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Stuart White
THE first
hearing of the
Khmer Rouge
t r i buna l s
Case 002/02 will be held
today, marking the start of
the sub-trial in which the
gravest charges levied
against the Democratic
Kampuchea regimes senior-
most leaders will be heard.
With Case 002/01 the first
sub-trial in the courts case
against Khmer Rouge leaders
Nuon Chea and Khieu Sam-
phan having wrapped up
last year and a verdict due on
August 7, the court will begin
today to hammer out the
logistics of hearing much of
the remainder of the Case
002 indictment.
While Case 002/01 drew
criticism for its relatively nar-
row focus, the scope of the
case beginning today will
include the allegations most
commonly associated with
the regime in the popular
discourse. Charges relating
to genocide against the Viet-
namese and the Cham, secu-
rity centres such as the noto-
rious S-21, the persecution of
Buddhists and forced mar-
riages and rape among oth-
ers will all be on the table.
Much of the hearing,
according to court legal
communications officer
Lars Olsen, will concern
itself with setting that table.
The parties will be invited
to submit their views on the
proposed witnesses from
various parties. They will be
discussing the sequencing
of the trial; that is, when the
KRTs
second
sub-trial
to begin
Daniel Pye and Meas Sokchea
P
ROGRESS towards
amending the constitu-
tion and election law
key prerequisites of a
deal to bring the opposition
party into parliament hit a snag
yesterday, with Cambodia
National Rescue Party president
Sam Rainsy saying the next steps
depend on the ruling party.
Three working group meetings
were held at the National Assem-
bly aimed at amending the rules
of parliament, the election law
and the constitution.
The result today varied from
one group to another, Rainsy
said. The working group on the
National Assembly has com-
pleted its work. The draft amend-
ment has been completed. It will
be submitted for approval when
the National Assembly meets.
But the two working groups
on the constitution and the elec-
tion law have not moved forward
very significantly, he added.
The cross-party meetings yes-
terday followed the announce-
ment on Monday that rights
group Licadho president Pung
Devils in the details
Slow going as working groups hammer out nal agreements
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 30, 2014
On laws, CNRP
in familiar fight
Laignee Barron
L
ONG beyond the blaze
of the campaign trail,
the opposition party
has continued prom-
ising to push its seven-point
platform once lawmakers take
their National Assembly seats.
But before the CNRP can
battle for its $1.5 billion social
and economic reform agenda
on the assembly oor, it will
rst have to overturn regula-
tions that, left as standing,
would render the party effec-
tively toothless.
In theory, the July 22 deal
that ended the political dead-
lock appears to divvy assembly
power between parties, split-
ting equally the chairmanships
of the 10 commissions and
electing an opposition vice
president to counter the ruling
partys assembly president.
But according to Ou Virak,
Cambodian Center for Human
Rights, chairman, regulation
loopholes rig the system in the
ruling partys favour.
The president [of the Na-
tional Assembly] has all the
discretionary power, and un-
less that is changed, it will con-
tinue to limit the role of the op-
position, he said.
According to a chapter of
assembly regulation long con-
tested by the opposition, while
any lawmaker can submit draft
legislation to the standing com-
mittee, which then forwards
it on to the relevant commis-
sion, there is no timeline or
policy to ensure proposals get
forwarded and discussed. And
the assembly president, who
heads the standing committee,
reserves the only veto power.
We are on our way to mak-
ing amendments to this, said
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann,
adding that he could not di-
vulge the partys proposed
solution as the working group
just got under way yesterday.
This isnt the rst time the op-
position has lobbied to change
the assembly status quo: in
2008, Prime Minister Hun Sen
publicly promised to give the
opposition a larger legislative
voice, but later reneged.
But analysts noted that in
comparison to the weaker op-
position party of 2008, now,
with almost half the National
Assembly seats, the CNRP con-
stitutes a more serious threat.
I think theres a recognition
that the legitimacy of [the CPPs]
one-party National Assembly
strained credulity in the eyes of
the international community,
said Cambodian-American
academic Ear Sophal.
And without the CNRP in
their seats, the one-party as-
sembly struggles to defend the
democratic validity of its laws.
The CPP cannot act in iso-
lation like before, Sovann
said. I dont think the CPP
wants to give us anything, but
it is the will of the people that
the opposition has a voice in
the government.
But even if the parties do
agree to new regulations, the
chance the CNRP could swing
a two-thirds majority of the as-
sembly to their favour is slim.
While the opposition may
not have much hope of passing
legislation that the [CPP] op-
poses, they can play a political
game of distinguishing their
priorities and policies, said
Carl Thayer, professor emeritus
at the University of New South
Wales, adding that the bonuses
arent all one-sided.
If the opposition plays its
role, the CPP can attempt to
demonstrate to the public that
the CPP is still dominant but
also willing to work with the
opposition . . . The international
community will continue its
support for Cambodia and for-
eign investors will be relieved
that unrest through street dem-
onstrations are likely to end and
that a period of relative stability
is on the horizon.
Parties hammer out nal agreements
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Chhiv Kek had accepted an offer
to become the crucial ninth
member of a reformed National
Election Committee (NEC).
She will likely hold the decid-
ing vote in the new election body,
with four candidates appointed
to represent the interests of both
the CNRP and ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party.
Choosing Kek as the ninth
member, widely seen as the only
candidate both parties could
agree on, removed what was
thought to be the biggest stum-
bling block in the way of fulfilling
the political deal struck between
Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun
Sen on July 22.
The oppositions 55 elected
members could still take their
seats as early as next week,
but Rainsy said yesterday this
now hinges on how the CPP
approaches the next round of
talks.
At the request of the CPP, they
have requested another meeting
either on Friday or Monday. They
say they cannot meet [today]. We
are prepared to meet [today], but
how we move forward now real-
ly depends on the CPP delega-
tion, he said.
Members of the CPP working
group could not be reached to
respond to Rainsys comments.
The CPP, however, is heralding
the beginning of a new era of
transparency in the country.
Speaking to reporters after the
conclusion of yesterdays talks,
Chheang Vun, spokesman of the
National Assembly and head of
the CPPs delegation, said that in
future, politicians from both
sides of the aisle would hold
press conferences after each par-
liamentary session.
We have amended the
National Assemblys regula-
tions so that, after each session
of parliament, every political
party with seats in the parlia-
ment will have the opportunity
to talk with journalists by hold-
ing press conferences for 20
minutes, he said.
Reporters will not be allowed
to attend sessions of parliament
or photograph inside the cham-
ber, he added.
CNRP spokesman Yem Pon-
narith downplayed perceived
obstacles in the talks, saying that
the talks lasted until about 6pm
because the opposition had so
many questions for the govern-
ment working groups.
Before, we have not imple-
mented [the internal regula-
tions] fully. We have debated for
a long time on this point, to have
the government implement
them according to the internal
order of parliament, either ver-
bally or in writing, he said.
Phay Siphan, spokesman for
the Council of Ministers, said
Hun Sen had shown he was will-
ing to preside over a transition
period.
The CNRP accused the elec-
tion committee [of bias]; now
everyone has agreed to over-
haul itits a very good move,
he said.
He has reformed the Nation-
al Assembly for the national
interest, even though he doesnt
have to. He said in a recent CPP
meeting he likes to see partici-
pation from everybodywe
want to see the CNRP have a
voice [in parliament] to scruti-
nise the government.
We want action from the
opposition, to be partners in
prosperity and the pursuit of
happiness.
Representatives of both par-
ties declined to comment on
who might claim the remaining
eight seats on the NEC, although
some names have been put for-
ward, including Kuoy Bunroeun,
a former CNRP lawmaker for
Kampong Cham province.
Koul Panha, executive director
of election monitor Comfrel,
said he would consider a posi-
tion on the NEC if he was select-
ed, but he would have to see the
amended laws and regulations.
Because the people have
become interested in the politi-
cal process, now it is very differ-
ent than before.
Prime Minister Hun Sen leaves the National Assembly in Phnom Penh
on Monday after a meeting with Sam Rainsy. HENG CHIVOAN
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Citys bus service to expand
Chhay Channyda

T
HE government will
take next month to
establish an autono-
mous transport au-
thority before introducing
two new public bus lines in
September, bringing the total
number of routes to three.
Adding to the citys current
10 buses, 40 recently arrived
at the port of Preah Sihanouk
province from South Korea
for the bus lines expansion,
Phnom Penh City Hall spokes-
man Long Dimanche said. Of-
cials met yesterday to begin
planning for the new routes.
We will take one month
to create the leadership of
the autonomous authority of
public transport, Dimanche
said. We have not found any
private companies yet, so City
Hall will run it.
The municipality will run
the routes until a private rm
can be contracted, he added.
Choice Taxi Company ap-
plied for the contract about
two years ago, general direc-
tor Choi Dae Yong said.
Dae Yong hopes his compa-
ny can partner with the mu-
nicipality in running the three
bus lines, he said in a phone
interview yesterday.
[We are] waiting for their
answer back from the city,
Dae Yong said. If possible,
we can join with City Hall in
managing the [bus] system in
cooperation.
In March, Global (Cambo-
dia) Trade Development was
given a contract for Phnom
Penhs existing line, which
runs along Monivong Bou-
levard. But the municipal-
ity pulled the rms contract a
month later, leaving City Hall
to run the buses.
Fares currently run passen-
gers 1,500 riel ($0.38).
With all three routes in place,
Phnom Penh will have one
line operating from Monivong
Boulevards Kilometre 9 to
Kdev Takuv pagoda, a second
from the roundabout by the
French Embassy on Monivong
to Kandal provinces Takhmao
town and a third from Phnom
Penhs Night Market along the
riverside to Dangkor districts
Choam Chao commune, Di-
manche said.
While new to Cambodia,
the 40-bus eet at Preah Siha-
nouks port has previously car-
ried passengers along routes
in South Korea, he added.
They are second-hand
buses, but they are OK for us
to use. When they arrive in the
capital, we will paint over their
current colours, design logos
and start running them. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
Locals catch a ride down Phnom Penhs Monivong Boulevard during a public bus trial earlier this year. CHARLOTTE PERT
Tougher ELC oversight pledged
May Titthara
IN WHAT is the governments
latest pledge to hold tycoons
and foreign investors to
account for their business
practices, the Ministry of Envi-
ronment will begin assessing
existing and proposed eco-
nomic land concessions (ELCs),
cancelling or rejecting those
that have negative social or
environment impacts, a docu-
ment obtained yesterday says.
The ministry will create a
working group to oversee the
countrys myriad ELCs, study-
ing and offering advice on exist-
ing concessions and developing
environmental impact assess-
ments on proposed projects,
says the document, signed by
Environment Minister Say Sam
Al and dated July 10.
[The working group] will
suggest to project owners in
writing that they address the
social and environmental
affects spelled out in the evalu-
ations, the document reads,
adding that the group will have
the power to revoke licenses or
reject applications.
In April, rights group Licadho
estimated that land disputes
had affected some 500,000
people across the country.
Despite a moratorium on
new ELCs issued by Prime Min-
ister Hun Sen in May 2012 and
a subsequent land-titling
scheme, new disputes have
continued to be reported.
All the while, allegations of
illegal logging in and around
ELCs have flooded in from
various parts of the country.
But Ministry of Interior
spokesman Sao Sopheap said
yesterday that the working
group would provide many
positives.
[It] will contribute to cutting
down the negative social and
environmental effects of [ELCs],
which have caused conflict
between development firms
and people, he said.
Chan Soveth, senior investi-
gator for rights group Adhoc,
said he welcomed more strin-
gent oversight of ELCs but was
less convinced that the working
group would stem the flow of
land disputes.
If the evaluation process is
not transparent, people will
continue to protest daily, he
said. If studies are conducted
thoroughly, it could result in a
decrease in disputes.
The challenge would be mak-
ing the process transparent
and ensuring that companies
adhere to orders from the min-
istry, he said.
A truck sits in a logging camp next to a stockpile of lumber in an economic land concession in Ratanakkiri
province late last month. HENG CHIVOAN
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
TWO students were con-
victed yesterday of raping an
underage girl in a forest last
year in Phnom Penhs Por Sen
Chey district.
Heng Kesaro, Phnom Penh
Municipal Court presid-
ing judge, sentenced Roeun
Khaem, 21, to six years in
prison, while Park Thy, 17, was
sentenced to three years.
The girl was only 14 when
she was raped on July 28, 2013.
Khaem and Thy were convict-
ed of having sexual intercourse
with a minor under 15.
It has been ordered they
jointly pay 6 million riel
[$1,500] to the victim, Kesaro
added.
According to Captain San
Peth, chief of Kakab commune
police, the pair was arrested a
day after the incident, based
on a description by the victim.
They persuaded the vic-
tim to go for a walk and ride
a motorbike with them. But
later they brought her to a
nightclub in Phnom Penh
and forced her to drink beers
until she was drunk, he said.
After she got drunk, they
brought her to a forest in
Chamkar Auloek village, rap-
ing her once each, he added.
He added the pair sent her
back home after raping her,
but the victim and her par-
ents reported them to police
the day after.
Neither the accused nor
their defence lawyers could be
reached for comment yester-
day, but during their trial on
July 1 they confessed to having
sex with the victim that night.
She was my girlfriend and
we have loved each other for
many months, and weve had
sex many times before, Roe-
un Khaem said. I did not forc-
ibly rape her. She consented to
having sex with me.
According to a United Na-
tions report released last year,
about one in ve Cambodian
men between the ages of 18
and 49 acknowledge having
raped a woman more than
half of those men were young-
er than 20 when they raped for
the rst time.
The verdict in a similar case,
involving two men accused of
raping a young woman ear-
lier this year, is due to be an-
nounced today.
Chhay Channyda
EXPATRIATES working in
Cambodia without labour
identication cards will face
nes and even jail when strict
new enforcement kicks in, ac-
cording to a July 16 joint state-
ment from the ministries of
interior and labour.
Government inspectors, the
statement adds, will begin
checking workplaces immedi-
ately in order to fully enforce
a law the ministries say has
rarely been enforced.
Under that law, employers,
the statement adds, must pro-
vide ID cards to expatriates,
separate to their visas.
We want to implement
this more effectively, because
ASEAN integration in 2015
will strengthen the need for
expatriate jobs, a Ministry of
Labour said ofcer on condi-
tion of anonymity.
By law, if they do not have
labour IDs, they will be ned
200,000 to 500,000 riel [$50 to
$125], he said, adding that in
extreme cases or for repeat of-
fences, they could be jailed for
up to three months.
All relevant authorities
should implement this joint
declaration effective immedi-
ately, the statement reads.
The unnamed ministry of-
cer said that one reason be-
hind announcement was to
collect revenue for the govern-
ment. Labour IDs for foreign
workers cost $100.
Heng Sour, spokesman for
the Ministry of Labour, could
not be reached for comment.
Yov Khemara, director of the
labour department in Preah
Sihanouk province, said his
province had issued 432 expa-
triate labour IDs to workplaces
over the past three years.
We will cooperate even
more after this new an-
nouncement, because after
the General Department of
Immigration is created, they
will urge the job to be fully
implemented, he said.
The department was estab-
lished in April and operates
out of the Ministry of Interior.
Chao Mao Virak, deputy
police chief in charge of im-
migration in Siem Reap prov-
ince, said his police ofcers
had not yet implemented the
joint statements orders.
What I can say is that we
have more than 1,000 expats
working in Siem Reap, but I
dont know if all of them have
working cards, he said.
Its not new work. Its all in
the law that we have to imple-
ment it, he said.
According to immigration
law, the Ministry of Interior
has the right to expel any for-
eigner coming to work in Cam-
bodia without a labour ID.
Students given prison
time for raping girl, 14
Expatriates need
IDs: government
By law, if they do not have
labour IDs, they will be
fined 200,000 to 500,000
riel [$50 to $125]
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different allegations will be
heard. And there will also be a
discussion of the availability of
the parties in terms of when they
can start the evidentiary hear-
ings, Olsen said.
Under the prosecutions
proposed sequencing plan,
Case 002/02 would be divid-
ed into phases that focus on
different joint criminal enter-
prise policies, according to a
May filing. The first segment
would deal with the role of the
defendants, before proceed-
ing on to security centres, the
treatment of the Vietnamese
and Cham, worksites and,
finally, forced marriage.
The main point we wish to
get across is that we are pleased
that the Chamber has the sec-
ond trial officially underway,
prosecutor William Smith
said in an email yesterday. We
will assist it as much as we
can to accomplish all the nec-
essary practical steps to start
the evidentiary hearings as
soon as possible.
The Khieu Samphan defence,
however, has contested the
characterisation that its client
was involved in a joint criminal
enterprise (JCE), and will have
the opportunity to make its
case again. According to Olsen,
the Samphan team will be per-
mitted to make a submission
seeking clarification on the
extent to which Case 002/01
will serve as a foundation for
002/02.
In the previous case, the pros-
ecution repeatedly argued that
the policies of the JCE to which
the defendants belonged had
resulted in the catastrophe of
Democratic Kampuchea. If Case
002/01 is indeed to serve as a
foundation in Case 002/02, a
guilty verdict in that case could
colour the evidence to be heard
in the upcoming one.
However, Samphan defender
Arthur Vercken argued in an
email yesterday that the scope
of Case 002/01 was too narrow
to arrive at such a conclusion,
and to do so would be to sacri-
fice justice to the new god of
emergency.
[A] condemnation on a global
JCE, more than a strategical
problem, would be a huge judi-
cial [heresy], Vercken said.
According to Olsen, parties
today will also have a brief peri-
od to argue against particular
allegations they may take issue
with that a charge of genocide,
for example, should instead be
classified as wilful killing.
If the parties intend to make
suggestions that some of these
crimes should be classified as
something other than what
they are in the closing order,
they will have time to do that,
Olsen said.
Civil party lawyers, he added,
will also have the opportunity
to make submissions on pro-
posed reparations projects
aimed at addressing the harm
caused to victims by the
regimes policies.
Civil party representatives did
not respond to requests for
comment as of press time yes-
terday, but ideas such as provid-
ing access to mental health
services, and vocational train-
ing for the children of forced
marriages have been floated at
recent planning meetings.
Though todays hearing repre-
sents the start of a trial that many
believe will be a years-long proc-
ess, the uncertain situation of
the courts government-opposed
Cases 003 and 004 has left some
wondering whether Case 002/02
will be the tribunals last gasp.
The definition of genocide
justice is not defined by either
the old or new trial, said Youk
Chhang, executive director of
the Documentation Center of
Cambodia, whose research has
been instrumental in the trial.
However . . . to many survivors,
the curtain of the ECCC is being
closed, and perhaps this is the
end. It is a mix-feeling between
despair and hope.
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KRTs Case 002/02
set to begin today
Busted near border
Stung Treng
police make
drug arrest
P
OLICE in Stung Treng
province arrested one
Lao national yesterday
who had, authorities say,
slipped over the border ille-
gally toting nearly a kilogram
of methamphetamines.
The suspect was identified
as Seang My, 39, Laotian,
who was from Phongsaly
province in the north, said
Nou Hour, director of the
anti-drug trafficking office in
Stung Treng province.
The suspect was detained
at 11:30am after secretly
crossing a known immigra-
tion corridor in Thala Barivat
districts OSvay commune.
Police found 993 grams of
methamphetamine product
packed in tape, he said.
We just finished ques-
tioning this evening and we
are preparing documents on
drug trafficking, he said.
After his arrest, we tested
him and found drug substan-
ces in his body, and anti-drug
authorities will send him to
Stung Treng provincial court
today for legal action, he
said. PECHSOTHEARY
A group of Cambodian men and women wait to take part in a mass wedding ceremony organised by Khmer
Rouge ofcials at an undisclosed location in the late 1970s. DC-CAM
Demonstrators say jobs in Japan promised
Sen David

