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Kevin Ponniah
and Meas Sokchea
THE Khmer Rouge tribunal
and the Ministry of Culture
and Fine Arts will officially
ink an agreement today to
build a memorial at the Tuol
Sleng Genocide Museum to
pay tribute to the victims
who died at the infamous
security centre.
The memorial stupa, which
will cost $87,000, will be
funded by the German gov-
ernment via the Victims Sup-
port Section of the court,
known as the Extraordinary
Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC).
The project will be
implemented outside the
judicial procedures of the
court, meaning it will not
be part of official collec-
tive and moral repara-
tions projects that hinge
on a guilty verdict in Case
002/01 next month.
Non-judicial measures or
programs are initiatives
identified and implemented
for the benefit of general vic-
tims of the Khmer Rouge
regime, the ECCC said in a
statement on Tuesday.
They are separate from
Civil Party reparation
projects, which are decid-
ed by the Judges in a case
verdict.
The ECCC and the Ministry
of Culture will sign a memo-
randum of understanding
today at the museum.
The former high school
saw the torture and deaths of
at least 12,000 people when
it functioned as the S-21
prison under the Democrat-
ic Kampuchea regime.
The prisons notorious
Sam Reeves
BOTH sides claimed victory
yesterday in Indonesias
tightest and most divisive
presidential election since
the end of authoritarian
rule, as unofficial tallies
showed Jakarta Governor
Joko Widodo leading over
former general Prabowo
Subianto.
The standoff in the hotly
contested race to lead the
worlds third-biggest demo-
cracy prompted President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
to call for restraint from
both sides until official
results are announced in
two weeks time.
The popularity of Widodo
known as Jokowi and the
first serious presidential
contender without roots in
the era of dictator Suharto
was clear earlier in the day,
when hundreds of support-
ers mobbed him as he voted
in central Jakarta.
As a series of unofficial
tallies, which are consid-
ered reliable, started to
show him with a lead of 4
to 5 percentage points, a
smiling Widodo declared
victory flanked by mem-
bers of his party, extending
his thanks to all the Indo-
nesian people.
But shortly afterwards,
Prabowo, who has admit-
ted ordering the abduction
of democracy activists
before the Suhartos down-
fall in 1998 and was for-
merly married to one of the
dictators daughters, also
claimed victory.
The 62-year-old, who has
pushed a strongman image
Stupa to
be built
for KR
victims
Tallies
point to
a win for
Widodo
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Sean Teehan
P
OLICE in Phnom Penh
are investigating the
presumed murder of an
American national,
after a mans body was found
bruised, bound and wrapped in
a curtain in a Por Sen Chey dis-
trict trash heap yesterday.
Por Sen Chey district police
chief Khim Sarann identified the
man as William Glenn, 43, of
Mississippi. According to a pro-
file on website Expatblog, Glenn
was an English teacher who
spent the past decade teaching
in Thailand, and was looking for
a job teaching in Phnom Penh as
recently as May.
We will investigate this case
to find the killer, Sarann said
yesterday.
A young boy bringing garbage
from his home to the trash heap
American found dead
Body was bound and bruised; murder suspected
Supporters of Indonesian
presidential candidate
Joko Widodo celebrate in
Malang in eastern Java
yesterday. AFP
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Dissidents case
has day in court
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A
US-BASED Cambo-
dian dissident, who
has been labelled a
terrorist by the gov-
ernment, was tried in absentia
by Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday over allegations
he incited a military coup.
Judge Top Chhunheng said
Sourn Serey Ratha, leader of
the Khmer People Power Move-
ment (KPPM), is accused of
calling on the countrys armed
forces to turn their weapons
on Prime Minister Hun Sen
in a Facebook post dated Au-
gust 14, 2013. He is charged
with incitement to commit a
crime, Chhunheng said.
The message, which was read
to the court, was titled The
Nonviolent Rose for Change.
Every heroic soldier! Turn
your guns against the despot
and sacrice your life to protect
the people who have the same
Khmer blood because Cambo-
dian troops and Cambodian
people are Khmer and we have
to protect each other, it said.
During yesterdays hearing,
the court questioned six wit-
nesses, including two police
ofcers and four people Tut
Chan Panha, Sok Dalis, Hy
Borin and Ly Linpheng who
were charged last August with
incitement and briey de-
tained for allegedly producing
and distributing materials en-
couraging a military coup un-
der the orders of Serey Ratha.
The four witnesses said they
did not know Serey Ratha and
were only in contact with him
through Facebook, when they
wanted to buy owers to dis-
tribute to military personnel.
Deputy prosecutor Meas
Chan Piseth called for more se-
vere charges for Serey Ratha.
I would like to ask the court
to transfer this case to the inves-
tigating judge to re-investigate
under the additional charge of
the act of traitory and for him
to be strongly punished.
Defence lawyer Sok Sam
Oeun said Serey Rathas mes-
sage was not intended to in-
cite any violence.
Serey Ratha could not be
reached for comment. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
American found dead in trash heap
Cintri strike ends in cash bonuses
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in Kouk Roka communes Andong village
located near a primary school found
the body at about 6am yesterday, Andong
villager Tham Setha said.
The boy ran away, telling adults he had
seen a ghost. Neighbours gathered around
to take a look at the scene, Setha said, before
her husband and others called police.
Police brought the body to Krain Thnung
pagoda to examine it.
When found in Andong village, the body
was bound, with twine tied around the
shoulders, waist and ankles, said Tes
Chanthan, 58, a funeral procession layman
at Kraing Thnung pagoda.
Glenns arms were behind his back and
it appeared he had been severely beaten in
the chest, back and neck, Chanthan said.
Based on the bruising he saw, Chanthan
added, it appeared Glenns neck had been
broken by blows to the back of the neck.
When the investigating police untied
knots of the twine and unwrapped the
cloth covering the body, I saw that the body
had black and blue marks on the neck,
Chanthan said at the pagoda yesterday.
Deputy toxicology department officer
Yao Ma yesterday said police are not yet
sure of the cause of death, which remains
under investigation.
We have not yet reached a conclusion
regarding the cause of death, Ma said last
night. We have formed a committee to
investigate the case.
In the mortuary of Stung Meanchey
pagoda, where the body is being held in
a large freezer, there appeared to be
heavy bruising to the chest and neck of
Glenns body which was clad only in
camouflage-coloured shorts.
The rubbish heap where Glenn was found
is not a well-known spot outside those who
live nearby, Sambath, a villager, said. Only
people with intimate knowledge of the area
would be aware of the location, she added.
Meanwhile, Setha said, villagers in the
area fear that Glenns ghost will now haunt
the village. Nothing similar has ever hap-
pened there, to her recollection.
US Embassy spokesman Sean McIntosh
said in a text message to a Post reporter
yesterday that due to privacy considera-
tions, he could not release any informa-
tion regarding Glenns death. He referred
questions to local authorities.
For now, Glenns body lies on its back on
the far right side of the mortuary freezer,
hands across its chest and eyes closed.
The corpse will remain there until the US
Embassy contacts Glenns family to claim
his remains, said Yim Vathana, co-owner
of the facility. If unable to do so, the embas-
sy will foot the $40-a-day bill, he said.
Pech Sotheary
A STRIKE by hundreds of
employees of Phnom Penhs
sole refuse collection company
ended yesterday after workers
were offered a financial incen-
tive to return to the job.
Nguon Sipheng, a Cintri
representative, told the Post
that while the company re-
jected every point on a list of
demands put forward by the
protesters, it agreed yesterday
to a monthly payout of $5 or
$10 depending on the em-
ployees positions.
Do not confuse this
amount of money with being
for health care or transporta-
tion fees . . . it is an incentive
from the company, Sipheng
said, referring to two of the
protesters main demands.
Rubbish truck driver Erm
Un said that $10 had been of-
fered to cart pullers and rub-
bish collectors, while $5 was
awarded to street sweepers,
truck drivers and technicians.
We agreed with this deci-
sion and all of us are working
now, he said.
In addition to the payout,
Cintri agreed to consider
raising salaries in 2015, ac-
cording to Mom Sarorn,
president of the Trade Union
Federation for Increasing
Khmer Employees Lifestyles,
who was in attendance at
yesterdays negotiations.
Sarorn said that while the
concession did not meet
the demands laid out by the
union, the money could help
the workers pay for things like
medicine and rent.
It is not ideal, but it is OK,
Sarorn added.
Aunny Ieng, Phnom Penh
deputy governor, said he ex-
pected that anyone who did
not return to work yesterday
would do so by today.
I think everything is almost
over, he said, adding that the
cash incentives awarded to
the workers were not part
of their salary under the law
but extra money to support
their living conditions.
This weeks strike action
began after a garbage truck
driver was accused of steal-
ing company petrol, allegedly
threatened with being shot
by a security guard and then
briey detained.
On Tuesday, many striking
employees agreed to return
to work after Cintri red both
the companys garage director
and the guard who allegedly
made the threat. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Villagers gather around the area in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district where an American
national was found dead yesterday morning. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Sen David, Annie Lee
and Rainbow Li
GENDER studies that touch
on issues such as rape, do-
mestic violence and sexual
harassment are one step clos-
er to being introduced in the
Kingdoms universities.
At a forum yesterday, repre-
sentatives of NGO Gender and
Development Cambodia and
the Royal University of Phnom
Penh discussed their nal draft
of a gender studies curriculum
for RUPP that they hope will
expand to other universities.
We plan to put the curricu-
lum in tertiary education to
promote the concept of gender
to students, GADC executive
director Ros Sopheap said, add-
ing that gender-based violence
in society will be a main focus.
The Ministry of Womens Af-
fairs The Chhunhak said at the
forum that the government
and public institutions should
consider how gender studies
courses are implemented.
The new curriculum has al-
ready garnered support among
interested university students.
We hope this subject will
spread widely in Cambodian
universities, so women will
understand their social rights,
student Chan Leakena said.
Colleges tackle gender
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Companies regrow forests
May Titthara

M
ORE THAN 100,000 hect-
ares of forest have been re-
planted across the country
since 2008, according to a
government report but about 90 per
cent of that amount can be chalked up to
private plantations.
Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries, the report, ob-
tained yesterday, claims that rather than
forest cover decreasing as monitoring
groups and media outlets regularly report
it has increased, largely due to private
companies industrial planting schemes.
Since 2008, 104,377 hectares were re-
forested, with a vast majority of about
93,000 hectares attributed to private
companies planting trees such as aca-
cia and palms, which spur economic
growth, according to Thorn Saret, direc-
tor of the administration department at
the Agriculture Ministry.
Regarding the criticism from NGOs,
the leadership has just explained how
it works, but we have to check the tech-
niques of how forests are managed, he
said without elaborating.
Environmental groups have in the past
staunchly criticised government calcula-
tions of forest cover, which include spe-
cies that they say cannot replace the com-
plex ecosystems lost to rampant logging.
Ouch Leng, director of the Human
Rights Task Force, said the government
used small-scale reforestation schemes
to gain popularity while ignoring the well-
documented large-scale deforestation of
the country. Leng added that Forest Day,
marked this week with King Norodom Si-
hamoni symbolically planting trees and
calling for greater efforts to protect Cam-
bodias forests, was one example of this.
At a ceremony, King Sihamoni said that
the forest is the main source of all lives
on our planet.
Leng said Forest Day should not be held
in Cambodia.
It should be done in a country that con-
serves its forest, because they are rushing
to log in our country, he said. They have
logged luxury wood, but they plant acacia
trees. They do not need to grow them, and
it is leading to land degradation.
The government has set a target of
achieving 60 per cent forest cover by 2015
to meet the UN Millennium Develop-
ment Goals.
However, studies conducted by inde-
pendent researchers last year showed a
continuing drop in forest cover over the
past several decades, with one study esti-
mating that about a third of Cambodian
forest had been lost since 1973.
Kevin Ponniah
and Vong Sokheng
THE opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party wants
to attend the elaborate three-
day ceremony that will see the
late King Father Norodom Si-
hanouks ashes interred at the
Silver Pagoda, but not as par-
liamentarians, the title under
which they have been invited,
a spokesman said yesterday.
All 55 CNRP lawmakers-elect
have been invited to the pro-
ceedings, which start today, as
MPs but have asked the Com-
mittee for Organising National
and International Festivals
to allow them to send a del-
egation of 25 ofcials instead,
spokesman Yim Sovann said.
The opposition party con-
tinues to boycott the National
Assembly, claiming it is ille-
gal because only Cambodian
Peoples Party lawmakers have
taken their seats. The CNRP
began the boycott after last
Julys national election, which
it claims was rigged.
They invite us as parlia-
mentarians, but we do not
consider ourselves as parlia-
mentarians, Sovann said.
With party leader Sam Rain-
sy out of the country, deputy
leader Kem Sokha would head
the delegation, he added.
[Rainsy] is busy with his
work outside the country, so
Kem Sokha . . . will lead the
delegation. But we will wait for
permission from the organis-
ing committee.
Information Minister Kh-
ieu Kanharith, who sits on the
committee, yesterday signalled
that the CNRP delegation
would be allowed to attend.
This is not a party ceremo-
ny. CNRP [who] would be MPs
could be there, he said in a
Facebook message.
Prince Sisowath Thomico,
the King Fathers nephew and
a CNRP candidate last July,
said he didnt believe it would
be a problem. It makes no
difference [to the committee].
Whoever is coming will be OK
as [long as they are among] the
55 [invited], he said, adding
that not attending as lawmak-
ers was his suggestion.
I told Sam Rainsy if we ac-
cepted the invitation we are
accepting the result of the
election.
Royal Palace Minister Kong
Sam Ol could not be reached.
Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam
Yeap said the ceremony was
above partisan politics.
Its for all, not just for one
political party, he said.
CNRP wishes to attend
ceremony but not as MPs
A logging truck is loaded with wood in Kampong Thom province last year, allegedly as part of a
scheme to clear the land to make way for a rubber plantation. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Pedophile ring
After sting,
school boss
is charged
A
SCHOOL director was
charged yesterday with
procuring children for
the purposes of prostitution
by Siem Reap Provincial Court
after a raid on his ofce on
Monday allegedly uncovered
evidence he operated a pedo-
phile ring from the premises,
an investigator said.
Long Ven, 33, a director of
the Underprivileged Children
School, was charged by the
court yesterday afternoon,
according to former Australian
Federal Police officer James
McCabe, who worked with
Cambodian police to investi-
gate Ven.
Hes been formally charged
with procurement of children
for the purposes of prostitu-
tion, McCabe said. Hes been
sent to pretrial detention.
Further charges are expected,
he added.
This gives us time to go fo-
rensically through the roughly
6,500 messages on Facebook
and the laptops and cameras
[that were confiscated].
If found guilty, Ven could face
two to 10 years in prison and a
fine of up to $4,000. DANIEL PYE
National
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Govt says
its ready
for oods
Pech Sotheary
THE National Committee for
Disaster Management said yes-
terday that the government has
made provisions for this years
rainy season.
More than 10,000 tonnes of
rice, emergency supplies and
rescue vehicles have been pre-
pared ahead of predicted flood-
ing, committee deputy director
Nhim Vanda said yesterday at
a workshop in the capital.
Vanda added that the govern-
ment had begun constructing
more disaster-resilient infra-
structure with support from the
World Bank and other develop-
ment partners, but declined to
put a dollar figure on the
amount of money the govern-
ment was ready to spend.
Officials yesterday also
announced that a committee
will soon start travelling to rural
areas to inform residents about
weather-proof building tech-
niques, including finding loca-
tions on hills and constructing
homes with corrugated metal
roofs rather than thatching.
Heavy rains and flooding last
year resulted in 168 deaths and
incurred more $356 million in
damages, the NCDM says.
Failing students to blame
Chhay Channyda and
Laignee Barron

A
KAMPONG Thom
high school director
had no sympathy
yesterday for his pro-
testing students, claiming that
a third of his schools grade 12
class only have themselves to
blame for unking the grade.
Ieng Bunhan, director of
Hun Sen Taing Kork High
School in Baray district, de-
fended his teachers, saying
they had no ulterior motive in
failing 52 grade 12 students.
The students have been pro-
testing their semester exam
results since Monday, when
they found out they would not
be able to sit the national exam
in August and would have no
shot at graduating this year.
Bunhan rejected their ar-
gument that they had failed
because of teacher favourit-
ism towards those who could
afford extra, fee-based tutor-
ing sessions.
How about other subjects
which do not have extra classes
like geography why did they
also fail those subjects?
On Tuesday, a delegation
from the Ministry of Education
met with Bunhan to try to nd
a suitable compromise.
If we are asked to redo the
semester exams for them, I
wont do it, he said.
Chhim Soohal, 18, rejected
the principals arguments and
said none of the failing stu-
dents had problems in subjects
such as geography that did not
require extra classes; instead,
they failed only in literature and
maths because they couldnt
afford the extra tutoring.
The national exam hit an-
other glitch yesterday when
Transparency International
(TI) announced it was with-
drawing its bid to indepen-
dently observe the test taking.
Program director Pech Pisey,
said TI was not permitted to
register back-up observers in
the event of test-day absentee-
ism, which would prevent the
organisation from properly
conducting its study.
Though the test day is now
short by more than 100 vol-
unteer observers, the ministry
seemed unfazed.
The [Anti-Corruption Unit]
will already have its own
monitors in place and they
are more powerful than TI,
Minister of Education Hang
Chuon Naron said. The ACU
can take action if irregularities
occur, TI cannot.
Students check exam registrations on a notice board in the lead-up to the exam period at Chaktomuk High
School in Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district last year. VIREAK MAI
Ocean loses case
Bosses told
to pay out
lost wages
T
HE Arbitration Council
Foundation yesterday
ruled that a Phnom
Penh garment factory that
announced it was closing for
a month must pay employees
100 per cent of the wages
they would have earned dur-
ing that period.
Ocean Garment factory
announced on May 24 it would
close until June 26, telling
workers they would be paid
$15 during that time, causing
protest and a filing with the
Arbitration Council. Ocean de-
puty general manager Salayd-
din Ahmed who could not
be reached yesterday later
said the factory would remain
closed until at least July 9.
The Arbitration Council
has decided it will order the
employer to pay full wages and
benefits to workers during the
time the workers were sus-
pended, a copy of the ruling
obtained by the Post reads.
Pav Sina, president of the
Collective Union of Movement
of Workers, said he would
meet with workers and dis-
cuss a strategy in case Ocean,
which remains closed, rejects
the decision. MOM KUNTHEAR
National
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Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
THE trial of a Cambodian
couple accused of trafcking
young and elderly Cambodi-
ans, including a baby, to Ma-
laysia to glean money begging
began yesterday.
Heng Chhon, 48, and his wife
Sam Nang, 38, face charges of
selling, buying or exchanging
a person and violating Article
16 of the Suppression of Hu-
man Trafcking and Sexual
Exploitation law.
They bought a 7-month-
old baby girl for $400 from her
poor family to [use] as their ad-
opted daughter so they could
bring her to Malaysia to earn
money from begging, said Ta-
ing Sun Lay, a judge at Phnom
Penh Municipal Court.
They were beggars and
have had up to seven children
in the family, Taing Sun Lay, a
judge at the court, said.
Keo Thea, chief of the mu-
nicipal Anti-human Trafcking
and Juvenile Protection Unit,
said that when the couple
was arrested last November,
authorities rescued the baby
along with three children and
three elderly Cambodians. The
verdict is due on July 25.
Couple that
bought girl
faces court
Krom drop call for apology
Mom Kunthear

