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A FEW days after the overthrow of the
caretaker government by a military
coup, 44-year-old Amnart took down
a 16-metre banner he had erected in
front of his house in Khon Kaen, in
Thailands northeast.
Stop illegitimate power. Protect
democracy. The sign was one of the
last remaining symbols of Amnarts
activities as a red shirt. This time,
the threat was real.
Theyre starting to get serious
about all these arrests. I dont want my
freedom to end in the military camps,
said Amnart (not his real name).
Except for a few flash mobs and
symbolic displays or gestures of
disagreement, Khon Kaen has been
relatively peaceful, resulting in a low
presence of soldiers on the streets
except at key intersections of the
city, where some 20 soldiers are
regularly deployed.
Even with the curfew pushed back
to midnight, local authorities had
negotiated and agreed to allow some
nightlife venues to stay open an extra
two hours.
But for many in the northeastern
province, which is considered a red-
shirt stronghold, a climate of fear has
arisen. In the July 2011 elections, the
ousted Pheu Thai of Yingluck Shina-
watra garnered 619,367 votes out of
898,668, delivering it all 10 of the
Khon Kaen seats in the national par-
liament. Now a backlash is feared.
Like all the red-shirt supporters
interviewed, Amnart, a kindergar-
ten teacher, chose to remain anony-
mous because of fear of being
detained by the military junta,
which is muzzling dissent under the
banner of reconciliation.
Wherever I walk, everyone says
the same thing: that they dont agree
with the coup, said Amnart, who was
once a yellow-shirt supporter before
the 2006 military coup against the
Meas Sokchea
O
PPOSITION leader Sam
Rainsy will have to wait a lit-
tle longer to visit the only
province he hasnt toured
since his return from exile, as villagers
and soldiers blocked his party
from entering Oddar Meancheys
Anlong Veng district, the last Khmer
Rouge stronghold.
The Cambodia National Rescue Party
was set to hold a public forum yesterday
morning at the house of former district
deputy governor Nhem En, who recent-
ly defected to the CNRP, but was stopped
from doing so by authorities, En and
local opposition officials said.
As Rainsy and his deputy, Kem Sokha,
were travelling towards the Oddar
Meanchey town, they heard the party
was being blocked by soldiers and
decided to turn back, Rainsy said.
The party has called off a further tour
of the northwest planned for the next
few days as a result of safety concerns.
Rainsy said the Interior Ministry told
him that rogue members of the mili-
tary were responsible.
We have suspended [our tour],
because these are so-called uncon-
trolled elements of the army. So we
have talked with the Ministry of Inte-
rior, and they said they would do what-
ever is possible to ensure our liberty of
movement. But they told us that those
elements cant be controlled, he said.
The opposition believes this because
in that province, we saw police forces
trying to ensure our freedom of move-
ment and our safety, but those police
forces were outnumbered by these
army elements.
A number of Interior Ministry officials
could not be reached for comment.
A soldier deployed to the area where
the CNRP was blocked told the Post on
the condition of anonymity that he was
CNRP blocked in Nwest
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those out
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Rogue soldiers involved: Rainsy
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Floating houses sit near a riverbank in Kandal province yesterday after being relocated from Phnom Penhs Russey Keo district. HONG MENEA
Floating village flees fish woes
Khouth Sophak Chakrya

F
ISHERMEN who have
lived off the Tonle Sap
river in Phnom Penhs
Russey Keo district
for generations were forced
upstream recently after hun-
dreds of dead sh mysterious-
ly appeared in local waters.
The 29 families who live on
houseboats from which they
cast their traps started moving
to Kandal provinces Lvea Em
district on June 1, said Chea
Thol, the districts police chief.
The small oating villages move
to the districts harbour is tem-
porary, he said. It is currently
unclear what is causing the sh
to turn up dead, he added.
Some of the shermen said
water in the location in Russey
Keo district, where they caught
sh, seems contaminated or
lacking oxygen, leading 300
to 500 sh to die each day,
Thol said. They have decided
to move here temporarily to
catch sh that are not in [pos-
sibly] polluted water.
Ten families made the eight-
kilometre move up the current
on June 1, followed by another
19 on Saturday, Thol said.
Some families had shed in
the Russey Keo location since
the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
A sudden skyrocketing of
sh deaths in the area has
evoked suspicion that indus-
trial factories in Russey Keo
district are the cause, Tim
Seleh, a representative of the
families, said.
We suspect that some fac-
tories are secretly dumping
their poisonous waste into the
river, Seleh said yesterday.
[Poison] owing into the wa-
ter current this month is kill-
ing our sh all the time.
In a day, more than a tonne
of sh there died, a loss that
cost Seleh millions of riel, he
said. Seleh and other affected
families are calling for local
sheries experts to survey
the area to nd out whats
causing the sh to die in such
large numbers.
Russey Keo Deputy District
Governor Ly Rozamie said
shallow water and hot tem-
peratures are likely depleting
the water of oxygen and suf-
focating the sh.
However, we would like to
ask environmental and shery
experts to examine the water
to nd the cause, Rozamie
said.
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part of a large number of sol-
diers in the area who had de-
fected to the government in
the late 1990s, beneted great-
ly, and did not want the oppo-
sition leaders to criticise the
ruling party in the district.
But according to the soldier,
the wives and family mem-
bers of many such troops were
the ones who had gathered to
block and protest the opposi-
tion party, while the soldiers
were deployed to keep order.
According to En, Anlong Veng
District Governor Yim Phanna
and Anlong Veng commune
chief Vong Pheak had refused
him permission to hold a fo-
rum for about 2,000 opposi-
tion supporters at his home.
En who defected to the op-
position last month said it
was politically motivated.
When I had not joined the
Cambodia National Rescue
Party, I lived in harmony here,
but after joining the CNRP, I
have been intimidated and
oppressed, he said.
Phanna, the district gov-
ernor, said the people of An-
long Veng clearly opposed the
CNRP leaders visiting.
Excellency Sam Rainsy does
not need to come and stir up
trouble here. People support
the royal government. They do
not want [him] to do anything
here, he said.
The population of Anlong
Veng more than 40,000 had
received much since it became
an integration area in the
late-1990s, he said, and they
were grateful to the CPP for it.
He added that soldiers had
merely been deployed to keep
order if clashes broke out.
Phanna also said he had only
stopped En from holding a fo-
rum at his home because the
house owner had complained
that the rental contract
was for a massage shop and
guesthouse, not for political
meetings.
According to CNRP lawmak-
er-elect Pol Ham, eight opposi-
tion ofcials had their phones
conscated by plainclothes
soldiers yesterday.
The individuals who took
[our phones] were wearing
plainclothes, but they had pis-
tols at their waist, he said.
Khamboly Dy of the Docu-
mentation Centre of Cambodia
said the people of Anlong Veng
had faced harsh conditions
in the last years of the Khmer
Rouge and are ercely loyal to
the CPP, thanks to the benets
that integration brought.
Hun Sens win-win policy
was a strategic measure that
touched directly on the heart
of the Anlong Vengs residents
and many other former KR
soldiers and their families in
other strongholds, he said,
referring to the strategy for
bringing Khmer Rouge sol-
diers into the fold.
The CPP took nearly 60
per cent of the vote in Oddar
Meanchey in last years elec-
tion, along with its sole parlia-
mentary seat. But according
to Rainsy, the fact the opposi-
tion managed to garner about
20,000 voters despite irregu-
larities shows the opposition
has a local support base.
The CNRP will hold a press
conference today in Phnom
Penh to discuss yesterdays
incident. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH, CHEANG SOKHA AND JOE
FREEMAN
In Oddar Meanchey,
CNRP not welcomed
Two arrested over sale of fake shampoo
Kim Sarom
TWO women were arrested in Siem Reap
on Saturday for selling fake shampoo and
will be sent to the Siem Reap Provincial
Court today, police said yesterday.
Soeun Sen, from Siem Reap anti-eco-
nomic crime police, said officers had
questioned the two women, who face
prison time after allegedly being caught
in the possession of more than 500 bottles
of fake shampoo.
By law, trade names and dishonest
competition can land a [seller] in jail for
at least one year, and [makers of the fake
product], for three to five years, he said.
Sen identified the suspects as Seng Pov,
24 and Kim Thyda, 28, both from the
capitals Meanchey district.
The pair were investigated after two of
their buyers filed lawsuits against them
and they evaded police for two weeks.
They were arrested while distributing
their products, Sen added.
Excellency Sam
Rainsy does not
need to come and
stir up trouble here
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Ofcers slain
Military police
run down in
car: ofcials
T
WO military police
officers in Mondulkiri
provinces Sen Mono-
rom town were run down on
Sunday by a car carrying six
men, officials said yesterday.
Sak Sarang, provincial
military police commander,
said the two officers, Chheav
Samnang and Oub Sopheak-
tra, both in their 20s, died
in Spean Meanchey town at
1:30am on Sunday.
He said the two had argued
with a group of six men in
a nightclub not long before
they were killed.
The group saw them
taking the motorbike and
crashed into them, he said.
Five men in the car were
arrested and another man in
the nightclub was questioned.
Police are looking for the
driver, who escaped.
The arrested [men] faul-
ted the driver, Sarang said.
Mok Chay Hean, provincial
military police officer, said
the suspects were detained
at the provincial military po-
lice station and would be sent
to court today. PHAK SEANGLY
Migrants flee Thai instability
Cheang Sokha
and Laignee Barron

T
HOUSANDS of
Cambodian migrant
workers in Thailand
are rushing back
across the border, voluntarily
repatriating themselves in
the face of increasingly hos-
tile rhetoric towards undocu-
mented labourers.
In the wake of Thailands
coup dtat last month, army
chief General Prayuth Chan-
o-Cha urged better regulation
of the workforce and warned
illegal workers of their tenu-
ous and unwelcome status,
last week outlining ways to
prevent [an] illegal work force
from entering into the country
and give more work opportu-
nities to Thai nationals.
In response, many undocu-
mented and unregistered Cam-
bodian workers are deciding
to show themselves the door.
Border ofcials said groups
of workers are cramming into
military trucks, opting to be
sent home rather than incur
potential punishment.
They are scared and de-
cided themselves to come
back. One day, around 100 or
more came with Thai military
transporting them to the bor-
der, said Colonel Chin Piseth,
deputy director of the Cambo-
dian-Thai border relations of-
ce in Poipet.
Piseth estimated that thou-
sands of Cambodians have
returned since last week when
the Thai military announced
it would not take responsibil-
ity for any incident involving
undocumented migrants.
While forcible expulsions
from Thailand are not uncom-
mon a UN study found more
than 89,000 Cambodians were
deported from Thailand in
2009 for illegal migration en
masse voluntary returns or
large round-ups of employed
workers is extremely unusual,
according to Moeun Tola,
head of the labour program at
the Community Legal Educa-
tion Center.
The military government
has made it clear they want
to control the situation with
illegal workers. Im not sure if
they are worried Cambodians
will join the red shirt uprising
or what, he said.
Before, a worker could
be arrested and ned or de-
ported, but now they can also
be shot and killed. Its gotten
even more dangerous for mi-
grant workers, and theres no
priority to improve the situa-
tion for them.
Border ofcials said many
of the daily returns include
dozens of minors, summoned
home by worried relatives.
Adding to the fears, Thai me-
dia have reported a rising num-
ber of arrests and crackdowns
on migrant workers following
the coup, with numbers par-
ticularly high over the past few
days, according to Andy Hall,
a migration expert based in
Thailand and Myanmar.
However, generally in my
experience, police and law
enforcement arrest, extort
money from workers and their
employers and then simply re-
lease them unless they need to
prove a deportation quota, he
said, adding that it is econom-
ically unviable for Thailand to
send home all of its hundreds
of thousands of undocument-
ed workers.
Cambodian border police,
meanwhile, claim the number
of workers crossing has dwin-
dled to almost none, and they
intend to keep it that way.
If we nd them, we will not
let them go, because we fear
the danger, said So Channary,
commander of Border Police
Infantry Unit 911.
Migrant workers are transported in a Thai immigration police vehicle at Poipet International Checkpoint
over the weekend. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Phak Seangly
A 21-YEAR-OLD Cambodian
man was allegedly shot by
Thai soldiers on Thursday
after crossing the border to il-
legally log rosewood, ofcials
in Oddar Meanchey province
said yesterday.
Nhan Sarom, OSmach
deputy commune chief, told
the Post that border soldiers
opened re on a group of
more than 10 loggers who had
crossed into Thai territory on
Thursday morning.
One of them was badly shot
in the thigh and was helped by
villagers who sent him back
to Cambodian territory. His
brother is still missing in the
forest, Sarom said.
According to Sarom, the in-
jured man is from Battambang
province but had been stay-
ing with his brother in Oddar
Meancheys Apivath village
for about two months before
the incident.
Khlouk Huouth, chief of
the provincial referral hos-
pital, identied the victim as
Uy Sochitra.
He was admitted to
OSmach Health Centre but
forwarded to my provincial
hospital due to his serious in-
juries, Huouth said.
Three small pieces of bullet
were found in his thigh. Hes
getting better now but is still at
the hospital, he added.
However, Chhey Veasna,
OSmach commune police
chief, denied that the incident
ever occurred.
I also heard about that and
searched for the truth but it is
just a rumour, Veasna told the
Post yesterday.
The OSmach commune
chief, Phem Sam Ath, declined
to comment.
According to the Ministry of
Interior, 69 Cambodians were
shot dead while illegally cross-
ing the Thai border last year. In
March, Cambodian ofcials
said that Thai soldiers had fa-
tally shot 12 Cambodian log-
gers in a single day.
Sarom, the deputy com-
mune chief, said that in the
last month, 15 Cambodians
were arrested and now face up
to seven years in prison for log-
ging in Thailand. He said other
Cambodians have been miss-
ing since crossing the border.
Villagers bribe border of-
cers so that they are allowed
to cross the border to log. I saw
a truck waiting to transport
rosewood from the loggers.
They are involved in corrup-
tion, he said.
Thai border shooting
wounds man: ofcials
Corruption not rampant: Many
Kevin Ponniah
H
UN Many, the
youngest son of
Prime Minister Hun
Sen and an elected
lawmaker in Kampong Speu
province, has defended his
party against allegations of
nepotism, corruption and
election irregularities in a for-
eign TV interview.
In a wide-ranging Channel
News Asia interview that aired
on Friday, Many, 32, the young-
est member of the National As-
sembly, painted himself as part
of a new generation of Cam-
bodian Peoples Party leaders
coming through the ranks.
Throughout the interview,
Many emphasised that he
wished to prove himself as an
able politician that could get
things done, though he strug-
gled to outline specic policy
areas where he had goals.
He also countered charges
of nepotism by saying that po-
litical positions needed to be
looked at not as a status but
as a responsibility we need to
bear and we need to full.
Its not my father who wants
me to be a National Assembly
member and then [I] get the
position, he said.
But Many did suggest he
would take inspiration from
his father in political life.
I am a politician in the mak-
ing I have to admit it. But I think
the apple doesnt fall far from
the tree, and in that regard, I
want to specify [and] clarify, not
because of how people judge
my father as a strongman, but
the foundation that working
with him as his personal secre-
tary, as his son, and [his] judg-
ment that I have seen.
The lawmaker also said he
was not yet thinking about
whether he wanted to be
prime minister.
On the idea that his father
was grooming him for a top po-
sition in politics, he demurred,
saying the public would judge
him on merit.
A father always [wishes]
well for the children but
again, after that, it is no
longer about his decision.
Many also said that corrup-
tion should not be described
as rampant to which the
interviewer retorted that Trans-
parency International would
disagree with him.
Im saying, yes, there [is]
corruption but not at the level
where this country is still not
attractive for investment,
Many said.
Prime Minister Hun Sens youngest son, Hun Many (centre), travels through the streets of Phnom Penh
campaigning in the lead-up to the national election last year. SRENG MENG SRUN
District changes
Top ofcials
transferred
in reshufe
A
RESHUFFLE of top
ofcials across districts
in Phnom Penh was an-
nounced yesterday by City Hall.
Long Dimanche, City Hall
spokesman, said a number of
district officials will be trans-
ferred into new roles.
Pich Koe Mony, Tuol Kork
district deputy governor, will
be appointed Meanchey district
governor in place of Kuoch
Chamroeun, who will replace
Sok Sambath, the Daun Penh
district governor. Sambath will
be named the [inaugural] Prek
Phnov district governor.
Dimanche said Thuy
Sakhorn, a Russey Keo district
governor during the 1990s,
will return to the fold as that
districts governor, replacing
Khlaing Huot, who will become
governor of the newly esta-
blished Chroy Changva district.
This morning, Phnom Penh
governor Pa Socheatvong
will preside over one of two
ceremonies in which those
transfers will be made official,
Dimanche added.
The changes follow the
redrawing of boundaries in
the capital to create three new
districts. KHOUTHSOPHAKCHAKRYA
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GMAC to
hold class
on ring
Sean Teehan
AMID complaints from union
and labour rights officials
of illegal firings over the
years, Cambodias garment
factory association is holding
a course on the termination
process in Preah Sihanouk
province today.
The Garment Manufacturer
Association in Cambodia
(GMAC) often holds courses
about different aspects of the
industry, and has invited fac-
tory managers as well as labour
union leaders to learn the letter
of the law when it comes to
sacking, GMAC secretary-gen-
eral Ken Loo said yesterday.
[Terminations are] where
we have seen the cause of some
conflicts and confusion, Loo
said. Many of the cases that
are forwarded to the Arbitra-
tion Council revolve around
termination.
Moeun Tola, head of the
labour program at Community
Legal Education Center (CLEC),
said the training could be a step
in the right direction. Many
complaints brought before
CLEC involve union leaders
losing their jobs without cause,
Tola said.
Sambos return to city nixed
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear

S
AMBO the elephant
will not be allowed
to return to work in
Phnom Penh, because
both City Hall and the Forest-
ry Administration oppose the
idea, the FAs director-general
said yesterday.
The 54-year-old Sambo left
the city in 2012 after decades
of entertaining and giving
rides to tourists at Wat Phnom,
a job that left her painfully
lame and in need of serious
rehabilitation.
Elephant Asia Rescue and
Survival foundation (EARS)
organisation that bankrolled
her two-year sabbatical, have
recently withdrawn nancial
support, leading the elephants
owner to start making plans to
bring her back to Phnom Penh
as a tourist attraction.
But yesterday, Forestry Ad-
ministration Director-General
Chheng Kimsun said he op-
posed the exploitative move
and after receiving emails
from a large number of people
protesting the proposal, had
conrmed with Governor
Pa Socheatvong that the city
would not grant permission.
His Excellency Pa Socheat-
vong discussed with me that
we have no plan to allow them
to come back to Phnom Penh,
because the elephant is old and
injured. There is no problem
since Sambo [is not returning
to work], because the governor
and I dont support it, and if the
governor doesnt allow it, [the
elephant] cannot go.
He also called for animal
lovers around the world to do-
nate funds to support her re-
tirement. EARS have pledged
to pay for Sambo to retire at a
sanctuary, but her owner, Sin
Sorn, has rejected that option.
Sorn said yesterday that
while he was still waiting for
FA ofcials to visit the el-
ephant, he had heard that no
permission would be granted
for her return to the city.
If this is true, I feel so disap-
pointed with them, because
we are the same, as Khmer
people, but they do not help.
I want to appeal to NGOs to
help my elephant. The owner
of the Chamkar Pring amuse-
ment park . . . has allowed me
to take Sambo there, but I do
not want to, because they
need me to share prots.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche could not conrm
whether the governor had made
a decision on the matter.
A man climbs atop Sambo the elephant at Phnom Penhs Royal Palace in 2000 after a woman with a hose
gave Sambo a shower. AFP
Garment meeting
Ofcial vows
to stamp out
corruption
A
MINISTRY of Labour
ofcial yesterday vowed
to go after any of his
corrupt colleagues that deal
with the garment and footwear
sector, and urged workers to
le complaints about substan-
dard working conditions.
The [ministry] allows you
to create unions to protect
you when you are abused by
employers, said Pok Vanthat,
deputy director of the minis-
trys labour health department.
If they force you to work
overtime, you should complain
[to the ministry].
Vanthats comments came
at a roundtable on health and
safety in the garment sector
convened by the Cambodian
Center for Independent Media.
The ministry will punish the
officials who are corrupt and
take money from the factories
[to not] find a resolution for the
workers, he continued.
But a number of workers
were not convinced. Almost
all the factories have had the
same problems for the past
20 years . . . the ministry has
not been able to solve them
for us, factory worker Suth
Sophorng said. MOM KUNTHEAR
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A snapshot of freedom
flushed down the toilet
A WOULD-BE thief on Saturday
tried to get a free camera out of
a toilet trip. The 33-year-old
suspect printed out documents
at a printing shop in Phnom
Penhs Tuol Kork district, police
said. He then asked the stores
owner to use the bathroom,
where he fidgeted with the toi-
let to make the water run con-
tinuously. Leaving the
restroom, the man told the
owner the toilet was broken
and tried nicking a Nikon cam-
era while the owner looked at
the toilet. The crime was foiled
by the owners cousin, who saw
the theft and called police. The
suspect was arrested. NOKORWAT
Third time unlucky as
moto thieves strike out
THIRD time was no charm for a
pair of motorbike thieves.
Police in Battambang town
arrested a 23-year-old man
and a 21-year-old woman on
Saturday who allegedly stole
three bikes in a week. On alert
after receiving complaints of
two thefts last week, police
jumped into action when a vil-
lager reported a stolen moto,
and caught the duo driving it
out of town. A search of their
rental house turned up the oth-
er two stolen bikes. NOKORWAT
A grudge, some booze
and violence ensues
BLURRY eyes seeing sideways
glances made for broken faces
in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey
district on Friday evening. While
drinking outdoors, five garment
workers didnt take kindly to
the expressions on two victims
faces when they walked by,
police said. The suspects
grabbed wooden sticks and
beat the two victims, causing
serious head injuries. The
group then turned their weap-
ons on a passing car. Police
caught two suspects, 24 and
28. Both men confessed,
explaining they were drunk and
had previous feuds with the vic-
tims, who were hospitalised.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
A cheap shot after pool
loss is thugs cue to flee
A YOUNG pool player found
himself at the other end of a
competitors stick on Saturday,
when the frustrated loser beat
him with a cue, police said. The
23-year-old victim ended up in
hospital after the 36-year-old
suspect attacked him when he
refused a rematch after win-
ning money from the suspect.
The sore loser escaped the
scene, but was arrested later in
the day after the victims family
filed a complaint. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Pairs illicit ways worst
kept secret in village
A COUPLE of drug users have
learned that indoors is the wise
venue for illegal activity. Villag-
ers in Kandal provinces Ang
Snuol district on Saturday night
tipped off police to a group of
people who appeared to be
smoking methamphetamine.
Responding to the call, police
arrested a student, 17, and her
friend, 21, who were in posses-
sion of yama-smoking para-
phernalia. A third suspect fled
the scene. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Party time
Prince Norodom Rana-
riddh points to the logo
of his Community of the
Royalist People Party
during its ofcial launch
event in Phnom Penh
on Friday. The former
prime minister has called
on followers to support
the monarchy and the
legacy of his late father,
Norodom Sihanouk. HENG
CHIVOAN
An energetic waste proposal
Sen David and Alice Cuddy

A
PRIVATE rm signed
an agreement with
City Hall last week to
study the possibility of
turning Phnom Penhs mount-
ing waste into useful energy.
Aunny Ieng, City Hall deputy
governor, told the Post that the
memorandum of understand-
ing would allow Inter Far East
Engineering Public Company
Ltd (IFEC) to conduct a one-
year study into the feasibility of
using the capitals garbage to
generate other products from
the waste such as electricity.
Ieng said that Phnom Penhs
growing waste problem need-
ed to be tackled.
There are 1,300 to 1,800
tonnes [of garbage] a day.
Ten years ago, it was only
about 800 to 1,000 tonnes, he
said yesterday, adding that a
growing population and
increased wealth could ex-
plain the growth of garbage.
Ieng said the agreement was
completely separate to a con-
tract City Hall awarded to Cin-
tri, which has given the com-
pany sole rights to clean the
capitals streets since 2002.
However, he added, there
is the possibility of them
working together.
Following the meeting, Mean
Chanyada, the citys deputy di-
rector of administration, said
he was proud that IFEC was in-
terested in investing in Phnom
Penhs waste management.
Wichai Thavormwa Thanay-
ong, director of IFEC, said he
hoped to burn Phnom Penhs
trash in a waste-to-energy pow-
er plant to generate electricity,
adding that, in just one day, 200
tonnes could be used to create
5 megawatts of power.
This would reduce waste
in the capital and make waste
valuable, because it can gener-
ate power, he said.
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New MFI in
town, more
still needed
Chan Muyhong
ORO Financecorp Plc held its
official launch on Friday, join-
ing the growing ranks of
microfinance institutions in
the Kingdom.
ORO Financecorp started
providing business, agricultural
and tractor loans in January
with a $4 million capital invest-
ment from Seng Enterprise Co
Ltd of Cambodia and Creed Asia
Investment Ltd of Japan.
CEO Chet Kimchin used Fri-
days belated launch to talk up
the companys potential.
Only 3.7 per cent of the total
population of Cambodia use
banking services, while 60 per
cent of Vietnams population
already have [bank accounts];
therefore, compared to other
countries in the region, we
have more than 90 per cent of
market share remaining to
catch up, Kimchin said.
We will differentiate our-
selves from other MFIs with
new and creative products with
fewer requirements, and
with competitive interest
rates rates that can compete
in the market.
With 43 microfinance institu-
tions now operating in Cambo-
dia, Bun Mony, president of the
Cambodia Microfinance Asso-
ciation, said there is still room
for more.
More MFIs mean more cap-
ital for the economys improve-
ment. More Japanese investors
coming into Cambodia reflect
their confidence on Cambodia
economy, he said.
Calmer coup this time round
Amlie Bottollier-Depois

T
HE last time Thailand
had a coup, the stock
market crashed when
the kingdom imposed
draconian capital controls.
This time around, investors
hope the generals have learned
their lesson.
Markets have largely taken
Mays military takeover in
their stride, but there is still
nervousness about a regime
that has put the air force chief
in charge of the economy
and appointed the navy com-
mander to oversee tourism.
Experts say the last putsch, in
2006, showed that soldiers lack
the expertise to run Southeast
Asias second-largest econ-
omy. The military govern-
ment struggled to manage the
economy, reecting the lack of
technocratic skills in econom-
ic management and adminis-
tration, recalled Rajiv Biswas,
chief Asia economist at the
IHS consultancy rm.
The regime was also unable
to move ahead with signicant
reforms because of its caretak-
er status, he added.
So far this time, however, the
stock market is up about 4 per
cent since the May 22 coup,
helped by buoyant global in-
vestment sentiment.
But Japan, Thailands larg-
est foreign investor, is watch-
ing events with trepidation.
Japanese vehicle giants Toyota,
Honda and Nissan have invest-
ed heavily in Thailand, attract-
ed by its skilled workforce and
the ease of doing business.
Even before the coup, Thai-
lands economy was reeling
from nearly seven months of
deadly street protests, which
dented consumer condence
and scared off foreign tourists.
The economy shrank 2.1 per
cent quarter-on-quarter in the
rst three months of 2014, ac-
cording to an ofcial estimate.
The fear is that it will contract
again in the second quarter,
sliding into recession. The
economy is like a dying person
its sick so it needs oxygen,
Federation of Thai Industries
vice chair Tanit Sorat said.
Thai consumers appear re-
lieved that the military take-
over has, for now at least,
brought a halt to the bloody
political unrest.
Consumer condence rose
in May for the rst time in 14
months, according to the Uni-
versity of the Thai Chamber
of Commerce. But the gov-
ernment expects economic
growth of just 1.5-2.5 per cent
for 2014, against a previous
forecast of 3-4 per cent.
To get the economy moving
again, the junta has pledged
support for small and mid-
sized rms, as well as tax re-
form and the creation of spe-
cial economic zones on the
countrys borders. It is also re-
viewing infrastructure projects
begun by the ousted govern-
ment of former premier Ying-
luck Shinawatra. But so far the
armys only concrete measure
on the economy has been un-
blocking $2.8 billion for farm-
ers under Yinglucks loss-mak-
ing rice-pledging scheme.
While the country has earned
the nickname Teon Thai-
land for its record of bounc-
ing back from past turmoil,
experts say the current bout
of uncertainty will inevitably
have an impact. The biggest
worry for investors is that long
term-instability will result in
inconsistent economic poli-
cies, Aherin said.
While investors are not like-
ly to pull out of Thailand at this
point, they may hold off on
starting any new investment
in the country until there are
elections and signs of longer-
term stability. AFP
Thai army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha makes a televised speech as a waiter takes an order at a restaurant in Bangkok on May 30. AFP
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Afghan economy teetering
Anuj Chopra

