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Laignee Barron
EVERY day, hundreds of pilgrimages to
Angkor Wat come to an end without a
single glimpse of a centuries-old secret,
one that long ago faded into the ancient
temple walls.
By using digital photography and
computer analysis, researchers recent-
ly discovered elaborate depictions and
murals of elephants, trees, boats and
Buddha that are otherwise invisible to
the naked eye, erased from plain sight
by years of weathering.
From the remaining traces of pig-
ment, an Australian and Cambodian
archaeology team was able to reveal
more than 200 paintings that once
graced the monuments inner-
most galleries.
These paintings literally faded into
obscurity, said Noel Hidalgo Tan, a rock
art scientist at the Australian National
University in Canberra who led the
research project.
Locals and some archaeologists claim
to have known about the existence of
Angkor Wats paintings for years, but
until Tans research team published
their findings in March, no one had ever
paid them much attention, let alone
used image processing techniques to
discover the full extent of the artwork.
Tan first noticed subtle traces of red
paint in 2010 while strolling through
Angkor Wat on a lunch break from a
nearby archaeological excavation. He
took a few pictures of the faded outlines
and decided he would at some point
digitally enhance them to look for more
details. Two years later, Tan returned to
the 12th-century temple to complete
the documentation as a side project to
his doctoral thesis research.
As a rock art researcher, Im used to
picking up traces of pigment, but when
we put the images in the computer, I
was very surprised at how elaborate
these paintings are, Tan said.
Using a technique called decorrela-
tion stretch analysis, which increases
colour contrasts otherwise impossible
Continues on page 2
ONE FC
coming to
Cambodia
Dan Riley
COME September, some of the worlds
top cage fighters are set to be show-
cased in a high-octane regionally tel-
evised event that will take place, for
the first time ever, in front of a Cam-
bodian audience.
NagaWorld has announced a ground-
breaking partnership with Asias lead-
ing mixed martial arts organisation,
ONE Fighting Championship, which
will see the business and entertain-
ment giant sponsor 10 events spread
across five countries over the next two
years. At least two of the fight cards are
to be held in the Kingdom.
Financial details for the agreement
have not been disclosed.
The first of the Cambodian events
has been slated for September 12, with
further information to be revealed at
a press conference next month. It will
also be supported by the Ministry of
Tourism and the National Olympic
Committee of Cambodia, with local
Phak Seangly
I
N AN effort to curb the widespread
use of illegally smuggled cell-
phones in prisons, officials at Prey
Sar prison a few months ago
installed a cellphone signal jamming
system, forcing inmates there to resort
to prison-provided landlines, officials
there said yesterday.
Sun Lean, chief of Prey Sar, yesterday
confirmed the installation of the new
system which comprises a central
tower and multiple transmitters while
declining to comment further. How-
ever, multiple guards, a prisoner and an
NGO worker all of whom declined to
be named due to fear of reprisals said
from inside the prison yesterday that
the new system had effectively ended
the common practice of using smug-
gled cellphones.
A 28-year-old officer at the prison
estimated yesterday that there was at
least one smuggled phone per shared
cell, a practice that has persisted despite
the installation about a year ago of
about 100 landline phones available for
prisoners use.
Given the landlines' significantly
higher price about 38 cents per minute
versus a few cents on a smuggled mobile
phone the phones went largely
untouched until the installation of the
jammers. The system to block the
phone signals operates around the
clock, he said.
A staffer from an NGO working to
provide prisoners with health care said
yesterday that prisoners had gone to
great lengths to hide smuggled phones,
with one inmate hollowing out a hole
in a table to conceal his mobile.
However, the availability of the
phones, he continued, at times proved
problematic. Prisoners are not
allowed to call out whenever they
wish. One prisoner called to threaten
a victim from his cell. [Now] only 023
lines are available, the health care
worker said, referring to the numeric
prefix for landline numbers. Other
lines are blocked.
One prisoner in his 20s who was
working outside of his cell said the new
system in which prisoners must buy
phone-credit cards, which are inserted
into the landline phones during
use put an unfair burden on
prisoners wishing to contact their

Prisoners all jammed up
Smuggled cellphones blocked
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Angkor still
has secrets
to reveal
Frenchwoman Charlene Savarino (left) and Australian Yoshe Ann Taylor (right) are escorted by guards at Phnom
Penh Municipal Court yesterday after being sentenced for attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia. AFP
PAGE 14
US poet, writer Maya Angelou dies, 86
WORLD NEWS
Hard times ahead
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 29, 2014
TheAustralian Embassy is seekingapplications for theposition of Research
Ofcer (Political). The position is available from June 2014 and, after an
initial three month probationary period, will be offered on a 12 month contract
with the possibility of renewal. A competitive salary package is offered.
Duties will include:
provision of high quality analysis, reports and advice on legal, political
and social issues in Cambodia
monitoring a wide range of Khmer language information sources
including newspapers and social media
interpretation and translation
assisting with high level visits, embassy events and management of the
Embassys social media presence
development and maintenance of databases of Embassy contacts and
records management
The successful candidate will have at least 2 years relevant work experience
and tertiary qualications in politics, law, economics or an associated eld.
The candidate should be uent in spoken and written English and Khmer,
have a good understanding of the Cambodian civil service, and have a good
knowledge of MS Ofce applications.
For selection criteria and information on how to apply, please visit the Embassy
website: www.cambodia.embassy.gov.au/penh/aboutus.html. Only applications
which address the selection criteria will be considered. Applications must be
submitted by email to australian.embassy.cambodia@dfat.gov.auwith Application
for Research Ofcer as the subject line or by hard copy to the Australian Embassy
by closeof businessonFriday 06 June 2014.
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for interview.
JOB VACANCY Research Ofcer (Political)
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
A photo taken in 2012 shows a hidden Image of two elephants at Siem Reaps Angkor Wat. Through a digital enhancement technique called
decorrelation stretch analysis, Noel Hidalgo Tan was able to reveal the images on temple walls. SUPPLIED
Angkor Wat still revealing secrets
Continued from page 1
to see, Tan and his research asso-
ciates from the Authority for the
Protection and Management of
Angkor and the Region of Siem
Reap (APSARA) unveiled hun-
dreds of paintings unlike any
others found in Cambodia.
Generally, paintings in Cam-
bodia are on monastery walls
and depict the life of the Bud-
dha or Jatakas [stories of Bud-
dhas other lives] . . . But here in
Angkor Wat, they are mostly
images from peoples daily life,
said Im Sokrithy, an archaeolo-
gist and deputy director
at APSARA.
Mixed in among the animals,
floral patterns, geometric
designs and men on horses, the
Angkor Wat images also contain
two notable paintings that give
researches a rough idea of how
old they might be: a masted ship
suggests contact with Europe
had been established at the
time, and an image of a sitting
man resembling Buddha indi-
cates the paintings were made
after the Hindu temple was con-
verted into a Buddhist site.
Built in the 12th-century
under the reign of Suryavarman
II, Angkor Wat was initially ded-
icated to the Hindu god Vishnu
and was made the capital of the
ancient Khmer Empire. Though
one of the paintings depicts a
Hindu monkey god, Tan believes
the paintings he revealed stem
from the post-Angkor period,
and could date back as far as the
16th-century when King Ang
Chan converted the temple to
Buddhist use and commis-
sioned a restoration project.
What these paintings do is
attest to the continued vitality
of Angkor during this period of
history, which is something
thats too often ignored or
downplayed, said Damian
Evans, an archaeologist and
director of the University of Syd-
ney Robert Christie Research
Centre in Siem Reap. Our
understanding of this middle
period of Khmer history is
extremely poor, and almost no
archaeological work has ever
been done on it.
One of the most detailed
works in the Angkor collection
depicts all the instruments of a
pinpeat, a traditional orchestra
complete with gongs, oboes,
xylophones, drums and flutes,
evidence researchers said could
indicate the markings are more
than simple tokens of long
ago visitors.
People had dismissed the
visible pigment as marks of van-
dalism. While I agree that some
of these paintings could be ran-
dom graffiti, many of are done
so systematically and elabo-
rately that they suggest deliber-
ate action and planning. You
couldnt just do all these scenes
in a day, Tan said.
Now that Tan and APSARA
have created a catalogue of Ang-
kors paintings, they hope the
work will encourage further
research on temple paintings in
the Kingdom. But for now, there
are no plans to further investi-
gate or decipher the mysterious
icons at the worlds largest reli-
gious monument.
We have no initiative yet to
preserve or restore the paint-
ings, said Sokrithy, APSARAs
deputy director. But most
people who come to Angkor
Wat are looking for the reliefs
and the architecture, so the
paintings, which are mostly in
the far corridors, arent facing
any harm. But who knows,
maybe soon people will be
coming to try to hunt out the
traces of paint.
CLARIFICATION
In the May 27 article HAGL called
out at the UN, the Cambodian
delegation referred to in the
report was not an official govern-
ment delegation comprised of
diplomatic officials, but one made
up of of NGO representatives.
TVK directors
resignation
not accepted
Cheang Sokha

A
FTER being praised
for showing ac-
countability, the di-
rector of Cambodias
state-run broadcaster Televi-
sion Kampuchea is back at
work thanks to Minister of In-
formation Khieu Kanharith,
who has refused to accept
his resignation.
Kem Gunawadh quit on
May 17 after the longtime
directors channel failed to
broadcast the annual Royal
Ploughing Ceremony, which
was overseen by King Noro-
dom Sihamoni and held in
Kandal provinces Takhmao
town.
The resignation had been
greeted by many Cambodi-
ans as a rare sign that ofcials
were being held to account
for their failures.
But in a letter to Gunawadh
yesterday, Khanarith said he
had called a meeting with se-
nior TVK ofcials to discuss
his resignation.
Through the ideas collected
from the ofcials in the meet-
ing, as the result, they did not
accept your resignation re-
quest as director-general and
suggested to me that you keep
your position, Kanharith
wrote in the letter. Therefore,
Im not allowing you to resign
from the position and would
like you to carry out your
work normally.
A senior TVK ofcial, speak-
ing on condition of anonym-
ity, conrmed to the Post
that during the meeting with
Kanharith, which the ofcial
attended, they came to the
conclusion that Gunawadh
should not resign.
Yes, we encourage him
to stay at his post, he said,
adding that a minority of se-
nior TVK staff were not happy
about the decision, while
most accepted it.
After the resignation last
week, an ofcial at the station
told the Post that employee
relations behind the scenes at
TVK were tense, with staffers
unable to unite to work to-
gether, which may have con-
tributed to Gunawadhs deci-
sion to hand in his notice.
TVK deputy director-gener-
al Pang Nath was appointed as
acting director in Gunawadhs
absence.
The decision was received
badly by staff, some of whom
threatened to strike if the pro-
motion became permanent,
the ofcial in the meeting
with Kanharith said.
After resuming his role at
the station yesterday, Gu-
nawadh called for ofcials to
put aside their doubts over
his competency.
The minister said to put
my full energy in my work
and to avoid mistakes, he
said. I want the TVK ofcials
to come together.
Therefore, Im not allowing
you to resign from the position,
and would like you to carry
out your work normally
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FOR BREAKING NEWS
National
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Power play
Electronics
workers call
for child care
A
BOUT 700 workers
at a Svay Rieng prov-
ince electronics factory
were to demonstrate for the
third day today after manage-
ment refused their demands
for access to child care and
the reinstatement of ve
union leaders.
The provincial department
of labour yesterday proved
unable to sway management
or employees at Long Bright
Electronic Enterprise in Ba-
vet towns Manhattan Special
Economic Zone, said Meas
Sokna, from the Collective
Union of Movement of Wor-
kers (CUMW).
Strikers walked off the job on
Tuesday, calling for an onsite
child care facility or a monthly
$10 subsidy, the rehiring of five
CUMW representatives whose
contracts were not renewed a
year ago, and an end to Light
Brights short-term contract
policy, Sokna said.
While management could
not be reached, Svay Rieng
labour department director
Ou Sokhoeun called the strike
a small misunderstanding
between employees and ma-
nagement. CHHAY CHANNYDA
Black bears
found in
home raid
Phak Seangly
A KAMPONG Speu woman has
been charged with possession
of endangered wildlife and put
in pretrial detention after
authorities allegedly found her
in possession of two Asiatic
black bears on May 19.
The Wildlife Alliances Wild-
life Rapid Rescue Team and the
Southern Cardamom Forest
Protection Program followed
up on a tip-off on Monday last
week that led them to the two
bears, which were being held
in a village in Kampong Speu
province, according to a post
on Wildlife Alliances website
on Tuesday.
To prevent the traders from
escaping, the team waited out-
side for a search warrant. When
it came, they entered and found
the two animals.
According to the NGO, a war-
rant is out for the arrest of the
suspects husband, who is a
convicted wildlife trader.
Chhuon Vuthy, project chief
for the organisation Free the
Bears, said yesterday that the
two animals, aged between 8
and 9 years old, were taken to
his centre at Tamao Wildlife
Rescue Centre.
Foreign trio given hefty terms
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A
19-YEAR-OLD French woman,
a former teacher from Australia
and a 23-year-old Nigerian man
were each sentenced to between
23 and 27 years in prison after being con-
victed of heroin trafcking at Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday.
Charlene Savarino, 19, was sentenced to
25 years and ned $12,500; Yoshe Ann Tay-
lor, 41, was given 23 years and the same
ne; and Precious Chneme Nwoko was
sentenced to 27 years and ned $20,000.
All were charged with drug trafcking
after Savarino and Taylor were caught at
Phnom Penh International Airport with
a backpack containing 2.2 kilograms of
heroin in September. Taylor was to catch
a ight to Australia.
Nwoko was arrested hours later and the
two women claimed during their April 9
trial that they were not aware the back-
pack he had given Taylor to pass to a friend
in Australia, which was packed with sou-
venirs, contained the drugs.
Based on the hearing and the real
evidence which was seized by police, the
court has found them guilty [of interna-
tional drug trafcking], presiding judge
Kor Vandy said in court yesterday as he
read the verdict.
Two Nigerian men, identied only as
Martin, 39, and Antony, 27, were also
convicted in absentia yesterday and sen-
tenced to 27 years in prison in connection
with the case.
Lieutenant Colonel Kong Narin, dep-
uty chief of the polices anti-terrorism
department, said police had spent three
months investigating and monitoring
the group of ve, who they believed were
part of an international drug-trafcking
network, after receiving a tip-off from
Australian authorities.
They were arrested by our Cambodian
anti-terrorism police based on a report
from Australian anti-drug police after they
seized a stash [of heroin] sent from Cam-
bodia to Australia in early 2013, he said.
Taylor wept as the verdict was an-
nounced yesterday. Both Savarino, who
had attended Phnom Penhs Lycee Rene
Descartes school, according to her Face-
book page, and Nwoko declined to com-
ment while leaving the courthouse.
Pheng Heng, Nwokos lawyer, said he
would appeal the decision.
My client was arrested based on Austra-
lian polices report only. But when he was
arrested, police did not nd or seize any
drugs or evidence from him at all.
Australias foreign affairs department
conrmed yesterday that consular of-
cers from the Australian Embassy sup-
porting Taylor were present yesterday, had
observed her court proceedings and had
been providing consular assistance to her.
Information from the Australian Federal
Police was also provided to Cambodian
authorities prior to the arrest of 16-year-
old Australian Gordon Vuong in 2005 for
attempted drug trafcking.
Australian Yoshe Ann Taylor (centre) speaks with an Australian Embassy ofcial (left) at Phnom
Penh Municipal Court yesterday. AFP
National
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Helping hands
South Korea
and Japan
provide aid
T
HE Japanese and South
Korean governments
yesterday announced
millions of dollars in aid to
Cambodia for a scholarship
program and a number of rural
development projects.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hor Namhong and Japanese
Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji
signed for a $2.85 million grant
yesterday to fund 21 students
to study in Japan in the latest
round of a 14-year-old study
abroad program.
I hope this project contribu-
tes to human resource develo-
pment, Namhong said.
South Korea, meanwhile,
announced the allocation of
more than $21 million for four
rural development projects to
be implemented this year.
The agreement will be
signed on Monday, according
to a Foreign Ministry statement
released yesterday.
The projects include
developing the local se-
curities market, a health
sector support program and
conducting feasibility studies
for improving the organisation
of the countrys sea ports. VONG
SOKHENG AND CHEANG SOKHA
Refugees
must ask to
move here
Post Staff
CAMBODIA will take refugees
from Australias detention
centre on the Pacific atoll of
Nauru, but only if those seek-
ing refuge volunteer to be
resettled here, Minister of For-
eign Affairs Hor Namhong
said yesterday.
The comments followed
similar statements on volun-
tary resettlement last week by
Australian Immigration Minis-
ter Scott Morrison.
Namhong said the govern-
ment had agreed to a deal but
would only accept refugees
that volunteered to come.
It is not that the government
will force them to come or that
Cambodia will accept without
studying whether they volun-
teered to come or not, and this
is a very important aspect,
Namhong said.
Australia plans to send refu-
gees from its Nauru detention
centre which currently holds
more than 1,100 asylum seek-
ers, predominantly from
Muslim-majority countries
such as Iran and Pakistan
to Cambodia under a bilat-
eral arrangement that is still
under negotiation.
Looted statues come home
Laignee Barron

