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Peoples congress to test ban

Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye

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OPPOSITION leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousandsstrong peoples congress in the capitals Freedom Park on Sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem Sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New Zealand and the US, said they would bring 5,000 supporters to the park. It is necessary to meet with citizens, and I would like to stress to the [Cambodian] Peoples Party that our gathering [on Sunday] is not a demonstration, Rainsy said. There will be no demonstration or toppling of anything. [The CPP] cannot use [this cause] as a pretext to accuse us and not allow us to [hold public meetings]. Rainsy added that the meetings would provide ideas for the CNRP ahead of renewed negotiations with the ruling party, which the opposition hopes will involve the most senior members of the government. Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, however, labelled the announcement a call for an illegal demonstration, and urged the CNRP to take their seats in

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Detained then expelled

Kevin Ponniah and Cheang Sokha

GROUP of 15 ethnic minority Uighurs fleeing China arrested in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo on Sunday morning had been detained by authorities in Cambodia hours earlier, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Citing sources within the Thai government, the rights groups statements match eyewitness reports from a Post source, who saw a group of 15 people claiming to be Turkish in the custody

HRW says Uighurs taken over Thai border

of Poipet immigration police late on Saturday night. The arrest of the group 10 of whom are children on Sunday morning in Thailand was a large mixed-agency operation involving soldiers, immigration officials, village militia and local district officials, Human Rights Watch said. Thai officials also confirmed that the group had previously been held by Cambodian authorities, said Phil Robertson, HRWs deputy Asia director. Whats clear is this group of 15 Uyghurs is the same group that was detained on the Cambodian side of the border by the authorities, and somehow soon thereafter they ended up in Thailand, where they were arrested, he said in an email, using an alternative spelling for Uighur. Given the scale of the Thai operation, we suspect but cannot confirm that there was some sort of communication between the Cambodian and Thai sides of the border about this group. In recent days, Cambodian government officials have repeatedly denied or declined to comment on allegations that a group of 15 foreigners were even arrested in Poipet on Saturday, let alone deported.

But according to a local source who spoke on condition of anonymity, immigration police in Poipet on Saturday night detained a group of five adults and 10 children who claimed they were Turkish. On that night, I saw border police bring them to the immigration police station. They were put into a room for a while before they put them in an SUV and drove away. I saw them with my own eyes, there were 15 people [in Continues on page 6

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Unions to lead holiday strike

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan

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CNRP leaders Kem Sokha (left) and Sam Rainsy speak during a press conference at a party ofce in Phnom Penh yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN

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parliament, saying: His congress is just words, but the reality is a demonstration. We already know this. So I would like [Rainsy] to release his 55 ghting cocks, and the CPPs 68 ghting cocks will be waiting in the National Assembly. Rainsy added that a key CNRP demand for reform of the National Election Committee had been dismissed at negotiations, and called on the CPP to put forward their counter-proposal. If they do not agree, please propose another idea to guarantee independence of the NEC. What [ideas] does [the CPP] have? Come on, he said. Opposition leaders also questioned whether investigations into last years election and the violence against striking workers on Veng Sreng Boulevard in January had ever existed. We demand an investigation into the election, Sokha said yesterday. If there was no investigation, we demand a new election. What do citizens want us to do? But Phnom Penh municipality spokesman Long Dimanche said a letter sent by the CNRP to City Hall requesting permission for the gathering would not receive a positive response. If we do not have the result of the investigation, then we still cannot allow [the CNRP] to gather at Freedom Park. We will consider their request, he said. Opposition spokeswoman

Mu Sochua yesterday questioned the governments commitment to a proper investigation. We want an independent investigation. Look at [slain union activist] Chea Vichea, theyve been investigating Chea Vicheas murder for 10 years, she said. Sochua added that talk of an investigation was being used as a pretext to deny peoples rights. This is exactly the pretext to lift our constitutional rights, she said. We know that any kind of investigation is closed-door. That is totally unacceptable. The prime minister himself has to talk about the investigation. How do we know there is an investigation? Ramana Sorn, freedom of expression spokeswoman at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said in an email yesterday that the ban on assembly at Freedom Park showed the government was unwilling to listen to dissenting voices. Freedom Park was established as a place where people could exercise their freedoms of assembly and expression; banning assemblies there makes it clear that the governments intentions are to silence its own citizens, she wrote. Any forms of blanket bans on assemblies are not only against Cambodias domestic laws including the Law on Peaceful Assembly and the Constitution but also against Cambodias Constitutionallyprotected obligations under international law.

HEN is a strike not a strike? Thats a question being asked after union leaders yesterday announced they will inform garment factory owners that their members want to use annual leave days to wage their stay-at-home strike the week after Khmer New Year. The leaders of eight unions plan to send a letter to the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) this afternoon, asking it to communicate the message to all member factories, Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said yesterday. We ask the factory owners to compensate workers [for April 17 to 23], Thorn said, adding that workers will stay home those days regardless of the response. Taking annual leave simultaneously falls short of a strike, but keeps pressure on the government and factories, said Moeun Tola, head of the Community Legal Education Centers labour program. Its hard to call it a strike, he said. But people are communicating their dissatisfaction. When asked why unions are requesting the week to count as their annual leave, rather than just call a strike, C.CAWDU vice-president Kong Athit said

Garment workers protest for a wage rise outside Phnom Penhs Ministry of Labour in December. HENG CHIVOAN

the action avoided violent government crackdowns. Workers are entitled to annual leave, said GMAC secretary general Ken Loo. But factories cannot approve time off for so many employees simultaneously that it would seriously affect production, he added. Workers can absolutely [take leave], but it is the prerogative of the factory of whether or not they approve, Loo said. The strike looms as unions continue to demand the government set the garment sectors monthly minimum wage which is $100 at $160 and drop charges against 21 jailed protesters and two others.

In a separate action, unions will request permission from the Phnom Penh municipality to gather 10,000 people in the capital on May 1, Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW), said yesterday. Thorn said attendees will begin the event at Freedom Park, then march to the National Assembly. The same eight unions participating in the stay-at-home strike will send their request to City Hall a month in advance, so the city has plenty of time to respond, Thorn said. However, the event will proceed whether or not City Hall permits it.

City Hall governor Pa Socheatvong placed a ban on gatherings at Freedom Park two weeks ago, which remains in effect until the completion of an investigation into violence that occurred during opposition party demonstrations and the garment worker strike, he said. The strike and demonstrations ended after fatal crackdowns on January 3 and 4. City Hall will consider the request, spokesman Long Dimanche said. But he added that public assemblies will not be permitted at Freedom Park until the investigation is complete.

Land mine injures aunt, two children

Kim Sarom

TWO children and a woman were seriously injured yesterday when they stepped on a land mine near a border patrol station in Banteay Meanchey, police said. Chea Chhloung, Svay Chek district police chief, said the woman, Chhay Arn, 28, lost her left leg in the explosion. This area is full of mines ... information about the mines has been distributed by

CMAC [the Cambodian Mine Action Centre] for many years, but many people are still not aware of the dangers, he said. So theres always a chance that this type of thing will happen. Arn is the two childrens aunt and the three were collecting leaves and red ants when they stepped on the mine in Svay Chek district, Chhloung said. The children were also seriously injured, he added, without giving details.

In 2013, six people were killed or injured by a land mine in the province, a figure that fell from 17 the year before. Yesterdays incident occurred only 400 metres from the Thai border in an area where demining was postponed in 2011. I heard that they plan to continue demining, said Sorn Bunchhoeurt, a CMAC mine injury data manager. But I dont know whether it will be this year, Bunchhoeurt said.

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National District forestry boss charged over logging

Khouth Sophak Chakrya

Patrol detains loggers

Phak Seangly

THE director of the Lumphat district forestry department in Ratanakkiri province was charged and put in pre-trial detention on Monday for allegedly logging on protected land around OuSinlair waterfall, police and court officials revealed yesterday. Deputy Police Chief Klol Thoeun said that Meung Bunthin was picked up by police on Monday after district forestry ofcials accused him of illegally clearing about 20 hectares of land around OuSinlair, a popular eco-tourism destination in the province. There is only enough [evidence] to arrest Meung Bunthin this time but the court should also arrest the other people involved in these crimes and punish them un-

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der the law to protect our natural resources, Thoeun said, adding that several forestry ofcials had been implicated. Provincial prosecutor Leav Sreng conrmed that Bunthin had been charged with illegally logging the popular destination site. Under Article 100 of the Kingdoms Forestry Law, any activities carried out by local authorities that directly or indirectly contribute to forest exploitation are subject to one to ve years in prison and a ne of up to 100 million riel ($25,000). Thim Synath, Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction provincial director, said yesterday that his department had no involvement or any connection to Bunthins case. I did not order anyone to clear the land at this eco-tourism site which belongs to the state. Koung Srun, Lumphats district governor previously ordered me to measure and reserve land for the districts community, Synath said, clarifying that this was his only involvement Koung Srun could not be reached for comment yesterday.

foRest patrol in Ratanakkiris OYadav district spotted ve loggers clearing the communitys ancestral forest on Tuesday, villagers and rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Adhoc provincial coordinator Chhay Thy said that three representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Jarai families in Pak Nhai commune asked for help after the patrol detained employees of Vietnamese concessionaire Company 72. The concessionaire has already cleared some 100 hectares of the 1,000-hectare forest on which villagers rely for the livelihoods, according to Thy. They are all Vietnamese nationals, logging the ... forest, and community patrollers stopped them, conscating a chainsaw, he said. This is the third time that the villagers have taken it upon themselves to detain loggers spotted in the forest, he added, though this time they didnt hold the loggers for the police, who are thought to be afliated with the company. The company was expanding its boundaries into the [ancestral] forest with six pieces of machinery last week,

Clerk cops two-year prison term

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Three detained Vietnamese loggers (left) are questioned by local villagers in Ratanakkiris OYadav district on Tuesday. PHOTO SUPPLIED

but the community gathered to force them out of the forest, Thy continued. Community representative Romas Chvath, 48, said that the ve loggers sighted on Tuesday were in the midst of loading timber onto a tractor when the villagers approached. Two of them escaped on the tractor, but we managed to hold three for an hour to question them before letting them go, he recounted. We conscated the chainsaw from them and warned them not to log in our forest again. Chvath said that villagers

posted more than 200 placards saying The company is prohibited from clearing the protected forest, but has had trouble getting authorities to recognise and make ofcial their claim to the area. We are trying to protect our forest by ourselves, but the authorities do not even acknowledge it, he said. Contact information for Company 72 was not available yesterday, but OYadav district governor Dak Sar conrmed that the companys 6,000-hectare concession overlapped in part with the villagers forest.

A CROOKED court clerk and two people convicted of doing business with him will serve between two and three years in prison after they were sentenced yesterday. Former Banteay Meanchey court clerk Suong Sok Heng, 22, was sentenced to five years, with three years suspended and a 6 million riel ($1,500) fine; construction company owner Uy Sopheap, 69, was sentenced to five years with two years suspended; and Sem Sokha, 42, was sentenced to three years and fined 4 million riel ($1,000) in Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Sok Heng was convicted of taking a $500 bribe from Sopheap to speed up a lawsuit and helping Sohka extort money from a woman with whom she was in a car accident. Sokha and Sok Heng were arrested after the woman reported Sok Heng to the Anti-Corruption Unit, after he intentionally kept her car accident case from reaching the courtroom. Sopheap has said he did not bribe Sok Heng and that he would appeal.

Torture alleged in conspiracy case

Alice Cuddy and Chhay Channyda

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A GROUP of men who were originally charged with running an armed terrorist group and now stand accused of conspiring to topple the Cambodian government have been tortured and held illegally, lawyers and a minority rights group said yesterday. Ang Chanrith, director of the Minority Rights Organization (MIRO), said the three Khmer Krom and four Cambodian nationals, some of them monks, will stand trial tomorrow accused of providing a foreign state with means to undertake hostilities and aggression. Two of seven were tortured and forced to confess in police custody, Chanrith said of two of the Khmer men. The men Yong Kim Srun, 27; Yean Yeap, 25; Thach Koung, 37; Khe Ma, 28; Thach Keu, 52; Yin Yav, 55; and Soun Thol, 56 were arrested in Thailand in March 2013 and

stand accused of creating an armed terrorist group. According to MIRO, this charge could not be upheld and was changed to delivering equipment for national defence to a foreign state. It was later altered to the charge of conspiracy. MIRO believes that these repeated modications of charges signify the lack of credible proof for an existing criminal offence, a statement released yesterday said. Chanrith said that four of the men are also charged with illegally crossing the border. How can they be charged for crossing into Cambodia? They are Khmer, he said. Sam Sokong, a defence lawyer for two of the Khmer Krom detainees, Kim Srun and Thol, said his clients have been illegally detained. Although there is a procedure that the court may detain them longer than six months, [by law], we [the lawyers]

Khmer Krom Buddhist monk Thach Koung leaves Phnom Penh Municipal Court last year. HeNG CHiVOAN

should have been informed. I have not received a letter from the court, he said. The defendants are members of Denmark-based dissident group the Khmer National Liberation Front. According to Sokong, six others accused under the same charges, including KNLF president Sam Serey, are at large.

When asked last night about the charges, Serey said what the government says is not true and he and his 5,000 members simply campaign for freedom and democracy. I have [just] tried to create a network to help change the policies of the government, he said, adding that he has no plans to return to Cambodia to face the charges.

Exam proctors promised pay boost

Chhay Channyda

THE Ministry of Education is promising to pay national exam proctors double the fees earned last year in its newest move to stymie widespread bribes exchanged for exam answers or inflated scores. Previously, proctors earned an average salary of 190,000 riel ($47.50) over the three-day exam period, according to Minister of Education Hang Chhuon Naron. We have asked to double the daily amount for proctors.

The ministry will also divide the proctors who monitor the writing of the exams from the proctors who correct the exams, he said. In order to afford the reforms, the ministry will hold national examinations this year only for grade 12 students aiming to obtain an upper secondary school diploma. The grade nine lower secondary school exam will now be prepared and conducted by individual schools. While former exam proctors appreciated the promise of a raise, many said by divvying up

the proctor and corrector positions, the ministry will actually limit the earnings. As a consequence [of the split roles], I cannot earn double what I used to make, said Tak Sam Ol, a high school teacher in Pailin provinces Tep Nimet town, who said she could earn up to 870,000 riel ($217.50) under the old exam system. Not everyone is convinced a boost in proctor pay will resolve any of the corruption in the nation exam system. The proctors are ordinary officers. The exam sheets are

leaked by the senior officers in the ministry or by the testing site directors who put them on sale, said Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association. He added that the officials stood to make 200,000 to 300,000 riel ($50 to $75) per class by selling the exam sheets in advance. If they want to get rid of corruption during the exam, the Anti-Corruption Unit ... will have to dare to investigate the corruption of the senior officers, Chhun said.

