypt is taking the proper steps to
support a democratic transition, we have
withheld other equipment: F-16s not
released, M1 tanks not released, Har-
poon missiles not released, Colonel
Steven Warren told reporters.
The US has struggled to balance its
concerns over human rights abuses
with a strategic interest in keeping up
counter-terrorism ties with Cairo and
maintaining the Egypt-Israel peace
accord.
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel informed
his Egyptian counterpart General Sedki
Sobhy of the decision on Tuesday in a
telephone call, but told the general that
we are not yet able to certify that Egypt
is taking steps to support a democratic
transition.
Hagel urged the Egyptian government
to demonstrate progress on a more
inclusive transition that respects the
human rights and fundamental freedoms
of all Egyptians.
Egypt will hold a presidential election
on May 26-27, which former army chief
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win.
He is riding a wave of popularity after
ousting Morsi.
The military-installed authorities are
engaged in a deadly crackdown against
Morsi supporters that has left more than
1,400 people killed since July. AFP
Burning anger
Men set re to the Turkish ag to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish massacre
of Armenians, in Armenias capital Yerevan on Wednesday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
offered condolences over the massacre of Armenians almost 100 years ago, describing the events of
World War I as our shared pain. Erdogans statement, on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the start of
mass deportations of Armenians in 1915, is the rst such overt comment by a Turkish leader over the
killings, considered by many as the rst genocide of the 20th century. He acknowledged that the events of
1915 had inhumane consequences but also said it was inadmissable for them to be used as an excuse
today for hostility against Turkey. Armenia has been trying to get Turkey to recognise the killings of up to
1.5 million people under the Ottoman Empire as genocide. But Turkey puts the death toll at 500,000 and
says they died of ghting and starvation during World War I, categorically rejecting the term genocide.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian yesterday accused Turkey of an utter denial for failing to
recognise World War I mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, after Ankara for
the rst time offered condolences for the tragedy. The Armenian genocide . . . is alive as far as the
successor of the Ottoman Turkey continues its policy of utter denial, Sarkisian said in a statement
marking the 99th anniversary of the massacres. AFP
Retailers failing victims
a year after Rana disaster
W
ESTERN fash-
ion brands
faced pressure
yesterday to in-
crease help for victims of the
worlds worst garment factory
accident, as mass protests
marked the one-year anni-
versary of the Bangladesh di-
saster that cost 1,138 lives.
Thousands of people, some
wearing funeral shrouds,
staged rallies at the site of the
now-notorious Rana Plaza
factory complex outside the
capital Dhaka, which col-
lapsed last April 24 after a
catastrophic structural failure.
Chanting slogans of We
want compensation! and
Death to Sohel Rana!, the
owner of the shoddy building,
the demonstrators who in-
cluded injured survivors and
the families of the deceased
marched to the ruins of the
nine-storey building carrying
owers and wreaths.
Relatives of the 140 work-
ers still unaccounted for also
joined in, calling on the gov-
ernment to help nd their
bodies. They included tod-
dlers, holding photos of their
missing mothers.
I want my daughters dead
body. At least it would give
us some consolation, said a
mother clutching the photo
of her missing daughter, who
worked at one of Rana Plazas
ve factories.
For the rst time since the
disaster, when the site was
sealed off, relatives of the
dead and survivors were al-
lowed inside. Some fell to the
ground, sobbing and grabbing
handfuls of dirt. Protests also
erupted in Dhaka, with sev-
eral hundred people shouting
slogans and holding banners
outside the head ofce of the
body representing local gar-
ment manufacturers.
Global labour and rights
groups marked the day by
criticising the Western re-
tailers linked to the disaster,
which include Mango, Benet-
ton and Auchan.
Brands are failing workers
a second time, Ineke Zelden-
rust from Amsterdams Clean
Clothes Campaign said yes-
terday. First they failed to en-
sure the factories they bought
from were safe, and now they
are failing the survivors and
the families of those who lost
loved ones.
As well as the dead, more
than 2,000 people were in-
jured in a tragedy that put
the spotlight on the lax safety
standards and often abusive
working conditions in the
worlds second-biggest cloth-
ing producer. The disaster
shamed Western brands into
launching new safety inspec-
tions and pushed Bangla-
deshs government to increase
wages and ensure the better
enforcement of regulations.
But trade union group In-
dustriALL slammed retailers
this week for making woefully
inadequate contributions to a
proposed $40 million fund set
up to compensate the families
of the dead and the injured.
Of the 29 Western brands
who sourced clothes from
Rana Plaza factories, about
half have deposited $15 mil-
lion into the fund, the Clean
Clothes Campaign said. The
rst payments of $640 for
each of the survivors and
families of the deceased were
only made this week.
Families are angry at local
authorities for the slow prog-
ress in identifying the workers
still missing, while the owner
of the building has yet to be
charged by police. AFP
Honoured in death
Dissident
named for

rights prize

A
CHINESE dissident who
died in detention last
month is one of three
nominees for an award often
dubbed the Nobel prize for
human rights, organisers said
on Wednesday.
Cao Shunli, who died in mid-
March aged 52, was hailed
by the Martin Ennals Award
organisers as an activist who
since 2008 had vigorously
advocated for access to infor-
mation, freedom of speech
and freedom of assembly.
Bangladeshi activist Adilur
Rahman Khan, who has wor-
ked to document extra-judicial
killings, illegal detention, and
enforced disappearances was
also nominated for the prize,
as was migrant and indige-
nous community rights activist
Alejandra Ancheita of Mexico.
The winner of the award will
be announced in Geneva in
October.
Cao had been denied
medical treatment for several
months after falling ill, accor-
ding to her family and lawyers,
who maintain she was only
sent to hospital after suffering
organ failure and falling un-
conscious in late February. AFP
World
15

Officials, sherpas hold
crisis talks on Everest
THE Nepal government held
talks with grieving and angry
sherpas on Mount Everest
yesterday to try to end a
deepening crisis on the worlds
highest peak after an avalanche
killed 16 of their colleagues. As
the talks got underway at
Everest base camp over a
sherpa threat to boycott the
climbing season, three more
mountaineering companies
scrapped plans to scale the
peak, citing safety concerns and
fears of violence. Senior tourism
officials flew to base camp to try
to negotiate a deal with the
sherpas. They are demanding
more compensation and other
benefits after last Fridays
avalanche, the worst ever on the
mountain. AFP
PAL stops flying shark

fin cargoes amid outcry
PHILIPPINE Airlines (PAL) said
yesterday it has stopped flying
shark fin cargoes, joining a
number of other Asia-Pacific
carriers in taking a stand for
marine conservation. The fins
are used in shark fin soup, a
much-valued delicacy in Hong
Kong and China. Conservationists
say booming demand for such
fins has put pressure on shark
populations, prompting calls for
measures to restrict their trade.
