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Mohamad Ali Harissi
JIHADISTS were pushing towards
Baghdad yesterday after capturing a
town just hours to the north, as the
US mulled airstrikes in a bid to bol-
ster Iraqs collapsing security forces.
With the militants closing in on the
capital, forces from Iraqs autono-
mous Kurdish region took control of
the disputed northern oil hub of
Kirkuk to protect it from jihadist
attack, officials said.
And amid warnings from Washing-
ton that the jihadist offensive threat-
ens the stability of the entire Middle
East, Iranian President Hassan Rou-
hani warned that Tehran would com-
bat terrorism in Iraq.
Fighters from the Sunni Muslim
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
have spearheaded a major offensive
that began late on Monday, overrun-
ning the northern province of Nine-
veh and significant parts of Kirkuk
and Salaheddin provinces, and also
moving into northern Diyala.
Yesterday they were advancing on
Baghdad, after seizing the town of
Dhuluiyah just 90 kilometres away,
witnesses and officials said, adding
that the nearby Muatassam area had
also fallen.
Militants travelling in more than 20
vehicles seized three villages in the
north of Diyala province, near the
border with Salaheddin, expanding
the offensive, officers said.
ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed
al-Adnani promised the group
would drive on to Baghdad and Kar-
bala, a city southwest of the capital
that is one of the holiest sites for Shia
Muslims, in a statement carried by
jihadist websites.
Parliament failed to achieve a quo-
rum for an emergency session that
was supposed to consider a request
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CPP passes
judicial laws
in Senate
Vong Sokheng
THREE controversial draft laws that
sailed through the National Assembly
last month were rubber-stamped by
the Senate yesterday, according to a
Senate statement, amid an opposi-
tion boycott of the session and despite
near-universal condemnation.
Forty-four senators from the ruling
Cambodian Peoples Party voted to
adopt the three bills.
The Law on the Organisation and
Functioning of the Courts, the Law
on the Amendment of the Supreme
Council of Magistracy and the Law
on the Status of Judges and Prose-
cutors will officially go into effect
when signed by King Norodom
Sihamoni.
The plenary session of the Senates
44 lawmakers examined [the laws]
and decided to absolutely adopt the
three draft laws without change, the
Senate statement says.
As was the case in the National
Assembly, where the Cambodia
Meas Sokchea
and Kevin Ponniah
W
HEN the opposition joins
the National Assembly, it
will take the chairman-
ships of five of 10 parlia-
mentary commissions and the first vice
presidency of the assembly, according
to part of the agreement revealed by
Cambodia National Rescue Party whip
Son Chhay yesterday after a round of
negotiations at the Senate.
Although disagreements between
the CNRP and the ruling party on
reform technicalities continued to
block the talks from blossoming into a
resolution, details of the parliamen-
tary power-sharing agreement bro-
kered by Prime Minister Hun Sen and
opposition leader Sam Rainsy earlier
this year became public.
A new anti-corruption commission
will be added to the existing nine com-
missions to facilitate the equal chair-
manships, but the Cambodian Peoples
Party will still hold the parliamentary
presidency (currently held by Heng
Samrin) and the second vice presi-
dency meaning it will still wield a
majority (seven to six) on the assem-
blys permanent standing committee.
Governance experts and analysts
yesterday said the new power sharing
arrangements would equate to little
practical change in the amount of
power the opposition wields in parlia-
ment unless internal assembly rules
are also completely overhauled.
Prum Sokha, head of the CPPs
negotiating working group, confirmed
yesterday that the agreement on
assembly positions still stood.
But other details allegedly ham-
mered out in an April 9 phone call
between Hun Sen and Rainsy were left
in dispute after a meeting between
party officials yesterday.
Following the 90-minute meeting,
the parties remained at odds over what
proportion of lawmakers should be
required to approve members of a new
constitutionally mandated National
Election Committee.
According to the CPPs Sokha, requir-
ing that two-thirds of parliament
approve the NECs members as the
CNRP has requested would simply
lead to more political deadlock.
Our working group told the [CNRP
Inside the deal deferred
CNRP lifts lid on agreement details
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US mulls
strikes as
rebs near
Baghdad
A man displays body armour in front of an army vehicle at the Kukjali Iraqi Army checkpoint, near the city of Mosul, on Wednesday.
Half a million people were estimated to have ed Iraqs second largest city this week as Islamist militants overran it. AFP
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TENNIS SETBACK
A Khmer Krom organisation
seeks an apology from the
Vietnamese government
Protests and clashes plague
the opening of the World Cup
in Brazil
Cambodia Davis Cup team
loses its opening match 2-1 to
Syria in Tehran
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working group] that this would
only lead to a return to what
took place before 2006, he told
reporters after the meeting,
referring to deadlock that
ensued after the 1998 and 2003
elections, when the CPP won
the poll but did not have the
two-thirds majority required to
form a government on its own.
In 2006, Rainsy, then leader of
his eponymous party, lobbied
for a constitutional amendment
that would allow a government
to be formed with only a 50 per
cent plus one majority a provi-
sion that, ironically enough,
allowed the CPP to go it alone
with only 68 seats after last
years disputed election.
At his post-meeting press
conference yesterday, Sokha
handed out copies of a 2006
letter from Rainsy to Hun Sen
and former Funcinpec leader
Norodom Ranariddh request-
ing the amendment.
But CNRP working group head
Kuoy Bunroeun rejected the
deadlock argument yesterday,
saying that, on the contrary,
public trust in the NEC is what
Cambodia needs to avoid its
reoccurring post-election woes.
We want the electoral insti-
tution to have real indepen-
dence, real power and have real
ability, especially to help avoid
post-election political crises. In
previous times, post-election
crises have occurred because
of lost condence in electoral
institutions, he said.
Opposition leader Rainsy,
meanwhile, argued that the CPP
was reneging on what had pre-
viously been agreed between
him and Hun Sen.
Compared to what Hun Sen
and I agreed in a phone con-
versation last April, the CPP
now backtracks and refuses to
specify in the Constitution the
previously agreed new rule for
selecting future NEC members
based on a two-third majority
or a consensus among all par-
ties represented at the Nation-
al Assembly, Rainsy wrote in
a Facebook post.
If this new rule is only stated
in an ordinary law whose adop-
tion only requires a 50% + 1
majority, the CPP would be
able in the future to change the
composition of the NEC as it
pleases, he continued.
But Sokha said the opposition
was holding things back, point-
ing to NEC-related constitu-
tional amendments that had
already been drafted by his par-
ty and distributed yesterday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen is
one step ahead, he said.
The working groups are
expected to meet again after
consulting with party leaders,
but no timeline for further nego-
tiations has been announced.
Separately, according to
Chhay, who yesterday divulged
details of what positions the
CNRP would receive when it
joins parliament, the opposition
had initially asked for the parlia-
mentary presidency but had
agreed to forfeit that position
when the ruling party agreed to
create a 10th commission.
But without a change to the
internal rules, the oppositions
new parliamentary prestige
wont change a thing, Cambo-
dian Center for Human Rights
chairman Ou Virak said.
If you look at the formula
now, the internal rules has to be
adopted every single mandate
by an absolute majority . . . So of
course the ruling party will
adopt rules that will help the
ruling party and undermine the
opposition, he said.
Nobody has power, only the
president of the National
Assembly and the permanent
committee as a body, which will
still be dominated by the CPP.
What the CNRP should be
pushing for, Virak continued,
is a law on the organisation and
functioning of parliament,
which would guarantee the
rights of the opposition regard-
less of who is in power.
A governance expert and con-
sultant who wished to remain
anonymous agreed that the new
positions would merely amount
to symbolic parliamentary power
without internal rule changes.
If the CPP still hold the major-
ity, even though you are a [com-
mission] chairman, it is an hon-
orary position. The voice still
belongs to the CPP, he said.
But the CNRP is pushing for
internal rules that would allow
the opposition to play a more
prominent role and allow the
recognition of a shadow cabi-
net, Chhay said.
This is an ongoing discus-
sion, what had been agreed was
[only] power-sharing.
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
A phone shop in Kab Ko market uses a petrol generator during a power
outage in Phnom Penh yesterday. HONG MENEA
Residents left
in dark again
Sen David and Stuart White

R
ESIDENTS in the vi-
cinity of Kab Ko mar-
ket in Phnom Penhs
Chamkarmon district
found themselves fumbling in
the dark yet again yesterday on
the second consecutive day of
hours-long power outages.
According to locals, electric-
ity to the street failed around
noon on Wednesday and was
restored at about 10pm that
night, only to fail again around
noon yesterday, driving down
trade and serving as a general
headache for residents and
business owners alike.
The electricity is very im-
portant to make a living,
jewellery vendor Chan Vanta
said. I need light for my busi-
ness as a gold seller to attract
the customers, but for two
days there have been few cus-
tomers coming to look . . . and
buy some jewellery.
Sitting in a still, dark, empty
dining room, the owner of the
usually popular Phsar Kabko
restaurant agreed.
After the electricity was cut
. . . there were fewer custom-
ers, he said. Right now the
days are very hot, and custom-
ers need a fan.
The restaurateur, who asked
to be identied only as Mean,
said he had been forced to
resort to iceboxes to keep his
produce and drinks cold after
the power outage killed his re-
frigerators, but the run on ice
that ensued after the outage
made it hard to nd.
The blackout was also caus-
ing problems on the home
front, resident Sam That said.
We need a fan, air condition-
ing and light to live, because it is
too hot, and we need electricity
for my daughter to study, use
the internet and watch TV, she
said. We heard about an EDC
[Electricit du Cambodge] re-
lease, but we cant do anything.
An ofcial at EDC who de-
clined to be named would not
comment in detail, but offered
a statement pertaining to con-
struction in Por Sen Chey and
Meanchey districts, among oth-
ers. Due to interconnected pow-
er grids, work being done there
could have an effect elsewhere
in the city, the ofcial said.
The EDC would like to
inform the public that EDC
will . . . remove some lines for
road expansion construction,
so [power in] some areas in
Phnom Penh will be off until
14 June, the statement reads.
We hope that the public will
be aware and forgive us.
Members of the CPP and CNRP sit across from each other at the Senate
in Phnom Penh during negotiations yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
CNRP lifts
lid on deal
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THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Deadly driving
Five charged
with murder
of two cops
F
IVE men were charged
with murder in a provin-
cial court yesterday after
being implicated in the slaying
of two military police ofcers,
who were run over by a Lexus
allegedly ferrying the suspects
from a club.
The victims, Chheav Sam-
nang and Oub Sopheaktra,
both in their 20s, were hit and
killed in Sen Monoroms Spean
Meanchey commune in the
early hours of Sunday morning
after a night out, according to
authorities, who say that an
argument with the suspects
led to the fatal altercation at
around 1:30am.
The suspects are accused
of murder, vice prosecutor So
Vuthy said.
Five of the men were arres-
ted on the same day as the
alleged crime, but police are
still hunting an additional sus-
pect they believe was behind
the wheel. The suspects have
been identified as Khim Sam-
nang, 23; Oeurn Sam Oun, 22;
Pheap Pros, 23; Ly Thou, 20;
and Sreng Panha, 24. KIM SAROM
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A truck carrying illegal luxury-grade timber sits on the road yesterday in Kratie province after being seized
by local security forces. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Women sold sex with girls
Transport needed at border
Judicial laws pass in Senate
Sen David
MIXED security forces led by
Kratie provinces court prose-
cutor yesterday arrested six
people in a huge illegal timber
bust, confiscating more than
100 cubic metres of protected
luxury-grade timber.
The arrests of both Cambo-
dian and Vietnamese nationals
were the culmination of a
three-day crackdown by pros-
ecutor Ty Sovin Thal in Snuol
districts Khsem commune.
The luxury wood in the area
must be nearly gone, if there
are such huge stockpiles. Now
the court is questioning the
people to find out whos behind
the scheme, Sovin Thal said.
The Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary,
which borders Vietnam and is
home to several economic land
concessions (ELCs), is known
to be a key transit route of ille-
gally felled timber. Local
authorities said they discov-
ered the stockpile hidden in the
forest next to an ELC owned by
an investment company.
Sovin Thal said that the six
suspects would be released
after questioning because they
were only low-level employees
in the operation.
The seized timber, he
added, was being catalogued
by officials.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard
the case of three purported prostitutes-turned-
madams accused of selling sex with underage
girls to wealthy patrons.
Judge Suos Sam Ath said defendants Chan Srey
Leak, aka Ly, 25; Soeun Tey, aka Srey Pov, 24; and
Kim Layseak, 18, provided three young girls in
their rental house on the outskirts of Phnom
Penh, and arranged and brought them to have
sex with rich men in guesthouses or hotels.
Lieutenant Colonel Keo Thea, chief of the
Phnom Penh Municipal Anti-Human Trafficking
and Juvenile Protection Unit, said the three
accused used to bring victims to sleep with
clients in hotels for a fee of $100 per time, and
they took a commission of $50 from them
per client.
During the hearing, the three accused asked
for lighter sentences, admitting to having deliv-
ered the victims to clients, but only because the
victims had, as Srey Leak put it, agreed to it by
themselves because they wanted to earn money
to support themselves and their families.
A verdict is due on July 1.
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and
Amelia Woodside
AS WORKERS continued
streaming back across the Thai
border into Cambodia yester-
day, Prime Minister Hun Sen
ordered that 150 military trucks
be sent to Poipet to assist with
relocation efforts, District Gov-
ernor Ngor Menchruon said.
Poipet is congested with
Cambodian workers and the
numbers of workers being sent
back keeps growing, Men-
chruon said, referring to repa-
triations instigated by Thai-
lands junta.
Official government figures
list 7,500 Cambodian workers
deported over the first nine
days of June, but rights groups
say the number is significantly
higher, with more than 20,000
being sent across the border.
Unconfirmed reports of up to
nine Cambodian migrants
being killed by Thai armed
forces coupled with rumours of
other abuse had deportees and
rights groups concerned.
Returnees have reported vio-
lent raids on houses where ille-
gal immigrants are suspected of
residing and incidences of the
tearing up of documentation
entitling Cambodians to work
legally in the country, accord-
ing to a statement released by
rights group Adhoc.
Shelter, food and clean water
are running low for the thou-
sands surrounding the border
office, said Joe Lowry, a spokes-
man for the International
Organization for Migrations
offices in Bangkok.
