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A UNION leader has been
charged with causing vio-
lence and destroying prop-
erty during a garment strike
that ended in security forces
shooting dead at least five
people on January 3, a court
summons obtained yester-
day shows.
Pav Sina, president of the
Collective Union of Move-
ment of Workers (CUMW),
must appear in Phnom Penh
Municipal Court for ques-
tioning on September 12
over the strike on the capitals
Veng Sreng Boulevard, the
summons says.
I, Chea Sokheang, an
investigating judge . . . charge
Pav Sina with intentional
violence in aggravating cir-
cumstances, intentional
damage and threats to dam-
age and make an obstacle to
traffic in front of the Canadia
Industrial Park . . . between
Charges
in strike
violence
surface
Sean Teehan
T
HE Ministry of Information is
looking to China and Syria for
inspiration for a pilot program
aimed at blocking immoral
content online, including speech that
attacks political parties, a ministry
press adviser has said.
I understand in Syria and in China
they take care of these kinds of things,
Ouk Kimseng told the Post on Monday.
Were trying to create . . . a culture of
dignified freedom of expression.
The comments came after a minis-
try working group held a consultation
meeting on Friday, led by Secretary of
State Chea Chan Boribo, to discuss
how they could set up mechanisms
to correct immoral wording on the
internet.
While a list of what precisely consti-
tutes immoral content has not yet
been finalised, it would include eve-
rything from hate speech and pornog-
raphy to language that is propagandist
or discriminatory toward supporters
of a political party, Kimseng said.
The working group is looking at the
feasibility of having web developers
and web browsers such as Internet
Explorer and Mozilla Firefox install
a system that would block content
Making a play on words
Ministry sets sights on blocking immoral wording from Kingdoms browsers
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
New evidence for
Nuon Chea appeal
Stuart White

THE Nuon Chea defence is
requesting that the Khmer
Rouge tribunals Supreme
Court Chamber investigate
new evidence as it weighs the
teams appeal against their cli-
ents life conviction in August,
according to a ling posted
yesterday.
In the ling, the team argues
that the lower chambers fail-
ure to solicit evidence from
lmmakers Teth Sambath
and Rob Lemkin while Case
002/01 was being heard led to
the exclusion of evidence that
would have absolved Chea of
responsibility for some of the
regimes crimes.
Lemkin asserted in an email
midtrial that he had evidence
that the massacre of ex-Lon
Nol regime ofcials at Tuol Po
Chrey had not been ordered
by Chea and the Khmer Rouge
central command, but the
court declined to call him as a
witness and made no mention
of the email in its judgment.
Whats more, the ling
continues, an interview with
Sambath conducted after the
Case 002/01 verdict indicates
the existence of evidence sup-
porting Cheas past assertions
that the crimes of the regime
were not part of a master
plan, as the court found in its
judgment.
In a transcript of the inter-
view included in the ling,
Sambath says that, at rst, he
did not believe one hundred
percent or even ten percent
what Nuon Chea had told me
about the regimes crimes, in-
cluding Tuol Po Chrey, being
the results of factional dis-
putes and undisciplined ju-
nior cadres.
I did not believe what he
was telling . . . [but] I keep do-
ing research until I . . . struck
it lucky, meeting both prison
chief and supervisors, spies,
i.e. investigators of those kill-
ings, and perpetrators the
ones who . . . planned the kill-
ings of the people, Sambath is
quoted as saying. What Nuon
Chea had said was true.
Under the courts rules,
the Supreme Court Cham-
ber is permitted to exam-
ine evidence and call new
evidence to determine the
issue, and parties may sub-
mit a request to the Cham-
ber for additional evidence
provided it was unavailable
at trial and could have been
a decisive factor.
Sen David
POLICE are searching for a
woman they allege abused
children at the Ankar Sang Kros
Chon Osh Sankhem orphanage
in Pailin province.
Following an investigation
yesterday into allegations of
withheld food and beatings at
the centre, police determined
that 50-year-old contract work-
er Val Vary was responsible.
Sak Samoun, deputy chief of
the Social Affairs Department
in the province, said Vary had
not provided enough food for
the children, did not take them
to hospital when they were ill
and even beat them.
We think that it is the fault
of one person, so we do not
have plans to close the centre,
but we will le a compliant to
the police to nd the woman
who escaped, he said.
Vary lost her job at the or-
phanage after the allegations
surfaced, police said, and has
since ed the province.
Orphanage director Bun
Lean Rin said that Vary
worked there for two months
as a babysitter, and when
the allegations surfaced, we
sacked her.
Orphanage worker red
Census, deportations continue
Phak Seangly
T
HE first results of Cambodias
countrywide census of foreigners
were dismissed by rights workers
yesterday as unbelievable, as four
more undocumented Vietnamese workers
were deported from Ratanakkiri province.
Chea Bunthoeun, provincial deputy
police chief in charge of immigration, told
the Post that the census found a total of
190 Vietnamese families in the province,
or 600 people, compared to 300 Vietnam-
ese families, or 800 people, identified in
the 2002 census.
We found only this number, and it is less
than in the past, so there are not many Viet-
namese people in this province, he said.
Bunthoeun added that Vietnamese peo-
ple were the only foreign nationals found
in the census.
In an effort to explain the drop in Viet-
namese living in the province over the past
12 years, Bunthoeun said people may have
returned to their homeland, moved to oth-
er provinces or passed away.
Following the authorities first deporta-
tions on Friday of six undocumented Viet-
namese workers found by census officials
to be in Cambodia illegally, a further four
undocumented Vietnamese migrants were
sent back across the border from Ratanak-
kiri yesterday afternoon.
We will keep doing that: deport one after
another, Bunthoeun said.
The census, which is also under way in
Pursat province and is soon to start in Kam-
pong Chhnang, has been presented as a
government effort to take a more precise
count of foreigners living in the Kingdom.
But Chhay Thy, Ratanakkiri provincial
coordinator for rights group Adhoc, dis-
missed the provincial results as absolutely
unbelievable and unacceptable.
We live here every day and see with our
own eyes; Vietnamese immigrants have not
decreased but have increased by about 10
times after the government granted eco-
nomic land concessions to Vietnamese
companies and after the development of
infrastructure took place.
Ang Chanrith, executive director of the
Minority Rights Organisation, has said that
it would be difficult for officials alone to
collect a realistic figure and called for
NGOs to be involved in the process.
Opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua said the
census should be carried out with full
transparency so that there were no ques-
tions regarding its results. ADDITIONALREPORTING
BY ALICE CUDDY
Ethnic Vietnamese children look at their mothers Cambodian citizenship card earlier this week
in Kandal provinces Lvea Em district. VIREAK MAI
We . . . have seen with our own
eyes; Vietnamese immigrants
have not decreased but have
increased by about 10 times
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K Krom to
talk census
at forum
Taing Vida
KHMER Krom activists are
planning a public forum at
Freedom Park on September 6
about the recent census of eth-
nic Vietnamese Cambodians.
Thach Setha, executive direc-
tor of the Khmer Kampuchea
Krom Community, said the
forum would provide an oppor-
tunity for criticism of the recent
issuing of official documents to
Vietnamese Cambodians.
Setha claimed many had only
lived in Cambodia for two years
and had paid 250,000 riel
($62.50) for the documents.
The activists have been
demanding an apology for two
months from a Vietnamese
Embassy spokesman who said
southern Vietnam, known by
many Cambodians as Kam-
puchea Krom, had been Viet-
namese long before France
ceded it to that country in 1949.
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng
was invited to the forum in a
letter yesterday to clarify the
census, Setha said. Interior Min-
istry spokesman Khieu Sopheak
said he had not received the let-
ter yet, but that he supported
the forum as being in line with
democratic principles.
Thai centres disgusting: HRW
Laignee Barron

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ANITATION is nonex-
istent, rats bite those
who dare to fall asleep
and drinking water is
inaccessible: these conditions
and more are endured by
thousands of migrant youth in
Thailands squalid and over-
crowded detention centres,
according to a new report by
Human Rights Watch.
Every year, Thailand sub-
mits thousands of migrant
youths and refugee seekers,
including Cambodians, to ar-
bitrary detention in immigra-
tion facilities or police lock-
ups due to their immigration
status or that of their parents,
the report nds. The majority
of these children come from
countries next door, such as
Cambodia and Myanmar, and
the experience is traumatis-
ing, contributing to lasting
anxiety and depression, as
well as stymieing their growth
and development.
The conditions are abso-
lutely disgusting; you have
toilets overowing and chil-
dren having to sleep sitting up
because there are no beds at
all, said Alice Farmer, a child
rights specialist and the re-
ports author. There are clear
UN standards on the mini-
mum conditions for conne-
ment, but, to be clear, Thai-
land is not even coming close
to meeting those regulations.
While hundreds of refugee
children, including Khmer
Krom, Hmong and Rohingya,
are indenitely detained for
months or more, even larger
numbers of children are cy-
cled through the system in a
couple of days or weeks, the
report says.
At least 2,500 children from
Cambodia, Burma, and Laos
pass through the largest deten-
tion centre in Bangkok each
year before being repatriated.
The children, especially
those who stay only briey,
are deprived of any formal ed-
ucation and often do not get
nutrition or physical exercise
imperative to their health. Par-
ents reported that as the de-
tention facilities often failed to
provide adequate meals, they
were forced to buy expensive
black market food.
Sometimes, theyd turn off
the water for 15 to 18 hours,
said one detainee quoted in
the report, while a 10-year-old
Cambodian girl added that she
was given, just a little rice
during the length of her stay.
The children are kept in the
same cramped cells as adult
strangers in what Farmer
called an adhoc arrangement
that is violating international
standards laws and leaving
them vulnerable to abuse.
In a seven-page response to
the report, Thailands Ministry
of Foreign Affairs said it was
aware of some of the poor con-
ditions in its detention centres,
but added: Detention of some
small number of migrant chil-
dren in Thailand is not a result
of the Governments policies
but rather, the preference of
their migrant parents.
HRW is urging an end to
the detainment, which the
group says could be replaced
by more humane alternatives
like conditional release or
family shelters.
Hostile and violent deten-
tion centres are no place for
children to grow up, Farmer
said.
Cambodian children are transported in a Thai immigration vehicle in southern Thailand. The terrible state of
migrant detention centres in Thailand is having a lasting effect on their inhabitants, a report warns. HONGMENEA
Man arrested
Australian
targeted in
abuse case
A
N AUSTRALIAN English
teacher is being held
by police after he was
arrested on suspicion of
sexually abusing at least three
boys aged between 5 and 11
years old.
Keo Thea, director of the
Anti-Human Trafficking and
Juvenile Protection Depart-
ment, confirmed yesterday
that the suspect, whom he did
not name, was being held in
police custody.
Our police are still working
on this case, he said.
The suspect was reportedly
arrested on Sunday morning
while leaving his Phnom Penh
apartment with two boys.
The alleged victims told
police in subsequent inter-
views that the abuse had
taken place.
The years-long investigation
uncovered complicity of the
boys families, whom Action
Pour Les Enfants (APLE) said
received money from the
suspect.
APLE said the man taught in
a private school.
Police also discovered a lap-
top, two external hard drives,
about 20 memory cards and
three USB sticks in the sus-
pects apartment, which were
all seized by police as possible
evidence. Childrens toys and
clothes were also found there,
police said. TAINGVIDA
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containing a glossary of words
that the Cambodian govern-
ment would provide, Kimseng
added.
Cambodian citizens access
to the internet skyrocketed
1,177 per cent to about 908,400
people from 2008 to 2013. As
more information is consumed
and conversations are held on-
line, government ofcials have
noticed a degradation of de-
cency, Kimseng said.
Since the use of social me-
dia networks is booming in
Cambodia . . . [users] can write
whatever they want, Kimseng
said. They can use any very,
very bad word that cannot be
said in public.
The same goes for some
websites run from abroad
that purport to report factual
news, but allegedly run only
anti-government propagan-
da, he said. Kimseng, who
also works as deputy director
general of state-run Agence
Kampuchea Presse, speci-
cally named pro-opposition
site KI Media as a site likely to
be blocked.
User-generated posts on
social media and websites for
news outlets would all be fair
game to be barred from Cam-
bodian internet service pro-
viders (ISPs).
Few government ofcials,
consultants or rights work-
ers were aware of the project
which is not connected to
the Council of Ministers con-
troversial draft cybercrime law
until asked about it by a Post
reporter this week.
Cambodia National Rescue
Party lawmaker Mu Sochua
said she believed it would vio-
late Cambodias freedom of
expression.
If I see posts that I agree
are sometimes very rude, it is
up to me to continue reading,
she said. I think this [pilot
project] is very unwise; I think
it is best for people to make
their own judgement, to select
what they want to read and
what they dont want to read.
Unlike Sochua, who believes
the public would vigorously re-
ject internet censorship if put
into effect, Transparency Inter-
national Cambodia executive
director Preap Kol believes citi-
zens would embrace it if it was
limited to content like pornog-
raphy or material viewed as
profane or insulting.
The government prevent-
ing slander, taunting and
profanity online does not, Kol
argued, diminish freedom of
expression. But further cen-
sorship could.
I think this is a welcome
measure if the restrictions will
only target content that is im-
moral, that is considered slan-
der or impolite, Kol said. If
it goes beyond, to the extent
of limiting any expression of
political views or expression
of ideas . . . it may compromise
the freedom of expression that
is guaranteed by the Cambo-
dian Constitution.
Regardless of the moral
quandaries surrounding in-
ternet censorship, technol-
ogy available to work around
government-imposed bans on
certain content makes the task
of blocking anything on the
internet from reaching Cam-
bodians with internet access
impossible.
Nik Lasfemerstrand, a
Phnom Penh-based security,
networking and anti-censor-
ship consultant who also offers
his consulting services to the
Post, said governments gener-
ally have two options if they
want to block content. They
can either block the entire in-
ternet, only allowing websites
created in-country and ap-
proved by the government to
go live there like in Iran or
they can order all ISPs in the
country to bar websites that
deviate from government stan-
dards like in China.
If Cambodia were to follow
in Chinas footsteps, Lasfemer-
strand said, users would only
have to use The Onion Router,
or TOR to circumvent the re-
strictions.
TOR essentially changes a
users IP address, usually to
one in a different country. For
example, users could mask
their Cambodia IP address
with one from Belgium. This
would allow them to access
websites banned on Cambo-
dian ISPs if the Information
Ministrys project were to
come to fruition.
The government doesnt
understand the technology
its trying to battle, Lasfemer-
strand said. Any countermea-
sure to this would take about
ve minutes.
Furthermore, blocking entire
websites can be done auto-
matically, but China has strug-
gled with monitoring websites
to make everything but im-
moral content available.
In China, a country of 1.3
billion, more than two million
people work as internet moni-
tors, according to the BBC.
As the Information Ministry
working group looks into these
issues, Kimseng said, the gov-
ernment just wishes to stop
the ow of improper posts on
social media and propaganda
by some news sources.
I think they should know
how to establish news and
information for the public,
Kimseng said.
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Khun Sear
disputant
tells court
land is his
Chhay Channyda
A MAN embroiled in a long-
running land dispute with Khun
Sear Import Export Company
was questioned yesterday at
Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
Ly Srea Kheng, whose family
claims to have had snakes
thrown into their home and
their pets poisoned by employ-
ees of Khun Sear, reiterated yes-
terday his claim to the land.
The company claimed our
land overlapped onto their land
that they bought from the com-
mune and CPP headquarters,
but our land is just next to theirs.
I wont leave . . . and I dont put
any price on it, because its my
land, he said.
Following the trial, Srea
Khengs daughter, Ly Seavminh,
claimed the company had
ordered the family to vacate the
land and pay $50,000 for ille-
gally occupying it.
Why do we have to give the
company this big sum of money
when we have lived here for
more than 30 years? We are the
owners of this house and land,
she said.
Nan Ony, a legal officer with
the Housing Rights Task Force,
said Srea Khengs lawyer would
return to the court with docu-
ments proving the familys own-
ership of the land.
Ministry sets sights on blocking immoral content
People browse the internet at a cafe near Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh yesterday. The government is in the
early stages of a pilot project to manage immoral internet content. HONG MENEA
[Social media] users can write
whatever they want. They can
use any very, very bad word
that cannot be said in public
Hun Sens son tells journos to
focus on more weighty issues
May Titthara

H
UN Manet, the el-
dest son of Prime
Minister Hun Sen,
has admonished
the media to stop paying at-
tention to his military rank
and to report more about his
achievements instead.
In a Facebook post on Mon-
day, Manet, who serves as a
lieutenant-general in the Roy-
al Cambodian Armed Forces,
asked local reporters to quit
monitoring inconsistencies
between the insignia he is
wearing and his actual rank.
Manet was appointed a
three-star general last year but
only wears two stars on his
shoulder, at least according
to reports.
What makes me respond
now is that in recent days,
Deum Tnaut [a news website]
wrote a letter to my bosses and
demanded that they [take ac-
tion about the insignia] which
I think is beyond the bound-
ary of a reporters duty in this
case, he posted.
I would like to thank them
for paying so much attention
to my honour and for being
worried that the rank is not
enough for me, but I am not
worried or pay any attention.
So you do not need to monitor
this matter any more.
If the media are interested in
him, the modest Manet con-
tinued, they should focus not
on how many stars he is wear-
ing but on what he has done in
his role as head of the counter-
terrorism unit, a deputy infan-
try commander and a deputy
mixed chief of staff in the army.
Manet also serves as a dep-
uty commander in his fathers
personal bodyguard unit.
If your research nds weak-
ness in my role and duty,
please let me know and if you
can give me feedback to im-
prove, I will thank you even
more. I would like to ask you
not to bother my boss about
my rank, he wrote.
The opposition party has pre-
viously raised questions about
Manets speedy rise through
the military ranks. Many be-
lieve he is being groomed as
his fathers successor, though
he is yet to enter politics like
brother Hun Many.
Chan Soveth of rights group
Adhoc said yesterday that
while the media had the right
to examine Manets military
rank, family connections and
repeated promotions, he has
done much work to help so-
ciety, so we must look at those
points too.
Lieutenant General Hun Manet, pictured wearing three stars, attends the opening ceremony of joint
Cambodian-US military exercises in Kampong Speu province earlier this year. HENG CHIVOAN
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Big turnout
Protests in
city, province
keep going
T
HOUSANDS of employ-
ees from two Taiwanese-
owned factories contin-
ued striking for better working
conditions yesterday.
At the Joohui Footwear
Factory in Kampong Cham,
thousands of workers have
been protesting for two days
for more benefits such as a
daily lunch allowance and
overtime pay, said Hok Hun,
25, a worker.
The workers protested once
in early 2013 and the company
agreed to our demands, but it
didnt carry them all out so we
decided to protest again.
Meanwhile, 300 workers
from the Xin Fang Garment
Factory in Phnom Penhs Por
Sen Chey district continued a
protest that started on August
18. They are demanding higher
benefits along with the reinsta-
tement of two unionists whom
they say were unjustly fired.
Speaking on the condition of
anonymity, a factory repre-
sentative said it does not
discriminate, but it simply can-
not accept them still working.
So we will let the labour and
vocational training department
resolve this case. PECHSOTHEARY
In sickness and in jail:
couple faces charges
MADE for each other? A hus-
band and wife, aged 35 and
28, were arrested on Monday
in Battambang after they
were accused of selling
drugs to a customer in a
crowded market. Police said
they found two packages of
the drug yama, a potent mix-
ture of methamphetamine
and caffeine, on the pair. The
couple has been sent to
court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
An imperfect getaway,
as theft ring broken up
A RING of alleged moto
thieves was busted on Mon-
day in Phnom Penhs Por Sen
Chey district after purported-
ly stealing four vehicles from
in front of a 58-year-old
mans house as he was hav-
ing dinner inside. Police said
the five men were friends and
were arrested at the same
time in different locations.
They were sent to court and
allegedly confessed to steal-
ing motos for the third time.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Brothers share parents
and a cell after arrests
TODAYS Blotter bodes ill for
family values. Two brothers
aged 25 and 21 were arrested
in Phnom Penhs Chamkar-
mon district on Monday after
they allegedly robbed a wom-
ans motorbike while she was
riding home at night. Police
said the suspects threatened
the woman, 18, with a gun,
telling her to stop and give up
her ride. Panicked, the wom-
an complied, but nearby
police saw the incident
unfold and chased the sus-
pects, arresting them. KOH
SANTEPHEAP

