Alleged Killer Reeled In: High-Level Officials To Get Raises

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THE world is falling behind in a
desperate race to stop the deadly
Ebola outbreak, a top UN official
warned on Tuesday amid dire pre-
dictions that thousands of new
infections are possible before the
end of the year.
Ebola got a head start on us,
said Anthony Banbury, head of the
UN Mission for Ebola Emergency
Response.
It is far ahead of us, it is running
faster than us, and it is winning
the race, the Briton told the UN
Security Council in New York, by
remote link from UNMEER head-
quarters in Accra, Ghana.
If Ebola wins, we the peoples of
the United Nations lose so very
much, he said.
The UN official made his remarks
as the World Health Organization
said the Ebola infection rate could
soon reach 10,000 a week as world
leaders prepared to hold talks on
the crisis at the United Nations.
We either stop Ebola now or we
face an entirely unprecedented
situation for which we do not have
a plan, Banbury stressed.
He said that with infection
rates rising exponentially every
day, UNMEER will need 7,000
beds for treatment.
There is much bad news about
Ebola, but the good news is that
we know how to stop it, Ban-
bury said.
But to push back the spread we
must defeat Ebola and we must do
it fast, he said.
WHO assistant director general
Bruce Aylward, describing his fig-
ures as a working forecast, said the
epidemic could reach 5,000 to
10,000 cases per week by the first
week of December.
The latest death toll is 4,447,
from 8,914 recorded infection
cases, Aylward said as the worst
Pech Sotheary and Shane Worrell
PRIME Minister Hun Sen is set for a
monthly salary hike of more than
$900 as part of sweeping changes to
senior government and high-ranking
civil servant bonuses, a new sub-
decree says.
According to the document, dated
October 13 and obtained by the Post
yesterday, Hun Sen will receive an
additional $907 per month, while
deputy prime ministers will be paid
about $690 more. Senior ministers are
in line for $605 extra, while ministers,
secretaries and undersecretaries of
state which number in the hundreds
will also receive bonuses.
The government says the bonuses
are not new money but merely pay-
ments for expenses that ministries
were already doling out to high-level
officials on an ad hoc basis.
The bonuses include [payments
for] receptions, missions, house rent-
al, water and electricity fees, the sub-
decree says.
Minister of Public Function Pich
Ebola may
soon infect
10,000 per
week: WHO
High-level
ofcials to
get raises
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A
FISHERMAN was charged
with murder by Kampong
Chhnang Provincial Court
for his alleged involvement
in the deadly January beating of a local
reporter who covered illegal fishing in
the area, the second such charge to be
laid in as many days in the slayings of
Cambodian journalists.
Colonel Prak Vuthy, deputy chief of
Kampong Chhnang provincial police,
said suspect, Yorhor Phealeng, 36 a
farmer and fisherman thought to have
been one of five men who beat jour-
nalist Suon Chan, 44, to death on
January 31 had been arrested on
Tuesday morning.
He was arrested by our provincial
penal police based on a warrant for
his arrest from the provincial courts
investigating judge, Mr Suth Sam
Ork, Vuthy said yesterday.
According to the courts docu-
ments, he was officially charged by
the provincial courts prosecutor
with intentional murder under Arti-
cle 199 of the penal code, and he now
has been sent to provincial prison,
he added.
Police are still seeking the arrest of
Phealengs four suspected accom-
plices who have also been named in
court warrants, Vuthy said.
Investigating judge Sam Ork could
not be reached for comment.
Phealengs arrest comes hot on the
heels of the arrest of three members
of state security forces who were
charged on Tuesday with intentional
murder for allegedly shooting local
journalist Taing Try in the head over a
dispute relating to their suspected
involvement in illegal logging.
Captain Tith Reth, a Cholkiri district
Alleged killer reeled in
Kampong Chhnang sherman charged in murder of journalist
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police ofcer, said at the time
that Chan had been a reporter
for the Meakea Kampuchea
or Cambodias Way news-
paper, and was ambushed by
assailants in Cholkiris Peam
Chhkork commune on the
night of January 31.
He had stones thrown at
him, and was beaten with
bamboo by a group of ve peo-
ple while he was walking out of
his house alone in order to buy
cigarettes from a shop in the
village. He was beaten and was
seriously injured on his head
and neck, and lost conscious-
ness at the scene, he said.
After the beating, Reth add-
ed, the suspects ed.
Suon Chan died because of
his serious injuries after he was
sent for immediate rescue at
Calmette Hospital in Phnom
Penh on the 1st of February,
2014, he said.
Two relatives of Chan Suon
Chim, 22, and Kou En, 27
were also beaten that night
after they responded to Chans
cries for help, Reth said.
Peam Chhkork commune
police chief Duong Vuthy told
the Post in February that Chans
slaying was a revenge attack
for his past reporting on illegal
shing in the commune.
According to the police re-
port, this case was related to
rancour between the victim
and the group of suspects,
because the victim had used
his inuence as a journalist to
report and write about the sus-
pects illegal shing activities,
he said. Based on his reports,
our police had also gone and
cracked down and conscated
illegal shing materials that
were used in catching sh in
rivers in the district.
Sam Chankea, provincial co-
ordinator with the rights group
Adhoc, said that he was unsur-
prised by the arrest due to the
fact that, despite polices claims
the suspects had ed, all ve
had been openly living in the
village since Chans death.
I was not surprised by this
suspects arrest because this
case happened over nine
months ago, but police did
not take any action, he said.
All the suspects are now liv-
ing freely in their homes in
the village, but police did not
arrest them.
I think that police seemed
to have no real will to arrest the
suspects and send them to the
court, he added, saying that
Adhoc would continue investi-
gating the case.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 16, 2014
Deportations in K Chhnang go on
PM asked to clarify border issue
Donation scam harms religion: ofcial
Phak Seangly
ANOTHER 17 people will be
deported for living illegally in
Kampong Chhnang province,
bringing the total number of
deportations to more than 500
nationwide since a foreigner
census began in late August.
Prak Vuthy, Kampong Chn-
nang provincial police chief, said
yesterday that between Monday
and Wednesday, 16 Vietnamese
nationals and one Chinese citi-
zen were arrested for illegally
living in the province.
They were sent to the [immi-
gration] department, which is
taking legal action against
them, Vuthy said, adding that
a total of 25 Vietnamese and two
Chinese nationals have been
arrested this month.
Sok Phal, head of the immigra-
tion department, said his depart-
ment received the Vietnamese
and Chinese nationals and plans
on initiating their deportation in
the next few days.
So far, 507 foreigners have
been deported from Cambodia,
not including the latest group
from Kampong Chhnang, said
Phal.
That number includes 350
Vietnamese nationals and the
rest from 12 other countries,
Phal said, declining to say which
countries those were.
The census has been present-
ed as a way of accurately
accounting for the number of
foreigners living in Cambodia
but has sparked concerns that
Vietnamese people many of
whom have lived in the King-
dom for generations could be
unjustly targeted.
Meas Sokchea
IN WHAT could lead to a sequel
to his five-hour speech in the
National Assembly in 2012,
Prime Minister Hun Sen has
been asked by an opposition
lawmaker to answer questions
in parliament over alleged bor-
der encroachment in Mondulki-
ri province.
Mao Monivann, a Cambodian
National Rescue Party lawmaker,
visited the Vietnamese border
last month. Since returning, he
has drafted a letter to National
Assembly President Heng Sam-
rin asking Hun Sen to explain the
status of the Dak Dam check-
point in ORaing district.
A speech from [Hun Sen] . . .
stated that Dak Dam . . . has not
yet been agreed upon by both
countries, says the letter, dated
Tuesday. Vietnam, the letter
alleges, has continued to treat
the area as its own, including
constructing a road there,
despite a 2005 treaty leaving
ownership unresolved.
Please, Prime Minister, clarify
this for Cambodian citizens,
Monivann wrote.
In August 2012, Hun Sen took
centrestage at the National
Assembly to address concerns
over a demarcation deal with
Vietnam. In a 320-minute
address supposedly a person-
al record he explained that the
two countries had agreed to
compensate each other with
unoccupied land for villagers
that lay in the opposing coun-
trys boundaries.
The speech was littered with
vitriol against the opposition. At
the time, opposition lawmaker
Son Chhay said it was the first
time in almost 20 years that Hun
Sen had answered a written
question in parliament.
Va Kim Hong, the senior min-
ister in charge of border affairs,
said yesterday that Cambodia
was still working towards resolv-
ing the Dak Dam issue.
We do not have a plan to go
there. We have a plan to have
round-table talks, Kim Hong
said.
He added Hun Sen was
unlikely to address the issue in
parliament and suggested he
may do it himself.
The Vietnamese Embassy in
Phnom Penh could not be
reached.
Sen David
FOUR people, including a 13-year-old boy,
were arrested yesterday in Kampong
Chhnangs Boribor district for raising
money for a pagodas annual ceremony
but pocketing the cash for themselves.
Two women, 54-year-old Choub Sim and
Mol Ang, 57, along with the boy and
54-year-old man Teb Heng, were walking
around the district towing a cart filled with
pictures of the Buddha and topped by an
elaborate Buddhist parasol.
The group appealed for money and
goods from villagers for a religious cere-
mony supposedly happening at the near-
by Samaki Rainsy pagoda.
But commune chief Ben Sophan became
suspicious, and promptly filed a complaint
to police asking for the Ministry of Cult and
Religion to intervene.
When a [Ministry] official called the
director of the pagoda and said there was no
ceremony [at the pagoda] that day, they
admitted to cheating the villagers and keep-
ing the money for themselves, he said.
Thoung Meak, head of the ministrys
department in Boribor district, said the vil-
lagers damaged religious values for money.
They profited from cheating villagers
and making them believe there was a Bud-
dhist ceremony, he said. It really harms
our religion.
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
A
PROVINCIAL military
police commander
was named yesterday
by a major conser-
vationist group as the alleged
owner of a huge haul of illegal
rosewood confiscated in Kam-
pong Speu province this week.
At around 3am on Tuesday,
Wildlife Alliance rangers in-
tercepted a truck carrying 12.5
cubic metres of rosewood in
what amounted to its largest
bust of the luxury wood so far
this year.
While the driver did not con-
fess to owning the haul or give
indication to who did, when
the truck was taken to the Sre
Ambel districts Forestry Ad-
ministration ranger station at
9am, Kampong Speu military
police commander Men Si-
born was quickly identied as
a suspect.
When we arrived at the sta-
tion, local villagers said thats
the military commanders
truck, said Wildlife Alliance
founder and CEO Suwanna
Gauntlett, adding that infor-
mants had tipped the group
off about the haul.
Gauntlett said that there
was nothing unusual about
a high-ranking ofcial being
behind an illegal logging op-
eration and, if punished, the
accused would likely pay a
penalty rather than face legal
action.
Siborn could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
A post on Wildlife Alliances
website says orders were given
on Tuesday for the truck to be
sent to the provincial court.
This had never happened be-
fore evidence is always kept
at the patrol stations under
the jurisdiction of the Forestry
Administration but the law
authorizes judges to make this
kind of decision, it says.
By yesterday evening, the
truck was at Kampong Speu
Forestry Administration divi-
sion, according to a Wildlife
Alliance ofcial.
Keo Sothea, Kampong Speu
provincial prosecutor, told
the Post yesterday that the
court is working on this case,
but would not give further
details.
Chea Hean, director of
the Natural Resource and
Wildlife Preservation Orga-
nization (NRWPO), said that
most of the timber illegally
logged in the area is felled in
Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctu-
ary and transported to Viet-
nam for sale.
Illegal logs are
military cops
Fisherman
charged in
killing
Authorities stand next to a man and the truck he was driving (second
right) on Tuesday after they detained him in Kampong Speu province
for transporting rosewood. WILDLIFEALLIANCE
Suspected murderer Yorhor Phealeng, (centre) is escorted by authorities after he was apprehended in Kam-
pong Chhnang provinces Cholkiri district on Tuesday. PHOTO SUPPLIED
All the suspects are
now living freely in
their homes in the
village
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Kevin Ponniah
and Chhay Channyda
AN OPPOSITION party youth
activist who uses her popular
Facebook page for political
campaigning has been re-
leased from hospital after try-
ing to overdose on Monday in
a publicly shared video.
The 19-year-old, who goes
by the name Peypey Ly on-
line, posted the 10-minute clip
to her 71,000 Facebook fans.
The incident has raised ques-
tions about pressures faced by
the host of young opposition
activists catapulted to online
fame during last years post-
election protests.
In the video, Ly complains
that she has faced serious fam-
ily issues because of her po-
litical activities, and expressed
anger about societal discrimi-
nation faced by Cambodia
National Rescue Party youth
personalities.
She claimed to have not been
able to nd a job as a cashier
or a waitress because I joined
the CNRP that I love.
The video has drawn more
than 17,000 views and almost
500 comments.
Uy Sreynich, 19, who goes by
the name Dany Kon Khmer
online and has 7,600 Facebook
fans, said she could empathise.
In the beginning my family
also did not support me join-
ing the opposition.
Back in 2012, the Royal
University of Phnom Penh
found that Cambodias sui-
cide rate was 42.35 per 100,000
people compared to a global
average of 16.
Mental health services, how-
ever, remain limited.
Dr Ken Carswell, a clini-
cal psychologist working in
Phnom Penh, said it was im-
possible to predict whether
this highly publicised attempt
could trigger others.
The research evidence
about copycat suicides is
mixed, he said.
[And] those studies were
not done in Cambodia. So to
know or try to predict what
might happen in Cambodia is
pretty much impossible.
CNRP spokesman Yim So-
vann yesterday said that Ly,
like other online activists, was
a volunteer. He denied that the
CNRP bore any responsibility
for the issues she faced.
We will try to nd a way for
her to live together with Cam-
bodian society, bring hope
to her and help her share dif-
culties with her friends and
the CNRP.
CNRP youth activist
posts suicide attempt
Dear Leaders dear doctor
Laignee Barron

T
HERE arent many
doctors who can count
treating North Ko-
reas former supreme
leader as a footnote to their
wildly formidable career. But
Dr Francois-Xavier Roux, an
unrepentingly modest neuro-
surgeon with a penchant for
mini-cigars and medical mis-
sions in post-conict coun-
tries, has helped cure Kim
Jong-il, the late leader of the
most secretive nation in the
world, twice.
Roux, who is currently estab-
lishing Cambodias rst fully-
equipped neuroscience centre
at Calmette Hospital, was ini-
tially contacted by North Ko-
rea in 1993.
The then-leader-in-waiting
had fallen from a horse and
injured his head, an uniden-
tied emissary from the com-
munist country told Roux
over the phone.
Fifteen years later, in 2008,
Roux was preparing to take his
ve kids on holiday to Egypt
after returning from a mission
to the Congo when he got
another, more urgent call. Two
days later, Roux was own to
Pyongyang under such covert
terms that he was not even
given the name of his patient,
who was in a coma in an inten-
sive care unit.
Of course, if you want to
give good medical advice, you
have to see and evaluate the
patient. They did not imme-
diately accept, Roux said. So
I told them, Thank you very
much, but if you will not let me
do my job than I would like to
go back to France.
Roux admits he likely
saved Kim Jong-ils life, un-
fazed by the pressures of
curing a dictator.
I gave him the same sort of
reection and consideration
as any other patient . . . I have
never been inuenced [by a
patients politics]; maybe thats
naive of me, he said.
Roux began his neurosurgi-
cal career in post-coup Upper
Volta, now called Burkina Faso.
Hes been on medical missions
in over half a dozen devel-
oping countries, and counts
Cambodian King Norodom Si-
hamonis sister as a friend.
He came to Cambodia in
1989, two years before the
peace settlement was inked, to
perform some of the countrys
rst neurosurgeries at the Na-
tional Pediatric Hospital.
They asked me to come and
help and so I did, he said. At
that point, we were operating
essentially on kitchen tables.
Roux lists his personal his-
tory with near disinterest,
preferring to don scrubs and
present his latest medical
achievement the Center De
Neurosciences.
The six-oor, air-condi-
tioned and immaculate new
wing contrasts with its sur-
roundings, where overcrowd-
ed departments have patients
waiting on mats outside.
Its better than many French
hospitals Ive worked in, the
former chief surgeon at Hospi-
tal Sainte-Anne in Paris said.
Touring through the old
but still operational neurolo-
gy department that he plans to
turn into a free treatment cen-
tre, Roux picked up the scans
of a British tourist injured in a
motorbike accident.
Are these yours? he asks,
before diagnosing, mid-
stride: You have a broken rib,
itll hurt for a while, but youll
be ne.
King Norodom Sihamoni (right), Doctor Francois-Xavier Roux (left) and
Prime Minister Hun Sen (second left) attend the ceremony of the new
Center De Neurosciences in Phnom Penh last week. HENG CHIVOAN
I gave him the same
sort of reflection and
consideration as any
other patient
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Bunthin said the payments will
be now doled out in a lump
sum each month.
Combining the expenses
makes it easier, he said.
The sub-decree has gener-
ated mixed feelings.
Cambodia National Rescue
Party lawmaker Son Chhay said
yesterday he was wary of any-
thing that looked after the big
sh, giving more to those who
are already rich and not caring
about the majority.
Although Chhay said he had
not seen the sub-decree, he be-
lieved that the prime minister
did not need a bonus.
Theres absolutely no need,
he said. Ten thousand dollars
more or $100,000 more wouldnt
make any difference to him.
In 2011, Hun Sen declared his
assets in a private ling to the
Anti-Corruption Unit and told
reporters that his monthly sal-
ary was only $1,150.
Writing in a New York Times
op-ed in 2012, Brad Adams,
Asia director at Human Rights
Watch, alleged a US State De-
partment ofcial had told him
10 years earlier that Hun Sens
personal net worth was esti-
mated to be $500 million.
Limiting bonuses to a set
amount each month was some-
thing that could reduce corrup-
tion by making expenses more
transparent, said San Chey,
coordinator of the Afliate Net-
work for Social Accountability
in East Asia and the Pacic.
Transparency International
Cambodia director Preap Kol
said the additional bonuses ap-
peared set to benet only senior
ofcials. The irony, he added,
was that the system was over-
owing with such ofcials like
secretaries and undersecretar-
ies of state it does not need.
There are too many, he
said. There should be an as-
sessment to determine the ac-
tual needs and qualications of
those ofcials.
This, and getting rid of ghost
employees, would enable the
ofcial salaries of everyone in
government from the prime
minister down to entry-level
civil servants to be increased
to levels that compared with
other countries.
On that note, Chhay said he
will submit a draft of a proposed
minimum wage law to the
National Assembly next week
calling for a national monthly
minimum wage of 700,000 riel
(about $171) and for civil ser-
vants to get at least 1 million riel
(about $245) per month.
Salary hikes for PM
and senior ministers
Group may slow wage talks
Sean Teehan