People are remaining calm,
but we need more buses to help
transport people back to their
home provinces. Many . . . were
making next to nothing in Thai-
land and simply cant afford to
leave Poipet, Lowry said.
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National Rescue Party is still refusing to take its
seats, the laws were passed without the participa-
tion of the 11 opposition senators, who boycott-
ed the session.
The lack of public consultation on the draft
laws sees Cambodia moving toward a military
junta with its power derived from a Constitu-
tional coup, and it is no different from the [Khmer
Rouge regime] between 1975 and 1979, the
opposition senators wrote in statement on
Wednesday, referring to the era in the 1970s when
nearly a quarter of the population perished.
Civil society groups have universally decried the
laws, which will give the Ministry of Justice control
over the administration of courts, the Supreme
Council of Magistracy and the promotions and
disciplining of judges and prosecutors, effective-
ly erasing the division between the judicial and
executive branches of government, they argue.
Constitutionally speaking, the laws wont be
enacted without the Kings signature. Om Dara-
vuth, an adviser to the office of the Queen Moth-
er, said yesterday that he had not seen the draft
laws, and was unsure of how the King would
approach them, but said he would give the laws
his full attention.
I could not say anything at the moment about
whether the King will sign the draft laws or not,
because the draft laws are not yet in my hands,
Daravuth said. I know that the draft laws were
criticised by civil society groups, so when the
drafts are in my hand I will examine them before
reporting to the King.
Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, however,
was confident yesterday that the laws would
come into effect without challenge.
As for the [laws that] pass, the King has never
refused to sign them, he said.
Political analyst Lao Mong Hay also said it was
unlikely that the King would stall the laws, and
noted that even Sihamonis father, King Father
Norodom Sihanouk, would register his protest
with flawed legislation by simply leaving the
signing to someone else.
Our King Father, when he was unhappy with
such-and-such a law, he . . . would go to get medi-
cal treatment in China, and would let the acting
head of state [constitutionally, the president of the
Senate] sign on his behalf, Mong Hay said. The
Kings son has less latitude or none at all, actu-
ally to be like his father. It is very unlikely he would
refuse to sign and promulgate those three laws.
Given the laws fundamental nature, they
should be subject to review by the Constitution-
al Council, though even that body would be
unlikely to block them, Mong Hay added, noting
that the council has made no objection I can
remember. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY STUART WHITE
Anti-coup groups home elsewhere
Amelia Woodside
T
HAI dissident Jakra-
pob Penkair says an
anti-coup organisa-
tion has been formed
to ght Thailands reigning
junta, but that Cambodia
wont be its base.
We have jointly founded
the organisation to ght the
dictatorship, Jakrapob wrote
on his ofcial Facebook page
on Wednesday, referring to
the military takeover that oc-
curred in May.
Thanks to an inux of global
support, Jakrapob, who has
been interviewed by several
media outlets in Phnom Penh
in recent weeks, said the newly
minted organisation will work
for the freedom and liberty of
Thai people from the military
dictatorship.
In an email to the Post this
week, Jakrapob said he was
not a permanent resident in
Cambodia and that the King-
doms ofcials had no policy
to support [his] state of exile
or to get [a] resistance move-
ment established.
I have not chosen Cambo-
dia as a place of exile just as a
transit [location] to different
countries, Jakrapob said.
Cambodian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs spokesman
Kuoy Kuong reiterated yes-
terday that authorities had
no evidence of any local ac-
tivities in support of the red
shirts those who back oust-
ed Thai prime minister Ying-
luck Shinawatra.
Jakrapob, a former spokes-
man for Yinglucks brother and
former Thai premier Thaksin
Shinawatra, who was himself
ousted in a 2006 coup, has
been in and out of Cambodia
since 2009, eeing charges
of instigating violence and
insulting the Thai monarch.
The latter charge can carry
a sentence of up to 15 years
in prison.
Last week, Thailands junta,
the National Council for Peace
and Order, called on all those
accused of insulting the king,
including Jakrapob, to turn
themselves in by Monday
or face harsher penalties. In
the wake of the Thai armys
seizure of power last month,
the military junta declared it
would track down Jakrapob,
who has declared on multiple
occasions his intention to
form a government in exile.
If he does ultimately run his
operation from Cambodia, he
may not have much to fear
from the local government.
According to political ana-
lyst Peter Tan Keo, if an or-
ganisation takes root in Cam-
bodia, political dissidents like
Jakrapob will probably be ne
as long as internal business af-
fairs remain normal and pres-
sure to curtail a resistance
movement isnt spearheaded
by ASEAN leaders.
Mr. Hun Sens government
has a tradition of leaning to-
wards Thaksin, favoring the
red shirts, and as such the
pro-Royalist military junta
may lack sufcient political
capital to get Cambodia to
sway in their favor, Keo wrote
in an email. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY LAIGNEE BARRON
I have not chosen
Cambodia as a place
of exile just as a
transit [location]
Timber seized during bust
Anti-coup protesters take part in a gathering in Bangkok last month. Opposition is building from a spectrum
of Thailands divided society to defy the new junta, which overthrew the government in May. AFP
Ocean Garment
Strike fails
to reach Hun
Sens gates
S
TRIKING workers at a Por
Sen Chey garment factory
trying to march to Prime
Minister Hun Sens home were
blocked by police yesterday.
Hundreds of employees at
Ocean Garment factory ga-
thered in front of Phnom Penh
International Airport yesterday
morning, planning to march to
Hun Sens home and demand
intervention in their dispute.
About 1,300 began protesting
on May 24, when management
announced that the factory
would close for a month and
that workers would be paid $15
that month.
[To] comply with the regula-
tions of the capital, we banned
the march, because it could
have caused traffic jams, Mili-
tary Police spokesman Kheng
Tito said in a text message.
Strikers, who demand full
salaries during the break,
were previously blocked from
marching from their factory to
the Labour Ministry on June 3.
Negotiations overseen by
the ministry yesterday bore no
resolution, said Pav Sina, pre-
sident of the Collective Union
of Movement of Workers. MOM
KUNTHEAR AND SEAN TEEHAN
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Condence
for plan low
Sean Teehan
UNION officials and the gar-
ment sectors factory associa-
tion said yesterday they sup-
ported a new program meant
to enhance relations between
employers and employees, but
remained sceptical of how
effective it would be.
In a ceremony yesterday, the
Ministry of Labour inaugurated
the program, which entails
training sessions and meetings
about conflict resolution, in an
attempt to avoid disputes from
escalating into strikes.
We dont expect 100 per cent
[success], said Ath Thorn, pres-
ident of the Coalition of Cam-
bodian Apparel Workers Dem-
ocratic Union. Im not sure that
[employers are] committed.
Ken Loo, secretary-general of
the Garment Manufacturers
Association in Cambodia, said
the idea for the program is a
good one but will not work if
unions dont cooperate.
In theory it looks like a good
agreement, Loo said. How-
ever if one party doesnt respect
the [decisions] then it wont be
very effective.
An organiser for the Interna-
tional Labour Organization
which acted as a technical advis-
er could not be reached.
Khmer Krom want apology
May Titthara

A
KHMER Krom as-
sociation threatened
this week to protest
against the Viet-
namese government after an
ofcial said that the former
Kampuchea Krom provinces
belonged to Vietnam long be-
fore Frances ofcial transfer
of the land in 1949.
The threats from the Khmer
Kampuchea Krom Association
for Human Rights and Devel-
opment (KKKAHRD) followed
remarks by Trung Van Thong,
a spokesman for the Vietnam-
ese Embassy in Phnom Penh,
during an interview with Ra-
dio Free Asia earlier this week.
France did not cut a ter-
ritory of Khmer Kampuchea
Krom and give it to Vietnam
but Kampuchea Krom had
been a Vietnamese territory
for a very long time and the
news of [Cambodia] losing the
territory has no basis [or] evi-
dence, he said.
Following the interview, the
KKKAHRD released a state-
ment on Wednesday calling
for Van Thong or the Vietnam-
ese government to apologise
or face demonstrations.
If there is no basic docu-
ment or . . . evidence to con-
rm [his claims], Trung Van
Thong or the Vietnamese gov-
ernment has to apologise to
Cambodians publicly, or else
the Kampuchea Krom Asso-
ciation will lead a huge, non-
violent demonstration against
[the Vietnamese government]
until [it] acquiesces to rec-
ognize the real history of the
Kampuchea Krom territory,
the statement says.
Speaking to the Post yester-
day, But Van Thong said he has
no plans to back down.
[The complaints] raised by
the organisation were malign.
[The KKKAHRD] has no evi-
dence to conrm that France
cut the territory . . . to give it to
Vietnam, he said.
Van Thong added that he
had nothing to apologise for
and would take no notice of
the organisations threats.
Last week, ongoing tensions
over the land were highlighted
at a ceremony to mark 65 years
since the ofcial transfer.
At the event, deputy opposi-
tion leader Kem Sokha accused
Vietnam of orchestrating the
Koh Pich bridge stampede that
killed more than 350 people in
2010 as part of a plot to elimi-
nate the Khmer race, tradition
and culture.
Khmer Krom monks and supporters protest against the Vietnamese government and appeal to the interna-
tional community during a demonstration at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh last year. PHA LINA
Mom Kunthear
CIVIL servants have again
pushed the government to
introduce a long-awaited insur-
ance plan for government
workers injured on the job.
In a June 10 letter to Minister
of Social Affairs Vong Sauth, the
Cambodian Independent Civil
Servants Association (CICA)
calls for a National Social Secu-
rity Fund provisions for which
were spelled out in a 2008 sub-
decree to be introduced. CICA
president Kao Poeun said civil
servants were often left to pay
their own medical bills when
injured at work.
They have to spend their
own money to treat their inju-
ries after accidents, he said.
The government operates the
National Social Security Fund
(NSSF) for private sector work-
ers. The fund covers employees
in such industries as garments
and construction.
Civil servants, however, do
not enjoy the same collective
bargaining rights allowed in the
private sector and are not cov-
ered by the fund.
We do not have [coverage]
for civil servants yet, and I
want the Social Affairs Minis-
try to take action on this,
Poeun said. It is the duty of
the government.
The NSSF compensates gar-
ment workers injured on the
way to and from their factories.
Such a system would benefit
civil servants, Poeun said, as
most workers injuries occurred
during their daily commute.
Social Affairs Minister Sauth
could not be reached.
Stop and go
More trafc
lights going
up in capital
P
HNOM Penh is looking
to improve its trafc
light system and will
t more than 30 unregulated
intersections with trafc lights
by February next year, City
Hall has announced.
The Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA),
which is assisting the city, has
prioritised the system as a bet-
ter way of managing traffic in
the capital, it said on Monday.
We are planning to upgrade
the whole traffic light system
in Phnom Penh in number and
technology, Egami Masahiko,
who leads the JICA urban
planning working group, said.
Phnom Penh has 69 inter-
sections with traffic signals.
JICA and the city plan to
increase that number to 100 in
the next eight months.
An advanced traffic light
control system that incorpora-
tes traffic congestion sur-
veillance will also be introdu-
ced, Masahiko said.
The traffic signal system in
Phnom Penh is very primitive
as it is isolated and operated
with a single fixed timing,
regardless of the morning and
evening peak hours. ANNIELEE
National
6
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Poipet man messed
with the wrong moto
MOTO thievery is one of the
more common ways to make a
quick buck in the Kingdom,
but pinching an officials ride
can land you in hot water. A
25-year-old Poipet town man
learned this the hard way on
Wednesday when he visited his
friend, an official at the local
commune office, to borrow his
bike to visit a sick relative in
hospital. After not getting it
back, the victim filed a com-
plaint to the police, who found
the suspect hiding out at
home. He confessed to pawn-
ing the bike and was sent to
court. DEUM AMPIL
Builder-gone-bad gets
constructive beating
A BAD workman blames his
tools, but an even worse work-
man uses his tools to break
into a house. Such was the
case with a 23-year-old Kratie
town man on Wednesday who
saw an opportunity when a
local left his home near the
construction site where the
suspect worked. Unluckily for
the suspect, the owner
returned and caught him in
the act, raising the alarm and
drawing a crowd that beat the
hapless thief until the police
arrived. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Sorry sap suckered by
scumbags sob story
KEEP your friends close, and
your marks closer. A 20-year-
old moto thief put this philoso-
phy into practice on Tuesday
when he attended a party with
a group of friends. After whil-
ing away the hours together,
the suspect asked to borrow
his buddys bike, concocting a
tale about a sick wife in hospi-
tal. When the suspect didnt
return the next day, the victim
filed a complaint to the police,
which got the man to confess
to selling the moto. He was
sent to court. KAMPUCHEA THMEY
Man pulled from moto
found theft a real drag
ALL that glitters probably
makes you a target for rob-
bery. A 27-year-old moto driv-
er in Banteay Meancheys
Poipet district on Tuesday
found himself in a hospital
bed after a shiny new neck-
lace he had just picked up at a
jewellery store caught the
unwanted attention of two
moto-riding crooks. While
stopped at a traffic light, the
suspects snatched the chain,
pulling the victim from his
bike. Police sent the victim to
hospital. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Man that finds no good
deed goes un-punched
A PUNCH-UP in Kampong
Cham town on Tuesday left a
man who went to intervene in
the provincial hospital. Two
groups of young men out par-
tying in a local club got into a
quarrel, taking the verbal
exchange outside and bring-
ing it to the next level. An
onlooker, seeing the sparring,
went to intervene. But the
group turned on him, leaving
him battered and bruised.
Police arrested seven attack-
ers and sent the victim to hos-
pital. KOH SANTEPHEAP
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Snakes alive
A previously unknown wolf snake
species, replete with backwards-
facing fangs, has been discovered
slivering in Pursats Phnom
Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary,
according to conservation group
Fauna & Flora International (FFI).
The species will probably prove
to be endemic to the Cardamom
Mountains, said FFI herpetologist
Neang Thy, who is credited with
discovering and naming the snake.
However, only one specimen has
been discovered, according to FFI
representatives, earning it the
classication of data decient
on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature red list of
endangered species. FFI is waiting
for additional research before the
snake can be assessed as vulner-
able or critically endangered. It is
the eighth snake species discov-
ered by FFI scientists in Cambodia
in the past 14 years. NEANG THY/FFI
Civil servants call for comp

This week in biz
ANZ signs deal with MFI
to expand business
ANZ Royal Bank and
microfinance institution
Hattha Kaksekar Limited
(HKL) on Monday agreed to
align their banking systems
from August to reduce
transaction times and bolster
customer referrals between
the two. The agreement will
also result in a rollout of ANZ-
HKL branded ATMs.