S
ANDSTONE gures
packed into crates
which took groups of
ve or more to shift re-
turned to Cambodia yesterday.
The Kingdom welcomed
the repatriated 11th-century
statues with little fanfare, a re-
markably placid homecoming
given the lengthy legal battle
with auction house Sothebys
and the enlivened conversa-
tion with a California art mu-
seum that led to their return.
They are Duryodhana and
Bhima. One from Sothebys
and another from Norton Si-
mon. They will be transferred
rst to the Council of Minis-
ters for ofcial reception on
June 3 and then transferred to
the National Museum of Cam-
bodia, Phnom Penh, for resto-
ration and exhibition to [the]
public, National Museum di-
rector Kong Vireak said.
The Duryodhana and the
Bhima, which depict oppos-
ing Hindu warrior gures that
were locked in a mythic battle,
were displayed at the Prasat
Chen Temple in Siem Reap be-
fore being hacked from their
pedestals and moved through
black market antiquities mar-
kets in the 1970s.
Over the past three years,
Cambodian ofcials and art
researchers have traced seven
of the Prasat Chens nine stat-
ues to collections in the US.
Last year, the Metropolitan
Museum in New York agreed
to return two statues pillaged
from the temple, the rst time
a museum collection has vol-
untarily returned antiquities.
At the end of last year, Sothe-
bys settled an embittered court
case, agreeing to pay for the re-
patriation of a third statue.
The Norton Simon Muse-
um in California pitched in a
fourth statue, the Bhima, and
earlier this month Christies an-
nounced it too would give back
a Prasat Chen gure, which is
set to return today, according
to a government spokesman.
The Denver Art Museum has
been quiet about a statue that
Cambodian ofcials claim it
holds, and the Cleveland Mu-
seum of Art has questioned
the provenance claim of the
Cambodian Hindu monkey
god statue they currently have
on exhibit, stating the mu-
seum as of yet has no plans to
return the gure.
Cargo staff handle the arrival of carefully packed sandstone gures, returned from the US, at Phnom Penh
International Airport yesterday. PHA LINA
National
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Chhay Channyda
THE Anti-Corruption Unit on
Tuesday warned four civil ser-
vants to le their overdue of-
cial asset declaration forms
or face legal consequences,
though it did not name the
allegedly delinquent ofcials,
according to a statement
posted by the units oversee-
ing body, the National Anti-
Corruption Council (NACC).
The two bodies discussed
the matter of the overdue as-
set declarations which civil
servants are required to le
every two years, though at
staggered times at a meeting
on Tuesday where the ACU
reported on its recent work to
the NACC.
The ACU follows this close-
ly, and urges the declaration
of assets before the ACU takes
action and brings them to jus-
tice, said a statement posted
to the NACC website. Those
people have already been told
publicly to declare their assets
many times.
The statement said more
than 5,100 ofcials were due
to le declarations in May, but
ACU President Om Yentieng
could not be reached to con-
rm the names of those ac-
cused of being delinquent.
However, in December
2013, the ACU sent letters to
three former Senate advisers
instructing them to complete
their declarations by January
31. Though one complied, ex-
advisers Vong Sopheap and
Kheang Leap still havent led
because they live abroad, Sen-
ate Secretary-General Oum
Sarith said yesterday.
That is not a fault of the
Senate, he said. We have al-
ready reported it to the ACU
that the two live abroad, [but]
by law, before resigning, indi-
viduals have to declare their
assets, or else the ACU has the
right to le a court case.
Article 38 of the Anti-Cor-
ruption Law states that those
failing to le asset declara-
tions can face up to one year
in jail and nes up to $250,
but the organisation has come
under re in the past for its
lax enforcement.
In fact, the asset declara-
tion process as a whole has
repeatedly been criticised for
its opacity and ineffective-
ness. Declarations are led
in sealed envelopes, which
are not made available to the
public, and cannot even be
opened by the ACU except in
the case of an already-open
investigation.
Ofcials called out for
failure to report assets
ILO attacks trade union law
Mon Kunthear and Sean Teehan

A
N INTERNATIONAL Labour
Organization ofcial yesterday
called the draft of a Ministry of
Labour trade union law a step
backwards during the opening of a two-
day workshop meant to hear concerns of
both labour unions and employers.
In a speech to worker representatives,
members of the garment industry and
the government, ILO industrial relations
expert James Ritchotte expressed misgiv-
ings at the Labour Ministrys failure to
address many issues that ILO staff who
acted as technical advisers in drafting
the proposed legislation pointed out
as problematic.
What is especially troubling is that
the ILO has repeatedly pointed to these
and other gaps to the Ministry of Labour
task force responsible for developing
the legislation, Ritchotte said to about
60 participants at the InterContinental
Hotel yesterday morning. It appears to
ignore requests from ILOs committee of
experts on the application of conventions
and recommendations.
Broad and vague language, especially
in the penalties section, opens the door
for authorities to abuse the law, Ritchotte
said. For example, he pointed out that
one article imposes a 6 million riel ne
($1,500) for not ensuring employment
security and national development.
Sections of the law that do not include
public employees and informal sector
workers right to unionise violate an ILO
convention that guarantees freedom
of association, Ritchotte said. Another
measure in the draft law that could unac-
ceptably limit the number of unions able
to negotiate with employers violates ILO
conventions on collective bargaining, Ri-
tchotte said.
But Sandra DAmico, vice president of
the Cambodian Federation of Employers
and Business Associations, said labour
rights in Cambodia are progressive.
I cannot help but reect on how many
buyers have told me the freedom of asso-
ciation that we have in Cambodia is well
practised compared to what they have
in many other countries, DAmico said.
Foreign investors seek stability, and this
necessitates a union law, said DAmico,
who alluded to a January 3 demonstra-
tion when authorities shot at least four
people dead.
While the workshop has been described
as an opportunity for all parties to give
their input on the draft legislation before
it is introduced and voted on in the Na-
tional Assembly, Labour Minister Ith Sam
Heng said complaints should wait until it
is approved, which could happen as early
as this year.
Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, sits among other union
representatives yesterday at a forum in Phnom Penh. HONG MENEA
Sen David

T
HE Cambodian Cen-
ter for Independent
Media (CCIM) led a
lawsuit for damages
yesterday against three gov-
ernment ofcials on behalf of
a Voice of Democracy journal-
ist who was badly beaten by
security guards at the site of a
planned demonstration in the
capital earlier this month.
Voice of Democracy reporter
Lay Samean, 27, was attacked
by Daun Penh district security
guards on May 2 while cover-
ing a scheduled opposition
rally near Freedom Park which
never materialised due to
heavy police presence.
Samean was beaten on the
head, and his injuries necessi-
tated a trip to Bangkok for an
operation that CCIM paid for.
In the lawsuit, CCIM, which
oversees Voice of Democracy,
is demanding $30,000 in medi-
cal compensation fees from
Phnom Penh Governor Pa
Socheatvong, Daun Penh Dis-
trict Governor Sok Sambath
and his deputy, Sok Penh Vuth.
CCIM spent $30,000 on
[Sameans] operation in Thai-
land, CCIM director Pa Ngoun
Teang said at a press confer-
ence yesterday announcing
the lawsuit, which was led
with Phnom Penh Municipal
Court. We demand compen-
sation from these three gover-
nors because they are the lead-
ers of the security guards.
Socheatvong, Sambath and
Penh Vuth referred questions
yesterday to City Hall spokes-
man Long Dimanche.
They are free to le com-
plaints at the court if they have
the proper evidence. If not,
they [the plaintiffs] can le a
complaint in return suing for
defamation, Dimanche said.
Kaing Tong Ngy, a spokes-
man with CCIM, said the
lawsuit was not targeting
Minister of Information Khieu
Kanharith, who told the Post
last week that unidentied
witnesses had heard Samean
insulting district security
guards, using a term seen by
some as derogatory towards
Vietnamese people.
Since the incident, Samean
has repeatedly denied that he
said anything of the sort, and
a Post journalist at the scene
attributed the comment to
someone else.
Samean said yesterday his
health is improving but that
he still suffers from head-
aches. He also complained of
problems in one eye and pain
in his cheek.
Ill still work as an inves-
tigative reporter to report on
whats happening in society,
he said.
National
6
POLICE
BLOTTER
Target of bag snatching
kicks suspects to kerb
CHASING down a motorbike
on foot might be difficult, but
that need not be a problem if
you send the drivers face into
the gravel before he can get
away. When two robbers on a
moto made the mistake on
Tuesday of targeting a high
school student with a low
tolerance for being pushed
around, they paid the price.
Police said the pair rode up to
the girl, 17, and snatched her
bag. She sent a flying kick
into the moto, knocking it
over and leaving the dazed
robbers lying helpless on
the road until police arrived.
KOH SANTEPHEAP

He who cast the first
stone swiftly arrested
WHEN it comes to road rage,
names will never hurt you but
stones can do a lot of damage
to your car. Police said a
drunken and speeding motor-
cyclist was cannoning through
Daun Penh district on Tuesday
when he decided to treat a red
light as optional. He angered
the driver of a nearby car who
proceeded to hurl abuse his
way. The suspect, now angry
and more willing to stop, pro-
ceeded to hurl something
back stones. Police stationed
nearby arrested him. DEUM AMPIL
Pharmacy counter used
as short-term hideout
IT SEEMS anyone these days
can be found behind the coun-
ter at a pharmacy even a
brutal street thug. After literal-
ly stabbing a man in the back
at a market in Poipet on Fri-
day, a 29-year-old man fled
the scene and found his way to
a pharmacy, where he tried to
hide. The pharmacist, howev-
er, noticed he had company
and called for help. The man
was soon arrested and will
likely be prescribed a long jail
sentence. DEUM AMPIL
Neighbours rally to mob
man accused of stealing
A LESSON that you cant steal
motorbikes was beaten into a
thief by a mob on Monday.
After noticing another mans
prized possession sitting
under his house in the capitals
Meanchey district, the
34-year-old thief made his
move. That move, however,
was a noisy one. Neighbours
quickly rallied and fists started
flying something they needed
little encouragement to do.
The man will be sent to court
after a stint in hospital.
DEUM AMPIL
Handyman ruse works
at first, then falls apart
CLAIMING they were there
only to repair the bathroom,
three men crept over a few
roofs and found their way into
an empty house in Kratie town
on Tuesday. Seemingly believ-
ing the owners were enjoying a
break some distance away, the
men told a suspicious neigh-
bour they were handymen.
Their ability to spin a tale,
though, was much less a
weapon when the owner
returned. Police were called
and the men are now behind
bars. KAMPUCHEA THMEY

Translated by Sen David
Meas Sokchea
KAMPONG Speu provincial
police, having scoured the site
where human remains were
allegedly found on Saturday
by an opposition activist and
discovered no evidence, are
calling on him to come out of
hiding to clear things up.
Dim Keang said on Sunday
that he had found charred re-
mains at a mountain in Sam-
rong Tong district. He specu-
lated that the remains likely
belonged to 16-year-old Khim
Saphath, who went missing
during garment worker pro-
tests in early January.
After bringing some of the
bones to Cambodia National
Rescue Party headquarters
in Phnom Penh and hearing
police wanted to question
him, Keang went into hiding.
Sam Sameoun, deputy chief
of Kampong Speu police, said
yesterday that police inves-
tigating the case had found
nothing except ashes and dirt
at the location where the re-
mains were allegedly found.
We want to invite Dim
Keang for questioning to have
him to point out where he saw
the remains; what we want is
for Mr Dim Keang to clarify re-
ality, Sameoun said yesterday.
It was suspicious that Keang
had not contacted police after
nding the remains, he added.
However, given that soldiers
from the elite Brigade 70 unit
had initially blocked police
and rights groups from enter-
ing the area, it cannot be ruled
out that the evidence was
destroyed, said Rath Thavy,
a senior monitor at rights
group Adhoc.
It is very difcult to guess
[what happened].
Some of the remains were
brought by Keang and pro-
vincial opposition ofcials
to the CNRP in Phnom Penh
on Monday.
While party spokesman Yem
Ponharith said they had been
passed on to rights group Li-
cadho, the group denies hav-
ing received them.
Remains activist in hiding
Mom Kunthear
SIX Chinese nationals and a
Cambodian woman were ar-
rested in the capital on Tues-
day after allegedly trying to sell
eight local women as brides in
China, an anti-trafcking rep-
resentative said yesterday.
We arrested [the suspects]
in two different places rst
in Makara district and then
in Daun Penh district. We res-
cued eight Cambodian wom-
en that are 17 years old and
over, said Chhin Da, a deputy
director of Phnom Penhs An-
ti-Human Trafcking and Ju-
venile Protection Unit.
The eight women have re-
turned to their homes after be-
ing instructed on how to better
protect themselves, he added.
All seven of the accused are
facing charges related to hu-
man trafcking and are sched-
uled to appear before Phnom
Penh Municipal Court today.
The arrests follow reports of
Chinese men abusing Cambo-
dian women sent to China for
employment or marriage.
Earlier this month, four
parents complained to police
in Kampong Cham that their
daughters were being sexually
abused by their Chinese hus-
bands. Less than a week later,
two Chinese men and three
Cambodian women were
charged over allegations they
were planning to send seven
young women from provincial
areas to China for marriage.
Police arrest seven in
Chinese brides case
Prison ofcers stand guard at an entrance to Prey Sar Prisons Correctional Centre 1
last month. HONG MENEA
All jammed up: Jail blocks prisoners cellphones
families, given what he characterised as
the prepaid cards exorbitant price.
We need to buy PIN cards valued at $3,
$5 or $10, [but] the $3 card could be [used
up] within 10 minutes, he said, noting that
there were no other options. We will be
punished, and our mobile phone will be
confiscated if the prison officers see it.
At more than 30 cents a minute, the
phones are more expensive than usual
calls, even compared to phone stalls on the
street. A vendor near the prison who pro-
vides phones to the public on a per-minute
basis said yesterday that she charged only
500 riel (just over 10 cents) per minute.
Am Sam Ath, a technical adviser for
rights group Licadho, acknowledged that
phone use needed to be restricted inside
prisons for security purposes, but none-
theless called on administrators to recon-
sider the rates for using the landlines.
It makes it even more difficult for the
poor, who cannot afford such a price.
Cellphone jammers emit radio waves
that prevent the targeted device from
establishing or maintaining a connection,
according to the US Federal Communica-
tions Commission.
However, guards inside the prison say
theyre concerned for different reasons.
I am working outside the cells, and I
am OK, but the coworkers inside com-
plain that they are having headaches due
to the radiation system, which they really
absorb, one guard said.
The 28-year-old officer shared his con-
cerns: We are worried that it affects our
health, like our hearts, muscles and
nerves, he said. Our boss does not care
about our health.
Printer in
court over
copyright
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court
heard the case yesterday of a
printing shop owner accused
of copyright infringement by
an author of textbooks who is
also an official working with
the Council of Ministers.
Judge Kor Vandy said 42-year-
old Tin Long, owner of Kim Long
Printing House and Kim Long
Library in the capitals Cham-
karmorn district, is accused of
printing more than the agreed-
upon number of books for En
Yoeun, 43, and selling them.
He has accepted to print
2,000 copies of criminal code
dictionary books, 6,000 copies
of family marriage books and
2,000 copies of books on the
institutions of the Kingdom of
Cambodia from the author. But
he has printed an additional 100
copies for each title book with-
out acknowledgment or approv-
al from the author, he said.
Yoeun is asking for $30,000
in compensation as well as
legal punishment against Long,
who said he made extra copies
in case others were damaged
during printing and as samples
for other clients. A verdict is
expected on June 4.
Journalist sues for damages
Journalist Lay Samean is attended to as he lies on the road after being beaten by municipal security
personnel near Phnom Penhs Freedom Park earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Thais eye
slimmer
15 decit
THAILANDS fiscal-2015 budg-
et is likely to be set at no more
than 2.5 trillion baht ($76 bil-
lion) and have a deficit of 200
billion baht, smaller than the
current fiscal years, the Budget
Bureau says.
Thailands 2014 expenditure
amounts to 2.525 trillion baht,
while the government expects
revenue collection of 2.275 tril-
lion baht, leaving a deficit of
250 billion baht.
Director Somsak Chotrat-
tanasiri said the Budget Bureau
will consider state agencies
expenditure requests worth 4
trillion baht for next fiscal years
spending and screen them to
ensure the annual budget does
not exceed 2.5 trillion baht.
Suwit Rojanavanich, an
adviser to the Public Debt
Management Office (PDMO),
said the 2015 budget remains
on track even though infra-
structure investment would be
included in the spending. A
planned high-speed train
project worth 800 billion baht
or 40 per cent of the 2-trillion-
baht infrastructure develop-
ment initiated by the Pheu Thai
Party will be shelved.
Somchai Sujjapongse, direc-
tor-general of the Fiscal Policy
Office, said the juntas policy of
speeding up the disbursement
of 92 billion baht worth of over-
due payments to rice farmers
was expected to help boost
GDP by 0.2 percentage points.
Coupled with the 2014 budg-
et disbursement acceleration,
this would raise growth this year
to 3 per cent. BANGKOK POST
ADB funds longer-term loans
Hor Kimsay