T
HE new working group
announced by Minis-
ter of Labour Ith Sam
Heng this week will
likely retain a strong inuence
over the body that determines
the minimum wage in Cambo-
dias garment industry. It is un-
likely, however, that the working
group will prioritise a speedy
resolution to negotiations.
Ministry of Labour spokes-
man Heng Sour said yesterday
that the 27-member group,
made up of nine representa-
tives of union, industry and
government ofcials, will nego-
tiate a palatable oor salary for
next year without the strain of a
tight deadline.
The working group will
keep negotiating, and if they
are not approaching the par-
ticular number that will likely
[be the] gure, they will keep
on negotiating until they come
up with a very rational num-
ber, Sour said.
Unlike the Labour Ministrys
Labour Advisory Commit-
tee (LAC), which ultimately
decides the garment sectors
minimum wage, Sour said the
working group will only con-
sist of unions, employers and
government ofcials who are
directly involved with the gar-
ment industry. While the tem-
porary working group will not
directly decide 2015s wage,
their gure might be the likely
number LAC members use as
a template, Sour said.
LAC members were originally
scheduled to reach a decision
by October 10, but Sam Heng
last week delayed this until an
unspecied date next month
Forming the panel was prob-
ably the result of overwhelming
unity among unions across the
political spectrum in demand-
ing a drastic hike in the month-
ly wage, which now sits at $100,
said Dave Welsh, country direc-
tor of labour rights group Soli-
darity Center.
The pressure at this point is
on the government and indus-
try to move upwards, he said.
The Garment Manufactur-
ers Association in Cambodia
(GMAC) has said that they can
only afford to pay $110, plus
a $10 attendance bonus and
$7 for transportation and hous-
ing, making their total possible
base salary offer $127. Promi-
nent unions are asking for no
less than $150.
GMAC secretary-general Ken
Loo yesterday said they havent
selected which members will sit
on the working group.
Chuon Mom Thol, president
of typically government-leaning
Cambodian Union Federation,
sits on both the working group
and LAC. Since Ministry of
Planning data calculated by the
International Labour Organi-
zation shows Cambodias pov-
erty line to be $120 per month,
he believes neither union nor
government ofcials on either
body will accept a number be-
low this gure. ADDITIONAL REPORT-
ING BY CHHAY CHANNYDA
Garment workers protest for a higher minimum wage in Phnom Penh last month. HONG MENEA
National
5
National
6
POLICE
BLOTTER
Live by the sword, get
arrested by the sword
SIX construction workers got
to work building their criminal
records in Phnom Penhs
Chamkarmon district on Mon-
day. Police said the group got
into a verbal altercation with a
man at a bar. Things escalat-
ed, and one allegedly went for
his samurai sword, attacking
the man and leaving him seri-
ously injured. The proprietor of
the establishment called the
cops, who swooped in and
picked up the sextet before
they could escape, seizing two
samurai swords in the proc-
ess. DEUM AMPIL
Guesthouse gang faces
some drama over yama
POLICES suspicions were con-
firmed on Tuesday when a raid
on a guesthouse yielded the
arrests of eight alleged drug
traffickers. When police burst
into the room where the sus-
pects were holed up, they alleg-
edly found four men and four
women packing drugs for
resale, seizing nine packets of
the amphetamine yama.
Caught red-handed, the sus-
pects reportedly confessed.
KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Coyotes mule chicken
through Poipet crossing
WHAT came first, the chicken,
the egg or the arrest on suspi-
cion of illegal importation?
Police in Poipet town on Tues-
day had no time for such quan-
daries when they busted two
women with 79 kilograms of
chicken meat and 600 eggs that
they had allegedly brought
across the border from Thai-
land without having their wares
checked by health officials. The
women reportedly told police
that they had bypassed the
checkpoint to avoid paying
police and the health officials,
but police had no sympathy for
their plight, and sent them to
court. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Moto not worth the mob,
Kratie town thief learns
A WOULD-BE moto thief in
Kratie town learned on Tuesday
that theres more to worry
about than the cops. When a
pharmacy owner spotted the
suspect allegedly attempting to
pinch a moto parked outside of
his establishment, his cries for
help brought a swarm of vigi-
lantes who proceeded to give
the suspect a thorough rough-
ing-up until police arrived. The
cops, as is their wont, chastised
the crowd for beating the sus-
pect. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Violence toward vagrant
lands man in trouble
A HOMELESS man in Poipet
town was stabbed on Tuesday
over his choice of sleeping
spots. According to police, the
man often slept in residents
back yards, but on the day in
question, had bedded down in
front of one locals home. The
irate owner ordered him to
leave, only to be rebuffed.
Further incensed, he allegedly
grabbed a knife and attacked
the man, leaving him serious-
ly injured. Nearby police spied
the altercation, nabbed the
homeowner and sent him on
to court. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Translated by Sen David
March planned
Students to
protest Aus
refugee deal
S
TUDENTS, activist monks
and land rights demon-
strators will hold a march
in Phnom Penh on Friday in
protest of a controversial refugee
resettlement agreement between
Australia and Cambodia.
The groups will discuss with
City Hall today their aim to march
with 1,000 people to multiple em-
bassies and political parties, end-
ing with the Australian Embassy.
A previous protest was held
outside the Australian Embassy
and the Ministry of Interior on
September 26, hours before the
deal was inked. Protesters have
argued that Cambodia will not
be able to protect the rights of
refugees and that Australia is
paying the Kingdom to assume its
international responsibilities.
We are doing this campaign
in order to ask for help from
relevant stakeholders to put
pressure on both the Cambodian
and Australian governments to
cancel the agreement, said Tib
Teav, the executive director of the
Cambodian Democratic Students
Intellectual Federation.
City Hall spokesman Long
Dimanche declined to comment
on the issue until after todays
meeting. TAING VIDA
Tribute to the King Father
Monks walk past the Royal Palace yesterday in Phnom Penh as the nation commemorated the second anniversary of the death of King Father
Norodom Sihanouk. HENG CHIVOAN
SHUKAKU INC.
PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT
INVITATION TO BID
LANDSCAPE DESIGN @ CENTRAL PARK & GATEWAYS
Phnom Penh City Center
Boeung Kak, Sangkat Sras Chork, Khan Doun Penh, PhnomPenh, Cambodia
Project No. SKK-007
Date: October, 16, 2014
Shukaku Inc. (here in after referred to as the Owner) invite sealed bids fromeligible bidders toprovide 1.
Landscape architecture design services thatare required in developing of a full set of construction contract
documents consisting of plans, specications, and estimates for a landscaping construction contract.
Procurement will be conducted through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) Procedures and under the 2.
laws and regulations governing public procurement within theKingdomof Cambodia.
Work to bedoneconsists, ingeneral, of developing full set of contract documents for constructing lands capin- 3.
gattheCentral Park & Gateways of PhnomPenh City Center.Theproject proposes to construct theCentral Park
& Gateways area with hardscape and softscape.Interested rms should submit a bid that include sall anticipated
work necessary to develop plans and produceconstruction/bid documents for theCentral Park & Gateways of
PhnomPenh City Center. Bids shall includean anticipated schedulefor completion of major tasks included in
theproposal. Bids shall includeexperiencewith similar projects, especially experienceon Urban Development
landscapeprojects.
Interested eligiblebidders may obtain further information from: 4.
Mr. Thong Pek
Manager of Procurement Department
Shukaku Inc.
Boeung Kak, Sangkat Sras Chork,
Khan Doun Penh, PhnomPenh, Cambodia
Tel. no. +855 23 888 808
E-mail: bidding@shukaku-inc.com
A copy of Invitation To Bid (ITB) can be obtained by emailing your request to Mr. Thong Pek | 5.
Procurement Manager at bidding@shukaku-inc.com
Only written requests within three(03) days fromthedateabovewill receivearesponse. Printed copies can be 6.
obtained at Shukaku Procurement Department @ Boeung Kak, Sang kat Sras Chork, Khan Doun Penh, Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, Tel. no. +855 23 888 808.
Bids must bedelivered to theaddress given aboveator before 7. 3:00 PM on October 25, 2014 addressed to
Executive Director. Latebids will berejected. Bids will beopened 30 minutes after theclosing hour without
thepresenceof theBidders representatives. Shortlisted candidates will beinformed through e-mail.
Technical questions should be directed to Mr. Thong Pek | Procurement Manager in accordance with the 8.
scheduleoutlined within theITB. Questions should besubmitted viae-mail to bidding@shukaku-inc.com.The
subject linemust include: ITB for LANDSCAPE DESIGN @ CENTRAL PARK & GATEWAYS for Phnom
Penh City Center. Only emailed requests will receive an email response. Questions will beanswered by email
to all Bidders that haveprovided an e-mail address to Mr. Thong Pek | Procurement Manager. The Bidders
are solely responsible for providing their e-mail address to Procurement Department. All replies from
shukaku will beby theaboveemail only, other email sourcefromshukaku-Inc will bedeemed as invalid and
null.
Thebidding committeeof Shukaku Inc. reserves theright to reject any or all bids and to waiveany defect or 9.
irregularity in theBid.
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Steady rise
for business
registration
in Kingdom
May Kunmakara
DESPITE ongoing protests over
the minimum wage in the gar-
ment industry and the politi-
cal deadlock that lasted well in
to July, Cambodia registered
over 3,000 new businesses
from January to September
this year.
The latest data from the Min-
istry of Commerce reveal there
were 3,025 newly registered
businesses representing a 36
per cent increase from the 2,220
registered in the same period
last year.
Some 1,330 of this years new
business were foreign regis-
tered, a 20 per cent increase,
while 1,690 were registered by
Cambodians, up 46 per cent.
Ministry of Commerce
spokesman Ken Ratha said the
rise suggested increasing busi-
ness confidence.
The surge reflects the busi-
ness communitys confidence
as we are still building a very
investment and business
[focused] environment, Ratha
explained.
The World Bank projected
this month that Cambodias
economic growth will reach 7.2
per cent, citing the garment
and construction industries as
key engines of growth.
ANZ Royal CEO Grant Knuck-
ey told the Post that while busi-
ness registration data can be a
little volatile, the scale of the
increase is a clear sign that both
domestic and foreign investors
have put prior political turmoil
behind them and are prepared
to take more risks.
This is fairly consistent with
measures like the ANZ Royal
Business Confidence Index,
which has displayed a high
overall level of confidence and
belief in growth, said Knuckey.
The 40 per cent increase in
domestic registrations is par-
ticularly interesting, as it may
suggest the rise of a larger and
broader entrepreneurial class
in Cambodia.
Bangkok is seen over the Port of Bangkok. With Myanmar planning to develop an SEZ in Taks Mae Sot district, trade with Thailand is expected to continue to ourish. BLOOMBERG
Thai-Myanmar trade to grow
Phusadee Arunmas
T
HAILANDS border
trade with Myanmar
is expected to ourish
over the next couple
of years, driven mainly by the
planned development of a
special economic zone in Taks
Mae Sot district.
Isara Vongkusolkit, chair-
man of the Thai Chamber of
Commerce (TCC), said this
year alone the cross-border
trade between the two coun-
tries was expected to grow by
10 per cent from last years 197
billion baht ($6.06 billion).
This is fuelled particularly by
the bustling activity in Mae
Sot, where the border trade is
expected to surge 30 per cent
this year from 43.7 billion baht
in 2013.
Mae Sot was chosen in July
by the National Council for
Peace and Order to be devel-
oped into a special economic
zone. Other zones are in Song-
khlas Sadao district, tambon
Khlong Luek of Sa Kaeos
Aranyaprathet district, Trats
Khlong Yai district and Muk-
dahans Muang district.
However, Isara said the Mae
Sot checkpoint still had prob-
lems with transport infra-
structure and roads.
Taks border trade would
be greatly facilitated if a sec-
ond Thai-Myanmar Friend-
ship Bridge could be built
connecting the two countries
and roads were improved on
the Myanmar side around
Myawaddy, he said.
TCC vice president Niyom
Waiyaratpanich also believes
a second bridge linking Thai-
land and Myanmar would fa-
cilitate bilateral trade, particu-
larly in terms of logistics costs,
which could be halved to one
baht a kilogram.
Thailand will gain much
benet from a Mae Sot special
economic zone, not only from
reduced logistics costs but also
higher employment of foreign
workers, he said.
Niyom said more impor-
tantly, the new economic zone
would persuade small- and
medium-sized enterprises to
invest more in the area.
However, the government
should also offer attractive
incentives to attract invest-
ment there, he said. Foreign
Trade Department statistics
show Thailands border trade
with Myanmar amounted to
123 billion baht in the rst
eight months of this year,
down by 2.51 per cent year-
on-year.
The border trade with
Myanmar during that period
accounted for 19.5 per cent of
Thailands border trade in all
areas, which totalled 633 bil-
lion baht, up by 4.3 per cent
year-on-year.
Last year, Thailands over-
all border trade with all four
neighbouring countries was
valued at 924 billion baht,
up by 1.51 per cent from
2012. Of that total, exports
accounted for 560 billion
baht, up by 0.58 per cent
from 2012, and imports 364
billion baht, up by 2.98 per
cent.
Isara expects 2014 to be a
good year for Thailands cross-
border trade, growing by at
least 10 per cent. BLOOMBERG
Asias biggest rubber producers set to battle price slump
Supunnabul Suwannakij
THAILAND, Indonesia, Malaysia
and Vietnam were among countries
that agreed on Tuesday not to sell
natural rubber below current prices,
according to the International Rub-
ber Consortium.
Cambodia, the Philippines and
Papua New Guinea also pledged to
join efforts by producers to improve
prices to prevent small holders from
suffering further losses, the group
said on its website. It follows a move
by trade groups from ve Southeast
Asian nations, which account for at
least 70 per cent of global production,
on October 10 to halt sales below
current rates.
Rubber prices from Tokyo to Thai-
land and Singapore slumped to their
lowest levels in more than ve years
this month after concerns mounted
that demand from China would
weaken as the economy in the top-
consuming nation slowed. Futures
in Tokyo rallied by the most in al-
most ve months on Tuesday on the
expectation that the measures may
help pare a global surplus.
We need to assess the situa-
tion whether more measures are
needed, Yium Tavarolit, the con-
sortiums chief executive ofcer,
said by phone from Kuala Lumpur.
Actually, the rubber market doesnt
have much of excess supply.
The contract for delivery in March
on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange
climbed 3.1 per cent, the biggest
increase at close for a most-active
contract since May 19, to 184.2 yen
a kilogram.
Futures tumbled to 173.8 yen on
October 3, the lowest since July
2009. Export rates in Thailand on
October 2 fell to 49.20 baht a kilo-
gram, the lowest since 2008, before
climbing 1.5 per cent to 51.45 baht
on Tuesday.
The agreement among producers
would prevent the rubber smallhold-
ers from suffering from further losses
as the current price is lower than the
cost of production, IRCo said.
The International Tripartite Rubber
Council, which represents govern-
ment ofcials, growers and export-
ers from Thailand, Indonesia and
Malaysia, plans to advance a meeting
to early November from December
to tackle the price slump urgently,
Malaysias Plantation Industries and
Commodities Minister Douglas Ug-
gah Embas said. THE WASHINGTON POST
Border trade would be greatly facilitated
if a second Thai-Myanmar Friendship
Bridge could be built connecting the two
countries and roads were improved
Business
8
Airbus inks $25B plane
deal with Indias Indigo
EUROPEAN aircraft giant
Airbus announced yesterday
that it has signed a draft
agreement to sell 250 medium
range, fuel-efficient A320neo
airliners to Indian low cost
operator IndiGo. If completed,
the deal worth around $25
billion (20 billion) at list
prices will represent the
biggest sale ever by Airbus in
terms of number of aircraft,
the group said. Like many
countries in Asia, Indias air
passenger market has
expanded at breakneck speed.
And IndiGo, which is Indias
largest passenger carrier, is
the sole airline among the four
biggest currently operating to
consistently report profits. AFP
Rio Tinto reports iron
ore output record in Q3
RIO Tinto said yesterday that
its September quarter iron ore
production soared to a record
high, as criticism mounts that
mining giants rising output is
adding further to a global
supply glut and depressing
prices. The worlds second-
largest mining firm reported a
12 per cent year on year jump
in its third-quarter iron ore
production to 76.8 million
tonnes. Global iron ore
shipments for the three
months to September also hit
new highs, surging 15 per cent
to 78 million tonnes. AFP
Toyota recalls 1.6M vehicles
T
OYOTA said yester-
day it would recall
1.67 million vehicles
globally over brake
problems and other glitches
that pose a re risk, the latest
in a string of problems for the
worlds biggest automaker.
The Japanese giant pointed
to three problems in several
models including its luxury
Lexus brand and upmarket
Crown Majesta.
Among the issues was an
improperly shaped part that
could lead to a change in the
feel of the brake pedal over
time a problem that has
affected 802,000 vehicles,
mostly in Japan and China,
produced between June 2007
and June 2012.
The brake does not become
ineffective, but brake perfor-
mance could begin to gradu-
ally degrade, Toyota said.
A separate issue involv-
ing the fuel delivery pipe on
759,000 vehicles, including
Lexus models and Crown
Majestas made between
January 2005 and September
2010, could increase the risk
of a re in the presence of an
ignition source.
More than half of the af-
fected cars were sold in the
United States.
A problem with 190,000 cars
in Japan linked to the fuel-suc-
tion plate also posed a re risk,
the rm said. The affected cars
were made between October
2006 and October 2014.
In total there were 1.75 mil-
lion faults but some vehicles
were affected by more than
one problem.
Toyota is not aware of any
res, crashes, injuries, or fa-
talities linked to the prob-
lems, it added.
The announcement comes
about four months after Toy-
ota recalled 2.27 million vehi-
cles globally over a defect that
could see airbags fail to deploy
in a crash and that also posed
a re risk.
The automaker has recalled
almost 11 million vehicles
since the start of the year, deal-
ing another blow to its once-
stellar reputation for quality
and safety.
Among the announcements
was the February recall of 1.9
million units of Toyotas signa-
ture Prius hybrid cars.
Despite logging record sales
and bumper prots, Toyota
has been ghting to protect
its reputation as US rival Gen-
eral Motors scrambles to con-
tain a deadly ignition-linked
scandal.
In March, Toyota agreed to
pay $1.2 billion to settle US
criminal charges that it lied
to regulators and the public
as it tried to cover up deadly
accelerator defects, which
caused vehicles to speed out
of control and fail to respond
to the brake.
Toyota eventually recalled 12
million vehicles worldwide in
2009 and 2010.
As part of the settlement,
the automaker admitted that
it lied when it insisted that
it had addressed the root
cause of the problem by x-
ing oor mats that could trap
the accelerator.
This week, GM raised its ig-
nition-switch death toll, as the
Cadillac and Chevrolet brand
maker faces soaring compen-
sation claims.
As of October 10, the number
of people killed in crashes be-
cause of the defective ignition
switches was 27, according to
information on its compensa-
tion website.
The company waited nearly
11 years before beginning to
recall 2.6 million cars in Febru-
ary, after hundreds of possible
accidents and deaths were re-
ported. AFP
South Korea
cuts rates
yet again
SOUTH Koreas central bank
cut interest rates for the second
time in three months yesterday
and lowered its economic
growth estimate for 2014 to
reflect sluggish markets at
home and abroad.
The Bank of Korea (BOK),
which has come under govern-
ment pressure to help inject
some pace into the countrys
slow economic recovery, cut its
benchmark rate by 25 basis
points to 2 per cent.
It followed a similar cut in
August that ended a 15-month
interest rate freeze.
BOK Governor Lee Ju-Yeol
said the bank had also revised
its economic growth estimate
for 2014 from 3.8 per cent to 3.5
per cent.
The outlook for 2015 was
trimmed from 4 per cent to 3.9
per cent.
The 2 per cent rate matches
a record low last seen from
February 2009 through June
2010, when Asias fourth-larg-
est economy was seeking to
recover from the global finan-
cial crisis.
In a statement announcing
the rate cut, the bank cited lin-
gering concerns over the global
economic outlook. AFP
Toyota has announced that it will be recalling 1.67 million vehicles
globally over brake problems and other glitches. AFP
The debt cycle
Thai woman
sets self on
re over debt
A
THAI woman set herself
on re inside a Bangkok
government building yes-
terday after she was unable to pay
off loans of $46,000, ofcials said,
as household debt in Thailand
rises to a record high.
Sangvean Raksapet, 52, from
central Lop Buri province, was
rushed to hospital with severe
burns after she set herself alight
in a complaints centre opposite
Government House, leaving of-
cials to put out the ames.
This woman borrowed
money from other villagers
amounting to around 1.5 million
baht ($46,000) . . . but when the
repayment date arrived she had
no money, Prawit Wongsuwon,
deputy prime minister and
defence minister, said.
Thai household debt levels hit
record highs of 83 per cent of GDP
in the second quarter this year, up
from 79 per cent in the same pe-
riod in 2013, according to research
rm Capital Economics.
The increase over the past
decade has been among the
sharpest in the region, and such
a rapid build-up raises nancial
stability risks, said Krystal
Tan, an economist at Capital
Economics. AFP
Markets
9
Business
Singapore
hit by 3 pct
visitor drop
INTERNATIONAL visitor arriv-
als to Singapore fell 3 per cent
in the first half of this year, hurt
by a 30 per cent drop in tourists
from China, official data
showed yesterday.
Singapores tourism board
said that overall arrivals totalled
7.5 million in the six months to
June, with second quarter
numbers dipping by a sharper
6 per cent.
Travel lers f rom Chi na
totalled 871,000 in the first
half, almost a third fewer than
from the same period last year,
the board said.
It said that a tourism law
implemented by China in
October last year which tight-
ened regulations on overseas
travel contributed to the
decline.
In addition, the disappear-
ance of flight MH370, abduc-
tion of Chinese visitors in
Sabah and political unrest in
Thailand have all had a damp-
ening effect on Chinese travel
to the region, the board said.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
went missing back in March
while en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing carrying
239 people aboard, mostly
Chinese. AFP
Smartphone war heating up
C
OMPETITION in
the high-end, large-
screen smartphone
market looks set to be
erce over the next six months
due to the much-awaited ar-
rival of the Apple iPhone 6 and
Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Smartphone sales in Thai-
land are likely to hit 14 mil-
lion units this year in a market
worth 100 billion baht ($3.07
billion), making the country
one of the worlds most attrac-
tive smartphone markets, said
Jarit Sidhu, senior analyst of
IDC Thailand.
Thailand has topped South-
east Asias iPhone sales for two
consecutive years.
Late on Monday, Apple an-
nounced October 31 as the
Thailand launch date of the
iPhone 6, its rst foray into the
big-screen smartphone realm
which is currently dominated
by South Koreas Samsung.
Local mobile operators have
announced they will allow
people to order the new iP-
hone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on
October 24 on their websites.
Apple said it sold 10 mil-
lion iPhone 6 and iPhone Plus
models in the rst three days.
Samsung has high hopes of
selling up to 15 million units
of its new Galaxy Note 4 in the
rst month of global release.
In comparison, Samsung sold
10 million units of the Galaxy
Note 3 in the rst two months
of availability and shifted 11
million Galaxy S5 units within
the rst month.
Jarit said the two largest
smartphone makers in the
world were focusing on pre-
mium smartphones instead of
tablets, the market for which
continues to shrink as large-
screen smartphones eat up
their market share.
Wichai Pornpratang, vice-
president for IT and mobile
communications at Thai
Samsung Electronics Co, said
that it had allocated an extra
20 per cent budget for a mar-
keting campaign to promote
the Galaxy Note 4.
The additional marketing
budget is aimed at promot-
ing its new S Pen technology,
which lets users write, draw
and even paint with accuracy.
Some surveys in Thailand
show 40 per cent of respon-
dents prefer phones with larg-
er screens, while another 40
per cent prefer digital pens.
Wichai said Samsung would
retail its Galaxy Note 4 here on
Saturday at 25,900 baht.
We expect smartphones
with over ve-inch screens to
be a high-growth segment, he
said, adding that such models
were expected to contribute
17.8 per cent of overall smart-
phone. BANGKOKPOST-
A customer counts cash to pay for two iPhone 6 smartphones during the sales launch at the Apples store in
New York. With the new Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 arriving in Asia, the competition is set to
be erce over the next six months. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
Converse sues 31 businesses
W
ORN by mil-
lions all over the
world, the Con-
verse sneaker is a
slice of Americana beloved by
everyone from British public
school boys to rap stars, from
aged rockers to athletes.
However, popularity also has
a dark side.
Converse Inc is complain-
ing that more than two dozen
companies are knocking off,
mass-producing and selling
imitations of its legendary
Chuck Taylor shoe. And its
had enough.
On Tuesday, the Nike subsid-
iary led lawsuits against 31
companies for breach of trade-
mark. Among the defendants
are Wal-Mart, Ralph Lauren
Corporation and Tory Burch.
Of the 31 companies, four
are based in China, two in
Canada, one in Australia, one
in Italy and one in Japan.
Converse is also demanding
that the International Trade
Commission ban imports, dis-
tribution, sale and use of imi-
tation Converse footwear in
the United States.
The Chuck made its debut on
US basketball courts in 1917
and since then, Converse says
it has sold one billion pairs of
the shoe worldwide that bear
the asserted trademark.
For generations, the Chuck
Taylor, universally known
as the Chuck, has captured
the hearts and minds of mil-
lions of consumers, selling
over a billion pairs globally
during the past century,
Converse Chief Executive Of-
cer Jim Calhoun explained
in the statement. We wel-
come fair competition, but
we do not believe compa-
nies have a right to copy the
Chucks trademarked look.
It claims to have spent hun-
dreds of millions of dollars on
advertising the shoes, famous
for their star, stripes and rub-
ber toe tip, and acknowledges
benetting from extra public-
ity reaped from books, maga-
zines, newspapers, movies
and TV shows.
In one of the suits, Converse
demands a trial by jury at
the federal court in Brooklyn
against Kmart Corporation.
It accuses the Illinois rm of
trademark infringement, un-
fair competition, trademark
dilution and unfair business
practices.
The suit accuses Kmart of
selling, distributing, promot-
ing and advertising confus-
ingly similar footwear and
intentionally and willfully
violating Converses trademark
rights. AFP/BLOOMBERG
Irelands post-austerity
budget closes loophole
IRELAND moved beyond a
cycle of tax hikes and spending
cuts on Tuesday in its first non-
austerity budget since its eco-
nomic crisis, which also tight-
ened the countrys corporate
tax rules.
Ireland entered a massive
European Union/International
Monetary Fund rescue program
in 2010 in the wake of expensive
bank bailouts, a property mar-
ket collapse and ravaged tax
incomes.
Since 2008, Ireland has
adjusted its economy by 30
billion ($38 billion) in spending
cuts and tax hikes roughly a
fifth of GDP.
But on Tuesday, the coalition
government delivered its fourth
budget and said it marked the
end of budget austerity.
Minister of Finance Michael
Noonan said Irelands depart-
ment of finance is forecasting
a strong growth in GDP this
year of 4.7 per cent, 3.9 per
cent in 2015 and 3.4 per cent in
2016-2018.
He also said the budget meas-
ures would reduce the deficit
next year to 2.7 per cent of GDP
next year, well within the EUs
3-per-cent target.
A 1 per cent cut to the top rate
of tax was part of income tax
cuts amounting to 458 mil-
lion, offset by new charges for
water that should raise 300
million next year. The budget
includes a range of measures,
from a hike in the price of a
pack of 20 cigarettes to 10, to
a 5 a month child benefit
increase for all.
Dublin also announced
changes to its corporate tax
rules in the wake of increased
scrutiny caused by a European
Commission probe into Apples
tax arrangements in Ireland.
Noonan announced the end
of a controversial tax loophole
known as the Double Irish from
next year, which allows multi-
nationals to transfer profits to
tax havens.
The scheme would be abol-
ished next year for new compa-
nies, and 2020 for existing
users.
I am abolishing the ability of
companies to use the Double
Irish by changing our residency
rules, Noonan said. All com-
panies in Ireland must be also
tax resident in Ireland.
Minister for spending,
Brendan Howlin, announced a
2015 expenditure increase of
639 million 2 billion more
than forecast last year includ-
ing 2.2 billion to tackle waiting
lists for social housing over
three years. AFP
Converse shoes are seen in a store on Tuesday in Miami, Florida. Converse, owned by Nike, announced that it
is ling lawsuits against 31 companies, accusing them of trademark infringement. AFP
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From tigers and flies to crabs
Bill Savadove

