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HANDS-ON WORK
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WILDLIFE RESERVE
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Taing Vida
AFTER years of avoiding
questions about her com-
panys failure to complete
the Borei Keila housing
project, Phan Imex owner
Suy Sophan yesterday
denied any breach of con-
tract during questioning at
the National Assembly, a
lawmaker said.
During more than two
hours in front of members
of the anti-corruption
commission, Sophan fend-
ed off questions about the
controversial social land
concession project, which
left hundreds homeless
after a violent eviction in
early 2012.
According to opposition
Cambodia National Rescue
Laignee Barron
WHILE Cambodia has taken
significant strides to reduce
hunger, for the millions still
affected, not having food to
eat is becoming less of a
problem than consuming
enough nutrients.
In the latest Global Hunger
Index, Cambodia was one of
10 countries lauded for mak-
ing the largest improvements
in its hunger situation since
1990, dropping from
extremely alarming levels
to serious.
But while rates of starva-
tion may be declining, and
caloric intake may be reach-
ing appreciable figures, Cam-
bodia continues to suffer a
stubbornly persistent and
devastating hidden hunger
Sophan
denies
contract
breach
Shining
light on
hidden
hunger
Sa Piseth sifts through
editions of his news-
paper in Snuol district
yesterday. VIREAK MAI
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May Titthara and Daniel Pye
Kratie province
H
IM Mat is the editor of
Thnay Nis Today a
four-page black-and-white
newspaper whose coverage
is devoted almost exclusively to the
illegal logging trade in Cambodia.
The irregularly printed paper, which
Mat, 34, showed off proudly yesterday
inside his tiny one-room Snuol town
apartment which doubles as his news-
room takes aim at anyone considered
to be involved in forest crimes.
It is a sometimes dangerous job, but
Mat says none of the local reporters
get into the business out of a desire to
conserve the remaining forests. They
are similarly unmotivated by the eth-
ics of journalism.
We dont have salaries, so some-
times loggers or sources ask us to
delete pictures, or for us not to write
a story. We have to do what they say
because they give us sometimes $50
or $100, says Mat, who also writes
many of the articles.
The killing on Sunday of local
reporter Taing Try, who was shot in the
head on the side of a muddy road,
allegedly by a military police officer
involved in illegal logging, tragically
highlights the relationship that local
reporters in rural areas maintain with
illegal logging syndicates. According
to journalists who were with Try the
day he died, that relationship can be
at once symbiotic and antagonistic.
Mat is one of the more fortunate
reporters the Post spoke to yesterday,
as he claims his newspaper received
part of a $10,000 grant from Prime
Minister Hun Sen, who gave the
money to the Cambodian Council of
Journalists.
Others seem to flit in and out of dif-
ferent worlds. Journalist by day, some-
thing else by night. Reporters in Kratie
deal cars and own small businesses.
Two of them said they made very little
from their work, but wore diamond
rings and expensive-looking watches,
one of which depicted the wearer in
military uniform.
Chan Sina, 48, says his newspaper,
Chivit Thmey, or New Life, closed
down two years ago, but he continues
Few rules on logging beat
A journalists murder exposes a climate in which ethics take back seat to reality
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National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 17, 2014
Mom Kunthear
MINISTER of Labour Ith
Sam Heng yesterday said his
ministry will encourage an
end to criminal proceedings
against six labour union lead-
ers charged with crimes stem-
ming from a nationwide gar-
ment worker strike.
After meeting with 10 rep-
resentatives of unions and la-
bour rights organisations, Sam
Heng said the Ministry of La-
bour would ask factory own-
ers to drop complaints, which
include intentional violence
in aggravating circumstances,
connected to the late Decem-
ber to early January strike.
We will help intervene with
the plaintiffs, Sam Heng said
after emerging from the two-
hour session yesterday morn-
ing. We will ask them to drop
the case, and we will work
more with the Ministry of Jus-
tice on this.
The Garment Manufactur-
ers Association in Cambodia
(GMAC) is representing 170
factories that led a court
complaint against the union
leaders for their alleged in-
volvement in the 10-day strike,
which ended on January 3,
when military authorities shot
dead at least ve demonstra-
tors on Veng Sreng Boulevard
in Phnom Penh.
Leaders of six unions in-
volved in the protests that
began after Labour Ministry
announced 2014s garment
sector minimum monthly
wage would be $95 $60 less
than unions lobbied for were
put under court supervision
last month.
I welcome the minister in-
tervening and trying to drop
the complaints against us
union leaders, said Pav Sina,
president of Collective Union
of Movement of Workers, a de-
fendant in the case.
GMAC secretary-general
Ken Loo yesterday evening
said he had not heard of Sam
Hengs wish for the case to be
dropped but would hear the
minister out.
Well hear what he has to
say, Loo said. We dont know
what hes proposing.
After attending the meeting,
labour rights group Solidar-
ity Centers country director,
Dave Welsh, said he believed
the commitment came as a
result of pressure for charges
to be dropped.
Thereve been a lot of calls
privately that this needs to be
done, theres been a lot of in-
ternational media attention,
Welsh said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY SEAN TEEHAN
Minister wants union
charges to be dropped
Land concessions cancelled
Phak Seangly

T
HE government has
seized back more
than 12,000 hectares
of land previously
awarded to seven companies
as economic land conces-
sions (ELCs), according to
a letter from the Council of
Ministers.
The letter, which was ob-
tained by the Post yesterday,
was sent late last month to the
governors of Preah Sihanouk,
Kampong Speu and Koh Kong
provinces, and Environment
Minister Say Sam Al.
It explains that licences
awarded from 2006 to 2011
for eight ELCs in the provinc-
es would be revoked and the
land put under the ownership
of the Environment Ministry.
Sub-decrees issued ear-
lier this month to three of the
companies, Vimean Seila Co,
Ltd; Soun Vattanak Co, Ltd;
and Chan Rot Group, con-
rmed the decision.
While the letter did not
specify reasons for the sei-
zure, Chhit Sokhum, governor
of Preah Sihanouk province,
where ve of the ELCs were lo-
cated, said the companies had
failed to develop the land.
The commission went
down and saw the companies
names and saw that they had
not developed anything or
they had developed little, so
we seized the land for preser-
vation, he said.
Its a waste of government
time and tax when the com-
panies do not develop the
land, he added.
According to Sokhum, the
land will be preserved, and not
awarded to other companies.
Buon Narith, Preah Siha-
nouk provincial coordinator
for the rights group Licadho,
welcomed the seizures and
urged the government to take a
stronger approach to all ELCs.
We see some companies
logging and clearing forest
and then they do not develop
anything, he said.
Vann Sophath, land reform
coordinator for the Cambodi-
an Center for Human Rights,
agreed.
Most of the companies
[use] their concessions as a
front for logging because the
land of ELCs [is] full of the for-
est and natural resources. The
rst target of those compa-
nies is logging and exploiting
natural resources for their in-
terest and income, he said.
In a directive last month,
the government vowed to
strengthen how ELCs are
awarded and regulated. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY
A truck is loaded with lumber in an economic land concession in Kampong Thom province last year. Amid prom-
ises to get tough on poorly performing concessionaires, the government has cancelled eight. PHOTOSUPPLIED
People throw a bed onto a burning barricade during violent clashes on
Veng Sreng Boulevard in January. POST STAFF
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Continued from page 1
to be issued press identification
documents by the Ministry of
Interior, which he uses to work
as a freelancer.
My newspaper does not pub-
lish, but I still do that job because
I write stories to share with other
local media and sometimes they
give me $5, $10 or $20, he says.
Sina, Mat and other reporters
in Snuol act as stringers for the
major Khmer national media,
including for Koh Santepheap,
Rasmei Kampuchea and the
state television networks. The
journalists say that they have lit-
tle or no training and submit
articles for publication based on
rumours and without any fact
checking.
I did not get any training on
how to write a story, so when I
wrote the stories I just asked
people who is the owner of the
timber, then I start to write a
story. All of my stories focus on
logging, Mat said.
Sina and Mat, who knew Try
well and had worked closely with
him in the past, said that the
situation in Snuol, the largest
district in Kratie, is repeated
across the country in regions
where illegal logging businesses
operate. Though they say the
authorities have never employed
them directly, they say that it is
not uncommon for reporters
working for newspapers in the
area to be drawn from the ranks
of the police, military police and
the army.
In some cases, they say, a
reporter may also be a police
officer and illegal logger at the
same time, which largely
removes the need for independ-
ent sources.
Mat says the local security
forces have no desire to act
against loggers, because they are
loggers.
Though money sometimes
changes hands, the arrangement
can quickly go south.
Sina, the freelancer, will not go
out alone to report since a series
of altercations with loggers cul-
minated in Trys killing.
When we know who owns the
timber, we start to write a story,
but sometimes the loggers give
some money so we do not write
about them.
A former Sam Rainsy Party
activist, Sa Piseth has covered
illegal logging for his Klommel,
or Watchdog, newspaper for
many years. The newspaper is
informally distributed. He keeps
a few copies in his cluttered
Snuol apartment among piles of
childrens toys.
Piseth, along with six other
journalists, was with Try shortly
before he was killed, and
described what happened on
Sunday night.
Chhon Khoeun, Snuol dis-
tricts deputy military police
chief, called the group to return
to an area near the Preak Chh-
long River, where they had been
tipped off that illegally logged
timber was being transported,
and had determined that it
belonged to Khoeun.
They went back. Trys car got
stuck in the mud on the way
back to the river, so Piseth set off
towards the nearest village to get
a motorbike home. The other
convoy of journalists did not get
stuck and drove on.
As Piseth was leaving, however,
he saw a Lexus carrying three
people heading in Trys direc-
tion. The next day, he heard the
news. In the morning, my jour-
nalist friends told me Taing Try
was shot to death, so I was in
shock, he said.
Try had been accused by
authorities of extorting money
from loggers before, but nothing
came of the allegations. His wife,
Chhim Mom, 46, said obliquely
that he never had a salary, but
he got some money from people
who gave it to him.
She added that he was always
working, and she was worried
about his safety. After learning of
his death and the circumstances,
she filed a complaint against
Khoeun, whom many journal-
ists said was responsible for the
killing.
I dont know about my hus-
band extorting the money, but
a lot of people liked him so
much. My husband, when
working, he never thinks about
night time or day time, if some-
one calls him about logging, he
goes immediately, she said.
Khoeun denied involvement
in Trys death, and he was out-
raged that the journalists would
have the chutzpah to write a
story about him.
I am not involved with the
killing, but I did call them back
because that timber is mine, he
admitted. But if they respected
me and adopted me as a brother,
they would not do fking st
like that, Khoeun said.
Three members of the secu-
rity forces ex-soldier La Narong,
32, policeman Pin Heang, 32,
and military policeman Khem
Pheakdey, 27 have been
charged with the murder, and
have reportedly confessed.
As well as taking money from
illegal loggers, Piseth says he has
received cash on two occasions
$20 and $50 from victims of
land disputes in exchange for
getting articles published about
their cases. I wrote about land
dispute victims, and the people
gave me $20 or $50 for one story,
and sometimes I got money
from the loggers, he says.
I have received a lot of threats
and a lot of complaints about
disinformation.
National
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Gun goes
off, killing
logger in
Veal Veng
Phak Seangly
AN ILLEGAL logger in Pursat
province accidentally shot a
member of his own work group
on Monday, according to Veal
Veng district police.
Luong Bunlay, a central jus-
tice police official in the district,
official, said yesterday that
seven loggers were taking a
break in Dey Krohorm village
when one of them, Ma Soran,
36, started toying with his
AK-47. He accidentally pulled
the trigger, shooting Nharm
Mengleang, 39, in the head, kill-
ing him. After the shot, the log-
gers scattered.
They were about 10 metres
away from each other. He
played with his rifle and uncon-
sciously triggered it and his
carelessness just caused the
victim to die immediately,
Bunlay said.
The loggers were allegedly
going after protected timber in
the Mount Samkos Wildlife
Sanctuary in Veal Veng, a pre-
serve in the Cardamom Moun-
tains. After the incident, district
police forces and authorities
from 10 police stations went to
the site.
Anlong Reap commune
police chief Dy Sunhak said the
area was deep in the forest, near
Samkos mountain. Authorities
had to walk there at night.
The rangers arent enough
for protecting and patrolling
and there are many loggers,
Sunhak said. Authorities are
searching for the suspect.
Ethics often take a back seat on the logging beat
Former Sam Rainsy Party activist Sa Piseth holds a newspaper at his apartment in Kraties Snuol district
yesterday. VIREAK MAI
CORRECTION
In yesterdays article PM asked
to clarify border issue, Va Kim
Hong, the senior minister in
charge of border affairs, was
paraphrased as saying that
Prime Minister Hun Sen was
unlikely to speak in parlia-
ment about border issues with
Vietnam. In fact, Kim Hong said
that the prime minister had yet
to make a decision.
Meas Sokchea
NHAN Dan, the media mouth-
piece of the Communist Party
of Vietnam, launched its rst
Cambodian bureau yesterday
in the latest addition to Cam-
bodias media landscape.
The bureau, whose name
means people, joins fel-
low state-run outlet Xinhua,
Chinas ofcial news service,
which has ofces near the In-
dependence Monument.
The move was hailed by the
government but met with sus-
picion by one media analyst
who questioned how the cov-
erage could be independent.
Speaking at a launch cere-
mony yesterday at the Phnom
Penh Hotel, Thuan Huu, who
is a member of the Commu-
nist Party of Vietnams Central
Committee, the Nhan Dan
newspaper editor-in-chief,
and the chairman of the Viet-
namese Journalists Asso-
ciation, said that the agency
hopes to promote the dissemi-
nation of news on Vietnamese
policies and the socioeco-
nomic achievements of the
two countries.
It will also promptly reect
all aspects of politics, econom-
ics, and society in Vietnam and
Cambodia, helping to strength-
en the traditional friendship
and solidarity between the two
peoples, he said.
Truong Son, head of the bu-
reau, or representative ofce,
said there will be two reporters,
and the news will be sent back
to be printed in the paper in
Vietnam and published online.
Asked what kinds of stories the
reporters plan on writing, Son
said they will cover all.
Nhan Dan also has bureaus
in France, China, Thailand and
Laos.
Information Minister Khieu
Kanharith said that Vietnam-
ese media have a long history
in Cambodia, including send-
ing a Nhan Dan journalist after
the end of the Khmer Rouge
in 1979 to help set up a local
newspaper.
But Pa Nguon Teang, execu-
tive director of the Cambodian
Center for Independent Media,
was less enthusiastic. They
want to collect information for
their party, Nguon Teang said.
I do not have a belief that
this newspaper is independent
because in Vietnam it is strictly
serving only the party so if the
newspaper is not independent
it does not offer interests for
the people.
VN opens Phnom Penh
bureau for state media
Wuttys past still in dispute
Kevin Ponniah

L
OCAL newspaper
Deum Ampil has pub-
lished a letter from
Conservation Interna-
tional that it claims proves slain
environmental activist Chut
Wutty took bribes from illegal
mreas prov tree loggers in the
Central Cardamoms more than
a decade ago.
The January 2003 letter, writ-
ten by then CI country direc-
tor David Mead, suspended
Wutty from work with CI as
it investigated allegations he
had taken payments from the
illegal industry.
Mreas prov can be processed
into the drug precursor safrole.
But Jake Brunner, a former
CI staffer copied on the letter,
said that while he was out of the
country at the time, the issue
between Mead and Wutty had
to do with advances he had re-
ceived from CI and accounting
procedures.
That was the issue, I think,
not corruption, Brunner said.
He added that the Forestry
Administration had engaged
in an aggressive campaign
to get Wutty out of the Central
Cardamom Protected Forest
program.
I think the letter David wrote
was a pro forma kind of de-
fence just to show that CI took
[their allegations] seriously and
werent dismissing the accusa-
tions because David and Wutty
were close.
Wutty was shot dead in 2012
while documenting illegal
logging.
