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THAILANDS ruling junta warned
protesters that it would not tolerate
any further rallies against its coup
after tense stand-offs yesterday
between soldiers and angry crowds
in the capital Bangkok.
Dozens of demonstrators faced off
against lines of armed soldiers before
and after more than 1,000 protesters
marched through the city, the largest
show of dissent since the army seized
power on Thursday following months
of political turmoil.
The military has detained former
premier Yingluck Shinawatra along
with scores of ousted government
leaders, political figures, critics and
academics in a sweeping roundup
since the coup, which has drawn
sharp international criticism.
The army said demonstrators
would be held for one or two days but
could be jailed for up to two years if
they kept taking to the streets.
We will give them a last chance
today, but if they continue to rally we
will use measures to deal with them,
Lieutenant General Apirat Kongsom-
pong told a news conference.
Protests began outside a Bangkok
shopping mall in the Chidlom area,
where boisterous demonstrators
brandished signs reading Junta
Out and F Coup and pushed
armed troops. Minor scuffles broke
out and at least two protesters
were taken away by the troops,
one bleeding.
Demonstrators then made their
way across the city to the Victory
Monument cheered by onlookers,
defying a junta call to avoid protests
and a martial law ban on gatherings
of more than five people.
I am not afraid of them because
the more we are afraid of them, the
more they will stamp on us, pro-
tester Kongjit Paennoy, 50, said. We
want an election to choose our
own boss.
The junta on Saturday announced
it had disbanded the Senate and
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A Reality
check for
top brands
Emily Wight
AHEAD of this afternoons planned
talks between government repre-
sentatives and international fashion
labels, garment workers toting riot
gear and fake guns yesterday staged
a re-enactment of Januarys lethal
crackdown on protesting workers at
the start of the year.
As Cambodian pop songs blasted
from a speaker, dozens of men and
women acted out the violent clash,
which took place on Veng Sreng Boul-
evard on January 2 and 3, before a
crowd of hundreds at the Workers
Information Center, a labour rights
organisation in Tuol Kork.
The scene was part of a politically
motivated fashion show titled Beauti-
ful Clothes, Ugly Reality, which also
featured workers strutting down a cat-
walk clad in factory-produced dresses,
jeans and sweatshirts. The show was
intended to support the stalled
campaign to raise the minimum wage
to $160. Today the government will
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
M
EMBERS of the deposed
government of former
Thai prime minister
Yingluck Shinawatra are
considering forming a government in
exile following last weeks military
coup, a senior legal adviser has said,
fuelling speculation that Cambodia
could play host.
Robert Amsterdam, legal counsel to
former prime minister Thaksin Shina-
watra (Yinglucks influential brother),
and the United National Front for
Democracy Against Dictatorship
(UDD), better known as the red
shirts, said in a statement on Friday
that a number of foreign governments
have already expressed their willing-
ness to host such a government in exile
under internationally established rules
and practice.
Given its geographical proximity and
historic ties to the Shinawatra clan,
Cambodia was immediately floated by
foreign media outlets as an ideal loca-
tion. Phnom Penh is little more than
an hour by plane from Bangkok, and
Prime Minister Hun Sen has welcomed
Thaksin warmly in the past.
But senior members of the govern-
ment and ruling party yesterday reject-
ed the possibility of hosting any such
government in exile, citing the consti-
tution, which stipulates permanent
neutrality and nonalignment and
pledges noninterference, either direct-
ly or indirectly, in the internal affairs of
other states.
I think whoever feels that Cambodia
is an option for a Thai exile government
. . . it is not feasible, firstly because of
our constitution, and secondly because
we have a comprehensive regional
mechanism as well as international
[mechanisms], Council of Ministers
spokesman Phay Siphan said.
Information Minister Khieu Kan-
harith was more blunt.
We cant allow such a government
on our soil, he said in a message
posted on Facebook.
Since last weeks coup, the govern-
ment here has been careful to maintain
a neutral stance on Thai political issues,
but has said it hopes the current mili-
tary rule will be transitional.
General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha, head
of the Thai army, has assumed all
Thai exile govt mulled
We cant allow this here: minister
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ultimatum
A garment worker participating in a re-enactment of the violent January strikes on Veng Sreng Boulevard dons a military
police ofcer costume as others get ready backstage in Phnom Penh yesterday. HONG MENEA
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lawmaking powers in Thai-
land. Yingluck, fellow politi-
cians and family members
were detained by the military,
though several media outlets
reported last night that the
former prime minister had
been released.
Earlier this month, before
the coup, Hun Sen spearhead-
ed an ASEAN declaration that
called for the Thai political sit-
uation to be resolved via dia-
logue and urging full respect
of democratic principles.
When reached yesterday,
Amsterdam, Thaksins lawyer,
declined to conrm whether
Cambodia had been contact-
ed about the government-in-
exile proposal.
We are not discussing any-
thing more than the fact that
we are actively considering
this. We are not making any
statements yet. The situation
in Thailand is incredibly uid.
We are preparing but we are
not declaring, he said in a
phone interview.
As a result of that, I dont
want to say anything about
who would be the host coun-
try . . . Im not going to say any-
thing about where, that doesnt
make any sense at this point.
Amsterdam added that
any government in exile, ac-
cording to international law,
would be independent of Mr
Shinawatra and dependent
on a member of Yinglucks
cabinet who has escaped the
country a person that he de-
clined to name.
Under international law,
we need a representative of
the past government . . . But
Mr Shinawatra continues to
be a majorly important politi-
cal force in Thailand.
Analysts have long believed
that Thaksin was pulling the
strings behind his sisters
administration. And if such
a move to Cambodia were
made, it would not be the rst
time Thaksin had wedged
himself politically between
the countries.
After being deposed in Thai-
lands last coup in 2006 and
eeing into self-exile to avoid a
corruption conviction, Thaksin
was made an economic adviser
to the Cambodian government
and a personal adviser to Hun
Sen in 2009, a move that infuri-
ated the conservative Thai gov-
ernment at the time and led to
both nations withdrawing their
ambassadors.
While Cambodia could be an
appealing choice for Thaksins
new government, the for-
mer premier might be wary of
losing support at home if the
military tries to ratchet up
Thai and Cambodian nation-
alism and connect Thaksin
to it, said Dr Paul Chambers,
of the Institute of Southeast
Asian Affairs in Chiang Mai,
which is afliated with Chiang
Mai University.
Prayuth might even use a
decision by Hun Sen to allow
Thaksin a base in Cambodia to
take a harder approach on Thai-
Cambodian border issues. All
of this would be detrimental to
Thai-Cambodian relations and
the unity of ASEAN, he said.
For Cambodia, Hun Sen will
have to take a gamble. If Thak-
sin comes out on the ruling
side [in the future], then host-
ing him makes sense. Other-
wise, if Prayuth is the winner
here, Hun Sen might want to
be careful how he arranges and
plays his political poker hand.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a
professor of Southeast Asian
studies at Kyoto University
and a prominent commen-
tator on Thai politics and
one of dozens of academics,
activists and journalists sum-
moned by the military in re-
cent days said he doubted
Hun Sen would take such a
huge political risk.
This could resurrect old
conict between Thailand and
Cambodia, and I dont think
Hun Sen would want it to hap-
pen, not when he [does not
have the] upper hand in his
own political battle at home,
he said in an email.
Immediately after the coup,
Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng
ordered all soldiers and police
stationed along the border
with Thailand, in addition to
provincial governors of border
provinces, to continue to co-
operate peacefully with their
Thai counterparts.
Primary border crossings
have remained open in re-
cent days.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Koy Koung said that Thai Em-
bassy staff remained in place
yesterday and he had not
received notication of any
changes since the coup.
He declined to comment on
the prospects of Thaksin be-
ing allowed to set up a govern-
ment in exile in Cambodia.
Despite citing the constitu-
tion to explain why a govern-
ment in exile couldnt be set
up in Cambodia, senior ruling
party lawmaker Cheam Yeap
appeared to say that if Hun
Sen wanted to go through with
it, he could.
The constitution does not
allow another country to use
Cambodias sovereignty to set
up an armed force or govern-
ment . . . However, related to
Thaksins announcement . . . I
dont know, it depends on the
sentiment between Thaksin
and Samdech Techo Hun Sen
or leaders of the ruling Cam-
bodian Peoples Party.
Mom Kunthear
E
IGHT members of
Cambodias largest
independent union
were released on bail
yesterday after being tried at
Takeo Provincial Court over
their alleged involvement in a
factory protest late last week,
ofcials said.
Defence lawyer Kim Socheat
said the members of the Co-
alition of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union
(C.CAWDU), who were ar-
rested on Friday evening as
they left a strike at the JSD
Textile factory, had been re-
leased but were under the
control of the court.
They each face four charg-
es, which include incitement,
though it is not clear when
they will return to court for a
further hearing.
Investigating judge Kao Sa-
korn put conditions on the
unionists, including a ban on
joining any strike or gathering
in Takeo. The accused were
also ordered to report to the
court on the rst day of every
month and to cease their in-
volvement with JSD.
[If] the accused intend to
escape, the investigating judge
will arrest and detain them, a
court order says.
Speaking before the union-
ists release, deputy prosecu-
tor Tin Sochetra said he had
enough evidence for them to
be convicted.
We investigated before
we arrested them. We have
enough evidence such as the
photos and video of them
damaging factory property . . .
[and] throwing a bottle of gas-
oline and stones into the fac-
tory, he said. They did not
only destroy the factory prop-
erty but they also threatened
the workers and threw stones
at the workers who carried
on working.
C.CAWDU leader Ath Thorn
said that his union would
continue to act on behalf of
the workers.
The strike is over, but we
will continue to talk to buy-
ers, he said.
The arrests are the latest in-
volving union members in re-
cent months.
About 1,300 workers at JSD
had protested since the end
of last month, demanding
better working conditions
and to be allowed to create
their own union.
According to JSD employee
Khout Visith, the protest be-
gan after fellow worker Chaev
Chanthol was red for at-
tempting to form a union.
The workers have a right
to create a union to protect
them in their factory, so why
was he red? he said.
The workers volunteered
to hold a strike by them-
selves and we suggested those
[unionists] help us. They did
not incite or force the workers
to strike.
Representatives from JSD
could not be reached.
Ken Loo, secretary-general
of the Garment Manufactur-
ers Association in Cambodia,
could not be reached for com-
ment yesterday, but a post on
the groups Facebook page
spoke out in support of the
unionists arrest.
We are thankful that the au-
thorities did step in to detain
the people responsible pend-
ing further investigations to
uncover the mastermind be-
hind these actions, it says.
The verdict came on the eve
of talks scheduled for today be-
tween global unions and mul-
tinational clothing brands over
violations of workers rights. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Stay away from
factory, court
tells unionists
Hun Sen will have to take a
gamble. If Thaksin comes out
on the ruling side, then
hosting him makes sense
Don Sahong
WWF starts
web petition
to halt dam
W
ORLD Wildlife Fund is
taking to the internet
to halt a hydropower
project it claims will serve as
the nail in the cofn for the
critically endangered Irrawad-
dy dolphin.
On Friday, WWF launched
an online petition calling on
the developers of Laoss 120
mega-watt Don Sahong Dam
to suspend the project, which
is slated to break ground by the
end of this year. The petition
aims to collect 50,000 signatu-
res by August, when WWF will
meet with Malaysian develo-
pers Mega First Berhad.
WWF hopes that Mega First
will not start construction until
they conduct proper studies on
transboundary impacts, taking
into account consultation with
communities downstream,
the conservation group said
yesterday, reiterating a request
made by Cambodia and neigh-
bouring Mekong governments.
WWF previously issued a
scientific review of the project,
predicting dire results for the
Mekongs ecosystem, including
potentially eradicating several
fish species and threatening
food security. LAIGNEEBARRON
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Grenade
attack kills
1, injures 5
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
A MAN, 18, was arrested in
Kampong Chhnang province
on Friday after a grenade attack
killed a 69-year-old man and
seriously injured five others.
Provincial police chief Prak
Vudthy said teenager Khov
Thim, from Teuk Phos districts
Chieb commune, was charged
with intentional murder after
allegedly throwing a grenade
into a nighttime dance party.
The suspect is being detained
at Kampong Chhnang provin-
cial prison because of inten-
tional murder, Vudthy said.
District police chief Khem
Vibol said the attack followed
an argument between the sus-
pect and a group of men over
loud music. The dispute alleg-
edly ended in the suspect being
beaten up.
The case was caused by
spite, Vibol said.
Thim allegedly found the gre-
nade in a field some months
ago when tending to his cows
and kept the weapon in his
house, Vibol added.
The victim of the attack, Phok
Khat, was cremated on Sunday,
while the five injured were
recovering in hospital.
Activist threatened with knife
May Titthara
A
FOREST activist in
Kampong Thom
province yesterday
claimed to have been
threatened with a knife by a
soldier after reporting that the
ofcer was behind a number
of forest crimes in the area.
Pen Bunkear, a soldier with
the Kampong Thom military
research unit, yesterday denied
attempting to stab Chheang
Vuthy, an activist with the Prey
Lang Community Network
who last year led a complaint
against 15 ofcials including
Bunkear for alleged involve-
ment in illegal logging.
I dont know anything, and
now I am busy joining a funer-
al, Bunkear said yesterday.
But Vuthy says Bunkear ew
into a rage when he saw him
eating at a restaurant in San-
dan districts Mean Rith com-
mune on May 13, attempting
to stab him with a knife before
being restrained by onlookers.
I dont know the reason
he is angry with me, when he
pulled out his knife to stab
me. But in my opinion, he
may be angry with me since
I led a complaint to the
Ministry of Interior last year
against ofcers behind forest
crimes, and he is one of the
15 people [named], he said.
Vuthy added that he be-
lieved he would have died if
others had not intervened to
stop Bunkear.
Protesting against forest
crimes is extremely difcult,
and we are threatened by the
authorities and business peo-
ple almost every time, but the
perpetrators live in peace.
Chhem Savuth, executive
ofcer at the Natural Resourc-
es Preservation Organization,
said the communities oppos-
ing illegal logging in Prey Lang
were in constant danger.
Currently, the community
working against forest crimes
is always risking life and limb,
because the perpetrators are
police forces and soldiers
equipped with arms . . . so
some communities have given
up forest protection, he said.
Vuthy said he was unfazed
by the alleged encounter, add-
ing that he was willing to die
for his cause.
I will not be afraid until I am
killed like Chut Wutty, and then
my activity will no longer exist,
he said, referring to the promi-
nent environmentalist who
was killed in a confrontation
with authorities in 2012.
Activist Chheang Vuthy speaks about Prey Lang land disputes during a forum in Phnom Penh in 2011. Vuthy
said yesterday that a soldier had threatened him with a knife. PHA LINA
Phak Seangly
and Amelia Woodside
MORE THAN 2,000 hectares of
the decimated Lumphat Wildlife
Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri prov-
ince have been classified by the
Ministry of Environment (MOE)
as the sanctuarys first commu-
nity protected area.
Surrounded by three econom-
ic land concessions in Kon Mom
district, the protected area is
populated by a number of criti-
cally endangered species, includ-
ing the white-shouldered ibis.
As well as the new classifica-
tion, the ministry has also
agreed to NGO-funded com-
munity patrols in the area,
which rights groups say is being
decimated by illegal loggers
who allegedly transport felled
timber onto the concessions.
Were excited because it will
allow us to help the community
set up a patrol because the
[MOE] doesnt have enough
rangers to patrol the whole area,
said Bou Vorsak, program man-
ager for BirdLife International
in Cambodia.
But not everyone is convinced
the newly protected sanctuary
will prevent illegal logging.
It doesnt make sense that a
community protected area has
to be created within a wildlife
sanctuary . . . It sounds like some-
one isnt doing their job if more
protection is needed, said Eang
Vuthy, executive director of
Equitable Cambodia.
Chhay Thy, provincial coordi-
nator for rights group Adhoc,
welcomed the move if it genu-
inely empowers the community
to combat logging.
Hopefully, this will help stop
forest crimes from happening all
the time, Thy said.
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Orphanage director in court
Sanctuary protected
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
AMERICAN national and
orphanage director Daniel
Stephen Johnson was tried on
Friday at the Phnom Penh
Municipal Court on charges
that he sexually abused five
boys last year.
The court heard that Johnson,
36, the director of the Hope
Transitions Christian orphanage
in Phnom Penhs Meanchey dis-
trict, abused the boys after they
were brought to stay at the
orphanage. All were under 15
years of age at the time of the
alleged assaults.
Kim Rath Narin, the presiding
judge, told the court that John-
son had told the boys to give him
massages before he sexually
assaulted them.
But while the boys were doing
massages for him, he [abused
them], he said.
Johnson was charged with
indecent acts against a minor
under 15, Narin added, which
would see the defendant sen-
tenced to a maximum of three
years in prison if found guilty.
He denied the charges.
I asked these boys to do mas-
sages for me inside my room,
but I did not commit any sexual
abuse on them, he told the
court. I am innocent. I would
like to ask the court to drop the
charges against me.
He was arrested in a joint
operation involving the Anti-
Human Trafficking and Juvenile
Protection Unit at the Ministry
of Interior, the US Federal
Bureau of Investigation and
local NGO APLE Cambodia late
last year.
Remains teens, activist claims
Meas Sokchea
HUMAN remains that an op-
position activist claims are
those of missing teen Khim
Saphath, who disappeared af-
ter a crackdown on Veng Sreng
Boulevard on January 3, will
be brought to the Cambodia
National Rescue Partys head-
quarters in the capital today.
Although no tests have
been carried out, Dim Keang,
a CNRP activist, believes re-
mains found in Kampong
Speu provinces Samraong
Torng district on Saturday are
those of the 16-year-old.
If the body was disposed of
by a member of the family or a
soldier they would not burn it
like this, he said.
The remains mostly consist-
ing of bones, including a skull
were being kept in the home of
Teang Sien, a CNRP provincial
councillor, who, while suspi-
cious, would not speculate on
whose remains they were.
Saphath was last seen with
blood pouring from his chest
during the deadly crackdown.
Nuth Romduol, a CNRP
lawmaker-elect in Kampong
Speu, said locals called him
on January 4, saying that the
night before they had seen a
truck travelling to where the
remains were discovered at
Mareas Prov Mountain, fol-
lowed by the glow of burning
in the distance, adding that
the remains were found close
to military barracks.
Police questioned how the
activist could claim to have
discovered Saphaths remains
without examining them.
Kheng Tito, military police
spokesman, said a forensic ex-
amination must take place to
identify the remains.
Only police can do the test-
ing, he said.
Lumber found on economic land concessions last November that villagers claim was allegedly felled inside
the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Robbers open re
Two killed
in dog meat
shop holdup
T
WO people were shot
dead in a robbery at a
dog meat vendors shop
in Battambang provinces
Mong Russey district on Sat-
urday, and another victim is in
hospital with serious injuries,
according to police.
Police have yet to deter-
mine the identities of two
gunmen who entered the
shop in Kor Koh communes
Kor Koh village and deman-
ded money.
The victims were identified
as Soeun Theary, 31, and Sim
Channy, 22. Both were shot
several times when they tried
to apprehend the robbers,
deputy district police chief Keo
Sokhum said.
No one knows the identities
of the two armed robbers,
Sokhum said.
Sim Sophal, 23, sustained
serious injuries in the attack
and is being treated at the
provincial hospital.
Sophal said she had
handed over about $125 and
was taking off her necklace
and earrings to give to the
gunmen when the two victims
tried to seize the gun. KHOUTH
SOPHAK CHAKRYA
National
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Twenty put
end to latest
Caltex strike
Mom Kunthear
PETROL station workers who
were back on strike on Friday
returned to work yesterday as
they prepare to file a complaint
to the Ministry of Labour
against US-owned Caltex over
alleged rights abuse.
Yoeun Reth, one of 20 Caltex
workers striking on Friday, said
yesterday that the workers had
reluctantly agreed to go back to
the pumps.
We had to force ourselves
back to work, because we are so
angry . . . that the company
seemed to prohibit our right to
protest or strike in the future,
he said.
Last week, Caltex manage-
ment offered to raise wages by
$20 a month and not withhold
pay owed for time off during
the strike, which began earlier
this month.
The strike will occur again
one day if the company contin-
ues to abuse the workers, Reth
said, adding that the employees
had to thumbprint a document
agreeing to go back to work or
risk losing their jobs.
Caltex spokesman Than
Chanlek could not be reached
yesterday.
Deforestation plagues ASEAN
Phak Seangly
and Laignee Barron

