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SIX STRAIGHT
New study claims Khmer
Rouge singled out minorities
for forced marriages
More than 2.5 billion people live
without access to toilets, lead-
ing to dangerous situations for
women looking for privacy
In his toughest race of the
season, Marc Marquez comes
out on top again
Glenda Kwek
A SRI Lankan asylum seeker has died
after setting himself on fire while
awaiting a visa decision in Australia,
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison
said yesterday, with a Tamil group
claiming he was living in great fear.
Leorsin Seemanpillai, 29, who was
living in Geelong, outside Melbourne,
after being granted a temporary visa
a year ago, suffered burns to 90 per
cent of his body after the incident on
Saturday morning.
He was pronounced dead on Sun-
day in a Melbourne hospital.
This man sadly died as a result of
a very serious set of injuries that were
self-inflicted, Morrison said.
And I dont think we are in any
position, and I frankly dont think
anyone else is any position, to draw
any conclusions about what is a per-
sons mind in that situation.
Aran Mylvaganam of the Tamil
Refugee Council, who was at See-
manpillais bedside in hospital and
knew him for a year, said his friend
was living in great fear of being sent
back to Sri Lanka, where he believed
his life would be in danger.
I had numerous conversations
where he would repeatedly raise con-
cerns about being deported back to
Sri Lanka, Mylvaganam said.
He added that Seemanpillais fears
were fuelled by seeing his friends
taken from communities where they
were placed in detention centres to
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
IN THE dim light of Sunday evening,
32-year-old Kong Channeang
ap proached his family. Startled at his
unexpected presence, they ran away in
abject terror.
The reaction was more than under-
standable. Channeang had, after all,
turned up at his own funeral.
Suffering from an unidentified men-
tal illness, he had gone missing five
days earlier from his home in Svay
Rieng provinces Romdoul district.
On Sunday, a decomposing and
bloated body was spotted by villagers
in a nearby river. His family, satisfied the
corpse was likely their son, proceeded
to hold a funeral for him.
They were preparing the body for cre-
mation when Channeang turned up.
All of us were scared and ran away
immediately. We thought that we were
being haunted, since it was a little bit
dark at 6:30pm when he showed up at
the funeral, Orn Song, the chief of
Svay Chek commune, said.
Kong Vanny, Channeangs 63-year-
old father, told the Post yesterday that
while everyone was running away, his
son had shouted for him to return.
When I heard him call me, I just
went to him and grabbed his hand. I
Amelia Woodside and Phak Seangly
H
IDDEN at the end of a
pathway that breaks off
from Mao Tse Tung Boul-
evard in Phnom Penh is a
temple of a different kind, where
seances are sacrosant and French
writer Victor Hugo author of Les
Miserables is considered a saint.
Worshippers there practise Cao-
daism, a southern Vietnamese reli-
gion that combines foundational
elements of a handful of the worlds
biggest faiths. Those who enter the
temple find themselves welcomed
by a fusion of religious imagery,
including symbols from Buddhism
and Christianity.
But in the face of heightened anti-
Vietnamese sentiment in the past
year, the Caodai temple, in Dangkor
district, has become a sanctuary of a
different kind to its congregation,
which predominantly comprises eth-
nic Vietnamese.
When I have trouble and feel
unhappiness, I come here to attend
a ceremony and recite Caodai songs
and prayers. Then I have a fresh feel-
ing and every worry or concern
seems to be released from my body,
Seng Bun Hong, 56, said.
Anti-Vietnamese sentiment, which
has a long and complicated history
in the Kingdom, has been roused
again after featuring prominently in
the rhetoric of the opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party both in
the lead-up to and following last
Julys national election.
It has brought a heightened sense
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A gathering of worshippers pray at a Caodai temple in Phnom Penh last month. SCOTT HOWES
Aus refugee
in great fear
sets himself
on re, dies
Sanctuary from the storm
Dead mans presence at funeral scares villagers
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2 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
IDEA president Vorn Pov is dragged along a road at Phnom Penhs Yakjin factory in January, moments before being kicked in the head. POST STAFF
Medical trips await 9 of 23
Meas Sokchea
N
INE of the group of
23 workers and la-
bour activists who
were released from
custody and given suspended
sentences on Friday over to
Januarys garment employee
protests will receive medical
care in Thailand, rights group
Licadho said yesterday.
A number of the men were
beaten by security forces
during the demonstrations,
which saw authorities clash
with protesters, and say they
received poor medical care
while in police custody over
the past few months.
Last month, a garment
worker who was severely beat-
en by police on Veng Sreng
Boulevard on January 3 died,
with his family blaming head
trauma inicted by authori-
ties months before.
Am Sam Ath, senior investi-
gator at Licadho, said that the
nine men would be sent to a
hospital in Bangkok for check-
ups and treatment to ensure
they are not masking more se-
rious conditions.
Sokun Sambath Piseth, from
labour rights group CLaRi-
Cambodia, has already arrived
in Bangkok and will receive
surgery for hand fractures that
doctors say require an urgent
operation, Sam Ath said.
Two more workers will travel
in the next two days, while
Vorn Pov, of the Indepen-
dent Democracy of Informal
Economy Association, Theng
Savouen, of the Coalition of
Cambodian Farmers Com-
munity, and Boeung Kak lake
activist Chan Puthisak, among
others, will head west later this
month to receive treatment.
Their wounds are still pain-
ful, thats why we must take
care of them properly, Sam
Ath said. Most importantly,
we think of their lives and
want to avoid something more
serious occurring.
Licadho will cover all medi-
cal costs.
I still have headaches and
feel dazed. We must receive
more check-ups, because the
paratroopers beat our heads
and kicked us, causing inter-
nal injuries, Vorn Pov said
yesterday.
Separately, the European
Union issued a statement
on Sunday that appeared to
warn the government that
policy makers in Cambodias
largest export market were
keeping a very close eye on the
labour situation.
The statement welcomed
Fridays release of workers and
unionists and said that the EU
hopes this latest development
indicates a positive shift in the
recently deteriorating situation
of the freedom of assembly in
Phnom Penh and the recurrent
harassment of trade unionists.
The EU is the largest mar-
ket for Cambodias exports,
especially for the garment sec-
tor. The EU and its citizens at-
tach a great importance to the
respect of fundamental rights
such as the freedom of assem-
bly and the workers and trade
unions rights, it added.
The EU encourages the
Royal Government of Cam-
bodia to accelerate the resto-
ration of these fundamental
rights and to release the re-
sults of the investigation of the
killings of early January.
The statement comes a week
after global brands warned
that instability in the garment
sector could lead to Cambodia
losing its status as a strategic
sourcing market. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
Laignee Barron
and Mom Kunthear
WITH barely a drop of rain
falling on their parched elds,
Battambang farmers are
pleading with a construction
company to stop blockading
the local river so their recently
planted crops dont dry out.
The Asian Development
Bank-funded bridge connect-
ing Battambang and Banteay
Meanchey has blocked the
river since construction be-
gan in December, according
to Bavel districts Sang Rang
village chief. Local farm-
ers went ahead and planted
hundreds of hectares of rice
in April anyway, anticipating
the rainy season. But the rains
havent come.
Last year, there was too
much ooding, and this year,
there is too much drought,
said Saloeun Linh, executive
director of Association Coop-
eration for Economic Devel-
opment, which assists farm-
ers. The crops are dying.
Villagers and the commune
chief have asked the district
governor to intervene and
get water owing through the
irrigation canal again. Yes-
terday morning, the bridge
construction company let out
more water, but not enough to
reach all the village rice elds.
The water is owing slowly
over a shallow area; it cannot
spread to places which are far
from the bridge, village chief
So Savorn said. My own rice
eld and my childrens are
about 4 hectares. They will
be completely damaged if
they do not have water within
the month. We used about 1
tonne of rice seed.
Savorn said 405 families in
his village were affected by
the drought and the bridges
damming of the river.
In addition to blockages of
water, locals are concerned
that the $55 million bridge
construction is contributing
to river pollution by dumping
cement and other waste.
The water is very dirty-
looking and the smell is not so
clean, Linh said.
Families without an al-
ternative water source have
continued drinking from the
river, he said, leading to many
complaints of diarrhoea and
stomach pains.
ADB country director Eric
Sidgwick said yesterday that
the bank had not received
any letter of complaint
from the villagers but would
send a team to investigate
on Wednesday.
When the provincial agri-
culture department visited
Bavel yesterday, it noted that
the rivers water level was
at an all-time low due to
the bridge.
In July, August and Sep-
tember, the lower water level
wont be a problem, but in
June, with a drought, no water
reaching the canal is a prob-
lem, Oudam Panh, deputy
director of the provincial ag-
riculture department, said.
Without intervention, all
the dry season crops could
be damaged.
Bbang farmers
desperate for
local river water
I still have headaches and feel
dazed. We must receive more
check-ups because the
paratroopers beat our heads
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Sentinel page drops photos
Alice Cuddy

L
ESS than two weeks after a major
rights group lambasted the USs
training of Cambodias abusive
armed forces, allegedly incrimi-
nating photographs have been removed
from the ofcial Facebook page of the
joint training exercise.
On May 20, Human Rights Watch (HRW)
issued a statement hitting out at US forces
for providing training that would assist
Cambodias military in government crack-
downs on the political opposition and civil
society activists. The group also suggested
that Angkor Sentinel 2014 may have been
in violation of US law, something the US
Embassy categorically denied.
Days after the statement, Angkor Sen-
tinels ofcial Facebook page was taken
down. Now back up and running, the page
is missing the images identied by HRW
as evidence of direct military training.
One of the photographs that used to
appear on the page, under the caption a
proper vehicle search technique in an
urban environment, showed a Cambo-
dian soldier stopping a vehicle by stand-
ing in front of it with his assault rie
aimed at the windshield.
At the time, US Embassy spokesman
Sean McIntosh told the Post that such
photos showed Cambodians being
trained to respond properly to the threat
of improvised explosive devices, a persis-
tent danger in Cambodias peacekeeping
operations throughout the world.
This week, McIntosh reiterated his de-
fence of the training.
All Cambodian individuals and military
units that participate in Angkor Sentinel
exercises are thoroughly vetted in compli-
ance with the Leahy Amendment, which
requires the Department of State to ensure
there is no credible information suggest-
ing participating individuals or military
units have committed gross violations of
human rights, he said by email.
When asked why the photographs were
removed, McIntosh said that the US Army
Pacic, which he says manages the page,
routinely updates its website platforms.
US Army Pacic did not respond to re-
quests for comment.
Phil Robertson, deputy director of
HRWs Asia division, said he hoped the
photographs removal meant the US had
decided to investigate the training.
US military-to-military programs are
supposed to inculcate human rights values
rather than teach partners how to more ef-
ciently abuse human rights and I expect
they were embarrassed that some of the
photos showed that the training was hardly
living up to that principle, he said.
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces personnel under supervision from US forces participate in a
military exercise during Angkor Sentinel 2014 in Kampong Speu province in April. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Phak Seangly
WHILE illegally hunting in a
Mondulkiri community for-
est late on Saturday night,
the nephew of a high-ranking
provincial ofcial allegedly
mistook a sleeping teenager
for wildlife, shooting and kill-
ing him with a gun believed to
have been stolen.
Yeun Yorn, the 26-year-old
nephew of Mondulkiri pro-
vincial Deputy Governor Svay
Sam Ieng, was poaching rab-
bits and other wildlife in Koh
Nhek district, accompanied
by a friend and a handful of
other village hunters, accord-
ing to district police ofcials.
The victim, Phar Nuth, 18,
had entered the forest to look
for timber with a crew of illegal
loggers. Nuth and the others
were sleeping in hammocks
when Yorn stumbled across
their encampment, according
to district deputy police chief
Khlout Sophea.
Yorn, who was hunting by
ashlight, claimed it was easy
to confuse the blurred shapes
of human gures with wild-
life at night and from a long
distance. Thinking the sleep-
ing loggers were some kind of
wild animal, Yorn shot an AK
rie he had allegedly stolen
from a local plantation a few
days earlier.
The victim was shot in the
thigh [and the bullet] went
through him, [exiting near
the hip on the other side],
causing him to die immedi-
ately, Sophea said.
Yorn and his friend were ar-
rested on Sunday and taken to
the provincial police station.
Police said they detained
Yorns friend as a potential ac-
complice to murder, though
they declined to provide his
name yesterday. Both are
scheduled to be transferred to
court today for questioning.
The perpetrator is sus-
pected of two crimes, Sou
Sovann, provincial deputy po-
lice chief, said. One is killing
a human unintentionally and
the other is illegal possession
of a weapon.
Sovann added that Yorn con-
fessed to both the shooting
and to nding and stealing the
rie from a local plantation ve
days before the incident. Police
conscated the rie when they
arrested Yorn on Sunday.
The provincial deputy gover-
nor told police yesterday that
he would not be intervening
on his nephews behalf, and
asked the court to take proper
legal action.
Mistaken for wildlife,
teen shot dead: police
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
K Krom anniversary quieted
Chhay Channyda

P
LANS to commemo-
rate 65 years since
France recognised
formerly Kampuchea
Krom provinces as part of
Vietnam were scaled back by
City Hall yesterday.
Representatives of the
Khmer Kampuchea Krom
Community (KKKC) were
told that plans to hold a pub-
lic forum on Wednesday had
been rejected, while approval
was granted for a ceremony
at Samaki Rainsey pagoda in
Meanchey district.
We will not allow them to
hold the public forum, be-
cause we know that if we can-
not control it well, it will incite
people to hate other races and
neighbouring countries, City
Hall spokesman Long Diman-
che told the Post.
During the ceremony at Sa-
maki Rainsey pagoda, a sym-
bolic offering of food will be
made to 1,949 monks to mark
the 1949 anniversary.
City Hall will reconsider al-
lowing the KKKC to hold the
public forum, which stood to
draw 2,000 attendants, at a
later date, ofcials said follow-
ing the meeting.
KKKC president Thach Setha
said he had agreed to the re-
strictions, but felt the ban vio-
lated freedom of expression.
They are afraid of us at-
tacking [Vietnam], thats why
they do not allow it; that is si-
lencing our rights. Cambodia
does not have full indepen-
dence, because we are afraid
of yuon, he said, using a
term considered by some to
be derogatory towards Viet-
namese people.
Ang Chanrith, executive di-
rector of the Minority Rights
Organization, said the an-
niversary is important not
only for Khmer Krom but
for Khmer.
People living over there [are
now considered] indigenous
and face persecution . . . [But]
the Cambodian government
does not pay much attention
to supporting them.
Chanrith, whose group will
be monitoring the anniversa-
ry events, said that he is wor-
ried that if the restrictions are
not abided by, police or mili-
tary police [will be sent in] to
block them.
According to a letter to Setha
on May 27 signed by Deputy
Prime Minister Kong Sam Ol,
this years ceremony will be at-
tended by Samdech Sisowath
Pongneary Monypong, min-
ister of the Royal Palace. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Khmer Krom monks gather at Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district last year to commemorate the anniversary
of France turning over Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam. HONG MENEA
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
VILLAGERS who claim a devel-
opment project in Russey Keo
district has already taken a bite
out of their land said yesterday
that they fear the plan will
swallow the rest of their prop-
erty, as they led petitions and
met with local authorities.
Members of 80 families who
own land in Prek Leap com-
munes Kean Khlaing village
thumb-printed a petition ask-
ing the district and munici-
pality to keep their village off
limits to the Overseas Cambo-
dian Investment Corporation
(OCIC) satellite city project,
a community representative,
Reth Dyna, said.