J
ACKHAMMERS are down
and excavators gather dust
at a Kabul construction
site, spotlighting an aid-
reliant economy on the edge
of a precipice as Afghanistans
war winds down and a tenuous
political transition looms.
The countrys banks are at
grave risk of being put on an
international blacklist this
month if parliament fails
to pass a long-demanded
money-laundering bill with
potentially devastating con-
sequences for the already-
fragile economy.
Economic growth fell
through a cliff this year, touch-
ing a low of 3 per cent from
around 14 per cent in 2012,
with aid and investment in the
war-ravaged country seeing an
inexorable exodus.
The timing is largely to
blame, observers say the year
2014 has come to symbolise a
feared bogeyman for many Af-
ghan businesses.
US plans to withdraw a bulk
of its troops by December after
13 years of war, despite a re-
silient Taliban insurgency and
next weeks tense run-off elec-
tion, has stoked concerns over
the future of the country.
Askari Wahedi hasnt aban-
doned Afghanistan like sev-
eral of his business peers who
have transferred their wealth
overseas and bought second
homes in Dubai or Istanbul. At
least not yet.
But the 28-year-old director
of logistics company Askary
Group has seen business evap-
orate in just a few months.
I was here last year, now I
am here, he said, swinging
his hand from his head to his
waist to illustrate his plunging
fortunes. Last year he had 15
contracts with the US army to
provide logistical services such
as operational maintenance
and catering at military bases.
His turnover soared and he
employed 300 people across
various provinces including
in Helmand and Kandahar
Taliban-infested areas where
joblessness is endemic.
But with military bases wind-
ing up operations as US forces
pull out, he only has one con-
tract left due to expire in two
months forcing him to lay off
260 employees.
What options do I have left in
this country? he said, slouched
in an overstuffed armchair in
his posh ofce in Kabul. If I
dont have an alternate busi-
ness within two months, I will
have to re everyone and shut
down this ofce.
Some Afghan observers, dis-
mayed by the international
withdrawal, liken the situa-
tion to a coma patient who is
propped up for years through
intravenous drugs. The dos-
age is then suddenly stopped
and the patient is expected
to get up and run.
Even after 13 years of inter-
national support, Afghanistan
is just not ready or able to
take charge of its own affairs,
said a cashier at a Kabul branch
of Finest Supermarket, a chain
of Western-style retail outlets.
He did not wish to be named.
But others in Afghanistan
counter that view by asserting
what many economists have
dubbed as the aid curse.
The double-digit growth
boom of previous years was
mainly as a result of a huge in-
ux of foreign aid money since
US-led forces ousted the Tali-
ban from power in 2001.
Afghanistan, sitting on min-
eral deposits estimated at
about $3 trillion, needs to be
weaned off its dependence on
this money as troops and for-
eign contractors depart.
But that goal would be a long
shot without key structural
and nancial reforms in the
country long convulsed by war
and corruption. AFP
IMF could move from
US to China: Lagarde
Sandrine Rastello
THE International Monetary
Funds headquarters may one
day shift to Beijing from Wash-
ington, aligning with Chinas
growing influence in the world
economy, the funds managing
director said.
Christine Lagarde, speaking
late yesterday in London, said
that IMF rules require the
main office be located in the
country that is the biggest
shareholder, which the US has
been since the fund was
formed 70 years ago.
The IMF founding members
decided that the institution
would be headquartered in the
country which had the biggest
share of the quota, which
chipped in the biggest amount
and contributed most. And
that is still today the United
States, she said in response to
questions at the London
School of Economics.
But the way things are
going, I wouldnt be surprised
if one of these days the IMF
was headquartered in Beijing,
for instance, she said. It
would be the articles of the
IMF that would dictate it.
Lagarde said the IMF has a
good relationship with China,
the worlds second-largest
economy and she praised the
governments commitment to
fighting corruption.
She had less kind things to
say about the US, which
remains the outlier among
Group of 20 countries to
approve an overhaul of the
ownership of the 188-member
organisation. The plan would
give emerging markets more
influence and would elevate
China to the third-largest
member nation.
Lagarde said there is frus-
tration by countries like China,
like Brazil, like India, with the
lack of progress in reforming
the IMF by adopting the quota
reform that would give emerg-
ing-market economies a big-
ger voice, a bigger vote, a big-
ger share in the institution and
I share that frustration
immensely.
The credibility of the insti-
tution, its relevance in the
world in conducting the mis-
sion that it was assigned 70
years ago is highly correlated
with its good representation of
the membership, she said.
We cannot have a good repre-
sentation of the membership
when China has a teeny tiny
share of quota, share of voice
when it has grown to where it
has grown. BLOOMBERG
An Afghan shopkeeper looks on as customers check US products at a
shop in Bush Market in Kabul. AFP
Markets
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Business
Eddie Morton
THE Cambodian Stock Ex-
change (CSX) has approved
Grand Twins Internationals
(GTI) nal submission of IPO
documents and issued an of-
cial listing date of June 16.
Cambodia Securities Ex-
change has a great honor to
inform the public that Grand
Twins International (Cambo-
dia) Plc is approved to be list-
ed on CSX from 16 June, 2014,
it said in a statement.
The exchange issued the
statement on Friday, nearly a
week before GTI had hoped to
commence trading on June 12.
The new date marks the second
time the IPO has been pushed
back in as many weeks.
The regulator did not detail
the exact reasons for the delay.
Stephen Hsu, CEO of Phnom
Penh Securities, the chief un-
derwriting rm overseeing the
garment makers IPO, said that
the postponement was due to
the time required by CSX to
process GTIs nal application
documents.
The CSX needed more time
for operation, he said, refer-
ring to the processing of GTIs
nal documents.
The Taiwanese garment
rm, which largely makes
sporting apparel for Adidas
and Reebok, will be just the
second company to join the
local bourse. Its offering of
eight million shares at $2.41
each attracted more than 230
investors, mostly from over-
seas, according to Hsu.
MYANMAR rice exporters are
being undercut in the impor-
tant African markets by a ood
of exports as the Thai junta
ofoads millions of tonnes
of stored rice at discounted
prices, ofcials say.
Myanmar 25 per cent broken
rice had been commanding
about $335 per tonne in the
African market a competi-
tive price compared to previ-
ous Thai prices of $400. But the
Thai military junta has lowered
prices to $320 per tonne in Afri-
ca in a bid to ofoad rice stocks
purchased during the govern-
ment of Yingluck Shinawatra,
Myanmar traders said.
Top Myanmar rice exporter
Law Maw Myint Maung said
the price competition is slow-
ing business in African coun-
tries, which together consti-
tute an important market for
Myanmars rice exporters.
We are having lots of trou-
ble selling rice on the world
market, especially to our ma-
jor African buyers, he said.
Thailand was thought to
have about 15 to 16 million
tonnes of rice sitting in ware-
houses last week.
With much of the African
market closed to Myanmar
traders due to the low prices,
rice exporters are relying on
Chinese demand, Lu Maw
Myint Maung said.
Chinas demand for Myan-
mar rice is quite strong at the
moment. This is a major relief
for our rice market, he said.
Rice traders say Myanmar
exports about 60,000 tonnes
monthly through Muse in Shan
State to China at present, with
prices of about $433 to $449 a
tonne for 25 per cent broken
and $490 to $497 for higher
quality 5 per cent broken.
The EU is also increasingly
demanding Myanmar rice,
though it only accepts mostly
high-end 5 per cent broken rice
at about $410-$420 a tonne, he
said. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Grand Twins listing
date ofcial, but late
Out of Africa: Thai rice
replacing Myanmars
Protectionism
on rise before
Indonesia poll
T
HE campaign of In-
donesias presidential
frontrunner, former
businessman Joko
Widodo, is adopting a protec-
tionist tint as the race against
his lone rival tightens weeks
before the election.
The party backing Widodo,
who won the condence of
investors with his small-busi-
ness background and focus
on infrastructure as governor
of Jakarta, says it will restrict
foreign access to Indonesian
bank stakes. The Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle
also aims to review trade deals
and boost mining-company
payments to the government.
Widodos latest campaign
manifesto co-opts parts of the
platform advocated by ex-ar-
my general Prabowo Subianto,
Widodos only challenger. The
rhetoric may unnerve foreign
investors who have poured re-
cord amounts into Southeast
Asias biggest economy.
As the campaign season
heats up, there will undoubt-
edly be more nationalistic
bombast from both sides, said
Wellian Wiranto, an economist
at Oversea-Chinese Banking
Corp. Foreign investment can
and does vote with their feet
something that whoever wins
the presidency would have to
reckon with eventually.
The presidential race has
shifted in recent months from
one in which Widodo was the
clear favourite.
Prabowo, who has formed a
coalition with more political
parties than Widodo, wants
to cut foreign loans to zero by
2019, according to his manifes-
to. He said in January he would
face off against foreign inves-
tors to hammer out fair terms.
Widodos platform cites a
target of lifting the level of In-
donesians savings. In an opin-
ion piece in the Kompas news-
paper in May, Widodo said an
emphasis on market forces
had trapped Indonesia in de-
pendence on foreign capital.
A growing appetite for poli-
cies that safeguard Indonesian
interests has already spurred
President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyonos government to
ban exports of mineral ores
and limit bank ownership by
overseas companies. It has
also set new limits on foreign
investment in oil services,
storage and retail trade, even
as it has allowed greater access
to selected power plants, ports
and airports.
Newmont Mining Corp, the
worlds second-largest gold
producer, declared force ma-
jeure on copper sales from In-
donesia this week, after the ex-
port ban on mineral ore forced
it to shut down its mine in the
country. BLOOMBERG
Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo delivers an address
during a conference in Jakarta on May 27. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Fixed Deposit Interest Rates
Cambodian
Financial Institutions
On Deposits
3 Months 6 Months 12 Months
Asof JUNE 6, 2014 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL
PRASAC 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75%
ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00%
ANZ Royal Bank 1.35% 3.50% 2.50% 4.00% 3.50% 5.50%
Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A
Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A
Cambodian Public Bank 2.00% N/A 3.00% N/A 3.75% N/A
Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00%
Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A
MARUHAN Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50%
RHB Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.50% 5.00% 4.75% 6.00%
SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A
Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A
AirAsia intensies Indian fare war
ASIAS biggest budget carrier AirAsia is set
to make its maiden Indian flight this week,
fuelling a cut-throat price war in a sector
already reeling from losses.
AirAsia India will take off on Thursday
with an eye-catching promotional fare of
990 rupees ($17) for flights between high-
tech hub Bangalore and the popular coast-
al resort of Goa cheaper than a second-
class train ticket. The price war has already
begun and will only intensify in the lean
July-September quarter, Amber Dubey,
partner at global consultancy KPMG, said.
The carriers founder and chief executive
Tony Fernandes a millionaire ex-music
executive who styles himself as Asias
answer to British tycoon Richard Branson
is a hardened discount-fare warrior.
But analysts warn that Fernandes could
find the ride more turbulent than he reck-
oned in India, where no-frills carriers
already dominate with a near 65 per cent
market share. India could be AirAsias
greatest test, said Kapil Kaul from the
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.
The company will start with just one
plane less ambitious than the three-to-
four aircraft first envisaged but aims to
scale up to 10 planes and 10 cities by the
end of the fiscal year in March 2015.
Malaysia-based AirAsia, whose net prof-
it leapt 33 per cent in the past quarter, is
hoping to break even in India within four
months through ambitious operational
targets. It plans to achieve an aircraft turn-
around time the time it takes to unload
one set of passengers and board another
of 20 minutes, far lower than the 30-to-35
minutes of the best Indian low-cost air-
lines. It also aims to have its plane flying
16 hours a day in contrast to the global
industry level of 13. AFP
ONCE a star of the intensely
competitive smartphone sec-
tor, Taiwans HTC has seen its
fortunes collapse in recent
years but the success of its
latest model provides a glim-
mer of hope.
The company started out as
a contract smartphone manu-
facturer for major foreign play-
ers including Microsoft and
only began developing its own
brand of handsets in 2006.
It quickly built up a loyal
following as the rst to use
Googles Android operating
system, but from stellar per-
formances in 2011, HTC has
nosedived as Samsung, Apple
and strong Chinese brands like
Lenovo and Huawei surge.
In the rst quarter, it posted
a net loss of NT$1.88 billion
(US$62.3 million) while sales
hit a ve-year low.
Now, though, theres a
much-needed buzz around
the brand once more, follow-
ing the launch of the HTC One
M8 handset in March.
Its a mix of being genuinely
functional, but also a real state-
ment device, said Nic Hea-
ley of leading tech review site
CNET. Something like the M8
is a real standout on the shelf.
Reviewers and consumers
have praised the M8 for its
high-quality design, with a
brushed aluminium case, as
well as powerful speakers and
a dual-lens camera for special
effects on photos.
The look and feel of HTCs
on-screen menu system were
previously criticised as over-
complicated, but the M8 has
improved this, Healey said.
HTC would not comment
on sales gures for the M8, but
said it expects to swing back to
protability in the next quar-
ter, doubling its revenues in
the three months to June.
The M8 is selling fast across
global markets, Sascha Pal-
lenberg of technology consul-
tancy Mobile Geeks said.
HTC took a leaf out of Ap-
ples book by ensuring that
the device was immediately
available to consumers after
its media launch in New York,
London and Paris, rather than
waiting to bring it to market.
The rm has brought in Hol-
lywood star Robert Downey Jr
as its public face and become
a sponsor of the UEFA Cham-
pions League and Europa
League football tournaments.
It has also hired Paul Gold-
en, who devised Samsungs
highly successful Next Big
Thing campaign.
But even with this added
repower, with a much smaller
marketing budget than its ma-
jor rivals, it will be a big ask for
HTC to challenge their grip.
Theyve made an attempt to
be cleaner and clearer with the
One M8, but were still talking
about a marketing budget that
barely even scratches what Ap-
ple and Samsung can throw at
a device, CNETs Healey said.
And where the Android op-
erating system used to be a
dening feature, some say it
could now be a disadvantage.
Though HTC doubtless still
has a mountain to climb, the
success of the M8 could still
be a signicant step in the
right direction.
The One shows you theyre
capable of doing amazing
things, Pallenberg said.
Well see how the market
reacts. A lot of people love
this phone the emotional
connection is very high and
theyre very loyal to this brand.
The May results will be very
interesting. AFP
HTC hopes love of new
phone revives fortunes
Turning scraps into savings
Henry Goldman

B
UBBLING black liq-
uid churns inside 44-
metre-high tanks at
the Newtown Creek
sewage-treatment plant in
Brooklyn. Like robotic stom-
achs, they burp methane, a
byproduct of processed or-
ganic waste.
New York Mayor Bill de
Blasio says gas produced at
the facility could heat more
than 5,200 homes. To achieve
that goal, hes asking 100,000
households to separate food
scraps from other garbage and
leave them in city-issued plas-
tic bins for kerbside pickup.
The food would be hauled to
Newtown Creeks egg-shaped
tanks and mixed with sewage
to create natural gas.
We are trying to gure out
how to market our waste as
a resource, said Sanitation
Commissioner Kathryn Gar-
cia, whom de Blasio appointed
in March to run the 9,500-em-
ployee department. If we are
successful here, nationally and
internationally you will see
this program implemented.
New York is trying to reduce
the $350 million it spends each
year and the environmental
impact of hauling trash to
landlls as far away as South
Carolina. Discarded food
makes up about 18 per cent
of its 10,800-tonne-a-day resi-
dential trash, and city ofcials
say the organic waste can be
converted into fuel and com-
post. If the voluntary system
works, it will be rolled out to
cover all 8.3 million residents
and may become mandatory.
Such lofty goals wont be
easy to achieve in the most
populous US city, which issued
more than 51,000 violations in
scal year 2013 for its manda-
tory metal, glass, plastic and
paper program. Most apart-
ment buildings were built be-
fore architects designed space
for recycled refuse, Garcia said.
The citys recycling partici-
pation rate has been stuck at
43 per cent or less for years.
Only about 15 per cent of its
trash gets diverted from land-
lls, well below a goal of 75 per
cent by 2030.
New Yorks food-scrap ex-
periment started under former
Mayor Michael Bloomberg in
2012 with 30,000 homes and
15 schools. This year, it will
cover 240,000 residents and
more than 400 schools.
Engineers have discovered
that methane production is
enhanced when food is mixed
with sewage and bacteria in
egg-shaped, oxygen-deprived
tanks at the human-body tem-
perature of 36.7 degrees Cel-
sius. New Yorks pilot project,
which began with about two
tonnes of processed scraps
a day, now will ramp up to
50 tonnes, escalating to 250
tonnes by the end of 2015.
Newtown Creeks eight tanks
have the potential to hold 500
tonnes of food for the 15-day
process. Thirteen other city
plants could be upgraded to
handle 500 tonnes more, said
Vincent Sapienza, deputy
commissioner for waste water
at the city Environmental Pro-
tection Department.
The methane will be pumped
into pipelines connecting the
citys plant with a new renery
being built next door by Lon-
don-based National Grid Plc,
which supplies Brooklyn with
natural gas to heat homes and
businesses. The city will do-
nate the methane to National
Grid, which will pay for ren-
ing and distribution. If the
market price of the gas ever
exceeds National Grids cost
to process and deliver it, the
company will compensate the
city for the methane it uses.
Ofcials say the expense of
diverting garbage from land-
lls will be less than the aver-
age $93 a tonne it now pays
to dump. The city spends $74
a tonne to send its recycled
metal, glass and plastic to a
processing plant. BLOOMBERG
A front-end loader moves trash for recycling at the Sims Municipal Recycling facility in Brooklyn last month. BLOOMBERG
HTCs One M8 handset. BLOOMBERG
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Thaksin Shinawatra government.
When [the junta] say they want
to return happiness to the people,
what theyre giving is actually sad-
ness, he said.
In the countryside, many houses
are searched without warrants, with
some describing the military as us-
ing very intimidating tactics. Every-
day objects such as lawnmowers and
knives were conscated, locals said.
Core red-shirt leaders and radio
station DJs have been asked to re-
port to the junta since day one of the
coup and for the rst few days were
contacted by phone every three to
four hours. They have also been or-
dered not to provide comments to
the media, and many avoid using
telephones for fear of having their
calls intercepted. They know that
after returning from their summons
that if they dare to speak out or carry
out any anti-coup activities, they risk
ending up in military court and fac-
ing probable jail time.
Wearing red shermans trousers
and a red cap with a red scarf, Pi-
kul is a stark contrast to her friend,
who wears a red-and-white speckled
wide-brimmed hat with a matching
handkerchief to cover her face, leav-
ing only her eyes visible. Pikul has
never felt the need to hide, and even
travelled to Bangkok to take part in
the red-shirt protests in early May.
Last Friday, the 52-year-old land
agent sent a postcard to the UN call-
ing on them to pressure Thailand
into holding elections. She posted a
picture of the postcard on the mobile
phone app Line, and the next morn-
ing someone claiming to be a police
ofcer called warning her not to join
the anti-coup protests last Sunday.
On that day, the army arrested two
students from Khon Kaen University
for posing next to a soldier and hold-
ing up three ngers a gesture from
the Hunger Games movies used as an
anti-coup symbol.
On May 23, the army arrested 22
red-shirt activists with arms and ex-
plosives at an apartment in Khon
Kaen province. Ofcers seized
bombs, bullets and photos of red-
shirts leaders, and alleged that they
were planning a terrorist act. One of
the suspects implicated Mam.
Mam said she was taken by sol-
diers from her house on May 28
without a warrant, and was detained
at two military camps. She claimed
her hands were tied while she was
being interrogated and that she was
urged to admit her wrongdoings. She
was also told by the soldiers they had
a picture of her with one of the ar-
rested suspects, but when she asked
to see it they declined the request.
Mam still strongly maintains she was
not involved in any terrorist activity.
I was at gunpoint even when I had
to use the toilet, she said at the po-
lice station through a window.
David Streckfuss, an independent
scholar who writes about Thai politi-
cal and legal history, and is based in
Khon Kaen, said in the short term, the
juntas tactics seem to be paying off.
People are scared, feeling increas-
ingly isolated, and might become
disengaged. At the same time, such a
gross abuse of power that many see
as illegitimate in the rst place, to
place well-intentioned people into
such a humiliating circumstances,
may also create resentment and re-
sistance for many, Streckfuss said.
Streckfuss said although the jun-
ta believes that differences can be
smoothed over by dissolving differ-
ences, it does not seem that the junta
has any clear vision of the outcome
and it is unlikely that they even have
the capacity to understand the under-
lying causes of the conict, especially
for the red shirts. The juntas actions
and performance will come under
greater scrutiny, and in the long term,
their strategy of intimidation and si-
lencing is counterproductive.
It can suppress, but not forever. Ev-
ery suppression causes a greater loss
of legitimacy for the regime. The more
it loses legitimacy, the more it feels it
has to repress. It will destroy itself at
some point, Streckfuss said. Village
red shirts have practised patience for
a long time now. They will lay low and
wait for cracks to appear.
Streckfuss sees the current situation
as much worse than after the May,
2010, crackdown against the red-shirt
UDD. Back then, people were angry
and deant but still willing to talk.
The fear now is palpable, so to
speak, he said. The military are
completely over-reacting in Bangkok,
caught between a need to be seen
as legitimate, but also needing to
suppress any dissident voices. They
dont have the capacity either the
soldier on the ground or their com-
manding ofcers to discriminate
between mere expression and what
might be a real threat.
Red-shirt supporters believe they
have long been looked down upon
by the middle class and elite, with
a common misunderstanding they
are uneducated and favour former
prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra
for his populist policies.
But dozens of red shirt supporters
interviewed who have campaigned
against the coup, do not feel they will
be silenced forever, and will continue
to ght even without their leaders.
The currents are strong and its
hard to move. Were waiting for a suit-
able time, Pikul the land agent said.
Silence is scarier than noise, and
dont ever consider it as retreat. We
are like a balloon. If you continue to
squeeze it, it will burst. BANGKOK POST
This Spectrum article can be read
in full at bangkokpost.com.
Fear stalks those
not in tune with
Thailands junta
A column of tanks guard a highway in Bangkok as the army tightened its grip on power two days after Thailands 2006 coup. AFP
Poroshenko: Crimea was, is, and will be Ukrainian
UKRAINIAN President Petro
Poroshenko used his inaugu-
ral address to stress that the
country would not give up
Crimea, the Black Sea pen-
insula that Russia annexed
from it in March.
In a combative speech on
Saturday following his swear-
ing-in, Poroshenko said:
Crimea was, is, and will be
Ukrainian. He was greeted
with a standing ovation.
He stressed the unity of
Ukraine, which is ghting a
pro-Russian separatist up-
rising in the east, and said
it would not become a fed-
eralised state as advocated
by Moscow. Poroshenko also
said he intended to sign the
economic part of an associa-
tion agreement with the Eu-
ropean Union, as a rst step
towards full membership.
And the 48-year-old prom-
ised an amnesty for those
who do not have blood on
their hands in an apparent
appeal to both separatist,
pro-Russia insurgents and to
the nationalist groups that
oppose them. He said that
he wanted neither war, nor
revenge.
However, he sought to ex-
clude the insurgents from a
promise to open a dialogue
with Ukraines eastern citi-
zens. Talking to gangsters
and killers is not our avenue,
he said, according to a trans-
lator. He also called for early
regional elections in the east.
His rise to ofce came a day
after meeting Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin at D-day
commemoration ceremonies
in France. But, despite the
outreach to Putin, Poroshenko
said he would not accept Rus-
sias annexation of Crimea.
Speaking after his meeting
with the Ukrainian president,
Putin called for an immediate
ceasere in eastern Ukraine
before any further talks, and
said that he expected Porosh-
enko to show state wisdom
and goodwill.
The Russian president, who
has denied allegations by Kiev
and the west that Russia has
fomented the rebellion in the
east, said he welcomed Po-
roshenkos call for an end to
the bloodshed and liked his
approach to settling the crisis
but wanted to wait until the
Ukrainian leader could deliver
it in detail to the nation.
Russia annexed Crimea in
March after its troops took
control of the Black Sea pen-
insula, which then held a se-
cession referendum that Kiev
and western states regard as
illegitimate.
Poroshenko, a billionaire
chocolate company owner,
was elected on 25 May, three
months after the pro-Russian
president Viktor Yanukovych
ed the country following
months of street protests.
Poroshenko was the top vote
getter in the restless Donetsk
and Lugansk districts despite
his vow to use force if neces-
sary to keep Ukraine whole.
As strange as it may seem,
it is these very imperialistic
ambitions of Putin that made
the people of Ukraine start to
increasingly demonstrate the
unity of a hardened nation,
respected military analyst Va-
lentyn Badrak wrote in Kievs
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.
He added that Poroshenkos
promise to quickly crush the
insurgency may only further
weaken Putins hand.
One theory says that the
Kremlin leaders compliance
directly depends on Kievs
military success, Badrak
wrote. THE GUARDIAN/AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
KOSOVO voted yesterday in
snap polls seen as a key test
for the countrys EU ambi-
tions and for Prime Minister
Hashim Thaci, an ex-guerilla
chief who has dominated
politics since independence
six years ago.
Nearly one in 10 people
throughout Kosovo had cast
their ballots by 11:00am (0900
GMT), the electoral commis-
sion said. However, all eyes
were on the turnout from the
Serb minority in the north,
voting for the rst time since
Kosovo broke away from Ser-
bia, where rst reports indi-
cated a low percentage of vot-
ers at the polling stations.
A high turnout from the
120,000-strong Serb commu-
nity would be seen as a boost
to Thacis dream of joining the
28-nation European Union,
after last years historic agree-
ment on improving Kosovos
ties with Belgrade.
Although Serbia still rejects
Kosovos independence, it
has encouraged Serbs to vote,
to strengthen the 2013 deal
which allowed it to begin its
own EU entry talks.
The 46-year-old Thaci is
seeking his third term as
prime minister but faces a po-
tential backlash from voters in
one of Europes poorest coun-
tries who are angry about a
sluggish economy and high
unemployment.
Our state is a new European
country with huge developing
opportunities that we will use
in the interest of the people,
Thaci said after casting his
ballot in downtown Pristina,
accompanied by his wife.
Thacis popularity soared
when the former indepen-
dence rebel announced a
break from Serbia in 2008, but
political analyst Nexhmedin
Spahiu said it was far from cer-
tain he would win re-election
since he has been weakened
politically by his failure to
address the main challenges
in our society. Kosovo has
one of the lowest living stan-
dards in Europe, with average
monthly wages of 350 ($476),
nearly half the population liv-
ing in poverty and some 12 per
cent in extreme poverty.
Unemployment is stuck at 35
per cent, rising to 55 per cent
among the young, according
to the Kosovo Statistics Bu-
reau. At one polling station
in Pristina, a dozen people
queued up to cast their vote as
soon as booths opened.
Observers expect a tight
race between Thacis centre-
left PDK and the centre-right
Democratic League of Kosovo
(LDK) led by former Pristina
mayor Isa Mustafa. AFP
Kosovans votes in key
test for EU ambitions
India and China hold talks
Iraq bomb attacks on Kurds kill 18
Annie Banerji