C
ONCENTRATIONS
of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere have
never been higher,
but Association of Southeast
Asian Nations member coun-
tries are still failing to curb
emissions created by heavy
deforestation, according to a
new report.
Forest land in ASEAN coun-
tries declined by more than
6 per cent between 2010 and
2013, with land-use changes
contributing to more than 75
per cent of the regions total
greenhouse gas emissions, ac-
cording to the Regional Com-
munity Forestry Training Cen-
ter (RECOFTC).
Launched on Saturday at the
opening of the Conference of
the ASEAN Social Forestry Net-
work in Malaysia, RECOFTCs
report faults ASEAN members
for not allocating community
forestry land as a means of
preventing deforestation and
mitigating climate change.
When local people acquire
secure tenure and forest man-
agement rights and receive
adequate benets from forest
resources, this indeed leads
to improved forest manage-
ment, conservation of biodi-
versity and stronger local live-
lihoods, the report says.
Healthy forests can improve
climate resilience by regulat-
ing watersheds and, among
other things, acting as a shel-
ter, while also mitigating cli-
mate change through captur-
ing and containing carbon,
the report continues.
But in Cambodia, where
average annual temperatures
have already increased by al-
most a full degree since 1960
and scientists have observed
a two-month delay in the start
of the rainy season, forest loss
is the second worst in ASEAN,
with nearly 92,000 hectares of
forest disappearing every year.
We all understand the
consequences of deforesta-
tion and forest degradation,
but individuals continue with
short-term prot because
there is no good preservation
alternative that can compete,
Tin Ponlock, the Ministry of
the Environments deputy cli-
mate change director, said.
A University of Maryland
study in November estimated
that Cambodias forests have
shrunk 7 per cent in the past
12 years. Forestry Adminis-
tration spokesman Thoun
Sarath yesterday blamed ex-
panding agricultural needs
for the declines.
An excavator in the distance clears trees on an economic land concession in Kratie provinces Snuol district
last year. HENG CHIVOAN
In brief
UNICEF to rehabilitate
wells with new funds
THE European Commissions
Humanitarian Aid and Civil
Protection department is
pledging about $832,000 for
the rehabilitation of wells,
with an eye towards mitigating
the effects of the rainy
season. UNICEF plans on
using the funds in an
estimated 50 communes. The
money will also support
training in basic hygiene,
sanitation and the use of
mobile phones to upload
assessments of flood-
damaged wells to a database.
This funding from the
European Commission will
enable UNICEF in its work to
institutionalise the correct
cleaning [of] wells after
floods, and, more importantly,
to modify existing wells by
raising well platforms so that
flood water cannot seep in,
Rana Flowers, a UNICEF
country representative, said.
AMELIA WOODSIDE
Sorcerer murdered
after deal goes awry
POLICE in Kampong
Chhnangs Teuk Phos district
are hunting for a man who
allegedly killed his uncle, a
suspected sorcerer. Khem
Vibol, the district police chief,
said that on Thursday evening
22-year-old Duong Reach
brutally murdered 49-year-old
Khlem Thon, his uncle through
marriage, with a scythe. The
suspect has been on the run
and we are hunting him
down, Vibol said. According to
Vibol, Reach had made a deal
with Thons son to exchange a
homemade tractor for one of
their cows. But when Thon
saw the pair closing the deal,
he ordered his son not to
make the exchange. Angered,
the suspect killed him with a
scythe, Vibol said. Villagers
accused Thon of using sorcery
to make people ill, but Vibol
said police found no evidence
to support this. Last month, a
suspected sorcerer in Takeo
province was beaten and
stoned to death by a mob.
CHHAY CHANNYDA
National
6
Botched robbery leaves
moto thief black n blue
A DOWN in the dumps migrant
worker couldnt steal away
from his blues after a botched
robbery landed him a beating
rather than a buck. The
31-year-old lost his job farming
in Pursat town but thought hed
finally been dealt better for-
tunes when he spotted a farm-
ers unattended motorbike on
Friday. While the thief attempt-
ed to make off with the bike, a
neighbour spotted him and
yelled to the farmer, who along
with several other villagers
pursued the runaway crook.
Police intervened before villag-
ers could impart more than a
few bruises. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Kampong Cham locals
never forget a robbery
TWO suspects learned the
hard way that theres no stat-
ute of limitations on a robbed
family out for justice. The men,
33 and 38, were part of a gang
of five that burgled a familys
home in Kampong Chams
Chikreng district in 2001, injur-
ing one of the family mem-
bers. The successful robbers
fled to Siem Reap, where they
hid for 13 years until two of
them visited home on Friday
and ended up in the clink. KAM-
PUCHEA THMEY
Bad driving foils theft of
womans mobile phone
SHOWING off your gadgets
doesnt always attract the right
sort of attention, a Phnom
Penh woman discovered on
Friday. The 25-year-old had
hailed a motodop in Duan
Penh district to go get her
watch repaired when three
thieves spotted her flaunting
her mobile phone. The trio
approached on one moto and
managed to swipe the phone,
but lost their female passen-
ger off the back of the bike.
The female thief told police
where to find her skivvy com-
panions and the whole lot was
sent to court. NOKORWAT
Unhappy relative calls
police on own brother
BLOOD may be thicker than
water, but money and property
are solid investments, or so a
man who looted from his half-
brother on Friday thought. The
sticky-fingered relative, 32,
broke into his half-brothers
Koh Kong town house, accord-
ing to police. The coveting
brother pocketed jewellery,
money, mobile phones and an
iPad, and hefted the lot to his
own home. The unsuspecting
victim called police, who root-
ed out the thief and returned
the stolen goods. NOKORWAT

Gang in for long grind
after governor bump
A GANG of hotshot motorcy-
clists wont be bothering Pursat
town residents anymore after a
wrong turn landed them in the
provincial governors hot seat.
Eight members of the gang
were arrested on Friday when
their roam around town skidded
to a halt against the provincial
governors bumper. Two of the
suspects escaped, leaving the
governors crumpled bumper
and their fellow road ragers
behind. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Waterworld
A woman rides her bicycle down a ooded street in the capital on Friday following an afternoon downpour. HONG MENEA
UXO toll at accelerated pace
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A
N ELDERLY woman
was killed and ve
people were seri-
ously injured when
a rocket-propelled grenade
exploded inside a house in
Kampong Thom provinces
Kampong Svay commune on
Friday morning, a senior dis-
trict ofcial said.
Events leading up to the det-
onation suggest that one per-
son in the group was attempt-
ing to pry the rocket open to
salvage for scrap metal.
Major Khen Chhun Kour,
chief of Kampong Svay district,
said that one of the injured, Ly
Long, 28, found the rocket in
a farm and brought it to his
home in Sampov village.
He took the knife and
scratched it, Chhun Kour
said. The manoeuver triggered
a blast, which killed 78-year-
old Sim Tom and seriously in-
jured ve others in the house,
including Long. The ve were
sent to the provincial referral
hospital, Chhun Kour said.
At least 49 people have been
injured or killed by landmines
and unexploded ordnance so
far this year, a gure roughly
twice as high compared with
the same period in 2013.
Fatalities have not been
limited to civilians. Two Cam-
bodian deminers working for
UK-based organisation HALO
Trust died on May 10 when an
anti-tank mine went off at their
work site in Battambang prov-
ince. Investigators are deter-
mining the cause of the blast.
Rocket-propelled grenades
are no rare nd; both sides
employed them during de-
cades of civil conict, Heng
Ratana, director general of the
Cambodian Mine Action Cen-
tre, said.
We cannot identify whether
it came from the Khmer Rouge
or the royal governments
armed forces, because all sides
used this rocket. And its nor-
mally made in China or Viet-
nam, he said, adding that the
RPG has been in action since
[the] 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s.
We do not have a num-
ber right now [for how many
remain], he said. But its
commonly found throughout
the country.
Inside the rocket-propelled
grenade is copper, and Ra-
tana surmised that the person
scratching at it was intent on
taking the material to craft a
cow bell.
Ratana added that CMAC
ofcials were surprised an
older woman was killed, since
Cambodians her age would
have been well aware of the
risks involved.
Through mine education,
CMAC also relies on older
members of the community to
keep the youth aware of risks.
I think this rocket was dis-
covered by the younger chil-
dren, the community brought
it to their house purposefully
for the owner to report to the
police and village chief and so
on, not to try and open it. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY JOE FREEMAN
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 26, 2014
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Tourism campaign to counter unrest
Chan Muyhong

