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NATIONAL [PAGE 3]
TIGER TALE?
BUSINESS [PAGE 8]
WEALTH WATCH
FOOTBALL [PAGE 23]
WORLD CUP FIXTURE
Experts doubt a Pursat mans
claim he was attacked by a
tiger in the Cardamoms
Thailand is looking at institut-
ing a tax on assets in a bid to
reduce income inequality
South Korea looks to return
to 2002 form with match
against Russia
Eddie Morton
AFTER a five-month IPO proc-
ess steeped in anticipation,
Grand Twins International
ended its first day on the Cam-
bodia Securities Exchange
(CSX) with results many observ-
ers found disappointing.
GTI shares opened yesterdays
session at 9,700 riel ($2.41), with
a ceremonial bell ringing at the
CSXs head office. The stock had
fallen 4.9 per cent to 9,220 riel
($2.28) when trading ended four
hours later at 1pm.
Trading volume for the CSXs
newest arrival remained modest,
with just over 3,100 shares
changing hands.
GTIs day one decline comes
in stark contrast to the Phnom
Penh Water Supply Authoritys
(PPWSA) first day of trading
in April 2012, when the firms
stock rose 48 per cent from
the initial IPO listing price of
6,300 riel ($1.56), to close at
9,300 riel ($2.30).
Stephen Hsu, CEO of Phnom
Penh Securities (PPS), the
chief underwriting firm,
expressed concerns over the
first days result.
Investors still do not have
GTI price
drops on
day one
Kevin Ponniah and Phak Seangly
Battambang province
I
N SAMRONG Leu village,
a picturesque community
nestled deep in the verdant
fields of Kors Kralor dis-
trict, the acrid smell of smoke
fills the air.
Outside almost every house in
this community, billows of
smoke continuously emerge
from the domes of homemade
mud kilns, drifting around the
families lounging outside and
their children at play.
Piles of freshly logged timber
are everywhere. When the 10-day
to two-week burning and cool-
ing cycle of each kiln is com-
pleted, the next batch of logs
goes in.
Rain or shine in Samrong Leu,
producing charcoal is how most
people make their livelihoods.
But while demand for char-
coal is only increasing as Cam-
bodias population grows, for-
ests and trees are disappearing,
pushing producers deeper into
protected areas to find the wood
they need.
This is my main income, my
career, and I support my entire
family with it, says 21-year-old
Ra Rey, barefoot as he cakes mud
with his hands and slaps it onto
his kiln, which sits about 30
metres from his home.
Before, we used to just cut
trees around here, but now that
they are gone, we are cutting far-
ther and farther [away].
With prices rising due to low
supply, Rey earns about $150
for the more than 3 tonnes of
charcoal he produces every
month.
Like almost everyone in this
village of 150 families, Rey is a
poor migrant from a different
province (in his case, Prey Veng)
who was granted land in the area
by local authorities.
A few years ago, three people
were killed by an anti-tank
mine in a rice field. After that,
villagers say they became more
wary of harvesting rice. Given
the abundance of trees in the
area, many switched to char-
coal production.
About six years after he started
Living on a dwindling trade
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Mark Tran
JIHADISTS in Iraq have cap-
tured another city as senior
US and Iranian officials are
expected to discuss possible
cooperation in the belea-
guered nation this week.
The Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) has taken the
northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar,
the mayor of the city of 200,000
people said. A resident in Tal
Afar, 420 kilometres northwest
of Baghdad, said militants in
pickup trucks with machine
guns and jihadi banners were
roaming the streets as gunfire
rang out.
There are fears that mili-
tants will carry out further
atrocities in Tal Afar, an eth-
nically mixed town made up
of Shias and Sunni Turkomen,
after ISIS released photos and
video apparently showing
Iraqi army prisoners being
killed in the desert near Tikrit
on Sunday.
The pictures, on a militant
website, appear to show ISIS
fighters loading captives onto
flatbed trucks before forcing
them to lie face down in a shal-
low ditch with their arms tied
behind their backs.
The final images show the
bodies of the captives soaked
in blood after being shot at
several locations.
Iraqs chief military spokes-
man , Lieutenant General Qas-
sim al-Moussawi, confirmed
the photos authenticity and
said he was aware of cases of
mass murder of captured Iraqi
soldiers in areas held by ISIS.
But claims the militants
executed 1,700 prisoners could
not confirmed.
The US deputy secretary of
state, William Burns, who held
US, Iran
to talk on
Iraq as
city falls
Continues on page 12
A man loads wood into a charcoal kiln in Battambang provinces Kors Kralor district on Sunday. VIREAK MAI
National
2 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 17, 2014
Border chaos claims 2 more
Laignee Barron and May Titthara

A
SECOND deadly car
accident in as many
days has claimed the
lives of more Cam-
bodian migrant workers ee-
ing Thailand in the wake of
last months military takeover.
At least two undocumented
Cambodian workers were
killed while driving through
Thailands Chonburi province
to get to the border on Sun-
day morning, with 18 others
sustaining injuries, according
to Koy Kuong, spokesman for
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Kuong said the cause of the
accident is still unknown, but
that the injured workers were
taken to hospitals in Thailand.
Now, we are arranging to
send the bodies back home,
he said.
Sundays crash occurred less
than 12 hours after a blown-
out tyre caused a truck in Thai-
lands Chachoengsao province
to overturn, killing the driver
and six undocumented Cam-
bodian labourers, and leaving
13 others seriously injured.
Ofcials said the broker-
hired truck had been on its
way to the Poipet interna-
tional checkpoint in Banteay
Meanchey province, where
streams of returning workers
have overwhelmed the bor-
der town.
Fuelled by rapidly circulat-
ing stories about military raids,
detentions and shootings,
more than 148,000 workers,
mostly undocumented, have
ed Thailand in a fear-ridden
mass exodus this month.
The number of workers de-
posited by the truckload has
escalated every day until an
unprecedented peak on Sat-
urday, when the inux of re-
turning Cambodians reached
nearly 44,000. The numbers
began to dip Sunday, with just
shy of 300 trucks and buses
from Thailand bringing near-
ly 27,000 men, women and
children back to Cambodia.
Yesterday, even fewer work-
ers made their way across,
with the provincial governors
count at 7,000 as of 4pm.
Were not sure why the
numbers are lower, but we
need to keep preparing food,
water and transportation to be
ready for them, said Kor Sum-
saroeun, Banteay Meanchey
provincial governor.
Sumsaroeun and aid work-
ers yesterday added that the
swell of returning workers
could spike again.
Thailands junta has
staunchly maintained over the
past week that it has no policy
to crack down on workers and
denied allegations of abuse. Re-
patriated Cambodians, how-
ever, told the Post of being
rounded up by soldiers and
forced to pay bribes upwards
of $66 to get out of detention
and safely reach the border.
Thai government spokes-
man Col Winthai Suvari yes-
terday said that ofcials will
be dispatched to areas where
migrant workers are concen-
trated in efforts to learn of
underlying problems arising
from decades of mismanaged
labour policy.
Meanwhile, Thai police
rounded up 38 Cambodian
workers eeing perceived in-
stability in Thailand via the
train station in Thailands Hua
Hin province.
The workers were detained
for prosecution at the provin-
cial police station.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Kuong said ofcials in Takeo
province are investigating the
case, and concluded that the
unprecedented large-scale
returns did not reect any
change of policy by the Thai
military government.
Labour Minister Ith Sam
Heng yesterday echoed the
sentiment, and urged Cam-
bodians to view the ongoing
border crisis as a lessoned
learned.
The matter of the returned
workers will not change the
cooperation between Cam-
bodia and Thailand; the fact is
that they are sending back ille-
gal workers, he said. I would
like to appeal to workers plan-
ning to go to other countries:
please go legally. If you do not,
you will be subject to being
sent back home. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY THE BANGKOK POST
Cambodian migrant workers crowd into a truck at the border town of Poipet in Banteay Meanchey as they
ood across the Thai-Cambodia border to escape junta-controlled Thailand. GRIFF TAPPER
Mom Kunthear
THE group in charge of deter-
mining the national minimum
wage for the garment sector
yesterday agreed to increase
salaries annually on January
1, determined by discussion
that are to take place in the -
nal quarter of each preceding
year, ofcials said.
The agreement was signed
during a meeting of the La-
bour Ministrys Labour Ad-
visory Committee (LAC), at-
tended by representatives of
the ministry, trade unions and
the Garment Manufacturers
Association in Cambodia.
We stand in unity together
to protect the best interests
of all within our system,
Minister of Labour Ith Sam
Heng said after signing the
agreement.
Until now, minimum wage
decisions were an ad hoc af-
fair, with the LAC visiting the
issue at irregular intervals and
using no particular formula in
determining wage scales.
Such an approach became
apparent late last year when
the LAC raised the minimum
monthly wage from $80, which
included a $5 health bonus, to
$95, before Sam Heng unilat-
erally raised it to $100.
A specic equation for cal-
culating minimum wages has
not been decided, but the LAC
will begin meeting about next
years wages during the third
quarter of each year.
They will vote on a specic
number in the fourth quarter,
which will go into effect every
January 1, according to the
document signed yesterday.
LAC members will have
three chances to come up
with a gure during the fourth
quarter.
The rst two meetings will
be held with the goal of a
unanimous decision.
If the rst two votes fail to
yield a unanimous result, a
third meeting will be held,
during which a majority vote
will determine the next years
new wage.
We had a good result to-
day, because we now have
clear dates for minimum wage
implementation, said Ath
Thorn, president of the Coali-
tion of Cambodian Apparel
Workers Democratic Union.
Before, we did not have an
exact time frame for discuss-
ing the minimum wage.
Wage group agrees
on January 1 raises
A demonstrator holds a sign while shouting chants last year in Phnom
Penh during protests to demand a higher minimum wage. VIREAK MAI
Were not sure why the
numbers are lower, but we
need to keep preparing food,
water and transportation
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 17, 2014
Meas Sokchea
AN OPPOSITION lawmaker-
elect pledged yesterday to visit
an undemarcated section of
the border in Svay Rieng prov-
ince to investigate allegations
that Cambodian farmers have
been blocked by Vietnamese
soldiers from using land they
previously farmed for years
without problem.
Svay Rieng lawmaker-elect
Real Camerin said that he
would take about 100 Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
supporters to visit Romeas Hek
districts Doung commune on
June 30, where he said farm-
ers had been blocked from the
land for more than a year, and
where he himself was prevent-
ed from walking last week.
We want people who are
land owners to show us clearly
[where is] their land, Cam-
erin said. We will demand
the government to recheck on
peoples land where they used
to farm in the past.
After receiving complaints,
Camerin visited the land him-
self last week, only to be told by
a Vietnamese soldier that the
area was off limits.
At the [undemarcated]
white area, the yuon can use
and do anything, Camerin
said in a video of the encoun-
ter, using a word considered by
some offensive to Vietnamese,
and maintaining that Cambo-
dians did not have the same
liberty. As a lawmaker-elect I
must know that where Khmer
land is, and I must have rights
to stand on Khmer land.
In the video, a soldier tells
Camerin that who the land
belongs to is still a matter
of debate.
Wait for both governments
to resolve this, the soldier says.
Meanwhile, resident Ouk
Yorn said that she had planted
rice on land given to her by her
father-in-law for more than 10
years, but that recently a por-
tion had been blocked.
They threatened my hus-
band that if my husband is
still deant to [try to farm the
rest] they will not allow him to
enter their country for busi-
ness, she said.
Romeas Hek District Gov-
ernor Penh Chea said that
the area where Vietnamese
soldiers had stopped Cam-
erin was still disputed, and its
ownership is up to the border
committees resolution.
Senior border affairs ofcial
Va Kimhong said the commit-
tee would visit the area and
clearly mark it this month.
CNRP lawmaker-elect
to visit contested area
Tiger attacks man in forest
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Sean Teehan

A
PURSAT mans re-
ported encounter
with a tiger in the
Cardamom Moun-
tains has left him injured and
in fear, but it has left experts
in doubt.
On Sunday afternoon, Ngem
Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in
Phnom Kravanh districts Sant-
re commune, walked into the
woods to forage for traditional
medicine and other supplies,
accompanied by his nephew
Det Pheara, 31.
After the two split off, Pheara
heard his uncle shrieking.
Help me, the tiger is going to
eat me, Pheara recalled hear-
ing his uncle scream. When
I heard that, I ran to him and
saw the tiger was biting his legs,
and he fell on the ground.
In an interview with the Post
yesterday, Nget said the sight
of the large cat stunned him.
When he tried to run away, the
animal chased and pounced on
him, scratching and biting him.
I . . . used my machete to
attack that tiger until it left
us and went to the forest,
Pheara said.
Nget was sent to a local
clinic for treatment of his in-
juries. Photos Nget provided
to the Post show him with
stitches on his head and ban-
dages on his arms, right leg
and left shoulder.
But Bunra Seng, country
director at Conservation In-
ternational, who works in
the Cardamom Mountains,
said the animal Nget says at-
tacked him was more likely a
clouded leopard.
There are a lot [of] clouded
leopard cats in that area, Seng
said in a text message yester-
day. Images of many have been
caught by hidden cameras in
the mountains over the years.
By contrast, the last image of
a tiger in Cambodia was cap-
tured in 2007 by a hidden cam-
era in Mondulkiri province.
The last physical evidence
of tigers in that area dates to
2010, World Wildlife Founda-
tion spokesman Tep Asnarith
said yesterday.
If the animal that attacked
Nget was a tiger, it would be the
rst attack in the area in nearly
30 years, said Santre com-
munes police chief, Kruoch
Non. The last tiger attack there
occurred in 1987, Non said.
Ngem Nget sits with locals in Pursat province yesterday after receiving treatment for injuries he sustained in
what he described as a tiger attack. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Accused dealer
King Kong
faces court
over drugs
A
USTRALIAN national
Alan Rolf Jensen, also
known as King Kong,
had his day in court yester-
day, some six months after
being arrested and charged
with distributing drugs to
foreigners in the capital.
He was a foreign drug dis-
tributor in Cambodia, Phnom
Penh Municipal Court judge
Keo Mony said yesterday. He
always brought drugs . . . for
sale to other foreign people at
foreign bars or restaurants.
Colonel Khen Sovann,
deputy commander of Phnom
Penh Municipal Military
Police, said that Jensen, 49,
was in possession of mari-
juana, methamphetamine and
related paraphernalia when
he was arrested in December.
He was arrested when
the municipal military police
raided his rental house room,
and while he was smoking
marijuana, he said.
Jensen asked for his char-
ges to be dropped yesterday.
The drugs that police found
inside my room belonged to
me, and I only bought them for
my own use, he said.
A verdict is due on July 8.
BUTHREAKSMEY KONGKEA
National
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Maids call for legal protection
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
A
GROUP of about 20
domestic workers
gathered in front of
the Ministry of La-
bour in Phnom Penh early
yesterday morning to mark
International Domestic Work-
ers Day and deliver a petition
urging the government to af-
ford them the same rights as
factory labourers.
The petition, which was re-
ceived by the ministry shortly
before 9am, calls on the govern-
ment to ratify the International
Labour Organizations Conven-
tion No 189, which entitles do-
mestic workers to benets in-
cluding a day off every week.
The Ministry of Labour
agrees to examine their peti-
tion [but] we cannot nd a
solution in a hurry. We need
time, but the ministry . . . is
working on this, ministry of-
cial Kroch Sophary said.
While the government looks
to open a pipeline of maids to
Malaysia, Singapore and Sau-
di Arabia all of which have
made headlines for cases of
abuse against domestic work-
ers those gathered yesterday
said they have few rights in-
side Cambodia.