Marcus Hardtke, a German
conservationist who worked in
the area at the time, and later
worked with Wutty, said that
the CI investigation ended up
nding no evidence of bribe-
taking on Wuttys behalf. [The
FA] really wanted to get rid of
him because he was disturbing
their business, he said.
FA chief Chheng Kimsun
said he was too busy to speak
yesterday.
Conservation International
country director Seng Bunra
said that the group could not re-
lease details about Wuttys time
there because of HR policy.
Our ofcial position is that
we dont have anything to add
but that were sad that the fo-
cus of this has been to defame
someone who was doing good
work when he passed away
and we are sure his family is
suffering greatly.
Deum Ampils claims are the
latest to be made against Wutty
since he was praised by US Presi-
dent Barack Obama last month.
Government spokesman Phay
Siphan recently called him a
great log trader.
Environmental activist, Chut Wutty, stands next to a stash of burning lumber in Prey Lang forest in early
2012. MATHIEU YOUNG
We start to write a
story, but sometimes
the loggers give some
money so we do not
write about them
Jail for child rape

Volunteer at
NGO guilty of
sex crimes
A
MAN who volunteered
at a Christian NGO that
seeks to combat sex
trafcking was found guilty
yesterday by the Phnom Penh
Municipal Court and jailed for
three years for raping four
former street children younger
than 10 years old who were
meant to be in his care.
Acting presiding Municipal
Court judge Chhae Vireak said
Sem Sam, also known as Dara,
was guilty of abusing the four
boys while they were staying at
Agape International Missions
centre in Russey Keo district
in November and December
2013.
Based on the hearing and
[Sams] confession, the court
has found that he is guilty. So
the court has decided to convict
him and sentence him to three
years imprisonment and order
him to pay four million riel
[about $1,000] to the victims,
he said.
Sam said he would appeal.
I think that the courts deci-
sion was not right and I cannot
accept it because in this case,
the victims agreed to have sex
with me voluntarily, he said.
BUTHREAKSMEY KONGKEA
National
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Group says
investment
was a ruse
Kim Sarom
SOME two hundred villagers
from Prey Veng and Svay Rieng
provinces gathered yesterday
and Wednesday to file com-
plaints at the Svay Rieng provin-
cial police station accusing the
purported owner of a local water
purification company of cheat-
ing them out of some $470,000
in investments.
Nov Hach, chief of police in
Prey Vengs Mesang district, said
that businessman Huot Som-
riths water purification com-
pany had instead turned out to
be an empty lot holding around
30 trucks.
One of the alleged victims, Soy
Sarorn, 37, said yesterday that
Somrith who was arrested on
Wednesday had convinced
him to invest $8,400 in June of
2013. He received monthly
returns, so he borrowed to up his
investment to $40,000.
When a car rental company
came to repossess Somriths
leased Land Cruiser, however,
Sarorns suspicion was raised.
Svay Rieng Provincial Police
official Suos Sarin said yester-
day that a prosecutor would
determine how to proceed with
the case.
Borei Keila ower defends project
Party lawmaker and chairman
of the commission Ho Vann,
Sophan denied she had violated
a 2003 contract to build 10 resi-
dential high-rises for 1,776
families at Borei Keila in
exchange for the adjacent land
on which they lived in the capi-
tals Prampi Makara district.
Only eight buildings were ever
finished, and dozens of families
who refused alternative com-
pensation relocation out of the
city have been living in tents
at the site of their former homes
ever since.
[Sophan] said she did not
know about any irregularities,
nor did she accept that she has
violated the contract, just sim-
ply answered that there is still
empty space in the eight build-
ings, Vann said.
Speaking to journalists after
the closed-door questioning,
Sophan promised to still pro-
vide solutions for families who
had documents to prove that
they had been residents of Borei
Keila before the relocation
agreement was struck in 2003.
Their demands are OK if they
have the legal documents. If
not, its a no, she said.
Sophan declined to answer
questions about contract viola-
tions or whether her company
intended to build the remaining
two buildings at Borei Keila.
However, she claimed that a
number of apartments sat emp-
ty at the site and could be filled
by families entitled to them. Vil-
lagers, however, claim that cor-
ruption has resulted in people
outside the community being
given apartments.
The problem with demanding
that the roughly 150 families still
seeking compensation show
documents, Vann said, is that
many of them were likely
destroyed when Phan Imex
workers, backed by the author-
ities, violently evicted families
and tore down their homes on
January 3, 2012.
I was there when they were
demolishing the buildings. Peo-
ple would not have had the
chance to collect any docu-
ments or valuables, he said.
Vann said Phan Imex was still
obligated to house families left
out of the deal. He would remain
in touch with Sophan to ensure
that she acted to resolve the
issue. If no solution came in the
near future, he would send a let-
ter to Prime Minister Hun Sen
asking for Phan Imexs contract
to be reviewed, he added.
Borei Keila villager represent-
ative Chhay Kimhorn said
Sophans response to the matter
yesterday had been unsympa-
thetic to those the company had
left homeless.
We have no ownership docu-
ments that can be evaluated,
she said. We will continue our
campaign until there are suita-
ble solutions for us.
Suy Sophan, president of Phan Imex, talks to the media yesterday in Phnom Penh after answering questions
from the National Assembly in regards to the ongoing land dispute at Borei Keila. HENG CHIVOAN
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Dance party ends but
the hits keep coming
WHAT are you lookin at? a
phrase that, perhaps more
than any other, is a sure-fire
precursor to violence. One
Phnom Penh man, coming
back to his Por Sen Chey dis-
trict home from a dance party
on Tuesday night, had the
temerity to ask that very ques-
tion to four men staring him
down. One thing led to another,
and unsurprisingly, the four
men produced sticks, bricks
and stones and started pum-
melling the partygoer. His cries
drew bystanders, who man-
aged to turn the four over to
police. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
No uniform, no charm
for drunken policeman
AN OFF-DUTY policeman in
Phnom Penhs Sen Sok district
was given a thorough roughing-
up after arguably engaging in
some conduct unbecoming of
an officer. According to police,
the cop had drunkenly proposi-
tioned a young woman outside
a nightclub. She rebuffed him,
and a scuffle ensued. The
womans friends and guards
from the club intervened and
calmed both sides down, but
the moment the man stepped
off of the clubs premises, the
same friends and guards alleg-
edly proceeded to beat him
badly. Military police intervened
and the man was hospitalised,
but the suspects were not
arrested. NOKORWAT
Man thwarts motorbike
theft on way to toilet
A LATE-NIGHT bathroom trip
saved two roommates their
motos in Phnom Penhs Sen
Sok district. One of the room-
mates had awakened to find
his door ajar and he and his
friends motos missing. Rush-
ing to the door, he saw two
men walking the bikes down
the street, and raised a com-
motion, waking the neighbours.
The locals tried to surround the
two men and their alleged
accomplice, but two escaped.
The third was given a light
beating before being handed
over to police. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Dealers lose plot and
make dash from cops
THREE men who apparently
were unfamiliar with the con-
cept of playing it cool were
busted for alleged drug deal-
ing in Takeos Bati district on
Tuesday. Police said the men,
who were sharing a moto,
attempted to flee when patrol-
ling police tried to stop them.
Cops caught them and alleg-
edly found three small drug
packages. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Careless thief makes
positive ID too easy
AN OPPORTUNISTIC student
and alleged thief will be learn-
ing a valuable lesson about his
newfound illicit profession:
dont let the victim see you. The
student, 18, had allegedly
ducked into a house and
snatched a phone while its
owner was preparing lunch.
The victim returned to her front
room just in time to see the
teen escaping, and told police.
The next day, cops spotted and
arrested the suspect. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Ex-judge
arrested
over child
sex claims
Chhay Channyda
A MEMBER of the French
judiciary and the director of
the NGO Enfants du Cam-
bodge was arrested this week
in Sihanoukville on suspicion
of sexually exploiting seven
boys aged between the ages
of 12 and 19, police revealed
yesterday.
Pen Kanha, the provincial
deputy police chief and head
of the anti-human trafficking
unit, said French national and
former judge Philippe Broaly
was arrested on Tuesday.
We checked his house
where he runs an NGO and
invited him to our police head-
quarters where we arrested
him, Kanha said yesterday
evening. Hes now in court
with us to be questioned with
prosecutors.
In a statement released yes-
terday, Action Pour Les Enfants
(APLE) alleged that at least
five males living in the NGO
with the suspect had been
assaulted.
Shining the light on hidden hunger
crisis, the annual index being
launched in the capital today
reports.
Hidden hunger, a form of mal-
nutrition caused by deficiencies
of vitamins and minerals,
impairs physical and intellec-
tual growth, weakens the
immune system, saps energy
and can result in death.
Where hidden hunger has
taken root, it not only prevents
people from surviving and
thriving as productive mem-
bers of society, it also holds
countries back in a cycle of poor
nutrition, poor health, lost pro-
ductivity, persistent poverty
and reduced economic growth,
the index says.
The serious, and often irre-
versible, consequences of the
micronutrient deficiencies afflict
more than two billion, or almost
one in three people, globally.
Children and women tend to
bear the brunt of the effects.
When we think about suffer-
ing from hunger the common
image is skinny arms and huge
bellies, but [hidden hunger] isnt
something you would normally
see the effects of at first glance,
said Simone Pott, a spokesper-
son for Welthungerhilfe, one of
the organisations responsible for
compiling the index. Its difficult
to address in part because many
people dont know that they and
their children are affected.
Feeding the population is no
longer just a matter of growing
and consuming enough food.
Cambodia annually produces
more than needed to meet the
calorie requirements of its
population.
Access to food, however, is
unevenly distributed and public
policies still focus on quantity
(energy supply) while invest-
ments in . . . improving the qual-
ity of diets and access to sanita-
tion are lagging behind.
On a national level we have a
food surplus, but on the house-
to-house level were seeing insuf-
ficient food varieties and prob-
lems with nutrition, said Sok
Silo, deputy director-general of
the Council for Agricultural
and Rural Development.
Despite robust growth, Cam-
bodia continues to be home to
one of the worlds highest rates
of chronically malnourished
and stunted children under the
age of 5.
For children, its very diffi-
cult to consume all the essen-
tial nutrients needed, and in
developing countries . . . people
do not have the means to real-
istically buy all the nutrients for
a healthy and balanced diet,
said Edith Heines, deputy coun-
try director at the World Food
Programme Cambodia.
Poverty is a major factor inhib-
iting access to nutritious foods,
but is not the sole story. Even
among the countrys wealthiest
quintile, stunting affects more
than 23 per cent of children.
A common factor leading to
hidden hunger, diets based
mostly on staple crops such as
rice provide large quantities of
energy, but relatively low
amounts of essential vitamins
and minerals.
The prevalence of micronutri-
ent deficiencies and the kinds of
micronutrients missing from the
average Cambodian diet remain
unknown. However, the most
common deficiencies globally
include iodine, iron and zinc.
Fortification, adding micronu-
trients back into processed
foods, is one of the central strat-
egies developing countries
including Cambodia have used
to combat the problem.
In 2004, the government made
it illegal to produce, import or
sell non-iodised salt, and rates of
goitre plummeted, according to
the World Bank.
But Cambodia lacks the
capacity to mass produce forti-
fied foods, which cannot, on
their own, solve the vitamin
and mineral gaps.
The more long-term inter-
ventions have to encourage edu-
cation and include agriculture
and public health measures,
said Pott of Welthungerhilfe.
Eliminating hidden hunger will
require getting involved at the
community level and changing
day-to-day eating and sanita-
tion habits.
A woman purchases food at a street side cart yesterday in Phnom Penh.
Cambodias hunger situation has improved since 1990, but malnutrition
remains a problem. HONG MENEA
Guides want more guards
Sen David

DAMAGE to a Buddha statue at
a Siem Reap province temple
and several other instances of
destruction and loss of historic
property led the Cambodia
Tourist Guide Association to
le letters requesting height-
ened security at the ruins in
Siem Reap.
The letters to APSARA Au-
thority and heritage police were
sent three days after a New Zea-
land national allegedly broke
the statue at Bayon temple last
week. They also reference lost
monkey statues at Banteay Srey
temple and statue decapitation
at Ta Prohm temple, said Khiev
Thy, the associations director.
Recently, there have been
cases of statues being lost
[and broken] at temples in
tourist areas of Siem Reap,
Thy said. No suspects have
been caught; it affects our cul-
tural heritage.
The recently broken statue
was a 26-year-old replica of
one that was destroyed during
decades of civil unrest.
In addition to the broken
Buddha statue at Bayon tem-
ple, a South Korean travelling
in a tourist group knocked over
a replica statue there while pos-
ing for a picture in August.
A statement released by the
Apsara Authority after the sus-
pected vandalism last week
says that they are only respon-
sible for security between
5:30am and 5:30pm, but the
woman suspected of breaking
the statue was at the temple
after it closed.
Despite anger over tourist
behaviour, the statue is nearly
repaired, Apsara Authority
spokesman Im Sokrith said.
The reparation of the Bud-
dha statue is nearly nished
and ready to be put in its origi-
nal place at which people at
the temple can pray, Sokrith
said.
Workers repair a Buddha statue earlier this week after it was damaged by a tourist at Siem Reaps ancient
Bayon temple. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Charles Rollet
and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A
N AMERICAN sol-
dier who escaped
to Cambodia in
January, deserting
the army after his arrest for
possessing child pornogra-
phy and amid allegations of
child rape, remains on the
run in the Kingdom after he
was found on Wednesday
working as a dog trainer in
Sihanoukville.
Thirty-four-year-old Mi-
chael Edward Harris, who
called himself Michael Dobbs
in Cambodia, ed his apart-
ment yesterday after local in-
ternet users found photos of
him at a dog training centre
in Sihanoukville.
Now he has just left Preah
Sihanouk province and es-
caped to another province in
Cambodia, said Uk Hai Sela,
investigations chief at the
Ministry of Interiors immigra-
tion department, declining
to comment on where Harris
had gone.
We hope to arrest him soon,
in the next couple days.
Harris entered the Kingdom
on January 17, said Hai Sela,
explaining that the reason it
took so long to nd him was
because he only stayed in
small guesthouses and moved
after one or two days.
But sources who requested
anonymity conrmed to the
Post that Harris had consis-
tently stayed in his at for over
three months before he ed.
Khoem Vando, head of
APLE, an NGO which works
with the government to track
down pedophiles, said Harris
was known to be in Cambodia
for at least a month but could
not be found.
Vando said that Harriss
current whereabouts are un-
known, saying APLE agents
acted upon reports yesterday
that Harris was in Phnom
Penh but to no avail.
Harriss ex-wife, Denise
Diaz, a former police ofcer
in Kentucky, was frustrated at
the slow response to nding
Harris and started a Facebook
group to track him down.
Diaz, who counts two of her
children as Harriss victims,
said it only took three minutes
after she posted an American
news report about Harris in
an online forum for expats to
spot Harris.
If I can get all that how come
the government cant?
Cops tracking
fugitive soldier
No suspects have
been caught; it
affects our cultural
heritage
Michael Harris, poses for a photo
at an unknown location and date.
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Existing reserves in the Gulf of Thailand may only last for seven more years. Thailand is planning to offer new licences to explore for oil for the rst time in seven years. AFP
Thai oil reserves running out
T
HAILAND plans to offer new
licences to explore for oil and
gas next week for the rst time
in seven years, as the net oil
importer seeks to offset declining sup-
ply from elds in the Gulf of Thailand.
Securing new supplies is important
for energy security because existing
reserves in the gulf may last for only
seven years, Energy Minister Narong-
chai Akrasanee said in an interview on
Wednesday. A list of potential inves-
tors may be complete by the end of the
year, he said.
Thailands natural gas resources are
declining as an expansion of South-
east Asias second-biggest economy in-
creases demand and state energy sub-
sidies encourage consumption. The
countrys proven natural gas reserves
plunged 43 per cent over the past de-
cade to 8.41 trillion cubic feet, from
14.75 trillion in 2003, data from the De-
partment of Mineral Fuels shows.
