A Ride Worth The Weight: Gov't As Legit As Junta: Premier

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Vong Sokheng
and Kevin Ponniah
IN A bid to reinforce the
legitimacy of his govern-
ment amid an ongoing par-
liamentary boycott by the
opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party,
Prime Minister Hun Sen
yesterday looked west for
an analogy.
He chose one that didnt
involve a ballot box.
Instead, he pointed to
Thailands National Council
for Peace and Order, which
was formed after the mili-
tarys May coup and imme-
diately began clamping
down on dissenting voices,
as a suitable parallel.
Both governments had
received royal approval, Hun
Sen said, and were therefore
equally legitimate.
I just want to send a mes-
sage back [to the opposi-
tion], that you are stupid to
go by yourself. You have to
consider whether [the gov-
ernment and parliament]
are legitimate or not . . . And
a royal decree is the highest
legitimacy above all others
[in a constitutional monar-
chy], he said.
In Thailand, [General]
Prayuth Chan-ocha received
a royal decree from the King
so he too can work [legally].
But here, the National
Assembly obtained a royal
decree for the convening of
parliament. Here in Cam-
bodia, it is impossible to
convene the National
Govt as
legit as
junta:
premier
May Titthara
Ratanakkiri province
N
ORTH of the Sesan
River, in protected
forests that stretch
to the border with
Laos and Vietnam, illegal tim-
ber traders describe a network
of bribery that leaves them
counting their riels, despite the
multimillion-dollar nature of
the industry.
In contrast to the large flat-
bed trucks owned by timber
baron Try Pheap that ply the
provinces roads identifiable
by the code number on the
windshields: 1168 small-scale
traders must pay their dues to
the scores of languid officials
who have set up hammocks by
the roadsides, creating unoffi-
cial checkpoints to cash in on
a business that has only grown
since the tycoon was granted
sole transportation rights
last year.
The traders load up their
motorbikes with hundreds of
kilograms of luxury wood that
could easily crush an arm or a
leg, deftly navigating the tracks,
A ride worth the weight
A man transports allegedly illegal
lumber on his small motorbike in
Ratanakkiri province last week.
HENG CHIVOAN
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 4, 2014
Govt makes it
official: Thais
to release 14
Chhay Channyda
and Laignee Barron

F
OURTEEN Cambodian
migrant workers jailed
in Thailand for travel-
ling with false visas will
be freed and sent home today,
according to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
After a brief hearing yester-
day, the Sa Kaeo Provincial
Court in Thailand agreed to
drop all charges against the
workers, who were arrested
while trying to ee junta-
led Thailand during a mass
exodus that saw more than
250,000 Cambodian workers
return home.
Initially, the group arrested
last month contained just 13
workers. But a few days later,
another woman was caught
with a similarly unofcial visa,
according to Foreign Ministry
spokesman Koy Kuong.
They were all victims;
it was not their fault, said
Kuong, who has maintained
that the workers were duped
by a broker and unaware of
any wrongdoing.
We dont know if it was the
same broker who tricked them,
or different brokers doing the
same thing, he said. It is the
duty of Thailand to investigate,
though the consulate general
in Sa Kaeo has asked them to
look into the brokers so it does
not happen to someone else.
Kuong would not reveal the
names of the workers yester-
day but told the Post that 10
are women and 4 are men, all
aged between 18 and 32. They
are originally from Pursat, Bat-
tambang and Siem Reap.
Pich Vanna, chief of the Bor-
der Relations Ofce, said the
workers would be released im-
minently, though he was un-
able to provide a specic time,
or clarify where they would
stay until they were sent back
through the border checkpoint
at Poipet today.
A separate group of 23 work-
ers 12 men, 9 women and
two girls was arrested on
Wednesday by Thailand's Bu-
ra-pha Task Force while being
driven by a broker to construc-
tion sites in Thailand, police
sources told the Bangkok Post,
which later reported they had
been returned to Cambodia.
The homecoming of the 14
workers rounds out mutual
return agreements arranged
during a Thai delegations two-
day visit to Cambodia, during
which imprisoned yellow
shirt leader Veera Somkwam-
kid received a royal pardon.
Veera, who served three years
of his eight-year sentence for
espionage, returned home on
Wednesday. Just hours later,
Thailands Justice Ministry an-
nounced that it would be free-
ing the 14 Cambodian workers.
Both Thai and Cambodian
authorities have vociferously
denied the moves represent
any sort of deal or arrangement
made during the Thai delega-
tions rst ofcial visit to Cam-
bodia since the May 22 coup.
I would like to correct some
of the TV and radio broadcasts
that have called the release of
Veera an exchange [of prison-
ers]. Its not an exchange. The
Thai government also, correct-
ly, states the same, Prime Min-
ister Hun Sen said at a speech
in the capital yesterday.
Regarding the 14 workers,
I asked whether or not they
agreed to release them, and
it is Thailand's right to de-
cide. Here, we let [Veera] go
back without any conditions.
Therefore, media reports
sometimes are annoying,
Hun Sen added.
Government as legit as junta: PM
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Assembly without a royal
decree.
Speaking to a crowd of thou-
sands of disabled Cambodians
on Koh Pich during the launch
of a new five-year National Stra-
tegic Plan for Disability, the pre-
mier said that the government
was happy to continue lawmak-
ing without the CNRP, adding
that the mooted possibility of a
February 2018 election five
months early would be impos-
sible if the opposition continued
to play around.
The [election] law must be
changed by the National Assem-
bly, Hun Sen said, referring to
the CNRPs demand that the
next election be brought forward
by at least a year.
I would like to confirm that
if no other new law comes to
replace it, it means that every-
thing will continue to go
smoothly in accordance with
the existing laws.
CNRP leader Sam Rainsy,
whose party won 55 seats in par-
liament at the last election,
which it claims was rife with
irregularities, yesterday called
the government unconstitu-
tional and undemocratic.
Nobody now can contest the
fact that Cambodias current
regime is anything but a liberal
and plural democracy. With the
former communist CPP alone
occupying and controlling all
state institutions, starting with
the National Assembly, the
present Hun Sen government is
based on a one-party system
reminiscent of Cold War com-
munism, he said in an email.
Hun Sen only makes his case
worse by comparing his govern-
ment to the current Thai govern-
ment, because a coup is a coup.
No government can be legal and
legitimate as long as it is the
result of a coup, whether it be a
military coup as in the case of
Thailand or a constitutional
coup as in the case of Cambodia
following the controversial July
28, 2013, national elections.
Veteran political commenta-
tor Chea Vannath said that
Hun Sen was trying to buy as
much time as possible by con-
tinually justifying the legiti-
macy of his government.
[Hes] trying to find justifica-
tion and make the ends justify
the means. The comparison
[with Thailand] is right, both are
in the same situation, approved
by the King, so it is the right com-
parison or analogy but its not
the way democracy is supposed
to be, she said.
Democracy is about work-
ing together to lead the coun-
try and representing the voic-
es of different people for the
whole country.
Prime Minister Hun Sen greets a young boy at the launch of the National Strategic Plan on Disability
2014-2018 on Phnom Penhs Koh Pich yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
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which can morph from dustbowl to muddy brook in
a matter of minutes.
Hello, brother, I would like to ask your permission
to transport this stuff, Soeun Song*, one such trader,
calls out to a snoozing police ofcer. Song deals with
a dizzying array of ofcials, from the police and mili-
tary, to Forestry Administration ofcers whose job it
is to stamp out the trade in protected timber.
Song travels with six other traders and a couple
of scouts whose job it is to ride ahead through
Kachon, Bakham and Phnom Kuk communes
and deliver the ofcials tea money, a euphe-
mism for a bribe.
Mixed authorities who install posts along the
roads to get money tell us motorbike transporters, if
we transport it through their area, to let them know,
otherwise they will arrest us immediately, he said.
We do this kind of illegal business, so we have
to pay them, he continued.
Since more ofcials set up shop by the roadside
in recent months, it has become much easier to
communicate, as the ofcials have offered up their
phone numbers to passing traders.
We are not afraid, because all the ofcers get
money from us. They will not arrest us provided we
tell them [we are coming].
Song and other traders whom the Post trav-
elled undercover with last week questioned
the governments repeated pledges to stop forest
crimes in the area.
If we want to escape, we cannot do it, because
they [ofcials] guard everywhere. Thats why I am
always saying with my colleagues that forest crimes
are not difcult to prevent, if the law enforcers take
action, Song said.
Another trader, Va Rady*, from Nhang com-
mune, joked that the only ofcials we dont have
to pay are the teachers.
Two ofcials whom numerous traders identied
as being key players in the alleged bribery network
told the Post they had no knowledge of its existence.
Hai Phivath, Veun Sai commune forestry direc-
tor, whom the loggers pointed to as being at the
centre of the network of graft, challenged any
corrupt ofcials under his command to come to
his ofce to be reprimanded.
If our ofcials took money from them, I want
[the ofcials] to come, and I will point out that
they should not have acted like this, he said,
adding that it would take some time to investi-
gate the allegations.
However, when the Post left the Forestry Ad-
ministration ofce, two young men in hammocks
by the roadside, who identied themselves as the
sons of Phivath, said they were waiting to collect
money from the loggers.
At the eerily quiet Veun Sai district police station,
chief of police Teur Thorn, who was also ngered
as involved in the racket, said he had not taken any
money from the traders, and took pains to inter-
cept illegal transports.
We take tough measures in this case, so I do not
know which administrative police act like this; the
rules are so strict. If the wood traders have licences,
they will pay tax to the state, he said.
According to the traders interviewed last week,
they do pay a form of tax, though it wont appear on
the books at provincial hall in Banlung City.
Song says that getting environment ofcials, police
and military police to look the other way is the most
costly up to $5 per ofcer per load whereas forest
wardens sometimes settle for as little as $2.50.
When they see us transporting good quality tim-
ber, they think we are really rich. But, in reality, we
earn just enough to pay the authorities off.
When their cargo of Thnong wood reaches the
dealers in Banlung City, who are thought to sup-
ply Try Pheap, Song will make about $250, he says,
which will leave him with only about $20 by the
time he gets home.
It is not unheard of, he adds, for the often slippery
roads to cause the overloaded bikes to ip back-
ward and crush the rider.
While most of the wood ends up with Pheap, he
says, some traders try to sell directly to buyers in
Vietnam only a few kilometres away who pay
much more attractive rates.
It is difcult to get away with if we do not sell it
to Try Pheap, he said. Pheap and spokesman Ouk
Kemsan could not be reached.
Sa Em*, a trader from Andong Meas district, told
much the same story as Song, estimating that he
can only pull in $20 from each perilous journey.
Because I couldnt nd a job, I chose this one.
The authorities have never intercepted us since we
started giving money to them, he said.
* Names have been changed to protect identities
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Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
EIGHTY people were arrested
yesterday in a three-province
wide bust of one of Cambo-
dias largest telephone-based
extortion rings to date, ac-
cording to the Ministry of
Interiors Internal Security
Police Department.
The 80 Taiwanese and Chi-
nese nationals were arrested
during three simultaneous raids
conducted by law enforcement
ofcials in Phnom Penh, Siem
Reap and Takeo.
The suspects, 23 of whom are
women, were allegedly obtain-
ing money from people in Chi-
na and Taiwan via phone scams
using voice over internet pro-
tocol (VoIP), which masks the
origin country of the caller. The
suspects pretended to be police
on the phone and demanded
the victim on the other end of
the line pay for overdue taxes,
according to Chhay Sinarith,
chief of the ministrys internal
security police.
These people were all part
of the same group of Chinese
and Taiwanese VoIP scam-
mers . . . They hide in the out-
skirts of cities in Cambodia,
Sinarith told the Post.
Police have been investigat-
ing this extortion group for the
past two weeks after receiving
scam complaints from resi-
dents in Taiwan that date back
several years.
Yesterday at 1:30pm, police
raided the suspects rental vil-
las. Eight members of the group
were arrested in Phnom Penhs
Sen Sok district, Teuk Thla com-
mune, while 44 were arrested in
Siem Reap towns Thvay Dang-
kum commune. An additional
28 suspects were netted in
Takeo provinces Takeo district.
During the raids, ofcials
also conscated a number
of VoIP telephones, mobile
phones, motorcycles and other
related materials.
Our police are still question-
ing the suspects to work out this
case, said Sinarith, adding that
the foreign nationals would all
be sent to court soon.
An ofcial from the Chinese
Embassy in Phnom Penh de-
clined to comment yesterday.
Figures for the number of
VoIP crackdowns and associ-
ated arrests made this year were
not available yesterday. How-
ever, according to a Ministry of
Interior report, from 2010 until
June 2013, about 600 Chinese
and Taiwanese nationals were
arrested for allegedly extorting
money from residents abroad
using VoIP calls.
Eighty arrests as cops
bust phone scam ring
Family torn after organ arrests
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Alice Cuddy
A
FAMILY feud at the
centre of Cambodias
rst major organ traf-
cking case has left
the victims blaming their rela-
tives for conning them out of
their kidneys and pocketing
most of the money, while those
closest to the two suspects ar-
rested on Tuesday say the alle-
gations are an act of revenge.
Mot Hiriphin, 26, said that
his family had been crippled by
debt after taking out hefty bank
loans to fund life-saving heart
surgery for his dying father.