R
IVAL giants India
and China appeared
yesterday to have got
off to a productive
beginning in resetting their
frosty ties after the rst-high
level meeting since hardline
nationalist Prime Minister
Narendra Modi took charge.
Chinas Foreign Minister
Wang Yi met his Indian coun-
terpart in New Delhi during a
two-day visit to build relations
with the right-wing Modi gov-
ernment which came to pow-
er last month on a pledge to
revive the economy.
Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Syed Akbaruddin said
talks between Wang and In-
dias Foreign Minister Sush-
ma Swaraj on economic and
other issues were productive
and substantive.
All issues of signicance
were raised and discussed in
a frank and cordial manner,
Akbaruddin told reporters.
In our view this is a pro-
ductive beginning between
the new government of In-
dia and the Chinese govern-
ment, he said without giv-
ing away any details.
The talks focused on trade
ties but also touched on a
border dispute between the
nuclear-armed neighbours
that has soured relations for
decades.
Wang is expected to meet
Modi today, who has extend-
ed olive branches to tradi-
tional rivals China and Paki-
stan since coming to ofce
despite his hardline national-
ist reputation.
Modi has invited Chinese
President Xi Jinping, himself
a nationalist leader, to visit
later this year, an offer that
Wang told Indias media had
been accepted.
Wang told the Hindu news-
paper he had travelled to the
capital as a special envoy of
Xi to cement our existing
friendship and explore fur-
ther cooperation.
China is ready to work
with our Indian friends for an
even brighter future of our
strategic and cooperative
partnership, Wang said in
an interview with the paper
published yesterday.
Analysts say Modis land-
slide election win has given
him a mandate for more
muscular foreign policy.
He held talks with his
Pakistani counterpart last
month after inviting leaders
of regional neighbours to his
inauguration.
But he faces a tough task of
dealing with an increasingly
assertive and well-armed Chi-
na, which is looking to play
a larger role in South Asia,
while still trying to strengthen
economic ties with Beijing.
China is Indias biggest
trading partner with two-way
commerce totalling close to
$70 billion. But Indias trade
decit with China has soared
to over $40 billion from just
$1 billion in 2001-02, Indian
gures show.
Experts say Modi must
bridge the decit by seeking
greater access to the Chinese
market, with the two sides
targeting annual bilateral
trade of $100 billion by 2015.
Relations, however, are still
dogged by mutual suspicion
a legacy of a brief, bloody
border war in 1962 over the
Indian northeastern state of
Arunachal Pradesh. AFP
A CAR bomb attack and a suicide blast
yesterday killed 18 people at a Kurdish
political partys ofce north of Baghdad,
as at least nine others died in violence
elsewhere in Iraq.
Militants have launched major opera-
tions in multiple provinces in recent days,
killing scores of people and highlighting
both their long reach and the weakness of
Iraqi security forces.
Iraq is suffering its worst violence in
years, and with none of the myriad prob-
lems that contribute to the heightened
unrest headed for a quick resolution, the
bloodshed is likely to continue unabated.
In yesterdays deadliest attack, a car
bomb exploded near an ofce of President
Jalal Talabanis Patriotic Union of Kurd-
istan (PUK) party and a Kurdish asayesh
security forces building in the town of
Jalawla, north of Baghdad.
As emergency workers came to the
scene, a suicide bomber detonated ex-
plosives. The two blasts killed 18 people
and wounded 67. There was no immedi-
ate claim of responsibility, though suicide
bombings are a tactic mainly employed
by Sunni Muslim militants in Iraq.
In the northern city of Mosul, where
security forces have battled militants in
days of heavy clashes, shelling hit three
western areas, killing eight people and
wounding three.
And in Sargaran, northwest of the city
of Kirkuk, three roadside bombs killed a
civilian and wounded three soldiers. The
violence followed a series of major opera-
tions by jihadists in recent days that have
killed dozens of people.
Violence is running at its highest lev-
els since 2006-2007, when tens of thou-
sands were killed in a sectarian conict
between Iraqs Shiite majority and Sun-
ni Arab minority. More than 900 people
were killed last month, according to UN
and government gures.
So far this year, more than 4,600 people
have been killed, according to AFP gures.
Ofcials blame external factors for the ris-
ing bloodshed, particularly the civil war in
neighbouring Syria.
But analysts say widespread Sunni Arab
anger with the Shiite-led government has
also been a major factor. AFP
Visiting Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with
Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj during a meeting
in New Delhi yesterday. AFP
People wait in line at a polling station in Pristina yesterday during
Kosovos parliamentary elections. AFP
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13
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
SEVERAL families of those
aboard Flight MH370 yester-
day launched a drive to raise
$5 million to reward any in-
sider who comes forward and
resolves the mystery of the
planes disappearance exactly
three months ago.
The Reward MH370 cam-
paign launches on fundraising
website Indiegogo and aims
to raise at least $5 million to
encourage a whistleblower to
come forward with informa-
tion, the families said in a
press release.
The Malaysia Airlines jet lost
contact on March 8 en route
from Kuala Lumpur to Bei-
jing with 239 people aboard
about two-thirds of them
Chinese.
The Boeing 777 is believed to
have crashed in the southern
Indian Ocean, but an exten-
sive search has turned up no
sign of wreckage so far, leav-
ing frustrated and anguished
families of those aboard sus-
pecting a cover-up.
We are convinced that
somewhere, someone knows
something, and we hope this
reward will entice him or her
to come forward, said Ethan
Hunt, a technology company
chief who is heading the Re-
ward MH370 project.
Sarah Bajc, partner of Amer-
ican passenger Philip Wood,
said a handful of families
were behind the campaign
to look at the unprecedented
aviation mystery with a fresh
set of eyes.
Governments and agen-
cies have given it their best
shot but have failed to turn
up a single shred of evidence,
either because of a faulty ap-
proach or due to intentional
misdirection by one or more
individuals, she said.
Malaysia and Australia,
which is leading the search
far off its western coast, have
promised that the hunt for the
plane will continue.
An international team is
now determining an expand-
ed search zone of up to 60,000
square kilometres (24,000
square miles) based on where
the aircraft last communicat-
ed with an Inmarsat satellite.
Australia has also released
a request for tenders for a
company to be engaged as a
prime contractor and provide
the expertise, equipment and
vessels needed to carry out the
deep-sea search from August.
Malaysia has insisted it is
doing all it can, working with
Australia, China and other
countries to nd the jet. AFP
MH370 families to raise
funds for whistleblower
Japan, Australia eye sub deal
A
HUGE submarine
deal is on the table
this week when Japan
and Australia meet
to shore up their military re-
lationship, as the security ar-
chitecture of the Asia-Pacic
shifts to meet the challenge of
a rising China.
Japanese Foreign Minister
Fumio Kishida and Defence
Minister Itsunori Onodera will
play hosts in Tokyo on Wednes-
day to Julie Bishop and David
Johnston, their respective op-
posite numbers, for the fth
round of so-called 2+2 talks.
High on the agenda will be
discussions on the transfer of
Japanese submarine technol-
ogy to Australia, with Canberra
needing to replace its eet of
stealth subs over the coming
years at a reported cost of up
to $37 billion.
This could see Tokyos tech-
nology or even entire Japa-
nese-built vessels used in
the eet, in a deal that would
yoke the two nations together
for several decades, binding
their militaries with shared
know-how.
The expected step comes as
Chinas relentless rise alters
the balance of power in a re-
gion long dominated by the
US, with Beijing ever-more
willing to use its might to
push territorial and maritime
claims. A rash of confronta-
tions in the South China Sea
has set off ripples of disquiet
in the region, as has the fester-
ing stand-off with Japan over
islands in the East China Sea.
The worries have encour-
aged a relationship-building
drive across Asia, with Austra-
lia and Japan both key US al-
lies a notable pairing.
Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott and his Japanese
counterpart Shinzo Abe signed
a free trade pact and a secu-
rity deal in April. Following
an Australian request, Tokyo
will let Johnston see Japanese
submarines during his stay,
Onodera said. The Japanese
defence chief also stressed
that various frameworks
military pacts grouping Aus-
tralia, Japan, South Korea, and
the USare vital in ensuring se-
curity in East Asia.
Abe looks to nudge long-
pacist Japan towards a more
active role on the global
stage, including loosening
restrictions on when its well-
equipped armed forces can
act. He has also relaxed a self-
imposed ban on weapons
exports, giving its high-tech
weapons makers a leg-up in
the global marketplace. Japan
Inc has hailed Abes promo-
tion of the nations military
industry, which some see as
just another plank in his eco-
nomic push to boost the na-
tions heavy manufacturers
and exporters.
However, some analysts sug-
gest it is more nuanced. Koichi
Nakano, political science pro-
fessor at Sophia University in
Tokyo, says Abes beeng up
of military industry shows the
prime minister marrying his
twin aims of economic and
diplomatic rejuvenation.
Observers point out that a
more competitive arms in-
dustry would be more able
to meet future domestic de-
mand in the event that Japans
military nds itself in need of
more repower.
Chinas military has received
double-digit budget increases
for several years and analysts
say its capacity is building to-
wards its ambition of having
a blue-seas navy one that is
able to push the US out of the
western Pacic.
The US, in response, has
looked to bolster its military
capacity in the Asia-Pacic,
placing or realigning troops
in Australia, Japan, the Phil-
ippines, Hawaii and Guam,
and trying to thread its friends
together. AFP
A Collins-class submarine is moored at Port Adelaide on August 28,
1993. AFP
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014

Aussies find remains
inside 4.7-metre croc
HUMAN remains were
recovered yesterday in the hunt
for a man snatched by a
crocodile in front of terrified
relatives on a boat trip in
northern Australia. The man, 62,
was taken from his boat on the
South Alligator River in northern
Australias Kakadu national
park late on Saturday afternoon
as his wife, son and daughter-
in-law looked on. Northern
Territory police sergeant
Andrew Hocking said two large
crocodiles were shot and cut
open by search crews yesterday
at the waterhole where the man
was last seen. One of those
crocs was later examined and a
quantity of human remains was
recovered, Hocking said,
adding that the creature had
been 4.7 metres long. The
remains were yet to be formally
identified, but Hocking said the
animal was recovered just 1.5
kilometres from the attack. AFP
New sexual harassment
punishments in Egypt
EGYPT has approved new
punishments for sexual
harassment, amid rising
pressure on authorities to fight
the rampant phenomenon.
Until now, Egypt has not had a
law defining sexual
harassment, despite more than
99 per cent of women being
subjected to some form of
abuse, a 2013 study by the
United Nations said. But
outgoing interim president Adly
Mansour approved a range of
amendments Thursday that
would punish offences against
women. These would include
jail terms, fines, or both. Any
sexual or pornographic
suggestions or hints through
words, signs or acts are now
punishable by imprisonment for
at least six months.
Imprisonment for from two to
five years and a fine would apply
if offenders use professional,
family or academic power or
circumstantial pressures on the
victim. AFP
Sailors held by pirates
for four years escape
ELEVEN sailors mostly from
Asia held hostage for almost
four years by Somali pirates
escaped their captors and are
safe in Kenya, mediators who
helped secure their freedom
said on Saturday. The sailors,
who had been held in dire
conditions and suffered
beatings and torture, included
seven men from Bangladesh,
one Indian, one Iranian, and two
from Sri Lanka. After escaping
through a window from their
pirate prison, the men were
rescued by security forces from
the northern Somali Galmadug
region, John Steed, a former
British army colonel who has
spent years helping negotiate
their release. AFP
C
LASHES broke out
between sword-
wielding Sikhs on
Friday at the Golden
Temple in northern India
on the 30th anniversary of a
controversial army assault on
Sikhisms holiest shrine.
At least 10 people were
wounded in the violence at
the temple in the city of Am-
ritsar that erupted as hun-
dreds of Sikhs had gathered
at the shrine to pay their re-
spects to the hundreds killed
in the June 6, 1984 raid.
At least 400 people were
killed in the attack on the
temple by Indian troops that
was codenamed Operation
Blue Star and was aimed at
ushing out armed separat-
ists demanding an indepen-
dent Sikh homeland.
Today we were supposed
to have a solemn remem-
brance for the martyrs of 1984
so what has happened is very
sad, said a spokesman for a
radical Sikh outt called the
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amrit-
sar) whose supporters were
involved in the clashes.
The Temple has once again
been dishonoured today,
the spokesman Prem Singh
Chandumajra told reporters.
Two groups of Sikhs
sporting blue and saffron
turbans chased each other
with swords, spears and
sticks on the marbled stair-
case of the revered shrine in
Punjab state.
Police alleged the clashes
erupted after members of Shi-
romani Akali Dal (Amritsar)
shouted slogans for an inde-
pendent homeland from the
temple rostrum and insisted
they be allowed to speak rst
at the microphone.
Members of a radical outt
confronted the temples task
force, triggering the ght.
Some 10 people have been in-
jured, two of them are being
treated in hospital, a police
ofcer in charge of temple
safety said.
Amritsar police chief Jat-
inder Singh Aulakh said later
Friday the situation was un-
der control. The situation
has been defused and things
are under total control, Aul-
akh said, according to the
Press Trust of India news
agency. The police chief
said extra security had been
deployed inside the temple
to ensure there were no fur-
ther clashes.
The armys operation en-
raged Sikhs who accused
the troops of desecrating the
faiths holiest shrine and still
remains a divisive issue.
Indias prime minister In-
dira Gandhi was shot dead by
her own Sikh bodyguards in
October 1984 in revenge for
the operation.
Her assassination triggered
mass anti-Sikh riots in which
some 3,000 people were
killed, many of them on the
streets of New Delhi.
On Thursday, supporters
of several radical groups car-
ried out a Genocide Remem-
brance Parade around the
streets of Amritsar, hailing the
martyrs of 1984.
Despite the outrage over
the Golden Temple raid,
support for an independent
Khalistan, or the land of the
pure, has waned in the last
three decades.
The landlocked region
shares borders with Pakistan
and restive Kashmir. Howev-
er, support for the indepen-
dence movement remains
strong among some members
of the Sikh diaspora in Britain,
Canada and the US.
Kuldip Singh Brar, the
commander of Operation
Blue Star, was seriously in-
jured in 2012 when he was
stabbed on a London street.
A Sikh gang was found guilty
of the attack, which was to
avenge the 1984 raid.
Amarinder Singh, a promi-
nent political leader from the
state, condemned Fridays
violence at the shrine.
It is very shameful. There
is no provision for law and
order there [at the temple],
Singh, of the Congress party,
said. It is unfortunate that
such a thing is happening at
our religious site. AFP
Sword ght at
Golden Temple
on anniversary
An Indian Sikh takes a holy dip in the sarover, or water pool, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 1. AFP
WWII dead washed from graves
SKELETONS of World War
II soldiers are being washed
from their graves by the ris-
ing Pacic Ocean as global
warming leads to the inunda-
tion of islands that saw some
of the ercest ghting of
the conict.
A minister from the Marshall
Islands, a remote archipelago
between Hawaii and the Phil-
ippines, told how the remains
of 26, probably Japanese sol-
diers, had been recovered so
far on the isle of Santo.
There are cofns and dead
people being washed away
from graves its that seri-
ous, Tony de Brum, minister
of foreign affairs for the Mar-
shall Islands, said yesterday.
Tides have caused not just
inundation and ooding of
communities where people
live but have also done se-
vere damage in undermining
regular land so that even the
dead are affected.
Spring tides from the end of
February to April had ooded
communities, he said at UN
climate talks in Bonn.
The ministers comments
bring home the stark future
for low-lying island nations
as the planet warms, causing
sea levels to rise. The Marshall
Islands, a string of more than
1,000 such isles with a popula-
tion of about 70,000, is about
2 metres at its highest point,
according to De Brum.
The Marshall Islands were
used as a base by the Japanese
in the run-up to the attack on
Pearl Harbor. The US Navy
based at Pearl Harbor is now
testing the skeletons washed
up to identify and repatriate
them, according to De Brum.
We think theyre Japanese
soldiers, but there are no bro-
ken bones or any indication of
being war casualties, he said.
We think maybe it was
suicide or something similar.
The Japanese are sending a
team in to help us in Septem-
ber. BLOOMBERG
Residents wade through ooding caused by high ocean tides in low-
lying parts of Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands. AFP
A MINISTER from Indian
Prime Minister Narendra
Modis ruling party has said
rapes happen accidentally,
in the latest controversial re-
marks by a politician, amid
renewed outrage over attacks
against women.
Ramsevak Paikra, the home
minister of central Chhattis-
garh state who is responsible
for law and order, said late on
Saturday that rapes did not
happen on purpose.
Such incidents [rapes]
do not happen deliberately.
These kind of incidents hap-
pen accidentally, Paikra, of
the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) which also rules at the
national level, told reporters.
Paikra, who was asked for
his thoughts on the gang rape
and lynching of two girls in a
neighbouring state, later said
he had been misquoted. His
original remarks were broad-
cast on television networks.
The remarks come just
days after the home minis-
ter of the BJP-ruled Madhya
Pradesh state said rapes were
sometimes right, sometimes
wrong. The minister, Babu-
lal Gaur, gave the remarks on
Thursday amid growing anger
over the gang rape and mur-
der of the girls, aged 12 and
14, in northern Uttar Pradesh
state late last month.
Modi, whose party has
pledged increased womens
security, has so far stayed
silent over the rapes. India
brought in tougher laws last
year against sexual offenders
after the fatal gang-rape of a
student in New Delhi in De-
cember 2012, but they have
failed to stem the tide of vio-
lence against women across
the country.
Police said a Malaysian
woman, 30, was raped in a car
last Thursday in western Raj-
asthan state after a man, who
she met to discuss business
projects, drugged her the
latest in a series of sex attacks
on foreigners in India. AFP
Indian minister: rapes
happen accidentally
Tracy McVeigh

