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THE government is refusing to compensate up to 1,000 families forced to wait for income restoration measures after being relocated from their homes for an Asian Development Bank-funded railway rehabilitation project, a previously unreleased action plan from the ADB reveals. The ADB Management Action Plan, released on Friday and prepared in consultation with the government, also says that authorities have not agreed to help finance a debt workout scheme that would aid poor families who found themselves without adequate relocation funds and sources of new income after resettlement, becoming heavily indebted as a result. The government will, however, pay additional compensation to families whose original homes were undervalued at the time of resettlement. Moreover, transition allowances designed to ease the burden of moving which were paid to families from 2009 onwards but calculated in 2006, will be adjusted and doled out so they finally account for significant inflation. It has also agreed to improve poor facilities at relocation sites as part of the action plan, which is being spearheaded by the ADB but paid for by the government in order to bring the railway project back into compliance with the banks policies. Implementation of the action plan relies foremost on the Cambodian government. We have secured the Governments agreement in several key areas and are actively engaging with the Government on outstanding matters to find solutions, ADB country director Eric Sidgwick said in an email yesterday. The next phase is to conduct consultations with affected households, which are expected to start soon. Ly Borin, chief of the Ministry of Transportations railway department, Continues on page 2

Police ofcers stand outside the gate of a house where Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen was found dead yesterday in Phnom Penhs Chamkarmon district.

SRENG MENG SRUN

UN worker murdered
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye

DUTCH woman working for the United Nations was found stabbed to death yesterday in a horrific attack that also left her 19-month-old baby daughter in critical condition. Daphna Beerdsen, 31, was found shortly before 9am yesterday by the familys babysitter. She was lying alongside her child, Dana, in their rented house off of Norodom Boulevard in a side street across the road

Baby daughter critically wounded

from Myanmars embassy. Police at the scene said Beerdsen, whose LinkedIn profile says she worked as a consultant on climate change projects for UN Habitat, died from six stab wounds to the body that authorities said were likely caused by a sharp metal object, possibly a screwdriver or a metal file. Her child was in a critical condition after being stabbed multiple times with the same weapon and was to be transferred to a hospital in Thailand for treatment yesterday. The murder weapon had not been recovered as of yesterday evening, police said. The baby was badly stabbed in the head, back and waist and was sent to Kantha Bopha Childrens Hospital, Chan Sahuth, an officer with the Ministry of Interiors Crim-

inal Investigation Department, said. [The child] is in a bad condition with a blood clot in the brain and is being prepared to be forwarded to Thailand, he said. Beerdsens husband, Joris Oele, 34, arrived at the home at about 1pm, escorted into the courtyard by a British Embassy official. The embassy, which provides consular assistance to Dutch nationals in Cambodia, declined to comment on the case. Oele, who Continues on page 2

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Ambulance ofcers place the body of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen in a vehicle yesterday after she was stabbed to death in her house in Phnom Penh. SRENG MENG SRUN

UN worker murdered
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also works for UN Habitat, left the capital on a work trip to Preah Sihanouk province on Sunday, according to neighbours. UN Habitat representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday. Mom Sitha, Phnom Penh municipal foreign police chief, said Beerdsen was stabbed six times across her body and died before police arrived at the scene. It is a murder case, but we do not know the motive yet, he said. Our police are working very hard to investigate. Authorities have not ruled out robbery as a motive, but they also reported that the only thing listed as missing was a bicycle. Police also said there was no evidence of forced entry.

Neighbours yesterday said that the family had been living in the two-storey rental for about ve months. A video uploaded to Beerdsens YouTube page on February 23 shows blond-haired Dana playfully exploring the house with Oele. Police were called to the scene after the familys babysitter shouted to a neighbour for help. The neighbour, who asked not to be named, said she told the local village chief about the crime after responding to the babysitters cries. We went to the house and saw the woman and baby lying on the oor with blood on their bodies, she said, adding that she immediately rushed out to alert the authorities. Run Chanthar, the ofcial who was notied by the neighbour, said he had called police immediately.

A police ofcer who was one of the rst to the scene, but declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media, said the police forensic team had discovered what they believed to be the handprints and footprints of the attacker. We saw 12 bloody footprints and ve bloody handprints. We believe they are the foot and hand prints of the suspect, not the dead woman, he said. Photographs of the crime scene taken by investigators appeared to show grey hairs caught in Beerdsens hands. Another neighbour, who also declined to be named, said that when she entered the house, she noticed the baby move. I saw her arm and head move, but she was badly injured. She was driven to hospital by a foreign neighbour, she said.

and Sokhom Pheakavanmony, former director of the Royal Railways of Cambodia, could not be reached for comment. Families began making way for the $143 million project in 2010. The ADB, which was to ensure that the government carried out resettlement appropriately, failed dismally to implement its own safeguards, a scathing January report from the banks internal watchdog concluded. In response to the banks Compliance Review Panels (CRP) report, the ADB said it would prepare a time-bound action plan within 60 days in coordination with the government to address compensation decits and other deciencies. Earlier this month, affected communities and local and international civil society groups urged the bank to disclose its action plan and consult with affected communities before a nal plan was agreed upon. In a reply on April 25, the bank released a copy of the action plan for the rst time and pledged to seek feedback from affected households. A key recommendation from the internal ADB report was that the bank require the government to establish a compensation fund of $3 million to $4 million, likely funded by an ADB loan. This was heavily criticised by rights groups, which accused the ADB of abdicating its responsibility for failing to handle the resettlement in line with its own policies. The action plan does not specify how much the government might spend to further compensate families, but says it has agreed to review compensation for each affected household and pay compensation decits for (i) property losses due to mis-categorization and due to ination ...

A building marked for destruction sits beside a railway near Samrong Estate in February. hoNG MENEA

and (ii) transition allowances (living/income and transport allowances) due to ination. However, the Government does not agree to provide compensation for additional income losses from the date of relocations of [affected households] up to the commencement of income restoration activities, it says. This is despite the ADB compliance report nding that in-

Vuthy, executive director of NGO Equitable Cambodia, said yesterday. But families who were forced out of their homes and jobs in the name of development and left worse off because of it say they want the ADB, not the government, to compensate them. [This month], the ADB called me and told me that the [banks compliance review panel] had ordered the govern-

I told the ADB that I dont believe the government will pay our villagers
come restoration programs were seriously delayed in addition to being inadequately designed and implemented, causing many resettled households to suffer substantial income losses that drove many into debt. ADB policy says that you have to provide support for the loss of income and jobs and you have to design programs to ensure that people still maintain jobs and livelihoods and make sure that people arent worse off. Now the government has denied this and its really against the ADB policy, Eang ment to change the policies, said Sim Vireak, a representative of Russey Keos Tuol Sang Kaeh community families, who were made to move to the Trapeang Anchang relocation site in Por Sen Chey district, far from their homes and where they say few jobs exist. I told the ADB that I dont believe the government will pay our villagers, even though they did not follow the rules of the ADB. So I need the ADB to nd this money themselves and pay it directly to our people, he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA AND CHEANG SOKHA

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Vong Sokheng Meas Sokchea

NGO input not needed: PM

RIME Minister Hun Sen lashed out at civil society groups yesterday, calling their requested input on the Council of Ministers recently approved judicial draft laws unnecessary at best and unconstitutional at worst. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for National Institute of Education students in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen strongly criticised civil society organisations insistence that they be consulted on the three laws, which will have a fundamental impact on the structure and functioning of Cambodias courts. He maintained that the constitution has no provisions about seeking input from outside sources. The law stated in the constitution does not allow us to offer [these draft laws] to anyone besides sending it to the Council of Ministers, [and] the Council of Ministers sends it to the parliament. Please, some of you are shameful, he continued. When [the government] does not do something, it is said that they do it so slowly. When they do something, it is said that they do it too quickly ... Oh my god.

ANONYMOUS Cambodia launched cyberattacks over the weekend against private website DAP news in response to the arrests earlier this month of two members of the international hacktivist groups local arm. While it wasnt clear exactly why DAP was a target, Anonymous accused the website of publishing erroneous information. DAP is also owned by media personality Soy Sopheap, who has close ties to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Now DAP website was newly created and lost all of its important database, Anonymous Cambodia wrote on its Facebook page, warning that similar moves will be met with the same result. If there is no appropriate resolution for our Anonymous members we will hack into the system of other government ministries, internet companies and the banks to destroy all databases. Sopheap said that the attacks, which occurred at about 10pm on Sunday, almost destroyed the entire database and kept the site down until 10am yesterday. We dont know why the

group attacked our website and why Anonymous has continued warning about attacks on us, he said. I would like to appeal to Anonymous Cambodia to use their knowledge for the benet of society rather than used in the wrong way, because we employed about 100 Khmer staff to work in our ofce. Khieu Kanharith, minister of information, said the attacks represent a wake-up call for everybody to be aware of cyber security. Two 21-year-old members of Anonymous were arrested on April 7 over claims they launched attacks on several government websites. Bun King Mongkolpanha and Chu Songheng face accusations of computer hacking that can carry prison terms of up to two years. Songheng told police he had not participated in any attacks and was merely trying to learn hacking skills. Police say they arrested the pair after an eight-month investigation with the help of the FBI. Dim Chaoseng, the pairs lawyer, said yesterday that a trial date had yet to be set and that he would receive the case le today.

Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh yesterday.

PHA LINA

The passage of the laws in question has been, by turns, both slow and quick, with the laws languishing at the Council of Ministers for some 10 years before being passed in a urry of secretive activity in the past few months. Civil society has questioned the lack of transparency around the laws, with legal expert Sok Sam Oeun maintaining that they would undermine the already widely questioned separation of Cambodias ju-

dicial and executive branches. Hun Sen went on to say yesterday that civil society neednt worry about the laws passage, as the Cambodian Peoples Partys quorum in parliament which the opposition is still boycotting meant there were no obstacles to the bills approval. CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap agreed, saying it is not necessary to ask anyone [for anything] more. However, Ny Chakrya, head of Adhocs human rights and

legal aid section, maintained that such important laws should be decided with universal input, and not by any one party. There is not any law offering us the right to make decisions or pass laws, but there is also not any law banning civil society from making proposals, Chakrya said. When we make a law in a democratic country, we must discuss it together so that this law can be used properly.

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lawmaker les Storm pounds B Meanchey CNRP suit against ofcial

Khouth Sophak Chakrya

WEEKEND storm battered buildings in Banteay Meanchey provinces Thma Pouk district, leaving hundreds affected by damage to houses and schools across the area. Deab Chhun, Thma Puok district deputy governor, said strong winds and rain swept through Komrou, Thmor Puok and Phoum Thmey communes at about 1:30pm on Sunday. But while the storm passed within an hour, it still managed to cause damage. According to Chhun, 98 houses and six schools across the district were seriously damaged by the weather. Among them, 20 houses and four schools were almost completely destroyed. Trees were also uprooted and a police station in Thma Puok commune sustained major damage to its roof. The silver lining in the destruction, Chhun said, was that no one was injured. No one got hurt in the storm. It is very lucky that it occurred on Sunday when there is no class, he said. After the storm died down,

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A semi-collapsed wooden school building barely stands under trees in Banteay Meanchey provinces Thmor Puok district on Sunday after being battered by stormy weather. PHOTO SUPPLIED

police and authorities from Banteay Meanchey and Thma Puok district began efforts to repair the damage, Chhun said, adding that 70 houses and two schools have already been repaired for use. With four schools still out of action, some children across the district were forced to attend classes at different institutions yesterday. Others had

no classes at all. [Yesterday] some of the students had no class. Some of the students were put together in big classes [with people of all abilities] in a small room, Chhun said. Kheng Sum, Banteay Meanchey provincial police chief, told the Post that police forces helped to repair 66 houses yesterday.

[This morning], the police forces will continue to repair the houses and schools for people and students to live in and use, he said. Storms have destroyed hundreds of homes across eight provinces so far this year. Meanwhile, lightning strikes have so far killed at least six people and severely injured four.

OPPOSITION lawmaker-elect Lim Kim-Ya led charges with Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday morning against a government ofcial he claims led an attack on a peaceful crowd at Freedom Park last Monday. Ket Khy, a Cambodia National Rescue Party lawyer, told the Post that Kim-Ya was seeking nancial compensation for the attack, which he claims was ordered by Daun Penh District Deputy Governor Sok Penh Vuth. Kim-Ya was struck around the face during the violence. I led the complaint for [Kim-Ya] who accuses Sok Penh Vuth and his accomplices, the blue uniformed men, of using violence on him, he said, referring to Daun Penh district security guards. He also demands $10,000 in compensation. If the court proceeds with the case, the requested charges of intentional violence under aggravating circumstances could carry a maximum sentence of ve years in prison. Four other alleged victims also met with Khy yesterday

and are preparing to le their own complaints in the next couple of days, he said. Penh Vuth could not be reached for comment. Kim-Ya was at the scene in support of fellow CNRP member Mu Sochua, who has been on a campaign to enter the park, which remains off limits to protesters, since the beginning of the month. Sochua, who had vowed to le her own charges, said yesterday that she is waiting for authorisation from senior members of the CNRP . After rst discussing the situation with Khy, Sochua met with European Union Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain. I showed him footage of [last weeks] beatings . . . I told him it was systematic and planned ahead of time, she said. He was very receptive. Sochua and Kim-Ya then went back to Freedom Park where they remained for about 12 minutes. Despite a large security presence, no police even came near us, Sochua said. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche also could not be reached for comment. Sochua plans to return to Freedom Park on Wednesday.

Strike closes most Bavet factories

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan

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Winrock International (WI) is seeking highly qualied Livelihoods Field Coordinators to join the USAID Cambodia Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB) Project team. The positions are available immediately. The work will be performed across the four provinces of the Prey Lang Forest. The experts will be based in Kampong Thom or Kratie provinces. Responsibilities and Tasks: The Livelihoods Field Coordinators will be responsible for providing technical support to communities and groups of persons assisted by the SFB Project. Specic tasks include: Design and implement diversied community-based livelihoodsrelated activities in the Prey Lang Landscape located in Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear, Kratie, and Stung Treng provinces. Assist the Livelihoods Team Leader to ensure the livelihoods work plans and approaches are effectively implemented toward delivery of the set targets and indicators. Facilitate improved livelihood development agricultural and non-agricultural. Provide creative and innovative solutions to complex livelihood problems. Design and disseminate appropriate livelihoods extension materials to SFB target villagers. Facilitate development of Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) enterprises. Proven ability to work effectively as a member of a highperformance team. Minimum Qualications and Skills: Candidates are required to meet the following requirements at minimum: a) Education: At least a Bachelors degree in Development, Economics, Agricultural Extension Technology, or a related eld; b) Experience: Five or more years of relevant livelihoods development experience in forest community development or rural enterprise development. Applications: Interested applicants should send their CVs and cover letters to the SFB Project Ofce: Phnom Penh Center, Building F, Room 588, Sothearos Blvd, Phnom Penh, or by email to infosfb@ winrock.org Closing date for submitting applications is May 09, 2014. Winrock International is an equal opportunity employer and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.