PAL values the issue on
protection and conservation of
endangered marine life
seriously, recognising that the
companys long-term interest is
. . . consistent with sustainable
and responsible business
practices, PAL said. Air New
Zealand as well as South
Koreas two largest airlines,
Korean Air and Asiana,
separately announced last year
they would ban shark fins from
their cargo flights, a year after
Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific also
stopped shipping them. AFP
NORTH Korea has apparent-
ly sealed one of its tunnels at
its nuclear test site, a govern-
ment ofcial said yesterday
ahead of US President Barack
Obamas arrival in Seoul for a
two-day visit.
South Koreas defence min-
istry warned earlier this week
that the North could be pre-
paring to carry out a fourth
nuclear test, citing increased
activity at the Punggye-ri site.
It is believed that North
Korea has placed detonator,
ssile material and measure-
ment devices in the tunnel
and sealed it, the ofcial, who
declined to be identied, said
yesterday in a brieng for for-
eign news media.
He said the information was
based on unspecied intelli-
gence reports.
Experts are divided over
whether a test is imminent and
the defence ministry warning
on Tuesday came with the ca-
veat that Pyongyang might be
pretending to prepare a deto-
nation to raise tensions dur-
ing Obamas visit.
The government ofcial
said that he could not say
precisely when the tunnel
had been sealed.
North Korea has conducted
three nuclear tests in 2006,
2009 and 2013 all at the
Punggye-ri site.
Pyongyang has described
Obamas Asia trip as a dan-
gerous move that would es-
calate military tension and
bring the dark clouds of a
nuclear arms race over the
Korean peninsula.
Speaking in Tokyo yesterday,
Obama said North Korea had
been an irresponsible actor
on the international stage for
several decades.
With the help of Japan, South
Korea and China, Obama said
more and more pressure
could be brought to bear on
Pyongyang to give up its nu-
clear ambitions. AFP
North seals nuke
test tunnel: Seoul
Reuters stands by story
China releases Japanese ship after $28m paid
REUTERS has vowed to stand
by their Rohingya story which
alleges that Thai naval officers
were involved in the trafficking
of Rohingya boat people. The
news organisation yesterday
acknowledged a police com-
plaint was filed by the Royal
Thai Navy against the company
and two of its journalists.
Were aware that a captain
in the navy has filed a criminal
complaint against Reuters and
two Reuters journalists, Stuart
Grudgings and Jason Szep, aris-
ing out of the Rohingya cover-
age, and that the complaint
alleges violations of the Com-
puter Crimes Act, David
Crundwell, Reuters head of
corporate affairs, said in an
email to the Bangkok Post.
Based on our understand-
ing, the complaint is under
review by the authorities, but
we have not been charged. If
necessary we will defend our
story, along with our right to
publish, vigorously, Crundwell
said from London.
The navy also filed a com-
plaint against Phuket-based
news website Phuketwan and
its journalists Alan Morison
and Chutima Sidasathien last
October for a July 17, 2013
article which quoted the Reu-
ters report.
Third Navy Fleet Command-
er Vice Admiral Tharathorn
Khajitsuwan said the com-
plaint was lodged because it
was a matter of national secu-
rity and the story had damaged
the navys reputation.
Police Captain Somkid Porn-
chan, assigned to investigate
the Reuters complaint, said
the news organisation com-
plaint was being handled dif-
ferently from Phuketwan
because it is a foreign entity.
He said it was a complicated
process to send summonses to
the two Reuters journalists,
who are overseas.
Reuters said it still hoped the
navy would reconsider the
lawsuit against them in light of
a subsequent acknowledge-
ment by Thai officials of the
seriousness of the trafficking
problem, their efforts to com-
bat it, and Reuters contribu-
tion which led to authorities
releasing 900 trafficked refu-
gees being held in Thailand,
Crundwell said.
He said Reuters was governed
by its trust principles, dedi-
cated to preserving Reuters
independence, integrity and
freedom from bias in the gath-
ering and dissemination of
information and news. We
stand by the fairness and accu-
racy of our Rohingya coverage,
Crundwell said.
He addressed Phuketwans
criticisms that Reuters did not
defend the website after it ran
their story. The case against
Phuketwan arises out of aspects
of our story being excerpted by
Phuketwan from our original,
and fully comprehensive, story.
Their story was materially dif-
ferent in content and tone from
the Reuters story, Crundwell
said. BANGKOK POST
CHINA yesterday released a seized
Japanese ship after its owner paid $28
million in compensation, a court said,
in a business dispute dating back to the
1930s which underlines the tensions
between the countries. The Shanghai
Maritime Court announced on Satur-
day it had impounded a large freight
vessel owned by Mitsui OSK Lines in
accordance with the law, as the Japa-
nese company had failed to pay a
Chinese firm.
But the case had political overtones
given uneasy ties between the Asian
giants, locked in a territorial dispute
over islands in the East China Sea.
The court has delivered a ruling at
8:30am on April 24, 2014, to lift the
detention of the Baosteel Emotion ship,
the court said.
Mitsui had fulfilled its obligations
by paying compensation and addition-
al court costs of around $390,000, the
court said. It did not name the Chinese
party awarded the compensation.
Japan had lodged a formal diplomat-
ic protest over the seizure and warned
it could intimidate Japanese compa-
nies doing business in China.
Japanese media suggested the seizure
was meant to underline Chinas growing
assertiveness before US President
Obamas arrival in Tokyo on Wednesday
on the first leg of an Asian tour.
Tokyo believes that the seizure under-
mines a 1972 joint communique that
normalised ties between Japan and
China, in which Beijing agreed to
renounce any demands for war repara-
tions. China replied that the case was a
civil matter and had nothing to do with
war reparations.
The ship seizure comes as a set of law-
suits related to wartime forced labour
have also been filed in China against
Japanese corporations. Mitsuis prede-
cessor chartered two ships from a com-
pany called Chung Wei, now referred to
by China as Zhongwei, in 1936.
The ships were reportedly comman-
deered by the Japanese Navy and were
sunk during World War II, media reports
said. A compensation suit was brought
against Mitsui by the descendants of the
founder of the Chinese company, and
in 2007 a Shanghai court ordered Mitsui
to pay compensation.
