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INJURIES RIFE
FOR CHILD
LABOURERS
NATIONAL PAGE 2
HALF OF WILDLIFE
LOST SINCE 1970,
WWF SAYS
WORLD PAGE 14
THE PERNICIOUS
HISTORY OF GONE
WITH THE WIND
LIFESTYLE PAGE 17
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
TWO members of hacktivist
group Anonymous Cambodia
convicted of computer hack-
ing yesterday will be spared
further jail time. Instead, they
have been ordered to put their
excellent IT skills to use
combating cybercrime in the
Ministry of Interior.
Bun King Mongkolpanha, 21,
alias Black Cyber, and Chou
Songheng, 20, alias Zoro, were
found guilty of IT offences
under two articles of the crimi-
nal code at Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday
morning and sentenced to two
years in prison.
But their sentences were
reduced to five months and 20
days the amount of time
they have already spent in
prison since being arrested in
April and they will be
released today.
The two former SETEC Insti-
tute students will soon begin
paid work fighting cybercrime
with the same Interior Ministry
department that worked with
the FBI to arrest them after an
eight-month investigation.
Anonymous Cambodia the
local arm of the international
collective had hacked 30 gov-
ernment websites following
last years disputed national
election as part of what it
called Operation Cambodia
Freedom.
Because they were IT stu-
dents and have excellent
knowledge in IT, the court has
decided to allow them to begin
work as IT police officers with
the Internal Security Depart-
ment of the Ministry of Interior
Hackers
cut deal
to work
for govt
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Cheang Sokha
O
NE Cambodian sol-
dier was shot three
times and a Thai sol-
dier was reportedly
injured in a brief exchange of
gunfire on the Cambodian-Thai
border in the vicinity of Preah
Vihear temple on Monday, mil-
itary officials said yesterday.
According to Colonel Meas
Yoeun, deputy military com-
mander for Preah Vihear, the
soldier in question who sur-
vived the shooting was fired
upon as he was patrolling
alone at about 1pm near the
An Ses border crossing, east of
the 11th-century temple.
The top military command-
ers in the area, General Chea
Tara and General Srey Doek,
had gone to visit the area to
determine the cause of the
incident yesterday morning,
but the situation at the border
was normal, he added.
Preap Theurt, an informa-
tion official with the military
in Preah Vihear province, said
that victim Var Savuth, 35, was
shot in both legs and once in
the back at about 12:50pm.
He is currently in a military
health centre for treatment,
he said. He was shot while
patrolling alone, as usual, then
got fired upon.
One military official in Preah
Vihear province, who asked to
be identified only as Cham-
roeun, said he believed it was
Soldier shot on border
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Thai troops hit victim in legs, back, says RCAF; loggers slain nearby
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unlikely that the incident was
an accident.
Normally, we have regu-
lar meetings [with the Thais]
and inform each other about
patrols, so I think it was pre-
pared in advance, he said.
However, while command-
ers Tara and Doek could not
be reached for comment
yesterday, Tara reportedly
attributed the incident to
confusion.
A brave Cambodian soldier
from Unit 405 of the military
in Preah Vihear province and
a Thai soldier got injured yes-
terday as there was some con-
fusion, he was quoted as say-
ing. The situation is normal;
soldiers always obey their or-
ders from superiors.
Cambodia and Thailand
have never fully demarcated
their 805-kilometre border,
and the two countries troops
have exchanged re, including
artillery bombardments, sev-
eral times around a disputed
patch of land surrounding the
Preah Vihear temple, leading
to dozens of deaths and in-
juries since the complex was
declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in 2008.
The two countries have yet
to implement a 2013 ruling
from the International Court
of Justice awarding Cambo-
dia the temples immediate
vicinity, though both sides
have repeatedly insisted that
they will maintain peace and
implement the ruling once
the Thai political situation
has stabilised.
Koy Kuong, a spokesman
for Cambodias Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, said yesterday
that he had not yet received
word of the shooting and
could not speak as to how it
might affect diplomatic rela-
tions between the countries.
We cannot comment right
now, Kuong said. We will
check with our consulate
general in Sakeo province in
Thailand rst.
Two ofcials within the
Thai Foreign Ministry had
no information regarding the
shooting as of press time yes-
terday, and multiple others
could not be reached.
In an unrelated incident,
two Cambodian loggers were
shot to death in the same
area just a day before the
military shooting, according
to Theurt, the military in-
formation ofcer. The bod-
ies remain in Thailand while
Cambodian ofcials attempt
to repatriate them.
They will not allow us
to get inside their land, he
said, adding that since early
September there had already
been several instances of Thai
soldiers shooting loggers who
had illegally crossed over
from Cambodia.
The report of the shooting
comes just days after Thai-
land released widely disputed
gures saying that there have
been no reports of clashes or
losses of life among loggers
on either side of the border.
An emailed request for
comment that was sent to
Thailands Foreign Ministry
regarding the shootings and
the allegedly conicting g-
ures had not returned as of
press time. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY STUART WHITE
Soldier shot 3 times
in border incident
He is currently in a military
health centre for treatment.
He was shot while patrolling
alone as usual
Child labourer injuries rife
Laignee Barron and Sen David

O
VER 85 per cent
of child domestic
workers in Phnom
Penh are injured
in the course of their
employment, research into
child labour released yester-
day revealed.
The Cambodian Develop-
ment Research Institute and
World Vision International are
jointly examining child labour
practices in the Kingdom, and
the preliminary ndings of
their four-year study indicate
an under-regulated and ill-de-
ned employment sector that
is exposing minors to abusive
and hazardous conditions.
Roughly 10 per cent of Cam-
bodian children age 5 to 17
work, according to govern-
ment estimates, but so far,
there has been little investi-
gation into the extent of the
problem in the various sectors
employing youth.
Children in rural areas are
more likely to fall into the child
labour trap than children in
the cities, and most of the chil-
dren working are engaged in
agricultural work, said Phann
Dalis, a research associate at
CDRI and contributor to the
projects subtopic on landless-
ness and child labour.
Though smaller in number
than the agriculture youth
workforce, some 28,000 youth
are estimated to labour in the
domestic sector, 10 per cent
of whom are employed in
Phnom Penh.
Nearly 85 per cent of the
441 Phnom Penh households
interviewed for the study said
they had hired a child, though
most (87 per cent) added that
they would not allow their own
children to work.
Minors as young as 12 are
permitted to work in Cam-
bodia provided that the job is
light, does not prevent get-
ting an education and does not
have hazardous conditions.
But with a lack of regulations
within the industry, the kinds
of employment appropriate for
children remain contentious.
Cambodias child workers
are typically not under any
formal contract, making them
vulnerable to physical and
sexual abuse, exploitation and
poor working conditions.
Cambodia needs to have
[sector]-specic guidelines
delineating the kind of work
and number of hours that
are acceptable, said Imelda
Ochavilla, project coordinator
at World Vision.
Without specic deni-
tions, enforcement against
exploitation is tricky; employ-
ers can claim they were doing
nothing wrong by the law.
A young child lls a customers fuel tank with petrol yesterday in Phnom Penh. VIREAK MAI
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Khouth Sophak Chakrya
THE father of a 20-year-old
girl who was allegedly driv-
ing a Range Rover when it hit
and killed an Irish national
early on Sunday morning ar-
rived at the Phnom Penh Mu-
nicipal Trafc Police ofce
yesterday to tell the authori-
ties that he could not locate
his daughter.
Chev Hak, director of the
citys trafc police, said yes-
terday that the victim was
Tomas Edmond Beecher,
30. Beecher was killed while
taking his bicycle across the
street around 1:30am on
Sunday at the intersection
of Monivong Boulevard and
Street 278 in Boeung Keng
Kang 1 commune.
The driver subsequently
ed the scene and the car
was seized. According to re-
ports, several people in the
vehicle also emptied out of it
and ran away. Beechers body
was initially sent to Stung
Meanchey pagoda.
Right now, we are organis-
ing the report of an accident
with the details of the Irish-
man to the UK Embassy in
Cambodia to help and nd
his family or relatives to bring
his body back to his county,
Hak said.
He said the father of the
driver was a tourist police of-
cer and that yesterday he
came to our ofce to resolve
the problem and asked us to
help him to nd his daughter,
because until now she has not
come back home.
When asked for the identity
of the driver and the tourist
police ofcer, Hak demurred.
I am sorry that now I am
not in the ofce; I am busy
driving on the road. However,
we are resolving it with care,
he said.
Fearing mob violence and
lacking proper driving docu-
ments, motorists ee crash
sites frequently.
Of all the crashes record-
ed by the government from
2006 to 2012, an average of
27 per cent involved hit-and-
runs, and of all the fatalities
from those crashes, hit-and-
runs occurred in 43 per cent
of cases.
May Titthara
T
HE Ministry of Mines
and Energy has de-
nied that the pro-
posed Stung Cheay
Areng hydropower dam in
Koh Kong province will have
as wide-ranging environmen-
tal and social impacts as pre-
dicted by activists, saying that
the forests will be replaced by
ecotourism resorts.
Speaking to reporters yester-
day in Phnom Penh, ministry
secretary of state Ith Praing
said the reservoir would cover
only 10,000 hectares and that
the dam was slated for com-
pletion by 2020 at a cost of
$400 million.
In reality, the project is un-
der study. The claims that forest
is being logged are exaggerated.
We do not log the forest. We are
aiming at hydropower produc-
tion, he said. If we log the
forest, where can we get water
resources? I pity people who are
lied to. They are seeking funding
and support for their organisa-
tions. If they did not do so, how
would they get the money?
Praings comments followed
local media reports earlier this
week that the Chinese state-
owned rm contracted to
oversee the dams construc-
tion, Sinohydro Resources, a
subsidiary of Powerchina, had
already signed an engineering,
procurement and construc-
tion agreement with a subcon-
tractor, Cambodia Lancangji-
ang Engineering.
The news prompted activists
to suggest that the green light
may have already been given
for construction of the highly
controversial project, but Pra-
ing claimed yesterday that
their fears were overblown.
They always say what we do
causes people to shed tears,
which is an exaggeration, he
said. Will they cry when the
project is completed? It will
transform the area into eco-
tourism resorts.
If they say it will affect
20,000 hectares [of forest], we
do not know where they get
that gure from, he added.
At least 1,318 people will be
forced to relocate under the
project, Praing said.
Earlier this year, the Post re-
ported that Sinohydro had tak-
en over the project to construct
the Areng dam with the help of
Cambodian Peoples Party sen-
ator Lao Meng Khin, and later,
that clearances had been given
for it to prospect for possible
mining projects in the area.
Major international conser-
vation groups have opposed the
project, along with community
activists, who have repeatedly
blocked the access road into
the site since March.
Accused hit-and-run
driver on lam: father
Areng dam a boon: ministry
Locals watch as Chinese engineers prepare to undertake a feasibility study for the Stung Cheay Areng dam in
November 2012. INTERNATIONAL RIVERS
[He] asked us to
help him find his
daughter because . . .
she has not come
back home
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Child rape alleged
Cops doubt
pimping
accusations
A
MOTHER was arrested
for allegedly pimping her
9-year-old daughter to
a Vietnamese man in Kampong
Cham town on Monday.
The girls grandmother, 51,
led a complaint with Kampong
Cham police on Sunday, saying
her daughter-in-law, a 34-year-
old beer promoter, allowed a
34-year-old man to rape her
daughter, deputy provincial
police chief Iem Vanny said.
However, since police arrested
the pair on Monday, the investiga-
tion hasnt validated the claims.
A medical examination
showed the girl was not raped,
as she remains a virgin. What
the girl claimed is not believable
either, said Vanny, adding that
revenge could be behind the
accusation.
The girl was being raised
by her grandmother after her
parents were jailed for dealing
drugs, but the daughter paid
her mother a visit following her
release.
Hang Vannthon, deputy
police chief of Kampong Cham
town, said the pair was ques-
tioned yesterday and would be
questioned again today. PHAK
SEANGLY
Unions unite across ideologies
Sean Teehan

I
NDEPENDENT garment
unions have experienced
unprecedented coop-
eration from pro-govern-
ment unions during garment
sector minimum wage talks
this year, but some unionists
and observers fear the conge-
niality is only for show.
In a stark departure from
other years when the Ministry
of Labours Labour Advisory
Committee (LAC) raised the
garment sectors oor wage,
the ve pro-government
unions on the LAC are now
actively engaging with the two
independent unions on the
committee and concerned
unions outside the process.
We try to get consensus, be-
cause for the workers group [on
the LAC] to succeed, we need to
be united, said Chuon Mom
Thol, president of government-
leaning Cambodian Union
Federation. When we are unit-
ed, we get what we want.
The 21-member LAC in-
cludes seven representatives
from the government, seven
from employers and seven
from labour unions. Within
the union group, two are inde-
pendent and ve are typically
government-aligned.
In past years, pro-government
unions never engaged with ei-
ther of the independent unions
on the LAC the Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Workers
Democratic Union (C.CAWDU)
and the National Independent
Federation Textile Union of
Cambodia (NIFTUC) to nd
common ground on a wage de-
mand, Free Trade Union secre-
tary-general Say Sokny said.
Leadership from C.CAWDU
and NIFTUC could not be
reached yesterday.
All government-aligned LAC
unions last year favoured a
$95 minimum monthly wage
which Labour Minister Ith Sam
Heng later hiked to $100 rath-
er than the $160 that C.CAWDU
and NIFTUC requested. The de-
cision was followed by a 10-day
nationwide garment worker
strike that ended on January 3,
when military authorities shot
dead at least ve demonstrators
on Veng Sreng Boulevard.
The fact that the LAC unions
have collectively decided on
$150 as an acceptable mini-
mum monthly wage though
independent unions are pub-
licly campaigning for $177 is
unheard of, said Dave Welsh,
country director for labour
rights group Solidarity Center.
Unlike previous years, there
actually has been real discus-
sion between unions across
the spectrum, Welsh said.
The tilt towards negotiations
came from advice out of Welshs
group, as well as international
unions, the International La-
bour Organization and others,
pro-government unionist Mom
Thol said.
But the Free Trade Unions
Sokny said she doubted the
government-associated unions
solidarity with independent
unions amounts to much more
than a public relations effort.
[ Gover nment - l eani ng
unions] never ever support
the minimum wage increase
beyond what the government
offers, Sokny said.
Community Legal Educa-
tion Center labour depart-
ment head Moeun Tola shared
Soknys doubts that the unity
between typically pro-govern-
ment unions and independent
ones would hold if the other
two LAC groups reject their
agreed-upon wage.
I used to have optimism
for them, that they would join
hands, Tola said. I dont see
that there is a real heavy com-
mitment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY TAING VIDA
Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, talks to garment
workers during a demonstration on Veng Sreng Boulevard last month. HONG MENEA
Phak Seangly
PAILIN provincial authorities
are searching for a suspect who
allegedly commissioned the ex-
cavation of a gold mine on land
the protection of which is fund-
ed by the foundation of Ameri-
can actress Angelina Jolie.
Provincial environmental
police are holding three men at
a spot where they were found
guarding an excavator and
10,000 square metres of land
in Boyakha commune on Sun-
day, said Kim Sokha, director
of Pailins environment ofce.
All three said they were
hired to guard the machine
and area, but insisted they did
not know the identity of their
employer.
Workers were illegally sur-
rounding land near a gold
mine to dig with the excava-
tor [on protected land] near
the Cambodian-Thai border,
Sokha said.
We are searching for the per-
son behind this illegal activity,
and if we cannot nd whoever
is responsible for it, the excava-
tor will be impounded at a bor-
der military police station.
Since the questioning on
Sunday, environmental police
have detained the three guards
at the site, Sokha said, though
they have not been charged.
This is the second time
Sokhas department has
cracked down on people dig-
ging or attempting to dig on
the land owned by the Mad-
dox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, run
by Jolie and her husband, Brad
Pitt. They started the organi-
sation in 2003 after adopting a
child from Cambodia.
At the foundations creation,
the actress pledged an ini-
tial $1.3 million to fund pro-
tection efforts in Pailin and
Battambang provinces, said
Chan Socheat, its operational
ofcer. Only two companies
have been granted licences to
explore the area, one of which
is Vietnamese, he said.
A 1993 royal decree desig-
nated 60,000 hectares of forest
land in Battambang and Pailin
as a protected area, Socheat
said. Since then, 20,000 hect-
ares has been used by people
who farm and live on it.
Illegal mining op
halted in preserve
Hackers to
go to work
for ministry
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in order to help police work in
combating information tech-
nology crimes, judge Ros Pis-
eth said.
But they will be put under
the supervision of the munici-
pal courts prosecutor for a
period of two years.
The decision to give the pair
government positions was
made after a request from inter-
nal security department chief
Dy Vichea, a son-in-law of
Prime Minister Hun Sen and
son of former police chief Hok
Lundy, Piseth said.
Vichea could not be reached
yesterday, but Chhay Sinarith,
who oversees internal secu-
rity as deputy general director
of the National Police, said
that the authorities wanted to
take advantage of the young-
sters skills.
These two youths have com-
mitted cyber crimes, which are
sophisticated technology
crimes that many people in
Cambodia do not know how to
do, but they have the abilities
and skills to do it. We are really
very proud of their abilities and
skills, he said.
Sinarith added that police
wanted the pair to change their
attitude and use their knowl-
edge for good.
When they work with us, we
will train and educate them and
turn their direction to use their
abilities and skills in the interest
of our society and country.
He said the case was the first
time police had taken in con-
victed youth for training.
But Niklas Femerstrand, a
Phnom Penh-based cybersecu-
rity and networking consultant,
said the methods of cyberat-
tacks Anonymous Cambodia
had used suggested they pos-
sessed limited skills and would
be of little use to the police.
The [Distributed Denial of
Service] that they performed
was not impressive in any way
and does not demonstrate
excellent skills, as the police
put it, he said, adding that
when the group had copied
data from systems they had
only used automated tools.
Equally, Anonymous Cam-
bodia did not understand the
basic principles of internet ano-
nymity. They were committing
crimes directly from their own
networks registered to them in
their own names and they were
communicating with journal-
ists using American services
with no protection. Judging by
their demonstrated reckless-
ness, they did not understand
what they were doing and how
they would be discovered.
Femerstrand who works in
a consulting capacity with the
Post questioned whether it
was a wise move to allow con-
victed cybercriminals who had
targeted the government into
the police force.
Anonymous Cambodia cop-
ied and put online as much sen-
sitive data [as] they could
acquire. Are we now going to
trust them to keep sensitive
information confidential, after
completely disregarding the
confidentiality of the data which
they acquired criminally?
At the court yesterday, the
pair were all smiles after the rul-
ing but declined to comment
at length.
I am very pleased that the
court has given me a chance to
rehabilitate and work with
police, Mongkolpanha said.
Their lawyer, Dim Chaoseng,
said he was mostly happy with
the verdict, although he had
wanted the charges dropped.
He said he did not yet know
how long they were required to
work for the police.
During their hearing on Sep-
tember 7, the pair had both
confessed to the hacking.
Three other alleged Anony-
mous Cambodia members
were also arrested and charged
earlier this year. Since the arrest
of a high school student who
used the online nickname
Attacker Fiber in June, the
previously defiant group has
gone quiet on social media.
Duch Piseth, head of trial
monitoring at the Cambodian
Center for Human Rights,
described the courts decision
as strange and unprecedented.
Its a very strange decision
for me and its the discretion of
judges to make such a decision.
But I dont think the convicted
person will appeal against this
decision they are free and they
have a good position in the gov-
ernment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
KEVIN PONNIAH
SETEC Institute students Chou Songheng (centre) and Bun King Mongkolpanha (right) leave Phnom Penh
Municipal Court yesterday after being convicted of attacking various websites. PHA LINA
National
5
Hit-and-run suspects
getaway gets nowhere
A DANGEROUS driver ended
up in deep water in Battam-
bang town on Monday after an
attempted hit-and-run went
badly awry. According to
police, the suspect was driving
his car when he crashed into a
motorbike, injuring its owner.
Rather than stopping, the sus-
pect attempted to flee the
scene. But his getaway was
short-lived as a second crash
into a nearby pond landed him
even deeper in trouble. The
suspect, whose car was
trashed, was soon cuffed by
police. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Battambang big hitter
busts up booth with bat
A MARKET vendor in Battam-
bang town learned on Sunday
that the customer does not
always know best. Police said
that a 30-year-old man came
into the market carrying a
baseball bat and approached
the vendors stand. But rather
than buying anything, the sus-
pect used the bat to destroy the
vendors goods. After being
arrested by market security,
the man was sent to the station
house. DEUM APIL
Watchful neighbour foils
robbery in Phnom Penh
A PHNOM Penh second-storey
mans not-so-stealthy burglary
on Saturday earned him a free
ticket to the slammer. With the
owners of a home in Daun
Penh district out of town, the
32-year-old suspect thought
he was about to commit the
perfect crime, when a shrewd
neighbour heard a clatter from
the roof and spotted the failed
cat burglar, police said. The
neighbour decided against fac-
ing off with the thief and rang
the cops who put him under
arrest. DEUMAPIL