ALL but four garment factories in Svay Rieng province were closed yesterday, as a strike of thousands of workers there continued into its second week, a labour union official said. The strike, estimated to involve about 20,000 people across the provinces Tai Seng and Manhattan special economic zones, began immediately after Khmer New Year, said Kat Lot, vice president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW). Workers began leaving their posts in protest, when word of a $50 bonus received by employees at A&J factory spurred workers at other factories who did not receive a bonus. Thousands of workers in two special economic zones in Svay Rieng Provinces Bavet town continued protesting today, since their demands have been refused, Lot said yesterday.

Striking garment factory workers walk past the Tai Seng Bavet special economic zone last week in Svay Rieng province. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Members of CUMW and nonunionised workers are among the strikers. In a statement released on its website yesterday, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia decried inaction by the Ministry of Labour and local authorities in putting a stop to

workers demonstrations, which, the group says, are tantamount to extortion. Because those factories refused to give them this money, [CUMW] led the workers to do the violent demonstration by throwing the rocks at the factories, threatening other workers

not to return to work and destroying the factories properties, the statement says. It is so disappointing that there seems to be no action from the authorities to stop this activity. However, Svay Rieng provincial labour department director Has Bunthy yesterday said police and military officials have been placed in the two special economic zones in case violence occurred, but demonstrations have so far remained peaceful. Bunthy met with officials from GMAC and the special economic zones yesterday to discuss possible solutions, he said. GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that about 20,000 people hadnt shown up for work, but that does not necessarily mean they are participating in the strike. Workers are unreasonable in their demand, because they were never promised a $50 bonus, Loo said.

Villagers questioned over land dispute

Chhay Channyda

FIVE men in Koh Kong province could be prosecuted for stealing from a construction crew after the group allegedly seized tools in January, preventing the construction team from building fences in their village. Police summonsed the villagers from Kiri Sakor districts Prek Khsach commune for questioning yesterday, after SEZ Koh Kong Co which is owned by tycoon Ly Yong Phat- filed a complaint alleging that in January they threatened workers and took company property. The company has accused us of threatening the workers and seizing construction materials, including shovels and axes, Rot

Sophal, one of the accused villagers, told the Post yesterday. We told police that we did not threaten workers, but seized their tools and handed them to authorities since the land dispute had not yet been solved. Construction workers arrived in the area with tools to start building fences on January 24, even though ownership of the land remains disputed, Sophal said. Yong Phat signed a contract with the Ministry of Environment in May of 2010, renting 9,977 hectares of land in the area for 99 years to grow agro industry crops, said In Kongchit, a coordinator with rights group Licadho. Hundreds of families lived in the three villages that dot the land, but they have since negotiated with the company and

left; 135 families remain in their homes and farmland there. This lawsuit was meant to intimidate the villagers, Kongchit said. Police interrogating the five villagers originally received a complaint from SEZ Koh Kong site supervisor Lay Bunna alleging suspects incited people to use violence against construction workers, but through their investigation determined no violence was used, Men Buntha, a police official at Koh Kongs penal department, said yesterday. All five villagers were released after questioning, Buntha said. I decided to send the report to the court. Bunna, the site supervisor, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

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Monk axes labourer over chess
Chhay Channyda

Roller coaster derails; 4 hurt

Sen David

Tough sentence

THE abbot of a pagoda in Koh Kong province was arrested yesterday after he allegedly attacked a construction worker with an axe when he found him slacking on the job. Song Panha, 28, had only recently been promoted to the position of chief abbot when he allegedly attacked Heng Pitou on Sunday. Pitou was hired by the order to build new rooms at the Koh Sralao pagoda in Koh Kong district. Panha and Pitou argued after the monk walked in on the builder playing chess, leading to Panha swinging an axe at the unsuspecting labourer, police said. Following a protest against the monks impending defrocking, provincial chief monk Heng Sambo, 63, said the decision had been reversed for the sake of Buddhism. Pitous brother-in-law, Sam Socheat, 59, said: We want him defrocked and to face legal action, because he attempted to kill my brother in-law, he said.

WO couples suffered both serious and minor injuries when a car from a roller coaster at the amusement park Chamkar Pring in Phnom Penhs Sen Sok district derailed and was thrown from the track on Sunday. Doung Vatanak, a deputy police chief in Sen Soks Phnom Penh Thmey commune, said a group of young park-goers were on the ride at about 5pm when the incident occurred. Victims Ly Manut, 21, and Kim Sern, 21, both suffered severe injuries to the head, while two other riders, aged 16 and 17, were slightly injured. According to Vatanak, the roller coaster at Chamkar Pring resort was temporarily closed while the reason for the derailment is investigated, though the rest of the park remains open. An independent vendor inside the park who declined to be named criticised Chamkar Pring for allowing visitors onto a ride that had not been inspected, and said that those in the detached car were lucky to have lived. I saw with my own eyes, a part of train fell all the way to the ground, she said. They are lucky because they fell from a lower place. If the train fell off of the highest place, maybe they would not have survived. The accident is not a rst for Cambodias amusement parks. Three workers were charged when a broken bolt caused the

Man gets 2 years for fake plates

A roller coaster with a missing carriage at Chamkar Pring amusement park in Phnom Penhs Sen Sok district yesterday after patrons were injured when it derailed on Sunday evening. PHA LINA

death of a Japanese tourist in a similar roller coaster derailment in Siem Reap in March of last year. Last May, a 33-year-old woman fell to her death from a ride at Phnom Penhs Dreamland amusement park, with park employees maintaining that she had suffered a panic attack and jumped. Mat Pally, 43, the mother of Ly Manut who remains unconscious said that the park had only given her $35, a sum that would not cover her sons treatment. Right now, hes unconscious. He has

a serious injury on his head, she said. I worry so much. He is a student, but now he has a wound to his head. Victim Kim Sern said that in the instant that the train derailed she thought she would die. When it happened, I assumed that we would not survive, because the train was going so fast and falling towards the ground, she said. Contact information for Chamkar Prings management was not available yesterday.

MAN was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday for using a fake licence plate on his motorbike. Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge You Bunna said yesterday that Sok Saroath, 27, would serve time after using a fake number plate on his 2013 Honda Scoopy, a model that can cost more than $1,800. He has money to buy a luxury motorbike to ride, but he has no money to get a legal number plate for it, Bunna said yesterday, questioning Saroaths judgment. [So] he has produced a fake number plate for it. He is sentenced to two years, he added. Bunna said Saroath had been arrested in November when police stopped him at a routine checkpoint and noticed something amiss with his plates. Prosecutors charged him under the penal code with using a fake motorbike plate. BUTH REASKMEY KONGKEA

Phnom Penh Post nets two prizes at Asian media event

Post Staff

Villagers stone sorcerer to death

Kim Sarom

FOR the third time since 2010, the Post was honoured at the WANIFRA Asian Media Awards, taking home two prizes at a ceremony in Hong Kong on Thursday for its feature writing and news photography. In the category of Best Editorial Content Newspaper Feature Article, the Post took home silver for its January 2013 story Big Biz Using Tiny Hands, an investigation by May Titthara and Stuart White exposing widespread child labour on a Kampong Speu sugar plantation owned by tycoon and Cambodian Peoples

Party Senator Ly Yong Phat. Within a week of the story, the plantation owned by the Phnom Penh Sugar Company tightened its policies by issuing a directive to its sub-contractors threatening nes and eventual termination for anyone discovered to be using child labour. The Post was also awarded the silver medal in the category of Best in Photojournalism News Photography, for Vireak Mais photograph of a bloodied man eeing police at a fatal garment sector wage riot in Phnom Penhs Stung Meanchey district in November.

A HUNDREDS-STRONG mob of angry villagers in Takeo province on Sunday beat and stoned a man to death based on the belief that he was a sorcerer responsible for the unexplained demise of nine community members since 2012, police said. Just after dusk on Sunday, some 500 vengeful residents of Prey Lounh village in Bati district pulled 34-yearold Pov Sovann out of his father-inlaws house, according to Khouth Lou, Bati district police chief. They then rained down blows on his body and finished him off by hitting him with stones. The police did not arrive in time

since there are many people, but we protected the body after it was taken out of the house, he said. It was illegal what they did, and police are targeting some suspects. It was a spite-driven mob killing, and it was very violent and cruel. So far, no one has been arrested or charged, but police are investigating the case and trying to determine who led the mob before making their next move. Allegations of sorcery and wizardry in Cambodia can mean, in the most benign of situations, social exile for the accused person, and in the worst of cases, deadly mob violence. Chev Chenda, 30, the victims wife,

said her husband was only a traditional healer, My husband was not a wizard, she said, before describing the incident to the Post. The body was beaten with sticks and rocks were thrown at it, so there was terrible damage. I knew the ones who killed my husband and I will get justice for him through the law. She added that her husband only gave villagers traditional herbal medicine when asked, and he never wronged them. Lou, the district police chief, said villagers blamed nine deaths that have occurred in the village over the past two years on supposed spells cast by Sovann.

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Court rules

Defendants at tribunal t to stand

HE Khmer Rouge tribunal last Friday ofcially accepted the results of a medical examination of its two defendants Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan saying in a pair of lings that the octogenarians were capable of meaningful participation in [their] own defence and [are] therefore t to stand trial. Though neither defence team had asserted their clients to be unfit, both had maintained that the defendants had trouble concentrating for the full duration of a typical court day, a finding the medical experts who examined them contested. In the interest of mitigating the effects of the defendants medical conditions, the trial chamber said that it would order the implementation of the medical, therapeutic and, in the case of Chea, dietary suggestions of the experts, and would take into account the teams submissions when scheduling hearings in the upcoming Case 002/02.
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Bus strikers return to work

Mom Kunthear

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BOUT 20 Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation bus service workers who were on strike outside a company garage in Russey Keo district yesterday agreed to go back to work, at least until the Arbitration Council hears their grievances. After striking in the morning alongside 50 other employees protesting in support of the company, dissatised employees had agreed to return to their posts, said Sambath Vorn, a representative for the newly conceived bus union. If the Arbitration Council does not nd justice for us, we will protest forever, he said. Union representatives said on Thursday that after multiple employees were red in the lead-up to Khmer New Year, the representatives sent letters asking the Labour Ministry to intervene to have them reinstated. General manager Chan Sophanna said that the 50 employees supporting the company yesterday morning decided to show up in solidarity with Sorya for fear the protesters were destroying the honour of the company.

Striking Sorya Transportation workers hold placards at the rms bus station in Phnom Penh yesterday. phA LINA

The company did not organise for our staff to do this they volunteered to do it by themselves. Our company still keeps the same stance because what they demand is not [guaranteed] under the Labour Law. Dave Welsh, country manager for labour rights group Solidarity Center, said the employees had taken a positive step by asking the Ministry of Labour to intervene.

The company doesnt have to full every demand but its in the best interests of all parties to continue engaging and negotiating, Welsh said. More than 60 workers went on strike on April 3, days before the countrys transportation companies geared up for increased business over Khmer New Year, a period when travel numbers sharply increase. But, following negotiations,

Sorya agreed to end a policy of ning drivers $750 for transporting people or goods without a ticket, leading virtually all employees to return to work. The most recent strikes, immediately after Khmer New Year, were sparked by workers who had held out, those who had second thoughts about going back to work and those protesting against workers being red. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
AMELIA WOODSIDE

A WOMAN in Phnom Penhs Warning shots stop a Sen Sok district got a rude man but not his moto introduction to the old adage THREE times was the magic neither a borrower nor a number on Sunday the lender be on Friday. The number of warning shots it took woman, 22, did her relative a to terrorise a man into giving up favour, lending him her motorhis moto. Police said the bike to visit a friend. According 28-year-old was driving home to police, the male relative, 25, from a party when confronted by pawned the bike for $250 and a gun-toting on another spent all thepair money, hoping moto. Initially attempting toher flee, his relative wouldnt need the shots firedThe in quick succeswheels back. woman sion gother him to reconsider and turned fibbing relation pull over. A complaint was subover to the police when she sequently filed to police but his spotted him walking near clues are few as the men were kampuChea thmey home. helmeted. Deum Ampil

Lazy man executes lazy Brutal too kicks to stomach scam, lazy to flee land a man in hospital A 27-YEAR-OLD Dangkor dis-

A QUICK trip to hospital was trict con artist took the money, the forgot only thing that saved a Sen but to run last week. A Sok district mans life on Sunconstruction company driver, day,man according to hospital the delivered materials to staff. Policewho saidpaid the man customers him was viciously stomped and $2,000. On returning tokicked the company, the driver reported in the stomach by two others that hadnt received afterhe a quarrel. Both of paythe ment, but his suspicious assailants were arrestedboss by uncovered the botched ploy cops arriving on the scene with a few phone calls. On Friand the mans immediate day, police nabbed the suspect medical assistance means who said expected hed already spent all that hes to recover. kampuChea thmey the money. KampuChea Thmey

Man masters jealousy, A sticky-fingered male adds wrath to trio caught in repertoire the act
PAILIN town police are on the A THREE-man chain-snatching lookout a 34-year-old concrew putfor a Banteay Meanchey struction allegedly woman inworker hospitalwho on Sunday beat wife to the point of after his wrenching a necklace unconsciousness on Friday. from her throat as she walked Police said the manWhile was jealto her Poipet home. the ous after spotting his wife with snatch and grab was initially another man in the village. successful, patrolling cops saw The husband got drunk at a the incident and gave chase, wedding, and on returning arresting them before they home, beat his wife with a belt could flee the neighbourhood. and wooden stick badly Caught red-handed, the culprits injuring her head, shoulder, admitted their guilt and have eye, thigh and back before been sent to court. Deum Ampil fleeing. Nokorwat

Sword-wielding man Stab-happy lover picks seeksway revenge at party funny of apologising
A NURSED grudge and a A 25-YEAR-OLD man was sharpened samurai sword apprehended in Kampong spelled Oral trouble for a Saturday Kampong Speus district Cham town man on Sunday. after stabbing his girlfriend. Police said the victim beatThe woman, 18, livedhad with her en up the brother of a local but boyfriend in Phnom Penh, someto two months ago, then went stay with her parents vanished to let the heat in Kampong Speu afterdie the down. No such luck. WhenA he couple had an argument. slipped back into town over the week later, the man followed weekend, his her firstto stop was to a her, begging return weddingPenh. party,When wherethe he was Phnom womquickly identified by the brother an refused, the man grabbed a of theand man he attacked and knife stabbed her in the subjected to the sword back, armpit and arm.attack. She Quickly arriving police was hospitalised, andallowed her parhim to escape with minor ents prevented theonly man from Thmey injuries. KampuChea escaping arrest. Nokorwat
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ADF loan will bring power to rural areas

Chan Muyhong

A man sits on a park bench in front of the NagaWorld hotel and entertainment complex in Phnom Penh late last year.

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Casino owners woes persist

Eddie Morton

HE share price of Cambodian casino owner Entertainment Gaming Asia has fallen below the minimum requirement of the Nasdaq Stock Market, threatening the gaming companys US listing, according to a statement posted on EGAs website last week. EGA has been given 180 days until October 14 to lift its share price from $0.87 to the Nasdaqs minimum of $1 and must hold that price for at least 10 consecutive days, according to the April 23 announcement. If, however, the company fails to reach the target within this period, a second 180-day grace period may be granted before EGAs stock could be delisted from the exchange.