C
HINAS gourmet crab in-
dustry has become the lat-
est victim of Communist
Party authorities two-year
corruption crackdown after high-end
spirits and luxury cars, as government
ofcials shun the pricey crustacean.
The arrival of freshwater hairy
crab a delicacy named for the
bristles on its claws on the mar-
ket every autumn has long been
eagerly awaited. But now its golden
roe has lost some lustre as anti-graft
and austerity campaigns launched
by Chinas leader Xi Jinping after he
came to power in late 2012 show lit-
tle sign of abating.
China is celebrated as the worlds
largest luxury market, but its cor-
ruption hunt is having unintended
consequences across multiple in-
dustries, slowing consumption.
Management consultancy Bain &
Company predicted Tuesday that
luxury spending in China will shrink
two per cent this year due to greater
controls and changing consump-
tion patterns. Banquet fare such as
crabs and expensive liquor are off
the menu while the gifting of luxury
goods typically used for bribes or to
launder illicit funds has plunged.
Consumption [of crabs] by gov-
ernment ofcials has dropped to al-
most zero, said Yang Weilong, vice
chairman of a China Fisheries Asso-
ciation branch.
In some parts of China, hairy crab
retail prices have plunged as much
as 40 per cent, Yang said, and aver-
age prices are now around 120 yuan
($20) for a 500-gram (18-ounce)
crustacean. Demand from ofcials
had fuelled a decade of price rises,
but these days sellers can only rely
on private customers.
The small green crabs are raised
across eastern China, although
purists say the best come from the
murky waters of a shallow lake near
Shanghai called Yangcheng.
It is important for major crab sell-
ers to adjust their prices to t general
consumers, otherwise they will suf-
fer a great collapse just like the spirit
maker Moutai, Yang said.
Kweichow Moutai Co, which domi-
nates the top-end liquor market in
China, said in August: Supply ex-
ceeds demand in the spirit sector.
The whole industry continues to un-
dergo a deep adjustment in a com-
plex environment.
Its rst-half net prot fell slightly to
7.2 billion yuan this year, after post-
ing growth of 13.7 per cent for all of
2013.
Meanwhile, luxury companies are
struggling to adapt to Chinas greater
corruption crackdown on ofcials
both big and small, known colloqui-
ally as tigers and ies. Authorities
have snared hundreds of ofcials so
far, including high-level tigers such
as former internal security chief
Zhou Yongkang and Liu Tienan, once
deputy director of the governments
top economic planning agency.
Luxury rms are now targeting
private-sector wealthy individuals
rather than public ofcials. Frances
Hermes known for its handbags and
scarves recently opened a agship
maison store in Chinas commercial
capital Shanghai, only its fth such
establishment in the world.
The four-storey shop offers a lim-
ited-edition crocodile handbag for
$80,000 and clerks hint that even the
elusive Birkin bag might be available
to VIP customers.But the rms global
watch sales fell seven per cent year-
on-year in the rst half, largely due
to China, its top timepiece market. It
says other sectors are holding up.
Maybe there is less gifting for oth-
ers, but there are a lot of people buy-
ing for themselves, said CEO Axel
Dumas.
Nonetheless executives say a lack
of clarity on when the corruption
campaign will be reined in is casting
uncertainty over the market. Many
companies hope the fallout from the
campaigns is only temporary, but in
any case China is too big and impor-
tant to ignore.
But hundreds of crab breeders and
traders are expecting losses for the
season.
Since Yangcheng Lake crab is
mainly a gift, limits on publicly
funded consumption are fatal to
sales, said Wang Zhiqiang, who
runs a crab company. If the anti-
corruption campaign continues...
the industry will very quickly go
into decline. AFP
Hairy crab, a seasonal Chinese delicacy, is the latest victim of Chinas graft crack-
down. Demand from ofcials once fuelled high prices for the crustacean. AFP
World
Blizzard
in Nepal
kills nine
trekkers
A SNOWSTORM and avalanche
in Nepals Himalayas has killed
nine trekkers eight foreigners
and one Nepali on a popular
hiking circuit, while more than
100 others remain out of con-
tact, officials said yesterday.
Severe weather triggered by
the tail end of Cyclone Hud-
hud, which battered neigh-
bouring Indias east coast, hit
the groups of trekkers on the
Annapurna circuit in central
Nepal on Tuesday.
As the weather cleared yes-
terday in the remote Mustang
and Manang districts, rescu-
ers trudging through waist-
deep snow found 17 stranded
trekkers, but another 143 for-
eign tourists still remain out
of contact.
Four bodies, those of two
Poles, one Israeli and a local
trekker, were discovered bur-
ied in the snow in Mustang,
said police official Ganesh Rai
who heads the rescue effort.
Rescuers, aided by a helicop-
ter from the Nepalese army
and several others hired by
trekking agencies, also found
the bodies of five hikers caught
in an avalanche in neighbour-
ing Manang.
A chopper search has locat-
ed the bodies of five people,
four Canadians and an Indian,
killed in an avalanche, bringing
the total number of dead to
nine, Rai said.
In a separate incident in
Manang, three yak herders
died in another avalanche on
Tuesday while grazing their
animals, district official Dev-
endra Lamichanne said.
A local official said he hoped
that those trekkers still missing
in the region had simply been
cut off by the blizzard.
The phone network is not
very good so we have not been
able to get in touch with the
missing, but we hope to find
them later today, Mustang
district official Baburam
Bhandari explained.
In another separate incident,
rescuers are searching for a
67-year-old Frenchman who
fell into a river on Tuesday
while following the Manaslu
trekking route, police said.
Thousands of trekkers visit
the Annapurna region every
October, when weather condi-
tions are usually favourable for
hiking trips.
However, the region has seen
unusually heavy snowfall this
week as a result of Cyclone
Hudhud, which struck Indias
east coast at the weekend, kill-
ing 22 people and causing
widespread devastation there.
The cyclone also sparked
heavy downpours in other parts
of central and western Nepal,
including the hilly Gorkha dis-
trict, where the French trekker
slipped and fell into the Budhi
Gandaki river. AFP
Video of police brutality at
HK protest sparks outrage
Aaron Tam

H
ONG Kong police
came under re
yesterday after
plainclothes of-
cers were lmed beating and
kicking a handcuffed protest-
er during some of the worst
clashes since mass democracy
rallies erupted two weeks ago.
The citys security chief said
the accused ofcers had been
removed from their posts
after the assault that occurred
amid violent confrontations
when police moved in to clear
newly erected barricades near
government headquarters.
Tensions have risen in re-
cent days as police began
raiding protest sites and tear-
ing down barricades, after
more than a fortnight of dis-
ruptive mass rallies calling for
free elections in the former
British colony.
Demonstrators and police
fought running battles over-
night, with ofcers using
their sts, batons and pepper
spray to beat back crowds in
an operation they defended
as a necessary response to
ensure public order.
But footage from television
network TVB later emerged
of a group of plainclothes of-
cers assaulting a handcuffed
and unarmed protester,
sparking outrage and calls
for prosecution from activists
and lawmakers.
It shows plainclothes of-
cers hauling the man to a dark
corner of a public park, and
placing him on the ground.
One ofcer stands over the
man and punches him, as
three others are seen repeat-
edly kicking him in an assault
TVB said lasted four minutes.
Police later said seven of-
cers had been identied in
relation to the video.
This incident become an-
other public relations disas-
ter for the police, who were
severely criticised for ring
tear gas on umbrella-wield-
ing protesters on September
28 in a move that attracted
worldwide attention.
Demonstrators have also
accused them of failing to
come to their aid during fre-
quent attacks from violent
pro-government thugs.
Prominent student leader
Joshua Wong said trust be-
tween police and activists
had hit an all-time low.
The proper action police
should take is to bring the
protester to the police car, not
to take him away and then
punch and kick him for four
minutes, he told reporters of
the latest incident.