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National EU delegates sit down with govt, then CNRP

Stuart White Laignee Barron

PM to fete controversial dam

A VISITING group of European Union parliamentarians yesterday hashed out issues ranging from election reform to socalled blood sugar in separate meetings with representatives of the opposition, the ruling party, the Ministry of Interior and others, officials said. According to Ministry of Interior Secretary of State Prum Sokha, the EU assured Cambodia of its support, while Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng, in turn, assured the EU that Cambodias post-election issues would be worked out. The most important thing the EU stressed to the deputy prime minister was that even if theyre facing a global nancial crisis, the EU will continue to help Cambodia, Sokha said. The EU also asked about the post-election issues, and [Kheng] explained that everything would be resolved in accordance with the law. Electoral reform was also the chief subject of discussion in the delegations meeting with the Cambodia National Rescue Party, public affairs head Mu Sochua said yesterday. The main topic was the

formula that the CNRP was proposing to ensure the independence and neutrality of the [National Election Committee], Sochua said. One, that it is a body that has a constitutional status. Two, that the members of the NEC receive two-thirds of the vote from the members of parliament . . . Third, we want a set date for the next election [to take place] before the end of this term. The opposition also raised the issue of Cambodias controversial sugar plantations, which benet from a preferential trade agreement with Europe despite their involvement in multiple long-running land disputes. Though the trade scheme can be suspended if products are found to be linked to human rights abuses, EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht said recently that the alleged abuses didnt warrant investigation. [The delegation] assured us that the stance of the parliamentarians in the EU is not the same as the trade commissioner, Sochua said yesterday. In January, the EU Parliament passed a resolution calling for the bloc to act on assessments revealing abuses in the Kingdoms sugar industry.

N THE wake of several international scandals, the 120-megawatt Stung Atai hydropower plant in Pursat province and its transmission line will be inaugurated today in a celebration headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. The $255 million hydropower project nanced by China Development Bank has been operating since June last year, while the $113 million transmission line connecting the dam to Phnom Penh, Kampong Chnnang, Battambang and Pursat was only recently completed, according to a staff member who declined to provide his name at Cambodia Hydropower Development Co Ltd, a subsidiary of dam developer China Datang Corporation. Yesterday, before heading to the dam site, Prime Minister Hun Sen met with the president of the state-owned development group, and thanked him for helping power the Cambodian battery, according to a government-released statement. The fanfare follows a ve-year, catastrophe-prone construction process that included airlifted, endangered crocodiles, a ravaged swath of protected Cardamom Mountain forest and a burst pipeline that injured ve workers and left four more presumed dead. Its no surprise that there has been poor government oversight of the project, as the dams environmental management plan was of extremely poor quality with insufcient funding and did not provide enough details on who would be respon-

The construction site of the Chinese-built Stung Atai hydro-electric dam in Pursat province in 2012. The Stung Atai dam is to be ofcially inaugurated today. May Titthara

sible for monitoring, said Ame Trandem, Southeast Asia program director for International Rivers. In 2009, logging tycoon Try Pheaps MDS Import-Export Company was provided a licence to clear the forest during construction; however, the Post found last month that illegal clearing of the area is ongoing. After main logging operations were nished in 2012, MDS closed the timber sorting yard, but workers remained . . . [and] continued to cut what little luxury

timber remained around the reservoir, said Adam Starr, a project coordinator at Fauna and Flora International. Once the initial trees were logged, the remaining was slash burned. Despite the criticisms, the government yesterday stood by its newest dam. Every dam has some environmental impact . . . but we have decided the benets are more than the impacts with Stung Atai, said Ith Praing, secretary of state at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA

Tourists urged to look out for kids

Sen David

A man at a new nationwide Child Safe Tourism campaign event at the Ministry of Tourism in Phnom Penh inspects stickers with information on how to combat tourist-related child abuse yesterday. hoNG MENEA

IN an effort to prevent children from being sexually exploited by tourists, World Vision, the Ministry of Tourism and the anti-human trafficking police launched a nationwide Child Safe Tourism campaign yesterday. Some foreigners come to visit Cambodia as tourists and pretend to love, pity and help the poor children [only to abuse them], said Pol Phithey, director of the Ministry of Interiors anti-human trafficking police, at a launch in the capital. According to Phithey, 18 foreigners were sent to court in Cambodia during 2013 for sexually abusing children.

To target sexual exploitation, the launchs hosts are aiming to raise awareness among responsible tourists it hopes will help protect children when they see a problem. As part of the campaign, 120,000 stickers, 10,000 tent cards and 36 signboards with how to behave responsibly and support the fight against child abuse have been produced. They will be distributed at key tourism locations. Hor Sarun, under secretary of state at the Ministry of Tourism, and chairman of the Child Safe Tourism committee, said the government was pleased that the country had experienced a 17 per cent

increase in tourists last year. But with an increase in visitors to the country came an increase in vulnerable people seeking income in tourist spots. As we know, children are our future human resources and should be protected from all forms of abuse, he said. While most tourists come to enjoy the rich cultural attractions that Cambodia has to offer, those who are interested in the sexual exploitation of children pose a major threat, he added. World Vision Cambodia childhood project coordinator Phang Chanda said the campaign material included a hotline that tourists could call if they noticed a problem.

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Still ghting

Former top cop appeals convictions

ISGRACED former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov was back at the Court of Appeal yesterday, arguing against four separate convictions, adding up to a total of 42 years prison time. Cases against Pov, 56, heard in court yesterday stem from crimes ranging from possessing counterfeit cash to orchestrating an attempted murder, which occurred across eight years between 1998 and 2006. Those witnesses all have a problem with me and they lied to implicate me, Pov said in court of the two men convicted of carrying out the attempted murder. Ly Rasy, 44, and Pheng Phay, 43, were both convicted of attempting to assassinate Thong Uy Pang, editor of Koh Santepheap newspaper, in 1998. The two were charged with shooting Uy Pang in the shoulder while he was at Tek Thla Pagoda. Rasy and Phay were each sentenced to 18 years in prison for the crime. Koa Supha, Povs attorney, argued in court that there was no evidence tying his client to the shooting, for which he was sentenced to 16 years in 2009. Pov also appealed convictions for the 2003 illegal detention of Chan Seak for which he received five years his 2005 illegal detention of Heng Kimleang, seven years, and a 2006 case of possessing counterfeit $100 bills, 14 years. Decisions will be handed down on April 7, Judge Seng Sivutha said. LIENG SARITH

POLICE BLOTTER
No easy getaway after road rage at traffic jam
A PHNOM Penh traffic jam brought on a case of old-fashioned road rage on Tuesday. After getting into a row inspired by the tight circumstances, police said a 33-year-old suspect got into a creative cursing contest with another motorist. Unhappy with the outcome, the man began hurling many stones at the vehicle of his antagonist. When the cops inevitably showed up, the suspect attempted his getaway which was, of course, thwarted by the traffic snarl. Hes now awaiting the judge. DEUM AMPIL

He caught the bouquet but was still robbed

Water work
A young boy walks along a chain of boats near his village late in the afternoon to unload plants that were harvested from the river in Meanchey districts Chak Angre Krom commune last week. HONG MENEA

A NIGHT of celebration turned sour for one Russey Keo man after he exited a friends wedding on Tuesday night. After leaving the nuptials, perhaps a little worse for wear, the victim waited outside his house for his relatives to let him in. Three men, spotting an easy target, approached him and took his money and a ring before fleeing the scene. The victim filed a complaint, but he couldnt make out the thieves faces in the dark. deum ampil

Firm logging in sanctuary

May Titthara

Innocent student conned by thieving school friend

A YOUNG woman in Pursat town found out that a little learning is indeed a dangerous thing after loaning out some books led to the disappearance of her moto on Tuesday. Police said a friend of the young student had come by to borrow some books, and the young woman obliged. Her good deed done, she went about her business around the house only to find later that her moto which had been parked under the house had disappeared. She filed a complaint with police, who are looking for her so-called friend. KampuChea thmey

COMPANY in Mondulkiris Sok San commune has been gradually cutting down a community forest, pushing more than 100 families off their land, villagers said yesterday. That land belongs to us, the government granted it to us in 1999. But the company invaded and let us do nothing on it, Mao

Theoung, 62, from the Pnorng minority, said yesterday. A Council of Ministers report, dated January 3, 2012, said that the government agreed to allow Master Kson Co Ltd to invest in agro-industry, rubber plantations and wildlife conservation and to develop sport hunting over 70 years in a 6,892-hectare concession in Phnom Prech wildlife sanctuary. However, Theoung said the rm has done little but cut down trees.

They told us that they planted rubber, but we saw only a few rubber plants. What they did was cut our community forest and use chainsaws to fell trees for trade, he said. According to Theoung, 150 of the 250 hectares that 137 families call home have been affected. San Chin, rst assistant to the commune chief, said villagers were simply asking for their land back.

The authorities treated people badly and satised the company even though it destroyed trees. The authorities do not care, Chin said. But Mil Soueng, Kok Nhek district governor, said no one has reported the matter to the authorities. No one bans them from farming, he said. Representatives of Master Kson could not be reached for comment.

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Sihanoukville stroll no holiday for poor tourist

A PEACEFUL stroll on the beach in Sihanoukville on Tuesday soon turned stressful for a female tourist. Carrying the usual tourist items cash and a camera the woman was approached by two men, aged 25 and 27. Exhibiting some handiwork, one of them snatched the bag from the woman and they both made a dash for it along the sand. Their getaway skills werent quite as polished, however, and police soon arrested them. kampuChea thmey

total], nine males and six females, and 10 of them were children, the source said. According to Thai media reports cited by the New York Times, the Uighur group had travelled from Vietnam to Cambodia and were planning on moving through Thailand to Malaysia and then, hopefully, Turkey, which shares ethnic links with Uighurs and is home to a large Uighur community. On March 13, a group of 220 suspected Uighurs found by authorities in a jungle camp in southern Thailand claimed to be Turkish and asked to be repatriated to Turkey. Another group of 112 people suspected to be Uighurs were detained in Sa Kaeo in the days before the 15 were arrested, according to HRW, though it is unclear whether they also travelled through Cambodia. The Uighurs, a mostly Muslim minority group, say they are oppressed by the Chinese government in the northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where violence between the minority and ethnic Han Chinese has been

increasing in recent years. In 2009, Cambodia became the subject of international outcry when it forcibly returned 20 Uighur asylum seekers to China even though they had been registered as persons of concern by the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has since been shuttered. Yesterday, So Channary, commander of the 911 border police unit in Banteay Meanchey province, said his forces had not recently arrested any groups of foreigners attempting to enter Thailand. We have not recently arrested any foreigners trying to cross the border or trying to get in and out of Cambodia or Thailand. The situation along the border here is very complicated and not easy to cross. We are strictly monitoring along the border. Immigration police chief Pin Piseth said: I have no idea. I dont know anything, and I have no comment. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said although he had not heard about the case, if people illegally tried to enter Cambodia, they should

be deported back to where they arrived from. Whoever gave them the chance or opportunity to get through; those countries have to take them back. We are not a final destination, he said. Dont blame Cambodia for this.

procedures are, HRWs Robertson said. Cambodia is a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol. Cheng Hong Bo, spokesman at the Chinese embassy, said yesterday that he had no information about the group, or

Forcing out these 15 Uyghurs once again shows how incredibly deficient Cambodias refugee protection procedures are
Vivian Tan, a spokesperson at the UNHCR in Bangkok, said yesterday she had not heard about the group of 15 being arrested. While adding she did not want to speculate, Tan said that if the group had told Cambodian authorities they wanted to seek asylum when they were arrested, the government may have violated international customary law if they turned them away. Forcing out these 15 Uyghurs once again shows how incredibly deficient Cambodias refugee protection whether they had been detained in Cambodia. Actually, if the Cambodian authorities have the [people] that you mentioned, they would inform us. But right now we dont have that kind of information, he said. According to the US State Department, 16 of the Uighurs that were returned to China

from Cambodia in 2009 have been given prison sentences ranging from 16 years to life. Rights groups have called for all the Uighurs recently arrested in Thailand to not be sent back to China and to have access to UN asylum application procedures. Alim Seytoff, spokesman at the World Uyghur Congress, could not be reached for comment yesterday, but on Tuesday he said he did not believe there were links between the group of 15 and the previous group of 112 that was also arrested in Sa Kaeo. We dont believe they are related to the first group. Due to severe Chinese repression of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan, we are witnessing an exodus of refugees from China. We hope Thailand and other Southeastern Asian countries will work with UNHCR and settle them in a safe third country, he said.

Poipet thief learns gun no accident protector

IT WAS a case of stop or Ill shoot and it would likely have ended in one of those scenarios had the armed robber not crashed his motorbike. A man who attempted to rob another rider while tailing him through the streets of Poipet on Tuesday is nursing serious injuries after losing control of his moto as he waved his gun around. The failed robber will face court and the prospect of prison once doctors discharge him from hospital. Koh santepheap
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Bangladeshi labourers work in a tannery in Dhaka in February. A report has identied Bangladesh as one of 10 strong emerging economies.

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New wave of emerging economies

Aurlia End

NDONESIA, Bangladesh and Ethiopia are among 10 countries set to take over as emerging economies from the powerful BRICS nations as they struggle with growing pains, a French credit body said on Tuesday. After 10 years of frenetic growth the big ve emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS, are slowing down sharply, trade credit and insurance group Coface said. In a report entitled Coface identies 10 emerging countries hot on the heels of the BRICS, the organisation said that average economic growth by the

BRICS this year would be 3.2 percentage points less than the average in the last 10 years. But at the same time, other emerging countries are accelerating their development, it said. The growth of emerging economies and the effect this has on world trade ows is closely analysed because of the huge impact on every aspect of the global economy and power balances. Coface broke the 10 new emerging economies it has identied into two groups. The rst comprises Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia, Colombia and Sri Lanka, which it named the PPICS. They had strong potential conrmed by a sound business environment, Coface said. The second group comprises Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,

Bangladesh and Ethiopia. But these countries are marked by very difcult or extremely difcult business environments which could hamper their growth prospects, Coface said. However, Coface head of country risk Julien Marcilly said that in 2001 the quality of governance in Brazil, China, India and Russia was comparable to that of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Bangladesh and Ethiopia today. But the 10 new emerging countries currently accounted for only 11 per cent of the world population whereas the BRICS had accounted for 43 per cent of the population in 2001. The total gross domestic product of the new 10 was only 70 per cent of the output of the BRICS in 2001, and they

had a current account decit of about 6 per cent of GDP whereas the BRICS had run a surplus on average. On a positive note, the new 10 had ination which was about 2.8 percentage points lower than BRIC ination in 2001, and their public debt was about 40 per cent of output compared with 54 per cent for the BRICS at that time. Coface said that growth in the BRICS was slowing down, despite favourable trends for consumption, because of an adjustment in supply and a marked slowdown in investment. Marcilly said that the BRICS were moving into a new phase since their exports were becoming less competitive, and because they were not yet competitive in offering products

that come with very high added value. In its quest to identify the next wave of emerging markets, Coface looked for potential annual growth exceeding 4 per cent, a diversied economy without undue dependence on the sale of raw materials, and some capacity to absorb economic shocks. It also looked for a nancial system capable of supporting investment, without raising risks of overheating. The use of the word PPICS as an acronym comes in a line of attempts by economists to group various types of new emerging economies. Among these are MINT for Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey, or CIVETS for Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. AFP

Cambodias logistics praised but still much to improve

Daniel de Carteret

DESPITE reforms contributing to an increase in its world ranking on trade facilitation performance, Cambodia still lags behind its regional peers, data presented yesterday by the World Bank show. Streamlined customs procedures and enhancements to port infrastructure have lifted Cambodia up to number 83 on the World Banks 2014 Logistics Performance Index (LPI), said Gerard McLinden, a senior trade facilitation specialist in the World Banks International Trade Unit.