The requests led with
commune, district and Phnom
Penh City Hall ofcials asked
for the projects area to be re-
valuated, rather than stopped,
Dyna said.
In reality, we are pleased
with the development, which
will have commercial build-
ings, resorts and supermar-
kets, Dyna said. But we
do not want to exchange
our land and homes with
the company.
Dredging that began in Kean
Khlaing last week kicked off
the Chroy Changvar develop-
ment project, a joint venture
between the city and OCIC.
But villagers who live there
and others who own land
to grow rice and vegeta-
bles say sand dumped near
their property has already
ruined a pond they used
for agriculture.
Commune ofcials met with
and encouraged local residents
yesterday morning to trade
their land for nearby apart-
ments, said Hom Sith, who
attended talks. If not, ofcials
advised attendees to gather
land titles, family books or any
other evidence they could nd
that proves they legally own
the disputed plots.
The authorities want us to
swap our land for a 4-by-12-
metre apartment nearby that
[OCIC] already built, Sith
said yesterday. But the trade
does not balance out with
the amount of land we would
give up.
Asked about the dispute
yesterday, OCIC general man-
ager Touch Samnang said that
nding a resolution falls on
the municipality.
Any problems will have to
be resolved by Phnom Penh
authorities, Samnang said.
The company is just operat-
ing the project.
Villagers wont swap
land for apartments
Locals block bulldozers, fence
Dead man scares at own funeral
Sen David
FI FTY-SEVEN f ami l i es
embroiled in a decadelong land
row with a company owned by
the wife of Minister of Mines and
Energy Suy Sem faced off with
the firms security guards yester-
day in Kampong Chhnangs
Kampong Tralach district.
The villagers in April rejected
an offer from KDC Internation-
al, which is owned by Sems wife,
Chea Kheng, while 33 other
families accepted the offer.
No clashes were reported yes-
terday, and guards withdrew
from the area without incident.
Om Sophy, 35, a community
representative, said that the vil-
lagers had blocked the com-
panys bulldozers from clearing
the land and prevented KDC
employees from building a
fence around the property.
The company agreed to give
[from $250 to $1,500] to each
family, but it is too little, she
said. With this money, we can-
not buy new land or houses.
Reach Seima, another vil-
lager, said the company should
not bulldoze the area while the
families still live there.
The villagers have a war of
words with the company and
block their bulldozers, but they
are not violent, he said.
Thai Hy, a KDC representa-
tive, could not be reached for
comment.
Hol Veasna, Kampong Tralach
district police chief, said the
company had stopped its activ-
ity in order to find a solution.
The protracted dispute has
resulted in arrests for a few of
the residents, one of which
ended with the sentencing of a
villager to six years in prison.
The row started in 2002, when
KDC cleared about 140 hectares
of land granted to villagers as a
farming concession.
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realised that he was not a ghost and I told the
villagers and authorities to return to the funeral
and to not be afraid of him because he was actu-
ally alive.
The unidentified body was handed over to
authorities, who buried it at a local pagoda.
According to Vanny, three members of his
immediate family suffer from a hereditary men-
tal illness that Cambodians call sabour.
Before Channeang went crazy a few years
ago, he was an industrious builder, he said, but
now, he becomes aggressive and leaves the
house for long periods of time.
His condition is like a spirit comes and con-
trols his body. Sometimes he is normal, and
sometimes he is not normal and he has prob-
lems with other people. Sometimes, I shackle
his legs in order to stop him from attacking any-
one in the village.
When Channeang ran away on May 27 his
legs had been chained but he managed to set
himself free. Chaining relatives suffering from
mental illness remains a common practice in
the Kingdom, despite being decried by
rights groups.
The condition affecting my wife and sons
usually occurs on days where there is a full
moon and on the last day of the month. Apart
from these days, they are normal and can work,
Vanny said.
I have never taken them to the psychologist.
Dr Chhim Sotheara, executive director of the
Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, said
that it is common in Cambodia for people to
explain mental illnesses in spiritual or supersti-
tious terms.
Mental health is pretty new in the Cambo-
dian context. Psychiatry in particular is really
new. In general, Cambodian people have their
own explanatory model to explain behaviours
or [mental states] or attitudes of people,
Sotheara said.
The explanation is based on cultural beliefs,
religious beliefs and maybe based on experi-
ences from their parents generation. Its very
common that Cambodians explain this kind of
psychological reaction as a kind of spirit posses-
sion . . . or what we call sabour, a kind of craziness
running in the family.
But if we look at an explanation based on
Western psychiatry, we can see clearly that these
people meet criteria for mental disorders [such
as] schizophrenia [or] psychosis. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
Drug case
Court seeks
answers on
smuggling
T
HREE foreign nationals
and a Cambodian wom-
an arrested in February
were brought to Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday to
answer questions about the
drugs they are accused of
helping to smuggle, accord-
ing to investigating judge
Lim Makaroan.
Makaroan said that Nige-
rians Michael Sunshine, 31,
and Emmanuel Thankgod,
33, along with Cambodian
Meng Sinoun, 30, and Filipina
Macoy Mavill Villamore, 42,
were accused of colluding
to smuggle more than 2.5
kilograms of cocaine into the
country from Brazil.
Anti-Drug Police Colonel
Soeung Nol said that Villamo-
re was arrested at the airport
with the drugs on February 12,
while the others were arrested
the next day in a police sting.
Peng Heng, a lawyer for
Sunshine, Thankgod and
Sinoun, maintained their
innocence, saying they didnt
recognise the package of
drugs. Villamore, who is wi-
thout representation, declined
to comment yesterday. BUTH
REAKSMEY KONGKEA
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
KR forced minorities to wed
Stuart White

A
S A part of their bru-
tal experiment to
create a totally ho-
mogenous Cambo-
dian society, the Khmer Rouge
targeted ethnic minorities for
sexual violence and forced
intermarriage, at least partly
in an effort to breed them out
of existence, a new report re-
leased yesterday maintains.
Sexual violence under the
Khmer Rouge has been well
documented, and the issue
of forced marriage is due to
receive attention in upcom-
ing Case 002/02 at the Khmer
Rouge tribunal. But Rochelle
Braaf, the author of Sexual Vi-
olence Against Ethnic Minori-
ties During the Khmer Rouge
Regime, said yesterday that
research focusing specically
on minorities was lacking.
Her ndings, the product of
interviews with 105 ethnic mi-
nority survivors of the period,
show that while the abuses
suffered by minorities bore
many similarities to those in-
icted on the general popula-
tion, there were also impor-
tant distinctions.
Some minority women were
singled out for rape while
ethnic Khmers werent, mul-
tiple respondents, including
a Kampuchea Krom woman,
said. And when minorities
were targeted for purges, their
women were typically singled
out for rape rst, according
to respondents.
These young women were
Kampuchea Krom, a differ-
ent Khmer Krom respondent
said. There were about 400-
500 women who lived with
me. All of them were taken out
to be killed within three days. I
saw many women were taken
from my working unit some-
where and then they were all
raped before being killed.
While forced marriage be-
tween the rural poor and
the so-called new people
those perceived to come from
the urban bourgeoisie have
been documented, the prac-
tice took on a tinge of ethnic
cleansing when it came to the
forced intermarriage of groups
like the Cham, who practise
Islam, with ethnic Khmers.
It would certainly appear
that they were very keen to
expunge anyone practising
religion, Braaf said yesterday.
Certainly, from the docu-
ments we read and conversa-
tions we had with people in
the communities, it seems
they wanted to breed out
those communities.
Testimony from some of
Braafs interviewees seems to
bear this conclusion out. Dur-
ing that period, they forced us
not to marry with Cham, when
we are Cham, one respondent
is quoted as saying.
According to the woman,
cadres told her she need[ed]
to have a Khmer husband,
and that under Democratic
Kampuchea all people are
Khmer.
Court prosecutor Nicholas
Koumjian, who attended the
launch of the report, declined
to comment on how the pros-
ecution would approach the
charge of forced marriage in
Case 002/02, but agreed with
Braafs assertion that the
practice could, theoretically
speaking, constitute genocide
another charge slated to be
heard in the upcoming case.
If youre preventing births
[among an ethnic group], then,
yes, thats a form of genocide,
he said. And one way of pre-
venting births is impregnating
women [by men] from outside
the ethnic group.
One of the many forced weddings that took place under the Khmer Rouge. DC-CAM
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of unease into many lives
and, at times, descended
into violence.
In February, a 30-year-old
Vietnamese Cambodian was
beaten to death by a mob
in Phnom Penhs Meanchey
district after a confrontation
erupted between a group of
ethnic Vietnamese and by-
standers at the scene of a traf-
c accident.
The incident came little
more than a month after an-
gry crowds at the height of
a garment strike looted and
trashed several shops owned
by ethnic Vietnamese.
As tensions have become
more overt, the temple has
proven a safe zone for its peo-
ple, even amid suggestions
it is under the direct control
of Vietnamese authorities.
The last incident of targeted
violence at the temple was
minor and took place back in
1995. Even then, only a rock
was thrown.
But according to academic
Thien-Huong Ninh, a profes-
sor of religion at Williams Col-
lege in the US, the temple has
constantly been on the edge
of dissolution because of anti-
Vietnamese Khmer national-
ism in Cambodia.
The Caodai Vietnamese
are much more vulnerable
than other non-Caodai Viet-
namese to anti-Vietnamese
rhetoric in Cambodia, she
wrote in an email.
Caodaists have been forced
to practise their faith under-
ground or drastically alter
their religious rituals.
Despite this, the temple
itself has assumed a peace-
ful place in Cambodian so-
ciety, partly due to it serving
a peaceful mediating role
between the two countries,
Ninh documents in an article
God Needs a Passport.
The temple has become a
meeting ground for Cambo-
dian and Vietnamese politi-
cians, who visit regularly, not
only to express friendship
and nancial support, but
also to share news and dis-
cuss political matters.
In turn, the temples Man-
agement Committee is also
responsible for informing the
two governments on issues
pertaining to religious life and
to the position of Vietnamese
in Cambodia, she added.
The temples importance to
its congregation has only in-
creased since last Julys elec-
tion, according to Ang Chan-
rith, director of the Minority
Rights Organization [MIRO].
Considering the violence
that has occurred here in the
past with anti-Vietnamese
rhetoric, places in Cambodia
where safety can be found
have certainly grown in im-
portance, he said.
Combined forces
When the Post visited the
temple, a group of men and
women clad in white robes
knelt before their represen-
tation of God an image of
an electric blue eye, hanging
above an altar festooned with
technicolour banners.
Vietnamese chanting swal-
lowed up the sounds of the
city as a gong reverberated
throughout the small garden
where an empty crypt sleeps
alongside a mash-up of reli-
gious iconography, starring
Jesus Christ and Chinese revo-
lutionary Sun Yat-Sen.
This collection of revered
historical gures among
them the author Hugo is be-
lieved to have been selected by
spirits communicating to Cao-
dai priests during seances.
Caodai, which means high
abode or rooess tower,
originated in the 1920s in the
south of Vietnam, a country
where more than a million
people currently practise
the religion.
According to Caodai lore, in
1920, the Venerable Cao Dai
instructed Ngo Minh Chiu,
a Vietnamese civil servant
working for the French colo-
nial administration, to create
a doctrine fusing elements of
Taoism, Confucianism, Chris-
tianity and Buddhism in the
name of world peace.
Some of the traditions asso-
ciated with Caodaism are veg-
etarianism, gender equality
and the belief that all deserve
a proper burial regardless of
religious background.
The epicentre of Caodaism,
also known as the Caodai Holy
See, is about 60 miles north-
west of Ho Chi Minh City in
Vietnams Tay Ninh province.
While Cambodias Caodaists
number only about 2,000, the
temple in Phnom Penh, which
was founded in 1927, holds an
impressive claim to fame. It
was once the resting place of
Pham Cong Tac, also known
to followers as the Defender
of the Faith, who sought asy-
lum in Cambodia in 1959 after
South Vietnamese president
Ngo Dinh Diem took power.
According to temple author-
ities, his remains were repatri-
ated to Tay Ninh in 2006.
Open to all
Although the religions roots
are in Vietnam, its worship-
pers say that the temple is
open to everyone.
We welcome all because we
want peace and happiness for
all, said 56-year-old Seng Bun
Hong, adding that Caodaists
believe that once an individ-
ual nds internal tranquillity,
a more harmonious world be-
comes viable.
It would be against our faith
to discriminate against any in-
dividual, religion or even a po-
litical party, adds Tran Minh,
who has been living on the
temple grounds along with 16
others for the past two years.
Some, however, have sug-
gested Vietnamese authori-
ties control the temple, which,
if true, could pose a threat to
groups persecuted in Vietnam
that take refuge there.
According to our research,
the Caodai temple is strictly
controlled by the Vietnam-
ese government through the
Vietnamese Associations in
Cambodia, despite it being
located in Cambodia, said
MIROs Chanrith.
Temple director Vo Quang
Minh said he follows direc-
tions from the Holy See,
which is controlled by the
Vietnamese government.
The Overseas Vietnamese
Association declined requests
for an interview, while Nguy-
en Yaing Min, the associate
director of the Cambodia-
Vietnam Federation in Kam-
pong Chhnang, said that his
association followed only
the rules and directions of
the Cambodian authorities.
Either way, the ethnic Viet-
namese community at the
temple say they have nurtured
a place of peace, tucked away
from any of the troubles their
people may face.
We live here peacefully,
and we welcome all. We just
want peace for the Khmer and
Vietnamese. That is what Cao-
daists hold the most close,
Minh said.
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Carpenters crime gets
spanner in the works
CARPENTER by day, drug
dealer by night. A clearly
overworked 25-year-old Viet-
namese national was arrest-
ed on Sunday after getting
caught delivering drugs in
Chamkarmon district, police
said. He was waiting for cus-
tomers when patrolling police
officers spotted him. He ran
but evidently didnt have a
third job as an athlete as he
was easily caught. The cops
seized two packs of yama
from him and he confessed to
being a pusher. NOKORWAT
Carpenters caught up
in mystery shooting
THERE was no shortage of
crime involving carpenters in
Chamkarmon district on Sat-
urday. In another case, two
furniture makers were shot
during what might have been
a botched robbery or a
revenge attack. According to
police, they were riding home
from a restaurant when they
were pursued by four men on
bikes. When they didnt stop,
they shot them in the legs.
Some friends heard the gun-
fire and chased the suspects
away. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Big bully picks on the
wrong kid in Sambou
AN 18-YEAR-OLD village bul-
ly was arrested on Sunday
after he beat up a kid in Kra-
ties Sambou district. The
7-year-old was waiting for his
aunt when the teenager
approached and asked if the
boy could procure a mobile
phone for him. The kid said
no, but the bully started to
coerce him, and when the kid
resisted, the spineless older
boy pummelled him into
unconsciousness. He would
later get his revenge, howev-
er, as the lout was arrested.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
The smile of a trickster
can be very deceiving
A FRIENDLY fraudster was
all smiles when he asked to
borrow his buddys bike on
Sunday. But after the
26-year-old trickster per-
suaded his friend to lend him
the bike for a trip into the
province, he made a beeline
for the pawn shop and short-
ly after a local casino had
burned a moto-shaped hole
in his pocket. Police arrested
the suspect after he tried to
evade his friend when he
came hunting for the bike.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Dodgy deal goes awry
for gambling student
DOWN on his luck, a 23-year-
old Russey Keo district man
turned on his friend yester-
day. The student, having
thrown all of his money away
on cards, took matters into
his own hands, borrowing a
bike from his 19-year-old
classmate. The suspect
demanded $800 in return for
the bike. But instead of a fist-
ful of cash, the suspect was
met by the long arm of the
law after the victim called in
the police. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
A member of the Caodai temple opens a rotunda where an image of Jesus hangs. SCOTT HOWES
A framed image of the Divine Eye hangs on a wall at a Caodai temple in Phnom Penh as devotees of the
religion pray last month. SCOTT HOWES
Temple offers sanctuary from storm
Chan Muyhong
T
HE number of Thai
visitors crossing the
border to place bets
at Cambodian ca-
sinos has fallen since that
countrys military staged a
coup late last month.