The company will work to regain listing compliance and believes that it has options available to ensure continued listing on Nasdaq, reads the announcement from the casino developer owned by Melco Group, a Macau gaming giant. Management and the board of directors are evaluating these options to determine the optimal course of action. At market close on Friday in US the rms price sat at $0.82. EGA operates two Dreamworld-branded casinos on Cambodias border with Thailand. The companys Pailin province operation valued at $2.5 million houses some 26 gaming tables and 52 electronic gambling machines (EGMs). In Poipet, EGA operates a gaming oor with 300 EGMs.

The rm also supplies 670 EGMs to NagaWorld, the countrys largest gaming operator. The Nasdaq noncompliance notice is the latest in a string of bad results for the gaming company after recording a 9 per cent revenue slump from $26.8 million in 2012 to $24.3 million in 2013, according to the rms 2013 annual report, which notes that further losses are expected. For the year ended December 31, 2013, we incurred a net loss from continuing operations of approximately $5.2 million and may continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future, EGAs annual report says. To add to the companys woes, the annual report states that EGAs NagaWorld contract

expires in 2016 and there can be no assurances that we will be able to renew the contract under similar conditions, if at all. In January, EGA announced it was walking away from its Pailin casino operation, which opened in May 2012. The rm wrote off its initial $2.5 million investment in the venture, citing a failure to lure gamers from across the Thai border. Staff at EGA yesterday conrmed the company was still overseeing operations in Pailin. However, they declined to provide any further details on the struggling casino. Michael Ting, gaming analyst with Hong Kong-based CIMB, said NagaWorlds monopoly on the Phnom Penh gaming sector makes it difcult for smaller-scale opera-

tions to compete, especially in luring high-roller clientele. Going forward, Cambodias border casinos piece of the pie might begin to decrease unless they start to attract higherspending clients. So far the attraction hasnt shown, he said, adding that a lack of information from casinos in Cambodias border towns makes it difcult to asses the situation. In regards to the border casinos, if Vietnam or Thailand do establish a gaming market, that will certainly affect their gamer numbers and prots. NagaWorld holds a monopoly agreement as the only gaming operator allowed within 322 kilometres (200 miles) of Phnom Penh until 2035. EGA and Melco Group did not respond to requests for comment.

THE French Agency for Development (AFD) announced yesterday that it will provide $24 million to finance privately owned water and power providers to supply rural areas that state-run utilities cannot reach. During a ceremony held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the AFD and the Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) both signed off on the loan agreement, which will see the FTB provide operational, financial and technical assistance to the small-scale operators. Just 30 per cent of Cambodian households have access to electricity, while only 30 to 60 per cent have access to clean water, according to Andr Pouills-Duplaix, AFD director for Cambodia and Laos. Private water providers operating their own water treatment facilities and small electricity companies capable of providing energy off the grid to Cambodias rural areas will be encouraged to take advantage of the funding. Pouills-Duplaix urged the government, commercial banks and microfinance institutions, as well as water and electricity operators themselves, to cooperate in streamlining clean water and electricity access to those areas beyond the reach of state-run utility providers. To meet the challenge, we need participation from relevant key players, from those who directly operate and those who provide financial tools to solve the problem, he said. Up to 50,000 rural households are expected receive better access to water and 35,000 to benefit from electricity as a result of the funding, according to the AFD.

ANZ needs to step up its risk assessment: Oxfam

Daniel de Carteret

ANZs financing of ruling party senator Ly Yong Phats controversial sugar plantation has come under fire once again, this time in an investigation by NGO Oxfam into Australias big four banks and their links to rights abuses in developing countries. In a report titled Banking on shaky ground, Oxfam questions the duediligence processes of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the National Australia Bank, Westpac and ANZ, citing examples of each bank financing companies linked to land grabs. From [Papua New Guinea] and

Cambodia, to Indonesia and Brazil, our banks have backed companies accused of forcing people from their land, Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke said in a statement. Environmental audit documents obtained by the Post in January linked ANZ Royal Bank, a joint venture with Cambodias Royal Group, to Ly Yong Phats Phnom Penh Sugar Company, which has been at the centre of longstanding rows over land evictions and child labour scandals something highlighted in the Oxfam report released yesterday. Oxfams concern with this case is that any Australian financier behaves

in a respected manner in Cambodia, and commits to supporting the rights of local people to land, and sustainable livelihoods. Australias reputation in Cambodia is at risk, Shen Narayanasamy, economic justice advocacy coordinator at Oxfam Australia told the Post via email. ANZ is meeting with those families affected by relocation from the 8,343hectare land concession in Kampong Speu, according to Narayanasamy. To date, the request of the community members has not been fulfilled, although negotiations are continuing, she said. ANZ did not respond to specific

questions relating to the Phnom Penh Sugar case but said in an emailed statement that it was reviewing the way the sugar producer addressed its environmental and social obligations. ANZ has been involved in an extensive dialogue here in Australia and in Cambodia to hear the concerns of NGOs, including Inclusive Development and Oxfam, as well as supporting our customer meeting with NGOs and members of the community directly, the banks email statement said in response to the Oxfam report. The NGOs report comes just days after the Phnom Penh Sugar Company came under further scrutiny in

the Australian media after the death of two workers on a plantation in the past six months. Both were killed in accidents involving harvesters. The environmental audit reports commissioned by ANZ and leaked to the Post in January also reveal that, from 2010 to 2013, Phnom Penh Sugar failed to address worker health and safety issues raised by the auditor, Bangkok-based International Environmental Management. In response to the Oxfam report, Phnom Penh Sugar said it has appointed a community relations officer who is liaising directly with affected villagers.

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IMF sees growth at 7.2 per cent

THE International Monetary Fund predicts 7.2 per cent growth for Cambodia this year, up slightly from the 7 per cent estimated in 2013, according to the IMFs Asia-Pacific economic outlook released yesterday. The fund is cautious about the impact the political standoff stemming from last years national election might have on growth this year. In Cambodia, political tension about the electoral process may hurt sentiment and hold back investment in 2014 even though the impact has been limited so far, the report states. The IMF prediction is slightly higher than the Asian Development Banks, which sees a slight slowdown to 7 per cent growth this year from the 7.2 per cent it estimated last year. The ADB Outlook 2014, a report released on April 1, attributed the small decline to political instability and ongoing tension in the garment sector. In 2014, industry growth driven by exports of garments and footwear to the US and European Union is projected to ease to 8.7 per cent from 10.5 per cent the year before, according to the ADB.

Collapse victims still waiting

OME victims of Bangladeshs worst industrial disaster said yesterday that they have still not received promised compensation, days after a deadline for payments from a multimillion-dollar fund backed by Western retailers. Victims, many of whom suffered horric injuries when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed last year killing 1,138 people, said they feared authorities had bungled payments they were supposed to receive by April 23. I am still staying at the hospital and am running short of money, said Rehana Akhter, 22, who lost her left leg in the disaster. Still no one has said whether I will get the compensation or not. If I dont get the money Ill have no choice but to start begging, she said. I am not alone. A lot of Rana Plaza victims havent got any money. I think some people may have stolen our compensation. It is unclear how many victims have not been paid, but a Bangladesh government team helping to coordinate the payments said that it has received complaints from around 50 victims. The nine-storey factory

In brief
JAPANESE electronics giant Panasonic yesterday booked its first annual net profit in three years and reversed a huge loss suffered in the previous 12 months as it presses on with a sweeping restructuring. The Osakabased company said net profit hit 120.44 billion ($1.17 billion) in its fiscal year to March, after suffering a loss of 754.25 billion a year earlier, while revenue ticked up to 7.74 trillion from 7.30 trillion. Panasonic recovering from combined losses topping $15 billion in the previous two fiscal years also said it expected net profit to come in at 140 billion over the year to March 2015. The company, along with rivals Sony and Sharp, has struggled in recent years, largely because of huge losses in their televisions units, but a sharply weaker yen over the past year has helped boost their bottom line. AFP

Panasonic reports first profit in three years

Relatives of Rana Plaza building collapse victims mourn at the site the building stood near Dhaka.

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complex on the outskirts of Dhaka, where workers spent long hours stitching clothes for Western brands for low pay, collapsed on April 24 last year. A compensation fund managed by the International Labour Organization started making its rst payments of $640 for each of the survivors

and families of the deceased last week. Western retailers have contributed just $15 million to the proposed $40 million fund that promised to compensate around 3,000 families of the dead and injured. Anxiety over the payments underlines the desperate situ-

ation facing many of the victims who are still too injured and traumatised to work. Mojtaba Kazazi, head of the ILOs Rana Plaza Claims Administration, said payments have been delayed for a number of victims because required personal details have not been provided. AFP

China factory back at work following strike

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TENS of thousands of employees at a Chinese factory making shoes for Nike, Adidas and others returned to work yesterday after one of the countrys biggest recent strikes ended, following what campaigners called typical government intimidation. The Communist Party fears an independent labour movement could threaten its grip on power, so it only allows one government-connected trade union. But analysts say workers have been newly empowered by a labour shortage that has turned bargaining power in their favour, and the strike highlighted a wave of activism from older factory personnel nearing retirement. The dispute broke out at a facility run by Taiwanese firm Yue Yuen, which says it is the worlds largest branded footwear manufacturer, producing more than 300 million pairs of shoes last year. The plant in Dongguan, in the southern Chinese manufacturing heartland of Guangdong, is one of the worlds biggest shoe factories and has an estimated 45,000 workers. Vast numbers refused to work for nearly two weeks over unpaid social security contributions. But after authorities ordered it to rectify the situation and it made small concessions, scores of strikers were detained by police, workers said, adding that key demands remained unmet and that they only returned because of intimidation. Police have arrested workers in the workshops for not work-

ing, more than 60 were detained, said one worker who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals. At the moment the factory is controlled by police. Six employees told AFP about four-fifths of the staff had returned to work. According to Chinese law, employers are obliged to make monthly payments into workers social security accounts to help provide medical insurance and a pension. But analysts say manufacturers often shirk their responsibility. If you dont have social security, your lifes work will be useless when you return home, said Li, who like nearly all the factorys workers comes from a poor rural village, where he one day plans to return. Activists say officials have become more sympathetic to individual grievances recently, especially those funded by foreign firms, such as Yue Yuen. But such tolerance only goes so far. During the dispute labour rights activist Zhang Zhiru was detained by police for four days. They told me not to communicate with the workers any more, he said, adding that a colleague is still being held. A 17-year-old surnamed Tan said she earns around 3,000 yuan a month pressing accessories onto trainers at the plant and resumed work for fear of losing her job. Factory officials have warned us that those who make a fuss will be sacked without compensation, she said. The strike has failed. We didnt get the result we wanted. AFP

WH GRoUP Ltd, the worlds biggest pork supplier, is poised to raise about $1.3 billion in an initial public offering that had been cut by more than half because of slack investor demand, said people with knowledge of the matter. The company plans to sell 1.3 billion new shares at around HK$8 (US$1.03) each, the low end of a marketed range, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private. WH Group is due to set a final price tomorrow after offering the shares at HK$8 to HK$11.25, according to revised terms for the deal obtained by Bloomberg News. The Chinese owner of Smithfield Foods Inc is settling for an IPO thats about a quarter of the size it originally targeted as investors shun new equity and as growth in pork demand eases in China. Shareholders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Temasek Holdings Pte had to abandon plans to sell stock as part of the offering after orders fell short of expectations.
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Aussie food giant turns nose up at takeover bid

AUSTRALIAN food manufacturer Goodman Fielder yesterday turned down a joint Singapore-Hong Kong takeover bid valuing the company at A$1.27 billion (US$1.18 billion), saying it was too low. The company, which owns food brands including Helgas, MeadowLea and Wonder White, was targeted by Singapore-based agribusiness Wilmar International and Hong Kong-based investment manager First Pacific Company. The consortium conditionally offered 65 cents a share, but Goodman Fielder management rejected the opportunistic bid on the grounds that it undervalued the company, whose shares closed 15 per cent higher at 63 cents. AFP

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EFORE Waterway Transport Corp held its initial public offering last month, analysts say the Vietnamese logistics company didnt hold a single investor meeting or even put up a website. The Hanoi-based company, also known as Vivaso, raised less than 4 per cent of its 151.78 billion dong ($7.2 million) target. Its among two dozen share sales this year of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises that have missed their targets and largely failed to generate interest from foreign investors. The Vietnamese government raised just 1.36 trillion dong from 24 IPOs through April 23, about 35 per cent of the 3.9-trillion-dong it targeted for the offerings, according to data from the nations stock exchanges in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The state is accelerating share sales as part of efforts to restructure the economy and lure more international investors to a $53 billion stock market thats the second-smallest among 16 Asia Pacic countries tracked by Bloomberg, after Sri Lanka. Its plan to sell stakes in 432 government-owned enterprises by the end of next year

Goals missed as Hanoi rushes IPOs

have been forced to nd other ways to cut their levels of state ownership following a tepid response to their IPOs. Vivaso raised only 5.5 billion dong from its offering March 19. It has since negotiated the sale of enough shares to cut the states holding to 49 per cent, Pham Ngoc Dich, the companys chairman, said. Civil Engineering Construction Corp No 5 raised about 14 per cent of its 142.1-billiondong target in an IPO last month, according to the Hanoi Stock Exchange. Viglacera Corp., the countrys biggest producer of building materials, sold a quarter of the 792.56 billion dong of shares it expected at its February 20 offering. Only Viglacera attracted any foreign investors. None of the 24 companies that held IPOs so far this year are trading on either of the countrys exchanges. By law, companies that sell shares to the public need to list within one year or face nes of as much as 150 million dong. Many companies were rushed to conduct IPOs, leaving investors little time to consider their investments, Pham Luu Hung, Hanoi-based associate director at SSI Securities JSC., said. BLOOMBERG

PM to open investment conference

Daniel de Carteret

Traders walk through the oor of the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.

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is prompting some companies to rush IPOs without marketing them in advance, according to Project Asia Research & Consulting Pte. There is demand for good companies with good management and prospects, but there is no demand for a bad deal, or for a deal that nobody knows anything about, said

Attila Vajda, managing director at Project Asia, an independent research and consulting rm based in Singapore, focusing on Southeast Asia. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a master plan in February last year to accelerate public share sales and spur state companies to focus on core businesses as the

countrys economic growth slowed and its nancial system wobbled under Southeast Asias highest level of bad debt. Dung reiterated the need to speed up the process this year after the World Bank said in December that progress on SOE reforms had been slower than expected. Companies including Vivaso

PRiME Minister Hun Sen will open Cambodias International Investment Conference in Phnom Penh later this year, the International Business Chamber of Cambodia (IBC) said in a statement yesterday. To be held over two days, the event will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, beginning October 6. Themed Cambodia a new era of opportunity, the conference seeks to attract international companies looking to invest in Cambodia. The aim of this conference is to encourage those with an eye to doing business in Cambodia and also to inform those who may not know about Cambodia and the attractiveness of the countrys business environment, said IBC chairman Brett Sciaroni, in a statement . Run every two years, the 2014 conference will also focus on growth and change concerned with ASEAN integration and will include participation from Cambodias industry leaders and government ofcials according to the IBC.

