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INDONESIANS vote on
Wednesday in the countrys
most pivotal presidential
election since the downfall
of dictator Suharto, with
Jakarta Governor Joko
Widodo and a former gen-
eral with a chequered
human rights record in a
tight race.
Voters face a stark choice
between Widodo, the first
serious presidential con-
tender without deep roots
in the Suharto era and seen
as likely to strengthen
democracy, and Prabowo
Subianto, who critics fear
may shift Indonesia back
towards authoritarian rule.
Since Suhartos downfall
in 1998 after a three-decade
dictatorship, Indonesia has
transformed into a free-
wheeling democracy.
However, corruption has
flourished among the new
political class, and nostal-
gia is growing in some
quarters for a return to an
era of stronger rule.
This is going to be an
election that determines
whether Indonesia moves
forward or starts to look
backwards, said Paul Row-
land, an independent
political analyst based in
the capital Jakarta.
Several months ago
Widodo, known by his
nickname Jokowi, looked
Suharto
looms
large in
election
May Titthara
Kampong Chhnang
A
T LEAST one person
was beaten uncon-
scious and more than
a dozen injured yes-
terday in Kampong Chhnang
provinces Kampong Tralach
district during violent clashes
between villagers and armed
representatives of a company
owned by the wife of Minister of
Mines and Energy Suy Sem.
About 100 employees of KDC
Company, armed with scythes,
slingshots and iron balls,
descended on Ta Ches com-
munes Lorpeang village, where
residents had blocked them
from moving land markers and
clearing land in an apparent
attempt to extend the compa-
nys concession. Another 200
mixed security forces surround-
ed the area, waiting to arrest
villagers who clashed with the
company employees.
The law is implemented only
for the poor. We just try to pro-
tect our land, but they rush to
pick us up like we are criminals,
villager Om Sophy said. We

Face-off turns violent
Protesters beaten by workers from rm owned by ministers wife
A group of villagers hold their
ground in an attempt to stop
a bulldozer from clearing
land yesterday in Kampong
Chhnangs Kampong Tralach
district. HENG CHIVOAN
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Sen David and Sean Teehan
CHAINING a 4-year-old to a
post inside a house for eight
hours per day does not con-
stitute serious abuse, Koh
Kongs police chief said yester-
day, explaining why a woman
who subjected her adoptive
daughter to such treatment
for two years was not arrested
and charged.
Police removed the girl, who
is now in a Ministry of Social Af-
fairs shelter, from the home on
Friday after rights group Adhoc
led a police complaint. The
group was alerted to the situa-
tion by a fellow resident of the
house in Khemarak Phoumin
towns Smach Meanchey com-
mune, which shelters as many
as 60 farmers.
The woman admitted to
chaining the girl for eight
hours each day while she
worked at a plantation.
I think that child abuse is
torture, beatings, things like
this, Koh Kong provincial po-
lice chief Sam Khitveth told
the Post. This is abuse, but
not serious.
Police questioned the
woman, who took the girl as
collateral for a loan the girls
birth mother borrowed from
the woman about two years
ago, on Friday, but released
her after she signed a docu-
ment promising not to repeat
the behaviour.
Khitveth yesterday acknowl-
edged that the woman signed
a similar document last year,
when another complaint was
lodged against her.
We are still not going to de-
tain her. We will give her one
more chance, Khitveth said.
She is poor and uneducated,
and the girl did not suffer any
wounds.
His statements came after
a joint press conference with
Adhoc, at which the rights
group called for her arrest.
Police claimed they pit-
ied the woman because she
is very poor, a widow and did
not mistreat or beat [the girl],
but chained her up inside the
house every day, Neang Bo-
ratino, an Adhoc coordinator
in Koh Kong said. It really is
child abuse. She chained the
girl alone inside the house.
Legal expert Sok Sam
Oeun said its difcult to
tell whether chaining the
girl constituted child abuse,
since the woman said she did
it so the child would not get
lost or drown. But she should
receive some sort of pen-
alty since she was previously
warned, he said.
Article 17 of Criminal Code
denes abuse as intentional
threat against life, harassment
against personal integrity and
sexual harassment.
Chaining toddler not
serious abuse: ofcial
A 4-year-old girl sits with her leg chained to the pillar of a house in Koh
Kong province on Friday. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Thai health checks concern
Laignee Barron