Brewerys majority
stake on the market
PRIVATE equity fund Leopard
Capital on Monday announced
it was seeking a buyer for its
55 per cent stake in Kingdom
Breweries Cambodia. The $34
million fund must exit all
investments by April 2016.
The sale of the funds share of
Kingdom Breweries is part of
the firms exit strategy, a
statement on the companys
website said.
Grand Twins expansion
under way before IPO
GARMENT maker Grand
Twins International will finally
list on the Cambodian Stock
Exchange this Monday with a
starting share price of $2.41.
The company on Tuesday
confirmed that expansion
plans had already started with
a $10 million factory being
built an hour outside of
Phnom Penh. GTI will be the
first private firm to list on the
local bourse since it was
established in April 2011.
S&P names Cambodia
as most vulnerable
STANDARD & Poors ranked
Cambodias economy and
creditworthiness as the most
vulnerable to the effects of
climate change out of 116
countries. Cambodias
dependence on agriculture-
related products as a driver of
its GDP growth and that more
than 10 per cent of the
country live at or below 5
metres of altitude contributed
to the countrys highly
vulnerable status.
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An EZECOM sign sits in front of a the companys ofce in Phnom Penh last year. HONG MENEA
Japan firm enters cable race
Daniel de Carteret
and Eddie Morton
J
APANESE technology pro-
vider NTT Communica-
tions announced yesterday
that it will link Cambodia
to the Asia Submarine-cable
Express (ASE), an underwater
cable the company says will
signicantly enhance internet
services for the Kingdom.
Some 7,800 kilometres long,
the ASE runs from Japan to the
Philippines and connects to
Hong Kong before crossing the
South China Sea to Singapore
and Malaysia. The intended
Cambodian link will run up
through the Gulf of Thailand.
The cables data-carrying
capacity is 15 terabits or
above, according to an NTT
Communications statement
released yesterday.
Located in the middle of
the Southern Economic Cor-
ridor stretching from Bangkok
and Ho Chi Minh City, Cam-
bodia is experiencing rapid
economic growth. In turn, the
need for reliable, high-capac-
ity networks is rising to meet
the increasing communica-
tion demands of locally based
multinational companies,
the statement reads.
Partnering with local rm
Chuan Wei (Cambodia), NTT
Communications claims that
the ASE will be the rst cable
to connect with Cambodia.
Though neither NTT Com-
munications nor Chuan Wei
provided a date for the ASE
links completion, the race to
be the rst to connect Cambo-
dia via underwater transmis-
sion is on.
In June last year, local pro-
vider Ezecom unveiled the
construction of an $80 mil-
lion submarine cable project
which promises to connect
Cambodia to the Asia-Amer-
ica Gateway (AAG), a 20,000-
kilometre cable linking South-
east Asia to the United States
via Malaysia.
Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO
of Ezecom, a subsidiary com-
pany of Royal Group and
Cambodias largest internet
service provider, said he was
not aware of NTT Commu-
nications plans, but that his
companys AAG work was pro-
gressing well.
We are currently picking
vendors for the project. Ne-
gotiations are being held this
month, that is why we are here
[in Shanghai], Blanche-Hor-
gan said yesterday during a
telephone call from Shanghai.
Originally slated for comple-
tion by the end of this year, The
Ezecom high-speed internet
cable, which will travel 1,425
kilometres under the Gulf of
Thailand and have a data car-
rying capacity of 8 terabits, is
not expected to be completed
until the end of 2015, accord-
ing to Blanche-Horgan.
There have been some de-
lays, he added, without going
into detail.
Connection to one of the
worlds major submarine in-
ternet cables will increase data
transmission sizes and reduce
costs for ISPs, according to Ken
Chanthan, chairman of the
ICT Association of Cambodia.
I hope it will reduce the cost
of the internet for people,
Chanthan said.
He added that many Cam-
bodian ISPs have been forced
to lease telecommunications
infrastructure from Vietnam
and that the introduction
of just one submarine con-
nection would help break
this dependence.
A second entrant to the ca-
ble market would only benet
consumers with added com-
petition, Chanthan said.
Sigh of relief
Junta ends
curfew in 32
more areas
T
OURISM operators have
expressed relief and
optimism for the indus-
try after the army-imposed
curfew was lifted in 32 more
areas nationwide.
Tanongsak Somwong,
president of the Tourism As-
sociation of Koh Samui, where
the curfew had already been
lifted, said the islands tourism
environment was improving.
The trend bodes well for the
months of July and August, a
high season for Koh Samui.
Advance bookings for July
and August are about 60 per
cent, and hotels on the island
say bookings should gradually
increase, as tourists prefer to
book 14-21 days in advance.
Tanongsak said his group
was condent the average
occupancy rate in Koh Samuis
high season would be close to
90 per cent like in 2013.
Well miss the double-digit
tourism growth projection
this year due to the impact
from political problems, he
said. But were still condent
we can see growth of at least
8 per cent, and tourist visits to
Koh Samui will hit 1,836,000
this year. BANGKOK POST
UN pact to
help crops
in drought
Annie Lee and Rainbow Li
THE Ministry of Environment
and the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) this week signed a five-
year, $5 million agreement
aimed at protecting agricul-
tural production against cli-
mate change.
The pact will see drainage
systems designed to hydrate
crops during drought installed
throughout Kampong Thom,
Siem Reap, Preah Vihear and
Ratanakkiri provinces.
The project is vital to assist
rural communities in adapting
to climate variability and pro-
tecting their livelihoods, Nina
Brandstrup, FAO representa-
tive in Cambodia, said.
Brandstrup added that Cam-
bodias high dependence on
agricultural production puts
the country at extreme risk of
being severely impacted by cli-
mate change.
The minister of environment,
Say Samal, said: The govern-
ment is committed to address-
ing environmental issues with
a focus on environmental pro-
tection, biodiversity conserva-
tion and appropriate use of
natural resources.
Markets
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Business
Beijing ramps up spending
C
HINA announced
new steps aimed at
bolstering slowing
economic growth by
cutting taxes, spending more
on developing the Yangtze
River region and expanding
nancing for exporters.
China will boost public
investment in railway, high-
way, waterway and aviation-
network construction in the
Yangtze River basin and cut
some utility companies tax-
es by a total of about 24 bil-
lion yuan ($3.9 billion) a year,
the State Council said in a
statement after a meeting on
Tuesday at which Premier Li
Keqiang presided.
The Peoples Bank of China
said in a separate statement
on Tuesday that it will en-
courage banks to lend more
to exporters to boost ship-
ments. It reiterated plans
to promote development of
direct trading between the
yuan and other currencies.
The initiatives came after
falling imports last month
underlined the weakness
in domestic demand that is
making the Chinese econo-
my more reliant on exports.
Policy makers are seeking to
create jobs and industries to
replace real estate and manu-
facturing for export.
Imports fell by 1.6 per cent
in May, the customs agency
said last week. The drop
wasnt foreseen by any of the
42 economists in a Bloomberg
survey, which had a median
projection for a 6 per cent
gain. Exports gained 7 per
cent against an estimated 6.7
per cent.
Chinas gross domestic prod-
uct rose 7.4 per cent in the rst
quarter from a year earlier, the
slowest pace since 2012 and
down from 7.7 per cent in the
previous three months. GDP is
forecast by analysts to grow 7.3
per cent this year, which would
be the least since 1990.
In Tuesdays statement, the
cabinet said that the develop-
ment of the Yangtze River re-
gion will stimulate growth in
an area with a fth of Chinas
landmass and 600 million
people.
Starting July 1, utilities com-
panies including water-treat-
ment plants and small hydro-
electric facilities will be subject
to 3 per cent value-added tax,
down from a previous range
of 3 per cent to 6 per cent, ac-
cording to the statement.
The cabinet also approved
a long-term plan for the lo-
gistics industry on Tuesday,
seeking to cut transportation
costs and improve efciency,
promoting the easier ow
of goods among regions, it
revealed. BLOOMBERG
A pedestrian walks past the Peoples Bank of China headquarters in Beijing. China has revealed plans to
stimulate the economy by cutting taxes and increasing spending. BLOOMBERG
CAMBODIAS insurance industry is slow-
ly emerging, from a single pioneering
provider the state-owned Cambodian
National Insurance Company opening
up in 1990 to 11 rms today. Companies
now offer a broader range of products, in-
cluding micro-insurnace options.In mid-
2012, Prvoir Kampuchea Micro-Life In-
surance (PKMI), a subsidiary of French
health and life insurance rm Prvoir,
began offering life insurance services
with a coverage limit of $5,000 to rural
customers. This week, Post reporter Hor
Kimsay spoke with Solne Favre, CEO of
PKMI, about how the nascent Cambo-
dian insurance market is evolving.
Tell me about PKMIs business?
We distribute very low premium prod-
ucts to low- and middle-income people.
At the moment we have 40 staff and we
have partnered with ve micronance
institutions and one vehicle leasing
company to promote PKMI insurance
products. We insure more than 9,000
customers with 20,000 policies. Our in-
surance premiums reached a total of
$115,000 at the end of 2013.
From your two-year experience here,
how is the future looking for Cambodias
insurance industry?
Several studies have conrmed that
health risks are a crucial factor in the
impoverishment of households in
Cambodia. We know that around half
of the people who are just above the
poverty line use savings, sell an asset or
go into debt to pay health expenditures
when they meet a health problem. Such
practices can make them fall below the
poverty line. Thus, there is an emergen-
cy to cover these low-income earners
and their families, with health and life
micro-insurance. Developing health
and life insurance to reduce the impact
of health problems on households is
therefore vital to preventing poverty.
How do your products work?
For example, credit-life insurance
products can cover someones loan
repayments in the event of death or
disability. Health insurance will cover
the insured in case of illness or injury.
Before hospitalisation, the insured
calls the hotline to be guided by PKMI
staff. At one of the 75 partner health
facilities, the insured received quali-
tative medical treatment without pay-
ing any advance.
Can people with low incomes afford the
service?
Yes, sure they can. While we have va-
riety of products with different prices
People can allocate average insurance
premium at only $6 per year. This is
truly affordable for them. We conduct
regular surveys that always conrm this
affordability.
Micro-insurance is a new concept for
Cambodia. What have been the chal-
lenges in establishing a footing here?
The major challenge is making the
low income communities aware of mi-
cro-insurance. The concept is very dif-
cult for them to understand. For many
people, buying a product that covers
them if the risk occurs is very difcult to
understand because normally they are
used to getting something the minute
they pay for it.
Another challenge that we face is work-
ing health care centres. When we pro-
vide health insurance, it is very difcult
for people to know where they should go
when they have health problems espe-
cially people in rural areas because they
are used to going to see traditional heal-
ers rather than medical health facilities.
This interview has been edited for length
and clarity.
9
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Business
Govt calls
on jewellers
to improve
Chan Muyhong
CAMBODIAN government offi-
cials yesterday appealed to
gem and jewellery industry
representatives to improve
design quality at the opening
of the 6th Gem and Jewellery
Fair on Koh Pich.
Seun Sotha, director of the
trade promotion department at
the Ministry of Commerce, said
while Cambodias gemstones are
of a high standard, would-be
international buyers are being
deterred by the countrys lack of
gem-cutting ability.
I want to see more local
companies and producers start
to use machines in design . . .
Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Hong
Kong and England are eyeing
us, he said.
Khy Sovannara, owner of Heng
Chhay Khy Jewellery, an export-
er of rubies and sapphires to
China, Singapore and Thailand,
bought a cutting machine but
said manual shaping is still her
preferred method.
I will stick to design by hand
as it is more manual, she said.
More than 80 companies
joined yesterdays trade fair with
40 per cent of those companies
coming from overseas.
A tool for preventing poverty
Solene Favre, CEO of Prevoir Kampuchea Micro Insurance, during a signing ceremony in
Phnom Penh earlier this week. HENG CHIVOAN

Amazon reveal music
streaming service
US ONLINE giant Amazon is
preparing to launch a
streaming music service as
early as this week, the New
York Times reported on
Wednesday. The report, citing
unnamed sources, said the
service would have a more
limited catalogue than some
rivals but would be offered free
and without advertising for
customers of Amazon Prime
a subscription service that
includes free delivery, access
to online movies and books
and other advantages. Amazon
is also widely believed to be
preparing to launch its own
smartphone that would tie in
with its Kindle tablet
computers. AFP
Criminal charges for
rogue UK traders
TRADERS who manipulate
currency rates or borrowing
costs would face criminal
charges under plans to be
announced by Chancellor of
the Exchequer George
Osborne in a crackdown on
bankers less than a year
before a general election. The
government is poised to
extend laws imposing as much
as seven years in jail for Libor
manipulation to gauges used
in foreign-exchange, fixed-
income and commodity
markets, the Treasury said
yesterday. BLOOMBERG
Markets
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Business
EU court rejects appeal
as Intel to pay out $1.4B
A
TOP EU court re-
jected yesterday an
appeal by US com-
puter chip giant In-
tel against the blocs biggest
ever single company ne of
1.06 billion ($1.4 billion) for
abusing its dominant posi-
tion in the market.
The European Commission,
the EUs executive arm, ned
Intel in 2009 after it said the
company had offered clients
price rebates to use its x86
computer chips in preference
to rival AMD.
The EUs General Court re-
jected in its entirety Intels at-
tempt to overturn the penalty
for giving rebates to computer
makers that favoured its chips
and shunned the products of
its main competitor.
The worlds biggest chip-
maker argued at a court hear-
ing two years ago that EU
regulators ignored exonerat-
ing evidence to build an ex-
treme case. Intels criticism
that regulators failed to record
notes of a meeting with an ex-
ecutive from Dell Inc would
not be such as to result in the
courts altering the amount of
the ne, the court said.
Intel is very disappointed,
said Sophie Jacobs, a spokes-
woman for the company in
Brussels. This is a complex
case and the decision reects
that, she continued.
The EUs broad approach
is being upheld constantly
in court, meaning it has great
leeway in both ning and
nding against companies,
said Pablo Ibanez Colomo,
a law lecturer at the London
School of Economics.
The Intel ne was more than
double a 497 million penalty
against Microsoft Corp in 2004.
