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Cheang Sokha and Daniel Pye
A SENIOR immigration offi-
cial has said refugees reset-
tled in Cambodia from Aus-
tralias offshore detention
centre on Nauru will not be
housed together and will be
encouraged to seek work.
Despite Australian Immi-
gration Minister Scott Mor-
rison indicating on Wednes-
day that discussions had hit
a snag, the negotiations are
still ongoing, General Sok
Phal, director general of the
General Department of
Immigration, told the Post
yesterday.
If a deal is reached, the
refugees will not be held, at
least in the long term, in
institutionalised accommo-
dation, he said.
It is not necessary to put
those refugees on an island;
they will just live and work
like other refugees in
[Phnom Penh and other cit-
ies], he said, referring to an
idea that Cambodia Nation-
al Rescue Party chief whip
Son Chhay said last month
had been floated in the past.
So far, no deal has been
reached in this matter.
From my understanding,
these people [refugees on
Nauru] will do similar things
to those who are already
here, and there is no need for
them to live in a group. Of
course, they will stay togeth-
er for a while, and then they
will separate, he added.
The Post reported last
month that high-level Aus-
tralian bureaucrats had vis-
ited properties in Phnom
Refugees
wont stay
clustered:
official
Govt to
mull its
ban on
gaming
Vong Sokheng
T
HREE months after he
sparked street protests
with controversial com-
ments about the history
of the former Kampuchea Krom
provinces in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnamese Em bassy spokesman
Trung Van Thong has been
removed from his position,
Cambodias Foreign Ministry
spokesman said yesterday.
But protest leaders were quick
to speculate that he had simply
reached the end of his official
term and was being replaced
according to procedure.
Whatever the case, the groups
say the plan is to keep protesting
until they receive a formal apol-
ogy from Vietnam and recogni-
tion of the true history of the
provinces, home to many ethnic
Khmer known as Khmer Krom.
Speaking after a meeting
between newly appointed Viet-
namese Ambassador Thach Du,
visiting Deputy Vietnamese For-
eign Minister Pham Quang Vinh
and Foreign Minister Hor Nam-
hong yesterday afternoon,
spokesman Koy Kuong said
VN spokesman removed
Three months after Khmer Krom restorm, ofcial shown exit
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Eddie Morton
AS NEIGHBOURING coun-
tries are increasingly look-
ing to loosen gambling
restrictions for their citi-
zens, the Cambodian gov-
ernment said yesterday it is
considering the possibility
of someday following suit.
Pointing to Vietnam,
where a draft law to legalise
gambling is reportedly in
the works, Ros Phirun,
spokesman for the Ministry
of Economy and Finances
gaming and casino depart-
ment, said yesterday that
the government is investi-
gating the potential impact
of doing the same for Cam-
bodian citizens.
We have thought about
Vietnam legalising it. Gam-
bling nowadays is a world-
wide industry, not just in
one country or two. It is an
international industry. So
now we too have to interna-
tionalise the gambling
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Penh and Preah Sihanouk
province to assess possible re-
settlement sites.
Cambodia currently has 60
refugees registered with the
UN refugee agency and anoth-
er 31 undergoing registration,
according to the department.
As I understand, it is still
under the process of negotia-
tion. The timing and the exact
numbers of refugees has not
yet been decided, Phal said.
We are waiting for approval
to receive them and manage
them. I think they wont need
to live in camps; they will be
looking for work.
The comments came a day
after Morrison told reporters
at Australias National Press
Club that there was still dis-
tance to travel before the deal
could be signed.
Its frustrating, but were
condent well get there . . .
This isnt about just putting
people somewhere and look-
ing the other way, he said.
Out of the more than 1,000
asylum seekers and refugees
on Nauru, 206 are already liv-
ing temporarily outside the
island detention centre and
would likely be offered the op-
tion of resettlement in Cam-
bodia in the event of a deal
being signed.
One of the refugees granted
temporary residence on Nau-
ru, who was contacted by the
Post last week and cannot be
named for security reasons,
said he wanted to know more
about life in Cambodia.
You know, we are [the Aus-
tralian governments] animals.
In the words of Scott Morrison,
he wants to sell us some-
times to one country, some-
times to another country. But
no one is ready to [welcome]
us, he said.
It is not clear how much
money would change hands if
the deal was signed, but Joyce
Chia, senior research associ-
ate at the Andrew & Renata
Kaldor Centre for Internation-
al Refugee Law, said there was
precedent for a large incentive
to be offered.
It would make sense for
there to be another incentive.
I had in mind the [Papua New
Guinea-Australia] deal, which
was sold partly to the PNG
government on the basis that
there would be jobs and fur-
ther investment in Manus Is-
land, she said.
Of course, one is aware
that governments do offer
other sweeteners which may
be promised informally but
are never tied expressly to the
deal. For example, it was tell-
ing that PNG received an extra
$420 million in foreign aid at a
time when other aid budgets
were cut . . . The original Na-
uru agreement made in 2001
included $26.5 million in aid
and development money.
Refugees wont remain
clustered, ofcial says
Well, somebodys gotta do it
Phak Seangly

A
BOUT 90 locals living
along a fetid canal
completed a four-
day voluntary clean-
up yesterday aimed at improv-
ing drainage, three years after
they were allegedly ordered to
vacate the area because their
household trash was choking
the waterway and exacerbat-
ing ooding.
The locals who belong to
eight communities comprising
540 families living along the
nearly 1.5-kilometre canal
gathered in Meanchey districts
Stung Meanchey commune
yesterday bearing banners
promising to stop dumping
trash in the canal, which reeks
of sewage, and espousing their
desire to develop this place.
Community leader Phou
Kun, 52, said locals had initi-
ated three such cleanups since
2013, cooperating with NGOs
and local authorities. Villagers,
he said, had dredged tonnes of
debris from the tunnel for each
of the past four days.
Local Chan Seakheng, 31,
said municipal authorities had
offered them two choices.
First, [move] to a new loca-
tion, and second, develop this
place. But all the villagers want
the second choice, to develop
this place, because we have
schools, markets, and this
[area] is in the city, she said.
Nov Chansokha, 52, one
of three women to brave the
stinking, black, chest-high
water, said that while she had
grown accustomed to the
smell, the water could still
cause some itching at rst. But
she would endure it and be
patient, she added.
Were clearing the rubbish in
order to help the environment
and to avoid ooding in Phnom
Penh, and so were not blamed
for living here, she said.
District administration of-
cer Long Nhet said authorities
had never received an eviction
letter, but still welcomed the ef-
fort to make the environment
cleaner together.
And while the city had never
initiated eviction measures, the
villagers nevertheless wanted
to proactively respond to the
public accusation that the
people of [Stung] Meanchey
caused big ooding in the city
in 2013, said Savoeurn Sou of
Equitable Cambodia, an NGO
that aided in the cleanup.
They agreed to clean the ca-
nal by themselves to prove to
the public and the authorities
that they are not the people
who caused the problem but
they are the ones to be part of
the solution, he said.
Residents clean rubbish from a canal in Phnom Penhs Meanchey district yesterday to improve drainage and
in response to claims they were responsible for ooding last year. PHAK SEANGLY
Stretchers sit in tents as part of the accommodation area at the Nauru
offshore refugee-processing facility. DIBS
Alice Cuddy
FOLLOWING the detention
this week of homeless children
as young as 1 year old at Phnom
Penhs notorious Prey Speu
vocational training centre,
UNICEF yesterday called for an
end to street sweeps and arbi-
trary detentions.
Three people rounded up on
Sunday said in separate
accounts this week that chil-
dren were among those taken
against their will to the facility,
where they were locked in a
single room with no toilet, little
ventilation and no access to
health care.
The doors were only unlocked
when officials from the UN
Office of the High Commis-
sioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) arrived at the centre
on Monday, allowing the 21
held there to return to the city.
UNICEF joins the Office of
the High Commissioner for
Human Rights, calling for an
end to street sweeps and to
seek opportunities for more
constructive approaches,
Meas Bunly, a communications
specialist at UNICEF Cambo-
dia, said by email.
Street sweeps abuse chil-
drens rights and do not address
the real problems, she added.
UNICEF is clear on its position
regarding institutionalization
of children and Prey Speu is
no exception.
City Halls street sweep cam-
paign was raised in discussions
on Wednesday between Phnom
Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong
and Wan-Hea Lee, OHCHRs
country representative, accord-
ing to a post on the municipal-
itys Facebook page.
During the meeting,
Socheatvong said street sweeps
would not end, because their
purpose is to educate, care for
and give vocational training to
homeless people in collabora-
tion with NGOs, the post says.
But Mith Samlanh and Pour
un Sourire dEnfant (PSE)
the NGOs partnered with the
citys efforts said they had
not been informed about Sun-
days roundup or asked to pro-
vide any help.
Both NGOs said they were
concerned by the use of Prey
Speu but would continue to
work with the municipality to
find solutions.
The Social Affairs Depart-
ment could not be reached for
comment yesterday, but on
Wednesday pledged to con-
tinue its roundup over the
Pchum Ben festival and to
continue using Prey Speu.
Sen David
MINORITY villagers from
Ratanakkiris OChum district
climbed up a mountain to a
community forest yesterday
morning to challenge a com-
pany they claim is illegally fell-
ing their trees.
One of the villagers, 40-year-
old Kamplor Sernor, told the
Post that 78 Kroeung minority
villagers gathered on the
mountain yesterday morning
in a bid to prevent CRD Com-
pany from clearing any more
of their land.
We protested many times
since the company started to
clear our community forest
last year, but they did not stop.
They have already cleared 200
hectares to plant rubber,
he explained.
We need our land for the next
generation, said fellow villager
Tames Lum Av, 42.
But Chhay Thy, a coordinator
with rights group Adhoc, said
there was confusion about who
owned the land.
The company claims that
the area belongs to them
be cause the state provided it as
a land concession, and the
minority group claims that it is
a community forest that the
state provided, he said.
Saing Chanta, an employee
of CRD Company, could not be
reached for comment.
Fraud charges
Army man
could face 5
years in jail
L
IEUTENANT Colonel
Sam Sarith, personal
assistant to a secretary
of state at the Ministry of
Justice being investigated by
the Anti-Corruption Unit, was
charged yesterday with fraud,
according to court ofcials.
Despite being initially inves-
tigated for extortion and blac-
kmail, Sarith, 43, was charged
with cheating more than
$10,000 from Hun Bunthoeun,
head of a real estate com-
pany, said Meas Chanpiseth,
deputy prosecutor at Phnom
Penh Municipal Court.
For his case, I did not find
that it was related to money
extortion, he said.
While extortion carries a
sentence punishable by up to
five years in prison, the fraud
charge levelled at the Royal
Cambodian Armed Forces
member instead comes with a
maximum penalty of one year
imprisonment.
Chanpiseth said that the
suspect was sent to Prey Sar
prison, but declined to give
further details.
The investigation of Sarith
and two other govern-
ment officers began after
Bunthoeun filed a complaint
with the ACU, alleging that
Ministry of Justice officials
had used his pending land
dispute lawsuit as blackmail
to extort money from him.
BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Kim Sarom and Alice Cuddy
THE murder this week of a Chi-
nese national who worked as a
supervisor at a cassava planta-
tion owned by the Pheaphimex
group was likely an act of re-
venge by one of his colleagues,
police said yesterday
Yang Ly Chheang, 34, was
found dead on Monday in a
pond on a construction site in
Krokor districts Kandal village,
with severe head wounds.
Keo Sokunthear, deputy po-
lice chief of Pursat province,
said yesterday that police de-
termined Ly Chheang was mur-
dered and identied a suspect.
We pumped the pond and
found a laptop belonging to
the victim, he said. We believe
from the available evidence
that it was a case of revenge
among their group.
In January 2012, another Chi-
nese supervisor at Pheaphimex
in Pursat was shot to death.
Cheng Hongbo, chief of the
political section of Chinas em-
bassy in Phnom Penh, said he
was very much concerned by
Ly Chheangs death.
We just want to protect the
lives of the Chinese nationals
here, provide help and assis-
tance to relatives of the victims,
[and help to] repatriate remains
back to China, he said, adding
that Ly Chheangs relatives have
not contacted the embassy.
Police cite
revenge in
murder
Villagers in
Rkiri claim
mountain
Alls fair in love and road safety
Joe Freeman

T
O GET its message
across about the im-
portance of road
safety, the Cambodian
government has tried almost
everything at their disposal.
Ofcials have held countless
workshops on the importance
of helmet use and the dangers
of drunk driving, backed televi-
sion spots and billboard adver-
tisements to raise awareness,
and disseminated shocking,
but true, crash statistics to the
media on a regular basis.
Now, its stepping into the
realm of entertainment.
Starting today, a lm director
will begin shooting the rst of
20 episodes for Whose Fault?,
a dramatic series that, in the
words of an ofcial descrip-
tion from the Ministry of Public
Works and Transport, which
is supporting the production,
tells the poignant story of the
school teenagers immersed
in life and the people around
them, set in ordinary Cambo-
dian families.
With the specic goal of help-
ing to reduce the number of
people who are killed in acci-
dents every day ve, on aver-
age the story depicts the lives
of young people and their ip-
pancy towards the road, while
illustrating how youthful plans,
dreams and aspirations can dis-
appear if young people do not
pay attention to the road.
CTN and MyTV are expected
to air some of the rst epi-
sodes in October, according to
the director, Doung Rachana,
who runs Rock Production, a
lm company.
All the expenditures for pro-
ducing the lm story, includ-
ing the payment for the actors
and actresses, is handled by the
ministry, he said.
Once Whose Fault? airs on
CTN and MyTV, the Ministry of
Public Works and Transport will
replay it on state stations and
upload the series to govern-
ment websites.
Ear Chariya, a road safety
consultant for the ministry, said
the government is working with
$30,000 in funding from the
Asian Development Bank, and
that television stations are help-
ing by creating free air time.
The script of the drama was
developed by the Ministry of
Public Works and Transport
with the lm director since last
year, Chariya said. My role
right now is to advise on the
script, to simplify it and to make
it more interesting.
Its a new way to raise aware-
ness or to educate the general
public about the safety, he
added. Because people, they
watch dramas on the TV.
In the past, we developed
the [ad] spots for 30 seconds
to broadcast, but when many
people watch the movie or the
drama, during the commer-
cials, they will turn to another
channel. So this is another way
to send the message.
Chariya said each show will
last 35 minutes, but with com-
mercial breaks scheduled by
the networks, that will more
than likely stretch to an hour.
The crew will start shooting
today along National Road 1.
The main plot, Chariya said,
involves a woman in a rich
family who tries to violate the
trafc law.
And there is also a guy who
rides and he has an accident.
It may not sound like On the
Waterfront, but the message
is just as important as the sto-
ryline. The script of the rst
episode illustrates how the
writers strove to weave road
safety themes into everyday
encounters.
After the beautiful Linda calls
out Yuthea for ogling her, he
reveals that its not her looks
that caught his eye, but her lack
of proper safety equipment.
Just know that I am a good
citizen, Yuthea says.
How many bridges,
schools, hospitals, and pa-
godas have you built? Linda
retorts. How dare you feel
proud of yourself?
I dont feel proud of myself,
Yuthea insists, noting that,
nonetheless, he has a helmet,
which you do not have.
Oh, my god! . . . It only costs
50,000 or 60,000 riel, Linda
exclaims, quickly realising the
error of her ways. When I leave
here, I will buy and wear it.
If you put it on in time, it will
be OK, but I am afraid some-
thing might happen before you
put it on, Yuthea explains. As
you can see, for a man, if he
sustains injuries, his hair has
to be cut unevenly and his in-
juries have to be stitched, and
that looks so awful. And [for]
a woman, she has to have her
hair shaved and her injuries are
also stitched. Even though they
are healing, she would still have
scars or marks, and if she were
cute, how sorry Id be. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA AND
KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA
A promotional poster for Whose Fault?, a television show produced in collaboration with the Ministry of Pub-
lic Works and Transport. The show will raise awareness of responsible driving. PHOTO SUPPLIED
UNICEF slams street sweeps
Two children wait for a red light to sell their wares to commuters in Phnom Penh this year. UNICEF yesterday
called for street sweeps to be halted, saying they violated childrens rights. VIREAK MAI
[The sweeps] abuse
childrens rights and
do not address the
real problems.