A
CLEDA Bank signed
an agreement yes-
terday with the Asia
Development Bank
(ADB) for a $75 million loan
to use for longer-term lend-
ing to the Kingdoms small-
est businesses.
In Channy, president and
group chief executive ofcer
of Acleda Bank, told the Post
yesterday that saving depos-
its traditionally used to fund
loans are usually no longer
than 12 months, which re-
stricts the length of time the
bank is able to lend.
The ADB cash injection will
give Acleda sufcient funds to
be able to lend to businesses
over an extended period.
There is a big demand
for loans with long periods
among Cambodias micro-
and small-business owners,
Channy said. The ADBs loan
allows us to expand loans to
businesses up to average peri-
ods of three to four years.
The loan from the ADB is
for ve years and will be paid
back at a commercial rate,
Channy added.
Currently, micro loans of-
fered by Acleda range from
$2,500 to $5,000 for a period
of up to 24 months while loans
between $5,000 and $10,000
are up to 36 months.
Christine Engstrom, director
of the ADBs Private Sector Op-
erations Department, said in a
statement yesterday that the
new funding will help gener-
ate income and employment
in Cambodias rural areas,
where 90 per cent of the King-
doms poorest people live.
ADB will provide stable,
long-term nancing that cur-
rently cannot be raised from
the local market and is needed
to help the bank address the
maturity mismatch on its bal-
ance sheet, the release said.
The loan is the rst to a
commercial institute from the
ADB in Cambodia.
Te Taing Por, president of the
Federation of Associations for
Small and Medium Enterpris-
es of Cambodia, welcomed
increased access to longer-
term funding yesterday, but
said more was needed to re-
duce the costs required to pay
the loan back.
The interest rate is still high
and it is tapering the capacity
of SME owners to prot from
their businesses, he said. It
makes it difcult for businesses
to expand their production.
Afternoon commuters pass by Acledas Monivong branch in Phnom Penh last week. PHA LINA
Pigging out
Pork traces
detected in
halal chocs
C
HOCOLATE maker
Cadbury has recalled
two products in mainly
Muslim Malaysia after traces
of pig DNA were discovered
during a routine check for non-
halal substances.
Cadbury has voluntarily
removed two of its products
from the shelves, Health
Minister S Subramaniam said
on Tuesday.
The tests were conducted
by the ministry, which over the
weekend announced that two
Cadbury products contained
pork traces.
Pork and its byproducts,
alcohol and animals not
slaughtered according to
Islamic procedures are not
considered halal (permissible)
and are forbidden to Muslims.
Cadbury Malaysia, a part
of the British multinational
owned by Mondelez Interna-
tional, said it was withdrawing
the Cadbury Dairy Milk hazel-
nut and Cadbury Dairy Milk
roast almond products.
Meanwhile anger among
Muslims is mounting, with one
senior religious official calling
for a hefty fine or a shutdown
of the Malaysian plant. AFP
Business
8
Two seats, no steering, 40kph
G
OOGLE has started
building its own self-
driving car that it
hopes to begin test-
ing as early as this year.
They wont have a steering
wheel, accelerator pedal, or
brake pedal . . . because they
dont need them. Our soft-
ware and sensors do all the
work, the company said in a
blog post.
For Google, the car marks a
shift away from adapting vehi-
cles made by others in its quest
to pioneer individual transport
that needs only a stop-and-
go function.
It was inspiring to start with
a blank sheet of paper and ask,
What should be different
about this kind of vehicle? the
post said.
Google said that it plans to
build about 100 of the proto-
type vehicles.
Later this year its drivers will
start testing early versions with
manual controls, Google said.
If all goes well, wed like to
run a small pilot program here
in California in the next couple
of years, the company said.
The top speed of the proto-
types will be 40kph (25mph).
The San Jose Mercury News
described the car as a round-
ed, almost cuddly-looking
two-seater.
The vehicles are battery pow-
ered and boast safety features
like a flexible windshield and
foam-like material covering the
front, the paper said.
We took a look from the
ground up of what a self-driv-
ing car would look like, Goog-
le co-founder Sergey Brin told
a conference in Rancho Palos
Verdes, California. He
announced the prototypes
there Tuesday night.
Until now Google has been
refitting Lexus and Honda cars
to work as self-driving ones.
Work on autonomous vehi-
cles has gathered speed as car-
makers build smarter cars that
will help reduce accidents, and
make driving easier and safer.
In 2012, there were 1.3 million
people killed in road traffic
accidents, making it the ninth
leading cause of death globally,
according to World Health
Organization data. It is the lead-
ing cause of death for people
aged 15 to 29.
Google has been testing driv-
erless cars including modified
Prius and Lexus models from
Toyota mounted with cam-
eras, radar sensors and lasers
on US roads.
General Motors, Volvo Cars,
Nissan and others are jockeying
against Google to roll out
hands-free cars.
Over the next two decades,
self-driving cars are going to get
a bigger share of the market.
Such vehicles will reach 11.8
million in 2035, according to
Egil Juliussen, an analyst at IHS
Automotive. And by 2050, he
expects almost all cars to
become self-driving. They are
estimated to fetch premiums
that will start at $7,000 to
$10,000 in 2025, he said.
Brin said the Google vehicle
is still being worked on at this
point.
Its still early, he said. Were
still doing lots of development
with the software, the hardware
and the experience.
On another Google project,
Glass, Brin said he hopes to
have it commercially available
by the end of the year, while
adding he isnt sure at this point.
The devices bring digital con-
tent and features such as pho-
to-taking and checking mes-
sages to computerised eyewear.
AFP/BLOOMBERG
Google plans to build about 100 of its prototype driverless car. GOOGLE
Bitcoin will survive lull, shake industries: analysts
Chinese propertys golden era has ended
Olga Kharif
BITCOINS, the virtual cur-
rency that fell by more than
half after surging past $1,100
last year, are probably one to
three years away from broader
adoption that will challenge
industries, Wedbush Securities
Inc analysts wrote.
Venture-capital investments
in bitcoin businesses have
doubled in less than three
months, and programmers are
bolstering security, the ana-
lysts, Gil Luria and Aaron
Turner, wrote in a research
note yesterday.
As bitcoins catch on, they
will cut into more than $300
billion in revenue generated
by global payments and chal-
lenge industries that account
for about 20 per cent of US
gross domestic product, the
analysts said.
The disruption from bitcoin
will take longer than expected
but have an even more pro-
found impact than anticipat-
ed, they wrote.
Bitcoin-related technologies
will disrupt payments markets
and other trust-based markets
within the next few years and
for decades to follow.
Such predictions contrast
with opinions expressed by
financial-industry leaders.
JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO
Jamie Dimon has said bitcoins
probably wont last after gov-
ernments subject them to
rules and standards akin to
those for other payment sys-
tems. Billionaire investor War-
ren Buffett has said hell be
surprised if bitcoins last 10 or
20 years.
The virtual currency is work-
ing through an adoption
chasm, as programmers add
services and fix flaws, Luria and
Turner wrote. The bitcoin
value proposition will become
more apparent as applications
currently in development come
to market with longer-term
concerns being quelled.
Bitcoins were valued at
about $570 yesterday, com-
pared with prices of more than
$1,100 in December and about
$13 at the start of last year,
according to CoinDesk, which
tracks prices across key
exchanges. BLOOMBERG
THE golden era for Chinas property
market has passed, according to China
Vanke Co, the nations biggest devel-
oper, which is shifting its focus to
homes for owner occupiers rather
than investors.
The period in which everybody
makes money out of property is gone,
president Yu Liang told reporters in
Dongguan, a southern city in Guang-
dong province.
Vanke will take a cautiously opti-
mistic approach to face the slowdown
and target those buyers who need
homes for self-use.
The housing market threatens Pre-
mier Li Keqiangs efforts to put the
brakes on a slowdown in the worlds
second-largest economy that is pro-
jected to grow at the weakest pace
since 1990. Moodys Investors Service
revised its credit outlook for Chinese
developers to negative from stable last
week, while home sales slumped 10
per cent in the first four months of
this year amid tight credit, reversing
last years 27 per cent jump and spur-
ring developers including Vanke to
reduce prices.
He should have seen some signs
since its indeed difficult to make mon-
ey now compared with before, said
Dai Fang, a Shanghai-based analyst at
Zheshang Securities Co. Growth weve
seen before is no longer possible and
you wont be seeing blossoms every-
where again, he added, using a Chi-
nese idiom to refer to the property
boom seen in every city.
Pressure on Chinese developers was
underscored by the collapse of a devel-
oper in a city south of Shanghai in
March. Moodys forecasts year-on-year
home sales growth will slow to at most
5 per cent in the next 12 months, from
27 per cent last year. Yu said Chinas
real estate market is still big enough
and Vanke will keep residential prop-
erty as its main business over the next
10 years.
The value of new homes sold in 2013
rose 27 per cent from 2012 to 6.8 trillion
yuan ($1.1 trillion), according to the
National Bureau of Statistics.
While the company has offered pro-
motions, including discounts for group
purchases, cutting prices will not solve
every problem unlike in the past
because that wont help sales of some
high-end homes, Yu said. Developers
including Vanke and Greentown China
Holdings Ltd have cut property prices
since March to lure homebuyers,
according to China Real Estate Infor-
mation Corp.
Vanke is interested in investing in
industrial property and homes for the
elderly, Yu said.
Chinas new-home prices rose in
April in the fewest cities in a year and
a half, while home sales decreased 18
per cent from March, according to gov-
ernment data.
The market is far from its big turn-
ing point, Vankes board secretary, Tan
Huajie, said at the same briefing.
As the big brother in the industry,
we are responsible to alert risks, but it
doesnt mean we are bearish on the
property market.
The growth in the real estate industry
will slow and the phase where who-
ever buys makes money is gone, even
as the nations accelerating urbanisa-
tion still promises bright prospects for
the market, Vanke chairman Wang Shi
told Caixin, a financial news company,
in an interview last month.
New construction has fallen 22 per
cent and sales, including commercial
real estate, have slumped 7.8 per cent
this year. BLOOMBERG
A 25 bitcoin token. BLOOMBERG

Thai curfew shortened

after calls by business
THAILANDS National Council
for Peace and Order late on
Tuesday night relaxed the six-
day old nationwide curfew by
three hours, announcing a new
curfew order will be enforced
from midnight to 4am, effective
yesterday. The previous curfew,
from 10pm to 5am, was ordered
on May 22, the day of the coup
detat. The change came after
widespread complaints about
upsets to business, border
trade and hardship for tourists.
BANGKOKPOST
Probably more than 13
dead from GM ignitions
THE US auto safety regulator
said on Tuesday that probably
more than 13 people died in
accidents tied to faulty ignitions
on cars made by General
Motors. GM has said it knows of
13 fatalities which arose from
the ignitions, which could shut
off a cars electrical systems
including airbag deployment
while the car was operating.
The firm has recalled 2.6 million
cars and was fined a record $35
million for hiding the problem
for years. AFP
Billions in unpaid taxes
stifling Greek recovery
GREECE has finally made
progress on balancing its
spending, but new data shows
it is facing a new debt threat:
unpaid taxes have soared over
66 billion ($90 billion). Over
3.3 million Greeks a third of
the population have trouble
keeping up with tax payments.
The level of tax arrears has
steadily climbed since 2010,
when Greece nearly went
bankrupt and had to appeal
for an EU-IMF bailout. The
huge level of tax arrears is
forcing the government to
consider ways to facilitate
repayment. AFP
MTGOX EYES BITCOIN TRADEMARKS SALE
T
HE holding company of collapsed virtual
currency exchange MtGox is looking to sell
the trademark to the word Bitcoin, the Wall
Street Journal said yesterday. The company
hopes to raise at least 100 million ($982,000),
for a package including the Bitcoin trademarks
in Japan and the European Union, the Journal
quoted an executive of the company as saying. It
is also looking for a buyer for the domain name
bitcoins.com, the paper said, adding it was
unclear whether any money from the sale would
be used to pay back its creditors. MtGox filed for
bankruptcy protection in late February, saying it
had debts of 6.5 billion and that it had lost
850,000 units of the crypto-currency. It later said
it had found about 200,000 of them. AFP
Markets
9
Business
Eddie Morton
THE date of Taiwanese gar-
ment manufacturer Grand
Twins Internationals list-
ing on the Cambodia Stock
Exchange (CSX) has been
pushed back due to delays in
the submission of nal IPO
documents, ofcials say.
Stephen Hsu, CEO of Phnom
Penh Securities, chief under-
writing rm for the IPO, yes-
terday conrmed the listing
would not meet GTIs May 29
target; however, the company
was still expected to go public
within the next two weeks.
PPS has already nalised
the allotment of all shares
[and] after we send the re-
sults of the IPO to the CSX,
they will need around eight
days to process our submis-
sion, Hsu said.
The good day for listing is
still under discussion, but it
will happen very quickly.
An ofcial announcement
[about the listing date] will be
made soon, he added.
Hsu said that the nal pub-
lic subscriptions stage of the
IPO had proven successful,
but did not detail the number
of investors who have signed
up for the listing of GTI, which
stands to become the rst pri-
vately owned company to join
the local exchange.
Vanny Sok, director of list-
ings and disclosure at the CSX,
conrmed yesterday that he
was still waiting on paperwork
from the underwriter.
We cannot provide the
estimated date yet because
we have not received any ap-
plication for ofcial listing,
she said, adding that once
received it would only take a
week to process.
GTIs offering of eight mil-
lion shares, set at $2.41 each,
stands to generate more than
$19.2 million for the Taiwan-
ese rm if fully subscribed
to. With the increased liquid-
ity, GTI, which largely makes
sporting apparel for Addidas
and Reebok, plans to expand
its operation to a new $10 mil-
lion factory located outside of
Phnom Penh.
GTI will be just the second
company to list on the CSX
since the local stock market
was launched in 2012, joining
the state-owned Phnom Penh
Water Supply Authority.
Grand Twins conrms
listing next month as
CSX papers delayed
Rice exports to Thailand dive
Chan Muyhong

R
ICE exports to Thai-
land plummeted in
the rst four months
of the year as a re-
sult of that countrys surplus,
which reached record levels
at the end of 2013.
Between January and April,
Cambodia exported just 1,550
tonnes of rice to Thailand,
down 89 per cent from the
14,250 tonnes shipped in the
same period last year, accord-
ing to the Ministry of Agricul-
tures monthly reports.
Hun Lak, president of rice
export rm Mekong Oryza
Trade, said the decline was
due to Thailands rice stock-
piles, which were accumulated
under a state-buying program
launched in 2011 and scrapped
at the end of last year.
Thailand accumulated rice
stockpiles of reportedly more
than 12.8 million tonnes
at the end of 2013, equal to
about a third of the global ex-
port market.
The overstock of rice in
Thailand reduced the demand
from Thai traders for Cambo-
dian rice, Lak said.
Also, rice prices in Thai-
land are declining as a result,
meaning buyers simply can-
not make a prot by importing
Cambodian rice, he added.
Thai rice prices sunk from
$1,100 per tonne to $950 per
tonne in February as the state-
run rice pledging scheme
came to an end and the Thai
government began selling off
its stockpiles. Consequently,
Cambodian exporters reduced
their prices from $950 to $880
per tonne to compete.
Lim Bunheng, president of
Loran Company, said Cambo-
dian farmers depend on Thai-
land and Vietnam for exports
largely due to a lack of local
facilities to polish and clean
rice the nal stage before
the product is t for interna-
tional standards.
I hope the situation will get
better after June when more
of Thailands stockpiled rice
is sold off because it is hav-
ing an impact on our industry
now both in terms export vol-
ume and price, he said.
Sok Puthyvuth, president of
the Cambodia Rice Federa-
tion, called on rice exporters
to seek other markets rather
than sitting and waiting for
the situation to get better.
We should take this chance
to start to diversify markets to
potential countries like China,
Indonesia as well as countries
in the EU for our rice while
waiting for Thailand to settle
things, he said.
Thailand imported 23,550
tonnes of Cambodian rice in
2013, making it the Kingdoms
sixth largest destination for
rice exports.
Workers load a bag of rice onto a trailer to be transported to a local milling factory in Battambangs Kors
Kralor district in January. HENG CHIVOAN
Business
10
Julia Kollewe