T
HE Ministry of Tourism will
hold an emergency meeting
with industry leaders and
representatives in Phnom
Penh today to look at what can be
done to curb the loss of cross-bor-
der visitors resulting from unrest in
neighbouring countries.
Minister Thong Khon yesterday
emphasised the need for Cambodias
tourism industry which relies on
a steady ow of visitors from within
the region to remain strong amid
a military coup in Thailand and ten-
sions in Vietnam over a sovereignty
dispute with China.
We need a promotional campaign
to attract tourists, to inform them
about our potential destinations and
that if they cannot come into Thai-
land, they can come to Cambodia by
taking a direct ight, Khon said.
The Thai military seized power on
May 22 after more than six months
of unrest spurred by protests against
Premier Yingluck Shinawatras ad-
ministration. The coup raised imme-
diate concerns for tourism sentiment
in the country.
Two weeks ago in Vietnam, violent
anti-China demonstrations ared af-
ter a Chinese oil rig was deployed in
waters also claimed by Hanoi.
An upcoming promotional cam-
paign, the minister said, would in-
clude advertising and accommo-
dation discounts targeting tourists
from countries such as Japan, South
Korea, China, Singapore and Malay-
sia, and would encourage them to
take direct ights to Cambodia.
I will discuss with local operators
about what they can do to keep the
number of tourists up. We expected
Cambodia will receive 4.8 million
tourists this year, but we will have to
work hard to get this number, he said.
Khon added that the number of
tourists arriving in Cambodia via
Thailand has decreased over the past
few weeks as political tensions have
heightened, continuing a downward
trend seen since the start of the year.
Data released earlier this month
showed a 13 per cent decline in all
tourist arrivals from Thailand during
the rst quarter of 2014 compared
with the same period last year.
Ang Kim Eang, president of the
Cambodia Association of Travel
Agents, said the unfavourable con-
ditions elsewhere in Southeast Asia
could in fact be an opportunity for
the Kingdoms tourism operators.
For the tour packages that have
already been booked and cannot be
refunded, tourists will choose to skip
Thailand and tour Cambodia or oth-
er countries in the region, he said.
Thoun Sinan, chairman of the Pa-
cic Asia Travel Association, said
tourists had actually grown accus-
tomed to coups in Thailand and that
he did not expect a dramatic decrease
in the number of people crossing
the border.
I do not see it affecting Cam-
bodia unless Thailand closes its
airport or closes its checkpoints
with Cambodia, Sinan said. Cam-
bodia does not only rely on the route
from Thailand. Tourists can come to
Cambodia through Malaysia, Hong
Kong and Singapore, and Qatar is
also a big tourist gate for Cambodia,
he added.
Banteay Meanchey Provincial Gov-
ernor Kor Samsarouen said visitor
trafc at the Poipet border crossing
was at its regular level.
Thai soldiers face off with anti-coup protesters in Bangkok yesterday. Cambodia says it will act to avert any possible drop in tourist numbers as a result of regional unrest. AFP
A virtual reality?
Google has
3D tablets
in pipeline
G
OOGLE next month will
start cranking out proto-
types of a 3D tablet desi-
gned to give users immersive
experiences that could include
virtual reality, according to US
media reports.
The tablet will have a 7-inch
display and an array of so-
phisticated cameras, sensors
and software, the Wall Street
Journal said in a story citing
unnamed sources.
Google, in response, said it
had nothing to announce.
The tablet was reported
to be part of a Project Tango
worked on by a special team at
the California-based tech-
nology firm. The project was
said to involve giving advanced
mapping and virtual reality
capabilities to mobile devices
powered by Googles free
Android software.
Nearly 42 per cent of people
in the US used tablets at least
once a month last year and
that figure was expected to top
46 per cent this year, according
to industry tracker eMarketer.
Google is already making
waves with advancements in
gadgets, particularly its Glass
augmented reality glasses. AFP
Business
8
Hong LengHuor Dry Port Co., Ltd and its sister company, Wei Fung International Logistics are Customs broker and international
air and ocean freight forwarder. With over 10 years of experiences, we become one of the top custom brokers in Cambodia. Due
to our expansion and progress, we are looking for qualied applicants to ll in some vacant positions as follows:
Senior Accounting Manager (1 Position)
Job responsibilities: TheSenior Accounting Manager is responsible for providing consistent leadership in the nancial
area of the company by supplying management with guidance and training. He/she is also responsible for focusing on the
protability of the business, maintaining accurate and timely nancial reporting, ensuring acceptable levels on internal
control, ensuring compliance with all local regulations, and safeguarding owners assets.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or equivalent work experience
6+ years of Accounting experience with a strong management background, including audit experience
Proven function and process management skills
Strong knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards
Professional certication (e.g. CPA) highly desired
Prociency in QuickBooks, Microsoft Ofce, especially in Excel and PowerPoint
Administration Manager (1 Position)
Job responsibilities:
Manage appropriate operation-system including the control for organization chart, operation work-ow, and staff
accountabilities
Manage and control for proper use of xed assets, purchase procedures and services,
Management the issuance of documentation and the lling system, and liaison with relevant authorities.
Manage the key system
Carry out other administrative tasks as may be assigned by Management
Job Requirements:
BBA in Management or the related eld
Good organizing and planning skills
Strong back group in HR and admin contract
Excellent written and spoken English and Khmer
At least 5yrs of experiencein the professional skill
A/P Account (3 Positions)
The A/P Accountant performs a variety of accounting tasks requiring experience and judgment with accounting functions
related to the efcient maintenance and processing of accounts payable transactions
Job responsibilities:Maintains nancial records and data systems, including vendor les. Sorts and matches invoices and
check requests. Prepares and processes accounts payable checks. Prepares invoices for payment. Reconciles payments
and bank accounts. Prepares analysis of accounts. Veries invoices, invoice number, account codes and nancial accounts
and resolves any discrepancies. Posts information and balances to the general or subsidiary ledgers. Processes payments
and compiles segments of monthly closings and annual reports. Receives and Disburses payment from and to employees.
Traces transactions through previous accounting actions to determine discrepancies. Lists and checks details necessary for
preparation of reports. Corresponds with vendors and responds to inquiries. Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related eld or equivalent experience is
preferred. 2-4 years of Accounts Payable experienceis required. Detailed oriented with strong organizational skills is also
required. Must work under general supervision and follows standard procedures to accomplished assigned tasks.
AR Billing Coordinator (2 Positions)
The AR Billing Coordinator is responsible for the accurate and timely billing and collection outcomes by coordinating with
other internal departments.
Job responsibilities: The AR Billing Coordinator should be able to compile data, compute fees and charges, and prepare
invoices for billing purposes. This would include ensuring invoices are printed then mailed or e-invoiced to clients as well
retaining invoices and back up for audit purposes. He or she actively participates in other processes as assigned to maintain
billing and collection processes that fall within Accounts Receivable Management and assists in answering client related
billing questions and resolving issues.
Closing Date: 30
th
June, 2014
Only short listed applicants will be contacted for interview.
Contact Number: 093 413 941
Apply via Email to export@hlhtranspot.com
www.hlhtransport.com
Hong LengHuor Dry Port Co.,Ltd
US gets WTO win over China
T
HE World Trade Orga-
nizations ruling that
Chinese duties on ve-
hicles imported from
the US violated global trade
rules adds to mounting com-
mercial tensions between the
worlds two largest economies.
China improperly imposed
tariffs on imported vehicles,
including those made by Gen-
eral Motors Co and Chrysler
Group LLC, the WTO ruled in a
decision issued on Friday. Chi-
na added the duties in 2011, af-
ter the US government bailed
out the automakers during
the global nancial crisis, and
eliminated them in December.
This is a signicant vic-
tory, US Trade Representa-
tive Michael Froman said at a
news conference. Its time for
China to change the practices
that have led the United States
and our trading partners to
bring these kinds of cases.
The US last week dramati-
cally escalated the trade battle
with China, accusing ve mili-
tary leaders of stealing corpo-
rate secrets. The indictments
follow complaints over issues
such as tires, chicken parts,
clean-energy products and
credit-card payment services.
This is more than a hum-
drum case, Representative
Sander Levin of Michigan, top
Democrat on the House Ways
and Means Committee, said.
Theres been a vindication of
the importance of having a rule
of law in international trade.
The Chinese Embassy in
Washington in a statement
claimed victory on some tech-
nical aspects of the case.
We noticed that the panel
report rejected part of the
United States argument that
China failed to dene the do-
mestic industry, spokesman
Geng Shuang said in an email.
In response to a 2012 US
complaint, the WTO found
China failed to show how the
goods harmed the Chinese
market and didnt disclose to
US companies how the tariffs
were calculated, the US trade
ofce said, citing a ruling by
the Geneva-based arbiter.
China imposed duties as
high as 21.5 per cent on US-
made cars and SUVs in De-
cember 2011, claiming the
goods beneted from govern-
ment subsidies and were sold
in China below value, known
as being dumped. The tariffs
followed the forced bankrupt-
cy and government bailout of
GM and Chrysler, now a unit of
Italys Fiat SpA in 2010. The US
challenged the duties in 2012.
We commend both coun-
tries for utilizing the WTOs
process to resolve a trade dis-
pute, Heather Rosenker, GMs
director of public policy and
government relations com-
munications, said in an email.
Ford Motor Co, which didnt
receive US assistance in the
bailout, didnt export vehicles
to China during the investiga-
tion period and wasnt subject
to the tariffs, company spokes-
woman Christin Baker said.
The value of the goods at is-
sue including Chryslers Jeep
Grand Cherokee, and GMs
Buick Enclave and Cadillac
Escalade was about $5.1 bil-
lion last year, according to the
US trade ofce. China is the
second-largest export market
for US vehicles, the agency
said in a statement.
In September 2012 the US
led a separate WTO case
against China alleging the Bei-
jing government subsidised its
own vehicle and vehicle-parts
makers in violation of global
trade rules. That case is still
under review.
The decision on the autos is
the third recent victory for the
US in challenging Chinas an-
ti-subsidy and anti-dumping
practices, after decisions re-
lated to poultry and steel, the
trade ofce said. BLOOMBERG
A customer, centre, looks at a GM Cadillac sports utility vehicle at a dealership in Shanghai. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
Thai curfew further
damages businesses
B
ANGKOK, the sleep-
less City of Angels
that stays alive
around the clock, is
now only half-awake. Since
the military- staged a coup
on Thursday and announced
a 10pm-5am curfew, many
businesses have suddenly
been forced to adjust their
business hours. And that has
inevitably affected their op-
erations and sales.
The Mall Group has closed
all its department store
branches at 8pm, two hours
before its regular closing
time. The department stores
under the group include The
Mall, The Emporium and
Siam Paragon.
A source at The Mall Group
said the department stores
had suddenly seen a drop in
sales by 10-20 per cent per
day worth 10-20 million baht
($307,000-$614,000). The key
reason is that 9-10pm is nor-
mally the peak spending hour
for customers at every shop-
ping complex.
Restaurants are also expect-
ed to have lost half their sales
Banyat Kamnoonwatana,
assistant vice president
of CP All Plc, the operator
of 7-Eleven convenience
stores, said the company did
not expect to see its sales af-
fected much even though its
service hours had been cut
by seven hours.
Normally, sales at 7-Elev-
en stores come mainly in the
daytime, so overall sales are
expected to offset the seven
hours we have to close, Mr
Banyat said.
Wongsamat Sanpaychu-
dayan, vice president of Com-
puter System Connection
International, an information
technologies retailer with 140
branches, said the company
experienced a 20-30 per cent
drop in customers after the
curfew was imposed.
I believe this is a temporary
shock. If theres no violence
and schools start to reopen,
then consumers will come
back, he said.
Yongyuth Chaichana,
managing director of Thip-
patana Arcade Co, opera-
tor of Pantip Plaza, said the
coup is affecting the number
of tourist customers, who
normally contribute 30 per
cent of its sales.
Nok, the 35-year-old man-
ager of La Fiesta, a restaurant
in Bangkoks Patpong area,
said sales had decreased by 60
per cent amid the political un-
rest, as most customers were
foreign tourists who now feel
insecure amid the turmoil.
Wholesale and retail orists
at Pak Klong Talad, a major
ower market, are still run-
ning their businesses during
the curfew period.
Wacharee Aonsuchat, owner
of Gif Pak Klong Talad, said
many orists could not close
their shops at 10pm, as most
owers were delivered to the
market at night and regular
customers placed their orders
at the same time.
However, Ms Wacharee has
had to decrease her orders by
50 per cent and avoid stocking
owers, as the number of cus-
tomers is expected to fall.
I have not changed my
working hours, as I did the
same thing when I had to face
the red-shirt protests in 2010
and the coup in 2006, she
went on to say. BANGKOK POST
No more Ambassador
The maker of Indias Ambassador car has sus-
pended production, citing debt and lack of demand
for the vehicle that came to dene the countrys
political class, a company ofcial said yesterday.
Hindustan Motors, Indias oldest carmaker, shut
down its factory on Saturday at Uttarpara in West
Bengal state, where it has been making the Ambas-
sador since 1957. Work has been suspended
indenitely at the Uttarpara factory. It is being done
to ensure the company doesnt bleed more [money]
and to enable us to draw plans for its revival, the
senior ofcial said. The company informed the
Bombay Stock Exchange in a letter on Saturday,
citing very low productivity, growing indiscipline,
critical shortage of funds, lack of demand for its
core product . . . and large accumulation of liabili-
ties. The countrys once-booming car market has
suffered a slump in recent years, with the economy
growing at under 5 per cent deterring new custom-
ers. AFP/PHOTO SUPPLIED
Booze backlash
Airline ends
no-alcohol
rule for crew
U
NITED Airlines new no-
booze policy for flight
attendants got a swift
smack-down.
A rule banning attendants
from possessing alcohol while
on duty, even in luggage, was
withdrawn within a day after
United announced it, union
spokeswoman Corey Caldwell
said at the weekend. Chicago-
based United backed down
after the Association of Flight
Attendants balked, she said.
In less than 24 hours, AFA
was able to pressure manage-
ment into reversing the policy,
Caldwell said. While atten-
dants accept existing rules
against on-the-job drinking,
they objected to the reach of
Uniteds regulation, she said.
United chose to update its
alcohol rules during a regular
review of company policies,
according to a statement from
the carrier. After we received
feedback from our flight atten-
dants, we rescinded this policy
for further review.
Caldwell said some
attendants saw the rule as
infringing on their rights. For
example, the policy would have
barred them from buying a
bottle at a wine shop during a
long layover and taking it on
board in luggage. AFP
Business
10
Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof MAY 23, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 2.00% N/A 3.00% N/A 3.75% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Sony still a Walkman in an iPad age
Hiroshi Hiyama

S
ONYS latest bid to halt
years of losses and re-
suscitate its brand has
provoked snorts of de-
rision among analysts who say
it falls a long way short.
The criticism came after
Sony president Kazuo Hirai on
Thursday pledged to drag the
electronics giant out of a pain-
ful restructuring in the cur-
rent scal year and pointed to
ultra-high-denition technol-
ogy as a possible saviour for
its money-losing TV unit.
Hirai, appointed in 2012 to
revive a company mired in
losses, has centred his atten-
tion on shaking up a troubled
consumer electronics busi-
ness, including the television
unit, which alone has lost
about 790 billion ($7.8 bil-
lion) over the past decade.
A week ago, Sony shocked in-
vestors with a $1.26 billion an-
nual loss after several earn-
ings downgrades and warned
it would be in the red again in
the year to March 2015.
Sony lost money in ve of
the last six years and Moodys
downgraded its credit rating
on the rm to junk in January.
Hirai said Sony was aiming for
a 400 billion operating prot
in the next scal year, but that
did little to impress analysts.
Sony has long relied on prof-
its it generated from a lesser-
known insurance business,
as well as movies and music
operations to ll some of the
yawning decit in its higher-
prole electronics segment.
Our impression is quite
negative. We believe the rm
needs to engage in a radical
restructuring, Deutsche Bank
analyst Yasuo Nakane said.
He added that Thursdays
session revealed absolutely
no new information, ideas or
strategies such as to change
our view on the company.
Hirais efforts to drag the TV
business into the black have
so far failed, but he has re-
peatedly shrugged off pleas to
abandon a division that he in-
sists remains central to Sonys
core business.
Making money in consumer
electronics has been a tough
ask for Japanese manufactur-
ers in recent years as razor-
thin margins and tough com-
petition from South Korea
and Taiwanese competitors
dented their nances.
Rivals Panasonic and Sharp
have also suffered massive
losses, although both recently
reported annual prots for the
rst time in years after major
restructurings.
A Japanese analyst who cov-
ers the company said Sonys
goal of a 400 billion operat-
ing prot was too ambitious.
He added that the rm once
a byword for cool which revo-
lutionised how people listened
to music with its Walkman
needed more hit products.
Mr Hirai may have run out
of steam, said the analyst,
who asked not to be named.
In the absence of appealing
products to drive overall earn-
ings . . . we question whether the
restructuring will be adequate
to the scale of the challenges
facing this company. AFP
Kazuo Hirai, the president and CEO of Sony Corp, maker of the iconic Walkman portable casette player (right)
speaks during a press conference in Tokyo last week. AFP/PHOTO SUPPLIED
Italy gets creative to meet GDP goals
An appless mobile device? Theres a phone for that
ITALY will include prostitution
and illegal drug sales in the
GDP calculation this year, a
boost for its chronically stag-
nant economy and Prime Min-
ister Matteo Renzis efforts to
meet deficit targets.
Drugs, prostitution and
smuggling will be part of GDP
as of 2014 and prior-year fig-
ures will be adjusted to reflect
the change in methodology,
according to the Istat national
statistics office. The revision
was made to comply with Euro-
pean Union rules, it said.
Renzi is committed to nar-
rowing Italys deficit to 2.6 per
cent of GDP this year, a task
made easier if output is boost-
ed by the underground econo-
my that previously went
uncounted. Four recessions in
the last 13 years left Italys GDP
at 1.56 trillion ($2.13 trillion)
last year, 2 per cent below 2001
after adjusting for inflation.
Even if the impact is hard to
quantify, its obvious it will have
a positive impact on GDP,
Luiss University economist and
professor Giuseppe Di Taranto
said. Therefore Renzi will have
a greater margin this year to
spend without breaching the
deficit limit, he said.
The change will also bring
research and development and
arms into the GDP calculation.
R&D was previously excluded
because it was classified as an
intermediate cost. BLOOMBERG
THEY fit in a pocket, have batteries that
last all week and are almost indestruct-
ible: old-school Nokias, Ericssons and
Motorolas are making a comeback as
consumers tired of fragile and overly
wired smartphones go retro.
Forget apps, video calls and smiley
faces, handsets like the Nokia 3310 or
the Motorola StarTec 130 allow just
basic text messaging and phone calls.
However, demand for them is growing
and some of these second-hand mod-
els are fetching prices as high as
1,000 ($1,360) a piece.
Some people dont blink at the
prices, we have models at more than
1,000 euros, Djassem Haddad, who
started the site vintagemobile.fr in
2009, said.
The high prices are due to the dif-
ficulty in finding those models, which
were limited editions in their time.
Haddad had been eyeing a niche
market, but sales have taken off since
last year, he said. Over the past two to
three years, he has sold some 10,000
handsets, with a real acceleration
from the beginning of 2013.
The ageing population is looking
for simpler phones, while other con-
sumers want a second cheap phone,
he said. Among the top-sellers on the
website is the Nokia 8210, with a tiny
monochrome screen and plastic but-
tons, at 59.99.
Ironically, the trend is just starting
as the telecommunications industry
consigns such handsets to the recy-
cling bins, hailing smartphones as the
way forward.
Finnish giant Nokia, which reigned
as the biggest mobile phone com-
pany before the advent of Apples
iPhone or Samsungs Galaxy, offload-
ed its handset division to Microsoft
this year after failing to catch the
smartphone wave.
But it is probably also the suppos-
edly irreversible switch towards
smartphones that has given the old
school phone an unexpected boost.
For Damien Douani, an expert on
new technologies at FaDa agency, it is
simply trendy now to be using the
retro phone. There is a great sensa-
tion of finding an object that we knew
during another era a little like paying
for vintage sneakers that we couldnt
afford when we were teenagers.
It is a mostly high-end clientele that
is shopping at French online shop
Lekki, which sells a range of vintage,
revamped mobile phones.
We have two types of profiles: the
25- to 35-year-olds attracted by the
retro and offbeat side of a telephone
that is a little different, and those
who are nostalgic for the phone that
they used when they were younger,
Maxime Chanson, who founded
Lekki in 2010, said.
Some use it to complement their
smartphone, but others are going for
the vintage, tired of the technology race
between the phone makers. AFP
Italys GDP calculation will include
illegal drug sales. PHOTO SUPPLIED
11 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 26, 2014
World
placed all law-making author-
ity in the hands of army chief
General Prayut Chan-O-Cha.
Civil liberties have been
curbed, media restrictions
imposed and most of the con-
stitution abrogated.
Bangkok has seen several
smaller outbreaks of protest
against the junta since Prayut
launched his takeover on
Thursday. Witnesses also re-
ported demonstrations over-
night in parts of the Shina-
watras northern power base,
with rallies in the city of Khon
Kaen and a heavy military
presence in Thailands second
largest city Chiang Mai.
The military intervention is
the 19th actual or attempted
coup in the kingdom since
1932. It follows seven months
of anti-government protests
that derailed elections in Feb-
ruary and sought to eradicate
the inuence of Yinglucks di-
visive brother Thaksin Shina-
watra, who was ousted from
power by royalist generals in
a coup in 2006.
Those being held by the
junta include politicians and
leaders from both sides of
the countrys warring protest
movements. Analysts see the
latest developments as an
ominous signal that the army
is digging its heels in and may
be unwilling to hand over
power to a civilian govern-
ment in the near term.
Thailand has been rocked
by persistent and sometimes
violent political turmoil for
nearly a decade, with the
protests preceding the latest
coup leaving 28 people dead
and hundreds wounded.
Yingluck was ousted by
a court ruling earlier this
month, but her embattled
government remained in
place till last week. Thaksin or
his allies have won every elec-
tion this century, thanks to
their strong support among
the working class and com-
munities in the north and
northeast.
The tycoon-turned-poli-
tician posted his rst public
messages on Twitter since the
coup yesterday, saying he was
saddened by the coup and
urging the military rulers to
abide by international law
and respect human rights.
The military said on Satur-
day that Prayut had sent a let-
ter about his takeover to the
revered but ailing king, Bhu-
mibol Adulyadej. It said the
king had acknowledged Pr-
ayuts letter but stopped short
of describing the response as
an endorsement
The monarch, 86, com-
mands great respect and his
blessing is traditionally sought
to legitimise Thailands recur-
ring military takeovers.
The army yesterday said it
would begin paying off out-
standing debts of 92 billion
baht ($2.8 billion) to farmers
racked up in a controversial
rice subsidy scheme under
Yinglucks government.
The scheme has weighed
on the public purse as the
economy stutters shrinking
0.6 per cent year-on-year in
January-March amid falling
consumer condence and a
tourist slump as the political
crisis takes its toll.
Washington, long a key ally,
has led international con-
demnation of the coup. It has
suspended $3.5 million in
military assistance, cancelled
ofcial visits and army exer-
cises and said its remaining
Thai aid budget was under
question. AFP
Thailands junta gives
protesters ultimatum
Flowers lay by a memorial for Christopher Michael-Martinez who was murdered in Isla Vista in Santa Barbara, California, on Friday. AFP
Victims mourned after rampage
Robyn Beck