The operation was unsuc-
cessful, and last year, Hiriphin
and his family faced having
their home repossessed.
We were suffering, because
we had no money, Hiriphin
said yesterday.
As the eldest son, Hiriphin felt
duty-bound to provide for his
family. So when his cousin, Yem
Asi Sah, told him he could pay
off the debt by selling a kidney
he asked few questions.
Hiriphin said he travelled
to Thailand last June with a
wealthy Cambodian business-
man from Poipet province who
was in need of a transplant.
Asi Sah provided him with
fake documents and Hiriphin
was taken to a legitimate hospi-
tal for the operation, he said.
After the trip, Hiriphin re-
ceived $4,200, but later learned
that the businessman had paid
far more for the kidney.
I found out that he paid
$12,000 for the kidney, so why
did I get so little? he said.
It was not until Asi Sah stole
Hiriphins younger brothers
motorbike as collateral for his
own kidney operation that the
trafcking ring came to the au-
thorities attention and she and
her 40-year-old stepfather Yem
Phalla were arrested.
Both have been charged, said
municipal court deputy pros-
ecutor Kong Sam Sareth.
Sitting outside his home in
Chroy Changva commune yes-
terday, Hiriphin said he regret-
ted the procedure. But in the
house next door, his relatives
told a very different story.
Nhem Rohany, 22, said she
had no idea her stepfather and
sister were selling organs until
they were arrested.
[But] if my relatives sold their
kidneys, they did it because
they wanted to.
Rohanys mother, Pen Pha-
timas, agreed. It was their
choice, she said. My hus-
band is not involved. He did
not know about my daughters
[business], she added.
A man shows the scare left on his side in Russey Keo district yesterday
after he had a kidney removed to be sold. HENG CHIVOAN
Bribery hinders
and helps loggers
Four motorcyclists wait in the middle of a dirt road with their precious cargo of allegedly illegal timber in
Ratanakkiri late last week that was felled in protected forests along the border. HENG CHIVOAN
Barrel bombs
from 1970s,
says CMAC
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
TWO rusty barrels discovered in Mon-
dulkiri province this week have been
identified as 1970s-era chemical bombs,
officials said yesterday.
Heng Ratana, director general of the
Cambodian Mine Action Centre
(CMAC), said that a team of experts had
inspected the barrels, which were found
near ORaing districts Andoung Kralo-
eng village, and could now confirm,
based on the inspection, they are bombs
containing CS, or tear gas.
Ratana said that there was no suffi-
cient evidence to confirm which country
they were used by but said they dated
from around 1969 to the early 1970s.
CS was one of a number of chemicals
known to have been used by the US
during its war with Vietnam.
Chey Son, a secretary at the National
Defense Authority of Chemical Weap-
ons, said the barrels hold chemicals
from the USs war with the region.
We have banned people from the
[surrounding] area, and we and CMAC
are waiting for technical [support] and
sponsorship from another country. And
we are working with US [for this]. If we
get this, we can clean it, he said.
According to CMACs Ratana, known
effects of CS include itching and respira-
tory problems.
When similar weapons were found in
2010 and 2012, he said, people in the
surrounding areas reported that the
toxins were making them unwell.
We need to work out procedures to
remove the barrels as soon as possible
to ensure safety, he said.
Villager Bil Vanty said that he and oth-
ers living in the area had experienced
health problems. We wondered why
we were itching and getting headaches
when we walked near the pond where
we found the barrel. After that, we were
too scared to walk there.
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Factory dispute
Hundreds to
march after
failed talks
W
ORKERS at a Preah
Sihanouk province
garment factory plan
to march to Provincial Hall
today, after negotiations fell
apart between management
and employees demand-
ing the reinstatement of ve
workers sacked for declining
overtime work.
The strike at Pollysa (Cam-
bodia) Home Textile factory
began on Wednesday, two
days after the workers were
terminated for declining to
work overtime hours, said
Pav Sina, president of the
Collective Union of Movement
of Workers (CUMW).
More than 200 workers
protesting the firings demand
a total of 17 points, including
a daily 2,000 riel ($0.50) food
allowance during overtime
worked and for management
to treat workers in a more
respectful manner, Sina said.
Officials from Pollysa could
not be reached for comment.
Provincial Labour Depart-
ment director Yov Khemera
yesterday said the case will
be submitted to the Aribtra-
tion Council. MOM KUNTHEAR
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More factory
data released
Sean Teehan

T
HREE of the rst 10
garment factories that
Better Factories Cam-
bodia (BFC) revealed
in March to be in low compli-
ance when it comes to work-
ing conditions have improved
enough to be taken off that list,
according to the industry mon-
itors latest data.
After years of compiling
monitoring reports that were
not publicly released, BFC, an
International Labour Organi-
zation initiative, took the rst
step in making its data avail-
able online in March.
Ten factories received the
lowest rating at that time, a
gure that now stands at nine,
thanks to improvements at
some factories and a deterio-
ration of conditions at others,
data released yesterday shows.
BFC yesterday increased its
total database to include 91
more factories, which means
it now rates 152 factories on
issues ranging from freedom
of association and compli-
ance with payment laws to
emergency exits and evacua-
tion drills.
I would say [there are] just
a whole range of health and
safety issues: heat, improper
chemical safety, [unsafe] equip-
ment, said Jill Tucker, BFCs
chief technical adviser.
While Kavotex Cambodia is
the only factory that BFC found
was lacking a sufcient re exit,
10 factories locked emergency
exits during working hours. A
total of 31 factories did not hold
emergency evacuation drills at
least every six months. A BFC
report released in April last year
said only 57 per cent of facto-
ries proled had clear re exits.
A high turnover rate in em-
ployees at Cambodias garment
factories makes these regular
drills essential, BFC spokesman
Tivea Koam said yesterday.
A lot of workers come and
go, so a lot of workers are new,
Koam said. So its important
. . .workers know where to go
when theres nowhere to run or
nowhere to escape.
The update also showed
some improvement in the ar-
eas of discrimination against
workers and unions.
Kin Tai Garment Co was the
only factory proled to dis-
criminate against unions.
Members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces participate in a practice procession in front of the Royal
Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday in the lead-up to next weeks ceremony. VIREAK MAI
Interment preparations begin
Pech Sotheary
GOVERNMENT officials,
members of the armed forces
and Red Cross volunteers
gathered yesterday to rehearse
a ceremonial procession that
will take place on July 11 as
part of an interment ceremony
for the late King Father Noro-
dom Sihanouk at the Royal
Palaces Silver Pagoda.
Today is just a simple exer-
cise, but the second exercise on
July 8 will be a [practice] proces-
sion down some of the selected
streets, Phnom Penh Municipal
Deputy Governor Khuong Sreng
said yesterday, adding that the
ceremonial walk will cover a dis-
tance of about 10 kilometres.
The procession will extend
from the northern exit of the
Royal Palace and eventually
wind its way back around to the
Silver Pagoda.
About 20,000 people are
expected to observe the cere-
mony that will take place on
July 10, 11 and 12, Sreng said.
Businesses operating on
major roads, including Siha-
nouk, Norodom and Soetharos
boulevards are expected to sus-
pend operations on the day of
the ceremony.
The King Father died in Bei-
jing on October 15, 2012, at
age 89.
Ten-year sentence
Husband
guilty in his
wifes death
A
CONSTRUCTION
worker was sentenced
to 10 years in prison
yesterday for murdering his
wife, whom he accused of
fraternising with young men in
their Phnom Penh village.
Nguyen Chan Sa, 26, from
Meanchey districts Chbar
Ampov II commune, murdered
21-year-old Van Thitou after
an argument late at night on
February 2, the court heard.
Presiding judge Suos Sam
Ath said at the Phnom Penh
Municipal Court hearing that
Chan Sa stabbed and slashed
Thithou to death.
The court convicts Nguyen
Chan Sa to 10 years on the
charge of intentional murder,
the judge said.
Tep Bora, chief of Chbar
Ampov II commune police,
said police had arrested Chan
Sa the following day.
He got into arguments with
his pretty wife almost every
day. He was jealous of her be-
cause she had contacted other
young men, he said.
Chan Sa and his defence
lawyer could not be reached
for comment yesterday. BUTH
REAKSMEY KONGKEA
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Mistaken moto leads to
misapplied vigilantism
RACKED with grief over the
loss of their recently stolen
moto, two men fooled them-
selves a little too easily into
believing that a random man
with similar taste was driving
their ride. Spotting a similar
looking moto in Kandals Loeuk
Dek district on Wednesday,
authorities said the two men
attacked the owner. After deal-
ing a blow to the victims head,
the injured man informed his
hot-headed assailants that he
had recently purchased the
bike legally. Police arrived not
long after and arrested the
confused duo. DEUMAMPIL
Crims go from busting
moves to busting faces
AN OLD-FASHIONED dance-off
between bros at the club ended
in a street-style throwdown on
Wednesday in Phnom Penhs
Makara district. After breaking
out into a brawl on the dance
floor, a group of 10 gangsters
hopped onto motos and began
attacking each other. The entire
group was arrested and sent to
court after frightened specta-
tors called police. DEUMAMPIL
Why we dont talk to
strangers: exhibit A
A MASKED woman successfully
tricked a 9-year-old girl into
handing over a gold bracelet
after luring her outside the con-
fines of a Kampong Thom
school on Tuesday. Police said
the suspect convinced the girl
that she was a friend of her
mothers. The trusting girl
turned over her bracelet after
the woman told her that her
mother needed some cash.
Sans her bangle, the sobbing
child told her mother after
school, who reported the inci-
dent to authorities. DEUMAMPIL
An illicit assembly line
comes to an abrupt halt
THE hum of a well-oiled drug
operation was abruptly
silenced on Wednesday during
a Kampong Chhnang police
sting that netted four men and
two women. Operating off a
litany of complaints from
neighbours over ongoing illicit
activities, police raided the
rental house and caught the
suspects in the midst of pack-
aging 21 bags of yama. The six
suspects admitted they
intended to sell the drugs and
were promptly taken to court
by police. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Kratie cops save day
for distracted vendor
ANYONE wandering through
Cambodias markets will at
some point find themselves
overwhelmed by the bustle of
hustlers. This time around, the
victim happened to be a market
vendor with $200 stashed away
in her purse while she was
working on Tuesday in Kratie
province. While the vendor was
distracted with selling her
wares, a pesky 30-year-old
woman successfully snatched
her purse but was quickly
picked up by market authorities
after the vendor shouted for
help. Police returned the stolen
purse and sent the suspect off
to court. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
Maids allege mistreatment
Sen David

T
WO Cambodian maids
were repatriated from
Singapore on Wednes-
day due to what they
claim were overly strenuous
working conditions.
Cambodian maids began
travelling to the rich city-state
late last year as part of a pilot
program.
Phon Mao, 24, said yesterday
that she had been sent to Sin-
gapore at the end of last year by
recruiter Philimore Cambodia
after working in Malaysia.
I had to do so much work in
a three-storey house from 6am
to 10pm every day without any
days off. I asked my employer
for a day off, but they said I
would meet men and did not
allow me. I endured working
like this for six months, but then
I decided to run away and ask
an NGO for help, she said.
Domestic workers in Sin-
gapore arent covered by the
countrys labour law and do
not have regulated working
hours. They are granted a
weekly rest day but can agree
to forfeit them for extra pay.
Mao explained that she ini-
tially signed a contract agree-
ing to no rest days on her em-
ployers urging.
According to Shelley Thio of
Singaporean group Transient
Workers Count Too, it was clear
that Cambodian workers had
been led to believe that working
conditions in Singapore would
be far better than Malaysia, de-
spite long working hours being
a systemic problem.
Yem Thida, 31, also returned
on Wednesday after nine
months in Singapore.
Before, I heard that Singa-
pore was a modern country
without labour exploitation like
in Malaysia, and I really wanted
to go to work as a maid, but in
fact, I had to work for 18 hours
every day without time off.
Labour Ministry spokesman
Heng Sour could not be reached,
while Secretary of State Om
Mean declined to comment.
Association of Cambodian
Recruitment Agencies chief
Ung Seang Rithy said recruiters
had done nothing wrong.
They wanted to come back
by themselves. The employer
was not happy with [Mao]
having a boyfriend and the
way she worked, so the com-
pany agreed to send them
back . . . I ask you, did she
have any injuries or signs of
mistreatment? No. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
Two Cambodian domestic workers answer questions at the Licadho ofce in Phnom Penh yesterday after
they were repatriated from Singapore on Wednesday. HENG CHIVOAN
Children
need more
safeguards:
premier
Pech Sotheary
FOLLOWING a number of brutal
reports of child abuse this
month, Prime Minister Hun Sen
yesterday called for more safe-
guards against such violence,
including at orphanages.
Referencing the arrest of a
monk on Wednesday who alleg-
edly tortured a 9-year-old pago-
da boy in Banteay Meanchey
over a period of several months,
the prime minister called on the
Ministry of Social Affairs and
provincial governors to address
child abuse prevention before
the problem escalates.
I suggest all places pay more
attention, not just to the Ministry
of Social Affairs but also the rel-
evant authorities and people
who protect children, Hun Sen
said yesterday.