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A man stands with illegally logged rosewood strapped to his back in Oddar Meanchey province on Wednesday
after he was detained by authorities. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Loggers let off hook
Phak Seangly

I
N A surprising twist, bor-
der police detained 16
illegal rosewood loggers
on Wednesday, but rather
than making any arrests, they
released the men and paid for
their fare home.
Thirteen of the loggers were
detained while en route from
Oddar Meancheys Anglong
Veng district to Thailand, while
the other three were caught at-
tempting to smuggle nearly
500 kilograms of rosewood
into Cambodia, said Chhit
Chhorn, deputy chief of staff at
the provincial police ofce.
Their village is on the bor-
der, so they clearly know the
location of the rosewood
and climb Dangrek Moun-
tain to log in Thailand easily,
Chhorn said.
All the men are from Oddar
Meancheys Samrong town.
In addition to 47 pieces of
luxury rosewood, border po-
lice seized two motorbikes,
six axes, four hand saws and
other logging equipment from
the men. The 16 were ques-
tioned and released. Only tim-
ber was conscated, while the
other items were returned to
the loggers.
The provincial authorities
also gave each of the men $5
to pay for the car ride back
to their hometown. The pro-
vincial police department
declined to explain why the
men were treated with such
unusual leniency.
Capitals committee of one
Human trafcker gets jail time
Meas Sokchea
ALL six Phnom Penh municipal
councillors from the opposi-
tion party stormed out of a
meeting with their ruling party
counterparts yesterday after
they were denied a spot on a
newly established committee
to oversee procurement.
Instead, the Cambodian Peo-
ples Party councillors appoint-
ed a single member from its
own partys ranks to head the
committee, which will watch
over valuable city contracts.
A government directive last
year said procurement com-
mittees which have been
legally required at all local gov-
ernments since 2008 but are
only now beginning to be
formed could have up to
three members.
At a press conference yester-
day, executive president of the
oppositions Phnom Penh
branch and elected city coun-
cillor Morn Phalla said that the
CPP was trying to ensure that
the spending of large sums of
city money on construction
remained opaque.
This reflects the intention
[of the CPP councillors] to pre-
vent [Cambodia National Res-
cue Party] councillors from
bringing transparency to the
people, Phalla said.
The CNRP had proposed the
committee be staffed with three
councillors one from the
opposition and two from the
ruling party but municipal
council president Mob Sarin
rejected the plan, Phalla said.
CPP councillor Chuob Khon
was selected to be the commit-
tees sole member.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche said the committee
decision was an internal coun-
cil matter, and added that there
was no requirement for the
committee to have representa-
tion from both parties.
Interior Ministry spokesman
Khieu Sopheak, however,
offered a different reason for
why the CNRP was not allowed
on procurement committees in
many local governments.
Sopheak said they werent
always flexible with the law,
without explaining what he
meant by the description.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A HUMAN trafficker was sentenced to seven
years in prison yesterday after he lured two
Cambodian men and one woman to Malaysia
in February, court officials said.
[The court] also orders him to pay 4 million
riel [$1,000] in compensation to each of the three
victims, presiding judge Kim Dany said.
According to the victims complaints, broker
Um Pisey, 36, smuggled the three through
Thailand to Malaysia, said Brigadier General
Pol Pithey, head of the anti-human traffick-
ing department.
Upon arrival, instead of working in a garment
factory as promised, the two men were sold
into work on fishing boats and the woman was
sold into sex work.
In court, Pisey said that he believed he acted
legally, as the three had passports, and claimed
that he was promised by a Chinese-Malaysian
businessman who paid him a $300 commis-
sion per worker that the trio would be
employed in a garment factory.
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Drunk driver skates
after hitting scavenger
A DRUNK driver careened his
car into a 25-year-old scaven-
ger late on Wednesday night in
Phnom Penhs Daun Penh dis-
trict, police said. The recycling
collector was sent flying about
6 metres and knocked uncon-
scious. The driver sped from
the scene to Preah Ket Mealea
military hospital, where angry
witnesses caught up with him
and attempted to seek a little
extrajudicial justice. Instead,
security guards intervened,
and while the driver was ques-
tioned, he was allowed to leave
without being arrested. The
victim is recovering in hospital.
KOHSANTEPHEAP
Man relieving himself
relieved of motorbike
JUST because the call of
nature sounds doesnt mean
its OK to let your guard down,
a 32-year-old man in Tbong
Khmum learned on Wednes-
day. En route to a pagoda, the
farmer pulled off the road to
relieve himself, but left his key
dangling in the ignition. An
opportunistic passerby saw his
chance, seized the bike and
sailed a couple of kilometres
before police brought the heist
to an end. The suspect admit-
ted to his brief joyride and was
sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Out of gas, out of luck
for beaten threesome
THREE men didnt expect
their jaunt to the capitals Koh
Pich to end in a bloody
ambush on Wednesday. The
three sojourners ran out of
gas on the island, the first
hitch along their disastrous
trip. While walking to a sta-
tion, the trio was surprised by
seven teens, who rushed the
motorists with sticks and
stones. The mens cries for
help brought the cops, and five
of the seven scoundrels were
carted off to the police station.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
It wasnt my idea!
proves lousy defence
A 30-YEAR-OLD man found
the blame game a poor way to
convince law officers of his
innocence on Wednesday.
Cops were on the lookout for a
stolen moto when they spotted
a dynamic duo riding a bike
matching the plate numbers of
a bike that had gone missing in
Phnom Penhs Russey Keo
district. When police caught up
with the pair, one managed to
escape and the other pleaded
that he was the brawns, not
the brains, of the theft. Unim-
pressed, police sent him to
court. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Meth dealers watch
future go up in smoke
TWO suspected methampheta-
mine dealers in Banteay
Meancheys Malai district found
they couldnt speed their way
out of a trap set by police.
Tipped off about the 32- and
34-year-old suspects, police
followed them until a yama
deal was allegedly witnessed
and an arrest made. The deliv-
ery boys admitted to their half-
baked scheme and were sent
to court. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Human Resources Assistant
The U.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual
for theHuman Resources Assistant position in the Human
Resources Ofce.
The Human Resources Assistant performs full range of
duties related to the administration of Personal Services
Agreement program, performance management and
benets contained on the Local Compensation Plan. The
incumbent is also responsible for administering posts
training programand reports directly to the Supervisory
Human Resources Assistant.
Grade/Salary: The annual salary range for this position
is USD 9,21614,286.
Required Qualications
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For love or money?
Discord in
pagoda over
new guests
T
HREE monks from Phnom
Penhs Stung Meanchey
pagoda have been told to
stop accepting displaced families
into the pagoda and curb their
criticism of the government.
Yen Ratanak Sotheavy said
yesterday that chief abbot Tha
Bunthoeun and others from the
pagodas administration warned
him he would be expelled if he
kept letting the families who
are involved in a land dispute in
Banteay Meanchey province in and
out of the pagoda.
They said we use the villagers
to make money, but I told them
the pagoda belongs to Buddhists
and is not controlled exclusively by
the chief abbot, he said.
Nonetheless, Ratanak Sotheavy
said he earned $300 to $400 per
day for hosting the displaced fami-
lies, which had made the pagoda
management jealous.
Yim Ek Vutha, deputy chief ab-
bot, said Sotheavy had exagger-
ated the plan to expel the monks.
He said the problem was that
the monks had not informed him
about the guests.
The monks used the pagoda
for politics, insulting the govern-
ment and using people to make
money, he said. CHHAY CHANNYDA
Spokesman
removed
Continued from page 1
the issue of Kampuchea Krom
protests had been raised.
Demonstrations outside the
embassy in Phnom Penh peak-
ed last month when a flag was
burned, leading to outcry from
top Vietnamese leaders, who
called the act perverse.
They [the Vietnamese diplo-
mats] have just confirmed that
they will send a diplomatic note
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Kingdom of Cambodia
about removing the spokesman
back to their country, Kuong
told reporters yesterday outside
the Foreign Ministry.
Kuong declined to comment
on whether Van Thong was
being removed because of the
controversy his remarks had
caused, but hinted that this was
the reason.
In diplomatic protocol
worldwide, when we talk about
removing [an embassy offi-
cial], it means that there was a
problem, which we can under-
stand, he said.
Van Thong could not be
reached for comment.
Speaking on Radio Free Asia
in early June, the spokesman
said the former Kampuchea
Krom provinces a sore spot for
Cambodian nationalists
belonged to Vietnam long
before being officially ceded by
colonial power France in 1949.
The remarks sparked a series
of street protests, largely toler-
ated by the government despite
its close relationship with Viet-
nam, which has long drawn the
ire of many Cambodians.
But any hopes the Foreign
Ministry might have had that
the removal of Van Thong
would settle the issue may
prove short-lived.
Sok Sothea, a coordinator at
the Khmer Youth Alliance for
Democracy, which led some of
the protests, said more demon-
strations would be held in early
October to call on the govern-
ment to suspend diplomatic ties
with Vietnam, clamp down on
illegal immigration and boycott
Vietnamese products.
I think that just the removal
of the spokesman does not calm
down our hearts. We still demand
an apology from the Vietnamese
government, she said.
Mao Pises, head of the Cam-
bodian Federation of Intellectu-
als and Students, said that he
believed that rather than disci-
plining Van Thong, Vietnam was
merely reshuffling diplomats as
per regular procedure.
Mr Koy Kuong is trying to
hide the real story about this,
and he is kind of biased towards
the Vietnamese, he said.
Whatever [happened] . . . if
they do not confirm to recognise
the true history of Kampuchea
Krom, we will not accept it, and
we have to protest again.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan declined to com-
ment on whether the authori-
ties would take a tougher stance
on protests following the dis-
missal, but said it could be con-
strued as punishment.
If someone is removed
before [the end of their] term, I
think its a punishment, he
said, adding that he did not
know for certain whether that
was the case.
Vietnamese Ambassador
Thach Du, who took office in
July, is believed to be ethnically
Khmer, according to state
media. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH
Buddhist monks hold a banner as they chant near the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh during a protest
earlier this year to demand an apology from one of the embassys spokespeople. HONG MENEA
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Government to mull
relaxing gambling ban
Continued from page 1
industry. But in order to do that,
we have to get the laws in Cam-
bodia finished.
In June, the Post reported that
a new draft of Cambodias law
on the gambling and casino
industry was being drawn up
and could be completed as ear-
ly as the end of this year. The
draft is expected to grant the
Ministry of Economy and
Finance stronger investigative
powers as well as regulate the
currently underground online
gambling scene.
In Vietnam, meanwhile, the
government is moving quickly
towards regulations similar to
those of Singapore and Macau
in an effort to draw gambling
tourists to the country and col-
lect more tax revenue.
Vietnam changing its laws
will impact Cambodia for sure.
As you can see since Singapore
and other regional countries
have done the same, Phirun
told the Post yesterday.
This industry has been
developing in Cambodia for a
very long time and in order for
Cambodia to face the chal-
lenges ahead we must get the
gambling law done especially
with regional integration, we
have to be ready.
Tok Kimsay, an advisor to the
Royal Group-owned Titan King
Casino in Bavet town, said the
local gambling industry was
becoming increasingly con-
cerned about a future decline
in players from Vietnam.
Just at Bavet, there are
between 500 to 1,000 Vietnam-
ese gamblers coming to play
here every day, he said. If
their government allows the
investors to invest in the casi-
no industry, there will be the
big trouble for us.
Kimsay said he was not aware
of any move to legalise gam-
bling for Cambodian citizens.
Opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party spokes-
man Yim Sovann condemned
the possibility of legalising
gambling for Cambodian citi-
zens yesterday, saying it would
exacerbate the countrys pov-
erty problems and only benefit
the super rich.
It has a lot of consequences
such as suicide and increased
poverty because only a handful
of powerful people will receive
the profits, while the rest of the
nation will have nothing,
Sovann said, calling for public
and expert consultation on the
proposed draft gambling law.
They should not legalise, but
instead concentrate on the
casino projects that earn a lot of
money but provide less revenue
to the state in tax. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING MAY KUNMAKARA
Thailands Industry Ministry has signed an MoU with another local government in Japan to increase investment in Thailands small- and medium-
sized enterprises. BLOOMBERG
Japan SMEs size up Thailand
T
HAILANDS Industry
Ministry has tightened
collaboration with
another local govern-
ment in Japan to attract small-
and medium-sized enterprise
(SME) investors to Thailand.
The ministry yesterday
signed a memorandum of un-
derstanding with Aichi prefec-
ture in the Chubu region of the
main island of Honshu.
Permanent secretary Witoon
Simachokedee said the minis-
try hoped to see 10 prefectures
enter into MoUs this year.
Witoon said the new wave of
Japanese investors were inter-
ested in investing in Thailand
as part of the Japanese govern-
ments policy to help its SMEs
expand abroad.
Aichi provides the third-larg-
est number of Japanese inves-
tors in Thailand, mostly in the
automotive supply chain, elec-
tronics and high-technology
sectors. Witoon said Japanese
investors were more condent
about investing in Thailand
after being reluctant to make
decisions during the political
turmoil. The countrys funda-
mentals remain strong and
infrastructure is ready to sup-
port their businesses.
Witoon said the ministry ex-
pected to ink deals soon with
four other prefectures includ-
ing Fukuoka and Kawasaki.
Aichi Governor Hideaki
Ohmura said investors from
his prefecture were involved
mostly in the automotive,
electronics, machinery and
medical device sectors. Japa-
nese investors from Aichi pre-
fecture investing in Thailand
have reached 284.
We plan to share informa-
tion for investors between
Thailand and Japan and
matching industries in the
same clusters in order to sup-
port SMEs, Ohmura said.
He said Japanese investors
were still focusing on ASEAN
members such as Thailand,
Malaysia and Indonesia as
major investment destinations
because ASEAN is Japans most
important production base.
There were a lot of Japa-
nese business[es] that relo-
cated production from China
to ASEAN to avoid the impact
of political issues with China,
Ohmura said.
He said Thailand was the
most popular country for
Japanese rms compared
with peers in ASEAN such as
Indonesia: Weve invested far
more capital in businesses in
Thailand, Ohmura said. BANG-
KOK POST
This industry has been
developing in Cambodia for a
very long time . . . we must get
the gambling law done
Up in smoke
S Korea aims
to hike cigs
price 80 pct
S
OUTH Korea yesterday
proposed a steep 80 per
cent hike in cigarette
prices to cut consumption in a
nation with one of the worlds
highest male smoking rates.
The decision requires parlia-
mentary approval, but Health
Minister Moon Hyung-pyo said
it was necessary to counter
the biggest threat to national
health. The proposal would
see the average price of a
packet of cigarettes rise from
2,500 won ($2.42) to 4,500 won
from January 1 next year.
Moon said his ministry pre-
dicted the increase would help
cut tobacco consumption by 34
per cent and raise annual tax
revenues by 2.8 trillion won.
Around 44 per cent of adult
South Korean men are smok-
ers, the highest rate among
member countries of the
Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Develop-
ment ahead of Turkey, Greece,
Estonia and Japan.
Moon said also tobacco
packaging would have to
include pictures of the harm
caused by smoking, while
tobacco ads would be banned
in retail stores. AFP
A
N AFFILIATE of Ger-
man carmaker Volk-
swagen has been
ned more than
$40.5 million for price-xing
in China, authorities said yes-
terday, the latest company to
be punished under a sweeping
anti-monopoly crackdown.
FAW-Volkswagen Sales
Company, Ltd, a partnership
between the Frankfurt-based
rm and Chinese auto maker
FAW, has been ordered to pay
248.58 million yuan ($40.5
million) in penalties for the of-
fence, the Hubei Province Price
Bureau said in a statement.
Beijing has over the past year
launched a wide-ranging crack-
down on alleged malpractice
by domestic and foreign rms
across diverse sectors, includ-
ing pharmaceuticals, baby for-
mula and technology.
