Separation Anxiety: Obama Steeled For Long Is Fight

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama
was said to be ready to tell
Americans in a speech last
night that he is prepared to
expand airstrikes on the
Islamic State into Syria, as
he steels them for a long
fight against the jihadists.
Despite devoting much of
his presidency to exiting
Middle East and avoiding
new ones, Obama is poised
to move the campaign
against Islamic State, which
has already seen airstrikes in
Iraq, into a more offensive
phase.
You will hear from the
president how the United
States will pursue a com-
prehensive strategy to
degrade and ultimately
destroy ISIL, a senior offi-
cial said on the condition
of anonymity.
The plan will include US
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
OFFICIALS acknowledged
for the first time yesterday
that homeless people
rounded up over the week-
end allegedly including a
1-year-old baby were tak-
en to Phnom Penhs notori-
ous Prey Speu vocational
training centre, where they
were detained in squalid
conditions for one night
before escaping.
Three people told the
Post in separate accounts
yesterday that they were
rounded up against their
will on Sunday by the
notorious Daun Penh dis-
trict security guards and
driven in a caged van to
the remote facility, where
they were locked in a sin-
gle room with no toilet,
little ventilation and no
access to health care.
They put us in a room
where there were a lot of
people and no bathroom.
We had to urinate [and
defecate] on the floor so
there was a bad smell
My [1-year-old] daughter
was ill, but they didnt
allow me to go to the hos-
pital, 45-year-old Lim
Srey said.
Seventeen-year-old Sok
San, another of the 21 sent
to the facility on Sunday, lik-
ened the conditions to that
of a prison.
There were more than 30
people staying in a room
with locked doors they
did not allow us to go to the
bathroom.
The group, which alleg-
edly included four children,
was rounded up as part of
Obama
steeled
for long
IS ght
Rounded
up and
held in
squalor
Laignee Barron
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
N
O ONE will tell
Sreypao where her
8-year-old son is.
The last time she
saw him was almost two weeks
ago, when he was playing along
the riverside in Phnom Penh as
she sold lotus flowers. She heard
him scream, and then the boy,
along with three others, was
gone; taken, she said, by police.
Despite her pleas and protests,
none of the citys officials will
reveal where they took the chil-
dren, she told the Post.
I have asked so many people,
Where is my son? But they wont
tell me. I just want to know that
he is OK.
Sreypaos son is one of seven
children between the ages of 5
and 11 collected from their par-
ents and put into a private shel-
ter as part of the ongoing inves-
tigation of an Australian teacher
suspected of pedophilia, accord-
ing to Action Pour Les Enfants
(APLE), a child rights NGO.
It was determined that these
children could go through the
healing process better [in the
shelter] than at home, said
Khoem Vanda, APLE project
officer. I believe the authorities
checked with the parents, and
Separation anxiety
Seven kids have been taken from their parents in pedo investigation
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that there was a meeting to tell
the families.
But mothers of three of the
boys said they were not part of
any consultation process, were
not asked for their consent and
have been repeatedly denied
visitation rights.
[On Monday], authorities
came and asked if I would allow
my sons to be witnesses. I said
I would if they would let me see
them first, said Chanthan, 54,
the mother of two boys, 5 and 8,
taken into custody. She claimed
she had received no response to
her request and had been stone-
walled when she asked for her
sons whereabouts.
Despite national frameworks
and international conventions
securing parents custody rights
in all but the most extreme
exceptions, child rights lawyers
said it is common in Cambodia
for victims and witnesses under
18 to be removed from their
families and placed in a tempo-
rary shelter, orphanage or resi-
dential care facility.
When officials see children in
danger or facing potential abuse,
they can remove them from the
situation. But the law says that
parents must be informed, even
if they are suspected of a crime,
said Op Vibol, a child protection
lawyer at Legal Aid Cambodia.
In principal, the government
should only use shelters as an
absolute last resort, but the
policy and the practice dont
match up . . . I often see that
when the families are very poor
or the case is complicated, that
the children get taken away. I
think that is wrong.
Investigators allege that the
forced separation of the vendor
parents and their kids is in large
part due to fears of parental
complicity in the abuse as the
families received monetary
goods from the suspect, some-
thing none of them deny. In
question is whether those goods
came in exchange for sexual
favours from the minors.
According to the Interna-
tional Justice Mission (IJM),
more than five children have
been identified as possible vic-
tims of sexual abuse by George
Moussallie, a 51-year-old
teacher and longtime resident
of Phnom Penh.
But the families in question
attest they knew Moussallie as
a patron saint of the Royal Pal-
ace areas poor, a benefactor
who generously rained presents
and food.
I think maybe he was just a
man who had sympathy for the
poor, said one of the areas ven-
dors. The mothers he helped
were not very beautiful, but had
many, very small children they
struggled to feed.
Sreypao said Moussallie has
been paying her familys rent
since 2006.
I met him when I was selling
outside the [Foreign Corre-
spondents Club]. My son was
almost 1 year old and I was
pregnant. I asked if he would
buy something and he asked
me why we slept on the street.
I said because we are poor.
APLE has been investigating
the teacher since 2009, when
they noticed the suspects sus-
picious, intimate relations with
children he was not related to.
He was arrested on August 31
while emerging from his apart-
ment with two young boys.
He took different children, at
least six boys and one girl, in
and out of his apartment, Van-
da said.
Chanthan admitted that she
frequently permitted her young
sons the two that were found
with Moussallie on the day of
his arrest to stay overnight in
his apartment.
We slept under the sky, with
no tents and no blanket. I was
happy when he offered them a
place to sleep, she said, not
adding why she was not also
invited.
The Municipal Department
of Social Affairs declined to pro-
vide the Post with figures on
how many children are cur-
rently being held in facilities
during pending criminal inves-
tigations, adding that the seven
children in Moussallies case are
safe, but needed as witnesses,
before telling reporters not to
ask about the case again.
According to UNICEF, about
300 child victims of abuse and
exploitation are rescued and
assisted every year. Many of
those spend time in temporary
victims shelters that are obli-
gated to permit victims to
communicate with family
members and friends through
visits, written correspondence
and, if necessary, phone calls.
According to the IJM, the shel-
ter looking after the suspected
child victims has communicat-
ed with all but one of the fami-
lies, whom they cannot reach.
But the mothers outside the
Royal Palace tell another story.
I want my son back. He has
done nothing wrong, said
Sreypao.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Dont blame me, official says
Mom Kunthear

T
HE National and
International Festi-
vals Committee has
ordered City Hall to
start preparing the area along
the river for the Water Festival
in November, saying measures
would be more stringent to en-
sure there is no repeat of the di-
sastrous 2010 celebration, when
a stampede killed 353 people.
Kong Sam Ol, minister of the
Royal Palace and head of the
organising committee, who
went out of his way to prema-
turely absolve himself of any
responsibility, said yesterday
in a meeting with provincial
ofcials that City Hall and the
relevant ministries must clear
the boats and stalls along the
riverside for safety reasons.
I will not allow vendors to
sell along the riverside, which
is from the Cambodia Develop-
ment Council to the front of the
Royal Palace, so City Hall has
to pay attention to this as well,
because if a lot of people gather
there a stampede may happen,
he said.
Sam Ol also said he could not
be blamed for anything that
happened after the festival n-
ishes at noon on its third day,
an allusion to the stampedes
occurrence on the night of the
same day of the last festival.
He added that he was not in
charge of the area where the
tragedy occurred anyhow.
For the accident at Koh Pich
bridge, the people blamed me
and Prime Minister Hun Sen,
but I did not organise anything
at Koh Pich. I was only in charge
of the area along the riverside.
In an extra bit of cautionary
advice, Sam Ol said that the
estimated 20,000 people who
will participate in the boat races
should be able to swim.
I want each province to teach
all the boat racers how to swim
in order to avoid any accidents
happening to them.
The number of racing boats
this year is 397, fewer than the
last festivals count of 421, a de-
cline Sam Ol blamed on the al-
lures of modern life.
I think it is because of people
working in factories, who have
parties on the weekends, they
are not interested in our tradi-
tional festival. They have forgot-
ten the traditions, he said.
Sam Ol also said wine, beer
and cigarette advertisements
would not be allowed in front of
the Royal Palace or on the stage
where the King would be, with
advertising banned outright on
the boats.
They have to use the name
of their provincial governors or
the name of their provinces, be-
cause the Water Festival is not
a ceremony meant to advertise
any companies or products.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said yesterday that
the municipality had a lot of
work to do.
We know we have a lot of
tasks to do to avoid any nega-
tive incidents, and we also have
to prepare the areas environ-
ment, provide stalls for the ven-
dors and ensure the safety of
the people who come to the city
who will number one million as
they did before, he said.
Dimanche said that he was
not yet aware how many
security ofcers would be
employed for public safety
purposes, but that a subcom-
mittee would be created to
prepare for the festival.
A woman and her 1-year-old son sit in Daun Penh district yesterday
after they were allegedly taken to Prey Speu vocational training centre
against their will. HENG CHIVOAN
Boat race participants paddle along the river in Phnom Penh at the last water festival in 2010. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sreypao wipes away tears yesterday in Phnom Penh as she explains
how her child was taken from her by authorities. HONG MENEA
efforts to clean the streets for
the Pchum Ben festival.
A further six female sex
workers were sent to an NGO,
those rounded up claimed.
The three witnesses said
they escaped after the door
was unlocked when ofcials
from the UN Ofce of the High
Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR) arrived. They
said they then scaled a fence
outside and claimed OHCHR
helped to fund their travel
back to the capital. OHCHR
disputed the account of the
fence, but did not comment
on whether it paid for their
trip home.
OHCHR can conrm that
people had indeed been sent
to the Po Senchey Center
[Prey Speu] after being de-
tained and that these people
were allowed to leave the
Center, Wan-Hea Lee, OH-
CHRs country representa-
tive, said in an email, using
an alternative spelling of Por
Sen Chey district.
Human rights law pre-
cludes that anyone should
be detained at [Prey Speu]
against their will . . . that would
amount to arbitrary deten-
tion, she said.
After claiming on Sunday
that those rounded up were
sent back to the streets, Son
Sophal, director of the Social
Affairs Department, yesterday
admitted that they had been
sent to Prey Speu.
They were sent there be-
cause the centre is a place for
keeping homeless people for
training, but they always es-
cape, he said.
Last month, Sophal said
Prey Speu lacked budget for
training and food.
A staff member at the facility,
who earlier this week denied
any homeless were there, said
they were locked in a room
because staff were afraid of
them escaping.
Phil Robertson, deputy
director of Human Rights
Watchs Asia division, called
for the centre to be bulldozed
into the ground.
The reason drastic action is
needed is there is clearly zero
political will in the Cambo-
dian government to end the
consistent pattern of abuse
that occurs there, he said.
Kim Vutha, district secu-
rity chief, said more homeless
would be rounded up over the
coming days in the name of
public order.
Homeless rounded up
and placed in squalor
A case of separation anxiety
The centre is a place
for keeping
homeless people for
training, but they
always escape
National
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Building an escape
Prisoners
turn labour
into freedom
T
WO prisoners in Kampot
province ed to freedom
yesterday after being
taken 17 kilometres away from
the prison to help construct a
new building for incarceration.
According to provincial prison
chief Chea Rithy, the two men,
Sun Srean, 46, and So Ngok,
29, were brought to Teuk Chou
districts Koh Touch commune
at around noon yesterday to
help out with construction.
While having lunch, they
asked to go to the toilet and
they escaped. Our men chased
them but we were unable to
catch them as its a forested
area, he said.
The prison guards continued
to search for them yesterday
evening, but the pair had not yet
been caught as of press time.
Yun Phally, a prison research-
er at rights group Licadho, said
the case exhibited careless-
ness on the part of prison
authorities.
Both prisoners were due to
be released early next year
and had been jailed on charges
of robbery and intentional
violence, respectively. PECH
SOTHEARY
PMs threat under microscope
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah

P
OLITICAL watch-
dogs yesterday hit
out at Prime Minister
Hun Sens threat on
Tuesday to boot opposition
deputy leader Kem Sokha out
of the rst deputy presidency
of parliament.
They accused the premier
of overstepping his executive
bounds to stie the legislative
body and quash Sokhas pro-
fessed efforts to tackle minis-
terial-level corruption.
But other observers and
analysts were quick to point
out that pushing for such a
dismissal was technically in
line with Hun Sens rights as an
elected parliamentarian.
They added that while
there remains no clear legal
procedure to remove the Na-
tional Assembly leadership,
the kind of absolute majority
vote that the premier oated
had become de facto practice
and could easily be pushed
through by his Cambodian
Peoples Party.
Sokha earned Tuesdays
rebuke from Hun Sen after
claiming on the weekend that
he would rally lawmakers
to move votes of no con-
dence against corrupt and
long-serving CPP ministers.
Ny Chakrya, head of legal aid
and human rights at watchdog
Adhoc, said yesterday that
Hun Sen was interfering in
parliament, given that Sokhas
pledge reected no overstep-
ping of powers granted to law-
makers in the constitution.
Removing an ofcial should
be the role of the National As-
sembly president [not the
PM]. This is an internal issue
of the parliament. The gov-
ernment cannot interfere in
the parliament, but based on
the law, the parliament can
watch over the government
and summon ministers for
questioning, he said.
But political analyst Kem
Ley disagreed that Hun Sen
had overstepped his bounds.
The prime minister can
also rally parliamentarians
to vote out any leader of par-
liament who does something
wrong, he said.
If Hun Sen said this on be-
half of the government, he is in
the wrong, but if he said this as
a parliamentarian, its ne.
Koul Panha, head of election
watchdog Comfrel, said that
while neither the constitution
nor the internal rules of the
National Assembly stipulate
a procedure to remove parlia-
mentary leadership, ofcials
have long been dismissed with
a majority vote.
The principle is that you are
going into the parliament rst
[through an absolute major-
ity vote], so if you go out, you
must go out through the same
gate, he said.
Opposition whip Son Chhay
said yesterday that while his
party recognised that the CPP
could easily remove Sokha,
such a move would anger the
public given that Hun Sen
agreed to give the rst deputy
position to the opposition un-
der a July 22 political deal, and
he was its choice.
If the premier was seen to be
removing Sokha just because
he had declared a war on high-
level corruption, that would
also incense many Cambodi-
ans, Chhay added.
However, senior CPP law-
maker and assembly spokes-
man Chheang Vun painted
it as more black and white
than that.
If he wants to remove [us],
[we] have the right to remove
him back, he said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) and opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha speak after negotiations at the
Senate in Phnom Penh earlier this year. HENG CHIVOAN
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Migrants repatriated
Sen David

