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AN AMERICAN man held
for five months in North
Korea has arrived back in
the United States, US tele-
vision reported yesterday,
showing his plane landing
at an airport in Ohio.
Jeffrey Fowle, 56, whose
release was announced on
Tuesday night, arrived at
Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, according to the tel-
evision reports.
Video footage showed
Fowle smiling as he
descended from the plane
with baggage in hand,
being greeted by loved ones
who embraced him on the
airport tarmac.
Fowle entered the North
in April and was detained
after apparently leaving a
Bible in the bathroom of a
nightclub in the northern
port of Chongjin.
Pyongyang has portrayed
the decision to free the
Pech Sotheary
and Kevin Ponniah
SENIOR opposition lawmak-
er Son Chhay has formally
requested that the entire
staff list of the National
Assemblys more than 1,000-
strong secretariat be turned
over to him for investigation
as part of a bid to root out
ghost workers and nepo-
tistic appointments.
As part of his one-man cru-
sade to clean up parliament,
Chhay has also accused a sen-
ior secretariat official of
appointing more than 20
members of his own family to
paid positions on assembly
staff and asked for a probe.
In a letter sent on Tuesday
to assembly Secretary-Gener-
al Leng Peng Long, Chhay,
who also serves as deputy
head of the parliamentary
Commission on Economics,
Finance, Banking and Audit-
ing, says that he has received
US man
freed by
NK lands
at home
Chhay to
purge the
assembly
of ghosts
Laignee Barron and Sen David
F
OR years, 15-year-old Sam-
nang* endured beatings
every weekend as his father
became drunk and violent.
Samnang and his mother were often
slapped and kicked, until one night
when the abuse went even further.
Two years ago, my father blamed my
mother for not cooking well for him. He
started fighting with her and hitting her.
I begged him to stop, but instead he took
a stick and started beating me. I cried,
but he beat me until there was blood on
my back, said Samnang, who now lives
with his aunt in Phnom Penh, estranged
from his abusive father.
Samnang is not alone in his ordeal of
childhood violence. Physical abuse is
the most common form of violence
experienced by children in Cambodia:
more than half of the nations minors
encounter some form of physical vio-
lence before the age of 18, according to
the results of a nationwide survey
released by the government and
UNICEF yesterday.
In most cases, the children know their
abuser; parents are the most common
perpetrator of the first incident of child-
hood physical violence.
Emotional, sexual and physical abuse
of children has long been a rampant
issue afflicting the health and livelihood
of many Cambodians, but was not, until
now, a tallied, quantified and contextu-
alised problem. Based on interviews
Not so happy childhoods
Half of the Kingdoms minors experience physical abuse, survey shows
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with over 2,500 participants
between ages 13 and 24, the
Cambodia Violence Against
Children Survey for the rst
time calculated the magnitude
and nature of violence against
the nations children.
Violence against children
is too often a hidden problem.
Breaking the silence around it
and initiating a conversation is
the rst challenge, said Rana
Flowers, country representative
for UNICEF, which coordinated
the survey along with the Min-
istry of Planning.
In addition to physical vio-
lence, more than a quarter of
children are subjected to emo-
tional abuse by a parents or an-
other relative, and an estimated
5 per cent of males and females
reported being sexually abused
as a child. Three-quarters of the
victims endured multiple epi-
sodes of violence before their
eighteenth birthday.
This abuse often takes place
in settings where children
should feel safest, including at
home, in school or at a neigh-
bours house, said Marta San-
tos Pais, Special Representative
of the UN Secretary-General on
Violence Against Children.
A signicant number of the
respondents in the household
survey had never previously
divulged their abuse. Almost
half of the women, and nearly
three-quarters of the men who
had experienced sexual vio-
lence as a child had never told
anyone about it before.
Female interviewees worried
about the inappropriateness
of discussing a sexual topic,
whereas boys more frequently
cited that it was unacceptable
to gossip about adults.
The shame of sexual vio-
lence, and rape in particular,
was cited in relation to fear of
being stigmatised and rejected
by families or communities,
the survey says.
Violence that did not result
in hospitalisation seemed to be
considered as not requiring any
kind of response by adults.
But the internalised trauma
of the abuse manifested in a va-
riety of emotional, behavioural,
and health problems.
Exposure to violence in child-
hood changes the brains archi-
tecture and the way people age,
the effects go far beyond the
short-term, said Howard Kress,
a behavioural scientist from the
US Centers for Disease Control,
which assisted the study.
Extrapolating from the sur-
veys results, an economist at
China Agriculture University
found Cambodians exposed to
childhood violence faced in-
creased risks of mental disease,
STIs, self-harm, cardiovascular
disease and perpetuating fur-
ther aggression and violence
themselves. The long-term
health consequences translated
into an enormous nancial toll,
costing Cambodia an estimated
$161 million in 2013, or 1.06 per
cent of the countrys GDP, the
analysis says.
Ending violence against chil-
dren . . . also makes economic
sense, said UN special repre-
sentative Santos Pais.
The survey recommends the
national response focus on
changing perceptions that en-
courage impunity, accept abuse
as a child-rearing practice and
prevent sufferers from speaking
out or seeking help.
The surveys gures are hoped
to intiate policy implications
yesterday Deputy Prime Min-
ister Men Sam An called on 12
ministries to promote aware-
ness and effective use of legisla-
tion but for now, the harmful
impacts of the abuse continue
to take a mostly unnoticed and
unaddressed toll.
I do not study anymore be-
cause I have to work at a rice
shop washing dishes, said 15-
year-old Samnang. I miss my
mum. I pity her so much. When
I am stronger, I will help her
and tell my father to please stop
hurting her and me.
*Name has been changed for
privacy reasons.
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information that Mith Karen,
a deputy-secretary general,
used his inuence to appoint
family members to a slew of
positions.
In the letter, he names sev-
en alleged relatives of Karen
working for the secretariat, but
told the Post yesterday that he
believes there could be more
than 20 in total.
According to Chhay, the in-
formation was presented to
him by parliamentary staff.
He says in the letter that if
true, the action represents
large-scale and systematic
corruption that damages the
reputation of the institution,
which has the responsibility
to check the irregularities of
other institutions.
Ive heard about that for
quite some time but I never
really got the names and rela-
tionships to [link to] this person
clearly. [But] now they have is-
sued the information that pro-
vides me with more details and
I could check on that with a
couple more people to nd that
its a real thing and thats why I
decided to [make this request],
Chhay said yesterday.
Karen could not be reached
despite numerous attempts.
Peng Long declined to com-
ment in detail on Chhays let-
ter. He said that whether he
would hand over the list of
staff and related employment
documents would depend on
the decision of the National
Assemblys permanent stand-
ing committee.
I am an administrative of-
cer. I follow the law. I have
a personnel list, but I cannot
talk about a decision [on the
request yet]. I will inform His
Excellency Son Chhay later,
he said.
Assembly spokesman Nhem
Thavy, parliamentary second
deputy president Nguon Nghel
and numerous senior ruling
party lawmakers could not be
reached for comment.
According to Chhay, the na-
tional assemblys proposed
budget has increased by more
than $10 million between this
year and 2015, a blowout that
he blamed on nancial irregu-
larities and an increasing num-
ber of ghost employees.
This must involve the per-
sonnel who have only names
[on the payroll] but they never
come to work, he said. An-
other thing is [strange] expens-
es such as $35,000 for a photo-
copier.
In August, the Anti-Corrup-
tion Unit vowed a crackdown
on ghost workers in public in-
stitutions.
Last month, an assembly of-
cial told the Post that of the
more than 1,000 staff on parlia-
ments payroll, only about 400
to 500 bother coming to work
gures that match Chhays
estimates.
Transparency International
Cambodia (TIC) said yesterday
that there was a strong corre-
lation between nepotism and
corruption in Cambodia.
TI Cambodias National
Integrity System Assessment
2014 reveals that nepotism is
widespread in the public sec-
tor and key government insti-
tutions, said Pech Pisey, direc-
tor of programs at TIC.
TI Cambodia believes that
there [should] be more over-
sight into the process of selec-
tion and recruitment of public
ofcials based on qualica-
tions, expertise and merits. Not
who you know and bribe.
Chhay said that while nepo-
tism was rife across govern-
ment institutions, it usually
emanates from top-level of-
cials, such as ministers. But in
parliament, its very interest-
ing that you have these people
that are not the head of the
institution who are able to put
all [their] relatives in charge of
important departments and
can do whatever they want.
Council of Ministers spokes-
man Phay Siphan declined
to comment on the assembly
case specically yesterday, but
acknowledged that nepotism
exists in the government.
It does exist but very much
in the minority. And especially
in this mandate, [recruitment]
will be based on competence,
he said. Siphan claimed that
in the past, faced with a lack
of human resources, ofcials
children educated abroad
who chose to eschew the pri-
vate sector were useful to the
government.
When they come back from
overseas, [most] work for com-
panies or NGOs, so [those] that
sacriced to work for the gov-
ernment, [it was out of] loyalty
for their family that they stayed
with the government.
He added that reforms
pushed through in the last
mandate had set mandatory
civil-service exams.
While he said Chhays re-
quest was positive, Siphan
also said that the opposition
should not forget to examine
nepotism in its own ranks.
Deputy Cambodia Nation-
al Rescue Party leader Kem
Sokhas eldest daughter, Kem
Monovithya, serves as the par-
tys deputy public affairs head.
She recently faced accusations
of nepotism from US-based
donors to the party when
oated as a possible CNRP
candidate to the new National
Election Committee.
Survey nds half of
children suffer abuse
CNRP on
the hunt
for ghosts
CORRECTION
In the article Refugee deal
praised, again published in
the national news section
on Monday, Kao Kim Hourn
was referred to as the foreign
affairs attach to the prime
minister. He is, in fact, the
minister delegate attached to
the prime minister.
Senior Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Son Chhay arrives at the National Assembly in August.
Chhay has requested information on National Assembly staff to mount an investigation into ghost workers
and nepotistic appointments. HENG CHIVOAN
This must involve the
personnel who have only
names [on the payroll] but
they never come to work
Forest nds
Auction sells
cars used
for logging
O
NE lucky bidder on
Tuesday claimed the
rst shipment in a
batch of nearly 550 cars
purchased at auction from
the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries
(MAFF), a forestry ofcial said
yesterday.