Mitsui said in a statement on Monday
that it had been seeking an out-of-court
settlement after Chinas supreme court
rejected its appeal in 2011, but the ves-
sel was suddenly impounded.
The ship was expected to depart China
late yesterday, Japans Kyodo news
agency said. The Baosteel Emotion,
designed to carry ore, was docked at
Majishan island off Shanghai, accord-
ing to Chinese media reports. AFP
Obama turns attention to N Korea
A
FTER vowing to de-
fend Japan if China
attacks over a tense
territorial dispute,
US President Barack Obama
yesterday urged Beijing to
help stop North Korea from
forging ahead with its dan-
gerous nuclear program.
Obama described as criti-
cally important Chinas role
in keeping its wayward ally in
check after South Korea said
heightened activity at the
Norths main nuclear test site
could point to an imminent
test its fourth.
Chinas participation in
pushing the DPRK [North
Korea] in a different direction
is critically important, the
president told a joint press
brieng with Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe.
It is the most destabilising,
dangerous situation in all of
the Asia-Pacic region.
Despite his call for Chinas
help, Obama also underlined
US support for Japan, saying
that islands at the centre of
its bitter territorial dispute
with Beijing are covered by
a defence pact, article ve of
the US-Japan security treaty,
that would oblige Washing-
ton to act if they were at-
tacked. Obama added that
this is not a new position
and theres no red line thats
been drawn.
We stand together in call-
ing for disputes in the region,
including maritime issues,
to be resolved peacefully
through dialogue, he said.
Relations between Tokyo
and Beijing are at their lowest
point for years. Some observ-
ers warn they might come to
blows over the islands, where
ships from both sides lurk to
press claims for ownership.
Abes position on certain
historical issues also an-
noys the Chinese.
They are particularly upset
by visits he and his cabinet
ministers have paid to the
Yasukuni Shrine, which hon-
ours war criminals among
other fallen warriors.
Japan and other Western-
leaning countries say China
is also throwing its new-
found economic and military
weight around in pursuit of
territorial claims in the East
and South China Seas.
Along with Manila the
fourth stop on Obamas tour
Tokyo craved reassurance
that the US was prepared to
support it if push comes to
shove with Beijing over their
separate sovereignty rows.
Abe is the kind of dynamic
leader that Washington, frus-
trated by years of stagnation
in Japanese politics and the
economy, had longed for.
My administration intends
to continue to contribute to
regional peace and prosperity
more pro-actively than ever,
Abe said.
While the noises on secu-
rity were positive, progress on
the Trans-Pacic Partnership
(TPP) a proposed 12-nation
free trade bloc was stalled.
The two men had hoped to
be able to announce a break-
through of sorts after days of
intense talks aimed at shifting
a logjam over car and agricul-
tural products, with powerful
vested interests on both sides
tying negotiators hands.
Senior US ofcials and
business gures acknowl-
edge progress with Japan is
critical to hopes of conclud-
ing the TPP, a vital prong of
Obamas Asia pivot.
But yesterday Obama said
the two sides had still to nd
common ground, with high
tariffs on Japanese agricul-
tural products among the key
sticking points. Now is the
time for bold steps, he said.
Amid the geopolitics,
Obama also found time for
quiet spiritual reection with
a stop at the gracious Meiji
Jingu, a huge shrine in central
Tokyo dedicated to Emperor
Meiji, whose return to promi-
nence in 1896 marked the
birth of modern Japan.
After passing through the
wide open courtyard, Obama
toured the inner shrine and
paused at a lectern to write a
prayer on a wooden plaque.
The tablet would normally
be strung on a frame around
a large camphor tree in the
courtyard, but the presiden-
tial prayer was taken away by
a priest. AFP
Meiji Shrine chief priest Seitaro Nakajima holds a prayer tablet signed
by US President Obama to US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy
during their visit to the shrine in Tokyo yesterday. AFP

Car bomb kills eight at
central Iraq checkpoint
A CAR bomb exploded at a
police checkpoint south of
Baghdad yesterday, killing eight
people, as Iraq struggles with
daily violence ahead of an
election next week. The blast
five kilometres north of the city
of Hilla also wounded 20 people,
a police captain and a doctor
said. Iraq is suffering a
protracted surge in bloodshed
that has killed more than 2,750
people this year, and the April 30
parliamentary vote the first
since US troops left in 2011
will be a major test for security
forces. AFP
RAF scrambles fighters
TWO British RAF Typhoon
fighter jets were scrambled
after two Russian military
aircraft were detected
approaching northern Scotland
on Wednesday, the Ministry of
Defence said. The jets were sent
to determine the identity of
unknown aircraft, which turned
away before reaching British
airspace. The incident is not
regarded as being related to the
Ukraine crisis but a relatively
routine one. Russian military
planes test British responses
every few months. RAF jets
were deployed in similar
circumstances eight times last
year, but no Russian military
flights ever entered UK airspace
without authorisation, the
spokesman said. AFP
World
Jackfruit heralded as miracle food crop
I
TS big and bumpy with a
gooey interior and a pow-
erful smell of decay but
it could help keep mil-
lions of people from hunger.
Researchers say jackfruit
a large ungainly fruit grown
across South and Southeast
Asia could be a replacement
for wheat, corn and other sta-
ple crops under threat from
climate change.
The World Bank and UN
warned recently that rising
temperatures and unpredict-
able rainfall had already re-
duced yields of wheat and
corn, and could lead to food
wars within the decade. Now
researchers say jackfruit could
help provide the solution.
Jackfruit is the largest known
tree-borne fruit. Even a small
jackfruit weighs in at ve to
seven kilograms, and farmers
have recorded specimens of
more than 45 kilograms.
Its a miracle. It can provide
so many nutrients and calo-
ries everything, said Shya-
mala Reddy, a biotechnology
researcher at the University of
Agriculture Sciences in Ban-
galore. If you just eat 10 or 12
bulbs, you dont need food for
another half a day.
But jackfruit, despite its
huge potential, remains un-
derexploited as a food crop in
India, where it originated.
That is beginning to change,
however, with a growing num-
ber of researchers looking for
alternatives. Reddys univer-
sity will host an international
conference on jackfruit in May.
She said the Indian govern-
ment had launched a number
of new initiatives to promote
the crop by expanding its use
as a canned vegetable and as a
processed food.
The effort coincides with a
global push to expand food
production, especially in de-
veloping countries which are
expected to face growing chal-
lenges to feed their people in
the coming decades.