A
FTER harrowing ex-
periences working in
slave-like conditions,
seven Cambodians
returned home yesterday.
All seven appeared to have
escaped before being arrested
by the Malaysian government
and held by authorities, ac-
cused of crossing into that
country illegally to work, Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs spokes-
man Koy Kuong said.
They were being detained
and accused of working ille-
gally in Malaysia, he said of
the three men working as sh-
ermen and four women work-
ing as maids.
The Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs and the Cambodian Em-
bassy in Malaysia cooperated
with the International Organi-
zation for Migration.
The seven repatriated Cam-
bodians are from Banteay
Meanchey, Kampong Speu,
Siem Reap and Kratie prov-
inces, Kuong said.
Deng Tola, 28, of Banteay
Meanchey, ended up in Malay-
sia after seeking work as a sh-
erman in Thailand, he said.
Tola said that his broker
sold him to the ships owner,
who forced him and the rest
of the crew to work in terrible
conditions.
We had to work the entire
day, shing the sea from Thai-
land to Malaysia; this is when
we were near the port, Tola
said. We escaped and found
the Malaysian police, but they
arrested us because we did not
have passports.
The Thai trafcker should
be arrested, said Lim Mony of
rights group Adhoc.
Recertication of rubber
rm is cause for concern
Daniel Pye and Cheang Sokha
INVESTIGATIVE rights group
Global Witness has lodged a
complaint with an internation-
al forest management body
after it recertified the Vietnam
Rubber Group (VRG) last week
despite outstanding allegations
that the company is driving a
wave of land and forest grabs
in Cambodia.
The Forestry Stewardship
Council (FSC) suspended VRGs
certification which is intend-
ed to provide buyers with
assurances that the companys
products meet environmental
and social standards in
November 2013 after a report
by Global Witness that raised
allegations of land grabbing
and illegal logging by VRG.
According to the FSC certify-
ing body, Control Union, VRG
has not offered substantial evi-
dence to counter the claims in
Global Witnesss report, Rubber
Barons, which alleged that
VRGs subsidiaries were ille-
gally clearing forest containing
protected species of timber
and taking indigenous peoples
land without consent.
Given the outstanding allega-
tions, it is shocking that the FSC
has done a U-turn on VRGs cer-
tification. This case highlights
major concerns within the FSC,
Global Witness campaigner Ali
Hines said in a statement.
But VRG country representa-
tive Okhna Leng Rithy said the
FSC had evaluated the compa-
nys plantations in Cambodia
covering an area about the size
of London this year and found
no evidence of wrongdoing.
We did not do anything to
harm people, instead we built
roads, schools, pagodas and
brought electricity, he said. We
came to invest in Cambodia
because we saw that people did
not use the land . . . After they
[FSC] investigated, [they found]
we did not abuse the people.
VRG recently said it would
receive and investigate com-
plaints by affected communi-
ties, a pledge Global Witness
said was positive.
But Global Witness has con-
tinued to monitor the impacts
on the ground of VRGs rubber
plantations and found that
problems around illegal logging
and the grabbing of commu-
nity land persist, Hines told the
Post, saying the concerns are
well documented and urgent-
ly need to be addressed.
Migrant workers leave Phnom Penh airport yesterday after they were repatriated from Malaysia. HENG CHIVOAN
Villagers walk through cleared forest inside an economic land
concession in Ratanakkiri last year. GLOBAL WITNESS
Bare minimum
Global call
to back $177
local wage
A
GROUP of international
unions is organising a
Global Day of Action later
this month to show support for
Cambodian garment workers
demands for a $177 monthly
minimum wage.
IndustriALL Global Union, the
ITUC and UNI Global Union are
backing a national campaign,
organised by Cambodian unions,
by calling for afliates to gather
outside Cambodian embassies
on September 17 and present a
letter to the ambassador, or to
send it directly to the government,
demanding the wage hike.
The major objective is to
ensure living wages for all
workers in the global garment
industry, said Jyrki Raina,
general secretary of IndustriALL
Global Union. Cambodias image
has been tarnished by poverty
wages, long working hours . . .
and deadly violence. A number of
brands have reduced their orders
. . . because of the instability
caused by the lack of a function-
ing bargaining system.
We talk about win-win solu-
tions, because living wages will
increase purchasing power,
economic growth and help create
new jobs, he added. ALICECUDDY
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Conviction
for selling
girls to men
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court
yesterday convicted a Vietnam-
ese coffee shop owner of pimp-
ing out three underage girls to
rich men in Phnom Penh in
exchange for commission.
Presiding judge Kor Vandy
sentenced Nguven Thi Kam-
seang, 24, to seven years in
prison on charges of aggra-
vated procurement of prostitu-
tion under the Law on Sup-
pression of Human Trafficking
and Sexual Exploitation.
Nguven was arrested on
December 5, 2013.
Lieutenant Colonel Keo
Thea, chief of the Municipal
Anti-Human Trafficking
and Juvenile Protection
Unit, said that Nguven was
arrested after she brought
three Vietnamese girls one 17
years old and the others both
14 years old to have sex with
her clients at the Lucky Star
Hotel in Phnom Penhs Tuol
Kork district.
After Nguyens arrest, the
three girls were rescued from
the hotel, he added.
Neither Nguven nor her law-
yer could be reached for com-
ment yesterday.
Media scrum gets ugly fast
May Titthara

T
ELEVISION report-
ers covering a trafc
accident in Daun
Penh district last
week became a spectacle
themselves when an argu-
ment over camera angles
allegedly turned into a beat-
down, prompting one badly
injured reporter to le a court
complaint on Tuesday.
Kry Sambath, a reporter with
SEATV who allegedly suffered
a broken arm and injuries to
his face and eyes, led a com-
plaint against a group of ve
CNC staffers who he claimed
beat him after a spat over an
interview, said Ran Moy Ma-
kara, chief of staff at SEATV.
This is an individuals com-
plaint, even though he works
for SEATV, he said.
Sambath said he was unable
to comment yesterday as he
was still suffering the after-ef-
fects of the alleged beating, and
referred questions to Makara.
According to Makara, Sam-
bath was covering the car ac-
cident as some nearby CNC
staffers were interviewing
witnesses. When Sambath put
his camera behind the CNC
staffers in order to capture the
same interview, the rival re-
porters became incensed and
told him to move, saying their
management did not allow
them to use the same shots as
other networks.
After a heated argument,
my staff member [didnt re-
spond] at all, because he was
alone, and then he rushed off
to publish the news, Makara
said. When he got on his mo-
torbike, CNC staffers pulled
him from the motorbike and
asked him to ght one-on-one
. . . [but] then they ganged up
[on him] in a ght.
Though the complaint was
against ve people, he added,
Sambath had only been able
to identify two alleged assail-
ants: Sovan Sethey and So-
vann Rithy.
CNC general director Muon
Ramady played down the mat-
ter yesterday as a youthful out-
burst between acquaintances,
saying the dispute would be
solved by the two stations.
But Moeun Chhean Nariddh,
director of the Cambodian In-
stitute for Media Studies, said
yesterday that reporters occu-
pied a similar place in Cam-
bodian society as teachers and
other role models, and that last
weeks shenanigans were un-
betting their line of work.
SEATV reporter Kry Sambath lies on a hospital bed earlier this week in Phnom Penh after he was injured
during a scufe with staffers of a rival news channel. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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POLICE
BLOTTER
Blotter soothsayer: You
are headed for a divorce
A SVAY Rieng province woman
apparently put her trust in the
wrong fortune teller on Sunday.
Police said that womans hus-
band had come home drunk
and passed out, causing her to
panic and head for advice to the
local medium. Told that her
husband was possessed by a
cruel ghost, she followed the
fortune tellers advice to the let-
ter tearing down her house,
tying her husband to a pillar
and burning his chest with
incense. Police eventually put a
stop to the nonsense, but all
involved refused to press
charges. POST STAFF
Dance, battle end badly
at Battambang pagoda
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was
arrested in Battambang town
on Tuesday after allegedly
bashing his neighbours head
with a rock for cursing his late-
night dancing habit. Bystanders
saw the attack unfold at a
pagoda and informed police,
who arrested the man and sent
the neighbour, 25, to hospital.
The victim claimed he was
attacked because he had
cursed the man keeping him
awake at night with his danc-
ing. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Man seeks car cleaning,
gets down to dirty work
THE customer isnt always
right. In fact, sometimes
theyre not a customer at all.
A man, 57, was arrested in
Phnom Penhs Daun Penh
district on Tuesday after he
allegedly pretended to be a
car wash customer in order to
steal a workers motorbike
which was kept inside the
establishment. The owner
and the workers initially
believed the man, but shouted
for help when they saw him
sneaking off with the bike.
Police arrived on the scene
and arrested the man, who
confessed. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Backseat driver better
than backseat stabber
AN UNSUSPECTING motodop
in Kampot on Tuesday was
offered the kind of tip no one
wants that of a robbers
knife. The moto driver was
giving a 35-year-old man a
ride when the alleged thief
pulled out a knife and
demanded he stop. The driver,
also 35, complied, but shouted
for help after the man drove
away on his bike. Police
arrived on scene and chased
down the suspect, eventually
arresting him and sending
him to court. DEUM AMPIL
Fence, door brutalised
in drug-addled attack
A SUSPECTED drug addict
was arrested in Phnom Penhs
Toul Kork district on Tuesday
for allegedly hacking up a
home with an axe, damaging
its door and fence. The homes
owner, a 27-year-old woman,
called the police for help, say-
ing she had never seen the
man, 20, before. After fruit-
lessly questioning the man,
police claimed he was a drug
addict who could not control
his mind and sent him to
court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
Striking twice
Lightning
strikes kill
two farmers
T
WO people were killed by
lightning strikes in sepa-
rate incidents on Monday
in Pursat and Kandal provinces,
ofcials said yesterday, bring-
ing the death toll this so far this
year to 70.
The deceased were a boy
and a farmer, both of whom
were driving near their rice
elds.
Keo Vy, cabinet director of
the National Disaster Manage-
ment Committee, said that
the dead were Han Kimhong,
a 14-year-old farmer killed
while driving a motorbike from
his familys eld in Kandals
Chhaving commune, and Thorn
Tak, 24, who was driving his
tractor through his elds in
Kravainh districts Tra Ngel
commune.
Lightning is causing the
farmers in the remote areas
concern and making them
scared of leaving home to
monitor their farms at night
and when there are storms,
he said.
He added that, since Janu-
ary, lightning has killed 70
people and seriously injured
50 farmers. KHOUTH SOPHAK
CHAKRYA
No cops, no helmets: study
Joe Freeman

I
N THE weeks leading up
to the national election
last July, the normally lax
enforcement of trafc
laws in Phnom Penh practi-
cally halted altogether.
The pattern continued for
months, when the city turned
into a staging ground for op-
position members protesting
the poll. The government was
blamed for using the trafc po-
lice, or lack thereof, to please a
discontented population.
But lost in the political argu-
ment was the main side effect
of the free for all on city roads:
helmet use among motorbike
drivers plummeted about 20
per cent from July through Sep-
tember of last year, according
to a new study, during a year in
which serious injuries from ac-
cidents were on the rise.
The ndings were part of a
larger effort over the past four
years by the US-based Johns
Hopkins International Injury
Research Unit, which focused
on researching helmet use and
drunk driving. With the help
of Handicap International,
research teams observed mo-
torists at various locations in
Phnom Penh and four prov-
inces, doing fresh monitoring
every two months.
Where enforcement has
been reduced, the number
of people wearing helmets
has also gone down, said Joe
Weber of UK-based Consum-
ers International.
Weber, speaking yesterday
at the Cambodiana Hotel dur-
ing a media brieng on the
amended Trafc Law, said the
gures indicate the impor-
tance of the enforcement work
that has been undertaken.
The study also shows that
many drunk drivers received
a pass as enforcement was
strongly impacted due to
elections, and it recorded
abysmally low rates of helmet
use among passengers.
Ear Chariya, an independent
road safety expert who worked
at Handicap International
when the study was being con-
ducted, said there is probably
a link between the invisible
enforcement and an increase
from 5,349 in 2012 to 5,671
in 2013 of serious injuries,
dened as ones that require a
hospital visit that lasts at least
six days.
Phnom Penh Municipal
Trafc Police chief Chev Hak
denied that his ofcers had
backed off from the streets.
We do it both day time and
night time to enforce the Traf-
c Law, he said.
Motorist without helmets wait for the lights to change in Phnom Penh this year. Helmet use by motorists
dropped approximately 20 per cent from July to September in 2013. VIREAK MAI
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Business
Industry casts doubt on meeting Philippine rice bid
Hor Kimsay
CAMBODIAN rice exporters
expressed doubt yesterday regarding
the industrys ability to meet the
technical terms and conditions laid
out in the Philippine governments
rice import bid.
The Philippines National Food
Authority (NFA) in August set up a
bidding process, open to all coun-
tries, for the import of 500,000 tonnes
of rice to the country.
However, all bets were rejected as
no single country was able to meet
the price targets set by the NFA.
The authority has since reopened
the bidding, keen to replenish rice
stocks after severe weather caused
damage to local crops and drove up
domestic prices.
David Van, executive director of
rice miller and exporter Boost Riche
Cambodia, said yesterday that the
Philippines bid required a country
to contribute a minimum of 200,000
tonnes to be delivered across 14 ports
in the Philippines. This, he said,
made both production and logistics
management a tough ask for Cam-
bodias rice growers and exporters.
Considering the complicated
and stringent technical terms and
conditions required by the Filipino
Government as described in the
tender documents, only big league
exporters can comply with that,
and none of the Cambodian export-
ers are even close to that technical
level and expertise, Van said in an
email yesterday.
We are barely learning to walk
slowly and firmly on both feet and
cannot pretend yet to enroll in a
professional marathon running,
he added.
Song Saran, chief executive officer
of rice exporter Amru Rice Cambo-
dia, told the Post yesterday that a lack
of rice paddy already in stock made
it difficult for Cambodia to compete
with the likes of rice-producing
giant Vietnam.
Our price is controlled by Vietnam
because they have a big stock of pad-
dy, he said, referring to the offer
Cambodia might be able to submit.
If we had enough paddy stock in
hand, we might have more ability to
bid, but the problem is we dont have
it, he added.
Sok Puthyvuth, president of the
Cambodia Rice Federation, acknowl-
edged yesterday that there were chal-
lenges to overcome, but said the
country would still go after a piece of
the NFA contract as it was a doorway
into a new market.
The requirements put up by the
Philippines have many difficulties,
which makes is very tough to export
to there, he said.
Puthyvuth said he would try to
negotiate some concessions for Cam-
bodia within the bidding process to
deliver in areas that he thought the
sector was capable of meeting.
According to rice industry news por-
tal Oryza, the NFA will make the final
offers public on September 15.
We are barely learning to
walk slowly . . . and cannot
pretend yet to enroll in
professional marathon
Smart puts
its nger
on the play
button
Eddie Morton
UNIVERSAL Music Group
(UMG) is moving into Cambo-
dias online music space after
signing an exclusive deal
with local mobile service pro-
vider Smart.
According to a statement
issued yesterday, Smart sub-
scribers will now be able to
download and stream audio
and video content from UMG
at a cost of $0.03 per minute.
Smart has also secured
digital content distribution
and resale rights for all of
the US music giants content
in Cambodia on mobile
devices such as smartphones
and tablets.
As part of the agreement,
Smart will offer sublicensing
arrangements to all interested
parties to use, broadcast or
resell the content in Cambo-
dia, the statement reads.
Sandy Monteiro, president
of UMG Southeast Asia, said
while a similar agreement had
been struck and successfully
rolled out with six other tele-
communications firms over
the past six years, success in
the Cambodian market is far
from guaranteed.
Will it succeed? It is up to
Cambodians, Monteiro said.
At the end of the day we
want to engage with Cambo-
dians and to bring world-class
service to Cambodians. But if
Cambodians dont want it then
we will have to think of some-
thing else.
In addition to the partner-
ship announcement, Smart
also revealed plans to launch
a new daily radio program
with radio station NRG
FM 89, which will only play
UMG music tracks and only
accept requests from Smart
subscribers.
India has strongest turnout
at annual CamBuild exhibit
Eddie Morton

