General Wanted in Murders: Condo Collapse Kills 3 Migrants

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K CHHNANG
PROTESTERS
BEATEN BY COPS
NATIONAL PAGE 3
PANDA TRIPLETS
BORN IN CHINESE
SAFARI PARK
WORLD PAGE 15
ACTOR, COMEDIAN
ROBIN WILLIAMS
DIES AT AGE 63
LIFESTYLE PAGE 17
Vong Sokheng
and Laignee Barron
AT LEAST six people, includ-
ing three Cambodian
migrant workers, were killed
late on Monday when a con-
dominium construction
project north of Bangkok
collapsed, according to
news reports, officials and
witnesses at the scene.
Twenty-four people, at
least one of whom is Cam-
bodian, were also injured in
the collapse, which was said
to have happened while
workers were pouring con-
crete on the top floor. Public
health officials reported 33
people were buried in the
rubble of the six-storey
building 24 Thais and nine
foreigners.
A passerby told the Post by
phone that shouts could be
heard from people trapped
under the debris as the
search and rescue team
attempted to find and extract
Condo
collapse
kills 3
migrants
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
and Daniel Pye
A
MILITARY general and
adviser to Deputy
Prime Minister Ke
Kim Yan has fled the
country and is wanted on sus-
picion of the double murder of
his mistress and their daughter,
police said yesterday.
Major General Kim Marintha,
57, is suspected of carrying out
the premeditated murder of his
mistress, Va Dary, 27, and their
6-year-old daughter, Kem
Thavichda, on February 15.
A joint task force, which has
been investigating the case
since mid-March, yesterday
raided one of several business-
es owned by Marintha, GST
Express Bus Company, where
investigators believe the mur-
ders took place. About 30 police
cordoned off the GST premises
at 2pm and conducted a lengthy
forensic examination of the
scene, where weapons believed
to have been used in the homi-
cide were later discovered.
Several staff members of the
company were held during the
raid for questioning.
Police have identified three
suspects Marintha, his son
Kim Seng Rithy and his son-in-
law Chea Samnang, 34, who was
arrested on Saturday in Preah
Sihanouk province. Samnang
had fled the capital after getting
wind of the investigation and
was tracked to Mondulkiri prov-
ince by police before his arrest
near Sihanoukville.
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General wanted in murders
Government adviser ees country, accused of killing mistress, own daughter
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A police ofcer escorts Chea
Samnang to the alleged murder
scene of Va Davy yesterday dur-
ing a police raid on his father-
in-laws business. VIREAK MAI
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 13, 2014
Caper to free
official works
Sen David

M
ILITARY police
in Ratanak-
kiri provinces
OYadav district
on Monday were duped into
letting a detained immigra-
tion ofcial walk free just
hours after he was arrested
for alleged involvement in the
cross-border illegal timber
trade, police said yesterday.
District military police chief
Sok Min said yesterday that a
group of men claiming to be
Ministry of Interior ofcials
came to the military police
post where Kong Sovan Chen-
da was detained following a
car chase in which he alleged-
ly drove a Lexus loaded with
illegal timber and asked to
take the suspect back to their
ofce to ll out some paper-
work related to his arrest.
However, the men, includ-
ing Sovan Chenda, never re-
turned.
We allowed him to go with
his employer to his ofce and
come back to the military
police ofce, but they all es-
caped, Min said.
Now we are looking for
[him] to arrest him.
Min sought to dispel any
notions that bribery was in-
volved, saying it was instead
mere gullibility.
[It was] not related to pay-
ment, he said.
We thought that when his
colleagues took him to their
ofce for the paperwork, they
would come back.
Phan Phoeun, deputy chief
of the provincial Forestry
Administration, said that his
ofce regretted the suspects
escape and would keep in-
vestigating more as to why
he was able to escape even
though he was arrested by the
military police.
The provincial coordina-
tor for rights group Adhoc,
Chhay Thy, lambasted mili-
tary police yesterday for let-
ting a detained suspect out
of custody, describing it as an
obvious example of authori-
ties caving to wealthy, con-
nected suspects.
It is not easy to escape
when the military police have
arrested him already, he
said. We dont doubt his hav-
ing paid [them] to allow him
to get away.
Alice Cuddy
AMID growing concerns over
the trafcking of Cambodian
women to China, the Inter-
national Organization for
Migration (IOM) yesterday
announced plans to train Chi-
nese immigration ofcials in
better identifying victims.
According to a statement re-
leased yesterday, the IOM, in
partnership with the Chinese
government, will host a two-
day workshop this week to train
some 35 immigration ofcials.
The workshop will train
frontline immigration and fron-
tier inspection ofcials from
around China on how to better
detect counterfeit documents
and imposters. It will also focus
on the need to proactively iden-
tify vulnerable migrants and
potential victims of trafcking,
IOM Beijing head of ofce Pr
Liljert said in the statement.
Last week, Cambodia called
on China to stop granting visas
to single Cambodian women
unless they had an ofcial let-
ter of invitation for a work visa
or had deposited $10,000 in a
Chinese bank for a tourist visa.
The request was labelled
misguided by rights groups.
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survivors. Some victims were in critical
condition, and a man whom health officials
intended on rescuing by amputating his
legs died yesterday morning while still
trapped under a beam.
TV and internet footage showed people
fleeing as the building crumbled in on
itself, leaving only one shaft standing and
still-moving workers caught between levels
of the building.
The three Cambodians killed were work-
ing on the second storey when the struc-
ture collapsed; their bodies have not yet
been located, according to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Those killed were among
30 Cambodian migrants at the site, all of
whom were undocumented.
Our ambassador visited a victim at the
hospital, and we are also working with Thai
police to demand the company pay com-
pensation, ministry spokesman Koy
Kuong said.
Thai authorities yesterday announced on
a government news service that they had
mobilised drilling machines and backhoe
tractors to rescue victims, and said the gov-
ernment would expedite compensation
for injured workers and the close relatives
of the deceased.
Kuong said the deceased Cambodians
included Im Pheur, 27, from Prey Vengs
Mesang district; Yat Pheng, 19, from Prey
Vengs Svay Ontor district; and a third per-
son identified only as Uch, 27, from Tbong
Khmums Memot district. The injured
Cambodian was Chhim Chan, 60, from
Kandals Lvea Em district, he added.
We are not sure whether to take the dead
[when found] back home or not. We are
waiting for contact from their families,
he said.
Kuong was unable to provide the name
of the construction company responsible
for the site, and Thailands Ministry of For-
eign Affairs said that because yesterday was
a public holiday, the relevant people could
not be reached for comment.
The collapsed building in the Thanyabu-
ri district of Prathum Thani province was
to be one of two dormitories intended to
provide housing for a nearby vocational
college. The cause of the collapse is still
under investigation but was determined to
be in part due to a substandard construc-
tion process, according to the director of
the Engineering Institute of Thailand,
Suchatchavee Suwansawat.
Thailand has long come under pressure
for a lack of safety precautions taken at
construction sites, which typically employ
foreign workers.
Poor construction safety and standards
result in frequent work accidents and fatal-
ities in Thailand, and migrants are also
particularly impacted, Bangkok-based
migration expert Andy Hall said.
In February, seven Cambodian workers
were among 11 people killed at a Thai hos-
pital undergoing repairs. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY BANGKOK POST
Rescue workers use cranes to search for people trapped after an under-construction six-storey
building collapsed on Monday in Thailands Prathum Thani province. AFP
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Police ofcer among
3 accused of cheating
Chhay Channyda
THE Anti-Corruption Unit has
announced that three people,
including a police officer, who
were arrested last week in Svay
Rieng province after posing as
students taking the grade 12
national exam, have been
charged with using false
identities.
In a statement released on
Monday, the ACU identified the
suspects as Sdeung Chanthun,
21, a grocery seller; Sao Sam-
nang, 23, a university student;
and policeman Un Botra, 25.
Botra has also been charged
with abuse of power due to his
position, the statement says.
A fourth suspect, 25-year-old
Hen Channy, was also arrested
in Kandal province while pos-
ing as a student, but the ACU
did not specify what charges
had been laid against him.
They all confessed, the
statement says, adding that the
students who asked the impost-
ers to sit the test on their behalf
would be barred from taking the
exam for two years.
Nouth Bopinnaroath, a coor-
dinator with rights group Licad-
ho, said Botra had been in pre-
trial detention since August 7,
while Chanthun and Samnang
had been released on bail.
This guy is a policeman who
knows the law but violated it.
He has done that many times
before during exams, he said.
According to the ACU state-
ment, Botra said he was taking
the exam on behalf of his broth-
er because he pitied him and
he wanted [him to have] a cer-
tificate so he could continue his
higher education.
The statement also says
Channy would have been paid
$320 if the exam he sat gave the
student a passing grade.
Like Botra, Channy is in pre-
trial detention, representatives
of rights group Adhoc in Kandal
province said.
ACU head Om Yentieng
declined to comment yester-
day. Officials at Svay Rieng and
Kandal provincial courts could
not be reached.
Thousands of students were
dismayed last week as they
faced new strict measures dur-
ing the national exam as part of
an Education Ministry effort to
crack down on the rampant
cheating and corruption that
has long characterised Cambo-
dias education system.
Many pupils not used to stud-
ying failed as a result, leading
Prime Minister Hun Sen to
announce on Monday that a
retest would be held.
Peaceful marchers beaten
May Titthara
Kampong Chhnang province

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ILLAGERS from Kampong
Chhnang were met yesterday
with brutal violence and arrests
as they embarked on an arduous
journey to the capital to seek a resolution
to their long-running land dispute with
politically connected KDC International.
Nearly 100 residents of Ta Ches com-
munes Lorpeang village set off in the
morning on a 60-kilometre march to
Phnom Penh to seek Prime Minister Hun
Sens intervention in their dispute with
KDC, a company owned by the wife of
Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy
Suy Sem.
At 11:30am, 5 kilometres into the jour-
ney, they were met by more than 100 po-
lice and military police, whom a Post re-
porter witnessed block the road and then
rush to attack the marchers children and
elderly among them with batons.
Three women fainted as authorities
tied their hands behind their backs and
carried them across the road. One man
was left with serious injuries to his left
hand. Carts full of rice and cooking pots
were destroyed.
The exact whereabouts of villagers ar-
rested in the violence Srun Tha, elderly
resident Kuch Hok and Snuon Nhoeun,
the husband of community representa-
tive Om Sophy remained unclear yester-
day. The others returned home to call for
their release.
It is damn cruel, said Sophy, covered
in blood and cradling a baby in her arms.
They do not think of the effect on small
children, she said.
Another villager, Tep Ny, cried out in
desperation: Shoot all of us. We have
nothing. If we protest for our land, we are
imprisoned, Ny said. Why do they mis-
treat the old? What are we doing wrong?
Standing on the blood-stained ground,
Hul Veasna, Kampong Tralach district po-
lice chief, said there had been no attack.
We just blocked them, he said, adding
that police intervened because villagers
were creating a disturbance.
He said he did not know if there were ar-
rest warrants for any of those detained.
After calling for their fellows demonstra-
tors release, the community members
made their way to a Phnom Penh pagoda,
albeit not by marching.
KDC representative Thai Hy, Kampong
Chhnang provincial police chief Prak
Vuthy and Provincial Governor Chhouk
Chandoeun could not be reached.
In a statement yesterday, rights group Li-
cadho said this decade-long land conict
wont go away by violently beating up the
community and arresting a few more vil-
lagers. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
Authorities seize a persons cart yesterday in Kampong Chhnang after villagers tried to march
to Phnom Penh to raise concerns over a land row with KDC International. HENG CHIVOAN
Cop charged
for ring gun
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court
yesterday charged minor
crimes police officer Thou
Sopheak with illegal use of
a weapon and causing unin-
tentional injury for allegedly
firing his gun into the wind-
shield of a car during a fit of
road rage, according to court
clerk Sok Sarath.
He now has been sent to Prey
Sar prison, Sarath said, declin-
ing to comment in detail.
Chamkarmon district police
officer Keo Bunthoeun said
yesterday that Second Lieuten-
ant Sopheak was arrested on
Saturday after the incident.
He was driving his motor-
bike while drunk, [and] he got
into a little traffic accident with
a car while driving along the
street, Bunthoeun said. He
got very angry, so he fired three
bullets into the cars windshield,
causing it to break and wound-
ing a woman sitting inside.
Sopheak was soon arrested,
Bunthoeun added. The bullet
grazed the woman but did not
seriously injure her.
Villagers tend to their cucumber crop on Monday as water threatens to
wreak havoc on their farm in Kandal province. HENG CHIVOAN
Pech Sotheary
FLOODING across 12 provinc-
es has killed another two peo-
ple, bringing the death toll to
29, an ofcial said yesterday.
The deaths occurred in Kam-
pong Cham and Prey Veng
provinces, according to Keo Vy,
cabinet director at the Nation-
al Committee for Disaster
Management.
Floods did not damage hous-
es, crops or infrastructure as
much as on Monday, Vy said.
The recent floods were
caused by heavy rains in Thai-
land, Laos and along the upper
Mekong River.
In contrast, Vy said, farmers
in three provinces Takeo,
Kampong Speu and Kandal
are facing water shortages due
to a lack of rain.
More than 25,000 hectares of
farmland are at risk, he said.
It is really affecting the crops,
although the rice has not wilted
and died yet, said Nheb Srorn,
director of the agriculture
department in Takeo.
But if we do not have rain
within 10 days, it will lead to
real damage, he said.
A PHNOM Penh Municipal Court judge hand-
ed down two-year sentences yesterday to three
people convicted of offering prostitution out
of a massage shop in Por Sen Chey districts
Kakab commune.
Judge Taing Sunlay said Chan Laem, 45, the
massage shop owner, and Ly Chanroath, her 38-
year-old manager both women were arrested
last year, as was Khieu Sambath, 50, a male mo-
torbike taxi driver accused of being a broker.
The shops female employees suspected of
engaging clients were educated and released.
The court decided to sentence them to
two years imprisonment each and ne them
2 million riel [$500] to put in the national bud-
get, Sunlay said.
Lieutenant Colonel Keo Thea, chief of the
Municipal Anti-Human Trafcking and Juve-
nile Protection Unit, said the three were ar-
rested during a in July 2013 raid on the shop, in
which authorities found a number of used and
unused condoms.
The accused and their defence lawyers could
not be reached for comment yesterday.
Floods claim two more
Massage shop pimps get two years
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Savuth arrived at the scene
about 3:30pm, after which Sam-
nang was ushered into the
building for questioning follow-
ing an earlier appearance at
Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
Brigadier General In Bora,
chief of the Ministry of Interiors
Penal Police Department, said
Marintha had fled and police
were seeking his arrest.
Our penal police forces now
are working hard on this case.
He has escaped, and our police
are searching for him, he said.
On March 20, the badly
decomposed bodies of Dary and
Thavichda were found dumped
in scrub land near Pech Nil in
Kampong Speu provinces
Phnom Sroch district.
As a result of the four-month
investigation, three suspects
have been identified and one
has been arrested in connec-
tion with the double murder
and disposal of the bodies,
the Child Protection Unit
(CPU), which helped coordi-
nate the case, said in a state-
ment yesterday.
Captain Bun Thol, a penal
police officer at the Ministry
of Interior, said Samnang had
confessed to helping his
father-in-law dispose of the
bodies, which were wrapped
in plastic, put inside a big
icebox and taken in the
tycoons Lexus to Pech Nil on
March 18.
Samnang was officially
charged yesterday by the
municipal court prosecutor
with being an accomplice to an
intentional murder. After visit-
ing the crime scene with police
yesterday, Samnang was
remanded into the courts cus-
tody for further questioning.
Va Srey Thun, 27, Davys sister,
spoke yesterday of her shock at
seeing the bodies of her sister
and niece.
On February 14, my older
sister and her daughter travelled
with Oknha Kim Marintha to
visit her hometown in Kampong
Cham province. She returned
back to Phnom Penh the next
day, she said.
That afternoon, [Marintha]
called my mother and told her
that my older sister and her
daughter had gone to buy glass-
es in Sorya Mall and had disap-
peared. Her mobile phone was
switched off.
I was very shocked and
almost lost consciousness
when I saw their bodies pack-
aged in plastic. I think that it
was very, very cruel. I would
like to ask police pursuing the
killers to give them the strong-
est punishment under the law,
she said.
On top of his high-level politi-
cal connections to former Royal
Cambodian Armed Forces chief
Kim Yan, Marintha boasts sub-
stantial business interests in the
Kingdom. As well as GST, he is
also director of the Rubber of
Friendship VC Company, the
Arra Best Corporation, and Fata-
co Corporation.
In 2009, Vi etnamese-
owned Fataco came under
fire for its role in alleged
forced drug trials sponsored
by the Vietnamese govern-
ment in Phnom Penhs Org-
kas Khnom drug detention
centre, where it experiment-
ed on drug addicts by giving
them doses of its product
Bong Sen a herbal concoc-
tion which the firm claims
can cure addiction.
The trials were later praised
by Deputy Prime Minister
Kim Yan.
James McCabe, the CPUs
director of operations, said
that Marintha had fled the
country and local police were
working with international
policing agencies to bring him
to justice.
The Joint Task Force is uti-
lising the assistance of inter-
national policing agencies.
Warrants have been issued for
the two outstanding suspects,
he said.
We have evidence that sug-
gests [the murder] was pre-
meditated, because he pur-
chased the black bags and
[icebox] in advance.
Police officers at the scene
of yesterdays raid said Mar-
intha had fled to Thailand.
Calls to phones registered to
Marintha went unanswered
yesterday evening.
Its one of the most serious
crimes you can commit, the
murder of a child, McCabe
said. But Cambodia is mov-
ing forward, and we are com-
mitted to bringing all the per-
sons who committed the
crime to justice.
With two of the main suspects
in the case on the run, Srey
Thun worries that she may be a
marked woman.
I knew the bodies were my
older sister and her daughter,
because I recognised her clothes
and ID card, she said.
I am now very concerned
about my own safety and secu-
rity. I am afraid the offenders
will hire hitmen to kill me.
Authorities question Chea Samnang earlier this month in Kampong Speu where the remains of Oknha Kim
Marinthas slain mistress and daughter were found. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Oknha Kim Marintha (left) and Va Davy pose for a picture together at an
unknown location on an unknown date. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Authorities cordon off the GST Express Bus ofce near Phnom Penhs Central Market yesterday during a
police raid to gather evidence for the murder investigation of Va Davy and her daughter. VIREAK MAI
I was very shocked
and almost lost
consciousness when
I saw their bodies
packaged in plastic
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Documents
said to back
land claims
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
EVICTEES from the embattled
Borei Keila community yester-
day presented documents they
said supported their claims for
housing at the site.
At a forum involving Phnom
Penh municipal authorities,
NGOs and 185 families, villag-
ers sought to prove they had
owned homes at Borei Keila
before violent evictions in Jan-
uary 2012 and were thus enti-
tled to apartments that were
supposed to have been built by
development firm Phan Imex
on adjacent land.
I have enough legal docu-
ments that meet the require-
ments of [City Halls] solution
committee, evictee Has Sok
Chenda said. If the authorities
are responsible and transpar-
ent, my family will receive a flat
at Borei Keila.
Evictees have squatted at
Borei Keila since the violent
evictions, many sleeping in
tents close to piles of rubbish.
Deputy Governor Khuong
Sreng said yesterday that villag-
ers with the relevant documen-
tation would receive housing,
while others would be moved
to another location.
Too early to cheer reopening
Chhay Channyda
and Pech Sotheary
P
ROTESTERS in Phnom
Penh yesterday con-
tinued to enjoy liber-
ties rediscovered since
political reconciliation be-
tween the ruling and opposi-
tion parties saw the barricades
around Freedom Park which
had been the epicentre of op-
position-led demonstrations
taken down last week.
The second demonstration
held at the park in as many
days saw a few hundred peo-
ple and union representatives
gather for International Youth
Day in the morning and subse-
quently march unhindered to
the National Assembly bearing
petitions voicing youth con-
cerns on a number of issues.
No Daun Penh district se-
curity guards the chosen en-
forcers during the past year of
political strife were in sight.
At the same time, across
town, hundreds of red-up
demonstrators demanding an
apology from Vietnam for con-
troversial comments made by
an embassy spokesman about
the former Kampuchea Krom
provinces gathered outside
the embassy for the second
day in a row.
In a provocative move, a
small group burned two Viet-
namese ags before being told
off by protest organisers, but
police took no action.
On Monday, these protesters
were the rst to use Freedom
Park as a demonstration space
since its reopening and were
not blocked by authorities
when they marched en masse
through town.
They have pledged to con-
tinue protesting until embassy
spokesman Trung Van Thong
apologises for saying in June
that the land once known as
Kampuchea Krom belonged
to Vietnam long before it was
ofcially handed over by colo-
nial power France in 1949.
Am Sam Ath, technical ad-
viser at human rights group
Licadho, welcomed the relax-
ation by Phnom Penh authori-
ties of their tough stance on
public assembly since Free-
dom Park had been reopened.
It is the second day that
Freedom Park has been re-
opened and people and youth
[have marched]. We observe
that nothing happened. If no
ban is made, no violence hap-
pens either. This is the kind of
democracy we want, he said.
Phnom Penh deputy police
chief Choun Narin said police
stood by yesterday because
youth day marchers had kept
public order.
While streets had been
blocked around the Vietnam-
ese Embassy and more than
100 members of the security
forces deployed, Narin said
they were just fullling the
governments duty to protect
the embassy.
We have to remember that
if something happens, it is
the governments job to take
responsibility. So we have to
prevent it rather than letting it
happen, he said.
Ramana Sorn of the Cambo-
dian Center for Human Rights
said that while the reopening
of Freedom Park should be
commended, it was much too
early to say whether this sig-
nalled an improvement in the
situation of freedom of expres-
sion and assembly.
There have only been two
protests since the park has
been reopened. And as we
have seen in the past, there
have been periods of rela-
tive freedom with regards to
the rights of assembly and
expression, which have been
followed by yet more crack-
downs, she said.
Members of a trade union gather at Phnom Penhs Freedom Park yesterday to participate in an International
Youth Day protest. VIREAK MAI
Border battle
Prots from
sale of cows
seized in VN
A
MOTHER and her dau-
ghter were detained in
Vietnam last month and
authorities there seized nearly
$82,000 in profits from the sale
of their livestock, according to
the womans husband and a
local businessman.
Local tycoon Lim Hong
Chheang, who lives in Tbong
Khmum provinces Ponhea
Krek district and has long ad-
vocated for banks on the bor-
der, said yesterday that Loeb
Khor, 58, and her daughter El
Rohany, 21, were arrested in
Tay Ninh province and charged
with illegal currency traffic-
king after crossing over to sell
cows and buffaloes.
Husband Sim El, 61 said he
and his family crossed over to
collect money from a prear-
ranged sale. His wife and dau-
ghter went home ahead of him
to give the money to the other
owners of the livestock. On July
7, they were arrested, he said.
If it was money from drugs
or fake money, I wouldnt be
angry, but this is money from
selling cows, he said.
The spokesman for the Viet-
namese Embassy could not be
reached. MEAS SOKCHEA
Men fight for right to
enter packed brothel
A GROUP of young men were
arrested on Monday in Svay
Rieng town after trying to force
their way into a fully occupied
brothel. The group of eight
friends, aged between 17 and
32, had gotten inebriated and
naturally then headed to a
local den of vice for some com-
pany. A pimp refused to let
them in because all the ladies
were busy, but the group
became aggressive, eventually
coming to blows with the staff.
Police intervened and arrested
four. Too drunk, was the
quartets excuse, police said.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
It was a routine traffic
stop . . . or it almost was
IN A case similar to that often
chronicled in the Blotter,
Kampong Cham town police
yesterday lucked onto a drug
bust during routine traffic
patrol. Officers said they were
trying to stop two men riding a
motorbike without a helmet
when the pair unexpectedly
sped off. The cops pursued
and stopped the suspects, who
had given up their real game
by trying to dispose of two
packages of yama. The pair
was arrested and confessed to
having paid $15 for the hard
stuff. KOH SANTEPHEAP
They avoided the cars,
but didnt see the dog
MANs best friend proved to
be two Kampong Chhnang
mens worst obstacle on Mon-
day after a dog ran out of a
house and into the path of
their motorbike, leaving all
three parties with serious
injuries. The helmetless men
flew off the bike during the
collision and suffered head
injuries after landing on the
road. They are being treated
in hospital. The victims fami-
lies have demanded the dogs
owner take responsibility for
the accident. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA

Not even prayer time is
sacred for moto thieves
AS A young woman prayed at
a Takeo pagoda on Sunday
evening, she might have for-
gotten to ask for protection
from thieves. As she paid her
respects at the wat, two men
were quietly stealing her
motorbike outside. After she
called for help, police quickly
set up a roadblock to stop the
suspects. One escaped into
the darkness of a paddy field,
while the other was nabbed
with the bike. NOKORWAT
Rough-riding crew runs
into long arm of the law
A TRIO of modern cowboys
was nabbed in Preah Siha-
nouk province on Monday.
They might not have been
stealing stallions or wearing
steel-toed boots, but the gun-
toting boys had built up a rep-
utation for waving around
guns and pinching motor-
bikes in the province. Police
were tipped off when the gang
turned up at a local karaoke
joint on Monday night. They
were arrested and a gun with
six bullets was seized. Police
are on the lookout for more
accomplices. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
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6
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
FOR
EVENT MANAGER FOR THE SECOND CAMBODIAN RICE FESTIVAL
RICE SECTOR SUPPORT PROJECT
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In Cambodia, our advisory services are delivered in partnership with Canada, the European Union, Finland, Ireland, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the Enhanced Integrated Framework.
IFC has been supporting the Cambodian rice sector since 2008, aiming to make the milling, trading and exporting
industry more competitive and to increase high-value milled rice exports. This will be achieved by accelerating the
transformation of the Cambodian aromatic rice industry, through several interventions along its supply chain, including
rice export promotion.
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hire a consulting rm (Event Manager) from September 01, 2014to November 30, 2014 to prepare and manage an at-
tractive, entertaining and promotional event of the SecondCambodian Rice Festival 2014 to be held on November
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Only shortlist of qualied rms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject
to the availability of funding.
Wrangling
over wage
may spur
new unrest
Mom Kunthear
UNIONS representing garment
workers have pledged to
reignite protests if the mini-
mum wage for the industry is
raised to only $115 next year, a
sum they say was offered by the
Garment Manufacturers Asso-
ciation in Cambodia during a
meeting on Friday.
The Labour Advisory Com-
mittee (LAC) made up of
employers, the government
and unions hopes to agree on
a new wage in October.
National Independent Fed-
eration Textile Union of Cam-
bodia president Ken Chheng-
lang said unions had proposed
lifting the current $100 wage to
$177, but GMAC offered $115
instead, based on the govern-
ments plan to gradually creep
to $160 by 2018.
Of course [protests] will hap-
pen, because we cannot accept
$115, she said.
Collective Union of Movement
of Workers president Pav Sina
also vowed to lead protests.
But LAC vice chairman and
worker representative Chuon
Momthol said he believed an
agreement could be reached.
We will try to avoid protests,
he said.
Ken Loo, secretary-general of
GMAC, denied that $115 had
been put forward.
We . . . reminded them as to
the decision of the LAC on
December 24 [regarding gradu-
al minimum wage increases],
he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH
Pair faked link to PM for cash
A
FATHER and son
have been charged
with impersonating
assistants of high-
ranking ofcials within Prime
Minister Hun Sens cabinet to
extort money from genuine
government and police of-
cials, a military police ofcial
said yesterday.
At a news conference, Colo-
nel Kong Sotharin, chief of
the National Military Police,
said Suon Mony Lina, 26, also
known as Chivoan or Mab, and
his father, Suon Mony, 51, had
been charged by Phnom Penh
Municipal Court prosecutor
with faking a public function
and fraud.
They have [misrepresent-
ed] themselves as personal
assistants to His Excellency
Mr Ngeth Borey, deputy chief
of Prime Minister Hun Sens
Cabinet, and assistants to His
Excellency Mr Sean Borath, an
adviser of Prime Minister Hun
Sen and other high-ranking
government ofcials, he said.
They have used these high-
ranking ofcials names to [ask
for] money or . . . other mate-
rials from other government
ofcers, police and National
Military Police ofcers [which
they claimed was for] building
schools or health centres for
the poor in exchange for pro-
motions, he added.
According to Sotha, Mony
Lina was arrested by National
Military Police forces in Svay
Rieng town on Friday while he
was attempting to withdraw
around $700 transferred to
him by a government ofcial
in the province.
Mony Linas father, the dep-
uty editor-in-chief of Kakti
Khmer Newspaper, is still
at large.
At the press conference,
which was held at the National
Military Police headquarters,
Mony Lina confessed but said
that his father shouldered
most of the blame.
The reason I decided to
get into this business was be-
cause I was recommended and
told to by my father, he said.
I have received money from
government ofcers . . . from
$200 up to $1,000 at a time, he
said, adding that his involve-
ment in the scam began earlier
this year.
Mony could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
Ly Sophanna, spokesman for
Phnom Penh Municipal Court,
also could not be reached.
Suon Mony Lina is escorted through Phnom Penh Municipal Court, where he was charged yesterday with
fraud and faking a public function. PHA LINA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 13, 2014
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Cambodia,
US trade
up in rst
half of year
Hor Kimsay
TRADE data from the US shows
Cambodian exports to the
worlds largest economy
increased 6 per cent during the
first six months of the year.
As of June 30, Cambodian
exports to the US totalled $1.4
billion, up from $1.32 billion
recorded during the same six-
month period in 2013, data from
the US Department of Com-
merce shows.
Ken Ratha, spokesman of
Cambodian Ministry of Com-
merce, said that while US econ-
omy continues to stabilise, busi-
ness relations with Cambodia
have remained positive and pro-
vided a secure basis for deepen-
ing bilateral trade.
The value of the goods
exported from Cambodia to US
will continue to get bigger and
bigger in the future, he said.
Ratha added that the Com-
merce Minister Sun Chanthols
trade mission to the US last
month alongside the US
ambassador to Cambodia,
William Todd helped to bol-
ster the two nations business
relationship.
But Nguon Mengtech, director
general of Cambodian Chamber
of Commerce, who will lead a
delegation of 21 representatives
from the Kingdoms private sec-
tor to the US later this month,
said that more markets can still
be identified to boost trade
volumes.
We still have many kinds of
production that we can join with
others in the US to strengthen
our competitiveness, he said.
The more we know each
other, the more ability we have
to get business partners.
Travellers arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport last year. China Duty Free Group plans to open the Kingdoms rst duty-free stores outside of the nations airports. VIREAK MAI
Duty-free plans to lure tourists
Chan Muyhong