Investigations found that
the Volkswagen rm had since
2012 organised 10 Audi dealers
in the central province to x
prices for the cars and repair
services, the statement said.
The move deprived . . .
downstream operators of
pricing rights, inated sales
prices for the cars and auto
parts, eliminated and re-
stricted the normal com-
petitive order of the car and
the spare parts [market] and
damaged the rights and inter-
ests of consumers, it said.
FAW-Volkswagen Sales
Company, Ltd presided over
the process of organising,
reaching and implementing
the price monopoly agree-
ment of the car and repair ser-
vices and obviously played a
leading and facilitating role,
it went on to say.
The ne was equivalent to
six per cent of the companys
relevant sales revenue in the
previous year, according to the
statement.
Eight of the 10 dealers were
ned between 110,000 yuan
and 16.06 million yuan while
the other two were exempted
for reporting about the viola-
tion or minor offences, it said.
The sales company and the
dealers lowered the price of
imported Audi parts on August
1 and promised to strictly
comply with Chinese anti-
monopoly laws, according to
the statement.
Separately, state media re-
ported that Chrysler (China)
Automobile Sales Co will pay
up to 31.7 million yuan in an
anti-trust ne imposed by
Shanghai authorities for re-
quiring dealers between 2012
and 2014 to maintain prices
that were recommended by
the manufacturer.
The ofcial Xinhua news
agency also reported that
Shanghai pricing authorities
said three of the companys
dealerships in Shanghai would
be slapped with anti-trust nes
totalling 2.14 million yuan for
agreeing to set unied prices
for car repair, spare parts and
paint jobs for Chrysler, Jeep
and Dodge vehicles.
The National Development
and Reform Commission, one
of three Chinese government
bodies that investigates mo-
nopoly actions, said last month
it was probing auto rms in-
cluding Audi and Chrysler as
well as 12 Japanese companies
for possible violations.
It is the latest in a series of
inquiries in various elds
which have raised investor
concerns about the business
climate in China.
The government last month
ned 10 of the Japanese auto
parts rms more than $200
million in total for price-xing,
reportedly the biggest-ever
such penalties, with one of the
companies ordered to pay the
highest amount of 290.4 mil-
lion yuan. AFP
Markets
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Business
HONG Kongs securities regu-
lator sued Citic Ltd, an arm
of Chinas biggest diversied
rm, and ve former directors
for allegedly disclosing false or
misleading information over
losses incurred in 2008.
The Securities & Futures
Commission is seeking sanc-
tions against former chairman
Larry Yung, former managing
director Henry Fan and the
other former executive direc-
tors of Citic, it said yesterday.
Its also seeking court orders to
compensate as many as 4,500
investors in the company.
Citic Ltd, then known as Cit-
ic Pacic Ltd, reported its rst
annual loss of US$1.64 billion
in 2009 after wrong-way cur-
rency bets that were supposed
to hedge an iron-ore project in
Australia. Hong Kong lawmak-
ers criticized the company for
a six-week delay in revealing
the losses, and the police raid-
ed its ofces in 2009.
There are a myriad possi-
ble outcomes, Peter Bullock,
a Hong Kong-based partner at
Pinsent Masons Llp, said. It
will not be easy for those be-
ing investigated to accurately
provision for possible com-
pensation. BLOOMBERG
Hong Kong
regulator
sues Citic
China fines VW affiliate $40M
China has ned FAW-Volkswagen $40 million for price xing, in the
latest development in Chinas anti-monopoly probe. BLOOMBERG
9
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Business
UNIVERSAL Music Group (UMG) this
week signed an exclusive deal with
Smart, which grants the local mobile
service provider power to distribute
and resell the US music giants digital
content. According to Sandy Monteiro,
president of Southeast Asia for Univer-
sal Music Group, this weeks announce-
ment marks the beginning of a long-
term effort to enter Cambodias music
industry. Monteiro sat down with the
Posts Chan Muyhong to discuss his
companys partnership with Smart and
its ideas for the Kingdom.
Can you tell me about the new deal with
Smart?
So we are giving them exclusive
rights to Universal Music content.
They get everything whether it is
download, streaming, ringtones or
ring-back tones.
With Smart, we are trying to build plat-
forms to buy music through their mobile
device that are the right price for Cam-
bodians and that reach Cambodians in
a way they understand. Once we can get
this ball rolling and people actually en-
gaging with us, and understanding the
value of legally downloaded music, with
a good partner like Smart Im sure we
will gather more public support.
What opportunities does Universal see
in the Cambodian market?
We want to nd a way to use this as
the means of growing music business in
Cambodia.
If there are good Cambodian artists,
we want to nd them and get them to a
higher status and nds ways of getting
them to earn more money. We want to
create more of a presence for music art-
ists, create the opportunities for them
to grow out of Cambodia to the region
as well.
Explain the relationship between music
companies and telecommunications?
For the last 10 years, the telecom busi-
ness has been one of the main sectors
where we engage with music fans. So
for us to go to a telecom is not unusual.
While telecoms understand how to use
music as a key marketing tool to attract
customers, the music business is always
looking for ways to introduce legalised
music downloads markets. How do we
get people to pay for music? Telecoms
have in-house payment systems with all
their prepaid business, which provides
us with the simplest payment system
and which helps legally downloaded
music industry grow more rapidly.
Illegally downloaded audio and video is
extremely common in Cambodia. How
can you compete with that?
Over time we will work with Cambo-
dias government to take action with
these people. My objective is not to shut
them down, but instead to turn them
into legal music providers. And when
they do turn legitimate, they will go to
get music from Smart who will subse-
quently issue them with a licence.
Did you do any market analysis before
you decided to come here?
We actually did research the Indochi-
na market and we found some opportu-
nity, but Cambodia is quite difcult for
us. There are already many local (music)
companies who do things in a certain
way, but that does not mean I agree with
what they are doing. Slowly we want to
bring in some international standards.
Artists here sing on the stage one a week
or one a month and there is no strength
in the song, does not have the power to
be remembered 20 years from now on.
There is no legend song. Over time we
want to bring in good practice for music
industry in Cambodia and to develop
legendary artists.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity.
Universal: a Smart connection
Sandy Monteiro, president of Universal Music Group International, holds a signed guitar
during an interview with the Post earlier this week in Phnom Pneh. PHA LINA
This week in biz
Business integrity is
threatened: TI report
THE integrity of business in
the Kingdom is threatened by
a flawed legal framework and
a culture of corruption,
according to a report released
by Transparency International
Cambodia. Some two years in
the making, the corruption
watchdogs wide-ranging
study gives the business
sector one of 13 governance
institutions it says is required
to sustain a system of integrity
an overall weak rating of
32 points out of a possible 100.
Endemic corruption,
business connections to the
political elite, a weak
judiciary and a lack of
transparency all contribute to
a business environment with
little accountability and a lack
of integrity, the report said.
Industry casts doubt
over Philippine rice bid
CAMBODIAN rice exporters
expressed doubt on
Wednesday regarding the
industrys ability to meet the
technical terms laid out in the
Philippine governments rice
import bid. The Philippines
National Food Authority (NFA)
in August set up a bidding
process, open to all countries,
for the import of 500,000
tonnes of rice to the country.
David Van, executive director
of rice miller and exporter
Boost Riche Cambodia, said
that the Philippines bid
required a country to
contribute a minimum of
200,000 tonnes to be
delivered across 14 ports in
the Philippines. This, he said,
made both production and
logistics management a
tough ask for Cambodias rice
growers and exporters.
Philippines
ups interest
rates again
PHILIPPINE monetary author-
ities raised key interest rates
yesterday for the second time
in six weeks, saying they needed
to head off the threat of higher
inflation next year.
The central bank said it
raised its overnight borrowing
and lending rates by 25 basis
points to 4 and 6 per cent
respectively. It was now likely
the Philippines would hit the
higher end of its inflation tar-
get range of 2-4 per cent, it
also added.
It said there were price pres-
sures arising from possible fur-
ther increases in food prices
due to tight domestic supply, as
well as pending petitions for
higher utility rates and poten-
tial power shortages.
President Benigno Aquino
warned yesterday that the
countrys energy reserves were
thin due to high economic
growth and ageing power plants
that needed more frequent
maintenance shutdowns.
Inflation rose 4.9 per cent in
August, bringing the year-to-
date average at 4.4 per cent.
The government previously
targeted an inflation rate rang-
ing from 3 to 5 per cent for the
whole of 2014. AFP
A
RGENTINA passed
a measure yesterday
aimed at side-step-
ping a US court order
that has blocked the country
from paying back debt tied up
in a feud with hedge funds.
The law, approved by the
senate last week, got the green
light in the lower house of the
legislature by a vote of 134 in
favour to 99 against, with ve
abstentions. The immediate
goal is to allow Argentina to
make good on a debt payment
of $200 million that comes due
on September 30.
It is the latest move by Presi-
dent Cristina Kirchners ad-
ministration in a legal tussle
with creditors who have re-
fused to join a restructuring
deal following Argentinas 2001
default on $100 billion of debt.
Under the restructuring
deal, 93 per cent of the coun-
trys creditors accepted a cut of
70 per cent of the face value of
their Argentine holds.
But two foreign hedge funds,
NML Capital of US billionaire
Paul Singer and US-based Au-
relius Capital Management,
refused to accept the write-
down on $1.3 billion owed to
them and won a court battle
that led to a new Argentine
default in July. A New York
judge, Thomas Griesa, or-
dered Argentina to pay the
funds in full, and prevented
the country from repaying its
other creditors until it fulls
the requirement.
Under the new Argentine
law, the repayment location
is moved from New York to
either Buenos Aires or Paris
defying the US judges ruling
that to move the repayment
site outside the United States
would be illegal.
To pressure the government,
Judge Griesa froze $539 million
that Buenos Aires deposited at
the Bank of New York Mellon
(BoNY) to pay the bond hold-
ers that accepted debt restruc-
turing deals in 2005 and 2010.
Argentina was declared in
selective default by interna-
tional credit rating rms after
the grace period on the $539
million in interest payments
expired on July 30.
The hedge funds have
warned they would take new
legal action in the US against
Argentinas legislation.
Under the new law the gov-
ernment can deposit the funds
in an Argentina central bank
trust or in an account in a Par-
is-based nancial institution.
Investors who back the leg-
islation include Mexican mag-
nate David Martinez Guzman,
owner of the investment fund
Fintech Advisory, who holds
almost $1 billion worth of Ar-
gentine bonds. Tulio Zembo,
who represents 450,000 small
Italian investors, also backs
the alternative. But some rms
are not legally allowed to ac-
cept repayment sites outside
New York. Griesa warned of
sanctions against rms that
help Argentina circumvent his
order. AFP
Markets
10
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Business
Russia plans sanctions,
EU measures set to go
MOSCOW has drawn up new
anti-Western sanctions target-
ing imports of consumer goods
and second-hand cars, Presi-
dent Vladimir Putins economic
aide said yesterday, as the EU
agreed to slap new punitive
measures on Russia.
As far as I know, right now the
economic development minis-
try has already put together a
list of these goods, Putins aide
Andrei Belousov was quoted as
saying by the state RIA Novosti
news agency. We have a
number of non-agricultural
goods where our partners
particularly in Europe
depend on Russia more than
Russia does on them.
This concerns the import of
cars, first and foremost second-
hand ones, this concerns sev-
eral types of consumer goods
which we can already produce
ourselves. Not all but some
types of clothing, Belousov
was quoted as saying.
Belousov said firms targeted
by Western sanctions would be
propped up by the state. Forms
of support are now being
worked out, he said.
Meanwhile, EU member
states have agreed to bring a
new round of sanctions into
effect against Russia today, dip-
lomatic sources said, after
sharp disagreements on how to
react to a ceasefire in Ukraine.
A statement on the long-de-
layed measures was expected
late yesterday from European
Council President Herman
Van Rompuy spelling out how
they should be introduced in
light of the truce, which
appears to be holding.
European Union leaders
agreed at a summit late last
month on the need for another
package of economic sanctions
after Russia allegedly sent
troops and heavy equipment
into eastern Ukraine to support
pro-Moscow rebels there.
The sanctions were finalised
last Friday, but on the same
day Kiev and Moscow agreed
a ceasefire and peace plan,
forcing a rethink and a string
of when they should be intro-
duced.
Diplomats say the sanctions
will likely limit access to finan-
cial markets by Russian oil
companies such as Rosneft and
Transneft plus the petroleum
unit of gas giant Gazprom.
They cover the same four
areas as previous measures
adopted in July capital mar-
kets, defence, dual-use goods
with both military and civilian
capabilities, and oil technology,
they added. AFP
Argentina skirts US to pay debt
Gratti depicting US judge Thomas Griesa and vultures behind bars in Buenos Aires. AFP
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International commodities
Energy
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Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
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Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
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Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
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Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 97.59 -0.45 -0.46% 4:47:26
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.94 -0.01 -0.30% 4:46:15
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 252.23 -0.42 -0.17% 4:46:18
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 274.23 -1.1 -0.40% 4:47:36
ICEGasoil USD/MT 833.25 -2 -0.24% 4:47:26
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CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.43 0.1 0.77% 4:38:34
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F
UEL-CELL vehicles (FCVs),
which use hydrogen and have
no emissions, will soon be on
the market in Japan. Toyota is
scheduled to release the ultimate eco-
friendly cars by the end of this fiscal
year, which ends on March 31.
The government plans to allocate
more funds to assist in promoting
wider use of FCVs in fiscal 2015, but
many hurdles remain. It remains to be
seen whether 2015 will signal the start
of an era for FCVs, as they have other
benefits, including the ability to pro-
vide a weeks worth of electricity for
typical households in an emergency.
In August, Fukuoka FCV Club, an
association comprising the Fukuoka
prefectural government and local
companies, held a ceremony in Fuku-
oka attended by 400 people. The club
aims to promote FCVs in the prefec-
ture ahead of the rest of the nation
because, according to Fukuoka Gov-
ernor Hiroshi Ogawa, [FCVs] require
a number of industries to work togeth-
er, so we can expect a lot in terms of
revitalising our local economy.
Generating power using hydrogen
and oxygen has been a dream for
automakers for some time, and they
have been keeping a close eye on
technological advances in this area.
But to use the technology in cars, the
fuel cell system must be compact
with a high power output capacity.
In addition, it was extremely difficult
to develop FCVs capable of enduring
temperature changes, vibrations and
possible accidents.
Toyota relied on trial and error after
it began its FCV development in 1992.
The automaker manufactured a mod-
el nearly identical to its current form
in 2002, when the company started
leasing FCVs mainly to public offices.
But they were estimated to cost at least
100 million yen (about $937,647) each
a price tag unfeasible for the com-
mercial car market.
Toyota cut costs by reducing the use
of expensive materials, such as plati-
num. It also used parts that were
shared with other models, such as
Prius hybrids. The carmaker eventu-
ally succeeded in lowering manufac-
turing costs to a 20th of the initial
figure, about 7 million yen per unit.
Honda is also scheduled to release
FCVs in 2015.
To promote FCVs, the government
is considering subsidies of up to 3 mil-
lion yen for potential buyers. The
amount can be said to be preferential,
as subsidies for purchases of the first
Prius model initially amounted to
250,000 yen. If the subsidy plan is car-
ried out, consumers will be able to buy
an FCV for less than 5 million yen.
Experts point out Japanese compa-
nies possess technological advantages.
For example, Toyota owns about
2,400 FCV-related patents. Also,
manufacturing FCVs is difficult.
Unlike electric vehicles, they cant be
manufactured easily in other coun-
tries with lower wage levels. Koichi
Oyama, a manager at Deloitte Toh-
matsu Consulting Co, said, Because
both development and the manufac-
turing of FCVs must be done in Japan,
the benefits to the Japanese economy
will be larger than that of EVs.
The company estimated that the
economic spillover effects from FCVs
will be worth about 11 trillion yen in
the decade until 2025.
However, Toyota in not overoptimis-
tic about the immediate benefits.
Toyota executive vice president Mit-
suhisa Kato said, We are ready to
commit 10, 20 years until our FCVs
become popular.