B
RITAINS Serious Fraud Of-
ce has launched a formal
criminal investigation into
the sales practices of Glaxo-
SmithKline, piling further pressure
on the drugmaker, which is already
being investigated by Chinese au-
thorities and elsewhere amid allega-
tions of bribery.
Britains biggest pharmaceutical
company, run by Sir Andrew Witty,
said it had been informed on Tues-
day that the SFO had opened a for-
mal criminal investigation into the
groups commercial practices.
GSK is committed to operating
its business to the highest ethical
standards and will continue to co-
operate fully with the SFO, it added.
A spokeswoman was unable to give
further information. It is understood
the SFO is looking at possible pat-
terns across numerous global juris-
dictions including China.
The Guardian reported last July
that GSK had briefed criminal inves-
tigators from the SFO on its activities
in China.
Under the 2010 Bribery Act, the
SFO has powers to investigate and
prosecute corruption at home or
abroad. In some circumstances
companies can be considered for
immunity from prosecution if they
can demonstrate they have been
proactive and alerted SFO investiga-
tors to evidence of wrongdoing as
soon as they found it.
Two weeks ago, China charged
three GSK executives, including the
former boss of its China business
Mark Reilly, with corruption.
Reilly, who is British, is accused
of offences that carry a maximum
sentence of life in prison. Police said
Reilly and two Chinese executives,
Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan,
bribed doctors and hospital ofcials.
GSK rst faced accusations from
Chinese authorities last July of fun-
nelling up to $480 million in bribes
to encourage doctors to use its med-
icines in a case that the company de-
scribed in 2013 as shameful.
Since then claims have surfaced in
other countries. GSK is itself investi-
gating claims that bribes were paid
to doctors in Poland, Iraq, Jordan and
Lebanon. While taking the claims se-
riously, the rm has insisted these
are isolated cases and there is noth-
ing systemic about the problems.
Less than two years ago, GSK was
ned about $3.3 billion in the US af-
ter it admitted bribing doctors and
encouraging the prescription of un-
suitable antidepressants to children.
Witty promised a company-wide
overhaul then to prevent a repeat of
the unacceptable mistakes.
Bribery of doctors is said to be rife
in China, with tough sales targets
and low doctor salaries creating a
breeding ground for backhanders.
Last week anti-corruption ofcials
visited the ofces of Swiss drugmaker
Roche in the eastern city of Hangzhou,
in another sign that Chinese authori-
ties are stepping up their crackdown
on health care bribery. THEGUARDIAN
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Vacancy Announcement
Announcement No: EC-AN-14-0592
Locaton: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC), Phnom Penh.
Closing Date: June 06, 2014 @ 4.00 pm.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is seeking highly
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For more details of the J obDescription(JD), please visit the ECCC
website at htp: www.eccc.gov.kh/en/about-eccc/jobs
Submission of Applicatons
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for Employment available in the above website to:
Human Resources Secton (Natonal)
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The ECCC gate B or Email: personnel@eccc.gov.kh
P.O Box No.71
Please note that incomplete applicatons or applicatons received afer the
closing date will not be considered. Only those candidates that are short-listed
for interviews will be noted.
Applicatons from qualied female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Fresh fraud probe
of embattled GSK
Test of metal
An Afghan labourer polishes a metal
pot at an aluminium workshop in the
city of Herat yesterday. Some 100
people work in the Herat Aluminium
factory, with about 70 to 100 tonnes
of aluminium produced there each
month, most of which is used domesti-
cally. Afghanistan has vast mineral
deposits, including of bauxite, from
which aluminium is produced. AFP
World
US hacker
turned FBI
informant
walks free
A HACKER who directed hun-
dreds of cyber attacks on the
websites of foreign govern-
ments before turning FBI
informant walked free on Tues-
day after being handed a sym-
bolic seven-month sentence.
Hector Xavier Monsegur,
better known as Sabu, was
first arrested in 2011 and had
already served seven months
in jail before being released on
bail in December 2012. The
New Yorker was a prominent
hacker with activist group
Anonymous, which has staged
assaults on MasterCard, Pay-
Pal and other commercial and
government targets.
After his arrest he became a
Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion informant, helping US
agents identify other members
of the collective.
He pleaded guilty to nine
counts of computer hacking
and one count each of credit
card fraud, conspiring to com-
mit bank fraud and aggravated
identity theft. Sabus and his co-
conspirators carried out hacks
that cost companies tens of
millions of dollars, defaced
websites and stole personal
information of customers or
employees, court papers said.
The original charges could
have landed him in prison for
124 years but the government
asked for him to be exempt
from even a mandatory mini-
mum sentence given his
extraordinary cooperation.
He had admitted to being
involved in cyber attacks on
MasterCard, PayPal and Visa
and on the Algerian, Tunisian,
Yemeni and Zimbabwean gov-
ernments. He set up Anony-
mous offshoot Lulz Security, or
LulzSec, which in 2011 engaged
in major hacks into and theft
from computer servers of US
and foreign corporations.
Its victims included Fox
Television, compromising a
database of contestants in the
reality TV show X-Factor, the
website of US public broad-
caster PBS, the US Senate and
an affiliate of the FBI.
The New York Times reported
last month that he directed
hundreds of cyber attacks
against the websites of govern-
ments in Brazil, Iran, Pakistan,
Syria and Turkey.
It was unclear who ordered
the attacks, but the paper said
court documents and inter-
views suggest the government
may have used hackers to
gather intelligence overseas.
Monsegur instructed fellow
hacker Jeremy Hammond, who
was sentenced to 10 years in jail
by a US federal judge last
November, to extract data from
foreign government websites.
That information, including
bank records and login details,
was uploaded to a server
monitored by the FBI, the
Times reported. AFP
Husband of killed Pakistani woman demands justice
THE husband of a pregnant Pakistani
woman who was beaten to death out-
side Lahores High Court for marrying
against her familys wishes vowed yes-
terday to fight for justice.
Farzana Parveen, 25, was attacked
outside Lahores grand high court
building by more than two dozen
attackers wielding bricks, including
her father, who has been arrested, and
her brother and police said.
Three-months pregnant Parveen,
who police earlier identified as Far-
zana Iqbal, had gone to testify in
defence of her husband Muhammad
Iqbal who was accused by her rela-
tives of kidnapping her and forcing her
into the marriage. Iqbal said: We
demand justice. We were being threat-
ened since we got married. The
45-year-old said he and his wife had
survived a previous attack during the
first hearing of the case on May 12.
On Tuesday as we were going to
court from our lawyers office almost
30 people attacked us, including her
father, brothers and cousins, he said.
The group of 10 or so people accom-
panying him were overwhelmed by the
suddenness of the attack and fled in
all directions, he said. One of her
brothers shot at her but missed, then
the women in their group fell upon
her and her brother and father fin-
ished her off, Iqbal said.
The most painful thing is that nobody
came forward to save my wife, the police
were there and hundreds of lawyers
were there along with ordinary men, but
they all just watched like spectators.
I killed my daughter as she had
insulted all of our family by marrying
a man without our consent, and I have
no regret over it, Parveens father told
police, the Washington Post reported.
Police officer Mushtaq Muhammed
said Parveens father Muhammad
Azeem had been detained while five
others two brothers and three cous-
ins remained at large.
Another police officer, Rana Akhtar,
said police were launching raids in the
Nankana Sahib district of Punjab prov-
ince to arrest the accused.
Despite the gruesome and public
nature of the killing in Pakistans most
liberal city, media reaction has been
relatively muted indicating what
activists said was a growing apathy
within society amid rising extremism.
Last year 869 women died in so-called
honour killings according to the inde-
pendent Human Rights Commission of
Pakistan. Conviction rates are very low
due to Pakistans blood-money laws
which allow kin to forgive perpetrators,
usually family members in such cases.
In a statement, the rights commis-
sion said Parveens father had shown
no remorse when he surrendered to
the police, adding: Such brazen
actions have been encouraged by the
authorities failure to fulfil their duty
to protect citizens lives.
Iqbal, however, was undeterred.
There are no hurdles. Each and every
single individual has been named and
everybody saw them so there should
not be any delay in bringing the per-
petrators to justice, he said. AFP
Obama to okay training of rebels
U
S PRESIDENT Ba-
rack Obama will
authorise US troops
to train selected
Syrian rebels, in order to
counter the rising power of
al-Qaeda-linked extremists,
a US newspaper reported
on Tuesday.
The White House did not
conrm or deny the plan, but
said it was constantly con-
sidering available options to
combat the terrorist threat
emanating from Syria and to
facilitate an end to the crisis.
The State Department would
also not comment.
The current policy ap-
proach continues to be
strengthening the moderate
opposition, which offers an
alternative to the brutal Assad
regime and the more extrem-
ist elements within the op-
position, spokeswoman Jen
Psaki told reporters.
Ofcially, US support for
Syrian rebels has been limited
to non-lethal aid amounting
to $287 million, though the
CIA reportedly participates in
a secret program to train mod-
erate rebels in Jordan.
It was expected that Obama
would announce the new US
position during a speech yes-
terday at the West Point mili-
tary academy.
The president will make
clear his intention to expand
our support to the moderate
Syrian operation and increase
our support to Syrias neigh-
bors, who are dealing with the
terrorist threats emanating
from the situation Assad has
created in Syria, a senior ad-
ministration ofcial told the
Wall Street Journal.
The president will not give
details on how many rebels
would be trained nor where
their training would take
place, the report said.
This position is the culmi-
nation of a year of discussions
within Washington, which is
torn between a desire to pres-
sure the Syrian regime and the
fear of being drawn into a new
conict in the Middle East.
But the rise of extremist
rebel groups linked to al-Qae-
da, and the pressure exerted
by US allies in the region, in
particular Saudi Arabia, have
forced the decision, the Wall
Street Journal reported.
In recent weeks, Syrian reb-
els have reported receiving
US-made TOW anti-tank mis-
siles, without making clear
whether the missiles were sent
by Washington or by Saudi
Arabia with US approval.
The more than 20 missiles
were provided to the Hazm
movement, part of the opposi-
tion Free Syrian Army, which
brings together mainly former
army ofcers and soldiers who
defected from the military to
join the revolt, a rebel source
said. More have been prom-
ised should it be proven the
missiles are being used in an
effective way, the source said.
Meanwhile, speaking in the
White House Rose Garden on
Tuesday, Obama said US forc-
es will complete their with-
drawal from Afghanistan by
the end of 2016, Obama has
said, unveiling a plan to end
Americas longest war.
Underscoring the continu-
ing instability despite a 12-year
deployment by US-led NATO
combat troops, two Ameri-
cans were slightly injured in
an attack on a US consulate
vehicle in Afghanistans west-
ern city of Herat yesterday.
Obama conrmed that the
32,000-strong US deploy-
ment in Afghanistan would be
scaled back to around 9,800 by
the start of 2015.
Those forces would be
halved by the end of 2015 be-
fore eventually being scaled
back to a normal embassy
presence with a security as-
sistance component by the
end of 2016.
Were nishing the job we
started, Obama said, as he
outlined the end of US in-
volvement in a conict which
began when American-led
forces invaded Afghanistan
to oust the Taliban and hunt
al-Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden after the 2001 attacks
on New York and Washington.
US combat operations
would draw to a close at the
end of 2014, meaning US
troops would no longer patrol
Afghan cities, towns or valleys
from next year, Obama said.
The drawdown relies on
Afghanistan signing a long-
delayed Bilateral Security
Agreement that lays out the
terms and conditions of
the US military presence in
the country after this year.
Afghanistans outgoing
president, Hamid Karzai, has
refused to sign the agree-
ment, but both of the candi-
dates vying to be his succes-
sor in next months run-off
vote Ashraf Ghani and Ab-
dullah Abdullah have said
they will sign the deal.
So Im hopeful we can get
this done, Obama said. AFP
Flower power
Thai soldiers receive roses from
coup supporters at a military
base in Bangkok on Tuesday. The
army has told its troops to be on
the alert for poisoned drinks after
soldiers were handed drinks
allegedly laced with chemicals
on Monday. Thailands junta on
Wednesday freed leaders of the
red shirt movement allied to
the civilian government ousted in
a recent coup, after holding them
without charge for nearly a week.
Key members of the protest
group walked out of an army
facility in Bangkok, according
to a journalist at the scene. The
army has said people who have
been detained and released since
the military takeover must sign
a document promising to cease
political activity. BANGKOK POST/AFP
World
13
EGYPT extended voting into
a third day yesterday in a
presidential election seen as a
plebiscite on the former army
chief, after turnout fell below
that of the poll won by the Is-
lamist leader he ousted.
The move raised further
question marks about the
democratic credentials of an
election already marred by a
deadly crackdown on the main
opposition since last year.
Electoral ofcials said over
the scheduled two days of
polling on Monday and Tues-
day just 37 per cent of eligible
voters cast their ballot well
below the nearly 52 per cent
who voted in the 2012 elec-
tion that brought president
Mohamed Morsi to power.
The low turnout came de-
spite a personal appeal from
retired eld marshal Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi, who had been
seeking vindication from the
voters for his overthrow of
Egypts only freely elected
president last July after a sin-
gle turbulent year in power.
After reports of meagre
numbers at polling stations
on the rst day of voting on
Monday, Sisis backers in the
state-run media harangued
people to go out and vote.
An electoral ofcial said that
polling had been extended to
give a chance to the largest
possible number of voters to
cast their ballots.
Yesterday, several Cairo
polling stations were deserted
in the initial hours of voting.
They didnt get enough
votes, so they extended polling
into a third day, complained
lmmaker Mohamed Ali
Hagar, who said he would stay
away regardless. All elections
in this country are rigged.
The extension of polling
hours in a bid to boost turn-
out did little to raise the cred-
ibility of the vote in the eyes of
Western governments whose
longstanding alliance with
Cairo was seriously compro-
mised by last years overthrow
of the elected president.
The regime had projected
Sisi in a certain way, but that
facade has been undermined
. . . support for Sisi was over-
stated, said Shadi Hamid, of
the Brookings Institutions Sa-
ban Center. Nobody outside
Egypt or in the West was un-
der the illusion this was a free
and fair election . . . It makes
the regime look incompetent
and transparently cynical,
he said. AFP
Egypt extends vote
after low turnout
China sentences 55 in mass trial
A
UTHORITIES in Chi-
nas mainly Muslim
Xinjiang mounted a
mass sentencing in
a stadium for 55 people on
offences including terrorism,
state media said yesterday, as
they press a crackdown on es-
calating violence.
About 7,000 people and
Communist Party ofcials in
Ili prefecture attended the
mass gathering for public
sentencing, public arrests
and public criminal deten-
tion, punishing a group of
violent terrorist criminals in
accordance with the law,
ofcial news agency Xinhua
said in an online report.
Judicial ofcials at the sta-
dium issued punishments
for crimes including murder,
separatism and organising,
leading or participating in a
terrorist group, as well as har-
bouring criminals and rape.
Three were sentenced to
death for using hatchets and
other weapons to murder a
family of four last year us-
ing extremely cruel meth-
ods, the report said.
At the stadium, police also
announced the formal arrests
of 38 suspects and detained
another 27. The event was
intended to demonstrate the
authorities resolute deter-
mination to rack down on
the three forces of violent
terrorism, Ilis deputy party
chief was cited as saying,
referring to separatism, ex-
tremism and terrorism.
The guilty will not escape,
he was quoted as saying. The
only way out is to stop doing
evil, turn yourself in and con-
fess your crimes.
China used mass trials in the
1980s and 90s to try to combat
the rise in crime driven by
the social upheavals that ac-
companied the countrys dra-
matic Reform and Opening
economic overhaul, but the
practice later faded. Beijing
at the weekend vowed a year-
long crackdown on terrorism
following a string of attacks
blamed on militants from Xin-
jiang, home to the Muslim Ui-
ghur minority, with violence
in recent months increasingly
targeting civilians and spread-
ing elsewhere in China.
Last week ve suspects
killed 39 people and wound-
ed more than 90 in a car and
bomb assault on a market in
the regional capital Urumqi.
On April 30, the nal day of
a visit by Chinese President
Xi Jinping to the region, at-
tackers armed with knives
and explosives killed one
person and wounded 79 at an
Urumqi railway station.
In March, knifemen killed 29
people and wounded 143 at a
railway station in the south-
western city of Kunming, an
incident dubbed Chinas
9/11 by state media.
Authorities have boosted
security across the country,
taking the rare step of de-
ploying more armed police in
major cities, and arrested 200
people across Xinjiang over
the past month.
A senior ofcial in Ili came
under investigation recently
for having an equivocal at-
titude toward violent terrorist
incidents and sharing views
in public places that were not
in line with local policies,
Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
Beijing says it faces a vio-
lent separatist movement in
Xinjiang driven by religious
extremism and backed by
overseas terrorist networks.
But experts question how
organised the groups in Xin-
jiang are, while rights groups
point to cultural repression
of Uighurs and economic fa-
vouritism towards an inux
of Han Chinese, the countrys
ethnic majority, into the re-
source-rich region. AFP
The accused, wearing orange vests, attend a mass sentencing in Ili
prefecture, in northwest Chinas Xinjiang region on Tuesday. AFP

Thai monks charged
over sex abuse ring
THAI police yesterday said they
had charged five defrocked
Buddhist abbots with sexually
abusing eight boys at
monasteries around the
northern city of Chiang Mai. The
abuse was discovered after
police rescued one boy from the
abuse ring last year, police said,
adding that all the children
involved were under 15. Major
General Prachuab Wongsuk
said police found alcohol and
pornography during a search of
living quarters at five
monasteries. Police believe the
abbots were acting together and
Prachuab predicted more monks
would be arrested soon. AFP
Daughter of fugitive