H
UNDREDS of Cam-
bodians hoping
to migrate to Ja-
pan to work in the
electronics industry yesterday
protested outside an NGO
taht they claim conned them
out of up to $200 each with
promises of jobs.
About 100 protesters out of
a total of 300 who are claiming
their course fees back from the
Cambodian Asian Labor Alli-
ance Organization (CALAO)
protested outside its ofce
in Phnom Penhs Meanchey
district yesterday, claiming
they were duped by slick radio
advertising and false promises
from staff.
The CALAO denied that it
had misled trainees, and of-
fered to pay back part of the
funds to settle what it deemed
a misunderstanding.
Chea Sokha, 35, from Kam-
pong Chhnang province, said
he was demanding the organ-
isation refund him after not
being asked to interview.
We do not have any con-
dence that we could to travel
to work in Japan like the NGO
promoted . . . It turned out that
none of the trainees who were
selected to interview . . . went
to work in Japan, he said.
Another disgruntled trainee,
Heng Piseth, 25, from Kam-
pong Cham province, said
a radio advertisement had
persuaded him to sign up for
the program.
I heard from the radio pro-
motion that all the trainees
who trained for three months
will travel to work in Japan.
Arriving at the protest yes-
terday, military police called
on the two parties to negotiate
a settlement whereby CALAO
would pay back a percentage
of the fee.
CALAO representative Nut
Cham Nab agreed but said
that the group had no obliga-
tion to directly arrange work
for the trainees.
My NGO does not have any
obligation to send them to
work in Japan directly. We only
train their Japanese-language
skills, he said. Anyway, we
agreed to pay them back, be-
cause we did not want to have
any problem with them.
Protesters gather at the Cambodian Asian Labor Alliance Organization
ofce yesterday to demand the return of their course fees. SUPPLIED
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Phak Seangly
A ROYAL Cambodian Armed
Forces soldier was charged
yesterday by Preah Vihear
Provincial Court and held in
pretrial detention for the fa-
tal shooting of a teenage soy-
bean farmer.
Poeun Tash, 30, a soldier
from Unit 41 in Kulen district,
was charged with murder and
possession of a weapon with-
out permission, according to
provincial deputy prosecutor
Sreng Vuthea.
Kaing Soeum, the soldier
who lent Tash the AK rie on
Sunday, was also charged in
absentia. Soeum remains at-
large with a warrant out for
his arrest.
It was not [Tashs] own rie,
he borrowed it . . . lying that
he was going into the forest to
shoot a monkey, but instead,
he shot and killed another
person, Vuthea said.
In his confession to police,
Tash admitted to entering
the forest, where he spotted
villagers planting soybeans
on what he claims was land
belonging to his boss, Major
Sun Horm. Tash claimed that
he tried to stop the villagers,
but they refused.
He shot once in the air and
once at the ground, but more
and more villagers walked
towards him, so he shot at
them, killing Try Chamroe-
um, Vuthea said, basing the
account on the perpetrators
confession.
Svay Min, father of the 19-
year-old victim and a volunteer
at the Cambodian Red Cross
in Siem Reaps Chi Kraeng dis-
trict, urged police yesterday
to seek justice further up the
chain of command.
Bringing the perpetrator to
jail is not enough and not fair.
The court needs to look for the
one who ordered the shoot-
ing, Min said.
He added that with the price
of land in the area increasing
to $3,000 per hectare, wealthy
and powerful businessmen
have been trying to kick villag-
ers off their land, often using
threats of violence.
They always demand we
leave, and when we refuse, the
misfortune happens to us.
Min said his son was just a
grade nine student helping his
family migrant farm labour-
ers plant soybeans during
school vacation.
You dont know how much
I suffer from the loss of my
son, he said. I cannot sleep
or eat.
Soldier singled out for
fatal shooting charged
Wages do not compute: ILO
Sean Teehan

N
GOs say the Minis-
try of Labours use
of its own method
for determining the
garment industrys minimum
wage is risking a repeat of the
tensions that exploded in vio-
lent protests in January, when
authorities killed at least
ve people.
More than six months after
the Labour Ministry commis-
sioned the International La-
bour Organization to help set
a formula to calculate the gar-
ment sectors minimum wage,
the advice has not been heed-
ed, ILO national project coor-
dinator Tun Sophorn said.
For this year, [the Labour
Ministry] will use their own
way in terms of minimum
wage setting, Sophorn said.
The minimum wage in the
garment industry stands at
$100 per month.
A 10-day nationwide strike
to demand $160 ended
abruptly on January 3 when
government forces opened
re on unruly demonstra-
tors in Phnom Penh, killing at
least ve people. Afterwards,
ministry ofcials told unions
and international buyers that
the ILO would assist them in
coming up with a steady for-
mula to annually determine
the minimum wage.
But due to time constraints,
Sophorn said, the ministry
cannot implement a process
based on objective data.
Labour Ministry spokesman
Heng Sour did not respond to
calls or a text message yesterday.
Its taken far too long al-
ready, and the urgency is
great, and if their strategy is
to say they didnt have enough
time . . . that boggles the mind,
frankly, said Dave Welsh,
country director of labour
rights group Solidarity Center.
Since a ministry taskforce al-
ready found a living wage to be
$160 last year, the government
can begin there and adjust each
year for cost of living increases,
said Moeun Tola, head of the
labour program at the Commu-
nity Legal Education Center.
With no concrete method of
setting wages and the decision
ofcially resting with the min-
istrys Labour Advisory Com-
mittee, Tola fears continued
industrial unrest.
Im afraid industrial rela-
tions could not be resolved,
Tola said. The mass [strikes]
will happen just like late 2013
and early 2014.
A garment worker holds a placard in front of the Ministry of Labour during a mass protest in Phnom Penh
earlier this year to demand a $160 minimum wage for the industry. HENG CHIVOAN
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post indicated below.
Title: Assistant Date: 22 July 2014
Grade: G5 Deadline for application: 8 August 2014
Contract type: Fixed-term Duty station: Phnom Penh
Duration: Post of limited duration Position No: 360530
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Assists the supervisor in organizing committee meetings, workshops and training courses including travel arrangements 2.
and performs liaison duties as needed based on RSC programme and plans;
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Drafts routine non-technical correspondence based on instructions from supervisor, prepares informal translation, takes 4.
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Screens WHO documents(e.g. proposals, agreements) before processing through the Global Management System(GSM); 5.
Processes signed documents through Accounts Payable for payment and places the statement of expenditure in the GSM; 6.
Scans documents, creates and sends requisitions through the GSM and uploads the duly signed documents to the Records 7.
Management System;
Assists the supervisor in monitoring the implementation of the RSC workplan; 8.
Assists the supervisor in proposal development; 9.
Maintains condential and general management les; 10.
Prepares and maintains transport arrangement; 11.
Keeps lists of names, addresses and telephone numbers of government ofcials, non-governmental partners and other 12.
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Performs other related duties as required. 13.
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Post is subject to local recruitment and will be lled by persons recruited in the local commuting area of the ofce. Interested
applicants are strongly encouraged to create a prole in WHOs e_Recruitment website at: www.who.int/employment.
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Risky business
Gem miner
killed after
day farming
A
GEM miner was killed
on Monday when a hole
he and his wife had
dug caved in on him, police
in Ratanakkiri province said
yesterday.
Dy Vy, 32, and his wife, En
Sreypov, 30, ethnic Tompuon
villagers from Bakeo district,
were digging for gems, as
they often did after finishing
their daily farming work, said
district deputy police chief
Sing Sok.
According to Sreypov, the
couple had dug about 10
metres into the ground before
the hole collapsed, trapping
her husband, Sok said. She
screamed for help, but by the
time other villagers arrived
and dug out Vy, he had died.
A traditional funeral was
prepared, Sok said, adding
that outsiders were not
allowed to attend. His body
was buried in the cemetery.
Despite warnings from
authorities, many unlicensed
miners across the country
risk their lives mining for
gems and gold, some in a bid
to strike it rich, others just to
make a living. KHOUTH SOPHAK
CHAKRYA
Group brings fists to
gun fight . . . and wins
A GUN is no guarantee of safety,
particularly if youre not pre-
pared to use it. Police said a 34-
year-old found that out the hard
way on Tuesday after driving up
to a restaurant and firing a cou-
ple of shots into the air to
threaten a group of men. Within
seconds, the six diners had dis-
armed the man and proceeded
to use his own gun to pistol-
whip him into unconsciousness.
Still not satisfied, they destroyed
his car with chairs and rocks.
Police suggested the two sides
may have had previous history.
They might be on to something.
RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Fugitive comes to prison
for a visit, invited to stay
IF YOURE a wanted man, visit-
ing a pal at Phnom Penhs Prey
Sar prison might not be the
brightest idea. But thats
exactly what one 35-year-old
Dangkor district man did this
week. After going to buck up
his friends spirits, he found
himself spotted by police, who
tied him to a long string of
fraud cases involving a Lexus,
several motorbikes and $1,500
cash. No word on if hell be
able to share a cell with his
mate after his court hearing.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Thief attempts to flee
at break-leg speed
A PANICKED getaway ended
abruptly and painfully for a
burglar on Monday. Police
said the suspect, 22, had been
working on a lock of a Sen
Sok district home with an iron
bar and screwdriver when
neighbours saw him and
shouted for help. The man
scaled then leapt from a wire
fence, breaking his legs in the
process. Perhaps feeling a
twinge of sympathy for the
now immobile burglar, the
assembled crowd skipped the
customary beating. Hell
recover in hospital before fac-
ing a judge. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Crook arrested on
laundry list of charges
IT TOOK months, but a Tbong
Khmom province robber is
behind bars after his arrest
on Monday. Police said the
man had managed to elude
capture after stealing a moto
at gunpoint. The close call
didnt translate into any par-
ticular care on his part, how-
ever, as police saw him pass
this week and acted on the
long-standing arrest warrant.
He subsequently copped to
using violence, illegally own-
ing a gun and buying stolen
property. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Drug bust sees addicts
give up dealer to cops
A LOW-level drug arrest on
Monday produced a second
arrest marginally higher up
the chain. Police said events
kicked off with a raid on a
drug den in Stung Trengs
Thalar Borivath district. After
scooping up two men and a
woman at the site, quickly
forthcoming confessions
pointed them in the direction
of the trios dealer, who was
nabbed with a package of
yama later that day. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
National
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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
Positon: Economic and Agriculture Development Team Leader
Locaton: Phnom Penh
Closing Date: 06 August -14
General Descripton
Provides overall leadership and management to an integrated Economic and Agriculture Development
programming that contribute to the sustained well-being of vulnerable children in target communities and
adhere to best practice, align with the with the WV partnership and NO strategy.
Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in Economics or Small Business/Entrepreneurship any of the social sciences or business 1.
administraton
At least ve years experience in small business development or value chain development or economic 2.
development with at least two years experience in a management role
Be able to develop proposal, funding acquisition and grant management for major government donors 3.
Strong planning and organizational skills and be able to prioritize and handle multiple tasks, and work 4.
gracefully under pressure.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in a cross-cultural environment, and ability to analyze 5.
and solve problems, persuade, network and negotiate.
Computer literate in Microsoft Ofce, Lotus Notes or similar database, email and Internet. 6.
Able to embrace organizational values towards the mission of WVC 7.
Positon: Senior Campaign Manager for Nutriton
Locaton: Phnom Penh
General Descripton
To lead in the delivery of the Child Health Now campaign at the natonal level, and manage the Child Health Now
(CHN) campaign sta team. This positon will work closely with colleagues involved on the issue of nutriton and
child health both within World Vision and with other external partners (NGOs, civil society, and Government).
Requirements:
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At least 5 years professional experience in managing advocacy actvites including research, lobbying, 2.
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Demonstrated experience in successful project management including sta management, nancial 3.
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(publicatons, media, local advocacy, event management, policy analysis and development).
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Locaton: Phnom Penh
General Description
Advocacy & Justice for Children Specialist will respond to engage support ofces and coordinate specics
advocacy initiatives according to the regional strategic priorities, and provide technical support in the
development and implementation of advocacy programs in the East Asia Region through provision of technical
assistance to National Ofces (NOs), coordination /facilitation of NOs capacity building and managing research
information & resources.
Requirements:
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organizations
At least two years experience in dealing with INGO, IO, UN and embassy representaton, and direct experience 3.
in conductng research
High level of awareness of global and regional socio-economic, politcal and environmental issues 4.
Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving, collaborative, facilitation and time management skills 5.
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(CoMPASS Farming Project)
Locaton: Svay Chek District, Banteay Meanchey Province
General Descripton
To provide overall leadership, planning and management to ensure the quality of CoMPASS Farming project. 1.
Lead in providing the effective technical supports of computational simulation of agricultural production, 2.
cost/benet analyses, agricultural production planning and execution, and overseeing the technical application
with farmers, Community Base Organizations (CBOs) and Agricultural Cooperatives.
Lead the development of agricultural production simulations using Agricultural Production System Simulator (APSIM). 3.
Ensure documentation of project model and project model scale-up plan 4.
Ensure partnership and well cooperation with Provincial Departments and District Ofces of Agriculture 5.
Requirements:
Bachelor of Rural Development, or Agronomy. 1.
At least 2 years of professional experiences in agriculture extension, facilitating participatory planning of 2.
agribusiness including production and marketing planning.
Having interest in computational simulation of agricultural production and Prerequisite familiarity about 3.
Agricultural Production System Simulator (APSIM) are value added.
Demonstrated good experiences and skills in project monitoring including data collection, systematic 4.
documentation and data analysis.
English Prociency and computer skill including Microsoft Ofce, Lotus Notes (or similar software), 5.
This Project targets are Banteay Meanchey (Svay Chek and Thmor Pouk districts) and Siem Reap (Chikreng 6.
district)
Fully able to embrace organizational values and possess a high level of commitment towards the mission of WVC. 7.
Positon: Project Coordinator for Computer Modeling & Partcipatory Approach for Sustainable System of
Farming (CoMPASS Farming Project)
Locaton: Banteay Meanchey & Siem Reap Provice
Closing Date: 08 August 2014
General Descripton
To ensure the successful implementation of project activities including implementation of computational 1.
simulation of agricultural production, cost/benet analyses, agricultural production planning and execution,
and project monitoring with farmers and Agricultural Cooperatives. Assist Project Manager to document
project model and project model scale-up plan
Assist Project Manager in Project Planning, reporting and building partnership with Provincial Departments 2.
and District Ofces of Agriculture.
Requirements:
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At least 2 years of professional experiences in participatory planning of agribusiness including production 2.
and marketing planning.
Having interest in computational simulation of agricultural production and Prerequisite familiarity about 3.
Agricultural Production System Simulator (APSIM) are value added.
Demonstrated experiences in data collection, systematic documentation and data analysis. 4.
English Prociency and computer skill including Microsoft Ofce, Lotus Notes (or similar software), 5.
This Project targets are Banteay Meanchey (Svay Chek and Thmor Pouk districts) and Siem Reap (Chikreng district) 6.
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WVC.
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Workers seek pay after fire
Pech Sotheary

A
DAY after the Chang
Feng garment fac-
tory burned down
in the capitals Por
Sen Chey district, most of the
roughly 900 employers now
effectively out of work gath-
ered yesterday to demand pay.
But a meeting between
worker representatives and
factory ofcials themselves
still reeling from the death of
a 42-year-old clothing inspec-
tor in the blaze resulted only
in workers being offered cash
loans of up to $100 to help
them in the short term.
All the workers took the
deal, since some of them rent
houses, said worker Khet Dy,
who added that workers were
demanding their monthly pay
packets. I still want my salary
and the incentives.
Hong Chanthorn, a union
representative, said the loan
money had come not from the
factorys owner who is still
receiving medical treatment
but a former manager who
had attended the meeting.
The former bosss name is
John. He is a Chinese man who
lent his money to the workers,
Chanthorn said.
Ofcials believe an electrical
malfunction was to blame for
the blaze, which burned the
factory down early on Monday.
As well as claiming one life, it
injured three others.
Chang Shengs administra-
tion manager, Ly Chantry, said
management did not yet know
the cost of the damage or what
else they would do to assist the
workers.
Dave Welsh, country direc-
tor for labour-rights group
Solidarity Center, said the
workers were certainly owed
wages, but the amount would
depend on whether the facto-
ry reopens. There is a formula
under the Cambodian labour
law, Welsh said. In some cases
in the past, he added, factories
had been forced to pay when
res were found to be caused
by electrical faults.
However, Ken Loo, secre-
tary-general of the Garment
Manufacturers Association in
Cambodia, did not think there
was any legal obligation for
factories to pay workers.
I do know the government
is setting up a committee to
look into the demands and re-
quests of these affected work-
ers, he said. So lets leave this
committee to do its work. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
Two men survey the ruins of a garment factory after a re levelled the premises in Phnom Penhs Por Sen
Chey district on Monday. ELI MEIXLER
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JULY 30, 2014
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Neighbours keep keen eye on Myanmar opportunities
REGIONAL businesses, particularly
those based in Thailand, are con-
tinuing to eye opportunities in Myan-
mar, downplaying concerns that the
countrys political situation may be
a hindrance to investment.
Several Thai business delegations
visited Yangon last week looking to
expand in the fast-growing economy,
though some experts warned that fur-
ther reforms in Myanmar are required
to attract investment.
Thai investment in Myanmar will
reach $100 billion in the next 15 years
through projects in a number of sec-
tors, Thai Ambassador Pisanu Suvana-
jata said at a seminar hosted by Bang-
kok Bank on July 18.
Myanmar needs to ensure politi-
cal and economic [reforms] carry on,
and constraints on doing businesses
in Myanmar must be eliminated, he
said. Thailand was the second-largest
source of approved foreign invest-
ment in Myanmar as of the end of
June, worth about $10 billion or 22
per cent of the total, with much of the
total thought to be from PTTEPs off-
shore oil and gas projects. China was
the largest, with approved invest-
ments of $14 billion.
However, Thai investment in
Myanmar has been diversifying.
Siam Cement Group announced
plans for a $400 million cement fac-
tory in Mon State last week.
Several Thai banks are also still in
the race for foreign banking licences,
while garment and footwear factories
are looking to set up shop, drawn par-
tially by lower labour costs.
Thailand has been run by a military
junta since a May 22 coup. Ousted
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
visited France last week, where she
met with her brother Thaksin, while
military official General Prayuth Chan-
ocha is still in control in Bangkok.
The coup has been blamed for
slowed border trade, which pushed
up local prices for imported goods
like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
the main fuel used in Myanmars
kitchens though Thai officials said
border trade continues as normal
and it is only illegal trading that has
been limited.
Thailand Department of Foreign
Trade official Akarapong Dipavajra
said trade flows to the border are con-
tinuing as usual, though added there
had been a crackdown on illegal bor-
der trade. Prices may have risen for
Thai-made goods such as LPG, but the
hikes are temporary and will soon
return to normal, he said.
He added that businesses in Thai-
land are operating normally, and are
interested in expanding in several
sectors in Myanmar. While China is
the largest source of approved invest-
ment in Myanmar, Thailand inves-
tors are interested in a wider variety
of sectors. Large Thai-based cement
maker Siam Cement Group
announced plans for a $400 million
cement plant in Mon States Kyaik-
mayaw township last week.
SCG president and CEO Kan Trakul-
hoon said the factory will be able to
produce about 1.8 million tonnes of
cement annually when it is completed
in 2016, with excess demand met from
imports from Thailand.
The firm has been importing cement
to Thailand since 1997, and has seen
demand rise annually, he said.
Meanwhile, four large Thai banks are
among the 25 foreign banks still com-
peting for banking licences in Myan-
mar. The Central Bank of Myanmar
officials have said between 5 and 10
foreign banks will be selected to
begin operations this year, though
the winners will face a number of
restrictions.
Bangkok Bank executive vice presi-
dent Chaiyarit Anuchitworawong said
the bank aims to focus on areas that
domestic banks find it hard to reach,
and would also like to finance the agri-
cultural sector and provide long-term
SME loans if the Central Bank of
Myanmar allows foreign banks into
the sectors.
We want to encourage SMEs from
start to end as we have experience in
the sector in our country, he said last
week at a conference the bank hosted
in Yangon.
We will operate as the central
bank permits, especially in connect-
ing globally [in areas] which domes-
tic banks currently cannot perform,
he added. THE MYANMAR TIMES
SECC plans
same-day
settlement
on trading
Hor Kimsay
THE Securities and Exchange
Commission of Cambodia
(SECC) is planning new meas-
ures for trading on the local
stock exchange that it says will
encourage investors to trade
more actively.
Investors currently need to
wait for six intervals occurring
every half-hour between 8.30am
and 11.30am to have their
trades booked. The new rules
will allow for continuous trad-
ing between 9am and 11am.
[Increasing] matching fre-
quency will make investors
more active, so that the match-
ing can push market liquidity
as investors now can do more
trades and be more active, Sok
Dara deputy director of the
SECC, told the Post yesterday.
Additionally, to encourage
more activity, trades will be set-
tled on the same day, as opposed
to the current system that sees
buyers waiting two days for the
transfer of securities and sellers
two days for their cash.
According to Lamun Soleil,
deputy director of the exchanges
Market Operations Department,
the shift in settlement time will
allow investors to trade more
frequently with cash and securi-
ties more readily available.
The ultimate purpose of
these measures is to increase
trading activities on the mar-
ket, he said. With these two
more features, our market
could become as active as oth-
er more advanced exchanges.
Soleil could not give a spe-
cific date for the changes, but
said the technical details were
currently being completed.
An employee counts Thai bank notes in a 7-Eleven in Bangkok. After a lacklustre rst half of the year, retail and auto companies are hopeful the second half will be better. BLOOMBERG
Thai hopes pinned on better H2
Phusadee Arunmas