C
LUSTERS of candles
and owers ap-
peared overnight
yesterday morning
on the streets of the Califor-
nia town where a Hollywood
directors disturbed son killed
six people and then himself.
The mementos, along with
makeshift signs, were placed
at the spots where the gun-
man identied as Elliot Rod-
ger, 22 shot and killed three
people late on Friday in the
town of Isla Vista, outside the
University of California.
The student who stabbed
three people to death and
then fatally shot three more
in a bustling California col-
lege town was the mentally
disturbed son of a Hollywood
director, police said Saturday.
At least 13 people were in-
jured and the shooter, named
by police as Elliot Rodger, 22,
apparently killed himself after
the knife-and-gun rampage
on Friday in Isla Vista, near
the campus of the University
of California Santa Barbara.
Rodgers father is Peter Rod-
ger, an assistant director of the
2012 Hollywood blockbuster
The Hunger Games.
Police are investigating a
disturbing video entitled Ret-
ribution apparently posted
on YouTube by Elliot Rodger
in which a man sitting in a
car rants about women who
rejected and ignored him for
the past eight years, vowing to
punish you all for it.
The bloodshed was just the
latest in a string of gun mas-
sacres that have rocked the US
in recent years and is likely to
trigger more passionate de-
bate about gun rights.
Police had contacts with
Rodger on three separate oc-
casions before Fridays kill-
ings, the rst time in July 2013,
Santa Barbara County Sheriff
Bill Brown said. Detailing how
the horror unfolded, Brown
said Rodger repeatedly
stabbed three male victims
at his apartment prior to the
shooting rampage.
Once outside, Rodger target-
ed three women from across a
street, killing two of them aged
22 and 19, Brown said. Driving
a black BMW, Rodger found
his next victim, a 20-year-old
student named Christopher
Martinez, shooting him dead.
Police then went after him,
Brown said, as Rodger shot
indiscriminately at passers-by
and drove all over the road.
Rodger was shot in the hip
in a shootout, before zooming
off once more and hitting a
cyclist, throwing him onto the
hood of his car
The suspects vehicle then
collided with several parked
cars and came to a stop, said
Brown, but Rodger was obvi-
ously dead with an apparent
gunshot wound to the head.
Three nine-millimetre
semi-automatic handguns
were recovered from the
BMW all legally purchased
and registered and Rodger
had dozens of unused rounds
of ammunition.
Lawyer Alan Shifman, speak-
ing for the Rodger family, said
Elliot Rodger had been diag-
nosed as being a highly func-
tional Aspergers Syndrome
child and was being treated
by multiple professionals.
In the YouTube video, the
man believed to be Rodger
speaks of a day of retribution
for his life of loneliness, rejec-
tion and unfullled desires.
I will slaughter every single
spoiled, stuck-up blonde slut
I see inside there. All those
girls that Ive desired so much,
they have all rejected me and
looked down upon me as an
inferior man, he says.
The shooting came just
weeks before the end of the
academic year, with some
students preparing for gradu-
ation ceremonies while others
were about to take nal ex-
ams. Rodger was a student but
not at the university.
Richard Martinez, father of
Christopher, choked up sev-
eral times as he paid tribute to
his son and blamed politicians
and the gun lobby, asking in
an emotional and at times
angry speech: When will this
insanity stop? Our family has
a message for every parent
out there: you dont think itll
happen to your child until it
does, he said. Chris was a re-
ally great kid, ask anyone who
knew him. His death has left
our family lost and broken.
His voice shaking with emo-
tion, Martinez rounded on
politicians and the powerful
National Rie Association.
Why did Chris die? Chris
died because of craven, irre-
sponsible politicians and the
NRA, Martinez said, raising
his voice. They talk about
gun rights. What about Chriss
right to live? When will this in-
sanity stop?
By grisly coincidence, in
2001, the son of Ally McBeal
and The Wire television se-
ries director Daniel Attias ran
down four pedestrians with
his car on a crowded street just
a block away from the scene of
Fridays assault.
Witnesses said that part-
time college student David
Attias got out of the car after
his deed and shouted I am
the angel of death. He was
ruled insane and locked up
in a state hospital after being
initially convicted of second-
degree murder. AFP
Anti-coup protesters scufe with Thai soldiers ahead of a planned
gathering in Bangkok on Saturday. AFP
Martin Chulov

H
IGH spring in Syr-
ias largest city and
the nal battle has
arrived. From his
vantage point on a frontline
in Aleppos northeast, Abu Bi-
lal, a rebel commander, had
spent the past month staring
at a ridge line about a mile
away that marked the closest
Syrian military position.
A large white house, the one
building still standing, had
been the target for the only
tank his men had. It shim-
mered in the rising heat and,
at times, gures seemed to
appear briey in the distant
haze. Were they really there?
There was nothing illusory
about the Syrian soldiers
and tanks that appeared last
Thursday, though. Just after
dawn, the ridge and the co-
balt sky erupted.
The battle they had been
braced for and possibly a
denitive reckoning on who
will prevail in Syrias war was
upon the rebels defending the
Sheikh Najjar area.
They are trying to encircle
the city, said one rebel leader
from a room in a pock-marked
house. And this time they
think they can do it.
Later that day, the worst
fears of the opposition ght-
ers were about to be realised.
Just to their north, the Aleppo
central prison, seen by both
sides as a vital target, had
been breached by regime sol-
diers, ghting with a battalion
of Iraqi Shiite irregulars.
If captured it would further
compromise the rebels vul-
nerable supply lines and make
their campaign to hold Aleppo
close to impossible. Inside the
ancient city the strains are al-
ready showing. Next to noth-
ing moves here. Throughout
almost two years of chaos and
insurrection, residents who re-
mained in the rebel-held east
took to the streets during meal
times. They drove their cars,
walked to mosques, shopped
in markets in between bomb-
ing raids. Not any more.
Aleppo is eerie and aban-
doned. The only messes to
clean up are caused by regular
bombing raids by Syrian planes
and helicopters, which destroy
homes and buildings with un-
mitigated savagery. In some
districts near the eastern fring-
es, up to 30 per cent of all build-
ings have been demolished.
Abu Mahmoud was at the
mosque when a barrel bomb
destroyed half of his house in
the Shaar district in February.
He spent the rest of the win-
ter living in the other half, ex-
posed to the elements.
What am I going to do? he
asked plaintively. The coun-
try is being destroyed, and the
region is being sucked into a
hole from which it can never
recover. This could have all
been avoided if people spoke
to each other from the begin-
ning, if leaders acknowledged
that the people have the right
to expect things from them.
Towards Aleppos airport,
which was taken back by the
regime this year, Hamid Mah-
moud and his family were
moving back into their home.
Four days ago my wife was
killed, Mahmoud said. We
had moved to [another sub-
urb of east Aleppo] and a bar-
rel bomb hit our house. It was
10 at night and I dragged her
body out of the bricks.
Other men, brothers and
cousins record the aftermath of
the bombing, a jumbled swirl
of smoke, screaming and sirens
that seem all too familiar.
About a kilometre further
away, the Syrian military and
its backers lurk. They are
Lebanese and Iraqis, said a
rebel ghter. They speak harsh
words to us on the radios
theyre always talking about
[Shiites] Imams Ali, Hussein
and Abbas. And when they try
to advance, they y their ags.
The ever-rising sectarian
dimension to Syrias war, and
to the insurgency plaguing
Iraq, is lost on Mahmoud, his
brothers and cousins, who say
they never imagined cowering
in fear in their homes almost
two years after the opposition
entered Aleppo.
I thought this would be
over in a few months. Its un-
believable that things have got
to this point and terrifying to
know that they will likely get
worse. We thought getting rid
of al-Qaeda [ISIS] would be
the beginning of the end.
The ght to oust ISIS, an
ultra-fundamental jihadist
group, was a dening three
months in the battle for Alep-
po, but for the wrong reasons,
as rebel groups who led the
ght have discovered.
We lost 550 men, said a
senior member of the Liwa
al-Tawheed, the largest op-
position group in the Islamic
Front, one of two rebel military
blocs in northern Syria. The
Islamic Front lost 2,500. We
did that because we needed to.
They did not represent us. And
we were told that if we kicked
them out it would be easier for
others to help us. Well, we did
that, and look at things now.
Towards the centre of
the city, the former ISIS
base stood unmolested by
Syrian jets, as it had through-
out the war. The Tawheed base
next door was in ruins.
By the weeks end, the battle
for for Aleppo was intensify-
ing. Rebel reinforcements
were steadily making their
way to Abu Bilals position and
the ridge opposite was teem-
ing with Syrian troops, who
were creeping ever closer.
After all this, we are not go-
ing to lose, said a ghter who
worked with Abu Bilal.
Asked how those ghting
with him were going to win,
he shrugged and offered:
We know we are ghting for
a good cause. Victory comes
slowly, and in strange ways.
THE OBSERVER
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An armed man walks by the entrance to the Aleppo prison after Syrias army broke a siege of the compound
in a picture released by the ofcial Syrian Arab News Agency on Thursday. AFP
Aleppo prepares
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The country is being destroyed,
and the region is being sucked
into a hole from which
it can never recover
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A MAN has been arrested in
connection with the murder
of a British teacher on the
Indonesian island of Bali, ac-
cording to local reports. The
Jakarta Post said a Bali man
had been arrested. The news-
paper said initial inquiries by
Bali police showed the mur-
der might have been linked to
a robbery, the Press Associa-
tion reported yesterday.
The woman, named as 48-
year-old Anne Marie Drozdz,
was found on the oor of her
rented villa in the district of
Ubud on Thursday afternoon.
Local police said there were
signs that her villa had been
broken into.
She was found by the own-
er of the villa lying dead on the
oor with a black cloth over
her face, local police chief
Komang Sandi Arsana told re-
porters. The door was dam-
aged and there were dried up
pools of blood on the oor.
Drozdz, an English and
drama teacher from Leicester-
shire, had been on the island
for less than a month before
she was discovered with mul-
tiple injuries to her body.
The victims body was taken
to hospital in the islands cap-
ital Denpasar, where a post-
mortem examination found
she had been dead for several
hours by the time her body
was discovered.
Ida Bagus Putu Alitin, head
of forensics at the hospital,
told the Jakarta Post a graze
had been found on her neck
indicating possible strangula-
tion. He added: We will wait
until permission from her
family and police to carry out
an autopsy.
Drozdz was found by an
American, William Hening,
the husband of the villas
owner, who was there to de-
liver fresh towels, the Jakarta
Post reported.
After seeing that the door
was open and damaged, he
rushed inside to nd Drozdz
lying on the oor with a black
cloth covering her face.
A spokeswoman for the
Foreign Ofce did not con-
rm suspicisions of murder,
but stated: We are aware of
the death of a British nation-
al in Bali and are providing
consular assistance to the
family.
Drozdz had been renting
the villa in Ubud, a popular
tourist destination known for
its focus on Balinese culture,
since 17 May. THE GUARDIAN
Arrest made in UK
womans Bali death
Ukraine voters out in force
Tanya Willmer and Max Delaney

U
KRAINIANS turned
out en masse yes-
terday in an elec-
tion seen as crucial
to ending months of bloody
upheaval but pro-Russian
rebels managed to shut down
polling in swathes of the east.
The former Soviet republic
is ghting for its very survival
after Russia seized Crimea
and separatists launched an
armed uprising in the eastern
industrial belt, the worst crisis
since independence over two
decades ago.
The rst thing we must do
is bring peace to all citizens
of Ukraine, said billionaire
tycoon Petro Poroshenko, the
clear favourite in a packed
eld of candidates to lead the
former Soviet republic. Armed
people must leave the streets
of towns and cities, he said af-
ter casting his ballot in Kiev.
Turnout across the coun-
try was reported at over 38
per cent after seven hours
of voting. The West is closely
watching the vote and Rus-
sias actions fearing civil war
could break out on Europes
doorstep.
Poroshenko called for di-
rect dialogue with the peo-
ple in Donetsk and Lugansk,
where insurgents declared
independence two weeks ago
after referendums branded as
shams by Kiev.
In the separatist areas, vot-
ing was patchy with only 11
of the 34 electoral constitu-
encies open, according to the
central election commission.
Ukraine is now another
country so I dont see why we
should take part in this elec-
tion, said one woman in Do-
netsk called Elisabeta.
Election ofcials had re-
ported numerous cases of
intimidation and attacks and
rebels threatened on Satur-
day they would disrupt the
vote by force if necessary.
In the centre of Donetsk,
about 2,000 people dem-
onstrated in support of the
separatists, as armed men in
camouage gear and balacla-
vas stood guard. You are he-
roes, the crowd shouted. Do
not take prisoners: kill them.
No ghting between rebels
and Ukrainian forces was re-
ported as voting was under
way. But violence ared on
Saturday in the ashpoint of
Slavyansk, where one Italian
photographer and his Rus-
sian translator were killed
and a French photographer
wounded after being caught
in a gunbattle.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin, facing the threat of
further Western sanctions if
Moscow interfered in the vote,
appeared to make a major
concession Friday by saying
he was ready to work with the
new Kiev team.
We understand that the
people of Ukraine want their
country to emerge from
this crisis. We will treat their
choice with respect, he said.
But in what Kiev branded a
provocation Russian Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev
visited Crimea, which has
been formally incorporated
as part of Russia and where
no voting was taking place.
In Ukraine, the authorities
mobilised more than 82,000
police and 17,500 volunteers
to ensure security for the vote,
being overseen by 1,200 inter-
national monitors. Turnout
was particularly strong in Kiev.
Opinion polls show Porosh-
enko winning 45 per cent of
the vote, just short of the 50
per cent threshold needed to
avoid a second round on June
15, and three weeks of further
political uncertainty.
His main rival is former
prime minister and heroine
of the 2004 Orange Revolu-
tion Yulia Tymoshenko, who
is trailing far behind on 7.5
per cent. AFP
Ukrainian soldiers of the presidential guard cast ballots at a polling
station in Kiev yesterday. AFP
Claire Rosemberg
and Catherine Boitard