O
N THE road back to
legal employment in
Thailand, Cambo-
dian migrant work-
ers are being made to undergo
check-ups that have them
cough, strip and give blood
and urine samples to prove
they are physically and men-
tally sound enough to work in
the country.
Obtaining a workers per-
mit, Thailands junta has an-
nounced, is contingent upon
passing compulsory, 500-baht
($15) health screenings and
buying 1,600-baht insurance.
The health stipulations
arent new in fact, the rates
are reduced but the efforts
to strictly enforce them have
taken on a novel fervour since
the military government an-
nounced its social reforms to
stymie rampant trafcking and
abuse of foreign labourers.
Yesterday, Thailands 22 new-
ly launched one-stop service
centres began registering eets
of foreign workers, the accep-
tance of each applicant incum-
bent on background checks,
medical screenings and permit
requests, each step processed
in the same paperwork- and
labourer-swamped ofce.
According to WHO, the Thai
Ministry of Health has ordered
workers seeking yearlong per-
mits to be screened for am-
phetamine abuse and major
illnesses, including syphilis,
leprosy, lariasis, and, through
a chest X-ray, tuberculosis. Fe-
male migrants are also given a
pregnancy test, and if found to
be pregnant, the policy stipu-
lates that they be sent home.
Since there is no translation,
workers consent to the whole
barrage can only be assumed,
Omsin Boonlert, or Plaii, a
Chang Mai-based research of-
cer for the Mekong Migration
Network, said.
Its not voluntary, but the
workers arent told what will
happen once they cross the
border or what the doctors will
do, Plaii said. Its a violation
of the workers rights to bypass
properly informed consent.
But no one seems to know
what all the workers could be
consenting to. Upon crossing
the border, a labourers trek
back to Thailand begins with
an 80-baht temporary identi-
cation card doled out at newly
created coordinating centres.
Employers then retrieve the
freshly arrived workers from
the checkpoint, and within
60 days must take them to a
one-stop centre to request a
longer-term permit, where the
requisite tests are undertaken
and fees levied.
After the health check, mi-
grants are ltered into one of
three categories: pass with no
health issue; pass with con-
trollable illness; or fail due to
being unt for work, infected
with a contagious disease,
demonstrating signs of alco-
holism or amphetamine ad-
diction or affected by a mental
disorder. The policy stipulates
that sick workers will be re-
ferred to receive treatment
before further coordination
with other relevant authorities
for deportation, according to
Aree Moungsookjareou at the
WHO. But in reality, treatment
isnt always so duly meted out.
[The failed workers] arent
issued a permit and will not
be allowed back to where they
were living in Thailand. They
are immediately deported,
said Plaii. Theres no consul-
tation, no follow-up scheduled
and no treatment arranged.
They just check, and charge.
The whole system has little
interest in patient privacy: the
prodded and pricked work-
ers have no choice over male
or female doctor, and a nurse
hands out the results in a Thai
printout that is passed around
to other government agents
and indiscriminately shared
with employers, who dont al-
ways take the news lightly.
Sometimes, employers will
terminate a contract based on
medical results, Dr Nang Sarm
Phong of World Vision Interna-
tional Thailand said. Its not
legal . . . but it still happens.
In addition to the lack of
informed consent, migra-
tion and public health moni-
tors worry that the cost of the
compulsory health check and
health insurance is still pro-
hibitive for recently crossed
and often penniless migrants,
and may prove a continued
barrier to the new legalisation
incentives. The screening, in-
surance and permit alone run
a total 3,000 baht, or more
than one months wages for
some workers.
Taken in isolation, its not so
expensive, but its still an addi-
tional cost . . . the passport, the
visa, the transportation, the
broker fee, the identication
card, the health insurance . . .
those are all expenses 100 per
cent borne by the employee,
not the employer, Bangkok-
based migrant expert Andy
Hall said.
But if workers dont have
insurance or undergo health
checks, the state ends up foot-
ing the costly burden for mi-
grants health. In 2012, Thai-
lands Public Health Ministry
estimated it shouldered 300
million baht worth of unpaid
migrant worker hospital fees.
Everyone, including the
migrant workers who helps
fuel the countrys economic
growth, should have health
coverage. Its just a question of
who pays for it, said Hall.
And for now at least, Thai-
land is continuing to direct the
bill to its foreign workers. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY KIM SAROM
Cambodian migrant workers hold identication documents and a Thai-Cambodia border pass at a border
checkpoint near the town of Poipet in Banteay Meanchey province at the end of last month. HONG MENEA
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Villagers banned from land
Phan Imex dispute to court
Phak Seangly
ABOUT 100 families in Oddar Meanchey prov-
inces Samrang district have sought intervention
from rights group Adhoc to help resolve a dispute
involving land they say the government granted
them in 2006.
We have been denied access to more than
half of [our collective] 772 hectares, including
my 3 hectares, a villager, who asked to remain
anonymous for fear of reprisal from local
authorities, said.
The authorities said that if someone steps on
the land, they will clear the crops, he said, add-
ing that the provincial Ministry of Agriculture
office had originally allocated the 772 hectares
of community forest to the 142 families to avoid
future land disputes.
Srey Naren, provincial coordinator for Adhoc,
told the Post yesterday that villagers had already
submitted a petition and were preparing a formal
complaint calling for intervention.
We will begin investigating once they have
submitted the formal complaint to us, he said,
adding that 85 villagers had submitted thumb-
printed petitions to provincial authorities
last week.
Provincial community forest chief Sar Thlay
said the area of community forest had been
carved out for families in 2006.
Cheab Tob, a commune chief in Samrang dis-
trict, dismissed villagers claims.
In that village, some of the land is covered by
forest, so we marked it to tell villagers to stop
clearing it, Tob said.
We did not measure or cut [off locals from]
their land for anyone rich or any top government
official, he added.
Chhay Channyda
A COMMUNE chief and nine
villagers accused of trespassing
on development firm Phan
Imexs land in Kandal prov-
inces Ponhea Leu district have
been summonsed to appear in
the provincial court.
The complaint filed to Kan-
dal province prosecutor Vong
Bun Visoth calls the family rep-
resentatives to appear in court
between July 21 and July 24
over allegations they are occu-
pying land legally owned by
the company.
Ponhea Leu commune chief
You Phat said the summons
included other allegations.
The summons reads that I
am a suspect. [Owner] Suy
Sophan filed a complaint and
accused me of occupying other
peoples real estate, refusing to
recognise a land title issued by
a provincial cadastral authority
[in favour of] the company, and
of using violence, Phat said.
Phan Imex, owned by tycoon
Sophan, who could not be
reached yesterday, gained
international notoriety after
the public and violent eviction
of residents of the Borei Keila
community in Phnom Penhs
Prampi Makara district.
The court complaint was
originally filed at the end of
April, when villagers blocked
nearby National Road 5 in
response to the company erect-
ing markers on the land,
Phat added.
The company then presented
villagers with documents it said
proved ownership of the land,
but the villagers claimed one
was a forgery and two others
were land titles for other areas
in the district.
In March, members of the 10
families sold 3 hectares of the
land, prompting Phan Imex to
pursue legal action, according
to Kum Saret, 66, who was one
of those summoned.
He denied the charges.
We did not sell other peo-
ples land. We only sold our
land. The company has 6 hec-
tares of land adjacent to
National Road 5, while our land
is 50 metres away from the
national road, Saret said.
Phay Bunchheoun, Kandal
provincial governor, said that
he would try to negotiate a set-
tlement between the company
and villagers.
Once I receive the docu-
ments in my hand, I will take
action by calling . . . Suy Sophan
and the commune chief to set-
tle the dispute, he said.
Vong Sokheng
THE Senate yesterday passed
three laws in a half-day ses-
sion, it said in a statement, de-
spite a boycott by Sam Rainsy
Party senators.
The National Strategic Devel-
opment Plan 2014-2018, a guid-
ing government policy docu-
ment that calls for nearly $27
billion in spending and invest-
ment over the next ve years,
was one of the laws passed.
The others were a law on le-
gal cooperation between Cam-
bodia and Vietnam and an ex-
tradition treaty with Vietnam.
All were passed on June 26
by the National Assembly,
which remains home to only
ruling CPP parliamentarians.
The Senate examined and
absolutely agreed [to approve
the three laws] without chang-
es with 42 senators [voting],
Senate secretary-general Um
Sarith said in a statement.
But Kong Kom, an SRP sena-
tor, said 11 opposition sena-
tors boycotted the session
because the laws had been
passed by a single-party
National Assembly. We dont
want to [approve] the illegiti-
mate National Assembly.
Laws pass
in Senate,
minus SRP
School boss arrested in sting
Will Jackson
Siem Reap
T
HE founder of an informal
English-language school who
police allege allowed pedo-
philes access to children un-
der his care was arrested in Siem Reap
yesterday in an operation involving
four different government agencies
and an NGO.
Long Ven, 33, who goes by the name
Waha, founded the Underprivileged
Children School in Knapau communes
Sambat village in 2008. The school of-
fers English classes to about 60 chil-
dren from the surrounding area.
The head of Phnom Penhs Child
Protection Unit (CPU), former Austra-
lian Federal Police (AFP) ofcer James
McCabe, said the investigation began
about ve months ago after a former
foreign volunteer at the school made
a complaint that children were being
made available to pedophiles.
The CPU is a joint venture between
the Cambodian Childrens Fund and
the National Police.
McCabe said that Ven, a former
monk, had also illegally solicited do-
nations for the school, which was not
registered with any provincial or na-
tional authorities, while falsely telling
donors that it was an orphanage.
He said the suspect was still being
questioned by police last night but
faced potential charges of illegally
running an NGO, fraud and trafcking
children. McCabe added that the local
police were also liaising with foreign
authorities regarding the case.
We believe at least two boys have
been sexually assaulted by foreign male
volunteers at the school, he said.
Working undercover yesterday, Mc-
Cabe and another Westerner assisting
police who requested anonymity met
Ven at the Siem Reap Foreign Corre-
spondents Club cafe. The suspect was
then arrested by plainclothes police.
Ven smiled as he was led away, until
he was put into an unmarked SUV.
About 16 students were interviewed
by child protection ofcers at the Sam-
bat Village school, a wooden building
with a concrete oor, English-teaching
posters on the walls and a small con-
crete library. Four other teenage boys
were also interviewed after being
picked up from an apartment rented
by Ven in Siem Reap.
Investigators and representatives
from the Ministry of Interiors An-
ti-Human Trafcking and Juvenile
Protection Department, Siem Reap
Anti-Human Trafcking and Juvenile
Protection Department, the Siem Reap
prosecutors ofce and the Ministry of
Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Re-
habilitation were involved in the sting.
Brigadier General Sok Reaksmey,
the deputy director of the Ministry of
Interiors Anti-Human Trafcking and
Juvenile Protection Department, said
each agency had a role to play.
He cited as an example the need for
child protection ofcers to care for and
offer counselling to any victims discov-
ered during the operation.
Working alone in isolation from
other stakeholders, it can be difcult
to succeed in our operations, he said.
Phet Khan, 47, whose two girls aged 6
and 15 years both attended the school,
said she never had any worries about
sending them there.
I never thought there was anything
to be concerned about, Khan said.
[Waha] seems to be a good person.
A 74-year-old man who identied
himself only as Long said his daughter
taught at the school and he had never
heard of any problems there.
However, he said Waha had helped ar-
range marriages between local women,
including widows and foreigners.
Long Ven (centre), founder of the Underprivileged Children School, is placed in a car after
authorities took him into custody yesterday in Siem Reap. GEORGE NICKELS
We did not sell
other peoples land.
We only sold our
land
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Cigarette
theft case
in court
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
T
WO Westerners charged
with stealing nearly
$2,000 worth of ciga-
rettes from a shopping
mall over the course of two
weeks could spend up to three
years in prison if found guilty.
American national Jeffrey
Alan Adams, 51, and Dutchman
Johan Becker stand accused of
swiping more than 170 cartons
(containing 1,700 packs holding
34,000 cigarettes) from Paragon
Supermarket in the capitals
Daun Penh district between
February 20 and March 2.
In addition to possible prison
time, defendants are on the line
for nearly $5,000 s $1,963 to
cover the value of the cigarettes
stolen and $3,000 in additional
compensation.
Police took Adams into cus-
tody at his rental house on March
8, while Becker was arrested at
the scene of the alleged crime
the day before. Both remain in
Prey Sar prison.
Prosecutors played security
footage allegedly showing the
duo stealing cigarette cartons.
Becker admitted to theft, but
said he only took six cartons. A
verdict is due on July 31.
History repeating?
Rainsy may
time return
for July 19
J
ULY 19 will mark one year
since opposition leader
Sam Rainsy returned from
years of self-imposed exile
in Paris after being granted a
royal pardon for an 11-year jail
sentence, paving the way to his
partys unprecedented gains in
national elections just over a
week later.
According to a high-level
Cambodia National Rescue Party
source, Rainsy, who is currently
abroad in Europe, is expected to
time his return to Cambodia to
coincide with that anniversary, a
move that could see thousands
again throng the airport as they
did a year ago.
The party will arrange the
one-year anniversary of Mr Sam
Rainsys arrival and thousands
of people will go to greet [him]
at the airport on the 19th in the
same way that they did on July
19 last year, said the ofcial,
who requested anonymity.
But CNRP spokesman Yem
Ponharith said that plans for an
anniversary celebration were yet
to be organised and that a return
date for Rainsy had not been set.
Rainsy himself denied the
claim in an email: There is no
such plan, he said. MEAS SOKCHEA
Face-off in K Chhnang turns violent
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were afraid of being arrested this
morning; military police raided
our houses. But we stopped
them and seized one shield, one
baton and one walkie-talkie.
They did it to provoke us to use
violence so that it would make it
easy to arrest us.
KDC employees attempted
to ban the Post and other jour-
nalists and rights organisa-
tions from entering the area
yesterday.
When the clashes broke out at
about 4:30pm, the Post wit-
nessed one of the company
workers, armed with a slingshot
and scythe, rush to beat a wom-
an standing in front of an exca-
vator in an attempt to prevent it
from clearing land.
Sophy said that despite pleas
to come to their aid, authori-
ties had refused to help the
villagers.
The authorities protect the
company, and they just wait to
arrest people when they have a
chance. We are willing to die in
our houses, she said.
Yesterdays violence was just
the latest in a long-running dis-
pute, which began in 2007 when
KDC International bulldozed
145 hectares of farmland in the
village without compensating
local residents.
Siv Chanthy, a young officer
dressed in blue who stood with
the police, soldiers and mili-
tary police surrounding the
area, said the forces were
deployed there to implement
an arrest warrant.
We just came here to imple-
ment the warrant, but I do not
know how many people will be
picked up, he said.
I am damn bored and its a
waste of time. I cannot beat peo-
ple. What I am afraid of is that the
people and the company work-
ers will beat one another, because
all the workers have scythes. I do
not know when we will be
ordered to withdraw.
Prak Vuthy, Kampong Chhnang
provincial police chief, could not
be reached yesterday, while
Chhouk Vandoeun, Kampong
Chhnang provincial governor,
declined to comment.
KDC representative Thai Hy
also declined to comment.
Brother, I cannot answer
related to that matter, he said.
Chan Soveth, a senior inves-
tigator at rights group Adhoc,
said the authorities had an obli-
gation to protect people living
in the area.
The warrant seems to pro-
tect the company so it can grab
peoples land, and they ignore
it when the workers use vio-
lence against the people. We
would like the authorities to
stop their irregularities and find
a solution that is accepted by
both sides, he said.
Villagers throw sand at KDC employees as they charge forward during a clash over land yesterday in
Kampong Chhnang provinces Kampong Tralach district. HENG CHIVOAN
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Accusation prompts
fresh Cintri walkout
Pech Sotheary
HUNDREDS of workers of
Phnom Penhs sole refuse col-
lection company went on strike
yesterday to demand better
working conditions after a
driver was accused of stealing
petrol from the employer.
Prak Sokha, a representative
of the striking Cintri workers,
said the protest began after
the company accused one of
its drivers of siphoning petrol
from the rubbish trucks.
According to Sokha, Cintri
asked police to arrest the man
whom he declined to name
out of fear for his safety and
ordered security guards to
threaten to shoot him.
Furthermore, Sokha claimed
that the company regularly
allows drivers to siphon leftover
gas from their vehicles at the
end of the workday, a claim Cin-
tri refused to confirm or deny.
Drivers do not [steal] the
fuel. It is said that if some
remains after . . . working
hours, the fuel in the vehicle
can be siphoned, he said.
Following the incident, about
100 workers gathered outside
Cintris headquarters in the
capital yesterday morning, call-
ing for the company to meet at
least four of its 10 demands for
improved working conditions.
The four salient points are
$10 for accommodation, $15 for
travel, $10 for health care and
an annual bonus, Sokha said.
According to Sokha, the
majority of Cintris 1,000
employees did not show up for
work yesterday.
In a bid to negotiate, Cintri
said it would allow drivers to
take 2 litres of petrol a day but
refused to agree to any of the
four demands, said Trade
Union Federation for Increas-
ing Khmer Employees Life-
styles president Mom Sarorn,
who attended the talks.
The company requests that
workers return to work first, but
they have not, because they
want the company to answer
their four demands first.
Seng Solyda, deputy director
of Cintri, said the company was
working to find a solution, while
Ministry of Labour spokesman
Heng Sour said the government
would intervene if necessary.
If the workers do not agree,
the ministry will help settle
it, he said.
Yesterdays strike follows
similar action in February,
when rubbish was left to pile
up for four days while workers
called for higher wages and
better working conditions.
Abused maid awaits return
Sen David and Kevin Ponniah
A
WOMAN who was taking part in
a pilot scheme to place Cambo-
dian maids in Singapore is wait-
ing to be repatriated after being
molested at her employers home and
allegedly mistreated by a recruitment firm,
she said yesterday.
Lok Samean, 34, was initially made to
sleep in the same room as an elderly man
who molested her twice, she said, before
she asked the agency for a transfer.
Samean said that after her new employ-
er did not let her use a phone she returned
to live and work at recruiter Nation
Employment, where she alleges she was
treated badly for months.
It was a very difficult time, because I
did not have enough food. Every day, I
just had a little bit of rice and cabbage
with water and salt. The food looked like
pigs food, she said.
Nations managing director, Gary Chin,
rejected those claims yesterday, inviting a
Post reporter to visit its boarding house in
Singapore and interview workers there.
By then, the truth will speak by itself,
he said, going on to say that Samean had
lived at Nation for only a month before
fleeing to an NGO-run shelter and forgo-
ing a transfer.
Samean recently decided to withdraw a
police complaint she filed against the man
who molested her, she said, because she
just wants to return home.
If I file a complaint, I must stay here for
six months without any work.
Last week, two other Cambodian maids
were repatriated from Singapore citing
overly strenuous working conditions.
But Lao Ly Hock, general manager at
Philimore Cambodia, which sent both
Samean and these maids to Singapore,
said that only a small percentage of about
250 Cambodian maids had encountered
these problems.
We cannot do it 100 per cent perfect . . .
I am now waiting for a letter from Nation
and the employers to explain what hap-
pened to the maids. I am also wondering
why the maids had to work 16-hour days
without any rest days, he said.
Ly Hock also accused rights groups like
Licadho of not allowing returning maids to
speak to agents before going to the press.
Licadho investigator Am Sam Ath said
yesterday that NGOs step in because
agents are not doing enough.
The Cambodian Embassy in Singapore
said in an email on Friday that it was pro-
viding consular assistance to all Cambo-
dian maids, including Samean.
It said that in general maids were well
treated and received but admitted that
some Singaporean employers could be
demanding and that quite a few maids
had complained of overwork and inade-
quate rest.
Trainee maids practise domestic duties at the training facility of recruitment agency Philimore
Cambodia in Phnom Penh last year. PHA LINA
National
6
Walk, dont run, the
message for dealers
PATROLLING police in Tbong
Khum province didnt know
why two men ran from them
on Sunday, but gave chase
anyway, thinking the duo
must have something to hide.
Sure enough, the Tbong
Khum district officers found
and confiscated two bags of
methamphetamine that the
young hoods were trying to
sell. The busted sellers have
been sent to court. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Gung-ho gun owners
aimed a little too high
RATANAKKIRI town police
busted a total of seven men
for irresponsible gun owner-
ship on Saturday, after inci-
dent reports pointed to two
different houses with illegal
weapons. In the first house,
three people kept three guns
illegally. In the second house,
worried neighbours called
police after five men next door
started shooting rounds into
the sky with two different
guns. Police sent all seven
men to court. DEUM AMPIL
Police behooved to get
truth from cow rustlers
TWO Kampot cow thieves
were udderly out of excuses
when police stopped them on
Sunday. Earlier the same
morning, the two suspects
pilfered one of two cows from
under a Kampot town resi-
dents house. The woman
awoke to find one less beast
to feed and called police. Not
too far away, officers stopped
two men and a cow en route
to Phnom Penh, and though
the men claimed to have just
bought the cow, police even-
tually milked the truth out of
them. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Diamond heist nets
jewels worth $15k
A DIABOLICAL diamond thief
hit the jackpot in the capital
on Sunday, netting what was
supposedly $15,000 worth of
jewellery from one treasure
trove. While the victim, a
31-year-old man, went to pick
up his son and then attend a
relatives gathering, the bur-
glar broke into their Thmey
district house. When the son
and father arrived home, they
found the place in disarray
and the victims wife missing
all her jewellery. The police
are still looking for a bling-
toting suspect. DEUM AMPIL
Wedding blues turn to
justice after moto theft
A WEDDING party in the capi-
tal on Thursday didnt leave
one guest in high spirits, but
a just ending a few days later
turned out to be in the cards.
As the woman drove her
moto home from the party
she was stopped by three
men on another moto
demanding she hand over her
wheels. She reported the
suspects to police, who three
days later caught the trio at
bar in Phnom Penhs Sen Sok
district and quickly made an
arrest before returning the
stolen ride. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
BLOTTER
Six tried
over meth
trafcking
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
S
IX Cambodian men were
tried in the capital yes-
terday for drug traffick-
ing, after cops seized
half a kilogram of methamphet-
amine during a raid on a rental
house in October last year.
No Rorinvann, 19; Ry Soul-
supply, 21; Abdul Rozeth, 20;
Matt Roza, 24; Chea Zulkiphkly,
21; and Sem Sambo, 31, were
arrested in Meanchey district
on October 19, according to
presiding judge Sous Sam Ath.
They were arrested when
police raided their rental house
and while they were using
drugs, he said.
Hy Narin, a police chief in
Meanchey district, said yester-
day that the six were sought
after by authorities for many
months before their arrest.
Authorities seized 35 pack-
ages of methamphetamine and
two drug scales, he added.
The six men admitted to
being drug users in court yes-
terday but denied being drug
traffickers. We bought the
seized drugs for our own use,
Abdul Rozeth said.
The verdict is slated to be
delivered on August 1.
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King Norodom Sihamoni called for a renewed commitment to conservation yesterday during a tree-planting ceremony in Takeos Bati district in
celebration of National Forest Day. Speaking to a crowd of about a thousand villagers, civil servants and senior government ofcials, the King
appealed to national and international donors and development partners to provide technical and nancial resources towards perfecting reform
of the forestry sector. All citizens, he added, should work to protect Cambodias national resources. A University of Maryland report released last
year shows that Cambodia has lost a third of its forest coverage since 1973, while other recent reports suggest illegal logging has been on the rise
in recent years. Chheng Kim Sun, a Forestry Administration director attending yesterdays ceremony, said the government intended to plant trees
spanning about 20-25 hectares during the course of the celebration. VONG SOKHENG/PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Companies warned over slow development of ELCs
Chan Muyhong
PROVINCIAL government officials in
Stung Treng have warned companies
granted economic land concessions
(ELCs) in the province to fulfil their
promised development plans or face
losing their rights to the land.
Touch Thea, director of the Stung
Treng provincial department of agri-
culture, said the call for firms to
deliver on their promises was made
at a meeting with 12 companies.
It followed a recent evaluation by
the National Assembly-Senate Rela-
tions and Inspection Ministry which
revealed that some of them were lag-
ging in their agreed-upon ELC com-
mitments, Thea said.
The meeting was to find out why
some companies are running behind
their schedule plantation as planned.
We are going to create a working
group of the relevant department to
control over the granted ELC.
For the first step, provincial offi-
cials will inform and encourage those
companies to put more effort into
speeding up their plantation. We will
report to the ministry of agriculture
and the government, in the worst
case, to take back the ELC rights.
Thea said the ultimate purpose of
an ELC is to provide jobs and pros-
perity for local communities.
The department director declined to
name the companies called to the meet-
ing, but a 2013 provincial investment
report from the Council for the Devel-
opment of Cambodia (CDC) shows
there are just 12 ELCs in Stung Treng.
They are granted to Cassaca Processing
Co Ltd, Sal Sopheap Peanich Co Ltd,
Sopheaknica Investment Industrial Co
Ltd, Phumady Investment Group Co
Ltd, GG World Group (Cambodia)
Development Co Ltd, Grand Land Agri-
culture Co Ltd, Green Sea Agriculture
Co Ltd, Siv Guek Investment Co Ltd,
Cambodia Research Mine and Develop-
ment Co Ltd, Un-Inter Trading and
Development Co Ltd, Bonarita Stung
Treng Co Ltd and Sok Heng Co Ltd.
The 12 companies ELCs total
177,850 hectares for the development
of large agricultural plantations,
including of cassava, rosewood, cash-
ew nuts, acacia trees and rubber.
The Mong Reththy Group, owner of
Green Sea Agriculture (GSA), has the
greatest share of concessions in the
province, according to a list of ELCs
from the Ministry of Agriculture. The
list shows that the group was granted
over 100,000 hectares in 2001 to plant
acacia, rubber, cassava, sugarcane
and jatropha, which is used to pro-
duce oil for biodiesel.
According to the Mong Rethythy
Group website, the company has cul-
tivated 1,200 hectares of this land
only slightly over 1 per cent of their
total concession area.
For why the company is late in
getting plantation to cover most of
the area, the answer is short: because
we do not have money. We are work-
ing to gather funding, the groups
president and CEO, Mong Reththy,
said yesterday.
Ouch Leng, director of the Cambodian
Human Rights Task Force, said there has
yet to be a good example set in the use
of ELCs, and that the concession policy
offers fewer pros than cons.
It is obvious that Cambodia is los-
ing economically by granting ELCs
with good forests which are worth
billions of dollars in exchange for
only $2 to $5 per hectare, he said.
The expected result of an ideal
ELC on paper shows that it benefits
people, but in reality ELCs are hurting
people in the community and only
serving a group of people who have
power and are corrupt, he added.
Leng pointed to two companies
Sal Sophea Peanich and Sopheaknika
Investment Industrial that have
already been involved in cases of land
conflict with claims of encroachment
on traditional land.
Neither company could be reached
yesterday. Steng Treng Governor Kol
Somol declined to comment.
Malaysia
Airlines in
for nancial
turbulence
A DAY after a stormy annual
general meeting where minor-
ity shareholders demanded the
resignation of the board and
management team of Malaysia
Airlines (MAS) and denied
directors their fees initially, the
airlines biggest union has tak-
en the opportunity to protest
outside the headquarters of the
beleaguered national carrier.
The employees union was
demanding not for the first
time the top three MAS exec-
utives resign, signalling a grow-
ing lack of confidence within
the organisation and outside.
MAS has lost money for four
consecutive quarters, and the
fallout from the still-unsolved
disappearance of Flight MH370
has exacerbated its problems.
Worse, it does not even have a
business plan in place.
The frustration of the carriers
minority shareholders is under-
standable for five of the past
10 years the books of MAS have
been stained with red. It posted
a first-quarter net loss of 443
million ringgit ($139 million).
The situation will not improve
in the next two to three quar-
ters as the airline is seeing a fall
in demand. It has had to cancel
nearly 1,000 flights in the post-
MH370 period. MAS has been
reduced to a penny stock.
Following the general meet-
ing, CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya
did not deny that the airline was
looking at job cuts and even
bankruptcy. We are looking at
all possibilities, he said.
Bankruptcy would certainly
help MAS erase the legacy of
lopsided contracts and a bloat-
ed workforce. It remains to be
seen whether the government
has the political will for such a
radical step. BANGKOK POST
Investors waiting out deadlock
Daniel de Carteret