RETAIL sales in Thailand are
expected to improve in the
second half and show 6-7 per
cent full-year growth from 1
trillion baht ($31.4 billion) last
year as consumers regain con-
dence, a trade group says.
Busaba Chirathivat, presi-
dent of the Thai Retailers As-
sociation (TRA), said that re-
tail business slowed in the rst
half on domestic uncertainty,
resulting in lacklustre con-
sumer spending. First-half re-
tail sales grew by 4.6 per cent.
Unfavourable economic and
political factors in the rst few
months led to a sales decline of
4.5 per cent in durable goods, 3
per cent in semidurable goods
and 5 per cent in nondurable
or consumable goods.
This reected the reduced
spending power of low-income
consumers and farmers in
the rst half. Family debt also
reached a relatively high level.
TRA adviser Chatrchai Tuon-
gratanaphan said retail growth
in the rst half came mostly
from the convenience and
specialty store sectors, which
grew by 7 per cent and 4.5 per
cent respectively in terms of
store count. The number of
hypermarkets and supermar-
kets rose by 3.5 per cent.
Although domestic de-
mand was adversely affected
by signicantly low consumer
spending, retail businesses are
expected to see 6-7 per cent
sales growth for the whole of
2014, Busaba said.
In her view, retail growth will
improve in the second half on
the back of an injection of in-
vestment spending by the mil-
itary regime to stimulate de-
mand beginning in October.
One rm desperate for a bet-
ter second half is Toyota Motor,
which yesterday said overall
auto industry sales in Thai-
land in the rst half plunged
40.5 per cent from a year ear-
lier to 440,911 vehicles.
Kyoichi Tanada, president
of Toyota Motor Thailand Co,
voiced condence that the sta-
bilisation of the political envi-
ronment will translate into a
recovery in the second half of
this year.
The company also revised
downward full-year sales for
the industry to 920,000 units,
which would be a 30.9 per cent
drop from the previous year.
Toyota, the largest car man-
ufacturer in Thailand, said it
sold 163,997 vehicles in the
rst six months of the year, a
drop of 30.9 per cent on the
year. For the whole year, it ex-
pects to sell 330,000 vehicles,
down 25.9 per cent on the
year. BANGKOK POST
S Korea current account
surplus slips in June
SOUTH Korea logged a current
account surplus of nearly $8
billion in June, slightly down
from the May figure as import
growth outpaced exports, the
central Bank of Korea said
yesterday. The current account,
the broadest measure of
foreign trade in goods and
services, showed a surplus of
$7.92 billion compared to a
revised figure of $9.08 billion
the previous month. With the
June figure, the surplus for
Asias fourth largest economy
in the first six months of the
year stood at a record $39.2
billion dollars, compared with
$31.3 billion a year earlier. AFP
Japan Airlines net profit
down to $145 million
JAPAN Airlines said yesterday
that its net profit for the April-
June quarter fell 19.4 per cent
to $145 million, as a weak yen
and soaring fuel costs dug into
its results. The carrier said net
profit fell to 14.8 billion yen
($145 million), while operating
profit also dropped 15.6 per
cent to 18.6 billion yen. Sales
ticked up 4.4 per cent to 307.1
billion yen. But the airline has
previously warned that a sharp
drop in the yen has driven up
the cost of fuel, often a
carriers single-biggest
expense. The weaker currency
makes commodities priced in
US dollars more expensive. AFP
Bill Savadove

C
HINA is investigat-
ing Microsoft for
allegedly operating
a monopoly in its
market, the government said
yesterday, as it took aim at the
US software giant over busi-
ness practices.
The move makes the com-
pany the latest foreign rm to
face Beijings scrutiny, in elds
from computing to baby milk.
According to legal regu-
lations, the SAIC [State Ad-
ministration for Industry and
Commerce] has set up a case
to investigate Microsoft for
alleged monopoly actions,
the agency said in statement
posted on its website.
The inquiry centres on its
Windows operating system
which is used on the vast ma-
jority of computers in China
and the Ofce suite of pro-
grams, the statement said.
An earlier inspection last
year considered allegations
by companies that Microsoft
bundled its products for sale
and failed to disclose infor-
mation about the software,
causing problems with com-
patibility, it added.
The SAIC could not elimi-
nate the suspicion that Micro-
softs . . . actions are anti-com-
petitive, the statement added.
In May this year, China also
banned the use of Microsofts
Windows 8 operating system
on all new government com-
puters, amid reports alleg-
ing security concerns. That
followed the United States
indicting ve members of a
Chinese military unit for al-
legedly hacking US companies
for trade secrets.
The announcement came af-
ter Microsoft said on Monday
that it was under investigation
in China, without disclosing
details, after state media re-
ported authorities had visited
four of its ofces.
We aim to build products
that deliver the features, secu-
rity and reliability customers
expect, and we will address
any concerns the government
may have, the rm said in a
released statement.
The probe comes amid what
appears to be greater scrutiny
of foreign rms doing business
in the huge Chinese market.
Last week, state media said
that China was preparing
to announce US chip maker
Qualcomm has monopoly
status in the mobile phone
chip market. The government
agency reportedly behind the
move declined to comment.
SAIC ofcials visited Micro-
soft ofces in Beijing, Shang-
hai, southern metropolis
Guangzhou and southwest
Chengdu city for enquiries,
the agencys statement con-
rmed. The investigation was
continuing, it said, but gave
no timeline.
Earlier yesterday, Chinese
state media blasted Microsoft
for its share of the operating
system market in China.
Microsofts operating sys-
tem software occupies a 95
percent share of the market in
China, forming a de facto mo-
nopoly, the National Business
Daily stated.
Under Chinas anti-monop-
oly law, which went into effect
in 2008, violators can be ned
one to 10 per cent of their pre-
vious years sales revenue.
It [Microsoft] has a domi-
nant market position in terms
of operating systems, which
might be bundled together
with other products, for exam-
ple its Ofce series, for sale,
You Yunting, a lawyer and
partner of Shanghai DeBund
Law Ofces, told AFP.
Microsoft has previously
faced anti-trust investiga-
tions in other markets for ty-
ing the companys Windows
system to its products.
The European Commission
ned the US company $731
million in March last year for
failing to offer users browser
choices beyond its own Inter-
net Explorer.
Since last year, China has
launched sweeping probes
into alleged wrongdoings by
foreign companies in several
sectors, including the phar-
maceutical and baby milk
powder industries.
Chinese authorities carried
out an investigation of Brit-
ish drugmaker GlaxoSmith-
Kline following allegations it
systematically offered bribes
to doctors and hospitals and
passed the cost on to con-
sumers through high prices.
Following a 10-month
probe, police said that in
May that GSKs former head
of China operations and two
other executives authorised
the bribery. AFP
Business
8
China has opened an investigation into allegations that Microsoft is
running a monopoly in its market in the latest foreign rm to face
scrutiny from the Chinese authorities. AFP
China probes MS monopoly
Airbus cancels Skymarks order
Honda prot accelerates in Q2
AIRBUS Group Nv terminated an order for six
A380s from Skymark Airlines Inc, in a blow to
the manufacturer as it seeks to erode Boeing
Cos dominance in Japan and rekindle de-
mand for its agship superjumbo.
Airbus said its decision stemmed from the
airlines expressed intentions for the aircraft,
adding that it reserved all rights and remedies
related to the planes, according to a release
yesterday. Skymark president Shinichi Nishi-
kubo said the two sides had been in talks since
April, after the carrier told Airbus it needed to
alter plans on introducing the plane because
of a weaker yen and competition.
This is going to damage Skymarks nan-
cial situation, said Senri Sasahara, chief ex-
ecutive ofcer of Innovative Advisor Corp. It
gives the impression they are not condent of
expanding ights. Management must be pes-
simistic about their own future.
Losing the Skymark order extends a drought
for the A380, which has failed to attract a new
airline customer in two years and drew a blank
this month at the Farnborough Air Show, typi-
cally a forum for deals. Finding another taker
for the rst of Skymarks planes may be tough
given that it has already been customised.
Airbus said in April that Skymarks rst A380
performed its maiden ight and was heading
for cabin installation and nal painting.
Airbus had asked Skymark to become an af-
liate with a larger airline as a condition for
altering the contract, and then asked for a can-
cellation fee after the carrier rejected the re-
quest, Skymarks president said. Airbus didnt
specify plans for re-marketing the aircraft or
say if it would return the airlines deposits.
Airbuss most loyal buyer for the A380 is
Emirates, with 50 in service and a total of 140
on order, almost half the backlog. Skymark
last month delayed entry into service of the
superjumbo by as long as six months, saying
specications of the planes interiors dont
match. No other carrier in Japan has bought
the aircraft, which typically ts about 525
people. BLOOMBERG
JAPANESE automaker Honda
said yesterday that its latest
quarterly net profit jumped 19.6
per cent to $1.4 billion thanks to
a weak yen and growth in global
auto sales, as it boosted its full-
year profit forecast.
Honda said it earned 146.5
billion yen ($1.4 billion), up
from 122.5 billion yen a year
earlier, as sales rose 5.4 per cent
to 2.99 trillion yen.
Its new profit forecast for the
fiscal year through March stood
at 600 billion yen, up from 595
billion yen, while it also revised
upward its full-year sales pro-
jection to 12.8 trillion yen, from
12.75 trillion yen.
In a statement, Honda cred-
ited its prof it gains to
increased revenue in our
automobile and motorcycle
business operations, as well as
favourable foreign currency
translation effects. It added
that the gain was also due to
a rise in automobile sales as a
result of the positive effect of
new model introductions and
full model changes in Japan
and Asia in addition to the
positive impact of cost reduc-
tion efforts.
The Japanese auto industry
has benefited from the big-
spending policies of Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe, with huge
monetary easing measures
from the premiers hand-picked
team at the Bank of Japan help-
ing push down the currency.
Hondas global motorcycle
sales rose 2.0 per cent to 4.13
million units on rising demand
across Asia, it said.
In the automobile business,
the maker of the Accord sedan
sold 6.2 per cent more vehicles
as brisk sales in Asia offset a
slump in North America.
In Japan, Hondas sales edged
up 1.2 per cent while profit was
virtually unchanged at 62.1 bil-
lion yen for the first quarter,
weathering the negative impact
of an April sales tax hike
In North America, the com-
panys biggest market, sales
rose moderately, but profit fell
6.0 per cent to 67.5 billion yen
due to growing operations
costs, it said.
Honda was the second of
Japans Big Three automakers
to post their latest earnings
after Nissan announced upbeat
results on Monday, with Toyota
reporting next week. AFP
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Business
THREE large private min-
ing companies at the Moehti
Moemi mines owe hundreds
of millions of dollars worth
of in-kind payments to the
Ministry of Mines, according
to Win Htain, Mining Depart-
ment director general.
Fevered bidding in a 2011
tender may have seen the
three rms overreach, as they
offered high payments in the
future to secure sites at the
mines in Mandalay Region,
despite little surveying work.
These companies have
paid almost nothing to the
government since they start-
ed working nearly three years
ago. The latest weve heard is
that each has paid only about
100 viss [160 kilograms], of-
cials at Pyidaungsu Hluttaws
Joint Committee of Public Ac-
count said two weeks ago.
The three rms have agreed
to pay the ministry a total
of 13.5 tonnes, or 432,000
troy ounces, as part of their
contracts. With a troy ounce
fetching about $1,300 on in-
ternational markets, the out-
standing balance is worth
some $564 million.
The rms are required to
pay in-kind each year over the
ve year-period of their con-
tracts, Win Htain said.
I assume the ministry will
not allow these deals to con-
tinue if the companies fail to
meet their obligations, said
parliamentarian Win Myint.
Mining department of-
cial Win Htain added that
the companies have already
progressed through the ex-
ploration phase and are now
mining gold.
The three mining companies
National Prosperity, Shwe
Moe Yan (Golden Sky) and R
Sha Kabamyay (Asia Global)
all work in the Moehti Moemi
area in Mandalay Regions
Yamethin township.
National Prosperity, which
is chaired by prominent busi-
nessperson Soe Tun Shein,
has the highest outstanding
debt, worth 5.577 tonnes over
the ve-year contract, ac-
cording to Win Htain.
National Prosperity gold
mining director Maung
Maung said the rm has not
yet started production, due
in September, and disputed
claims the rm is in arrears
on the debt, adding that it has
kept up with the payments it
owes the ministry. There is
no debt between the ministry
and our company up to the
2013-14 nancial year, he
said. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Myanmar mining rms
fall behind on payments
Thai smartphone wars heat up
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk
S
MARTPHONE com-
petition in Thailand is
intensifying as more
low-prole brands
from elsewhere in Asia ood
the market. At least six afford-
able smartphone brands from
Asian producers are available,
including Lava of India, Vivo
and Xiaomi of China, and iMI
of Hong Kong. The Philip-
pines Cherry Mobile brand
arrived there a year ago.
The parade of Asian brands
has put pressure on interna-
tional-brand phone makers,
particularly Samsung, and
even computer makers such
as Asus and Lenovo who have
moved into the smartphone
market, said Satianporn Su-
vansupa, associate marketing
analyst at IDC Thailand.
Low-end smartphones have
become more popular this
year, with prices that attract
rst-time users.
Satianporn said that An-
droid-based smartphones sold
for less than 5,000 baht ($157)
will control more than half of
the Thai smartphone market
this year thanks to highly in-
tensied competition.
The potential market in
Thailand for smartphones
remains large because about
half of the countrys 70 million
population do not use smart-
phones despite the relatively
strong economy, he said. This
has attracted more Asian play-
ers to enter the Thai market.
Opas Cherdpunt, manag-
ing director of M Vision, or-
ganiser of the Thailand Mo-
bile Expo, said smartphones
under these Asian brands,
available for 2,000 to 5,000
baht, were enjoying strong
demand nationwide.
Local house brand phones
with strong features such as
G-Net are also joining the low-
end smartphone segment.
Thailands smartphone
market is intense but it still
has room for new players
that have the ability to of-
fer higher specications at
a lower price, said Jacky
Zhang, chief executive of
iMI Technology Thailand, a
unit of the Hong Kong-based
smartphone maker.
Its headquarters in Hong
Kong is an original-design
manufacturing unit. Its more
than 10 million smartphones
are manufactured from fac-
tories in China and Taiwan,
enabling the rm to offer
competitive prices.
The company plans to use
300 million baht for build-
ing the brand in Thailand,
as well as opening service
centres and using the Thai
operation as a springboard
to other ASEAN members.
IMI offers two models of
Android-based smartphones.
Its Messi No1 targets male
users and is equipped with a
ve-inch OGS display and 13-
megapixel camera. Its Lady 1
model is designed with fea-
tures specically for women.
The Lady 1 also has a voice
shutter command enabling
the user to say cheese for au-
tomatic photo shooting with a
13-megapixel camera.
We offer smartphone spec-
ications to compete with
the iPhone but priced below
10,000 baht to capture entry
buyers, Zhang said.
The company expects to sell
150,000 units in the rst six
months through its 500 deal-
ers. It has opened 10 service
centres nationwide.
It has also introduced the
iWatch, an all-in-one tele-
phone and internet-connect-
ed watch. It will expand into
Singapore in the third quarter
to test the iMI brand in a ma-
ture market. Expansion into
Myanmar is planned to cash in
on 3G service. BANGKOK POST
Smartphone wars are heating up in Thailand as more of the devices
become affordable and begin to ood the market. AFP
Business
10
Renault drives out of slump
Deutsches debt trade pays off
FRENCH car giant Renault yesterday reported
first-half net profits nearly 20 times better than
during the slump of last year as European sales
offset weaker growth in emerging markets.
Renault reported net profits of 749 million ($1
billion) in the first six months of the year, com-
pared to a meagre 39 million it achieved in the
first half of 2013 when its figures were hit by the
ending of its business in Iran.
Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said that his
groups profits and registrations had improved
in the first half thanks to the success of . . . recent-
ly launched models. These results are in line with
the full-year target, Ghosn added.
Renault sold 1.36 million new cars in the six
months to June, a gain of 4.7 per cent compared
to the outcome in same period last month.
In the first half of the year, the strong per-
formance of the group in Europe, driven by the
success of new models . . . enabled the group to
offset the sharp slowdown in its main emerging
markets, Renault said.
Despite this, turnover was actually down 3 per
cent, at 19.8 billion a decline the company
blamed on adverse currency market moves.
The price of shares in the company was show-
ing a fall of 3.24 per cent to 67.25 in mid-morn-
ing trading because traders and investors con-
sidered the results disappointing, particularly in
terms of the firms cash situation.
Brokers Aurel BGC commented that the oper-
ating profit was above the general figure
expected by analysts.
But sales were disappointing as was a negative
figure for cash generated by operations, known
as free cash flow, of 360 million in the first half,
more than 10 times the equivalent figure last
year, Aurel BGC said. At Bank of America-Merrill
Lynch, analysts also commented that this figure
was unduly weak. AFP
DEUTSCHE Bank Ag, Europes
biggest investment bank,
reported revenue from debt
trading that beat analysts
estimates in the second quar-
ter as pretax profit increased
by16 per cent.
Income from trading debt
and foreign exchange was 1.83
billion ($2.5 billion), little
changed from a year earlier and
exceeding the 1.63 billion
average estimate of eight ana-
lysts surveyed by Bloomberg
News. Profit before tax climbed
to 917 million compared with
an estimate of 702 million.
Global investment banks are
seeking to boost revenue and
cut expenses amid tougher
regulation and as record low
interest rates pare returns from
lending. Deutsche Bank is
spending some proceeds from
an 8.5 billion share sale during
the quarter to expand in the
fixed income markets most
profitable businesses as com-
petitors pull back.
The pleasant surprise was
that second-quarter debt sales
and trading revenues were flat
year-on-year, whereas I think
expectations were for a nega-
tive 10 per cent to 15 per cent
for the European banking sec-
tor as a whole, Neil Smith, an
analyst with Bankhaus Lampe
in Dusseldorf who recom-
mends investors hold the
shares, said by telephone.
Pretax profit at the invest-
ment banking and trading
business increased 17 per cent
to 885 million. That beat the
703 million average estimate
of six analysts surveyed by
Bloomberg.
Non-interest expenses
dropped 4 per cent to 6.69 bil-
lion as legal costs fell 25 per cent
to 470 million and staff com-
pensation slid 7 per cent to 3
billion. BLOOMBERG
BP rides oil prices but says
Russia sanctions may bite
BP SAID yesterday that net
profits surged 65 per cent in the
second quarter, boosted by
high oil prices, but warned
however that more economic
sanctions against Russia could
hit performance.
Earnings after taxation rallied
to $3.369 billion (2.508 billion)
in the three months to June,
compared with $2.042 billion a
year earlier, BP said in a results
statement.
The group added that its
replacement-cost profit, the
current accounting figure
which excludes changes in the
value of oil inventories, rose by
almost a third to $3.18 billion
in the second quarter.
BP also increased its share-
holder dividend to 9.75 cents a
share, from 9 cents a share.
Its a good quarter. Its a good
solid start to the first half of the
year, chief executive Bob Dud-
ley said in a video released
alongside the results.
The environment has been
down in some ways, offset by
oil prices in another. Weve
been bringing on new projects,
five new upstream projects so
far this year [with] two more to
go by the end of the year.
The British company, which
owns almost 20 per cent of Rus-
sian state oil giant Rosneft,
warned however that further
economic sanctions against
Russia could adversely impact
its performance.
Any future erosion of our
relationship with Rosneft, or
the impact of further econom-
ic sanctions, could adversely
impact our business and stra-
tegic objectives in Russia, the
level of our income, produc-
tion and reserves, our invest-
ment in Rosneft and our repu-
tation, BP said.
It added: To the extent we
fail to maintain a good com-
mercial relationship with Ros-
neft in the future, or if as a
result of our noncontrolling
interest in Rosneft . . . we are
unable in the future to exercise
significant influence over our
investment in Rosneft or pur-
sue other growth opportunities
in Russia, our business and
strategic objectives in Russia
and our ability to recognise our
share of Rosnefts income, pro-
duction and reserves may be
adversely impacted.
BP, which is seeking to repo-
sition itself after the devastat-
ing Gulf of Mexico oil spill
back in 2010 which has cost it
tens of billions of dollars in
compensation and fines,
agreed in 2012 to sell Rosneft
its 50 per cent stake in joint
venture TNK-BP.
This in turn gave BP a 19.75
per cent holding in the Russian
energy company. AFP
BP has announced that its prots for the second quarter soared by 65
per cent on the back of high oil prices. BLOOMBERG
FRENCH telecom group Or-
ange reported a near one-
third plunge in net prot in
the rst half of the year but
stood by its targets for the
whole of 2014.
The group, formerly France
Telecom and caught in a mo-
bile phone price war and
restructuring of the entire
French telecoms sector, said it
had cut its costs and steadied
underlying performance.
Net prot for the six months
amounted to 744 million
($999 million), down by 30.3
per cent from the equivalent
gure last year, from sales of
19.5 billion.
Orange, a leading interna-
tional telecom operator, also
said in a results statement
that it was pursuing a policy
of selective acquisitions by
concentrating on markets in
which it is already present.
The French telecom mar-
ket is in turmoil following
the emergence of Free as a
national low-cost operator,
largely thanks to a capacity
contract with Orange which
sparked a price war.
Orange has suffered from
losing customers to competi-
tors, but the half-year state-
ment said that the fall of sales
had slowed down and that
signs of improvement in the
rst quarter had continued in
the second quarter.
This was the case in its
home market in France, but
also in Belgium, Poland,
and in services to business-
es. Business was growing
strongly in the Africa and
Middle East region, it said.
The fall of sales in France
slowed to 4.7 per cent in the
rst half from a fall of 6.9 per
cent in the same period of
last year.
But performance by the
French mobile phone activi-
ties fell by 8.7 per cent, and the
number of French customers
was steady at 27 million of
whom two million subscribed
to fourth-generation high-
speed services.
Underlying performance as
measured by earnings before
interest, tax, depreciation and
amortisation was 6.1 billion
in the rst half, in line with the
groups forecasts.
The operating margin, a key
measure of protability, was
about steady at 31.3 per cent.
The price of shares in the
group was slightly up by 0.04
per cent to 11.815 in mid-
morning trading.
The group said that it had
managed to cut operating
costs by 3.7 per cent to 511
million, compensating for 70
per cent of the fall in sales, and
overall it was able to conrm
its target for an underlying
prot of 12-12.5 billion for
the whole year.
These results demonstrate
the companys strength and
ability to react in market
conditions that continue to
be very challenging. chief
executive Stephane Richard
explained. AFP
Orange in the red amid
prot nosedive in H1
Deal ends S Africa metal strike
Kamlesh Bhuckory