Y
ESTERDAYS opening
day of the CamBuild
Expo on Diamond
Island brought with
it a varied pool of foreign and
local rms looking to enter or
increase their footing in the
Cambodian market.
The three-day trade show,
run by Singaporean rm AMB
Events Group, will see more
than 350 exhibitors from 22
countries crowd into the Koh
Pich convention space, pro-
moting everything from man-
ufacturing to energy resources
to investment properties.
Even the humble kitchen sink
has its own booth.
When we rst came here in
2010, there was less than 100
booths, like about 70, AMB
Events Group director Andrew
Siow said.
Then in 2012, it went up
to about 100 booths. Then in
2013 we went up to 180 booths
and at this one we have more
than 350 booths. The interna-
tional community has clearly
started to look at Cambodia as
a viable market for construc-
tion investment. Especially
the Indians they are coming
in very strong.
Chris Hobden, a surveyor at
commercial real estate rm
CBRE, said the greatest benet
new companies stood to gain
from exhibiting at the expo
was simply gauging demand
in the Kingdom's relatively
young marketplace.
These shows are a great
reader for domestic demand. I
think we will see results, but in
terms of actual sales, it is a bit
early to tell, Hobden said.
Of the vast spread of rms
exhibiting at this years Cam-
Build Expo, more than 60 have
come from India more than
any other exhibiting country.
Rajesh Ramachandran,
general manager at India-
based Mohan Energy Cor-
poration, said the Confed-
eration of Indian Industry, a
nonprot peak body for the
subcontinents private sector,
organised the booth spaces at
this years expo in an effort to
diversify the countrys invest-
ment opportunities.
He added that his rm,
which has renewable energy
and electricity transmission
and distribution facilities in
Africa and the Middle East,
had been actively looking to
expand into Cambodia due
to deteriorating investment
conditions in the usually high-
growth market of Africa.
Basically, Indian compa-
nies were totally focused on
Africa for its developing na-
tions, Ramachandran said.
But unfortunately there are
currently a lot of problems go-
ing on in Africa causing po-
litical instability and also the
outbreak of Ebola, which has
all but closed down the whole
of West Africa. This means
Indian companies have had
to go nd greener pastures.
We are looking at Cambo-
dia for its business prospects,
but we dont have any major
business enquiries yet.
Cambodia needs a lot of
investment in energy trans-
mission, and the country has
a lot of potential for the hy-
droelectricity power genera-
tion. That is why we came to
the CamBuild expo.
But Dinesh Patnaik, Indian
ambassador to Cambodia,
said Africa remained an at-
tractive market for investment
and that the strong showing
of Indian companies at this
weeks expo was solely due to
his embassys efforts.
The large turnout of Indian
companies to Cambodia is be-
cause the Indian Embassy in
Cambodia has been actively
pushing Indian companies to
look for opportunities in this
region . . . Africa continues to be
a huge growth area, he said.
The main sectors that Indi-
an companies are looking for
are in building materials, tex-
tiles, construction, engineer-
ing goods, power sector and
automotive parts.
Stall attendants discuss their products with a visitor at the CamBuild Expo on Phnom Penhs Diamond Island yesterday morning. PHA LINA
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deal for $800M Windsor
AJINOMOTO Co agreed to buy
closely held Windsor Quality
Holdings Lp for about $800
million in its biggest purchase
as the Japanese maker of
seasonings and processed
foods pursues growth in the
US frozen foods market.
Ajinomoto plans to sell more
of its products such as
dumplings and noodles
through Windsors sales
network in North America, it
said yesterday, adding its
target is to grow frozen food
sales in the region to 100
billion yen ($940 million) by
fiscal 2020 from about 13.5
billion yen currently. BLOOMBERG
China, Taiwan resume
free trade discussions
TAIWAN and China resumed
talks yesterday at an
undisclosed location on a
goods free trade agreement,
sparking a protest against
secrecy by demonstrators
suspicious of closer ties with
Beijing. Economic Affairs
Minister Woody Duh said
Taiwan would focus on flat
panels, petrochemicals,
machine tools and auto-
mobiles where its industries
are competitive. The talks had
been delayed about five
months following protests.
against parliaments earlier
approval of a services trade
deal with the mainland. AFP
Business
8
Li seeks to reassure investors
P
REMIER Li Keqiang
pledged to open Chi-
na more to outside
investment and en-
courage innovation, seeking to
counter concerns of a chill af-
ter a spate of antitrust probes
targeted foreign companies.
The government will at-
tract more imports, punish
intellectual-property violators
and treat foreign and domes-
tic companies equally, Li said
at the World Economic Forum
in Tianjin, an event attended
by executives from companies
including Qualcomm Inc and
Marriott International Inc.
With the remarks, Li expand-
ed on comments on Tuesday in
which he said foreign compa-
nies have only been the target
of 10 per cent of Chinese anti-
monopoly probes. American
and European business groups
have issued reports in recent
days expressing concern that
foreign rms have faced the
brunt of antitrust scrutiny. The
American Chamber of Com-
merce in China called Chinas
antitrust enforcement selec-
tive and subjective.
We will keep our policies
on foreign capital stable and
improve and standardise the
business environment to at-
tract more foreign businesses
and investment and draw
upon and adopt the advanced
technologies, mature manage-
rial expertise and ne cultural
achievements of other coun-
tries, Li said.
Qualcomm, a strategic part-
ner for the forum, is the target
of a National Development
and Reform Commission an-
titrust probe over its licensing
business. Speaking at a forum
panel yesterday, Chairman
Paul Jacobs said the company
sees opportunities for growth
despite the probe.
In his speech and a subse-
quent question-and-answer
session, Li said he wants mil-
lions of Chinese to start small
businesses, adding that the
government has cut taxes by
250 billion yuan ($41 billion).
Li reiterated that Chinas
economy wont have a hard
landing and can achieve its
main economic targets this
year even as downward pres-
sure on growth increases. Ex-
pansion of slightly above or
below 7.5 per cent, the govern-
ments target, is reasonable, Li
said. He also reiterated lead-
ers commitment to push-
ing ahead interest-rate and
exchange-rate liberalisation
and said China will accelerate
the development of a deposit-
insurance system.
His comments came at a time
when the governments growth
target of about 7.5 per cent in
2014 has been threatened by a
slowdown in industrial produc-
tion and investment growth,
a slumping property market,
and a pullback in manufactur-
ing. BLOOMBERG
Li Keqiang, Chinas premier, delivers a speech at the World Economic
Forum in Tianjin yesterday. BLOOMBERG
End of the
Iron Age:
Goldman
IRON ore declined sooner than
expected this year as supplies
exceeded demand and prices
are unlikely to recover, accord-
ing to Goldman Sachs Group
Inc, which said 2014 will mark
the end of a so-called iron age.
This year is the inflection
point where new production
capacity finally catches up
with demand growth, and
profit margins begin their
reversion to the historical
mean, analysts Christian
Lelong and Amber Cai wrote
in a report yesterday titled The
end of the Iron Age.
The 2016 forecast for sea-
borne ore was cut to $79 a met-
ric tonne from $82 and the
2017 outlook was reduced to
$78 from $85, according to the
New-York based bank, which
stuck with a forecast for $80
next year.
The price decline has been
dramatic, but a weak demand
outlook in China and the struc-
tural nature of the surplus make
a recovery unlikely, Lelong and
Cai wrote. Lower prices for
iron ore and steel are unlikely
to boost demand in a material
way. Instead, the day when steel
production in China will peak
gets ever closer. BLOOMBERG
NO LENIANCY FOR LAWBREAKERS
C
HINESE Premier Li
Keqiang yesterday
vowed no leniency for
corporate lawbreakers,
domestic or foreign, as
Beijing pursues an anti-
monopoly crackdown.
We will mete out stringent
punishment to companies,
domestic or foreign, that are
involved in producing
counterfeit or shoddy goods,
engaging in fraud and
deception, and stealing trade
secrets, Li said We will
penalise serious intellectual
property infringement to the
full extent of the law,
including by imposing heavy
fines so as to make
lawbreakers pay insufferable
prices. AFP
Markets
9
Business
Hor Kimsay
AFTER launching its maiden
ight from Phnom Penh to To-
kyo only last week, Asia Atlan-
tic Airlines (AAA) will cease its
Cambodia-Japan connections
indenitely as of November, a
company representative told
the Post on Tuesday.
AAA, a Thai airline owned in
part by Japanese tourism rm
HIS Co, ran test ights from
Siem Reap to Tokyo in May
and announced in July that
it would run regularly sched-
uled ights from Phnom Penh
to Tokyo beginning in Sep-
tember, and regular ights
from Siem Reap to Tokyo in
October.
But after just a single return
ight from the capital this
week and with just four more
scheduled from Siem Reap in
October, Noguchi Kazuyuki,
AAAs representative in Cam-
bodia, said the airline would
postpone any further ights
indenitely.
At this moment, we do not
have any more plans [after
October], he said.
It might be operated or it
might be not operated, Ka-
zuyuki said, declining to spec-
ify exactly what had caused
the decision.
Sin Chansereyvutha, spokes-
man of State Secretariat for
Civil Aviation of Cambodia,
said he had not been made
aware of AAAs decision, but
that he was disappointed by
the news.
I am really sorry to hear
that. We have put many ef-
forts to help the company
on this work, but it is post-
poned, he said.
I will try to contact the
company for more detailed
information.
Ho Vandy, co-chair of the
Government-Private Sector
Working Group on Tourism,
said it was blow to the poten-
tial ow of Japanese tourists
to Cambodia.
We hoped to have direct
ights from Japan but now
they have been postponed.
We are so sorry because the
company just started the
ights, he said.
Japan Airlines ran ights
to and from Cambodia until
2008 but suspended them in
early 2009 due to lagging pas-
senger numbers brought on
by the global nancial crisis.
The Kingdom welcomed
107,000 visitors from Japan
in the rst six months of the
year, up 12 per cent from the
same period last year.
AAA indenitely halts
direct ights to Japan
Thai tourism target of reform
T
HE Tourism Council
of Thailand (TCT) will
support the interim
governments reforms
in the hopes of laying down a
tourism foundation to raise
tourism revenue to 4.4 trillion
baht ($136.9 billion) by 2018.
The high revenue target
was set by the interim gov-
ernment and it will inform all
related state agencies of the
gure on September 12.
TCT president Piyaman
Techapaibul said Thailand had
the potential to reach 4.4 tril-
lion baht in tourism revenue
by 2018 if the interim govern-
ment implemented a number
of measures proposed by the
Ofce of Public Sector Devel-
opment Commission and its
tourism working group.
Among the measures are
creating a one-stop tourism
service website, developing
mass transportation to serve
tourism, producing tourism
applications such as maps
and transportation GPS, up-
grading the online visa ser-
vice, doing away with depar-
ture cards for Thais, adopting
the advance passenger pro-
cessing system, upgrading
tourism call centres, solving
tourism fraud and increas-
ing the number of automatic
doors at Suvarnabhumi air-
port for convenience.
The Tourism and Sports
Ministry should coordinate
with private tourism organi-
sations to upgrade the indus-
try, she said.
Major tourism sites should
be promoted as hubs in each
region, such as Chiang Mai
in the North, Phuket for the
South, Pattaya for the East,
and Ubon Ratchathani for
the Northeast, to relieve over-
crowding in Bangkok. She said
the average tourism growth
rate the past three years was
almost 20 per cent despite the
political problems, making
the new target a possibility.
The UN World Tourism Or-
ganization reports Asia-Pacic
is projected to have the largest
increase in inbound tourism
through 2030, reaching 535
million foreign arrivals and
a 30 per cent global market
share. It is the only region ex-
pected to increase its market
share for the period.
Tourism research compa-
ny Trimetric said four Asian
countries are in the top 10 of
its Tourism Potential Index.
Singapore is rst because of
the buoyant economy in key
source markets Indonesia,
China and Malaysia. Malaysia
is ranked fourth, Thailand fth
and Japan 10th. BANGKOK POST
Tourists walk past stalls on Khao San Road in Bangkok. The Tourism Council of Thailand is supporting the
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Tech giant Microsoft in
talks for Minecraft firm
MICROSOFT is in talks to buy
the Swedish company behind
the wildly popular Minecraft
video game in a deal valued at
more than $2 billion, the Wall
Street Journal said on
Tuesday. US technology
colossus Microsoft and game
maker Mojang AB were not
commenting on the report. AFP
Inflation surges to 63.4
per cent in Venezuela
VENEZUELAS inflation rate
has soared to 63.4 per cent
the highest in Latin America
the Central Bank announced
on Tuesday. It was the first
time the figure was announced
since May. Critics charge that
President Nicolas Maduros
socialist government has
withheld data for its political
benefit. AFP
World Bank to give over
$5B in aid to Argentina
THE World Bank announced
on Tuesday a new aid strategy
for Argentina worth up to $5.3
billion over the next three
years aimed at increasing the
incomes of the countrys
poorer families. The 2015-2018
package will fund a number of
programs selected for their
contribution to achieving
sustained poverty reduction
and shared prosperity, in the
troubled country, the World
Bank said. AFP
Business
10
Apple charting a new course
A
PPLE moved to recap-
ture its role as a tech
trend-setter on Tues-
day with its highly
anticipated rst smartwatch
and two large-screen versions
of the iPhone.
With the Apple Watch and
iPhone 6 models stretched
to t a hot phablet trend, the
California company delivered
what rumours had predicted.
The Apple Watch, a sleek
wrist device that links to the
iPhone, will redene what
people expect from this cat-
egory, chief executive Tim
Cook said at a carefully staged
presentation in Apples home-
town Cupertino, California.
The iPhone 6 models boost
screen sizes in what some see
as the company catching up
to a phablet trend combining
features of smartphones and
tablets. Bigger screen. Better
performance. Elegant design.
Welcome to the party #iPhone
6, Taiwan-based smartphone
rival HTC said in a message
red Apples way on Twitter.
Apples main rival Samsung
has long had a range of larger
handsets and has tried to mar-
ket a smartwatch of its own.
LG recently has a large-screen
agship G3 model with camer-
as tricked out to delight sele-
loving smartphone users.
The iPhone 6 will have a
screen of 4.7 inches and the
6-Plus will be 5.5 inches, al-
lowing Apple to adapt to con-
sumers apparent preference
for bigger displays.
The new iPhone 6 will start
at the same price of existing
iPhones at $199 for US cus-
tomers while the iPhone 6 Plus
will be at $299 with a two-year
contract. Apple said the de-
vices would be available in at
least 115 countries by the end
of the year and that it would
begin taking orders for iPhone
6 models on Friday.
Apple also added a mobile
wallet, which Cook said would
replace an antiquated pay-
ment process with a new
system that allows consumers
to touch their phones to retail
terminals to pay.
The new payment system
will be built into the new iP-
hones and the upgraded Ap-
ples operating system, iOS 8.
Cook introduced the Apple
Watch with the one more
thing introduction that was a
trademark of iconic Apple co-
founder Steve Jobs.
The Apple watch will start at
$349 when it is released early
next year, according to Cook.
The smartwatch will work with
iPhone 5 and newer models.
But some analysts said the
delayed rollout could be a
problem for Apple.
With no Apple Watch on
shelves for the Christmas
shopping season, people han-
kering for a smartwatch may
turn to Samsung, Motorola or
other rivals, reasoned analyst
Rob Enderle of Enderle Group
in Silicon Valley.
Once Apple announces
something, people want it; and
there lies the danger, Enderle
said. People dont leave IOUs
under the tree for Christmas.
While the Apple Watch has
touch-screen capabilities,
many of the controls were de-
signed into a digital crown
button so ngers dont block
screens.
Sensors can detect a wearers
pulse, and the device syncs
with location-sensing features
in iPhones to provide a com-
prehensive picture of activity
and help work toward tness
goals. Apps for the watch in-
clude map software that guides
the wearer to destinations with
gentle taps on the wrist.
Apple showed off programs
for checking into American
Airlines ights, unlocking
Starwood hotel room doors,
and even controlling home
lighting or temperature.
Forrester analyst Frank Gil-
lett believed Apple appeared
poised to revitalise wearable
computing but that it could
take longer to catch on than
the iPhone or the iPad.
Because so many others
have hit this so hard, it is not
going to be the runaway like
the iPhone or the iPad, Gillett
said. AFP
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yesterday with the shock an-
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dent of 23 years, Luca Cordero di
Montezemolo, had been pushed out
after a boardroom split.
Just days after saying he wanted to
stay, Montezemolo who has been
dogged by six years of Formula One
racing failure announced he would
step down on October 13.
The top job at the Italian luxury
sports car company will be taken
over by the head of parent group
Fiat, Sergio Marchionne.
A press conference held
by Montezemolo and Marchio-
nne was announced for later
yesterday.
Ferrari is the biggest
and most glamorous
name in Formula One
racing, competing on the
Grand Prix circuit with
huge success since it started in 1950,
and the teams logo of a black stallion
against a red background is
instantly recognised by mo-
torsport fans around the world.
But the brands poor perfor-
mance over the past six years, com-
bined with recent clashes in strat-
egy between Montezemolo and Fiat,
had led racing watchers to tip his
likely exit.
The decision not to appoint Mon-
tezemolo to the new board of the
merged Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
also suggested the Italian business-
man was on the way out.
Our desire to see Ferrari express
its full potential on the track led to
certain mutual misunderstandings
that were voiced publicly this week-
end, Marchionne said in a state-
ment yesterday.
I want to personally thank Luca
for everything he has done for Fiat,
for Ferrari and for myself, he said.
Ferrari is a subsidiary of the Fiat
Group, which Montezemolo, aged
67, chaired from 2004 until 2010.
His 23 years at the wheel of Fer-
rari saw the teams drivers win the
Formula One title six times, but the
last title came in 2007 and the team
has struggled since then to compete
on the track with the likes of Red
Bull and Mercedes.
On Saturday, Montezemo-
lo publicly stated that he
wanted to spend another
three years in the job.
Marchionne was
also quoted at the
weekend saying no
changes in Ferraris
management were
planned while adding,
No-one is indispensable.
Montezemolos business
record is very good but in the
case of Ferrari, a leader must also
be judged on sporting results,
he said.
Concerns over Ferraris future un-
der the Italian aristocrat were also
raised in June after he said he may
pull his team out of Formula One
because it isnt working, and sug-
gested the rm may switch to sports-
car competition.
Scuderia Ferrari has long-standing
disputes with Formula One govern-
ing body the Federation Interna-
tional dAutomobile (FIA), and Mon-
tezemolo expressed frustration with
recent changes in F1 rules, saying
new environmentally friendly poli-
cies were taking the excitement out
of the sport.
His suggestion that the most iconic
brand in motorsport could leave For-
mula One sent shockwaves through
the sport.
He was also reported to have
clashed with Marchionne over sales
strategies.
While Montezemolo reportedly
hoped to keep the red-and-black
brand exclusive by limiting sales to
some 7,000 cars a year, Marchionne
has been pushing for Ferrari to help
Fiat Chrysler move into the premium
end of the car market.
On Monday, Montezemolo was
quoted by Italys best-selling daily
Il Corriere della Sera as telling aides
that Ferrari is now American, which
meant the end of an era.
At midday trading, Fiat shares were
up 2.08 percent to 7.85 on the Milan
stock market.
Fiat said Montezemolo would leave
the job at his own request at the end
of celebrations marking the 60th an-
niversary of the companys presence
in the United States.
An era is ending, and I have de-
cided to leave the presidency after 23
marvelous and unforgettable years,
Montezemolo said in a separate
statement. AFP
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Pushed out after 23 years
Sergio Marchionne (left), CEO of car giant Fiat, and Ferrari president Luca di Mon-
tezemolo at the Ferrari booth of the Geneva International Motor Show in March. AFP
World
Anger rises
in Kashmir
over ood
help delay
ANGER mounted yesterday
over the slow pace of rescue
operations in Indian Kashmir
as officials said they were over-
whelmed by the scale of
deadly flooding that has left
hundreds of thousands strand-
ed in the Himalayan region and
neighbouring Pakistan.
The floods and landslides
from days of heavy rains have
claimed more than 450 lives in
both countries as emergency
workers scrambled to rescue
residents left marooned on
rooftops and clinging to trees.
With many parts of Indian
Kashmirs main city Srinagar
still cut off days after the floods
hit, residents and rescuers alike
criticised the state govern-
ments response, with one
military officer saying officials
were nowhere to be seen.
It emerged yesterday that one
rescue officer had been wound-
ed in an attack by furious resi-
dents earlier in the week as
anger boiled over.
While thousands of soldiers
and other emergency workers
stepped up operations in Indias
Kashmir Valley as waters start-
ed to recede, National Disaster
Response Force director gen-
eral OP Singh said he could
understand peoples anger.
More than 200 people have
died in the regions worst floods
in more than half a century. In
neighbouring Pakistan, anoth-
er 256 people have been killed,
with Punjab the worst-hit area
and floods threatening to inun-
date more areas downriver.
Nearly 600,000 people have
been affected there and crops
destroyed, an official said.
In the city of Lahore, the
death toll from a mosque col-
lapse rose to 24, while a provin-
cial minister said the heavy
monsoon rains may have been
a contributing factor. AFP
Poroshenko pledges autonomy
for the separatist east of Ukraine
Dmitry Zaks and Galina Korba