It represented about 4 per cent
of Intels 2008 sales of $37.6 bil-
lion, and was below the maxi-
mum penalty of 10 per cent of
annual sales.
The EUs investigation found
that Santa Clara, California-
based Intel impeded com-
petition by giving rebates to
computer makers from 2002
until 2005 on the condition
that they buy at least 95 per
cent of chips for PCs from In-
tel. It said Intel imposed re-
strictive conditions for the
remaining 5 per cent, supplied
by AMD, which struggled to
overcome Intels hold on the
market for processors that
run PCs. The computer mak-
ers coaxed to not use AMDs
chips included Acer Inc, Dell,
Hewlett-Packard Co, Lenovo
Group Ltd and NEC Corp, the
commission said in 2009.
The EU also said Intel
made payments to electron-
ics retailer Media Markt on
the condition that it only
sell Intel-based PCs. The EU
also ordered Intel to stop
using illegal rebates to thwart
competitors, an instruction
that Intel complained was
somewhat unclear.
Intel settled an antitrust
case with the US Federal
Trade Commission in August
2010 and agreed not to give
computer makers discounts
or other inducements in ex-
change for promises they will
buy chips exclusively from In-
tel. It also agreed to pay AMD
$1.25 billion in 2009 to end
all civil litigation. Sunnyvale,
California-based AMD is no
longer involved in the EU
court case.
The General Courts deci-
sions can, however, be ap-
pealed to the EUs Court of
Justice. AFP / BLOOMBERG
Major Cineplex is the largest operator
of movie theaters in Thailand, which
has more than ve hundred screens
throughout the country and also a
leading one in Asia.It is now coming
to Cambodia this June 2014. With
its new location, we arelooking for
talented and dynamic people, who
can generate and execute ideas to
build truly competitive advantages to
make our company outstanding, to ll
the following positions:
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Marketing Manager
*Number of hiring: 1
*J ob Responsibilities:
Manage strategic plan activities to support 1.
cinema through all aspects
Propose yearly budget, needed to 2.
implement the strategic activities
Create competitive environment to keep 3.
staff motivated and growing
Negotiate and make corporate promotion 4.
with partners to get more exposure
Manage expense plan effectively 5.
Have an ability to be a coach, supervisor 6.
and teacher to make sure staff perform their
roles well
*Requirements:
Bachelor degree, MBA or related eld -
At least threeyears experiences in related -
eld
Strong communication skill, leadership -
and time management
Ability to contribute to the team -
English literacy is a must -

Cinema Supervisor
*Number of hiring: 6
*J ob Responsibilities:
Staff training & development 1.
Daily inventory & ordering stock 2.
Cinema foyer update 3.
Handling customer complaints 4.
Area service check 5.
Planning staff working shift 6.
Maintain cinema facilities to ensure 7.
clean, safe and in good condition
Checking daily staff attendant and report 8.
monthly attendant for payroll purpose
and performance evaluation
Assist with other functions as instructed 9.
by manager
*Requirements:
Bachelor degree or related eld -
Experience of relevant eld -
Good communication skill -
Hard work, honest & friendly -
Computer Ms. Word and Ms. Excel -
English languag - e
Interested candidate please submit CV and cover letter with a recent photo to #35-37, street 214,
SangkatBeungRaing, Khan DaunPenh, Phnom Penh or via email address at chendarap@gmail.com
For further information please contact Ms. PannChenda at 012 350 358
Deadline for submission: 20 June, 2014
Whiskey rebellion
Bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey are displayed on a shelf at Marin Bev-
erage Outlet this month in San Rafael, California. A battle is heating up
between the owners of rival whiskey brands Jack Daniels and George
Dickel who are fueding over who can label their product as authentic
Tennessee-style whiskey. Jack Daniels distills and ages their whiskey
in Tennessee while George Dickel distills in Tennessee and ages in
Kentucky. AFP
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Amy Thomson
C
OME home to a hot
iron and smolder-
ing clothes this
afternoon? Soon, it
may not be a sign of forgetful-
ness, but rather evidence that
youve been hacked. In com-
ing years, your phone will be
able to lock your house, turn
on the air conditioning, check
whether the milk is out of date
or even heat up your iron.
Great news, except all that
convenience could also let
criminals open your doors.
As these technologies
become more sophisticated,
it opens up a broader spec-
trum of threats, said Gunter
Ollmann, chief technology
officer of IOActive, a tech
security firm in Seattle. A
world of connected devices
makes it possible for the bad
guys to have permanent
entry into your household.
What the industry calls the
internet of things has been
heralded as the next wave of
tech riches. By 2020, some 26
billion such devices may be
connected to the internet, up
from three billion today,
researcher Gartner Inc esti-
mates. Thats almost four
times the number of smart-
phones, tablets and PCs that
will be in use. The vision is to
connect almost everything
from cars to fridges, lamps,
even toilets.
Problem is, data security
isnt typically a big focus for
toilet, refrigerator or baby
monitor manufacturers.
Security lapses on such devic-
es could allow bad guys to
disrupt home life, gather val-
uable personal data or even
use stolen information to
extort money, Ollmann said.
Trustwave, a Chicago com-
pany that helps corporate
clients fight cybercrime,
hijacked a Bluetooth connec-
tion that controls toilets made
by Japans Lixil Group. That
could allow hackers to open
or close the lid and even squirt
a stream of water at the users
behind, Trustwave said.
Even some tech companies
have created devices lacking
sufficient protection. Oll-
manns group broke into a
home automation system
from Belkin International Inc,
a company that makes mobile
phone accessories and Wi-Fi
routers. Belkins WeMo box
fits over electrical outlets to
control lamps, fans, coffee
makers and other appliances
via a smartphone app.
IOActive found a way to
take over those switches,
turning them into poltergeists
that could turn on heaters
and irons a fire hazard and
electricity-waster. Belkin said
it discovered the vulnerabili-
ties and fixed them even
before IOActive discovered
them in an older device.
As home automation tech-
nologies spread, appliance
makers must educate buyers
on security, said John Yeo, a
director at Spiderlabs, Trust-
waves research unit.
This push to make every-
thing under the sun internet-
connected, perhaps because
its in many respects aimed at
the consumer end of the mar-
ket, hasnt had much of a
focus on security, Yeo said.
Though not many criminal
hackers are targeting such
devices today, that will change
once theres a way to make
money from exploiting them,
said Sebastian Zimmerman,
a member of the Chaos Com-
puter Club, a hacker collective
campaigning to raise aware-
ness of security and privacy.
Criminals ignored mobile
phones, he said, until mobile
banking provided a way to get
account information and
made them big targets.
It depends on the business
case, Zimmerman said. As
soon as you find interesting
applications for exploiting
appliances, Im pretty sure
people will do it.
Some pranksters dont need
a profit motive. In April, an
Ohio couple said that they
woke up to a strange mans
voice coming through their
10-month-old daughters
baby monitor.
The baby monitor maker,
Foscam Digital Technologies
Llc, had already released an
urgent notice to users, and
says that when correctly con-
figured, its products face no
known vulnerabilities.
Still, the growing number of
hackers interested in finding
illicit gains from stolen infor-
mation makes these devices
tempting targets, said David
Emm, a security researcher at
security firm Kaspersky Labs.
Theres a whole backdrop
of a black economy where
criminals can profit from
taking control of phones and
computers. What well see
increasingly is other aspects
of our life being drawn into
that. BLOOMBERG
Even toilets arent
safe from hackers
A high-tech toilet seat equipped with a body-fat analyser. AFP
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O
NCE the tear gas
had settled and the
red-clad protest-
ers had ed, the
Sao Paulo man stuck his head
out the window and shouted
a message encapsulating the
divide troubling Brazil on
kick-off day: Today there will
be a Cup!
The protesters slogan that
There wont be a Cup has
dogged Brazil for the past year,
marring preparations for the
opening match in Sao Paulos
shiny new if chronically de-
layed and over-budget Cor-
inthians Arena at 5pm (2000
GMT) yesterday.
Brazils ambivalence toward
the World Cup was on full dis-
play as the country geared up
for the game, the sea of green
and yellow in some areas con-
trasting with the clashes be-
tween police and protesters
in Sao Paulo and fears of more
nationwide.
In cities across the country,
many morning commuters
proudly wore the number 10
jersey of star striker Neymar or
decked themselves out in the
colours of the ag, whether
with green-and-yellow shirts,
dresses, skirts or owers in
their hair.
In Rio de Janeiro, there was
a festive atmosphere as tour-
ists took in the breathtaking
views from Mount Corcovado,
where an enormous Brazilian
ag adorned the base of the
Christ the Redeemer statue.
Football fans from around
the world sporting the colours
of their teams gathered around
the monument, one Argentine
proudly ying a ag proclaim-
ing Yes We Can.
In Sao Paulo, where authori-
ties have declared a holiday,
fans began congregating early
in the morning outside the
hotel where the Brazilian team
were staying.
That festive move seemed a
world away from the clashes
outside the Carrao subway sta-
tion on Sao Paulos east side,
but in fact the two places are
just a few kilometres apart.
Gregory Leao, a 27-year-old
law student at the protest, said
the demonstrators wanted to
invade Corinthians Arena.
The objective is to put an
end to the World Cup. We rea-
lise were not going to achieve
it, but we believe Brazilians
should rise up, he said.
Brandishing a red banner
with the slogan Without rights
there will be no Cup, the pro-
testers numbered only a few
dozen and didnt look capable
of invading much of anything.
But riot police showed their
determination not to let them
mar the nations big day, ring
tear gas, stun grenades and
rubber bullets to break them
up and detaining one shirtless
man who refused to ee.
In Rio, striking airport
ground staff the latest to join
the wave of strikes ahead of
the tournament invaded the
road to the international air-
port and briey blocked it off.
Their protest created a long
trafc jam, causing some wor-
ried travellers to exit their ve-
hicles and run toward the air-
port to catch their ights.
Around 500 protesters in
downtown Rio also sought to
revive the momentum of the
million-strong protests that
shook Brazil last year during
the Confederations Cup a
World Cup dress rehearsal
shouting FIFA go home!
In some of the 12 host cities,
the World Cup atmosphere
was visibly tense.
In Belo Horizonte, many
banks and businesses around
the central square were closed
ahead of a protest planned
for midday. Host city Curitiba
also had little World Cup spirit
on display.
There was little green and
yellow on the streets, and some
vendors were selling T-shirts
with the slogan F World
Cup 2014 in Brazil. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
World
Continued from page 1
from Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki and the presidents
ofce to declare a state of
emergency. Only 128 of 325
MPs showed up for the ses-
sion, which was announced
two days before, a senior of-
cial said.
The swift collapse of Bagh-
dads control comes on top
of the loss of Fallujah, west
of Baghdad, at the start of
the year. It has been a blow
for Western governments
that invested lives and mon-
ey in the invasion that top-
pled dictator Saddam Hus-
sein in 2003.
Washington is considering
several options for offering
military assistance to Bagh-
dad, including drone strikes,
a US ofcial said on the con-
dition of anonymity.
Resorting to such aircraft
used in Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Yemen in a highly contro-
versial program would mark
a dramatic shift in the US
engagement in Iraq, after the
last American troops pulled
out in late 2011.
State Department spokes-
woman Jen Psaki said the US
was committed to working
with the Iraqi government
leaders across Iraq to support
a unied approach against
ISISs continued aggression.
But there is no current plan
to send US troops back into
Iraq, where around 4,500
American soldiers died in the
bitter conict.
And British Foreign Secre-
tary William Hague said there
was no question of British
troops being sent back.
The UN Security Council
called crisis talks for yesterday,
with diplomats saying closed
consultations were to begin at
11:30am (1530 GMT).
In Tehran, President Rou-
hani went live on television
to denounce the extremist,
terrorist group that is acting
savagely in Iraq and warned
that Iran would not tolerate
this violence and terror.
He said he would later meet
the Supreme National Secu-
rity Council, which would
have to approve any military
support Tehran might want to
provide to Baghdad.
The militants overran Iraqs
second city Mosul on Tues-
day before taking control
of its surrounding province
Nineveh and sweeping into
Kirkuk, Salaheddin provinces,
as well as northern Diyala.
They encountered little ef-
fective resistance from se-
curity forces with reports of
30,000 government eeing
from 800 jihadists, some of
whom discarded their uni-
forms and joined tens of
thousands of civilians, many
of whom ed towards the
relative safety of the autono-
mous Kurdistan region.
Militants also stormed the
Turkish consulate in Mosul
and kidnapped 49 people in-
cluding the head of the mis-
sion and three children, a
Turkish ofcial said.
They were in addition to 31
Turkish truck drivers seized by
ISIS at a Mosul power station,
and Ankara pledged harsh re-
prisals if any were harmed.
The gunmen did not enter
Kirkuk city, but the army
withdrew from positions in
the surrounding province
and their places have been
taken by members of the
Kurdish Peshmerga security
forces, according to Kirkuk
Governor Najm al-Din Ka-
rim, himself a Kurd.
A Peshmerga commander,
Brigadier General Shirko
Rauf, conrmed yesterday
that his men were in control
of the disputed city and were
readying to move towards ar-
eas seized by ISIS.
Kirkuk is a major oil hub that
Iraqi Kurds have long wanted
to incorporate into their au-
tonomous region, a move bit-
terly opposed by Baghdad.
ISIS aims to create an Is-
lamic state straddling parts of
Iraq and Syria, where they are
ghting the forces of Presi-
dent Bashar al-Assad.
US considers airstrikes
as ISIS nears Baghdad
Protest clashes mar
divided Brazils party
The two faces of Brazil 2014: Riot policemen stand guard during an anti-World Cup protest on the morning
of the opening match, in Sao Paulo; (bottom) Brazilian fans wave outside the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo
prior to the opening Brazil-Croatia match yesterday. AFP
Kurdish Iraqi forces deploy troops
and armoured vehicles on the
outskirts of Kirkuk yesterday. AFP
I
NDIAN police yesterday
said they were investi-
gating a spate of rapes
and hangings in a trou-
bled northern region, as the
national womens rights body
called for the state govern-
ment to resign over the crisis.
India has been trying to re-
store its battered reputation
for violence against women,
but public outrage was reignit-
ed by the deaths last month of
two girls, aged 12 and 14, who
were gang raped and lynched
in their impoverished village
in Uttar Pradesh.
Yesterday a woman said she
had been gang raped by four
ofcers at a police station in
the state, and police said they
were also investigating the
death of a 19-year-old found,
like the two girls, hanging
from a tree.
