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Chhay Channyda
A YEAR ago, a simple bribe
would have allowed Sam
Sophat* to walk into the
grade 12 national exam with
a broadsheet-sized com-
pendium of answers, his
smooth passage to higher
education assured.
The decision to postpone,
one that left him facing an
exam taken under much
stricter conditions, was one
he rued yesterday.
I count myself as really
unlucky [that I waited],
said Sophat, 18, just before
going into an examination
hall in the capital at the
start of the two-day testing
period yesterday.
After years of rampant
answer-selling, test leak-
age and bribery, students
seeking their diploma this
year have been warned
that no irregularities will
Cheaters
foiled at
grade 12
exams
Meas Sokchea, Kevin Ponniah
and Vong Sokheng
T
HIS afternoon, the 55
opposition Cambodia
National Rescue Party
politicians who won
office in last years disputed
election will officially take their
oaths as lawmakers in front of
King Norodom Sihamoni, end-
ing their more than 10-month
boycott of parliament.
The ceremony at the Royal
Palace, announced yesterday,
comes two weeks after the
CNRP and the ruling Cambo-
dian Peoples Party inked a deal
to end the yearlong political
deadlock that began after the
opposition rejected last Julys
election result.
The agreement was made
with eight opposition officials
behind bars over a violent pro-
test on July 15. They were
released hours afterwards.
On Saturday, another three
youth-wing members were
arrested, which the CNRP said
was tantamount to further
intimidation.
Nonetheless, the party decid-
ed to officially join parliament
today after finalising constitu-
tional and legal amendments
that will be pushed through the
assembly as part of agreed-
upon reforms between the par-
ties, officials said yesterday.
It [the swearing-in] is con-
firmed tomorrow at 4pm at the
palace, but we will meet at the
National Assembly at 3pm,
senior lawmaker and public
affairs head Mu Sochua said
yesterday afternoon, following
an internal party meeting.
A statement from the palace
also confirmed the ceremony
after a flurry of letters request-
ing it, first from CNRP president
Lawmakers to take oath
CNRP to take seats soon
despite recent arrests
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Sam Rainsy to National Assem-
bly chairman Heng Samrin, and
then from the assembly to the
palace.
CNRP ofcials could not
conrm when they would
take their seats in a special
session of parliament but said
it would happen in the days
after todays oath-taking.
Government spokesman
Phay Siphan said that the
CNRP could take its seats on
Thursday.
I dont want to speak on
behalf of the CNRP, but this
is from ofcial sources on the
CPP side, he said, adding that
todays swearing-in would
mark a new chapter in Cam-
bodian democracy.
Right now, the CPP as well
as the CNRP understand fully
that divisions do not help de-
mocracy.
The July 22 agreement saw
the CNRP win, among other
concessions, an overhaul of
the National Election Com-
mittee which it has main-
tained is a partisan institution
that needs to be reformed in
order to make the next elec-
tion free and fair in exchange
for joining parliament.
The past two weeks have
seen working groups jostle
over details of reforms. While
negotiations in some areas
have proceeded smoothly,
other areas have been more
thorny.
In particular, the issue of
immunity for the nine mem-
bers of the new NEC emerged
as a possible stumbling
block last week, with the CPP
strongly opposing that provi-
sion, which was backed by
the CNRP.
The overhauled NEC will be
composed of four members
selected by each party, and a
consensus candidate.
Pung Chhiv Kek, a promi-
nent rights activist, was cho-
sen by both parties as the
ninth candidate, but she set
parliamentary-style immunity
as a condition for accepting.
It now appears the opposi-
tion has compromised.
Yesterday, CNRP spokesman
Yim Sovann said that immu-
nity will no longer be included
in constitutional amendments
that will enshrine the new NEC.
We will nd a sentence or
word similar to the meaning
of immunity, and we will put
it into the election law [not the
constitution] to defend NEC
members from arrest and mis-
treatment, he said.
Kek could not be reached for
comment as to whether she
would still accept her nomi-
nated position.
In a letter to Rainsy yester-
day morning, Interior Min-
ister Sar Kheng said that the
CPP supported draft consti-
tutional amendments dis-
cussed in a meeting of work-
ing groups on Friday.
But Kheng asked for provi-
sions related to the auton-
omy of the NEC and how
departing members would
be replaced.
[The CPP] views it as un-
necessary to include these
points in the constitution, be-
cause the constitution is the
highest law in the nation and
should state the main prin-
ciples only, he wrote.
The minister added that the
draft amendments without
those provisions would still
guarantee the independence
and neutrality of the NEC.
According to Sochua, Rainsy
agreed to Khengs demands,
following which he requested
todays oath-taking ceremony.
Separately yesterday, a group
of prominent watchdogs and
independent experts includ-
ing Comfrel, the Cambodian
Center for Human Rights and
NGO Forum called on both
political parties to make spe-
cic changes to the internal
rules of parliament in order to
bolster the effectiveness and
transparency of the parlia-
mentary process.
While the parties have
agreed to review and amend
internal rules to strengthen
the role of the opposition, few
details have been released.
Among the groups recom-
mended changes are that par-
liament should hold public
hearings once a week in which
experts and relevant stake-
holders can testify on draft,
proposed and existing laws.
The opposition should also
be formally recognised, be al-
lowed to assign a spokesper-
son for the oversight of gov-
ernment ministries and be
entitled to request debate on
government policies, they say.
Parliamentary records and
documents, except those
concerning national security,
should also be made public,
while oral and written re-
sponses from the government
to questions from MPs should
be required within 15 days.
A motion of censure against
the government should re-
quire the backing of at least 30
MPs to allow discussion of it,
the groups argue, and if such a
motion is raised twice, the as-
sembly must conduct a public
session to discuss voting on
the dismissal of cabinet mem-
bers or the government.
We stand ready to work with
both the ruling and opposi-
tion parties to provide further
guidance on implementation
of these amendments if pro-
vided the opportunity to do
so, they wrote in a joint state-
ment, which included the rec-
ommended changes in formal
legal language.
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2 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
May Titthara
PRIME Minister Hun Sen
warned yesterday that people
who instigate and commit
acts of violence will face the
full force of the law.
In characteristically cryptic
language, he told thousands
of students on Phnom Penhs
Koh Pich that his government
would not tolerate violence.
Those who provoked vio-
lence and committed acts of vi-
olence should not be tolerated
[and should be punished] ac-
cording to the law, he said. All
the points I am talking about are
to ensure Cambodia has peace,
not just for a short time.
The comments were almost
certainly a reference to the
arrests of 11 opposition Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
members after a July 15 dem-
onstration in which protesters
turned on irregular security
forces, injuring several.
A report published by the
Ministry of Interior in March
estimated that about $100 mil-
lion in property damage was
caused by workers strikes and
protests since the election.
Am Sam Ath, senior inves-
tigator at rights group Adhoc,
said he welcomed Hun Sens
comments if they also applied
to military police and para-
troopers who attacked striking
workers early this year.
At least ve people were
killed on January 3 when
military police opened re on
striking workers in the capi-
tal. A day later, mixed security
forces violently dismantled an
opposition-run protest camp.
If we implement the law,
we can root out the culture of
impunity and culture of vio-
lence, Sam Ath said.
Acts of violence wont
be tolerated: premier
Lawmakers
take their
oaths today
Would-be Buddha on PMs bad side
Phak Seangly
THEAN Vuthys claim to spir-
itual superiority has reached
the ear of Hun Sen, and judging
by the premiers response he
demanded yesterday that the
Ministry of Cult and Religion
arrest Vuthy using the Ameri-
can style he doesnt like the
sound of it.
Addressing a graduation cer-
emony at Koh Pich Center yes-
terday, Hun Sen became fixated
on the somewhat obscure
until now story of Vuthy, a
monk in Kandal province who
believes he is the next Buddha
and whose pagoda was tempo-
rarily shut down by the author-
ities on Sunday. Vuthys where-
abouts were unknown.
Excellency Min Khin is
tracking this case seriously. Its
unspeakable, Hun Sen told the
crowd, referring to the minister
of cult and religion.
Officials from the ministry
made the decision to shut the
pagoda for one week and relo-
cate its monks after finding jew-
ellery and other irregular
items, including elephant tusks
and tiger fangs, in Vuthys
room during the weekend raid.
Vuthy first came to the
governments attention a
few months ago when the min-
istry seized books, CDs and
photos that touted his great-
ness on sale at the pagoda.
The monk kneeled to salute
a normal person who claimed
[to be] a god, Hun Sen said. It
is impossible. Even the King
kneels to salute the monks, so
why did the monks kneel to
salute the normal person like
that? It is hard to understand.
The prime minister suggest-
ed that Vuthy be arrested like
fugitives in the United States,
where, he said, they are pushed
to the ground, handcuffed and
stepped on.
In response to the speech,
Ministry of Cult and Religion
spokesman Seng Somony said
that authorities are still looking
for the suspect. The ministry
has said that Vuthys actions
seriously offend the values of
our state religion, but its not
clear on what charges he could
be brought before a court.
Police are looking for him,
Somony said. But we do not
know where he is right now.
A woman sits next to paintings of the self-proclaimed fth and nal
Buddha last week at the Reachea pagoda in Kandal province. HONG MENEA
Visa loophole
no friend to
maids: NGOs
Alice Cuddy

C
AMBODIAS embassy
in Kuala Lumpur has
played a key role in
pressuring domestic
workers to stay in the country
despite fears for their welfare,
rights groups have said.
While a moratorium was
placed on sending domestic
workers to Malaysia in 2011
amid mounting concerns over
abuses, rights groups have told
the Post that the Cambodian
Embassy has hampered its citi-
zens attempts to return home.
Huy Pichsovann, program
ofcer at the Community Le-
gal Education Center, said the
embassy has put a substantial
amount of pressure on domes-
tic workers to stay in Malaysia.
Based on maids that have
returned from Malaysia, many
have said that they wanted to
return to Cambodia sooner,
but the ofcers working in the
Cambodian Embassy played a
critical role in strongly push-
ing them towards renewing
their visas, he said by email.
Glorene Das, program direc-
tor at Malaysia-based NGO
Tenaganita, agreed.
Its very clear for us that
when girls are referred to us,
they could have been abused or
raped, they need to be reunited
with their families, she said.
We refer them to the embas-
sy for shelter . . . and the embassy
insists they stay with them. But
they do not just provide shelter
for the girls, but work with agen-
cies [who say] Why dont you
stay? Well pay you more.
Das said that while this has
not happened in every in-
stance, it has made Tenagan-
ita uncomfortable working
with the embassy.
There is a ban on domestic
workers [from Cambodia], but
the embassy has taken the lib-
erty of renewing [visas].
[Women] go there for re-
dress, not to be recycled into
employment again.
Moeun Tola, head of the la-
bour program at CLEC, said
the embassy was still exploit-
ing a legal loophole issued by
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
that allows it to renew visas.
But the renewal of passports
opens the door for the renewal
of work permits, he said.
Cambodian Embassy and
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of-
cials could not be reached.
The Malaysian National As-
sociation of Employment Agen-
cies (PIKAP) works with the em-
bassy to provide visa extension
services for domestic workers.
PIKAP president Datuk Raja
Zulkepley Dahalan said that to
ensure their safety, domestic
workers must, among other
requirements, have a separate
bank account and attend an in-
terview to be eligible for the ex-
tension. It is our commitment
to protect the girls, he said.
But he added that work-
ers who complained could be
moved if they had worked for an
employer for less than a year.
Dahalan who also heads
the recruitment agency Agensi
Pekerjaan Haz Sdn Bhd said
the ban should be lifted.
We need the girls badly . . .
they need money, why must
you stop them?
Dahalan blamed previous
abuses on inadequate age
checks and training issues.
[They had] no training on how
to behave themselves, he said,
adding that NGOs had exploit-
ed isolated cases of abuse.
Dahalan said the drafted
memorandum of understand-
ing to resume the ow of maids
is quite fair, though Malay-
sian ofcials are still waiting
for an invite to discussions. AD-
DITIONAL REPORTING BY SEN DAVID
Cambodian Peoples Party lawmakers attend a session of parliament at the National Assembly last year,
with the seats on the left vacant after the CNRP refused to take its seats. SRENG MENG SRUN
We will find a sentence or word
similar to the meaning of
immunity, and we will put it
into the election law
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
RECENTLY jailed business-
woman Roth Sopheap made
a last-ditch effort yesterday to
cut a deal keeping her out of
prison but was rebuffed by a
court ofcial and the plaintiff
who led the case against her,
a relative said yesterday.
A clerk at Phnom Penh Mu-
nicipal Court who asked not
to be named said Sopheaps
charge of breach of trust still
stands and that the investigat-
ing judge in her trial ordered
her continued detention after
she failed in her negotiations
with the plaintiff.
Sopheap holds the munici-
pal contract on collecting park-
ing and stall fees from markets
across the capital. According
to Municipal Penal Police Unit
ofcer Seng Darith, plaintiff
Ham Many had sought to buy
the licence for Daun Penh dis-
trict from her.
After allegedly giving her
$190,000 in 2009, Many never
received the licence and ulti-
mately led a complaint to get
his money back, Darith said.
In questioning, he added, So-
pheap acknowledged receiv-
ing $140,000 from Many.
However, according to a
relative of the defendant who
asked not to be named, So-
pheap proposed a three-part
repayment plan yesterday:
rst, that she turn over the
rights to collecting fees at Cen-
tral Market immediately; sec-
ond, that she immediately pay
$20,000 to the plaintiff; and
third, that she pay off the debt
by August 30.
But the deal wasnt accepted,
said the relative, who added that
Sopheap was also a victim.
The reason she could not
return the money to the plain-
tiff was because the prime
minister has ordered to close
her company since 2010, and
the municipal hall also did
not ofcially issue the [ofcial
ledgers] for her company, he
said. From 2010 until now,
Mrs Sopheaps company did
not make any prots.
Sopheap herself said she had
been treated unfairly, telling re-
porters she had paid a $150,000
bribe to former Phnom Penh
governor Kep Chuktema for
the licence in 2010 but still
hadnt received it.
This was very unjust, she
shouted as she was pushed
into a police car.
Neither Many, his lawyers
nor municipal spokesman
Long Dimanche could be
reached for comment.
Jailing is unjust, says
charged tax collector
Flooding claims another life
Pech Sotheary

T
HE death toll from
recent oods has
reached six people,
while inundations
have caused more than 4,400
families across four provinces
to be evacuated from their
homes, according to the Na-
tional Committee for Disaster
Management.
The full extent of the dam-
age is not known yet, said
Nhem Vanda, senior ofcer
at the NCDM. However, this
years ooding is not as bad as
last years because while the
water rose quickly, it hasnt
done so as aggressively. More-
over, water levels are receding
bit by bit, but this may change
if more rain falls.
The evacuated families
came from the most seriously
affected provinces of Stung
Treng, Kratie, Kampong Cham
and Tbong Khmum.
On Saturday, a dam in
Kratie provinces Prek Prasap
district collapsed due to the
ooding. The dam stored
millions of cubic metres of
water, and nancial damages
were estimated at over $1.2
million, Vanda said.
The government has set up
a plan to mitigate the damage
and help people better prepare
for and respond to ooding,
he said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen
called yesterday for people in
affected areas to be cautious
because authorities cannot
go and settle all emergencies
for them. If they do not leave
their children alone at home,
deaths can be avoided.
According to Hun Sen, the
water in Stung Treng province
has receded, while levels in
Kratie and Kampong Cham
remain above emergency lev-
els. Thus far, 13 provinces have
been affected by rainy sea-
son oods and overow from
the Mekong River, Ministry
of Water Resources and Me-
teorology spokesperson Chan
Yutha said.
The rising waters usually oc-
cur between August and Octo-
ber, at the peak of Cambodias
rainy season.
Catastrophic ooding late
last year left 168 people dead
and 29 injured, and caused
an estimated $356 million
in damages.
Mao Hak, deputy director of
technical works at the Depart-
ment of Hydrology and River
Work, told the Post last week
that the capital is out of harms
way from oods for now,
though he suspects the risk will
increase with time.
A young boy plays on his bike along a ooded road in Kampong Cham last week after heavy rain saw waters
rise. More than 4,400 families have been evacuated from areas affected by ooding. HENG CHIVOAN
Dismissed
Protests in
Sville over
sacked staff
D
OZENS of workers
in Preah Sihanouk
province marched on
the local labour department
yesterday after three days of
protests against the sacking of
seven employees.
Worker representative
Keo Srey Pich, 22, one of the
dismissed from Vantage River
Textile factory in Mittapheap
district who have refused a
pay-off from the company,
said factory management had
shown no sign they would
change their position.
The management still
holds firm that they will not
reinstate us. They said the
factory is not able to recruit
more workers after they
were fired, but in recent days,
30 new workers were recrui-
ted, she said.
Yov Khemara, a representa-
tive of the labour department,
said the case had been filed
with the Arbitration Council.
But . . . they have to wait for
15 days, he said.
He added that the provincial
governor wants renewed ne-
gotiations to end the dispute to
be held at 8am this morning.
PECHSOTHEARY
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Unions up wage demands
Mom Kunthear