Jackfruit can ll the gap on a
number of counts, said Dan-
ielle Nierenberg, president of
Food Tank, which works on
sustainable agriculture: It is
easy to grow. It survives pests,
diseases and high tempera-
tures. It is drought-resistant,
she said. It achieves what
farmers need in food produc-
tion when facing a lot of chal-
lenges under climate change.
The fruit is rich in potassium,
calcium and iron, said Reddy,
making it more nutritious than
current starchy staples. Sri
Lanka and Vietnam have es-
tablished jackfruit industries,
where the fruit is processed
into products as diverse as
our, noodles and ice cream.
Jackfruit is also canned and
sold as a vegetable for export.
But it remains a hard sell in
much of India. Although the
fruit was seen as an important
staple 40 or 50 years ago, it is
now derided as a poor mans
fruit, said Shree Padre, a jack-
fruit farmer from Karnataka.
Only one or two commer-
cial-scale jackfruit plantations
are in current operation.
In the country of origin, it is
just not understood, he said.
There is an inferiority at-
tached to jackfruit. Any farmer
would happily carry an im-
ported apple than jackfruit.
The down-market repu-
tation is unwarranted, said
Nyree Zyrega, a researcher on
plant biology at the Chicago
Botanic Garden, who has stud-
ied jackfruit in Bangladesh.
In addition to its high nutri-
tional value, the fruit is very
versatile, she said. The seeds,
young fruit and mature vari-
eties are all edible. The tim-
ber from jackfruit trees is also
valuable. It is just not being
utilised, she said.
I think it could play a much
more important role in diets
than it currently does and be a
staple, she continued. In ad-
dition to consuming cooked
young jackfruit, ripe jackfruit
and jackfruit seeds, there are
also many food products with
longer shelf life that can be
made from jackfruit.
Processing the fruit can be
offputting, she conceded. The
larger fruit give off a strong
odour, and ooze a thick white
sap. It is not the easiest fruit,
Zyrega said. But jackfruit,
breadfruit and other non-
traditional crops are being
re-examined because of fears
about future food supply.
A report from the Inter-
national Panel on Climate
Change last month warned
that heatwaves, drought and
unpredictable rainfall were al-
ready cutting into wheat and
maize yields. The World Banks
Dr Jim Yong Kim earlier this
month predicted food short-
ages could lead to wars within
the next ve to 10 years.
There is just more interest
in crops that arent the major
staples, she said. We just
dont have a choice. We are
going to have to explore some
of these alternative to make
sure we are going to be able to
nourish people, Nierenberg
said. THE GUARDIAN
A Bangladeshi fruit vendor stacks jackfruit at his roadside stall on the
outskirts of Dhaka in June 2008. AFP
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EACE and cooperation, pro-
nounced the same as He in
Chinese, are the two princi-
ples and code of conduct
deeply rooted in the tradition of the
Chinese culture. He implies peace-
ful, harmonious and auspicious inter-
actions. The concept of He is both
an integral part of Chinas cultural tra-
dition and a universal philosophical
value. This cultural DNA affects the
behaviour pattern of the Chinese peo-
ple as well as the way China handles
its relations with its neighbours.
Over 600 years ago, Zheng He, a Chi-
nese navigator, made seven expedi-
tions to the western seas with a fleet
that was then the worlds strongest.
Unlike Western colonists who
engaged in expansion and plunder,
Zheng Hes fleet brought silk, porce-
lain and tea and left behind touching
stories of friendship between the Chi-
nese and the local people.
One can see that the concept of He
featured prominently in this episode
of history.
Since the founding of the Peoples
Republic, China has upheld the prin-
ciples of peaceful coexistence as the
norms governing state-to-state rela-
tions. Thanks to He, China-ASEAN
relations made great headway.
In the 1990s, China-ASEAN dialogue
was formally launched. After an
extraordinary 20-plus years, relations
between China and the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations have made
remarkable achievements. In 2003,
China became ASEANs first dialogue
partner to sign the Treaty of Amity and
Cooperation in Southeast Asia. In
2010, the China-ASEAN free trade
agreement was established. The year
2013 marked the 10th anniversary of
China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership.
Disputes in the South China Sea
have been a challenging issue. Despite
the differences between China and
some Southeast Asian nations over a
number of islands and reefs of the
Nansha Islands and their overlapping
claims on maritime rights and inter-
ests in some areas of the South China
Sea, China has been committed to
handling disputes in the spirit of
peace and cooperation.
For years, China has been working
tirelessly for stability and coopera-
tion in the South China Sea. In 2002,
China and ASEAN countries signed
the Declaration on the Conduct of
Parties in the South China Sea
(DOC). In 2011, the relevant parties
reached consensus on the guidelines
on the follow-up actions for the
implementation of the DOC. In
2013, the parties concerned held
consultations on a code of conduct
in the South China Sea (COC). Gen-
erally speaking, despite the existing
disputes, the overall situation in the
South China Sea has been stable.
In the spirit of He, China believes
there are three strategies to follow
while exploring China-ASEAN coop-
eration, including dealing with issues
in the South China Sea.
First, mutual respect and accommo-
dation form the basis of our coopera-
tion. The Chinese culture is highly
accommodative and guided by the
belief that true gentlemen live in
peace even if they do not agree with
each other.
Even in the old days, China chose to
perceive its neighbours in an amica-
ble and accommodative light and
develop relations with them by send-
ing out merchant ships rather than
gunboats. China never imposes its
practice or opinion on other coun-
tries. The pursuit of peaceful develop-
ment and co-existence is by no means
an act of expediency, but a strategic
choice made by the Chinese nation in
light of its long-term interests.
Second, engaging and treating each
other candidly holds the key to the
settlement of our differences. We
advocate the spirit of He not as a
means to dodge disputes. We are not
scared of disputes but believe the
important thing is to understand each
other better through direct communi-
cation and move step by step to find a
proper solution.
Pending the settlement of a dispute,
parties need to demonstrate restraint
and manage their differences through
consultations. As long as we keep the
dialogue and consultation going,
eventually we will find fresh ideas no
matter how difficult the problem is.
Chinas border is 22,000 kilometres
long. Thanks to the concerted efforts
of China and the 14 countries that
border China, more than 20,000 kilo-
metres have been demarcated. Imag-
ine the amount of patience and
resolve that went into this formida-
ble endeavour!
If any country should instead
recklessly stick to its own way of
doing things reject dialogue and
communication or try to bring
external players into the picture it
is likely to escalate tensions and
undermine cooperation between
countries concerned. It could even
jeopardise the interests of all coun-
tries in the region.