Emotions are very unstable
Amnesty International also
condemned the vicious at-
tack. It is stomach-churning
to think there are Hong Kong
police ofcers that feel they
are above the law, Mabel Au,
director of Amnesty Hong
Kong said.
Any investigation into this
incident must be carried out
promptly and all individu-
als involved in unlawful acts
must be prosecuted.
Hong Kongs security chief
sought to douse tensions over
the video, expressing con-
cern and promising a just
and fair investigation.
The policemen who are
involved in the incident
have been removed from
their current working posi-
tions, Secretary for Security
Lai Tung-kwok said without
specifying how many of-
cers were being probed.
Huge crowds have intermit-
tently rallied against Chinas
insistence that it will vet
candidates standing for elec-
tion as the semi-autonomous
citys next leader in 2017 a
move protesters have labelled
as fake democracy.
While the activists have
been praised for their civility
and organisational skills, they
have also brought widespread
disruption to an already
densely populated city.
In intense scenes overnight,
a wall of police armed with
shields and batons marched
before dawn on crowds who
had erected new barricades
in a road tunnel next to the
headquarters of the citys em-
battled government.
Clutching the umbrellas that
have become emblematic of
their ght for full democracy,
some protesters were pulled
to the ground, handcuffed and
hauled away by ofcers.
Police said that 45 people
were arrested in the opera-
tion, including 37 men and
eight women. Four ofcers
were also injured.
Within an hour police had
regained control of the road.
The violence was among
the worst seen since the start
of rallies calling for Beijing to
grant the semi-autonomous
city the right to choose who
can run for leader.
Following the clashes, a
Beijing ofcial said that Chi-
na sees no need so far for its
army to be deployed in Hong
Kong to contain the protests.
Rumours have frequently
swept protest camps that
the Peoples Liberation Army
(PLA), which maintains a gar-
rison in the city, will be de-
ployed if Beijing feels Hong
Kong authorities cannot han-
dle the demonstrations.
We hope that such a sce-
nario will not unfold. The sit-
uation is gradually returning
to normal, the ofcial said
anonymousy at a rare brief-
ing in Hong Kong. AFP
A screen grab taken from Now TV shows police ofcers assaulting a pro-democracy protester (on the
ground) during clashes in Hong Kong yesterday. AFP
Jihadists press gains as US warns of long ght
JIHADISTS pushed to seize Syrias
Kobane and an Iraqi town close to
Baghdad yesterday as Washington
warned of a long fight against the stead-
ily advancing Islamic State group.
In the town of Kobane on the Turkish
border, the jihadists have been holding
out in fighting with Kurdish militia
despite stepped-up US-led airstrikes,
and calls have been growing for Turkey
to take action.
In Iraq, IS militants were closing on
the town of Amriyat al-Fallujah, one of
the last still controlled by the govern-
ment in the troubled Anbar province
and only 35 kilometres from Baghdad.
With US military officials warning
that IS had the tactical momentum,
President Barack Obama told Western
and Arab allies fighting IS that they are
facing a long-term campaign.
There are not quick fixes involved.
Were still at the early stages, Obama
said in Washington after meeting sen-
ior commanders from more than 20
allies involved in the campaign.
As with any military effort, there will
be days of progress and there are going
to be periods of setback, he added.
Obama expressed special concern
for Kobane, which has become a cru-
cial symbolic battleground in the
fight against IS jihadists, and about
halting the IS advance in Iraqs west-
ern Anbar province.
Fighting continued to rage for Kobane
early yesterday, with clashes concen-
trated in the east of the town where IS
fighters established a stronghold after
piercing its defences last week.
An AFP reporter across the border in
Turkey reported that at least four fresh
US-led airstrikes early yesterday, after
the coalition said it had hit the jihadists
in Kobane with 21 raids on Monday
and Tuesday alone.
Meanwhile, a rising number of Amer-
icans think the battle against the Islam-
ic State group should broaden to
include US ground troops, according
to a poll published yesterday.
Forty-one per cent of those surveyed
think the fight should include airstrikes
and ground troops, up from 34 per cent
in September, according to the NBC
News-Wall Street Journal poll. AFP
MALAYSIAN COPS ARREST IS LINK 13
M
ALAYSIAN police have arrested
13 people believed to have
links with the Islamic State, a
report said yesterday, as concern grows
over the extremist groups appeal in the
moderate Muslim country.
The Star newspaper quoted national
police chief Khalid Abu Bakar as saying
the 13 Malaysians were arrested in a
raid on a restaurant in a Kuala Lumpur
suburb. He said they bring the number
of people arrested since April this year
over suspected IS links to 36.
The story gave no further details on
the nature of the alleged IS links. Khalid
and other senior police officials could
not be reached for comment.
Authorities previously confirmed at
least 30 to 40 Malaysians had already
joined the bloody civil war in Syria, and
that IS supporters were actively seeking
more recruits via social media. Officials
fear recruits will become radicalised and
bring back violent extremist views.
The story did not say whether the 13
arrested had planned to travel to Syria. AFP
World
13
Ebola may hit 10,000 cases a week

Ebola outbreak ever spirals in
the three hardest-hit coun-
tries of Liberia, Sierra Leone
and Guinea.
The WHO has called the
current Ebola outbreak the
most severe in modern times.
On Monday, US President
Barack Obama and UN Sec-
retary-General Ban Ki-moon
called for the international
campaign against the haem-
orrhagic virus, which is killing
seven out of every 10 people
infected, to be intensied.
Governments in west Af-
rica have been scrambling to
contain the epidemic, with
patients in the Liberian capi-
tal describing devastating
scenes as patients struggled
to survive during a strike by
health workers.
A 56-year-old Sudanese
doctor who had worked as a
UN volunteer in Liberia died
of Ebola late Monday after ar-
riving in Germany last week
for treatment.
Outside west Africa, medi-
cal staff have also been par-
ticularly at risk during the
crisis, with at cases of con-
tamination reported despite
stringent safety protocols.
A second health worker in
Texas has tested positive for
Ebola, US ofcials said yester-
day, in a new contamination
far from the west African heart
of an epidemic that the UN
warns is winning the race.
Like the rst, the second in-
fection on US soil concerned a
caregiver for a Liberian Ebola
patient who died at a Dallas
hospital earlier this month.
The worker came down
with a fever on Tuesday and
was isolated at the hospital
right away, amid dire predic-
tions that thousands of new
infections were possible in the
worst-hit west African coun-
tries before years end.
Health ofcials have inter-
viewed the latest patient to
quickly identify any contacts
or potential exposures, and
those people will be moni-
tored, the Texas Department
of State Health Services said.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
said the positive test came
from a preliminary analysis
and that it was carrying out its
own test to conrm the result.
Anthony Fauci, head of
the National Institute for Al-
lergy and Infectious Diseases,
called the second infection
unacceptable.
What happened there, re-
gardless of the reason, is not
acceptable, said Anthony
Fauci, head of the National
Institute for Allergy and Infec-
tious Diseases.
It is not acceptable that two
nurses taking care of a person,
because of their exposure . . .
were infected, he said.
Meanwhile, Liberian health
workers late on Tuesday ended
a two-day strike to secure risk
pay for Ebola, saying they put
the needs of their endangered
country rst following global
appeals to end the protest.
George Williams, secretary
general of the National work-
ers union of Liberia, said that
workers had ended the stop-
page rst for the love we have
for our people, and also be-
cause we received calls from
everywhere in the world.
Ninety-ve Liberian health
workers have died so far in the
epidemic. Their colleagues
want compensation for the
risk of dealing with Ebola,
which spreads through con-
tact with bodily uids and for
which there is no vaccine or
widely available treatment.
In the capital Monrovia, a
hospital patient quoted on lo-
cal radio described scenes of
desolation, with sick people
climbing over the fence to es-
cape from the treatment unit
after being deserted by strik-
ing staff. AFP
Clinical director of Texas Health Resources Dr Daniel Vargason answers questions during a press conference
yesterday after a second health worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola. AFP

Russia used Windows
flaw to spy for years
HACKERS based in Russia
used a flaw in Microsoft
Windows to spy on NATO,
European governments and
other organisations as far back
as 2009, security researchers
said on Tuesday. A report by the
cybersecurity firm iSight
Partners said the flaw dubbed
Sandworm allowed the cyber
spies to gain access to
computers using all versions of
Windows for PCs and servers
during the past five years. The
researchers said Microsoft was
notified of the vulnerability and
was to make a patch available
on Tuesday. AFP
Indonesia officials must
pay $80 for second wife
AN INDONESIAN district has
ordered male civil servants to
pay $80 to marry a second wife
to crack down on polygamy,
officials said yesterday, but
activists criticised it as a crazy
bid to profit from the practice.
Male officials were already
required to get written
permission from their
superiors if they wanted a
second wife. Under Islamic law,
men can have up to four wives.
But in East Lombok district
they will now also have to pay a
one million rupiah fee to the
local government under a new
regulation introduced last
month, officials said. AFP
World
14

Saudi cleric sentenced
to death for sedition
A SAUDI court yesterday
sentenced prominent Shia
cleric Nimr al-Nimr to death
after convicting the anti-
government protest leader
of sedition, his brother and
lawyer said. The verdict risks a
further escalation of tensions
with Saudi Arabias minority
Shia community. Nimr, a driv-
ing force behind 2011 protests
against Saudi Arabias Sunni
authorities in the Eastern
Province, was also convicted
of seeking foreign meddling
in the country, a reference to
Iran, his brother Mohammed
al-Nimr wrote on Twitter. The
court also found Nimr guilty
of disobeying the kingdoms
rulers and taking up arms
against security forces, his
brother said. AFP
Transgender murder
must not derail US ties
THE Philippines yesterday
described the murder of a
transgender Filipino as an
isolated incident that must
not derail ties with Washington
after a US Marine was identi-
fied as a suspect, sparking anti-
American protests. A police
document showed authorities
were preparing to le murder
charges against Private First
Class Joseph Scott Pember-
ton, identied as the last per-
son seen with the victim. AFP
Mexico students not in mass grave
T
HE mystery over the
fate of 43 Mexican
students missing
since an attack by
gang-linked police deepened
on Tuesday after authorities
said none were among 28 bod-
ies found in a mass grave.
Attorney General Jesus
Murillo Karam announced
the arrest of 14 other local
police ofcers in the state of
Guerrero accused of abduct-
ing the students and handing
them over to a drug gang.
Murillo Karam cautioned
that authorities were await-
ing DNA results for an un-
disclosed number of corpses
found in other graves outside
the city of Iguala, 200 kilome-
ters south of Mexico City. A
new mass grave was found on
Tuesday.
But, he said, we have some
[DNA] results for the rst pits
and I can tell you that they do
not match the DNA that rela-
tives of these young men have
given us.
Two hitmen have told inves-
tigators that they killed 17 of
the students, but authorities
stress that none of the deaths
will be conrmed until DNA
results are nalised.
But law enforcement of-
cials said 300 federal police
were actively searching for
the students and treating their
disappearance as a kidnap-
ping in a case that has sparked
international outrage and vio-
lent protests in Guerrero.
Authorities say municipal
police ofcers colluded with
the Guerreros Unidos gang in
a night of violence in Iguala
on September 26 that left six
people dead and the 43 aspir-
ing teachers missing.
Witnesses saw several stu-
dents being taken away in
patrol cars. Authorities have
arrested 26 Iguala police of-
cers and eight other people,
including four Guerreros Uni-
dos members.
Parents of the students have
never believed that their sons
had died and they held a can-
dle-light vigil at a church in
Guerreros capital Chilpanc-
ingo on Tuesday, a day after
protesters burned part of the
regional governments head-
quarters in anger.
One of the mothers broke
down in tears at the news that
the students were not in the
mass grave. I didnt know. It
gives us hope, she said, de-
clining to give her name.
President Enrique Pena Ni-
eto vowed on Tuesday to take
action to avoid a repeat of
events like those in Iguala.
Murillo Karam said mem-
bers of the police force in the
neighbouring town of Cocula
participated in the students
disappearance and that 14
were arrested.
The ofcers, he said, took
the 43 students from their
Iguala colleagues and then
handed them in the city limits
of Iguala and Cocula to the
Guerreros Unidos.
A Cocula police adminis-
trator was also detained for
changing the numbers of
the towns patrol cars to con-
ceal their role in the mass
disappearance.
The attorney general said
around 50 people have been
detained in the case but that
authorities were still hunting
for those who ordered the ab-
duction. He did not identify
those suspects.
But Igualas mayor, his wife
and police chief are on the
run and wanted for question-
ing, amid allegations that
they unleashed the ofcers
on the students to stop them
from showing up at munici-
pal events.
The students, from a teacher
training college near the state
capital Chilpancingo, say they
were in Iguala for fundraising
activities and seized buses to
return home.
In addition to the new arrests
in Guerrero, authorities said
a Guerreros Unidos leader,
Benjamin Mondragon, killed
himself rather than surrender
to police who had surrounded
him in the neighbouring state
of Morelos on Tuesday.
National Security Com-
missioner Monte Alejandro
Rubido said two nephews of
Mondragon, known as El
Benjamon, were detained
in the operation and that the
gang leaders pregnant wife
had been there.
The announcements came
a day after hundreds of pro-
testers ransacked Guerreros
state government ofces and
clashed with riot police out-
side the regional congress.
More riot police were de-
ployed in Chilpancingo after
protesters warned they would
step up their actions if author-
ities failed to provide answers
about the students.
Protesters have called for
the resignation of Governor
Angel Aguirre, who said the
violent protests were political
and an attempt to destabilise
the state. AFP
A policeman guards the Government Palace in Guerrero state on
Tuesday, a day after students set it on re during a protest. AFP
Koreas in high-level military talks
Oz-born baby denied refugee status
NORTH and South Korea held high-level
military talks yesterday to air grievances
over recent exchanges of fire across their
land and sea borders, Seouls Defence Min-
istry said.
Government officials and officers up to
the rank of general met for five hours at
the border truce village of Panmunjom in
what media reports described as the high-
est-level military exchange between the
two rivals for seven years.
The talks followed a rare incident on Fri-
day on the heavily fortified land border, in
which both sides traded heavy machine-
gun fire after the Norths military tried to
shoot down some leaflet-laden balloons
launched by South Korean anti-Pyongyang
activists.
There were no reported casualties.
On Tuesday last week North and South
Korean naval patrol boats briefly exchanged
warning fire near their disputed Yellow Sea
border, which has been the site of numer-
ous clashes in the past.
While naval confrontations along the sea
border occur from time to time, any mili-
tary engagement across the land frontier
is extremely rare.
In 2010 the North shelled the South
Korean border island of Yeonpyeong, kill-
ing four people and briefly sparking fears
of full-scale war.
Briefing reporters, defence ministry
spokesman Kim Min-seok said the North
side at the talks had accused South Korean
vessels of making incursions into their ter-
ritorial waters and urged Seoul to prevent
further propaganda balloon launches.
Our side clarified our position that
North Korea should respect [the maritime
boundary] . . . and that as a democratic
nation, we cannot regulate balloon launch-
es by civilian groups, Kim said.
No date was set for a further round of
talks, he added.
The North has repeatedly called on
South Korea to prevent activists launching
leaflets across the border, and warned of
dire consequences if it fails to do so.
It has threatened stronger physical
strikes against leaflet launches, urging
South Korea to stop reckless acts that
would undermine a recent agreement to
resume a high-level dialogue.
Seoul says it has urged the activists to
exercise self-restraint, but stresses that it
has no legal grounds for banning the
launches outright.
On Wednesday conservative activists in
Seoul revealed their plan to launch propa-
ganda balloons again on October 25, while
residents living near the border rallied in
central Seoul urging the government to
stop leaflet launches.
The meeting was an apparent effort to
lower the risk of any armed escalation,
especially before the planned resumption
of the high-level dialogue that has been
suspended for eight months.
Seoul has proposed the dialogue should
begin on October 30 in Panmunjom, the
Souths unification ministry said.
The last round in February resulted in
the North hosting a rare reunion of families
separated by the Korean War. AFP
A BABY born in Australia to
asylum-seeker parents is not
entitled to refugee status, a
judge ruled yesterday, in a case
advocates said will impact the
fate of scores more children.
Baby boy Ferouz was born in
Brisbanes Mater Hospital last
year after his mother, from
Myanmars persecut ed
Rohingya minority, was trans-
ferred to Australia from Nauru
due to concerns about her
pregnancy.
Since July 2013 Australia has
denied asylum seekers arriving
by boat resettlement, sending
them instead to camps in Nau-
ru and Papua New Guinea.
The government considers
Ferouz an unlawful maritime
arrival like his parents, and has
already denied him a protec-
tion visa.
Judge Michael Jarrett agreed
with this course of action yes-
terday, ruling that despite the
circumstances of his birth, Fer-
ouz was legally an unauthor-
ised maritime arrival.
Canberras policy is designed
to stop asylum-seekers using
people-smugglers to bring
them to Australia by boat, a
practice that has resulted in the
drowning deaths of hundreds
of people over the years.
Jarrett said that if the govern-
ments decision was reversed,
there may be more incentive
for pregnant women to engage
people smugglers.
Lawyers had said before the
ruling that the fate of about 100
babies born in Australian to
asylum-seekers who arrived via
boat rested on the decision.
The challenge to Ferouz was
one of two court challenges to
Australias hardline asylum-
seeker policy.
On Tuesday the High Court
in Canberra began hearing a
case on the validity of a law
used to detain 157 Sri Lankan
Tamil asylum-seekers for
weeks on the high seas in June,
after they sailed from India.
Lawyers for the Tamils, who
are now held in a detention
camp on Nauru, claim their
clients were falsely imprisoned
on the ship.
Their case centres around
whether Canberra has the pow-
er to remove asylum-seekers
from its contiguous zone, just
outside territorial waters, and
send them to other countries.
The government insists their
detention at sea was legal and
that the plan to send them to
India did not breach Australias
non-refoulement obligations
under international law.
Only one boatload of asy-
lum-seekers has reached the
Australian mainland since
December, compared to
almost daily arrivals previ-
ously under the Labor admin-
istration, with hundreds of
people also dying en route.
AFP
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S
INCE her escape, Rebecca
Ishaku has been haunted by
nightmares of the moment
Boko Haram stormed her
school in Chibok, Nigeria, snatching
nearly 300 students. The morning of
the six-month anniversary of the ab-
duction was no different.
I still cried about them this morn-
ing, the 18-year-old said as she at-
tended a protest in the capital Abuja
in support of her 219 classmates who
remain in captivity. Among them were
her best friends Hauwa, Saratu and
Monica, who had been too scared to
run when the gunmen burst in and be-
gan rounding up the girls.
About 50 protesters decked in red
shirts tried on Tuesday to march to
the presidential villa but were repeat-
edly diverted by phalanxes of riot po-
lice, who formed a ring around them
as they approached the presidents
home.
No arrests, no intimidation will
keep us from nding out the truth. We
have a right to know what is happen-
ing, said Obi Ezekwesili, a former ed-
ucation minister who has spearheaded
the #BringBackOurGirls movement.
The protests have waned both in
Nigeria and abroad, but those gath-
ered seemed re-energised as they
sought to draw attention back to a
campaign that has been repeatedly
hijacked in the runup to presidential
elections in February.
Stick-wielding youths have de-
scended on the campaigners to insist
it be renamed #releaseourgirls put-
ting the onus on the Islamists rather
than the government.
In recent days, campaigners for
the president, Goodluck Jonathan,
have surrounded the park where the
small, daily protest takes place wav-
ing posters declaring: #BringBack-
Goodluck2015.
One woman, covered head-to-toe
in a red dress and hijab, wore a huge
poster with the slogan: We elected
[president Goodluck] Jonathan, he has
our mandate, not [Boko Haram leader]
Shekau, so we can only ask our presi-
dent to #BringBackOurGirls.
But hopes of speaking to the presi-
dent who agreed to meet with the
families of the missing girls for the rst
time in July following a visit from Nobel
peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai
were dashed on Tuesday. Instead, the
minister land and housing was sent to
appease the crowd.
What kind of response is that? said
Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing
a red bandana. They say they dont
want to go in and rescue the girls be-
cause Boko Haram will kill them, but
then they dont want to negotiate.
So what is the alternative? There
is no plan B, no plan C. These girls
are our future, so we cannot just for-
get about them and all the others.
Boko Harams campaign to impose
a medieval Islamic caliphate on Af-
ricas most populous nation has killed
more than 3,000 this year. Yet, as is so
often the case in African conicts, the
death toll has become just another
statistic and activists are ghting to
keep the sects atrocities in the public
eye through online projects and art.
Campaigners face both public
apathy and intimidation. Part of
the reason people tune off is theyre
always hearing 60 people were
gunned down in their school, said
Nigerian rights campaigner Saratu
Abiola, whose Testimonial Archive
Project is an ever-growing collection
of harrowing stories from survivors
of the mass murders.
You dont hear that Ahmed was
killed. And Ali was killed. Saratu, Jo-
seph and Amina were killed. What did
ordinary folk see? What did they feel?
Three months after Abiolas project
began, Boko Haram was propelled
into global infamy when it kidnapped
the schoolgirls. Last month, gunmen
from the sect are believed to have
opened re in a college in Kano, kill-
ing 20 students.
The news rarely makes ofcial bulle-
tins. I sometimes wonder, do we just
not allow ourselves to be angry any-
more because its too much, said art-
ist Tayo Ogunbiyi, who was angrily ac-
cused of perpetuating a hoax when
she launched an exhibition celebrat-
ing both the Chibok girls lives and the
horror they were enduring. Her work
was inspired by some of the teenag-
ers diaries and personal belongings,
which were shot by another photogra-
pher, Glenna Gordon.
The comments have been out of
this world. Yesterday somebody said
to me, no girls are missing, and you
people should stop insulting my intel-
ligence, Ogunbiyi said.
Nigerian historian Max Siollun be-
lieves the Biafra civil war, which left
more than 1 million dead but did not
directly affect some parts of the coun-
try, fostered a reluctance to document
conict. Censors recently tried to ban
the lm Half of a Yellow Sun based on
the 1967-70 conict.
After the war, the forgive and for-
get mentality encouraged conict
issues to be swept under the carpet.
Except the phenomenon was not lim-
ited to Biafra only and spread across
all controversial national discourses
in Nigeria, explained Siollun, who
runs a rare archive of Nigerian histori-
cal footage.
Meanwhile, some say that they are
duty bound to keep the group in the
spotlight. Abiola said: A lot of Nige-
rians ask, whats the norths problem?
Well, we were all walking by when their
problems were being created, and we
didnt do anything because it wasnt
happening to us. THE GUARDIAN
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World