K
HMER Krom youth
and other activists
backed down yester-
day on their demand
that a diplomat apologise for
saying the former Kampuchea
Krom provinces belonged to
Vietnam long before Frances
ofcial transfer of the land in
1949, but said they will keep
protesting until the true his-
tory is recognised.
At a press conference yes-
terday morning, Oeur Narit,
president of Youth for Peace,
said that Vietnamese Embassy
spokesman Trung Van Thong
was no longer expected to for-
mally apologise for the remarks
he made in an interview with
Radio Free Asia last month.
In order to respect each
other and the friendship of our
neighbouring countries, we
want to drop our demand for
an apology from [Van Thong]
. . . but we want Vietnam to ac-
cept that Khmer Krom land
belonged to Cambodia for a
long time, he said.
Ren Chanrith, a coordinator
with Independent Youth, said
the groups would le petitions
with seven embassies next
Wednesday to pressure Vietnam
into giving this recognition.
We will tell those embassies,
especially France, the US, Rus-
sia, China and England, about
the rights abuses from the
Vietnamese government to the
Khmer Krom people, and we
will urge them to put pressure
on the Vietnamese govern-
ment to respect Khmer Krom
rights and freedom, he said.
Another youth, Phou Tita,
called on Vietnam to stop de-
facing Cambodian history,
adding that if it continues to
do so, it is a thief.
But Van Thong told the Post
that he was not interested in
their requests.
The press conference came
a day after about 200 mem-
bers and supporters of several
Khmer Krom organisations
gathered outside the Vietnam-
ese Embassy to protest against
Van Thongs comments.
Several protesters and at
least one security guard were
injured in clashes during
the protest. Afterwards, the
embassy released a sharply
worded statement saying that
demonstrators interfered with
Vietnams sovereignty and in-
ternal affairs.
Police clash with Khmer Krom supporters during a demonstration in front of the Vietnamese Embassy in
Phnom Penh on Tuesday. VIREAK MAI
National
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POLICE
BLOTTER
No extra credit for a
samurai sword attack
NO ONE likes a teachers pet
then again, most normal folks
dont feel the need to attack
them with samurai swords
either. And yet thats exactly
what occurred on Tuesday in
Kampong Cham town. Police
said the bright high schooler
was on his way home when
two classmate pulled up
behind him and attacked him
with the sword. Luckily, his
injuries were only slight and
the two assailants were put
behind bars. The duo helpfully
explained they were angry with
him for being an outstanding
student. DEUMAMPIL

Guns and drugs found
on unimaginative bros
A SIHANOUKVILLE drug raid
this week produced only one
package of yama but also a pair
of pistols. Police had been scop-
ing the supposed drug den for
some time before making their
move on Tuesday. Breaking in
the door, the cops found four
perps along with the aforemen-
tioned drugs and illegal fire-
arms. Dead to rights, the quar-
tet quickly confessed. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Karate-kicking girl
leaves victims in wake
A PAIR of thieves messed with
the wrong college student on
Tuesday in the capitals Cham-
karmon district. Police said the
duos target had just retrieved
money from a bank that her
sister had sent her to pay for
her tuition. Whilst crossing the
road, the thieves drove to make
the snatch. What they werent
counting on was the black belt-
level kick that sent the bike
and thieves crashing to the
pavement. Police sent the
perps to court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Free-wheeling a loan
leads to mans stabbing
TWO sets of tyres bought on
credit led to a stabbing on Mon-
day. Police said the victim pur-
chased the eight tyres last
week, agreeing to pay in three
days time. When the deadline
came and went, the enraged
seller went to the victims Kam-
pong Cham town home to con-
front him. When no payment
was forthcoming, the rubber
met the road, and the knife met
the back. The assailant fled fol-
lowing the attack and is now
being hunted by police. KAM-
PUCHEATHMEY
Hungry man overreacts,
lights his house on fire
AN UNCOOKED dinner, a bot-
tle of hooch and a pack of
matches came to a predictably
unhappy ending on Tuesday in
Kampot. Police said a 46-year-
old, given to the hard stuff, had
stumbled home only to find his
dinner wasnt waiting. The
wifes excuse taking their
daughter to hospital appar-
ently held no water with the
lout, who proceeded to set the
house on fire. Within minutes,
the fire had reached the house
next door, causing the neigh-
bours to call the police. Our
drunken protagonist made for
the jungle, but didnt get far
before police slapped the cuffs
on him. DEUMAMPIL
Translated by Sen David
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Procurement Agent
The U.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual
for the Procurement Agent position in the General Services
Ofce.
The Procurement Agent is responsible for local and overseas
procurements, ordering commodities and services using
purchase orders, delivery orders, contracts and purchase
cards. The incumbent will be required to request quotations,
analyze bids, negotiate prices, and be involved in the end to
end contracting process.
Salary: The annual salary range for this position is
USD 9,216 14,286.
Required Qualications
Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, 1.
Management, Economics, Public Administration or
Finance is required.
Three years of progressively responsible experience in 2.
the eld of procurement, contracting or purchasing is
required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Must have general ofce management and computer skills. 4.
Must be able to deal with customers with patience and 5.
tact, and to work under pressure.
Good knowledge of overseas and local market 6.
conditions and practices in terms of commodities and
service availability is required.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is July 22, 2014. Interested candi-
dates must submit applications by email to
RecruitmentPHP@state.gov using the Universal Applica-
tion for Employment as a Locally Employed Staff or Family
Member (DS-174) form. The application formand complete
details on this position can be found at http://cambodia.
usembassy.gov/employment_opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have
the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for
consideration.
EU gives park protection
Phak Seangly
Ratanakkiri

A
HUGE area of Ra-
tanakkiri provinces
Virachey National
Park has been de-
clared a protected area under
a European Union-funded
plan that government ofcials
say will shift forest communi-
ties away from dependence on
depleted forest byproducts.
Chhay Samith, head of pro-
tected natural areas at the
Ministry of Environment,
signed off on the $1 million,
ve-year project yesterday,
which will see ve forest com-
munities land legally pro-
tected and some of the 18,395-
hectare area turned into an
eco-tourism site.
Minister of Environment
Say Sam Al, who presided over
the signing ceremony, said the
scheme would also help to
preserve indigenous peoples
ways of life.
The Virachey National Park
is of consequence because it
holds all kinds of resources
and biodiversity, he said at
the signing. The establish-
ment of a protected area will
encourage the preservation of
the indigenous cultures.
He added that the commu-
nities would benet from the
new economy created by the
protected area.
Stop depending on by-
products. We want to change
the communities that depend
on the byproducts to work in
eco-tourism, farming or ani-
mal feeding to help the com-
munity economy so they can
stand on their own two feet
when the project is nished,
Sam Al said.
Jean-Francois Cautain, EU
ambassador to Cambodia,
said development was urgent-
ly needed to create sustainable
livelihoods for the indigenous
communities, who have lost
much of their way of life due to
illegal logging in the area.
The most important activ-
ity is to create development for
people; especially, we want to
develop natural eco-tourism
in a sustainable manner, he
said. If we can ask them to
protect the communitys natu-
ral resources by themselves,
that is a fantastic thing.
Nuon Mul, 53, a representa-
tive of the ve communities,
welcomed the project, point-
ing to the encroachment of il-
legal logging on their land.
Furthermore, they [land
concessionaires] have bought
more than 10 chainsaws for
people [in my community]
who want to enter the area to
log as well, he said.
Jean-Franois Cautain (centre) of the European Union attends the
signing of a forestry project in Ratanakkiri yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
chief, Kaing Guek Eav, or
Duch, was sentenced to life in
2012 by the tribunal.
Court spokesman Neth
Pheaktra said that the project
was expected to be completed
by March 2015, with the con-
struction of the Buddhist
stupa itself to take about
six months. The Culture Min-
istry will design the monu-
ment, he said.
The stupa, while widely wel-
comed, has been the subject of
controversy due to plans to
inscribe the names of victims
or list them in a book nearby.
Some 70 per cent of those
killed at S-21 were Khmer
Rouge cadres rounded up dur-
ing a frenzy of internal purges
and many fear that listing
names could upset families
reading their relatives names
next to the names of cadres.
Pheaktra said whether names
would be inscribed on the
stupa or not was still under
discussion.
Hab Touch, director-general
of the heritage department at
the Culture Ministry, also said
yesterday that no decision had
been made on that front.
Victims have asked us to
inscribe the names, but we will
have a meeting to talk about
this first . . . We want to do [this
project] as soon as possible,
he said.
The stupa, Touch added,
would occupy a 10-square-
metre plot of land within the
museums grounds.
Former S-21 prisoner Bou
Meng, who because of his abil-
ity to paint portraits of Pol Pot
was one of the few who made
it out of the detention centre
alive, said yesterday that he
wanted the names of victims to
be on the memorial to preserve
their memory.
I am happy [about the stupa]
because my wife was killed
there. I want my wifes name to
be inscribed on it so the world
and the young generation
of Khmers can know. This is
evidence. I want the names
[of victims] to be put there
as history.
But Chum Mey, another sur-
viving victim, told the Post in
May that he opposed the
inscription of names. Mey
could not be reached for com-
ment yesterday.
Memorial stupa to be
erected for KR victims
This is evidence. I
want the names [of
victims] to be put
there as history
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Passenger
arrivals at
airports up
by 10 pct
Hor Kimsay
THE number of passenger
arrivals at the Kingdoms air-
ports rose to 1.37 million in the
first six months of the year, up
10 per cent from 1.24 million
visitors in the same period in
2013, according to figures from
Cambodia Airports.
The figures include both
international and domestic
arrivals at Phnom Penh Inter-
national Airport and Siem Reap
International Airport, with
more than 750,000 passengers
touching down at the latter.
Ho Vandy, co-chair of the Pri-
vate Sector Working Group on
Tourism, told the Post yester-
day that while Vietnamese and
Laotians are among the top five
nationalities of visitors to Cam-
bodia, many of them come
overland or by boat.
The increase in arrivals by air,
Vandy said, reflects growing
interest in the Kingdom in
countries outside Southeast
Asia, such as China, South
Korea and Japan.
We are happy to get more
passengers to our country by
air, he said. It reflects that
international tourists are inter-
ested Cambodia and choosing
our country as a major tourism
destination.
According to data from the
Ministry of Tourism, the
number of international tourist
arrivals in Cambodia reached
1.26 million in the first four
months of this year. Among
those visiting the Kingdom, 54
per cent came by air and 46 per
cent by land or water.
In the first quarter of the
year, Vietnamese travellers
topped the list of foreign visi-
tors with about 268,500, fol-
lowed by Chinese at 204,700,
South Korean at 203,200, and
Laotian at 122,600.
Labourers push goods into Thailand at the Thai-Cambodian border in Poipet. Thailands military rulers are making border expansion a top priority. BLOOMBERG
Upgrades for Thai checkpoints
Chatrudee Theparat

T
HE junta is commit-
ted to making check-
point expansion a top
priority in a move to
spur border trade, but it has
yet to make a decision on an
ambitious Myanmar-border
development plan.
A meeting of the National
Council for Peace and Order
chaired has assigned the gov-
ernments planning agency to
map out short- and long-term
plans for the development and
expansion of checkpoints, in-
frastructure, facilities and spe-
cial economic zones.
Arkhom Termpittayapa-
isith, secretary-general of the
National Economic and So-
cial Development Board, said
the top priority would be ve
checkpoints, at Padang Besar
and Sadao in Songkhla prov-
ince, Mae Sot in Tak, Poipet-
Klong Leuk in Sa Kaeo and
Khlong Yai in Trat. The latter
two are both situated on the
border with Cambodia.
In scal 2015, the regime
will invest more to upgrade
the checkpoints facilities and
build infrastructure such as a
motorway linking Sadao and
Hat Yai to ease congestion.
Arkhom said the NCPO
chief also stressed the devel-
opment of special economic
zones, with the rst project
to be established at Mae Sot
and others later in Chiang Rai
and Mukdahan, among 12
planned locations.
Investment in the check-
point and infrastructure net-
work at Kanchanaburi is also
deemed signicant, as it will
link with the Dawei project
in Myanmar. The project has
been delayed since the House
dissolution last December.
The massive project took
another twist early this year,
when no bidders applied for
concessions opened in Febru-
ary for three ventures a dual-
lane highway linking Thailand
with the site in eastern Myan-
mar, a small port and a 4,800-
hectare industrial estate.
One economist who asked
for anonymity said the Dawei
project needed to move for-
ward, as Thailand required a
new industrial zone to serve
the sector abroad after devel-
opment in the country was
obstructed by anti-industrial
groups over pollution fears.
However, the Dawei project
has been delayed due mainly
to the wrong approach of
Myanmars government and
Italian-Thai Development Plc,
the source said. The project
is too large to have only one
company managing it, so it is
crucial to design it as a multi-
national project.
The source said the project
was not too large to be located
in Thailand, as the Thai private
sector had adequate capital to
develop it, but Myanmar re-
quired a lot more infrastruc-
ture development that pre-
sented risks for investors.
Thailand and Myanmar in
November ofcially agreed to
push the ambitious scheme
forward, with three MoUs
signed by the two countries.
BANGKOK POST
Business
8
Big holiday
spending
expected
THAI shoppers are gearing up
for a big-spending long-holiday
weekend, with about 5.2 billion
baht ($161.3 million) expected
to change hands over the four
days, the University of the Thai
Chamber of Commerce (UTCC)
reported yesterday.
Thanawat Pholvichai, direc-
tor of UTCCs centre for eco-
nomics and business forecast-
ing, said yesterday an opinion
survey of consumers spending
plans for the long holiday
weekend predicted a spending
splurge of 5.2 billion baht, an
increase of 5.4 per cent from 4.9
billion baht during the same
period last year.
The extended weekend starts
on Friday, which is Asanha
Bucha Day. Saturday is Bud-
dhist Lent Day, or Khao Pansa,
and Monday the substitution
holiday for Buddhist Lent Day.
Thanawat said that most of
the respondents thought the
holiday would be more active
than last year because it would
be over four days, the National
Council for Peace and Order
was stimulating the economy,
which was actually showing
signs of improvement, and
there were more holiday des-
tinations. BANGKOK POST
Philippine airline brings
in shark fin cargo ban
THE Philippines largest
airline, Cebu Pacific, said
yesterday it has ceased
carrying shark fins, becoming
the latest carrier to impose a
ban as part of global
conservation efforts. We are
banning shark fin carriage
effective immediately as we
learned that unsustainable
shark fishing and our carriage
of shark fin is not aligned with
[our] position on sustainable
development, a statement
from the airline said. The
carrier also said it would no
longer serve shark fin soup at
its corporate events. The fins
are used in expensive Chinese
soups and served at important
events. BANGKOK POST
BoT predicts growth of
up to 4 pct for 2nd half
THE Bank of Thailand has
forecast economic growth in a
range of 3-4 per cent for the
second half of this year.
Governor Prasarn
Trairatvorakul said the positive
factors were fast domestic
consumption recovery and
steady fiscal budget
disbursements. But whether
the economy will expand by 2.5
per cent for all of 2014 as
targeted by the junta will hinge
on what measures are in store,
preferably infrastructure
investments. BANGKOK POST
Thailand plus one equals gains
Nop Tephaval