D
ESPITE not hav-
ing come close to
achieving their goal
of a $160 monthly
minimum garment wage,
unions announced yesterday
that they will raise their de-
mands to $177 for 2015.
Ken Chhenglang, acting
pres ident of the National In-
dependent Federation Textile
Union of Cambodia (NIFTUC),
said about 10 union represen-
tatives had last week reached
an agreement to push for this
gure in a meeting with em-
ployers scheduled for Friday.
The groups of unions have
got a positive result by [agree-
ing] to $177 for LAC [Labour
Advisory Committee] negotia-
tions, she said.
With the minimum wage
now at $100 and the govern-
ment having used deadly vio-
lence in January to crush de-
mands for further increases,
Chhenglang conceded the
new demand was ambitious.
We know the government
increases the minimum wage
in very small amounts, she
said. I wont know what they
are willing to go to until the tri-
partite meeting in October be-
tween the Ministry of Labour,
unions and employers.
Kong Athit, vice president of
the Coalition of Cambodian
Apparel Workers Democratic
Union, said unions were pre-
pared to ultimately accept less,
without saying how low they
would be willing to go.
We do not want to see pro-
tests . . . but we will wait and
see the situation, he said.
According to a letter from the
unions, $177 is an appropriate
gure given the prots made
in Cambodias billion-dollar
industry and higher wages in
neighbouring countries.
Compare [Cambodias
wage] to $237 in Thailand . . .
between $74 and $219 in Indo-
nesia, between $152 and $273
in Philippines and between
$245 and $275 in Malaysia,
the letter reads.
Ken Loo, Garment Manu-
facturers Association in Cam-
bodia secretary-general, said
$177 was unrealistic for the
same reasons as before when
they were demanding $160.
GMAC has said such a wage
would place undue pressure
on factory owners.
It was too soon to say what
a realistic and fair increase
would be, Loo added. ADDITION-
AL REPORTING BY SHANE WORRELL
Garment factory workers protest on Veng Sreng Boulevard on the outskirts of Phnom Penh last month,
demanding an increase in minimum wages. PHA LINA
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
TWENTY-SIX garment work-
ers were injured, three of them
seriously, in Pursat province
yesterday morning when the
truck they were in overturned,
police said.
Ean Vanthorn, Krakor dis-
trict deputy police chief in
charge of trafc, blamed the
accident on the driver, whom
he said drove carelessly.
He does not have much
knowledge of trafc regula-
tions, Vanthorn said.
The truck, loaded with fe-
male garment workers head-
ing to work, tried to overtake a
freight truck on National Road
5. After passing the vehicle, the
garment trucks driver swerved
to miss a motorbike and lost
control. As the workers lay in-
jured, the driver ed the scene.
Ly Meng Kheang, a manager
at the Tai Easy factory, where
the women worked, said the
three seriously injured had
been taken to Calmette Hos-
pital in Phnom Penh.
Meng Kheang said the factory
would ask authorities to ensure
workers received compensa-
tion from the driver and the Na-
tional Social Security Fund.
Twenty-six
injured in
truck crash
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Four forged Hun Sens name
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A
FORMER adviser
to Senate President
Chea Sim was sen-
tenced along with
three other defendants to be-
tween ve and seven years
yesterday for defrauding a Chi-
nese tycoon out of $810,000
and promising to supply a
forged mining permit.
The four were involved in a
conspiracy to defraud Khao
Yun Dy, chairman of the Khmer
Holding Group and Khmer In-
ternational Media Group, by
faking a $6 million licence for
a mining operation in Mon-
dulkiri province between 2012
and 2013, according to Phnom
Penh Municipal Court judge
Kor Vandy.
El Romny, 42, the director
of ACICA Group and a former
adviser to Sim, was sentenced
to seven years along with Chen
Min Xin, 45, a Chinese national
who directed a wood process-
ing rm in Mondulkiri, and
government adviser Pol Sokha,
who was tried in absentia.
Another suspect, Sun So-
pheap, 45, a former ofcial
with the Ministry of Mines
and Energy, was sentenced in
absentia to ve years for being
an accomplice in the faking of
public documents and fraud.
The convicts were ordered to
pay a total of $550,000 in dam-
ages and compensation by the
court, Vandy said.
It is ordered to seek for ar-
rest Pol Sokha and Sun So-
pheap, that they be brought to
jail at Prey Sar prison to serve
the term of their sentences in
accordance with courts ver-
dict, he added.
Lieutenant Colonel Lor
Sokha, chief of the Serious
Crimes Unit at the Ministry
of Interior, said Sokha and So-
pheap escaped during a police
sting operation at Yun Dys of-
ce in Phnom Penh on August
24 last year.
They were arrested at Okh-
na Khao Yun Dys ofce when
they came to get money for
their work in securing the li-
cence for a mining operation
in Mondulkiri, he said.
To get the licence, he added,
they forged letters from the
Ministry of Mines and Energy,
Ministry of Assembly-Senate
Relations, and the signature of
Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Romny yesterday denied in-
volvement in the fraud, claim-
ing that Sokha was the sole
responsible party in securing
the forgeries.
Chen Mengxing (left) and El Romny (right) leave Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday after receiving their
sentence for defrauding a Chinese tycoon. HONG MENEA
Thirith on
the mend:
son-in-law
Cheang Sokha
THE health of former Khmer
Rouge Minister of Social Affairs
Ieng Thirith has improved to
the point that she was able to
return home last week after a
lengthy hospitalisation in Thai-
land, her attorney and son-in-
law said yesterday.
Phat Pov Seang, who defend-
ed Thirith at the Khmer Rouge
tribunal before she was severed
from Case 002 due to advancing
dementia, said she had stabi-
lised enough to be removed
from the oxygen tank and feed-
ing tube she had been connect-
ed to for over two months.
The doctor says her health
is better and that she could
come back. She can breathe on
her own, and now shes staying
at her sons house in Pailin,
Seang said. However, she still
needs treatment at home.
I will try to see her in Pailin,
he added. I keep in contact
with her daughter to follow up
on her health situation.
Seng Ran, Thiriths son-in-law,
also confirmed her return.
She is staying at home now,
and her condition is better
than it was before she was hos-
pitalised, he said.
Sexual assault
Suspects in
teens rape
sent to court
T
WO Battambang town
men arrested for black-
mailing a 15-year-old
girl into having sex with them
were sent to court yesterday,
according to local police.
Deputy provincial police
chief Chet Vanny said the re-
sults of medical examination
of the alleged victim will also
be sent to the court as soon as
they are available.
We have finished all the
procedures, and we [police]
could not keep the suspects
any longer because its against
the law, he said.
Vanny said suspects Treong
Soviet, 23, and a 16-year-old
accomplice were on their way
home around 2am on Saturday
when they saw the victim with
her boyfriend.
The suspects demanded
the girl have sex with them,
and, when she refused, they
allegedly threatened to tell
her parents about her secret
boyfriend, so she relented.
Her boyfriend was unable to
intervene due to an unrelated
injury. The girl told her parents
on Sunday, and they filed a
complaint to police who later
arrested the suspects. KIMSAROM
Continued from page 1
be tolerated. But as just over 93,000 candi-
dates entered the exam sites, their pockets
checked and phones taken away, threats of
immediate failure and even jail time didnt
stop a few desperate pupils from trying to
cheat their way through.
Proctors yesterday exposed three would-
be test-takers as they attempted to sit the
exam on behalf of others. Two suspects were
arrested in Kandal and another in Svay
Rieng, according to Minister of Education
Hang Chuon Naron. The real diploma can-
didates meanwhile automatically failed and
will be banned from taking the test again for
another two years.
In Kampot, one brazen examinee snuck
his smartphone into the exam hall and, while
looking up solutions to the test questions,
was caught by a monitor. The student found
himself swiftly ejected.
There were a number of students who
tried to bring in answer sheets or phones,
said Kol Preap, executive director of Trans-
parency International. But the amount of
students who were able to cheat success-
fully has significantly dropped.
During last years tests, more than half a
million dollars in bribes was funnelled to
teachers in exchange for cheat sheets and
leaked exam copies posted on Facebook,
according to an NGO study. This time
around, however, Minister Naron said that
after limiting creation of the test to a small
group of government employees, he remains
very confident no leakage could occur.
Copies that did manage to circulate yes-
terday were declared by the ministry to be
fakes. The Anti-Corruption Unit, which has
been enlisted to help monitor the exam,
arrested two print shop owners in Takeo after
the pair allegedly tried to sell fake copies of
five subjects, charging $100 for the bundle.
On a Facebook page called This Years
Grade 12 Exam, someone claiming to be an
anonymous administrator put up an alleged
copy of the chemistry test, but education
officials likewise denied the authenticity.
We are investigating the leakages to see if
they are true copies, said Rong Chhun,
president of the Cambodian Independent
Teachers Association, adding that he had
heard a copy of the history test was also
leaked in Prey Veng.
In line for the test at Chaktomuk Second-
ary School in the capital yesterday morning,
18-year-old Bopha* and her classmates dis-
cussed ways to smuggle in a cheat sheet full
of equations. The candidates had to wait over
an hour just to be admitted to the centre
prior to the exam as the proctors and mon-
itors checked students pockets and confis-
cated anything that wasnt a ruler or pen,
depriving them even of blank scrap paper.
Bopha managed to tuck the equation list
into the waistband of her pants and quietly
walk into the centre, but dared not run the
heist any further; after discussing with her
friends, she threw the sheet into a dustbin.
Its damn strict this year, she said. ADDI-
TIONAL REPORTING BY LAIGNEE BARRON
* Names changed to protect their iden-
tities.
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Shots and swords a
dangerous combination
SAMURAI swords should come
with a warning: keep out of
reach of drunkards. Unfortu-
nately, they dont. On Saturday,
two men were enjoying dinner
in Pailin town until a few drinks
too many led to an argument.
After the men scuffled and
threw a few punches, one man
reached for a nearby sword and
hacked his friend several times
until he collapsed. Realising
what he had done, the perpe-
trator fled. He was later arrest-
ed, while the victim was sent to
hospital. KOHSANTEPHEAP

Jewellery thief eludes
steel bracelets, for now
POLICE in Pursats Phnom
Kravanh district believed they
found the loot but not their man
on Sunday. After a woman, 27,
reported that someone had
broken into her house at about
2am, stealing jewellery worth
more than $1,000, police went
on the hunt for those responsi-
ble. It didnt take long for them
to spot a man selling a bracelet
one of the stolen items in a
market. His explanation was
that he had received it from his
friend, a story the police bought.
He was still arrested for selling
stolen goods and the investiga-
tion continues. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA
Theft of door an entry
point to prison spell
BURGLARIES dont come
much more brazen than steal-
ing someones very own front
door. Thats what happened in
Kandals Takhmao town on
Sunday night when two men
and a woman helped them-
selves to items at a construc-
tion site. Under cover of dark-
ness, the three were loaded up
and ready to disappear with
items, including the door, when
two cops spotted them. One, 19,
was arrested, while the other
two fled. The teen in custody
said the three were desperate
for money to buy food. NOKORWAT
Alleged small-timers
in big trouble over stash
POLICE continued their assault
on small-time drug dealers in
the capital on Sunday, arresting
three men, aged 45, 50 and 52.
As is often the case, police act-
ed on a tip-off and raided a
home in Prampi Makara dis-
trict. After storming in unan-
nounced, police seized several
packages of yama, five mobile
phones and other drug para-
phernalia. The trio confessed
that they supplied to many drug
users in the area and often
indulged in their own product
themselves. DEUMAMPIL
Side-swipe lands car
passengers in hospital
TWO people were seriously
injured in a traffic accident in
Banteay Meanchey province on
Sunday. Police said a car carry-
ing four passengers sped up to
overtake a truck. As it did, the
truck turned left without indi-
cating and the car crashed into
the side of it. Two passengers
were taken to hospital. The
truck driver remained at the
scene for questioning but was
not arrested. Police impounded
both vehicles for further investi-
gation. KAMPUCHEATHMEY
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
Cheaters foiled at grade 12 exams
Students exit Wat Phnom High School yesterday in Phnom Penh during the rst day of the
nationwide exam period for grade 12 students. HONG MENEA
Food ght
Vendors and
security feud
over parking
S
ECURITY guards from
Derm Kor market in
Phnom Penhs Tuol Kork
district destroyed produce
from nearly 100 vegetable
vendors yesterday morning
after ordering sellers to va-
cate the premises for parking.
The security guards dropped
the produce on the ground,
even running over some of it
with their cars, said 28-year-
old vendor Meas Sampos.
According to Sampos, ven-
dors were previously allowed
to sell vegetables at night and
left every morning at 8am to
make space for buses and
bikes.
I pay over $1 every day to
the markets security to have
the right to sell here, Sampos
said, adding that market secu-
rity broke their contract with
the vendors.
Vorn Pov, president of the
Independent Democracy of
Informal Economy Associa-
tion, said the market must find
a new space for the vendors,
or they may demonstrate.
Bun Thoeun, chief of secu-
rity, said the action was part
of a plan to impose order
around the market. SENDAVID
Chan Muyhong

C
AMBODIA will join
the bidding for the
Philippine govern-
ments latest rice im-
port offer, a senior rice indus-
try ofcial says.
The Philippine govern-
ments National Food Author-
ity (NFA) last week authorised
the import of 500,000 tonnes
of rice to the country.
The bidding process, which
is looking for the best-priced
and best-quality rice, is open
to all countries. A decision
will be made on August 27.
The offer was reportedly
made as an emergency ef-
fort to replenish the coun-
trys rice crops. Recent severe
weather has damaged the
crops and driven up prices in
the local market, Philippine
reports said.
Thon Virak, chairman and
director-general of Green
Trade, a Cambodian state-
owned milled-rice exporter,
said the Kingdom is ready to
make a bid this time, after
missing out on a similar ten-
der by the Philippine govern-
ment last year due to a short-
age of able exporters.
This is the second time
the Philippines has invited
Cambodia to the bidding,
Virak said.
We missed previous bid-
ding because we did not have
a united exporter group yet
to transport the huge load.
But now we have one, we are
ready, he said, referring to
the recently founded Cam-
bodia Rice Federation (CRF),
which united the countrys
rice exporter community in
one organisation.
I do not work alone. We
are working together in the
group now.
Virak, however, admitted
that Cambodias high trans-
portation and shipping costs
could hamper the countrys
chances of landing the deal.
It will be hard for us to
give lower quotes than Viet-
nam. Nevertheless, this is an
important step for us. I have
discussed with CRF about re-
ducing transport costs to see
what we can do about it.
CRF president Sok Puthy-
vuth could not be reached
for comment.
Kim Savuth, president of
Khmer Mekong Food, the
countrys biggest rice ex-
porter, said yesterday that the
bid is an exciting opportunity
for exporters in Cambodia to
capture a new market.
We have enough rice to
join the bidding. On whether
any of the Cambodian ex-
porters will win the bid, I am
not sure, Savuth said.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Business
Myanmar landowners the latest to join rural exodus
BIG cities are luring Myanmars small-
and medium-scale farm owners to sell
their land and follow labourers in pur-
suit of higher incomes.
Some 90 per cent of landowners have
5 acres or less, according to a previous
survey by the Myanmar Rice Federa-
tion, but farmers groups say the trend
is changing as smaller landowners
gravitate to urban opportunities.
Farmers also complain of inade-
quate access to capital, being in debt
most of the year and insufficient fam-
ily income, and often see working in
the cities as the solution, said Thein
Aung, chair of the Freedom Farmer
League, a farmer-advocacy group.
Land is often snapped up by larger
landowners, meaning smaller farms
are disappearing, while large farms
grow in size, he added.
Small-scale farmers have begun
disappearing speedily, while the big-
ger farmers have become bigger and
bigger, he said. Its tough for small
farmers to survive with what they earn
from growing rice.
One factor is the small yields of
Myanmar paddy fields. While some
experts peg annual rice yields at 2.5
tonnes per hectare, many farmers
achieve far less, he said.
A June World Bank report on Myan-
mars rice market said only Cambodia
had a lower 2010-12 average yield per
hectare of 2.41 tonnes, while Vietnam
had highs of 5.6 tonnes.
Thein Aung is a farmer himself and
recently purchased 10 acres from his
neighbours, bringing his farm to 30
acres in total though he says it is still
not enough. I still have to struggle, he
said. My current income is no more
than 300,000 kyat [$307] a month.
If I work only on 20 acres of land,
the profit I have is not totally enough
for my family and I still, now, have to
struggle working on 30 acres of land
to make both ends meet, he said.
Other landowners confirm they are
feeling pressure to leave.
Bago Region medium-scale farmer
Aung Htay estimated that about 30 per
cent of small landowners in his area
have sold their land and left in the last
three years. Sometimes, no matter
how hard a farmer works, its impos-
sible to make ends meet, he said.
Aung Htay has a small business in
addition to his 15 acres of land, he said.
He said the business is the main rea-
son he is able to survive financially.
If I didnt have my business I would
also have left for the cities, he said.
Small- and medium-scale farmers
warrant increased support, especially
given the importance rice production
plays in the rural economy, he said.
When the rice price increases a lit-
tle, people get annoyed, but if the
price for tea or snacks increases,
nobody notices, he said.
Myanmar Farmer Association chair
Soe Tun said that mechanisation is the
future for farmers. But, he added,
farmers also need access to capital to
purchase the machinery, requiring a
strong commitment from the govern-
ment. Still, the exodus is likely to con-
tinue. THE MYANMAR TIMES
Combine harvesters work on a rice paddy in Takeo province last week. HONG MENEA
Cambodia ready for rice bid
Heavy falls
may mean
improved
rice harvest
Hor Kimsay
RAINFALL over the weekend,
which caused flooding in 13
provinces, could improve crop
yields for rice growers, provin-
cial authorities say.
Agricultural departments in
Preah Vihear, Stung Treng,
Kampong Thom and Battam-
bang provinces some of the
worst hit on the weekend all
said water was now draining
from paddies after submerging
the rice for two days.
Actually, it might end up
providing enough water for
farmers to be able to plant
more rice, Preah Vihear agri-
cultural department director
Peung Tryda said.
Peung added that about 5,000
of the provinces 60,500 hec-
tares of rice-growing land had
been submerged.
The weekends floods
marked an early start to the
years heavy-rainfall period.
August and September are
generally the wettest months
of the year.
The Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology
issued a warning to high-land
provinces such as Preah Vihear
prior to the weekends floods,
which left five people dead.
According to the ministry,
more rain is forecast for those
areas until Thursday.
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Aye Thida Kyaw

