Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye

A
JOURNALIST was fatally shot
early yesterday morning in
Kratie province while investi-
gating illegal logging near the
border with Mondulkiri province, lead-
ing police to detain four people for ques-
tioning yesterday afternoon.
The reporter, Taing Try, 48, was em-
ployed by the Khmer Journalists Democ-
racy (KJD), an independent publishing
network. In 2012, however, he faced
charges in Kratie for allegedly extorting
luxury wood from a man he accused of
being involved in the illegal timber trade.
Though that charge was ultimately
dropped, one police ofcer said yester-
day that he had seemingly continued
the practice and ultimately paid for it
with his life.
Try was travelling with eight other
journalists in three cars late on Saturday
night when they came upon several ox
carts loaded with wood and led by a tim-
ber trader identied by KJD president
Sok Sovann as a man named Hieng,
whom he alleged was a police ofcer in
Mondulkiris Keo Seima district.
Hieng allegedly shot Try while the
reporters car was stuck in mud on the
road, Sovann said.
After carrying out the shooting, he
added, the attacker got back into his
Lexus and drove off; however, he ipped
his car and had to escape on foot after
climbing out through the window.
Another journalist in the car with
Try, San Sith, managed to escape un-
harmed, Sovann said. Others were also
unscathed.
A police ofcer in Sre Chhouk
Laignee Barron
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
ARMED with incense sticks,
lotus flowers and birds to free,
the nations grade 12 students
packed pagodas yesterday,
looking to luck as a last resort
on the eve of their second and
last chance to pass the high-
stakes national exam.
More than 68,000 students
are registered to retake the uni-
versity qualifying test over the
next two days. In August, less
than a third of Cambodias
grade 12 students managed to
net a passing score and collect
a diploma.
The new minister of educa-
tion has made it his crusade to
end rampant cheating, leakage
and bribery that in years past
reliably allowed most students
to sail through with no study-
ing needed.
However, the cleaned-up ver-
sion of the exam complete
with government police patrol-
ling the test sites and thou-
sands of monitors ready to
punish graft left only 11 of the
frisked students able to man-
age an A grade.
The abysmally low scores
produced under the anti-
cheating measures revealed
what educators have long sus-
pected: students arent retain-
ing much from their 12-year
mandated education. The
results also prompted the
prime minister to call for an
emergency second round this
month, a plan costing the gov-
ernment an extra $2 million,
or, roughly enough to give
every teacher in the country a
$50 bonus.
The Ministry of Education
has budgeted expecting that all
students who did not pass will
retake the exam. In doing so, I
think they will be spending
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F
IVE Cambodian men
were shot by Thai
soldiers on October 9
after crossing the bor-
der to illegally log rosewood,
according to an NGO and a
local ofcial.
Chhit Chhorn, deputy chief
of the Oddar Meanchey pro-
vincial police, told the Post
yesterday that Thai soldiers
opened re on a group of
more than 15 loggers who had
crossed into Thai territory.
Five men were injured and
sent to hospitals in Anlong
Veng and Siem Reap, accord-
ing to Chhorn.
I am not sure how many
were seriously injured, he
said. Those [who engage] in
the most risky activities are
not the local villagers but mi-
grants from other provinces
who live [at the border] for
three to four months after be-
ing lured in by brokers.
Srey Naren, Oddar
Meanchey coordinator for
rights group Adhoc, said ini-
tial reports indicated the ve
men, aged from 21 to 35, were
all injured in the legs.
I have not yet investigated
the case, but preliminary re-
ports indicate that about 15
people crossed the border to
smuggle rosewood and es-
caped back to Cambodian
territory by themselves after
the shooting, Naren said.
Lieutenant General Siek
Socheat, head of the bor-
der communications ofce,
said he was not aware of the
shooting and that his subor-
dinate Chin Piseth had not
yet heard from the Thai side.
Thai authorities could not be
reached.
The shooting is far from an
isolated incident. Last week,
Cambodias Ministry of For-
eign Affairs slammed the Thai
army for killing two Cambodi-
an loggers on September 28.
[The ministry] requests
the authorities concerned
of Thailand utilize peaceful
measures to avoid violence
[in] shooting deaths in the fu-
ture, a letter to the Thai em-
bassy reads.
But Thailand has done little
to acknowledge the issue.
Its own Ministry of Foreign
Affairs recently claimed no
Cambodian loggers were shot
between January 1 and Sep-
tember 2, even though the
Cambodian Ministry of Inte-
rior had previously reported
12 being killed in a single day
this March.
Sen David
AROUND 40 drivers of the citys
new public buses protested on
Saturday in front of the night
market in Phnom Penh to de-
mand a higher wage, but an of-
cial said they were confused
about the salary agreement
Chork Moun, one of the driv-
ers for the city, said he was paid
$180 for September, but was
promised $300.
We got only $180 for Sep-
tember, and we heard that the
authority will pay us $300 per
month, he said, adding that
the amount wasnt enough to
cover rising costs of living.
The city launched its rst
public bus line in February, fol-
lowing up with two extra routes
last month.
Chreang Sophan, Phnom
Penhs deputy governor, went
to the scene and said it was all
a misunderstanding, but that
more talks would occur today
at the public transportation
department.
Phak Seangly
A TEAM of military police dispatched earli-
er this month to Kratie province have com-
pleted an investigation into four of their
colleagues accused of extortion, threats of
violence and illegal detention, though the
suspects remain at work.
Sin Sophany, deputy national military
police chief, said yesterday that a ve-
day investigating trip conducted by of-
cers from Phnom Penh was wrapped up
last week. He declined to give details of
the probe.
We inspected the case after getting the
information about it. We have now re-
turned and are writing a report to the Na-
tional Military Commander Sao Sokha,
he said.
More than 100 villagers led the law-
suit against Kratie deputy military police
commander Mut Vannak and three of his
subordinates.
Villagers claim the ofcers have illegally
detained them at gunpoint and accused
them of illegal logging to extort cash.
Vannak and his subordinates extorted
from $400 to $1,000 from the villagers, who
just transported wood to make doors and
windows, not for sale, one of the villagers
behind the lawsuit told the Post last week.
But while the case has resulted in an
internal investigation, the four suspects
who have failed to respond to a court sum-
mons have not been suspended.
Keo Chea, the provincial military police
commander, said yesterday that his four
ofcers were completing their duties as
normal.
He added that while he was aware an
investigation had taken place, he was not
sure of the result.
Kratie provincial chief prosecutor Ty
Sovinthal said he was still working on the
case.
Five shot after
crossing border
Public bus drivers rally Details scant in investigation of Kratie cops
Journalist
shot dead
in Kratie
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commune in Keo Seima district,
named Hieng, who shot Try, is a
timber trader, Sovann claimed.
For a long time, only people in
positions of power were in the
timber trade because ordinary
people did not dare to compete
with them.
However, Sovann who said
that he had intervened on Trys
behalf in the 2012 case said
yesterday that Try wasnt well
liked in the province, though
not for his tenacious reporting.
The journalist had a reputa-
tion for negotiating with the
subjects of unattering stories,
Sovann said, declining to elabo-
rate on what that entailed.
Four suspects were arrested
and were being questioned at
Kratie Provincial Court yes-
terday afternoon, according
to provincial prosecutor Ty
Sovinthal.
Now we have arrested four
suspects who we believe were
involved in the shooting, So-
vinthal said. Two of them
committed the crime and have
a gun and own a car.
Sovinthal declined to name
the suspects yesterday, but a
police ofcer in Snuol district,
who declined to be named be-
cause of the ongoing court pro-
ceedings, said that police had
identied the suspect as a mili-
tary police ofcer from Mon-
dulkiris Sre Chhouk commune.
The police ofcer said Try may
have been in business with the
shooter, but did not provide any
evidence to support this.
[Try] was called [by the sus-
pect] to get money and he was
shot at the scene. After the
shooting, a car belonging to the
shooter was left at the scene
turned upside down, he said.
Snuol district police chief,
Chan Soktim, and the district
military police chief, Ul Chhay,
declined to comment.
We suspect that this murder
was planned a few days ago
as [Try] tipped off the district
prosecutor to conscate timber
[from the loggers], he said.
Heng Phearak, provincial in-
vestigator for rights group Ad-
hoc, said the groups prelimi-
nary investigation had found
that Try had been killed after
arguing with a timber dealer.
Based on the initial investi-
gation, we found that he went
to cover forest crimes and the
timber businessman was an-
gry with him and shot him,
he said.
The killing and abuse of jour-
nalists under murky circum-
stances is not unheard of in
Cambodia, and rights groups
yesterday moved to condemn
yesterdays shooting as well.
Journalists reporting on sen-
sitive environmental issues, es-
pecially the rampant illegal log-
ging trade, are all too frequently
targeted with reprisals in Cam-
bodia, said Shawn Crispin,
CPJs Southeast Asia represen-
tative, who called on Trys killers
to be brought to justice.
Phil Robertson, deputy direc-
tor of Human Rights Watchs
Asia division, called on the
government to commit to end
impunity for the perpetrators
of violence against journalists
like Try and Hang Serei Oudom,
who was found dead in 2012 af-
ter reporting on illegal logging.
There needs to be a serious
and impartial investigation of
his murder, he said. Journal-
ists should not have to fear
bodily harm or death for re-
porting the news.
A police ofcer inspects a cordoned-off SUV yesterday in Kratie province after it was suspected of being used
during the fatal shooting of a journalist. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Phak Seangly
POLICE in Oddar Meanchey
province allegedly beat an
employee of local NGO Equi-
table Cambodia on Saturday,
in what the group has called
the latest effort to block its op-
erations in the area.
Equitable Cambodia of-
cer Chan Vichet said he was
driving villagers evicted by an
Angkor Sugar plantation back
to their homes following in-
terviews at local rights group
Adhocs provincial ofce when
police stopped the car.
They said that I do not have
enough documents . . . They
do not check like this with
other cars. It is not fair; it is an
effort to suppress my work,
Vichet said.
According to Vichet, things
turned violent when he at-
tempted to take photographs
of provincial deputy police
chief Nhul Vuth.
Vuth strongly grabbed the
camera from me, but he did
not manage to [take it], so he
punched me in the stomach,
he said. I warned him that if
he beat me, I could le a com-
plaint . . . [so] he walked away
and brought my car to the
police station.
Vichet said that after the
appropriate documentation
arrived, police told him they
would only release the vehicle
if he agreed to delete the pho-
tographs but eventually gave
up on their demands.
Vuth, the deputy police
chief, dismissed Vichets ver-
sion of events, explaining that
he had been framed.
We inspected all the cars . . .
The authorities have not com-
mitted violence. If we did not
comply with the procedures,
he can le a complaint against
us, he said.
Saturdays alleged violence
came just three days after Od-
dar Meanchey police broke
up a meeting between Equi-
table Cambodia staff and the
evicted villagers.
In September, two Equi-
table Cambodia staff were
detained by local police while
visiting evicted families and
driven back to the capital.
Eang Vuthy, the execu-
tive director of Equitable
Cambodia, said Saturdays
incident was just another
example of local authorities
creating pretexts to stop
our activity.
He added that he would
meet with lawyers this week to
discuss what action to take. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Cop accused of striking
employee of local NGO
Thousands rally over wage
Pech Sotheary and Sean Teehan
S
OME 2,000 unionists
supporting an increase
in the monthly mini-
mum wage to $177 in
Cambodias garment sector
marched to several embassies
yesterday and set up a meet-
ing between labour leaders and
parliamentarians at the Na-
tional Assembly this morning.
Led by six unions, the group,
donning pink shirts reading
We need a Decent Wage and
carrying banners with slogans
including Gap Starves Cam-
bodian Workers, the group
congregated at Phnom Penhs
Freedom Park yesterday at
about 8:30am.
From there, they marched
and delivered petitions to the
embassies of the United States
and European Union, ending at
the National Assembly, where
several MPs met them outside,
promising to meet with two
representatives of each of the
unions leading the crowd at
9am today.
We expect that [the MPs]
will solve the problems we have
raised, said Pav Sina, presi-
dent of the Collective Union of
Movement of Workers, one of
the unions leading the rally. If
they cannot solve the problem,
they will lose our support.
The march came less than a
week after Minister of Labour
Ith Sam Heng postponed until
next month the Labour Min-
istrys Labour Advisory Com-
mittee (LAC) decision on next
years industrial minimum
wage. LAC members were orig-
inally scheduled to determine
oor salaries last Friday.
Workers have campaigned for
a minimum of $177 monthly,
up from the current $100, but
the seven unions on the LAC
none of which participated
in yesterdays event have
reached a consensus of $150.
They must reach an agree-
ment with the 14 other LAC
members representing facto-
ries and the government.
Authorities blocked demon-
strators from marching to the
EU mission, but allowed union
representatives to deliver the
petition asking for the pay raise,
an end to current prosecutions
against union leaders and sev-
eral other points.
When they reached the Na-
tional Assembly, opposition
lawmakers Eng Chhay Eang,
Ke Sovannroth and Mu Sochua
met the leaders on the street.
We need a productive labour
force, Sochua said, noting bi-
partisan support for increased
wages. Were not talking about
party politics.
Garment workers line up with banners in Phnom Penhs Freedom Park yesterday during a rally calling for
the minimum monthly wage in the sector to be increased to $177, up from the existing $100 rate. VIREAK MAI
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much more than they need to
be, said San Chey, coordina-
tor for social accountability
group ANSA-EAP.
In addition to shelling out
for the second exam, to help
boost the students score, the
ministry sponsored what were
supposed to be free refresher
courses on the four subjects
students fared the worst in:
maths, physics, biology and
chemistry.
According to the Education
Ministry, 383 high schools
offered the five-week course,
and just over 31,000 students
attended, or half the students
registered to write the seven-
subject exam.
The students who attended
the government-sponsored
cram sessions attested that
like any extra classes in the
public school system, these
came with a fee.
To learn, you must pay,
one grade 12 students put it
yesterday, adding that the test
prep cost her and her class-
mates 1,500 riel per hour.
It was to remind us what we
learned in school but it was
better because it was based on
what was in the first exam with
practice sheets from the min-
istry, she said.
However, the extra studying
session still werent enough to
give the student, who asked to
remain anonymous, and her
friends enough confidence
to head into the test today
empty handed.
As they lit candles and
splashed their heads into holy
water at a religious site on the
capitals riverside yesterday,
they also discussed different
ways of smuggling cheat
sheets into the exam centre.
Ill hide it in a secret place,
one of the girls said. Another
suggested shed stuff a copy
of the practice questions in
her shoes.
To prevent any such irregu-
larities, the Education Minis-
try has recruited even more
independent observers for the
second round of the exam, in
addition to the teachers
brought in as proctors and the
Anti-Corruption Unit police
who will be stationed at each
exam centre.
I think it will be impossible
for students to cheat, said
Education Minister Hang
Chuon Naron.
And I hope students are
now convinced that we are
serious about preventing
irregularities and that there
are implications for any
attempts.
But the students at the river-
side pagoda yesterday prom-
ised they wouldnt be coming
unprepared with whatever
might help them seize a pass-
ing score.
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Seniors set
for second
shot at test
ICC case must
be investigated
Stuart White
T
HE president of an in-
ternational umbrella
group of liberal politi-
cal parties has lent his
support to a recent Internation-
al Criminal Court complaint
asserting the Cambodian gov-
ernment and government-con-
nected elites are guilty of crimes
against humanity for their in-
volvement in widespread and
systematic land grabbing.
Juli Minoves Triquell, presi-
dent of Liberal International
(LI), which counts the opposi-
tion Cambodia National Rescue
Party as a full member, urged
the court on Thursday to in-
vestigate the complaint, saying
it was precisely the type of case
the court was designed to hear.
As an international institu-
tion dedicated to ending impu-
nity for the perpetrators of the
most serious criminal acts, the
ICC must investigate these al-
legations of crimes against hu-
manity, Minoves Triquell said
in a statement.
The former diplomat, who
signed the statute establishing
the ICC on behalf of his native
Andorra, went on to add that
this is a case cut out for the
ICC; the whole bureau of LI at
our last meeting in London de-
cided to support this quest for
truth and justice.
The ICC communication,
led on October 7 by attorney
Richard Rogers on behalf of 10
victims, contends members of
the government and their asso-
ciates in business carried out an
attack on the civilian population
with the twin objectives of self-
enrichment and preservation of
power at all costs.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan said the complaint
was a ploy by the CNRP, which
rst invited Rogers to inves-
tigate the alleged crimes, but
which is not ofcially tied to the
communication.
Who supports whom they
have their own interests, Siph-
an said, maintaining that the
ICC communication was ini-
tiated by [CNRP deputy presi-
dent] Kem Sokhas daughter.
I leave this open to the ICC
to determine if this [complaint]
is enough to warrant investiga-
tion, Siphan added.
Sokhas daughter, CNRP depu-
ty public affairs head Kem Mon-
ovithya, has insisted she had no
role beyond connecting Rog-
ers to alleged victims.
Ofcials check a students pencil case for contraband at Phnom Penhs Chaktomuk High School before she
enters to take part in the nationwide exams in August. HENG CHIVOAN
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Sen David
THE Authority for the Pro-
tection and Management
of Angkor and the Region of
Siem Reap (APSARA) is co-
operating with the police in
their efforts to arrest a New
Zealand national who al-
legedly knocked over a 26-
year-old Buddha statue at
Bayon temple in Siem Reap
province, according to an
official statement from the
organisation.