P
RESIDENT Petro Poroshenko
pledged yesterday to give
separatist regions in eastern
Ukraine more autonomy but
said he would not allow the country to
be ripped apart.
The pro-Western leader also an-
nounced that Russia had withdrawn
most of the troops it allegedly sent
across the border to back pro-Kremlin
rebels, a move that could further ease
tensions after the signing of a cease-
re deal last week.
His declaration came just as Euro-
pean Union envoys were gathering
in Brussels to discuss a new wave of
sanctions against Moscow over its
role in the conict in the former So-
viet state.
Poroshenko said the ceasere the
rst backed by both Kiev and Moscow
since pro-Russian rebels launched an
uprising against Kievs rule in April
had dramatically improved the securi-
ty situation in the war-ravaged region.
According to the latest information
I received from our intelligence head-
quarters, 70 per cent of Russias forces
have been removed, the presidency
website quoted Poroshenko as telling
his most powerful ministers.
Poroshenko said he intended to
submit a bill to parliament next week
granting parts of the east temporary
self-rule but that it did not mean
they were slipping out from under
Kievs control.
Ukraine will not make any conces-
sions on issues of its territorial integ-
rity, he said.
There is and can be no talk of fed-
eralisation or some estrangement [by
the rebel-held regions].
Russian President Vladimir Putin
had long sought to turn Ukraine into
a loose federation in which the east-
ern industrial rustbelt had the right to
establish its own trade and diplomatic
relations with Moscow.
And one rebel leader immediately
vowed to seek outright independence
in what promises to be arduous peace
talks aimed at putting a permanent
end to the ve-month conict that
has killed more than 2,700 people and
frayed East-West ties.
We are not considering remaining
part of Ukraine, Donetsk deputy
prime minister Andrei Purgin said.
Poroshenkos announcement of
a partial Russian troop withdrawal
could affect the discussions of EU
diplomats due to decide on Wednes-
day when to impose new economic
sanctions against the Kremlin.
NATO had said last month that Rus-
sia had funnelled in at least 1,000 elite
troops and heavy weaponry to sup-
port pro-Kremlin rebels ghting in
eastern Ukraine, dramatically raising
the stakes in the conict.
Before the ceasere was announced,
Ukraine was losing the lives of dozens
of its heroes on a daily basis, he told
the cabinet. The situation has radi-
cally changed at the front.
The US State Department said on
Tuesday that it agreed that the truce
was mostly holding.
However, one rebel ghter at a
checkpoint outside the airport in Do-
netsk, the main rebel stronghold in
the east, scoffed at the suggestions.
Heres your ceasere, said Dmitry,
pointing to part of a rocket. These
little gifts arrived after the truce.
Some EU members wary of fur-
ther economic reprisals that include
a threat to cut off European airlines
from crossing Russian airspace have
insisted that the punitive steps be im-
posed only on the condition that they
may be cancelled quickly if the truce
deal holds.
The measures have been ratcheted
up in both Brussels and Washington
since the July downing of a Malaysian
jet liner over rebel-held territory that
claimed 298 lives and raised new con-
cerns about Russias alleged military
support for the revolt.
A preliminary report released by
Dutch investigators on Tuesday
showed that the Boeing 777 was hit by
numerous high-energy objects.
Although the report did not appor-
tion blame, it appears to back claims
that MH17 was hit by a missile. Kiev
and the United States charged that it
was blown out of the sky by a Russian-
supplied ground-to-air missile.
But Russian Defence Minister
Sergei Shoigu said Ukraine bears
full responsibility for the MH17
crash. AFP
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrives for a press conference in Mariupol on Monday. Poroshenko said yesterday that he
intends to submit a bill to parliament next week granting parts of the east temporary self-rule. AFP
Canada locates British explorer ship lost in 1846
CANADA has located the
remains of one of two British
explorer ships lost in the Arctic
in 1846, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper announced
yesterday, hailing the find as
historic. The search for the ill-
fated HMS Erebus and HMS
Terror, headed by British
explorer Sir John Franklin,
involved six major expeditions
since 2008 that scoured the
seabed in the far-flung and
frigid region.
Finally, on Sunday, a remotely
operated underwater vehicle
confirmed the discovery,
Harper said in a statement.
This is truly a historic moment
for Canada, Harper said.
Franklins ships are an
important part of Canadian
history given that his expedi-
tions, which took place nearly
200 years ago, laid the foun-
dations of Canadas Arctic
sovereignty.
While enough information
exists to confirm the authen-
ticity of the find, it remains
unclear which of the doomed
ships was actually detected.
Harper saying one of Can-
adas greatest mysteries has
been solved was optimistic
that the second ship will now
also be uncovered.
Finding the first vessel will
no doubt provide the momen-
tum or wind in our sails
necessary to locate its sister
ship and find out even more
about what happened to the
Franklin Expeditions crew.
At the time, the HMS Erebus
and HMS Terror were the jew-
els of the British Navy.
Under the command of
Franklin and Captain Francis
Crozier, the two vessels, with
a combined crew of 134, left
the shores of England on May
19, 1845, to discover the
Northwest Passage that links
the Atlantic and Pacif ic
Oceans.
The last Europeans to have
contact with the ships were
crew members of two whaling
boats that passed them in Baf-
fin Bay in August 1845.
But as the explorers pushed
into the Arctic archipelago,
they soon ran into problems.
And no one, aside from the
occasional indigenous Inuit,
ever saw them again alive.
The circumstances sur-
rounding the fate of the
Franklin Expedition didnt
become clearer until 1859,
when a vessel chartered by
Franklins widow, Lady Jane
Frankl i n, came across a
somber message on King
William Island.
It turns out the sailors
became trapped in ice for a
year and half, and eventually
ran out of supplies.
The message revealed that
Franklin and 23 crew members
died on June 11, 1847, in
unspecified circumstances.
On April 22, 1848, 105 survi-
vors left the ships in an attempt
to reach solid ground on foot,
but none of them survived.
In the 1980s, Canadian
researchers said the remains
of expedition members found
on Beechey Island indicated
they had died of cold, hunger
and lead poisoning from
canned food. Bones discov-
ered also showed signs of
cannibalism.
The two vessels were ulti-
mately engulfed by ice.
The wreck was found in
Victoria Strait off King Wil-
liam Island, not far from the
Inuit village of Cambridge
Bay. AFP
Sir John Franklin and his crew were captured in this 1847 painting by
W Turner Smith called The End In Sight. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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13
Obama steeled for long IS campaign

military action against Islamic
State forces and new support
for the opposition in Syria and
the new inclusive govern-
ment in Iraq, the ofcial said.
The President will discuss
how we are building a coali-
tion of allies and partners in
the region and in the broader
international community to
support our efforts, and will
talk about how we work with
the Congress as a partner in
these efforts.
The New York Times report-
ed, without giving further de-
tails, that Obama was ready to
authorise air strikes against IS
strongholds in Syria a step
he has so far been unwilling
to take.
Mindful of avoiding what he
believes are the mistakes of
the past decade, Obama will
assure millions of television
viewers at 9pm (0100 GMT to-
day) that he will not send con-
ventional ground troops back
to Iraq to ght a group that has
beheaded two US journalists.
The speech will also lack
a denitive timeline for US
operations against IS, after
several reports cited senior
ofcials as saying they could
outlast Obamas presidency,
which ends in January 2017.
I think the American peo-
ple need to expect that this is
something that will require a
sustained commitment, said
White House spokesman Josh
Earnest.
The address will come at a
poignant time on the eve of
the 13th anniversary of the
September 11 attacks, when
Islamic radicalism on a mass
scale scorched the US home-
land for the rst time, and
drew America into exhausting
overseas wars and a still un-
ending anti-terror campaign.
Earnest said Obama would
talk about the risks that the
United States faces, and hell
talk about the strategy that he
has put together to confront
those risks, to mitigate them,
and ultimately to degrade and
destroy ISIL, he said, using an
alternative acronym for IS.
White House aides say the
new strategy will be anchored
on the cautious hope that
Iraqs new unity government
will prove more inclusive than
that of ex-prime minister Nuri
al-Maliki, who was blamed
for fanning the sectarianism
that eased Islamic States rise.
The president briefed senior
congressional leaders on his
plan on Tuesday, and an aide
to House Speaker John Boeh-
ner stirred speculation that he
could order US troops back
to Iraq on a mission strictly
limited to training their Iraqi
counterparts and to call in air
strikes against IS forces.
The speaker stated he
would support the president if
he chose to deploy the military
to help train and play an advi-
sory role for the Iraqi security
forces and assist with the le-
thal targeting of ISIL leader-
ship, the aide said.
Obama, who sees ending
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
as a centrepiece of his legacy,
is also under pressure to an-
nounce stepped-up support
for moderate rebels of the
Free Syrian Army, despite his
antipathy to intervening in
Syrias vicious civil war.
Washington wants to en-
sure that President Bashar
al-Assad, who it regards as a
war criminal, does not benet
from any power vacuum left in
the event that US military ac-
tion degrades IS.
A White House ofcial said
Obama told congressional
leaders on Tuesday that he
did not need fresh permis-
sion for military action he is
planning to take against IS, a
question that has divided se-
nior lawmakers.
A senior US ofcial, however,
said Obama told the bipartisan
leadership of the House and
the Senate that he did need
lawmakers to vote on intensify-
ing US training and equipping
of moderate Syrian rebels.
Obama previously asked
$500 million of funding in May
and June, and wants action on
the request before Congress
leaves town within weeks,
ahead of midterm elections in
November.
The speech will represent a
chance for Obama to redress
criticism that he has been
slow to respond to IS, amid
fears ghters armed with
Western passports could hit
US targets.
Public opinion in the US
meanwhile appears to be
shifting in favour of a limited
intervention in Syria. A Wall
Street Journal/NBC News poll
published on Tuesday found
two-thirds of those asked fa-
voured taking on IS. AFP
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga ghters re at Islamic State militant positions
from their position on the top of Mount Zardak on Tuesday. AFP
100 km
Iraq air strikes
Mosul
Dam
Amerli
Arbil
IRAN
TURKEY
SYRIA Kirkuk
Mosul
Autonomous
Kurdish region
Haditha
Tikrit
US warplanes bombed
Islamic State (IS) jihadists who
were trying to gain control of
a dam, Washington said Sunday
BAGHDAD BAGHDAD
Air strikes since August 8
FIJI yesterday retracted a claim
that 45 UN peacekeepers being
held hostage in the Golan
Heights by Syrian Al-Nusra
Front rebels were about to be
released, blaming a commu-
nications mix-up.
I dont think so . . . someone
has misinterpreted, govern-
ment spokesman Dan Gavidi
said when asked if posts on
official social media feeds yes-
terday trumpeting the impend-
ing release were correct.
The government later deleted
the posts and released a state-
ment saying negotiations with
the rebels were continuing.
The peacekeepers, all Fijian
nationals, were taken hostage
two weeks ago when the Al-
Qaeda-linked al-Nusra fight-
ers stormed a Golan Heights
crossing.
The UN sent a specialist
negotiating team from New
York to hold talks with the
rebels, who moved the Fijians
to an undisclosed location
after capturing them.
When quizzed about Suvas
claims of a breakthrough, UN
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
said he had nothing new to
report on the Fijians.
Another UN official, who
asked not to be named, said:
We have nothing to report. It
is a delicate situation and
nobody was released.
The Fiji government state-
ment said efforts to secure the
peacekeepers release were
ongoing and talks on the issue
had been progressive.
We are confident that . . .
this process will secure the
safe release of the 45 peace-
keeping troops, it said.
The Fijian military last week
revealed the rebels were
demanding the removal of the
al-Nusra Front from a UN ter-
ror blacklist and humanitarian
aid for a town just outside
Damascus that is an Al-Nusra
stronghold.
Unconfirmed reports in Fijis
media said the hostage takers
also wanted the release of Abu
Mussab al-Suri, also known as
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, an
al-Qaeda leader who was
arrested in Pakistan in 2005
and is now being held by Syr-
ian authorities. AFP
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14
Thai junta launches raids
in addicts crack down
THAI authorities launched anti-
drug raids across Bangkok on
Tuesday sending scores of
addicts to rehabilitation
centres after conducting door-
to-door urine tests, police said,
in the latest junta crackdown on
law and order. The pre-dawn
operation by police and army
officers saw the arrest of 22
small-time dealers while 83
suspected drug users were
dispatched for treatment,
deputy Bangkok police chief
Ittipon Piriyapinyo said. The
operation was a test mission
for a longer campaign of anti-
drug raids, initiated by
authorities including the junta,
aimed at sending 900 drug
users to rehab, he said. Since
the Thai army seized power it
has emphasised the importance
of restoring morality to
Thailand. AFP
Palestinian shot dead by