Thais agree to Koh Tao
case foreign observers
THAILAND has agreed in
principle to allow a team of
observers from Britain and
Myanmar to observe judicial
procedures in the Koh Tao
murder case. The move was
approved during a meeting
of officials including national
police chief Somyot Pumpan-
muang, Foreign Ministry
deputy permanent secretary
Kiattikhun Chartprasert, Brit-
ish ambassador Mark Kent
and Myanmar ambassador
Win Maung. Details of how
the monitoring will work in
practice are pending further
discussion. Foreign Ministry
spokesman Sek Wannam-
ethee said : The British
and Myanmar governments
are ready to send a team
of observers to monitor the
process and the police chief
said he was willing to accept.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-
o-cha meanwhile welcomed
the idea, but denied that the
Thai charge daffaires in the
UK had been summoned.
They did not summon us. We
went to provide clarification
to them, he said. We went
to show them how we work.
BANGKOKPOST
US, Iran seek nuclear
talks breakthrough
US SECRETARY of State
John Kerry and his Iranian
counterpart sought yesterday
to jumpstart stalled talks over
Tehrans nuclear program,
less than six weeks before a
deadline to forge a deal. Iran
and six world powers have
until November 24 to strike
a comprehensive accord
meant to prevent Tehran from
developing nuclear weapons
under the cover of its civilian
atomic program. Ahead of
the meeting in Vienna with
Mohammad Javad Zarif as
well as EU foreign policy chief
Catherine Ashton, Kerry said
there was still hard work to be
done but that a deal remained
achievable. AFP
More than 82 million
in poverty in China
MORE than 82 million people
in China still live on less than
about $1 a day, a senior ofcial
said, despite a decades-long
boom that made it the worlds
second-largest economy.
Chinas ofcial poverty
standard is an annual income
of 2,300 yuan ($375), close to
the long-used benchmark of
$1 a day. More than 82 million
people were living on less than
that at the end of last year,
senior government develop-
ment ofcial Zheng Wenkai
told reporters. The World
Banks own denition of pov-
erty is $1.25 a day, and Zheng
said Chinas poor would would
rise to more than 200 million if
international standards were
applied. AFP
Bomb wounds 12 in

attack on Cairo cops
A BOMB exploded in the
centre of the Egyptian
capital Cairo late on Tuesday
wounding 12 people, security
and medical ofcials said. A
police ofcer on the scene
said the explosive device was
placed near the entrance
of a metro station close to
the court house, apparently
targeting policemen standing
guard. AFP
#BringBackOurGirls fights apathy
Garbage
collection
Girls carry bags of plastic items
and tins at the Maputo rubbish
dump in Maputo, Mozambique on
Tuesday. Mozambicans voted yes-
terday in a tough electoral test for
the ruling Frelimo party, which
has run the resource-rich but
impoverished southern African
country since independence from
Portugal in 1975. Voters in neat
lines started casting their ballots
in the capital Maputo shortly after
7am (0500 GMT), with Frelimo
facing growing discontent amid an
apparent popular swing towards
the opposition. We want change.
We want to choose a new, young
leader, said student Erisma
Invasse. The presidential race
pits Frelimos Filipe Nyusi, 55, the
former defence minister, against
the veteran leader of former
rebel group Renamo, Afonso
Dhlakama, 61. Also in the running
is Daviz Simango, 50, founder
of the Mozambique Democratic
Party (MDM). Voter surveys cannot
be published in Mozambique, but
judging from the turnout at some
campaign rallies, Frelimo could
be in for a shock. AFP
Ex-colleague shoots American dead in Saudi
A FORMER employee of a US
defence contractor shot dead
one American colleague and
wounded another in the Saudi
capital on Tuesday, officials
said, in a rare attack on West-
erners in the kingdom.
The suspect had no known
links to extremist organisa-
tions, the interior ministry
said, as Washington sought
clarification about the motive
for the shooting.
The al l eged shooter,
Abdulaziz Fahad Abdulaziz
Alrashid, 24, worked at the
same company as the victims,
and was recently dismissed
from his job due to drug relat-
ed issues, Riyadhs embassy in
Washington said.
A US diplomat identified the
gunman as a disgruntled
former employee of Vinnell
Arabia. The victims of Tues-
days petrol station shooting in
Riyadh also worked at Vinnell
Arabia, the diplomat said, rul-
ing out terrorism as a possible
motive for the attack.
Vinnell Arabia provides
training for the Saudi Arabian
National Guard.
US State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki con-
firmed one American was
killed and a second was lightly
injured.
Later on Tuesday, US Secre-
tary of State John Kerry told
reporters in Paris that Washing-
ton is in close contact with
the Saudi government, and
evaluating our security pos-
ture, following the shooting.
Were continuing to gather
details about the incident,
Kerry told a news conference.
I cant speak to the motive
at this point, except to say to
you that there are some ques-
tions about whether it was or
wasnt a disgruntled employ-
ee, he said.
Were going to stay in very
close touch with the Saudi
authorities and make our judg-
ments accordingly with respect
to any other personnel.
Following the attack near
King Fahd football stadium, a
shootout occurred between
the gunman and security forc-
es, a police spokesman said in
a statement carried by the offi-
cial SPA news agency.
A third American escaped
unharmed, police said, adding
that the assailant was wounded
and subsequently arrested.
They did not identify the
suspect but Riyadhs embassy
in Washington said the sus-
pect, Alrashid, is a dual Saudi-
American citizen born in
Washington State.
Two small circles of blood
stained the ground at the pet-
rol station near the pumps, a
photographer said.
Children showed off a small-
calibre cartridge case which
they said they found in the
same area.
Tuesdays shooting was the
first deadly attack on Western-
ers in Saudi Arabia since sev-
eral were killed in a wave of
al-Qaeda violence between
2003 and 2006. AFP
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NE of the biggest problems
affecting the worlds poor is
one that few have ever
heard about: illicit finan-
cial flows. Though such flows costs
people in Djibouti, Congo, and Chad
more than one-fifth of their incomes
every year, they almost never make
headlines. With the world preparing
to establish the specific targets that
will guide global development efforts
for the next 15 years, the time to
change that is now.
Given that the new global develop-
ment targets like the current Mil-
lennium Development Goals, which
have focused on health, hunger, and
education could guide the alloca-
tion of hundreds of billions of aid dol-
lars, choosing the right areas on
which to focus is critical. The inter-
national community, swamped with
hundreds of proposed goals,
undoubtedly faces a major challenge.
To help guide the process, the
Copenhagen Consensus Center
asked 62 teams of top economists to
determine where limited resources
could do the most good by 2030.
Some of the targets that they identi-
fied such as increased food security,
expanded educational opportunity
and improved health care were
unsurprising.
But one recommendation curbing
illicit financial flows was unexpect-
ed. After all, at first blush, such flows
do not seem to be as powerful or as
urgent a threat to peoples well-being
as, say, not having enough food to
survive. Many people do not realise
that illicit flows are a problem at all.
Nonetheless, the economist Alex
Cobham insists that curbing such
flows should be a high priority. And
he makes a strong case.
The Global Financial Integrity
Institute (GFI) reports that, in 2011,
developing countries lost almost a
trillion dollars through illicit trans-
fers to the developed world. In the
same way, 20 African countries have
lost sums equivalent to more than 10
per cent of their GDP every year since
1980. (In a sense, this makes Africa a
net creditor to the world, though it
cannot expect to be repaid.) Some
$85 billion flowed illegally out of
India in 2011.
Where does the money go? Klepto-
cratic regimes often channel some of
their countries wealth into Swiss
bank accounts. This, like money
laundering by criminal organisa-
tions, is obviously illegal (as well as
morally reprehensible).
But there is also a legal mecha-
nism for such financial flows: tax
avoidance. Though it is not a crimi-
nal offence, tax avoidance attracts
widespread criticism not least
because it is common among major
multinational companies, including
Amazon, Starbucks, and Google.
These companies minimise their tax
liabilities by registering and declar-
ing their profits in a low-tax country,
despite doing most of their business
elsewhere.
Yet another method for moving
capital between countries is the mis-
invoicing of trade, whereby compa-
nies alter the value of their imports
and exports. A recent GFI study indi-
cated that, from 2002 to 2011, $60.8
billion moved illegally into or out of
Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanza-
nia and Uganda in this way.
Taken together, illicit financial
flows currently amount to nearly 10
times the total sum of international
aid. Imagine how much good that
money could do if it were channelled
toward welfare-enhancing projects.
That is why Cobham has proposed
including in the next development
agenda the requirement that all ben-
eficial ownership information be
made publicly available. By making it
harder for individuals to hide behind
shell companies, such regulation
would make illicit financial flows sig-
nificantly more difficult to accom-
plish and much easier to spot.
If this effort produced just a 10
per cent reduction in the average
losses from illicit financial flows,
compared to 2002-2012, it would
save countries $768 billion mon-
ey that could be used to finance
development projects. A 50 per
cent reduction would save a stag-
gering $7.5 trillion.
Of course, Cobhams proposed
regulation would carry significant
administrative costs. But, even if
the highest estimate of $66 billion
proved to be correct, poor coun-
tries would gain $13 worth of extra
income per dollar spent a very
handsome return. A more likely
rate of return would be $49 per
dollar spent.
The regulations impact could be
bolstered by two other proposals:
automatic exchange of tax informa-
tion among jurisdictions and a
requirement that multinationals
report revenues on a country-by-
country basis. This level of trans-
parency which, in some cases,
would amount to naming and
shaming could transform how
companies manage their financial
affairs. Though it is extremely diffi-
cult to estimate the precise costs
and benefits, it is safe to say that
such measures are likely to be high-
ly cost-effective.
But (there is always a but) if any
of these measures are to work, they
must be enforced as widely, consist-
ently, and strictly as possible. Simply
reducing the number of available
channels for transferring money out
of a country would direct more funds
through those that remained.
Unfortunately, the existing frame-
work for preventing money launder-
ing does not offer an encouraging
precedent. Though it is universally
accepted and enforced in most coun-
tries, money laundering remains
rampant. The hope underlying the
current transparency proposals is
that their relative simplicity would
boost their impact.
Of course, nutrition, education,
health, and the environment are
important features of the next devel-
opment agenda. But global leaders
have compelling reason to add the
reduction of illicit financial flows to
the list. PROJECT SYNDICATE
Dirty development money
GFI reports that every year since 1980 20 African countries have lost sums equivalent to more than 10 per cent of their GDP through illicit
transfers. AFP
Comment
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg, an adjunct professor at
the Copenhagen Business School, founded
and directs the Copenhagen Consensus
Center and is the author of The Skeptical
Environmentalist.
17
Lifestyle
BOOKER Prize winning novelist
Richard Flanagan said he was
ashamed to be Australian during
a scathing attack on the environ-
mental policies of his home nation.
Flanagan, 53, made the comments
after being awarded the Man Booker
Prize in London for his book The Nar-
row Road to the Deep North, inspired
by his fathers experience as a pris-
oner of war.
The book tells the story of Dorrigo
Evans, a surgeon imprisoned in a
Japanese work camp on the Thai-
land-Burma railway.
In an interview with the BBC late
Tuesday, he said Prime Minister Tony
Abbott was being foolish in his dec-
laration this week that coal is good
for humanity when opening a new
mine in Queensland state.
Australia has the most extraordi-
nary environment and I dont under-
stand why our government seems
committed to destroying what we
have thats unique in the world, said
Flanagan, a long-time campaigner
for the preservation of old growth
forest in Tasmania where he lives.
To be frank, Im ashamed to be
Australian when you bring this up.
Abbott made his remarks while
opening a new BHP Billiton mine,
just days after Chinas shock decision
to impose a tariff on resource-rich
Australian coal.
Its very important that we sustain
our faith in coal, Abbott said.
Coal is vital for the future energy
needs of the world. Energy is critical
if the world is to continue to grow and
prosper, the prime minister also-
said. So lets have no demonisation
of coal.
Australia is among the worlds
worst per capita polluters due to its
reliance on coal-fired power and
mining exports.
Despite his criticism Flanagan, the
third Australian to win the Booker
Prize, which includes a trophy and
an award of 50,000 ($80,000), was
praised by Arts Minister George
Brandis.
This accolade recognises not only
Richards wonderful writing and
imagination, but is a reflection of the
quality of Australian literature, he
said.
Australians will be immensely
proud of Richards achievement.
Flanagan, who left school at 16,
worked on the novel for 12 years, and
his father died the day that it was
finished. AFP
Chelsea Chapman
C
AMBODIAN Living
Arts (CLA) new dance
show, The Spirit With-
in, centres on the lov-
ing but fractured relationship
between a sickly mother who
lives in the provinces and her
fashionable young daughter
who lives in the city.
Contrasting traditional and
modern Cambodian life, the
story transitions back and
forth between the mothers
memories of past events and
ceremonies and the present
day in which those customs
are in danger of fading away.
Troupe leader Chhon Sena
said the show at the Plae Pakaa
theatre aims to entertain and
educate on Cambodian cul-
ture past and present.
It is very important as I am
an artist who loves to preserve
art, said Chhon. When I can
show this dance performance,
I felt like I am proud to be
Cambodian with a long history
and a show the tourist to see
not just to keep it.
The Spirit Within is based on
a performance which debuted
at the CLA Amatak Festival in
August this year. The perfor-
mance is directed by French-
Cambodian Jean-Baptiste
Phou, whose past productions
The Anarchist, and Cambodia,
Here I am have been performed
in Cambodia and France.
Phou coached the troupe
through a six-week workshop,
working on everything from
developing the plot to choos-
ing props and costumes to
ne-tuning the lighting.
They had different work-
shops where everyone partici-
pated: creative writing, invent-
ing dialogue, formal research
on rituals, improvisation, he
said via email.
Phou said the shows per-
formance elements includ-
ing comical masks and tradi-
tional clothes and instruments
match the shows major
themes.
The form is mainly modern
theatre, but mixed with music
and some traditional theatre
form," he said.
Challenged by strict time
constraints, Phou used his ex-
periences in theatre produc-
tion and his understanding of
both Western and Cambodian
cultures to create a show that
would resonate widely.
This should not be intellec-
tual, he said. My intention is
not to teach anything, but to
create emotions.
Phou added: For those who
are not familiar with Cambo-
dia, they will certainly discover
some aspects of the Khmer
culture, through essential cer-
emonies and rituals.
CLAs season started this
week at the recently renovated
Plae Pakaa theatre. It will also
showcase classical and folk
dance with Children of the
Bassac and traditional yike
theatre with The Story of Mak
Therng.
CLA communications man-
ager Marion Gommard said
the troupe enjoyed a 40 per
cent increase in audiences at
the theatre last season, with a
50 per cent increase in Cambo-
dian audiences.
We are always working to-
wards increasing Cambodian
audiences. One of our main
goals is to create sustainable
performances, Gommard
said.
The Spirit Within will play
Wednesdays and Saturdays at
the Plae Pakaa Theatre, next
to the National Museum, until
March 28. For online bookings
and ticket prices visitcambodi-
anlivingarts.org.
Its a family affair as cultures past
and present clash in new dance
Booker winner ashamed to be Aussie
Australian author Richard Flanagan poses for pictures after winning the 2014 Man
Booker Prize for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North. AFP
Bono bummer
U2 apologises
giving free
iTunes album
C
ALL it a mix of ego, ge-
nerosity, self-promotion
and insecurity. But Bono
is sorry for giving away U2s
latest album for free on iTunes
accounts.
There were grumbles last
month when the Irish rock
bands new album Song of
Innocence was automatically
downloaded onto Apples more
than half-billion iTunes ac-
counts around the world.
Among other things, some
iTunes users griped that the
record took up valuable iPhone
storage space.
In a video interview hosted
on Facebook Tuesday, Bono
appeared with the other mem-
bers of the band to take written
questions from fans. One of
them said, "Please, no more
automatic freebies on iTunes."
Oops, said a contrite-loo-
king Bono, in trademark dark
glasses. Im sorry about that.
I had this beautiful idea. Might
have gotten carried away with
ourselves. Artists are prone to
that thing. A drop of megalo-
mania, a touch of generosity,
a dash of self-promotion, and
deep fear that these songs that
we poured our life into over
the last few years might not be
heard, he added.
A scene from The Spirit Within from Cambodian Living Arts. PHOTO SUPPLIED
ITS not like TV channels today are
devoid of reality shows. In fact, we
have so many that the concepts are
becoming quite redundant. It took a
lot of courage for Fitness First to launch
yet another reality TV show in the
Asian market.
Titled Fit for Fashion, the show fea-
tures 12 contestants selected from
across the world, mostly Asian coun-
tries. They will face a series of physical
challenges and will be styled by pro-
fessional make-up artists. The winner
will take home $100,000.
Mark Buchanan, director of Fitness
First Thailand, said Fitness First has
invested about $12 million into this
program, which fuses fitness with
fashion and is part of the British gov-
ernments GREAT Campaign, which
promotes the UK internationally as a
place to visit, study and do business.
Fit For Fashion is something weve
been involved in from the onset. Basi-
cally, its a new reality TV show thats
designed to inspire people to have a
healthier, fitter and happier life
through more approachable means,
Buchanan said of the show, which pre-
mieres on Star World tonight.
To ensure the shows popularity, Fit-
ness First partnered with Imaging
Group, which has produced successful
TV shows such as The Contender Asia,
The Biggest Loser Asia and The Chal-
lenger. The show will be filmed on loca-
tion at the luxurious Tanjung Jara
Resort in Malaysia. Two celebrity
trainers Christine Bullock and Mitch
Chilson will help guide the contest-
ants. In each episode, celebrity pho-
tographer Todd Anthony Tyler will
bring out the best in each contestant.
The chosen contestants are not
incredibly out-of-shape or unfit. They
are just ordinary people who want to
better themselves. They range from a
37-year-old, heavy-smoking worka-
holic to a 19-year-old arts student.
The series is groundbreaking in
many ways. It is a combination of fit-
ness, fashion and reality TV that not
only entertains but also educates. The
show has a powerful online and on
ground campaign led by Fitness First,
which will help everyone watching
the show achieve their personal
goals, Riaz Mehta, president and
founder of Imagine Group Entertain-
ment, said.
The 10-episode series will take the
audience on a journey packed with
exercise tips, nutritional knowledge
and style guides. With each passing
week, there will be inspirational sto-
ries that unfold as the contestants
transform and motivate the audience
to get more active. BANGKOK POST
Fit and fabulous
Food
18
Cathy Barrow