J
APANESE investors have
recommended a business
model called Thailand+1
to help maintain foreign
investment in Thailand.
According to Kiminori
Iwama, economic minister
at the Japanese Embassy in
Bangkok, both Thailand and
its neighbours would benet
from such an arrangement.
Even though statistics pro-
vided by Thailands Board
of Investment clearly show
that the Japanese remain the
biggest foreign investors in
Thailand, a survey by the Ja-
pan External Trade Organiza-
tion found that 73 per cent
of companies are concerned
about rising labour costs
in Thailand.
Since the end last year, the
Thai and Japanese govern-
ments have discussed the
direction of Thailand+1. This
is a business model in which
Japanese companies operat-
ing in Thailands industrial
clusters transfer labour-inten-
sive parts of their production
to special economic zones
in Cambodia, Laos and
Myanmar near the borders
with Thailand.
Thailand would have more
high-tech companies coming
in as labour-intensive indus-
tries move to neighbouring
countries, which offer lower
wages. Japan would benet
by having a base from which
to expand into Myanmar,
Laos and Cambodia.
In the rst half of 2014, the
value of applications for in-
vestment privileges from Jap-
anese rms was worth 80.49
billion baht ($2.497 billion)
from 194 projects.
The BoI remains optimistic
after another survey of Japa-
nese executives, conducted by
Nikkei Business Publications,
said 85 per cent have no inten-
tion of revising their invest-
ment plans in Thailand.
Thailand has a strong pro-
duction base, supporting in-
dustries and supply chain,
making the country very com-
petitive, Udom Wongviwat-
chai, secretary-general of the
BoI, said.
It could also be used for Jap-
anese companies to expand
to neighbouring countries in
preparation for the ASEAN
Economic Community.
Business condence has im-
proved after the tumultuous
rst half and pending projects
are gaining BoI approval.
Udom said the decision by
the US and EU to scale back
cooperation with Thailand
after the coup had yet to
affect businesses, as invest-
ment continued to ow into
the country.
Sarasin Viraphol, executive
vice-president of CP Group,
said business condence was
returning, but for it to be
more tangible will take time.
The response of the US and
EU was anticipated, but Japa-
nese companies will continue
to ock here for the opportu-
nities, he said.
He noted Thailand was a
crucial link in the Japanese
automotive supply chain.
The World Bank forecasts
Thai economic growth of 2.5
per cent in 2014 and 4.5 per
cent in 2015. The Bank of
Thailand puts the estimates
at 3.4 per cent and 5.5 per
cent, respectively.
The goal of achieving 700 bil-
lion baht worth of incentives is
likely to be met, and there are
no plans to revise the goal.
Most investments are in the
service sector, power genera-
tion and logistics, Udom said.
BANGKOK POST
Tailors make clothes at a workshop in Bangkok. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
Chinese auto sales up in H1
India growth may hit 6 pct
AUTO sales in China, the
worlds biggest car market,
reached 11.68 million vehicles
in the first half of 2014, an
industry group said yesterday,
up 8.4 per cent on last year.
In June alone, sales rose 5.2
per cent year-on-year to 1.85
million vehicles, the China
Association of Automobile
Manufacturers said, down from
Mays 8.5 per cent increase.
For passenger cars alone,
total sales rose 11.2 per cent on
the year to 9.63 million in the
first half and 11.5 per cent to
1.56 million in June, the asso-
ciation said.
China has become critically
important to foreign carmak-
ers, given the size of the market
coupled with weak sales else-
where in the world.
Full-year auto sales in the
country reached 21.98 million
vehicles last year, when a
recovery in Japanese brands
offset the impact of slowing
economic growth.
US auto firm General Motors
said this week that it registered
record Chinese sales during the
first half. GM say in the first six
months of 2014, sales increased
by 10.5 per cent year-on-year to
1.73 million units. AFP
INDIAS economic growth is expected to accel-
erate this year and could reach nearly 6 per
cent, a key government study said yesterday
ahead of the first national budget by the new
right-wing government.
The India Economic Survey, prepared by the
finance ministry, predicted growth would be in
the 5.4-5.9 per cent range in the financial year
to March 31, 2015, up from 4.7 per cent in the
previous 12 months.
The economy can look forward to better
growth prospects in 2014-15 and beyond, said
the report released on the eve of the budget from
Prime Minister Narendra Modis government.
The consensus forecast by private economists
for growth of Asias third-largest economy
stands at around 5.5 per cent. However, the
report cautioned, a weak monsoon could mean
that growth would come in at the lower end of
the range.
The survey forecast that stubbornly high infla-
tion would also moderate by the end of 2014,
which could enable the central bank to reduce
steep interest rates to kick-start growth.
But the report said massive subsidies used to
fund public welfare programs posed a risk to
efforts to improve public finances.
The budget is keenly awaited for statements
on how the government plans to revamp the
economy which has been hit by two consecutive
years of sub-5 per cent growth and faces a yawn-
ing fiscal deficit. AFP
AUSTRALIAN mogul James
Packers A$1.5 billion ($1.4 bil-
lion) Sydney casino has been
given the green light by the
state gaming regulator, taking
it one step closer to winning
nal approval.
Billionaire Packer, who runs
Crown a worldwide gambling
empire already operating casi-
nos in Melbourne, Perth and
Macau won backing from
the New South Wales Inde-
pendent Liquor and Gaming
Authority late on Tuesday.
The state body said in a
statement that the casino,
which is aimed at Asian high-
rollers and is being built in
a prime location on Sydney
Harbour, would be awarded
a 99-year gaming licence and
could start operating from
November 15, 2019.
The last hurdle is to secure
planning approvals including
community consultation.
The approval comes as Aus-
tralia emerges as the latest hot
spot for casino operators look-
ing to attract Asias big spend-
ers to their resorts and the
countrys tourist sites.
Two other casinos in
Queensland have recently
received state backing, with
Asian-led consortiums win-
ning the bids. AFP
Billionaire Packer wins
casino-resort approval
Beijing court takes bite
out of Apples lawsuit
US TECHNOLOGY giant Apple
has lost a lawsuit against a
Chinese state regulator over
patent rights to voice
recognition software such as
the iPhones Siri, a Beijing
court said. The legal battle
begun in 2012 when Shanghai-
based Zhizhen Network
Technology pursued Apple for
allegedly infringing its Chinese
patent with Siri, its intelligent
personal assistant. Apple
asked Chinas patent review
board, which operates under
the State Intellectual Property
Office, to declare Zhizhens
original patent ineffective but
the request was rejected. Late
last year Apple appealed to
Beijings Number One
Intermediate Peoples Court to
overturn that decision. The
court did not support the
cause of action stated by
Apple, the court said in a
statement on Tuesday. Apple
will appeal to the Beijing
Higher Peoples Court. AFP
Firm eyes worlds first
regular Arctic sea lane
JAPANS Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
yesterday announced plans for
the worlds first regular
commercial shipping route
through the Arctic Ocean,
starting in 2018, in an attempt
to reduce sailing times. The
firm said it would initially start
moving liquefied natural gas
from Russians huge Yamal
LNG project to markets in
Europe and Asia on a trio of
icebreakers, as part of a joint
venture with China Shipping
(Group) Co. This is an
unprecedented project in the
Arctic route, the Japanese
shipping giant said. The Arctic
voyage impassable for
conventional ships during
much of the year could
knock about one-quarter off
the usual travel time through
the Suez Canal, or about 10
days. AFP
Disney dispute puts halt
to iTunes sales in Japan
WALT Disney Co, the worlds
largest entertainment
company, halted on-demand
sales of new movies through
Apples online store in Japan
after the two companies
couldnt reach a final
agreement on sales. Sales
through iTunes of films,
including Frozen and Thor:
The Dark World, stopped on
Tuesday and the company is
trying to restart the service are
Disney said in a statement. AFP
China inflation slowing down
I
NFLATION in China
slowed to 2.3 per cent in
June from a four-month
high of 2.5 per cent in
May, ofcial data showed yes-
terday, giving authorities fur-
ther room to try to stimulate
growth in the worlds second-
largest economy.
The countrys consumer
price index a main gauge
of ination also rose 2.3 per
cent in the rst six months of
the year from the same period
in 2013, the National Bureau of
Statistics said in a statement.
The result compared with
the median forecast of a 2.4
per cent gain in a survey of 21
economists by The Wall Street
Journal, but is well below the
3.5 per cent annual target set
by Beijing in March.
It comes as concerns earlier
this year over economic pros-
pects for China a key driver
of world growth have eased
owing to a pick-up in key in-
dicators in the second quarter
and some limited steps by au-
thorities to boost the economy.
Chinas gross domestic prod-
uct grew 7.4 per cent in Janu-
ary to March, weaker than the
7.7 per cent recorded in the
nal three months of last year
and the worst result since a 7.4
per cent expansion in the third
quarter of 2012.
But growth in industrial out-
put and retail sales accelerated
in May, with consumption
increasing at its fastest pace
since December, ofcial data
showed last month, in signs of
renewed strength.
Authorities have since April
introduced measures to at-
tempt to boost growth, includ-
ing tax breaks for small enter-
prises, targeted infrastructure
outlays and incentives to en-
courage lending in rural areas
and to small companies.
Economists have dubbed
the steps a mini-stimulus, in
contrast to the massive pump-
priming in the aftermath of
the 2008-2009 global nancial
crisis, something that leaders
say is not on the cards now.
The subdued ination out-
look provides room for the
authorities to launch more
targeted stimulus policies in
the second half of this year,
ANZ Bank economists Liu Li-
Gang and Zhou Hao wrote in
an analysis of the June data.
They suggested that further
monetary policy easing across
the board will still be needed
to help lift the condence in
Chinas economy.
Food was the main driver
of ination, according to the
NBS data, with fruit prices up
19.8 per cent in June from the
year before.
Despite the CPI slowdown,
the overall result was also
higher than the 1.8 per cent
gain recorded in April, which
had led to concerns of de-
ation risks in the Chinese
economy. AFP
A vendor sells produce at an outdoor market in Beijing yesterday. AFP
China inflation
Source: China NBS
Consumer price index,
monthly changes, percent, y-o-y
S O N M A M J J J A D J
2013 2014
F
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
1.8
2.3
2.5
Crowns proposed casino and hotel tower on Sydney Harbour would
be its rst site in the city alongside resorts in Melbourne and the West
Australian capital of Perth. BLOOMBERG
If memory serves
US military
in for $40M
brain device
U
S MILITARY research-
ers said yesterday that
they have awarded $40
million towards developing a
new kind of brain implant that
may be able to help restore
memories in wounded sol-
diers and civilians.
The work represents a major
scientic leap forward, but
experts warn many hurdles
remain before it can be shown
to work in people, the Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) said.
The hope is that some day,
a wireless, implantable device
will bridge gaps in the injured
brain and make it easier to
remember basic events,
places, and context known as
declarative memories.
The work is part of a four-
year program that supports
President Barack Obamas
Brain Initiative, which is a $100
million effort.
The latest DARPA awards
have given up to $22.5 million
to a team of scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania, up
to $15 million the University
of California, Los Angeles,
and a further $2.5 million to
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. AFP
Business
10
Europe strikes vent austerity fury
Citigroup near mortgage probe deal
AUSTERITY measures in Por-
tugal and Greece drew thou-
sands of people onto the streets
to protest yesterday.
Greek civil servants launched
a 24-hour strike to protest lay-
offs and grinding austerity
policies that have slashed
public services in the debt-
ridden country.
Central Athens was closed to
traffic at midday as more than
1,000 strikers prepared to
march on parliament.
It is the latest in a series of
strikes to protest the planned
layoffs of some 11,000 civil
servants by the end of the year,
in addition to 14,000 already
laid off from the 650,000-strong
public sector.
The job cuts were agreed
with Greeces creditors, the so-
called troika of the European
Union, the European Central
Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, in exchange
for massive bailouts.
Yesterdays strike comes on
the eve of a visit today by top
Troika officials to conduct a
regular audit before approving
the latest tranche of a second
bailout of 1 billion ($1.36 bil-
lion), later this month.
Greece has been accorded
two bailouts conditional on
the austerity measures, a first
in 2010 totalling 110 billion,
and the second in 2012 for
130 billion.
Meanwhile, a strike by Portu-
guese doctors against govern-
ment austerity measures
entered its second day yester-
day, forcing thousands of
patients to wait for operations
and consultations.
Emergency rooms, intensive
care units and radiation thera-
py services ran a skeleton staff
as strike organisers, the Nation-
al Federation of Doctors, esti-
mated that 90 per cent of the
26,000 public sector doctors
had stayed away.
The Portuguese health sector
which has been hit by cut-
backs since the country entered
an international bailout in 2011
is being ordered to make a
further 300 million ($400 mil-
lion) of savings this year.
Medical staff are critical of
deteriorating working condi-
tions in public hospitals, job
losses, pay cuts, and the longer
working hours that have come
as the sector has had to make
savings. AFP
CITIGROUP Inc may reach an agreement
with federal US prosecutors as early as next
week to resolve a probe into sales of mort-
gage-backed bonds before the 2008 finan-
cial crisis, a person familiar with the nego-
tiations said.
The nations third-biggest bank by
assets would pay at least $4 billion
under an agreement with the US Justice
Department, according to the person,
who asked not to be named because the
talks are private.
The deal would be $7 billion when
including borrower relief such as mortgage
modifications, the New York Times report-
ed. Mark Costiglio, a spokesman for New
York-based Citigroup, declined to com-
ment on the talks.
The lender had offered less than $4 bil-
lion while federal prosecutors had sought
more than $10 billion, a person familiar
with the matter said last month. The Wall
Street Journal reported earlier on Tuesday
that an agreement could be near.
Citigroup is among banks facing inves-
tigations into whether they misled inves-
tors about the quality of bonds backed by
mortgages as housing prices plummeted.
Prosecutors have sought multibillion-
dollar penalties from banks this year for
wrongdoing including US sanctions viola-
tions and helping clients avoid taxes.
Citigroup declined 1.2 per cent to $47.42
on Tuesday in New York. It has fallen 9 per
cent this year, compared with the 2.6 per
cent gain by the 24-company KBW Bank
Index The stock was at $47.53 in European
trading on Tuesday.
Prosecutors broke off talks with Citi-
group on June 9 and were preparing to sue
the bank after it offered less than $4 billion
to resolve the matter, said the person who
spoke last month.
The Justice Department could file a
lawsuit, according to the person, who
also said the banks offer included about
$1 billion in cash and the rest in consum-
er relief. BLOOMBERG
Public sector workers chant slogans in a protest march in Athens
marking a 24-hour civil servant strike yesterday. AFP
Scandal-hit Vatican rebuilds
Jean-Louis De La Vaissaiere