Third, mutual benefit and harmoni-
ous development is the shared goal of
our cooperation. The ultimate goal of
advocating the spirit of He does not
stop at coexistence and engagement.
It is about achieving common devel-
opment through harmonious coexist-
ence and cooperation.
History throughout the world has
shown that no individuals or
nations could advance and keep up
with the world by shutting them-
selves from the outside world.
Cooperation is not about who eats
up whom or who follows whom. It is
about seeing the bigger picture and
the long-term interests instead of
just ones own immediate interests.
Only a long-term perspective can
lead to mutually beneficial coopera-
tion in a real sense.
When China and ASEAN were hit by
the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and
the 2008 global financial crisis, which
originated in the United States and
Europe, it was cooperation that got us
through the crises and challenges and
made regional economic growth and
prosperity possible.
Under the current circumstances,
we need to stay committed to cooper-
ation and work to expand, diversify
and deepen our cooperation and
improve its efficiency so that the
economy of our region will benefit
from it. With cooperation, we will rise
above differences, build consensus,
enhance mutual trust and create a
better future for the countries and
people of this region.
I am convinced that as long as we
are committed to peace, cooperation
and mutual benefit, we will overcome
difficulties, intensify our cooperation
and make the South China Sea a sea
of peace, friendship and cooperation
and this region a beautiful home
shared by us all.
This editorial was edited for length.
Comment
Liu Zhenmin
In the spirit of He
A visitor at the National Museum of China in Beijing takes pictures next to a model of a Chinese merchant ship used by Chinese admiral
Zheng He during his voyages. AFP
Liu Zhenmin is a senior ofcial for China-
ASEAN Affairs and vice minister of foreign
affairs of the Peoples Republic of China..
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A dream trip
of a lifetime
to Antarctica
A group of tourists board an aircraft of a Chilean tourism rm in
Antarctica last month. AFP
Vitoria Velez

A
S THE sun sets, the
cloudy sky melds
with the glaring
white of the frozen
terrain. Tourists trudging in
single le marvel over blue
glaciers in Antarctica, a hip
new vacation destination.
The group paid a small for-
tune $3,000 per head for
a quick ve-hour visit to the
frozen continent
Coming to Antarctica was
a dream for me and my wife,
American John Reiss, 81
We signed up a couple
years ago, but we couldnt get
on it, so we went on a waiting
list. This year we signed a year
in advance and we made it.
The couple boarded a cruise
ship in Florida, where they
live, to head to Punta Arenas
in the south of Chile, where
they caught a two-hour ight
to Antarctica.
The tourists visited the island
of King George, in the South
Shetlands archipelago and the
neighbouring Russian station
of Bellingshausen with its out-
of-place Orthodox church.
They also saw the small Chil-
ean hamlet of Villa Las Estrel-
las home to just 64 people and
colonies of penguins.
Another option is to tour
Half Moon Island, a habitat
of seals and penguins that is
home to the Argentine base of
Teniente Camara.
There they can sip a hot cup
of coffee, send a postcard and
get their passport stamped
with a picture of a krill, a kind
of small shrimp that is the
symbol of the base.
It was a fantastic experi-
ence. The rst thing that makes
this trip special is being able
to visit such a well-preserved,
untouched continent, 69-
year-old Canadian Maureen
Malone said.
The second is being able to
see the penguins. Everybody
loves the penguins. Also, I was
able to see around the bases,
see how the different countries
are sharing the region.
The Antarctic draws more
than 30,000 tourists per year,
from November to March,
when there is no problem
landing on the frozen sea.
Most arrive on ships that
cross Drake Passage in the
Southern Ocean, which has
some of the worlds worst
weather, setting off from Ush-
uaia in southern Argentina
and from Punta Arenas.
Ninety per cent of the
tourists from around the
world who come to Antarc-
tica leave from Ushuaia,
Brazilian Gunnar Hagelberg,
owner of Antarctica Expedi-
tions, said.
The cruises last an aver-
age of 11 days. The cheapest
ones cost $5,000. The most
expensive, which last 15 days
and go to the South Pole,
cost $12,000.
More than 35,350 people
will have visited Antarctica by
the end of this year 1,000
more than last season and
8,000 more than in 2011-12,
according to the Internation-
al Association of Antarctic
Tour Operators.
We carry from 120 to
130 people per season. We
have seen a 15 to 20 per cent
increase in the number of
tourists who want to see
the continent, said Nicolas
Paulsen, deputy commercial
director of the Chilean airline
Dap, which offers logistical
and tourist ights.
Paulsen said tourism in
Antarctica is rising 3 per cent
more per year than tourism to
Chile, which is up seven per-
cent. Most visitors come from
the United States, Australia,
China, Russia and, more and
more, from Brazil.
Antarctica is vital for us.
It affects the climate, the sea
currents. Tourism is impor-
tant because the more peo-
ple get to know it, the more
they will want to protect it,
Paulsen said. AFP
Sport
Eagles, Bintangs vie
in ANZAC Day clash
H S Manjunath
T
HE Cambodian Eagles will
take on the Jakarta Bintangs
on Saturday as the home
side play host to their rst
ANZAC Day Aussie Rules football
game at the Navy Sports Ground
with an 11am kick-off.
An ANZAC Day game is in itself a
celebration of sorts as it marks a na-
tional day of remembrance in both
Australia and New Zealand since
1921. It broadly commemorates all
Australians and Kiwis who served
and died in wars, conicts and
peace-keeping operations.
It also symbolises the contribution
and suffering of all those who have
served. So for the Eagles, the game
holds special signicance with a
touch of sentimentality attached.
The Eagles are approaching this
tough Bintangs test on the back of
a 50-point victory over the visiting
Singapore Wombats three weeks
ago, fully aware of the Jakarta
sides fantastic start to the year
and their recent demolition of the
Vietnam Swans on their own home
turf in Saigon. From the Bintangs
perspective this was indeed a stel-
lar feat.
However, Eagles coach Grant
Fitzgerald noted his team were im-
proving as the year goes on.
We now have a consistent line-up
and the hard training is starting to
pay off, he told the Post yesterday.
New recruits Will The Beaver
Fletcher, Ritchie Thin Man Munro
and Jehan Vijay Kanagasingham
have added a good amount of depth
to the side and an extra bit of run.
The recent retirement of Gavin
Barrels Murphy will hit the Eagles
hard as the side will be deprived of
his brave zoning game style and
intimidating pace.