Thirty-two-year-old Tot Na-
reth said she has to work 14
hours a day, seven days a week,
for just $65 per month.
When I ask to have a rest a
day to visit my home or go to
hospital, they cut my wage in
half, she said.
Chhay Somony said she was
asking only for the same rights
as factory workers.
We do not have any law to
protect us like factory workers
do . . . to determine our wage,
health care [or] working hours.
We work in labour too so we
should have the same rights.
According to the Cambodian
Domestic Workers Network,
which organised yesterdays
event, there are some 240,000
maids in Cambodia.
Huy Pich Sovann, a program
ofcer with the Community
Legal Education Center, said
Cambodias domestic workers
are often treated like slaves.
They are humans so they
should be given the same rights
as other humans, he said.
Vorn Pov, president of the In-
dependent Democracy of Infor-
mal Economy Association, said
he hoped to create a network of
domestic workers to pressure
on the government to include
them under the Labour Law.
They work without getting
care from the government. We
need the Minister of Labour
to ratify [Convention] 189 of
ILO, he said.
IDEA president Vorn Pov speaks in front of the Ministry of Labour in Phnom Penh yesterday during a rally by
domestic workers calling for more labour rights. SEN DAVID
Charcoal producers living on a dwindling trade
Continued from page 1
making charcoal, Reys three
hectares of land are barren and
there are no trees left. He has
started logging in a state forest
at the base of a nearby moun-
tain instead.
Rey pays off soldiers to be
able to use his chainsaw there.
Charcoal production without a
permit is illegal countrywide,
but local authorities here gen-
erally turn a blind eye.
They are poor and they have
no choice. Making charcoal is
illegal, but the authorities have
to save the forest or save the
lives of the people, village
chief Un Veth says.
Wearing a soot-stained shirt,
Rey sits atop a pile of logs
amounting to almost 60 felled
trees. In three weeks, it will all
be charcoal.
I know that this job
destroys the forest, but I have
nothing else.
From kiln to cookstove
Despite the increasing avail-
ability of other energy sources,
such as gas, Cambodians have
a cultural attachment to char-
coal and wood use in cooking
that is hard to shake.
In Phnom Penh, 30 per cent
of residents still use charcoal,
while in rural areas, 48 per cent
still use wood and 36 per cent
use charcoal, according to
GERES, a French NGO that has
built 11 sustainable commu-
nity charcoal production cen-
tres in Cambodia.
GERES estimates that the
Kingdom burns through
500,000 tonnes of charcoal a
year, requiring 3.5 million
tonnes of wood, but is still
studying the problem to come
up with a more reliable figure.
Technically, a permit is
required from the Forestry
Administration for anyone who
wants to produce charcoal for
commercial use. But the reality
is that the entire trade from
the initial producer to the vari-
ous middlemen and finally the
end user is completely infor-
mal and illegal, and often
involves bribes being paid
along the line.
In some places, like Kors
Kralor, charcoal is produced in
the open on farmland. Trucks
piled high with sacks full of the
fuel source rumble up and
down the road that leads out of
this district, heading towards
Battambang city and beyond.
But elsewhere, like Phnom
Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and
Botum Sakor National Park,
clandestine operations burn
wood in kilns under cover of
night, environmentalists say.
According to Wildlife Alli-
ance, areas under its jurisdic-
tion in the Cardamom Moun-
tains in Koh Kong province
used to be a hotbed of com-
mercial charcoal production
until the conservation NGO
increased patrols about a dec-
ade ago.
In 2011, the organisation
destroyed 778 charcoal kilns at
just one patrol station at
Phnom Oral, in the Eastern
Cardamoms, where most of
Phnom Penhs charcoal report-
edly originates.
We put the station there
because all the charcoal was
coming from Oral and through
Kirirom National Park and onto
National Road 4 to Phnom
Penh, a Wildlife Alliance offi-
cial says, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity.
We are not arresting them,
we are just destroying the kilns
. . . [Locals] understand [now]
its not a [viable] business. But
people from other provinces
still come and try to do it.
In 2013, the group destroyed
416 illegal charcoal kilns across
the Cardamoms.
A complex trade
Romain Joya, biomass energy
product manager at GERES,
says the charcoal sectors infor-
mality and diversity mean it is
very hard to quantify its effects
and scale.
He says that charcoal pro-
ducers mostly arrive late in the
illegal logging chain, clearing
trees that loggers who only
want luxury wood and timber
have left behind.
Its very complex. There are
many, many different inter-
actions between producers,
the [buyers] and economic
land concessions [ELCs].
GERES believes charcoal
makers mainly cause forest
degradation rather than defor-
estation, with concessionaires
and big illegal loggers respon-
sible for the latter.
Chhim Savuth, director of the
Natural Resource Protection
Group, agrees.
There is not a lot of illegal
logging related to charcoal pro-
duction because most of them
just go and collect from forests
cleared by ELC companies, and
they do not go to cut trees from
protected areas, he says.
But according to the Wildlife
Alliance official, charcoal is
definitely having an impact
on deforestation.
In Oral, you can see a huge
amount of hectares hundreds
of hectares gone because of
charcoal . . . They are eating the
mountain slowly.
According to the Maddox
Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which
is implementing a project
to reduce forest clearing for
charcoal and the health impacts
of its use, Cambodias forests
are shrinking at an alarming
rate, partly as a result of solid
fuel use.
Only 8.9 per cent of villagers
surveyed in Samlaut district,
where MJP works, plan on
replanting trees used for ener-
gy sources, while 43 per cent
plan to log in protected forests
when they run out of trees.
Forestry Administration head
Chheng Kimsun acknowledges
that the illegal industry is con-
tributing to deforestation.
Every activity which involves
the destruction of forest prod-
ucts is contributing, he says.
If they were to cut from the
state forest, its illegal, but if
they cut around their farm or
something like that, its OK.
Kimsun admits illegal log-
ging for charcoal in protected
forests was difficult to stop.
If they have no permit, we
have to stop them, but we have
inadequate staff. Its very diffi-
cult to stop thousands.
Prices skyrocket
Reflecting the dwindling
amount of forest, prices for
charcoal have skyrocketed in
recent years.
Ny Math, 31, a middleman
who sells about 400kg to stall-
holders in Phnom Penh every
day, says prices have more than
doubled since he started.
Ten years ago, the price was
only 500 riel per kilogram, but
now it has increased to 1,300
riel per kilogram, because the
producers have difficulty find-
ing the wood to make it with.
The forests are less and less.
A Kors Kralor district broker
says that she used to pay 3,000
riel for a 50-60kg sack of char-
coal, but now pays 17,000 riel.
I know making charcoal
leads to forest loss. Im so sorry
about that, but I have no
choice. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
MAY TITTHARA
Bags of recently produced charcoal wait for transportation next to kilns in Battambang provinces Kors
Kralor district over the weekend. VIREAK MAI
Ofcial in
court over
fraud case
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
A HIGH-LEVEL agricultural
official in Kampong Speu
province has been charged
with stealing thousands of
dollars from paddy rice farm-
ers after promising to deliver
them land titles in January
2013, a rights group represent-
ative and a court prosecutor
said yesterday.
Cher Pich, 44, deputy direc-
tor of the provincial agriculture
department, was arrested ear-
lier this month and charged
yesterday with fraud and
breach of trust, according to
Roth Thavy, provincial investi-
gator for rights group Adhoc.
Pich is accused of swindling
$20,000 from rice farmers in
Odong district, a military police
officer who spoke on condition
of anonymity told the Post.
He took their [the farmers]
money to buy luxury cars, the
officer said.
The complainants, he added,
took legal action after Pich
allegedly spent months evad-
ing their attempts to meet.
Keo Sothea, a provincial
prosecutor, confirmed the
charge yesterday and added
that Pich was still being ques-
tioned over the case.
National
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Neigbourhood on watch
catch burglar in the act
THE cover of darkness pro-
vided a burglar no protection
against a mob beating on
Sunday. The man, 37, broke
into a house with his friend in
the wee hours and almost
made it all the way out
unseen. When the burglars
scaled the fence, however, a
neighbour noticed what was
unfolding and rallied his
friends. A group of residents
soon cornered one of the
men and dished out some
street justice in the form of
kicks and punches before
police arrived. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Student teaches thieves
a new lesson in justice
AFTER similar heroics from a
harassed female student last
month, another young wom-
an, this time in Kratie, tried
her hand at knocking flat a
bunch of robbers giving her
grief on Saturday. Three men
on a motorbike figured they
had picked an easy target for
a bag snatch when they
zoomed up to where the stu-
dent was sitting. But the
young woman had other ide-
as and let fly with a kick to
their wheels, sending them
crashing to the ground,
where they remained until
police arrived. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Not only cake in tiers
after wedding bustup
ANOTHER weekend, another
wedding brawl. This time, two
were injured after a Pursat
dancefloor erupted in vio-
lence on Saturday because a
drunken guest touched the
hand of another mans girl-
friend. Deeming this serious
enough to attack someone
over, the boyfriend ordered
his friends to beat the man
silly while he stood back and
watched. They did, injuring a
second man in the process,
before fleeing. The victims
are recovering in hospital.
RASMEY KAMPUCHEA
Road rage lands man in
cuffs after hurling rocks
WHEN the first stone was cast
in the name of road rage, it
was at least original now its
growing old. A man in Poipet
town was the latest arrested
on Saturday for such carry-on
after taking umbrage with
some verbal abuse. The stone
thrower had brought it on him-
self he sped through a red
light on a moto but was
enraged enough at being
insulted by a passing motorist
that he stopped. He then
hurled stones at the car until
police arrived. DEUM AMPIL
Robbers rumbled by
some sharp-eyed cops
IT ALL came unstuck for
three men who waved a gun
at a woman riding through
the capital on a moto on Sun-
day. The men began following
the woman as she headed
home at night, eventually
pointing a gun at her and
ordering her to pull over. She
agreed, but fortunately police
saw what was going on, gave
chase and soon arrested the
men, avoiding a shootout in
the process. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
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Chhay Channyda
FUGITIVE secessionist Bun
Ratha who was sentenced to
30 years in prison on largely
unsubstantiated charges of
fomenting armed insurrec-
tion in Kratie province in 2012
has been granted asylum in
the Netherlands after a long
self-imposed exile in Thailand,
according to a media report.
Ratha, who told Radio Free
Asia on Friday that he had been
in the Netherlands for a month,
said he would continue efforts
to help Cambodians. He also
said he missed his country.
If I compare [the two], I
prefer Cambodia, he said.
As of press time, a repre-
sentative with the UN High
Commission on Refugees in
the Netherlands was unable to
conrm whether Ratha had of-
cially been granted asylum.
Ratha was accused of lead-
ing a secessionist plot in Kratie
provinces Pro Ma village,
which had been locked in a
land dispute with agribusi-
ness rm Casotim. Authorities
used the alleged plot which
villagers, observers and the
suspected leaders themselves
all decried as fabricated as
justication to send heavily
armed soldiers and police to
storm the village and evict its
residents in May 2012.
A 14-year-old girl was fatally
shot in the eviction, and no in-
vestigation was conducted.
Several accused secessionists
including Ratha and Beehive
Radio founder Mam Sonando
were convicted in what rights
groups called a show trial. So-
nandos sentence was later
suspended, while Ratha had
already ed to Thailand to es-
cape prosecution.
Vong Sokheng
PRIME Minister Hun Sen left
for Bangladesh yesterday for
a three-day ofcial visit, dur-
ing which leaders from both
countries are expected to sign
a number of deals, according
to Sry Thamarong, a minister
attached to the premier who
spoke at the airport.
The prime minister was ac-
companied by Deputy Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister
Hor Namhong, Agriculture
Minister Ouk Rabun, Culture
Minister Phoeurng Sacko-
na, Secretary-General of the
Council for the Development
of Cambodia Sok Chenda So-
phea and other members of
the government.
As we know, Bangladesh is a
large country [in terms of] ag-
ricultural production and de-
veloped agriculture elds, and
has strong technology skills.
The country is small, similar to
Cambodia, but the population
of Bangladesh ranks number
eight in the world, Thama-
rong said.
The visit is supposed to in-
clude stops at sites pertaining
to trade, as well as cultural
ones, such as a museum and
an ancient temple, he added.
Opposition Cambodia Na-
tional Rescue Party spokes-
man Yem Ponharith said Ban-
gladesh is also a developing
country, so encouraging agri-
cultural cooperation between
the countries was a good idea.
The current government
was formed by a single po-
litical party in the National
Assembly, but on behalf of the
Cambodian people, the CNRP
supports foreign diplomatic
ties in the interest of the na-
tion, he said.
Accused secessionist
Ratha given asylum
Hun Sen, ofcials head
to Bangladesh for visit
Union president Ath Thorn speaks to the media in front of Phnom Penh Municipal Court in April after being
charged with incitement. HENG CHIVOAN
Unionists case hazy
Sean Teehan

A
FTER a third day of
questioning, dur-
ing which the plain-
tiffs story allegedly
changed, the head of Cambo-
dias largest independent gar-
ment union is in the dark as to
where his case stands.
Investigating judge Chea Sok
Heang yesterday did not set a
date for further questioning
and has not recommended
that the complaint led in
Phnom Penh Municipal Court
against Coalition of Cambo-
dian Apparel Workers Demo-
cratic Union president Ath
Thorn go to trial.
How can the judge con-
tinue the case? Thorn asked
after the one-hour session. It
should be dropped.
The court charged Thorn
and union activist Pav Phanna
with incitement in April after
Sath Sophai, a security guard
at SL Garment Processing,
led a complaint alleging he
was injured during an incident
at a strike led by Thorns union
on November 1.
Thorns attorney, Kim Socheat,
asked that the case be dropped,
Thorn said, because Sophai in
March told the court he saw
Thorn inciting a mob. But dur-
ing testimony in May, he said he
only heard Thorns voice.
Thorn maintains he was at
his ofce when security guards
and strikers allegedly hurled
rocks and ung marbles with
sling shots at each other.
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Myanmar
rice may be
winner in
sea dispute
TENSION in the South China
Sea is leading China to shun
Vietnam rice imports, opening
the door for Myanmar export-
ers, according to traders.
Much of Myanmars exports
currently go to African coun-
tries, but with Thai exporters
dropping prices in those mar-
kets since the May 22 coup,
exporters are looking to grow
market share closer to home.
Chinas demand for Myan-
mar rice through the Muse bor-
der crossing has increased
about 30 per cent this year on
previous levels, said Myo Thu-
ra Aye, a rice trader and former
joint secretary of the Myanmar
Rice Federation.
China imported 41.75 per-
cent of Vietnams total rice
exports in the first four months
of 2014, according to a report
from Xinhua news agency, but
Myanmar rice traders said they
have seen an increase in orders
from China as South China Sea
tensions rise and the worlds
second-largest economy shuns
imports from Vietnam.
Myo Thura Aye said Myan-
mar exporters are now selling
about 3,500 tonnes a day,
whereas it had been about
2,500 tonnes a day before the
recent South China Sea spat.
As Chinas demand has
increased, rice prices have also
gone up. But transportation
costs are rising too, so it is dif-
ficult to make a profit from it,
he said. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Mfone staff paid final wages
May Kunmakara
B
ANKRUPT telecom-
munications compa-
ny Mfone yesterday
handed out the nal
installments of unpaid wages
to former employees.
More than 1,000 former
Mfone staff received the re-
maining 30 per cent of their
unpaid wages after the tele-
communications rm led
for bankruptcy in February,
2013. Workers received a total
of $4.4 million in compensa-
tion since the rm went bust.