S
OUTH African met-
alworkers were due
to return to work yes-
terday after labour
groups agreed to a three-year
wage deal, bringing to an
end a four-week walkout, the
countrys largest-ever labour
stoppage, that had threatened
growth in the continents sec-
ond-biggest economy.
We urge all our members
to report for work, Irvin Jim,
general secretary of the Na-
tional Union of Metalworkers
of South Africa, told reporters
in Johannesburg on Monday.
The settlement offer has
been overwhelmingly and
unanimously accepted by
our members.
The walkout by more than
220,000 workers started on
July 1 and cost the manufac-
turing and engineering indus-
tries about 300 million rand
($28 million) a day, according
to the employers.
The Steel and Engineer-
ing Industries Federation of
Southern Africa last week of-
fered lowest earners a 10 per
cent annual wage increase for
three years to end the strike, a
deal thats been accepted by
Numsa and smaller unions
such as Solidarity. That com-
pares with an annual ina-
tion rate of 6.6 per cent in
June, unchanged on the pre-
vious month.
The metalworkers strike af-
fected production at about
12,000 companies including
construction and engineering
group Murray & Roberts Hold-
ings Ltd, beverage-can maker
Nampak Ltd and international
carmakers General Motors Co
and Toyota Motor Corp.
The strike, which followed
a ve-month work stoppage
at platinum mines, will curb
2014 economic growth by at
least 0.3 percentage points,
said Mike Schussler, chief
economist at research group
Economists.co.za.
There is no doubt that the
economy suffered major direct
losses in this strike, Schussler
said by phone yesterday from
Johannesburg. The indirect
impact, like carmakers which
could not get components,
could be even bigger.
The companies and unions
were at loggerheads over a
condition in the Seifsa deal
that demanded future work-
related issues be negotiated
at the national rather than
plant level. Numsa was able
to negotiate a compromise
on the clause that enables its
members to strike over em-
ployment issues that arent
included in the wage agree-
ment, Jim said.
We are immensely relieved
that the strike is nally over,
Seifsa chief executive ofcer
Kaizer Nyatsumba said in an
emailed statement on Mon-
day. The brokering efforts of
Labor Minister Mildred Oliph-
ant played a major role in end-
ing the walkout, he said.
Workers will probably re-
turn to their jobs from tomor-
row only, Ed Jardim, a spokes-
man for Johannesburg-based
Murray & Roberts, which op-
erates a steel factory in Gau-
teng province, said yesterday.
Numsa needs time to com-
municate to all its members,
Jardim said. Today might be a
bit early, he said.
The National Employers
Association of South Africa,
which represents about 3,000
small- and medium-sized
companies, wouldnt sign the
agreement yesterday as its
members can only afford an 8
per cent increase, CEO Gerhard
Papenfus said by phone. Neasa
will go to the Labor Court if the
minister extends the deal to all
companies, he said.
Neasa called on its mem-
bers to lock out employees in
the union who were on strike
and tried to return to work
yesterday, Papenfus said.
Other workers who were
not on strike or who are not
union members will be al-
lowed back, Papenfus said.
We are still in a dispute with
those unions.
South African central bank
governor Gill Marcus said on
July 17 that awarding pay in-
creases that are above ination
could yet hurt the economy,
which contracted in the rst
quarter. The bank cut its 2014
economic growth forecast to
1.7 per cent from 2.1 per cent
in May. BLOOMBERG/AFP
South African metalworkers have agreed a three-year wage deal to
end the countrys largest ever labour stoppage, which has battered the
industry and affected about 12,000 companies. AFP
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Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 101.61 -0.06 -0.06% 5:39:29
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 107.87 0.3 0.28% 5:39:45
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.74 -0.01 -0.27% 5:16:31
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 286.25 1.33 0.47% 5:40:31
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 290.39 1.6 0.55% 5:40:53
ICEGasoil USD/MT 897.75 5.5 0.62% 5:39:45
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CME Lumber USD/tbf 321.2 -1.8 -0.56% 21:30:06
Vacancy Announcement
Announcement No: EC-AN-14-0795
Locaton: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC), Phnom Penh.
Closing Date: August 08, 2014 @ 4.00 pm.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is seeking highly
qualied applicants for the following positons:
Legal Ocer, NOB (1 positon)
Interpreter/Translator (Khmer-English), NO-C (2 positons)
For more details of the Job Descripton (JD), please visit the ECCC website at htp:
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Submission of Applicatons
Qualied candidates may submit their applicatons, including a leter of interest,
Curriculum Vitae along with the duly completed and signed ECCC Applicaton
Form for Employment available in the above website to:
Human Resources Secton (Natonal)
Natonal Road 4, Chaom Chau Commune
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The ECCC gate B or Email: personnel@eccc.gov.kh
P.O Box No.71
Please note that incomplete applicatons or applicatons received afer the
closing date will not be considered. Only those candidates that are short-listed
for interviews will be noted.
Applicatons from qualied female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
France waging peach war
F
RANCE is stepping
up cargo checks on
trucks carrying fruit
over the border from
Spain in what is increasingly
looking like a peach war
between the EU neighbours.
In the past two weeks, 150
trucks have been stopped
and 10 infractions recorded,
Frances agriculture ministry
said on Monday on receiving
French fruit growers who have
complained of what they see
as unfair dumping of pro-
duce in their home market.
Frances operation to make
sure the trucks respect the
rules for the sale of fruit and
vegetables will continue in
the coming weeks, Agricul-
ture Minister Stephane Le
Foll said after the meeting.
He added that the Euro-
pean Commission had been
asked by France, Spain,
Greece and Italy to consider
putting in place exceptional
market-managing measures
in the sector.
The French fruit-growers
anger is boiling over amid
fears that their industry is on
the verge of disappearing en-
tirely because of diving prices.
Farmland across France given
over to growing peaches and
nectarines has halved in size
over the past decade.
Luc Barbier, head of the
French fruit grower federa-
tion FNPF, told AFP that the
conict between French and
Spanish producers has never
been so bad.
The Spanish counterparts
are practising trade dump-
ing to kill the French market
in order to be the only suppli-
ers, he charged, calling for
stepped-up border checks to
verify the origin, quality and
price of fruit cargos.
The head of the broader
FNSEA farmers federation,
Xavier Beulin, said the prob-
lem went beyond peaches
and nectarines. He said the
dispute also impacted farm-
ers selling tomatoes, melons,
cucumbers and strawberries.
The core problem is the
cost disparity with Spain
which means we cant be
competitive, he said.
Spains federation of fruit
growers and exporters de-
nied the French accusations.
The fruit crisis is affecting
all European producers, it
said, slamming recent at-
tacks on Spanish trucks.
FEPEX also called on the
European Union to take ur-
gent steps to support the
fruit market, underlining the
importance of the fruit sec-
tor to Spains economy. Last
year, Spain exported 910,000
tonnes of fruit with stones
(peaches and the like), bring-
ing in nearly 1 billion ($1.3
billion). AFP
A protester displays the French ag after activists dumped a load of peaches from a Spanish truck. AFP
World
Missile test
by Russia
broke arms
treaty: US
THE United States has found
that Russia violated a 1987
arms control treaty by testing a
ground-launched cruise mis-
sile, a senior US official said late
on Monday, calling the matter
very serious.
The announcement adds a
new dispute at a time of already
heightened tensions between
Washington and the Kremlin
over the crisis in Ukraine, with
western countries accusing
Russia of arming Ukrainian
separatists and destabilising
the country.
The US concluded in a 2014
report that Russia violated the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty, which barred it
from possessing, producing or
flight-testing such cruise mis-
siles with a range of 500 to 5,500
kilometres, the official said.
President Barack Obama has
sent a letter to his counterpart
Vladimir Putin on the subject,
which the administration offi-
cial described as a very serious
matter which we have attempt-
ed to address with Russia for
some time now.
Washington was prepared to
discuss its determination with
Moscow immediately in sen-
ior-level bilateral talks, the offi-
cial added, saying Congress
and US allies have been kept
abreast of the matter.
The United States is com-
mitted to the viability of the
INF Treaty, the official said.
We encourage Russia to return
to compliance with its obliga-
tions under the treaty and to
eliminate any prohibited items
in a verifiable manner.
The Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF),
signed by then-US president
Ronald Reagan and his Russian
counterpart Mikhail Gor-
bachev, eliminated nuclear and
conventional intermediate
range ground-launched ballis-
tic and cruise missiles.
The official said the INF trea-
ty served the mutual security
interests of the parties not
only the United States and Rus-
sia but also 11 other successor
states of the Soviet Union.
Independent Russian mili-
tary analyst Pavel Felgenhauer
told AFP he believes that the US
is concerned about a cruise
missile version of the Iskander
short-range ballistic missile
system, the Iskander-K.
He said that the missile has
been tested at a range of 1,000
kilometres, but the range
could be extended up to 2,000-
3,000 kilometres by adding
extra fuel tanks.
Felgenhauer noted that Rus-
sian leaders were not enthusi-
astic about the INF treaty.
Putin and [his chief of staff]
Sergei Ivanov have spoken
about the INF treaty being det-
rimental and no longer needed
by Russia, with Ivanov referring
to the Iskander-K, Felgenhau-
er said. AFP
As Gaza destruction rages, a life hangs on
ISRAELS bombardment of Gaza left
dozens more dead yesterday, as Pal-
estinian leaders said they were willing
to observe a daylong truce. Amid the
grief, there was also joy when doctors
delivered a baby girl whos mother had
died an hour earlier.
The Palestinian leadership, along
with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are will-
ing to observe a 24-hour ceasere in
the war-torn Gaza Strip, a senior PLO
ofcial said yesterday.
After extensive calls and consulta-
tions with the broth-
ers in Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, the Pal-
estinian leadership
announces on behalf
of everyone the will-
ingness for a ceasere
and humanitarian
truce for 24 hours,
Palestine Liberation
Organisation secre-
tary-general Yasser
Abed Rabbo said.
The ghting be-
tween Israeli troops
and Hamas militants
raged on unabated
yesterday, with scores
more Palestinians
killed as the death toll
in Gaza rose to well over 1,100, most
of them civilians.
On the Israeli side, 56 people have
been killed, most of them soldiers.
The Palestinian leadership was also
considering positively a UN call for
a 72-hour truce, Abed Rabbo said. An
earlier UN call for an extended cease-
re on Saturday was accepted by Israel
but snubbed by Hamas.
Meanwhile yesterday, dozens of dis-
placed Gaza families ooded into a
UN school after Israel warned them to
leave their homes, struggling to set up
camp in a cramped, dirty courtyard.
Hundreds of homeless Gazans were
already living there, with this school in
the northern town of Jabaliya packed
to overowing.
Rubbish piled up outside the school
walls, lling the air
with a foul stench, as
women used brooms
and muddy water to
clean up their new ac-
commodation fester-
ing classrooms packed
with dirty mattresses
and bedclothes.
The army simply
told us: You must leave
the area now. Those
who dont are entirely
responsible for their
own lives, said Ghas-
san Abed, who ed his
home in the nearby
town of Beit Lahiya.
The warning was sent
by text message and au-
tomated voice calls to hundreds of thou-
sands of people. Similar messages sent
to other districts earlier this month sent
more than 200,000 people eeing for
safety, UN gures show. The messages
said to go to Gaza City, but its not that
simple weve no relatives there and
nowhere to stay, the 46-year-old said.
There was cause for joy, however, with
a baby girl clinging to life after doctors
pulled her from the womb of her moth-
er, who had been dead for an hour.
Twenty-three-year-old Shayma al-
Sheikh Qanan was eight months preg-
nant when an Israeli tank shell hit her
home in the central Gaza Strip town of
Deir al-Balah, reducing it to rubble.
She was left in critical condition and
her husband was also badly wounded.
Her body was brought in after an
Israeli shelling at 3am on Friday, said
Doctor Fadi al-Kharti, who was at Deir
al-Balah hospital when she was rushed
in. We tried to revive her but she
had died on the way to hospital.
Before paramedics managed to dig
her out, she had been stuck under the
rubble of her home for an hour.
Then we noticed movement in her
stomach, and estimated she was about
36 weeks pregnant, he says.
Doctors performed an immediate
Caesarian section and saved the baby,
who was named after her late mother.
For Mirfat Qanan, 43, it was a tragedy
to lose her daughter, but she was de-
lighted at becoming a grandmother.
God has protected this child for me.
My daughter is dead, but I now have a
new daughter. Shell call me mummy
just like her mother did. AFP
China probes ex-security chief
C
HINAS ruling Com-
munist Party yester-
day announced one
of its highest-level
corruption probes since com-
ing to power more than 60
years ago, saying it will investi-
gate former Politburo Standing
Committee (PSC) member
Zhou Yongkang.
Zhou, who retired from the
all-powerful PSC in 2012, is
being probed for serious dis-
ciplinary violation, the ruling
partys Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection (CCDI),
its internal watchdog, said in a
statement. The term is usually
used to refer to corruption.
The official announcement of
the probe, which has been spec-
ulated about for months, breaks
a long-held principle that top
officials are untouchable.
Zhou is the most senior mem-
ber of the Communist Party to
be investigated since the infa-
mous Gang of Four a faction
that included the widow of
founding leader Mao Zedong
were put on trial in 1980.
Zhou was seen as a patron of
fallen political star Bo Xilai,
who he is said to have backed
for a slot on the PSC, but whose
career imploded following the
death of a British businessman,
for which Bos wife was con-
victed of murder.
The decision to investigate
Zhou was made in accordance
with the ruling partys constitu-
tion, and the discipline inspec-
tion authoritys case investiga-
tion regulation, Chinas official
Xinhua news agency reported.
The decision will have been
preceded by extensive negotia-
tions within the factionalised
ruling party, but is still likely to
send shockwaves through the
political establishment.
Analysts said that the move
shows party chief Xi Jinping has
now amassed enough power to
break even longstanding taboos
in his much-publicised anti-
corruption sweep.
There is an unwritten rule
that they will not go after
former members of the Polit-
buro Standing Committee,
said Willy Lam, a politics spe-
cialist at the Chinese Univer-
sity of Hong Kong.
The party elders like Jiang
Zemin and Li Peng and so forth
were opposed to incriminating
Zhou Yongkang, he said, refer-
ring to Chinas former president
and premier.
It shows that Xi Jinping is
powerful enough or resource-
ful enough to convince the
party elders, he added.
Xi has vowed to crack down
on endemic graft among top
party members, or tigers, as
well as low-ranking members,
or flies, but critics say he is
unlikely to succeed without
more fundamental reforms.
Zhou Yongkangs son, Zhou
Bin, has also reportedly been
arrested in Yichang in central
China for suspected illegal
business operations, Caijing
financial magazine said.
Calls to the Yichang munici-
pal procuratorate went unan-
swered, and state-run media
had not reported on the young-
er Zhou as of late yesterday.
For months, allies of Zhou in
his powerbases in the south-
western province of Sichuan
and Chinas state-owned oil
giant CNPC have been tar-
geted one by one by the CCDI,
with more than a dozen being
picked off.
Earlier this month, three
associates of Zhou were
stripped of their Communist
Party membership.
Yet Chinas state-run media
steadfastly refrained from
mentioning Zhou by name
until yesterday, and the Com-
munist Partys vast censorship
apparatus swiftly swept away
any use of his name on the
countrys popular social net-
working sites.
Online commenters have
long used noodles as a way to
refer to Zhou while avoiding
censors attention, playing on a
popular brand, Master Kang.
Finally, the noodles that have
been cooking for so long are
coming out of the pot, one
netizen wrote. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Chinas former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, in 2006. AFP
A Palestinian baby girl lies in an incubator at Nasser Hospital, two days after surgeons
delivered her after her 23-year-old mother died. AFP
Palestinian relatives check the
bodies of family members in
southern Gaza yesterday. AFP
KINFE ATTACK IN XINJIANG KILLS DOZENS
D
ozens of people have been killed and
injured in a terrorist attack in Chinas far
western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly
Muslim Uighur minority, state media reported.
A knife-wielding gang attacked a police
station and government offices in Shache
county early on Monday, the official Xinhua
news agency said citing local police, and
dozens of Uighur and Han civilians were killed
or injured. Police officers at the scene shot
dead dozens of members of the mob, the
report said. Initial investigation showed that
it was a premeditated terror attack.
Beijing commonly blames separatists from
Xinjiang for carrying out terror attacks which
have grown in scale over the previous year and
spread outside the restive region. Among the
most shocking incidents was a market attack in
Xinjiang provinces capital Urumqi in which 39
people were killed back in May. In March a
deadly rampage by knife-wielding assailants at
a train station at Kunming, located in Chinas
southwest province of Yunan, reportedly left 29
people dead. AFP
Happy 60th!
Chavez gifts:
reworks, a
song, a font
S
UPPORTERS of former
Venezuela president
Hugo Chavez celebrated
what would have been his
60th birthday on Monday with
fireworks, a gun salute and
the unveiling of a computer
font based on his handwriting.
The full-day festivities began
shortly after midnight, when
President Nicolas Maduro,
Chavezs hand-picked succes-
sor, sang Happy Birthday and
blew out candles on a cake.
Chavez led Venezuela from
1999 until he died of cancer in
March 2013. Among the homa-
ges to the populist leader, an
online magazine launched a
new font designed to resemble
his handwriting, complete with
irregular capitalisation and
elongated letters. AFP
World
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Karzai cousin killed by
turban suicide bomb
Mamoon Durrani