Reurn Rithiroth, an adminis-
trative director for the Ministry
of Social Affairs national adop-
tion program, said the ministry
would set up a team dedicated
to clarifying the conditions and
characters of the people who
want to adopt children.
But with only one social
worker for every 25,000 adop-
tion applicants, the Kingdom
must dedicate more resources
to adoption cases, Rana Flow-
ers, a Unicef representative,
said yesterday.
Guidance on how judges
interpret laws . . . is really needed,
as is more oversight in how
orphanages are run and if those
children are actually without
families, Flowers said. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY AMELIA WOODSIDE

This week in biz
Thai border casino sold
off for bottom dollar
SLOT machine and casino
firm Entertainment Gaming
Asia (EGA) agreed to sell its
Dreamworld-branded casino
in Pailin province on the Thai
border late last week. On
June 26, EGA confirmed the
sale of its casino, which the
company invested $2.5 million
into in 2012, for just $500,000.
Aeon Mall opens after
bumper trial period
THE $205 million Aeon Mall
officially opened on Monday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen and
Japans Foreign Minister
Fumio Kishida attended the
malls opening ceremony,
touting the launch as a major
draw card for Japanese
investment. An Aeon official
said more than 100,000
people packed into the mall
last Sunday, and that sales
levels during the malls soft-
opening period had
surpassed estimates.
Asia Atlantic Airlines
to launch Japan flights
ASIA Atlantic Airlines, a Thai
airline owned in part by
Japanese tourism firm HIS
Co, this week announced
scheduled flights between
Cambodia and Japan starting
September 2. The airline will
run three weekly flights
between Tokyo and Phnom
Penh. Starting in October,
the firm will also run direct
flights to and from Siem
Reap. Return economy fares
will cost more than $1,100
after taxes.
Infrastructure lacking
as urbanisation rises
ASIA Development Bank
(ADB) this week released a
study showing how the rising
population in Cambodias
urban areas is taking its toll
on the countrys existing
infrastructure. ADB
estimates that 30 per cent of
Cambodians now live within
24 of the countrys most
urbanised cities.
8 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 4, 2014
Business
A woman prepares rice for packaging in front of a store in Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district. SCOTT HOWES
Rice export target a big task
Hor Kimsay
Analysis
T
HE pace of Cam-
bodias rice exports
are expected to slow
this year. Unable to
maintain the steady rate of
previous years, the export vol-
ume for the rst half of 2014 is
much the same as it was this
time last year.
At the end of June, milled rice
exports had reached 178,000
tonnes for the year, barely
above the 176,000 exported for
the rst six months of 2013.
And with the governments
target of 1 million tonnes ex-
ported in 2015 looming, the
trend suggests it will be a
difcult goal for the industry
to reach.
Sok Puthyvuth, president of
Cambodia Rice Federation,
told the Post yesterday that
the deceleration of exports
this year was caused by exter-
nal factors, such as the release
of Thailands rice stockpiles
causing lower prices on the
international market, which
meant fewer orders for Cam-
bodian rice.
We have the same cake
to divide between more and
more people, Puthyvuth said,
referring to the international
demand for rice remaining
stable this year while market
supply continues to rise.
It is now the market for
the buyers, but it is not for
the seller.
Puthivuth expects Cambo-
dian rice exports in 2014 to
remain similar to last years,
forecasting an end of year to-
tal of about 400,000 tonnes.
But there are still domestic
infrastructure problems to
overcome, according to Song
Saran, CEO of Amru Rice.
Saran said the lack of capac-
ity at ports was one example
of how the sectors export po-
tential is being restricting.In
fact, I should have exported
2,000 tonnes more of rice [in
June] but it has not left, it is re-
maining at the port, he said.
Saran estimates that the in-
dustry could have exported
another 30,000 tonnes already
this year if the ports were op-
erating more efciently.
In 2009, the rst ofcial year
of recorded exports, Cambo-
dia sold 12,600 tonnes of rice
overseas. Helped by EU trade
preferences, exports have
grown year on year, to 205,000
tonnes in 2012 and to a record
378,000 tonnes in 2013.
But, in the lead up to the
2015 target, it appears the ex-
port rate will plateau this year.
Mey Kalyan, a senior ad-
viser at the Supreme National
Economic Council and a co-
writer of the countrys rice
exports policy, said yesterday
that competition from other
rice-producing countries
means there will be peaks
and troughs in Cambodias
exports, but having dened
an export target has signi-
cantly advanced the industry.
We have identied all the
challenges in the rice in-
dustry. From the rice eld,
seeds, fertiliser, irrigation,
the cost of production and
milling challenges, to a lack
of nance and many other is-
sues, we will overcome these;
we have already solved some
problems, he said.
When having a clear goal,
we have been trying to do the
work together. Even if we can
achieve 80 per cent of the goal
when the time comes, it is still
a good result, he said.
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Business
The telecommunications and internet
services sector is hotly contested in the
Kingdom, with a handful of rms vy-
ing to become the provider of choice.
Connectivity seems sufcient with free
wi available in almost every store.
But underneath is a network that is
under-resourced, heavily reliant on
foreign infrastructure and overdue for
upgrades. Cue Sanjaya, deputy direc-
tor general of the Asia Pacic Network
Information Centre (APNIC). Special-
ising in solving Asia Pacics internet
infrastructure woes, Sanjaya spoke
with the Posts Eddie Morton about
Cambodias online evolution.
What is APNIC and how is it assisting
Cambodia?
APNIC distributes internet protocol
IP addresses to all 56 economies
in the Asia Pacic. Every device that
uses the internet requires a unique IP
address, much like a phone number.
We provide all of Cambodias telecom
rms, ISPs and some large organisa-
tions, such as universities, with these
numbers. They pay a membership
fee based on the number of address-
es theyre using for their customers.
What is the current state of Cambo-
dias internet network?
Though Cambodia was a bit of a
latecomer to the internet, the core
infrastructure is there. Cambodians
are very aware of the tourism indus-
try and that alone helped drive in-
ternet growth.
But Cambodia still has a very few
local networks set up. This is due
to a severe shortage of engineers
trained to build and maintain local
networks. Cambodia relies on out-
side sources to support its domestic
trafc and, like most Asia Pacic in-
ternet users, most Cambodian inter-
net users are feeding off a sub-level
connection from, say, a server or
network based overseas. Not having
a strong network of top-tier servers
makes it more expensive as trafc
travels overseas and back.
I randomly checked a Cambodian
banks website and found it was host-
ed in the US. This says a lot about
Cambodias network and its security.
Sure, it can be cheaper, more secure
and more reliable to host your net-
work overseas, but its almost always
better to host in your home country.
Why? Because most people using
your website are Cambodians so
why should their trafc be transport-
ed all the way to the US and back?
So what then needs to change?
Training is a big deal. Without peo-
ple able to maintain and contribute
to the countrys network, you will
not have a network. It all starts with
the people.
There is a serious shortage of en-
gineers in Asia Pacic its shocking
how few there are. And, as I men-
tioned above, with most people
running off a sub-level network,
we really need more people here to
learn how to set up and maintain
their own top-tier networks so that
the country does not rely on foreign
systems to keep them connected.
What is the governments role in all
of this?
The TRC needs to strengthen their
knowledge and skill level. This is
absolutely critical. Lets rstly make
sure people know what they are do-
ing and know correctly how to build
their networks in a secure manner.
This is not like a telephone network,
it requires different engineers, laws
and security. Like most governments,
Cambodia has a fund for internet de-
velopment. We would like TRC to use
those funds to improve skills in the
ITC profession engineers and train-
ing for public ofcials.
A comprehensive law is also key,
with focus on the security and jus-
tice to police, regulate and process
crimes within the online realm. The
government needs to foster the coun-
trys networks growth. Some govern-
ments keep control over the internet
sector, but its important that they
dont diminish the countrys growth
in the online spectrum by trying to
unnecessarily regulate network traf-
c, tariffs and IP addresses.
Ezecom and NTT both plan on con-
necting Cambodia to two separate
submarine cables. How is this going
to benet the country?
The country needs its own con-
nection in order to reduce its de-
pendency on imported networks
from Vietnam and Thailand. Both
of those countries already have ac-
cess to these undersea cables, and
I can understand Cambodias strat-
egy to piggy-back off them. But it is
a great move to connect these cables
directly to the country, and multiple
connections is denitely best.
Is it urgent for Cambodia to reduce
its network reliance on Thailand and
Vietnam?
Not necessarily. Cambodia does
not want to completely divorce its
network from Thailand and Viet-
nam, despite how many undersea
cables they connect to. This is all
about regional and even global in-
terconnectivity, after all. But if you
are relying too much on outside net-
works, the cost does creep up.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity
Training key for a top-tier network
Sanjaya, the deputy director-general of the Asia Pacic Network Information Centre,
talks at the 2014 APRICOT conference in Malaysia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Markets
10
Business
DJIA goes
over 17k for
rst time
THE Dow Jones Industrial Aver-
age bolted above 17,000 points
for the first time in intraday
trade yesterday after data
showed the US had surprisingly
strong jobs growth in June.
About 40 minutes into trad-
ing, the Dow stood at 17,050.80,
up 74.56 points (0.44 per cent),
while the S&P 500 gained 7.01
(0.36 per cent) to 1,981.63.
Both the Dow and S&P 500
closed at records for the second
day in a row on Wednesday.
The tech-rich Nasdaq Com-
posite Index added 16.37 (0.37
per cent) at 4,474.10.
The Labor Department
reported the unemployment
rate fell to 6.1 per cent in June
as the economy added 288,000
jobs; jobs growth figures were
revised upward for the two pre-
vious months.
Briefing.com analyst Patrick
OHare said the jobs report was
encouraging but there were still
points of concern, such as the
large number of people work-
ing part-time.
OHare said some equity
investors are anxious the strong
headline numbers in the labor
report could stir the Fed to
raise the fed funds rate a bit
sooner than expected. AFP
Germany set minimum wage
Frank Zeller

G
ERMANY yesterday
adopted its first
nationwide mini-
mum wage, hailed
as a victory by unions and the
centre-left coalition partners
of conservative Chancellor
Angela Merkel.
The base pay of 8.50 ($11.60)
an hour will eventually benefit
more than 5 million workers in
the low-wage sector when it is
phased in between January 1,
2015, and 2017.
Ahead of the Bundestag low-
er house of parliament vote,
which passed with a wide
majority, Labour minister
Andrea Nahles hailed it as a
milestone in German labour
and social policy.
What were deciding . . . is of
outstanding significance for
millions of this countrys
employees, who finally will
receive a fair wage, she said.
Introducing a universal min-
imum wage brings Europes
biggest economy in line with 21
of the EUs 28 member states.
The Confederation of Ger-
man Trade Unions (DGB) had
also welcomed the move after
a years-long struggle and
rejected as propaganda
claims that the minimum
wage would destroy jobs.
The minimum wage wont
be a job killer, its chairman
Reiner Hoffmann said. This
has been confirmed by serious
studies and the experience of
our European neighbours and
the United States.
Merkel herself had long been
opposed to the minimum
wage, warning it could force
small- and medium-sized
businesses to lay off workers,
and favouring instead sepa-
rate pay deals by industrial
sector and region.
But she caved in after tough
haggling late last year on
forming a grand coalition
with the Social Democrats,
who had promised steps to
narrow a growing pay gap in
Germanys 42-million-strong
labour market.
The starting level, which is
set to be reviewed every two
years, is in line with those in
other major developed econ-
omies: slightly less than
Frances 9.53, but above Brit-
ains 6.31 (7.91, $10.83).
The Munich daily Sueddeut-
sche Zeitung labelled it a his-
torical reform that would
protect workers from appall-
ingly bad rates of pay, com-
menting that people who cut
hair, serve beer or slaughter
pigs . . . will feel their work bet-
ter valued. AFP
German Labour and Social Affairs Minister Andrea Nahles (centre left, in turquoise) and German Chancellor
Angela Merkel (centre) react during a vote for a national minimum wage. AFP
ECB holds key interest
rate steady at 0.15 pct
THE European Central Bank
held its key interest rates
unchanged at its regular policy
meeting yesterday, a month
after taking unprecedented
measures to ease monetary
conditions in the 18-country
euro area. As widely expected,
the ECBs decision-making
governing council decided to
hold the banks main
refinancing rate steady at 0.15
per cent, the marginal lending
rate at 0.40 per cent and the
deposit rate at minus 0.10 per
cent. AFP
Toshiba nears Bulgaria
nuclear reactor deal
TOSHIBAS US unit is nearing
a deal estimated at almost $5
billion to build a nuclear
reactor in Bulgaria, a report
said yesterday, as Japanese
firms eye atomic contracts
overseas after the Fukushima
crisis erased demand at
home. The Japanese giants
subsidiary, Westinghouse
Electric, is in the final stages
of talks with Bulgarian Energy
Holding for a mid-sized
reactor expected to be
running by around 2025, the
leading Nikkei business daily
reported. The report comes
as some European nations
are looking to cut their
reliance on Russia for their
energy needs as the Ukraine
crisis rumbles on. AFP
Ben Steverman
T
HE big difference between
hoarders and collectors:
One of them appreciates
what theyre piling up.