Pickpockets bust some
moves, but no cigar
WHILE other revellers were
throwing shapes on the dance-
floor of a Sihanoukville town
club on Saturday, two men
were trying out an altogether
different move: the pick-pock-
et. According to police, the
suspects were posing as regu-
lar punters when they stole the
wallet of an unsuspecting
dancer. But the duos attempts
to flee the scene were ruined
when the victim spotted the
missing cash and alerted clubs
security, who managed to
arrest one of the men. The sec-
ond suspect is still on the run.
KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Cellphone chat leads
to highway robbery
A KRATIE woman learned a
dangerous lesson on Saturday
not to use the phone while
driving, police said. The
25-year-old victim was chat-
ting on her mobile while driv-
ing her moto when helmeted
thieves snatched it from out of
her grip. Her attempts to
catch the suspects resulted in
further pain as they pushed
her from her bike. The thieves
are still at large while the vic-
tim is recovering in hospital.
KOH SANTEPHEAP
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
National
6
THE Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday sentenced the
former chief of security guards
at the Khmer-Soviet Friend-
ship Hospital in Chamkarmon
district to two years in prison
for beating a reporter from
Hang Meas Television over
the head with a walkie-talkie
in July.
The sentence was suspend-
ed and the term of incarcera-
tion changed to three months
from the day of the arrest.
On that day, July 20, Kerth
Phally, a 48-year-old woman
who led the security guard
unit, confronted the reporter,
Leng Sovann Sothea, while he
was trying to cover a story at
the hospital about transport
costs for the victim of a traf-
c accident by lming footage
of the dead man, according to
his version of events.
Phally, however, says he
kicked her rst.
Municipal court judge Nou
Veasna said Phally was arrest-
ed the same day and charged
with committing violent acts
with aggravating circum-
stances.
He came into the hospi-
tal without authorisation. He
kicked me down when I tried
to stop him from lming the
images inside the hospital,
she said.
She added that she has al-
ready paid $4,000 in compen-
sation to Sovann Sothea.
Taing Vida
MORE than 20 monks from
Siem Reap protested in the
capital yesterday morning in
support of two fellow monks
who have been defrocked and
jailed after accusations that
they were using drugs, drink-
ing alcohol and having sex
with women.
The former monks, Pich
David, 35, and Chan Sambo,
20, have been charged by the
Siem Reap Provincial Court
with possession of drugs
and using violence against
the police during an alleged
night of debauchery earlier
this month. But the protesters
claim the persecuted duo are
victims of plot to remove them
from the Po Lanka Pagoda in
the province.
David is the director of an
NGO that helps a lot of chil-
dren, he is very famous, and
Keo Khoy [the chief monk] has
been unhappy with him for
a long time, said monk Sok
Sokhom.
Khoy, however, said the
scandal has nothing to do
with him.
In a press conference yester-
day, monk Ngim Savsamkhan,
a friend of the accused, also
maintained that the allega-
tions had been fabricated.
On September 18, police
followed a tip to the pagoda
where they allegedly found
David and Sambo in Savsam-
khans room at midnight along
with two pagoda boys, two
girls and some booze.
Police conscated a bag con-
taining condoms and drugs
that they allege belonged to
the former monks, Savsam-
khan said.
But according to his own
account, the two monks had
come by his room to pick up
bus tickets for Pchum Ben,
unaware that he was out of
town. He said that others were
staying in his room.
The monks, he claimed,
stumbled onto the party by
coincidence and evidence
against them was planted.
Police came and cracked
down immediately. This
seemed planned. The two
monks were beaten and tor-
tured until there was blood all
over, he said.
The two monks continue to
be temporarily detained at the
provincial jail awaiting trial,
according to Siem Reap Dep-
uty Governor Mao Vuthy.
If we base it on the evidence
and the report of the police, it
is possible that those monks
did it. Some monks and citi-
zens support for strong pun-
ishment, while others ask to
release [them], Vuthy said.
The protesting monks
warned that mass demonstra-
tions will soon follow if the
pair is not released.
THE Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday convicted a
former police ofcer of using
his gun to threaten a young
woman before raping her in a
Tuol Kork district guesthouse.
Presiding judge Keo Mony
said ex-cop Heng Paris, 34,
was sentenced to ve years in
prison on charges of aggra-
vated rape for his assault of a
20-year-old garment worker
on August 14.
Major Phath Phalla, deputy
chief of the Municipal Anti-
Human Trafcking and Juve-
nile Protection Unit, said Paris
had forced the victim to drink
at a karaoke parlour, then took
her to a guesthouse, where he
threatened to shoot her if she
did not have sex with him
Paris maintained his inno-
cence yesterday, saying the sex
was consensual, vowing to ap-
peal and claiming that he and
the victim had been in a rela-
tionship for two years.
Pech Sotheary
ABOUT 200 villagers from
Kampong Speu province
protested outside ANZ Royal
Bank yesterday, calling for the
public to stop using its servic-
es following unanswered calls
for compensation over alleged
land grabbing by ruling party
Senator Ly Yong Phat, who -
nanced his agro-concessions
with loans from the bank.
Yesterdays action was
sparked by ANZs failure to ac-
knowledge demands for com-
pensation made in a petition
and during protests outside
the bank on August 1 and 14,
community representative
Cheang Sopheap said.
ANZ Bank earned good
prots from Phnom Penh Sug-
ar Company, and the prots
were taken from the villagers
since it came from our farm-
lands, which were grabbed by
the company, he said.
Phats Phnom Penh Sugar
has been at the centre of
years-long land disputes fol-
lowing the forced eviction of
hundreds of families from an
8,343-hectare land concession
in Kampong Speu.
During yesterdays rally, pro-
testers cursed ANZ while call-
ing on the public to stop using
its services.
Ofcials at ANZ could not
be reached for comment yes-
terday, but the bank has previ-
ously told protesters that af-
fected families would have to
deal with Phnom Penh Sugar
directly, because its dealings
with the rm had concluded
in July.
Ahead of yesterdays protest,
police intercepted the protest-
ers as they travelled in trucks
towards the capital, Meas Sa
Em, a villager from Thpong
district, said.
They intercepted us at
three points. There were about
40 police ofcers, Sa Em said.
Kem Yon, a Thpong district
police ofcial, acknowledged
that police had stopped
the villagers but said it was
merely part of a routine ve-
hicle inspection.
Woman sentenced for
hitting journo on head
Arrested monks were
set up, supporters say
One-time police ofcer
convicted in rape case
Rage at bank ares up again
Kampong Speu villagers affected by a sugar plantation urge a boycott of ANZ Royal Bank outside a branch
yesterday in Phnom Penh. The bank helped nance the plantation owned by tycoon Ly Yong Phat. HONG MENEA
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hor Namhong, addresses the general debate of the
69th session of the General Assembly on Monday. UN PHOTO
Namhong talks at UN
Kevin Ponniah

O
N MONDAY, Cam-
bodia had its annual
chance to address
the world at the UN
General Assemblys 69th Ordi-
nary Session in New York.
Foreign Minister Hor Nam-
hong, speaking before the
UNGA for the rst time since
2012, described the globe as be-
ing at a critical juncture.
And with the menace of the
fundamentalist group calling
itself the Islamic State, ongo-
ing armed conict in Syria and
parts of Africa, and the Ebola
epidemic, the current picture
is rather bleak, Namhong said.
To contribute to peace ef-
forts, Cambodia had dis-
patched 2,000 UN peacekeep-
ers to Lebanon, Mali and South
Sudan, he continued, with an-
other 216 peacekeepers being
sent to the Central African Re-
public in November.
The foreign minister also
backed a resumption of peace
talks between Israel and Pales-
tine to nd a two-state solution
to their longstanding conict.
On the situation in Eastern
Europe, Namhong was care-
ful not to name Russia a key
partner of Cambodia during
its international isolation in
the 1980s though he did say
the worrisome situations
outcome could be a revert to
Cold War.
North Korea, however, was
not spared, with Namhong
saying its launching of missiles
had aggravated the situation
in the region.
On climate change, Namhong
referenced devastating ood-
ing in Cambodia last year and
called for a global agreement to
be reached next year.
He said that developing
countries were the main vic-
tims of climate change caused
by emissions from the devel-
oped world.
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China rm
proposes
expressway
for capital
May Kunmakara
A CHINESE company has pre-
sented an ambitious plan to
build an expressway over
Phnom Penh in an effort to
relieve traffic congestion.
Representatives from Henan
Provincial Communications
Planning Survey and Design
Institute (HPC) revealed plans
for the expressway to Deputy
Prime Minister Keat Chhon in
Phnom Penh on Monday. If
built, the expressway would run
from the Camko Satellite City
roundabout to the airport,
according to a statement from
Chhons office.
The [expressway] will
enhance the development of
the country and especially
boost its sustainable economic
growth and lift the standard of
peoples lives, HPC chairman
Chang Xingwen is quoted as
saying in the statement.
Chhon agreed in principle to
a build-operate-transfer
arrangement with HPC but
stressed that the road should
run over the city rather than
through it.
The company has to think
and definitely conduct feasibil-
ity studies about the projects
economic efficiency and the
internal rate of return, he said.
HPC agreed to Chhons call for
a feasibility study but did not say
when one would be done.
Guidelines to tackle extortion
Chan Muyhong