The 543 vehicles taken from
a pool of 757, of which 214
werent operational, were
bought at auction in Septem-
ber by a buyer identified in
local media as Ma Sothy after
being seized in the course of
forestry crime crackdowns
between 2004 and 2011.
Taong Viravuthy, de-
puty head of the Kampong
Chhnang provincial forestry
office, confirmed that 16 cars
of varying types had been
shipped out of his office to the
buyer on October 21.
The MAFF issued a decla-
ration in August announcing
that the 757 cars were to
be cleared from the state
inventory.
Only four people reportedly
registered for the nationwide
auction, with Sothy reportedly
bidding over $62,000 for the
functional units. TAING VIDA
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Angkor beer gift avoids rules
Charles Rollet

S
ORN Seavmey, the
teenage taekwondo
athlete who turned
national celebrity after
winning Cambodias rst gold
medal at the Asian Games, will
not be appearing in any ad-
vertisements from alcohol or
tobacco companies, despite
being deluged with gifts and
endorsement deals following
her unprecedented victory.
According to ofcials from
the National Olympic Com-
mittee of Cambodia, Seavmey,
and all other athletes registered
with the committee, would not
be appearing in such ads in or-
der to conform to existing rules
established by the Internation-
al Olympic Charter, said Sok
Vidal, Seavmeys manager.
Seavmey said the deal was
also to support public health.
If we appear in ads for beer
or tobacco, that means we also
use them, Seavmey told the
Post before attending an en-
dorsement ceremony for the
mobile carrier Cellcard.
But the announcement does
not mark the end of the Na-
tional Olympic Committees
lucrative sponsorship deal with
Angkor Beer, or donations to
Seavmey from that company.
On November 1, she expects
to be at a ceremony at Phnom
Penhs Sotel hosted by Ang-
kor Beer, which will give her
$10,000.
You may see me in a photo
on November 1 with top gov-
ernment delegates and the
company at dining tables with
beers around, but you will not
see me holding beer in my
hands to cheer. I dont use alco-
hol at all, Seavmey said.
She plans to donate 40 per
cent of the proceeds to a sepa-
rate foundation set up in her
name by the Cambodia News
Channel to support medical
causes.
They can donate to her but
not for commercial purposes,
we cannot allow that, said
Vidal, her manager, speaking
about alcohol and tobacco
companies.
Besides the $20,000 reward
for the gold medal from the
government, Seavmey has al-
ready received donations from
Angkor Beer and Nagaworld,
along with $10,000, a laptop,
and an iPad from Prime Minis-
ter Hun Sen not to mention a
free pass on the university en-
trance exam.
Angkor Beer is a major backer
of the National Olympic Com-
mittee, and has given $300,000
over the years, said secretary-
general Vath Chamroeun, add-
ing that Angkor was very, very
happy when Seavmey won
her medal at only 19.
Dr Yel Daravuth, technical
ofcer at the World Health Or-
ganization, praised Seavmeys
endorsement but criticised the
widespread use of celebrities
to endorse alcohol. We would
like to see more celebrities and
movie stars be a model.
While television, radio, and
billboard advertisements for
tobacco are prohibited, a draft
law currently under discussion
would extend the ban to alco-
hol as well.
Daravuth said the alcohol
law, which establishes 21 as
the legal drinking age, would
be submitted to the Council of
Ministers by the end of the year
or early next year.
They [youth] drink too
much, they drink a lot.
Taekwondo gold medallist Sorn Seavmey shows her medal, during a press conference in Phnom Penh earlier
this month. The gold medal winner has turned down lucrative deals with alcohol and tobacco companies. AFP
If we appear in ads
for beer or tobacco,
that means we also
use them
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
NGOs want licence of
logging tycoon taken
May Titthara
THE government should revoke
Try Pheaps timber collection
licences, a coalition of NGOs
and indigenous groups said
yesterday, following allegations
that the tycoon made a profit of
more than $220 million in just
three years illegally logging the
Cardamom Mountains.
Representatives of the group
said the level at which the
nations forest were being
decimated was a national
tragedy.
[W]e wish to express our
great concerns over the dra-
matic decline of forest resourc-
es in Cambodia in the last two
years, they said in a statement
issued at a press conference in
the capital.
Central to the decimation,
speakers said, was the freedom
that Pheap has to collect timber
from land concessions, includ-
ing dam sites, as well as confis-
cated timber from the Forestry
Administration and the Minis-
try of Environment.
On October 10, the Post
reported details of a leaked
conservation groups report
alleging that Pheap made $227
million in three years using
permits in the Cardamoms as
cover to move protected rose-
wood felled outside licensed
areas. But it is a problem that
stretches across the country,
activists said.
They say they are just col-
lecting luxury timber from the
stocks of the Foresty Adminis-
tration, said ethnic Kuoy vil-
lager Svay Phoeun, a represent-
ative of the Prey Lang
community.
So why are all kinds of lux-
ury timber being transported
from all corners of Prey Lang?I
would like the government to
revoke the licences of [Pheaps]
company.
Pheaps influence also pro-
vided protection for a large
number of businesspeople
connected to the illegal trade,
said Mom Sokim, an anti-for-
est crimes activist from Kratie
province.
The NGOs also noted a sharp
rise in the number of illegal log-
ging cases. About 1,890 had
been recorded this year, a state-
ment said, up from 535 during
2012 and 2013 combined.
Thorn Sarath, director of for-
estry administration at the Min-
istry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries, said yesterday
that the group should write a
letter to his ministry if it wants
the government to consider
taking action against Pheap.
Japan to help with elections
Meas Sokchea

A
JAPANESE govern-
ment team dis-
patched to help Cam-
bodia with election
reforms is waiting for the ruling
and opposition parties to agree
on their own ideas, including
a new National Election Com-
mittee law, before stepping in.
The experts met with both
parties yesterday to present the
ndings of a survey they con-
ducted in May and to discuss
possible areas of cooperation,
Japanese Ambassador Kuma-
maru Yuji said.
Kumamaru said that once the
parties pass the new NEC law
and agree upon changes to the
election law, Japan can offer as-
sistance in improving election
procedures, capacity-building
and voter registration.
We will probably be sending
our team when and where the
need arises, Kumamaru said.
We are still at the rather pre-
liminary stage of our working
cooperation with the Cambo-
dian side. But we are willing to
lend assistance for the benet
of making sure the next elec-
tion [will] go very smooth and
the election will be a success.
He added that the new sys-
tem would need to restore
condence from the people.
The Japanese team held a
joint meeting with both the
Cambodian Peoples Party and
the Cambodia National Rescue
Party yesterday before meeting
with both parties separately.
The CPP reforms working
group did not speak to the
media.
CNRP working group head
Kouy Bunroeun told reporters
that Japans survey had pin-
pointed numerous areas of con-
cern during last years election,
including voter registration, a
lack of condence in the NEC
and the failure of electoral dis-
putes to be properly resolved.
With this election reform,
Japan wants . . . reforms that
can be accepted by all parties
that will ensure the stability of
[future] elections. Especially,
guaranteeing the rights of all
voters and ensuring that ev-
eryone can accept the election
results, he said.
Bunroeun added that the
CNRP supported Japans mis-
sion 100 per cent.
The results that Japan found
are not different from what
[post-election] irregularities the
[CNRP] documented and what
civil society election observers
found too, he said.
Numerous CPP working
group members could not be
reached for comment.
Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji talks to the media yesterday at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh
after a meeting with the CPP and CNRP to discuss electoral reforms in the Kingdom. HONG MENEA
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Cause unknown
Investigation
after dolphin
found dead

A
UTHORITIES are investi-
gating the death of a dol-
phin found oating in the
Mekong River in Kratie province
on Tuesday.
Fishermen found the dead
male dolphin in a part of the river
that runs through Chet Borei
districts Sambok commune, said
Kin Sok, a representative of the
shing community.
A river ranger preliminarily
attributed the death to a sudden
change in water temperature
since there were no marks
indicating a net killed the dolphin
but Sok believes illegal shing
tactics are to blame.
We could not nd the injury
on the body, Sok said. But it
could have died from an electric
shing device belonging to illegal
shers.
Fisheries Administration chief
Nao Thuok said his department is
investigating the cause of death.
World Wildlife Fund country di-
rector Chhith Sam Ath lamented
the death.
Dolphins draw national and
international tourists to visit the
province, he said.
The dolphin was the fourth
found dead in Cambodia this year.
KHOUTHSOPHAKCHAKRYA
Wage talks
remain in
deadlock
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
THE third day of negotiations
between members of a working
group trying to reach a consen-
sus on the minimum monthly
garment wage remained stag-
nant yesterday, as manufactur-
ers refused to budge from their
$110 offer.
Although members of the
government delegation to the
working group also made up
of factory and union represent-
atives urged employers to at
least consider $120, they flatly
refused, said Collective Union
of Movement of Workers presi-
dent Pav Sina.
If the employers increase
their offer, we will lower our
demand from $150, Sina said,
referring to the amount unions
have loosely agreed upon.
Ministry of Labour spokesman
Heng Sour could not be reached
after the meeting.
Moeun Tola, head of the Com-
munity Legal Education Centers
labour program, said he believed
standing firm for the time being
is a tactic manufacturers are
using so that unions will accept
a lesser amount in the end.
I think its only the strategy of
the manufacturers, he said.
More factories at risk: report
Alice Cuddy
and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

A
DAY after the oor
of a Takeo province
factory collapsed,
injuring multiple
staff, it was revealed that more
factories could be at risk of the
same fate.
Building construction and
design is identied as the big-
gest risk faced by a sample of
Cambodian factories whose
building and re safety were
assessed by a team of experts
in June, according to Jill Tucker,
chief technical adviser of the
International Labour Organiza-
tions Better Factories Cambo-
dia (BFC) program.
Preliminary results of the as-
sessment, released yesterday,
were given to BFC after the
factory collapse on Tuesday.
The investigation was carried
out by Filipino company ECCI
into seven garment factories
and two footwear factories of
varying size and age.
According to Tucker, the re-
port identies a lack of rebar
reinforcing steel in the ground
slab as a point of concern.
From what our staff said,
the concrete slab was not rein-
forced at the Chinese-owned
Nishiku Enterprise factory,
where part of the oor col-
lapsed on Tuesday morning,
she said.
Low concrete strength and
quality was another risk high-
lighted in the report, which
identied the absence of for-
mal codes and regulations [as]
the primary factor that triggers
factories to operate below in-
ternational standards.