Because of the very distorted prices,
we have been dependent too much on
natural gas to the point where we have
to start importing more and more,
Narongchai said in his ofce in Bang-
kok. So we would want to produce or
secure more supply from local sources
by means of allowing a new round of
exploration and production permits.
The government will offer conces-
sions for 29 exploration areas offshore
and in the central and northeast prov-
inces, according to the Department of
Mineral Fuels. Most will be onshore
blocks in the northeast, close to Thai-
lands border with Laos, where recovery
levels may be higher, Narongchai said.
Were studying the possibility of
joining the bid and the potential of pe-
troleum elds in the new round, said
Tevin Vongvanich, chief executive of-
cer of PTT Exploration & Production
Pcl. The company is Thailands largest
publicly traded explorer and a unit of
state-owned PTT Pcl.
The new concessions will be based
on royalties rather than production-
sharing, because we dont know what
we have, Narongchai said. If you set
conditions on production sharing
somebody may not have any product
for you to share.
Thailand, which relies on gas for
most of its electricity generation, will
also continue to secure more supplies
from neighbouring Myanmar, Narong-
chai said. Natural gas from Myanmar
accounts for 20 per cent of total con-
sumption, according to the Depart-
ment of Mineral Fuels.
Thailands government also resumed
talks two weeks ago with Cambodia on
overlapping claims in the Gulf of Thai-
land, Narongchai revealed.
Development of the 26,000 square ki-
lometre area, more than twice the size
of Qatar, has been stalled for more than
three decades. Pichai Naripthaphan, a
former Thai energy minister, said the
disputed zone may contain enough
gas to secure Thailands supply for 50
years. BLOOMBERG
Cambodia
to up trade
ties with
Seychelles
Hor Kimsay
CAMBODIA signed six agree-
ments yesterday with the
Republic of Seychelles in an
unexpected move to boost trade
relations with Africas smallest
nation.
Jean-Paul Adam, foreign
affairs minister for the Republic
of Seychelles, and several high-
ranking Cambodian govern-
ment officials attended yester-
days signing in Phnom Penh.
I think we share a common
opportunity of our economic
side by strengthening people-
to-people contact, Adam said.
Seychelles is a country that
depends very much on import
so we are looking [for a] country
like Cambodia to boost our food
security to be able to import
quality of product.
The Republic of Seychelles is
an archipelago of about 115
islands spread over 1.3 million
square kilometres in the Indian
Ocean, lying 1500 kilometres
east of mainland Africa with a
population of more than 88,000.
The countrys key industries are
tourism and tuna exports,
according to the World Bank.
The six signed documents
that included a pledge to estab-
lish bilateral consultation
between both countries min-
istrys of foreign affairs, coop-
eration in tourism and agricul-
ture development, and an
agreement to extend bilateral
aviation services.
Seychelles have some prob-
lems in food security, Ouch
Borith, acting minister of for-
eign affairs said yesterday, citing
the island nations need to feed
a tourist population three times
larger than its own. Local sup-
ply cannot answer the need of
foreign tourist so the country
needs imports and Cambodia
can supply this.
This week in biz
Cambodia to step up
vegetable inspections
CAMBODIAN authorities are
stepping up inspection
efforts of vegetable imports
along the border after
Vietnamese produce shipped
to the European Union was
found to contain harmful
bacteria, an official from the
Kingdoms import inspection
unit said on Monday.
Vietnamese media reported
last week that the European
Union Consumer Protection
Agency has issued a warning
to the Vietnamese
government that the country
risked a ban on certain
vegetables imported to the
EU if the produce continued
to violate safety standards.
VietJet set to launch
Hanoi-Siem Reap flights
LOW-COST carrier VietJet
Air is set to launch flights
from Hanoi to Siem Reap
next month. A statement
that was released on the
Vietnamese Airlines website
on Monday says that a
5:15pm flight will leave
Hanoi each day and a return
flight from Siem Reap will
depart at 8:05pm. Travel
time is an hour and 50
minutes and flights are
expected to begin on
November 3.
9
Business
JAPANESE stafng giant Re-
cruit Holdings soared 7.4 per
cent on its trading debut yes-
terday after a nearly $2 billion
initial public offering, one of
the biggest in Tokyo this year.
The rm ended its rst
trading day at 3,330 yen ($31),
well up from its IPO price of
3,100 yen. That came even as
the broad-based Topix index,
on which it is listed, tumbled
more than 2 per cent follow-
ing heavy losses in New York
and Europe.
As of yesterdays close, the
company was valued at 1.91
trillion yen, slightly bigger
than electronics giant Toshiba
at 1.83 trillion yen.
Market-watchers said that
Recruits strong debut reect-
ed high expectations that the
company would pursue over-
seas acquisitions.
Recruits top executive said
the business was aiming to be
the worlds top stafng agency
by the year 2020.
Were looking to boost prof-
itability of the foreign compa-
nies weve already purchased
and also grow through merg-
ers and acquisitions, Masumi
Minegishi told a news confer-
ence yesterday. AFP
Japan giant
Recruit hits
IPO heights
China bank lending picks up
C
HINAS banks
stepped up their
lending in Septem-
ber, the central bank
announced yesterday, but
analysts said more monetary
easing was needed to bolster
the weakening economy.
Domestic banks extended
857.2 billion yuan ($139.9 bil-
lion) in new loans, the Peoples
Bank of China (PBoC) said, up
more than a fth from 702.5
billion yuan in August.
The September gure also
beat a median forecast of 745
billion yuan from a Wall Street
Journal poll of 15 economists.
Analysts attributed the re-
bound in new lending to Chi-
nas targeted easing intro-
duced earlier this year, which
included cuts in reserve re-
quirements for some banks.
Last month also saw the
PBoC pump 500 billion yuan
into the countrys top ve
banks in a bid to boost lending
to small businesses and kick-
start the economy.
New loans have recovered
to the normal level, probably
reecting the ongoing target-
ed easing by the PBoC, ANZ
economists Liu Ligang and
Zhou Hao said.
But total social nancing, a
broader gauge of credit in the
overall economy, remained
lukewarm, they said.
Social nancing stood at
1.05 trillion yuan for Septem-
ber, the PBoC said, down from
1.4 trillion yuan for the same
month a year ago.
This suggested that the de-
leveraging of shadow banking
activity continues, ANZ said.
Authorities have sought
to crack down on shadow
banking a huge network of
lending outside formal chan-
nels and beyond the reach of
regulators, including activities
by online nance platforms,
credit guarantee companies
and microcredit rms.
Credit demand from the
real economy remains weak,
Ma Xiaoping, Beijing-based
economist for British bank
HSBC, said. Theres room
for further easing on the
policy front, and the central
bank is more likely inclined
to the targeted approach,
Separately, the central bank
also said Chinas foreign ex-
change reserves slipped to
$3.89 trillion at the end of Sep-
tember, from $3.99 trillion at
the end of June.
China has the worlds largest
foreign exchange reserves, the
bulk of which are believed to
be held in US dollars. Analysts
were divided over the reason
for the unexpected decline.
ANZ said it might have been
caused by the central bank sell-
ing US dollar reserves. AFP
The Peoples Bank of China (pictured) has reported that national banks have increased their domestic
lending by a fth, with analysts attributing the rise to Chinas targeted easing program. BLOOMBERG
Markets
10
Business
WITH more than 80 per cent of Cambo-
dias population relying or engaging in
some kind of farming activity, its clear
that the Kingdom is an agricultural-
dependent economy. But despite agri-
culture sustaining the livelihoods of the
vast majority of the country, Cambodia
still imports a large portion of its veg-
etables from neighbouring countries
Vietnam and Thailand just to meet
domestic demand. Chan Sophal, an
independent agriculture economist sat
down with the Posts Chan Muyhong
this week to discuss how local vegetable
production can be improved.
What is the current situation for veg-
etable farming in Cambodia?
For the last 10 years, we have seen
an increasing number of fruit planta-
tions in Cambodia. We see more large
scale plantations in Dragon fruit, Duri-
an and Rambutan. But for vegetable
crops, we have not seen a large scale
yet. Most are small plantations prac-
tised by farmers in their communes.
Vegetable is harder to grow compared
to rice, which our people have prac-
ticed farming for centuries. Growing
vegetable requires more farming tech-
niques, that is why there is low produc-
tion and why we need to import a con-
siderable amount of vegetable from
neighbouring countries, especially
from Vietnam. There has been funding
from donors for almost 20 years to im-
prove vegetable farming in Cambodia,
but they have had little effect.
What makes Vietnam and Thailand
able to produce such high quantities?
Because they are more technologi-
cally advanced, their farmers have lots
of experience, knowledge and are sup-
ported by their government in growing
vegetable crops on a large scale. We
still lack irrigation systems and proper
knowledge of the local market. We lack
transport systems to distribute these
products to many other areas of the
country because of irregular produc-
tion from farmers who lack that in-
formation and understanding of the
market demand.
Vegetables are a nondurable crop
and are easy to damage. When it comes
to production of vegetables, take Viet-
nam for example, they use the high
land with cold weather. This is much
better for vegetables and increases
crop yeilds. Cambodia does not have
that. So we import about 200 tonnes of
vegetables from Vietnam per day.

Does Cambodia have the potential to
produce vegetable crops?
Cambodia has land in places like
Mondulkiri, Ratanakkiri and Koh Kong
with potential for growing vegetable
crops. Currently, vegetable farming is
largely done in Kandal, Battambang,
Pursat, Siem Reap and Kampong
Cham provinces. Research and devel-
opment in the eld of vegetables is
progressing very slowly. Our farmers
need to be equipped with knowledge
and skills in vegetable farming. For ex-
ample, currently we rely on imported
seeds. There are no research institu-
tions who study how to grow vegeta-
bles here and to produce high yields
like Thailand and Vietnam. Their gov-
ernment spends millions of dollars to
improve the sector.
Why hasnt the farming community
responded to the demand for vegeta-
ble crops?
Rice farming is attractive because it
does not need big capital. Any farmer,
rich or poor can do it. But that is not the
only reason. Vegetable growing is far
more different and requires a new set
of skills, compared to rice where you
simply sow the seed and leave it there.
Our farmers do not have this vegetable
growing attitude as it requires so much
attention and farming technique. The
big issues are capital and skill. To start
a commercial vegetable plantation,
farmers need at least half a hectare
to a hectare of land area and at least
$5,000 to $10,000 to invest in irrigation
systems, which reduce labour costs
and ensure high yields. Only farmers
with adequate capital will be able to
run this kind of plantation. We need
land that is not ooded, has good soil
and is near a water resource. There are
so many obstacles in the way that we
expect this sector to slow even further
than what we have seen.
What does the private sector and the
government need to do?
More investment in vegetable pro-
duction. Cambodia has a big oppor-
tunity in producing organic vegetable
for export to the EU, too. However, in-
vestors have to take into consideration
soil, water resources, market systems
and have to be passionate about grow-
ing vegetables in order to become a
success.
There is a need for government in-
tervention, such as building roads to
ease transportation of vegetables to
market and low cost of electricity to
keep production cost low. But due to
the low national budget, it is hard for
us to depend on the government to
support this sector.
This article has been edited for length
and clarity
Vegetable farming lacks technique
Independent economist, Chan Sophal, at his ofce in Phnom Penh earlier this year.
SUPLIED
Watch out below
Thailand is
slipping on
wealth scale
C
REDIT Suisse, Switzer-
lands second-biggest
bank, just published its
annual Global Wealth Report.
The biggest surprise comes
in a table showing which
countries posted the fastest
percentage gain in wealth
in the past year - and, more
interesting for Thailand, the
fastest loss.
According to Credit Suisse,
whose Bangkok office contri-
buted to Global Wealth Report,
Thailand has had the worlds
fifth-worst per-household
wealth performance in the
world from 2013 to 2014.
The report says Thai wealth
has contracted more than
7 per cent. Only Turkey,
Indonesia and the basket-case
nations Argentina and Ukraine
have performed worse.
The study assessed the
global adult population of
4.7 billion people and their
financial and physical assets,
including real estate, minus
debts. The worlds wealth
reached a record $263 trillion
as of midyear, Credit Suisse
says, after growing by more
than $20 trillion since mid-
2013. BANGKOK POST
11
Business
S
TOP work at Myanmars
Dawei Special Econom-
ic Zone now unless
proper safeguards are
put in place, local activist
groups are urging. They issued
a list of demands to coincide
with the visit to Myanmar of the
Thai prime minister.
Prayuth Chan-ochas Myan-
mar trip was his first overseas
visit since taking power earlier
this year. The leaders of both
countries agreed on October 9
to continue to implement the
stalled Dawei deep-sea port
and the ambitious Special Eco-
nomic Zone project initiated in
2000, as rapidly as possible.
In 2010, a 60-year concession
was granted to Italian-Thai
Development Ltd to develop
the Dawei deep-sea port, indus-
trial estate and road and rail
link to Thailand.
Project proponents say it will
reduce the need to ship
through the difficult Malacca
Straits by providing a direct
overland link between Dawei
on the Indian Ocean and Thai-
lands eastern seaboard. But
the development became
mired in environmental and
social problems, including
accusations of land grabs,
inadequate and unfair reset-
tlement and compensation,
uncompensated loss of farm-
lands and forests, and damage
to local communities social
and economic wellbeing,
according to some civil society
groups.
In November 2013, Italian-
Thai was sidelined and the
Myanmar and Thai govern-
ments took over the troubled
project, transferring control to
the Dawei SEZ Development
Company, which is jointly
owned by the two states.
A coalition of civil society
groups named the Dawei
Development Association
(DDA) is now calling on the
Myanmar and Thai govern-
ments to refrain from reviving
the Dawei Special Economic
Zone development project
unless associated problems
are rectified.
They are demanding that the
two governments resolve a
range of problems before
resuming work on the site,
including ensuring interna-
tional environmental and
social protections, avoiding
involuntary resettlement,
improving disclosures and
preventing corruption.
Thant Zin, coordinator of the
DDA, said local communities
had not been given adequate
information about the project
and had been forced off their
land without fair compensa-
tion. There is also no remedy
for those whose rights have
been abused in the process so
far. All these problems must be
resolved before the project
restarts, he said.
Observers estimate that 20 to
36 villages, comprising 22,000
to 43,000 people, would be
directly affected by the SEZ and
related projects, including an
industrial estate, ports, road
links, reservoirs and resettle-
ment areas, the DDA said.
Both governments should
respect the culture and tradi-
tion of local communities and
recognise the use of land prac-
tice and the role of local people
in natural resource manage-
ment, said Saw Alex of the
Karen Environmental and
Social Action Network.
It is clear that the project
activities on the ground so far
have been carried out in ways
that show that the project man-
agement is seriously corrupt.
Continuing the project and
investing in such a project will
maintain the status quo of
ongoing illegal activity, includ-
ing corruption, said activist
Kyaw Thu. MYANMAR TIMES
Myanmar SEZ should stop
The Sule Pagonda, left, stands among buildings in this aerial photo
taken in Yangon. Activists are saying that unless a list of demands are
met, the Dawei SEZ project should stop. BLOOMBERG
Thai govt
revenue
falls 8.8 pct
THAILANDS government rev-
enue dropped 8.8 per cent in
the just-ended fiscal year due
to slower domestic and global
growth, the Fiscal Policy Office
said yesterday.
Director-general Kritsada
Jinavijarana said the 2.074 tril-
lion baht ($63.8 billion) col-
lected came in 201.09 billion
baht short of projections for the
2014 fiscal year 2014, which
ended September 30. The three
major revenue-generating
departments collected around
10.6 per cent less than hoped,
he said, adding that state enter-
prises and other agencies did
better than projected.
Kritsada said that the lower-
than-projected earnings were
the result of gloomy economies
in Thailand and other coun-
tries, but he expected improve-
ment next calendar year to
support higher tax collection
for fiscal year 2015.