Kim Ledaro, managing di-
rector of Crown Resorts Co,
which operates three Crown-
branded casino resorts in
Bantey Meanchey provinces
Poipet town, said there had
been a 40 per cent decline in
visitors since May 22, when
the Thai military announced
that it was taking over the run-
ning of the country. The coup
followed six months of politi-
cal turmoil.
On average, we receive
more than 200 [Thai] visitors
per day, but now the number
has dropped to only a little
over 100, Ledaro said.
Maybe it is because they
are concerned for their securi-
ty, which causes them to want
to stay at home.
Almost 99 per cent of Crown
Resort Cos patrons are Thai,
according to Ledaro.
Statistics from the Poipet In-
ternational Checkpoint show
the number of people passing
through the border crossing per
day had declined from an aver-
age of about 1,500 prior to the
coup to about 700 yesterday.
The chief of the Poipet
checkpoint, Ang Vannak, said
that he was wary of the de-
cline and its effect on border-
town businesses.
Business activity has
slowed since fewer tourists
and casino visitors have been
travelling. They usually come
with money to spend in our
country, so when they do not
come, it makes business hard-
er for people here, he said.
A sustained lull in the num-
ber of Thai gamblers has al-
ready resulted in one casino
operator folding its business
in the border town of Pailin.
In January, Entertainment
Gaming Asia, a subsidiary of
Macau gaming giant Melco
Group, announced that it
was walking away from its
Pailin casino operation, which
opened in May 2012. The rm
wrote off its initial $2.5 million
investment in the venture,
citing a failure to lure gamers
from across the border.
Ros Phirun, spokesman for
the Ministry of Economy and
Finances casino division,
said that declining Thai visi-
tor numbers at border casinos
would not have a lasting im-
pact on Cambodias economy.
Yes, casinos at the border
depend on Thai gamblers for
income; if the number of Thai
gamblers decreases, it auto-
matically means less income
to Cambodia, he said, add-
ing that Cambodian casinos
generate about $25 million in
domestic revenue annually.
[But] income from the
casino industry is relatively
small compared to income
from other industries, which
make the impact on the whole
economy small.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Business
Insurance
law reform
under way
Hor Kimsay
THE Council of Ministers last
week approved a raft of chang-
es to the countrys insurance
laws, a move that industry
insiders hope will better reflect
the sectors current state.
The draft law, which was pre-
pared by the Ministry of Econ-
omy and Finance, has an addi-
tional 14 chapters and 114
articles aimed at regulating
general, life and micro insur-
ance products.
Youk Chamroeunrith, gen-
eral manager of Forte Insur-
ance, said the reforms were
overdue and that the original
insurance laws, which were
drafted more than a decade
ago, were no longer reflective
of the industry.
Its time to revise our laws to
answer the markets change,
he said. It will help to increase
consumer confidence.
Cambodias insurance indus-
try began in 1990 with one gen-
eral insurance provider, state-
backed Cambodian National
Insurance Company. Today,
there are 11 insurers offering
insurance products, which are
limited by coverage ceilings of
$5,000 and are targeted at those
in rural areas.
In Meatra, director-general of
Cambodian Life, said the
revised law would assist in reg-
ulating the industrys growth.
The collaboration between
regulators, operators and con-
sumers is needed to make the
industry grow smoothly,
Meatra said.
People pass a casino in the border town of Poipet. Casinos have seen a downturn in Thai patrons since the coup last month. HIN PISEI
Thai gamblers drop after coup
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
AUSTRALIAN dwelling prices
fell by the most in almost ve
and a half years as spend-
ing cuts and tax increases in
last months federal budget
weighed on homebuyers.
Average home prices in the
nations eight biggest cities fell
1.9 per cent in May, the biggest
monthly drop since December
2008, according to the RP Da-
ta-Rismark Home Value index.
All major cities except Darwin
and Canberra saw declines,
with Melbourne seeing the
biggest drop of 3.6 per cent.
With affordability becom-
ing more challenging and rent-
al yields substantially com-
pressed across Australias two
largest cities, we wouldnt be
surprised if the growth trend
moderated further over the
year, Tim Lawless, research
director at RP Data, said.
Last months decline in
home prices was the rst drop
in a year. It came as consumer
condence fell to its lowest lev-
el since August 2011 after the
governments budget agged
spending cuts and a new tax
on high-income earners.
Weakness in sentiment
has owed through to weaker
housing market sentiment,
said David Cannington at Aus-
tralia & New Zealand Banking
Group Ltd. Its softened clear-
ance rates and taken some of
the heat out of the market.
The top 25 per cent of the
market had the biggest fall in
the three months. BLOOMBERG
Aussie home prices fall
by the most since 2008
Japanese car sales a relief
Getting a decent wage for Thai rice farmers
JAPAN automobile sales fell in
May by less than the previous
month, suggesting concerns a
tax rise would hurt consumer
spending were overblown.
Vehicle deliveries last month
slipped 1.2 per cent to 363,370,
the Japan Automobile Dealers
Association and Japan Mini
Vehicle Association said. The
decline followed a 5.5 per cent
drop in April, the month after
Japan raised its sales tax for the
first time since 1997.
Carmakers led by Toyota
Motor Corp entered this fiscal
year bracing for a year-long
slump in the third-biggest car-
buying nation, with the indus-
trys trade group forecasting a
record 16 per cent sales plunge.
The narrower declines in the
first two months of the fiscal
year are a positive sign for
Prime Minister Shinzo Abes
efforts to rein in the worlds big-
gest debt burden without
harming economic growth.
Peoples expectation for
future income is not as bad as
in 1997, Masahiko Hashimoto,
an economist at Daiwa Insti-
tute of Research Ltd, said. This
kind of sentiment would have
an impact on their consump-
tion behaviour.
Capital spending is adding to
optimism that Asias second-
largest economy will weather
the first sales levy increase in
17 years. Expenditures climbed
7.4 per cent in the first quarter
from a year earlier.
Toyota, the nations largest
listed company, last month
said it planned 500 billion
($4.9 billion) in domestic
spending for the fiscal year
ending in March, a 4.6 per cent
increase from a year earlier.
Fumihiko Ike, chairman of
the Japan Automobile Manu-
facturers Association and Hon-
da Motor Co, told reporters last
month that the effect of Japans
consumption tax would be less
drastic than in 1997, when the
levy was last raised and helped
spur 21 consecutive months of
declining domestic car sales.
Japans automotive industry
is being buoyed by demand for
minicars, with sales climbing
from a year earlier for 11 con-
secutive months.
Things are not really as bad
as people recently expected,
Koji Endo, a Tokyo-based ana-
lyst, said. Its very reasonable
to expect a relatively soft mar-
ket during the first six months
after the tax rise. BLOOMBERG
Sriwipa Siripunyawit
Analysis
AFTER six months of political drama
and negative economic reports, the
recent bulletin about rice farmers being
paid for their pledged rice was a rare bit
of good news. Smiles from poor rice
farmers gave many Thais a momentary
respite from a torrent of woe.
The National Council for Peace and
Order (NCPO) won admiration for its
decision to make long-overdue pay-
ments to farmers. Within a week, some
40 billion baht ($1.2 billion) was paid
to nearly 400,000 farmers. NCPO
promised to pay for all pledged rice by
next month.
The Yingluck Shinawatra government
owed 92.4 billion baht ($2.8 billion) to
more than 850,000 farmers from its
infamous rice-pledging scheme, which
was heavily criticised for severe mis-
management and mounting corrup-
tion allegations as well as massive
loss of an estimated 500 billion baht.
But whats next?
Farm economists said one option is
to end subsidies and simply let the mar-
ket work. Below is their advice on how
to help rice farmers.
Nipon Poapongsakorn, a rice econo-
mist at the Thailand Development
Research Institute, and Somporn Isvi-
lanonda, an economist at the Knowledge
Network Institute, agreed the next gov-
ernment should not intervene in the
market except for limited subsidies to
poor farmers. So who are poor farmers?
Somporn said the government should
subsidise only those farmers owning
less than 10 rai (1.6 hectares) of land,
while Nipon suggests farmers with less
than 10 tonnes of rice production per
household should be subsidised.
Nipon said the subsidy, if needed,
should be in the form of direct payment
to farmers without any price interven-
tion. The government could set up a
reasonable subsidy per rai to be paid
directly to poor farmers.
This subsidy could be considered a
minimum wage for poor farmers. It can
be calculated based on the actual
number of rai the farmers own times the
subsidised amount per rai. This method
is free from market intervention as it
doesnt involve pricing, Nipon said.
Somporn also proposed implementa-
tion of option pricing or a price insur-
ance program.
Thailands rice production cost is
higher than that of its neighbouring
countries. The Thai Chamber of Com-
merce recorded Thailands rice produc-
tion cost at an average of 9,763 baht per
tonne, while Myanmars stands at 7,121
baht and Vietnam 4,070 baht. Higher
cost is one of the key factors hindering
Thailand from competing with other
countries efficiently.
Farmers should consider reducing the
use of chemical substances, pesticides
and fertilisers to a minimum as they
take up 15-20 per cent of total costs, said
Somporn. Farmers would also save
more if they manage their own rice
farms without hiring anyone.
Organic farming is the ideal option,
as total cost per rai is typically about
4,000 to 5,000 baht lower per rai than
chemical farming, he said.
Over the medium to long term,
increasing yield per rai is a smart choice
for farmers, said Somporn.
According to both economists, Thai-
land should focus on quality. We no
longer have to be the worlds No. 1 rice
exporter by volume, but we need to be
number one in quality, Nipon said.
If we want to make good money then
we need to sell good rice. If we want to
have good rice then we need to have
good seeds. And we will only achieve
these goals through research and stud-
ies. BANGKOKPOST
Indonesian deficit surprises
I
NDONESIA unexpectedly
posted a huge trade de-
cit in April as a controver-
sial ban on mineral ore
exports weighed on Southeast
Asias biggest economy, ofcial
data showed yesterday.
A jump in imports in the
country ahead of the Rama-
dan holy month, when people
spend more on festivities, also
contributed to the decit of
$1.96 billion.
It was the biggest short-
fall since July last year and
compared to a $673.2 million
surplus in March, the Central
Statistics Agency said. Econo-
mists had expected a surplus
of more than $200 million.
Exports fell due to the min-
eral policy, which caused min-
eral ore shipments to reach
nearly zero, said agency chief
Suryamin, who like many In-
donesians goes by one name.
He added that lower palm
oil prices had also hit Indone-
sia, the worlds top producer
of the commodity, and con-
tributed to the disappointing
trade gures.
Indonesia imposed a ban on
exports of some unprocessed
mineral ores including
bauxite, nickel and copper
on January 12, as well as high-
er taxes on some commodities
that can still be shipped.
The move is one of a series
of industrial policies pushed
by nationalist politicians who
argue foreign rms reap an
inordinate share of the prots
from exploiting resources and
business opportunities in the
fast-growing economy.
The nearly $2 billion decit
practically wipes out the sur-
pluses in the past two months,
Bank Central Asia economist
David Sumual said, describing
it as very worrying.
The trade gures will add to
worries about the current ac-
count decit, a major concern
of investors last summer when
they pulled funds out of Indo-
nesia, prompting heavy falls
on the stock market and in the
value of the rupiah.
On a more positive note in-
ation, which surged last year
after a hike in fuel prices, was
steady in May at 7.32 per cent
on-year, the data showed. AFP
Pigs out
Choccie bars
cleared after
pork scare
F
URTHER tests on
Cadbury chocolate bars
found no traces of pig
DNA, a Malaysian minister
said yesterday, after earlier
positive results of the halal-
certied confectioneries
sparked a scare in several
Muslim countries.
Cadbury pulled its Dairy
Milk hazelnut and Dairy Milk
roast almond products from
shelves in Muslim-majority
Malaysia last week after a
health ministry routine test
found the chocolate con-
tained traces of pork.
Pork is strictly banned in
Islam, and the test results
caused Malaysian Muslim
consumer groups to call for
a boycott of Cadbury, and
Muslim countries Indonesia
and Saudi Arabia to start to
test the products too.
But Malaysias Islamic
affairs minister, Jamil Khir
Baharom, said in a state-
ment yesterday that 11
chocolate bar samples from
Cadburys factory tested
negative for pork DNA in
tests by Islamic authorities.
However, the halal certi-
cation for the two types of
bars will remain suspended
until further tests and in-
vestigations can be done, he
added. AFP
Origin joins
PetroChina
gas project
ORIGIN Energy Ltd has agreed
to buy Karoon Gas Australia
Ltds stake in a ConocoPhillips
natural gas project for about
$800 million, giving the sellers
shares the biggest gain in more
than five years.
ConocoPhillips, the third-
largest US oil company, is oper-
ator with 40 per cent, while
PetroChina Co holds the bal-
ance of the project in the Browse
Basin off Western Australia.
Origin, Australias largest
energy retailer, is already Cono-
coPhillipss partner in the Aus-
tralia Pacific liquefied natural
gas venture in Queensland
state, one of seven export
developments going ahead in
the country to tap Asian
demand. Origin, whose stock
fell 3.6 per cent, also plans to
sell about $1 billion in shares
to refinance the acquisition.
Having strong venture part-
ners like Conoco, PetroChina
and now Origin give this project
a very good chance at being
developed, Evan Lucas, a mar-
ket strategist at IG Ltd said yes-
terday by phone from Singa-
pore. BLOOMBERG
A worker stands in front of a detoxication tank at a mine in Pongkor, West Java, Indonesia. BLOOMBERG

Tech wrap-up
Android, Windows meet
for 5-in-1 Asus hybrid
LEADING Taiwanese tech firm
Asus yesterday unveiled a
hybrid device that combines a
laptop, tablet and mobile
phone in what it hailed as a
world first. In a further
attempt by the company to
diversify into the mobile
market, the device has five
modes as a laptop and
detachable tablet running both
Android and Windows
operating systems, and as an
Android phone. The five-inch
phone docks into the tablet
and promises speeds up to
four times faster than 3G. As a
laptop, one hardware button
switches between the two
operating systems. AFP
Latest Samsung phone

drops Google OS for own
SAMSUNG announced
yesterday the launch of a new
smartphone based on its own
operating system, in a step
towards independence from
the Google Android platform
that dominates its popular
handsets. The Samsung Z,
which has been specially
developed to run on the Tizen
platform, will go on sale in
Russia in the third quarter of
this year before reaching
other markets, Samsung said
in a statement. The vast
majority of Samsungs
devices, including its flagship
Galaxy S smartphones, use
the Android operating system.