The body was strung up
using the girls dupatta [long
scarf ], senior police super-
intendent Ashutosh Kumar
said. The FIR [rst informa-
tion report] was lodged by the
girls brother against uniden-
tied persons. He has alleged
the girl was murdered.
The case is the latest in a se-
ries of attacks in Uttar Pradesh
whose Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav is under mounting po-
litical pressure to resign over
his handling of law and order.
Mamata Sharma, head of
the state-run National Com-
mission for Women, urged
Yadav to resign, calling his
governments failure to pro-
tect women shameful.
[The government] not only
fails in protecting their wom-
en but they dont even have
the police in their control,
Sharma told NDTV.
India brought in tougher
laws last year against sexual
offenders after the fatal gang-
rape of a student in New Delhi
in December 2012, an attack
that drew international con-
demnation of Indias treat-
ment of women.
But the legislation designed
to educate and sensitise po-
lice on rape cases has failed to
stem the tide of violence.
In southwest Uttar Pradesh,
the woman who alleged she
was gang raped by four of-
cers at a police station said
the attack occurred as she
was trying to seek her hus-
bands release. At 11:30pm
when there was no one in the
room the sub-inspector took
me to his room and raped
me inside the police station,
the woman, who cannot be
named, said.
The woman led a com-
plaint against the sub-inspec-
tor and three other ofcers,
alleging she was attacked in
Hamirpur district when she
refused to pay them a bribe,
police said.
A 45-year-old woman was
also found hanging from
a tree in Uttar Pradesh on
Wednesday with her family
claiming she had been raped
and murdered. Her husband
said she was singled out for at-
tack as she returned home as
punishment for trying to halt
the sale of alcohol in her area.
My wife used to ght
against the local liquor maa.
They created a ruckus here
every other day and attacked
you if you said anything to
them, her husband said.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on Wednesday urged all
politicians to work together
to protect women, in his
rst comments on the issue
since the hanging of the girls
sparked public outrage.
Modi warned politicians
against politicising rape,
saying they were playing
with the dignity of women in
his rst speech to parliament
since sweeping to power at
last months national elec-
tions. AFP
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
World
13
NORTH Korean leader Kim
Jong-un has criticised the of-
cial weather service for pro-
viding incorrect forecasts,
in a rare public dressing down
of a government body in a
country which suffers regular
natural disasters.
Kim criticised the science
used in observations and
called for the use of modern
equipment during an inspec-
tion of the Hydro-meteoro-
logical Service, the ofcial
Korean Central News Agency
(KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
There are many incorrect
forecasts as the meteoro-
logical observation has not
been put on a modern and
scientic basis, Kim said,
urging the agency to funda-
mentally improve its work
and equipment.
Accurate forecasts are
needed to protect the lives
and properties of people
from disasters caused by
abnormal climatic phe-
nomenon, he said.
Calling the weather ser-
vice very important work
directly affecting the over-
all economic affairs, Kim
also underscored the need to
modernise meteorological
observation equipment at a
high level, KCNA said.
It was not clear when Kim
visited the agency, but pub-
lic criticism of government
ofcials during eld trips by
North Korean leaders is ex-
tremely rare.
Undated pictures released
by KCNA showed Kim giv-
ing eld guidance inside
the weather service in the
capital, some of his audience
standing attentively with
arms by their sides.
North Korea has suffered
regular food shortages under
the ruling Kim dynasty, with
the situation exacerbated by
oods, droughts and misman-
agement. In May, state media
reported that North Korea was
hit by its worst spring drought
in more than three decades,
threatening thousands of
acres of staple crops. AFP
N Koreas Kim rains
on weather service
Cops accused in
Indian rape case
Activists shout slogans against the Uttar Pradesh state government on
June 7 in protest against the gang rape and murder of two girls. AFP
Kim Jong-un inspects the
Hydro-meteorological Service
in Pyongyang. AFP
Five Libyan police hurt
in suicide bomb attack
A CAR bomb exploded at a
police station in Libyas second
city Benghazi late on
Wednesday, leaving the suicide
bomber dead and five police
officers injured, security officials
said. A suicide attack took place
on Wednesday evening at the
Berses post and, according to
preliminary information, there
are a number of victims of the
explosion, local security service
spokesman Ibrahim al-Sharaa
said. The troops were loyal to a
rogue Libyan former general
Khalifa Haftar, AP reported. AFP
Court allows Musharraf

to travel from Pakistan
A COURT in Karachi yesterday
ordered Pakistans government
to lift a travel ban on former
military ruler Pervez Musharraf
in 15 days time, his lawyer
said, possibly drawing a line
under a raft of legal troubles.
Musharraf has been battling
several court cases since he
returned to Pakistan last year
to fight elections, including
treason charges for imposing
emergency rule in 2007,
stoking tensions between
civilian authorities and the
powerful military. His exit from
Pakistan could help ease those
tensions at a time when the
country is fighting a resurgent
Taliban following a brazen
attack on Karachis airport this
week. AFP
World
14 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Alls fair . . . ?
Jealous man
devours his

rivals heart

A
JEALOUS lover in
South Africa stabbed
a rival, cut out his
heart and ate it with a knife
and fork, police and media
reported yesterday.
Police were called to the
gruesome scene at a house
in Cape Towns Gugulethu
township by frantic neigh-
bours, spokesman Frederick
van Wyk told the Cape Times.
On the scene they found a
suspect, a Zimbabwean na-
tional, busy eating the heart
of a human with a knife and
fork, he said.
The woman at the centre of
the love triangle told police
that her former lover had visi-
ted the house where she was
living with her current partner
and they had chatted together
before he gave her money to
buy liquor and she left.
When she returned she
found her partner, 62-year-
old Mbuyiselo Manona, had
been stabbed, Van Wyk said.
Neighbours alerted by the
commotion said they had
peered through the house
windows to see the man cut-
ting out Manonas heart and
eating it. AFP
Autopsy suggests live ammo
Peter Beaumont
A
POSTMORTEM ex-
amination of the
exhumed body of
one of two Palestin-
ian teenagers killed by Israeli
forces at a demonstration last
month has reportedly identi-
ed wounds consistent with
live ammunition, despite the
Israeli militarys denial that it
used live rounds that day.
The killings of 17-year-old
Nadeem Nawara and 16-year-
old Mohammad Salameh
caused international outrage
and calls from the US for a
full investigation after their
deaths were caught on video
camera footage that made
clear the boys posed no
threat to Israeli forces at the
time of their deaths.
This week Human Rights
Watch issued a report sug-
gesting that the killing of the
two boys was a war crime.
The wilful killing of civilians
by Israeli security forces as
part of the occupation is a war
crime, said Sarah Leah Whit-
son, the groups Middle East
and North Africa director.
Israel has a responsibil-
ity to prosecute the forces
who targeted these teens,
and also those responsible
for assigning the use of live
ammunition to police a
demonstration.
Israeli security forces have
consistently denied that bor-
der police present at the Nakba
Day demonstration used live
ammunition, insisting only
plastic-coated steel rounds
were used. It said it was con-
tinuing its investigation.
According to leaks from the
autopsy team, forensic scien-
tists identied entry and exit
wounds as well as bullet frag-
ments in Nadeems body con-
sistent with live ammunition.
Nadeems family had sought
permission from religious
authorities to have the boys
body exhumed and exam-
ined on Wednesday by a joint
forensic team, including the
head of the Palestinian foren-
sic institute and two senior
Israeli forensic scientists.
According to Israeli mili-
tary sources quoted by Is-
raels Channel 10, one pos-
sibility under examination
was that ofcers interviewed
over the killings had lied to
military investigators about
the fact that live rounds had
not been deployed.
The wounds identied by
the forensic scientists were
said to be consistent with
images taken at the hospi-
tal and seen by local NGOs
showing an exit wound in
Nadeems back from a bul-
let that had entered his chest
close to his nipple.
The case gained interna-
tional prominence because
the video footage of the two
teenagers fatal wounding
appeared to clearly demon-
strate that neither of the boys
posed a threat to Israeli sol-
diers at the time they were
targeted, and that one was
walking away from Israeli
troops when he was shot.
Anonymous senior Israeli
military ofcials quoted in
local media attempted in the
aftermath of the killings to
suggest the footage had been
forged or a mystery Palestin-
ian gunmen had killed the
boys shooting four rounds
over a period of more than two
hours, apparently without be-
ing noticed by several dozen
Israeli soldiers and police.
AFP reported that Israels
army has suspended a non-
combat soldier seen ring
his weapon during clashes in
the West Bank this month in
which two Palestinian teen-
agers were killed, according
to yesterdays Haaretz news-
paper. THE GUARDIAN
An Israeli policeman aims his rie during clashes with Palestinian
demonstrators outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison on May 16. AFP
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(SFB) PROJECT
Background
Winrock International is seeking a qualied Senior Livelihood Expert to
join the USAID-funded Supporting Forests and Biodiversity Project
(SFB) in Cambodia. The position is based in Phnom Penh.
Winrock International is a non-prot organization that works with people
in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged,
increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. By linking
local individuals and communities with new ideas and technology, Winrock
is increasing long-term productivity, equity, and responsible resource
management to benet the poor and disadvantaged of the world.
The Supporting Forests and Biodiversity projects goal is to improve
conservation and governance of the Eastern Plains and Prey Lang landscapes
to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity. Participation of
communities in forest management decisions will be improved under the
project and capacity-building of community members and ofcials of sub-
national authorities will cut across project elements and activities.
General Responsibilities
The Consultant will be responsible for the formulating the SFB livelihood
strategy and very detailed tactical implementation plans that will include
identifying livelihood opportunities and other mechanisms that improve the
quality of life for forest peoples and communities.
The consultant should propose activities that promote partnerships between
communities, private sector rms, and customers and result in positive
impacts the forest resources and biodiversity.
Qualications and Experience Requirements
A Masters degree in Natural Resources Management, Forestry,
Climate Change, Development Studies, Business Administration,
Business Management, or other relevant development eld.
At least 5 years relevant senior technical experience with natural
resources management and/or economic growth projects in
Cambodia, with an emphasis on forest-base and community-based
business development, forest governance and capacity building,
small enterprise development, and value chain development.
Knowledge of community-based and women-based enterprise and
women economic empowerment is an asset.
Excellent English language capabilities in all forms.
Able to prepare and present effective presentations.
If you meet the qualications listed above and are interested in joining our
team please send us your 1) Detailed CV, 2) Position and Salary History, and
3) Three Professional References, to Supporting Forests and Biodiversity,
Building F, Room 588, Phnom Penh Center, Phnom Penh, email to
infosfb@winrock.org, no later than Monday, June 23, 2014. For a more
detailed scope of work, call the ofce at 023 220 714. The SFB Project is an
equal opportunity employer; women are encouraged to apply.
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
World
15
Myanmars snake bite menace
William Davies
S
WAYING with the hyp-
notic rhythm of the
king cobra rearing up
in front of him, Myan-
mar snake charmer Sein Tin
feels protected from the ven-
omous kiss of his dancing
partner by an intricate array
of magical tattoos.
But in a land slithering with
deadly serpents, many of his
countrymen are not so lucky.
Myanmar may be best
known for the giant constric-
tor, the Burmese python, but
the Southeast Asian nation
has a host of other snakes
whose names would strike
even more fear into the hearts
of ophidiophobics.
Russells viper, banded krait
and spitting cobra are among
the 150 species of snakes in
the nation, 40 of them ven-
omous. Their abundance,
combined with a substantial
proportion of people work-
ing in the countryside and
a chronically underfunded
health system, means Myan-
mar has a snake bite mortal-
ity rate around twice as high
as the world average.
Long a hunter of reptilian
predators, Sein Tin has spent
decades capturing and tam-
ing snakes in Myanmar, and
now works at the city zoo in
Yangon, the countrys com-
mercial heart.
He no longer remembers
how many times he has been
bitten, but he does recall the
four wounds inicted by king
cobras one of the deadliest
snakes in Asia.
Wiry and weather-beaten,
he puts his survival down to
the writhing tattoos that coil
around his arms and body,
several depicting Myanmars
mythical naga sea serpent.
The ink was mixed with
snake venom and medicinal
herbs and injected into his
body. Most people would last
only about an hour if bitten
by a snake, Sein Tin said.
But for me, I have longer to
go and get treatment because
of the tattoos, he added be-
fore plucking a metre-long
cobra from the snake pit and
planting a kiss on its brow.
While snakes do venture
into towns and cities oc-
casionally, it is in the coun-
tryside that bites are really
a risk. Slinking through tall
grasses, or vanishing camou-
aged into the parched earth,
snakes are a particular threat
to farmers.
And it is not tattoos, but
anti-venom they need. More
than 7,800 people were bitten
by venomous snakes in 2011
in Myanmar, according to the
Health Ministry, which said
on average more than eight
per cent do not survive.
That compares with a glob-
al average of four per cent,
based on World Health Or-
ganisation gures. The poi-
son travels quickly through
the bloodstream and can lead
to blindness, amputations or
even death.
Rice farmer Phoe Nge was
tending his crops when he
suddenly felt a sharp burning
sensation in his foot.
I didnt feel pain right
away. I thought I had been
stung by a bee. But when I
looked around, it was a vi-
per, said the 38-year-old,
who lives on the distant out-
skirts of Yangon.
I am a village man, so I
tore my longyi apart and tied
it around my foot, he said,
referring to the sarong-like
wrapped cloth worn by men
and women.
The bandage and his ability
to swiftly identify his scaled
assailant as the Russells viper
the countrys deadliest snake
species meant he was able
to receive the correct anti-
venom from a nearby clinic.
So what should people do if
they are bitten?
You must not run, because
if you run you are going to ac-
tivate the blood circulation in
your legs and the venom will
go very fast to the heart and
the main system, said Chan-
tal Bonls, chief medical of-
cer at the SOS International
clinic in Yangon. Do not try
to cauterise the wound, suck
out the venom or apply ice
either. Just put on a pad and
light compressive bandage,
Bonls said.
And if you cannot recogn-
ise the snake, the symptoms
should help doctors identify
the culprit blood stops clot-
ting properly in the case of a
Russells viper bite, whereas
cobra venom is neurotoxic
causing blurred vision.
Antidotes to snake bites are
obtained by injecting a small
amount of venom into an an-
imal, generally a horse, and
then collecting the antibodies
produced.