The Revenue Department
collected a total of 1.73 trillion
baht in taxes, 160.73 billion
baht, or 8.5 per cent, less than
projected. Corporate income
tax, value added tax and per-
sonal income tax all missed
their targets. BANGKOK POST
Eurozone exports fall
for third straight month
EUROZONE exports fell for the
third consecutive month in
August, official data showed
yesterday, in a further sign of
the lacklustre state of
European economy. Exports
from the eurozone dipped by
0.9 per cent in August
compared with July to 140.5
billion ($180 billion), the
agency said. Exports had
already dropped by 0.3 per
cent the month before. Overall,
the 18-nation currency bloc
posted a slimmer 9.2-billion
trade surplus in August, down
from 21.6 billion the month
before. AFP
Colombian farmers to
sue BP for $28 million
A CASE in which 100
Colombian farmers are suing
British oil giant BP for
environmental damage
opened in the High Court in
London on Wednesday. The
farmers are demanding 18
million ($28.6 million) in
damages from British
company Equion Energia,
formerly called BP
Exploration (Colombia)
Limited. They argue the
company caused massive
damage to their land when it
constructed the Ocensa oil
pipeline in the mid-1990s,
saying it was constructed
negligently and damaged
their crops. AFP
Markets
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Business
Italy unveils
tax-cutting
2015 budget
ITALY cabinet on Wednesday
approved a 2015 budget just
hours before an EU deadline,
unveiling plans to increase bor-
rowing to slash taxes by 18
billion, but promising to abide
by deficit rules.
The tax cut is the biggest
ever done in the history of the
Italian Republic, Prime Minis-
ter Matteo Renzi told a press
conference after a race to nail
down budget plans which will
be scrutinised by the European
Commission before going
before parliament.
At the heart of the program is
18 billion ($23 billion) worth
of tax cuts for businesses and
lower-income individuals
which Renzi said had been a
no-brainer because taxes had
reached a crazy level.
The young PM, who has
staked his reputation on over-
hauling Italys sluggish econo-
my, said the budget also
includes spending cuts of 15
billion and 11 billion of extra
borrowing a detail which may
rankle the Commission.
Some 3.8 billion is expected
to come from the fight against
tax evasion, which the 39-year-
old described as a gigantic bat-
tle. AFP
Abbvie turns on $52B offer
A
BBVIE Incs board
recommended that
shareholders vote
against a 32.5 bil-
lion- ($52 billion) takeover
of Shire Plc, saying tax-rule
changes would undermine the
deals rationale. Shire shares
plunged for a second day.
Although the strategic ra-
tionale of combining our two
companies remains strong,
the agreed-upon valuation is
no longer supported as a re-
sult of the changes to the tax
rules and we did not believe
it was in the best interests of
our stockholders to proceed,
AbbVie Chief Executive Ofcer
Richard A Gonzalez said.
Shire is considering the
situation and will make a fur-
ther announcement in due
course, the company said in a
statement yesterday.
AbbVie has also been con-
cerned about the potential
for more changes to US laws,
whether through executive-
branch action or legislation
in Congress, that will increase
future tax bills, people familiar
with the matter have said.
The price AbbVie agreed to
pay for Shire was the highest
that it was able to offer, and the
loss of some tax benets and
the related prospect of having
to borrow more for the merger
have eroded its attractiveness,
the people said.
Shire sank 8.3 per cent to
36.79 at 9:15am in London.
The stock lost 22 per cent on
Wednesday after AbbVie said
it was reconsidering its sup-
port for the acquisition. The
cash-and-stock offer values
Shire at about 55.07 a share
based on Wednesdays clos-
ing price for AbbVie.
The merger would be the
largest casualty yet of rules
that were announced last
month by the Treasury De-
partment to make tax inver-
sion deals more difcult. In
such transactions, US com-
panies seek to lower their
tax bill moving their legal
address abroad, often after
buying a foreign company.
President Barack Obamas
administration has said the
rules are necessary to prevent
the erosion of the US corpo-
rate tax base.
The new rules have had
some effect on other deals al-
ready. Medtronic Inc said it will
borrow $16 billion to nance
its purchase of Covidien Plc
instead of using cash it keeps
overseas, and Salix Pharma-
ceuticals Ltd and Auxilium
Pharmaceuticals Inc canceled
planned inversions.
Treasury is contemplat-
ing a second set of rules that
would limit companies from
engaging in earnings strip-
ping, a practice used by non-
US-based companies to load
up US operations with debt
and effectively shift prots to
countries with lower tax rates.
Congress, which could im-
pose even more stringent
rules, is deadlocked on the is-
sue and isnt scheduled to re-
turn to Washington until after
the November 4 election.
AbbVie began a compre-
hensive review of the merger
after Treasury Secretary Jack
Lew announced the measures,
people with knowledge of the
matter said last month, includ-
ing the prospect of borrowing
as much as $7 billion more
than it initially anticipated.
The rules, which apply to
deals that close starting Sept.
ember 22, include a prohibi-
tion on hopscotch loans
that let companies access for-
eign cash without paying US
taxes, and impose new curbs
on actions that companies
can use to make such trans-
actions qualify for favorable
tax treatment. BLOOMBERG
AbbVies board has turned against a $52 billion offer from Shire citing
changes in tax laws that would undermine the deal. BLOOMBERG
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Penelope Macrae
I
NDIAS biggest carrier IndiGo,
which announced Wednesday a
deal to buy 250 Airbus aircraft,
has consistently racked up prof-
its as rivals have drowned in red ink
from cut-throat fare wars. The No-
frills airline has posted six straight
years of profits even with Indias
high fuel taxes, ramshackle airport
infrastructure and vicious fare fights
thanks to its zealous cost controls,
analysts say.
Billionaire airline co-founder
Rahul Bhatia is legendarily tight-
fisted, telling Forbes magazine in
2010 his credo is thinking before
spending a single dollar and asking
himself, Do I need to spend it? Can
I get away without it?
The New Delhi-based carrier, co-
founded by Bhatia, who is group
managing director, and former US
Airways chief executive Rakesh Gang-
wal in 2006, is unlisted. But analysts
say IndiGo, which depends a lot on
word-of-mouth recommendations
rather than advertising, could stage a
debut share offer in mid-2015.
IndiGos stylish flight attendants
and spotless plane interiors give the
budget airline a premium feel while
its strong on-time performance has
wooed business and other customers,
giving it a one-third market share.
The purchase of the 250 single-aisle
A320neo aircraft Airbuss single larg-
est order by number of jets marks
Indigos bet that air travel is only just
taking off in the country of 1.25-bil-
lion people, analysts say.
The planes total list price is 20
billion ($25.6 billion) but Airbus dis-
counts will likely cut the cost.
The deal is a strong indicator of the
long-term potential of the Indian
civil aviation market, said Amber
Dubey, partner and India head of
aerospace and defence at global con-
sultancy KPMG.
For decades, Indians depended
on the nations bone-jolting railway
but cheap air fares have encour-
aged tens of millions of increas-
ingly affluent Indians to fly. Still, air
travel is low per person compared
with Americans who make over two
flights a year. Indians, by contrast,
take just 0.4 airplane trips annu-
ally, according to government fig-
ures. The plane order is also part of
Indigos drive to keep its fleet young
it retires its aircraft after six years
to minimise maintenance and
fuel costs.
Analysts say IndiGo has taken a leaf
from budget US carrier Southwest
Airlines in containing costs by keep-
ing operations simple. It flies to fewer
destinations than rivals but offers
more flights on those busy routes to
maximise plane-capacity and uses
just one make Airbus. IndiGo, which
operates over 500 daily flights has also
pared costs by keeping planes aloft
longer, and with fast landing-and-
takeoff turnarounds.
Still IndiGo has not been immune
to Indias sharp economic slowdown,
reporting profit last year nosedived
by 60 per cent to 3.17 billion rupees
($51.6 million). But IndiGo outper-
formed other big carriers. Budget
SpiceJet, for instance, posted a record
10.03-billion-rupee loss last year while
full-service Jet Airways lost 36.67-bil-
lion rupees. AFP
Budget airline rules Indias air
Budget airline IndiGo has succeeded where other airlines have failed, posting prots for six straight years. AFP
World
WORKERS using helicopters
and battling waist-deep snow
rescued over 150 people in-
cluding foreign trekkers left
stranded in Nepals Himalayas
Thursday, two days after a ma-
jor snowstorm that triggered
avalanches and killed more
than 30 people.
Local ofcials said 23 bodies
had been found on the popu-
lar Annapurna circuit trek-
king route, while ve climbers
staying at a mountain base
camp when it was hit by an
avalanche could not be found
and were presumed dead.
Three Nepalese yak herders
were also killed when severe
weather triggered by the tail
end of Cyclone Hudhud hit
the picturesque Annapurna
region in central Nepal.
But the majority of victims
were tourists among them
Canadians, Israelis and Indi-
ans and guides and porters.
We have made a lot of prog-
ress today: we have airlifted
154 people to safety, includ-
ing 76 foreigners, said Ga-
nesh Rai, the police ofcial in
charge of the rescue effort.
As dusk fell, strong winds
picked up in the affected dis-
tricts of Manang and Mustang,
making it too risky for pilots to
continue scanning the snow-
blanketed slopes for signs of
victims, ofcials said.
Thousands of people head
to the Annapurna region every
October, when weather con-
ditions are usually clear and
cool, and 168 foreign tourists
were registered to hike in the
affected districts this week.
Israelis Yakov Megreli and
Maya Ora were 10 days into
their trek when the storm hit,
forcing them to stop overnight
at a freezing teashop.
All the time I thought I was
going to die, said Ora, 21, be-
fore Nepalese troops found
the pair and brought them to a
military hospital in Kathman-
du to be treated for frostbite.
A US hiker said he sought
refuge at a Manang guest-
house, along with 21 tourists
and four Nepalese guides and
porters, after nding himself
in the grip of the snowstorm.
We left our hotel in Thorong
Phedi at 6:30am on Tuesday,
with hotel staff telling us it was
totally safe to go up, said Max
Weinstein, 18, from Thorong
High Camp, at an altitude of
4,800 metres.
Weinstein said he would
never have set off on Tuesday if
he had been given prior warn-
ings. Whoever is in charge
of communicating weather
warnings to trekkers has been
totally negligent, he said.
Keshav Pandey, vice presi-
dent of the Trekking Agencies
Association of Nepal (TAAN),
an industry body, said the Hi-
malayan nation has no warn-
ing systems in place to inform
trekkers of severe conditions.
Rescuers were searching for
two Slovakian mountaineers
and three Nepalese guides
who went missing after an
avalanche struck teams sta-
tioned at the base camp of
8,167-metre Mount Dhaul-
agiri on Tuesday night.
Rescuers have retrieved the
bodies of three Israelis, three
Poles, one Vietnamese, one
Slovak and seven Nepalese,
while the bodies of four Ca-
nadians and three Indians re-
main buried in snow, Rai said,
correcting an earlier state-
ment that misidentied one
of the victims as a German.
The nationality of three oth-
ers found was unknown, he
said. AFP
Rescuers airlift 154
to safety after deadly
storm in Himalayas
World pledges action on
Ebola as infections soar
E
BOLAS escalating
spread constitutes
the worst global
health emergency in
years, world leaders warned,
vowing to dramatically step
up the response to the virus
that has already killed nearly
4,500 people.
As of Sunday, 4,493 people
had died out of a total of 8,997
cases in the outbreak now af-
fecting seven countries, ac-
cording to latest World Health
Organization gures.
US President Barack Obama
on Wednesday called on the
world to do more, while in-
sisting his own country would
be much more aggressive in
its response, after a second
Texas hospital worker tested
positive for the disease.
The fact the newly infected
Dallas caregiver took a domes-
tic ight the day before she
was quarantined magnied
global fears about air travel.
Obama tried to ease those
fears, but urged his counter-
parts from Britain, France,
Germany and Italy to better
coordinate their plans to com-
bat the outbreak.
France yesterday said it will
start carrying out health checks
this weekend on all travellers
arriving by plane from Guinea,
one of the worst-hit nations.
Medics at Pariss main in-
ternational Charles de Gaulle
airport will take the tem-
perature of passengers arriv-
ing from the daily ights still
operating from the Guinean
capital Conakry, Health Min-
ister Marisol Touraine said.
Airports in Britain, Canada
and the United States have al-
ready introduced stepped-up
screening of travellers arriv-
ing from West Africa.
Senior US lawmakers over-
seeing homeland security
also joined calls Wednesday
for a temporary ban on all
travel from West Africa.
The hemorrhagic virus has
ravaged West African coun-
tries Liberia, Guinea and Sier-
ra Leone since the start of the
year, and outside the region,
cases have begun surfacing in
the United States and Spain.
The WHO warned this week
that the infection rate could
reach 10,000 a week by early
December in a worst-case
scenario.
Leaders agreed that this
was the most serious inter-
national public health emer-
gency in recent years and that
the international community
needed to do much more and
faster, British Prime Minister
David Camerons ofce said.
European Union health
ministers are to meet in Brus-
sels yesterday, with member
states under pressure to fol-
low Washington in sending
troops to West Africa to help
ght the virus.
The UN Security Council
urged that the international
community to accelerate
and dramatically expand
aid to the West African coun-
tries battling the epidemic.
But as the world scrambles
to rein in the raging virus, UN
rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hus-
sein cautioned Thursday that
respect for the rights of survi-
vors and affected communi-
ties risked being sacriced.
The ability of Ebola to lay
waste to human lives on an
immense scale is now being
realised, he said in Geneva.
He added: Its potential to
devastate the human rights
of those who survive, of en-
tire countries and regions, is
barely being considered.
He also stressed that a disre-
gard for human rights to things
like health, education, sanita-
tion and good governance had
allowed Guinea, Sierra Leone
and Liberia to become fertile
ground for the outbreak in the
rst place.
Meanwhile, the US Centers
for Disease Control and Pre-
vention (CDC) issued an alert
for all passengers who travelled
on an October 13 ight from
Cleveland, Ohio, to Texas.
Authorities want to inter-
view 132 people who ew on
a plane with an Ebola-infected
nurse the second American
to be infected within the Unit-
ed States who had not yet
become symptomatic.
CDC chief Thomas Frieden
said the case was very con-
cerning and warned that
health workers who have
been exposed to Ebola pa-
tients should not use public
transport. AFP
Kobane holds out one month into IS assault
KURDISH forces held out in Kobane on
yesterday as a jihadist offensive entered its
second month, but the Pentagon warned
US-led air strikes may not prevent the Syr-
ian border towns fall.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the
strikes had killed several hundred fight-
ers with the Islamic State group and a
Kurdish official inside Kobane said they
had pushed the jihadists back from parts
of the town.
But US officials warned that after sig-
nificant advances in both Syria and neigh-
bouring Iraq, the tactical momentum lay
with IS.
While Iraqi troops prevented the jihad-
ists from seizing a lynchpin provincial
capital west of Baghdad, a senior US envoy
admitted IS forces had scored important
advances elsewhere.
John Allen, a retired four-star general
and US envoy to the coalition fighting IS,
said it would take time to build up local
forces to defeat them.
In Kobane, Kurdish official Idris Nassen
said IS had pulled back from some areas
of the town but appealed for more air
strikes as well as weapons to fight the
jihadists. The international coalition has
fought ISIS more effectively during the last
few days, he said, using an alternative
name for IS.
Nassen said Kurdish forces were flush-
ing out IS fighters from the eastern and
southeastern parts of the town, calling for
more military assistance.
We need more air strikes, as well as
weaponry and ammunition to fight them
on the ground, he said.
Kurdish forces have sustained heavy
losses since the IS group launched its
offensive on the Kurdish enclave around
Kobane on September 16 but so too have
the jihadists.
Ground fighting alone has killed more
than 600 combatants, the Syrian Observa-
tory for Human Rights said.
Between September 16 and midnight on
Wednesday a total of 662 people were
killed in ground fighting, said the monitor-
ing group, which has a wide network of
sources inside Syria. They included 20
civilians, Observatory director Rami Abdel
Rahman said. AFP
WHOs Isabelle Nuttall at a press conference; right, a potential Ebola
carrier arrives at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid yesterday. AFP
An injured survivor of a snow storm is assisted by Nepal Army personel
in Manang District on Wednesday. AFP
World
15
HONG Kongs embattled lead-
er made a dramatic U-turn
yesterday, reopening his offer
of talks with student protest-
ers a week after the govern-
ment abruptly pulled out of
discussions aimed at ending
more than a fortnight of mass
democracy rallies.