M
YANMAR is warn-
ing tax dodgers
that a crackdown
will begin later
this month.
An anti-tax avoidance cam-
paign will be announced in
state-run newspapers in a bid
to increase the Ministry of Fi-
nances revenue generation
by 20 per cent for the 2014-15
scal year, said Tin Tun Naing,
director of the Internal Reve-
nue Departments Companies
Circle Tax Ofce.
The action plan calls for se-
vere charges [for dodgers] fol-
lowing the public announce-
ments, he said.
A tax advisory board recent-
ly found 20 per cent of Yan-
gons enterprises in industrial
areas or 400 of the total 2,000
enterprises paid no tax last
year, while many others are
thought to have paid less than
they actually owed.
Tax authorities in Yangon
Region will work with the
Yangon City Development
Committee who handle lo-
cal business registrations
and Ministry of Home Affairs
to launch the crackdown and
chase tax avoiders, according
to a notice.
At the most severe end, tax
dodgers who still claim inno-
cence despite being convicted
could be sent to prison from
three to seven years, and have
their businesses closed.
Tin Tun Naing said tax poli-
cies formerly were designed
to levy penalties of 10 per cent
for those who unintentionally
failed to pay taxes and 50 per
cent on those who failed in-
tentionally, but the increased
measures are warranted to
deal with the problem. Some
businesspeople had been tak-
ing advantage of IRDs exibil-
ity and its weakness in staff ca-
pacity and technology, he said.
IRD has compassion for
people who make little rev-
enue, but now we are going
to imitate international prac-
tices, he said. Reforming the
laws is not the main way to
raise revenues but a serious
action plan will be effective.
About 8200 of 20,000 reg-
istered rms nationwide did
not pay tax in the 2013-14 s-
cal year, though many of those
are simply inactive, he said.
However, others are used for
social stature.
Proof that taxes are paid
are part of requirements to
extend business registration,
but often rms negotiate
with authorities to avoid pay-
ing much of their taxes, us-
ing methods such as showing
articially low prots on their
statements. MYANMAR TIMES
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Myanmar kyat banknotes sit in bundles after being counted at a store in Yangon. BLOOMBERG
Tax cheats beware: Myanmar
May Kunmakara
PRIME Minister Hun Sen yes-
terday applauded the recent
creation of the BRICS New
Development Bank (NDB),
saying it could ease Cambo-
dias dependence on institu-
tions such as the World Bank
and the International Mon-
etary Fund (IMF).
BRICS member nations
Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa announced
the creation of the NDB dur-
ing the 6th BRICS Summit
last month. Similar to the
World Bank, the NDB has a
mandate to provide funding
to the worlds least developed
economies and assist in de-
velopment projects.
The BRICS bank, which is
a big bank, does not fully re-
place the role of World Bank
and the IMF, but it adds an-
other power to help the poor
countries and reduce reliance
on the one place for funding,
Hun Sen said.
The NDB will be based in
Shanghai and operate off an
initial capital base of $50 bil-
lion, with each BRICS nation
contributing $10 billion be-
fore the total eventually rises
to a planned $100 billion.
The establishment of the
bank will reduce the mo-
nopoly of some institutions
and will expedite the devel-
opment of the poor countries
to become bigger, the prime
minister said.
It is a good situation and
we also need it as we are a
small country, he added.
A spokesman for the World
Bank in Cambodia welcomed
the NDB, saying that it was
ready to work closely with the
new bank on future projects
in the Kingdom.
Clearly, the BRICS coun-
tries have a key role to play
in helping promote global
growth, the World Bank
spokesman said.
A major part of the World
Banks strategy is to partner
with regional development
banks, international organi-
sations, national govern-
ments and stakeholders to
enhance the effectiveness of
our collective work.
Membership in the BRICS
bank will be open to all UN
members. The new nancial
institution is expected to
begin operations as early as
next year.
The IMF did not return re-
quests for comment.
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Business
Chan Muyhong
BOEUNG Kak residents de-
livered a petition to the Sin-
gaporean Embassy yesterday,
calling on it to pressure Singa-
pore-listed HLH Group to halt
dealings with a controversial
development project at the
site until a land row is settled.
HLH Group entered a $14.9
million purchase deal in June
for 1.3 hectares of land there.
We have asked the em-
bassy to tell the investor [HLH
Group] not to buy any land
from Boeung Kak area, and to
take their deposit back until
there is a resettlement for the
remaining residents, Boeung
Kak resident Sear Sareth said
yesterday, adding that the
group would return to the em-
bassy in two weeks to protest if
their demands were not met.
In 2007, City Hall agreed to a
$79 million, 99-year lease with
Lao Meng Khin, a ruling party
senator and owner of Shukaku,
to develop 133 hectares at
Boeung Kak. Shukaku then be-
gan to ll in the lake and resi-
dents were forced to leave with
compensation offers some still
protest against today.
Embassy
asked to
intervene
Thai fraudsters in SECs sights
Nuntawun Polkuamdee

T
HAILANDS Securi-
ties and Exchange
Commission will ask
the Finance Ministry
to amend the law to let it bring
civil fraud charges against
those suspected of unfair trad-
ing practices.
The call for change is an at-
tempt to improve the efcien-
cy of the SECs crackdowns.
A committee comprising
SEC ofcers and experts in se-
curities, nance and account-
ing will be responsible for
imposing civil penalties, SEC
Deputy Secretary-General
Vasant Thienhom said.
The securities watchdog has
faced jibes of being a paper
tiger, as it has no authority
to press charges against ma-
nipulators and those who are
alleged to use inside informa-
tion for their own benet.
Under the current Securities
and Exchange Act, all suspect-
ed cases are considered crimi-
nal liabilities, meaning a time-
consuming process, and the
SEC has a duty only to gather
evidence for the Department
of Special Investigation and
the Ofce of the Attorney-
General to decide whether
cases can go to trial.
Statistically, legal actions
against unfair securities trad-
ing practices taken by the SEC
have shown a less than sat-
isfactory outcome, with few
cases going to trial or defen-
dants convicted by the court.
SEC secretary-general Vora-
pol Socatiyanurak said the
SEC currently pursues sus-
pected violations by ling a
criminal complaint with po-
lice for further investigation.
But if the military regime lets
the SEC le complaints and
press cases through civil pro-
cedure, the process will take
less time and limit the damage
caused by wrongdoers.
For example, if someone
makes money from share ma-
nipulation and the case re-
mains under investigation and
the criminal procedure code,
that person will have a chance
to spend that money through
wrongdoing and make a lot
more money, Vorapol said.
If we are authorised to seize
money from share manipula-
tion, they will have no seed
funds to prot further and we
can limit the damage that per-
son can cause.
According to data from the
SEC, 21 of this years 64 crimi-
nal sanctions as of the end
of June were for market ma-
nipulation and ve were for
insider trading.
From the SECs formation
in 1992 to 2012, the securi-
ties watchdog led 459 com-
plaints, of which 48 per cent
were sent to an attorney, 18
per cent resulted in charges
led, 16 per cent saw convic-
tions by a court, 13 per cent
involved suspects who es-
caped and 5 per cent were
cases in which the period to
le charges expired.
Vasant said the territories
that apply civil penalties to
securities offences include
Hong Kong, Singapore, Ma-
laysia, Australia, France, Italy
and the US.
He said the number of of-
fences related to stock ma-
nipulation is falling at the mo-
ment, while cases involving
insider trading are climbing.
The decline in market ma-
nipulation could be due to ef-
forts by the SEC and the Stock
Exchange of Thailand, such as
the turnover list.
Investors who trade stocks
on the turnover list are re-
quired to pay by cash only
to alert investors and reduce
trading activity in those shares.
BANGKOK POST
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission wants to improve the efciency of its crackdowns. BLOOMBERG
PBOCs $162B loan
spurs talk of easing
Full McMenu to return
A CHINESE central bank loan
almost the size of the US bailout
of American International
Group Inc has spurred specula-
tion that policy makers have
adopted a new form of mone-
tary easing to shore up growth.
While the Peoples Bank of
China warns debt is rising
quickly, and credit expansion
is already high, that didnt stop
it from extending what Chinese
media reported is a 1-trillion-
yuan ($162 billion), three-year
loan to a state development
bank. By comparison, the AIG
rescue totalled $182 billion.
The loan, designed to lower
financing costs for govern-
ment-backed housing projects,
marks a qualitative easing by
Governor Zhou Xiaochuan,
according to Citigroup Inc
economists. The move, which
the PBOC has yet to confirm
publicly, also takes the central
bank deeper into fiscal-policy
territory after it gave quotas for
discounted lending for agricul-
ture, small businesses and low-
income housing.
It shows the central banks
efforts to lower borrowing
costs, said Ding Shuang, Hong
Kong-based senior China
economist at Citigroup. The
PBOC is reluctant to increase
the money supply and is
instead using a tool that looks
like a subsidised lending facil-
ity, Ding said.
The PBOC and borrower
China Development Bank
didnt respond to questions.
The CDB loan, along with
stimulus projects from provin-
cial authorities and the central
government, and a decline in
money-market interest rates,
may help assure Premier Li
Keqiangs 7.5 per cent econom-
ic growth target this year.
Signs of the impact of what Li
has described as targeted eas-
ing were seen in the manufac-
turing purchasing managers
index, which rose to the highest
level in more than two years in
July. At the same time, the real-
estate slide indicated in a gauge
of services industries helps
explain why the PBOC is gear-
ing credit toward housing.
By providing financing for
infrastructure projects, the
government intends to revive
growth in real estate and
ensure sufficient aggregate
demand to meet this years tar-
gets, Credit Agricole economist
Dariusz Kowalczyk said.
This is another targeted eas-
ing measure, Chang Jian, chief
China economist at Barclays
Plc, wrote in a July 30 report.
While the loan doesnt repre-
sent broad loosening, it has
reduced recent market con-
cerns about a shift in the
PBOCs stance away from eas-
ing towards neutral or tighten-
ing, she said.
Wang Tao, UBS AGs chief
China economist, says the
measure is part of trying to
optimise the implementation
of its existing monetary stance,
and doesnt constitute a shift in
policy, according to a July
24 report.
In its report on Friday, the
PBOC said targeted measures
have become a new trend of
major central banks since the
global financial crisis started
and that it will keep using tools
such as relending and redis-
counting to guide institutions
to optimise their credit struc-
ture. BLOOMBERG
MCDONALDS will
start selling beef and
chicken burgers in
some Chinese cities
again, almost two
weeks after a sup-
plier came under
investigation for sell-
ing expired meat.
Customers in Chi-
nese cities including Beijing
and Guangzhou will be able to
buy all the items on the menu
later this week, Oak Brook,
Illinois-based McDonalds said
in a statement, without specify-
ing the date or number of cities.
Its also increasing orders from
other existing suppliers in Chi-
na while exploring new ones.
McDonalds, the worlds larg-
est restaurant chain by sales,
withdrew beef, pork and
chicken items from its restau-
rants in China after a Shanghai
television station
reported on July 20
how Shanghai Husi
Food Co, a unit of
McDonalds long-
term supplier OSI
Group LLC, took
expired meat and
added sell-by dates of
another year, renewing
concerns of food safety in
the country.
In Hong Kong, McDonalds
restaurants are serving burgers
such as the Big Mac and
McChicken burgers back to
their original build, after let-
tuce and onion were imported
from the US and Taiwan, the
restaurant chain said on its
website yesterday.
McDonalds Hong Kong halt-
ed sales of products supplied
by Shanghai Husi late last
month. BLOOMBERG
Request for Proposals
Design and Implement Activities to
Improve Human Ri ghts and Equi ty i n
Cambodi as
Forest Communi ti es
The USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB) Project is
being funded by USAID and implemented by Winrock International and a
consortiumof partners. TheProject is beingimplementedinclosepartnership
with theMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries through theForestry
Administration and the Ministry of Environment through the General
Department of Administrationfor Natural ConservationandProtection.
TheSFB Project improves conservationandgovernanceof theEasternPlains
and Prey Lang landscapes to reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change
and conserve biodiversity. Project objectives include improving governance
to manageCambodias remainingforests andreducedeforestation, improving
the ability of communities to engage positively and effectively with their
government to reduce deforestation and establish sustainable community
forests, andimprovingopportunitiesfor forest communitiesto obtainlong-term
sustainableincomesfromforest resources.
Cambodias remaining forests and once-vast biodiversity resources are
disappearingat analarmingrate, leavingbehindfragileecosystems, devastated
watersheds, and relatively small islands of biodiversity requiring strong
commitment and sound conservation management. Thehuman costs of these
dramatic land-usechangesareoftentimesdevastatingaswell.
The USAID SFB Project is seeking and implementing organization with
nationwideCambodian experiencein developing trust and relationships with
forest communitiesto facilitatetheformationof anationwidenetwork that links
thehundreds of disbursedforest communities andsmall, regional community
forest networksinto amorecohesiveandbroader network. Thisnetwork would
aimto solve problems forest communities face in economic development,
deforestation, land rights, human rights, and other related issues. The result
of this organizing activity would be a network of forest communities that
can share their knowledge of economic development alternatives, as well as
discussproblemsandsolutionsfor addressingandresolvinghumanrights, land
ownershiprights, labor rightsandexploitation, whichmost forest communities
arecurrently experiencing.
The SFB Project requests proposals to be submitted by close of business,
August 21, 2014. The proposal should provide an overall design for the
initiative as suggested by the Scope of Work, a detailed activity-based work
plan, a detailed budget, credentials of the rm, consortium, or individuals, and
provide information that demonstrates 1) capability to implement activities,
including nancial adequacy, 2) experience implementing similar activities in
Cambodia, 3) track record that supports thecapability to implement, such as
length of operation and major achievements, 4) the makeup of the team, 5)
technical knowledgeinthetopic area, suchascommunity forestry, biodiversity,
constructivedialoge, training, andclimatechange, and6) anunderstandingof
theCambodiangovernments context. TheProject encourages consortiums of
rms and individuals due to the diversity of the skills and experience required
to successfully implement theInitiative.
Thework isto becompletedbetweenSeptember 2014andAugust 2016. For a
detailed scope of work, call the USAID SFB ofce at 023-220-714, or write an
email to infosfb@winrock.org andaScopeof Work will besent by email. Or,
retrieve one in person from the Project ofce at Room 588, Building F, Phnom
PenhCenter. Deadline submission is close of business August 21, 2014. Only
shortlisted rms or individuals will be contacted.
Packer buys Vegas site
AUS T R A L I A N
mogul James
Packers Crown
Resorts has paid
A$280 million
(US$260 million)
for a prime site on
Las Vegas Boule-
vard in a bid to
crack the US casi-
no market.
The billionaire, who runs
Crown a worldwide gambling
empire has teamed up with
former Wynn Las Vegas presi-
dent Andrew Pascal in a joint
venture, backed by Oaktree
Capital Management.
The new resort firm, which is
majority-owned by Crown, has
bought a controlling interest in
a 34.6-acre vacant site on the
world-famous gambling strip
formerly occupied by the New
Frontier casino.
You cant be in
the gaming indus-
try and not have a
special reverence
for Las Vegas
thats where it all
began, said Pack-
er, co-chair of the
venture.
As we have built Crown
Resorts into a thriving interna-
tional company with successful
casino ventures in Australia,
Macau, and London, weve
always kept our eye on Las
Vegas. local partner in Andrew,
a leading financial investor in
Oaktree, and the perfect piece
of property.
The new resort firm hopes to
start development in late 2015
and complete the project in
2018. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Bank crisis: Portugal
back at bailout well
Brigitte Hagemann