I
T WAS the story that
knocked the speeches of
world leaders and roy-
alty off the front pages
this weekend: the World War
II veteran who refused to miss
the D-Day commemorations
and staged a great escape
from his care home to join his
compatriots on the beaches
of Normandy.
On Saturday, Bernard Jor-
dan returned, not to the
telling-off he feared, but to
a heros welcome and a cup
of tea at The Pines nursing
home in Hove, East Sussex,
after his jaunt across the
Channel, which led to a po-
lice search for him.
I had a good time, every
minute of it. Im pleased I did
it. Id do it again tomorrow,
he said as he got off an over-
night ferry at Portsmouth.
Enjoying his tea in the sit-
ting room on Saturday and
reunited with his wife Irene,
the former mayor and long-
serving town councillor
had a ne view of the media
scrum outside the front gates
and of the staff answering
the stream of phone calls
from well-wishers.
Hes really tired out and
just putting his feet up. Hes
had quite an adventure, bless
him, a Pines carer said. Hes
pleased to be back, and were
pleased to see him.
Staff had tried, and failed,
to get Jordan a place on a
Royal British Legion trip to
the 70th anniversary of the
D-Day landings he took part
in Operation Overlord as a
Royal Navy ofcer.
So on Thursday morning,
in a grey raincoat to hide the
medals pinned to his best suit,
he slipped out of the home,
headed for Brighton station
and a train to Portsmouth.
On the dockside he found a
party of veterans and hitched
a ride on a ferry. By the time
staff called Sussex police over
their missing resident, Jor-
dan had checked into a hotel
in Ouistreham. Ofcers had
started a search before the
home received a call from
another veteran who had met
Jordan en route and reported
him safe and well. Sussex
police said they had spoken
to the old serviceman and
would have a chat with him
to check he is OK.
Next week marks Jordans
90th birthday, but he intends
to be back in Normandy for
June 6, 2015. A lifelong Hove
resident and keen fan of
Brighton and Hove Albion
football club, he spent much
of his adult life in local poli-
tics, serving as mayor from
1995 to 1996 and causing a
stir in 2001 when he switched
allegiance from the Conser-
vatives to Labour. He said
that his wife knew about his
trip and supported him.
Steve Tuckwell, of Brittany
Ferries, said Jordan enjoyed
a fried breakfast during the
seven-hour crossing. For a
90-year-old man, he had a
healthy appetite. Hes a tre-
mendous fellow, we loved
having him on board. He was
picked up by one of our staff
who found him wandering
around, she took him under
her wing, took him up to the
bridge and treated him roy-
ally, and he won the hearts of
the crew. We adopted him as
an honorary veteran and we
will give him free travel to the
Normandy beaches for the
rest of his life. Hes a lovely,
lovely guy: when he came off,
the crew all clapped him.
He said that Jordan met a
group of singers called the
Candy Girls during the cross-
ing and added: Hes got a lot
of charm with the ladies, but I
understand he has a wife.
Jordans niece, Susan
Knowles, said her uncle had
a history of not letting his age
get in the way of his travels.
Last time I saw him was at
a family funeral that he made
his way down to, and we were
all quite amazed that hed
made his way to Bournemouth
to this family funeral, on the
train, on his own. He just came
walking up and we were quite
surprised to see him there. If
hes determined to do some-
thing he will.
The home said it was de-
nitely not the case that the
veteran was banned from at-
tending the D-Day events. Peter
Curtis, chief exec of Gracewell
Healthcare, which runs The
Pines, said staff were tremen-
dously proud of Jordans war re-
cord: Mr Jordan has full capac-
ity, which means that he can
come and go from the home as
he pleases, which he does on
most days. At no stage was he
banned from going to the com-
memorations. THE OBSERVER
World
15
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014

US, Iran in direct talks
DIRECT talks with the US this
week on Tehrans nuclear
program hold the key to
bridging gaps at a serious
phase of negotiations and
sealing a deal, a top Iranian
official said yesterday. The two
countries will hold their first
full-scale official direct
meetings in decades today and
tomorrow in Geneva, with the
route towards an eventual
lifting of sanctions expected to
be the main issue. Abbas
Araqchi, a vice foreign minister
who will lead the Iranian
delegation, said the tete-a-tete
with the US was essential, as
the negotiations are delicately
poised. AFP
Fury over racist pun
ANTI-RACISM campaigners
reacted with outrage on
Sunday to an apparent anti-
Semitic pun by Frances
former far-right leader Jean-
Marie Le Pen. When asked
about French singer Patrick
Bruel, who is Jewish, Le Pen
said he would be part of a
batch we will get next time,
using the word fournee for
batch, evoking the word
four (oven). Anti-racism
group SOS Racisme said it
would file a complaint
against Le Pen. AFP
NY Review of Books slams CIA with Twitter attack
Lauren Gambino

ON FRIDAY, the CIA ofcially joined
Twitter. Somewhat against the gener-
ally accepted nature of the agency, its
rst tweet was coyly playful, saying:
We can neither conrm nor deny
that this is our rst tweet.
Not everyone, however, was
laughing.
Later the same day, through its own
Twitter account, the New York Re-
view of Books released a barrage of
140-character reminders of the sur-
veillance agencys controversial inter-
rogation techniques.
An hour after releasing a tweet
about the obscure delights of Italian
Futurist art, the august and famously
technophobic literary journal which
has on prominent display in its West
Village ofces a book titled Social
Media is Bullshit tweeted a link to a
blogpost by David Cole in March.
The internet post was written amid
Senate intelligence committee chair
Diane Feinsteins public falling out
with the CIA over the internal Pa-
netta review.
In the blogpost, Cole, a professor at
Georgetown University Law Center,
concludes: The CIAs desperate ef-
forts to hide the details of what the
world already knows in general out-
line that it subjected human beings
to brutal treatment to which no hu-
man being should ever be subjected
are only the latest evidence of the poi-
sonous consequences of a program
euphemistically called enhanced in-
terrogation.
It was then that @nybooks seemed
to get serious.
In rapid succession, the account
tweeted out the contents page of a
condential 2007 report by the In-
ternational Committee of the Red
Cross, titled Report on the Treatment
of Fourteen High Value Detainees in
CIA Custody.
The contents page of the report,
which documented the interroga-
tion tactics used at the CIAs secret
offshore prisons, known as black
sites, was published in a 2009 New
York Review of Books article by Mark
Danner, US Torture: Voices from the
Black Sites.
The 10-tweet blast was an appar-
ent bid to point out that behind the
agencys new social-media facade lies
a somewhat controversial history. The
CIA did not respond to @nybooks. But
it did release a second tweet:
THE GUARDIAN
Electrocution
Man killed
wife while on

phone to cops

A
TURKISH man is charged
with electrocuting his wife
as punishment for giving
birth to a girl while on the phone
to police who failed to avert the
crime, media reported on Friday.
The 29-year-old from Diyarba-
kir province does not deny mur-
dering his wife by placing a live
electric cable under her chin as
she slept, a day after their second
baby girl was born in January.
The Vatan newspaper published
on its front page a transcript of a
telephone call he placed to police
in which he announced his mur-
derous intent, in real time.
I killed someone, the man
told the police operator, accord-
ing to the transcript. Who did
you kill? asked the ofcer on the
other end. I am killing my wife
right now, said the man. The po-
lice operator snapped into action:
OK, wait. I am sending a unit.
A defence lawyer told the court
at a hearing that his client killed
his wife because she gave birth to
a girl once again.
The suspect, a waiter at a local
restaurant in the Kurdish-majority
region, also has a four-year-old
daughter. A defence lawyer at
a court hearing on Wednesday
criticised police for failing to talk
the suspect out of his crime. AFP
D-Day veterans great escape
World War II veterans hold hands as they sing during the 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration ceremony
for veterans in Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy, on Friday. AFP
NY Review of Books
(@nybooks)
ICYMI: The @CIAs Poisonous
Tree, by David Cole (March 15,
2014) #torture
Except: The revelations that the CIA
interfered with a Senate investiga-
tion of CIA abuses shows that torture
does far more than merely taint
evidence. It corrupts all who touch it.
NY Review of Books
(@nybooks)
1. Main Elements of the CIA De-
tention Program
1.1 Arrest and Transfer
1.2 Continuous Solitary Conne-
ment
Except: The secret system included
prisons on military bases around the
world, from Thailand and Afghani-
stan to Morocco, Poland, and Roma-
nia at various times, reportedly,
sites in eight countries. . .
NY Review of Books
(@nybooks)
1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
1.3.1 Suffocation by water
1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing @CIA
NY Review of Books
(@nybooks)
1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar
1.3.4 Beating and kicking
1.3.5 Connement in a box
1.3.6 Prolonged nudity @CIA
CIA (@CIA)
Thank you for the @Twit-
ter welcome! We look forward
to sharing great #unclassied
content with you.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Vacancy Announcement
Announcement No: EC-AN-14-0593
Locaton: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC), Phnom Penh.
Closing Date: June 10, 2014 @ 4.30 pm.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is seeking highly
qualied applicants for the positon of Legal Consultant.

For more details of the TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR), please visit the ECCC
website at htp: www.eccc.gov.kh/en/about-eccc/jobs
Submission of Applicatons
Qualied candidates may submit their applicatons, including a leter of interest,
Curriculum Vitae indicatng personal and technical skills, academic qualicatons
and experience in similar assignments along with the duly completed and signed
ECCC Applicaton Form for Employment available in the above website to:
Human Resources Secton (Natonal)
Natonal Road 4, Chaom Chau Commune
Porsenchey District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The ECCC gate B or Email: [email protected]
P.O Box No.71
Please note that incomplete applicatons or applicatons received afer the
closing date will not be considered. Only those candidates that are short-listed
for interviews will be noted.
Applicatons from qualied female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Individual Consultancy to assess the compliance of forted products available in
Cambodia - Vacancy N MNCHN/14/006
The United Natons Childrens Fund (UNICEF), Cambodia Country Oce, is seeking
to hire a qualied internatonal consultant to conduct an assessment to provide
updated informaton on the actual current levels of compliance through a snapshot
with the statutory levels of iodine in forted salt, iron in forted sauces and other
micronutrients specied for other food vehicles labelled as forted. The consultancy
will also identfy challenges and sustainability issues to support the ongoing eorts
to strengthen the natonal fortcaton program.
Main Dutes and Responsibilites:
1. Develop the protocol, identfy local laboratory with the capacity to analyze
the dierent nutrient in salt, sauces and instant noodles;
2. Develop a sampling procedure to be representatve of the actual availability
of iodized salt, iron forted sauces and forted instant noodles;
3. Collect the food samples and analyze the concentraton of iodine in forted
salt, iron in forted sauces, and iron and another vitamin in forted instant
noodles;
4. Prepare the rst analysis of the compliance of the dierent forted foods
tested in a scientc peer review publicaton format;
5. Prepare a presentaton during an NSCFF meetng to sensitze relevant
stakeholders and secure general consensus on the conclusions of the analysis;
6. Finalize the report on the compliance of forted products according to
natonal and internatonal guidelines in Cambodia and develop an advocacy
summary of the ndings.
Duraton of Contract:
The consultant will require 40 working days to complete the assignment.
Submission of Applicatons:
Informaton on required qualicatons, submission of proposals and complete Terms
of Reference are available at htp://www.unicef.org/cambodia/overview_20966.html
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include the ttle and vacancy number and all required documentaton as detailed
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The deadline for receipt of applicatons is Thursday 26 June2014 17:00
(GMT + 7 hours)
A screen grab from Egyptian state TV shows newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (centre)
sitting next to interim president Adly Mansour during Sisis swearing-in ceremony in Cairo on Saturday. AFP
A
BDEL Fattah al-
Sisi was sworn in as
president on Sunday
following a landslide
election almost a year after
he deposed Egypts rst freely
elected leader and crushed
his Islamist supporters.
The retired eld marshal
took the oath of ofce at the
heavily guarded Constitu-
tional Court and then left
to attend a reception with
foreign dignitaries. Western
countries alarmed by the
brutal crackdown on dissent
following the overthrow of
Islamist president Mohamed
Morsi last year mostly sent
low level representatives.
Sisi scored a lopsided vic-
tory last month in an election
boycotted by Morsis Muslim
Brotherhood and secular dis-
sidents, also targeted by the
army-installed government in
the wide-ranging crackdown.
Soldiers and police deployed
in force in the capital in antici-
pation of protests by the bat-
tered Brotherhood movement
and possible militant attacks.
I swear by almighty God
to preserve the republican
system, and to respect the
constitution and the law and
to care for the interests of the
people; and to preserve the
independence of the nation
and its territorial integrity,
Sisi declared in the ceremony
broadcast live on television.
Elite policemen stood
guard outside as helicopters
dropped posters of Sisi on
dozens of well-wishers who
turned up to see the former
army commander. Im here
to congratulate Sisi, the man
who rescued us from terror-
ism and the Muslim Brother-
hood, said one ag-waving
supporter, Amira Ahmed.
The president said he would
later host a reception at Cai-
ros Ittihadiya presidential
palace, with Palestinian presi-
dent Mahmud Abbas, Arab
royals and African leaders in
attendance. Sisi will also sign
a transfer of power agree-
ment with Adly Mansour, a
chief justice Sisi had installed
as interim president when he
ousted Morsi on July 3.
Riding a wave of popularity
since then, Sisi won the May
26-28 election with 96.9 per
cent of the vote against his
only rival, leftist leader Ham-
deen Sabbahi.
The nature of the victory
showed he still enjoyed im-
mense support for his over-
throw of the divisive Morsi,
after millions held protests
demanding an end to the Isla-
mists single year of turbulent
rule. But the lower than an-
ticipated turnout of about 47
per cent denied Sisi the over-
whelming mandate he had
called for ahead of the vote.
The now banned Brother-
hood had called for a boycott
of the election.
Sisis main challenges will
be to restore stability and re-
vive the economy after three
years of turmoil, following
a 2011 uprising that ousted
strongman Hosni Mubarak.
Since Morsis ousting, the
crackdown on his supporters
has killed more than 1,400
people and left thousands
behind bars, while militants
have killed hundreds of po-
licemen and soldiers. AFP
RESCUERS scrambled yester-
day to deliver food and medi-
cal supplies to Afghan families
marooned on mountaintops
after ash oods killed at least
80 people in a remote north-
ern district, washing away
hundreds of homes and forc-
ing thousands to ee.
The death toll was ex-
pected to rise, with scores of
people said to be missing in
the mountainous district of
Baghlan province after tor-
rential rains unleashed the
oods on Friday.
The oods come a month
after a landslide triggered by
heavy rains buried a village
and killed 300 people in a
nearby region. The twin disas-
ters highlight the challenges
facing underdeveloped Af-
ghanistans next leader as the
country heads into the sec-
ond round of the presidential
election on June 14.
People have lost every-
thing they had houses,
property, villages, agricultural
elds, cattle, Baghlan police
spokesman Jawed Basharat
said about the oods.
Theres nothing left for
them to survive. People dont
even having drinking water,
he added. They urgently
need water, food items, blan-
kets and tents.
Television channels relayed
footage of one man wading
through a gushing stream of
muddy brown ood waters,
his back stooped under the
weight of a burlap sack.
Basharat said the death
toll stood at 80 as the Af-
ghan army battled to deliver
aid to the affected families,
many of whom have ed
to mountaintops to escape
ood waters.
Afghanistans defence min-
istry had dispatched two he-
licopters to deliver aid pack-
ages to the area as roads and
mountain passes were left
devastated by the oods, said
Obaidullah Ramin, an MP
from Baghlan province.
Some nine kilometres of
roads were destroyed by ood-
waters, so ofcials are trying to
deliver aid by air, Ramin said.
Relief agencies have dis-
tributed some aid, but it is not
enough. The problems of the
ood-affected people need to
be addressed fully, he said,
adding that he had toured the
affected areas.
Most disaster management
ofcials were difcult to reach
yesterday due to poor tele-
communication networks in
the remote area. The governor
of the province, Sultan Mo-
hammad Ebadi, warned that
the extent of the disaster was
massive and that the toll was
expected to rise further.
Bodies of women and chil-
dren were among those recov-
ered from the inundated areas,
the National Disaster Man-
agement Authority (NDMA)
said, adding that scores of
people were missing.
There is a lot of stagnant
water, and there are more
bodies under the rubble
and mud, said Mohammad
Nasim Kohzad, head of NDMA
in Baghlan. We are still look-
ing for other victims.
The governor of the remote
affected district of Guzargah-
e-Nur conrmed 80 bodies
had been recovered by author-
ities. The oods destroyed
four villages and washed away
2,000 residential houses, agri-
cultural elds, and also killed
thousands of cattle, Noor
Mohammad Guza said.
Ofcials were further as-
sessing the extent of the
damage, Mohammad Aslam
Sayas, the deputy head of the
National Disaster Manage-
ment Authority, said. AFP
Army boss Sisi sworn
in as Egypt president
Rescuers battle to aid Afghan
ood victims as toll hits 80
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World
Berlin prayer house to unite religions
Frederic Happe