APSARA, which manages
Angkor Wat and the surround-
ing ruins, said in the statement
that a tuk-tuk driver led a
complaint with heritage police
on Thursday after his custom-
er, the suspect, did not return
to the vehicle to pay him.
Heritage police tracked
down the woman inside the
complex, asked her for her na-
tionality and age, and told her
to leave. The next day, restora-
tion workers found the 1-me-
tre sandstone statue, created
as a replica in 1988, broken
into four pieces, and sent it to
be repaired.
Police concluded that since
the woman was, to their
knowledge, the only person
who stayed past the 5:30pm
closing, and since she can no
longer be found, she must be
the culprit.
APSARA and heritage po-
lice will look to arrest the
suspect who destroyed the
heritage statue for praying
and put [her] in jail accord-
ing to the law, the statement
said.
Im Sokrithy, a communica-
tions ofcer for APSARA, said
that after further investiga-
tions, the group determined
that the woman left Cambo-
dian via the Poipet border on
her way to Thailand.
We are sorry that our statue
is damaged. Now we are study-
ing to repair it, he said.
This is the second time in re-
cent months that authorities
have had to confront damage
at the ancient temples, which
draw millions of tourists from
around the world every year.
In August, a South Korean
student travelling with a tour
group posed for a photo with a
statue near the Bayon temple,
knocking the statues replica
head to the ground. No one
was seriously injured.
Due to widespread looting
in the area during the colo-
nial period and over decades
of modern warfare, the Ang-
korian temples are lled with
replicas.
Broken statue angers
temple management
Road safety funding to end
Charles Rollet and Sen David

A
MAJOR funder of road
safety programs in
Cambodia will not be
renewing its grant for
the country, sparking concerns
that trafc deaths in the King-
dom will continue unabated.
Bloomberg Philanthropies,
run by billionaire Michael
Bloomberg, is launching the
second part of its Global Road
Safety Program, a ve-year,
$125 million grant for 10 cities
in ve developing countries.
But Cambodia, which was
part of the project from 2010
to 2015, will not be included
in the second round, said en-
vironmental engineer Steven
Iddings of the World Health Or-
ganization in Cambodia, whose
road safety program is entirely
funded by Bloomberg.
Very clearly, without the
funding it will denitely have
quite a severe impact, Iddings
said.
Sao Savanratnak, WHO tech-
nical ofcer, said buying radio
spots and law enforcement
equipment such as breath-
alysers is very, very expensive
and would be especially vulner-
able to budget cuts.
The program will seek to re-
place lost funding from the gov-
ernment and other partners,
but it most certainly would not
be able to match Bloombergs
contributions, said Iddings, al-
though he remained optimis-
tic that the draft law cracking
down on helmetless and drunk
drivers would be passed early
next year.
No specic reason was given
for Cambodias nonrenewal.
Bloomberg Philanthropies in
New York did not immediately
reply to a request for comment.
Cambodia is on track for more
road deaths this year compared
to 2013.
According to newly released
ofcial gures, 1,630 people
died from trafc accidents from
January to September of this
year, while 1,950 died in all of
2013, a 7 per cent increase from
2010.
The governments 2011 to
2020 national road safety action
plan predicts that without any
intervention, yearly road deaths
will increase to 3,200 by 2020.
Chan Sokol, head of the Na-
tional Road Safety Commit-
tee, was not aware of the non-
renewal, but said such a loss of
funding could reduce the pres-
ence of an upcoming aware-
ness campaign from 100 com-
munes to only 30 to 40.
A man looks over a car that lies in a eld on the side of a road last year after it was wrecked in a trafc ac-
cident in Kratie province. HENG CHIVOAN
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Suspects getaway garb
takes cue from religion
JUST when you thought the
craze of pawning your friends
motorbike couldnt get any
more sophisticated, a man who
indulged in such criminal activ-
ity was arrested on Friday dis-
guised as a monk. The man,
31, convinced his friend in
Kampong Speu province that
lending him his wheels was a
good idea and sped towards
the capital for an easy payday.
After getting $400 out of a
pawnbroker, the man then
stole a saffron robe in his bid to
escape the authorities clutch-
es. Perhaps knowing his friend
too well, the victim tracked him
down and turned him over to
police. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Teen planned to attack
his accuser, police say
A TEENAGER was arrested on
Saturday for allegedly attempt-
ing to kill his neighbour in
Tbong Khmum province. Police
said a woman, 28, had called
police on Thursday to complain
that the man, 18, was throwing
stones at her house. Knowing
that the complaint had been
filed, the suspect allegedly
climbed on to her roof the next
day, armed with a machete and
tried to break into her house,
police said. The woman called
police, who came to arrest the
man. He has been sent to court.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Mother, daughter pair
arrested in a drug raid
A FAMILY drug operation was
busted in Banteay Meancheys
Phnom Srok district on Friday.
Police arrested a woman, 49,
and her 21-year-old daughter
when, acting on a tip-off, they
raided a home. In their bust,
police seized seven yama tab-
lets, other drug paraphernalia,
92 bullets, fishing equipment,
two mobile phones and some
cash. Both the mother whom
police said has previously done
time for drug offences and
her daughter confessed to
dealing and have been sent to
court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Not so friendly dispute
leads to hospitalisation
AN ARGUMENT over drugs
ended in a friendship being
sliced to pieces in the capital on
Saturday. Police said a man, 35,
took a razorblade and stones to
his friend, 24, when tensions
escalated. Onlookers later told
police that they had been too
frightened to intervene to help
the man, who was later hospi-
talised. The perpetrator tried to
escape when police arrived, but
was soon arrested. NOKORWAT
TV, moto lure ex-con off
the straight and narrow
IN A possible case of homesick-
ness, it appears that a Tbong
Khmum province man will likely
return to the prison he was
released from two weeks ago.
Police say the man snuck into a
pagoda on Friday and stole a TV
and batteries. After the chief
monk complained to police, they
allegedly caught him stealing a
motorbike, at which point he
confessed to stealing and sell-
ing the TV and batteries. Police
confiscated the bike and sent
him to court. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
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Development of training package to strengthen disability inclusion in governance at
the provincial, district and commune levels
The United Natons Childrens Fund (UNICEF), Cambodia Country Oce, is seeking to hire a qualied
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delivery of training of trainers with the developed resources.
Scope of Work
Provide to UNICEF a Methodology for the Consultancy (max 5 pages);
Produce a comprehensive capacity development resource package for promotng disability inclusive
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Facilitate quality assurance (pre-test, review by reference group, etc.) and review of the training
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Deliver and facilitate training of trainers workshops using the developed training materials for roll-
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Lessons o
Qualicaton or Specialized Knowledge/Experience Required:
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Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Internatonal Development, Law or related elds
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Consult quickly
Door closing
on Laos dam
input period

V
ERY quietly, with no ofcial
public announcement, the
intergovernmental assess-
ment process for Laoss conten-
tious Don Sahong dam is almost
over before anyone knew it began.
In June, Laos conceded to
its downstream neighbours
and allowed the 260-megawatt
project to undergo a six-month
consultation period. Last week,
during a meeting in Phnom Penh,
the Mekong River Commission
declared the process had started
on July 25.
The announcement, or rather
lack of announcement, of a start
date for the prior consultation
process, which is more than two
months past, illustrates just how
backwards the process is, said
Ame Trandem, International Riv-
ers Southeast Asia director.
Laos has been accused by its
neighbours of using the regional
consultation as a facade for co-
operation rather than genuine
regional debate and study over its
mainstream dams.
The Cambodian National Me-
kong Committee yesterday said
long-requested transboundary
impact studies for Don Sahong
are scheduled for completion by
the end of the year. LAIGNEEBARRON
Knock it off!
A young man tries his luck at knocking over three tin cans with a ball during a game at a local market near Oudong Mountain in Kandal province.
SCOTT HOWES
Apilaporn Vecha

A
S RUBBER prices
slump, hard-up
farmers in Thailand
the worlds top pro-
ducer of the commodity are
appealing for a bailout, test-
ing the juntas resolve to end
populist policies and an en-
trenched subsidy culture.
The global price for a one ki-
logram sheet of natural rubber
has retreated to 43 Thai baht
($1.3) after a three-year slide.
That decline, from highs of
up to 120 baht in 2011, has
chiselled away the income of
Thailands estimated six mil-
lion rubber farmers.
Many of them reside in the
nations south, a region home to
the ultra-royalists who backed a
May army coup that toppled
the elected government.
Now, as their prots shrivel,
they want payback from an
army they helped propel to
power.
With dawn creeping over his
plantation in Pa Ko subdis-
trict of Phang Nga province,
Jade Charongan said tapping
his 500 trees for the once-
lucrative sap yields around
$130 a month. Three years
ago he earned ve times that
amount, as surging demand
from China saw rubber reach
highs of $3.6 a kilo.
Now the rubber price
is very, very low and life is
tough, Jade said adding that
rising living costs mean farm-
ers in almost every house have
problems. The uncertainty
heaps further misery on the
daily 4:00 am torch-lit trudge
to bleed the trees for the milky
white sap, he added.
The Thai Rubber Farmers
Association says the kingdom
produces around four million
tonnes per year with an aver-
age annual export value of
around $8 billion although
that sum has been sheared by
falling global prices.
Farmer Somjai Chomkh-
wan, 51, was among thou-
sands of southerners who
travelled to Bangkok to join
the mass rallies that paraly-
sed Yingluck Shinawatras
government, paving the way
for the May 22 coup.
When the junta came into
power, we expected the rub-
ber price would probably be
increased, he said. But it has
been months and the rubber
price has kept dropping.
Farmers groups are calling
on the military government
to guarantee the price at 80
baht a kilo. They also want the
suspension of a plan to release
210,000 tonnes of stockpiled
but fast-degrading rubber to
the market, fearing it will fur-
ther depress prices.
Their disquiet threatens a
fallout with the junta.
If the government does not
adjust the price, we will go
to meet the prime minister,
Sawad Ladpala, president of
the Thai Rubber Farmers As-
sociation said. We have been
calling for help for a long time
but there has been no clear
stance or direction [from the
government] yet, he added.
The protests which pre-
saged the coup targeted Yin-
gluck and the political ascen-
dancy of her brother Thaksin
a billionaire former premier
who is reviled in the Thai
south but adored in the rice-
growing north.
The demonstrators accused
the Shinawatra clan of lav-
ishing state subsidies on its
rice farming electoral base at
the expense of the rest of the
country.
Yingluck swept to power in
2011 on a wave of support from
the north and northeast on a
pledge to pay up to 50 percent
of the market price for rice a
policy she said was necessary
to help the rural poor.
State largesse under her
tenure also extended to rub-
ber farmers. Following vio-
lent protests in the south last
summer, she doled out $80
per 0.16 hectares to help ease
dropping prices.
From rice to rubber and
sugar cane to fruit, successive
Thai governments have seen
the political wisdom in but-
tressing the agricultural econ-
omy with cash handouts.
The ruling junta initially
vowed to extinguish Thai-
lands subsidy culture, but
even they have swiftly opened
the tap amid complaints from
rice and rubber farmers.
Prayut Chan-ocha, the
tough-talking army chief
turned prime minister, has
released $1 billion for rubber
farmers to help ease the pain
of falling prices. He says he
wants to spur domestic de-
mand for rubber and value-
added products, while also
urging farmers to diversify
or change their crop to palm
oil. But as yet he has failed to
respond to the call for an 80
baht price guarantee.
In a weekly television ad-
dress recently Prayut implored
rubber farmers to please be
patient with his administra-
tion. Rumblings from senior
ofcials since suggest a climb-
down could be imminent.
Yet the subsidy question re-
mains awkward for a leader
who has vowed tough action
to restore Thailands econom-
ic fortunes after its once zz-
ing economy went at during
the political crisis.
The government will prob-
ably put in some money, ac-
cording to Viroj NaRanong of
the Thailand Development
Research Institute. But as
with the rice farmers, some of
them will say Its better than
nothing while others will say
It is not enough. AFP
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Special
economic
zone plans
re-emerge
THAILAND and Myanmar
agreed on Thursday to revital-
ise plans for the Dawei special
economic zone by allowing
Thai business firms to play a
bigger role in the much-de-
layed project.
The issue was discussed in
talks between Thai Prime Minis-
ter Prayut Chan-ocha and Myan-
mar President Thein Sein in the
Myanmar capital Naypyidaw.
The two countries hope to
reinvigorate plans for the
mega-project after Prayut
raised the possibility of Thai
investors joining the project
and developing infrastructure,
according to the Thai News
Agency.
The Dawei special econom-
ic zone is arguably Southeast
Asias most ambitious indus-
trial zone, according to Reu-
ters. Plans detail a 250 square
kilometre deep-sea port, pet-
rochemical and heavy indus-
try hub located along the slim
Thai-Myanmar peninsula.
The project could relieve
traffic flowing the Malacca
Strait, the worlds busiest ship-
ping lane.
Japan indicated last week
that it will consider investing
in the project, although the
Myanmar and Thai govern-
ments have tried unsucces-
fully in the past to secure Japa-
nese investment for Dawei.
Thai Deputy Transport Min-
ister Arkhom Termpittaya-
paisith said the Japanese gov-
ernment could participate in
the Dawei SEZ Development
Company.
The firm has replaced Ital-
ian-Thai Development Plc,
which received the original
development concession
from the Myanmar govern-
ment in November 2010, but
failed to realise the scheme.
BANGKOK POST
Farmer Jade Charongan and his wife, Toiy, attening still drying sheets of unprocessed rubber before stretching them at their rubber farm in the
Ka Po village of the southern Thai province of Phang Nga. AFP
Thai rubber farms hard up
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Battling Asian brain drain
Rina Chandran

W
HILE thousands
of skilled Asian
workers emi-
grate each year
in search of better pay or op-
portunities, Kwee Keong Lim
decided to come home to Ma-
laysia. After more than 20 years
abroad, Lim was lured back to
Kuala Lumpur by the chance
to run the Asia-Pacic region
for Technip, a French oileld-
services provider.
Asia is a growth region, and
Malaysia is investing in indus-
tries like oil and gas, so this was
a natural move, said Lim, 53,
who returned in 2012.
Governments from the Phil-
ippines to Indonesia are trying
to bring back their experienced
expats in an effort to counter a
brain drain that deprives the
region of talent needed to build
more advanced economies.
Asian governments are try-
ing harder now because they
know they cant address the tal-
ent gap unless they bring back
some of their own, said Leong
Chan-Hoong, a senior research
fellow at the Institute of Policy
Studies in Singapore.
Singapore, which tightened
immigration rules amid pub-
lic discontent, has set up the
Overseas Singaporean Unit
and added a program for re-
turning scientists. The Philip-
pines, where overseas remit-
tances account for a 10th of the
economy, plans to create more
opportunities to tempt its citi-
zens living abroad, while Ma-
laysia is boosting its Returning
Expert Program.
Malaysias loss of talent
harms its aspiration to become
a high-income nation by 2020,
the World Bank said in a 2011
report. The brain drain saps
a narrow skills base, with the
diaspora of qualied workers
three times as great as two de-
cades ago, it said. Incentives
for returning expats include a
at tax rate for ve years and
an exemption from taxes on
personal belongings.
While workers leaving these
countries range in expertise,
it is the highly skilled expats
who are most often pursued by
companies that want people
with local connections and
cultural ties, and governments
seeking ofcials with global
experience. It also helps that
Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and
Singapore have become more
advanced and cosmopolitan in
recent years.
Fifteen years ago, I wouldve
worried about returning to
Singapore because the univer-
sities didnt have such a great
reputation for research then,
said Teo Yik Ying, 36, who came
back after 11 years of study-
ing and working at Oxford.
Theyve made a lot of prog-
ress. BLOOMBERG
Redevelopment and tax breaks lure skilled workers back to South Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur. BLOOMBERG
Jeremy Tordjman
CHINA is on the verge of be-
coming the worlds largest
economy. But its voice at the
Interntational Monetary Fund
which wrapped up its annual
meeting this weekend in Wash-
ington remains that of a mi-
nor country, and some worry
this could undermine the cru-
cial, 70-year-old institution.
The IMF estimates that by
the end of this year, Chinas
economy will surpass the US
in size: $17.63 trillion versus
$17.42 trillion, based on the
purchasing power parity stan-
dard. There is no debate about
Chinas rise to power in the in-
dustrial world.
But the IMF has had difculty
conforming to this new power
balance. The US holds 16.7 per
cent of the voting power in the
Fund, which gives it an effec-
tive veto. China meanwhile
has a 3.8 per cent voting share,
not far from Italys, which has
an economy one-fth the size.
And the US Congresss re-
peated refusal to ratify a four-
year-old set of reforms that
would boost China, India and
other emerging powers at the
institution is beginning to cut
into the Funds stature.
The risk for the IMF is that
it will become less and less rel-
evant and increasingly illegiti-
mate, said Paulo Nogueira Ba-
tista, the IMF representative of
Brazil and 10 other countries.
The 2010 reforms would
change quotas, effectively their
voting power, for shareholders
and also sharply increase the
IMFs overall nancial resourc-
es, crucial for conducting huge
operations like the rescue of
Greece and Ireland and, most
recently, support for Ukraine.
The reforms have been en-
dorsed by all other major econ-
omies. But to be implemented,
they need US backing, which
Congress has refused to grant.