Khan Sereyvuthy, senior
legal advisor to Mfones ad-
ministrator, told the Post
that yesterdays compensa-
tion was the nal payment
owed to workers.
It is the remaining 30 per
cent of our payment to more
than 1,000 workers. We al-
ready paid them 70 per cent,
this means that we have paid
it all, he said.
Mfone administrators made
the rst outstanding wage
payment in July 2013, prom-
ising to pay the remainder by
November at the latest.
Sereyvuthy said Mfone paid
the wage bill after the sale of
the companys $9.9 million
worth of telecommunications
infrastructure was nalised.
Mfone sold its assets for bot-
tom dollar to Chinese-owned
Khmer Unied Network, a rel-
atively unknown newcomer to
the industry.
With the leftover funds and
the sale of the companys re-
maining assets, which are es-
timated to be worth $30 mil-
lion, Sereyvuthy said Mfone
will commence paying back
its remaining debts to credi-
tors such as Chinese technol-
ogy rm Huawei, which is
reportedly owed upwards of
$65 million.
Our ex-employees have
been the priority of our pay-
ments while other creditors
are second, he said.
Sereyvuthy called on debt-
ors, including Viettle, owner of
Cambodias largest telco oper-
ator Metfone, among others to
pay up an estimated $690,000
in owed funds.
Bun Thoun, a former sales
representative for Mfone, said
he has been paid $3,000 in
total. Thoun praised the now-
defunct operator for keeping
its word, despite nearly a year
having passed since the rst
wage payment.
It is what the company
promised to pay us, he said.
A motorbike passes the boarded-up ofce of Mfone in Phnom Penh last year. HENG CHIVOAN
Business
8
THAILANDS Fiscal Policy Of-
ce (FPO) is looking at the fea-
sibility of imposing a wealth
tax a levy based on the ag-
gregate value of all household
assets aimed at reducing in-
come inequality.
The wealth tax would re-
place a plan to charge land
and building tax that had been
years in the works but never
got off the ground.
The tax on wealthy people
can narrow the gap between
the rich and poor and boost
state coffers, a source at the
Finance Ministry said, add-
ing that it needs to set an ap-
propriate level of wealth that
would be subject to the tax.
The latest proposal would
levy tax on assets such as
land, residences, stocks, bank
deposits and cars.
The source, who did not
want to be named, said the
number of people who are
against the implementation of
wealth tax is smaller than that
opposed to land and building
tax, as land tax will apply to
everyone regardless of their
nancial position.
However, the source was un-
certain whether the National
Council for Peace and Order
would support the idea of a
wealth tax as it would largely
hurt the well-off the same
people who may have inu-
ence over policy decisions.
There are currently only
about 20,000 taxpayers who
are charged at the highest
rate of personal income tax
at 35 per cent, but their com-
bined tax payment accounts
for half of the total personal
income tax revenue. Ten mil-
lion people are required to
submit their annual personal
income tax lings, but only
about two million are liable for
tax payment.
The junta recently instructed
the Finance Ministry to pro-
pose its tax reform plan within
one month. BANGKOK POST
Thailand
mulls new
tax on rich
UK eyes $30B in China deals
Patrick Wintour
A
THREE-DAY visit to
Britain by Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang
that kicked off yes-
terday is expected to lead to
nearly 18 billion ($30.5 bil-
lion) of deals being signed,
including a deepening Chi-
nese involvement in ener-
gy, nuclear power and other
UK infrastructure.
Li, on his rst visit to Brit-
ain since becoming prime
minister last year, will also an-
nounce investment plans that
Chancellor George Osborne
will argue show that London
is going to be the world centre
for renminbi trading.
China Construction Bank,
Chinas second-largest lender,
has been selected to become
the rst clearing service for
renminbi trading in London.
Chinese companies are ex-
pected to announce fresh de-
tails of their plans to provide
nance and technology for the
proposed nuclear power plant
at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
And recently created China
Minsheng Investment (CMI)
is expected to reveal plans to
set up a London ofce and
put money into British com-
panies. CMI, led by Dong
Wenbiao, chairman of China
Minsheng Banking Corpora-
tion, has about 5 billion un-
der management.
China National Nuclear Cor-
poration (CNNC) and China
General Nuclear Power Cor-
poration (CGN) have already
agreed in principle to be mi-
nority shareholders in the
Hinkley Point project.
So far only letters of in-
tent have been signed by
EDF Group, Areva, CGN and
CNNC to become strategic
and industrial partners in
the project. The two Chinese
companies were due to take a
stake of between 30 per cent
and 40 per cent, but that may
yet increase.
EDF Energy, which runs
15 nuclear power plants, has
been working with CGN and
CNNC for 15 years. CGN cur-
rently operates 8.3 gigawatts
of nuclear power. It has eight
units in operation and 15
under construction, includ-
ing two reactors being built
in a joint venture with EDF
at Taishan. CNNC has nine
units in operation and 12 un-
der construction.
Lord Prescott, former dep-
uty prime minister and chair-
man of the Blair governments
Chinese task force, said that
the Chinese would be seek-
ing assurances that Britain
would remain in the European
Union, since the Chinese see
Britain as a gateway to invest-
ment in the bloc.
Prescott said in an inter-
view with Sky News: Both
the Japanese and the Chinese
take the view that investment
in Britain is good only after
you have the access to the
European market of 450 mil-
lion people.
Prescott accused Cameron
of downgrading the impor-
tance of the task force and
said Camerons meeting with
the Dalai Lama in 2012 had
been a disaster.
The Home Ofce will also is-
sue a report easing restrictions
on visas for Chinese visitors to
Britain, a long-standing Chi-
nese demand. There is likely
to be a 24-hour super-pri-
ority service for important
business visitors, and the ex-
tension of a pilot scheme that
lets tourists receive a Brit-
ish entry permit at the same
time as a visa for countries in
the Schengen area.
Ofcial data shows annual
goods exports to China have
grown to 12.4 billion last
year from 7.6 billion back in
2010. THE GUARDIAN
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra
Modi said hes ready to get tough and
take unpopular steps to improve the
nations economy and scal health as
his government prepares to unveil its
rst federal budget next month.
Its necessary to take steps to im-
prove nancial discipline and improve
the economic health of the country,
Modi said in a speech in Goa that
was posted on his website. I know
my popularity might go down due to
these hard decisions, people might be
annoyed with me, but they will appre-
ciate it later.
Modi has been tasked with reviving
Asias third-largest economy after his
party won a parliamentary majority
in India. Growth is holding near a de-
cade low and retail ination has aver-
aged about 10 per cent in the past two
years, eroding the purchasing power
of more than 800 million people who
live on less than $2 a day.
Modis comments suggest the seri-
ousness the government is attaching
to the scal correction, NR Bhanu-
murthy, an economist at the National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
a government-backed research in-
stitute in New Delhi, said by phone.
Fiscal indiscipline has been one of
the main reasons behind Indias eco-
nomic woes.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on
Sunday that high ination and slower
growth had hurt tax revenues. The
previous government estimated that
Indias budget decit will fall to 4.1 per
cent of gross domestic product in the
year through March 2015 from 4.6 per
cent the previous year.
Any kind of scal indiscipline at this
stage will put us in further doldrums,
Press Trust of India quoted Jaitley
as saying on Sunday in Kashmir.
Modi faces the challenge of cutting
fuel subsidies, allowing more foreign
investment and pushing through
projects that had been stalled due to
delays in approvals. He campaigned
on his record of delivering economic
growth as chief minister of Gujarat
state and promised to stem consum-
er-price gains.
To take the country out of its eco-
nomic ill-health, taking hard decisions
and administering a bitter pill when re-
quired will be necessary, Modi said in
the Goa speech. BLOOMBERG
Modi ready to make tough calls on economy
Li Keqiang speaks during a news conference in Bangkok in 2013. The Chinese premier is visiting the UK with
a view to closing $30 billion in deals that would deepen Chinas role in British infrastructure. BLOOMBERG
enough condence in this
market, he said.
Hsu said PPS would look to
set up measures to allow the
underwriter to stabilise the
newly listed stock.
For stabilising the price,
I think the regulation for a
Green Shoe Option should be
set up, he said.
The Green Shoe Option
named after the company that
rst used the method allows
underwriters to intervene dur-
ing the rst 30 days of a stocks
trading by selling up to 15 per
cent more shares at the initial
listing price in an effort to sta-
bilise the price.
But regulations allowing un-
derwriters to intervene in that
fashion has yet to be drafted by
the Securities and Exchange
Commission of Cambodia,
Hsu added.
Soleil Lamun, deputy direc-
tor of market operations at the
CSX, said the stocks downturn
was unexpected.
It is more surprising to us.
Personally, I expected the price
to stay around the IPO listing,
he said. I didnt expect people
would sell at a loss the shares
they bought during the IPO.
Svay Hay, CEO of Acleda
Securities, was more circum-
spect, saying GTIs day-one de-
cline was marginal and did not
justify the rapid employment
of stabilisation measures.
It is a very small decline.
Investors in GTI are looking
at the stock long term, while
newcomers will likely wait for
a few days to see where the
price stabilises naturally be-
fore buying in, he said.
The CSX, like most exchang-
es, has price stabilisation
measures in place limiting
uctuations on the rst day of
trading to as low as 90 per cent
of the initial listing price, and
as high as 150 per cent. Fluc-
tuations are limited to a mere
5 per cent up and down every
day after the rst session.
Ofcials from the Ministry of
Economy and Finance, the CSX
and GTI gathered at the local
bourse this morning to launch
the new listing. Hean Sahib,
chairman of the CSX and sec-
retary of state for the ministry,
was hopeful that more private-
ly owned companies would
follow GTIs example and con-
sider listing publicly.
With this new listing of GTI, I
hope to see the number of listed
companies to keep increasing
in the near future, he said.
Markets
9
Business
New listing declines on day 1
Hean Sahib speaks at the CSX ofce in Phnom Penh yesterday during the launch of Cambodias second IPO.
HONG MENEA
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
PRASAC MFI Ltd., is a micronance institution, which is providing
sustainable nancial services such as loan, deposits, and other nancial
products for 25 provinces and city of Cambodia with the very strong network
of more than 170 branches. PRASAC is currently seeking for the qualied
Cambodian candidates to ll the position as below:
Interested and qualied applicants should submit a resume, a cover letter
with currently photo (4x6), a copy of certicates, letter of recommendation,
national identity card, birth letter and family book to PRASAC MFI Ltd.,
Head Ofce, Phnom Penh at Building 212, Street 271, Toultompong 2,
Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For more details information,
please feel free to contact us via telephone: 023 220 102, website:
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candidates will be notied and contacted for conducting an interview.
Position: VP and General Adminis-
tration Manager, 1 Position
Report to: Chi ef Operati on
Ofcer and CEO
Job Location: Head Ofce,
Phnom Penh
Deadline: June 30th, 2014
at 4:00 PM
Main Duties and Responsibilities KeySelectionCriteriaandQualification
To lead and monitor the
Administration Department
more effectively and efciently
to meet the PRASACs
businesses and strategies
To manage and train for
Administration Operations-
xed assets, logistic, stock,
supply chain, procurement and
maintenance managements
To review and improve policies,
procedures and guidelines for
Administration Department
To ensure accurate supply-
chain, stock, logistic,
procurement, maintenance and
document managements
To monitor and follow up all
repairing and maintenance all
ofce equipments
To control, maintain, follow
up and report on change of
status for all xed assets and
inventories
To manage ofces management
including rental, renovation,
installation security equipment,
connection activities., etc
To perform other tasks as
assigned by COO
Graduated Master Degree
of Business Administration
in Public Administration /
HRM/Management/
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elds
Minimum ten years working
experience in management
level with Administration,
Procurement, Logistics
Managements and ofce
management
Good integrity, positive
attitude, helpful, high
commitment, competence
and motivation
Fluent in English
Good Computer literacy
(Ms. Ofce).
Chan Muyhong
THE Ministry of Commerce
has vowed to uncover more
markets for Cambodian prod-
ucts to help buffer against
price uctuations caused by
the Kingdoms dependency on
neighboring countries.
In a response to concerns
raised on social media, Sun
Chanthol, the Minister of Com-
merce wrote on the ministrys
ofcial Facebook page on Sat-
urday that the government is
taking the issue seriously.
He wrote that he has made of-
cial visits to countries, includ-
ing Japan, Belarus, Myanmar,
Philippines, France and Canada
to discuss buying and investing
in Cambodian products, with a
focus on agriculture.
We also plan to discuss
with China, Hong Kong, Ma-
laysia, Korea, the Middle-East
and Africa for direct export
of our local products with-
out having to go through a
middle man or through our
neighboring countries such
as Vietnam and Thailand, he
detailed on Facebook.
This effort is the beginning
of market diversication,
which will add more value for
our farmers as well as bring
their living standard to an-
other level.
But farmers have heard it all
before, Meas Leun, a corn farm-
er in Pailin province, charged.
Farmers are tired of diplo-
matic words of the authorities,
who have many times prom-
ised to nd markets for the
harvest, he said. They should
start doing it rather than to say
that they will.
Farmers in Pailin had formed
their won community to nd
markets for themslves, Leun
added.
Him Khortieth, the com-
munications ofcer from the
Cambodia Center for Study and
Development in Agriculture
(CEDAC) said yesterday that a
lack of policy and processing
facilities was hindering the ag-
riculture sector.
Uncertain market remains
an obstacle for farmers. The
price of our agricultural prod-
ucts goes down when there
is less demand in Thailand or
Vietnam, he said.
Ken Ratha, spokesman from
the Ministry of Commerce, said
the plan of market diversica-
tion is to initially focus on Cam-
bodias top products including
rice, cassava, corn, sesame, silk,
pepper and soy bean.
Govt continues to
seek new markets
Covering tabs
Starbucks to
deliver fees
for degrees
S
TARBUCKS Corp, will
now begin picking up
most of the college tab
for its employees.
Starbucks workers who
work at least 20 hours a week
and enroll in Arizona State
Universitys online bachelors
degree will get $6,500, about
half of their tuition, for the
rst two years and full tuition
for the nal two, the company
said in an emailed statement.
Weve always known that
our partners work hard every
day, Cliff Burrows, president
of Starbucks Americas re-
gion, said in a phone inter-
view. This is the best way we
can serve them.
In the new program, Star-
bucks workers can choose
from about 40 programs,
which include engineering,
nursing and business.
Company employees wor-
king in support centres and
roasting facilities, as well as
for the Teavana, La Boulange
and Evolution Fresh brands
can participate. Workers wont
be required to stay at Star-
bucks for a specified period
after being reimbursed for
tuition. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
Medtronic swoops for
Covidien in $43B deal
Michelle Fay Cortez
and David Welch
M
EDTRONIC Inc,
the second-
largest maker of
medical devices,
agreed to buy Covidien Plc for
$42.9 billion in cash and stock
as it transforms into a broader-
based company bolstered by
new tax advantages.
Medtronic will pay the
equivalent of $93.22 for each
share of Dublin-based Covidi-
en, or about 29 per cent more
than Covidiens New York clos-
ing price of $72.02 on June 13,
the companies said on Sunday
in a statement. The combined
company, called Medtronic
Plc, will be based for tax pur-
poses in Ireland.
The deal is the largest ever
for Medtronic. It gives the
Minneapolis-based company
access to Covidiens portfolio
of hospital supplies, from sur-
gical staplers to ventilators,
and adds size and scope that
may allow it to better com-
pete with Johnson & Johnson
(JNJ), the largest medical de-
vice company. At the same
time, use of Covidiens Irish
address could free almost
$14 billion in cash Medtronic
now holds overseas as a way
to avoid being taxed on it un-
der US laws.