C
HRISTIANS, Muslims and
Jews, all praying under
the same roof thats the
groundbreaking project
of a pastor, a rabbi and an imam in
Berlin. Still a sand-strewn vacant
construction site, St Peters Square
in the centre of the German capital
will God willing by 2018 host a
building thats so unusual it doesnt
have an ofcial term.
Not a church, nor a synagogue,
or a mosque as such, but a bit of all
three, the centre known currently as
a House of Prayer and Learning
will be unlike any other religious
venue in the world, its initiators say.
The aim of the 44 million ($60
million) project, whose fundrais-
ing kicked off on Tuesday but has
been several years in the making, is
not only to show the importance of
multi-faith dialogue but to mirror
multicultural Berlin.
It seemed to us that there was a
very strong desire for the peaceful
coming together of the religions,
said Roland Stolte, one of two Prot-
estant representatives on the board
of the association that is behind
the project.
Not by coincidence, it will stand
at a location with a strong and long
religious signicance.
In 2007 archaeological excava-
tions unearthed the foundations
of four previous St Peters churches
that had stood on the site at differ-
ent periods since the Middle Ages,
Stolte said.
The last one, which had a strik-
ing 100-metre-tall (328 foot) steeple
and dated from the mid-19th centu-
ry, was damaged in World War II and
later demolished by the former East
German communist state in the ear-
ly 1960s. A car park then occupied
the site which the city authorities
later handed back to the local Prot-
estant community.
We wanted to revive this place,
not by building a church again but
by constructing a place that says
something about the life of religions
today in Berlin, Stolte said.
Nearly 19 per cent of Berlins 3.4
million residents described them-
selves as Protestant, according to
2010 ofcial data. Some 8.1 per cent
said they were Muslim and 0.9 per
cent Jewish, while more than 60
per cent said they did not adhere to
any religion.
Pastor Gregor Hohberg said it had
been crucial to also get the centres
Jewish and Muslim partners in-
volved right from the start, well be-
fore work got under way on building
it. From the beginning we wanted it
to be an inter-religious project, not
a place built by Christians in which
Jews and Muslims would then be
added, he said.
Imam Kadir Sanci, whos of Turk-
ish origin, said that a Catholic-Prot-
estant church in western Germany
had inspired him to dream that such
a centre could be possible.
When I was doing my Muslim
theology studies in Frankfurt, I had
seen in the neighbouring town of
Darmstadt, a Catholic church and
a Protestant church under the same
roof, he said. I said to the priest
it would be great to one day have a
shared place with Muslims. But the
priest told me be patient, it took us
600-plus years, the imam said.
Architect Wilfried Kuehn, whose
design for the new building was cho-
sen in 2011 from around 200 entries
in a competition, said it had posed
many challenges that spanned ar-
chitecture and theology.
It was a challenge to try to com-
bine the differences and the univer-
sal aspects. It was a question of not
mixing the religions while ensuring
mutual recognition, he said. Each
of the three religions will have its
own equal-sized prayer space, all
on the same oor, with each lead-
ing out to a common room where
the congregations will be able to
mix and chat.
Hohberg said that after much con-
sideration, they had decided against
a common prayer room because
that risked putting off more people
than it would have attracted.
And we want also to address the
more conservative believers, to
show that inter-religious dialogue
is not only possible but important,
he said. However, nancing must
still be found, and organisers have
sought to keep even that aspect of
the ambitious project rmly at the
grassroots level.
A crowdfunding campaign via
the website www.house-of-one.org
was launched last week to raise the
43.5 million needed. Donors are,
among other things, invited to buy
a brick for 10.
We wanted for this project to be
base-driven, Stolte said, adding
that they had sought out local part-
ners such as Berlins Jewish commu-
nity or the Muslim group Forum for
Inter-Cultural Dialogue rather than
involving higher religious echelons.
For this reason, an upper limit
has been set on individual dona-
tions at 1 per cent of the total, or
435,000. AFP
Pope Francis hugs Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Imam Omar Abboud (left) at the
Western Wall in Jerusalems Old City on May 26. A Berlin prayer house has
the aim of bringing Christians, Muslims and Jews together. AFP
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RE we winning the battle
against HIV and AIDS
around the world? It would
be a very brave man who
said with certainty that we were. In
spite of the reassuring words of some
politicians, the position is that
worldwide there are still more than
1.5 million deaths from AIDS every
year and about 2.3 million new infec-
tions. But the worst and most shock-
ing figures are the following.
More than 35 million people are
living with HIV, but about half of
those do not know they are infected.
In other words, around 18 million
people live in ignorance of their con-
dition. That is potentially disastrous
for them, for the longer treatment is
delayed the worse the prospects for a
successful outcome. What it also
spells out is a massive global public
health problem.
Many of the 18 million will go on
living in the way they always have;
having sex and spreading the virus.
Too many drug users will continue to
share needles and too many sex
workers will not take basic precau-
tions. New cases of infection vastly
exceed the numbers going on to
treatment for the first time.
The scandal is that one of the main
reasons why people with HIV do not
come forward for testing is that they
know they will come up against a
wall of discrimination and prejudice.
As I have gone around the world over
the last two years looking at the HIV
situation, what has shocked me most
has been the depth of feeling that
exists against gay men, lesbian wom-
en and transgender people. If any-
thing, the position has become
worse over that period. If I were a gay
man living in many countries today, I
would compare my position to that
of being black and living under
apartheid in South Africa or being a
Jew living under the Nazis in Germa-
ny. That is the shame of the world.
The worst discrimination is in the
almost 80 countries of the world
where homosexuality is illegal and is
punished by imprisonment and
worse. Gay people will not come for-
ward for testing if they risk prosecu-
tion. Uganda, Russia and Nigeria are
just three countries where the laws
have become more repressive and
the barriers for testing made higher.
Even India still clings to an anti-gay
law passed by the British in 1860.
Even worse, such laws are widely
supported by the public in those
countries. The prejudice is a political
card to be played by governments
when the public needs distraction.
All too few fight the injustice. Even
the churches play no serious part in
combating the prejudice. Anglican
and Catholic ministers in Uganda
support the laws rather than fight
them; the Orthodox church in Russia
does nothing to stem the tide.
Nor is it just the law that acts as a
deterrent. In many countries, fami-
lies and communities turn against
men who are gay and women who
have acquired HIV from a husband
or partner. Young gay men are
thrown out of their homes by fami-
lies who are fearful of the local reac-
tion; women with HIV are ostracised.
This is all bad enough, but there
are two other groups that face dis-
crimination. The first are drug users
who all too often are treated with
contempt and face prosecution rath-
er than any realistic hope of rehabili-
tation. It has been established for the
last 25 years that providing clean
needles and methadone is a certain
way of virtually eliminating the
transmission of HIV.
Yet a country such as Russia per-
sists in a policy that denies this sen-
sible harm reduction route. Instead,
they pursue a policy of trying to get
people off drugs often with force. It
is balefully unsuccessful policy and
new cases multiply.
Officials in Moscow say the public
is well satisfied with the govern-
ments policy, but all this means is
that at best the public does not care
and at worst believes that drug users
should be left to their fate. Ironically,
Russias Cold War foes, the United
States, has also now cut off funds for
harm reduction policies. Can Con-
gress really be happy to be part of the
Russian conga of death?
The second group are sex workers
who are in the lowest place in almost
every nations table of priorities. It is
an area that politicians avoid. Gov-
ernments express distaste and go to
great lengths to keep sex work out of
sight. Yet if you are concerned about
HIV and sexual disease, there could
hardly be a more important group.
Sydney has tackled the issue in an
entirely pragmatic way. In effect, sex
work can be run as a business sub-
ject to the normal rules of health and
safety. The result has been that there
has been no known case of HIV
being transmitted through sex work
for many years.
Before the retired colonels reach
for their shotguns at the prospect of
such a change in Britain, they might
remember this. In London, it is
entirely legal for a sex worker to work
from a single flat as long as she is a
single operator. You can be a small
business you just cannot grow any
bigger. In Britain, this area was most
memorably investigated by the
Wolfenden committee in 1957. Sure-
ly the time has come for a fresh inde-
pendent examination of our position
and the position around the world,
including the evidence from Scandi-
navia that it is the customers who
should be prosecuted, not the wom-
en. Better health will not come from
shutting our eyes.
In my view, HIV will not be defeat-
ed until there is a vaccine. The polio
vaccine shows just what can be
achieved. A vaccine will not end the
prejudice with HIV, but it will give us
the means to go around it. The trou-
ble is that a vaccine is still some dis-
tance away.
For the next several years, we will
have to make do with the measures
we have. There is opportunity for
expanding treatment as the older
drugs come off-patent. But none of
this will work if prejudice and dis-
crimination continue to prevail in so
many parts of the world that you
cannot persuade men and women
living with HIV even to take a test.
For those who believe that the issue
of AIDS has gone away I would say:
think again. THE GUARDIAN
Comment
Norman Fowler
Think again: prejudice and HIV
Ugandans take part in an anti-gay demonstration at Jinja. Uganda is just one of the countries where laws targeting homosexual and
transgender people have become more repressive. AFP
Norman Fowlers AIDS: Dont Die of Prejudice
will be published this week.
John Vidal

B
ENNY Wenda from
the highlands of West
Papua speaks only
nine languages these
days. In his village of Pyramid
in the Baliem valley, he con-
verses in Lani, the language of
his tribe, as well as Dani, Yali,
Mee and Walak. Elsewhere,
he speaks Indonesian, Papua
New Guinean Pidgin, coastal
Bayak and English.
Wenda has known and for-
gotten other languages. Some
are indigenous, spoken by
his grandparents or just a few
hundred people from neigh-
bouring valleys; others are the
languages of Indonesian colo-
nists and global businesses.
His words for greeting are,
variously, Kawonak, Nayak,
Nareh, Koyao, Aelak, Selamt,
Brata, Tabeaya and Hello.
New Guinea has around
1,000 languages, but as the pol-
itics change and deforestation
accelerates, the natural barri-
ers that once allowed so many
languages to develop there in
isolation are breaking down.
This is part of a process that
has seen languages decline
as biodiversity decreases. Re-
searchers have established a
correlation between changes
in local environments and the
disappearance of languages
spoken by the communities.
The forests are being cut
down. Many languages are be-
ing lost. Migrants come and
people leave to nd work in
the lowlands and cities. The
Indonesian government stops
us speaking our languages in
schools, says Wenda.
According to a report by
Jonathan Loh at the Zoological
Society of London and David
Harmon at the George Wright
Society, the declines in lan-
guages and nature mirror each
other. One in four of the worlds
7,000 languages are now threat-
ened with extinction.
While around 21 per cent
of all mammals, 13 per cent
of birds, 15 per cent of reptiles
and 30 per cent of amphibians
are threatened, around 400 lan-
guages are thought to have be-
come extinct in the same time.
New Guinea, the second-
largest island in the world,
is not just the worlds most
linguistically diverse place,
it is also one of the most bio-
logically abundant, with tree-
climbing kangaroos, birds of
paradise, carnivorous mice,
giant pigeons, rats bigger than
domestic cats and more orchid
species than any other place
on the planet.
Today, both its wildlife and
its languages are endangered.
According to linguist Asya
Pereltsvaig, the language of Bo
is spoken by 85 people, Ak by
75, Karawa by only 63. Abom
just 15. Guramalum had at the
last count only three speakers
and Lua is almost certainly
extinct, with a single speaker
recorded in 2000.
More than half of New Guin-
eas and one in four of the worlds
remaining languages are threat-
ened, Jonathan Loh says.
There are extraordinary par-
allels between linguistic diver-
sity and biodiversity, says Loh.
Both are products of evolution
and have evolved in remark-
ably similar ways, and both are
facing an extinction crisis.
But exactly why there should
be such a close link between
languages and biological di-
versity is unclear. Places of
high diversity, especially tropi-
cal forests, have always been
known to have high linguistic
diversity, whereas tundra and
deserts have low diversity,
says Loh. It is possible in some
way that higher biodiversity is
capable of supporting greater
cultural diversity. The explana-
tion seems to be that both bio-
logical and cultural diversity
depend on the same environ-
mental factors such as tem-
perature and rainfall.
Conservationists fear that
the loss of species due to mans
activities is accelerating. And
linguists say that the wealth of
the worlds human languages
is now safeguarded by very few
indigenous peoples.
Of the 7,000 languages spo-
ken worldwide, half now have
fewer than 10,000 speakers,
and these 3,500 languages are
spoken by only 0.1 per cent of
the worlds population equiv-
alent to a city about the size of
London. These eight million
people are now responsible for
keeping the wealth of human
cultural history alive.
At the other end of the spec-
trum, because of colonisation,
globalisation and the world-
wide move to cities in the last
30 years, a handful of global
languages increasingly domi-
nates: 95 per cent of the worlds
population speaks one of just
400 languages, each spoken by
millions of people, and 40 per
cent of us speak one of just eight
languages: Mandarin, Span-
ish, English, Hindi, Portuguese,
Bengali, Russian and Japanese.
We are losing the richness
of human diversity, becoming
more and more similar. The
languages we speak dene
how we think and understand
the world, says Mandana Sey-
feddinipur, director of the en-
dangered languages archive at
the University of London.
The loss of human culture is
frightening, says Loh. Nearly
all the threatened languages
are spoken by indigenous peo-
ples and, along with the lan-
guages, the traditional knowl-
edge of these cultures is being
forgotten. The names, uses
and preparation of medicines,
the methods of farming, sh-
ing and hunting are disappear-
ing, not to mention the vast
array of spiritual and religious
beliefs and practices, which
are as diverse and numerous as
the languages themselves.
Loh and Harman argue that if
you want to save nature it may
be vital to conserve cultures
too. The vast store of knowl-
edge that has evolved and accu-
mulated over tens of thousands
of years could be lost in the
next 100 years, Harman says.
While linguists have made ef-
forts to archive as many of the
endangered languages as pos-
sible, and ethnobiologists have
attempted to record the tradi-
tional use of plants, the most
important conservation takes
place on the ground as part of a
living culture.
As we lose rare indigenous
languages we lose the cultures
and all the knowledge that
they contain. The knowledge
of indigenous people is phe-
nomenal, says Loh.
The authors have developed
an index of linguistic diver-
sity which shows that the fast-
est declines have taken place
in the Americas and Australia.
Languages spoken in Africa,
Asia and Europe are faring
better. For biodiversity, the
fastest rates of decline have
occurred in the Indo-Pacic
region, Latin America and
sub-Saharan Africa.
Species populations in
North America, Europe and
northern Asia have been
more stable. Biodiversity has
declined most rapidly in the
tropics, but remained steady
in temperate regions.
However, linguistic diver-
sity has declined rapidly in
the new world [Americas] but
more slowly in the old world,
says Harman. THE GUARDIAN
19
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Lifestyle
Papua New Guinea is the worlds most culturally diverse nation and half of its native languages are in danger
of becoming extinct. AFP
Save the forests, save languages
US ACTOR Tracy Morgan,
known for his Emmy-nomi-
nated turn on television com-
edy 30 Rock, was critically in-
jured on Saturday in a six-car
crash in New Jersey that killed
one of his friends.
The incident occurred as the
45-year-old Morgan, a former
star of Saturday Night Live,
was heading home from a
stand-up performance in the
state of Delaware.
A 35-year-old Georgia truck
driver identied as Kevin
Roper was charged with one
count of death by auto and
four counts of assault by auto,
according to state prosecu-
tors, cited by local media.
Ropers truck allegedly
caused the accident on the
New Jersey Turnpike near the
state capital Trenton, which
involved Morgans limo bus,
another truck, two cars and an
SUV. Authorities in New Jersey
said the vehicle carrying Mor-
gan, which crashed at around
1:00am with seven people on
board, may have been struck
from behind.
Tracy remains in critical
condition at Robert Wood
Johnson Hospital. He sus-
tained these injuries in an ac-
cident that occurred early this
morning as one of several pas-
sengers in a chauffeured SUV
returning from a tour date in
Delaware, said the actors
spokesman Lewis Kay. His
family is now with him, and he
is receiving excellent care.
Three other people besides
Morgan were hospitalised, two
of them in critical condition, a
hospital spokesman said.
The National Transportation
Safety Board said on Twitter that
it was sending investigators to
the scene to look into the cir-
cumstances of the crash. AFP
Around 7,000 languages are spoken in the world, 90 per cent of which are used by fewer than
100,000 people.
Languages are grouped into families that share a common ancestry. English is related to
German and Dutch, and they are all part of the Indo-European family of languages. Romance
languages, which include French, Spanish and Italian, come from Latin.
2,200 of the worlds languages can be found in Asia, while Europe has 260.
The worlds most widely spoken languages by number of native speakers and as a second
language are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese,
Japanese, German and French.
Some of the oldest languages known include Sanskrit, Sumerian, Hebrew and Basque.
Around 2,500 languages are at risk of extinction. One-quarter of the worlds languages are
spoken by fewer than 1,000 people.
The United Nations uses six official languages to conduct business: English, French, Spanish,
Chinese, Russian and Arabic.
Actor Tracy
Morgan hurt
in car crash
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(4 calls/moth)
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- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
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(4 calls/onth)
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(2 calls/month)
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SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
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TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
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AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: [email protected]
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: [email protected]
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: [email protected]