C
HINA Duty Free
Group (CDFG) will
open two duty-free
stores in Cambodias
largest tourism hotspots as
part of the retailers rst off-
shore expansion, marking the
rst time a duty-free store has
been opened outside of the
countrys airports.
John Zhao, general manager
of CDFG-Cambodia, said yes-
terday the company is plan-
ning to invest $35 million into
setting up two stores, one in
Siem Reap by the end of the
year,and another located in
Phnom Penh by the second
half of 2015.
About ve million foreign
tourists are expected to visit
Cambodia this year. There
is no international space for
shopping in Cambodia. We are
the rst downtown duty-free
shop to gain ofcial approval
to open here, Zhao said.
According to Zhao, CDFG
Cambodia is the rst subsid-
iary of the state-owned group
to be established outside of
China. Cambodia was se-
lected because of its growing
tourism industry, which is in-
creasing at about 15 per cent
annually, he said.
Around 45 million Chinese
tourists visit Hong Kong ev-
ery year just for the shopping.
Chinese tourists like to spend
money on buying luxury
brands. Cambodia receives
around ve million tourists ev-
ery year and almost 500,000 of
those are Chinese, he added.
Construction commenced
on the Siem Reap store, which
will have four levels and 4,500
square metres of retail space,
in July and is expected to open
ofcially in December.
The company is currently
studying locations for the sec-
ond Phnom Penh store, ac-
cording to Zhao.
CDFG, established in 1984,
is the only state-owned en-
terprise authorised by Chinas
government to operate duty
free businesses in China.
Ang Kim Eang, president of
the Cambodian Association of
Travel Agents said he hoped
CDFGs arrival would prompt
more duty free retail operators
to venture into Cambodia.
It benets the tourism in-
dustry as it will attract more
tourists who like to shop for
luxury brands, and Cambodia
can be another shopping desti-
nation like Malaysia, he said.
In April, Shilla Duty Free, a
Korean-based rm announced
it had plans to expand to Cam-
bodia. So far, however, the rm
has not established a footing in
the Kingdom.
Vietnam held up as example of economic recovery
VIETNAMS economic recovery is
serving as an example for other devel-
oping ASEAN countries as it applies
the lessons learned from recent diffi-
culties. After years of struggling with
double-digit inflation and unsustain-
able non-performing loans (NPL), the
country is now building up immunity
for future economic turbulences.
The year-old Vietnam Asset Manage-
ment Company (VAMC) has helped to
improve the liquidity flow in the bank-
ing sector by taking bad loans off
banks books and exchanging them for
VAMC bonds. As a result, a number of
banks have been able to lower their
lending interest rates to between 5 per
cent and 8.5 per cent.
Many businesses have struggled for
years because of a credit squeeze
brought on by high central bank inter-
est rates, as well as commercial banks
subsequent reluctance to lend.
Inflation, meanwhile, has moder-
ated to 6.6 per cent over the past year
and is expected to remain around
that level for the next year, according
to the Asian Development Bank.
While the figure is high by regional
standards, its a steep decline from
18.6 per cent in 2011. While macr-
oeconomic stability in Vietnam is
improving, growth remains moder-
ate and the economy is still perform-
ing below its potential, according to
a recent World Bank report.
The World Bank projects growth at a
moderate 5.4 per cent this year, sup-
ported by continued foreign direct
investment flows and strong exports.
But domestic demand remains
weak because of subdued private sec-
tor confidence, overleveraged state-
owned companies, and still-high bad
loans at commercial banks, accord-
ing to the report.
Slow progress in banking system
and state-owned enterprise reform
could prolong sub-par growth and cre-
ate self-reinforcing adverse feedback,
possibly resulting in large contingent
liabilities for the public sector, bring-
ing public debt to unsustainable lev-
els, the World Bank said.
However, authorities are aware of
the challenges and are acting reso-
lutely on them, says a Thai banker
based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnamese authorities are fixing
the right problems with the right
approaches. Changes are implement-
ed fast as a result of its single-party
socialist administration, said Thara-
bodee Serng-Adichaiwit, general
manager of Bangkok Bank in Viet-
nam. BANGKOK POST
Commercial and residential buildings stand in Ho Chi Minh. The World Bank projects
growth at a moderate 5.4 per cent this year. BLOOMBERG
Business
8
Aus banks face huge lawsuit
A
N ENORMOUS class
action over credit
card late fees charged
by nancial institu-
tions, including Citibank and
Westpac, on behalf on all their
customers was led in an Aus-
tralian court yesterday.
The action which could
become Australias biggest
consumer lawsuit was led
by lawyers Maurice Black-
burn against Westpac, Cit-
ibank, St. George, BankSA
and ANZ in the New South
Wales Supreme Court.
The open class proceed-
ings mean that all customers
who have ever been charged
a late fee, not just those that
signed up to the original class
actions, could benet if the
lawsuit is successful, the rm
said. The class action, over
what the claimants say are ex-
travagant fees, could be worth
millions of dollars and include
hundreds of thousands of
bank customers.
Were talking about an
enormous action, Maurice
Blackburns class action prac-
tice head Andrew Watson said.
If people are a bit like my-
self and not as careful about
paying off their credit card,
then they will be in the action
and stand to benet.
Maurice Blackburn plans
to extend the action to cover
American Express, the Com-
monwealth Bank, the National
Australia Bank and BankWest.
The lawsuit builds on the
partial success of a previous
case on bank fees against ANZ
on behalf of 43,500 customers
in the Federal Court of Austra-
lia in February.
Lawyers for the claimants
allege that the fees charged by
banks for late payments are
excessive and do not reect
the true cost to the bank.
The fees differ, with some
charging up to A$20. The Feb-
ruary court ruling heard that
the average cost to the bank
of a late payment was only
35 Australian cents.
The Federal Court found
that ANZs late payment fees
on credit cards were penalties
and should be repaid. Claims
on other charges, such as dis-
honour fees, were thrown out
by the judge.
The total claim for the
class action was A$57 million
(US$53 million). That deci-
sion is under appeal, but Wat-
son said he is condent in the
strength of the new lawsuit.
We think we have a very
strong case and that this
course of action provides the
best safeguard for the rights of
all those consumers affected
by late fees, he said.
Bentham IMF Australia, a
publicly listed company that is
funding the proceedings, said
the class action was the only
effective way for customers to
obtain compensation.
It is clearly evident from
this case that the class action
regime in Australia backed
by litigation funding is the
only genuinely effective vehi-
cle to offer commercial redress
to people that are subjected to
corporate wrongdoing in this
way, Bentham IMFs James
Middleweek said in a state-
ment. AFP
A host of Australian banks including Citibank, ANZ and Westpac are at the centre of a consumer lawsuit led
over what the claimants say are extortionate fees for late credit card payments. BLOOMBERG
Plane watching
ANA to take over Japan
government airplanes
ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) will
replace Japan Airlines (JAL) as
the company charged with
maintaining two government
aircraft, it was announced
yesterday, following yet
another battle between the
domestic rivals. A government
commission also announced it
had chosen two Boeing 777-
300ER planes to replace two
Boeing 747-400s as state-
owned aircraft used by
Japanese leaders and
Emperor Akihitos royal family.
The 747s will be
decommissioned in March
2019. JAL has been charged
with maintaining the current
aircraft, which have been
operating since 1993.
ANA has estimated the
operational and maintenance
cost of the two new planes at
about 38 billion ($370 million)
over 20 years from April 2019,
Jiji Press said. It has put their
purchase price at about 85
billion. AFP
Newest Indian airline
eyeing October launch
INDIAS newest airline
announced on Monday flights
could begin in October, saying
it was bullish about the
future even as a rival carrier
reported a big loss. The new
airline, to be called Vistara a
Sanskrit word meaning
limitless expanse is 49 per
cent owned by Singapore
Airlines, while the Mumbai-
based Tata conglomerate
controls 51 per cent. The
airline will offer both business
and economy class, new chief
executive Phee Teik Yeoh told
reporters in New Delhi, and
hoped to start flying
passengers sometime in
October, subject to approval
by Indias Directorate General
of Civil Aviation. The previous
Congress government began
allowing foreign airlines to
buy up to 49 per cent stakes
in Indian carriers in 2012.
Indias air passenger market
has expanded at breakneck
speed but many companies
are laden with debts and
beset by cut-throat fare
wars. AFP
Indias Jet Airways set
to end its budget wings
JET Airways India Ltd, the
Indian carrier 24 per cent
owned by Etihad Airways PJSC,
will end its budget-airline units
in an effort to turn its local
operations profitable,
Chairman Naresh Goyal said.
The airline will close its Jetlite
and JetKonnect businesses by
the end of this year and fly all
its planes under a single, full-
service brand, Goyal told
reporters on Monday. We are
in this to make money, Etihad
president James Hogan said
at the same event. Jets
strategic location in South Asia
puts it in a position to compete
with Middle Eastern airlines on
outbound traffic from India,
one of the fastest growing
aviation markets in the world.
India is one of the worlds most
expensive markets for airlines,
and carriers have lost a
combined 594 billion rupees
($9.7 billion) over the past
seven years, Sydney-based
civil aviation think tank CAPA
estimates. BLOOMBERG
Asia telcos,
Google to
lay cable
GOOGLE is partnering with
five Asian telecom firms to
build a $300 million underwa-
ter cable across the Pacific
Ocean in a bid to meet surging
internet use.
The project, named FASTER,
would see the 9,000-kilometre
(5,600-mile) fibreoptic cable
stretch from two points in Japan
to the United States, with exten-
sions to other Asian locations
later on, the companies said. In
the US, the cable would be
extended to link major cities on
the West Coast including Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Port-
land and Seattle, they said.
There are several hundred
underwater telecom cables
that connect various points in
the world.
However, the FASTER cable
system has the largest design
capacity ever built on the
Trans-Pacific route, which is
one of the longest routes in the
world, Woohyong Choi, chair-
man of the projects executive
committee, said in the state-
ment.
Also involved in the project
are Japanese mobile carrier
KDDI, China Mobile Interna-
tional, China Telecom Global,
Malaysias Global Transit, and
Singapores SingTel, the state-
ment said. Japans NEC would
build the system, which is
expected to come into service
in the first half of 2016, the
firms said. AFP
Jaguar sales drive threefold rise in Tata prot
Dairy Farm to pay $925M for Yonghui stake
TATA Motors Ltd, Indias biggest auto-
maker, surged the most since November
after beating analysts estimates with a
threefold jump in profit.
The companys shares jumped 5.9 per-
cent to 472.70 rupees as of 9:38am yes-
terday in Mumbai, the highest intraday
gain since November 14. Net income
rose to 54 billion rupees ($883 million)
in the quarter ended June, the Mumbai-
based company reported yesterday.
That surpassed the 37.9 billion rupee
median of 34 analysts estimates com-
piled by Bloomberg and was the biggest
profit increase since the three months
ended December 2010.
Sales of Jaguar and Land Rover in
China, the worlds largest car market,
surged 61 per cent helping Tata Motors,
which is struggling to revive demand
in India. Deutsche Bank Ag and Cred-
it Suisse Group Ag were among broker-
ages which raised their share price
target for the maker of Nano hatchback
and Indigo sedan.
JLR benefited from strength in Chi-
na demand, strong variant mix and
ability, Govindarajan Chellappa and
Rajasa Kakulavarapu, analysts at Jef-
feries wrote in a note yesterday. Strength
in China is the key to sustenance
of the high levels of profitability.
Profit at the luxury unit more than
doubled to $693 million ($1.16 billion)
on demand for the F-Type convertible
and Range Rover SUVs. Tata Motors
group revenue climbed 38 per cent to
646.8 billion rupees.
Deliveries at Jaguar Land Rover
climbed 22 per cent to 115,596 vehicles
in the quarter, bolstered by the F-Type
that began shipping last year and the
new and refreshed Range Rover line up.
Tata Motors is striving to turn around its
local business. The brand was due to
unveil its first new car model in five years
yesterday. The compact sedan, the Zest,
was developed to revive profitability as
the carmaker it lost market share to
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and the local
unit of Seoul-based Hyundai Motor Co.
Tata Motors domestic passenger-ve-
hicle deliveries fell 37 percent in the
quarter, according to the Society of
Indian Automobile Manufacturers. The
companys truck sales dropped 25 per-
cent in the same period.
The domestic business has been a
drag, said Juergen Maier, a fund man-
ager at Raiffeisen Capital Management.
But we hope that with the new pas-
senger vehicle models and the commer-
cial vehicles picking up, things will get
better. BLOOMBERG
DAIRY Farm International
Holdings Ltd, an operator of
supermarkets and retail stores,
is paying 5.69 billion yuan ($925
million) to buy 20 per cent of
Yonghui Superstores Co as it
seeks to tap Chinas growing
consumer market.
Dairy Farm has for some
time been looking for opportu-
nities to participate in the large
and high growth Chinese mar-
ket, Graham Allan, chief exec-
utive officer of Dairy Farm, said
in a statement to the London
Stock Exchange on Monday.
This strategic partnership with
Yonghui provides an attractive
way to do that.
Dairy Farm, which runs
more than 5,800 supermarkets
and health and beauty stores as
well as other retail outlets across
Asia, will also collaborate with
Yonghui in areas including pro-
curement, fresh food process-
ing and store development,
according to the statement.
Yonghui Superstores operated
288 hypermarkets and super-
markets spanning 17 prov-
inces as of end-2013, it said.
The hypermarket industry in
China is forecast to grow 39 per-
cent to 862 billion yuan in 2016
from last year, according to
researcher Euromonitor Inter-
national.
The purchase of the Yonghui
stake, Dairy Farms largest deal
ever according to data com-
piled by Bloomberg, comes as
a slowing economy and
increased competition prompts
consolidation in Chinas retail
industry.
Although Chinas grocery
retail market is very regional-
ized and competitive, Yonghui
has done well over the last
three years, said Zhibin Yeo,
an analyst with CIMB Securi-
ties. This buyout gives Dairy
Farm exposure to a growing
China grocery retail market.
The investment also allows
the Dairy Farm to diversity its
sales as the company faces
challenges in a competitive
Southeast Asian market,
Yeo said.
Tesco Plc, the largest UK
retailer, said in October it would
pay about $558 million to
merge its more than 130 stores
in China into a joint venture
with Hong Kong-listed China
Resources Enterprise. The
same month, Wal-Mart Stores
Inc said that it would add as
many as 110 stores from 2014
to 2016 in China, while also
shutting some outlets and
remodelling dozens more as
the worlds largest retailer over-
hauls its business in the coun-
try. BLOOMBERG
Pedestrians pass a Wellcome supermarket, owned by Dairy Farm
International Holdings, in Hong Kong. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
THAI travel agents have
joined forces with Japanese
tour operators to bring at least
six charter ights from Japan
to Thailand in a bid to boost
tourism for both countries.
The Thai-Japan Tourist As-
sociation (TJTA) and the Thai
Travel Agents Association
(TTAA) said many national
tourism bodies and foreign
travel agents have approached
Thailand to promote their des-
tinations, especially Japan.
TJTA president Anake Sri-
shevachart said at least six
charter ights with a total of
1,710 seats from Honshu, Ja-
pans main island, would y
to Thailand in the high season
from October to December.
This will benet tourism in
both countries. Thailand seeks
to recover Japanese tourist
condence while Japan hopes
to woo more Thai travellers to
its new tourism destinations.
The rst charter ight will
y in October, from Ishikawa
prefecture. Charter ights
from Fukushima will start in
November and from Niigata
in December.
Anake said Japanese tour-
ists condence had not been
restored yet with the martial
law still in place and despite
the TAT, in collaboration with
local insurance companies,
offering travel insurance for
foreign travellers.
We have to boost our tour-
ism image by word of mouth.
We are condent that after
travellers visit Thailand by
the charter ights, they will
tell friends, family members
and others that Thailand
is now safe for travel. This
will help to bounce back the
Japanese market next year,
Anake said.
The TJTA said the number
of Japanese arrivals in 2014
was expected to be similar to
last years gure of 1.54 mil-
lion visitors. In the rst half
of this year, Japanese visitors
dropped by 20.9 per cent to
676,414. In terms of outbound
tourism to Japan, Mr Anake
said the TJTA believed it still
had plenty of room to grow in
the future.
In the rst six months of this
year, Thai tourists to Japan
reached around 300,000. The
association expects 700,000
arrivals this year, compared
with 400,000 last year. Thai-
land is the fth biggest market
for Japans tourism after South
Korea, Taiwan, China and
Hong Kong. BANGKOK POST
Thailand, Japan team
up to attract tourists
Thais to gain from sanctions
T
HAILANDS livestock
products, produce,
and canned tuna
are expected to ben-
et most from Russias ban
on American and European
Union food imports.
Thai exporters need to take
this opportunity to ramp up
their exports to Russia, said
Pornsil Patchrintanakul, vice
chairman of the Thai Chamber
of Commerce.
On Thursday, Russia an-
nounced the suspension of
billions of dollars in food
imports from a number of
countries including Norway,
Canada, Australia, the US and
the 28-nation European Union
in retaliation for sanctions
imposed on it by those nations
over the past few weeks.
The measure, which targets
meat, sh, fruit, vegetable
and milk products and which
will last a year, is expected to
hit food supplies and drive
up Russian food prices. Rus-
sia spent nearly $10 billion on
food from those countries that
will now be banned.
Thailand last year fetched
35.2 billion baht ($1.1 billion)
worth of exports to Russia
in 2013, a marginal rise of
0.37 per cent from 35 billion
baht in 2012, according to
the Customs Department.
For the rst six months of
this year, the gures rose 12.6
per cent to 19.6 billion baht
from 17.4 billion baht in the
same period last year. Key
export products include au-
tomobiles and parts, gems
and jewellery, plastic pellets,
canned and processed fruit,
and rubber products.
Pornsil forecast overall Thai
food shipments this year
should grow about 5 per cent to
900 billion baht mainly driven
by rice, sugar and particularly
frozen chicken, now allowed to
be imported into Japan.
Japan agreed late last year
to resume imports of Thai
fresh chicken, banned for 10
years after a bird u outbreak
in 2004. But it would take sev-
eral years before exports of
fresh chicken to Japan would
reach 200,000 tonnes, the
amount purchased by Japan
before the ban.
Kukrit Arepogorn, manager
of the Thai Broiler Processing
Exporters Association, said the
country was expected to ship
560,000 to 570,000 tonnes of
fresh and processed broilers
worth 78 billion baht this year,
up from 530,000 tonnes worth
70 billion baht last year.
Thailands chicken exports
look promising in the second
half thanks to higher ship-
ments to Japan. More impor-
tantly, from July Thailand can
ship processed chicken to fast-
food outlets in the Philippines
after the lifting of a 10-year ban
due to the avian u, he said.
The latest outlook published
by the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization suggests global
poultry production is expected
to grow by 1.6 per cent to 109
million tonnes this year.
The expansion is driven
largely by developed econo-
mies as production in devel-
oping countries declines.
The global trade in poul-
try meat has doubled over
the previous decade. Growth
slowed in 2012 and 2013, but a
2.4 per cent increase is antici-
pated this year.
But Pornsil said Thailands
food export industry is facing
risks from higher production
costs ignited mainly by the
high minimum wage, labour
shortage and high utility
costs such as water and power
bills. BANGKOK POST
Workers clean steam-cooked tuna at Thai Union Frozen Products Pcls
TUF factory in Mahachai Thailand. BLOOMBERG
Singapores GDP unexpectedly expands last quarter
SINGAPORES economy saw a sur-
prise expansion last quarter as man-
ufacturing declined less than ini-
tially estimated amid recoveries in
advanced countries.
Gross domestic product rose an
annualised 0.1 per cent in the three
months through June from the previ-
ous quarter, when it climbed a revised
1.8 percent, the Trade Ministry said in
a statement yesterday. That compares
with a July estimate of a 0.8 per cent
contraction and the median forecast
in a Bloomberg News survey of 14
economists for a 0.3 per cent drop.
While global growth in the first
quarter of the year turned out weak-
er than expected, recent incoming
data suggest that global economic
activities are recovering modestly,
the Trade Ministry said. Externally-
oriented sectors such as finance,
insurance and wholesale trade are
likely to support expansion in the
second half, it said.
The export-dependent Southeast
Asian nation is set to benefit from a
recovery in global growth, which is
helping to offset higher business
costs as the government pursues a
plan to slow the inflow of foreign
workers, boost productivity and
attract new industries. The US econ-
omy is improving, the euro area will
benefit from an accommodative
monetary policy and China has tak-
en steps to support expansion, Sin-
gapores Trade Ministry said.
Given the slowly improving exter-
nal demand for both goods and serv-
ices, led by developed economies,
Singapore should be on track to
achieve GDP growth of about 3 per
cent this year, said Song Seng Wun, a
regional economist at CIMB Research
in Singapore. Even so, the still uneven
labour productivity performance sug-
gests much work needs to be done.
The Singapore dollar gained as
much as 0.1 per cent after the report.
It traded little changed at 1.2502
against the US currency as of 10:51am
local time.
The economy expanded 2.4 per cent
in the second quarter from a year ear-
lier, after growing a revised 4.8 per
cent in the previous three months, the
Trade Ministry said yesterday. The
median estimate in a Bloomberg sur-
vey was for a 2.3 per cent gain.
Manufacturing declined 15.2 per
cent in the second quarter from the
previous three months, compared
with a July estimate of a 19.4 per cent
contraction. Services rose 4.5 per cent
in the same period, while cons-
truction expanded by 0.3 per cent.
The ministry reiterated Prime Min-
ister Lee Hsien Loongs August 8 fore-
cast for 2014 growth of 2.5 per cent to
3.5 percent. Separately, the estimate
for non-oil domestic exports was cut
to a contraction of between 1 per cent
and 2 per cent, from an increase of 1
per cent to 3 per cent previously.
The GDP forecast, which is nar-
rower than an earlier prediction of 2
per cent to 4 per cent, factors in down-
side risks from the global economy,
Ow Foong Pheng, permanent secre-
tary at the Trade Ministry, told report-
ers yesterday. Singapore will monitor
geopolitical risks, she said.
The central banks policy stance
remains appropriate and unchanged,
said Jacqueline Loh, deputy managing
director at the Monetary Authority of
Singapore. The city state, which uses
the islands dollar to manage price
pressure, said in April it will maintain
a modest and gradual appreciation of
the currency.
While domestically-oriented sectors
such as business services and infor-
mation and communications are
expected to remain resilient in the
second half of the year, growth in
some labour-intensive segments such
as retail and food services may be
weighed down by labour constraints,
the Trade Ministry said.
Growth momentum going forward
will be tepid, Irvin Seah, an econo-
mist at DBS Group Holdings Ltd in
Singapore, said in a note. The econ-
omy continues to be weighed down
by the domestic restructuring and
external uncertainties. Manufacturing
has bottomed but the services sector
remains a risk. BLOOMBERG
SIME Darby Bhd has picked
banks including CIMB Group
Holdings Bhd and Deutsche
Bank Ag to manage a Malay-
sian initial public offering
of its automotive dealership
unit, people with knowledge
of the matter said.
Malayan Banking Bhd and
Morgan Stanley are also work-
ing on the share sale, accord-
ing to the people.
The offering could poten-
tially raise as much as $900
million and take place as
early as the rst quarter of
2015, two of the people said,
asking not to be identied as
the process is private.
Sime Darby is seeking to list
a business that accounted for
37 per cent of sales in the lat-
est nancial year, the biggest
contributor among a stable
of businesses that includes
property and plantations, data
compiled by Bloomberg show.
The unit operates in 10 Asian
markets and sells automobiles
from 30 brands including
BMW and Hyundai, according
to its website.
Shares of Sime Darby have
slipped 0.3 percent this year,
while the benchmark FTSE
Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index is
down 0.9 per cent.
The company, which has a
market value of 57.5 billion
ringgit ($18 billion), said last
month a listing of the business
is one of many potential actions
its considering to boost share-
holder value. BLOOMBERG
Malaysias Sime Darby
picks banks for car IPO
US to lift Myanmar timber sanctions
THE US Treasury Department
granted a special one-year
licence beginning in late July for
certain US companies to trade
with Myanma Timber Enter-
prise and other members of the
timber industry currently under
sanction by the United States.
The announcement has
drawn both praise and con-
cern from forestry experts,
with some applauding the
hands-on approach to reform
and others warning that the
scheme could end up reinforc-
ing the corruption that has
defined the timber industry
for decades.
The Myanma Timber Enter-
prise is a state-related outfit
dedicated to extracting tim-
ber. As an industry leader, it
has been targeted by environ-
mental groups claiming a
broad range of corruption,
unsustainable production and
human rights abuses. The
company was first sanctioned
by former President George
Bush in 2008. The US Embassy
in Yangon and the US Treasury
Department in Washington
did not respond to requests for
comment for this article.
The licence specifically allows
members of US-based timber
group International Wood
Products Association (IWPA) to
import Myanma Timber Enter-
prises products.
Speaking to The Myanmar
Times last week, IWPA execu-
tive director Cindy Squires said
the initiative was aimed at using
market pressure to push gov-
ernment and industry leaders
create a system to track where
and how timber is extracted.
Under the licence, our mem-
bers must urge the domestic
mills to work toward independ-
ent legality verification. We also
encourage the timber trade to
work with the Myanmar Timber
Merchants Association and the
Myanmar Forest Certification
Committee to improve the tim-
ber traceability system in
Myanmar, she said.
Rachel Butler, Manager of the
UK-backed forestry organisa-
tion the Global Timber Forum,
said her organisation wel-
comed the new initiative,
pointing out that most other
Western nations have already
suspended or relaxed their
sanctions of Myanmar timber.
The timber industries in
the EU, US and Australia all
share the goals of supporting
Myanmar in moving these
systems toward longer-term
sustainability, ensuring they
meet domestic and interna-
tional requirements, we can-
not do that sat on the side-
lines, she said.
Both Butler and Squires
affirmed that they believe
trade and direct engagement
is a better tool for encouraging
reform than the sanctions and
boycotts that have so far had
little effect.
It is our view that it is better
to be engaged with [the Myan-
ma Timber Enterprise] and the
Myanmar timber industry and
demonstrate our support for
the reform efforts and move-
ment toward independent
legality verification and sus-
tainable management of Bur-
mas forest, Squires said. THE
MYANMAR TIMES
Israeli tycoon claims
huge oil find in DRC
A COMPANY owned by Israeli
mining magnate Dan Gertler
said it has discovered vast
potential reserves of oil in the
strife-torn east of the
Democratic Republic of
Congo. Oil of DRCongo, a
subsidiary of the Fleurette
Group, said in a statement that
seismic testing from Lake
Albert, which forms part of the
northeastern border with
Uganda, indicated reserves of
around three billion barrels of
oil. It said exporting the oil
from North Kivu province
could boost the gross
domestic product of the vast
central African nation by 25
per cent. According to the
World Bank, GDP in 2013 was
$30.6 billion for a nation of 67
million people. AFP
Prudential reports big
gains in H1 profits
INSURER Prudential posted
surging half-year profits
yesterday, despite facing some
difficulties in the key markets
of Asia and Britain, it said in a
released statement. Net profit
soared to 1.145 billion ($1.92
billion) in the six months to
June 30, more than three
times the amount that it
recorded in the first half of
2013, the British company
said. AFP
Business
10
Mexico pens energy reform
M
EXICAN President
Enrique Pena Ni-
eto signed a pack-
age of landmark
energy reform bills on Mon-
day, ending the 76-year-old
state monopoly on oil drilling
and reopening the sector to
foreign companies.
This represents a historic
change that will accelerate
the economic growth and de-
velopment of Mexico in the
coming years, the president
told hundreds of guests at a
ceremony in the capital.
The signing comes ve days
after the Mexican Senate gave
nal approval to the laws, the
centrist leaders most ambi-
tious political project and the
centerpiece of his efforts to
kick-start Latin Americas sec-
ond-largest economy.
Pena Nieto argues the nine
new laws and 12 amendments
will fuel growth, create jobs
and modernize state energy
rm Pemex, whose oil produc-
tion has fallen from 3.4 million
barrels per day in 2004 to 2.5
million today.
But the leftist opposition ac-
cuses the president of gutting
Pemex, the countrys main
source of tax revenue, and be-
traying the legacy of the 1938
nationalisation of the oil in-
dustry. The president rejected
that criticism Monday, saying
the reforms preserve and as-
sure our national property.
Having won the legislative
battle, Pena Nietos adminis-
tration must now write new
regulations for the energy
sector, a project the president
said would be nished in Oc-
tober. He also said ofcials
would announce today the re-
sults of the so-called Round
Zero rights allocation that
will determine which oil and
gas elds Pemex keeps and
which will be up for interna-
tional bidding.
That will allow potential
national and foreign investors
to begin preparing now to take
part in the rst round of bid-
ding, whose guidelines will be
published in the rst quarter
of next year, said Pena Nieto.
Foreign energy rms in-
cluding ExxonMobil and BP
have been keenly watching
the reforms, hiring lawyers
and consulting tax experts
in anticipation of a return to
Mexico though analysts say
there is also wariness over
high taxes, corruption and
drug violence in the oil- and
gas-rich north. AFP
Enrique Pena Nieto, president of Mexico (centre) holds legislation he has just signed during a ceremony with
Gustavo Madero in Mexico City on Monday. BLOOMBERG
Buzzfeed is hive of activity
with major expansion plan
THE social news group Buzz-
Feed unveiled a mammoth new
expansion plan, using a fresh
infusion of $50 million in ven-
ture capital.
Andreessen Horowitz, the big
Silicon Valley venture group,
announced late on Sunday it is
investing $50 million in Buzz-
Feed and that one of its part-
ners, Chris Dixon, will be join-
ing the companys board.
Details of the investment
were not disclosed. But the New
York Times reported that the
deal values BuzzFeed at some
$850 million.
Its video division will expand
and become BuzzFeed Motion
Pictures, which will focus on
all moving images from a GIF
to feature film and everything
in between, according to a
statement on Monday.
BuzzFeeds editorial team will
expand to cover more breaking
news, and will double the
number of foreign correspond-
ents. BuzzFeed said it will also
launch a test kitchen and food
lab in Manhattan to create
more original lifestyle content.
BuzzFeed International will
create news sites to India, Ger-
many, Mexico and Japan this
year, in addition to the French,
Spanish and Portuguese edi-
tions announced last year.
We created BuzzFeed
because people still want to be
informed, entertained, and
inspired. But the way they con-
sume media has dramatically
shifted, said BuzzFeed found-
er and chief executive Jonah
Peretti. Today we think the
time is perfect to grow our com-
pany, build our brand and
greatly increase the content we
are producing so we can be the
number one digital media
brand. The investment from
Andreessen Horowitz will allow
us to double down on our com-
panys mission by creating a
new organization and expand
rapidly in all areas.
Dixon said on his blog that
BuzzFeed is growing into a
more serious news organiza-
tion following its debut focus-
ing on offbeat and oddball
coverage.
BuzzFeed started out focus-
ing on lightweight content like
memes, lists, funny photos,
etc, Dixon said. This led some
industry observers to dismiss
BuzzFeed as a toy. The com-
pany has since moved steadily
up market, following the typical
path of disruptive technologies.
It now has an editorial staff of
over 200 people covering a wide
range of topics politics, sports,
business, entertainment, travel,
etc and plans to invest sig-
nificantly more in high-quality
content in the coming years.
Dixon added that BuzzFeed
is a media company in the
same sense that Tesla is a car
company, Uber is a taxi com-
pany, or Netflix is a streaming
movie company ... The most
interesting tech companies
arent trying to sell software to
other companies. They are try-
ing to reshape industries from
top to bottom.
Andreessen Horowitzs Marc
Andreessen also touted the
merits of BuzzFeed in a series
of tweets.
BuzzFeed has technology at
its core. Its 100+ person tech
team has created world-class
systems ... Engineers are first
class citizens, he wrote. And
then on top of its technology
core, BuzzFeeds reporting
team is now routinely commit-
ting breathtaking investigative
journalism.
According to Dixon, Buzz-
Feed now reaches over 150 mil-
lion people per month, is con-
sistently profitable, and will
generate triple digit millions in
revenues this year. AFP
Buzzfeed is said to be making the transition from an offbeat and funny
news organisation to a serious news group. BLOOMBERG
Brazil rms bid for bananas
Russia grows amid sanctions
TWO Brazilian companies made a $611 million
offer for US banana giant Chiquita on Monday
that could derail Chiquitas merger with Euro-
pean rival Fyffes.
Cutrale Group, one of Brazils largest juice
exporters, and investment bank Safra Group
offered $13 a share for all of Chiquitas stock, 29
per cent higher than the shares traded on Friday.
The two said that they could bring Chiquita
Brand International extensive experience in all
aspects of the fruit and juice value chain, and
offered its shareholders superior valuation to
where the companys stock has been trading.
The unsolicited offer challenged Chiquitas
merger with Fyffes, which would create the
worlds largest banana company, with $4.6 billion
in annual revenues. That proposal would allow
Chiquita to avoid higher US taxes by relocating
its statutory headquarters to Ireland.
The all-stock deal between Chiquita and Fyffes
was to be weighed by shareholders in a special
meeting on September 17. But the offer by the
Brazilian companies could jeopardise the merg-
er by offering shareholders of Chiquita a quicker
return. After the Fyffes deal was announced,
Chiquitas shares slumped around 17 per cent
before Mondays offer.
Safra and Cutrale, which has a one-third share
of the $5 billion world orange juice market,
argued that their proposal is clearly more
favourable to the Chiquita shareholders than the
proposed merger with Fyffes, and so the Chiq-
uita board was obliged to take it up.
The two also said that there were no financial
challenges to the deal and that it could be com-
pleted by the end of the year, the same timeline
as the Chiquita-Fyffes tie-up. Chiquitas board of
directors acknowledged the proposal and advised
shareholders to not take any action until the
board has made its own recommendation.
We continue to strongly believe in the strate-
gic merits and value provided by the proposed
transaction with Fyffes, they said. Chiquita will
have no further comment on the Cutrale Group
and the Safra Groups offer until the board has
completed its review. AFP
RUSSIAS economy grew by 0.8
per cent from April to June
compared with output during
the same period last year, a pre-
liminary estimate by Russias
statistics committee showed
on Monday.
The figure is lower than a 1.2
per cent growth forecast that
was reported by Russias econ-
omy minister last month, and
slightly less than the 0.9 per
cent annualised pace recorded
in the first quarter.
Russias economy was
already expected to slow from
last years disappointing
growth figure of 1.3 per cent,
the lowest reading recorded
since the 2009 global financial
crisis, before Western powers
unleashed a set of punishing
sanctions last month in
response to Moscows defiant
stance on Ukraine.
The United States has pro-
hibited three leading Russian
banks from raising anything
but short-term funding on US
markets.
The European Union also
began imposing so-called sec-
tor sanctions, crimping access
of Russian state-controlled
banks to European capital
markets.
After the economy minister
said that he expected growth
to reach 1.2 per cent from April
to June, the government said
it planned to raise its annual
forecast from 0.5 to around
1 per cent.
But in late July the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund slashed
its estimate by 1.1 points
to just 0.2 per cent growth.
Elsewhere, Investment senti-
ment in Germany fell to the
lowest level for nearly two years
in August amid concern about
the economic fallout from cri-
ses such as the tension over
Russia-Ukraine, data showed
yesterday.
The widely watched investor
confidence index calculated by
the ZEW economic institute fell
by 18.5 points to 8.6 points in
August, its lowest level since
December 2012, it said in a
statement.
The institute did not name
the trouble spots specifically,
but the German economy min-
istry said in a report earlier that
the Russia-Ukraine crisis is
hurting Europes top economy.
AFP
Britain, BAE
pen $584M
ship accord
DEFENCE company BAE Sys-
tems is to build three ships for
Britains navy in a deal worth
348 million ($584 million)
BAE said the three Offshore
Patrol Vessels would be used to
combat terrorism, piracy and
smuggling in the waters around
Britain as well as protecting the
countrys interests abroad.
The 90-metre vessels will be
built at the contractors facili-
ties in the Scottish city of
Glasgow.
This is a significant contract
award which marks the begin-
ning of a new and exciting
chapter for the UK shipbuilding
sector, said Mick Ord, manag-
ing director at BAE Systems
naval ships.
The design is an adaptation
of an existing class of ship used
by Thailand and the Brazilian
navy. BAE described the ships
as globally deployable and
capable of ocean patrol as they
will have a maximum speed of
24 knots, a range of 5,500 nauti-
cal miles and a deck capable of
landing large Merlin helicop-
ters. Building is due to start in
October with the first ship
scheduled to be delivered in
2017. 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. 97.42 -0.66 -0.67% 5:27:49
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 103.95 -0.73 -0.70% 5:27:06
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.98 0.01 0.35% 5:27:03
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 274.61 -0.64 -0.23% 5:27:01
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 286.71 -1.21 -0.42% 5:27:50
ICEGasoil USD/MT 878.5 -9 -1.01% 5:27:06
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.64 0.02 0.12% 4:47:09
CME Lumber USD/tbf 344.8 -1.2 -0.35% 21:04:25
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Ethical fashion changing
the lives of poor in Africa
T
HE muddy streets of Kenyas
crowded Korogocho slums
are a far cry from the fashion
boutiques of Paris, Milan,
New York or London.
But beneath a tin roof, workers
from some of the countrys poorest
communities sew buttons and stitch
cloth for top international designers,
part of a not-for-prot ethical fash-
ion project.
Before Ethical Fashion, I couldnt
educate my children, said Lucy, sit-
ting in a circle of women, needles in
hand as they deftly sew white seed
beads to the surface of smooth,
chocolate-coloured leather.
But now I can educate them,
and provide for them anything they
need, the mother of four said.
From Korogocho, accessories like
the cuffs the women sew are sold in
international boutiques, stamped
with the labels of international fash-
ion houses like Vivienne Westwood,
Fendi and Stella McCartney.
It is part of the Ethical Fashion Ini-
tiative (EFI), a project built on a mod-
el of mutual benet that aims to
support poor communities by link-
ing them up with fashion houses and
distributors. Workers on the scheme
a member of the Fair Labor Asso-
ciation would take months to earn
enough to buy some of these luxury
goods, which sell for hundreds of
dollars on the high street.
But conditions are very far from
the sweatshops that muddy some
fashion brands, with the UN-backed
scheme providing decent working
conditions, training and perhaps
the clearest sign of its success peo-
ple queueing up to join looking for
work. Organisers say some 90 per
cent of workers in Kenya have im-
proved their homes and family diets.
A joint effort by the United Nations
and World Trade Organization, the
initiative has expanded from Kenya
to Burkina Faso, Ghana and Haiti,
with plans for future expansion on
the continent and in Asia.
The journey these bags, clothes
and accessories will make has re-
shaped the lives of women like Lucy.
As a teenager in this tin-shack slum
in Kenyas capital Nairobi, by the age
of 16 she had turned to prostitution
to survive. With three children of her
own, she also cares for her nephew,
after her sister died of AIDS.
Starting out ve years ago as a
seamstress, Lucy is now a supervisor.
Last year she moved her family out of
Korogocho to a nearby suburb, with
lower crime rates.
Of the more than 5,000 people in-
volved in the initiative in Kenya, 90
per cent are women.
For Arancha Gonzalez, chief of the
International Trade Centre that runs
the project, it offers a sustainable
way to improve lives.
Trade, economic activities, mar-
kets can also be married with human
development, with womens eco-
nomic development, with poverty
reduction, Gonzalez said.
The projects slogan is not charity,
just work.
We call it ethical because we give
a decent job, with decent working
conditions, to very destitute people,
Gonzalez added. First and foremost
it gives women dignity.
Workers also use environmentally
friendly materials, and their opera-
tions are carbon neutral. Gonzalez
says that for the designers working
with the EFI, economics and ethics
need not be mutually exclusive.
Its about making money, said
Gonzalez. But you can also make
prots in a socially sustainable
way. AFP
A man works in Nairobis Hub workshop, the heart of Ethical Fashion Africa, a not-
for-prot group built on a model of mutual benet. AFP
THE United States is ready to offer
significant additional economic and
military aid to Iraq under a new, less
sectarian government, US Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary
of State John Kerry said yesterday.
The Obama administration is offer-
ing the prospect of more money and
military backing short of combat
forces as an inducement towards the
rapid formation of a new government
to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki. Maliki, who has lost American
backing after eight years of often frac-
tious dealings with Washington, is
refusing to step aside.
The political crisis is made more
acute by the rapid advance of Islamist
militants, including in the formerly
secure semi-autonomous Kurdish
area of northern Iraq.
The US does stand ready to fully
support a new inclusive Iraqi govern-
ment, particularly in its fight against
militants known as the Islamic State,
Kerry said after two days of military
and diplomatic talks in Australia.
The US military is helping the cur-
rent Iraqi government with airstrikes
against the militants, begun last week,
and humanitarian air drops to strand-
ed civilians. The Obama administra-
tion has sought to separate the help
from any support for Maliki, although
he had requested it.
The Pentagon is also helping move
equipment and arms to the Kurdish
armed forces, known as the pesh
merga, Hagel noted yesterday. US
officials said on Monday that Wash-
ington is also helping to covertly arm
the peshmerga, but that component
went unmentioned as Kerry and
Hagel answered questions yesterday
with the Australian defence and for-
eign ministers. As a new government
takes shape, we would consider fur-
ther requests from that new govern-
ment, Hagel said.
Kerry congratulated Haider al-Abadi,
the veteran Shiite politician selected
to form a new government, and urged
him to do so quickly. He dangled addi-
tional American aid but said he would
not give details now, before the Abadi
government is up and running, and
suggested that money and other assist-
ance would be tied to the new govern-
ments performance. Neither Kerry nor
Hagel mentioned Maliki by name.
Without any question, we are pre-
pared to consider additional political,
economic and security options as Iraq
starts to build a new government,
Kerry said, with the aid very much
calculated to try to stabilise the secu-
rity situation, expand economic
development and strengthen the
democratic institutions.
The Obama administration has
ruled out any American combat
presence on the ground in Iraq,
despite the startling turn of events
that led President Obama, who cam-
paigned on ending the Iraq war, to
again send US warplanes to Iraqi
skies. Kerry underscored that the
additional assistance for Abadi does
not extend to US ground forces.
Obama on Monday publicly
announced his backing for Abadi, as
did Iran and Saudi Arabia. Abadi now
has 30 days to form a government, and
during that time Maliki will remain
the caretaker prime minister.
In his eight years as premier, Maliki
has consolidated power in his office,
ruling in an authoritarian style that has
chipped away at his support among
minority Sunnis, as well as his fellow
Shiites. He is widely blamed for foster-
ing an environment that has allowed
Sunni extremists from the Islamic
State to seize control of huge chunks
of Iraqi territory. THE WASHINGTON POST
World
Looking past deant Maliki, US dangles aid for Iraq
Egypt slammed for brutal killings
H
UMAN Rights Watch
yesterday demanded
Egypts President
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
and two other officials be
investigated for their roles in a
brutal crackdown that killed
hundreds in likely crimes
against humanity.
Security forces stormed two
sit-ins of supporters of ousted
president Mohamed Morsi in
Cairos Rabaa al-Adawiya and
Nahda squares on August 14,
2013, resulting in what HRW
termed one of the largest kill-
ings of demonstrators in a sin-
gle day in recent history.
A HRW report said its own
investigation into the crack-
down and interviews with more
than 200 witnesses showed that
security forces intentionally
used excessive lethal force
in breaking up the sit-ins.
The killings not only consti-
tuted serious violations of
international human rights but
likely amounted to crimes
against humanity, according
to the report, which HRW
released to mark one year since
the carnage.
HRW said its report identifies
the most senior security offi-
cials and key leaders in the
chain of command who
should be investigated . . .
including Interior Minister
Mohamed Ibrahim, then-de-
fence minister Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi, and Medhat Men-
shawy, who led the crackdown
at Rabaa al-Adawiya.
In a conference call, HRW
executive director Kenneth
Roth said the evidence gath-
ered showed that the crack-
down was a planned operation
that senior commanders
ordered or quickly should have
stopped but didnt.
This was not a war . . . most
of the day police operated
openly, shooting at people, he
said. These were widespread
systematic attacks on civilian
population.
HRW activist Omar Shakir
alleged that Sisi had personally
reviewed the Rabaa dispersal
plan for days and days, saying:
We are saying that the evidence
is sufficient that those three
people in particular warrant
investigation into their roles.
In the lead-up to the crack-
down, officials had envisioned
killing several thousand pro-
testers, he said.
At least 817 demonstrators
died in Rabaa al-Adawiya
square alone on that day, HRW
said. An AFP correspondent
who was at the square saw
more than 100 protesters killed
several hours into the crack-
down. Police said eight police-
men also died in Rabaa, from a
total of 42 policemen killed
across Egypt that day.
Since Morsis overthrow in
July 2013, more than 1,400
people have died in street
clashes including the Rabaa
carnage, over 15,000 have been
jailed, among them Morsi and
the top leadership of his Mus-
lim Brotherhood, and over 200
have been sentenced to death
in speedy trials.
The Rabaa crackdown was
launched after thousands of
pro-Morsi supporters refused
to end their sit-ins despite
repeated warnings.
The authorities said the
report lacked objectivity and
that HRW itself had no legal
status to work in Egypt.
A government statement said
the report ignored that the first
martyr on that day in Rabaa
was a policeman who was shot
dead, and that it also ignored all
those killed in attacks planned
by those described in the
report as peaceful protesters.
The assault was not merely
a case of excessive force or poor
training, said Roth in the
report. It was a violent crack-
down planned at the highest
levels of the Egyptian govern-
ment. Many of the same offi-
cials are still in power in Egypt,
and have a lot to answer for.
HRW Middle East director
Sarah Leah Whitson urged the
setting up of a UN commission
to probe the killings, charging
that not a single security offic-
er had been held accountable.
That is certainly not a way
to build a society . . . its a licence
to kill . . . its a licence to do
whatever it wants, she said in
the conference call, referring to
security forces.
Roth and Whitson were barred
from entering Egypt ahead of
the release of the report.
The HRW report quoted sur-
vivors describing the assault.
It was raining bullets. I
smelled tear-gas and immedi-
ately saw people being hit and
falling down around me, said
a businessman who was at the
Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in.
I have no idea how many
people were hit. We didnt hear
any warnings, nothing. It was
like hell. AFP
Muslim Brotherhood supporters ee police in a street leading to the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo on August 14, 2013 (left) and, later the same day, a man walks through the debris left by the clashes. AFP
World
13