Its first homegrown operating
system named Bada and
launched in 2009 largely
flopped on a lukewarm
response from app
developers. AFP
Markets
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Other regions will fare less
well, with the forecast reect-
ing a slight downgrade from
one for a $18.7 billion prot
issued in March in light of
slowing trade and a slide in
business condence tied to
concerns over China, IATA
said. The level of protabil-
ity is on an upward path and
thats good, but its still very
thin, Tyler said.
Setbacks like an economic
reversal, natural disaster,
surge in fuel costs or outbreak
of an epidemic could all erase
prot, and while the industry
is structurally stronger, mar-
gins still dont cover the 7-8 per
cent cost of capital, he said.
Gulf carriers such as Dubai-
based Emirates and Qatar Air-
ways Ltd, which is helping to
host the IATA meeting, repre-
sent signicant competition
for more established airlines,
though those companies can
and will respond, he said.
Tyler said that while the in-
dustry is particularly exposed
to China both as a burgeoning
travel market and driver for
the global economy, his time
leading Cathay Pacic Airways
Ltd in Hong Kong gives him
condence in the countrys
economic resilience.
I dont think we need to be
too concerned about a hard
landing, he said. I believe the
government will manage its
way through the current eco-
nomic issues. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
WEARABLES. Cheaper stream-
ing subscriptions. Remotely
controlled home electronics.
These are the changes con-
sumers are likely to see as Ap-
ple Inc buys Beats Electronics
for $3 billion, giving the worlds
most valuable company a hip,
upscale line of music products
and a nascent streaming ser-
vice to rejuvenate its iTunes
business and sell existing cus-
tomers even more products
and services.
The key is Apples 800 mil-
lion registered iTunes users.
With credit cards on le at the
company, they are always just
a click away from a purchase,
whether its a beatbox portable
speaker or a new generation of
linked products for the home.
That may have been part of
what Apple executive Eddy
Cue was referring to last week
when he said in an interview
that Weve got the best prod-
uct pipeline that Ive seen in
my 25 years at Apple.
The deal has set off specula-
tion about how Beats products
and services will be integrated
and where Apple itself is head-
ed. Heres what consumers
might expect:
Wearables
Apple probably will incorpo-
rate Beats Music into software
that links to non-Apple devic-
es, such as wristbands, head-
bands and wireless speakers,
analysts say.
Selling new devices with
built-in access to iTunes Music
and the Beats Music subscrip-
tion service would give Apple
a leg up on competitors, said
James McQuivey, an analyst at
Forrester Research.
That could pressure Sam-
sung Electronics Co to follow
suit and roil companies like
Sonos Inc, the leader in the
$10 billion global wireless au-
dio speaker market. Owners
of speaker systems like those
made by Sonos are 2.5 times
more likely to pay for a digital
music subscription.
Apple plans to introduce a
health-tracking app at its de-
velopers conference this week,
the New York Times reported.
The product will initially work
with third-party devices. Apple
is expected to release a smart-
watch this year.
Internet of things
Consumer electronics com-
panies regularly create mo-
bile applications that control
products remotely, whether
its a pay-TV service or home
security system. Apple will
probably announce as early
as next week a drive to use
its mobile devices as remotes
for everything from wireless-
equipped light bulbs to smart
thermostats and speakers.
Apples iPads and iPhones
could become the remote
control for many consumer
products. Its AppleTV device
could output photos to TV
screens, and Beats speakers
could handle the sound an
often overlooked category in
digital homes.
Lower streaming prices
Apple, with about $151 bil-
lion in cash, could market the
Beats Music service at a loss
and pressure Spotify Ltd and
Pandora Media Inc, the lead-
ing music streaming and in-
ternet radio companies. Both
offer paid subscriptions and
free ad-supported services,
with Spotify at $4.99 to $9.99
a month and Pandora at $4.99.
Beats Music is $9.99.
Apple knows how to com-
pete in low-margin businesses
like streaming, which has yet
to demonstrate protability.
Early on, the company barely
broke even on music purchas-
es after subtracting infrastruc-
ture costs and other expenses
from its 30 per cent cut of sales.
It more than made up for any
loss by commanding premium
margins on its hardware.
The rst step is grabbing
more market share in a stream-
ing business expected to grow
to $5 billion by 2017. Beats
co-founder Jimmy Iovine said
the service has signed 250,000
subscribers since the debut in
February. Thats just a 5 per
cent conversion of the 5 mil-
lion downloads he said has
been made at Apples App
Store. BLOOMBERG
What Apples Beats buy might
mean for iTunes 800M users
People watch a plane take off from the Santos Dumont airport in Rio de Janeiro. BLOOMBERG
Air profits mask thin margins
Volatility gives Putin pause
VLADIMIR Putins territorial
ambitions are bumping up
against financial markets.
As the Russian president
plots his next move on Ukraine,
investors are giving his inner
circle pause for thought. Since
Putin annexed Crimea in March
in the teeth of international
outrage, Russian stocks have
become the most volatile since
2009. Swings in the ruble
against the euro are now the
most extreme on record while
expectations for fluctuations in
the currency against its emerg-
ing-market peers are at the
highest in two years.
Thats making investors more
reluctant to gamble on a coun-
try that is already close to a
recession and dependent on
natural resources to lead eco-
nomic growth. While Putin is
motivated more by the desire to
assert his nations power in the
world, invading eastern Ukraine
would have provoked harsher
international sanctions and
risked accelerating the flow of
money out of Russia.
Crisis-hit Ukraine won a vital
reprieve from Russia yesterday
when Moscow pushed back a
possible gas-shipment cut,
which would also impact parts
of Europe, until next week. But
tensions in the region remain
high. We got to the point
where the market speaks and
politicians are forced to listen
and adjust, Mansur Mamma-
dov, a money manager at Kaz-
imir Partners Ltd in Moscow,
which oversees $300 million in
emerging-market equities,
said. The volatility was like a
tsunami and it would be just
logical to assume that it made
the politicians realise the cost
of Russian expansion in
Ukraine was too much for the
slowing economy.
A gauge of price swings in
Russian stocks jumped to a
more than four-year high com-
pared to shares of developing
nations. Historical volatility for
Moscows benchmark Micex
index hit 29.7 per cent on May
30, nearly three times the level
of the MSCI Emerging Markets
Index and up from 12.7 per
cent at the end of February.
Moves in the ruble also
amplified after the US and the
EU imposed sanctions includ-
ing travel bans and asset freez-
es on Putin allies in Russia and
Ukraine. The currencys three-
month historical volatility rose
to 11.3 per cent from 7 per cent
at the end of 2013. That com-
pares with 4.4 per cent for the
euro as the gap between the
two gauges reached 6.92 per-
centage points on May 30, the
widest since the euro was intro-
duced in 1999.
With the economy reeling
and the threat of further sanc-
tions looming, Putin toned
down the rhetoric in the imme-
diate aftermath of billionaire
Petro Poroshenkos victory
in Ukraines May 25 presiden-
tial election.
Russia said it respects the
outcome and is ready to nego-
tiate with the new leader. A
pullback of troops from the
Ukrainian border continued,
with the US reporting that the
majority of forces had been
withdrawn as of Thursday.
Putin very clearly got the
signal that sanctions had sent,
Vadim Bit-Avragim, who helps
oversee about $4.1 billion at
Kapital Asset Management LLC
in Moscow, said. He realised
that its better not to aggravate
the rest of the world and turn
the country into a pariah and
lead it to isolation. This wont
benefit him at all.
Ilya Kravets, the New York-
based director of investment
research at Daniloff Capital
LLC, said: Eastern Ukraine
became an expensive idea and
it seems Russia doesnt want
it anymore.
There would be serious
sanctions if Russia were to
annex more territories from
Ukraine, and the market reac-
tion to that would be even more
severe. BLOOMBERG
ETIHAD NEARS
ALITALIA DEAL
A
LITALIA is celebrating a
breakthrough in talks with
Etihad which could see the
UAE carrier buy up to 49 per
cent of the stricken Italian flag
carrier. The proposed deal to
save the airline, which would
otherwise risk bankruptcy, is
excellent for Alitalia, this
investment will ensure
financial stability, Alitalia
chief Gabriele Del Torchio
said, without revealing the
details of the latest proposals.
The go-ahead came in the
form of a letter to Alitalia,
which Etihad said specifies
the conditions and criteria for
the proposed capital
investment. AFP
AIRBUS MAY BUY
BOEINGS 747-8
B
OEING Co is talking to
Emirates, the worlds
biggest operator of the Airbus
A380 superjumbo, about a
potential sale of its rival
747-8, in what would be a
major boost for a program
thats struggled to gain
customers. Emirates need
for better fuel burn on its
largest jets has opened a
window of opportunity for
Boeing, which has begun
discussions about the 747-8.
While neither the A380 nor
the 747-8 are major
commercial hits, sales of the
Boeing model have been
particularly lackluster, forcing
the manufacturer to slash
production rates. BLOOMBERG
Putin is feeling blowback from his
annexation of Crimea. BLOOMBERG
Markets
11
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Business
International commodities
Energy
Agriculture
Markets
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FTSE Straits Times Index, May 30 FTSEBursaMalaysiaKLCI, May 30
Hang Seng Index, May 30 CSI 300 Index, May 30
Nikkei 225, May 30 Taiwan Taiex Index, May 30
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, May 30
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Laos Composite Index, May 30 Jakarta Composite Index, May 30
BSE Sensex 30 Index, May 30 Karachi 100 Index, May 30
S&P/ASX 200 Index, May 30 NZX 50 Index, May 30
5,518.46
29,874.98 24,584.11
4,900.19 1,286.06
6,710.40 2,002.00
5,178.44
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 103.2 0.49 0.48% 3:25:20
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 109.77 0.36 0.33% 3:24:59
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 4.57 0.03 0.62% 3:21:32
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 299.8 0.15 0.05% 17:59:30
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 289.67 0.85 0.29% 3:25:10
ICEGasoil USD/MT 896.5 2.75 0.31% 3:24:56
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 15.03 0.04 0.27% 3:08:30
CME Lumber USD/tbf 312.3 0.2 0.06% 17:00:00
For broker, wagers are a safe bet
Scott Eden
I
NSIDE a nondescript ofce
building in central London, a
roomful of men and women sit
at computer screens and talk
over Skype with people in faraway
places. Sharp-edged Cantonese lls
the air, and a at-screen TV emits
a continuous din. Its the chanting,
singing Midlands crowd at Birming-
ham, Englands Villa Park Stadium:
Liverpool at Aston Villa. The match
has just kicked off.
The name of the company Sam-
vo Entertainment Ltd offers little
insight into the business being con-
ducted here. Samvo is a brokerage
rm a bet brokerage rm with
clients who are among the richest
professional sport gambling syndi-
cates in the world. Four screens rise
from each desk, with lists of prices
updated in real time. And right
now 3pm on a Saturday Samvos
brokers are lling orders from the
rms clientele.
Founded a decade ago by a for-
mer Hong Kong investment banker
named Frank Chan, Samvo acts as
a middleman. It seeks the most-
favourable odds at bookmakers
around the world, places bets on
behalf of its customers and takes a
fee for its efforts. The average bet of
a Samvo client is perhaps 25,000
(about $42,000), according to Yan
Tang, 31, the rms general manager.
However, bets often exceed 1 mil-
lion, Chan says.
That kind of action requires a mar-
ket liquid enough to swallow it. For-
get Las Vegas. Forget Ladbrokes Plc
or William Hill Plc, the traditional
bookmakers that operate chains of
betting shops all over Britain. Forget
even the innovative British betting
exchanges, such as Betfair Group
Plc, that allow punters to post their
own odds on a sporting event and
bet among themselves.
What Samvo and a handful of
other Western bet brokerage hous-
es are truly selling is access to the
Asian markets, bookmakers oper-
ating out of places such as Ho Chi
Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, Phnom
Penh, Taipei and Vientiane. During
the past decade, the Asian markets
have become among the largest,
most liquid bookmaking opera-
tions the world has ever known.
Its not unusual for globally popular
teams in high-prole tournaments
to draw more than $1 billion in bets
for a single match, says Eaton, who,
as FIFAs former and Qatars current
top match-xing investigator, is in a
position to know.
To put that in perspective, the
Asian markets handle more money
in several days for soccer alone than
does the entire sport-book industry
of Nevada in a year for all the sports
in which it deals. Given the growth
rate of sports betting globally, when
the World Cup opens in Brazil on
June 12, the Asian markets will likely
see more action than at any previous
time in their history.
Chans business began with a ash
of recognition: The odds on English
Premier League soccer matches dif-
fered considerably from bookmaker
to bookmaker. Like the spread be-
tween the prices of a dual-listed
companys shares trading in London
and New York, the discrepancies rep-
resented market inefciencies and,
hence, arbitrage opportunities.
Weekend days during soccer sea-
son are by far Samvos busiest, and
the action always starts precisely
at 5 am London time thats when
the Asian markets lift the limits on
bet sizes. All is quiet, and then, as
if responding to some imaginary
opening bell, the instant messages
start piling up from clients across
the globe.
By midafternoon on this day, the
talk has turned to the match at Villa
Park. Earlier, several syndicate cli-
ents had instructed Samvo to bet on
the underdog home team, Aston Vil-
la. This time, however, the company
wont be passing these wagers along
to other bookmakers. Instead, Tang,
31, announces nonchalantly: Weve
decided to lay those bets because we
prefer Liverpool.
To put it in Tangs terms, the model
believes that the market has mis-
priced the value of a Liverpool vic-
tory. As Tang is explaining this, Liv-
erpool scores. A proprietary trader
named Sam Fleming, who has been
at his desk for the past 14 hours,
whoops in celebration. The goal
came off the foot of striker Daniel
Sturridge, and Fleming effuses, Hes
a genius! BLOOMBERG
Asian markets handle more money in several days for soccer than does the entire
sport-book industry of Nevada in a year for all the sports in which it deals. BLOOMBERG
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World
Kiev: ve
rebels dead
in ferocious
east battle
UKRAINIAN forces killed five
rebels yesterday while repel-
ling an attack by 500 pro-Rus-
sian gunmen on a federal bor-
der guard camp in the
strife-torn separatist east, Kiev
officials said.
The border guard service said
seven of its servicemen were
wounded when around 500
terrorists attacked one of its
units stationed outside the
industrial city of Lugansk.
The rebels are not only using
mortar, grenade launchers and
machine guns, but also firing
from residential apartments
and rooftops, using civilians as
human shields, the border
guard service said.
A spokesman for Ukraines
self-proclaimed anti-terrorist
operation said the border
guards eventually received air
cover from fighter bombers
that managed to destroy two
mortar crews of militants.
After the aircraft returned to
base, we received information
that fighting around the Lugan-
sk border unit resumed, Vla-
dyslav Seleznyov told Kievs
ICTV television.
Ukraines Defence Ministry
said on Friday that the seven-
week eastern insurgency had
claimed the lives of 49 Ukrain-
ian servicemen and 128 civil-
ians and separatists.
Russia has accused Ukraine
of breaching the 1949 Geneva
Conventions protecting civil-
ians in wartime by killing
peaceful citizens.
It piled further diplomatic
pressure on Kiev by announc-
ing that it would submit a draft
resolution to the UN Security
Council later yesterday
demanding an immediate end
to fighting and the creation of
a corridor to allow civilians to
escape the affected areas.
Ukraine has previously
rejected the need for such an
aid corridor out of fear Russia
might want to send in troops to
supervise the evacuation.