Customers from hell
put owner in hospital
A 28-YEAR-OLD club owner
was injured in Phnom
Penhs Dangkor district on
Monday after he attempted
to intervene in a fight
between an angry group of
guests at the venue he
owned. The five drunk men
fought for an unknown rea-
son and threw glasses at
each other. The owner
attempted to break them up
but was wounded before the
participants fled the scene.
The victim was sent to hos-
pital and police are on the
lookout for the suspects.
KAMPUCHEA THMEY

Extracurricular activity
wont help college apps
POLICE broke up a violent
fight between two high
school gangs in Kratie town
on Sunday. The gangs
encountered each other out
of school and grew angry at
the mere sight of one anoth-
er. One group threw water at
the other and a vicious brawl
ensued as students fought
with knives and belts. The
clash left one boy, 17,
injured. Police arrested the
entire group of students and
sent them all to court. RAS-
MEI KAMPUCHEA
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
National
6
Union leader
faces charges
Continued from page 1

December 25, 2013, and January 3, 2014,
it reads.
Sina, who faces arrest if he does not at-
tend the hearing, denied the charges and
said court ofcials had told him that lead-
ers of ve other unions involved in the
December and January minimum wage
strikes would also be summonsed.
One of them, Ath Thorn, president
of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU),
said he had not yet received a summons
but expected to.
I saw a complaint when I went to the
court last week, Thorn said. I saw the
summons; [an ofcial] showed it to me.
Thorn alleged that the Garment Manu-
facturers Association in Cambodia was
behind the complaint.
GMAC are representing more than 170
[factories], he said.
In February, the Post reported that 170
factories had sought GMACs help to le
lawsuits against a number of major inde-
pendent or opposition-aligned unions.
Reached yesterday, Loo didnt know
if the summons was related to GMACs
complaint but said the factories associa-
tion absolutely wanted an outcome.
I was called to the investigation last
week, he said. We are asking the court to
rule as to who should be responsible for
the losses, who should be responsible for
the violent demonstrations.
Sokheang, the investigating judge, de-
clined to comment, while prosecutors in
the case could not be reached.
Sina said that neither he nor his mem-
bers had attended the Veng Sreng strikes.
The charges against him, he added,
showed the governments intentions to
frighten us as we continue our demands
for a higher minimum wage.
The charges follow recent minimum-
wage talks involving major garment
unions and come despite no results in a
government investigation into the deadly
violence of January 3 being made public.
Im disappointed with the authorities
that they didnt nd the perpetrators who
shot workers but have instead turned their
interests to the activities of those protect-
ing the workers livelihoods, Sina said.
When asked about the results of the gov-
ernment investigation, Khieu Sopheak,
Ministry of Interior spokesman, said no
further information would be released.
We have already investigated, and it
has already been approved, he said.
Labour rights groups yesterday said they
were shocked at the timing of the charges
against Sina.
Its amazing. I can only assume theres
been a miscommunication [in the judi-
cial system], said Dave Welsh, Solidarity
Centers country manager. If this is the
direction [the government] is taking, its
the worst possible thing they can do. We
seemed to have moved past this.
Moeun Tola, head of the labour program
at the Community Legal Education Cen-
ter, believed the timing was intentional.
The court is being used again as the
minimum wage deadline nears.
After demanding $160 per month dur-
ing last years strikes, unions are this year
asking for $177. The governments Labour
Advisory Council will rule on the increase
in October, to be applied in January.
If the LAC meeting does not satisfy
[unions], then they will strike more,
Tola said.
Protesters gather at a burning improvised roadblock on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh
during clashes with police that turned deadly in January. PHA LINA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
Business
Bangkok
Bank is set
to return to
Cambodia
May Kunmakara
BANGKOK Bank (BBL), one
of the largest commercial
banks in Thailand, will
resume its operations in
Cambodia this year after a
14-year absence.
BBL downsized its business
operations in Cambodia in late
1998 before closing its offices
and pulling out completely in
2000 following the National
Bank of Cambodias increase
of the reserve requirement
from $2.5 million to $12.5 mil-
lion billion.
NBC director-general Chea
Serey confirmed yesterday
that BBL had recently been
given the green light to return
to Cambodia.
Serey said she could not
speak on the banks behalf as
to why they left in 2000 but
that the economic expecta-
tions weighed up against the
new reserve requirement in
place today made Cambodia
an attractive location for
many banks.
Today, when the minimum
capital requirement is now
increased to 150 billion riel
[$37.5 million] many banks are
flowing in, she said.
Naturally because they see
the potential of the Cambo-
dian economy and they see the
opportunity for them to grow,
Serey added.
Jiranan Wongmongkol, the
Thai Embassys foreign trade
promotion director in Phnom
Penh confirmed yesterday
that BBL planned to reopen in
December.
After the bank has been
observing the development
and economic growth in Cam-
bodia for years, they decided
to come back to tap this ben-
efit, she said.
BBL will become the third
Thai bank, and 45th commer-
cial bank operating in Cam-
bodia.
Outstanding loans and credit in Cambodia are projected to increase more than 50 per cent in the next six years. PHA LINA
Loan growth ready to take off
Eddie Morton

C
AMBODIANS are
forecast to borrow
more than double
the amount they are
borrowing today from mi-
cro-nance and commercial
banking institutions by the
year 2020, according to the
latest outlook from the Credit
Bureau of Cambodia (CBC).
Gary Wood, CEO of the CBC
presented the bureaus rst
ever medium-term outlook
yesterday in Phnom Penh. Ac-
cording to the bureaus nd-
ings, consumer credit and
outstanding loan balances are
set to increase 147 per cent in
the next six years from $5.7
billion to $14 billion in 2020.
We wanted to give you a
snapshot of where we see
based on age, based on year
the market being. We will now
monitor those predictions, we
will adjust those predictions if
required, Wood told the audi-
ence of about 200 people.
According to the CBCs nd-
ings, micro-nance and bank-
ing customers in total are set
to increase from 1.9 million to
3.3 million by 2020, with peo-
ple aged between 30 and 39
forecast to continue to be the
most common borrower.
However, according to the
CBCs data, Cambodians aged
between 40 and 49, more than
any other age group, are ex-
pected increase the average
amount they borrow from -
nancial rms in the coming
years, up 85 per cent in the
micro-nance sector and 118
per cent in the commercial
banking sector by 2020.
As people are getting older,
they are borrowing more,
Wood said.
Micro-nance institutions
(MFIs) are expected to in-
crease existing portfolios,
which currently sit at 1.5 mil-
lion accounts, by 159 per cent
in the next six years while
commercial banks portfolios
will increase 147 per cent from
the existing 389,000 accounts.
In Channy, CEO of Acleda
Bank, Cambodias largest
commercial nancial rm,
was condent in the CBCs
predictions saying that de-
spite such large credit growth
forecast, Cambodians would
not become over-indebted.
To reach $14 billion by 2020
(total loans outstanding), it
can be achieved. If we look
back the over the past ve
years, there has been three-
fold growth of loans outstand-
ing. These gures correspond
with the growth of GDP per
capita, so individual wealth
of the people can handle
this amount of debt, with no
doubt, Channy said.
Channy said the nancial
sector will be able to cater to
the CBCs predicted increase
in customers also, with more
institutions providing mul-
tiple products and services
through multiple channels
such as branches and elec-
tronic banking infrastructure.
Grant Knuckey, CEO of ANZ
Royal however cast doubt over
the industry and the con-
sumers ability to match the
aggressive predictions set out
by the CBC yesterday when
compared to Cambodias GDP
growth predictions, which is
currently forecast at 7 per cent
annually.
In relation to the increase
in loans at a projected 20 per
cent compound growth over
the next 6-7 years, that is a
very aggressive credit growth
path relative to the likely
growth of GDP and wealth,
Knuckey said.
I would question the abil-
ity of the borrower base to
service that kind of growth,
and I would also question the
ability of the system to fund
it, he said.
Knuckey emphasised the
need for more electronic, mo-
bile and real-time settlement
products in the nancial ser-
vices industry in order to han-
dle the 3.3 million customers
CBCs predicts to be engaged
in the sector by 2020.
Branch-based banking
will not be able to absorb it,
Knuckey said.
Logistics reforms needed to increase competitiveness
Chan Muyhong
CAMBODIA needs to develop a trade
logistics plan to align the Kingdom
with the regional production network
and increase its competitiveness as an
investment destination, a senior World
Bank economist said yesterday.
During a workshop to discuss
national logistics issues held in Phnom
Penh, Julian Latimer Clarke, senior
trade economist of the World Bank told
an audience of government and pri-
vate sector representatives that while
Cambodia has made improvments, it
still lags behind its regional peers in
terms of logistics performance.
Cost is directly linked to logistics.
And it is very important for Cambodia,
because all the major firms that come
here, all the foreigners who are invest-
ing here, are basically exporting, he
said. It is not like in like Indonesia
where there is a large domestic mar-
ket, he added.
Establishing a national logistics
blueprint that includes simplified pro-
cedures, professional accreditation,
training for customs officers and more
infrastructure investment is needed to
reduce those costs Clarke said.
Cambodia, to position itself as an
investment destination and an inte-
grated member of ASEAN, this logistic
and the connectivity of the border is
crucial for its medium-term develop-
ment, Clarke added.
Organised by the Ministry of Com-
merce, the workshop was an opportu-
nity for the government and private
sector to offer input into a blueprint
designed to improve Cambodias logis-
tics performance.
We know that logistic costs in Cam-
bodia are higher than the costs in
neighbouring countries for many
reasons,said the Minister of Com-
merce Sun Chanthol. Cambodia still
faces challenges over infrastructure
and rule and regulations which is
affecting the trade facilitation and pro-
motion effort.
Chanthol said the government was
looking into establishing a national
task force that would be responsible
for implementing the reforms identi-
fied in the blueprint.
Sin Chanthy, president of Cambodia
Freight Forwarders Association, wel-
comed the initiative, but cautioned
that there was no time to waste.
Cambodia is only better than Laos.
We are behind others in the region. If
we do not start now, foreign logistic
companies will dominate the market,
he said.
It will take time, but I am very opti-
mistic that it is possible for Cambodia
if relevant player wakes up and starts
working together now, he added.
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Walkie, talkie
SoftBank to
retail robots
next summer
B
ILLIONAIRE Masayoshi
Son will start selling his
humanoid robots named
Pepper at Sprint Corp stores
in the US by next summer.
The 1.2 metre robot dances,
makes jokes and estimates
human emotions based on
expressions. Pepper will go
in sale in Japan in February
for $1,900 while the company
hasnt set a US price.
SoftBank has developed an
operating system that controls
robots in the same way
Google Incs Android software
runs smartphones, with the
platform open to customisa-
tion for use in construction,
health care and entertainment
industries. AFP/BLOOMBERG
A
TOTAL of 23 Chinese
insurance rms have
colluded to x fees,
authorities said yes-
terday, slapping them with a
total of $18 million in nes in
the governments latest anti-
monopoly move.
The companies negotiated
and agreed on unied com-
missions from auto insurance
premiums through meetings
organised by industry group
the Zhejiang Insurance Asso-
ciation, the National Develop-
ment and Reform Commission
(NDRC) said in a statement.
The government agency
ned 22 of the insurers a com-
bined 110 million yuan ($18
million), the statement said,
with one company escaping
punishment for informing
authorities and providing
evidence.
The penalised rms includ-
ed some of the biggest names
in Chinese insurance, such as
branches of China Life and
Ping An.
The industry group, held pri-
marily responsible for the vio-
lations, was also ned 500,000
yuan, the NDRC said.
The penalties came against
the backdrop of a wide-rang-
ing government crackdown on
alleged malpractice by foreign
rms across a range of sectors,
including pharmaceuticals,
baby formula and technology.
The insurers are nearly all
fully Chinese-owned, but US-
based Starr Insurance & Rein-
surance has a majority stake
in Dazhong Insurance while
Frances AXA has half of AXA
Tianping.
Authorities in late August
ned 10 Japanese auto parts
rms more than $200 million
in total for price-xing, report-
edly the biggest-ever penalty
since Chinas anti-monopoly
law took effect in 2008. US
software giant Microsoft and
mobile chip maker Qualcomm
are also under investigation for
alleged monopoly actions.
A Chinese ofcial has denied
foreign companies are being
targeted, calling such claims
groundless and baseless.
Some of the NDRC mo-
nopoly investigations involve
overseas multi-nationals, but
that does not mean we are tar-
geting them, Xu Kunlin, head
of the agencys anti-monopoly
bureau, said in an interview
published yesterday.
We will investigate domes-
tic or foreign companies if
they are in alleged violation of
Chinas anti-trust law without
any discrimination, he told
the China Daily. AFP
Business
8
India govt asks court to
safeguard some mines
Aussie mining tax scrapped
INDIAS government asked the
top court on Monday to safe-
guard some coal mine conces-
sions deemed to have been
illegally awarded as the energy-
starved countrys power sector
faces fresh turmoil.
Attorney General Mukul
Rohatgi said 46 out of the 218
coal blocks whose award was
deemed illegal by the Supreme
Court last week should be
exempt from cancellation as
they were already operational
or close to being so.
Everything must not go in
one brush. Dont cancel every-
thing, Rohatgi told the Supreme
Court, which is considering
whether to scrap the conces-
sions and re-auction all 218
mines after last weeks ruling.
Forty-six allocations should
be exempted. They must be
saved because they are in abso-
lute readiness, he said.
The court last week declared
that the government-run pro-
cedure for awarding the blocks
was illegal, putting billions of
dollars of investment at risk.
The ruling follows a corrup-
tion scandal in 2012 over block
allocations to private compa-
nies allegedly at cut prices. The
national auditor said this led to
$30 billion in lost revenue.
Indias starved power sector
is struggling to produce enough
electricity to meet rising
demand, with blackouts com-
mon in large swathes of the
country. The power sector,
which relies on coal for two
thirds of electricity production,
has warned in recent weeks its
coal supplies are running dan-
gerously low. AFP
AUSTRALIA yesterday agreed to scrap a con-
tested resources profits tax after the government
struck a surprise deal with crossbench senators,
including mining tycoon Clive Palmer.
The Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) was
introduced by the previous Labor administra-
tion in 2012, with a levy on annual profits above
A$75 million (US$70 million) on iron ore and
coal at a rate of 30 per cent.
It was intended to return a share of the spoils
of Australias decade-long mining boom to
government coffers, however it was widely
criticised after its revenues fell dramatically
short of forecasts.
The mining tax is now gone, triumphant
Treasurer Joe Hockey told parliament after the
Senate, where minor parties hold the balance
of power, voted 36 to 33 for its repeal, a key
election promise of the Tony Abbott-led con-
servatives.
It now heads to the lower house where it is
guaranteed passage as the government has the
numbers to push it through.
We said wed get rid of the mining tax; weve
delivered in full, added Hockey. The tax pack-
age was so poorly designed, it was in fact costing
the government billions of dollars each year.
The tax regime was initially watered down
after a furious publicity campaign by BHP Bil-
liton, Rio Tinto and Fortescue, which contrib-
uted to then prime minister Kevin Rudd being
ousted by his deputy Julia Gillard in 2010 as
opinion poll ratings plunged.
The big miners claimed the tax hurt their com-
petitiveness and affected investment.
The Labor government originally estimated
that the levy would raise A$3 billion in its first
year of operation and A$9 billion in 2013-14.
That was drastically scaled back and according
to the 2013 budget the MRRT raised just A$200
million in the 2013 financial year and was fore-
cast to bring in A$700 million in the 12 months
to June 30, 2014.
Scrapping the tax was made possible after the
government struck a deal with minor parties led
by the Palmer United Party, whose powerbroker
leader is a coal magnate.
Palmer always wanted the tax gone but said
he would not support a repeal unless crucial
initiatives to assist families which were threat-
ened by budget cuts were left unchanged. A
compromise was reached. AFP
Chinese authorities have ned 23 insurance rms, including China Life (pictured) and Ping An, a total of $18
million in their latest anti-monopoly drive. BLOOMBERG
China fines 23 insurance firms
CHINA PROBE
TARGETING
FOREIGNERS
C
HINA is targeting foreign
companies with opaque
laws and rules, according to
a group representing US
businesses there.
Sixty per cent of
respondents to a survey last
month by the American
Chamber of Commerce in
China said they feel foreign
business is less welcome in
the country than before, the
group said yesterday in
Beijing, up from 41 per cent
in a late-2013 survey. Forty-
nine per cent said foreign
companies are being singled
out in recent pricing or anti-
corruption campaigns.
US companies are joining
Europeans in flagging
increased concern that local
authorities in China are
discriminating against non-
Chinese businesses. The
campaign threatens to
exacerbate a decline in
foreign direct investment in
the worlds second-largest
economy. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
Myanmar opens, expats enter
T
HE growth of inter-
national businesses
interested in setting
up shop has been
paralleled by growth in foreign
workers at least temporarily
calling Myanmar home.
Whereas a year and a half
ago there were not many for-
eign expatriate workers, or
expats, around, now they are
just about everywhere, said
Lin Kyaw Tun, director of Yan-
gon-based Career Develop-
ment Consultancy.
That is denitely an indica-
tor that something is chang-
ing in the business world,
he said.
Expats from numerous
countries are coming to Yan-
gon, driven by the demand for
their expertise from foreign
and increasingly local com-
panies alike.
Even the local companies
are starting to bring in expats,
said Lin Kyaw Tun. They are
forming joint ventures with
foreign companies, so they
need this international stan-
dard . . . to connect with other
international companies.
However, expats are gen-
erally not cheap. A 2014 Sal-
ary Survey report by Myanmar
Survey Research (MSR) said
the median salary is $4,000
for an expat, with ranges be-
tween $2,000 and $9,000 a
month most common. And
this estimate does not include
additional perks for some, like
housing, schooling and trans-
portation allowances.
Salaries for Myanmar people
tend to be lower. Although all
salaries range widely based
on factors like industry, ex-
perience and qualications,
MSRs survey shows a middle-
manager earns about $1,000 a
month when paid in US dol-
lars and $417 a month when
paid in Myanmar kyat in the
private sector. Similar middle
management at NGOs earn
$830, at embassies about
$1,030 and government $179,
the data show.
MSRs research also shows
that expats claiming expens-
es are on the rise in Yangon.
In the 2013 scal year, ex-
pats claimed to spend $2,500
a month supporting their life-
style, including $300 on food,
$900 on accommodation and
$1,300 on other expenses,
though the gure has grown
this year to $2,900 a month,
with $400 going to food,
$1,100 on accommodation
and $1,400 on other expenses.
PJ Bernardo, principal for-
eign consulting attorney at Kel-
vin Chia Yangon, said that un-
like in some countries, there is
no strict quota on the number
of foreigners a local employs,
unless it is stated in an invest-
ment permit from Myanmar
Investment Commission.
As local manpower capacity
is currently facing shortages
in several sectors, foreign-
ers often ll the gap, though
as capacity grows, rms will
gradually begin to hire more
locals, he said.
Kelvin Chia foreign consult-
ing attorney John Lichtefeld
said the MIC has a require-
ment to train local staff, with
the idea being to continuously
hire more and more locals for
skilled positions and proac-
tively train them up, though
its policies are also somewhat
exible.
Bernardo said international
managers play a role in bridg-
ing local and international
practices, while running the
business at the day-to-day
level is usually in the hands of
local employees.
The role of the foreign man-
ager is precisely to bridge that
connection between local
practice and foreign practice,
he said. MYANMAR TIMES
The Sule pagoda at dusk in Yangon. As Myanmar has opened its doors
to the world, foreign workers have been pouring in. BLOOMBERG
Thailands NBTC may
not pay out W Cup bill
RS PLC, the Thai broadcast
rights holder for the 2014 FIFA
World Cup, may take legal
action against the National
Broadcasting and Telecommu-
nications Commission (NBTC)
if it has to take a cut in compen-
sation for broadcasting all the
matches on free TV.
The move was made after an
NBTC subcommittee on World
Cup compensation suggested
the NBTC pay RS only 220 mil-
lion baht ($6.8 million), almost
half the 427-million-baht max-
imum the regulator could pay.
RS chief executive Surachai
Chetchotisak said the company
did not agree with the reduced
compensation, as the amount
would not cover its opportu-
nity loss. The company must
shoulder a burden of 326 mil-
lion baht caused by refunding
200,000 set-top boxes and
30,000 subscriptions, he said.
RS has received 118 million
baht from the NBTC since July
and needs an 308 million baht
more for the compensation.
If our request for the addi-
tional payment makes no fur-
ther progress, well submit a
petition to the Central Admin-
istrative Court for full payment
and for damages caused by the
payment delay, Surachai said.
He said it was not fair for RS,
as it had complied with the
NBTCs request to broadcast all
64 matches on free TV.
But the NBTC delayed the
compensation payment for
one-and-a-half months after
the World Cup tournament
ended on July 13.
RS sent two letters to the
NBTC asking for the outstand-
ing 308.8 million baht, but there
has been no further progress.
Surachai claims RS went
along with the telecom regula-
tors proposal, as it saw a good
intention to allow the public to
watch all the World Cup match-
es and offer a respite from the
political tension.
During the negotiations with
the NBTC, RS suggested 770
million baht in compensation
for opportunity loss, but RS
finally settled for a maximum
payment of 427 million baht.
RS won the court case
against the NBTC, which
wanted to apply the must-have
rule to the World Cup tourna-
ment and force it to air all 64
matches on free TV.
It originally planned to air
only 22 matches on Channels
7 and 8. The broadcast of all 64
matches was accepted by both
RS and the NBTC on June 11
via Channels 5, 7 and 8.. BANG-
KOK POST
Position: Consultancy Service for Child Protection
Resource Mapping
Location: Phnom Penh
General Description
WV Cambodia prioritizes child protection as a ministry focus in our strategy, and as such
a new Child Protection Technical Approach is developed to provide high level guidance
on how the goal for child protection will be achieved through its programming and
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this Child Protection Technical Program (CP TP) by putting in place the required technical
capacity to implement, monitoring and evaluate impact; part of this process is mapping the
resources for capacity building and M&E that exists externally and internally.
Requirements:
Advanced university degree or equivalent experience in related elds competence 1.
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Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet& Email) 3.
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills 4.
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General Description
To provide sector technical support to ADPs and Child Protection projects in all LEAP
processes and in close collaboration with DME Team towards achieving quality and
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Approach and Technical Program and fullling the goal of transformational development
with partner communities.
Requirements:
Bachelor degree in social science, management, psychology, law, or others related 1.
elds
At least 2 or 3 years experience in Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and analysis of 2.
social issues
Experienced in project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, report writing 3.
and proposal writing Good interpersonal and communication skills
Competent in written English communication 4.
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Able to embrace organizational values towards the mission of WVC 8.