Myanmar finds $7.3M
of drugs in forest stash
MYANMAR authorities have
seized $7.3 million of drugs
buried in a forest in the Golden
Triangle, police said yesterday,
raising fears of a boom in the
narcotics trade in the notorious
border region. A combined
military and police operation in
eastern Shan state unearthed a
massive stash including blocks
of heroin, raw opium and nearly
two million methamphetamine
pills. Our government is
seriously concerned about the
drugs situation, a senior police
officer from the anti-drug
squad said on condition of
anonymity. Our crackdown
against drug trafficking is
ongoing. AFP
Tripolis chief of police
assassinated: source
COLONEL Mohamed al-Suissi,
chief of police in Tripoli, was
gunned down by unidentified
attackers in the Libyan capitals
eastern suburbs yesterday, a
security source told AFP.
Colonel al-Suissi was
assassinated by a group of
unknown hooded, armed
people. Two men with him
were kidnapped in the attack,
said the source, who asked not
to be named. Since the fall of
longtime dictator Moammar
Gaddafi in 2011, authorities
have failed to establish order
and security in a country. AFP
The butcher: Fugitive Filipino general found
A RETIRED Philippine general impli-
cated in multiple political assassina-
tions was arrested in a rundown house
in the nations capital yesterday after
nearly three years on the run.
President Benigno Aquinos aides
hailed the arrest of Jovito Palparan as
proof his government was committed
to tackling an infamous culture of
impunity, in which the powerful rou-
tinely avoid being brought to justice.
Palparan went into hiding in late 2011
after being charged with the kidnapping
and illegal detention in 2006 of two
female university students linked to
leftist activist groups.
The women, then aged 27 and 20,
have never been seen since. Palparan
could face life imprisonment if found
guilty, although he denies the charges.
Human rights groups accuse Palparan
of being behind the killing of leftists
when he was a top military officer bat-
tling communist guerrillas in rural areas
of the impoverished archipelago.
Then-president Gloria Arroyo praised
Palparan, a former counter-insurgency
chief, for standing up to terror in 2006,
but critics tagged him as the butcher
for his alleged abuses.
The Philippines has been battling
communist and Islamic insurgencies
for decades, and the conflicts have
claimed tens of thousands of lives.
The military has been accused of car-
rying out hundreds of extra-judicial
killings of opponents. A government
commission which investigated politi-
cal killings said in 2006 that Palparan
was a key suspect in many murders of
people deemed enemies of the state.
[He] left a trail of blood or bodies in
his wake wherever he was assigned, the
commission report said. AFP
US reassures Beijing on
Australian security pact
T
HE US stressed yes-
terday it welcomes
the rise of China and
wants to work con-
structively with Beijing as it
signed a deal to deploy 2,500
Marines to Australia as part of
its rebalance to Asia.
China bristled when the
agreement to deploy Marines
to the northern city of Darwin
was rst announced by Presi-
dent Barack Obama in 2011.
But after signing the deal at
the Australia-United States
Ministerial Consultations in
Sydney, US Secretary of State
John Kerry said Washington
was not interested in conict
with the Asian powerhouse.
We welcome the rise of Chi-
na as a global partner, hopeful-
ly as a powerful economy, as a
full participating constructive
member of the international
community, he said.
We are not seeking conict
and confrontation. And our
hope is that China will likewise
take advantage of the opportu-
nities that are in front of it and
be that cooperative partner.
Australias Foreign Minister
Julie Bishop earlier defended
the deal to bring US Marines
and Air Force personnel to the
Northern Territory, denying
it was aimed at China which
is embroiled in maritime dis-
putes with neighbours.
Thats not what it is directed
to do at all. Its about working
closely with the United States to
ensure that we can work on re-
gional peace and security, she
told a radio program. The Unit-
ed States is rebalancing to the
Asia-Pacic so there are ways
we can work together to support
economic development as well
as security and peace.
Bishop made no comment
about the prospect of an in-
creased US military presence
beyond the Marines, some
1,200 of whom are already in
the country. But a communi-
que issued after the talks said
enhanced aircraft and naval co-
operation was discussed, while
the allies would also examine
options for Australias contri-
butions to ballistic missile de-
fence in the region. AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Australian Foreign
Minister Julie Bishop in Sydney yesterday. AFP
World
14