T
HE government will
introduce guidelines
detailing inspection
requirements in a bid
to clamp down on corruption
in the small- and medium-
sized enterprise sector.
Speaking to dozens of SME
industry representatives at a
public-private sector forum
in Phnom Penh yesterday, In-
dustry and Handicrafts Min-
ister Cham Prasidh said that
his ofce was preparing an In-
spection Guidebook to ensure
SMEs were clear on the laws
regarding government inspec-
tions and to help prevent ex-
tortion attempts by corrupt
inspectors.
Most of our SMEs still have
very limited knowledge re-
garding the laws and regula-
tions of operating a business.
This guidebook will help them
understand authorities role
in inspections, while SMEs
can also inspect themselves to
ensure they are abiding by the
law, Prasidh said.
The guidelines which will
cover a range of inspections,
from food hygiene to health
and safety are expected to
be nalised in the next two
months and will be publicly
available on the ministrys
website, Prasidh said.
Speaking at yesterdays meet-
ing, Orn Sidana, a seed and
pesticide importer and SME
representative, said the initia-
tive was long overdue as Cam-
bodian businesses had long
been hampered by corruption.
Some inspectors even ask
me to pay for them monthly so
I can avoid being inspected by
them. They come and ask for
many documents about my
business when it is not in their
authority at all, she said.
I give out an envelope to
get rid of the headaches. What
else can I do? I dont want to
waste my time and I do not
know what will happen to my
business if I do not give out
money.
Te Taing Por, president of the
Federation of Associations for
Small and Medium Enterpris-
es of Cambodia, welcomed
the guidebook.
It will save time for both
the authorities and the private
sector. It will also reduce cor-
ruption, he said.
However, more still needs
to be done to curb informal
payments, Por said, urging
the government to establish
a working group so that SMEs
can provide details of extor-
tion attempts.
In the absence of an effec-
tive monitoring system, op-
position Cambodia National
Rescue Party chief whip Son
Chhay was sceptical about
just how much of an impact
the guidelines could have.
What matters is who is there
for SMEs to complain to when
there is a case of unauthorised
inspection, Chhay said.
The government has been
giving a lot of concessions to
large industry, but fewer to
the small businesses that give
jobs to more than three mil-
lion Cambodians.
Workers perform checks and pack nished products at a food factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh last year. VIREAK MAI
Thailands military-boosting budget to take effect
THAILANDS 2.57 trillion baht ($80
billion) budget drafted by the military
takes effect today, allocating about 5
per cent more in funding for defence,
and more than a half-billion baht
more for education.
The 2015 Budget Act, drawn up by
the junta this summer and endorsed
by the National Legislative Assembly
in August, was published yesterday in
the Royal Gazette with an effective
date of October 1.
The budget allocates funds to min-
istries and other offices, including
those not attached to a ministry,
courts, independent agencies and
state enterprises.
Under the Act, 375.7 billion baht is
allocated for the Central Fund from
which disbursements will be super-
vised by the Finance Ministry and the
Budget Bureau.
The Education Ministry got the
most money overall, at 501 billion
baht, followed by interior (340.1 bil-
lion baht), defence (192.9 billion),
finance (185.8 billion baht), transport
(110.7 billion baht), and public health
(109.6 billion baht).
The allocations for other ministries
include the prime ministers office
with 33.4 billion baht, foreign affairs
(8.5 billion baht), tourism and sports
(7.9 billion baht), social development
and human security (9.5 billion baht)
and agriculture (80.9 billion baht).
Meanwhile yesterday, the Agricul-
ture and Agricultural Cooperatives
Ministry announced it would seek 2
billion baht to improve irrigation sys-
tems for the second crop and set zones
for economic crops.
The budget for the project will
come from the short-term economic
stimulus budget, Minister Pitipong
Phuengboon Na Ayudhaya said.
Canals will be dredged and irriga-
tion systems upgraded to support the
second crop and create jobs in remote
areas. Zoning will also be set for some
crops, initially rice and rubber, in line
with agricultural economic zones.
Three methods will be used: make
the zones compatible with the agri-
cultural economic zones, improve
farmers capabilities to grow quality
produce and promote sufficiency
economy such as mixed farming.
A problem for rubber is that a lot of
trees were planted in prohibited areas,
Pitipong said. The ministry is working
with the Natural Resources and Envi-
ronment Ministry to redefine and
eliminate the areas overlapping with
reserved forests.
Most rubber farmers want to turn
their plantations into mixed farming
instead of having to fell all rubber
trees. The Rubber Estate Organisation,
under the Agriculture Ministry, will
double its capacity to fell rubber trees
to 640,000 square kilometres. This will
cut output over the next six years, the
time it takes before a tree can be
tapped. BANGKOK POST
Thailand sees exports
slump by 7.4 per cent
EXPORTS fell to a 32-month
low in August as the weak
global economy brought lower
than expected demand. The
worlds economic recovery is a
lot slower than expected, said
Nuntawan Sakuntanaga,
directorgeneral of the
International Trade Promotion
Department. Shipments for
the remaining three months
may not live up to our
expectations. She said other
reasons for last months
export drop were lower
commodity prices, particularly
for rubber, and weaker gold
and oil exports due to a high
base effect. Exports slumped
by 7.4 per cent year-on-year to
$18.9 billion following a
decrease of 0.85 per cent in
July. BANGKOK POST
New Myanmar note to
counter counterfeiting
AN UPDATED 5,000-kyat note
will enter circulation today in
Myanmar in a bid to fight
counterfeiting, but authorities
say they are being careful to
make sure the move will not
upset the money supply and
lead to inflation. The plan is to
gradually introduce the new
note, which appears similar to
the existing redcoloured
white elephant note except it
includes a watermark
elephant, a security thread and
a layer of varnish. MYANMAR TIMES
Business
8
Auto show
spurs new
sales hopes
Hor Kimsay
THIRTEEN car brands will vie
to get potential customers
motors running at the 2014
Phnom Penh International
Auto Show, to be held later this
month on Koh Pich (Diamond
Island).
BMW, Ford, Jaguar, Mercedes,
Volkswagen and MG are among
the brands expected to fill the
convention space from October
30 to November 2.
More people are increas-
ingly able to afford and are
interested in upgrading from a
motorbike to a car, Rami
Sharaf, president of the Cam-
bodia Automotive Industry
Federation, said.
He noted, however, that new
car purchases in the Kingdom
have so far remained limited to
those from the middle and
upper classes.
Seng Voeung, auto division
manager for RMA Cambodia,
the dealer for Ford and Jaguar,
said that his company had sold
about 300 vehicles during the
first six months of the year.
Voeung added that he hoped
this months auto show would
encourage more people to buy
new cars.
Thai economic fraud rising
E
CONOMIC crime in
Thailand is on the rise,
with more local com-
panies facing fraud
charges than ever before,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
(PwC) latest Global Economic
Crime Survey says.
The top ve types of fraud in
Thailand long considered a
medium- to high-risk country
for economic crime include
asset misappropriation (71 per
cent), procurement fraud (43
per cent), bribery and corrup-
tion (39 per cent), cybercrime
(18 per cent) and accounting
fraud (18 per cent).
PwC conducted the survey of
5,128 business and nonprot
sector leaders, and 37 per cent
of Thai respondents identied
themselves as fraud victims.
The report revealed 89 per
cent of fraud cases in Thai-
land stemmed from within
organisations compared with
61 per cent in Asia-Pacic and
56 per cent globally. Vorapong
Sutanont, a partner with PwC
Forensics Advisory, said the
report showed an increase in
fraud across the board for the
second straight year.
Businesses need to be proac-
tive in preventing fraud sim-
ply waiting for whistleblowers
to come forward or fraudsters
to slip up is not effective fraud
protection, Vorapong said.
Procurement fraud is a seri-
ous problem in Thailand, the
second most common type of
fraud globally.
To stop this type of fraud,
Vorapong suggested compa-
nies in Thailand tighten their
criteria for selecting vendors
and issuing contracts in addi-
tion to performing background
checks and due diligence on
prospective vendors.
Thais expect nancial dam-
age from bribery and corrup-
tion at a higher rate than global
respondents, with 48 per cent
expecting losses versus 32 per
cent globally. The losses are
mainly from the direct costs
of paying bribes rather than
prosecution costs.
Lack of knowledge about
money laundering and an-
titrust laws is also seen as a
major impediment to ghting
bribery and corruption.
Thais awareness of cyber-
crime is only 39 per cent, low-
er than Asia-Pacic at 45 per
cent but still an improvement
from last year, when only 27
per cent of Thais were aware
of cybercrime.
Based on their estimates,
at least 20 per cent of Thai
respondents have suffered -
nancial damages of less than
1.6 million baht ($49,000). At
least one respondent report-
ed damages of more than 3.2
billion baht. BANGKOK POST
In its latest Global Economic Crime Survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that economic crime such as
bribery, fraud and corruption has risen for the second straight year in Thailand. BLOOMBERG
Markets
9
Business
TOYOTA is once again under
scrutiny in the United States
amid complaints that its Co-
rolla cars can unintentional-
ly accelerate, reviving safety
concerns for the big Japanese
automaker.
The National Highway Traf-
c Safety Administration an-
nounced on its website that
it has opened a preliminary
investigation after receiving a
request for a probe supported
by more than a hundred com-
plaints about out-of-control
acceleration.
The petition asked the NHT-
SA to look into slow-speed
surging in model year 2006-
2010 Toyota Corolla cars in
which the brakes fail to stop
the vehicle in time to prevent
a crash.
In a letter to the agency dat-
ed September 11, petitioner
Robert Ruginis alleged that he
and his wife had a rst-hand
experience with multiple
low-speed surge events that
occurred while driving our
2010 Corolla. The latest in-
cident resulted in a crash on
June 8, 2014.
At the time of the crash, he
wrote, his wife was making a
slow right-hand turn to ease
into a parking space in Bristol,
Rhode Island.
Her foot was on the brake,
when the vehicle surged for-
ward and crashed into an un-
occupied parked Jeep in front
of it. Fortunately, no one was
injured, Ruginis recounted.
The NHTSA said the peti-
tioners complaints relate to
141 vehicles within the scope
of the request, but that it will
evaluate all 163 complaints
and other information provid-
ed by the petitioner to decide
whether to grant the request
to open a formal safety-defect
investigation.
On Monday, Toyota revealed
it was recalling about 690,000
Tacoma pickup trucks in the
US to x a suspension system
aw that could result in ve-
hicle res.
The safety recall covers
model years 2005-2011 Ta-
coma 4x4 and Tacoma Pre-
Runner pickup trucks, the US
unit of Toyota Motor Corpo-
ration said.
The trucks rear suspension
system contains springs that
could fracture due to stress
and corrosion, it warned.
If the broken spring moves
out of position and contacts
the fuel tank repeatedly, it
could puncture the tank, caus-
ing a fuel leak that increases
the risk of a vehicle re. AFP
Toyota faces scrutiny
again amid US recalls
Japan data cast recovery fears
J
APANS factory output saw
a surprise drop and house-
hold spending kept falling
in August, data showed
yesterday, fanning fears about
the impact of Aprils sales tax
rise on the economy.
The gures will add to wor-
ries that the countrys tentative
recovery has been knocked off
kilter by the increased levy
and strengthen the hand of
those arguing against anoth-
er hike next year.
Industrial production shrank
1.5 per cent month-on-month
in August after rising 0.4 per
cent in July, the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry
revealed.
The latest reading also
missed a market median fore-
cast of a 0.3 per cent rise.
Separate data from the in-
ternal affairs ministry showed
household spending in August
fell a steeper-than-expected
4.7 per cent from a year earlier.
Spending has now fallen for
ve straight months since the
government raised the sales tax
from 5 per cent to 8 per cent.
The latest fall was sharper than
the market forecast of a 3.6 per
cent drop and came after a 5.9
per cent plunge in July.
Yet more weak data is likely
to force policymakers to take a
hard look at the economy.
The government and central
bank leaders have argued the
worlds third largest economy
remains broadly on a recovery
path and has withstood a tem-
porary shock from the tax rise.
However that position is be-
coming harder to defend, say
observers.
There is no sign at all of a
V-shaped economic recovery
previously forecast by the gov-
ernment, said Norinchukin
Research Institute chief econ-
omist Takeshi Minami.
Demand for durable goods
remains weak, compounded
by a buying spree ahead of the
tax hike, and as far as demand
for services and non-durable
items is concerned, people are
keeping a tight grip on their
wallets because of a continued
decline in real wages, he told
Dow Jones Newswires.
Marcel Thieliant, economist
at Capital Economics, said in a
note that yesterdays data are
unlikely to dispel concerns
about the pace of recovery
from last quarters slump.
Spending turned down
right after the levy hike,
weighing on activity and ex-
acerbating worries that the
higher tax would crimp con-
sumer spending and hamper
a wider economic recovery.
The tax rise was seen as
crucial for shrinking Japans
mammoth national debt, pro-
portionately the worst among
wealthy nations.
Policymakers are expected
to decide by the end of the
year on whether to go ahead
with earlier plans to raise sales
taxes again next year.
Households could further
tighten their belts, said SMBC
Nikko Securities said, aware
that despite a bump in bonus-
es, companies were holding
back on any increase in regular
pay, but it will make little dif-
ference to the calculation on
another tax rise.
Even though consumption
and the overall economic
recovery have been weak . . .
the government is likely to go
ahead with the consumption
tax hike from October 2015,
it said.
Economists generally agree
on the need for a rise as a way
of getting a handle on Japans
rocketing public debt. Howev-
er, they also expect the econo-
my to struggle in the near fu-
ture. AFP
Heavy machinery is silhouetted against illuminated buildings in Tokyo.
New data is stoking fears that Japans recovery is teetering. BLOOMBERG
GDP grows by 0.9 pct as
UK recovery continues
THE UK economy grew faster
than estimated in the second
quarter, extending a recovery
thats been more robust than
previously thought. Gross
domestic product rose 0.9 per
cent in the three months
through June, the fastest pace
in nine months and above the
0.8 per cent previously
published, the Office for
National Statistics said
yesterday. A separate report
showed the nations current
account deficit widened.
BLOOMBERG
French debt surpasses
2 trillion for first time
FRANCES public debt has
topped the symbolic level of
2 trillion for the first time,
according to official data
yesterday, putting Paris on a
fresh collision course with the
European Union over its
finances. The total national
debt amounted to 2.023
trillion ($2.57 trillion) in the
second quarter of the year,
which represents 95.1 per
cent of gross domestic
product, said national
statistics agency INSEE. EU
rules say that debt must not
exceed 60 per cent of GDP, or
be falling significantly towards
this ratio. In the first quarter of
the year, the debt stood at
1.995 trillion, or 94 per cent
of GDP, INSEE said. AFP
A
US judge ruled Ar-
gentina in contempt
of court on Monday
for its attempts to
skirt his block on payments
to holders of the countrys re-
structured debt.
Federal district judge Thom-
as Griesa said Buenos Aires
had acted illegally to avoid his
orders to rst pay off hedge
funds that sued the country for
full payment on their bonds.
He noted it is a rare thing
for a country to be ruled in
contempt in a US court, but
pointed to the actions of the
Argentine government to skirt
his orders in the case.
The court holds and rules
that those proposed steps are
illegal and cannot carry on,
Griesa said.
But Griesa held off on de-
ciding a penalty, which could
amount to a $50,000-a-day
civil ne as requested by the
hedge funds.
Argentina which maintains
it has tried to pay but is being
blocked by US moves then
slammed as illegal Griesas lat-
est ruling.
The ruling by judge
Thomas Griesa saying that
the Argentine Republic is
in contempt of court, vio-
lates international law, the
UN Charter, and the OAS
charter, a Foreign Minis-
try statement said, refer-
ring to the Organization of
American States.
Earlier this year, Griesa ef-
fectively froze Argentinas abil-
ity to transfer funds to restruc-
tured bondholders, as long as
it does not pay the holdouts in
the restructuring, mainly the
$1.3 billion in bonds held by
Aurelius Capital management
and NML Capital.
Because Argentina refuses to
pay off the two, calling them
vulture funds, Griesas order
forced the country to default
on a debt service payment to
restructured bondholders at
the end of July.
After that, President Cristina
Kirchners government passed
new domestic legislation
aiming to transfer its bond
contracts away from US juris-
diction to Argentine jurisdic-
tion, so that they could make
the payments.
And then it announced its
plan to re the ofcial trustee
for most of its debt payments,
Bank of New York Mellon,
which Griesa had ordered not
to transfer any of the funds
to the countrys creditors.
The hedge funds then
sought the contempt ruling
from Griesa.
Argentina has repeatedly
and wilfully violated the orders
of the court. Argentina has re-
peatedly and wilfully declared
its intention to continue to
violate these orders, they said
in a complaint last week.
Earlier on Monday, Argen-
tinas US ambassador warned
US Secretary of State John
Kerry in a letter that a con-
tempt ruling against the coun-
try would constitute unlawful
interference by the United
States in its affairs.
Such a decision would not
only fall outside the jurisdic-
tion of said courts, but also
be an unlawful interference
in the domestic affairs of the
Argentine Republic, trigger-
ing the international liability
of the United States of Amer-
ica, wrote Ambassador Ceci-
lia Nahon.
Nahon did not specify what
action her country would
take in the case of a contempt
ruling. However, she said it
would result in an unprec-
edented escalation in the con-
ict and would be even more
serious than the decision to
interfere with the collection
of payments made to restruc-
tured bondholders.
Argentina exited recession
with 0.9 per cent economic
growth in the second quarter,
national statistics institute IN-
DEC said a rare bit of good
news amid the countrys new
debt default.
But with ination estimated
at more than 30 per cent and
the value of the peso tumbling,
Latin Americas third-largest
economy is still mired in a
slowdown after averaging 7.8-
percent annual growth from
2003 to 2011.
Economic analysts are fore-
casting the economy will shrink
2 per cent this year, though the
government is forecasting a re-
turn to economic growth of 2.8
per cent in 2015.
The end of the boom has
revived the ghost of Argen-
tinas 2001 economic crisis,
when it defaulted on $100 bil-
lion in debt and deadly riots
erupted.
That violence, in which at
least 26 people were killed, led
to the resignation of president
Fernando de la Rua, who was
replaced by Adolfo Rodriguez
Saa. He resigned a week after
taking ofce amid more un-
rest. AFP
Business
10
THE US governments emergency actions
in the nancial crisis went on trial on
Monday as lawyers accused it of having
illegally seized teetering insurance giant
AIG in September 2008.
David Boies, the lawyer for Hank Green-
berg, the former chairman of American
International Group, sought to make a
case that there was no need for the gov-
ernment to take the company over even if
it appeared insolvent as the nancial sys-
tem was melting down.
Providing AIG with liquidity, was all that
was necessary to stabilise the situation,
Boies argued.
But instead the government took a step
further, injecting $85 billion into the com-
pany for a nearly 80 per cent share of own-
ership, erasing much of the value of the
equity of existing shareholders.
Boies accused the government of il-
legal exaction that was backed up and
justied by efforts to demonise the
company, which Greenberg, 89, had
built into the worlds largest insurer.
The government had already made a
fully-secured loan to the insurer, Boies
said as the trial opened.
They had a loan that they charged ex-
tortion interest rates on . . . and yet they
reached out to grab 79.9 pe rcent of the
AIG shareholders equity, he said. There
was especially no justication of the tak-
ing of equity.
But, government attorney Kenneth
Dintzer defended the takeover, saying a
collapsed AIG would have caused much
more damage.
The goal was not to save AIG. It was to
save the world from AIG, he said.
AIG shareholders were in fact helped by
the rescue, he argued.
No one can pretend they would be bet-
ter off without the governments interven-
tion . . . 20 per cent of something is better
than 100 per cent of nothing.
Greenberg is suing the government via
his Starr International Company, which
was the largest single shareholder in AIG
at the time of the government rescue.
Starr still holds 1.3 per cent of the rm
and is seeking $40 billion for its losses.
Key witnesses expected in the six-week
trial include former Federal Reserve
chairman Ben Bernanke and ex-New York
Federal Reserve Bank President Timo-
thy Geithner, who later became treasury
secretary. Both were instrumental in the
takeover of the company, which as a pri-
vately owned insurer was not regulated by
the Federal Reserve.
The trial will force Bernanke and Gei-
thner to rehash the events of 2008, when
they had to orchestrate the rescues of
investment bank Bear Stears, housing
nance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, and brokerage Merrill Lynch before
letting Lehman Brothers collapse and
then seizing AIG. AFP
TROUBLED Italian fashion gi-
ant Prada stonewalled ques-
tions over its tax affairs on
Monday after it emerged that
its top two executives are be-
ing investigated for allegedly
not disclosing many millions
in overseas earnings to Italian
authorities.
Instead, the rm referred re-
porters to a terse statement it
made to the Hong Kong stock
exchange conrming that the
private tax returns of company
supremo Miuccia Prada and
her husband Patrizio Bertelli
are subject to a criminal inves-
tigation regarding the accura-
cy of certain past tax lings by
them as individuals in respect
of foreign owned companies.
Italian news reports say the
two appeared to have failed to
declare 470 million ($600 mil-
lion) in foreign revenues.
Asked for further explana-
tion, Prada declined to identify
the companies concerned.
Italys national news agency,
ANSA, said Pradas statement
had been triggered by a Milan
prosecutors request to extend
by six months an investigation
that began as a result of a deal
that the company did with
the Italian tax authorities at
the end of last year as part of
moves to return its headquar-
ters and tax residence to its
home country.
Under that deal, Miuccia
Prada and Bertelli were report-
ed to have made voluntary dis-
closure of past under-reporting
of income and reached a deal
with the authorities on a settle-
ment gure of 400 million.
It is unclear if the gure re-
portedly agreed with the tax
authorities is the subject of
the criminal investigation or
whether prosecutors believe
there were other amounts not
disclosed to the tax authori-
ties. Prada declined to clarify
the issue. AFP/BLOOMBERG
AIG argues 2008 seizure was illegal
Prada stonewalling tax fraud questions
Flags y outside the central bank of Argentina. Argentina has been
held in contempt after attempting to skirt a US court ruling blocking the
country from making payments to debt holders. BLOOMBERG
Argentina held in contempt
They had a loan that they
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rates on . . . and yet they
reached out to grab . . . equity
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Frozen poised to conquer Xmas
N
EARLY every holiday
shopping season has a
must-have toy that par-
ents scramble to get un-
der the Christmas tree a Tickle-Me
Elmo, Furby or Zhu Zhu Pet that
sends them on a desperate cross-
county mall expedition or a last-
minute eBay hunt.
This year, forecasters expect the
hottest holiday toy to be one based
on the silver screen: Make way for
the Snow Glow Elsa Doll, a 15-inch
version of the heroine from Disneys
smash hit Frozen that costs $39.99,
sports a light-up dress, a magical
snowake necklace and belts out
the lms anthemic ballad, Let it Go.
While Elsa is expected to reign su-
preme at the cash register, toy sellers
and analysts say many other must-
have toys this year also have tie-ins to
some of the years biggest movies, in-
cluding blockbusters such as Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Lego Movie
and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
As the lines blur between screen
time and playtime, toy makers and
media rms are nding that there
is lucrative business in building a
beloved character that children
can enjoy everywhere: on apps,
DVDs and as a life-like toy.
It really just shows that what
kids watch, they inevitably want
to interact with, said Matthew
Hudak, a toy industry analyst for
Euromonitor International.
Stores such as Toys R Us
and Wal-Mart are hoping
that these movie-themed
toys will help them deliver
strong holiday sales in a retail en-
vironment that economists and re-
tailers say is likely to be characterised
by deep discounts and erce price
competition.
Richard Barry, chief merchandising
ofcer at Toys R Us, said the antici-
pated popularity of movie-inspired
toys is in part based on the popularity
of this years slate of kid-focused
lms. But, he said, toy manu-
facturers also have become
more innovative and made
their toys more life-like.
That is the secret here, the
fact that you can bring to life
in a very clear way the es-
sence of the characters that
are in the movie, Barry said.
Thats what makes this a
much more impactful part
of our business this year.
Take Disneys Innity Marvel
Super Heroes 2.0 Starter Pack.
It includes three action gures and
a video game. When you place the
chip-enabled action gure on a spe-
cial base attached to a gaming con-
sole, the character becomes part of
the onscreen action. The game in-
cludes characters from Guardians of
the Galaxy and other Marvel lms.
Perhaps the clearest sign this year
of the synergy between the box ofce
and toy store shelves has been the
surge of Lego, the Danish company
whose building blocks have been a
xture in playrooms for decades.
The Lego Movie has raked in $258
million in the US, making it the third-
highest grossing lm this year. Amid
the movies massive popularity, the
toy makers sales surged 11 per cent
in the rst six months of the year, al-
lowing it to pass rival Mattel in sales
and prots for the rst time to be-
come the worlds largest toymaker.
This holiday season, Toys R Us ex-
pects the Lego Fusion Town Master
to be among its most coveted items.
Aimed at 7- to 12-year-olds, the set
allows kids to build stores and re
stations and then manage their cre-
ations with a phone or tablet app.
Frozen opened in November 2013,
too late to pick up enough steam
before last years holiday shopping
frenzy to land on many Christmas
lists. But now that it has become the
fth-highest-grossing movie of all
time, expect plenty of requests for
Elsa and her sister, Anna, not only in
doll form but tiaras, singalong boom-
boxes and nail-polish sets.
With Anna and Elsa, as prepared
as retailers are for the holiday rush
for these products, theyre still going
to nd themselves short, said Laurie
Schact, chief toy ofcer at Adventure
Publishing, a company that handles
trade magazines for the toy industry.
Its a phenomenon.
While Frozen brought a fresh set
of characters to the big screen, some
of this years most popular movies
brought back franchises that parents
recognize from their childhoods.
Those, too, are expected to be big
sellers as nostalgic adults gravitate
toward toys that bring back fond
memories. Toys R Us, for example,
is betting that Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles Stretch N Shout action gures
will be a big seller. The dolls shout
catchphrases from the movie.
And with new movies in the Star
Wars and Marvel franchises expected
next year, it seems likely Hollywood
will continue to have an inuence on
store shelves. THE WASHINGTON POST
Visitors dressed in costumes from Disneys animated movie Frozen pose for photos at
Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, suburban Tokyo, earlier this month. AFP
World
Thailand to
give safety
wristbands
to tourists
THAI LAND yes t erday
announced plans to give tour-
ists wristbands carrying their
personal details, as the king-
dom falls under intense scru-
tiny over visitor safety follow-
ing the murder of two British
holidaymakers.
Under the scheme, hotels
will distribute the wristbands
to new arrivals.
If anything happens to
them we will then know their
names, nationality and hotel,
said Arnuparp Gaesornsuwan,
director general of the Depart-
ment of Tourism said.
We have discussed it with
hotel operators and they are
willing to do it, he said.
We are not going into their
personal information its just
the details they have to fill out
on the immigration form
already, he said.
Tourist police said the safety
measure would be voluntary.
In case [tourists] get drunk
and fall asleep on the beach we
can bring them back to their
hotels, Apichai Ti-armataya,
commander of the Tourist
Police said.
He said the plan would be
rolled out soon on popular
resort islands such as Koh Tao
and Koh Phangan and also the
tourist beach area of Pattaya.
In addition to tagging tour-
ists the Department of Tour-
ism is keen to curb partying
hours in visitor hotspots.
Most of tourists are coming
here for diving or to admire
our nature not to party, Arn-
uparp said, adding new zon-
ing curbs would likely control
all-night bars and clubs.
Thailands image as a tourist
paradise has been badly dam-
aged by the brutal murders of
British holidaymakers David
Miller, 24, and Hannah With-
eridge, 23 earlier this month.
Their battered bodies were
discovered on a beach on
southern Koh Tao island more
than two weeks ago, sparking
a manhunt that has appeared
increasingly desperate with
police so far failing to make
any arrests.
That seemingly sluggish
response was compounded by
insensitive comments made by
the coup-leading prime minis-
ter, Prayuth Chan-ocha, who
was forced into a rare public
apology after suggesting wom-
en wearing bikinis could be
more vulnerable to attack.
Thailands once-booming
tourism industry is also
scrambling to rebound from
a slump in foreign visitor
numbers after Mays military
coup and a nighttime curfew
tarnished its reputation as
the Land of Smiles.
The government has lowered
its forecast for tourist arrivals
this year to 25.9 million, down
from an initial target of 28 mil-
lion. AFP
Afghanistan and US sign delayed troop pact
AFGHANISTAN and the United
States yesterday signed a deal
to allow some US troops to stay
in the country next year, signal-
ling that new President Ashraf
Ghani intends to mend frayed
ties with Washington.
Hamid Karzai, who stepped
down on Monday, refused to
sign the deal in a disagreement
that symbolised the breakdown
of Afghan-US relations after the
optimism of 2001 when the
Taliban were ousted.
Afghan National Security
Adviser Hanif Atmar and US
Ambassador James Cunning-
ham inked the document at a
ceremony in the presidential
palace in Kabul as Ghani stood
behind the pair looking on.
The signing sends the mes-
sage that Ghani fulfils his com-
mitments. He promised it
would be signed the day after
inauguration, Daoud Sultan-
zoy, a senior aide of Ghanis,
said before the ceremony.
US State Department spokes-
woman Jen Psaki said the deal
would enable Afghanistan, the
United States and the interna-
tional community to maintain
the partnership weve estab-
lished to ensure Afghanistan
maintains and extends the
gains of the past decade.
US-led NATO combat troops
are due to withdraw by the end
of this year, lending added
urgency to reaching an agree-
ment on a residual force.
A parallel deal between
Afghanistan and NATO was
also due yesterday. Troops from
Germany, Italy and other NATO
members will join a force of
9,800 US soldiers, bringing
numbers up to about 12,500.
The new mission Resolute
Support will focus on training
and supporting the Afghan
army and police as they take on
the Taliban insurgents.
Negotiations over the pact
saw Karzai at his most unpre-
dictable as he added new
demands, shifted positions and
infuriated the United States,
Afghanistans biggest donor.
He eventually refused to sign
the agreement despite a loya
jirga grand assembly he con-
vened voting for him to do so.
There was also widespread
public support for US troops to
stay. On the campaign trail,
both Ghani and his poll rival
Abdullah Abdullah vowed to
reverse Karzais decision. AFP
Strikes hit as IS closes on town
U
S-LED strikes hit Islamic
State group ghters clos-
ing on a key town on Syrias
border with Turkey over-
night as Ankara prepared to request
parliamentary authorisation yester-
day to join the coalition.
In neighbouring Iraq, Kurdish forc-
es launched pre-dawn attacks against
the jihadists on three fronts in a bid to
recapture territory they lost to IS last
month, entering a key town on the
border with Syria, senior ofcers said.
It was in support of Kurdish forces
in northern Iraq that Washington
launched its air war against IS on Au-
gust 8, following a wave of atrocities
by the advancing jihadists, before ex-
tending it to Syria.
The strikes by the US and its Arab
allies against IS targets in Syria are
now in their second week but they
have yet to stop the jihadists pressing
an advance that would give them un-
broken control of a swathe of Syrias
northern border.
NATO member Turkey reinforced its
side of the frontier on Monday as IS
ghters penetrated within 5 kilometres
of the border town of Ain al-Arab.
It was the closest the militants had
come to the town, known as Kobane
in Kurdish, since they began their ad-
vance nearly two weeks ago, sending
tens of thousands of mostly Kurdish
refugees across the border.
As they advanced, the jihadists red
at least 15 rockets at the town centre,
killing at least one person, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said.
The latest coalition strikes hit IS
ghters in nearby villages east and
west of the town, said the Observatory,
a Britain-based monitoring group
that has a wide network of sources in-
side Syria.
Both the coalition and Ankara have
been heavily criticised by Kurdish lead-
ers for not doing more to help Kurd-
ish militia forces defending the town
against the far better armed jihadists.
The Turkish army was seen deploy-
ing tanks and armoured vehicles to
the town of Mursitpinar, just across
the border from Ain al-Arab, on Mon-
day, after stray bullets hit Turkish vil-
lages and at least three mortar rounds
crashed nearby.
The Turkish government was ex-
pected to submit motions to parlia-
ment yesterday that would give it
authorisation to intervene against IS
in Iraq and Syria.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
said he expected them to be debated
tomorrow.
Turkey had refused to join the co-
alition while dozens of its citizens
including diplomats and children
were being held by IS after being ab-
ducted in Iraq.
After they were freed, President Re-
cep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkeys po-
sition had changed, signalling a more
robust stance towards the group.
We will denitely be where we
need to be, Erdogan said on Sunday.
We cannot stay out of this.
In Iraq, Kurdish forces were ghting
IS militants in the centre of the town
of Rabia on the Syrian border, com-
manders said.
It was one of three fronts on which
Kurdish peshmerga ghters launched
pre-dawn assaults. They also went on
the offensive north of jihadist-con-
trolled second city Mosul, and south
of key oil hub Kirkuk, the command-
ers stated.
Troops backed by artillery and war-
planes were attacking the town of Zu-
mar, about 60 kilometres northwest
of Mosul, near the reservoir of Iraqs
largest dam, a key battleground be-
tween the Kurds and the jihadists, a
senior peshmerga source said.
Both Rabia and Zumar were areas
which the peshmerga seized in the
chaos that followed the jihadists cap-
ture of Mosul in a lightning offensive
back in early June.
IS forces made a fresh push two
months later and inicted stinging
setbacks on the peshmerga, one of
the reasons for the US air campaign
that began on August 8.
The ofcer, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because he is not
authorised to talk to the press, would
not elaborate on whether the air sup-
port was Iraqi or provided by Wash-
ington or one of its European allies.
With the US now conducting what
it says are near continuous strikes
in both Iraq and Syria, a Washington-
based think-tank warned that the
costs of the campaign to the US tax-
payer could swiftly escalate.
The Centre for Strategic and Bud-
getary Assessments estimated that
when US airstrikes against IS in Syria
got under way last week, Washington
had already spent as much as $930
million on the campaign against IS.
If airstrikes continue at a moder-
ate level, the cost will run at between
$200 million and $320 million a
month. However if they are conduct-
ed at a higher pace the monthly cost
could increase to as much as $570
million a month, the think-tank pro-
jected. AFP
Truce in
tatters
A Ukrainian soldier plays with a
dog near Debaltseve on Monday.
Ukraines tenuous truce and troop
withdrawal deal lay in tatters yes-
terday after the deadliest wave of
attacks by pro-Russian insurgents
in more than a month killed
nine government soldiers. The
Ukrainian military said militias on
Monday launched a tank assault
on Donetsk airport in which a
shell hit an armoured vehicle
lled with government troops.
The surge in clashes spelled an
ominous start to campaigning for
parties that make the ballot for
October 26 parliamentary polls
once the registration deadline
passed last night. A weekend
attempt by a Russian military del-
egation to convince the rebels to
comply with the ceasere a war
zone visit that represented a rare
if indirect admission by Moscow
of its sway over the insurgency
seemingly ended in failure. AFP
Fears of fresh eruption
cancel volcano search
RESCUE operations on a
Japanese volcano were halted
for the day yesterday because of
fears there could be a fresh
eruption, officials said, with at
least 24 bodies still on the
mountain. Helicopters were
ordered to remain on the
ground while troops, firefighters
and police were stood down for
the day, having done no real
searching since the operation
was suspended on Monday
because of rocketing levels of
toxic gas near the still-fragile
peak. Rescue workers were
ordered to stand by when
scientists noted increasing
vehemence in the volcanic
earthquakes on the 3,067-metre
(10,121 foot) Ontake, leading to
fears it could erupt again. AFP
South Korea ferry runs