B
ELGIAN authorities
were yesterday hunt-
ing for the gunman
who killed three peo-
ple including two Israelis in
an attack on the Jewish Muse-
um in the centre of Brussels.
One other person was badly
wounded in Saturdays at-
tack that was denounced by
Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo,
top European ofcials and
Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu.
Israeli foreign ministry
spokesman Yigal Palmor, who
identied two of the victims
as an Israeli tourist couple
from Tel Aviv, said yesterday
that Israel was condent Bel-
gian authorities would look
into this horrible crime.
Di Rupo told a news confer-
ence that Belgians stood unit-
ed . . . faced with this hateful
attack, while Belgiums King
Philippe expressed indigna-
tion over this act of violence
closely affecting the Jewish
community.
In Israel, Netanyahu said
the murder is the result of
constant incitement against
Jews and their state. The
head of the EU executive Jose
Manuel Barroso condemned
this terrible act in the heart
of the European capital, say-
ing: This was an attack at
European values we cannot
tolerate.
EU foreign policy chief Cath-
erine Ashton said there must
be no impunity for terrorism.
Interior Minister Joelle
Milquet said at the scene of the
attack that two women and
one man were killed and an-
other person was in hospital.
Asked whether she believed
it was an anti-Semitic attack,
Milquet replied that it was
too early to say, but that given
the target there are strong
grounds for presuming so.
The attack came on the eve of
yesterdays polls in Belgium
for a new federal government
as well as regional assemblies
and the European Parliament.
A deputy public prosecutor,
Ine Van Wymersch, said police
were interrogating a person
who admitted having been at
the scene at the time of the at-
tack but denied involvement.
The person was initially in-
terrogated as a suspect but lat-
er questioned as a witness, the
public prosecutors ofce said.
An inquiry was opened into
murder with premeditation.
Van Wymersch said police
believed two men were in-
volved one who drove away
from the scene in a car and
was in police custody and one
who escaped on foot and who
had not yet been identied.
Detectives were examining
video footage.
This is an odious attack,
premier Di Rupo said. Ev-
erything is being done . . . to
identify and arrest its author
or authors.
A Jewish community gure,
Joel Rubinfeld, said it clearly
is a terrorist act after the two
men were seen driving up and
double-parking outside the
museum. One opened re,
allegedly shooting indiscrimi-
nately rst in the entrance hall
and then further inside before
getting away. The area around
the museum was closed off
and security strengthened
across the country in places
associated with the Jewish
community, Milquet said.
The shooting took place
at around 4pm (1400 GMT),
with the victims apparently
shot in the face and throat.
The fourth victim is in an
extremely critical condition,
Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur
told the Belga news agency
yesterday. A bystander, Alain
Sobotik, said he saw the corps-
es of a young woman and a
man just inside the doors of
the museum. A picture shows
them lying in pools of blood.
The young woman had
blood on her head. She was
still holding a leaet in her
hand; she looked like a tour-
ist, he said.
Belgian Foreign Minister
Didier Reynders saw the two
corpses at the entrance and
said the two other victims
had been shot further inside
the museum. He said he had
been strolling nearby when
he saw people eeing and
heard shots and rushed to
the scene to help.
When he saw bodies on
the ground in pools of blood
he called the 112 emergency
number and rounded up
eyewitnesses. While stopping
short of calling it an anti-
Semitic act, Reynders said
evidently one thinks of that.
The Jewish Museum of Bel-
gium is in the heart of the Sa-
blon district which is home to
top antique dealers. The area
is a popular weekend haunt
for shoppers and tourists.
A deeply symbolic place
was struck, Di Rupo said.
The government expresses
all its support to our countrys
Jewish community.
In 1982 a gunman opened
re at the entrance of the
synagogue in Brussels,
wounding four people, two
seriously. AFP
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POPE Francis made an un-
scheduled stop at Israels tow-
ering West Bank separation
wall in Bethlehem yesterday
after calling for an end to the
increasingly unacceptable
Israeli-Palestinian conict.
The pope has said his
three-day visit to the Middle
East, which began in Jordan
on Saturday, has purely re-
ligious motives, but Pales-
tinians hoped that he would
show support for statehood,
weeks after the collapse of
US-brokered peace talks
with the Israelis.
Francis was to continue his
visit with a trip to Jerusalem
later yesterday and meetings
with Israeli leaders.
He irted with the regions
sensitive politics when he
climbed out of his open white
jeep in Bethlehem as his con-
voy passed near the contro-
versial separation wall erect-
ed by the Israelis.
Dressed in his white cas-
sock and anked by anxious
Palestinian security guards,
he walked over to the 8-me-
tre (26 foot) high concrete
barrier, which is topped by a
guard tower.
Bowing his head in silent
prayer, he paused for several
minutes in front of the grafti-
daubed wall, his palm resting
against the concrete.
Pope we need to see some-
one to speak about justice.
Bethlehem look like War-
saw ghetto. Free Palestine,
read the grafti in English,
scrawled over the wall that
had been painted by the Is-
raelis only on Friday.
The unexpected stop came
as the pope, who is on a three-
day visit to the Middle East,
was on his way to celebrate
mass with 10,000 pilgrims
in a packed and colourful
Manger Square, next to the
site Christians revere as the
birthplace of Jesus.
His arrival in the West Bank
early yesterday marked the
start of the second stage of
his brief tour aimed at easing
an ancient rift with Orthodox
Christians and speaking out
in favour of regional peace.
Looking tired as he arrived
from Jordan by helicopter,
the pope received a red car-
pet welcome from local of-
cials and priests. Palestinian
president Mahmud Abbas
received him at his palace
with a warm embrace.
Abbas raised the thorny
subject of Jerusalem claimed
both by Israel and the Pales-
tinians as their capital ac-
cusing Israel of systematically
acting to change its identity
and character, and strangling
the Palestinians, both Chris-
tians and Muslims, with the
aim of pushing them out.
Francis did not mince words
in his speech, as he called for
peace. The time has come to
put an end to this situation
which has become increas-
ingly unacceptable, he said.
The time has come for ev-
eryone to nd the courage
. . . to forge a peace which rests
on the acknowledgement by
all of the right of two states to
exist and to live in peace and
security within internation-
ally recognised borders.
Israel began building a vast
barrier through the West Bank
in 2002 at the height of the
second Palestinian intifada,
saying its construction was
crucial for security. But the
Palestinians see the barrier, as
a land grab. AFP
Pope visit to Jerusalem:
Israelis and Palestinians
must now forge a peace
Charles remarks are
unroyal, says Putin
RUSSIAN President Vladimir
Putin on Saturday condemned
remarks from Britains Prince
Charles reportedly comparing
his actions to those of Adolf
Hitler, saying they were not
worthy of royalty.
I did not hear this expres-
sion. If it was said then of
course this is unacceptable,
Putin said in Saint Petersburg.
I think he himself under-
stands that. He is an educated
man . . . This is unroyal behav-
iour, Putin said.
Russias relations with the
West have sunk to a post-Cold
War low over the crisis in
Ukraine. Russian officials had
previously condemned the
comments reportedly made
by the heir to the British
throne during a trip to Canada
as outrageous, with the
Russian deputy ambassador
holding talks with a middle-
ranking British official at the
Foreign Office.
A spokeswoman for the
prince refused to comment on
Putins remarks. Charles made
the apparently unguarded
comment during a private con-
versation with a Polish-born
woman on a trip to a museum.
The comments to the woman,
who had fled the Nazis as a
child, were reported by the
Daily Mail on Wednesday.
I talked with him about my
own family background and
how I came to Canada,
78-year-old Marienne Fergu-
son told the newspaper. The
prince then said: And now
Putin is doing just about the
same as Hitler.
The row threatens to cast a
shadow over commemora-
tions in France to mark the
70th anniversary of D-Day on
June 6, which both Charles
and Putin are due to attend,
although royal aides said no
formal meeting was sched-
uled. AFP
Belgium hunts museum killer
A woman lays a ower on the pavement in front of the Jewish Museum of Brussels yesterday where an
attack by a probable lone gunman the day before killed two Israelis and a French woman. AFP
Pope Francis waves to people in
Bethlehem yesterday. AFP
This was an attack at European
values we cannot tolerate
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Terrorism moves vowed
after attack on Xinjiang
CHINA yesterday vowed a year-
long campaign against
terrorism, days after attackers
in the western region of Xinjiang
killed 39 people in a suicide raid.
With Xinjiang as the centre, and
with cooperation from other
provinces, we will start a year-
long specialised hard-strike
campaign against violent
terrorism, the Ministry of
Public Security said. The
statement reflects the
governments concerns about
terror after a series of deadly
attacks in recent months
targeting civilians and linked to
Xinjiang, home of the mostly
Muslim Uighur minority. It
indicates a nationwide
expansion of a year-long
crackdown in Xinjiang. AFP
Fake Sphinx set to be
dismantled: state media
A REPLICA of Egypts Sphinx
built in northern China will be
dismantled after an Egyptian
ministry complained about the
structure, state media said
yesterday. A massive replica of
the ancient statue was built in
Hebei province, the official
Xinhua news agency said. But
Egypts Ministry of Antiquities
complained to the United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO), it cited a source as
saying. AFP
China fighters in dangerous moves
J
APAN yesterday accused
China of dangerous ma-
noeuvres above disputed
areas of the East China
Sea, saying a Chinese ghter
ew within roughly 30 metres
(100 feet) of a Japanese mili-
tary aircraft.
A defence ministry spokes-
man said a Chinese Su-27 jet
on Saturday ew close to a
Japanese OP-3C surveillance
plane above the waters where
the countries air defence
identication zones overlap.
Another Chinese SU-27 ght-
er also ew close to a Japanese
YS-11EB plane in the same
airspace, the ministry said.
One ghter jet approached
to within about 50 metres and
the other was as close as 30
metres to the Japanese planes,
according to the spokesman.
Relations between Japan
and China are strained by a
territorial dispute over Tokyo-
controlled islands in the East
China Sea. Beijing raised re-
gional tensions in November
by declaring an air defence
identication zone covering
the area, which overlaps a
similar Japanese zone.
They were dangerous acts
that could lead to an acci-
dent, Japanese Defence Min-
ister Itsunori Onodera said
yesterday. The Japanese crew
reported that the ghters were
ying with missiles, which
raised the tension as they
handled the situation.
Tokyo protested to Beijing
over the incident through dip-
lomatic channels, he said.
The Chinese ghters did not
enter the Japanese zone, ac-
cording to the Asahi Shimbun
daily. The two Japanese air-
craft were monitoring a joint
naval drill by China and Rus-
sia in the northern East China
Sea near Japanese territorial
waters, Kyodo News said.
Chinese state-owned ships
and aircraft have periodically
approached the Senkaku is-
lands, which China also claims
and calls the Diaoyus, to assert
Beijings claim to them.
Chinas defence ministry
said two Japanese planes en-
tered Chinas air defence iden-
tication zone on Saturday,
interfering with joint naval
exercises between China and
Russia for which a no y
notice had been issued.
Chinese aircraft were scram-
bled to identify and take pro-
tective measures against the
Japanese planes, the ministry
said. China has asked Japan to
respect the legitimate rights
of the Chinese and Russian
navy, it said.
China and Russia started
joint naval exercises on Tues-
day as their leaders promised
to strengthen relations in the
face of international criticism
over their territorial disputes.
The exercises were to end
yesterday. AFP
Two Sukhoi Su-27 ghters perform during celebrations in Kyrgyzstan on October 27, 2013. Japan yesterday
accused China of dangerous manoeuvres in the jet above disputed areas of the East China Sea. AFP
Safe set of hands
Men catch
baby falling
from block
D
RAMATIC images of two
Chinese men catching a
young child after he fell
from a second storey window
were released on Friday by
Chinese state media.
A man walking past a build-
ing during a thunderstorm in the
southern province of Guangdong
spotted a baby who had climbed
dangerously onto the window sill,
provincial broadcaster Guangdong
TV said. In the video footage he
was joined by another bystander,
and both threw up their arms in
anticipation of the childs fall.
Finally the infant tumbled down
into the pairs arms. Some re-
ports on the incident have said he
was a one-year-old looking for his
mother. I didnt think too much at
the time. I was just afraid of failing
to catch him, local media quoted
the rst man, surnamed Li, as
saying. AFP
A grab from CCTV shows men
about to catch a falling child. AFP
Three killed in suicide
attack on restaurant
THREE people were killed,
including a male and female
suicide bomber, and 15 were
wounded in late Saturdays
attack on a restaurant popular
with Westerners in central
Djibouti, local media said
yesterday. Djiboutis ADI news
agency said the attackers were
from Somalia, where Djiboutian
troops are part of an African
Union force fighting al-Shebaab
rebels. According to initial
indications, the three dead
include two suicide bombers of
Somali origin, a man and a
veiled woman. AFP
Missing yacht found in
Atlantic, but no crew
A US Navy helicopter spotted a
missing yacht in the Atlantic but
found no trace of its four-man
crew, officials said on Friday.
The US Coast Guard called off
its search for survivors of the
Cheeki Rafiki, a yacht crewed by
four experienced British sailors
returning to the UK after a
regatta in the Caribbean, at 0200
GMT on Saturday. The boats
overturned hull was located
1,850 kilometres east of Cape
Cod on the northeast coast of
the US. Inside, search crews
located the life raft secured in its
storage space, indicating it was
not used for emergency
purposes, the Coast Guard said
in a further indication that the
crew did not survive. AFP
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E
UROPEANS voted
in EU parliamentary
elections yesterday,
the nal day of a mas-
sive process expected to give
euro-sceptic parties a boost.
Twenty-one EU member
states including France, Ger-
many and Italy headed to the
polls to end four days of voting
which began in Britain and the
Netherlands on Thursday.
Greece, Romania and Lithu-
ania got the voting under way
at 0400 GMT but no results
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If opinion polls prove cor-
rect, the euro-sceptic parties
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around 100 seats in the new
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In Denmark, France and Ita-
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In Britain, the euro-scep-
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(UKIP) led by Nigel Farage
a party without a single seat
in the national parliament
surged on Thursday in local
council polls held in parallel
with the EU vote, rocking the
establishment.
Turnout, too, is likely to re-
ect growing popular exasper-
ation with the EU, dropping
even further from the record
low of 43 per cent in 2009.
The polls suggest main-
stream parties, the centre-
right conservatives and
centre-left socialists, will hold
about 70 per cent of the seats
in the next parliament.
For the rst time, the ve
main groups in parliament
named candidates to be the
next head of the powerful Eu-
ropean Commission and sent
them out campaigning.
Euro-sceptics and more
radical groups have picked up
support on anti-immigrant
and anti-EU issues made more
sensitive when 26 million peo-
ple are out of work, including
more than half of those under
25 in Greece and Spain.
Its clear these elections
cannot go on like this because
people do not consider the
European parliament to have
political weight, analyst Jan
Techau said. There will have to
be substantial reforms. AFP
All eyes are on
euro-sceptics
High and dry
Livestock look for a dry spot among cars and tractors near a ooded farm in the village of Domaljevac,
near Orasje, northern Bosnia, on Friday. Vast tracts of farmland are still under water in Bosnia, Croatia
and Serbia after the worst oods in more than a century, large areas are without power and many towns
and villages remain deluged and difcult to access. Authorities have warned of the risk of epidemics as
drowned farm animals rot, and efforts by health experts and the army to recover the bloated carcasses
have been hampered. AFP
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Deadly lake to become power source
B
ENEATH the calm waters
of Lake Kivu lie vast but
deadly reserves of meth-
ane and carbon dioxide,
which Rwanda is tapping both to
save lives and provide a lucrative
power source.
Plans are in place to pump out
enough gas for power that would
nearly double Rwandas current
electricity capacity, as well as reduc-
ing the chance of what experts warn
could be a potentially catastrophic
natural disaster.
The glittering waters of the inland
sea, which straddles the border of
Rwanda and the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo, contain a dangerous
and potent mix of the dissolved gases
that if disturbed would create a rare
limnic eruption or lake overturn,
expert Matthew Yalire said.
Levels of carbon dioxide and
methane are large and dangerous
enough to risk a sudden release that
could cause a disastrous explosion,
after which waves of CO2 would suf-
focate people and livestock around,
explained Yalire, a researcher at the
Goma Volcano Observatory, on the
lakes DR Congo shore.
Right now the lake is stable, but
for how long? asked Yalire, who be-
lieves that extracting potentially ex-
plosive methane is one way to help
stabilise the lake.
Near the town of Rubavu, a pilot
project of the Rwandan government
is already producing about two mega-
watts of electricity from the methane
in the lake. But a new, additional plant
is being built on Kivus eastern shore,
where the US-based power company
ContourGlobal plans massively to
boost production.
Our team is focused on extracting
methane from the lake to generate
electricity that will expand house-
hold access to power, lower costs,
and reduce environmental hazards,
ContourGlobal said. Its $200 million
KivuWatt project aims to lessen
the natural threat of an explosion,
while turning the deadly gas into a
source of energy and prot.
On the lakes Rwandan shoreline
and at the foot of green hills dotted
with banana plantations, hundreds
of construction workers are building
a platform due to be installed on the
lake by the end of the year.
Rather than being a drill platform,
it will instead suck up the methane
trapped in the depths.
There is no drilling; gas is pumped
from the lower layers of the lake that
are saturated with methane, the Kivu-
Watt projects chief, Yann Beutler,
said. From the moment when the
water rises to the surface, it releases
gases that are collected.
The methane and CO2 are sepa-
rated, with the methane sent to
a plant on the shore and the CO2
redissolved and returned to the
depths of the lake. The structure of
the lake, and the ora and fauna, are
not changed, Beutler added.
The projects rst phase is planned
to generate over 25 megawatts of
energy, with production to be multi-
plied four times in the second phase
to 100 MW, almost doubling Rwan-
das current national production ca-
pacity of about 115 MW.
The scheme is largely nanced by
private capital, though some 45 per
cent of the funding takes the shape
of loans from international devel-
opment institutions. ContourGlobal
has signed a 25-year concession with
the Rwandan government and an
agreement with the countrys nation-
al power producer and distributor.
The electrication of Rwanda is a
top objective of Kigalis government,
which aims to more than triple ac-
cess to electricity from a mere 18
per cent of the population today to
70 per cent by 2017.
The methane will also help Rwan-
da full the further goal of diversi-
fying energy sources. Today, almost
half of its energy comes from fossil
fuels, with the annual bill for im-
ported fuel topping $40 million.
Kivu is not unique: two other lakes
in Cameroon Monoun and Nyos
have similar high concentrations
of the gases. In 1984, a limnic erup-
tion killed 37 people around Lake
Monoun, then in 1986 a similar di-
saster at Lake Nyos claimed more
than 1,700 lives. These tragedies
have been seen as dire warnings for
people near Lake Kivu.
It is essential to extract the gas
from the lake, said Martin Schmid,
a researcher at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Aquatic Science and
Technology (EAWAG). If we let the
gases accumulate for a long time,
we should expect at a catastrophic
eruption of gas.
Stretching over 2,370 square kilo-
metres and plunging to some 485
metres deep, the lake holds some
60 billion cubic metres of dissolved
methane gas, and some 300 billion
cubic metres of carbon dioxide.
With some two million people liv-
ing close to the lake shore in both
Rwanda and DR Congo, any erup-
tion could be disastrous.
An active nearby volcano, Mount
Nyiragongo, which smothered part
of the Kivu lakeshore city of Goma
with lava in 2002, highlights the real
risk that geological activity in the
lake could trigger an explosion.
The lake and volcano are located
on Africas continental Rift zone,
where the Earths tectonic plates are
slowly being pulled apart. AFP
Dangerous beauty: A Congolese man watches lava reaching Lake Kivu in Goma town
in January 2002 after volcano Niragongo erupted in DR Congo. AFP
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I
N RECENT news reports, we
have seen some Cambodians
applauding the repatriation of
priceless, long-lost antiquities
that were looted during the coun-
trys violent 1970s. Last year, two
pandava brothers (kneeling attend-
ants from the Hindu epic Mahab-
harata) were shipped from the Unit-
ed States back home to Cambodia
after being absent for more than
four decades. This week, another
statue Duryodhana, also from the
Mahabharata is scheduled to
arrive home.
The return of these three statues
serves as a reminder that Cambodian
antiquities that remain abroad must
be brought home.
Cambodia experienced massive
looting of cultural property during
the 20th century. Thieves and loot-
ers often took advantage of the con-
flict and poverty ravaging the King-
dom to smuggle cultural property
out of the country, many times with-
out opposition.
In the early 1970s, Cambodia was
plunged into war and later mass kill-
ing. The countryside was in a chaotic
state, allowing smugglers to violently
remove centuries-old statues and
spirit them overseas.
Great numbers of Cambodian stat-
ues remain on display at museums
in France perhaps even more than
you can see at the National Museum
in Phnom Penh. Many of these were
taken out of Cambodia throughout
the almost centurylong French colo-
nial period one of the Kingdoms
darkest times.
Whether the artefacts were looted
by the French for profit or because
Cambodia did not have enough
experts and technicians to preserve
them or to promote Khmer culture
abroad is not at issue.
Regardless of the reason they were
taken, all must be returned to their
original sites. If these objects were
looted for profit, they need to be
reclaimed and returned home. If
they were transported to France to
be preserved, they still need to be
returned, especially as Cambodia is
now in a far better position to
restore, preserve and properly dis-
play them.
While we may put the blame on
the Khmer Rouge or others for
bringing the country to chaos and
thus enabling looting, we should
not forget that an even greater
number of cultural objects were
moved out of the Kingdom during
the French protectorate period.
During that time, Cambodians
who were witness to antiquities
being taken away dared not protest
or try to prevent it. The French
had absolute power to do whatever
they chose.
Bringing statues back home
means a lot to Cambodia and to
our people as a whole. First, it
restores a part of the spirit and soul
of Cambodia that has been lost.
Second, the Kingdom is culturally
broken by her missing antiquities
and thus her heritage is scattered
all over the world. Bringing these
precious artefacts home helps heal
Cambodias soul, restore her herit-
age and reassemble our culture.
Finally, the returned statues serve
as tools to teach younger genera-
tions and the Cambodian public in
general about the value of their
cultural heritage, property, history
and identity.
The return of our historical art
objects that are still abroad will spur
young Cambodians to want to guar-
antee that the countrys cultural her-
itage will be readily available to
enrich the lives of their children and
grandchildren.
In short, the presence of these
returned statues in the Kingdom will
speak to the heart of every Cambodi-
an and bring a healing that nothing
else can.
After all, Cambodians are the real
owners of all these objects, as well
as of the history and culture to
which they speak. It is now the
responsibility of all of us as Cambo-
dian people to ensure these arte-
facts continued survival and safety,
and that their meaning and beauty
continue to be known and enjoyed
by everyone.
Comment
Nhean Socheat
Return Cambodias treasures,
repair our peoples souls
A French couple enjoys a lunch near a temple in the early 19th century. DC-CAM
Nhean Socheat is the leader of the ma-
gazine, radio and newspaper team at the
Documentation Center of Cambodia.
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Lifestyle
Turkish drama wins Palme dOr
T
URKEYS Nuri Bilge
Ceyl an won t he
Palme dOr top prize
at the Cannes Film
Festival on Saturday for Win-
ter Sleep and dedicated the
honour to victims of his coun-
trys political strife.
Jury president Jane Campi-
on, the New Zealand film-
maker, handed the trophy
to Ceylan, who pipped 17
other contenders including
David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc
Godard and the Oscar-win-
ning director of The Artist,
Michel Hazanavicius.
Winter Sleep drew rave
reviews as a slow-burn domes-
tic drama that mesmerised
audiences despite its more
than three-hour length.
Ceylan dedicated the award
to the Turkish youth who lost
their lives in anti-government
protests that have rocked Tur-
key over the last year.
Julianne Moore won best
actress for her role as a starlet
in Cronenbergs biting Holly-
wood satire Maps to the Stars.
And Britains Timothy Spall
claimed the best actor prize for
his role in Mr Turner, a lush his-
torical biopic of 19th-century
painter JMW Turner by direc-
tor Mike Leigh.
Having beaten a battle with
cancer in the 1990s, Spall
fought back tears as he
thanked the jury, and God to
still be alive.
Bennett Miller scooped up
the best director award for Fox-
catcher, a Hollywood film
based on the real-life murder
of an Olympic wrestler by mul-
timillionaire John du Pont.
Critics embraced the 47-year-
olds third feature film after
Capote and Moneyball, and
viewers were left particularly
stunned by Steve Carell, whose
performance as the deranged,
sinister du Pont marked a com-
plete turnaround from his pre-
vious funny man roles.
Its really something to be
supported, and to have people
who have faith in you, and to
come out the other side, Mill-
er said.
The runner-up Grand Prix
went to Italian director Alice
Rohrwacher, one of two wom-
en in competition, for her look
at the rural life of a family of
beekeepers, The Wonders.
And the third-place Jury
Prize was shared by the oldest
and youngest filmmakers in
the race, 25-year-old Xavier
Dolan for his innovative drama
Mommy and Godard, 83, with
the 3D Goodbye to Language.
Best screenplay went to Levi-
athan, a drama assailing abuse
of power in todays Russia by
Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Winter Sleep marked the first
win at the worlds biggest cin-
ema showcase for Turkey since
1982, when Yol by Yilmaz
Guney shared the gong with
Missing by Costa Gavras.
Campion said she had been
scared by the films epic
length before she saw it.
I thought Oh my God, Im
going to need a toilet break,
she joked. [But] the film had
such a beautiful rhythm and
took me in I could have stayed
there for another couple of
hours, she added, calling the
picture really masterful and
sophisticated.
Ceylan had already won
awards at Cannes for his previ-
ous films Uzak, Climates, Three
Monkeys and Once Upon a
Time in Anatolia.
And bookies had tipped Win-
ter Sleep even before its screen-
ing as the favourite to capture
the Palme dOr, based on his
track record and a sense that
he was due.
Set in Turkeys stunning Cap-
padocia region, the film stars
Haluk Bilginer, known to inter-
national audiences from the
long-running British soap
opera EastEnders.
He plays a wealthy retired
actor living with his much
younger, increasingly stifled
wife (Melisa Sozen) and his
recently divorced sister (popu-
lar comic actress Demet
Akbag). Based on short stories
by Anton Chekhov, their tense
triangle plays out in a quaint
hotel serving hikers and moto-
cross enthusiasts drawn to the
rugged landscapes.
Aydin, the husband, acts
like the benevolent monarch
of his remote community,
dispensing charity and, when
he sees fit, harsh discipline to
the villagers.
He sees himself, however, as
a champion of enlightened
reason in conservative Muslim
Anatolia, and a guardian of
Turkeys cultural tradition.
Their intricately pitched,
often remarkably lengthy dia-
logues, written by Ceylan and
his wife, Ebru, dig deep and
drew comparisons to Swedish
master Ingmar Bergman.
Trade magazine Variety said
Ceylan was at the peak of his
powers with a richly engross-
ing and ravishingly beautiful
magnum opus that surely qual-
ifies as the least boring 196-
minute movie ever made.
Ceylan said that while his
film dealt more with human
nature than contemporary
politics, his thoughts were with
those killed in his countrys
demonstrations.
We had a very troubled
year last year and these young
people actually taught us a lot
of things and some of them
sacrificed our lives for our
future in a way. So they
deserve this dedication I
think, he said. AFP
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan poses with the Palme dOr for his lm Winter Sleep during the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival
on Saturday. AFP
Workers demand rice not bullets with catwalk
meet with major brands including
H&M, Gap, Levis and Puma, as well
as IndustriALL Global Union, to
discuss garment worker rights and
wages in the second round of talks
between the parties.
We want to show the gap bet-
ween the salary of the worker and
the salary of the brand owner, said
Chan Reaksmey from the Workers
Information Centre, which organ-
ised the fashion event.
But we also want to talk about
the crackdown that happened
on t he workers i n Januar y,
she added.
At least four people were killed
when military police opened fire
during demonstrations on January
2 and 3, and last weekend Moun
Sokmean, who was injured in the
unrest, also died. Twenty-three pro-
testers accused of inciting violence
during the riots are embroiled in an
ongoing legal battle.
During yesterdays performance
at the Workers Information Centre,
male garment workers wearing riot
gear faced their female counter-
parts, who were kitted out in white
headbands with $160 written on,
and slowly rocked back and forth en
masse. One woman fell to the
ground and a young boy sat next to
her, screaming.
John Sophea, a 26-year-old fac-
tory employee who played the
part of one of the military police,
said he hoped the performance
would del iver t he message to
brand owners that the authorities
had used violence. During Janu-
arys demonstrations, National
Military Police spokesman Kheng
Tito defended the use of force,
saying that it was necessary to
maintain security.
We want to show how the soldiers
used violence against the workers
to send this message out to the
brands and also the government,
Sophea said.
Before the re-enactment, female
garment workers took to a catwalk
to model the same products they are
employed to make. The clothes,
bought at the local market by the
Workers Information Centre,
belonged to brands such as those
meeting today.
During the catwalk, models held
up placards describing their working
conditions in English and Khmer:
Tiny unhygienic rented rooms;
Unsafe environment; Forced
overtime and No access to higher
education. Later they swapped
these for placards with demands:
Drop ban on public gatherings;
Stop short term contracts and
exploitation of workers and Rice
not bullets.
Lin Na, 22, who took part in the
catwalk, works at Evergreen Appar-
el (Cambodia). She said for a basic
salary of $100 per month, she works
from 7am until 4pm five or six days
per week, and works overtime until
7pm almost every day.
The salary is not fair compared
to the work we do, she said, wear-
ing a Puma sweatshirt.
Im wearing the brands to show
the buyers that their clothes are
made by us. I want them to under-
stand the link between the clothes
I make and the garment workers
situation and our salaries.
Garment workers walk down a runway in branded clothing yesterday. Garment sector
employees are asking for a minimum wage of $160 per month. CHARLOTTE PERT
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Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
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Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
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Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
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Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
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Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
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Torre Predial de Ca nEspatleta, one of the many towers on Formentera
built centuries ago to keep watch for pirates. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Biking through
the pirate past
of Formentera
Richard Eilers