The primary motivation is
strategic and operational
alignment, said Medtronic
CEO Omar Ishrak in an in-
terview on Sunday. It will
drive better value for patients
and customers around the
world.
Medtronics tax rate will
remain about the same, even
after the company redomi-
ciles in Dublin, Ishrak said.
The advantage gained in the
deal is that Medtronic will
be able to better use prots it
made outside of the US, which
it plans to invest back into the
industry, according to Ishrak.
This is important to stimu-
late the medical-technology
industry in the US, Ishrak
said. We have made a com-
mitment we will deploy at
least $10 billion over the next
decade. BLOOMBERG
A picture of Arianespaces Ariane 5 on its 68th ight from French Gui-
ana. Aerospace giant Airbus Group and French engine-maker Safran
announced a joint venture yesterday on space launchers, as Europe
looks to compete with rising US rival SpaceX. The two companies said
in a statement they would team up on production of Ariane rockets for
Arianespace, which is facing intense competition from low-cost SpaceX
in sending up communications satellites. AFP / ARIANSPACE
Reaching for the stars
STICK TOGETHER, MOVE AWAY
T
HE acquisition of Covidien by Medtronic comes at the
confluence of two trends sweeping health care. Device
companies are banding together to gain leverage and
prominence on hospitals supplier lists, as medical centres cut
costs by concentrating their purchases. At the same time,
companies are looking to move outside the US to allow more
use of cash held in overseas operations. Medtronic joins some
44 American companies that have reincorporated abroad or
struck plans to do so, including 14 in a recent wave that began
in 2012. Earlier this year, Pfizer Inc, the largest US drugmaker,
proposed acquiring London-based AstraZeneca Plc in part to
get a UK address. A move that might have cut its tax bills by $1
billion a year. Medtronic ranks 14th on a list of US companies
with cash held in overseas operations, according to Goldman
Sachs. The report said Medtronic had $13.5 billion in cash
abroad, representing most of its cash reserves. BLOOMBERG
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H
ES known as Bitcoin Je-
sus in the world of cyber-
currencies. Though he
cant promise you heaven,
he is offering a haven: a condo in the
Caribbean that comes with a new
passport and almost zero taxes.
Meet Roger Ver, ex-US citizen, ex-
convict, millionaire investor, self-
described libertarian and founder of
passportsforbitcoin.com. Ver is offer-
ing the right to live in the Federation
of St Kitts and Nevis, two sun-kissed
islands a three-hour ight from Mi-
ami. St Kitts has run an invest-and-
become-a-citizen program since
1984. Plunk down $400,000 for real
estate and you get a passport that al-
lows visa-free travel to 120 countries.
There are no taxes on personal in-
come or capital gains and the islands
restrictive disclosure laws offer shel-
ter from scrutiny, according to the
Tax Justice Network, a think tank that
studies secrecy jurisdictions.
Vers website, in English, Russian
and Chinese, offers a way to pur-
chase a piece of that paradise with
bitcoins. He says it will help people
who are hemmed in by government
restrictions on cash transactions.
Ver got rich investing in bitcoin ear-
ly and has become a regular speaker
at industry conferences.
Bitcoin was invented in 2008 as a
currency that could be used without
government oversight. Thats drawn
people who want to trade illicit goods
like drugs and guns. Its also gained
support from libertarians
St Kitts government is much
more libertarian compared with the
US, Ver said. Its not even close. So
all these early bitcoin adopters, of
course if they have the means, theyd
rather be a citizen of St Kitts.
However they pay to get in, people
usually seek out countries like St
Kitts so they can evade taxes, says
John Christensen, director of the Tax
Justice Network. The US Treasury
Department last month said the is-
lands passports are being used to
facilitate nancial crime.
To be blunt, we talk about places
like St Kitts as places where you go to
escape from responsibilities, Chris-
tensen, an expert on tax havens, said
by phone from London. St Kitts
sells secrecy on the international
market and, unsurprisingly, at-
tracts all types of dirty money.
Nonetheless, no residency or visit
is needed, just that $400,000 invest-
ment re-sellable after ve years or
a nonrefundable $250,000 dona-
tion to the country, according to St
Kittss ofcial website.
Still, wealthy Chinese have a tough
time buying in because government
limits on money transfers stop them
from sending more than $50,000
worth of cash overseas each year.
The processing agent in St Kitts
told me he feels bad for all of his Chi-
nese clients, Ver said. They have
to reach out to all different friends
and relatives and get them to all
send the money in drips and drabs.
Bitcoin solves all of that.
Thats because it was designed
to be anonymous. While an online
public ledger stores every single bit-
coin transaction, the entries dont
include the names and addresses
required for bank accounts.
The US lost its allure for Ver after he
was given 10 months in federal pris-
on after selling about 6 kilograms of
explosives without a licence on eBay.
The product, Pest Control Report
2000, was basically a recracker to
scare birds away in elds, Ver says.
I didnt do anything wrong. I didnt
hurt anybody. I had nothing but hap-
py customers and the US govern-
ment locked me in a cage because
of that, he said.
Ver moved to Tokyo after nishing
probation in 2006. He got his St Kitts
passport on February 13, 2014, and
abandoned his US citizenship.
One of the people who got a dose
of Vers sermons was the agent who
processed his application for citi-
zenship, Paul Bilzerian. Bilzerian is a
former corporate raider who moved
to St Kitts after long battles with the
US Securities and Exchange Com-
mission and two stints in prison for
securities fraud and conspiracy to
defraud the government of millions.
The two men bonded over the be-
lief theyd been targeted by US au-
thorities, according to Ver. Togeth-
er, they started passportsforbitcoin.
com in April, Ver said.
I value freedom more than almost
anything else and a second or third
passport provides me insurance just
in case the US government decides
to value security over freedom, Bilz-
erians son writes on the passport
website. BLOOMBERG
Bitcoin Jesus offers paradise
Roger Ver, founder of passportsforbitcoin.com, holds his passport as he poses for a
photograph in Tokyo on June 4. In return for bitcoins, Ver is offering citizenship to a
country with virtually no tax and a Caribbean condo. BLOOMBERG
David Smith
S
USPECTED Islamist mili-
tants have killed at least 48
people near a popular tourist
resort in Kenya, ofcials said
yesterday, the bloodiest attack in
the country since the Westgate mall
siege in Nairobi.
Among the dead were men watch-
ing a football World Cup match at a
hotel in the coastal town of Mpeke-
toni, close to the island of Lamu. Gun-
men pulled them aside and ordered
women to watch as they killed them, a
police commander said. The assailants
reportedly told the women that this is
what Kenyan troops are doing to So-
mali men in neighbouring Somalia.
The Islamist group al-Shabaab has
previously vowed to carry out ter-
ror attacks to avenge Kenyas military
presence in Somalia. At least 67 people
were killed last September when four
al-Shabaab gunmen attacked the
Westgate mall in the capital.
On Sunday evening, around 50 heav-
ily armed gunmen drove into Mpeke-
toni, meeting little immediate resis-
tance from security forces. Witnesses
said the attackers hijacked a van and
used it to attack various locations
across the town.
They said the gunmen, whose faces
were covered, threw explosives into
the local police station before entering
and stealing weapons. The attackers
went on to spray the streets with bul-
lets, shooting civilians at random.
Benson Maisori, district deputy
commissioner, said several buildings
in the town, about 60 miles from the
border with Somalia, were burned
down including hotels, restaurants,
banks and government ofces.
There were around 50 attackers,
heavily armed in three vehicles, and
they were ying the Shabaab ag, he
said. They were shouting in Somali
and shouting Allahu Akbar [God is
Greatest].
Mpeketoni resident John Waweru,
28, said two of his brothers died in the
raid. The attackers came in around
9pm, he said. I heard them shouting
in Somali as they red around. I lost
two of my brothers and I escaped. I
ran and locked myself up in a house.
Fierce gun battles raged until after
midnight, but by dawn on Monday
Mpeketoni was reportedly calm, with
security forces saying they were in pur-
suit of the attackers and authorities re-
covering the dead.
Major Emmanuel Chirchir, a Ke-
nyan army spokesman, described
how the gunmen stormed the town,
overwhelming local police ofcers and
ring from vehicles, shooting people
around town. Chirchir said the attack-
ers were likely to be al-Shabaab, al-
though there was no immediate claim
of responsibility from the group itself.
Police and the Kenyan Red Cross
put the death toll at 48. Residents in
villages surrounding the town also
reporting that the gunmen attacked
settlements as they pulled out after
ghting in Mpeketoni.
Mohammed Hassan, a resident of
Kibaoni, a small settlement three
miles away, said: There are six bod-
ies here, a man and a child in their
house, four lying on the road.
Military surveillance planes were
launched soon after the attack began.
Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo
said: Our ofcers are still combing
the area. It is an atrocity we would not
want to see repeated anywhere else.
We suspect the involvement of al-
Shabaab in this attack. We are appeal-
ing for calm as we do our best in the
search for the attackers. It is a very un-
fortunate incident.
Kenyan troops crossed into south-
ern Somalia in 2011 to ght al-Sha-
baab, later joining the now 22,000-
strong African Union force battling
the militants, who have declared loy-
alty to al-Qaeda.
Since then a series of reprisal ter-
rorist attacks have damaged Kenyas
crucial tourist industry. Hundreds of
UK holidaymakers were evacuated last
month from beach resorts near the Ke-
nyan city of Mombasa following new
warnings from the Foreign Ofce.
Mpeketoni, a trading centre on the
main coastal road, lies on the main-
land 20 miles south-west of Lamu
island, a tourist favourite whose an-
cient architecture is listed as a UNES-
CO World Heritage site.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility
last month for killing two Kenyan sol-
diers in the same district as Sundays
attack, though further north and closer
to the lawless border zone with Soma-
lia. An al-Shabaab senior commander,
Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, also recently
released radio broadcasts urging ght-
ers to strike Kenya. THE GUARDIAN
secret nuclear talks with Iran
in 2013, is due in the Austrian
capital, along with Iranian
foreign minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif.
The main order of business
is a comprehensive nuclear
deal, which is supposed to be
completed by 20 July, but
sweeping gains by ISIS in
northern Iraq have made the
insurgency an urgent priority
for Washington and Tehran.
Hassan Rouhani, the Ira-
nian president, suggested on
Saturday that Iran might
work with the US to stop ISIS,
which continues to make
military gains.
Whatever dialogue may or
may not be taking place [with
Iran] would take place on the
sideline or outside the main-
stream of the nuclear talks,
John Kerry, the US secretary
of state, said on Saturday in
London. We dont want that
linked and mixed.
Fighting in Tal Afar began on
Sunday, with Iraqi government
officials saying that ISIS fight-
ers were firing rockets seized
from military arms depots in
the Mosul area.
They said the local garrison
suffered heavy casualties and
the main hospital was unable
to cope with the wounded.
Tal Afars capture came hours
after Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi
prime minister, vowed to
retake every inch of territory
seized by the militants.
We will march and liberate
every inch they defaced, from
the countrys northernmost to
the southernmost point,
Maliki told volunteers joining
up to fight the insurgents.
The sweeping unrest has
prompted a partial diplomatic
evacuation from Baghdad,
confirmed thus far by the
United States and Australia.
Washington also announced
that its sprawling embassy
which sits in Baghdads heav-
ily-fortified Green Zone
would receive even more
security.
State Department spokes-
woman Jen Psaki said some
embassy staff would be tem-
porarily relocated to US con-
sulates in the southern city of
Basra, and the northern Kurd-
ish regional capital of Arbil,
both of which have been insu-
lated from the latest unrest.
Others would be flown to the
embassy in Amman, she said,
citing ongoing instability.
Washington has also
deployed an aircraft carrier
group to the Gulf as US Presi-
dent Barack Obama said he
was weighing all options on
how to support the Iraqi gov-
ernment.
But he has ruled out a return
to Iraq for US soldiers, who
left the country at the end of
2011 after a bloody and costly
intervention launched in
2003. THE GUARDIAN/AFP
World
Israel eyes
crushing
response
to Hamas
ISRAEL will seek to deal a
crushing blow to Hamass West
Bank infrastructure following
the kidnapping of three Israeli
teenagers, army radio reported
yesterday.
Plans to move against the
Islamist movement were dis-
cussed at a meeting of the secu-
rity cabinet convened by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
at which ministers discussed
punitive steps against Hamas
which Israel has blamed for the
kidnapping of three teenagers,
media reports said.
Following the meeting, polit-
ical sources said Israel would
attempt, in the coming hours
and days, to try and overthrow
Hamas infrastructure in the
West Bank, the radios political
correspondent reported.
There was no immediate
comment from Netanyahus
office. Israel is in the throes of
a massive manhunt to find the
three youths who disappeared
on Thursday evening from a
hitchhiking stop in the south-
ern West Bank.
So far, more than 150 Pales-
tinians have been arrested,
among them senior Hamas
leaders and MPs as well as
activists, including the Pales-
tinian parliaments speaker,
Aziz Dweik.
But opposition leader Isaac
Herzog said the Palestinians
had been helping efforts to find
the missing teens, warning that
any major move could escalate
the situation in the already
tense West Bank.
It is clear now that the secu-
rity coordination and Palestin-
ian efforts to help locate the
children are very important,
he told army radio.
Reports published earlier
yesterday by Walla news web-
site and Haaretz online said
ministers would look into the
possibility of banishing senior
Hamas members to Gaza.
One of the steps being con-
sidered is the possibility of
expelling senior Hamas mem-
bers from the West Bank to the
Gaza Strip as well as destroying
their homes, Walla said.
A senior official quoted by
Haaretz said the Justice Minis-
try had on Sunday looked into
the legalities of expelling
Hamas members to Gaza.
The meeting was attended by
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni,
Attorney General Yehuda Wein-
stein and other ministry offi-
cials, it said. The discussion
was to explore whether such
steps were in line with interna-
tional law and would stand up
to challenges in the High
Court, Haaretz said, indicating
no decision had been taken.
As well as deportation to
Gaza and demolishing senior
Hamas members homes, Isra-
el was also weighing sanctions
against Hamas prisoners in
Israel jails, it said. AFP
Charred vehicles sit outside a police station in Mpeketoni yesterday, in Lamu county along the Kenyan coast, after some 50 heavily
armed gunmen attacked the town near the coastal island and popular tourist resort of lamu the night before. AFP
Gunmen kill at least 48 in Kenya
US, Iran to hold Iraq talks as another city falls
An image uploaded on Saturday to jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin
allegedly shows ISIS militants executing Iraqi security forces. AFP
World
Britain brings in forced
marriage legislation
BRITISH legislation banning
forced marriage came into
effect yesterday, with those
found guilty of the largely hidden
practice facing up to seven years
in prison. The law applies not
only within Britain but also
makes it a criminal offence to
force a British national into a
marriage abroad, as many
youngsters are flown out to
weddings in their ancestral
homelands, particularly in
Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Campaigners welcomed the
new laws as a huge step
forward, while the government
hopes they will protect potential
victims. AFP
President re-elected in

boost for FARC talks
COLOMBIANS re-elected
President Juan Manuel Santos
on Sunday in a cliffhanger seen
as a referendum on peace talks
with FARC guerrillas. The
centre-right Santos registered
50.95 per cent of the vote,
compared with 45 per cent for
the more conservative Oscar
Ivan Zuluaga, according to the
electoral board. Another 4.03
per cent were blank protest
votes. Santos, 62, who governs
in a coalition with some leftist
parties, has led efforts to reach
a peace deal the leftist
Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia. In contrast, Zuluaga
called for stricter conditions as
a prerequisite to any deal. AFP
Religious rioting leaves
three dead in Sri Lanka
SRI Lanka extended curfews in
a popular tourist region
yesterday after a rampaging
Buddhist mob killed three
Muslims and burned dozens of
homes and shops, the latest
outbreak of religious violence on
the island. Community leaders
accused authorities of doing
little to prevent Sunday nights
violence, with the most senior
Muslim member of President
Mahinda Rajapakses
government threatening to
resign at the decision to allow
militant Buddhists to rally in the
flashpoint region. Three deaths
have occurred and 78 people
have been seriously wounded in
the mob attacks . . . Places of
Muslim religious worship have
also been attacked with total
impunity, Justice Minister Rauf
Hakeem said as he toured the
damage. AFP
Pakistan acts against militants
P
AKISTANI Taliban
yesterday warned
foreign rms to
leave the country
and vowed retaliatory strikes
against the government af-
ter tanks, ground troops
and jets were deployed in a
long-awaited offensive in a
troubled tribal district.