The US is alone among developed
countries by not mandating vaca-
tion time. Of those who get vacation
time, four in 10 Americans stockpile
them, failing to take all the days of-
fered. Those stay-at-work Ameri-
cans leave an average of 8.1 days
unused, according to a 2014 Oxford
Economics analysis. Thats about
429 million unused days per year.
Those million-plus years are one
big gift to corporate America and
a gesture that doesnt do employers
or their employees much good. Few
cultures can match the US for its
ability to stigmatise vacation time.
The irony amid the mix of sincere
devotion to the workplace, job in-
security and false emblems of pro-
ductivity: All this obsessing over
work can get in the way of getting
stuff done. According to managers
and behavioural economists, time
off makes you not just happier and
healthier but more productive
Skipping a vacation or working
longer hours can make sense if you
get something for it. Some workers
are compensated for unused days,
but thats hardly the main reason
people skip vacations. Since the re-
cession, the ght for raises and pro-
motions has gotten cutthroat and
more workers fret over job security,
says Penn State University econom-
ics professor Lonnie Golden. Extra
time at the ofce may give you a tiny
leg up. One 2013 study found that for
those who work more than 47 hours
a week ve extra hours correlate with
a 1 per cent increase in yearly wages.
The more you invest in work,
though, the less you develop inter-
ests and relationships outside the of-
ce, Golden says. That can have the
perverse effect of spurring people to
work even harder, because more of
lifes rewards come from work. Some
of us are a little nuts about work
about 30 per cent of North Ameri-
cans admit to being workaholics.
Overdoing it at work may be most
common in well-paid jobs, as exper-
iments led by University of Chicago
business school professor Christo-
pher Hsee suggest. In a lab, students
could earn chocolates by listening
to noises. Or they could relax and lis-
ten to music. The catch: They could
only eat the chocolates while relax-
ing, and couldnt bring any home
with them. Hsee found that subjects
had an irrational tendency to earn
far more chocolates than they gave
themselves time to eat. As their pay
rate went up in the form of more
chocolates per time period they
worked even harder.
That demonstrates a behavioural
tendency toward what Hsee calls
overearning and mindless accu-
mulation. At work, many Ameri-
cans are making themselves miser-
able in pursuit of treats theyll never
get to enjoy.
Luckily, there are signs that some
Americans are feeling more com-
fortable taking time off: A survey
released June 24 by Allianz Global
Assistance USA found 52 per cent of
respondents were condent theyd
take a summer vacation this year, up
ve points from 2013. Maybe thatll
give them time to kick back and eat
chocolates. BLOOMBERG
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Nikkei 225, Jun 30 Taiwan Taiex Index, Jun 30
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BSE Sensex 30 Index, Jun 30 Karachi 100 Index, Jun 30
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Jun 30 NZX 50 Index, Jun 30
5,375.90
29,738.70 25,527.43
4,877.91 1,301.53
6,826.61 1,999.00
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
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 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 92.28 -0.02 -0.02% 3:20:13
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 111.44 0.13 0.12% 3:20:56
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.89 0 -0.05% 3:19:29
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 270.65 0.82 0.30% 22:35:27
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 305.4 0.71 0.23% 1:32:44
ICEGasoil USD/MT 944 3.75 0.40% 3:19:51
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.84 0.1 0.60% 14:14:53
CME Lumber USD/tbf 361.2 -0.2 -0.06% 17:00:00
Working through vacations
Two people work on their laptops at the Salt Lake International Airport as planes sit behind them. On average, Americans leave
8.1 days of vacation time unused per year, adding up to 429 million unused days per year. AFP
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World
Credible threat sees tighter security for US flights
Daniel De Luce
U
S AUTHORITIES
plan to bolster
security at some
airports in Eu-
rope and the Middle East
with direct ights to the
United States, ofcials said
on Wednesday, in response
to US warnings of a credible
threat, the BBC reported.
Amid concern that terror
groups are developing new
explosives to circumvent air-
port security, US Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh John-
son announced unspecied
steps that would be carried
out in coming days, without
saying which airports would
be affected.
We are sharing recent
and relevant information
with our foreign allies and
are consulting the aviation
industry, Johnson said in a
statement.
After an assessment of secu-
rity threats, Johnson said he
had directed the Transporta-
tion Security Administration
to implement enhanced se-
curity measures in the com-
ing days at certain overseas
airports with direct ights to
the United States.
Johnson said we will
continue to adjust security
measures to promote avia-
tion security without un-
necessary disruptions to the
travelling public.
The airports were located in
the Middle East and Europe,
according to an ofcial at the
Department of Homeland Se-
curity, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity.
The announcement came
before the US Independence
Day celebrations today but of-
cials would not say whether
authorities had uncovered a
specic threat or plot. There
will be enhanced security
measures in certain airports
that y nonstop to the US,
the DHS ofcial said.
Were targeting certain
airports abroad . . . based on
real-time intelligence, the
ofcial added.
The new measures would
be designed in a way to avoid
creating major hassles for
travellers, without signalling
to potential terrorists what
those steps would be, of-
cials said.
Information about specic
enhancements is sensitive as
we do not wish to divulge in-
formation about specic lay-
ers of security to those who
would do harm, said a sec-
ond DHS ofcial, who asked
not to be named.
The ofcial said authori-
ties may require some ad-
ditional screening of persons
and their property, so travel-
lers should always arrive at an
airport with plenty of time for
screening to be sure they do
not miss their ights.
Media reports said the addi-
tional screening could apply
to shoes worn by passengers
and electronic devices.
In Britain, the Department
for Transport (DfT) said late
on Wednesday that it would
step up some of our avia-
tion security measures fol-
lowing the warning from US
security chiefs, the Guard-
ian reported.
For obvious reasons we will
not be commenting in detail
on those changes. The major-
ity of passengers should not
experience signicant dis-
ruption, a spokesman told
the BBC.
US counter-terrorism ex-
perts in recent months have
said there is cause for concern
that extremists have come up
with new tactics to avoid de-
tection at airports.
On Sunday, US President
Barack Obama warned that
battle-hardened Europeans
who embrace jihad in Syria
and Iraq threaten the United
States because their pass-
ports mean they can enter the
country without a visa.
We have seen Europeans
sympathetic to their [mili-
tants] cause travelling into
Syria and may now travel
into Iraq, getting battle-hard-
ened. Then they come back,
Obama warned in an inter-
view that aired on Sunday on
the US broadcaster ABC.
These combatants have
a European passport. They
dont need visas to get into
the United States, he said.
Now we are spending a lot
of time, and we have been
for years, making sure we are
improving intelligence to re-
spond to that.
We have to improve our
surveillance, reconnaissance,
intelligence there. Special
forces are going to have a
role. And there are going to be
times where we take strikes
against organisations that
could do us harm.
Fears about Europeans re-
turning from militant action
were underlined when Me-
hdi Nemmouche, a French-
Algerian who fought along-
side radical Islamists in Syria
for more than a year, alleg-
edly killed four people in a
deadly shooting at the Jewish
Museum in Brussels on May
24. AFP
Armed police ofcers walk in front of an arrivals gate at Heathrow airport, west London, in July 2012. AFP
Kurdish president proposes independence referendum
MASSOUD Barzani, the president of
the autonomous Kurdish region in
northern Iraq, appears to have moved
the country closer to being broken
up after asking MPs to form a com-
mittee to organise a referendum on
independence.
An MP from the Kurdistan Demo-
cratic party (KDP) who was present
at the closed session said Barzani did
not offer a timetable, but it follows
the Kurdistan president telling the
BBC this week that a referendum was
a question of months away.
The president asked us to form an
independent electoral com-
mission to carry out a referendum in
the Kurdistan region and determine
the way forward, the MP, Farhad
Sofi, said.
In his interview with the BBC, Bar-
zani said the lightning advance of
Sunni militants from the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) through
the west of the country with the Shia
prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, left
in control of Baghdad and the south,
had reaffirmed the Kurdish goal of
full independence.
Iraq is effectively partitioned now;
should we stay in this tragic situation
that Iraq is living? Of course, we are
all with our Arab and Sunni brothers
together in this crisis, but that doesnt
mean that we will abandon our goal,
he said. I have said many times that
independence is a natural right of the
people of Kurdistan. All these devel-
opments reaffirm that.
The US has urged Barzani to stick
with Baghdad, though the Kurdish
leader said during a meeting last
month with the US secretary of state,
John Kerry, that it was very difficult
to imagine Iraq staying together.
His call for preparations for a refer-
endum came in the same week that
Iraqs parliament was beset by walk-
outs when it met for the first time
since elections in April. Sunni and
Kurdish parties withdrew their MPs,
ensuring the session collapsed, when
Shia politicians refused to name their
candidate to replace Maliki as prime
minister before the Sunni and Kurd-
ish MPs revealed their own nomina-
tions for speaker.
Across nearly all of northern Iraq,
the national flag is no longer flying.
The Kurds have raised their own ban-
ner above all former central govern-
ment buildings in Kirkuk, which their
forces took as the Iraqi army fled from
Isis two weeks ago. In Iraqs west, and
some of its centre, ISIS has comman-
deered all government buildings and
at least three cities.
Baghdad is caught in a pincer
movement between the Kurds and
Isis, which have no interest in the
state. The Kurds, who have long been
cautious about their ambitions for
sovereignty, are increasingly acting
without restraint as central authority
crumbles.
Elsewhere in the region, Saudi Ara-
bia was on Thursday reported by
state media to have deployed 30,000
soldiers to its border with Iraq after
Iraqi soldiers withdrew, leaving the
border unprotected. The state news
agency SPA said King Abdullah had
ordered all necessary measures to
protect the kingdom against poten-
tial terrorist threats. THE GUARDIAN
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Two dead in Myanmar unrest
B
UDDHIST-MUSLIM
clashes have left two
dead in Myanmars
second largest city,
authorities said yesterday,
after a rape accusation trig-
gered a new round of sectar-
ian rioting in the former mili-
tary-ruled nation.
Angry mobs rampaged
through Mandalay for a sec-
ond straight night in the
latest of several waves of sec-
tarian unrest that have ex-
posed deep religious tensions
in the Buddhist-majority
Southeast Asian nation.
Inter-communal violence
has overshadowed widely
praised political reforms since
erupting in 2012. It has largely
targeted Muslims, leaving at
least 250 people dead and tens
of thousands homeless.
Buddhist rioters, some
armed with sticks and knives,
attacked a Muslim teashop
on Tuesday and surrounding
property in downtown Man-
dalay after an accusation of
rape, according to local police.
Security forces red rubber
bullets in the early hours of
Wednesday to try and disperse
the crowds.
Unrest then broke out again
later on Wednesday despite
an increase in security, with
pockets of violence aring
across the centre of the city of
some seven million people.
Two men were killed in at-
tacks late on Wednesday and
into yesterday, Zaw Min Oo, a
senior police ofcer in Man-
dalay, said. He said one of the
victims was Buddhist and one
was Muslim. About 10 other
people were injured.
In a monthly radio address,
Myanmars reformist Presi-
dent Thein Sein called for an
end to religious hatred.
As our country is a multi-ra-
cial and -religious nation, the
current reform process will be
successful only when stability
is maintained through the co-
operation of all the citizens by
living harmoniously with one
another, he said.
The former general has
been credited with pushing
through dramatic reforms
since the ex-junta handed
power to a nominally civilian
government in 2011. But the
sectarian conicts have pro-
vided a major test for his ad-
ministration and prompted
warnings that the countrys
fragile transition towards de-
mocracy could be at risk.
Muslims in Myanmar ac-
count for an estimated 4 per
cent of the roughly 60 million
population.
Sectarian clashes ared up
two years ago in western Ra-
khine state, with ghting that
has displaced about 140,000
people, mainly stateless Roh-
ingya Muslims.
It has since broadened into
sporadic attacks against Mus-
lim communities across the
country, with violence often
provoked by rumours or indi-
vidual criminal acts.
Radical monks have been
accused of stoking religious
tensions with ery warnings
that Buddhism is under threat
from Islam.
A prominent hardline monk,
Wirathu, posted a link to on-
line allegations against the
teashop owners on his Face-
book page just hours before
the latest unrest ared up.
He has since posted only
about Buddhist victims of
the violence, ramping up the
tension with allegations that
Mandalays mosques have is-
sued a jihad with hundreds
of people poised to launch an
attack after receiving mili-
tary training.
A Mandalay resident, who
was a friend of the slain Mus-
lim, said the victim was beat-
en to death by a group of ve
or six men early yesterday.
Police in Mandalay said they
were aware of the rape allega-
tion but had not yet made any
arrests. AFP
Local people look at a damaged motorbike on a Mandalay street
yesterday after sectarian clashes in the city. AFP
CHINA and South Korea is-
sued a joint call for the de-
nuclearisation of the Korean
peninsula at a summit in
Seoul yesterday that was seen
as a pointed snub of nuclear-
armed North Korea by chief
ally Beijing.
In a joint statement after
their talks, the Chinese and
South Korean presidents, Xi
Jinping and Park Geun-hye,
reafrmed their rm oppo-
sition to the development of
nuclear weapons on the pen-
insula, but seemed divided
on how best to persuade the
North to give up its bombs.
While Park told reporters
that the two sides had agreed
to use all means possible to
bring denuclearisation about,
Xi stressed that dialogue and
negotiation were the best
way forward.