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: [email protected]
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
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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
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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
In Bucharest,
khans on the
comeback
Mihaela Rodina
S
WEATY merchants
have given way to
trendy tourists and
horses to ashy cars,
but roadside inns known as
khans in the heart of Bucha-
rest are getting a new lease on
life after marathon restora-
tion works.
Khans ourished in the
18th and 19th centuries in
Romania, as the country at
the crossroads of East and
West attracted merchants
from across Europe.
The fortied structures built
around a square courtyard
comprised trader stalls, sta-
bles, and accommodation.
The khans were a melting
pot, the place where foreign
merchants and Romanian
ones returning from journeys
abroad imported modern ar-
chitectural ideas, art historian
Cezara Mucenic said.
Little by little as travellers
became more choosy, khans
were replaced by hotels offer-
ing modern amenities.
For decades, these archi-
tectural gems battled chronic
neglect and some narrowly es-
caped a move by communist
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
to raze three quarters of Bu-
charests historical centre to
build a gigantic palace.
In the late 1970s, the fate of
Hanul lui Manuc (Manucs
Khan), one of the most pic-
turesque buildings in Bucha-
rest, hung by a thread.
Luckily, the citys archi-
tect-in-chief had the inspi-
ration to tell Ceausescu that
Hanul lui Manuc had hosted
the communist workers
meetings back in 1920 and
so it was spared, said Serban
Cantacuzino, the descendant
of a Romanian princely fam-
ily who recovered the build-
ing in court in 2007.
Cantacuzino, 58, put every
last bit of his passion and mon-
ey into restoration works.
Seven years and nearly 2
million ($2.7 million) later, the
building is still not completely
renovated, even if several res-
taurants and the courtyard
have reopened to the public.
Close by, the cafes and art
shops lining another khan,
Hanul cu Tei, attract hun-
dreds of tourists daily.
Sensing the potential, the
municipality decided to save
another such inn, Hanul Ga-
broveni, which used to accom-
modate merchants coming
from the Bulgarian town of
Gabrovo, hence its name.
When we rst entered we
found an enormous amount
of garbage and rubble, archi-
tect Mihai Antoniu said.
The walls were falling to
pieces and several vaults had
already collapsed.
Forming a passageway be-
tween two major shopping
streets, Hanul Gabroveni was
erected at the turn of the 18th
century but had to be rebuilt
after it burned down in what
became known as the great
re of Bucharest in 1847.
Since 2012, some 7million
a combination of Romanian
public funds and European
grants have been invested.
This is an unprecedented,
extremely complex project,
said Antoniu, adding that steel
pillars had to be added to sup-
port the construction while
preserving all its features, in-
cluding the original bricks.
In a few months, the monu-
mental wooden gates, repli-
cas of the originals destroyed
in the 1990s, will reopen to
reveal the shops that once of-
fered fancy merchandise and
impressive cellars once full of
wine barrels.
Hanul Gabroveni will sym-
bolise the renaissance of the
old city, Antoniu said. And
projects like this will help
Bucharest recover its former
grandeur. AFP
Visitors walk through the interior court of the Hanul lui Manuc khan in
Bucharest late last month. AFP
Entertainment
21
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Thinking caps
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
MALEFICENT
A vindictive fairy is driven to curse an infant princess
only to realize the child may be the only one who can
restore peace.
City Mall: 9:30am, 10:50am, 2:30pm, 5:30pm,
7:05pm, 10:05pm
Toul Kork: 9:20am, 11:30am, 2:30pm, 5:50pm, 8pm,
10:10pm
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate
effort to change history and prevent an event that
results in doom for both humans and mutants.
City Mall: 9:30am, 2:10pm, 9:15pm
Tuol Kork: 11:55am, 4:40pm, 9:30pm
GODZILLA
The worlds most famous monster is pitted against
malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanitys
scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
City Mall: 11:40am, 9:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:30am, 4:50pm
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious
new woman in town, her husband, a notorious gun-
slinger, announces his arrival.
City Mall: 12:05pm, 4:45pm
Tuol Kork: 7:20pm, 9:45pm
MILLION DOLLAR ARM
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment
strategy to get talented Asian cricket players to play
Major League Baseball.
City Mall: 7:10pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
MALEFICENT
(See above.)
9:20am, 11:15am, 1pm, 2:50pm, 4pm, 4:45pm,
6:40pm, 8:35pm
X-MEN
(See above.)
1:40pm, 6pm, 8:20pm
NOW SHOWING
Ballet @ Ballet PP
This class is mainly for people who
danced when they were younger and
are looking for a refresher course,
or have a lot of experience in
another dance style. $12 per class.
Central School of Ballet Phnom Penh,
#10 Street 183. 7:15pm
Franglish @ Plantation
Brush up on your French or English-
language skills with Franglish at the
Plantation Hotel. Designed for people
who are uent in one language and
can speak a little of the other.
The Plantation, #28 Street 184. 6:30pm
Exhibition @ Romeet
Battambang artist Chea Sereyroths
debut solo painting exhibition
Mohuntakray deals with cataclysmic
events: such as oods, nuclear
explosions, earthquakes.
Romeet, #34E Street 178. Runs until
June 15
Yoga @
Phnom Penh Yoga
Get your Monday morning o to an
invigorating start before work with a
yoga class from an experienced
teacher. The class runs from 8am until
9:30am.
Yoga Phnom Penh, #39 on Street 21.
8am
ACROSS
1 For Whom the Bell ___
6 Author Roald
10 Common delivery
14 Censor
15 Cookie brand
16 Small bouquet
17 Novelty message
20 It can be hot or sweet
21 Far from obese
22 Pub fixture
23 ___ Strauss jeans
25 Tolerate
27 Its measured in degrees
30 Art ___
32 Absorbed, as a loss
33 Aerial maneuver
35 Cape Canaveral cancellation
37 Follow as a result
41 Salad bar selection
44 Lone Star State
45 Unload, as stock
46 Kind of sax
47 The I of TGIF
49 Astronomers sighting
51 Part of UCLA
52 Disparaging nickname
56 Domino spots
58 ___ Diego, Calif.
59 Fillys mother
61 Bathing suit brand
65 Gene Kelly classic
68 On the ocean
69 Transfer ownership
70 See eye to eye
71 Houses grounds
72 While beginning?
73 Gives for a while
DOWN
1 Cooks meas.
2 Musical miscellany
3 Ash Wednesday follower
4 By-the-book
5 Was malicious toward
6 Odie, for one
7 They might be liberal
8 Cobblers stock
9 Nabokov character
10 Automobile sticker fig.
11 Heart exit
12 Bartender on TVs PacificPrincess
13 ___ node
18 Church prayers
19 Acts excessively
24 Desktop pictures
26 Bright group
27 Came back down
28 From memory (with by)
29 Cajole
31 Rhymester Nash
34 Braid of hair
36 Lowest ship deck
38 Horizontal window piece
39 Do ___ others as ...
40 Centers of pride
42 Panama and others
43 The Lord of the Rings lingo
48 Medium gathering
50 Attraction
52 English exam finale, often
53 Monetary unit of India
54 Baltimores ___ Harbor
55 Judge or juror
57 Worsted suit cloth
60 Finishes
62 Make, as money
63 Went out, as a fire
64 Aces, sometimes
66 Crikey!
67 Holiday in Hanoi
HUM ALONG
TV PICKS
A crowd practices yoga in Japan. AFP
Julia Roberts plays a globe trotting divorcee in Eat
Pray Love. BLOOMBERG
10:20am - EAT PRAY LOVE: After a painful divorce, a
woman takes off on a round-the-world journey to find
herself. FOX MOVIES
2:55pm - JAVA HEAT: A look at the relationship
between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters
University when they werent necessarily the best of
friends. FOX MOVIES
5:30pm - THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB: A group of
women start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen,
only to find their relationships beginning to resemble
21st century versions of her novels. HBO
10:55pm - THE PRODUCERS: After putting together a
Broadway flop, producer Max Bialystock teams up with
timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme
to put on the worlds worst show. HBO
Lifestyle
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
22
Socheata and Sontery
Social Life Team
On May 30, bikers from Cambodia, Thailand, Laos,
Myanmar, Vietnam and China joined the First Siha-
noukville Bike Fest 2014 at Queenco Casino and Resort to
build friendly international relations, promote Cambodian
tourism, and to raise funds for the NGO Malop Tapang. All
bikers rode from their own countries to meet up at Queen-
co Casino and Resort to enjoy the bike exhibition. The
next day, the group rode their bikes up to Bokor Moun-
tain in Kampot for a group photo before having lunch at
Nataya Resort. They then returned to Queenco Casino
and Resort to enjoy the dinner of the last night, where they
watched a concert by a Khmer band and a dance show.
Photos by Chhim Sreyneang.
Bike Fest 2014 @ Queenco Casino and Resort
The international bikers pose for a group photo.
The Cambodia team. Members of the Cambodia Biker Club.
Bikers from Thailand. Heng Hy Bunara, Charles A.Bain, General Manager
at Holiday Villa, Simon Huen, and Alexander.
Sen singer.
Chuon Chantethya and Singer Team P. Sen. Sok Heng on Bokor Mountain.
Model XL energy drink models. Phrum Sokunthea and Teav Sonida.
Eric Lim and Chan.
Flamenca @ Cabaret
On May 30, Casillero del Diablo Devils Collection sponsored The
Latin Experience at Cabaret restaurant. The party, which featured
wine, sangria and tapas from Cabarets bar, was hosted by Diego
and his musicians. The guests enjoyed dinner with sangria and wine
during a Flamenca show featuring female Latin dancers. Photos by
Hong Menea.
Tony Re-al.
Sou Sithut, Nikki Nikki, Sovan Kanika.
Drum band.
Bora Suy, Buffy, Siyana Loeung.
Sophea Cheng, Marissa
Carruthers, Marbetty Kivera,
Siyana Loeung.
Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager
Lifestyle
23
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
On June 1, Posh Edition held a fund raiser at Posh
Plus shop for Kantha Bopha Childrens Hospital.
Guests from local and international companies joined
the auction and sales event, which included a $139
Green Palace tness voucher, a case of red wine, beauty
care product vouchers, and other products and ser-
vices from various companies. The event also featured
a special fashion show which showcased the kids and
sun model collections from Posh Plus. Guests enjoyed
the show while sipping red wine and soft drinks. Fund
raising from Posh for a Cause amounted to $18,500.
Photos by Chhim Sreyneang.
Sou Sithut, Nikki Nikki, Sovan Kanika.
The team from Posh Plus. Houy Buntith, Sinat Neng and their children.
Chan Sokheng, Ear Uy, and Eng Ly
Khong.
Lay Vongkhim, Chan Videth, Leang
Sim Chhay, and Sarin Diamond.
The events organising team poses for a picture.
Posh Plus raised $18,500 for Kantha Bopha Childrens Hospital. Seng Putheary, Peter Ng Meng Cheng and Adline.
Sov Sophorneary, Sov Sachak Sam-
bath, and Sov Sotheavy.
Paid advertisement
Posh for a Cause benets Kantha Bopha Childrens Hospital @ Posh Plus
Thaworn claims 17th
Asian Tour golf victory
THAI veteran star Thaworn
Wiratchant came from five
shots back to win an
unprecedented 17th Asian Tour
victory with a classy one-stroke
triumph at the Queens Cup
yesterday. The 47-year-old
Thaworn holed a five foot birdie
putt on the closing hole to pip
overnight leader Poom
Saksansin with a final round of
five-under-par 66 at the
Santiburi Samui Country Club
to lift the Queens Cup for the
second time in three years.
Thai rookie Poom, who had led
since the opening day, settled
for the runner-up spot in the
US$300,000 tournament after a
closing 72 while Bangladeshi
star Siddikur Rahman, who
briefly held the lead on the back
nine, signed off with a
disappointing 72 to share third
place with Thailands
Donlapatchai Niyomchon (68).
It is so meaningful to me,
whether its a small or big
tournament. At every
tournament, I am always trying
my best, said a delighted
Thaworn, whose winners
cheque of $54,000 lifted his
career earnings on Tour to over
US$4 million. THEASIANTOUR
Browns double overtime

winner gives Kings lead
DUSTIN Brown scored midway
through double overtime on
Saturday to lift the Los Angeles
Kings to a 5-4 win over the
New York Rangers in game
two of the NHL finals.
Brown positioned himself eight
feet in front of the Rangers net
and deflected a slap shot from
the point by defenceman Willie
Mitchell for the winning goal on
Saturday, giving the Kings a 2-0
lead in the best-of-seven
Stanley Cup finals. Browns
goal with 9:34 left in the second
overtime marked the second
straight game in which the
Kings rallied from a 2-0 deficit
to win in extra time. The series
now switches to New York for
games three and four today
and Wednesday at Madison
Square Garden. AFP
Wiggins gutted to
miss Tour de France
BRITAINS Bradley Wiggins, the
2012 Tour de France winner,
said on Friday that he was
gutted not to be selected for
Team Sky to compete in this
years race. Wiggins told BBC
television that he would not
take part in the race he became
the first British rider to win,
with his team concentrating its
efforts on last years winner
Chris Froome. The team is
focused around Chris Froome,
the team leader, Wiggins, 34,
said. I am gutted. Ive worked
extremely hard for this
throughout the winter and up to
the summer. I feel I am in the
form I was two years ago, he
explained. AFP
24
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Wallaby skipper Moore out
W
ALLABIES skipper Ste-
phen Moore said yester-
day that he will miss the
rest of the season due to
a knee injury that has left him need-
ing surgery following Australias 50-23
thumping of France.
In a further blow to the Wallabies fol-
lowing their comprehensive rst Test
victory over France on Saturday, lock
Sam Carter was also ruled out of the
rest of the three-match French series
with a high left ankle strain.
Scans revealed that hooker Moore
ruptured his anterior cruciate liga-
ment and medial ligament in the
opening minute of the rst Test win
over France in Brisbane.
Im going to need some surgery to
repair my ACL/MCL. Will get it xed up
and look to go again, Moore tweeted.
It was a bitter blow for the Austra-
lian veteran, who was leading the
Wallabies for the rst time in his
92nd international.
Young anker Michael Hooper
took over the captaincy in the fth
minute of play when Moore was un-
able to continue.
He looks the likely candidate in Wal-
laby coach Ewen McKenzies hunt for a
new skipper for the second Test against
France in Melbourne next Saturday.
Crudens non-kicks the winner
All Blacks y-half Aaron Cruden was
saluted as the hero of their last gasp 20-
15 win over England on Saturday, not
for the ve penalties he kicked but for
the one he turned down.
Cruden not only caught England
napping but also his own teammates
when he opted to tap and run when the
All Blacks won a handy penalty with
the score locked at 15-all.
As captain Richie McCaw prepared
to call for a shot at goal, Cruden set
off down eld before feeding Beauden
Barrett and on to Victor Vito and then
Ben Smith who was pulled up just
short of the line.
From the resulting scrum, the All
Blacks found space down the short
side for Conrad Smith to score the
match-winning try.
Someone had to take the game by
the scruff of the neck and say hey look,
well stop what were doing here and
really have a crack at you, said coach
Steve Hansen.
Logic would say Cruden should
have had a shot at goal but I think
England would have enjoyed that
because then they would have come
back. We needed to break the dead-
lock somehow.
Boks survive early scare
South Africa survived an early scare
to begin their international 2014 sea-
son with a thumping 47-13 win against
a World XV in Cape Town on Saturday.
A pair of tries from hooker Bismarck
du Plessis helped the Springboks see
off a star-strewn side which includ-
ed All Black legend Carl Hayman and
European player of the year Steffon
Armitage that for much of the rst
half promised to be more than just a
paper tiger.
Ireland see off Argentina
Ireland overcame a nervy rst-half to
run out 29-17 winners over an under-
strength Argentina in the rst rugby
Test on Saturday.
The Six Nations champions scored
tries through Chris Henry, Jonny Sex-
ton and Andrew Trimble, Sexton
kicking a conversion and two penal-
ties, the latter feat matched by his re-
placement Ian Madigan.
Manuel Montero scored a memora-
ble try for the under-strength Pumas,
Nicolas Sanchez adding a conversion
and penalty before Tomas de la Vega
crossed for a late consolation try con-
verted by Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias.
Ireland were guilty of trying to play
too much rugby in their own half
against a spirited Argentina side miss-
ing the bulk of their foreign-based
players and based largely around
the countrys second-string Pampas
side. AFP
Australian captain Stephen Moore (bottom, left) sustains a serious knee injury whilst tackling French anker Bernard le Roux (centre)
during their rst rugby union Test match at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday. AFP
Chrome denied Crown as Tonalist wins Belmont
CALIFORNIA Chromes bid for
US racings coveted Triple
Crown was crushed on Satur-
day as Tonalist won the 146th
Belmont Stakes.
It has now been 36 years since
Affirmed became the 11th horse
to win the Triple Crown, a
drought that Kentucky Derby
and Preakness winner Califor-
nia Chrome couldnt end as he
finished equal fourth.
Chrome, ridden by Victor
Espinoza and trained by Art
Sherman, was the 13th horse
since the 1978 sweep by
Affirmed to capture the first
two jewels of the crown but
come up empty at the 1.5-mile
Belmont, dubbed the Test of
the Champion.
Espinoza has now ridden two
of those horses, also failing
aboard War Emblem in 2002.
He just didnt have it today,
Espinoza said after the race.
Tonalist, trained by US-
based Frenchman Christophe
Clement and ridden by Joel
Rosario, hadnt run in either
the Kentucky Derby or the
Preakness, and had shown his
liking for the Belmont track
with a victory in the Peter Pan
Stakes on May 10.
Commissioner, trained by
Todd Pletcher and ridden by
Javier Castellano, was second
and Medal Count third.
Commi ssi oner l ooked
poised to complete a front-
running triumph, but Tonalist,
who broke from the outside
post in the field of 11, thun-
dered home to take it at the
wire by a head.
This is the Belmont Stakes
so this is great, Rosario said.
He keeps on coming and he
got the job done today.
Rosario, however, knew that
California Chromes failure
would be a bitter pill for many
to swallow.
The modestly-bred colts
story, and that of his working-
man owners Steve Coburn
and Perry Martin, had reso-
nated with fans across the
United States.
The chance of seeing a Triple
Crown winner drew an esti-
mated 120,000 to Belmont
Park many sporting Chromes
racing colours of green and
purple and some donning
human-style nasal strips in
imitation of the equine version
worn by Chrome in races.
Espinoza didnt think it was
the 1.5-mile distance of the
US$1.5 million race the long-
est any of the 11 horses in the
field had faced that was
Chromes undoing.
Instead he thought the rig-
ors of the Triple Crown three
races in five weeks had tak-
en its toll.
OBrien nets hat-trick
Aidan OBrien, the outstand-
ing trainer of his generation,
became the first in history to
win the Derby three years run-
ning at Epsom on Saturday as
Australia, the 11-8 favourite,
recorded a smooth success in
the 235th running of the sports
most prestigious Classic.
The fact that no trainer had
previously completed a hat-
trick of victories on a roll of
honour which stretches back
to 1780 underlined the magni-
tude of OBriens achievement,
for all that Australia, like
Camelot two years ago, was a
clear favourite.
He won the race as smooth-
ly as any of his supporters
could have hoped, moving
easil y into contention
approaching the two-furlong
pole and then staying on to
beat the second-favourite
Kingston Hill by a length-
and-a-quarter, with Romsdal,
a 20-1 outsider, another three-
and-a-quarter lengths away
in third.
We are very lucky and priv-
ileged to have the horses we
have, OBrien said.
And I would just like to say
thanks to everyone involved
with the horse, everybody at
home and all the way from
the sales and when he was
born. AFP / THE GUARDIAN
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014 25
Fighters fall in Phuket cage
James Goyder
Phuket