Cambodia was ranked 101st in 2013s LPI. There has been a huge improvement in import, export and transit operations and that comes in part from risk management and streamlining of procedures, he said during a presentation on the index at the World Bank in Phnom Penh yesterday. The LPI rankings are based on a survey of logistics companies worldwide. Evaluations relate to a countrys customs management, logistics competence and trade timeliness. Government officials from the Ministry of Commerce and General Department of Customs

and Excise said that recent reforms reducing red tape on certificate of origin requirements, automation of trade confirmation and greater information provided on tariffs and regulations had all led to the improved position. But not everyone was ready to hail the achievement. It is within a regional context that policymakers should focus, said Srinivasa Madhur, director of research at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute, pointing to the World Bank's logistics rankings that place Cambodia above only Laos and Myanmar. Especially because come 2015 you have the

ASEAN economic community bloc and hence the focus should really be not a global improvement but where does Cambodia stand in an ASEAN context, he said. The World Bank survey backs this up. Comparing responses from firms based in different ASEAN countries, it shows that Cambodia has the lowest reputation when it comes to improving customs processes. Among all its neighbours in the economic and political bloc, Cambodia also had the biggest problem with informal payments causing delays at the border.

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Toyota to buy back own stock
Craig Trudell and Go Onomitsu

DuPont on Myanmar plans

Bridget Di Certo

OR Hsing Ho, the best business approach is to think globally and act locally, a method the new DuPont operation in Myanmar plans on taking seriously as it turns its expertise toward the fragile food chain in the long isolated nation. We believe that as a global company there is a lot to be learned at each locality. The local characteristics are unique for example in the farming community, uniqueness around the weather, the soil, the conditions and so on and so forth that is very locally based, Ho said at the launch of DuPont in Myanmar. As DuPont AseAn managing director, Ho has seen a natural marriage between the US-born science companys new focus on agriculture and the food chain and the needs of predominantly agricultural economies in the region. Myanmar today and in the past has been an agriculture economy and the kinds of agriculture development that would be relevant and important for Myanmar is rst and foremost rice, Ho said of the primary food chain

Hsing Ho (left), director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Thant Lwin Oo (centre) and Sittideth Sriprateth cut a ribbon at the opening of DuPont Myanmar last month. photo SUPPLIED

needs in the country. As you may know, rice was the number one export commodity for Myanmar for many years, several decades ago, he said on a recent trip to Myanmar to launch the DuPont operation there. Myanmar wants to drive

in that direction and regain that position as a major rice producer. So rice is important to the country and also to us because in DuPont we have a signicant initiative in our research and development effort focusing on rice so we believe that we can support

the countrys direction in developing higher yield and higher productivity. Higher productivity is especially critical for accelerating the process of urbanisation, a characteristic linked to growth of GDP , Ho said. For a country to grow in a

sustainable manner at a high rate, it needs to continue to urbanise. Improving agricultural yields and productivity freed up an element of the rural workforce that would turn toward urbanisation and provide human capital for modern industry and manufacturing, Ho explained. As GDP grows and the country looks to modernise, reliance on rice will be supplemented with an increased demand for meat, Ho said, adding that DuPont was also working on corn technology projects in this respect. As the country of 60 million people begin to develop, as the people begin to get better income, they will want to eat probably more meat and more nutrition and more protein, and as the demand of that goes up, the demand for corn and the feed for livestock will go up signicantly, he said. Thats our experience in Thailand where the consumption of feed is quite high. We believe that Myanmar is going to move in that direction for increasing the demand for corn as well. THE
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TOYOTA Motor Corp, the worlds largest carmaker, said it will buy back stock for the first time in five years as its cash pile swells and profit climbs. Toyota will repurchase as many as many as 60 million shares, equivalent to a 1.9 per cent stake, for 360 billion yen ($3.5 billion), and cancel 30 million of those shares by the end of June, according to a statement yesterday. Toyota last bought back shares in 2009. Toyotas growing cash pile fueled calls from the likes of Takaki Nakanishi, Institutional Investor magazines top-ranked Japanese car industry analyst, for the company to return money to shareholders or invest in new factories. The maker of the Camry sedans and Prius hybrids has forecast a record 1.9 trillion yen profit for the year ending on March 31. Toyota has said it aims to pay 30 per cent of net income as dividends and that the company wont build any new factories until at least 2015 as it focuses on improving efficiency at existing plants. BLOOMBERG

Thai ofcial vows to nd new ways to pay farmers

Chatrudee Theparat and Wichit Chantanusornsiri

THE caretaker Thai government has pledged to find additional funds of nearly 20 billion baht ($613.6 million) to pay suffering rice farmers by April, a senior official said after a cabinet meeting in Bangkok on Tuesday. The source disclosed that caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong reported to the meeting, chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, that the government can borrow tens of billions of baht to ease the burden of farmers who have been waiting for rice-pledging payments since last October. Kittiratt did not inform the meeting how he would obtain the funds. However, another source said this would be an extremely tough task since even if it could borrow that amount of money to pay farmers, the government was obliged to find another 20 billion baht for the central budget that was recently borrowed by the Commerce Ministry as an advance fund to pay farmers. The repayment is due in May. The most possible way to get funds is to sell rice in stocks, as the government is not in a position to borrow money within a week. But how can it sell enough to get 20 billion baht? asked the senior official. Even if the central budget payment is made by the end of this month, the government still owes the farmers 97 billion baht. The caretaker government has failed to pay farmers for the

A Thai vendor carries a variety of rice to rell a bag at his shop at a market in Bangkok. AFp

rice it bought in the 2013-14 season that began last October. It has also failed to sell massive stocks, as it has been buying rice from farmers at more than 40 per cent above market price for three years. The government is short of liquidity to finance the scheme, while the fiasco has scared away lenders, including stateowned financial institutions, which fear a caretaker government may not be legitimate as a loan guarantor or able borrow new funds for policies that affect votes. Mr Kittiratt told the meeting that he could find the money for sure. Even though the government is unable to pay out the total pledged money for the latest main crop in April, he vowed that at least one-fifth of a total of 96 billion baht would definitely be achieved, the source said. Chularat Suteethorn, direc-

tor-general of the Public Debt Management Office, said his office is attempting to borrow from the money market to solve the problem. Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office, said his office has discussed concerns over loans with the Thai Bankers Association (TBA). The TBA is demanding a confirmation letter that says the caretaker government guarantees the legality of funding for the rice scheme. Relevant parties are ready to proceed to ensure the rice farmers are paid as soon as possible, Somchai said. Another channel for seeking funds is to sell rice stocks through the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET). However, its goal of selling as much as 1 million tons through AFET is far from being achieved.
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Singapore LNG touts credentials

Chou Hui Hong

INGAPORE LNG Corp is touting its experience running Southeast Asias biggest liqueed natural gas terminal as a sign it can manage a second facility planned for the city-state. We are always ready, John Ng, the companys chief executive, said in an interview at his ofce on March 20. Do we have the capability to build, design and operate the terminal? The answer is yes. As Asia overtakes Europe as the worlds biggest natural-gas importer, Singapore wants to tap burgeoning demand for cargoes and cement its place as the regions LNG trading hub. The country, which uses gas for more than 90 per cent of its electricity, is studying locations on the east of the island for a second terminal to support industries and fuel power stations, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last month. The SLNG team will probably be the operator because they will be more experienced and the government will be comfortable replicating the same model, said Tony Regan, a Singapore-based energy consultant at Tri-Zen International Inc. He expects the terminal to start operations after 2020. Asia accounts for 46 per cent of global gas trade, according to the International Energy Agency, which identies Singapore as best-placed to be a centre for LNG trading. The region consumed 75 per cent of the worlds LNG last year, data from the International Group of Liqueed Natural Gas Importers show. Singapores second terminal will have a capacity similar to the rst, according to the Energy Market Authority, the regulator that oversees the countrys energy industry. The existing facility has three tanks

MISC Bhd liqueed natural gas (LNG) tanker Seri Angkasa is seen in Singapore in 2012. Singapore uses natural gas for more than 90 per cent of its electricity. BLOOMBERG

that can handle 6 million metric tons a year. A fourth will be added by 2017, increasing capacity to 9 million tons. The site can accommodate as many as seven tanks that could process 15 million tons annually, Lee said at the ofcial opening last month. Japan, which is the worlds biggest importer, consumed about 87.5 million tons in 2013. Sharon Tan, a spokeswoman for the EMA, said the regulator doesnt

have information yet about the process it will use to identify and select an operator. Singapore has the only LNG terminal in Asia that can reload cargoes from storage, allowing traders to store gas during low-consumption periods before selling them during peak demand seasons in winter and summer. SLNG may use the third tank for short-term trade, Ng said. Germanys E.ON Se and Glencore

Xstrata Plc (GLEN) are among companies that have hired LNG traders in the city as the market grows. Qatar Liqueed Gas Co, the worlds largest producer, is looking to expand in the region, Abdulla Al-Hussaini, the companys marketing director, said in an October interview. More terminals in the region will help boost trade volumes and establish more competitive and responsive LNG prices, according to Ng.

About 27 per cent of LNG supplies, or 65 million tons, are traded on a short-term and spot basis, according to the International Group of Liqueed Natural Gas Importers. The rest is bought and sold in longterm supply contracts with prices typically linked to the cost of crude oil. LNG which is to be shipped over the next four to eight weeks to North Asia dropped to $15.80 per million British thermal units in the week ended March 24, down 20 per cent from a record $19.70 on February. 3, according to New York-based Energy Intelligence. The Energy Market Authority is studying whether to build the plant offshore on a oating facility, its CEO Chee Hong Tat said on February 26. SLNG, owned by the Singapore government, was formed in June 2009 by the EMA to operate the S$1.7 billion ($1.3 billion) rst terminal on Jurong Island that began operating in March last year. Im quite condent we have the capability to do the second terminal as a oating one, said Ng, who became chief executive on December 1, taking over from Neil McGregor. The challenges are no less or no more than a land-based one. A oating storage and regasication unit, or FSRU, may be a better choice for Singapores eastern terminal as technology improves, according to Regan. FSRUs typically consist of LNG vessels anchored offshore to receive and store shipments before the supercooled gas is sent into an onshore pipeline system. FSRUs are cheap, quick to build and start, you can put in a second unit ve years later to increase capacity and it gives Singapore, which is a small country, a lot more options where to place the second terminal, Regan said. BLOOMBERG

Australia seeks sale of insurer to help budget

Iain McDonald and Narayanan Somasundaram

Hyundai looks at China expansion

Rose Kim

AUSTRALIA plans to sell the countrys largest health insurer, Medibank Private Ltd, through an initial public offering before June 2015 as the government seeks to rein in a budget decit. The government will appoint joint lead managers for the IPO, which is the best option to secure the highest price, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said yesterday. Nomura Holdings Inc. Sydney-based analyst Toby Langley values the insurer at about A$4 billion ($3.7 billion) based on peergroup analysis, he said yesterday by phone. The IPO will potentially lead to a greater level of competition in the Australian private health insurance market, Langley said. We expect signicant attention around expenses and efciency where Medibank lags the broader private health insurance market despite its signicant scale. Australias government faces a budget decit forecast to balloon to A$47 billion in the year to June 30 and Treasurer Joe Hockey has pledged spending cuts in an economy weighed by

an elevated currency and slowing mining investment. He is also encouraging state governments to sell assets to fund new infrastructure projects and buoy business investment. The independently prepared scoping study reafrmed our long-held view that there is no compelling reason for the government to own Medibank Private, Cormann said in a statement. Medibank Private is a commercial business operating in a well-functioning, well-regulated competitive private health insurance market with 34 competing funds. Australia provides citizens with free or subsidised health care through Medicare. It also encourages people through tax benets to take out private health insurance. Around 47 per cent of Australians are covered by private insurers for hospital treatment while 55 per cent are covered for other services such as dental and optical, according to government data. Medibank Privates operating prot before tax rose 14.2 per cent in the 12 months ended June 30, 2013 to A$185 million, driven by a 9.4 per cent gain in revenue, the insurer said on October 8. BLOOMBERG

HYUNDAI Motor Co, South Koreas largest automaker, is considering building a fourth car plant in China to meet demand in the worlds biggest auto market. Chairman Chung Mong Koo will sign an agreement today with the government of Chongqing city to study the possibility of locating a plant there, Hyundai said in an emailed statement. The city is the most likely site for the factory, the Seoul-based company said. Hyundai faces rising competition in China, its largest market, as sales at Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co have recovered from anti-Japanese boycotts touched off in 2012 by a territorial dispute. The Korean carmaker joins rivals including Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co in seeking to make and sell more cars in China as economic growth a nd urba nisat ion stoke demand for vehicles. To increase or at least keep its market share, the decision to build a new plant would have been inevitable for the company, said Lee Sang Hyun, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities Co. The carmakers annual sales in China surpassed 1 million

Hundreds of snow-covered Hyundai Motor vehicles sit parked at a delivery centre at the companys factory in Asan, South Korea, in January. BLOOMBERG

vehicles last year for the first time, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It sold 640,698 units in South Korea and 720,783 in the US. The fourth plant would have a capacity of 300,000 cars a year, bringing Hyundais China output to as many as 1.51 million vehicles, according to the statement. This year, the company forecasts its sales in the nation will total 1.13 million vehicles, including trucks, helped by

China-specific models including the Mistra sedan and the completion of its commercialvehicle manufacturing plant in Sichuan, Chief Financial Officer Lee Won Hee said back in January. The company expects Chinas overall auto demand to reach 20.06 million units by 2016, according to the statement. Hyundai needs to increase output in the country to keep pace with rivals, the company said. Hyundai began production

in China in late 2002 and makes 10 models in the country, including the Langdong sedan and the Santa Fe sport-utility vehicle, the company said in an emailed response to a Bloomberg query. It isnt exporting any cars from China. Hyundais three existing Chinese car plants are in Beijing. Its commercial-vehicle business also has a new plant under construction in Sichuan expected to open in the first half of this year. BLOOMBERG

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Exchange debut

making IRS to tax bitcoin as property Firm robot suit is

Richard Rubin and Carter Dougherty

HE US government will treat bitcoin as property for tax purposes, applying rules it uses to govern stocks and barter transactions, the Internal Revenue Service said in its rst substantive ruling on the issue. Yesterdays IRS guidance will provide certainty for bitcoin investors, along with income-tax liability that wasnt specied before. Purchasing a $2 cup of coffee with bitcoins bought for $1 would trigger $1 in capital gains for the coffee drinker and $2 of gross income for the coffee shop. The IRS, faced with a choice of treating bitcoins like currency or property, chose property. That decision could reduce the volume of transactions conducted with the virtual currency, said Pamir Gelenbe, a venture partner at Hummingbird Ventures, which invests in technology businesses. Its challenging if you have to think about capital gains before you buy a cup of coffee, he said. Charles Allen, chief executive ofcer of BitcoinShop Inc, an online marketplace, said hed like to see the IRS reconsider its decision as virtual currencies develop. The implications this decision will have on the bitcoin ecosystem are far reaching, and will be burdensome for both individual users of bitcoins,