Cambodia doesnt yet have
building standards, thats the
rst step, Tucker said.
Chan Monika, director of hu-
man resources at Nishiku, said
the factory had invited a build-
ing inspector to evaluate the
damage and estimate how long
it will take to ret the building.
In the meantime, she said,
employees at the factory would
be allowed to stay at home
while still being paid.
For the injured workers it
is the responsibility of the Na-
tional Social Security Fund to
compensate them, Chan said,
adding that most had been dis-
charged from the hospital.
Representatives of the NSSF
could not be reached.
Phoeun Sophan, one of the
injured in Tuesdays collapse,
said she was still suffering from
low blood pressure and pains
in her feet. Despite the factorys
efforts, she was concerned that
the oor might collapse again.
When were allowed back to
work I will request to be moved
to a different place on the fac-
tory oor, she said.
The nal version of the BFC
report will be released in the
coming weeks.
A security guard walks alongside a crevice at Nishiku Enterprises garment factory in Takeo province on
Tuesday morning after part of the factorys oor collapsed. VIREAK MAI
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POLICE
BLOTTER
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alleged dealer in court
WHILE slipping into the same
old routines can quickly make
you bored, as one drug dealer in
Kandal province found on Tues-
day, it can also get you arrested.
Police noticed the man, 30, was
making repeated trips to a vil-
lage in Ang Snuol district, and
suspected him of making and
selling drugs. After investiga-
tion, police were convinced that
was indeed the case, and
arrested him during his rounds.
Officers confiscated drugs val-
ued at $80, and the man report-
edly confessed. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Birthday bash gives
way to birthday bashing
ALL the fun went out of a wom-
ans birthday when three men
were injured and five others
arrested in Phnom Penhs Tuol
Kork district on Wednesday.
According to police, a man, 28,
invited two friends to his girl-
friends birthday. The girlfriend
ignored him and his friends,
spending most of her time with
five other men. Angered, the
boyfriend threw a beer glass on
the ground, prompting an argu-
ment with his girlfriend. He and
his friends then left on a motor-
bike, but the group of five fol-
lowed, eventually beating them
with stones and wooden sticks.
They were badly injured before
police intervened and arrested
the five men. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Head-on collision leaves
cop, friend badly injured
TWO men, including a police
officer, broke their limbs and
their motorbike in Phnom
Penhs Por Sen Chey district on
Tuesday. Police said a truck
was overtaking a speeding car
when it hit their motorbike
head-on. The impact injured the
the policeman, 27, and his
friend, 28, who broke a leg and
an arm respectively. The bike
was also destroyed. Both were
taken to hospital. The truck fled
the scene. KOHSANTEPHEAP
Gunslinger no longer
welcome at reunions
POLICE shot down a 30-year-
old mans threats to kill a villag-
er in Tbong Khmum provinces
Tbong Khmum district on Tues-
day. The Phnom Penh man was
at a relatives party when he
drank a copious amount of
alcohol. He then took out a gun
after arguing with a villager and
pointed it at the villagers head.
He thought better of it, and left
the scene, but was ultimately
chased by police and hauled off
to jail. NOKORWAT
Fare nearly fatal for
Phnom Penh motodop
VILLAGERS and police offic-
ers ganged up and caught an
axe-wielding man after a
bloody encounter that severe-
ly injured a motodop on Tues-
day in Phnom Penhs Chbar
Ampov district. Police said the
suspect, 25, asked the driver
to drop him home. When they
arrived, he told the motodop
to wait. He returned with an
ax and hacked the back of the
drivers head. Witnesses
shouted for help, and the sus-
pect tried to escape but vil-
lagers and police managed to
chase him down. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
JOB SUMMARY
CRS Cambodia is placing increased emphasis on Monitoring, Evaluaton,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) to beter meet its own worldwide standards as
well as to promote learning and inform its future work. CRS has historically based
MEAL ocers within sectoral teams, now seeks a separate unit for MEAL, comprised
with MEAL Ocers under the leadership of the MEAL Program Manager to enhance
MEAL eorts throughout the organizaton.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure completeness of data and all M&E requirements, with partcular focus 1.
at the partner level (computer based data management system, to store and
generate data as needed);
Compile and review partner reports and ensure accurate, tmely and user- 2.
friendly aggregated data to inform project review, planning , decision
making, reportng, evaluaton and fund mobilizaton;
Field follow up to ensure data quality, on site data vericaton and spot check 3.
Build capacity of partner M&E, through mentoring and coaching to improve 4.
data entry, data analysis and use and the overall M&E systems for program
quality;
Contribute to key M&E events (Assessment, Baseline, Mid-Term Review, 5.
Evaluaton);
Document success stories and case studies of relevant projects 6.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Design and Proposal Development A.
Design relevant tools for assessments to inform project design 1.
Develop M&E manual for responsible project (Proframe, Result 2.
Framework, Data Flow Map, Indicator Performance Framework (IPTT), and
M&E Calendar)
Develop Theory of Change for the project; 3.
Develop and review regularly project assessment tools to measure higher 4.
level of compliance with the CRS MEAL policy and other PQ requirement;
Develop Data Collecton Forms, Reportng Formats and Instructon for the 5.
responsible project;
Develop Data Using and Reecton Plan for the responsible project; 6.
Develop Communicaton and Reportng Map for the responsible project; 7.
Develop indicator manual for responsible project 8.
Computer Based Data Management System to store and generate data as B.
needed by programs, organizaton, donors and stakeholders:
Train to CRS program and partner sta on how to use the database 1.
Set up Computer Data-based Management System; 2.
Review the data entry by partner sta in the Data Based Management 3.
System;
Project Monitoring and Evaluaton C.
In collaboraton with partners and program sta, analyze and reect on 1.
project monitoring data in order to produce acton items with assigned
responsibilites on a quarterly basis
Conduct regularly visit to project sites to monitor project progress (at 2.
least one tme per quarter)
Capture and transmit beneciary and service delivery data annually 3.
according to agency standards, denitons and processes.
Conduct and document the ndings of an annual data quality assessment 4.
for each project
Assist MEAL Specialist in develop ToR and plan for data collecton, analyze, 5.
reportng (assessment, baseline study; mid-term review and evaluaton)
Review M&E progress report from partners and submit to related lines; 6.
Accountability and Learning: D.
Regularly consult with male and female beneciaries in communites to 1.
dene indicators for project success, collate the community feedback
Establish feedback and response channel(s) that reect the preferences 2.
of members of targeted communites. Liaise with program sta and
partners to review and document the community feedback and respond
accordingly on a quarterly basis
Ensure that projects are implementng in accordance with the MEAL plan. 3.
Compile and submit reports and other required documents to MEAL 4.
Specialist in a tmely high quality manner.
Provide informatve and illustratve data (table, graphs, achievements) 5.
to inform advocacy tools, fund mobilizaton tools and other mass media
materials as needed by the country program, the region and HQ
Complete a Past Performance Reference (PPR) for each project and post 6.
to Project Gateway.
Capacity Strengthening to Local Partner Insttutons and Sta to Implement E.
and Utlize M&E Systems for Program Quality:
Strengthen capacity of partner sta on M&E Manual, Indicator Manual, 1.
data collecton tools, how to use the data collected;
Support partner and sta to increase the data using for project decision 2.
and enabling supports;
Strengthen capacity of program sta to use Data Based Management 3.
System and tools;
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Masters in Development Management, Economics, Sociology,
Statstcs, or other relevant eld;
2-3 years of progressive responsibility in overseas relief and
development programs;
Minimum of 3 years program management experience including
monitoring & evaluaton, training, knowledge management and
technical assistance.
Proven knowledge in the database design and management
Proven ability to be an eectve and motvatng mentor for team and
partner sta of varying levels of responsibility, including experience
supervising senior professionals.
Understanding USG, Global Fund and major donor trends for M&E (is
a plus).
Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences
through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal
methods.
High level of prociency in both English and Khmer (speaking, reading,
writng).
Willingness and ability to travel approximately 40% of her/his tme.
Interest candidate should submit their CV and covering leter, on or
before October 31
st
, 2014
To CRS recruitment email: kh.recruitment@crs.org, or send to CRS
Cambodia Oce:
House 14, Street 278, BKK I, Khan Chamkar Morn, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist the poor and
disadvantaged. CRS returned to Cambodia in 1991 and currently works in the sectors of Health, Educaton, and Sustainable,
with approximately 20 local partners. A head oce is located in Phnom Penh. CRS Cambodia is the hub oce for Southeast
Asia programming, including Myanmar, Thailand and other outreach countries
CRS Cambodia Job Announcement
Monitoring, Evaluaton, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Ocer
Relatives of
bride want
her rescued
Phak Seangly
THE family of a Cambodian
woman married to a man in
China wants her home after
more than a year of alleged phys-
ical and sexual abuse, a relative
said yesterday.
Through rights group Adhoc,
Houy Phalla, 30, asked the For-
eign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday
to help her sister Houy Phallis,
27, return to Cambodia.
My sister has been hit and
forced to have sex with her hus-
band while her parents-in-law
have abused her emotionally
and physically, Phalla said.
The story is the latest in a string
of cases involving Cambodian
women sold as brides or sex
slaves to men in China.
Phallis moved to China in
August 2013, married a Chinese
man and had a son. She was
coerced into work at a shoe fac-
tory a month after giving birth,
and her husband did not give her
any of the salary, Phalla said.
Phallis was advised by the
Cambodian Embassy in Beijing
to report to a police station and
divorce her husband, Phalla said.
She did, but had to return home
after her parents-in-law refused
to allow the divorce.
We have intervened many
times, said Saing Vichhamony,
an embassy official in Beijing.
Now Im waiting for further
information from Chinese
authorities who are working on
this case.
For the first six months of 2014,
Adhoc which confirmed it was
working on Phalliss case was
asked to help bring home 29
Cambodian victims of human
trafficking in China.
UN mission begins
Cambodian
troops leave
for Africa

M
ORE than 200 Cambodian
troops took off yesterday
on a United Nations
peacekeeping mission to the
Central African Republic.
Dressed in military regalia,
the peacekeepers gathered
before their departure yesterday
morning for a send-off at the
Military Airbase in Phnom Penh,
presided over by Minister of
Defence Tea Banh, and Roger
Carter, the security adviser of
the UN Development Program
to Cambodia.