The warning came as Paki-
stans major cities braced for
revenge attacks by ramping
up security at key installa-
tions and ordering soldiers to
patrol the streets, while hospi-
tals in the northwest prepared
for incoming casualties.
The offensive on North Wa-
ziristan, a stronghold of Tali-
ban and al-Qaeda militants,
was launched a week after a
brazen insurgent attack on
Pakistans main airport in Ka-
rachi which left dozens dead
and marked the end of a trou-
bled peace process.
Pakistans Western allies,
particularly the US, have long
demanded an operation in the
mountainous territory to ush
out groups like the Haqqani
network, which use the area to
target NATO troops in neigh-
bouring Afghanistan.
However, authorities had
held back from a nal push
possibly fearful of anger-
ing pro-Pakistan warlords
and of opening up too many
fronts in their decade-long
battle against homegrown
Islamist insurgents.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki-
stans main spokesman, Sha-
hidullah Shahid, warned na-
tions to stop doing business
with the government and sup-
porting their apostate army.
We warn all foreign inves-
tors, airlines and multina-
tional corporations that they
should immediately suspend
their ongoing matters with
Pakistan and prepare to leave
Pakistan, otherwise they will
be responsible for their own
loss, he said.
We hold Nawaz Sharifs
government and the Punjabi
establishment responsible for
the loss of tribal Muslims life
and property as a result of this
operation, he added, vowing
to burn your palaces in Is-
lamabad and Lahore.
The warning came as major
cities beefed up their security,
with troops seen patrolling the
streets of Islamabad, Lahore
and Karachi.
The security of the capital
was already on alert, but a
new alert has been issued,
an Islamabad police spokes-
man said.
Police in Pakistans econom-
ic hub Karachi have declared
a red alert and cancelled
leave for all 27,000 personnel,
spokesman Atiq Shaikh said.
And in northwestern Khy-
ber-Pakhtunkhwa province,
which borders the tribal zone,
the government has declared
a state of emergency in all
hospitals and asked them to
prepare for incoming casual-
ties, provincial health minister
Shahram Khan Tarakai said.
Pakistani air force jets have
been pounding suspected
militant hideouts in the re-
gion since Sunday and have
been joined by tanks and in-
fantry engaging in heavy ar-
tillery strikes.
A reporter in the regions
main town of Miranshah said
tanks were occupying the ba-
zaar as troops red intermit-
tently in the air to warn people
not to leave their homes.
More than 2,000 troops
could be seen at new posts set
up in the mountains. Pakistan
already had troops stationed
in the tribal district, but these
were reinforced in the days
leading up to the offensive.
The death toll from the of-
fensive so far stands at 177,
according to the military, the
majority through airstrikes
but some through sniper re.
The gure could not be inde-
pendently veried.
In the town of Bannu 10
kilometres east of North Wa-
zirstan, hundreds of military
trucks with machine guns
installed on top were on their
way towards the ghting
zone, as were oil tankers and
a military eld hospital.
At the Kashoo Bridge area,
some 25 kilometres northeast
of Bannu, tractors were busy
levelling the ground to set
up a camp for internally dis-
placed people (IDPs).
Arshad Khan, director-gen-
eral of the Fata Disaster Man-
agement Authority, said: We
have made arrangements
to accommodate IDPs in
two camps.
Some 62,000 people have
ed the region so far into oth-
er parts of Pakistan according
to ofcial data, with hun-
dreds of thousands eventu-
ally expected. AFP
Pakistani soldiers heading towards North Waziristan stop by a road in
Bannu district yesterday. AFP
Russia cuts Ukraines gas after talks fail
Abdullah hits out at Afghan election ofcials for fraud
RUSSIA cut the flow of gas to Ukraine
yesterday after last-ditch talks failed to
end a dispute over debts that threatens
to disrupt supplies to Europe for the
third time in a decade.
Ukraine hosted the last-gasp talks
hoping to keep an energy shortage
from compounding the problems of its
new pro-Western leaders.
Kiev was dealt a further blow yester-
day when dozens of Kalashnikov-
wielding pro-Russian rebels seized the
central bank building in the eastern
separatist stronghold city of Donetsk
in a bid to win control over its assets.
Russias state gas giant Gazprom said
it had switched Ukraine to a pre-pay-
ment system at 0600 GMT a move that
effectively halts all shipments because
Kiev has not forwarded any money for
future gas deliveries to Moscow.
We have been informed that gas
deliveries to Ukraine have been reduced
to zero, with only the volumes sent for
transit to European states, Ukrainian
Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan told a
government meeting. Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the supply
halt another stage of Russias aggres-
sion against the Ukrainian state.
Gazprom said it had further notified
Europe of possible gas disruption and
lodged a $4.5 billion lawsuit against
Ukraine with an arbitration court in
Stockholm. Kiev responded by lodging
its own $6 billion suit against Gazprom
with the same Stockholm court to
recover past overpayment for gas.
Analysts said Ukraine had enough
gas in storage to last through the sum-
mer months and that no disruptions
to Europe were likely until the winter
heating season begins.
The third gas war between Russia
and Ukraine since 2006 flared when
Moscow nearly doubled its rates in the
wake of a deadly winter uprising that
pulled Kiev out of the Kremlins his-
toric orbit for the first time.
Ukraine receives half its gas from
Russia and transports 15 per cent of
the fuel consumed in Europe a real-
ity that prompted EU Energy Commis-
sioner Guenther Oettinger to urgently
step in to try to resolve the feud.
Oettinger said problems for Europe
would probably only begin once
Ukraine uses up the gas it had kept in
reserve. The next weeks will not be a
problem, we will receive our gas vol-
umes, Oettinger said in Vienna.
But he added that Europe would
have a problem with a cold winter if
Ukraine ran out of its storage supplies.
The European Commission said Oet-
tinger had offered a compromise deal
that would have seen Ukraine pay $385
per 1,000 cubic metres of gas the price
proposed by Russian President Vladimir
Putin in the winter and see its rate
drop to $300 or a few dollars more
during summer months. The Ukrain-
ian side was ready to accept this, but for
the moment the Russian partners were
not, the European Commission said.
The raid by pro-Russian militias on
the central bank building in Donetsk
threatened to deprive Kiev of effective
control over the economically vital
industrial regions finances.
We have been preparing this for
more than a month, a rebel named
Oleksandr Matyushyn said as five sep-
aratist gunmen stood guard at its main
entrance. We want the tax revenues to
stay here instead of going to Kiev.
Matyushyn said his unit had entered
discussions with local administrators
about transferring control over the local
treasury and tax collection service to the
separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk Peoples Republic. AFP
AFGHAN election authorities
on Sunday strongly denied top
officials were guilty of fraud
after front-running presiden-
tial candidate Abdullah Abdul-
lah unleashed allegations that
could threaten a smooth tran-
sition of power.
Abdullah demanded the
sacking of Zia-ul-Haq Amark-
hail, head of the Independent
Election Commission (IEC)
secretariat, over Amarkhails
alleged attempt to remove
unused ballots from the IEC
headquarters on polling day.
Abdullah also said the IECs
turnout figure of seven million
voters in Saturdays runoff
election was probably false.
But IEC chairman Ahmad
Yousuf Nuristani rejected the
accusations against Amarkhail,
and said the turnout figure
was an early estimate that
might be adjusted.
Abdullahs allegations put
him in direct conflict with
election authorities as count-
ing got under way after the
second-round vote between
him and former World Bank
economist Ashraf Ghani.
The dispute erupted despite
a plea from the UN for the can-
didates to give officials time to
conduct the count and adju-
dicate on fraud complaints.
A successful election is a key
test of the 13-year interna-
tional military and aid effort in
Afghanistan as the bulk of US-
led troops withdraw by the end
of the year.
I strongly reject these alle-
gations, Nuristani said, add-
ing that Amarkhail was stopped
by police when he was oversee-
ing the delivery of extra ballot
papers to polling stations that
had run out. It was a misun-
derstanding between police
and our staff, Nuristani said.
We do not want a crisis for the
people of Afghanistan they
are tired of crises.
Abdullah believes that mas-
sive fraud denied him victory in
the 2009 presidential race, and
has often said that only wide-
spread ballot-rigging could stop
him from winning this time.
Late on Sunday he described
the seven million turnout figure
as questionable.
What we are concerned
about is once again engineered
fraud, he said. The head of
the secretariat was . . . caught
red-handed and we want an
investigation. We want him
removed from his position.
Counting the ballot will take
weeks. The preliminary result
is due on July 2, before the offi-
cial complaints period begins,
and the final result is sched-
uled for July 22.
The two candidates went
through to the runoff after
coming top in the eight-man
first round race on April 5,
when Abdullah secured 45
per cent and Ghani scored
31.6 per cent.
The Electoral Complaints
Commission had registered
about 560 complaints by yes-
terday morning, including
claims against both campaign
teams, IEC staff and the secu-
rity forces. Saturdays election
was hailed a success despite
more than 50 people killed in
separate Taliban strikes on
polling day.
Eleven voters in the western
province of Herat had their
fingers which were dipped in
ink to register their ballot cut
off by insurgents.
The White House praised
voters courage and called the
elections a significant step
forward on Afghanistans dem-
ocratic path. AFP
Afghans sit in a hospital ward after insurgents cut off their ngers
after voting in Herat on Sunday. AFP
Feeble excuse
Ofcial: lead
poisoning
from pencils
A
CHINESE government
official who blamed lead
poisoning in more than
300 children on the possible
chewing of school pencils was
excoriated in state-run media
and ridiculed online yesterday.
Lead levels as high as three
times national standards were
found in the blood of children in
a village in the central province
of Hunan, with the contamina-
tion blamed on pollution from a
local chemical plant, the official
news agency Xinhua reported.
The factory has been closed
down for investigation, Xinhua
said, citing local officials.
But Su Genlin, chief of Dapu
township, told state broad-
caster CCTV that: Kids use
pencils in school and chewing
pencils could also cause the
excessive (lead) levels.
The Peoples Daily blasted
the official yesterday: It is
scientific knowledge that pen-
cils are made from graphite.
Does this officials statement
show ignorance or just disre-
gard for peoples welfare?
Chinese internet users also
mocked the official. How can
such low-IQ cadres appear in
public? asked one. AFP
South Korea returns
five fishermen to North
SOUTH Korea yesterday
returned five North Korean
fishermen rescued last week
from their sinking boat off the
east coast, officials said. The
repatriation took place just
after 4pm (0700 GMT) at the
border truce village of
Panmunjom, the Souths
unification ministry said. The
five were picked up by a South
Korean coast guard vessel on
Friday and requested to be sent
back to the North. South
Koreas policy is to allow the
fishermen to decide whether or
not to return to the North. AFP
Warrant issued to arrest

PNGs prime minister
PAPUA New Guineas anti-
corruption watchdog issued a
warrant yesterday for the arrest
of Prime Minister Peter ONeill,
reports said. The warrant
relates to allegations that
ONeill personally authorised
the illegal payment of millions
of dollars from the government
to law firm Paul Paraka
Lawyers, the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation said.
ONeill has strongly denied the
allegations, saying that a letter
the opposition produced
bearing his signature to order
the payments via the Finance
Ministry was a fraud. ONeill,
elected in 2012, was expected
to be questioned by police later
in the day. AFP
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Three to die for Beijing attack
T
HREE people were
sentenced to death
yesterday over a
suicide car crash in
Beijings Tiananmen Square,
state-run media said, in
Chinas latest move against
militants from restive, mainly
Muslim Xinjiang.
One other person was given
life in prison for the violent
terrorist attack that killed two
tourists last October, said state
broadcaster China Central
Television (CCTV), citing the
Intermediate Peoples Court in
the Xinjiang capital Urumqi.
The three sentenced to death
were convicted of organising
and leading a terrorist group
and endangering public secu-
rity with dangerous methods,
according to the ofcial Xin-
hua news agency.
Four other people were giv-
en prison terms ranging from
ve to 20 years, Xinhua said.
Both it and CCTV identied
several of the accused with
names that sounded Uighur,
the largest ethnic group in the
violence-racked region.
All three people in the car
a man, his wife and his moth-
er died in the attack, which
saw their vehicle plough into
crowds of tourists, killing two
and wounding 40 other people
before bursting into ames,
authorities said at the time.
CCTV showed the eight ac-
cused two of them women
sitting in a vast courtroom
as prosecutors presented the
evidence against them. An
unidentied woman wearing
a headscarf in the audience
wiped tears from her eyes.
For the rst time security
camera video was broadcast
of the attack, showing a white
SUV turning onto a pavement
at high speed and barrelling
into pedestrians, who scat-
tered before it. Prosecutors
also displayed several weap-
ons, including a large sword.
The symbolism of the attack
was unmistakable Tianan-
men Square lies at the centre
of Beijing and is bounded to
the north by the former im-
perial complex known as the
Forbidden City with a giant
portrait of Communist Chinas
founding father Mao Zedong
hanging on its gate.
The incident was one of sev-
eral violent attacks that have
rocked China in recent months,
and which Beijing has blamed
on separatists from Xinjiang.
The far-western region is the
resource-rich homeland of the
countrys mostly Muslim Ui-
ghur minority, and periodically
sees ethnic tensions and dis-
content with the government
burst out into violence.
In March a horric knife as-
sault at a railway station in the
southern city of Kunming left
29 dead and 143 wounded.
Last month 39 people were
killed, along with four attack-
ers, and more than 90 woun-
ded when attackers threw
explosives and ploughed two
off-road vehicles through a
crowd at an Urumqi market.
Exile groups say cultural op-
pression and intrusive secu-
rity measures imposed by the
Chinese government are the
main causes of tension, along
with immigration by Chinas
Han ethnic majority, which
they say has led to decades of
discrimination and economic
inequality.
Beijing says the government
has helped improve living
standards in the region and
developed its economy.
Chinese courts, which are con-
trolled by the ruling Communist
Party and have a near-perfect
conviction rate, frequently im-
pose death sentences for terror-
ism offences. AFP
A screen grab from China Central Television yesterday shows prisoners
in court in Xinjiangs capital over an attack on Tiananmen Square. AFP
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World
Brazilians to fight dengue with app
Justin Davies

W
HILE World Cup refer-
ees nally have goal-line
technology to prevent
mistakes, doctors in Bra-
zil will soon have their own computer
gizmo to contain dengue outbreaks.
In the tropical northeastern city of
Natal, a new smartphone application
could allow residents to alert authori-
ties about the location of concentra-
tions of mosquitos and cases of den-
gue with the touch of a nger.