Calls for action to stop ination in Myanmar

WORLD Bank ofcials have urged the Myanmar government to take steps to avoid runaway ination. The rate has already doubled in the past year and has a disproportionate effect on the poor, they say. According to the World Bank ofce in Myanmar, ination averaged 2.8 per cent last year, sharply rising to 5.8 per cent in the 2013-2014 scal year. Food ination has a disproportionate effect on the poor, Kanthan Shankar, country manager of the World Bank Myanmar ofce, said, responding to questions about the rise in ination that accompanied increasing GDP . On the one hand, a lot of investments are coming in, so youre going to have ination. But how will this impact the poor? That should always be taken into account. According to the World Banks East Asia and the Pacic Economic Update released on April 7, Myanmars economy grew 7.5 per cent in 2013 and is likely to reach 7.8 per cent in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Khwima Nthara, senior country economist of the World Bank said the two main drivers of ination are the insufcient domestic rice supply resulting from ooding, and an increase in the money supply for domestic credit to the private sector. This is mainly because of the increase in domestic credit to the private sector. In a way this is a good thing because it means banks are lending to the private sector so they can invest, and thats why the economy is growing. But thats also driving up prices. The government should work to keep ination under control, he said. Hla Maung, a local independent economist, told The Myanmar Times that factors also included the salary increase for government staff, higher electricity prices and the trade decit. The government recently took some actions that could have caused primary food prices to go up. This can accelerate ination and make poor people poorer he said. With this trend, I dont know how the government will implement economic growth. The government should manage rising prices properly. According to a local price index, prices of meat, sh, vegetables, fruit and other basic foods have increased by about 20 per cent this month. Whats the point of putting up our salaries if food prices are also going up? asked one low-paid government worker who requested anonymity. The extra 20,000 kyat [US$20] a month cant compete with the rise in prices. Were no better off. Khine Htun, a local business researcher, said that this years overall ination rate of 6 to 7 per cent was the result of increases in basic commodity prices, especially food. Property prices were increasing, while car prices had fallen. But these items are not taken into account in the Consumer Price Index, on which ination rates were based. Its the price of food, clothing, rent and fuel that impact ination, Khine Htun said.
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Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia

PRESS RELEASE ON THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION AT TAI SENG AND MANHATTAN SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE IN BEVET

Even if the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) strongly appealed through her special Press Release dated 25 April 2014 for the action from the Royal Government of Cambodia, relevant institutions and local authorities to stop the demonstration at the Tai Seng and Manhattan Special Economic Zone in Bavet, this demonstration is still happening now and there has been no action to stop it yet. In his response to GMACs Press Release, Mr. Pav Sina, President of Collective Unions of Movement of Workers (CUMW), which is the union leading this demonstration, defended himself that the reason that made this demonstration happen is because the employers did not provide the workers US$50the money that this union alleged the employers without evidence that they promised to give to their workers in exchange for them not to join the strike called by 8 union federations, including the Collective Unions of Movement of Workers (CUMW) of Mr. Pav Sina himself, before Khmer New Year.

Once again, GMAC would like to inform the publics that the employers of factories at Tai Seng and Manhattan Special Economic Zone have never made such promise as alleged by the union above. It is true that A&J factory (Bicycle factory in Tai Seng Special Economic Zone) provided each of their workers US$50before Khmer New Year. But this is the bonus forthe performance that their workers reached the production target for the last 3 months. It is not the money given to them for not joining the strike. However, after Khmer New Year the Collective Unions of Movement of Workers (CUMW) led by Mr. Pav Sina used this bonus as the pretext to lead the workers to hold the demonstration in order to demand the same money from Smartex factory because it is also the Bicycle factory. After they succeeded at Smartex factory, they continued this demonstration at Bestway and other factories in the entire Manhattan Special Economic Zone. This is the illegal activity which is the same as money extortion. Because those factories refused to give them this money, they led the workers to do the violent demonstration by throwing the rocks at the factories, threatening other workers not to return to work and destroying the factories properties. It is so disappointing that there seems to be no action from the authorities to stop this activity. Due to the fear of the safety of their workers and properties, all the factories at Tai Seng and Manhattan Special Economic Zone (except A&J and Smartex factory) have suspended their operations so far. GMAC would like to strongly appeal again to the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training, especially H.E Dr. Ith Samheng, Minister of Labor and Vocational Training and Chairman of the Committee for Resolution of Strikes and Demonstrations; relevant institutions, local authorities; and Special Economic Zone Administration representing the Council for the Development of Cambodia to exercise their duties to stop this incident immediately in order to maintain security and safety of the investors and their workers who intended to go to work. By ignoring and allowing this union to do whatever they want, it will destroy the trust of the investors in the government to protect their safety and legal interests. It is also against the policy of the Royal Government in encouraging the investors to come to do business in Cambodia. GMAC believes that this incident will spread to other areas and will aect not only the garment and footwear factories, but also other factories if there is no action to stop it immediately. GMAC would also like to take this opportunity to appeal to all workers to return to work as usual and not listen to the incitement of this union. If not, the employers will implement article 332 of the Cambodian Labor Law by not giving them wages and other beneits during the strike-demonstration period. Phnom Penh, 28 April 2014 Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia

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Drugs titans lock horns over merger

Ben Perry

S DRUGS giant Pzer is pursuing plans for a blockbuster merger with British rival AstraZeneca to fuel cancer treatments despite having a $100 billion bid rejected, the pair revealed yesterday. Pzer chairman and chief exec Ian Read said that a tieup between two of the worlds biggest pharmaceutical groups would help to ght some of the worlds most feared diseases, such as cancer. It would benet also the shareholders of both companies, he said in a statement. AstraZeneca hit back, arguing that the informal offer made by Pzer in January very signicantly undervalues the company. Outlining its defence in a statement, it added that its board remains condent in the ongoing execution of AstraZenecas strategy as an independent company and that its successful delivery will create signicant value for shareholders. Analysts said Pzer was unlikely to walk away at this point and the bid was set to turn hostile. AstraZenecas share price surged by 17 per cent in response to yesterdays developments, bringing the com-

panys market value to slightly above Januarys informal offer price equivalent to about 72 billion (US$99.8 billion) Yesterdays developments come as the global pharmaceutical sector is undergoing a huge shake-up to face the challenges of expiring patents for key brands and deep cuts to government health care spending worldwide. On a broader front, big companies are showing renewed interest in takeover opportunities amid a new-found appetite for risk, driven by strong cash positions, and cheap money since the nancial crisis. Reports of a potential tie-up between the two drugs groups had rst emerged a week ago. In a statement issued to the London Stock Exchange, Pzer said it previously submitted a preliminary, nonbinding indication of interest to the board of directors of AstraZeneca in January 2014 regarding a possible merger transaction. Pzer also stressed its continuing interest in a possible merger transaction after again contacting AstraZeneca on Saturday seeking to renew discussions. Joshua Raymond, chief market strategist at City Index trading group, said Pzers statement indicated that the

Drugmaker Pzer is seeking a massive merger with British competitor AstraZeneca to focus on cancer treatments despite already having a bid of nearly $100 billion rejected. AFP

company was no longer interested in a friendly merger deal. Make no mistake, the conrmation today of Pzers interest is a declaration of its intention to now pursue a hostile merger.

With AstraZeneca rebuking their attempts to negotiate, Pzer has tried to create a buzz within AstraZenecas leading shareholders to get them to force the issue with the current board.

The board of AstraZeneca remains under pressure after falling sales and a failure to gain momentum for ... turnaround plans, Raymond said in a note to clients. Pzer said that it had infor-

mally offered 46.61 ($78.4) per AstraZeneca share on January 5 in a cash and stocks offer, which valued the target rm at 58.8 billion ($99 billion). Read said yesterday that patients all over the globe would benet from a merger, in the form of potential new therapies. He added: The combination of Pzer and AstraZeneca could further enhance the ability to create value for shareholders of both companies. Speaking last Thursday, AstraZenenca chief executive Pascal Soriot said his company was on the look out for deals. Soriot, who also said that large acquisitions can be very disruptive, spoke following the publication of AstraZenecas latest earnings update and after drugmakers Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline unveiled multibillion-dollar deals also involving US group Eli Lilly. The string of deals by the three giant health care groups will see Novartis sharpen its focus on the high-grossing cancer sector, GSK boost its share in vaccines and Eli Lilly strengthen its animal health unit. Also last week, Valeant Pharmaceuticals offered to buy Botox-maker Allergan for over $45 billion. Raymond said that a merger would also produce a massive tax benet for Pzer. AFP

Noticeable slowdown for Germany over Q2

GERMAN economic growth is heading for a significant slowdown in the second quarter of 2014 after a robust first three months, the German central bank said yesterday. After the extremely strong start to the year, economic growth in Germany is expected to see a noticeable slowdown in the second quarter, the Bundesbank said. Growth in industrial orders has not continued with the same intensity as in the first two months of the year, it said. The mild winter weather conditions of the first quarter will also squeeze GDP growth in the second quarter, it said. But the economic underlying trend is expected to remain clearly on the up due to the exceptionally favourable consumption climate and the active demand for home building, it noted. AFP

Oil still fuelling Iraqs economic aspiration

WITH a budget languishing in parliament, crucial reforms on the back burner and a hamstrung private sector, prospects for Iraqs economy after Wednesdays election hinge heavily on the oil factor. Iraq has some of the worlds largest deposits of oil and gas and aims to boost energy production dramatically, but a slow-moving bureaucracy and poor infrastructure are holding it back. Complicating things further is Baghdads long-running dispute with the energy-rich autonomous northern Kurdish region, which has sought to sign deals with foreign rms and export without the express permission of the central government. Any new government formed after Wednesdays parliamentary election will have its hands full with these and other challenges. Crude oil accounts for more than 90 per cent of exports and government revenues, and 70 per cent of GDP , according to the International Monetary Fund. Despite calls for Iraq to do more to diversify its economy, oil still fuels the countrys attempts to rebuild after decades of conict. What Iraq should be focusing on is actually developing something more diverse as an economy thats less dependent on oil production, said Ayham Kamel, Middle East and North Africa Director for Eurasia Group consultancy. Meanwhile private rms, outside the oil sector, often complain they are hamstrung by an ageing banking system, with few loans available and outdated laws that make it hard to set up or maintain a business. Rampant corruption and soaring costs due to electricity shortages and deteriorating security also complicate running a business in Iraq, which is mired in its worst period of bloodshed in years. Iraqs economy suffers from structural weaknesses, said a World Bank report. It noted that although the oil sector was delivering strong growth, overall economic expansion has not been broadbased enough to make major inroads on poverty and exclusion. Poor governance, an inefcient and easily co-opted judiciary system, inconsistent regulations, and security issues keep Iraq at the bottom of global rankings for doing business, the report said. That leaves oil at the centre of any discussion about Iraqs economic challenges. Exports hit 2.8 million barrels per day in February, the highest gure in decades, with production above 3.5 million bpd. Authorities, however, aim to expand production capacity to nine million bpd by 2017, a target that the IMF and International Energy Agency have warned is ambitious. AFP

Hollande weighs up offers

FRENCH President Francois and thats normal. GE is on the Hollande, ghting to protect case, the source added. national interests in takeover Immelt himself described target Alstom, met the head the talks as an open, friendly of US giant General Electric and productive meeting. yesterday before holding talks It was important to hear in with rival bidder Siemens. person President Hollandes Germany meanwhile sought perspective and to discuss to boost Siemens case, saying our plans, Immelt said. We a tie-up between the French understand and value his perand German giants offered a spective, and we are commitbig opportunity for Europes ted to work together. two biggest economies. Hollande was due later yesIn talks lasting about an hour terday to meet with Siemens with GE chief Jeffrey Immelt, boss Joe Kaeser and Martin Hollande pressed his case for Bouygues, the head of the key jobs and Alstoms decision- shareholder in Alstom, French making centre to be protected construction, telecom and in France. media rm Bouygues. There were legitimate isMeanwhile in Berlin, a sues (evoked by the govern- spokesman for Germanys ment) which GE is working economy ministry said a posEmployees on, said a GE source. Turnoversible tie-up between Alstom (billions of euros 2013) There is still work to be done and Siemens would offer a big opportunity and great potential in terms of industrial policy for Germany and France. The high-level talks are part of a race by the French Socialist government to protect Alstoms decision-making centre in France, jobs, and strategic energy interests, in what Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg has described as a patriotic response to an expected bid by GE. At the end of last week it emerged that GE was in advanced talks to buy Alstoms energy interests for about 10 billion ($14 billion). Energy activities account for about 70 per cent of Alstoms business, with the rest being focused mainly on making railCEO wayMain equipment including the activities Patrick AFP TGV high-speed train.
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Prospect of a takeover tussle for Frances Alstom 20.1

18,000 in France Employees Main activities CEO
Patrick Kron Jeffrey Immelt

THE eurozone is at risk from unduly low inflation, the governor of the French central bank Christian Noyer, who also sits on the policy body of the ECB, warned yesterday. A second challenge for the eurozone is the strength of the euro, which was one of the factors pushing inflation down, Noyer said. But low inflation does not mean deflation, Noyer underlined, saying that deflation meant a pernicious spiral marked by a permanent and cumulative process of falling prices. Inflation in the eurozone fell from 2.7 per cent at the end of 2011 to 0.5 per cent in March. AFP

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Poor and lazy: a financial feast

Ben Steverman Analysis

Markets
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INCE when did irresponsible slackers become such hot nancial prospects? Banking and investment rms have ordered up and publicised an avalanche of studies and surveys on the millennials, or Generation Y, or whatever you want to call teens and young adults born since the early 1980s. Mostly, they list a parade of stereotypes lazy, entitled, suspicious of authority, technology-obsessed, risk-averse, impulsive about this generation of 77 million people. From a study that was carried out by retirement plan expert Buck Consultants, the ndings were that millennials are not prone to longrange planning and are a group that tends to act later rather than sooner and may not take time for the thoughtful analysis needed for retirement planning. These feckless youths, underemployed and with record student debt eating away what little money they have, are the nancial industrys next big pool of customers. So its confusing as to why so many rms are pushing out all these studies that are basically insulting the very people theyre trying to woo. This reason is that before the 77 million consumers start making real money, nancial rms must persuade them to worry about retirement and other dilemmas the rms claim to be able solve obviously for a fee. The problem is that any semi-