Monks and senior Royal
Cambodian Armed Forces ofcials
were also in attendance.
As is widely known, todays
ceremony is another historical
achievement, among the greatest
ones accomplished by our RCAF,
Banh said.
The 216 military personnel will
conduct their one-year mission in
Bria, about 600 kilometres east of
CARs capital Bangui, construct-
ing roads, demining and digging
wells, among other tasks.
Since 2006, Cambodia has sent
2,165 personnel on UN peace-
keeping missions in Sudan, South
Sudan, the Central African Repub-
lic, Chad, Syria, Lebanon and Mali.
VONGSOKHENG
Festivities aoat
Workers make Water Festival decorations on a oating barge on the east bank of the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon. The
festival will be held for the rst time in four years and will start on November 5. PHA LINA
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
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Phnom Penh port expansion seeks funding solution
Chan Muyhong
WITH construction on the
second phase of Phnom Penh
Autonomous Ports (PPAP)
new cargo terminal set to
begin in 2016, officials are
now looking for ways to
finance the project.
Hei Bavy, director general for
PPAP, said the $20 million
expansion will see the existing
cargo terminal, located in Kien
Svay district of Kandal prov-
ince, increase its handling
capacity from 150,000 ship-
ping containers to more than
300,000 by 2017.We have seen
increasing export and import
activities in the last few years.
The terminal's expansion will
make it easy for exporters and
importers from the nearby
zone, he said.
PPAP is allegedly looking at
two sources to fund the expan-
sion including a loan from the
Chinese government, which
funded the first $28 million
phase of the ports develop-
ment, or potentially listing the
state-owned asset on the Cam-
bodian Stock Exchange as
early as next year.
However the budget for the
expansion is likely to decline
to about $10 million if the Chi-
nese government does not
agree to finance the project,
the PPAP official said.
In addition to the cargo ter-
minals expansion, PPAP is
currently seeking approval
from the government to build
a new Special Economic Zone
on a thousand hectares of land
surrounding the new port.
For the special economic
zone, we are waiting for gov-
ernment approval, especially
from Council Development of
Cambodia, if they approve it,
we will start right away, maybe
next year, Bavy said.
But Kim Savuth, president of
local rice exporter Khmer Food
Co, called on the PPAP to focus
also on reducing costs and
transit changeovers at the
capitals main port entry.
Goods that are exported
through PPAP have to be tran-
sited to another vessel once
arriving at Vietnam port before
going onto Singapore or
Malaysia whereas vessels from
Sihanoukville Port can go
directly to Singapore or Malay-
sia, he said.
Can PPAP work out a way to
stop transiting in Vietnam and
directly head to Singapore or
Malaysia to reduce transit
fees? he asked.
A third phase of expansion
for the PPAP is planned to start
from 2018, bringing the port's
total handling capacity up to
500,000 containers.
More than 61,000 containers
of goods passed through PPAP
during the first half of the year,
up about 21 per cent from
50,000 containers during the
same period last year.
The terminals
expansion will make
it easy for exporters
THE Thai economy has steered
away from stagnation and is
making headway towards a
recovery after flat growth in the
first half this year, says a senior
Bank of Thailand official.
The stagnation occurred in
the first half despite a low unem-
ployment rate, said central bank
spokesman Chi rat hep
Senivongs Na Ayudhya. But an
economic rebound is taking
shape as spending and clearer
public investment policies are
expected to drive growth.
His comments came after
Finance Minister Sommai
Phasee on Monday said Thai-
land faced stagflation. The min-
ister later clarified his state-
ment, saying the economy was
in a state of stagnation in which
the poor did not have money to
spend and high-income earners
were reluctant to spend due to
an uncertain future.
Stagflation is a troubling mix
of stagnant demand, flat eco-
nomic growth, high inflation
and unemployment, while stag-
nation is a period in which the
economy grows far less than its
potential. The latter is consid-
ered easier to address.
First-half GDP contracted by
0.1 per cent year-on-year due to
the domestic political turmoil,
but the country avoided a techni-
cal recession as growth expanded
by 0.4 per cent in the second
quarter after contracting 0.5 per
cent in the first three months.
Weak economic growth has
compelled policymakers to slash
their forecasts repeatedly, with
the central bank projecting eco-
nomic growth of 1.5 per cent this
year and the Finance Ministry
more optimistic at 2 per cent if a
stimulus package is enacted.
"We must accept economic
growth will be meagre this year
and that not every sector will
rebound initially," Chirathep
said. BANGKOK POST
Pedestrians pass an H&M clothing store in France earlier this year. Cambodias garment exports are 4 per cent lower against the same quarter last year. AFP
Exports drop 4 pct in quarter
Hor Kimsay
Y
EAR-ON-YEAR exports
in Cambodias garment
sector declined dur-
ing the third quarter,
a slowdown the industry says is
caused by ongoing tensions over
the minimum wage.
Garment exports totalled
$1.61 billion during the third
quarter, down 4 per cent from
$1.68 billion in the same period
last year, the latest data from the
Ministry of Commerce shows.
Overall, however, led by an
increase from January to June
exports increased 6 per cent
during the rst nine months of
the year, reaching $4.2 billion.
Cheath Khemara, a senior of-
cer at Garment Manufactur-
ers Association in Cambodia,
told the Post yesterday that the
recent slump in export value
was driven by a decline in buyer
orders in the rst six months of
the year.
The ongoing protest and
strike have affected buyers
condence, so they hesitate to
put in orders from Cambodia,
he said.
A nationwide strike of gar-
ment workers calling for the
minimum wages to be in-
creased to $160 came to a head
on January 5 when ve people
were killed when security forces
opened re on protesters with
live ammunition.
Since January, buyers have
been steering away from Cam-
bodia Khemara said.
Buyers try to escape from
risk, so that they just wait and
see until the situation is better,
he added.
Thrse Sundberg, press of-
cer at retail giant H&M, said
yesterday her company had not
slowed down its orders.
"We see long-term on our
commitment in Cambodia
and we have not reduced our
purchases,"she said via email.
Sporting goods giant Adidas,
another of Cambodia's major
buyers, would not comment di-
rectly yesterday on whether the
company had reduced orders.
Silvia Raccagni, Sustainabil-
ity Communication Manager
at Adidas said since the Janu-
ary protest, Adidas has been in
a constant dialogue with the
government to nd a peaceful
solution to labour unrest.
With an announcement on a
new minimum wage expected
soon, Raccagni re-stated her
companys call for a well-re-
searched and evidence-based
solution to be reached in the
wage talks.
In all our sourcing decisions
we ensure that our workplace
standards are met, she said in
an email. This implies that the
prescribed minimum wage, or
the wage that is usual in the sec-
tor (if the latter is higher than
the prescribed minimum wage)
must be paid, she said.
A new minimum wage an-
nouncement is expected in
November. Factories say that
$110 a month is the most
the industry can afford while
unions have asked for a raise of
up to $177.
The Post reported in June that
Levi Strauss and Target had re-
duced orders this year following
the January protest.
Ken Chhenglang, acting pres-
ident of the National Indepen-
dent Federation Textile Union
of Cambodia, agreed that in-
dustry unrest had caused buy-
ers to shy away from Cambo-
dia. What the major concern
of buyers is that their product
cannot be made and shipped
on time, she said.
A wage that provides work-
ers a decent living, she added,
would increase production and
help stabilise the industry.
Once the problem of labour
wages is solved and all parties
agree to accept it, orders will in-
crease next year, she said.
Despite the slowdown this
quarter, Chan Sophal, spokes-
man of Cambodian Economic
Association, told the Post that
the outlook for the sector was
still bright.
The sector is expected to
continue growing in 2014 and
2015, and beyond despite being
disrupted by [labor] protests,
he said. The slowdown should
not be a concern.
Thailand
stagnant,
but not
inated
Festival feast
Diamond
boss doles
out for Diwali
A
GENEROUS boss in
western India has given
1,200 of his workers
new cars, deposits for ats
and thousands of dollars
worth of diamond jewellery as
rewards for loyalty.
The diamond merchant
from the city of Surat pre-
sented the lavish gifts to the
employees in a ceremony
on Sunday before the major
Hindu festival of Diwali.
The presents, including
those for workers wives, were
part of Savjibhai Dholakias
company loyalty program
worth a total of $815 million.
They have sacriced their
family lives for the progress
of the rm and hence they
deserve the reward, Dholakia
said from Surat, a diamond
polishing and export hub.
Most employees receive
presents from their bosses
during Diwali, the festival of
lights, but they are usually just
boxes of Indian sweets.
Dholakias complex loyalty
program, in which employees
earn points in 25 criteria, has
been in place for ve years
but this year the rewards have
reached new heights.
We gave apartments to 207
employees, cars to 491 and
jewellery to 500 employees,
Dholakia said. The [deposits
on] apartments were given to
those who did not own one,
he said, while cars were given
to those workers who already
have their own home. AFP
Business
8
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Shaky Japanese economy hit
by ever-growing trade decit
JAPANS shaky economy was dealt another blow
yesterday, as official data showed a widening
September trade deficit that puts the worlds
number-three economy on track to log a record
annual shortfall.
The worse-than-expected deficit of 958.3 bil-
lion yen ($8.96 billion) adds to a string of weak
figures and follows a sharp economic contrac-
tion in the second quarter after an
April sales tax rise slammed the
brakes on growth fuelling fears
of a recession.
The latest numbers translated
into a trade deficit of 10.47 trillion
yen for the first nine months of
the year, a 35 per cent leap from
a year ago.
Earlier this month, the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund nearly
halved its 2014 growth projections
for Japan to 0.9 per cent from 1.6
per cent underscoring the dam-
age that the tax increase inflicted
on the economy.
And on Tuesday the Japanese
government downgraded its out-
look for the economy for the sec-
ond month in a row, raising more
questions about whether Tokyo
will raise the levy again next year
to 10 per cent from 8 per cent.
The government and Bank of
Japan [BoJ] have assumed that the domestic
economy may be weak due to the consumption
tax rise, but that it would be offset by foreign
demand, said Takeshi Minami, an economist at
Norinchukin Research Institute.
That scenario may be collapsing. China is
slowing down and there are risks of Europe enter-
ing recession.
The gloomy figures will heap more pressure on
the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
and his economic growth plan Abenomics.
The plan stalled when Tokyo raised the sales
tax on April 1 for the first time in 17 years to
help pay down one of the worlds biggest public
debt burdens.