T
HE Vatican yesterday
named a French busi-
nessman to head up
its scandal-plagued
bank as part of a radical over-
haul of the Holy Sees eco-
nomic framework ordered by
Pope Francis.
Jean-Baptiste de Franssu,
former chief executive of In-
vestco Europe, will lead a
newly streamlined bank fol-
lowing a year of internal inves-
tigations which resulted in the
closure or suspension of thou-
sands of suspicious, ineligible
or inactive accounts.
Franssu himself said that
he was looking forward
to continuing the efforts
of transparency.
The appointment comes
just a day after the bank said
prots last year had been all
but wiped out in its efforts to
clean up its accounts.
A team of nancial experts
including Franssu and an
American consultancy rm
have been preparing the
ground for the reforms since
last summer, when Francis
vowed to make the Vaticans
public nances fully transpar-
ent following decades of scan-
dal and intrigue.
The reforms also affect the
Administration of the Pat-
rimony of the Apostolic See
(APSA) the department in
charge of real estate and sov-
ereign bonds investments as
well as the Vaticans pension
fund and the media depart-
ment, a statement said.
Changes at the Institute for
Religious Works (JOR) as the
bank is known will include
shifting assets to a new central
Vatican Asset Management,
while APSA will be absorbed
into the nance ministry.
A new media committee
headed by British politician
and chancellor of Oxford
University Chris Patten will
look into adapting the Vati-
can to new trends, prioritis-
ing Twitter and digital chan-
nels over radio.
Outgoing bank head Ernst
von Freyberg had spoken on
Tuesday of the painful but
very necessary process of
cleaning up the murky IOR,
but the bank was now ready
to go ahead with stage two
of the reforms.
Franssu, 51, is the director
of Carmignac Gestion asset
management and the founder
and chairman of mergers and
acquisitions rm Incipit. The
father of four is a board mem-
ber of charities in the US and
Europe including the World
Youth Alliance. He caught the
eye of allies of the pope by
working for free for the com-
mission advising on the bank.
In a bid to tighten control
over its activities, Francis an-
nounced a sweeping study of
the bank last June, insisting
that the commission would re-
port directly to him.
The IOR said it had paid a
colossal price for tidying up
its accounts, with last years
prot plunging to 2.9 million
($3.9 million) from 86.6 mil-
lion in 2012.
However, scandal has still
continued to plague the in-
stitution, with the Vatican
admitting earlier this year
that it was investigating Ital-
ian media reports accusing
Bertone of embezzling 15
million from the bank.
Allegations of money laun-
dering have dogged the bank
for decades. It was the main
shareholder of the Banco
Ambrosiano, which collapsed
in 1982 amid accusations of
laundering money for the Si-
cilian Maa.
The chair of Banco Ambro-
siano, Roberto Calvi dubbed
Gods Banker was found
hanging from Blackfriars
Bridge in London that year in
a suspected mob murder.
More recently the bank has
been investigated for money
laundering by Italian authori-
ties. And a former top Vatican
accountant, Monsignor Nun-
zio Scarano was charged by
Italian prosecutors in January
with laundering fake dona-
tions from offshore accounts
through the IOR. AFP
Visitors take pictures in St Peters square at the Vatican in Vatican City. BLOOMBERG
FRENCH Prime Minister
Manuel Valls came out ght-
ing on Tuesday against several
inuential unions that boycot-
ted a major job creation sum-
mit, slamming their attitude as
unhelpful in a country in need
of reform.
The pugnacious Valls has
been accused of pandering to
big business for deferring an
early retirement plan for those
in physically tough jobs fol-
lowing a threat by Medef, the
main employers union.
As a result, four unions
which only represent a small
portion of Frances workers
but have huge inuence boy-
cotted a summit on Tuesday
where new employment pro-
posals were discussed.
Its their right, but I regret
this attitude. It does not help
get things done, Valls said in
the closing speech of the two-
day summit in Paris.
I am not minimising this
gesture, he said, but warned
unions that a prolonged re-
fusal to engage in dialogue
would be an incomprehen-
sible position.
The prime minister has also
attracted the ire of lawmak-
ers in the ruling Socialist Party
who accuse him of veering too
much to the right. Some have
abstained on key government
bills in parliament.
The French have had
enough of the postures of those
who abstain in the National
Assembly [the lower house]
or those who dont come
to meetings, he said in an
interview on TF1 television.
They want us to roll up our
sleeves for this country. Do
we move or do we not move?
Do we reform or do we not re-
form? he asked.
The summit came on the
back of record unemployment
in the eurozones second-larg-
est economy, where 3.38 mil-
lion people are out of work.
President Francois Hollande
had billed the conference as
an opportunity to ne tune
a plan under which French
companies would see their tax
burden reduced in return for
them agreeing to start hiring.
The plan has been interpret-
ed in some quarters as a sign
the Socialist government rec-
ognises a need for economic
reform and is shifting to more
business friendly policies.
But it has proved controver-
sial with those on the left who
see big business being handed
tax breaks funded by cuts in
public spending in areas such
as health and social benets,
with no obligation to do any-
thing in return.
The so-called Responsibility
Pact, which offers businesses
40 billion ($54 billion) worth
of cuts to taxes and social
benet charges in exchange
for a pledge to create some
500,000 jobs by 2017, is still
very vague.
It is not clear how the gov-
ernment will ensure that
companies do not simply
pocket the tax breaks an is-
sue that some unions are un-
happy about. AFP
French PM comes out
swinging as big unions
boycott job conference
Markets
11
Business
A
ND now a moment of si-
lence for a fallen cupcakery
a prayer for the Red Velvet
Cheesecakes that will never
be made, a paean to the empty calo-
ries that will never be consumed.
Crumbs Bake Shop Inc, a famous
cupcake chain facing default on
more than $14 million in loans, has
closed all of its stores after years
of struggling to make money in a
crowded market.
The scene in New York was remi-
niscent of bankers carrying boxes
out of Bear Stearns following its col-
lapse in 2008.
Crumbs has been forced to cease
operations and is immediately at-
tending to the dislocation of its de-
voted employees while it evaluates
its limited remaining options, the
New York-based company said.
The move follows an attempt to
reinvigorate the company under
CEO Edward Slezak, who took the
reins in January. After losses of about
$23 million the past two scal years,
Crumbs tried to bolster sales in
April by forging ties with BJs Whole-
sale Club. That included selling a
croissant-doughnut hybrid called a
crumbnut at the warehouse chain.
New franchising and licensing
efforts failed to turn around the
companys nances. After getting a
$5 million credit line from Fischer
Enterprises in January, the compa-
ny wasnt able to obtain additional
funds. That forced it to move towards
liquidation, said a source, who asked
not to be identied.
The broader US market also is
showing signs of cooling. In the 12-
month period ended in April, cake
servings at restaurants including
cupcake places fell 1 per cent, ac-
cording to the NPD Group. That
compares with an 8 per cent rise in
the corresponding period of 2011,
when the cupcake trend was going
strong.
As of April, Crumbs had about 65
locations in 12 states and the District
of Columbia. That number shrank to
48 in previous rounds of closings,
and all the locations have been shut.
Crumbs had about 165 full-time
employees as of the end of last year,
with 120 working in the stores.
The company, which started in
2003 on Manhattans Upper West
Side, said in a ling last week that the
Nasdaq was delisting the stock. The
move is expected to trigger a default
on $9.3 million in secured notes and
$5.1 million in unsecured notes.
It entered a market seen as too big
to be cornered by Magnolias. The
cupcake momentum was fuelled by
Sex and the City and Saturday Night
Live. And big, big cupcakes.
Demand for cupcakes surged over
the past decade, enticing chains like
Crumbs and Sprinkles to spread
out across the country. Crumbs was
hailed as a breakout company by
Inc. magazine in 2010 and became
a publicly held business the follow-
ing year through a merger with 57th
Street General Acquisition Corp.
The company, then run by Crumbs
co-founder Jason Bauer, planned
to open 200 locations in the top 15
markets by the end of 2014.
The pressures of being a pub-
licly traded company may have led
Crumbs to grow too quickly, said
Peter Saleh, an analyst at Telsey Ad-
visory Group in New York.
Once you go public, you start
promising certain growth metrics,
he said. Private companies can ex-
pand at a much more modest pace if
they so choose.
Crumbs was known for its large
cupcakes, including a $42 Colos-
sal version that served as many as
eight people. A recent addition, the
crumbnut, was a bid to capitalise
on the popularity of cronuts the
croissant-doughnut combo sold
by the Dominique Ansel Bakery in
New York.
The dessert industry is a difcult
one to compete in, Saleh said, in part
because all restaurants offer them.
Its very tough to make it work.
On Twitter, it was clearly emotional.
Some jokingly suggested that cup-
cakes wouldnt be the last food fad
to fade.
On eBay, bidding for the last cup-
cake from Crumbs started at $250.
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The way the cake crumbles
Crumbs Bake Shop, a pivotal part of the cupcake fad spurred by Sex in the City and
sweeth-toothed foodies, has closed all of its shops. BLOOMBERG
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Fun fact: you can replace all in-
stances of cupcake with frozen
yogurt and run this story again
in 3 years.
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@NYNightlife
If you see a girl crying outside a
club tonight, theres a 19% chance
its because she just found out
Crumbs is out of business.
World
Germany to
probe fresh
spying case
GERMAN authorities yester-
day said they were investigat-
ing an alleged foreign spy as
reports said the suspect was
the second within days
believed to be working for US
intelligence.
If confirmed, the latest case
would further strain trans-
Atlantic relations, which have
taken a bruising since last year
with the NSA surveillance scan-
dal sparked by revelations of
fugitive US intelligence con-
tractor Edward Snowden.
Federal police officers have
since this morning searched the
residential and office premises
of an accused in the Berlin area
due to preliminary suspicion of
intelligence activities. No arrest
has been made, the federal
prosecutors office said.
The case was considered
more serious than that of a
German intelligence operative
and alleged double agent who
was arrested last week on
charges of spying for the CIA,
said reports by the daily Sued-
deutsche Zeitung and two pub-
lic broadcasters. Die Welt daily
said that the suspect was a Ger-
man army officer.
The German defence minis-
try, when asked about the case,
said that an investigation is
ongoing within the ministry,
without elaborating.
The latest case comes hot on
the heels of an arrest last week
of an unidentified employee of
Germanys foreign intelligence
agency, the BND.
The man had allegedly sold
over 200 documents to the
CIA, including information on
a German parliamentary pan-
el that has been looking into
the Snowden claims and the
extent of German cooperation
in US snooping.
Chancellor Angela Merkel
whose mobile phone has
been tapped in the past by the
US National Security Agency
has said the double agent
case, if true, would be a clear
contradiction as to what I
consider to be trusting coop-
eration between agencies and
partners.
After other German politi-
cians and media also voiced
anger, CIA chief John Brennan
late on Tuesday phoned Mer-
kels office and discussed the
case with her intelligence serv-
ices coordinator Klaus-Dieter
Fritsche, news website Spiegel
Online reported.
The US ambassador to Ber-
lin, John B Emerson, early yes-
terday visited the German For-
eign Ministry for the second
time since last Friday, possibly
at his own request, national
news agency DPA reported.
Foreign Minister Frank-Wal-
ter Steinmeier earlier told a
German newspaper that it
would be most disturbing if
the spying merrily continued
while were looking at the NSA
wiretapping activities and
have set up a committee in
parliament. AFP
Parking
penalty
Damaged cars are buried in the
rubble after the parking lot
collapsed into the supporting
structure of a construction
site in Chengdu, in southwest
Chinas Sichuan province
yesterday. Five cars on a
parking lot near a construction
site dropped into a deep pit as
the parking lot collapsed, local
media reported. AFP
China, US vow to end old rivalries
C
HINA and the Unit-
ed States yesterday
launched high-level
talks with Chinese
President Xi Jinping urging
the worlds two biggest econo-
mies to break old patterns of
confrontation.
Given their different histo-
ries and cultures it is natural
that China and the US may
have different views and even
frictions on certain issues, Xi
told the opening of the two-
day annual talks in Beijing.
This is what makes commu-
nication and cooperation even
more necessary, he urged,
speaking in the same com-
pound where then US presi-
dent Richard Nixon met Mao
Zedong on his groundbreak-
ing visit to China in 1972.
The sixth Strategic and Eco-
nomic Dialogue comes as
tensions rise over maritime
disputes, as well as US fears
over cybersecurity and Chi-
nese hacking.
Our interests are more
than ever interconnected,
Xi insisted, saying the two
nations stand to gain from
cooperation and lose from
confrontation.
If we are in confrontation
it will surely spell disaster
for both countries and for
the world, he said, adding
the Pacic powers needed to
break the old pattern of in-
evitable confrontation.
One can ill afford a mistake
on fundamental issues, a mis-
take that may possibly ruin
the whole undertaking.
US Secretary of State John
Kerry, who is leading Wash-
ingtons team with Treasury
Secretary Jack Lew, agreed
saying we have a profound
stake in each others success.
It is not lost on any of us
that through history there
has been a strategic pattern
of confrontation between ris-
ing and established powers,
he said.
But Kerry sought to address
Chinese concerns, insisting
that the United States does
not seek to contain China, we
welcome the emergence of a
peaceful, stable, prosperous
China.
We may differ on one is-
sue or another . . . but when
we make that difference, do
not interpret it as an overall
strategy, the top US diplo-
mat stressed.
The talks come as China and
its neighbours have stepped
up patrols of disputed terri-
tory, raising fears of a clash
with US security ally Japan
in the East China Sea, while
incidents in the South China
Sea have included rammings,
the use of water cannon and
arrests of shermen.
While Xi did not address
the territorial issues directly,
he repeated that China was
committed to establishing
friendly relations with its
neighbours and beyond.
Kerry will also seek to per-
suade China to reinstate a cy-
bersecurity working group in a
bid to draw up rules for using
and protecting the internet.
The new group, which has
only met twice, was cancelled
by Beijing after the US in-
dicted ve Chinese military
ofcers for hacking into US
businesses charges dis-
missed by China as inten-
tionally fabricated.
Other issues high on the
agenda include climate
change, wildlife trafcking
and nuclear-armed North Ko-
rea, following a visit last week
by Xi to Seoul.
This year marks 35 years
since the establishment of
formal US-China ties, and
trade between the two giants
ballooned to more than $520
billion last year, 200 times
trade the $3 billion in 1979.
Our futures are inextricably
entwined, Kerry said. AFP
Israel pounds Gaza as Hamas targets Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
ISRAEL significantly broadened its
campaign against Gaza yesterday after
militants fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
in their biggest confrontation since
2012, raising fears of a major Israeli
ground offensive.
It was the most serious flare-up in
and around the Gaza Strip since
November 2012 and came as Israel
struggled to contain a wave of nation-
wide unrest over the grisly murder of
a Palestinian teenager by Jewish
extremists.
Washington, Brussels and a growing
number of Arab states have demanded
an immediate halt to the violence
which is threatening to expand into a
wider conflict in a region already bris-
tling with tension.
Since Operation Protective Edge
began in the early hours of Tuesday,
Israel warplanes have bombed 430 tar-
gets in Gaza, and Hamas militants have
hit back with 117 rockets, some of
which struck Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
and as far away as Hadera, 116 kilome-
tres to the north.
So far, 32 Palestinians have been
killed, among them militants but also
women and children. More than 230
have been wounded.
As dawn broke, residents of the
northern Beit Hanun picked through
the bloodstained rubble of a house
struck by a missile, killing an Islamic
Jihad commander and his family.
We didnt see the rocket that came
down on us, said Yunis Hamd who lost
six family members in the strike, which
left a vast crater.
It killed all of them, he said.
This is pure destruction by F-16 air-
craft against children and civilians, and
the whole world just sits watching,
said his neighbour Yasser Abu Awda,
whose house was also destroyed.
No one says anything, not even
Arabs and Muslims. We are under siege
and no one cares.
So far, neither side has shown any
sign of backing down, as Israel stepped
up its preparations for a possible
ground assault, approving the call up
of 40,000 reservists.
Overnight, Israeli warplanes bombed
160 targets across Gaza, hitting con-
cealed rocket launchers, Hamas com-
mand and control centres and many
tunnels, military spokesman General
Moti Almoz told army radio.
Over the last two days we attacked
a total of about 430 targets. We are at
the start of the second day of an oper-
ation which is widening, he said.
Israels security cabinet has ordered
the military to significant broaden
its assault on Hamas, a minister said
yesterday.
We didnt limit the campaign in
terms of time, in fact we ordered the
IDF [army] to significantly broaden the
attacks on Hamas, Interior Minister
Gideon Saar told army radio.
Were ready for every possibility,
including a ground operation if nec-
essary, although its not going to be
the first step. But there is a readiness
for that, and thats why we ordered
the call-up of 40,000 reserve soldiers,
he said.
Early yesterday, another five rockets
struck southern Israel, and two more
were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-
missile system over the Tel Aviv area,
the army said, correcting earlier media
reports of five.
There was also an ongoing incident
in Kerem Shalom, location of the main
goods crossing between Israel and
southern Gaza, the armys official
spokesman said, but refused to give
further details.
Three loud explosions rang through
Jerusalem and a series of flashes lit up
the sky, as three rockets crashed into
open areas around the city.
So far, no Israelis have been injured
or killed.
The confrontation has drawn sharp
condemnation from Washington and
Brussels, and the Arab League has
called for an urgent UN Security Coun-
cil meeting on the crisis.
Yesterday Jordan, one of just two
Arab countries to have signed a peace
treaty with Israel, demanded an imme-
diate halt to Israels barbaric aggres-
sion in Gaza.
Irans Foreign Ministry yesterday
condemned the air raids and called on
the West to urge the Jewish state to pre-
vent a human catastrophe. AFP
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on the campaign trail to win votes, said
survey institutes used by his campaign
team showed that he and running mate
Hatta Rajasa have received the sup-
port and mandate from the people of
Indonesia.
Speaking earlier in the day, he had
pledged to respect the peoples deci-
sion. However, he added: It must be
really their decision and not an engi-
neered one. If its engineered, we must
take clear action.
A spokesman for Widodos campaign,
Anies Baswedan, called on Prabowo and
his running mate to behave like states-
men, adding that all credible survey
institutes declared our victory.
The close race has sparked fears of
unrest, and Yudhoyono urged both
sides to restrain themselves and not
organise street rallies to celebrate until
the announcement by the [election
commission].
The commission is not expected to
announce the official results until July
22, due to the complexity of holding
elections across the archipelago of more
than 17,000 islands.
But the unofficial tallies that Widodos
party relied on, known as quick counts
a method for verifying election results
by projecting them from a sample of the
polling stations are considered reliable
and have accurately predicted the
winner of Indonesias two previous
presidential elections since Suhartos
downfall. Tobias Basuki, an analyst from
the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic
and International Studies, described
the situation as unprecedented, add-
ing: Weve never seen such polarisation
in Indonesia.
CSIS carried out an official tally, which
was considered reliable. It showed
Widodo with a lead of 51.9 per cent to
Prabowos 48.1 per cent, largely in line
with other credible polls.
A former furniture exporter from a
humble background, Widodo is seen as
likely to usher in a new style of leader-
ship and consolidate democracy should
he win the election.
Prabowo in contrast has faced criti-
cism he may shift Indonesia back
towards authoritarian rule. In a recent
talk, he reportedly said that a Western-
style political system, including direct
elections, doesnt suit Indonesia.
Some 190 million voters were eligible
to vote in the election. Polling went
smoothly across the country, from east-
ern Papua to the main island of Java and
jungle-clad Sumatra in the west, and no
major disruptions were reported.
Widodo, 53, was ahead by a long way
in the polls for months leading up to
the election, but his lead shrank dur-
ing the campaign as he was attacked
by a string of smears.
The most damaging was a claim that
he is an ethnic Chinese Christian and
not a Muslim, a serious charge in the
worlds most populous Muslim-major-
ity country. He vehemently denied the
allegation.
Whoever eventually takes over from
Yudhoyono, who steps down in
October after a decade of stable but
often indecisive rule, faces a delicate
transition.
Growth is slowing in Southeast Asias
top economy, corruption is rampant,
millions remain mired in poverty, and
fears are mounting that Islamic radicals
returning from Middle East conflicts
could revive militant networks. AFP
FEDERAL investigators are
probing how vials of smallpox
made their way into a storage
room at a Food and Drug
Administration lab near the
US capital, health authorities
said on Tuesday.
Smallpox is a highly conta-
gious and sometimes fatal dis-
ease that is estimated to have
killed some 300 million people
in the 20th century alone.
Though there is no treat-
ment for smallpox, it has been
eradicated after a worldwide
vaccination program. The
last US case was in 1949; the
last global case was in 1977 in
Somalia.
The vials were labelled var-
iola, another name for small-
pox, and appear to date from
the 1950s, the US Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion said in a statement. They
were found in an unused por-
tion of a storeroom in an
FDA laboratory, located on
the National Institutes of
Health campus in Bethesda,
Maryland.
There is no evidence that the
vials had been opened, and
onsite biosafety personnel
have not identified any infec-
tious exposure risk to lab
workers or the public, the
CDC said.
The vials have been moved
to a high-security lab at the
CDC headquarters in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Initial tests came back posi-
tive for smallpox, and further
testing will be done to deter-
mine if it is viable, or able to
grow in tissue culture.
This testing could take up
to two weeks. After completion
of this testing, the samples will
be destroyed, the CDC said.
If viable smallpox is present,
the World Health Organization
will be invited to witness the
destruction of these smallpox
materials, as has been the
precedent for other cases
where smallpox samples have
been found outside of the two
official repositories.
According to international
agreements, only two places in
the world are authorised to
keep samples of smallpox: the
CDC in Atlanta and the State
Research Centre of Virology
and Biotechnology (VECTOR)
in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Global stockpiles of small-
pox still exist so that research-
ers can study them for
vaccines and potential drug
treatments in case another
outbreak were to occur.
The CDC has warned of
heightened concern that the
variola virus might be used as
an agent of bioterrorism, par-
ticularly in the aftermath of
the September 11, 2001
attacks.
For this reason, the US gov-
ernment is taking precautions
for dealing with a smallpox
outbreak, the CDC website
has said on a page devoted to
general information about
smallpox.
In its statement yesterday,
the CDC said it was notified by
the NIH of the discovery on
July 1, when workers were pre-
paring to move the FDA lab
from the NIH to the FDAs
main campus.
The CDC Division of Select
Agents and Toxins (DSAT) and
the FBI are investigating how
the vials got there.
A White House official said
that officials in the administra-
tion, including in the National
Security Council, had been
briefed on the incident.
Discovery of the smallpox
vials came just weeks after the
CDC in Atlanta announced
that 80 or more workers may
have been accidentally
exposed to anthrax.
The unintentional expo-
sure occurred at a high-
security lab after established
safety practices were not
followed, the CDC said on
June 19.
Anthrax gained notoriety
after a spate of US mail attacks
in 2001 killed five of 22 people
infected. AFP
Neoguri bears down on
the Japanese mainland
TYPHOON Neoguri bore down
on the Japanese mainland
yesterday after slamming into
the southern Okinawa island
chain, killing two people in the
country and leaving a trail of
damage in its wake. Packing
gusts of up to 162 kilometres
(100 miles) per hour, the
typhoon could hit the southern
main island of Kyushu today
before moving east along the
Japanese archipelago, the
national weather agency said.
Officials said Neoguri would
bring torrential rain and
warned of the risk of flooding
and landslides, after the storm
which has weakened from a
super typhoon forced half a
million people to seek shelter
in Okinawa on Tuesday. AFP
Britain follows US with

airport security rules
AIRLINE passengers entering
and leaving the UK on
potentially any routes, including
transatlantic ones and those
connecting with mainland
Europe, will be expected to be
show that electronic devices in
their hand luggage can be
powered up, British authorities
announced on Tuesday in a
tightening of aviation security.
The decision follows the
implementation of the rules at
US airports in response to
Department of Homeland
Security warnings of a credible
threat. Travellers unable to
demonstrate that devices such
as laptops and phones can be
powered up face not being
allowed to bring the devices on
to aircraft. THE GUARDIAN
Militants storm Somalia

presidential palace
ISLAMIST al-Shebaab rebels
carried out a major bomb and
armed attack on Somalias
presidential palace late on
Tuesday, penetrating the
heavily fortified complex in the
capital Mogadishu before
blowing themselves up.
Somalias internationally
backed President Hassan
Sheikh Mohamud and Prime
Minister Abdiweli Sheikh
Ahmed were not inside at the
time and were both safe,
officials said, just five months
after a similar attack by the
al-Qaeda-linked Shebaab.
Security sources said the two
men were with guards from
the African Unions 22,000-
strong AMISOM force and
authorities gave no immediate
details of casualties from the
latest attack. AFP
De Mistura succeeds