A man lls in a job application after a recruitment day in Hong Kong on April 22. The young and unemployed are the next targets for the nancial sector. BLOOMBERG

sentient organism has learned some searing and sobering lessons about the volatility and irrationality of stock and housing market over the last few years, not to mention about Wall Street self-dealing and Ponzi schemes. There are a few trust issues here to say the least. One theory for the storm of surveys is that as the economy improves, rms hope to sell more nancial products to young people who have so far been constrained and conservative, says Aite Group banking consultant Ron Shevlin. If you spent your formative years watching the markets lurch from one crisis to another, the idea that

youre going to take money and turn it into more money seems like an 1980s-era relic, says Adam Nash, chief executive ofcer of online investment manager Wealthfront. That scepticism ies in the face of the industry gospel that stocks are the long-term way to generate income and ultimately wealth. Tim Courtney of Exencial Wealth Advisors says of millennials: They just dont understand how markets work in the rst place. Kids these days. The truth is, kids these days arent all that different from kids those days, or the days before that. Thats what really annoys Shevlin about millennial-focused

studies. Theyre not fundamentally different at their age than the Baby Boomers were in their 20s, he says. Most studies dont compare millennials with previous generations at the same age. Nor is there anything fundamentally different in the jump to generalise about certain generations. Its just that this time around its much cheaper and easier to crank out authoritative-sounding studies, Shevlin says. Slap up an online survey, ignore the fact that youre only getting a small, self-selected slice of Generation Y, and bludgeon anyone wholl listen with it. But why single out the young? All retail investors have been reluctant to buy stocks lately, and the money habits of older adults arent shining examples of scal responsibility. That Buck study also says, contradicting itself a bit, that millennials may even be more interested in saving and investing than previous generations were at the same age. Its actually Generation X, not the millennials, who have the most trouble paying bills on time, paying off credit card balances in full and spending less than they earn each month, according to a 2013 Financial Finesse study. Its all a little reminiscent of the strategy recommended by TV reality show pickup artists a few years ago. Their advice to millennial men looking to seduce women: Start by putting them down. The nancial industry seems to have taken that tip and tailored it to suit their needs.
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USAID / Development Innovations Project

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World
Warm welcome
Protesters burn an efgy of US President Barack Obama during an anti-US protest near the Malacanang Palace in Manila yesterday. Obama landed in the Philippines yesterday to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China. Obama stressed that the pact would not result in new US bases in the Philippines but would expand US access to airelds and ports to allow forces from the two sides to train together including for natural disasters. He also said the US had no desire to contain or counter China despite clinching the defence pact, which will inject US forces close to the volatile South China Sea. Obama directly addressed leaders in Beijing, telling them that maritime territorial disputes needed to be addressed peacefully, not with intimidation or coercion. AFP

At least 18 killed as tornadoes strike US

POWERFuL tornadoes killed at least 18 people as they flipped cars, ripped up homes and uprooted trees across south-central US, emergency officials reported yesterday. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said that 15 people were killed when tornadoes touched down on Sunday, while an official with the Oklahoma Emergency Management Agency said there were at least two tornado victims in the state. Its chaos right now, the mayor of the Arkansas town of Velonia, James Firestone, said late on Sunday as emergency crews used searchlights to comb through the debris overnight in some of the hardest-hit areas. The central part of the town of 4,000 seems like its completely levelled. Theres a few buildings partially standing, gas lines spewing. Fire lines down. Weve had casualties. The twisters tore through the region on Sunday and overnight into yesterday, and are forecast to threaten much of the region throughout today. Firestone said that police and firefighters from nearby cities as well as National Guard troops were heading to Velonia. Twisters also devastated large sections of the town of Mayflower, population 2,300, just northwest of the Arkansas state capital Little Rock. Pictures of tornado damage posted by Arkansas TV station THV 11 showed smashed cars, homes ripped in half, and whole residential blocks reduced to rubble. Officials said that parts of Interstate 40, a major east-west highway across the United States, was closed due to debris and overturned vehicles in the Mayflower area. Two regional utility companies, Entergy and First Electric Cooperative, said that more than 15,000 customers were in the dark. Its been a truly awful night for many families, neighbourhoods and communities, but Arkansans always step up to help each other recover, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe wrote on Twitter. There have been numerous homes and buildings damaged and some destroyed, Keli Cain of the Oklahoma Emergency Management Agency said. She cited local emergency officials as saying that a fire station was destroyed and there was damage to the northern part of the town. Dozens of homes were also reported destroyed in nearby Kansas, though state officials have reported no fatalities. The National Weather Service warned of a severe weather threat across the central and southern US over the coming days. AFP

Egypt court sentences 683 to death

Sarah Benhaida

n EgYPtIan court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 other alleged Islamists to death yesterday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the defence partly boycotted. The same court in the southern province of Minya also reversed 492 of 529 death sentences it passed in March, commuting most of those to life in prison. The court, presided over by judge Said Youssef Sabry, sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last month amid an extensive crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. The crackdown has reached secular leaning dissidents who supported Morsis overthrow but have since turned on the army-installed regime. In Cai-

ro, a court banned the April 6 youth movement that spearheaded the 2011 revolt against strongman Hosni Mubarak, following a complaint accusing it of defaming Egypt and colluding with foreign parties. In Minya, the judge is to conrm the death sentences on June 21. Under Egyptian law, death sentences are referred to the top Islamic scholar for an advisory opinion before being ratied. A court may choose to commute the sentences, which can later be challenged at an appeals court. Of the 683 sentenced yesterday, only about 50 are in custody. The others have a right to a retrial if they hand themselves in. Yesterdays hearing lasted just 10 minutes, said Khaled Elkomy, a defence lawyer who was in court. The verdict was the rst against Badie, spiritual head of Morsis Muslim Brother-

hood, in the several trials he faces on various charges along with Morsi himself and other Brotherhood leaders. Several female relatives waiting outside the courtroom fainted on hearing news of the verdict. Where is the justice? others chanted. Some said family members had been unjustly convicted or put on trial. My son does not even pray; he does not even know where the mosque is, said one woman, whose son was among the 529 sentenced to death in March. Karima Fadl, the mother of one of those whose death sentences were commuted, said: My son Khaled received a life sentence. It is not better than a death sentence. It is still an injustice. He did nothing wrong. Those sentenced yesterday were accused of involvement in the murder and attempted murder of policemen in Min-

ya province on August 14, the day police killed hundreds of Morsi supporters in clashes in Cairo. Defence lawyers boycotted the last session, branding it farcical after the mass death sentencing which the United Nations denounced as a breach of international human rights law. Lawyer Elkomy claims 60 per cent of the 529 defendants, including teachers and some doctors, have evidence that proves they were not present the day they were accused of attacking the Matay police station in Minya, said the Avaaz human rights group. The government has defended the courts handling of the rst mass death sentences, insisting the sentences were passed only after careful study and were subject to appeal. Prosecutor Abdel Rahim Abdel Malek defended the charges against the 529. We have strong evidence

that incriminates all those sentenced to death, he said. We have videos, witness accounts ... documents that prove the Muslim Brotherhood had called on its supporters to attack police stations and public and private property in case the sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya [in Cairo] was broken up, and thats what happened, he said. Last months death sentences sent a chill through opponents of the military-installed regime, which has held mass trials of thousands of alleged Islamists since Morsis ousting. At least 1,000 people have been sentenced since December, all in groups of 10 or more. Jail terms passed range from six months to life, as well as the death penalty. Amnesty says more than 1,400 people have been killed in the police crackdown since the army overthrew Morsi, Egypts rst elected and civilian leader. AFP

Pro-Russian mayor shot, wounded in Ukraine

ThE pro-Russian mayor of the town of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine was in critical condition yesterday after he was shot while riding his bicycle, local officials said, the same day the US imposed new sanctions on Moscow. Gennady Kernes was hit by a bullet in the back during an attack by an unidentified gunman, a town hall official said. He is being operated on. Doctors are fighting for his life. Kernes was on his bicycle when the attack occurred, according to his entourage. The mayor is a colourful character, who has a criminal record for theft and fraud and is not known for tolerating dissent. He is under investigation on accusations of kidnapping and torture but has clung onto his post in Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million not far from the border with Russia. Kernes was known for a particularly robust crackdown on pro-Western demonstrations, banning any protests to avoid the spread of infectious diseases. Pro-Western activists were regularly assaulted. Some had their cars burnt while others were sprayed with a green liquid that is difficult to remove from the skin and impossible to remove from clothes. Also yesterday, the US imposed new sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 firms linked to President Vladimir Putins inner circle to punish the Kremlin for failing to ease tensions in Ukraine. Deepening the worst East-West showdown since the end of the Cold War, Washington is also tightening licensing requirements for certain high-tech exports to Russia that could have a military use, the White House announced in a statement issued in Manila, where President Barack Obama is on a state visit. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency that his country would respond to the sanctions. We are certain that this response will have a painful effect on Washington, he said. Back in Ukraine yesterday, some 300 masked pro-Russian militants wielding baseball bats attacked a branch of the bank owned by an oligarch regional governor who has voiced criticism of Moscow. The gang attacked the Donetsk office of the powerful Private banking and metal industry holding belonging to Igor Kolomoisky, a billionaire who is also governor of the nearby region of Dnipropetrovsk. They shouted slogans accusing Kolomoisky, 51, of being a fascist and enemy of the people, an AFP reporter on the scene said. A leader of Ukraines Jewish community, Kolomoisky is worth $2.4 billion). Kolomoisky has been particularly vocal in his opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, attacking him as not normal. AFP

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World

Stop the press

Newspaper apologises for headline

HE Australian financial newspaper that accidentally published a front-page headline reading World is Fukt apologised yesterday to its readers for the error-ridden edition. The respected Australian Financial Review, in a message from editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury, said the mistake was due to a production and printing error. The accidental front page quickly found fans on Twitter who approved of the headline: Arms buildup Buys planes, World is Fukt. Using the hashtag #WorldisFukt, readers described the mistakes as a tremendously great publishing error and journalism that tells it like it is. The unusual edition, which was confined to the 16,000 or so copies printed and circulated in Western Australia, is now attracting interest on eBay, with one specimen attracting a bid of A$81 (US$75) well above the editions A$3.50 cover price. Stutchbury said an investigation was under way to determine what caused the problem for the paper. AFP

Twenty dead as Iraq forces vote

eaDLy attacks yesterday, including a spate of suicide bombings, killed 20 soldiers and policemen as they cast their ballots ahead of Iraqs rst election since US troops withdrew. The bombings in Baghdad and north and west Iraq raise serious concerns about the ability of the countrys security forces to protect voters during Wednesdays general election, in which more than 20 million Iraqis are eligible to vote. The poll comes amid a protracted surge in violence and fears the country is edging towards all-out conict. Attackers wearing suicide belts hit polling centres in Baghdad and cities north of the capital, while roadside bombs struck military convoys and targeted journalists covering the polling. At a voting centre in western Baghdad where six security members were killed, ambulances rushed to and fro, collecting the wounded, as soldiers cordoned off the street and ushered passersby away, an AFP journalist said. Attacks elsewhere left 14 dead

An Iraqi policeman covers his mouth at the site of a suicide attack outside a polling centre in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday. AFP

overall all members of the security forces ofcials said. In the main northern city of Mosul, meanwhile, six journalists were wounded as a bomb went off while they were travelling in a military vehicle to cover police and troops voting. The blasts shattered an early morning calm, when soldiers and policemen had queued outside voting centres amid tight security across Bagh-

dad and around the country as polls opened, each leaving with a purple ink-stained nger indicating they had voted. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, lambasted by critics for allegedly consolidating power and targeting minority groups amid a deterioration of security, is bidding for a third term in the polls, with Iraqis frustrated over poor basic services, rampant corruption and high unemployment.

The monthlong campaign has seen Baghdad and other cities plastered with posters and decked out in bunting, as candidates have taken to the streets, staged loud rallies and challenged each other in angry debates. [I have come to vote] for the sake of Iraq, and to change the faces who have not served Iraq, said Ahmed, a policeman wearing civilian clothes who was queueing at a polling station in central Baghdad and declined to give his full name. Along with more than 800,000 members of the security forces who are eligible to vote at upwards of 500 polling centres nationwide, hospital and prison staff, patients and inmates were also voting yesterday. The election commission meanwhile said that more than 60,000 ballots had so far been cast in out-of-country voting which continued throughout yesterday. Meanwhile, Iraqi army helicopters hit a jihadist convoy in eastern Syria on Sunday, killing at least eight, in a show of strength just days before the countrys rst general

election since 2010. It was the rst strike inside Syria claimed by Iraq since the three-year uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011. The conict has spilled across the border, contributing to the most dramatic rise of violence in Iraq since the countrys 2006-08 sectarian war, with more than 600 people killed so far this month. The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with fuel, interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said. ISIL emerged in Iraq in the wake of the US-led invasion in 2003, and later expanded into Syria during the uprising against Assad. Maan said there was no coordination with the Syrian regime over the strike. Our responsibility now is to protect our border and to protect the border from the other side, because there is no protection from the other side, he said. AFP

Underwater search for 370 to expand: Australia

AUSTRaLIaS prime minister yesterday announced an expanded search across a huge swathe of seabed where Flight MH370 might have crashed seven weeks ago, admitting it is now highly unlikely that any surface wreckage will be found. A massive hunt for the Boeing 777 in the southern Indian Ocean has so far yielded nothing on the surface or below, baffling authorities who are struggling to explain the loss. Abbott said the search would now enter a new phase involving undersea efforts being ramped up, with authorities scouring the ocean floor over an area of nearly 60,000 square kilometres. AFP

Syrias Assad to stand again for president

SyRIaN President Bashar al-Assad has registered to run in next months presidential vote, which is expected to return him to power despite the grinding conflict, the parliament speaker announced yesterday. The election will be Syrias first multicandidate presidential vote, after changes to the constitution, but it has already been criticised by the opposition and much of the international community as a farce. The government has not explained how it will hold the vote in a country gripped by a brutal war that has killed more than 150,000 people and left large swathes of territory beyond regime control. Speaking at a session of parliament, Speaker Mohamed al-Lahham read a letter from Assad announcing his candidacy. I, citizen Bashar Hafez al-Assad, wish to present my candidacy for the post of president of the republic, the document said. A posting on the presidencys official Facebook page quoted Assad as calling on supporters of different candidates to express themselves through the ballot box. Those who wish to express their joy and support for any candidate for the presidency should do so in a responsible, patriotic way, first, and secondly, through the ballot box in a timely fashion, he said. I call on all Syrian citizens to refrain from firing in the air in joy, whatever the occasion might be, especially as Syria will be having its first election in modern history. In Damascus, as children left school, dozens of young girls and boys chanted their approval of his candidacy, shouting God, Bashar, and thats all. Assad is expected to sail to victory against the six other candidates who have so far announced their runs, one of them a woman. They are all largely unknown, except for one member of parliament, and it remains unclear how they will angle their campaigns against Assad. Assad became president after his father Hafez died in 2000 and will be competing in the first multi-candidate elections for the post, after a constitutional amendment did away with a referendum system. Electoral rules prevent those who have lived outside Syria for the past decade from competing, effectively ruling out participation by the opposition-inexile. With nearly half the population displaced, inside and outside the country, it is unclear how many Syrians will be able to vote. The head of the electoral commission also said yesterday that Syrians who left the country illegally would not be allowed to vote. Many of the approximately three million Syrians who have fled the country did so through by being smuggled across the border into neighbouring countries, or crossing through rebel-held border posts. AFP

22 killed in attack on MSF hospital in CAR

AT LEaST 22 people including three staff members of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres were killed during a weekend attack by gunmen on a Central African hospital, in the latest atrocity to hit the violenceplagued country. The brutal attack in the northwest was blamed on the mostly Muslim rebels known as the Seleka, whose coup in March last year unleashed a vicious cycle of sectarian violence. AFP