Sales for hybrid vehicles took 10
years to reach 1 million. Ahead of the
FCV launch, it seems Toyota is pre-
pared for a longer battle.
High expectations have been
expressed for the 2020 Tokyo Olym-
pics. If FCVs are used to transport ath-
letes and Olympic officials, the whole
of Tokyo will be a showroom for the
cars, a Toyota executive said.
Hydrogen and oxygen react to gen-
erate the electric power to activate the
motors that drive FCVs. Because elec-
tric power is generated inside the car
body unlike EVs, FCV drivers dont
need to recharge by connecting a car
to a power outlet for hours at a time.
Unlike hybrid vehicles that use gaso-
line, FCVs only emit water.
There are three hurdles that must be
cleared to ensure widespread use of
FCVs the small number of hydrogen-
refuelling stations, high hydrogen gas
prices and the large price tag.
To build more hydrogen-refuelling
stations, the Economy, Trade and
Industry Ministry earmarked 11 bil-
lion yen, about 50 per cent higher than
the previous year, in its initial request
for the fiscal 2015 budget.
Building one hydrogen-refuelling
station costs from 400 million yen to
500 million yen. The ministry has sub-
sidised half of the cost. From fiscal
2015, the ministry plans to subsidise
up to 20 million yen per station for
other costs, such as employee salaries,
utility charges and other management
costs. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Fuel-cell cars to hit market in 2015
A hydrogen refuelling station opened in April last year in Ebina, Japan; fuel cell cars,
which use hydrogen, will soon be on the market. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
World
Cameron to Scots: Dont break my heart
PRIME Minister David Cameron urged
Scots not to rip apart a family of nations
as he battled to reverse a late surge in sup-
port for Scottish independence one week
from a historic referendum.
Scotland votes on whether to end the
300-year-old union next Thursday, and
recent polls suggest the outcome is on a
knife-edge. The eyes of the world are on
Scotlands referendum, pro-independence
leader Alex Salmond said yesterday.
Salmond said the run-up to the Septem-
ber 18 vote was a process of national
empowerment and promised an inde-
pendent Scotland would be a fairer, more
profitable society.
Scotland is on the cusp of making his-
tory. The eyes of the world are upon Scot-
land, Salmond said in Edinburgh, a day
after British Prime Minister David Cam-
eron also visited the Scottish capital.
Scotland will vote Yes next Thursday
because last-minute . . . promises from the
No campaign will not fool anyone, said
First Minister Salmond, who heads Scot-
lands regional government.
In what Salmond described as a sign
of panicking, Cameron and the oppo-
sition Labour leader Ed Miliband skipped
their weekly parliamentary debate in
London to hit the campaign trail north
of the border.
I would be heartbroken if this family of
nations that weve put together and that
weve done such amazing things together
. . . was torn apart, Cameron told an event
in Edinburgh.
After a shock poll put the Yes camp
ahead on Sunday, the three biggest parties
at Westminster on Tuesday backed a time-
table unveiled by former prime minister
Gordon Brown for handing more powers
to the devolved Scottish government if it
stayed in Britain.
Camerons job could be at risk if there is
a Yes vote, even though his campaign
appearances have been limited because
his Conservative party is deeply unpopular
in Scotland. Acknowledging this, he told
voters the referendum was not about giv-
ing the effing Tories . . . a kick, but about
Scotlands future.
Salmond accused Cameron of making a
last gasp, last ditch attempt to save the
union by coming to the Scottish capital.
Their visit will backfire, added Michael
Granados, an SNP campaigner attending
a rally with Salmond in Edinburgh.
Every time Westminster gets involved
in this campaign, the vote swings more
and more to the Yes side.
Many countries with separatist move-
ments are following the campaign closely
including Spain, where the government
has ruled out a referendum for Catalan
independence or devolution.
People in Catalonia dont necessarily
want independence but they want to have
the right to vote. And they see that here its
possible, said Carles Costa from TV3 pub-
lic television in Catalonia, who was at Sal-
monds press conference.
A Yes vote would put a huge pressure
on Madrid. Scotland is not a remote coun-
try somewhere in the world. Its just next
door, he said. Even with a No, people in
Catalonia will say, Why is this not possible
in Spain? AFP
Pistorius found not guilty
of murdering Steenkamp
Russia still
has troops
in Ukraine
B
LADE Runner
Oscar Pistorius
was found not
guilty of mur-
dering his girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp yesterday, a shock
decision that left the South
African celebrity athlete sob-
bing with emotion.
The high-prole trial was
adjourned until today when
the 27-year-old Paralympian
will hear whether he has been
found guilty of culpable homi-
cide, a lesser charge roughly
equivalent to manslaughter.
The state clearly has not
proved beyond reasonable
doubt that the accused is guilty
of premeditated murder,
Judge Thokozile Masipa told
the High Court in Pretoria.
Viewed in its totality the ev-
idence failed to establish that
the accused had the requisite
intention to kill the deceased
let alone with premeditation,
she said.
The double amputee could
still face anything from a sus-
pended sentence to a lengthy
prison stretch if found guilty
of culpable homicide. Or he
could be acquitted altogether.
Masipas introductory com-
ments on the lesser count ap-
peared to lean towards a guilty
ruling. I am of the view that
the accused acted too hastily
and used excessive force. In
the circumstances, it is clear
that his conduct was negli-
gent, she said before adjourn-
ing the trial.
When he heard the judge
clear him of murder, the Para-
lympian sprinter sat in the
dock bowed and burying his
head in his hands.
His sister Aimee rushed from
the rst row of the public gal-
lery to hug her older brother,
who was wiping tears from his
eyes with a handkerchief.
The victims parents, Barry
and June Steenkamp, left the
courtroom with stony faces.
When asked if this is good
news for Pistorius, his Aunt
Lois replied, Its not the end
you know. Were still listening.
Legal experts voiced shock
after he was found not guilty
of murder, and predicted the
case that has gripped South
Africans for a year would not
rest with the verdict.
Both defence and prosecu-
tion agree that Pistorius killed
Steenkamp, a law graduate
and fashion model, when
he red four shots through a
locked bathroom door in his
upmarket Pretoria home.
But the sprinter says he
thought he was shooting at an
intruder while Steenkamp was
safely in bed. The prosecution
says he killed her in a t of rage
after an argument.
Judge Masipa moved quickly
through her judgment, reject-
ing state evidence that pointed
to an argument between the
couple. Neither the evidence
of the loving relationship or a
relationship turned sour can
assist this court to determine
whether the accused had the
requisite intention to kill the
deceased, she said.
The judge also reviewed
evidence by neighbours who
testied to hearing shots and
screams, saying many had
their facts wrong.
She said the huge media
coverage of the case could
have affected some witnesses.
I am of the view they failed
to separate what they knew
personally or what they heard
from other people or what
they gathered from the me-
dia, she said.
But Masipa also said Pistori-
us himself was evasive on the
stand, and that his evidence
showed a number of defenc-
es, or apparent defences.
The accused was a very
poor witness, she said.
The verdict is the climax of
a six-month murder trial that
has cast a harsh spotlight on
the fallen heros private life.
Full of high drama, the trial
has fed intense media interest
worldwide, with live broad-
casts veering into the realm of
TV reality.
During proceedings Pisto-
rius has broken down, weep-
ing and at times vomiting as
he heard how the 29-year-old
blonds head exploded like a
watermelon under the impact
of his hollow-point bullets.
Yesterdays verdict, also
broadcast live to audiences
worldwide, is not the end of
the case.
There will be more court-
room arguments before a
sentence is handed down and,
most likely, an appeal to a
higher court.
Im shocked, Martin Hood,
a Johannesburg-based crimi-
nal lawyer, said of Masipas
initial rulings. I think shes
going to get quite a lot of criti-
cism from the judiciary and
the legal system.
The consensus among the
legal community was that
he is guilty of murder. This
could really open the door to
systematic abuse of our legal
system by people who shoot
their partners and claim self-
defence. AFP
RUSSIA still has about 1,000
troops in eastern Ukraine,
backed up by another 20,000
on the border, NATO said yes-
terday, despite Kiev reporting
that Moscow had withdrawn
the bulk of its forces.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko said on Wednes-
day that Moscow had with-
drawn 70 per cent of its forces
following a ceasere he had
agreed with Russian counter-
part Vladimir Putin last Friday.
The reported reduction of
Russian troops from eastern
Ukraine would be a good rst
step, but we have no informa-
tion on this, a NATO military
ofcer said. The fact of the
matter is there are still approx-
imately 1,000 Russian troops
in eastern Ukraine with a sub-
stantial amounts of military
equipment and approximately
20,000 troops on the Russian
border with Ukraine.
The ofcer said the Russian
troops constituted a large and
effective military presence.
Moscow also continued to
supply pro-Russian rebels with
sophisticated military equip-
ment, said the ofcer, who
repeated NATO calls for Russia
to back a peaceful solution to
the Ukraine conict.
Poroshenko said on Wednes-
day that the information he
had on the withdrawal of Rus-
sian troops amid a ceasere in
eastern Ukraine gives us hope
that there are good prospects
for the peace initiative.
Ukrainian authorities,
meanwhile, acknowledged
yesterday that pro-Russian
rebels had extended their con-
trol over territory on the east-
ern border with Russia to the
Sea of Azov. AFP
South African Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius weeps in the dock yesterday as a judge began handing
down her verdict on whether he was guilty of the 2013 Valentines Day murder of his model girlfriend. AFP
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks
during a visit to Edinburgh on Wednesday. AFP
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
World
13
Obamas IS plan not without danger: analysts
P
RESIDENT Barack Obamas
war on Islamic State jiha-
dists could damage the
militants without defeating
them, while increasing the risk of
America being sucked into Syrias
hellish civil war, experts and former
US ofcials say.
The strategy unveiled by Obama
in a national address on Wednesday
envisions local forces trained and
armed by the West eventually de-
feating the well-organised militants
in both Iraq and Syria, with the help
of a major US-led bombing cam-
paign from the air.
But there are serious questions
as to whether the local ghters on
the ground particularly in Syria
would be able to seize and hold ter-
ritory against the Sunni jihadists,
analysts said.
Obamas emphasis on forging lo-
cal partners comes despite a litany
of disappointments over the years
when it comes to US attempts to
train and equip armies, most re-
cently in Iraq.
After years of costly aid and in-
struction by American ofcers,
the Baghdad governments army
suffered a humiliating retreat in
the face of the IS onslaught earlier
this year.
And in Syria, US ofcials acknowl-
edge that there is no viable moder-
ate Syrian opposition at the moment
that is capable of holding ground
even after repeated attempts by the
West and Arab countries to shape an
effective rebel force.
A strategy predicated on the exis-
tence of an effective moderate Syr-
ian rebel force is doomed to fail,
said Marc Lynch of the Center for a
New American Security,
In Iraq, the West at least has a gov-
ernment it can work with and there
is some prospect that Iraqi and
Kurdish troops could be shaped into
a solid force, Lynch said.
But in Syria, there are no reliable
partners in a multisided civil war
and the overall goal of US military
action remains unclear, according
to Lynch, associate professor of po-
litical science at George Washington
University. In Syria, by contrast, US
airstrikes offer no plausible path to
political or strategic success, he
wrote this week.
Administration ofcials insist
American air power can deliver a se-
rious blow to the jihadists, and open
the way to local forces particularly
in Iraq to roll them back.
They point to the results
of more than 150 airstrikes
in Iraq over the past month,
saying the raids have stalled the ad-
vance of the jihadists and exposed
their vulnerability when confronted
by organised military action.
When insurgent groups try to
ght conventionally against ad-
vanced militaries, they tend to have
signicant problems, said Christo-
pher Chivvis of the think tank RAND
Corporation. I think theres a lot
that air power can do to inict sig-
nicant damage on ISIL.
But this does not mean we will be
able to defeat them with air power
alone, said Chivvis, a former senior
Pentagon ofcial. To deal a decisive
defeat to any insurgent force, ground
troops have to confront them on the
battleeld and prevail, he said.
Obama has ruled out deploying
ground combat units, allowing only
for more military troops to work as
advisers to the Iraqi and Kurdish
forces. As a result, Washington fac-
es a big strategic dilemma, Chiv-
vis said.
Air power is not enough, he said,
but if we start using ground forc-
es, especially if they are American
ground forces, we risk an interna-
tional backlash, we risk
insurgency, we risk
all the prob-
lems we
faced in Iraq and Afghanistan in the
decade after 9/11.
Even if local forces can nd their
footing, it could take many years to
achieve success, Chivvis and other
experts said.
With no immediate prospect of
a capable Syrian rebel force, air-
strikes in Syria would have limited
results but would at least make it
more difcult for [IS] to resupply
their forces in Iraq, said Seth Jones,
a former adviser to US special op-
erations forces.
Expanding the air war in Syria,
however, carries the risk of un-
intended consequences, as roll-
ing back the jihadists there could
create an opening for President
Bashar al-Assads embattled re-
gime, Jones said.
Washington could soon face calls
for more military action in Syria,
possibly in aid of more moderate
rebels.
There is a denite danger of esca-
lation in Syria, Jones said. I think
its going to be hard to put the US
toe in the water and not be dragged
in. AFP
President Obama delivers a prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday,
vowing to target the Islamic State with airstrikes wherever they exist. AFP
Lost property
Cops leave
explosives

at airport
A
USTRALIAN police
apologised yesterday
after a suitcase with
plastic explosives inside used
for sniffer dog training was
left at Sydney airport and only
found four weeks later by a
passenger.
The woman, travelling
through the countrys busiest
airport on Tuesday, was given
the unclaimed bag as a re-
placement after her one was
damaged during a flight.
When she reached home
and opened the suitcase, she
found 230 grams of plastic
explosive in a training device
and took it to a local police
station in Cessnock, about 150
kilometres from Sydney.
Police said the device was
not live and was inadvertently
left at the domestic terminal
after a detector dog training
exercise on August 14.
Police takes this error
seriously and the canine ins-
tructor who inadvertently left
this device behind has been
identified and will [face] a
formal professional standards
investigation, federal police
Sydney airport Commander
Wayne Buchhorn said. AFP
World
14 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Beef, crystal meth: festival gifts for NK ofcials
THIS week, the Korean Penin-
sula has been celebrating the
Chuseok thanksgiving festival,
when families come together
to share food and give thanks
to their ancestors for an abun-
dant harvest.
In the North, the holiday is
also a time when officials
exchange luxury gifts and
also expect presents for their
good favour.
Sources inside the country
have told DailyNK that, in
addition to conventional cash
gifts, popular presents now
include beef (despite the ille-
gality of slaughtering cows)
and crystal methampheta-
mine, otherwise known as
crystal meth, or ice.
People use holiday gift-giv-
ing as an opportunity to sur-
reptitiously present a bribe to
an official, a source in South
Hwanghae Province said.
Not so long ago, cash and a
gift of nutritious carp or ciga-
rettes [for men] would have
been an adequate bribe. Lately,
the drug ice is also seen as an
ideal gift.
However, the most opulent
bribe one can give at the holi-
days is a gift of meat and cash,
the source said. Some people
also utilise the Beijing to
Pyongyang train to bring in the
fiery Chinese spirit baijiu, liq-
uor, premier spirits, pineap-
ples, bananas, and other prized
items, the source added.
In North Korea, the gift-giv-
ing culture especially the
exchange of high-priced goods
between officials is growing.
When Chuseok draws nears,
officials and the donju [newly
affluent middle class] become
engaged in working their way
to the head of the line for
bribes, said the source.
North Koreas bribery culture
is rampant. Good relations with
officials must be maintained if
citizens are to remain untrou-
bled while taking part in mar-
ket activities.
Although giving and receiv-
ing bribes is now considered a
matter of course, the kinds of
bribes given are diverse, and
the price of bribes is increas-
ing. In the past, a persons rank
had indicated their level of
influence and power; now, its
their wealth.
During Chuseok and other
holidays, there are officials that
must be, without fail,
approached and given gifts.
North Korea has been pro-
ducing methamphetamine
production for years as a means
of earning hard currency, and
the drug is used to help allevi-
ate health problems.
Ice is also referred to as
bingdu and is mass-produced
in Hamheung, South Hamgy-
ung province.