The problem has gone on for
so long that some are talking of
seeking an alternative to the cur-
rent governance. Clearly frus-
trated, IMF Managing Director
Christine Lagarde said Thursday
that she would perform a belly
dance in front of the US Con-
gress if they were to ratify the
reforms.It was due in 2012. It is
overdue in 2014, she said.
Another former IMF ofcial,
Peter Doyle, said: The rise of
China and India have rendered
the IMF voting rights allocation
not just unfair and illegitimate,
but ridiculous. AFP
Chinas economic
rise threatens IMF
Markets
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Business
Business
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Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof OCTOBER 10, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 1.75% N/A 2.75% N/A 3.50% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Joel Guinto

M
anilas creaking
train network
means a miser-
able three-hour
work commute for salesman
Gerard Galang just one ex-
ample of major infrastructure
woes that analysts say threat-
en to cool the Philippines red-
hot economy.
Peak-hour hell comes in
many forms in the city of 12
million people, with com-
muters experiencing a sweaty,
stinky crush on dilapidated
trains and giant queues to buy
tickets.
I pity myself and my fellow
commuters, but I dont have
any other option than the
train, said Galang, 29, who
inhales antiseptic rubbed on
to his hands to help negate the
stench on the train. It gets so
crowded our faces get pressed
against each other and on
doors and windows.
Galang spends three hours
commuting to work every
day, half of which is spent in
queues. For other commuters
on buses or in cars, daily grid-
lock worsens to a complete
standstill that can trap people
for hours when even small rain
storms trigger ash oods.
The Philippine economy has
in recent years shed its reputa-
tion as one of Asias laggards,
with growth of 6.4 per cent in
the second quarter maintain-
ing its status as the regions
best performing after China.
The country also recently
gained its rst investment
grade scores from the big three
global credit rating agencies.
Infrastructure development,
however, hasnt moved at the
same pace, and economists
warn the creaking systems
that are of so much frustration
to millions of people will also
have a growing impact on eco-
nomic growth.
Our facilities are not built
for an economy that is grow-
ing at seven percent every
year, Ronald Mendoza, a se-
nior economist at the Asian
Institute of Management, in
Manila. Mendoza said growth
could have been faster had it
not been for the ageing air-
ports and road networks that
turn off foreign investors and
tourists, and limit the move-
ment of local trade.
Manila already loses 2.4
billion pesos ($53 million) in
potential income daily due
to trafc jams, according to
a study by the Japan Interna-
tional Cooperation Agency.
Among the other infra-
structure problems are power
shortages that lead to brown-
outs, clogged drainage that
exacerbate frequent rainy
season oods and an internet
network so slow that it sparked
a parliamentary enquiry.
Millions of people in slums,
and even some residents of
middle-class districts, do not
have access to running water.
And Manilas decades-old in-
ternational airport, with mal-
functioning air conditioning
and leaking toilets, has been
cited by a travel website as the
worst in the world.
President Benigno Aquino
and his team are acutely aware
of the problems. Sustaining
the economys high-growth
trajectory requires continued
investment in infrastructure,
Economic Planning Secretary
Arsenio Balisacan told Japa-
nese businessmen last week.
The government is plan-
ning to increase infrastructure
spending from 2.2 per cent
of gross domestic product in
2012 to 5 per cent by the end of
Aquinos term in 2016.
As part of that, the govern-
ment will pursue its so-called
public-private partnership
program. More than 50 proj-
ects are being put out to pri-
vate builders.
Balisacan also said imple-
menting a 2.6-trillion-peso
($58 billion) dream plan
drafted by the Japan Interna-
tional Cooperation Agency
was a top priority.
The agencys plan calls for an
expansion of rail and toll road
networks to provinces north
and south of Manila, spread-
ing economic activity, as well
as a subway system for the
capital. It also envisages a new
Manila airport terminal.
Many of the projects cited by
the Japanese plan are included
in the PPP pipeline, but these
have moved painfully slowly
due to regulatory delays and
court cases between rival bid-
ders. Fewer than 10 contracts
for the public-private partner-
ship programme have been
awarded during Aquinos rst
four years in ofce, with no
projects yet completed.
And while Aquinos inten-
tions are laudable, there is
only a limited amount it can
do before his term ends in the
middle of 2016. Many of these
projects are perfectly doable,
especially the airports and toll
roads, Mendoza said.Whats
needed is a multi-adminis-
tration plan . . . many of them
take up to three administra-
tions to nish.
Philippine leaders are elect-
ed to single, six-year terms,
raising continuity problems.
Manila residents, in the
meantime, have little choice
but to count the personal cost
of the urban decay. AFP
Amornrat Mahitthirook
THE PROPOSED Pak Bara
deep-sea port endorsed by
Thailands military govern-
ment has environmentalists
and local shermen up in
arms in the southern province
of Satun, near the Malaysian
border.
Ofcials from agencies in
Bangkok and Satun responsible
for the project have announced
they will set up a panel to pro-
mote better understanding
with locals about the benet
of the project over the next six
months, said Soithip Traisuth,
the permanent secretary of the
Transport Ministry ofcial.
The port project in Langu
district of the southern prov-
ince is part of the infrastruc-
ture development program of
the new government led by
Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. Its
main benet would be as a
new outlet for Thai exports on
the Andaman coast.
The pier at Pak Bara is now
used to ferry tourists to Tarutao
National Marine Park and for
shing trawlers to unload their
catch from the Andaman Sea.
However, local shermen,
tourism businesses and envi-
ronmentalists strongly oppose
the 17.6-billion-baht ($542.2
million) project. They say the
construction site occupies
part of the Petra National Ma-
rine Park. Pak Bara currently
is the main pier for tourists
visiting marine national parks
in the province including the
popular Tarutao.
Plans for a deep-sea port at
Pak Bara rst surfaced in 1997
but successive governments
failed to follow through. Lo-
cal residents, aware that if a
military government wants to
do something it probably will
get done, in recent weeks have
stepped up their opposition to
the project.
The government hopes to
lure industries to the area near
the port which would connect
with another deep-sea port to
be built in Songkhla province,
and with other parts of Thai-
land by rail.
The ports environmental
impact assessment has been
approved but the project still
needs local approval.
Marine Department direc-
tor-general Chula Sukmanop
expected talks with local peo-
ple would take time. The local
people do not oppose the proj-
ect. They are concerned about
what will come after the port
and railway such as the scale of
an industrial estate. They need
clarity on this issue, he said at
a workshop on waterway im-
provement on Saturday.
Somboon Khamhang, an
environmental activist in Sa-
tun, said in September that
the project would bring an
end to the livelihood of coastal
shermen and only appease
investors.The Andaman Ora-
ganisation for Participatory
Restoration of Natural Re-
source has predicted that en-
vironmental damage would
result after the port starts oper-
ating. Construction of the port
is may begin in 2016, or a year
later. BANGKOK POST
Planned deep-sea port
in southern Thailand
meets local resistance
Commuters are stranded by a heavy downpour in Manilla. The Philippines loses $53 million daily due to trafc jams, accordint to a study by the
Japan International Cooperation Agency. AFP
Urban decay threatens
Philippines economy
Satun province in southern
Thailand. WIKI COMMONS
11 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
World
Suspected
Brit killers
withdraw
confession
FURTHER doubts have
emerged about the police
investigation into the murder
of two British backpackers in
Thailand, after a Burmese offi-
cial said the two migrant work-
ers arrested for the crime have
retracted the confessions that
were beaten out of them.
Amid a confusing picture
fresh doubts have also been
raised about forensic evidence
supporting the case. Thailands
most prominent forensic inves-
tigator has questioned why an
expert in the area was not used
to collect samples following the
discovery on 15 September of
the murdered Britons, Hannah
Witheridge and David Miller,
on Koh Tao island.
On Thursday reports said that
a Burmese embassy official,
Aung Myo Thant, described as
a lawyer, had now formally
retracted the statements of the
Burmese suspects, Zaw Lin and
Win Zaw Htun, both 21. He had
reported the concerns to the
Burmese embassy, the Bangkok
Post said, citing Burmas 7Day.
He was quoted as saying of
the suspects: They told me that
they were on the beach that
night drinking and singing
songs. They said they didnt do
it, that the Thai police beat
them until they confessed to
something they didnt do.
Theyre pleading with the
Burmese government to look
into the case and find out the
truth. They were a really pitiful
sight. Their bodies had all sorts
of bruises, he also said.
The Burmese men said they
had been beaten by police and
threatened with electrocution
to secure their confessions.
Khunying Porntip Rojanasu-
nan, head of Thailands forensic
science institute, reportedly
asked why an expert was not
used to collect samples follow-
ing the murders and why qual-
ified experts seemed not to
have been involved in the case,
which involved police are were
also relying on DNA evidence.
Police failing to call a foren-
sic pathologist to oversee offic-
ers collecting evidence was a
weak point in the investiga-
tion, she said, according to
Burmas 7Day. She added: A
case of two murdered people
certainly needs a forensic phy-
sician. THE GUARDIAN
Putin orders troops back as truce talks loom
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has
ordered his defence minister to pull
thousands of troops from the border
with Ukraine, ahead of key talks on a
fragile truce in the ex-Soviet country.
The announcement by the Kremlin
late Saturday comes as the Russian
strongman is gearing up to hold the talks
with Ukrainian President Petro Porosh-
enko and European leaders in Milan on
Friday, signalling the possibility of shor-
ing up the rickety truce.
Russia is facing its most serious inter-
national isolation since the end of the
Cold War, with the economy in tatters,
intensified capital flight and an increas-
ingly weakening ruble following several
rounds of Western sanctions.
The head of state has tasked the
defence minister with beginning to
bring troops back to their permanent
bases, the Kremlin said.
The order, the Kremlin said, meant
that 17,600 servicemen, who had par-
ticipated in summer drills in the south-
ern Rostov region on the border with
Ukraine, would be pulled back.
Defence minister Sergei Shoigu
received the order after reporting that
summertime training on military rang-
es of the Southern military district is
over, the Kremlin said.
The late Saturday meeting between
Putin and Shoigu took place after the
president chaired a meeting of his
national security council at his Black Sea
resident in Sochi, said the Kremlin, with-
out providing further details.
Kiev has reported that attacks by pro-
Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine have
subsided.
The rebels and the Ukrainian military
in the eastern Donetsk region said for
their part they had agreed to a no-shoot-
ing period, and the army announced
progress in negotiations and readiness
to pull back forces.
Putin will meet Ukraines Poroshenko
for talks on the sidelines of a Asia-Eu-
rope Meeting in Milan on Friday.
The talks which will also address the
two countries long-running gas dispute
will also include the prime ministers
of Italy and Britain as well as German
Chancellor Angela Merkel.
I dont expect that these will be easy
negotiations, Poroshenko said. We are
very close to regulating the issue of the
gas dispute with Russia right now.
Putin and Poroshenko last met one-
on-one in late August in the Belarussian
capital Minsk, after which Kiev
announced a truce accord with the pro-
Moscow separatists which has proven
largely ineffective.
Throughout the six-month conflict,
which has killed more than 3,300 people,
Russia has massed tens of thousands of
troops on the border with Ukraine. Mos-
cow has repeatedly denied that it sent
regular troops into Ukraine to prop up
pro-Moscow separatists. AFP
Kurds in Kobane resisting IS
Burak Akinci
with Rana Moussaoui

I
SLAMIC State jihadists
met dogged Kurdish resis-
tance in the high-prole
Syrian battleground town
of Kobane yesterday but they
put Iraqi forces under heavy
pressure, prompting the rst
US-led relief drops.
A roadside bomb killed the
police chief of the Iraqi prov-
ince of Anbar, between Bagh-
dad and the Syrian border,
where Pentagon ofcials have
voiced concern about the
vulnerability of government
troops to a renewed offensive
by the jihadists.
And further north, around
the key oil renery town of Bai-
ji, the Iraqi army and its Sunni
Arab tribal allies came under
fresh attack by the Islamic
State (IS) group, prompting a
maiden resupply operation by
US-led coalition aircraft.
In Kobane, where IS is bat-
tling Kurdish ghters under
the gaze of the international
media massed just across the
border with Turkey, the jihad-
ists were taking heavy losses,
the Syrian Observatory for Hu-
man Rights said.
On Saturday alone, the ji-
hadists lost at least 36 ght-
ers in the battle with Kurdish
militiamen for the town, ac-
cording to the Britain-based
monitoring group, which has
a wide network of sources in-
side Syria.
IS has earned worldwide in-
famy for a spate of atrocities
many of them videotaped
and paraded on the Internet
since it seized swathes of Iraq
and Syria in lightning offen-
sives earlier this year.
But it has also gained pres-
tige among Islamist extrem-
ists around the world that has
helped it recruit thousands of
foreign ghters but which is
now on the line in Kobane.
Its a decisive battle for
them, Observatory director
Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
If they dont pull it off, it will
damage their image among ji-
hadists around the world.
Abdel Rahman said IS was
pouring in reinforcements
from other areas it controls in
Syria, after its Friday capture of
the Kurdish command head-
quarters in Kobane failed to
deliver a decisive blow.
They are sending ghters
without much combat experi-
ence, he said.
They are attacking on mul-
tiple fronts but they keep being
repulsed, then countering and
being pushed back again.
The United Nations warned
on Friday that hundreds of
mainly elderly civilians remain
in the town centre and thou-
sands more on the outskirts
who all risk massacre if the
jihadists cut the sole escape
route to the Turkish border.
Washington and its Arab al-
lies have stepped up air strikes
against IS targets around Ko-
bane in recent days but Pen-
tagon ofcials have said there
is a limit to what they can do
without forces on the ground
they can work with.
The Kurdish ghters in Ko-
bane who have links with the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party over the border in Tur-
key, which is on Washingtons
terror blacklist say they have
had no coordination with US
commanders.
State Department deputy
spokeswoman Marie Harf said
Washington was deeply con-
cerned about the humanitar-
ian risks of Kobanes fall but
said it would keep to its over-
all strategy against IS, which
prioritises the campaign in
neighbouring Iraq.
We know theres the threat
of serious casualties thats
why were taking strikes in the
Kobane area against [IS] tar-
gets, Harf told AFP.
What [IS] is doing in Ko-
bane shows just how brutal
these terrorists are. But the
ght against [IS] is a much
larger strategic effort than in
any one town, he said.
That strategy has seen Wash-
ington and its coalition part-
ners carry out hundreds of air
strikes in Iraq in support of its
allies on the ground Kurdish
forces in the north and em-
battled federal government
troops further south.
Pro-government forces
have come under particu-
larly heavy pressure around
the key oil renery at Baiji,
south of the Iraqs second city
of Mosul, which the jihadists
seized in June.
With the surrounding terri-
tory all in IS hands, the coali-
tion airdropped ammunition,
food and water to its besieged
defenders on Friday and Sat-
urday in the rst such resup-
ply operation to Iraqi forces,
the Pentagon said. AFP
Turkish soldiers on a tank and Kurdish people look at the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the
Kurds, from a hill at the Turkish-Syrian border. AFP
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12
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) is a non-
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SOME of the bodies found in
mass graves in southern Mex-
ico do not correspond to any
of the 43 students who went
missing after an attack by
gang-linked police, an ofcial
said on Saturday.
I can say that some of the
bodies, according to the work
of forensics experts, do not
correspond to the youths
from Ayotzinapa, Angel Agu-
irre, the governor of violence-
wracked Guerrero state said.
The students vanished after
police linked to the Guerreros
Unidos gang attacked buses
they had seized in Iguala, lo-
cated just 200 kilometres from
Mexico City.
On October 4, a mass grave
was found with 28 charred
bodies. And on Thursday, four
more unmarked pits with bod-
ies were found.
An ofcial in the prosecutors
ofce declined to conrm the
information, stressing that the
investigation remains opened.
Two Guerreros Unidos hit-
men confessed to executing 17
of the students and dumping
them in the mass grave found
early this month. AFP
Some in
graves not
Mexican
students
Deadly cyclone smashes into India
Vivek Nemana

A
T LEAST three people
were killed yesterday
when Cyclone Hud-
hud slammed into In-
dias east coast packing winds
of almost 200 kilometres, (125
miles) per hour, ripping down
power cables and forcing
roads and railways to shut.
Around 370,000 people liv-
ing along the eastern coast-
line were evacuated before
the storm hit around 11:30am
(0600 GMT) yesterday morn-
ing, as authorities tried to
avoid mass casualties.
We have had three deaths
since this morning, said Na-
trajan Prakasam, a Disaster
Management Commission
ofcial in the worst-hit state
of Andhra Pradesh in south-
east India.
Two people were crushed
by falling trees, while the
third was killed when a wall
collapsed in heavy rains,
Prakasam said.
India placed its navy and
coastguard on high alert
ahead of the storm and ad-
vised residents to stay in-
doors as the cyclone passed
by, warning of large waves
known as storm surges.
Some ights were cancelled
while bus and train services
in the worst affected areas
were suspended.
The head of the National
Disaster Response Force
(NDRF) said the main high-
way in the port city of Vi-
sakhapatnam, which was in
the eye of the storm as it hit,
was strewn with fallen trees
and electricity pylons.
The two big challenges fac-
ing the NDRF team are clear-
ing roads and evacuation and
rescue work, he added.
Indias eastern coast and
neighbouring Bangladesh are
routinely hit by bad storms
between April and November
that cause deaths and wide-
spread property damage.