Brahimi as Syria envoy
ITALIAN-SWEDISH diplomat
Staffan de Mistura, who has
served previously in
Afghanistan and Iraq, is to
become the new UN envoy to
Syria, diplomats said
yesterday. He is to replace
Lakhdar Brahimi who resigned
at the end of May after two
rounds of peace talks yielded
no concrete results and
Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad was re-elected in
June. His nomination was
confirmed to members of the
UN Security Council but has
not yet been announced
officially by the United
Nations. One diplomat said de
Mistura would represent the
United Nations and have an
Arab deputy. AFP
Iraqi PM points finger at Kurds
Mohamad Ali Harissi

I
RAQI premier Nuri al-
Maliki yesterday accused
the countrys auto-
nomous Kurdish region
of harbouring jihadists, fur-
ther ratcheting up tension
despite calls for Iraqs leaders
to unite against a Sunni mili-
tant offensive.
And in scenes reminiscent
of the countrys brutal sectar-
ian war of 2006-7, when tens
of thousands were killed, the
authorities found the bod-
ies of 53 men who had been
bound and executed in a con-
fessionally mixed province
south of Baghdad.
The crisis triggered by a jiha-
dist-led offensive that started
exactly a month ago and soon
overran swathes of ve prov-
inces north and west of Bagh-
dad, has displaced hundreds
of thousands of people and
heaped pressure on Maliki as
he bids for a third term.
The incumbent yesterday
appeared to damage his ef-
forts to retain his post by turn-
ing on Kurdish leaders whose
support he needs, accus-
ing them of hosting militant
groups behind the onslaught.
We cannot be silent over
this and we cannot be silent
over Arbil being a headquar-
ters for Daash, and the Baath,
and al-Qaeda and terrorist
operations, Maliki said in his
weekly televised address.
Daash is the former Arabic
acronym for the Islamic State
(IS) jihadist group, which
Kurdish forces are ghting
against in north Iraq, while
Baath refers to the banned
party of executed dictator
Saddam Hussein, whose re-
gime killed tens of thousands
of Kurds.
They [militant groups]
will lose, and their host will
lose also because he did
not provide an example of
patriotic partnership, the
premier said.
Though Kurdish parliamen-
tary backing is not necessary to
form a government, the Kurds
are seen as crucial to main-
taining a united front against
insurgents led by the IS.
Malikis remarks were the lat-
est example of persistent dis-
unity among Iraqs politicians
despite calls from interna-
tional powers and inuential
Iraqi clerics for the countrys
leaders to come together.
Bickering blocs have so far
failed to form a government,
more than two months after
April 30 polls, with little sign
of an agreement in sight.
The countrys leaders typi-
cally agree key government
positions in a package, with
the post of speaker generally
going to a Sunni Arab, the pre-
miership to a Shia Arab and
the presidency to a Kurd.
Despite saying in 2011 that
he would not seek a third
term, Maliki vowed last week
he would not bow to mount-
ing international and domes-
tic pressure to step aside and
allow a broader consensus
government.
The crisis, which the UN has
warned threatens Syria-like
chaos, has sharply polarised
the countrys various commu-
nities and raised the spectre of
a return to the all-out sectar-
ian bloodletting that plagued
Iraq years earlier.
In scenes harking back to
the brutal 2006-7 period, the
authorities discovered the
corpses of 53 men in orchards
south of Babil provincial cap-
ital Hilla, all with gunshots to
the head and chest.
A morgue ofcial said the
victims were killed at least a
week ago. It was not immedi-
ately clear why the men were
killed, ofcials said.
Although attacks have taken
place in Babil province since
the IS-led offensive began, the
area where the bodies were
found was not close to the
sites of other recent violence.
Between northern Babil
and southern Baghdad lies
the Triangle of Death, a reli-
giously-diverse region known
for the ferocity of its sectarian
violence in the years after the
US-led invasion of 2003.
Iraqi forces have largely re-
grouped after the debacle that
saw soldiers abandon their
positions as jihadist-led mili-
tants conquered second city
Mosul and advanced to within
a short drive of Baghdad.
But while Iraq has received
support, including equip-
ment, intelligence and advis-
ers from the United States,
Russia, Iran and even Shiite
militias it once shunned, ef-
forts to battle the militant of-
fensive have languished.
A nearly two-week operation
to retake Saddams hometown
of Tikrit has made little prog-
ress and with government
forces still looking for a major
victory, the jihadists of the Is-
lamic State appear to be brim-
ming with condence. AFP
A lawmaker in Prime Minister Malikis bloc points a nger as he argues
with Kurdish deputies during the rst parliament on July 1. AFP
Tallies point to Indonesia poll win for Widodo
Vials of smallpox discovered in US govt storage room
A DOZEN mothers in an asy-
lum-seeker camp have report-
edly attempted suicide so their
children can be settled in Aus-
tralia, piling pressure on Prime
Minister Tony Abbott who said
yesterday that he would not be
morally blackmailed.
The Sydney Morning Herald
said the women tried to kill
themselves this week after
being told they would be taken
from a detention centre on
Christmas Island to Papua
New Guinea or Nauru.
Any boatpeople who arrived
in Australia after July 19, 2013,
cannot be resettled in the
country, regardless of whether
they are eventually judged to
be genuine refugees. They are
instead sent to detention facil-
ities or for resettlement on
islands in the Pacific.
The Australian Human
Rights Commission said it was
aware of seven women who
have either attempted suicide,
threatened suicide or self-
harmed on Christmas Island
in the last two days.
In recent weeks we are
aware of 13 asylum seekers
who fall into those categories,
a spokeswoman added.
The damaging claims come
as Australia faces growing
pressure over its controversial
immigration policies, with
High Court action under way
over the fate of 153 Sri Lankans
being held in custody on the
high seas.
They are currently detained
on a Customs boat as lawyers
argue that any transfer back to
Colombo would be illegal,
with concerns about the way
they were screened.
Another boat carrying 41 Sri
Lankans has already been
returned, with the adults on
board on Tuesday charged in
a Galle court with trying to
leave Sri Lanka illegally. The
crime is punishable by up to
two years imprisonment.
Some of those sent back
claimed they were abused,
given little food and treated
worse than dogs by Austral-
ian customs officials, allega-
tions that Immigration Minis-
ter Scott Morrison yesterday
angrily denied.
Abbott described the Christ-
mas Island claims as harrow-
ing but said his government
would not be held hostage.
This is not going to be a
government which has our
policy driven by people who
are attempting to hold us over
a moral barrel. We wont be
driven by that, he told Chan-
nel Nine television.
The fact is that the people
that are on Nauru theyre
being clothed, housed, fed and
above all else, theyre safe. They
are not going to be subjected to
any persecution in Nauru.
Now, I dont believe that
people ought to be able to say
to us, Unless you accept me as
a permanent resident, I am
going to commit self-harm.
I dont believe any Austral-
ian would want us to capitu-
late to moral blackmail.
Christmas Island Shire Coun-
cil president Gordon Thomp-
son said the women believed
that if they died their orphaned
children would have a better
chance of being settled in Aus-
tralia, the Herald reported.
They are saying the babies
have a better chance at life if I
am dead, he said. Its a shock-
ing conclusion to come to, but
thats the state of helplessness
in the centre at the moment.
The women, whose nation-
alities were not known,
reportedly either tried to hang
themselves or cut themselves
with glass. AFP
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (left) and Japanese counterpart
Shinzo Abe tour Western Australias West Angelas mine yesterday. AFP
Asylum mothers attempt
suicide to get kids to Oz
Rape row victim wants
New Zealand FM to quit
A WOMAN who a Malaysian
diplomat allegedly tried to
rape in Wellington yesterday
called for New Zealands for-
eign minister to resign over his
handling of the affair.
Alleged victim Tania Billing-
sley, 21, waived her legal right
to anonymity to call publicly
for Foreign Minister Murray
McCully to step down.
Billingsley told broadcaster
TV3 that she felt her plight had
been overlooked as McCully
attempted to deal with the
diplomatic fallout from the
alleged attack by Malaysian
military attache Muhammad
Rizalman Ismail.
Hes so intent on trying to
put the responsibility on ev-
erybody else that he wasnt
putting energy towards
xing what had happened,
she said.
Its embarrassing watch-
ing a grown man trying to put
blame and talk his way out of
what is failure at his own job
. . . I think he should resign.
Muhammad Rizalman ap-
peared in a New Zealand court
on May 10 accused of stalking
Billingsley the previous night
and attacking her at her home
in the same Wellington suburb
where Malaysias High Com-
mission (embassy) is located.
Police charged him with
burglary and assault with in-
tent to commit rape both of-
fences that carry jail terms of
up to 10 years.
The case sparked outrage in
New Zealand when ofcials in
Wellington initially said Ma-
laysia had refused to waive
diplomatic immunity and had
sent the diplomat home.
However, it later emerged
that in sending Muhammad
Rizalman home, the Malay-
sians were acting on sugges-
tions by New Zealand foreign
affairs ofcials during infor-
mal discussions.
Billingsley said police in
New Zealand had been con-
siderate, but she never felt
her wishes had been a factor
for foreign affairs ofcials in
whether or not Muhammad
Rizalman would face justice in
New Zealand.
McCully has said the option
of sending Muhammad Rizal-
man home under the cloak of
diplomatic immunity should
never have been canvassed
by his ministry, and he has
launched an investigation into
how it occurred.
Malaysia has said it will re-
turn Muhammad Rizalman to
New Zealand to face trial for
his alleged offences. AFP
Ayatollah reveals nuke demands
I
RANS supreme leader
revealed on Tuesday his
countrys demands for a
massi ve l ong-t er m
increase in its nuclear enrich-
ment capability, laying bare
huge gaps between Tehran
and world powers negotiating
a deal.
The comments, published on
Ayatollah Ali Khameneis web-
site, represent a dramatic inter-
vention in the talks currently
taking place in Vienna between
Iran and the P5+1 group of Brit-
ain, China, France, Russia and
the United States, plus Ger-
many, for a nuclear accord.
His remarks relate to the
enrichment process of pro-
ducing fuel from centrifuges
for nuclear power stations,
which the West and Israel says,
in highly extended form, could
be used to develop an atomic
bomb. Iran currently has about
19,000 centrifuges of which
only 10,000 are working but
says more powerful machines
will be needed to develop
enough nuclear energy in
the future.
Khamenei said the required
enrichment capability would
be 19 times higher than
the West currently wants to
allow under a comprehensive
agreement.
Uranium enrichment and
centrifuge numbers are the
most sensitive topic in the
negotiations, which aim to
conclude a deal by July 20.
But with less than two weeks
until that deadline, the supreme
leaders remarks exposed a gulf
that still exists between Iran
and the leading nations, who
are seeking to curb Irans nucle-
ar activities.
Referring to the machine
used in uranium enrichment,
Khamenei, who has the final
word on all matters of state,
said: Their aim is that we
accept a capacity of 10,000
separative work units, which is
equivalent to 10,000 centri-
fuges of the older type that we
already have. Our officials say
we need 190,000 (SWU). Per-
haps not today, but in two to
five years that is the countrys
absolute need.
An Iranian diplomat, quoted
anonymously by the official
IRNA news agency, said foreign
ministers from the P5+1 coun-
tries would travel to Vienna this
week to help clinch an accord.
But Frances foreign minister,
Laurent Fabius, on Tuesday
indicated divergences have
emerged between Russia and
the Western powers involved in
the negotiations to secure an
agreement, without specifying
what they were.
Whereas until now the P5+1
had a very homogeneous atti-
tude, in the past days repre-
sentatives in the negotiations
have put forward a certain
number of di f f erent
approaches between part of
the 5+1 and our Russian part-
ners, he said.
Fabius said that, while nego-
tiations on the accord had
begun, none of the main
issues have so far been
resolved.
Any nuclear deal would
involve a framework and years
of monitoring, but Khameneis
open declarations throw into
doubt the room for compro-
mise. According to American
media reports, the United
States may accept Iran having
2,000-4,000 low-powered, first
generation centrifuges.
Frances Fabius said last
month Iran could retain sev-
eral hundred centrifuges but
he disclosed that the Iranians
were asking for hundreds of
thousands.
The accord being sought by
the P5+1 aims to finally end talk
of possible US or Israeli mili-
tary action against Iran. The
Islamic republic has always
denied seeking an atomic
bomb. In exchange for an
agreement, Iran wants punish-
ing Western sanctions to be
lifted. AFP
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves after delivering
a speech on June 4. AFP
Stephane Orjollet and Max Delany

U
KRAINIAN Presi-
dent Petro Porosh-
enko was to face
renewed European
pressure yesterday to talk to
pro-Russian rebels on a truce
as Kiev tightened its grip
around jittery rebel stronghold
Donetsk.
French President Francois
Hollande and German Chan-
cellor Angela Merkel were ex-
pected to push the Western-
backed leader on a ceasere in
three-way telephone talks, but
Kiev has until now shrugged
off calls to halt an offensive
that has reclaimed a string of
key rebel towns.
Dressed in military fatigues
Poroshenko on Tuesday made
a triumphant visit to the
vanquished rebel bastion of
Slavyansk where government
troops raised the national ag
last week after pro-Moscow
insurgents ed in the face of a
erce onslaught.
Poroshenko told reporters
he would only speak to the
real masters of [the eastern
region of] Donbass the steel
workers and miners, people
who hold the most power in
the conict zone.
The resurgent leader prom-
ised to win back very soon
the regional capitals of Do-
netsk and Lugansk but the
rebels are digging in and have
pledged to battle on.
Ukraines military says it
controls all routes in and out
of the cities and a spokesman
for Kievs National Security
and Defence Council warned
a plan was in place that would
give the rebels an unpleasant
surprise.
In Donetsk an industrial
city of some 1 million people
fears are mounting among the
population that the mining
hub will face clashes similar to
the ones that gutted the citys
airport in May.
Eyewitnesses said aircraft on
Thursday carried out strikes
on an abandoned mine where
rebels are based in the western
outskirts of the city.
Rebel military chief Igor
Strelkov who Kiev accuses of
being a Moscow intelligence
operative said ghters were
working to reinforce the weak
defences around Donetsk and
bolster their numbers.
We are taking urgent mea-
sures to prepare Donetsk for
battle, Stelkov was reported
as telling the insurgents TV
station yesterday by Russias
state ITAR-TASS news agency.
Poroshenko who signed a
historic political and trade deal
with the EU last month tore
up a 10-day ceasere on July
1 because of uninterrupted
rebel attacks that claimed the
lives of more than 20 Ukrai-
nian troops.
Uneasy EU leaders are hop-
ing that a new truce and a
Kremlin promise not to med-
dle can take pressure off the
bloc to adopt sweeping sanc-
tions that could damage their
own strong energy and nan-
cial bonds with Russia.
Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin was to discuss the
Ukraine crisis yesterday with
Italian Foreign Minister Fed-
erica Mogherini who is visiting
Moscow after Rome took over
the EUs rotating presidency.
The Kremlin has been un-
usually silent since the string
of military advances by Kiev
with analysts saying that Putin
could be distancing himself
from the rebels despite calls
from hawks to send troops
across the border.
Washington meanwhile
has consistently backed the
stepped-up campaign being
waged by Ukrainian troops
and irregular forces since Po-
roshenkos promise after his
election in May to quickly
quash an uprising that has cost
nearly 500 lives and inamed
East-West ties.
The United States views
Ukraines territorial integrity
as vital to European security
and important to halting Pu-
tins seeming ambition to res-
urrect a tsarist or post-Soviet
empire.
Poroshenko on Tuesday
dismissed the man who had
headed Kievs self-proclaimed
anti-terrorist operation
since its launch on April 13
and replaced him with Vasyl
Grytsak a career security ser-
vice ofcer.
The reshufe was one of sev-
eral in the Ukrainian Security
Service (SBU) and appeared
to represent an attempt by Po-
roshenko to place trusted as-
sociates in top positions rather
than any change in tactic in
the campaign. AFP
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad decreed
an amnesty last month but for tens of
thousands of prisoners, among them high-
profile dissidents, the promise of freedom
is a fraud.
Yara Bader, 29, has been desperately
waiting for word on her husband Mazen
Darwish, a journalist and activist detained
since February 2012. Her hopes that
Assads amnesty might lead to Darwishs
release are fading, as she continues to
wage an uphill struggle against despair.
I wouldnt want anyone to go through
what we have suffered, Bader said.
The amnesty gave me real hope they
would be freed within hours, but they are
still in jail a month on, and it is impossible
to know what will happen next.
Her husband was arrested with two oth-
er prominent political prisoners blogger
Hussein Ghreir and activist Hani Zeitani.
They have been held since a February 2012
raid on the Syrian Centre for Media and
Freedom of Expression in Damascus.
Bader says she fears new charges may be
brought against the three to prolong their
detention despite the much publicised
amnesty pledge by the president.
The wait just gets harder every day, she
said. Its a reality we have to face that, in
spite of all our hopes, they may not be freed
any time soon after all.
Human rights groups say some 100,000
people have been detained since the upris-
ing against Assads rule erupted in March
2011, which escalated into an armed rebel-
lion after the regime unleashed a brutal
crackdown. Another 50,000 are believed to
be held by the regimes numerous military
intelligence branches.
On June 9, after securing a new term in
a controversial election held in govern-
ment-controlled areas only, Assad issued
an amnesty that should have freed tens of
thousands of prisoners.
Crucially, many of those detained under
the anti-terror legislation the regime has
used to lock up its opponents, armed or
not, should have been set free.
But lawyers say less than 1,500 people
have been released, very few of them polit-
ical activists or other civilians caught up
in raids.
Lama Fakih, researcher at Human Rights
Watch, said: The Syrian governments
failure to release people, and their con-
tinuing to hold them in horrific conditions
is something that should be condemned.
It appears the amnesty was issued in a bid
to gain legitimacy. Praise is not due.
Fakih added: With some exceptions, it
appears mainly those who were released
had been held for nonpolitical reasons.
The important thing to remember is that
these people should not have been
detained to begin with.
Assads amnesty promise was a fraud,
accordsing to Syrian human rights activist
Sema Nassar. Its absurd that the decree
got so much attention, considering how
small the numbers have been in compar-
ison to those still held, she said.
This is not an amnesty, its a military
operation. The amnesty was an incentive
for fighters to hand over their weapons and
to stop battling the government.
Of the better known dissidents in jail,
only a handful, including veteran regime
critic Jalal Nawfal and young activist
Hazem Waked, have been freed.
Meanwhile, the raids and arbitrary
arrest campaigns have by no means
stopped, nor have torture and other viola-
tions, Nassar said. AFP
15
World
Pressure grows on Kiev for truce
For thousands still held in Syrian
jails, Assad amnesty just a fraud
Architect of NK nuclear weapons program dies
NORTH Korea announced yes-
terday the death of retired
General Jon Pyong-ho, a chief
architect of Pyongyangs bal-
listic missile and nuclear
weapons programs and an
individually named target of
international sanctions.
Jon, who retired from public
life in 2011, died of a heart
attack on Tuesday, the official
KCNA news agency reported.
He was 88.
He will be given a state
funeral, with North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un leading
the funeral committee, said
KCNA, which noted that Jon
had devoted all his life to the
defence industry.
A close adviser of former
leader Kim Jong-il, Jon was
credited with directly manag-
ing North Koreas first nuclear
test in October 2006.
According to the NK Lead-
ership Watch website, Jon
supervised the development
of medium-range ballistic
missiles in the 1990s, and
offered the designs to Paki-
stan in exchange for detailed
information on gas centrifuge
technology and uranium
enrichment.
In 2008 and 2009 Jon super-
vised the Norths second major
long-range missile test and its
second nuclear test.
According to US intelligence
reports, he was a key figure in
the Norths international
weapons trade that involved
shipping components for
long-range missiles, nuclear
reactors and conventional
arms to countries including
Iran, Syria and Myanmar.
Over the years, he was indi-
vidually named in sanctions
imposed on North Korea by
the United Nations, United
States and European Union.
In its tribute, KCNA noted
Jons special contribution to
turning North Korea into a
satel l ite producer and
launcher and a nuclear weap-
ons state.
The announcement of his
death coincided with the
North test firing two short-
range ballistic missiles into the
Sea of Japan (East Sea). AFP
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Ukrainian soldiers feed pigeons next to their APC, near the city hall in
Slavyansk on Tuesday. AFP
Special delivery
Pilot buys
pizzas for
late ight