A gram of ice costs around
$20. A high price for many
North Koreans but not pro-
hibitively expensive for officials
who use the drug.
Because enforcement isnt
very strict, officials can com-
fortably receive drugs as gifts,
the source said. Generally, the
amount of ice given depends
on the status and rank of the
person. If you need to do busi-
ness with an official, the usual
method is to give a gram of ice
along with a US dollar.
North Koreans are forbidden
to slaughter cows for their
meat, because cows are
extremely important and
deemed a means of produc-
tion. However, cows that die of
natural causes can be utilised
for meat, usually to feed offi-
cials or soldiers.
Some merchants go and
offer bribes to managers in
charge of meat to disguise fresh
meat as being from a cow that
has died of a disease, said the
source, adding that even when
the gift is given, the pretence
that the meat came from a cow
that had died naturally must be
upheld. THE GUARDIAN
Libyan govt takes refuge in Greek car ferry
A GREEK car ferry has been hired as
last-minute accommodation for Libyas
embattled parliament, which has fled
the countrys civil war to the small east-
ern town of Tobruk.
The 17,000-tonne Elyros liner has
been deployed, complete with its Greek
crew, as a floating hotel for a legislature
clinging to power in the Libyan city that
is last stop before the Egyptian border.
Tobruk is no stranger to last stands.
In World War II, British and Common-
wealth forces endured months of attacks
from Erwin Rommels Africa Corps.
Now the siege mentality is back.
Islamists and their allies have cap-
tured the capital, Tripoli, and most of
Benghazi, the countrys second city.
Derna, the next town up the coast, has
been declared an Islamic caliphate and
the front line begins at Tobruk airport,
where pickup trucks mounting anti-
aircraft guns face out into the shim-
mering empty desert. The small port is
home to what remains of Libyas sov-
ereign power.
On one side of the bay, a hotel confer-
ence hall acts as chamber to the house
of representatives, ringed by troops in
sandy-coloured US-made Humvee
troop carriers.
On the other, moored to a quay is
the white gleaming bulk of the Elyros,
which usually plies it trade carrying
cars and passengers between Greece
and Italy, looming over a collection of
grey naval patrol boasts.
We had only three days to prepare
everything in Tobruk, to find spaces for
meetings, places to stay, internet, eve-
rything, said Dr Muftah Othman, head
of the towns election commission.
It is unusual, yes, says one steward.
The Libyans are very polite. We are
here one week, maybe we stay months,
we dont know.
Nor do Libyas parliamentarians. The
small Libyan army is reeling from ham-
mer blows from its foes. We need time
to build up our army and security and
to develop our skills to run the coun-
try, says deputy speaker Mohammed
Ali Shuhaib.
In one way, time is on the governments
side. Weeks of fighting have seen it lose
major cities but it still has control of
Libyas vast foreign reserves abroad and
oil fields at home. Hold the line, the
theory goes, and parliament can build
its army while Islamist forces diminish.
But in another way, time is running
out, with Libyas conflict already shaping
up as a regional war. Qatar and the Unit-
ed Arab Emirates, the big Gulf players,
have each taken a side, Qatar for the
Islamists, the Emiratis the nationalists.
Pentagon sources say the UAE and
Egypt have launched air strikes against
Libya Dawn, while Sudan is flying in
weapons for the Islamists, making par-
liaments job of finding middle ground
all the harder.
In Tobruk, cohesion is parliaments
problem. The Islamists are not the big-
gest faction in Libya they captured
Tripoli after suffering catastrophic
defeats in Junes elections but they are
the most cohesive. The tribes ranged
against them are fractured along ancient
fault lines, some dating back centuries.
Uniting those tribes, then persuad-
ing at least some Islamists to end their
boycott of the chamber, is likely to
determine whether Libyas three-year
experiment with democracy succeeds
or fails.
Without the means to counterattack,
or much sign of international support,
Libyas parliament clings on in Tobruk,
its eyes on the Elyros, wondering if it
will end up being less a floating hotel
than a lifeboat. THE GUARDIAN
Thai junta
must end
repression
T
HAILANDS military
government has eng-
aged in widespread
human rights viola-
tions since the May coup, Am-
nesty International has said.
In a report, the rights group
cited arbitrary detentions, a
clampdown on free speech,
allegations of beatings and
unfair trials as examples. It
called on the junta to end this
disturbing pattern of repres-
sion, the BBC reported.
An unprecedented num-
ber of people have been
charged with insulting Thai-
lands monarchy since the
coup, Amnesty said yesterday,
with 14 Thais indicted under
the controversial lese majeste
law in less than four months.
Revered King Bhumibol
Adulyadej, 86, is protected by
one of the worlds toughest
royal defamation laws any-
one convicted of insulting the
king, queen, heir or regent
faces up to 15 years in prison
on each count.
The rights group said com-
mentators calling for reform
of the law or those previously
jailed for royal defamation
appear to have been target-
ed in the lists of people the
junta required to report to
them after seizing power.
Last month two activists
were charged with breaching
the law during an October 2013
university play which featured
a ctitious monarchy.
In another recent case, a
28-year-old musician was
sentenced to 15 years in jail
for writing insulting Facebook
posts about the monarchy be-
tween 2010 and 2011.
Amnesty says more than 570
people were ofcially ordered
to report to authorities in the
days after the coup, estimat-
ing the number would be
higher if informal orders were
recorded.
In weekly televised speech-
es, junta chief and recently
appointed Prime Minister
Prayuth Chan-ocha has reit-
erated the importance of the
royal defamation legislation.
The laws are aimed at pro-
tecting the royal institution.
Thailands strength is based
in the monarchy and stabil-
ity, Prayuth said last Friday.
Some experts believe that
a struggle is unfolding to de-
cide who will run Thailands
government when the more
than six-decade reign of the
ailing king eventually ends.
The succession is a taboo
topic in the country and its
discussion is restricted under
the royal defamation law.
Critics say that law has been
politicised, noting that many
of those charged in recent
years were linked to the Red
Shirts protest movement,
which is broadly supportive of
fugitive former premier Thak-
sin Shinawatra.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun,
an associate professor at Ja-
pans Kyoto University, said
there was a worrying trend
of back-dating royal slur cases
as the junta sought to legiti-
mise the coup as a force to
prevent disorder.
In another shift, the Thai ac-
ademic noted a broader use of
the law when compared to the
previous coup in 2006, which
toppled Thaksin as premier.
Last time it was used as a
weapon between elites. Now
it could affect anyone, said
Pavin, who is wanted by Thai
police for failing to report to
junta summonses. AFP

Al-Qaeda-linked rebels
free Fiji peacekeepers
AL-QAEDA linked rebels in Syria
yesterday released a group of 45
Fijian UN peacekeepers they
kidnapped two weeks ago in the
Golan Heights and they were
transferred to Israel, officials
said. The Fijians were serving in
the UN Disengagement
Observer Force (UNDOF
monitoring a 1974 ceasefire
Israel-Syria in the Golan
Heights. Today at 1430 local
time, the 45 Fijian peacekeepers
who had been detained were
handed to UNDOF, a UN
spokesman said. All the
peacekeepers are in good
condition, he added. AFP
Boko Haram have city
under seige, say elders
BOKO Haram fighters have
surrounded the northeast
Nigerian city of Maiduguri and
are preparing an imminent
takeover, an influential regional
group claimed yesterday, calling
for military reinforcements.
They have completely
surrounded the city of
Maiduguri, the Borno Elders
Forum, made up of retired
senior civilian and military
officials as well as community
leaders, said. It is apparent that
their imminent target is to take
the city of Maiduguri, the Borno
state capital. AFP
Toronto mayor Ford in

hospital with tumour
SCANDAL-PLAGUED Toronto
Mayor Rob Ford was admitted
to hospital on Wednesday after
suffering abdominal pain for
three months, with initial tests
uncovering the presence of a
tumour, doctors said. The
controversial Ford, 45, only
returned to work in June after
two months in rehab for drug
and alcohol abuse, including
the use of crack cocaine while
in office. AFP
An Amnesty International report has criticised General Prayuth Chan-ochas military governments use of
arbitrary detentions and its clampdown on free speech. AFP
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ALF of North Americas
bird species, from com-
mon backyard visitors
like the Baltimore oriole
and the rufous hummingbird to
wilderness dwellers like the com-
mon loon and bald eagle, are un-
der threat from climate change and
many could go extinct, an exhaus-
tive new study has found.
Seven years of research found cli-
mate change to be the biggest threat
to North Americas bird species.
Some 314 species face dramatic
declines in population, if present
trends continue, with warming tem-
peratures pushing the birds out of
their traditional ranges. Ten states
and Washington DC could lose their
state birds.
It is hard to imagine that we are
not going to lose some of these birds
permanently, said Gary Langham,
chief scientist for the Audubon Soci-
ety and leader of the study.
The scale of disruption we are
projecting means that many famil-
iar sounds, and many familiar birds
that people may see in their back-
yards and on their walks, that help
them dene a place for them, may
no longer be there.
The outlook was far bleaker than
a US government report just a few
years ago on the fate of North Amer-
icas birds under climate change.
That report, in 2010, projected ocean
and Arctic birds would be most vul-
nerable to climate change.
An updated version of that report
was also due out on Tuesday.
The Audubon researchers found
that by mid-century, 126 of the 588
bird species in the study would lose
more than half of their traditional
ranges, and would go into decline.
An additional 188 species would
lose their range by 2080, according
to the study.
Maryland would lose the Bal-
timore oriole, the mascot for the
baseball team as well as the state
bird, which would no longer be able
to breed in the mid-Atlantic. Lousi-
ana would lose the brown pelican.
Minnesota would lose the common
loon, its state bird, which would be
unable to survive in the continental
United States.
Idaho, Mississippi, New Hamp-
shire, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah,
Vermont, and Washington DC would
also lose their state birds.
State birds at risk include brown
pelican [Louisiana], California gull
[Utah], hermit thrush [Vermont],
mountain bluebird [Idaho and Ne-
vada], ruffed grouse [Pennsylvania],
purple nch [New Hampshire] and
wood thrush [Washington, DC],
said the ndings.
We all will see the effects of
changing climate in our own back-
yards. We just cannot ignore such a
sobering wake-up call, said Terry
Root, a Nobel Prize-winning Stan-
ford University professor and Audu-
bon board member.
The reports release coincided
with the 100th anniversary of the
disappearance of the passenger pi-
geons, which were once among the
most abundant creatures on Earth.
The last known passenger pigeon,
Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoo
back in 1914.
We can never forget that we can
see something go away forever, said
Pete Marra, head of the Smithsonian
Migratory Bird Center, recalling
other species that have disappeared
since, including the Carolina Para-
keet, the Eskimo Curlew, Bachmans
Warbler and the Poouli of Hawaii
home to a third of all US federally
endangered birds.
The bald eagle, once considered a
success story for American conser-
vation, could lose 75 per cent of its
range by 2080. Some birds, such as
the trumpeter swan, would lose vir-
tually all of their range towards the
end of the century, according to the
projections.
The study found 274 birds
would maintain or increase
their range under climate
change. But Langham said that
was not an automatic guar-
antee for survival. Even
if the birds nd
more room
to expand, they
could face renewed compe-
tition from other species, as well as
new predators.
The researchers drew on more
than a century of observations from
birders as well as a 40-year histori-
cal record from the US Geological
Survey, combining the data with 17
climate models.
The Audubons chief executive,
David Yarnold, described the nd-
ings as a call to action.
The group is calling for cuts to the
carbon emissions that cause cli-
mate change, as well as measures to
preserve more habitat and give the
birds a better chance of survival.
But the ndings, though grim,
may underplay the threat to survival
of North Americas birds.
Langham said the study did not
take into account other factors as-
sociated with climate change such
as sea level rise, which can ood
marshes and other bird habitat with
salt water; drought, which can
kill off insects and other food
sources, or extreme storms.
As a result, it was likely a
conservative look at the
fate of birds, he said.
Dangers to birds will
only increase as the global
population swells from its cur-
rent seven billion in the coming de-
cades, US Fish and Wildlife director
Dan Ashe said.
When we think about Martha
and what happened to her kind in
the span of about ve decades, think
about what will happen in the three
or four decades between now and
the middle of the century as we add
another two-plus billion people to
the planet, Ashe said.
It means that there will be less
space for the rest of what we call
biological diversity.
He called for people to recommit
to conservation and environmental
awareness in order to prevent fur-
ther extinctions. THE GUARDIAN/AFP
The bald eagle, once a success story for American conservation, could lose 75 per cent
of its range by 2080; Louisianas brown pelican (right of page) is also under threat. AFP
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U
S PRESIDENT Barack
Obama outlined an open-
ended campaign on
Wednesday night to com-
bat the threat posed by the Islamic
State, significantly expanding the
counterterrorism strategy that has
been a hallmark of his presidency.
Obama said in a prime-time speech
delivered from the White House that
the United States would join with
our friends and allies to degrade, and
ultimately destroy, the terrorist group
known as ISIL, using an alternative
acronym for the group that has
emerged in Iraq and Syria.
Saying the US was meeting the
threat with strength and resolve, the
president also sought to assuage the
concerns of Americans who are wary
of another foreign entanglement,
insisting that the offensive against the
militant group would not involve
troops but be a steady, relentless
effort conducted through airstrikes
in Syria and Iraq, and by supporting
military partners on the ground.
I want the American people to
understand how this effort will be dif-
ferent from the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. It will not involve Ameri-
can combat troops fighting on foreign
soil, he said. Obama compared the
new initiative with other smaller-
scale fights the US has engaged in the
past. This strategy of taking out ter-
rorists who threaten us, while sup-
porting partners on the front lines, is
one that we have successfully pur-
sued in Yemen and Somalia for years.
But the scope of the operation
which will immediately involve
expanded airstrikes, additional US
personnel in Iraq and support for the
moderate Syrian rebels is likely to
overshadow those two efforts. Obama
did not give a fixed date for when it
might end, and his aides have sug-
gested it might last beyond his term.
On the left, some Democrats insist-
ed Congress should vote on the
expansion of the military operation.
I will not give this president or any
other president a blank check to
begin another land war in Iraq, Sena-
tor Mark Udall said in a statement.
Seeking to address some of the
legal concerns, administration offi-
cials said the president could expand
the airstrike campaign into Syria
under the 2001 Authorization for Use
of Military Force: That authorisation
allows for all necessary and appro-
priate force against those nations,
organizations, or persons responsi-
ble for the September 11 attacks and
those who harbored such organiza-
tions or persons.
While the Islamic State is now at
odds with al-Qaeda, the target of the
original law, officials said the Islamic
States long-standing relationship
with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden is
sufficient to be covered by the statute.
The administrations new military
strategy marks a shift to offence
against radical Sunni militants in Iraq,
as opposed to the defensive and
humanitarian effort that has been
under way since last month. The US
already has conducted 154 airstrikes
since they began last month and has
1,043 troops stationed there, accord-
ing to the Pentagon; Obama said he
would send an additional 475 person-
nel to Iraq to expand the mission.
A broad coalition would join the
United States in fighting the Islamic
State, Obama said. On Wednesday,
French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius said his nation would help in
conducting airstrikes in Iraq and
called for other countries to join in
the international fight.
The US State Department released a
report on Wednesday on the efforts
that three dozen countries, from
Albania to the United Arab Emirates,
have undertaken to combat the
Islamic militants or ease the humani-
tarian crisis in Iraq and Syria.
While Obama has come under fire
from lawmakers of both parties after
admitting that he had not yet formu-
lated a strategy to deal with IS, his
aides said the president was deter-
mined to take a deliberate approach
and was waiting for key develop-
ments, such as the formation of a new
government in Iraq.
While GOP leaders expressed frus-
tration at the last-minute request, law-
makers are eager to embrace a strategy
that will reverse the gains IS has made.
Obamas proposal would insert the
measure into a broader bill funding
federal agencies, which appeared
poised for passage next week.
Announcing the spending bills
delay on the House floor, majority
leader Kevin McCarthy said, We
stand ready to listen and work with
the president to confront this growing
threat, drawing thunderous applause
from members of both parties.