Push on for Gaza peace

as truce enters day two
PALESTINIAN and Israeli
delegations were yesterday set
to resume gruelling talks in
Cairo aimed at ending the Gaza
conflict as Egyptian mediators
raced to narrow gaps between
the warring sides. In Mondays
indirect talks, Israels delegation
pushed for the disarmament of
militant groups in the coastal
enclave, a demand the
Palestinians rejected outright.
Israeli negotiators sought an
extension of a 72-hour truce in
Gaza that began on Monday to
allow for further talks, but
Egyptian mediators wanted to
reach a deal as soon as
possible. The Palestinians and
Israelis sit in different rooms
and never see each other;
Egyptian mediators shuttle
between the delegations. AFP
Kasparov loses vote for

chess chief to Putin ally
CHESS legend Garry Kasparov
has failed in his attempt to
dethrone the eccentric head of
the World Chess Federation,
an ally of Russian President
Vladimir Putin and self-
professed alien abductee, in
a chaotic and highly politicised
vote. Seen as one of the
sports greatest-ever players,
former world champion
Kasparov could only secure
the votes of 61 of 175
delegates when the federation
met in Norway. The presidency
was retained by Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov, 52, who has held
the post since 1995. A former
president of Russias only
Buddhist region, Ilyumzhinov
claims he was once abducted
by aliens who communicated
telepathically and took him to
another planet in a giant
spaceship. AFP
He wanted me to
Mum drives
escaped son
back to jail

J
UST hours after he bust out
of a high-security prison as it
was rocked by mortar blasts
in conict-torn eastern Ukraine,
Natalya Nikitenko drove her son
right back to jail.
He himself said that he had
to return so it wouldnt count as
escaping. We are doing everything
according to the law, she said as
she climbed into her car outside
the jail in the besieged rebel
stronghold of Donetsk.
Her son who still has four
years left to serve for car theft
was one of 106 inmates who
escaped as the jail was shelled by
government forces on Sunday.
A prison ofcial said the in-
mates escaped in a panic.
One prisoner was killed and
several injured as mortar blasts
rocked the correctional facility
in a western district of the city,
prison authorities said.
However, 34 had made their
way back by Monday.
How can you live without the
law? Nikitenko said, adding that
she had driven her son back at his
own request after he ran home.
She said her son had told her
some kind of ring hit their
barracks. He said he leapt out
and a man was lying with his head
missing. He was scared and ran
out like a bullet. He didnt even
know how he got home. AFP
VENEZUELA closed its border
with Colombia on Monday
night to crack down on smug-
gling of cut-rate gasoline and
other products, and to stanch
huge losses for the Caracas
government.
A total of 17,000 troops have
been posted along the frontier
to prevent Venezuelan gas and
other products kept cheap
thanks to government price
controls from being sneaked
across the border.
The closing along 2,200 kilo-
metres of border applies only
at night. It will last 30 days
during a preliminary period
and then the effect of the mea-
sure will be assessed.
The lure for smugglers is
acute: gas is so cheap in Ven-
ezuela it costs less to ll up
your tank than it does to buy a
bottle of water. Even Venezue-
lan President Nicolas Maduro
admitted a few months ago
that selling a litre of milk at the
border brings in more money
than selling cocaine.
Oil-rich Venezuela has
some of the worlds cheapest
gasoline, as well as price con-
trols that can make food and
commodities up to 10 times
cheaper than in Colombia.
These products include
milk, sugar and toilet paper.
Venezuela rst announced
the measure on Saturday. It
says it is doing so under a joint
accord with Colombia.
Private vehicles are barred
from crossing after 10pm and
commercial trucks after 6pm.
Venezuela estimates that 40
per cent of the countrys basic
commodities are smuggled
across the border with Colom-
bia, plus 100,000 barrels of oil,
equivalent to annual losses of
$3.7 billion. AFP
Venezuela seals border,
17,000 troops deployed
No entry for Russia aid: Kiev
FBI probes police killing of unarmed teen
UKRAINE yesterday refused to
let a convoy of 280 trucks that
Russia said was carrying
humanitarian aid cross into its
territory, saying the operation
must be led by the Red Cross.
Russias Emergencies Minis-
try said the trucks carrying
2,000 metric tonnes of donated
food, medicine and drinking
water left Moscow for areas
held by pro-Russian rebels in
southeastern Ukraine earlier
yesterday. Ukrainian military
spokesman Andriy Lysenko
said the convoy was carrying
military gear in the guise of aid
and any assistance would only
be let in after a Red Cross eval-
uation that may take a week.
Humanitarian cargo will
arrive to Ukraine in compli-
ance with Ukrainian and inter-
national laws and according to
Red Cross practices, Lysenko
said. The Red Cross will evalu-
ate the needs of citizens in the
conflict zone in eastern Ukraine
during the week. The humani-
tarian mission will be under-
taken after this evaluation.
The humanitarian push
came as Ukrainian forces tight-
en a noose around rebel strong-
holds in the eastern cities of
Donetsk and Luhansk, where
thousands of people are report-
ed to be without water, power
and medical aid.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko rejected a call for
a ceasefire by militants on Sun-
day and told them to abandon
their effort to wrest eastern
Ukrainian regions from Kievs
control and join Russia in a
rebellion that has killed more
than 1,200 people.
Ukraine and its allies in the
US and the European Union
have warned Russia not to use
a humanitarian mission as a
guise for military intervention
in Ukraine. The Red Cross said
no one had informed it about
the trucks and no aid can be
delivered until hostilities end.
Nobody contacted us, Alla
Khabarova, the head of the Red
Cross in Ukraine, said. They
should have done it via the
Russian Red Cross and via us
and provide a list of what aid is
provided and who is accompa-
nying it. All military action, all
shooting, has to be ended.
French President Francois
Hollande yesterday told his
Russian counterpart he had
grave concerns about the
possibility of a unilateral Rus-
sian mission in Ukraine.
He stressed the grave con-
cerns that the possibility of a
unilateral Russian mission on
Ukrainian soil had prompted,
Hollandes office said after the
French leader spoke by phone
to Vladimir Putin.
It has to be done within a
multilateral framework and
under the umbrella of the Inter-
national Red Cross, Hollandes
office added. BLOOMBERG/AFP
THE FBI has launched a civil rights
investigation into the fatal shooting of
an unarmed black teenager by a police
officer, an incident that has set off days
of unrest in a St Louis suburb and
pushed the question of racial fairness
again to the forefront of American life.
Michael Brown, a college-bound
18-year-old, was shot and killed on Sat-
urday in the small, predominantly
African-American city after an apparent
confrontation with police officers. His
death immediately inspired both sol-
emn vigils and angry protests, which in
recent days have left some stores looted,
buildings burned and shattered glass in
the streets. At least 32 people have been
arrested for looting.
He was a good boy. He didnt deserve
none of this. None of it, said Browns
father, Michael Brown Sr, who was one
of more than two dozen friends and
family members at an afternoon news
conference at the Jennings Mason Tem-
ple church near St Louis. We need jus-
tice for our son.
The details surrounding Browns
death remain unclear. But the case is
recalling the racial animosity surround-
ing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old
Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 and
other recent altercations between Afri-
can-Americans and police. The Martin
case drew in President Barack Obama,
who called for calm amid similar anger
and noted that, if he had a son, he would
have looked like Trayvon.
Obama did not comment on the case
on Monday during a public appearance
in Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts,
where he is on vacation.
Browns family moved to hire attorney
Benjamin Crump, who represented
Martins family after the teenager, also
unarmed at the time of his death, was
shot by a neighbourhood watch volun-
teer. Appearing here, Crump called
Browns shooting another senseless
death of another person of colour.
The National Bar Association, which
represents African American lawyers
and judges, has called for an investiga-
tion into the deaths of both Brown and
Eric Garner, a 43-year-old man who
died in July after being placed in a
chokehold by a police officer.
In the Brown case, police say it appears
that the teen was shot following a phys-
ical altercation with a police officer at
his cruiser and a struggle involving the
officers gun. But authorities have not
said what resulted in Brown being shot
multiple times three metres from the
officers car.
Crump said witnesses have disputed
the account offered by police, but he did
not elaborate on what these witnesses
said. THE WASHINGTON POST
Ebola toll tops 1,000
Nina Larson and Zoom Dosso

T
HE World Health Or-
ganization yesterday
authorised the use of
experimental drugs
in the ght against Ebola as
deaths passed 1,000 and a
Spanish priest became the rst
European to succumb to the
virus in the latest outbreak.
The declaration by the UNs
health agency came after a US
company that makes an ex-
perimental serum said it had
sent all its available supplies
to hard-hit West Africa.
In the particular circum-
stances of this outbreak, and
provided certain conditions
are met . . . it is ethical to offer
unproven interventions with
as yet unknown efcacy and
adverse effects, the WHO said
in a statement after a meeting
of medical experts in Geneva.
The current outbreak, de-
scribed as the worst since
Ebola was rst discovered four
decades ago, has now killed
1,013 people, the WHO said.
Cases have so far been lim-
ited to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Nigeria, all in West
Africa, where weak health sys-
tems are struggling to cope.
An elderly Spanish priest
who became infected while
helping patients in Liberia
died in a Madrid hospital yes-
terday, just ve days after be-
ing evacuated.
Monrovia said it had request-
ed samples of an experimental
drug, ZMapp, that has shown
some positive effects on two
US aid workers but failed to
save the Spanish priest.
There is currently no avail-
able cure or vaccine for Ebola,
which the WHO has declared a
global public health emergen-
cy, and the use of experimen-
tal drugs has stoked an ethical
debate. Despite promising re-
sults for the ZMapp treatment,
made by private US rm Mapp
Biopharmaceutical, it is still in
an early phase of development
and had only been tested pre-
viously on monkeys.
ZMapp is in very short sup-
ply, but its use on the Western
aid workers evacuated to the
US last week triggered contro-
versy and demands that it be
made available in Africa.
Mapp said it had sent all
its available supplies to West
Africa. In responding to the
request received this weekend
from a West African nation,
the available supply of ZMapp
is exhausted, it said.
Any decision to use ZMapp
must be made by the patients
medical team, it said, adding
that the drug was provided at
no cost in all cases.
The company did not reveal
which nation received the dos-
es, or how many were sent.
But the Liberian presidency
said: The White House and
the United States Food and
Drug Administration have ap-
proved the request for sample
doses of experimental serum
to treat Liberian doctors who
are currently infected with the
deadly Ebola virus disease.
Price hikes, food shortages
Panic is stalking the impover-
ished countries ravaged by the
disease in West Africa, where
drastic containment measures
are causing transport chaos,
price hikes and food shortages,
and stoking fears that people
could die of hunger.
In Liberia where Ebola has
already claimed more than
300 lives a third province was
placed under quarantine on
Monday. President Ellen John-
son Sirleaf also banned state
ofcials from travelling abroad
for a month and ordered those
outside the country to return
home within a week.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone account for the bulk of
the cases, but Nigeria, Africas
most populous country, has
also counted two deaths.
In Sierra Leone, eight Chi-
nese medical workers who
treated patients with Ebola
have been placed in quaran-
tine, Chinas envoy in Freetown
said, but would not be drawn
on whether they were display-
ing symptoms of the disease.
In addition, 24 nurses, most
from the military hospital in
Freetown, have been quaran-
tined, while a senior physician
had contracted Ebola but was
responding well to treatment.
The nations sole virologist,
who was at the forefront of its
battle against the epidemic,
died from Ebola last month.
Also yesterday, Japan said
it was evacuating two dozen
staff from Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone. AFP
Passengers with protective face masks and gloves arrive at Murtala
Mohammed Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday. AFP
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World
EXTREME weather like the
drought currently scorching
the western US and the dev-
astating oods in Pakistan in
2010 is becoming much more
common, according to new
scientic research.
The work shows so-called
blocking patterns, where hot
or wet weather remains stuck
over a region for weeks caus-
ing heatwaves or oods, have
more than doubled in sum-
mers over the last decade.
Climate scientists in Ger-
many noticed that since
2000 there have been an ex-
ceptional number of sum-
mer weather extremes, some
causing massive damage to
society. So they examined
the huge meanders in the
high-level jet stream winds
that dominate the weather
at mid-latitudes. They found
that blocking patterns, which
occur when these meanders
slow down, have happened far
more frequently.
Since 2000, we have seen a
cluster of these events, said
Dr Dim Coumou, at the Pots-
dam Institute for Climate Im-
pact Research. It is especially
noticeable for heat extremes.
The heatwaves in Russia in
2010, which saw 50,000 people
die and the wheat harvest hit
hard, and in western Europe in
2003, which saw 30,000 deaths,
were both the result of block-
ing patterns. THE GUARDIAN
SCIENTISTS have
described new ad-
vances in making
3D brain-like tissue
that can live for more
than two months and
allows real-time re-
search on brain trauma,
disease and recovery.
The researchers discovered
they could grow rat neurons
in the tissue and then watch
how it responded after an in-
jury, incurred by dropping a
weight on it, according to the
study in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
The tissue was manufac-
tured from two biomaterials:
a spongy scaffold made out of
silk protein and a softer, colla-
gen-based gel, the study said.
Researchers took neurons
from rats and anchored them
onto the scaffold, and
the gel encouraged
growth.
While previous
researchers have
succeeded in making
cultures made of col-
lagen or hydrogel alone,
this tissue was different be-
cause it lived longer and
showed mechanical proper-
ties that were similar to real
brain tissue.
You can essentially track
the tissue response to trau-
matic brain injury in real
time, said senior author Da-
vid Kaplan, chair of biomedi-
cal engineering at Tufts School
of Engineering.
Most importantly, you can
also start to track repair and
what happens over longer pe-
riods of time. AFP
Frequency of extreme
weather on the rise
3D tissue lets scientists
track injuries to brain
Whats better than panda twins?
A ZOO has unveiled newborn
panda triplets billed as the
worlds first known surviving
trio, in what it hailed as a mir-
acle given the animals famous-
ly low reproductive rate.
Their mother, named Juxiao,
meaning chrysanthemum
smile, delivered the triplets at
Guangzhous Chimelong Safari
Park in the early hours of July
29, but was too exhausted to
take care of them afterwards.
A video from the zoo showed
Juxiao sitting in the corner of a
room as she delivered her cubs
for four gruelling hours and
licking them after they were
born. By the time it came to the
delivery of the third cub,
she was lying on her side out
of exhaustion.
Her cubs were initially put
into incubators while Juxiao
regained her strength but have
since been brought back to
their mother for nursing and
were being attended to by a
round-the-clock team of feed-
ers, the zoo said yesterday.
It was a miracle for us and
[the births] exceeded our
expectations, the safari parks
general manager, Dong Guixin,
told AFP.
Its been 15 days. They have
lived longer than any other tri-
plets so far, Dong said.
An official from Sichuan
Wolong National Nature
Reserve, considered the fore-
most authority on pandas, said
the trio was too young to be
officially recognised as surviv-
ing but that they were the only
known panda triplets alive.
We can only say they are
surviving once they reach six
months. For now they are
indeed the only surviving tri-
plets, said an official from the
centre who gave her name only
as Ms Zhao.
The cubs were naturally con-
ceived when 12-year-old Juxiao
was paired with the 17-year-
old father, Linlin, at the zoo,
Dong said.
In September last year, we
made them neighbours so
they could see each other and
get familiarised with things
such as smell. Juxiao also had
to do more exercise to
strengthen herself [for the
pregnancy], he said.
The triplets can be described
as a new wonder of the world,
a statement from the safari
park added, describing mortal-
ity rates among newborn pan-
das as extremely high.
Pictures taken earlier this
month of the triplets showed
the pink-coloured cubs inside
an incubator with their eyes
closed and bodies thinly cov-
ered with white fur.
The zoo described them as
being between 83 grams and
124 grams and smaller than the
size of a human palm at birth.
The mother and babies were
in good condition, but the ador-
able newborns were particu-
larly inspiring, the zoo said.
The gender of the cubs cannot
be determined until they grow
older and they would be given
their names at a later date.
The first known case of tri-
plets from a giant panda was
recorded in 1999, when a
15-year-old mother gave birth
following artificial insemina-
tion in the southwestern Chi-
nese city of Chengdu. But the
youngest of the trio died after
living for just three days
because of a bladder disorder.
Pandas have a notoriously
low reproductive rate and are
under pressure from factors
such as habitat loss. AFP
Newborn panda triplets inside an incubator at a safari park in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, and their mum, Juxiao. AFP
Gory photos testify to IS inhumanity
T
HE US and Australia agreed
yesterday to take concerns
about the threat posed by
jihadist foreign ghters in
Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to the UN.
The news came after shocking im-
ages allegedly showing a child hold-
ing aloft the severed head of a Syrian
soldier created an uproar in Australia,
the home country of the jihadist who
rst posted the picture on Twitter.
Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian
national now wanted on terrorism
charges, posted the image of a child
thought to be his son with the caption
Thats my boy! The photo shows the
boy holding up what looks like a dried,
blood-encrusted head, assumed to
have belonged to a soldier loyal to
Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Another image posted by Sharrouf,
who left his home in Sydney with his
family to join the extremist Islamic
State, shows him standing with his
son, this time holding the head him-
self. Sharrouf also appeared in tweets
from another Australian jihadist,
Mohamed Elomar, in which the pair
are clutching more severed heads.
Elomar tweeted: few more heads
how lovely bludy amazing stuff. The
scenes are thought to be from the Syr-
ian city of Raqqah, where the Islamic
State has held sway for months.
The pictures led to denunciations
from Australian ofcials. The Islamic
State, said Prime Minister Tony Ab-
bott, is a terrorist army and theyre
seeking not just a terrorist enclave
but effectively a terrorist state. The
images of severed heads, Abbott said,
were more evidence of just how bar-
baric this particular entity is.
US Secretary of State John Kerry
yesterday described the picture
as stomach-turning. Kerry said
it underscored the brutality of
the extremist militants who have
swept across Iraq and Syria, seizing
swathes of territory.
This image perhaps even an
iconic photograph is really one
of the most disturbing, stomach-
turning, grotesque photographs ever
displayed, he said. This is utterly
disgraceful and it underscores the de-
gree to which ISIL is so far beyond the
pale with respect to any standard by
which we judge even terrorist groups
that al-Qaeda shunted them aside.
Sharrouf is probably the most well-
known jihadist from Australia to join
the Islamic State, which has come to
the fore in recent months, claiming
a vast swath of territory comprising
parts of eastern Syria and northern
and western Iraq. The group has
gained notoriety for documenting
and distributing on social media im-
ages of its slaughters be it the heads
of Assads ghters in Raqqah or mass
executions of Iraqis captured during
the Islamic States recent advance.
This is not the rst time that Shar-
rouf, who is thought to be a schizo-
phrenic, has participated in such a
grisly spectacle: In June, the Austra-
lian newspaper published images of
Sharrouf posing among rows of dead
Iraqis, who had been massacred by
his comrades. Pointing to his ex-
ample, the Australian government is
seeking to implement more stringent
counterterrorism laws that will make
it harder for jihadist sympathisers in
the country to join up with terrorist
groups overseas.
A friend of the Sharrouf family in
Australia told the Sydney Morning
Herald on Monday that its doubtful
Sharrouf put his child in harms way
and that the pictures are a tool of a
media war the jihadists have been
long waging. Sharrouf uses the pho-
tos as propaganda to bait the kuffar,
or nonbelievers, the friend said.
Syrias brutal civil war, which has
claimed nearly 200,000 lives, has
played out online in an endless, gory
stream of videos. Rebels have used
footage of government forces brutal-
ising ordinary Syrians to win support.
They also have advertised their own
gruesome deeds as a means of taunt-
ing the enemy as well as propaganda
to show their strength in a landscape
marked by myriad rebel factions. THE
WASHINGTON POST/AFP
Khaled Sharrouf and boys believed to be his sons stand in front of the IS ag. TWITTER
Source : China State Media/ScienceDaily/IUCN/WWF
Giant pandas
Status: Endangered
IUCN Red List of Endangered Species
Population:
In the wild:
About 1,600,
according
to WWF data
Living in captivity:
341 worldwide*