A
RESOLUTION to
Cambodias year-
long political stand-
off would spur a new
wave of foreign investors to
eye the Kingdom, US Ambas-
sador to Cambodia William
Todd said yesterday.
Todd was speaking at a joint
press conference with Minis-
ter of Commerce Sun Chan-
thol after a ve-day trade
mission by the two to the US
aimed at promoting Cambo-
dia as a destination for foreign
investment.
The ambassador said many
companies were poised to
invest in Cambodia but were
waiting for the political dead-
lock following last years July
election to be broken.
Frankly, I think companies
are looking for a resolution,
and once there is a resolu-
tion, I believe that the market
is going to take off, and at that
point many businesses will
come, Todd said.
Since the July 28, 2013, vote,
the opposition Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party has refused
to take its seats at the National
Assembly, alleging widespread
corruption and electoral fraud.
Stop-start negotiations to end
the deadlock have so far failed
to nd a resolution agreeable
to both parties.
Speaking on the sidelines of
yesterdays conference, Bret-
ton Sciaroni, chairman of the
American Chamber of Com-
merce in Cambodia, who
also joined the delegation to
the US, said there were other
regional factors in the King-
doms favour.
Pointing to the coup in Thai-
land and tensions in Vietnam
over a sovereignty dispute
with China, Sciaroni said that
a resolution to Cambodias po-
litical standoff could be a big
benet for its foreign invest-
ment prospects.
I think there is a feeling that
given this years problems in
Thailand and given the prob-
lem that occurred in Vietnam,
if they had good news out of
Cambodia and the opposi-
tion came into the National
Assembly, it couldnt help but
to increase the chances for in-
vestment, he said.
Commerce Minister Chan-
thol, who met with interna-
tional rms including General
Electric, Wal-Mart, Chevron
and Microsoft during the
trade mission, said soft drink
giant Coca-Cola was close to
investing in a new plant in
Cambodia, and that stabilis-
ing the political environment
would help shore up this
commitment.
I would like to see the op-
position CNRP go to the Na-
tional Assembly. That is the
place to debate, to discuss
policy, strategy of the country.
You dont discuss strategy and
policy on the street it does
not work, he said.
The impact of the standoff
on investment has not been
lost on the opposition.
The oppositions chief whip,
Son Chhay, said: At the CNRP
we take this very seriously. We
appreciate the good compa-
nies, would like to see Cam-
bodia have a settled political
program, to give them con-
dence in investing their mon-
ey here.
Chhay said he had been in
discussions on the topic of in-
vestment with public and pri-
vate sector representatives in
Japan, Singapore and Europe.
He also asked for patience
from rms eyeing Cambodia
and said a fruitful outcome
from political negotiations
was critical to a stable busi-
ness environment.
Providing greater account-
ability of ministers through
electoral reform would give
foreign businesses more con-
dence in stronger govern-
ment institutions Chhay said.
By having a free and fair
election, having strong in-
structions in place, this is
what good investors want to
have, he said.
Most issues in the political
negotiations have been re-
solved, according to Chhay,
but the opposition is still
waiting on the ruling party to
come back with an alternative
for the two-third majority rule
that it proposed for elected
members of the National Elec-
tion Committee he said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said
last week that he was not will-
ing to budge on the rule.
A billboard advertises Coca-Cola yesterday in Phnom Penh. US Ambassador to Cambodia William Todd yesterday said that a wealth of investors
were waiting for a resolution to the countrys political stalemate. PHA LINA
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I
NDIAN equities climbed
to a new high yesterday
for the second time in less
than a week as parliament
opened ahead of a budget ex-
pected to see the announce-
ment of long-term reforms.
The Bombay Stock Ex-
changes key benchmark in-
dex, the Sensex, climbed 0.6
per cent to 26,116.73 after
reaching a high of 25,981.51
points on Friday.
People are looking at the
budget as the start point of a
continuous reform process,
explained Harendra Kumar,
head of brokerage Elara Capi-
tal in Mumbai.
Economists expect that
the budget will contain a
credible outline of steps to
steer India from a subsidy-
laden, bureaucratic culture
to a more business-friendly
investment climate.
Since claiming a landslide
election victory in May, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has
announced some tough, long-
pending measures such as a
price hike in railway fares.
While there has been a pub-
lic outcry, Indias nancial
markets have reacted posi-
tively to Modis attempts to
start overhauling an economy
saddled with slow growth and
weak public nances.
The Sensex has risen more
than 8 per cent since Modi
took ofce in June and more
than 23 per cent in 2014 as
it became increasingly likely
that his right-wing Bharatiya
Janata Party would win.
Still, analysts say Modi will
struggle to shrink a yawning
scal decit and add that he
faces the challenge of spiral-
ling ination as food prices
soar due to a weak monsoon.
We expect the main policy
push to materialise only next
year once the administration
is rmly established and has
dealt with near-term challeng-
es such as poor rains, HSBC
said in a note last week.
Once adopted, it will also
take some time before the
reforms yield their expected
growth dividend, it added.
Growth has slowed from
near double-digits a few years
ago to 4.7 per cent in 2013,
marking the second straight
year of sub-5 per cent expan-
sion, hit by high interest rates,
falling investment and wage-
eroding ination.
Modi has a tough situation
on his hands. An extra 100 mil-
lion Indians have been classed
as poor by an expert panel that
has redened the countrys
poverty benchmark after a
storm of protest.
The government-appointed
panel estimated nearly 30
per cent of Indias mammoth
population or 363 million
people were living in poverty
in 2011-2012, after raising the
poverty line proposed by the
Planning Commission, the top
economic planning body.
The commissions proposed
level dened those living on
27 rupees (45 US cents) a day
in villages and 33 rupees (55
cents) in cities as not being be-
low the poverty level, sparking
outrage from social activists.
The experts said that those
living on 32 rupees (53 cents)
in villages and 47 rupees (78
cents) in cities should be con-
sidered as living on the poverty
line, reports said. AFP
Aristocrat in deal to buy
gambling machine firm
ARISTOCRAT Leisure Ltd has
agreed to buy Video Gaming
Technologies Inc for about
$1.3 billion to triple its North
American business amid
falling profit in Australia. The
purchase of closely held
Franklin, Tennessee-based
Video Gaming Technologies
by the Sydney-based
gambling machine supplier
will be partly funded by an
underwritten institutional
placement of A$375 million
(US$351 million), Aristocrat
said in a regulatory filing. The
company will also arrange
new debt facilities totalling
almost US$1.4 billion to
finance the takeover and to
repay existing borrowings, it
said. BLOOMBERG
China-IBM partnership
aims to clear the air
INTERNATIONAL Business
Machines Corp (IBM) has
started a project to support
China in managing air quality
and energy consumption as
well as forecasting renewable-
energy supplies. Under the
project, the Armonk, New
York-based company is
cooperating with the Beijing
municipal government on a
system to determine the type,
source and level of emissions
and predict air quality in the
capital, IBM said yesterday in a
statement. BLOOMBERG
Business
8
GM sales in
China leap
up in June
GENERAL Motors Co, which
counts China as its largest
market, sold 9.1 per cent more
vehicles there in June, helped
by Buicks and Cadillacs.
China sales climbed to
257,798 units in June, the
Detroit-based company said in
a statement. Deliveries gained
10.5 per cent in the first half.
GM is vying against Volkswa-
gen Ag for the lead among for-
eign automakers in the worlds
largest auto market, with the
German manufacturer indicat-
ing it intends to maintain the
top spot. GM, which outsold
VW in the first quarter of the
year, is investing $12 billion
through 2017 in China to boost
its plants and products.
Deliveries of Buick vehicles in
June rose 14 per cent from a
year earlier, while Chevrolet
sales climbed 1.5 per cent.
Cadillac saw a 46 per cent
increase last month and a 72
per cent surge in the first six
months. GM expects a better
second half, estimating that it
will sell more than 70,000
Cadillac vehicles this year,
according to John Stadwick,
vice president of vehicle sales,
service and marketing for GM
China. BLOOMBERG
A man looks at a Bombay Stock Exchange ticker board. BLOOMBERG
Indian stocks
hit fresh high
before budget
Markets
9
Business
FOREIGN investors in Myan-
mar will be allowed to team up
with local partners to nance
private hospitals, clinics and
laboratories, the Ministry of
Health has revealed.
The decision reverses long-
standing restrictions on for-
eign investment in medical
facilities but will not come
into effect until changes are
introduced to Foreign Invest-
ment Law rules.
Dr Moe Khine, deputy di-
rector for medical care in the
Health Department, said last
week that the ministry would
support applications from
prospective foreign investors
but they would also have to
get a licence from the Myan-
mar Investment Commission.
[Foreign investors] can
apply for permission to the
ministry by getting their local
partner to submit an applica-
tion to a township health of-
ce, Moe Khine said. But the
main point is they need to have
an MIC business licence.
The previous law governing
foreign direct investment, is-
sued in 1988 did not allow in-
vestment in the health sector,
according to Tin Myint from
Peace Law Firm.
The Health Department
said Yangons Parami hospi-
tal and Thai investors have
already applied for permis-
sion to enter into a joint in-
vestment agreement, but the
MIC has so far refused to is-
sue the licences.
A spokesperson for the Di-
rectorate of Investment and
Company Administration said
that no licences would be is-
sued to foreign rms applying
to invest in the health services
sector until a review of For-
eign Investment Law rules has
been completed.
Some investors are apply-
ing to invest in health services
but we will not authorise them
until the governments Foreign
Investment Law rule changes
are announced, said DICA di-
rector San San Myint.
The rule changes are ex-
pected to be issued at the end
of July and could limit or re-
duce the types of businesses
in which foreign investors can
engage, sources say.
However, the existing rules,
issued as a notication on
January 31, 2013, do not spe-
cically restrict investment
in health services, including
hospitals and clinics. Rather,
they state that the investor
must obtain and comply with
guidance from the Ministry of
Health. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Myanmar hospitals set
for foreign investment
Junta to lay out reform plan
Phusadee Arunmas

T
HE Thai Chamber
of Commerce (TCC)
is set to present ac-
tion plans that focus
on foreign workers, special
economic zones and facilitat-
ing border trade. They will be
discussed by a meeting of the
Joint Public-Private Consulta-
tive Committee on July 16.
The big issue is to reduce the
inequitable income of Thai
people by focusing on the
farming sector, where incomes
are much lower than in the in-
dustrial sector.
In the medium term, the
chamber will propose agri-
cultural reform that includes
more use of technology to in-
crease efciency and reduce
losses during harvesting.
Somkiat said the TCC has
also pledged to help initiate
additional careers for small-
scale farmers, mainly through
community enterprises.
Together with the Board of
Trade and the University of the
Thai Chamber of Commerce,
the TCC has implemented
the One Rai, 100,000 baht
scheme over the past two years
to help raise farmers income.
The scheme provides practi-
cal advice on how rice farm-
ers can cut chemical use and
input costs and raise produc-
tivity to potentially boost their
earnings to 100,000 baht.
TCC chairman Isara Vongku-
solkij said its key proposal in-
cludes a request for the junta
to establish special economic
zones, mainly in Mae Sot in
Tak province and Chiang Saen,
Chiang Khong and Mae Sai in
Chiang Rai province, and de-
velop more offshore ports to
reduce logistics costs.
The chamber will also call for
the promotion of border and
cross-border trade by extend-
ing working time at key check-
points, facilitating the entry of
tourists, amending laws and
regulations and establishing a
one-stop service that handles
not only customs procedures
but also quarantine services
for plants and animals.
Isara said another important
issue is how to develop value
chains of farm products and
promote renewable energy
and bioplastics based on pro-
duce such as sugar cane , tapi-
oca, maize and oil palm.
Last week, the TCC called on
the military regime to urgently
look at ways to regulate the
shing industry, including reg-
istering shing boat operators
and foreign worker recruit-
ment brokers, in an attempt
to tackle labour problems and
human trafcking allegations.
Although businesses expect
limited impact from the down-
grade to Tier 3, the lowest level,
in the Trafcking in Persons
report issued last month by
the US, the report has dam-
aged the countrys export im-
age. BANGKOK POST
Farmers hit harvested rice in order to separate the grains from the plant, on a paddy eld in Chiang Mai
province. Agriculture is one area Thailands new action plan will target. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Procurement Agent
The U.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual
for the Procurement Agent position in the General Services
Ofce.
The Procurement Agent is responsible for local and overseas
procurements, ordering commodities and services using
purchase orders, delivery orders, contracts and purchase
cards. The incumbent will be required to request quotations,
analyze bids, negotiate prices, and be involved in the end to
end contracting process.
Salary: The annual salary range for this position is
USD 9,216 14,286.
Required Qualications
Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, 1.
Management, Economics, Public Administration or
Finance is required.
Three years of progressively responsible experience in 2.
the eld of procurement, contracting or purchasing is
required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English and 3.
Khmer are required. Language prociency will be tested.
Must have general ofce management and computer skills. 4.
Must be able to deal with customers with patience and 5.
tact, and to work under pressure.
Good knowledge of overseas and local market 6.
conditions and practices in terms of commodities and
service availability is required.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is July 22, 2014. Interested candi-
dates must submit applications by email to
RecruitmentPHP@state.gov using the Universal Applica-
tion for Employment as a Locally Employed Staff or Family
Member (DS-174) form. The application formand complete
details on this position can be found at http://cambodia.
usembassy.gov/employment_opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have
the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for
consideration.