A man talks on a mobile phone in a shop displaying a bitcoin sign in Hong Kong. The digital currency will be treated as property for tax purposes in the US. AFp

bitcoin-focused business and for the general adoption of virtual currencies, he said, adding that bitcoin users will adapt to the rules. Bitcoin, the most popular digital currency, emerged from a 2008 paper written by a programmer or group of programmers under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The bitcoin network uses a public ledger to record transactions made under pseudonyms, a technological breakthrough that allows purchases and sales without using a trusted

third party, such as Visa Inc or Western Union Co. Powerful computers that record the transactions and guard against double-spending the same currency generate new bitcoins, a process referred to as mining. Mining has made some early bitcoin adopters wealthy in dollar terms. Others bought into the currency in early 2013, before its price rose more than 50-fold to peak at $1,200 in early December. A bitcoin was worth $584.35 at 4:02pm New York time yes-

terday, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. Thats less than 0.3 per cent below yesterdays high. The IRS ruling means bitcoin investors will be treated like stock investors. Bitcoins held for more than a year and then sold would face the lower tax rates applicable to capital gains, a maximum of 23.8 per cent compared with the 43.4 per cent top rate on property sold within a year of purchase. The Internal Revenue Services guidance today provides clarity for taxpayers who want to ensure that theyre doing the right thing and playing by the rules when utilizing Bitcoin and other digital currencies, Senator Thomas Carper, a Delaware Democrat, said in a statement. For investors with losses, US tax law allows taxpayers to subtract capital losses from any capital gains. They can also subtract as much as $3,000 of capital losses a year from ordinary income. If bitcoin were treated as a foreign currency, ordinary (not capital gains) tax rates would apply. Losses would be easier to deduct, however. As with stocks, bitcoin dealers will be subject to different rules that wouldnt allow for capital gains treatment. Bitcoin miners will have to report their earnings as taxable income with a value equal to the worth on the day it was mined. If they mine as part of a business, they would have to pay payroll taxes as well. BLOOMBERG

now trading

YBERDYNE, the maker of a battery-powered exoskeleton robot suit, made its stock market debut on Tuesday, as it looks to raise money to boost its research. The Japanese robot venture provided 10.85 million shares, which did not trade in the early session. But things took off in the afternoon, with the price swinging between 7,950 and 10,010, before settling on 9,600 at the close. The offering was made at the Tokyo Stock Exchanges Mothers market, a forum aimed at providing venture companies access to funds at an early stage of their development. Cyberdyne, based in Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, has developed a robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around. Its Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, is a power-assisted pair of legs. The company has also produced a robot suit that allows wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight, possibly offering utility to workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. AFP

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HTC sells new One model

Scott Moritz and Tim Culpan

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TC Corp has released a new version of its mainstay One smartphone, a device its counting on to help restore protability. The HTC One M8 features a 5-inch (13-centimetre) high-denition screen, Qualcomm Incs Snapdragon 801 processor and a micro SD slot, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a presentation on Tuesday in New York. Its physical design mirrors that of last years HTC One model, which suffered production delays and a shortage of components. The shares rose to their highest level in four months after news of the phones release. Nine consecutive quarters of sales declines pushed HTC to its rst annual loss last year as its marketing budget shrank, and it faced stiffer competition from Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co and Lenovo Group Ltd devices. HTC has worked to solve production problems it faced last year, and a wider line-up of mid-range phones will help it reach more consumers this year, Chief Financial Ofcer Chang Chialin told investors last month. The new HTC One is certainly an impressive device, the design is stunning, said Avi Greengart, an analyst with Current Analysis who was at the HTC press event. It should sell well to early adopters who are looking for premium

A HTC Corp employee talks on the telephone inside one of the companys stores in Taiwan late last year. BLOOMBERG

design, but HTC will need effective marketing to break through to mainstream consumers who are starting, and usually ending, their buying process with Apple or Samsung. Shares of HTC rose 1.6 per cent to NT$155 on Tuesday, the highest close since November 27. The benchmark Taiex index added 0.6 per cent. Pre-orders for the One M8 started on Tuesday at US carriers Verizon Communications Inc, Sprint Corp and AT&T Inc, which is selling the phone at $199.99 on a two-year contract. The device will be available at all major carriers in April.

The phones camera will automatically sync photos and video so theyre stored online. The device includes free replacement of broken screens for the rst six months. HTC is betting features like those will succeed where the previous One model fell short. A sleek metal case, a new camera that captures more light and stereo speakers werent enough to end a sales slump when HTC introduced the second-generation One in February 2013. A limited supply of the cameras components was among the bottlenecks that forced HTC to delay

a wider release of the device by about two months. Revenue dropped 30 per cent last year to NT$203 billion ($6.6 billion). A loss is expected by analysts this quarter. The company faces a trough in sales before revenue increases sequentially through the year, it said last month. Sales of the One product line rose in 2013 from the prior year, with a drop in other models contributing most to the decline in revenue and income, Chang said. To ensure the new One device helps reverse those declines, HTC is starting an advertising campaign on television and billboards to highlight the critical acclaim it has received. The commercials, with actor Gary Oldman and the slogan Ask the Internet, were scheduled to start running last night in prime time in the US, said John McGonigle, an executive vice-president at advertising rm Deutsch, which represents HTC. The company previously signed Robert Downey Jr to star in its commercials. In addition, HTC is preparing to release its rst wearable device by Christmas, Wang said in an interview last month. Executives were to give a private preview of a watch based on Qualcomms Toq design platform at the Mobile World Congress trade show last month, a person with direct knowledge of the plans said at the time. BLOOMBERG

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World
Shooting risks raising Ukraine heat
fAR-RigHt Ukrainian leader was shot dead early on Tuesday by special forces in an incident likely to raise tensions between Kievs new interim government and restive ultra-nationalist groups. Oleksander Muzychko known as Sashko Bily, or Sasha the White was killed in a shoot-out in the western city of Rivne, Ukraines interior ministry said. Police tried to arrest him in a cafe when he opened re on them, they added. Muzychko was a prominent member of Praviy Sektor, a far-right paramilitary outt that took part in the Maidan uprising against Viktor Yanukovych. The group has no role in government, although its leader Dmytro Yarosh has announced he intends to stand in Mays presidential election. His volunteers occupy several buildings in the capital. Russia points to Praviy Sektor as evidence that Yanukovychs overthrow last month was a fascist coup. On Tuesday, Yarosh demanded that Ukraine interior minister Arsen Avakov resign over the killing. Avakov, however, refused. Unrepentant, he said his ministry would take tough measures against any armed bandits, whatever their political orientation, if they threatened public order. The episode highlights the fragility of the new opposition-led coalition, which has so far failed to persuade militia groups to disarm. Though marginal, Praviy Sektor could become a growing headache for the authorities, especially if its activists refuse to leave the Maidan, and the downtown hotel where they are camping out. The killing came as Ukraines parliament, the Rada, accepted the resignation of the defence minister, Ihor Tenyukh, as thousands of Ukrainian troops began to evacuate from Kremlin-controlled Crimea. Tenyukh rejected criticism that he had failed to give clear orders to soldiers trapped in their bases for up to three weeks. But he agreed to step

Police and forensic experts examine the body of far-right nationalist leader Oleksandr Muzytchko after he was shot dead the day before. AFP

down. Deputies appointed Col Gen Mykhailo Koval as his replacement. According to Tenyukh, about 6,500 Ukrainian soldiers and their family members are leaving Crimea about a third of the 18,000-strong Ukrainian military force based there. The other two-thirds plus dependents had opted to stay on the peninsula, which the Russian Federation annexed last week. 4,300 servicemen and 2,200 family members who wish to continue serving in Ukraines armed forces will be evacuated, Tenyukh said. Ofcials in Kiev, meanwhile, described the meeting on Monday between Russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Deshchytsia in The Hague as a positive move. It was the rst direct contact between both sides since Russian troops seized Crimea last month. They agreed some condence-building measures. Following a blackout over the weekend, Deshchytsia promised

that Kiev would not cut off Crimeas electricity and water supply. Lavrov said Russia was not preparing a further military incursion into southern and eastern Ukraine. Speaking on Tuesday, however, Ukraines deputy foreign minister Danylo Lubkivksy said there could be no normalisation of relations while Russia continued to occupy Ukrainian territory. He said: People in the Crimea are beaten and tortured. Russian militants abduct people. They seize Ukrainian property. He also said large numbers of Russian troops were still poised on Ukraines eastern border. Russia, meanwhile, indicated that it would continue its uncompromising stance towards the government in Kiev, which it views as illegitimate. Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putins press spokesman, said Moscow was likely to raise the price Kiev has to pay for gas. Ukraine was no longer entitled to a discount since Russias

Black Sea eet, based in Crimea, was not on Ukrainian territory, Peskov argued. Ukraine had failed to settle its debts to Gazprom, the Russian state energy giant, he added. According to Ukraines authorities, Muzychko was the leader of a criminal gang. The rst deputy interior minister Volodymyr Yevdokimov said ofcers of the Sokol special unit had killed him as he tried to escape. At the moment of arrest, at shouts of Stop! Police, Muzychko ed, jumping through a window, and opened re, Yevdokimov said. He was still alive as they were arresting him but then the paramedics who arrived at the scene found that he had died, he said. Three other gang members were detained, he added. Muzychkos associates, however, dispute the ofcial version of what happened. One said that special forces shot him in the leg and then shot him again as he tried to ee through a window. Another, the independent lawmaker Oleksander Doniy, claimed on his Facebook page that the ultra-nationalist leader had been executed. He was then thrown out of the vehicle, with his hands cuffed behind his back, and with two gunshot wounds to his heart. It is clear that the thug-like Muzychko had become an embarrassing liability for the authorities in Kiev. Last month he stormed into the ofce of the local Rivne prosecutor. He then slapped and humiliated a hapless ofcial, shouting abuse and yanking the unfortunate mans tie. RT, the Kremlin propaganda channel, broadcast the video. In another recent YouTube address Muzychko acknowledged that the authorities might try to kill him, signing off: Glory to Ukraine. Russia issued an international warrant for Muzychkos arrest earlier this month. Moscow claims that Muzychko fought alongside separatist Chechen rebels during the rst Chechen war in the mid-1990s, and was guilty of the murder and torture of several Russian soldiers. AFP

Worst can be avoided with action now: IPCC chief

THE United Nations head of climate change issues stressed yesterday that the earths warming trend, almost certainly caused by humans, can still be eased. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said societies have to decide whether to take a path to deterioration or to make moves that will conserve the planet. Yes, of course it is difficult, he said on the sidelines of an IPCC gathering, held this week in Japan for the first time. But what is going to be even more difficult, substantially more difficult, is to deal with alternatives. Some 550 scientists and officials from around the world are meeting behind closed doors this week to hammer out a 29-page summary of a massive report, which is expected to detail impacts and ways to reduce risks associated with climate change. The report will serve as the second volume in the long-awaited Fifth Assessment Report, which is likely to shape policies and climate talks for years to come. Global warming has resulted in reduced yields of wheat, rice and corn, increasing food security risks as the worlds population expands, a draft of the summary says. The draft also spells out the possibility of increased floods, drought, conflict and economic damage if carbon emissions continue unchecked. He urged the public not to confuse weather patterns and climate change, as recent winter chills in North America have prompted many to joke about global warming and have fuelled scepticism. Extreme heat waves and precipitation are on the rise as climate change progresses, bringing heavy rain and snow falls in upper latitude regions during winter, Pachauri said. AFP

THE PHNOM PENH POST MARCH 27, 2014

World
Israel is not Jewish only: Arab meet
ARAB leaders fully back a Palestinian refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, a nal Arab summit statement said yesterday. We express our total rejection of the call to consider Israel as a Jewish state, said the declaration, issued at the end of the two-day meet in Kuwait City. The Palestinians recognised Israel at the start of the peace process in the early 1990s, but Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu insists they now acknowledge it as the national homeland of the Jewish people, a move that would effectively end the right of return for Palestinians. The Arab League rejected it this month. US Secretary of State John Kerry is facing an uphill battle to keep peace talks on track beyond an April 29 deadline. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has made it clear that he will never recognise Israel as a Jewish state. Netanyahu has placed the recognition dispute at the forefront of the talks, describing Arab rejection of the Jewish state as the root of the conict. AFP OZEns of oating objects detected at sea provided fresh evidence yesterday that the difcult search for ight MH370 debris was on course, as US lawyers red the rst salvo in an expected barrage of lawsuits on behalf of grieving families. Malaysia said satellite images taken in recent days showed 122 potential objects in the remote southern Indian Ocean, a discovery likely to energise an international effort to recover suspected debris from the missing plane that has been frustrated by stormy weather. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein cautioned that it was impossible to determine whether the objects were related to the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 which crashed on March 8 with 239 people aboard after it mysteriously disappearing. Nevertheless, this is another new lead that will help direct the search operation, he told a daily press brieng, calling it the most credible lead that we have. The images were provide by European aerospace giant Airbus and depicted some objects as long as 23 metres (75 feet), he said.

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Satellite shows 122 potential objects

Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein shows pictures of possible debris in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. AFP

However, Australias search operation ended yesterday with no conrmation of the potential debris eld. The French images were taken on Sunday before severe weather forced the suspension of the search operation on Tuesday. Indeed, searchers racing to nd ight MH370s black box face daunting hurdles ranging from undersea volcanoes to mountainous seas as they operate in one of Earths most remote locations, experts said yesterday.

They warned there was no guarantee that an unprecedented international search operation involving the militaries of six nations would succeed in retrieving wreckage of the doomed Malaysian Airlines plane. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday said the search zone in the southern Indian Ocean some 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth was as close to nowhere as its possible to be.