In the draft resolution will
be demands to immediately
create an aid corridor along
which peaceful citizens can
leave the regions where mili-
tary activity is happening if
they want, Lavrov said
The resolution calls for eve-
ry assistance to the activities of
the Red Cross and other inter-
national humanitarian organi-
sations in southeastern
Ukraine, Lavrov added.
He said that the draft resolu-
tion was deliberately depoliti-
cised and aimed at taking
measures to allow the immedi-
ate easing of the suffering of the
peaceful population.
We hope that the humani-
tarian direction of our initiative
will be correctly received by the
UN Security Council and the
resolution will be taken up and
acted upon immediately, Lav-
rov said. AFP
State of
happiness
A supporter gestures while clad
in body paint bearing the name of
newly formed Telangana states
rst Chief Minister K Chan-
drasekhar Rao during the states
Formation Day celebrations in
Secunderabad, the twin city of
Hyderabad, yesterday.
Celebrations erupted in southern
India to mark the June 2 creation
of the new state of Telangana,
the culmination of a campaign
stretching back nearly six
decades. AFP
US plans 30 per cent carbon cuts
T
HE US yesterday
proposed ordering
cuts of up to 30 per
cent in carbon emis-
sions from power plants in
President Barack Obamas
most ambitious action yet on
climate change.
The Environmental Protec-
tion Agency gave states the
leeway to choose their own
plans but said they must in-
clude enforceable restrictions
to curb emissions by a na-
tional average of 30 per cent
by 2030 from 2005 levels.
Power plants account for
some 40 per cent of US emis-
sions of carbon dioxide, the
most common greenhouse
gas contributing to climate
change. Cuts are politically
sensitive as coal, among the
dirtiest energy sources, re-
mains a major US industry.
The move comes amid
mounting signs of climate
change. A UN panel of scien-
tists warned in April that pol-
luters needed to act urgently
to avoid worst-case scenar-
ios, which could include in-
creased droughts, storms and
coastline destruction.
For the sake of our families
health and our kids future,
we have a moral obligation to
act on climate, said Gina Mc-
Carthy, the agencys admin-
istrator. The environmental
regulator said the cuts would
prevent up to 6,600 prema-
ture deaths and up to 150,000
asthma attacks in children.
Boosting the message that
the plan is good for public
health, Obama was scheduled
to speak later yesterday on a
conference call of the Ameri-
can Lung Association.
This is not just about dis-
appearing polar bears or
melting ice caps. This is about
protecting our health and our
homes. This is about pro-
tecting local economies and
jobs, McCarthy said.
Obama has turned to execu-
tive action on climate change
as he sees little prospect of ac-
tion in Congress. A proposal to
mandate greenhouse gas cuts
died in the Senate in 2010.
Obamas plan was swiftly
denounced by lawmakers of
the rival Republican Party,
which is friendly with the
energy industry. Republicans
accused Obama of raising
energy bills for low-income
families, although the ad-
ministration predicts that the
proposal would reduce costs
by increasing energy efcien-
cy and reducing demand.
Senator Mitch McConnell,
the Republican leader in the
Senate who represents the
coal state of Kentucky, said
that the plan amounted to a
unilateral dismantling of our
own economic supremacy
and the self-imposed destruc-
tion of one of our nations
main competitive advantages
in the global economy.
These new rules will cheer
the far-left patrons of Wash-
ington liberals, but there is
simply no question that our
competitors around the world
will eagerly replace whatever
industry we lose as a result of
these new rules, he said.
Representative Fred Upton,
chairman of the House Energy
and Commerce Committee,
noted the US economy shrank
for the rst time in three years
in the third quarter.
Why in the world is the
president pushing regulations
that will serve to increase util-
ity rates for consumers, send
manufacturing jobs overseas
and hamstring our economic
recovery? Upton said.
With states required to sub-
mit plans during the 2016
election season, Republican
governors may try to throw
legal challenges to the plan,
although the Supreme Court
has held up the Environmental
Protection Agencys authority
to regulate carbon dioxide.
The regulators proposal
would go into effect after a
public review period. States
would be required to submit
a plan to Washington by the
end of June 2016, although
they would have more time if
they work on programs with
other states. AFP
Heroin returns to regions Golden Triangle
POPPY cultivation has rapidly expand-
ed in the Myanmar and Laos parts of
the Golden Triangle, to feed new
demands for heroin, chiefly in China,
according to a report released yesterday.
After a decade of decline, Southeast
Asia is now once again a major opium
growing region, it claims.
The report said opium production has
spread into northern India for the first
time, and that chances of a drug free
ASEAN by next year are slim at best.
The Transnational Institute (TNI), a
Dutch-based NGO active in the region,
said in a new 115-page report that new
markets in China and India have cre-
ated fresh demand for heroin. But it
noted that cross-the-board attempts
to ban opium cultivation have driven
hundreds of thousands of families
deeper into poverty.
One conclusion of this relapse in the
Golden Triangle is that attempts by
China to replicate Thailands crop sub-
stitution programs have failed. Until
regional governments and the interna-
tional community properly address
poverty, conflict and rising demand for
heroin in China, opium bans and erad-
ication will continue to fail, said Tom
Kramer, lead author of the report.
He echoed his report, saying that
crop substitution in the region has so
far failed to support farmers forced or
attracted back to opium farming.
Alternative livelihood options need
to be firmly in place before communi-
ties can be expected to abandon illicit
cultivation, he said
If the findings of the TNI report are
confirmed in coming months, it will
mark a major setback for efforts to end
the decades-old opium growing and
heroin manufacture in areas next to
Thailand.
TNI recommended yesterday a com-
plete reform of the anti-narcotics poli-
cies by all regional governments, up to
and including the UN. Policies must be
more humane, with a focus on health,
development and human rights rather
than on repression and law enforce-
ment, the report said.
TNI has long been a leader in calling
for such reform, with a strong empha-
sis on elimination of the death penalty
for any type of drug trafficking.
According to the group, the Thai part
of the Golden Triangle is not involved
in the recent resurgence in poppy pro-
duction. Tiny plots used to grow opium
poppies in Thailand itself have stayed
at around 200 to 300 hectares, mostly
for local consumption and medical
use, opium cultivation . . . overall has
more than doubled from an estimated
24,000 hectares in 2006 to some 58,000
hectares in 2013, according to the TNI
figures.
In Thailand especially, anti-drug
measures in recent years have focused
mainly on the methamphetamine
trade, in an effort to interdict more of
the estimated one billion ya baa tablets
that flow from Burmese pill factories
into Thailand.
Almost unnoticed, the opium and
heroin revival in the rest of the Golden
Triangle, has spread east to India. That
was so unexpected that the chief agen-
cy involved, the UN Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) does not even
measure opium production in India.
TNI said that growing regions have
shifted in Myanmar and Laos because
local warlords, under central govern-
ment pressure, banned growing pop-
pies in traditional areas.
The main poppy growing areas in
Myanmar, says the report released
Monday, are in the southern Shan
state, close to the Thai border. Lao
production is centered in Phongsali
and Houaphan provinces, which bor-
der China and Vietnam respectively.
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be deported. The immi-
gration ofcials have been
harassing him on many oc-
casions where they wanted
him to voluntarily leave, he
claimed.
There was no doubt the
Australian governments
cruel and inhumane policy
has pushed him to do this. It
wasnt a choice for him.
Morrison said Seemanpillai
was given no indication that
he was being removed any-
where or that he hadnt been
found to be a refugee or for
that matter that he had.
Seemanpillai, who arrived
by boat in Australia in Janu-
ary 2013, was receiving com-
munity mental health support
and his refugee application
was still being processed,
Morrison added.
I can also advise that the
last case worker contact with
Mr Seemanpillai was on Fri-
day, May 30, and I am advised
there was no concern or indi-
cation of any suicidal inten-
tion . . . at that time, he said.
While most boatpeople
come to Australia via Indone-
sia, many have also attempted
the difcult trip from Sri Lan-
ka, where they claim persecu-
tion over the countrys Tamil
separatist conict. Australia
has sent back dozens of Sri
Lankan nationals who tried
to enter the country illegally.
Seemanpillais death came
as activists said seven Ira-
nian asylum seekers sewed
their lips shut on Sunday in a
mass hunger-strike at an im-
migration centre on Christ-
mas Island.
Activists said about 400 asy-
lum seekers were refusing food
as part of a protest against the
death of Iranian Reza Barati,
who was killed in a riot this
year at another Australian de-
tention centre on Manus Is-
land in Papua New Guinea.
Under Australias tough ref-
ugee policy, asylum seekers
who arrived by boat after July
2013 have been sent to deten-
tion centres on Manus Island
or Nauru in the Pacic.
According to the immigra-
tion department, more than
24,000 asylum seekers are liv-
ing in Australia on bridging
visas of the type Seemanpillai
was on. A further 2,450 asy-
lum seekers are being held on
Nauru and Manus Island and
another 823 are detained on
Christmas Island. AFP
Aus refugee in fear
sets self on re, dies
Four arrested in France after
Brussels shooters detention
F
RENCH police arrest-
ed four people sus-
pected of links with
jihadist networks
yesterday, three days after de-
taining a man for last weeks
deadly attack on a Jewish mu-
seum in Brussels.
Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve announced the
sweep on Europe1 radio but
did not specify if the arrests
in the Paris region and south-
ern France were linked to the
Brussels shooting suspect Me-
hdi Nemmouche.
There are those who recruit
jihadists, Cazeneuve said. As
we speak there have been ar-
rests in the Ile-de-France and
in the south of France.
The minister said he would
not elaborate further at this
stage but a police source said
three of detainees were sus-
pected of recruiting ghters.
Nemmouche, 29, who was
arrested by customs agents on
Friday in the southern French
city of Marseille, is believed
to have recorded a claim of
responsibility for the May 24
Brussels attack in a 40-second
video found in his posses-
sion along with a Kalashnikov
and a handgun. However Van
Leeuw added: We cant guar-
antee that it is his voice heard
on the recording.
Paris prosecutor Francois
Molins said the repeat of-
fender explains in the lm
that he had attached a GoPro
camera to his bag to record his
shooting rampage, but it had
not worked.
Instead Nemmouche later
lmed his weapons and
said he carried out the attack
against the Jews in Brussels,
Belgian prosecutor Frederic
van Leeuw said.
Nemmouche was being
grilled yesterday but has said
little during his detention.
Described as a lone wolf
by the Paris prosecutor,
Nemmouche became radi-
calised in prison and left for
Syria on December 31, 2012,
just three weeks after his re-
lease from jail. He is believed
to have fought there alongside
ghters from the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
Syrias most extremist group
and returned to Europe in
March this year.
Some 780 people are thought
to have left France to ght with
jihadists in Syria, according to
government estimates.
Cazeneuve yesterday evoked
the problem of inmates being
indoctrinated into radical Is-
lam in French prisons, saying:
We have to react to this.
As a start we can send prop-
erly trained imams who know
the true spirit of Islam and
its culture and who can go to
prisons and explain this in
prisons, he said.
A lone gunman entered the
Jewish museum in the heart
of Brussels last Saturday, re-
moved an automatic rie from
a bag and opened re through
a door before leaving.
An Israeli couple and a
Frenchwoman died on the
scene and a 24-year-old Bel-
gian man is in critical condi-
tion. AFP
A man takes pays his respects at the World Jewish Congress yesterday
after the killings at the Jewish museum in Brussels. AFP
World
14
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
CLASHES between Islamists
and Libyan troops loyal to a
rogue general pressing an of-
fensive against jihadists killed
10 people Monday in the res-
tive eastern city of Benghazi,
medics said.
The Islamists, including
Ansar al-Sharia militants, at-
tacked a base of elite special
forces who support renegade
general Khalifa Haftar, trig-
gering the ghting, said the
commander of a Benghazi
air base who has also sided
with him.
Ofcials at two hospitals
in the area said at least eight
soldiers and two civilians
were killed, and 15 people
wounded. Fearing the vio-
lence might spread, hospitals
called on citizens to donate
blood, while the education
ministry closed schools,
forcing the postponement of
scheduled nal exams.
Colonel Saad al-Werfelli
said Ansar al-Sharia mili-
tants backed by ghters
from two other Islamist
groups bombarded base 21
early on Monday, killing and
wounding soldiers who were
trapped inside.
The Libyan air force retali-
ated by launching strikes on
the assailants, the ofcer
added.
The air base and the elite
special forces unit in Beng-
hazi have thrown their sup-
port behind Haftar who last
month launched an offensive
against Islamists accused of
repeated violence in the city.
The latest bloodshed
comes a day after Haftars
forces launched fresh air
raids on Islamists in Beng-
hazi, including a meeting of
Ansar al-Sharia, said Gener-
al Saqr al-Jerushi who heads
air operations. AFP
Fresh clashes in Libyas
Benghazi kill 10 people
Al Jazeera trial: prosecution
witnesses contradict claims
THE case against three Al
Jazeera English journalists on
trial in Egypt was compromised
on Sunday after a group of key
prosecution witnesses contra-
dicted several of their own
major allegations previously
provided to the court in written
testimony.
Journalists Mohamed Fahmy,
Baher Mohamed and the Aus-
tralian Peter Greste have been
jailed in Cairo since last Decem-
ber on charges of endangering
national security, aiding terror-
ists, doctoring footage and
operating without licence.
The prosecutions case was
largely based on allegations
made in a report written by a
committee of technical experts
from Egypts state TV network.
But under cross-examination
in the trials 10th hearing on
Sunday, the committees three
representatives said they did
not know whether the journal-
ists work had endangered
national security, or if their
equipment was unlicensed
contradicting arguments they
had made in writing.
Defence lawyers argued this
showed clear discrepancies
between the committees oral
and written evidence. Khaled
Abou Bakr, representing Fah-
my, told the judge: They have
broken their oath and their evi-
dence is null and void.
Each of the three committee
members still maintained that
footage found with the journal-
ists had been edited in a biased
manner. But under cross-ex-
amination, they repeatedly
failed to name a single exam-
ple, saying that they had forgot-
ten the specific instances.
Shouting from the defend-
ants cage, Fahmy claimed the
trios contradictory testimony
showed they did not know what
had been written in their
report. The case was adjourned
until Thursday, when the lead
prosecutor will be allowed to
sum up his case.
The trial has sparked global
outcry. But inside Egypt where
Al Jazeera, and in particular its
Arabic channel, is seen as
biased towards the ousted
president Mohamed Morsi
many see the case as fair. There
are some signs, however, of a
limited shift in public opinion:
several public figures, includ-
ing the former government
minister Amr Moussa, have
signed letters of support for
Mohamed Fahmy.
In a separate case, a fourth Al
Jazeera journalist, Abdullah el-
Shamy, has been in prison
without charge since August
and on a hunger strike for over
100 days. THE GUARDIAN

Spains king steps down
in favour of son, Felipe
SPANISH King Juan Carlos
announced his abdication
yesterday in favour of his son
Prince Felipe, ending a 39-year
reign that guided Spain from
dictatorship to democracy but
was later battered by royal
scandals. The 76-year-old
monarch, crowned in
November 1975 after the
death of General Francisco
Franco, is stepping down
dogged by health woes and
with his popularity deeply
eroded by scandals swirling
around him and his family. AFP
Clashes in Sudan over
oil-rich land kills 41: tribe
AT LEAST 41 people have been
killed in clashes between rival
Sudanese clans over the
ownership of land being
explored for oil in West
Kordofan state, a tribal source
said. Another 13 people were
seriously wounded in the
fighting that raged through to
Sunday between the Zurug and
Awlad Amran clans of the
powerful Misseriya tribe, the
source said. A witness, who
declined to be named, said the
fighting broke out as each
group claimed ownership of a
plot of land where drilling for oil
is under way. Militias, rebel
splinter groups and armed
tribes operate in the region, but
fighting between tribes is
frequent in Sudan, and often
breaks out over grazing rights.