ferry tycoon arrested
THE daughter of fugitive Korean
tycoon Yoo Byung-eun, accused
of being responsible for last
months ferry disaster, has been
arrested in France and was to
appear before a judge yesterday,
judicial sources said. Yoo Som-
na, 47, was arrested on Tuesday
at her Paris residence under an
international arrest warrant in
connection with the investigation
into the disaster. A judge was to
decide later yesterday whether
she should be detained in
custody pending a decision on
whether to extradite her to
South Korea, which could take
several months or longer if she
contests it. AFP
World
14
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Abkhazia leader forced to ee coup
Sudanese sentenced to death
for apostasy gives birth in jail
OPPOSITION protesters
stormed the presidency in
Abkhazia overnight in what
the leader of the Georgian
breakaway region called a
coup attempt, Russian news
agencies said yesterday.
This is an armed coup
attempt, Alexander Ankvab
was quoted as saying by the
Interfax news agency.
Abkhazia is recognised only
by Russia. Its capital Sukhumi
is on the Black Sea coast.
Interfax said opposition
groups took over the presiden-
cy overnight following a protest
by around 1,000 people, forcing
Ankvab to flee. One of the lead-
ers of the statelets opposition,
Raul Khadjimba, told the crowd
that a coordination council
was taking over the leadership
of the republic.
I havent left, I am still in
Abkhazia, Ankvab said in a
televised address quoted by the
RIA Novosti news agency. The
security forces remain loyal to
the state and are taking meas-
ures to stabilise the situation.
The defence minister, inte-
rior minister and chairman of
the security forces released a
joint statement yesterday, con-
demning the use of unconsti-
tutional methods, which lead
to destabilisation of the situa-
tion in the country.
Escalation could lead to
catastrophic consequences for
the state, the statement said.
Ankvab was believed to
have fled to his home region
in northwestern Abkhazia,
I nter f ax said, quot i ng
unnamed sources.
The Abkhaz parliament was
set to hold an extraordinary
session yesterday to discuss
the situation.
Ankvab was elected leader of
Abkhazia in 2011 after the
death of Sergei Bagapsh, who
had led the breakaway region
from 2005.
Abkhaz separatists declared
independence after driving
out Georgian troops in a civil
war in the 1990s that killed
several thousand people and
forced a quarter of a million,
mostly ethnic Georgians, out
of the region.
Moscow recognised Abk-
hazia as independent in the
wake of Russias brief war with
Georgia in 2008 and perma-
nently stationed thousands of
troops at military bases there
a move that Tbilisi describes
as occupation. AFP
A CHRISTIAN Sudanese woman, sentenced to
hang for apostasy in a case that has sparked
international outcry, has given birth in jail, her
husband said on Tuesday.
Until now I did not see them. They didnt
allow me to go in and see, Daniel Wani said.
Im disappointed really, he said from a pris-
ons office where he was continuing efforts to
see his wife and newborn daughter.
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 27, is being held
at a womens prison in Khartoums twin city of
Omdurman. Wani said he and his wife have not
yet chosen a name for their baby.
Ishag already has a 20-month-old son, who
is incarcerated with her, rights activists say.
A Khartoum-area court sentenced her to
death on May 15. Born to a Muslim father, she
was convicted under the Islamic sharia law that
has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and out-
laws conversions on pain of death.
Wani said he is normally granted a weekly
visit to the prison but had sought special per-
mission to see his wife again after she gave
birth. Ishag was frustrated when he saw her
on Monday, he said.
We werent able to speak. There is a guard
sitting there beside us, said Wani, a Christian
who says he was born in Khartoum.
The mother and the baby seem to be doing
okay, a Western diplomat who is familiar with
Ishags case said. But he said: Its a cruel treat-
ment to be in such a situation.
Giving birth in a jail is certainly not the best
place, for physical and psychological reasons,
the diplomat said.
We gave you three days to recant but you
insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you
to be hanged, Judge Abbas Mohammed al-
Khalifa said as he passed the verdict against
Ishag, addressing her by her fathers Muslim
name, Adraf al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah.
AFP
S Korea hospice fire kills 21
A
FIRE swept through
a South Korean hos-
pice for elderly and
inrm patients early
yesterday, killing 21 people in
what police suspect was an act
of arson by an 81-year-old suf-
fering from dementia.
The high death toll is likely
to fuel an already intense de-
bate over safety standards in
South Korea, which is still reel-
ing from last months ferry di-
saster that left some 300 dead.
It was the second deadly re
in two days after seven people
were killed in a blaze at a bus
terminal near Seoul on Mon-
day. Most of the victims died
from asphyxiation, rescue of-
cials said, as the re on the
upper oor of the three-storey
facility lled the rooms and
corridors with toxic clouds of
choking smoke.
Another seven people were
injured, six of whom were in
critical condition from smoke
inhalation.
The re broke out shortly af-
ter midnight at the hospice in
Jangseong county about 190
miles (300 kilometres) south
of Seoul.
The facility cared for almost
80 chronically ill, often bed-
ridden patients, including
stroke victims and advanced
Alzheimers sufferers.
Local police chief Roh
Kyoo-ho said an 81-year-old
male patient with dementia
had been taken into custody
after CCTV footage showed
him entering a storage room
where the re was believed to
have started.
We are focusing on the
possibility of arson, Roh said,
while adding that the man,
identied only as Kim, had
denied any involvement. We
found a cigarette lighter at the
scene and forensic experts are
examining it, he added.
Although the blaze was
brought under control within
30 minutes, the physical con-
dition of many patients on the
upper oor meant they were
unable to evacuate before be-
ing overcome by the smoke.
One of three nurses on duty
died as she tried to douse the
ames with a re extinguisher.
South Korea is still in mourn-
ing over the April 16 sinking of
the Sewol ferry, which caused
many to question whether
rapid economic development
had come at the expense of
basic safety standards.
There will be questions over
whether the Jangseong hos-
pice was properly staffed, giv-
en the relative immobility of
the patients, and whether re
safety procedures were up to
scratch. Its chief administra-
tor Lee Hyung-seok knelt on
the ground in front of press
cameras outside the facility
and touched his forehead to
the ground in a display of
contrition.
In the wake of the Sewol di-
saster, President Park Geun-
hye vowed harsh penalties
for any acts of criminal neg-
ligence that resulted in fatal
accidents. Investigations have
suggested the Sewol tragedy
was the result of cut corners,
regulatory violations, poor
safety training and a woeful
lack of oversight all, or nearly
all, attributable to a desire to
maximise prots.
Park has ordered a radical
overhaul of national safety
procedures, including dis-
mantling the coastguard
whose response to the ferry
disaster was widely criticised.
The patients killed in yes-
terdays re were among 34
people in wards on the up-
per oor, only seven of whom
managed to escape the re
by themselves. Hospital staff
and reghters denied initial
reports that some of the pa-
tients had been tied to their
beds. AFP
Left, hospital employees bow to apologise after a hospital re killed 21
people in Jangseong yesterday; left, police escort an 81-year-old man
under investigation for starting the blaze. AFP
Poet Maya
Angelou
dies at 86
CELEBRATED African-Ameri-
can author, poet and civil
rights activist Maya Angelou
has died, the North Carolina
university where she taught
said yesterday. She was 86.
Today members of the Wake
Forest University community
mourn the loss of beloved
poet, author, actress, civil
rights activist and professor
Dr. Maya Angelou, it said.
Mayor Allen Joines of Win-
ston-Salem, North Carolina
told Fox TV affiliate WGHP in
the southern state that Ange-
lou was found dead yesterday
morning by her caretaker.
Angelou had been struggling
with health problems in recent
weeks and cancelled a May 30
appearance at the 2014 MLB
Beacon Award Luncheon in
Houston, where she was to be
honoured with an award.
Angelou is best known for
her autobiographies that
focused on her childhood and
early adulthood, including I
Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings from 1969.
Listen to yourself and in
that quietude you might hear
the voice of God, she tweeted
on May 23. AFP
15
World
For peats sake: scientist discovers bog size of England
A BRITISH scientist trekked for
three weeks through perilous
jungle swamps in one of the
most far-flung corners of Afri-
ca. His reward? A peat bog the
size of England.
But while some explorers
might have found this anti-
climactic, for Simon Lewis it
was like striking gold. His dis-
covery is being hailed by
experts as a breakthrough in
unlocking secrets of the Congo
basin and climate change.
The monster swamp in Con-
go-Brazzaville is thought to
contain billions of tonnes of
peat dating back 10,000 years.
Studies of this carbon-rich
material could reveal how the
environment has changed over
millennia in central Africa
information that has remained
largely shrouded in mystery
due to political instability and
the geographical remoteness.
The vast peatland was first
detected by satellites, prompt-
ing Lewis, a researcher at the
University of Leeds, to lead a
scientific expedition last month
from Itanga village into one of
the worlds biggest wetlands
which, because of its inacces-
sibility to outsiders, also has one
of the biggest concentrations of
gorillas and elephants.
People can only wade into
the bog two or three months a
year, at the end of the dry sea-
son, said Lewis. Even so, to
avoid getting soaked, his team
had to build a platform each
time they wanted to pitch tents
and cook food.
Along the way their guide
encountered a gorilla, while on
a couple of nights a herd of
elephants thundered past the
camp. Crocodiles were also a
potential danger.
The discovery illustrates how
relatively little is still known
about some of Africas most
remote environments. Lewis
said: To me its quite amazing
that there are still uncharted
places. This is a peatland some-
thing like the size of England.
Peat arises from partly
decomposed plant material
and builds up in waterlogged
conditions. The researchers
believe this bog holds billions
of tonnes of partially decayed
vegetation and large quantities
of carbon. The team took sam-
ples of the peat back to the UK
for scientific analysis.
Lewis said: The Congo peat-
land is a major store of carbon,
slowly removing carbon from
the atmosphere. This should, if
not drained for agricultural
use, store billions of tonnes of
carbon for the long term, keep-
ing it out of the atmosphere.
Additionally, as peat devel-
ops it [retains concurrent] envi-
ronmental conditions so can
provide a window on the past.
Pollen captured as the peat
forms can be linked to the veg-
etation [of the] time.
This is important for the cen-
tral Congo basin region as so
little is known about the region,
either today or in the past.
He added: Understanding
past vegetation and climatic
changes can help scientists
make robust assessments of
how the climate will likely
change in the future and how
that will [affect] the swamp for-
est and peat.
Peatlands cover less than 3
per cent of the land surface of
the Earth but are believed to
contain twice as much carbon
as the worlds forests.
Fellow scientists said Lewiss
discovery would offer fresh
insights into the environmen-
tal history of the Congo basin
and its role in the global
climate. This could have impli-
cations for predicting and
mitigating climate change.
Mike Meadows, head of envi-
ronmental and geographical
science at the University of
Cape Town, South Africa, said
it was the historic knowledge
gap in Africas vegetation that
first inspired him to pursue a
career in the subject.
Whats really interesting is
so far how little has been stud-
ied, he said. We know very
little about rainforest history. If
you had a map of Africa and
sites where we know something
about the last 10,00 to 20,000
years, there would be pretty
much a blank space over most
of the Congo basin.The size of
this is extraordinary: one of the
largest peatlands in Africa, and
possibly the world.
Jasper Knight, senior lecturer
in physical geography at Wits
University, in Johannesburg,
said: Its certainly very signifi-
cant because peat bogs contain
a very detailed record of cli-
mate and environmental
change. Its a part of the world
we know little about today. This
will fill in a very big piece of the
jigsaw of our understanding of
climate and environmental
change over the past 10,000
years. THE GUARDIAN
Party aims to cement rise of citizen politics
U
NTIL recently it appeared
that the Spanish indigna-
dos movement had zzled
out. But on Sunday eve-
ning, a edgling party born from its
ashes proved otherwise, winning ve
seats and 1.2 million votes in Spains
European elections.
Barely 100 days old, and led by
Pablo Iglesias, a 35-year-old politi-
cal science professor with a ponytail,
Podemos (We Can) emerged as the
third-largest political force in many
Spanish regions, including Madrid.
The idea behind the party is sim-
ple, Iglesias said. Its citizens do-
ing politics. If the citizens dont get
involved in politics, others will. And
that opens the door to them robbing
you of democracy, your rights and
your wallet.
The softly spoken former Commu-
nist Youth Party member may have
stunned analysts with his partys per-
formance, but it was not enough for
him. The ruling Peoples Party (PP)
had won the elections, meaning that
high unemployment and home evic-
tions would continue, he said. We
want to build a political majority that
reects the social majority of Spain.
Podemos lofty list of election
promises includes doing away with
tax havens, establishing a guaran-
teed minimum income and lowering
the retirement age to 60. The party
ran its European elections campaign
on a shoestring budget, using crowd-
funding and Iglesiass ubiquitous
presence as a talking head on Span-
ish television to build momentum.
Voted in by Spaniards tired with
persistent unemployment, austerity
measures and corruption scandals,
Iglesias said Podemos MEPs would
act accordingly. Rather than the
standard salary of more than 8,000
($10,900) a month, not one of our
MEPs will earn more than 1,930, an
amount thats three times the mini-
mum wage in Spain. The remainder
would either go to the party or a
chosen cause.
Were not going to travel to Brus-
sels in business class. If any lobby
group approaches us, well make
that information public. One of his
rst items of business, Iglesias said,
would be to propose that other MEPs
do the same.
The success of Podemos has had
many in Spanish media asking
questions about Spains two domi-
nant political parties. The PP and
the Socialists together received less
than 50 per cent of the vote, a far
cry from the 81 per cent support
they received in 2009. The top PP
candidate, Miguel Arias Canete, cel-
ebrated his victory in the elections,
but acknowledged the results were a
serious warning from voters.
For the Socialists it was their worst
election result. Leader Alfredo Perez
Rubalcaba announced on Monday
he was stepping down, adding: Its
clear that we havent regained vot-
ers condence. The party will hold
a meeting in late July to choose new
leadership.
The challenge for Podemos now
lies in nding a balance between a
grassroots movement, whose agen-
da depends on hundreds of work-
ing groups across the country, and a
functioning political party.
It has no leadership that can in-
form on day-to-day decisions and
no system in place to hold its MEPs
to account. Were a citizen force,
made up of people who got togeth-
er and ran an electoral campaign
practically without any money,
Errejon said.
Their model right now is more fo-
cused on what they dont want to be.
Many political parties are always
looking inside, never outside, said
Errejon. We dont want to struc-
ture ourselves in the same closed off
way. As an example, he pointed to
the Podemos primaries for the Eu-
ropean elections, which were open
to anyone who wanted to participate
and attracted 33,000 voters.
The next few months will deter-
mine whether Podemos can trans-
late their success into a genuine shift
in the Spanish political landscape,
said Errejon, and quell those who
call them a populist movement or
one fuelled by protest votes.
The ultimate goal, he said, is big-
ger than just winning seats. We
dont just want to be part of a po-
litical system that is decomposing.
Spain isnt lacking political parties.
But whats missing is citizens engag-
ing in politics. And we want be a tool
for that. THE GUARDIAN
US FUGITIVE intelligence
leaker Edward Snowden
trained as a spy and worked
undercover overseas for in-
telligence agencies, he told
NBC News in excerpts of an
interview that was broadcast
on Tuesday.
In his rst interview in US
media, Snowden hit back at
claims he was merely a low-lev-
el contractor, saying he worked
at all levels from from the
bottom on the ground, all the
way to the top.
Snowden, who has been
charged in the United States
with espionage, was granted
asylum by Russia in August
2013 after shaking the Ameri-
can intelligence establishment
to its core with a series of leaks
on mass surveillance in the US
and around the world.
In the interview broadcast
yesterday, Snowden defend-
ed himself against claims
minimising his intelligence
experience before he stole
and leaked a trove of classi-
ed documents revealing the
NSAs program of phone and
internet surveillance.
I was trained as a spy in
sort of the traditional sense
of the word in that I lived and
worked undercover overseas
pretending to work in a job
that Im not and even being
assigned a name that was not
mine, he said.
He said he had worked co-
vertly as a technical expert
for the Central Intelligence
Agency and the National Se-
curity Agency, as well as as a
trainer for the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency.
I dont work with people.
I dont recruit agents. What
I do is I put systems to work
for the United States. And
Ive done that at all levels
from from the bottom on
the ground all the way to the
top, he said.
So when they say Im a
low-level systems administra-
tor, that I dont know what Im
talking about, Id say its some-
what misleading.
Snowden, who left high
school at 15 without gradu-
ating, made his revelations
three months into his new job
with the consulting rm Booz
Allen Hamilton as a systems
administrator based at the
NSAs threat operations centre
in Hawaii.
Following the leaks, he pro-
ceeded to Hong Kong unac-
companied, where he checked
into a hotel without a plan.
On June 23 he headed to
Moscow, two days after his
30th birthday, where he holed
up in the Sheremetyevo Air-
port for days before he was
eventually granted asylum.
Snowden was profoundly
at peace with his decision to
leak national security docu-
ments, and even joked about
the consequences, journalist
Glenn Greenwald, who broke
the Snowden story for Brit-
ains Guardian newspaper,
said in a new book released
two weeks ago.
Meanwhile the US House
of Representatives passed
landmark reforms on Thurs-
day curbing bulk collection of
Americans telephone records,
the rst step toward restricting
intelligence-gathering by the
NSA since Snowden divulged
the secret program. AFP
I worked as a spy at all levels,
Snowden reveals in interview
Lip service
The chief of Brazils Kayopo tribe, Raoni, attends a protest in front of the Planalto Palace, the ofcial
workplace of Brazils presidency in Brasilia on Tuesday. Brazilian police red tear gas to break up the
protest by bow-and-arrow wielding indigenous chiefs who joined forces with anti-World Cup demonstrators
to condemn the money spent on the tournament. Wearing traditional clothing including feather headdresses
and face paint, about 500 chiefs joined another 500 protesters rallying for various social causes in Brasilias
government square and began marching towards the capitals World Cup stadium. As mounted police
moved to block the march, some of the indigenous demonstrators rushed their horses and red arrows in
their direction. A policeman was hit in the leg by an arrow. Globo TV showed images of a police motorcycle
that had also been peppered with arrows. Some of the indigenous protesters could be seen throwing stones
at some of the 700 police encircling the stadium. AFP
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HE young man approached
with an air of furtive urgen-
cy, covering his mouth with
his hand. Please, can you
tell me, he asked, what happened
in 1989?
In China, there is a single answer to
that question: the Tiananmen Square
massacre, 25 years ago next week. The
quarter-century mark is not auspi-
cious in Chinese culture, but the date
itself has acquired iconic significance:
6/4 is to China what 9/11 is to the
United States.
Except that in place of public com-
memoration in China, there is careful
whispering and sly references to
troops firing on unarmed pro-democ-
racy demonstrators.
And, an even more unsettling excep-
tion: As the young mans question
illustrated, a new generation remains
ignorant, uninterested or both about
Tiananmen. China has become, in the
title of a new book by National Public
Radio reporter Louisa Lim , The Peo-
ples Republic of Amnesia.
For Americans, the image of the
unknown man standing in front of a
menacing tank is seared into memory
or for the post-Tiananmen genera-
tion taught as a central moment in
modern Chinese history.
Yet for many Chinese, as became
clear on a trip to the United States
sponsored by the Committee of 100, a
US nonprofit organisation dedicated
to promoting mutual understanding,
the topic remains best unmen-
tioned, if not unknown. Only the
bravest teachers broach it, and then
most likely as a cautionary tale of
popular protest that unfolded too
fervently, too soon.
The horrors of the Cultural Revolu-
tion have become safe ground for
public discussion. Coming Home, a
new film by Zhang Yimou, who
directed the 2008 Olympic Games
opening and closing ceremonies,
tells the story of a professor sent
away for re-education and a family
that was destroyed.
The events of 1989, by contrast,
remain distinctly off-limits. Imagine a
comparable moment of searing
national shame Kent State, Water-
gate, Abu Ghraib effectively ban-
ished from public discussion.
It would be most comfortable, from
a Western perspective, to understand
this phenomenon in China as a brutal
and self-defeating reflection of cen-
sorship and intimidation.
Certainly, suppression of free
speech plays a significant role. Five
years ago, as the 20th anniversary
neared, dissidents were detained, for-
eign newspapers had pages excised,
TV screens went dark and the plug
was pulled on internet sites.
Today, if anything, the government
is even more heavy-handed; recent
bombings in the western province of
Xinjiang have only added to the
imperative to stifle dissent.
Still, the Great Firewall, Chinas
effort to censor the internet, is rather
easily breached, especially by a tech-
no-savvy young generation adept at
enlisting virtual private networks to
evade official blockages. Young peo-
ple determined to discover the events
of 6/4 can find a workaround.
But that assumes a widespread
discontent with the free-speech sta-
tus quo that instead seems discon-
certingly muted.
Eric Li, a Shanghai-based 46-year-
old venture capitalist who watched
the protests from afar as a Berkeley
undergraduate expressed undis-
guised relief at the crackdown, not-
withstanding the tragic loss of life.
Li echoes the official view that letting
the protests continue would have
jeopardised stability and imperiled an
economic rise that has lifted hun-
dreds of millions out of poverty.
I look at what happened in Egypt
and Ukraine and think, Thank heav-
en it didnt succeed here, Li said in
an interview.
Many younger Chinese express a
similar tolerance. Amanda, a gradu-
ate student, described being
shocked upon seeing a video of
Tiananmen in a constitutional law
class, her first exposure to the pro-
tests. The professors message? It is
difficult to change the situation of
China. Others questioned whether
photos had been doctored or authori-
ties were forced to act only after
negotiations failed.
This has become a privileged, me-
first generation of little emperors
and empresses, only children coddled
by parents and grandparents. Even
with rising tensions over Chinas
astonishing income inequality and
anxiety over whether those less well-
connected will be able to nab their
share, this new cohort enjoys a stand-
ard of living unimaginable at the time
of Tiananmen.
They are, according to pollsters,
particularly nationalistic more
worked up over Japans wartime
atrocities and perceived territorial
incursions than over issues of person-
al freedom, or, perhaps more threat-
ening to Chinese leaders, unrest over
rampant corruption and pollution.
For them, the explosion of wealth
often seems worth the price of stud-
ied ignorance about Tiananmen.
Hence the chilling question: If those
who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it, what
becomes of those who never knew
the past at all? THE WASHINGTON POST
Comment
Ruth Marcus
Tiananmen amnesia
People sit during a candlelight vigil in Hong Kongs Victoria Park on June 4, 1999, in commemoration of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors in 1989 in Tiananmen Square
in Beijing. Thousands crowded the park and sang pro-democracy songs during the yearly rally. AFP
Ruth Marcus is a columnist for the Washington
Post.
17
Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Houston, we have a
toothbrush up for sale
A TOOTHBRUSH used by one of
the US astronauts who flew to
the Moon was to be auctioned
off yesterday at a starting bid of
$4,000, a Los Angeles auction
house said.The clear Oral B-40
toothbrush was used by Jack
Swigert during the 1970 Apollo
13 mission, when he stepped in
at the last minute to be the
command module pilot after a
colleague was exposed to
measles. The mission was
meant to be the seventh
manned journey to land on the
lunar surface, but the touch-
down was aborted after an
oxygen tank exploded 55
hours into the trip. Swigert
and his two crew mates
managed to convert their
lunar module, Aquarius, into
a effective lifeboat and
returned safely to Earth,
NASA said.He died in 1982 of
bone cancer at age 51. AFP
Queen to release new
tracks with Mercury
QUEEN are to release new
tracks featuring Freddie
Mercurys vocals by the end of
the year, the British rock
groups guitarist Brian May
said. The songs, dating back to
the 1980s, will be released on a
compilation album, May told
BBC radio. Lead singer
Mercury died of AIDS-related
pneumonia in 1991. Four years
later, Queen released Made in
Heaven, their final studio
album with the iconic frontman,
painstakingly constructing
some fresh songs from lines of
vocals he left behind. AFP
Sweet Simphony as music
students prepare for show
Emily Wight