A
SUICIDE attacker
killed an inuential
cousin of Afghan
President Hamid
Karzai yesterday, ofcials
said, raising tensions during
a dispute over election results
that will determine the coun-
trys new leader as US-led
troops withdraw.
Hashmat Karzai was a cam-
paign manager in the south-
ern province of Kandahar for
Ashraf Ghani, one of the two
presidential candidates in-
volved in a bitter standoff that
threatens to trigger worsening
ethnic instability.
Hashmat, who famously
owned a pet lion, was killed
at his home outside Kandahar
city by a man with explosives
hidden in his turban as visitors
arrived to celebrate the Eid
holiday at the end of the Mus-
lim holy month of Ramadan.
A suicide bomber disguised
as a guest came to Hashmat
Karzais house to greet him,
Dawa Khan Minapal, the Kan-
dahar provincial governors
spokesman, said.
After he hugged Hashmat,
he blew up his explosives and
killed him.
Ghani and opposition lead-
er Abdullah Abdullah are at
loggerheads over the June 14
second-round election, which
has been mired in allegations
of massive fraud.
Ghani won the vote accord-
ing to preliminary results, but
an audit of the ballots has
started after Abdullah refused
to accept defeat due to claims
of industrial-scale ballot-
box stufng.
With the audit beset by an-
other outbreak of complaints
from both sides, many fear the
country is at risk of returning
to the ethnic violence of the
1992-1996 civil war.
US Secretary of State John
Kerry ew into Kabul earlier
this month to broker the deal
for a complete recount of the
eight million votes after Ab-
dullah appeared ready to set
up a parallel government in
opposition to Ghani.
The deal averted an imme-
diate crisis, but US and UN
ofcials have struggled to get
Afghanistans rst democratic
transfer of power back on the
track as the two sides bicker
over how fraudulent votes
should be identied.
A credible vote was seen as
a key benchmark of the costly
US-led military and civilian
aid effort to develop Afghani-
stan since the ousting of the
Taliban regime in 2001. AFP
Hashmat Karzai, the cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, speaks
during a press conference in Kanadahar in 2013. AFP
Jet crashes in Benghazi as re rages on Tripoli outskirts
A LIBYAN fighter jet engaged in para-
military attacks on Islamists in the
restive eastern city of Benghazi
crashed and exploded yesterday after
its pilot ejected safely, a military
source and a witness said.
It was not immediately clear if the
plane was shot down or suffered a
malfunction, added General Sagr al-
Jerouchi, chief of air operations for
dissident general Khalifa Haftar.
A witness, who said he saw a para-
chute open before the crash, added
that the warplane had just attacked
Islamist positions.
Meanwhile, a huge fire at an oil
depot on the outskirts of Tripoli was
out of control, sparking fears of a fire-
ball that could cause carnage over a
wide area.
The fire, which has been raging
since Sunday night, spread to a sec-
ond fuel storage site on Monday, in
what the government described as a
very dangerous development.
The situation is very dangerous
after a second fire broke out at anoth-
er petroleum depot, the government
said, warning of a disaster with
unforeseeable consequences.
The blaze erupted when a rocket
struck a tank containing more than 6
million litres of fuel.
The depots are located 10 kilome-
tres from the city on the road to Tripo-
lis international airport, which rival
militias have been fiercely fighting for
since mid-July.
As the fire raged, top US and Euro-
pean leaders called for a ceasefire in
Libya and for the UN to take on a
major role in helping to stop the spi-
ralling violence and lawlessness.
The appeal came after a conference
call between US President Barack
Obama, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, French President Francois
Hollande and the prime ministers of
Britain and Italy, David Cameron and
Matteo Renzi, a German government
statement said.
The five heads of state and govern-
ment condemned the violence against
civilians, the intimidation of state rep-
resentatives and the disruption of the
political process, it said.
Weekend fighting in Benghazi, cradle
of the 2011 revolution that ousted dic-
tator Moammar Gaddafi, killed dozens
of people, mostly soldiers. AFP
At least 12 die as truck
hits sleeping pilgrims
A SPEEDING truck driver
yesterday ran over and killed at
least 12 Hindu pilgrims who
were sleeping on the side of a
busy road in northeastern
India, police said. Four women
were among the victims while
a further 18 others were
injured in the pre-dawn
accident on a national highway
in Bihar state. Police
superintendent Upendra
Kumar Sharma said more
than 50 pilgrims were resting
after visiting a temple when
the lorry driver lost control. AFP
Airline Qantas to keep
flying over Iraq airspae
AUSTRALIAN airline Qantas
said yesterday it would continue
flying over Iraqi airspace,
despite alliance partner
Emirates deciding to alter its
routes over concerns about
jihadist missile attacks after the
MH17 crash. Qantas said that
while it no longer flew over
Syria or Ukraine over fears
their airspace could be
unsafe, there is no
information to suggest that
there is risk to commercial
aircraft passing over Iraq,
particularly at the altitudes we
fly. The carrier said its average
altitude over the Middle East
region was about 38,000 to
41,000 feet, far exceeding US
regulators recommendation of
above 20,000 feet. AFP
World
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A 16-YEAR-OLD Japanese
schoolgirl has confessed to
decapitating a classmate and
cutting off her hand, police
said yesterday, with the sus-
pect reportedly telling inves-
tigators she wanted to dis-
sect someone.
Pictures of a bloody hand
were posted on an internet fo-
rum hours after the weekend
killing, with local media say-
ing police were trying to con-
nect the images with the crime
scene as more details of the
gruesome murder emerged.
The teenager, whose name
was not released as she is a
minor, was arrested on Sun-
day on suspicion of murder-
ing her female classmate Aiwa
Matsuo, 15, after police found
the dismembered body on a
bed in the suspects home.
The accused has admitted
she strangled the victim be-
fore severing her head and
left hand, using tools . . . and
something like a cord, a po-
lice investigator said.
The victim was found de-
capitated, with her left hand
chopped off, the investi-
gator said, adding that the
murder likely took place on
Saturday evening.
The two girls went to the
same high school in Sasebo,
a city in southwestern Japan,
police said.
The popular Sports Nippon
newspaper said the alleged
killer told police she wanted
to dissect a body. The victims
belly was cut open, it added.
Police found tools, includ-
ing hammers and a saw, at the
suspects apartment, the top-
selling Yomiuri reported.
The paper said the girls
mother died of cancer last
year, and she began living on
her own after her father remar-
ried about three months ago.
She had only attended class a
handful of times since then,
the Yomiuri said. I wanted to
kill someone. I bought tools by
myself, the Yomiuri quoted
the girl as telling police.
Described as a strong stu-
dent and athlete, the teenager
had previously been involved
in trouble at elementary
school reportedly lacing two
of her classmates food with
bleaching agents.
They teased me while I was
studying and I got annoyed,
the girl told a teacher after the
incident, the Yomiuri said.
Violent crime is still rela-
tively rare in Japan, but several
high-prole cases involving
young people have height-
ened public concern. AFP
Teen girls dissection
murder shocks Japan
Prayuth to be premier
Wassana Nanuam and
Aekarach Sattaburuth

T
HE leader of the
Thai junta, National
Council for Peace and
Order (NCPO) chief
General Prayuth Chan-ocha,
is expected to take up the roles
of both prime minister and
NCPO chief in the new cabi-
net lineup.
According to a source, Pr-
ayuth will take the two top
posts while former army chief
General Anupong Paojinda
is tipped to become a deputy
prime minister as well as de-
fence minister.
Prayuth has a close rela-
tionship with Anupong, the
source said, adding that they
served in the Queens Guard
and the Burapha Phayak task
force together.
Itthiporn Supawong, a for-
mer air force chief, is tipped
to become a deputy defence
minister while air force com-
mander Prajin Jantong will
become a deputy prime min-
ister and transport minister,
the source said.
Prayuth said on Monday
that the National Legislative
Assembly (NLA) will be es-
tablished by the end of this
month. It would hold its rst
meeting in the middle of next
month, after which a prime
minister will be nominated
and cabinet appointed.
The junta leader has submit-
ted a list of 200 NLA members
for royal endorsement. The
list is expected to get the seal
of approval this week.
A total of 110 of the 200
members are reportedly high-
ranking ofcers in the armed
forces, ranging from regional
commanders to chiefs of staff,
and retired ofcers with close
ties to the NCPO.
Surasak played down
speculation he will chair the
NLA, saying he has no legal
expertise. He also said he is
unlikely to head the National
Reform Council because he is
already the head of the NCPO
reform committee.
A source said Prayuth has
proposed only 200 names for
royal endorsement to make
room for suitable individuals
to be appointed later. Under
the interim charter, the NLA
has 220 members.
Besides military ofcers,
other proposed NLA mem-
bers include former senators,
Surachai Liangboonlertchai,
Khamnoon Sitthisamarn, Adm
Sitthawatchara Wongsuwon
and ACM Weerawit Khongsak
among them. BANGKOK POST
Coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has been tipped to take up the roles of
both prime minister and NCPO chief. AFP
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Temptation and redemption
A Chinese Muslim looks at a table of watermelon before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Beijing on Monday; and Russian Muslims pray outside the central mosque in Moscow during celebrations of
Eid al-Fitr. Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid this week, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan during which they are required to abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn to dusk. AFP
Vietnams taste for cat imperils pets
Cat Barton