Position:Advocacy & Justice for Children Specialist
General Description
Advocacy & Justice for Children Specialist will respond to engage support ofces and
coordinate specics advocacy initiatives according to the regional strategic priorities,
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Requirements:
Bachelors degree qualications and/or professional qualication in Social Science 1.
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Knowledge of key advocacy networks / organizations in the region and ability to 2.
network with other organizations
At least two years experience in dealing with INGO, IO, UN and embassy 3.
representation, and direct experience in conducting research
High level of awareness of global and regional socio-economic, political and 4.
environmental issues
Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving, collaborative, facilitation and time 5.
management skills
Competent in written English communication and Computer literate; Microsoft 6.
Ofce, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point
Position: Area Development Program Manager
Location: Varin District, Siem Reap Province,Koh Andet District, Takeo
Province, Preahnet Preah District, Banteay Meanchey Province
General Description
To provide overall leadership and management for the area development program 1.
in accordance with relevant World Vision strategies (e.g. National and Secondary),
policies (e.g.Transformational Development, Child Sponsorship) and frameworks
(e.g. Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning (LEAP))
To effectively represent and model World Visions mission, vision, core values 2.
and identity through good relationships and networks with relevant internal and
external stakeholders, including staff, community groups, local church, local leaders,
government departments and other NGOs.
Requirements:
Fully able to embrace organizational values and possess a high level of commitment 1.
towards the mission of WVC.
Bachelor of Business Management or Rural Development. 2.
Minimum 2 years of appropriate professional experience in management and 3.
leadership of a comparable community development program/project.
Experience in project and program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, 4.
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Previous experience in advocacy and networking. 5.
Christian commitment and maturity is an advantage. 6.
Competent in written English communication and Computer literate; Microsoft 7.
Word and Excel.
Willingness to travel and stay overnight at project sites, sometimes in remote 8.
areas
Position: Church Engagement Manager
General Description
To develop and mainstream integrated initiatives that nurture strong spiritual formation
of children, youth and their families and expand quality partnership with the Cambodian
church to support improved child well being
Development of the Supporting Technical Approach on Christian Witness in 1.
Development; Programming Guidance for Christian Witness and Church Partnership,
including its Monitoring and Evaluation Framework as well as adaptation of best
practice interventions and relevant project models that support the National
Strategy
Integrated implementation and monitoring of interventions and project models 2.
on Christian Witness in Development in all Area Programmes thus ensuring that
Strengthened relationships and increased quality collaboration with Christian
churches for effective holistic Christian witness in Area Programme communities.
Strengthened relationship and increased collaboration with churches for effective 3.
holistic Christian witness in Area Programme communities.
Management of Christian Commitments Project and Christian Witness in 4.
Development team
Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Theology or Mission or Church Studies 1.
At least 3 years experience in management of development projects and 2 year 2.
experience working with churches
Knowledge of transformational development principles and practice is an advantage 3.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) in both Khmer and English 4.
Computer literate; Microsoft Word and Excel 5.

Position: Senior Project Manager for Social Accountability Initiative (SAI)
General Description
To coordinate the provincial staff to ensure adequate training, funding, facilitation,
evaluation and budgeting of social accountability programs in every district in the three
target provinces and lead the collaboration with other SAI actors in Cambodia (including
World Bank, NCDD, and NGO actors)
Lead and manage the SAI team to accomplish expected outcomes and respond to 1.
issues raised through social accountability processes.
Provide good management for SAI partners to ensure their capacity and alignment 2.
meet to the requirement.
Learning and evaluation of social accountability processes are captured and 3.
integrated into ongoing planning for local level advocacy.
Ensure the accountability of the new initiative align to local and national 4.
requirement/alignment
Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in Law or other related elds 1.
Five years experience in managing advocacy activities or community development 2.
Experience working with government ofcials and ministries 3.
Excellent understanding of advocacy issues in a development context. 4.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) in both Khmer and English. 5.
Computer literate; Microsoft Word and Excel 6.
Position: Early Recruitment of future ADP MANAGERS
Location: Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Kompong Chhnang, Kandal,Takeo,
Kompong Thom, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear Provinces.
General Description
will be responsible for provide overall leadership and management for the area
development program in accordance with relevant World Vision strategies (e.g. National
and Secondary, Initial Disaster Preparedness Plan), policies (e.g. Transformational
Development, Child Sponsorship) and frameworks (e.g. LEAP, TD/ADP ministry model,
program integration guidelines) to achieve its goal with good quality.
To effectively represent and model World Visions vision, mission, , core values, identity,
and child protection protocol and policies through good relationships and networks
with relevant internal and external stakeholders, including staff, community groups, local
leaders, government departments and other NGOs
Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Management or Rural Development 1.
At least two years of professional experience in management and leadership of a 2.
comparable community development program/project.
Experience in project and program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, 3.
and report writing
Previous experience in advocacy and networking is value added 4.
Good interpersonal and communication skills. 5.
English prociency both verbal and writing. 6.
Experienced using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel program. 7.
Interested applicants should obtain an application form from WVC ofce or
download from WVC Website and submit a cover letter, Personal CV, and
ONLY photocopies of relevant formal Education certicates such as High
School certicate, university degree, etc. : HR Department, World Vision
Cambodia # 20, St.71, Sangkat Tonle Basak, Khan Chamkamorn, Phnom Penh,
P.O Box. 479 Tel: 023 216 052.
Website: www.worldvision.org.kh Email to: cam_recruitment@wvi.org.
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10
LA mayor
eyes $13.25
min wage
LOS Angeles, the second-larg-
est US city by population,
would boost its minimum wage
to $13.25 an hour by 2017,
almost twice the current fed-
eral regulation, under a pro-
posal by Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Garcetti, a 43-year-old Dem-
ocrat, said he will ask the City
Council to lift the prevailing $9
minimum to $10.25 next year,
then phase-in $1.50 annual
raises over the following two
years, according to his office.
Today, we launch the biggest
anti-poverty program in LA his-
tory, Garcetti said on Monday
on Facebook. We are going to
raise the minimum wage.
The mayors push is part of a
nationwide drive in cities to lift
wages for low-income earners,
after efforts to raise the federal
standard of $7.25 an hour
stalled in Congress.
The Los Angeles minimum
would top out at $13.25 in 2017,
when Californias minimum
wage is to reach $13 under a
law signed last year by Gover-
nor Jerry Brown. The citys
minimum would also exceed
San Diegos, where the City
Council overrode a mayoral
veto to boost the rate to $11.50
in three years. BLOOMBERG
Swiss catch European cold
T
HE Swiss economy
unexpectedly stalled
in the second quarter
as stagnating growth
in the euro area hurt exports.
Swiss gross domestic prod-
uct was unchanged in the
three months through June
from the previous quarter,
when it expanded 0.5 per cent,
the State Secretariat for Eco-
nomic Affairs in Bern said in a
statement yesterday. Thats the
weakest quarterly reading in
two years and compares with
a median estimate for 0.5 per
cent growth in a Bloomberg
News survey of 16 economists.
The Swiss National Banks
three-year-old cap on the
franc has helped the economy
outperform that of the euro
area in nine of the last 12 quar-
ters. With conicts between
Russia and Ukraine, as well as
in the Middle East, putting a
strain on global growth, SNB
President Thomas Jordan on
Monday reafrmed the ceil-
ings importance to ward off
economic risks.
Unfortunately, one must
conclude that the Swiss econ-
omy has taken a step back if
not two, said Felix Brill, se-
nior economist at Wellershoff
& Partners Ltd. in Zurich. My
big concern is that the domes-
tic economy has lost momen-
tum faster than expected.
Net trade was a drag on
growth as exports increased
at a slower pace than imports,
while consumption of house-
holds and nongovernmental
organisations rose just 0.2 per
cent from a quarter earlier, ac-
cording to SECO. Investments
in construction declined 0.7
per cent.
Given slowing domestic de-
mand, it is even more impor-
tant for exports to pick up
steam, Brill said. But here
the conditions arent exactly
favourable, given the faltering
recovery in Europe.
In the past, domestic de-
mand, due in part to high
immigration, and expanding
trade with Asia, has helped the
Swiss economy compensate
for anemic growth in the euro
area, its biggest destination for
exports.
The economy of neighbour-
ing Germany contracted in
the second quarter, while
France stagnated and Italy
succumbed to its third re-
cession since 2008. Russia
sanctions risk depressing the
outlook even further.
Swiss exports to Russia
amounted to 1.3 billion francs
($1.4 billion) in the rst half of
2014, just 2.6 per cent of its eu-
ro-area exports and less than
the value of goods sold to the
United Arab Emirates, Singa-
pore and Canada, according to
customs ofce data.
As a neutral country, the
Swiss have refrained from
imposing direct sanctions on
Russia, and companies arent
directly affected by Rus-
sias ban on European union
foodstuffs.
Even so, Switzerland has
taken measures to prevent
the circumvention of inter-
national sanctions, including
banning banks from taking
on new business with certain
individuals and forbidding ex-
ports of weaponry and goods
for the oil and gas industry.
The Swiss government said
last week it wasnt seeking to
promote additional Swiss ex-
ports to Russia.
The global economy isnt
developing as wed expected,
said David Marmet, an econo-
mist at Zuercher Kantonal-
bank. We think the weakness
will last into 2015. The pickup
will come, but not as strongly
as wed thought. BLOOMBERG
A Swiss ag ies atop the House of Parliament in Bern The Swiss
economy has reportedly stalled amid growing concern within Europe
about the regional and global economy. BLOOMBERG
GOLDMAN Sachs stands to
lose money on a multimillion-
euro loan it made to one of Por-
tugals largest banks a month
prior to its collapse, the Wall
Street Journal said yesterday.
The US investment bank
made the $835 million (635
million) loan in July through a
Luxembourg nancing vehicle
it created at a time when Ban-
co Espirito Santo, on the verge
of bankruptcy, found it nearly
impossible to borrow money
directly in capital markets, the
newspaper said.
The loan proved to be only
a brief lifeline for BES, which
was bailed out and dismantled
in August. A recapitalisation of
nearly 5 billion was paid for
largely with public money.
The Journal said Goldman
Sachs would lose money on
the deal.
Quoting a source familiar
with the matter, it said the US
bank had planned to sell the
debt to outside investors but
struggled to nd buyers.
Goldman Sachs managed
to sell part of the debt at a loss
to hedge funds specialising in
distressed debt but still holds
part of the liability, which
has lost value, the newspaper
said. However, it did not spec-
ify how much the bank stands
to lose.
The so-called special pur-
pose vehicle used to make the
loan is being probed by Por-
tuguese regulators looking at
BESs collapse.
Last month Credit Suisse
acknowledged it created SPVs
that allegedly allowed the
Portuguese bank to keep is-
suing debt despite its nan-
cial woes. AFP
Goldman faces big loss
on Portugal bank loan
Venice purrs at lm funding project
Economic stats in Venezuela disappear, woes continue
A. GRIPPED by film festival
fever, international investors
are hunting for the next ground-
breaking stories and rising-star
directors and theyre in luck,
for far from the crush at festi-
vals like Toronto, Venice has
launched a unique initiative.
The title may not be sexy, but
the European Gap-Financing
Co-production Market, new
this year, hopes to take movies
from the drawing board into
cinemas worldwide by filling
their funding gaps.
The idea is to match potential
financing partners such as
private equity companies with
directors who have at least 70
percent of their funding already
in place.
Based in the glamorous
Excelsior Hotel on the Lido
where the first edition of the
festival was held back in 1932,
the gap-financing market is
buzzing with directors hawking
tales of bloodsucking vampires,
school orgies and rebellious
monkeys.
This is the first project of its
kind, said Pascal Diot, who
heads up the film market and
came up with the idea for the
initiative. Toronto, Cannes,
Berlin and Sundance all have
their own attractions but none
have this. I wanted to set up
something which would be dif-
ferent from the usual develop-
ment projects, he told AFP.
Diot, who has over 25 years
experience in international film
sales, said the idea was to tap
into the great demand for
opportunities to invest in films
the industry can be sure will be
made.
And with co-productions
often split 70-30, by having
projects with 70 per cent of
financing already in place we
are making it easier for shop-
pers, he said.
Didar Domehri, whose pro-
duction company Full House is
producing French film Bang
Gang by first-time director Eva
Husson, said she was looking
for 260,000 from a private,
flexible investor to complete
the budget.
I have my usual network but
this is a great opportunity to
identify new people, she said,
adding that she had already
been approached by
possible investors
from Britain and the
United States at the
gap-financing mar-
ket. Its a fantastic
initiative, I think it
will be a great suc-
cess, she said.
Diot said that he
was still in the proc-
ess of ironing out
problems with Euro-
pean Gap-Financing
Co-production Mar-
ket including not having
enough screening facilities to
match the number of industry
requests to see products.
But the film market here in
general is doing well he said,
The numbers are steady
compared to last years figures,
while attendance in both
Cannes and Berlin, for exam-
ple, decreased this year, he
said. AFP
PRICES keep rising in Venezuela, eco-
nomic activity is sputtering and shops
struggle to fill their shelves.
But dont ask the central bank how
bad things really are: it hasnt pub-
lished key data in months.
The last time the central bank and
the national statistics institute pub-
lished the annual inflation figure was
back in May, when the indicator rose
to 61 per cent, the highest in Latin
America.
Officials have not given any explana-
tions despite repeated requests from
economists, politicians and journalists
seeking economic data.
This destroys the credibility of the
central bank. There has never been
this kind of a delay for as long as we
have been measuring inflation, said
economist Jose Guerra, a former eco-
nomic research chief at the bank.
A similar delay took place late last
year, when the government of socialist
President Nicolas Maduro waited one
month to release November data, until
after municipal elections.
The government has not wanted to
make June and July inflation figures
public, Guerra said, citing data from
central bank technicians.
The Venezuelan central bank has
withheld figures for months this time
even though it is part of the Interna-
tional Monetary Funds General Data
Dissemination System, which encour-
ages members to publish sound sta-
tistical data.
Ibarra said the lack of official data
could give rise to parallel, private sta-
tistics much like what is taking place