The region is populated by
shermen and small-scale
farmers, many of whom live
in imsy huts with thatched
roofs or shanties.
More than 8,000 people
were killed in Orissa, the
state to the north of Andhra
Pradesh, by a cyclone back in
1999 and the authorities are
keen to avoid a repeat of that
disaster.
Last year India undertook
its biggest ever evacuation
ahead of the arrival of Cy-
clone Phailin, with about
a million people moved to
safety from their homes
along the east coast.
The cyclone killed at least
18 people in the state and
left a trail of destruction, but
authorities said the toll could
have been much worse with-
out the evacuations.
Yesterday authorities in
Orissa said they had evacu-
ated almost 70,000 before
the storm hit, many of them
indigenous people living in
mud houses.
P K Mohapatra, special re-
lief commissioner of Orissa
said preparations had been
made to evacuate another
300,000 once the cyclone
crosses our state and if water
levels rise.
Arvind Kumar, a state gov-
ernment ofcial in Andhra
Pradesh, said 300,000 people
had been evacuated there.
Six hours after landfall will
be very crucial, though the
wind speeds will come down
to about 100 kilometres [per
hour] by then, he said. We
have advised people to stay
indoors.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi chaired an emergency
government meeting late on
Saturday to review prepara-
tions for the cyclone. The navy
earlier said it had assumed a
high degree of readiness and
ships equipped with divers,
doctors, inatable rubber
boats, helicopters and relief
material were on standby.
On Saturday a nine-year-
old girl drowned and a boy
went missing after the boat
that was evacuating them
from their coastal village cap-
sized, Andhra Pradesh Chief
Secretary G C Patie told the
Press Trust of India (PTI).
Authorities in Orissa have
been working to evacuate
members of the states 7,000-
strong Bonda tribe from their
age-old habitats in the Bonda
Hills, expected to be particu-
larly hard hit by the storm.
But PTI said many were re-
luctant to move as they had
never left the area.
The identied 2,000 tribal
people [who must move] have
never come down the hills in
their lifetime, Dambaru Sisa,
a member of the state par-
liament who belongs to the
Bonda tribe, told the agency.
Some of the deadliest
storms in history have formed
in the Bay of Bengal to Indias
east, including one in 1970
that killed between 300,000
and half a million people in
modern Bangladesh. AFP
Fishermen negotiate the rough seas ahead of Cyclone Hudhud, which
made its landfall on Indias east coast yesterday. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
North Korea warns of
rupture in South talks
NORTH Koreas state media
warned yesterday of a rupture
in dialogue with rival South
Korea over the launch of anti-
Pyongyang propaganda leaflets
that sparked a brief cross-bor-
der exchange of fire.
The two Koreas had agreed a
week earlier to work on resum-
ing a formal high-level dialogue
that has effectively been sus-
pended for seven months, rais-
ing hopes of a thaw in strained
relations.
But they traded heavy
machine-gun fire across their
border on Friday when North
Korean troops tried to shoot
down balloons carrying leaflets
launched by South Korean
activists.
Some rounds fell on the
southern side of the border,
which then responded with
high-calibre machine gun fire.
No casualties were reported
on either side.
Rodong Sinmun, the Norths
official newspaper, said in a
commentary that the planned
high-level meeting has virtu-
ally come to nothing.
How can we expect
improvement in inter-Korean
relations or fruitful dialogue
with those obsessed by mali-
cious delusions . . . and
immersed in reckless provo-
cations slandering the dia-
logue partner? it said.
The newspaper accused
Seoul of driving the situation to
catastrophe but did not say the
door for dialogue was com-
pletely shut.
The future of inter-Korean
relations is totally up to the atti-
tude of South Korean authori-
ties, it said without mention-
ing the exchange of fire.
While naval confrontations
along the Koreas disputed
maritime border occur from
time to time, any military
engagement across the heavily-
militarised land frontier is
extremely rare.
In 2010, the North shelled the
South Korean border island of
Yeonpyeong, killing four peo-
ple and briefly sparking fears of
a full scale conflict.
The balloon launch was one
of several planned to coincide
with North Koreas celebration
of the 69th anniversary of its
ruling Workers Party.
Seoul allowed the exercises
to go ahead, despite prior
warnings from Pyongyang of
catastrophic consequences.
Some of the balloons carried
messages denouncing North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un,
who has not been seen in pub-
lic for over a month. AFP
Envoys meet to rebuild Gaza
U
S SECRETARY of
State John Kerry
pledged $212 mil-
lion in aid to Gaza at
a donors meeting in Cairo yes-
terday, as the UN chief warned
that the Palestinian enclave
remained a tinderbox.
The Palestinian Authority
(PA) has asked for $4 billion to
rebuild the Gaza Strip, ham-
mered during a 50-day con-
ict between Israel and Hamas
militants in July and August.
Kerry said the new aid
brought Washingtons con-
tribution to helping Gaza to
more than $400 million over
the last year alone. Other na-
tions joined the effort, with
Germany pledging $63 mil-
lion and Norway about $13
million. The United Nations
already has plans for $2.1 bil-
lion of the funds, with $1.6
billion going to UNRWA and
the rest to other agencies in-
cluding childrens agency
UNICEF and development
arm UNDP.
The humanitarian chal-
lenge was enormous, Kerry
told the Cairo meeting, add-
ing the people of Gaza do
need our help, desperately,
not tomorrow, not next week,
they need it now.
Today Im happy to an-
nounce an additional and im-
mediate $212 million to the
Palestinian people, he said,
adding that the funds would
go to relief and budget support
for the PA. Taken together the
US has provided more than
$400 million to Palestinians
over the last year, $330 million
just since this summers con-
ict began, Kerry said.
He warned that the Islamist
Hamas movement in Gaza
which fought the conict
with Israel continued to pose
a real threat.
As long as there is a possibil-
ity that Hamas can re rockets
on Israeli civilians at any time,
the people of Gaza will remain
at risk of future conict.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon also
warned that another conict
could erupt at any given time:
Gaza remains a tinderbox, the
people desperately need to see
results in their daily lives.
PA President Mahmud Abbas
repeated his calls for an inter-
nationally set timeframe for
establishing a Palestinian state.
Abbas and his rival Hamas have
agreed on a unity government
which convened last week for
the rst time in Gaza.
Egypt said the conference
will also try to shore up the PA
in Gaza, seen as a key condi-
tion to allow aid into the Israe-
li-blockaded territory. AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri in Cairo yesterday
before a working breakfast during the Gaza Donor Conference. Kerry has unveiled a $212 million aid package
to help rebuild Gaza as global envoys meet to raise funds. AFP
Rolan Lloyd Parry

C
OUNTRIES across the world
scrambled on Saturday to
stem a deadly Ebola out-
break that UN ofcials warn
is getting worse as New Yorks main
JFK airport prepared to screen travel-
lers from epidemic-hit west Africa.
And in Madrid, the serious condi-
tion of a Spanish nurse, who was the
rst person to become infected with
Ebola outside of Africa, showed signs
of improving.
More than 4,000 people have died
from Ebola in seven countries since
the start of the year, according to the
UNs World Health Organisation, and
the disease appears to be outpacing
efforts to ght it.
The virus is far ahead of us and ev-
ery day the situation gets worse, the
head of the United Nations emergen-
cy Ebola mission Anthony Banbury,
told UN leaders after a tour of Liberia,
Guinea and Sierra Leone, the nations
worst affected by the epidemic.
At John F Kennedy International
Airport in New York, passengers and
crew arriving from the three coun-
tries at the centre of the outbreak will
have their temperatures taken and be
screened for signs of illness and an-
swer questions about possible expo-
sure, the US Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention (CDC) said.
Exit screening might not nd ev-
ery person with Ebola, however, it
does not have to be perfect to help
reduce the spread of Ebola, the CDC
said. Four other major US airports are
to start similar checks next week.
In Latin America, Peru and Uru-
guay have announced airport mea-
sures and Mexico and Nicaragua
planned to tighten controls of mi-
grants heading for US soil as an Eb-
ola precaution.
Amid fears of a global contagion,
two countries on Saturday ruled out
suspect cases.
The Brazilian Health Ministry re-
ported a Guinean man tested nega-
tive for Ebola.
And in Macedonia, tests showed
that a British man who died display-
ing Ebola-like symptoms did not have
the virus, ofcials said.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Sat-
urday pleaded with people to remem-
ber that all of Africa has not been
hit with the deadly Ebola epidemic,
which remains relatively isolated in
three countries.
With those three West African na-
tions Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Liberia already seeing their econo-
mies crumble because of the disease,
Lagarde emphasised: We should be
very careful not to terrify the planet in
respect of the whole of Africa.
In Spain, attention remained
focused on 44-year-old nurse Te-
resa Romero, whose condition im-
proved in the night. She is conscious
and talks from time to time when
she is in a good mood, a hospital
source told AFP.
Romeros brother conrmed late on
Saturday that his sisters health was
improving.
She no longer has a fever, it ap-
pears that while remaining seriously
ill shes getting better and moving for-
ward, She still in a serious but stable
condition and this gives us hope,
Jose-Ramon Romero told private
television channel La Sexta.
Teresa Romero is thought to have
contracted the disease in late Sep-
tember in a Madrid hospital while
caring for a Spanish missionary in-
fected with Ebola in Africa who later
died.
Fifteen other people, mostly hospi-
tal staff as well as Romeros husband,
are under observation at the Carlos
III hospital where Romero is being
treated. The hospital said none of
them were showing any symptoms.
Ofcials at the Madrid hospital in-
sisted there was no risk of infection
from patients under observation, in-
cluding Romeros husband, who were
photographed leaning out of the win-
dows of their hospital rooms.
The Spanish hospital source added
that doctors started treating Romero
with the experimental Ebola treat-
ment ZMapp late on Friday.
There is still no vaccine or widely
available treatment for Ebola, but
ZMapp, made in California, is one
of several drugs that have been fast-
tracked for development.
And Russias Health Minister Ve-
ronika Skvortsova announced on Sat-
urday that her country has created
three vaccines . . . and we think they
will be ready in the next six months.
Trials for an Ebola vaccine are un-
der way in Mali, which has no cases
of the disease but borders Guinea
where the outbreak began.
That vaccine is being developed
by the British drug company GlaxoS-
mithKline and the US National Insti-
tutes of Health (NIH).
The WHO reported 4,033 people
have died from Ebola as of October 8
out of a total of 8,399 registered cases
in seven countries.
The sharp rise in deaths came as
the UN said aid pledges to ght the
epidemic have fallen well short of the
$1 billion needed.
Britain held a nationwide exercise
on Saturday to test its preparedness
for an Ebola outbreak.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said
afterwards that the country was ready
to cope with any outbreak. AFP
An airport worker wears a protective face mask in the arrivals area of the Los Angeles
International Airport as the US announced increased passenger screenings against
the Ebola Virus on October 9. AFP
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14
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Japan International Cooperation Center
Job Opportunity
Junior Project Coordinator
Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) is seeking a qualied Cambo-
dian candidate to work on a full time basis in Phnom Penh to ll the position
of Junior Project Coordinator for the Japanese Grand Aid for Human Re-
source Development Scholarship Program (JDS).
JDS Scholarship Program is funded by the government of Japan, which aims
to support human resource development of Cambodia, targeting government
ocials who are expected to engage in formulating and implementing social
and economic development plans afer earning Masters degree in Japan.
Main Duties:
Junior Project Coordinator will work to assist Japanese ocer and senior
Cambodian coordinator to implement JDS scholarship program (Recruitment
of applicants, selection, dispatching, etc) at JICE JDS Project Oce in Phnom
Penh. The work contract can be renewable up to a ceiling of 5 years.
To assist Japanese ocer and senior Cambodian sta to implement JDS
scholarship project
Data / Information collection and analysis (Internet, Interview, questionnaire, etc.)
Data entry and its administration (Data of applicants, scholars, question-
naire, etc)
To organize paper works (Filing, making copies, leter preparation and delivery)
To assist an accounting works (Collection, sorting, making copy of invoices, etc)
Daily maintenance of the oce equipment (Intranet, oce equipment, sta-
tioneries, etc.)
To liaise with a counterpart, government authorities and concerned parties
of the project
To support administrative procedures of scholars who will go to and return
from Japan
Writen and oral translation from Khmer into English, and vice versa
Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
Bachelor degree holders
Preferable: minimum 2-year relevant working experience at a full time basis
Preferable: 24 30 years old
Excellent writen and oral communication skills in English and Khmer
Computer skills (Microsof Oce applications: Excel, Word, etc)
Good understanding of Cambodian government, government works and
practices.
Good communication skills to maintain relationship with governmental
authorities and scholars
Presentation and communication skills in front of a large audience
Flexibility as well as abilities of recording, scheduling and reporting
Willingness to understand the scholarship program, development/social is-
sues in Cambodia, Japanese culture and society.
Application:
Female applicants are encouraged to apply
Please submit your CV to JICE JDS Oce by 17:00 of October 27, 2014.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted for a paper test and interview.
The scope of the paper test will be English (English Khmer), basic mathemat-
ics and MS Excel. Further details will be explained when the CV is submited.
Contact:
JICE JDS Project Oce
TEL: 023-217-944 / Address: Ground Floor of Hong Kong Center, Preah Sot-
hearos, Phnom Penh
Working hour: Mon-Fri 8:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
About JICE ( htp://jice.org/e/index.htm )
About JDS ( htp://jds-scholarship.org/ )
Senior Environment Specialist
Division/Section
Level
:
:
Environment Programme, Environment Division
M-12
Work location : Mekong River Commission Secretariat,
Vientiane, Laos
Contract type/ Duration : Fixed-term Appointment / One-year contract
renewal
Key Responsibilities:
Support and facilitates the work of the Environment Programme
providing technical inputs to all aspects of the work under the
Programme, especially on cross-cutting issues that require inputs
from more than one Programme Ofcer ;
Assist in preparation of ToR, recruitment, oversight and support to
consultants and experts in the implementation of relevant activities
under the Environment Programme;
Prepare and review related technical reports, publications,
papers and presentation materials to promote and disseminate the
outputs from the Environment Programme;
Assist in ensuring the substantive quality of the Environment Programme (EP);
Review and provides comments as necessary on MRC activities and
policies on all aspects of environment and suggests remedies to any
duplication or gaps;
Provide concrete suggestions/recommendations for the continuous
improvement of the EP;
Assist the Programme Coordinator in coordinating, implementing
and reporting programme activities, and supports the International
Technical Advisor in organizing and facilitating preparation of the
implementation plan;
Support the senior programme managers in their coaching, advice and
working together with environment programmes ofcers through the
implementation of respective programme activities and actions;
Collaborate with the International Technical Advisor, Programme
Coordinator and Division Director to ensure the required
environmental knowledge, skills development, knowledge transfer
and mentoring to support the programmes full responsibiltiy and
mandate through riparianization and implementation of the next MRC
Strategic Plan;
Proactively assist in identifying, collecting, analysing and reporting
on environmental information critical for decision making and the
public;
Performother duties within the scope of the other duties as assigned by
the EP Programme Coordinator and the Division Director.
Qualications/Requirements:
M.Sc. or higher degree in natural sciences; environmental
management, or development studies, preferably in aquatic
environment related elds;
At least 12 years experience in environmental studies, environmental
management tools, environmental protection and conservation in
relation to river and inland water resource development.;
Demonstrated technical and management competence in collaborative
working with others by assisting, coaching and guiding;
Excellent skills in communication and reporting;
Extensive experience in policy issues of environment considerations in
development programmes;
Ability to work and co-operate in a multicultural and international
environment;
Experience within development project planning, management,
implementation, reporting and monitoring and evaluation; experience
in preparation of annual work plans and budgets, and the use of a
logical framework for summarising and guiding implementation is an
advantage;
Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Working knowledge of
more than one riparian language desirable;
Experience with and good knowledge of the Mekong Riparian countries
and the Mekong River basin.
The J ob Description and other information can be obtained from the MRC
website http://www.mrcmekong.org/working-with-mrc/employment/. Qualied female
candidates are encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be notied.
Closing date for applications: 20 October 2014
Application procedures:
Only nationals of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnamare eligible to apply.
The application should include (i) a cover letter outlining clearly how the candidate
meets the requirements of the position, (ii) a detailed CV, and (iii) MRC Personal
History Form. The position title and section/division must be indicated in the cover
letter.
The application should be sent to the National Mekong Committee in the
applicants home country:
Cambodia National Mekong
Committee
P.O.Box 623, 364 Monivong Blvd.,
Sangkat Phsar DoermThkouv, Khan
Chamkar Mon, PhnomPenh, Cambodia
Tel. (855-23) 216 514
Fax. (855-23) 218 506
E-mail: cnmcs@cnmc.gov.kh or
khom.sk@gmail.com
Lao National Mekong Committee
KhunbulomRoad, Chantabouly
District, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Tel. (856-21) 260 983
Fax. (856-21) 260 984
E-mail: lnmcs@monre.gov.la
Thai National Mekong Committee
Department of Water Resources
180/3 Rama 6 Road, Soi Phibul Watana
Building
Phayathai, Bangkok 10400 Thailand
Tel. (66-2) 271 6165, 271 6620
Fax. (66-2) 298 6605
E-mail: tnmc@dwr.mail.go.th
Viet Nam National Mekong
Committee
23 Hang Tre, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Tel. (84-4) 825 4785
Fax. (84-4) 825 6929
E-mail: vnmc.personnel@gmail.com
Mekong River Commission
The role of MRC is to promote and coordinate sustainable management and development of water and related resources for
the countries mutual benet and the peoples well-being
MRC Secretariat is now recruiting a highly qualied candidate for the position of
Nations step up fight against Ebola
World
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Thousands march in St
Louis against police
THOUSANDS of people took to
the streets of the midwestern
US city of St Louis on Saturday
to protest police tactics in the
wake of the racially charged
shooting of an unarmed black
teenager. Demonstrators
gathered downtown in the
morning hours. The protest
was part of a weekend of
resistance organised in the
aftermath of the August 9
shooting death of 18-year-old
Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri. Police say officer
Darren Wilson who is white
shot Brown after he attacked
him and tried to seize his gun,
but witnesses say the
unarmed teen was shot after
he put his hands up in the air.