The offer by Chief Execu-
tive Leung Chun-ying came
a day after video footage of
plainclothes ofcers beating
a handcuffed demonstrator as
he lay on the ground sparked
widespread anger.
Over the past few days . . .
we expressed a wish to the
students that we would like to
start a dialogue to discuss uni-
versal suffrage as soon as we
can and hopefully within the
following week, Leung said.
But questions remain over
whether fresh talks can make
any substantive headway in
the stalemate between the
government and protesters.
Leung warned that Beijing
had no intention of rescind-
ing its insistence that his suc-
cessor be vetted by a loyalist
committee before standing
for election in 2017 a core
demand of protesters.
Politics is the art of the
possible and we have to draw
a line between possibilities
and impossibilities, he said.
The Asian nancial hub has
been rocked by mass rallies
for nearly three weeks calling
both for full democracy and
Leungs resignation.
Ongoing sit-ins at three ma-
jor intersections have caused
signicant disruption to a city
usually known for its stability.
Protesters have called Bei-
jings proposal a fake democ-
racy and have vowed to re-
main on the streets until their
demands are met despite grow-
ing impatience among some
Hong Kongers and attacks by
pro-government thugs.
City authorities pulled out
of talks with the Hong Kong
Federation of Students (HKFS)
one of the groups leading the
ongoing protests last Thurs-
day plunging the city into a
political stalemate it shows
little sign of emerging from.
The offer of new talks came
after a two day spike in vio-
lence between police and
protesters as they battled over
a series of barricades near the
governments besieged head-
quarters.
Police yesterday said that
seven ofcers involved in the
beating video were now sus-
pended pending an investiga-
tion. AFP
HK leader offers talks
after brutality video
Putin issues blackmail warning
P
RESIDENT Vladimir
Putin accused his US
counterpart Barack
Obama of a hostile
approach towards Russia,
warning in a Cold War-style
tirade that Moscow would not
be blackmailed by the West
over Ukraine.
Putin red off his combat-
ive comments shortly before
he arrived amid tight security
to a red carpet welcome in
Belgrade, seeking to cement
Russias inuence in its loyal
European ally.
Belgrade staged its rst
military parade in 30 years to
mark the 70th anniversary of
its liberation from Nazi oc-
cupation an event brought
forward by four days to coin-
cide with Putins visit.
In some of his most pug-
nacious comments yet on
Russia-US ties, Putin took is-
sue with Obamas speech at
the UN General Assembly last
month, when he listed Rus-
sias aggression in eastern
Ukraine among top global
threats, along with Islamic
State jihadists and Ebola.
He told the Serbian daily
Politika it was hard to call
such an approach anything
but hostile.
We are hoping our partners
will understand the reckless-
ness of attempts to blackmail
Russia, [and] remember what
discord between large nucle-
ar powers can do to strategic
stability, Putin said.
He branded attempts by the
West to isolate Russia over the
six-month conict in Ukraine
an absurd, illusory goal and
accused Washington of med-
dling in Russian affairs.
Putin, who is to meet Ukrai-
nian leader Petro Poroshenko
in Milan today, called on Kiev
to start nationwide dialogue,
saying there was a real op-
portunity to halt the war.
Putin reiterated that Mos-
cow was ready to mend fenc-
es with Washington but only
if its interests are genuinely
taken into account.
Russia is now facing its
deepest period of Western
isolation since the Cold War,
with US and EU sanctions
dealing a blow to its already
stuttering economy.

Serbia balancing act
The EU, which began acces-
sion talks with Serbia in Janu-
ary, has bluntly told Belgrade
it should prove its credentials
as a future member during
the visit.
Since the Ukraine crisis
erupted, Serbia has been
trying to balance its obliga-
tions towards the EU and
maintaining good ties with
Moscow.
For Russia which backs
Serbian opposition to Ko-
sovos independence it is
important that Belgrades
membership of the Europe-
an bloc does not go against
Moscows interests.
The main goal of the
visit is to buttress existing
links. Energy will be high
on the agenda, according
to Fyodor Lukyanov, the edi-
tor of Russia in Global Affairs
magazine.
Serbia is one of the coun-
tries on the South Stream
pipeline, a $22 billion project
aimed at reducing Moscows
reliance on Ukraine as a tran-
sit country for its natural gas
following disputes with Kiev
that led to interrupted sup-
plies to Europe.
The European Commission
has said the project is not in
line with its rules and threat-
ened to ne member states if
they go ahead with construc-
tion. AFP
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic (right) and Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin review an honour guard yesterday in Belgrade. AFP
Pistorius needs to pay,
says Steenkamp cousin
A COUSIN of slain model Reeva
Steenkamp made a tearful plea
yesterday for Oscar Pistorius to
pay for what he has done, as
the prosecution sought to make
sure the Paralympic athlete
goes to jail. Battling tears and
with her voice trembling, Kim
Martin told a sentencing hearing
that she was very fearful of the
sprinter and did not believe his
apology for killing her cousin
was genuine. Pistorius could be
sentenced for manslaughter as
soon as today, but with no
mandatory minimum sentence,
judge Thokozile Masipa will
decide whether he deserves to
go to jail or stay free. AFP
Chinas Xi demands: No
more weird architecture
CHINESE internet users were
divided yesterday after leader Xi
Jinping reportedly called for an
end to weird architecture in a
country that has seen a huge
construction boom. The
phenomenon has drawn
architects from around the
world, from big names such as
Zaha Hadid to younger
unknowns who see oppor-
tunities to design towers long
before they could do so in the
West. But some unconventional
and costly buildings, often
owned by state institutions, have
been controversial, sparking
criticisms of wasted public
funds. AFP
World
Riot police
Indian police throw stones during clashes with ood-affected Kashmiri residents protesting against the
state government in Srinagar on Wednesday. Kashmir was devastated last month by heavy monsoon
rains and oods which killed more than 450 people in the region and caused billions of dollars in damage
to homes, businesses and livelihoods. Residents accuse the local government of a tardy response to the
oods. AFP
Defence class
mistaken for
jihad training
A
GROUP of men ac-
cused by police of
training for jihad
in broad daylight in a
French park were merely tak-
ing a self-defence class, one
of them said on Wednesday.
The seven men, some with
beards, raised alarm in the
eastern city of Strasbourg
when they were seen acting
out scenes of combat with
fake weapons on Tuesday.
Police were called to the
scene where they checked
the mens identity documents
and held one of them for
questioning.
A police source said on
Tuesday that the men had
said they were training to
ght in the name of jihad.
According to a 35-year-
old member of the group
a Muslim speaking on the
condition of anonymity
the man held was their self-
defence teacher.
The man admitted his
teacher had yelled indel
at the police during a heated
exchange, but denied that
any of them had admitted
they were training to join ji-
had in Syria.
It was our rst course, we
hardly knew each other. We
were doing some stretches,
ran a few laps, practised body
placement, punch-kick com-
binations, he said.
It was simply a self-defence
course with a trainer.
The men, aged between
30 and 45, then teamed up
for a scenario in which they
feigned an attack with fake
guns and knives.
This was not with the aim
of going to Syria, we are far
from all of that, he said.
The trainer was released on
Wednesday after a case was
opened against him for in-
sulting a police ofcer.
French authorities are cur-
rently on high alert about
nationals travelling to ght
alongside extremists in Syria
and Iraq. AFP
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Analysis
R
EALLY, it should not
have come as a sur-
prise that the 28 bod-
ies found in mass
graves outside the town of
Iguala do not correspond to
those of any of the 43 student
protesters who went missing
there three weeks ago.
The forested hills above Ig-
uala were a well-known human
dumping ground, according to
the families who live nearby.
They often saw pickup trucks
with tinted windows driving
late at night up through the
cornelds into the brush, fol-
lowed by snaps of gunre. But
they didnt dare say anything.
This weeks announcement
by Mexican prosecutors that
the 28 corpses appear to be-
long to a different set of victims
was heartening perhaps only
to those close to the missing
students, who attend a nearby
teachers college. For them, it
was a new strand of hope that
the 43 may still be alive.
But for the rest of Mexico,
it was yet another stop on a
carousel of horrors, deepen-
ing the sense that there are
clandestine graves all over the
country, into which an untold
number have vanished.
Scratch the surface a bit and
the ghastly secrets emerge.
Rights groups point to the
list kept by the Mexican gov-
ernment with the names of
more than 22,000 people who
have gone missing in the past
eight years. No one knows how
many have been lost to cartel
funeral pits like the ones found
outside Iguala.
The mass graves there are
not the rst and certainly not
the largest uncovered in recent
years. But they have shattered
President Nietos public rela-
tions push to shift interna-
tional attention away from
Mexicos security failures.
Once more, many here are
asking how the country can
possibly tout its modernisa-
tion efforts if it continues to
be a place where gangsters ca-
sually kill and bury their vic-
tims, often with government
complicity, while the rest of
the society is too intimidated
to stop them.
From Mexicos Moment to
Mexico Murder, wrote colum-
nist Carlos Loret de Mola in El
Universal. That summarises
the change in international
perceptions of our country
in the short time between
the approval of the reforms
backed by the president and
the explosion of criminal vio-
lence in Iguala.
Farmers living on the out-
skirts of Iguala told report-
ers that they have long seen
strange vehicles driving up
into the hills where the graves
were found. They say its
hardly the rst time bodies
have turned up, describing
the area as a giant cemetery.
The 28 bodies found so far
were pulled from ve graves,
prosecutors say. But since
there are at least eight more
burial sites in the area, its
possible the students end-
ed up in those. Authorities
havent said how many dead
were recovered from the oth-
er graves or who they think
the victims were.
The wait for answers is
draining the patience of the
Mexican public and especially
the students classmates, who
are demanding that authori-
ties nd them or free them if
theyre alive. On Monday, a
group of protesters stormed
government ofces in the
Guerrero state capital of Chil-
pancingo and set them ablaze.
One of the criminal suspects
who may have known about
the fate of the 43 students,
Benjamin El Benjamon
Mondragon, died on Tuesday,
allegedly shooting himself af-
ter a standoff with police in
the nearby state of Morelos.
Mondragon was a leader
of the Guerreros Unidos, the
gang blamed for the graves
outside Iguala and the disap-
pearance of the students after
clashes with local police on
the night of September 26.
The territory where the
Guerreros Unidos operate
is along the strategic smug-
gling corridor between Mexi-
cos ports on the Pacic coast
and the capital.
It was in this area that one
of the rst mass grave sites of
Mexicos drug war was discov-
ered in 2010, near Taxco, just
down the road from Iguala.
There, forensic teams found
dozens of bodies at the bot-
tom of an abandoned mine
ventilation shaft.
Many of the victims were
bound and gagged, and were
thought to have been thrown
alive down the 150-metre shaft.
Recovery teams rappelled
down and returned with the
remains of dozens of corpses.
Asked to clarify how many
victims were found in the
mine, ofcials in Guerrero
said they did not know. We
didnt have computers then,
said Tulio Armenta, a state
prosecutors ofce spokes-
man. THE WASHINGTON POST
Class-A dope
An ill wind
sends heroin
dealer to jail
A
BRITISH man has been
jailed for eight years and
six months after police
caught him trying to dispose of
a heroin stash during a high-
speed chase, only for it to blow
back into his face.
Tabraiz Hussain, 34, was
driving a car through Middles-
brough, northeast England,
carrying around 1 kilogram of
heroin in a McDonalds paper
bag when police began to
follow him, the Daily Telegraph
reported this week.
After giving chase, police
nally caught up with Hussain,
who was covered in the drug
after he tried unsuccessfully
to throw the heroin out of the
car window.
Ofcers used a vacuum
cleaner to retrieve the drug,
with a street value of around
97,000 ($154,000), which had
also been partly scattered over
the road.
Hussain admitted posses-
sion of a class A drug with
intent to supply and dangerous
driving. Judge Simon Bourne-
Arton, sitting at Teesside
Crown Court, sentenced him
to eight years and six months
in prison. AFP
Grim truth just below surface in Mexico
A student sprays Fascist State on the windows of the Attorney General
Ofce on Wednesday in Mexico City during a protest demanding the safe
return of 43 missing students. AFP
World
17
World
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Natural disasters killed

more than 22,000: report
NATURAL disasters claimed
more than 22,000 lives last year,
with Typhoon Haiyan in the
Philippines the deadliest of all,
the Red Cross said yesterday. In
its annual report on disasters,
the International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC) warned that the
outlook was bleak. Climate
change is leading to damaged
livelihoods and increased
vulnerabilities. Natural hazards
are also becoming more
frequent and extreme, said
IFRC head Elhadj As Sy. The
resulting stresses on social,
physical and economic systems
are shifting the world into a new
era of risk. The next deadliest
disaster after Haiyan was the
June 2013 monsoon flooding in
India, which killed 6,054 people.
The number of people affected
by disasters in 2013 almost
100 million, overwhelmingly in
Asia was also the lowest in a
decade. AFP
Lawyers appeal after

Oz-born baby ruling
LAWYERS yesterday said they
will urgently appeal a court
decision that a baby born in
Australia to asylum-seeker
parents is not entitled to refugee
status, with the fate of 100 other
children resting on the outcome.
Federal Court Judge Michael
Jarrett on Wednesday ruled in
favour of the government that
baby boy Ferouz was an
unlawful maritime arrival,
despite being born in Brisbanes
Mater Hospital last year. The
birth came after his mother,
from Myanmars persecuted
Rohingya minority and who
arrived by boat, was transferred
from a detention camp on the
Pacific state of Nauru due to
concerns about her pregnancy.
All they have continued to seek
for Ferouz is a fair go, Maurice
Blackburn Lawyers Murray
Watt said of the babys parents.
Ferouz was born in Brisbane
and has a Queensland birth
certificate, and we remain firmly
of the view that on that basis he
should have the right to seek
protection in Australia. AFP
Fury as Prayuth joins

club of world leaders
THAI Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha slipped quietly into
the club of world leaders
Thursday amidst a backdrop of
noisy protests against the
former general who seized
power in May. Prayuths first
outing on the global stage
came at an ASEM summit of
European and Asian leaders,
which he was invited to despite
the European Union having
suspended official contacts in
protest over his overthrow of an
elected government and
subsequent stifling of dissent
within the troubled southeast
Asian state. Across Milan,
several hundred students and
Thai exiles brandished Prayuth
is a criminal. Some of the
protestors in Milan yesterday
were there to demand justice
for Italian photo-journalist
Fabio Polenghi, who was shot
dead by the Thai army during
street clashes in May 2010. The
soldier who fired the shot has
never been identified and
Polenghis sister Arianna
describes the general as an
assassin who, along with
others, ordered the execution of
my beloved brother Fabio. AFP
Anthropocene: is this the
new epoch of humans?
Ian Sample

A
DISPARATE group of
experts from around
the world were to
meet for the rst
time yesterday for talks on
what must rank as one of the
most momentous decisions in
human history.
The question confront-
ing the scientists and other
specialists is straightforward
enough, even if the solution
is far from simple. Is it time
to call an end to the epoch we
live in and declare the dawn
of a new time period: one de-
ned by humanitys imprint
on the planet?
The 30-strong group, made
up of geologists, climate sci-
entists, ecologists, and a law-
yer for good measure, will
start their deliberations in a
room made available at the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
or House of the Cultures of
the World, a contemporary
arts centre in Berlin.
Like many things in the
world of geology, little moves
fast at the International Com-
mission on Stratigraphy (ICS),
the body that decides the
time period we live in. But the
arrival and informal adoption
of the word anthropocene
to mean a new epoch of hu-
manity has somewhat forced
their hand.
The word came into
common usage after Paul
Crutzen, Dutch chemist and
Nobel prize winner, used the
term in 2000. He argued in
an academic newsletter that
the current geological epoch
should be awarded the new
name to reect the major and
ongoing impact of human life
on Earth.