T
HREE mixed martial
artists from the A
Fighter Gym were on
the card at the rst-
ever Full Metal Dojo event
in Phuket but it was another
disappointing night for the
Cambodian contingent, all of
which failed to register wins.
First up was Chan Heng
Peng, who has been mak-
ing waves on the local scene
with wins at both the CTN
and Bayon TV promotions.
However, he was quickly tak-
en down and submitted by
American grappling special-
ist Alex Schild in the second
ght of the night at Seduction
Discotheque in Patong.
Kun Khmer veteran Seiha
Pich took his ght with BJJ
purple belt Emilio Urrutia
despite having received very
little MMA training, mean-
ing that the match-up was
effectively a battle between
an all-out striker and a sea-
soned grappler.
As is so often the case in
MMA, it was the grappler who
prevailed, with Urrutia get-
ting an early takedown and
then forcing Seiha to tap out
with a triangle choke. To the
Cambodians credit, however,
he did demonstrate that he
is not a complete novice on
the ground.
There was controversy in
the third and nal bout fea-
turing a Cambodian ghter
when Nun Sophea was dis-
qualied in the second round
due to repeated violations of
the rules.
First he grabbed the fence,
then he elbowed his oppo-
nent in the back of the head
and, when he starting throw-
ing kicks to the head in a
grounded position the referee
called off the contest.
It was harsh on Sophea, who
was holding his own against
Ratcharat Yimprai despite be-
ing repeatedly taken down.
The Full Metal Dojo rule set
which allows knees to the
head of a grounded oppo-
nent and soccer kicks but not
heel strikes to the head in a
grounded position was easy
for a ghter who doesnt speak
English to misinterpret.
The good news for A Fighter
is that Full Metal Dojo pro-
moter Jon Nutt said he had ev-
ery intention of bringing back
more Cambodian ghters for
his next show, which is tenta-
tively scheduled for August.
These Cambodian boys
come to ght. They are al-
ways aggressive and they nev-
er quit. I plan to do plenty of
Thailand versus Cambodia
matchups in the future and I
will denitely be using more
A Fighter guys on my next
card, Nutt said.
MIGUEL Cotto battered Ser-
gio Martinez for nine rounds
on Saturday, his technical
knockout triumph giving him
the World Boxing Council
middleweight title to make
him Puerto Ricos rst four-
division champion.
Argentinas Martinez didnt
answer the bell for the 10th
round, and referee Michael
Grifn ofcially called a halt
six seconds into it.
Cotto had set the tone early,
sending the champion to the
canvas three times in the rst
round before a sold-out crowd
of 21,090 at Madison Square
Garden in New York.
The Puerto Rican improved
to 39-4 with 32 wins inside
the distance while southpaw
Martinez fell to 51-3-2 with
28 knockouts.
All three judges had it scored
90-77 for Cotto through
nine rounds. Cotto relent-
lessly pushed Martinez back
throughout the bout, landing
punches almost at will.
Cotto was credited with a
fourth knockdown in round
nine when Martinezs glove
grazed the canvas.
I think we passed the audi-
tion, Cottos trainer, Freddie
Roach, said of Cottos devas-
tating middleweight debut.
The 33-year-old added a
middleweight title to the belts
that he earned at the light wel-
terweight, welterweight and
light middleweight levels.
Im so proud of Miguel. He
worked so hard in camp and
deserved this historic victory.
He was picture-perfect. He
won every round.
He didnt get hit with noth-
ing. His defense was beauti-
ful, Roach said.
When he came back to the
corner after every round, I
kept saying the same thing to
him: That round was better
than the last.
As a proven drawing card
particularly in New York Cot-
to got top billing even though
Martinez was making the sec-
ond defence of his belt.
Cotto wasted no time in liv-
ing up to his marquee status,
staggering Martinez early in
the rst with a left over the Ar-
gentines low right then land-
ing another left that knocked
Martinez down.
A left-right dropped him a
second time, and Martinez
went down once more before
the rst round ended.
I got hit with a right hand
[in the rst round] and I was
cold, Martinez said. I never
recuperated after that. AFP
Cotto stops Martinez for
WBC middleweight title
A Fighter Gyms Nun Sophea (left) goes for a guillotine choke on Thai opponent Ratcharat Yimprai during
their MMA bout in Phuket on Saturday. JAMES GOYDER
26
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
Football
Crown maintain lead of MCL
H S Manjunath
P
HNOM Penh Crown ensured
another week on top of the
Metfone C-League heap with
a comfortable 3-1 defeat of
Build Bright United yesterday at the
Olympic Stadium.
Nigerian hitman George Bisan con-
tinued his rich vein of form in front of
goal with a sublime hat-trick to take
his tally to 16 for the season.
The 22-year-old scored in the 22nd
and 40th minute to put BBU on the
ropes. A Rieng Bunheang penalty on
78 minutes pulled one back for the
University-backed side, but Bisan
had the last say moments later with
his third goal of the game.
Crown moved to 37 points, two
clear of second placed Boeung Ket
Rubber Field, who worked out a
tidy 2-0 win over fellow title chas-
ers Naga Corp at the Olympic Sta-
dium on Saturday.
The Chan Vathanaka touch worked
again for the 2013 runners-up Boe-
ung Ket while Naga Corps misery
was compounded by an own goal on
the top of a few frontline players be-
ing kept out due to injury.
The much anticipated clash be-
tween two big guns in domestic
football produced transient phases
of entertainment before Teat Chan-
darasokhas self-destructing own goal
in the 39th minute ensured an anti-
climax of sorts after Chan Vathanaka
had booted home the opening goal
seven minutes earlier.
Six-goal thriller
Saturdays second xture was a
six-goal thriller between Ministry
of National Defence and Asia Eu-
rope University, where both teams
shared the points with a 3-3 draw.
Midelder Ung Taras rst half
brace for MND kept the Armymen
buoyant. If the side presumed that
the cushion was good enough to hold
out they were in for a shock. With 10
minutes of the 90 remaining, AEU
found themselves stepping out of the
shadows and into the light of hope.
It began with Cameroonian Ngwa
Baldwin Afanwi pulling one back for
AEU in the 82nd minute only to see
MND substitute Oub Kamol stretch
the lead to 3-1 four minutes later.
The University side were not quite
done yet as Afanwi reduced the mar-
gin again a minute into injury time
and Than Darapich proved a super
substitute by beating the nal whistle
with an equalising strike.
Svay Rieng slump
Defending champions Svay Rieng
slumped to a 3-2 defeat against Tri-
Asia after leading twice at the Old
Stadium on Saturday, their second
reverse in a matter of days following
a midweek beating by Boeung Ket.
To compound matters, a letter
from the club sent to the Football
Federation of Cambodia last Thurs-
day conrmed that head coach Sam
Vandeth had stepped down from
his post citing failure not just in the
MCL, but also in the 2014 Hun Sen
Cup, AFC Presidents Cup and RHB
Singapore Cup.
With their league title defence
in total disarray, Svay Rieng have
slipped down the ladder dramati-
cally. But TriAsia showed remarkable
gumption to get back into the match
after falling behind more than once.
Midelder Nop Tola gave Svay
Rieng an upper hand in the 19th
minute but that joy would last less
than two minutes as Soung Virak
neutralised the lead.
Before heading to the half time
break, Svay Rieng found themselves
in front again when Nen Sothereath
found the mark, but after a some-
what relaxed interval, the defend-
ing champions were soon in big
trouble quite literally in a matter of
one minute.
Kuoch Dany came to TriAsias res-
cue in the 55th minute to level the
scores and Nwakuna Friday nailed
the sides third goal and the even-
tual match winner moments later,
almost sealing Svay Riengs fate then
and there.
Respite for Western
Western University climbed out
of the red zone for the rst time in
weeks with a 3-0 victory over Kirivong
Sok Sen Chey, who are now forced to
ght the demotion demons. At this
stage of the competition it is strictly a
two-way tussle between Western and
Kirivong for survival in the Premier
League since Albirex Niigata seem
almost certain to drop down.
Western were a point behind Ki-
rivong in this dubious race going
into Saturdays contest at the end
of which the University side found
themselves two points ahead.
Interestingly, the worst may not
yet be over for both sides. Unless
there are some tragic slip ups from
the middle of the table, these two
teams will have to keep a close eye
on each other.
After an unproductive rst half,
Western took charge when Privat
Mbarga produced a 59th minute
lead and went on to double his con-
tribution 20 minutes later. Armed
with that 2-0 lead, Western put
the game beyond the visitors from
Takeo when Ly Sarath added one
more to the tally in the 83rd minute.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHENG SERYRITH &
DAN RILEY
Phnom Penh Crowns George Bisan (centre) breaks through Build Bright United players
during their Metfone C-League match yesterday at the Olympic Stadium. SRENGMENGSRUN
Crown boys edged 1-0
by Mandalay visitors
PHNOM Penh Crown Academy
were stunned 1-0 at home on
Saturday by visiting side
Mandalay Academy in their Asia
U16 Champions Trophy clash.
Despite wave after wave of
attacks from the hosts at the
Olympic Stadium, Crown simply
couldnt break through a
resolute Myanmar outfit, who
held on to their goal by Moe Min
Zaw. It was a second half not
without its incidents, with
Malaysian referee Zwe Thet
Paing brandishing five yellow
cards to players on both sides in
the space of 20 minutes.
Mandalay coach Rudi Minkovski
told the Post: Weve prepared
for three months for these
games. Despite not letting the
host get a draw, I think our
defensive line needs to be
strengthened. Crown coach
Bouy Dary, meanwhile, noted
the teams attention would
quickly shift to next weekends
opponent and Group B leaders
Frenz United Malaysia. CHHORN
NORN, TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Pressure mounts after
new World Cup claims
QATARS Mohamed bin
Hammam has come under
fresh scrutiny over claims he
used his top-level contacts in
the Qatari royal family and
government to arrange deals
and favours to secure the World
Cup for his country. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014 27
Challenge complete
Players from Hanoi Drink team (in blue) and Swiss Club Singapore contest a header during their third-place
playoff of the 13th Bayon Challenge International Football Tournament yesterday at the Old Stadium. The nal
was won by San Siro Cambodia against fellow home side and tournament hosts Bayon Wanderers. After the
game ended 0-0 in regulation time, San Siro emerged 2-1 victors of a tense penalty shootout. Hanoi captured
third over Swiss Club, while Prey Veng Youth came fth and Apsara sixth. It was a great time with everyone
more or less happy with the tournament, organiser and Bayon Wanderers founder Billy Barnaart told the Post
yesterday. For Prey Veng Youth team, it was an excellent opportunity to meet with opposition from abroad. The
difference [between Prey Veng and the more successful sides] is in the nishing. SRENGMENGSRUN
Heartache for Reus
as teams head to Rio
G
ERMAN star Marco
Reus became the
latest player to suf-
fer World Cup injury
heartache on Saturday as the
football world prepared to de-
scend on Brazil.
A day after injury saw French
winger Franck Ribery ruled out
of the tournament, Reuss cruel
exit was conrmed by ofcials
as Germany prepared to jet off
to their Brazilian base camp.
The Borussia Dortmund
midelder left the eld in
tears during Germanys 6-1
drubbing of Armenia on Fri-
day, and coach Joachim Loew
conrmed the worst.
Marco is obviously very dis-
appointed to miss the World
Cup and also for us it is a real
blow, he said.
When we learnt [on Friday]
night that the injury was to the
ligament we knew his chanc-
es of going to the World Cup
were over.
Germany open their cam-
paign against Group G rivals
Portugal on June 16, who have
their own injury worries over
Real Madrid superstar Cris-
tiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo, who is nurs-
ing knee and thigh injuries,
missed Portugals 1-0 win over
Mexico in the United States
on Friday, their penultimate
warm-up match before head-
ing to Brazil next week.
Meanwhile, England winger
Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain
will be t to take part in the
World Cup after making good
progress with his knee injury,
manager Roy Hodgson said
after Saturdays 0-0 draw with
Honduras.
Everyone is t. Oxlade-
Chamberlain is making good
progress. I think hell make
the tournament without a
shadow of a doubt, Hodgson
said. AFP
Saturdays Results
Colombia 3 Jordan 0
Croatia 1 Australia 0
Japan 4 Zambia 3
Costa Rica 1 Rep of Ireland 1
Greece 2 Bolivia 1
Estonia 2 Tajikistan 1
Hungary 3 Kazakhstan 0
Argentina 2 Slovenia 0
Belgium 1 Tunisia 0
El Salvador 0 Spain 2
USA 2 Nigeria 1
On Friday
Russia 2 Morocco 0
Poland 2 Lithuania 1
Brazil 1 Serbia 0
Tonights Fixture
Ghana v South Korea 6am
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 9, 2014
28
Sport
Clay made my
day: Sharapova
M
ARIA Sharapovas
second French
Open title on the
clay courts of Ro-
land Garros on Saturday left
her scratching her head as to
how she ever got to that point
in her career.
Reared on the hardcourts of
Russia and Florida, and hap-
piest on the green grass of
Wimbledon, the biggest name
in womens sport is a late con-
vert to the joys of the slippy
red surface.
She once described her early
outings on clay as being akin
to a cow on ice, but since her
thrilling 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4 win
over Romanias Simona Halep
in the nest Paris nal in many
a year, she is now a claycourt
legend.
Asked at her postmatch
news conference if she found
it bizarre that it had turned out
that way, Sharapova replied:
Im with you on that one.
If somebody had told me
that Id have more Roland
Garros titles than any other
Grand Slam, Id probably go
get drunk. Or tell them to get
drunk, one or the other.
Its really amazing. I feel that
I worked to get to this position.
Theres nothing else.
There is no substitute in
winning these titles. You cant
just go out there and just do it
without putting in the effort,
putting in the work.
Youre not just born being a
natural clay court player. OK,
maybe if youre [Rafael] Nadal.
But certainly not me. I didnt
grow up on it, didnt play on
it. I just took it upon myself
to make myself better on it.
There is no one else that was
going to do that for me. I had
to do the work.
Hard work and sacrice is
something that the Russian
superstar has never shied
away from since leaving her
mother country and her
mother at the age nine to fur-
ther her career in the tennis
heartlands of Florida.
Her precocious rst Grand
Slam victory as a 17-year-old at
Wimbledon 2004, was quickly
followed up by a US Open win
when she was still a teenager
in 2006.
World number one status
and her Australian Open win
at the start of 2008 helped
make her one of the most mar-
ketable names in sport men
or women.
But while the global acclaim
remained, her form dipped as
a shoulder injury sidelined
her for long periods.
It was her rst French Open
title in 2012 which made her
just the seventh woman in
the Open era, which started
in 1968, to win all four Grand
Slam titles during her career
that marked Sharapovas re-
turn to the top.
Saturdays win her fth
Grand Slam title, taking her
level with Martina Hingis at
joint 11th on the all-time list
now has a special place in
her mind
Its incredible to be sit-
ting here 10 years after my
rst Grand Slam win, and to
think that I now have ve,
she said.
You know, at that stage
youre 17 years old [at Wim-
bledon 2004], and of course
you think it was a great tour-
nament, obviously. Can I do
that again? Can I win more
majors? You always have
those question marks, she
said.
So to sit here 10 years later
and have ve under my belt
and to keep going, its quite
emotional. I mean, Im still a
bit speechless about the vic-
tory today.
Sharapova feels that at just
27 she has several more years
of being competitive at the
top level. AFP
Russias Maria Sharapova celebrates after winning the French Open nal against Romanias Simona Halep at
Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Saturday. AFP