Israel army in West Bank
A PALESTINIAN was shot dead
early Wednesday in clashes that
broke out when Israeli troops
entered a West Bank refugee
camp near Ramallah, sources
on both sides said. Palestinian
medics and security sources
named him as Taysir Qatari, 22,
and said he had been hit in the
chest by gunfire during stone-
throwing clashes after soldiers
entered Al-Amari camp on an
arrest mission. AFP
UKs PM makes
appeal to Scots
B
RITISH Prime Min-
ister David Cameron
made a last-minute
appeal to Scottish
voters yesterday to reject in-
dependence in a referendum
next week as polls showed the
campaign on a knife edge.
Writing in the Daily Mail
newspaper ahead of a sur-
prise trip to Scotland by rival
Westminster party leaders in a
push to preserve the 300-year-
old union, Cameron warned
against independence as a
leap into the dark.
The United Kingdom is a
precious and special country.
That is what is at stake. So let
no one in Scotland be in any
doubt: we desperately want
you to stay; we do not want this
family of nations to be ripped
apart, Cameron wrote.
If the UK breaks apart, it
breaks apart forever. So the
choice for you is clear: a leap
into the dark with a Yes vote,
or a brighter future for Scot-
land by voting No. You can
have the best of both worlds
in the UK.
Cameron said that by voting
No, Scots would be choos-
ing staying in the union but
with greater devolved powers
for the Holyrood parliament
over borrowing, taxation and
spending.
The Conservative Party
leader said he supported a
timetable for the transfer of
powers outlined by the three
main unionist parties in re-
sponse to a surge in support
for independence.
Camerons Conservative
party is not popular in Scot-
land, with only one member
of parliament out of 59, and
the prime minister kept a low
prole in the campaign until
a shock poll showed the pro-
independence side ahead for
the rst time.
Reports in British media
have said the prime minis-
ter might be forced to resign
by rebels in his party if he
fails to stop Scotland leaving
the union.
Latest polls showed a col-
lapse in support for the union
from a month earlier and put
the Yes and No sides neck
and neck, causing the pound
to tumble to a 10-month low
and shares in Scotland-linked
companies to fall. AFP
Not a marriage of love. See p15
Fiji retracts claim on
UN hostages release
International School of Phnom Penh
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Head Grounds man/Grounds Staff
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Experience of managing, cultivating and
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Knowledge of English is essential and
Khmer would be advantageous.
Grounds Staff/ Gardeners
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Experience of managing, cultivating and
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Electrical/Mechanical Technicians
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kilometres away and several buildings of the factory were on re, the spokesman said. Quoting a local
police source, Bild newspaper reported that an employee of the factory has been reported missing while
one person injured in the blast was being evacuated. The houses nearby are certain to have been seri-
ously damaged, Marcus Neumann, a police spokesman told Bild. The newspaper also said a building had
collapsed. Inhabitants in the immediate surrounding have been told to close their doors and windows, Radio
Bremen said, as witnesses reported thick fumes billowing at the site. The explosion struck in Ritterhude,
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An UNDOF car enters the UN headquarters in the demilitarised zone in
the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Friday. AFP
15
World
British Union: Not a marriage of love
T
HE love-hate rela-
tionship between
England and Scot-
land has been
marked by bloodthirsty me-
dieval battles and royal mar-
riages, followed by centuries
of political and social unity.
While Scots prepare to vote
on the 300-year-old merger
with England, the history
binding their fortunes goes
back way before they even ex-
isted as recognisable nations.
Much of Scotlands story has
been dened by its relation-
ship with its bigger neighbour.
And whatever happens in
next weeks referendum, Scot-
land and England will still sit
wedged together on the same
island, and Scotlands fortunes
will still be directly affected by
its cross-border ties.
The Romans began con-
structing a border in the year
122. Hadrians Wall, which
still exists in part, marked the
empires northern frontier
and was a defence against the
Caledonian tribes beyond.
Faced with Norse domina-
tion, the Picts and Scoti were
united under Kenneth Mac-
Alpin, considered the rst king
of Scots, who died in 858.
But when the succession of
his dynasty fell into question
and Englands king Edward
I was invited to arbitrate, he
claimed suzerainty, invaded
in 1296 and earned himself
the nickname Hammer of
the Scots.
The Wars of Scottish Inde-
pendence lasted until 1357,
though king Robert the Bruce
had effectively established
independence by defeating
the English forces at Ban-
nockburn in 1314. The battles
against the English helped
dene Scotlands sense of
nationhood, and revelry in
getting one over the Auld En-
emy continues to this day.
The 1502 Treaty of Perpetu-
al Peace, signed by Scotlands
king James IV and Englands
king Henry VII, sought to put
an end to the intermittent
Anglo-Scottish wars, and in-
cluded a marriage between
James and Henrys daughter
Margaret.
That set the stage for the
Union of the Crowns a cen-
tury later in 1603, when their
great-grandson, king James
VI, inherited the English
throne from queen Elizabeth.
The two countries remained
separate states for more than
a century until a languishing
Scotland was crippled by a di-
sastrous 1698 attempt to es-
tablish a colony of its own in
Panama, which nearly ruined
the nations investors.
Unilateral tit-for-tat English
and Scottish moves over suc-
cession to the throne led to
a deal to form a united king-
dom called Great Britain.
Chris Whatley, professor of
Scottish history at the Univer-
sity of Dundee, said the topic
of political union in the early
1700s produced a similarly
intense debate as today.
Scotland now is a divided
nation. Scotland then was a
deeply divided nation over
our relationship with Eng-
land, he said.
There was a profound
concern, certainly among
leading Scots, that Scotland
was lagging behind the rest
of Europe. The Scots didnt
have the navy that would
be needed to support their
merchant ships on the high
seas, said Whatley.
They didnt have a colonial
empire. England did and so
the Scots very much wanted
to be part of Englands great,
growing commercial empire.
I think there were good
reasons for the union in 1707.
It wasnt popular, but it was
about Scotlands best inter-
ests in a very difcult set of
circumstances.
Though prosperity did not
immediately follow the union,
many of Scotlands greatest
achievements have come un-
der the British ag.
Besides Scots prominent
roles in expanding and ad-
ministering the British em-
pire, Scottish ingenuity led
to the telephone, television,
penicillin, radar, steam en-
gines, macadamised roads,
pneumatic tyres, adhesive
postage stamps, steam ham-
mers, ATMs and Adam Smiths
modern economics.
However, the popular view
of the union remained that it
was an illegitimate act, that
the Scots were taken into it
by these venal politicians,
said Whatley.
Scotland bought and sold
for English gold, as de facto
national poet Robert Burns
put in his 1791 poem Such a
Parcel of Rogues in a Nation.
Tom Devine, a leading au-
thority on Scottish history,
believes that with the British
empire over, Protestantism
waning and home rule re-
vived through devolution, the
need for Anglo-Scottish unity
has run its course.
The union of England and
Scotland was not a marriage
based on love. It was a mar-
riage of convenience. It was
pragmatic, he said.
F r o m
t h e
1 7 5 0 s
to the
1 9 8 0 s
t h e r e
was sta-
bility in
the rela-
tionship.
Now
all the
prima-
ry foun-
dat i ons
of that sta-
bility have
gone or
h a v e
b e e n
massively
di l ut ed.
AFP
British Union, EU, Scottish and English ags y in Edinburgh ahead of
Scotlands independence referendum next week. AFP
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B
EFORE the government
launches fresh investigations
into the actions of garment
factory union leaders, it must
address the shortcomings I observed
in the last round of trials.
The clear violations of a right to a
fair trial that took place during those
proceedings left me troubled about
the treatment of the accused and the
state of the rule of law in Cambodia
a feeling that has since been aggravat-
ed by the recent passage of three
judicial reform laws that infringe on
the independence of the judiciary, in
contravention of international stand-
ards and Cambodias constitution.
At first glance, Phnom Penh Munic-
ipal Court looked like a regular court-
house: A judge sat elevated on a
wooden bench. The lawyers wore the
appropriate robes and everyone was
required to stand when the judge
entered the room. By the end of the
day, though, it was clear that the
process was a pretense and that the
accuseds convictions were a fore-
gone conclusion.
I was in Cambodia in May on behalf
of the International Commission of
Jurists to observe a day of the trials
which I had already been following
of 24 men and one boy arrested
between November 2013 and January
2014 in connection with labour
strikes and garment worker protests
in Phnom Penh, seeking a higher
minimum wage.
The governments response was
uncompromising. Gendarmes used
ammunition and tear gas against the
protesters, killing four and injuring
nearly 40 more. The four men who
were killed were all factory workers
aged between 24 and 26. Three of them
were married with young families.
On May 30, after several hearing
days, all 25 were convicted in three
separate trials of various crimes,
including intentional acts of violence
with aggravating circumstances and
intentional damage with aggravating
circumstances. All were sentenced to
suspended terms of imprisonment.
For the 22 who were still in deten-
tion, the suspended sentences result-
ed in their freedom from custody, to
last so long as they do not commit
another felony or misdemeanour
within five years. Four activists and
human rights defenders affiliated
with NGOs and labour rights move-
ments received the longest sentences
and were fined approximately $2,000
each a significant sum of money
when you consider that the protesters
had been seeking an increase to their
$80 monthly minimum wage.
In Courtroom 3, where one of the
three trials was taking place, two
youths were in the dock. The first, a
boy of 14, had been certified by a doc-
tor to be intellectually disabled, but
the prosecutor still argued that he
was fit to stand trial. His very pres-
ence in the courtroom, being tried as
an adult, was a violation of interna-
tional law, which requires that every
person under the age of 18 years who
is accused of a crime be treated in
accordance with the rules of juvenile
justice, which emphasises treatment
and procedures that not only respect
the rights of children but also take
into account their age and promotes
their reintegration into society.
The other youth, a 19-year-old, was
dressed in an orange boilersuit that
said guilty person in Khmer on the
back, notwithstanding that his
responsibility for any crime had yet to
be determined.
Of course, this violated his funda-
mental right to be presumed inno-
cent until proven guilty, one of the
minimum requirements for a fair trial
set out in the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, which
Cambodia is bound to respect.
The older youths lawyers asked to
play a video of the protest that they
argued would show that the authori-
ties had arrested the wrong person.
The judge refused, saying that the
prosecutor had already played a video
and that showing another might
cause a disturbance in the court.
This uneven treatment of the
defence and the prosecution, particu-
larly with respect to evidence that the
lawyers claimed to be proof of the
accuseds innocence, violated the
principle of the equality of arms
between parties to a case. This princi-
ple takes into account the power and
resources of the state against an
accused individual and requires that
the law and courts ensure the defence
can prepare and present its case on
equal footing with the prosecution.
The scene in Courtroom 2 was
worse. On trial were 13 men who had
been arrested in Veng Sreng during
the protests of early January. All of the
accused were wearing the orange
boilersuits that labelled them guilty.
There was a pattern to the ques-
tioning. The judge would begin by
asking each accused: If you didnt
do anything, why did the police
arrest you? To which the prosecutor
would rejoin: Do you have any evi-
dence to prove you didnt join the
protests? These questions turned
the right to the presumption of inno-
cence on its head.
By the end of the day (and by the
end of the trial), no eyewitnesses had
been called to say they saw the
accused committing any crimes, and
no video evidence had been played
showing them participating in the
protests. The victims seeking mone-
tary compensation from the accused,
all members of the authorities who
had responded to the protests, could
not say who had thrown whatever
object had allegedly struck them.
In some cases, the only evidence
presented against the men were state-
ments they had allegedly made to the
authorities. In every case, the men
claimed to have been beaten by the
military or gendarmes before their
interrogation. The use of statements
elicited as a result of torture or other
ill-treatment violates international
law, and the fact that the court
accepted these statements as evi-
dence, without inquiry about their
voluntariness, was another serious
violation of the accuseds rights.
Later, as observers of the different
courtrooms compared notes, it was
clear that the trial in Courtroom 1 was
no fairer, and may have been even
worse, as the judge showed open hos-
tility towards the accused.
Many welcomed the suspended
sentences handed down to the
accused because they resulted in
their release from custody. But the
fact that they were convicted in unfair
proceedings on the basis of evidence
that appeared to be either insufficient
or obtained as a result of ill-treatment
is inexcusable.
A conviction in the absence of suffi-
cient evidence, following a process
that fails to respect fair trial rights, is a
miscarriage of justice and an anathe-
ma to the rule of law.
Comment
Kingsley Abbott
Scenes from a kangaroo court
Kingsley Abbott is an international legal
advisor on Southeast Asia for the Inter-
national Commission of Jurists. Prior to
joining the commission, he was a senior
legal ofcer with the United Nations at the
Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.
Defendant Chan Puthisak is put in a transport truck by authorities at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in May. Puthisak was arrested during
garment protests that turned violent in January. PHA LINA
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Lifestyle
How to turn your bedroom or ofce into a menagerie
CUTE animal-themed decora-
tions are starting to take over
living rooms and office desks
in Japan, bringing joy to any-
one who looks at them. Most of
the ornaments by Nagoya-
based Decole Co are tiny and
made of plastic, and give off
different vibes than that of
stuffed animals.
A vibrant selection of animals
including cats, bear cubs and
parakeets are featured, but what
truly makes them unique is
their posture. Some strike a
taiiku-suwari pose, meaning
hunkering down, or sit having
coffee or are shown exercising.
Small enough to sit in your
palm, they come with a reason-
able price tag from 300
(about $2.85) per animal,
excluding tax.
As they dont take much
space when decorating a room,
they sell particularly well
among women living alone,
said Yuto Komori, in charge of
Decole marketing in eastern
Japan. Theyre popular not
only because theyre cute but
because of their somewhat
satirical nature.
The animal characters have
become widely used as decora-
tions at beauty shops, restau-
rants and flower shops, in addi-
tion to private use, he said.
Komori introduced a set of
animal-shaped goods and oth-
er small items as part of a pic-
nic in the forest theme. He
created a scene where the ani-
mals were enjoying a picnic
using a real stump and a pine
cone, with some of them loung-
ing near a basket.
There are many other fun
animal-themed goods for you
to consider.
For instance, silicon rubber
bands known as Animal Rubber
Bands are a hit with both kids
and adults. Featuring a colour-
ful mix of animals
including ele-
phants, kangaroos
and pigs, the rubber
bands can be used
to fasten snack
bags and such.
Resistant to
hot and
c o l d
temperatures, they retain their
original shape even when
stretched out. In July, the com-
pany launched a type thicker
than the original model. Able
to stand on its own, the new
rubber bands are priced at 700
yen for a set of six, excluding
tax. You can arrange your
favourite animal-shaped bands
and play with them like toys.
Animal-shaped wall stickers
produced by Toyo Case Co are
just as popular. Made of cloth,
the adhesive animal-shaped
sheets can be stuck onto vari-
ous places around the home,
including around electric sock-
ets and even in the restroom.
The company also produces
Kabasuta, an amusing smart-
phone stand shaped after a gap-
ing hippopotamus mouth that
comes in five colours, priced at
1,400, excluding tax.
Decole will soon start selling
Tenori Fusen (paper loops that
slip on the fingers) featuring
designs of small birds and squir-
rels priced at 380. Notes can be
written on the paper and then
wrapped around fingers. They
are also a handy bookmark.
These items may not be
daily essentials, but theyre
great to play with and give us
some comfort, Komori said.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Guinnesss record book
still going strong at 60
F
ROM super-long tongues to
leaping cats, a host of weird
and wacky landmarks have
made the cut for 60th anni-
versary edition of the Guinness World
Records book out today.
The new edition will reect on six
decades of record-breaking, while also
featuring the latest additions to the
oddball hall of fame.
They include Californian Nick Stoe-
berl, possessor of the worlds longest
tongue at 10.1 centimetres.
British lm buff Nick Bennett earned
a place in the compendium for having
the largest collection of James Bond
memorabilia, with 12,463 items from
model cars to posters contained in a
shine in his house.
In Japan, Akiko Obata has the largest
collection of plastic food, with more
than 8,000 items, including giant plas-
tic burgers, doughnuts and dishes of
everything from soup to desserts ll-
ing her apartment.
Meanwhile, Alley of the US takes the
longest jump by a cat record, at an im-
pressive 1.83 metres. The white, black
and ginger cat leapt the distance be-
tween two small platforms.
Brewer Guinness launched its fa-
mous records book in 1955 to settle
disputes among drinkers. Since then,
more than 132 million copies of their
annual compendium have been sold
in 20 languages in more
than 100 countries. All the
record attempts are as-
sessed by adjudicators from
the organisation.
New inclusions this year
include Inke Siefker of San
Francisco, who has the new
record for furthest arrow
shot on target with the use
of feet done by operating
a bow with her legs while
standing on her hands.
Meanwhile Karsten
Maas in Germany has in-
vented the worlds longest usable
golf club at 4.39 metres.
And Londoner Yannick Read who
created the smallest known caravan
measuring under 2.4 metres in length.
Other records include the most
oceans rowed, awarded to Simon
Chalk, and heaviest weight lifted with
beard, taken by Antanas Kontrimas
who picked up a woman attached by
a harness to his grey beard.
Aside from the new records, the
2015 book looks back at records from
the last 60 years including British
runner Roger Bannisters sub-4-min-
ute mile, the landspeed record and
Michael Jacksons music industry
landmarks.
This is an important land-
mark edition for Guinness
World Records, giving us the
opportunity to look back at
how records have changed
over these six extraordinary
decades, said editor Craig
Glenday. Of course, weve still
had to process around 50,000
claims in this past year alone,
giving us plenty of new and
updated records to choose
from . . . and making it a really
difcult task to decide what
makes the nal cut. AFP
Akiko Obata has secured her place in the 2015 Guinness Book of Records for having
the largest collection of plastic food, with more than 8,000 items lling her apartment.
Below: Alley of the US made the book for the longest jump by a cat, at 1.83 metres. AFP
A set of animal-shaped characters, titled Picnic in the forest. Cute
animal-themed decorations are starting to take over living rooms and
ofce desks in Japan. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Tenori
Fusen,
paper loops
that feature
designs of
small birds
and squir-
rels; notes
can be written
on the paper and then
wrapped around
ngers. THE YOMIURI
SHIMBUN
Replica 18th-century
frigate sets sail on her
maiden France voyage
A LIFE-SIZE replica of the Hermione,
the French navy frigate that shipped
General Lafayette to America to rally
rebels ghting British troops in the
US War of Independence, undertook
its maiden voyage on Sunday, or-
ganisers said.
Thousands of spectators who lined
the port in Rochefort on Saturday
hoping to see the reproduced ves-
sel cast off were disappointed when
a buildup of sediment in its launch
bay delayed departure.
She sailed up the Charente River to
Rocheforts commercial port. From
there, the frigate will head to the At-
lantic Ocean island of Aix for several
weeks of sea trials.
The vessel will make a public stop
in Bordeaux in October before re-
turning to its home port a month
later for nal preparations.
The 65-metre ship is due to set sail
for the United States in April 2015,
following the route from Rochefort
to Boston made by French General
Gilbert du Motier the Marquis de
Lafayette in 1780 to bolster Ameri-
can revolutionaries in their ght
against British troops.
Sundays launch was a major mile-
stone in the journey undertaken by a
group of restoration enthusiasts who
in 1997 embarked on the arduous
task of re-creating the three-masted
vessel using only 18th-century ship-
building techniques.
It is an important step to sail
Hermione at sea, which no one has
ever done, said Benedict Donnelly,
president of the Hermione-Lafay-
ette Association.
Since its founding 17 years ago
the association has attracted artisan
craftsmen from around Europe and
comprises some 8,000 members.
There is real pride in the collec-
tive force behind this project. There
have been tense moments, but we
remained united, Donnelly said.
The project cost 25 million ($32
million), nanced by more than four
million visitors to the shipyard as
well as through crowd-funding ini-
tiatives for specic parts of the ship.
Yann Cariou, the ex-naval ofcer
who will captain the frigate for its
voyage to Boston, said the next weeks
of testing would give the 72-strong
crew a chance to get their sea legs.
Above all there will be emotion.
Its still the Hermione and nobody
has navigated a ship like this for two
centuries, Cariou said.
Lafayette took 38 days to cross the
Atlantic, a trek that conrmed his re-
nown as a military mastermind and
hero of the US revolution. AFP
The French frigate Hermione departed for Aix Island on Sunday from Rochefort,
France. The ship is due to set sail for the US in April next year. AFP
Food
18
Celebrate some of the Souths
favourite summer ingredients
Okra and corn cakes
2 cups finely ground yellow cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more as needed
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups cold water, or more as needed
8 ounces fresh okra (stems trimmed off), sliced
1/4-inch thick
1 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels
1 jalapeo pepper, stemmed, seeded and finely
chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1/4 cup mild vegetable oil, for frying
3 medium-large tomatoes, cut into thick slices
(about 1 1/2 pounds total)
8 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup toasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas; see
NOTE)
1/2 cup lightly packed cilantro leaves, chopped
NOTE: Toast the pumpkin seeds in a small, dry
skillet over medium-low heat for a few minutes,
until lightly browned and fragrant. You will hear
them make popping sounds.
Make ahead: The griddle cakes can be refriger-
ated for up to ve days; just rewarm them in a
low-heat oven or recrisp them in a hot skillet prior
to serving.
Steps: Line a plate with paper towels.
Whisk together the cornmeal, baking powder
and salt in a large bowl.
Whisk together the egg and water in a separate
bowl until well blended.
Add the egg mixture to the cornmeal mixture,
whisking until smooth, then add the okra, corn,
jalapeno and garlic, stirring to incorporate. (The
batter should be thick and wet enough to be barely
pourable; add a little water as needed.)
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a cast-iron skillet
over medium heat.
Scoop 1/4 cup of batter into the skillet and
atten the batter slightly. Repeat this step with
more batter, being careful not to crowd the skillet.
(Youll probably get only three or four cakes in
each batch.)
Cook the griddle cakes until the bottoms are
brown and bubbles form on the tops and edges,
two to three minutes.
Turn over and cook until the other side is golden
brown, two to three minutes. Transfer to the paper
towel-lined plate. Lightly season the griddle cakes
with salt. Repeat to use all of the batter, adding oil
to the pan as needed.
While the cakes are still warm, top them with
sliced tomatoes (the thicker-sliced the better,
Isay), feta, pumpkin seeds and cilantro. Serve them
right away.
Nutrition per serving (based on eight servings):
330 calories, 12g protein, 39g carbohydrates, 15g
fat, 6g saturated fat, 50mg cholesterol, 730mg
sodium, 5g dietary ber and 5g sugar
This is a celebration of some of the US Souths favourite summer
ingredients, bound in griddle-cake form. With the toppings, these
become main-course-worthy, but you can also serve them bare as
a side dish or in miniature form as cocktail nibbles.
Joe Yonan