D
OMINOS pizza mana-
ger Andy Ritchie had
taken a lot of orders,
but never one quite like this:
to feed an entire plane full of
hungry, delayed passengers.
It was about 10:30pm on
Monday when the pilot of the
Frontier Airlines flight called
in, said Ritchie, manager at the
pizza chain in the western US
city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The pilot wanted to feed
all 160 passengers and crew
to make up for the delay, so
Ritchie and his two employees
whipped up about 35 pizzas
and sent them to the plane.
The plane, already hours
late, sat on the ground for
about two hours, and there was
no food on board. Eventually
the pilot announced: He said,
Ladies and gentlemen, Fron-
tier Airlines is known for being
one of the cheapest airlines in
the US, but your captain is not
cheap, Logan Marie Torres
recounted. I just ordered pizza
for the entire plane.
Ritchie confirmed that it
was the pilot who paid by
credit card for the order, which
was several hundred dollars,
though he could not specify
whose card it was. AFP
World
16
Why whale poo could be the secret to reversing climate change
THE first success of the envi-
ronmental movements of the
1960s was to save the whale.
Now, with deep irony, whales
may be about to save us with
their poo.
A new scientific report from
the University of Vermont,
which gathers together several
decades of research, shows that
the great whales which nearly
became extinct in the 20th cen-
tury and are now recovering
in number due to the 1983 ban
on whaling may be the ena-
blers of massive carbon sinks
via their prodigious production
of faeces.
Not only do the nutrients in
whale poo feed other organ-
isms, from phytoplankton
upwards and thereby absorb
the carbon we humans are
pumping into the atmosphere
even in death the sinking
bodies of these massive ani-
mals create new resources on
the sea bed, where entire spe-
cies exist solely to graze on rot-
ting whale. Theres an addi-
tional and direct benefit for
humans, too.
Contrary to the suspicions of
fishermen that whales take
their catch, cetacean recovery
could lead to higher rates of
productivity in locations
where whales aggregate to
feed and give birth. Their fer-
tilising faeces here, too, would
encourage phytoplankton
which in turn would encour-
age healthier fisheries.
Such propositions speak to
our own species arrogance. As
demonstrated in the fantastical
geoengineering projects
dreamed up to address climate
change, the human races
belief that the world revolves
around it knows no bounds.
What if whales were natures
ultimate geoengineers?
The new report only under-
lines what has been suspected
for some time: that cetaceans,
both living and dead, are eco-
systems in their own right.
But it also raises a hitherto
unexplored prospect, that cli-
mate change may have been
accelerated by the terrible
whale culls of the 20th century,
which removed hundreds of
thousands of these ultimate
facilitators of CO2 absorption.
As Greg Gatenby, the
acclaimed Canadian writer on
whales told me in response to
the Vermont report, about
300,000 blue whales were tak-
en in the 20th century. If you
average each whale at 100
tonnes, that makes for the
removal from the ocean of
approximately 30 million tons
of biomass. And thats just for
one species.
Theres another irony here,
too. American whaling, as cel-
ebrated in Herman Melvilles
Moby-Dick (1851), declined in
part because of the discovery
of mineral oil wells in the sec-
ond half of the 19th century.
One unsustainable resource
the whale oil which lit and
lubricated the industrial revo-
lution was replaced by
another. By killing so many
whales, then turning to car-
bon-emitting mineral oil,
humans created a double-
whammy for climate change.
Conversely, and perhaps
perversely, some US commen-
tators have claimed that capi-
talism rather than environ-
mentalists saved the whales.
They contend that our use of
mineral oil actually alleviated
the pressure on whale popula-
tions proof, they say, that
human ingenuity has the ulti-
mate power to solve the plan-
ets problems.
The 10 scientists who jointly
contributed to the new paper
note the benefits of an ocean
repopulated by the great
whales. Working on a whale-
watching boat off Cape Cod last
month, an astonishing num-
bers of fin whales, humpbacks
and minkes were seen feeding
on vast schools of sand eels.
Observers in the Azores have
reported similarly remarkable
concentrations of cetaceans
this summer.
And with a 10 per cent
increase in humpback calves
returning to Australian waters
each year, and blue whales
being seen in the Irish Sea, a
burgeoning global population
of cetaceans might not just be
good for the whale-watching
industry, they may play a sig-
nificant role in the planets
rearguard action against cli-
mate change.
It would certainly be a gener-
ous return on their part, given
what weve inflicted on them.
Indeed, as Melville imagined in
Does the Whales Magnitude
Diminish?, his prophetic chap-
ter in Moby-Dick, the whale
might yet have the last laugh,
regaining its reign in a flooded
world of the future to spout his
frothed defiance to the skies.
THE GUARDIAN
China cracks down on wild animal menu
Tom Hancock

P
ORCUPINES in cages, en-
dangered tortoises in buck-
ets and snakes in cloth bags
rare wildlife is on open sale
at a Chinese market, despite courts
being ordered to jail those who eat
endangered species.
The diners of southern China have
long had a reputation for exotic
tastes, with locals sometimes boast-
ing they will eat anything with four
legs except a table.
China in April raised the maximum
sentence for anyone caught selling
or consuming endangered species
to 10 years in prison, but lax enforce-
ment is still evident in the province
of Guangdong.
I can sell the meat for 500 yuan
($80) per half-kilo, a pangolin ven-
dor at the Xingfu happy and rich
wholesale market in Conghua said.
If you want a living one it will be
more than 1,000 yuan.
The market was the subject of a
Chinese media expose two years ago,
when a local ofcial told the state-
run Beijing Technology Times that its
role as a centre for animal trafcking
was an open secret.
The seller, who declined to be
named, said making a living from his
creatures was getting tougher. Now
its governed very strictly, he said.
But on a recent morning, traders
were out in force, with hundreds of
snakes writhing in white cloth bags
and wild boars staring plaintively
from wire cages.
Not all the produce is illegal but a
huge sign touted giant salamanders,
which are classed as critically endan-
gered one level below extinct in the
wild on the International Union for
the Conservation of Natures Red List
of threatened species.
Asian yellow pond turtles were up
for sale beside porcupines, most like-
ly from Asia, where several species
are also critically endangered.
Southern China has long been the
centre of a culinary tradition called
wild avour, which prizes parts of
unusual wild animals including ti-
gers, turtles and snakes as a route to
health despite the lack of orthodox
scientic evidence proving such ben-
ets exist.
Pangolins scaly creatures which
in the wild lick up ants with tongues
longer than their bodies are pro-
tected by the international wildlife
trade treaty CITES, to which Beijing is
a signatory.
But in parts of China they are prized
by new mothers hoping to produce
milk, and have become the focus of
a vast smuggling industry stretching
across Southeast Asia estimated to
trafc tens of thousands of the ani-
mals each year.
Beijing rst enacted laws in 1989
forbidding trade in scores of crea-
tures including the Chinese pango-
lin, but has long struggled to enforce
the ban as a booming economy has
boosted demand.
In April the countrys rubber-stamp
parliament approved a new interpre-
tation of the 1980s law which could
see jail sentences of up to 10 years for
those caught eating endangered ani-
mals, as well as for sellers.
Meanwhile, state-run media have
publicised huge hauls of smuggled
animals with border police in
Guangdong province in May shown
seizing 956 frozen pangolins, report-
edly weighing 4 tonnes.
Jill Robertson, CEO of Hong Kong-
based charity Animals Asia, de-
scribed the enhanced penalties as
a positive step, but he added that
enforcement must be strengthened,
and public education and awareness
greatly enhanced.
The illegal wildlife trade in gen-
eral has become a multibillion-dollar
business in China, she said.
But there are signs the threats and
increased penalties are having an ef-
fect. Last year a chef surnamed Wang
said that his restaurant sold pangolin
for 2,000 yuan per half-kilo, adding:
We usually braise them, cook it in
a stew or make soup, but braising in
soy sauce tastes best.
When recently contacted, none
of around a dozen restaurants spe-
cialising in wild avour admitted to
selling the meat. Tian Yangyang, a re-
searcher for Chinese advocacy group
Nature University, pointed out that
Guangdong eateries do not generally
advertise endangered species but of-
fer them to trusted customers on se-
cret menus.
Last year he sneaked into Guang-
dong restaurants where he found that
eagle and swan were widely available.
I am not optimistic the rules will be
enforced, because the legal system in
China is still not very robust, he said,
adding that the trade in protected
animals is getting worse, because it
has been driven underground.
For other species, trade is unabat-
ed, and at a Guangzhou roadside
establishment specialising in snake
stew, live king cobras in cages were
bestsellers. The animals are classied
as vulnerable on the Red List due
to habitat loss and over-exploitation
for medicinal purposes.
Eating this kind of snake is good
for the throat and head, said a 17-
year-old customer surnamed Wang,
as white-hatted chefs decapitated
and sliced them up behind a trans-
parent plastic screen.
I didnt know they were endan-
gered, she added, before tucking in
enthusiastically. AFP
AS REPTILE experts scale up
plans to capture a 2-metre
crocodile that mysteriously
appeared on the tourist is-
land of Crete, appeals have
gone out for its owner to
come forward.
Herpetologist Petros Lib-
erakis said the authorities
have fenced off a 1-kilometre
stretch of land around an ar-
ticial dam where the animal
was spotted basking in the sun
on the Greek island.
Dozens of people have al-
ready gone to the area to see
the reptile, and this is very
dangerous, Liberakis, who
works at the islands natural
history museum, said.
Liberakis said he would re-
turn to Crete from a mission to
northern Greece by the end of
the week to identify and cap-
ture the crocodile.
Authorities are also trying to
track down the owner of the
animal amid rumours a sec-
ond crocodile had been seen
in the area.
We want the person who
owned the crocodile to call
us even anonymously and
say whether there are more
of them, whether it is male or
female, and when it was left
here, local ofcial Vangelis
Mamagakis told Skai TV.
The reptile which is about
2 metres or 6.5 feet long was
sighted over the weekend
by a team of local re of-
cers who were on patrol near
Rethymnon, in the north of
the island.
The Crete crocodile is not
the rst to make an unexpect-
ed appearance in European
waters. In 2001, re ofcers in
Austria were called to rescue
a South American crocodile
from the river Danube, which
was later taken to Viennas
Schoenbrunn zoo.
Weve had several cases of
the sort before, mainly people
dumping their iguanas, Lib-
erakis said. Someone even
brought us a crocodile 10
years ago, he said. AFP
Wanted: owner of Greek
isles mystery crocodile
On top of the world
A little girl sits on an upturned couch on the Suu-Samyr plateau, 2,500 metres above sea level, near the ancient Silk Road network of trade
routes between the East and West, some 200 kilometres outside Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday. AFP
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D
OES new China equal
old Japan? Or more
pointedly, does China risk
becoming the Japan of sev-
en decades past: a rising nation that
sparks conflict and then war under
the guise of Asia for Asians?
Lets hope not, but the thought did
occur in viewing an old Japanese war-
time propaganda poster from the
Philippines on display at a small but
powerful exhibition in New York City
marking the 75th anniversary of the
outbreak of World War II. The lan-
guage of the poster is particularly
striking in the context of the contin-
ued economic and military rise of
China and that nations relations with
Cambodia and the rest of a changing
Southeast Asia.
The poster, which depicts parts of
East and Southeast Asia, in English
reads: December 8th. The third anni-
versary of Greater East Asia War to
defend Asia for and by the Asiatics.
Japans victory is the Philippines Tri-
umph. December 8th is, of course,
the date from Asias side of the date-
line of Japans attack on US forces at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Recent protests in Hong Kong and
Taiwan related to mainland China are
not on the formal agenda of the Stra-
tegic and Economic Dialogue talks
between the United States and China
that end today. But they and Chinese
maritime moves are likely to have cast
a shadow on the talks, which since
2009 have provided a diplomatic plat-
form for US-China discussion on
bilateral, regional and global oppor-
tunities and challenges. Trouble is
brewing in the East China and South
China seas, where an increasingly
assertive China is seen, fairly or not,
by many of its neighbours as a schoo-
lyard bully, taking by force what it
cant through diplomacy.
The stationing of a massive floating
deepwater oil rig by China into waters
also claimed by Vietnam is the latest
flashpoint and tensions continue to
escalate. Riots flared in Vietnam
against factories and other interests
perceived as linked to China, and vid-
eo footage of what seems to be a mas-
sive Chinese ship ramming and sink-
ing a much smaller Vietnamese
fishing boat has hit the internet.
The last few weeks, let alone years,
are no model for a way forward when
it comes to dispute resolution.
Cases in point: In November, China
announced an expanded air defence
zone encompassing airspace that
overlapped with claims by Japan,
South Korea and Taiwan. And in the
past few months, Chinese military
planes have come dangerously close
to those of the US and Japan. China,
Taiwan and Japan also all claim the
Senkaku Islands, known as the
Diaoyu Islands by the Chinese.
To the south, in an area that China
claims is all its own, within a nine-
dash line skirting the coasts of sever-
al Southeast Asian nations, Chinese
ships now patrol a reef still claimed
by the Philippines, which calls it Scar-
borough Shoal.
So far, China is losing the external
public relations war even as its
actions no doubt may play well at
home amid a slowing economy and
growing concerns over pollution
and corruption.
Pointedly, at a recent Conference on
Interaction and Confidence Building
Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in
Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jin-
ping unveiled a new Asian Security
concept that in essence calls for
Asian security to be left to Asians.
China has indeed stood up, and a
century of humiliation at the hands
of Western powers is long over, as the
worlds second-largest economy
resumes its rightful place in the
world order.
Flash back to the 1930s and 1940s
as imperial Japans propaganda
machine exhorted Asians to control
their own destinies and throw aside
the yoke of colonial rule. Asia for
Asians was the mantra. And better
yet, Japans leaders argued, come join
Japan in a Greater East Asia Co-Pros-
perity Sphere, where all would bene-
fit as Japan took its rightful leadership
role in the region.
And we all know how well that
played out. Japans vision of Asia for
Asians led it and much of the Asia-Pa-
cific region down a path to destruc-
tion. From the ashes of World War II
and the Korean and Vietnam wars
that followed, a new paradigm
evolved with the US helping guaran-
tee a Pacific peace that has allowed
Asia to prosper and, ironically, China
to rise. It is that defence status quo
being challenged by China even as
the US and Japan seek to reaffirm it.
At the Asia Security Summit held
recently in Singapore, US Secretary of
Defense Chuck Hagel and Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both
raised Chinas ire with statements
challenging Chinese territorial moves.
The US will not look the other way
when fundamental principles of the
international order are being chal-
lenged, Hagel said. We firmly
oppose any nations use of intimida-
tion, coercion or the threat of force to
assert [its] claims. Abe, in his keynote
address, announced Japans intention
to play a greater role in regional secu-
rity, in ensuring open skies and sea-
lanes, and in supporting Southeast
Asian nations in territorial disputes
with China. The potential for contin-
ued conflict remains.
Sadly, there is no third party to
intervene and in a face-saving move
make clear that all sides need to let
cooler heads prevail. China should
pull back its oil rig. The Association
of Southeast Asian Nations must
work together now and a clear code
of conduct be established in the
South China Sea, even as territorial
claims remain unresolved. And every
nation, Japan, China and the US
included, should treat each other
with respect.
With tensions mounting, it is time
for all players to take a step back
from the brink of even greater con-
flict and commit to engagement,
cooperation and a peaceful resolu-
tion to disputes. This will be essential
if this century is to be one of shared
peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pa-
cific region.
Comment
Curtis S Chin
Lets not let history repeat itself
This handout photo taken on June 23 by Vietnams maritime police allegedly shows a Chinese boat (left) ramming a Vietnamese
vessel in contested waters near a Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea. AFP
Curtis S Chin, a former US ambassador
to the Asian Development Bank under
presidents George W Bush and Barack
Obama, is managing director of advisory
rm RiverPeak Group, LLC. Follow him on
Twitter at @CurtisSChin.
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Lifestyle
In brief
Disneys Dumbo to be
remade as live-action
DUMBO, Disneys 1941
animated classic about a baby
circus elephant who can fly, is
reportedly getting a live-action
remake penned by Trans-
formers writer Ehren Kruger.
According to the Hollywood
Reporter, Kruger will write the
script and help produce the film
with Justin Springer of Tron:
Legacy and Oblivion. Dumbo
tells the story of a young circus
elephant named Jumbo Jr who
is mocked for having large ears,
earning him the cruel nickname
Dumbo. That is, until he learns
to fly using his ears as wings.
THEGUARDIAN
Katniss to be among
popular baby names
CHILDREN attending school in
2020 could find themselves
sitting next to youngsters
named Katniss and Khaleesi,
according to a report from
baby-naming site Nameberry.
The website collated search
data from users checking out
potential monikers for their
offspring in 2014, with the
results worrying fans of trad-
itional given names. Katniss,
invented for and popularised by
the blockbuster Hunger Games
movies, which are in turn based
on the hit young adult novels by
Suzanne Collins, was the 14th
most-viewed name. Hazel, the
name of Shailene Woodleys
character in the popular
romance weepie Fault in Their
Stars, was one place ahead in
13th. THEGUARDIAN
Why theres less good music now
Leonid Bershidsky
Analysis