Spanish factory output
up for seventh month
SPANISH industry ramped up
production in the year to May
for the seventh straight month,
official data showed yesterday,
as an economic recovery
appeared to gather pace.
Output by Spains factories and
utilities climbed 2.5 per cent in
May from a year earlier, after
correcting to smooth out
seasonal blips, the National
Statistics Institute said.
Industry appears to be
responding to a gentle pick-up
in the economy, which
emerged in mid-2013 from a
double-dip recession sparked
by a 2008 property crash. AFP
Argentine reps to hold
talks with court arbiter
ARGENTINE representatives
were to hold talks with a
court-appointed arbiter in
New York yesterday, hoping to
resolve an impasse over debt
payments to hedge funds as
the country faces possible
default. Argentina has refused
to pay the holdout hedge
funds, mainly NML Capital
and Aurelius Management,
because they did not join
bondholders which accepted
a 2005-2010 debt
restructuring plan which
covered 92 per cent of the
$100 billion in debt that
Argentina defaulted on in
2001. AFP
Merkel inks auto and air deals
C
HINA and Germany
signed a string of in-
vestment and trade
deals yesterday dur-
ing a visit by Chancellor Ange-
la Merkel, including two new
Volkswagen factories and the
sale of 123 Airbus helicopters.
The two countries are ex-
porting giants with Ger-
many the European Unions
biggest economy and China
the worlds second-largest
and Merkel was looking to
strengthen their economic
relationship on her three-day
visit, her seventh since com-
ing into power in 2005.
She was accompanied by ex-
ecutives from Siemens, Airbus,
Lufthansa and Deutsche Bank
among other companies, ac-
cording to German media.
According to a statement
by Volkswagen, the German
carmaker will build two new
vehicle plants in the north-
ern port city of Tianjin and
Qingdao in the east as it in-
vests 2 billion ($2.7 billion)
along with Chinese auto
manufacturer FAW.
The new plants produc-
tion capacity will be nalised
based on market demand
and relevant industrial poli-
cies, the company said.
Merkel toured a Volkswagen
factory in the southwestern
city of Chengdu on Sunday.
China has become Volk-
swagens largest and most
important market, the com-
pany said, adding the group
sold more than 1.5 million
vehicles in the country in the
rst ve months of this year,
including sales by its joint
ventures FAW Volkswagen
and Shanghai-Volkswagen,
up 17.7 per cent on year.
European aerospace giant
Airbus announced that its he-
licopter division has signed
contracts to sell a record 123
aircraft over up to six years to
three Chinese companies.
The helicopters mainly
light single-engine aircraft
from the Ecureuil family and
the light twin-engine EC135
will be used for general
aviation activities, it said in
a statement. No nancial de-
tails were provided.
It is evident that Chinas re-
laxation of its low-altitude air-
space regulations is enabling
the countrys burgeoning he-
licopter market to realise its
potential, Airbus Helicopters
CEO Guillaume Faury said in
the statement.
Also yesterday, German air-
line group Lufthansa said that
it had signed a memorandum
of understanding to form a
joint venture with Air China.
The new partnership, which
comes into force in October,
will provide passengers with
additional travel options and
ight connections and allow
Lufthansa to have even better
access to the second largest
aviation market after the US,
to the German carrier said.
China is a crucial mass
market for Germany, with
Chinese companies wanting
its technology and millions
of newly prosperous citizens
craving German goods rang-
ing from Audi sedans to luxury
home appliances.
Merkel angered Beijing in
2007 by meeting Tibets ex-
iled spiritual leader, the Dalai
Lama, whom ruling Commu-
nist Party leaders consider a
dangerous separatist.
But, during the latest visit,
any discussion of human
rights is likely to take place
behind closed doors an ap-
proach that German ofcials
have argued can be more ef-
fective in China than nger-
wagging reprimands. AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speak during a joint news conference at
the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. AFP
ADM goes wild in biggest takeover
Spains Gowex in fake results scandal
ARCHER Daniels Midland Co (ADM) said
it will acquire Wild Flavors GmbH, a mak-
er of natural food ingredients, for about
2.2 billion ($3 billion) cash in what will be
the US companys biggest takeover.
Wild Flavors is being purchased from
shareholders Hans-Peter Wild and funds
affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &
Co Lp, Decatur, Illinois-based ADM said
yesterday. The buyer will also assume net
debt of about 100 million.
ADM outbid Japans Ajinomoto Co for the
maker of the Capri Sun juice drink and
natural flavourings for beverages and food,
people familiar with the matter said last
week. The takeover will help the worlds top
corn crusher diversify away from grain
processing and gain a bigger foothold in
overseas markets for food and drink made
with more natural raw materials.
ADM and Wild Flavors will create one of
the leading flavour and specialty ingredient
companies in the world, with sales
approaching $2.5 billion and significant
room to grow, ADM chairman and chief
executive officer Patricia Woertz said in the
statement. The acquisition will deliver cost
and revenue benefits of 100 million in
three years, the 61-year-old former Chev-
ron Corp executive said.
ADM traded at the equivalent of $45.97
in early Frankfurt trading, up 0.4 per cent
from the July 3 closing price in New York.
Wild Flavors has production sites across
Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the
Americas. The company provides fla-
vourings, colours and ingredients to more
than 3,000 customers in the food and bev-
erage industries. Sales were 838 million
in 2012, and are forecast to grow to about
1 billion this year, according to yester-
days statement.
Food flavours is about soft commodities,
so its a downstream arm to a commodities
trading business, said Adam Collins, an
analyst at Liberum Capital Ltd.
New York-based KKR, run by Henry
Kravis and George Roberts, bought a stake
in 2010 and now owns 35 per cent of Wild
Flavors, according to KKRs website. Wild,
whose father Rudolf Wild founded the
company in 1931, owns the rest.
In 2012, Wild Flavors bought the juice
blends business of Cargill Inc, adding
more than $200 million to its annual sales
and a platform to grow in Asia and North
America. BLOOMBERG
SPANISH free Wi-Fi provider
Lets Gowex revealed on Sun-
day its accounts have been
falsified for at least four years
and said it is filing for bank-
ruptcy protection.
Gowex, which offers Wi-Fi
services in world capitals
including Paris and New York,
made the devastating admis-
sion after days of protesting that
a US report on its operations
was incorrect and defamatory.
Gowex president Jenaro Gar-
cia Martin informed his board
the previous day that, in fact, he
had faked the companys
results, the firm said in a state-
ment released by Madrids
Alternative Equity Market.
Garcia Martin, chief execu-
tive and president, said before
several board members that
the company accounts for
at least the last four years do
not reflect the true picture,
attributing this falsehood
to himself, Gowex said.
Board members revoked the
chief executives powers and
accepted his resignation. The
board, confronted by the
expectation that the company
would not be able to cope with
its maturing current debt pay-
ments, agreed to file a volun-
tary request for bankruptcy.
Gowex had been expected to
give a detailed response yester-
day to allegations about its
operations, which had sent its
shares falling 60.2 per cent to
7.92 two days before they were
suspended from trade by
Madrids junior stock market,
the Alternative Equity Market.
US firm Gotham City
Research sparked the freefall by
publishing a highly critical
report, which had previously
been described by Gowex as
unfounded and defamatory.
Gotham City Research called
Gowex a charade and said its
revenues were far lower than
the company had reported.
Gotham City said its target
price for Gowex shares was
zero. In its 93-page report,
Gotham City said Gowexs actu-
al revenues were at most 10
per cent of those reported.
About 90 per cent of Gowexs
telecommunications revenues
came from undisclosed related
parties, Gotham City said.
Gowexs audit fee was only
40,000, far less than would be
expected for a company gener-
ating revenues of more than
180 million, the firm said.
We have evidence Gowexs
largest customer was really
itself, the report said.
After Gowex issued the state-
ment saying that Garcia Martin
had faked results, he announced
on Twitter he had made a vol-
untary confession in court.
I am willing to face the con-
sequences and cooperate with
justice, the former wealth
management manager added.
The European professional
investors association ASINVER
filed a suit on Friday against
Gowex, with the Spanish public
prosecutor making allegations
of false accounting.
Given the lack of response by
the company for requests for
more information, we had no
choice but to ask the public
prosecutor to look into the issue
because it is very likely that a
crime took place, Javier Flores
of the Spanish branch of ASIN-
VER told public television.
Gowex had issued a state-
ment on Wednesday confirm-
ing its 2013 revenues of $249
million and stressing that the
figures had been audited.
We are a high growth com-
pany that is financially stable
and very solid and we are being
attacked, Garcia Martin said
that day. AFP
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Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
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Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
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Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 292.17 -0.67 -0.23% 3:14:15
ICEGasoil USD/MT 901.75 0.5 0.06% 3:15:40
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GM crops finally
headed for EU?
Eric Randolph