aground, all 109 saved
SOUTH Koreas coastguard
rescued all 109 passengers and
crew from a ferry that ran
aground yesterday. The ferry, on
a sightseeing trip around the
island of Hongdo off the
southwestern coast, ran
aground shortly after 9am
(0000 GMT), coastguard
spokesman Oh Eun-seok said.
The cause of the accident is
still under investigation, but all
109 passengers including five
crew members were rescued
without any reported injuries,
Oh said. AFP
World
13
HK protesters reject calls to quit
H
ONG Kongs em-
battled leader yes-
terday called for
an immediate end
to street demonstrations that
have drawn tens of thousands
and paralysed parts of the
city, but protesters refused to
move until China grants gen-
uine democracy.
Protest leaders are con-
dent they could muster mas-
sive crowds overnight and into
today for the National Day
public holiday, which this year
marks the 65th anniversary of
the founding of Communist
Party rule in China.
In his rst public comments
since demonstrators were tear-
gassed by riot police on Sun-
day evening, Chief Executive
Leung Chun-ying said the pro-
democracy sit-in organised by
the Occupy Central group was
now out of control.
But protest leaders rejected
Leungs demands and renewed
calls for the Beijing-backed
leader to step down as they
prepared for another night of
huge demonstrations.
With well-stocked food
stands, fastidious recycling,
unmanned phone-charging
stations and even a chamber
ensemble, Hong Kongs huge
protests have a distinctly civi-
lised avour part of a charm
offensive to maintain main-
stream support. The city is
known for its low crime rate
and orderly queues. So it is
perhaps not surprising that the
protests reect its character.
But protesters know they
are negotiating a delicate bal-
ancing act maintaining the
movements momentum while
not forfeiting public support
through overly confrontational
actions and large-scale disrup-
tion in the congested city.
Those reading the Chinese
mainlands heavily censored
media could be forgiven for
thinking mob rule has hit
Hong Kong, with protesters
dismissed as radical activists.
An editorial in the Com-
munist Party-linked Global
Times described them as po-
litical extremists [who] made
good on their threat to paral-
yse Hong Kongs central busi-
ness district by kicking off
their illegal Occupy Central
campaign.
Yet repeated tear gas vol-
leys from police on Sunday
evening did not attract the re-
turn re of projectiles, paving
slabs and petrol bombs seen
elsewhere around the world
despite the palpable anger on
the streets.
Equally, police have shown
compassion and recent re-
straint. A picture that went
viral this week showed one
ofcer rinsing two protest-
ers eyes with water after they
were hit by tear gas.
On the barricades the most
radical element of the pro-
tests appears to be their com-
mitment to recycling: on the
roadside in all the main areas
neat piles of carefully sorted
rubbish can be found.
Activists have also set up
stands giving away every-
thing a Hong Kong demon-
strator might need, from
water and gas masks to um-
brellas and snacks.
In the areas blocked to traf-
c, human supply chains have
taken over to ensure the stands
remained stocked with do-
nated goods owing in largely
from supportive locals.
The cops, they are the
one[s] who did violent things,
attacking people without any
weapons, so as normal people
we know we need to do some-
thing, said bank worker Maple
Leung, who had popped down
to the protest site in Admiralty
during her lunch hour to bring
bread and water to protesters.
James Poon joined them in
Admiralty on Monday eve-
ning to offer his services as a
paramedic, if needed. A British
resident became an instant hit
when he turned up with a bar-
becue and started doling out
free hot dogs and hamburgers.