P
ORTUGAL is launch-
ing a nearly 5 billion
EU-backed rescue
package for banking
giant Banco Espirito Santo to
avert a wider crisis across the
nancial system.
Faced with the risk that the
bank might crash and put
the eurozone country back in
danger, the Portuguese cen-
tral bank announced a rescue
package of 4.9 billion ($6.6
billion) late on Sunday.
Last week Banco Espirito
Santo reported a rst-half loss
of 3.57 billion the worst ever
reported in Portugal sending
its shares plunging.
Its three holding rms were
already in administration.
The Portuguese state will
provide 4.4 billion of the
bail-out from rescue funds
already available to it under
a national bailout program
from which the country had
only emerged in May.
In Brussels, the European
Commission gave its approval,
saying that the terms includ-
ing the creation of a new bank
and measures to ensure share-
holders pay a heavy price
would not distort competition.
The commission said the res-
cue would restore condence
in nancial stability and avoid
the risk of systemic effects.
All the banks viable assets
are to be put into a new bank
called Novo Banco under new
EU procedures introduced
at the height of the eurozone
debt crisis.
All the bad assets will stay in
BES, which is to be wound-
down on the backs of all
shareholders and subordinat-
ed creditors, the commission
explained.
It also made it clear that
shareholders, and not taxpay-
ers, will bear much of the cost
thereby minimising the link be-
tween the banks failure and the
sovereign bond market where
Portugal borrows money.
This is signicant because it
enacts the principles of a new
EU bank resolution system,
and because Portugal has only
recently managed to pull itself
out of a three-year bailout or-
ganised by the EU and the In-
ternational Monetary Fund.
The crisis at BES, the big-
gest private bank in the coun-
try and third-biggest overall
with vast interests throughout
the economy, threatened to
wreck Portugals fragile new-
found condence.
The countrys borrowing
costs edged down in early
trading yesterday, though the
market response was muted,
with the interest rates on exist-
ing Portuguese 10-year bonds
falling to 3.684 per cent from
3.701 per cent on Friday.
BES is in difculty largely
because of suspected improp-
er accounting practices in the
accounts of the Espirito Santo
Group of rms built around
three holding companies.
The state will inject 4.4
billion into BES, Portugals
central bank governor Carlos
Costa said late on Sunday,
hours before the markets
opened, in an announcement
timed to avert the risk of a
catastrophic bank run.
Nothing changes for the
[banks] customers, Costa said.
They can carry out all the
usual operations without any
problems. BES from Monday
[yesterday] will become Novo
Banco, even if branches at rst
keep the old logos, he added.
Novo Banco will be con-
trolled by the Resolution Fund
set up by Portugals banks as
part of the conditions for the
2012 national bailout by the
IMF, the EU and the ECB.
There was an urgent need
to adopt a solution to guar-
antee the protection of de-
posits and assure the stability
of the banking system, Costa
said. AFP
Bank of Portugal governor Carlos Costa announces a bailout package
for Espirito Santo Bank in Lisbon on Sunday. AFP

Pesos outlook soured
by Argentinas default
INVESTORS are anticipating a
10 per cent drop in the
Argentine peso after the nation
defaulted for the second time
in 13 years last week. Non-
deliverable forwards that show
traders expectations for the
peso over the next 90 days fell
to 9.15 per dollar, the weakest
in six months, after the country
missed a July 30 deadline to
pay $539 million of interest on
restructured bonds. The
government will probably
support the peso more
aggressively to help bolster its
case that the default is the
result of a legal impasse and
not a lack of funds, according
to JPMorgan. BLOOMBERG
Spanish jobless figure
declines slightly in July
SPAINS jobless queue shrank
a little in July, the government
said yesterday, as the summer
tourism season opened. The
number of people registered
as unemployed fell month on
month by 29,841 people, or
0.67 per cent, to 4.42 million in
July, the Labour Ministry said.
It was the sixth straight month
showing a decline in the
number of people who have
registered as jobless. Spain
relies heavily on tourism and
the labour market usually
enjoys a boost in hiring during
the summer months. AFP
Markets
11
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Business
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Markets
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FTSE Straits Times Index, Aug 1 FTSE BursaMalaysiaKLCI, Aug 1
Hang Seng Index, Aug 1 CSI 300 Index, Aug 1
Nikkei 225, Aug 1 Taiwan Taiex Index, Aug 1
Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Aug 1
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2,375.62 24,600.08
1,875.80 3,318.40
599.04 1,019.12
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India Pakistan
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Laos Composite Index, Aug 1 Jakarta Composite Index, Aug 1
BSE Sensex 30 Index, Aug 1 Karachi 100 Index, Aug 1
S&P/ASX 200 Index, Aug 1 NZX 50 Index, Aug 1
5,540.88
29,627.29 25,660.36
5,119.25 1,371.18
6,998.37 2,080.42
5,090.69
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Gasoline R 5250 5450 3.81 %
Diesel R 5100 5200 1.96 %
Petroleum R 5500 5500 0.00 %
Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
Charcoal Baht 1200 1300 8.33 %
Energy
Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 98.08 0.2 0.20% 5:17:43
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 105.01 0.17 0.16% 5:17:43
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.8 0 0.08% 5:17:00
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 274.48 0.05 0.02% 5:16:48
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 287.94 1.33 0.46% 5:16:30
ICEGasoil USD/MT 886.5 0.75 0.08% 5:17:53
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.8 0.01 0.08% 3:15:00
CME Lumber USD/tbf 324.1 -0.3 -0.09% 16:07:47
General Electric and
its brilliant factory
Mohana Ravindranath

A
T A General Elec-
tric factory in
Schenectady, New
York, tens of thou-
sands of tiny sensors are
quietly collecting data about
each step in the manufac-
turing of a battery.
The sensors know, for in-
stance, how humid the fac-
tory oor was on a certain
production day, and exactly
how much pressure a ma-
chine applied to a particular
battery component. If poly-
mer parts come out slightly
thicker one day compared
with another, sensors com-
municate this to the opera-
tor, who can examine data
from the two days.
The company is gathering
this data so it can improve its
factories, determining which
conditions down to the
surrounding temperature
are associated with the best
products. GE is also trying
to realise chief executive Jeff
Immelts vision of the bril-
liant factory: a dynamic sys-
tem in which machine parts
constantly relay information
to operators, who can sched-
ule maintenance before
equipment fails, all the while
improving the manufactur-
ing process. GE soon plans
to use 3D printers in new
factories to customise and
print new components, such
as metal jet engine parts or
plastic tools.
This is GEs version of the
Internet of Things, a term
often applied to a connected
network of phones and home
appliances; GE executives call
it the industrial internet.
In June, the company an-
nounced it was committing
$400 million to building a
brilliant factory in Green-
ville, South Carolina, where
it plans to use higher-tech
manufacturing processes to
test new methods, such as
replacing nickel alloys with a
hardier ceramic component
in gas turbines.
In 2011, the rm pledged
at least $1 billion to devel-
oping its industrial internet
and dedicated its newest re-
search centre in San Ramon,
California, to the concept.
If we can take an aircraft
engine, and if we can get
10 per cent more time on
wing for that engine, thats
worth billions of dollars to
our customers, Immelt
said last year. And the way
you do that is through ma-
terial science, where were
really good. But you have to
be able to do a better job on
analytics and modelling fail-
ure, and things like that.
These high-tech factories
are still works in progress,
said global technology direc-
tor Christine Furstoss. Aside
from building a handful of
entirely new factories, GE is
gradually adding sensors as
needed to each of its 400 ex-
isting factories worldwide.
We have machines that
have very sophisticated
controllers and can collect
data, and we have other
machines that pretty much
have an on and off button,
Furstoss said.
For instance, operators at
a GE aviation plant in the US
recently noticed that a deli-
cate piece of metal would of-
ten break as the factory fash-
ioned it into a turbine part.
Wed have to rework a lot of
them, she said. Its hard to
keep costs in check, so we put
tiny sensors on these parts as
we were doing the machining
it was measuring the sensi-
tivity in the material.
The machine could ad-
just based on an individual
metal pieces sensitivity, she
explained. Parts are often
very sensitive to the envi-
ronment, she added, but its
not realistic to work in a vac-
uum. We want to make sure
we understand variability.
GE is developing the soft-
ware to manage the data col-
lected from these thousands
of sensors, Furstoss said
but its a challenge to build
one system that GEs thou-
sands of suppliers could also
use. In addition to its inter-
nal development efforts, last
year the company invested
about $105 million in Piv-
otal, a startup with software
that manages big data.
One particular part might
touch three suppliers and
two GE factories, she said
and its almost impossible
to get all links in any supply
chain to use the same data
collection software.
Though GE and Immelt
have been vocal about the
companys commitment to
the industrial internet, its
competitors like Honeywell
and Roper are also begin-
ning to automate their man-
ufacturing, according to Ed-
ward Jones Equity Research
analyst Christian Mayes.
This is something that
investors are waking up
to that industrial com-
panies arent these sleepy,
old-fashioned companies
they might have thought.
Theyre really starting to
look more tech-savvy, he
said. THE WASHINGTON POST
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World
Child killed,
30 hurt in
Gaza strike
during lull
A CHILD was killed and 30
people wounded in a strike on
a refugee camp in Gaza City
yesterday just minutes into
an Israeli-declared truce,
medics said.
Witnesses and several AFP
correspondents based at a
nearby hotel reported hearing
the whistle of a missile fired
from an F16 warplane before
it crashed into a three-story
house wedged between two
tall buildings inside the beach-
front Shati refugee camp.
The strike killed an 8-year-
old girl, a spokesman for the
emergency services, Ashraf
al-Qudra, said.
An AFP correspondent said
that the strike hit at 0706 GMT
just six minutes into the
ceasefire.
The Israeli army said it was
looking into the incident, but
gave no further comment.
With only a narrow alley
leading to the house, it was not
possible to get rescue equip-
ment to the scene, with a long
line of people passing out
chunks of rubble by hand, an
AFP correspondent said.
Young men joined rescuers
in the human chain, shouting
at onlookers to leave the place
and not complicate the search
for survivors.
Just after 10am, an F16
fired at the houses. There is
no truce. How could there be
a truce? They are liars, they
dont even respect their own
commitments, raged Ayman
Mahmud, who lives in the
neighbourhood.
The strike caused the house
to pancake, leaving only a very
narrow gap for rescuers to get
inside, some of whom were
bloodying themselves in the
effort, he said.
At the scene was a huge pile
of rubble, strewn with twisted
metal rods, broken glass and
everyday items such as sauce-
pans and even a childs
plastic tricycle, the corre-
spondent said.
After about half an hour,
they managed to pull the body
of a young girl wearing pyja-
mas out of the rubble.
Her spine appeared to be
broken in several places, with
rescuers struggling to get her
onto a stretcher, he said.
They say there were fighters
hiding here, but we are all
civilians, railed a neighbour
whose house was badly dam-
aged by the attack.
Earlier yesterday, the Israeli
army announced a unilateral
seven-hour halt to firing, to
begin at 0700 GMT.
Hamas said it would not be
observing the truce, and
warned people to exercise
extreme caution when ventur-
ing out onto the streets after
earlier temporary ceasefire
arrangements collapsed into a
frenzy of bloodshed. AFP
Rescuers battle to clear bodies
after China quake toll hits 400
Neil Connor
R
ESCUERS laid out bodies in
the streets yesterday after at
least 398 people were killed
by an earthquake in China,
leaving the idyllic mountain landscape
littered with scenes of devastation and
sparking a huge rescue effort.
More than 18,000 rescuers were
deployed in the disaster zone in the
southwest province of Yunnan, where
nearly 80,000 houses were destroyed
and 124,000 seriously damaged, the
ofcial news agency Xinhua said.
In Longtoushan, the epicentre of
the earthquake, a volunteer gently
placed the body of a 1-year-old in-
fant next to an 8-year-old, near other
small corpses. Each one was wrapped
in dirty blankets and old clothes tied
with string to anything resembling
a stretcher a ladder, two branches,
or planks of wood as rain fell from
darkened skies.
There are about 70 to 80 bodies
here, one women shouted helplessly.
We cannot move them because the
roads are all blocked, said a man, as
more bodies were recovered from the
rubble and placed on the dirty path-
way, a reporter saw.
The village sits at the end of a road
from the urban centre of Ludian that
winds through treacherous cliffs with
signs of landslides fresh dirt, rocks
and huge boulders littering the con-
crete. Along the route were stationed
hundreds of army vehicles, ambulanc-
es and trucks loaded up with supplies.
The US Geological Survey (USGS)
reported Sundays quake at a mag-
nitude of 6.1 and said it struck at a
relatively shallow depth of 10 kilome-
tres. The Yunnan province civil affairs
ofce said 398 people had been con-
rmed killed and 1,801 injured.
A total of 18,000 emergency person-
nel, including 11,000 police and re-
ghters, and 7,000 soldiers and armed
police had been mobilised, Xinhua
said. Equipment brought to the area
included life detection instruments
and excavating tools.
They are also battling the continual
downpour that has brought down the
temperature in the remote area and
made shortages of food and medicine
even more pernicious, Xinhua added.
In Ludian county, which includes
Longtoushan, Xinhua said its report-
ers saw drenched survivors sit along
the muddy roads waiting for food and
medication. Some half-naked survi-
vors were quivering in the rain.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived
in Yunnan yesterday and because of
the road conditions had to walk for
over three miles to reach the worst-
hit village, Xinhua said on a veried
Twitter account.
Residents ed in terror as the earth-
quake hit, television images showed,
and in the immediate aftermath sol-
diers stretchered the injured away
from the scene.
In the immediate aftermath, rescuers
rushed victims to local hospitals and
yesterday were still picking through
the rubble of destroyed homes in a
desperate search for survivors.
Volunteer Ma Hao, a college stu-
dent who was helping to carry the in-
jured out of the collapsed buildings in
Longtoushan, described a race to pull
the living from the rubble that left
little time for the dead.
Volunteers from across China were
heading to Yunnan to assist in the
relief effort. At the airport in the pro-
vincial capital, Kunming, a group was
discussing how to reach the worst-hit
areas. It is our duty to help, one said.
Users of Chinas Twitter-like Sina
Weibo expressed sympathy for the
victims, posting images of candles
and crying faces. May the dead rest
in peace and the living be strong,
read one typical comment.
Ludian has a population of nearly
266,000 and sits more than 300 kilo-
metres north of Kunming.
Electricity and telecommunications
have been cut across the area and
230,000 residents have been evacu-
ated, Xinhua reported. AFP
Earthquake victims sit amid the debris of collapsed houses in Ludian county in southwest Chinas Yunnan province yesterday. AFP
World leaders commemorate WWI outbreak
WORLD leaders marked the
100th anniversary of the out-
break of World War I yester-
day warning of the lessons to
be learned in the face of
todays many crises, includ-
ing Ukraine.
Peace has to be a shared
goal, Belgiums King Philippe
told leaders gathered in the
eastern city of Liege. World
War I reminds us to reflect on
our responsibility . . . to bring
people together.
Leaders from across Europe
from Britain and Ireland to
Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
and Malta attended the com-
memoration at the Allied War
Memorial of Cointe, a tower
overlooking the city with a
weathered grey-stone church
painted with white doves for
the occasion.
French President Francois
Hollande recalled Germanys
invasion of neutral Belgium
in early August 1914 that
turned a Balkans war into a
global conflagration, raising
current day parallels.
How can we remain neutral
today when a people not far
from Europe is fighting for
their rights? Hollande said,
clearly referring to the Ukraine
crisis. How can we remain
neutral when a civilian airliner
is brought down . . . when there
is conflict in Iraq, Syria, Leba-
non, Gaza?
We cannot remain neutral
. . . Europe must live up to its
responsibi l ities with the
United Nations, he told an
audience that included Brit-
ains Prince William and his
wife Catherine, heads of state
and representatives of some
80 countries.
German President Joachim
Gauck said Berlin had launched
the war based only on military
logic and it was immediately
apparent that treaties were
worthless and that the stand-
ards of civilisation had been
rendered null and void.
The events in Ukraine tes-
tify to the fact that instability
continues to stalk our conti-
nent, he added.
The leaders gathered in the
industrial town of Liege built
on coal and steel because it
barred the way to invading
German troops in the early
days of August 1914.
Its fierce resistance derailed
Berlins plans for a quick vic-
tory, while Germanys invasion
of Belgium formally brought
Britain into the war, as inter-
locking alliances meant to pre-
serve the peace plunged
Europe into the abyss.
The rest is history 10 mil-
lion troops dead, 20 million
injured, millions of civilian
victims, empires toppled, the
world remade.
Earlier yesterday, Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott
and his New Zealand counter-
part John Key paid tribute to
the tens of thousands of their
countries soldiers who died
far from home.
The conflict was the most
cataclysmic event in human
history, Abbott said, and
arguably gave rise to commu-
nism, to Nazism, to World War
II and the Cold War.
Security was very tight in
Liege, with all streets leading
to the great square and town
hall cordoned off, with a heavy
police presence.
After Liege, it is the turn of
Mons on the French border to
remember a do-or-die rear-
guard action by the first Brit-
ish troops committed to the
war as London and Paris
scrambled to prevent a Ger-
man breakthrough in late
August.
Prince William, his wife the
Duchess of Cambridge, along
with Prince Harry and Prime
Minister David Cameron will
lead the tributes in Mons where
the first British soldier died.
It was here, too, that the last
British soldier was killed on
November 11, 1918, the very
day of the Armistice that end-
ed hosti l ities af ter four
bloody years.
The Mons ceremony was to
focus on the small military
cemetery of St Symphorien,
where 229 Commonwealth
and 284 German solders were
buried together in a gesture of
reconciliation even as the
fighting raged.
Britain, meanwhile, was to
hold a series of ceremonies yes-
terday, with people encouraged
to turn off their lights from
10pm (2100 GMT) to 11:00 pm,
inspired by foreign secretary
Edward Greys famous remark
on the eve of war.
The lamps are going out all
over Europe; we shall not see
them lit again in our lifetime,
he said. AFP
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SOUTH Korean Defence Min-
ister Han Min-koo apologised
yesterday after the death of a
bullied young army conscript,
while the presidential Blue
House urged a full inquiry.
I extend my sincere apolo-
gies, Han said, describing
the death of the 23-year-old
private as an inhumane
crime that should not hap-
pen in a civilised society in
the 21st century.
He vowed to punish anyone
involved in the death and said
that an army division com-
mander would be dismissed
from his post and disciplined,
together with other ofcers
under his command.
Private Yoon died in April
following an alleged assault
by ve soldiers, during which
he was struck in the chest,
causing a chunk of food to get
lodged in his airway. He died
of asphyxiation.
The ve have been arrested
on manslaughter charges after
an initial investigation showed
the private had been repeat-
edly bullied. The case came
on the back of two separate
suicides by army privates last
month, and a deadly shooting
spree in June in which a ser-
geant killed ve members of
his unit for taunting him.
Investigators found that
Yoon had been the target of
regular bullying and assaults,
including sessions of crude
water-boarding.
He had also been forced to
eat a tube of toothpaste and
lick the spit of other soldiers
from the ground. Investiga-
tors are also looking into
allegations he was sexually
molested.
President Park Geun-hyes
ofce called for a thorough
investigation as public con-
cern grew over barrack-room
bullying. Priority must be
put on ensuring a similar in-
cident will not happen again,
presidential spokesman Min
Kyung-wook said.
Bullying has long tainted
South Koreas military service,
which is mandatory for all
able-bodied men between the
ages of 18 and 35. Conscripts,
most of them in their early
twenties, account for the lions
share of the militarys 690,000
active personnel.
Experts say the pressures
facing the young service-
men can be daunting when,
after what is often quite a
cosseted childhood and teen-
aged youth, they are suddenly
plunged into a world of harsh
military discipline. AFP
S Korea defence chief
sorry for soldier death
Give civilians safe passage: Kiev
K
IEV urged separatist
rebels in war-torn
eastern Ukraine yes-
terday to allow civil-
ians to ee besieged cities in
the face of a looming humani-
tarian crisis, with major power
and water shortages.
The call came as Malaysian
experts were due to visit the
site of downed ight MH17,
joining Australian and Dutch
police who have been comb-
ing the area for remains of the
crash victims.
Civilians in the blighted in-
dustrial region have borne the
brunt of the relentless ght-
ing between government and
pro-Moscow rebel forces, with
both sides accused of ring
on built-up areas, resulting in
more than 10 civilian deaths
at the weekend.
Ukraines military called
on insurgents in the main
rebel-held hubs of Donetsk,
Lugansk and another front-
line city of Gorlivka to agree
to humanitarian corridors
for several hours each day to
allow civilians to escape. The
mayor of Lugansk has warned
that the city of 420,000 was on
the brink of a humanitarian
catastrophe after days with-
out power or running water.
Government forces have
made major gains over the
past month and say that they
are close to cutting off ght-
ers in Donetsk from the Rus-
sian border and their com-
rades in Lugansk.
Yesterday, however, the
Ukrainian military said a num-
ber of troops were forced to re-
treat into Russia after hours of
missile and mortar bombard-
ment from across the border.
Russias security services
told local media that border
guards allowed 438 Ukrainian
soldiers to cross into their
territory after they agreed to
hand over their arms.
Ukraines Defence Minister
Valeriy Geletey had pledged
in a BBC interview on Sunday
that there will be victory and
very soon after more than
three months of civil war that
has claimed over 1,150 lives.
He admitted however that it
would not be easy to liberate
Donetsk and Lugansk, where
rebels have holed up and
pledged to ght to the death.
As the violence contin-
ued, Malaysian experts were
expected to join the teams
combing the vast crash site
of the Malaysia Airlines ight
that was blown out of the sky
on July 17, killing all 298 peo-
ple onboard.
But Ukraines government
said rebels were blocking ac-
cess for the 100-strong mis-
sion attempting to use sniffer
dogs and refrigerated ambu-
lance vans to search for re-
mains strewn across some 20
square kilometres.
So far, some 220 bodies have
been own back to the Neth-
erlands which suffered the
most casualties in the crash
for the painstaking identica-
tion process.
Another plane carrying re-
mains found over the past
few days was set to y to the
Netherlands yesterday.
The US and the EU have
slapped Moscow with the
toughest sanctions since the
collapse of the Soviet Union
over the Kremlins alleged
arming and instigation of the
separatist rebellion.
The measures have yet to
quell the ghting, however,
and the US has warned that
Russian support for the rebels
is increasing.
Russia yesterday announced
new military drills that will
involve 100 aircraft on its
southern ank in the latest in
a series of manoeuvres likely
to alarm Ukraine. AFP
Refugees wait in front of a hostel building ran by pro-Russian rebels in
the centre of Donetsk yesterday. AFP
Doctor of Ebola victim
contracts virus: Nigeria
NIGERIAN authorities said
yesterday that a doctor in Lagos
who treated a Liberian victim of
Ebola has contracted the virus,
the second confirmed case in
sub-Saharan Africas largest
city. This new case is one of
the doctors who attended to the
Liberian Ebola patient who
died, Health Minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu said. The
minister said 70 others believed
to have come into contact with
the Liberian are being
monitored, eight of whom have
been placed in quarantine.
Patrick Sawyer, who worked for
Liberias finance ministry,
contracted the virus from his
sister before travelling to Lagos
for a meeting. AFP
Parents of Thai Downs