The Eagles have been working
hard to get their attacking game
style back after losing some key
players at the end of last year. Both
David James Bond Parrot and Da-
vid The Danger Bryce are back to
full tness which will add some size
back to the team and likely cause
the opposition a few headaches, the
Eagles coach noted.
Wayne Chips Burton has also
consolidated his place in the team
this year, locking down the back
pocket and providing some much
needed composure down back,
added Fitzgerald.
There will also be some addi-
tional motivation for Eagles as this
will likely be club legend Trevor
Bagga Parriss last game running
the bench.
Trevor is a much loved gure at
the club and has basically been the
game day general for as long as I can
remember. His ability to always be
carrying a bag of whatever is needed
at the time is quite famous and will
be irreplaceable, said the coach.
It will also be the last game for
one of the most controversial gures
in the clubs history Luke Latte Grif-
ths. He will be sorely missed.
When asked to give his thoughts
on running out for the Eagles one
last time, Grifths reportedly told
his teammates: I beat Dancing
Dave Murphy and thats more than
you have ever done. Thats the Luke
spirit.
The Eagles have an excellent home
ground record and are hoping that a
big crowd will be out to cheer them
on and enjoy the entertainment.
The game will be held at the Ea-
gles pet venue, the Navy Sports
Ground on Chhroy Changvar pen-
insular, around 1.4 kilometres after
the Cambodia Japanese Friendship
bridge. Gates go open at 10am with
the kickoff an hour later.
Cambodia Eagles players (in blue and gold) vie with China Reds counterparts during their
Aussie Rules football match at the Navy Sports Ground on June 22, 2013. PHOTOSUPPLIED
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MANCHESTER United intend
to plough ahead with their
transfer business during the
potentially long process of wait-
ing for a new manager to start
almost three months in Louis
van Gaals case and their
extensive inquiries include
exploring the possibility of
whether Paris Saint-Germain
might sell Edinson Cavani.
United confidently expect to
close a deal of around 30 mil-
lion (US$50.4 million) for Luke
Shaw, offering the teenage
Southampton full-back a lucra-
tive financial package that
could be worth as much as
100,000-a-week over five years.
The offer will be difficult for
Chelsea to match bearing in
mind their issues over keeping
in line with UEFAs financial
fair play rules.
Ed Woodward, Uniteds chief
executive, has been made aware
that Cavani might be available
and is also tempted to look
again at Cesc Fabregas position
at Barcelona, despite the unsat-
isfactory way it turned out
when they tried to sign him last
summer.
Although United were accused
of handling the process badly at
the time, the club remain con-
vinced that Fabregas was keen
to join them only for the pro-
posed move to break down
because of the politics and sen-
sitivities that surround his asso-
ciation with Barcelona.
Their interest is sustained in
part because Robin van Persie,
Fabregass close friend, has
reported that the former Arse-
nal midfielder wanted the move
to happen, using the striker as
an intermediary, and Wood-
ward was told exactly the same
by the relevant agents.
United failed with bids of 25
million and 30 million, as well
as making a verbal offer in the
region of 35 million, and could
not persuade Fabregas to go
public or try to force the issue.
This time they will approach
it more cautiously but, again,
with the sense that both Fabre-
gas and Barcelona are more
open to the idea than their pub-
lic utterances might lead peo-
ple to suspect.
What is increasingly clear is
that United realise they will
have to spend significant sums
of money if one of Van Gaal or
Carlo Ancelotti, the two man-
agers uppermost in their
thoughts, is to repair the dam-
age that was caused in the
David Moyes era. The team,
who are out of next seasons
Champions League, lie seventh
in the Premier League, 23
points off the top, and are about
to be deposed as champions.
Woodward is confident that
two deals have already provi-
sionally been put in place,
though those names have not
been revealed. Their interest is
known in several high-calibre
players such as Marco Reus and
Ilkay Gundogan at Borussia
Dortmund, Toni Kroos at Bay-
ern Munich and Sporting Lis-
bons William Carvalho.
Chelsea were considered
favourites to land Shaw, a life-
long Chelsea supporter whose
parents live near the clubs Cob-
ham training centre in Surrey.
Yet the terms plus the lure of
becoming Patrice Evras instant
successor at left-back have
boosted confidence at Old Traf-
ford that the 18-year-old Eng-
land prospect will join, becom-
ing the highest paid teenager in
English football.
The priority for United is in
midfield, as well as finding
replacements for the departing
Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdi-
nand, but United have already
held preliminary talks to ascer-
tain whether Cavani might be
prised away from PSG.
The fee would be high,
potentially 60 million for a
27-year-old, in complete con-
trast to the policy that existed
at Old Trafford a few years ago
whereby the club simply would
not countenance, post-Dimi-
tar Berbatov, paying huge
amounts for a player of that
age. THE GUARDIAN
23
Football

Money men face off in
futsal Cup tournament
THE Financial Challenge Cup,
organised by Excel Events, is set
to kick off its second edition this
Sunday at Beeline Arena. Teams
from the financial sector will
compete in a league format of
the futsal (5-a-side) competition
that will run every Sunday up to
the final on July 20, including a
play-off series. Maruhan are the
current Cup holders and will be
striving to hold on to their
champions tag. The Financial
Challenge Cup is a great
tournament for prestigious
financial companies operating in
Cambodia. The standard of play
is good and the competition is
strong but more than that, it
brings people together in a
unique way, event organiser
Jimmy Campbell told the Post.
DANRILEY
Madrid athletes too
much for Bayern, Pep
BAYERN Munich boss Pep
Guardiola said his side had
struggled to contain Real
Madrids pace on the counter-
attack as Los Blancos secured
a 1-0 advantage from the first
leg of their Champions League
semi-final on Wednesday.
Karim Benzema scored the
only goal of the game on 19
minutes from one of a series
of Madrid counter-attacks in
the first-half that caught the
European champions wanting
at the back. Madrid have
athletes. They are footballers,
but they are real athletes, said
the former Barcelona boss
after suffering his first defeat
in eight games as a coach at
the Santiago Bernabeu. It is
easy to say we need to play
more vertically, but the quicker
we move the ball forward, the
quicker it comes back and that
can be very dangerous for us.