University of New South Wales oceanographer Erik van Sebille said the crash site was in an area known as the Roaring Forties, notorious among mariners for its hostile seas. In general, this is the windiest and waviest part of the ocean, he said. In winter, if a storm passes by you can expect waves of 10 to 15 metres. The Soufan Group, a USbased strategic security intelligence consultancy, likened searching for debris in such conditions to nding a drifting needle in a chaotic, colour-changing, perceptionshifting, motion-sickness-inducing haystack. Even if the search does nd veriable wreckage from MH370 on the surface, geologist Robin Beaman said underwater volcanoes would probably hamper efforts to recover the black box ight recorder from the depths. Beaman said that the Southeast Indian Ocean Ridge cut directly through the search area, meaning the sea bed was rugged and constantly being reshaped by magma ows. He said the ridge was an extremely active range of volcanoes sitting at an average depth of 3,000 metres

(1.86 miles), which marked the point where the Antarctic and Australasian tectonic plates collide. Its very unfortunate if that debris has landed on the active crest area, it will make life more challenging, Beaman, who specialises in underwater geology at Queenslands James Cook University, said. Its rugged, its covered in faults, ne-scale gullies and ridges, there isnt a lot of sediment blanketing that part of the world because its fresh [in geological terms]. Finding the ight and cockpit voice data will be crucial in determining what caused the Boeing 777 to deviate inexplicably off course and y thousands of miles in the wrong direction. Malaysia believes the plane was deliberately diverted by someone on board. University of Sydney aviation expert Peter Gibbens said searchers faced a race against time, with acoustic signals from the black box set to fall silent in about two weeks when its battery expires. Theyre going to be pushing it with time, the chances are stacked against them, he said. AFP

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World

Booze news

Presidents men get sent home: report

ECRET Service agents protecting President Barack Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on leave after a night of drinking, The Washington Post reported. One of them was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, the Post reported, citing three unnamed people familiar with the case. The latest eyebrow-raising incident recalls the April 2012 scandal involving Secret Service Agents and prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia. And in this case the alleged behaviour would violate new Secret Service rules adopted after the scandal in Colombia that involved agents drinking and bringing prostitutes to their hotel before Obama arrived in the Colombian Caribbean resort city, the Post reported. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed the agency did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Donovan declined to comment further, the Post added. AFP

Cops wife casts doubt on verdicts of 529

HE wife of the policeman whose murder led to death sentences for 529 Egyptians on Monday has suggested that only two of them may be responsible for his killing. The sentences caused global outcry on Monday after it emerged that the 529 had been convicted of the murder of ofcer Mostafa al-Attar last August in a case that lasted just two court sessions. Speaking to an Egyptian news presenter after the case ended, al-Attars wife, Magda Abbas, inadvertently cast further doubt on the strength of the prosecution by saying that her joy at the sentences was tempered by the fact that the two men who killed him were still in hiding. Al-Attar was wounded by a mob at a police station and later taken to hospital, where Abbas said two doctors killed him. Those who killed Mostafa are not [in prison], Abbas said. They are fugitives. Local lawyers protested against the death sentences by boycotting a second mass trial of 683 people on Tuesday, which was presided over by the same judge who ruled the 2011 revolution. Further draconian sentences were avoided as Tuesdays trial was adjourned until April 28. But violence broke out in Minya, the southern city where both trials took place, as students clashed with police. The head of the local student union said some protesters had been hit by police shotgun pellets. Clashes were also reported in the northern city of Alexandria. The death sentences sparked a global outcry, culminating in the UNs human rights ofce judging that the case had breached international law. A mass trial of 529 people conducted over just two days cannot possibly have met even the most basic requirements for a fair trial, said the UNs human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville. But reaction in Egypt was more mixed. The identities of the 529 are not all known, but many Egyptians assume they are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group behind ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Many in Egypt instinctively blame the Brotherhood for all new outbursts of violence, and believe the 529 deserved their punishment. One lawyer from the area, Ali Delgawy, said: Theyre liars, so they deserve whatever happens to them. Both state and private media have consistently backed the actions of the post-Morsi regime, and Mondays trial was no exception. Today, we got justice, the justice that we want. We are tired of your violence. We will build the country despite your war, said Rania Badawy, a presenter on the private Tahrir channel. A presenter for the Sada alBalad channel, Ahmed Moussa, said: I salute the fairness and justice of our judiciary in defiance of those killers and all those who attack it. Egypts judiciary is clean and fair. Analysts argued that while the judgment may have been made independently, Egypts judiciary was not a neutral institution. Parts of the judicial apparatus are fully on board with the new repressive order, at least for now, said Nathan Brown, a professor at George Washington University. But he added: I think it is more a matter of a common mentality than direct coordination. THE GUARDIAN

Relatives gather outside the courthouse on Tuesday in the central Egyptian city of Minya, during a session of the trial of some 700 Islamists charged with deadly rioting in an Egypt city. AFP

in the rst case. Judge Saeed Youssef Elgazar went ahead regardless a decision defence lawyers said was illegal. I have never seen anything like this in all my life as a lawyer, said Adel Aly, one of the defence counsel who chose not to attend Tuesdays trial of defendants including the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie. Ahmed Shabeeb, another lawyer involved

in the boycott, said: [Elgazars] decision infringed all the procedures guaranteed by law and the constitution as if he wanted to say that hes the uppermost god. According to local media, Elgazar has a history of controversial judgements, most prominently in January last year when he acquitted policemen accused of murdering protesters during

Two hurt as Israel hits tobacco boats for Gaza

Assads home village under threat from rebels

SYRIAS civil war edged closer to the home village of Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, with opposition groups mounting their second sustained attack on the area in the conflict. The push, which is entering its second week, has seen government troops and paramilitaries rush to reinforce a coastal enclave near the presidents ancestral home, Qardaha, and the port city of Latakia in the countrys north-west, minutes from the Turkish border. The area has proved impenetrable to opposition groups, which have remained 10 miles to the north and were repelled by a regime counterattack last August after briefly seizing 12 Alawite villages during a summer offensive. That rebel attack led to the killing of around 200 civilians, an act labelled a war crime by international observers. Rebel groups, among them the jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra, say they are trying to reach the Mediterranean coast, where they hope to open a supply line, a difficult thing to achieve with the Syrian military maintaining dominance over air and sea. Regime warplanes continued to bomb opposition positions on Tuesday, two days after Turkey downed a Syrian jet which it claimed had flown into its air space while on bombing runs near the border. The downing of the Syrian jet marked the third aerial clash between the two former allies since an uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Syria shot down a Turkish jet in 2012, and Turkey downed a Syrian helicopter last year. All three clashes have been in the same bitterly contested corner of the war ravaged country. Opposition groups have mounted several offensives in northern Syria after ousting radical jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq in Sham (Isis) over three months of brutal battles. Isis had maintained a stronghold in the northern Latakia region. Its influence spread across the countryside and into Aleppo, Syrias largest city. However, the recent battles have seen the group retreat to the town of al-Bab, just east of Aleppo, from where it controls much of eastern Syria and Anbar province in Iraq. The opposition is now in control of the Kassab border crossing to Turkey, and the Armenian Christian town of the same name. Attacks on the Alawite areas to the east have so far been sporadic; however, a cousin of the Syrian president, Hilal al-Assad, was killed on Sunday in a nearby village, apparently by a rebel rocket attack. Assad led a local unit of the National Defence Front (NDF), a loyalist group drawn mainly from the Alawite sect, which is deployed in large numbers in the area. The NDF, the Syrian military, and an Iraqi militia, Abu al-Fadl alAbbas, are also defending the area. The renewed fighting in the north has been matched by relative quiet elsewhere. Battered forces from both sides appear to have drawn breath in Damascus and the south. And regime forces continue mopping-up operations in the Qalamoun mountains near Lebanon, where Hezbollah and regime troops last week succeeded in ousting opposition groups after more than four months of brutal fighting. THE GUARDIAN

TWO Palestinians were wounded yesterday when Israeli navy vessels destroyed two Gazabound boats smuggling cigarettes and tobacco from Egypt, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. Palestinian witnesses and medical sources said the navy opened fire at the vessels as they were heading towards Rafah, moderately wounding two people, while the rest of the crew managed to escape. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the incident, saying a naval vessel had been damaged by Palestinian gunfire in the exchange. She said naval forces had identified two Palestinian vessels trying to reach southern Gaza from Egyptian territorial waters in a suspected smuggling attempt. AFP

Abbott under fire over knights and dames

MONarCHist Prime Minister Tony Abbott was accused yesterday of sending Australia into a time warp by reintroducing knights and dames to the countrys honours list. The conservative leader announced the move on Tuesday with ministers revealing he went straight to Britains Queen Elizabeth II, Australias head of state, for approval without consulting his Liberal Party. Opposition Labor lawmakers ridiculed the move, asking why he was not focusing on important issues such as health and unemployment instead. Im concerned the Abbott government thinks this is a priority, Labor leader Bill Shorten said. He later asked: Are we in a time warp? His colleague Ed Husic said it was proof Abbott was out of date. As sure as knight follows dame, you know Tony Abbotts going to take us back to the good old days, he said. AFP

Three generals held China to have nuclear sea over Maduro coup deterrent soon: US admiral
THREE Venezuelan air force generals accused of plotting a coup against the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro were arrested on Tuesday, amid a widening crackdown on the opposition. The unidentied generals were in contact with opposition politicians and were trying to get the Air Force to rise up against the legitimately elected government, Maduro told a meeting of South American foreign ministers. This group that was captured has direct links with sectors of the opposition and they were saying that this week was the decisive week, Maduro said. The stunning disclosure the rst known signicant threat from within Maduros government comes amid a growing crackdown on the presidents opponents after more than six weeks of street protests that have left at least 34 people dead. In a further blow to the opposition, the mayor of the town of San Cristobal where the protests started was sentenced to a year in prison. Daniel Ceballos was convicted of failing to prevent violence and the blockading of streets. He was the second mayor convicted and sentenced, and quickly. Enzo Scarano, mayor of San Diego in the north, was arrested, tried and sentenced to 10 months in prison. It all happened in a matter of hours last week. An opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, has been detained since last month and is awaiting trial. He is accused of instigating violence against the government. AFP CHinA for the first time will likely have submarines equipped with long-range nuclear missiles later this year, part of an increasingly potent submarine fleet, a high-ranking US officer said yesterday, The head of US Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, said the latest class of Chinese subs would be armed with a new ballistic missile with an estimated range of 7,500 kilometres. This will give China its f irst credible sea-based nuclear deterrent, probably before the end of 2014, Locklear told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Locklear was referring to the production of Chinas JIN-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile sub and the new JL-2 missile on board the vessel. Chinas advance in submarine capabilities is significant. They possess a large and increasingly capable submarine force, the admiral said. In October, Chinese state media for the first time showed images of the countrys nuclear-powered subs, touting it as a credible second-strike nuclear capability. Locklear said Chinas submarine modernisation effort was impressive. I think theyll have in the next decade or so a fairly well modernised force of probably 60 to 70 submarines, which is a lot of submarines for a regional power, he said. China now possess five nuclear attack submarines, four nuclear ballistic missile submarines, and 53 diesel attack submarines, according to Jess Karotkin of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Chinas production of submarines has moved at a quick annual pace. Between 1995 and 2012, Beijing produced 2.9 submarines a year, according to the Congressional Research Service. Lock lear, repeating the Pentagons view of Chinas military profile, said Beijing is investing in new weapons and naval power in part to deny US access to the western Pacific during a time of crisis or conflict and to provide the means by which China can bolster its broad maritime claims in the region. He added that Chinese milit a r y op er at ion s w er e expanding in size, complexity, duration and geographic location. AFP

THE PHNOM PENH POST MARCH 27, 2014

World Hundreds of dog skins found by Thai police

HUNDREDS of dog skins have been found dumped in an area of northeastern Thailand notorious for exporting canine parts as a delicacy or for use as a leather substitute, police said yesterday. Acting on a tip-off, police made the gruesome discovery in bags left next to a large pile of dog bones in a forest bordering Laos on Tuesday. The skins would be bleached some are then sent [by smugglers] to other countries to be made into gloves for playing golf, Lamai Sakolpitak, from a special police unit to suppress smuggling and the trade in animal parts, said. Experts say dog skins are also used for instruments such as drums, Lamai said, adding that it is illegal to kill canines to sell their parts in Thailand or abroad. Lamai said the nd was likely linked to a recent raid on two nearby makeshift factories where skins were stripped from dogs. Some people were afraid

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Eggs-traordinary effort
Volker Kraft decorates his apple tree with Easter eggs on Tuesday in Saalfeld, eastern Germany. More than 10,000 eggs hang on the tree, attracting thousands of spectators during Easter. AFP

that we would nd the skins at their houses . . . so they dumped them, he added. Local campaign group, Watchdog Thailand, condemned the killing of dogs for sale, explaining that exporters pay around $10 for every live dog, including pets and strays from the surrounding areas. They then butcher the animals, skin them and blowtorch the carcasses to preserve the meat for sale mainly to buyers in Vietnam and China where it is a delicacy. The skins are used for golf gloves, hats, purses and wallets, a member of Watchdog Thailand said. Cow-leather products are more expensive and are not always used to make small products. The group said the raid earlier this year also yielded scores of dog carcasses and skins. In May last year around 2,000 dogs kept in cages and apparently destined for the dinner table were rescued in the province. AFP

Humans: diminuative monsters of death?

George Monbiot

US landslide death toll rises to 24: fire chief

EMeRGeNCY workers have recovered two more bodies after a US landslide and located another eight corpses in the debris, officials said on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 24. Unfortunately, we didnt find any signs of life, Snohomish County fire district chief Travis Hots told an evening briefing, three days after the massive mudslide in the northwestern US state of Washington. The number of reports of people unaccounted for remains at 176, although that could include double-counting and people who may turn up elsewhere, and so likely does not represent how many more fatalities may be found. A total of 49 dwellings in the rural town were hit by the one square mile wall of mud, rocks and trees, which also destroyed part of a highway. AFP

OU want to know who we are? Really? You think you do, but you will regret it. This article, if you have any love for the world, will inject you with a venom a soul-scraping sadness without an obvious antidote. The Anthropocene, now a popular term among scientists, is the epoch in which we live: one dominated by human impacts on the living world. Most date it from the beginning of the industrial revolution. But it might have begun much earlier, with a killing spree that commenced two million years ago. What rose onto its hind legs on the African savannahs was, from the outset, death: the destroyer of worlds. Before Homo erectus, perhaps our rst recognisably human ancestor, emerged in Africa, the continent abounded with monsters. There were several species of elephants. There were sabretooths and false sabretooths, giant hyenas and creatures like those released in The Hunger Games: amphicyonids, or bear dogs, vast predators with an enormous bite. Professor Blaire van Valkenburgh has developed a means by which we could roughly determine how many of these animals there were. When there are few predators and plenty of prey, the predators eat only the best parts

of the carcass. When competition is intense, they eat everything, including the bones. The more bones a carnivore eats, the more likely its teeth are to be worn or broken. The breakages in carnivores teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era. Not only were there more species of predators, including species much larger than any found on Earth today, but they appear to have been much more abundant and desperate. We evolved in a terrible, wonderful world that was no match for us. Homo erectus possessed several traits that appear to have made it invincible: intelligence, cooperation, an ability to switch to almost any food when times were tough and a throwing arm that allowed it to do something no other species has ever managed to ght from a distance (the increasing distance from which we ght is both a benchmark and a determinant of human history). It could have driven giant predators off their prey and harried monstrous herbivores to exhaustion and death. As the paleontologists Lars Werdelin and Margaret Lewis show, the disappearance of much of the African megafauna appears to have coincided with the switch towards meat eating by human ancestors. The great extent and strange pattern of extinction (concentrated among huge, specialist animals

at the top of the food chain) is not easy to explain by other means. At the Oxford megafauna conference last week, I listened as many of the worlds leading scientists in this eld mapped out a new understanding of the human impact on the planet. Almost everywhere we went, humankind erased a world of wonders, changing the way the biosphere functions. For instance, modern humans arrived in Europe and Australia at about the same time between 40 and 50,000 years ago with similar consequences. In Europe, where animals had learned to fear previous versions of the bipedal ape, the extinctions happened slowly. Within some 10 or 15,000 years, the continent had lost its straight-tusked elephants, forest rhinos, hippos, hyenas and monstrous scimitar cats. In Australia, where no hominim had set foot before modern humans arrived, the collapse was almost instant. The rhinoceros-sized wombat, the ten-foot kangaroo, the marsupial lion, the monitor lizard larger than a Nile crocodile, the giant marsupial tapir, the horned tortoise as big as a car all went, in ecological terms, overnight. These species were not just ornaments of the natural world. In Australia, the sudden ush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests pyre:

res (natural or man-made) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub. In the Amazon and other regions, large herbivores moved nutrients from rich soils to poor ones, radically altering plant growth. One controversial paper suggests that the eradication of the monsters of the Americas caused such a sharp loss of atmospheric methane (generated in their guts) that it could have triggered the short ice age which began about 12,800 years ago, called the Younger Dryas. And still we have not stopped. Poaching has reduced the population of African forest elephants by 60 per cent since 2000. The range of the Asian elephant which once lived from Turkey to the coast of China has contracted by 97 per cent; the ranges of the Asian rhinos by over 99 per cent. Elephants distribute the seeds of hundreds of rainforest tree species; without them these trees are functionally extinct. Is this all we are? A diminutive monster that can leave no door closed, no hiding place intact, that is now doing to the great beasts of the sea what we did so long ago to the great beasts of the land? Or can we stop? Can we use our ingenuity, which for two million years has turned so inventively to destruction, to defy our evolutionary history? THE GUARDIAN