in Argentina, another economically
troubled South American nation.
Sooner or later, the International
Monetary Fund will box Venezuelas
ears because its one thing to want to
be a renegade, and another to hide
information, he said.
Another key indicator that disap-
peared four months ago is the index of
shortages of basic goods even as Ven-
ezuelans continue to stand in long
lines at stores bereft of everything from
toilet paper to medicine. The central
bank last reported the scarcity index in
March, when 19 basic goods were said
to face serious supply problems.
That month, corn oil shortages were
at 100 per cent while flour and milk
were absent in nine out of 10 stores.
Little by little, statistics have been put
aside for political purposes, said
Francisco Ibarra, director of the con-
sulting firm Econometrica. But, he
added, you cant hide inflation
because people see it on the street.
Hiding such figures does not help
the economy, Ibarra said, adding that
employment and balance of payments
data for the last quarter of 2013 were
also delayed.
Its an intentional policy, and it has
no rational economic or institutional
explanation. They dont want a debate
in these areas, he said.
Last week, the Venezuelan chamber
of commerce, Fedecamaras, com-
plained about the lack of statistics.
Theres no way to make plans, Fed-
ecamaras president Jorge Roig said.
The organisation, which represents
most private firms, has begun to com-
pile its own data. Private consulting
firms are doing the same. AFP
Spanish unemployment
rate increases by 8,000
SPAINS jobless queue
lengthened slightly in August
as the summer hiring boom
tailed off, but the indicator was
stronger than a year ago,
government figures showed
yesterday. The number of
people in Spain registered as
unemployed crept up by some
8,000 to 4.43 million in August
compared to 4.42 in July, the
figures from the employment
ministry showed. AFP
Switzerland pay up for
previous tax-dodging
SWITZERLAND said on
Monday that it had completed
a program to pay Britain and
Austria hundreds of millions of
euros in settlements for past
tax-dodging by their citizens.
In a statement, the Swiss tax
administration said that
London had received a total of
469.5 million ($779 million),
and Vienna, 738.3 million
over the course of the yearlong
program. AFP
German car pick-up
service Uber banned
A GERMAN court has slapped
an injunction on the popular
car pick-up service Uber
across Germany because it
lacked the necessary legal
permits, it was announced
yesterday. Uber has indicated
that it will appeal. AFP
Little by little,
statistics have been
put aside for
political purposes
The Venice Film Festivals Golden Lion is
displayed at the 67th edition in 2010. AFP
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Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
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Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
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Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
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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 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 101.95 -0.84 -0.82% 4:53:56
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CME Lumber USD/tbf 343.9 1.2 0.35% 17:00:00
Shop-class grads out-earn peers
T
WO years out of high school,
Evan Fischbach is earning
$40,000 a year. His secret:
shop class.
Fischbach, 19, has known he want-
ed to work on cars ever since he took
an automotive class in high school
in Michigan. His college-educated
parents wondered if he was aim-
ing too low. Then when Fischbach
was still a junior, a local auto dealer
desperate for mechanics hired him
as an apprentice in the service bay.
Now hes earning about three times
as much as the average 19-year-old
high school grad and slightly more
than the national median, according
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Friends werent interested in auto
shop when I suggested it, and now I
think they wished they had tried it,
said Fischbach, who works at the La-
Fontaine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram
dealership. Im not rich, but Im not
hurting, either.
Fischbach is an all too rare suc-
cess story that educators, legislators
and executives are eager to replicate.
With schools focused on preparing
kids for college, shop class has gone
the way of stenography class in much
of the US. Companies from Toyota to
Siemens and IBM are pushing high
schools to graduate students with
the real-world skills business needs.
The message is getting through.
This year, for the rst time in a de-
cade, the US government boosted
funding for high school and college
vocational education, though the
$1.13 billion war chest is $188 mil-
lion smaller than it was in 2004.
Proponents say re-emphasising
vocational education will help re-
verse the hollowing out of Americas
middle class and combat rising in-
equality. Wage growth since 2009 has
been the weakest since World War II
even as the rich get richer.
There are 29 million middle-
education jobs that pay more than
$35,000 a year, considered a thresh-
old to the middle class, according to
research. Of those, 22.9 million re-
quire only high school or some post
high-school training.
Fifty years ago, most American kids
in middle and high school attended
shop class, where they learned to
make ash trays, rebuild engines, weld
metal and even market products. As
the space race gave way to the high-
tech era, policy makers decided such
skills were unnecessary. College prep
classes gradually supplanted shop,
which by then was perceived as a
place for slackers and stoners.
Those prejudices are even more
prevalent now that many parents ex-
pect their offspring to attend a four-
year college. While many parents
agree that more students should at-
tend vocational training, the prevail-
ing attitude is: Not my kid.
Yet businesses cant nd enough
people to x cars and work in fac-
tories. Mike Hughes, the service
manager who hired Fischbach, nds
himself competing with rival dealer-
ships to recruit students right out of
high school.
Nobody wants their kid to be a
mechanic, said Hughes, who esti-
mates Fischbach eventually will pull
down $60,000 a year. They just dont
know how good of a living it is.
Like many of his contemporaries,
Mike Dales, 28, didnt bother with
shop class because he was told col-
lege prep classes were more impor-
tant than building bird houses.
After graduating, Dales dabbled
in trade school before realising that
he wasnt going to grasp the math
needed for mechanical engineering.
He ended up slinging crab claws at
Red Lobster before taking a job last
year at Area Tool & Manufacturing in
Meadville, Pennsylvania, where hes
now making parts for the medical,
automotive and tech industries.
It always amazes me what I can
come up with after starting with a
chunk of steel, said Dales, who wish-
es someone had pointed him towards
a vocation when he was a teen.
The parents most likely to be du-
bious about shop class held down
manufacturing jobs themselves, only
to watch them disappear. The US lost
6.1 million such jobs from 1997 to
2009. Only 644,000 have been added
since, according to the BLS.
I mean, how do you walk into
the classroom and talk to a 16- or
17-year-old kid about getting into
the shop when he had a parent who
used to work there but was laid off
10 years ago? said Ashleigh Smith,
ofce manager of the shop where
Dales works. Its difcult to explain
that the industry is coming back
when you have that kind of personal
experience. THE WASHINGTON POST
Once the domain of slackers and stoners, shop class and other vocational training
courses can be a ticket to the middle class in the US. GETTY IMAGES
Median weekly salary by US worker
$250: 19-year-old with high school diploma
$685: 25-year-old with a bachelors degree
$780: all US workers
$795: shop-class graduate Evan Fischbach, 19
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
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M
OSCOW declared
NATO a threat
to its security
yesterday after
the Western military alli-
ance announced plans to
reinforce defences in east-
ern Europe because of Rus-
sias alleged stoking of war
in Ukraine.
Moscows surprise declara-
tion of a shift in its military
doctrine came just ahead
of a NATO summit in Wales
tomorrow at which belea-
guered Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko will lobby
US President Barack Obama
for military help.
The Russian national secu-
rity councils deputy secretary
Mikhail Popov said NATOs
plan for new defence units in
eastern Europe was evidence
of the desire of US and NATO
leaders to continue their pol-
icy of aggravating tensions
with Russia.
I have no doubt that the
question of the approach of
NATO members military in-
frastructure to our border
will be taken into consider-
ation as one of the foreign
military threats to Russia
when the countrys defence
doctrine is updated later this
year, he said.
Popov added that Russias
2010 military doctrine a
document that already per-
mits the use of nuclear weap-
ons in case of grave national
danger would focus more
on overcoming NATO and its
new European anti-missile
defence system.
Ukraine yesterday report-
ed losing 15 more soldiers in
the latest day of clashes with
Russian-backed insurgents
whose ongoing offensive
threatens to stamp Mos-
cows permanent hold on the
eastern half of the former
Soviet state.
The Ukrainian presidents
appeal for European mili-
tary assistance in the face
of Russias alleged dispatch
of crack troops into the con-
ict zone was dismissed at
a meeting of EU leaders in
Brussels at the weekend.
But NATO chief Anders
Fogh Rasmussen said that
the 28-nation alliance would
endorse the establishment of
a force of several thousand
troops that could be de-
ployed within very few days
to meet any perceived Rus-
sian military movements in
eastern Europe.
The New York Times report-
ed that the rapid-response
unit would be supported by
new NATO members such as
Poland that were once Soviet
satellites but now view Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
with fear and mistrust.
But the plan would be of no
immediate help to Ukraines
government because the
country is not a member of
NATO a point stressed by
Obama in his rejection of calls
to involve the US military.
Londons Royal Institute for
International Affairs Robin
Niblett added that any type
of overt military intervention
[by NATO] is highly unlikely
because many members in-
cluding Russian trade part-
ners Italy and Austria do not
see a sufcient threat in the
Kremlin. AFP
World
AFGHAN presidential candi-
date Abdullah Abdullah was
locked in last chance talks
with the UN yeaterday as a
deal to resolve the countrys
damaging election dispute
edged closer to failure.
Abdullah alleges that ballot-
rigging denied him victory
over Ashraf Ghani in the June
14 election to choose a new
leader in Afghanistan as US-
led NATO troops end their 13-
year war against the Taliban.
With both candidates claim-
ing victory, the US brokered
a deal in which the poll rivals
agreed to an audit of all eight
million votes.
But Abdullah pulled out of
the audit, saying it was failing
to uncover fraud, and he has
threatened to also walk out of
power-sharing talks throw-
ing into question the legitima-
cy of the next government.
Negotiations between spe-
cial UN envoy Jan Kubis and
Dr Abdullah are being held
and when the talks nish we
will know what the nal stand
is, Muslim Saadat, a spokes-
man for the Abdullah cam-
paign, said.
A press conference has
been postponed due to re-
quests from ambassadors,
the UN and the international
community.
There were no meetings
between the two sides today,
after they could not reach an
agreement yesterday. For Dr
Abdullah and the whole team,
it is very clear to us we were
the winner.
The political crisis has al-
ready emboldened the Tali-
ban and weakened the fragile
economy, which depends on
aid funding from countries
that hoped the election would
underline democratic progress
made since the Taliban era.
Some of Abdullahs aggrieved
supporters have urged him to
form a parallel government,
while ofcials denied reports
that current ministers planned
to set up an interim adminis-
tration to take power. AFP
Abdullah
takes poll
to brink
Moscow and NATO square
off over Ukrainian situation
Armed Ukrainian servicemen comb the area after being shot at by pro-Russian militants at their checkpoint
near the small town of Dzerzhynsk, in the Donetsk region, last week. AFP
KAZAKHSTAN NEXT TO HEAR PUTINS CHILLY BLAST OF RHETORIC
T
HE chilly blast of Putins rhetoric is being
felt in the south, far away from Europe and
from Nato. In little-noticed remarks made
last week, he called into question the
legitimacy of the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan
while ordering the Kazakhs to be on their best
behaviour when it came to serving Russian
interests.
The remarks, to an audience of young people in
Russia on Friday, sent shockwaves through the
central Asian republic, which also hosts a large
ethnic Russian minority centred in the north on the
Russian border.
Putin said there had never been a country
called Kazakhstan; the republic was purely the
product of the current president, Nursultan
Nazarbayev. I am confident that a majority of its
population supports development of close ties
with Russia, said Putin. Nazarbayev is a prudent
leader, even the most prudent in the post-Soviet
space. He would never act against the will of his
countrys people.
Kazakhstan, he said, was part of the large
Russian world that is part of the global civilisation
in terms of industry and advanced technologies. I
am confident that thats the way things are going to
be in the medium- and long-term.
Nazarbayev had done a unique thing. He
created a state in a territory that had never had a
state before. The Kazakhs had no statehood.
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, it
left 25 million Russians in new countries on
Russias rim, what Moscow calls the near
abroad. Putin has played the ethnic card to stir up
trouble, justified his actions in the name of the
defence of Russians, and generally displayed a
proprietorial attitude towards Russias neighbours,
using trade and energy as weapons to get them to
toe the line.
Ukraine is his third war in the post-Soviet space.
He crushed the Chechen rebellion. He invaded
Georgia and still controls two chunks of it. He now
controls tracts of Ukraine. Russia has long held on
to the Transnistria slice of Moldova.
Nazarbayev was unimpressed by Putins views
on Kazakh statehood and threatened to loosen ties
with Russia, which could provoke a forceful
Kremlin reaction. THE GUARDIAN
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13
Police begin wearing

cameras in protest town
POLICE in the US town roiled by
protests after the fatal shooting
of an unarmed black teenager
are now wearing body cameras
in a bid to calm local anger, a
news report said. More than
1,000 protesters again marched
on Saturday in the town of
Ferguson, Missouri, over the
August 9 killing of Michael
Brown, 18, at the hands of a
white police officer. Some in the
St Louis suburb have also
lashed out at the police
response to the protests which
turned violent on several
occasions accusing authorities
of unnecessarily heavy-handed
tactics. Ferguson police began
wearing the cameras on
Saturday, according to the St
Louis Post-Dispatch, quoting
the towns police chief Tom
Jackson as saying the force
which is overwhelmingly white
was donated about 50 body
cameras by two companies. AFP
Americans detained in

N Korea appeal for help
THREE US citizens held in
North Korea pleaded for their
freedom on Monday, urging
Washington to send an envoy to
the isolated authoritarian state
to negotiate their release. As
government minders looked
on, Kenneth Bae, Jeffrey Fowle
and Matthew Miller, who
appeared tense, provided new
details about their treatment in
the autocratic country. The
White House has said securing
the release of the three
American citizens detained in
North Korea is a top priority
and it is doing all it can, the
BBC reported yesterday. AFP
US targets al-Shebaab

leader in Somalia strike
US FORCES have carried out
air strikes against the leader of
Somalias al-Qaeda-linked
Shebaab rebels, with casualties
reported but uncertainty
hanging over the fate of the
main target, officials said
yesterday. The Pentagon
confirmed an operation was
carried out on Monday against
the hard-line militia, and that it
was assessing the results.
Abu-Zubayr is the often-used
name for Shebab supreme
commander Ahmed Abdi
Godane, listed by the US State
Department as one of the
worlds eight top terror
fugitives. If confirmed, Godanes
death would be a major blow
for al-Shebaab. AFP
Indonesian female gov