N
OSTALGIA for this glorious sum-
mer is moments away. Schools are
opening, bright red sumac lines
the highways, the cool, crisp morn-
ings signal autumns approach. If there is only
one project you undertake this summer, this
should be the one. Tomatoes will soon be
gone, and you will regret missing the oppor-
tunity to stash some away for the winter.
Im not going to try to convince you that this
is a quick, tidy process. Its messy and hot. But
its also ridiculously easy, and the benets are
huge. Besides, its fun.
Other than a few jars, no special equipment
is needed: just a couple of big pots. The criti-
cal part of the process is properly and safely
acidifying the tomato mixture. To guarantee a
pH of around 4.6, add lemon juice or, my fa-
vorite, citric acid. For every quart youll need
two tablespoons of lemon juice, or about two
small lemons. Citric acid, used at one-half
teaspoon per quart, is a much more economi-
cal option. Citric acid is widely available at
grocery and hardware stores.
Start with one box of tomatoes: 25 pounds
of big, round, sturdy eld-grown tomatoes.
Leave the yellows, purples, greens and other
heirlooms for sandwiches and pies; they can
be a little tender for this process. Roma, or
Italian plum tomatoes, for canning purposes,
are better suited for a puree, passed through a
food mill to remove the sturdy skin and seeds.
To keep costs down, ask at the market for
seconds imperfect but still worthy and
make sure to cut away any black spots. Above
all, avoid mushy or overripe tomatoes: When
crushed or sauced, they have a thin and dis-
appointing taste. The best canned tomatoes
start out bright, rm and just barely ripe.
Buckle down and crush the entire box of
tomatoes. That will take a little over an hour,
if working alone, but if you gather friends
around you, it will take just a few minutes
(so obviously you should crush two or three
boxes.) Blanch and peel and seed and crush.
Twenty pounds worth of the 25 will be enough
to put up seven quarts of bright, tasty, easy-to-
use crushed tomatoes.
And with the eight cups of crushed tomatoes
that remain? Make a zesty one-pot barbecue
sauce, stir it lazily and then put that sauce in a
jar, too. Think of it. In your pantry: a brick-red
barbecue sauce with lashings of mustard and
molasses, fresh and dried chilies, and a slight-
ly smoky nish. Thats going to be useful.
But rst, spend the afternoon with a box
of tomatoes. Youll thank me when February
comes around. THE WASHINGTON POST
Crushed tomatoes? Yes we can
Canned crushed tomatoes
About 20 pounds of red, ripe
tomatoes, cored, peeled and
seeded (see NOTE)
14 tablespoons fresh lemon
juice or 4 1/2 teaspoons citric
acid
7 teaspoons kosher salt or
fine sea salt (optional)
NOTE: To peel the tomatoes,
bring a pot of water to a boil.
Fill a bowl with ice water. Cut
an X in the bottom of each
tomato and remove the stem.
Place in the boiling water for 10
or 15 seconds no longer. Use a
slotted spoon to quickly transfer
to the ice-water bath. The skins
should simply slip off.
Steps: Tear or chop the toma-
toes into large chunks. Add the
rst four cups of tomatoes to
an 8-quart or larger nonreac-
tive pot. Use a potato masher
or the back of a strong spoon to
smash the tomatoes vigorously.
Bring to a strong boil over
medium-high heat before
adding the next four cups of
tomatoes; crush them with
the masher and bring to a boil.
Continue in this fashion until
all of the tomatoes have been
crushed.
Bring the total amount of
crushed tomatoes to a strong
boil over medium-high heat and
cook for ve minutes. Remove
from the heat.
Ladle the tomatoes into the
quart jars, leaving a 1/2-inch
head space. Add two table-
spoons of lemon juice or 1/2
teaspoon of citric acid to each
quart jar.
Add one teaspoon of salt, if
using, to each jar. Use a at
plastic knife, a chopstick or a
bubbler to stir the tomatoes to
dislodge any air bubbles.
Clean the rim of each jar.
Top with the warmed lids, and
nger-tighten the rims (not too
tightly). Process in the boiling-
water bath for 45 minutes (see
sidebar below). Use the jar lifter
to transfer the jars to a clean
folded dish towel to cool for
several hours.
Label and date the sealed
jars. Store in a cool, dark place
for up to one year. Refrigerate
after opening.
Nutrition per 1/4-cup serv-
ing: 15 calories, 0g protein,
3g carbohydrates, 0g fat, 0g
saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol,
0mg sodium, 0g dietary ber
and 2g sugar
If youre able to can only one food each year, make it crushed tomatoes. They are incredibly useful
throughout the winter. Admittedly, this preparation takes time and will make a mess of the kitchen.
But its worth the effort. To ensure that the tomatoes (which have variable pH) are shelf-stable, it is
imperative that you add acid to the jar, in the form of either fresh lemon juice or citric acid. Citric acid is
inexpensive and sold with canning supplies at grocery and hardware stores. Youll need seven sterilised
quart jars with new lids and rings. The canned tomatoes can be stored in a cool, dark place for up to a
year. Makes seven quarts.
Classic Memphis-style BBQ sauce

1 dried ancho chili pepper
6 pounds red ripe tomatoes,
peeled, seeded and crushed (8
cups; see NOTES)
1 medium onion, diced
2 poblano peppers, roasted,
peeled and diced (see NOTES)
1 jalapeo pepper, stemmed,
seeded and diced
1 clove garlic, minced
3/4 cup unsulphured molas-
ses
3/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
sauce
2 teaspoons hot Spanish
smoked paprika (pimenton)
1 teaspoon powdered
mustard
NOTES: Roast the poblano
peppers on an aluminum-
foil-lined baking sheet at 400
degrees for 15 to 20 minutes
or until the skin has blistered.
Allow to cool before peeling
and seeding.
To peel, seed and crush the
tomatoes, use a sharp knife
to score an X at the bottom
of each tomato and remove
the stem. Drop a few at a time
into a pot of boiling water and
remove them as soon as they
bob to the surface. Peel off the
skins as soon as the tomatoes
are cool enough to handle;
discard the skins.
Core the tomatoes, then cut
them into quarters. Use your
thumb or fingers to press or
push out each area of seeds
and gel. Use a potato masher
or the back of a strong spoon
to smash the tomatoes vigor-
ously.
Steps: Toast the ancho pepper
over a gas stove-top ame or in
a small, dry skillet over medium
heat until fragrant and exible,
about 1 or 2 minutes. Discard
the stem and seeds; dice the
pepper.
Place the pepper in a large,
heavy-bottomed nonreactive
pot along with the crushed
tomatoes, onion, poblanos, jala-
peo, garlic, molasses, vinegar,
Worcestershire sauce, smoked
paprika and powdered mustard,
stirring to incorporate. Bring
to a boil over medium-high
heat and cook at a lively boil for
about 15 minutes; the mixture
will be saucy, with a deeper
brick-red color. Remove from
the heat; cool for 30 minutes.
Working in batches, puree
the sauce in a blender until
smooth. Return the sauce to the
pot and return it to a boil over
medium-high heat, stirring to
avoid scorching.
Ladle the sauce into the pint
jars, leaving a 1/2-inch head
space. Use a at plastic knife,
a chopstick or a bubbler to stir
the sauce in the jar to dislodge
any air bubbles.
Clean the rim of each jar,
top with the warmed lids and
nger tighten the rings (not too
tightly). Process in the boiling
water bath for 35 minutes (see
sidebar above). Use the jar lifter
to transfer the jars to a clean,
folded dish towel to cool for
several hours.
Label and date the sealed
jars. Store in a cool, dark place
for up to a year. Refrigerate
after opening.
Nutrition Per 1/4-cup serv-
ing: 45 calories, 0g protein,
10g carbohydrates, 0g fat, 0g
saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol,
15mg sodium, 1g dietary ber
and 7g sugar
This sauce is rich, sweet and velvety, with a little zing of heat. When you cook it only until it is no longer
watery, you should end up with 8 cups. If your canning pantry includes crushed tomatoes, you can use
2 quarts of them, instead of the ripe fruit called for here, to make this sauce year-round. Youll need 4
sterilised pint jars with new lids and rings. Makes four pints.
Fill a large canning
kettle or deep stockpot
two-thirds full with
water. To keep the jars
from rattling against
the pot, place a rack in
the pot. (A cake rack
works well; a folded
dish towel is equally
effective.) Sanitise
the jars in a short
dishwasher cycle or
by boiling them in a
canning kettle or pot
for 10 minutes. Fill a
small saucepan with
water and add the
rings. Bring to a boil,
slip in the lids and turn
off the heat.
Use a jar lifter
or tongs to lower the
lled, sealed jars into
the boiling water bath,
keeping them upright.
When all of the jars
are in place, the water
should be 1 to 2 inches
above the jar tops. Add
water as needed. Bring
the water to a low boil
before starting the
timer for processing.
At the end of
processing, turn off
the heat and let the
jars sit in the water
bath until the boiling
has stopped. That will
reduce siphoning, in
which the food burbles
up under the lid,
breaking the seal. Use
the jar lifter or tongs
to transfer the jars to a
folded towel, keeping
them upright. Leave
the jars until they have
completely cooled, at
least 12 hours. Remove
the rings and test the
seal by lifting each
jar by the lid. The lid
should hold fast. Label
and store in a cool, dry,
dark space.
The time for
processing in the water
bath is calculated
based on the size of the
jar and the consistency
and density of the food.
For safety's sake, do
not alter the jar size,
ingredients, ratios or
processing time in
any canning recipe. If
moved to change any
of those factors, simply
put the prepared food
in the refrigerator and
eat within a week.
Water-bath canning
safely seals
high-acid, low-pH
foods in jars. Heres
how to do it:
Travel
19
Sailing Polands
Vistula River
Maja Czarnecka