Cop-shooting teens left suicide notes: officials

UN warns of increased Shebaab threat in East Africa

THE United Nations warned this week of an increased threat of attacks from Somalias alQaeda-linked al-Shebaab as a major offensive launched against them this month gathers momentum. Coinciding with the offensive and even ahead of it, AlShebab have become more active, UN envoy to Somalia, Nicholas Kay, said. They feel threatened and endangered, and so they have carried out significantly more terrorist attacks in Mogadishu in the last couple of months. UN-mandated African Union troops have been battling alShebaab militants in Somalia since 2007, but earlier this month launched a fresh offensive, fighting alongside Somali government forces. Kay said the operation is pushing the rebels out of key bases, which could prompt them to stage attacks in Mogadishu, as well as other countries in the region such as Uganda and Kenya. Security sources report some Shebaab members are fleeing to mountains in northern Somalias Puntland region, but some foreign fighters may seek to cross to Yemen, or flee southwards into neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya. Theyre fleeing into the bigger cities, there are more of them entering Mogadishu, Kay added. Some of them are looking to flee perhaps the country and are heading to the remoter corners, he said, speaking after an AU peace and security council meeting in the Ethiopian capital. Shebaab gunmen have largely fled ahead of the AU advance, only to later stage guerrilla attacks. But the Islamists have also vowed to retaliate against the troop-contributing nations, with soldiers in the 21,000strong force coming from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda. In Kenya, where the Shebab claimed responsibility for the massacre of at least 67 people six months ago in Nairobis Westgate mall, police last week arrested two men driving a vehicle packed with explosives in the port city of Mombasa. Gunmen also killed six in an attack on a church near Mombasa on Sunday. In Uganda, where al-Shebaab killed at least 76 people in the capital Kampala in 2010, officials warned last week of Shebaab plans to use fuel tankers as bombs. Kay said the size of the mission was sufficient for the time being, but was in dire need of helicopters. The UN has authorised and funded helicopters, but AU member states have failed to provide them. What is needed, and has been needed for a long time, are helicopters, Kay said. It is up to African Union member states to come forward with transport and attack helicopters. AFP

THE two teenagers suspected of killing a Florida police officer, then killing themselves, left suicide notes, police said on Monday. Brandon Goode, 18, and his British-born girlfriend Alex Hollinghurst, 17, were found dead on Saturday shortly after they were suspected of having shot and killed police officer Robert German as he made a routine patrol of the wealthy Orlando suburb of Windermere. The Orange County sheriffs office said that before the fatal incident, the pair had been considered missing endangered after the discovery of their suicide notes. The sheriffs office said the contents of the notes will not be revealed at this time, as the investigation is active and open. German, 31, stopped Goode and Hollinghurst at around 4am on Saturday and called for backup, but when the officers arrived they found him fatally injured. The officers heard more shots and found the two teenagers dead of an apparent suicide. AFP

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HE old saying a picture is worth a thousand words is no less relevant today. And one picture which appeared on the front pages of most daily newspapers in Thailand on Tuesday, or the video clip that went viral in the social media, tells a story so blatant, so unBuddhist that no words are really needed at all. Nevertheless, some background to the pictures and video does need to be told. A monk came out of a nearby lane and walked toward the office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission where a few hundred followers of the so-called Peoples Radio for Democracy group, a Nonthaburi-based faction of the red-shirt movement, was evicting a small group of anti-government protesters from the scene after having broken through a police cordon. The monk, later identified as Phra Prat Supavirut from a temple in Kalasin, north-eastern Thailand, reportedly criticised the red-shirt demonstrators conduct and, as a consequence,

he was beaten up with the assault caught on video. The attack occurred in broad daylight in the presence of the media, the police and many other people. Yet the assailants, men and women, appeared unperturbed and unashamed that they had ganged up to bash the unfortunate monk. Beating up a monk in broad daylight, in public, simply because he had criticised their actions, or because they suspected he might not be a real monk, is totally unthinkable and unacceptable. It was a barbaric act, deserving to be condemned in the strongest terms. I wonder what the red-shirt leaders have to say about this shameless, senseless assault by a handful of their red followers? I hope they and the other red huggers do not come to their defence, claiming that the assailants were fake red-shirts, or that the monk was not really a monk at all. This unprovoked attack on a monk is totally unjustified. It was not a spontaneous emotional outburst either, because this group of red-shirt followers was not under any pressure or harassment by their opponents to the point that they could justifiably vent their anger or exact revenge on just

anyone they suspected to be in the opposite camp. It was purely barbaric, fuelled by extreme hatred of their perceived enemy be it a monk, a child, a woman or an elderly person. Many in Thailand remember the scene at a recent red-shirt rally when the audience broke into cheers and hand clapping when a leader took to the stage to announce the lethal attack on a rally of the Peoples Democratic Reform Committee near a market in Trat province. Five people, including an innocent child who happened to be at a food stall near the protest site, were killed in that attack. And yet they applauded. Something must be wrong with the minds of these freaks these people who can senselessly and without any remorse beat up a defenceless monk, or can go up on the stage to jubilantly announce the killing of innocent people. The unbecoming behaviour of this minority of people is probably the result of the hate propaganda they have been fed day after day after day by their rabid red-shirt community radio stations. That reminds me of the role of the

Yankroh radio station in the days ahead of the October 6 bloody crackdown on leftist students in 1976. The station broadcast hate rhetoric directed against the students around the clock, and allowed its audience to phone in to add fuel to the fire. I was shocked then to see a dead body, someone accused of being Vietnamese, being dragged across Sanam Luang, a big, open area in Bangkok. Then, there was the boy who sat on the body, smiling, as if it were some sort of toy. I wondered then how could we, human beings, Thais, have allowed ourselves to fall so low that we could do such a thing to other Thais, just because of political differences. One thing I found out later is that it was the hate propaganda that poisoned their minds and souls. And the same hate propaganda from both sides of the political divide is again poisoning the minds of Thais these days. This must stop if we are ever to restore order and sensibility, and listen to our collective conscience.
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MONG the aspiring Asian designers competing for the limelight at Tokyo Fashion Week, one of the most striking was an Indonesian labels bid to blend a traditional Muslim headscarf with haute couture. The twice-yearly show, which wraps up on Saturday, saw NurZahra roll out its autumn/ winter collection Layers of Fidelity, turning the modest hijab into sophisticated fashion. The label whose name means the luminous light in Arabic and takes from Fatimah Zahra, the daughter of Prophet Mohammed wanted to prove that the female hair-and-neckcovering wrap, common in the Islamic world, could still take on playful elements. The modest hijab is not actually a restriction in fashion, designer Windri Widiesta Dhari told reporters after her stylish designs hit the catwalk. Its how you cover yourself and look more elegant in a way that has a loose t. The wearing of the Islamic veil, limited historically to conservative Gulf monarchies, has gained ground since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the creation of an Islamic republic. Use of the veil spread quickly as Islamist movements grew in the wake of the Arab Spring.F France has outraged many Muslims with a law against full face-covering veils, while the use of the hijab in sport, including football, has sometimes stirred cultural clashes. But Dhari sees the traditional scarf as not just a modesty

Hijab turns style accessory at fashion week in Tokyo A

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In brief
Mick Jagger mourns at private funeral in LA

A GRIEVING Mick Jagger bid farewell on Tuesday to his fashion designer girlfriend LWren Scott in a private funeral with family and celebrity friends, a week after she killed herself. Nicole Kidman, her husband musician Keith Urban and rocker Bryan Adams were among guests for the cremation service at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, media reports said. afP

Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow call it quits

Indonesian fashion designer Windri Widiesta Dhari greets visitors at the end of her brands autumn/winter collection show.

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covering, but also a stylish, comfortable accessory. We want to inspire people to think that wearing hijab is not something difcult, and could be worn by anyone, she said. Her collection also bucks a contemporary design trend that is in favour of simplicity and minimalism. Blending cotton or silk into her hijab, she includes natural dye prints that rely on a traditional Japanese tie-dye technique called shibori and the

Indonesian batik method. With patterns ranging from mini mandalas to Turkish geometrics, Dhari plays with multiple layers of fabric to freely shape her silhouettes. Another eye-catching element of the collection was a hat that spreads wide in the back, a throwback to the 60s with elements resembling a long-ago royal head piece. The concept of the hat was actually inspired by the style in one from 1963, Dhari said. I was looking for vintage hats

that could be used to cover your hair and also your neck. I used that inspiration and then mixed it with a traditional ethnic concept, so it becomes something very unique. Tokyo has long been the centre of cool, renowned the world over for its far-out fashions that see young women donning gothic-inspired Lolita outts and chiseled young men with highly coiffed haircuts. But at the latest Tokyo Fashion Week, it was newcomer

brands from Asian fashion houses outside Japan, such as NurZahra, which breathed fresh air into the show in the Japanese capital. Another Indonesian brand, Major Minor, hit the runway for the rst time, showcasing styles incorporating monochrome tones and simple silhouettes. The opener of the event was Thai brand Sretsis sisters in reverse led by designer Pim Sukhahuta, who works alongside two female siblings. afP

OSCAR-WINNING actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin announced their separation on Tuesday, signalling the end of the A-list couples 11-year marriage. In a statement entitled Conscious Uncoupling posted on Paltrows website Goop.com, the stars said they had decided to remain separate after battling unsuccessfully to save their marriage over the past year. AFP

No make-up selfies trend raises millions

Indonesia next in line to ban Crowes Noah

INDONESIA has banned Hollywood biblical epic Noah starring Russell Crowe, censors said on Tuesday, the latest Muslim country to stop the film being screened due to concerns it contradicts Islamic values. Censors in the worlds most populous Muslim-majority country said they decided to ban the film, which had been set for release on Friday, as the depiction of prophets is forbidden under Islamic law. As well as being a biblical figure, Noah is also a prophet for Muslims. We rejected the screening of the film in Indonesia, Zainut Tauhid Saadi, a member of the Indonesian Censorship Board, said. The visual depiction of a prophet is forbidden in Islam, he said, adding: The film will hurt both Christian and Muslim communities. It came after the Paramount film based on the story of Noahs ark, which stars Crowe as Noah and is directed by Darren Aronofsky, was banned by Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates earlier this month. Egypts top Islamic body, the AlAzhar institute, has called for Noah not to be screened in the country. The film has also angered some Christian institutions in the United States due to Crowes reportedly unconventional portrayal of Noah. The controversy over the film, which also stars Jennifer Connolly and EmmaWatson, prompted Paramount to say it would add an explanatory message to future marketing materials for the movie. It issued a joint statement with the USbased National Religious Broadcasters body, announcing the move to help audiences better understand that the feature film is a dramatisation of the major scriptural themes and not a lineby-line retelling of the Bible story. Indonesia has banned films in the past, including Balibo, which tells the story of Australian-based journalists allegedly killed by Indonesian troops in East Timor as Jakarta prepared to invade. Jakarta claims the reporters were killed in crossfire. afP

A SOCIAL media craze involving women around the world posting selfies while wearing no make-up has raised millions of pounds for a British cancer charity despite some money accidentally going to the United Nations childrens fund. The charity Cancer Research UK announced on Tuesday that the trend had sparked donations that raised 8 million ($13.1 million) in the space of six days. It later emerged that some people intending to donate to the charity had accidentally sent their cash to UNICEF instead. afP

Gay marriage legal in England and Wales

A scene from the banned lm Balibo screened in a Jakarta cinema house in 2009. Noah has now also been banned by Indonesia. afP

WHEN the clock strikes midnight on Friday, gay and lesbian couples across England and Wales will begin exchanging vows as an historic law legalising same-sex marriage finally comes into force. It was a day many thought would never come. When I came out in 1983 when I was 20, the age of consent was 21. My first sexual relationship was with another 20-year-old, and we could have both been sent to prison, said Matthew Toresen, a community worker from Northampton in central England. To go from that to getting married, in one little lifetime I never imagined that day would come. afP

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Motoring

India: a horn-blowers heaven

Rachel OBrien

HANDFUL of fedup residents in one of the worlds noisiest cities have taken on a daunting challenge: persuading Indian drivers to stop honking their car horns. Non-stop beeping has become the dominant soundtrack to Mumbai as clattering rickshaws, public buses, clappedout taxis, weaving motorbikes and private cars ght for space on the trafc-clogged roads. Now two separate teams in the city have come up with devices aimed at instilling some peace: one by forcing overzealous horn-users to open their wallets, and another by simply attacking drivers consciences. People blow their horns just for no sake, said Jayraj Salgaonkar, who with a group of engineers has developed the Oren horn usage metre (the name Oren derives from local pronunciation of the word horn). The metre does not prevent the horn from working but allows for a limited amount of honking, after which it causes the vehicles tail-lights to ash and alert the trafc police, who could then issue a ne. The driver gets green, amber and red-light warnings over his honk allowance and can top up his metre like a pre-paid phone card, said Salgaonkar. He is in talks with local authorities to get the device mandated city-wide. I have invested money and time and emotion, he said, relating his years of exasperation with the citys cacophony. People take pride in honking their horn. Theres an ego trip over having a car. Until you make people pay for their usage of the horn, its not going to work, said the publisher turned activist, who is hoping that the potential revenues brought by the system will help persuade authorities to adopt it.

Mumbais trafc-clogged roads mean the city is a cacophony of car horns honking.