boy deny surrogate story
THE Australian parents of a
baby born with Down syndrome
to a Thai surrogate mother have
denied any knowledge of the
child, named Gammy, according
to the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, which said it had
spoken to them at their home
south of Perth. The parents said
the situation at the Thai hospital
was very confusing because of
the language barrier, the report
added. The full picture is
unclear after the surrogate and
the Australian parents gave
apparently conflicting versions
of events. AFP
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A CONVOY of anti-immigra-
tion activists touring the bor-
der with Mexico to defend the
US from invasion has can-
celled an event in Texas be-
cause of alleged death threats.
The 30-vehicle convoy
aborted a planned rally in El
Paso on Sunday over safety
concerns, convoy organiser
Eric Odom said.
We had to cancel that be-
cause of death threats against
our crew and convoy, he said.
Were not into that. We are a
very peaceful convoy and we
want to show that the border
is very dangerous and open.
The convoy started on Fri-
day in Murrieta, the Califor-
nia town where protesters last
month blocked buses lled
with undocumented children
and women from Central
America. It hopes to inspire
other citizen border patrols
with the spirit of Murrieta.
On Saturday it passed
through Arizona, where it
picketed the ofces of Repub-
lican senator John McCain,
who it accuses of promoting
pro-invasion legislation.
The convoy, which includes
cars and trucks painted with
slogans and stars and stripes,
will stage its next public event
in Laredo today or tomorrow,
Odom said. The trek is due to
cover 1,500 miles over nine
days and nish in McAllen,
Texas, near where the border
meets the Gulf of Mexico.
With Washington dead-
locked over the recent surge
of unaccompanied children
crossing the border, the con-
voy is one of several groups
to have taken matters into its
own hands, portraying the
border as a leaky sieve exploit-
ed by criminals, terrorists and
disease-carriers.
On Sunday, Texas Governor
Rick Perry discussed the issue
on CNN. Asked if he was pre-
pared to keep National Guard
troops at the border inde-
nitely, he referred to other in-
dividuals who might come to
assist in securing that border.
What Im prepared to do,
he said, is not just the Na-
tional Guard, but [deploy] our
department of public safety,
our Texas Ranger recon team,
parks and wildlife wardens . . .
and I will suggest there will be
other individuals who come to
assist in securing that border.
A mission statement of the
border convoy said it wishes
to support communities who
take a stand against alleged
federal government complic-
ity in the inux. THE GUARDIAN
Migrant event cancelled
because of death threats
Chinas $49M terror hunt
C
HINA is offering
more than 300 mil-
lion yuan ($49 mil-
lion) for residents
of Xinjiang, the homeland
of mainly Muslim Uighurs,
who help a crackdown on
terrorists, state media re-
ported yesterday.
A total of 4.23 million yuan
was handed out to individu-
als and government agencies
who helped in the killing and
capture of 10 suspected ter-
rorists in Hotan prefecture
last week, the ofcial Xinhua
news agency said.
Local residents found the
suspects in a corn eld in
Purgakqi last Friday, it said.
With the help of more than
30,000 volunteers, police
shot dead nine of the sus-
pects and captured one after
chasing the group to an aban-
doned house, where they
resisted arrest by throwing
explosives into the crowd,
according to Xinhua.
An award ceremony attend-
ed by more than 10,000 people
was held in Hotan on Sunday.
Six individuals who provided
key tip-offs were given 100,000
yuan each, said the report.
Party members . . . cadres
and the public of different eth-
nicities were called on at the
gathering to be inspired [to]
. . . build an iron bastion against
violent terrorist crimes, Xin-
hua said on Sunday.
The money was part of
more than 300 million yuan
in cash rewards that Xinji-
ang authorities have decided
to hand out to those who
helped hunt suspected ter-
rorists, Xinhua added.
The Friday incident came
days after a violent attack in
Shache county, or Yarkand in
the Uighur language, in Kash-
gar prefecture left 37 civilians
and 59 terrorists killed.
It also came after the gov-
ernment-appointed head of
the Id Kah mosque in Kashgar,
Chinas largest, was killed af-
ter leading morning prayers.
Beijing has blamed a series
of recent terror attacks on vio-
lent separatists from the vast,
resource-rich Xinjiang area,
where information is often dif-
cult to verify independently.
Such attacks have grown in
scale and sophistication over
the past year and have spread
outside the restive region.
Rights groups accuse Chinas
government of cultural and
religious repression they say
fuels unrest in Xinjiang, which
borders Central Asia. AFP
Armed Chinese paramilitary police patrol a street in Urumqi, the capital
of far-west Chinas Muslim Uighur homeland of Xinjiang. AFP
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Monster catch
A dead whale shark is carried on a tractor through a seafood wholesale market in Xiangzhi township in Quanzhou, east Chinas Fujian province.
Local shermen caught the whale shark which they thought was a sea monster and reported to local police after returning from the sea,
local media reported. AFP
TWO women have been ar-
rested for allegedly trafck-
ing a child at an orphanage
in a Hanoi pagoda famed for
rescuing abandoned babies,
Vietnamese state media said
yesterday.
Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang,
the 36-year-old manager of
the orphanage in the capi-
tals Bo De pagoda, was tak-
en into custody on Sunday
pending a police probe into
the trafcking of a one-year-
old boy for $1,700, Tuoi Tre
newspaper reported.
Another woman, Pham Thi
Nguyet, 35, was also arrested,
while three others have been
questioned over the same al-
legation, the report added,
without clarifying their roles
at the pagoda.
The Bo De Pagoda in Ha-
noi is renowned for its or-
phanage where dozens of
abandoned children are
cared for, including those
with disabilities from teen-
agers with Down syndrome
to blind babies.
The boy, who was believed
to have been left at the pago-
das entrance at birth, before
disappearing suddenly with-
out reason, the report said,
before adding that com-
plaints led to the police
investigation.
Ofcers discovered that the
boy was in fact trafcked in
exchange for $1,700.
The probe is ongoing to
identify whether there were
any other similar cases in-
volving the orphans.
As of the middle of July
the pagoda was home to 145
orphaned, abandoned or
disabled children as well
as elderly people in need of
care, Tuoi Tre said. AFP
Women arrested at
Vietnam orphanage
for child-trafcking
Japan to launch military
space force, says report
JAPAN is planning to launch a
military space force by 2019
that would initially be tasked
with protecting satellites from
dangerous debris orbiting the
Earth, a report said. The move
is aimed at strengthening
Japan-US cooperation in
space, and comes after the
countries pledged to boost
joint work on monitoring
space debris, Kyodo news
agency said on Sunday. Japan
would provide the US military
with information obtained by
the force as part of the joint
bid to strengthen ties in
space, the so-called fourth
battlefield, Kyodo said, citing
unnamed sources. Japans
defence ministry is looking at
creating the new force using
personnel from the countrys
air force, it added. Thousands
of pieces of debris including
old satellites as well as pieces
of rockets and other space
equipment are orbiting the
Earth and threaten to collide
with functioning commun-
ications and reconnaissance
satellites. AFP
Bangladesh ferry sinks