*China state media, 2012
20 surviving captive
borns in 2012, from
total of 28 born that year
(71.4%)
GRANDAD IN TEARS
T
he grandfather of a boy pictured
holding a severed head in Syria
said the shocking image brought
him to tears. Peter Nettleton, who is
estranged from his daughter Tara,
Sharroufs wife, begged the
government to help bring the boy
and his siblings home. Im scared
for the children. What life are they
going to have now, the Sydney truck
driver told The Daily Telegraph.
Cant the government do
something to pull these kids away
from that man? That [picture]
brought me to tears because I dont
know how to handle it. AFP
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exam policy is
right approach
Dear Editor,
This years grade 12 exams con-
cluded with minimal cheating and
corruption, according to preliminary
reports. This is in contrast to recent
editions of the exams where test-day
bribery, plagiarism and leaks were
common and broadly tolerated.
The benefits to society of this
development are obvious and mani-
fold. Students will apply themselves
more to their study and will, in the
process, obtain real skills and
knowledge that will enable them to
compete with peers within and
beyond Cambodia.
In the absence of cheating, wheth-
er a student passes an exam is now
determined by how much he puts
into preparation not how much
money he can pay the proctors.
And, less tangibly but no less impor-
tantly, test takers most of whom
are just going from adolescence into
adulthood learn first-hand that
money cannot buy everything and
that passing by cheating has no
moral worth.
The examination has not been
without its critics, however.
Some argue that the test-takers
were set up to fail because of the
poor quality of education they
received in their 12 years of school-
ing. These critics highlight problems
such as an outdated curriculum;
inadequate physical infrastructure;
unqualified, badly paid and fre-
quently absent teachers; and so on.
It follows, they contend, that the no-
cheating policy was overly hash
even unfair.
While they are correct in stressing
the poor quality of education, the
conclusion they draw about the
recent exams is rather absurd.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Addressing poor education by turn-
ing a blind eye to cheating is like los-
ing weight by tampering with the
scale: no matter what the test scores
or the scale reading say on paper, the
students remain incompetent and
you stay overweight.
The best way to deal with the sub-
standard teachers and curriculum is
to recruit and train better teachers
and develop a better curriculum.
The national exams problems are
ones that are both fundamental and
entrenched. Continuing to tolerate
cheating during exams contributes
nothing towards a solution.
Furthermore, zero tolerance for
cheating is more than about improv-
ing education quality. It is also about
fairness: to those who work hard to
prepare and to those who cannot
afford to pay bribes. It is about
ensuring that, all things being equal,
an oknhas son and a farmers
daughter stand the same chance of
passing the exams.
Though flawed, this line of argu-
ment brings out an important fact: it
is not possible to improve education
merely by introducing strict over-
sight of exams. Zero tolerance
towards cheating, leaks and bribery
is not a panacea.
The good news is that the no-
cheating policy is only one of eight
education priorities outlined by the
Ministry of Education, Youth and
Sport. The bad news is that, while it
took a year to plan and implement a
fair exam, it will likely take decades
to raise the whole education system
to an acceptable level of quality.
It is also important to remember
that this encouraging development
may well be short-lived. The last
time we had a comprehensive no-
cheating policy at a national-level
examination was in the early 1990s,
before many of the recent test-takers
were born. A strong minister, Ung
Huot, was at the helm of the Minis-
try of Education then, just as a
strong minister, Hang Chuon Naron,
is in charge now.
Back then, the policy was swiftly
abandoned when the minister left his
post. It remains to be seen whether
this time around the policy will
transform into something more
durable and less personality-driven.
This depends, first of all, on the suc-
cess of efforts to strengthen process-
es and institutions that will outlive
public figures. Secondly, there must
also be buy-in from parents and oth-
er stakeholders so that this policy will
evolve into a culture that will, in turn,
grow into a habit.
Despite its shortcomings, the
recent examination was by most
measures a success. The minister of
education and his staff should be
congratulated for their convictions
and efforts. Reform like this needs to
be applauded, as it shows that deep-
rooted problems can be solved with
a combination of pragmatism and
genuine political will. With
acknowledgement and encourage-
ment from us ordinary citizens, this
good example may even spread
beyond the education sector.
You Sokunpanha
Phnom Penh
Cheating: bad
for the student
and the nation
Dear Editor,
I have been following stories on
the yearly 12th-grade national
exam closely for some time. When I
wrote an opinion piece published in
a local foreign-language newspaper
in July 2011, I was extremely frus-
trated and without hope regarding
the poor quality of the exam, which
was marred by rampant bribery
and cheating.
To my pleasant surprise, this year
I got to witness something com-
pletely remarkable the exam was
significantly improved. This event
restored my hope.
This year I volunteered to partici-
pate in the August 4-5 testing at the
Chaktumuk Primary School exami-
nation centre. It was an effort led
by the Anti-Corruption Unit in
close collaboration with the Minis-
try of Education, Youth and Sport.
There, I had the rare chance to wit-
ness a significant improvement in
the exam.
While bribery and cheating were
rampant in the past decade, this
time, students were allowed to
bring just three items into testing
rooms: a pen, a pencil and a ruler.
However, there were still some
irregularities, including attempts
to bribe proctors and students
looking at each others papers dur-
ing the test.
There were also some reports of
observers being taunted, threat-
ened or physically attacked by stu-
dents for catching them cheating.
However, these irregularities were
minimal. The entire national exam
process was conducted in a satis-
factory manner, according to
Education Minister Hang Chuon
Naron. According to an official
statement from the Ministry of
Education, the exam was held rela-
tively smoothly.
Although results of the exams are
yet to be announced, I am confident
that the entire process was a huge
improvement, as stated by the min-
istry and the media, and indeed as I
witnessed at an exam centre myself.
The bribery and cheating at the
exam in the past has done consider-
able economic harm to the nation. I
greatly applaud the new leadership
of the Education Ministry for dem-
onstrating a very strong level of
commitment to tackling this ram-
pant problem.
This new education reform not
only tackles the issue of the actual
process of the 12th-grade exam
itself, it also sends a warning mes-
sage to the students, their younger
brothers and sisters and their par-
ents that corruption and bribery
during the exams are no longer
tolerated.
Vong Socheata
Phnom Penh
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Actor, comedian Robin Williams dies
R
OBIN Williams, the Juilliard-
trained actor and uncon-
tainably exhibitionist comic
who became one of the most
dazzling talents in show business,
winning an Academy Award for a dra-
matic role in Good Will Hunting and
an Emmy for his stand-up work, was
found dead on Monday at his home
in California. He was 63.
The Marin County Sheriffs Ofce
said a preliminary investigation indi-
cates the cause of death was a suicide
due to asphyxia but that an investiga-
tion was continuing.
Long fuelled by an alcohol and co-
caine addiction, Williams was a mo-
tormouthed and unpredictable en-
tertainer in every medium he worked,
whether movies, TV, Broadway or gala
performances before Prince Charles
of England. In England, if you com-
mit a crime, the police dont own a
gun and you dont have a gun, he told
an audience, referring to the tactics of
London police towards criminals. So
its stop . . . or Ill say stop again.
He was a satirist, an Oscar-winning
dramatic actor and mimic of everyone
from Carol Channing to Jack Nich-
olson, from a British actor rendering
Hamlet to a ghetto tough to Henry
Kissinger channeling the morgue-
voiced actor Peter Lorre. Audiences
also gravitated to his unprintably pro-
fane comic riffs on guns, drugs, God
and politics.
Once, upon spotting a man carry-
ing a poster from Alcatraz prison, he
shouted, A gift shop at Alcatraz! and
in a childs voice pleaded, Daddy, get
me the electric chair.
It was nearly impossible to har-
ness his style although, when under
skilled direction, he was able to offer
restrained, dramatic portraits.
Williams won an Oscar as best sup-
porting actor as a therapist in Good
Will Hunting (1997) after having been
nominated for leading roles three
times, for his roles as an irreverent
disc jockey in Good Morning, Vietnam
(1987), an inspirational boarding
school teacher in Dead Poets Society
(1989) and a distraught widower in
The Fisher King (1991).
As an actor, he was almost always
compelling but uneven in his choice
of roles, which shifted dramatically
between riveting (Awakenings) and
maudlin (Patch Adams) and in the
comic realm between the expertly
served (Mrs. Doubtre, The Birdcage)
and mediocre (Night at the Museum).
He also became a sitcom star as an
eccentric extraterrestrial in Colorado
on Mork and Mindy (1978 to 1982)
and always brought an unpredictable
presence to cameo roles on television
series of interview programs.
Robin McLaurin Williams was born
July 21, 1951, in Chicago and raised in
a 30-room mansion in Michigan.
His father, Robert, was a sales exec-
utive at Ford Motor, and his mother,
Laurie, was a former model. Each
parent brought an older child from
a previous marriage into the family,
leaving Robin to play by himself with
2,000 toy soldiers giving each a dif-
ferent voice.
As a child, Robin developed a sharp
humour to attract attention from his
parents. To his father, who liked to be
called sir, he instead used the hon-
oric Lord Stokesbury, Viceroy of In-
dia. He said his earliest comic inu-
ences were his mother, who enjoyed
reciting funny poems, and Jonathan
Winters, an absurdist improvisational
comic of lm and TV.
In a remembrance of Winters after
his death in 2013, Williams wrote
in the New York Times that he was
entranced by Winterss effect on his
normally staid father. By donning a
pith helmet, Wintes morphed into
a great white hunter whose con-
ception of wild game is squirrel.
I am for their little nuts, Winters
said. Williams wrote, My dad and I
lost it. Seeing my father laugh like
that made me think, Who is this
guy and whats he on? Each trans-
formation was a cameo with char-
acters and sound effects. He was
performing comedic alchemy. The
world was his laboratory.
While studying political science at
Claremont Mens College, he took a
class in improvisational comedy that
changed the course of his life. He won
admission to the Juilliard School in
New York on a scholarship and trained
under John House-
man, among other
prominent actors
and directors. His
classmates included
Christopher Reeve,
William Hurt and
Mandy Patinkin.
He left in his third
year to work in com-
edy clubs in San
Francisco and, in
1978, married Val-
erie Velardi, a danc-
er. They had a son
before divorcing.
He married Marsha
Garces in 1989 and
had two children
with her before they
divorced. Survivors
include his third
wife, Susan Sch-
neider.
It was his rst wife who suggested
Williams move to Los Angeles and di-
rect his talents at television. His rou-
tines at prominent clubs including a
skit playing the chain-gang escapees
portrayed by Tony Curtis and Sidney
Poitier in the 1958 drama The Deant
Ones won him the attention of TV
producers in the audience. This led to
guest appearances on shows, includ-
ing ABCs sitcom Happy Days as the
alien Mork.
The shows producers had turned
down 50 performers for the role be-
fore Williams auditioned for Mork.
About ve oclock, in walked this
boy with rainbow suspenders, pro-
ducer Jerry Paris told the New York
Times. When he sat down, I asked if
he would sit a little differently, the way
an alien might. Immediately, he sat on
his head. We hired him.
Audience reaction was so swiftly
positive that the network gave Wil-
liams his own show as Mork in 1978.
Mork and Mindy was about an alien
from planet Ork sent to Earth in a gi-
ant egg to learn the mystifying hab-
its of its people.
Besides sitting
on his head, Morks
quirky tendencies
included getting
drunk on soda and
falling hopelessly
enamored of man-
nequins.
He continued
to perform on the
comedy circuit
while starring on
TV. His success as
a TV star helped
make one of his rst
comedy albums,
Reality . . . What a
Concept (1979), a
million-seller, and
propelled his work
in movies.
Williams made
his leading man de-
but as the title sailor in Popeye (1980),
a part he took because the critically
esteemed Robert Altman was the di-
rector. However, the live-action lm,
based on the cartoon character, was
a debacle.
The lm that made Williams a bona
de star was Good Morning, Vietnam
(1987), as the loose-lipped DJ Adrian
Cronauer on Armed Forces Radio in
Saigon. The lm, which reportedly
made more than $120 million do-
mestically, was best remembered for
Williams one-liners amid the raging
Vietnam War. THE WASHINGTON POST
Robin Williams performs the song Blame Canada during the 72nd Academy Awards on
March 26, 2000. AFP
Robin Williams performs in a scene
from the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtre.
COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
Robin Williams won an Oscar as best
supporting actor in Good Will Hunting.
COURTESY OF MIRAMAX
HEALTH warnings should be com-
pulsory on bottles of wine, beer and
spirits to raise awareness of the
dangers of excessive drinking and
the growing problem of liver dis-
ease, a group of British members
of parliament has said.
The recommendation is part
of a series of measures put for-
ward by the All-Party Parlia-
mentary Group on Alcohol
Misuse to tackle what it says
is an epidemic of alcohol
abuse in Britain.
Conservative MP Tracey
Crouch, the chair of the group,
said people should be as aware
of the dangers posed by exces-
sive drinking as they are of the
risks posed by smoking.
The facts and figures of the scale
of alcohol misuse in the UK speak for
themselves: 1.2 million people a year
are admitted to hospital due to alco-
hol; liver disease in those under 30
has more than doubled over the past
10 years; and the cost of alcohol to
the economy totals 21 billion.
Getting political parties to seri-
ously commit to these 10 meas-
ures will be a massive step in
tackling the huge public health
issue that alcohol is.
The report, which also rec-
ommends a minimum unit
price on alcohol, states that
although health warnings are
prominent on tobacco prod-
ucts, alcohol packaging only
outlines alcohol content.
In order to inform consum-
ers about balanced risk, every
alcohol label should include
an evidence-based health
warning as well as describing
the products nutritional calorific
and alcohol content, it states. THE
GUARDIAN
Health
18
At beach, dont throw in the towel
A
BEACH vacation can
be a runner-moms
paradise: fresh air,
free time and, if
youre lucky, free babysitting.
During annual trips to the Jer-
sey Shore with my extended
family, Im happily up before
my kids 6am cry for chocolate-
chip pancakes, running longer
and faster on the at, stress-
free ribbon of seaside road
than I do on the hilly, anxiety-
and trafc-clogged streets of
my suburban neighbourhood.
I realise that not everyone
sees vacation as a time to esca-
late a tness routine. If youre
not a runner or a swimmer, or
havent bothered to lug a bike
on the back of your car or dont
have family around to watch
your kids, its not so easy to
maintain your regimen. And
with all that beautiful scenery
and fun family activities to en-
joy, it can be hard to nd the
motivation or time to exercise
or the justication for spend-
ing money on a gym guest pass,
yoga studio or bike rental.
But exercise at the beach
doesnt have to be difcult,
expensive or burdensome.
You can maintain your tness
through some basic exercises
or even through beach activi-
ties you may be planning any-
way and if you decide to take
the time off completely, the
setback to your tness level is
easily restored, experts say.
If you decide on the mini-
malist option, you could bring
a mat or towel to the beach
and fashion your own yoga
practice. You could also pack
some lightweight exercise tools
like resistance bands or jump
ropes, says Jo Zimmerman, an
instructor in the department
of kinesiology at the University
of Maryland and a longtime
trainer. Sue Immerman, a cer-
tied personal trainer at MAD
Fitness in Takoma Park, Mary-
land, suggests buying 2 gallons
of water and using them for a
simple weightlifting routine.
An even more minimalist
option: Just use your fam-
ily. You have a 5-year-old
nephew, you have a barbell,
Zimmerman says. Piggyback
rides are great for the legs.
Give a piggyback ride while
doing squats and you have
done some weighted squats.
Many of her clients leave for
vacation with the best of inten-
tions, Immerman said in an
email, but return saying that
they threw in the towel on eat-
ing well and exercise.
Yet all is not lost. First, says
Rosemary Lindle, an exercise
physiologist and an adjunct
professor of kinesiology at the
University of Maryland, stud-
ies show that you can maintain
your tness level even when
taking some time off. Second,
time off is itself an important
part of any training program.
Think of your vacation as an
active recovery or cross-training
period, she said in an email.
A well-balanced, periodized
tness program includes re-
covery breaks. On the beach,
recovery could include lighter-
level activities such as hiking,
cycling, swimming, snorkeling,
even beach volleyball.
But how well do these activi-
ties compare to a more typical
exercise routine?
As you might expect, it de-
pends on both the activity
and level of effort. An hour of
stand-up paddleboarding, for
example, can burn as many
as 545 calories, according to
Jessica Matthews, a certied
personal trainer and health
coach and assistant professor
of health and exercise science
at Miramar College in San
Diego who crunched some
beach activity numbers.
An hour of digging in the
sand is almost as good: as
many as 454 calories per hour
(all numbers quoted here are
approximate and for a typical
150-pound woman or 200-
pound man). Even lugging all
those chairs to the beach can
do you some calorie-burning
good. THE WASHINGTON POST
Lack of vitamin D linked to higher
risk of dementia and Alzheimers
OLDER people who do not get
enough vitamin D face a much high-
er risk of dementia or Alzheimers
disease, the largest study of its kind
on the topic said last week.
People get vitamin D from sunlight
and from oily fish like salmon, tuna
or mackerel, as well as milk, eggs and
cheese. It is also available in supple-
ment form.
Reporting in the journal Neurolo-
gy, international researchers found
that people who were severely defi-
cient in vitamin D were more than
twice as likely to develop dementia
and Alzheimers disease as people
who got enough.
The findings were based on a study
of 1,658 adults aged 65 and over, who
were healthy and able to walk with-
out assistance.
The participants were followed for
six years. By that point, 171 partici-
pants had developed dementia and
102 had Alzheimers disease.
Those who were moderately defi-
cient in vitamin D had a 53 per cent
increased risk of developing demen-
tia of any kind. Those who were
severely deficient saw their risk
increase to 125 per cent over those
with adequate levels of vitamin D.
Similar numbers were noted for
Alzheimers disease: those who were
moderately deficient were 69 per
cent more likely to develop this type
of dementia, and the severely defi-
cient were 122 per cent more likely
to get Alzheimers.
We expected to find an association
between low vitamin D levels and the
risk of dementia and Alzheimers dis-
ease, but the results were surprising
we actually found that the associa-
tion was twice as strong as we antic-
ipated, said lead author David
Llewellyn at the University of Exeter
Medical School.
Clinical trials are now needed to
establish whether eating foods such
as oily fish or taking vitamin D sup-
plements can delay or even prevent
the onset of Alzheimers disease and
dementia.
He added that the study stops
short of showing whether or not
vitamin D deficiency causes demen-
tia, only that it shows there is a link
that deserves further research.
Some 44 million people worldwide
have dementia, a number that is
expected to triple by 2050.
About one billion around the globe
are thought to have low vitamin
D levels.
The elderly can be particularly vul-
nerable to such a deficiency because
their skin is less adept at converting
sunlight into vitamin D. AFP
Need a quick exercise x while on a beach holiday? Take a mat and fashion your own yoga practice. AFP
MPs: alcohol warnings
should be compulsory
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
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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
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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
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
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VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
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
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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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AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
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8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
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K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Globetrotting
seniors aided
by network
C
ONV E NT I ONA L
wisdom would hold
that a move into a
retirement home
means that a pensioners days
of adventure are over.
But a new social network
in Slovenia wants to change
that and make globetrotting
easier for older folk with wan-
derlust who want or need
the services of a specialised
residence for seniors.
Once the opportunity
arose, I quickly decided I
wanted to go to Spain, said
Jozica Kucera, a 77-year-old
widow from Slovenia.
In late July, she swapped her
room in a retirement home in
the northern city of Topolsica
to spend a week at a similar
facility in Mataro, a Mediter-
ranean beach town near Bar-
celona. She speaks no Span-
ish, though has German and
some English but well nd a
way, Kucera told AFP before
leaving. Im not afraid at all.
I wonder how elderly people
live there.
Travelling in the opposite
direction was Miquel Ribas,
an 82-year-old Spaniard who
stayed in Kuceras room while
she occupied his.
One major plus: accommo-
dation for both is free, along
with meals, activities, medical
care and services provided by
the residences. Kuceras only
expenses were a 60 ($80)
membership fee in the net-
work, called Linkedage, and
the air fare to her destination.
A few days into his own
stay, Ribas said his lack of Slo-
venian had not stopped him
from enjoying an active holi-
day exploring hills and for-
ests around Topolsica. Ive
already learnt four or ve
words, he said.
The Spanish octogenarian
joked that the exchange is
like day and night compared
with Mataro, this being the
day of course.
Id go on a similar adven-
ture again, he said. Ive
been taking pictures. I was
told to take up to 100 if I can
and well do a presentation
when I get back.
The Slovenian company
behind Linkedage, the inter-
net technology rm Socinet,
says it is the rst such inter-
national exchange for seniors
in multiresidence housing
and assisted living or nursing
homes. The concept is simple:
seniors living in homes that
join the network can either
exchange rooms or rent va-
cant rooms or apartments in
far-ung destinations, safe in
the knowledge that they will
receive the treatment they
need at the other end.
Linkedage has developed
a website of the same name
that will allow pensioners to
explore potential holiday
homes that suit their travel
whims and more important-
ly their specic care needs.
It has been backed by Eu-
ropes largest retirement
home services association,
the Berlin-based European
Association for Directors and
Providers of Long-Term Care
Services for the Elderly.
The platforms founders
admit they were inspired by
Europes ageing prole.
The Organisation for Eco-
nomic Co-operation and
Development forecasts that
40 per cent of the continents
population will be over 65 by
the year 2060.
OECD data also show that
there is a current 35 per cent
vacancy rate in retirement
homes and assisted living fa-
cilities across Europe.
I thought, Why would my
grandma, if she is active and
has the money for a retire-
ment home, stay in only one
home instead of spending
part of the year somewhere
else where she could enjoy the
same services? said Tomaz
Lorenzetti, one of the Socinet
founders.
We decided to concentrate
rst on Europe, mostly Spain,
France and Germany, and
later we will go global, said
Diana Galijasevic, head of the
Linkedage project. AFP
A welcome note for Miguel, an 82-year old Spaniard, in a care home for
the elderly in Topolsica, where he stayed during a trip to Slovenia. AFP
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LEGEND CINEMA
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes
led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human
survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a
decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it
proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to
the brink of a war that will determine who will
emerge as Earths dominant species. Starring
Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and Andy Serkis.
Citymall: 12:05pm, 9:30pm
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HERCULES
Having endured his legendary 12 Labours,
Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a
sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace
and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a
tyrannical warlord. Directed by Brett Ratner and
starring Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt and Ian
McShane.
Citymall: 11:45am, 4:45pm, 4:55pm, 7:50pm
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being
abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime
target of a manhunt after discovering an orb
wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
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TV PICKS
FormerKhmerRougeleaderBrotherNumberTwo NuonCheaintheECCCcourtroominPhnomPenh. AFP
True Blood continues at 7pm on HBO. BLOOMBERG
Photo tour @ FCC
Professional photographer Michael
Klinkhamer is leading a casual
photography workshop tour in Phnom
Penh. During the 4-hour tour you will
learn to set your camera for optimum
results.
FCC, #363 Sisowath Quay. 1:30pm
Talk @ Meta House
Ocials at the UN-backed Khmer
Rouge tribunal announced a verdict
on August 7 in the atrocity crimes trial
against former leaders Nuon Chea and
Khieu Samphan. Meta House invites
experts, victims and the broader public
to discuss the outcome.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Blvd. 7pm
5:55pm - THE IRON GIANT: A boy makes friends with an
innocent alien giant robot that a paranoid government
agent wants to destroy. HBO
6:50pm - ENEMY AT THE GATES: A Russian sniper and a
German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the
Battle of Stalingrad. HBO
7pm - TRUE BLOOD: Telepathic waitress Sookie
Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural
world when she meets the mysterious Bill, a southern
Louisiana gentleman and vampire. HBO
7:15pm - LES MISERABLES: In 19th-century France,
Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the
ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees
to care for a factory workers daughter. The decision
changes their lives for ever. HBO
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Sheiks household members
6 Monster of Jewish legend
11 More, in Mexico
14 Escape the clutches of
15 Male friend, south of
the border
16 Org. many lawyers belong to
17 Work done by hand
19 ___ to worry
20 Washes
21 Fawning flatterer
23 Sticks around
26 Oscar recipient
27 Lessens
28 Reduced in rank
30 Poor dogs portion
31 Like an old woman
32 Holy smokes!
35 Plains antelope
36 Chutney fruits
38 Breakfast of gladiators?
39 Start to suspect?
40 People with fan clubs
41 Self-congratulatory
42 A place to gamble
44 Wife or daughter
46 Short dash
48 Perked (up)
49 Top-notch
50 Lacking a key, musically
52 It makes an embarrassing sound
53 Treating roughly
58 Operetta division
59 Ceased
60 Chilling, in a way
61 Assent word
62 Small hills
63 Cover with cloth
DOWN
1 Stitched skirt edge
2 State next to Miss.
3 Be on the ticket
4 Provide formal training
5 African ear of corn
6 Extravagant parties
7 Muscat sultanate
8 Ad ___ (makes it up)
9 A star may have a big one
10 Tenons partners
11 First two in the first garden
12 Humble place to live
13 Mythical goatlike creature
18 Means of clarification
22 Number of gods in monotheism
23 Where to hit a bucket of balls
24 Poets blacks
25 Literary drafts
26 Fabric ridge
28 The A in WASP
29 Book jacket briefs
31 In due time, poetically
33 Early stage seed
34 Carried on, as war
36 Ill-fitting title
37 Mine opening
41 Perfume tester
43 Archery asset
44 Twain lad
45 Got away from
46 Use an aerosol
47 Going rate
48 Lots
50 No ifs, ___ ...
51 Of ___ I Sing
54 Darth, at one time
55 One musical Gershwin
56 Small drink
57 Whiz opener
FIVE GUYS
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Sport
21
Wallabies opt for Beale ahead of Foley for All Blacks
WALLABIES coach Ewen
McKenzie yesterday opted for
Kurtley Beale ahead of Bernard
Foley as fly-half for their open-
ing Rugby Championship and
Bledisloe Cup Test against the
All Blacks.
The move was part of a
revamped line-up in the wake
of Australias series clean
sweep over France earlier this
year in what McKenzie said
reflected the different style the
Wallabies wanted to play
against their bitter rivals.
There were a number of
extremely tough selection
decisions, especially after the
way the team performed
against France, however were
confident weve come up with
the best squad possible to win
on Saturday night, he said of
the match in Sydney.
In the end, weve got a very
similar group of players to those
who got the job done against
France, weve just modified
some roles slightly to suit how
we want to play the game.
It has been 12 years since the
Wallabies last held the Bledis-
loe Cup, the symbol of trans-
Tasman supremacy between
Australia and the All Blacks.
In other changes, Adam
Ashley-Cooper will shift from
the wing to outside centre
while there is a new wing part-
nership with Rob Horne and
Pat McCabe joining fullback
Israel Folau to form a strong
back-three.
Two other changes in the
starting XV see hooker Nath-
an Charles replace the
injured Tatafu Polota-Nau
and the return at lock of Sam
Carter, who earned his inter-
national debut in the open-
ing Test against France in
June before an ankle injury
ruled him out.
There was no room in the
squad for former captain
James Horwill.
Being dropped will be bit-
terly disappointing for Foley,
the incumbent Australian No
10 who was the hero of the
Waratahs historic Super Rug-
by final triumph over the Cru-
saders 10 days ago.
McKenzie said Beale had
also enjoyed an outstanding
Super Rugby campaign and his
inclusion as the Wallabies
chief playmaker was a
reward.
Bernard hasnt put a foot
wrong since we chose him in
June, but Kurtley has really
stepped up his game over the
past few months and hes con-
sistently been one of the War-
atahs best players every
week, he said.
Hell bring some additional
x-factor to our game. We feel
that will suit our two-playmak-
er framework and ensure we
have the right balance in those
positions along with Matt
Toomua.
Kurtleys also an experi-
enced guy who has played 42
Tests, so he will enjoy the add-
ed responsibility of wearing
the number 10 jersey.
McKenzie added that shifting
Ashley-Cooper was primarily
due to his form in that position
for the NSW Waratahs.
Adams never let Australia
down no matter what position
he plays and we know hell
enjoy the move to a position
where he has had a lot of
experience at during his
career, he said.
The Rugby Championship
involves Australia, New Zea-
land, South Africa and Argen-
tina, with New Zealand the
defending titleholders. AFP
Australian y-half Kurtley Beale has been given the nod to start in their Bledisloe Cup match against New
Zealand this Saturday in Sydney. AFP
Moraes promises a stand-up war
James Goyder
A
DRIANO Moraes is one of
the most exciting mixed
martial arts prospects in
the world and is looking to
establish himself alongside the likes
of Bibiano Fernandes, Ben Askren
and Shinya Aoki as one of ONE FCs
top pound-for-pound ghters.
The Brazilian can take a big step in
the right direction by becoming the
organisations inaugural yweight
champion when the faces Geje Eu-
staquio of the Philippines in the main
event of ONE FC: Rise of the King-
dom in Phnom Penh next month.
For Cambodia to play host to Asias
biggest promotion is a major mile-
stone for the countrys burgeoning
MMA scene, but it will also be the
most important night of Moraess
career and he is determined to take
the belt back to Brazil.
I dream about becoming the
champion all night, he said. Its
such a great honour for me being
invited by ONE FC to ght for the
inaugural yweight title and I am
doing everything possible to bring
this title to my hometown.
Standing opposite him will be Eu-
staquio, who beat three separate op-
ponents inside the ONE FC cage to
secure his title shot. Moraes is not
taking the Filipino yweight lightly.
Eustaquio is such a great ghter,
a very tough and smart athlete. Its
going to be a war, because the Fili-
pino is a warrior and I am preparing
my body and my soul for the biggest
challenge of my life.
In terms of experience, Moraes has
a clear advantage with his 11-1 re-
cord slightly superior to Eustaquios
tally, which currently stands at 6-2.
Many feel the Brazilian should be
undefeated, but he suffered a con-
troversial split decision defeat on
his ONE FC debut last year.
Despite this disappointing start to
his ONE FC career Moraes, who is
coming off back-to-back wins over
experienced Japanese opponents, is
loving life with the fastest growing
MMA organisation in the world.
Since the day I signed the contract
with ONE FC, my life has been great.
They gave me an opportunity to show
the world my skills and this is such a
big thing for me. Nowadays everyone
is watching Asian MMA and it is an
honour to be a part of it.
After bouts in Malaysia and Indo-
nesia, this will be the third country in
which Moraes has fought in for ONE
FC and he is excited about getting to
visit Cambodia for the rst time.
I feel very happy because Cam-
bodia is a place that Ive wanted to
visit. I love Asia, it has a very good
vibe and Im sure Phnom Penh will
be no different.
While Moraes will be seeing Phnom
Penh with fresh eyes, local ght fans
will also be getting their rst glimpse
at a live ONE FC event and the Brazil-
ian assures them that his headlining
bout will not disappoint.
Me and Geje Eustaquio are both
martial artists who are natural strik-
ers, so I think this ght is going to be
a stand up war that the audience and
the fans will love.
Tickets are on sale now for Rise of
the Kingdom, which will be held at
Koh Pich Theatre on September 12.
Action will also be broadcast live on
StarSports and local channel MyTV.
On August 29, ONE FC will host its
inaugural event in Dubai, titled Reign
of Champions, with a blockbuster
card that includes three titles ghts
in the lightweight, welterweight and
featherweight divisions.
Brazilian Adriano Moraes (right) aims a high kick at Yasuhiro Urushitani of Japan during their bout at ONE FC: War of Nations in Kuala Lumpurs Stadium Negara on March 14. ONEFC.COM
Sport