gets jail for corruption
INDONESIAS first female
provincial leader, and head of
one of the countrys most
powerful political dynasties, was
jailed for four years on Monday
for bribing a top judge over an
election dispute. The case of
Ratu Atut Chosiyah has
transfixed even graft-weary
Indonesia since her arrest last
year for giving kickbacks to the
constitutional courts then-chief
justice, Akil Mochtar. Judges at
a special anti-corruption court
in Jakarta found the 52-year-old
guilty of bribing Mochtar with
1 billion rupiah ($85,000) to
annul a local election result in
Banten that went against one of
her close associates. She was
sentenced to four years in jail,
lighter than the 10 years sought
by prosecutors. She was also
fined 200 million rupiah. AFP
Manila foils anti-China bomb plot
Iraq forces advance as parliament stormed
HK pro-democracy group admits likely defeat
T
HREE men arrested over a
foiled attempt to bomb the
Philippine capitals airport
were also planning to at-
tack the Chinese Embassy and one
of Manilas biggest malls, authorities
said yesterday.
The men, who were detained on
Monday at the airport with a van con-
taining petrol bombs and recrackers,
had planned a series of attacks appar-
ently to publicise their anti-China
grievances, Justice Secretary Leila de
Lima told reporters.
They claim to be defenders of the
Filipino people and consider China and
[Filipino-Chinese] oligarch taipans
monopolistic business practices and
illegal mining as enemies, she said.
De Lima said the men appeared to
be particularly angry at the Philippine
governments perceived soft stance
towards China in a long-running dis-
pute over competing territorial claims
in the South China Sea.
De Lima said the group, which
may involve more people than those
detained, had planned a series of at-
tacks on Monday at buildings linked
to China or to the Chinese-Filipino
business community.
They also had plans yesterday to
rebomb SM Mall of Asia in Pasay city
and strang the Chinese Embassy and
the DMCI building, she said.
SM Mall of Asia is owned by Henry
Sy, the Philippines richest man, who
was born in China. DMCI is a con-
struction rm owned by David Con-
sunji, another ethnic-Chinese Filipi-
no, whom Forbes magazine lists as the
countrys sixth richest man.
Nevertheless, De Lima said investi-
gators were not convinced the groups
real intention was to express anger
against China and Chinese interests.
We want to know how big this group
is, what is their capacity really to cre-
ate all this havoc and what is their real
agenda, De Lima said. Are they on
their own or are there [people] behind
them? We will investigate all these.
The men aged 22, 25 and 43
worked as security guards for a textile
company just outside Manila, accord-
ing to investigators.
But De Lima said the leader of the
group claimed to belong to a secretive
fraternity of police and military gures
that had been linked to coup attempts
in the 1980s which failed to topple
then-president Corazon Aquino.
The current president is Benigno
Aquino, Corazons son, who has been
an extremely popular president during
his four years in ofce but has endured
a few months of brutal political battles
over a series of controversies.
A senator ally of Aquino alleged in
July that retired military ofcials were
trying to recruit troops to destabilise
the government. The military reaf-
rmed its loyalty to Aquino following
the senators comments.
Despite the intense publicity and
top-level concern that Mondays ar-
rests generated, it appeared the sus-
pects plans were unsophisticated and
they were not well armed, according
to authorities.
The four bombs found in the van at
the airport were plastic bottles contain-
ing petrol that the attackers intended to
plant at a toilet block, Rommel Vallejo,
one of the lead investigators, said.
The bombs fuses were from re-
crackers that would have given the
suspects just eight seconds to ee after
being lit, Vallejo said.
A small handgun was also seized
from the men, but no other weapons
or ammunition had been found that
would have enabled them to carry out
any other attacks, according to Vallejo.
De Lima said the three would be
charged with illegal possession of ex-
plosives and conspiracy to commit
terrorism. However, military chief
General Gregorio Catapang ridiculed
the suspects and their apparent plot.
This is just comic relief to get at-
tention . . . it is not a terrorist attack,
Catapang told reporters in a separate
brieng, adding the airport bombs
were just recrackers.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila
asked the Philippine government to
investigate the incident thoroughly.
We hope and believe the Philip-
pines side will take effective measures
to ensure the security of the Chinese
embassy, its staff, as well as Chinese
nationals residing in the Philippines,
the embassy said. AFP
THREE Iraqi forces made
more progress yesterday in
their ghtback against ji-
hadists, but in Baghdad an-
ger boiled over as hundreds
stormed parliament over the
fate of missing soldiers who
surrendered in June.
After breaking a months-
long jihadist siege by Islamic
State ghters of the Shia Turk-
men town of Amerli, troops
yesterday regained control of
part of a key highway linking
Baghdad to the north.
Two towns north of Amerli
were also taken from the jihad-
ists on Monday as Iraqi forces
backed by US airstrikes
scored their rst major victories
since the armys collapse across
much of the north in June.
That collapse left some 1,700
soldiers in jihadist hands, with
many believed to have been
executed. Demanding to know
their fates, angry relatives
stormed the parliament build-
ing in Baghdad, attacked MPs
and began a sit-in in its main
chamber, an ofcial said.
Riot police were trying to
force out the hundreds of pro-
testers, who were also calling
for some ofcers to be held to
account, said the ofcial, who
was present at parliament.
Concern over those in jihad-
ist hands has been fuelled by re-
ports of widespread atrocities,
including accusations from
Amnesty International of war
crimes and ethnic cleansing.
IS has carried out beheadings,
crucixions and public ston-
ings, and Amnesty yesterday
accused the jihadists of war
crimes, including mass sum-
mary killings and abductions
in areas under its control.
The massacres and abduc-
tions carried out by [IS] pro-
vide harrowing new evidence
that a wave of ethnic cleansing
against minorities is sweeping
across northern Iraq, said
senior crisis response adviser
Donatella Rovera.
The UN Human Rights
Council unanimously agreed
to send an emergency mission
to Iraq to investigate IS atroci-
ties, after a senior UN ofcial
said the jihadist group had
carried out acts of inhuman-
ity on an unimaginable scale.
Concern over the scale
of the humanitarian crisis
helped prompt Washington to
begin carrying out limited air-
strikes in support of Iraqi forc-
es, Shia militia and Kurdish
troops battling the jihadists.
Such strikes were used in the
area during the Amerli opera-
tion the rst time Washing-
ton has expanded its more
than three-week air campaign
against IS outside the north.
Desperate residents rushed
to receive aid after Iraqi forces
moved in to the town.
A day after seizing Amerli,
troops and Shia militiamen on
Monday retook Sulaiman Bek
and Yankaja, two towns to its
north that had been impor-
tant militant strongholds.
Army Staff Lieutenant Gen-
eral Abdulamir al-Zaidi said
they had continued the ad-
vance yesterday, regaining
control of a stretch of the main
highway to the north which
had been closed by the mili-
tants for almost three months.
A senior militia commander
said it would be several days
before the road reopened as
sappers needed to clear it of
mines and booby traps plant-
ed by the retreating militants.
The US said it launched four
airstrikes in the Amerli area,
meaning it effectively sup-
ported operations involving
militia forces that previously
fought US troops in Iraq.
The governments reliance
on Shiite militiamen in this
and other operations risks en-
trenching groups which them-
selves have a history of brutal
sectarian killings.
David Petraeus, a former
commander-in-chief of US-
led forces in Iraq, has warned
against America becoming an
air force for Shiite militias.
But worries over the rise of IS
seem to be outweighing other
concerns, with Western lead-
ers warning the group poses
a security risk far outside the
areas under its control. AFP
ORGANISERS of a pro-democracy
group who vowed to take over Hong
Kongs streets admitted yesterday
that they were powerless to change
Chinas plan to vet candidates for the
citys next leader, but said their pro-
test would go ahead.
The admission came after activist
leaders promised a new era of civil
disobedience in front of thousands of
supporters at a Sunday rally after Bei-
jing crushed hopes for full democracy.
We have to admit the fact that up to
this point it is quite unrealistic to think
that our action will change the deci-
sion made by Beijing, Occupy Central
co-founder Chan Kin-man said.
The rst function about talking
about Occupy Central is to create
pressure for compromise and nego-
tiation. Now I believe we have already
reached the end point in terms of the
democratic change in the system,
Chan said.
He also said the movement could
end if the citys legislature vetoes the
proposed electoral changes.
However, Chan said direct action is
still planned, mobilising thousands of
people to block major thoroughfares
in the nancial district of Central to
protect the citys core values and ex-
isting rights and liberties.
But he acknowledged that support-
ers who are more pragmatic may
back down. Ten thousand protest-
ers was our target set in the past; we
are still condent that thousands of
people will join and it will last at least
for days.
Analysts said the movement may be
changing tactics to dig in for a long-
haul battle against Beijing.
It is denitely a backing down but
it is a strategic backing down, Surya
Deva, a professor at City University of
Hong Kongs School of Law said.
They know they cant really get the
desired change by a short, intensive
burst of civil disobedience. Theyre
getting ready perhaps for a long-term
campaign and they need to build a
base, he added.
Hong Kong police arrested 22 peo-
ple during a series of protests target-
ing a senior visiting Chinese ofcial,
authorities said yesterday.
Meanwhile, China yesterday accused
London of interfering in its domestic
affairs, amid a British parliamentary
inquiry into democratic reforms in its
former colony Hong Kong.
The public rebuke followed reports
on Monday that Chinese authorities
had written to the parliamentary for-
eign affairs select committee to de-
mand the probe be dropped.
Hong Kong has returned to the
motherland, Chinas foreign ministry
spokesman Qin Gang said yesterday.
Hong Kong is a special administra-
tive region of China. Issues concern-
ing the political reform of Hong Kong
falls totally within Chinas domestic
affairs, which allows no interference
from the outside. AFP
Three men are held at the Department of Justice over illegal possession of incendiary
bombs and re arms in Manila yesterday. AFP
World
14
LESOTHOS exiled prime min-
ister delayed a planned return
yesterday to his country as
gunghts rekindled tensions
in the tiny mountain kingdom
after an apparent coup.
Aides to Tom Thabane said
security concerns could delay
plans for the embattled 75-
year-old to return from neigh-
bouring South Africa.
Thabane had intended to
come home yesterday, after
regional mediators brokered
a road map to ease the coun-
trys political crisis. In Mas-
eru one of the countrys top
police ofcers said he would
strongly advise Thabane not
to return.
Who is going to protect
him; the police are not able to
do that, the ofcer said.
Thabane ed across the bor-
der before dawn on Saturday
as troops surrounded his of-
cial residence and attacked
key police installations, dis-
arming ofcers.
Police say since then they
have continued to come un-
der attack from Lesotho De-
fence Force soldiers, acting
under cover of darkness.
The latest assault came on
Monday night, at the Police
Training College, where of-
cers reported coming under
automatic weapons re for
around 30 seconds.
A top ofcer at the college,
who asked not to be named,
said the attack came shortly
after the power was cut in an
apparently coordinated move
by the military.
The armed forces are led
by General Tlali Kamoli, who
Thabane tried to sack before
being forced to ee. Leso-
tho intelligence ofcers have
pointed to Kamoli and the
deputy prime minister as be-
ing behind the coup attempt.
The commanders slated
replacement Lieutenant Gen-
eral Maaparankoe Mahao,
who is also in exile after an as-
sassination attempt, said the
prime ministers return would
be fraught if the military is not
brought under control.
Denitely we are going
back home, but I cant say
when and how, Mahao said.
As long as those rogue ele-
ments are still running amok
in the country then theres no
security for me, no security for
the prime minister, no secu-
rity for the general public.
The military denies carrying
out a coup and says its raids
were to conscate weapons
from police stations destined
for political fanatics. AFP
Tensions as Lesotho
PMs return uncertain
Sympathy grows for sick boys parents
A
SPANISH judge on
Monday extended
the detention of a
British couple arrest-
ed for taking their seriously ill
son out of a hospital in Eng-
land without medical consent,
as sympathy for their situation
grew at home.
Brett and Naghemeh King
sparked an international man-
hunt after removing 5-year-
old Ashya, who has a brain
tumour, from hospital last
week over their fears he was
not receiving the right care.
The couple were detained
on a European arrest war-
rant near Malaga in south-
ern Spain on Saturday and
their son, who only recently
underwent surgery and re-
quires special feeding equip-
ment, has been hospitalised
in southern Spain.
At a hearing at the High
Court in Madrid, the Kings re-
fused to agree to their extradi-
tion back to Britain and were
ordered to be held in custody
for up to 72 hours pending
a decision on whether they
should be granted bail.
The judge also ordered an
urgent medical report into the
condition of Ashya, who has a
medulloblastoma tumour.
The boy is currently being
treated at a nearby childrens
hospital and is said to be in
a stable condition. In Britain,
public concern for Ashyas
immediate health has shifted
to sympathy for the familys
plight as well as anger, partic-
ularly on social media, at their
pursuit by police.
Police had warned that
Ashyas life was in danger if
he was not in hospital, but his
father and one of his broth-
ers insisted in videos posted
to YouTube that he is being
cared for properly.
The familys local MEP
said the parents should be
released immediately to be
with their child.
However, the local elected
police and crime commission-
er, Simon Hayes, defended ef-
forts to bring Ashya home.
I think if Hampshire Con-
stabulary [police] had ignored
the professional medical ad-
vice and opinion, then they
would have been negligent in
their responsibilities to safe-
guard Ashya in this case and
young children in general,
he told BBC radio.
Ashyas father wants his
son to undergo proton beam
therapy, an alternative to ra-
diotherapy that Britains state-
run National Health Service
(NHS) would not provide.
The family was hoping to
sell their apartment in Mala-
ga to raise funds for the ther-
apy, which is available in the
United States and the Czech
Republic, their lawyer said.
The parents are going to
start lawsuits in the UK against
the doctors and the hospital
that slandered them, and they
will make a complaint for false
accusations and defamation,
said King family lawyer Juan
Isidro Fernandez Diaz.
The hospital in Southamp-
ton, southern England, that
was treating Ashya said it had
offered the family access to a
second opinion on his treat-
ment and offered to help with
organising treatment abroad.
But in a video lmed short-
ly before his arrest, King, 51,
said he was threatened with
losing access to his son if he
continued to criticise the care
provided.
Following the familys ight,
the local authority obtained
temporary wardship of Ashya
giving them legal powers
over his care and ordered
that he be presented for
medical treatment.
A clinic in the Czech capi-
tal Prague, which King had
contacted, has now offered
to treat Ashya if he is eligible,
the BBC reported. AFP
Spanish policemen stand guard as a police van carrying the parents of
Ashya King arrives at a courthouse in Madrid on Monday. AFP -
15
World
ONE of the many mysteries of
Stonehenge may have been
solved, not because of a sci-
entic breakthrough or pains-
taking research, but after a
maintenance teams hosepipe
turned out to be a little short.
Archaeologists have long ar-
gued over whether the ancient
monument was once a perfect
circle or if it was always, as it is
now, an incomplete ring.
When a hosepipe used to
keep the grass green in hot
spells failed to reach a broken
part of the circle, unsightly
brown patches began to ap-
pear. Custodian Tim Daw
was fretting over the blem-
ishes when he realised they
matched the spots where
stones would probably have
stood if the monument had
been a complete circle.
Daw said it was a lightbulb
moment. Aerial photographs
were hurriedly commissioned
before the rain could come
and remove the brown patch-
es, and the scorch marks on
the western side of the Wilt-
shire, southwest England, site
were mapped, and some of
the brown patches indeed tal-
lied with where stones would
have stood if the circle were
complete.
Other brown patches corre-
sponded to recorded archaeo-
logical excavations including
trenches dug by the engineer
William Gowland in 1901. That
some of the patches matched
the site of the trenches sup-
ports the theory that they in-
dicate disturbed ground.
The patches were spotted
last summer, but the conclu-
sions have just been detailed
in a report by Daw and other
English Heritage staff pub-
lished in the latest edition of
the journal Antiquity.
The report points out that,
despite being one of the most
intensively explored prehis-
toric monuments, Stonehenge
continues to hold surprises.
Many, though, may be sur-
prised to learn there was ever a
debate on whether Stonehenge
was once a circle. THE GUARDIAN
Dry spell at Stonehenge
answers circular debate
Obamas calm in a crisis: asset or liability?
Space geckos on sex mission for Russia found dead
Stephen Collinson
Analysis

H
E DOESNT bluster and he
doesnt strut and President
Barack Obama certainly
isnt panicking, though he
admits it feels like the world is falling
apart. But Obamas cool-in-a-crisis
style and disdain for the impulsive
use of military force is fuelling criti-
cism of his leadership, as crises stag-
ger the Middle East and Ukraine.
If you watch the nightly news, it
feels like the world is falling apart,
the sanguine US leader told support-
ers on Friday.
I can see why a lot of folks are
troubled, he said, while counsel-
ling that the US military, standing tall
amid jihadist violence and geopoliti-
cal threats, had never been mightier.
The world has always been messy
were just noticing it now in part be-
cause of social media.
With world crises bursting around
him and political opponents apo-
plectic, Obama has yet to lash out in
response, and refuses to act on any-
ones timetable but his own.
His methodical crisis management,
long Situation Room seminars and
scepticism that US force can remake
a tumultuous world, has sustained
him through nearly six tough White
House years.
With Islamic State radicals dug
into a caliphate in Iraq and Syria,
and Russian President Vladimir Pu-
tins shadow ever lengthening over
Ukraine, Obama is shrugging off a
whirl of hostile news cycles and po-
litical attacks on his leadership.
But even Obamas allies may be
forgiven for wondering, after an-
other trying week, whether the
presidents approach is becoming
a political liability, as his once high
foreign policy ratings ebb.
A burst of honesty on Syria put
the president in a new x and
raised the stakes for his trip to the
NATO summit and Estonia that be-
gan yesterday.
We dont have a strategy yet,
Obama told reporters, trying to
quell a warlike mood in Washington,
which expected to hear US attacks
on IS in Syria were imminent.
But the damaging soundbite
sparked a Washington restorm, as it
appeared to validate Republican at-
tacks that the president, disengaged
and oblivious to rising threats, is not
up to facing down the worlds hard
men like Vladimir Putin.
Republican senators John Mc-
Cain and Lindsey Graham warned
in a New York Times article on Sat-
urday headlined stop dithering
that Obamas failure to act quickly
against IS in Syria was startling
and dangerous.
Potential 2016 Republican presi-
dential hopeful Rick Perry said
Obamas remarks revealed a presi-
dent always one step behind the
next crisis, and accused him of
dithering and debating over what
to do about IS.
Aides protested Obama was talk-
ing only about an operational plan
for military action in Syria not the
wider battle against a group US jets
are already bombing in Iraq.
However, in political spats like
this, context is lost.
While it infuriates his enemies,
Obamas approach is a reection
of his own personality, his post-
Iraq war era and the historical lens
through which he increasingly peers
as his presidency enters its twilight.
His drawn out decision-making
and habit of testing of every scenario
that could follow military action is fa-
miliar Obama agonised for months
before doubling down with an Af-
ghan troop surge in his rst term.
But in probing complexity and
nuance, is Obamas zeal for deci-
sive action dimmed? His defenders
reply with three words Osama bin
Laden recalling the long-planned
and daring raid into Pakistan which
killed the al-Qaeda chief and helped
Obama win re-election.
Obama recently took to telling
condants the core of his foreign
policy is not to do stupid things
and holds up the disastrous Iraq
war as Exhibit A in his case.
White House spokesman Josh Ear-
nest explained that Obama, wary of
being sucked into Syrias civil war,
refuses to simply launch an impul-
sive attack to appease Washington,
seeking vengeance after the IS mur-
der of US journalist James Foley.
There are some who probably
would make the case that its OK to
not have a formulated, comprehen-
sive strategy, Earnest said.
That is not what the president
believes is a smart approach.
Brian Katulis, of the Center for
American Progress, which is close to
the administration, said Obama may
be more in tune with his war-weary
nation than his critics.
I think a lot of the criticism comes
from the chattering classes among
the foreign policy elite and in the
media. I think your ordinary Ameri-
can is very much where the presi-
dent is, in his cautious look before
you leap stance.
Obama has made clear he believes
history assigned him the role of get-
ting troops home from foreign wars,
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of tran-
sitioning his nation from the perma-
nent war footing it adopted following
the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Critics argue, though, that the pres-
ident sees the world not as it is but
as he wishes to see it. Some Ameri-
cans appear to agree: only 36 per
cent in a recent Pew Research/USA
Today poll thought Obama acted suf-
ciently tough on the world stage.
But some close observers sym-
pathise with his plight.
Its pretty tough being president
of the United States. You are damned
if you do, and damned if you dont,
said a Western diplomat on condi-
tion of anonymity.
Either you are accused of having
got too involved in some other coun-
trys affairs and making things worse
or you stand back because you are
conscious that in the past, sometimes
military interventions have not been
an unmitigated success. AFP
RUSSIAS space agency on
Monday conrmed that ve
geckos, launched into space
for an experiment on weight-
lessness and sexual behav-
iour, have died.
The federal space agency
released a statement saying
that the landing apparatus
of the Photon-M satellite had
returned to earth as planned,
falling into Russias Oren-
burg region at 1.18pm Mos-
cow time, and that the en-
tire herpetological crew had
perished at some point dur-
ing their odyssey. With four
female lizards and one male
on board, Russian scientists
had hoped to learn how zero
gravity would affect the sex-
ual habits of geckos.
A representative at the In-
stitute of Biomedical Prob-
lems (ISTC), which partici-
pated in the experiment,
explained to Russian news
agency Itar-Tass: The liz-
ards died about a week before
landing, but added: Its still
too early to talk about the
geckos cause of death.
The space agency state-
ment simply stated that a
preliminary examination
found the geckos dead, and
that the date and condi-
tions of their deaths will be
determined by specialists.
A source who took part in
securing the lander told Rus-
sias Interfax wire that as usu-
ally happens in such instanc-
es, [the space agency] will
soon appoint an emergency
commission to nd out these
animals cause of death.
However, an experiment
with fruit ies was success-
ful, the insects surviving and
breeding, according to the
space agency.
The satellite also carried
mushrooms and seeds, meant
for tests related to gravity and
radiation; all such biological
material is being transported
to labs for further inspection.
In July, Russia reported that
it had lost contact with the
satellite, and scientists were
concerned that life-support
systems could fail, leaving
the geckos to die from hunger
within three months, accord-
ing to Interfax. A few days
later, the space agency said it
had re-established commu-
nications and that the experi-
ment was back on track.
ISTC scientists told Itar-Tass
that loss of contact with the
satellite should not have dis-
turbed the animals support
systems, and that geckos me-
tabolisms, which are low rela-
tive to humans, and sticky
feet should counteract the ef-
fects of weightlessness.
Russias storied space pro-
gram has had a troubled re-
cent past, especially in the
wake of poor relations with
the US and NASA.
Two rockets have crashed
and an
Angora
r ocket
l a u n c h
was aborted
since Presi-
dent Vladi-
mir Putins M a y
announcement that the gov-
ernment would invest $52
billion in the space program.
Gerbils, newts, spiders,
butteries, snails and bacte-
ria all successfully traversed
the cosmos back in 2007,
when international scientists
launched them from Russia
for a set of 45 experiments.
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EORGES Clemenceau, who,
as Frances prime minister,
led his country to victory in
World War I, famously said
that war is too important to be left to
the generals. Japan is now discover-
ing that history is too important to be
left to newspaper editors.
In the 1990s, the newspaper Asahi
Shimbun caused a firestorm at home
and in South Korea by publishing a
series of articles, based upon testi-
mony by the former Japanese soldier
Seiji Yoshida, on comfort women
Koreans forced to provide sexual serv-
ices to the Japanese Imperial Army
during World War II. Asahi has now
admitted that the soldiers confes-
sions were unfounded and has disa-
vowed the core supporting evidence
for the articles.
That retraction appears to be caus-
ing as much embarrassment and
diplomatic vitriol in Japan and South
Korea today as the original series did.
But, at a time when both countries
cannot afford to permit partisan or
sloppy abuses of history to roil their
bilateral relations, Asahis careless
work has turned out to be more than
abysmal journalism it has intro-
duced a dangerous element into
regional diplomacy.
Some say that Japan and South
Korea should follow the example set
by France and Germany. Reconciling
in the first two decades following the
Nazi occupation of France, these
countries leaders understood that
their security and economic ties were
far too important to their citizens
wellbeing to allow old hatreds to fes-
ter. They knew that the unimaginable
violence of World War II was a direct
result of the antagonisms that had
festered since the Napoleonic Wars
and that were allowed to persist
after 1918.
In Charles de Gaulle and Konrad
Adenauer, France and Germany had
two of the 20th centurys greatest
statesmen, leaders who were able to
discern the broad sweep of history
through the fog of quotidian politics.
Their loyalty was not only to the citi-
zens who elected them, but also to the
generations of the past that had
endured the consequences of French-
German enmity, and to generations
yet to come, which would benefit from
reconciliation.
Of course, given that Japan and
Korea have not fought a series of wars
against each other, their relationship
is not the same as that between Ger-
many and France. But it is clear that
no one will benefit from a new round
of heated historical debate. To avoid
this, political leaders like de Gaulle
and Adenauer are needed. Only when
we can discuss the past without
endangering the future will the coun-
tries of Northeast Asia be able to
establish a truly durable structure of
peace and harmony.
As Admiral Dennis C Blair, a former
commander of the US Pacific Fleet,
stated at a recent conference: The
history of Asia from the 1930s to about
1955 or so was not pretty in any way
. . . I dont think any country can have
a monopoly on righteousness, or on
guilt and shame for that time. Blair
added that the attempt to hold a we
were right and you were wrong
sweepstakes is not going to help our
children and grandchildren under-
stand what happened there.
Japan and South Korea need to take
responsibility for the future, not
obsess about the past. A recent Japa-
nese government white paper called
South Korea the country that shares
the closest relationship with Japan
historically and in areas such as econ-
omy and culture.
No doubt many, if not most, South
Korean foreign policy experts and
strategists share that sentiment. But
it will take committed leadership to
transcend the history wars and tap the
full potential of Japanese-South Kore-
an cooperation, something that both
countries key ally, the United States,
strongly desires, as it seeks to draw
China into a lasting and peaceful
Asian order.
For far too long, intemperate his-
torical debates often driven by biased
newspaper accounts have poisoned
bilateral relations. Now, as another
war of words heats up, Japanese and
South Korean leaders need to step
back, recognise where the real inter-
ests of their people lie, both today and
in the future, and calmly begin to take
the measures required to ensure dura-
ble reconciliation and a lasting friend-
ship. PROJECT SYNDICATE
Ending East Asias history wars
To work towards a better partnership, Japan and South Korea need to forget about the past and concentrate on the future. In other words, emulate the 20th centurys greatest
statesman: West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (left) and French president Charles de Gaulle, shown here after their 15th and nal meeting. AFP
Comment
Yuriko Koike
Yuriko Koike, Japans former defense
minister and national security adviser, was
chairwoman of Japans Liberal Democratic
Partys General Council and is currently a
member of the National Diet.
The attempt to hold a we were right
and you were wrong sweepstakes
is not going to help our children
understand what happened
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Spain returns treasure trove of
pre-Columbian art to Colombia
SPAIN on Monday returned to
Colombia a huge and priceless find
almost 700 pieces of pre-Columbian
art that Spanish authorities seized in
over a decade ago in a drug bust. The
catalogue of museum-worthy
artefacts includes vases decorated
with human faces, ceramic bowls
decorated with geometric designs in
ochre tones, musical instruments,
necklaces and even small figures of
people dating from 1400 BC up to the
16th century. Recovering for our
nation these 691 archaeological
treasures has a value that is really
difficult to put any price on. They are
from many of our [indigenous]
cultures, and getting them home took
years, Foreign Minister Maria Angela
Holguin said at a briefing, presenting
50 of the remarkable pieces. The
artefacts from Calima, Narino, San
Agustin, Quimbaya, Sinu and other
groups had been spirited out of
Colombia in 2001 before being seized
from drug traffickers by Spanish
authorities in 2003. AFP
Apple, FBI probe massive
celebrity nude photo hack
THE FBI and Apple were urgently
investigating on Monday after an
apparent massive hack of a cloud data
service unleashed a torrent of intimate
pictures of dozens of celebrities across
the internet. Anonymous posters to
online message boards boasted of
having nude images of scores of
female stars including Oscar-winner
Jennifer Lawrence and top model Kate
Upton. Reports suggested hackers
had ripped private images from
Apples iCloud online data storage, a
potentially embarrassing and
damaging breach for the California
tech giant. We take user privacy very
seriously and are actively investigating
this report, said Apple spokeswoman
Natalie Kerris, the Re/code website
reported. AFP
Frances McDormand feted
at the Venice Film Festival
THE Venice film festival feted the
career of Frances McDormand
Monday, the Oscar winning actress of
Fargo fame, ahead of the premier of a
new HBO mini-series she called the
culmination of her lifes work.
McDormand, who is married to
director Joel Coen and has starred in
several Coen brothers films including
Fargo and Burn After Reading, was
presented with the Visionary Talent
Award for a career that began on
Broadway in 1984. The 57-year-old
American told journalists ahead of the
ceremony that she felt developing,
producing and acting in the four-part
mini-series Olive Kitteridge was the
culmination of everything that I have
attempted to do. AFP
Six easy fixes from the pros to
make your home look better
H
OME stagers are the peo-
ple who sweep through
homes going on the mar-
ket and make them look
uncluttered and cozy without a huge
investment of time or money.
Whats their secret?
Stagers have a bag of design and
organising tricks that can be useful
even to someone who has no plans
to sell. They look to make a house
or condo desirable to potential buy-
ers and maximize price. They have
practical ideas to refresh your stale
living room or pump up your curb
appeal. Stagers cast a critical eye
on everything. They remove things.
They group like items together, re-
arrange bookcases, toss out lumpy
pillows and frame childrens artwork
previously hanging from magnets on
the fridge. They might gather all your
scattered framed family photos, edit
them and display them on one shelf
or tabletop.
Here are six ideas from four stagers
to get you started on an intervention
in your own home.
Create a light and airy bedroom
Lots of bedrooms are small and
have few windows, says Tyler Whit-
more, owner of staging and design
rm Ta-da! Homes in Bethesda,
Maryland, who advises people to
take a critical eye to every room in
the house and think like youre go-
ing to see the house, even if youre
not. She suggests painting walls a
light colour and bringing in a neu-
tral rug. Beds are the largest piece
in the room, so linens shouldnt
stand out too much, she says. On
a recent job at a Cape Cod, Whit-
more replaced a dark navy bed-
spread on a mahogany sleigh bed
with a cream coverlet.
The navy one, Whitmore says, cre-
ated a big black hole in the middle of
the room. Replacing chunky, mis-
matched nightstands, she installed
matching pedestal nightstands, reus-
ing the existing crackled-glass lamps.
She put a pair of framed European
prints over the bed as a focal point.
It feels calm in here now, Whitmore
says. Its the retreat everyone is look-
ing for.
Give the bathroom a facelift
Laura McCaffrey, a real estate agent
and home stager with Evers & Co
in Washington, sees lots of unusual
bathroom tile colour combinations in
Washingtons 1920s and 1930s houses:
yellow and black, grey and maroon,
pink and green. Yes, its retro, but with
age, tiles crack and bathtubs chip.
Many homeowners dont want to
shell out big bucks to gut their bath-
rooms. So to update them, she swears
by Miracle Method, a service that
sprays an acrylic, usually white, coat-
ing that bonds to existing tile and tub
in a layering process not unlike paint-
ing techniques used in the automo-
tive industry. Broken or cracked tiles
can also be repaired and sprayed.
According to Mary Ann OHara from
Miracle Methods Kensington, Mary-
land, franchise, a standard bathroom
tub and tile surface renishing costs
about $1,900. You can add a new van-
ity, a medicine cabinet and hardware
for an additional charge. New oor
tiles can be laid on top of existing tile.
And then you dont have to hunt for
yellow and black towels or shower
curtains. McCaffrey started including
staging as part of her services as a list-
ing agent about 10 years ago. When
Ive nished staging a house, so many
people say things like, I wish Id done
this three years ago. Then I could have
enjoyed it myself.
Make a good frst impression
Your front door and shutters wel-
come people to your home and
should be painted regularly to look
fresh and polished. Front doors are
traditionally painted colours such as
glossy black, barn red, forest green or
white. Whitmore also likes the idea
of painting the front door in a colour
that will hint at what is inside.
McCaffrey is fond of giving the
front door an unexpected colour. She
encourages clients not to match the
colours of shutters and front doors.
In one project on a brick Colonial in
Washingtons American University
Park neighbourhood, she found a
front door and shutters both paint-
ed a sage green. McCaffrey chose a
darker green to paint the shutters so
that they stand out.
Upgrade rugs
If your rug needs replacement,
dont just buy a standard 8-by-10 or
9-by-12 and plop it into your room.
Kelley Proxmire, a Bethesda, Mary-
land, interior designer who added
staging to her design business in
2009, suggests buying a wool rem-
nant and getting it cut to perfectly t
your space. She likes to have carpet
sized to t around replace hearths
or bay windows. This makes your
room look bigger and neater, she
says. If you cant afford new carpet,
use small Oriental or area rugs you
might have stashed in a closet or
basement on top of an existing rug
to personalise your look. Layering
a small rug in front of a sofa can be
an especially smart idea if kids eat
snacks there.
Proxmire also uses spray paint
to rejuvenate lamp nials and res-
cue old planters. She hunts down
soup tureens from closets and lls
them with hydrangeas for the dining
room.
Give your houseplants a once-
over
Plants, whether succulents, ferns
or rosemary topiaries, add to the
look and energy of a room. Yet many
people seem to be running plant
hospitals, Proxmire says. I see for-
lorn sticks in dusty old pots scat-
tered all over the place, she says.
Proxmire advises looking over your
plants on a regular basis; she does
it every Sunday. Be brutally hon-
est. If the plant really doesnt look
great, get rid of it. She isnt totally
heartless: She has created an orchid
revival area on a deep windowsill
in her home, behind some indoor
shutters, where she can keep an eye
on dormant orchids without putting
them on public view.
Separate matching sets of furni-
ture
Lots of people go to a furniture
store and buy matching sofas and
loveseats and put them in their liv-
ing rooms, says Roslyn Ashford of
Ra Redoes Rooms, a Silver Spring,
Maryland, staging rm. They stay
there forever.
Ashford says many living rooms
arent big enough for two sofas,
and a loveseat rarely is sat on by
more than one person. She often
replaces a bulky piece with a chair
that takes up less space and makes
the room seem larger. In bedrooms,
Ashford nds sets of matching mas-
sive wooden beds, side tables and
dressers. Eight-drawer chests with
mirrors are often jammed into a
corner. Most bedrooms cant sup-
port that much furniture. Take the
chest and put it in a hallway, dining
room or an ofce, or any room you
need storage. She suggests putting
a small dresser in a bedroom closet
to save oor space.
When youve lived somewhere 10
or 20 years, you have to declutter all
the rooms on a regular bases, Ash-
ford says. THE WASHINGTON POST
Tyler Whitmore replaced a dark navy
bedspread on a mahogany sleigh bed
with a cream coverlet in a restaging. DEB-
BIE LABONSKI (TOP)/TYLER WHITMORE (BOTTOM
Older bathrooms can have unusual
colour combinations; but tiles, sinks
and tubs can be sprayed with an acrylic,
usually white coating that brings the
bathroom up to date. MIRACLE METHOD
Give the front door an unexpected colour and consider carrying it into the room it
opens up to, professional stagers say. LAURA MCCAFFREY
Kelley Proxmire had carpet cut specically to t the space in her own dining room,
making it look larger. Proxmire uses lots of green plants in her work, and is adamant
that they look healthy. KEVIN ALLEN
THE United Nations warned yester-
day of grave food security concerns
in the West African countries hardest
hit by the Ebola outbreak as the dead-
ly epidemic caused labour shortages
and disrupted cross-border trade.
Restrictions on movement in Guin-
ea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has led to
panic buying, food shortages and
severe price hikes, especially in towns
and cities, the UNs Food and Agricul-
ture Organization said.
Access to food has become a press-
ing concern for many people in the
three affected countries and their
neighbours, said Bukar Tijani, FAO
Regional Representative for Africa.
With the main harvest now at risk
and trade and movements of goods
severely restricted, food insecurity is
poised to intensify in the weeks and
months to come.
The situation will have long-lasting
impacts on farmers livelihoods and
rural economies.
The Ebola outbreak has killed 1,552
people and infected 3,062, according
to the latest figures released by the
World Health Organization (WHO).
At current infection rates, the WHO
fears it could take six to nine months
and at least $490 million to bring the
outbreak under control, by which time
over 20,000 people could be affected.
The food security alert was sounded
as the WHO announced a separate
Ebola outbreak in Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo has now killed 31 people,
although it added that the contagion
was confined to an area around 800
kilometres north of Kinshasa.
The WHO had previously given a
death toll of 13 for the country.
Quarantine zones imposed in the
epicentre of the outbreak straddling
the three west African countries will
lead to food shortages for large num-
bers of people, the FAO said, with the
main harvest season for rice and
maize just weeks away.
Production of cash crops like palm
oil, cocoa and rubber is also expected
to be seriously affected, throwing peo-
ple further into poverty.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
rely heavily on imports for cereals and
other commodities. In Liberia, which
has been hardest-hit by the outbreak
with 694 deaths, the price of cassava
in market stalls in Monrovia went up
150 per cent within the first weeks of
August, the FAO said. AFP
Ebola sparks food shortage fears
Katy Waldman