with up to 200 on board
AN OVERLOADED ferry carrying
up to 200 passengers sank
yesterday on a river in central
Bangladesh, police said. Rescue
teams have pulled around 100
people out of the water,
authorities said. Two dead
bodies have been found, but the
rest remain unaccounted for.
The boat was around 30
kilometres (20 miles) south of
the capital Dhaka when it sank
in rough conditions. We have
heard that the ferry was
overloaded with passengers and
the river was rough, local police
chief Tofazzal Hossain said. The
police chief of Madaripur, where
the ferry began its journey, said
it was carrying between 170 and
200 passengers. But one
survivor, speaking on local
television, said he the ferry was
overloaded with up to 350
passengers. AFP
AIDS delegates seek asylum in Oz
S
OME 25 delegates to an in-
ternational AIDS conference
held in Melbourne last month
fear returning home and will
seek asylum in Australia, refugee and
welfare agencies said yesterday.
HomeGround Services, which helps
nd crisis accommodation for home-
less people in Melbourne, said 14
delegates from African nations in-
cluding Uganda and Tanzania had
sought their help.
Weve had 14 people so far come in,
spokeswoman Cathy Beadnell said.
Obviously they have nowhere to
live at the moment. They are all mov-
ing towards making asylum claims.
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre,
also in Melbourne, said they believed
up to 25 people had sought advice on
how to remain in Australia once their
visas had expired.
The issue of stigma and discrimi-
nation surrounding AIDS includ-
ing in Uganda, where homosexuality
remains illegal and punishable by jail
terms was repeatedly raised at this
years conference.
It heard that such laws targeted mi-
norities who bore a disproportionate
share of the global pandemic, and
created conditions under which HIV
can spread.
Clearly they are delegates that
come from countries where to work
in the AIDS eld is a life-threatening
proposition, the centres Pamela
Curr told the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation.
It seems that some of them have
been considering whether they think
they can survive in their countries of
origin, or whether they should try to
survive by getting refugee protection
in Australia.
Australias Immigration Minister
Scott Morrison would not comment,
saying through a spokeswoman that
individual applications for asylum
were not discussed for privacy rea-
sons. All claims for protection are
considered on their individual merits
and according to law, the spokes-
woman said.
The 20th International AIDS con-
ference, addressed by former US
president Bill Clinton and rocker Bob
Geldof, was attended by about 13,600
people from more than 200 nations.
It is not the rst time visitors have
sought asylum in Australia after at-
tending a high-prole event, with 15
players in the 2008 Homeless World
Cup football tournament staying on.
Forty athletes and ofcials from
the 2006 Commonwealth Games in
Melbourne and 250 pilgrims to World
Youth Day festivities in Sydney in 2008
also sought asylum.
Australia denies asylum seekers who
come by boat resettlement, sending
them to Papua New Guinea and Na-
uru, but those who come by plane are
not subject to the same conditions.
A lawyer for a group of asylum seek-
ers held on an Australian customs
vessel at sea for weeks said yesterday
that they were given lifeboats and told
to make their own way back to India.
The boatload of 157, who lawyer
Hugh de Kretser said were mostly
Christian Tamils eeing persecution
in Sri Lanka, set sail from India hop-
ing to get to Australia.
The clients we spoke to were abso-
lutely terried at what lay ahead for
them, said de Kretser, who is exec-
utive director of the Human Rights
Law Centre.
They were terried of the prospect
of being dumped in the ocean on life-
boats, without experience in navigat-
ing or operating a boat and having
to take responsibility for the families
that were on the boat.
The group, which includes 50 chil-
dren, were picked up by Australian
authorities towards the end of June.
They spent weeks on a customs boat,
mostly locked in windowless rooms,
before they were taken to Australia
around July 25, their lawyers say.
Immigration Minister Scott Morri-
son, who claims they are mostly eco-
nomic migrants, said they could be
returned to India even if not citizens
of that country under an agreement
with New Delhi.
But all refused interviews with In-
dian consular ofcials on Australian
soil and were instead transferred to a
detention camp on the Pacic island
of Nauru.
Morrison has refused to give details
of on water operations in Operation
Sovereign Borders, the governments
policy designed to break people-
smuggling and stop asylum boats.
Asked specifically last week
whether the group were offered or-
ange lifeboats, he told the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation: I dont
discuss those sorts of operational
matters. AFP
Chinese TV shows anti-Communist messages
CHINESE cable television
service broadcast censored
Tiananmen crackdown pic-
tures and messages con-
demning the ruling Commu-
nist Party, locals said, in
what appeared to be a rare
hacking attack.
Viewers in the eastern city
of Wenzhou last week used
social media to post images of
television slogans referring to
the Communist party as ban-
dits, and photographs of the
bloody 1989 crackdown on
pro-democracy protesters in
Beijing.
Such images are almost nev-
er shown by media in China,
where the Communist Party
censors anti-government mes-
sages and references to inci-
dents it deems sensitive such
as the Tiananmen crackdown
when the army killed hun-
dreds by some estimates
more than 1,000 protesters.
It was not immediately clear
who was behind the messages,
which appeared on several dif-
ferent channels available
through a local cable broad-
caster, though internet users
speculated that the provider
had been hacked.
A man surnamed Gu said he
had turned on his television
on Friday evening to be greet-
ed with a photo of a tank on
Tiananmen square.
I found it irritating . . . It
doesnt feel right to vent your
opinions by sacrificing others
interests, he said, adding that
similar images and anti-com-
munist slogans were broadcast
for about four hours.
Another local resident who
declined to be named said
that his TV had shown a slo-
gan saying: Bandit Commu-
nists, youve done too many
evil deeds and now youre
feeling guilty.
Several photos posted on
Sina Weibo which were later
deleted showed a TV screen
displaying a banner which
read Free Wang Bingzhang,
referring to a Chinese pro-
democracy activist jailed for
life in 2003. Communist ban-
dits are the real criminals, a
message shown in the corner
of one viewers screen added.
Another photograph showed
the channel displaying the
iconic Tank Man photo from
the 1989 crackdown, showing
a lone man standing in front
of a column of tanks.
Viewers also saw a message
reading Friends, dont coop-
erate with Communist devils,
imposed on top of a broadcast
of a basketball match.
Subscribers were also shown
graphic images showing appar-
ent human rights abuses in the
country, such as a protester
being squashed under a truck.
Chinas Communist Party
does not tolerate organised
dissent, and has regularly
jailed members of any group
that challenges its right to rule
the country.
Internet users expressed sur-
prise at the broadcasts, with
some speculating that hackers
were behind the attack.
Members of the Falun Gong
spiritual movement, which has
been banned in China since the
late 1990s have occasionally
been accused of hacking local
broadcasters in China to broad-
cast messages accusing the
government of persecution.
This is a significant event
for the television industry,
one Sina Weibo user wrote,
while another said: It seems
that Wenzhou has been
hacked, haha haha. AFP
Opinion
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ATURDAY marked the 50th
anniversary of the Gulf of
Tonkin incident, which led to
the Tonkin Gulf Resolution,
which led to the escalation of the
Vietnam War. Its a piece of history
worth remembering at a moment
when the US faces so many crises in
so many corners of the world.
There were actually two reported
Tonkin Gulf incidents. The first,
largely undisputed, occurred on
August 2, 1964, when North Viet-
namese patrol boats fired on a US
vessel engaged in surveillance oper-
ations. Its quite possible that the
second incident, two days later, nev-
er took place: If there were North
Vietnamese boats in the area at all,
they never engaged the US fleet.
Nevertheless, US sailors were fired
upon and what had been one of
many brushfire wars to which the
nation had sent military advisers
was suddenly the centre of popular
attention. Congress adopted the
Tonkin Gulf Resolution by an over-
whelming bipartisan vote on August
7, 1964. Thats how long ago it was.
And yet the war it enabled continues
to cast its grim shadow over US for-
eign policy.
Seven months after the resolution
was adopted, the 9th Marine Expe-
ditionary Brigade arrived at Da
Nang. In the years to come, the
number of US troops escalated fast,
and by the end of 1968 more than
half a million Americans were serv-
ing there. Vietnam, successive presi-
dents insisted, could not be allowed
to fall to the communists.
Vietnam gave my generation an
entire vocabulary with which to
doubt what we are told: Quagmire.
Light at the end of the tunnel. Body
count. Collateral damage (an old
engineering term repurposed as a
euphemism for tragedy). Even the
original Green Zone was estab-
lished not in Baghdad but in Saigon.
The war was confusing not just at
home but on the battlefield. The
North Vietnamese army was a foe
the US understood. They were clas-
sically trained, moved men and
material according to command,
and never once defeated US forces in
a set battle. The Viet Cong irregulars,
however, blended into villages and
jungles, relying on stealth rather
than numbers and weapons. Sus-
tained urban warfare against guer-
rilla fighters proved challenging, for
the US military had little experience
with this form of warfare. Vietnam
gave us the phrase hearts and
minds, and the effort to win both
somehow led to Operation Phoenix,
in which US personnel promised
bounties to farmers in the outer
provinces who would turn in
informers and collaborators. Evi-
dently it hadnt occurred to the pro-
grams architects that even farmers
might lie to settle scores, or that peo-
ple might take unkindly to the kill-
ing of tens of thousands of their fel-
low citizens.
Yet Vietnam, like every war, was
also an occasion for heroism and
patriotism. Some 246 Medals of
Honor were awarded, the great
majority of them posthumously. The
feats for which they were earned
throwing oneself on a live grenade,
for example, or returning again and
again to a firefight to evacuate the
wounded were the stuff of legend.
But at home, controversy grew.
Members of violent underground
groups, including the Weatherman,
used the war as an excuse for their
terror attacks. Opposition to the war
became so strident and, in certain
quarters, so unquestionable that in
1967, so estimable an intellectual as
John Updike had to take to the pages
of the New York Times to defend his
position that the war, horrid though
it was, should be debated on its mer-
its, not according to whether one
happened to like the president.
Vietnam was the first war America
watched on television. Often, in its
hunger for a story and its inexperi-
ence in covering this kind of war, the
news media got the news badly
wrong. The Tet Offensive, in 1968,
was widely reported as a great suc-
cess for the North Vietnamese, even
though 45,000 of the 84,000 troops
committed by North Vietnam were
killed and not a single major strate-
gic objective of the battle was
gained. Other reporting, about the
pains and complexities of the war,
was far more accurate: We learned,
for example, that the swankiest
clubs in Saigon were not open to
locals. And that the going rate paid
by the US for the accidental killing of
a Vietnamese civilian was $30.
And all the while, domestic resist-
ance mounted. Demonstrations
were huge. In May 1970, National
Guardsmen killed four protesters at
Kent State University in Ohio. The
wars end was coming.
Some 58,000 Americans died in
Vietnam. The death rate, about 11
per day, was among the lowest of any
war the nation has fought. The high
number of casualties is due in part
to how long the war dragged on.
America wasnt the same country
after Vietnam. The crisis of confi-
dence the war engendered was made
worse by rising inflation at home
and, abroad, a series of tiny but
noticeable defeats (the Iranian hos-
tage crisis of 1980-1981, for exam-
ple). It seemed to many that the
American Century had run its
course. Some say the wound to
Americas spirit didnt heal until the
Reagan era; others argue that the
country grew its way out of it during
the enormous economic expansion
of the late 20th and early 21st centu-
ries. Im afraid I cast my vote with
those who contend that we are still
not free of the shadow of Vietnam.
Something in the American charac-
ter was broken in that war. A genera-
tion that had defeated the armies of
fascism abroad and the forces of Jim
Crow at home was suddenly full of
self-doubt. The doubt is with us still.
We dream no big dreams any long-
er, we Americans. We want new apps
for our smartphones and better
health insurance. As for dreaming of
a better world when we think of
that, we tend to think of Iraq, and
think again. Unbuoyed by Americas
occasionally grating but often indis-
pensable self-confidence, the world
nowadays is taking care of itself. The
results are plain to see. BLOOMBERG
Comment
Stephen L Carter
Vietnam Syndrome still
plaguing the US public
A poster, printed in Beijing in 1964 and reading Gulf of Tonkin Incident: Americas Aggression towards the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam is Aggression towards China, announces the start of the Vietnam War. AFP
Stephen L Carter is a Bloomberg View
columnist and a professor of law at Yale
University.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Lifestyle Lifestyle
Sex, romance and happily ever after
Adam Minter
I
T WAS on Saturday night,
the fourth and nal eve-
ning of the Romance
Writers of America An-
nual Conference, that I nally
faced feelings of inadequacy.
In retrospect, it was an in-
evitable crisis, but not for the
reasons I would have expect-
ed. It had (almost) nothing to
do with that Friday workshop
lled with more than 100
women discussing Alpha He-
roes (strong, possessive men
who love passionately) and
why they romance readers
and writers love them. Or
with the tall, handsome cow-
boys that roamed Amazons
party on Thursday night while
I stood in a corner, nursing a
bottle of water.
The RWA conference, which
took place this year in San
Antonio, is a largely female
affair. This year it attracted
more than 2,100 writers, edi-
tors, publishers and publi-
cists, and anyone else with an
artistic and/or commercial
interest in the popular book
genre. According to the RWA,
91 per cent of those who buy
romance books are women
and so I, expecting to be mar-
ginalised to some degree,
wasnt surprised or much
disturbed when I was.
What actually shook me
were the sales numbers an-
nounced as various literary
luminaries took the stage
Saturday evening at the RITA
awards named for Rita Clay
Estrada, the RWAs rst presi-
dent, and more or less the
Oscars of the romance genre.
(The blow to my condence
came particularly from com-
paring these gures with the
sales numbers from my own
recent book.)
To offer just one example:
The author Stella Camerons
online biography was read
before she arrived on stage
to present this years RITA
for Romantic Suspense. It
opens, Stella Cameron is a
New York Times and USA To-
day Bestselling Author. With
over 14 million copies of her
books in print . . .
Thats not the kind of num-
ber that you generally hear
being widely thrown around
at other book industry con-
ferences. In my genre of so-
called serious nonction,
selling 1,000 copies of an e-
book per month is respect-
able. In the hyper-charged
world of romance, thats often
barely a start. Of the roughly
a dozen workshops that I at-
tended at this years RWA
conference, it felt like all but
a few had a New York Times or
USA Today bestselling author
on the panel.
None of this should come
as a surprise. According to
the RWAs website (which
cites Business of Consumer
Book Publishing 2013 as its
source), in 2012 romance
ction held the largest share
16.7 per cent of any genre
in the US consumer book
market. That amounted to
almost $1.438 billion in US
sales in 2012.
But for all its commercial
and cultural importance, the
romance genre often feels as
though it doesnt get its due
from mainstream cultural
media. Last year, when the
New York Times Book Review
asked 15 writers to answers
questions regarding sex and
writing, not one romance
writer was in the mix. New
York Times bestselling ro-
mance writer Sarah MacLean
expressed her dismay in a let-
ter to the editor.
Neither elite opinion nor
sales numbers seemed to be
an outward concern of those
at the conference. Everyone
seemed to be having too
much fun talking about how
to write and sell romance nov-
els. The end goal is to achieve
the Happily Ever After (a term
of art in the genre). The hard
work of getting there taking
two people and guring out
how to resolve their conicts
in a way that leaves the reader
satised is the business of
modern romance writers.
It is, in fact, a more interest-
ing and better written busi-
ness than tired stereotypes
and Fifty Shades of Grey might
suggest. Linda Francis Lee
and Eloisa James led my Al-
pha Hero workshop; the real
Eloisa James (thats a pen
name) is a tenured Shake-
speare scholar at Fordham
University. The next day, in an
adjoining room, the standing-
room-only How to Write Hot
Sex panel was immediately
followed by the more literary
and historically-based, Angst
and Affability: Using Jane Eyre
and Pride and Prejudice to
Craft New Adult and Contem-
porary Romance.
At the RWA conference,
there seemed no hint of
doubt that the future of the
industry looks just as bright
as the past. Romance pub-
lishers are at the cutting edge
of e-books. At least accord-
ing to one study, digital is the
most popular format in which
romances are now purchased
(after all, e-readers cover up
the oftentimes sexy covers
that embarrass many ro-
mance buyers). The RWA just
launched an app for iOS and
Android that connects read-
ers and writers to an interac-
tive database of romance.
Romance queen Nora Rob-
erts 210 novels and millions
of dollars to her name sum-
marised her decades of work
during a chat for star-struck
attendees: In the end it all
comes down to happily ever
after, good overcomes evil.
Its a simple message, but in a
world that seems increasingly
bereft of happy endings, its
one whose appeal seems only
to be growing. BLOOMBERG
Kyoto welcomes foreigners for wedding photos
A PAIR of Italian newlyweds stood
before a photographer recently at
Kamigamo Shrine in Kita Ward, Kyo-
to, posing as instructed.
Gaze into each others eyes more
earnestly . . . OK. Perfect! the photog-
rapher called. Clad in a red bridal
uchikake robe, the wife stood beside
her husband, who wore a crested
haori coat and hakama trousers.
They blended perfectly with the arch-
way and the two-storied gate at the
Shinto shrine in the background.
More and more foreign newlyweds
are having their photos taken at tem-
ples and shrines in Kyoto wearing
traditional bridal outfits as part of
photo wedding services offered.
Maria Laura Raimondi, 37, and her
husband were in Japan on their hon-
eymoon, but Raimondi is no stranger
to this nation, having studied Japa-
nese literature at university. After they
married in Italy in May, they applied
online to a Kyoto company for a pho-
to wedding.
I wanted to have my wedding pho-
tos taken with my husband wearing
a kimono, said a Raimondi. I like
Japan even more now.
Noting the popularity of the service,
the Kyoto prefectural government set
up the Japanese-style Wedding
Admissions Group this spring to offer
original wedding photo services, in
cooperation with the Kyoto city gov-
ernment, four wedding companies in
the city, the Kyoto Prefecture Asso-
ciation of Shinto Shrines and the
Kyoto Buddhist Organisation.
With more than 10 million foreign
tourists visiting Japan each year, the
prefectural government aims to
attract more overseas visitors by
offering a comprehensive photo wed-
ding program that will bring them
back to Kyoto again, drawn by their
memories of their previous visits.
According to the prefectural gov-
ernment and other sources, photo
weddings first became popular
among young people in Taiwan and
Hong Kong. Kyoto apparently became
a popular destination for these visi-
tors several years ago when travel
agencies in Taiwan and Hong Kong
began offering photo wedding pack-
ages. Some people even bring a pho-
tographer with them and spend sev-
eral days having their photos taken.
Domestic companies have recently
started entering the market. A photo
wedding typically costs about 200,000
yen (about $1,950), including wed-
ding outfits.
The photo session packages pro-
vided by the joint venture of Kyoto
governments and businesses also
start at about 200,000 yen, which
includes a photo session, makeup,
wardrobe assistance and outfits. The
plan also includes a religious ceremo-
ny and a presentation about Japanese
history and culture.
Eleven photo shoot locations are
offered, including such popular tem-
ples as Toji in Minami Ward, Ninnaji
in Ukyo Ward and Kodaiji in Higash-
iyama Ward. Participants can also be
photographed at a building in Kami-
gyo Ward that once housed the main
Kyoto prefectural government offices,
designated as an important cultural
property by the central government.
A website was set up in English and
Chinese last month to accept applica-
tions. It plans to seek the participa-
tion of other shrines and temples.
Photo wedding services have also
been incorporated into tourism pro-
motion programs in Sapporo and
Okinawa prefecture.
In Sapporo, five wedding compa-
nies established the Sapporo Loca-
tion Photograph Wedding Confer-
ence in 2011.
Fifteen foreign couples used the
service in fiscal 2011, with the figure
rising to 51 in 2013. Its popularity
stems from the photos that capture
snow-dusted landscapes and other
breathtaking views of nature. The
citys tourism planning department
expects more tourists to come from
overseas after seeing these photos.
Okinawa prefecture has been work-
ing to bring in people for wedding
ceremonies at local tourist spots for
the past decade. Last year, more than
200 couples had their photos taken
on beaches and in other locales. THE
YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Author Nora Roberts (left), the queen of romance, has written more than 200 romance books. AFP
An Italian couple poses for wedding photos
at Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto. More foreign
newlyweds are having their photos taken
in Kyoto, Japan, wearing traditional bridal
outts as part of photo wedding services.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
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BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
A dusky leaf monkey in Thailand. PHOTO SUPPLIED
In Thailand, a
perfect mix of
history, nature
Karnjana Karnjanatawe