T
HE ENDURING popularity
of little tiger as a snack to
accompany a beer in Viet-
nam means that cat own-
ers live in constant fear of animal
snatchers, despite an ofcial ban.
At an unassuming restaurant next
to a carwash in central Hanoi, a
cat is prepared for hungry clients:
drowned, shaved and burned to re-
move all fur before being cut up and
fried with garlic.
A lot of people eat cat meat. Its
a novelty. They want to try it, said
the establishments manager To Van
Dung, 35.
Vietnam has forbidden the con-
sumption of cats in an effort to en-
courage their ownership and keep the
capitals rat population under con-
trol. But there are still dozens of res-
taurants serving cat in Hanoi and it is
rare to see felines roaming the streets
most pet owners keep them indoors
or tied up out of fear of cat thieves.
Such is the demand from restau-
rants that cats are sometimes smug-
gled across the border from Thailand
and Laos.
Dung said that he had never had
problems with the law. He buys his
cats from local breeders as well as
also so-called cat traders, with few
checks on their sourcing.
Little tiger is typically enjoyed at
the start of each lunar month, unlike
dog meat, which is eaten at the end.
On a busy day, the restaurant can
serve about 100 clients.
I know in the United States and
Britain they dont eat cat. But here we
do, Nguyen Dinh Tue, 44, said as he
chewed on a piece of fried cat meat.
I dont kill the cat! But this place
sells it so I like to eat it, he added.
Vietnams penchant for eating
animals that are considered pets in
many other countries came about
largely as a result of circumstance,
said Hoang Ngoc Bau, one of Hanois
few trained vets.
The country was once very poor,
and we had a long war. We ate every-
thing we could to stay alive, he said.
Insects, dogs, cats, even rats . . . It
became a habit.
Bau, 63, decided to become a vet
after his pet dog saved him from a
poisonous snake when he was a child.
From that time, I had a debt to dogs.
Dramatic changes to society and
cultural attitudes in the once tightly
controlled communist country in
recent decades mean that a growing
number of Vietnamese now share his
love of animals. But old eating habits
die hard and pet owners have a battle
on their hands to protect their furry
companions from the dinner pot.
No one is breeding dogs and cats
for slaughter. So nearly all the animals
in restaurants are trapped and stolen,
Bau said. For me and other pet lovers
in Vietnam, theyre our best friend.
Yet some people manage to recon-
cile societys dual affection for cats.
Le Ngoc Thien, the chef at one Ha-
noi cat meat restaurant, keeps a cat
as a pet but when it is big enough
he will cook it and get a new kitten to
repeat the cycle.
When my cats become old we kill
them because according to our tradi-
tion when a cat gets old we need to
change it and get a younger one.
Eating cat meat is better than eat-
ing dog as the meat is more sweet,
more tender than a dog, Thien said.
A cat sells for between $50 and $70
depending on how large it is and how
it is prepared. Many pet owners get
fed up of the risks of letting their cats
go outside.
Phuong Thanh Thuy owns a Hanoi
restaurant and has cats to keep rats
in check, but she has had to replace
them regularly. My family is sad be-
cause we spend a lot of time and en-
ergy raising our cats. When we lose a
cat we feel pain, she said as a newly
purchased batch of kittens played at
her feet. AFP
Toby Carroll
Analysis
POPULAR analyses of burgeoning political
agitation around universal suffrage in Hong
Kong often side-step an inconvenient reality
the underlying story is not simply about rela-
tions with the mainland or concerns over its
authoritarian ways, but rather about massive
social inequality and the diminishing oppor-
tunities available to many Hongkongers.
On June 4, Hong Kongs Victoria Park filled
with people to commemorate the 1989
Tiananmen Massacre. Less than a month later,
massive numbers of Hongkongers many of
them young once again turned out on July 1
for the annual pro-democracy march through
the citys financial hub. Both of these events
exhibited the excitement and tension associ-
ated with increasing levels of political activity
which has all too often been characterised as
stemming from democratic deficits currently
built into the regions governance.
Its true that in recent years anti-mainland
sentiment has risen, with popular targets being
Beijings influence, stories about the behaviour
of mainland tourists and the impact of main-
land investors on inflating property prices.
Beijing asserting its authority over Hong
Kong has undoubtedly contributed to simplis-
tic narratives to explain the large mobilisa-
tions recently seen. Moreover, the increased
presence of mainlanders in the autonomous
region has quite likely contributed to exacer-
bating inequality in certain sectors.
But to unmask the real reasons behind the
dissent, it is also important to look at the citys
sky-high inequality rates, which are more
about market dominance and governance
than simply mainland influence.
In 2013, around 1.3 million people (19.6 per
cent) were deemed to be living below the offi-
cial poverty line in Hong Kong. The city is also
famous for its painful delays to public housing
(up to 10 years). And the mention last weekend
of a new release of miserably sized private
apartments (just over 170 square feet) for under
HK$2 million (US$260,000) would hardly calm
the nerves of those already at breaking point.
Indeed, such announcements likely only
add to popular anger, highlighting unattrac-
tive living spaces on offer in a city where many
are forced to live in what are bleakly known as
cage homes and in former warehouses.
For the last couple of months, we have seen
a steady whos who of elite financial and eco-
nomic figures instilling fear with respect to
political mobilisations, one of which (Occupy
Central) is yet to actually occupy any public
space. The stunning stream of paranoid pre-
dictions has been revealing.
But what, really, is the positive impact on
most people of Hong Kongs status as a finan-
cial centre? Are the interests of people facing
high property prices, high costs of living and
diminished social mobility really aligned with
a system centred on low corporate tax?
The alignment of Beijings political aspira-
tions and those of a tiny but powerful elite
may prove a formidable pairing. But given
Hong Kongs material conditions, political dis-
sent will not easily be contained. THE GUARDIAN
HKs democracy movement isnt just about Beijing
Cooks chop slaughtered cats at a restaurant in Hanoi. AFP
Opinion
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N JULY 22, Cambodian
opposition leader Sam
Rainsy and Prime Minister
Hun Sen finally
announced a deal to end a 10-month
standoff between the government
and the opposition, which has been
boycotting parliament as part of its
protest against last years disputed
elections. Rainsy has now agreed to
let his party take up seats in the
National Assembly in exchange for
an overhaul of the election commis-
sion, the release of eight opposition
leaders arrested in recent clashes
with government security forces and
a grab-bag of other reforms. Though
controversial, the deal may yet her-
ald a turn in Cambodian politics.
Since 1993, the Cambodian Peo-
ples Party led by Prime Minister
Hun Sen has dominated Cambodian
politics in semi-authoritarian fash-
ion. The CPP held regular elections,
but the opposition never had a
chance of winning due to wide-
spread fraud and intimidation. In
2013, however, the Cambodia
National Rescue Party shattered this
paradigm. The new opposition coa-
lition came within a whisker of beat-
ing the CPP on a platform saying
that theyd had enough and prom-
ising change, which appealed to a
youthful and urban-centric demo-
graphic excluded from the spoils of
political power, tired of rampant
corruption and the oligarchic man-
agement of the economy.
Though the change and fallout of
the Arab Spring reverberated global-
ly, Cambodias almost democratic
breakthrough in 2013 and last
weeks deal are best understood as
part of a slow evolution rather than a
revolutionary upheaval as in the
Middle East. The CNRPs near victo-
ry was possible because of elite mis-
calculation and infighting within
the CPP, the oppositions newfound
organisation and tacit support from
Cambodias neighbours. (Both Viet-
nam and China are equally weary of
Hun Sens reign.)
Hun Sen has long recognised that
the CPP, which initially came to pow-
er on the coattails of the Vietnamese
in 1979, needs legitimacy from the
ballot box to cement its claim to rule.
Periodic elections, however flawed,
offered a fig leaf for continued
authoritarian rule, allowing Cambo-
dias leaders to assert their superiori-
ty to Vietnam and China.
Dissent within the party has been
simmering for years. Over time, Hun
Sen has become an institution that
eclipses all others, including his par-
ty, the military and the police.
For at least the past five years, Hun
Sen has ruled by fiat, ignoring the
CPPs Standing and Central commit-
tees, and in no small way contribut-
ing to the CPPs malaise. In fact, Hun
Sen has been running the country
through his public speeches much
like Cambodias former king, Noro-
dom Sihanouk, did in the 1950s and
1960s. The discord came to a head in
the wake of the 2012 local elections,
when despite another landslide
victory for the ruling party the
opposition made clear inroads in the
CPP heartland provinces of Prey
Veng and Kampong Cham. The loss
of influence clearly reflected party
dissent. According to the Economist,
of the 5.7 million CPP members,
roughly half failed to vote for the
CPP. At a party meeting in August
2012, just 11 months before the 2013
elections, Hun Sen berated individu-
als by name for sloth, corruption
and ostentatious displays of wealth.
After their surprising gains in
2012, the Cambodian opposition
approached the 2013 elections with
gusto, knocking on provincial doors
well in advance of the campaign
period. Two of the parties, the Sam
Rainsy Party and the Human Rights
Party, joined to form the CNRP and
developed a platform to increase
monthly salaries of bureaucrats and
the minimum wage and improve
access to health care.
After winning 55 of 123 parliamen-
tary seats in 2013, the CNRP cried
foul, citing widespread vote tamper-
ing. Opposition leaders then decided
to boycott parliament unless the
government granted concessions.
Under last weeks compromise, the
CNRP will take its seats in return for
reform of the National Election
Commission and an enhanced role
in the National Assembly, including
the chairmanship of several legisla-
tive committees. The opposition
also won a marginal concession
from Hun Sen to bring forward the
next national elections by five
months to February 2018, in which
they hope to fare even better. Final-
ly, the prime minister allowed the
release on bail of eight opposition
leaders who were in jail on charges
that included abetting insurrection;
they will acquire parliamentary
immunity upon taking their seats.
Though both Hun Sen and Sam
Rainsy are lauding the compromise
that ends nearly a year of political
deadlock, critics see it as temporary
fix, kicking the can down the road
for future institutional reforms.
But those critics may be missing
one crucial facet of the bargain: It
emerges at a moment when the
countrys main partners, China and
Vietnam, are equally frustrated with
the CPP. In 2005, Vietnamese Prime
Minister Phan Van Khai publicly
denounced corruption in Cambo-
dia, and in 2007 a Vietnamese dele-
gation delivered blunt messages to
the CPP. Vietnam might not be a
democracy, they argued, but it does
allow for change within the leader-
ship; Cambodia should follow its
lead. Similarly, they said, Vietnam
debated policy in its national assem-
bly; so should the Cambodians.
China, meanwhile, has quietly giv-
en the Cambodian leadership simi-
lar messages, pointing out to CPP
chiefs that the Chinese Communist
Party has now set a retirement age of
68 for top leaders, and 65 for senior
officials. At 61, Hun Sen still has
another seven years left but there
are many old-guard CPP members
who are long past their due date. The
problem for the CPP is that internal
differences of opinion have made it
virtually impossible to agree on
deadlines for retirement and genera-
tional renewal of the partys senior
leadership bodies, the Standing
Committee and the Central Com-
mittee. The CPP is struggling to rein-
vent itself.
The combination of CPP inertia,
newfound energy within the opposi-
tion and a division between Cambo-
dias traditional hegemons might yet
produce a genuine multiparty
democracy. Such an outcome is
most likely only as the result of
many more years of patient political
development. But the Hun Sen-Sam
Rainsy deal has now created a cru-
cial precondition for this evolution
by putting the opposition firmly in
the game. And this is undoubtedly
where the Cambodian population
wants it to be. FOREIGN POLICY
Comment
Peter Bartu and Andrew Grant
The long march to democracy
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (top centre) speaks to CNRP supporters in Phnom Penh on July 19. The CNRPs newfound energy and
organisation has allowed Cambodia to take another step towards multiparty democracy. AFP
Peter Bartu and Andrew Grant research
political transitions at the University
of California, Berkeley, and have spent
signicant time in Cambodia
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Stupid? Sydney public
art gets mixed reaction
A GIANT Japanese-designed
public artwork that will straddle
Sydneys main street was
unveiled yesterday, dividing
opinion with supporters saying
it will boost the citys reputation
and critics calling it stupid.
The steel Cloud Arch, designed
by Tokyo-based Junya Ishigami,
will tower 50 metres above
busy George Street as part of
the citys plan to spruce up its
business district. Two other
artworks will also be installed,
including a pavilion shaped like
an oversized milk crate
designed by Egyptian-born
artist Hany Armanious that will
stand nearly 14 metres tall. AFP
First lady of Taiwan to
resume Japanese visit
TAIWANS first lady will resume
a rare visit to Japan which was
postponed after a diplomatic
row over posters for an
exhibition of loaned treasured
artefacts, officials said on
Monday. Chow Mei-ching, wife
of President Ma Ying-jeou, was
set to attend the opening of an
exhibition last month of
hundreds of artefacts and
artworks the Taipei National
Palace Museum on display in
Japan for the first time. AFP
Linda Ronstadt awarded
White House arts honour
LINDA Ronstadt, who was the
most successful female rocker
of the 1970s and pioneered the
role of women in that genre,
was honoured on Monday with
the highest US arts prize.
President Barack Obama
bestowed the National Medal of
Arts on the multiple Grammy
winner, now 68 and suffering
from Parkinsons. AFP
Peking duck: gastronomic
masterpiece, diplomatic tool
W
HERE does Pe-
king duck come
from? It is a trick
question: the
dish named for Chinas capital
has its origins in Nanjing, hun-
dreds of kilometres south.
The tidbit is one of the rev-
elations in a museum opened
earlier this month to mark the
150th anniversary of the Quan-
jude restaurant, now the ag-
ship of a chain with franchises
as far away as Australia.
Statues of roasters, photos
of ofcials dining and menus
going back 100 years trace the
ducks route from humble wa-
terfowl to culinary institution.
No secret ingredients are re-
vealed, but around 20 models
detail each stage of the ducks
journey to the plate. Slaugh-
tered when it weighs around 3
kilograms, pumped full of air
to separate skin from fat, the
bird is gutted and lled with
boiling water to help a sweet
basting syrup penetrate the
meat before being dried, coat-
ed and roasted.
The baking time is about
50 minutes, a museum panel
reads. The roast duck coming
out of the oven looks plump, in
a colour of jujube red all over
its body, full of oily luster, with
a crisp skin, a fresh and tender
mouthfeel, tasting delicious
but not oily, bearing a subtle
fragrance of the fruit tree.
A roast duck style was rst
developed in the court kitch-
ens of Nanjing, Chinas then
capital, and the dish only came
to Beijing when the Ming dy-
nasty Yongle emperor moved
his seat in the 15th century.
Fuchsia Dunlop, a writer who
specialises in Chinese food,
describes todays Peking duck
as a more recent innovation.
When Quanjude was set up,
in 1864, the guy who started
it employed some chefs who
worked in the imperial palace,
and they used this hanging
up technique from imperial
kitchens to roast the duck,
she said. Its a clay oven, with
the ducks hanging inside, with
a fruit wood re in the mouth
of the oven.
Once cooked, the bird is dis-
sected at the table by a skilled
chef, his hands usually pro-
tected from the heat only by a
plastic glove as he reduces the
carcass to precise sections of
meat and slivers of crispy skin.
If he has a good cut, he can
cut it into a hundred slices,
says Dunlop.
At the restaurant, diner He
Yufan said: When I watch
the chef cut it, he makes
it look like art. Thats why
it feels good to eat it. Her
friend Guo Jin was indifferent
to the birthplace of the dish.
Beijing is the only place in
the world that has authentic
Peking duck, she said. You
cant get this anywhere else.
According to Quanjude,
which boasts of having sold
196 million ducks around the
world, the dish has played its
part in international relations.
Its chefs would accompany
Chinese diplomatic missions
and pictures in the museum
show Henry Kissinger and
Richard Nixon, who made
a landmark visit to China in
1972, eating duck.
On one occasion, Zhou
dined with Charlie Chaplin
in 1954 in Geneva, where the
British actor was living in exile
from the US after questions
were raised over his alleged
Communist sympathies.
I have a special feeling for
ducks, Chaplin is quoted as
telling Zhou. I created a char-
acter who is hilarious when
walking, and his posture is
from the duck, so I do not eat
duck as a rule. But I will break
rules this time.
There has been talk of Beijing
applying next year to have Chi-
nese food included on UNES-
COs list of global intangible
cultural heritage, which so far
only includes a few culinary
items, among them French
haute cuisine and Japanese di-
etary customs called washoku.
According to Dunlop the
Quanjude museum is part of a
nationwide trend to showcase
Chinas gastronomic traditions.
She attributes the phenome-
non to a hugely popular televi-
sion program, A Bite of China,
that highlighted different ar-
eas cuisines and dishes.
Lots of their cooking tech-
niques have existed for cen-
turies and are very specic,
depending on the region they
are coming from in this huge
country, she said.
The show encouraged peo-
ple to stop taking it for granted,
showed them its something to
be proud of and learn about,
and tell the outside world
about, she added.
It seems to have really wo-
ken Chinese people up to the
fact that they have an amaz-
ing food culture and its part of
their heritage. AFP
Ancient rivalry of cats, dogs: which is the favourite pet?
WE ALL know there are only two
types of people in the world: cat
people and dog people. But data
from Euromonitor suggest that
these differences extend beyond
individual preferences and to
the realm of geopolitics: it turns
out there are cat countries and
dog countries, too.
In the US, slightly more house-
holds own dogs than own cats.
But numbers show that in terms
of raw population, cats outnum-
ber dogs to the tune of two mil-
lion. Why? One simple explana-
tion is that cats are more
compact. You can fit more cats
in a house than you can, say,
golden retrievers. At the state
level in the US, cats outnumber
dogs in the Northeast and Upper
Midwest. Dogs are the favourite
in the South and Southwest.
A lot of that simply has to do
with population density, Jared
Koerten, a pet industry analyst
at Euromonitor, said in an inter-
view. Many cities just arent that
dog-friendly.
Around the world the story is
quite different. Euromonitor
gave us estimates of the pet dog
and cat populations in 54 coun-
tries, and some show a stark
dog/cat divide. In India, for
instance, pet dogs outnumber
cats 10-to-1. Dogs enjoy a 2.5-
to-1 advantage in China. On the
other hand, cats outnumber
dogs 3-to-1 in Switzerland, Aus-
tria and Turkey.
Overall, cats are the favoured
pet in most of Western Europe,
with the exception of Spain,
Portugal and Ireland.
South America is strictly dog
country, as is much of Asia.
Some regions, like the Middle
East and part of Africa, have an
especially long-standing appre-
ciation of cats, Koerten said. In
Latin America its the complete
opposite. Dogs are part of fam-
ily life there.
World pet populations also
appear to follow a few interest-
ing trends. For one, highly devel-
oped countries, for reasons yet
unclear, tend to have more bal-
anced cat and dog populations.
Looking across all countries,
theres a correlation between
developed economies and bal-
anced pet preferences, Koerten
said. Brazil, as is turns out, has
a strange affinity for small dogs
it has more small dogs per
capita than any other country.
THE WASHINGTON POST
A chef slices Peking Duck for diners at the Quanjude restaurant in Beijing on July 24. AFP
Health
18
African authorities attempting to
stem the outbreak of Ebola virus
A
UTHORITIES across
west Africa an-
nounced a series of
measures yesterday
aimed at stopping the spread
of the Ebola virus, which
reached a fourth country last
week with a death in Lagos,
Africas most populous city.
Nigeria closed and quar-
antined the hospital where
a man died on Friday in the
countrys rst recorded case of
the deadly and highly conta-
gious pathogen.
The closure of the clinic in
one of the citys most densely
populated districts came as
police were called in to guard
Sierra Leones main Ebola
treatment centre, while Libe-
ria shut almost all its borders
and banned public gatherings.
Attempts to halt the worlds
biggest and most widespread
outbreak of Ebola have been
hampered by a lack of resourc-
es and poor understanding in
a region which has never ex-
perienced an epidemic.
Ebola has killed 672 people
in Guinea, Liberia and Si-
erra Leone since it was rst
diagnosed in February. The
pathogen is passed through
contact with bodily uids of
infected patients or eating
infected meat, and has no
known cure, although chanc-
es of survival improve dra-
matically with early detection
and treatment.
We have shut the hospi-
tal to enable us to properly
quarantine the environment.
Some of the hospital staff who
were in close contact with the
victim have been isolated, La-
gos state health commissioner
Jide Idris said yesterday.
Authorities set up an isola-
tion ward and began tracing
those who had been in contact
with Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-
old civil servant whose ight
from his home in Monrovia,
Liberias capital, stopped over
in Togo and Ghana. Some 60
contacts had been traced, in-
cluding 44 health workers and
15 airport ofcials. Not all of
the ights passengers had
been contacted as the airline
had yet to provide a manifest,
state ofcials said.
Derek Gatherer, a virologist
at the University of Lancaster,
said anyone on the plane near
the infected man could be in
pretty serious danger.
But he said Nigeria was rich-
er than the other countries in
the region, so could more eas-
ily mobilise resources to tackle
an outbreak. Nigerians have
deep pockets and they can do
as much as any Western coun-
try could do if they have the
motivation and organisation
to get it done.
Liberian and Nigerian air-
ports and seaports began
screening international arriv-
als for Ebola symptoms, which
can take up to 21 days to ap-
pear. Arik Air, a major carrier
for the region, has suspended
ights between Nigeria, Li-
beria and Sierra Leone, as
travel peaks this week during
the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Sawyer is believed to have
contacted the virus from his
sister, who died of Ebola ear-
lier this month. But his trav-
elling despite not feeling well
has angered many.
One of our compatriots
met his untimely death and
put to risk others across bor-
ders because of indiscipline
and disrespect for the ad-
vice which had been given
by health workers, Libe-
rian President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf said during the coun-
trys independence day cel-
ebrations on Saturday.
She announced stringent
new measures after two
American volunteer doctors
tested positive for Ebola, and
the lead medical doctor at
the countrys largest hospital
died. Samuel Brisbane had
treated himself at home in
an attempt not to infect oth-
er health workers, many of
whom have been ostracised
by their communities.
In Sierra Leone, where 454
have died, angry crowds gath-
ered outside Kenema hospital
in the countrys remote east,
where dozens are receiving
treatment for the virus, and
threatened to burn it down
and remove the patients.
Many communities have
been left bewildered and
angered by the deaths, and
a belief that health workers
living among the community
are spreading the disease.
THE GUARDIAN
Quick, short runs packed full of health benets
GOING out for a quick, daily run may
be just as effective as a long-distance
jaunt when it comes to prolonging your
life, says a study released this week.
Running as little as five to 10 minutes
per day can significantly cut the risks of
getting heart disease and dying young,
said the findings in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology.
People who exercised by running
showed a 30 per cent lower risk of death
and a 45 per cent lower risk of dying
from cardiovascular disease than peo-
ple who did not run at all.
Runners could be expected to live
about three years longer on average
than nonrunners. Even more, the ben-
efits of running were the same whether
people ran a little or a lot, fast or slow.
There was no statistically significant
difference among those who ran 50
minutes per week and those who ran
180 minutes per week, it found.
Nor did it matter if the running was
happening at a pace of less than 6 miles
per hour (10 kilometres per hour). Even
these minimal runners and slow joggers
fared far better than people who did not
run at all.
Since time is one of the strongest
barriers to participate in physical activ-
ity, the study may motivate more people
to start running, said lead author
Duck-chul Lee, an assistant professor
in the Iowa State University Kinesiology
Department.
The study was based on more than
55,000 adults average age 44 in
Texas who were followed for 15 years.
Most were white; about one quarter
of those in the study were women.
For the analysis, researchers broke the
participants into six groups: nonrun-
ners and five groups of runners accord-
ing to weekly running time, distance,
frequency and speed.
Even the lowest quintiles of weekly
running distance (six miles or less), fre-
quency (one to two times) . . . and speed
(less than 6 mph) had significantly lower
risks of all-cause mortality compared
with not running, the study says. Simi-
lar trends were observed with the risk of
cardiovascular disease mortality.
Studies have shown that globally,
between 40 per cent and 80 per cent of
the public does not exercise enough.
US health authorities recommend 75
minutes per week of vigorous exercise, or
150 minutes (a half hour a day, five days
a week) of moderate-intensity exercise.
Although such low compliance with
physical activity guidelines could be
due to unawareness of the strong ben-
efits of exercise, it is also possible that
the standard is perceived as being too
high, which could deter many people
from even trying, said an accompany-
ing editorial. Instead, establishing
goals that can be attained with minimal
effort becomes important.
Researchers also found that when
comparing running to walking, a five-
minute run brought the same health
benefits as a 15-minute walk.
A previous study in The Lancet in 2011
showed that brisk walking for 15 min-
utes a day half the recommended time
amount could also add three years to
a persons life. AFP
Staff of the Christian charity Samaritans Purse put on protective gear in the ELWA hospital in the Liberian
capital Monrovia last week. AFP
KEY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE EBOLA OUTBREAK CRISIS PLAGUING WEST AFRICA
W
hat is Ebola? Ebola virus
disease, which used to be
called Ebola haemorrhagic fever,
was named after the river in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
where one of the first two villages to
report cases in 1976 was located.
The other was in Sudan. Ebola is a
severe viral illness with a sudden
onset that comes from direct
contact with infected living or dead
rainforest animals, including
chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys,
fruit bats, forest antelope and
porcupines. It kills up to 90 per cent
of those infected.
How is it transmitted? The virus is
passed from one human to another
via blood and body fluids, but also
through bedsheets, clothes or other
surfaces that a sick person has
touched. Burial ceremonies that
involve touching the dead are also a
risk. The virus enters the body
through broken skin or mucous
membranes. The group at highest
risk are health workers, caring for
those with Ebola. They have to wear
full protective clothing, including
face masks and goggles.
What are the symptoms? Early
signs are sudden fever, intense
weakness, muscle pain, headache
and sore throat. Vomiting and
diarrhoea follow, increasing the risk
that the sick person will infect
others. The kidneys and liver are
affected and there can be both
internal and external bleeding.
Victims are infectious from the onset
of symptoms, which start two to 21
days after they contract the virus.
What is the treatment? There is
very little treatment. Patients will
need intensive supportive care, with
intravenous fluids or oral
rehydration salts. They must be kept
in isolation and their nurses and
visitors must wear full protective
suits. If people are to be nursed at
home, their carers need instructions
and equipment to safeguard
themselves. There are no drugs to
treat the disease or vaccine to
prevent it, although research for this
is under way.
Why is there no cure? It has proved
very hard to find drugs to treat viral
diseases that cross to humans from
animals, from influenza to HIV.
Although the death rate is high,
outbreaks of Ebola are infrequent
and have so far been contained each
time. As with many of the so-called
neglected tropical diseases, the lack
of a potentially lucrative market
makes drug companies reluctant to
invest in research and development.
If outbreaks can be contained and
stopped, why do they return? Ebola
can be contained in human popula-
tions but the viral reservoir still
exists in animals. There will always
be a risk that hunters will kill
infected animals, or that people will
pick up animals that have died of the
infection in the forest and reintro-
duce it to the human population.
Will closing borders help? Closing
borders may not help because
borders are permeable in much of
Africa. The World Health
Organisation says closures may
hinder travel and trade without
detecting cases.
However, containment is a key
strategy against Ebola. Quarantine
has been used in some outbreaks
for relatives of those who become
sick. Because people are not
infectious until they become
obviously ill, it should in theory be
possible to focus efforts on the
community where the outbreak
began. In the past, that has usually
been villages in close proximity to
rainforests. Confirmation of a case
in a city such as Lagos is a real
concern, but transmission requires
direct contact with a sick individual
so is more likely in a family setting
or a hospital. The biggest worry is
probably that somebody showing
symptoms will be taken to a hospital
where nursing staff are unprotected,
because the disease is not
recognised, sparking an outbreak
that spreads to nursing staff and
their families in turn. THE GUARDIAN
People who run have a 45 per cent
lower risk of dying prematurely
from cardiovascular disease. AFP
Travel
19
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PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
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3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
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2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
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PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
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VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
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KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
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The interior of Baz Bagel. Baz Bagel, located at 181 Grand Street in
New York City, is one of a new breed of New York delicatessens serving
modern variations of traditional Jewish deli fare. THE WASHINGTON POST
New York City
delis meet the
21st century
A
BATTERED sign in
Yiddish hangs near
portraits of rabbis on
a gleaming white-tile
wall. Jewish memorial yahrzeit
candles occupy a high shelf.
The chalkboard menu touts
soul-warming comfort foods:
whitesh salad and chopped
liver, schmaltz herring and
lox, rugelach and halvah.
Shelskys of Brooklyn looks
like a classic New York ap-
petising shop, where Eastern
European Jewish specialties
have been sold for generations.
Except its three years old. And
its run by a wisecracking 30-
something former chef whose
right arm bears a pig tattoo.
And its luscious house-cured
salmon can come in such pal-
ate-popping avours as Szech-
uan Kung Pao or Jamaican Jerk.
Welcome to the New York
Jewish deli, circa 2014.
Grumpy waiters, grimy
rooms, so-so edibles? Fuhged-
daboutit. At hip Hebraic hang-
outs like Shelskys, gourmands
are reinterpreting the foods of
their forebears in thrilling new
ways. And theyve made Jew-
ish food an unlikely hot ticket
for New Yorks famously ckle
foodies. Leave Carnegie Deli
to the guidebook crowd; the
trend puts a whole new spin
on a New York must-have.
Deli has become cool again,
but it never went away, says
Peter Shelsky, who opened
Shelskys in 2011 after spend-
ing hours in line each week-
end at Russ and Daughters,
the century-old Lower East
Side mothership of New Yorks
appetizing culture. People
are rediscovering what they
already knew.
Purveyors like Shelsky arent
just dishing up nostalgia.
While working within a fa-
miliar culinary canon, theyre
applying very contemporary
ourishes.
So, although Shelsky sells ge-
lte sh based on his Grand-
ma Yettas recipe, his deli also
offers exquisite aquavit-cured
gravlax and off-kilter sand-
wiches like the El Vicente, with
sturgeon and jalapenos.
Those kinds of riffs have also
sparked controversy among
deli purists, who question
how real traditional food
can taste in a restaurant that
has been open less time than
it takes salmon to spawn.
Authenticity isnt the tiles
on the oor or old photos on
the wall, counters Noah Ber-
namoff, whose tiny Mile End
Deli in Brooklyn (helped ig-
nite the nouveau-Jewish craze
when it opened in 2010 with a
bare-bones menu of such Old
World specialties as smoked
meat or Montreal-style cured
beef. Its in the method. We
expend a great deal of energy
and money to make home-
made products. Thats what
makes us authentic.
Its hard to argue after tast-
ing Mile Ends sublimely
simple chicken-and-matzoh-
ball soup or the darkly earthy
chopped liver with gribenes
the Jewish version of chicken
cracklings.
Mile Ends success led to a
second location in Manhattan
and a busy catering business.
Bernamoffs newest project,
Black Seed, salutes the leg-
endary bagel stores of Mon-
treal. His bagels, a hybrid of
Montreal chew and New York
lightness, have achieved cro-
nut status among Manhattan
cognoscenti; expect long lines
if you visit the wood-paneled
Nolita shop on weekends. Lox
and dill spread with radishes
and sprouts, heaven on a rich
pumpernickel bagel, is worth
the wait.
Black Seed is about clas-
sics, Bernamoff said. Were
not making stupid avours like
blueberry or chocolate chip.
The great institutions of bagel
serve basics, and thats what
we do. THE WASHINGTON POST
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An automobile mechanic and his daughter make
a discovery that brings the Autobots, Decepti-
cons and a paranoid government official down
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A young couple works to survive on the streets
after their car breaks down right as the annual
purge commences.
City Mall: 11:35am, 3:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:20am, 4:35pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the wake of a disaster that changed the
world, the growing and genetically evolving
apes find themselves at a critical point with the
human race.
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After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted
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The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notori-
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DJ @ Riverhouse Lounge
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Midnight madness features buy one
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TV PICKS
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Matthew Morrison and Cameron Diaz perform in What to
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Screening of a slideshow from
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Followed by the documentary
Cambodia: Dreams and Nightmares.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos
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2:30pm - BIG DADDY: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid
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thrills and surprises of having a baby. FOX MOVIES
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Cookie unit
6 Dull
11 Sound of distress
14 Places to grow?
15 Evoking goose bumps
16 Avian runner down under
17 Buy backs
19 Damage
20 ___ Love You (Beatles tune)
21 Full array of golf clubs
22 Pen necessity
23 Augury
27 Tuscany, once
29 Color
30 Machine with a shuttle
32 Join, as oxen
33 ___ be my pleasure!
34 Aviator
36 Some unsubstantiated sightings
39 Like fine Burgundy
41 Born first
43 Ailing
44 Ore sources
46 Artists prop
48 Agile deer
49 Italian desserts
51 Bonkers
52 Compass direction (Abbr.)
53 Bookbinders fabric
56 Old-style second-person verb
58 Anytown, ___
59 Reason for a shot in the arm?
60 ___ it or lose it
61 Tsk!
62 Vanished
68 Before, in palindromes
69 Like a ram, but not a Ram
70 One who walks down the aisle?
71 Harvest goddess
72 Large, colorful parrot
73 Insincere
DOWN
1 Prickly seed casing (Var.)
2 Broke a fast
3 Red Sox legend Williams
4 Approached stealthily
5 Masculine reflexive
6 Reno action
7 Certain state souvenir
8 Stopped lying?
9 Excellent grade
10 Demolish
11 Not quite out to pasture
12 Many an imam
13 Concealing Muslim dress
18 Corn flour
23 Holder for a potion
24 Expenditures
25 Commits anew
26 Linen fabric
28 Four-stringed instruments,
briefly
31 Symbol of bravery
35 Go to seed again?
37 Cathedral displays
38 Airborne targets
40 Adorn
42 Make up for a loss
45 State of
oppression
47 Botch
50 Digestion aid
53 Broad-winged hawk
54 Seize
by force
55 Orchestra offering
57 Curs curb
63 Santa ___, Calif.
64 Pulpit-facing seat
65 Density symbol, in mechanics
66 Dusk, to poets
67 Like
deadpan humor
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Tuesdays solution Tuesdays solution
Sport
21
CHINESE ofcials painted a
rectangular running track at a
stadium as they rushed prep-
arations for a visit by their su-
periors, state media reported
yesterday.
Pictures posted online
showed the running surface
had the normal oval shape,
but the white lines marking
out each runners lane were
angled at 90 degrees.
Internet users leaped on the
revelation. Leaders, this is the
newly developed right-angled
running track, wrote one
poster on Chinas Twitter-like
Sina Weibo, imitating the tone
of a lower-ranking Chinese of-
cial reporting to his superior.
We have become the rst
country in the world to have
such tracks! I believe [Chinese
athletes] will outperform oth-
er countries [athletes] after
scientic training on such a
running track!
China National Radio de-
scribed the forestry admin-
istration stadium in Tonghe
county, in the northeastern
province of Heilongjiang, as
having rectangular tracks
around the football pitch.
It is difcult to turn and
easy to fall, a local resident
named Gong Xiaona told
provincial television program
Newsnight.
It quoted a stadium mem-
ber of staff as saying the pre-
vious track had become worn
down by long use.
The current tracks were laid
in a rush to deal with the visit
by some provincial leaders,
he said. We ourselves feel its
ugly. But who can change it if
our bosses dont care?
It is not unknown for local
ofcials in China to come up
with eccentric ideas to curry
favour with their bosses or
cope with inspections.
A publicly funded orphan-
age in Jieyang in the southern
province of Guangdong had
its facilities transformed into
government ofces and dor-
mitories, according to previ-
ous state media reports.
When provincial authorities
mounted an inspection last
year, social welfare ofcials
attempted to borrow orphans
from a nearby temple. AFP
Tim Witcher
H
OLLYWOOD unleashed
Borat on Kazakhstans im-
age, so the oil-rich Central
Asian nation hit back with
Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali and it
believes his Tour de France victory
helps put the record straight.
Nibalis triumph on the Champs
Elysees on Sunday concluded an
eight year campaign by his Astana
Pro Team named after the Kazakh
capital and funded by the countrys
sovereign wealth fund to get peo-
ple talking about the worlds biggest
landlocked nation.
This has been a very successful
project, if you took the mathematics,
how many times Astana was named
in social media and in newspapers
and on TV, said Kairat Kelimbetov,
president of Kazakh Cycling, gov-
ernor of the countrys central bank
and a former deputy prime minister.
The teams tribulations with drug-
tainted riders and nancial crises
could have reinforced the reputa-
tion built by Sacha Baron Cohens
2006 mockumentary Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Ben-
et Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
The country ruled by President
Nursultan Nazarbayev since inde-
pendence from the Soviet Union in
1991 also struggles with a poor hu-
man rights image.
The power of sport is very strong,
Kelimbetov said in an interview after
the Tour victory by the teams star
Italian rider.
Astana is part of a big PR strategy
to just give people an idea that there
is a state in central Asia that is big,
the size of Western Europe, the ninth
biggest in the world, and we are part
of the global community, he added.
The cycling team has made global
headlines with a modest budget of
$15 million a year out of about $100
million a year spent on the Astana
Presidential Sports Club, according
to Kelimbetov.
And the Club aims to make itself
seen and heard even more in cycling
and other sports.