G
LIDING down the
river on a sleek wood-
en hull, its white sail
gleaming as it catches
the breeze, the vessel could eas-
ily be mistaken for a traditional
Egyptian felucca sailing down
the Nile. But this mighty river,
the Vistula, runs through Po-
land and in its capital Warsaw,
rigged skiffs rst built centu-
ries ago for trade on the wild
waterway are making a come-
back thanks to a new breed of
sailing buff.
Our boats look a little like
feluccas. They have what
Egyptians call a crab claw sail
with one spar along the lower
edge, said photographer
Jacek Marczewski, who built
his own boat from scratch.
In other ways, our boats
are quite unique, just like
the Vistula is special, he
says of the traditional py-
chowka or push-boat in
Polish, named for its long
pole reaching the river bot-
tom that is used for naviga-
tion, much like on the fa-
mous gondolas of Venice.
To avoid any accidents, po-
lice escorted his 8.5-metre-
long vessel through the streets
of the capital to its launch site
near the impressive national
stadium built for the Euro
2012 football championships.
Marczewski waded waist-
deep into the river on his 55th
birthday to launch his boat,
named Slawka after his late
mother.
Its a sleek but sturdy design
and the 12-square-metre sail is
xed to a ve metre high mast.
He used three different types
of wood to build it: acacia for
the frame; oak for the bow and
larch for the hull.
We built it based on the de-
sign of traditional skiffs used
for centuries on the Vistula to
transport goods or for shing.
Larger boats were used to
dredge sand from the river
bottom used in building, or
to ferry goods up the river
from Krakow in the south to
Gdansk, on the Baltic coast,
Marczewski said.
Pychowki boats moved ev-
erything from wheat to pota-
toes and textiles up and down
the Vistula as far back as the
17th century, but river trans-
port fell out of favour with the
advent of railways in the late
19th century.
Marczewski is captivated
by the Vistula, which he dubs
wild and changable.
Areas that are deep can be-
come shallow from day to day
and islets of white sand ap-
pear and disappear with the
seasons, he said.
Marczewski dreams of sail-
ing the Vistula and its tribu-
tary the Bug, on Polands east-
ern border with Ukraine, as
well as the Oder on its west-
ern border with Germany. He
and fellow pychowka fan Lu-
kasz Perkowski, who helped
Marczewski build his boat,
want to sail it at the Festival
de Loire, an annual event in
Orleans, in central France,
drawing river boat enthusi-
asts from across Europe.
Marczewski said the Vistula
has perks for regular travel-
lers as well. Over 1,000 kilo-
metres long, the river spans
Poland from its source in the
southern Tatra mountains to
its northern delta on the Bal-
tic coast, but unlike centuries
gone by, there is little trafc on
the Vistula today.
The real attraction of the py-
chowka for weary city folk is
the quick escape it offers from
the hustle and bustle of met-
ropolitan life.
All you need to do is get in
the boat and push off the river
bank, says Perkowski. AFP
Jacek Marczewski and helpers load a boat (top); Marczewski and friend
Lukasz Perkowski work on a boat; views from the Vistula (left). AFP
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PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
CI 862 Daily 10:50 15:20 CI 861 Daily 07:30 09:50
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:00 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:10
PG 906 Daily 12:20 13:35 PG 905 Daily 10:35 11:45
PG 914 Daily 15:50 17:00 PG 913 Daily 14:05 15:15
PG 908 Daily 19:05 20:10 PG 907 Daily 17:20 18:15
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:45 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
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Air Asia (AK)
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Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
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Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
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+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
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Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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#168, Monireth, PP
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Fax: 023 424 304
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Tiger airways
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Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
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Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
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Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
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Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
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CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Entertainment
20
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Plane measure
5 ___ and Sensibility
10 Letts live here
14 Mosaic piece
15 Filtered letter
16 Eurasias ___ Mountains
17 The coping limit
20 Agents 15 percent, e.g.
21 Sign to be interpreted
22 Beach mounds
23 Get via trickery
25 Cage for chicks
27 Early man?
28 Most raspy, as a voice
32 Cosmetic additive
35 Apt rhyme for stash
36 Seven, on some clocks
37 Cool it!
41 Preschooler
42 Fencing blades
43 One teaching econ or psych, e.g.
44 Subjects of some alerts
46 Relative of an ostrich
48 Make the cut?
49 Ivories tickler
53 Heavy, plus
56 Sex and the ___
57 Without precedent
58 Lose ones cool
62 Fill with gas
63 Prepare for winter takeoff
64 It may be on your side
65 Dried up
66 Make changes to
67 Brewski topper
DOWN
1 Office workers, collectively
2 Mushroom caps
3 Microsoft co-founder
4 Natal lead-in
5 Of pleasing appearance
6 Speaker between speeches
7 Indian flatbread
8 Covetousness, for one
9 Shade tree
10 Increases, as a bill
11 Kurdistan locale
12 Plum variety
13 Brown brews
18 Canceled, to NASA
19 Fan-club member, essentially
24 Aid an arsonist, e.g.
25 Chanel and OBrien
26 Island near Kauai
28 Garfields predecessor
29 Thanks ___ so much
30 Missile house
31 Little quarrel
32 Play things
33 Belt feature
34 Not fooled by
35 Shop assistant
38 Type of pitcher
39 Crude bunch?
40 Made, as cotton candy
45 Dr. Scholls purchase
46 I dont care which
47 Poet Angelou
49 Fragment
50 Low-budget film, often
51 Historic Alabama city
52 Jacket material
53 Does in, in mob slang
54 NYPD ____
55 Ogler
56 Bill in a restaurant
59 Vitamin-regulating agcy.
60 ___ Aviv
61 Degree in math?
BOSSY
Wednesdays solution Wednesdays solution
LEGEND CINEMA
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO
GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
Alexanders day begins with gum stuck in his hair,
followed by more calamities. Though he finds little
sympathy from his family and begins to wonder
if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad,
brother, and sister all find themselves living through
their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
City Mall: 11:45am, 3:50pm, 5:40pm
Tuol Kork: 9:30am, 1:40pm, 5:45pm, 7:35pm
Meanchey: 11:45am, 3:35pm, 7:30pm
ANNABELLE
A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural
occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after
their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
City Mall: 9:40am, 1:35pm, 3:40pm, 7:45pm, 9:50pm
Tuol Kork: 1:35pm, 3:40pm, 5:30pm, 7:35pm
Meanchey: 9:40am, 1:35pm, 3:40pm, 5:25pm,
7:45pm, 9:50pm
THE JUDGE
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood
home where his father, the towns judge, is
suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover
the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his
estranged family.
City Mall: 4:35pm, 9:15pm
Tuol Kork: 1:30pm, 6:50pm
Meanchey: 1:35pm, 6:40pm
THE MAZE RUNNER
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after 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: 1:30pm, 7:30pm
Tuol Kork: 11:20am, 9:40pm
Meanchey: 4:20pm, 9:25pm
THE EQUALIZER
A man believes he has put his mysterious past
behind him. But when he meets a young girl under
the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he
cant stand idly by.
City Mall: 2pm
Tuol Kork: 4:15pm, 9:25pm
NOW SHOWING
Pasta @ The Willow
All Italian pasta night with wine, salads,
desserts and pasta dishes for $3.50 each.
The menu changes every week with two
pastas (one vegetarian, one meat).
The Willow, #1 Street 21.
6pm
Jonestown @ Meta
Born in a small Indiana town, the
charismatic Jim Jones would go on to lead
the Peoples Temple cult. In 1978 at the
cults South American sanctuary, Jones
and 909 of his followers committed a
mass suicide/homicide, which included
300 children. Jonestown: The Life and
Death of Peoples Temple examines the
bizarre Peoples Temple and the events
that led to the horric poisonings.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
4pm
Exhibition @ Show Box
Showcasing several upcoming Khmer
artists, Women: An Exhibition celebrates
women who have inuenced, created, or
brought change to society. The event
features free wine and nger food on its
opening night.
Show Box, #11 Street 330.
7pm
TV PICKS
10:20am - HITCH: While helping his latest client woo the
fine lady of his dreams, a professional date doctor finds
that his game doesnt quite work on the gossip columnist
with whom hes smitten. HBO
12:15pm - GROWN-UPS 2: After moving his family back
to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids,
Lenny finds out that between old bullies, new bullies,
schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed
party crashers sometimes crazy follows you. HBO
9pm - ELYSIUM: In the year 2154, the very wealthy
live on a man-made space station while the rest of the
population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a
mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
HBO
9:40pm - FIT FOR FASHION: Fit for Fashion follows 12
ordinary men and women dedicated to transforming
their bodies and their lives. STARWORLD
US military personnel remove bags containing bodies of members of the Jim Joness sect in 1978. AFP
Matt Damon stars in Elysium. BLOOMBERG
Hip hop @ D-Club
DJ Shade plays hip-hop. Buy one get
one free for women. For the entire
night, groups of ve women get a free
bottle of vodka.
D-Club (Duplex upstairs), #3 Street
278. 9pm
Sport
21
Pistorius vulnerable: Defence
D
OUBLE amputee Oscar
Pistorius would be vul-
nerable to gang rape if
sent to one of South Af-
ricas brutal prisons, a defence wit-
ness claimed during a day of heated
courtroom argument on Tuesday.
With sentencing only days away,
the state and defence traded angry
barbs over the Paralympian star
athletes disability, charity work
and blood money apparently
paid to Reeva Steenkamps family
since her death.
Pistorius has been found guilty of
unlawfully killing the 29-year-old
model but acquitted of the more se-
rious charge of murder.
A state source told AFP that Judge
Thokozile Masipa could rule on his
punishment on Friday, with her
options ranging from a ne to 15
years in prison.
Defence witness Annette Vergeer
warned a jail stretch would break
Pistorius and claimed it was not in
the interest of justice.
Without legs he will be vulnerable
and a lot more vulnerable than the
normal man, said Vergeer, a parole
ofce who was paid for her work for
the defence.
Ive recently done a case for
rape within the prison, gang rape.
How can we say that he wont be
exposed to that? she said, adding
that washing his stumps may also
be a problem.
South Africas department of
correctional services has said that
Pistorius could be entitled to sepa-
rate accommodation depending
on the vulnerability caused by the
disability.
There is little doubt that the
prison system in South Africa is
in a bad state, with violence, over-
crowding and criminal behaviour
all endemic.
Since the hearing began on Mon-
day the tone in court has become
increasing terse.
The defence on Monday suggest-
ed Pistorius clean a museum for 16
hours a week as punishment for kill-
ing Steenkamp, drawing a furious
reaction from the state.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel described
the suggestion as shockingly in-
appropriate.
Blood money
On Tuesday, lawyers traded ac-
cusations and counter-accusations
about money changing hands be-
tween Pistorius and Steenkamps
parents after Reevas death.
A lawyer for the Steenkamps re-
vealed they had received US$540
a month from Pistorius, but now
wanted to pay it back.
Prosecutor Nel claimed that the
Olympian also offered the dead
models family a one off blood
money payment of nearly $35,000,
which the family rejected.
Did the legal team of the accused
tell you that the deceased family re-
jected the offer of 375,000 [rand]?
Nel asked state witness Vergeer.
The deceaseds mother went so
far to say that she rejects that and
that she doesnt want blood money,
he went on to say.
Claims about Pistorius vulner-
ability and remorse could be central
in deciding what punishment he
will receive.
Earlier on Tuesday, prosecutors
poured scorn on the defences por-
trayal of Blade Runner Oscar Pis-
torius as caring and charitable.
Nel told the sentencing hearing
that Pistoriuss charity work was
nothing unusual for a superstar
athlete, arguing that he was pri-
marily motivated by personal fame
and fullling his contractual du-
ties with major sponsors, including
Oakley and Nike.
It is merely an advancement of
your career to become involved,
Nel said in a scathing cross-exami-
nation of Pistoriuss longtime man-
ager, Peet van Zyl.
I think a lot of sportsman want to
make a difference and contribute,
replied Van Zyl.
Pistorius admitted he killed
Steenkamp by ring four hollow
point bullets through a locked toi-
let door in his upmarket Pretoria
home on Valentines Day 2013, but
said he believed that he had been
shooting at a burglar.
He is currently out on bail of one
million rand ($90,000), but has with-
drawn from competitive sport since
his arrest.
He also had to sell his house inside
a gated compound in Pretoria, the
scene of the crime, to fund the cost
of his defence.
The state has indicated it will call
at least two witnesses, whose testi-
mony is expected to wrap up yester-
day or today.
Both the state and defence have 14
days to appeal Masipas decision.
The trial, which began on March 3,
was broadcast live on television and
radio, feeding intense local and in-
ternational media interest. AFP
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius makes a phone call as he leaves Pretoria High Court following his sentencing hearing on Monday. AFP
THE NBA will examine the im-
pact of shortening a regulation
game from 48 to 44 minutes
on Sunday when the Brooklyn
Nets play host to Boston in a
pre-season exhibition.
League ofcials want to ex-
amine the ow of a game that
utilises four 11-minute quar-
ters instead of the standard
four 12-minute quarters.
At our recent coaches
meeting, we had a discussion
about the length of our games
and it was suggested that we
consider experimenting with
a shorter format, NBA presi-
dent of basketball operations
Rod Thorn said.
After consulting with our
competition committee, we
agreed to allow the Nets and
Celtics to play a 44-minute
preseason game in order to
give us some preliminary data
that will help us to further
analyse game-time lengths.
A reduced number of tim-
eouts will be available in the
second and fourth quarters,
with each quarter including
two mandatory timeouts, the
rst at the rst stoppage of
play inside of seven minutes
remaining in the quarter and
the next with the rst stop-
page inside of three minutes,
both coming if neither team
has taken a timeout before the
rst mandatory one.
The current NBA game fea-
tures three mandatory time-
outs in the second and fourth
quarters.
I thought it was a unique
experiment that was worth
participating in, Nets coach
Lionel Hollins explained. Im
looking forward to gauging
its impact on the ow of the
game. It will be interesting to
see how it plays into substitu-
tion patterns.
Celtics coach Brad Ste-
vens noted the NBAs his-
tory of changes, including
shot clock time changes and
3-point arcs.
I appreciate the NBAs long
history of forward thinking
and willingness to try new
ideas, Stevens said.
We told the NBA that wed
be happy to participate in
this trial during a pre-season
game. I look forward to expe-
riencing it and continuing the
dialogue. AFP
NBA to experiment
with shorter games
Pakistan call up rookie spinner
PAKISTAN on Tuesday named
uncapped leg-spinner Yasir
Shah to replace the suspend-
ed Saeed Ajmal in their pre-
liminary 19-man squad for
the two Tests against Austral-
ia starting next week in the
United Arab Emirates.
Shah, 28, was one of the
leading wicket-takers in the
domestic season last year,
with 48 scalps, but had little
success in one-dayers or the
two Twenty20s he played on
the tour of Zimbabwe three
years ago.
He has yet to play a Test but
chief selector Moin Khan said
he expects Shah to deliver.
Shah is one of the fast-ris-
ing spinners at the domestic
level and we have hopes that
he will come good against
Australia, Khan told AFP by
telephone from Dubai.
The first Test begins in
Dubai on October 22 and the
second in Abu Dhabi on
October 30.
Pakistan face a tough chal-
lenge to replace Ajmal, who
has single-handedly anchored
the teams wins across all
three formats over the last
five years.
Ajmals bowling action was
reported as suspect during
the Galle Test in Sri Lanka in
August. It was subsequently
found to be illegal after bio-
mechanic analysis in Aus-
tralia which led to his
suspension.
Left-arm spinners Zulfiqar
Babar and Raza Hasan who
both played in the 3-0 one-
day series defeat against Aus-
tralia in the UAE which fin-
ished on Sunday are also in
the preliminary squad.
However there was no place
for Ajmals spinning partner
Abdur Rehman, who endured
a miserable tour of Sri Lanka
where Pakistan lost both Tests
in August.
Experi enced batsman
Younis Khan returns to the
Test squad after being
dropped for the one-day
series against Australia.
The announcement of a
preliminary Test squad came
after pacemen Wahab Riaz
and Junaid Khan were injured
during the one-day series
against Australia.
We will reduce the Test
squad to 15 after the four-day
practice match between Paki-
stan A and Australia in Shar-
jah starting on Wednesday,
said Khan.
Two uncapped paceman,
Imran Khan and Ataullah,
who uses only one name, are
also in the initial squad.
Ataullahs bowling action
was reported in the national
Twenty20 tournament but
Khan said his action was
cleared after adjustments.
Misbah-ul-Haq will lead the
Test side. AFP
Spin bowler Yasir Shah is set to grab his rst cap for Pakistan when
they take on Australia in the UAE next week. AFP
Sport
Flower gets six-month
ban for final attack
WIGANS Ben Flower has been
banned for six months over his
shocking Super League Grand
Final attack on St Helens Lance
Hohaia, the Rugby Football
League (RFL) announced on
Tuesday. Hohaia struck Flower
with his forearm in the second
minute of Saturdays match at
Old Trafford and the Wales
forward retaliated by punching
him to the ground and then
striking him in the face as he lay
on his back. Flower, 26,
admitted to a Grade F offence at
an RFL disciplinary tribunal in
Leeds and will not be able to
play competitive rugby again
until April next year. Flower will
miss 13 matches, including two
pre-season trials, Wigan's
World Club Challenge meeting
with Brisbane Broncos on
February 21, and the first 10
games of the 2015 Super
League campaign. AFP
Injured Del Potro writes
off rest of tennis season
ARGENTINAS 2009 US Open
champion Juan Martin del Potro
drew a line under a season
ruined by a left wrist injury on
Tuesday and said he would not
play again this year. The
26-year-old who missed most
of the 2010 season with a right
wrist injury said he preferred
to prepare himself for a fresh
start next year than try and play
in the final few European indoor
tournaments. Despite good
progress through training and
physiotherapy, I have decided
not to play in the season ending
tournaments in Europe, del
Potro wrote on his Facebook
page. Im going to use the
time to get ready to make a
difference next season. AFP
Brisbane Heat close on
Andrew Flintoff move
EX-ENGLAND all-rounder
Andrew Flintoff is close to
joining Brisbane Heat for the
2014-15 Big Bash League, the
Australian clubs coach
revealed in a British newspaper
interview published on Tuesday.
Flintoff, 36, ended five years in
retirement earlier this year
when he returned to former
club Lancashire for Englands
T20 Blast tournament. After
initial struggles with injury, he
caught the eye on T20 finals
day notably dismissing
former England team-mate
Ian Bell with his first ball and
it convinced Brisbane to move
for his services. AFP
Belgiums Gilbert wins
Tour of Beijing race
BELGIUMS Philippe Gilbert
won the final edition of the Tour
of Beijing on Tuesday, in the
shadow of the Birds Nest
stadium that hosted the 2008
Olympics. Irelands Dan Martin,
who was last years runner-up,
again took second place overall,
while 24-year-old Esteban
Chaves of Colombia took third.
Garmin-Sharps American rider
Tyler Farrar took the green
jersey for the points ranking by a
single point from Slovenias
Luka Mezgec (Giant-Shimano),
thanks to his fourth place on
Tuesday. Italian Sacha Modolo of
Lampre-Merida won a bunch
sprint to take the races fifth and
final stage, a 117-kilometre
course that started at
Tiananmen Square before
making 12 loops of a circuit
around the stadium. AFP
Tiger, Mickelson named to Ryder Cup task force
TIGER Woods and Phil Mickelson were
among 11 people named on Tuesday to
a PGA of America task force aimed at
examining why US teams have strug-
gled in recent Ryder Cups.
The group will study all aspects of the
Ryder Cup process, from how captains
are selected to the points system used
to determine players, the cutoff dates
for deciding rosters, dates for making
captains wildcard picks and the selec-
tion of vice captains.
I think this is a great step by the
PGA to accomplish what we all want
to win the Ryder Cup, Woods said.
The Ryder Cup is very important to
every player who has the honour to
represent his country. Im excited to
be part of this group.
Former world number one Woods,
a 14-time major champion, has played
for only one Ryder Cup winner, the
1999 squad which made the greatest
last-day comeback in US history to
win the trophy.
Woods was sidelined by a back inju-
ry for most of this year and missed out
on being part of the US squad that lost
to Europe 16 1/2 to 11 1/2 last month
at Gleneagles in Scotland.
No US side has won the Cup in
Europe since 1993 and the Europeans
have won eight of the past 10 Ryder
Cups and six of the past seven.
After the latest defeat, US star Mick-
elson wondered why the Americans
had gotten away from the formula
used by Paul Azinger when the US
team won in 2008 at Valhalla, his not-
ing of greater player involvement and
communication with the captain a
stark contrast to the way US captain
Tom Watson had run this years
squad that produced tense moments
during the news conference after a
third US loss in a row.
The Ryder Cup is our most prized
competitive asset and the PGA of Amer-
ica is committed to utilising our utmost
energy and resources to support one of
the biggest events in all of sport, PGA
of America president Ted Bishop said.
Derek Sprague, the PGA vice presi-
dent, and Pete Bevacqua, the PGA chief
executive officer, will co-chair the task
force, whose other members include
players Rickie Fowler, Steve Stricker and
Jim Furyk; past Ryder Cup captains Tom
Lehman, Davis Love and Ray Floyd and
PGA of America secretary Paul Levy.
The Ryder Cup Task Force is an
exciting and comprehensive initia-
tive that will guide the PGA in devel-
oping the right strategy and building
ongoing processes and infrastruc-
ture for future generations of US
teams, Bishop said.
The United States has a 25-13 with
two drawn record against European
rivals, but Europe has a 10-4 with one
drawn edge since 1985.
The next meeting in the biennial
rivalry will be staged in 2016 at Hazel-
tine, a suburban Minneapolis course
that has hosted two US Opens and two
PGA Championships. AFP
Tiger Woods (left) and Phil Mickelson are both part of an 11-strong task force to examine
the USAs Ryder Cup shortcomings. AFP
Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain hits a shot on the nal hole before winning the Hong Kong Open golf tournament at the Hong Kong Golf Club on December 8, 2013. AFP
Jimenez seeks record title
M
IGUEL Angel
Jimenez is bid-
ding for a re-
cord-breaki ng
fth Hong Kong Open title
this week but faces stiff com-
petition from a stellar eld in-
cluding major winners Ernie
Els and YE Yang.
The tournament is an im-
portant stop on the Euro-
pean Tour again after being
relegated last year, with the
likes of Nicolas Colsaerts
looking to secure their place
in the lucrative Race to Dubai
Final Series.
Spanish veteran Jimenez,
who at 50 is the oldest winner
on the European Tour, is also
seeking to become the rst
golfer to win the event three
years in a row.
It feels like home here, he
told reporters in the southern
Chinese city.
Ive won four times out of
10 appearances which I think
is a very good percentage.
Jimenez triumphed in 2004,
2007, 2012 and last year de-
feating Stuart Manley of Wales
and Thailands Prom Meesa-
wat in a playoff after they n-
ished level on 12-under.
The US$1.3 million event
starts today and takes place
over the Hong Kong Golf Club
at Fanling, where each of the
illustrious events previous
55 editions have been held.
Its one of my favourite golf
courses in the world, Jimenez
said. You have to be accurate
from the tee because if you
miss the fairway you get a dif-
cult lie in the short rough.
Im hitting the ball well and
Im planning to make it my
fth win here.
If he does then hell become
only the fourth player to have
won the same tournament ve
times, joining 14-time major
winner Tiger Woods, British
Open legend Tom Watson and
Germanys Bernhard Langer.
Four-time major winner and
golf hall of famer Els is playing
in the event for the rst time
while Asias lone major cham-
pion Yang, from South Korea,
is looking to give his career a
much-needed boost.
The 2009 PGA champion has
dropped outside the worlds
top 600 players since blazing
a trail for Asia ve years ago
with his major victory, sensa-
tionally coming from behind
to defeat Woods.
The Hong Kong Open is
the penultimate event of this
seasons European Tour and
is co-sanctioned with the
Asian Tour.
Begiums Colsaerts is look-
ing for a strong week over the
par 70, 6,699-yard course as he
looks to secure a place in the
season-ending Final Series.
The series of four big-money
events will feature only the top
60 players in the Race to Dubai
rankings beginning with the
BMW Masters in Shanghai in
two weeks time.
Colsaerts, lying 58th, is in
ne form, just missing the Eu-
ropean Tours rst ever round
of 59 by just one shot on his
way to nishing second at
the rain-interrupted Portugal
Masters last week.
Also competing in Hong
Kong are 2002 US PGA
Champion Rich Beem,
American Peter Uihlein and
Chinas number one Liang
Wenchong. AFP
Football
23
Never-say-die Irish
delighted with draw
MARTIN ONeill praised
Irelands never-say-die spirit
after John OShea celebrated
his 100th cap with a dramatic
equaliser to seal a 1-1 draw
with Germany in Tuesdays
Euro 2016 qualifier. Germany
were heading for a 1-0 win in
Gelsenkirchen after Toni Kroos
second-half goal before OShea
stabbed his shot home in the
94th-minute to celebrate his
landmark in style. After their
33-match unbeaten run in
qualifiers was ended by
Saturdays 2-0 shock defeat to
Poland in Warsaw, Germanys
qualifier woes continued as
Ireland claimed a deserved
point. Despite the world
champions dominating
possession with 19 goal
attempts to Irelands paltry two,
ONeills side were rewarded for
their battling spirit with a
precious point to stay second
in Group D. We just didnt give
up and kept going. I never felt
we were actually out of the
game, which is great credit to
the players, said Ireland
manager ONeill. AFP
Serie A chiefs launch
appeal fund for Genoa
ITALIAN Serie A chiefs on
Tuesday gave a further boost to
the flood-hit city of Genoa by
opening a bank account with a
200,000 (US$250,000) deposit
in the hope of attracting further
relief funds. Heavy floods in the
port city in recent weeks have
killed one man and caused an
estimated 200 million worth
of damage. Italian football
federation president Carlo
Tavecchio on Tuesday switched
an upcoming friendly between
Italy and Albania to Genoa from
Parma in a bid to help boost
the citys coffers. That move
was welcomed by the president
of Serie A club Genoa, Enrico
Preziosi, although he called for
the football community to dig
deeper. AFP
Rio Ferdinand charged
over Twitter comment
QUEENS Park Rangers
defender Rio Ferdinand has
been charged with misconduct
over a comment he made on
Twitter, the Football
Association announced on
Tuesday. The FA did not
identify the posting in question,
but reports suggested it
concerned a tweet in which
Ferdinand had referred to the
mother of another Twitter user
as a sket a derogatory
slang term for a promiscuous
woman. Ferdinand, 35, has
until October 21 to respond to
the charge. AFP
Crunch time for Cambodia
H S Manjunath