Impoverished Myanmar,
unable to buy horses, has
started using sheep. The
country is planning to double
its production of antivenom
to 100,000 doses, compared
with 53,000 currently, accord-
ing to the WHO as it tries to
wrestle down mortality rates.
While preventative mea-
sures to stop getting bitten
such as wearing shoes while
walking through elds go a
long way to reduce bites, once
the snake has struck there is
only one option.
The best, and the only
treatment if you are bitten by
a snake, is to inject the correct
antivenom, said Aung Zaw,
deputy manager of a phar-
maceutical factory run by the
ministry for industry. AFP
Coiled cobras at an enclosure at Yangon zoo. Myanmar has a snake
bite mortality rate around twice as high as the world average. AFP
Lemurs on
danger list
MORE than 90 per cent of
lemurs are facing extinction,
according to the latest global
assessment of the worlds most
threatened species.
The update to the Interna-
tional Union for the Conserva-
tion of Natures (IUCN) red
list, which contains more than
73,000 species around the
world, also warned that tem-
perate slipper orchids and the
Japanese eel have joined the
list of the 22,103 species now
classed by experts as critically
endangered, endangered or
vulnerable to extinction.
With 90 species of lemur now
classed as being at risk of
extinction (91 per cent), the
primates are one of the worlds
most threatened groups of ani-
mals. Of the 99 known species
which live only on Madagas-
car almost half (48 species)
are endangered, including the
worlds smallest primate, Mad-
ame Berthes mouse lemur.
Twenty lemurs were listed as
vulnerable to extinction.
Lemurs are threatened by the
destruction of their tropical
forest habitat in Madagascar,
where political instability and
rising levels of poverty in the
past 20 years have accelerated
illegal logging. As much as 90
per cent of the original natural
vegetation on the island has
been destroyed and what
remains is severely fragmented.
Lemurs members of the pri-
mate family are also being
hunted for food. THE GUARDIAN
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VER two consecutive years,
the press reported on
crowds of uniformed
police, military police and
soldiers gathering in front of the
homes of highly connected business-
men. In the first year, they were spot-
ted outside the house of a senator
whose wife runs a large company; the
following year, they showed up in
front of the house of a powerful
tycoon. They were there to receive
ang pao (red envelopes) of cash gifts
for Chinese New Year. One can guess
how much larger and thicker were
the envelopes their superiors might
have received. At the time the com-
pany of the senators wife was
embroiled in a land dispute and
forced eviction controversy.
Relations or connections between
businessmen and government officials
as well as among businessmen them-
selves and the related offering of
mutual favours are common in Cam-
bodia. Donations and sponsorships of
projects by businesses, and offers of
favours and privileges including gov-
ernment contracts and economic land
concessions to them and/or of the hon-
orific title of okhna to their owners are
a form of currency.
It is well known that Cambodian
authorities invariably ignore the
plight of occupants of land granted to
these companies and the impact of
such concessions on the environ-
ment. They do not hesitate to forcibly
evict such people or force them to
accept unfair compensation.
All this is an extended form of a
practice known in the Chinese busi-
ness world as guanxi.
Guanxi in Chinese literally means
relationship any type of relation-
ship and in the Chinese business
world it refers to a network of rela-
tionships among various parties that
cooperate together and support one
another by exchanging favours. You
scratch my back, Ill scratch yours.
Chinese migrants brought the sys-
tem with them to Cambodia, where
it took on some Cambodian charac-
teristics as government bigwigs
became major members of such
networks. The rise of guanxi with
Cambodian characteristics will only
gain momentum with the arrival of
more Chinese companies, their own-
ers, their employees and other Chi-
nese nationals.
Free from any legal inhibition from
their country of origin, which many
of their Western counterparts are
subject to, and being better endowed
than their local counterparts, these
Chinese businesses can afford to
exchange bigger favours for more
services from the government. Out of
necessity, they do not hesitate, as
their local counterparts have done
before them, to enlist government
circles in their network.
With its renewed strength, guanxi
with Cambodian characteristics
increases corruption and the domi-
nance of companies over the govern-
ment and the less well-off; affects the
countrys international relations;
stunts the development of the rule of
law; contributes to violations of
human rights; creates further injus-
tices, uncertainty and instability in
the country; and, in the long run, will
work against the local business com-
munity itself.
Actually, based on the Paris Peace
Agreements of 1991, its own constitu-
tion and the international human
rights law it has vowed to adhere to,
Cambodia should be a liberal democ-
racy governed by the rule of law.
A 2004 report to the UN Security
Council says that the rule of law and
transitional justice in conflict and
post-conflict societies refers to a
principle of governance in which all
persons, institutions and entities,
public and private, including the
state itself, are accountable to laws
that are publicly promulgated, equal-
ly enforced and independently adju-
dicated, and which are consistent
with international human rights
norms and standards.
It requires, as well, measures to
ensure adherence to the principles of
supremacy of law, equality before the
law, accountability to the law, fair-
ness in the application of the law,
separation of powers, participation in
decision-making, legal certainty,
avoidance of arbitrariness and proce-
dural and legal transparency.
Following coaching by Western
donors over the past 20 years, Cam-
bodian rulers should well understand
this rule of law, the ills guanxi has
created or contributed to, and the
remedies that the rule of law can pro-
vide to address these ills. But they are
reluctant to establish such rule as it
would set limits on their power and
personal benefits. They have persist-
ently shown resistance to any foreign
aid package, invariably from Western
donors, containing requests for the
adoption of elements of the rule of
law. They do not welcome aid with
conditions attached, and their rela-
tions with such donor countries are
far from being cordial.
In contrast, Cambodian rulers pre-
fer to seek aid from donors that do
not attach such conditions to it and
have turned mainly to China, which
cares little about the rule of law. Its
guanxi suits the recipients better
when they can use powers outside
the law to return favours and privi-
leges to China and its companies and
nationals.
The deportation of Uighur asylum
seekers, the offer of support for Chi-
nas position on the South China Sea
issue and the offer of economic land
concessions, licences for the exploi-
tation of the countrys natural
resources and protection to Chinese
companies are instances of reciproci-
ty from Cambodia.
Guanxi with Cambodian character-
istics distorts the functioning of a
market economy based on competi-
tion, which requires stability, trust,
certainty, security of property and
contracts, fair play, equality before
the law, transparency and impartial
law enforcement by the government.
All of this can only be secured with
an effective rule of law.
Above all, the benefits of the origi-
nal guanxi itself cannot be had when
members of the network break the
law or operate outside it.
The results of the dominance of
guanxi over the rule of law are now
staring us in the face. The govern-
ment can no longer afford to over-
look them or the importance of a
strong and effective rule of law. It
must expunge guanxi and estab-
lish the rule of law now. All the ele-
ments are there for the govern-
ment to perform the task; all they
have to do is take the UNs defini-
tion to heart.
Comment
Lao Mong Hay
Guanxi versus the rule of law
Schoolgirls walk past the Anti-Corruption Unit in Phnom Penh. The results of the dominance of guanxi are staring us in the face. HENGCHIVOAN
Lao Mong Hay is a political analyst.
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Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Met squarely
6 Rubberneck
10 Numbered Beethoven work, e.g.
14 Domicile
15 Lotion additive
16 Deepest sleep
17 Crash program?
20 Popular street name
21 Fingerboard ridge
22 Edmonton skaters
23 Old Roman port
25 Mixologists supply
26 Arm bone
28 Corrupt
32 Opposite of fronts
34 Northernmost Japanese
35 Quid ___ quo
38 Features of some modern signs
42 Its no ___!
43 Missing from the Marines
44 Add up
45 Farewells from a tyke
48 100 centavos
49 General Hospital, e.g.
51 Burdened
53 Build up
55 Cracker spread
56 Darned spot?
59 Convincers activity
62 1996 candidate Bob
63 Crude bed, in Britain
64 Slow, musically
65 Recipe directive
66 Pot starter
67 Certain palms
DOWN
1 Fall out of contention
2 Biblical shepherd
3 Joint use of anything
4 Tokyo, once
5 Dutch pottery city
6 French pastry
7 Came down to the ground
8 Court
9 Gamblers game
10 Feral feline
11 ___ over (studied)
12 Eclipse-viewing spot
13 ___ who?
18 The Black Prince author
Murdoch
19 Cause a disturbance
24 Indian attire
26 Language of Lahore
27 Island rings
29 Men Behaving ___ (Old TV
show)
30 Seven on a sundial
31 Starfleet Academy grad.
33 Dont move!
35 Making legal, as an invention
36 Rugs from Sweden
37 Christiania, now
39 Wonderment
40 Tennis ploy
41 Bound
45 Seville notable
46 Go by, as time
47 Fill to the brim
49 Go quickly
50 Dome-top openings
52 Glens
53 Comments further
54 Icelandic epic
55 Check this out!
57 Im ___ you!
58 Centers of pride
60 Charged bit
61 Grassland
DOUBLE DS
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Jolie angers Chinese
with Taiwan remarks
W
HILE promot-
ing Disney hit
Malecent in
Shanghai, An-
gelina Jolie has upset some
Chinese people by naming
her favourite Chinese direc-
tor as Ang Lee, who was born
in Taiwan.
I am not sure if you consider
Ang Lee Chinese, hes Taiwan-
ese, but he does many Chinese-
language lms with many Chi-
nese artists and actors, Jolie
said. I think his works and the
actors in his lms are the ones I
am most familiar with and very
fond of.
By suggesting Taiwan and
China are separate countries,
Jolie has angered Chinese
communists who feel that Tai-
wan is a rogue state that be-
longs to the Peoples Republic
of China (PRC). Taiwan is in-
stead governed by the Repub-
lic of China, which was ousted
from governing the whole
of China in 1949. The PRC
doesnt recognise the ROCs
sovereignty, and claims Tai-
wan as its own province. Ties
are frosty yet calm between
the two powers, but culturally
there remain deep divisions.
In a moment of excitement,
a brilliant woman became a
stupid laughing stock, wrote
one user of social media ser-
vice Weibo, while another
described her as a deranged
Taiwan independence sup-
porter. Another suggested
that anyone seeing Malecent
would be traitorious. In Tai-
wan meanwhile, she received
support, with one person
writing: Her comment about
Ang Lee being Taiwanese
shows she fully deserves to
be the Goodwill Ambassador
for the UN. She is not afraid to
tell the truth.
Her husband Brad Pitt also
faced the ire of China after he
appeared in the lm Seven
Years in Tibet, which gave a
sympathetic portrayal of the
Dalai Lama, who repudiated
Chinas claim to the region.
Pitt was allegedly placed
on a travel blacklist that
banned him from visiting the
country (along with Martin
Scorsese following his Tibet
lm Kundun), though he ac-
companied Jolie on her cur-
rent promotional trip.
Jolie also appeared in Lon-
don this week at the End
Sexual Violence in Conict
summit, where she met rape
victims. Ive met survivors
and spent time with them. Id
heard their stories and became
very emotionally involved and
I thought: what can I possibly
do to help, she said.
Jolie founded the Prevent-
ing Sexual Violence Initiative
with foreign secretary Wil-
liam Hague in 2012, and the
pair will now launch a set of
guidance notes on how to
strengthen prosecutions in
rape cases from conict re-
gions. THE GUARDIAN
Jean Guesdon (left), creative director at
Ubisoft Montreal, talks about the Assassins
Creed video game series. AFP
Verdi pretty
A cast member puts on make up backstage during a full dress rehearsal of Verdis most popular opera La Traviata, in the Judean desert in
southern Israel on Wednesday. It was performed on a special stage set up against the backdrop of the ancient hilltop fortress of Masada. AFP
Assassins Creed eyes the French Revolution
FRENCH video game star Ubisoft is
bringing its blockbuster Assassins Creed
game to home turf.
The sequel, which is scheduled to
be released worldwide on October 28,
takes players to the streets of Paris dur-
ing the French Revolution.
I was surprised how realistic it could
be, Ubisoft chief and co-founder Yves
Guillemot told AFP at a major E3 video
game gathering that wrapped up in Los
Angeles yesterday.
From the street names to how it was
before compared to how it is now, you
are really more into the details when it
is your own city, he said.
Billed as the most dense and immer-
sive version of the hit franchise ever
created, Assassins Creed Unity casts
players in the role of a young man who
grows into a master assassin and helps
shape the fate of France during a tu-
multuous time.
We have been working with lots of
people to try to get the spirit of the French
Revolution; what happened and why it
happened, Guillemot said.
Initially launched in 2007, Assassins
Creed games have sold more than 76 mil-
lion units worldwide to rank among top-
selling video game lines.
The Assassins Creed franchise has
grown to include novels, comic books,
mobile games and lms. AFP
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Cleaning
Service, Internet, TV Cable fee
1Living room, 1Bedrooms, 2Bath
Fully Furnished, 1Car Park Space
Tel: 077 777 697 or 012 939 958
NICE BIG TERRACE
apartment for rent spacious 3
beds - en-suit, available in BKKI
area, fully furnished big balcony,
huge balcony, western kitchen.
Price : $ 1300 per month.
Tel: 012 503 356
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
rent 01-02 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, brand new, and
safe Rent: $500-800 /m Location:
Near Russian Market
Tel: 012 503 356
BRAND NEW APARTMENT FOR
rent 01-02-3bedwithbath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe Rent:
$1200-2000-4000 /m Location: BKKI
Tel: 012 879 231
NICE VILLA IN BKKI FOR RENT
07 bed with bath located in BKKI,
Basic furnished, clean, western
kitchen, big living room, big
balcony on the top.
Rent: $3500 /m
Tel: 012 879 231
WESTERN APARTMENT
for rent
01-02 bed with bath, furnished,
clean, western kitchen, big living
room, big parking, and safe
Rent: $900-1300 /m Location:
BKKI Tel: 012 503 356
LARGE APARTMENT FOR RENT
Beautiful 3 spacious bedrooms
located in BKKI area, big living
room open to the large balcony,
airyandplentyof light, fullyfurnished.
Price : 2000/m. 012 879 231
WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment for Rent LocatedinBKKI,
01&02&03bed, roof toppool andgym,
openlivingroom, fully andmodern
furnished, westernkitchen, nicebalcony,
safety area, goodconditionfor living.
Price: US1,200-US$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092232623/081230000
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, 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 bed, roof top pool & gym,
open living room, fully and modern
furnished, western kitchen, nice
balcony, wooden oor, very safety
area, very good for living .