T
HE sun gradually
rose behind the sil-
houette of Lom Muak
Hill, shining its light
over Ao Manao (Manao Bay)
in Thailands Prachuap Kh-
iri Khan. A group of soldiers
jogged while singing marching
songs along the footpath that
runs parallel to the long coast.
Its beach was also extended,
especially during the early
morning when it was low tide.
Some children tried to create
sand sculptures while other
kids chased ghost crabs. Some
adults exercised under rows of
casuarina trees.
Ao Manao is named because
of its semicircle bay shaped
like a slice of lime (manao).
The quiet bay belongs to the
Royal Thai Air Forces Wing 5.
This beach has a remarkable
history. During World War II
Japanese troops came ashore
at Ao Manao at 4am on De-
cember 8, 1941. The troops
planned to invade Myanmar
via Dan Singkhon border pas-
sage in the Muang district of
Prachuap Khiri Khan, one of
the six southern provinces
that were raided by Japanese
armed forces at the time. The
Japanese soldiers outnum-
bered the Thai air force, so lo-
cal police and civilians joined
to protect the homeland.
The battle lasted about 36
hours before a ceasere was
signed by both parties when
the Thai troops were informed
by an urgent telegram from the
government that the country
was an ally of Japan. During
the battle, 42 Thais and 417
Japanese soldiers were killed.
To honour the war heroes
of the Kingdom, a monument
was built at Ao Manao, as well
as a historical museum to in-
form public about the ght.
There are also old aircraft on
display next to the museum
and a large carved stone tell-
ing story about the battle.
A walking distance from
the war memorial stone is the
shrine of Chao Pho Khao Lom
Muak, whom locals call the
guardian of the bay.
According to folklore, the
guardian was once a Chinese
immigrant who settled down
in the area of Ao Manao in
the Ayutthaya period. He was
known as a good man who
liked to help people. After he
died at the age of 97, locals
built the shrine for him. It was
said that during the battle in
1941, some locals and Thai
troops used the shrine as their
protection from air raids.
Near the shrine is a trail to
climb to the top of the Lom
Muak Hill, about 300 metres
above the sea level. The top of
the hill is a viewpoint where
visitors can have panoramic
views of several bays such
as Ao Manao, Ao Prachuap
and Ao Noi. But those who
are not t for the rocky trail
are advised to stay around
the foothill.
The area of the foothill cov-
ered with tall trees is home to
a number of dusky leaf mon-
keys, listed by the International
Union for Conservation of Na-
ture as a threatened species.
The monkeys can be eas-
ily identied by a white patch
around the eyes and mouth
while the head and body is
covered with grey fur. They
use their hands to grasp food
or branches of trees like we
use our hands to grab things.
Adults can grow up to 61cm.
The animals eat fruit so there
is a small corner in the shrine
of Chao Pho Lom Muak where
raw sliced cassava is on offer in
a large plastic box. Those who
want a pack of food should put
15 baht inside.
At weekends, visitors keep
coming to feed them all day, so
dont get upset if some mon-
keys dont take your food.
In addition, Wing 5 also
houses a small outdoor zoo
for visitors to feed deer, rab-
bits and ostriches. For those
who like riding banana boats,
the service is available next to
the zoo. BANGKOK POST
TV PICKS

2:15pm - MOHAMMAD ALIS GREATEST FIGHT: An HBO
original flm that looks at Mohammad Alis historic
Supreme Court batle over Vietnam War service from
behind closed doors. HBO
5:30pm - CURIOUS GEORGE: A museum guide goes of in
search of an ancient ruin to save his museum but returns
with a naughty monkey instead. HBO
6:55pm - MIAMI VICE: Based on the 1980s TV acton/
drama, this update focuses on vice detectves Crocket
and Tubbs as their respectve personal and professional
lives become dangerously intertwined as they step into
Miamis heated underworld. HBO
9pm -THE DICTATOR: The heroic story of a dictator who
risks his life to ensure that democracy will never come
to the country he so lovingly oppresses. But on a trip to
New York to testfy in front of the United Natons, he falls
in love with a local American hipster who is oblivious
to his evil identty and instead takes him for a politcal
refugee. HBO
Thinking caps Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Opposite of a blessing
6 One of the major world religions
11 I-M link
14 PC text format
15 Musics March King
16 Abu Dhabis land (Abbr.)
17 True pleasure
19 NYC bus and train group
20 E-I-E-I-O
21 Swinelike beast
23 Dried (off)
26 Gotten out of bed
27 Some reasons for glasses
28 The se in per se
30 Children
31 Responds peevishly
32 Engine lubricant
35 Conclude
36 Not worth a dime
38 Genetic transmitters (Abbr.)
39 Alumna identifier, sometimes
40 Kind of post
41 Comet alternative
42 Learned teacher
44 Danson played him
46 Prepare for mummification
48 Message middleman
49 Electric battery inventor
50 Peace in the Middle East?
52 What the maid lost
to be mad?
53 Be a party pooper
58 Hair arrangements
59 Lop off branches
60 Popular singing star
61 It makes lush slush
62 Organizes, as mail
63 Domingo or Tomas
DOWN
1 One thats tired?
2 ___ as directed
3 Name on a VCR, perhaps
4 He played Bilko
5 Ideals or phantoms
6 Marooned, in a way
7 Gardeners dirt
8 Tire nuts
9 Cigar refuse
10 Pad with springs
11 Shows elation, in a way
12 Interviewer Couric
13 Absorb
18 Females in natural wool
22 Have a malady
23 Commuters coin, once
24 Express a viewpoint
25 Marital ideal
26 Raiders of the Lost Ark snakes
28 Shoreline irregularity
29 1.3-ounce Asian weight
31 Hemmed or basted
33 Totally ridiculous
34 Less severe
36 Removes, as a necklace
37 Come across as
41 Shaded walk
43 Straw grass
44 Certain cheese sandwich
45 Hellos from Hawaiians
46 Duck
47 Early recordings
48 Breathing anomalies
50 Whiskey concoction
51 Something dropped
54 Voting yes
55 Wetlands
56 Utmost (Abbr.)
57 Prefix for natal or classical
HAPPINESS
Mondays solution Mondays solution

LEGEND CINEMA
HERCULES
Having endured his legendary twelve labors,
Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a
sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace
and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a
tyrannical warlord.
City Mall: 11:30am, 3:50pm, 7:30pm, 10:05pm
Tuol Kork: 9:35am, 2:45pm, 6:55pm, 9:20pm
Meanchey: 11:35am, 1:40pm, 6:40pm, 9:25pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the wake of a disaster that changed the
world, the genetically evolving apes find
themselves at a critical point with the surviving
members of the human race.
City Mall:9:30am, 2:40pm, 4:35pm, 9:35pm
Tuol Kork: 9:35am, 12:10pm, 4:10pm, 9pm
Meanchey: 9:20am, 2:25pm, 8:45pm
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make
a discovery that brings the Autobots, Decepti-
cons and a paranoid government official down
on them. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz
and Jack Reynor.
City Mall: 9:20am
Tuol Kork: 1:35pm
Meanchey: 11:15am, 3:45pm
THE PURGE: ANARCHY
A young couple works to survive on the streets
after their car breaks down right as the annual
purge commences.
City Mall: 12:30pm
Tuol Kork: 4:45pm
Meanchey: 7:15pm
PLATINUM CINEPLEX
HERCULES
(See above)
9:30am, 1pm, 2:55pm, 8:30pm
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
(See above)
11:30am, 6pm, 8:20pm
Made in Germany @ Meta
House
Made from corn tortillas cooked from
scratch and prepared in authentic
taquiera style. Buy one cocktail and
get a free taco with your purchase.
Cocina Cartel, #198b Street 19.
11:30am
NOW SHOWING
All skill levels are welcome to play dodgeball. ELI MEIXLER
Sacha Baron Cohen stars in The Dictator. AFP
Men and women alike of all experience
levels are welcome to attend. Price is
$1.50 for the evening. A round robin
structure ensures that everyone gets to
both play and rest.
Building #55-57 Street 123.
7:30pm
Dodgeball @ Sports
centre
Tacos @ Cocina Cartel
+++
Yoga refresher @ Yoga
Produced by the German band
Rammstein, this documentary follows
the electro metal band from its creation
in 1995 to the present.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.
9pm
Animals exhibition at the German
cultural centre. Follows artists from ve
countries giving their perspectives on
animals.
Meta House, Sothearos Boulevard.
All day
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Entertainment
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5 , 2014 20
KHMER STYLE VILLA FOR RENT
4 bed with 5 bath located near
Independence, Basic furnished,
clean, Western kitchen, big living
room, big balcony, and big garden,
many trees around the house.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
SWIMMING POOL VILLA IN DP
for rent 05 bed with bath located in
DP, Basic furnished, clean, west-
ern kitchen, big living room, nice
swimming pool, big parking.
Rent: $3500 /m Tel: 012 879 231
BRAND NEW APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe, swim-
ming pool and gym on the top oor.
location: BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
APARTMENT4RENT: SWIM-POOL
in Tonle Basac, Roof Swim Pool
$750~$850/Month for 1Bedroom
$1000~$1500/Month 2Bedroom
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
4BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $1000/M near Independent
Monument, Free Internet, TV
1Living room 4Bedroom, 4Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
SERVICE APARTMENT FOR
Rent $800/m Loc: BKK1 Area
1Living room 2Bedroom 2Bath
Include Internet, 1Car Parking
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
1BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $450/m Loc: BKK3 Area
1Living room 1Bedroom 1Bath
Include Internet, 1Car Parking
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 3 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe,
swimming pool, gym, quiet.
Rent: 2400 USD/month Location:
BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
rent 3 beds, 3 bath, available near
Independence, fully furnished
quiet, many trees around, western
kitchen, bright inside
Price : $ 2000 /m. 012 503 356
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for rent 1-2-3 bed, bath, furnished,
swimming pool, gym, some service
included in the rent, located in
CKM. Price: 1200 USD/ month.
Tel: 012 879 231
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
100sqm to 400sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24h security, elevator
Spacious 5 meter high ceilings Lots
of plants & light + 60 sqm large
balcony Great view over
Phnom Penh
012 869 111 yellow-tower.com
American Pacifc School High quality programs for
ESL: Preschool Gr8, Khmer: Kindergarten Gr6 and
Foreign teachers who are native speakers.
Register now for 2014 - 2015
Classes start: August 04, 2014
#100 St. Pasteur (St.51 St.200)
Tel: (855)23 214 825 (Khmer/English)
(855)15 716 727 (Khmer)
E-mail: ppapsacis@gmail.com
Web: www.aps.edu.kh
4ROOM SMALL VILLA FOR
Rent $1500/M Tonle Basac Area
Nice Garden, 1Living room
4Bedroom, 4Bath, Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
LAND FOR SALE IN TOUL
Tompoung 1-Land 15m x 25m
Sale: $750,000 on road 9m, good
for build Apt 2-size 15m x 25m on
Corner Sale: $980,000 on main
road: 12m More Information
Tel: 012 939 958
2BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $500/M near Independent
Monument, 1Living room
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
1BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR
Rent $600/M near National Museum
1Living room, 1Bedrooms, 1Bath
Motor Parking, Fully Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
2BEDROOM APARTMENT RENT
$600/Month Western Style
near Independent Monument
2Bedroom, 2Bath, Furnished
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
BIG LAND FOR SALE CHEAPER
Market 1 size 100mx300m or 3Hacta
Price: $260/m2 Doung Ngeat Road
2-Land size 38mx40m Corner Street
Sale: $680,000 Komin Khmer Road
More Information Tel: 012 939 958
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
Rent Great Location in BKK1 Area
- $900/Month 1Bedroom 1Bath
- $1400/Month 2Bedroom 2Bath
Big Living room, Western Kitchen
New Full Furniture, 1Car Parking
Tel: 077 777 697 or 012 939 958

SWIMMINGPOOLVILLAFORRENT
$3500/Month Tonle Basac Area
1Living room, 4Bedroom, 4Bath
Fully Furnished, Very good Place
for Resident and Quiet Place
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
VERYNICE/NEWVILLAFORRENT
$1800/Month Tonle Basac Area
Big Living room, Wester Kitchen
4Bedroom, Furnished, Terrace
Nice Garden Good for Resident
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
SWIMMING POOL VILLA FOR
Rent $3500/Month in Daun Penh
Area 1Living room, 6Bed, 6Baths
Some Furniture, Very Good Place
Ofce or Resident, Quiet Place
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
777 697
SWIMMING POOL APARTMENT
for Rent Loc: near Russian Market
-$750/month, 1Bedroom, 1Bath
-$1000/month 2Bedroom, 2Bath
-$1300/month 3Bedroom, 2Bath
Big Livingroom All New Furniture
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697

PENT-HOUSE APARTMENT
Rent: in Tonle Basac, Roof Swim
Pool $2900/M Large Living room
3Bedroom, 3Bathroom, Western
Kitchen, Very Nice River Views
Contact to see Tel: 077 777 697
1BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$250/m free wi,cable TV garbage
collection , on st 288 near Lucky
Super market Tel:089 36 32 06,
:Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$600/m on st 178 near Royal, big
living room, western kitchen
massive balcony, big bathroom
with bath tube Tel:089 36 32 06,
:Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
BRAND NEW 2BR APARTMENT
for rent:$700/m on st 294, free
wi,cable TV, garbage collection
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com

2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$700/m on st 456 near Russian
market,free wi,cable TV, garbage
collection,24 hrs security guard,
Gym,2Baths,1 living room,1 kitchen
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
2BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$600/m in BKK1 free wi,cable
TV,24 hrs security guard , car
parking,1kitchen,1 living
room,2bathrooms Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
MODERN FURNISHED
Apartment for rent Located near
Russian market,1BR:$550/m,
2BR:$800/m,1living room, 1kitchen
,open Balcony Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
1BR APARTMENT FOR RENT
:$250/m free wi,cable TV garbage
collection ,on st 288 near Lucky
Super market
Tel:089 36 32 06,
Yim@sunnyresidentrealty.com
WWW.Sunnyresidentrealty.com
Banteay Meanchey Provincial Hall is honored to informall companies duly registered in theKingdomof
Cambodiathat: Theprovincial hall wishes to open bidding of threeworks of laying concretewith steel bone,
measuring 300mx7m, 0.15mthick, and threeworks of laying drainagewith across section of 80cmof 3,100
rings, with regar at 155 places, in Sophy village, Sangkat Kampong Svay, Sereysophoan city to Banteay
Meanchey Provincial Hall.
With regard to the above-mentioned information, Sir/Madamthe company representatives, who wish to
participatein thebidding, areinvited to submit an application for bidding, fromJ une27, 2014 to August 27,
2014 at procurement units of Banteay Meanchey provincial (provincial hall) at 08:00a.m.. Theapplication for
bidding will be announced in public onAugust 27, 2014 at 09:00a.m., at meeting hall of Banteay Meanchey
Provicial Hall.
For moreinformation, pleasecontact provincial procurement unitsviaphone:078977879-012640908
NOTIFICATION
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5 , 2014 21
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Western Rooftop Pool Apartment
for Rent LocatedinBKKI, 01&02&03
bed, roof toppool andgym, openliving
room, fully andmodernfurnished,
westernkitchen, nicebalcony, safety
area, goodconditionfor living.
Price: 1,200-US$1,800-2,000/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed ,
Large living room, fully and modern
furnished, modern kitchen, nice
balcony, roof top gym, very good
condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment for Rent Located in
BKKI, 02 bedrooms, roof top pool
and gym, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, wooden
oor, very safety area, very good for
living . Price: 1,100/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

WESTERN POOL APARTMENT
For Rent Located in BKKI, 03 bed,
very nice pool and gym, open and
big living room, fully and modern
furnished, western kitchen, big
balcony, safety area, good for living
.Price: 2,400/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in Daun Penh area,
01-02-03 bed, nice living room,
fully & modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, gym and big
parking, very good condition for
living.Price: $700-$1,200-$1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in south of Russian
Market, 01-02 bedrooms, large
living room, fully and modern
furnished, modern kitchen, lots of
light, nice balcony, very good
condition for living, big parking.
Price: US$600-US$850/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 1-2-3 bed,
large living room, fully and modern
furnished, western kitchen, very
big balcony, very quiet and safety
area, big parking lots, good
condition for living.
Price: $800-US$1,200-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN SWIMMING POOL
Apartment for Rent Located in Wat
Phnom, 01&02&03 bed, big pool
and gym, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, nice balcony, very safety
area, very good condition for living .
Price: 1,00-$1,200-1,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
COLONIAL STYLE APARTMENT
for Rent Located a long riverside,
02 bedrooms, elevator, open living
room, fully and classic furnished,
nice kitchen, nice and big balcony,
river view, very safety area, very
good condition for living.1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

BRAND NEW MODERN
Apartment For Rent BKK1, 01-02-
03&Penthouse, Real Modern interior
designed, large living room,light,
and modern furniture, western
Kitchen, roof top pool &gym
$1,500-2,000-3,500-4,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00