I
KNOW what so many of you
think about okra, because I
hear it all the time. Slimy. Un-
appealing.
I wont argue the rst point, be-
cause thats a veriable fact. But I
will take issue with the second, part-
ly because I dont consider okras
texture a deal-breaker. If you do,
some cooking methods particular-
ly my go-to technique for so many
vegetables, high-heat roasting can
reduce the slime factor. (My favou-
rite ways to eliminate it entirely are
frying and pickling.)
You can also combine okra with
other things, so the slime is either ab-
sorbed or less noticeable, or you can
cook it a little less, so it stays crunchy
and fresh especially if you choose
smaller pods, which are less brous
and packed with fewer seeds.
I thought of both of those tech-
niques when I remembered a recipe
for okra cornmeal cakes in my friend
Virginia Williss book Basic to Bril-
liant, Yall. A true Southerner, Willis
makes no apologies for okra, thank-
fully, and I knew her treatment would
bring out its fresh, grassy avours.
What do you do? Make a quick
cornmeal batter into which you fold
sliced okra and fresh corn kernels,
spike it with a little jalapeno and
garlic, then pan-fry it into little or
bigger griddle cakes, depending on
the occasion (cocktail party or casu-
al lunch or supper). In keeping with
her books schtick, Willis suggests a
brilliant upgrade: to neatly layer
the cakes with goat cheese or ricotta
and thickly sliced tomato and stack
them, Napoleon style. I was inspired
by the jalapeno and thought about
a Mexican direction instead, keep-
ing the tomato slices but sprinkling
them with feta (my usual stand-in
for cotija or queso fresco), pumpkin
seeds and cilantro.
As all the best recipes do, it in-
spired me to imagine a years worth
of rotating seasonal treatments us-
ing the same concept: Black beans
and cubes of roast pumpkin could
go into the cakes this fall, asparagus
and fava beans in the spring. But in
late summer, the stars are corn and
okra, the latter without a smidgen of
slime. THE WASHINGTON POST
There are plenty of alternatives if you
cant get your hands on cornmeal.
Some work better than others.
Polenta is basically the same thing,
though cornmeal tends to be more
fnely grounded. Any grain would
work, actually. Bread crumbs, too.
Or get creative and ground up some
tortilla chips.
Dont know what it is? Cant fnd it? Well let
tasteofhome.com handle this:
Okra is a vegetable that is popular in the
southern United States, where it is often
added to soups and stews. It has greyish-
green ridged pods that contain numerous
small edible seeds. When okra is sliced, it
releases a substance that naturally thickens
any liquid it is cooked in. Although the taste
and texture of okra is unique, some folks
think its mild avour resembles that of green
beans or eggplant. Those two vegetables
may be substituted for okra in many soups
and stews. However, without okras natural
thickening properties, cornstarch or our
may also have to be added.
CilANTrO
Or coriander, depending on
where you hail from. Dont
have it? Theres nothing to
replicate its favour, but
if youre still eager for an
herb to liven your griddle
cakes up, parsley is always
an option.
COrNmEAl
OkrA
Not a fan? Substitutions for feta are really
up to your own personal taste. A few recom-
mendations are goat cheese, crumbled
blue, Gorgonzola or ricotta.
fETA ChEESE
Travel
19
No booze? No
tourists, either
Rachel OBrien