The Misseriya is a semi-
nomadic Arab tribe that raises
cattle. AFP
Indonesia-bound Thai
tanker believed hijacked
A THAI tanker is thought to
have been hijacked on its way
from Singapore to Indonesia,
the International Maritime
Bureau said Saturday, following
a number of pirate attacks in
Southeast Asian waters. The
diesel oil tanker MT Orapin 4,
with 14 crew aboard, lost
contact with its owner after
departing the city-state last
Tuesday, IMBs Kuala Lumpur-
based Piracy Reporting Centre
said. Its a possible hijacking,
the centres head Noel Choong
said, adding that pirates
recently had attacked a number
of vessels in the area, usually to
siphon off cargo. The centre
urged other vessels to keep a
look-out for the tanker. AFP
Aboriginal land nuclear
waste dump trial begins
THE earmarking of a remote
Australian outback area as a
nuclear waste dump was invalid
because officials failed to con-
tact all Aboriginal landowners
affected, a Melbourne court
heard yesterday. Muckaty
Station in the Northern Territory
was nominated in early 2007 as
a site to store radioactive waste
under a deal negotiated with
the Aboriginal Ngapa clan. At
the time, the Northern Land
Council, the indigenous
organisation that helped
negotiate the deal on behalf of
Aboriginal landholders, said the
millions received would benefit
generations. But opponents
have fought against the dump
for years, with the trial starting
yesterday alleging Muckatys
nomination was invalid due to a
failure of the government and
the land council to obtain the
consent of all Aboriginal
owners. AFP
New Palestinian unity government sworn in
A LONG-AWAITED Palestinian unity
government was sworn in before presi-
dent Mahmud Abbas yeserday after a
landmark reconciliation deal with the
Islamist Hamas that has infuriated
Israel.
Following a ceremony at the Muqataa
presidential compound in Ramallah,
Abbas hailed the end of a bitter and
sometimes bloody divide between his
Fatah movement and the rival Hamas,
which rules Gaza.
Hamas also applauded the new gov-
ernment as representing all Palestini-
ans, saying it was a turning point in
its formerly bitter relations with Fatah.
It is the first Palestinian unity govern-
ment to take office in seven years, and
the first fruits of a landmark reconcili-
ation deal signed in April.
Today, with the formation of a nation-
al consensus government, we announce
the end of a Palestinian division that has
greatly damaged our national case, said
Abbas. This black page in history has
been turned forever, he pledged in
remarks echoed by the outgoing Hamas
government in Gaza.
Hours earlier, a dispute over the fate
of the prisoners ministry raised fears
the government could be delayed, but
the issue was resolved after the parties
agreed the portfolio would be held by
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. He
will also head the Interior Ministry.
The new cabinet, which was pieced
together by Fatah and Hamas, counts
17 ministers, all of them political inde-
pendents. Technocratic in nature, the
new government will not have a politi-
cal mandate.
The government includes three wom-
en and five ministers who come from
Gaza. Over the weekend, Israel blocked
three of the Gazans from travelling to
Ramallah for the oath-taking.
Abbas has pledged that the new
administration will abide by the princi-
ples laid down by the Middle East peace
Quartet: recognise Israel, reject violence
and abide by all existing agreements.
Under terms of a deal inked on April
23, the Fatah-led Palestine Liberation
Organisation agreed to work with
Hamas to establish an interim govern-
ment of independents that would
organise long-delayed elections.
The surprise agreement sought to end
years of bitter and sometimes bloody
rivalry that had seen the establishment
of rival Palestinian administrations,
with the West Bank ruled by the Fatah-
dominated Palestinian Authority, and
Gaza under Hamas authority.
On Sunday, US Secretary of State John
Kerry telephoned Abbas to express
concern about Hamass role in any
such government, the State Depart-
ment said.
There was no immediate reaction
from Israel, which has made no secret
of its opposition to the unity agreement
with Hamas, whose charter calls for the
destruction of the Jewish state.
I call on all responsible elements
within the international community not
to hurry to recognise the Palestinian
government that Hamas is part of,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu said on Sunday.
Again yesterday, he hit out at Europe
for demonstrating ambiguity to the
idea of unity with Hamas, which is
blacklisted by the European Union and
Washington as a terror organisation.
Israels security cabinet met overnight
to discuss the new government, recon-
firming an April decision to halt nego-
tiations with any government backed
by Hamas, newspapers reported yester-
day. There was no comment from
Netanyahus office. AFP
Cops water cannon gang-rape protesters
Nishant Saxena
I
NDIAN police red wa-
ter cannon yesterday at a
group of mainly women
protesting against the
gang rape and lynching of
two girls in the countrys larg-
est state.
Several hundred protesters
were demanding an end to
violence against women at
the protest outside the ofce
of the chief minister of the
state of Uttar Pradesh, when
riot police tried to disperse
the crowd by hosing them,
footage broadcast on Indian
television showed.
The protests came amid
a growing uproar over last
weeks killings in Uttar
Pradesh, with the UN say-
ing violence against women
should be regarded as a mat-
ter of basic human rights.
There should be justice
for the families of the two
teenage girls and for all the
women and girls from lower
caste communities who are
targeted and raped in rural
India, said Lise Grande, the
UNs resident coordinator
for India.
Violence against women
is not a womens issue, its a
human rights issue, Grande
added in a statement.
India brought in tougher
rape laws last year after the
fatal gang rape of a student on
a bus in New Delhi but they
have failed to stem the tide of
sex attacks across the country.
There was widespread out-
rage when the initial protests
over the Delhi gang rape were
broken up with the use of
water cannon, but police re-
sorted to similar methods on
Monday in Uttar Pradeshs
state capital Lucknow.
Were not going to sleep,
well be here, they have to
stop this [violence against
women], one protester told
the NDTV network during
the demonstration in Luck-
now before the crowd was
drenched by police.
The father of one of the girls
who was gang raped and then
hanged in rural Uttar Pradesh
last week has accused local
police of refusing to help nd
those responsible because
they belonged to a low caste.
The two cousins, reported
in some media as aged 14 and
12, had apparently gone into
elds last Tuesday night to re-
lieve themselves because their
home, like most in the states
Badaun district, did not have
toilets. Police have arrested
ve people in connection with
the attacks on the girls and a
federal police investigation
has been ordered.
But rights activists and poli-
ticians have said the latest
case showed authorities in
Uttar Pradesh, which is run by
the socialist Samajwadi Party,
were not serious about tack-
ling sexual crimes.
Asked at a news confer-
ence last week about the in-
cidence of rapes in the state,
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav told a female
reporter: You havent been
harmed, have you? No, right?
Great. Thank you.
The head of Uttar Pradeshs
ruling party, Mulayam Singh Ya-
dav, who is the chief ministers
father, sparked uproar during
the recent election campaign
when he said rapists should not
receive the death penalty be-
cause boys will be boys.
The two Yadavs have been
widely criticised for failing to
visit the village of Katra Shaha-
datganj where the attacks took
place. Speaking on a visit to
Katra Shahadatganj yesterday,
a minister in Indias new fed-
eral government again hit out
at the state administration.
If you are not being able to
provide the right to life, then
what kind of government is
this? said Food Minister
Ram Vilas Paswan in com-
ments reported by the Press
Trust of India.
Security . . . is the basic right
of every citizen and every gov-
ernment has to provide that,
he added. AFP
BJP demonstrators argue with policewomen during a protest against
the recent gang rape and murder of two girls in Lucknow yesterday. AFP
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
World
How disaster inspired lifesaving invention
W
ITH soil sliding in
from the banks, leaf
litter collecting from
overhanging trees
and Japanese koi producing waste,
the pond outside the production
facility of Lifesaver Systems was
perfectly lthy.
Dipping into the water what ap-
peared to be an outsized plastic
water bottle, Michael Pritchard
scooped up some of the brownish
gunk, sealed the bottle with a screw-
able base and pushed its pump a
few times. When he opened the
teat at the top of the bottle, clear
water sprayed out, leaving behind
the pond detritus. That, he said
sipping the liquid from a glass, is
clean, sterile drinking water.
The 750 millilitre Lifesaver bottle
was the rst product in a range cre-
ated by Pritchard eight years ago
that uses ltration technology pre-
viously applied only in industrial
sectors.
With sales worth about $16 mil-
lion expected this year, the bottles,
handheld cans and tanks have
been used by hill walkers and Brit-
ish soldiers in Afghanistan as well
as communities in the developing
world blighted by natural disas-
ters that have disrupted the ow of
clean safe water.
After the 2004 Boxing Day tsu-
nami, Pritchard was frustrated by
images of people at risk when they
found themselves surrounded by
water but unable to drink it. Eight
months later the US was hit by Hur-
ricane Katrina. I thought this was a
rst-world country, they will have it
licked, he said. They were trucking
water in. I felt this drive to do some-
thing more and said: I am going to
nd a solution to this.
Water cleansing techniques had fo-
cused on chlorine tablets, which ran
the risk of people mistaking them
for medicine and eating them. There
were also traditional ceramic lters,
but these could not lter out viruses
such as polio which measured 25
billionths of a metre (or 25 nanome-
tres) in diameter, he said. Pritchard
described a technical brick wall
that had not been resolved because
water could not be forced through a
lter with such minute pores. How-
ever, industrial facilities had tech-
nology where water was forced, with
power, through membranes with 15-
nanometre widths.
You cant do it by hand because
you cant generate the pressure, so
I knew if I could get [compressed]
air to work, then air could generate
enough pressure needed to force the
water across, he said.
The outcome was the Lifesaver
bottle, which uses a handheld pump
mechanism to force water from the
outside to the inside of a narrow
coiled tube inside the device. The
tube parts have pores that are 15
nanometres wide, small enough to
lter out bacteria and viruses.
The bottle was launched at a de-
fence and security equipment show
in 2007 and 1,000 units were sold in
two days. On the back of the same
show, a $1.6 million contract to sup-
ply the bottles to British soldiers
in Afghanistan was won after the
technology was cleared by the Lon-
don School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. In the aid community
the original intended audience for
the system agencies werent get-
ting it, said Pritchard.
So an 18.5-litre jerry can was
launched using the same technol-
ogy, and was then taken to Pakistan
by Medecins sans Frontieres. Other
agencies balked at the unit price of
$150. A third product, a ve-litre
cube, was designed for women and
children to carry; it could be stacked
efciently on pallets for shipping. A
750-litre tank with multiple taps was
also created with the assistance of
the Malaysian government.
A third of Lifesaver Systems busi-
ness is directed towards the mili-
tary and the leisure sector (aimed
at campers and trekkers), with the
remainder catering to humanitarian
bodies, which get products at dis-
counts that still give the company
a prot. Pritchard said some within
the aid community were resisting
change. It is about what you are de-
livering. Am I delivering long-term,
sustainable, resilient technology that
works, that is lifting people out of
water poverty? They get it. And that is
why they are buying it, he said.
Military customers could save
money by not having to ship water
into battle areas, while families in
the developing world who might
have spent their medicine money
on bottled water now had more dis-
posable income through using the
devices, Pritchard said.
How it works
The smallest bacteria are about 200
nanometres in diameter while the
smallest viruses are 25 nanometres.
The holes in the membranes used
by Lifesaver are 15 nanometres wide,
blocking bacteria, viruses, cysts and
waterborne pathogens from getting
through. Dirty water can can be left in
the unit until it needs to be cleaned.
The cartridge in the bottle is re-
placed after through-put of 4,000 or
6,000 litres, while the jerry can lasts
for between 10,000 and 20,000 litres.
Towards the end of the life of the
unit, more pumps are needed. When
the pumps no longer work, the lters
have to be replaced. THE GUARDIAN
A man drinks water as he sits among debris in Ule Lhee, Indonesia, in January 2005,
three weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami swept the region and helped
inspire Lifesavers bottles. AFP
Job Opportunities
Crdit Mutuel Kampuchea (CMK), opened by Crdit Mutuel, the second
largest cooperative bank in France through the Centre International
du Crdit Mutuel (CICM), is the 1
st
nancial cooperative group in
Cambodia which belongs to its members that share common interests.
As part of its development, CMK is looking for enthusiastic, talented
and motivated staffs wishing to join a fast growing business, people
who are exible and who crave the intense satisfaction that comes
from being personally responsible for satisfying the customers.
Credit Agent & Debt Collector (1 Position, Phnom Penh)
Responsibilities: Support Branch Ofcer in Credit Activities
and Report to Credit Manager:
Collect the necessary information from borrowers in order to -
get the good loan analyzing
Assess and advise borrowers on loan request -
Manage and develop Credit Portfolio -
Minimize loan late repayment and bad debt loan -
Coordinate and attend credit activities meeting with Credit -
Committee
Participate in commercial development -
Requirements:
At least bachelor degree in eld of Finance and Banking or -
Relevant eld
Minimum one year experience with MFI or Bank -
Knowledge in Accounting/Finance -
Good English or French appreciated -
Computer knowledge in Microsoft Ofce -
High commercial and communication skills -
Honesty, Initiative, Rigor, Organizing, Autonomous -
Interpersonal skills -
Willingness to improve the community. -
IT & Monetic System Ofcer (1 Position, Phnom Penh)
Main responsibilities:
Support end users on core banking and IT related issues.
Test, Install and update core banking software.
Managing the project of Monetic System installation and
maintenance.
Support Monetic System related task.
Checking cards status and monitoring.
Train end users on core banking software and other IT
related software.
Perform database backup and recovery.
Develop internal applications and maintain CMK Website.
Create and maintain up-to-date documentation of all
computer systems.
Ensure the security, quality and condentiality of Information
Systems.
Performed other related tasks as required.
Qualications and Experience:
At l east Bachelor Degree of Information Technology or other
related elds is required.
Experience with banking or micronance sector or other
related experience.
At least 2 years working experience related to core banking
system or ATM installation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Ability to Administer Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Datab ases.
Knowledge of programming language and web develop ment
using Joomla and other tools.
Basic Knowledge of Accounting.
Strong i nterpersonal communication, management and
problem solving skills; and willingness to learn new things for
self-development.
P erfectly bilingual in English is mandatory - French is a plus.
Hones ty, Initiative, commitment and attention on details.
Project & Training Assistant (1 Position, Phnom Penh)
Main Responsibilities:
Commercial Skills
Ensure CMK projects requiring a special follow up
Handle relationship with the universities and CMK partners
Ensure a regular and transparent communication with the
persons in charge of the project
Dene the strategy to study, release and follow up the loan
Settle the appropriate tools to follow up the loan released
and update it on a regular basis
Dene the most appropriate communication strategy
towards the universities, the NGOs, the high school and the
students
Complete and follow up the monitoring partnership
document
Find innovative solution to adapt the monitoring tools to the
current needs of the project
Prepare and update the training of CMK staffs and corporate
partners
Train and follow up each branch staffs understanding
Requirement/ Skills:
At least two years experience in project and training section
is preferred.