Opinion could shift
An altercation did erupt be-
tween a group of shopkeepers
and protesters in Causeway
Bay yesterday afternoon, as
shopkeepers complained of
lost business.
In Mong Kok some protesters
were heckled by disgruntled
ofce workers whose com-
mute has become a lot longer
thanks to the road blockades.
The metro system has had to
deal with a huge surge in com-
muters as many bus routes
have been suspended. But
despite the large queues even
to get into the stations, few
people were complaining.
Robert Chow, however, co-
founder of the pro-Beijing
Alliance for Peace and De-
mocracy, warned that public
opinion could shift fast.
The protesters seem to have
won the rst battle. They are
rejoicing in their victory but
they must remember they are
affecting the regular people of
Hong Kong. They totally have
Hong Kong under their thumb
and public opinion could turn
on them, he said. AFP
A pro-Hong Kong government activist speaks to pro-democracy
protesters in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong yesterday. AFP
World
14
AN INTRUDER armed with
a knife, who jumped a fence
and sprinted across the White
House lawn, got much further
into the presidential mansion
than previously thought, a re-
port said on Monday.
The Washington Post said
the man rushed in through
the front door of the White
House and ran into the cer-
emonial East Room, one oor
below the private residence of
President Barack Obama and
his family.
The man, Texas native Omar
Gonzalez, was eventually in-
tercepted outside the Green
Room, an ornamental cham-
ber that overlooks the South
Lawn of the White House on
the opposite side of the build-
ing from the main North doors,
through which he entered.
After the incident, on Sep-
tember 19, the Secret Service
said in a statement that Gonza-
lez was physically apprehend-
ed after entering the White
House North Portico doors.
Another Secret Service
spokesman was quoted as
saying the man was stopped
just inside the North Por-
tico doors.
There was no immediate
comment from the US Secret
Service about the report.
But the revelation comes on
the heels of another embar-
rassing report for the Secret
Service at the weekend.
The Post revealed that it took
the Secret Service ve days be-
fore realising a man had red
shots at the White House in
2011 while one of Obamas
daughters was inside.
First Lady Michelle Obama
was reported to be furious
about the incident, which
took place when she and her
husband were out of town.
In all, at least seven bullets
struck the upstairs residence
of the White House, red from
a car parked some 700 yards
away across the South Lawn.
The Secret Service has
launched an investigation into
the Gonzalez incident, which
appeared to highlight deep
failures of security by the elite
presidential protection team
around the White House.
Incidents in which people
jump over the fence or throw
objects into the grounds
around the White House are
not unusual.
But it is believed to be the
rst time an intruder actually
penetrated the White House,
which is protected by marks-
men, dogs and uniformed Se-
cret Service ofcers. AFP
Intruder ran deep into
White House: report
Half of wildlife lost since 1970
W
ILDLIFE num-
bers have tum-
bled by more
than half in just
40 years as Earths human pop-
ulation has nearly doubled, a
survey of over 3,000 vertebrate
species revealed yesterday.
From 1970 to 2010, there was
a 39 per cent drop in numbers
across a representative sample
of land- and sea-dwelling spe-
cies, while freshwater popula-
tions declined 76 per cent, the
green group WWF said in its
2014 Living Planet Report.
Extrapolating from these
gures, the number of
mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians and sh across
the globe is, on average,
about half the size it was 40
years ago, it said.
The 52 per cent decrease
conrmed mankind was
chomping through natures
bounty much faster than the
rate of replenishment, the
WWF warned.
The previous Living Planet
Report, released in 2012, found
a 28 per cent decline in num-
bers from 1970-2008, but that
was based on only 2,688 moni-
tored species.
The new report tracks the
growth or decline of more than
10,000 populations of 3,038
species ranging from forest el-
ephants to sharks, turtles and
albatrosses.
It stressed that humans were
consuming natural resources
at a rate that would require
1.5 Earths to sustain cutting
down trees faster than they
mature and harvesting more
sh than oceans can replace.
We are using natures gifts
as if we had more than just one
Earth at our disposal, WWF
director-general Marco Lam-
bertini said in the foreword to
the biennial publication.
While agricultural yield per
hectare has improved through
better farming and irrigation
methods, the human popula-
tion explosion has reduced
per capita biocapacity, or
available life-sustaining land.
Human population num-
bers shot up from about 3.7
billion to nearly seven billion
from 1970 to 2010.
So while biocapacity has
increased globally, there is
now less of it to go around,
the report said.
And, it warned, with the
world population projected to
reach 9.6 billion by 2050 and
11 billion by 2100, the amount
of biocapacity available for
each of us will shrink further.
The survey highlighted dif-
ferences between nations and
regions in consumption and
biodiversity loss. Low-income
countries have the smallest
footprint, but suffer the great-
est ecosystem losses, it said.
The wildlife decline was
worst in the tropics, with a 56
per cent drop, compared with
36 per cent in temperate re-
gions. Latin America suffered
the most drastic losses with an
overall decline of 83 per cent.
There were also vast differ-
ences in nations ecological
footprint the mark their
consumption leaves on the
planet, measured per capita.
The people of Kuwait had
the biggest overall footprint,
followed in the top 10 by Qa-
tar, the United Arab Emirates,
Denmark, Belgium, Trinidad
and Tobago, Singapore, the
US, Bahrain and Sweden.
Rich countries biggest mark
was in carbon emissions, while
the impact of poor countries,
at the tail end of the list, was
mainly in consumption of
land and forest products.
If all people on the planet
had the footprint of the aver-
age resident of Qatar, we would
need 4.8 planets, the report
said, and 3.9 at US rates.
Yet despite this vast con-
sumption, almost a billion
people do not have enough
food and 768 million do not
have access to clean water, it
added. AFP
A conservation worker photographs the carcass of an elephant on
Sumatras Aceh province, Indonesia on September 8. AFP
Laura Bonilla
F
IVE Barack Obamas,
three Bin Ladens, a
Jesus, a Wonder Wom-
an, a 007: the ballot
for Sundays elections in Brazil
can look more like the inven-
tory at a costume shop.
But the madcap cast of can-
didates reects deep frustra-
tion with politics as usual, say
analysts in Brazil, where 80
per cent of the population say
they dont trust Congress and
fed-up voters prefer an illiter-
ate clown to another corrupt
politician.
That was literally the case
in the last national elections
four years ago, when a Sao
Paulo clown named Tiririca
(Grumpy) ran for Congress on
the campaign slogan It cant
get any worse.
He won the most votes of
any congressional candidate
in the country, 1.3 million,
and had to learn to write his
name to start his new job.
In four years, he has never
spoken on the oor or intro-
duced a bill that has passed.
But he had one of the best
attendance records in the
lower house and is a strong
favourite to win re-election
on October 5.
In this sprawling South
American country where cor-
ruption scandals have grown
almost routine fuelling
massive protests last year,
when more than one million
people ooded the streets in
anger at the theft of their tax
money a wacky gimmick or
ridiculous name can get a po-
litical outsider elected.
Election law allows candi-
dates to register under any
name they like, and the bal-
lot is bursting with creativ-
ity, from Wonder Woman to
Yogurt Woman, from Ham-
burger Face to Motorcycle
Man, from Crazy Dick to Ass
to Chupacabra, Chiclet, Ram-
bo and Brazilian 007. There
are even ve more Tiriricas
running in other states.
Tiririca launched a new
school of thought, and now
hes got his disciples, said Gil
Castello Branco, the founder
of activist group Cuentas Abi-
ertas (Open Books), which
ghts for transparency in the
management of public funds.
But if they truly proliferate,
theres going to be a huge de-
cline in quality in Congress. Its
really a protest vote, he said.
Such candidates often run
on a platform of opposi-
tion to the political system
in Brazil, where there are
32 parties and governing
means striking deals, form-
ing alliances, spreading
jobs around or as was the
case with the massive men-
salao (big monthly payment)
scandal that broke in 2005
buying votes. But parties
sometimes use outsider stars
for their own ends.
In 2010, Tiririca won so many
votes that three more Repub-
lic Party candidates rode his
coattails into Congress.
The joke ends up being
on the voters, who pick the
clown thinking its a way of
criticising the system. But
then the clown brings more
conventional candidates with
him, including some with
criminal records, as was the
case with Tiririca, said Cas-
tello Branco.
One of the candidates call-
ing himself Bin Laden, a
would-be Congressman for
Sao Paulo, has a long grey
beard and makes his cam-
paign appearances in an or-
ange jumpsuit.
I want to bomb Brasilia to
shake up the political system,
he said. Later he said this was
simply a slogan, and that he
was not in favour of killing
people. Jesus, a candidate
for state legislature in Per-
nambuco, promises peace
in football and campaigns in
long hair and a white tunic.
He said he had rejected
bribes of up to $30,000 to join
traditional parties before opt-
ing for the small, shoestring-
budget National Mobilization
Party (PMN).
Silvio Costa, the founder
of political watchdog web-
site Focus on Congress, said
offbeat candidates are often
opportunists with nothing to
offer, but generally not the
biggest thieves in Brazilian
politics.
The vast majority are
worse, he said, denouncing
a system that favours the
corrupt and is funded by
dirty money.
But with the country likely
to be divided in the wake of
a neck-and-neck presidential
race between incumbent Dil-
ma Rousseff and popular en-
vironmentalist Marina Sil-
va, the likelihood of deep
reforms is slim for now.
Im not optimistic.
Changing politics isnt
easy. The people in power
only use it for themselves,
Castello Branco said.
Rousseff support rising
A poll by the MDS Institute
saw support for incumbent
Dilma Rousseff rising 4.4
points to 40.4 per cent, with
environmentalist Marina
Silvas backing down 2.2 per
cent to 25.2 per cent.
Rousseff is nevertheless in
a statistical dead heat with
Silva for a possible October
26 run-off.
Rousseff is looking to avoid
a run-off, in which Silva likely
to pick up votes from those
supporting minor candidates
in the rst round is tipped to
do well.
A total of 142.8 million vot-
ers are expected to cast bal-
lots on Sunday to decide the
next leader of the the worlds
seventh largest
economy. AFP
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S RECENTLY as January,
Australia denounced Cam-
bodia for its poor human
rights record at a United
Nations human rights hearing. Now,
just eight months later, Australia
has turned a blind eye to this record
by signing a refugee deal with Cam-
bodia that raises serious human
rights concerns.
As the world faces an unprecedent-
ed number of refugees, Australia is
dodging its responsibility to provide
a safe and dignified resettlement
process despite its high capacity to
do so. Instead, it has entered into an
agreement to offload refugees
arriving in Australia to Cambodia, a
country plagued by human rights
abuses. Australia will provide Cam-
bodia an additional $35 million in
aid in exchange for the deal, but it
cannot be guaranteed that this mon-
ey will reach those that need it most.
While both Australia and Cambo-
dia are signatories of the 1951 Refu-
gee Convention Relating to the Status
of Refugees, the rights of refugees in
both countries are regularly violated.
Australia has become increasingly
irresponsible regarding its treatment
of refugees. Mandatory detention,
offshore processing and a refusal to
settle those found to be genuine refu-
gees have demonstrated Canberras
policy of deterrence. The deal with
Cambodia fits perfectly within this
policy and contradicts the spirit of
the Refugee Convention.
Cambodia also has a poor record
regarding the treatment of refugees.
In December 2009, Cambodia
breached a fundamental element of
the Refugee Convention, non-re-
foulement a principle which
requires signatories to not return or
expel refugees to the persecuting
state by returning 20 Muslim
Uighurs fleeing ethnic violence to
China. Others who migrate here,
including Khmer Krom, ethnic
Khmer from South Vietnam entitled
to citizenship, struggle to access their
rights in practice. This demonstrates
the problems of the immigration
process and Cambodias failure to
support those seeking asylum.
Aside from violations against refu-
gees and breaches of the Refugee Con-
vention, Cambodia is facing countless
other human rights issues. Impunity
is rampant, freedom of expression is
threatened, minorities are discrimi-
nated against and land rights are
ignored. Corruption is endemic and
politically motivated attacks are com-
mon. This is compounded by the fact
that 20.5 per cent of the population
lives in poverty, and many others earn
only fractionally more, according to
Where Have All the Poor Gone?, a 2013
World Bank report. Cambodia is
clearly an unacceptable place for a
wealthy country to offload refugees,
particularly as it cannot guarantee the
rights of arriving refugees.
The pilot program by which Cam-
bodia will initially accept only four to
five refugees signifies that the country
is aware of its limited capacity. It is not
clear who will monitor this pilot pro-
gram or assess whether the situation
for refugees is appropriate. It is clear
that if the program is to be monitored
by Cambodia and/or Australia alone,
it will be subject to biased assessment
and lack international scrutiny.
Recent media reports suggest that
refugees will be forced to relocate
outside of Phnom Penh once they
have mastered basic Khmer. They
will receive 12 months of guaran-
teed assistance once relocated, but it
is likely that this will be inadequate
considering the trauma that many
refugees have endured and the time
required to find meaningful
employment. This is despite the
Refugee Convention stipulating
that refugees have the right to
choose their place of residence and
to move freely within its territory.
While 87 per cent of the worlds ref-
ugees are already hosted by develop-
ing countries, Australia is circum-
venting its international obligations.
Refugees arriving on Australian
shores have been given a choice to
either resettle in Cambodia or to
remain on Nauru for a further five
years. And it has been made clear
that they will never resettle in Aus-
tralia. This is having a devastating
impact on already traumatised refu-
gees; five refugees on Nauru have
sewn their mouths closed and two
have attempted suicide since receiv-
ing the news. For those who are
resettled in Cambodia, the series of
violations is set to continue.
Australia and Cambodia both have
a duty to respect their obligations,
not only under the Refugee Conven-
tion but other human rights conven-
tions, including the International
Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights. The deal will in all likelihood
result in breaches of these interna-
tional human rights standards and
should be subject to public scrutiny.
The rights and wellbeing of the refu-
gees involved should be the prime
consideration for both countries.
An affront to human rights
Protesters gather in front of the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh on Friday before the signing of a controversial refugee deal between the countries. HENG CHIVOAN
Comment
Chak Sopheap
Chak Sopheap is the executive director of
the Cambodia Center for Human Rights.
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ONE of K-pops marquee acts, the girlband Girls Gen-
eration, has kicked out one of its star members, sending
shockwaves through the groups devoted fan base in
South Korea, Asia and beyond.
Jessica Jung, a prominent member of the nine-girl act
that has packed stadiums around the world, said she
had been shockingly informed by her eight colleagues
and agency that she was no longer part of the band.
I am devastated my priority and love is to serve as
a member of GG but for no justifiable reason, I am being
forced out, the 25-year-old wrote on her microblogging
Weibo account.
Her agency SM Entertainment insisted Jessica had
expressed an intention to quit earlier this year to focus
on her newly launched fashion business.
As the band had conflicting priorities and interests and
Jessica started her own fashion business. We came to a
conclusion that we can no longer continue the band like
this, SM said in a statement. We made a decision on her
departure earlier than originally planned, it said.
The agency stressed that Girls Generation would keep
going with the remaining eight members.
The news made headlines in South Korea and imme-
diately began trending on social networks as messages
poured in from devastated fans.
They kept saying that they were like families and
they would sing and stick together until they became
grannies, said one disillusioned fan. But they were
just business partners after all.
Formed in 2007, Girls Generation had a breakout hit
with gee two years later and morphed into one of the
biggest acts the K-pop juggernaut has ever produced,
with a huge following in China and Japan.
A Korean-American, who was born and raised in San
Francisco, Jessica launched her own fashion line
BLANC in August of this year. AFP
ER Shipp
W
ELL, d-
dledeedee, as
Scarlett OHara
might exclaim:
Gone With the Wind, the
epic lm of love and war set
against the backdrop of a
doomed Southern slavocracy,
is turning 75, with special
screenings in movie theatres
around the US and an airing
on TV, too.
While black lm buffs and
thrill seekers will be in these
audiences, that was not the
case when the blockbuster
saga premiered at Atlantas
Loews Grand on December
15, 1939, with Depression-era
patrons paying a whopping
$10 for tickets.
In that New South that
had replaced the antebellum
South, there were no seats for
black moviegoers. Negro re-
action to Margaret Mitchells
Gone With the Wind will have
to wait until the lm comes
North, the Pittsburgh Cou-
riers Atlanta correspondent
reported in the December 23,
1939, edition.
For the GWTW premiere,
Atlanta was a bastion of Old
South pageantry, with 42 cho-
risters from the oldest black
church there, Big Bethel AME,
dressed in the garb of the old
South, according to the Balti-
more Afro, to entertain the au-
dience with black spirituals.
The lm that went on to win
10 Oscars including the rst
for a black performer and
that the American Film In-
stitute considers one of the
best lms ever made, created
nearly as much havoc in the
equivalent of black Twitter
the black press as General
William T Shermans march
through Atlanta during the
Civil War.
It was 1939, when millions
of despairing people were un-
employed and living on some
form of public assistance
during the Great Depression.
Black activists were crusading
for a federal anti-lynching bill.
Europe was combating Nazis
and fascists while America
dithered over whether to in-
tervene. And Hollywood was
promoting the lost cause in a
war that claimed 750,000 lives
and brought about the legal
abolition of slavery.
Afro columnist Ralph Mat-
thews warned Hollywood that
it was on dangerous ground
with GWTW: This is more
than a racial question; it is a
matter of grave national con-
cern, and the white guardians
of the Ship of State should
appreciate the danger. With
half the world on re with na-
tional and racial hatreds, this
is no time to reopen old sores
at home.
Black folks picketed from
coast to coast. Some unions
urged boycotts. In Chicago,
the Defender called for a mass
protest and in an editorial ob-
served: Gone With the Wind
is propaganda, pure propa-
ganda, crude propaganda. It
is anti-Negro propaganda of
the most vicious character. It
is un-American propaganda.
It is subversive. In Philadel-
phia, the president of the
National Baptist Convention
condemned the lm as a dis-
grace. Across the pond, the
Defenders London correspon-
dent reported, Africans, West
Indians, Arabs, Indians, Chi-
nese, Ceylonese, Burmese and
other colonials boycotted the
lm and registered their ob-
jections in Parliament.
Strangely, Roy Wilkins, the
future NAACP chief, advised
everyone to chill. In the Am-
sterdam News, Wilkins wrote:
It is my pleasure to report to
my readers that in the lengthy
and long-advertised lm,
Gone With the Wind, there is
very little (almost nothing)
over which the dark broth-
ers and sisters can work up
a good mad. The authors of
the lm story have been ex-
ceptionally careful to avoid
the dialogue in the Mitchell
novel which, if transferred to
the screen, would have been
inammable material.
Small favours.
Not long before the rst an-
nouncement of plans to turn
Mitchells best-seller into a
movie, the Los Angeles Senti-
nel in a page 1 editorial pre-
dicted a disaster. This kind
of a picture of the Old South
is false, and worse than that,
it is a libel on the entire Negro
people, the editors wrote on
January 28, 1937, while adding
presciently that our profes-
sional Hollywood hangers-on
will be so blinded by the fact
that a few Negroes will get jobs
playing Uncle Tom and Aunt
Dinah that they will think of
nothing but praise for the stu-
dio that produces the lm and
the director that hires these
actors to help perpetrate these
lies in celluloid.
In the months before roles
were even lled, black news-
papers were abuzz with specu-
lation about who would win
the plum roles, especially that
of Scarletts faithful Mammy.
Would it be Louise Beavers,
best known then for her break-
through role as the co-lead in
the 1934 tearjerker Imitation
of Life? Or would it be Lizzie
McDufe, an amateur thespi-
an who found herself at the top
of the social heap as a personal
maid to the rst lady, Eleanor
Roosevelt? Both were appar-
ently hired at various stages
of the production but were
ultimately replaced by Hattie
McDaniel, who went on to be-
come the rst black Academy
Award winner as best support-
ing actress in 1940.
Amid the speculation about
what the Courier referred to
as its nancial effect upon
the colored colony of Los
Angeles, a strong current
of wariness and scepticism
presaged what transpired de-
cades later with Django Un-
chained and 12 Years a Slave:
How would Hollywood treat
the black characters? Would
the lm spew despised words
like nigger and darky so
liberally used in the novel?
The California Eagles Earl J
Morris castigated black ac-
tors who auditioned for parts
by reading scripts containing
such words and urged readers
to write to David O Selznick,
the producer, and to Will
Hays, the movie industrys
chief censor.
GWTW inspired a new so-
phistication in lm criticism
among writers like William
L Patterson in the Defender
(Gone With the Wind is a
weapon of terror against
black America. It is a weapon
of lies and misrepresenta-
tions calculated to turn white
America away from the dem-
ocratic struggle and against
Negroes); Ben Davis in the
Cleveland Call and Post (The
picture openly refers to the
Negroes as simple-minded
darkies, resurrecting all the
racial inferiority theories
which science has discarded,
and which Hitler and his fel-
low imperialists have picked
up against the Jews and other
minorities); and Dan Burley
in the Amsterdam News (The
David O Selznick production
of Gone With the Wind, rep-
resenting an investment of
$3,000,000, is the most expen-
sive attempt to date to show
the too rapidly progressing
Negro his proper place).
To the dismay of editorial-
ists and reviewers, black peo-
ple ocked to GWTW when it
reached theatres near them,
like the Carver in Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, and the Liberty in Bed-
ford, Virginia; the Lincoln in
Washington, DC; the Harlem
in Baltimore; and the Victoria
in New York Citys Harlem.
Some columnists praised the
lms production values and
performances. Just about
everyone loved McDaniel,
about whose performance
Donald Bogle, the lm histo-
rian, has written, McDaniels
Mammy becomes an all-see-
ing, all-hearing, all-knowing
commentator and observer.
She remarks. She annotates.
She makes asides. She always
opinionizes.
With the passage of time
and a different appreciation of
the slavery era, as evidenced
by 12 Years a Slave winning
the Oscar for best picture this
year, has GWTWs time gone
with the wind? Trey Ellis, the
novelist and screenwriter,
thinks so. He puts it in a cat-
egory with Leni Riefenstahls
brilliantly rendered propa-
ganda lms for Hitlers Third
Reich: It is in the service of
something very pernicious.
Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning cultural critic,
thought about that a few years
ago as she watched the movie
on TV. As constructed enter-
tainment, it kept holding me
the drive of the action, the
characters, the melodrama.
I kept watching it, she told
The Root. At the same time,
of course, I was snarling and
growling and rolling my eyes
in disgust moment after mo-
ment and also feeling, God,
it is very scary, the power of
entertainment or artistic con-
ventions to pull you in de-
spite all your intellectual and
emotional abhorrence.
To anyone planning to watch
now, she offers this advice:
Watch it well armed with po-
litical, social and race history,
and approach it as real critics
of how lm manipulates, how
it can turn even your own im-
pulses and instincts against
you. THE ROOT
Gone With the Wind and its
pernicious place in history
And then there were eight . . . Girls Generation ousts star
Hattie McDaniel became the rst black Academy Award winner as best
supporting actress in 1940 for her role as Mammy in Gone With the
Wind. MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
This le picture taken in June 2013 shows K-pop band Girls Generation. Jessica Jung,
fourth right, has gotten the boot. AFP
Alexandra Petri
STAND up, if you want to live.
This seems to be a theme, lately,
among health writers. If you stand
more and exercise more, you will be
healthier than if you simply exercised
more. Stand up. Stand up right now.
Keep standing up. Write everything
standing. It lengthens your telomeres
and, as far as we can tell, lengthening
your telomeres is the way to immor-
tality. They are like the little protective
plastic thingies on the shoelace that
is your DNA.
Well, I wont stand for this.
We are fortunate to live in an era
where comfortable chairs exist. For
thousands of years, this was not the
case. Our ancestors did not suffer and
have to come home from long days of
hunting mammoths in order to sit on
a big rock so that we could deny our-
selves the comfortable chairs they
would have killed to possess.
Yes, I concede, there is a long his-
tory of standing.
Nothing conduces to brevity like
a caving in of the knees, as Oliver
Wendell Holmes liked to say, explain-
ing why he wrote opinions while
standing up. Then again, Vladimir
Nabokov wrote standing up, and I
wouldnt call Lolita brief. (Well,
admittedly, he started off
writing standing up, then
concluded the day writing
lying down, and he did it
all on index cards, he
told Playboy.)
I generally start the day
at a lovely old-fashioned
lectern I have in my study,
Nabokov said. Later
on, when I feel grav-
ity nibbling at my
calves, I settle
down in a com-
fortable armchair
alongside an ordi-
nary writing desk;
and finally, when
gravity begins
climbing up my
spine, I lie down
on a couch in
a corner of
my small
study.
V i c t o r
Hugo also
wrote stand-
ing up. I can barely read Les Miserables
while standing up, let alone write the
thing, which must have involved
a great deal of staring out the
window wondering how to
make a singing orphan
more winsome. That puts
a tremendous strain on
the knees.
Maybe he knew what
he was doing. Then
again, it is generally
unwise to latch on too
tightly to the habits
of famous writers
and creative types.
Otherwise you
would fill your
apartment with
perfumes and
loll around in a
bathrobe let-
ti ng them
wash over
you (Wagner
apparently
did this) or
spend a
good deal
of time sit-
ting around
nude letting the air wash over you,
like Ben Franklin did. And he lived
for a very long time.
Well, you will probably say, writers
and creative types have strange rou-
tines and should not be listened to. But
if something is proven by Science to
lengthen your life, why not go for it?
To this I say that I have long sus-
pected that all people who reach a
certain age are inducted into a vast
conspiracy (like the Illuminati, but
wrinklier) where, whenever any
researcher asks What It Is Theyve
Done to Live So Long, they say, with a
straight face, something completely
and totally ridiculous. I eat onion
sandwiches, they say. Or, I jump into
a frozen pool every morning at dawn
or I hire a man to come wrestle with
me in the afternoons or Me, I like to
fell pines.
I think it was Twain who found it sus-
picious that the people who recom-
mended these gruelling routines were
always such hearty types. One had to
be, he thought. Those regimens would
kill anyone else who tried them.
And thats how I feel about all this
standing. Its all very well, in theory,
to stand all the time and lengthen
your telomeres and become func-
tionally immortal. But have you actu-
ally tried it? I can stand for bursts,
intermittently.
However, when it comes to stand-
ing, I am a sprinter, not a marathoner.
My two-minute stand is something
to behold. I can stand as long as I
know that eventually I will be able to
sit down. That thought is what sus-
tains me.
Well, you say, more people have
died lying down or sitting down
than standing.
True enough. The only person I
know who died standing was Branwell
Bronte, who died leaning on a man-
telpiece because he wanted to prove
that he could do it. But we can all
agree that this was stupid.
Standing more lengthens your life.
Maybe, if we were really good about
it and stood up all the time, we could
get to be immortal. But who would
want to be immortal if you had to
stand up all the time? That, to me, is
a fate worse than death.
In conclusion, Im not going to stand
here and take this. I will take this, as I
prefer to take everything, sitting down.
Comfortably. THE WASHINGTON POST
Health
18
Yes, you should get a flu vaccine
Jill U Adams