There was certainly a dif-
ference in perspectives, but
that has always been there,
said Yang Moo-jin, a profes-
sor at the University of North
Korean Studies. South Korea
might have liked Xi to say
something more direct to-
wards the North, but that was
wishful thinking.
If the joint statement marked
no departure from established
Chinese and South Korean
policy towards North Korea,
the fact that it was released at
a summit in Seoul carried sig-
nicant symbolic weight.
It was Xis rst trip as head
of state to the perennially vol-
atile Korean peninsula, and
his second summit with Park,
who visited China last year.
Seoul had been hoping that
yesterdays joint statement
would include a strongly
worded warning to Pyong-
yang, but analysts had fore-
cast that Beijing was unlikely
to up the rhetorical ante by
any signicant degree.
It made no mention of North
Koreas nuclear tests, although
in her comments afterwards
Park said both sides had re-
afrmed their resolute oppo-
sition to any further testing.
The statement did stress
the importance of nding a
way to get the long-stalled
six-party talks on North Korea
up and running again.
Beijing has pushed for a
resumption of the six-party
process involving the two
Koreas, China, the United
States, Japan and Russia.
But Seoul and Washington
insist that Pyongyang must
rst make a tangible commit-
ment to abandoning its nucle-
ar weapons program. AFP
China, S Korea call for
nuke-free peninsular
A bite of fun?
Suarez the
inspiration

for sex toy
F
OR those who may in
fact fancy a nibble from
disgraced Uruguay
striker Luis Suarez, an online
Swedish sex shop has come
up with just the thing.
The online store Oliver &
Eva on Wednesday unveiled a
Suarez nipple clamp in the
form of the footballers head,
teeth bared, for 33 ($45).
Maybe [Suarez] will be
proud to spread a bit of
pleasure and love, despite his
error on the field, store direc-
tor Tobias Lundqvist said.
The store was inspired after
Suarez chomped down on Ita-
lian defender Giorgio Chiellinis
shoulder during a June 24
World Cup match. According
to the website, the pressure of
the bite can be adjusted de-
pending on the mood. AFP
Sarkozy hits back at
political graft charges
NICOLAS Sarkozy hit back after
being charged with corruption,
denying he broke the law and
suggesting his political enemies
were interfering with the French
justice system. I have never
committed any act contrary to
the values of the Republic or the
rule of law, Sarkozy said on
Wednesday after he was
charged on three corruption-
related counts. Sarkozy decried
what he called political
interference in the case a
suggestion opponents like the
ruling Socialists were behind his
legal woes. He also said there
had been an intention to
humiliate in judges ordering
that he be taken into formal
custody on Tuesday an
unprecedented move against a
former French leader. AFP
Egypt court jails Morsis

son for year for hashish
AN EGYPTIAN court on
Wednesday sentenced a son of
deposed Islamist president
Mohamed Morsi and one of his
friends to a year in prison each
and fines of 10,000 Egyptian
pounds (around $1,400 each) for
possession and use of hashish.
Abdullah Morsi, 19, and his
friend were arrested on March 1
after allegedly being found in
possession of two hashish joints
while they were in a car parked
by the roadside north of Cairo.
They can appeal. AFP
World
Israel, Gaza militants trade fire
I
SRAELI warplanes poun-
ded Gaza yesterday and
militants hit back with
15 rockets, further hik-
ing tensions after a day of
violence triggered by the sus-
pected revenge killing of a
Palestinian teenager.
But there was no immediate
sign of a return to the clashes
that had engulfed east Jeru-
salem on Wednesday, follow-
ing the kidnap and murder
of 16-year-old Mohammed
Abu Khder in what many be-
lieved was a copycat killing
following the abduction and
murder of three Israeli teens
last month.
Israel police have so far in-
sisted the motive for the kill-
ing was unclear, refusing to
say whether it was nationalist
or criminal, and have not said
how the Palestinian young-
ster died.
But the lawyers family said
the body had been burnt be-
yond recognition with a joint
Israeli-Palestinian autopsy
due to take place yesterday.
It was not immediately clear
when he would be buried.
The murder triggered an
outpouring of rage in Shua-
fat, where Abu Khders family
lives. Clashes raged between
stone-throwing Palestinians
and Israeli riot police raging
from dawn on Wednesday
until the early hours of yester-
day, also spreading to many
other areas in east Jerusalem.
The violence injured 232
people, 178 of them in Shua-
fat alone, said Dr Amin Abu
Ghazali, head of eld opera-
tions for the Red Crescent
in east Jerusalem. Of that
number 187 were wounded
by rubber bullets and six by
live bullets, he said. The kill-
ing was roundly denounced
on all sides, both at home
and abroad.
Israels Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu de-
nounced it as despicable
and urged both sides not to
take the law into their own
hands. And one of the fami-
lies of the three murdered
Israeli teens described it as a
horrendous act.
Palestinian President Mah-
mud Abbas demanded Ne-
tanyahu to take decisive ac-
tion against revenge attacks
and called for the killers to
be caught and punished.
But the Islamist Hamas
movement, whom Israel has
blamed for the kidnap and
murder of the three teenagers
in June, said it held Netan-
yahus government directly
responsible. You will pay the
price for your crimes, it said.
There was no let-up in the
violence in and around Gaza,
where Hamas has its strong-
hold, with militants ring 20
rockets at southern Israel on
Wednesday, one of which hit
a house in Sderot, the army
said. No one was injured.
Overnight, the Israeli air
force staged 15 strikes on
Hamas targets, among
them were concealed rocket
launchers, weapons storage
facilities and militant activity
sites, a statement said.
Palestinian medics said 11
people had been wounded,
one of them seriously.
But militants continued the
cross-border rocket re, with
a second strike on a house in
Sderot, the army said. Again,
no one was injured. So far 15
rockets have hit the Israeli
south since midnight.
Back in Jerusalem, police
threw up a security cordon
around Shuafat, fearing an-
other outburst of violence af-
ter the results of the autopsy,
which was due to be com-
pleted by mid-afternoon. No
time has yet been set for the
funeral. AFP
A Palestinian man rides a donkey cart past a crater following an
overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City yesterday. AFP
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S Sudan famine within
weeks without funding
FAMINE will break out in war-
torn South Sudan within
weeks unless massive funding
for food aid is provided, aid
agencies warned yesterday. If
the conflict in South Sudan
continues, and more aid cannot
be delivered, then by August it is
likely that some localised areas
of South Sudan will slip into
famine, warned Britains
Disasters Emergency
Committee (DEC), a coalition of
13 major aid agencies. The UN
has around 40 per cent of the
cash it needs, with a shortfall of
over a billion dollars. There is a
very real risk of famine in some
areas, DEC chief Saleh Saeed
said, warning millions of people
are facing an extreme food
crisis. Famine implies that at
least 20 per cent of households
face extreme food shortages,
there is acute malnutrition in
over 30 per cent of people, and
two deaths per 10,000 people
every day, according to the UNs
definition. AFP
Slender Man girl not fit

to stand trial: doctors
ONE of two Wisconsin girls
accused of trying to kill a friend
to please an imaginary internet
ghoul has been found not
competent by two doctors, and
in one month the court will
likely decide whether the girl
can stand trial. During court
proceedings on Wednesday,
Judge Michael Bohren
scheduled a competency trial
for August 1 for one of two
12-year-olds accused of
stabbing a friend 19 times
allegedly to please the Slender
Man. The girls are charged
with attempted homicide in
adult court. If prosecutors
contest the first girls
competency, the doctors who
evaluated her will be forced to
testify. Those evaluations are
sealed, but testimony next
month would publicly air their
findings. THEGUARDIAN
Here comes the bride
Kosovan Bosnian woman Arleta Sahiti poses after her face was painted during a presentation of the traditional wedding ceremony of Bosnian
women from Zhupa region at the Ethnological Museum in Pristina on Wednesday. As part of the tradition, old ladies prepare young brides,
painting their faces in many layers of colours. The golden circles symbolise the cycles of life. AFP
Tshukudu: the all-purpose scooter
W
HAT do you do when
you need to deliver sev-
eral hundred kilos of
potatoes, 150 stalks of
sugar cane, 30 eucalyptus saplings and
eight sacks of coal, without motorised
transport?
For residents of Goma, in the war-
scarred east of the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo, the answer to this, and
many other problems, is the tshukudu.
A local but highly efcient tradition,
the man-powered wooden scooters
are everywhere on the paved highways
and dusty sidestreets of Goma, holding
their own with the motorcycle taxis.
Theyre operated by a group of 1,500
proud, often burly men who not only
have their own union but saw a giant,
gold-coloured statue erected in their
honour a few years ago in this capital
of North Kivu province, on the border
with Rwanda.
The tshukudu is our whole life, said
driver Damas Sibomana. Their vehi-
cles, pronounced chookoodoo, mea-
sure about two metres long, have wide
handlebars and a raised front wheel.
They balance improbably large loads,
as the tshukudeurs as the drivers are
known push their vehicles along al-
most as much as they drive them.
Many drivers live outside the city and
their day begins by transporting agri-
cultural products grown in the verdant
hills to the north, which feed the citys
markets. The good news? Its downhill.
Once in the city centre the drivers
await further orders for deliveries or
return, again fully loaded, back to their
starting point.
Jean-Marie Firiki gets up at 4am
but his descent stops in Kibumba,
30 kilometres to the north of Goma,
which boasts of being the tshukudus
birthplace. The 35-year-old works as
a tshukudeur at dawn and builds the
machines during the day.
A decent tshukudu costs $50, Firiki
said, but the cost of a beautiful one
can be $80-$100 quite a sum in DR
Congo, where the majority of people
live in extreme poverty.
But the boon is no fuel costs, and
driver Sibomana says they can earn $10
on a good day. There are no machines
in the workshop that Fikiri shares with
other craftsmen.
Like most of the country Kibumba
has no electricity supply. The men
work the wood here its eucalyptus
with a handsaw, a chisel, a plane and
some sandpaper. It takes two days for
a craftsman to make one scooter.
Paulin Barasiza works next to Fikiri.
The 52-year-old traces the invention of
the tshukudu back to about 1973.
Our fathers would sell potatoes and
tobacco at a Rwandan market several
kilometres away, he said. They used
wheelbarrows but these where inef-
cient. This is where the design came
from inspired by bicycles.
The rst tshukudus were made en-
tirely of wood and the wheels were
greased with palm oil several times a
day to keep their gears from seizing
up. Sales began to pick up in the late
1980s but the decades that followed
have been marred by inter-ethnic
violence and regional conicts that
would ravage Kivu and still mark the
province today.
Today, tshukudus cover vast distanc-
es and can carry up to half a tonne.
Some models have a brake that works
by applying friction to the rear wheel.
In early evening after a hard days
work the scooter takes on another role:
courting. The roads are full of young
drivers taking their girlfriends out for a
ride, both standing on the tshukudu as
the man, in back, scoots it along.
The profession is held in high esteem.
To have a daughter marry a tshukudeur
means she will not die of hunger, said
local historian Dany Kayeye. AFP
Tibetans high-altitude skills came via extinct cousin
TIBETANS are able to live at
high altitude thanks to a spe-
cial gene they inherited from
a mysterious, now-extinct
branch of the human family,
scient i st s repor ted on
Wednesday.
The ancestors of todays
Tibetans acquired a key vari-
ant of a gene regulating oxygen
in the blood when they mated
with a species of human called
the Denisovans, they said.
Contemporaries of the
Neanderthals and like them,
possibly wiped out by modern
man, Homo sapiens the Den-
isovans first came to light only
four years ago.
Their existence was deter-
mined through a piece of finger
bone and two molars unearthed
at the Denisova Cave in south-
ern Siberias Altai Mountains
and dated 80,000 years ago.
Genetic sequencing found
that before the Denisovans
disappeared as a separate
branch, they intermingled
with Homo sapiens, leaving
traits that survive in the human
DNA pool today.
In a study published in the
journal Nature, scientists in
China, Tibet and the US com-
pared the genomes of 40 eth-
nic Tibetans and 40 ethnic Han
Chinese.
Buried in the Tibetans gene
code is an unusual variant of a
gene called EPAS1 that regu-
lates production of haemo-
globin, the molecule that hauls
oxygen around the blood, they
found. EPAS1 is triggered when
oxygen levels in the blood
drop, causing more haemo-
globin to be produced.
At high altitude, common
variants of the gene overpro-
duce haemoglobin and
red blood cells, causing the
blood to become thick and
sludgy a cause of hyperten-
sion, low birthweight and
infant mortality.
But the variant found in
Tibetans increases production
by much less, thus averting
hypoxia problems experienced
by many people who relocate
to places above 4,000 metres
in altitude.
The variant of EPAS1 in Tibet-
ans is almost identical to that
found in Denisovan samples.
But apart from Han Chinese,
there is no trace of it in other
ethnic groups touched by the
Denisovan legacy, including
Melanesians, whose genome
is 5 per cent Denisovan the
highest proportion.
The study theorises that
groups of Homo sapiens came
out of Africa and interbred
with Denisovans as they
passed through central Asia en
route to China.
The group that colonised
China then split, with one
population migrating to Tibet
and the other staying behind
to dominate the lowlands,
where they became todays
Han Chinese.