The app was developed by univer-
sity researcher Ricardo Valentim in
collaboration with epidemiologist Ion
de Andrade, who works for the Natal
city council.
If someone identies dengue, they
pinpoint it on the [applications] map
and that allows us to see where it is de-
veloping and to react immediately to
stop it spreading, Andrade said.
The Dengue Observatory app is in
beta mode for now but is expected
to come online this month. Once up
and running, it will allow authorities
to know exactly where to act.
If its mosquitoes, we can locate
and treat the water source. If a sus-
pected case is conrmed, we can treat
the victim, Andrade said.
There is no cure for the mosquito-
borne disease.
Brazil has been hit harder than any
other country this century, with seven
million cases reported since 2000, in-
cluding 800 fatalities in the past ve
years.
In the Sao Paulo state city of Campi-
nas, where Portugals team and star
Cristiano Ronaldo are based, three
women, aged 27, 69 and 81, died of
dengue this year. The World Cups
northeastern host cities of Natal, Rec-
ife and Fortaleza were agged as dan-
ger zones in a paper published by Eu-
ropean and Brazilian scientists in The
Lancet Infectious Diseases last month.
Natal has recorded 3,000 cases this
year, and the city has endured torren-
tial rain since the World Cup started
on Thursday.
Sitting at the local hospital, Joana
was waiting to undergo a blood analy-
sis. I have a sore head, my joints are
sore and Im feverish. On Sunday, I had
pain in my eyes, she complained.
Although all are symptoms of den-
gue, she may be suffering from a sim-
ple virus.
Weve seen several cases of dengue
recently, but were nowhere near epi-
demic levels, said local doctor Mario
Toscano.
The poorer neighbourhoods of Na-
tal often do not have ready access to
running water, never mind computers
or telephones with mobile applica-
tions. So in some of the citys favelas,
where the children run barefoot and
waste water runs in open gutters, the
risk of dengue is potentially greater.
This is exactly the kind of place that
would attract mosquitos, said Aberd-
al Varela Da Fe, pointing at a concrete
bath of stagnant water used by several
families for cooking and washing in
their tiny, one-room concrete shacks.
In stagnant water, female mosquitos
can lay eggs which grow into the lar-
vae which can then become disease-
carrying mosquitoes.
After visiting another house near-
by, Varela Da Fe, one of 380 health
inspectors employed by the city to
control dengue, received better
news.
Your house is very well kept, he
told the elderly occupant Iivanilda
Firmino. All the water receptacles
are covered. Firmino has reason to
be very vigilant. Im really careful,
because my son has had dengue four
times already, she said.
With hundreds of thousands of for-
eign visitors travelling across Brazil
until the World Cup nal on July 13,
authorities are being careful.
Theres always a risk, but this year
its not so big, said Alessandre de
Medeiros Tavares, the chief doctor in
Natal city councils dengue task force.
Thanks to our work on the ground,
weve had less cases. But if we do have
more, we have a World Cup plan
ready to go into action.
But according to our analyses, it is
likely we wont have to. AFP
Aberdal Varela Da Fe, a Natal municipality agent, on Sunday tests areas infested with mosquitoes to prevent dengue fever from
spreading. AFP
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WO months ago, a 23-year-
old domestic worker from a
little-known Indonesian city
was named one of Time mag-
azines 100 Most Influential People.
Erwiana Sulistyaningsih was recog-
nised alongside presidents and pop-
stars for what she didnt do Erwiana
didnt stay silent.
Yesterday we commemorated
Domestic Workers Day, and at the
International Labour Organization we
reflected on the contributions of
women like Erwiana. Since she
returned from Hong Kong to her
home in Indonesia, Erwiana has been
campaigning for the rights of domes-
tic workers. During her eight months
on the job in Hong Kong, Erwiana
was violently abused by her employer,
and when her injuries prevented her
from continuing to work, she was
sent home with just $9 in her pocket.
Erwiana began campaigning for
domestic workers just like her, many
of them migrant women and most of
them still vulnerable in their work-
places across the globe. There are
more than 20 million domestic work-
ers in the Asia-Pacific region alone
thats the same as the population of
Sri Lanka. But because these workers
are often hidden in private homes in
workplaces that remain unregulated
they are especially vulnerable to
abuse. In many countries, domestic
workers arent protected by the gener-
al labour law and are excluded from
receiving the minimum wage. On
average, domestic workers earn less
than half of the average wage; some
earn less than a fifth.
Despite the risks, domestic work is
a fast-growing sector. There are 19
million more domestic workers today
than there were in the mid-1990s
thats a 30 per cent increase in less
than 20 years. Over 80 per cent of
these workers are women.
Cambodian women migrate to
neighbouring Thailand and other
countries in the region for domestic
work. Currently, the royal government
of Cambodia is negotiating reopening
channels for domestic workers to
migrate to Malaysia, and a pilot pro-
gram sending domestic workers to
Singapore is ongoing. A memoran-
dum of understanding (MoU)
between the governments of Cambo-
dia and Malaysia is being developed.
The world needs these women.
Migrant domestic workers contrib-
ute significantly to their home com-
munities, sending remittances that
are regularly spent on the education
and health needs of their family and
that increase the GDP and develop-
ment potential of their countries.
Domestic workers enable members
of their employers households to
work by reducing the time needed
for cleaning, cooking, shopping and
family tasks.
We need to realise the benefits that
domestic work and migration for
domestic work can offer, and this
can only be achieved if these women
are in safe and profitable work. A
binding Protocol on Forced Labour
was passed just days ago at the Inter-
national Labour Conference. It
includes new provisions that aim to
increase compensation to victims of
forced labour. The protocol recognis-
es that profits should rightfully go to
the workers and their families
instead of lining the pockets of
recruitment companies that charge
excessive or fraudulent fees, or to
exploitative employers who profit
from forced labour.
The ILO recently estimated that
over $8 billion in profits is made each
year from domestic workers in forced
labour. This is in part because many
people still see domestic work as a
womans unpaid familial duty, or as a
job for a lower class or caste of wom-
en, instead of as productive work for
wages like any other.
This misconception has slowed the
process of recognising domestic
workers rights, in international law
and in our own homes. On June 16,
2011, the first convention recognising
the rights of domestic workers was
adopted. Today, we commemorate
that moment when the international
community finally and positively stat-
ed that domestic work is work.
So far, 14 countries have agreed to
enshrine basic rights for domestic
workers by ratifying ILO Convention
No 189. On the anniversary of its
adoption, I call on all governments to
consider ratification of the conven-
tion and inclusion of domestic work-
ers in the general protections provid-
ed by the labour law. I urge that the
MoU being developed between the
Malaysian and Cambodia govern-
ments reflect the rights enshrined in
Convention No 189.
You dont need to wait for your gov-
ernment to act to improve the lives of
domestic workers. If you employ a
domestic worker, have a conversation
with her about ways to implement
the convention in your own home.
Recognise her right to a full day of rest
each week, reasonable working hours
and fair wages in line with the mini-
mum wage. Refuse to employ chil-
dren under the minimum age for
work and allow young workers to
combine work and school. Encourage
your domestic worker to join a net-
work or association of domestic
workers. Provide holiday and sick pay,
freedom of movement and payment
in cash. Respect your domestic work-
ers right to privacy and make sure
she has a lockable bedroom if she
lives in your home.
I admire Erwianas courage. She
stood up and fought for her rights
and dignity as a human being, and for
the rights of other domestic workers
like her. Erwiana shouldnt stand
alone. Stand with her by protecting
the rights of domestic workers in your
home and your community. Call on
your government to ratify the con-
vention and ensure that women have
safe and profitable access to these
much-needed jobs. If we dont
acknowledge domestic workers as the
valuable members of society that they
are and protect them fully under the
law, how many more cases like
Erwianas will there be?
Comment
Yoshiteru Uramoto
Protecting domestic workers
Yoshiteru Uramoto is the ILO regional
director for Asia and the Pacic.
Domestic workers hold placards as union leader Vorn Pov speaks in front of the Ministry of Labour in Phnom Penh yesterday during a
rally to mark Domestic Workers Day and to call for better working conditions. HENG CHIVOAN
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In brief
Injury puts Star Wars
star off set for 8 weeks
HARRISON Ford could miss up
to eight weeks of filming after
injuring his ankle on the set of
Star Wars: Episode VII. The
Daily Mirror reports that Ford,
who reprises his iconic role as
space smuggler Han Solo in
the new instalment of the
classic space opera saga, is
expected to leave hospital soon.
He was reportedly hurt by a
door of the Millennium Falcon
during an on-set accident on
Thursday at Pinewood Studios
near London. A publicist for the
film told Sky News they were
hoping to announce some
good news soon, while a
spokesman for Fords wife,
Calista Flockhart, told the Daily
Telegraph she was flying out to
the UK to be with her husband.
In the meantime, producers are
said to be rescheduling as
much of JJ Abramss film as
possible to allow the 71-year-
old actor time to recuperate.
THEGUARDIAN
US top 40 DJ Casey
Kasem dies at age 82
CASEY Kasem, an American
disc jockey and radio
personality who hosted top 40
countdown shows broadcast
across the country for nearly 40
years, died on Sunday. He was
82. Kasem also the distinctive
voice of Shaggy in the television
hit cartoon Scooby-Doo
began his popular American
Top 40 radio broadcast in 1970,
counting down Billboard
magazines Hot 100 chart of
top hits. Stations across the
country quickly picked up the
up-beat show, in which top
hits were played alongside
song dedications, anecdotes
and biographical information
about artists. Kasem died in
Gig Harbor, Washington
state, publicist Danny
Deraney said. He suffered
from Lewy body dementia,
which causes a decline in
mental capabilities. AFP
World Cup soundtrack
features usual suspects
THE World Cup has arrived,
and with it an accompanying
official album. This years
offering, One Love, One
Rhythm, features the usual
suspects (Ricky Martin, Pitbull,
Shakira) as well as a handful
of international artists
including those hailing from
the host country of Brazil such
as Sergio Mendes, Arlindo
Cruz, Alexandre Pires and
Bebel Gilberto. The
compilation contains 15 new
tracks (17 on the deluxe
edition), three of which are the
tournaments official song,
anthem and mascot song.
BANGKOK POST
French artist sketches local
life with a stroke of whimsy
Emily Wight
E
VOCATIVE sketches of
Cambodian street life,
by a French graphic
artist and her Phnom
Penh students will go on display
tonight at the Institut Francais.
Sixteen students from the
Royal University of Fine Arts
(RUFA) spent a week develop-
ing their drawing skills with 46-
year-old Virginie Broquet for the
exhibition, Carnets de voyage/
Suzy Wong.
The artist, who specialises
in whimsical line drawings of
city scenes, took the students
on an artistic tour of the capi-
tal and taught them to sketch
with a pen.
Its a very important expe-
rience for both the students
and me because theyve never
drawn like that in the street,
whereas I always travel with a
sketchbook and pen and draw
life, she said.
The artist added that she has
also learned from the students.
It allows me to learn different
ways of doing things from oth-
ers, before focusing on myself,
and gives me time to reect,
she said.
Meas Panha, 21, a third-year
drawing student at RUFA, said
he discovered new techniques
with Broquet.
Lots of teachers at the uni-
versity are Khmer or from Japan,
and the technique of drawing
with a pen is different, he said,
adding that until now, he knew
only how to sketch with pencil.
Alongside the student work
are Broquets illustrations from
her own carnets de voyage
(travel sketchbook) inspired by
travels around the world, in-
cluding Angkor Wat, as well as
her graphic novel Suzy Wong et
les esprits (Suzy Wong and the
spirits).
The drawings tell the imag-
ined story of ctional Chinese
prostitute Suzy Wongs daugh-
ter living in modern day Hong
Kong and was inspired by Bro-
quets travels around China.
The Wong character was cre-
ated by Richard Mason in his
1957 novel The World of Suzy
Wong. Since then she has also
been depicted in unofcial se-
quels, a play, a lm and a ballet.
The images follow Wongs
granddaughter as she practices
feng shui in hotels all over the
world, the whole time protected
by three Chinese spirits.
She travels with them, and
during these travels she meets
all her uncles and aunties and
gathers her family in Hong
Kong for the 80th birthday of
her grandmother, the real Suzy
Wong, said Broquet.
While this is Broquets rst
visit to Cambodia, the artist,
who was born in Nice, travelled
to Vietnam 20 years ago with
her Vietnamese mother-in-law
who ed to France during the
Vietnam war.
Carnets de Voyage/Suzy Wong
opens this evening at 6:30pm at
the Institut Francais, #218 Street
184. It will go on until August.
French artist Virginie Broquet, with her sketchbook, outside the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. CHARLOTTE PERT
African music legends pay homage to Mandela
AFRICAN superstars Johnny Clegg
and Youssou NDour paid homage
Sunday to late South African icon
Nelson Mandela at the 20th edition
of the World Festival of Sacred Music
in Morocco.
The show in Fez, the spiritual cap-
ital of the north African nation,
began with a reading of English poet
William Ernest Henleys Invictus,
often recited by Mandela while
imprisoned. Thousands of people
then broke into dance as South Afri-
cas Johnny Clegg, internationally
renowned as the White Zulu for
mixing English and Zulu lyrics and
rhythms, took to the stage.
Thank you for this homage to a
great man who played an important
role in my life and in the world,
Clegg, 61, said, after belting out his
hit 80s ode to Mandela, Asimbo-
nanga (We have not seen him).
He melded his voice with that of
another African great, Senegals
Youssou Ndour, in a medley includ-
ing Ndours song Nelson Mandela,
which he wrote in 1985 after spend-
ing hours in Dakar watching the
news on apartheid with my mom.
At that moment, you really felt as
if the image of Nelson Mandela was
soaring over the stage, said French
festival-goer Michel Pautel after the
three-hour double concert.
The show fell on the day Mandelas
family marked the traditional end of
mourning six months after his
death on December 5 at the age of 95,
after a long illness which prompted
a global outpouring of grief.
It also came as excerpts were pub-
lished from a book by a longtime
aide to South Africas first black
president that tells of family squab-
bles as Mandela lay in hospital fight-
ing for his life.
Good Morning, Mr Mandela by
Zelda la Grange, his personal assist-
ant for 19 years, is due for official
release on Thursday.
The Moroccan music festival,
which is celebrating its 20th edition,
ends on Saturday. THE GUARDIAN
Senegalese singer Youssou NDour peforms during the 20th edition of the World Sacred Music
Festival in Fez, Morocco, on Sunday. AFP
Its a very important
experience . . . Theyve never
drawn in the street, whereas I
travel with a sketchbook
Travel
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PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 938 Daily 06:40 08:15 PG 931 Daily 07:55 09:05
PG 932 Daily 09:55 11:10 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
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FD 3617 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:30 18:40
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TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 20:15 21:50
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
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PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
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MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
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AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
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NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
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St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
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Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
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#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
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Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
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Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
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Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
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Tel: 063 965487
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Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
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SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
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A photo of the lush turquoise water and rocky landscape of Cape Greco,
east Cyprus, taken through a natural rock window. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Coastal calm
on Cypruss
Cape Greco
Helen Ochyra

M
ERCIFULLY, the
pirate ship pass-
es by far enough
away as to not
be heard. I wouldnt even have
noticed it had I not looked up
at that exact moment. And for
that I blame the turtles a pair
of them bobbing along in front
of me, asking to be followed,
and then darting away beyond
the range of my snorkel.
That pirate ship is a party
boat, and its as close as the
resort of Ayia Napa comes to
Cape Greco. Thank goodness
for that. Because here at Cape
Greco, some 10 kilometres east
of the infamous square, with
its bulging dance oors and
laser lighting, is a paradise of
unfeasibly blue water backed
by a honeycomb coast of hid-
den caves and a national park.