The ofcial arrival of the
anthropocene would mark
the end of the Holocene, the
present geological time. Iden-
tied by a geochemical signal
in Greenland ice cores that
marks the onset of warmer and
wetter conditions at the end of
the last ice age, the Holocene
dened a time when humans
colonised new territories and
the population swelled.
Though many scientists are
happy with the Holocene, the
anthropocene was quickly
picked up on. It entered the
lexicon of archaeologists, his-
torians, climate scientists and
environmentalists. For the
ICS, which balks at terms be-
ing bandied about without
them being properly dened,
the rise of the anthropocene
posed a problem.
The ICS responded the way
any large and conservative
organisation might. Its sub-
commission on quaternary
stratigraphy set up a working
group on the anthropocene,
lled it with a diverse range
of experts, and handed the
problem to them. The work-
ing group has given itself un-
til 2016 to bash out a proposal
for the ICS to consider.
Crutzen, who is not a
geologist, but one of the
modern great scientists, es-
sentially launched a small
hand grenade into the world
of geological time scales,
Jan Zalasiewicz, chair of the
ICSs Anthropocene working
group, said. The word began
to be used widely, well before
geologists ever got involved.
The secretary of the work-
ing group, Colin Waters, a
principal mapping geologist
at the British Geological Sur-
vey, said the term had come
to mean different things as it
spread to different groups, a
situation that could only end
in headaches. Its so widely
used now that there are at
least three journals using the
term anthropocene in their
titles, yet no one knows what
is meant by the term. Its like
having a set of publications on
the Jurassic without anyone
knowing what the word Juras-
sic means. We need a common
understanding, he said.
In the past, the ICS has
looked to rocks to dene dif-
ferent time periods in Earths
history. The Cambrian period,
which began more than half a
billion years ago, marks the
moment when major groups
of animals rst appeared as
fossils in rock strata. This
time, the signals may be less
wondrous.
One marker for the start of
the anthropocene that the
group will consider is the sud-
den and global arrival of radio-
nuclides left over from atomic
bombs in the 1940s and 1950s.
One advantage is that plu-
tonium, caesium, strontium
and other substances can be
linked to a specic date in
time as well as a clear line in
rock, called a golden spike, in
the business. The boundary
might be set at 1945 when that
started, said Zalasiewicz.
Other options are the wide-
spread use of plastic, the re-
lease of polyaromatic hydro-
carbons from the burning of
fossil fuels, and lead contami-
nation from petroleum, which
all leave stark traces in Earth.
Crutzen argued for the late
18th century as the start of the
industrial revolution.
But some scientists are com-
pletely against the idea. Phil
Gibbard, a geologist at Cam-
bridge who set up the working
group in the rst place, is one.
Im not in favour of this be-
ing dened formally as a divi-
sion of geological time. I think
its an extraordinarily difcult
thing to do, he said. We are
living in an interglacial period
and theres no question were
still within that period and
its called the Holocene.
Mike Ellis of the working
group, head of climate change
at the British Geological Sur-
vey, disagrees: The princi-
pal process of change on the
planet is us, so the name of
our epoch should reect that.
Its as simple as that.
It acknowledges that the
human process is as much a
natural process as any other
we think about, such as vol-
canoes and earthquakes. The
things we do and the things
we make; the rules and legisla-
tion we come up with to con-
trol the way we live, they are a
natural process and it emerg-
es out of this thing called the
Earth. THE GUARDIAN
The age of man? Geologists, climate scientists, ecologists and a lawyer are gathering for talks on
whether to rename age of human life. AFP
Drought-hit US town living without water
IN FRONT of the local fire station, Pete
Rodriguez stands next to his pick-up
truck, filling about a dozen buckets
from a vast tank. He hurries, because
another car is waiting behind him.
Rodriquez is one of hundreds of resi-
dents and business people in the small
town of Porterville, in Californias nor-
mally verdant Central Valley, who have
no running water and are having to re-
think how they live.
I have two buckets near the toilet,
one next to the shower, he told AFP.
Porterville, at the heart of what is
known as Americas food basket, is suf-
fering from one of Californias worst
droughts in up to a century.
In Tulare County we have at least 430
homes without running water because
their water wells dried out, said Andrew
Lockman, head of the countys emer-
gency management center.
I dont think there is a precedent in
the state of California, he added, say-
ing: These people have no water for
bathing, cooking, flushing toilets. It is a
big public health issue.
Outside of the big towns, many homes
in the region are dependent on water
from private wells, which are now run-
ning dry after three years of drought
which has exhausted underground
water supplies, or aquifers.
In the long term the region needs
structural change including a central-
ized water supply system. But that will
take years and cost tens of millions of
dollars to build. In the meantime
authorities can only offer stop-gap
measures.

Third World, or America?
So they have installed two large tanks
in town, including the one outside the
fire station, filled with non-drinkable
water, while supplying bottles of pota-
ble water to homes without any.
To deliver the bottles they rely on vol-
unteers like Donna Johnson (right), a
71-year-old retired social worker, in her
pickup with a leopard-skin interior.
I was really concerned that some
people could get sick, she said driving
round town to help families, some with
babies or pensioners who cant drive
themselves.
Most dont have the $10-20,000 need-
ed to drill a new well. Theres a lot of
people out there that dont have the
income [or] they are too proud. Some
of them dont speak English or dont
have legal documentation, she said.
Some of us were in disbelief because
you only run out of water in Third World
countries. It was like It doesnt happen
in America. Well it does happen in
America, she added.
Her first stop is Edy the Mexican
mechanic. I have an 18-month-old
nephew. Giving him a bath is really
complicated, he said, happily receiv-
ing a few cases of water bottles from
Johnson.
A little further, in a quiet street
next to what used to be a river but
now looks like a
brush-covered
road, Vietnam
War veteran
Jessie Coates
is doing his
washing in
the yard.
He uses a
large stick to beat and stir the washing,
in the old fashioned way. The dishes
wait in another bowl, on the ground
nearby.
Inside his modest home, the kitchen
taps have been removed, and a large
water bottle takes pride of place in
the sink.
It kills my arms to carry it, says
Coates, wearing an I love USA
T-shirt.
Johnson explains that even wealthier
families are affected. They have enough
money for a new well, but they cant find
someone to drill it: there is an 18-month
waiting list for qualified workmen.
Edy, who has lived in California for
18 years, is thinking of shutting shop
to move some-
where else.
But a lot of
home, or busi-
ness-owners, are
blocked by the
same problem
they cant sell their
property without
running water. AFP
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A
CCORDING to our latest
Regional Economic Out-
look Update (October 2014),
Asias near-term growth
prospects remain solid amid down-
ward revisions for other regions.
Despite a mild slowdown earlier this
year, Asian economies are expected
to grow at 5.5 per cent in 2014 and
2015, broadly in line with the pace of
the last couple of years. With some
exceptions, the inflation outlook
should remain benign across most
of the region. This regional outlook
bodes well for Cambodias pros-
pects, especially in light of its
increasing regional integration.
However, downside risks have
increased, but so has resilience,
including in countries that had been
most affected by the period of
heightened volatility that followed
the markets reaction to the talks of
reduced bond purchases by the US
Fed last year. Yet, further action is
needed both in the region and in
Cambodia to strengthen policy buff-
ers and address medium-term chal-
lenges to stability and growth.
What is driving Asias solid growth
outlook? First, stronger global
growth should help propel exports
across most of the Asia and Pacific
region. In fact, after a weak first
quarter, export growth has started
to gather steam, and with the
strengthening growth in the United
States and the expected recovery in
the euro area, the export momen-
tum should remain relatively strong.
Second, global financial markets
have rallied, helped by expectations
of higher growth and increased risk
appetite. This environment has also
contributed to greater capital flows
into Asia, which have contributed to
higher stock prices, lower spreads,
more favourable borrowing condi-
tions for corporates, household and
governments, and strong credit
growth. Policies in Asian economies
have also been generally supportive
in particular, real short-term inter-
est rates remain typically below
their pre-global financial crisis lev-
els. These factors should help sup-
port robust domestic demand
growth going forward.
The favourable outlook for the Asia
and Pacific region masks important
sub-regional differences. In China,
growth should remain strong in the
near term, helped by the recent
stimulus measures. We expect some
gradual moderation to a more sus-
tainable growth path throughout
next year, as the ongoing slowdown
in the real estate sector and efforts
to curb credit growth and rebalance
the economy slow investment
growth. In Japan, Abenomics is still
providing a lift but growth should
come in slightly below 1 per cent this
year and next, with rising private
investment, helped by the weaker
yen, higher stock prices and rising
corporate profits, partly offsetting
the effects of fiscal consolidation on
domestic demand. In India, activity
has picked up strongly and the
growth momentum should build on
rising business confidence, invest-
ment, and exports. ASEAN econo-
mies should also see robust growth
in 2014 and a slight acceleration in
2015, partly reflecting their exposure
to the stronger global economy.
This relatively favourable regional
backdrop coupled with an improv-
ing domestic demand is expected to
support Cambodias growth outlook.
In Cambodia, growth is projected to
be above 7 per cent this year and
edge up to 7.5 per cent over the
medium term with needed support
from strong reform efforts.
Despite the solid outlook, Asia
continues to face significant risks to
stability and growth. In the near
term, investors could overreact to
rising US interest rates and pull
money out of the region, leading to
sudden spikes in financial market
volatility, higher borrowing costs
and, ultimately, lower growth. High-
er corporate leverage and rising
household debt could also amplify
the adverse effects of higher interest
rates on investment and growth.
Finally, an escalation of geopolitical
tensions could hurt exports and
activity more broadly.
What is the role for policies in the
region? Recent actions taken by Asian
policymakers have boosted confi-
dence and improved resilience in
several economies, including India,
Indonesia and Malaysia. But address-
ing medium-term risks calls for a
renewed push for structural reforms
across the region, which has seen a
steady deterioration of its long-term
growth outlook in the past few years.
Such reforms would not only make
Asias growth stronger and more sus-
tainable, but would also lower its vul-
nerability to further growth disap-
pointments and financial market
shocks coming from the West.
What does this regional outlook
mean for Cambodia? The main take-
away for Cambodia from the latest
Regional Economic Outlook Update
is to take advantage of the regional
economic tailwinds to push through
the reform efforts. As the experience
of other developing and emerging
market economies have shown, a
favourable growth environment
often makes reform efforts easier to
implement.
On specific policy measures, the
governments emphasis on improv-
ing its revenues and delivery of public
services, especially in education and
health is both timely and necessary
to make growth more inclusive and
sustainable in the medium term.
Continued efforts to increase domes-
tic revenue and improve spending
efficiency would help finance Cam-
bodias vast development needs in
soft and hard infrastructure while
building increased fiscal buffers,
critical for an open and highly dollar-
ised economy like Cambodia to
address any external shocks.
A broader civil service reform is
also crucial to accompany the public
wage increases to avoid jeopardising
fiscal consolidation. Given the rapid
growth of the banking system and
microfinance institutions in Cambo-
dia in recent years, a key challenge is
to strike a balance between financial
access and financial stability, as
highlighted by the first National
Bank of Cambodia Macro-economic
Conference in July. This may require
a more sustainable pace of credit
growth, continued improvement in
regulation and supervision and
development of money and foreign
exchange markets.
No doubt Cambodias growth per-
formance so far has been impressive.
But the policy challenges evolve as
countries undergo economic transi-
tions. Going forward, reform meas-
ures need to support a growth strate-
gy that would not only attract FDI but
also, equally importantly, encourage
domestic investment to support eco-
nomic diversification, job creation
and fulfill the aspirations of Cambo-
dians for a more inclusive growth.
Asia, Cambodia: still going strong
Customers peruse cleaning products at Aeon Mall during the grand opening earlier this year. The regional economic climate and an
increase in consumer demand is expected to fuel growth in the medium term for Cambodia. HONG MENEA
Faisal Ahmed is the IMFs resident repre-
sentative in Cambodia.
Comment
Faisal Ahmed
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Travel
22
At N/aan Ku se reserve, volunteers care for baboons and other
animals during their stay. THE WASHINGTON POST
Hands-on work
at a Namibian
wildlife reserve
Andrea Sachs
A
T N/AAN Ku s, a
wildlife sanctuary in
Namibia, several vol-
unteers sported curi-
ous bumps beneath their out-
erwear. The lumpy mounds
covered their torsos, and a
ball-like shape protruded from
their chests. Tails dangled from
the hems of their eeces and
sweatshirts.
There was no shame in ask-
ing: Excuse me, but is that a
monkey in your top?
And there was no shortage of
excitement in answering: Yes,
indeed a baboon!
In the southern African
countrys national parks and
game reserves, visitors view
the wildlife. Here, at the animal
preserve, the guests watch
the animals in the same way
a babysitters club cares for the
neighbourhood kids. The vol-
unteers help feed, exercise, and
comfort the creatures who, af-
ter signicant trauma or hard-
ship, have ended up there.
In 2006, Marlice van Vuuren,
an esteemed Namibian con-
servationist, and her physi-
cian husband, Rudie, founded
the sanctuary on a farm about
30 miles east of Windhoek,
the capital. They named their
foundation N/aan ku se,
which means God will protect
us in the San language.
Their mission is multi-fold
and multi-species: to safeguard
orphaned or injured animals,
to educate local farmers about
conservation practices, to pro-
tect imperiled carnivores, and
to provide health care, educa-
tion and job opportunities for
the San (or Bushman) com-
munity, the oldest inhabitants
of southern Africa. The focus is
on rehabilitation, research and
sanctuary.
The wild belongs in the
wilds, said Cila Venter, the
Namibian general manager
who leads orientation ses-
sions. All of the animals here
are orphans.
The foundation employs a
small staff at the sanctuary,
medical clinic, school and two
research sites in Neuras and
Kanaan. Yet it leans heavily on
volunteers to help with the dai-
ly tasks, a trail mix of domestic
chores (cleaning pens, prep-
ping food, building repairs)
and into-the-wild duties (feed-
ing the big cats, walking the
anteater and caracal, sleeping
with the baby baboons).
The residents have back sto-
ries reminiscent of Bambis.
Many of the tales involve a
farmer shooting the parents,
an accepted form of defence
against predators that threat-
en livestock. The sanctuary,
which is also an active farm,
works with the locals to for-
mulate a less destructive and
more tolerant approach.
Dont re rst, they tell them;
call us. The organisation, for
instance, can trap an animal
and relocate it to a less devel-
oped area, or collar, release
and track the animal via GPS.
What pays, stays, Cila said.
Namibia is a country with
wide open spaces where the
animals can run freely.
The animals living on the
property are either undergo-
ing rehab or cant return to the
wild because they no longer
fear humans. Once they lose
the intimidation factor, nei-
ther party is safe.
If I can give you one piece
of advice: Dont trust a leop-
ard, Cila said. The chee-
tahs, however, are cowards.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Location: N/aan ku se wildlife
sanctuary is about 40 miles
from Windhoek.
Volunteering: Stays range from
two weeks (minimum) to three
months. Rooms or tents are
available.
Cost: $950 for two weeks, in-
cluding lodging, three meals a
day, laundry, airport transfers
and volunteering duties.
For more information visit:
www.naankuse.com
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TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
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Fax: 023 890 071
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T
HE venerable mens
clothier Brooks Broth-
ers has been a xture
in New York since be-
ing founded there in 1818. But
it can be argued that the beat-
ing heart of the company re-
sides some 35 kilometres west
of Washington, DC, in Chan-
tilly, Virginia. Thats where the
ofcial Brooks Brothers his-
torical archive resides.
The repository of Brooksiana,
shall we call it, owes its rich-
ness and existence to two men.
The rst, Donald C Vaughan,
was the director of advertising
from 1915 to 1948. He kept les
of Brooks newspaper adverts,
brochures and historical pho-
tos. He even collected books
that mention the rm, which
made and sold ready-to-wear
work clothes for the mining ex-
peditions of the 1849 California
Gold Rush, uniforms for Union
soldiers in the Civil War and
made the overcoat Abraham
Lincoln was wearing when he
was assassinated.