Taiwan uses water cannon to disperse nuclear protest

TaIWaNESE police yesterday used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators, demanding the scrapping of a nearly completed nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial issues to have gripped the island for 30 years. Tens of thousands of antinuclear demonstrators blockaded one of the busiest streets in the capital on Sunday, forcing the ruling Kuomintang party to yield and halt construction work at the plant. This concession by the government led to a large number of demonstrators leaving the area, but hundreds remained, prompting police to use water cannon to disperse the crowds yesterday morning. Claiming they were attacked, club-waving riot police chased some protesters. Police also carried away some sit-in protesters lying on the ground. Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin forecast the tough measures at a press conference on Sunday night when he denounced the sit-in for disrupting the lives of ordinary people. The demonstrators should protest against the government rather than Taipei citizens. I may take any measures needed to ensure traffic can return normal [yesterday]. A Kuomintang spokesman announced on Sunday that there would be no further construction of reactor one only safety checks will be done and after that it [reactor one] will be sealed for storage. Construction of reactor two will be terminated. In the future, any such commercial operation will be decided by a referendum, he added. Premier Jiang Yi-huah added yesterday: In this way, we would leave an option open to our next generation when choosing energy [sources]. The power station has for years been one of the most contentious projects in the island country. Intense political wrangling has repeatedly delayed its construction, which began in 1999 and has already cost around T$300 billion ($10 billion). Concerns about Taiwans nuclear power stations have been mounting since 2011, when Japans Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by a tsunami that knocked out power to its cooling systems and sent reactors into meltdown. Taiwan is also prone to quakes. AFP

Indian police nd dead Brits body in plastic bag

INDIaN police said yesterday that they had found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi. The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name Rodick Andrew Reymond. The body was found on Sunday morning at a market in the capital, a Delhi police spokesman said. It is a murder. We found the body in a decomposed state, spokesman Vijay Kumar said. Local newspapers reported that the man, found wrapped in a large blue plastic bag, appeared to have been beaten around the head. He also had burn marks on his face, according to reports, although this could not be conrmed with police. Other details will be known after the autopsy report, an investigating ofcer from Nizamuddin police station said. Police were trying to determine whether his badly damaged passport was genuine, the Hindustan Times said. The passport showed he had arrived in India two months ago on a tourist visa, the Times of India reported. The crowded Nizamuddin area where the body was found is home to a Su shrine popular with tourists. Some 20.7 million foreign nationals visited India during 2012, according to the latest gures from the ministry of tourism, with New Delhi high on the itinerary. The safety of tourists in India was highlighted in January, after rape cases involving German and Danish tourists and a Polish woman living in the country. AFP

Toll in DR Congo train crash rises to 74 dead

ThE toll in a train crash in DR Congo last week was raised to 74 dead on Sunday, the countrys health minister said. Many people were trapped for days in the mangled wreckage of the goods train that flew off the rails in a swampy region in the southeast of the country. A newly purchased locomotive hurtled off the track last Tuesday as the goods train, bursting with illegal passengers, rounded a bend. AFP

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Josephine letters go on sale in Paris

At least nine dead in Bangladesh storm

N 1806 Josephine Bonaparte wrote to one of Napoleons most-trusted generals, Alexandre Berthier, who had also become her own close friend, appealing to him to guard the emperors safety in battle. She could not have known it, but it was her future happiness which was in danger. Above all take care of the emperor, she wrote in October 1806 to his chief of staff. Ensure that he does not expose himself too much, you are one of his oldest friends and it is your attachment to him which calms me. A few weeks after she wrote so tenderly of Napoleons welfare, his mistress Eleonore Denuelle would give birth to a son convincing him that it was his wifes fault, not his, that they had failed to produce the longed-for heir. The fate of their marriage was sealed. The letter is one of four revealing unpublished letters from Josephine to Berthier held within his family for more than two centuries to be auctioned by Sothebys in Paris on Wednesday. The sale also includes orders from Napoleon to Berthier to inspect the defences of ports, towns and camps along the English

A visitor to the Hong Kong History Museum on May 30, 2003, looks at Jacques-Louis Davids 1801 painting Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps by the Great Saint Bernard Pass. aFP

Channel, before the men visit them together in the following year in preparation for his planned invasion of England. Josephine de Beauharnais married Napoleon, six years her junior, in 1796, to the horror of his family, when he was a young ofcer and she was a widow with two small children supported by a string of lovers. She partly befriended Berthier in sympathy for his own irregular household: he was devoted to his married Italian

mistress, and she welcomed both of them to her home. By the time of the letters Josephine was empress, crowned by Napoleon in a dazzling ceremony in Paris in 1804. All her life she was notorious for extravagance, and one of the letters is on notepaper of truly imperial luxury and decorated with now tarnished silver leaf. These are wonderful letters, so intimate and revealing, to a man who was a trusted friend, Frederique Parent, an

expert at the Paris branch of the auction house, said. It has been a privilege to have them in my hands. In the last of the letters, in 1809, she wrote to Berthier of the death of Jean Lannes, one of Napoleons most brilliant generals who also became a close friend of hers. Napoleon said of him: I found him a pygmy and left him a giant. Parent described the letter as exceptionally unusual, adding: To nd Josephine directly addressing military affairs, and a general by name, is quite remarkable. Lannes was badly injured in the French defeat at the battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, when the Austrians drove Napoleon back from crossing the Rhine. Both Lanness legs were amputated. He died eight days later of fever. Josephine appeared worried that she had given false hope of his recovery to his widow, writing: Everything that I had learned made me believe the Marechal out of danger. Concerned as ever for Napoleon, and worried about her son Eugene, she ended the letter: Be assured of my tender friendship, embrace Eugene for me, I am happy to know him close to the emperor and to you.

Later that year her marriage to Napoleon would be tested to breaking point. He nally decided to be rid of her, in his determination to obtain a male heir. Her screams when he broke the news are said to have roused the entire household. He asked Berthier for evidence of her indelity to help with the divorce, but was refused. He later sent his friend to open negotiations for marriage to the daughter of Francis II, the emperor of Austria. In 1810 the divorce was nalised and he married Marie Louise, duchess and the following year they did had a son, Napoleon II. The Wednesdays sale, set to raise several million euros, also includes uniforms and swords, family portraits and records, books and documents spanning Berthiers career. Josephine lived on until 1814, when she died of pneumonia after contracting a cold while walking in her famous rose gardens at Malmaison with Tsar Alexander. Napoleon died in exile on the remote island of St Helena in 1821: his last words were recorded as France, arme, tte darme, Josephine (France, army, head of the army, Josephine).
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A SeVere storm left at least nine people dead and about 1,000 homeless after hitting northern Bangladesh overnight, police and a local government official said yesterday. The storm tore through dozens of villages in northern Netrokona district close to the border with India, destroying homes and wrecking paddy fields, they said. At least nine people including a family of four were killed in the storm, district police official Rashel Miah said, adding that the full extent of the storms destruction was not yet known. aFP

Baby among five killed in British house blaze

A 9-WeeK-OLd baby girl and two children aged 7 and 9 were among five people killed in a house fire in Britain on Monday. Anum Parvaiz, 54, and her 20-year-old daughter Shabina Begum were named as the two adults killed in the blaze in Sheffield, northern England. Its a tragedy beyond description, said Parvaizs cousin Ishfaq Hussain Kayani. He said a nine-week-old baby girl was among those who had died, as well as 9-year-old Adhyan Nazim and 7-year-old Amaan Nazim. An investigation has commenced, involving police and fire officers, to establish the cause of the fire, the fire brigade said. aFP

The best of teashops and cafs

With more and more teashops and cafs springing up around town and countrywide, we are going to take a look at the very best spots for breakfast and lunch, to hang out, to meet friends, have business meetings, and get on top of some out-of-office work. In this special, we will look at the products and services the most popular teashops and cafs have to offer, along with the best of the best when it comes to atmosphere. Invite us over and tell us about your products.
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SIa is well positioned to capitalise on largely favourable global trends and enjoy steady growth in 2014-15. With vigilance and further reforms, the region should remain resilient to global risks and continue to be a dynamic force driving the strengthening global recovery. Given Cambodias growing regional integration, this is good news and would allow more space to focus on policies to further boost the resilience of the economy to shocks. How did we arrive at these conclusions in our latest Regional Economic Outlook report? First, global activity has been firming up, and this will help Asias exports. Growth momentum has gathered steam in the United States and the euro area, thanks to a reduction in fiscal tightening and still accommodative monetary conditions. And while some large emerging market economies have slowed, overall growth in emerging markets has picked up. Stock markets across most of the globe have reflected those trends and many have reached alltime highs. Second, the largest economies in the region are also doing relatively well, despite some challenges. In China, the unveiling of the governments reform agenda has boosted sentiment, and growth should moderate only slightly to 7.5 per cent in 2014. Meanwhile, Abenomics has lifted confidence and inflation in Japan, and growth there should remain above trend at 1.4 per cent in 2014. This favourable external environment is benefiting the rest of the region, together with strong employment and credit growth in many economies. The overall outlook for Asia is one of steady, robust growth of about 5.5 per cent in 2014-15. No longer as stellar as a few years ago, but still enviable by international standards. Third, external risks have receded in emerging Asia, including when compared with some emerging economies in other regions. Asias emerging markets moved swiftly to address vulnerabilities following last years market turbulence and now have stronger macroeconomic fundamentals. So far, so good for Asia, but this outlook assumes that risk factors remain dormant. An unexpected tightening of global liquidity would affect the region. Domestic vulnerabilities could magnify the impact as interest rates rise, vulnerabilities stemming from pockets of high corporate leverage and household indebtedness would come to the fore. In addition, econo-

Trafc passes the General Department of Taxation ofce in Phnom Penh. More effective tax collection is needed if Cambodia is to meet its developmental needs in health, education and infrastructure. PHA LINA

mies with weaker fundamentals would be hard hit, similar to what happened a year ago when markets abruptly revised their expectations of future US monetary policy. Asia is also facing risks originating from within the region. These include a sharper than envisaged slowdown and financial sector vulnerabilities in China, a waning impact of Abenomics, and political tensions and uncertainty. A continuation of the recent macroeconomic and structural policy momentum would help keep risks at bay, maintain investor confidence and sustain the regions growth leadership. Progress on structural reforms is critical. The agenda varies across the region, involving vigorous implementation of the governments reform blueprint to put growth on a more sustainable path in China; further product and labour market reforms to prevent deflation and low growth from returning in Japan; and lifting regulatory impediments, boosting infrastructure and continuing to promote trade and financial integration in many emerging, frontier and developing economies, as well as in Pacific island countries and small states. What does this regional outlook mean for Cambodia? If we take a longer view, growth in Cambodia has been impressive but volatile relative to its peers, partly reflecting its open economy and concentrated production base. IMF

research has shown that external shocks can explain more than half of Cambodias growth variation, a trend that is expected to become more important as its integration with the global economy, and with emerging Asia in particular, expands. Through trade, investment and financial channels, the economy is now more exposed to external shocks. We therefore need to be more vigilant about risks. The good news is that, with Asia rebalancing and consumption playing a larger role in the region, including China, new sources of foreign direct investment and market access for Cambodia are opening up. In this context, the regional integration in 2015 will also provide opportunities. The policy challenge now is how best to leverage these regional trends with domestic reforms to improve the quality of growth and build resiliency against shocks. This is essential to create more and better-quality jobs for Cambodias youth in the years ahead. In our latest country report, published in January, and in the book Cambodia: Entering a New Phase of Growth, published in February, we highlight the financial, monetary and fiscal measures that could lay the foundations for a more resilient Cambodia. Given the rapid growth of Cambodias banking system and microfinance institutions, it is important to

ensure that financial deepening can continue without compromising financial stability. That will require moderating credit growth and managing financial deepening, better risk management and continuous upgrading of supervision and regulation. Because of limited monetary control due to high dollarisation, monetary policy will need additional support from strong supervision and macroprudential policies to moderate risk buildup in the system. On fiscal measures, implementing the governments revenue mobilisation strategy, managing contingent liabilities related to public-private partnership projects and continuing to reform public financial management are critical to rebuilding and safeguarding the fiscal space. The strong performance of tax collection in recent years is a good start, but more is needed. Continued improvement in revenue collection and expenditure efficiency would support Cambodias development needs, especially in health, education and infrastructure, and make growth more inclusive. As Asias momentum is on course to continue, Cambodia is well placed to take advantage of regional trends and navigate the associated risks to create more and better jobs for an inclusive society.
Faisal Ahmed is the International Monetary Funds resident representative in Cambodia.

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ILLIAM Shakespeares comic tale of love, enchantment and fairies in the forest will be brought to life in the Kingdom this week by the Phnom Penh Players. A Midsummer Nights Dream tells the story of four young men and women from Athens embroiled in a vicious cycle of unrequited love. When they end up in the forest one night, the marital woes of the fairy king Oberon and the queen Titania become intertwined in the humans affairs as magical enhancements manipulate the lovers. Meanwhile, a group of workmen who are putting on a play get caught in fairyland as they struggle to put on their newest production. Its a show that Ive always really loved, and its one of the more accessible Shakespeare pieces without being too overdone, said director Teia Rogers, an American freelance NGO consultant. Louisa McKerrow, who plays the role of Titania, said that it had been a privilege to act as the fairy queen. Ive always wanted to play a fairy, and shes a wonderful character, McKerrow said, adding that the Shakespearian dialogue is like speaking another language. Rogers, who has in the past directed the Phnom Penh Players in Cigarettes and Chocolate and The Vagina Monologues, said that taking on the classic has sent her out of her comfort zone due

Shakespeares fairies to put Phnom Penh under a spell w

Bennett Murray

In brief
ANONYMOUS social network Secret is to launch in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, capitalising on both its US success and the seemingly endless capacity of people to broadcast their personal information. Secret allows users to share short text and image posts with their wider social network, but without revealing who wrote each update. It works by scanning users address books, and showing their updates to a subset of their friends, and friends of friends.
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Emily Marques and Louisa McKerrow play fairies in A Midsummer Nights Dream.

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to the shows long, complicated dialogue. Weve got a few non-native English speakers, and its an interesting challenge when youre trying to tackle text thats not part of your everyday language, Rogers said. She added that the cast includes actors from the US, the UK, the Philippines, Australia and France. In Shakespeares Globe back in the Elizabethan era, women werent allowed to act, so men would play the female parts. For the Phnom Penh Players, however, the situation is the opposite. Few men auditioned for the production, so the ensemble has substituted traditionally male roles, such as that of the fairy Puck, with actresses.

Such creative liberties lend themselves well to Shakespearean productions, Rogers said. Having a limited pool of people to work with, you have to be easygoing about certain things, she said. Were Rogers to have played a part, she said that she would have chosen the traditionally male role of Lysander, a young Athenian who is in love with Hermia when the play begins, but who later falls head-overheels for Helena with the help of the fairies magic. Hes just so much the lover his primary focus is to love and be loved, and that motivates him in a lot of ways, and theres something very fun about that and something very sweet about that,

whereas the others are mischievous or temperamental, she said. The end of the play is not explicit as to whether or not the magical night in the woods was just a dream. But Rogers likes to think it really happened for the characters. She said: I dont necessarily think their consciousness has been bound together and theyve had this collective dream. I like to believe in the world of the fairies and that the characters had an actual experience, because for me it carries a lot of room to be quite fun and interesting to believe [the fairies] are not part of a makebelieve world but part of this space in the real world. A Midsummer Nights Dream

marks Rogers last production in Cambodia before she leaves the country. With the show wrapping up this weekend, she said she has mixed feelings. Most of the cast, she added, are rst-timers at the Phnom Penh Players. Obviously Ill be relieved when its done, but Ill be sad because its been very fun. It really brought people out [to audition] we hadnt seen before, and its been very lovely to get to know all these new people, she said. McKerrow added: We all work together really well. As a group effort, its been a great learning experience. We have all helped each other to bring out the best of our characters.