The clubbing crowds have
been coming here since the
mid-1980s, pushing the cou-
ples and families away to the
west But today they are start-
ing to return to the east, and to
rediscover why tourism start-
ed here in the rst place. It is,
quite simply, beautiful.
I am staying at the Artisan
Resort, up the coast from the
white sand beach of Kon-
nos Bay and just outside the
boundary of Cape Greco na-
tional park. Here, whitewashed
villas line a driveway that is
gated to keep out the trafc,
while a tunnel of jacarandas
keeps out the sun.
The owner Andreas and I lace
up our hiking boots and take to
the walking trail. Down on the
coast we pick our way along
the sort of rudimentary, dusty
path I would never have no-
ticed alone, passing between
jagged limestone ledges to a
at area of rock. Andreas tells
me to take a few steps forward
and I see, perfectly framed by a
natural rocky window, the Pal-
aces sea caves, a line of natural
arches along the waters edge
that appear much like a row
of simple houses. These once
sheltered Jewish refugees ee-
ing the Romans; today they
shade kayakers as they dip in
and out of coves and caves.
Kayaking is a fantastic way to
explore the Cape Greco coast-
line but hiking is even better,
because we can get both down
to the waters edge and up
above the perilously undercut
coastline at Cape Greco Table-
top. Climbing to the summit of
this limestone plug, is tough
but beautiful. I am torn be-
tween looking up and looking
down at the maquis shrubland
at my feet, where wild garlic,
anemones and poppies sway
in the sea breeze. But then
suddenly we are at the summit
and I can see nothing but wa-
ter. From this height the tip of
Europe itself is clearly visible,
surrounded by ocean.
Here, we are on the very edge
of a continent, the last land-
fall before Syria. Its position
means that Cyprus has long
been a prize to be fought over,
and Andreas tells me there are
ruins from every civilisation
from the Phoenicians to the
Greeks on the cape. Andreas
pulls me over a rocky ledge and
into a rectangular hole in the
ground the remains of a neo-
lithic settlement some 6,000
years old. I am gobsmacked.
This row of human-cut dwell-
ings is older than anything
I have ever seen, the rough
steps that would have acted as
a front door, the ancient road
still visible in the limestone
beneath our feet.
I stand in one house and
look out to sea, where I see
that pirate ship once again. I
can see the people onboard
but they cannot see me, nor
the ancient city I am standing
in. Ayia Napa seems very far
away indeed. THE GUARDIAN
TV PICKS

11:55pm - THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY: A
reluctant hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely
Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim
their mountain home - and the gold within it from the
dragon Smaug. FOX MOVIES
2:45pm - TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES: A
robotc warrior from a post-apocalyptc future travels
back in tme to protect a 20-year-old drifer and his
future wife from an most advanced robotc assassin
and to ensure they both survive a nuclear atack. FOX
MOVIES
4:35pm - HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS:
Hansel & Gretel are bounty hunters who track and kill
witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon
approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil
that might hold a secret to their past. With Gemma
Arterton. FOX MOVIES
8pm - PEARL HARBOR: Pearl Harbor follows the story of
two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as
they go of to join the war. FOX MOVIES
Entertainment
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Whip
5 Recede to the sea
8 Garments for Batman and Robin
13 Corn Belt state
14 Tennessees state flower
16 Title fit for a king
17 Ladder unit
18 Apollo gp.
19 Apple piercer of legend
20 Means a lot
23 TVs Danson
24 Discordant, musically
25 A bit of china
28 Fork in the road
29 Absorbed, as a cost
31 Mudbath locale
32 Vamoose!
35 Agendum, e.g.
38 Curbside sight
40 One way to reveal secrets
43 From days of yore
44 Change
45 Comments further
46 Losing My Religion rock band
47 Postal motto conjunction
49 Its not free of charge
51 Monetary unit of Burma
53 Snoopy is one
56 Male buddy
59 Seeking divine help
62 Socrate composer
64 South American monkey
65 Expected, as payment
66 Kind of football
67 Feed, as hogs
68 Basilica area
69 Capital of Western Australia
70 Before, poetically
71 Lecherous one, at times
DOWN
1 Blue-ribbon position
2 Gem viewer
3 Possessed
4 Madly in love
5 A genius, relatively speaking
6 Curtain call cry
7 Buffalo, e.g.
8 Chowder favorite
9 Publicized
10 Didnt give in
11 Inflatable item
12 Work as a tailor
15 Made an obeisant bow
21 Mary ___ cosmetics
22 Final, for short
26 Runaway-bus movie
27 Heavenly instruments?
28 Answered the alarm
30 Bad ___, Germany
32 Baby bringer
33 Roots writer
34 Rembrandt, for one
36 Heavy downpours
37 67.5 degrees, in terms of
direction
39 Joie de vivre
41 ... no room for them in the ___
42 Sewer, in London
48 Kobe cummerbund
50 ___ the ramparts ...
52 Make impure
54 Fast on ones feet
55 Florida collegian
56 Secluded road
57 Superman portrayer Christopher
58 Law & ___
60 ___, right
61 Bang-up
62 Syrup, before processing
63 ... Women ___ From Venus
HUH?
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
The latest instalment in the superhero fran-
chise. The X-Men send Wolverine to the past
in a desperate effort to change history and
prevent an event that results in doom for both
humans and mutants.
City Mall: 11:55am, 4:25pm, 9:10pm
Tuol Kork: 12:05pm, 2:40pm, 9pm
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the
mysterious new woman in town, he must put
his newfound courage to the test when her
husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces
his arrival.
City Mall: 7:05pm
DRAFT DAY
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny
Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team
when he trades for the number one pick. He
must decide what hes willing to sacrifice on a
life-changing day for a few hundred young men
with NFL dreams.
City Mall: 9:30pm
Tuol Kork: 5:15pm
MALEFICENT
A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant
princess, only to discover that the child may
be the one person who can restore peace to
their troubled land. With Angelina Jolie in the
starring role.
City Mall: 9:45am, 2:15pm, 4:55pm, 7pm
Tuol Kork: 9:50am, 12pm, 2:10pm, 4:20pm,
9:50pm
CINEPLEX CINEMA
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
(See above.)
8:15pm
MALEFICENT
(See above.)
9:30am, 1pm, 2:50pm, 4:40pm, 8:30pm
Free beer @ Show Box
Located at Club Millesime on the 12th
oor overlooking Phnom Penhs
cityscape, coee, tea and a selection of
munchies are oered daily.
The cost is $15, or pay an extra $10 and
get a free ow of sparkling wine.
Sotel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, #26
Old August Site. 3pm
Resident DJs play the best popular
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Students kick off 2014
national competitions
THE National College and
Technical Institute
Championships got under way
yesterday morning, with a total
of 1,145 students, including 249
females, gathering in Phnom
Penh to compete in football,
volleyball, basketball and
athletics. The tournament,
which concludes on June 29, is
being organised by the Sports
Department of the Minstry of
Education, Youth and Sport.
Twenty-three mens clubs have
signed up to contest the
football competition, being
played at the Olympic Stadium,
the National Institute of
Physical Education and Sports
and Chea Sim Boeung Trabek
High School. Meanwhile, six
mens teams and seven
womens sides will vie for glory
in their respective divisions of
the basketball event at the
indoor hall of the Olympic
Stadium. Twelve mens teams
and five womens team are set
to do battle in volleyball on the
same court. Athletics events
will be held at the Olympic
Stadium. CHHORNNORN,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Queens champ Dimitrov
eyes Wimbledon glory
GRIGOR Dimitrov insists his
Queens Club triumph in
London proves he is finally
ready to end his long wait for a
Grand Slam title at Wimble-
don. Dimitrov enjoyed the
perfect preparation for Wim-
bledon, which starts next
week, as the world number 13
hung tough to defeat Spains
Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (8/10), 7-6
(7/1), 7-6 (8/6) in a classic final
on Sunday. The 23-year-olds
maiden success on grass
makes him the first player
since Roger Federer and David
Ferrer in 2012 to win titles on
three different surfaces in the
same year after his victories
on hard courts in Acapulco and
clay in Bucharest. AFP
F1 legend Schumacher
emerges from coma
FORMULA One champion
Michael Schumacher was
transferred from a French
hospital to a facility in Switzer-
land yesterday after emerging
from a coma following his
devastating ski accident in
December. In a surprise
announcement, the retired
racing stars spokeswoman
Sabine Kehm said he had left
hospital in Grenoble, where he
had been treated since
December when he slammed
his head on a rock while skiing
with his son and friends. He
was transferred to a hospital
in the Swiss city of Lausanne,
hospital spokesman Darcy
Christen later told AFP, where
he will be undergoing further
treatment. AFP
Avenir Certain wins
Oaks to join greats
AVENIR Certain completed the
French 1000 Guineas and Oaks
double at Chantilly on Sunday to
join such greats as Zarkava and
Divine Proportions in winning
both of Frances fillies classics.
Given an excellent ride by
Gregory Benoist, Avenir Certain
produced a blistering turn of
foot to sweep past the leaders in
the finishing straight and prevail
at odds of 3/1 to give trainer
Jean-Claude Rouget his third
win in the last six renewals. AFP
Sport
Magnificent
seventh win
for Marquez
S
PANIARD Marc Marquez won
his seventh straight race on
Sunday as he took the hon-
ours in a thrilling Catalunya
Moto-GP ahead of Italian Valentino
Rossi and Honda teammate and com-
patriot Dani Pedrosa.
The runaway championship leader
and defending world champion sur-
vived a furious onslaught from Pedro-
sa over the nal two laps after seizing
the lead from Rossi, who had led for
much of the middle part of the race.
He extends his points tally to a per-
fect 175 while Rossi stays second on
117 after going past Pedrosa on the
nal lap when the Spaniard touched
wheels with Marquez.
Pedrosa is third in the standings on
112 but will be disappointed to have
lost second spot when victory was
within his grasp.
It was the 62nd podium for Mar-
quez and the 100th MotoGP win for
Honda.
Its so nice to win in front of my
home fans, Marquez told BT sport,
after kicking several yellow footballs
into the crowd.
The last laps I made a comeback
after nearly clashing with Valentino
early in the race and felt really strong.
It was a great tussle on the nal lap
rst with Valentino then with Dani.
This is special.
While Marquez makes it seven from
seven, the rst time since Rossi in
2002 that a rider has achieved that
feat, he remains well short of the all-
time record of 20 consecutive victo-
ries set by legendary Italian Giacomo
Agostini between 1968 to 1969.
Im very happy as we modied the
bike overnight, and it worked very
well in the race, said Rossi.
I never made a mistake, and it ran
really smoothly. And I thought at one
point I would win, but then the Hon-
das were too fast in the nal laps.
However, I battled really well and
so I can be satised with that, said
the amboyant nine-time world
champion.
The nal laps of the race were run
under thunder and lightning al-
though race ofcials declined to halt
the race.
It was a fascinating battle between
the three men with Pedrosa taking
the lead from Rossi with four laps
remaining before swapping the lead
with Marquez several times only to let
his advantage slip as the riders went
wheel to wheel.
I dont care whether it was 16 or 25
points today it was more about my
performance and I am delighted with
that as it is my best one of the year,
said Pedrosa.
I was surprised by Valentinos pace.
Then on the nal lap Marc closed the
door, and we almost came together. But
in the end it was ne. added the former
125cc and 250cc world champion.
The next race is set for June 28 at As-
sen in the Netherlands.
Esteve Rabat of Spain, on a Kalex,
won the Moto2 race with another
Spanish Katex rider, Maverick Vinales,
coming second, with Frances Johann
Zarco (Caterham Suter) third.
Rabat, who started from pole posi-
tion, won for the fourth time this sea-
son and consolidated his lead in the
world championship.
His main rival for the title, Finlands
Mika Kallio, could only nish fourth
and now trails Rabat by 34 points.
In Moto3, Alex Marquez, the young-
er brother of Marc, took victory on a
Honda with Italian Enea Bastianini
second on a KTM. And on a weekend
dominated by Spanish riders, Efren
Vazquez took third spot to make six po-
dium places out of nine on offer at the
the Montmelo circuit. AFP
Winner Repsol Honda Team motoGPs Spanish Marc Marquez celebrates after winning the
Moto GP race of the Catalunya Grand Prix at the Montmelo racetrack, near Barcelona. AFP
Talansky celebrates as Froome limps home
AMERICAN Andrew Talansky-
picked up the biggest victory
of his career as he won the Cri-
terium de Dauphine after an
epic battle against Spanish
double Tour de France winner
Alberto Contador on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Garmin rid-
er from Miami came home
fourth on the eighth and final
stage of the race in Southeast-
ern France behind the days
winner Mikel Nieve of Spain,
but crucially 1 minute 6 second
ahead of Contador to snatch
overall victory by 27 seconds.
Britains defending Tour de
France champion Chris Froome
struggled badly and was clear-
ly not fit as he came home over
five minutes behind the leaders
to relinquish the title he won
last year. Froome, who crashed
on stage six and lost the race
lead the following day to Con-
tador on Saturday, finished in
overall 12th position.
Nieve, who made it three
stage wins for Sky over the
eight-day race, said the Ken-
yan-born Froome had failed to
recover from his nasty crash.
It was very, very hard today,
Chris still hadnt recovered
from his accident so I went for
the stage win, said the Span-
iard. He really suffered after
the crash, and yesterday he still
hadnt recovered and today
wasnt better. I had an oppor-
tunity and went for it.
The riders covered three cat-
egory climbs including a sum-
mit finish during the 131.5km
run from Megeve to the ski
resort of Courchevel.
Contador fought to catch
Talansky on the final climb and
was within five seconds of
regaining the virtual lead with
less than 2km to run.
However at the front, Talan-
sky proved too strong and had
just enough to hold off Conta-
dor by a meagre 27 seconds.
Belgiums Jurgen Van den
Broeck finished fifth on the
stage, nine seconds behind
Nieve, but enough for third
place overall just 35 seconds
behind Talansky.
You put your life into some-
thing and make sacrifices for
days like this, saidTalansky,
who broke down in tears when
he realised he had won. Every
bad moment, every crash, all
the problems makes it all worth
while for moments like this.
It was a very hard start, but
[Ryder] Hesjedal went to the
front and worked so hard to
sacrifice for me. And when we
got in front, we saw the oppor-
tunity and we had to try, con-
tinued Talansky.
Its an incredible day! Ive
often been second, at Paris-
Nice and the Tour of Romandy.
But when you win, the feelings
are completely different.
When asked if he was now
one of the favourites for the
Tour de France, which begins
in Leeds, England, on July 5 and
runs until July 27, he played
down his chances.
No, Im not a favourite, this
is the Dauphine. The Tour de
France is another race, but Ill
try. My goal in the Tour is to do
better than last year [10th]. If
everything goes well maybe top
ten even top five. AFP
USAs Andrew Talansky (front left) rides during the nal stage between Megeve and Courchevel of the 66th
edition of the Dauphine Criterium cycling race on Sunday. AFP
Football
23
Kids kick back to action
in ISF Youth League
SAMRONG Secondary School
whipped Hagar CLC 7-0 in
Group A match as the ISF U17
Boys Football League resumed
after a two-week break at the
National Institute of Physical
Education and Sports ground
on Sunday. In another fixture,
Sunrise cut down ISF SMC 3-1.