Ability to coordinate with multi-partnerships projects
Good organizing and planning skills
positive attitude and interpersonal skills
Bachelor Degree in a related discipline
Good level of English (both writing and speaking) is required
and French is a plus.
Willing to travel for mission and partner visits
Dynamic, honest, initiative and exible
Good at computer literacy (Microsoft ofce, Outlook
and Email)
Branch Ofcer (8 Positions, Phnom Penh and Provinces) who
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WO teenage girls have been
gang-raped and killed after
doing what half a billion
women and girls are forced
to do every day go outdoors to try
to find somewhere discreet to go to
the toilet.
A toilet, bathroom, powder room
whatever you want to call it at
home, at school, at work, in the shop-
ping mall, is something many of us
take for granted and cannot talk
about without feeling embarrassed.
But we must: because the lack of toi-
lets is costing women their lives.
Today, 2.5 billion people live with-
out access to a toilet, forcing women
to walk to dark and dangerous places
to find the privacy they need those
same dark and dangerous places
where men wait to attack them.
So we must stop blushing when we
talk about open defecation because
it is not something to be embar-
rassed about: it is something to be
angry about.
Those two cousins, just 14 and 16
years old, had left their homes in the
Indian village of Katra, in Uttar
Pradesh, because they had no toilet at
home. They were never to return,
found hanging from a tree after being
brutally attacked.
A report in the Times of India in
February this year quoted the police
in another district of Uttar Pradesh as
saying that 95 per cent of cases of
rape and molestation took place
when women and girls had left their
homes to answer a call of nature.
But this is certainly not just an Indi-
an problem. One in three people
around the world lack access to basic
sanitation, while 1 billion of those
that is, 15 per cent of the global popu-
lation practise open defecation.
A WaterAid study in the slums of
Lagos in Nigeria showed that a quar-
ter of women who lacked access to
sanitation had first- or second-hand
experience of harassment, threats of
violence or actual assault linked to
their lack of a safe, private toilet in the
last year. Amnesty International has
released similar studies from Kenya
and the Solomon Islands.
Being forced to defecate by rivers,
in fields or in alleyways not only puts
women and girls at greater risk of sex-
ual violence and harassment; it is also
a major public health risk.
The practice pollutes natural water-
ways and spreads diseases, notably
diarrhoea, a major cause of death in
children in the developing world.
Every day, around 1,400 mothers will
lose a child to this disease, brought
about because of a lack of access to
basic sanitation, clean water and
hygiene services. Research estimates
that just putting an end to open defe-
cation worldwide would see this fig-
ure drop by over a third.
This is a problem that can be
solved, and the first step is getting
over our squeamishness. The deputy
secretary-general of the United
Nations, Jan Eliasson, called on the
world last week to break the diplo-
matic silence on open defecation.
The deputy secretary-generals
words and the launch of his cam-
paign come at a crucial time. Gov-
ernments are now negotiating a new
poverty reduction framework to
replace the Millennium Develop-
ment Goals.
Access to clean water and sanita-
tion currently ranks as the fifth high-
est priority for people voting in the
UNs global My World survey, in
which millions of people around the
world have taken part, joining the
international debate around the new
Sustainable Development Goals. In
India, voters put it as their fourth
highest priority for a better life.
WaterAid, UNICEF and the World
Health Organization, along with hun-
dreds of other organisations around
the world, are calling for a new Sus-
tainable Development Goal that
would commit countries to ensuring
that everyone everywhere has access
to basic sanitation, clean drinking
water and hygiene by the year 2030.
For these two teenage girls in India,
a new goal for universal access to san-
itation has come too late. But their
case illustrates in the starkest terms
why access to sanitation and water
are fundamental human rights and
why a lack of these services is putting
hundreds of millions of children, girls
and women at risk each and every
day. THE GUARDIAN
Comment
Barbara Frost, Winnie Byanyima,
Corinne Woods and Nick Alipui
Be angry, not embarrassed
More than 2.5 billion people do not have access to a toilet, forcing women and girls to walk to dark and dangerous places to nd the privacy they need. BLOOMBERG
Barbara Frost is chief executive of WaterAid;
Winnie Byanyima is executive director of Oxfam
International; Corinne Woods is director of the
UN Millennium Campaign; and Nick Alipui is
director of programs at UNICEF.
Ninety-five per cent of cases
of rape and molestation in
Uttar Pradesh took place
when women and girls
answered the call of nature
Emily Wight
C
AMBODIAN direc-
tor Rithy Panh has
revealed details of
his new colonial-era
documentary during a star-
studded week of lm that
also brought French screen
siren Catherine Deneuve to
the city.
Speaking a few days after
the opening of the second
annual Memory Interna-
tional Heritage Film Festival,
Panh said Cochinchine will
feature footage of the co-
lonial era from Cambodia,
Laos, Vietnam and some Af-
rican countries.
I want to explore the im-
ages from this time: how
people work, how people
live, how people are shown
on lm, he said, adding
that he is interested in how
images have evolved from
the 1800s to todays sele
generation.
The lm is named after
Cochinchina, the European
title for a region in south-
ern Vietnam that the French
colonised between 1862 and
1954.
Deneuve, a guest of honour
at the lm festival, is well-
known for her starring role
in Indochine, a 1992 lm in
which she played a planta-
tion owner witnessing the
end of the colonial era and
the rise of Vietnamese na-
tionalism.
The actress said her visit
to Cambodia brought back
memories of when she was
lming Indochine in Vietnam
and Malaysia.
The heat, the owers, the
trees, the roofs all that re-
ally reminded me of Vietnam
where I was 20 years ago,
Deneuve said.
The actress is the second
cast or crew member from
Indochine, which won an
Oscar and earned her a nom-
ination, to visit the country
this year. The director, Regis
Wargnier, came to Cambo-
dia in January to lm an ad-
aptation of Francois Bizots
Khmer Rouge memoir Le
Portail (The Gate).
While Deneuve was ru-
moured to be among the cast
members, she conrmed she
was not and that her next
project will be La Tete Haute
(Head Up) with French fe-
male director Emmanuelle
Bercot. Filming starts this
summer.
The actress said she was
honoured to be at Memory
International Film Festival
because she believes the res-
toration of classic lms to be
very important.
She said: I feel I have to
do something, as a reward
to cinema. I try to travel
with my lms. French is a far
away language today in the
world, so its a way of trying
to maintain a relation with
other cultures.
Of Panhs most recent lm,
The Missing Picture, which
was nominated for an Oscar
this year, she said: I was so
moved. Its really so very im-
pressive, and so personal,
and very original its a very
interesting lm.
She added that although
she would love to work with
Panh, he is focusing more on
documentaries in Cambodia
where there is little need for
a French actress.
Panh, who praised Deneuve
as a great actress, said he
hopes young Cambodians
will be drawn to the festival
because of the cultural edu-
cation it can offer them.
Even if you have a very
good diploma from a univer-
sity, if you have never read
or watched a lm or never
listened to classical music
this is all part of education
too. If you have no culture
you really cannot develop
the country.
Memory International Her-
itage Film Festival will run
until Sunday. For informa-
tion including the full sched-
ule visit memorylmfestival.
org.
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Thai novelist Nongchanai
Prinyathawat dies, 93
NONGCHANAI Prinyathawat, a
novelist and national artist of
Thailand, died of old age at her
home in Chanthaburi on Friday.
She was 93. Sakchai Prinyatha-
wat, Kanchanas son, aged 61,
told reporters that his mother
told him to prepare her a coffin
two days before she died. My
mother had been practising
dharma and meditation and
was always conscious of her
actions. She died peacefully,
Sakchai said. Nongchanai,
whose pen name is Kanchana
Nakhanan, wrote many well-
known Thai literary classics
such as Phoo Yai Lee Gab Nang
Ma (Village Headman Lee and
Miss Ma), Toranee Ni Nee Krai
Krong (Who Own This Land?)
and Phoo Kong Yod Ruk (My
Dear Captain). The Culture
Ministry honoured her as a
national artist in the literature
category in 2012. BANGKOKPOST
Anne B Davis of Brady
Bunch dies at age 88
EMMY-WINNING actress
Ann B Davis, who became
Americas favourite and most
famous housekeeper as the
devoted Alice Nelson of The
Brady Bunch, died on Sunday
at a San Antonio hospital at age
88. Bill Frey, a retired Episcopal
bishop and a longtime friend of
Davis, said she suffered a fall
Saturday at her San Antonio
home. Bexar County, Texas,
medical examiners investigator
Sara Horne said cause of death
was not yet known. An autopsy
was due yesterday. Producer
Sherwood Schwartzs The
Brady Bunch debuted in 1969
and aired for five years. But like
Schwartzs other hit, Gilligans
Island, it has lived on in reruns
and sequels. Maureen
McCormick, who played
teenager Marcia Brady, said in
a statement that Davis made
me a better person. How
blessed I am to have had her in
my life. She will be forever
missed. THEWASHINGTONPOST
Screen stars celebrate film
heritage, reveal next steps
French screen siren Catherine Deneuve sits in a room at the Rafes Hotel Le Royal. CHARLOTTE PERT
Director Rithy Panh at the Bophana Center. CHARLOTTE PERT
The heat, the
flowers, the trees,
the roofs all that
reminded me of
Vietnam
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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
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The town of Samaca, one of the stops on a cycling tour up into the hills
and countryside of Colombia. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Keeping pace
with a peloton
in Colombia
Kevin Rushby

I
T STARTED with a simple
request. How do I nd a
decent bike ride when
Im in a foreign city? I was
heading to Colombia and had
dreams of pedalling over the
roads used by Nairo Quintana,
the rider whose mountain
stage attacks in the 2013 Tour
de France set the whole race
ablaze (he nished second),
and who has just won this
years Giro dItalia.
I asked my travel agent, Fe-
lipe to nd me a cycling trip
for the day with some locals.
He organises a weekend ride
with a local group. They were
willing to take me along. They
ride in Boyaca Quintanas
home area, he told me.
Two months later Im at a
roadside 80km northwest of
Bogota waiting rather ap-
prehensively, in my lycra for
a peloton from a local club to
arrive. Im told they will come
with a support vehicle bearing
spare bikes, apparently a legal
requirement in Colombia.
I tuck into some delicious
arepas (atbreads made from
maize) and wash them down
with weak coffee Colombia
grows great coffee, but doesnt
often make it well. As I nish,
a gang of riders sweeps in, full
of bonhomie and joie de vivre.
One of them, Camilo Suarez
Albarracin from Team 4-72 Co-
lombia, settles in beside me.
We are soon off, making a big
sweeping descent on a busy
highway before turning left
and heading up into the hills.
We crest the hill and descend
into the town of Samaca, where
there is a lovely square sur-
rounded by shops and crowd-
ed with people. The peloton
raid the shops for drinks and
then we notice a cluster of
people around a cyclist in the
squares gardens. It is Hector
Leonardo Paez, world moun-
tain bike champion in 2006.
Having had our photograph
taken with Hector, we leave
town and push on up a long
climb. Im soon struggling for
air, but Camilo is sitting up,
hands free, chatting away on
his mobile phone.
The summit brings views of
green mountain ranges and
broad valleys wonderful cy-
cling country. The roads seem
good too. We drop down into
the ancient colonial town of
Villa de Leyva, where we get
half a mile of wicked cobbles
before the entire peloton stops
at a restaurant and sets about a
massive lunch with wine.
Camilo recommends the
cocido boyacense, a delicious
stew with innumerable local
ingredients. After demolishing
that, I am denitely incapable
of riding, but thats all right
because we are all staying the
night. The peloton will contin-
ue the next day while I spend
a day exploring Villa de Leyva,
with its whitewashed walls and
cobbled streets.
That evening, bikes safely
stowed, they insist on taking
me to play the popular pre-
colonial sport tejo. Youre
gonna love it even though it
is crazy. Cycling and soccer are
our national passions, but tejo
thats our national sport and
in Boyaca it is very strong.
The idea is to lob a large
heavy metal weight, the size of
an ice hockey puck, the length
of a barn and into a metre-long
wooden box lled with soil.
Drawn on the soil is a crude
target and buried within are
several recrackers. Throw
well and there is a ash of
light and a small explosion.
After many attempts, I am -
nally rewarded with a detona-
tion and a cheer from the bar.
It is enormously cathartic and,
I nd, a bit addictive, the per-
fect way to wind down after a
long day in the bike saddle.
Does Quintana play? I ask.
Sure! All the Boyacense
play tejo. This peculiar na-
tional sport is, I reckon, the
true secret of Nairos success.
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Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Used to be
5 Roll an untimely seven
(with out)
9 Fur wrap
14 Tough type of exam
15 Edible part of a parsnip
16 Word with tiger or trail
17 Equivocate
20 Coyotes favorite company
21 Coney midway?
22 Marred by discolored spots
26 Just OK
30 Fill with bubbles
31 Be worried
32 Stag party?
33 They have a central meeting
place
34 Ten or pen suffix
35 Tetherball fixture
36 Certain facial application
39 Mine opening
40 Wahines dance
41 Come in
43 Longtime anchor Rather
44 Laundry pile
45 GoodFellas star
46 Shellfish offerings at a bar
48 Tactful handling
49 Printers widths
50 Be a snitch
51 What procrastinators may do
59 Short-tailed lemur
60 Sanction wrongdoing
61 State categorically
62 Metabolism type
63 Free from contaminants
64 Small storage unit
DOWN
1 Im impressed!
2 Stat for a pitcher
3 WWII fliers
4 Prankster with pointy shoes
5 Tableau of Mary, Joseph
and Jesus
6 Far from cramped
7 Top-rated
8 Sch. support org.
9 Small piano
10 Cops enforcer
11 Photo ___ (camera sessions)
12 100 bani, in Romania
13 Kipling preposition
18 Derived from milk
19 Period of prayer
22 Setting for many jokes
23 Feb. 29
24 Installs, as a minister
25 Tarnish
26 Wine feature
27 Rabbitlike rodents
28 Eager drinkers
29 It can be rolled or batted
31 Chase flies or grounders
34 Antarctic predators
35 Tubular pasta
37 When repeated, a plea of Richard
III
38 One way to be aware
39 Shakespearean commotion
42 Type of deer
44 Soup legume
45 Broaden, as a pupil
47 Common aquarium fish
48 Not so many
50 Forbidden perfume?
51 Minor falsehood
52 Messenger molecule
53 Verification docs
54 Music genre
55 Pickup at a 22-Down
56 Creeping vine
57 Bon ___ (witticism)
58 Meadow mother
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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
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.
City Mall: 11am, 1:35pm, 4pm, 6:40pm
Toul Kork: 11:55am, 2:30pm, 4:45pm, 7:20pm,
9:55pm
RIO 2
Its a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their
three kids after theyre hurtled into the wilds
of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes
beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and
meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his
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Tuol Kork: 9:30am
GODZILLA
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humanitys scientific arrogance, threaten our
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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
(See above.)
9:20am, 1:25pm, 3:45pm, 6:10pm, 8:30pm
GODZILLA
(See above.)
1:15pm, 3:25pm
CHEF
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a
food truck to reclaim his creativity.
11:15am
Free Beer @ Show Box
Located at Club Millesime on the 12th
oor overlooking Phnom Penhs
cityscape, coee, tea and a selection of
munchies are oered daily.
The cost is $15, although pay an extra
$10 and get a free ow of sparkling
wine.