M
OST visitors now
come to For-
mentera escape
and recover from
the excesses of Ibiza. My plan
was a bit more ambitious my
girlfriend Carolyn and I would
explore Formentera and its
pirate past by cycling to each
of the towers, handily placed
at some of the most beautiful
spots on the coast.
Formentera is about 20 ki-
lometres long, so our tower-
to-tower route would only be
about 30 kilometres and the
island is pretty at. But we are
spectacularly unt and only
used to occasional wobbles on
Boris bikes.
Formentera is criss-crossed
by Circuitos Verdes, pictur-
esque walking and cycling
trails, but unfortunately none
led to our rst tower, Torre des
Garroveret, on the appropri-
ately named Cap de Barbaria,
the islands southern tip.
Simple, single-storey homes
behind low dry-stone walls
seemed a world away from the
bling of Ibiza. A nal, sweaty
climb had me cursing the
scooters that sped by. But then
it was a freewheel downhill to
the sparkling sea, a lighthouse,
and the tower itself.
It was made of stone and
looked solid enough but the
tower was little bigger than a
bouncy castle. How could it
have kept a pack of pirates at
bay? A quick google revealed
that this was just a watch tower
the soldiers job was to scan
the horizon, raise the alarm if
any corsairs were spotted, and
then scarper. I couldnt fault
the towers location: it had an
amazing view south, to the
baddies, and east, to Formen-
teras biggest stretch of sand,
Playa Migjorn, our next target.
Heading north and then east,
we got off the main road and
joined the Circuitos Verdes net-
work. Asphalt road and gravel
tracks took us through coun-
tryside until we neared the sea
again and our wheels stalled in
soft sand. We pushed our bikes
to the second tower, Torre des
Pi des Catala, standing above
Migjorn, a spot blighted to the
east by hotel blocks.
Migjorn is also the closest
that Formentera comes to
Balearic cool. Beach bars and
restaurants, such as Gecko
Beach Club, Flipper & Chiller
and Blue Bar draw celebs and
Ibiza refugees. Carolyn then
snoozed on the beach while I
plunged into the sea.
Somewhat reluctantly, we
saddled up and headed north
again, stopping briey in the
islands sleepy capital, Sant
Francesc, for a drink and a
quick look at its church, for-
tied in the 18th century to
make it pirate-proof. An hour
later, a quick swerve past a
security gate and a nod to the
guard had us whizzing past
lawns of Stepford Wife perfec-
tion and on to the tower, high
above the water. This was the
most spectacular spot so far.
We lingered in front of the
tower but the sun was fading.
We found a public path leading
to quiet tracks we only saw a
handful of beach escapees on
them all day that took us past
windmills and ruins to the far
west and the most isolated
and atmospheric tower: Torre
de la Gavina. It wasnt hard to
imagine the lives of the sol-
diers posted here long days
looking out to sea with a mix
of boredom and trepidation.
We were done. We had seen
the towers that allowed is-
landers to live in safety, while
the pirates turned their at-
tention to less well-defended
shores. We felt pleased that
wed summoned up the en-
ergy to dig a little under the
skin of Formentera. But we
were knackered. Perhaps to-
morrow wed be back at these
gorgeous spots, sweat-free
on a scooter. THE GUARDIAN
Entertainment
21
Thinking caps
Fridays solution Fridays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2
Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious
company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains
against him.
City Mall: 5:10pm, 9:10pm
Toul Kork: 9:30am, 2:20pm, 7pm
NEIGHBOURS
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected
difficulties when they are forced to live next to a
fraternity house.
City Mall: 3:15pm, 7:50pm
Tuol Kork: 5:05pm
GODZILLA
The worlds most famous monster is pitted against
malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanitys
scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
City Mall: 11am, 2:20pm, 4:55pm, 7pm, 9:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:30am, 11:50am, 2:10pm, 6:55pm,
9:20pm
THE QUIET ONES
A university professor and a team of students
conduct an experiment on a young woman,
uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in
the process.
City Mall: 1:20pm
Tuol Kork: 9:45pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
THE QUIET ONES
(See above.)
3:15pm, 5pm, 6:45pm
GODZILLA
(See above.)
9:30am, 11:40am, 1:45pm, 8:30pm
THE RAID 2
Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes
undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans
to bring down the syndicate and uncover the
corruption within his police force.
8:10pm
NOW SHOWING
Bingo @ SoulTEAse
Bringing bingo back. Anyone with a
passion for bingo or even just a
casual interest might check out
this night at the Street 240 cafe,
SoulTEAse.
SoulTEAse, #55, Street 240. 6:30pm
Franglish @ Plantation
Brush up on your French or English-
language skills with Franglish at the
Plantation Hotel. Designed for people
who are uent in one language and
can speak a little of the other.
The Plantation, #28 Street 184. 6:30pm
Yoga @ Yoga Phnom Penh
Get your Monday morning o to an
invigorating start before work with a
yoga class from an experienced
teacher. The class runs from 8am until
9:30am.
Yoga Phnom Penh, #39 on Street 21.
8am
Nerd Night @
Score Sports Bar
Inspired by the Pecha Kucha
presentation format, Nerd Night is an
exhibition of local talent and ideas.
Each presentation is short and sweet:
20 slides and 20 seconds on each
slide.
Score Sports Bar, #5 Street 282,
between 51 and 57. 7:30pm
ACROSS
1 Brings up the rear
5 It may be irresistible
9 Fuzzbusters finding
14 Opera feature
15 Not made up
16 End of the Greek alphabet
17 Predicament
18 Snobbery
19 The entire range
20 Swimsuit models
23 Convent resident
24 Hilo souvenir
25 Ark measures
29 Buglers goodnight
31 Half a ballroom dance
34 Place for all kidding?
35 Word said with a grimace
36 River to the Caspian Sea
37 Good time to make the bed
40 Nutmeg cover
41 Pen ends
42 Ground-cover plant
43 Hallucinatory drug
44 No longer deceived by
45 A reindeer
46 Sick-day reason
47 Short-necked diving bird
48 Forming lasting relationships
57 Family treasury
58 German river
59 Equine color
60 Inner personality, to Jung
61 Actors lines
62 Pearl Mosque city
63 Filled, as a ships hold
64 Piano parts
65 Large bell sound
DOWN
1 Lions antithesis
2 Word with high pressure
3 Essential point
4 Kimono adornment
5 Planet beyond Saturn
6 Despots duration
7 Worn threads
8 Unnamed alternative
9 Kind of gallery
10 Valuable fiddle
11 Prefix meaning half
12 Malaria symptom
13 They may be trapped in a maze
21 Head of state?
22 Opposite of 16-Across
25 Group of conspirators
26 Software buyers
27 Having two equal lobes
28 Graven image, e.g.
29 Horsepower booster
30 Theyre good for your hands
31 Traffic snarler
32 Hurriedness
33 Union platform?
35 Death notice, briefly
36 Strange sky sightings
38 What bores induce
39 Uniform cloth
44 Appellation for winter
45 Compulsory force
46 Logging channel
47 Superior residence?
48 Heathen god
49 Arm bone
50 What am ___? (auction query)
51 Giraffes have a long one
52 Epoxy
53 Hardly vibrant
54 Faster! Faster!
55 Make hourly
56 Entanglement
LITTLE AMMO
TV PICKS
A speaker at Nerd Night. Tonights topics include a talk on Vietnam and Cambodia. ANNA CLARE PHOTOGRAPHY
Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney in A Good Day to Die
Hard. BLOOMBERG
10am - TAKEN 2: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan
Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a
kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. FOX
MOVIES
2:20pm - MONSTERS UNIVERSITY: A look at the
relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days
at Monsters University when they werent necessarily
the best of friends. FOX MOVIES
4:25pm - UPSIDE DOWN: Adam and Eden fell in love as
teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds
with gravities that pull in opposite directions. FOX
MOVIES
6:15pm - A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD: John McClane
travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward
son, Jack. FOX MOVIES
Upmarket Khmer-Thai
restaurant Needa held its
grand opening party last
Monday. The eatery, on
the corner of Streets
360 and 51, serves tra-
ditional cuisine from
both sides of the bor-
der, including larp
moo, shcakes and
a mean prawn and
chicken pad thai.
To celebrate the launch,
guests tasted elegant
dishes created by the
chef of the smartly
presented restau-
rant, which was as
dolled-up as the
nibbles. A live band
kept the mood
upbeat. Photo by
Hong Menea
Seng Socheata
Lifestyle
22
Socheata and Sontery
Social Life Team
HGB Auto
launched the new
Mazda 3 model at
their showroom
on Friday. The
Japanese compact
car has been redone for
2014 with a new look and
plenty of new functions. Motoring
enthusiasts as well as the regular
clients of Mazda attended the event
to take a look at the new $37,000
model and enjoy the complimentary
snacks and glasses of wine. Photos by
Hong Menea
Mazda 3 @ Showroom
Chhum Sidecin at the podium Than Thida, Be Phany
Phal Sreyneang, Thoeng Sreytokyo, Soum Sophey Sem Somalar, Ros Sokna, Khun Sophareth, Ket Dalin The Mazda 3, anked by models
Mao Soy and Heng Kim Eang
Y K Leong, general manager of A&A Auto Group,
Johnson Tan from Camerahub
Troeung Sok Heng and Dy Phiya
Sum Vitoumeta, general manager of Anco Broth-
ers and Ngoun Sokgech
Khoy Sokserey and Tak Bunhang
Monirath Sok, procurement & logistics assistant
of Cambodia Airport, and Chheng Reingsey, gen-
eral manager of CFA Logistics
Vajira M Karunaratne, purchasing supervisor
local purchase at Cambodia Utilities, Un Kanha,
sales manager of Mazda
Heng Chrang and Chea Chandina from Clinic Pros-
ith Eye Center
Celebrating the ofcial launch of the car
Grand opening @ Needa Bar Bistro and Restaurant
Bernard Mak, general manager at Wiki Trade, and
Chea Chanraksa, general manager at IDD Cambodia
Hansen, Kalyaney Nan and Lim Sok Peou Putheavy and Puth Kahna A live band performed at the opening
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
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The ballroom of Rafes Hotel Le Royal
was packed with frocks and fashionistas
on Thursday night at the presale event
for Japanese apparel brand Flaxus
Tokyo. The cutesy brand, which sells
everything from Peter Pan blouses and
whimsical skirts to preppy sweat-
ers, will open a store in Aeon Mall
on June 30. Organised by Sovereign
Retail Group, the evening featured
Cambodian stars and a Japanese DJ.
Red and white wine owed as freely
as the cash was spent. Photos by
Hong Menea.
Flaxus Tokyo fashion pre-sale @ Hotel Rafes Le Royal
Ly Sou Den, executive director of Sovereign Retail
Group, and Hi Karu Ray Adach, executive ofcer of
overseas headquarters
Ke Kunthea, Chin Yi, brand manager for Sano,
and Sothea Jimmy from F Magazine
Sela Bopha, assistant manager of KK
Intl Travel, Daza Imm, Tang Lisa.
So Linna, Lu Lin and Chor Vuthyran, activation and
events manager at Sabay
Pen Pimean, Chan Kompheak
Sodani Ta, singer. Phal Pisey, secretary of SMBC, and Phal Nimol Pham Channary and Nordom Vimealea
Mizuho and Moe
Yoshi Hiro Abe, Remy Hou, CEO at Engineered, Yumi Anna Ono, ECO at Chiara
Angkor Music Production, and Anthony Gaglardi
Kenyuu KIm, Midori Nakao, Anna Arika and Jun
Takeguchi
Iv Bunthounmonkul, Nget Srey Linda
Torng Puty, human resources manager at
Sovereign Retail Group, Virginia Teoh, assistant
export manager at Bonia Group, Grace Lee and An
Chansphearith
Sorakphivorn Banaul, marketing manager of EFG,
Tin Kolmen, Soun Sarith San Sana, MC
Dinboneth Ho and Noemie Payumo, marketing
and communications manager at Rafes
Sarah Belli and Marco Anthony.
Hoeu Atitmuni Samnang, Tina Tha, Sok Nita, Bunarong Kit and De Chen
Tang Vibol and Sokthy Da Sunna Line and Sitthi Voan
Sitthivoan and Puthy Da, owner of Needa Bar Bistro and Restaurant Bunarong Kit, Hoeu Atitmuni Samnang, Cheav Ngak and Rith Thyda Ngoun Theary, Sophithida Kong and Theng Theary
M
ARIA Sharapova hopes
sweet Paris macarons
might help, Li Na looks
to a savvy coach, and Al-
ize Cornet wants some backing from
her home crowd if they are to halt the
steamroller that is Serena Williams in
the French Open.
The American at 32 may be well
into the veteran ranks in Paris, but
she believes that like a good wine she
is getting better with age.
Last years domination of the wom-
ens game when she won her second
title in Paris and her 17th Grand Slam
crown in New York has been followed
by a patchy 2014.
Titles in Brisbane and Miami have
been offset by a an early exit at the
Australian Open and a succession of
injuries and a loss of form that have
left her short of match practice.
It was all looking ominous for the
most powerful player in the wom-
ens game coming into Paris until
last week in Rome when she blasted
her way to the title for the loss of just
one set.
Suddenly she is once again installed
as the overwhelming favourite to win
an 18th Grand Slam title, which would
put her level with legends Chris Evert
and Martina Navratilova on the all-
time Open-era singles list just four
shy of Stef Grafs top mark of 22.
On the face of it Sharapova, the
only women in world sport who
earns more than Williams, is facing
a near impossible task. She has a
long losing record to the American,
including a 6-4, 6-4 pounding in last
years nal when she was the defend-
ing champion.
Asked what were her favourite
things to do in Paris ahead of the
French Open she replied: I eat some
macarons. Beside La Duree, there are
a couple of others I like to go to. But,
yeah, just eat. Eat some more.
Li, the 2011 French Open winner
and reigning Australian Open cham-
pion said her coach Carlos Rodriguez,
who master-minded Justine Henins
four French Open triumphs, was her
sounding board.
I think hes pretty smart, said the
Chinese icon, who at 32 is the same
age as Williams. He always like
to change.
Of course you cannot do exact-
ly the same like 2011. Every year
is different.
Cornet, who has become the French
number one since the sudden retire-
ment last year of Wimbledon cham-
pion Marion Bartoli, said that play-
ing on home turf was very special,
very different.
The French crowd is expecting
us a lot. Sometimes they are kind of
judging us, she added.
Rivals wary of Nadal backlash
Rafael Nadal might be seen by
some as losing his grip on the French
Open crown, but his main rivals
for the title didnt share that view
ahead of yesterdays opening day at
Roland Garros.
The 27-year-old Spaniard has been
strangely subdued during the long
buildup to the consecration of the
claycourt tennis season with just the
one title to his name at Madrid when
Japans Kei Nishikori was forced to re-
tire in the nal with a back injury.
Quarternal defeats to David Ferrer
in Monte Carlo and Nicolas Almagro
in Barcelona were shocking and he
was swept aside in the second and
third sets by Novak Djokovic in the
Rome nal last week.
But ATP tour events are one thing,
taking on eight-time winner Nadal
at his Roland Garros stronghold is
quite another.
French hope Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
said it would be pure folly to down-
play the Spaniards hopes of a record
ninth title in Paris.
If we have to look at the results
these last couple of weeks, of course
we can say that, he said.
But when we look, you know, in
the past, there is no reason to say Rafa
is different than the other years.
You know, hes still the same guy,
the same champion, and Im sure he
wants to win again here in Roland
Garros. AFP
24
Sport
NORWEGIAN PEOPLES AID CAMBODIA
Job Announcement
NPA is a humanitarian aid organization established in 1939 by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. NPA is
currently present inover 30countries. 1activities inCambodiain1992providingde-miningassistanceto theCambodian
MineActionCenter (CMAC) inorder to preparefor resettlement of refugeesreturningfromtheborder campsinThailand.
Since2004, NPA SouthEast Asiahaschangeditsstrategiesfromdirect servicedelivery to arights-basedapproachbuilding
onpartnershipframework; it is atwo-way cooperationandsharingof complementary resources to achievethemissionof
local organizationsengagedinactivitiespromotingmobilizationandprogressivechangesintheCountry.
NPA Ofce in Cambodia is seeking qualied Cambodian national applicants for the position of Information Management
(IM) Project Manager (oneperson) basedinPhnomPenhwithtravel to provinces.
Main Responsibilities
TheIM Project Manager shall seek guidancefromthe
NPA Regional IM Advisor (RIMA) andNPA HO HD,
report to PM andact asthefocal point for NPA IM
activitiesinCambodia.
Requirements and Qualications
At least 3yearspractical experienceintechnical
concepts, goodcoordinationandproject management
inMineActionSectorsinCambodia.
Excellent knowledgeof National andInternational
MineActionStandardsandGuidelines
Ability to work withnational authority andoperators
Support to CMAA andCMAC DBU
Ability to work under pressure
Maintainandstrictly follow upascheduleof the
updateddata-set withinNPA program
Initiateandparticipateinthedevelopment of effective
informationmanagement guidelines, processesand
procedures
Ability to coordinatewithmulti-partnershipsprojects
Solidknowledgeof topography andmapdrawing,
professional handlingof compass, GPS, GIS, Google
Earth, andother applicabletoolstosupportmapping,
SharePoint, Email managementandserver management
FamiliaritywithIMSMA (InformationManagement
Systemfor MineAction) system, andother databasetools
Proactiveapproachto problemsolving
Must beableto writereportsof project, trainingplans
andtrainingschedules
Opento new ideas, opento cooperationandliaison
withother NPA partnershipprojects
goodteamspirit withcollectiveideas
Well organized, proactive, exible and trustworthy
Master or Bachelor degreeinIT andrelevant.
GoodatIT skill withprovidingsolutionstohelpendusers
Interpersonal Skills:
Maintaingoodcoordinationwithnational andlocal
authority for mineaction
Negotiation, diplomatic andrepresentationskills.
ProvenTrainingandmanagement ability.
Ability to work autonomously aswell asinateam.
Aptitudeto work inamulti-cultural environment.
Ability to deal withmulti-partnershipsprojects
Proactiveapproachto problemsolving
Buildgoodrelationshipwithother NPA partnershipprojects
Well organized, proactive, exible and trustworthy
Other Skills
GoodEnglishoral andwrittenexpression.
Familiarity with standard ofce software programmers.
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Toulons Wilkinson lauds
an inspirational Giteau
JONNY Wilkinson said playing
alongside inspirational
former Australia centre Matt
Giteau had convinced him now
was the right time to retire.
Wilkinson and Giteau the
ultimate professional in the
eyes of the England great were
both members of the star-stud-
ded Toulon side that retained
the European Cup with a 23-6
win over Saracens in the final
at Cardiffs Millennium Stadi-
um on Saturday.
The match was 2003 World
Cup-winner Wilkinsons last on
British soil, with the fly-half set
to retire after Toulons French
Top 14 final against Castres
next weekend.
Wilkinson was faultless in
kicking 13 points against
London side Saracens, his
haul including a drop-goal
off his weaker, right foot, just
as hed done to seal Englands
extra-time World Cup final
against Australia in Sydney 11
years ago.
But it was Giteaus 29th-
minute try that propelled
Toulon into a lead they never
surrendered.
Toulon captain Wilkinson
switched play with an inside
pass to Giteau, whose clever
chip kick into space saw Drew
Mitchell beat Saracens full-
back Alex Goode to the ball.
Former Wallaby wing Mitch-
ell then passed out of the tack-
le to the supporting Giteau,
whod admirably followed up
his own kick, and the centre
raced in for a try.
Hes exceptional, Wilkin-
son said of the 31-year-old
Giteau, who won the last of his
92 caps in 2011. I dont quite
know how a team ever let him
go in Australia to come over
here [Europe], Wilkinson
added of the playmaker, who
left the ACT Brumbies for
France after a 2011 World Cup
where he failed to make the
Wallaby squad.
Since hes been here hes
done nothing but bring this
team up, become better him-
self and make us all better
players, said Wilkinson, a vet-
eran of 97 Tests, after a victory
which came just a day before
his 35th birthday.
I wouldnt survive out there
without guys like him, Wilkin-
son said.
Wilkinson, still second only
to New Zealands Dan Carter
in the all-time list of interna-
tional points-scorers after
retiring from Test rugby fol-
lowing the 2011 World Cup,
never looked like missing in
landing two conversions, two
penalties and that drop-goal
against Saracens.
But he said there had been
times when hed asked Giteau
to step in as Toulons goal-
kicker.
Sometimes this season I
havent made the first few kicks
and Ive said mate, you take
the next one, he [Giteau] just
steps up, does it.
Thats the kind of guy is.
Hes an ultimate professional,
he can do just about anything.
AFP
Toulon y-half Jonny Wilkinson (centre) raises the European Cup as
teammates celebrate winning the nal against Saracens in Cardif. AFP
Stopping Serena wont be simple
Serena Williams of the US is favoured to defend her French Open title this year, with the tournament hitting off in Paris yesterday. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 26, 2014 25
Stevenson keeps WBC belt
with victory over Fonfara
ADONIS Stevenson survived a
knockdown to retain his World Boxing
Council light heavyweight title with a
unanimous decision over Polands
Andrzej Fonfara on Saturday. Canadian
southpaw Stevenson, who was born in
Haiti, took his record to 24-1 with 20
wins inside the distance. AFP
Kings beat Blackhawks to
grab playoff series lead
JEFF Carter and Tyler Toffoli scored
second-period goals to spark the Los
Angeles Kings over the defending
champion Chicago Blackhawks 4-3
Saturday in a National Hockey League
playoff game. The Kings took a 2-1 lead
in the best-of-seven Western
Conference final, which continues today
at Los Angeles and Wednesday at
Chicago. The winner will face either the
New York Rangers or Montreal
Canadiens in the Stanley Cup Final. AFP
Battaglin wins Giro 14th
stage, Uran keeps lead
ITALYS Enrico Battaglin of the Bardiani
team snatched victory in the 14th stage
of the Giro dItalia on Saturday, a 164km
mountain run from Aglie to Oropa. Race
leader Colombian Rigoberto Uran of
Omega Pharma lost ground in the
gruelling final 11.8km climb but
managed to hold the pink jersey ahead
of Australian Cadel Evans. It was the
first stage in the mountains, ending in
the Oropa sanctuary where the late
Italian climber Marco Pantani produced
a memorable performance after being
held up with a chain problem on his
way to victory in the 1998 edition. AFP
Records ignite
World Relays
T
WO blistering world re-
cords in front of a raucous
crowd seemingly ambiva-
lent to the Champions
League: the IAAFs inaugural World
Relays could hardly have had a bet-
ter launching pad than in a sultry
Nassau on Saturday.
The almost sell-out crowd at the
oodlit 15,000-seat Thomas A. Rob-
inson stadium, buoyed by a military
brass band and high-stepping car-
nival dancers, lent massively to an
amazing atmosphere so often found
lacking at major meets but one which
the athletes seemed to lap up.
There might have been no Usain
Bolt, nursing an injury and not due
back in action until mid-June, but
training partner Yohan Blake, back
after missing last season with a trou-
blesome hamstring, stepped into his
shoes with aplomb.
Snatching the baton from Jermaine
Brown as anchor leg, the worlds sec-
ond-fastest man made the most of a
rolling start to accelerate around the
bend and then absolutely y down
the home stretch.
The Jamaicans clocked 1min
18.63sec to beat the previous best,
set by the United States in 1994, by
0.05sec.
We all executed what the coach
told us to do, and we knew that the
world record could happen, said
Blake.
Weir added: We were expecting to
run a fast time.
St Kitts and Nevis took silver in
1:20.51, with France claiming bronze
in an European record of 1:20.66 after
the US team were disqualied.
The Jamaicans exploits followed
fast on an incredible show of power
running by a Hellen Obiri-led Kenyan
quartet in the womens 4x1500m.
A deceptively slow pace over the
opening lap was swiftly put to one
side as the Kenyans took more than
32 seconds off their previous world
record, set in Nairobi last month.
The Kenyans clocked 16min
33.58sec for gold, the silver medal-
winning US team timing 16:55.33
for a new American record while
Australia took bronze in 17:08.65, a
record for Oceania.
We have a strong team and we
delivered today, said Obiri.
We felt the music throughout
the race and we felt the support of
the crowd.
The rst gold of the night went to
Kenya in an unexpectedly dramatic
nish in sultry conditions with tem-
peratures hitting 30 degree Celsius.
Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich, Sammy
Kibet Kirongo, Job Koech Kinyor and
Alfred Kipketer covered eight laps of
the blue track in 7:08.40sec in a gun-
to-ribbon victory in the 4x800m.
Rotich shot Kenya out to a 50-me-
tre lead, American Brandon Johnson
doing his best to cut the decit on
the third leg.
Kipketer had it all to do on the nal
leg, but after accelerating away too
quickly, faded badly on his second lap
to just scrape home, 0.29sec ahead
of Polish anchor Adam Kszczot, the
world indoor silver medallist.
Were very happy about winning
the rst gold of the rst World Relays,
said Kinyor. Our plan was just to run
our race, and our goal was to win, and
we managed to execute our plan.
The USA team took bronze with a
time of 7:09.06.
The fourth and nal title of the
night went the way of the United
States in the womens 4x100m relay,
Lakeisha Lawson powering the team
home in 41.88sec after their Jamai-
can rivals uffed their anchor-leg
handover. AFP
Yohan Blake poses as the beast after Jamaica set a new world record of 118.63 in the
Mens 4x200 metres relay during day one of the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas. AFP
International badminton comp
concludes in Sihanoukville
THE 2014 Sar Kheng Badminton Cup
wrapped up in Sihanoukvilles
Ministry of Interior Hall yesterday,
featuring a smaller international field
than originally planned. Teams from
Thailand and Laos were forced to
withdraw from the three-day doubles
competition due to the military coup
in Bangkok, leaving only visitors from
Vietnam to compete against
Cambodian players. Ha Ann and Tann
from Hanoi won the mens U30
division, while compatriots Thang and
Mann triumphed in mens 30-39.
Doubles partners known only as Da
and Tam grabbed top spot in the
40-49 class, while Kong Phaly and
Keo Bopha of the Ministry of Interior
Club were best in the 50-59 section.
Khan Sovan and Lim Chav Eng from
Sihanoukville were the over-60s
champions, and Thuy and Hoa from
Ho Chi Minh took the womens title.
YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG SERYRITH
Beach volleyball pair grabs
tickets to the Asian Games
NATIONAL team players Lim Som Art
and Sim Se Klouk booked their place
at the Asian Games with victory in the
Beach Volleyball competition held at
Sihanoukvilles Ochheuteal Beach on
Saturday. After two local pairs were
overwhelmed in the semifinals, the
duo beat fellow national team
members Phun Borey and Sam
Samith 2-0 in the final. The 17th
Asian Games will held in Incheon,
South Korea, from September 19 to
October 4. YEUN PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY
CHENG SERYRITH
26
Sport
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has received an ADB Loan No. 2373-CAM (SF) GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION SOUTHERN COASTAL CORRIDOR 1.
PROJ ECT (SCCP) from The Asian Development Bank toward the cost of Procurement of Ofce Equipment for CBF at Lork-Kampot, and it intends to apply part of the
proceeds of this Loan to payments under the Contract for SCCP-EQ3: Procurement of Ofce Equipment for CBF at Lork-Kampot.
Project Management Unit 3 (PMU3), Ministry of Public Works and Transport now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualied bidders for Procurement of 2.
Ofce Equipment for CBF at Lork-Kampot as follow: 5 Televisions (at screen 32 inches), 48 Desktop Computers including UPS, 7 Photo Copy Machines,
12 Printers A4 size Laser J et (Color), 4 Printers A3 size Laser J et (Black), 7 Fax Machines, 7 Scanners, 9 Telephones, 9 Refrigerators, 15 Hot Water Machines.
Procurement will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding Procedures and under the laws and regulations governing public procurement within the Kingdom of Cambodia. 3.
This invitation is open to all eligible bidders from eligible source countries as described in the Bidding Document. 4.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from 5. H.E. Mr. Pheng Sovicheano, Project Director of SCCP, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, 4th
Floor eastern building, corner Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contact number Tel: 023 724 565; Fax: 023 724 595, E-Mail:
psovicheano@online.com.kh and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from Monday to Friday 7:30 am to12:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm.
Qualication requirements include: all requirements specied in ITB sub-clause 14.2 of the bidding documents. 6.
A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written application to the address given below 7.
and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of USD 30.00. The method of payment will be cash. The Bidding Documents may be collected in person at the
discretion of the bidder. Other than payment of the non-refundable fee specied above, there shall be no other conditions for purchase of the bidding documents.
In case of any difculty in obtaining the bidding documents, interested parties may contact in writing 8. H.E. Mr. Pheng Sovicheano, Project Director of SCCP, Ministry
of Public Works and Transport, 4th Floor eastern building, corner Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contact number Tel:023
724 565; Fax:023 724 595, E-Mail: psovicheano@online.com.kh and also send a copy of the communication to The Director, Department of Cooperation and
Debt Management, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Street 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Fax No. (855-23) 725 341.
th
J une 2014. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders
representatives and the projects beneciaries from the concerned local community who choose to attend shall be allowed to be present in person at the address given below
at 3:30 pm on 24
th
J une 2014.
All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Securing Declaration as described in the Instructions to Bidders. 10.
The Royal Government of Cambodia and/or the Development Partner will respectively declare a bidder ineligible either indenitely or for a stated period of time, to be awarded 11.
a contract nanced by the Royal Government of Cambodia and/or the Development Partner respectively, if it at any time determines that the bidder has engaged in corrupt
or fraudulent, coercive, collusive or obstructive practices in competing for or in executing a contract.
The address(es) referred to above is 12.