W
HILE the United States,
Canada, Brazil, Argen-
tina and China and
many other countries
have warmly embraced genetically
modied crops, Europe remains the
worlds big holdout.
Could this be about to change?
New EU rules now seek to clear
up years of internal deadlock that
could, in theory, lead to widespread
cultivation of GM foods. But the ght
is far from over.
The EUs great GM debate pits two
powerful forces against each other:
green campaigners concerned about
the effect of the crops on health and
the environment, and the agribusi-
ness lobby, which argues that Eu-
rope, by resisting a technology that
boosts yields and rural incomes, is
losing its place at the forefront of ag-
ricultural innovation.
Only ve EU countries grow GM
crops at all Spain, Portugal, the
Czech Republic, Romania and Slova-
kia and in such tiny quantities that
they made up less than 0.1 per cent
of global GM cultivation last year.
Europes fragmented politics, di-
verse landscapes and smaller scale
farming traditions have made it less
compatible with the mass-farming
techniques in the Americas and Chi-
na. Only one type of GM crop a her-
bicide-resistant maize is approved
for cultivation in the EU, compared
with 96 commercial licences granted
in the US since 1990, though Europe
imports more than 30 million tonnes
of GM grain for animal feed a year.
Europe has perversely condemned
itself to importing crops which its
farmers could grow locally and ban-
ished thousands of bright scientists
to other shores for reasons that are
scientically bogus, says Brandon
Mitchener, a spokesman for Mon-
santo, one of the US agribusinesses
leading the push for GM crops.
Hoping to nd a way out of the
deadlock, EU environment minis-
ters last month approved new rules
that would permit individual coun-
tries to make their own decisions on
GM allowing them to use ethical
or public order rationales to ban
crops even when scientic advisers
have ruled that these strains are safe.
The compromise was the result of a
fraught battle, says Frederic Vincent,
spokesman for the European Com-
mission: Everyone was blocking the
agreement for different reasons. The
UK said not enough was left to sci-
ence, France said too much was left to
science, Germany was a mix of both
thanks to its complex coalition.
GM technology was not always
so controversial in Europe. Even
France, now one of its staunchest
opponents, grew GM maize well into
the 2000s until green protesters pres-
sured the government into a ban.
But Mitchener says the seeds of
Europes aversion to GM were sown
in the 1990s, thanks to two factors in
particular: the strength of the Green
Party in Germany at the crucial mo-
ment when the technology was rst
emerging, and then the scare over
mad cow disease in Britain.
Mad cow disease caused a loss
of public condence in science. You
had the British government saying
beef was safe, while the EU said the
opposite, he says.
Unlike the US Food and Drug
Administration, which commands
widespread respect in the US, equiv-
alent bodies in Europe are often
treated as pawns of industry or sim-
ply ignored, Mitchener adds.
Pro-GM scientists argue GM is not
inherently more dangerous to either
the environment or human health
than any other method of crop mu-
tation. But Greenpeace dismisses
the idea of a scientic consensus on
GM safety as a myth.
The raging debate means that the
newly minted EU deal due to go
before the European Parliament and
Council by the end of the year still
faces major obstacles. With the EU
still poring over the results of May
elections, it is unclear how the loom-
ing political battle will pan out. Even
if the GM directive passes, whether
national governments court the ire
of environmental campaigners by
permitting large-scale GM cultiva-
tion wont be known until the bridge
is crossed. AFP
Source : INRA
Genes that introduce a new function are spliced into the plants DNA
How corn is genetically modified
micro
particles
Gas
Vegetable
tissue
DNA
fragment
Bacterium
Bacterium
Gene
Gene
GMO = Genetically modified organism
A gene with the required
characteristic is extracted
from bacteria
The gene is integrated
in a fragment of DNA
from another
bacterium
The gene
is multiplied
in a bacterial
culture
Copies of the gene
are fixed onto
tungsten
microparticles
The microparticles
are blasted into vegetable
cells under gas pressure.
The gene is integrated into
cell chromosomes
Result: The plant posseses
the desired traits,
such as resistance
to insects or herbicides
Monsanto MON 810
contains a gene obtained
from Bacillsthuringiensis
(a soil bacterium),
which produces a protein
protecting against
the corn borer
Corn borer
caterpillar
DNA = Deoxyribonuceic acid
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data from
ordinary
net users
NINE out of 10 people identi-
fied in a large cache of online
conversations intercepted by
the National Security Agency
were ordinary internet users
and not foreign surveillance
targets, a news report says.
Nearly half of the surveil-
lance files were of United
States citizens or residents, the
Washington Post said of its
four-month investigation of
the trove of NSA-intercepted
electronic data provided by
fugitive NSA contractor
Edward Snowden.
The revelations are likely to
rekindle criticism in the US and
abroad of US surveillance tech-
niques and especially the NSAs
vast data sweeps, and came
after German authorities said
they had arrested a suspected
double-agent accused of spy-
ing for the United States.
Ordinary Internet users,
American and non-American
alike, far outnumber legally
targeted foreigners in the com-
munications intercepted by
the National Security Agency
from US digital networks, the
Washington Post said.
The study was based on
160,000 emails and instant
message conversations, as well
as 7,900 documents taken
from more than 11,000 online
accounts, intercepted during
President Barack Obamas first
term in office (2009-2012).
The Washington Post found
that the NSA held on to mate-
rial t hat analysts have
described as useless.
These files tell stories of
love and heartbreak, illicit
sexual l iaisons, mental-
health crises, political and
religious conversions, finan-
cial anxieties and disappoint-
ed hopes.
Some of the files however did
include discoveries of consid-
erable intelligence value.
Those files included fresh
revelations about a secret
overseas nuclear project, dou-
ble-dealing by an ostensible
ally, a military calamity that
befell an unfriendly power,
and the identities of aggres-
sive intruders into US compu-
ter networks.
The Washington Post said:
The surveillance files highlight
a policy dilemma that has been
aired only abstractly in public.
There are discoveries of
considerable intelligence value
in the intercepted messages
and collateral harm to privacy
on a scale that the Obama
administration has not been
willing to address.
Snowden, a 30-year-old
former NSA contractor, was
granted temporary asylum by
Russia last August after shaking
the US intelligence establish-
ment with a series of devastat-
ing leaks on mass surveillance
in the United States and around
the world. AFP
Women and girls escape Boko Haram
M
ORE than 60 women
and girls abducted last
month by suspected
Boko Haram militants in
northeast Nigeria have escaped their
captors, sources said on Sunday, but
more than 200 schoolgirls are still be-
ing held by the Islamists.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he
had received an alert from my col-
leagues . . . that about 63 of the ab-
ducted women and girls had made it
back home late on Friday.
A high-level security source in the
Borno state capital Maiduguri, who
requested anonymity because he was
not authorised to speak on the mat-
ter, conrmed the escape.
Gava, a senior ofcial of the local
vigilantes in Borno who are work-
ing closely with security ofcials,
told journalists the women escaped
when their captors went out to ght.
They took the bold step when their
abductors moved out to carry out an
operation, he said.
Clashes took place between the Is-
lamists and the army late on Friday
after an attack by the insurgents in
the town of Damboa, where 53 of
them and six soldiers were killed, the
army had said.
The rebels attacked barracks and
a police station while most of the
troops were out on patrol in sur-
rounding villages.
Spokesmen for the armed forces or
the government could not be reached
Sunday for comment on the latest de-
velopments in the kidnapping cases.
Activists of the Bring Back Our
Girls movement, meanwhile, tried
to march on the presidential palace
in Abuja on Sunday to pressure the
government over the fate of more
than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok,
in Borno, on April 14, but were asked
by security forces to turn back.
Its 83 days today that the girls have
been abducted, activist Aisha Yesufu
told the press.
We have been coming out for 68
days and nobody has really listened
to us, Yesufu told reporters after
the march.
That is why the group decided that
we should just take the protest back to
the president so that he will know that
we are still out there after the 68 days
that we have been coming out daily.
Of the 276 girls seized in April, 57
have escaped while 219 are still miss-
ing. Villagers from the town where
Boko Haram abducted the girls ap-
pealed to the United Nations on Fri-
day to intervene because of the wors-
ening violence in their region.
The community claimed militants
were running amok in their area,
seemingly with impunity.
A state of emergency imposed in
Borno and neighbouring Yobe and Ad-
amawa in May last year forced its ght-
ers out of urban centres.
But that has come at the expense
of protecting people in the country-
side, where attacks have increased
dramatically, almost on a daily basis,
analysts say.
Amnesty International claimed in
May that military commanders in
Borno had advance warning of the
Chibok abduction but could not mus-
ter enough troops to send.
The insurgents kidnap of the
schoolgirls in April provoked
international outrage and drew un-
precedented global attention to the
Islamist uprising.
Security experts say the overstretched
and under-resourced military is inca-
pable of waging an effective counter-
insurgency against Boko Haram, who
have killed thousands in their ve-year
campaign for an independent Islamic
state in the north. AFP
Three Israelis admit to brutal teen murder
THREE Jewish extremists
arrested for the killing of a Pal-
estinian teenager have con-
fessed to the attack, an Israeli
official said yesterday, as shock
waves from the brutal murder
continued to spread.
As police struggled to con-
tain five days of violent clash-
es in annexed east Jerusalem
and in Arab towns across Isra-
el, tensions were further raised
by a series of deadly Israeli
strikes on Gaza, which killed
eight Palestinian militants.
It was the worst bloodshed
since the start of the current
round of violence in and
around Gaza, raising fears of a
fresh confrontation between
Israel and Palestinian militants
in the coastal enclave.
The latest violence in Gaza
began shortly after June 12 as
Israel pressed a vast West Bank
arrest campaign to find the
militants behind the kidnap
and murder of three Israeli
teenagers, whose bodies were
found on June 30.
Two days later, a 16-year-old
Palestinian from east Jer-
usalem was kidnapped and
killed in a suspected revenge
attack, with police arresting six
Jewish extremists, three of
them minors.
During their investigation,
three of the suspects admitted
to the murder in which the
victim was burned alive, an
official close to the investiga-
tion revealed.
Three out of six suspects in
custody have confessed to the
murder and burni ng of
Mohammed Abu Khder, and
performed a re-enactment of
the crime, the source said,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity.
The murder has sparked
shock and outrage, and no
small measure of shame in
Israel. To take a young boy, to
kill him, to burn him what
for? asked outgoing President
Shimon Peres.
The agony is ours. I cant
compare with the agony of the
mother and father, but it is the
highest degree of regret and
shame, he said, echoing
words expressed by many
Israeli commentators.
For the murder of Moham-
med, there is shame. Immense
shame and disgrace over the
fact that such a thing hap-
pened among us, wrote Sima
Kadmon in the top-selling
Yediot Aharonot.
It is as if the mark of Cain
has been branded on our fore-
head, all of us, she wrote,
referring to the curse placed
on the biblical character after
he killed his younger brother
Abel in the book of Genesis.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu called the teenag-
ers father to convey condo-
lences and express outrage
over the murder.
The murder of your son is
abhorrent and cannot be
countenanced by any human
being, he said.
Meanwhile, the death toll
from overnight air strikes on
the Gaza Strip rose to eight
militants after medics retrieved
a body from a tunnel near the
southern city of Rafah.
They also managed to extract
another militant from the tun-
nel who was in critical condi-
tion, they said. Two of the mili-
tants were from the Popular
Resistance Committees, while
the other six from Hamass
armed wing, the Ezzedine al-
Qassam Brigades, who Israel
blames for the murder of the
three teenagers.
The army confirmed hitting
14 targets overnight, and said
that militants had fired an
anti-tank missile at an army
patrol by the border fence,
causing no injuries.
Warplanes carried out two
more strikes on northern Gaza
in the afternoon, causing no
casualties.
Since 2100 GMT on Sunday,
28 rockets have hit Israel, one
of which struck the outskirts of
the southern city of Beersheva,
the army said. AFP
Check,
please
People wait in a security line at
JFK Airport. Air travellers with
smartphones or other electronic
devices must be able to turn them
on to take them aboard under new
security measures, US authorities
said on Sunday. US-bound travel-
lers from Europe and the Middle
East have faced tighter airport
security in recent days over fears
that militants linked to al-Qaeda
are developing new explosives
that could be slipped onto planes
undetected. The checks focus on
electronic items such as laptops
and smartphones, amid fears that
extremists such as al-Qaeda could
use them as their latest tactic in a
long campaign of attacks involving
jets. During the security exami-
nation, ofcers may also ask that
owners power up some devices,
including cellphones, the US
Transportation Security Admin-
istration said in a statement,
noting that all electronic devices
are screened by security ofcers.
Powerless devices will not be
permitted onboard the aircraft.
The traveller may also undergo
additional screening. AFP
World
EGYPTIAN President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi said he wished
three jailed Al Jazeera jour-
nalists including an Austra-
lian had never been tried, in
an expression of regret rela-
tives described as encourag-
ing yesterday.
Australian Peter Greste, Ca-
nadian-Egyptian Mohamed
Fahmy and Egyptian Baher
Mohamed were sentenced to
between seven and 10 years
in jail on charges of defaming
Egypt and aiding banned Isla-
mists, in a ruling that sparked
global outcry and demands
for a presidential pardon.
The June 23 sentencing had
a very negative effect, Sisi
told Egyptian news chiefs,
according to the mass circu-
lation newspaper Al-Masry
Al-Youm.
The sentencing of several
journalists had a very negative
effect, and we had nothing to
do with it, Sisi was quoted
as saying. I wish they were
deported after their arrest, in-
stead of being put on trial, he
added, apparently referring to
Greste, the sole non-Egyptian.
The verdicts, a day after US
Secretary of State John Kerry
visited the newly elected Sisi
in a show of support, was
seen as deeply embarrassing
for Americas top diplomat.
Washington described the
sentencing of the journalists
as draconian and called on
Sisi to release them, while the
United Nations said impris-
oning them was obscene.
Former army chief Sisi, who
won elections in May, a year
after overthrowing Islamist
president Mohamed Morsi,
had said he would not in-
terfere with Egypts courts,
which the government says
are independent.
But in the meeting with
newspaper editors, Sisi ap-
peared to regret the blowback
from the trial, in a move wel-
comed by Grestes family.
His brother Andrew, who
visited Egypt just last week,
described Sisis comments as
heartening.
Im sure images of Peter in
the cage in the court are not
images Egypt really want dis-
tributed around the world,
he told reporters in Brisbane.
And the publicity theyre
getting out of this Im sure is
not the publicity any country
would want.
He said he was not sure if the
presidents comments would
lead to a resolution, after his
previous refusal to intervene
in judicial matters. AFP
Sisis regret over Jazeera
jailings heartens family
Retreating Ukraine rebels dig in
Stephane Orjollet and Dmitry Zaks
R
ETREATING pro-
Russian insurgents
dug in yesterday in
Ukraines sprawling
industrial hub of Donetsk af-
ter government forces scored
a string of morale-boosting
victories in the bloody battle
for the future of the country.
The eastern home of one
million mostly Russian
speakers has been ooded
with convoys carrying hun-
dreds of ghters and scores
of anti-aircraft guns from ve
smaller surrounding cities
where Ukrainian ags were
ying for the rst time in
three months.
The rebels erected check-
points along the main roads
leading into Donetsk while
the centre of the river-
bank city itself saw several
restaurants and shops shut-
ter their doors.
The separatists tactical
retreat began on Saturday
with the fall of their symbolic
bastion Slavyansk and con-
tinued overnight into Sunday
until government forces had
reached the very gates of the
regions main metropolis.
Ukrainian National Security
and Defence Council deputy
head Mykhailo Koval said
yesterday that soldiers now
intended to complete a full
blockade of both Donetsk
and the neighbouring sepa-
ratist stronghold Lugansk
both capitals of their own
Peoples Republics.
Koval said the contain-
ment of the cities would be
followed by corresponding
measures that will force the
separatists, the bandits to
lay down their arms.
His carefully-worded com-
ments underscored the dilem-
ma facing Western-backed
President Petro Poroshenko
as he seeks to full his May 25
election promise to quickly
end Ukraines worst crisis
since the ex-Soviet states in-
dependence in 1991.
The conict has claimed
the lives of nearly 500 people
and displaced tens of thou-
sands across an economically
vital region that has long
viewed the more nationalis-
tic west of Ukraine and Kiev
with a mixture of hostility
and mistrust.
A Ukrainian shelling cam-
paign of either Donetsk or
Lugansk of the type that pul-
verised parts of Slavyansk
would seem unimaginable
because of both the inevi-
table toll and the high prob-
ability of an already-fuming
Kremlin responding by
sending in its troops.
It would also risk throw-
ing the strategic nation of
some 45 million into an all-
out civil war on the Euro-
pean Unions eastern edge
that would pit Russia against
Western powers in a standoff
of a scale not even witnessed
during the Cold War.
But the rebels have shown
few signs of being ready to ei-
ther sue for peace or engage
Kiev in contacts that could
lead to a political settlement
now being promoted urgently
by Germany and France.
A European-mediated round
of consultations ended in
Kiev on Sunday evening with
no tangible progress toward
the revival of a truce Porosh-
enko had abandoned because
of unrelenting raids by rebels
on July 1. AFP
Pro-Russian militants use a crane to lift a T-54 Soviet-era tank from the
WWII museum in Donetsk yesterday to use against Ukrainian forces. AFP
World
14

Top alert for Okinawa as
super typhoon moves in
JAPANS weather agency
yesterday extended its highest
alert to Okinawas populous
main island as super typhoon
Neoguri approached the
southern chain, saying it may
be one of the worst storms for
decades. The top-level warning
means the typhoon poses a
threat to life and could inflict
massive damage from gusts of
up to 270 kilometres (160 miles)
per hour and torrential rain.
There are about 1.2 million
residents on the main island.
An earlier alert only covered the
Miyako Island region with a
population of 53,000. The
biggest US Air Force base in
the Pacific, located on the main
island, evacuated some of its
aircraft as officers stressed that
Neoguri may be deadly. Waves
could reach as high as 14
metres (45 feet), an official of
the Japan Meteorological
Agency said in a warning likely
to revive memories of 2011s
quake-tsunami disaster. AFP
Last Soviet FM Eduard

Shevardnadze dies at 86
EDUARD Shevardnadze, who
helped end the Cold War as the
Soviet Unions last foreign
minister before becoming
president of Georgia, died
yesterday at the age of 86. He
was a controversial figure
praised for his role in
negotiating a bloodless end to
the Soviet Unions confrontation
with the West, but despised at
home for his 10 years at the
helm of post-Soviet Georgia that
saw him ousted in a popular
uprising. Mr Shevardnadze
died today at noon, his aide
Marina Davitashvili said,
weeping. He was ill for a long
time. Shevardnadze won high
praise on the world stage for his
time as Mikhail Gorbachevs
chief diplomat, when he
oversaw arms-reduction
treaties with the US and
brokered the deal that brought
down the Berlin Wall. AFP
Five injured, 16 dead in

Vietnam chopper crash
SIXTEEN people were killed and
five injured when a Vietnamese
military helicopter crashed in
the capital Hanoi early yesterday
during a training exercise, a top
military official said. The plane
was carrying 21 people and it
crashed during a parachute
training exercise, Lieutenant
General Vo Van Tuan, army
deputy commander, said. The
dead and injured were all
military personnel, he added.
No civilians were hurt. State-run
media said 16 of the 21 onboard
were soldiers undergoing
parachute training, alongside
two trainers and three crew. AFP
Pope slams complicity

of Church in sex abuse
POPE Francis slammed the
complicity of Catholic Church
leaders in covering up sexual
abuse yesterday, after his first
meeting with victims of
paedophile priests. The pope
told the six he was sorry for the
sins and grave crimes of clerical
sexual abuse committed against
you. So much time hidden, with
a complicity that cannot be
explained. The deaths of these
so beloved children of God
weigh upon the heart and my
conscience and that of the
whole Church, the 77-year-old
said. AFP
Xi marks start
of Chinas war
with Japanese
Kelly Olsen