CHINESE video-streaming websites have removed four legally licensed US television shows in a move that could portend stricter online monitoring, state-run media reported yesterday. From Saturday, popular shows The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, NCIS and The Practice were no longer available on tv.sohu.com, youku.com and v. qq.com, the Global Times said, referring to three popular services and adding that the series were all purchased legally for viewing in China. China closely censors all media, from newspapers to foreign films to microblogging posts. AFP

US TV shows removed from China websites

Russia bans swearing in public performances

Beyond Bollywood: Indian lm moving on

Shaun Tandon

While Bollywood lavish dances are still popular, Indias lm industry is moving in a new direction. afp

IN THROWING its first awards night in the United States, Indias prolific film industry has shown aspirations to hold its own on quality standards on Hollywoods home turf. To be sure, Saturdays gala at Tampa, Floridas 66,000-capacity American football stadium was not up to Oscar standards, with videos played at wrong times, a late start and a five-and-a-half-hour duration that left all but the most enthusiastic fans ready to depart when it closed after 3am. But while Bollywoods famously flamboyant and sensual mass dances still dominated the awards ceremony, industry insiders said that India is increasingly seeing a new generation of movies that steer clear of rote plotlines. Filmmakers pointed to the success of Lunchbox, a romantic film about a mixup in Mumbais legendary delivery system for home-cooked meals. The movie was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and has been praised by

Western critics, while also faring well at the Indian box office. Anupam Kher, best known in Englishlanguage cinema for roles in Bend It Like Beckham and Silver Linings Playbook, said that the shift started a decade ago when many Indians gained access to a wide range of international television programming, raising expectations of standards. I can easily say that now Indian cinema is in its golden phase, he said on the sidelines of the International Indian Film Academy awards in Tampa. You can make the kind of films you believe in and yet they can do well. India churns out more than 1,100 films a year, more than any other country. Kher said that he was one of the few trained actors when he entered the industry 32 years ago and that most of his 450 films did not even have scripts, with filmmakers informally discussing each movie with him. Kher said that Indian actors were increasingly trained and signing formal contracts. Previously, jobs were handed out based on connections. afp

RUSSIAS tradition of vulgar slang has long been a matter of pride for its authors and poets. But a new ban on explicit language in public performances means that some of the countrys best known directors, musicians and actors could face fines. The lower house of parliament passed a law last week implementing banning foul language in public performances including movie showings, plays and concerts. Audio, video and books containing swearwords are required to be sold in special packaging featuring an explicit language warning. The fines imposed by the legislation range from 2,500 roubles for ordinary citizens to 100,000 roubles for businesses. THE GUARDIAN

Richard Gere mistaken for homeless man

A FRENCH tourist listened to her heart when she offered her pizza to a man spotted rummaging through trash in the streets of New York, not realising it was Richard Gere making a movie. Karine Valnais Gombeau, a 42-yearold Parisian, spotted the actor, a knit cap pulled down over his ears, sifting through rubbish as she came out of a pizzeria near Grand Central station in Manhattan, with her husband and 15-year-old son, the New York Post reported. AFP

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PHNOM PENH - HANOI PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

HANOI - PHNOM PENH HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG

HONG KONG - PHNOM PENH 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 3.5.7 1 2 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily 2 14:30 15:25 15:50 18:30 19:10 15:15 09:30 3:20 20:05

AIRLINES CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways 5J - CEBU Airways. AK - Air Asia BR - EVA Airways CI - China Airlines CZ - China Southern FD - Thai Air Asia FM - Shanghai Air K6- Cambodia Angkor Air KA - Dragon Air MH - Malaysia Airlines MI - SilkAir OZ - Asiana Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways QR - Qatar Airways QV - Lao Airlines SQ - Singapore Airlines

COLOUR CODE
1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday

The Chilean Andes near the border with Argentina.

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PHNOM PENH - INCHEON

INCHEON - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - KUALA LUMPUR

KUALA LUMPUR - PHNOM PENH

TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines

PHNOM PENH- PARIS PHNOM PENH - SHANGHAI PHNOM PENH - SINGAPORE 09:30 12:30 12:20 15:25 15:25 18:10 16:40 09:10 14:50 13:20 12:45 17:30 17:50 13:30 11:45 15:20 18:20 18:10 21:10 19:40 12:00 17:50 16:10 17:05 18:50 19:10 14:55 12:30

PHNOM PENH - PARIS SHANGHAI - PHNOM PENH 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 2.4 Daily Daily 1.3 2.4.5 6 7 Daily Daily Daily 1.3.6 08:40 13:30 16:20 15:00 07:20 13:00 11:30 09:10 11:30 11:45 08:20 SINGAPORE - PHNOM PENH

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AIRLINES

A high safari in the Chilean mountains

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Air Asia (AK) Room T6, PP International Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555 Fax: 023 890 071 www.airasia.com

PHNOM PENH -TAIPEI PHNOM PENH - VIENTIANE

TAIPEI - PHNOM PENH VIENTIANE - PHNOM PENH

Dragon Air (KA) #168, Monireth, PP Tel: 023 424 300 Fax: 023 424 304 www.dragonair.com/kh

PHNOM PENH - YANGON SIEM REAP - PHNOM PENH

YANGON - SIEM REAP

Tiger airways G. oor, Regency square, Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205, Sk Chamkarmorn, PP Tel: (855) 95 969 888 (855) 23 5515 888/5525888 E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

SilkAir (MI) Regency C,Unit 2-4,Tumnorb Teuk, Chamkarmorn Phnom Penh Tel:023 988 629 www.silkair.com

SIEM REAP - BANGKOK Flighs

K6 700

BANGKOK - SIEM REAP Dep

12:50

REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES CALLING PORT ROTATION

Arrival
04:05
LINE RCL (12calls/moth) CALLING SCHEDULES 1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 MEARSK (MCC) (4 calls/moth) SITC (BEN LINE (4 calls/onth) ITL (ACL) (4 calls/month) APL (4 calls/month) COTS (2 calls/month) 1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 Sun 09:00-23:00 Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 Irregula FREEQUENCY ROTATION PORTS 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 Call/week 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG (HPH-TXGKEL) SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN - HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB - BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN - SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN HCM-SHV-LZP-HCMNBO-SGH-OSA-KOBBUS-SGH-HGK-CHM SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ SIN-SHV-SIN

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Flighs
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PG 924 PG 906 PG 914 PG 908 PG 910 CZ 3054 CZ 3054

K6 850

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11:10 14:40 16:45 20:15 21:55 15:35 23:20

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PG 903 PG 905 PG 913 PG 907 PG 909 CZ 3053 CZ 3053

K6 851

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19:30

09:00 12:45 14:35 18:10 19:55 10:30 18:30

21:15

SIEM REAP - GUANGZHOU

GUANGZHOU - SIEM REAP

SIEM REAP -HANOI VN 868 VN 842 VN 844 VN 800 VN 3818 VN 826 VN 3820 VN 828 VN 3822 KE 688 OZ 738 AK 281 MH 765 1.2.3.5.6 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily 3.5.7 12:40 18:05 19:45 21:00 11:10 13:30 17:45 18:20 21:35 23:15 23:40 08:35 14:15 15:35 19:45 21:25 22:40 12:30 14:40 18:45 19:20 22:35 06:10 07:10 11:35 17:25

HANOI - SIEM REAP VN 843 VN 845 VN 845 VN 801 VN 3809 VN 827 VN 3821 VN 829 VN 3823 KE 687 OZ 737 AK 280 MH 764 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily 3.5.7 15:25 17:05 17:45 18:20 09:15 11:35 15:55 16:20 19:45 18:30 19:20 06:50 12:10 17:10 18:50 19:30 20:00 10:35 12:35 16:55 17:40 20:45 22:15 22:40 07:50 13:15

2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)

34 call/month
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia SIN= Singapore TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia TYO= Tokyo, Japan TXG= Taichung, Taiwan YAT= Yantian, China YOK= Yokohama, Japan

SIEM REAP - HO CHI MINH CITY

HO CHI MINH CITY - SIEM REAP

BUS= Busan, Korea HKG= HongKong kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC Kob= Kebe, Japan KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand NBO= Ningbo, China OSA= Osaka, Japan SGN= Saigon, Vietnam

SIEM REAP - INCHEON

INCHEON - SIEM REAP

FLY DIRECT TO MYANMAR MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY YANGON - PHNOM PENH SIEM REAP - YANGON

PHNOM PENH - YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP

SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR

KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP

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ITUaTED in a remote corner of Chile bordering Peru and Bolivia, Lauca National Park denitely requires the visitor to venture down some of the Western Hemispheres least travelled roads. With an altitude often exceeding 4,300 metres), the place is breathtaking in more ways than one. The entry point to Lauca National Park is Putre, a village of about 2,000 souls, most of them members of Chiles indigenous Aymara minority. About 3,500 metres above sea level, in the shadow of two massive snow-covered dormant volcanoes, Putre is picturesque and friendly. In Putre, our base of operations was Terrace Lodge, a European-style hotel run by an energetic couple from Italy, Flavio and Patrizia dInca. Flavios job is to guide you through the national park and its surroundings and its a task he performs both capably and enthusiastically. Our rst jaunt with Flavio took us to the Quebrada de Allane, a deep canyon of red and yellow rock, through which the chilly Lluta River ows on its way from the high Andes to the Pacic. After exploring the canyon rim, we made our way down to the river, where Flavio showed us how to paint our names on some at rocks using the strange yellow-covered mud that lies along the Llutas banks. Though the sun was strong, my son reached into the water and plucked out several chunks of ice. We continued from the Quebrada de Allane to Suriplaza, a broad plateau ringed by red-and-brown mountains

nearly 4,600 metres above sea level. The odd colouring of the rocks, coupled with the overall barrenness of the place, made us feel like visitors to Mars. Spectacular as they were, the Quebrada de Allane and Suriplaza could not quite match the majestic sight that Flavio had in store for us the next day: Salar de Surire Natural Monument, a 114-square-kilometre expanse of shallow salt lakes, ringed by dazzling white salt ats along the Bolivian border at 4,300 above sea level. Id never seen anything quite like the contrast between the blue of the lake water and the pure white of the salt ats, set off by the extinct Arintica volcano looming in the background. All across this stunning landscape, wildlife played: guanacos, chinchillas, and as Flavio somehow managed to see from hundreds of yards away a young Andean fox, stalking a vicua. After Salar de Surire, Flavio had one more geological marvel to show us. Just beyond the southern end of the salt ats, at a place called Polloquere, a bubbling hot spring lls a shallow pool with an endless supply of 65 degree Celsius water. As my travel companions spread out lunch on a nearby picnic table, I stripped down to a pair of shorts, lowered myself into the steaming water and squished therapeutic mineral mud between my toes. Luxuriating in natures bathtub, I mused contentedly on my suri sighting, gazed at the purple mountain range on the horizon, and realised that I didnt have a care in the world except that our trip to the Chilean Andes was coming to an end. THE WASHINGTON POST

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Teams can accumulate points just for playing and win prizes at the end of the season. Weekly prizes are featured as well. The entrance cost is $1 per person, with the winning team taking all.

The Gym Sports Bar, #42 Street 178. 5:30pm

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Monthly end of the month quiz hosted by Brechtvan der Laan. Winning team receives a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label whisky. Free entrance.

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10:45am - SCHOOL OF ROCK: A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band. Starring Jack Black. HBO 3:45pm THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as hes poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavour. He must struggle with poverty and homelessness before he can make it big. Starring Will Smith. FOX MOVIES 6:45pm - THE BOURNE LEGACY: In the aftermath of Jason Bournes actions in the original Bourne trilogy, black ops agents Aaron Cross must run for his life after his classified espionage organisation is exposed. Starring Jeremy Renner. HBO 9:45pm - CHILDREN OF MEN: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile and Britain is the only remaining bastion of law and order, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. Starring Clive Owen. HBO

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Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 110. 4pm

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OFFICE BUILDING FOR RENT Located a long Norodom Blvd, 400 sqm , parking lot, big elevator, big staircase, 24h security and many facilities around. Price: US $15/month per sqm. Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00 www.towncityrealestate.com

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Sport

Riblet rips up Mekong crossing in swim event

THE 18th edition of the Mekong River Swim went off without a hitch on Sunday, with Frenchman Xavier Riblet producing another commanding performance to set the days fastest time of 7 minutes 50 seconds. While Riblet, who has won almost every event since its inception, took top honours in the over-18 male section, Becks Green swam the roughly 700-metre crossing in 10:26 to head the over-18 female class. David Suhs time of 10:48 saw him triumph in the junior males (10-17 years old), while Mai Hastings touched home in 13:27 for gold in the junior females. The iCAN team of Cameron Shapiro who was the best local junior swimmer with 11:50 Eli Shapiro (12:00), Les Kosem (12:42) and Vuthy Hastings (12:58) were the fastest foursome. Narak Kun (10:58) lead the local timings, 11-year-old Samnang (14:45) from Liger Learning Centre was the youngest to complete the course and 72-year-old Joseph Brennan (16:03) of the US was the oldest. DAN RILEY

NEw Zealand teenager Lydia Ko captured her first professional title on Sunday, closing with a birdie to edge Stacy Lewis by one stroke and win the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. Three days after her 17th birthday, the South Korean-born Kiwi fired a final-round three-under par 69 to finish 72 holes on 12-under 276 to win the inaugural US$1.8 million event at Lake Merced in California. It completed a landmark week for Ko, who pocketed $270,000 and was named in Time magazines list of the worlds 100 most influential people last Thursday, the only golfer so honoured. AFP

Kiwi teen Ko takes first professional golf title

he concluding round of the rugby sevens group stage was held on Sunday at the Old Stadium, with teams snapping up the remaining places in the May 18 nals. Organisers described the day as 42 games, a lot of fun, a lot of tries and lot of perspiration. The senior section saw last years runners up Stade Khmer beat PSE Garudas 15-7, a result which meant the two teams would face each other in the title decider. Stade Khmer president Jean-Baptiste Suberbie told the Post that Sundays game sent a big message to the Garudas. We are very proud to be again in nal this year, he said. Last year, we celebrated our advance to the nal, maybe too much, and after we lost against Sisowath

Sevens rugby teams sweat it out to book finals places T

Dan Riley

[Knights]. This year, no celebration, because our objective is clear to bring home the national trophy for the rst time in our clubs history. We want to win this trophy for all the players who are going to stop next year historical Cambodian players such as Phan Sophea and Dul Khemrin. But we also want to win for our U18 team, which is our best supporter. Stade Khmers U18s were already assured of a nals berth on May 18 against the Rene Descartes French high school side, two very close teams which represent the future of Cambodian rugby, according to Suberbie. On Sunday, the ISPP team appeared in their inaugural U18 game against Descartes, which was played at high intensity. Meanwhile, Soksabay womens team registered their rst tries in competitive sevens rugby after drawing both of their games 2-2 against conrmed nalists PSE and Descartes.