B
RITISH tourist John
Packer ew out to the
tropical beaches of
Kerala for a leisurely
six-month break, but news
of an imminent alcohol ban
across the southern Indian
state has made him rethink
his destination.
It wont cut it for me, said
the 41-year-old tiler, drinking
a beer at one of the laid-back
seafront restaurants in the re-
sort town of Kovalam. When
I come away I want a nice few
beers, to enjoy myself Ive
worked hard for it.
With its sweeping coastline,
riverboats and emerald tea
plantations, Kerala has be-
come a leading tourist draw
in India, promoting itself as
Gods Own Country.
But behind the paradisiacal
slogan, the state has a damag-
ing drinking problem among
its 34 million population,
leading the government to opt
abruptly for almost complete
prohibition alarming the
tourism industry.
As of Friday, more than 700
Keralan bars will lose their li-
cences. Only ve-star hotels
will be allowed to keep serving
booze and even they will have
go dry on Sundays.
Government-run liquor
stores, where men queue up
for their daily x, will be phased
out at a rate of 10 per cent a
year for the next decade, leav-
ing a big hole in the state cof-
fers after alcohol taxes and fees
generated more than $1 billion
in the 2012-13 nancial year.
Kerala should get ready to
imbibe the essence of [a] total
liquor ban, Chief Min-
ister Oommen Chandy
said as he announced
the plan.
Temperance
activists may be
happy but Su-
man Billa, a top
civil servant in
the tourism min-
istry, said the ban
was a major concern.
We take about a million in-
ternational tourists every year
for whom wine and beer is a
part of their diet, Billa said.
Along with holidaymakers
spending, the state has been
raking in earnings from con-
ferences and other business
events at hotels.
Theres always a cocktail
and dinner that goes along
with it. So I think it would be
particularly unattractive if we
were to say: Do come, but
sorry, we wont be able to serve
you any alcohol, Billa said.
His fears were backed up by a
survey from travel portal Holi-
dayIQ.com, based on 5,000
Indian respondents, of whom
58 per cent said the booze ban
would affect their travel plans.
Bar owners are hoping for an
11th-hour change to the poli-
cy and have taken the matter
to court, fearing tourists will
start opting for other regional
destinations like the beaches
of nearby Goa or Sri Lanka.
But, with the government
standing rm on the issue, they
are only hopeful the law might
be moderated somehow.
Weve got a lot of competi-
tion, said G Sudhiesh Kumar,
chief executive at the Hotel
Sea Face in Kovalam, which
has already started getting
cancellations from repeat Eu-
ropean customers.
There is little denial of an
alcohol problem in rum- and
brandy-loving Kerala, which
has the highest consumption
levels in India owing to its rela-
tively high living standards,
while the region also has a long
tradition of home-brewing.
The Alcohol and Drug In-
formation Centre, an NGO to
prevent substance
abuse, links 69 per
cent of crimes, 40
per cent of road ac-
cidents and one in
four hospitalisations
to alcohol.
As for Packer, he
has decided to y out
of Kerala and instead
spend his beer mon-
ey in Cuba. AFP
British tourist John Packer watches a waiter pour his beer at a
restaurant in the resort town of Kovalam, in Indias Kerala state. AFP
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Entertainment
20
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Aldermans district
5 Arms agreements
10 F-150 maker
14 Section
15 Florida food fish
16 Salmon variety
17 First-inning hurler
20 Matthew of Friends
21 Out of the sack
22 Declare
23 Brief endorsements
25 Camelot character
27 Pitch for Strike one!
33 Yale attendee
35 Poker choice
36 Supplicants supporters
37 Mon Oncle star
39 Memorable Vulcan
42 Mel Torme specialty
43 Static ___
45 Glamorous Ms. Turner
47 Glob or nod ending
48 Pitch for Strike two!
52 Water, to a Spaniard
53 Couple thousand pounds
54 Suitable
57 Brewery output
60 Fathers
64 Pitch for Strike three!
67 Use an oven
68 Repeat oneself?
69 Place in Peru
70 Took a gander at
71 Like a creepy flick
72 Dutch cheese
DOWN
1 Stinger in a nest
2 First name on Laugh-In
3 Rise up on hind legs
4 Inherit the Wind lawyer
5 Tire pressure measurement
(Abbr.)
6 Memorable Siam visitor
7 Gear teeth
8 Disc jockeys favorites
9 Nordic sport
10 Govt airwaves monitor
11 Circus cries
12 Three-toed bird of South America
13 Fishing craft
18 Wee ones
19 Kind of question
24 Movie-shoot locales
26 Presses for payment
27 Join a jazz session
28 Kind of tent
29 Revered ones
30 Happen again
31 Cutlet meat
32 Illustrious Italian family
33 Cut into glass
34 Singers simple syllables
38 Young Frankenstein heroine
40 Hubbard or Ripken
41 Fashion with needles
44 2003 Ben Affleck film
46 One way to become parents
49 Subtle distinction
50 Group of geese
51 Make possible
54 French priests title
55 Opposite of work
56 Snatch
58 Get an ___ effort
59 Wife of a rajah
61 Bookkeepers stamp
62 ___ mater
63 Put down harshly
65 Londoners last letter
66 Thats what happens when you
dont listen!
SWING AND A MISS
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Light-years from Earth and 26 years after being
abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target
of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by
Ronan the Accuser.
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IF I STAY
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a
car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-
body experience, she must decide whether to wake
up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
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INTO THE STORM
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers and everyday
townspeople document an unprecedented
onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town
of Silverton.
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LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns
the tables on her captors and transforms into a
merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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PLATINUM CINEPLEX
IF I STAY
(See above.)
11:05am, 2:45pm, 6:40pm
LUCY
(See above.)
9:20am, 1pm, 6:35pm, 8:35pm
VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic trigger
a ruthless war between rival ant colonies, obsessed
with gaining control of the same prize: a box of
sugar cubes! Amidst this struggle a young ladybug
befriends a black ant and helps him save his people
from the horrible red ants.
1:30pm, 5pm
NOW SHOWING
Wine @ Sotel
Wine tasting from Sotels cellars.
Priced at $25 per person.
Sotel, #26 Old August site Sothearos
Boulevard.
6pm
Pasta @ The Willow
All Italian pasta night with wine, salads,
desserts and pasta dishes on the menu at
the boutique hotel.
The menu changes each week but always
features two pastas (one vegetarian and
one meat), a salad and a variety of
desserts.
All dishes are $3.50.
The Willow, #1 Street 21.
6pm
Swing @ Code Red
Locals, expats, visitors, the
misunderstood waiting to be extradited
everyone is welcome to swing out on
the dance oor. Learn the Charleston,
the Lindy Hop and many more.
Code Red, opposite NagaWorld.
Intermediate 6:30pm, beginner 7:40pm,
freestyle dance 8:30pm
TV PICKS
5:20pm - THE WITCHES: A young boy stumbles onto a
witch convention and must stop them, even after he has
been turned into a mouse. HBO
6:50pm - THE PRESTIGE: The rivalry between two
magicians is exacerbated by their attempt to perform the
ultimate illusion. HBO
9pm - WARM BODIES: After a highly unusual zombie
saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form
a relationship that sets in motion events that might
transform the entire lifeless world. HBO
10:35pm - BOARDWALK EMPIRE: A reputable Atlantic
City politician strives to maintain power by equally
collaborating with both the law and gangsters. HBO
11:35pm - THE BLING RING: Inspired by actual events,
a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to
track celebrities whereabouts. HBO
Tonight is pasta night at The Willow. BLOOMBERG
Steve Buscemi stas as Enoch Nucky Thompson in
Boardwalk Empire. BLOOMBERG
Girls night @ Nova
Ladies in groups of ve receive one
free bottle of 12-year-old whisky, a
bottle of vodka or one free carafe of
cocktail.
Nova, #19 Street 214.
9pm
Sport
21

Lithuania and USA win
to set up semis repeat
LITHUANIA will face holders
the United States in a repeat of
their FIBA Basketball World
Cup semifinal four years ago
after both came safely through
their quarter-finals on Tuesday.
2010 semifinalists Lithuania
beat the beaten finalists from
four years ago Turkey 73-61 in
Tuesdays first quarterfinal in
Barcelona and the Americans
breezed through to join them
later at the same venue with a
119-76 thrashing of Slovenia.
Lithuania, who finished third at
the 2010 Worlds in Turkey,
made 10-of-19 three-pointers
and will take on the US tonight
for a place in Sundays final. AFP
Pegula strikes deal to
purchase Buffalo Bills
TERRY Pegula, a natural gas
billionaire who owns the
National Hockey Leagues
Buffalo Sabres, has struck a
deal to purchase the National
Football Leagues Buffalo Bills,
the team announced on
Tuesday. The deal, which must
still be approved by NFL
owners, is reportedly worth an
NFL-record $1.2 billion and will
keep the team in Buffalo. Bids
for the Bills were due on
Monday to representatives of
the trust of the late Ralph
Wilson, who died last March
aged 95. Wilson founded the
Bills in 1959. AFP
Players chief apologises
for Moeen Ali comments
THE head of Englands
Professional Cricketers
Association apologised after
suggesting Moeen Ali should
take it as a positive that he
was booed by large sections of
the crowd during Englands
three-run Twenty20 win over
India at Birminghams
Edgbaston ground on Sunday.
Alis father, Munir Ali, is
convinced his Birmingham-
born son was targeted
because of his Muslim faith
and Pakistani heritage, with
police treating it as a non-
crime hate related incident
after a complaint from a
spectator. But Porter, the chief
executive of Englands
Professional Cricketers
Association, initially responded
on Tuesday by saying: His dad
offered his view sincerely and I
hope it doesnt stoke the fire
because he was just standing
up for his boy. There is an
element of taking it as a
compliment. You are more
likely to boo someone when
you think they are someone to
be feared. Take it as a positive,
youd rather be booed than
ignored. AFP
Cowboys owner sued
over sexual assault
DALLAS Cowboys owner Jerry
Jones has been sued by a
former exotic dancer for an
alleged sexual assault in 2009
in a hotel bathroom, The
Dallas Morning News reported
on Tuesday. The 71-year-old
businessman, who bought the
famed National Football
League club in 1989, is being
sued for more than $1 million
in punitive damages by Jana
Weckerly, a 27-year-old
Oklahoma woman. Weckerly
accuses Jones of fondling her,
forcing her to fondle him and
watch him engage in sex with
another woman, according to
the report. AFP
THE wife of disgraced NFL
star Ray Rice defended her
embattled husband on Tues-
day, saying their lives were ru-
ined by the release of a video
showing him savagely knock-
ing her out.
Rice was red by the Bal-
timore Ravens and hit with
an indenite suspension by
the league after a new video
released on Monday showed
him punching his then-an-
cee in the face and knocking
her unconscious.
But Janay Rice said on Tues-
day in an Instagram posting
that the extreme public atten-
tion was adding to her misery.
I woke up this morning
feeling like I had a horrible
nightmare, feeling like Im
mourning the death of my
closest friend, she wrote.
But to have to accept the
fact that its reality is a night-
mare in itself.
No one knows the pain
that the media and unwanted
[opinions] from the public has
caused my family.
The Ravens were to pay Rice
$10 million over the next three
years while the league, which
had only banned from two
games based on prior evi-
dence, now requires any team
wishing to hire him to obtain
approval from NFL commis-
sioner Roger Goodell.
To take something away
from the man I love that he
has worked his ass off for all
his life just to gain ratings is
horric, Janay Rice said.
THIS IS OUR LIFE! What
dont you all get. If your inten-
tions were to hurt us, embar-
rass us, make us feel alone,
take all happiness away, youve
succeeded on so many levels.
Just know we will continue
to grow & show the world what
real love is! AFP
Wife defends disgraced
Rice after brutal video
Vatican prays for victory
PERHAPS even more than the
average side, they may be in
need of a bit of divine inter-
vention. But at least the Vati-
cans first-ever cricket team
will know they have the popes
blessing when they arrive in
England for their maiden tour
this week.
The priests and seminarians
of the St Peters cricket club
were received in a private
audience by Pope Francis in
the Vatican on Tuesday, just 10
days before they are due to
face a Church of England XI
near Canterbury cathedral.
The players posed for a pho-
tograph with the Argentinean
pontiff holding a cricket bat
between his knees. Francis is
a keen football fan, but it is not
known whether he also nur-
tures a secret appreciation for
the bat and ball.
The unprecedented Light of
Faith tour begins tomorrow
and includes several warm-up
matches including one on Sat-
urday against the British army
chaplains at Aldershot, and
another, next Wednesday,
against the Royal Household
at Windsor.
But the undisputed focal
point of the eight days will
come on September 19, when
St Peters will take on the CoE
XI for an ecumenical Twenty20
match. The captain of the
Anglican side, the Reverend
Jez Barnes, vicar of St Stephens,
Twickenham, played first-class
cricket for Oxford University
in the late 1990s.
Realistically, we are rank
underdogs with a very outside
chance, but thats okay, said the
Reverend Dr Eamonn OHiggins,
spiritual director and manager
of the Vatican club, in remarks
published on the Pontifical
Council for Culture website.
What we hope for, above all,
is a good match. On paper, the
Anglican XI has much greater
experience and match prac-
tice as individuals. That is not
surprising in England, the
home of cricket. We are a com-
petent side, nothing more.
None of the Vatican XI has
played first class cricket.
Father Tony Currer, captain
of the Vatican side, is its only
Englishman, according to a
team list. Alongside him are
seven Indians, two Sri Lankans
and one Pakistani, aged
between 24 and 41.
Win or lose, the first cricket
match in history between the
Vatican and the Church of
England will be an event to
remember and to build on,
OHiggins said.
The pontifical council for
culture stresses the tour is
heavily spiritual in its nature,
with players praying at vari-
ous holy shrines together with
our ecumenical partners and
raising funds for the Global
Freedom Network, which
fights against modern slavery
and human trafficking.
THE GUARDIAN
IRB wary of Olympic Games
loophole for sevens players
T
HE International Rugby Board
insisted on Tuesday it was
ready to prevent exploitation
of its regulations in a bid to
prevent a ood of players switching
national allegiance in order to compete
at the inaugural sevens tournament at
the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Changes to eligibility rules mean a
player can represent a country pro-
vided they have the correct passport
and have not been capped by another
team for 18 months.
An appearance in just one Olympic
qualication event could lead to a
player being selected for that nations
15-a-side team even though the IRB is
trying to reduce the number of dual
internationals.
Englands Steffon Armitage, the Eu-
ropean player of the year and a star
back-row forward with French and
European champions Toulon, is re-
portedly considering his options with
France for the 2015 World Cup due to
Englands refusal to pick anyone play-
ing club rugby union overseas.
Other cases could see Australia great
George Smith join Tonga.
But IRB chief executive Brett Gosper,
speaking in London on Tuesday, said
the global governing body was aware
of the potential pitfalls.
There is a regulations committee
that will look at all applications for
transfer and they will look to see if
its for bona de sevens reasons, ex-
plained Gosper.
There is a safety net and any transfer
will have to be passed by the commit-
tee. They will act according to the spirit
of the law, the Australian added.
For example, if we have huge props
applying for a career in sevens, then
well smell a rat.
Thats an obvious example and
there will be some cases that are in a
grey area, but we want to ensure the
integrity of the regulation and the spir-
it behind it is upheld.
Any obvious abuses that go counter
to that spirit of why were doing this
will be caught in the regulations com-
mittee net.
But players will move in both codes
by coming into the sevens game that
will happen.
Meanwhile, Gosper conrmed that
the IRB was in negotiations with the
Rugby Football Union over the stag-
ing of Premiership matches during
the knock-out phase of the 2015 World
Cup in England.
IRB regulations state that no other
top-ight rugby should take place
while the World Cup is in progress.
But with the global showpiece run-
ning from September to October,
when the domestic campaign would
normally be getting into gear, leading
English Premiership clubs are fearful
about the prospect of ve income-free
months following a delayed start to the
2015/16 season.
Premiership clubs are in talks with
Englands governing RFU over a com-
pensation package, but one possible
solution could be to all Premiership
matches to take place from when the
World Cup quarternals start on Oc-
tober 17.
Those conversations have been
taking place and were optimistic that
well come to an agreement that will be
good for everyone, Gosper said. AFP
With England refusing to pick foreign-based players, Steffon Armitage is said to be mulling playing for France at the 2015 World Cup. AFP
MMA
Mel Tan set for ONE FC debut
Dan Riley
W
HILE the stone-carved
frames of cage ght-
ers will be on display
throughout ONE FCs
groundbreaking mixed martial arts
ght card tomorrow night, the vo-
luptuous curves of Malaysian ring
girl Mel Tan will help bring some ex-
tra eye-candy to the dazzling show-
case at Koh Pich Theatre.
The 29-year-old Malacca native,
who was one of FHM Singapore mag-
azines Top 10 Models last year, said
she is honoured to work for Asias
largest MMA organisation at their in-
augural event in the Kingdom.
I'm looking forward to it as I have
never been [in Cambodia] for work,
she told the Post.
I came here once before in Decem-
ber 2012 for a travel trip. What I know
about this country is the trafc is so
incredible and I learned how to cross
the road the way the locals do here.
I'm looking forward to getting to
know more about the country, the
people and to explore the places
I've never visited yet, added the
5-foot-4 (165cm) model.
Although tomorrow nights Rise
of the Kingdom event will see Tan
make her debut as a ONE FC ring
girl duties of which involve cir-
cumnavigating the cage while hold-
ing up the numbered cards for each
round as well as presenting trium-
phant ghters with medals she is
no stranger to sport.
I played basketball when I was
young I was a state player in Ma-
laysia, she said. I do pole dancing
now and rock climbing. I run 10km
once a week to stay healthy. When I
am free, I do yoga as well.
Tan also offered encouragement to
aspiring young locals looking to pur-
sue a career in the glamour industry.
My message to young Cambo-
dian models is that achieving our
dreams is possible. Stay focused on
your dreams, work hard towards it
and believe in it. Being a model is
challenging, both physically and
mentally, but it is worth every effort
when I see the results that I have
achieved.
Malaysian model Mel Tan will make her rst appearance as a ONE FC ring girl tomorrow night at Koh Pich Theatre for the 'Rise of the Kingdom' mixed martial arts ght card. ONEFC.COM