In Group B action, COLT beat
Wat Knong School 7-1, Andong
beat ILC 8-2 and A New Day
Cambodia drew 3-3 with Po
Monkol School. HSMANJUNATH

Fabregas says Wenger
did not want him back
CESC Fabregas has admitted
that he did not join Arsenal
from Barcelona because
Arsene Wenger had no place
for him. The Catalan
midfielder, who signed for
Chelsea for 27 million ($45.9
million), said that a clause in
his contract gave Arsenal first
refusal and that he spoke to
Wenger but that in the end the
manager decided not to
proceed because Mesut Ozil
now occupies Fabregass
position. It was then that Jose
Mourinho convinced him to join
Chelsea ahead of the many
other options he had in the
Premier League. THE GUARDIAN
Croatian players shun
media after nude pics
CROATIAS World Cup squad
have launched a World Cup
media boycott in protest at the
publication of photos of players
swimming naked at their Praia
do Forte base. The pictures
notably featured international
defenders Vedran Corluka and
Dejan Lovren swimming naked
in their hotel pool. This is not
only in Croatia, it is spreading
throughout the world, coach
Nico Kovac said after the
photos appeared on several
Croatian online news sites. AFP
Saints to name Ronald
Koeman as manager
SOUTHAMPTON are expected
to finalise the appointment of
Ronald Koeman as their new
manager after the former
Holland defender agreed a
contract to succeed Mauricio
Pochettino over the weekend.
Koeman who has been out of
work since leaving his post at
Feyenoord at the end of last
season returns from holiday
on Monday and is likely to be
joined at St Marys by his older
brother Erwin as his assistant,
with Jan Kluitenburg also
joining as fitness coach.
THE GUARDIAN
World Cup demonstrates
the Birthday Paradox
MATHEMATICIANS are running
the rule over the World Cup
less for the quality of the football
than for the chance to prove an
intriguing statistical quirk called
the Birthday Paradox. Strange
as it may sound, 16 of the 32
teams at the World Cup have
players who share a birthday
though mathematicians are far
less surprised than the rest of
us. Statisticians have known for
some time there is a slightly
more than 50 per cent chance
that in any group of 23 people,
two of them will have the same
birthday. While it appears to
defy logic, the Birthday Paradox
stacks up. And delightfully, the
World Cup with its 32 teams
of 23-man squads proves it
exactly. AFP
Koreans face Russian test
O
UT-OF-SORTS South Korea
face a Russia side desperate
to prove a point in Cuiaba
tonight.
The Koreans fortunes have nose
dived since the heady days of 2002
when they turned the formbook on its
head by becoming the rst Asian side
to make it through to the seminals.
But before reaching their eighth
consecutive World Cup, they strug-
gled in qualifying, squeaking home
only on goal difference.
They also lost World Cup warm-ups
to Tunisia, 1-0, and more worryingly a
4-0 drubbing by Ghana last week.
Coach Hong Myung-bo is fretting
over his Taeguk Warriors fate in Bra-
zil, aware that defensive frailties will
make the going tough for them in a
Group H also containing favourites
Belgium and Algeria.
Hong, 45, gained iconic status in
Seoul after his side-footed penalty
took Guus Hiddinks side into the
2002 World Cup last four. He insists
that rather than regressing, the Ko-
rean team has made progress in the
last 12 years.
The fact is that the quality of foot-
ball in South Korea has developed a
lot since 2002, he declared.
The Koreans arrived in Cuiaba on
Sunday, 24 hours before Russia.
And before a training session at a lo-
cal university, defender Lee Yong took
time out to forecast what lay in store
for him and his colleagues.
Its true the Russian team are quite
technical and strong. Maybe the Rus-
sians are physically stronger than
Asian sides like us but we are well pre-
pared for this game, were focussed,
he told the hordes of Korean press.
Were well prepared for the match,
he pledged.
Unlike the Koreans, who are part
of recent World Cup historys xture
and ttings, Russia make their re-
turn to the feast of football for the
rst time since 2002, when like in
1994 they failed to make it out of the
group stages.
Under Fabio Capello, who guided
England to the last 16 in South Africa
four years ago, Russia coasted through
qualifying and in stark contrast to
tonights opposition are unbeaten in
10 games.
They hold a psychological advantage
going into the game at the Arena Pan-
tanal as they saw off South Korea 2-1 in
a friendly in Dubai last November.
Mexico meeting stirs bad memories
Brazil striker Hulk insists that re-
venge is not on the agenda as the
World Cup hosts bid to all but secure
their place in the last 16 against rivals
Mexico tonight.
Mexico shattered Brazils dream of
winning the only major prize missing
from their honours list two years ago,
when they stunned the South Ameri-
cans 2-1 to claim the Olympic gold
medal in London.
But Hulk insists there is no question
of Brazil looking to settle a score as
they face the Mexicans at Fortalezas
Castelao Stadium.
It is the same venue where they met
in the group stage of the Confedera-
tions Cup last year when Luiz Felipe
Scolaris side claimed a 2-0 victory.
That success means a measure of
revenge has already been exacted,
and forward Hulk insisted that Bra-
zil will only have one thing on their
minds come kick-off.
In the Confederations Cup we tried
to think only about winning the game
and it will be the same this time. If we
think about revenge it could cause
us problems, said the powerful for-
ward, who scored in the Olympic -
nal clash.
Young Belgian guns set to dazzle
Belgiums vibrant young team are
preparing to launch their World Cup
campaign against Algeria tonight with
competition heating up on the training
pitch ahead of the Group H clash.
Seen as dark horses to lift the trophy,
the richly talented squad is blessed
with players such as Chelsea playmaker
Eden Hazard, powerful striker Romelu
Lukaku and Manchester City defender
Vincent Kompany.
Belgium have not appeared at a ma-
jor international championships since
the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South
Korea but they impressed in qualifying
and will fancy their chances of match-
ing their seminal showing in Mexico
in 1986.
The sole survivor from their 2002
campaign is veteran defender Daniel
van Buyten, who said there were some
feisty tackles ying in during the teams
training sessions in the buildup to their
match in Belo Horizonte. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
Belgium v Algeria 11pm
Brazil v Mexico 2am
Russia v South Korea 5am
South Korea forward Lee Keun-ho (right) warms up with teammates during a training session in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, last week. AFP
Messi gets off the mark
LIONEL Messi scored a spar-
kling individual goal and cre-
ated another as Argentina over-
came a faltering performance
to open their World Cup cam-
paign with a 2-1 win over Bos-
nia on Sunday.
The Barcelona superstar pro-
duced a trademark moment of
magic on a night that also saw
France beat Honduras 3-0, with
the help of the first goal decided
by goal-line technology. Swit-
zerland came back to beat
Ecuador 2-1.
Hordes of Argentina fans
helped transform Rios famous
Maracana Stadium into a cor-
ner of Buenos Aires as the South
American giants eased past
their Group F rivals.
Messi, hoping to secure his
status as one of footballs greats
by shining at this World Cup,
had a largely quiet game by his
high standards.
But the diminutive striker
provided the two decisive
moments of the match for
Argentinas goals.
Messis teasing free-kick
caused panic in the Bosnian
defence after only two minutes
and eight seconds, when the
ball came off Sead Kolasinacs
legs and went into his own net,
the fastest own goal in World
Cup history.
On 65 minutes, Messi electri-
fied the 78,800-capacity stadi-
um with a moment of magic,
jinking towards the area and
unleashing a low shot which
flew past Asmir Begovic in the
Bosnian goal.
The only blemish for Argen-
tina was a late goal from Bos-
nian substitute Vedad Ibisevic,
who slid his shot below the
advancing Sergio Romero.
Elsewhere on Sunday, France
made World Cup history by
defeating Honduras 3-0 with
the help of the first goal award-
ed in international football
using computer generated
3D technology.
Karim Benzemas strike early
in the second half cannoned
back off the inside of an upright
across the goal at Porto Alegres
Beira-Rio Stadium. Honduras
goalkeeper Noel Valladares
tried to scoop it clear but the
German-manufactured Goal-
Control goal-line technology
system signalled the ball had
crossed the line, prompting
Brazilian referee Sandro Riccio
to whistle for a score. AFP
Argentina captain Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his teams sec-
ond goal during their Group F match against Bosnia-Hercegovina. AFP
SINGAPOREAN authorities
last year placed leaders of a
global match-xing ring op-
erating from the city-state
in indenite detention after
uncovering plans to rig the
World Cup, a new book re-
leased yesterday claims.
Written by Zaihan Mo-
hamed Yusof, a Singaporean
investigative journalist who
has reported extensively on
football match-fixing, the
book details how he learnt
of the now-crippled gangs
plans from senior govern-
ment officials as well as a
prominent sports corrup-
tion investigator.
The syndicate had been
posturing, setting up a base
of corrupt football players
and ofcials through match-
es played overseas in nation-
al leagues and international
friendlies, Zaihan quoted
one senior unnamed Sin-
gapore government ofcial
as saying in the book, titled
Foul! The Inside Story of Sin-
gapore Match Fixers.
When the 2014 World Cup
comes, all they will be doing
is collecting [their betting
earnings], the ofcial said
of the tournament, which
kicked off in Brazil last week.
Something had to be done
to stop them . . . We couldnt
take the chance, another of-
cial was quoted as saying by
Zaihan, a journalist with Sin-
gapores The New Paper.
Zaihan also quoted Michael
Pride, head of operations at
Australia-based match-xing
investigators SI Sports Intel-
ligence as saying this syn-
dicate allegedly sets up xes
six months ahead of major
matches.
From source information,
they were allegedly gear-
ing up for the World Cup,
Pride said.
The city-states police and
anti-corruption agency in
September last year rounded
up 14 alleged members of
a global match-xing syn-
dicate, in one of the biggest
crackdowns yet on corrup-
tion in football.
Singapore subsequently
used a special law that al-
lows indenite detention to
hold four key ring leaders of
the group, including alleged
kingpin Dan Tan, also known
as Tan Seet Eng.
Ofcials say the indenite
detention is necessary be-
cause witnesses fear reprisals
if they testify in court. AFP
Match xers in Singapore
planned to rig World Cup
Sport
Spurs clinch fifth NBA title
Tom Dart

S
AN Antonio Spurs cauterised
the wounds of 12 months ago
by claiming their rst NBA
championship since 2007
with a crushing win over Miami Heat
on Sunday.
It was elegance with a serrated
edge, as the Spurs recovered from
a slapdash start to win 104-87 in a
clinical, yet feverish, display that
underlined their superiority and de-
throned the reigning NBA champi-
ons, denying Miami their third title
in three years.
What was shaping a week ago to
be the second successive, evenly
balanced and see-saw NBA nals
between these teams instead proved
shockingly one-sided, as Miami were
squelched for the third time in six
days and lost the best-of-seven series
by four games to one.
How quickly the storyline has
mutated from talk of a Heat three-
peat to now-inevitable questions
about whether this defeat marks
the end of an era. Miamis Big Three,
LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwy-
ane Wade, all have contract opt-out
clauses and could leave, remote as
the possibility seems.
After Miami levelled the series
at 1-1 following a close game here
seven days prior, San Antonio evis-
cerated them twice in south Florida,
producing purple patches to expose
the Heats defensive black holes.
The Texans won the third game by
19 points then shot 57 per cent from
the eld in game four, a 107-86 vic-
tory in AmericanAirlines Arena.
The numbers were less gaudy in this
contest, though they hit 46 per cent of
their three-point attempts, with Aus-
tralian Patty Mills ve-for-eight.
Ahead of the tip-off a fan outside
the arena held a placard reading Le
team versus LeBron. It was a fair
enough summary of the series, with
the Spurs passing game stunningly
effective, above all in games three
and four, orchestrated by the pre-
dictably excellent Tony Parker and
aided by the less-heralded craft of his
fellow Frenchman, Boris Diaw.
James received meagre support
from most of his teammates through-
out this series: Miamis bench play-
ers were virtual ciphers, with Mario
Chalmers especially poor and the
side clearly missing the veteran in-
uence of Mike Miller, who left after
last years nals.
Still, any analysis of what went
wrong for Miami ought to be pre-
faced by an assessment of what
went right for the Spurs: pretty
much everything.
Evidently fuelled by the agony of
losing a series 12 months ago when
the trophy was almost within their
grasp, they also had the teamwork,
technique and experience to turn
their quest for revenge into a reality.
This is the Spurs fth NBA cham-
pionship in franchise history, all won
since 1999; a record that, if they had
more glamorous players and were
in a higher-prole city, would earn
them more regular comparisons with
great American champions in various
sports from recent generations such
as the New York Yankees, Los Angeles
Lakers and New England Patriots. THE
GUARDIAN
The San Antonio Spurs celebrate with the Larry OBrien NBA Championship Trophy after the Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 107-84 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday. AFP
Open victory proves Kaymers no one-Major wonder
MARTIN Kaymer proved to his
friends and himself that hes
no one-hit wonder when it
comes to winning Major golf
titles with a dominating four-
day performance to win the
US Open.
The 29-year-old German
captured his second Major
title on Sunday by grinding out
a one-under 69 final round at
Pinehurst to complete a wire-
to-wire triumph by a stagger-
ing eight shots.
Kaymer joined Tiger Woods,
Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy and
Seve Ballesteros as multiple
Major winners who also
attained the world number one
ranking before turning 30.
Its very tough to compare
yourself to those legends,
Kaymer said. When other
people want to call me that, its
fine. To win one Major is
already very nice in your
career, but to win two, it means
a lot more.
Kaymer, who ended a PGA-
level win drought of nearly
three years by winning the
Players Championship last
month, had been taunted even
by buddies after an 11-week
stay atop the rankings slipped
away to a spot outside the top
60 at one stage.
Some friends, they called
me one-hit wonder with the
Majors, obviously in a funny
way, Kaymer said.
And now I can go back and
show them this one. So its
quite a big proof to yourself
that you cannot only win
one, but you can win when
it matters. You can win big
tournaments.
I dont feel like I need to
prove [anything] to a lot of
people, but somehow its quite
satisfying to have two under
your belt. And Im only 29, so
I hope I have another few years
ahead of me.
Kaymer opened with back-
to-back 65s, setting a US Open
record for 36 holes and match-
ing the best two-day start in
Major golf history.
From there the challenge
was to stay in command and
Kaymer did just that with
clutch putts from long range
and a calm focus.
While he made it look easy,
Kaymer said his victory was
anything but.
The challenge was not to
think too much about that tro-
phy. It goes through your head.
We do think about it. We are
humans, and were not robots,
he said.
So it was a tough challenge.
A lot of emotions involved, a
lot of expectations.
Credit Scottish caddie Craig
Connolly with helping hold
Kaymer together over his most
difficult round.
Him being so relaxed and
so positive and open, me being
more focused and very strict
on things, it was a good com-
bination, Kaymer said. That
is what I needed. So without
Craig, it would have been a lot
more difficult.
Kaymer had been a control
freak about his game but actu-
ally backed off that to spark his
latest success, citing the phi-
losophy in the golf film The
Legend of Bagger Vance that he
saw Friday.
At the end of the day, you
have to feel on the golf course.
You have to create that feel and
trust your skill and all the work,
Kaymer said. Its about that
feel, that touch, that you play
with your heart, that you cant
control too many things. Thats
what I was trying to do the last
three years. Now I just play.
And now his slump is a dis-
tant memory.
I knew it would come. I
knew that I would play good
golf again, he said. There was
enough belief there. I just
didnt think it would take me
that much time to get back
where I was.
So its not a huge surprise
to me that I played good golf.
Its just a surprise that I won
such big tournaments. But Ill
take it. AFP
Germanys Martin Kaymer completed his procession in the 114th US
Open at Pinehurst after dominating the eld on all four days. AFP

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