Price: US1,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

MODERN DESIGN APARTMENT
for Rent LocatedinRoseCondo, 12th
oor, 03 bed, open & large living
room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, lots of light, nice
balcony, nice pool & gym, very
good condition for living. $1,800 /m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
BRAND NEW MODERN
Apartment for Rent Tonle Basac
01-02beds&Penthouse, real modern
interior designed, large living room,
very light, fully & modern furniture,
modernKitchen, roof toppool &gym,
Price: $1,200 2,000 and 3,500/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 condi-
tion 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
bedrooms, large living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very big balcony, very
quite 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 beds, very big
pool and gym, open living room,
fully and modern furnished,
western kitchen, nice balcony, very
safety area, very good condition for
living .Price: 900-$1,200-1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
COLONIAL STYLE APARTMENT
for Rent Located a long riverside,
02 bed, elevator, open living room,
fully and classic furnished, nice
kitchen, nice and big balcony, river
view, very safety area, very good
condition for living.Price: 1,800/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Locatednear independent
monument, 02bedrooms, openliving
roomandkitchen, fully andmodern
furnished, very safety area, very quiet,
very goodconditionfor living.
Price: USD770/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00

RENOVATED-MODERN DESIGN
Apt For Rent On the riverside, 01
bed, large living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
river view and on the high oor,
165sqm, very safe, the best location
for residence.Price: US$1,350/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN DESIGN APT FOR
Rent North of Olumpic Market, 02
bedrooms, large living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very safe and quiet, the
best location for residence.
Price: US$450/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
MODERN DESIGN APT FOR
Rent Near Russian Market, 01-02
bedrooms, open living room, fully
and modern furnished, western
kitchen, very safe and quiet, the
best location for residence.
Price: US$600-US$1,050/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com
BRAND NEW MODERN VILLA
For Rent In Bassak Garden City, 05
bed, large living room, very modern
designed, some furniture, western
kitchen, nice balcony, big parking
& playground,very safety, The best
location for residence. $4,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WESTERN VILLA FOR RENT
In BKKI area, 03 bedrooms, large
living room, very clean, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
very nice balcony, big parking, very
quiet & safe. The best location for
residence or ofce.Price: $3,500/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/ 081 23 00 00
WE ARE BUILDING A
warehouse/factory for rent on
Duong Ngeap II Street. 2,500m2.
Please contact 010 20 20 82.
RENT STYLISH OFFICE SPACE
440sqm to 1,300sqm, from 5$/sqm
Parking, 24hsecurity, 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
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13 , 2014 19
Travel
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
20
Jon Chase
T
HERES no question
that most travel expe-
riences are better with
a healthy amount of
planning. But leaving room for
some spontaneity always feels
more rewarding or, at the
very least, more memorable.
Though it may sound oxymo-
ronic, there are plenty of apps
that aid in doing things (or
meeting people) off the cuff.
Here are a few that will help
you nd nearby sites, tastes,
and opportunities you might
have otherwise missed.
Findery: Like a hybrid of a
geocaching app and a social
network, Findery allows you
to leave or view digital notes
that have been secreted all
over the globe by other travel-
ers. Those notes (which can in-
clude photos, video and even
music clips) can be anything
from a list of fun things to see
or a lesser-known historical tip,
to a restaurant or cultural pick
or a simple personal memory.
Pop open the map to see notes
nearest you, or scan the globe
to see what is available in
other cities; you can also get
automatic notications when
youre passing by a spot with
a note. You can choose to cre-
ate a social network of Findery
friends and follow others (and
make notes public or private
if you prefer), or simply use it
to discover new sites without
needing to participate.
Stray Boots: Theres no bet-
ter way to engage travel-weary
kids or bored adults than
with a scavenger hunt. But
its generally impossible to
construct a puzzle when trav-
elling, which is where Stray
Boots comes in. The app has
built-in historical trivia you
can browse, but then lets you
select from more than a dozen
US city-specic walking tours
that blend game elements with
trivia and cultural info. (Each
tour is meant to take a few
hours and theyre somewhat
pricey, at $12 each.) One jaunt
through NYCs Metropolitan
Museum of Art sends par-
ticipants hunting for specic
objects, while another dining-
based option has you snacking
your way through the city.
HistoryPin: An archivists
fantasy, HistoryPin is a loca-
tion-aware augmented reality
app that is chock full of nifty
elements. Chief among them is
the ability to point your phones
camera at historic buildings (in
tons of cities across the globe)
and see a selection of vintage
images nearby that can be lay-
ered over the modern building
or space in front of you. Theres
also an option to toggle back
and forth and in many cases
pick photos from different
years. These photos come from
oodles of sources, including
other users, and are accessible
as collections, as walking tours,
or simply via a map showing
available photos nearby. The
app is utterly addictive we es-
pecially like the option to shake
your phone and get served im-
ages at random.
Tinder: Travelling solo and
craving a little social interac-
tion? (Or the chance to make
an already romantic setting
even more memorable hey,
it could happen.) Tinder uses
your Facebook account to
suggest possible matches with
nearby users, all based on your
interests and background (and
no, none of your activities will
ever be posted to your Face-
book account). If you like one
of the matches, swipe right
and your prole will be sent
to the other person; if theyre
likewise intrigued youll be
connected to each other via
the app so you can chat and
perhaps meet up in person.
And because all interactions
happen only through Tinder
its completely anonymous to
use. BLOOMBERG
Fun when you
travel? Theres
an app for that
From arranging meets with locals to offering scavenger hunts, your
smartphone can do a lot more on trips than take pictures. BLOOMBERG
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 938 Daily 06:40 08:15 PG 931 Daily 07:55 09:05
PG 932 Daily 09:55 11:10 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:30 14:40
PG 934 Daily 15:30 16:40 FD 3616 Daily 15:15 16:20
FD 3617 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:30 18:40
PG 936 Daily 19:30 20:40 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 20:15 21:50
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
QR 965 Daily 16:30 17:30 QR 964 Daily 14:05 15:05
VN 841 Daily 14:00 14:45 VN 920 Daily 15:50 16:30
VN 3856 Daily 19:20 20:05 VN 3857 Daily 18:00 18:45
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
KE 690 Daily 23:40 06:40 KE 689 Daily 18:30 22:20
OZ 740 Daily 23:50 06:50 OZ 739 Daily 19:10 22:50
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
AK 1473 Daily 08:35 11:20 AK 1474 Daily 15:15 16:00
MH 755 Daily 11:10 14:00 MH 754 Daily 09:30 10:20
MH 763 Daily 17:10 20:00 MH 762 Daily 3:20 4:10
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
2817 1.3 16:40 19:40 2816 1.3 15:00 15:50
2817 2.4.5 09:10 12:00 2816 2.4.5 07:20 08:10
2817 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
BR 266 Daily 12:45 17:05 BR 265 Daily 09:10 11:35
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 18:50 VN 841 Daily 11:30 13:00
QV 920 Daily 17:50 19:10 QV 921 Daily 11:45 13:15
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 700 Daily 12:50 2:00 K6 701 Daily 02:55 04:05
PG 924 Daily 09:45 11:10 PG 903 Daily 08:00 09:00
PG 906 Daily 13:15 14:40 PG 905 Daily 11:35 12:45
PG 914 Daily 15:20 16:45 PG 913 Daily 13:35 14:35
PG 908 Daily 18:50 20:15 PG 907 Daily 17:00 18:10
PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
K6 850 Daily 06:50 08:30 K6 851 Daily 19:30 21:15
VN 868 1.2.3.5.6 12:40 15:35 VN 843 Daily 15:25 17:10
VN 842 Daily 18:05 19:45 VN 845 Daily 17:05 18:50
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55
VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40
VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15
OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50
MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15
SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
FLY DIRECT TOMYANMARMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
FLY DIRECT TOSIEMREAPMONDAY, WEDNESDAY &SATURDAY
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES
CALLING PORT ROTATION
LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATIONPORTS
RCL
(12calls/moth)
1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN
MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week
SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week
SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)
34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
AIRLINES
Air Asia (AK)
Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com
Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)
PP Ofce, #90+92+94Eo,
St.217, Sk.Orussey4, Kh.
7Makara, 023 881 178 /77-
718-333. Fax:+855 23-886-677
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: mai@royalaviationexpert.com
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
AIRLINES CODE COLOUR CODE
2817 - 16 Tigerairways KA - Dragon Air 1 Monday
5J - CEBU Airways. MH - Malaysia Airlines 2 Tuesday
AK - Air Asia MI - SilkAir 3 Wednesday
BR - EVA Airways OZ - Asiana Airlines 4 Thursday
CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday
CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday
FD - Thai Air Asia QV - Lao Airlines 7 Sunday
FM - Shanghai Air SQ - Singapore Airlines
K6- Cambodia Angkor Air TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines
This ight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for ight schedule information.
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
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
Police badminton doubles
tournament set for July
THE Ministry of Interior Sports Club
announced details of its second Police
Friendly Badminton Cup, which is
scheduled to take place July 12-13 at
the ministrys logistical department
located behind the Royal Palace. MoI
Sports Club president Chea Bunheng
told the Post the competition was
open to all players, not just policemen,
although 90 per cent of entrants were
police, as registration for them was
free. The games are set into two
mens doubles categories 45- to
55-year-olds and over-56s. Although
the prizes for winners are not much,
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has
spent his own money to resurface the
courts at a cost of nearly $3,000,
Bunheng added. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Marquez set for seventh
straight race domination
MOTOGP world championship leader
Marc Marquez of Spain will be
seeking a sensational seventh straight
victory from pole position in front of
his home fans this weekend in the
Catalunya Grand Prix. The Repsol
Honda rider has made the podium at
the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in
Montmelo for the past four years, but
has not tasted victory since 2010 when
he was racing in the 125cc class (now
called Moto3). Sundays MotoGP race
gets under way from 7pm Cambodian
time. DANRILEY
21 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Sport
Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers tracks a rebound while lying on the ice during the second period of Game 4 of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup nals in New York. AFP
Rangers stay alive in finals
N
EW York goaltender Hen-
rik Lundqvist stopped 40
shots on Wednesday to
help the Rangers stay alive
in the Stanley Cup nals with a 2-1
triumph over the Los Angeles Kings.
With a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven
NHL championship series, the Kings
were looking to complete a four-
game sweep on the Rangers home
ice at Madison Square Garden.
But Lundqvist and the Rangers
were determined not to be the rst
club since 1998 to be swept out of the
Stanley Cup nals.
Whatever happens, were winning
this game, Swedens Lundqvist said
of the mindset among the Rangers
going into the contest, and it was
largely thanks to him that New York
made good on the vow.
Martin St Louis gave New York a
2-0 lead early in the second period
and the goal proved decisive for
the Rangers, who improved to 11-2
in their last 13 elimination games
and 5-0 when facing elimination in
this postseason.
Benoit Pouliot put the Rangers
ahead with a rst-period goal and
New York hung on despite getting
only one shot off in the games nal
20 minutes.
Lundqvist stopped 15 shots in the
third period to preserve the Rang-
ers lead.
He had to make some huge saves
in the second and the third, Rangers
coach Alain Vigneault said of Lun-
dqvist. He got, and we got, a few
bounces. You need those. Maybe the
luck is changing a little bit.
Weve got to keep competing hard,
keep working. We get another chance
to play, Vigneault said. Were going
to be ready for it.
Dustin Brown scored and Jonathan
Quick made 17 saves for the Kings,
who still own a commanding three-
games-to-one lead and can wrap up
their second title in three seasons
when they host game ve tonight.
We had a lot of good opportuni-
ties, Kings coach Darryl Sutter said.
But youve got to nish. Youre only
going to get a handful most nights
against the New York Rangers youve
got to nish a couple of them.
The Rangers, seeking their rst
Stanley Cup crown since 1994, got
three lucky bounces on Wednesday.
One of those led to St Martins
game-winner. New Yorks Derek
Stepan was trying to pass to Chris
Kreider in the slot when his stick
broke and the puck slid off a Los An-
geles defender and under Quick.
St Louis held his position and
poked the puck in from the near post
at 6:27 of the second for the 2-0 lead.
Less than three minutes later, Brown
cut the decit on a breakaway.
The Kings, who had come back
from two-goal decits to win the
rst two games of the series, seemed
energized, but they couldnt get
past Lundqvist.
Los Angeles dominated the third,
notching nine shots before the Rang-
ers managed one.
The Kings twice put the puck on
the goal line but couldnt get it across
for a score. One of those near-misses
came with 1:11 remaining, when
Tanner Pearsons tip leaked under
Lundqvists pad and stopped on the
goal line.
Stepan swiped the puck back out
under Lundqvist, avoiding being pe-
nalized for covering the puck with his
hands as Kings players moved in.
Stepans a real smart player, Vi-
gneault said.
The Kings had seen another at-
tempt stop on the goal line in the
rst period, when a one-timer by
defenseman Alec Martinez from the
left circle trickled past Lundqvist.
The puck slid along the line without
crossing it before New Yorks Anton
Stralman cleared it. Tonight, we had
the bounces, Lundqvist said. Es-
pecially against this team, you need
that little extra puck luck. AFP
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Sport
IRB chief executive Brett Gosper is hoping to attract the sports top names for the 2016 Olympic Games rugby
sevens competition in Rio de Janeiro. AFP
Craig inspires Kiwis
historic win over WI
A
DREAM deubt by
Mark Craig culmi-
nated in a 186-run
victory for New Zea-
land in the rst Test against
the West Indies at Sabina
Park in Jamaica yesterday.
The off-spinner claimed
four second-innings wick-
ets to nish with eight in
the match as the home side
crumbled to 216 all-out after
being set the daunting target
of 403.
There was an unexpected
late ourish by the West In-
dies last-wicket pair as 11th
man Shane Shillingford belt-
ed the fastest-ever half-cen-
tury by a Caribbean cricketer
in a Test and dominated a re-
cord 10th-wicket partnership
against New Zealand of 82.
Yet it only delayed the in-
evitable, with New Zealand
captain Brendon McCul-
lum summoning Kane Wil-
liamson for the last over of
the day.
He duly obliged by having
Benn caught at the wicket to
trigger celebrations among
the Black Caps at only their
second victory in 16 Test
matches in the West Indies
going back to their rst tour
here in 1972.