Stade Khmers Rath Ra (right) comes under pressure from PSE Garudas Thy Thik during their mens seniors rugby sevens game at the Old Stadium on Sunday. BING GUAN

The U15 division had Taraspeca (a combination of Taramana and ASPECA squads) seal a place in the season closer, while PSE and Descartes are forced to play an extra game to decide who will join them. PSE and Descartes will contest the

U13 nal, while ASPECA and PSE will play-off for the chance to meet Descartes in the U11 nal. ASPECA and Descartes will vie for the U9 trophy. The nals will all be played on May 18 at the Old Stadium.

Sharapova takes third straight title in Stuttgart

MaRIa Sharapova claimed a hat-trick of Stuttgart titles on Sunday after coming from behind to win a three-set battle royal with Ana Ivanovic in Sundays nal. Having won the 2012 and 2013 titles here, the 27-yearold Sharapova was made to work hard for her 13th consecutive win on Stuttgarts clay-courts for the 30th nal win of her career before overpowering Ivanovic to claim a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory in just over two hours. That was a tough bit of work, said Sharapova, who has won all four Grand Slam titles. I have always believed in my chances and the ghting spirit is something that comes from within me. This was the rst time Sharapova has claimed a third title at an individual tournament and comes on the back of last years shoulder injury. This time around its been extremely tough, thats why this win is so special, admitted Sharapova. The Russian collects the winners cheque of 96,774 (US$133,896) and a brandnew sports car. I will need to build a new garage to get all the cars in, she joked as she collected her third Porsche sports car in as many years from the tournament director. It is the Russians rst claycourt tournament in her build-up to the French Open, having lost to Serena Williams in last years nal. We have seen what a great player Maria is, admitted Ivanovic.

Noh claims maiden US win at Zurich Classic

NOH Seung-Yul claimed his first title on the US PGA Tour by firing a one-under-par 71 for a two-shot victory at the Zurich Classic on Sunday. The 22-year-old South Korean finished at 19-under-par 269 to beat out Americans Andrew Svoboda and Robert Streb. Im very excited and very happy, said Noh, who was making his 78th career start on the North American tour. AFP

Nishikori wins in Barcelona

Japans Kei Nishikori sealed his fth career ATP title and rst on clay on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Colombian Santiago Giraldo to claim the Barcelona Open. Nishikori, who was playing for the rst time on clay this week under new coach and former French Open champion Michael Chang, becomes the rst non-Spaniard to win the event since 2002. I always love to come to Barcelona and it is a pleasure and honour to be here, said the world number 17. Thank you to my team, Dante [Bottini] and Michael, and I hope I come back next year and defend this title. It is not easy to win this title with all the Spanish players that play here. It is one of the most difcult ATP 500 tournaments and I am very happy to win. Giraldo was playing in just his second career nal on the tour and his inexperience showed as Nishikori dictated from the off and broke three times on his way to taking the rst set. More of the same was to come in the second set as Nishikori raced out of the blocks, charging into to a 5-1 lead before serving out for the championship. AFP

Clippers make silent protest amid race storm

Indonesias Christopher Rungkat helped his nation retain its Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II status. AFP

LOs Angeles Clippers players staged a silent protest and wore black apparel during an NBA playoff loss on Sunday after racist remarks attributed to team owner Donald Sterling. Sterling, the NBAs longestserving team owner after buying the Clippers in 1981, did not attend the 118-97 loss at Golden State which levelled their series 2-2, but comments allegedly made by the 80-yearold billionaire cast a long shadow over the contest. AFP

Indonesia stay in group

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SUNDAYs RESULTS
NBA Play-off Results Washington 98 Chicago 89 (Washington leads 3-1) Toronto 87 Brooklyn 79 (Series tied 2-2) Portland 123 Houston 120 OT (Portland leads 3-1)

INDONESIA, powered by Christopher Rungkat, who frequently trains in Cambodia, staved off Hong Kong 3-1 in a play-off to retain their Asia/Oceania Group II status for 2015. Hong Kong, promoted to Group II last year in Dubai after being bracketed with Cambodia in the promotional play-off, will drop down to Group III in their next campaign. Playing on the hard courts of Jakartas Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Stadium, where he has played some of his best Davis Cup matches, Rungkat won a five-set thriller against Hong Kongs leading player Philip King in the fourth rubber on

Sunday to wipe out relegation worries.After King took the first set with a measure of comfort raising hopes of Hong Kong levelling the rubber scores at 2-2, Rungkat steadily worked his way back to take the next two before King drove the finish to a fifth set. The Indonesian, however, wrested with great gusto to complete a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory and give the hosts a winning 3-1 lead. The dead fifth rubber between Indonesias Aditya Hari Sasongko and David Catala Celasco was abondoned due to rain with the home player leading 6-1, 4-1. Indonesia and Hong Kong shared the opening singles on

Friday. Rungkat brushed aside Ognian Kolev 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 to give Indonesia a 1-0 advantage but in the second singles, King stayed strong and sturdy to down Agung Susanto 6-2, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1. Saturdays doubles rubber went the full distance before the Indonesian pair of Rungkat and Elbert Sie edged out King and Kolev 6-4, 6-1, 5-7, 3-6, 6-3 to carry a 2-1 lead to the reverse singles. Cambodia will head to Tehran for the week commencing June 9, where they will be pitted against fellow Asia/Oceania Zone Group III rivals including hosts Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Singapore, Syria, Turkmenistan and UAE.

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Football

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Bayerns home comfort Pellegrini trusts City

ayERN Munich plan on making home advantage count in tonights Champions League semi-nal, second-leg, against Real Madrid having never lost at home to the Spanish giants. Madrid arrive in the Bavarian capital holding a 1-0 lead thanks to Karim Benzemas 19th-minute goal in last Wednesdays rst leg in Madrid and are looking to avenge their defeat at the same stage to Bayern two years ago. History is on the Germans side. Bayern have never lost to Real in Munich, with eight victories and one draw, to lead the overall series with 11 victories to Madrids eight from 21 encounters. The second-leg, however, is nely poised. Ballon dOr winner Cristiano Ronaldo proved he is t for the Munich clash after a hamstring injury by scoring twice on Saturday to leave him on 47 goals for the season. Real coach Carlo Ancelotti rested stars Benzema, who picked up a knee knock in the rst leg, and Gareth Bale, who was recovering from u, at Osasuna. The Italian has insisted both men should be t to

to seize title chance

MaNUEL Pellegrini claims that he never lost faith that Manchester City could win the Premier League after his side regained control of the title race with a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace. On a potentially decisive weekend in the battle for supremacy at the top of the table, City took full advantage of Liverpools unexpected 2-0 defeat at home to Chelsea with a ruthless performance just hours later in south London. City currently sit in third position but they are now only three points adrift of Liverpool, crucially with a game in hand and a vastly superior goal difference, and one behind second placed Chelsea. Pellegrinis team know that, whatever Liverpool and Chelsea do in their last two matches, City will be crowned champions for the second time in three years if they win their nal three xtures at Everton next Saturday and then at home against Aston Villa and West Ham providing they maintain their goal difference advantage. It is an enviable position, although not one that many would have envisaged for City just two weeks ago when they

Luis Suarez wins PFA Player of the Year award

Real Madrids Xabi Alonso (centre) vies with Bayern Munichs Thomas Mueller (right) during their Champions League semi-nal rst leg. AFP

start at the Allianz Arena. Ancelotti has never lost to a German team in six encounters from his time as AC Milan manager, but the key to tonights game will be who scores rst. Real will be chasing the rst goal in Munich which would leave Bayern needing to score at least three times to progress to their fourth Champions League nal in ve years. Worryingly for coach Pep Guardiola, Bayern have conceded the rst goal in seven of their last nine matches since winning the Bundesliga title with a record seven matches

to spare last month. Bayern are bidding to become the rst side to retain the Champions League trophy and will be the rst team since Juventus (1996-98) to reach three consecutive nals if they get past Madrid to reach the nal in Lisbon on May 24. In contrast, Real are eager to reach their rst Champions League nal since winning the title in 2002 having bowed out at the semi-nal stage for the last three seasons running. Tonights match kicks off at 1:45am Cambodian time.
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followed an agonising 3-2 defeat at Liverpool with a lacklustre draw against struggling Sunderland. Yet Pellegrini insists he never doubted City would get another shot at the silverware given the unpredictable nature of this seasons title race. We have always trusted that we can do it. After we lost to Liverpool I said that things can still happen. We just had to win our games, Pellegrini said. For the moment well continue in third position, so we have to play and win our three games. But the good thing is that the destiny is in our own hands at the moment. Pellegrini revealed Citys players were keeping tabs on the action at Aneld before they kicked off at Palace, and he was quick to warn them not to lose focus once that result went their way. They heeded his words with a powerful display as Edin Dzeko headed home from Yaya Toures cross in the fourth minute before Toure underlined his huge importance to the team with a superb solo effort in the 43rd minute to mark his return from a groin injury. AFP

LIVERPOOl striker Luis Suarez won Englands Professional Footballers Associations Player of the Year award on Sunday. This time last year the Uruguay international was starting a 10-match ban for biting Chelseas Branislav Ivanovic, but now Suarez has been chosen by his fellow top-flight professionals in England as the outstanding player in the Premier League after spearheading Liverpools title bid. Chelseas Eden Hazard, who didnt play at Anfield due to injury, was named the PFA Young Player of the Year. AFP

SUNDaYs ResUlTs
English Premier League Spanish La Liga
Sunderland 4 Cardiff 0 Espanyol 1 Almeria 2 Valencia 0 Atletico Madrid 1 Athletic Bilbao 3 Sevilla 1 Villarreal 2 Barcelona 3 Augsburg 3 Hamburg 1 Schalke 0 Bor Mgladbach 1 Verona 4 Catania 0 Cagliari 1 Parma 0 Livorno 0 Lazio 2 Sampdoria 2 Chievo 1 Torino 2 Udinese 0 Atalanta 1 Genoa 1 Sochaux 1 Paris St-Germain 1 Lyon 4 Bastia 1 Lille 2 Bordeaux 1

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Sport
ORLD champion Marc Marquez clinched his third win in three races this season with victory in the Argentina MotoGP on Sunday. The 21-year-old Spaniard also became the rst rider in 43 years to win the rst three rounds from pole position. His Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa was second with Yamaha duo Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi in third and fourth spot respectively. Marquez, who had won in Doha and Austin, slipped back to fth place after a poor start which saw 2010 and 2012 world champion Lorenzo storm to the front. Nine-time world champion Rossi moved into third, but it was Lorenzo who stayed in front. However, with nine of the 25 laps remaining, Marquez pounced to take the lead which he would not relinquish. Lorenzo tried desperately to cling on to second spot, but Pedrosas Honda had too much power and his compatriot passed him on the last lap.

Marquez makes it three in a row W

was on the dirty side of the track, said the world champion. But it was fun. Jorge opened the gap and I just kept pushing to catch him at the end. Lorenzo admitted that the Yamahas are struggling to match the pace of the Honda duo. I didnt expect to stay in front for so many laps, he said. I was pushing hard but Dani was faster than me. Its a hard time for us at the moment but we need to keep strong. I want to improve my physical condition still and also the bike and when the moment arrives I think we will be ready to win races. We have to keep improving and have patience and wait for our moment. Rossi, who raced in the old 250cc class when Argentina last hosted a grand prix in 1999, said the Honda of Stefan Bradl may have cost him a podium place. I had the potential and the pace to end on the podium and especially to ght with the three guys in front, said the Italian, who had been running in second place early in the race.

MotoGP rider Marc Marquez celebrates after winning the Argentina Grand Prix. AFP

Marquez won by 1.837sec from Pedrosa with Lorenzo 3.201sec off the pace and Rossi nishing almost ve seconds behind. Marquez has a perfect 75 points

in the championship standings with Pedrosa on 56 and Rossi in third on 41 points. The beginning was difcult. My tyres were not good and I span as I

Unfortunately in the rst laps I made a mistake and lost a bit but I lost some more when Bradl made a mistake. He arrived too deep in braking and he pushed me out of the track and I lost two seconds and so the podium. Moto2 world championship leader Esteve Rabat clinched his second win of the season as the 24-year-old Spaniard consolidated his domination of the division. Rabat, on a Kalex, had already won the opener in Doha before adding a second place in Austin. Rabat led from pole to nish with Belgiums Xavier Simeon nishing second and Spains Luis Salom completing the podium. Maverick Vinales, the 2013 world champion in Moto3 and the winner in Austin last time out, retired on the fth lap after a fall Italys Romano Fenati won the Moto3 race as Australian Jack Miller failed to make it three wins from three races. The fourth round of the world championship takes place in Jerez next weekend. AFP

Gerrans delighted with his history-making Liege win

SImOn Gerrans spoke of his delight after not only becoming the first Australian to win Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but doing so in the famous old races 100th edition. Such was the importance of the occasion that King Philippe of the Belgians was present to mark the races start on Sunday. And while home favourite Philippe Gilbert could only manage eighth in the race run around his home region, Aussie Gerrans powered home on the tough uphill finish at Ans to claim victory at La Doyenne. To win in Liege-BastogneLiege is really special, but the fact that its the 100th edition probably puts my name in the history of the race and thats a really special feeling and real honour to do that, said the 33-year-old. We had some fantastic results at the 100th Tour de France last year and now the 100th Liege, maybe thats a little omen for Orica-GreenEDGE. Orica enjoyed a successful Tour in 2013, winning the fourth stage team time-trial around Nice, a day after Gerrans had sprinted to victory in the third stage from Ajaccio to Calvi in Corsica. That was Gerrans second individual Tour stage victory having also crossed the line first on stage 15 in 2008. He is no stranger to major race wins having tasted success at both the Giro dItalia and Vuelta a Espana in 2009. He is the record three-time winner of the Tour Down Under while he took victory at the 2012 Milan-San Remo, which like Liege is one of the five Monuments of cycling. But Gerrans said this win in the Ardennes topped the lot. Ive had some very beautiful victories over the past couple of years but I think LiegeBastogne-Liege is really special to me because ever since I turned professional Ive competed at Liege nearly every year, he said. Its a race Ive always dreamt of wining, so because its something Ive been working towards for so long, its such a fantastic feeling to win. So its probably my most beautiful victory of my career. Gerrans had said before the race that he thought he had less chances of winning than he did at the Amstel Gold Race the week before. He had finished third three times at Amstel, including this year, whereas his best result in Liege had been a sixth place finish in 2009. And he even admitted that there was a point during the race where he didnt think he would be able to keep up with the frenetic pace. Just after the Forges climb [about 35km from the end] that was a really difficult section of the race, he said. With the Redoute, Sprimonte and Forges [climbs] quite close together, I was really feeling the effects of that hard section of the race. I actually said to my team-mates Im not feeling too good at the moment, but they stuck by me and supported me, and that really gave me the confidence to give it everything coming into the final. AFP

Australian cyclist Simon Gerrans of Orica-GreenEDGE leads the pack before winning the 100th Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day race. AFP