T
HE u. Fever, chills, aches
and pains, and sometimes
gobs of snot. Usually theres
nothing you can do but lie in
bed, take some aspirin and sip chick-
en soup. Sometimes u is a setup for
serious complications such as bacte-
rial pneumonia; in some people, u
can worsen chronic conditions such
as asthma and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease.
The best protection, of course, is to
get ahead of the virus with a u vac-
cine. But which one? The shot or the
nasal spray? High-dose or recombi-
nant? In recent years, new versions
have led to better choices for young
children, senior citizens, people with
egg allergies and people who fear
needles. Because fewer than half of
Americans got vaccinated last year,
according to the US Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention, any-
thing that leads more people to get
vaccinated is a good idea.
As a health care provider, my job
is easier when my patients dont get
u, says Sandra Fryhofer, an Atlanta
physician who serves on the Ameri-
can College of Physicians immuni-
sation committee. I am thrilled to
have so many choices.
Doses of u vaccine are formulated
based on infectious-disease experts
best guess at which strains will be
circulating in the coming season,
which can start as early as October.
Vaccination is recommended for all
Americans over the age of 6 months;
vaccines are distributed widely and
offered at doctors ofces, drugstores
and workplaces.
Heres a closer look at some of your
vaccine options. Remember, public
health experts say any vaccine is bet-
ter than none, and the sooner you get
vaccinated the better.
The basic fu shot, injected into
the muscle of the arm. The majority
of u vaccines this year (as in recent
years) have been trivalent, which
means they protect against three
major u strains: inuenza virus A of
the H1N1 type, inuenza virus A of
the H3N2 type and inuenza B virus.
The vaccine is made by growing u
viruses in chicken eggs, then killing
the virus and purifying key compo-
nents proteins, called antigens, that
stimulate the human body to make
antibodies.
The quadrivalent vaccine. This
upgrade of the basic u shot protects
against the trivalents three strains
plus an additional inuenza B virus
and is being phased in by a couple of
manufacturers.
The nasal spray. This quadriva-
lent vaccine is the preferred formula-
tion for kids age 2 to 8 based on data
showing that kids are protected bet-
ter by the nasal spray.
Unlike other vaccines, the nasal
spray delivers the whole virus, alive
but in a weakened state. It only works
in the nose it cant survive at internal
body temperature, says Lisa Jackson,
a physician researcher at Group Health
Research Institute in Seattle. It acts
like a regular infection and prompts a
more robust immune response.
The high-dose fu vaccine. A re-
cent addition to the vaccine arma-
mentarium, this contains four times
the amount of viral components
as the standard vaccine and is ap-
proved for people who are at least 65
years old. The extra antigens trigger
a bigger immune response, which
is especially helpful in older people,
who typically have less responsive
immune systems.
Research published last month in
the New England Journal of Medicine
showed that the high-dose vaccine
worked 24 per cent better in protect-
ing senior citizens against u than
did the standard dose over the course
of two u seasons.
Thats a modest improvement,
Jackson says, though that may pro-
vide a signicant payoff in the el-
derly, who are at greater risk of com-
plications from u, including more
hospitalisations and more deaths.
But it also costs about twice as much
as the standard u shot. Health
administrators may be wondering
whether its worth it, she says. As a
clinician, I think its worth it.
The recombinant vaccine. A re-
cent formulation of the trivalent
vaccine that is made without eggs
(insect cells are used in one step) and
is safe for people age 18 to 49 with se-
vere egg allergies.
The PharmaJet-delivered vaccine.
A needle-free injection system for the
trivalent u vaccine. Approved in Au-
gust by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration for people age 18 to 64, the de-
vice, called a jet injector, delivers the
vaccine as a ne stream with enough
pressure to puncture the skin.
The intradermal shot. A vaccine
that delivers u antigens under the
skin, not into the muscle. This shot
uses a much smaller needle helpful
for people made anxious by needles
and it allows a smaller dose of vac-
cine to be injected, which may be
helpful in times of vaccine shortage.
It has not been widely adopted, in
part because intradermal injections
require more skill by the person ad-
ministering the shot, Jackson says.
Your doctor can help you sort
through the choices to nd the best
vaccine for you.
Despite the variety of options, it re-
mains true that u vaccines are not
100 per cent effective. It depends on
the match of circulating strains to the
vaccine, and it depends on your own
immune response to the vaccine,
Fryhofer says. For this reason, its
wise to follow basic protective mea-
sures, such as washing your hands
frequently and steering clear of sick
people during the winter months.
These practices can also help you
avoid cold viruses, for which there
are no vaccines. THE WASHINGTON POST
This guy had the right idea. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Join the standing craze? Nah, Ill sit this one out
A boy is vaccinated as part of a vaccination campaign in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Experts say that any vaccine is better than none. AFP
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UKs newest
natl treasure:
concrete box
T
HE National Trust is
the keeper of Britains
stately homes and
coastal walks, its army
of elderly volunteers sustain-
ing visitors with tea and cakes.
Starting this week, it will also
offer tours of a 1960s concrete
tower block in east London.
The 27-storey Balfron Tower
in Poplar is being refurbished
after decades of neglect as a
wave of gentrication spruces
up former housing estates and
casts a fresh eye on once-de-
rided designs.
Its not beautiful, conceded
Joseph Watson, program direc-
tor of National Trust London,
as he surveyed the spectacular
views from the top oor across
nearby Canary Wharf, with the
Millennium Dome and the
Shard in the distance.
The imposing grey block
is a leading example of so-
called Brutalist architecture, a
postwar style named after the
French word brut, in reference
to the raw concrete that g-
ured boldly in its designs.
Built by architect and de-
signer Erno Goldnger, the
tower was the rst fullment of
his dream of a new form of so-
cial housing clean, open and
modern. James Bond creator
Ian Fleming famously hated
Goldngers designs, naming
one of his villains after him in
apparent disgust.
The trust has acknowledged
that the 47-year-old tower,
with its separate lift shaft at-
tached by eight midair walk-
ways, is not everybodys idea
of a heritage property.
But Watson insisted the
building, which was listed as
a conservation site in 1996,
should be celebrated as much
as Britains country estates and
churches. To do so, the trust
is holding a fortnight of tours
of the top oor at in which
Goldnger lived, refurbished
in period style, as well as the
surrounding estates.
This was heroic architec-
ture, this was architecture that
was trying to stand up and be
counted, Watson said.
Looking up at the tower from
the balcony of his at in Car-
radale House, a smaller social
housing estate next door that
was also designed by Goldn-
ger, resident John Boardman
said it was marvellous that
the trust was taking an interest.
Over the years, Ive thought
they ought to pull it down or
put a bomb under it. But its an
icon, said the unemployed 56-
year-old, sipping a mug of tea.
Goldnger and his wife lived
in Flat 130 for two months in
1968 to prove the desirability
of high-rise living, inviting lo-
cal residents to champagne-
fuelled parties.
The at has now been ret-
ted in intricate 60s detail as
if home to a couple and their
two children, complete with
a Beatles poster on the girls
bedroom wall.
The original residents came
from surrounding slums that
were made uninhabitable after
the bombing in World War II,
and many were given modern,
well-equipped ats, organised
so they lived near their old
neighbours.
Watson said it was all part of
a utopian dream.
Of course it doesnt work out
in the long run, but it does feel
like its a very important mo-
ment for us to re-examine and
to celebrate, he said. AFP
The Balfron Tower in east London earlier this week. AFP
The entrance to the Balfron Tower. AFP
Entertainment
20