F
ROM Bach to Pharrell
Williams to Cambo-
dias own late King Fa-
ther, composers from
the world over will be repre-
sented this weekend in a per-
formance by one of Phnom
Penhs only classical music
schools.
Students from Simphony
Music School will showcase
their work in Movements, a
concert on Sunday evening
at the InterContinental Hotel
before an anticipated crowd
of hundreds.
Cambodia has its own very
rich musical tradition that
was, like all of the arts in the
country, decimated during
the Khmer Rouge regime in
the 1970s. But Hun Lak, who
founded Simphony in 2010,
said its important for children
to learn Western music as that
of their ancestors.
Music has no boundar-
ies Cambodian music and
Western music is the same. Af-
ter the war, everything started
from zero, so thats why our
music education in this coun-
try is still so young, he said.
Students at the school are
about 50 per cent Cambodian
and 50 per cent expat and the
performers on Sunday will
include 9-year-old Kettekun
Vanna Sok, who prefers to be
known as Alex.
The student has been learn-
ing piano for three years, but
on Sunday he will play the
drums in front of an audience
for the rst time with his band
The Dragons consisting of
drums, piano, bass and cello.
He said: I like music and I
like to listen to music. Maybe
when I grow up, Ill be in a
band as well.
Teachers at Simphony are
recruited from countries
including Hong Kong, the
United States, Australia and
Taiwan. The school focuses on
Western music in particular,
and has about 200 students
aged 5 and above who learn
instruments including piano,
drums, violin and ukulele as
well as singing.
The school offers both indi-
vidual and group lessons, all
taught in English by interna-
tional teachers.
According to Simphonys
music director Chung Eden, 70
per cent of those performing
on Sunday will be children, 20
per cent teenagers and 10 per
cent adults. Last year they per-
formed to an audience of 600,
and they are expecting similar
numbers this year.
Kanika Kumar, who is 8
years old, comes from an ex-
pat Indian family. She will
be playing piano in Sundays
concert, and said her grow-
ing love of music has infected
the family. My dad is about to
start learning guitar, so when
hes good enough hes going to
teach me too, she said.
Lak believes that music can
benet young people in many
ways. It not only brings joy to
them and to others, he said,
but it can give them practi-
cal, transferable skills as well.
Music can create a good
memory for young people
growing up, and it helps them
to be patient. I compare the
students here to young kids I
knew, and you can really see a
difference, he said.
Movements will take place
at the Intercontinental Hotel,
#295 Boulevard Mao Tse Tung,
on Sunday June 1 at 3pm -
6pm.
Kettekun Vanna Sok practises on the drumkit at Simphony Music School ahead of Sundays concert at the Intercontinental Hotel. PHA LINA
Motoring
18
Volkswagen Bentleys all-new Flying Spur, a $200,000 sedan that blurs the line between old-world pomp and nouveau-riche romp. BLOOMBERG
Bringing the backseat to the fore
Jason H Harper

B
ORN to be driven, you say?
Some people are, like bil-
lionaire babies whisked by a
Rolls-Royce Phantom from
the private hospital room to a 45th-
story penthouse.
Others simply yearn for the expe-
rience. Being chauffeured means
you can legally text to your hearts
content, canoodle with a signicant
other or kick your feet up and snore.
Still, the service of full-time chauf-
feurs seemed all but dead until this
decade, when afuent Chinese ex-
erted great inuence on foreign auto-
makers. The powerful like to be driven,
and Volkswagens Audi, an early seller
of luxury cars in China, took advan-
tage by introducing a long-wheelbase
version of the A4 sedan specically
for the market. Black sedans became
a xture among the inuential.
But no matter the geographical lo-
cation, some power brokers believe
that bigger and brasher is better.
Small wonder that luxury makers are
rushing to produce cars with back-
seats the size of the sea.
The British have long specialised
in this kind of thing, and so have the
Germans. A long-wheelbase S-Class
from Daimlers Mercedes-Benz is the
equivalent of a dark grey suit always
appropriate and respected.
Prepare for a wave of new entrants.
Volkswagens Porsche, whose fans
became apoplectic at the release of a
sport-utility vehicle a few years ago,
is now introducing a long-wheelbase
model of the four-door Panamera.
The extra 15 centimetres (5.9 inches)
run an extra $20,000 and up.
Speaking of SUVs a category once
considered declasse Bentley will
release one, Lamborghini has teased
a concept and even Rolls-Royce is
hinting at the possibility.
So what vehicle would you turn
to if you wanted to tap away at your
iPad during the daily commute?
Last year, Volkswagens Bentley
released an all-new Flying Spur, a
$200,000 sedan that blurs the line
between old-world pomp and nou-
veau-riche romp. At 17.3 feet long,
with wide fenders and an upright
faux-chrome grille, its a car with Eu-
ropean swagger.
I recently spent a week with one,
playing with the reclining rear
seats (a killer app if there ever was
one) and tapping the power of the
6-litre twin-turbo W-12 (a case of
overkill if there ever was one).
With options and the $2,600 gas
guzzler tax, my test model came to
$230,665. In China, a comparable
car would run about $650,000 in-
cluding import taxes.
Clad in Glacier White paint and
porpoise interior leather (dark grey,
as it turns out, and no marine animals
harmed), it was notably handsome.
The exquisite wood paneling would
be appropriate on Louis XIV furniture.
Even the ceiling is hide-covered.
The back seats can be congured
to t either two or three passengers.
Bentley says there is 3.5 feet of leg-
room, which translates to a com-
fortable sprawl, if not the equiva-
lent of a fully reclining, rst-class
seat on Emirates airline.
Theres a slick remote control that
manages the twin TV screens, navi-
gation system and stereo. Wi-Fi is
available and so is a small refrigera-
tor (actually, I do have Grey Poupon
back here). All of the seats are in-
nitely congurable, though not quite
as couch-comfortable as Id hoped.
The traditional-minded Bentley
made a nice counterpoint to another
British back-seat contender I tested
concurrently, a long-wheelbase ver-
sion of the Range Rover, from Tata
Motorss Land Rover.
The long-wheelbase Range Rover
has a base price of $106,225. My
tester, an upgrade version, came to
$145,435, big money for a Land Rov-
er product.
The extended wheelbase will gain
you an extra 7.3 inches of rear leg-
room and the derision of any Land
Rover purists who still exist.
The new generation is too sleek
for my tastes, but it wasnt until I
observed the long-wheelbase in my
driveway that I appreciated how the
change in proportions has allowed
the long-wheelbase to exist. I expect-
ed a louche travesty. Yet, outtted in
all black, the long rear doors were well
masked and the truck looked good. It
certainly has presence an authori-
tative, vaguely menacing one.
Its the kind of vehicle in which you
might illegally idle in front of a swank
hotel or restaurant and nobody will
bother you. Theres an assumption,
even by the kind of authorities who
should be shooing you away, that you
belong. Better not to bother that big
black SUV and whoever might be in it.
The Ranges front leather-bound
seats are stupidly comfortable, the
headrests better than most pil-
lows. So too goes the back. You can
choose a bench seat that ts three
and doesnt recline, or individual
chairs that do. Either way, place the
front passenger seat as far forward as
it will go, and even Shaquille ONeal
would be well satised.
While the materials are not of the
same grade as on the Bentley, I pre-
ferred the Ranges rear seating posi-
tion. The roof is tall and the seating
position high. You can see over the
drivers head and sight lines are good.
Even the Rolls-Royce Phantom, a
car that epitomises the chauffeur
experience, is hard to see out of.
For some, perhaps, privacy trumps
sightseeing.
The Range Rovers extra length
limits its off-road abilities not that
anyone will care. The extra inches in
the wheelbase made the ride more
stable, and theres little sideways
sway for such a tall vehicle.
I expected to scoff at the long-
wheelbase Range, but came away
begrudgingly liking it. After all, I
quite enjoyed the boxy, farm-like na-
ture of the old Range Rovers.
But then again, I wasnt born to be
driven. BLOOMBERG
Unintelligent design: Tourer drives better than it looks
Sam Wollaston
I LIKED the last Honda Civic.
It was a pleasing shape, cohe-
sive and neat, with nice little
design touches triangular
exhausts, for example to lift
it above the mundane. The
current Civic Tourer model, in
many ways a very sensible and
able car, is less successful
looks-wise.
Theyve gone a bit crazy with
the design touches, too many
curves and edges, simply too
much design, in fact. As if its
pretending its from some-
where interesting like maybe
Italy, when its really and
clearly from an ugly town off
the M4. (The Civic might have
Japanese roots, but its made
in Swindon.)
This new estate is no differ-
ent sorry, tourer; car manu-
facturers seem to be avoiding
the E-word, possibly because
it sounds too Swindon. Any-
way, its more of the same, it
just goes on for longer: 235mm
longer to be precise. Its more
striking than a Golf estate or a
Mondeo, but striking isnt
always a good thing; Id rather
remain unstruck by an under-
stated Ford or VW than be
beaten aesthetically about the
head by one of these.
Otherwise, like the hatch-
back that gave birth to it, its a
practical, capable car. Inside
its very comfortable, plus
theres the added advantage
that when youre in it, you can
forget how ugly it is. Just avoid
reflective shop windows. Obvi-
ously you wouldnt get a Honda
Civic estate sorry, tourer for
driving thrills, and this one,
with a 1.8-litre petrol engine,
isnt going to spice up your life,
but its well mannered, enjoy-
able even, to drive. The diesel
looks like a much better idea
with way better fuel economy
and CO2 emissions.
The real joy of the Civic Tour-
er is the size of the boot. Its big.
And then theres more, under-
neath the floor (drug smug-
glers, take note, this could be
the one for you, though cus-
toms men might be on to this
one). Its because theyve clev-
erly put the fuel tank under the
front seats, so you get 624 litres
of luggage space.
And if you fold the back seats
down, youre up to a whopping
1,668 litres. You could fit in half
of Swindon and might even
still be able to sneak those
drugs in, too, under the floor.
The car might look better
after them. THE GUARDIAN Though suffering from a bad case of over-design, the Honda Civic Tourer is practical and capable. BLOOMBERG
Travel
19
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 938 Daily 06:40 08:15 PG 931 Daily 07:55 09:05
PG 932 Daily 09:55 11:10 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:30 14:40
PG 934 Daily 15:30 16:40 FD 3616 Daily 15:15 16:20
FD 3617 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:30 18:40
PG 936 Daily 19:30 20:40 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 20:15 21:50
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: mai@royalaviationexpert.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
A train runs on the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad, which you can take
a ride on for an eagle-spotting tour of West Virginia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Eagle spotting
in the wilds of
West Virginia
Buzz McClain