C
HINESE President
Xi Jinping yesterday
commemorated the
77th anniversary of
the ofcial start of war with
Japan, condemning those
who ignore the iron facts of
history in an oblique jab at
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Xi and a cast of hundreds
of soldiers and schoolchil-
dren gathered for a ceremony
on the edge of the capital to
mark the Marco Polo Bridge
incident, a skirmish between
Chinese and Japanese troops
on July 7, 1937 that served as
a pretext for Tokyos forces to
seize Beijing and triggered
the Sino-Japanese war.
The event, carried live on
state television, came amid a
deluge of articles in Chinas
state and Communist Party-
controlled media linked to
the anniversary and criticis-
ing Tokyo for historical revi-
sionism and moves towards
potential remilitarisation.
The conict, commonly
known in China as the War
of Resistance Against Japa-
nese Aggression, left 20 mil-
lion Chinese dead, accord-
ing to Beijings estimates. It
ended with Tokyos defeat in
World War II.
Flanked by ageing war vet-
erans and young students, Xi
unveiled a slab-like sculpture
marking the start of the con-
ict and praised the resis-
tance of all sectors of Chinese
society against what he de-
scribed as Japans barbaric
invasion aimed at annex-
ing China. Japan had already
invaded Manchuria in 1931.
There are still a small num-
ber of people who ignore the
iron facts of history, Xi said,
although he avoided mention-
ing Japan or Abe by name.
History is history and facts
are facts. Nobody can change
history and facts, he added.
Anyone who intends to deny,
distort or beautify history will
not nd agreement among
Chinese people and people of
all other countries.
In Taiwan dozens of slogan-
chanting protesters tore up
Japanese military ags and
portraits of Abe, attempting
to set re to them before they
were stopped by police.
Li Wei, chief Japan expert
at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, a top govern-
ment think-tank, said it was
clear who Xi was referring to.
It at least includes Shinzo
Abe and people who deny his-
tory or are trying to gloss over
history, she told reporters.
Xis remarks come as Tokyo
and Beijing are locked in a
territorial dispute in the East
China Sea, and after Japan last
week announced a reinterpre-
tation of its pacist constitu-
tion that Beijing argues could
send the country down the
path to remilitarisation.
Japan has issued repeated
apologies over the war. But
frequent statements by con-
servative politicians and pub-
lic gures seemingly casting
doubt on them and calling
into question factual issues
have increased suspicion in
China and some other coun-
tries such as South Korea.
Ahead of the anniversary,
China last week began releas-
ing a daily confession by Jap-
anese war criminals set to go
on for 45 days, and state-run
media have been intensifying
criticism of Japan. State TV
yesterday showed black and
white footage of the emotion-
al testimony of a woman at a
1956 war crime proceeding.
Xi spoke after a two-day
trip last week to South Korea,
where he said the Japanese
militarists carried out bar-
barous wars of aggression
against China and Korea.
Xi and South Korean Presi-
dent Park Geun-hye, who
has criticised Tokyo over its
history Japan colonised the
Korean peninsula from 1910-
45 reportedly discussed
cooperating on the 70th an-
niversary next year of Japans
defeat. AFP
A group of Chinese women dressed in costumes depict the Womens Detachment of the Red Army accepting
the surrender of a Japanese soldier during a performance in Chinas Henan province yesterday. AFP
Court halts Australias asylum-seeker plans
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to be on a smooth course to
the presidency of the worlds
third-biggest democracy, an
archipelago of more than
17,000 islands, with about 190
million eligible voters.
But after a polarising cam-
paign, Widodos once-huge poll
lead has shrunk considerably.
He was targeted by a flood of
smears, including that he is not
a Muslim a serious charge in
the worlds most populous
Muslim-majority country.
With surveys showing a large
number of undecided voters,
analysts say the race is wide
open. A series of quick counts
by pollsters on the day are
expected to give an accurate
indication of the winner. Offi-
cial results are not due for
about three weeks.
Whoever wins, it will be a
delicate transition from Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, who
steps down this year after a
decade of stable but often
indecisive rule.
Growth is slowing in South-
east Asias top economy, cor-
ruption is rampant, millions
remain mired in poverty, and
fears are mounting that Islam-
ic radicals returning from Mid-
dle East conflicts could revive
militant networks.
Widodo, a former furniture
exporter, shot to national
prominence when he was
elected Jakarta governor in
2012, winning legions of fans
due to his humble background
and common touch.
The 53-year-old used to
make regular tours of the citys
slums, and was praised for ini-
tiating projects to tackle the
citys myriad problems.
However, doubts have also
been raised about whether a
man with no experience in
national politics is ready to be
president.
Prabowo, in contrast, was a
top general in the Suharto era
and has admitted ordering the
abduction of democracy activ-
ists in the dying days of
authoritarian rule in 1998. He
used to be married to one of
the dictators daughters.
The 62-year-old has played
up his military background to
appeal to a yearning for a
strong leader, which along
with a slick campaign and the
backing of several Muslim par-
ties helped him close the gap
on Widodo.
Prabowos speeches have
been marked by fiery, populist
rhetoric and sharp criticism of
foreign influence in Indonesia.
But it is his comments about
democracy that have caused
the most alarm.
During a talk at a Jakarta cul-
tural centre, he reportedly said
Western-style politics doesnt
suit Indonesia, including
direct elections. For the US, an
ally of Indonesia, a Prabowo
victory could prove awkward.
He was denied a visa to the
country in 2000, reportedly
because of his rights record.
Investors are hoping for a
Widodo win, seeing him as a
potential reformer, and the
rupiah has fallen heavily in
recent weeks as Prabowo has
gained ground.
Despite the concerns, the
ex-generals strongman appeal
has won over many voters.
Only a firm leader can bring
prosperity to this country,
said Rismaya, a 42-year-old
textile shop owner, who also
goes by one name. Hopefully
Prabowo can return the coun-
try to the time of Suharto.
Whatever the outcome, this
election is significant because
it will be first time in Indone-
sias history that power will be
handed over from one directly
elected leader to another. Yud-
hoyono has already served the
maximum of two five-year
terms and is ineligible to run
for a third time in office.
For some, the argument
about his successor is more
about the style of government
that would ensue rather than
its concrete policies.
Put it this way: if Jokowi
becomes president and is not
what we hope him to be, we can
easily criticise him and bring
him down, says film-maker
Joko Anwar. But if Prabowo
becomes president, we are
scared that might not be so
easy. That what we worry about
him is true. AFP/THE GUARDIAN
A HIGH Court yesterday barred Aus-
tralia from handing back a boat car-
rying 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka,
a day after Canberra returned anoth-
er vessel to Colombo following a week
of secrecy.
The interim injunction from a late-
night sitting applies at least until a
hearing resumes this afternoon and
was granted after lawyers argued the
transfer was illegal.
Refugee advocates claim the asy-
lum seekers have been deprived of the
ability to have their claims for refugee
status properly assessed, with their
screening reportedly being carried
out at sea via video link. Lawyer
George Newhouse said they were
entitled to have their claims for pro-
tection processed in accordance with
Australian law.
The asylum seekers claim that they
are fleeing persecution and that theyre
at risk of death, torture or significant
harm by Sri Lankan authorities, he
said. The minister cannot simply
intercept their vessel in the middle of
the night and disappear them.
Concern had been mounting over
the fate of two boats reportedly inter-
cepted by the Australian navy in Aus-
tralian waters late last month.
There were claims that Australia
could be breaking international law in
the way it screened the passengers and
by returning them involuntarily to a
country in which they had a fear of
persecution. The UN refugee agency
UNHCR expressed profound concern
about the situation.
After a week of stonewalling, Can-
berra confirmed earlier yesterday
that one boatload of 41 Sri Lankans
who attempted to reach Australia
were handed back to Colombo
on Sunday.
Under its policy of not commenting
on operational matters, Canberra has
yet to confirm whether the second ves-
sel, carrying 153 people, even exists.
Newhouse told the ABC that reports
Sri Lankan authorities would press
charges against the group which has
already returned were shocking.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison
has yet to comment on the injunction,
but the government has said it was
abiding by international law.
He said earlier yesterday that the 41
people sent back were subjected to an
enhanced screening process . . . to
ensure compliance by Australia with
our international obligations under
relevant conventions. AFP
Indonesians face stark choice in pivotal election
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World
KGB defectors secrets revealed at last
W
HEN the scruffy-look-
ing KGB ofcer walked
into the British Embassy
in the Latvian capital,
Riga, one of his rst demands after
being offered a cup of tea was that
his unique cache of les on Mos-
cows foreign intelligence opera-
tions he smuggled out of the Soviet
Union must be published.
Twenty years later, Vasili Mitrokh-
ins wish is to come true. the rst
batch of 2,000 closely typed pages
of notes he made from the KGB ar-
chives is being opened to the public.
The documents, including more
than a hundred pages devoted to
KGB claims about its agents, con-
trollers and cultivations in Britain
during the Cold War, have been made
available, after vetting by Whitehall
weeders, at the Churchill Archives
Centre at Cambridge University.
They say that Melita Norwood,
Communist Party member and
secretary of a British research asso-
ciation working on nuclear reactor
technology, was recruited in 1935 by
a former correspondent for the Soviet
news agency TASS named Rothstein.
Codenamed Hola, Norwood
passed on a lot of valuable materi-
als for nuclear energy which he ac-
cessed by removing them from her
bosss safe, photographing them and
then placing them back, according
to her KGB le. She was awarded the
order of the Red Banner and, for
many years of excellent work, a life-
time pension of 20 ($34) a month.
An editor of the left-wing weekly,
Tribune, codenamed Dan, is claimed
during the 1960s to have published
articles based on KGB propaganda
and was paid 200 as a reward. The
les describe how Guy Burgess, of
the notorious Cambridge Spy Ring,
was constantly under the inuence
of alcohol, yet managed to provide
the KGB with 389 documents in the
rst half of 1945, and a further 168
in 1949. Donald Maclean, another
member of the Cambridge ring, is
also described as being constantly
drunk and not very good at keep-
ing secrets, telling his lover and
brother about his work.
An appendix in the archives copied
by Mitrokhin suggest that the KGB
claimed it had contacts with 200 peo-
ple in Britain. Mitrokhins les record
in meticulous detail how the KGB in
the 1970s spied on the sermons and
meetings of the Polish cardinal Woj-
tyla, later Pope John Paul II. They in-
clude maps identifying the location
of KGB booby traps and hidden arms
caches in Western Europe.
They claim that Philip Agee, the
former CIA ofcer who publicly
named a list of US agents, had used
material offered to him by the KGB,
and that Yuri Andropov, head of the
KGB in the 1960s and 1970s, inl-
trated Ramparts, the radical US
magazine that consistently opposed
the Vietnam war and also published
Che Guevaras diaries.
Andropov played a key role in
crushing the Prague Spring in 1968.
Mitrokhins documents include a
long list of targets, mainly editors
and student leaders, which 15 ex-
perienced intelligence agents were
ordered by Andropov to pursue in an
operation the KGB named Progress.
Mitrokhins les were translated for
journalists at the Churchill Archives
Centre by Svetlana Lokhova, a col-
league of Christopher Andrew, the
Cambridge historian who pioneered
the study of intelligence agencies
and later MI5s ofcial historian.
The FBI described the Mitrokhin
les as the most complete and ex-
tensive intelligence ever received.
However, analysts and some Soviet
defectors have warned that the KGB
seriously exaggerated the signi-
cance and number of its contacts
and operations to impress the Soviet
leadership and increase its budget.
With the help, behind the scenes,
of MI5 and MI6, Norwood was ex-
posed in a blaze of publicity in 1999
when Mitrokhin published a book
based on the les. However, after
MI5 was stung by criticism over its
handling of her case, it played down
her signicance. She died in 2005.
The late Dick Clements, editor of
Tribune in the 1960s described the
story of Dan, rst appearing in the
Sunday Times, as complete non-
sense and that the Soviet ofcial re-
sponsible for the claim might have
made it simply to ddle expenses.
Mitrokhin copied the les between
1972 and 1984 when he supervised
the transfer of the KGBs foreign in-
telligence archives from the Luby-
anka to its new headquarters in
Moscow. He smuggled out his notes,
typed them up in his dacha, and hid
them under the oorboards.
In 1992, he took the overnight
train to Riga dressed as what was
described a street peddler, hiding a
sample of his documents under old
clothes and sausages. He went rst
to the US Embassy but was put off
by the long visa queue there.
He then went to the UK Embassy
where he was put in touch with a
young member of the staff who asked
him: Would you like a cup of tea?
before getting in touch with MI6 who
later exltrated him and his family.
Mitrokhin died in Britain in 2004.
Asked about what kind of man he
was, Andrew described experiencing
the former KGBs ofcers feeling of
relief that of a someone who, in the
Soviet Union, had not been able to
conde in anybody but himself for
as many as 30 years. THE GUARDIAN
Soviet policemen sit in front of the KGBs headquarters, the Lubyanka, in Moscow in
this undated le picture. AFP
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UNDAY shoppers in Tokyo
last week could be forgiven
for wondering if they had
been transported to Tibet or
Myanmar as a man climbed atop a
pedestrian crosswalk, voiced his
reason to the crowd via megaphone
and set himself ablaze.
Self-immolation as protest is
almost unheard of in developed
nations. The middle-aged man,
identified only by the family name
Yamashiro, said igniting himself
was the only way to show Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe his anger at a
plan some see as violating the spirit
of Japans pacifist constitution.
While extreme, Yamashiros fury
isnt uncommon. One day later,
thousands demonstrated outside
Abes residence against this
reinterpretation of a constitution
that he lacks the votes to amend.
The public opposition didnt stop
Abes cabinet from rubber-stamp-
ing his semantic end run around
the law, which raises a vital ques-
tion: Will Japans democracy sur-
vive Abe?
For the third time since taking
office in December 2012, Abe did
exactly what all too many of his 126
million people oppose. Earlier, he
rushed into law a controversial
secrecy bill that could send report-
ers and whisteblowers to jail on
varied and ambiguous grounds,
and he pushed to restart reactors
shut on safety grounds after the
March 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Given a mandate to end deflation,
Abes biggest moves to date involve
flexing geopolitical muscles, not
building economic ones.
He has ignored popular will and
made a mockery of constitutional
and democratic principles on all
three fronts, says Jeff Kingston,
head of Asia studies at the Tokyo
campus of Temple University. The
alleged success of Abenomics has
stoked his popularity and given
him an opportunity to overturn
Japans postwar order.
Banri Kaieda, head of the opposi-
tion Democratic Party of Japan,
bemoans Abes authoritarian ten-
dencies that have nothing to do
with raising living standards or
restoring growth. In an April
speech in Washington, Kaieda
warned that the Abe administra-
tion could move beyond the realm
of healthy nationalism and become
a destabilising factor in East Asia.
China would argue that Abe
crossed that line with his Decem-
ber 2013 visit to Tokyos Yasukuni
Shrine, where 14 class-A war crimi-
nals are interred. But this latest
move to enable Japan to deploy
troops overseas, ostensibly to
defend its allies, is sending shock-
waves through the region.
Japan has every right to defend
itself. Its been a good global citizen
since 1945 and deserves a perma-
nent seat on the UN Security Coun-
cil. If its people support a change in
the pacifist Article 9 of the postwar
constitution, then so be it. But Abe
should hold a national referendum
on the issue, and lawmakers in his
Liberal Democratic Party shouldnt
give him carte blanche to pretend
Japanese law allows what it forbids.
Its an awful precedent, of
course, says Colin Jones, a legal
scholar at Doshisha Law School in
Kyoto. If the cabinet can reinter-
pret this part of the constitution
why not others? Adds Kingston:
Abe is like a thief in the night
sneaking in the backdoor to steal
the heart and soul of Japans con-
stitution and thats why he has pro-
voked such a strong backlash and
anger because Article 9 is a touch-
stone of national identity.
Japanese housewife Naomi Taku-
su even nominated Article 9 for a
Nobel Peace Prize. It will be fasci-
nating to see if the Nobel commit-
tee calls Abes bluff come October.
Turning Japans reactors back on
also should be decided by referen-
dum. Although the science tells us
nuclear power is cheap, safe and
clean, Fukushima demonstrates
the risks of running almost 50 reac-
tors in one of the worlds most seis-
mically active regions. Also, the
Nuclear Regulatory Agency both
regulates an industry with
immense political influence and
promotes it. Nuclear-technology
exports are an Abe priority. But
Japan has far more to gain from
inventing and commercialising
alternatives to nuclear power than
exporting the technology to devel-
oping nations such as Turkey and
Indonesia, both of which are prone
to earthquakes.
Wheres the outrage as Abe defies
his people? Many Japanese are so
happy to have a leader whos acting
boldly that they seem willing to
give him the benefit of the doubt.
Also, much of the media are in the
bag. Companies such as Tokyo
Electric Power Co, whose incompe-
tence gave us Fukushima, are huge
advertisers. Japans press system
covets access over all else, so docil-
ity reigns. Along with the secrecy
law, Abe stacked the board of
national broadcaster NHK with
like-minded conservatives. NHK,
its worth adding, barely covered
Sundays suicide attempt in Shin-
juku. Is it because it didnt fit with
the Abe narrative?
In an open society, epochal
changes should involve the people.
In the years ahead, the self-immo-
lation that historians study may be
Japans democracy. BLOOMBERG
Comment
William Pesek
Will Japans democracy survive?
A Buddhist monk holds a placard while joining other protesters as they shout slogans against the government of Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe during a rally in front of Abes ofcial residence in Tokyo on July 1. AFP
William Pesek is a Bloomberg View
columnist based in Tokyo and writes on
economics, markets and politics through-
out the Asia-Pacic region.
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Lifestyle Lifestyle
In brief
Pink Floyd to release
first album since 1994
DAVID Gilmours wife has
revealed that Pink Floyd will
release a new album this
October. The Endless River will
be the groups first album since
1994s The Division Bell, and
was reportedly inspired by the
same recording sessions. Polly
Samson, who married Gilmour
in 1994, unveiled Pink Floyds
secret plans on her Twitter
account. In addition to
announcing the albums title
and release date, she referred to
the record as Rick Wrights
swansong. Wright, who
co-founded Pink Floyd with Syd
Barrett, Nick Mason and Roger
Waters, died in 2008. AFP
Salvadoran presidents
home becomes gallery
THE Salvadoran presidents
residence, a posh home in an
upscale San Salvador district,
has reopened as a museum
with a focus on welcoming the
poor. New leftist President
Salvador Sanchez Ceren an
ex-rebel commander who has
decided to keep living in his
family home in a middle-class
area reopened the building as
a place where the socially
excluded can come to reflect on
their country and its artistic
wealth. AFP
Network denies getting
Pistorius video illegally
AUSTRALIAS Seven television
network has denied illegally
obtaining a video of Oscar
Pistorius re-enacting the
shooting of his girlfriend, which
it broadcast on its current
affairs program Sunday Night.
The program, which attracted
1.3 million viewers on Sunday,
was immediately condemned
by the Olympians defence
team as illegal and a breach of
trust. We would not have run
the footage if we thought we
had obtained it illegally,
Sunday Nights executive
producer, Mark Llewellyn, told
Guardian Australia. The story
was run in Australia only and
not made available to any other
territory. THEGUARDIAN
Star Wars Episode VII
adds two more to cast
STAR Wars: Episode VII has
announced the casting of a pair
of young actors following the
open auditions held in the US
and UK last year. They are
Britains Pip Andersen, a
23-year-old freerunner, and
American Crystal Clarke, who
is currently studying at the
prestigious Royal Conservatoire
in Glasgow. The two will join
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and
Harrison Ford, who are
returning to the classic roles of
Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia
and Han Solo. THEGUARDIAN
Runner gored in opening Pamplona bull run
SHARP-HORNED fighting bulls thun-
dered through the slippery streets of Pam-
plona yesterday, skewering one dare-
devil in an adrenaline-charged opening
run of Spains San Fermin festival.
Thousands of white-clad runners with
red scarves opened a path for the five half-
tonne charging bulls and six steers, man
and beast occasionally sliding over on the
cobbles of the overcast northern city.
The animals tore along a winding 848.6-
metre course in just two minutes and 25
seconds, injuring five runners.
A bull gored one Spaniard, 52, in the
groin area but his injury was not consid-
ered serious, the regions health authori-
ties said. Another four men were taken to
hospital for various unspecified injuries
and 37 people were treated at the scene.
We were standing in the alley way wait-
ing for the bulls to come and everyone
started jumping, said 26-year-old Texan
oil company worker Mathew Whitman.
Then they just came very fast, he said.
It was just like a big rush of people that
came and pushed us and we were trying
to run, and we were pushed against the
wall and they went past. Kind of scary yes,
but it was very cool.
Fellow runner 32-year-old Canadian
Collin Goyman said the run was much
faster than he had anticipated.
So many people, more than I expected,
it was crazy, he said. I didnt think that
the bulls would run that fast.
A firework launched the first race of the
San Fermin festival, a heady nine-day mix
of partying and adrenaline-chasing,
which draws hundreds of thousands of
people from around the world.
Tens of thousands of spectators looked
on, many peering from balconies, as run-
ners fled the charging animals, some dar-
ing to touch the sides of the beasts.
I was scared but it was great, said
25-year-old first-time runner Francisco
Jose Guiterrez Aguilera, on holiday from
the southern city of Seville. I didnt man-
age to touch them, but I got very close.
The festival in this city of 200,000 was
made famous by Ernest Hemingways
1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. The bull
runs are believed to have started when
butchers began running ahead of the
beasts they were bringing from the coun-
tryside to the San Fermin festival.
Last year, 50 people were taken to hos-
pital during the festivals eight runs,
including 23 revellers caught in a bloody
human pile-up on the final day.
Several hundred more were treated for
minor injuries at the scene.
Most injuries arent caused by bull horns
but by runners falling, or being knocked
over or trampled by the animals.
Fifteen people have been killed in the
bull runs since records started in 1911.
The most recent death took place five
years ago when a bull gored a 27-year-old
Spaniard in the neck, heart and lungs.
Pamplona city hall has this year intro-
duced fines of up to 60,000 euros ($82,000)
for those who violate rules intended to
minimise the risk of the bull runs.
Using a camera during a bull run or
taking part while drunk are among the
acts prohibited under a new city ordi-
nance. AFP
Rural women encouraged
to boost online presence
Emily Wight