Kazakhstans Real Madrid
The club has seven professional
sports teams, including a $50 mil-
lion a year ice-hockey squad and a
football team, all with the aim of pro-
jecting a positive image of Kazakh-
stan abroad and encouraging sport
at home. It is like a Real Madrid in
Kazakhstan, said Kelimbetov.
The Astana Arlans boxing team
won the inaugural World Series of
Boxing title last year. The Club also
supports Ilya Ilyin, a double Olym-
pic champion weightlifter, and
Denis Ten, who won gure skating
bronze at the Sochi Winter Olym-
pics this year.
The cycling team was set up in
2006, just as Borat was being re-
leased, though Kelimbetov said
there was no link between the two.
The club was set up to support
Kazakhstans star rider Alexander Vi-
nokourov who won the Tour of Spain
that year for the team.
But soon after he was involved in a
doping scandal in 2007 that led to a
two year ban. Vinokourov, a national
hero in Kazakhstan, is now Astanas
general manager.
Astana later signed Alberto Con-
tador who won the Giro dItalia and
Vuelta a Espana in 2008. In 2009,
seven-time Tour de France winner
Lance Armstrong came out of retire-
ment and joined Astana.
Contador won the 2010 Tour de
France but had the title taken away
after failing a drug test. Armstrong,
later stripped of his record seven
Tour de France titles for doping, left
that year in a dispute over the return
of Vinokourov.
That was when Kelimbetov took
control to sort out its nances
and its scandals. The team set up
a program with cyclings govern-
ing body, the UCI, to avoid doping
violations.
Actually Astana was probably the
rst team who really started ve
years ago to clean up the house and
we are now following all these rules,
he said.
Kelimbetov said that before his ar-
rival, the authorities had considered
closing the cycling team.
As a leading voice on the Astana
Presidential Sports Club, Kelimbe-
tov said it was determined to prove
that Nibali was not a one-off. We
would like this to be a long sporting
story, he said. AFP
Kazakhstan using sport to make global impact
Papuan weightlifter in
court for sexual assault
Chinese paint square running track
A WEIGHTLIFTER from
Papua New Guinea taking
part in the Commonwealth
Games is to go on trial in
the host city of Glasgow this
week, accused of sexually
assaulting another man in a
supermarket toilet.
Toua Udia, 22, was arrest-
ed on July 21 following the
alleged incident that took
place in a Tesco store near
the athletes village.
He appeared at Glasgow
Sheriff Court the following
day, where he pleaded not
guilty to a charge under the
Sexual Offences Act.
He was granted bail after
being ordered to hand over
his passport, allowing him to
join the Papua New Guinea
team at the Games opening
ceremony last Wednesday,
the BBC reported.
He also competed in the
mens 77-kilogram category
at the Clyde Auditorium on
Sunday, coming ninth.
Following a second hearing
on Monday, he is scheduled
to go on trial on Friday, his
lawyer conrmed.
A Police Scotland spokes-
man said: At around 5:10pm
on July 21, police received
a report of an incident at
Tescos supermarket on Dal-
marnock Road, Rutherglen,
Glasgow.
A 22-year-old man has
been arrested in connection
with an alleged assault.
The Commonwealth Games
Federation said it was aware
of the allegation. AFP
Eye on the prize
Nigerias Ojo Onaolapo serves the ball during the bronze medal team table tennis match at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
on Monday. Nigeria pulled off a minor surprise by beating India 3-1 to claim the bronze. There were wild scenes after Onaolapo, ranked
488th in the world, beat Kamal Achanta, who is ranked 50th, to seal a noteworthy triumph four years after India won 3-0 at the same
stage. A round-up of Commonwealth Games action can be found on page 22. AFP
ENGLANDS Moeen Ali has
been warned by world cricket
chiefs not to wear wristbands
declaring his support for the
people of Gaza again during
international matches.
But the International
Cricket Council (ICC) said
Ali would face no disciplin-
ary action on this occasion
after being warned about his
future conduct by match ref-
eree David Boon.
Worcestershires Ali wore
wristbands during the third
Test match against India on
Monday that read Save Gaza
and Free Palestine, while
batting during Englands rst
innings at the Rose Bowl in
Southampton.
That prompted the ICC to
say that they were investigat-
ing the incident and a spokes-
man for the global governing
body said yesterday: The ICC
equipment and clothing regu-
lations do not permit the dis-
play of messages that relate
to political, religious or racial
activities or causes during an
international match.
Moeen Ali was told by the
referee that, while he is free
to express his views on such
causes away from the crick-
et eld, he is not permit-
ted to wear the wristbands
on the eld of play, and he
was warned not to wear the
bands again during an inter-
national match.
The 27-year-old Ali, a Bir-
mingham-born practising
Muslim of Pakistani descent,
was photographed recently
helping to raise funds for
Gaza relief efforts in his home
city in central England.
Alis wristbands were only
on public display for 42 min-
utes during play on Monday,
while the all-rounder made
12 runs off 28 balls before he
was caught off Indian seamer
Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
On Monday, the England
and Wales Cricket Board in-
sisted they had no issues with
Alis conduct.
As far as we are concerned,
he has not committed any of-
fence, an ECB spokesman
said, adding that it was up to
the ICC to decide what action,
if any, Ali should face. AFP
ICC warn Ali against a
repeat of Gaza protest
It is difcult to turn and easy to fall, a resident said of the rectangular
running track in Chinas Heilongjiang province. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Sport
K
EMAR Bailey-Cole main-
tained Jamaicas 100m
mens supremacy in the
absence of illustrious
teammate Usain Bolt at the Com-
monwealth Games on Monday, but
Nigerias Blessing Okagbare spoiled
their hopes of a sprint double.
The 22-year-old Bailey-Cole came
back from a poor start to power
through in 10.00 seconds, with Eng-
lands Adam Gemili just edging out
Nickel Ashmeade to take second in
10.10sec.
Bolt, a six-time Olympic medallist
and double sprint world record hold-
er, will only compete in the 4x100m in
Glasgow. It means a lot because its
my rst individual medal at a cham-
pionship. Its just the start of the indi-
vidual medals, Bailey-Cole said.
The aim was to come out here and
win and I did just that. I said to myself
these guys cant beat me.
Bolt congratulated Bailey-Cole on
his victory. TeamJamaica all the way
. . congrats @KemarBaileyCole #Glas-
gow2014 #gold, Bolt tweeted.
But there was no Jamaican double
joy in the womens 100m as Okag-
bare produced a scintillating run to
claim gold in a new Games record
of 10.85sec. For Okagbare, her vic-
tory was one step on her path to a
Commonwealth treble as she also
competes in the 200m and long jump.
Jamaican duo Veronica Campbell-
Brown and Kerron Stewart had to set-
tle for silver and bronze respectively
at Hampden Park.
A new seasons best and a win, Ok-
agbare said. Im happy I was able to
put on a show. I still have the 200m
and the long jump and Im looking
forward to both of those events now.
In the eld, Jamaican ODayne
Richards won the mens shot put in a
Games record 21.61m, as Canadas Sul-
tana Frizell threw another meet record
of 71.97m to defend her hammer title.
Over in the pool, Australia claimed
two more titles and podium sweeps
but South Africa and England also
won double gold on the night.
Thirteenth gold for the hosts
Australia won two of their four gold
medals of the day in the Tollcross
swimming venue to sit top of the
overall medals table with 30 golds.
England are second with 27 gold,
with hosts Scotland holding 13, top-
ping their previous record tally of 11
won at the Melbourne 2006 Com-
monwealth Games.
Cate Campbell added Common-
wealth Games 100m freestyle gold to
her world title as she edged out sister
Bronte, with Emma McKeon complet-
ing an all-Australian podium. The 22-
year-old smashed the Commonwealth
Games record set by Bronte earlier in
the meet in a time of 52.68sec.
Mitch Larkin led a sweep in the mens
200m backstroke ahead of Josh Beaver
and Matson Lawson as the Aussies
have now won 17 of the 36 gold medals
on offer in the pool in Glasgow.
South Africas star duo Cameron Van
der Burgh and Chad Le Clos were both
back on top of the podium.
Van der Burgh hailed the most emo-
tional victory of his career as he gained
revenge on Adam Peaty with victory in
the mens 50m breaststroke, as Le Clos
set a new Games record on his way to
victory in the mens 100m buttery.
Englands Sophie Taylor came out on
top in the womens 100m breaststroke
after compatriot Ollie Hynds had won
the mens Para-Sport 200m individual
medley SM8.
Jazz Carlin became Wales rst Com-
monwealth Games swimming gold
medallist for 40 years in the womens
800m freestyle, with Audrey Lacroix
giving Canada gold in the womens
200m buttery.
In squash, Nicol David and Nick
Matthew both retained their singles
titles. Matthew, 34, beat compatriot
James Willstrop 11-9, 8-11, 11-5, 6-11,
11-5 at Scotstoun Sports Campus to
become the oldest individual gold
medal winner in squash. Peter Barker
completed an English podium sweep.
David, meanwhile, crushed English
world champion Laura Massaro 12-
10, 11-2, 11-5 in a one-sided womens
nal which lasted just 44 minutes.
In weightlifting, Marie Fegue won
the womens 69kg category to hand
Cameroon their rst Commonwealth
Games gold medal since 2002.
The evening session saw New Zea-
lands Richard Patterson win gold in
the mens 85kg nal.
In shooting, Australia claimed two
gold medals as Warren Potent set a
Games record in the nal of the mens
50m rie prone and Laetisha Scanlan
qualied in last place in the womens
trap but beat Georgia Konstantinidou
in the gold medal match.
Sally Johnston won New Zealands
rst shooting gold of the Games in the
womens 50m prone event, as Jitu Rai
gave India a seventh gold medal in the
mens 50m pistol event.
Singapore retained their mens table
tennis team title after beating Eng-
land 3-1 and Malaysia successfully
defended their badminton mixed
team crown with a 3-1 victory over
England.
In bowls, South Africa defeated
Northern Ireland 19-10 to take the
mens triples gold, and Scotlands Alex
Marshall and Paul Foster were too
good for Malaysia in the mens pairs
nal winning 20-3.
Englands men and women were
both in the gold medal position in
their gymnastics team nals at the
overnight halfway stage of the com-
petition at the Hydro arena. AFP
Jamaicas Kemar Bailey-Cole (right) powers across the line to win ahead of Saint Kitts and Nevis Antoine Adams (left) and Jamaicas
Jason Livermore in the mens 100m on Monday night. Englands Adam Gemili was second and Jamaicas Nickel Ashmeade third. AFP
Bolt hails Bailey-Coles 100m gold
Audi take endurance treble with victory at Spa
Giles Richards