I
TS crunch time for Cambodia
today in the ongoing AFC Su-
zuki Cup qualiers as manager
Lee Tae Hoons squad square off
at 3:30pm against a buoyant East
Timor at the New Laos National Sta-
dium in Vientiane.
Myanmar will take on Brunei in the
days second xture from 6:30pm.
After going down 3-2 to hosts Laos
from the relative comfort of 2-2 with
10 minutes left in the opening round
four days ago, Cambodia face a stress
test in seeking nothing but a victory
that would keep their chances of ad-
vancing alive.
The mood in the Cambodian camp
is one of anguish and serious con-
templation while East Timor are
brimming with condence after their
goalless draw against Myanmar on
Tuesday following their 4-2 win over
Brunei in the opener.
Laos brushed aside Brunei 4-2 on
Tuesday for their second win to be
within touching distance of one of the
qualifying spots. East Timor, who are
clear second in the standings behind
Laos going into todays match, will be
eager to secure their own future with
a win against Cambodia but also in
the knowledge that a draw might not
seriously hurt their chances either.
Just as Cambodia are desperate for
a victory to advance their cause the
Timorese are equally determined
to stay upright. This tricky situation
might either bring out the best or the
worst in either of them.
On the benecial side, Cambodia
had a break of three days after their
opening game while East Timor have
had only one day of rest after playing
two matches. But as head coach An-
tonio Carlos Vieira said, this is not a
factor neither he nor his players are
worried about.
It is apparent that coach Lee will
have to come up with a few tacti-
cal readjustments to deal with the
components of the Cambodian
team that crumbled against Laos, a
porous backline prominent among
those failings.
Once considered pushovers in the
region, East Timor has steadily grown
in strength over the years. The team
was bolstered after the national fed-
eration decided in 2011 to select
their foreign-based players playing in
Brazil, Portugal, Australia and other
countries. The process of fortica-
tion has led to East Timors improved
showing in the region as reected
in their 5-1 swamping of Cambodia
in the previous edition of this event
in 2012, during which the side also
scored a notable win over Laos.
Striker Murilo de Almeida, who
bagged a hat-trick against Brunei
on Sunday, could well be the danger
man the Cambodian back line will
have to watch out for. From the King-
doms perspective, it is not just how
vigorously defenders do their job, it
is also how effective the mideld link
with the front line will be.
The question is, will the likes of
Chan Vathanaka and Khoun Labo-
ravy rise to this demanding occasion
and keep Cambodia in the qualica-
tion hunt they have succeeded in only
once before in nearly 10 years of com-
petition history.
Cambodia coach Lee Tae Hoon (right) gives instructions to players during a training session in Vientiane ahead of todays Suzuki Cup
qualier against East Timor. Cambodia desperately need a result from the game if they are to have any hope of advancing. KEM SOVANNA
Albania PM brother arrested as qualier abandoned
THE brother of Albanias prime
minister was arrested in Bel-
grade on Tuesday night,
accused of starting the trouble
that caused the abandonment
of the Euro 2016 qualifier
between Serbia and Albania,
Serbian state television RTS
has reported.
RTS cited the Serbian Inte-
rior Ministry saying that Olsi
Rama, from his seat in an exec-
utive box in the stadium, con-
trolled a drone carrying a
Greater Albanian flag which
flew over the pitch triggering
clashes between the two
teams as some of the 20,000
home fans tried to assault
Albanian players.
The incident, in the 41st
minute of the Group I
encounter at which Serbian
President Tomislav Nikolic
was also in attendance, led to
its abandonment with the
score goalless.
Serbian fans hurled smoke
bombs and other missiles
onto the pitch in protest in a
game from which Albanian
fans had been barred by the
Serbian Football Federation
on Sunday.
The incident comes just days
before the highly sensitive
visit of Albanian Prime Minis-
ter Edi Rama next Wednesday,
the first such visit in 68 years.
Ramas visit to Serbia became
possible after the normalisa-
tion of bilateral relations was
sealed in April 2013 in an
agreement brokered by the
European Union.
A source close to Rama
denied that his brother had
been arrested in Belgrade.
The Albanian Interior Minis-
try said it had been watching
the events unfold anxiously
and had been in contact with
the staff of their counterparts
in Belgrade to transmit a mes-
sage from their Interior Minis-
ter Saimir Tahiri.
The Serbian government is
responsible for the security, the
life and health of the footballers
and the Albanian delegation,
Tahiri said in his message.
We wanted to continue
Relations between Tirana
and Belgrade have been fragile
over the mainly ethnic Alba-
nian former Serbian province
of Kosovo and the ethnic Alba-
nian minority in southern
Serbia, who often demand
more autonomy.
In Belgrade, some see Tiranas
interest as part of a plan aimed
at creating a Greater Albania
that would unite Albanian
communities in Albania, Kos-
ovo, Montenegro, Macedonia
and southern Serbia.
Kosovos independence has
been recognised by more than
100 countries, including the
United States and most Euro-
pean Union member states.
The premature end to Tues-
days game was greeted with
joy by nearly 5,000 Kosovar
Albanians who gathered to
watch in the Kosovo capital
Pristina, shouting Greater
Albania and victory.
The Serbian national team
captain and Chelsea defender
Branislav Ivanovic, voiced his
dismay at the evenings events:
In the name of my team I can
say that we wanted to continue
the match . . . but the Albanian
players said they werent in the
physical or psychological state
to continue, he said.
Kosovo, the former Serbian
province comprised mainly of
Albanians, proclaimed its uni-
lateral independence in Febru-
ary 2008.
The formation of Kosovo was
made possible by a bloody
chain of events after the end of
the Soviet era.
The demise of the Soviet
Union in 1990-91 sparked the
bloody wars that broke Yugo-
slavia apart into six multi-eth-
nic states, including Serbia.
NATO carried out a 78-day
bombing campaign which
subsequently led to Serb
troops pulling out of Kosovo
in 1999 and brought an end to
the Serbian governments
repression of the ethnic Alba-
nian population.
Serbia says the NATO air-
strikes killed 2,500 civilians,
including 89 children, a figure
contested by NATO. AFP
Serbias defender Stefan Mitrovic grabs a ag with Albanian national
symbols own by a remotely operated drone during their 2016 Euro
Group I match in Belgrade on Tuesday. AFP
PP Premier League
Vattanac Capital 1 Cellcard 13
Naga World 12 Innity 0
Schindler 6 Wing 3
ACE 1 MyTV/CTN 2
2016 Euro Qualiers
Gibraltar 0 Georgia 3
Poland 2 Scotland 2
San Marino 0 Switzerland 4
Faroe Islands 0 Hungary 1
Finland 0 Romania 2
Greece 0 Northern Ireland 2
Denmark 0 Portugal 1
International Friendlies
Chile 2 Bolivia 2
USA 1 Honduras 1
Canada 0 Colombia 1
Brazil 4 Japan 0
Hong Kong 0 Argentina 7
Armenia 0 France 3
Qatar 1 Australia 0
TUESDAYS RESULTS
Sport
Crutch tackle
Ibrahim Wafula (right) and Dedan
Ireri, both players of the Kenyan
national amputee football team,
take part in a training session at
the Pangani grounds on Tuesday
in Nairobi ahead of the fourth
edition of the World Cup Amputee
football World Cup to be held in
Mexico from November 30 till
December 8. The rules in amputee
football are much the same as in
regular soccer, albeit adapted to
take into account what the World
Amputee Football Federation calls
its abbreviated players. AFP
Australian rugby league star
Hayne quits for NFL career
A
USTRALIAN rugby
league superstar Jar-
ryd Hayne yesterday
dropped a bomb-
shell by quitting the sport to
pursue an NFL career in the
United States, despite not
having a contract.
Just 24 hours after being
named in Australias squad for
the Four Nations tournament,
Hayne announced he was
leaving the Parramatta Eels in
an unprecedented code swap
to American football.
For the past 24 months
Ive been thinking about
having a crack in the NFL,
and over the last 12 months
Ive been seriously consider-
ing it, Hayne said.
Today I can ofcially an-
nounce that I will be heading
to the United States to pursue
an opportunity to play Amer-
ican Football.
The 26-year-old fullback
recently visited the reigning
Super Bowl champions Seattle
Seahawks, but said he had no
deal and would be a free agent,
giving up a lucrative National
Rugby League salary.
Its not going to be easy. I
dont have any experience in
NFL, I dont have a contract, I
havent signed with anyone,
an emotional Hayne told a
media brieng.
Im so passionate about the
challenge that lies ahead for
me, not only as an athlete but
more so as a person. Its the
hardest decision I have ever
had to make in my life.
Ill be a free agent, it will
give me the opportunity to go
over there and train and po-
tentially, hopefully, play NFL
one day, said Hayne, who last
month won the NRLs highest
individual honour, the Dally
M Medal, for the second time.
He said he was immedi-
ately withdrawing from the
Australian squad for the Four
Nations tournament, with the
Kangaroos due to face New
Zealand on October 25.
There was no word on why
Hayne made his decision
yesterday, just one day after
the Kangaroos squad was
announced.
Its always been a dream of
mine to play in the NFL, and
at my age, this is my one and
only chance at having a crack
at playing there, Hayne said.
Im excited about the po-
tential opportunities that lie
ahead. Ive known the dead-
line has been looming for me
to make this call, and I believe
the right time is now.
He added that he had agreed
a lifetime deal with Parramat-
ta so that, should he return to
rugby league, it would only be
with the Eels.
Club chief executive Scott
Seward said he was disap-
pointed to lose Hayne, but
wished him well.
Jarryd has done a lot for
the Eels over the years and I
want to thank him for his ef-
forts as a player and captain
of our club, Seward said.
Its going to be an incred-
ibly tough challenge for him
and for someone at the pin-
nacle of a sport like rugby
league to start from the bot-
tom in another is very brave.
Haynes had played 176
games for Parramatta, scor-
ing 103 tries. He has also
played 20 State of Origin
matches for New South
Wales and won 12 caps with
the Kangaroos. AFP
Australias Jarryd Hayne (left) is tackled during the 2013 Rugby League World Cup Final between Australia
and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester. AFP

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