Y
OUNG women in
Cambodia will begin
a quest this month to
get their voices heard
thanks to a new scheme led by
human rights campaigners.
The Empowering Cloghers
Project, which the Cambodian
Center for Human Rights
(CCHR) will launch later this
month, will deliver training
sessions for 20 young women
between the ages of 18 and 25.
The aim, said Chak Sopheap,
CCHRs executive director, is to
expose women to the same dig-
ital tools that are currently used
more often by men.
We want to empower young
females to use the tool of new
media as a way to express
themselves it fits in with
CCHR in the way that we want
to promote fundamental
human rights, she said.
Participants in the program
will receive training in areas
such as how to create a blog
and how to engage with and
maintain a digital audience.
Sopheap added that she will
lead some of the training ses-
sions herself. I am a clogher
myself, so I could share to the
trainees what inspired people
like me to write a blog and how
to share your story, she said.
The term clogher is a port-
manteau of clogger the popu-
lar slang term for Cambodian
blogger and blogher, another
slang word for a female blogger.
The project has been mostly
funded by the Rising Voices
Microgrant 2014, a project of
Global Voices Online. This is a
global media platform that
aims to give a voice to margin-
alised communities often over-
looked by mainstream media.
Though internet penetration
nationwide is 20 per cent, said
Sopheap, there is a massive dig-
ital divide in terms of gender.
Mostly its male oriented,
and its the same all the way
across ICT work. The idea is to
bridge the gender digital divide
and to give the women a space
where they can voice their con-
cerns, she said, adding that
they dont necessarily have to
blog about human rights issues,
although they are encouraged
to do so.
The project specifically tar-
gets women from rural areas
who have come to Phnom Penh
to study or work, with the hope
that they can blog about their
experiences growing up in the
provinces. Sopheap also hopes
that they might be able to influ-
ence other women in rural
areas to follow suit.
The youth in urban areas
have more chances, more
opportunities. But we want to
equip the rural community
with this same opportunity.
With this kind of empower-
ment, cloghers can bring the
ideas back to the rural com-
munity, she said. Mostly,
internet penetration is con-
centrated in urban areas.
Internet cost and infrastruc-
ture are challenges for
the rural communi ty,
she added.
Uoeung Bonsovathary, 24,
is an office assistant at Pan-
nasastra University, but was
recognised by CCHR as an
influential blogger due to her
blog Cambodian Daughter,
about life growing up in
Phnom Penh. She said she
thinks its important to sup-
port young women from rural
areas and to encourage them
to express themselves. I think
that is a wonderful idea. I
appreciate the effort to tie
women together using an easy
way such as the internet,
she said.
If women are given more
public platforms and are able
to express their opinions, there
will be a big difference. It is a
good way to balance the qual-
ity of media and also to
increase our freedom of
expression if we have the same
number of females in this sec-
tor, she added.
Executive director of CCHR Chak Sopheap, who used to be a clogher herself. CHARLOTTE PERT
Participants run in front of Torrestrellas
bulls during the rst bull run of the San
Fermin Festival yesterday in Pamplona,
Spain. AFP
Travel
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Rum Punch at Lyon Distilling. The drink is made of white grapefruit
juice, key lime juice, nutmeg and Lyon Dark Rum. THE WASHINGTON POST
Y
OURE looking
for cane notes
and a hint of the
molasses sweet-
ness, says Ben Lyon, head dis-
tiller and co-founder of Lyon
Distilling, as he hands me an
undersize plastic shot glass
lled with transparent liquid.
I lift it to my lips, vainly trying
to imitate the polished man-
nerisms of wine and beer con-
noisseurs whom Ive watched
conduct tastings.
Pavlovian conditioning pre-
pares me for the harsh taste of
vodka or gin. Instead, I taste
rum. Not the sharp, unpleas-
ant rum that a drinker can
expect from rail brands. This
white rum has an intriguing
piquancy punctuated by a dis-
tinct tanginess, and a subtle
aftertaste. I cannot, alas, dis-
tinguish the cane notes. I place
the glass back on the wooden
countertop, trying hard not to
expose myself as a neophyte.
The rum continues to ow.
Im in the tasting room at this
microdistillery in St Michaels,
Maryland, sampling several of
its varieties of rum. My guides
on this gustatory adventure are
Lyon and his partner and co-
founder, Jaime Windon, spirits
enthusiasts who came to this
Eastern Shore town to run a
B&B and wound up founding
the second distillery to open in
Maryland in the past 40 years.
Lyon and Windon run their
outt like a mom and pop
store, keeping the shelves
stocked with fresh batches of
spirits and offering tours and
tastings to curious visitors.
For my tasting, Lyon starts
me with the aforementioned
white rum, made from molas-
ses, cane sugar and water. The
spirit serves as the base for the
next two varieties I sample: a
caramel-avoured seasonal
rum and an aged rum that
Lyon creates by mellowing the
white rum in charred Ameri-
can oak barrels that previous-
ly held bourbon. Each spirit
tastes softer and more com-
plex than the previous one.
Youd be hard-pressed to
pull something off the shelf in
any liquor store anywhere that
would be as good as this, says
Lyon, leaving any pretense of
humility at the door as he de-
scribes the barrel-aged rum.
Once Ive nished the tast-
ing, Lyon leads me into the
distilling room, describing the
various steps of spirits produc-
tion mashing, fermentation,
distillation and peppering his
speech with the word authen-
ticity, as in: The focus here is
authenticity at every level.
A desire for historical au-
thenticity prompted Lyon
and Windon to launch their
distillery with rum. There
were ve working rum distill-
eries in Maryland during the
1700s, says Windon, mak-
ing an argument for rum as
the quintessential American
spirit, because it was the rst
type of liquor that the colonies
produced in bulk.
My tour concludes back in
the tasting room, where I help
myself to a few more nips of
the white rum and then bid a
fond, albeit boozy farewell to
the proprietors.
I step outdoors into a wel-
come rush of early spring air.
I amble down to Talbot Street,
the towns main drag. After a
short walk, I take up residence
at the counter of the Crab
Claw, a seafood establishment
lled with young families.
The children brim with
energy, struggling to sit still,
while the adults wear hollow
looks, clearly exhausted from
an afternoon of parenting du-
ties. I order a Crab Ale and crab
dip, best described as a bowl of
baked cheese with a few sprin-
klings of lump crab, and sit
quietly, watching the waiters
bring out plates of seafood, the
fare that has brought visitors to
the Eastern Shore forever.
Now the arrival of Lyon Dis-
tilling has given spirits con-
noisseurs a reason to trek this
way. THE WASHINGTON POST
Another round
of making rum
in Maryland
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SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: mai@royalaviationexpert.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
TV PICKS

8:50am - GLITTER: A young singer dates a disc jockey
who helps her get into the music business, but their
relatonship becomes complicated as she ascends to
super stardom. Starring Mariah Carey. HBO
10:40am - THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE
COWARD ROBERT FORD: Robert Ford, whos idolised
Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the
reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually
becomes resentul of the bandit leader. Starring Casey
Afeck, Brad Pit, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy
Renner. HBO
12:40pm - THE PROPOSAL: A pushy boss forces her
young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa
status in the US and avoid deportaton to Canada.
Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. FOX MOVIES
6:50pm - THE BOURNE LEGACY: An expansion of the
universe from Robert Ludlums novels, centred on a new
hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of
the previous three flms. Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel
Weisz and Edward Norton. HBO
Entertainment
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Plumed military cap
6 French clerics
11 Wrestling surface
14 Someone from Cedar Rapids
15 Purge, Pied Piper-style
16 Urban attachment?
17 What an actor may take
19 Bobbsey twin
20 You might put some money in it
21 Not well
22 Fury
23 Happen as planned
27 Mark the boundaries of
29 William Tells canton
30 Certain saucers
32 Perfume with a verboten name
33 Bestowed title
34 Dating from
36 Country singer LeAnn
39 Smart-alecky
41 Wise saying
43 Good whack
44 Mariners vessel
46 Fall into ___ (be ensnared)
48 Is for two?
49 A crucifix
51 Words before goal or course
52 ___-X
53 Was a sleazy salesman
56 Undersea weapon
58 Clothes line
59 Aussie coin critter
60 All-terrain vehicle, briefly
61 Geneticists study
62 Place for furs
68 A little energy
69 Where naval battles are fought
70 Hollywood award
71 Game cube
72 Diminutive
73 Maintains
DOWN
1 Not my spelling error notation
2 Weed-whacking tool
3 Barley beard
4 Couric of TV
5 Burdensome
6 Promos
7 Wager
8 Alternative to a ponytail
9 Bald baby bird
10 Exemplary
11 Lowest legal amount of pay
12 Asteroids maker
13 Article of faith
18 Fiber used in basketmaking
23 Crescent features
24 A college at Oxford
25 Reverse representation
26 Henry or Peter of film
28 Sacred bird of the pharaohs
31 Sings like Fitzgerald
35 Florida marsh bird
37 Dog-___ (like some used books)
38 Anagram of notes, aptly
40 Implement
42 Go to a diner
45 Stinky animal
47 Had some food
50 Lower in rank
53 Use an office machine
54 Artist Matisse or Rousseau
55 Edible seaweed
57 In and of itself
63 Family room
64 Two cents worth
65 Biggest heart?
66 Continuity problem
67 Hospital trauma centers
ACT YOUR?
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make
a discovery that brings the Autobots, Decepti-
cons and a paranoid government official down
on them.
City Mall: 9:20am, 2:40pm, 5:50pm, 7:05pm,
9pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am, 11am, 2:15pm, 7:15pm,
9:10pm
MY HOUSE
Khmer film.
City Mall: 9:15am, 11:10am, 1:20pm, 3:15pm,
5:10pm, 7:55pm, 10:15pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am, 12:20pm, 1:15pm, 3:10pm,
5:25pm, 10:20pm
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave
that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons
and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two find
themselves at the centre of a battle. With the
voices of Cate Blanchett and Gerard Butler.
City Mall: 12:30pm, 5:45pm
Tuol Kork: 9:10am
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Two teenagers with serious illnesses and dis-
abilities fall in love.
City Mall: 1:05pm
Tuol Kork: 9:45pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
(See above)
9:20am, 11:10am, 1:50pm, 3:20pm, 5:40pm,
8pm
MY HOUSE
(See above)
9:30am, 12:10pm, 1:30pm, 2:10pm, 4:40pm,
6:20pm, 8:30pm
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
(See above)
3:50pm
Yoga refresher @ Yoga
Phnom Penh
Customers can get one taco free with
each purchase of a cocktail every
Tuesday. All of the tacos use corn
tortillas made from scratch and are
prepared in authentic taqueria style in
Cocinas kitchen.
Cocina Cartel, #198b Street 19. All day
Teams can accumulate points just for
playing and win prizes at the end of
the season. Weekly prizes are
featured as well. $1 per person, and
the winning team will take it all.
Gym Bar, #42 Street 178. 5:30pm
NOW SHOWING
Cocina Cartel makes their tacos with homemade corn tortillas. BLOOMBERG
Mariah Carey stars as a singer in the movie Glitter.
BLOOMBERG
Taco Tuesday @ Cocina
Cartel
Quiz night @ Gym Bar
+++
Jazz @ Sharkys
Take part in a lunchtime yoga class.
They will organise food delivery from
ARTillery before the class and it will be
delivered by the time youve nished.
Yoga Phnom Penh, #39 Street 21.
12:15pm
Jazz musician Alan Breen will perform
pop, latin and funk covers with a twist
of jazz.
Part of the Tuesday Night Jazz Club.
Sharkys Bar, #126 Street 130. 9pm
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Possible speak English
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Rent Russian Market, Ful Furnished
Tel: 012 939 958 / 077 777 697
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Price: 1,00-$1,200-1,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
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02 bedrooms, elevator, open living
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nice kitchen, nice and big balcony,
river view, very safety area, very
good condition for living.1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

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designed, large living room,light,
and modern furniture, western
Kitchen, roof top pool &gym
$1,500-2,000-3,500-4,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

MODERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located at Daun Penh
Area, 01-02-03 bed, modern design
& lots of light, open living room, fully
kitchen, very nice balcony, very nice
pool and gym, condition for living.
Price: $1,300-1,700-2,200/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

Rent BKK1, 01-02 Bedrooms, very
nice interior designed, large living
room, very light, fully and modern
furniture, western kitchen, very
good condition for living, quiet &
safe.Price: $800-1,400/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
Rent Located near independent
monument, 02 bedrooms, open
living room and kitchen, fully and
modern furnished, very safety area,
very quiet, very good condition for
living. Price: USD770/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 05
bedrooms, large living room, very
modern designed, some furniture,
western kitchen, nice balcony, big
parking and playground, safety.
Price: US$4,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
TRADITIONAL WOODEN HOUSE
For Rent At Chhroy Changeva area,
river view, ground oor, 03bed,
fully furnished, very lights, western
kitchen, very safety and quite, very
nice garden, very good condition
for living. Price: $1,700/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
COLONIAL GARDEN VILLA FOR
Rent DaunPenhareaandvery close
toIndependent Monument, 05bedro,
largelivingroom, real colonial design,
somefurniture, westernkitchen, very
quiet &safe. thebest locationfor
residence.Price: $4,500/m
Tel: 092232623/ 081230000
TRADITIONAL VILLA WITH
Many Tree For Rent At BKKI,
05bedrooms, some furnished very
nice and clean kitchen, very safety
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Sport