Sotel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, #26
Old August Site. 3pm
Resident DJs play the best popular
dance tracks. Partiers can buy two
cocktails or mixed drinks and get a
third for free all night.
Riverhouse Lounge, #157 Sisowath
Quay.
8pm
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For $25, guests at Sotels afternoon tea get free-owing sparkling wine. BLOOMBERG
Sean Penn plays a mentally challenged man ghting
for custody of his daughter in I Am Sam. BLOOMBERG
Afternoon Tea
@ Sotel
Cocktails @ Riverhouse
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Swing @ Doors
Unlimited free beer is oered for 30
minutes every day at Show Box in the
early evening. Although glasses of
draught Cambodia beer is free for
customers, the promotion does not
include jugs.
Show Box, #11 Street 330.
6:30pm
In addition to dancing, participants get
special oers on drinks and food
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Colombian Quintana
wins Giro dItalia race
NAIRO Quintana became the
first Colombian winner of the
Giro dItalia as Slovenian Luka
Mezgec won Sundays 21st and
final stage. Movistars Quintana,
who was second at last years
Tour de France, headed a
Colombian one-two with
Rigoberto Uran finishing
second and 23-year-old Italian
Fabio Aru, the revelation of the
race, third. Mezgec of Giant-
Shimano, beat Italian Giacomo
Nizzolo and Tyler Farrar of the
US in the sprint finish at the
end of the 172km stage from
Gemona to Trieste. Quintana,
widely regarded as the best
climber in the world, totally
dominated the final week of the
race having initially seemed out
of sorts in the first couple of
weeks. Its a Giro in which Ive
suffered, more than anyone
could imagine, said Quintana.
I had physical problems, I
wasnt at 100 per cent, I must
have been at 60 per cent of my
full potential. AFP
Lin Dan faces qualifying
for the Australian Open
TWO-TIME Olympic badminton
gold medallist and five-time
world champion Lin Dan will
have to qualify to make his
debut at this months Australian
Open, organisers said yesterday.
Lin, 30, considered the greatest
badminton player of all time,
saw his ranking drop to 104
after a seven-month sabbatical
from the sport, returning to win
the Asia Championships and
China Masters this year. This is
shaping up to be the biggest and
best Australian Badminton
Open in its 60 year history,
tournament director Loke Poh
Wong said of the June 24-29
tournament in Sydney. AFP
Hall of Famer Lima faces
jail for ex-wife assault
FORMER Samoan captain Brian
Lima, whos in the rugby hall of
fame, faces up to seven years in
jail after being found guilty of
assaulting his former wife, it
was reported yesterday. The
42-year-old Lima had denied
multiple charges of causing
grievous bodily harm, being
armed with a dangerous
weapon and using threatening
words, the Samoa Observer
said. The Samoa Supreme
Court heard that Lima was
involved in a fight with his
former wife Sina Retzlaff outside
a nightclub in the Pacific nation
last December. AFP
With LPGA win Lewis
passes Park for No 1
STACY Lewis got the victory she
needed on Sunday to topple
South Korean Park In-bee from
the top of the womens world
golf rankings, winning the
LPGA ShopRite Classic.
Americas Lewis claimed her
second LPGA title of the season
and the 10th of her career,
firing a four-under par final
round of 67 in the 54-hole
tournament for a 16-under par
total of 197. She finished six
strokes in front of runner-up
Christina Kim, who carded a
one-over 72 for 203. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
Sport
Marquez
stays perfect
after thriller
S
PANISH world champion Marc
Marquez made it six wins
from six races this season after
claiming victory in the Italian
MotoGP in thrilling style at Mugello
on Sunday.
The 21-year-old Honda rider, who
became the rst rider since Valentino
Rossi in 2002 to win six successive rac-
es, edged out compatriot and two-time
world champion Jorge Lorenzo on a Ya-
maha after an engrossing duel for over
half the race.
Marquez nally got the better of
Lorenzo, who has had a miserable sea-
son up till this race, going into the nal
lap while Lorenzos teammate, 35-year-
old Italian great Valentino Rossi, took
third spot in what was his 300th Grand
Prix and the 187th time he has nished
on the podium.
Rossis nish was enough to see him
rise to second in the standings on 97
points, though, 53 adrift of Marquez.
That was the hardest race of the
season so far, said Marquez, who has
also started from pole position in the
six races.
I followed Jorge but he was so fast I
had to ght to stay with him. But in the
end I had enough power to pass him
and this victory is very special.
Lorenzo for his part was delighted to
have ended a series of disappointing
performances with his previous best
nish a third in Argentina.
I am nearly back to being at my
best, said 27-year-old Lorenzo.
Marc was fantastic and just had too
much speed down the straights.
I was able to ght with him but he
was very brave and got the victory.
Rossi said his chances had been ru-
ined by selecting the wrong type of tyre
in qualifying but the ever-exuberant
Italian wouldnt let that ruin his day.
I had a good race and I am so
happy to be back on the podium at
Mugello. After ve years of missing
out this is a very emotional moment
for me, he said.
For the second successive race Mar-
quez got a poor start and was passed
by Andrea Iannone, who set a new of-
cial top speed record for the MotoGP
World Championship during practice
on Saturday, clocking 349.6km/h, and
Lorenzo on the rst bend.
Lorenzo went to the front shortly af-
terwards as he powered past Iannone
down the inside with 23 laps to go.
However, it was Rossi who made the
biggest impression powering from
10th on the grid to fourth with 21 laps
to the chequered ag.
Rossi, who won seven successive
Grand Prix on this circuit, then got
on Marquezs shoulder as the Span-
iard fought out a terric duel with
Iannone.
Marquez and Rossi got the better of
Iannone and his Ducati with the for-
mer setting fastest laps as he ate into
Lorenzos lead.
Marquez was tucked in just behind
Lorenzo with 13 laps remaining and
was virtually toying with his older
compatriot while Rossi looked to have
run out of steam and was more than a
second behind the Spanish duo.
The youngster nally passed Lorenzo
with seven laps to go as the latter made
an error under pressure and drifted
into the dirt and although he tried to
regain the lead immediately Marquez
shut down the gap.
However, Lorenzo stuck to the task
and they exchanged the lead on sev-
eral occasions as they fought out an
enthralling to-and-fro battle with
them almost coming together going
out on to the circuit with four laps left
as Marquez took him on the rst cor-
ner only for Lorenzo to regain the lead
up the inside on the next corner.
Marquez passed him again but
Lorenzo then produced an audacious
move on the inside to again go to
the front.
However, Marquez did not panic and
nally gained the decisive lead going
out on the nal lap and while Lorenzo
tried valiantly to pass him, the young-
er rider showed maturity beyond his
years to prevail and pump the air with
delight on taking the ag. AFP
Honda Repsols Marc Marquez (left) crosses the nish line ahead of Spanish compatriot Jorge
Lorenzo of the Yamaha team to win the Italian MotoGP at Mugello racetrack on Sunday. AFP
THE Los Angeles Kings defeat-
ed the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4
in overtime on Sunday to book
a Stanley Cup nals showdown
with the New York Rangers.
Alec Martinez scored 5:47
into overtime to lift the Kings
to victory and a four-games-to-
three triumph over the reign-
ing NHL champions Chicago
in the best-of-seven Western
Conference nals.
Martinezs shot from the left
point hit Blackhawks defense-
man Nick Leddy and got past
goaltender Corey Crawford.
The Kings became the rst
team in NHL history to win
three game sevens on the road
in one postseason.
The Kings rallied from 3-0
down to beat the San Jose
Sharks in the rst round.
They won games six and sev-
en against the Anaheim Ducks
in the second round.
We faced a lot of adversity
in this game, said Los Angeles
head coach Darryl Sutter. We
were down early and gave up a
lot of power plays.
We just kind of stuck with it.
I said at the beginning that this
was going to be a great series.
They had to dig deep in
this one, falling behind three
times before nally pulling off
the victory to reach the NHLs
championship series for the
second time in three seasons.
The Kings will host the Rang-
ers in game one of the Stanley
Cup nals on Wednesday.
Marian Gaborik scored his
12th goal of the playoffs with
7:17 left in the third period to
knot the score at 4-4 and force
overtime.
Justin Williams and Tyler Tof-
foli scored a goal with an assist
apiece for the Kings, who had
led the series 3-1 only for the
Blackhawks to force the deci-
sive game seven.
Jeff Carter scored his ninth
playoff goal in the rst period
for Los Angeles to help the
Kings claw back from an early
2-0 decit.
The Kings also got 37 saves
from goalie Jonathan Quick.
AFP
Kings reach Stanley Cup
nals with overtime win
Federer battling history
ROGER Federer surveyed the
wreckage of his worst French
Open in 10 years and despite
his optimism that a record
eighth Wimbledon title is with-
in his grasp, history and time
are conspiring against him.
In the immediate aftermath
of his 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3), 6-2,
4-6, 6-3 defeat to Ernests Gul-
bis, which was his earliest loss
in Paris since 2004 when he was
demolished in the third round
by Gustavo Kuerten, Federer
was talking a good game if not
necessarily playing one.
Victory on Sunday would
have put him into a record
42nd Grand Slam quarterfinal
and 10th in a row in Paris.
Instead, it was the wild-
haired, outspoken Gulbis,
seven years his junior, who had
become the latest likely lad to
puncture the Swiss legend.
Once again, even the brief
grasscourt season, squeezed
between the European clay-
court stretch and the hardcourt
swing through North America,
appears to no longer be the safe
haven it was once.
For every match you cant
necessarily explain why you
lost. Sometimes youre more
disappointed; sometimes
less, said Federer whose
appearances in Paris are yield-
ing steadily diminishing
returns.
Runner-up in 2011, he was a
semifinalist in 2012 and was
stopped at the quarterfinals
last year before Gulbis added
further insult with a fourth
round exit on Sunday.
Whats done is done. Im
happy to leave now and do
something else. What he bet-
ter not do is review his recent
statistics at the majors.
Federer won 16 of his 17
Grand Slam titles between 2003
and 2010. Since then he has just
his seventh Wimbledon title to
show for his efforts.
Where in the past he would
be losing late in tournaments
to the likes of Rafael Nadal,
Novak Djokovic and Andy Mur-
ray, he is now being mugged by
the Hoi Polloi. AFP
Switzerlands Roger Federer hits a return to Latvias Ernests Gulbis
during their French Open round of 16 match on Sunday. AFP
Lampard in talks to
join New York City FC
FRANK Lampard and his
representative have held talks
with New York City over a
prospective move to Major
League Soccers new franchise
next March, with the Chelsea
midfielder to decide where he is
to play his football next season
over the next few weeks. The
35-year-old will be Englands
vice-captain at the World Cup in
Brazil and on Sunday departed
with Roy Hodgsons squad for
Miami, where the national team
will play Ecuador and Honduras
this week. Meanwhile, Spain
striker David Villa bade farewell
to Atletico Madrid saying he had
received an irresistible offer
reportedly a transfer to New
York City FC. THEGUARDIAN/ AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 3, 2014
23
FOOTBALL Federation Aus-
tralia said yesterday it may re-
submit its bid to host the 2022
World Cup, after fresh cor-
ruption allegations emerged
surrounding Qatars contro-
versial campaign to host the
tournament.
FFA chief executive Da-
vid Gallop said that he did
not rule out the possibility
of Australia re-entering the
race if Qatar was stripped of
the World Cup, following al-
legations of widespread cor-
ruption and bribery.
Its a serious development,
theyre serious allegations and
were looking to see what the
response to that will be, he
told Melbourne local radio.
Gallop said that in the event
of the 2022 hosting rights be-
ing re-opened, Australia could
submit their bid once again.
Its too early to say wheth-
er that re-opens the door of
anything that happened a
few years ago in terms of Aus-
tralias position but its a bit
of a watch this space at this
stage, he said.
Gallop said the FFA had
been involved in FIFAs ongo-
ing integrity investigation into
corruption and the 2010 vote
that awarded the World Cup
to Qatar, a small Gulf penin-
sula with little football history.
He said the FFA had provided
documents and interviews
to chief FIFA investigator, US
lawyer Michael Garcia.
If the latest allegations are
proven, FIFA vice-president
Jim Boyce has announced his
support for the 2022 voting
process to be re-opened.
In the original December
2010 contest to host the tour-
nament, Qatar received 11
votes, South Korea four, the
United States and Japan three
each, and Australia one in the
rst elimination round. Qatar
went on to beat the United
States 14 votes to eight in the
fourth round.
South Korea said yesterday
that it would wait for con-
rmed facts before deciding
its position. These are no
conrmed facts as yet, and it
would be premature to com-
ment. Our position has not
been decided, an ofcial from
the Korea Football Association
(KFA) said.
Another KFA ofcial said:
We will await the outcome of
any FIFA probe, and then fol-
low its decision.
The Australian government
spent AUS$45 million (US$42
million) helping to fund FFAs
failed bid. AFP
Australia mulls fresh
2022 World Cup bid
Agents bribes boast
D
AYS after the
National Crime
Agency (NCA) in-
vestigated allega-
tions that a friendly between
Nigeria and Scotland had
been targeted by criminal
syndicates, a Nigerian agent
has been caught boasting on
camera that he could arrange
for players to be shown red
and yellow cards at this sum-
mers World Cup in Brazil.
In an undercover sting by
the Sun on Sunday news-
paper, Henry Chukwuma
Okoroji was lmed telling
investigative reporter Ma-
zher Mahmood that mem-
bers of Stephen Keshis Su-
per Eagles squad are willing
to take bribes of 50,000
(US$68,150) to deliberately
pick up a yellow card and
100,000 for a red.
The former player who
now lives in Italy also
claimed he has already re-
cruited two players and has
the ability to inuence team
selection through a senior
gure close to the Nigerian
Football Federation.
Filmed in a Milan hotel
room at the start of April,
the video shows Okoroji and
his associate attempting to
enhance their credibility by
inviting Lazio and Nigeria
player Ogenyi Onazi to the
meeting however there is no
suggestion he was involved in
any xing plot.
Hundred per cent, two
players. Its left up to you peo-
ple what you want to do. You
people will pay for a yellow or
a red card or a penalty, the
agent said.
Most of them will do it
because they dont pay them
good in Nigeria.
Asked if there was a risk that
any illegal approaches could
be reported to FIFA, he add-
ed: Never. Nigeria . . . never,
never, never! Hundred per
cent because I have someone
already do this type of thing.
Okoroji also claimed to have
enlisted ve Italian players to
x matches in the past and
claimed he would be travel-
ling to Nigeria to conrm the
xes are going ahead.
He continued: I knew those
ones would agree because
theyve never seen money
before and they dont know
about these things. I can tell
them: Just go and kick some-
one, I will give you some
money because they dont
know about xing.
On April 13, professional
players were arrested in con-
nection with alleged spot-x-
ing and another six rearrested
over the claims. THE GUARDIAN
Nigeria goalkeeper Austin Ejide (centre) vies with Scotland striker Steven
Naismith (left) during their international friendly last Wednesday. AFP
International Friendlies
Panama 1 Serbia 1
USA 2 Turkey 1
Germany 2 Cameroon 2
Sweden 0 Belgium 2
France 1 Paraguay 1
Honduras 2 Israel 4
SUNDAYS RESULTS
International Friendlies
UAE v Georgia 12am
Czech Republic v Austria
1:30am
Switzerland v Peru 1:30am
Brazil v Panama 2am
Greece v Nigeria 6am
Mexico v Bos-Herce 8:30am
TONIGHTS FIXTURES