LEGEND CINEMA
IF I STAY
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall
when a car accident puts her in a coma. During
an out-of-body experience, she must decide
whether to wake up and live a life far different
than she had imagined.
City Mall: 7:25pm
Tuol Kork: 9:25am
LUCY
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal,
turns the tables on her captors and transforms
into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human
logic.
City Mall: 9:20am, 3:30pm
Tuol Kork: 11:40am, 10:15pm
Meanchey: 6pm

NOVEMBER MAN
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a
very personal mission and finds himself pit-
ted against his former pupil in a deadly game
involving high-level CIA officials and the Russian
president-elect.
City Mall: 9:55pm
Tuol Kork: 10pm
Meanchey: 9:55pm
VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic trig-
ger a ruthless war between rival ant colonies,
obsessed with gaining control of the same prize:
a box of sugar cubes!
City Mall: 11:15am
Tuol Kork: 3:55pm
Meanchey: 11:35am
THE MAZE RUNNER
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys af-
ter his memory is erased, soon learning theyre
all trapped in a maze that will require him to
join forces with fellow runners for a shot at
escape.
City Mall: 9:45am, 2:45pm, 5:25pm, 9:25pm
Tuol Kork: 12:05pm, 2:35pm, 7:05pm, 9:35pm
Meanchey: 9:45am, 2:25pm, 7:05pm, 9:25pm
NOW SHOWING
Salsa @ The Groove
Beginner salsa lessons will precede
a salsa party open to participants of
all skill levels. The cost of the lesson
is $5 per person, but the party is free
for all.
The Groove, #1C Street 282 on top of
Terrazza Italian Restaurant. 8pm
Lipstick @ St Tropez
Groups of four women get one free
bottle of vodka (except for Grey Goose)
and 50 per cent o on all cocktails
and wine for the evening. With music
by DJ Naga.
Maison Saint Tropez, #31 Street 174.
9pm
TV PICKS
Phnom Penh Community College aims to teach students how to convert jeans into skirts. BLOOMBERG
Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. BLOOMBERG
DJ @ Riverhouse
DJ Maily will perform on the decks.
The midnight madness comes with a
buy one get one free deal after
midnight. People dressed in red
clothing get free shots.
Riverhouse Lounge, #157 Sisowath
Quay. 8pm
Jeans @ PPCC
Participants will learn to transform
jeans into skirts. All garments, fabrics,
threads and accessories are included.
Sewing machine experience is ideal.
Fee is $35. Register at info@
phnompenhcommunitycollege.com.
The Capacity Specialists Training
Centre, #73 Street 115. 6:15pm
8:55am -PLEASANTVILLE: Two 1990s teenagers find
themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence
begins to profoundly change that complacent
world. HBO
12pm - THE MATRIX: A computer hacker learns
from mysterious rebels about the true nature
of his reality and his role in the war against its
controllers. HBO
5:40pm - MONSTERS, INC: Monsters generate their
citys power by scaring children, but they are terribly
afraid themselves of being contaminated by children.
HBO
9pm - When one of their own is kidnapped by an
angry gangster, the Wolf Pack must track down Mr
Chow. HBO
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Australian gemstones
6 Wool source
11 Rx abbr., sometimes
14 Open-ceilinged lobbies
15 Brother of Moses
16 Word professors like to hear
17 Searching for the truth
19 Cellblock sojourner
20 Music style
21 Many years ___ ...
22 Potent stick
23 Proposer or salesperson,
essentially
27 Some military actions
29 Meadow murmur
30 Chilled with cubes
32 Not of the clergy
33 The last thing in lists?
34 Mentors
36 Piece of celery
39 Appease fully
41 Southwestern stickers
43 Senoras stewpot
44 Wed without parental consent
46 Ducklike birds
48 Entente interrupter
49 Antarctic sea
51 Dark orange color
52 Compilation of stories
53 Sparkle in the sun
56 Pantomime clown
58 And ___ the opposite shore will
be
59 Young Darth
60 ___ chi chuan
61 Something to do for the camera
62 Consideration in dealing with
others
68 Inflation meas.
69 Old-time knockout gas
70 Prevent, at the bar
71 Japanese bucks
72 Like a pomegranate
73 All systems go!
DOWN
1 Klutzy sort
2 Education-conscious org.
3 Shape of a curved path
4 Brits booze quantity
5 Some hunting expeditions
6 PC connection system
7 Male Scottish youngster
8 Some vocal numbers
9 Golden Horde member
10 Certain cats and goats
11 Strategic conflict
12 Glowed
13 One-third of a three-piece suit
18 Purgative syrup
23 Heavy, plus
24 Having momentousconsequences
25 Including, as pertinentinformation
26 Born to the purple
28 Latin jazz great Puente
31 Certain style, as of furnishings
35 Basin for holy water
37 Extensive grassy plain
38 Jewelers measure
40 Collection of poetry
42 As originally positioned
45 Large properties
47 Word with base or scene
50 Hundred on the Hill
53 Walking with a sprained ankle,
e.g.
54 Common parasite
55 Recess for a statuette
57 Hair preparation
63 Excellent adventure dude
64 Cook in grease
65 Airport listing, for short
66 Grassy square
67 Watch secretly
FIVE-ACT PLAY
Tuesdays solution Tuesdays solution
Asian Games
21
Rank NOC
Medals
Gold Silver Bronze Total
1

China 123 79 60 262
2

South Korea 54 53 60 167
3

Japan 37 54 55 146
4

Kazakhstan 15 16 25 56
5

Iran 14 11 10 35
6

North Korea 8 10 11 29
7

Taiwan 8 8 14 30
8

Thailand 8 6 20 34
9

Qatar 8 0 3 11
10

India 6 8 32 46
11

Hong Kong 6 8 22 36
12

Uzbekistan 6 7 14 27
Bowling
Womens team of five
1. Cherie Tan, Daphne Tan,
Shayna Ng, New Hui Fen,
Jazreel Tan (SIN) 6,119
2. Lee Na-young, Kim Jin-sun,
Son Yun-hee, Jeon Eun-hee,
Lee Yeong-seung, Jung Da-
wun (KOR) 6,048
3. Tannya Roumimper, Novie
Phang, Alisha Larasati, Sharon
Santoso, Putty Armein (INA)
5,840
Womens all-events
1. Lee Na-young (KOR) 5,132
2. Jane Sin Li (MAS) 5,095
3. Jazreel Tan (SIN) 5,013
Diving
Womens synchronised 10m
platform
1. Chen Ruolin/Liu Huixia
(CHN) 346.50
2. Kim Un-hyang/Song Nam-
hyang (PRK) 320.64
3. Leong Mun Yee/Pandelella
Rinong (MAS) 313.92
Mens synchronised 3m
springboard
1. Cao Yuan/Lin Yue (CHN)
460.86
2. Ahmad Azman/Ooi Tze Liang
(MAS) 405.81
3. Kim Yeongnam/Woo Ha-ram
(KOR) 399.09
Equestrian
Jumping individual
1. Abdullah Waleed A Shar-
batli (KSA) 33.64sec
2. Satoshi Hirao (JPN) 39.36
3. Taizo Sugitani (JPN) 30.95
Mountain biking
Mens cross-country
1. Wang Zhen (CHN) 1:42:34
2. Chan Chun-hing (HKG)
1:43:27
3. Kohei Yamamoto (JPN)
1:44:12
Womens cross-country
1. Shi Qinglan (CHN) 1:17:06
2. Yang Ling (CHN) 1:23:02
3. Yukari Nakagome (JPN)
1:30:29
Soft tennis
Womens singles
Final: Kim Bo-mi (KOR) bt Chen
Hui (CHN) 4-1
Bronze: Kim Ae-kyung (KOR),
Zhong Yi (CHN)
Mens singles
Final: Kim Hyeong-jun (KOR)
bt Edi Kusdaryanto (INA) 4-0
Bronze: Kim Dong-hoon (KOR),
Zhou Mo (CHN)
Taekwondo
Womens -49kg
1. Chanatip Sonkham (THA)
2. Li Zhaoyi (CHN)
3= Levita Ilao (PHI)
3= Sun Nuei Ning (TWN)
AFP
Teenager ends Japans
40-year tennis title wait
TEENAGER Yoshihito Nishioka
humbled Taiwanese veteran
Lu Yen-hsun in straight sets
yesterday to become Japans
first Asian Games mens
singles champion in 40 years.
The 19-year-old left-hander,
ranked 168th in the world,
outclassed number 42 Lu 6-2,
6-2 in 101 minutes to emulate
countryman Toshiro Sakais
win at the 1974 Games in
Tehran. Meanwhile, Luksika
Kumkhums bid to become
Thailands first woman singles
champion ended in despair as
Qiang Wang of China won the
final 6-3, 7-6 (7/5) in an hour
and five minutes. Luksika, who
won the womens doubles gold
on Monday with veteran
Tamarine Tanasugarn, failed to
add another title as Qiang
responded cooly to the Thais
attacking ground play. AFP
Suspected militants on
Korean travel blacklist
SIXTEEN people from four
Asian countries were barred
from travelling to South Korea
for the Asian Games over
suspected links with Islamic
militant groups, police said
yesterday. The list of banned
individuals included seven
from Malaysia, five from the
Philippines, three from
Vietnam and one Singaporean.
We received the names of
people with suspected links
with militant Islamic groups or
with past records of making
trouble at international events
from each of the four
countries, a National Police
Agency officer told AFP. The
ban was imposed from
September 15 four days
before the ongoing Asiad
began in the South Korean
port city of Incheon. AFP
Singapore stars dad
refutes foreigner tag
THE father of Singapores Asian
Games swimming star Joseph
Schooling has hit back at critics
questioning their family
background amid discontent
over foreign-born athletes
competing for the city-state.
Businessman Colin Schooling,
66, who was himself born in
Singapore, said he felt baffled by
comments on the internet
describing his 19-year-old son,
a third-generation Singaporean,
as a foreigner. Joseph Schooling
won the 100-metre butterfly title
in record time in Incheon, South
Korea to become the first male
Singapore swimmer to win an
Asian Games gold since 1982.
He has also won a silver and a
bronze at the Games. His
victories have been celebrated
at home but there have also
been comments referring to his
father as ang moh, which
means a white man in the
Hokkien dialect spoken by many
Singaporeans. AFP
Filipina golfer royal by
name but not stature
FILIPINO golfer Princess
Superal caused panic among
Asian Games organisers when
she was mistaken for a real
royal, the Philippine Star
reported. Philippines chef de
mission Ricardo Garcia
received an unexpected
courtesy call from an Incheon
Asian Games Organising
Committee official who
apologised for what he thought
was a diplomatic lapse. AFP
South Koreas Park Ji-Na (left) ghts with Indias Laishram Sarita Devi in the womens boxing 57-60kg seminal match during the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon yesterday. AFP
Scuffles, protest over boxing
decisions by Incheon judges
S
CUFFLES broke out and Mon-
golia lodged an ofcial protest
as controversial decisions in
favour of home boxers caused
chaotic scenes at the Asian Games in
South Korea yesterday.
The husband of Indian lightweight
Sarita Devi launched an expletive-laden
tirade and tangled with security after
South Koreas Park Ji-na was controver-
sially awarded their semifinal bout.
And Mongolias male bantamweight
Tugstsogt Nyambayar contentiously lost
a decision against Ham Sang-myeong,
prompting a brief sit-in protest and an
official complaint.
But the International Boxing Associa-
tion (AIBA) rejected the protest, saying
it was not possible to appeal against
judges decisions.
This is a very sad day. We want to see
fair play in sport, Mongolias chef de
mission Badmaanyambuu Bat Erdene
told AFP. For some of these athletes they
have only one chance for a gold medal
and it has been cruelly taken away from
them, Bat Erdene said.
He refused to confirm whether the
team would carry out an earlier threat
to withdraw their remaining boxers
from the Games.
Earlier, Commonwealth Games silver
medallist Devi dominated her fight and
when Park was given the win, it sparked
jeers and a melee which prompted the
arrival of police.
I dont accept this decision. Its
wrong, a distraught Devi, told AFP,
while her husband Chongtham Thoiba
Singh confronted officials, screaming:
Youve killed boxing!
He grabbed his wifes arm and tried to
lead her in protest back to the ring,
where the next bout was already under
way, resulting in scuffles as their path
was blocked by security.
Dont tell me its OK! This is not OK!
What the hell is going on here! Singh
shouted at the top of his voice. She won
this fight and you give it to Korea,
he yelled.
Police were called into the arena and
stood in a cordon between the press area
and the ring.
The India teams Cuban coach Blas
Iglesias Fernandez called for the judges
to be sacked.
I hope all these judges that made this
decision are thrown out of the tourna-
ment, he said.
It was a totally clear bout, not any
doubt. Only those people [judges] saw
the South Korean as the winner. She won
every round. She hammered her. Devi
won a bronze, as beaten semifinalists in
boxing both receive a medal.
Demchigjav Zagdsuren, president of
the Mongolia National Olympic Com-
mittee, called for fair play at the boxing
competition.
We wish to have fair play and true
judging in boxing for the sporting spirit
of the Games, he said in a statement.
We have zero tolerance for misjudg-
ing in boxing competitions.
The episodes took the gloss off what
should have been a glorious day for
India in the womens semifinals.
In the first bout of the day, icon and
five-time world champion Mary Kom
outpointed Vietnams Le Thi Bang to
erase bitter memories of falling in the
last four in both the last Asian Games
and Olympic Games.
India had a third semifinalist in the
womens middleweight division, but
Rani Pooja lost to Chinas Li Qian on
points and will pick up a bronze. AFP
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Sport
ONE FC middleweight champion
to be crowned at Singapore event
Dan Riley