The protests began on Friday
and will last four days. AFP
Four civilians dead in
Myanmar explosion
FOUR civilians including a
12-year-old boy were killed
and several wounded when a
mortar bomb hit a crowded
road in conflict-hit eastern
Myanmar, witnesses and
police said yesterday. The
incident happened on Saturday
in an area of Karen state near
the Thai border, which
residents say has been rattled
by fighting between troops and
a rebel splinter group
representing the ethnic Karen
minority. AFP
Malala, Satyarthi win Nobel prize
M
ALALA Yousafzai, the
Pakistani teenage educa-
tion campaigner shot on
school bus in 2012 by a
Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 No-
bel peace prize. Malala won along with
Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian childrens
rights activist.
The two were named winner of the
$1.1 million prize by the chairman
of the Nobel committee Norways
former prime minister Thorbjoern
Jagland on Friday morning.
Speaking after nishing the school
day at Edgbaston High School for Girls,
in Birmingham, Malala said: My mes-
sage to children all around the world
is that they should stand up for their
rights. She added: I felt more power-
ful and more courageous because this
award is not just a piece of metal or a
medal you wear or an award you keep
in your room. This is encouragement
for me to go forward.
Malala, 17, was shot in the head by a
Taliban gunman two years ago in Paki-
stan after coming to prominence for
her campaigning for the education for
girls. She won for what the Nobel com-
mittee called her heroic struggle for
girls right to an education. She is the
youngest ever winner of the prize.
After being shot she was airlifted to
Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birming-
ham, where she was treated for life-
threatening injuries.
She has since continued to campaign
for girls education, speaking before
the UN, meeting Barack Obama, be-
ing named one of Time magazines 100
most inuential people and last year
publishing the memoir I Am Malala.
Last month a gang of 10 Taliban ght-
ers who tried to kill her were arrested,
the Pakistan army claimed.
In a statement, the Nobel commit-
tee said: Despite her youth, Malala
Yousafzai has already fought for sev-
eral years for the right of girls to edu-
cation, and has shown by example
that children and young people, too,
can contribute to improving their
own situations.
This she has done under the most
dangerous circumstances. Through
her heroic struggle she has become a
leading spokesperson for girls rights
to education, the committee said.
Malala explained how she completed
the rest of her school day after learning
she had won the prize.
When I found I had won the Nobel
peace prize I decided I would not leave
my school, rather I would nish my
school time, she said.
I went to the physics lessons, I
learned. I went to the English lesson. I
considered it like a normal day.
I was really happy with the response
of my teachers and my fellow students.
They were all saying they were proud.
Satyarthi, the Nobel committee said,
had maintained the tradition of Ma-
hatma Gandhi and headed various
forms of peaceful protests.
Showing great personal courage,
Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gan-
dhis tradition, has headed various
forms of protests and demonstrations,
all peaceful, focusing on the grave
exploitation of children for nancial
gain, the committee said. He has also
contributed to the development of im-
portant international conventions on
childrens rights.
The Nobel committee said that it
regards it as an important point for
a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian
and a Pakistani, to join in a common
struggle for education and against
extremism.
Satyarthi, 60, dedicated his prize to
children in slavery, telling CNN-IBN:
Its an honour to all those children
who are still suffering in slavery, bond-
ed labour and trafcking.
He founded Bachpan Bachao An-
dolan or the Save the Childhood
Movement in 1980 and has acted to
protect the rights of 80,000 children.
Its an honour to all my fellow Indi-
ans. I am thankful to all those who have
been supporting my striving for more
than the last 30 years, he said.
A lot of credit goes to the Indians
who ght to keep democracy so alive
and so vibrant, where I was able to
keep my ght on. Something which
was born in India has gone globally
and now we have the global movement
against child labour. After receiving this
award I feel that people will give more
attention to the cause of children in the
world. THE GUARDIAN
Kailash Satyarthi (left) and Malala Yousafzai were jointly named the winners of the 2014
Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Save the Children: P.O. Box 34, Villa 5, Street 242, Sangkat
Chaktomouk, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Phone: (855) 12 777 482, (855) 23 223 403/4/5/6, CCC Box 59,
Email: jobs.cambodia@savethechildren.org /
website: http://cambodia.savethechildren.net
Consultancy Opportunity
Save the Children is a child rights organization. We save childrens lives; we
ght for their rights; we help them fulll their potential. In collaboration
with the Royal Government of Cambodia, recognised for our commitment
to accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us into the
heart of communities, where we help children and families to help themselves.
Save the Children focuses on ve thematic areas: Education, Child protection,
Child rights governance, DRR&CCA Emergency and Health. DRR/CCA is
integrated into education.
Save the Children is looking for a qualied and motivated candidate to work
as Counterpart to Senior Technical Assistant for Basic Education
based in Kampong Cham province.
The duration of the consultancy will be two months.
Scope of work and qualications:
Responsibilities:
Translate the training documents produced by the Senior Education
Technical Assistant and edit them from English into Khmer in the form of
a Handbook;
Support in developing the teacher training materials such as teaching
literacy, life skills and formative and summative assessments in literacy
and life skills;
Support in training activities such as workshop programmes, workshop
reports, follow up workshop action points;
Collect documents of action research activities from teachers, DoEs,
PoEs and MoEYS;
Support in developing the document on Teacher Training Strategies to be
produced by Senior Education Technical Assistant.
Desired qualications:
Higher degree in Education or equivalent experience;
Extensive experience in the education and development sector;
Extensive experience in curriculum and material development for teacher
training, particularly for primary level
Long-term experience in teacher training, particularly in primary level
Deep knowledge and understanding about the Cambodian Education
system, its history, current policies, practices and structures
Good writing skills and good communication skills
Fluent English and Khmer
How to apply
Interested candidates should send their application and CV highlighting
relevant experience and a work plan including budgeting to the Human
Resources Team at Save the Children no later than 17.00 on 20 October
2014.
A detailed Terms of Reference is available from our website or at the address
below. Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Electronic
submission via email or our website is strongly encouraged. Qualied women
and disabled candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted
candidates will be notied and called for interviews. Applications and CVs
will not be returned.
Suspended mines leaves scars in Philippines
Tim Kroenert

Y
OU know youve reached
Santa Cruz when you hit
the potholes, says Jose-
phine Astadan.
She isnt joking. The degradation of
the road is evident the moment one
crosses into Santa Cruz, a tiny village in
the far northwest corner of the north-
ern Philippines province of Zambales.
The villages mining operations have
been still for three months, but the
potholes, says Astadan, are but one of
the visible scars that remain.
Lifelong local Astadan is the general
secretary of the Concerned Citizens of
Santa Cruz. The coalitions main mis-
sion since its formation in early 2012
has been to give big mining the boot.
Four mining companies operated
in the area from 2006. The companies
extracted nickel ore from the moun-
tains that shade the village, barreled
it down to the village in heavy trucks
(cue potholes), and deposited it at one
of three purpose-built ports for export
to China.
Earlier this year, operations at the
mines were suspended after the na-
tional Environmental Management
Bureau demanded they comply with
environmental standards.
But according to the coalition, its too
little, too late. Just look at this, says
Astadan, indicating the Pamalabawan
River, whose sickly brown waters pass
through the town and into the sea.
This used to be beautiful. We used to
swim here. People would wash their
clothes. Now look at it.
Santa Cruzs vibrant river systems
feed the regions major industries, in-
cluding rice farming, sh farming and
small-scale commercial shing. Now
they have become clogged with nick-
el-tainted silt displaced by the mining
operations.
This has turned irrigation water-
ways to slovenly mud, exacerbated
crop-destroying oods, and poi-
soned the once fertile seawater for
hundreds of meters from shore. The
beach itself is thick with trash, a tes-
tament to the lax attitude towards
waste disposal.
Fisherman Romy Marave has lived
on that shore his whole life. He went
on his rst shing trip when he was
just 10, and set out solo for the rst
time when he was 18. Hes now 37,
married and has a young daughter. On
the day ucanews.com visits, hes land-
ed a smallish 20-kilogram catch.
Since big mining came to town eight
years ago, Marave says he now travels
37 kilometres to net anything like a
substantial haul. Previously, he trav-
elled about 15 kilometres. The extra
outlay for fuel cuts into his prots.
Of course, shing is unpredictable at
the best of times. But we could always
receive a continuous income by catch-
ing small sh close to shore and selling
them to the sh farms, Marave said.
Now they are gone.
Rice farmer Marciano Bucat ex-
plains how the siltation of the riv-
ers resulted in shoulder-deep oods
last rainy season that devastated his
crops. Usually, the crop would bring
in 400,000 pesos ($8,950), Bucat ex-
plains. This year: zero.
Not everyone is angry, though.
Nearby, a tractor is dredging silt from
the river as part of one mining com-
panys compliance obligations. The
operation is overseen by one Ernesto
Bucat, a farmer who since April this
year has been working for a mine.
Bucat is president of Santa Cruzs
Irrigation Association. His reasons for
defecting to the mining company
are purely pragmatic. I need to sup-
port my family,he says.
Bucat, 41 and a father of ve, earns
10,000 pesos per month working for
the mine, which already is almost
half of what hed previously earned
per year through farming alone.
Peoples anger toward the miners
has calmed down, he insists. In fact,
some farmers are pleased that their
farms have been widened as part of
the dredging process.
They would be in a minority, says
rice farmer Marciano when this claim
is put to him later that day.
Marciano, 60 a rst cousin of Er-
nesto and his wife, Josie, 61, have
been married for 35 years. They
farm the same land that Marcianos
father did before him, and it has re-
cently been dredged of silt as part of
one mining companys compliance
obligations.This year is the rst time
we have tried to grow rice on the re-
claimed land, says Marciano.
The results have been far from sat-
isfactory. It does not compare to how
productive it was before, he says. He
has doubled the amount of fertilizer
used, and still the yield is feeble.
In the process of dredging the land
the company also felled a planta-
tion of bamboo another saleable
commodity as well as a construction
material along with ve 50-year-
old mango trees, whose annual yield
Marciano estimates at being worth
about 100,000 pesos ($2,250). He
says the mining companies have not
done enough to help the farmers re-
store what once was.
A troubling subplot to all of this
is the position of the local Catholic
Church. An impressive new church
belltower was paid for by a mining
company, and last month the Church
was fundraising for mining employ-
ees who had lost work due to the sus-
pension of operations.
Astadan, a Catholic, is perplexed by
what she perceives as an allegiance to
mining interests, and left the Church.
The mines may be quiet for the
moment, but as far as Astaban is
concerned, the ght is far from over.
This [anti-mining activism] is now
my belief, she says. It is how I show
my faith. UCANEWS.COM
Santa Cruz farmers say that rice yields have signicantly decreased due to the inux of
silt from the mines. AFP
Try and try again
Failing was
fun, Nobel
winner says
T
HE hundreds of
experimental failures
that paved the road to
winning the Nobel Prize for
physics was fun, rather than
frustration, one of this years
three Japanese-born laure-
ates said on Friday.
Hiroshi Amano, 54, sat next
to Isamu Akasaki, 85, his one-
time mentor-professor, when
they met the press at Nagoya
University in central Japan
days after they were honoured
alongside Shuji Nakamura for
inventing the blue LED.
Ive never thought I wanted
to quit in my research,
Amano said. I would always
fail in experiments, which I did
at least three times a day.
I would go back to my
apartment disappointed at
night, but I would always get
some new ideas in the morn-
ing. I would say it was fun
rather than pain. When he
rst succeeded after failing
more than a thousand times, I
was speechless, he said.
The Nobel committee hon-
oured the trio this week say-
ing the energy-efcient LED
lights were a potent weapon
against global warming and
poverty. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
World
3D rocket set to blast off
F
UELLED by beer and
the enthusiasm of
amateurs, a British
team on Friday said it
was preparing to launch the
worlds rst ever 3D printed
rocket.
Showing off the human-sized
rocket in a central London of-
ce, Lester Haines, head of the
Special Projects Bureau at
technology magazine The Reg-
ister, described the technical
challenges and big future of
3D printing in aeronautics.
You can do highly complex
shapes that simply arent prac-
tical to do any other way, he
told AFP, dressed in a white
lab coat sporting the project
motto Ad astra tabernamque,
which means to the stars and
the pub.
NASA are already 3D-print-
ing metal rocket parts, so its
obviously got a big future.
The project sponsored by
German data analytics rm
Exasol was suggested by
readers of The Register and
goes by the grand title Low
Orbit Helium Assisted Naviga-
tor, or LOHAN for short.
It took 30 committed team-
members, including doctorate
aeronautical engineers, four
years to build the rocket.
The biggest challenge, ac-
cording to Haines, was getting
the standard hobbyist rocket
motor to re at high altitudes.
The team will launch the
rocket from Spaceport Amer-
ica, the home of Virgin Galac-
tic in New Mexico, later this
year, after securing the 15,000
($24,000) needed for lift-off on
crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
A huge helium balloon will
lift the rocket 20,000 metres
(65,600 feet) into the strato-
sphere, at which point the on-
board GPS will ignite the en-
gine, catapulting it to speeds
of around 1,610 kilometres
per hour. The three-kilogram
rocket, which cost 6,000 to
print, will then use an onboard
autopilot to guide it back to
Earth, all captured by an on-
board video camera.
Haines explained how 3D
printings main advantage was
in speeding up the process of
rening prototypes, requiring
only a tweak to the computer-
aided design (CAD) plans that
instruct the printer. He called
LOHAN a because its there
project, and had no commer-
cial value, but added that the
number of potential uses for
similar Unmanned Aerial Ve-
hicles was endless.
With the countdown on,
Haines said the team was still
relaxed: We got some of the
team turning up for a beer to-
night, he revealed. Its going
to get really messy. AFP
Director of the lm team Fenke Fros (left), managing director of Exasol UK Guy Lipscombe (centre) and head
of the special projects bureau, Lester Haines (right) with their 3D printed rocket. AFP
Pakistani airstrikes kill
21 militants: officials
Pakistani air strikes killed at
least 21 militants yesterday in
attacks on their hideouts in a
restive northwestern tribal
areas bordering Afghanistan,
officials said. The attacks were
launched in the Kuki Khel area
of the Khyber tribal district,
where the Taliban and another
banned Islamist group,
Lashkar-e-Islam, have taken
refuge. In precision air
strikes, at least 10 militants
were killed and their three
hideouts were destroyed in
Khyber, a senior military
official said. Pakistan has been
battling Islamist groups in its
semi-autonomous tribal belt
since 2004 after its army
entered the region to search
for Al-Qaeda fighters who had
fled across the border
following the US-led invasion
of Afghanistan. AFP
Tribal clashes leave 21
dead and 60 wounded
AT LEAST 21 people were
killed and more than 60
wounded in tribal clashes west
of the Libyan capital over the
weekend, hospital sources
said yesterday. Witnesses said
nationalist militia from the
hilltown of Zintan, southwest
of Tripoli, attacked the
neighbouring town of Kekla
which supports their Islamist-
led Fajr Libya rivals. AFP
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S THE summer wound
down, I found a letter from
my sons headmaster under
some junk on my desk. He
was asking the kids to be sure to
read two books over the summer.
Oops, I thought. This was one I
should have read immediately. Even
though we bug my son to read, find
him books that seem perfect for his
taste usually about dystopian,
post-apocalyptic societies he
doesnt manage to get through too
many. There are distractions. Partic-
ularly the internet and social media.
Research abounds about internet
use and the young, their drop in
reading and their reduced, choppy
attention spans.
Of course, social change has
always made people worry. Im sure
mothers in the Golden Age of Peri-
cles bemoaned how the world was
going to Hades in a handbasket. New
technologies make us fear that a pre-
cious piece of culture will be lost.
Now with the entrenchment of Face-
book, people panic about the fate of
reading itself.
But are we adults modelling better
behaviour? I realised that I read less
now that Im so plugged in to social
media. In fact, I skipped a bunch of
book-group meetings because I
didnt have the time or energy to
read. At least this is what I told
myself. The truth is that I was on my
laptop, clicking so often from e-book
to Facebook that I couldnt stay with
a story thread.
I might disparage millennials for
their internet addictions, but it had
become hard for me to turn off Face-
book. I lost touch with some friends,
but that was easy to ignore because I
had more than a thousand other
friends to think about. And I was
really thinking about them. I knew
about their vacations, their illnesses,
their dogs.
I did not realise just how debilitat-
ing my behaviour was, though, until
this summer. Slowly I became
aware of a pervasive anxiety. I felt
disengaged from my life, floating
outside looking in. Old symptoms of
depression, which I had been man-
aging pretty well, began to return,
especially when I was scrolling
down my Facebook page. The pivot-
al moment came when I started
railing about a woman for her huge
number of likes, no matter how
inane her posts. I was actually jeal-
ous. I know I sound crazy, I said to
my husband, meaning, We both
know Im not.