I
WOULD like to dedicate this ar-
ticle about narcissism to a very
special person: me. Dedicating a
story about narcissism to your-
self is a pretty clever idea. I didnt
think of it. Jeffrey Kluger did, in his
new book The Narcissist Next Door:
Understanding the Monster in Your
Family, in Your Ofce, in Your Bed
in Your World.
Klugers well-researched and en-
tertaining study of the syndrome du
jour pulls in gures as varied as Lance
Armstrong, Kim Kardashian, Jayson
Blair and Steve Jobs. It also names
exploitativeness and entitlement
as two of the narcissists calling cards.
He is far from the rst to observe that
we live in a culture suffused by low-
grade narcissism. Our Instagram ac-
counts, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds
and personal websites refract our lives
into a coloured light show for all to
watch. We come home from building
our professional brands, re up the
Netix stream of reality television and
bop our heads along to Feeling Myself
by Will.i.am (Look up in the mirror/the
mirror look at me). A 2008 study found
that college students score higher on
the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
now than they did in 1979 and that
more of them consider themselves
above average. A National Institutes
of Health study determined that 9.4
per cent of 20- to 29-year-olds exhibit
extreme narcissism, compared with 3.2
per cent of those older than 65.
For some experts, narcissism is
more than a character aw, a de-
velopmental stage or an adaptation
to social norms. Its a diagnosis, in-
scribed in Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Edition, or DSM. Narcissistic per-
sonality disorder belongs to a suite
of personality disorders rst codied
in 1980. These diagnostic categories
were controversial from the start, and
psychiatrists continue to argue about
how to dene them and whether
they should be in the DSM. Person-
ality disorders are more subtle than
schizophrenia, depression or other
classic psychiatric maladies, and as
currently construed, theyre wide-
spread: About 9.1 per cent of Ameri-
cans have a personality disorder.
Borderline, obsessive-compulsive
and antisocial syndromes are among
the most common; narcissistic per-
sonality disorder is estimated to af-
ict 1 per cent of the population.
Patients with narcissism disorder
show pathological traits like grandi-
osity, self-centredness and a constant
need for attention and admiration.
Their relationships suffer as a result
of impaired empathy, even as they
rely heavily on others for self-deni-
tion and self-esteem regulation.
You can take a 40-question quiz to
gauge your egomania. But because
your score ticks higher every time you
agree with a statement like I am a
good leader or I like being compli-
mented, some say the survey does a
better job of reecting self-esteem
or human nature than narcissism.
Just this month, researchers unveiled
a simpler method for determining
whether someone is a narcissist: Ask
them, Are you a narcissist? People
who are willing to admit they are more
narcissistic than others probably actu-
ally are more narcissistic, explained
Ohio State University psychologist
Brad Bushman. They believe they
are superior to other people and are
ne with saying that publicly.
To qualify as pathological, narcis-
sistic tendencies must impair func-
tioning in real and painful ways. The
self-absorption must not be explica-
ble by age (toddlers are notorious ty-
rants) or sociocultural environment
(football stars are encouraged to act
like Roman emperors). A true narcis-
sist is all ego, unfettered and clumsy.
While this portrait may look famil-
iar, it also has a slippery, everywhere-
at-once quality. The looseness of the
DSM symptoms (personal standards
are unreasonably high in order to see
oneself as exceptional, or too low based
on a sense of entitlement; over- or
underestimation of own effect on oth-
ers) and the proliferation of subtypes
(fragile, amorous, compensatory,
paranoid, phallic) make it all seem
uncomfortably broad.
But for all their cultural ubiquity,
narcissists are elusive gures. They are
us in the aggregate and sometimes her
but never me. Kipnis points out that
the vampiric, spotlight-stealing nar-
cissist has historically been introduced
to explain why we normals arent get-
ting the attention we deserve. They are
co-workers, acquaintances and lovers
whose rampaging egos trample our
own poor yearnings underfoot.
While Kipnis builds a seductive
case, you get the sense she has un-
derestimated narcissists. Person-
ality traits exist on a continuum,
says John Oldham, chief of staff at
the Menninger Clinic and one of the
leading voices for getting narcissism
into the DSM. Someone with nar-
cissistic personality disorder is at an
extreme point on the continuum,
a point that leads to incredible im-
pairment at work, interpersonally,
and socially. In subclinical patients,
self-condence (the healthy isotope
of narcissism) may shade into arro-
gance, but not Trump-level radioac-
tive hazmat. Pure NPD, Oldham says,
makes peoples worlds fall apart.
For psychiatrists, the question isnt
really do narcissists exist or are nar-
cissists any different from the rest of
us. Its are narcissists mentally ill?
Behind this question lurks another
one: What do we gain, and lose, from
picking out a psychic phenomenon
and declaring it sick? Are we stig-
matising ordinary behaviour? Ab-
solving jerks of responsibility for
their trespasses? Conversely, given
our more advanced understanding
of mental illness as biological a
complicated interweaving of genetic,
developmental and environmental
factors are we being more humane?
Making it easier for people who are
suffering to nd treatment?
We all have a tendency greater
or less to be selsh, and I dont see
it as helpful to discuss narcissism
and narcissists in diagnostic terms,
writes the psychologist Peter Kinder-
man. His problem with the mental ill-
ness label: It is inaccurate, a contrived
category for a pervasive human im-
pulse. Our shared penchant for nar-
cissism plays out to greater or lesser
degrees, he claims, and we should
concentrate on how we all, me in-
cluded, can be self-centred, lacking
in compassion, lacking in empathy.
Psychologists are largely in the dark
about what causes NPD. A study of
175 volunteer twin pairs (90 identi-
cal, 85 fraternal) suggested that nar-
cissism is a highly heritable trait, but
few labs have looked at what triggers
the full-blown personality disorder.
Adoption studies of antisocial per-
sonality disorder support the claim
that environment plays a role in this
roster of illnesses. Some experts posit
that NPD, which tends to manifest by
early adulthood, sprouts from exces-
sive pampering or a self-serving pa-
rental need for their children to be
talented and special. The most com-
mon causal model imagines a skein of
interrelated biological, social and psy-
chological factors, in which a predilec-
tion lurking in your DNA may ower
heinously with the right combination
of childhood experiences, learned be-
haviors and nurtured quirks.
As it stands, many doctors are still
dissatised with the DSMs portrait
of narcissism. A recent paper points
out that the description, with its brief
and broad list of symptoms, over-
looks the nuances of the syndromes
nature, structure, presentation and
expression (is your narcissism overt
or kept hidden?). Yet including the
condition in our eld guide to psy-
chological disorders is a good thing.
Whether they are maligned for be-
ing selsh jerks or considered men-
tally ill, narcissists will probably face
a measure of stigma. They might as
well get some help, too. SLATE
Health
18
Is narcissism a trait or a disorder?
Narciso by Jan Cossiers. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Locals carry bags and food at a market in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on August 16. AFP
WHEN we listen to music we enjoy,
it makes us feel different. Truly be-
loved songs inspire a different state
of mind than the average pretty
background noise. A study published
in Scientic Reports pinpoints the
changes in neurological activity be-
hind that experience.
In the small study (with 21 young
adults, total), participants with differ-
ent genre preferences were exposed
to entire songs while in an MRI. They
were exposed to a liked genre, a dis-
liked genre and their self-reported
favourite song. Researchers were
looking for changes in brain activ-
ity that related to preference for the
music being listened to, as op-
posed to changes that might
occur based on differences
in the musicality or lyrics
of the tune. If your favou-
rite artist is Beyonce, her
dance anthems probably
make you feel as focused
as a classical music
lover listening to
Beethoven
and that
is pretty
crazy.
The re-
searchers wanted to understand how
people could have the same feelings
associated with their favourite music
(greater self-reection and inward
thought) regardless of genre.
When listening to a preferred genre
or a favourite song, the participants
had greater connectivity between re-
gions of the brain called the default
mode network (DMN). The DMN is
associated with that switch we can
ip between inner and outer thought.
When the DMN is active, youre not
focused on whats happening in the
physical world around you youre
using internal stimuli, like memories
and your imagination.
Of course, you probably already
knew that your favourite mu-
sic could make you zone
out. The study authors hope
that these ndings will en-
courage innovative music
therapy in individuals with
conditions associated with
poor DMN activity and
connectivity, like
autism and
schizophre-
nia. THE
WASHINGTON
POST
Tunes help you study, but
only if theyre ones you like
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Tourists stand near a gift shop in the old Jewish Quarters of Toledo. AFP
Spain dusts
off its ancient
Jewish roots
Daniel Silva

J
UST outside the 11th-cen-
tury walls that surround
Avila in central Spain,
rows of granite slabs sur-
rounded by neatly trimmed
grass mark the spot where an-
cient Jewish graves lay.
Authorities spent 250,000
($335,000) to build the memo-
rial garden which opened
last year on the grounds of a
medieval Jewish cemetery in
what used to be an empty eld
behind a monastery.
A plaque explains, in Spanish
and English, that the cemetery
was dismantled after Spains
King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella in 1492 banished Jews
from Spain as part of a policy
to unite the country under the
banner of Catholicism.
The garden illustrates how
ve centuries after Spain ex-
pelled its Jews and moved to
erase all traces of their exis-
tence, cities across the country
are searching for the remains
of their medieval synagogues,
restoring Jewish cemeteries
and identifying old Jewish
neighbourhoods.
We knew there was a Jewish
cemetery there and we decid-
ed to highlight it, Avila Mayor
Miguel Angel Garcia Nieto said
at his ofce in the citys impos-
ing 19th-century town hall.
We cant live with our backs
to the reality that many people
around the world have their
roots here in Spain, including
Avila, whose ancestors were
forced to leave, he added.
Although estimates vary, his-
torians believe at least 200,000
Jews lived in Spain before the
1492 expulsion. Many who re-
fused to convert or leave were
burned at the stake.
Jews made rich contribu-
tions to science, music and
literature before they were
driven out from the old Jew-
ish quarters in medieval Span-
ish cities such as Toledo and
Seville where they lived among
Christians and Muslims.
Now two dozen cities and
towns across Spain have band-
ed together in a Network of
Jewish Quarters to try to revive
and promote their Jewish his-
tory by building monuments,
putting up signs identifying
historic sites and hosting con-
certs, lectures and other cul-
tural activities.
The push to revive Jewish
heritage sites comes as Spain
this year introduced a draft
law to ease the path to citizen-
ship for Sephardic Jews those
originating from the Iberian
peninsula who can prove
they are descended from those
who were expelled.
In Avila, a 21-room hotel
with rooms named after Jew-
ish thinkers now occupies the
spot where a synagogue is
thought to have once existed.
The sites of the two other
synagogues that once existed
in Avila are now occupied by
private homes that have no
signs of ever being a house of
worship except for discreet
street signs.
Spanish ofcials involved
in the effort to highlight Jew-
ish heritage say its not fair to
say they are motivated by the
search for more tourists.
Assumpcio Hosta, the secre-
tary-general of the Network of
Jewish Quarters, concedes that
some member cities have few
physical remnants of Spains
Jewish past.
There are some cities where
the buildings are no longer
there, the streets are no longer
there, you dont see so much
but instead there are many
documents from that period
which are of interest, she said.
Its not that they dont have
the history, its that the history
is not so visible. AFP
Children stand near the El Transito synagogue and Sephardic Museum
in Toledo. AFP
Entertainment
20