T
AYLOR Swift, the
seven-time Grammy
winner, is known for
her articulate lyrics,
so there was nothing surpris-
ing about her writing a long
column for the Wall Street
Journal about the future of
the music industry. Yet theres
reason to doubt the opti-
mism of what she had to say.
This moment in music is
so exciting because the crea-
tive avenues an artist can
explore are limitless, Swift
wrote.
In this moment in music,
stepping out of your comfort
zone is rewarded, and sonic
evolution is not only accept-
ed . . . it is celebrated. The
only real risk is being too
afraid to take a risk at all.
Thats hard to reconcile
with Nielsens midyear US
music report, which showed
a 15 per cent year-on-year
drop in album sales and a 13
per cent decline in digital
track sales.
This could be the 2013 sto-
ry all over again, in which
streaming services cannibal-
ise their growth from digital
downloads, whose numbers
dropped for the first time
ever last year except that
even including streams,
album sales are down 3.3 per
cent so far in 2014. Streaming
has grown even more than it
did last year 42 per cent
compared with 32 per cent
but has failed to make up for
a general loss of interest in
music.
Consider this: in 2014 to
date, Americans purchased
593.6 million digital tracks
and listened to 70.3 million
video and audio streams
for a sum total of 663.9 mil-
lion. In the comparable peri-
od of 2013, the total came to
731.7 million.
Swift, one of the few artists
able to pull off stadium tours,
believes its all about quality.
People are still buying
albums, but now theyre buy-
ing just a few of them, she
wrote. They are buying only
the ones that hit them like an
arrow through the heart.
In 2000, album sales peak-
ed at 785 million. Last year,
they were down to 415.3 mil-
lion. Swift is right, but for
many of the artists whose
albums pierce hearts like
arrows, its too late. Sales of
vinyl albums have increased
40.4 per cent so far this year,
according to Nielsen, and the
top-selling one was guitar
hero Jack Whites Lazaretto.
The top 10 also includes
records by the ageing or
dead, such as the Beatles and
Bob Marley & the Wailers.
More modern entries are not
exactly teen sensations,
either: the Black Keys, Beck
and the Arctic Monkeys.
None of these artists is
present on the digital sales
charts, including or exclud-
ing streams. The top-selling
album so far this year, by a
huge margin, is the saccha-
rine soundtrack to the Dis-
ney animated hit Frozen.
When, like me, youre over
40 and you believe the music
industry has been in decline
since in 1993 (the year Nirva-
na released In Utero), its easy
to criticise the music taste of
the kids these days, a term
even the 23-year old Swift
uses. My fellow dinosaurs
will understand if they com-
pare 1993s top albums to
Nielsens 2014 list. But these
kids dont just like to listen to
different music than we do,
they no longer find much
worth hearing.
The way the music industry
works now may have some-
thing to do with that. In the
old days, musicians showed
their work to industry execu-
tives, the way most book
authors still do to publishers
(although that tradition, too,
is eroding). The executives
made mistakes and were
credited with brilliant finds.
Sometimes they followed the
public taste and sometimes
they strove to shape it, taking
big financial and career risks
in the process.
These days, according to
Swift, its all about social net-
works. A friend of mine, who
is an actress, told me that
when the casting for her
recent movie came down to
two actresses, the casting
director chose the actress
with more Twitter followers,
Swift wrote.
In the future, artists will
get record deals because they
have fans not the other
way around.
The social networks are
fickle and self-consciously
sarcastic (see the recent
potato salad phenomenon).
They are not about arrow-
through-the-heart sincerity.
Justin Timberlake has 32.9
million Twitter followers, but
hes no Jack White.
In the music industrys
heyday, it produced a lot of
schlock. But it got great
music out to the masses, too.
These days, it expects artists
to do their own promotion
and for those who are less
good at that than at making
music, it may mean not get-
ting heard. For fans it means
less good music to stream
and download.
Well, theres always the
warm and fuzzy world of
vinyl nostalgia, I guess.
BLOOMBERG
Taylor Swift speaks at the 49th Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. AFP
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On the prairie,
tributes to the
pioneer spirit
Robin Soslow

G
OOD thing Id pulled
off the interstate for
gas in central Ne-
braska, or I would
have missed a terric side trip.
Anything nearby worth
seeing? I asked the cashier.
At the midpoint of my rst
cross-country trip years ago, I
was eager to reach the Rocky
Mountains ve hours west.
But my legs ached for a break
from highway driving.
Head down Highway 10 to
Minden and look for Harold
Warps Pioneer Village, the ca-
shier suggested. Lots of amaz-
ing stuff!
This detour took me to a
time machine. Highway 10, aka
Harold Warp Memorial Drive,
still leads to Pioneer Village, as
I happily conrmed on a re-
cent road trip. This isnt some
Williamsburg-like re-enactor
production, but an 80,000-
square-metre wonderland of
once mind-boggling and still
mind-blowing testaments to
American ingenuity.
Harold Warp knew about
ingenuity. At age 20, in 1924,
he patented Flex-O-Glass,
a translucent weatherproof
plastic hed invented to en-
close the chicken coops on his
Nebraska farm. (Flex-O-Glass
was the precursor to Plexiglas.)
Success enabled him to ac-
quire things not status sym-
bols, but machines, vehicles
and other inventions that pro-
pelled industry and culture.
Warp made his rst big ac-
quisition in 1948: the one-room
schoolhouse hed attended
as a boy, complete with desks
and books. Five years later, he
opened Pioneer Village.
Pioneer Villages 28 buildings
now hold more than 50,000
artifacts, from TVs to kitchen
sinks, farm equipment to
Americas rst ghter jet, an
1822 ox cart to electronics from
1975. Its billed as the worlds
biggest private collection of
Americana anywhere. Circling
the grounds, I believe it.
Warp died in 1994. His
great-nephew Marshall Nel-
son now manages the non-
prot pantheon and shares
backstories as visitors wander,
mesmerised, around the cav-
ernous main building.
Pointing to a curious vehicle
resembling a wood-slat sled
with wheels, a steering column
and bucket seats, Nelson says
its a 1916 Smith Motor Wheel
speedster manufactured by
AC Smith. It can transport two
passengers at a speed of 25
mph. When I was a kid, we
rode it! Nelson says.
Overhead, a silver Curtiss
Aeroplane dangles from the
rafters. Its the rst plane to
carry air mail and the rst to
y from New York to Philadel-
phia and back in a single day,
Nelson says. Aviation pioneer
Glenn Curtiss used the planes
central framework and engine
in his lighter Golden Flyer to
win the speed prize at the 1909
Reims Air Meet in France.
American art is represented in
bygone landscapes painted by
Picture Maker of the Old West
William Jackson and plaster
Rogers Groups gurines mass-
produced in the late 1800s by
sculptor John Rogers for the
nations rising middle class.
It makes sense to nd Pio-
neer Village in this heartland.
Its the midpoint of cross-
country routes, including a
modern interstate, historic
Lincoln Highway, even the Or-
egon, Mormon, California and
Pony Express trails. And theres
land aplenty for a citizen to
create a shrine to American
ingenuity.
Its the kind of detour that
turns into a highlight of a trip.
THE WASHINGTON POST
An original animal from the rst steam carousel from the 1880s, which
can be seen at Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. THE WASHINGTON POST
Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska, has American inventions and
home goods dating as far back as 1822. THE WASHINGTON POST
Entertainment
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Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Rabbits tail
5 Wild swine
9 Mary, Queen of ___
14 Theater section
15 Teen headache
16 Storied bear contingent
17 Insignificant, as chatter
18 Ms. Horne
19 Soapbox-derby entrant
20 Most significant entitlement
23 Make sharper, as a blade
24 Lemon suffix
25 Social dud
29 Barely manage (with out)
30 Cats foot
33 Follow, as advice
34 Glacial sand deposit
36 Tiny aquatic plant
37 6-Down, in a famous song
40 Socks parts
41 Fretted fiddle
42 Zola or Griffith
43 Muff one
44 To ___ it mildly ...
45 Positively charged electrodes
46 Feel like garbage
47 Social starter
49 Big-ticket item factor
57 Money spent
58 Cold coating
59 Piece of farmland
60 Writer Gertrude
61 Many microbrews
62 Predatory sea bird
63 Heavy volumes
64 Incubation station
65 The windows to the soul
DOWN
1 Like some chances
2 Closing passage
3 Wrinkly-skinned fruit
4 Many a freshman
5 X may mark it
6 Neptunes realm
7 Lennox of Eurythmics
8 Paper quantity
9 Walked briskly
10 Make sore by rubbing
11 Whale of a movie?
12 Pour out
13 Like autumn leaves
21 Cotton fabric for trousers
22 Spoken for
25 Like some finishes
26 Athenas blood
27 Take the wheel
28 Watch chains
29 Jannings of old films
30 Like some golfers clothes
31 Like a ballerina
32 Diminishes in intensity
34 Sweater, e.g.
35 Bustling activity
36 Pistol pellets and such
38 Palate lobe
39 Super-smart people
44 Rock climbers spikes
45 Optimally
46 Actress Harmon
47 Like a crone
48 Points the finger at
49 More than half
50 Prefix for pilot
51 Bookkeeping entry
52 Shahs place, once
53 Give off coherent light
54 Repulsive
55 Fifty-fifty test choice
56 Shows of support
THE PRINCIPAL THING
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates
a series of crimes. He joins forces with an
unconventional priest, schooled in the rituals of
exorcism, to combat the possessions that are
terrorizing their city.
City Mall: 11:50am, 2:15pm, 6:30pm, 9:45pm
Tuol Kork: 12:20pm, 1:20pm, 9:50pm
Meanchey: 4pm, 6:25pm, 9:30pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
A mechanic and his family join the Autobots as they
are targeted by a bounty hunter from another world.
Starring Mark Wahlberg.
City Mall: 11:30am, 1:25pm, 4:40pm, 6:50pm, 9pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am, 2:45pm, 5:55pm, 9:05pm
Meanchey: 9:25am, 2:30pm, 8:50pm
MY HOUSE
Khmer movie.
City Mall: 9:20am, 2:40pm, 4:35pm, 7:50pm, 10pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am, 11:25am, 1:35am, 3:45pm,
5:40pm, 7:55pm
Meanchey: 12:35pm, 2:05pm, 5:40pm, 7:35pm
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an
acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love
that sweeps them on a journey. They met and fell in
love at a cancer support group.
City Mall: 9:20am
Tuol Kork: 11:05am
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
(See above.)
9:20am, 3:50pm, 6pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
(See above.)
9:30am, 11:25am, 1:50pm, 5:40pm, 8pm
MY HOUSE
(See above.)
9:30am, 11:15am, 1:10pm, 2:15pm, 3:10pm,
4:50pm, 6:30pm, 8:15pm
NOW SHOWING
Karaoke @ Sundance
Sundance Inn & Saloon presents Western
Karaoke, with more than 40,000 songs
from all genres to pick from. Hosted by
Mick the Mic.
Sundance Inn & Saloon, 61AB Street 172,
8pm
Self defence @ PPCC
Phnom Penh Community College is
running a one-o self-defence program
with the Grace Protection technique run
by an experienced, visiting facilitator from
Australia.
Today is the rst in three classes. The
course is $75. Places are limited email
info@phnompenhcommunitycollege.com
to register.
Phnom Penh Community College, corner
streets 63 & 294. 6:15pm
Swing @ CODE Red
Join American swing instructor Janice
Wilson for either beginners classes or
intermediate classes, followed by jam.
Intermediate class is at 6:30pm,
beginners at 7:30pm.
CODE Red, opposite Naga World,
Riverside
TV PICKS
11:10am - THE WATCH: Four men who form a
neighbourhood watch group as a way to get out of their
day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the
Earth from an alien invasion. FOX MOVIES
11:45am - THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE: A
Vegas magician tries to revive his career after his partner
quits, he gets fired from his casino act, and an edgy new
street magician steals his thunder. HBO
3:40pm - ANGER MANAGEMENT: Adam Sandler plays a
businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-
management program, where he meets an aggressive
instructor. HBO
7pm - ARGO: Acting under the cover of a Hollywood
producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a
CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six
Americans in Tehran during the US hostage crisis in Iran
in 1980. HBO
Grace Protection: not like karate. AFP
Ben Afeck stars in Argo. AFP
Cupcake @ TLJ
Every day at its Monivong outlet, Tous
les Jours bakery presents
Worldcupcake: an articial soccer eld
using cupcakes.
Tous les Jours, 298 Monivong
Boulevard, 8am
21 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 10, 2013
Sport
Three locals in fray for
Faldo Series honours
H S Manjunath