Abes economic plan helped sharply weaken
the yen as the central bank launched massive
monetary easing stimulus.
But the currencys drop
has not translated into a
strong pick-up in exports as
Japanese companies shift
production to lower-cost
venues abroad.
Japans September trade
deficit of 958.3 billion yen
was a record for the month,
up from 943.2 billion yen a
year earlier, and was much
worse than a market median
forecast of a 768-billion-yen
deficit.
The shortfall was up 1.6 per
cent year-on-year.
The Finance Ministry said
exports rose 6.9 per cent to
6.38 trillion yen helped by
higher shipments of cars,
steel and ships.
Shipments to China rose
8.8 per cent, while exports
to North America rose 4.7 per cent and were
nearly flat to the European Union, inching up
0.7 per cent.
Japans economy contracted 1.8 per cent on-
quarter in the three months to June or 7.1 per
cent on an annualised basis its steepest quar-
terly drop since the quake-tsunami disaster,
raising concerns about another downturn in the
July-September period. AFP
US urges airbag repairs,
Toyota expands recalls
US AUTHORITIES have urged
owners of vehicles with poten-
tially deadly defective Takata
airbags to seek repairs as Toyo-
ta recalled about 247,000 vehi-
cles over the parts flaw.
The Transportation Depart-
ments safety agency issued a
bulletin to owners of 4.7 million
vehicles made by Toyota and
five other automakers, high-
lighting an apparently higher
level of danger from the faulty
airbags for car owners in areas
with high humidity.
The National Highway Traf-
fic Safety Administration urges
owners of certain Toyota, Hon-
da, Mazda, BMW, Nissan and
General Motors vehicles to act
immediately on recall notices
to replace defective Takata air-
bags, the NHTSA said.
The message comes with
urgency, especially for own-
ers of vehicles affected by the
regional recalls in the follow-
ing areas: Florida, Puerto
Rico, Guam, Saipan, Ameri-
can Samoa, Virgin Islands
and Hawaii.
The airbag could improperly
inflate and rupture, potentially
sending shrapnel into the cars
occupants.
Honda has the highest
number of vehicles covered by
the recall at roughly 2.8 million.
Toyota is second at 778,000, fol-
lowed by BMW at 574,000.
The high-profile alert came
as Toyota Motor Sales USA said
it was recalling Toyota Corolla,
Matrix, Sequoia, Tundra and
Lexus cars, sport utility vehicles
and pick-up trucks produced
from 2001 to 2004 to replace
the airbag inflator for the front
passenger seat.
Toyota expanded on an ear-
lier airbag-related recall espe-
cially to include vehicles in
high humidity areas, including
southern Florida, Gulf Coast
states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico,
where the vehicles appear to
warrant immediate action
based on testing by Takata.
According to Toyota, Takata
is still testing whether high
humidity is an important factor
in the airbag problem.
Toyota said that it had
received no reports yet of inju-
ries or fatalities related to the
airbag problem.
Still, the seriousness of the
risk to occupants of the front
seat was underscored in the
companys details on the recall
process . AFP
Modi unveils reform blitz
I
NDIAS Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has un-
leashed a slew of reforms
in the past week, scrap-
ping fuel subsidies, simplify-
ing labour rules and pledging
to open coal mining to private
players in a bid to kickstart
the economy.
The reforms are seen as some
of the most signicant since
Modis right-wing Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party (BJP) in May scored
Indias biggest electoral win in
three decades.
But analysts say the reforms
so far represent the low-hang-
ing fruit, and warn Modi does
not yet have enough upper
house seats to push through
more politically sensitive
changes that are key to getting
growth back on track.
Modi has faced criticism that
he has been slow to act on his
election promise to revive In-
dias lumbering economy and
create much-needed jobs for
its 1.2 billion people.
Mr Modi is determined to
make doing business in India
more easy, Deepak Lalwani,
India director at London-
based consultancy Lalcap,
told AFP. That should attract
foreign investment.
In a week Modi has reduced
paperwork and inspections of
factories to ease the burden of
manufacturing in India, which
is currently at an unenviable
134th on a World Bank ease-
of-doing business chart.
In a bow to free markets,
his government released die-
sel pricing from state control,
ending a battle for eliminat-
ing subsidies on the largest
component of Indian fuel con-
sumption. It also cleared a
delayed increase in domestic
gas prices, hiking by one-third
the amount the government
pays natural gas producers to
encourage exploration in the
fuel-hungry nation.
Economists have long ar-
gued Indias potential will
only be unleashed when it
curbs subsidies, relaxes suf-
focating regulation and rigid
labour laws and eases com-
plex rules governing indus-
trial land acquisition.
On Monday the government
announced measures to pave
the way for private companies
to sell coal, helping to break
the monopoly of one of the
worlds biggest mining giants,
Coal India. Modis government
is also readying to sell a 5 per
cent stake in state-run heavy-
weight Oil and Natural Gas
Corp. in the hope of raising $3
billion, which would help trim
this years scal decit.
Indias share market has
already reached near record
heights as Modi pursues his
mantra of maximum gov-
ernance, minimum govern-
ment, seeking to jumpstart
growth that fell below ve per-
cent last year.
The government plans in the
next parliamentary session
to scrap nearly 300 outdated
laws, many of which were en-
acted under British colonial
rule and contribute to Indias
cumbersome legal system.
It has already hiked defence
and insurance foreign invest-
ment caps to 49 per cent from
26 per cent and announced
plans for private-public part-
nership to build more roads,
and railways.
While the reforms so far are
the simplest economists say
they will reduce red tape and
increase Indias appeal to in-
vestors. Modi has already ap-
pealed to the world to make
in India as the country seeks
jobs for its youth. But the big-
bang reforms, such as amend-
ing the industrial disputes
act to make it easier to lay off
workers, are untouched.
The government cannot
push through tough changes
yet because the BJP lacks a
majority in the upper house of
parliament, where state elec-
tions determine seat share.
But the ruling party per-
formed well in state elections
last week seen as the rst ma-
jor test of its popularity, win-
ning the most seats in elec-
tions in western Maharashtra
state, home to nancial nerve-
centre Mumbai.
Modis tactics from now un-
til 2016 are to put a BJP govern-
ment in as many states as pos-
sible so that it may be able to
have a majority, even without
allies, said Lalcaps Lalwani.
Then it can pass even the
toughest reforms which need
legislative clearance and, in
turn, help lift the economy to
a higher trajectory and create
badly needed jobs.
Economists say they expect
more progress on resolving
labour issues and bringing in
a national goods-and-services
tax that will end the patchwork
of levies making doing busi-
ness in India costlier. AFP
Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a slew of major
reforms aimed at kickstarting the economy. AFP
Defective Takata airbags have led to the US authorities to urge owners
with Takata airbags to seek repairs and Toyota to recall about 247,000
vehicles over the aw. BLOOMBERG
Australias BHP Biliton
boosts iron ore output
BHP Billiton yesterday
reported a rise in September
quarter iron ore production as
the mining giant vowed to
continue reducing costs amid
depressed prices from a global
supply glut. The worlds
biggest miner reported a 17
per cent increase in iron ore
production to 57.1 million
tonnes in the three months to
September compared to the
previous year. Robust
operating performance across
our diversified portfolio in the
September 2014 quarter
delivered a 9 per cent increase
in production with records
achieved for eight operations
and four commodities, BHP
chief executive Andrew
Mackenzie said. AFP
Sony considers cutting
smartphone target again
SONY Corp may cut its annual
sales target for smartphones
for the second time this year,
according to a person familiar
with the matter. The revision
may be announced when Sony
releases second-quarter
earnings on October 31, the
person said, asking not to be
identified. The maker of Xperia
devices said in July it expects
to sell 43 million units in the
12 months ending March,
lowering an earlier projection
of 50 million smartphones.
Sony last month widened its
annual loss forecast, citing a
$1.7 billion charge in the
smartphone business. CEO
Kazuo Hirais challenge was
highlighted when Samsung
Electronics Co, the biggest
producer, this month posted a
slump in earnings. BLOOMBERG
Source : Finance Ministry
Billion yen
774.3
Japan trade
Sept
2010
Sept
2011
Sept
2012
Sept
2013
Sept
2014
288.8
-568.2
-943.2
-958.3
(-$8.96 b)
Markets
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Business
Catherine Trautwein
LETS Hush, a location-based
reviewing application from
Nex Co Ltd in Myanmar, will
allow users to air their secrets,
deliver feedback on proximate
items and speak . . . their mind
freely, according to the com-
panys founder and managing
director Ko Ye Myat Min.
Nex can then potentially
leverage what people review,
selling info to companies that
want to know their standing
with the public.Our strategy
is to slowly transform the plat-
form from a fun confession
app into a useful review app,
he said.
The app came out of an-
other social network-slash-
soapbox where users can air
opinions: Facebook. Ko Ye
Myat Min said that Myanmar
people who tend to be very
conservative were already
posting feedback on the social
network.
We thought to ourselves,
Why dont we just give them
a platform where they could
criticise freely without having
to worry about their identity
being exposed? he said.
Along with masks for us-
ers, however, comes the risk
that theyll post inappropriate
content such as hate speech
something Ko Ye Myat Min
said Nex is working to prevent
from happening.
We are trying to build
mechanisms which will auto-
matically crawl the data and
build up a reporting system so
that we can detect hate speech
before it gets written, he said.
Ko Ye Myat Min, who
dropped out of college to con-
centrate on his business, going
straight from being a student
to CEO of his own company,
calls schools prime testing
grounds for Lets Hush which
can also provide a platform for
confessions.
He said he wants to roll the
app out to all students by the
end of this year, starting with a
small group of teens.
Schools are a great place
because there are urban leg-
ends and school legends,
he said. I think those are
the stories that we can start
with, without spreading hate
speech. Because if we re-
lease it to the general public
at once, Im sure there will be
hate speech.
The company is working
toward beta testing this week.
MYANMAR TIMES
Myanmar can speak
its mind with food app
Facebook eyes rural Thailand
Komsan Tortermvasana and
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk
F
ACEBOOK is partner-
ing with Thailands
second largest mobile
operator Total Access
Communication (DTAC) to
bring affordable mobile inter-
net to the country, particularly
rural areas. The move is part of
its global plan to lure 4 billion
unconnected people to con-
nect via Facebook. The part-
nership will also help DTAC
generate more mobile data
revenue from lower-income
consumers.