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The second invention, also vying for ofcial sanction, less publicly castigates the honkers. Project Bleep involves a red button on the dashboard that beeps and ashes with a frowning face, to make the driver conscious that he just honked and make him deliberate why he did it, said Mayur Tekchandaney, one of its creators. Mostly its habitual. The driver doesnt realise hes doing it. After testing the device on 30 drivers over six months, Tekchandaney and his team at

Mumbai design rm Briefcase found an average 61 per cent reduction in honking. The benet is to other people on the road, society in general. It creates a nuisance for the driver, said Tekchandaney. Their goal may sound ambitious in a country where honking is so pervasive that foreign carmakers, such as Audi and Volkswagen, t their Indian vehicles with longer-life horns. Nationwide, the messages Horn OK Please or Blow Horn are colourfully painted

on the back of most trucks and lorries, encouraging drivers to make their presence audibly known as they overtake. And the noise is only set to increase as more vehicles pile into densely-packed Mumbai, where the middle-class is growing and whose shoddy infrastructure and crowded trains do little to encourage the use of public transport. There are now about 900,000 cars, 10,000 buses and two million two-wheelers plying the roads of the nancial capital

with a population of some 12 million, according to local transport expert Ashok Datar. Their horns are not just an annoyance, say anti-noise crusaders, who warn that honking is taking a worrying toll on the health of Indian city-dwellers especially when combined with construction projects, roadworks and various religious festivals. In hospitals I know people who have suffered very severely, even in intensive care units, because of the noise (out-

side), said Sumaira Abdulali, founder of the Awaaz Foundation which campaigns against noise pollution. She said sound levels in busy parts of Mumbai continuously exceed 85 decibels, breaking the limits recommended by health experts and contributing to high blood pressure, hearing loss and heart disease. A lot of people in Mumbai are suffering these things and the medical costs are quite high. Cutting down noise would cost much less, she said. AFP

BMW i3: a different electric car thats full of clever tricks

Sam Wollaston

A BMW i3 vehicle at a motor show in Japan.

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FOR the first time in, well, maybe ever, I have a new car that is not only interesting and innovative, but also likable. There are loads of electric cars now, most of which are much like any other car, only theyre powered in a different way. Greener, quieter, you can feel better about yourself, but on the downside theyre very expensive and dont go very far. This one has those issues (though there is a version with a small additional petrol engine to extend the range, but it costs more). But in other ways its brilliant. For one, its different, not just a car with an electric motor. BMW has rethought the whole thing. Look at it! Its made of carbon fibre, its light and strong strong enough to do away with the B pillar between the front and the back. Open the front door, then the back door, which swings the other way, like the previous generation of London taxis, and now its properly open, welcoming. Step in! Inside, its light and airy, uncluttered, futuristic. Materials are inter-

esting. I think Kevin McCloud would approve. My son certainly does. His window is low enough to see out of. Not that he wants to; theres way more interesting stuff going on inside. To drive, once Ive figured out how to, its a blast. Quick (up there with a hot hatch away from the lights), wellbalanced and responsive. Range is between 80 and 120 miles, depending on how you drive it and what setting you have it on: EcoPro+ for more miles but fewer comforts (such as heating); the version with the petrol engine approximately doubles that range. The i3 has loads of clever tricks up its sleeve. It avoids collisions, with cars and pedestrians. It will stay in its lane on the motorway. And the selfparking is the best Ive seen. You press a button and it parks finds the space, turns the wheel, goes backwards and forwards, until its in. Free of stress, free of sexism. Im practically redundant (thats fine, I didnt like driving that much). There really is a sense that this car is heading towards the future. And its good to know the future isnt joyless.
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the subterranean site. New York City plans to create a new resting place in the museum for the unidentied remains of victims from the attacks, which will be moved there later this year. The remains repository, which wont be accessible to the general public, will be located behind a wall engraved with a quote by Virgil reading: No day shall erase you from the memory of time. New Yorks mayor, Bill de Blasio, said in a statement: The 9/11 Memorial Museum is for all of us. It is for those of us who witnessed the events, either with our own eyes or on TV, and

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It is for future generations who will first encounter 9/11 as history, but who must come to understand it as something real and terrible, something that must never happen again.
and rescue and recovery workers will be allowed to visit. The museum includes two main exhibitions: In Memoriam, which pays tribute to the 2,983 people killed on 9/11 and in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; and a historical exhibition telling the story of what happened during and after the attacks. The history will be told through artefacts, photographs, audio and video footage, rstperson testimonials and personal possessions and memorabilia. The ambitious project occupies 111,000 square feet deep inside the archaeological heart of the World Trade Center site. Davis Brody Bond are the architects of the underground museum, while the entry pavilion has been designed by Oslo and New York based rm Snohetta. To enter the museum, visitors will descend a ramp to are still struggling to make sense of it. It is for future generations who will rst encounter 9/11 as history, but who must come to understand it as something real and terrible, something that must never happen again. He added: But most of all, it is for the survivors, the families, the rescue and recovery workers, the rst responders. We thank them for sharing the stories with the world, so that we may learn from them. This weeks announcement of an opening date comes after repeated delays caused by funding disputes, construction problems and damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. The World Trade Centre memorial plaza, which opened on 11 September 2011 and features two fountains at the original base of the Twin Towers, will continue to be free to enter. Last year, over ve million people visited the plaza. THE GUARDIAN

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (3D) Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Citymall: 11:05am, 5pm, 10pm Toul Kork: 11:30am, 7:55pm DIVERGENT In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns shes Divergent and wont fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before its too late. Citymall: 1:40pm, 6:35pm, 9:15pm Toul Kork: 9:15am, 4:15pm, 9pm NEED FOR SPEED Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head. Citymall: 11:50am, 4:55pm, 7:05pm, 9:35pm Toul Kork: 9:15am, 1:45pm, 6:55pm MUPPETS MOST WANTED While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into a European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. Citymall: 11:25am, 4:20pm Toul Kork: 9:15am, 3:45pm
Artist Bo Rithy with his installation at Romeet Gallery. charlotte pert

Art @ Romeet Gallery

Artist Bo Rithy draws parallels with Cambodias historical struggles and current political turmoil with his new installation at Romeet Gallery. The artist, who comes from Battambang, said that his new installation, entitled Longvaeks Bamboo, is based on the fall of Longvaek, the old Khmer capital during the ghting with the Thais. It also refers to the leaders of today grasping onto power.

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Sport

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HE International Olympic Committee (IOC) should consider moving sports such as track cycling, judo and badminton to the Winter Games, according to the president of world cyclings governing body, the UCI. Brian Cookson, in an interview with Press Association Sport released on Tuesday, said such a change could take the pressure off the overheated Summer Olympics and allow those sports to have more events and more medals. If you have a problem with Summer Olympics where the whole thing is perceived as over-heated with too many facilities, too many sports, too many competitors and so on, why not look at moving some of the other sports that traditionally take place in the winter in the northern hemisphere indoors, Cookson said. So why not look at combat sports like judo, or other indoor sports like badminton, you could even say what about putting track cycling in the Winter Olympics? If we moved track cycling to the Winter Olympics and that allowed us to have more track cycling events and more medals then that could be a pretty good outcome. So lets talk about those things and see what the stakeholders, the national federations, the teams and the competitors have to say about those options. IOC president Thomas Bach has announced a review of the whole Olympic program with the results to be presented at a special session in Monaco at the end of this year. Cookson, who unseated Irelands Pat McQuaid last September as UCI president, said cycling has enjoyed huge success in the Olympics but that sports leaders should not just accept the status quo. He added: If you look at the London Olympics the lesson from there is the

IOC should mull sports overhaul, says Cookson

Govt spends nearly $1 million on sports stars

GOVERNMENT officials handed out close to US$1 million to medal winning athletes and coaches during a prize giving ceremony held on Tuesday at the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters. Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, NOCC President and Tourism Minister Thong Khun and Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron presided over the event, which saw amounts totalling 3.92 billion riel (US$981,400) given to national team members for their successes at international tournaments such as last Decembers 27th SEA Games in Myanmar. Five other sports events in which Cambodians grabbed podium places included the 16th and 17th Asian Petanque Championships held in Vietnam and Indonesia respectively, the 7th Francophone Games in Nice, France, the 2nd Southeast Asian Vovinam Championships in Siem Reap, and the 9th Francophone Taekwondo Championship in Vietnam. YEUN
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NOCC, Boxing Federation announce 63.5kg events

Brian Cookson, the head of cyclings governing body the UCI, has called for a radical overhaul of the Summer and Winter Olympics.

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cycling events were incredibly successful from the point of view of attendance and media coverage, and there were huge crowds for the road races. But we shouldnt just accept the status quo without thinking what are the possibilities here?. Thomas Bach has instituted a debate about the format for the Games and lets think about the Winter Olympics, why does it have to be snow and ice?

The reality these days is that the base for the Winter Olympics the last few times has been two or three hours drive away from the mountains. Turning to doping, something which has plagued cycling in recent years, Cookson warned that every sport needs to be aware that some of their athletes will be doping. There are two categories of sport, those that have a doping problem and are trying to do something about

it and cycling, I would suggest, is one of the leaders there, he said. The second category is those that have a doping problem and are in denial about it because there are forms of doping that affect all forms of sport. If you are running your sport and think that you dont have a doping problem then I think you need a wake-up call because there will be a form of doping that you need to do something about. AFP

Nadal, Murray, Federer, Djokovic advance

Top seed Rafael Nadal turned in a commanding performance in the middle of a security alert on Tuesday as the entrance to the ATP and WTA Miami Masters was blocked for more than an hour. As police closed the lone public entrance and exit to the grounds and shut down most traffic on the main highway of Key Biscayne island on the basis of an unattended backpack, Nadal took to the court and demolished out-of-sorts Italian 14th seed Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-2 in 62 minutes. Fog n i n i played w h i le injured as he lost to the Spaniard for the fourth time. Today was a very strange match. Im sorry for Fabio, said Nadal. He felt something from yesterday near the ribs. It was not easy for him to play this match. I managed the situation well in the wind. I played the right match. Nadal will next play Canadian 12th seed Milos Raonic, who beat Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-4 to win his 100th career hardcourt match. Defending champion Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic will meet for the first time since last years Wimbledon final after advancing with ease. Wimbledon winner Murray dispatched French 11th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-1 meanwhile second seed Djokovic gave away a second-set point in a sporting gesture to Tommy Robredo during a 6-3, 7-5 triumph. Swiss fifth seed Roger Federer easily ousted French ninth seed Richard Gasquet 6-1, 6-2 in 49 minutes to book a quarter-final date with Japans Kei Nishikori. Federer was on fire against Gasquet, who set up two Federer match points with a backhand error and took the loss moments later as he could not reach a drop shot in the windy conditions. The wind was the same for both of us, but Ive had a lot of experience playing in it, Federer said. I made him work for his points. Federer, who lost to Djokovic earlier this month in the Indian Wells final, won the Miami title in 2005 and 2006. His 79 career crowns include a record 17 Grand Slam titles. windy conditions. When the wind picked up I just had to concentrate, said Williams, who holds six Miami titles. I felt better today than in any of my other matches. When youre facing a top10 player, you have to lift your game, Thats what I was able to do. Fourth seed Sharapovas 90-minute victory over Kvitova, a fellow Wimbledon champion, was a relief for five-time Miami finalist Sharapova, who had faced huge battles in her previous two victories. This time, it was relatively straightforward for the crowdpleaser as she bids for her first Miami crown. I didnt have a good first few games, so I was happy that I was steady, that I kept trying to do the right thing, kept trying to be aggressive, said Sharapova. Four-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova broke four times as she was untroubled by Kvitova after the early stages, in which she lost the opening game but got the break back midway through the set. AFP

ThE National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, in cooperation with the Cambodian Amateur Boxing Federation, have confirmed dates and venues for the first three of seven preliminary tournaments of the 2014 Black Panther Premium Stout Boxing Championships. NOCC Secretary General Vath Chamroeun told journalists during a press conference yesterday at NOCC headquarters that the first event of the series for fighters in the 63.5kg super lightweight category would be held on April 4 at Tor Damnak High School in Kampong Thom provinces Baray district. The next would be on April 19 at the outdoor volleyball court of Kampong Cham town while the last one would be hosted at Svay Rieng Provincial Hall on May 2. Each fight card starts at 5pm and features six match-ups. YEUN
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NRL player in induced coma after neck injury

Serena, Maria eye rematch

Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams will have a rematch of their 2013 final in the ATP and WTA Miami Masters semi-finals today after both advanced in formidable style on Tuesday. Sharapova, who has not beaten the world number one American since 2004 and has lost 14 consecutive matches in the rivalry, regained her big-match confidence after twice being pushed to three sets by defeating Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-1. Top seed Williams pounded German fifth seed Angelique Kerber 6-2, 6-2, taking 62 minutes and ending with seven aces and four breaks of serve in

AusTRaliaN National Rugby League player Alex McKinnon has been placed in an induced coma after suffering a broken neck and a devastating spinal injury. The 22-year-old Newcastle Knights forward underwent emergency surgery on Tuesday to stabilise his neck following a lifting tackle by three Melbourne Storm players in a 28-20 defeat by the Storm the previous day. Alex had additional scans on Tuesday afternoon, which confirmed a devastating spinal injury, the club said in a statement, adding that recovery could take up to two years. AFP

Japans Darvish pulled from Rangers opener

Rafael Nadal returns a shot to Fabio Fognini during their Sony Open match at Carndon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Florida. AFP

JapaNEsE ace pitcher Yu Darvish will not take the mound for the Texas Rangers season opener next Monday because of a stiff neck, the Major League Baseball club announced on Tuesday. The Rangers pulled Darvish from a pre-season training start last Friday. AFP

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MMA

ONE FC adds three bouts for Manila melee

Dan Riley

NE Fighting Championship (ONE FC) has added three more blockbuster mixed martial arts bouts to its ONE FC: Rise of Heroes event at the 20,000-seater SM Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on May 2. The ght card will now incude a clash of two of the best heavyweights in the world when Englands James McSweeney squares off against Chris Lokteff of Australia. Aung La N Sang will also make history as the rst mixed martial artist from Myanmar to compete in the ONE FC cage when he takes on Egypts Mahmoud Salama. Filipina boxing champion Jujeath Nagaowa will also make her ONE FC debut when

she meets Jeet Toshi of India. McSweeney is an expert mixed martial artist and kickboxer, now on the best streak of his career with eight wins in his last 10 ghts. The 33year-old is a proven nisher with his ghts having gone to a decision only once in 23 occasions. Lokteff is one of the top heavyweight prospects in the world, amassing an impressive record of 12 wins and one loss at only 27 years of age. In a remarkable ONE FC debut, the Australian convincingly defeating famed American wrestler Tony Johnson last November. The ONE FC heavyweight division remains without a champion and the winner of this bout will likely earn a spot in the inaugural title bout. Aung La N Sang is a member

of the Kachin, a group of indigenous people now embroiled in civil war with the Myanmar army. He left Myanmar to study in the United States, where he discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu and subsequently MMA. The 28-year-old is nicknamed The Burmese Python for his constricting ability which has led him to nine submission wins. Salama, 37, is a veteran of the Egyptian MMA scene and has never been defeated in his home country, racking up all four of his wins by TKO. He boasts power in both hands and will look to knock out any opponent standing in his way. This clash against Aung represents the classic striker against grappler matchup with Salama as the striker. Nagaowa is set to become the rst Filipina appearing in

Australia's Chris Lokteff (right) swings a punch at Tony Johnson of the US during their heavyweight bout at ONE FC: Warrior Spirit in Kuala Lumpur's Putra Indoor Stadium on November 15, 2013. ONEFC.COM

Asias largest mixed martial arts organisation. The former WBC Asia atomweight champion will be making the transition from boxing with an impressive resume that features 12 professional victories. The 26-year-old has nifty footwork that she uses to get out of her opponents punches and is strong in both sts. She will be looking to demonstrate her boxing skills along

with her newly acquired MMA techniques as she makes her ONE FC debut in front of her fellow countrymen. Toshi is a seven-time kickboxing champion from India, and has done coaching and training stints in Bahrain and Australia. As the pioneer for female MMA in her homeland, she has paved the way for more women in the populous country to participate in the

sport and will look to make a statement by emerging victorious in ONE FC: Rise of Heroes. In the main event, ONE FC bantamweight world champion Bibiano Fernandes of Brazil tries to defend his title against No 1 contender Masakatsu Ueda of Japan in what ONE FC CEO Victor Cui is touting as the biggest bantamweight ght Asia has ever witnessed.