Y
OUNG golfers from
six countries will
compete for a spot in
next years Asia Grand
Final at Mission Hills in China
when the third edition of the
Cambodian leg of the Faldo
Series Asia tees off this Satur-
day at the award-winning Sir
Nick Faldo-designed Angkor
Golf Resort in Siem Reap.
Split into three different cat-
egories this year, the 25 golfers
in the fray 17 boys and eight
girls will vie for ve Mission
Hills tickets on offer.
The winner of the Boys U21
group and two qualiers each
from the Boys U16 and Girls
sections based on the best 36
hole gross score will be eligible
to take part in the ninth Asia
Grand Final, which is a world
amateur golf ranking event.
As a special gesture, six-time
Major winner Faldo has offered
a place in the Grand Final for
the best performing Cambo-
dian among the three in con-
tention this year irrespective of
their order of nish.
While Sokhamony Thong
and Pich Meta will represent
Cambodia in the Boys U21 cat-
egory, 14-year-old Tevy Sare-
oun is among the eight contes-
tants in the Girls competition.
It may be recalled that a
similar special offer had been
made to Cambodias lone
competitor Seng Vanseiha in
2012 despite him nishing
down the eld. But for per-
sonal reasons the youngster
could not make the trip.
We hope to build on the
success of the last two years
and benet more young
golfers from Cambodia and
neighbouring countries, AGR
director of golf David Baron
told the Post yesterday.
Thailand heads the list of
entries with 15. The others in
the eld are three Cambodi-
ans, three South Koreans and
one each from Malaysia and
the United States. Interesting-
ly, there are also a pair of twins
from New Zealand of Cambo-
dian lineage.
The rst round tees off
at 9am on Saturday with
the nal round begin-
ning at 8:30am on Sunday.
The 2013/2014 Faldo Series
Asia schedule features a re-
cord 22 tournaments in 18
countries, including four in
mainland China, two in India
and others in the Philippines,
Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal,
Singapore, Brunei, Japan, Pak-
istan, Indonesia and Thailand.
Bangladesh, New Zealand and
Australia are new additions to
the ever growing list of Faldo
Series venues.
The series is supported by
The R&A, ISPS Handa and
Mission Hills and is endorsed
by the Asian Tour and the Asia
Pacic Golf Federation.
In keeping with the Faldo
Series convention of encour-
aging grassroots development
alongside top class competi-
tive experience, the AGR will
be organising a clinic for 20
students from the Siem Reap-
based charity organisation
Build Your Future Today (BFT).
Founded by a Khmer Rouge
survivor, BFT is working to make
life better for the locals.
Sir Nick Faldo will offer at least one Cambodian a place in his Series Asia Grand Final next year in China. AFP
THREE-TIME PGA Tour win-
ner Jimmy Walker arrived in
Aberdeen for this weeks Scot-
tish Open admitting it will be
only the third occasion in his
career hes tasted links golf.
Walker, 35 is joining four
other PGA Tour-based Ameri-
cans in defending champion
Phil Mickelson, Ryan Palmer,
Kevin Stadler and Rickie Fowl-
er in the event being played
for the rst time on the Royal
Aberdeen course.
In fact, Fowler is one of just
a handful in the eld who has
previous experience of com-
peting on the links gem having
being a member of the losing
USA 2011 Walker Cup side.
Walker began the wrap-
around 2013/14 PGA Tour
schedule capturing last Octo-
bers Frys.com Open and then
commenced the New Year
with success in the Sony Open
in Hawaii and victory in the
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
And the Oklahoma City-
born Walker further cement-
ed a debut place in the USA
Ryder Cup team with a share
of eighth place in the Masters
and then a tie for ninth in the
recent US Open.
However, after missing the
cut by a stroke in last years
British Open at Muireld,
Walker is keen to boost his
links experience, competing
in Scotland before heading
southwest to next weeks Brit-
ish Open at Royal Liverpool.
When you play often in
the States everything looks
very green, very lush and the
golf courses they prepare for
us each week are second to
none, he said.
But then when you come
over here the courses just look
so natural.
We have a couple of golf
courses in the States that look
like that such as Prairie Dunes
in Kansas where the NCAA
Championships will be held
this year.
But to come here and see
this golf course, and see the
ball run as it does, and to ex-
perience the different way of
thinking about playing golf
and getting around the golf
course is very different.
So before coming here
Ive only played the Renais-
sance Club where I was stay-
ing last year for The Open
and Muirfield so they are my
only experiences of playing
links golf.
Playing Muireld last year
was all about getting com-
fortable and hitting certain
shots.
So it was a combination of
not putting well and not be-
ing able to hit the golf shots I
wanted to, and the ball wasnt
coming out the way I was see-
ing and really all I needed was
more links practice.
Walkers appearance in the
Scottish Open will mean he
will miss out on the opportu-
nity to play practice rounds at
Gleneagles over his coming
weekend.
US Captain Tom Watson
revealed last week during the
Greenbrier Classic he was
hoping upwards of 20 possi-
ble and probable team mem-
bers would make the effort to
join him at Gleneagles.
However, and unless Walker
missed the Royal Aberdeen
halfway cut, he is fully com-
mitted to winning the Scot-
tish Open title.
I had committed to playing
here months and months ago,
so when Tom called the other
day I said I would love to but
I have committed myself to
this event, he said.
But then in talking with
him it sounds like we are go-
ing to arrive at Gleneagles on
the Monday before and the
matches will not start to Fri-
day, so there will be plenty of
time up there.
Ive heard about four or ve
will be up at Gleneagles. AFP
Walker enthralled by
Scottish links venture
Sport
Taekwondo stars head
to South Korean event
A TRIO of Cambodian
taekwondo fighters including
2013 SEA Games gold medallist
Sorn Sivmey, silver medal
winner Sorn Davin and Phan
Khemara with their South
Korean coach Choi Yongsok flew
out to South Korea yesterday to
join an international competitio.
The trip was possible after the
fighters received a $4,000
donation from South Korean
citizens and $2,500 from
Cambodian Commercial Bank.
Son Seavmey and her sister Son
Davin will both fight at 73kg
while Phan Khemara will
compete in mens 54kg. CHHORN
NORN, TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Kittel takes Tour triple
as Froome suffers scare
MARCEL Kittel continued his
incredible domination of the
sprint finishes by claiming his
third stage out of four at the
Tour de France on Tuesday. But
there was a scare for defending
champion Chris Froome, who
crashed early on and injured his
left wrist. There were no such
worries for Vincenzo Nibali,
though, who retained his race
leaders yellow jersey. Following
victories in the first and third
stages in England on Saturday
and Monday, Kittel just edged
out Norways Alexander Kristoff
on the 163.5km fourth stage
from Le Touquet to Lille. AFP
Donald Sterling comes
out swinging at trial
A FEISTY Donald Sterling
testified he was duped into
taking two mental health
exams that he said his wife
used to try and strip him of
ownership of the Los Angeles
Clippers. Sterling displayed a
wide range of emotions in court
on Tuesday, repeatedly clashing
with veteran Hollywood lawyer
for the stars, Bert Fields. But
then other times he seemed on
the verge of tears when talking
about the NBA, saying they are
not good people. But the
billionaire, 80, was most
interested in sparring with
Fields, 85, the lawyer for his
estranged wife Shelly Sterling,
who is seeking the authority to
sell the NBA team. Sterling
insists he doesnt want to sell
the team because of economic
reasons, claiming he could get
up to $5 billion in a sale for the
team he has owned since 1981
and predicted an antitrust suit
he launched against the NBA
would net him $9 billion. AFP
Lewis leads US women's
charge at British Open
IN RECENT years, South
Koreans have hogged the
headlines in womens golf but
the tide is finally turning. Three
Americans and Norways
Suzann Petersen have won the
last four majors and Stacy
Lewis defends the Womens
British Open at Royal Birkdale
this week as the world No 1.
The 29-year-old Texan is in a
fine streak of form. She has
won three times in the past
couple of months and was
runner-up to Michelle Wie at
the US Womens Open at
Pinehurst three weeks ago.
You look at the first half of this
year and see how many
Americans have won and
theres definitely been a switch,
said Lewis. I think from the
Solheim Cup [defeat last year]
we have all been motivated." AFP
ONE FC rolls out epic bonus
scheme for spirited fighters
Dan Riley

I
F CAMBODIAN ghters didnt
have enough incentives already
to grab a place on ONE Fighting
Championships mixed martial
arts card on September 12 at Koh Pich
Theatre, yesterdays announcement
by ONE FC CEO Victor Cui of a $50,000
ONE Warrior Bonus to all those who
represent the spirit of MMA just made
the stakes irresistible.
The match-ups for ONE FCs in-
augural ght night in Cambodia,
entitled Rise of the Kingdom, have
yet to be announced, and MMA
gyms are pushing for their mem-
bers to be included in one of the nu-
merous bouts promised to feature
local prospects.
In a post on his Facebook page
yesterday, Cui said: For every event,
the bar will be very, very high. If a
few ghters impress me, then I will
hand out the bonus to a few ghters.
If no one impresses me, then no one
will get it.
He added: Extraordinary perfor-
mance deserves extraordinary re-
wards. Ordinary performances de-
serve ordinary rewards."
The potential windfall easily eclipses
any amount available to champions of
MMA or Cambodian kickboxing (Kun
Khmer) in domestic competitions.
At CTNs cage ghting tournament
Khmer Warrior Championship, last
years winners Khon Sechan (57kg)
and Yous Samal (60kg) were reported
to have received about $3,000 each.
Kickboxer Khon Reach had to take
victories in nine ghts at 71kg in the
2013 Pandey Wine Championship to
collect his prize money of 10 million
riel ($2,485).
Four criteria have been outlined for
the decision to award a ghter with a
ONE Warrior Bonus: thrilling the fans
with exciting action, demonstrating
an incredible warrior spirit, exhibit-
ing amazing skill and delivering a
phenomenal nish.
The announcement, which stat-
ed that the bonus scheme would
be implemented immediately, came
just two days ahead of ONE FCs
ground-breaking event in Taiwan,
War of Dragons.
Tomorrow nights 11-bout card at
the National Taiwan University Sports
Center in Taipei will be headlined by
a featherweight contest between Fili-
pino Eric Kelly (10-1) and Rob Lisita
(14-5) of Australia.
In the co-main event, Japanese
lightweight Koji Ando (9-3-2) will
take on undefeated Brazilian Rafael
Nunes (10-0).
Other matches include Japans Ko-
etsu Okazaki (9-3-1) of Japan against
fellow bantamweight Yusup Saadu-
laev (12-3-1) of Russia, light heavy-
weight Jake Butler (3-1) of the US
facing Egypts Mohamed Ali (9-6) and
hometown heavyweight hero Paul
Cheng (4-1) going toe-to-toe with
Mahmoud Hassan (1-3) of Egypt.
A rousing rematch between English
heavyweight Chi Lewis Parry (5-0) and
Hong Kongs Alain Ngalani (1-1) will
also be fought along with Taiwanese
bantamweight Sung Ming-yen (2-1)
against Singapores Nick Lee (2-1),
Zhang Zheng-jie (2-0) of Taiwan tak-
ing on Malaysia lightweight Rayner
Kinsiong (2-0), Taiwan welterweight
Jeff Huang (3-1) facing MMA debutant
Bala Shetty of India and cage ghting
newcomer Nathan Ng of Hong Kong
clashing with French featherweight
Florian Garel (2-3).
Fight fans can watch the action live
on STARSports from 6pm Cambo-
dian time.
Costa Ricas Ariel Sexton lands a ying knee on Irans Kamal Shalorus during their
lightweight bout at ONE FC War of Nations in Kuala Lumpur on March 14. ONEFC.COM
Little ruggers
An Aspeca player runs with the ball during a rugby sevens game at Old
Stadium on May 18. Local rugby development charity Kampuchea Balopp
will host the Enfants DAsie Youth Rugby Tournament this Sunday morn-
ing at the KB All Sports Field. The tournament, from 7:30am to 10am, is
funded by the Robert Abdesselam Foundation and jointly organised by
Kampuchea Balopp and French NGO Enfants DAsie Aspeca. According
to organisers, U9, U11 and U13 teams from several NGOs including PSE,
CCF, ISF, CED, Our Home, Enfants dAsie and Mith Samlanh will compete
in a fun but competitive rugby festival atmosphere. Participating kids
will provided with water and snacks as well as a T-shirt each, and the
winning side will collect a trophy. PHOTOBY BINGGUAN, WORDS BY DANRILEY
Pate 310 ready to strike
H S Manjunath
THE second game day of the
Angkor Beer Cambodian Bas-
ketball League, co-sponsored
by Pepsi and Smart, features
two matches this Saturday at
the Olympic Stadium Indoor
Arena with all four teams
craving a first feel of the new
wooden floor.
The 2pm clash between
Extra Joss Fighters and Pate
310 will set the ball rolling
before GL Concrete square off
against Sabay Tigers Mosqui-
toes from 4pm.
There are some unknown
factors surrounding the Fight-
ers regarding how well they
position themselves in com-
parison to other teams. The
side can count on a few play-
ers from last seasons Warriors
roster, but its total outlook
and strength is far from clear.
At the other end of the spec-
trum, Pate 310 appear a strong
force this term with several
new signings, notably forward
Ouch Phanat hopping over
from IRB The Lord and centre
Kim Ran from CCPL Heat.
Both these players were part
of the Cambodia team that
took part in 2013 SEA Games
in Myanmar.
Led by point guard Chea
Koktry, Pate 310 could be a hot
proposition this season, with
the bench considerably
strengthened by the presence
of forward Sok Tour and guard
Taing Peng Kuy.
Several new local players
figure in the GL Concrete line
up alongside experienced
men like forward Sum Phalla
(formerly with Pate 310) and
point guard Adam Noah (for-
merly with Post Buffaloes).
Captain and centre Tun
Chamnan would be anxious
to see how well the forma-
tions work out against the
Mosquitoes, who can pride
themselves of a reasonably
sound roster which has the
towering presence of two
familiar names: Curran Hen-
dry from last years champi-
ons Alaxan FR Patriots and
Geoff Harry, a past Cellcard
Eagles player.
An NSK Dream player drives through during a CBL game against the
CCPL Warriors last Saturday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Football
23
U13 Boys teams whittled
down to 16 in Tonle Bati
THE Cambodian National U13
Football Championships, being
held at the National Football
Centre in Tonle Bati district of
Takeo province, concluded its
group playoff on Tuesday with
sides booking their places in the
last 16 round of the knockout
phase starting on Friday
afternoon. The highlight of the
32-team group stage was a
national record rout by Royal
Cambodian Armed Forces of
Kep, who mercilessly smashed
in 31 goals to no reply against
Group E opponents Sovan
Phum Children. Last 16
matches include Phnom Penh
Empire v Ang Snul Children,
Svay Rieng FC v Anti-Drug
Entity, RCAF Svay Rieng v
Raksmey Krahom Kor, Koh
Kong v Phnom Svay Emperor,
RCAF Prey Veng v Phnom Penh
Crown, RCAF Oddar Meanchey
v RCAF Kep, Pailin v RCAF
Takeo and RCAF Ratanakiri v
RCAF Pailin. CHHORNNORN,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Nike will not renew kit
deal with Man United
NIKE have revealed their kit
sponsorship deal with
Manchester United will end
after 13 years at the close of
next season, with the company
claiming the terms demanded
by the club did not represent
good value for shareholders.
While United currently receive at
least 23.5 million ($40.3
million) a year from Nike, it is
thought the 20-time champions
are trying to seal a record-
breaking new deal of up to 70
million a season. Meanwhile,
English defender Luke Shaw
and Spanish midfielder Ander
Herrera will make their debuts
for United during the Premier
League teams preseason tour
of the United States this month.
They will be joined on the cross-
country trek by some of Uniteds
World Cup players, including
Wayne Rooney (England), David
De Gea (Spain), Shinji Kagawa
(Japan) and Juan Mata (Spain).
THEGUARDIAN/ AFP
Maradona accuses ex of
theft, seeks her arrest
FOOTBALL legend Diego
Maradona, who has been a
commentator at the World Cup
in Brazil, is seeking the arrest
of an ex-girlfriend he accuses
of stealing, his attorney said on
Tuesday. The Argentine
footballer, 53, whose personal
life has not been short on
drama, charges that Rocio
Oliva, 22, made off with items
including watches and
diamond earrings. AFP
Russian Priest claims
boots are abomination
IF EXITING the tournament at
the group stages was not bad
enough, Russias World Cup
squad must now also deal with
an orthodox priest describing
their decision to wear brightly
coloured boots as a
homosexual abomination.
Alexander Shumsky made the
wild assertion in a column for
Russian Peoples Line, a
Christian website. He claimed
that by wearing boots that
were, among other colours,
green, yellow, pink and blue,
the Russia players were
promoting the gay rainbow
during their shorter-than-
expected stay in Brazil. THE
GUARDIAN
Nasal combatant
Svay Rieng forward Dzarma Bata (left) grabs the nose of Kirivong Sok Sen Chey defender Nhim Sovanara as they tussle during their MCL game at Olympic Stadium yesterday. Reinging
champions Svay Rieng were in formidable form, tearing apart their opposition for a 9-0 annihilation. Nigerian hotshot Bata headlined with ve goals, Prak Mony Odom grabbed a brace,
while Nob Tola and Samoeurn Pidor added on a piece. PHOTO BY SRENG MENG SRUN, WORDS BY CHHORN NORN
Brazilians cry, curse at exit
Chris Wright

B
RAZILIANS cried, cursed
their president and covered
their faces in shame after
their beloved football teams
humiliating 7-1 thrashing by Germa-
ny in the World Cup semi-nals on
Tuesday.
After the fth goal, well before half-
time, hundreds of people left their
expensive seats at the stadium in the
southeastern city of Belo Horizonte.
A section of the crowd chanted
obscenities against the players and
President Dilma Rousseff, who during
the cup had mostly enjoyed a reprieve
from protests over the record US$11
billion spent to host the tournament.
The tears began well before the nal
whistle, with the third German goal
in the rst half causing children and
adults to start bawling in the stadium
and in public screenings across the
continent-sized nation.
As people streamed out, police re-
inforced security inside and around
the stadium, but no incidents were
reported there.
Others around the country shouted
at their televisions and abandoned
public screenings as the Selecao suf-
fered the biggest defeat of its 100-year
history.
Neymar must be vomiting at home
watching this disaster. The horror,
said Marina Genova, 54, watching at
a popular bar district in Sao Paulo, re-
ferring to Brazils injured star.
Amid the deluge of goals, a down-
pour only added to the already
gloomy mood of thousands of fans
in Brazils canary-yellow jersey at the
ofcial Fan Fest on Rio de Janeiros
Copacabana beach.
Two dozen fans scufed, forcing po-
lice to intervene.
In Sao Paulo, several buses were
torched in a parking lot but police
could not conrm whether the attack
was linked to the defeat.
Brazilians were already concerned
about the teams chances after Ney-
mar broke a vertebra in the quarter-
nal victory over Colombia. But they
never thought it would be this bad.
This is a terrible match and Brazil
without Neymar are terrible. I hate
this match. Its embarrassing to lose
like this, said Beth Araujo, 24, a biol-
ogy student.
The only good thing is I think it will
affect President Dilma in the election.
But all our politicians are even worse
than the team, she said.
Rousseff said she was very sad and
sorry about the result.
Brazil had hoped to exorcise the
ghost of its defeat to Uruguay in the
1950 World Cup nal in Rio de Janeiro,
a national trauma dubbed the Mara-
canazo because it was played in the
Maracana Stadium.
This time, TV commentators were
talking of the Mineirazo, after the
Mineirao Stadium, with the sports
website globoesporte.com calling the
defeat the Shame of Shames.
But Jessica Santos, a 23-year-old
photo student, was taking the massa-
cre in stride.
The cup is back in Brazil for the
rst time in 64 years so of course well
cheer until the end, she said. If Bra-
zil wins, we party, if Brazil loses, we
still party. It would have been worse
to lose to Argentina in the nal.
Others turned to social media jokes
to ease the pain, posting pictures
of Rios iconic Christ the Redeemer
statue covering its face in shame or
even replaced by German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.
The insults against Rousseff, who
is seeking re-election in October,
showed that tensions remain fol-
lowing massive demonstrations that
rocked the country last year when
Brazilians demanded better health
care and education.
Some Brazilians have voiced con-
cerns that Brazils failure to win the
World Cup could spark more protests
and clashes.
Its a disaster. It will be chaos. People
will break everything. Theyre going to
be furious, said Karina Marques, a 17-
year-old footballer who watched the
game at a street screening in Rio at-
tended by 30,000 people.
At a squatter camp of homes made
of wooden planks outside Brasilia,
people turned off their televisions in
disgust before the end.
In tears, Maria Jose Costa Almeida,
35, asked: Why spend so much on sta-
diums, bring the cup to Brazil, to win
nothing?
German press swoon after rout
Meanwhile in Germany, national
media were left swooning as their
team recorded the highest scoring
semi-nal in World Cup history.
This victory is for eternity! beamed
top-selling daily Bild with Miroslav
Klose referred to as a football god
after scoring his 16th World Cup goal
to become the tournaments all-time
sole top scorer.
Argentina? Holland? It doesnt
matter! Germany are the favourites,
enthused Die Welt in reference to
Sundays nal at Rio de Janeiros Ma-
racana Stadium.
The miracle of Belo Horizonte is
already legendary, the Berlin-based
broadsheet added after Andre Schuer-
rle and Toni Kroos both netted twice in
the rout as Germany raced into a 5-0
lead after just 30 minutes.
Germany will contest their rst nal
since 2002 with Munich-based Sued-
deutsche Zeitung declaring In a rush
to get to Rio! after Thomas Mueller
put the Germans ahead after just 11
minutes.
Muellers 10th World Cup goal in
just his 12th appearance marked Ger-
manys 2,000th international goal, and
moved him to ve in Brazil, one behind
Colombias James Rodriguez. AFP
Fans of Brazil at the FIFA Fan Fest in Rio de Janeiro tear up during their 2014 FIFA World
Cup semi-nal against Germany being held at Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte. AFP

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