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
A group of mutated warriors face off against an
evil kingpin who wants to take over the city of
New York.
Citymall: 9:55pm
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Light-years from Earth, 26 years after being
abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime
target of a manhunt. Stars: Chris Pratt, Vin
Diesel, Bradley Cooper.
Citymall: 11:30am
Tuol Kork: 9:25pm
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
When a team of explorers ventures into the
catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris,
they uncover the dark secret that lies within
this city of the dead.
Citymall: 3:40pm
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Storm trackers, thrill-seekers and everyday
townspeople document an unprecedented on-
slaught of tornadoes touching down in the town
of Silverton. Stars: Richard Armitage, Sarah
Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh.
Citymall: 9:15am, 2pm, 6:10pm, 8:05pm
Tuol Kork: 11:40am, 1:35pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
INTO THE STORM
(As above)
11:10am, 2:50pm
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
Some of Sin Citys most hard-boiled citizens
cross paths with a few of its more reviled
inhabitants. Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba,
Josh Brolin.
2pm, 8:30pm
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
(As above.)
9:20am
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Salsa @ The Groove
Beginner salsa lessons will precede
a salsa party open to participants of
all skill levels. The cost of the lesson
is $5 per person, but the party is free
for all.
The Groove, #1C Street 282 on top of
Terrazza Italian Restaurant. 8pm
Lipstick @ St Tropez
Groups of four women get one free
bottle of vodka (except for Grey Goose)
and 50 per cent o on all cocktails
and wine for the evening. With music
by DJ Naga.
Maison Saint Tropez, #31 Street 174.
9pm
TV PICKS
Latin Quarter will serve its South American ceviche. AFP
Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer as Bill
Compton in True Blood. BLOOMBERG
Live Music @ Slur Bar
Cambodian singer Miss Sarawan will
team up with country music acionado
Joe Wrigley for a night of Cambodian
singing to the tune of the Southern
United States folk music.
Slur Bar, #28 Street 172.
9:30pm
Tapas @ Latin Quarter
Latin Quarter will feature a special
deal on tapas and sangria. For $5,
customers will get a special sangria
glass with a speciality dish of ceviche
and suckling pig. Prepared by the new
chefs from Spain and Colombia.
Latin Quarter, corner of Streets 19 and
178. 4pm
3:50pm - SMASHED: A married couple whose bond is
built on a mutual love of alcohol has their relationship
put to the test when the wife decides to get sober. HBO
5:10pm - THE PRINCE OF EGYPT: An Egyptian prince
learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later, his destiny
to become the chosen deliverer of his people. HBO
6:50pm - ERIN BROCKOVICH: An unemployed single
mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-
handedly brings down a California power company
accused of polluting a citys water supply. Stars:
Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin. HBO
11:20pm - TRUE BLOOD: Telepathic waitress Sookie
Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural
world when she meets the mysterious Bill, a southern
Louisiana gentleman and vampire. HBO
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Overly severe
6 Palindromic title for a lady
11 Postal service abbr.
14 Hawaiian hello
15 NBA site
16 Broad st.
17 Indoor gardeners necessity
19 Bolt holder
20 Marco the explorer
21 Plant fiber
23 Robbery by a gang
27 More awkward to carry
29 Flowering shrub seen at the
Masters
30 Communicate by computer
31 Orange covers
32 Rich soils
34 Bird on the Australian coat of
arms
37 Concludes
38 Gung-ho, as an attitude
39 Hot room, colloquially
40 Rocker Shannon
41 Compliments, as to the chef
42 Short fishing line
43 Exclusive group
45 Judicial decision
46 Monastery residents
48 Folk medicine plant
49 Be a mountaineer
50 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
novelist
51 Sale-rack dangler
52 Outstanding U.S. athlete
59 Cigarette residue
60 Horse command
61 Like very much
62 Serve without consequence
63 Despondently
64 Cut, as lumber
DOWN
1 Its not right to say on a farm?
2 Carte or mode word
3 Sit in a dump
4 Feminine pronoun
5 Mythical avian monsters
6 Macholike
7 Golden Fleece seekers-vessel
8 Mistletoe mo.
9 Santa ___, California
10 Some envelopes
11 Structural supports
12 Embryo-sac encloser
13 Impede
18 Smidgen
22 Enjoy Snowmass
23 Threw down the gauntlet
24 Mag attachment?
25 Romantic illumination
26 Bygone GM line
27 Perspiration units
28 Uzi filler
32 Puts aboard
33 Lennons wife
35 Hand-to-hand fighting
36 Still listed under rentals
38 Like a litter of puppies
39 Not anymore
41 Soldiers knapsacks
42 Married women, in Madrid
44 Flee hastily
45 Old Genoese bigwig
46 Base eight
47 Indifferent
48 Uneven, as a road
50 Pile of loot
53 Green patch
54 Took a horse to water?
55 Rhodas TV mom
56 Ranch sight
57 How ___ you?
58 Beatty of Deliverance
WITH ALL ONES MIGHT
Tuesdays solution Tuesdays solution
Sport
21
Serena into US Open quarters
F
IVE-TIME champion Serena
Williams reached her rst
Grand Slam quarternal of
2014 at the US Open on Mon-
day but Canadian poster girl Eugenie
Bouchard, struggling in the heat and
humidity, was knocked out.
World number one Williams, the
two-time defending champion,
eased past world number 50 Kaia
Kanepi, 6-3, 6-3 for a fourth victory
over the Estonian and goes on to face
fellow 32-year-old Flavia Pennetta
of Italy in a clash of the two oldest
remaining players in the draw.
Its my rst quarternal of the year
at the majors at last I did it, said
the American, who had fallen in the
fourth round in Australia, the third
round at Wimbledon and suffered a
second round French Open exit.
It was a tough match today. Kaia
hits the ball very hard and moves
the ball around really well. I wanted
to stay relaxed and told myself that
whatever happens, Serena, youre
still in the doubles.
Seventh seeded Bouchard was at
the centre of a medical drama on
Louis Armstrong court when she
had to have her blood pressure and
temperature taken in her 7-6 (7/2),
6-4 defeat to Russian 17th seed Ekat-
erina Makarova.
Wimbledon runner-up Bouchard
called the medical timeout at 2-3
down in the second set when she
was obviously struggling in the 31-
degree heat and humidity running at
60 per cent.
She slipped 4-2 down, broke back
for 4-3 but left-handed Makarova was
too strong for the ailing Canadian as
she booked a spot in the last eight for
the second successive year.
I was feeling very lightheaded and
dizzy on the court, just seeing things
a little blurry. I just generally didnt
feel good, said Bouchard whose de-
feat meant that for only the second
time in the Open era there will be
just one top-eight seed in the quar-
ternals of a major.
It developed as the match went on.
I have had a few late, tough matches
here, and I dont think I fully recov-
ered from those.
Bouchards defeat ended her run
of having reached at least the semi-
nals at all the majors this year and
also means that for the rst time
since 1977, the four Grand Slam
womens championship matches will
have featured eight different players.
Makarova next faces former world
number one Victoria Azarenka, the
runner-up to Williams in 2012 and
2013, who came back from a set
down to defeat 145th-ranked Serbi-
an qualier Aleksandra Krunic, 4-6,
6-4, 6-4.
Krunic, 21, who is studying for an
economics degree when she is not
playing tennis, stunned third seed
and Wimbledon champion Petra Kvi-
tova to reach her rst major last 16.
And the slender 5-foot-4 (1.63-
metre) Serb almost added Azarenka
to her list of victims when she re-
covered from a double-break down
in the rst set to take the opener in
a wonderful display of uninhibited
hitting.
But the bigger, stronger Azarenka
eventually prevailed over an op-
ponent attempting to be the rst
qualier to make the last eight in
New York in 33 years.
Aleksandra played amazing,
she has a great future in the sport.
I tried to be positive and I turned
the match around, said Azarenka,
down at 17 in the world after a sea-
son in which she has struggled with
a left foot injury.
Italian 11th seed Pennetta reached
her fth quarternal in New York
with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Australian
29th seed Casey Dellacqua.
Pennetta made the seminals in
2013, where she was defeated by
Azarenka, and despite having a 5-0
losing record against Williams, she
refuses to believe that the outcome
of Wednesdays quarternal is a fore-
gone conclusion.
Of course shes better than me,
but I still believe I can beat her. If
she doesnt have a good day I can do
that, said Pennetta of an opponent
who has dropped just 17 games in
four rounds so far. AFP
Serena Williams of the US returns a shot to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia during their 2014 US Open womens singles match in New York. AFP
THE Thai players didnt get
the start they had been hop-
ing for on the opening day of
the 8-million-baht ($248,550)
SangSom 6-Red World Cham-
pionship on Monday with
young Ratchayothin Yotharuck
already nding himself
trapped in a tight corner.
Ratchayothin, who plays on
the world professional circuit,
rst went down 5-2 to Ben
Judge of Australia in the morn-
ing session at the Montien Riv-
erside Hotel and then suffered
another defeat at the hands
of defending champion Mark
Davis of England, losing 5-3
in the afternoon in his second
Group A match.
With four players qualifying
for the knockout stages from
each group, Ratchayothin is
now left with an uphill task of
beating former world profes-
sional champion Ken Doherty
of Ireland, Welshman Domi-
nic Dale and reigning Asian
champion Thor Chuan Leong
of Malaysia to ensure a place
in the last 32.
Veteran and former world
No 3 Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm,
better known as James Wat-
tana, scored a hard-fought 5-4
victory over European quali-
er Alex Borg of Malta, but Nop-
pon Saengkham, Kritsanut
Lertsattayathorn, Thanawat
Tirapongpaiboon and Boon-
yarit Kaettikun all lost their
opening matches.
Jamie Clark from Wales de-
feated Kritsanut 5-3 and Eng-
lands Jimmy White, a former
winner of the tournament,
whipped Thai debutant Boon-
yarit, who nished runner-up
at the Asian 6-Red Cham-
pionship last month, by the
same scoreline.
Noppon was held score-
less in the deciding frame by
Welsh professional Michael
White, who scored a narrow
5-4 victory, while Thanawat
failed to match the wits of
Chinese wildcard Liang Wen-
bo and lost his rst group
stage match 5-1.
As far as the host country
is concerned, the scenario
improved a bit with Thep-
chaiya Un-nooh and Decha-
wat Poomjaeng producing
impressive results.
Thepchaiya was 5-3 win-
ner over Shivan Arora of In-
dia, while Dechawat routed
Austrian qualier Andreas
Ploner 5-1.
Former world snooker cham-
pion Shaun Murphy, world No
12 Stuart Bingham and No 15
Joe Perry were victorious in
their opening matches.
Murphy, now ranked No 7,
defeated Schachar Ruberg
of Israel 5-2, Bingham beat
Graeme Dott 5-2 and Perry
won 5-3 against Ahmed Galal
of Egypt.
The Iranian players showed
their prowess in the opening
session yesterday morning
with Hossein Vafaei Ayouri
hammering Hung Chung
Ming of Taiwan 5-1 and Amir
Sarkhosh whitewashing Arora
5-0. BANGKOK POST
Thai snooker stars
struggle in openers
Wallabies axe Beale, White
AUSTRALIA coach Ewen
McKenzie dropped Kurtley
Beale and Nic White yesterday
for the Rugby Championship
clash against South Africa fol-
lowing the Wallabies 51-20
humiliation by New Zealand.
Beale and White were pre-
ferred for the opening two
rounds but McKenzie reverted
to Bernard Foley and Nick
Phipps as his halves pairing
after last months beating
in Auckland.
They are among a number
of changes for Saturdays Test
in Perth, with James Hanson
replacing injured hooker
Nathan Charles after he was
ruled out for the season with
a pectoral tear.
The retirement of Pat
McCabe with a fractured neck
sees a further reshuffle of the
backline, with vice captain
Adam Ashley-Cooper moving
back to the wing and Tevita
Kuridrani getting a call-up at
outside centre.
While the size of the chal-
lenge isnt any easier this
week, the South Africans do
play a unique brand of rugby
which we will need to adjust
to, McKenzie said.
Thats reflected in our
selections somewhat, where
we feel the partnership of
Nick and Bernard will best
suit the style of game well be
trying to play.
His decision hands Foley
and Phipps their first starting
game side-by-side since lead-
ing the NSW Waratahs to their
debut Super Rugby title a
month ago, with Beale and
White both on the bench.
Theyve got a proven com-
bination at a Super Rugby
level and we look forward to
seeing how that translates into
the Test environment, McKen-
zie added.
Its naturally disappointing
for the two guys who missed
out on the starting team in Nic
and Kurtley, but the reality is we
have a lot of good players in
those playmaking positions.
We expect them to respond
in a positive manner and to
make an impact playing an
important role in how we close
out the match.
Centre Matt Toomua, winger
Rob Horne and star fullback
Israel Folau all held on to their
spots in the backline.
To combat the abrasive
Springboks pack, McKenzie
has opted for a forward-heavy
six-two split on the bench.
Lock James Horwill returns
as a replacement at the expense
of youngster Will Skelton, while
Western Force captain Matt
Hodgson and Reds hooker Saia
Faingaa get their first Wallaby
opportunities of 2014.
Should Hodgson take the
field, it would be his first Test
appearance since 23 July,
2011.
McKenzie said the bench
would be important against the
South Africans.
Weve been really impressed
with the variety South Africa
has brought to their game in
recent times, but traditionally
they are a forward-orientated
side which uses their size, pow-
er and set-piece to put pressure
on the opposition, he said.
You have to confront that
head-on and match fire with
fire.
The addition of an extra for-
ward also offers us greater flex-
ibility in how we approach our
substitutions. AFP
Australia y-half Kurtley Beale eyes the ball during his teams rugby
union Test match against New Zealand in Sydney on August 16. AFP
Last 16 stage hits off in
volleyball competition
THE National Volleyball Leo Cup
2014 launched its round of 16
stage at the Olympic Stadium
indoor hall yesterday, with sides
vying for cash prizes that total
88 million riel ($22,000). Ten
qualifiers from provincial play-
offs join the top six finishers of
last years tournament and are
split into four groups of four. The
top two from each group will
advance to compete for the Hun
Sen Cup, while the bottom two
clubs will enter the National
Volleyball Leo Cup competition.
Winners of the Hun Sen Cup will
receive 40 million riel and victors
of the Leo Cup will take home
12 million riel. A late change to
the last 16 line up sees sides
Bodyguard Commander, Sea
Dragon and Tbong Khmum
switched for Beach Military
Camp 3, Kampot Police
Department and Russey Keo
respectively. Volleyball
Federation of Cambodia
general secretary Beung
Kimtaor revealed that
Bodyguard Commander had
relinquished their place due to
a clash with the departments
anniversary event, while the
other two teams had been
kicked out because they did not
turn up for training. CHHORN
NORN, TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Mountain bike series
switches race locations
ORGANISERS of the 2014
Smart Cambodia MTB Series
announced yesterday that they
had switched locations of the
fourth round of the competition
from Kep to Phnom Baset, on
the outskirts of Phnom Penh,
while the concluding fifth round
would now be held at Kirirom
National Park. The slated
October 19 race in Kep was
dropped due to its proximity
with the October 4-5
scheduling of the National
Mountain Bike Championship
in Kampot, as well as concerns
over transport costs, according
to chief organiser Pierre Yves
Catry. The Phnom Baset race
will be hosted on November 2,
with the Kirirom event following
on December 14. DANRILEY
Broken jaw puts fly-half
Sexton on the sidelines
RACING Metros Ireland fly-half
Jonathan Sexton is facing up to
six weeks on the sidelines after
fracturing his jaw in the
weekend win over Toulon, his
French Top 14 club reported on
Monday. Sexton, who came off
in the 50th minute of Saturdays
17-10 victory over the French
champions, is due to miss
Racings four coming Top 14
games. But he should be fit in
time for the start of his teams
European Cup campaign
against Northampton on
October 18. Sexton took a hit
when tackled by Toulons Craig
Burden early in Saturdays
game, but he soldiered on,
kicking two conversions before
being replaced. AFP
Astros sack second
season manager Porter
THE Houston Astros have fired
team manager Bo Porter in mid-
season, general manager Jeff
Luhnow announced on Monday.
Porter was in just his second
season with the Astros, who are
59-79 this year and sit fourth in
the American League West.
Bench coach Dave Trembley was
also relieved of his duties. AFP
Sport
Greece ace in
wildcard pack,
Senegal streak
G
REECE and hosts Spain were
the rst teams to book their
spots in the knockout stage
of the Basketball World Cup
on Monday by beating Puerto Rico
while Senegal took their second sur-
prise scalp in as many days.
Greece improved to 3-0 in Group
B with a 90-79 victory over Puerto
Rico as Nikos Zisis led the way with
19 points while Giannis Antetokoun-
mpo had 15 and Nick Calathes added
14 points.
Greece, who received a wild card
for the World Cup, pulled away in
the third quarter and never really
let the Puerto Ricans back into the
game as they hit big shots in the
fourth quarter.
Puerto Rico, who were playing with-
out their injured leader Carlos Arroyo,
dropped to 0-3 and have an up-hill
battle to reach the Round of 16.
Spain booked their place with an
82-63 victory over previously unbeat-
en Brazil.
Paul Gasol scored 26 points to go
with nine rebounds and three blocks
while Sergio Rodriguez added 12
points and Juan Carlos Navarro had
10 in Spains victory.
Senegal carried on from where they
left off in beating the Puerto Ricans
on Sunday in beating Croatia 77-75
to improve to 2-1. NBA center Gorgui
Dieng picked up 27 points, eight re-
bounds, three assists and two blocks
and Xane Dalmeida nailed three
three-pointers in scoring 15 points for
the Africans.
Croatia saw both Dario Saric and
Bojan Bogdanovic score 15 points in
the loss, which dropped the Europe-
ans to 2-1.
Senegal on Sunday defeated Puerto
Rico for their rst win at the Worlds
since 1998.
We rode the wave from yesterday
and got another great win, said Sen-
egals Maleye Ndoye, the only active
member of the team that lost all ve
games at the 2006 World Champion-
ship in Japan.
It would be great to keep playing
and continue to ride the wave. But
well use the day to get some rest. And
we will be focused the same for the
next game against Argentina.
Argentina also improved to 2-1 with
an 85-81 win over Philippines thanks
to 19 points from Luis Scola, 17 by
Marcos Mata and 10 each by Nicolas
Laprovittola and Walter Herrmann.
Philippines remained winless de-
spite 14 points and 15 rebounds from
Andray Blatche.
Group A saw Serbia beat Iran 83-70
as they secured the win with a strong
third quarter in improving to 2-1.
The leading scorer for Serbia was
Nemanja Bjelica with 18 points to
go with 10 rebounds while Bogdan
Bogdanovic chipped in 16 points and
Milos Teodosic had eight points and
nine assists.
Iran wasted 29 points from Hamed
Haddadi and 20 points and seven re-
bounds from Samad Nikkah Bahrami
in dropping to 0-3.
France also moved to 2-1 in Group
A with a 94-55 thrashing of winless
Egypt as Joffrey Lauvergne scored 12
points to lead four France players in
double digits. AFP
Spains guard Sergio Llull dunks a ball during their 2014 FIBA World basketball champi-
onships Group A match against Brazil at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes in Granada. AFP
Phillies pitchers combine to no-hit Braves
STARTER Cole Hamels and his
Philadelphia Phillies bullpen