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


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent BKK1, 01-02 Bedrooms, very
nice interior designed, large living
room, very light, fully and modern
furniture, western kitchen, very
good condition for living, quiet &
safe.Price: $800-1,400/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located near independent
monument, 02 bedrooms, open
living room and kitchen, fully and
modern furnished, very safety area,
very quiet, very good condition for
living. Price: USD770/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 05
bedrooms, large living room, very
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In Bassak Garden City, 03 bed,
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BRAND NEW FACTORY FOR
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22 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Sport
Five sports showcased
in first Sar Kheng Cup
THROUGH the Ministry of
Interiors Sport Development
Project, the inaugural edition of
the multi-discipline Sar Kheng
Cup will be held from
September 4-6 at the National
Sports Complex, ministry
officials confirmed yesterday. In
cooperation with the relevant
federations, competitions will
be held in triathlon, womens
soccer, swimming, soft tennis
and rifle shooting. Ministry of
Interior Sports Club chief Chea
Bunheng said at a press
conference yesterday:
Registration for the [Sar
Kheng Cup] will be available for
all members of clubs and
associations from the
announcement today.
Professional or national team
players, however, will not be
allowed to join. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY INSOPHENG
Hometown hero Vong
Noy falls to Thai fighter
LOCAL fan favourite Vong Noy
was completely outclassed in
his 67kg international fight
against Thailands Saramon at
TV3 arena on Sunday, receiving
two standings counts from the
referee in the first round and
then retiring at 2:27 in the
second round. Vong Noys
connections with punches drew
loud cheers from the partisan
crowd but appeared not to affect
his visiting rival, who unleashed
a brutal body shot to drop the
Cambodian in the first round. A
second count was administered
after Vong Noy was pushed to
the ground moments later.
Pounding knees from Saramon
in the following round forced the
withdrawal of the National
Defence club fighter, who
recently won an event at the
Asia Europe Championship.
Meanwhile, Bang Kayak of VIP
Chamkarmon club took a
treasured victory over Russian
boxer Biremov Fakir, forcing a
retirement in the third round
due to a succession of vicious
knees. CHHORNNORN, TRANSLATEDBY
CHENGSERYRITH
Raonic rips Pospisil in
first all-Canada final
WIMBLEDON semi-finalist
Milos Raonic captured his
sixth ATP title on Sunday at the
Washington Open, defeating
Vasek Pospisil 6-1, 6-4 in the
tours first all-Canadian final.
In his first event since
producing his best Grand Slam
showing, Raonic took the top
prize of $316,400 from the $1.9
million hardcourt event, a
warm-up for the US Open
starting later this month.
Meanwhile in California,
womens world number one
Serena Williams climbed out
of an early hole to beat third-
seeded German Angelique
Kerber 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 to win the
WTA Stanford crown. The top-
seeded American, playing her
first tournament since a
disappointing Wimbledon
campaign in which she was
slowed by a virus, will try to
carry the momentum into next
weeks tournament at
Montreal. AFP
McIlroy back to world No 1
R
ORY McIlroy is back on top
of the golf world, following
up his British Open triumph
with an elite World Golf
Championships win on Sunday.
The 25-year-old from Northern
Ireland rallied from a three-stroke
deficit to beat Spains Sergio Garcia
by two strokes at the WGC Bridge-
stone Invitational.
With the victory he supplants Aus-
tralian Adam Scott atop the rank-
ings, ascending to number one for
the fifth time in his career but the
first time since March of 2013.
It feels like a long time since I lost
that number one spot, but it feels
good to be back on top, said McIl-
roy, whose star faded in 2013 when
he struggled with problems both on
and off the golf course. Hopefully, I
can keep it for a while.
A win in the Australian Open late
last year and then a very public split
with tennis-playing girlfriend Caro-
line Wozniacki in May paved the way
for McIlroy to once again produce
his best golf.
What happened a fortnight ago at
Royal Liverpool proved that McIlroy
is the true heir apparent to Tiger
Woods as the worlds best golfer.
Now he has become the 13th play-
er to own both a major and a WGC
title and joined Woods as the only
players to win them in back-to-
back starts.
For McIlroy, winning a first WGC
crown at Firestone Country Club,
where Woods has won eight titles,
was special.
I grew up watching Tiger dominate
in this tournament and dominate
pretty much wherever he played,
McIlroy said. I dreamed of one day
trying to do something like that.
Im not comparing myself be-
cause hes done this millions of
times and this is only my first . . . But
yeah, it feels great to come here and
win on this golf course.
The week at Firestone showcased
the glaring contrast in the cur-
rent career trajectories of McIlroy
and Woods.
McIlroy vowed all week that he
wouldnt take his foot off the accelera-
tor in the wake of his Open triumph,
which made him just the third player
in history after Jack Nicklaus and
Woods to win three of golfs four
majors by the age of 25.
He made good on that promise on
Sunday, when he birdied four of his
rst ve holes to surge past a demora-
lised Garcia who had also chased him
in vain in the nal round of the Open.
By the time McIlroy was hoisting
the trophy, the 38-year-old Woods
was long gone his third start since
back surgery in March cut short
when an awkward shot left him with
painful back spasms and forced him
to withdraw.
Woods is now questionable for the
nal major of the year that starts at
Valhalla on Thursday.
McIlroy is a prohibitive favourite to
add another major title to his resume
before attempting to complete the ca-
reer Grand Slam at the Masters next
year. McIlroy was already looking
ahead to Valhalla, and his plans for fa-
miliarising himself with the layout at
Louisville yesterday and today.
I feel like, with the way Im play-
ing, theres a few wins left in me this
year, he said. AFP
Rory McIlroy hits out of a bunker onto the eighth green during the nal round of the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in California. AFP
Organsiers hail stand-out Glasgow Games
AFTER disappointing in Delhi
in 2010, the Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow were hailed
as an unmitigated success,
drawing some of the sporting
worlds top stars and packed
crowds to venues.
The low-key Delhi Games
were quickly forgotten as
Scotlands biggest city warm-
ly embraced more than 4,000
athletes from 71 nations, 53 of
them former British colonies,
the rest mainly territories or
dependencies. Glasgow you
really have delivered in every
aspect the best Games ever,
Commonwealth Games Fed-
eration president Prince
Tunku Imran said.
Opened in blisteringly hot
conditions, the balmy weather
eventually receded to ensure a
traditionally wetter climax.
But the rain did not dampen
the spirit and enthusiasm on
view at a host of top venues
including Celtic Park, Ibrox and
Hampden Park.
East African giants Kenya
topped the track and field med-
als table with 23 in total, includ-
ing 10 golds, 10 silvers and
three bronzes, with Bolts
Jamaica second with 19
(10-3-6).
There was no doubt that the
outstanding overall perform-
ance on the track came not
from Jamaica but the Kenyan
womens team, who won 13 of
all 18 medals on offer between
800m and marathon, including
all six golds.
It was England who topped
the overall medal table ahead
of arch-rivals Australia, who
will host the 2018 Games in
Gold Coast, and Canada, with
hosts Scotland finishing an
unexpected fourth.
Australia once again led the
way in the pool, winning 19 of
the 44 gold medals on offer, but
their dominance was chal-
lenged by the home nations as
England claimed 10 gold med-
als, Scotland three and Wales
their first female golds in the
pool for 40 years thanks to Jazz
Carlin and Georgia Davies.
The Aussie women led the
way with 11 golds in total,
including three apiece for
Emma McKeown and Cate
Campbell, whilst Englands
Fran Halsall bounced back from
a disappointing couple of years
to take double sprint gold in the
50m butterfly and freestyle.
There were also three gold
medals for South Africa thanks
to Olympic champions Chad le
Clos and Cameron van der
Burgh with Le Clos ending a
remarkable meet with a total of
seven medals.
Mike Hooper, CEO of the
Commonwealth Games Fed-
eration, summed up the 11
days of action.
These have been, in my
view, the stand-out Games in
the history of the movement,
said Hooper. AFP
Australian singer Jessica Mauboy performs during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games
at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday. AFP
A
RSNE Wenger contemplat-
ed the question of whether
Manchester City are cir-
cumnavigating Financial
Fair Play rules by recruiting Frank
Lampard from New York City FC.
It is a surprise, the Arsenal man-
ager observed. After the statements
we heard it looks like all these City
clubs will feed the main club. I
heard they want to buy ve clubs all
around the world. I dont know the
rules well enough.
They bought the franchise for
$100 million in the States to play next
season and at the moment the play-
ers they sign cannot play until next
year. They will register in the clubs
where they will put them and they
can get out on loan. Is it a way to get
around the fair play? he pondered.
I dont know.
He added that Arsenal did not have
enough surplus at their disposal to
consider purchasing any extra clubs
and was focused enough on bolster-
ing his team with money they earn
internally. The Emirates Cup has
given him the chance to take a closer
look at the group he has assembled at
record expense for the season ahead.
It remains a work in progress.
After a bright 5-1 victory over Ben-
ca on Saturday, Arsenal toiled in
a 1-0 defeat by Monaco on Sunday.
We demonstrated a lot can change
in 24 hours, Wenger said.
As much as our performance yes-
terday was sharp, creative, dynamic
and mobile, today was static, lethar-
gic and not convincing at all. Many
players have not recovered physically
and are not completely ready.
Although he declared himself not
especially concerned, the variety of
performance level in his attacking
players is an area that merits thought
before the start of the serious chal-
lenge when the Premier League be-
gins on August 16.
Arsenal were unable to claw
back the 37th-minute lead Mona-
co were given by Radamel Falcao,
who was overjoyed to relish again
the sensation of scoring some
seven months after his last goal to
conclude a gruelling rehabilitation
from a knee injury.
Valencia, meanwhile, were the
lucky ones who ended up winning
the Emirates Cup having beaten
Benca 3-1 earlier in the afternoon.
If Wenger leaves the tournament
behind with questions to ponder
regarding his options at centre-
forward, he also found himself an
answer at centre-back after con-
secutive performances from Calum
Chambers that were hugely en-
couraging. The teenagers poise in
that position augured well. South-
amptons second-choice right-back
for much of last season looked every
inch a centre-back armed with a high
level of condence and character.
THE GUARDIAN
Champions Crown release two
foreigners, Borey signs on
METFONE C-League winners Phnom
Penh Crown yesterday announced
that two of their foreign contingent
Brazilian midfielder Rafael Oliveira
and South Korean forward Jeongho
Kim would not be having their
contracts renewed for the next
season and would leave the club.
[Oliveiras] spell in Cambodia was
full of very bad luck, Crown coach
Sam Schweingruber stated on the
clubs official Facebook page
yesterday. Injuries have put him out
of action and when finally he was
back fit, our team was on a winning
streak and he didnt manage to get
enough chances to play. He deserved
to be playing more as he has
impressed everyone at the club with
his professional attitude and good
character. Scweingruber also
praised the contributions of one of
everyones favourites Jeongho. We
will always remember his amazing
goals he scored for us, added the
coach. As a young player of his
qualities, he deserves to be part of a
team that he gets to play more often,
of which there is no guarantee at
Crown. Meanwhile, the club secured
the services of national team veteran
striker Khim Borey with a contract
that runs until the end of the 2016
season. Borey netted 14 goals in the
most recent domestic league and cup
campaigns. Off the field, Borey is
equally as important with leadership
and guidance for our younger players.
I am very happy he has chosen to be
with us for another two years, said
Schweingruber. DAN RILEY
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
23
AS Monacos Radamel Falcao (left) celebrates scoring against Arsenal during their
Emirates Cup match at Emirates Stadium in north London on Sunday. AFP
Falcao makes
decisive impact
as Arsenal slip
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST AUGUST 5, 2014
Sport
Manny Pacquiao buys into ONE FC
Dan Riley
MANNY Pacquiao has thrown his weight
behind the ever-increasing popularity of
mixed martial arts after media reports
yesterday revealed the Filipino boxing
superstar has bought a stake in ONE
Fighting Championship, Asias leading
MMA organisation.
ONE FC CEO Victor Cui confirmed yes-
terday to Yahoo Sports that Pacman had
purchased an undisclosed number of
shares. Im pretty pumped, Cui said.
There are a ton of reasons why Im
pretty excited about this. Obviously, Man-
ny Pacquiao is a global sports icon and
having him as a part of our organisation
as a shareholder and promoting ONE FC
and promoting the sport is huge for the
sport in the region. It promotes awareness
and growth.
While there was no indication that Pac-
quiao would step in to the cage himself, he
does own a series of gyms across Asia which
all offer MMA classes and training areas.
Pacquiao (56-5-2) will defend his WBO wel-
terweight title in Macau on November 22
against Chris Algieri (20-0) of the US.
ONE FC is holding its inaugural fight
card in Dubai, titled Reign of Champions,
on August 29 and will break further
ground in Cambodia two weeks later with
a show called Rise of the Kingdom on Sep-
tember 12 at Koh Pich Theater.
Tickets for the event on Diamond Island
are now on sale at the CTN station offices
(along National Highway 5) from Monday
to Friday, 9am to 6pm (012 999 434) and
at NagaWorld on Saturday and Sunday,
9am-12pm and 4-9pm (087 870 203). They
will also be sold at a booth during MyTVs
Sunday MMA fight cards at the indoor hall
of the Old Stadium.
Pricing brackets include VIP seats at
$80 each, Gold at $50 and Silver at $20.
Early purchase discounts, which will
run out on August 18, will see these
prices cut to $64, $25 and $10 respec-
tively at all outlets.
A seating plan of the various sections
of Koh Pich Theater can be found on the
Rise of the Kingdom event page at www.
onefc.com.
ONE FC are scheduled to next host an
event in Pacquiaos homeland on Decem-
ber 5 in Manila. DAN RILEY
Gadient triumphs in
Kampong Speu race
Dan Riley

S
IMON Gadient took
full advantage of an
early retirement to A1
Elite class leader Yoe-
un Phyuth to claim victory
in the third stage of the 2014
Smart Cambodia MTB Series
in Kampong Speu province
on Sunday.
Expat Gadient, 29, who is
a project manager at Phnom
Penh-based web developers
Web Essentials, stepped up
his training this year to join
the Kingdoms best mountain
bike riders after competing in
the B Class last year, where he
ended up second overall.
Following fth- and sixth-
place nishes in the open-
ing rounds of the series, the
dusty and rocky trails of Kam-
pong Speu appeared to better
suit the Swiss national as he
stormed over the four 7km
laps in a total time of one hour,
21 minutes and 51 seconds.
Nearly four minutes back
was Flying Bikes team rider
Nhonh Lenh, with Khmer Cy-
cling Teams Hong Chanmaka-
ra a further minute behind in
third. Flying Bikes team owner
and race organiser Pierre Yves
Catry came fourth.
Youen Phyuth of EYCy-
cling, who had won the rst
two races of the series, pulled
out after the rst lap on Sun-
day citing stomach pain, and
his withdrawal sees him drop
down to fourth place in the
standings.
Hong Chanmakara and
Nhonh Lenh moved up to
share top position with 62
points each, while Gadient
catapulted himself into sec-
ond spot on 56 points, two
points ahead of Catry.
In the A2 Experts class, Hong
Sivlang once again exerted her
dominance over male rivals to
claim her second successive
stage win in thrilling fashion.
Sivlang timed 1:11:37 over
three laps of the demand-
ing course to edge out Flying
Bikes teammate Srey Ya by
just three seconds, with Eng
Lin coming home two min-
utes later for third.
The 31-year-old mother of
four now leads the A2 Class
by 11 points heading into the
fourth and penultimate round
in Kep on October 19.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Fly-
ing Bikes Sang Seiha was a
clear winner in the B1 Interme-
diate class over three laps, well
beating Elevate Cycling Teams
Yura Kim and Giant teams Nov
Long, who were second and
third respectively.
The B2 Class for over-30 rid-
ers, which was contested over
a total distance of 19.5km,
had its podium topped by Le
Chanthorn of Mekong Cycling
Team. Kim Sambath grabbed
silver and Flying Bikes Ngem
Samnang took bronze.
Mekong Cycling Team cel-
ebrated more success in Kam-
pong Speu with victories for
Earm Vatim and Sam Boren
in the C1 Novice (14-18) and
C2 Novice (19-35) classes re-
spectively. Campinoys Melvin
Baroga made it back-to-back
wins in the C3 Novice (36 and
over) section.
Heng Sivlangs sister Sivgech
was a class above in the Wom-
ens race, completing the two
laps of 6.5km almost six min-
utes faster than anyone else.
A boy named Apoly tri-
umphed in the Kids class,
which saw youngsters aged
13 and below whizz round ve
laps of a shortened course.
Simon Gadient rides ahead of Pierre Yves Catry (left) during the A1 Elite Class race of the 2014 Smart Cambo-
dia MTB Series round four in Kampong Speu province on Sunday. BOBBY VICERAL
ONE FC CEO Victor Cui (left) poses with Manny Pacquiao following the announcement that the Fili-
pino world champion boxer has bought shares in the Singapore-based MMA organisation. ONE FC