ELATION and despair, so often
two sides of the same coin in
endurance racing, were centre
stage at motor racings great-
est amphitheatre on Sunday
when, in a thrilling nale, the
Audi of WRT Racing took the
lead after 23 hours and 45
minutes of racing to deny the
Marc VDS BMW a win by only
seven seconds in the last line
of the nal act of this years
Spa 24 Hours.
The No 1 Audi of Rene Rast,
Markus Winkelhock and
Laurens Vanthoor had been
battling with the No 77 BMW
of Dirk Werner, Markus
Palttala and Lucas Luhr
throughout the night, with
the two cars exchanging the
lead during pitstops.
A close nish was expected
but this twice round-the-
clock slug-fest was decided
by the breathtakingly tight
battle at the death.
The BMW appeared to have
the edge in fuel efciency and
looked able to eke out just
enough extra time on track
to edge the Audi, but it began
suffering from an electrical
problem affecting the ABS
and traction control in the -
nal stages. Losing time, it was
neck and neck at the nal pit
stops with 40 minutes to go
at which point the Marc VDS
squad had to take a gamble.
The team opted not to t
fresh rubber at the nal stop
giving them a 20-second ad-
vantage over the Audi, which
did take new boots on its last
visit to the pits.
Werner did his best to keep
up the pace but it was to no
avail, Rast was taking three
seconds a lap from the lead
and was line astern after 10
circuits, on lap 520.
A lap later he nicked up the
inside of La Source and the
deed was done with a dramat-
ic ourish against the back-
drop of this famous corner.
The winners completed
527 laps and the No 77 squad
came home disappointed
with a gap of, perhaps appro-
priately, 7.077 seconds.
But the weekend had be-
longed to Audi. This is the
third time in four years that
the marque has won here and
the victory for Rast and Win-
kelhock comes after they took
the ag at this years Nurbur-
gring 24 Hours.
This is the second time, hav-
ing already done so in 2012,
that Audi has won all three
European endurance classics
in the same year, having also
taken the ag during an old-
school attritional race at this
years Le Mans.
The winners from La Sarthe,
Andre Lotterer, Benoit Tre-
luyer and Marcel Fassler, who
were bidding to become the
rst driver line-up to win Le
Mans ands Spa in the same
year, were unable to do the
double, coming home in 12th
place after losing time in a
collision sustained in the last
quarter of the 24 hours.
It was also another good
weekend for the former Man-
chester United and France
goalkeeper Fabien Barthez,
who took up motor sport after
retiring in 2007.
Proving he has the hands for
sports car racing as well, he
won the French GT champi-
onship driving a Ferrari along-
side Morgan Moullin-Traffort
last year, was 29th at this years
Le Mans 24 and here in Spa,
took 22nd place in a 61-car
eld and a creditable 11th
position in the Pro-Am class.
The race underwent several
safety-car periods in the rst
ve hours after accidents that
knocked out nine cars and
was then red-agged for just
under an hour after a crash
between the No 111 and No
333 Ferraris.
This led the British driver
Marcus Mahy to be taken
by helicopter to hospital
in Lige. He was put into a
medically induced coma,
from which he has been wo-
ken, is reacting to stimula-
tion and can move his limbs.
Mahy is expected to undergo
neck surgery. THE GUARDIAN

Nigerian weightlifter in
doping shock at Games
NIGERIAN teenage weightlifter
Chika Amalaha has been
provisionally suspended from
the Commonwealth Games
after testing positive in a doping
test taken after she won gold in
the womens 53kg category, the
Commonwealth Games
Federation announced
yesterday. The 16-year-old
Amalaha provided an A
sample on July 25 which
revealed traces of diuretics and
masking agents. She will have a
B sample tested at a
laboratory in London on July 30.
Commonwealth Games
Federation chief executive Mike
Hooper said: We [have] issued
a formal notice of disclosure to
an athlete following an adverse
analytical finding as a
consequence of an
in-competition test. That athlete
is Nigerian weightlifter Chika
Amalaha. Amalaha snatched a
best of 85kg before managing
111kg in the clean and jerk for a
total of 196kg, to become the
youngest Commonwealth
weightlifter gold medallist. It
was the first doping case of the
Glasgow Games and will likely
once again call into question the
legitimacy of weightlifting as a
Commonwealth Games sport
given its history of drug-related
incidents. AFP
KP joins Melbourne in
20/20 Big Bash League
ENGLAND outcast Kevin
Pietersen will make a long-
awaited appearance in this
seasons Big Bash League in
Australia after signing a two-
year deal with the Melbourne
Stars. The 34-year-old batsman,
controversially axed by England
after the teams 5-0 Ashes loss
in Australia this year, is the
highest-profile signing for the
new domestic Twenty20 season,
which starts in December.
Joining the Melbourne Stars
was an easy choice for me when
you look at the players we have
. . . and our home ground, the
MCG, he said late on Monday.
The prolific run-scorer will join
Australian stars Glenn Maxwell
and James Faulkner in the
team, along with Sri Lankan fast
bowler Lasith Malinga. AFP
Ecclestone offers 25M
to end trial in Germany
FORMULA One magnate Bernie
Ecclestone offered yesterday to
pay 25 million ($36 million) in
damages to settle the
corruption trial against him in
Germany, according to a local
news agency. The 83-year-olds
defence team filed a surprise
motion at the Munich court to
dismiss the charges in
exchange for paying the sum to
BayernLB bank, German news
agency DPA reported. State
prosecutors indicated they were
open to the proposal but would
have to review it in detail,
according to the report.
Ecclestone is accused of paying
German banker Gerhard
Gribkowsky $44 million in 2006
and 2007 to ensure his
continued grip on the motor
sports empire he had built up
over four decades. The Briton,
who went on trial in April and
has pleaded not guilty, faces a
maximum jail term of 10 years if
convicted. He admits making
the huge payment but says it
was not a bribe but rather hush
money after a blackmail
attempt. AFP
THE remarkable summer exodus of
talent from Southampton is set to con-
tinue with Morgan Schneiderlin and
Jay Rodriguez close to a reunion with
their former manager, Mauricio
Pochettino, at Spurs in the wake of the
sale of Calum Chambers to Arsenal.
The south coast club, then overseen
by Pochettino, finished in eighth place
last season yet Chambers, who has
signed a long-term contract at the
Emirates stadium, is the fifth key mem-
ber of that team to be sold this summer
for combined fees in excess of 90 mil-
lion ($153,000,000).
The Southampton hierarchy, appar-
ently with the blessing of new man-
ager Ronald Koeman has determined
that any player who expresses a desire
to leave will be allowed to exit St Marys
for the right price though, at present,
the first-team squad is increasingly
appearing asset-stripped.
They had hoped to dissuade suitors
from bidding for Schneiderlin, a play-
er Koeman had considered vital, by
demanding in excess of the 27 million
fee that took Luke Shaw to Manchester
United earlier this summer. But the
France midfielder has expressed a
desire to rejoin Pochettino and, with
talks ongoing over a compromise fee,
he will be accompanied by Rodriguez
despite the England striker recovering
from an knee ligament injury that
denied him a place at the World Cup.
The 24-year-old is in light training
and, with the player due to be fit again
in October, it is understood personal
terms have already been agreed in prin-
ciple for a move to White Hart Lane.
Aside from Shaw and Chambers,
Saints have sold Rickie Lambert, Adam
Lallana and Dejan Lovren to Liverpool
for a combined 49.5 million this sum-
mer, with Dani Osvaldo expected to
depart before the start of the season
and Jose Fonte having attracted a
3 million bid from Cardiff City.
Executive director Les Reed admitted
disappointment at losing Chambers for
a fee that could rise to 16 million, but
called for calm amid growing concern
among supporters. THE GUARDIAN
Football
23

Thai referees swear to
Buddha to stop fixing
FOOTBALL chiefs in Thailand
have come up with a novel way
of trying to eradicate the
countrys match-fixing
problem by getting referees
to swear an oath in one of the
countrys most famous
religious temples. The Football
Association of Thailand (FAT)
took more than 100 referees to
swear before the Emerald
Buddha in Bangkok that they
would officiate matches
honestly after widespread
rumours of corruption in the
domestic league. The FAT has
implemented several
measures to stop this and
improve the officiating,
including using lie-detectors,
but match-fixing allegations
persist. We have performed
. . . and will perform our duty
with honesty, the match
officials said in their oaths
according to the Bangkok
Post. Thanom Borikut, a
referee who has been
suspended following several
controversial decisions, said
this gesture showed referees
were honest, but we only have
two eyes so it is not likely that
everybody will make a correct
decision. Thanom has been
told he can return to match
duties after swearing the oath.
THE GUARDIAN
Court presses ahead

with Messi tax case
A SPANISH court on Monday
rejected public prosecutors
request to drop charges of tax
fraud against four-time world
footballer of the year Lionel
Messi and ordered the probe
to go ahead. The Barcelona
forward and his father, Jorge
Horacio Messi, were accused
last year of not paying 4.16
million ($5.58 million) in tax on
earnings from the players
image rights from 2007-2009
through the creation of a web
of shell companies in Belize
and Uruguay. Both Messi and
his father denied wrongdoing
and pointed the finger instead
at a former agent of the player
when they were quizzed at a
court in in September 2013.
Based on the Messis
testimony, public prosecutors
called for the case to be
shelved but the court on
Monday ruled that Messi
could have known and
consented to the tax fraud
and the prosecution of the
case should go ahead. AFP
Ex-Gers defender Berg

plotting Celtic downfall
FORMER Rangers defender
Henning Berg is aiming to
claim the scalp of Celtic when
his Legia Warsaw side take on
the Scottish champions in the
first leg of the Champions
League third qualifying round
today. Ex-Norway international
Berg, 44, spent the 2003-04
campaign, the final season of
his career, with Celtics Old
Firm rivals and is looking to
guide Polish title-holders
Legia back to the Champions
League group stage for the
first time in 19 years. They are
a step ahead of us, because
they play regularly in Europe,
but for us its an interesting
test. I expect two close
meetings, said Berg ahead of
the first leg in the Polish
capital. We have the oppor-
tunity to progress if we play to
our full capabilities. AFP
EPL prices defy games culture
United in talks with Napoli over Fellaini exit
David Conn

T
HE Football Supporters Fed-
eration is calling on fans to
join a march on the English
Premier League and Football
League headquarters on August 14 to
protest against spiralling ticket pric-
es and demand affordable football
for all. This demonstration has be-
come an annual xture, as clubs have
shown no inclination to use their TV
rights windfalls to reduce historically
inated ticket prices.
For this forthcoming 2014-15 season,
a handful of clubs, including Totten-
ham Hotspur, Swansea City and West
Bromwich Albion, have frozen ticket
prices at the same level as last season.
Manchester City, the Premier League
champions bankrolled by the Abu
Dhabi oil fortune of Sheikh Mansour,
stand out with a benevolent 299
($508) cheapest adult season ticket,
which bears comparison with prices
through footballs history when the
sport was built and fondly referred to
as the peoples game. Such tickets
are limited, however, and prices at the
Etihad go up to a high of 860 while
matchday ticket costs, yet to be con-
rmed, were the target of complaints
from some away fans last season.
Arsenal, whose 62 away-ticket price
sparked a near-boycott by City fans
when the two clubs met last season,
will, as ever in modern times, be pricey
to support. The cheapest adult season
ticket at the Emirates is 1,020 al-
though that includes early round cup
matches, a total of 26 games.
The most expensive tickets, at a club
that began building its new stadium in
2004 with the express aim of maximis-
ing income from more fans, are more
than 2,000 for a season ticket and
129.50 for the most expensive single
matchday ticket.
Such prices charged to supporters
for watching their English clubs are
a culture change from the century of
the games development that passed
before the First Division clubs broke
away from the Football League, form-
ing the Premier League and keep all
the money from the new pay-TV deal
in 1992.
In the 1989-90 season, for example,
during which Lord Justice Taylor pro-
duced his nal report on the wider
issue of football ground safety, there
were thousands of tickets in Old Traf-
fords standing accommodation where
fans could watch Manchester United
against top opposition for 3.50.
Adjusted for retail-price ination in
the 24 years since, that ticket would
now cost 6.94, just under a 100 per
cent increase. Uniteds lowest-priced
ticket for this season, of which there
are very many fewer than in the days
of standing, will be 31.
That is cheap compared to 65.50
at Arsenal (for the highest category
games), 55 at West Ham United with
several clubs charging more, but Unit-
eds 31 price nevertheless represents
a 785 per cent increase since 1990.
At Liverpool, where prices have
been increased signicantly since the
2010 takeover of the then nancially
troubled club by John Henrys Bos-
ton-based Fenway Sports Group, the
1989-90 cheapest ticket price, accom-
modating thousands of fans on the
Kop, was 4. This season, Liverpools
cheapest matchday ticket will be 46,
an increase of 1,150 per cent.
Liverpools cheapest Aneld sea-
son ticket is 710, signicantly more
than at City, United and all clubs out-
side London; in fact it is the Premier
Leagues fourth most expensive low-
est-priced season ticket after Arsenals
1,020 (for 26 matches), Chelseas 750
and the 745 that Tottenham Hotspur
charge at White Hart Lane.
Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre
has made it clear that the expansion
of Aneld, for which preparatory
work has begun with the demolition
of surrounding houses, will be aimed
at making more money for the club
from fans, not reducing prices.
Kevin Miles, the FSFs chief execu-
tive, describes high pricing as one is-
sue which unites modern supporters,
most of whom grew up and became
loyal to their clubs in the pre-Premier
League era. There is an assumption
that football has become a middle-
class pastime, but I dont necessarily
see that, Miles said.
I see traditional supporters stretch-
ing themselves, paying prices they
think are unreasonable, to do the
thing they love. It is such a captive
market, clubs can squeeze people in a
way other businesses cant.
In Germany the football asso-
ciation and Bundesliga have main-
tained standing areas throughout,
and insisted on keeping the game af-
fordable for the young and less well
off who have long been the backbone
of support.
This season at Bayern Munich, still
75 per cent owned by supporters,
Bundesliga champions, 2013 Cham-
pions League winners and suppliers
of the bulk of Joachim Lows World
Cup-winning team, thousands of fan-
members can buy a season ticket to
stand for 144 ($193).
In England, the fans are marching
on Premier League HQ to keep alive
the tradition that football is not a busi-
ness that should charge its followers
whatever it can, but a game that be-
longs to everybody. THE GUARDIAN
MAROUANE Fellainis night-
mare time at Manchester
United could be over as the
club are in negotiations with
Napoli regarding the mideld-
er, whose 27.5 million ($47
million) fee last summer made
him the fourth most expensive
player in the clubs history.
Fellaini is thought to be hap-
py with a move Italy, although
he is still weighing up the de-
cision. Whether it would be a
permanent transfer or loan
deal is also in the balance.
United would prefer to sell
the player and are bracing
themselves to take a sizeable
loss on him, with any fee in the
region of 15 million under-
stood to be considered good
business. Napoli, though,
want to take Fellaini on a tem-
porary basis as the Italian club
have straitened nances and
are trying to remove players
from their books.
With Fellaini on about
100,000 a week, his terms may
also be an issue if it were to be
a permanent transfer. Despite
the Belgians disappointing
form since joining United he
failed to score a goal for the
club and was unlucky with
injuries Rafael Benitez, the
Napoli head coach, believes
the players physicality could
be utilised in Serie A.
The move away from United
is being presented to Fellaini
as a chance to rebuild his ca-
reer and an opportunity to
play Champions League foot-
ball as United are not in the
competition next season.
Fellainis disgruntlement at
his troubled year was evident
at the World Cup when he was
asked about the experience.
I have played eight years as a
professional, so I dont need to
prove [anything], he said. I
always believed in myself.
Shinji Kagawas future at
United is also in doubt as Van
Gaal continues to assess his
players during the tour of the
US. Kagawas former club, Bo-
russia Dortmund, retain an
interest in him and are seen
as potential suitors.
Van Gaal has described the
squad he inherited from Da-
vid Moyes as broken. The
manager was asked whether
succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson
would have been harder and
replied: No. I dont agree. I
had to follow Bobby Robson
at Barcelona the year after
he won three titles and there
wasnt a problem [Van Gaal
won the league that year].
When there is success you
have a very good squad, and
now I have to follow and the
squad was broken, I think.
Van Gaal said there was
quality in the squad but add-
ed: There are a lot of players
that can play in the same po-
sition. It is not in balance. Its
more difcult to succeed in
a difcult situation than in a
fantastic situation.
Robin van Persie is due to
restart training at Carrington
and will not join United in the
US. THE GUARDIAN
Liverpool fans demonstrate over ticket prices during the English Premier League match
between Southampton and Liverpool at St Marys in Southampton on March 16, 2013. AFP
Schneiderlin, Rodriguez set for Spurs in Saints exodus
Southamptons Jay Rodriguez celebrates
scoring against Fulham on February 1. AFP
Sport
Judge approves $2B sale of LA Clippers
Veronique Dupont

A
US judge on Monday
gave the go-ahead
for the $2 billion sale
of the Los Angeles
Clippers to former Microsoft
chief executive Steve Ballmer,
ruling that embattled owner
Donald Sterling could not
block the move.
The ruling by California
Superior Court Judge Mi-
chael Levanas came after a
three-week trial pitting the
80-year-old Sterling barred
from the National Basketball
Association for life for making
racist remarks against his
estranged wife, Shelly, who
made the deal with Ballmer.
Levanas said the sale could
go forward immediately, even
if Donald Sterling who had
challenged his wifes author-
ity to sell the NBA franchise
appeals. He had 15 days to
le an objection to the ruling.
Shelly Sterling negotiated
the sale on behalf of the fam-
ily trust, after Donald Ster-
lings position as co-trustee
was terminated when two
medical experts declared the
billionaire real estate mo-
gul mentally incompetent to
handle trust affairs.
This is a good thing for the
city, for the league and for
my family, she told report-
ers, adding she thought her
husband would eventually be
happy with the sale.
Levanas rejected claims by
Donald Sterling that his wifes
efforts to have him declared
incompetent were based on
fraud, saying the court did
not nd any compelling evi-
dence of any wrongdoing
and that Shelly Sterlings tes-
timony had been convincing.
Donald Sterlings attorney
Max Blecher said after the
ruling was read that he was
deeply disappointed.
In April, recordings of Ster-
ling making racist comments
to a girlfriend led NBA com-
missioner Adam Silver to ban
him for life from the sport
and launch proceedings to
strip him of the team.
Neurologist Meril Platzer
told the court earlier this
month that Donald Sterling
was suffering from Alzheim-
ers disease, and likely had
been for at least three years.
Sterling had argued that his
decision in June to dissolve
the family trust which came
after he initially agreed to
the teams sale kept his wife
from making any move to sell
the Clippers. Levanas rejected
that claim. An August 15 dead-
line to complete the sale to
Ballmer is fast approaching.
In a statement, NBA execu-
tive vice president of com-
munications Mike Bass wel-
comed the ruling.
We are pleased that the
court has afrmed Shelly
Sterlings right to sell the Los
Angeles Clippers to Steve
Ballmer. We look forward to
the transaction closing as
soon as possible, Bass said.
The sale would bring an end
to an ugly chapter in NBA his-
tory one that included play-
er and fan protests. Sponsors
abandoned the team, and the
controversy clouded the Clip-
pers run to the second round
of the NBA playoffs.
The $2 billion price tag, for
a team that has never won a
championship, would set an
NBA record well above the
record $550 million paid for
the Milwaukee Bucks in April.
It also would mark a mas-
sive nancial return for Ster-
ling on a club he purchased in
1981 for just $12 million.
Mondays ruling may,
however, be complicated by
a separate suit led by Don-
ald Sterling against his wife,
the NBA and Silver, claiming
they defrauded him when
they moved to sell the Clip-
pers to Ballmer. He is seeking
an injunction to halt the sale
of the team, as well as un-
specied damages.
Pierce ODonnell, the lead
attorney for Shelly Sterling,
said in his closing argu-
ments earlier Monday that
Shelly Sterling cared about
her husband and was a de-
cent woman.
Blecher, however, de-
nounced a scheme against
his client, and said there was
no proof that Sterling was
no longer capable of making
business decisions.
It was clear in the pro-
cess of his testimony that
he was alert, he said, add-
ing that Shelly Sterling had
unclean hands.
If we get the right to appeal
[the judges] mistakes will not
stand up, he insisted. AFP
Shelly Sterling gestures outside the LA courthouse yesterday. A judge
gave the go-ahead to the $2 billion sale of the LA Clippers. AFP

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