Craigs haul of four for
97 complimented the very
important early double-
strike by Tim Southee af-
ter McCullum declared his
teams second innings at
156 for eight, an effort high-
lighted by opening bats-
man Tom Lathams battling
73, his second half-century
of the match.
Fresh from an excellent
effort in the rst innings
when he claimed four for
19, Southee removed open-
ers Kieran Powell and Chris
Gayle in quick succession.
Powell left the pitch with-
out scoring while Gayle,
who went past 7,000 runs in
Test cricket in getting off the
mark with a boundary, de-
parted in the seamers next
over, caught at the wicket in
a manner similar to his rst
innings dismissal off the
same bowler.
For the few fans gathered
at Sabina Park hoping for
a monumental effort from
their hero in his 100th Test
match, his swift demise was
as much of a huge let-down
for them as it was a consider-
able boost to New Zealand.
Craig then got into his own
on the wearing pitch with
the wickets of Kirk Edwards,
Darren Bravo, Marlon Samu-
els and Kemar Roach.
Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi
chimed in with the all-im-
portant wicket of Shivnarine
Chanderpaul before adding
the scalps of beleaguered
captain Denesh Ramdin and
tailender Jerome Taylor.
This is a dream come true.
It surely doesnt get any bet-
ter than this, was Craigs re-
action on receiving the Man
of the Match award.
It think it all went wrong
for us in the rst innings
when three of our top six
didnt get a score, said Ram-
din in reecting on the de-
feat. We just need to spend
more time at the crease.
This was a brilliant Test
match for us. To get 500 on
that wicket was a special ef-
fort, said McCullum in rel-
ishing the victory.
The bowlers were also
outstanding because its
tough to get 20 wickets on
this pitch. AFP
IRB wants rugby stars in Rio
GLOBAL rugby chief Brett
Gosper yesterday urged inter-
national unions to play their
star names at the Rio Olym-
pics Sevens to maximise the
sports opportunity on the
world stage.
Gosper said that while the
value of having regular Sev-
ens players must be properly
respected, rugbys chances of
becoming a permanent
Olympic sport may rely on an
injection of star power from
the traditional, more high-
profile 15s game. In 2017,
straight after Rio, theyll
decide if rugby continues to
be a core sport at the Olym-
pics. We will be in Japan
[2020] as well but that may be
it, Gosper told reporters
in Sydney.
Weve got to work very
hard to ensure well be suc-
cessful at Rio . . . because a lot
of money comes into rugby
because of the Olympics.
It really is a differentiator. A
powerful draw for youth, spec-
tators and players to be part of
an Olympic adventure.
The profile of the players
in 15s is obviously something
which has a lot of impact. We
think its important and the
Olympics would like us to
have them there.
We would hope the unions
would make it easy for those
top players who want to be
part of the Olympics. Its good
for their country, good for the
sport and good for the Olym-
pics. AFP
23
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Boeung Ket Rubber Fields Sok Pheng (left) drives past Svay Riengs Hoy Phallin during their Metfone C-League match at the Olympic Stadium on March 5. The teams will play again this Sunday. SRENG MENG SRUN
Boeung Ket tackle Svay Rieng
H S Manjunath

B
OEUNG Ket Rub-
ber Field, who are
hot on the heels of
Metfone C-League
leaders Phnom Penh Crown,
cross paths with the team
that wrested the champion-
ship from them last year,
Svay Rieng, at the Olympic
Stadium on Sunday.
However, the 2013 finalists
take the pitch in differing
moods Boeung Ket brim-
ming with confidence and
Svay Rieng having been
drained of it following a
dramatic drop in form over
recent weeks.
Being well in touch with
the front-running Crown,
Boeung Ket will obviously be
keen on maintaining that
position while Svay Rieng
will be equally anxious to
put their campaign on a
better footing.
Meanwhile, a midweek
1-1 result against Build
Bright United has made the
title chase a lot harder for
Naga Corp, though the 2009
champions are lying third in
the table.
In Sundays second fixture,
Naga face Asia Europe Uni-
versity, who were involved
in a thrilling six-goal draw
against Ministry of National
Defence last week.
In tomorrows action at
the same venue, Ministry of
National Defence will take
on National Police Com-
missary while Kirivong Sok
Sen Chey, who for the first
time this season were forced
into a demotion slot follow-
ing their defeat by Western
University last weekend, will
meet TriAsia.
Away at the Old Stadium,
Crown will be hoping to ex-
tend their lead at the top with
a victory over Western, while
BBU, who are eyeing a remu-
nerative placing this season,
may nd Albirex Niigata an
easy picking.
Weekend Fixtures
Saturday June 14
At Old Stadium
Albirex Niigata v BBU
1:30pm
Western University v
Phnom Penh Crown 3:45pm
At Olympic Stadium
TriAsia v Kirivong
Sok Sen Chey 3:30pm
Ministry of National Defence
v National Police 6pm
Sunday June 15
Boeung Ket v Svay Rieng
3:30pm
AEU v Naga Corp 6pm
Panda pundits get red carded
A TEAM of Chinese baby pandas
lined up to predict World Cup scores
have been given the red card by
authorities hours before kick off of
the first match, the animals keep-
ers said yesterday.
The pandas were billed by Chinese
media as Chinas answer to deceased
soccer soothsayer Paul the Octopus,
after they were originally set to pre-
dict match results by picking food
from a choice of baskets and by
climbing trees.
However, representatives at the
pandas breeding base in south-
western Sichuan province said the
bears would not be given the chance
to predict results at this years tour-
nament, which began in Sao Paulo
last night.
The predictions have been halted
by the authorities, said a spokes-
man at the China Centre for Research
and Conservation of Giant Pandas,
without elaborating.
State news agency Xinhua had
previously stated that the pandas,
who are aged between one and two
years old, were to select food from
three bamboo baskets representing
either a win, loss or draw during the
opening group stages.
For the knock-out rounds, the
animals would select winners by
climbing trees marked with the
nat ional f l ags of compet i ng
nations, it added.
China had hoped the pandas
could match the worldwide fame
achieved by Paul, the German octo-
pus that correctly predicted the
results of eight games at the 2010
World Cup.
Paul the Octopus, who used his
tentacles to choose mussels or oys-
ters from boxes bearing the flags of
participating nations, died in Octo-
ber 2010, shortly after that years
World Cup in South Africa.
China has about 1,600 pandas liv-
ing in the wild. They have a notori-
ously low reproductive rate and
are under pressure from factors
such as habitat loss in their home
terrai n of Sichuan, nort hern
Shaanxi and northwestern Gansu
provinces. AFP
A staff member holds a baby panda at the
research base for giant panda breeding
in Chengdu, the capital of Chinas Sichuan
province. AFP
IN A potentially revolutionary move,
the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter,
has proposed introducing video
technology to allow managers to
challenge two decisions per match.
We could do something more on
the eld of play, said Blatter, who
had been a longstanding opponent
of goalline technology before be-
ing converted by Frank Lampards
ghost goal at the 2010 World Cup.
Why dont we give team manag-
ers the possibility of two challenges
for refereeing during a match? If a
manager disagrees with a decision,
he could ask for an immediate TV
review with a referee.
After lengthy debate, the Interna-
tional FA Board introduced goalline
technology last season but the move
to subjective video challenges would
be a signicant departure. The Scot-
tish FAs chief executive, Stewart
Regan, who sits on the IFAB, said
that Blatters comments had come
out of the blue and it would take at
least 20 months of technical work
before any vote could be held.
It would be a complete departure
from what weve said so far in that
goalline technology is black and
white. If a manager has an appeal
and that results in the game being
stopped, that interferes with how
you and I understand football oper-
ates, Regan said.
The Dutch FA has been trialing a
Hawk Eye to examine the feasibility
of a video referee communicating
live with a referee during a game
but its use during a competitive
match has not been sanctioned.
The UEFA president, Michel Pla-
tini, has been a longstanding op-
ponent of technology of any kind
in the game, preferring instead his
idea of having extra referees behind
the goal. THE GUARDIAN
Blatter does U-turn over
allowing video challenges
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 13, 2014
Sport
Dutch hunt World Cup
revenge against Spain
H
OLDERS Spain
open their World
Cup campaign
against the Nether-
lands tonight in a repeat of the
2010 nal with the Dutch out
for revenge.
Andres Iniestas strike four
minutes from the end of ex-
tra-time in the Johannesburg
nal crowned Spain as world
champions for the rst time
and now, four years later, the
European giants clash again at
Salvadors Arena Fonte Nova
in the mouth-watering open-
ing match of Group B.
With South American dark
horses Chile and Australia still
to come, a win for either side
would set the groups agenda.
Captain Robin van Persie,
Arjen Robben, Wesley Snei-
jder, Nigel De Jong and Dirk
Kuyt are the ve survivors
from the 2010 nal in the cur-
rent squad and the Dutch have
made no secret of their desire
for revenge.
It was a big chance for us
to win the World Cup and we
were really close, said Aston
Villa defender Ron Vlaar.
It should always burn
inside to make something
right. To play against them
now in the rst game is a
great challenge.
Veteran midelder Wes-
ley Sneijder, who will win his
100th cap in the match, said
the wounds of that defeat
were still raw.
Its like a scar that hasnt
yet healed. It always gets me
down when I think about it,
said the Galatasaray star.
As the double European
and reigning world cham-
pions, Vicente del Bosques
Spain are bidding to join Bra-
zil and Italy as the only teams
to have enjoyed back-to-back
World Cup wins.
The ever-loyal Del Bosque
is expected to make just one
change from the side which
started and won the Euro 2012
nal with Chelseas Cesar Az-
pilicueta coming in for Alvaro
Arbeloa at right-back.
Cesc Fabregas should start
up front for Spain with Brazil-
born Atletico Madrid striker
Diego Costa expected to make
a second-half appearance
from the bench.
We dont have any fear. But
we do have respect, said del
Bosque.
Holland are a well-or-
ganised team, well-coached,
and I am sure they will make
things difcult for us.
Spain can expect a hostile
reception in Salvador, judging
by last years Confederations
Cup when they were widely
booed on their run to the nal
where they lost 3-0 to hosts
Brazil.
Van Persie is expected to be
t, despite arriving in Brazil
as an injury concern after sus-
taining a groin problem in last
weeks 2-0 friendly win over
Wales in Amsterdam.
Coach Louis van Gaal has
experimented with a 5-3-2
formation designed to close
down Spains potent attack
and counter-attack hard.
But the future Manchester
United manager used a 4-4-2
formation against the Welsh
to keep the Spanish guessing
which system he will use in
Salvador.
Much relies for the Dutch on
their attacking triumvirate of
Van Persie, Arjen Robben and
Sneijder, while their defence
has been criticised as the
teams weak link.
Spain are wary of their op-
ponents ability to hit them on
the break, warned midelder
Sergio Busquets.
The 25-year-old Barcelona
star, who played in the 2010
nal, said while most of the
team that won the World Cup
remained, Holland now have a
lot of new young talent.
We have practically the
same players whereas they
have had an infusion of new
players and a new coach [Lou-
is van Gaal], said Busquets.
They have deployed a dif-
ferent system of playing, with
ve defenders and relying on
hitting their opponents on the
counter-attack.
We have to thwart their
counter-attacks and also keep
a close eye on their most ef-
fective players such as Arjen
Robben, Robin van Persie and
Wesley Sneijder. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
Mexico v Cameroon 11pm
Spain v Netherlands 2am
Chile v Australia 5am
Spains Andrs Iniesta (left) shoots the ball past Netherlands Rafael van der Vaart to score the decisive extra
time goal during the 2010 FIFA World Cup nal in Johannesburg. AFP
Cambodia done in by doubles defeat
H S Manjunath
AFTER splitting the first two tennis singles
rubbers, Cambodia faltered in the decisive
doubles to go down 2-1 to Syria in their
opening Pool A tie, as the Davis Cup Asia
Oceania Group III series rolled into action
at Tehrans Enghelab Sports Complex on
Wednesday.
Cambodias first-day blues was brought
about by the Abdelnour brothers, Marc
and Bruno, who struck all the right notes
in the doubles even as the Cambodian
pair of Bun Kenny and Mam Phalkun lost
their footing at a stage when instead of
pushing the first set to a tie breaker they
ended up losing it.
The Cambodian pair were quickly over-
run in the second for a 7-5, 6-2 defeat that
somewhat cruelly obscured a gallant Bun
Kenny-inspired fight back in the singles.
Earlier, Mam Panhara had been squarely
beaten by Bruno Abdelnour 6-3, 6-2 on the
red dirt which happens to be the Syrians
pet surface.
Once Panhara slipped from 40-love on
his serve to surrender the game midway
through the first set, Bruno began to corner
his rival with good court coverage and deep
ground strokes. The second set fell into the
same painful pattern for the Cambodian.
The loss of the first rubber meant extra
weight on Bun Kennys shoulders when he
faced Syrias No 1 nomination Marc Abdel-
nour, a Canadian-born right-hander who
at 670th is a few hundred places above the
highest position the Cambodian pivot,
who no longer has ranking points, achieved
in official ATP world rankings.
But that ATP classification didnt mean
much on the court as Kenny stayed solid
in the first set, lapsed into a few errors in
the second, and worked his way back and
kept his nerve in a tense tie-breaker after
enduring a mini-break to shut out the
match at 6-4, 7-6.
The contest was the best of the round
by a mile, marked as it was by often long
and merited baseline rallies, especially in
the second set, with the two keeping the
ball in play for a dozen or more times to
settle a point.
This gripping on court drama drew
quite a sizeable crowd which included
scores of local fans, players and officials
from other teams apart from casual visi-
tors to the complex. Unfortunately Cam-
bodia, after this bold push back, stumbled
at the next hurdle.
The Kingdom are to take on Turkmenistan
and Malaysia in the next two pool matches
in search of a place in the promotional play-
offs awarded to the top four teams.
Meanwhile Malaysia, who got the meas-
ure of Turkmenistan 2-1, will next meet
Syria.
Despite the loss, Cambodias non-playing
captain Tep Rithivit is counting on several
positives from the tie to work in favour of
his side in their next two matches.
Overall, it was a much better first day
than last year when we lost 3-0 to Vietnam.
Even though we came up short, the match-
es were closer and competitive, which
keeps our enthusiasm alive for the rest of
the event, he told the Post.
A few crucial errors cost us the doubles
and possibly the tie. But we learn from our
failings and I am confident the boys will
put this loss behind them and do well in
the next two ties.