As a result of further breed-
ing within each tribe, 87 per
cent of Tibetans have the pre-
cious variant of EPAS1,
compared with only 9 per
cent of Han Chinese, even
though they share a common
ancestor, according to the
investigation.
Many other secrets remain
to be teased out of our genetic
treasure trove, the scientists
believe.
The only reason why we can
say that this bit of DNA is Den-
isovan is because of this lucky
accident of sequencing DNA
from a little bone found in a
cave in Siberia, Nielsen said
in a press release issued by the
university.
How many other species
are out there that we havent
sequenced? AFP
AUSTRALIAN surgeons have
successfully carried out a
complex and rare procedure
to remove a huge growth from
the face of a young Filipino
boy, who had to lift it up to eat
and drink.
Jhonny Lameon, 7, suffered
from a severe fronto-nasal
encephalocele a neural tube
defect that resulted in mem-
branous sacs expanding
through his eyes and covering
his face.
He was noticed by a volun-
teer at NGO Interplast during
a visit to the Philippines, who
sent photos of the child to
Monash Childrens Hospital
plastic surgeon James Leong
in Melbourne.
As soon as I saw his case I
immediately sent emails to get
approval so we could help this
young boy, Leong said.
Interplast teamed with the
Children First Foundation to
bring Jhonny to Australia, as
the type of surgery he needed
not available in the Philip-
pines and out of reach for his
impoverished family.
Leong said the condition
was rare, with about one in
10,000 babies born with the
defect. In more developed na-
tions, the condition is usually
picked up and corrected early.
A team of four volunteer
surgeons performed an eight-
hour operation to remove the
mass and reconstruct Jhon-
nys entire face in March, with
the hospital revealing news of
the case yesterday.
The boy has been recovering
at a rehabilitation centre north
of Melbourne and Leong said
he was a bundle of energy and
now able to live like other chil-
dren his age.
Jhonny referred to the tu-
mour as the ball and it made
life very difcult for him. He
was ostracised and teased and
had to hold the tumour away
from his face in order to eat
or drink, Leong said. He still
wanted to run and play like
any other boys but the ball
made this almost impossible.
We feel privileged we have
an opportunity to change this
little boys life, and we hope
Jhonnys quality of life will im-
prove considerably. AFP
Filipino boy can play
thanks to Aussie docs
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NDIAS prime minister, Naren-
dra Modi, is facing a total shut-
down on his first visit to Jammu
and Kashmir this week, with a
mass strike planned across the state.
Modis unpopularity there is not
surprising. The new governments
only planned initiative in the north-
ern region so far is a mass movement
of population. Hundreds of thou-
sands of Kashmiri Pandits Hindus
who had fled the Kashmir valley in
the 1990s in the wake of popular
uprisings and an armed struggle for
a separate state are to be returned
to their ancestors land and reha-
bilitated with full dignity, security
and assured livelihood.
This is a state where successive
Indian governments have stationed
an estimated 700,000 military and
paramilitary personnel, with one
soldier for every 17 civilians. They
are there ostensibly to combat Paki-
stani-sponsored militancy. But as a
senior army officer said recently,
they far outnumber potential mili-
tants, who today are thought to
number no more than 150 to 200 and
who may or may not have been
trained in Pakistan.
There are, of course, other geopo-
litical reasons for the military pres-
ence, such as the fact the state bor-
ders the Pakistani-controlled part of
the Kashmiri region; or that it shares
a border with China, a country with
which India has a tense relationship;
or, indeed, that Afghanistan is not
far away. But the fact remains that
the targets of the Indian forces over
the last 25 years have been mainly
the local populace.
Disappearances and so-called
encounter deaths are common-
place. There are thousands of
unmarked mass graves in the
states northern districts. And in
detention centres, as the Interna-
tional Committee of the Red Cross
told US officials in 2005 in a secret
document, electrocution, beat-
ings and sexual humiliation are
used routinely to extract confes-
sions from detainees.
Horrific violence has been faced
by the women, with rape used as a
weapon of war to punish, intimi-
date, coerce, humiliate and
degrade. The Armed Forces Special
Powers Act (AFSPA), imposed in
1958 in all so-called disturbed areas
of India, provides the army and
paramilitaries with near total
impunity, enabling them to arrest
people without a warrant and on
mere suspicion of their planning a
terrorist act and allowing the secu-
rity forces to fire upon or other-
wise use force even to the causing
of death. AFSPA has been con-
demned by the UN as a law that has
no place in a democracy.
Parveena Ahangar, the founder of
the Association of Parents of Disap-
peared Persons (APDP), says of the
night in 1990 when her son disap-
peared: He was just 15. He had just
passed his matriculation exam and
joined college. He used to go to his
uncles house after dinner to study.
That night at three oclock, the secu-
rity forces burst into the house. He
was taken away, not even allowed to
put on his clothes . . . I still have the
shirt and trousers he was going to
wear. Distraught with anxiety and
grief, she and her family appealed to
civil servants, ministers and the
courts in the state, only to be
brushed aside.
Through the years that followed,
however, she came across other par-
ents whose children had disap-
peared and they began to draw
strength from each other. In 1994
the APDP was set up, holding its first
meetings in her house. Soon they
started protesting and holding
meetings in public. Since then, come
rain or snow, they have held protests
on the 10th of every month and their
numbers have grown, with hun-
dreds of women now attending from
all across Kashmir.
In Kashmir, killings of children are
commonplace. As reports in local
media show, the reason for these
murders is often nothing more than
the sadism of the army and paramil-
itaries. On just one day in August
2010, for example, a 7-year-old boy
was shot and bludgeoned by the
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF),
a disabled teenager was beaten to
death, and a girl of 15 was shot in the
head during a demonstration.
In 2011, the APDP, together with
the International Peoples Tribunal
for Human Rights and Justice, pre-
sented prima facie evidence of 6,217
unmarked and mass graves in five
districts of northern Kashmir. How-
ever, although this was eventually
endorsed by the state human rights
commission, no independent
inquiry has yet been instituted.
One may well ask, when will this
nightmare end for the people of
Kashmir? Will the repressive laws
they face be revoked? Will they be
allowed to live with full dignity,
security and assured livelihood like
the Pandits who are to be rehabili-
tated among them? Only Narendra
Modi and his cabinet have the
answers. THE GUARDIAN
Comment
Amrit Wilson
The endless Kashmiri nightmare
Members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons wear black bands across their faces during a protest in February. AFP
Amrit Wilson is a writer and activist on
issues of race and gender in British and
South Asian politics.
T
HE old melody started
as an English tavern
song that began To
Anacreon in Heavn,
where he sat in full glee.
Later, it was used in an
American campaign song that
began Ye sons of Columbia,
who bravely have fought. And
later still, amateur poet Fran-
cis Scott Key used it in a song
that began, When the warrior
returns, from the battle afar.
Now, as Key watched the
British bombardment of Fort
McHenry in the summer of
1814, the melody came to him
again, along with new words,
Oh say can you see, by the
dawns early light.
The story of the lyrics to the
US national anthem, or the De-
fence of Fort MHenry, as it was
rst called, is well known. The
saga of the melody, critical to
its early success, is less so.
A pop hit of its day, scholars
believe people on the streets al-
ready knew it.
The practice of tune recy-
cling was extensive in those
days. And few were aware that
the author of the music to what
would become the American
anthem was a renowned Brit-
ish musicologist.
In September 1814, during
the War of 1812, Key, a 35-year-
old lawyer, headed to Baltimore
to negotiate the release of a
friend who had been seized by
the British. Key was detained
on a British ship and, moved
by the drama of the moment,
wrote the famous lyrics. But the
melody he had in mind was the
venerable tune that went back
to the previous century.
Last week, Raymond A
White, a music specialist in
the Library of Congresss mu-
sic division, explained the
long history of the melody.
It began as the theme song,
you might say . . . of something
called the Anacreontic Society
in London, an elite mens club
for amateur musicians found-
ed in about 1766, he said.
The group would meet at
Londons Crown and Anchor
tavern. Theyd have a concert,
White said. Then they would
adjourn to another room for
dinner . . . Then they would have
their sort-of singalong.
The president of the society
was a fellow named Ralph Tom-
linson, who fancied himself a
singer, White said. Tomlinson
felt the society needed a song,
so he penned some lyrics.
His song was titled To Ana-
creon in Heaven, an ode to
Anacreon, an ancient Greek
poet who wrote of wine and
song. It was a six-verse salute
to inspiration and friendship.
The rst verse ended with
this refrain: And besides Ill
instruct you like me to entwine
/ The myrtle of Venus and Bac-
chuss vine.
Key would turn that into:
O say, does that star-span-
gled banner yet wave / Oer the
land of the free and the home of
the brave?
The tune for the lyrics was
written by John Stafford Smith,
a member of the Anacreontic
Society and the famous church
musician. Over time, Smiths
tune and Tomlinsons words
grew in popularity.
The Anacreontic Society fad-
ed out, I think toward the end of
the 18th century, White said.
But the tune spread around
a lot in England, and it made
its way to the United States. It
sounds like The Star-Spangled
Banner, but it sounds a little
different, he said. Rhythms
are a little different, and a few
notes are a little different.
At the time, it was common
for a songwriter to take some-
one elses tune and put new
lyrics to it. The author of the
music rarely got credit.
Meanwhile, the tune catches
on, he said, and people begin
to write other words.
Unfold father time thy long re-
cords unfold, / Of noble achieve-
ments accomplished of old.
That was the beginning of a
1796 version called Freedom
Triumphant. A version, circa
1812, called The Battle of the
Wabash began:
In the dead of the night when
aloud on the air, / Through the
darkness the war whoop was
heard ercely yelling.
And there were more. White
said there are 84 versions be-
tween 1790 and 1820 that have
been documented. One of the
versions was by Key.
The Star-Spangled Banner
was not Francis Scott Keys
rst attempt at doing this very
thing, White said. In 1805, us-
ing the same melody, he wrote
When the Warrior Returns
From the Battle Afar.
It was penned in honour of
the recent victory of US Navy
ofcer Stephen Decatur over
African pirates.
In addition to the melody,
the lyrics have foreshadowings
of the national anthem.
The third verse has the line:
by the light of the star-spangled
ag of our nation.
White is certain Key wrote
the national anthems lyrics to
t the old tune. He was not
writing something he was en-
visioning as a poem, he said.
Its just inconceivable that
somebody could say, Well,
thats a swell poem. You know,
[if] we sing this to Anacreon,
this will be great, he said. The
melody is too complicated.
Within days of Key writing
the song in September of 1814,
a crude handbill bearing his
new lyrics, with the instruc-
tion that they be sung to The
Anacreontic Song was circulat-
ing on the streets of Baltimore.
It landed in some newspapers,
and within a short time, it be-
came widely popular
Then, probably in late Oc-
tober, the song was issued as
sheet music, White said.
The publisher, Thomas Carr,
who had a music store in Bal-
timore, apparently didnt like
the prosaic title, Defence of Fort
MHenry. So, White said, he
came up with a snappier name,
which stuck: The Star-Spangled
Banner. THE WASHINGTON POST
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Hinged fastener
5 Withdraw
9 Zeniths
14 Teen bane
15 Bone in the arm
16 Like a tack
17 Who went to market?
20 Upholstered piece
21 On a date
22 Fleur-de-___
23 Catch ___ (start to understand)
25 Type of trap
27 Keyboard word
30 Shirts or skins
32 Its stored on a farm
36 Getaway of fantasies
38 Will be in a Doris Day song
40 Skull cavity
41 Better!
44 River in Hades
45 Roman despot
46 Minimal effort
47 Pulver, for one
49 Christian with a fashion sense
51 Hi-___ graphics
52 Paint layer
54 Of great proportions
56 Tire pressure meas.
58 Advertisement word
60 Connect, as a stereo
64 They dont belong to me
67 Habitual ways
68 Coarse-ground grain
69 Operatic Trojan princess
70 Acute feeling of anxiety
71 Kind of terrier
72 Beds in tents
DOWN
1 They go over your part
2 Have a yearning
3 Dither
4 Pasta sauce option
5 State of calm passivity
6 Utmost (Abbr.)
7 Passionately studying
8 Anklebone
9 African snake
10 Young at heart
11 Star followers of note
12 Physics work units
13 Infiltrator
18 Glasses piece
19 H H H, in Athens
24 Theater of old
26 Legalese for unless
27 Library listing
28 Drained of blood
29 Cries like a sheep
31 Was not right
33 Lend ___ (listen intently)
34 False front
35 ___ Park, Colorado
37 They have morals
39 Eagles abode
42 Showy lily
43 Means of evading a law
48 Peter Pan pooch
50 Cut-up
53 Payment conditions
55 Funny one
56 Unit of loudness
57 Something to hum
59 Half of a fortnight
61 Metric weight, for short
62 Brigade
63 Edible spheroids
64 Pan Am rival, once
65 Winning finish?
66 Dissenting vote
STUFF
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
History of the US national anthem
Early printings of Francis Scott Keys poem about the defence of Fort McHenry. THE WASHINGTON POST
Lifestyle
17
Training exercise
Thomas the
Tank Engine
hits Japan
A
FULL-SIZE Thomas the
Tank Engine will steam
through Japan this
summer in the first service of
its kind in East Asia, a railway
official said yesterday.