Dutch coach Hiddink furious
after last-minute Czech loss
THE Netherlands coach Guus Hiddink
was so enraged after his teams last-
minute loss to the Czech Republic on
Tuesday he had to take time to calm
down ahead of a television interview.
The newly-appointed Hiddinks
emotional outburst followed Hollands
stoppage-time 2-1 defeat in their
opening Euro 2016 qualifying Group A
fixture. AFP
Arsenals Ramsey injured
on Wales duty in Andorra
ARSENAL midfielder Aaron Ramsey
could miss his sides showdown with
Manchester City on Saturday after
Wales manager Chris Coleman
revealed that he had twisted his ankle
on international duty. The 23-year-old
sustained the injury during the latter
stages of Waless 2-1 win away to
Andorra in their opening Euro 2016
qualifier on Tuesday, putting his
participation in Arsenals home game
with City in doubt. AFP
Football
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Thai players
offered huge
win bonus
THAILANDS footballers will share a
US$1.7 million bonus if they take gold
in the upcoming Asian Games in South
Korea, the head of the kingdoms foot-
ball association said on Tuesday.
The generous cash incentive has
been offered for the mens team by a
Thai sports magazine publisher who
is a big football fan, according to
Worawi Makudi, president of the
Football Association of Thailand.
If they are champions at the Asian
Games, they will get 55 million baht
[$1.7 million], he told AFP.
The association has tried our best
to find something that will encourage
and motivate them.
The football competition, which in
the mens competition is restricted to
players aged under 23, starts before
the opening ceremony for the Games
on September 19.
Thailand have never taken gold in
football at the regional showpiece and
rank 157th in official FIFA charts,
below tournament heavyweights Chi-
na, Japan and both North and South
Korea. Their preparations have also
been hampered by the omission of key
midfielder Jakkaphan Pornsai from the
squad due to a clerical error.
This years edition at Incheon of
the Asian Games, dubbed Asias
Olympics, cost just over $2 billion to
host. AFP
QPR given a warning
P
REMIER League Queens
Park Rangers have been
told they risk being refused
entry back into the second-
tier English Championship if they
refuse to pay an anticipated ne for
breaching nancial fair play rules.
Some estimates put a poten-
tial ne at as much as 40 million
(US$64 million) but the situation
for west London side QPR, owned
by Malaysian businessman Tony
Fernandes, could be even worse if
they are relegated from the Premier
League according to Football League
chief executive Shaun Harvey.
QPR have been reported to have
had losses of around 60 million
last season, when they were pro-
moted from the Championship and
that would incur a Football League
ne of 40 million for breaching -
nancial fair play rules designed to
prevent clubs spending more than
they earn.
Harvey said on Tuesday that Foot-
ball League rules would still apply
to QPR despite their promotion and
said it was still possible that, should
they be relegated, the club could be
refused entry back into the second
tier if they did not comply with a
December 1 deadline to submit ac-
counts or pay the ne.
Asked if exclusion was the nucle-
ar option, Harvey, speaking at the
Soccerex conference in Manchester,
said: Theoretically that is the posi-
tion, but I would hope there would
be resolution long before that op-
tion even had to be considered.
We are satised we still have the abil-
ity under our regulations to charge
them for a breach of our rules whilst
they were in membership.
The one thing for certain is that
most clubs [in the Premier League]
will become a Football League club
again. Now QPR will of course be
hoping it does not happen for some
considerable number of seasons.
But the chances are they will need
to return to the Football League fold
at some point in the future.
Certainly, three of the current 20
clubs that are in the Premier League
will be in the Football League next
season, he added.
Clubs who were in the Champi-
onship last season have until De-
cember 1 to submit their accounts
for last season, with the Football
League announcing any action a
month later.
All money from FFP nes will go
to charity after the Premier League
blocked a move to redistribute the
money among the rest of the Cham-
pionship.
In May, Fernandes insisted the
club would ght any ne, saying
at the time: Will we ght the ne?
What do you think? After all weve
been through, its my middle name
Fight It Fernandes.
My view has been consistent, that
it is very unfair for a club that has
been relegated as the wage differ-
ence between the Premier League
and the Championship is impos-
sible. There should be a time period
for clubs to rectify their salaries. If
we were in the Championship in two
years with that wage bill it wouldnt
be right. Im in favour of FFP but it is
unfair for a club coming down.
QPR recorded losses of 65.4 mil-
lion during the 2012/13 season and
are forecast to have lost a similar g-
ure last term. AFP
QPRs Joey Barton carries team owner
Tony Fernandes after winning the English
Championship play-off nal against Derby
at Wembley Stadium on May 24. AFP
JICA CAMBODIA OFFICE
JOB OPPORTUNITY
-Procurement Ofcer-
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), an executing agency of Japanese Ofcial
Development Assistance (ODA), opened its representative ofce in Cambodia in 1993. Since then,
JICA has been working together with the people of Cambodia to realize economic growth and poverty
reduction.
The newly recruited staff will be assigned to the Procurement Section of the ofce. The staff will
be based in Phnom Penh, with occasional travels to the provinces.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To initiate procurement of JICA Cambodia Ofce such as preparing internal approval 1.
documents by collecting necessary information, organizing price competitions, and
preparation of contact, etc.
To monitor on-going contracts. 2.
To arrange the payment of those contracts. 3.
To prepare documentation for custom clearance. 4.
To make annual and weekly plan for procurement. 5.
To maintain suppliers list of JICA Cambodia Ofce. 6.
To inform procurement regulation to internal staff. 7.
To report monthly nancial planning internally. 8.
To manage the procurement issues related to ODA Loan projects and attend the related meetings. 9.
Requirements (Qualications and Experience)
University degree or advanced degree would be of a great advantage. 1.
Native tongue in Khmer and excellent speaking, reading and writing ability in English. 2.
Minimum three to ve years of professional experience directly working on procurement, 3.
accounting, or business administration, etc.
Long-term carrier vision as a JICA staff for more than 3 years. 4.
Competencies required
Ability to work independently with a minimum supervision as well as ability to work as a team. 1.
Sufcient ability to read and summarize the relevant documents such as reports issued by 2.
government agencies or relevant DP(s).
Prociency with relevant computer programs (internet, email, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point) 3.
Strong commitment to learn and improve, especially JICAs regulation on accounting and 4.
procurement
Submission of Applications
Interested candidates shall send the documents below to JICA Cambodia ofce, General affairs
section, P.O. Box 613, 6th, 7th, 8th Floors, Building #61-64, Preah Norodom Blvd., Phnom Penh,
Cambodia; or via e-mail to Kitazawa.Yukiko@jica.go.jp. Only short listed candidates will receive
acknowledgements. All applications are treated with strict condentiality.
The deadline for receipt of application is 19
th
September, 2014.
Written Pledge (1 copy) 1.
Curriculum vitae (1 copy) 2.
Credentials (1 copy) 3.
Time Frame
Starting date will be the middle or end of October, 2014. 1.
Initial contract term is from the date of commencement till the end of September 2015, with a 2.
possible extension, given satisfactory performance and workload demand.
A probationary period lasting three months from the day of recruitment. 3.
Individual Consultancy - Vacancy N LGCR/14/009
Development of training package to strengthen disability inclusion in governance
at the provincial, district and commune levels
The United Natons Childrens Fund (UNICEF), Cambodia Country Oce, is seeking to hire a qualied
internatonal consultant to develop or adaptng disability inclusion capacity development resources for
sub-natonal decision makers in Cambodia and to support UNICEF and the Ministry of Interior with the
delivery of training of trainers with the developed resources.
Scope of Work
Provide to UNICEF a Methodology for the Consultancy (max 5 pages);
Produce a comprehensive capacity development resource package for promotng disability
inclusive governance at dierent sub-natonal levels, linked to promoton and nurturing of community
partcipaton and demand creaton for disability inclusive services and family practces;
Produce accompanying three guidance notes/training of trainers manual on facilitaton of the capacity
development resources for province, district and commune level;
Facilitate quality assurance (pre-test, review by reference group, etc.) and review of the training
packages before implementaton and roll out to ensure quality and relevance;
Deliver and facilitate training of trainers workshops using the developed training materials for roll-out
down to the dierent sub-natonal levels. The number of workshops and training sessions as well as
planned refresher trainings will be decided in consultaton with UNICEF and MoI;
Prepare a nal summary report on the consultancy which will include:
Recommendatons for implementaton o
Lessons o
Qualicaton or Specialized Knowledge/Experience Required:
The key skills required of the consultant will include:
Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Internatonal Development, Law or related elds
Fluent and excellent communicaton skills (verbal and writen) in English
Demonstrated experience and expertse from the disability sector and disability inclusive
development
Demonstrated knowledge of gender sensitve development programming, community development,
and local governance
Demonstrated experience with developing, pre-testng training materials
Creatve facilitaton and communicaton skills
Familiarity with UNICEF (programmes, processes, policies) is an asset
Knowledge or experience with the Cambodian context and local governance system is an asset
Duraton of Contract:
54 working days
Submission of Applicatons:
Applicatons shall be submited to cbdhrvacancies@unicef.org before the deadline.Informaton on
required qualicatons, submission of proposals and complete Terms of Reference are available at
www.unicef.org/cambodia/overview_20966.html
Applicatons shall be sent by email to cbdhrvacancies@unicef.org. Applicatons MUST include the
ttle and vacancy number and all required documentaton as detailed in the ToR.
The deadline for receipt of applicatons is Monday 29, September 2014 17:00 (GMT + 7 hours)
2016 Euro Qualiers
Kazakhstan 0 Latvia 0
Iceland 3 Turkey 0
Bos-Herzegovina 1 Cyprus 2
Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 2
Croatia 2 Malta 0
Norway 0 Italy 2
International Friendlies
Canada 3 Jamaica 1
Chile 1 Haiti 0
Brazil 1 Ecuador 0
Mexico 1 Bolivia 0
TUESDAYS RESULTS
CHINAS emerging stars set the
last Asian Games alight and
now the countrys formidable
sports machine will look to
unleash a new generation of
world-beaters in Incheon.
Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen were
barely known teenagers at the
2010 Guangzhou Games, but
10 world and Olympic swim-
ming titles later they will be
among the biggest stars in
South Korea.
Officials are playing down
expectations that China can
match their performance of
2010, when they collected 416
medals including 199 golds
both Asian Games records.
But there is little doubt that
China, which will bring nearly
900 athletes roughly one-10th
of the total field are set to top
the medals table for the ninth
time in a row.
The 15-day competition in
Incheon will be one of the most
important proving grounds for
Chinas emerging athletes as
they look towards the 2016 Rio
de Janeiro Olympics.
Many of the competitors
from last months Youth Olym-
pics in Nanjing will represent
China, while badminton great
Lin Dan, 30, will defend his
title for what could be the
last time.
With the number of sports
reduced from 42 to 36, and the
total number of gold medals
down to 439 from 477, China
is unlikely to improve on its
haul of 2010.
Almost all experts agree
that China will see a sharp
decline in gold medals, state
broadcaster CCTV said on
its website.
By comparison, Chinas
nearest rivals, South Korea and
Japan, took home 76 and 48
gold medals respectively in
Guangzhou.
Chinas youngsters will hope
to follow in the footsteps of Sun
and Ye, who were aged just 19
and 14 when they won four
golds between them in 2010.
Sun since gained superstar
status by winning two gold
medals at the 2012 Olympics,
along with five world titles,
and twice breaking the hal-
lowed 1,500m world record
along the way.
However, the 23-year-old has
also attracted controversy, and
he was banned from swimming
activities after briefly being
jailed last November for driving
his Porsche without a licence.
Sun returned to the pool in
style in May, winning the 200m
freestyle title at Chinas nation-
al championships, and he will
again be favourite for his races
in Incheon.
But the tall swimming icon
looks unlikely to defend his
1,500m title which he won in
an Asian record in 2010 as he
is still returning to full fitness
after his layoff.
Im slowly getting back
the levels of oxygen capacity
and speed that I had at the
London Olympics, and in
the short distances my level
has even surpassed my Olym-
pics standard, Sun said,
according to the Nanjing
Morning Post.
I have also seen other
[competitors] performances
and as long as I maintain my
systematic training, it wont
be difficult for me to reach
that same level.
Ye, now 18, won the 200m
and THE 400m individual
medley in 2010, and went on
to stun the world by taking
out both titles at the London
Olympics two years later.
Ye, who last month enrolled
in a top Beijing university, will
be looking to get back on the
podium after departing last
years Barcelona world cham-
pionships without a medal.
China grabbed 24 of the 38
swimming gold medals in
2010, and they also cleaned
up in table tennis, diving,
badminton, gymnastics and
weightlifting.
This time around, rising star
Fan Zhendong is the one to
watch in ping pong after ris-
ing through Chinas ultra-
competitive ranks to become
world number three at the age
of just 17.
In track and field, long jump-
er Li Jinzhe improved his per-
sonal best three times this
year, and recorded last years
fourth-longest leap in the
world at 8.34m. AFP
Sport
Cambodian taekwondo star sisters Sorn Davin (left) and Sorn Sivmey train under the watch of South Korean coach Choi Yong Sok yesterday morn-
ing at the Booyoung Khmer Taekwondo Centre in the National Sports Complex. SRENG MENG SRUN
Ban Khemara, who will compete at the upcoming Asian Games in
Incheon, throws a high kick during training yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Taekwondo hopes rest on sisters
H S Manjunath
C
AMBODIAS taekwondo
medal prospects at the 17th
Asian Games in Incheon,
South Korea, lie solely with
the Sorn sisters, Davin and Seavmey,
who have built up an imposing re-
cord at the regional level.
The taekwondo events will be held
at the Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasi-
um from September 30 to October 3.
Twenty-two-year old Davin, a sil-
ver medalist at the 2011 SEA Games
in Indonesia, narrowly missed out
on a gold again in the Myanmar
edition last December after going
down to Kirstie Elaine Alora of the
Philippines. However, her younger
sibling Sivmey easily defeated In-
donesias Selviana Angelia Jehabut
to top the podium in the womens
under-73kg class.
The two are fresh from a trip to
Uzbekistan a couple of months ago,
where they showed exemplary ght-
ing skills against quality opposition,
a performance head coach Choi
Yong Sok believes will considerably
boost their morale in Incheon.
It was at the 2012 London Olym-
pics that Sorn Davin left a grand
impression of her ghting abilities
after going down 2-3 to the defend-
ing champion Maria Espinoza of
Mexico in a hard-fought rst-round
matchup.
It was a sterling performance.
She was a bit unlucky on that day
but she has kept building on that
promise, Choi told the Post in an
exclusive interview before yesterday
mornings training session.
They are in very good shape and
spirits. They have gained a lot of
competition experience and I am
condent they will do well, added
the South Korean native, who is
Cambodia's longest-serving for-
eign coach, having taken up the job
in 1994.
The taekwondo events begin only
on September 30. We have nearly 12
days to train in Korea. They have
enough time to get settled. I have
drawn up a plan for their training in
various clubs.
Sivmey will be competing in the
under-73kg class while Davin will be
in the over-73kg category. Both have
a distinct height advantage and I ex-
pect both to gure prominently in
their ghts, Choi said.
The competition is really tough.
Korea is the home of taekwondo and
there are other countries who have
a strong presence in the sport. I do
believe both Davin and Sivmey have
a good chance of a medal if they
perform to their known potential.
The third member of the Cambo-
dian squad is young Ban Khemara,
who will compete in the mens un-
der-54kg category.
Khemara, who has topped na-
tional contests several times, g-
ured in the mens under-58kg
poomsae (moves performance)
event at Myanmar. He is relatively
inexperienced at this level but he is
talented and I expect a good perfor-
mance from him, Choi said.
South Korean Ambassador to
Cambodia Kim Han-soo met the
members of the Incheon-bound
taekwondo squad recently to wish
them well in the presence of Nation-
al Olympic Committee of Cambodia
secretary-general Vath Chamroeun.
SEA Games results clearly show
that both Davin and Sivmey have
great potential. We saw Davin per-
form so well at the London Olympics.
We fondly hope that they can bring
us a medal, Chamroeun said.
First Asia, then the world for dominant China
Sun Yang of China celebrates after victory in the mens 4x200m free-
style relay nal at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010. AFP

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