tossed a combined no-hitter
with a 7-0 shutout of the Atlan-
ta Braves on Monday.
The left-handed Hamels
struck out seven batters in six
innings before the bullpen
took over for the first com-
bined no-hitter in the Major
League Baseball teams history.
Philadelphia ace Hamels had
five walks and a high pitch
count, forcing manager Ryne
Sandberg to remove him for a
pinch-hitter in the top of the
seventh inning.
Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and
Jonathan Papelbon preserved
the no-hitter, each throwing a
solid inning out of the
bullpen.
I have the utmost respect
and faith in the bullpen because
theyve been outstanding all
year, especially these three
guys, Hamels said. Theyve
been some of the best.
Hamels became the first
pitcher since Seattles Kevin
Millwood in 2012 to be pulled
after six no-hit innings.
Millwood, who threw a no-
hitter with the Phillies in 2003,
left that game after suffering
an injury.
Hamels threw his 100th pitch
of the game early in the sixth
inning, striking Justin Upton
out chasing a high fastball. He
then fanned Chris Johnson
and got Phil Gosselin to pop
to second.
I understood coming
around the sixth inning that it
was going to be a short game,
Hamels said. Understanding
the situation and what was
going on, I wasnt really too
worried about it.
Hamels got some help from
his defence to keep the no-
hitter going. With two outs in
the third inning and runners
on second and third, Johnson
lined to short right field and
Marlon Byrd made a diving
catch going to his left.
Hamels had more hits than
the Braves, leading off the sixth
inning with a single before
advancing on Ben Reveres
sacrifice bunt and scoring on
Jimmy Rollins second extra-
base hit of the game.
Diekman struck out two in
the seventh, Giles fanned the
side in the eighth and Papel-
bon got three quick outs in the
ninth the last on a soft line
drive hit by Gosselin that was
snagged by first baseman
Darin Ruf.
Diekman said he had no idea
when he entered the contest
that a no-hitter was on the
line.
It was the first combined no-
hitter in Phillies history and
their 12th overall, including
Roy Halladay, who did it four
years ago against the Cincin-
nati Reds.
Rollins moved into first place
in Philadelphia franchise his-
tory with his 658th multihit
game. Rollins singled, doubled
and tripled and drove in a run
to pass Richie Ashburn.
Revere had a career-high five
RBI in the win. AFP Cole Hamels of the Philadelphia Phillies throws a rst inning pitch against the Atlanta Braves on Monday. AFP
Football
23
Ivory Coast approves
match amid Ebola fears
THE Ivory Coast government
yesterday relented and agreed
to let the national football team
play an Africa Cup of Nations
match against Sierra Leone that
it had banned because of Ebola
virus fears. Ivory Coast had been
warned they could be excluded
from the Nations Cup finals if
they refused to play Sierra
Leone, one of the countries
worst hit by the incurable
disease which has killed more
than 1,500 people this year. The
Ivory Coast Football Federation
said that most of the players,
including Yaya Toure of
Manchester City, Salomon
Kalou of Hertha Berlin and
Gervinho of AS Roma had
arrived in Abidjan on Monday to
prepare for next Sundays game.
The government had repeatedly
refused to allow the qualifying
game to be held in Abidjan. But
a new statement said the game
had been authorised after the
Sierra Leone federation had
given a guarantee that no
member of its delegation had
been in a country affected by the
Ebola virus for the 21 days
before the match. AFP
NGog returns to France
after long English exile
FRENCH striker David NGog
brought to an end a six-year
spell in England on Monday by
joining Ligue 1 outfit Reims. The
25-year-old who was a free
agent after being released by
Premier League side Swansea
at the end of last season
signed a two-year contract with
Reims. NGog, who came
through the Paris Saint Germain
youth system, joined Liverpool in
2008 with the former France
U21 international spending
three seasons there scoring
nine goals in 63 appearances.
However, with the arrivals of
Uruguayan star Luis Suarez and
England international Andy
Carroll in early 2011 he found
his opportunities limited and he
joined Bolton for 4 million
($6.6million) but left them in last
Januarys transfer window for
Swansea, where he only played
three times. AFP
Brazilian teenage star
Otavio joins FC Porto
HIGHLY REGARDED Brazilian
teenage attacking midfielder
Otavio signed for Portuguese
side Porto on Monday from
Internacional Porto Alegre for a
fee reported to be 7 million
($9million). The 19-year-old,
who had been with Internacional
for three years, signed a five-
year contract with Porto which
includes a buyout clause of 50
million. Otavio could find himself
making his Champions
League debut this month
when the campaign begins
with Porto drawn in Group H
along with Ukraines 2009
UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar
Donetsk, Spanish outfit
Athletic Bilbao, making their
first appearance in the group
stage for 16 years, and Belarus
minnows BATE Borisov. AFP
Man United sign up Falcao,
Blind on busy deadline day
M
ANCHESTER United
made a sensational dou-
ble swoop on transfer
deadline day to sign Co-
lombia striker Radamel Falcao on loan
from Monaco and Holland interna-
tional Daley Blind from Ajax.
Blinds arrival, in a 14 million (US$23
million) transfer, had been expected,
but the signing of prolic 28-year-old
front man Falcao was a major coup for
the ailing English giants.
I am delighted to be joining Man-
chester United on loan this season,
Falcao told the United website. Man-
chester United is the biggest club in
the world and is clearly determined to
get back to the top.
United are reported to have agreed
to pay Monaco a fee of around 10
million ($13.1 million) to secure Fal-
caos services for the season, with an
option to make the deal permanent
for 55 million.
Falcao, who missed the World Cup
with a serious knee injury, was whisked
into Uniteds Carrington training
ground to undergo a medical exami-
nation on Monday evening, with the
club conrming the deal in the early
hours of yesterday morning.
United paid a British-record 59.7
million to sign Angel di Maria from
Real Madrid last week and their spend-
ing spree continued with the capture
of Blind. The 24-year-old, who can play
in defence or mideld, starred as the
Netherlands reached the World Cup
seminals under new United manager
Louis van Gaal.
It is a real honour to sign for Man-
chester United, said Blind, who is the
son of former Netherlands and Ajax
star Danny Blind.
Louis van Gaal is a tremendously
talented coach. I have worked with
him at Ajax and also for the Nether-
lands national team and I cannot wait
to work with him at the biggest club in
the world.
The deals for Falcao and Blind took
Uniteds close-season spending to
around 150 million as the 20-time
English champions look to rebuild fol-
lowing a disappointing seventh-place
nish last season.
With Falcao in line to form a star-
studded attack alongside Wayne
Rooney and Robin van Persie, Danny
Welbeck and Javier Hernandez were
both allowed to leave Old Trafford.
England forward Welbeck, who came
through the youth ranks at United,
joined Arsenal on a long-term contract
for a reported fee of around 16 million.
Mexico striker Hernandez, nick-
named Chicharito (little pea), was
loaned to Real Madrid after scoring 59
goals in 154 appearances for United.
Meanwhile, youngsters Nick Powell
and Tom Lawrence joined Leicester
City Powell on loan, Lawrence on a
permanent deal and defender Mi-
chael Keane was loaned to Burnley.
Uniteds dealings dominated the
headlines on a day when English clubs
took their close-season spending
soaring past 800 million a Premier
League record.
Uniteds cross-town rivals Man-
chester City parted company with Mi-
cah Richards and Alvaro Negredo.
Youth-team graduate Richards
joined Fiorentina on a season-long
loan with an option to buy, ending a
13-year association with the club.
Spain striker Alvaro Negredo moved
to Valencia in a similar deal, only a year
after arriving from Sevilla in a 20 mil-
lion transfer.
Southampton signed Belgium de-
fender Toby Alderweireld from Atletico
Madrid on loan and also paid around
10 million to bring Senegalese winger
Sadio Mane to the club from Red Bull
Salzburg.
On a busy day, Hull City paid a club-
record fee of around 9.5 million to
buy Uruguay striker Abel Hernandez
from Palermo, signed Mohamed Di-
ame from West Ham United, and com-
pleted loan moves for Southampton
playmaker Gaston Ramirez, and New-
castle United winger Hatem Ben Arfa.
Tottenham Hotspur signed France
U21 midelder Benjamin Stambouli
from Montpellier for around 4.7 mil-
lion, sold Sandro to Queens Park Rang-
ers for around 10 million, and loaned
Lewis Holtby to Hamburg.
Brazilian midelder Sandros move
to Loftus Road reunited him with for-
mer Spurs manager Harry Redknapp,
who also brought in Niko Kranjcar on
loan but saw a move for Lassana Di-
arra collapse.
Crystal Palace broke their transfer re-
cord to sign Scotland midelder James
McArthur from Wigan Athletic and
also signed defender Zeki Fryers from
Spurs and striker Kevin Doyle on loan
from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Meanwhile, Sunderland completed
loan moves for Liverpool centre-back
Sebastian Coates and Inter Milan mid-
elder Ricardo Alvarez.
Everton struck a last minute transfer
deadline deal with the loan signing of
Belgian 18-year-old David Henen.
The youth international, who had
been training with the Premier League
side, was sold on Monday by his parent
club Anderlecht to Greek side Olym-
piakos. Everton however arranged to
bring the teenager back to England for
a season-long loan, although the pa-
perwork was not completed until very
late in the day. AFP
Monacos Colombian forward Radamel Falcao celebrates after scoring a goal during the
French L1 football match against FC Nantes and Monaco on August 24. AFP
Germany, Argentina set for World Cup nal rematch
FIFTY days after winning the
World Cup for the fourth time,
the German national team
assembled in Duesseldorf on
Monday ahead of a repeat of
the final against Argentina.
Tonights match was already
set to be a glamour friendly
but there is added hype in the
wake of Mario Goetzes extra-
time winner when the teams
last met in Rio de Janeiro on
July 13. Around 45,000 people
watched the World Cup win-
ners train on Monday and
tonights game at the Espirit
Arena will attract a sell-out
crowd.
On Sunday, Joachim Loews
side host Scotland in Dort-
mund in their first qualifier for
Euro 2016. For a German team
still taking in the World Cup
triumph, the two games have
come around quickly.
I think its not easy for us
thats clear, Bayern Munich
goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said
on Monday.
For Scotland, its the game
of the year to start against us.
We have to play well against
Argentina with regard to the
weekend and to be fully pre-
pared for it.
Germany will be without
Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesack-
er and Miroslav Klose, all of
whom retired from interna-
tional football after this sum-
mers tournament.
Most countries would strug-
gle to replace three players,
who amassed 354 caps
between them, but Germany
team manager Oliver Bierhoff
is confident that the squad can
move on.
After every tournament,
weve always managed to bring
the team to another level and
to develop them further,
Bierhoff said at a press confer-
ence on Monday.
The most pressing question
is who will replace Lahm as
captain. Neuer, midfielder
Bastian Schweinsteiger and
defender Mats Hummels are
all candidates.
When the coach trusts me
to do it, Ill do it, Neuer said.
But of course I have to talk to
him first to find out what the
situation is.
Borussia Dortmund mid-
fielder Marco Reus, who missed
the World Cup through injury,
is back in the squad along with
Fiorentina striker Mario
Gomez. Highly rated VfB Stutt-
gart centre-back Antonio Rue-
diger is also included.
Mesut Ozil has an ankle
injury but Bierhoff said he
hoped the Arsenal midfielder
would be fit for the Scotland
game. Schweinsteiger, how-
ever, will miss both matches
through injury.
Argentina changed manager
after the World Cup, with
former Barcelona boss Gerar-
do Martino taking over after
Alejandro Sabella stepped
down.
Martino must cope without
captain Lionel Messi for his
first match in charge. The Bar-
celona attacker played in a 1-0
win over Villarreal on Sunday
but a groin injury has prevent-
ed the 27-year-old from travel-
ling to Germany.
The priority is not the
result, Martino said before
leaving for Duesseldorf, taking
with him the squad that got to
the World Cup final, minus
Messi.
Whats important is that
theres a good atmosphere in
the squad. AFP
Germany forward Mario Goetze (right) celebrates after scoring the winning goal of the FIFA World Cup nal
against Argentina at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on July 13. AFP
International Friendlies
Russia v Azerbaijan 10pm
Lithuania v UAE 11:30pm
Ukraine v Moldova 12am
Latvia v Armenia 12:45am
Denmark v Turkey 1am
Czech Rep v USA 1:15am
Germany v Argentina 1:45am
Rep of Ireland v Oman 1:45am
England v Norway 2am
TONIGHTS FIXTURES
Sport
Kirk beaming after biggest win
C
HRIS Kirk red a bogey-free
closing-round 66 to win the
PGA Tours Deutsche Bank
Championship by holding
off hard-charging fellow American
Billy Horschel on Monday.
The 29-year-old Kirk posted the
biggest win of his career and moved
into the top spot in the FedEx Cup
playoff standings.
I really felt good with the putter
today. My biggest win ever, said
Kirk, who reached 15-under 269 at
TPC Boston in Norton, Massachu-
setts. I am very happy with my win
today. I may look calmer than some
other guys in that situation, but I am
still freaking out on the inside.
Kirk, who jumped to the top of
the FedEx Cup playoff points list
with two events to play, posted his
rst victory since last years McGla-
drey Classic.
Kirk isnt sure if it was enough to
convince US captain Tom Watson to
add him to the Ryder Cup team.
I certainly dont feel entitled, or
feel like Im a shoe-in to get a pick,
Kirk said. Ive obviously really put
myself into consideration, and its
something that I would love to do.
The nine guys that made it are
automatic. Those are the guys on
the team. The other three? If you get
in, its a bonus.
Horschel needed a birdie to tie or
an eagle to win heading to the par-
ve last hole. He put his drive in the
middle of the fairway, giving him a
shot to make the green in two.
But he chunked his second shot,
which landed well short and in a
hazard. Horschel (69) settled for a
bogey and fell into a three-way tie
for second.
He was joined at 13-under 271 by
Geoff Ogilvy (65) and third-round
leader Russell Henley (70).
I was just trying to make sure I
hit a good golf shot and I hit it a lit-
tle too long, Horschel said. There
are a lot of positives to take away
from this week.
It is the rst time Ive been in
contention all year. I handled my-
self really well, stayed calm and
stayed patient. I made one bad
swing and it happened to come on
the last hole.
This years Open champion and
PGA Championship winner Rory
McIlroy, who won this event last
year, shot a one-under 70 to nish
tied for fth with John Senden (66) at
273. McIlroy, who entered the FedEx
Cup playoffs in top spot, remained
number two in the standings.
Jason Day, who entered the day
two shots back along with Kirk and
McIlroy, carded a nal-round 71
and was tied for seventh with this
years US Open champion Martin
Kaymer, of Germany, at 274.
Entering the week with the top
spot in the FedEx Cup standings
after his victory at The Barclays,
Hunter Mahan nished in sole pos-
session of 64th at one-over 285 fol-
lowing a 68 on Monday. He is now
third in the standings behind Kirk
and McIlroy.
The PGA Tour now heads to Colo-
rado for the BMW Championship,
which tees off tomorrow and where
Zach Johnson will be the defending
champ. AFP
American Chris Kirk putts for birdie on the 18th hole during the nal round of the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC Boston on Monday in Norton, Massachusetts. AFP
Djokovic, Murray book US Open quarternal showdown
FORMER champions Novak
Djokovic and Andy Murray
booked a tantalising US Open
quarterfinal duel with straight-
sets fourth-round victories
on Monday.
World number one and top
seed Djokovic didnt let Philipp
Kohlschreiber stand in the way
of another Grand Slam last-
eight appearance, defeating
the 22nd seed from Germany
6-1, 7-5, 6-4 on another oppres-
sively muggy New York day.
Eighth-seeded Scot Murray
advanced with a hard-fought
7-5, 7-5, 6-4 victory over
ninth-seeded Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga, avenging a loss to the
Frenchman in the Toronto
Masters last month.
Djokovic and Murray boast
a long rivalry in which the Ser-
bian owns a 12-8 record.
They are 2-2 in Grand Slam
finals, including Murrays tri-
umph over Djokovic in the
2012 final at Flushing Mead-
ows for his first major crown.
Tough match, Murray said
of the looming contest. Weve
had a lot of long ones. We
played a long one here a few
years ago I have great mem-
ories from that match.
Djokovic reached his 22nd
straight Grand Slam quarter-
final, a run that stretches back
to Kohlschreibers victory over
him in the third round of the
2009 French Open.
Im very glad obviously
that I had so many consecu-
tive quarterfinals of Grand
Slams. It says that I do value
these tournaments the most
and try to always perform my
best tennis in them, Djoko-
vic said.
The Wimbledon champion
looked headed for a short days
work when he raced through
the first set in 25 minutes.
But Kohlschreiber dug in,
keeping his nose in front on
serve and forcing Djokovic to
fend off a set point in the 10th
game of the second.
Djokovic did so with a sting-
ing forehand passing shot to
end a rally that sent the Louis
Armstrong Stadium crowd
wild, then broke Kohlschreib-
er for a 6-5 lead.
Serving for the set Djokovic
saved another break point
with an off-speed service win-
ner and having wrapped up
the second set he broke Kohls-
chreiber to open the third and
marched home from there.
It doesnt feel that it went
very easily, Djokovic said.
Philipp is a tough player.
Murray broke Tsonga in the
final game of each set en route
to his victory, first recovering
an early break in both the sec-
ond and third.
It was extremely tough con-
ditions, very humid and obvi-
ously windy, Murray said. It
started to cool down at the
end, but the first two sets were
very long tough sets.
Australian Open champion
Stan Wawrinka, the third seed,
powered past 16th-seeded
Spaniard Tommy Robredo 7-5,
4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2.
Wawrinka fired 18 aces and
75 winners to Robredos 19
saving two set points in the
third-set tiebreaker and dom-
inating the fourth set.
It was a really tough battle
today, said Wawrinka, who
also survived a tumble into the
courtside seats in Armstrong
Stadium when he hit the board
surrounding the court at full
stretch for a shot.
From that Im OK, Im more
tired from the running, from
the match, he said. When
you win, its always more easy
to feel good after.
Two of the ATPs rising stars
will duel under the floodlights
as 23-year-old Canadian Milos
Raonic and 24-year-old Kei
Nishikori of Japan reprise
their fourth-round clash at
Wimbledon won by Raonic
on his way to a first Grand
Slam semifinal.
The fifth-seeded Raonic is
enjoying a career-best season,
and at a career-best number
six in the world is the second-
youngest player, behind
23-year-old Grigor Dimitrov,
in the top 10.
Nishikori, the 10th seed,
became the first Japanese man
to break into the top 10 this
season with two titles.
While Raonic has the reputa-
tion of a big-server with the
second-most aces this year on
the ATP tour, Nishikori has
been impressive on his serve
in reaching the last 16. Hes
been broken only twice, saving
17 of 19 break points he faced
in his first three matches. The
winner will face Wawrinka for
a semifinal place. AFP
Andy Murray (left) of Great Britain will face Serbias Novak Djokovic
(right) today in the quarternal of the US Open in New York. AFP

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