Thailand has 26 million ac-
tive Facebook users a month.
Some 16 million Facebook
users in Thailand access the
network through mobile de-
vices, 8 million of them using
the DTAC network. More than
90 per cent of Thai internet us-
ers connect to Facebook. Thais
spend an average 2.5 hours per
day on Facebook, longer than
the amount of time they spend
watching TV.
The International Telecom-
munication Union forecasts
3 billion people will be online
by year-end. However, 4 bil-
lion are still ofine. Facebook
will spend billions of dollars to
bring affordable internet to ru-
ral areas in order to build uni-
versal access to the internet.
According to a study by glob-
al consulting rm Deloitte, pro-
viding online access to people
in developing countries will
create 140 million jobs and this
will eventually help 160 million
people stay out of poverty.
Facebook is one of the co-
founders of internet.org, an
initiative to make the web
more affordable and acces-
sible for people in developing
nations. It is also working with
many mobile and IT operators
to give people access to the
necessaary technology.
DTAC is the sixth mobile
operator in the world to bring
more affordable internet to us-
ers, said Sigvart Voss Eriksen,
chief marketing executive of
DTAC. He also said under the
collaboration with Facebook,
every new prepaid customer
using its Happy brand can ac-
cess Facebook for free for three
months and users who top up
60 baht or add on the package
will get free Facebook access
for three months.
An internal survey by DTAC
found 60 per cent of Thais are
still not online. Half said they
were not online because con-
tent did not seem relevant, 20
per cent cited expensive devic-
es and 10 per cent high mobile
data tariffs. BANGKOK POST
Over half of Thailands Facebook users access the network through mobile internet. AFP
Business
10
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
EUs Juncker promises huge investment for Europe
THE EUs incoming chief Jean-
Claude Juncker vowed yester-
day to unveil a massive growth
investment package before
Christmas but also promised to
enforce budget rules as law-
makers voted in favour of his
new European Commision to
lead the bloc.
Lets get Europe moving
again, Juncker told lawmakers
as the world watched for signs
of how the European Commis-
sion, which will oversee the
bloc for the next five years,
would stop the continent slid-
ing back into recession.
In his keynote address to the
European Parliament before it
voted on whether to approve
the 28-member commission,
future commission president
Juncker called on legislators to
back his 300-billion ($380-
billion) investment package to
boost the economy and create
employment.
If you give us your support
today, we will present the jobs,
growth and investment pack-
age before Christmas, Juncker
said. To those who think exces-
sive austerity will automati-
cally revive growth and create
more jobs, they should drop
those ideas.
The European Parliament
subsequently voted in favour of
Jean-Claude Junckers new
European Commission, allow-
ing it to start its new five-year
term on November 1 as
planned.
Junckers team won 423 votes
at the parliament in Strasbourg,
with 209 euro-MPs voting
against and 67 abstaining.
World markets plunged last
week on concerns that the frag-
ile eurozone economy was set
for a triple-dip recession.
The European Union is riven
by a fierce debate between
Germany and its allies which
want more austerity to tackle
national deficits, and those
such as France which want to
spend their way back into eco-
nomic health. Juncker, prom-
ised to be tough when we need
to be tough, with one of his
commissions first tasks likely to
be dealing with France over its
budget deficit.
Last week, France presented
a spending plan with a deficit
the shortfall between revenue
and spending of 4.3 per cent
of output, far above the 3-per
cent ceiling set by the European
Union for member states.
Juncker said that he would
take a careful and in-depth
look at a controversial yet cen-
tral element of a proposed
giant EU-US free-trade deal
which would enable corpora-
tions to sue governments.
Junckers team will face new
tests and unfinished business
after the 10-year reign of Por-
tugals Jose Barroso atop the
commission, the European
Union executive arm that pro-
poses and enforces European
laws, monitors national econ-
omies, negotiates trade deals,
runs a diplomatic service and
administers the blocs 140 bil-
lion ($178 billion) budget.
Barroso spent his first term
absorbing countries in former
communist eastern Europe
into the EU and positioning
the bloc as a leader in the bat-
tle against global warming.
He spent his second term
battling the sovereign-debt
crisis that threatened to break
apart the euro.
This crisis was probably the
biggest since the beginning of
the European integration proc-
ess in the 50s. BLOOMBERG/AFP
PEUGEOT Citroen yesterday
said sales in China surged by
almost half in the third quar-
ter, keeping the French auto
group on the road to meet
annual targets under its turn-
around plan.
Europes second-largest car-
maker is pinning much of its
recovery strategy on a tie-up
that was agreed this year with
Chinese group Dongfeng and
on another Chinese venture.
Peugeots third-quarter sales
in China, the biggest auto
market in the world, leapt by
44.4 per cent. Its market share
widened by 0.7 percentage
points to 4.4 per cent.
The biggest underlying fac-
tor behind the groups global
revenue was growth in its au-
to-parts subsidiary Faurecia.
Total group sales in terms of
vehicle volume rose by 5.4 per
cent, but sales in some mar-
kets plunged.
Group turnover edged up
just 1.6 per cent to 12.29 bil-
lion ($15.6 billion).
Chief executive Carlos Tava-
res said the recovery plan was
beginning to produce results
but that the road back to a full
recovery is still long.
Sales by Peugeot Citroen in
the European market, slowly
recovering after ve years
of downturn, increased by 7
per cent. AFP
Peugeots China sales
open road to recovery
ITALYS nancial police on
Tuesday said they had broken
up a ring of companies they
believe used false accounting
to defraud the state out of 1.7
billion ($2.2 billion) of tax.
The illegal activity has led,
over the years, to damages to
the state . . . whose total sum
exceeds 1.7 billion since
2001, the nancial police said
in a statement.
Police said two Rome busi-
nessmen, Pierino Tulli and
Maurizio Ladaga, created a
system using false invoices is-
sued by intermediary subcon-
tracting companies in areas
such as security services and
industrial cleaning to perpe-
trate the fraud.
Using these false invoices,
large sums of money were
put into the accounts of shell
companies. The funds were
then taken out in cash and de-
posited in San Marino or Lux-
embourg, and the companies
declared bankrupt.
A total of 62 people are sus-
pected of taking part in the
fraud to some degree.
Some 70 police were involved
in the investigation across Italy,
which also led to the seizure of
goods worth more than 100
million, including 100 proper-
ties, two companies and hun-
dreds of bank accounts. Chron-
ic levels of tax evasion, by both
individuals and companies, are
considered one of the biggest
problems faced by the euro-
zones third-biggest economy.
A government report which
was published last month es-
timated that Italys revenue
shortfall is running at 91
billion per year, roughly the
equivalent of 6 per cent of
gross domestic product.
The nance police uncov-
ered 56 billion in tax evasion
last year, of which the tax ser-
vice recovered 13 billion. Last
week, the head of the tax ser-
vice, Rossella Orlandi, said she
expects to recover a similar
amount this year.
Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi has promised a crack-
down as he battles to bring
Italys budget decit into line
with eurozone rules and the
government is counting on
raising 3.8 billion from such
measures next year. Economy
Minister Pier Carlo Padoan
also vowed that there will be
no repeat of the amnesties for
tax dodgers.
Well-known names have
been caught up in the ght
against tax evasion, includ-
ing Dolce&Gabbana and Sil-
vio Berlusconi. AFP
Italian police uncover
vast corporate fraud
Employees from UkrTransGaz work on gas pipes in Lviv, Ukraine. EU-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine failed on Tuesday to nd a
solution to the gas price dispute between the two countries, fuelling fears Russia could halt vital European energy supplies this winter. BLOOMBERG
Russia-Ukraine gas talks falter
E
U-BROKERED crunch
talks to resolve the bit-
ter gas price dispute
between Russia and
Ukraine failed on Tuesday,
as a new meeting was set for
next week amid fears Moscow
could halt crucial energy sup-
plies to Europe this winter.
European Energy Commis-
sioner Guenther Oettinger
however said signicant
progress was made after the
talks broke up between the
Ukrainian and Russian energy
ministers, Yuri Prodan and Al-
exander Novak.
We hope for an agreement
next week, he said of the new
round of talks scheduled for
October 29.
Russia in mid-June cut sup-
plies to Ukraine, demanding
the new pro-Western gov-
ernment in Kiev pay sharply
higher prices in advance for
new deliveries after it ran
up what Moscow claims is
an unpaid bill of $5.3 billion
(4.1 billion).
That supply cut heightened
concerns that Europe, which
gets about a third of its gas
from Russia of which about a
half transits via Ukraine, could
be badly affected by the dis-
pute this winter.
According to Oettinger and
Novak, there was agreement
on the price of gas, at $385 per
1,000 cubic metres of gas for
deliveries guaranteed through
the end of March.
But the major obstacle to
an agreement is that Ukraine
has not paid its gas bills for
months, Oettinger said.
Hopes for a deal improved
after Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko and Rus-
sian counterpart Vladimir
Putin reached a preliminary
deal at an EU summit last
week in Milan.
Poroshenko had also cited
the new gas price which is 20
per cent lower than the price
Moscow charged Ukraine after
it cancelled a discount offered
to former pro-Russian presi-
dent Viktor Yanukovych.
According to Novak, Ukraine
must pay $1.450 billion to re-
sume deliveries, and that it
lacked $1.6 billion needed to
pay in advance for deliveries in
November and December.
Over the next week, the
European Commission and
Ukraine will look into how
they can nd the cash to hon-
our the bills for November
and December, Novak said,
adding that so far there are no
guarantees from Naftogaz or
the European Commission.
The Commission said on
Tuesday that Kiev was request-
ing a further 2 billion loan
from Brussels.
The loan request will now
be evaluated in consultation
with the IMF and Ukrainian
authorities, and a proposal
will be made, Commission
spokesman Simon OConnor
explained.
In Milan last week, Putin
implied an accord was close
but urged EU governments
to help Ukraine nalise the
complex funding it needs to
afford the deal.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, speaking in Bratislava
on Monday, said EU member
states should do their part.
Everyone must contribute,
including Slovakia, Merkel
told reporters in the Slovak
capital. Were looking for a so-
lution now. We dont have one
yet and winters already com-
ing, she said. AFP
Everyone must contribute . . .