Representative Tom Cole, a senior
Republican member of the House
Appropriations Committee, predicted
that most House Republicans would
support legislation to grant the presi-
dent the authority to fund training for
foreigners to fight IS.
My impression is that he would get
a strong bipartisan vote for just about
anything he wants to do and he
should take advantage of that oppor-
tunity, Cole said.
Some lawmakers from both parties,
however, expressed concern that
Obama missed an opportunity to bol-
ster the Syrian opposition. Tennessee
Senator Bob Corker, a top Republican
on the Foreign Relations Committee,
said this weeks request from the
administration represented a speck of
sand in terms of the situation there.
You just worry, weve let them
become so diminished, Corker said.
And Representative Gerald Connel-
ly, a Democrat, who praised Obama
in a phone interview after the speech
for outlining a very bold and decisive
strategy, said the presidents rebel
training request is the toughest task
and, I also think, the toughest of the
goals to achieve because it was so
difficult to determine which rebels
are trustworthy.
While much of the public debate
has focused on the military compo-
nent of the White Houses plan, Jon
Alterman, who directs the Middle
East program at the Center for Strate-
gic and International Studies, said
how the administration works with
the newly formed Iraqi government
as well as leaders in Saudi Arabia, Tur-
key and Europe and in parallel to
Iran would be critical.
The mistake is thinking this is
principally a military operation, he
said. This is principally a political
operation about what political entity
controls a broad swath of territory.
And even as the president empha-
sised the US had a compelling inter-
est in dismantling the IS, his top dep-
uties said there was no credible
information that the Islamic State was
planning to attack the US.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson said the group poses a cer-
tain level of danger that constitutes a
threat to US vital interests and that
his agency, the FBI and other intelli-
gence agencies are making enhanced
and concerted efforts to track Syrian
foreign fighters who leave or wish to
enter the US. THE WASHINGTON POST
Comment
Ed OKeefe
Obama: expand effort against IS
Ed OKeefe is a congressional reporter
with the Washington Post and covered the
2008 and 2012 presidential and congres-
sional elections.
In the US Capitols Lincoln Room, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (right) and Senator David Vitter, both Republicans from Louisiana,
watch President Barack Obamas speech on Wednesday night in Washington. PHA LINA
T
HIRTEEN years af-
ter the 9/11 attacks,
New York Fashion
Week made history
on Wednesday by presenting
a catwalk show at the World
Trade Center with a stunning
collection for Jason Wu at
Hugo Boss.
After the elegance of Michael
Kors in the morning and much-
talked-about group effort by
pop diva Miley Cyrus and bad-
boy designer Jeremy Scott, Wu
unveiled his second collection
for Hugo Boss womenswear.
The show unfolded on the
54th oor of World Trade Cen-
ter tower No. 4, just metres
from a memorial honouring
fallen reghters and one day
before New York pays tribute
to the nearly 3,000 people
killed in the terror hijackings.
The spectacular views
of New York bay reected
perfectly the rened preci-
sion of the clothes in soft yel-
low, turquoise, lavender, white
and black.
The 49 silhouettes combined
clear, sharp lines with fabrics
of body and structure; subtle
geometric patterns in grey,
black or white; ultra-precise
cuts and belted dresses; and
sleek lace and embroidery.
Inspired by a mens locker
room, the classic white shirt
was reinvented for evening,
worn with a long suede skirt in
soft yellow and a satin belt.
Over at Michael Kors, to
The Ronettes hit Be My Baby,
the billionaire designer show-
cased breezy, sunny elegance
for spring/summer 2015 in
uber-trendy Tribeca.
Summing up his vision as
blue skies ahead, Kors com-
bined two leading trends of
the new season owers and
gingham.
The line was reminiscent of
the 1960s: light and chic, in
a bright mix of cotton, linen,
denim, suede and organza.
But the buzz of the day
was 21-year-old singer Cyrus
teaming up with Scott
to unveil a
debut art
col l ect i on
ahead of
his show
a psyche-
delic jungle
of animal
print and
colour.
Cyruss collection of col-
laged sculptures Dirty Hip-
pie were photographed
backstage and included a
vibrator, which she said was
thrown on stage by a fan, with
a joint attached to it.
The pop star sat grinning
in the front row, before ac-
companying the designer on
a victory lap of the catwalk
where she strutted in tight,
multicoloured pants, a bralet
and towering black and yellow
Adidas stilettos.
An orange dress with yellow
and blue owers was paired
with clumpy boots while a
translucent yellow cape was
edged with hot pink fur.
Itsy-bitsy gold hot pants
were worn with teddy bear
ip-ops, and a green-eyed-
monster-style face emblazed
a black T-shirt and decorated
a dress. Skulls were also in
the mix.
Gingham again made an ap-
pearance this time in yellow,
green and beige, fashioned
into a miniskirt worn with a
matching bralet.
Scott used plenty of animal
themes in the form of a purple
silk strapless dress covered in
yellow footprints, a zebra-col-
ored mini dress, leopard-print
shorts for men and leopard-
print hot pants for women.
Were on the same wave-
length its like a psychedelic
jungle, Scott told V Magazine
of Cyrus art.
Proenza Schoulers collec-
tion included leather crochet
tops, dresses and shirts, a
striking blue python jacket
and skirt with black viscose
knitted tank, and an orange
python coat paired with
black pants.
Colours were evergreen,
black, orange, white, lavender
and burgundy, and a collec-
tion of sexy black dresses with
fringes on the bottom.
At the end of it, its a very
modern girl. Its a girl of today,
its not retro, its not futuris-
tic, Lazaro Hernandez, one
half of the Proenza design
duo, told AFP.
Earlier, Indian-American
designer Bibhu Mohapatra of-
fered a collection inspired by
English heiress Nancy Cunard,
a muse to Aldous Huxley and
activist who fought for much
of her life against racism and
fascism. AFP
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Take ___ down memory lane
6 Mix it up, in a way
10 Pre-revolution ruler (Var.)
14 ___-Roman wrestling
15 Its plucked in Roma
16 Skin outbreak
17 Seriously shun the public
20 Rabbit-sized rodent
21 Type of shirt
22 Produce, as an egg
23 Family favorites
25 Where a planes engine
is housed
27 Resort hotel
30 Heck! cousin
32 Companion of Wynken and
Blynken
33 Aviation prefix
35 Hipbone parts
37 Bug-repelling wood
41 Be an arbitrator
44 Warning from a doghouse
45 Wolfe in Stout books
46 Early fruit sampler?
47 Ecclesiastical garment
49 ___ up (monopolizes)
51 Photo ___ (campaign events)
52 It may be guided
56 Salty seven
58 Slow-pitch feature
59 Franc successor
61 Central parts
65 Washington and Madison, for two
68 Preoccupied with
69 Kings address?
70 Click the Send button
71 Bill passers
72 Listen to
73 No man is an island poet
DOWN
1 Turkish biggie (Var.)
2 Math subject, briefly
3 Design over
4 Get more than frosty
5 Was sulky
6 Gloomy
7 Ready for surgery
8 Smiths garb
9 Loose overcoat
10 Lao-Tzus creative force
11 Stern oar
12 Historic record
13 Do a salon job
18 Type of acid
19 Florid in style
24 Hair-styling site
26 Excessive fluid in plants
27 Be bratty
28 Heavy hammer part
29 Length X width, for rectangles
31 The X in the above clue
34 Gumbo pods
36 ___-ski (lodge socializing)
38 Queen of Carthage
39 Rush-order order
40 Sleep cycles
42 Federated
43 Ivanhoes beloved
48 Like aquamarine or teal
50 Cooked lightly in butter
52 Corleones group
53 Subtle satire
54 Reptiles covering
55 Sesame Street character
57 Nincompoop
60 Dungeons & Dragons figure
62 Supermarket meat label
63 Ireland, romantically
64 Gilligans home, for a stretch
66 Negative responses
67 Catered
PLAYED WITH THE KIDS
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Fashion Week wows at the
World Trade Center for 9/11
Models present creations from the Jeremy Scott Spring/Summer 2015
collection during New York Fashion Week on Wednesday. AFP
Lifestyle
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
By George
Clooney to
make cameo
in Downton
G
EORGE Clooney is
to star in a one-off
Christmas special of
Downton Abbey, it has been
reported.
The actor will play an
American character who is
a guest at a wedding in the
country estate.
The show, which will be
broadcast at Christmas,
were written specially to
raise money for a cha-
rity fundraiser, called Text
Santa for ITV.
An ITV spokesperson
confirmed that Clooney
would appear in a sketch,
but would not act in a full
Christmas episode.
The Hollywood star has
already filmed the scenes
but a spokesperson for the
period drama refused to give
away any further details.
However, it was reported that
Clooney was set to appear
alongside Hugh Bonneville
and Michelle Dockery.
Clooney is reportedly a
huge fan of Downton Abbey
and is good friends with
Bonneville, who plays Lord
Robert Crawley.
The pair became close af-
ter working on the war film,
Monuments Men, together.
THE GUARDIAN
James Bonds Jaws
villain dies aged 74
RICHARD Kiel, who played the
towering, steel-toothed baddie
Jaws in two James Bond
movies, died on Wednesday
aged 74, a hospital spokes-
woman said. The 2.18-metre
(7-foot-2) actor, who made a
career playing giants and
villains, passed away in the
Saint Agnes Medical Center in
Fresno, California,
spokeswoman Kelley Sanchez
said. He would have been 75 on
Saturday. Kiel hit the bigtime
with his 007 performances: Kiel
was an immediate hit with
filmgoers in The Spy Who Loved
Me (1977) fighting 007 star
Roger Moore, and returned two
years later in Moonrake. AFP
Spore artists urge lift
of documentary ban
LEADING Singaporean artists
and activists urged the
government yesterday to allow
the exhibition of a documentary
about the city-states political
exiles which has been banned
on national security grounds.
They expressed deep
disappointment at the decision
by the Media Development
Authority to ban the public
showing of To Singapore, With
Love by local director Tan Pin
Pin. We would like to
emphasise that censorship
does nothing to promote a
vibrant, informed society. We
thus urge the MDA to
reconsider its decision, said a
statement signed by 39 artists
and activists. AFP
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VTRUST APARTMENT
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from your balcony, price $500/m
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VILLA FOR RENT IN BKKI
4 bed with 5 bath located in BKKI,
Basic furnished, clean, Western
kitchen, big living room, balcony,
& nice garden, closed to ISPP, Super
market, UN ofce, and riverside.
Rent: $2500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL VILLA IN DP
for rent 05 bed with bath located in
DP, Basic furnished, clean, west-
ern kitchen, big living room, nice
swimming pool, big parking.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
BRAND NEW APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe, swim-
ming pool and gym on the top oor.
location: BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe,
swimming pool, gym, quiet.
Rent: 2400 USD/month Location:
BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
rent 1-2-3 beds, 3 bath, available
near Independence, fully furnished
quiet, many trees around, western
kitchen, bright inside Price :
$ 700-1700-2000/ m 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 1-2-3 bed, bath, furnished,
swimming pool, gym, some service
included in the rent, located in
CKM. Price: 1200 USD/ month.
Tel: 012 879 231
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
100sqm to 400sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24h security, elevator
Spacious 5 meter high ceilings Lots
of plants & light + 60 sqm.
Tel: 012 869 111 yellow-tower.com
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent InBassakGardenCity, 04
bed, very largelivingroom, very nice
design, fully andmodernfurnished,
modernkitchen, nicebalcony, big
parkingandplayground, quiet &safe.
thebest locationfor residence.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKKI area 04 bedrooms, large &
open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
big parking and playground, quiet
& safety. the best location for resi-
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
TRADITIONAL VILLA FOR RENT
In Daun Penh area (close to Inde-
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&open living room, basic furniture,
western kitchen, garden and trees,
playground, quiet & safety. the best
location for residence and ofce.
Price: US$4,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00


MODERN SWIMMING POOL
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& modern furnished, nice pool &
garden, western kitchen, nice bal-
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Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN VILLA FOR RENT
In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed , large
living room, nice design, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, big parking &
playground, nice garden and trees,
quiet & safe. Price: $2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
RENOVATED VILLA FOR RENT
In BKK3 area, 05 bedrooms, big
living room, western kitchen, park-
ing and play ground, very good for
residence and ofce, very quiet and
safety area.
Price: US$3,500/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
1ST FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
For Rent In Daun Penh area (close
to Independent Monument), 03
bedrooms, large and open living
room, basic furniture, western
kitchen, garden and trees, quiet &
safety. Price: US$1,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
3RD FLOOR TRADITIONAL VILLA
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to Independent Monument), 1 bed,
large and open living room, basic
furniture, western kitchen, very big
balcony with many owers, quiet &
safety. Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
1ST FLOOR KHMER HOUSE
For Rent In Boeung Trobek area,
02 bed, large and open living room,
basic furniture, western kitchen,
garden and trees, quiet & safety.
the best location for residence.
Price: US$650/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW APARTMENT
For Rent BKK1, 01-02 Bedrooms,
very nice interior designed, large
living room, very light, fully and
modern furniture, western Kitchen,
good condition for living, quiet
& safe. Price: US$800-1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, Large living room, fully
and modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
very good condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in East of Russian
Market, 01-03 bed, large living
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modern kitchen, roof top pool and
gym, nice balcony, lots of light, very
good condition for living.
Price: US$850-US$1,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed-
rooms, large living room, fully and
nice furnished, western kitchen,
very big balcony, very good condi-
tion for living, big parking lot.
Price: US$800-US$1,200/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in
BKKI, 01&02&03 bed, roof top pool
& gym, open living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, very safety area,
Price: $1,200-$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODER ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in Tonle
Bassak area (near Independent
Monument), 01&02 bed, roof top
pool & gym, open living room, fully
&modernfurnished, modernkitchen,
Price: $1,100-$1,400 m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
-Available 1bed, 2bed & 3bed
-Very safe, quiet locaton next to
Chinese Embassy.
-Spacious Parking, Lif, and Generator
(Safe for Blackout)
-Free water/garbage/gym/parking fee
-24h security system/18 CCTV/Smoke
& heat Detector System 24h
-Fully Furnished-incl. 42 LED, Fridge,
Washing Machine, A/C, Gas stove,
Tables...Etc.
-FreeInternet WIFI andCableTVsystem
-Free cleaning service x2, bed
sheet change x1 a week
-Fitness Club&Open-terraceonRoofop
Address: #242&#102,St.416&456,Tu
olTompongI&TumnupToek, Chamkar-
mon, Phnom Penh
E-mail: vinsavy@ymail.com
Tel: Khmer/Eng - 017562750
Korean/Eng - 010365253
NEW APARTMENT FOR RENT
STEVES STEAKHOUSE STEAK
Super Specials. Sirloin (USA)
$10.50 Or T-Bone (AUS) $11.50
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
STEVES STEAKHOUSE CIGARS
Cuban or Cuban Quality
Nicaraguan
Startng at $9. Buy any 2 cigars
and shot of single malt for free.
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
LAO-Z FOOD
(At Steves Steakhouse)
Fresh Spring Rolls, Grilled Beef
and Stcky Rice @ only $5.50!
#8, St. 240. TEL: 023 215 415
(GREAT LOCATION) LAND FOR
Boutique, Hotel, Apartment
300m from pub street (Siem Reap)
Size: 2136m
2
, Price: 234$/m
2
Only
Tel: 097 45 55 877
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30
PG 938 Daily 06:20 07:30 PG 931 Daily 08:10 09:25
PG 932 Daily 10:15 11:25 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:20 14:30
PG 934 Daily 15:20 16:30 FD 606 Daily 15:00 16:20
FD 607 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:10 18:20
PG 936 Daily 19:10 20:20 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 21:20 22:30
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
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
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
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
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
J. Bryan Lowder
O
N EVENINGS be-
fore I travel, it is my
custom to set out
the following days
clothes on my bedroom chair.