Project Management Unit 3 (PMU3), Ministry of Public Works and Transport, 4th Floor eastern building, corner Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106, Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, contact number Tel: 023 724 565; Fax: 023 724 595
Invitation for Bids
The Kingdom of Cambodia
GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION - SOUTHERN COASTAL CORRIDOR PROJECT (SCCP)
ADB Loan No. 2373-CAM (SF) and Government of Australia Grant 0096-CAM
SCCP EQ3 Procurement of Ofce Equipment for CBF at Lork-Kampot
Allen on target as
Heat beat Pacers
M
IAMI clamped down in
the third quarter and
Ray Allen came up big in
the fourth on Saturday
as the Heat rallied for a 99-87 playoff
victory over Indiana.
Heat superstar LeBron James scored
12 of his 26 points in the third period
as two-time defending NBA champi-
ons Miami shook off a slow start to
turn the tide in the second half.
With the victory, the Heat take a
two-games-to-one lead in the best-
of-seven Eastern Conference Final
and will try to stretch that advantage
when they host game four tonight.
The winners of the series will face
either San Antonio or Oklahoma City
for the NBA crown.
Miami trailed by as many as 15
points in the rst half. They took the
lead for the rst time with 7:36 re-
maining in the third quarter, when
James capped an 8-0 scoring run with
a fastbreak dunk for a 52-51 edge.
James and teammate Dwyane Wade
combined for 22 points in the third
matching the entire Pacers total as
Miami built a 71-64 advantage.
We had no choice but to try to
regather, said Heat coach Erik
Spoelstra, whose team matched the
second-largest playoff comeback in
franchise history.
The Pacers got within two points
in the fourth, but Allen came up big,
making all four of his three-point
attempts in a 13-point effort in the
nal frame.
James added seven assists, ve
rebounds and four steals. Wade n-
ished with 23 points, four rebounds
and four assists.
Indiana forward Paul George, who
suffered a concussion in the fourth
quarter of Indianas 87-83 game
two loss last Tuesday, led the Pacers
with 17 points, while Roy Hibbert
chipped in 16.
But George said that the Pacers
got complacent.
You cant play around with this
team, he said. I thought we got
comfortable at one point.
The Pacers had pounced on the
sluggish Heat early, forcing seven
turnovers and holding them to six-
of-16 shooting from the eld in the
opening quarter.
James said the Heat were victims of
their own mental breakdowns on of-
fence in the early going. But he added
that they were also too passive.
Were an attack team, he said. If
we get to our game, so many things
happen for us and were even able to
cover up for some of our mistakes
that we make.
Miami trailed 19-5 with 2:42 left in
the rst but closed the period with
a 9-2 run that narrowed the gap to
21-14 going into the second.
A 10-2 scoring run by the Pacers
stretched their lead to 37-22 with
6:22 left in the second, but the Heat
had narrowed the gap to four, 42-38,
at halftime.
George Hill scored ve straight
Indiana points to push the lead to
51-44 three minutes into the third
before Wades layup sparked the
8-0 Heat run that James capped with
is dunk.
After a welter of lead changes,
Allen drained three free throws to
give the Heat a 62-61 lead that they
wouldnt relinquish.
The Heat did get a scare when
James went to the locker room after
the third for treatment of cramps,
which he later put down to dehy-
dration. He returned to the game,
but it was Allen who starred in the
fourth, with three of his four three-
pointers coming in less than four
minutes after the Pacers had nar-
rowed the decit to 76-74 with 8:37
remaining. AFP
Ray Allen (right) celebrates with Miami Heat teammate Chris Bosh after hitting a three
pointer against the Indiana Pacers during game three of their NBA playoff series. AFP
Crown splashed down 3-2 by
Malaysian rivals Frenz United
THE Phnom Penh Crown Academy
boys saw their gutsy performance in
the Asia U16 Champions Trophy on
Saturday away to Malaysian side and
competition sponsors Frenz United
end on a sour note as the hosts
netted a dramatic injury-time winner.
A torrential downpour delayed the
Group B game at Frenz Stadium in
Janda Baik, Pahang state, for three
hours but the sides finally were
allowed out under floodlights to slosh
their way through the contest. Frenzs
Azhar Akhmar opened the scoring on
eight minutes, but Chhuot Senteang
brought things back level with an
opportunistic strike. The home side
were then reduced to 10 men as
Rasmizal Amirul picked up his
second yellow card, and the
Cambodians went into the break 2-1
up thanks to a stoppage time goal by
Sraing Titchhy. In the second half,
Salleh Hafizi slotted in an equaliser
for Frenz on 75 minutes and Jeffery
Fareez headed in the decisive goal in
the sixth minute of time added on to
seal victory for one of the tournament
favourites. DAN RILEY
Redknapp relieved as QPR
hit league promotion jackpot
HARRY Redknapp admitted he was a
relieved man after Bobby Zamoras
last-gasp strike fired QPR back into the
Premier League and eased the clubs
precarious financial situation.
Redknapps side hit the jackpot at
Wembley on Saturday as they rode their
luck to steal a 1-0 victory against Derby
in the Championship play-off final. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 26, 2014 27
Project Management Unit 3 (PMU3)
Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Wishes to Purchase:
Customs and Inspection Equipment for CBF at Lork Kampot:
2 X-ray baggage scanners 1.
2 X-ray person scanner machines 2.
10 Hand-held Person scanner machines 3.
20 Walkie Talkie sets 4.
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has received an ADB Loan No. 1.
2373-CAM (SF) GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION SOUTHERN COASTAL
CORRIDOR PROJ ECT (SCCP) from The Asian Development Bank toward the cost
of Procurement of Customs and Inspection Equipment for CBF at Lork-Kampot,
and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this Loan to payments under the
Contract for SCCP-EQ4: Procurement of Customs and Inspection Equipment for
CBF at Lork-Kampot.
The goods are required at project site of Kampot Province (Prek Chak) on 15 2.
th