Bayern enjoyed 63 per cent of
the possession, but failed to
create many clear-cut
opportunities as Madrid
defended in numbers. AFP
Buriram bow out of AFC
League after Korea tie
THAI Premier League
champions Buriram United
were eliminated in the AFC
Champions League after a
scoreless draw at South Koreas
Pohang Steelers in their final
Group E match on Wednesday
night. Pohang, who moved to 12
points with Buriram on six, had
already qualified for the
knockout stages. In the other
Group E match, Japans Cerezo
Osaka won 2-1 at Chinas
Shandong Luneng, with
Uruguay forward Diego Forlan
scoring the winner, to join
Pohang in the last 16 on eight
points. BANGKOKPOST
Liverpool reveal Anfield
redevelopment plans
PREMIER League leaders
Liverpool on Wednesday
published plans for the
redevelopment of their Anfield
home that would raise the
stadiums capacity from 45,276
to around 54,000. The club
plan to add 8,500 seats to the
arenas Main Stand, which
would also become the new
home of the memorial to the
96 Liverpool fans killed in the
1989 Hillsborough stadium
disaster. Liverpool have also
presented separate outline
proposals to expand the
Anfield Road stand by adding
around 4,800 extra seats. AFP
English Premier League
Saturday April 26
Southampton v Everton
6:45pm
Fulham v Hull 9pm
Stoke v Tottenham 9pm
Swansea v Aston Villa 9pm
West Brom v West Ham
9pm
Man United v Norwich
11:30pm
Sunday April 27
Sunderland v Cardiff 6pm
Liverpool v Chelsea 8:05pm
Crystal Palace v Man City
10:10pm
Spanish La Liga
Saturday April 26
Elche v Levante 2am
Granada v Rayo Vallecano
9pm
Getafe v Malaga 11pm
Sunday April 27
Real Madrid v Osasuna 1am
Real Betis v Real Sociedad
3am
Espanyol v Almeria 5pm
Valencia v Atletico Madrid
10pm
Monday April 28
Athletic Bilbao v Sevilla
12am
Villarreal v Barcelona 2am
German Bundesliga
Saturday April 26
Hannover v Stuttgart
1:30am
Mainz v Nurnberg 8:30pm
Hoffenheim v
Eintracht Frankfurt 8:30pm
Bayern Munich v
Werder Bremen 8:30pm
Hertha Berlin v Eintracht
Braunschweig 8:30pm
Wolfsburg v Freiburg
8:30pm
Bayer Leverkusen v
Bor Dortmund 11:30pm
Augsburg v Hamburg
8:30pm
Schalke v Borussia
Mnchengladbach 10:30pm
Italian Serie A
Saturday April 26
Roma v AC Milan 1:45am
Bologna v Fiorentina 11pm
Sunday April 27
Inter Milan v Napoli 1:45am
Verona v Catania 5:30pm
Cagliari v Parma 8pm
Livorno v Lazio 8pm
Sampdoria v Chievo 8pm
Torino v Udinese 8pm
Monday April 28
Atalanta v Genoa 1:45am
French Ligue 1
Saturday April 26
Nantes v Marseille
1:30am
Ajaccio v Monaco 10pm
Sunday April 27
Evian TG v St Etienne 1am
Guingamp v Valenciennes
1am
Montpellier v Toulouse
1am
Nice v Reims 1am
Rennes v Lorient 1am
Sochaux v Paris SG 7pm
Lyon v Bastia 10pm
Monday April 28
Lille v Bordeaux 2am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
United eyeing up Cavani
Table toppers square off
T
HE highly anticipated clash
between former champi-
ons and current Metfone C-
League top two Phnom Penh
Crown and Naga Corp garners rivet-
ing attention among the six games
slated for the weekend.
With the two-week break for the
Khmer New year festivities behind
them, the focus for both Naga and
Crown shifts back to the serious
business of consolidation when they
face off at the Olympic Stadium for a
twilight meeting kicking off at 6pm
tomorrow.
The signicance of the outcome
impacting the teams overall psyche
the rest of the way cannot be over-
looked, even though it is early days.
But, being fully aware of the sense
of occasion, both teams will take to
the pitch with an abundance of grit
and self belief, cutting a clear path
to an action-packed game where the
prevailing mood will be to a great ex-
tent grab and hold.
Crown shrugged the break off with
a 9-0 drubbing of Albirex in a friendly
last Saturday, indicating that very
little time or momentum was lost
in preparations ahead of this vital
game. Cameroonian Baldwin Ngwa
struck three goals to advertise his
readiness for duty.
George Bisans decisive goal magic
has worked twice for Crown in their
1-0 defeats of National Police and Tri-
Asia and he could well be the one to
trouble the Naga backline the most.
Key defender Odion Obadin has
been ruled out in light of his im-
pending dental surgery, while Theary
Chantavin and Boris Kok will be ab-
sent, the former with a broken bone
in the foot and the latter having been
involved in a motorbike accident
during New Year.
Crown coach Sam Schweingruber
believes one of their advantages lies
in their youthful line up.
Naga is one of strongest clubs in
MCL, who have lots of experience
as there are lots of good foreign and
domestic players. Some are national
team footballers, but those are older
than our players. We have stronger
and younger players to handle them,
he told the Post.
Naga coach Prak Sovanara will miss
out on this xture as he is away at-
tending an AFC coaches program.
For a team which relies so heavily on
his tactical guidance and vast expe-
rience, his absence from the dugout
could hurt in some ways, but the
Naga camp is not unduly worried,
maintaining that the team can cope.
As far as the current form line goes,
there is nothing much to choose be-
tween the two, the common thread
being their losses to third placed
Boeung Ket Rubber Field.
In four previous meetings since
early 2012, Naga have beaten Crown
once and drawn the other three. Re-
gardless of what the past record says,
it is the match day form that eventu-
ally counts.
Before this needle Naga-Crown
affair, defending champions Svay
Rieng will run into a resurgent Build
Bright United, who are trying to turn
their league form around after their
good run in the Hun Sen Cup.
Away at the Old Stadium tomor-
row, Ministry of National Defence
has the rock-bottom Albirex Niigata
in their sights. It could be a tough
ask for Albirex to stand up to a rug-
ged Army outt.
In the days second xture at the
Old Stadium, league debutants TriA-
sia Phnom Penh FC, who have held
their own against some of the best in
the business so far, will be looking to
maximise their returns against Asia
Europe University.
A couple of serious blows after their
Cup triumph has left National Police
Commissary searching for answers.
The Police could well lift themselves
up from these recent setbacks at the
Olympic Stadium on Sunday if they
play hard and true against West-
ern University, whose own form has
dipped a bit.
The weekends night cap will fea-
ture last seasons runners-up Boeung
Ket against Kirivong Sok Sen Chey.