T
HE uniformed con-
ductor says he cant
guarantee that well
see eagles today. But
when youre riding a train
called the Potomac Eagle, and
there are nesting bald eagles
in the forest every three miles
along the track, chances are
pretty good.
We began our eagle-spotting
on a Saturday afternoon in
Romney, West Virginia. The
Wappocomo Station, where
the Potomac Eagle originates,
is a collection of railroad cars
just outside the town, convert-
ed into a ticket depot and a gift
shop along the tracks.
Two diesel engines pulled
our cars. Theyre two of four
in service to the private com-
pany that owns the line, and
theyre pretty cool to see up
close. Built between 1949 and
1957, theyre tall and long on
the outside, but a sneak peek
through an open door at the
engineers cab reveals an area
about the size of a sports car,
with a smallish windshield and
remarkably few controls.
There are also interactive
murder mysteries and spe-
cial holiday excursions, but
we were there just to see the
eagles. The three of us were
along for the ride; my wife
and I and our 13-year-old son,
who couldnt be cajoled into
any degree of excitement for a
train ride to nowhere.
We were in the middle car of
several carrying 70 or so pas-
sengers. On one end was the
Classic Club Car, which costs
more to ride in but has climate
control, light snacks, dessert
and its own beverage service.
Frankly, we preferred the regu-
lar car, a bit rickety and noisy
and self-service but more old-
timey charming.
On the other end was an
open-air car, but the rainy
weather kept it closed to rid-
ers; however, theres a stand-
ing-only car with a roof but no
windows, which affords terric
views of the mountains..
We were in that car enjoying
the scenery when, just min-
utes after leaving the station,
a womans voice announced
over a loudspeaker that there
was an eagle ying along the
left side of the train. We trun-
dled over and, yes, a few dozen
yards away at eye-level was an
immature (all brown) eagle,
ripping the sky with its wings
as it ew along slightly faster
than the trains speed, which I
found out maxes at 25 mph.
The train pleasantly rolled
into the Trough, a 6-mile
stretch of river canyon
anked by the South Branch
of the Potomac and the steep,
densely forested Sawmill
Ridge and River Ridge.
Jean Shoemaker, a former
history teacher in the local
schools, manned a micro-
phone and provided a running
travelogue. She told us about
the former and current uses of
the stone houses of the area,
the histories of the various
residents of note (Lew Wal-
lace, author of Ben-Hur lived
nearby when he served in the
Army) and tales of area Civil
War and Colonial-era battles.
We visited the snack car just
before the train went into re-
verse at the Sycamore Bridge
to begin the 17-mile trek back
to Romney. We ordered hot
dogs and popcorn and sat at
a table, enjoying the continu-
ous view of the countryside.
We saw a doe and two fawns
crossing the river below us; we
waved back at canoeists pad-
dling along; and look, more
eagles. It never got old.
When he has a chance, the
conductor, Richard Liken,
will sit with you and answer
questions about the 20-year
history of the excursion line.
But it seemed as though every
time he found a second to sit
with us, there was another an-
nouncement of an eagle sight-
ing, and we were all on our feet
again. THE WASHINGTON POST
Entertainment
20
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Friendly bat of the eye
5 Cake made for a shower
9 Poppycock!
14 Author unknown (Abbr.)
15 It may follow something?
16 Habituate (to)
17 Opera-house box
18 Shadowy film genre
19 Maxims
20 Opposite of being in the dark
23 Veto vote
24 Bale contents
25 Adds to the bill
29 Alexandras husband
31 Party mix
34 Not the outgoing type
35 Is bedridden
36 Approximately
37 Concluding
40 Has vittles
41 Time of comfort and joy
42 Detestation
43 Comin Thro the ___
44 Go AWOL
45 Glues
46 Its after me, often
47 Reno action
48 TV shows target
57 Blacksmiths need
58 Excessively dry
59 Pickle flavoring
60 Public to-do
61 Bearish advice
62 Flamboyant rock genre
63 Allowed for the container weight
64 See 42-Across
65 Some evergreens
DOWN
1 Street signal directive
2 Look ___ (visit briefly)
3 Scrubbed, as a space launch
4 Had no doubt
5 Medicinal shrubs
6 Crypt or phrase ending
7 Clueless catchphrase
8 Home to Machu Picchu
9 Stalwart column
10 Like blizzard conditions
11 Gargantuan
12 Seed sheath
13 Well-being
21 Short-tailed lemur
22 Tibets Forbidden City
25 Birch tree
26 Brightly colored eel
27 Descended on the mothers side
28 Fresh information
29 Every film has one
30 Gin flavorer
31 French right
32 Item under consideration
33 Angelou works
35 Feverish condition
36 Discontinued GM line, briefly
38 Synthetic material
39 Ringtailed carnivore
44 Curses! ___ again!
45 Go door-to-door
46 Wind around
47 Muscular
48 Far-reaching
49 Empire builder of old
50 Happily-after link
51 Deep cut
52 Field of expertise
53 Impatient and anxious
54 Aida river
55 Hammerhead part
56 Shady giants
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malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanitys
scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
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A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment
strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play
Major League Baseball.
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Tuol Kork: 4:35pm, 7:10pm
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Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious
company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains
against him.
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The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate
effort to change history and prevent an event that
results in doom for both humans and mutants.
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conduct an experiment on a young woman,
uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in
the process.
9:30am, 11:40am
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Swing @ CodeRED
Join Swing Penh every Thursday at
CodeRED. Beginner and intermediate
classes taught by American swing
champ, Janice Wilson.
Opposite NagaWorld, Riverside, near to
Koh Pich Bridge. 6pm
Photo @ Intercon
Cambodias natural beauty comes under
the lens in Dutch photographer Michael
Klinkhamers latest exhibition, Pure
Thomacheat. A series of 15 pictures gives
a close-up on the simple of the
photographers surroundings, from
dramatic landscapes to simple wonders
like a raindrop on a ower leaf. Pure
Thomacheat opens on today and runs
until June 28.
The Insider Gallery, InterContinental,
#296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard. 6pm.
Dance @ Java Arts
A special evening with Sophiline Arts
Ensemble, which will present A Bend in
the River at Chaktomuk Hall next month.
Award-winning choreographer Sophiline
Cheam Shapiro will talk about this
one-of-a-kind collaboration.
Java Cafe and Gallery, #56 E1 Sihanouk
Boulevard. 6:30pm
TV PICKS
11:15am - DREDD: In a violent, futuristic city where
the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and
executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a
gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. FOX
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12:50pm - TAKEN 2: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative
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Fun clothing designed in Spain and
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Sport
21
NagaWorld strikes a deal with ONE FC

channel MyTV to screen action live on
the night.
This partnership exemplifies the
huge strides the sport of mixed martial
arts and ONE FC have made across
Asia, ONE FC CEO Victor Cui said in
a statement touting the deal.
NagaWorld vice president of events
management Jerome Lee told the Post
they were equally excited at helping
bring ONE FC events to the Kingdom,
saying: MMA is one of the fastest-
growing sports right now and kickbox-
ing is a sport deeply rooted in the
Cambodian culture.
This platform is an instrument that
we at NagaWorld are looking to
embark on to introduce Cambodia
and the capabilities of Cambodian
fighters to the region and the world.
Sports have always been an area
which we focus on for our corporate
social responsibility program. We have
been sponsoring Cambodian kickbox-
ing events and football, as well as
sponsoring Cambodian teams in
Davis Cup tennis, SEA Games and
now the ONE FC, Lee added.
The move has been lauded by many
in the fledgling domestic MMA scene,
such as A Fighter Gym, which has
already sent fighters to compete at five
separate ONE FC events abroad.
I think it will give the local Cambo-
dian fighters a chance to see real MMA
in its purest form, A Fighter trainer
Chan Hun told the Post.
ONE FC is a huge production and
not many Cambodian fighters have
ever been to or seen such a show. So
it might light a fire under their asses
and have them jump ship to MMA.
The trainer was keen to emphasise
the advantages of such a move.
[It will mean] pretty much a whole
new life for the Cambodian fighters that
want to take it seriously and are not just
looking for the next meal but at the big-
ger picture such as a world champion-
ship for giants like ONE FC, he said.
It will offer better pay and bigger
fights and a huge exposure for Kun
Khmer [Cambodian kickboxing].
ONE FC announced a further
regional expansion on Monday with
an event to be held at the National
Taiwan University Sports Centre in
Taipei on July 11.
Titled ONE FC: War of Dragons, the
night marks the promotions first for-
ay away from its established destina-
tions of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur,
Manila and Jakarta, and a potential
view of cracking the Chinese market.
ONE FC will host its 16th fight card,
titled Honor & Glory, from its home
base of Singapore tomorrow night.
StarSports will be broadcasting live
coverage of the fights from 6pm
Cambodian time, while MyTV will
run a delayed program on Saturday
morning from 7:30am with Cambo-
dian commentary.
The 10-bout card at the 12,000-
seater Singapore Indoor Stadium fea-
tures a headlining clash between
American wrestling master Ben
Askren (12-0) and fearsome welter-
weight contender Bakhtiyar Abbasov
(11-2) of Azerbaijan.
Honor & Glory Fight Card
Main event Welterweight
Ben Askren (US) v
Bakhtiyar Abbasov (AZE)
Lightweight
Eddie Ng (HKG) v
Vincent Latoel (NED)
Featherweight
Honorio Banario (PHI) v
Jadamba Narantungalag (MNG)
Lightweight
Caros Fodor (US) v Willy Ni (NED)
Featherweight
Bruno Pucci (BRA) v
Major Overall (USA)
Bantamweight
Ji Xian (CHI) v Thanh Vu (AUS)
Heavyweight
Alain Ngalani (HKG) v
Chi Lewis Parry (UK)
Bantamweight
Radeem Rahman (SIN) v
Raymond Tan (MAL)
Undercard Bantamweight
Stephen Langdown (SIN) v
Casey Suire (US)
Catchweight (TBD)
Nik Harris (MAL) v
Brad Robinson (US)
Cambodias Khim Dima (left) grapples with Ruel Catalan of the Philippines during their yweight bout at ONE FC Moment of Truth at
the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on December 6, 2013. ONEFC.COM
Boxer Carl Froch holds his son Rocco during a public workout at the
Broadmarsh Shopping centre in Nottingham on Monday. AFP
Carl Froch predicts phenomenal fight at
Wembley Stadium against George Groves
Kevin Mitchell

I
T WAS a grey night in Barn-
sley, south Yorkshire, and
the boxing fraternity were
chattering about the merits
of a couple of boxers with ambi-
tions of making the Great Brit-
ain team at the Sydney Olym-
pics two years later, Courtney
Fry and Audley Harrison.
But Ron Boddy, a respected
London boxing face, suggest-
ed that I take a look further
down the bill at those 1998
ABA nals in the Metrodome,
in the 71kg category, where
another performer moved a
little differently from all his
amateur colleagues.
There was hardly an ounce
of fat on his hard frame and
he did not stand up straight
as recommended, but he had
a predators slightly forward
lean, eyes blazing and his left
glove poised at the top of his
thigh like a spear a look also
discouraged in the sports or-
thodoxy.
Carl Froch did not win that
night. His opponent, Sergeant
Chris Bessey, a seasoned in-
ternational and career soldier,
had too many wrinkles for
him, but the vulpine kid from
Nottingham looked the most
likely to make it as a pro.
He had the style, the punch
and the attitude. And certainly
he left a strong impression on
those professional promoters
who had gathered at boxings
annual meat market. Fry and
Harrison made the Great Brit-
ain team, Froch did not yet
he resisted all offers to turn
over, as the vest-wearing
community describe defec-
tion to the paid ranks.
He was, in fact, a dedicated
amateur boxer with no inclina-
tion to become a professional.
For all that he looked like a pro,
he thought like an amateur.
How far Froch has come in
the 16 years since. He held
out for a while, but the politics
of amateur boxing eventu-
ally drove him into the arms of
the pros and, after spells with
other promoters (he de-
clines to even refer to them by
name), he has landed up with
Eddie Hearn.
The young promoters
Matchroom stable is fairly
bulging with quality ght-
ers, all of whom keep the Sky
Sports boxing program ticking
over with as much buzz as was
generated in Frank Warrens as-
sociation with the station, and
Froch is the star of the team.
The once-dedicated ama-
teur is now able to demand
8 million ($13.5 million) for
what could well be his last
appearance in a boxing ring
this Saturday night at Wem-
bley Stadium against George
Groves, the mandated chal-
lenger for his IBF and WBA
versions of the world super-
middleweight title.
Groves, at 26, is 11 years
younger and was also once an
amateur of immense promise,
but one whose ambitions have
always been rmly directed to-
wards making as much money
as he can from his craft.
As the champion sees it:
Im in a very privileged posi-
tion, nancially. Im ghting
now for my legacy, my place in
British boxing history. Thats
what this ght is for.
And, he admits, he may
not ght again after Saturday
night. Sure, it could be my
last ght. Who knows? It could
be his last ght too.
Even discounting such an
utterance as a marketing ploy,
it is odd to hear Froch talk like
this, and it is the rst time I
have heard him refer so blunt-
ly to retirement. Yet he is 37, a
contented partner of Rachael
Cordingley and proud father
of Rocco and Natalia.
He is nancially secure, with
an impressive portfolio of
property investments. Those
are powerful distractions to
the business of ghting.
Nevertheless, among any
of his peers, Froch has always
expressed attachment to the
warrior instinct most convinc-
ingly. His long-time friend and
trainer, Robert McCracken,
himself a former world-class
ghter, says he cannot think
of any current boxer who likes
ghting more than Froch does.
Groves would be wrong to
misinterpret his opponents
apparent softening, and he
is unlikely to make that mis-
take. Froch is more wound up
over this ght than any in his
career, mainly because, as he
admits, Groves has got to him.
His task since the ght was
announced in March has been
to marry his anger to his long
learned discipline.
The ght should have gone
longer, but the result would
have been the same, he says of
their rst meeting, six months
ago in Manchester, when the
referee Howard Foster stepped
between them to save Groves
in the ninth round, a call that
not only set off a howl of com-
plaints but ensured that this
rematch would be the biggest
occasion in British boxing in
more than half a century.
True to his spirit, Froch is de-
termined to deliver what is ex-
pected of him, what Nigel Benn
used to love a tear-up. For
all the talk about strategy and
mind games, this is unlikely to
be a contest mired in subtlety.
The fans want to see a
conclusive nish. Its quite a
brutal, barbaric sport and the
people who watch it want to
see someone out, he says.
Thats what I do for a living.
I always like to get that nish-
ing blow and satisfy the crowd.
When you start mixing it up,
you can hear the crowd and
feel the vibration. Its going to
be phenomenal at Wembley.
THE GUARDIAN
Sport
Swim coaches complete
Level II training course
A 10-DAY Level II training
course for swimming coaches,
organised by the National
Olympic Committee of
Cambodia and funded by the
International Olympic
Committees Olympic
Solidarity program, concluded
yesterday at the NOCC
headquarters with all
participants receiving
certificates recognised by the
IOC. According to Swimming
Federation of Cambodia
secretary-general Hem Thon,
10 of the 25 coaches acquired
an "excellent" grade from the
course while the remainder
earned "good" marks. YEUN
PONLOK, TRANSLATED BY CHENG
SERYRITH
Thongchai set to make
fourth US Open run
ASIAN Tour legend Thongchai
Jaidee has qualified for the US
Open next month, a
tournament which holds fond
memories for the Thai as he
made his Major debut at the
event more than 10 years ago.
The three-time Asian Tour
number one qualified for the
2001 US Open where he
placed tied 74th at Southern
Hills Country Club before
going on to claim his best
result of tied for 47th in the
2010 edition. He missed the
cut in last years US Open and
will aim to make amends after
qualifying for the years second
Major championship through
his Official World Golf Ranking
where he sits in 54th position.
THE ASIAN TOUR
Welsh fly-half Williams
to miss South Africa tour
LEICESTER fly-half Owen
Williams will miss Waless tour
of South Africa in June after
being given a six-week ban
that sidelines him until
September 1. Williams, 22,
would have been hoping to
earn his first senior cap in the
Test series with the Spring-
boks, but the Rugby Football
Union has handed a lengthy
suspension to Williams, who
pleaded guilty for acts contrary
to good sportsmanship. The
former Scarlets half-back
admitted he made contact
with the eye or eye area of
Luther Burrell in Leicester's
Premiership semifinal clash
against Northampton. AFP
NFL players urged to
denounce 'Redskins'
THE National Congress of
American Indians and the
Oneida Nation are urging
NFL players to speak out
against the Washington
club's Redskins nickname.
The Oneida Nation and the
NCAI said they would be
sending a letter to some
2,700 players, and also reach
out directly to players via
social media urging them to
condemn the nickname and
mascot. Your NFL should
not be a place where any
person is expected to sit by in
silence while their heritage is
so casually disgraced and
condemned by this racial
slur, the letter says. The
organisations said that 77
various groups including
Native American organi-
sations, civil rights groups
and religious organisations
had co-signed the letter to
the players. AFP
Hump day
Riders power along the dusty humps of the Prek Leap bike track during last years Smart Mountain Bike Series race. The second round of the 2014 series at Prek Leap, located roughly
6 kilometres from the Japanese Friendship Bridge along National Highway 6A, will be held on June 8. Registration is open until June 6 and can be made at Flying Bikes 2 shop (No 131,
Street 51) or by calling Heng Srunmeng on 016 999 161. The nine racing categories this year are A1 Elite, A2 Expert (30 years and over), B1 Intermediate (18-29), B2 Intermediate (30 and
over), C1 Novice (14-18), C2 Novice (19-35), C3 Novice (36 and over), Womens (any age) and Kids (13 and below) classes. The A1 race will feature seven laps of the 2.9-kilometre circuit, A2
will do six laps, B1 and B2 ve laps, C1, C2, C3 and Women four laps and Kids two laps. Prizes for winners include trophies, medals, cash and bicycle accessories. PHOTO BY BOB VICERAL
Clay court concerns allayed
H S Manjunath

I
VAN Lendl famously once
remarked Grass is for
cows, with frustration
pouring out of the for-
mer world number one after
grass shattered his Wimbledon
dreams year after year.
In the realm of competitive
tennis, players come to either
love or loathe a particular
playing surface.
Such challenges are nothing
new for competitive players
and Davis Cup territory throws
up more of them all the time.
With a mere two years of
Davis Cup experience on hard
courts, Cambodian players
now face a red clay dilemma
in two weeks when they get
down to Asia/Oceania Group
III business in Tehran.
Adding another layer of
anxiety is the Iranian capitals
altitude ranging from 1,200 to
1,700 metres above sea level
a climactic condition none of
the Kingdoms men have ever
had to deal with before.
We will not let these un-
known factors prey on our
minds. Instead, we are ready
to confront them.
This strong sentiment is
shared by both nonplaying
captain Tep Rithivit and head
coach Braen Aneiros, who in
his Davis Cup days playing for
Panama has had a brush him-
self with such hardships.
Tennis Cambodia has
worked out a sound plan to
address these two vital issues
apart from putting the play-
ers through a vigorous tness
training regimen well above
the levels touched during the
Doha and Dubai campaigns.
The greater emphasis on
physical training is to cope
with the considerable de-
mands of clay courts, where
the ball is normally in play for
much longer than any other
surface and matches are often
long-drawn affairs.
A high level of tness could
be far more vital in Iran be-
cause Cambodia will have to
play four ties of three rubbers
each on consecutive days.
Interestingly, the teams
singles pivots, Bun Kenny and
Mam Panhara, have had some
clay court time at different
stages of their career Ken-
ny in his early teens back in
France and the US-based Pan-
hara as recently as 2010, when
he spent about three months
in Brazil.
We get a clearer sense of
how the players feel only after
we complete our one-week in-
tense practice on clay courts
in Bangkok beginning next
week, Aneiros told the Post
yesterday. Fortunately, we
reach Tehran at least six days
before we start our Group
matches and that should help
our players acclimatise with
the conditions and also give
us a chance to get on to the
outdoor red clay courts at the
Enghelab Sports Complex.
Tep Rithivit, who will sit in
the captains chair for the third
season, said the preparations
in the next 12 days should
help the team get over what-
ever concerns they had about
the surface and climate. I am
condent our players will do
well in Iran, he added.
Home advantage and years
of experience in Group II,
give Iran an edge over oth-
ers in this race for promotion
from Group III. Both Syria and
Lebanon have also gured in
the higher grade before, while
Cambodia, Malaysia and
United Arab Emirates retained
their Group III status in Dubai
last year.
Singapore and Turkmeni-
stan, both were squarely beat-
en by Cambodia in Doha in
2012, earned promotion to this
class from Group IV last year.
Coach Braen Aneiros and
the four players Bun Kenny,
Mam Panhara, Mam Phalkun
and Long Samneang will
leave Phnom Penh for Bang-
kok on Saturday. Tep Rithivit
will reach Bangkok on June
5 and the Cambodian squad
leaves for Tehran the next day.
Though the weeklong com-
petition opens on June 9, Cam-
bodia is scheduled to play its
rst group tie two days later.
The eight contenders will be
split into two groups of four,
with the top two of each mak-
ing it to promotional playoffs
and the bottom two going into
relegation playoffs. The two
winners of each promotional
round will automatically move
up to Group II for the 2015
campaign, while the two losers
of the relegation battles drop
down to Group IV.
Cambodia's Mam Panhara (left) plays a shot as his brother and teammate Mam Phalkun watches on during a
training session at Olympic Stadium on Tuesday morning. SRENG MENG SRUN
Football
23
5s teams eye World Cup
clashes in tournament
THE Phnom Penh 5s World
Cup tournament, organised by
Excel Events, will take place on
Sunday from 8:30am to 4pm at
3G #2 Field, with 16 sides
confirmed to do battle for
national pride. Teams include
Australia, Brazil, Colombia,
England, France, Holland,
Ireland, Japan, Scotland and a
World 11, along with six Cam-
bodia squads labelled as Vat-
tanac, AsiaLIFE, G4S, Yellow
Tree, Forte Insurance and
HFCA. The draw for the group
stage will be made at The
Latin Quarter bar and rest-
aurant at 6:30pm today. Chief
organiser Jimmy Campbell
said: The PP World Cup 2014
is a celebration of football. It is
designed for maximum
enjoyment and fair and friendly
competition. But more than
that, it brings people together
in a unique way. DAN RILEY