Japans Tiger on prowl
after ending drought
ONCE hailed as Japans Tiger
Woods, boy wonder Ryo
Ishikawa has vowed to
relaunch his stuttering golf
career after ending a title
drought stretching back
almost two years. Victory in
Sundays playoff against Komei
Oda at the Sega Sammy Cup
arrested a winless run dating
back to November 2012 and
gave Ishikawa an 11th career
title. Hopefully now I can
break through at the world
level, the 22-year-old
Ishikawa, burdened by
suffocating pressure since his
dramatic emergence as a
15-year-old event winner in
2007, was quoted as saying by
Japanese media yesterday. AFP
Favourites agree tough
tests ahead in Le Tour
TOUR de France contenders
Chris Froome, Alberto
Contador and Sundays second-
stage winner Vincenzo Nibali
agreed there would be tougher
tests ahead after the first
shake-up in the overall stand-
ings. Nibali took the leaders
yellow jersey after finishing two
seconds clear of his rivals in
winning the hilly 201km ride
from York to Sheffield in
northern England. Meanwhile,
Team Sky rider Geraint
Thomas has warned that
British crowds taking selfies
are endangering the safety of
riders at the Tour de France,
with the American Tejay van
Garderen called the craze a
dangerous mix of vanity and
stupidity. AFP/ THEGUARDIAN
Open winner Cabrera
wins inaugural tour title
FORMER Masters champion
Angel Cabrera won his first
non-major tournament on US
soil on Sunday, shooting a six-
under 64 to capture the
Greenbrier Classic by two
strokes. The 44-year-old
Argentinian tapped in on 18 to
finish at 16-under 264 and
beat runner-up George
McNeill in the $6.5 million
USPGA Tour tournament. The
two-time major championship
winner Cabrera won his first
event since claiming the 2009
Masters. His first major
championship was the 2007
US Open. Im very happy to
have won, Cabrera said. Ive
been working really hard, and I
needed this. AFP
MLB fans pick Cruz for
July 15 all-star game
NELSON Cruz was voted to
the 2014 Major League
Baseball all-star game, just
one year after being slapped
with a 50-game suspension for
using performance-enhancing
drugs. Cruz, of the Dominican
Republic, was named on
Sunday as one of nine starters
for the American League fol-
lowing voting by baseball fans.
The Baltimore Oriole player is
tied for the league lead with 27
home runs. Cruz, who turned
34 last Tuesday, is one of three
Baltimore players chosen for
the game at Minnesotas
Target Field on July 15. AFP
Djokovic
slams back
self-doubt
N
OVAK Djokovic ad-
mitted he feared
hed never win an-
other Grand Slam,
but with a second Wimble-
don title wrapped up, the new
world number one is now
planning on catching Roger
Federer and Rafael Nadal.
The 27-year-old Serb beat
Federer, as well as his own
doubts and demons, 6-7
(7/9), 6-4, 7-6 (7/4), 5-7, 6-4
in a rollercoaster Wimbledon
nal on Sunday to add to his
2011 All England Club title
and take his majors tally to
seven.
But he is still lagging behind
the Swiss and Spaniard in the
overall Grand Slam chase
Federer had 17 while Nadals
record ninth French Open
last month moved him to 14.
Next up for the sports su-
permen is the US Open in
August and September where
Djokovic was champion in
2011 but was runner-up on
four occasions in 2007, 2010,
2012 and 2013.
It is that sort of maddening
inconsistency that had be-
come a curse with Djokovic
having lost all three of his
most recent Grand Slam -
nals and ve of the last six.
This is the most special
Grand Slam nal Ive played.
At the time of my career for
this Grand Slam trophy to ar-
rive is crucial, especially after
losing several Grand Slam -
nals in a row, he said.
I started doubting of course
I needed this win a lot.
Im going to try to use it in
the best possible way and for
my condence to grow for the
rest of my season and the rest
of my career.
The belief that Sundays
epic win, which had almost
slipped away from him when
he squandered a 5-2 lead
in the fourth set and then a
match point, could also be a
springboard for more majors
was shared by coach Boris
Becker.
The three-time Wimbledon
champion was brought on
board in December last year
in an attempt to help push
Djokovic over the nish line
at the majors.
It didnt work at the Aus-
tralian Open, where he lost
in the quarter-nals or at the
French Open where his hopes
of completing a career Grand
Slam were thwarted, again, in
the nal by Nadal.
But the partnership paid
dividends at Wimbledon even
if Djokovic spent almost ve
hours more on court than
Federer in getting to the nal.
Were looking pretty good
now hes back to number
one, Wimbledon champion,
obviously hes going to take
a couple of weeks off now
but the next big one is the US
Open, said Becker.
There was little evidence
of what made Becker famous
in his 1980s pomp on show
in the nal with Federer the
keener of the two to serve-
and-volley in deference to the
inuence of his coach, Stefan
Edberg, a rival and contem-
porary of Becker.
Federer served-and-vol-
leyed 36 times but Djokovic
said he was prepared for the
Swiss stars game plan as
he chased what would have
been a record eighth title at
Wimbledon and which would
have made the 32-year-old
the oldest champion of the
modern era.
Those were particular
changes in his game that I
noticed before coming to this
match. I paid attention to it
and I was ready for it, said
Djokovic.
Thats why he has been
winning so many Grand
Slams, because he feels con-
dent to play these shots at the
important time.
Djokovic insisted that Sun-
days win even topped his
record-breaking 2012 Austra-
lian Open nal win against
Rafael Nadal.
Sincerely, this has been the
best quality Grand Slam nal
that I have ever been part of,
said Djokovic, whose Austra-
lian Open nal win two years
ago lasted almost six hours.
But this is denitely the
best match. Its the most
special Grand Slam nal Ive
played.
I didnt allow my emotions
to fade away, as was probably
the case in the Roland Garros
nal. I am just very glad to win
a Grand Slam nal after losing
the last three out of four.
But I managed to not just
win against my opponent but
win against myself as well and
nd that inner strength that
got me the trophy today.
Djokovic will now take a
break to be his ancee Jelena
Ristic, who is pregnant with
the couples rst child.
There are few important
things coming up. Getting
married. Of course in a few
months becoming a dad, he
added.
I think I can close the
chapter of my tennis career
just for little bit now. I think I
deserve that for few weeks to
rest, to enjoy, be with my -
ance, my wife to be, and my
family. AFP
Serbias Novak Djokovic holds the winners trophy after beating Switzerlands Roger Federer in the mens
singles nal of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships on Sunday. AFP
Hamilton wins British GP as Rosberg pulls up
LEWIS Hamilton repeated history on
Sunday when he won the British Grand
Prix on the same day in 2014 that he
claimed his first home win in 2008.
The Mercedes driver, who went on to
take the drivers championship in 2008,
said: I did not realise the date!
He also referred to his problems on
Saturday when he pulled out of his
final qualifying lap and inadvertently
gifted pole position to his German
teammate Nico Rosberg, the champi-
onship leader.
Im sorry about yesterday for being
so speechless, he explained.
A huge thank you to the fans, they
made the difference and there is noth-
ing better than being able to give them
that win. Its not easy.
You make it hard for yourself when
you put yourself that far back. I had
positive messages from family and
friends, my sister came with the dogs
and my nephew came.
I came away from the negativity. I
said a prayer this morning and came
back positively.
Theres a lot of pressure, not just in
the championship, but you want to win
this race so much more.
Ive been on the back foot all year as
my car stopped twice.
So to catch those points up you feel
you have to give a bit more. I plan to
make this the start of a new chapter.
Hamilton was full of banter in the
post-race news conference, too.
Having joked about the trophy he
was given on the winners podium, he
explained: The bottom fell off the tro-
phy on the podium.
Its plastic. It must have cost about
10 [US$17.10]. Then, he paused and
added: Dont write anything bad about
that, though!
To laughter, second-placed Finn Valt-
teri Bottas interjected: Too late!
And Hamilton himself laughed,
adding: Yeah, that was off the
record.
Rosberg was disappointed after
failing to make the podium for the
first time all year. He was forced to
retire, while leading on Sunday,
after 29 laps due to gearbox prob-
lems. AFP
Mercedes-AMGs British driver Lewis Hamilton crosses the nish line at the Silverstone
circuit in Silverstone on Sunday during of the British Formula One Grand Prix. AFP
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Romelu Lukaku has choices to make
ROMELU Lukaku has admit-
ted he has a decision to make
about his future at Chelsea:
the Belgium forward is deter-
mined to play regularly at a
club where he can win titles
after two seasons out on loan
in the Premier League.
The former Anderlecht strik-
er, a late substitute at the Esta-
dio Nacional on Saturday,
departed the World Cup after
Belgiums defeat to Argentina
and will be granted time off.
Those Chelsea players
involved in the tournament will
enjoy a slightly extended break,
reporting back to Cobham after
other teammates. Talks will be
held with Lukaku and his agent,
Christophe Henrotay, over the
21-year-olds future.
Chelsea anticipate that
Lukaku and the goalkeeper
Thibaut Courtois will return
for preseason their first
friendly is on July 16, before
they depart for a training camp
in Austria and a series of games
around Europe though there
is interest in the striker from
other clubs, most notably
Atltico Madrid, Tottenham
and Everton.
Atletico held talks with the
players representative in Lon-
don towards the end of last
season but would be interest-
ed only in a permanent move.
Lukaku cost Chelsea an initial
8 million ($13.7 million) in
the summer of 2011.
I want to go on holiday first
and rest with my parents and
then we will see, Lukaku said.
I want to be somewhere
where I can play my best foot-
ball and hopefully win titles.
Its up to me to work hard but
there are choices to make.
Things like that happen in
football and Im confident I
will make the right choice. Im
looking at everything but first
of all I want to go on holiday
and relax a little bit.
Asked if he had spoken yet
to anyone at Chelsea since
handing in a transfer request
last summer, a move that
sealed a loan switch to Ever-
ton, Lukaku said: No, not yet.
It depends what is the best for
me, where the most ambition
is and where is the best place
for me to develop.
Manchester Uniteds Mar-
ouane Fellaini and Lilles
Divock Origi who is close
to joining Liverpool but
would most likely be loaned
straight back to the French
club were noncommittal
about their futures.
While club allegiances are
still to be determined, Bel-
giums players are united in a
conviction that they will ben-
efit from only the second
quarterfinal appearance in
the national teams history,
even if they failed to impose
themselves on the occasion in
Brasilia. AFP
Belgiums exit from the World Cup has given striker Romelu Lukaku
the opportunity to sort out his future. AFP

Sunrise trounce Samrong
SS in the ISF Youth League
TEAM Sunrise were all shine and smile
as they trounced Samrong secondary
school 10-0 in their Group A tie of the
ISF U17 Boys Football League at the
National Institute of Sports and
Physical Education ground on Sunday.
In other group matches, ISF SMC beat
Robos Angkanh School 6-0 while Bong
Paoun drew 1-1 with EYC. In Group B
action, Andong were too good for Wat
Knong School 8-2 and A New Day
Cambodia met little resistance from
ILC in their 2-0 win. HSMANJUNATH
Liverpool closing in on deal
for Benfica forward Markovic
LIVERPOOL are closing in on the
Benfica forward Lazar Markovic as
Brendan Rodgers continues the
reconstruction of his squad. The
20-year-old Markovic could move to
Anfield for 25 million ($42.9 million),
reports in England and Portugal said,
and would be Rodgers fourth signing
of the summer after the Bayer
Leverkusen midfielder Emre Can and
Southamptons Adam Lallana and
Rickie Lambert. Liverpool were
reported to be in the market for Alexis
Snchez, the Barcelona and Chile
forward, but their move for Markovic
may signify that they have accepted
Sanchez is more interested in going
to Arsenal or Juventus. Markovics
arrival would increase the chances of
Luis Suarez being offloaded to
Barcelona. Markovic is one of Serbias
young hopes for the future and joined
Benfica last summer on a five-year
contract. He missed their success in
the Europa Cup final against Sevilla
after being sent off in the semifinal
after a touchline brawl. THE GUARDIAN
Japan striker Kakitani to join
Swiss champions FC Basel
JAPAN striker Yoichiro Kakitani is set
to join Swiss champions FC Basel, his
Japanese club Cerezo Osaka said
yesterday. The 24-year-old, who
played for Japan at the World Cup in
Brazil, will be given a formal sendoff
by Cerezo after next Tuesdays
J-League game at home to Kawasaki
Frontale, officials added on the clubs
website. After the disappointment of
the World Cup Ive been thinking
[about my future], Kakitani said in a
statement, referring to Japans meek
World Cup exit. Ive been offered the
chance to move to Europe so Ive
decided to take the challenge and
move to Basel. AFP
All change as physical hosts
Brazil tackle German guile
Kieran Canning

A
S BRAZIL and Germany
prepare to do battle in
their World Cup semi-
nal from 3am Cambodian
time tonight, old stereotypes of
both countries football philoso-
phies are being rewritten.
Amazingly for two World Cup pow-
erhouses with 24 seminal appear-
ances, this will be just their second
meeting in the competition after the
2002 nal.
Back then a rugged German side
that battled its way to the nal with
a series of 1-0 wins on the back of the
best goalkeeper in the tournament,
Oliver Kahn, faced a Brazil side con-
taining a magical front three of Ron-
aldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo.
That night an uncharacteris-
tic Kahn mistake put Luiz Felipe
Scolaris Brazil on their way to a
fth title.
However, the only constants from
12 years ago may be that Scolari is
back as Brazil boss and Germany still
have the best keeper in the tourna-
ment in Manuel Neuer.
Even Neuer represents the Ger-
mans style shift in the past decade
with his sweeper-like ability to ee
from his box and become an extra
outeld player in building the play
from the back.
Germany have played 500 more
successful passes than anyone else
in the competition and more than
1,000 more than Brazil, who still lag
behind Chile despite having played a
game more.
Since committing to attack when
hosting the tournament in 2006,
Germany have scored 40 goals in
the last three World Cups, helping
them a record run of four consecu-
tive seminals.
Their passage to the last four in
Brazil by beating Algeria and France
has also seen them lay to rest some
ghosts of German footballs less than
glorious historical moments.
West Germanys perceived collu-
sion with Austria to knock out the
Algerians and Harald Schumachers
assault on Frances Patrick Battiston
as they reached the nal 1982 was
seen as the height of their win at all
costs mentality.
The German sides of recent years
will be much more fondly remem-
bered by the football world at large,
yet that attractive football hasnt got
them over the line in the nal stages.
Defeat in the nal of 2002 was fol-
lowed by seminal defeats in 2006
and 2010.
Brazils approach to hosting the
tournament has been rather dif-
ferent. Winning at their own World
Cup is all that counts, no matter
what reputations or opposing play-
ers take a battering in the process.
Scolaris men committed 31 fouls
in their hunt of Colombia and, in
particular, James Rodriguez in Fri-
days quarternal, the most of any
side in a game at this World Cup.
I am all for hard, clean challeng-
es, but there were one or two tack-
les which were over the limit, said
Germanys Bastian Schweinsteiger
on Sunday.
The Brazilians arent the ma-
gicians here of old, the team has
changed and so has their playing
style, he said.
Hard challenges denitely belong
to that, its something we have to be
careful of and the referee as well.
The strategy was hardly an iso-
lated one Brazil also committed
28 fouls against Chile in the previ-
ous round.
Brazils poster boy Neymar insisted
he had no problem winning ugly be-
fore facing the Colombians, but the
ugliest sight of all for his fans, team-
mates and coaches was him leaving
the eld for the nal time at this
World Cup on a stretcher after suf-
fering a broken vertebrae minutes
form the end of the quarternal.
The Barcelona forward was the
one residual element of the famous
Jogo Bonito left in this side.
As 1970 World Cup winning for-
ward Tostao concluded earlier in the
tournament: Brazil have two strate-
gies: number one, give it to Neymar;
number two give it to Neymar.
Without his air there seems little
other option than to ght their way
to the nal. AFP
Brazil forward Ronaldo helps up Germany team captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn after he made a save during the nal of the
FIFA 2002 World Cup at Yokohamas International Stadium in Japan. AFP

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