Its fair to say we have every
piece of paper that mentions
Brooks Brothers, says Kelly Stu-
art, the director, brand training
and development and gushes
Brooks history and lore.
The other Brooks archive
enabler, and the reason the
archive is in the Washington
area, is Bruce Weindruch, co-
founder of DCs History Facto-
ry, a company created in 1979
to compile and/or manage
historical archives for corpora-
tions and other organisations.
Being a lifelong, devoted
Brooks customer, Weindruch
approached Brooks in 1982
and was invited to visit the
Manhattan attic where some
historical materials were being
collected and stored, not nec-
essarily in organised fashion.
Six years later, Weindruch and
company were assembling the
companys heritage in an ar-
chivally responsible way.
For its rst 125 years or so,
Brooks was a stable company,
passing down from the original
brothers. The clothier passed
out of the familys hands in
1946, when Henry Sands
Brookss great-great-grandson,
Winthrop Holley Brooks, sold
the rm to Julius Garnckel
and Company. As the decades
passed, the clothier was sold
again, to Allied Stores (1981),
then to British retailer Marks
and Spencer (1988).
Retail turmoil in the 1980s
made the maintenance of an
archive just about the last con-
sideration for the companys
embattled owners. Soon Wein-
druch was maintaining the
collection at his own expense,
out of belief in the brand and
its place in history (introduc-
ing button-down shirts, madras
fabrics, Harris tweed and argyle
socks to the American public).
Then came 2001 and new
owner Claudio Del Vecchio,
who took the company pri-
vate. The Italian billionaire, a
Brooks enthusiast and a lover
of its history, thanked the His-
tory Factory for preserving the
archive, to which Weindruch
responded, No thanks neces-
sary: Youre the guy Ive been
waiting for! With a stroke of
Del Vecchios pen, the decade-
long back rent and expenses of
the archive were satised and
the collection set rmly on a
new footing.
The collection continues to
grow. When you sell cloth-
ing, Kelly Stuart says, you
dont necessarily think of your
clothes as part of your archive,
but they are. With that in
mind, the company sees look-
ing back into its rich history
as a brilliant way to move for-
ward. THE WASHINGTON POST
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Military academy frosh
5 Invalidate, as a marriage
10 Some conspiracy subjects
14 Surrounding glow
15 Brief stop
16 Cheers patron
17 It turns into a different story
20 Square one?
21 A bundle
22 Give permission to
23 Body-structure science
25 The Open Window writer
27 Spiders creation
28 Highway-distance marker
32 Dead against
35 A boring person might have one
36 Which person
37 Trying to get a better look?
41 Poetic homage
42 Butcher requests
43 Word processing command
44 Unequaled
46 Freddy Kruegers street
48 Leadership, figuratively
49 Grad students payment
53 Fills completely
56 Physics Nobelist Niels
57 Tell a whopper
58 Interpret improperly
62 Language in Lahore
63 Musclebound guys
64 Sneaking suspicion
65 Tournament passes?
66 Make blank
67 Not as much
DOWN
1 Carbo-loaders fare
2 Gentleman burglar Arsene
3 All My Children siren
4 Happy Hour site
5 Savoir-faire
6 Abominable, as weather
7 Pistachios, e.g.
8 Shuttle letters
9 Pacific ring
10 Detach, as a lapel mike
11 Yearling, once
12 Approximately
13 Eurasian diving duck
18 Lotion ingredient
19 Gardeners, often
24 Kind of bed
25 Billboards, e.g.
26 Away from the wind
28 Subatomic particles
29 John Irvings A Prayer for ___
Meany
30 A herring relative
31 Commotion requiring action?
32 On the peak of
33 Art study
34 Shoe setting
35 Discriminatory practice against
seniors
38 Least healthy
39 Holiday tune
40 Camel attribute
45 Monkey type
46 Sweet-smelling gas
47 Italian coin, once
49 Endings with three and four
50 Slur over a syllable
51 Dressed to the ___
52 Prima Ballerina artist Edgar
53 One-inch pencil, e.g.
54 Bad way for plans to go
55 It may be stemmed or turned
56 Basilica area
59 Common title starter
60 That lady
61 Shutout score, in soccer
STRAIGHTEN UP
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Fashion: The complete
story of Brooks Brothers
Above: a Brooks Brothers storefront. The company was founded in New
York in 1818 and has a storied history, including making Civil War uni-
forms for Union soldiers. Right: an ad for the clothier. Brooks Brothers
maintains a historical archive including every piece of paper that men-
tions Brooks Brothers, says Kelly Stuart. COURTESY OF BROOKS BROTHERS
Lifestyle
23
Harrys world
Three new
JK Rowling
movies due
H
ARRY Potter author
JK Rowling is working
on three new wizard-
based movies to be released
starting in 2016, studio giant
Warner Bros announced on
Wednesday.
The first film, Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find
Them, will be directed by
David Yates, who directed
the last four Harry Potter
movies, and reunite the same
filmmaking team.
It is described as set in
an extension of her familiar
wizarding world, featuring
magical creatures and charac-
ters inspired by Harry Potters
Hogwarts textbook and its
fictitious author.
A second movie is set for
release in 2018 and a third in
2020, the studio revealed. The
first movie was announced
last month.
Rowling, who has sold
more than 450 million copies
of the Harry Potter books,
announced in September that
Warner Bros had approached
her about doing Fantastic
Beasts.
I thought it was a fun idea,
but the idea of seeing Newt
Scamander, the supposed
author of Fantastic Beasts,
realised by another writer
was difficult.
Having lived for so long in
my fictional universe, I feel
very protective of it, she said,
explaining her decision to
write the screenplay.
Warner Bros did not an-
nounce who will star in any
of the three new scheduled
films. AFP
Neil Patrick Harris tapped
to host 2015 Oscars
NEIL Patrick Harris can soon
add yet another hosting gig to
his resume the actor will
host the Oscars next year.
The film academy has yet to
weigh in on the news, first
reported by Variety. But the How
I Met Your Mother star
confirmed it with the most epic
humblebrag of all time, tweeting
a video of himself talking on the
phone, grinning as he says Im
in. Cut to: A notepad with his
bucket list, check marks next to
a couple cool things hes done:
Win a Tony Award, star in a TV
show, rap with Snoop Dogg.
Then at the very bottom
(beneath get married and
have children) he lists host
the Oscars, which he circles
with a pen. THEWASHINGTONPOST
HBO to offer stand-alone
streaming service in 15
TIME Warner said on Wednesday
that it will launch a stand-alone
HBO streaming service next
year, offering viewers without
cable subscriptions hit shows
like Game of Thrones and Girls.
The move allows HBO, also
known for shows like Sex and
the City and The Wire to enter the
streaming-only video market
dominated by Netflix. HBO chief
Richard Plepler told an investor
meeting that the new service
would be aimed at consumers
without a cable or satellite
subscription, who have not been
able to watch the premium
channel until now. AFP
Sport
Rising stars get Tiger tune-ups
Dan Riley
T
HERE is a difference be-
tween a ghter and a mar-
tial artist, notes Canadian
mixed martial arts super-
star Georges St-Pierre in one of his
most famous quotes.
A ghter is training for a purpose:
He has a ght, continues St-Pierre.
Im a martial artist. I dont train for
a ght. I train for myself. Im training
all the time. My goal is perfection.
But I will never reach perfection.
The three-time UFC welterweight
champion is well known for his gru-
elling training regimes in prepara-
tion for his cage ghts.
In 2012, St Pierre invited famed
Muay Thai instructors Kru Yod
and Kru Langsomkran to Montreal
to help him brush up his striking
skills ahead of his title unification
clash against Carlos Condit at UFC
154.
The instructors hailed from Tiger
Muay Thai (TMT), a camp in Phuket
which has gone from strength to
strength over the years and is now
regarded as one of the best in the
world for up and coming interna-
tional ghters, both in Muay Thai
and MMA.
Due to a pioneering initiative
from business and entertainment
hub NagaWorld, two aspiring Cam-
bodian cage ghters Sam Ang Dun
and Chan Rothana, who recently
fought in the Featherweight Grand
Prix nal of ONE Fighting Champi-
onships Rise of the Kingdom ght
card at Koh Pich Theatre are be-
ing sponsored to travel to Phuket
for some intense sessions with the
TMT trainers.
They will train in Brazilian jiu
jitsu, MMA and wrestling for their
entire stay, TMT director Will Elliot
told the Post.
That means they will train with
head MMA coach and UFC veteran
Roger Huerta for wrestling and MMA,
and BJJ with fth degree black belt
Fernando Maccachero from Brazil.
The Cambodian ghters will stay
in our onsite ghters rooms or dor-
mitory. They will mix in with the inter-
national pro ght team. This should
provide a wealth of experience.
We have Russian ghters, Chi-
nese ghters, European and North
American ghters. There will be a
lot of international exposure for the
Cambodian standouts.
Sam Ang Dun was controversially
awarded the Grand Prix title after
being knocked out by a heel strike
from Chan Rothana deemed illegal
by judges. As the winner, he receives
a monthlong pass to train at TMT.
We will arrange for Sam Ang Dun
to go [to Phuket] for one month of
training either in late December or
early January, as he has a local kick-
boxing contract to full, which ends
mid-December, said NagaWorld
events manager Yeo Wee Han.
As for Chan Rothana, even though
he did not win the tournament we
were very impressed by his attitude
and hence we decided that we will
also extend the invite to him to go
train with TMT. Due to his other
commitments with his team [Sela-
pak], he will only be able to attend
a two-week training course and will
go sometime in January after Sam
Ang Dun.
We at Nagaworld are grateful to
TMT, especially their director Will
Elliot, who offered us an unbeliev-
able offer to have the Cambodia
ghters to train there, added Yeo.
I believe this is the rst time that
Cambodia ghters will be going over
there and with their experienced
coaches, Im sure our boys will come
back with better knowledge and ex-
perience as well as in better condi-
tion for their next ONE FC ght.
Elliot revealed that a month-
long training camp at TMT would
typically cost around 60,000 baht
(US$1,850), with food and accom-
modation taken into consideration.
From coups to cages
Sam Ang Dun has seen a dramatic
change of fortunes since his humble
days of looking after ghting cocks
in Kampot province as a teenager.
When the law intervened, putting
an end to the cock ghts, he came to
Phnom Penh in pursuit of a career
as a kickboxer.
I tried to ask many boxing clubs
for training, but I was not accepted
by any, Sam Ang Dun told the Post
yesterday.
I didnt dare to ask the trainer [and
Cambodian kickboxing legend] Ei
Phouthang at the time. I didnt know
where to go and I stayed at Olympic
Stadium for three days before I met
the Ei Phouthang there.
I asked him to train with him and
he accepted me and I stayed at the
club until now.
My life has changed from bad
to good after I won the Grand Prix
nal and I hope I can become a fa-
mous ghter like my trainer. I want
to be one of the most famous ght-
ers in Cambodia.
Rothana, meanwhile, said he was
very excited for the chance to go
to Phuket.
I know Muay Thai Tiger because
of the good reputation of trainers,
the quality of the facilities, he said.
Of course its going to be hard. I
do not expect it to be too much fun,
but this is my job. I am a ghter.
I am always much more hard on
training with myself than my stu-
dents or ghters at Selapak.
I like it the challenge, the effort
and knowing that if you do your
best and try hard on preparation,
the ght is easier, he added.
Getting the opportunity to train
with world class ghters is amaz-
ing, meet and share experience
with them is really positive and will
help me.
Roar of Tigers
ONE FC host their 21st event,
Roar of Tigers, at Kuala Lumpurs
Stadium Putra tonight.
Live coverage can be viewed on
local channel MyTV from 6pm
Cambodian time. ADDITIONAL REPORT-
ING BY IN SOPHENG
Friday Fight Card
Main Event Featherweight
Marat Gafurov (RUS) v
Rob Lisita (AUS)
Co-Main Event Featherweight
Peter Davis (MAL) v
Vaughn Donayre (PHI)
Bantamweight
Ev Ting (MAL) v Edward Kelly (PHI)
Featherweight
Tanaphong Khunhankaew (THA) v
Bashir Ahmad (PAK)
Bantamweight
Stephen Langdown (SIN) v
Raymond Tan (MAL)
Welterweight
Barbod (IRN) v Hesham Hiba (EGY)
Womens Strawweight
Ann Osman (MAL) v
Aya Saeid Saber (EGY)
Flyweight
Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke
(THA) v Saiful Merican (MAL)
Bantamweight
Anatpong Bunrad (THA) v
Marc Marcellinus (MAL)
Marussia angered at Bianchis Suzuka crash report
THE Marussia Formula One
team have slammed media
reports that Jules Bianchi and
team officials ignored safety
measures before the horrific
crash that left the Frenchman
fighting for his life in Japan.
The 25-year-old collided
with a recovery vehicle during
the Japanese Grand Prix ear-
lier this month.
Marussia issued a statement
on Wednesday vehemently
denying that he had failed to
slow down when marshals
waved double yellow flags
after Adrian Sutils Sauber had
skidded off at the same spot
in heavy rain.
The team also angrily reject-
ed claims made by Germanys
Sport Bild magazine citing
new information that team
officials had ordered Bianchi
to speed up in order to stay
ahead of Caterhams Marcus
Ericsson at Suzuka.
The Marussia F1 Team is
shocked and angered by these
allegations, said Marussia in
a statement.
At a time when its driver is
critically ill in hospital, and
the team has made clear that
its highest priority is consid-
eration for Jules and his fam-
ily, it is distressed to have to
respond to deeply upsetting
rumours and inaccuracies in
respect of the circumstances
of Jules accident.
Bianchi was rushed to a
local hospital after his sicken-
ing accident and underwent
emergency brain surgery. He
remains in a stable but critical
condition, with his family
continuing to hold a vigil by
his bedside.
These allegations are entire-
ly false, added Marussia.
Regarding point 1, Jules
did slow down under the
double waved yellow flags.
That is an irrefutable fact, as
proven by the telemetry data,
which the team has provided
to the FIA.
Regarding point 2, an audio
copy of the full radio trans-
mission between Jules and
the team, and a written tran-
script, were provided to the
FIA.
It is quite clear from the
transmission and the tran-
script that at no point during
the period leading up to Juless
accident did the team urge
Jules to drive faster or make
any comments suggesting
that he should do so.
Race director Charlie Whit-
ing has said Bianchi did slow
down as required, without
specifying by how much.
Waved yellow flags mean driv-
ers must slow and be prepared
to stop if necessary.
Formula One is considering
imposing automatic speed
limits as part of future safety
measures to avoid a repeat of
Bianchis accident. AFP
Tiger Muay Thai MMA trainer Roger Huerta (centre) poses with Cambodian ghters Chan Rothana (left) and Dun Sam Ang during a visit to NagaWorld on Monday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Kaymer beats Watson in
playoff to win Slam title
REIGNING US Open champion
Martin Kaymer of Germany
birdied the first playoff hole
Wednesday to defeat reigning
Masters champion Bubba
Watson and win the 32nd PGA
Grand Slam of Golf. Kaymer,
who collected his second career
major title last June at
Pinehurst, and Watson, the big-
hitting US star who won his
second green jacket last April,
each finished the 36-hole
showdown of major winners on
six-under par 136 at Bermudas
Port Royal layout. But in a replay
of the 18th hole that both parred
in the final round, Kaymer
birdied on a 10-foot putt similar
to one on the same line he had
faced a few minutes earlier from
twice the distance while Watson
missed a short birdie bid to
hand Kaymer the crown. AFP
Cowboys rusher fined
after arrest but will play
THE Dallas Cowboys have fined
reserve running back Joseph
Randle after his shoplifting
arrest but will not suspend him
from Sunday nights NFL game
against the New York Giants.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett
said on Wednesday that Randle
was fined but not suspended
after being apprehended by
police on Monday night
following his departure from a
department store with a bottle
of mens cologne and a
package of underwear that he
had not purchased. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 17, 2014 25
Royals sweep to World Series
U
NBEATEN in their rst
Major League Baseball
playoff appearance since
1985, the Kansas City Roy-
als advanced to the World Series by
defeating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1
on Wednesday.