No criminal behaviour
found in Stewart probe
US POLICE have found no
criminal behaviour on racing
driving Tony Stewarts part but
will continue their probe into
the bizarre incident in which
he struck and killed an
up-and-coming driver.
Stewart, one of the most
popular drivers in Americas
NASCAR stock car circuit,
ploughed into 20-year-old
Kevin Ward Jr during a non-
NASCAR race on a dirt track
Saturday night at Canandaigua
Motorsports Park. At this time
there are no facts that exist
that support any criminal
behaviour or conduct or that
any probable cause of a
criminal act in this
investigation, Ontario County
Sheriff spokesman Philip
Povero told reporters on
Monday. Povero said they have
interviewed Stewart and
several others who witnessed
the incident and they say
Stewart, who was unhurt, has
been cooperative. Povero told
reporters they are looking for
more video footage of the
crash as part of their ongoing
investigation. He said they
already have two videos of the
incident. We are seeking
persons outside that are
familiar with racing that can
help us review and analyse
these tapes to hopefully fully
understand the crash, he
said. Meanwhile, the 43-year-
old American, who missed
Sundays NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series race at the Watkins
Glen International track, has
withdrawn from a second non-
NASCAR race on Saturday in
Plymouth, Indiana. AFP
Spinner Ajmal reported
for his suspect action
PAKISTAN off-spinner Saeed
Ajmal, the worlds top-ranked
bowler in one-day cricket, has
been reported for a suspect
action, the world governing
body said on Monday, the
second such incident in his
career. Match officials at the
just-ended first Test between
Sri Lanka and Pakistan in
Galle cited concerns over a
number of deliveries that were
considered to be suspect and
concluded that the bowlers
action needed to be tested,
the International Cricket
Council said in a statement. As
per ICC regulations, Ajmal will
have to undergo tests of his
action within 21 days, but is
allowed to play on until the
results of the test are known,
the statement added. AFP
Islanders owner sued
for reneging on sale
CA INC co-founder Charles
Wang was sued by investors
who accuse him of backing out
of a deal to sell them the New
York Islanders hockey team for
$420 million, a year before the
team is set to move into the $1
billion Barclays Center in
Brooklyn. The investors, a group
called NY Ice LLC led by attorney
Andrew Barroway, want a New
York state judge to order Wang
to sell them the National
Hockey League franchise or, in
the alternative, pay a $10 million
breakup fee, according to the
complaint filed today in
Manhattan. Wang agreed in
March to sell the team to the
group for $420 million, including
$100 million in cash, according
to the complaint. BLOOMBERG
Watson wishes McIlroy were on the US side
US RYDER Cup captain Tom
Watson was pleased about the
nine qualifiers who clinched
berths on his squad, but
admitted on Monday he
wouldnt mind having top-
ranked Rory McIlroy as well.
McIlroy captured his fourth
major title Sunday at the PGA
Championship, outduelling
US stars Phil Mickelson and
Rickie Fowler over the back
nine for his second major win
in a row after taking last
months British Open.
I wish he was playing for my
team, I can tell you that. Hes
playing great, Watson said. I
just like the guy a lot. I like his
manner. I like the way he plays.
He reminds me of me.
Right now, hes driving the
ball better than anybody in the
game. When you have the con-
fidence in the driver that he
has right now and the ability
to hit the ball far, the game is
easy. And he knows it and eve-
rybody else knows it.
Sundays thrilling final round
at Valhalla could be a warmup
act for next months Ryder Cup
showdown at Gleneagles,
Scotland. The Americans will
try to recapture the trophy
from Europe after losing on
home soil in 2012 at Medinah
to a last-day comeback.
Our team, theyve got that
motivation from 2012 that Im
going to lay on them, Watson
said. I think thats a great
motivator.
European sides have won
five of the past six meetings
and have not lost on home soil
since 1993, but the US team
lead the all-time rivalry 25-12
with two drawn contests.
Watson knows the impor-
tance of a victory over McIlroy
in the Ryder Cup.
Any time you beat the star,
thats a very big plus from a
psychological standpoint for
your team, Watson said.
Their team is full of star
power, people who have been
playing well. The European
team is the stronger of the
teams on paper but I have
extreme confidence in the
players on our team and the
motivation to go out and win
the cup.
US qualifying ended on
Sunday with Phil Mickelson
qualifying for his 10th Ryder-
Cup in a row after a runner-up
PGA finish.
Also on the US squad are
Masters winner Bubba
Watson, 2003 US Open cham-
pion Jim Furyk, 2014 US and
British Open runner-up Rick-
ie Fowler, Jimmy Walker, Matt
Kuchar, Jordan Spieth, Patrick
Reed and Zach Johnson.
Im wonderfully happy
with the team, Watson said.
Every player has the ability
to play great golf. My job as a
captain is to inspire them.
And the motivation is there.
These players are motivated
to the Nth degree to win this
Ryder Cup.
Watson and European cap-
tain Paul McGinley will each
make the three captains
choice selections to their ros-
ters on September 2, the day
after the finish of the second
event of the season-ending
US PGA Tour playoffs.
Its pretty up in the air right
now as far as who is going to
get the picks, Watson said.
These next three weeks will
be a big factor.
The major part is how they
are playing. You want players
that are playing well or rising
and starting to show some
real good form.
Injuries are a concern though
for the US with Tiger Woods, a
possible captains pick, and
Kuchar nursing sore backs.
Europes Ryder Cup points
chase, which still has three
weeks remaining, was little
changed after the PGA, with
McIlroy, Swedens Henrik Sten-
son, Frances Victor Dubuisson
and Spains Sergio Garcia in on
the European points list.
Current world rankings
would add Englands Justin
Rose, US Open champion
Martin Kaymer of Germany,
Denmarks Thomas Bjorn,
Welshman Jamie Donaldson
and Northern Irelands Grae-
me McDowell. AFP
US Ryder Cup skipper Tom Watson speaks at a press conference on Monday at Valhalla Golf Club in
Louisville, Kentucky. AFP
Collapse led Mo
Farah to miss
Glasgow Games
M
O FARAH, the reign-
ing world and Olympic
5,000m and 10,000m
champion, missed the
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
because he collapsed and knocked
himself out on a bathroom oor and
spent four days in hospital.
The 31-year-old British runner
explained the full reason for his ab-
sence from Glasgow after arriving
in Zurich for the European Athlet-
ics Championships, where he will
contest the 10,000m today and the
5,000m on Friday.
He had originally withdrawn from
the England team for the Common-
wealth Games citing a lack of tness
after suffering from illness in the wake
of his disappointing eighth-placed
nish on his marathon debut in Lon-
don in April.
I basically had a tooth taken out
because it was chipped and it got
infected, Farah said in an interview
with BBC television.
I was in a bit of pain, but went for
a run, and when I came back I liter-
ally collapsed on the bathroom oor,
completely knocked out.
I had my phone in my pocket, so
when I woke up and became con-
scious I called Cam Levins, my train-
ing partner the Canadian guy who
came third in the 10,00m at the Com-
monwealth Games and he came
round and got me onto my bed.
I was in so much pain from my
stomach, and so he called an am-
bulance and it took me to hospital.
I then had to be airlifted to the main
hospital as they thought something
was going on with my heart.
It was just crazy. I was in hospital
for four days and it was scary, but
these things happen.
I missed quite a lot of running. I
would have loved to have come back
and continued the road to the Com-
monwealth Games. I didnt want to
disappoint my fans and all those who
had bought tickets, but I just wasnt
ready. I was nowhere near ready.
Farah was examined by the medical
staff at British Athletics and passed
t to resume training at his high-
altitude base at Font Romeu in the
French Pyrenees.
I was doing a track session and
Paula Radcliffe was timing me and
she told me I should stop, he said.
When someone like Paula tells
you to stop, you know there is some-
thing wrong.
And I just wasnt right. She could
see that. It took a lot out of me.
Later on, Paula said Id taken the
easy option [in withdrawing from the
Commonwealth Games], which is not
fair as shed seen me struggle. I was
quite disappointed, but in myself,
Mo Farah.
If Im going to turn up I have to be
100 per cent. Im not going to turn up
in my home country and get beaten.
A lot of those Kenyan guys I can beat
when Im 100 per cent, but if Im 80
per cent or 90 per cent Im just ask-
ing to get beaten. For all the people
who bought tickets, I am genuinely
disappointed I couldnt take part.
But Id been through a lot. I just
wasnt ready.
Ive done a lot of training since
then. Im two weeks further on, and
Im in decent shape now. AFP
Mo Farah, pictured after his disappointing display in the London Marathon in April, says
he is t for the European Championships in Zurich. AFP
Football
23