Oigawa Railway, a small
operator in Shizuoka pre-
fecture in central Japan, has
converted a regular steam
locomotive into the anthropo-
morphic British creation.
The train service, which will
run for three months from
July, has proved popular with
Thomas buffs and all tickets
have already sold out, the
company said.
Known in Japan as Ki-
kansha Thomas (Steam Train
Thomas), the blue engine
was created in the early 20th
century by a British clergyman
and became the star of a se-
ries of books. It transitioned to
television in the 1980s, where
it was originally narrated by
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Thomas, whose adventures
frequently revolve around a
moral message such as the
importance of honesty or
friendship, remains a fixture
on Japanese television and
has spawned a huge volume
of merchandise. AFP
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 938 Daily 06:40 08:15 PG 931 Daily 07:55 09:05
PG 932 Daily 09:55 11:10 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:30 14:40
PG 934 Daily 15:30 16:40 FD 3616 Daily 15:15 16:20
FD 3617 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:30 18:40
PG 936 Daily 19:30 20:40 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 20:15 21:50
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
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Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
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7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Fax: 023 424 304
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Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
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Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
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Teuk, Chamkarmorn
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QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
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8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
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Switzerlands picturesque Valle Verzasca marks the halfway point in
the skyrace held every weekend in Lodrino. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Skyrunning in
the mountains
of Switzerland
I
SAT at the top of the
mountain for more than
three hours before ying
down; Ive got the sun-
burn and the haphazard video
of the ight to prove it. Fortu-
nately no broken bones, just
a descent that scared me too
much to attempt.
The starting pistol had gone
earlier that morning in the
Swiss village of Lodrino, about
half an hour north of Lugano.
There was a motley crew of
tough, weatherbeaten run-
ners standing around, T-shirts
broadcasting the previous
races that theyd complet-
ed. Feeling rather out of my
depth, I did my usual warm-
up. As a regular 10-kilometre
runner, I felt condent with
my speed but knew that the
rst ve kilometres climbed
no less than 1,500 metres.
I was greeted by the as-
cent almost immediately; my
breathing became quickly la-
boured. Undeterred, I kept go-
ing. Knowing that another 7.5
kilometres lay ahead, I worried
that I had started too quickly.
It took an average of three
hours for the 300 competitors
to reach the summit. At 2,190
metres above sea level, youre
greeted with unbridled en-
thusiasm, buckets of isotonic
drinks and plates of biscuits.
This particular Swiss skyrace
gives you the choice of the 21-
kilometre up and down race,
or to nish after 11.5 kilo-
metres at the summit of For-
carella, before hiking down
unhurried to the idyllic La-
vertezzo. Given my inability
to descend without hysterics,
it was not a decision I strug-
gled with.
With more than half of the
canton of Ticinos 2,812.46
square kilometres covered
in forests and mountains,
skyrunning (running, as op-
posed to hiking, up and down
mountains) is second nature
to Swiss natives. For most of
the days competitors, scaling
peaks and bounding down
mountainsides was something
theyd done since childhood
and it showed. They did it with
the ease of mountain goats.
For Brits, on the other hand, it
takes a little more precaution
and a lot more nerve.
Now labelled as its own disci-
pline within the running com-
munity, skyrunning is becom-
ing the next mass-participation
event. But theres a downside:
most races have extortionate
entry fees, and transport to
the far-ung mountains of the
world isnt cheap. There is a so-
lution albeit a rather extreme,
costly one. My boyfriend and I
moved to Switzerland, placing
us at the centre of the action,
with a skyrace every weekend.
Todays action was centred
on a rocky precipice above
southern Switzerlands pur-
portedly most picturesque
valley, Valle Verzasca (you
might know it from James
Bonds dam bungee jump in
the opening frames of Golden-
Eye); this marked the halfway
checkpoint or the welcome
sight of the nishing mat if
you were only doing the uphill
race, as I was.
Hardy hikers had ventured
up the mountain earlier that
morning to lend support to
the competitors. As one shout-
ed to me that I was the rst
woman and nearing the nish,
my spirits lifted momentarily
that is, until I looked up and
saw the nal kilometre literally
rise up. Id seen the courses
altitude prole Id spent the
car journey analysing it, in fact
but nothing could have pre-
pared me for a kilometre at a
gradient of 50 per cent. I could
barely bring myself to lift my
feet as I crossed the nish line.
For many, tackling a moun-
tain race lies in knowing, or
rather not knowing, what will
greet you at the top. With our
calendar now full of skyraces,
its time for me to face my fears
and follow this advice: Train
your weaknesses, not your
strengths. THE GURADIAN
Sport
Girl power
Female mixed martial artist Ann Osman (left) of Malaysia teaches girls from sex trafcking NGO Agape International Missions (AIM) how to throw kicks during a demonstration at NagaWorld yesterday. The 28-year-old had given a
talk at the organisations centre in Tuol Kork earlier in the day. AIM staff members were also taught some combat skills by Osman and her trainer and fellow Malaysian cage ghting star AJ Lias Mansor. SRENGMENGSRUN
Hamilton targets home revival
L
EWIS Hamilton heads into
his home British Grand Prix
this weekend bidding for
a victory that could revive
his title challenge and prove that his
Mercedes team retain a speed ad-
vantage over their rivals.
The 29-year-old, who is 29 points
behind German teammate Nico Ros-
berg in the drivers championship,
believes he has the talent to triumph
again as he did in 2008 and use
that success as a launch-pad to his
second title.
I know that Im 29 points down
now, but even though Ive not n-
ished as many races as I would like
and I lost another seven points to
Nico in Austria theres still a long
way to go, said Hamilton.
I had a lot of pace in Austria, and
although I didnt capitalise on it, Ill
take it into the British Grand Prix and
make sure I do. Im excited about our
pace. Im going to Silverstone with
the best package Ive ever had, so Im
thrilled about that.
I just have to execute that pace
over a weekend, so I will work hard to
make sure I do that. I believe I have
the ability so I just have to harness it
all and do my utmost.
Hamilton has suffered two retire-
ments this season while Rosberg has
nished in the top two in all eight
races to date, to demonstrate that the
consistent man can often outscore a
faster rival who wins more often, but
also fails to nish.
In Austria, Hamilton was twice
on course for pole position, but his
own errors cost him dearly and he
ended up starting ninth, to Ros-
bergs third, as Mercedes failed to
have a car on the front row for the
rst time this year.
Hamilton came home second be-
hind Rosberg and said: Im happy I
managed to recover that weekend. I
earned my money, so that was good
. . . Now I need some better luck, but I
am not counting on it.
Not at Silverstone or anywhere
else. I just have to go out and do
the job.
A year ago at Silverstone, Hamilton
took pole by half a second and led the
race easily before he became the rst
of ve drivers who suffered spectac-
ular tyre failures. He nished fourth.
Rosberg, untroubled by punctures,
won the race.
I think that was my best chance
of another win and I should have
won that one, said Hamilton. I
have denitely had my fair share of
bad luck, thats for sure, so hope-
fully moving forwards positive things
will happen.
At least in going to the British
Grand Prix for any athlete going
into an event in their home country
performing for the fans and the sup-
port you have is signicantly more
than any other place you go.
Its just the most incredible feel-
ing, particularly with the difference
you can make to those individuals
weekends. When I won the race in
2008, I had so many messages of sup-
port. Even today, people tell me their
dream came true that weekend.
Thats a real positive. Lots of posi-
tives come from these events so Im
excited to be going back there this
weekend and I am going to do it my
way. I cant expect Nico to suffer re-
tirements or anything like that.
I just have to focus on doing bet-
ter than him, which I am capable of
and I believe that. For me, the edge
I have is in my ability. That is the gift
I have and I have to use it this year
more than ever.
As the two Mercedes men continue
their apparently private battle for the
title, team chief Niki Lauda warned
that they all need to keep pushing to
ensure that the outt stay ahead of
the eld.
We are not going to sit back and
relax, we are pushing and we can see
that our rivals are all pushing, he
said. The gap may be closing, but
we can stay in front if we act now.
Sundays race gets under way at
7pm Cambodian time. AFP
Mercedes teams British driver Lewis Hamilton races with a blown out tyre at the Silverstone circuit in England during the 2013 British Formula One Grand Prix. AFP
ORICA-GREENEDGE man-
ager Shayne Bannan yester-
day defended his teams anti-
doping regime after cyclist
Daryl Impey tested positive
for a banned substance.
The South African, who
last year became the first-
ever African to wear the Tour
de Frances yellow jersey,
tested positive in February
for Probenecid, the Austra-
lian team announced on
Wednesday.
Probenecid is a substance
used to treat gout and hyper-
uricema but banned because
it can be used as a masking
agent.
Impey has denied any
wrongdoing and Bannan said
his team had nothing to hide,
calling on his Tour de France
riders to stay focused in the
midst of the doping scandal.
Obviously the guys will be
affected by whats happened,
because of the friendship
within the team, Bannan told
Australian Associated Press.
How deep of an effect,
were really not too sure.
He said Impey, 29, initially
told him of the positive A
sample last week and con-
rmed on Tuesday that the B
sample result had also come
back positive.
Orica-GreenEDGE took
him off their racing roster
ahead of Saturdays start of
this years Tour de France
while he fights to clear his
name.
Its really important that
we stay focused we have
absolutely nothing to hide,
added Bannan.
We can be proud of our
short history in the sport. Its
a matter of really just con-
tinuing the ethics that we
stand by.
The scandal is a major blow
to the image of a team that
commissioned an anti-dop-
ing consultant to conduct an
independent review of their
operations and staff in the
wake of the Lance Armstrong
scandal.
Impeys positive test comes
nearly a year after Orica-
GreenEDGE veteran Stuart
OGrady retired and then
within a few days confessed
to doping once in the late
1990s.
Their Tour de France team
is led by Simon Gerrans, Si-
mon Clarke, Michael Albasini
and Canadian road and time
trial champion Svein Tuft,
who last year helped them
score two Tour stage wins.
The ve other riders will
be making their debut in the
race Australians Luke Dur-
bridge, Mathew Hayman and
Michael Matthews, Belgian
Jens Keukeleire and Briton
Simon Yates. AFP
Sport

Fernandes flogs off his
F1 team Caterham
MALAYSIAN businessman
Tony Fernandes has sold the
British-based Caterham
Formula One team to a
consortium of Swiss and
Middle Eastern investors, it
was announced on Wednesday.
Caterham F1 Team is pleased
to confirm that Tony Fernandes
and his partners have sold the
team to a consortium of Swiss
and Middle Eastern investors,
advised by former F1 Team
Principal Colin Kolles, said a
team statement. In May,
Fernandes the owner of budget
airline AirAsia and London
football club Queens Park
Rangers, who next season will
be back in the lucrative English
Premier League, said in May he
wasnt looking to sell Caterham
but was keen to attract
additional investment. AFP
Valentino Rossi to stay
with Yamaha until 2016
ITALYS nine-time world
champion Valentino Rossi has
extended his contract with
MotoGP outfit Yamaha until
2016, the team announced on
Wednesday. The announcement
pours cold water on any reports
that the iconic 35-year-old rider
was thinking about quitting the
sport at the end of the season.
Rossi who first won the 125cc
world title in 1997 before
moving up to claim global
honours in the 250cc category
two years later, has since added
seven world titles at the highest
level. He is currently tied for
second in the championship
standings with Spanish Honda
rider Dani Pedrosa, with the two
men 72 points behind Marc
Marquez of Spain who has won
all eight races this season on a
Honda. AFP
Plushenko aspires to vie
in his 5th Olympic Games
RUSSIAN figure skating icon
Yevgeny Plushenko said on
Wednesday that he has firm
intentions to compete at his fifth
Olympic Games at
Pyeongchang, South Korea, in
2018, local media reported.
Everything [in my body] that
has been broken is now fixed,
ITAR-TASS news agency quoted
the two-time Olympic champion
as saying. Ill try to compete at
fifth Olympics and to do that with
dignity. Earlier this year the
31-year-old pulled out of the
mens individual competition at
his home Olympics Games in
Sochi because of a back
problem after winning gold in
the team event. Plushenko, who
has won also Olympic silver
medals in 2002 and 2010,
announced his retirement after
the 2014 Winter Olympics. AFP
Match-fixer Lou Vincent
tells of bat attack fears
DISGRACED former New
Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent
said yesterday that his match-
fixing boss threatened him with
a cricket bat after an attempt to
rig a game backfired, costing
crooked bookies a fortune.
Vincent, who received a life ban
from cricket this week after
admitting to fixing, said the
incident occurred in 2008 during
a match in the now-defunct
Indian Cricket League, when he
was supposed to underperform
with the bat. He was trying to
get out cheaply, but the ball hit a
footmark, came off his bat and
sailed for six. AFP
R
OGER Federer and Novak
Djokovic face young and
restless Milos Raonic and
Grigor Dimitrov for places in
the Wimbledon nal today as mens
tennis reaches a potentially game-
changing moment in its history.
In the space of 24 hours at the All
England Club, the big four of the game
were reduced to the big two following
the shock exits of Rafael Nadal and de-
fending champion Andy Murray.
Suddenly, Dimitrov and Raonic have
the opportunity to tip the balance in
favour of the next generation by break-
ing down the door that has been frus-
tratingly ajar for a decade.
But the odds are stacked against
them.