To my surprise, he murmured,
Yeah, you do sound crazy.
It was a punch in the gut. But I had
to admit to myself that for me, Face-
book was toxic, an ugly dependency.
Help came from where I least
expected it: my teenage son. He sug-
gested I get an app called, ironically,
SelfControl. This software (for Mac)
limits your access to designated
websites for whatever period of time
you want.
The first day, I set it to lock me out
of Facebook for three hours. I actu-
ally felt scared. What had I done?
What if there was something I really
wanted to say in those 180 minutes?
Pathetic, I know.
I waited out the three hours in
brooding silence. I felt kind of
empty, like when you start a diet.
Without the blue-and-white
screen, I had to turn to other ways
to fill my time which is difficult
because I am a writer, always
online. I went to my favourite cof-
fee place and wrote among the oth-
er laptop people strangers, but
real people who breathed,
coughed, talked to each other. I
wrote for six hours that day.
My life suddenly pressed a lot clos-
er. At first my small constellation of
activity was hard to get used to. A
week into it, and I still had with-
drawal pains, vague needles of wor-
ry that I would be left behind that I
was leaving the human race. But
after a while, I could see I was only
leaving a rat race. I expanded my
SelfControl hours.
Still, I have to take it a day at a
time. Lately I have allowed myself to
get back on Facebook more, and I
even post sometimes. I hope to be
able to employ a portion-control
approach rather than go cold turkey.
I fill the pockets of empty space with
writing, seeing friends and oh,
yeah! reading. I got through Sep-
tembers book-group selection and
just started Octobers. Neither is very
good, but I try to finish them, even
though we talk about the books for
only about 20 minutes of our two-
hour meetings. We are really there to
connect and catch up.
Its not all that different from what
people do on Facebook. Yet it is a
world apart. There are no photos. No
petitions or ice buckets. And no
likes. We all just like books. And
each other. SLATE
Why I logged off Facebook
Research shows that children and young adults who frequent Facebook see their reading time drop and their attention span become shorter. BLOOMBERG
Susan Senator is a writer who lives in
Brookline, Massachusettes
Comment
Susan Senator
LINDSAY Lohan pouts
from the billboards of
Londons West End
theatre district, where
the Hollywood wild-
child is making her
stage debut in a bid to
relaunch a career
eclipsed by her off-
screen antics.
Lilo is appearing as
secretary Karen in
Speed-t he-Pl ow,
David Mamets three-
act play satirising the US movie busi-
ness, running at the Playhouse Thea-
tre until November 29.
The 28-year-old former Disney
actress has recently moved from New
York to a flat in London, calling the
British capital a more adult city.
She has had to instil some self-disci-
pline to deal with the rigours of the
London stage, contrary to commenta-
tors who deemed her out of control.
The play helps counter the percep-
tion that Im just a psycho that goes
out and stuff, she told Time Out mag-
azine. I think it shows that I can be
accountable.
Ive done things, but
people grow up and
they change. Im will-
ing to work hard to
gain back the respect
that I once had and
have lost.
Although she won
praise for her perform-
ance as a teen in the
2004 film Mean Girls,
she has since become
better known for her
drug problems, rehab
visits, legal woes and lively social life.
She has been in and out of court on a
regular basis since 2007.
As a sexy secretary, Lohan convinc-
ingly embodies the role which seems
tailor-made when her character says:
I know what it is to be bad. Ive been
bad. I know what it is to be lost.
Reviews from London critics have
been encouraging.
The doomsayers, the mockers and
those quick to bitch on Twitter can go
hang, said the Daily Telegraph news-
paper. Lohan made her stage debut
with a surprising and smouldering
degree of style. AFP
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Lifestyle
SALMAN Rushdie hopes to shin[e]
a light on [the] plight of the impris-
oned Syrian human rights activist
Mazen Darwish by sharing his PEN
Pinter prize with the journalist and
lawyer.
Darwish, founding president of the
Syrian Centre for Media and Free-
dom of Expression (SCM), a 10-year-
old organisation that has document-
ed the human rights abuses in Syria
since 2011, was arrested in February
2012, according to English PEN. In
March this year, he was charged with
publicising terrorist acts. If he is
convicted, he could go to prison for
up to 15 years.
Darwish courageously fought for
civilised values free expression,
human rights in one of the most
dangerous places in the world, said
Rushdie. His continued detention
is arbitrary and unjust. He should be
freed immediately, and we must
hope this award may help, by shining
a light on his plight.
The prize was set up in 2009 in
memory of the Nobel laureate Pinter
and is given to a writer who judges
decide exemplifies the spirit of
Harold Pinter through his or her
engagement with the times, and
who, as in Pinters own Nobel speech,
casts an unflinching, unswerving
gaze upon the world and shows a
fierce intellectual determination . . .
to define the real truth of our lives
and our societies. Rushdie was cho-
sen this summer for what chair of
judges Maureen Freely said were his
many years of speaking out for free-
dom of expression, but also for his
countless private acts of kindness.
When he sees writers unjustly vili-
fied, prosecuted or forced into exile,
he takes a personal interest.
The British winners who have
included Carol Ann Duffy, David Hare,
Hanif Kureishi and Tony Harrison
are then asked to share the prize with
a writer who is active in defence of
freedom of expression, often at great
risk to their own safety.
Rushdie announced that Darwish
would receive this years interna-
tional writer of courage award at an
event at the British Library this
evening. It was accepted on Dar-
wishs behalf by the Syrian research-
er and writer Zaher Omareen.
There could not be a more appro-
priate and deserving choice in view
of the current situation in Syria, one
that speaks directly to the ideals of
PEN, said the author Antonia Fraser,
Pinters widow.
Freely, president of English PEN,
added: During this time when yet
again Syria is capturing headlines
around the world, we must not forget
that creative defenders of free expres-
sion are detained and possibly tor-
tured. Particularly at times of con-
flict we depend on the voices of calm
and principled reason.
English PEN said that Darwishs
lawyers have argued the SCMs
activities cannot be considered as
terrorist acts, that there was an
absence of an arrest warrant, and
that the trial, which is due to resume
next month, has been subject to
excessive delays. The writers
group also pointed to widespread
fears that Darwish and his co-de-
fendants have been tortured and
i l l-treated, and that evidence
extracted under torture may be used
against them. THE GUARDIAN
E
VERY weekend, a new
generation of rebels
converges on down-
town Havana, their
tattoos, piercings, and dyed
hair a world apart from the
new man the islands revo-
lutionary leaders dreamed of.
They claim membership in a
disparate band of urban tribes
emos, screamos, repas,
mikis, punks and freaks
but come together on G Street,
one of the capitals main av-
enues, to drink, smoke, irt,
gossip and listen to the music
that denes their clans.
Cubas communist govern-
ment once considered them
ideological deviants, but has
recently begun allowing these
globalised rebels a small space
of freedom though still under
the watchful eye of the police.
Gathering at midnight be-
neath statues of Latin Ameri-
can independence ghter Si-
mon Bolivar and leftist hero
Salvador Allende, several hun-
dred mostly teenage revellers
gather each weekend sport-
ing creative tattoos, multiple
piercings and gauged ears.
Others wear leather or metal
wristbands, or exotic post-
punk hairstyles. In their cross-
cutting fashion philosophy,
black is the new khaki.
Under the raw light of street-
lamps or in the shadows of
the tree-lined median, they
gather around MP3 players or
cell phones playing hard rock,
hip-hop, emo and reggaeton.
They bear little resemblance
to Havanas postcard image of
crumbling colonial buildings,
classic American cars and salsa
musicians decked out in white.
They are also a far cry from
the revolutionary ideal of the
seless communist citizen
that Che Guevara and Fidel
Castro hoped to make the
world model after toppling
dictator Fulgencio Batista.
But it is a well-behaved re-
bellion, with no ghting or
loud music. This is still Cuba,
after all, even if Fidel has relin-
quished power to his younger
brother Raul and the island
has started taking tentative
steps toward reform. A hand-
ful of police, both plainclothes
and uniformed, keep an eye
on the crowd.
Nevertheless, the regimes at-
titude has changed a lot since
the 1960s, when it persecuted
young people who listened to
the Beatles or Elvis music la-
belled counterrevolutionary.
Theres more tolerance
now, said Ruben Gutierrez,
a self-described punk and G
Street regular.
The government has grown
slowly more tolerant of
freaks, or rock music fans,
since the 1980s.
In the early 2000s, police still
chased fans of enemy (Ameri-
can) music away from G Street
when they tried to gather there
after the authorities closed their
previous spot, a square near the
Plaza de la Revolucion.
But in 2007, after carrying
out a sociological study and
deciding the young music lov-
ers worldview was compatible
with communist ideology, the
government began allowing
them to stay on G Street.
This has been closely ob-
served by the police and cer-
tain groups that carry out sur-
veillance, said Omar Padilla,
a 30-year-old rocker with long
hair. There was a time when
we couldnt be here.
Each tribe has its own space
on G Street, but there are no
signs of rivalry as they pass
the night drinking rum and
smoking under the distant but
constantly present gaze of the
police. They include rockers,
emos, punks, repas (hip-hop
fans), mikis (pop fans) and
screamos (a mix of punk and
emo, according to adherents).
Their conversations range
from music to fashion to love
but politics is absent.
They share the Cuban pop-
ulations disbelief and mistrust
in political institutions, which
they dont consider spaces for
mobilisation or social trans-
formation, said psycholo-
gist Daybel Panellas, who has
studied the groups.
Pedro Luis Fernandez, a 17-
year-old emo, described G
Street as a place to meet peo-
ple who think like you, who
like the same music and look
the same.
Jorge Herrera, a 16-year-old
freak. had more concrete
goals: We came to meet girls
and get lucky if possible, he
said.
When you dont have mon-
ey to go to a club, you come to
G, said Pedro Tumbarell, a 21-
year-old screamo by night,
nursing student by day. AFP
Havanas new rebels: emos,
screamos, mikis and freaks
Rushdie to share Pinter prize with activist
Salman Rushdie. AFP
Action on climate
Terminator
to innovator
for Arnie
H
OLLYWOOD legend
Arnold Schwarzenegger
has gone from being
the Terminator to the Innova-
tor, Frances Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius said Saturday,
praising him for his work to
prevent climate change.
The actor turned politician
was presiding over a cli-
mate change conference of the
worlds regions in Paris on Fri-
day and Saturday in the run-up
to a crunch global summit on
the problem in the city in 2015.
The two-time governor of
California who introduced the
first cap on greenhouse gas
emissions in the US founded
the R20 Regions of Climate
Action as an environmental
counterweight to the G20 in
2010, to push for a sustainable
low carbon economy.
We know him as the
Terminator but it is pretty rare
that a Terminator can be at the
same time an innovator and a
visionator, Fabius said after
meeting the actor, whose most
famous role was as The Termi-
nator in the 1984 action film of
the same name.
Climate change is not scien-
ce fiction ... its the challenge of
our times, Schwarzenegger
said afterwards. AFP
Cuban youngsters enjoy the park at G and 23 streets in Havana, on September 28. AFP
Lindsay Lohan seeks
redemption on stage
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- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
A healthy soak
in the sands
of the Sahara
Jalal al Makh

A
S THE morning sun
rises over the golden
dunes of Erg Chebbi
in the Sahara, men
and women dig holes for tour-
ists who want to bury them-
selves in the sand.
Decades ago, tribal nomads
settled here, living a tradition-
al desert existence that has
now had to adapt to changing
circumstance.
The dunes of Merzouga tow-
er over the small community in
southeastern Morocco, where
the Berber Ait Atta tribe now
makes a brisk living from tour-
ism. The formerly nomadic
tribesmen have for years been
running hotels and restaurants
in Merzouga, a key stop on the
Moroccan tourist trail on the
edge of a sea of sand dunes.
Now theyre turning to the
sands to attract visitors.
For about 10 minutes visi-
tors are buried neck-deep in
the hot sand for therapy said
to cure those who suffer from
rheumatism, lumbago, pol-
yarthritis and some skin disor-
ders. The therapy has the same
effect as a sauna session, help-
ing purge the body of poison-
ous toxins, according to those
tribesmen such as Abdessalam
Sadoq who now work in well-
ness tourism.
We offer every type of tour-
ism here, but especially for
health, he said.
Making a living was not
always easy for the descen-
dants of the Ait Atta nomads,
and over the decades the sons
and daughters of those who
roamed the desert on camels
have had to attune themselves
to more modern ways.
The Ait Atta once accumulat-
ed riches from trans-Saharan
commerce, but now all that re-
mains of this past is a road sign
pointing towards Timbuktu, a
mere 52 days away by camel.
Their way of life ended af-
ter Morocco became a French
protectorate in 1912, with the
development of mining, the
emergence of urban centres
and demarcation of the nearby
border with Algeria.
Once-nomadic tribes had
to nd a new livelihood, and
turned to cultivating date
palms and tourism in the sec-
ond half of the past century.
Visitors in search of a cure do
not come only from abroad:
many Moroccans also believe
in the power of the desert.
I really feel much better, and
each year I come back here to
spend a week, said sciatica suf-
ferer Ali Kallamouche from the
central town of Beni Mellal.
A sand bath at Merzouga
costs up to 10 ($13), and
when patients shake off the
sand they are wrapped in hot
towels to avoid the shock of a
sudden cooling of the body.
Many come not just for the
cure but also for the breathtak-
ing sunsets over Merzougas
shifting sand dunes.
Camel safaris and stays in
the desert under canvas with
the regions Berber and Arab
tribes are still a tourist staple,
but with the economy biting,
industry workers had to look
elsewhere to attract business.
People come for sand baths
. . . and to taste the local dish-
es we make using medicinal
plants and herbs, said Sadoq.
Tourism is a cornerstone of
Moroccos economy contrib-
uting 10 per cent of gross do-
mestic product. According to
market experts, it is also grow-
ing, thanks to the development
of wellness tourism.
In September, Morocco
hosted the Global Spa and
Wellness Summit where in-
dustry experts said the sector
expanded globally last year by
12.5 per cent, generating al-
most $500 billion.
Morocco topped the Middle
East and North Africa list in
health tourism, with the in-
dustry growing more than 67
per cent since 2007.
In Merzouga, more and
more people are signing up
for a hot sand soak at the
height of summer and other
businesses, including those
rooted in the recent past, are
thriving as a result.
Ali sells camel milk which he
insists does wonders for dia-
betes, anaemia and digestive
tract problems.
People come from all over
the world to Merzouga for
sand baths, and that helps us
promote other products, Ali
explains. AFP
A tourist takes a sand bath in the dunes of the Merzouga desert in
southeastern Morocco on August 30. AFP
Entertainment
21
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Thinking caps
Saturdays solution Saturdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
ANNABELLE
A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural
occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after
their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
City Mall: 9:20am, 1:15pm, 3:30pm, 10pm
Tuol Kork: 9:30am, 1:35pm, 3:40pm, 7:45pm,
9:50pm
Meanchey: 9:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 5:30pm,
7:35pm, 9:45pm
THE EQUALIZER
A man believes he has put his mysterious past
behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning
a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl
under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters,
he cant stand idly by he has to help her. Starring
Denzel Washington.
City Mall: 4:30pm, 9:25pm
Tuol Kork: 2:25pm, 7:20pm
Meanchey: 9:15pm
THE MAZE RUNNER
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his
memory is erased, soon learning theyre all trapped
in a maze that will require him to join forces with
fellow runners for a shot at escape.
City Mall: 2:10pm, 7:05pm, 9:45pm
Tuol Kork: 9:45am, 12:05pm, 7:30pm
Meanchey: 9:50am, 4:35pm, 6:55pm
THE PACT II
A woman who is plagued by nightmares involving
a serial killer learns her dreams have a horrifying
connection to the real world.
City Mall: 1:25pm, 5:35pm, 7:40pm
Tuol Kork: 11:25am, 1:30pm, 9:50pm
Meanchey: 9:30am, 3:35pm, 7:40pm, 9:40pm
THE BOXTROLLS
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-
dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from
an evil exterminator. Based on the childrens novel
Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow.
City Mall: 9:20am, 11:25am, 5:15pm
Tuol Kork: 11:35am, 3:35pm, 5:45pm
Meanchey: 11:35am, 3:30pm, 5:40pm
NOW SHOWING
Zumba @ Rose Garden
Dance tness based on samba, salsa,
merengue, martial arts and belly
dancing. Ideal for cardiovascular
tness and weight loss. The fee is
$10.
Rose Garden Clubhouse, Building B,
Floor 5B, Norodom Boulevard. 6pm
Pizza @ Show Box
The Katy Peri Peri Peri Chicken and
Pizza chefs serve their wood-red
pizza from their mobile kitchen in
front of Show Box. Reggae music will
be played all night.
Show Box, #11 Street 330. 6pm
Open Mic @ Slur Bar
Graham Cain, the musical comedian,
hosts an open mic night for any
customer who wishes to perform. A
free drink will be given to every
performer.
Slur Bar, #28 Street 172.
9:15pm
Adults Ballet @
Central School of Ballet
The class is structured to provide
students with a rm foundation in
technique, and is intended for those
who danced when they were younger
or are experienced in another genre.