I do this in tandem with pack-
ing my suitcase, attending as
much to the details of my trav-
el costume as to the items be-
ing curated for use later in the
trip. This is a useful habit for
more than one reason: When I
wake and must dash to some
inconveniently located tran-
sit hub, I wont need to make
any snap decisions. And I can
thoughtfully incorporate the
various elements of my travel-
day outt into the larger set
of options Ive brought along
for the ride these chinos will
pair nicely with a different
shirt, and those dressier shoes
will come in handy when that
friend takes me out for dinner
later in the week.
But the primary reason I
make the extra effort to plan
my travel outt is because,
well, no one else does. Among
the cavalcade of pajama pants,
tracksuits, nightgowns, paint-
ing rags and ill-tting sweat-
shirts that one encounters
in the worlds terminals and
stations these days, the com-
petently dressed individual
stands apart as a beacon of
civilised life, an island of class
amid a swamp of schlumps. By
dressing myself as a decent hu-
man being who is aware that
he is in public, I like to think I
am performing a small act of
resistance against the increas-
ingly slobbish status quo.
Having just faced this on-
slaught of sartorial neglect yet
again on an overseas trip, Im
pleading with you: Join me.
Dress decently when you trav-
el. Seven hours to Madrid in la
clase turista is trying enough
without your
mangy old
T-shirt adding further to the
sensory assault.
Now, before Im accused of
elitism, understand that I am
not calling for a three-piece
suit on every JetBlue hop or
Megabus jaunt (though that
would not have been abnor-
mal years ago). I am simply
suggesting that, when travel-
ling by public means, each of
us dress nicely or respect-
ably, according to our means.
I can pull together an attrac-
tive trouser, a pressed shirt,
close-toed shoes and perhaps
even a light sport coat or car-
digan the kind of thing I gen-
erally wear to work with little
effort or expense.
Sure, you say, but why both-
er dressing up for a trip? Allow
me to begin with a few prac-
tical considerations. As I say,
it is wise to wear some of the
clothes youd like to have ac-
cess to again while in transit.
It saves room in your luggage,
and you dont plan on wearing
that jogging suit when youre
out in the real world of your
destination anyway, right?
Why drag it along in the rst
place? Plus, unless you are y-
ing in an un-air-conditioned
cabin nonstop from LA to
Sydney, you can probably
wear your clothes again (per-
haps with a brief dewrinkling
in the shower steam) before
needing to wash them.
Also, dressing decently
seems to garner superior
treatment from transit staff.
Combine that preferential
treatment with any good will
garnered via The Kindly
Brontosaurus maneuver,
and you are liable to end up
sipping cocktails just behind
the cockpit with a well-heeled
new friend simply by taking
basic care of your appearance.
And guess what? When you
and your new friend arrive at
your destination, you neednt
extinguish the sparkle of the
conversation to go change
into something becoming at
the hotel. Simply freshen up
in the airport bathroom and
head right out for a coffee.
If those sorts of practical
and social perks dont appeal,
consider the emotional ben-
ets of dressing well while
betwixt and between and
no, Im not (just) talking about
feeling superior to the hoi pol-
loi. As everyone knows, travel
these days can be practically
barbaric. The weary traveller
has little control over this, but
he can control his own outt
feeling handsome amid all the
inhumanities can be power-
fully heartening. SLATE
Dont dress like
a slob for travel
Passengers well-dressed ones on a Concorde in 1970. AFP
You dont
have to
dress
like Don
Draper,
but put in at
least a little
effort, guys.
AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 21

Teams to smash and
grab prizes in Leo Cup
THE 2014 Leo Cup of Volleyball
concludes this weekend at the
indoor hall of Olympic Stadium
with teams vying for glory in
two trophy competitions and a
lion share of cash prizes which
total 88 million riel ($22,000).
The tournament hit off
provincial qualifiers back on
March 31. Battambang Police
Department will face Ministry
of Interior in the blue ribband
event, the final of the Hun Sen
Cup, worth 40 million riel to
the winners, from 4:30pm
tomorrow. At 2pm, Prey Veng
clash with Military Camp 3 in
third place playoff. Todays
conclusion to the secondary
tier, the Leo Cup, sees Kampot
Police Club size up Kampong
Cham Police Club from
4:30pm for the 12 million riel
winners bonus. Hun Sen
Smach Deng High School take
on Battambang Youth
Federation for third place
honours from 2pm. DAN RILEY
Marquez eyes maiden
success at Misano track
MOTOGP reigning champion
Marc Marquez will look for a
12th victory from 13 races this
season at the weekends San
Marino and Riminis Coast
Grand Prix. The runaway
series leader has won three
times in smaller classes at the
Misano World Circuit Marco
Simoncelli, named after the
Italian rider who suffered a
fatal crash during a race in
Sepang in 2011, and triumph
on Sunday would edge the
Spaniard closer to defending
his title. Sundays MotoGP race
gets under way from 7pm
Cambodian time. DAN RILEY
All Blacks pledge battle
against Springboks
THE All Blacks strength in
depth faces a critical
examination when they play
South Africa from 2:35pm
Cambodian time on Saturday
in a showdown between the
worlds top two sides a year
out from the World Cup.
Youre going to get physicality
and its going to be tough and
you wouldnt want it any other
way, All Blacks coach Steve
Hansen said of the fourth-
round Rugby Championship
encounter in Wellington. Its
not about talking it up, neither
side is like that. Both teams
just get on with the job and the
opportunity to have a one-two
clash is always exciting. Both
rugby heavyweights have
expressed a desire for an open
game, although injuries have
forced the All Blacks to dig
deep with their forward
selections. In the other rugby
test, Australia host Argentina
from 5:05pm. AFP
Wounded warriors do
battle at Invictus Games
PRINCE Harry welcomed
injured troops from around the
world on Wednesday at the
opening ceremony of the
Invictus Games, where they will
do battle across a range of
sports. The prince, a British
army captain who fought twice
in Afghanistan, is the driving
force behind the four days of
competition across nine sports.
Some 416 wounded troops from
13 countries both serving and
veterans are to go for gold at
the Olympic Park, site of the
London 2012 Games. AFP
Paints brush with Dragons gets top billing
H S Manjunath
DAVIES Paints match-up with Smart
Dragons is the pick of the three games
carded for Sunday at the Olympic Sta-
dium Indoor Arena as the Angkor Beer
Cambodian Basketball League resumes
after a two-week break.
The Paints and the Dragons are the
only two teams this season to crack the
triple-digit mark and those high scoring
wins in the run up to this key contest
suggest the prospects of some fast mov-
ing traffic on the court.
Paints are the remake of last years title
winning Patriots, who did the honours
without defeat. But things have not been
so rosy at the start of this term for Paints
who lost to Emperors and had to stretch
every muscle and sinew before beating
Pate by a mere three points.
Every team in the roster has been
beaten, which serves to demonstrate
that the temperature is shooting up in
the top half of the standings.
Paints manager Chris Borja has to pull
out some bright shades from his col-
lection when it comes to rotation of his
players. Currently fourth in the table,
the side will be leaning heavily on
Janno Cunanan and Airmar Sabayo for
both speed and stability.
The Dragons were touched off in the
last few seconds of the game by Pate two
weeks ago, that after taking a seven-
point lead into the final quarter. That
defeat still rankles but the Dragons are
eager to move on.
Of crucial importance to the Dragons
game plan is the trio of Leng Seng,
Chhim Taingyou and Ben Laird finding
shooting spots from outside. Gabrielle
Castaldo and Chhim Chandara will pos-
sibly go after the rebounds. Dragons
have a healthy respect for their rivals as
one of the heavyweights in the business,
much as the Paints regard Dragons as a
team that cannot be taken lightly.
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes and CCPL
Warriors face off in the morning fix-
ture with more or less the same track
record of one win in four games. They
also share a common failing in that
the team chemistry is just not getting
better for both sides.
Since Mosquitoes and Warriors are
eighth and ninth in the rankings, a
loss would most certainly trigger
play-off anxieties.
Warriors driving force is likely to be
Sovann Panha, who will feel a lot bet-
ter with Vince Del Mundo back to
support him. Mosquitoes on the oth-
er hand are banking on the return of
Jay Roden to prop up Geoff Harry and
Steve Chunn, who can assert them-
selves with their size advantage inside
the paint.
One of the top fancies for the title,
Emperors face the youngest bunch in
the basketball competition, NSK
Dream in what could well be a mis-
match of sorts as far as the form book
goes. Emperors, who dealt the then-
unbeaten Mekong Tigers their first
defeat, are rolling along at a nice clip
with Monh Ratana and his team-mates
striking a good balance both in attack
and defense.
Hour Pichbounchour and Kim
Vengngoun are sticking up very well
under the rim and the Emperors com-
bined play will likely be too big a chal-
lenge for NSK Dream to handle.
It could be a litmus test for Dream
youngsters Phorn Rithysak and Chan-
chan Borey when it comes to contain-
ing Por Vannith and Monh Ratanas
skills in perimetre shooting.
Sundays Schedule
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes v
CCPL Warriors 9:30am
NSK Dream v Emperors 2pm
Davies Paints v Smart Dragons 4pm
Tiger, Mickelson just getting
older, says golf No 1 McIlroy
W
ORLD number
one Rory McIlroy
isnt convinced
the absence of
both Tiger Woods and Phil
Mickelson from the US PGA
Tour Championship signals a
changing of the guard in golf.
But the 25-year-old reign-
ing PGA Championship and
British Open champion noted
on Wednesday, the eve of the
season-ending event at East
Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, the
passing years for Mickelson,
44, and Woods, who turns 39
in December.
They are just getting older,
McIlroy said. Phil is 43 or what-
ever and Tiger is nearly 40. So
they are just getting into sort
of the last few holes of their ca-
reers and thats what happens.
It obviously just gets harder as
you get older.
Ill be able to tell you in 20
years how it feels.
It is the rst time since 1992
that the Tour Championship
is being played without either
Woods or Mickelson in the
eld, but McIlroy believes they
are far from nished, citing
Mickelsons runner-up place
at last months PGA Champi-
onship and an injury-marred
season for Woods.
When he gets back to full
tness you will see him here,
McIlroy predicted.
Northern Irelands McIlroy
is among ve playoff points
leaders in the eld of 29 who
can win the $10 million play-
off crown by capturing the
tournament, the others be-
ing Americans Bubba Watson,
Hunter Mahan, Chris Kirk and
Billy Horschel.
Anything other than a win
here would be a disappoint-
ment, McIlroy said. After I
nished the PGA, all my focus
was on trying to win this.
Obviously, if I nish sec-
ond or third and end up win-
ning the whole thing, then
thats cool as well.
The eld is one player less
than usual because American
Dustin Johnson, who in July
took a season-ending leave
of absence, qualied despite
not playing for nearly two
months.
McIlroy, who has played
for seven of the past nine
weeks, went home to Florida
between last weeks event in
Denver and this weeks show-
down in Georgia.
Its amazing what a night in
your own bed can do, McIl-
roy said. I was standing in the
shower on Monday morning
in Denver and I was thinking
to myself: Why am I going to
Atlanta today? So I didnt.
It was refreshing just to
spend a little bit of time at
home, dump a little bit of lug-
gage Ive been carrying with
me the past four, ve weeks. It
was nice.
McIlroy still has the Ryder
Cup in two weeks in Scot-
land and stops in Bermuda,
Dubai, China and Australia
before ending his 2014 cam-
paign a global workout that
already has him pondering
a cutback from 26 events to
between 20 and 23 in 2015.
Sometimes you feel like
you need to play, McIlroy
said.
Sometimes you feel like
you need to play the week be-
fore a major. Theres a couple
of events during the year that
you feel obliged just because
of where youre from or to
support a different tour. In a
perfect world you might not
play. But it is what it is. AFP
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland tees off at the third hole during a practice round on Wednesday prior to the start of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Tennis
Tough task for
tennis players
H S Manjunath
D
AVIS Cuppers Mam
Phalkun and Long
Samneang along
with French-Cam-
bodian Andrea Ka will carry
the countrys tennis aspira-
tions at the Incheon Asian
Games under the guidance of
national coach Braen Aneiros.
The tennis events offering
seven gold, as many silver and
14 bronze medals involve
team, singles and doubles for
both men and women, along
with mixed doubles, and will
be held from September 20-30
at the new Yeorumul Tennis
Courts in the Bupyeong-gu
district of Incheon.
Tennis Cambodia picked
Phalkun as a late replace-
ment for the countrys Davis
Cup spearhead Bun Kenny,
who is resting a slight shoul-
der strain.
We thought it best for
Kenny to be absolutely t for
the forthcoming three-leg
Cambodian Futures series,
Tennis Cambodia secretary
general Tep Rithivit told the
Post yesterday.
Kenny is on the lookout for
more ATP points to improve
his ranking this year and his
role will be crucial for us in
events like Davis Cup and
SEA Games.
It is very tough but useful.
It is a wonderful experience
for our players to be in elite
events like the Asian Games
where they are in the midst
of some of the best in the
Continent. I hope our players
make the most of it, added
the secretary.
Phalkun lls in quite well.
He did a competent job dur-
ing our Group III Davis Cup
Campaign in Tehran. For Long
Samneang it is [a] great oppor-
tunity to play at this level and
Andrea Ka made it to the SEA
Games in Indonesia and she is
our top female player.
Phalkun, who is also head
of Tennis Cambodias junior
development, said: It is an
exciting trip for me. Totally
unexpected but I am look-
ing forward to it. I had never
imagined I would be playing
in the Asian Games. We do not
know who we are up against
but we are ready.
While Phalkun and Sam-
neang will travel with the
Cambodian delegation leav-
ing Phnom Penh on Septem-
ber 16, Andrea Ka, who is
presently pursuing her studies
in the United States, will join
them in Incheon.
Cambodia was represented
by Bun Kenny and Orn Sam-
bath at the 16th Asian Games
in Guangzhou four years ago.
Guangzhou Games winners
Mens Singles
Somdev Devvarman (India)
Mens Doubles
Somdev Devvarman and
Sanam Singh (India)
Mens Team Taiwan
Womens Singles
Peng Shuai (China)
Womens Doubles
Chan Yung-jan and
Chuang Chia-jung (Taiwan)
Womens Team China
Mixed Doubles
Chan Yung-jan and
Yang Tsung-hua (Taiwan)
Soft tennis launch
After the 2011 SEA Games
in Indonesia, Orn Sambath
was out of the national reck-
oning the following year but
he is making it to Incheon
with the countrys three-
member Soft Tennis team,
being coached by South Ko-
rean Kim Gun Jung. The oth-
er members of the team are
Ngoun Meng Chheng and
female Yi Sophany.
Soft Tennis, which is a dem-
onstration sport in Incheon,
differs from regular tennis in
that the game is played with
soft rubber balls instead of the
hard yellow ones.
The soft tennis events will
be held from September 29 to
October 3.
Mam Phalkun will join Cambodian team-mates Long Samneang and Andrea Ka in Incheon for the Asian
Games tennis competition which starts on September 29. SRENG MENG SRUN
23
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Mighty girls teams set
for U16s grand final
BATTAMBANGS SALT
Academy and Yeay Mao Pich
Nel will contest the grand final
of the National Girls U16s
Football Championships today
from 4:30pm at the Olympic
Stadium. SALT beat Svay Rieng
Department of Education,
Youth and Sport 4-2 on
Wednesday to book their place
in the decider, while Yeay Mao
Pich Nel edged Siem Reap
Angkor 1-0 in the other semi-
final. The third-place playoff
featuring the losing semi-
finalists will be played at 2pm.
CHHORN NORN
Scottish independence
threatens Euro 2020 bid
SCOTLANDS bid to stage
games at Euro 2020 may have
to be reassessed if the
country votes to become an
independent nation following
next weeks referendum,
according to a UEFA report.