O
NE FIGHTING Champi-
onship has announced
the rst four bouts to its
mixed martial arts card,
ONE FC: Battle of Lions, set to pack
out the 12,000-seater Singapore In-
door Stadium on November 7.
The main event will feature an
inaugural contest for the ONE FC
middleweight champion title, as
Brazilian Leandro Ataides faces Igor
Svirid of Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, two top welterweight
clashes have been booked, includ-
ing Bakhtiyar Abbasov of Azerbai-
jan against Brazils Luis Santos and
Dwayne Hinds of Trinidad & Tobago
taking on South Africas Warren De
Reuck.
Fast-rising Myanmar star Aung La
N Sang will meet Japanese veteran
Tatsuya Mizuno in a middleweight
battle.
Singaporean mixed martial artists
Kirstie Gannaway and Amir Khan
are also set to represent the host na-
tion at the event, with their respec-
tive opponents to be conrmed at a
later date.
ONE FC Victor Cui stated in a press
release: ONE Fighting Champion-
ship has acquired a roster of world-
class talent from all over the world
and fans in Singapore will get to see
them in action on November 7.
We will crown a new world
champion as two world-class mid-
dleweights face off for the honor
of becoming the rst man to don
the ONE FC Middleweight World
Championship [belt]. Fans watch-
ing all over the world are in store
for a night of breathtaking mixed
martial arts action.
Ataides (7-0) is a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu
black belt who has predominantly
showcased himself as a knockout
specialist in the ONE FC cage. His
rst two bouts for Asias largest
MMA organisation have both ended
in devastating fashion, stopping
Brayan Raq and Tatsuya Mizuno in
the rst round.
The 28-year-old Brazilian is still
undefeated in seven professional
bouts and has earned a reputation as
one of the deadliest middleweights
in the world of cage ghting.
Svirid (9-1) has mainly competed
in Russia, winning all nine of his
bouts in the past eighteen months
to rack up an impressive streak. The
28-year-old middleweight, nick-
named Lionheart, has both fear-
some striking and grappling, which
he promises to bring to his ONE FC
debut next month.
Abbasov (12-3) is a top contender
in the division, having defeated the
best in Europe before nding new
challenges at ONE FC. In his ONE
FC debut in Singapore on May 30,
he became the rst MMA ghter
to perform a successful takedown
on current welterweight champion
Ben Askren of the US.
Santos (60-9-1) is another BJJ
black belt with a penchant for KOs.
The 34-year-old has ended 34 of
his ghts by either TKO or KO and
is chomping at the bit to face elite
competition in Asia.
London-based De Reuck (6-0)
has training in Shorin-Ryu Karate
and boasts a series of unorthodox
strikes in his MMA arsenal. The
32-year-old has nished all of his
bouts within the distance and will
kick off his ONE FC stint with a bout
against fellow undefeated competi-
tor Hinds.
Hinds (9-0) is widely considered
as the best mixed martial artist to
emerge from the Caribbean. The
30-year-old, nicknamed Punie, is a
two-time national judo champion
and has also competed in sambo
and boxing.
Aung La N Sang (16-9-1) became
the rst cage ghter of Myanmar
descent to compete at ONE FC
when he faced Egypts Mahmoud
Salama on June 14 in Jakarta. Car-
rying the nickname The Burmese
Python for his constricting abil-
ity which has led him to nine sub-
mission wins, the 29-year-old also
demonstrated knockout power by
punching his way to a rst round
stoppage of Salama.
Mizuno (12-10) is a judo black
belt and has faced some of the best
light heavyweights on the planet.
He now competes as a middle-
weight and will look to make a run
towards the ONE FC title belt with a
victory on November 7.
Leandro Ataides (right) of Brazil lands a punch on the face of Japans Tatsuya Mizuno during their middleweight contest of ONE FC:
Rise of Heroes at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on May 2. ONEFC.COM
TD prayer gets agged
Pacquiao pities Mayweather,
pledges to play pro basketball
KANSAS City Chiefs player
Husain Abdullah was slapped
with a 15-yard penalty in
Mondays NFL contest after
punctuating a fourth quarter
touchdown by dropping to his
knees in prayer, the US media
reported.
Abdullah, a devout Muslim,
slid to his knees after inter-
cepting a Tom Brady pass for
a touchdown early in the
fourth quarter of the Chiefs
41-14 win over the New Eng-
land Patriots. He then leaned
forward and pressed his fore-
head against the end zone
grass.
It is technically a violation of
the National Football Leagues
excessive celebration rules
after scores to do what Abdul-
lah did. Whether the penalty
was for sliding or the bowing
in prayer is unclear.
If I get a pick I am going to
prostrate before God in the
end zone, Abdullah told The
Kansas City Star newspaper.
For me, I just got a little too
excited. I think it was for the
slide.
Social media was quick to
criticize the officials, including
Abdullahs agent CJ LaBoy who
indicated that his client was
practising the sajda, a reli-
gious prayer.
If the NFL tries to fine @
HAbdullah39 for his TD cele-
bration theres going to be
some problems, LaBoy wrote
on his Twitter account.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid
didnt know what to make of
the penalty.
When you go to Mecca, you
should be able to slide
whereever you want, he said.
Weve got two priests in here.
Theyd probably vouch for
me.
It is interesting to note the
NFL never penalized former
Denver Bronco Tim Tebows
Tebowing celebration which
became an American phe-
nomenon three years ago.
Tebow, who attended a
Christian academy, made no
effort to hide his religious
beliefs on the field, kneeling in
prayer after scores and wear-
ing religious messages in his
eye black makeup.
Abdullah skipped the entire
2012 NFL season to take a pil-
grimage to Mecca with his
brother and fellow NFLer,
Hamza. AFP
PHILIPPINE boxing hero Man-
ny Pacquiao on Monday
brushed off Floyd Mayweath-
ers latest taunts, saying he pit-
ied his American rival as he
urged him to read the Bible.
Pacquiao also assured fans
that he would play a few min-
utes of professional basketball
when the new season opens
next month even while he
trains for a match in Macau in
November against unbeaten
American Chris Algieri.
Despite calls by boxing fans
for the two biggest names in the
sport finally to meet, May-
weather has refused to commit
to a match but has not refrained
from baiting Pacquiao.
In his latest jibe, Mayweath-
er undefeated in 47 fights
recently posted several pic-
tures on his social media
account, showing Pacquiao
knocked down in his past
fights. He added that Miss Pac
Man is broke for a pay day.
The deeply religious Pac-
quiao, who has 56 wins and
five losses, said: Im not
affected by it. I pity him and I
pray that someday he would
change his ways.
He [Mayweather] should
fear God, Pacquiao said,
advising him to heed the bibli-
cal passage reading For what
is a man profited if he shall
gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?
The 35-year-old Pacquiao,
who has held world titles in
eight separate weight divisions,
has other things to worry about
than Mayweathers insults.
Aside from training to defend
his World Boxing Organization
welterweight title against
Algieri, he is also acting as coach
and player for the newly-creat-
ed Kia Motors team in the high-
ly-competitive Philippine Bas-
ketball Association.
The 169-centimetre (5ft 6in)
Pacquiao said he would make
training for the fight his main
priority, leaving most of his
basketball duties to his assist-
ant coach. I already talked to
[boxing] coach Freddie [Roach]
that I am going to play in the
PBA maybe just two to three
minutes. My focus is on my
training for the November
fight, he said. AFP
Husain Abdullah of the Kansas City Chiefs scores a touchdown after an
interception against the New England Patriots on Monday. AFP
Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao praying during the dedication
ceremony of his youngest child at his house on Sunday. AFP
Football
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Jong puts North Korea
into the final, sees red
JONG Il-gwan scored an extra-
time winner to put North
Korea into the Asian Games
football final yesterday but was
sent off minutes later, ruling
him out of the gold medal
match. Jongs curling free-
kick against Iraq settled a
frantically paced match in
which neither side could get
the advantage until the extra
period. Five minutes into extra
time, North Korea were
awarded a free kick in the
penalty arc which Jong, 21,
skillfully curved over the wall
and into the corner.
Celebrations for his fifth goal
of the tournament were short-
lived, however. Jong got a
second yellow card during one
of the many standoffs between
the two sides and was ordered
off, burying his face in his
bright red shirt as he walked
away. With North Koreas
champion weightlifters,
including gold medalist Om
Yun-chol, in tears in the crowd,
the team sank to their knees
as the final whistle went and
the communist state reached
only their second Asiad final.
Their only other appearance in
the final was in 1990 in Beijing,
when they lost a penalty
shootout to Iran. AFP
Stoke add to Magpies
misery with 1-0 defeat
STOKE City added to Newcastle
United manager Alan Pardews
woes with a 1-0 win at the
Britannia Stadium on Monday
that left the Magpies still
searching for their first Premier
League victory of the season.
Defeat meant the northeast
side had taken just three points
out of a possible 18 from six
matches, with only newly
promoted Burnley keeping
them off the bottom of the table
courtesy of having scored fewer
goals. Both Newcastle owner
Mike Ashley, among the crowd
at Stokes ground on Monday,
and Pardew have become hate-
figures for Magpies fans. As if
to prove the point, Pardews
gesture in applauding the
Newcastle supporters at full-
time was met with yet more
verbal abuse. Prior to this
match Ashley told the
Independent newspaper that
Pardew would be finished if
Newcastle were beaten by
Stoke, only to subsequently
insist he had been joking. But
there was little for anyone
connected with Newcastle
some of whose fans carried
Sack Pardew banners
yesterday to smile about
when towering former
England striker Peter Crouch
gave Stoke the lead by heading
in Victor Mosess cross in the
15th minute. AFP
Di Natale bags a brace,
Djordjevic hits hat-trick
VETERAN striker Antonio Di
Natale scored a double in a 4-2
win for Udinese over 10-man
Parma that moved the
northerners up to a surprise
third place in Italys Serie A on
Monday. Elsewhere, Serbian
international striker Filip
Djordjevic netted a fine hat-trick
in a 4-0 win at Palermo that
allowed previously lifeless Lazio
to momentarily forget their
early season blues. Juventus
and Roma have set the early
season pace going unbeaten
over five games so far. AFP
Juventus forward Carlos Tevez (left) celebrates with teammate Patrice Evra after scoring during their UEFA Champions League match against Malmo in Turin on September 16. AFP
Atletico, Arsenal looking to
bounce back after defeats
Group A
Atletico Madrid (ESP) v Juventus (ITA)
1:45am
The match of the round sees the
Italian champions Juventus visit the
Spanish champions Atletico Madrid
tonight.
Last seasons runners-up Atletico
suffered a shock 3-2 defeat by Olym-
piakos in their opening match, and
since losing striker Diego Costa to
Chelsea have been heavily reliant on
set pieces for goals.
A set piece can change a game, and
we have plenty of players who can
bury the ball says Atleticos top scorer,
Brazilian centre-back Joao Miranda.
Juventus have not conceded a goal
in a run of ve successive wins in
Serie A, and opened the Champions
League campaign with an easy 2-0
victory over Malmo.
Atletico will have to be wary of Ar-
gentinian striker Carlos Tevez, who
has scored six goals in four games
and coach Massimiliano Allegri says
he is fullling his potential and dic-
tating games.
Malmo (SWE) v Olympiakos (GRE)
1:45am
After going down to a brace of Tevez
goals in their opener, Malmo must
get something out of their clash with
Greek champions Olympiakos.

Group B
Ludogorets (BUL) v Real Madrid (ESP)
1:45am
As their own stadium is judged un-
worthy by UEFA, Ludogorets will host
10-time champions Real Madrid in
the distant National Stadium some
400km away in Soa.
The Bulgarian champions made the
last 16 of the Europa League last sea-
son where they were beaten by Valen-
cia. And they almost grabbed a point
at Aneld in their Champions League
debut before a late penalty by Steven
Gerrard grabbed a fortuitous 2-1 win
for Liverpool.
Basel (SUI) v Liverpool (ENG)
1:45am
Five-time champions Liverpool face
a tricky game at Swiss dark horses Ba-
sel, who beat Chelsea home and away
at the same stage last season. The last
time Liverpool travelled to St Jakob-
Park they rallied from 3-0 down for a
3-3 draw in 2003.
Much is expected of Liverpools in-
consistent but talented Italian inter-
national striker Mario Balotelli, who
has yet to show he is capable of ll-
ing the giant gap left by Luis Suarezs
departure as the team have fallen to
three defeats in their last ve Premier
League outings.

Group C
Zenit St Petersburg (RUS) v
Monaco (FRA) 11pm
The Russian leaders are off to a y-
ing start in their rst full season under
Andre Villas Boas and will prove for-
midable opponents for a Monaco side
who have yet to hit their stride under
new coach Leonardo Jardim.
Zenit, the 2008 UEFA Cup cham-
pions, have a perfect home record of
three wins from three against French
opposition in Champions League ac-
tion while Monaco have a draw and
two defeats on their travels to Russia.
Bayern Leverkusen (GER) v
Benca (POR) 1:45am
A 2-0 home defeat against Zenit
means Jorge Jesus Benca side are
under immense pressure to pick up
what would only be their fourth vic-
tory in 23 trips to German territory.
Group D
Arsenal (ENG) v Galatasaray (TUR)
1:45am
Injury-ravaged Arsenal, who have
never lifted the European Cup, take on
Galatasaray for the rst time since the
Istanbul side defeated the Gunners on
penalties in the 2000 UEFA Cup nal.
The Turks are looking for their rst
win on English soil after three draws
and six defeats in their nine previous
visits.
Anderlecht (BEL) v
Borussia Dortmund (GER) 1:45am
A victory tonight for Dortmund,
who lost to Bundesliga rivals Bayern
Munich in the 2013 nal, would give
them six points from two matches
and guaranteed possession of rst
place in the group. AFP
Mony Liverpool cashes in on low gameweek
Dan Riley
IF LAST weeks top points
grabber in the Cellcard Fan-
tasy League wasnt surprising
enough, this weeks star per-
formance came from an even
unlikelier player.
West Broms Graham Dorran
featured in just one in 1,000
managers team sheets unsur-
prising considering hed mus-
tered just seven goals and as
many assists in the past five
seasons with the club.
However, the 27-year-old
Scottish midfielder thrust him-
self into the limelight on Sun-
day during the Baggies 4-0
hammering of newly promoted
Burnley thanks to a goal and
two assists to yield a peerless
16 fantasy points.
Chelseas Brazilian winger
Willian grabbed a goal and set
up another in their 3-0 victory
over Aston Villa to collect 14
points, while Man Citys brace-
bagging Bosnian striker Edin
Dzeko and West Broms goal
scoring defender Craig Daw-
son notched up 13 points.
Gameweek 6 was clinched
in stunning fashion by Liver-
pool.KH FC on 77 points.
Managed by Mony Liverpool,
the side boasted Reds stalwart
Steven Gerrard for 9 points
but made the most of Dzeko
as captain for 26.
West Brom forward Saido
Berahino (12) and Chelsea
fullback Cesar Azpilicueta
(11) were also important
members of Monys lineup to
help him win the $20 phone
card from prize sponsors Cell-
card. Liverpool.KH FC was 15
points clear of the nearest
challenger.
Another $20 phone card
(due to a rollover week) was
claimed by Facebook user
Odom Nhean after he cor-
rectly guessed that a total of
26 goals would be netted dur-
ing the round and that the
game between Hull and Man
City would see the highest
scoreline.
Gameweek 7 this coming
weekend offers up a mouth-
watering clash between Chel-
sea and Arsenal on Sunday, as
well as a meeting of two league
newcomers, Leicester and
Burnley, and a London derby
in West Ham versus QPR.
Sport
Going long
Vietnams Thi Thu Thao Bui competes in
the nal of the womens long jump athlet-
ics event during the 17th Asian Games
at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium in
Incheon on Monday. Thi took the silver
medal after her best jump of 6.44 metres
was bettered by 11 centimetres by reign-
ing SEA Games champion Maria Londa
of Indonesia. I dedicate this gold medal
to all of Indonesia. I was really inspired
by the decision to give Indonesia the next
Asian Games, Londa said. AFP
Malaysian gold medal winner
expelled for doping at Games
A
SIAN Games or-
ganisers yesterday
expelled Malaysias
wushu gold medal-
winner Tai Cheau Xuen after
she became the third doping
failure of the giant event.
Tai, 24, tested positive for a
banned stiumulant after win-
ning Malaysias rst gold in at
the Games on September 20,
the Olympic Council of Asia
(OCA) said. The Malaysian
delegation vowed to appeal.
The champion in the Chi-
nese martial art was found to
have taken sibutramine, ac-
cording to an OCA statement.
It is the second time the
substance, widely used as a
dietary supplement, has been
detected at the Games, where
9,500 athletes are taking part.
OCA anti-doping chief
M Jegathesan has indicat-
ed that not all failures for
sibutramine are hardcore
cheats, but he has not yet
commented on Tais case.
And no matter the circum-
stances, the OCA had no
choice but to order her out.
The competitor has been
disqualied from the compe-
tition as well as these Games,
and as such her accreditation
cancelled and her medal with-
drawn, the statement said.
The ofcial announcement
of the failed test was delayed
because Tai and the Malay-
sian Olympic Committee
asked for the B-sample to be
examined, ofcials said.
Malaysias chef de mis-
sion Danyal Balagopal said
the team would appeal the
decision, but did not say on
what basis.
Obviously when we say we
will appeal we have strong
reasons, he told AFP.

Beauty treatment
A Tajik footballer, Khurshed
Beknazarov, and a Cambodian
soft tennis player have already
been expelled for failing tests.
Nineteen-year-old Cambo-
dia Yi Sophany was also found
to have taken sibutramine,
which is widely taken to con-
trol weight.
About 1,900 doping tests will
be carried out on the Asian
Games athletes, according to
Jegathesan, the OCA medical
committee chairman.
He said this week there are
three kinds of doping failures.
There are the hardcore
cheats who deliberately take
the magic pill because they
think it will help them to win.
There are also competitors
who are pushed into doping
by their coaches.
And there are athletes who
get caught through igno-
rance just by taking medi-
cines and diet treatments, Je-
gathesan said.
The Cambodian athlete told
the OCA that she had taken
sibutramine as part of a beau-
ty treatment, ofcials said.
And they acknowledged that
it probably would not have
helped her performance.
But the OCA is obliged to
follow the World Anti-Doping
Agency rules and list of banned
stimulants.
Jegathesan said that neither
of the rst two cases reported
were probably intentional.
I dont think there was ever
any intention to use these to
cheat, he said.
But we cannot make an ex-
ception to the rule simply be-
cause we are sympathetic. We
have a job to do, to protect the
clean athlete, he added.
After winning in the wom-
ens nanquan and nandao all-
round event on September 20,
Tai had dedicated her victory
to all Malaysians for their solid
backing for the national con-
tingent in Incheon.
I also want to thank the
National Sports Council and
Olympic Council of Malaysia
for the support they have giv-
en me, she said. AFP
Malaysian gold medalist Tai Cheau Xuen Tai celebrates during the medal
ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games womens wushu nanquan event. AFP

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