The Royals, who won their only
World Series title 29 years ago, be-
came the first Major League Base-
ball team to win its first eight playoff
games in a season by finishing off a
four-game sweep of the Orioles in
the best-of-seven American League
final.
It has been awesome, Royals
slugger Eric Hosmer said. But were
not done yet.
Kansas City will play host to the
National League winner, either the St
Louis Cardinals or San Francisco Gi-
ants, in game one of the best-of-seven
championship nal next Tuesday.
San Francisco rallied from a three-
run decit on Wednesday to defeat
the St Louis Cardinals 6-4 and move
to the brink of winning their Major
League Baseball playoff series.
Were going to try to make this sea-
son even more special, said Royals
outelder Alex Gordon. It has been
an amazing run. Were playing pretty
good baseball.
Should the Royals win their World
Series opener, they would equal the
all-time longest major league play-
off multi-year win streak 12 games
set by the New York Yankees between
1927-1932 and matched by them in
1998-1999 even with a 29-year gap
between wins three and four.
The Royals captured the 1985 World
Series by winning the nal three
games to defeat Missouri state rival St
Louis in the maximum seven games.
Since then, Kansas City fans had
suffered the longest drought of any
major league team without a playoff
game, but were rewarded for their
patience this October when the Roy-
als beat Oakland in the wildcard
game, swept the Los Angeles Angels
in the best-of-ve division series and
dispatched an Orioles squad seeking
its rst World Series berth since win-
ning in 1983.
Its not like something we didnt
do, Orioles manager Buck Showalter
said. It was more like what they did.
It was the rst time the Orioles had
ever been swept in a playoff series,
having dropped two one-run deci-
sions on the road and a pair of two-
run decisions at home with both
games level after eight innings.
We dont feel like we played bad.
They just played better, Baltimores
J.J. Hardy said. Four games and they
were all close ones.
Royals outelder Lorenzo Cain was
named the Most Valuable Player of
the series after going 8-for-15 at the
plate, scoring ve times and driving
in another run while making several
spectacular diving catches to deny
Baltimore base hits. AFP
Eric Hosmer (right, front) and Mike Moustakas of the Kansas City Royals celebrate their win over the Baltimore Orioles to sweep the American League Championship Series on Wednesday. AFP
Rugby International
Saturday October 18
Australia v New Zealand 4pm
NFL American Football
Monday October 20
Baltimore v Atlanta 12am
Buffalo v Minnesota 12am
Chicago v Miami 12am
Detroit v New Orleans 12am
Green Bay v Carolina 12am
Indianapolis v Cincinnati 12am
Jacksonville v Cleveland 12am
St Louis v Seattle 12am
Washington v Tennessee
12am
San Diego v Kansas City
3:25am
Dallas v NY Giants 3:25am
Oakland v Arizona 3:25am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
26
Sport
Wheelchair tennis boost
H S Manjunath
DESIGNATED as a project country for
International Tennis Federations
wheelchair program, Tennis Cambo-
dia will host an inaugural four-day
ITF clinic for coaches and players in
Phnom Penh and Battambang from
this Sunday.
Australian National Academy
wheelchair coach Joe Kubizniak, one
of 38 coaches drawn worldwide in the
ITFs expert panel, will conduct the
clinic first for the coaches at the
Olympic Stadium courts in Phnom
Penh and then for the players at Bat-
tambangs La Paloma Center for the
Disabled, where Tennis Cambodias
own program has been running
smoothly for nearly a year.
Tennis Cambodia received ITFs
Wheelchair Development Fund, piv-
oted towards promotion of wheel-
chair tennis in the next two years as
one of select countries.
This Clinic is a grand beginning.
We are excited to develop a bigger
and better wheelchair program with-
in Cambodia, Tennis Cambodia sec-
retary general Tep Rithivit told the
Post yesterday.
Tennis is for all. We are determined
to create equal opportunities for
disabled just like everyone else.
National coach Braen Aneiros said:
I think that it is a big move for Tennis
Cambodia to include wheelchair ten-
nis as part of our programs.
Even though we already have one
school in Battambang with a few
players in wheelchair tennis, we nev-
er had the proper coaching methods
to work with those kids. I believe that
by having the ITF wheelchair tennis
courses in Cambodia will help all our
coaches not only to teach properly
the few active players, but to get more
disable people to learn to play wheel-
chair tennis.
Once again with this program, we
are proving that tennis is a sport that
we are trying to make accessible to
everyone in the country, added
Aneiros, who is also Tennis Cambo-
dias technical director.
Shingo Kunieda of Japan is seen in action against Nicolas Peifer of France during their
wheelchair mens singles seminal of the 2014 US Open in New York. AFP
Mosquitoes, Dream
fight over playoff seat
H S Manjunath
T
OP-ranked Davies Paints
may give the down and out
GL Concrete a horrid court
time when they meet on
Sunday in the Angkor Beer Cam-
bodian Basketball League at the
Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena.
Arguably the best offence seen
so far this season is set to tear
down possibly the worst defence,
as reflected by the winless Con-
cretes heavy losses by an average
of 30 points. It should come as
no surprise if the Paints turn this
mismatch into a kind of serious
target practice.
The clash between Sabay Tiger
Mosquitoes and NSK Dream may
lead to a high intensity battle for
the last of the playoff seats since
the two teams are currently ranked
eighth and ninth respectively.
While the Mosquitoes will take
the court again next Wednesday
to play a rescheduled game that
may ultimately decide their fate,
Sundays game against Dream is of
critical importance.
After a slow getaway, Dream have
managed mid-season improve-
ment which showed up in their
recent win over Pate 310 and close
encounters with stronger teams
like Davies Paints and Smart Drag-
ons. On the other hand, Mosqui-
toes got out of a long losing streak
with a merited win over Mekong
Tigers.
The return of several key players
like Steve Chun and Curran Hen-
dry has reinforced the side. With
Jeff Kane sharpening the offence,
Mosquitoes are eager to keep their
run for playoffs going.
In an all-Cambodian affair, sec-
ond ranked Pate 310 will run into
the third placed Emperors, who
were last seasons losing finalists
as IRB The Lord.
Pate were not among the top
fancies last year, but this season
it is a different story. The team are
very much in the fighting line and
keenly looking forward to have
Ouch Phanat back in action from
an injury break.
Evening matches have been
scheduled for Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday next week to wrap
up the round robin phase. The
eight-team playoffs will begin
from October 25.
Sundays Schedule
Davies Paints v GL Concrete
2pm
Sabay Tiger Mosquitoes v
NSK Dream 4pm
Pate 310 v Emperors 6pm
Hat-trick hero hailed as
Cambodia grab a lifeline
SOK Chanrasmey supplied the
heroics that Cambodia so
desperately needed yesterday in
their AFF Suzuki Cup qualifier
3-2 victory against Timor Leste
at the New National Laos
Stadium in Vientiane. With
Cambodia trailing by two goals
and appearing destined for
another underwhelming
campaign without advance to
the final phase, TriAsia attacking
midfielder Chanrasmey netted a
remarkable second half hat-
trick to see Cambodia secure all
three points. They now head into
Saturdays clash with Myanmar
from 3:30pm with renewed
enthusiasm, and will also hope
hosts Laos can dispatch of
Timor Leste at 6:30pm. DANRILEY
Nigerian Super Eagles
must soar in Congo
NEW Nigeria coach Shuaibu
Amodu has one month to find
a recipe for success away to
Congo Brazzaville or face
near-certain elimination from
the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
A draw would keep the Super
Eagles in contention only if
group leaders South Africa
suffer an unlikely home defeat
by Sudan. Caretaker coach
Stephen Keshi was sacked
after a 3-1 home victory
against Sudan Wednesday
gave the defending champions
their first mini-league win in
four matches. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 17, 2014 27
Opportunity with AEON Microinance (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.
AEON Microinance (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. was established in Cambodia in October 2011 by the
Japanese Leading Retail Finance company named AEON Financial Service Co., Ltd. The Nature of
our business is to provide retail inance for a wide range of individual customers. Especially, we are
well known as pioneer of providing installment services for people purchasing consumer products
without any collateral, which is very new service in Cambodia but popular in other countries. Our
group is also well known in Asia, which has companies in 13 countries and 31 million Credit Card
Holders. Our Vision, in Japan and the rest of Asia, our management philosophy is to Support
customers life styles and enable each individual to maximize future opportunities through eective
use of credit. We are now seeking for talented candidates for the positions:
1. Media Manager: 1 position
2. Web Manager: 1 position
3. Internal Audit Manager: 1 position
4. Assistant Customer Service Manager: 1 position
5. Chief of Control Media: 1 position
6. Chief of Business Development: 1 position

7. Chief of Recruitment & Training Unit (HR Section): 1 position
8. Chief of Administration: 1 position
9. Company Nurse: 2 positions
10. Credit Oficer for Kampong Cham Branch: 2 positions
11. Sale Oficer for Kampong Cham Branch: 2 positions
Note: For further information on Job Description of each position, please visit our websites
at: www.aeon.com.kh.
Qualiications and Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Law, Accounting, Marketing or Related iled.
Fluent in both written and spoken English
Be honest, initiative, committed, independent and posses a good interpersonal skill
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV with current photo 4x6, certiicates (optional) and cover letter including the
position applying for to below address no later than Monday, 3
rd
November 2014 at 5:30 PM
(First come irst serve basis).
Ofice Address: Building N 721, Preah Monivong Blvd., Sangkat Beoung Keng Kang 3, Khan
Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. Email: recruitment@aeon.com.kh
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
Human Resource Section: 023 988 701
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is looking for:
National Advisor on Waste to Energy Technologies
To be based in Phnom Penh with frequent travel
Background
SNV with nancial support of the European Union SWITCH Asia programmeis implementing a project
called Waste to Energy for the Rice Milling Sector in Cambodia.
This 4 year project (2012-2015)is addressing the development of a viable market for the gasication
technology by focusing on three main results areas;
The establishment of a high quality, professional, manufacturing sector which can produce the tech- -
nology in Cambodia
The development of a national standard for the technology, combined with an operational licensing -
procedure to ensure high quality application of the technology and minimizing health & safety and
environmental hazards
The development of business plans with rice mill owners to invest in the installation of the technology -
and the capacity development of their staff for the operation of the gasiers.
We are looking for a competent, motivated, result-oriented individual to ll the available vacancy of
National Advisor on Waste to Energy Technologies.
Specic Tasks for the position
Under the overall guidance of SNV Management and project team leader the expert will provide adviso-
ry services to the partners in the project and the project associates on the steps needed in the process
to establish a viable gasier technology manufacturing industry in Cambodia.
Specic tasks include:
Coordinate with project partners the selection and testing of gasifying technologies for the standard -
setting process;
Advise project partners on training curriculum design for training of technicians, manufacturers and -
selected government experts;
Provide expert inputs to the multi-stakeholder drafting process of a national quality standards for -
gasication technology;
Provide expert inputs to the business development and investment component of the project; and -
Contribute to knowledge development and documentation of the project as well as reporting to the EU -
Qualications of the Candidate
A Master Degree (or higher) in Renewable Energy or other technology development eld -
At least 5 years of experience in Participatory Technology Development and Vocational Training -
Experiences in providing advisory services to Government, Private Enterprises and NGOs -
Experience in contributing to multi-stakeholder processes -
Strong Intercultural capacity development skills -
Proven experience with planning, monitoring, evaluation and program management. -
Excellent leadership, teamwork, coaching and communication skills in English and Khmer -
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and organisational skills. Procient in MS word & excel at advanced level.
Willingness to travel in Cambodia -
Contract period: 12months with possible extension
Desired Start Date: November 2014
How to apply?
Applications should be sent via email to SNVCambodiaJobs@snvworld.org
Deadline: before 17:00 (Cambodian time), 24
th
October, 2014
A motivation letter; i)
An updated Curriculum Vitae; ii)
Names and contact details of two professional referees. iii)
Concrete examples of proven experiences as indicated above will be an added value. iv)
For more information on SNV, please refer to our website: www.snvworld.org/Cambodia
We do not appreciate third-party mediation based on this advertisement.Qualied women are encouraged to apply
FIFA bans Mongolia
boss for corruption
F
IFA on Wednesday
banned Mongolian
football chief Gan-
bold Buyannemekh
for ve years for taking bribes
to vote for former Qatari of-
cial Mohamed bin Hammam
in the world bodys leader-
ship election.
The ban was ordered by the
adjudicatory chamber of the
FIFA ethics committee, which
is currently studying a report
into bin Hammams possible
role in inuencing the award
of the 2022 World Cup to Qa-
tar, a FIFA statement said.
In a statement, FIFA said the
Mongolian would be barred
from any kind of football-re-
lated activity at national and
international level during
his ve years of punishment.
Buyannemekh solicited
and accepted payments
from disgraced former Asian
Football Confederation chief
and FIFA executive member
bin Hammam, the statement
said.
FIFA said the offences oc-
curred during the 2009 elec-
tions for its executive at the
Asian Football Confederation
(AFC) congress, as well as dur-
ing the FIFA presidential elec-
tion in 2011. Buyannemekh
is currently a member of the
AFC executive committee as
well as other key committees
in the regional group.
He is the second top Asian
football ofcial to be banned
over alleged payments from
bin Hammam.
One year ago, Sri Lankas
then football chief, Manilal
Fernando was banned for life
over bribery and corruption
charges.
Fernando was a close ally of
bin Hammam who resigned
from FIFAs executive and as
AFC president in December
2012, days after the govern-
ing body launched a new
corruption inquiry against
him. He had earlier success-
fully appealed against a life
ban over other corruption al-
legations. AFP
Chinzorig Amgalan (left) of Mongolia is tackled by Emelio Caligdong of
the Philippines during their Confederation Challenge Cup qualier. AFP
English Premier League
Saturday October 18
Man City v Tottenham
6:45pm
Arsenal v Hull 9pm
Burnley v West Ham 9pm
Crystal Palace v Chelsea
9pm
Everton v Aston Villa 9pm
Newcastle v Leicester
9pm
Southampton v Sunderland
9pm
Sunday October 19
QPR v Liverpool 7:30pm
Stoke v Swansea 10pm
Spanish La Liga
Saturday October 18
Granada v Rayo Vallecano
2am
Levante v Real Madrid
9pm
Athletic Bilbao v
Celta de Vigo 11pm
Sunday October 19
Barcelona v Eibar 1am
Cordoba v Malaga 3am
Atletico Madrid v Espanyol
5pm
Deportivo de La Coruna v
Valencia 10pm
Monday October 20
Elche v Sevilla 12am
Villarreal v Almeria 2am
German Bundesliga
Saturday October 18
FC Koln v Borussia
Dortmund 8:30pm
Mainz v FC Augsburg
8:30pm
Bayern Munich v
Werder Bremen 8:30pm
Hannover v Borussia
Moenchengladbach 8:30pm
Freiburg v Wolfsburg
8:30pm
Stuttgart v
Bayer Leverkusen 8:30pm
Schalke v Hertha Berlin
11:30pm
Sunday October 19
Hamburg v Hoffenheim
8:30pm
Paderborn v Eintracht
Frankfurt 10:30pm
Italian Serie A
Saturday October 18
Roma v Chievo 11pm
Sunday October 19
Sassuolo v Juventus 1:45am
Fiorentina v Lazio 5:30pm
Atalanta v Parma 8pm
Cagliari v Sampdoria 8pm
Palermo v Cesena 8pm
Torino v Udinese 8pm
Verona v AC Milan 8pm
Monday October 20
Inter Milan v Napoli 1:45am
French Ligue 1
Saturday October 18
Lens v Paris SG 1:30am
Lorient v St Etienne 10pm
Sunday October 19
Lille v Guingamp 1am
Metz v Rennes 1am
Monaco v Evian TG 1am
Nantes v Reims 1am
Nice v Bastia 1am
Marseille v Toulouse 7pm
Bordeaux v Caen 10pm
Monday October 20
Lyon v Montpellier 2am
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