European footballs governing
body is in the process of
examining bids to stage games
during the tournament. The
Scottish Football Association
has proposed Glasgows
Hampden Park as the venue
for three pool fixtures and one-
match in the knock-out phase
of a tournament that will,
unusually, be divided up
among 13 nations across the
continent. UEFAs executive
committee will vote on the
host cities on September 19,
the day after the Scottish
referendum. AFP
Tottenham exec Eales
named MLS Atlanta boss
DARREN Eales, executive
director of English Premier
League side Tottenham
Hotspur, was named
Wednesday as president of
Major League Soccers Atlanta
expansion team which is set
for its maiden campaign in
2017. The 42-year-old
Englishman, the Ivy League
Player of the Year in 1994 as a
forward at Brown University,
will serve in a transition period
with Spurs until joining the US
club later this year. Eales, a
former lawyer and director for
Premier League side West
bromich Albion, played a key
role in negotiating last years
world record transfer fee sale
of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid
and was involved in deals that
brought Robbie Keane, Clint
Dempsey and Jermain Defoe
to MLS as well as sent US
player DeAndre Yedlin to
Tottenham. Spurs, meanwhile,
have been hit by the news that
they will have to vacate their
White Hart Lane ground for
one season after announcing a
delay in the construction of
their new stadium. AFP
Wales face UEFA rap
over pitch invasion
WALES are facing punishment
from UEFA over Tuesdays
crowd trouble after the 2-1
Euro 2016 qualifier win in
Andorra. The Football
Association of Wales declined
to comment on the UEFA
investigation, which could lead
to a fine, a points reduction or
a warning. The pitch invasion
followed Wales come-from-
behind win when Real Madrid
star Gareth Bales double
saved their blushes against a
side that had not won in 51
competitive games. AFP
Agger pays for Homeless team
FORMER Liverpool defender
Daniel Agger has paid for Den-
mark to send a team to the 2014
Homeless World Cup, which is
being held October 19-26 in
Santiago, Chile.
Agger, who left Liverpool last
month to return to his old club
Brondby, covered a 20,000-
krone ($3,470) shortfall in
funding after being approached
by organisers, allowing the
squad to make the journey.
Frits Ahlstrom, of the charity
Ombold, told Danish channel
TV2: I talked to him and
said we still had to find 20,000
krone, and he said without
hesitating: Ill give it to
you. There is no substitute for
class and Daniel has it on and
off the field, as a player and as
a person.
The Homeless World Cup,
which began in 2003, is held
annually and was last hosted
in Poland, where Brazil were
the winners.
In August, PSGs Zlatan Ibra-
himovic donated 30,000 to
send a Swedish team with
learning difficulties to the INAS
World Football Championship
in Brazil.
The Swedish teams manager,
Stefan Jonsson, told Afton-
bladet: I spoke to Zlatan and
asked if he could donate a shirt
for auction and he said: What
the hell are you going to do with
a shirt? How much is it to go?
When he said what we needed,
he asked for the account
number and he deposited it.
A team of Cambodian young-
sters will be sent to participate
in the 12th edition of the Home-
less World Cup thanks to the
fundraising efforts of charity
organisation Happy Football
Cambodia Australia, which
included a Charity Cup futsal
tournament at Beeline Arena
on August 31.
Cambodia came third in the
Cup of Tolerance, the fifth tier
of last years mens competi-
tion, after beating Wales 7-3 in
their last playoff game. THE
GUARDIAN, ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
DAN RILEY
The former Liverpool defender Daniel Agger has funded Denmarks
trip to the 2014 Homeless World Cup in Santiago, Chile. AFP
South Americas Guarani
Indians invented football
S
OUTH Americas Gua-
rani people played a
football-like game two
centuries before the
modern sport emerged, the
Paraguayan government says
in a new documentary based
on Jesuit texts.
The lm, The Guarani In-
vented Football, retraces Cath-
olic missionaries 17th-century
descriptions of an indigenous
game played with a rubbery
inatable ball that players had
to control with their feet.
But despite its title, the lm
stops short of claiming the
Guarani invented modern as-
sociation football, a sport that
grew out of various games
dating back to ancient times
that was rst codied into a
widely used rulebook in 19th-
century England.
Were not here looking to
stake a claim on behalf of the
Guarani, Paraguayan Culture
Minister Mabel Causarano
said. We just want to high-
light a curious historical fact,
which is that they were already
playing a ball game with their
feet when the Jesuits arrived
shortly after 1600.
When Europeans arrived
in South America, the Gua-
rani inhabited a territory that
stretched across parts of pres-
ent-day Bolivia, Brazil, Argen-
tina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
While their hold on the re-
gion was greatly diminished by
colonisation, they remain an
important presence in Para-
guay, where Guarani is an of-
cial language alongside Span-
ish and is spoken by about 95
per cent of the population.
The rst Jesuit missionaries
to arrive in the colony wrote
dispatches to the Vatican
describing how native men
would play a game with a
bouncing ball, according to
Antonio Betancort, the Span-
ish priest who today heads
the oldest Jesuit mission in
Paraguay, San Ignacio Guazu,
founded in 1609.
The missionaries said the
game was called mangai,
named for the Mangaisi tree
the natives tapped to extract
the honey-coloured, rubbery
resin used to make the ball.
They also used the sticky
substance to hunt parrots,
spreading it on tree branches
where the birds would get
stuck, according to historians.

No goals
The Guarani would make
a vertical incision in the trunk
to extract the thick, sticky
liquid, said Julio Galeano,
the director of the San Igna-
cio museum, where Mangaisi
trees still grow.
Bartomeu Melia, a Jesuit
priest and expert in Guarani
culture, said the natives would
form a ball of wet sand and
cover it with layers of Man-
gaisi resin, then use a bamboo
straw to blow air into the ball
and inate it to the right size.
The ball bounced a lot and
players had to have good co-
ordination to control it and
dribble it, he said.
There were no goals, and
games lasted until one team
got tired and quit, thus los-
ing the match. The problem
is that every match ended
0-0, Betancort joked.
From the time the Jesuits ar-
rived and set up missions to
convert the Guarani, games
were played on Sundays after
mass. Latin Americas Aztec
and Inca peoples also had ball
games well before Europeans
arrived in the Americas, but
did not have any known links
with the Guarani, said histo-
rian Jorge Rubbiani.
I dont think the Guarani
invented football, but every
civilisation adds something to
the game, he said.
In Europe, the rst full set
of modern football rules was
published in 1863 by Englands
Football Association, and the
rst international match was
played in 1872 between Eng-
land and Scotland.
But evidence suggests Eng-
lish royalty played an organised
form of the game as early as the
15th century, and ball games
using the feet date back at least
as far as the ancient Greeks and
Romans. AFP
A statue depicts a Guarani indigenous man holding a ball at the church of San Ignacio in Paraguay. AFP
English Premier League
Saturday September 13
Arsenal v Man City 6:45pm
Chelsea v Swansea 9pm
Crystal Palace v Burnley
9pm
Southampton v Newcastle
9pm
Stoke v Leicester 9pm
Sunderland v Tottenham
9pm
West Brom v Everton 9pm
Liverpool v Aston Villa
11:30pm
Sunday September 14
Man United v QPR 10pm
Spanish La Liga
Saturday September 13
Almeria v Cordoba 2am
Barcelona v
Athletico Bilbao 9pm
Malaga v Levante 11pm
Sunday September 14
Real Madrid v
Atletico Madrid 1am
Celta de Vigo v
Real Sociedad 3am
Rayo Vallecano v Elche 5pm
Valencia v Espanyol 10pm
Monday September 15
Sevilla v Getafe 12am
Granada v Villarreal 2am
German Bundesliga
Saturday September 13
Bayer Leverkusen v
Werder Bremen 1:30am
Borussia Dortmund v
Freiburg 8:30pm
Bayern Munich v Stuttgart
8:30pm
Hertha Berlin v Mainz
8:30pm
Paderborn v Cologne
8:30pm
Hoffenheim v Wolfsburg
8:30pm
Borussia Mgladbach v
Schalke 11:30pm
Sunday September 14
Eint Frankfurt v Augsburg
8:30pm
Hannover v Hamburg
10:30pm
Italian Serie A
Saturday September 13
Empoli v Roma 11pm
Sunday September 14
Juventus v Udinese 1:45am
Sampdoria v Torino 5:30pm
Cagliari v Atalanta 8pm
Fiorentina v Genoa 8pm
Inter Milan v Sassuolo 8pm
Lazio v Cesena 8pm
Napoli v Chievo 8pm
Monday September 15
Parma v AC Milan 1:45am
French Ligue 1
Saturday September 13
Lyon v Monaco 1:30am
Rennes v Paris SG 10pm
Sunday September 14
Bastia v Lens 1am
Montpellier v Lorient 1am
Nice v Metz 1am
Reims v Toulouse 1am
St Etienne v Caen 1am
Lille v Nantes 7pm
Guingamp v Bordeaux
10pm
Monday September 15
Evian TG v Marseille 2am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Sport
Mayweather wants statement win over Maidana
FLOYD Mayweather, coming
off one the biggest scares of his
undefeated boxing career,
wants to send a message tomor-
row when he faces Argentine
brawler Marcos Maidana.
Mayweather, who won a
majority decision over Maidana
in May, will battle the South
American again for the World
Boxing Association welter-
weight title and World Boxing
Council welterweight and jun-
ior middleweight crowns.
I know that I am almost 40
but I am still going strong, the
37-year-old Mayweather said
on Wednesday. I am coming
to make a statement.
This is just the second
rematch Mayweather has giv-
en since turning pro in 1996.
Mayweather won a controver-
sial unanimous decision over
Jose Castillo in 2002. The pair
fought again eight months
later for the WBC lightweight
title and Mayweather won by
another decision.
Mayweather, 46-0 with 26
knockouts, will need to get off
to a better start against Maid-
ana than he did in their first
fight in order to keep his perfect
record intact.
Maidana will be trying to pace
himself so that he doesnt run
out of steam in the later rounds.
I dont have to make any
adjustments. He do, May-
weather said. I won. He has to
make adjustments.
Maidana, 35-4 with 31 knock-
outs, came the closet of anyone
to becoming the first fighter to
beat Mayweather, landing 51
per cent of his punches with
Mayweather on the ropes.
His aggressive game plan
worked for the first six rounds
as he landed 221 punches on
Mayweather, the most of any
opponent. The only other fight-
er to land 200 punches on May-
weather was Castillo, who
landed 203 in their first fight.
I am very well prepared but
this time around I already
know him, Maidana said.
Floyd is not used to giving
rematches. So I got this great
opportunity.
Maidana said one of the keys
for him is to be more patient
and sacrifice quantity for qual-
ity. I am going to pace myself
this time. I am not going to
waste punches, he said.
Vegas oddsmakers have listed
Mayweather as an 8-1 favourite
ahead of todays weigh-in.
His longevity in the sport has
been attributed to brilliant
counterpunching skills and a
stingy defence that doesnt
allow opponents to land many
clean shots.
And he said on Wednesday
that is just the way he likes it. I
try not take no shots.
I dont want to be known as
the guy that can take a good
shot. I want to be known as the
guy that can dish it out.
More mixed messages
Mayweather said prior to his
May fight with Maidana that
he could retire at the end of
that fight. But once the bout
was over and pay-per-view fig-
ures were in, he quickly
reversed his tune.
Mayweather provided more
mixed messages on Wednes-
day, telling reporters he might
stop or he might fight past his
current contract with Show-
time if they come to him with
a good offer.
He is currently in the middle
of a six-fight contract with
Showtime.
I cant really say. They may
come with another contract.
I am pretty sure they will, he
said. It is not hard to stop
right now. But I feel good. I am
just ready to fight.
Kenny Bayless will be the
referee tomorrow, marking
the fifth time he has been in
the ring as the referee for a
Mayweather fight.
Mayweather complained
bitterly about the choice of
gloves that Maidana wanted
to use prior to the first fight,
saying they didnt have
enough padding. Maidanas
trainer, Robert Garcia, said on
Wednesday that an agreement
has been reached to use eight-
ounce gloves. AFP
Undefeated American boxer Floyd Mayweather will put his WBA and
WBC welterweight titles on the line tomorrow night against Argentinas
Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. AFP
Showtime for ONE FC fight card
Dan Riley
T
HE wait is nally over. Mixed
martial arts fans in Cambo-
dia will get their rst taste of
top-class international cage
ghting action at 7pm tonight at Koh
Pich Theatre with the historic ONE
FC: Rise of the Kingdom event.
Asias largest MMA organisation
is bringing an unforgettable show
to Phnom Penh, headlined by a
bout to decide who will be crowned
the inaugural ONE FC yweight
world champion.
The two top contenders of the di-
vision, Brazilian Black Diamond
Adriano Moraes (11-1) and Geje
Gravity Eustaquio (6-2) of the
Philippines will clash in the ONE FC
cage for the title after making weight
(57kg) yesterday.
I am excited and proud to be
ghting for ONE FCs inaugural y-
weight championship title belt and
I cannot wait to ght in front of all
the fans in Cambodia, Moraes told
the Post.
I will give my best ght and earn
the yweight champion title!
Eustaquio, meanwhile, said it was
an honour to represent the Philip-
pines in the title match.
Winning it would mean a lot to
me and my country, and it will be
life changing. I have been working
and training hard so I am prepared
for the ght, he said.
ONE FC chief exec Victor Cui
noted the excitement among his
colleagues at bringing an event to
Cambodia for the rst time.
Our band of world-class ghters
have all made weight and are ready
to take Asia by storm tonight here in
the Kingdom. Be ready for a night
of unforgettable action where we
showcase the talents of local Cam-
bodian ghters in our Featherweight
Grand Prix, he said.
The response for the ghts have
been fantastic with the support of
NagaWorld and MyTV and we cant
wait to put on a fantastic show for all
the fans in Cambodia.
The co-main event of the night
features a tantalising battle between
Dutch lightweight Vincent Latoel
(15-14-2) and Caros Fodor (9-4) of
the US.
I am happy I made weight and I
am just now rehydrating for ght
night, Fodor told the Post yester-
day. I have fought with Vincent on
several occasions before and he is
a great guy. We will put on a great
show for everybody.
All Cambodians on the card are
making their debuts for ONE FC, and
a highlight for local fans is sure be the
international encounter of Cambo-
dian-Australian Suasday Chau (4-3)
and Arnaud Lepont (10-4) of France.
Suasday said he felt no pressure
on making his debut in the ONE FC
cage. Just having lots of fun enjoying
the journey and experience, he said.
The 33-year-old Adelaide na-
tive has been kept extremely busy
this week with media meetings, al-
though his perennially sunny dis-
position has got him into trouble on
occasion, he admitted.
I kept being told to look more
erce in photo shoots. However, its
just not in me so they have given up
on that request.
Undefeated Singaporean Radeem
Rahman (2-0) takes on Taiwans
Ming Yen Sung (3-1) in the bantam-
weight division, while Amir Khan of
Singapore will launch his MMA ca-
reer against Malaysian featherwight
Jian Kai Chee (4-4).
A highly anticipated feather-
weight matchup between Cambo-
dian cagemaster Chan Heng (7-1)
and judo expert Meas Meu (1-0) will
likely produce some reworks for
the action-craving crowd of an ex-
pected 4,000.
I feel so excited more than I can
say, Chan Heng told the Post when
asked about tonights ght. I will
show the fans the best I have, until
I have nothing left to give.
One shock to the system came in
the announcement yesterday eve-
ning that Cambodian featherweight
and A Fighter gym trainer Chan
Reach, one of the pioneers of the
sport in the Kingdom, had failed to
make weight and lost his place in
the Grand Prix competition.
Chan Reachs last-minute replace-
ment was named as 21-year-old
kickboxer Dun Sam Ang, who car-
ries the nickname Iron Fist.
Sam Ang will face Chin Heng (1-2)
in the seminals of the Cambodian
Featherweight Grand Prix, with the
winner progressing to the nal to
be held in the slot before the co-
main event.
Chan Rothana (1-0), a practitioner
of Cambodian martial art Yuthakun
Khorm, is up against fellow ght
veteran Prak Chansin (4-4) in the
other seminal, to be fought over
two rounds.
The night will explode out of
the blocks with local female com-
batants Sam Tharoth and Vy Srey
Chai squaring off for a 50kg catch-
weight contest.
TV viewers can tune into local
channel MyTV to watch the entire
card, while English commentary is
available on Fox Sports coverage
of the night. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY IN
SOPHENG
The ONE FC cage comes to Cambodia for the rst time with tonights event, Rise of the Kingdom, set to pack Koh Pich Theatre. ONEFC.COM