September 2014.
Interested qualied eligible suppliers are invited to obtain a copy of the bidding 3.
documents free-of-charge from the address given below by submitting a written
application. Except for the submission of a written application, there shall be no
other conditions for obtaining the bidding documents.
To be considered eligible and qualied a bidder must 4.
Be from a ADB member country a.
Have completed at least two contracts for supply of similar goods in the b.
preceding 3 years of not less than 50% of the bid price in each contract.
Have completed contracts with a total cumulative value equal to at least two c.
times the value of the bid price in the preceding 2 years.
Not be under any notice of disbarment issued by the Government or ADB d.
th

J une 2014. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in public immediately
thereafter at the address given below in the presence of the Bidders representatives
and the projects beneciaries from the concerned local community who choose to
attend shall be allowed to be present in person.
The Purchaser shall award the Contract to the Bidder whose offer has been 6.
determined to be the lowest evaluated bid and is substantially responsive to the
Bidding Documents, provided further that the Bidder is determined to be qualied
to perform the Contract satisfactorily.
All bids must be accompanied by a bid and performance securing declaration 7.
as described in the bidding documents. Any bid not accompanied by one will be
rejected as non-compliant
The address where the document may be inspected and obtained is: 8.
PMU3 Ofce, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, 4th Floor eastern
building, corner Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, Contact number Tel: 023 724 565; Fax: 023 724 595.
In case of any difculty in obtaining the bidding documents, interested parties 9.
may contact in writing H.E. Mr. Pheng Sovicheano, Project Director of SCCP,
Ministry of Public Works and Transport, 4th Floor eastern building, corner
Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contact
number Tel:023 724 565; Fax:023 724 595, E-Mail: psovicheano@online.
com.kh and also send a copy of the communication to The Director, Department
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Street 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Fax No. (855-23) 725 341.
The address for bid submission is 10.
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4th Floor eastern building, corner Norodom Boulevard & Street No. 106,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contact number Tel: 023 724 565; Fax: 023 724
595
The Government of Cambodia and/or the Asian Development Bank will declare 11.
a rm ineligible either indenitely or for a stated period of time, to be awarded
a contract nanced by the Government of Cambodia and/or the Development
Partner respectively, if it at any time determines that the rm has engaged in corrupt
or fraudulent, coercive or collusive practices in competing for or in executing a
contract
A complaint may be made by any party at any stage of the procurement process. 12.
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Documents
INVITATION TO BID
Crown take back summit
H S Manjunath and Dan Riley

P
HNOM Penh Crown
snatched back the lead of
the Metfone C-League yes-
terday with a 2-1 victory over
Ministry of National Defence at the
Olympic Stadium.
Having seen 2012 champions Boe-
ung Ket Rubber Field leapfrog them
in the standings overnight, Crown
were determined to get back on top,
however a goalless rst half kept
things tight.
The Armymen found themselves in
front on the 55-minute mark follow-
ing a headed own goal from Crowns
Ngoy Srin.
Khouch Sokumpheak marked
his return to the scoresheet with an
equaliser eight minutes later and
then, on 73 minutes, George Bisan
clinched the game for the four-time
winners of Cambodias top-tier
league. The result sees Crown main-
tain their two-point buffer ahead of
Boeung Ket, who edged out TriAsia
2-1 on Saturday.
A seemingly lost cause was turned
around by Boeung Kets two foreign
strikers in the last 10 minutes of the
game, after TriAsia had by a seventh
minute goal.
The league newcomers got off to a
rousing start when Sok Chanraksmey
red the rst salvo to keep Boeung
Ket on the hop. While TriAsia spared
no effort in trying to consolidate
that early advantage, their Kampong
Cham-based rivals were frustrated
no end in their desperate search
for parity.
Choked as they were in their sal-
vage effort, Boeung Ket could only
breathe a lot more freely 10 minutes
before regulation time when Sow Im-
brahima found the back of the net to
level the scores. Chukwuma Ohruogu
clinched the deal for his side with the
match winner ve minutes later.
In the days rst xture, Asia Eu-
rope University and Western Univer-
sity drew 2-2 in a contest of uctuat-
ing fortunes.
For a side hit by relegation worries,
Western could smell the much-need-
ed victory in the air as Privat Mbarga
and Deun Sotheara scored a goal
each within the rst 25 minutes to go
2-0 up. Sok Sengtara kept AEU in the
hunt with a 41st-minute strike even
as Western refused to let their resolve
be shaken and their opponents were
equally reluctant to give up hope.
But moments before regulation
time, George Kelechi did the trick for
AEU with a goal that knotted the two
teams up.
MNDs Khek Khemarin (right) vies with Crowns Khim Borey during their MCL match at the Olympic Stadium yesterday. SRENGMENGSRUN
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Sport
Real Madrids defender Sergio Ramos celebrates their UEFA Champions League nal
win with fans at Cibeles Square in Madrid on Saturday night. AFP
Real Madrid fans swarm
streets to celebrate win
Daniel Silva

A
SEA of cheering Real Ma-
drid fans swamped the
streets of Spains capital in
a joyous victory party early
yesterday after snatching their 10th
Champions League title in a dra-
matic come-from-behind 4-1 victory
over local rivals Atletico Madrid.
Tens of thousands of supporters
roared with delight as Cristiano Ron-
aldo and the rest of the winning squad
arrived at the central Cibeles Square,
the traditional home for raucous Real
Madrid victory celebrations, in an
open-topped white bus just before
6am (11am Cambodian time).
Fans cheered Real Madrid defender
Sergio Ramos as, following tradition,
he leaned over a stage and wrapped
a club ag around the statue of the
Greek goddess Cybele that adorns a
fountain in the square, before giving
it a kiss.
In 2002 I was there to celebrate
Reals ninth Champions League
win. So I could not miss this one,
said Jorge Rodriguez, a 30-year-old
nurse who was wrapped in a Real
Madrid ag.
Many fans had danced to thump-
ing rock music and chanted in the
square for hours as they waited for
their heros to return from Lisbon
for a victorious welcome in the early
hours of Sunday morning.
Delirious Real supporters who had
been following the Lisbon match
on giant screens or on television
ooded onto Madrids streets, set
off recrackers, honked car horns
and surged into the city centre to
celebrate the end of their 12-year
wait for the decima a 10th Euro-
pean trophy.
Fans who had packed into Real
Madrids 81,000-capacity Bernabeu
stadium cheered as they watched
the win in a live relay. Millions of
other Spaniards followed the action
on television in overspilling bars and
cafes or family living rooms.
It was time for the Decima. We
have been waiting a long time, said
a joyous 20-year-old student Angela
Suarez as she watched Real move
ahead on their way to victory in a
nail-biting Champions League -
nal, the rst in history to feature two
teams from the same city.
Some 1,250 police were deployed
in the Spanish capital to prevent
clashes, cutting off trafc in the city
centre and setting up checkpoints to
search fans entering the zone.
Across town in Atleticos Vicente
Calderon stadium, many of the
55,000 fans left in tears.
Atletico supporters stared in si-
lence at the giant screens relaying a
story of defeat.
One Atletico fan leaned against a
car outside the stadium and wept
openly. Another walked away briskly,
tears streaming down his face.
The pain was all the greater be-
cause Atletico had been leading 1-0
until the 93rd minute when Real Ma-
drid equalised in injury time before
wreaking havoc in extra time. AFP

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