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Ep Guardiola secured the Bundesliga title in record time on Tuesday, then promptly praised the work of his Bayern Munich predecessor Jupp Heynckes, whose record the Spaniard broke. Bayern claimed their 24th German league title with a 3-1 win at Hertha Berlin as Guardiolas European champions claimed the domestic league title with seven games to spare. The Bavarian giants broke their own record for the earliest conrmed league title win, set last April under Heynckes en route to the treble of European, league and cup titles, by one match. We won the title with hard work and when you see what Jupp Heynckes achieved last season, that was the only way we were going to better that, Guardiola said. He laid the foundations. In his debut season, Guardiola has now won three titles in nine months after last Augusts UEFA Super Cup triumph and Decembers Club World Cup success having won 14 titles in four years at Barcelona. Obviously Im delighted that we have retained the title, Guardiola said as his side opened up an unassailable 25-point lead over secondplaced Borussia Dortmund. I want to thank my players and the club who have helped me achieve this. We had a lot of injuries in recent months and we have not always played well, but my players showed character. Tonight we were very active from the start, but in the second half we lost a little of our control. I am just happy we have nally managed it. It didnt matter when we got it just as long as we won the title for this great club. Well celebrate today and tomorrow. Bayerns 19th consecutive Bundesliga win also extends their record

Pep delights in record title

Hosts Australia draw S Korea for Asian Cup

AUSTRaLIa were handed an early challenge against fellow heavyweights South Korea at next years Asian Cup as the hosts got a difficult draw at a lavish ceremony in Sydney yesterday. The Socceroos, who have never won the Asian Cup and are hosting it for the first time, will open the tournament against Kuwait in Melbourne on January 9, and will also face Oman in Group A. Defending champions Japan were placed in Group D with Jordan, 2007 winners Iraq and the as-yetunknown winners of this years AFC Challenge Cup, to be held in the Maldives in May. Thirdranked Asian team Uzbekistan were the top seeds in Group B along with three-time winners Saudi Arabia, China and North Korea. Triple Asian champions Iran head Group C, which also includes the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, following the draw at Sydney Opera House. AFP

Doctors to face trial over players death

Bayern Munichs Thomas Mueller addresses fans as he and teammates celebrate clinching the Bundesliga title.

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unbeaten league run to 52 matches. They are still on course to become the rst side to nish a Bundesliga season unbeaten. Its unbelievable to clinch the title on the back of an unbeaten record, winger Arjen Robben said. Were all unbelievably proud of the team and our achievements this season. Midelder Toni Kroos slammed home an early strike before Mario Goetze headed their second as Bayern went 2-0 up after 14 minutes. Herthas Colombia striker Adrian Ramos converted a second-half penalty before France winger Franck Ribery came off the bench to net a superb

third 11 minutes from time. It is now mathematically certain that Bayern cannot be caught by their rivals, although in truth the title race has been over for weeks. Germany midelder Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has won the Bundesliga title for the seventh time in his career, said the players would party long into the Berlin night. Ive given the assistant coaches a few tips, but well denitely enjoy the party tonight, wherever it is, the 29year-old said. Germany coach Joachim Loew, who was in the stadium, said Bayerns success could only help the national team during Junes World Cup in Brazil.

To win the title so early is an incredible achievement, Loew said. Pep Guardiola has developed the team and made his mark in terms of dominance and possession. Bayern have a mentality that demands unconditional success. Jurgen Klopp, coach of rivals Borussia Dortmund offered Guardiola his congratulations. Its unbelievable the way you have torn things up down there, said Klopp, whose second-placed side were held to a goalless draw at home to Schalke in the Ruhr derby. Youre so far ahead, wed need a telescope to see you. Its a fantastic achievement. AFP

ThRee doctors will be tried for negligent homicide after the death of Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini in a game in April 2012, a court in the city of Pescara announced on Tuesday. Pescara doctor Ernesto Sabatini, Livornos Manlio Porcellini and Vito Molfese of the emergency services will go on trial, starting on December 1. According to a commission of experts interviewed as part of the investigation, the use of the defibrillator available at the stadium on the day of Morosinis death could have saved his life. AFP

Goalscorer Schmeichel follows fathers lead

verbally abused Kewell to hang up boots Ferguson by United fans over Moyes
HARRy Kewell, acclaimed as Australias greatest-ever footballer, yesterday announced his retirement after 18 years in the game. The former Leeds United, Liverpool and Galatasaray star said it was time to call it quits. He will play his last game for Melbourne Heart in Australias A-League on April 12. I felt it was the right time to go out on my terms, the 35-year-old said at a news conference. Kewell, whose latter years were beset by injuries, said fitness had not played any part in his decision to hang up his boots. The bodys great. I wanted to be able to finish where I could still do things outside of football, all the things I couldnt do as a footballer. I can do these things now, he said. Kewell said it was a privilege to have played 18 years as a professional and walk out not holding my back or my knees and still be able to push my body if I wanted to train. He has not been part of the Australian setup in recent games and he said it was time for younger players to stand up and be counted at this years World Cup in Brazil. Kewell, who left home as a 15-year-old to play in Leeds Uniteds youth team, became the Socceroos youngest debutant against Chile in 1996 at the age of 17 years and seven months. He went on to score 17 goals in 56 internationals and played in two consecutive World Cups Germany in 2006 and South Africa in 2010. During his spell with Liverpool he won the FA Cup, the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup. In 2012, Kewell was voted by fans and experts as Australias greatest-ever footballer. It was an incredible honour and thats a title I will always remember and be extremely proud of, he said. More than 15,000 public votes were cast during that selection process, while a panel of current and former players, administrators and commentators also helped determine the winner. AFP MANCHESTER United supporters vented their anger at the former manager Sir Alex Ferguson at the end of the shambolic 3-0 derby defeat to Manchester City at Old Trafford. In the rst signs of open revolt at David Moyes, fans furiously questioned Fergusons decision to appoint the Scot as his replacement. With Moyes also receiving verbal abuse from supporters and stewards being asked to guard The Chosen One banner that hangs at the stadiums Stretford End after the 167th Manchester derby, the ire shown towards Ferguson, who is a club director, will cause serious questions at boardroom level. Moyes has consistently spoken of how Ferguson has stood by him throughout his overseeing of a dismal title defence. This defeat guarantees United will end with their poorest ever points tally in the Premier League era, with their previous lowest being 75. City took only 43 seconds to take the lead through Edin Dzeko, who also scored again in the 56th minute, before Yaya Tour sealed Uniteds humiliation with a third for City at the end. That provoked fans to target Ferguson as he sat in the directors box at the nal whistle. The 72-year-old was the driving force in Moyes being appointed as his successor at the end of last season, with the former Everton manager being summoned to Fergusons house to be offered his job. While the loss made it six home defeats in the league for the rst time since the 2001-2 season to leave United 18 points behind the leaders, Chelsea, and 12 from a Champions League berth, Moyes refused to blame his players. Asked to explain how a squad minus only the retired Paul Scholes has gone so far backwards this year after winning the title by 11 points, the manager said: I take responsibility. I have to be the one who plays them, picks them and that is what it is. I think there are a lot of really good players there, some can play better, but there are a lot of really good players in the squad, a lot of international players and players who I think on their day can be a match for most players.
THE GUARDIANs.

IT WAS a case of a chip off the old block in more ways than one as goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel headed in a late equaliser to give English Championship leaders Leicester a 1-1 draw at home to Yeovil on Tuesday. Schmeichels goal on the stroke of full-time was reminiscent of the equalising header his father Peter, one of footballs greatest goalkeepers, scored for English giants Manchester United against Rotor Volgograd in a UEFA Cup tie in 1995. AFP

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English Premier League
Arsenal 2 Swansea 2 Newcastle 0 Everton 3

Spanish La Liga

Malaga 1 Espanyol 2 Elche 0 Athletic Bilbao 0 Borussia Dortmund 0 Schalke 0 Eintracht Braunschweig 3 Mainz 1 Werder Bremen 1 Wolfsburg 3 Roma 2 Torino 1

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Italian Serie A

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Spanish La Liga
Getafe v Villarreal 2am Real Sociedad v Real Valladolid 2am Almeria v Valencia 4am Levante v Real Betis 4am Inter Milan v Udinese 2:45am

Italian Serie A

Australias Harry Kewell will end his playing career next month.

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Bangladesh flag ban criticised
oRMeR Pakistani players yesterday hit out after Bangladesh banned their own fans from waving non-Bangladeshi ags at the ongoing World Twenty20 tournament. Hosts Bangladesh issued the order after an outcry over images of locals waving Pakistani ags during the recent Asia Cup. Bangladesh was part of Pakistan before the 1971 war of independence, in which it says three million people were killed most at the hands of the army of the Islamic republic and its allied militias. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) made the ruling on Tuesday, on the eve of the countrys 44th independence day. Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad said the move violated the spirit of the game. I am surprised at the decision, Miandad told AFP. Cricket is a game which harbours sportsman spirit and this decision violates that spirit. Another former captain, Mohammad Yousuf, urged the BCB to rethink the ban. I am sure that the BCB will take this decision back because it dees logic and I am sure the International Cricket Council will seek some explanation, Yousuf said. Yousuf, who played 90 Tests and 288 ODIs for Pakistan, said he had always been warmly received in Bangladesh. I have seen the home fans want to support Pakistan whenever their own team is not competing against us, he said. Younis Khan, another former captain, agreed Bangladesh should reconsider their decision. It is against the spirit of the game as you cannot stop anyone from supporting his favourite team, Khan said. Bangladesh and Pakistan face each other in a potentially crucial

Bangladesh cricketer Al-Amin Hossain watches as his teammate Tamim Iqbal tries take a catch to dismiss West Indies batsman Dwayne Bravo on Tuesday.

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World T20 group match in Mirpur on Sunday. Bangladesh lost by 73 runs to the West Indies in Dhaka on Tuesday, with Dwayne Smith smashing 72 off 43 balls before spinner Samuel Badree claimed 4-15. The defending champions, who needed a win to stay in contention for the semi-nals after losing to India on Sunday, piled up 171-7 and

then bowled out Bangladesh for a paltry 98 in the Super-10 group two match. Chris Gayle hit a run-a-ball 48 in an impressive batting display by the West Indies after the hosts won the toss and elected to eld before a sell-out crowd of 25,000 at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium.

Parnell released for court case

South African paceman Wayne

Parnell has been released from World Twenty20 duties in Chittagong to appear in court in India on drug charges, team management said yesterday. He is due to appear in court in Mumbai today on charges linked to a late-night party after an Indian Premier League game in 2012, during his stint at the Pune Warriors. Parnell was among nearly 100

people detained for medical testing after the party at an upmarket Mumbai hotel was raided by police, who found drugs at the premises. He denies any wrongdoing.

Todays Fixtures
Netherlands v South Africa 4:30pm England v Sri Lanka 8:30pm

Indian duo ready to turn up the heat on Europe

INDiAN young guns Anirban Lahiri and Gaganjeet Bhullar will be aiming to pull the rug from under Team Europe when the inaugural EurAsia Cup begins today in Kuala Lumpur. Team Asia will be led by playing captain Thongchai Jaidee, Asian Tour number one Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Prayad Marksaeng, Koumei Oda, Hideto Tanihara, Kim Hyungsung, Siddikur Rahman and Nicholas Fung. Lahiri hopes the hot and humid conditions at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Clubs Garden course will give the home side an edge over Team Europe, which is skippered by Miguel Angel Jimenez. We need to turn the microwave up we are used to these conditions. We play most of our golf in Asia and grew up playing on these grasses, Lahiri said. The conditions are in our favour and the people in Asia are behind us. Weve got a lot of things going for us and hopefully we can use all those factors into getting a win. Bhullar and Lahiri have won a combined eight Asian Tour titles in their burgeoning careers and knows that victory for Team Asia at the Ryder Cupstyle tournament will enhance their growing reputation. This is a different kind of format, said Bhullar, a fivetime Asian Tour winner. I think it is a great sense of achievement for the 10 guys who qualified for Team Asia. We are here to represent the continent. Lahiri added: The team has been working hard together and when the matches begin, we will all be hoping to create an upset. Meanwhile Miguel Angel Jimenezs European Team is ready to replicate its famous Ryder Cup camaraderie this week. World number 14 Graeme McDowell, the highest ranked player at the EurAsia Cup, is no stranger to Ryder Cup glory, having holed the winning putt in 2010 and been part of the 2012 team that produced the Miracle at Medinah. The Northern Irishman, who joined teammates Jimenez, Victor Dubuisson and Pablo Larrazabal at Europes first tournament press conference before they took on Thongchai Jaidees Asian Team, was keen to stress how important the EurAsia Cup will be for the 10 European Tour players in Jimenezs team who are all in with a great chance of qualifying for the 2014 Ryder Cup side. One of the toughest parts of the Ryder Cup is putting pairings together, and getting foursomes pairings right, McDowell said. Thats why a tournament like this, the EurAsia Cup, to me is something thats very, very important for both the European Tour and the Asian Tour. Asia is the main area of growth for the game of golf in the world, so it's a natural place for the European Tour. Its obviously a big part of the European Tour and to have a Europe versus Asia match is something that our schedule needs from a Ryder Cup point of view. We need this event to become something very special, something the guys look forward to and something that is part of Ryder Cup Team building; a chance to put ten guys together, come out here and play against a good team and try some pairings and really enjoy playing team golf. Team golf is very different from what we are used to as individuals because you're playing for each other. You just don't want to let your teammates down and there is a lot of extra pressure from that, but its also one of the main reasons why European Teams have been so successful. The format of play for the EurAsia Cup, presented by DRB-HICOM, will see five fourball matches played on the first day followed by five foursomes matches on day two and 10 singles matches on Saturdays final day at Glenmaries Garden course. THE ASIAN TOUR

Indian golfers Anirban Lahiri (left) and Gaganjeet Bhullar pose with the EurAsia Cup yesterday. The tournament kicks off today. AFP