Crown look to put the
brakes on Lao Toyota
PHNOM Penh Crown Academy
will host their first match of the
Asia U16 Champions Trophy
season from 9am on Saturday
at the Olympic Stadium. The
Cambodian boys welcome their
counterparts of Lao Toyota, a
club now managed by
ex-Crown coach David Booth.
Action will be broadcast live on
Bayon TV. DANRILEY
Injury rules Van der
Vaart out of World Cup
NETHERLANDS midfielder
Rafael van der Vaart will miss
the World Cup due to injury,
Dutch media reported yesterday.
Van der Vaart, who plays his
club football with Bundesliga
side Hamburg, hurt his right calf
at the Netherlands training
camp in Portugal. Following
medical tests Netherlands
coach Louis van Gaal confirmed
Van der Vaart would miss the
finals in Brazil, according to
Dutch magazine Voetbal
Internationals website. AFP
Pressure group blasts
sale of beer at World Cup
A GERMAN health lobby group
yesterday condemned FIFA
and the Brazilian government
for lifting a ban on the sale of
beer in World Cup stadiums.
It is a health, political and
security scandal, said
Raphael Gassmann, director
of the German Centre for
Addiction Issues (DHS). Brazil
passed a law in 2003 which
banned the sale of alcohol in
stadiums in a bid to halt
spectator violence. The ban
has been eased for the World
Cup, from June 12 to July 13,
with some observers saying
this was demanded by FIFA to
save a sponsorship deal with
Budweiser, the beer brand
owned by AB InBev. AFP
Pochettino to target Lallana
after agreeing to Spurs deal
M
AURICIO Pochettino has
been appointed Totten-
ham Hotspurs manager
on a ve-year contract
after resigning at Southampton, and
Spurs are now seeking to reunite the
Argentine with his former captain,
Adam Lallana, at White Hart Lane.
The former Espanyol head coach
had made clear his desire to leave St
Marys after 16 months to replace Tim
Sherwood, who was sacked after the
nal game of the season with Spurs
having qualied for the Europa League
courtesy of a sixth-place nish.
Tottenham had considered the Ajax
manager, Frank de Boer, having lost
out on Louis van Gaal to Manchester
United, but had long since ear-
marked Pochettino as their favoured
appointment.
A deal was agreed in principle last
week, though agreeing compensation
with Southampton, where the 42-
year-old had 12 months to run on his
contract, did briey see an announce-
ment delayed. Saints were due around
2 million ($3.36 million) to cover the
nal year of Pochettinos deal and that
gure is understood to have been set-
tled by the departing manager.
He will be joined at Spurs by his as-
sistant head coach, Jess Prez, the
rst-team coach Miguel DAgostino,
and the goalkeeping coach Toni Jim-
nez, with whom he has worked at his
last two clubs.
In Mauricio, I believe we have a
head coach who, with his high-en-
ergy, attacking football will embrace
the style of play we associate with
our club, said the Tottenham chair-
man, Daniel Levy, who will now have
worked with 10 managers over 13
years at the club.
He has a proven ability to develop
each player as an individual, whilst
building great team spirit and a win-
ning mentality. We have a talented
squad that Mauricio is excited to be
coaching next season.
Spurs will expect Pochettino to get
more out of a squad who were re-
vamped dramatically last summer
following the sale of Gareth Bale to
Real Madrid for a world record 86
million.
Roberto Soldado, Vlad Chiriches,
Etienne Capoue, Nacer Chadli and
even Paulinho offered only glimpses
of their talent in their rst campaign
in England, while Erik Lamela a re-
cord 30 million arrival from Roma
did not even grant that. Only Chris-
tian Eriksen of the new arrivals made
a favourable impression.
Yet while Pochettino will be charged
with bringing more out of the present
crop, his compatriot Lamela in par-
ticular, there remains scope to add to
the teams options. Spurs have long
admired Lallanas progress at South-
ampton and watched the England
midelder become the subject of a
20 million bid from Liverpool this
month, with Southampton seeking
considerably more for him. Liverpool
believe the players wish is to join
them, though Spurs will explore their
own chances in the hope Pochettinos
inuence could sway his decision.
Tottenham are also interested in the
Standard Lige forward Michy Batsh-
uayi, whose contract contains an 8
million release clause, and have rst
option to resign Steven Caulker from
Cardiff City.
This is a club with tremendous his-
tory and prestige and I am honoured
to have been given this opportunity
to be its head coach, Pochettino said.
There is an abundance of top-class
talent at the club and I am looking for-
ward to starting work with the squad.
Tottenham Hotspur has a huge fol-
lowing across the world and I have
great admiration for the passion the
fans show for this team. We are deter-
mined to give the supporters the kind
of attacking football and success that
we are all looking to achieve.
Southampton had offered the Ar-
gentine a new contract in the after-
math of their impressive eighth-place
nish to the recent campaign and
have been left disappointed, if de-
ant, by his decision to move on.
While Pochettino was undoubt-
edly unsettled by the departure of the
clubs inuential chief executive, Ni-
cola Cortese, in January, he had been
unconvinced that the owner, Katha-
rina Liebherr, could match his own
ambition with bids having been sub-
mitted for a number of key players.
Aside from Lallana, Luke Shaw is
the subject of strong interest from
Manchester United and Chelsea,
while Liverpool have inquired about
Dejan Lovren and Arsenal have been
strongly linked with the French hold-
ing midelder Morgan Schneiderlin.
The club has been on a constant path
of growth since the arrival of Markus
Liebherr in 2009, said the Southamp-
ton chairman, Ralph Krueger.
This growth took place before
Mauricio came, it continued strongly
under his leadership, and it will con-
tinue into the next season. The boards
job is to nd opportunity in this chal-
lenge and to continue to move the
club forward. THE GUARDIAN
Argentine Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed as Tottenham Hotspur manager after a deal was agreed to with Southampton. AFP
MARCELLO Lippis Guang-
zhou Evergrande were drawn
against Australian newcom-
ers Western Sydney Wander-
ers in the AFC Champions
League quarternals yester-
day as they bid to become
only the second team to re-
tain the trophy.
The Chinese champions
received what appeared to
be a kindly draw against the
Wanderers, who have been
the tournaments surprise
package in their run to the
last eight on debut.
The other eastern zone
tie, drawn at a ceremony in
Kuala Lumpur, pitches last
years runners-up FC Seoul
into a daunting derby clash
against Korean double win-
ners Pohang Steelers when
the competition resumes in
August.
In the west, Al Ittihad will
face UAEs Al Ain in a re-
match of the 2005 nal, when
the Saudi side became the
only team so far to success-
fully defend the Champions
League title.
And Qatars Al Sadd, who
won the tournament in 2011,
were drawn against another
Saudi club, Al Hilal.
After hitting form in their
5-1 away victory over Japans
Cerezo Osaka in the last 16,
Guangzhou face an intrigu-
ing challenge from the Wan-
derers, who were formed just
two years ago.
Coached by former Soc-
ceroo Tony Popovic, they
topped their group and recov-
ered from a 3-1 rst-leg decit
against Sanfrecce Hiroshima
in the last 16 to become only
the second Australian club af-
ter Adelaide United to reach
the quarternals. AFP
Aussie draw for Asian
champions Guangzhou
Germany stars in crash
A STEWARD has told how he
tried to stop the accident
involving Germanys World
Cup stars when one of the cars
they were passengers in hit
him and a bystander.
The accident at Germanys
pre-World Cup training camp
in north Italy on Tuesday left
the steward in hospital and the
German bystander in a serious
condition following the crash
during the filming of a televi-
sion advert.
SID, an AFP subsidiary,
reported yesterday that the
63-year-old bystander is out of
immediate danger.
Germanys World Cup stars
Julian Draxler and Benedikt
Hoewedes were passengers in
separate cars during the film-
ing of the commercial for Mer-
cedes, one of the German
Football Associations (DFB)
main sponsors, when the acci-
dent happened.
The bystander was airlifted
to hospital, while the course
steward, named only as
Michael K, is also being treat-
ed after flying through the
windscreen of the car driven
by 19-year-old professional
touring car driver Pascal
Wehrlein.
Schalke centre-back Hoew-
edes is reported to have been
Wehrleins passenger in the
Mercedes involved in the
accident, but the 26-year-old
was unharmed.
Formula One driver Nico
Rosberg, who was driving the
other Mercedes car at the time
of the crash, wrote on Twitter:
The accident shocked me, my
thoughts are with both vic-
tims, while Wehrlein is said to
be very upset by the incident.
In an interview with the
Hamburger Morgenpost, Mich-
ael K described how he spotted
the bystander, thought to be a
holiday-maker looking for an
autograph from the German
footballers, on the closed
Alpine course.
He wanted to take a pic-
ture and also get an auto-
graph, he said, having suf-
fered back, leg and elbow
injuries in the impact.
He wasnt on the road, but
was right next to it, a few metres
in front of the barrier.
I shouted to him loudly. I
wanted to pull him back, but
didnt get to him in time.
If it had taken two seconds
longer, I would been directly hit
and I could have been killed.
The DFB cancelled a sched-
uled practice match between
Joachim Loews World Cup
squad and Germanys U20 side
on Tuesday evening.
The DFB are holding their
10-day training camp in the
north Italian Alps which con-
cludes on Saturday before their
first World Cup match in Group
G against Portugal in Salvador
on June 16. AFP
International Friendlies
USA 2 Azerbaijan 0
Japan 1 Cyprus 0
Moldova 1 Canada 1
UAE 3 Armenia 4
France 4 Norway 0
TUESDAYS RESULTS
International Friendlies
Lithuania v Finland 10pm
Cameroon v Paraguay 12am
Latvia v Estonia 12:15am
Saudi Arabia v Georgia 2am
Honduras v Turkey 7am
TODAYS FIXTURES
Quintana in the pink as controversy hits Giro
COLOMBIAN climber Nairo Quin-
tana completed an epic day of racing
on the Giro dItalia by claiming vic-
tory on a controversy-hit 16th stage
and the race leaders jersey from com-
patriot Rigoberto Uran.
Quintanas hopes of competing for
the overall title this year suffered a
blow when he tumbled down the
standings to 3min 29sec behind Uran
after the first two weeks of racing.
But on the first of several gruelling
days in the mountains in this final
week, the Movistar rider took com-
mand of the race. Uran and, notably
Australian Cadel Evans, ultimately
failed to follow Quintanas wheel on
a rain-hit descent of the Stelvio
climb.
I did the last climb at my own
rhythm but I gave it everything I had,
said the 24-year-old.
Since the start of the season, I
think Ive shown my runner-up place
at the Tour de France [in 2013] was
no fluke.
In this Giro Ive encountered a few
problems, but Ive never lost hope.
The team have been right behind me
and kept my confidence intact.
With three tough climbs on the
menu, Uran was always at risk of
being put under pressure by the more
proficient climbers in the peloton.
But the heavy rain and freezing
conditions which prevailed over the
first two climbs the Galvia (16.5
km) and the Stelvio (21.7 km) did
little to help the overnight leaders
bid either.
Sky rider Dario Cataldo started hos-
tilities when he attacked from a small
chase group on the way to the sum-
mit of the Stelvio, whose 2,758 metres
summit is the highest point of this
years race.
He came over the summit, the road
flanked by walls of snow several
metres deep, with a 20-second lead
on two or three stragglers with Hes-
jedal and Quintana among another
group that had managed to pull away
from Urans main peloton on the way
to the summit. It later emerged their
move had been controversial.
Urans Omega-Pharma team were
among those who interpreted an
announcement by race organisers via
race radio to mean the Stelvio descent
would be neutralised effectively
not raced because of the poor con-
ditions. Organisers later claimed they
had simply announced they were
placing a motorbike rider, with a pil-
lion passenger waving a red flag, at
the front of the race to warn of any
dangers on the road ahead.
Several teams complained after the
stage, pointing to a Tweet posted by
organisers, and later erased, that they
had understood the race would be
neutralised.
But race director Mauro Vegni hit
back: There was never any question
of the race being neutralised.
Quintana claimed he did not
attack on the descent and added: I
dont understand the reasons behind
the controversy.
It was raining a lot, I couldnt see
the red flag, All I know is he was sup-
posed to warn us about any danger-
ous bends.
Quintana, the runner-up at last
years Tour de France, now leads Uran
by 1:41 in the overall standings
although the days biggest loser was
Evans, who has dropped from second
overnight at 1:03 to third overall at
3:21. AFP
Sport
Britain's Andy Murray returns the ball to Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev during their French Open rst round
match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Tuesday. AFP
Colombia's Nairo Quintana rides and wins the 16th stage of the 97th Giro d'Italia
cycling race on Tuesday in Val Martello. AFP
Murray sets up
date with Mad
Dog Matosevic
Kevin Mitchell

T
HROUGH wind,
gloom and a little
uncertainty Andy
Murray moved on
in his return to the French
Open, from Andrey Golubev,
a bookish Russian-born
free-wheeler who reads Dos-
toyevsky to an Australian
known with locker room af-
fection as Mad Dog, Marinko
Matosevic.
Murray does not lack for
variety in his opponents
but his path to the quarter-
nals eased by the defeat of
the world No 3 and reigning
Australian champion, Stan-
islas Wawrinka, on Monday
night is not littered with too
many other daredevils.
Murray on Tuesday blitzed
the reckless Golubev in the
rst set (not with quite as
much authority as he did Ra-
fael Nadal in the opening of
their quarternal in Rome,
but conditions were consid-
erably more difcult here),
and then had to grind a bit
for a 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win.
It took him 2 hour 35 min-
utes, although he might have
been back in the locker room
a good deal quicker but for
a dip in the third set, when
Golubev, an all-out attacker
with little regard for caution,
delayed his progress with
some astonishing hitting.
However, his catalogue of 59
unforced errors just about
doubled Murrays and that
proved the difference.
Still, Murray was not happy
with his serve, which dipped
as low as 31 per cent on rst
effort midway through the
third set and sat at just over
one in two for the whole
match.
That lack of consistency
could cost him deeper into
the tournament but prob-
ably not against Matosevic,
who gained his rst win in
a Grand Slam event in 13 at-
tempts, putting out Dustin
Brown, 7-6, 6-4, 6-7, 7-5.
Murray knows him well.
I get on very well with
Marinko, he said.
Hes a funny guy. Hes a
good ball striker and hes had
some good wins on the Tour,
maybe a bit up and down, but
he can play good tennis.
Murray nished his own
match soon enough to watch
the end of Matosevic-Brown
and the winners response
to breaking his 13-match los-
ing streak: a long roll across
the damp red dirt that left his
kit looking as if he had been
in a street ght.
It was an interesting cel-
ebration. I have not seen that
before. From the time Ive
spent with him I would say
Mad Dog is a good name for
him. I couldnt say in front of
you guys what the craziest
thing he has done is.
Hes a good guy, good fun
around the locker room, al-
ways makes everyone smile,
makes everyone laugh.
Thats nice.
Matosevic lit up the inter-
view room, clearly thrilled
with his performance and
shedding that unwanted
weight of rst-round defeats
in majors.
Yeah, we have a lot of fun
in the locker room with all
the boys, he said. But los-
ing is never fun. I mean its
tough when youre on 13. I
got to 39 in the world, so I
thought, Ive got to do it, Im
better than this.
He conrmed he was not
totally enamoured of his
nickname, given to him by a
Sydney website, but said, I
really dont care any more.
Obviously it fed you guys and
fed the crowd and then it got
worse. It is what it is. Cant
change it now.
Today it will be all business
and he will no doubt bring all
the irreverence he showed in
his match against Nadal in
Monte Carlo last year, when
he moved the Spaniards wa-
ter bottles from their near-
sacred formation at his court-
side chair. THE GUARDIAN

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