Federer is a seven-time Wimbledon
champion, the holder of a record 17
majors and will be playing in his 35th
Grand Slam seminal and ninth at the
All England Club.
Djokovics 2011 Wimbledon title was
just one of his six majors and he will be
playing in his 23rd last-four at a Grand
Slam and fth in a row in London.
Dimitrov and Raonic, both 23, score
nought on all of the above.
Federer, who was stunned in the sec-
ond round last year 12 months after
winning his seventh title, has a 4-0 ca-
reer lead over Raonic, the rst Canadi-
an man in the seminals in 106 years.
Despite his desire to lift what would
be a record eighth title, Federer insists
he is happy to see a new breed coming
through, even if they are already edg-
ing towards their mid-20s.
Its just hard breaking through. The
points, you fetch them from semis
on, not really quarters anymore like
it used to be, he said.
So its hard I think for a youngster
to win or be consistent over three,
four, ve matches in a row where the
big points are.
Federer will be the sentimental fa-
vourite today against eighth-seeded
Raonic whose quarternal win over
Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios, the
shock conqueror of Nadal, was bru-
tally effective but far from pretty.
Many watching saw the perfor-
mance, which produced 39 aces, 73
winners and just 20 points conceded
off serve, as a throwback to the bad
old days when grasscourt tennis was
a one-shot shoot-out.
Well, hes got a big serve. Clearly
thats what is most visible when you
see him play, conceded 32-year-old
Federer.
It keeps him in the match. Ive
played him in some interesting
places like Halle [on grass] where
we basically didnt have any rallies
whatsoever.
Raonic insists his poor record
against Federer will not be a factor
when he becomes the rst Canadian
man since Robert Powell at 1908 to
play in a Wimbledon seminal.
Hes gotten the better of me all
four times. But I havent played him
in more than a year and a bit, so I
think Im a different player, he said.
Ive got in close with him in the
past and Ive found a lot of those
things I can sort of pull away that
give me a lot of belief that I can do
this. Ive got to step up and do it.
Top seeded Djokovic was runner-
up to Murray 12 months ago and he
takes a 3-1 lead over 11th seeded
Dimitrov into their semi-nal.
Dimitrov, who will become the rst
Bulgarian man in the world top 10
next week, reached his rst Grand
Slam semi-nal by defeating Murray
in straight sets on Wednesday, a vic-
tory which nally allowed him to live
up to the hype which had him nick-
named Baby Fed in his junior days.
Transformed since hiring Austra-
lian coach Roger Rasheed, Dimitrov,
who won the Wimbledon warm-up at
Queens Club last month, is also get-
ting him known for his tennis rather
than just being the boyfriend of Maria
Sharapova.
Fear is out of the picture, he said of
facing Djokovic.
And Sharapovas advice at this cru-
cial moment? She says Win it. What
can I say? I think thats a good tip! he
said. AFP
Past champions
brace for young
guns in semis
Canadas Milos Raonic returns to Australias Nick Kyrgios during their mens singles quar-
ternal match of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships on Wednesday. AFP
South Africas Daryl Impey rides during the 32km individual time-trial and 17th stage of the 2013 Tour de
France cycling race between Embrun and Chorges in southeastern France. AFP
Boss defends cycling team after positive test
23
Football

3G League kicks off its
second 9-a-side season
THE second edition of the 3G
League began on Tuesday at
the Astroturf pitches of the
3G Sports Centre, with 10
team vying for glory. During
the opening ceremony, 3G
Sports Centre president Keav
Phearith told reporters that
the nine-a-side competition
would feature a round robin
phase, with each side playing
each other twice. The top
four sides from the group
stage will progress to
semifinals and final, which is
slated for a date in
November. The 10 teams
have been named as Prey
Veng Youth Federation,
Phnom Penh Computer,
Victory, Por Sen Chey
District, Riel Monivong,
Home Sport, Sansiro, Inter
Penh, Bayon Wanderers and
Akira. Players competing in
the Metfone C-League and
second tier Division A1 are
prohibited from appearing in
the 3G League. Tuesday
evenings opening fixture saw
reigning champions Prey
Veng, who are led by former
national team striker and
coach Hok Socheatra, edge
Phnom Penh Computer in a
5-4 thriller. CHHORN NORN,
TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
FAT man Worawi wins
presidential vote dispute
WORAWI Makudis election as
Football Association of Thailand
president has been verified by
the Court of Arbitration for
Sport, the Associated Press
reported on Wednesday. The
CAS chose to dismiss losing
candidate Virach Chanpanichs
appeal to challenge the
October 2013 election result.
Worawi, a 17-year member of
FIFAs executive committee
and FAT President since 2007,
won 42-24. Irregularities
alleged by Mr Chanpanich
either did not exist ... or were
not supported by evidence,
read a statement from the
CAS. DAN RILEY
S Korea coach keeps his
job despite Cup letdown
THE South Korean football
association (KFA) said
yesterday that it had rejected
an offer by the national team
coach, Hong Myung-Bo, to
resign following a disap-
pointing showing at the World
Cup in Brazil. Weve decided
to continue to trust and
support coach Hong, KFA vice
president Huh Jung-Moo told
reporters in Seoul. He added
that Hong would see out the
remainder of his contract
which runs through the 2015
Asian Cup tournament. AFP
Barcelona close in on
Surez with 70m bid
LUIS Surez is close to
sealing his preferred move
to Barcelona after the
Catalan club held a
productive first meeting
with Liverpool and offered
around 70 million ($120
million) for the controversial
forward. Barcelonas
determination to clinch a
deal for the Uruguayan was
confirmed during talks
between their director of
football management, Raul
Sanllehi, and Liverpools
chief executive, Ian Ayre, in
London on Wednesday. THE
GUARDIAN
Striker shoot-out in quarters
Rob Woollard

O
NE of the nest genera-
tions of goalscorers ever
assembled is poised for a
climactic shoot-out for the
greatest prize in football tonight as
the World Cup quarternals get under
way in Brazil.
Karim Benzemas France play
Thomas Muellers Germany and Ney-
mars Brazil take on Colombia, with
World Cup revelation James Rodri-
guez, in the opening clashes of foot-
balls remaining titans.
The 56 matches so far have been
packed with drama. The 154 goals at
an average of 2.75 goals per game, puts
Brazil 2014 rmly on course to beat the
171-goal record of France 1998.
Theories for the goal-glut have in-
cluded law changes, tactical varia-
tions, declines in defending and the
liberating effect of simply staging a
tournament in Brazil, the home of at-
tacking football.
Former France manager Gerard
Houllier however believes the expla-
nation lies in the assorted personnel
gathered in Brazil.
What we are seeing here is that is
that we have a generation of outstand-
ing strikers, said Houllier, a member
of FIFAs technical study group.
Neymar, [Lionel] Messi, Benzema,
[Robin] Van Persie, [Arjen] Robben, Ro-
driguez top players.
The list of sharpshooters will begin
to be whittled down from tonight as
France face Germany at the Maracana
Stadium in Rio de Janeiro before hosts
Brazil take on Colombia in Fortaleza.
Frances last eight date with Germany
sees the two European powers revive a
rivalry whose most famous episode oc-
curred at the 1982 World Cup, when the
Germans fought back from 3-1 down in
extra-time to win on penalties.
With Benzema in top form, France
are dreaming of their rst World Cup
title since their 1998 triumph on
home soil, but their focus is solely on
Germany.
Everyone can dream, including me,
but Im a pragmatist and a realist, Fri-
day is the only thing that counts, said
France coach Didier Deschamps.
In Mueller, Germany also possess
their own striking talisman. The Bay-
ern Munich forward has netted four
goals so far.
But even Mueller has been outshone
by Colombias No 10 Rodriguez, who
tops the goalscoring charts with ve.
The 22-year-old stamped his class
on the tournament on Saturday with
a stunning volleyed goal to help defeat
Uruguay in the last 16, and is now eye-
ing the scalp of the Brazilian hosts.
The form of Neymar, one goal be-
hind Rodriguez in the standings, could
prove crucial to Brazils hopes.
Brazil have yet to nd their best form
and needed a penalty shoot-out win to
squeeze past Chile in the last round.
Neymar is not troubled by the ab-
sence of the extravagant attacking play
the hosts are famous for.
I dont want a show. Thats the last
thing we are trying to do, Neymar
said.
We are not necessarily here to pro-
duce a spectacle. We are here to run to
the end, until we are tired, and come
out as winners.
I would be happy to do nothing in
this game if Brazil won 1-0. That would
be marvellous.
The reward for beating Colombia
will be a meeting with either France
or Germany in the seminals in Belo
Horizonte on Tuesday. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
France v Germany 11pm
Brazil v Colombia 3am
(From left to right) 2014 World Cup hotshots Thomas Mueller of Germany, Neymar of Brazil, James Rodriguez of Colombia and Karim
Benzema of France. All are set to feature in quarternal matches tonight in Brazil. AFP
H S Manjunath
WITH the Metfone C-League
title race heating up, the two
prime contenders likely to
ght to the nish, current
leaders Phnom Penh Crown
and their dogged pursuers
Boeung Ket Rubber Field,
have their priorities clearly
marked when they line up for
their matches at the Olympic
Stadium this weekend.
A ve-point cushion at the
top of the standings gives four-
time champions Crown a lead
edge in team morale when
they take on National Police
Commission, whom they had
beaten earlier this year, in Sat-
urday evenings encounter.
Boeung Ket run into Min-
istry of National Defence the
following night under ood-
lights, leaden with some anxi-
ety over their rivals unpre-
dictable form swings.
While Crown would be keen
to steer clear of trouble and
avoid any possible slip ups,
Boeung Ket will be equally
determined to keep their
chase hard and true.
After this weeks action, two
more matches stand between
Crown and Boeung Ket before
their own gladiatorial contest
that will take the season to its
climactic end.
The other matches in the
program for the weekend are
mostly banal in nature, ex-
cept for the fact that Kirivong
Sok Sen Chey, who face BBU
in Saturdays rst match,
may be desperate for a win to
keep their hopes of staying in
the top tier alive.
Though Western University
are numerically better off
in that relegation ght with
Kirivong at this point, they
need to produce their best
against a decidedly stronger
TriAsia to get a positive out-
come that would keep them
in the safe zone.
Away at the Old Stadium
on Saturday Albirex Niigata,
whose relegation is a cer-
tainty, run into Asia Europe
University.
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday July 5
At the Old Stadium
Albirex Niigata v AEU
3:30pm
At the Olympic Stadium
BBU v Kirivong Sok Sen Chey
3:30pm
Phnom Penh Crown v
National Police 6pm
Sunday July 6
Western University v TriAsia
3:30pm
Boeung Ket v MND 6pm
Crown, Boeung Ket
MCL duel hotting up
Seventeen kinds of crazy
THE increasingly bizarre world
of Leeds United has taken
another turn for the strange
after it emerged that Massimo
Cellino, their maverick new
owner, has such a dislike of the
number 17 it has turned him
against one of the clubs key
players who was born on that
date.
Cellino is so suspicious of the
number 17 that he had the
seats at his former club,
Cagliari, taken out and replaced
with 16B.
Now he has instructed the
new Leeds head coach, Dave
Hockaday, not to select Paddy
Kenny after discovering that
the goalkeepers birthday is on
May 17 and concluding that he
is bad luck for the Champion-
ship club. Kenny, the second-
highest earner at Leeds on
10,000 ($17,150) a week, has
been left at home while the
other players embark on a pre-
season trip to Italy and he will
not play for the club again.
Cellino, who also has a fear of
purple, has separate issues
about Kenny allegedly being
overweight but is said to have
reacted emotionally when he
found out the 36-year-old goal-
keeper had a connection with
the number 17.
The Italians superstition
about that number is so strong
he has told Hockaday it must
not form part of the squad list
next season. Michael Brown
previously wore 17 for Leeds
but was released at the end of
the season.
The issue goes back to Cel-
linos time in Italian football
when he says there was only
one occasion in 20 years that
Cagliari won or drew a game on
the 17th of a month. In a recent
interview, he remembered that
victory and put it down to him
asking the clubs supporters to
wear the dreaded purple to the
game.
The whole stadium was pur-
ple on the 17th. We won
because I think that bad luck is
like algebra: minus and minus
is positive. Purple and 17
they became positive and we
won. Thats the only time.
Cellino completed his take-
over of Leeds in April but only
after an appeal against the
Football Leagues decision to
try to block him entry on the
grounds he had a previous
conviction for fraud. Since
then, he has sacked Brian
McDermott and unexpectedly
brought in Hockaday, who had
been out of work for eight
months after leaving his previ-
ous club, Forest Green, on the
back of a run of seven defeats
in eight games.
Leeds are now embarking on
a cost-cutting process that has
seen the canteen at their train-
ing ground closed down, mean-
ing the players have to take
packed lunches or send out for
sandwiches. The players are
also being made to pay to have
their kits washed.
Hockaday will not have con-
trol of transfer business and
Cellino intends to flood the
squad with free signings and
cheap Italian imports. Stuart
Taylor, who left Reading at the
end of the season, has joined
Leeds to take over from Kenny.
THE GUARDIAN
Leeds keeper Paddy Kenny has reportedly been red by new club owner
Massimo Cellino because his was born on an unlucky numbered day. AFP

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