The 2012 champions are not far off
the pace and given their strengths
should nd the going to their lik-
ing against a tottering Takeo-based
Kirivong. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHENG
SERYRITH
Weekend Fixtures
At the Old Stadium
Saturday April 26
MND v Albirex Niigata 1:45pm
TriAsia v Asia Europe Uni 3:45pm
At the Olympic Stadium
Svay Rieng v BBU 4pm
Naga Corp v PP Crown 6pm
Sunday April 27
National Police v Western Uni 4pm
Kirivong SSC v Boeung Ket 6pm
Phnom Penh Crown and Naga Corp will meet tomorrow night at the Olympic Stadium in a
top of the Metfone C-League table clash. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sport
A swimmer competes in last years Mekong River Swim. The 18th edition of the annual river race will be held this Sunday morning, starting from a site near Prek Leap Agricultural College. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Swimmers primed for river race
Dan Riley
C
AMBODIAS aquatic fa-
natics will take the plunge
on Sunday as iCAN Brit-
ish International School
holds the 18th annual Mekong
River Swim.
Swimmers will attempt to complete
the roughly 700-metre crossing in the
fastest time, with timed legs setting
off from the Prek Leap Agricultural
College between 8am and 11am.
One hundred male and 37 female
participants had registered for the
competition as of yesterday, race
organisers said, with the swim-
mers coming from 18 countries:
Cambodia, the US, the UK, Austra-
lia, Canada, France, Finland, Ger-
many, Indonesia, Ireland, Nether-
lands, New Zealand, Peru, South
Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden
and Turkey.
Building on the success of last
years introduction of split starts,
there will be two racing categories
the competitive class for those aim-
ing to record a time of less than 15
minutes and a recreational class.
Swimmers could choose to com-
pete individually or in teams of four,
for which combined time totals will
be tabulated. Prizes will be awarded
to the top three nishers for seniors
and U18s as well as for teams.
For the rst time, the Cambo-
dian Mine Action Centre (CMAC),
the Kingdoms leading demining
organisation, is entering a team of
eight locals who are training to be
marine deminers.
Sponsors this year include In-
ternational SOS, The Shop, DKSH,
Knyay, Luna, Snow Yogurt and
Mama Wongs.
In response to concerns raised
about the safety of the event and the
quality of the river water, organisers
have noted that in the races 18 years
not a single illness has been report-
ed as a result of participation.
Before and during the day, com-
prehensive safety systems will be in
place, including the prevention of
all boats not involved in the event
from coming through the area. Ten
long tail safety boats will be posi-
tioned on the water near swimmers,
replete with experienced water
safety volunteers and equipment to
collect anyone who feels unable to
complete the swim. A doctor and a
paramedic from International SOS
and a fully staffed CMAC safety
boat will also be on hand to provide
extra support.
All proceeds from the event go to-
wards water safety programs run by
a local NGO in Battambang.
Wladimir Klitschko brushes off whiner, softie jibes
WORLD heavyweight cham-
pion Wladimir Klitschko has
dismissed accusations of
being a whiner and a softie
from an ex-sparring partner
ahead of Saturday nights
world title fight against Aus-
tralias Alex Leapai.
Of course Im a softie and a
whiner, didnt you know that
already? Klitschko said.
The Ukrainians former spar-
ring partner Sherman Williams
earlier this week told the Ger-
man daily newspaper Die Welt
how Leapai can bring the
world title home to Australia.
The 34-year-old Leapai has
vowed to go to war with
reigning champion Klitschko,
38, who will be defending his
WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts
in Oberhausen, Germany.
I can only advise Alex that
as soon as the first round bell
sounds, go courageously
straight at Klitschko, Williams,
41, told Die Welt.
Hit him with left and right
shots to the body and then
hit him on the chin with
the right.
I guarantee that if Alex
fights the way I tell him to,
Klitschko will throw his arms
around like an octopus.
He doesnt like being hit
on the shoulders and back
and Australia will have a new
world champion.
Williams was one of
Klitschkos 10 sparring part-
ners at his Austrian training
camp in preparation for the
Leapai fight.
But Klitschkos manager,
Bernd Boente, said the US-
based fighter had been
released early after poor per-
formances in the ring against
the champion.
Williams was so bad in
sparring that he was like a liv-
ing punch bag, Boente dis-
missively said.
He came totally overweight
to the camp and was then sent
home, so this is no more than
tit for tat from him.
Pacquiao has lost his pop
Floyd Mayweather says
Manny Pacquiao has lost a
step and that the Filipinos
superstar slide has coincided
with his decision to split
from former strength trainer
Alex Ariza.
The 37-year-old undefeated
welterweight champ May-
weather weighed in Wednes-
day on the latest performance
by Pacquiao who beat Timothy
Bradley on April 12 in Las
Vegas in a rematch of their first
bout in June 2012.
Actually, I did watch the
fight, said Mayweather, who
is training to fight Argentinas
Marcos Maidana in a 147-
pound title bout on May 3 in
Las Vegas.
You know, I havent seen
Pacquiao fight in years. Ive
seen highlights, but I havent
seen Pacquiao fight since he
fought Miguel Cotto.
Mayweather said he wasnt
impressed and fired a couple
of verbals jabs of his own
at Pacquiao.
He said that Pacquiao looked
like an amateur and that in
his opinion the World Boxing
Organization welterweight
champion has less power and
stamina now than he did five
years ago.
I thought Pacquiao fought
like an amateur and I wasnt
pleased with his performance,
Mayweather said. He got the
victory the best way he knew
how. Im seeing something
totally different in Pacquiao.
Pacquiao worked with Ariza
for five years before splitting
with him last year. Ariza had a
key role in helping Pacquiao
win titles in several different
weight classes, including 147
and 154 pounds.
Yamanaka retains belt
Japans Shinsuke Yamanaka
floored Belgian challenger
Stephane Jamoye four times
with his killer left hand on
Wednesday to retain his World
Boxing Council bantamweight
title with a fifth straight knock-
out win.
Panamanian referee Hector
Afu stopped the fight at the
Osaka Castle Hall eleven sec-
onds into the ninth round
when southpaw Yamanakas
straight left to the body sent
Jamoye to the canvas.
It was Yamanakas sixth
defence of the 53.5-kilogram-
class title which he won by
beating Mexicos Christian
Esquivel with a technical
knockout in Tokyo in Novem-
ber 2011.
His unscathed professional
record improved to 21 wins, 16
of them inside the distance,
and two draws. AFP
World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko trains in
Oberhausen, northwestern Germany on Wednesday. AFP

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