Central School of Ballet Phnom Penh,
#10 Street 183. 7:15pm
ACROSS
1 Inflatable item
5 Biological pouches
9 ___ right up!
13 Horrible boss
14 Like Utopia
16 Allowance for weight
17 Quiz option, often
18 Saucy condiment
19 Leave the stage
20 Not well-thought-out
22 Deters
24 Bad jokes sound?
26 Kind of palm or nut
27 Back payments
30 Ocean bottoms
33 Japanese delicacy
35 Mold
37 Well-chosen
38 Exercise, as power
41 New Zealand bird, once
42 Iron
45 Anxiety may be a symptom of it
48 Rubys live-TV victim
51 With expertise
52 Sign after Pisces
54 ... happily ___ after
55 Rates racehorses
59 Crops, as a snapshot
62 Certain newspaper piece
63 Put two and two together, e.g.
65 Click, as the fingers
66 Act the crybaby
67 Aquarium beauty
68 Homely fruit?
69 Scots language
70 Must have
71 Quieter
Looky here!
DOWN
1 IRA type
2 Taj Mahal town
3 Gets ones goat
4 Cuts canines
5 Nickname within the family
6 Jewish month before Nisan
7 Paparazzi target, briefly
8 Spoke impudently to
9 Bomber attribute
10 Its hailed by city dwellers
11 ___ go bragh!
12 Hamsters, often
15 Cafe concoction
21 Chinese river
23 Exercise units
25 Audience attracter
27 Pronto
28 Copy
29 Enjoy the bunny slope
31 Renders powerless
32 Baby
34 When dark comes oer the land
36 ___ does it
39 Grassy field
40 Kind of ranch
43 Wrap tightly with a blanket
44 Calcutta dress
46 Info from a tachometer
47 Speaks freely and candidly
49 According to law
50 Apply novocaine to
53 Acrimony
55 Where the heart is
56 Impersonator
57 Kind of wire
58 Like some losers
60 Coterie components
61 Barbecue utensil
64 Like some scientists
HOLDING BACK
TV PICKS
Dutch and English national ballet performers. Classes in Phnom Penh are for experienced students. BLOOMBERG
Jet Li stars in Romeo Must Die. BLOOMBERG

9am THE BACHELOR: A committment-phobic man
goes in search of a bride including his fed-up girlfriend,
to inherit his grandfathers $100 million inheritance.
HBO
12:30pm AFTER EARTH: A crash landing leaves
Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth,
a millennium after events forced humanitys escape.
HBO
4pm POCAHONTAS: An English soldier and the
daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when
English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
HBO
7:05pm ROMEO MUST DIE: An avenging cop seeks
out his brothers killer and falls for the daughter of a
curious businessman. HBO
Lifestyle
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
22
Sontery and Engly
Social Life Team
Vuth Vichea and Panda Aku
Heang Rossitty, Khun Srey Oun and Meas
Thabrathanak
Dana Imm, Soknet Sous and Daza Imm
Khoun Davy, marketing manager of Ming Wuoy
Group, and Mam Sok Pagngna, project marketing
manager of Hyundai Engineering
Kheng Leang and Vuth Vichea Sovnn and Ty Rattha
Leng Lim and Theary Lim.
The Cambodian model team Ty Bopharoth and Chamrum Modavilin
Sunna Lee, director of Naturvital; Touch Sreyso-
phea of Waterlily Spa; and Phat Lang.
Chom Prasith & Tep Bopha
Singaporean bakery chain
BreadTalk has opened
its rst location in the
Kingdom at TK Ave-
nue. Founded in 2000,
the franchise , which
sells bread, cakes and
coffee, operates bak-
eries in 16 countries
around the region
including Malaysia,
China, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Thailand
and Vietnam. To cel-
ebrate its October 5
launch, the company held
a fashion show at Diamond Island City Hall featuring glamourous
Singaporean models which revolved around the theme of baked
goods. All guests received a present to take back home. Photos by
Hong Menea
Rod Bassett; Sophana Sakhan,
head of supply shain for UCA;
Deng Polyda; Dy
Vichit, Lucinda Revell and Sok Puthyvuth
Nyda Norng, Sopea Sam and Sokunthea Tan
Linna Hak, Kong Socheat and Chea Vibol
Nimol Danak, Men Channary, Toun Saotola and
Tuon Seta, director of STR Cambodia
Ly Phostey and Chan Kalyan
Panda Aku and Jino
Lucie Vann, Nita and Vicheka
The Art Couture BreadTalk fashion
show @ Diamond Island City Hall
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
23
Martell Cognac pairing din-
ner @ Emperors of China
Silent party @ Nova
Martell Cognac invited global brand ambassador Thierry Giraud to host a Martell Cognac
pairing dinner at one of Phnom Penhs nest Chinese restaurants, Emperors of China. The
dinner, which took place on October 8, featured luxury cognacs from Martell including
V.S.O.P., Cordon Bleu, and X.O paired with specially prepared Chinese dishes. Guests also
experienced a live noodle-making show and a networking session. Emperors of China
chef Dick Wong, who hails from Hong Kong, has been in the food and beverage industry
for over 25 years, and chose to bring cuisine from his native city to Phnom Penh.
Martell Cognac was established in 1715 by Jean Martell. One of The worlds oldest cognac
houses, Martell has developed a strong know-how for creating unique cognacs and will
celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2015. It is owned by Pernod Ricard.
Moet Hennessy (Cambodia) Co, Ltd, announced that
luxury vodka brand Belvedere has nally arrived in
Cambodia. To celebrate, Belve-
dere Vodka brought a silent party
to Nova Club on October 9 to of-
cially launch the brand. The par-
ty brought popular female DJs
from around Southeast Asia in
an attempt to bring the Phnom
Penh club scene to a new level of
sophistication and glamour.
The silent partys catch was
that rather than blasting
music from loudspeakers,
each guest was given a
headset to enjoy the elec-
tronic beats. Some guests
also won vodka. Photos by
Chhim Sreyneang
Todd Smith
Sovannak Phors and A Vie
DJ Suki Wong and Marco Anthony
Geraldyne Chong and In Theara
Sok Thida and Tang Vibol
Chhaleapy C, managing director of Cloud Vision
Group, and Sy Sy.
Guests in attendance
Chhorn I and Chheav Kimhorng
Christophe and Tarin
Team of Moet Hennessy (Cambodia) Co, Ltd
Visal Yim, sales manager at Camsing Import
Export Co, Ltd; Nathan Gan, Cambodia represen-
tative ofce manager for Pernod Richard Singa-
pore; Sarim Samphors; and Dara Ban, marketing
manager for Camsing Import Export.
Daren Ong, business development manager at
Pernod Ricard Singapore; Thierry Giraud, brand
development manager at Martell & Co Pernod
Ricard; Yang Duphis; and Oinne Sarine
Dick Wong, owner of Emperors of China
Martell models
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 13, 2014
24
Sport
Marquez seals title defence
M
ARC Marquezs
runaway success
has breathed
fresh life into
MotoGP and delighted fans of
the sport, the Spanish speed-
ster roaring to consecutive
world championships in his
rst two years in motorcy-
clings premier class.
The 21-year-old Honda rid-
er wrapped up the 2014 world
title in yesterdays Japanese
Grand Prix at Motegi, despite
failing to add to his astonish-
ing 11 victories in 15 races
this year but with Australia,
Malaysia and Spain still left
on the calendar.
He began his title defence
with an eye-popping 10 suc-
cessive victories from the sea-
son opener in Qatar, becom-
ing the rst rider to do so since
1997, when ve-time 500cc
world title-winner Mick Doo-
han achieved the feat.
Marquez has had 11 pole
starts this season as he contin-
ues to improve on his record-
breaking rookie season in 2013,
when he became MotoGPs
youngest world champion.
This weekend, runner-up
was good enough after blast-
ing past Valentino Rossis Ya-
maha from third place with
nine laps to go.
Marquezs rapid run to suc-
cess impressed many, includ-
ing veteran Valentino Rossi,
who particularly praised the
Honda riders rookie year and
said the young rider could
overtake his record of seven
premier-class championship
victories.
Hes fantastic, said Rossi.
He is a naturally talented
rider. Normally from the
rookie season to the second
season, good riders improve
and unfortunately for us, he
was able to do.
He has been very aggres-
sive, added Rossi. Last year,
sometimes he risked too
much. Now the situation is
more under control.
Marquez won the Moto2
world championship in 2012,
before replacing the retiring
Casey Stoner in the Repsol
Honda team last season.
Pundits had expected the
rookie to take a back seat to
his more experienced Spanish
teammate Dani Pedrosa while
gaining experience and sharp-
ening his skills.
But Marquez proved them
wrong in his debut MotoGP
race at Qatar by placing
third, behind Yamaha riders
Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino
Rossi, but signicantly ahead
of Pedrosa.
In his second race in Texas,
Marquez stormed to his rst
victory, breaking Freddie
Spencers 31-year-old record
for the youngest premier class
winner.
Marquezs red-hot form
continued as the 2013 season
progressed, and he stormed
on to clinch the premier-class
championship, the rst rookie
to achieve the feat since Amer-
ican Kenny Roberts in 1978.
In his rookie year, Marquez
nished on the podium in ev-
ery race except in Australia,
where he was black-agged
after failing to make a man-
datory pit stop, and when he
crashed out in Italy.
Legends of the sport believe
even greater achievements lie
ahead for Marquez, who has
the number 93 emblazoned
on his bike to signify the year
of his birth.
Marquez began riding in
the world championship as a
15-year-old in 2008 and made
the podium at Donington
in his rst season despite a
shortened campaign due to
injury.
He blossomed in 2010 with
10 victories from 12 poles on
his way to the 125cc world
championship title, graduat-
ing to Moto2 the following
year.
Things didnt go smoothly
and he crashed out of the rst
two rounds before winning
seven races, until a crash in
practice at the Malaysian GP
prematurely ended his season.
Marquez had vision prob-
lems after another crash in
the 2012 pre-season but he
charged through the season for
nine victories to win the world
Moto2 championship. AFP
Repsol Honda Team rider Marc Marquez rides past chequered ags after nishing second place at the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix yesterday. AFP
Buakaw gets
disqualied
in K-1 nale
A HEADLINE bout between Muay Thai
superstar Sombat Buakaw Bancha-
mek and Germanys Enriko Kehl took
a twist on Saturday night, after the
three-round fight ended in a draw and
went down to a decider round. But the
Thai boxer had already left the ring
without giving explanation, leaving
viewers puzzled.
Buakaw, 31, was disqualified and
missed the opportunity to become the
first three-time K-1 MAX winner, while
the 22-year-old German was crowned
the new champion in the 70-kilogram
division, amid boos and jeers from the
crowd in Pattaya.
Yesterday morning, a message post-
ed on Banchamek Gyms Facebook
page said: I apologise for making my
supporters puzzled. Youll soon under-
stand me.
According to reports, Buakaw had
forfeited the fight because he might
have been informed that the match
was rigged. Last Tuesday, hed gone
to a police station to file a complaint
about online gambling in connection
with the K-1 MAX World Champion-
ship finals.
The reports said Buakaw decided to
fight Kehl because he did not want to
breach his contract with the tourna-
ment organiser. BANGKOK POST
Hamilton wins, Mercedes team crowned
LEWIS Hamilton reeled off his fourth
consecutive victory to extend his lead
in the Formula One drivers title race
and secure Mercedes maiden tri-
umph in the constructors champi-
onship yesterday when he won the
inaugural Russian Grand Prix in
emphatic fashion.
The 29-year-old Briton, starting
from his 38th pole position, cruised
to the 31st success of his career to
draw level with fellow-Englishman
Nigel Mansell in the record books,
finishing the race 13.657 seconds
ahead of Mercedes teammate and
nearest rival German Nico Rosberg.
Hamiltons win lifted him 17 points
clear of Rosberg, who made a mistake
on the opening lap and, after a pit
stop, recovered from the back of the
field. Hamilton now has 291 points
to Rosbergs 274 with three races
remaining.
Just a week after Jules Bianchis life-
threatening accident in the storm-hit
Japanese Grand Prix, where the French
driver suffered severe head injuries,
the race was preceded by tributes to
support his fight for life in hospital in
Yokkaichi.
Hamiltons win was his ninth this
year and the result delivered Mer-
cedes ninth one-two of the season as
they ended Red Bulls four-year dom-
inance of the teams crown. They will
now aim to beat McLarens record of
10 wins set in 1988.
Finn Valtteri Bottas finished third for
Williams ahead of Briton Jenson But-
ton and his McLaren teammate, Dan-
ish rookie Kevin Magnussen, with
two-time champion Fernando Alonso
of Spain finishing sixth for Ferrari after
an inspired, but troubled, drive.
Australian Daniel Ricciardo was sev-
enth for Red Bull ahead of departing
German teammate and four-time
champion Sebastian Vettel and Finn
Kimi Raikkonen, in the second Fer-
rari. Mexican Sergio Perez was 10th for
Sauber.
Congratulations to the team on
the constructors championship
history in the making, said Hamilton
afterwards on team radio before he
and the other leading finishers met
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
who arrived at the circuit with 14 laps
remaining to preside over the podi-
um ceremony.
Sorry, guys, said Rosberg. That
was very unnecessary [his attack on
lap one], but thank you for the unbe-
lievable car that allowed me to fight
back to take second.
On a hazy, warm day under blue
skies and air temperatures of 22
degrees, the race was preceded by
ceremonies dedicated to support for
Bianchi, around an on-track message
that declared Jules we are all sup-
porting you.
The tributes were emotional and
palpable and many drivers appeared
to be moved before they returned to
their teams for the start.
For the Russian crowd, unfortu-
nately, home favourite Daniil Kvyat
was unable to shine as he slipped from
his best grid position of fifth down to
14th in his Toro Rosso while the Anglo-
Russian Marussia teams sole entrant
Briton Max Chilton was forced to
retire due to vibrations.
Its been a very, very difficult week
for the team and everyone in the F1
family, he said.
It was hard on the grid and all the
drivers were struggling, but hopefully
they are putting on a good show for
Jules. Its just a shame we couldnt
complete the race for him. AFP
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton holds up the trophy on the podium after winning the
inaugural Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi yesterday. AFP
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Asian Para Games team
fly out to South Korea
CAMBODIAS delegation for the
second Asian Para Games flew
out to Incheon last night hoping
to build on the breakthrough
success of taekwondo gold
medalist Sorn Seavmey on
October 3. The Kingdoms three
representatives sprinter Chim
Pan and wheelchair racers Van
Vun and Heng Saroeun will
join a total of around 4,500
fellow athletes at the six-day
event, which features 41
different nationalities competing
in 23 disciplines from this
coming Saturday. Chim Pan will
run in T44 category (single leg
amputee) races over 100, 200
and 400 metres, while Van Vun
and Heng Saroeun will vie in
100, 400 and 800m dashes at
the Incheon Asiad Main
Stadium. YEUNPONLOK, TRANSLATED
BY INSOPHENG
Uruguay take the last
rugby World Cup spot
URUGUAY beat Russia 36-27 in
Montevideo on Saturday to
snatch the last qualification spot
for the 2015 World Cup in
England. Although they lost the
first leg in Moscow 22-21, the
South Americans got the result
they needed to qualify for their
first World Cup since 2003. They
will now line up in a daunting
Pool A alongside the hosts,
twice former winners Australia,
Wales and Fiji. We qualified for
the World Cup because we
wanted it more, we deserve it for
all the hard work we put in over
the last four years and because
on the day we managed to
understand what was required
to win, said Uruguay coach
Pablo Lemoine. This is a huge
day in our rugby history and one
that we must enjoy knowing that
from now on the hard work will
be with a clear goal to enjoy
the World Cup. AFP
Murray, Ferrer push
for London in Vienna
ANDY Murray will begin a late
dash for vital ranking points and
a spot in the World Tour Finals
with a wildcard entry into the
Austrian Open starting today. It
will be the first Austrian
appearance for the Scot, who
currently stands provisional 10th
on the season points race for
the season-ending showpiece in
London from November 9. Such
is his desire not to miss out on
the eight-man event that Murray
will have played for six
consecutive weeks if he
completes his newly-revised
schedule through the Paris
Masters next month. AFP
Treve out of retirement
for record third Arc bid
TREVE will next year be aimed
at a record third Prix de lArc
de Triomphe after a decision to
retire the French super filly
was reversed, her owners
racing manager Harry Herbert
announced on Saturday. Treve,
trained by Criquette Head-
Masrek for Qatari owner
Sheikh Joaan Al-Thani,
shrugged off an injury-plagued
season to storm home to win
back-to-back Arcs last Sunday
at Longchamp, after which she
was promptly retired. But
Herbert, in an interview with
the BBC, explained that the
four-year-old would now be
kept in training with the target
of winning Europes most
prestigious race for an
unprecedented third time. AFP
Royals halfway
to World Series
T
HE Kansas City Royals moved
halfway to their rst World Se-
ries since 1985 with a 6-4 vic-
tory on Saturday at Baltimore,
stretching their unbeaten October
playoff run to six games.
Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain
drove in ninth-inning runs to provide
the margin of victory as the Royals took
a 2-0 lead in Major League Baseballs
best-of-seven American League nal.
Our team is very condent but we
have to go out and do it on the eld,
Cain said. To be on this run is a lot
of fun.