U21s tame Young Lions
to top table in Brunei
THE Cambodian U21 team
registered their second
successive victory at the 2014
Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy on
Monday with a 3-1 defeat of
Singapore at the Berakas
Sports Complex in the Brunei
capital of Bandar Seri Bagawan.
Chan Vathanaka had his sights
well homed in on goal again,
opening the scoring for the
Kingdom on 22 minutes with a
neat finish into the left corner.
Teammate Nob Tola then
converted a simple tap in off a
centred ball from Kouch
Sokumpheak 15 minutes later.
Prak Mony Odom, whod played
a large part in the first two
goals, put Cambodia further in
front moments before the break
with a stunning strike from
outside the box. The Young
Lions of Singapore finally found
some cheer 10 minutes after
the restart with an unstoppable
left-footed blast from distance
by Muhamad Zakir Samsudin.
Cambodia, who currently top
Group B on six points, tonight
have their first real test of the
two-week-long tournament in
facing Malaysia, who beat
Vietnam 2-0 on Monday but
were held to a goalless draw by
Indonesia in their opening
fixture. The match at the Track
& Field Sports Complex kicks
off at 7:15pm Cambodian time.
DANRILEY
ISF hosts course for
NGO staff coaches
LOCAL charity organisation
Indochina Starfish Foundation
concludes its coach training
course this Saturday at National
Institute of Physical Education
and Sport for 90 participants
from ISF and other NGOs based
in provinces including Kampot,
Kampong Cham, Siem Reap,
Kampong Speu, Kandal, Prey
Veng, Banteay Meanchey,
Kampong Thom, SihanoukVille
and Phnom Penh. ISF
Information Officer Yin Samadi
told the Post: The 13-day
course, which is [ultimately]
aimed at helping homeless
kids in Cambodia, will be led by
instructors from [international
organisation] Coaches Across
Continents. All coaches have
their food and accommodation
during the course paid for by
ISF, which totals around
$10,000, according to ISF
president Choub Vicheka.
CHHORNNORN, TRANSLATEDBY CHENG
SERYRITH
Silva injured as Luiz
celebrates PSG debut
BRAZIL centreback David Luiz
began life with his new club
French champions Paris Saint
Germain with a 2-1 win in a
friendly against Italian side
Napoli on Monday in Naples.
The 27-year-old who cost the
French side a reported 50
million ($67.1 million) when he
signed from Chelsea in June
fared better than his national
and club captain Thiago Silva,
who had to go off in the 13th
minute and trudged to the
dressingroom with his right
thigh strapped with ice. Both
only returned to France last
week after taking a holiday
following the World Cup where
Luiz wept openly following the
7-1 humiliation by eventual
champions Germany in the
semi-finals and then lost to
the Dutch in the third place
match. AFP
LEGIA Warsaw have led an
appeal against their dramatic
axing from the Champions
League in favour of Celtic,
UEFA said yesterday.
In a statement, European
footballs governing body said
that the last-ditch attempt by
the Polish powerhouses to re-
cover their berth would be on
the table at a UEFA appeals
hearing on Thursday.
Scottish giants Celtic were
mauled 6-1 on aggregate by
Legia in the qualifying third
round, but the Poles were
kicked out of the competition
because they had elded an il-
legible player in the August 6
second leg in Edinburgh.
As a result, the match was
declared a 3-0 forfeit, making
the aggregate score 4-4, and
giving Celtic the edge because
they scored more away goals.
In last Fridays draw for the
playoffs, the Scottish cham-
pions found themselves pit-
ted against Slovenian cham-
pions Maribor.
Legia, meanwhile, dropped
into the Europa League,
where they were matched
with Kazakh side FC Aktobe.
The UEFA sanction was relat-
ed to Legias decision to eld
defender Bartosz Bereszynski.
Bereszynski, who only
played four minutes at the
end of the second leg against
Celtic, had been sent off in
Legias concluding Europa
League match last season.
He was suspended for vio-
lent conduct for the clubs two
matches against Irelands St
Patricks in the second qualify-
ing round and also missed the
4-1 rst-leg victory over Celtic
last week.
But it then emerged that
Bereszynski had not been
registered in Legias squad
for the second qualifying
round, meaning the matches
did not count towards his
suspension.
Celtic have gained from a
UEFA sanction before.
During the 2011-12 Eu-
ropa League group stages,
they kept their berth despite
a qualifying defeat by Swit-
zerlands FC Sion, who were
thrown out for elding ve
ineligible players. AFP
Warsaw appeal against
Champions League exit
City snap up Mangala
MANCHESTER City on Mon-
day announced the signing of
France defender Eliaquim
Mangala from FC Porto.
The 23-year-old Paris-born
Mangala becomes the sixth
signing of the summer, and
will quickly rejoin his old Por-
to team-mate Fernando at the
Etihad Stadium.
City is a top club in Europe.
For me, it was an important step
to leave Porto and join Man-
chester City in order to continue
my progress. I want to win titles
and I believe I can do this. I am
ambitious and this is why I am
here, Mangala said.
Im very happy to come to
England because for me, the
Premier League is the best
league in the world. Its a very
intense and aggressive compe-
tition. There are plenty of goals,
so it is also really nice to watch
and I cant wait to get started!
The fact that Fernando is
here is better because I played
with him at Porto but there is
also other players that I know
like [Bacary] Sagna, [Gael] Cli-
chy and [Samir] Nasri.
City manager Manuel Pel-
legrini added: Im delighted
to have added a player of Eli-
aquims quality in the squad
ahead of the new season. He
is already a fine player but in
my opinion, he has all of the
mental, physical, technical
and tactical attributes to
become one of Europes very
best defenders.
Eliaquim is a player I
believe will make an immedi-
ate impact in the Premier
League, thanks to his physi-
cality, his reading of the game
and quality on the ball. I think
he will prove to be a great
signing for us.
Mangala made his France
debut in a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay
in Montevideo in June 2013.
Although included in the
World Cup squad, the defend-
er didnt make it off the bench
in Frances run to the quarter-
finals. AFP
Eliaquim Mangala says he has joined Manchester City from Porto be-
cause he likes the aggression and intensity of the Premier League. AFP
World Cup top scorer Klose
retires from internationals
G
ERMAN striker Miroslav
Klose, the all-time World
Cup top scorer, announced
his retirement from interna-
tional football on Monday.
The 36-year-old leaves the German
national team as a World Cup win-
ner after last month helping Joachim
Loews side to their rst global crown
since 1990 when they defeated Argen-
tina 1-0 in the Rio-hosted nal.
The Lazio frontman picked up his
16th goal, in what was his fourth World
Cup, to surpass Brazilian Ronaldo as
the tournaments leading scorer.
Klose, who won two German titles with
Bayern Munich following spells with
Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen, said
he had fullled a childhood dream with
the title in Brazil and lived unforget-
table moments with the national team,
according to a statement released by the
German football federation.
The success of the team stood and
always stands for me in the highest
place, Klose said.
With the national team I achieved
our greatest goal, a goal which we had
together within the squad.
In addition, I achieved personal
goals and those who know me know
that I am very ambitious, but I am a
striker and the task of a striker is to
score goals. Therefore the records
never concerned me, but it was always
about giving my best for the team.
The Polish-born marksman scored
ve goals at the 2002 World Cup, where
Germany were beaten 2-0 by Ronaldos
Brazil in the nal, ve in 2006 on home
soil, four in 2010 at South Africa and
two in 2014. He broke the World Cup
record for goals in July when he found
the target for his 16th strike during the
7-1 semi-nal rout of Brazil.
He is one of just three players, along-
side Pele and Uwe Seeler, to score in
four World Cups, and nishes his Ger-
many career as the countrys all-time
leading scorer with 71 goals in 137 ap-
pearances.
Loew was quick to heap praise on
Klose, saying: For Miro it was always
an honour to be called up into the na-
tional team. Hes given everything for
Germany. I have the biggest respect for
his decision and for his incredible ca-
reer in the national team, which will be
a tough one to better.
Federation president Wolfgang
Niersbach said Klose was not only an
exceptional player but also an abso-
lutely exemplary man.
With his 71 goals for the national
team and his 16 goals in the World Cup,
he has established two phenomenal
records that will ensure him a place of
honour in the history books.
Germanys goalscoring hero from
the World Cup nal Mario Goetze also
paid homage to Klose.
Thanks Miro. The gures speaks for
you, but it is as a person that you are
more remarkable, he tweeted.
Longserving German team manager
Oliver Bierhoff said the German na-
tional dressingroom would feel odd
the next time they play a match.
It is strange to imagine that Miro will
no longer be part of the Mannschaft
(national side). He was the archetypal
professional.
Klose kicked off his international ca-
reer against Albania on March 24, 2001,
going on to enjoy a 13-year career with
the Mannschaft, only Lothar Matthaus
having won more caps (150). AFP
Germany forward Miroslav Klose celebrates after scoring in their Group G match against Ghana on June 21 during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. AFP
Sport
Youth Olympics squad ies out
H S Manjunath
T
HE six-member Cam-
bodian delegation
headed by Chef de
Mission Nhan Sokvisal
will depart Phnom Penh tomor-
row for the 2nd Youth Olympic
Games in the eastern Chinese
city of Nanjing.
The Kingdoms medal hopes
for the August 16-27 tourna-
ment are pinned on male
swimmer Cheng Sopha, female
sprinter Sokha Panha Viriyak
Vatey and female wrestler Dorn
Srey Mao.
Athletics trainer Lak Loch
and swimming coach Hem Kiry
will be part of the delegation.
Since only two officials are
allowed to accompany athletes
in keeping with the size of the
squad, wrestling coach Chov
Sotheara had to drop out,
according to the chef
de Mission.
The Games contingent has
received corporate backing for
the mission, with Angkor Beer
stepping in to support the
squads training as well as pro-
viding competition clothing
and other expenses. Cash
rewards for medal winning per-
formances have also been
guaranteed by the sponsors.
We thank Angkor Beer for
this grand gesture. This is the
first time our Youth Olympic
squad has received support
from the private sector,
National Olympic Committee
of Cambodia secretary-gener-
al Vath Chamroeun told the
Post yesterday.
We need to send more ath-
letes to events like Youth Olym-
pics and the best way to achieve
this goal is for our federations
to vigorously pursue grassroots
programs and produce athletes
of real ability.
It is not the performance
which counts in these global
events, it is Olympic education
and cultural exchanges with
athletes from all over the
globe, Chamroeun added.
French-born Cambodian
teenager Sokha Panha Viriyak
Vatey has shown a lot of prom-
ise since switching to athletics
from gymnastics nearly two
years ago. The 16-year-old will
compete in the Girls 100-me-
tre dash.
Wrestler Dorn Srey Mao, 18,
represented Cambodia at the
2013 Myanmar SEA Games and
that experience should stand
her in good stead.
Fifteen-year-old swimmer
Cheng Sopha, who competes
in the 50m freestyle, is rela-
tively short on competitive
experience but has been huge-
ly benefited by an Asian swim-
ming camp he attended in
Qatar a month ago.
Just over 3,000 athletes from
204 countries will be seen in
action at Nanjing during the
second edition of the Youth
Olympics, which was intro-
duced four years ago
in Singapore.
Cambodias Sam Sothea did
the country proud back in
2010 by winning a bronze
medal in the Girls 44kg class
judo competition.
Young reporters for Games
Currently 28 reporters have
been announced to take part in
the Young Reporters program
for the Nanjing Games. Report-
ers between the ages of 18 and
24 were selected by the Conti-
nental Associations of Nation-
al Olympic Committees. The
contingent will include four
reporters from each continent
and eight from China.
As an initiative to encourage
people all over the world to
share in the Youth Olympic
spirit, the program provides
young reporters with a cross-
platform journalist-training
program and the opportunity
for on-the-job experience
in Nanjing.
The reporters will be able to
work with highly qualified and
renowned professionals in the
fields of broadcasting, print
journalism, social media and
photography.
(From left) Swimming coach Hem Kiry, swimmer Cheng Sopha, wrestler Dorn Srey Mao, sprinter Sokha
Panha Viriyak Vatey, Chef de Mission Nhan Sokvisal and athletics trainer Lak Loch pose for photographs at
National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Japanese
youngsters
told to keep
low profile
JAPANESE athletes at this months
Youth Olympics in the Chinese city
of Nanjing have been warned not to
wear their ofcial tracksuits around
town due to safety fears, local media
have reported.
Delegation chief Yosuke Fujiwara
has told Japans 78 athletes to wear
regular clothes outside the Games
venues during the August 16-28
event to avoid any attack, with To-
kyo-Beijing relations at their lowest
point in years.
The teenage athletes will also be
encouraged to don face masks to pro-
tect themselves from Chinas notori-
ously bad air pollution.
When they are outside we want
them to be aware that it might not
be totally safe, Fujiwara told Kyodo
news agency.
In the athletes village we want
them to wear the ofcial Japan
tracksuit, but in the city normal
clothes are ne.
In an apparent attempt to avoid up-
setting the Chinese before the second
edition of the Youth Games, Fujiwara
added: You can get random attacks
on the street in Japan too.
Anti-Japanese resentment runs
particularly high in Nanjing, where
China says 300,000 people some
estimates are lower were killed in
1937 as Japanese troops rampaged
through the city during their invasion
of the mainland. It became known as
the Nanjing Massacre.
The massacre was the Japanese
militarys worst atrocity and re-
mains a bitter stain on the two
countries relationship.
Fujiwaras comments came at a
time of heightened political tension
between Japan and China, which
are at odds over claims to islands
in the East China Sea and historical
grievances tied to Japans wartime
aggression. Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abes recent decision to relax
strict rules governing the countrys
military has further antagonised
Beijing, prompting Fujiwara to issue
the warning.
But he insisted that the contestants
would still be free to explore the city.
We think its better for the ath-
letes to feel the atmosphere in the
city from their own perspective,
Fujiwara said.
Japanese sports teams and the
countrys national anthem are fre-
quently booed in China, most notably
at the 2004 Asian Cup football nal
between China and Japan in Beijing
which ended in a full-scale riot after
Japans controversial win.
Japans delegation arrives in Nan-
jing today. It features girls badmin-
ton junior world champion Akane
Yamaguchi and Yuto Muramatsu,
who won bronze in the mens singles
at the Japan Open table tennis ear-
lier this year.
The event is open to athletes aged
between 14 and 18. AFP
Students from Tagou martial arts school perform during a rehearsal for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony in Nanjing, in eastern Chinas Jiangsu province. AFP

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