The Royals, who beat Oakland in
the wildcard game and swept the Los
Angeles Angels in the best-of-ve divi-
sion series, can move to the brink of
the AL crown with a victory in game
three tonight at Kansas City.
If you can go home 2-0, thats as
good as it gets, Royals manager Ned
Yost said. Going home 2-0 with our
crowd, thats exciting.
The Orioles, in the league nal for
the rst time since 1997, had not lost
back-to-back games since June 28-29.
But they have not led in two games,
each time battling back to level the
score but unable to muster enough
runs to take the lead.
About 100 per cent of that is what
they are doing, not what we are not do-
ing, Orioles manager Buck Showalter
said. Hopefully if our guys stay true
to what they have been doing all year,
theyll get rewarded for it.
The Orioles seek their rst World
Series berth since winning the 1983
title while the Royals, who this year
ended a 29-year playoff drought, seek
their rst World Series since taking
the 1985 title.
Kansas City won the opener 8-6 in 10
innings on Friday, becoming the rst
team in major league history with four
extra-inning playoff wins in one year.
But deadlocked into the ninth inning
for the second night in a row, the Roy-
als didnt need to go past regulation
play to defeat Baltimore again.
Omar Infante opened the ninth
with an ineld single, took second on
a sacrice bunt by Mike Moustakas
and scored on Escobars double down
the right-eld line to give the Royals
a 5-4 lead.
A elding error by Orioles third base-
man Ryan Flaherty allowed Jarrod Dy-
son to reach rst and Escobar to take
third and Cain followed with a single to
left to plate Escobar and give the Roy-
als an insurance run.
A two-out single by Nelson Cruz
brought the tying run to the plate
for the Orioles in the ninth but Steve
Pearce struck out to end the nal Bal-
timore threat.
Cain matched George Brett as the
only players in Royals history with four
hits in a playoff game.
Its a great feeling to be alongside
one of the greats, Cain said. Ive still
got a lot of work to do. Still working
hard and hoping it pays off.
Giants shut out Cardinals in opener
Madison Bumgarner pitched seven
and two-thirds sparkling innings on
Saturday to lead San Francisco to
a 3-0 victory over St Louis in their
Major League Baseball playoff series
opener.
Bumgarner struck out seven, walked
just one and the Giants took full ad-
vantage of defensive lapses by the
Cardinals to take the lead in the best-
of-seven National League nal.
As well as the win, Bumgarner found
himself with a Major League Baseball
record with 26 2/3 consecutive score-
less innings pitched in road playoff
games. He helped the Giants post
their seventh straight post-season
victory on the road.
He was on top of his game, Gi-
ants manager Bruce Bochy said. He
executed all night against a tough
lineup.
San Francisco slugger Pablo San-
doval went 3-for-4 at the plate with a
walk and a run scored, while Brandon
Belt and Travis Ishikawa drove in a
run apiece for the Giants.
Cardinals starting pitcher Adam
Wainwright again struggled, allowing
three runs two earned and surren-
dering six hits and three walks in four
and two-thirds innings. AFP
Kansas City Royals Lorenzo Cain hits an RBI single, scoring Alcides Escobar, in the ninth inning
of their American League Championship Series Game Two against the Baltimore Orioles. AFP
Merican sizes up Thai foe
Dan Riley
HAVING battled his way to
decision victories over Cambo-
dian combatants in his last two
mixed martial arts bouts for
ONE Fighting Championship,
Malaysian Muay Thai master
Saiful Merican now faces a
daunting task in taking on Thai
kickboxing star Dejdamrong
Sor Amnuaysirichoke at ONE
FC: Roar of Tigers in Kuala
Lumpur this Friday.
Merican (3-1), who edged
Khim Black Dragon Dima by
split decision in KL on March
14 following his unanimous
decision win over Tok Sophon
in Singapore the previous
November, now finds himself
back in front of his home crowd
at the Stadium Putra. The
25-year-old will be one of half a
dozen Malaysian MMA fighters
set for engrossing international
match ups on Fridays card.
The cheers and chants of the
home crowd make me more
motivated and want to succeed.
I hope to deliver a good per-
formance and make them
proud, Merican told the Post.
The Malaysian will certainly
not have it all his own way with
Dejdamrong, ten years his sen-
ior, having also won both of his
previous two ONE FC fights
since entering the MMA cage
for the first time just four
months ago.
The Thai flyweight is a three-
time Lumpinee champion
with an impressive 282-65
Muay Thai record, currently
training and instructing at the
renowned Evolve MMA gym in
Singapore.
I am honoured to be fighting
a champion, said Merican,
who is nicknamed The Vam-
pire due to his ability to draw
blood from opponents.
Yes, Dejdamrong has more
fights in Muay Thai, but its a
totally different ball game when
it comes to MMA.
My strengths going into this
fight would be having more
experience training as an all-
round fighter stand up and on
the ground.
Training MMA and fighting
in ONE FC has made me a bet-
ter fighter by making me under-
stand the different aspects and
many techniques you can use
in the ring or cage, he added.
It is a great opportunity I
have now with ONE FC to fight
with all the international MMA
fighters to continue to better
my fighting skills.
Malaysian yweight Saiful Merican faces Thailands Dejdamrong Sor
Amnuaysirichoke at ONE FC: Roar of Tigers this Friday. ONEFC.COM
H S Manjunath
FOR the rst time in weeks, Sa-
bay Tiger Mosquitoes showed
up with a near complete line
up and turned that collec-
tive strength into a 65-60 win
over tottering Mekong Tigers
in the Angkor Beer Cambo-
dian Basketball League at
the Olympic Stadium Indoor
Arena on Saturday.
The painful Mosquitoes bite
felled the Tigers to their fourth
defeat after they had breezed
through the rst four games
of the season. While the vic-
tory has put the Mosquitoes
back on the run for a play-off
seat, anguish over their future
could well be creeping into
the Tigers den.
The Tigers led by a slender
two points at the end of the
rst quarter and stretched it
to eight at 30-22 by half time.
Mosquitoes began the second
half on a promising note when
Jeff Kane came up with a three
pointer and a little later a re-
peat to make it 30-32.
It was not long before the
Mosquitoes got to the front
for the rst time at 41-40 and
by the end of the session were
happily placed at 50-43, even
as the Tigers saw Seath Socheat
suffer a deep cut in the web of
his ngers.
Though Sok Samnang
pulled the Tigers back to with-
in a basket of the Mosquitoes
early in the fourth quarter, it
was obvious that he was ght-
ing a losing battle.
In the days second xture,
Davies Paints were far too
good for NSK Dream, who
were done in by the trio of
Aimar Sabayo, John Cornito
and Janno Cunanan.
The Paints won 68-57 but
were only seriously tested
briey in the third quarter
when NSK Dream appeared
to be fast closing in. But then
Sabayo made the difference
as he had always done in
tight situations like these. He
was virtually unstoppable in
the nal quarter.
The youthful NSK Dream
had been on the wrong side
of the ledger in the only game
played last Thursday evening
against Smart Dragons, who
comfortably won 62-51.
Meanwhile on Saturday, it
was yet another day of unre-
warding toil for GL Concrete
who were roundly beaten 79-
43 by Pate 310.
Pate did a neat job of it
despite showing up with a
limited line up that did not
include star player Ouch
Phanat, who is based in Siem
Reap.
Bitten by Mosquitoes,
Tigers fall to fourth loss
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Messi, Ronaldo stay in
friendly game shadows
LIONEL Messi and Cristiano
Ronaldo spent a rare Saturday
in the shadows as Argentina
and Portugal slipped to
defeats in friendly
internationals staged more
than 8,000 kilometres apart.
Messi missed a first-half
penalty as Brazil beat
Argentina 2-0 in a fiercely
contested Superclasico in
front of 50,000 fans in the
Chinese capital. Seven hours
later, Ronaldos Portugal lost
2-1 to France in Paris. AFP
Real get possible Asian
clash at Club World Cup
REAL Madrid will face either
Mexican side Cruz Azul or the
champions of Asia for a place
in the final of the Club World
Cup to be played in Morocco in
December. European
champions Real will tackle
Cruz Azul, who won the
Concacaf Champions League
title or Western Sydney
Wanderers of Australia or
Saudi club Al Hilal who have
still to play the final of the
Asian Champions League. The
December 10-20 tournament
will be played at Rabat and
Marrakech and features seven
clubs Real, Auckland City of
New Zealand who are
champions of Oceania, Cruz
Azul, Maghreb Athletic of
Tetouan from the host nation
as well as Argentinas San
Lorenzo, the Copa
Libertadores winners. AFP
I turned down PSG
twice, says Mourinho
CHELSEA manager Jose
Mourinho admitted yesterday to
twice turning down becoming
coach of Paris Saint-Germain.
I knew PSGs project before it
was initiated, Mourinho said
in an interview with TF1s
Telefoot program. Because I
think I can say it, I was the first
option to go with Leonardo.
According to the Portuguese
coach, PSG twice offered him
the managers job in the French
capital, the first before the
arrival of Carlo Ancelotti in
winter 2011, and then a second
time when Ancelotti left to
replace Mourinho himself at
Real Madrid in the summer of
2013. I gave it a lot of thought,
but I had Madrid the first time
and a return to Chelsea the
second time around, Mourinho
said. AFP
Loew demands Germany
bounce back against Irish
J
OACHIM Loew has demanded
world champions Germany re-
spond to their shock defeat to Po-
land by beating Ireland tomorrow
to get their Euro 2016 qualifying cam-
paign back on track.
The World Cup winners nd them-
selves fourth in their qualifying group
after being beaten 2-0 at Warsaws Na-
tional Stadium on Saturday, suffering a
historic rst defeat to neighbours Po-
land in 19 matches.
Ajax striker Arkadiusz Milik gave
the hosts the lead on 51 minutes be-
fore substitute midelder Sebastian
Mila netted a late second to inict
Germanys rst defeat in a qualier
for seven years.
The Republic of Irelands 7-0 drub-
bing of minnows Gibraltar in Dublin
earlier in the day means Germany are
now fourth in Group D with Poland top,
Ireland second and Scotland third.
Loews Germany has the chance to
bounce straight back when they host
Martin ONeills Ireland in Gelsenkirch-
en tomorrow, the same night Poland
host Scotland.
Germanys lack of nishing is of
particular concern to Loew as his
team enjoyed 62 per cent possession,
yet could not nish any of their 22 at-
tempts on goal compared to just four
by Poland, who scored from their rst
real chance.
We are obviously disappointed,
you cant really criticise the team apart
from saying we were too reckless with
our chances, admitted Germanys
head coach.
Our structure was good and we cre-
ated a few opportunities, but Poland
took their chances and scored from
their rst shot on goal. We have to fo-
cus on Tuesday now, react well against
Ireland and gather our strength.
Poland fans partied into the night af-
ter their historic win.
We are delighted, you could see that
the supporters have been waiting a
long time for this victory, said Poland
defender Lukasz Piszczek.
Our counter-attack game worked
really well and we took our chances,
that was the difference as the Germans
didnt use theirs.
It means a lot for the country, but we
need to stay focused and concentrate
on our next game on Tuesday.
Germany have struggled since win-
ning the World Cup in Brazil in July.
They were humbled 4-2 by Argentina
in an August friendly, then laboured to
a 2-1 win over Scotland last month in
their opening Euro 2016 qualier.
They had their proud record of 33
qualiers without defeat dating back
to a 3-0 loss to the Czech Republic in
October 2007 abruptly ended.
Germanys last away loss in a qualify-
ing match was a 3-0 defeat against Por-
tugal in June 2000 as they again stum-
bled at Warsaws National Stadium, the
same venue where they lost the Euro
2012 semi-nal to Italy.
The defeat was avoidable, but we
didnt play badly, said Germanys
stand-in captain Manuel Neuer.
I came out late for the rst goal, it
was my mistake.
With several stars injured including
captain Bastian Schweinsteiger, Sami
Khedira and Mesut Ozil, Loew handed
Bayer Leverkusens Karim Bellarabi a
start on his debut in a new-look mid-
eld. But even with retirements and in-
juries, Loew could still call on six of the
side which started the World Cup nal.
Centre-back Mats Hummels said
Germany must improve their nish-
ing. We didnt score and the number
of chances we had was a joke. That can
denitely turn a game, he said.
Attacking midelder Mario Goetze,
whose extra-time goal won the World
Cup nal, echoed Loews sentiments
that they must beat Ireland. We played
well and had as many chances as youd
see in four games, but it just wasnt our
day, said Goetze. AFP
Weekend Results
Friday October 10
Latvia 0 Iceland 3
Netherlands 3 Kazakhstan 1
Turkey 1 Czech Rep. 2
Belgium 6 Andorra 0
Cyprus 1 Israel 2
Wales 0 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0
Bulgaria 0 Croatia 1
Italy 2 Azerbaijan 1
Malta 0 Norway 3
Saturday October 11
Republic of Ireland 7 Gibraltar 0
Scotland 1 Georgia 0
Poland 2 Germany 0
Romania 1 Hungary 1
Finland 1 Greece 1
Northern Ireland 2 Faroe Islands 0
Armenia 1 Serbia 1
Albania 1 Denmark 1
Polands Arkadiusz Milik (right) scores the opening goal against Germany during their 2016 Euro Group D qualifying match in Warsaw. AFP
Sudan stun African champions Nigeria
SUDAN stunned Africa Cup of
Nations title-holders Nigeria
1-0 on Saturday in a 2015 qual-
ifier while Algeria, Ivory Coast
and South Africa achieved
impressive away victories.
Algeria overcame Malawi
2-0, South Africa triumphed by
the same score in Congo Braz-
zaville and Ivory Coast won
2-1 in the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo.
Sierra Leone exceeded expec-
tations to hold Cameroon 0-0
in Yaounde after surrendering
home advantage because of the
Ebola epidemic and Togo upset
Uganda 1-0 in Kampala.
The qualifiers took place
despite a demand from 2015
hosts Morocco that the Janu-
ary 17-February 8 tourna-
ment be postponed over the
Ebola crisis.
But the African Football
Confederation (CAF) insisted
on Saturday that the three-
week championship will go
ahead as scheduled.
More than 4,000 people have
died from the virus this year,
according to the World Health
Organization, with virtually all
the victims living in West Afri-
can countries Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone.
A Bakry Almadina header on
41 minutes in Khartoum gave
Sudan a first Group A win and
Nigeria slumped to bottom
place with a solitary point half-
way through the qualifiers.
Chelsea midfielder John Obi
Mikel netted three minutes
from time but was clearly off-
side and he pulled another shot
wide as the Super Eagles
mounted a late offensive.
Sudan are 34 places below
Nigeria in the African rankings
and started the match as rank
outsiders after being well beat-
en by South Africa and Congo
Brazzaville last month.
South Africa made it three
wins from five visits to Atlantic
city Pointe-Noire by netting
twice within four minutes soon
after half-time to replace Con-
go as leaders.
Bongani Ndulula silenced a
15,000 crowd crammed into
the Stade Municipal with a
goal off a bicycle kick on 52
minutes. Tokelo Rantie dou-
bled the lead with a close-
range shot after a superb pass
from fellow England-based
professional Dean Furman.
South Africa captain Senzo
Meyiwa then made a string of
saves to keep Congo at bay and
when the Red Devils scored
during stoppage time, the effort
was ruled offside.
Defenders scored both Alge-
rian goals in Blantyre with
Rafik Halliche putting the
Desert Foxes ahead on 10 min-
utes and substitute Djamel
Mesbah adding a second in
stoppage time.
Halliche nodded a corner
past goalkeeper McDonald
Harawa in a lively Group B
game and Mesbah scored with
a deflected close-range shot for
the top-ranked team in Africa.
Algeria did best of the five
African qualifiers for the 2014
World Cup in Brazil, taking
eventual champions Germany
to extra time before suffering a
2-1 loss in the last-16.
Wilfried Bony from English
Premier League outfit Swansea
fluffed a penalty for Ivory Coast,
then scored to give the Ele-
phants a half-time lead in a
Group D showdown.
Cedric Mongongu levelled
for DR Congo off a spot kick in
Kinshasa, but Max-Alain
Gradel ensured the Ivorians
collected maximum points
with a goal seven minutes
from time.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
from Bundesliga outfit Borus-
sia Dortmund was the only
striker to bag a brace and the
goals earned Gabon a 2-0
Group C win over Burkina Faso
in Libreville.
Another Germany-based
African, Ibrahima Traore, fired
a superb equaliser nine min-
utes from time for Guinea in a
1-1 draw against Ghana.
Captain Asamoah Gyan
scored for Ghana in the open-
ing half of a Group E match
switched to Moroccan city
Casablanca because of the
Ebola epidemic. AFP
International Friendlies
Friday October 10
Mexico 2 Honduras 0
UAE 0 Australia 0
Saudi Arabia 1 Uruguay 1
Saturday October 11
Chile 3 Peru 0
USA 1 Ecuador 1
Colombia 3 El Salvador 0
WEEKEND FIXTURES
2016 Euros Qualiers
Kazakhstan v
Czech Republic 11pm
Iceland v Netherlands
1:45am
Latvia v Turkey 1:45am
Andorra v Israel 1:45am
Bosnia-Hercegovina v
Belgium 1:45am
Wales v Cyprus 1:45am
Croatia v Azerbaijan 1:45am
Malta v Italy 1:45am
Norway v Bulgaria 1:45am
International Friendly
Mexico v Panama 4am
Oman v Uruguay 10:30pm
TONIGHTS FIXTURES