Were looking for a solution
now. We dont have one yet
and winters already coming
Jean-Claude Juncker vows to unveil an investment package. BLOOMBERG
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Gas Chi 86000 76000 -11.63 %
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Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
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Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
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Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 86.33 0.11 0.13% 5:02:18
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.71 -0.01 -0.13% 5:02:20
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 221.09 -0.25 -0.11% 5:02:49
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 251.7 0.38 0.15% 4:57:35
ICEGasoil USD/MT 742.75 6.25 0.85% 5:01:56
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.54 -0.02 -0.12% 3:13:50
CME Lumber USD/tbf 332.6 0 0.00% 20:58:02
Apple collecting location data
Ashkan Soltani and Craig Timberg

A
PPLE has begun auto-
matically collecting the
locations of users and the
queries they type when
searching for les with the new-
est Mac operating system, a func-
tion that has provoked backlash for
a company that portrays itself as a
leader on privacy.
The function is part of the Spot-
light search tool, which was updated
with last weeks launch of new Mac
computers and Apples latest oper-
ating system, OS X Yosemite. Once
Yosemite is installed, users search-
ing for les even on their own hard
drives have their locations, unique
identifying codes and search terms
automatically sent to the company,
keystroke by keystroke. The same is
true for devices using Apples latest
mobile operating system, iOS 8.
A pop-up window discloses the
change, saying collecting the data
helps provide results more relevant
to you as Spotlight also looks be-
yond individual computers to gather
information across the Internet,
much as popular search engines
such as Google already do. But pri-
vacy advocates worry users wont
understand what information is col-
lected and how to stop the transmis-
sion of data to Apple, which happens
by default.
The change is the latest by a ma-
jor technology company hoping to
more closely integrate individual de-
vices with remote cloud services. Yet
the privacy consequences could be
signicant because while devices are
increasingly well protected with en-
cryption and other defenses, remote
cloud services have proved more
vulnerable to outside attack, as hap-
pened when hackers extracted the
intimate photos of Hollywood celeb-
rities this summer from accounts on
Apples iCloud service.
We are absolutely committed to
protecting our users privacy and
have built privacy right into our prod-
ucts, Apple said in a statement Mon-
day night. It said the company had
worked to minimise the amount of
information sent to Apple and had
implemented several protections to
keep user information private.
The reaction to the changes to
Spotlight was harsh on Twitter, with
some critics saying the change had
undermined Apples increasingly
vocal position on user privacy as it
released new forms of encryption
for its popular mobile devices, such
as the iPhone, that made it difcult
even for police to access when they
have search warrants.
Landon Fuller, chief executive of
software company Plausible Labs,
said: If we look at Yosemite, we see
that Apple collects extremely de-
tailed metrics about their customers
Web and Spotlight searches. They
may be using those metrics to ex-
plore improvements two their own
search technology instead of to sell
to third-party advertisers, but theyre
still collecting them.
Apple ofcials said on Monday that
the data collection is intended only
to improve the quality of searches
conducted through Spotlight, a stan-
dard feature on Mac computers and
Apples mobile devices, such as the
iPhone and iPad.
The user identication number
rotates after 15 minutes to a new
identier, they said, and the location
and search query information is not
used to create proles of users or to
deliver targeted advertising. Apple
has sought to distinguish itself from
competitors like Google and Face-
book that rely on user data collection
to generate advertising and prots.
Testing by the Washington Post
found that the locations revealed in
Spotlight searches can be strikingly
precise, placing a user within a par-
ticular building in Washington even
though the disclosure box on Spot-
light refers to collecting your ap-
proximate location.
Apple ofcials said Spotlight seeks
to obscure exact locations but that
the information typically is more
precise in dense areas and less so in
sparse ones. Company ofcials also
said they plan to disable a function
in which Spotlight begins trans-
mitting a users location as soon as
the function is activated; soon, the
transmission will happen only once
a query has been typed.
In addition to sharing information
with Apple, Spotlight also can down-
load relevant Web pages about the
topics covered by a search query. Ap-
ple ofcials said that query and loca-
tion information is shared only with
Bing, and that it is contractually pro-
hibited from using that information
for advertising. THE WASHINGTON POST
A poster for OSX Yosemite at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
The operating system has been criticised for collecting users location data. AFP
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
World
Surgeons
conrm
use of
clusters
SURGEONS in the east Ukrain-
ian rebel hub of Donetsk,
where dozens of civilians have
died in recent weeks, con-
firmed on Tuesday that some
patients were victims of clus-
ter bombs as alleged by Human
Rights Watch.
Although Kiev vehemently
denied that its troops battling
the pro-Russian insurgency in
the east are using the contro-
versial and indiscriminate clus-
ter munitions, medics claimed
Ukrainian forces were at fault.
I have removed fragments of
submunition weapons used by
Ukrainians from the injured
dozens of times, said a sur-
geon in Donetsks Kalinin hos-
pital, one of the facilities treat-
ing wounded civilians over the
past weeks.
The global rights organisa-
tion HRW published an inves-
tigative report identifying 12
incidents in which the highly
imprecise munitions killed six
people, including a Swiss aid
worker, earlier this month.
Cluster bombs are munitions
that contain dozens or even
hundreds of smaller explosives
that are carried by bombs or
rockets and spread indiscrimi-
nantly over a wide area, often
the size of a football field, the
HRW report says.
These arms are not for
destroying buildings, they are
uniquely for killing people, the
surgeon working in the Kalinin
hospital said, refusing to give
his name. The little darts cause
grave injuries. There have been
cases when we found up to 20
or 30 of them in one person.
Most of the world has signed
a treaty banning cluster bombs,
but not Ukraine nor have the
United States and Russia.
Kiev, however, has denied
using the weapons, blaming
the separatists and vowing to
launch a full probe into the
reports. These charges are
groundless, said Ukrainian
Defence Ministry spokesman
Bogdan Senyk.
Several kilometres from the
Kalinin hospital, a local pro-
Russian rebel leader at a
checkpoint to the next city of
Makiyivka showed unexplod-
ed shells filled with sharp two-
centimetre-long fragments.
He said that Ukrainian forces
have pounded the city from
outlying positions with cluster
munitions since the beginning
of the war, launching them
with Grad and Uragan truck-
mounted systems.
Other hospitals across the
region reported no cases. Sev-
eral surgeons interviewed at
three other hospitals said they
have not seen cases of injuries
with such weapons.
Self-proclaimed Donetsk
Peoples Republic leaders said
Kievs use of such arms amounts
to a war crime. AFP
DR Congo rape doctor Mukwege wins EU prize
DOCTOR Denis Mukwege won the
European Parliaments prestigious
Sakharov human rights prize on Tues-
day for his work in helping thousands
of gang rape victims in the Demo-
cratic Republic of Congo.
Parliament president Martin Schulz
announced the award for Mukwege,
who has previously been tipped sev-
eral times for the Nobel Peace Prize, for
his work in treating the appalling inju-
ries inflicted on the victims.
Parties in Parliament decided unan-
imously to award Dr Denis Mukwege
the Sakharov Prize for his fight . . . for
women, Schulz said.
Schulz named the pro-Western
Ukraine democracy and rights group
EuroMaidan, which led the popular
revolt against deposed president Viktor
Yanukovych, as runner-up and invited
its leading lights to the awards ceremo-
ny in November.
The third candidate was prominent
Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus,
who is currently being detained on
treason charges.
Parliament has decided to send a del-
egation to meet and support Yunus, 58,
who is accused along with her husband
of spying for arch-enemy Armenia.
Rival forces fighting for control of
the vast mineral riches in eastern DR
Congo have used mass rape for dec-
ades to terrorise the local population
into submission.
Mukwege, 59, trained as a gynae-
cologist, going on to found the Gen-
eral Referral Hospital of Panzi near
Bukavu in South Kivu province which
has seen some of the worst violence.
Mukwege survived an assassination
attempt two years ago after speaking
out about the continued use of rape in
the conflict and accused the world of
failing to act.
Last year, however, he defied threats
and returned home to a warm welcome
from thousands of people to say no to
sexual violence, no to war, and no to
the Balkanisation of the DRC.
EuroMaidan was an ad hoc group of
protesters who gathered last year on
Kievs vast Independence Square,
known as the Maidan, to demand that
Ukraine be put on the path to Euro-
pean integration.
A powerful youth-driven movement,
it is credited with helping tear the ex-
Soviet country out of Russias orbit.
Many believe that it has also trans-
formed Ukraines often overlooked
civil society into an energetic and
inf luential force that can never be
ignored again.
The Sakharov Prize, named after
the famous Russian scientist and dis-
sident Andrei Sakharov, recognises
significant contributions to the pro-
motion of human rights and democ-
racy around the world.
Past recipients of the 50,000
($68,000) prize include South African
anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela
and former UN secretary general Kofi
Annan. AFP
Kobane defence holds out as
Iraqs Kurds vote on backup
Fulya Ozerkan and Rita Daou
K
URDISH ghters
defending Syrias
border town of
Kobane held out
against the Islamic State
group yesterday, anxious for
relief as Iraqs Kurdish par-
liament was set to vote on
sending reinforcements.
Backed by airstrikes from
a US-led coalition, the Kurds
have been defending the town
on the Turkish border against
a erce IS offensive for more
than a month.
After initially losing ground
to the jihadists, the Kurds
have fought back hard with
the US military saying on
Tuesday that they had halted
the IS advance and remained
in control of most of Kobane.
They were given a boost this
week by the rst US air drop of
weapons and other supplies,
though one of the parachuted
crates was reported to have
fallen into IS hands.
Now local Kurds say they
need reinforcements, after
Turkey announced on Mon-
day that it would allow Kurdish
ghters from Iraq to travel to
the town, which has become a
crucial symbolic battleground
in the ght against IS.
A senior lawmaker in Iraqs
Kurdish regional parliament
said that it would vote late
yesterday on deploying its
peshmerga forces to the bat-
tle for Kobane.
Today, the Kurdistan parlia-
ment will hold a session . . . to
give the authorisation and al-
low the president of the region
to move forces to the town
of Kobane in Syria, Omid
Khoshnaw, the head of the
Kurdistan Democratic Partys
parliamentary bloc, said.
Idris Nassen, a local Kurd-
ish ofcial, said no steps had
yet been taken to coordinate
the ow of Iraqi Kurdish pesh-
merga forces to Kobane.
We have to be informed.
Without any coordination any
crossing will be impossible,
he said, adding that there
had been erce clashes late
on Tuesday with IS attacking
Kurdish positions from three
directions.
The Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said 18 IS ght-
ers were killed in the clashes
on Tuesday and three more in
US-led airstrikes.
Three Kurdish ghters were
also killed, said the Observato-
ry, a Britain-based monitoring
group with a broad network of
sources inside Syria.
IS ghters are reported to
have suffered heavy losses in
the battle for Kobane, espe-
cially after the coalition dra-
matically increased strikes on
their positions last week.
The Observatory said late on
Tuesday that 30 jihadists and
11 Kurdish ghters have been
killed in the previous 24 hours
and that IS was bringing in
reinforcements as a result of
the daily losses in Kobane.
US ofcials were initially
hesitant to focus on Kobane,
insisting the real battle against
IS was in Iraq, but in recent
days the coalition has carried
out more than 140 airstrikes in
and around the town.
US Rear Admiral John Kirby
told reporters on Tuesday the
effort seemed to be paying
off but that the danger to the
town remained.
The situation in Kobane re-
mains tenuous. We do assess
that Kurdish forces in the city
are in control of the majority
of the city, Kirby said.
American C-130 cargo
planes dropped ammunition
and medical supplies to the
Kurdish forces early on Mon-
day, with small arms and am-
munition provided by Kurd-
ish authorities in Iraq.
One of the 27 bundles was
reported to have gone astray,
with an IS video showing
a masked ghter opening
wooden boxes lled with
rockets and grenades.
Kirby said analysts were
studying the video but the
US military was very con-
dent that the vast majority of
the bundles did end up in the
right hands.
The Syrian regime said
that its armed forces, includ-
ing aircraft, had also pro-
vided military support to the
Kurdish ghters defending
Kobane, including arms and
ammunition.
Although it is not part of
the US-led coalition, Damas-
cus will continue to give
military aid to Kobane at the
highest level, Information
Minister Omran al-Zohbi
said in comments published
in the Syrian press.
The US has formed a co-
alition of Western and Arab
allies to battle IS, which has
been accused of widespread
atrocities including mass ex-
ecutions, beheadings, rape,
torture and selling women
and children into slavery.
The group has been accused
of especially harsh treatment
of minorities and a senior UN
ofcial on Tuesday suggested
it had attempted genocide
against Iraqs Yazidi minority.
IS has lured thousands of
foreign ghters to its ranks
and has a following among
many disaffected Muslims,
raising fears of new attacks in
Western countries.
Canada on Tuesday raised
its national terrorism alert,
after a soldier run over by a
suspected jihadist died. AFP
An image grab taken from a video released on Tuesday by Aamaq News purportedly shows an IS militant
displaying the contents of a crate carrying grenades that landed in an air drop near Kobane. AFP
SYRIA SHOOTS DOWN TWO IS WARPLANES
S
YRIAS air force destroyed two of three
warplanes reportedly seized by IS fighters
in the north of the country, Information
Minister Omran al-Zohbi said.
The jihadists were reported to have seized the
planes, believed to be MiG-21 and MiG-23 jets,
from Syrian military airports now under IS control
in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Raqa.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
reported on Friday that jihadists were being
trained by Saddam Husseins former pilots to fly
the jets at the military airport of Jarrah, east of
the city of Aleppo.
Zohbi played down the threat from the other
plane, saying it was unusable and that Syrian
forces would track it down and destroy it. AFP
World
13
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
American freed by N Korea lands at home
Australian MP takes country to the ICC
Continued from page 1
American as an act of high-
level diplomatic largesse, say-
ing the release was ordered by
leader Kim Jong-un following
the repeated requests of US
President Barack Obama.
However, the US State Depart-
ment on Tuesday declined to
provide any details of how
Fowles release was brokered,
citing ongoing efforts to secure
the return of two other Ameri-
cans Matthew Miller and Ken-
neth Bae serving hard-labour
prison terms in the North.
US officials said Pyongyang
had given Washington a time-
frame within which to trans-
port Fowle out of the country,
and the Pentagon had decided
to send in a plane to bring him
home, even though Washing-
ton does not have diplomatic
ties with communist North
Korea, officially the DPRK.
We certainly welcome the
decision from the DPRK to
release him, said Earnest,
while State Department depu-
ty spokeswoman Marie Harf
thanked Swedish diplomats for
helping secure his freedom.
Fowle had been checked by
doctors and appears to be in
good health, Harf told report-
ers, adding the plane had flown
from Pyongyang to Guam and
he would head next to the
mainland US.
Im not going to confirm
any details about the discus-
sions or the ways we tried to
get our American citizens
home, Harf said.
Baes sister Terri Chung said
Fowles release could be a sign
of hope for the 42-year-old
Korean-American who was
arrested in November 2012 and
later sentenced to 15 years
hard labour.
Earlier this month, Fowle
made a renewed plea for the US
government to work to secure
his release.
In an interview published
by the pro-North Korean Jap-
anese newspaper Chosun
Sinbo, Fowle said he was
extremely anxious that he
would share the fate of Bae
and Miller, who have already
been tried and jailed.
Fowle entered the North in
April and was detained after
apparently leaving a Bible in
the bathroom of a nightclub
in the northern port town of
Chongjin.
His plea came only two weeks
after Miller was sentenced to
six years hard labour by the
North Korean Supreme Court.
The 24-year-old Miller was
also arrested in April after he
allegedly ripped up his visa at
immigration and demanded
asylum.
Pyongyangs agreement to
allow a Pentagon plane to land
in the city is astonishing given
that under the 1953 armistice
agreement which ended the
Korean War the sides laid down
their arms, but have not
reached a formal peace treaty.
The North has also always
reacted angrily to any joint US-
South Korean military exer-
cises, with the border dividing
the two Koreas remaining one
of the most heavily militarised
frontiers in the world.
North Korea expert Victor
Cha from the Centre for Stra-
tegic and International Stud-
ies said North Koreas deci-
sion to release Fowle was
surprising given their very
inflexible stance over the past
several months.
It was possible that his
offences may have been seen
as the least severe and there-
fore excusable.
Harf said the US govern-
ment will continue to work
actively to try to free the two
remaining Americans and
repeated US offers to send a
State Department envoy, Rob-
ert King, to the isolated North
to discuss their plight. AFP
AN INDEPENDENT Australian law-
maker said yesterday that he had asked
the International Criminal Court to
investigate Australias hardline asylum-
seeker policies as alleged crimes
against humanity.
Andrew Wilkie said he had resorted
to the measure after years of attempt-
ing to change the practice of asylum-
seekers who arrive by boat being sent
into detention on Pacific camps.
The lawmaker said he had asked for
an investigation into crimes against
humanity perpetrated by members of
the Australian government against per-
sons arriving in Australian waters who
are seeking protection.
Under Australias policy, initiated
by the previous Labor government
and continued under conservative
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, asylum-
seekers arriving on unauthorised
boats are transferred to Papua New
Guinea and Nauru.
They are refused resettlement in
Australia even if found to be genuine
refugees and must remain on the
Pacific islands or return to their home
countries.
The effect of the policy is that men,
women and children are being forci-
bly relocated and then subjected to
arbitrary imprisonment through
mandatory and sometimes indefinite
detention, Wilkie wrote in a letter
sent to the ICC.
The conditions they are forced to
endure in detention are causing great
suffering as well as serious bodily and
mental injury.
Wilkie accused the government of
breaching the international conven-
tions on refugees and the rights of the
child and the international covenant
on civil and political rights.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison
said he would not be threatened by
Wilkies move, adding that Australias
policies were consistent with domestic
law and international obligations.
The coalition government will not
be intimidated by attention-seeking
advocates calling for a return to the
failed policies of the past that resulted
in unprecedented cost, chaos and trag-
edy on our borders, he told the Aus-
tralian Associated Press.
Successive Australian governments
have battled with an influx of asylum-
seekers, many from countries such as
Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, who risk
their lives on unseaworthy vessels to
reach Australia. Scores of would-be
refugees have drowned en route.
Prior to his election, Abbott vowed to
stop the boats and the hardline pol-
icy has seen boat arrivals dry up.
The fact it might have achieved an
election promise doesnt in any way
give it authority to commit a crime
against humanity, Wilkie told report-
ers in Canberra.
He said while some people may have
been prevented from risking their lives,
thousands of refugees around the
world faced persecution.
Sure, we might have saved a few
lives on our border but its at the
expense of a lot of other lives elsewhere
around the world, he said. AFP
HK protest talks prove fruitless
H
ONG Kong student
leaders said yes-
terday that they
may shun further
talks with the government,
accusing it of failing to make
any meaningful offers to end
weeks of mass pro-democra-
cy rallies and roadblocks.
The comments are a blow to
the citys Beijing-backed lead-
ers who had expressed hopes
for fresh rounds of talks after
meeting face-to-face with
students on Tuesday night for
the rst time.
The negotiations are wide-
ly seen as the only way to end
nearly a month of protests
calling for full democracy in
the semi-autonomous south-
ern Chinese city without a
police crackdown or further
violence.
There were fresh confron-
tations yesterday afternoon
between protesters and op-
ponents who tried to remove
demonstrators barricades in
the Mong Kok district.
The rst talks on Tuesday
night made little headway,
with students calling the gov-
ernment vague in its com-
mitment to nding a genuine
compromise.
About whether there will be
talks in the future, this is some-
thing that isnt decided, Hong
Kong Federation of Students
secretary-general Alex Chow
told reporters yesterday.
The government has to
come up with some way to
solve this problem, but what
they are offering does not
have any practical content,
Chow said, adding protesters
will not leave the streets any
time soon.
The two sides are at log-
gerheads over how the citys
next leader should be cho-
sen in 2017, when a direct
election for the post will be
introduced.
Protesters want the public
to have the right to nominate
candidates.
But Beijing ruled in August
that only those vetted by a
loyalist committee would be
allowed to stand something
protesters dismiss as fake
democracy.
During talks, government
negotiators insisted Beijing
would never agree to civil
nomination.
But they made a series of
conciliatory offers including
a promise to brief mainland
ofcials on recent events and
a suggestion both sides could
set up a platform to discuss
further political reform be-
yond 2017.
Student leaders remain un-
impressed, saying the gov-
ernment has offered nothing
concrete. They called on of-
cials to give a clearer indica-
tion of what their proposals
actually entail.
A crowd of about 70 protest-
ers marched on the residence
of Hong Kongs current leader
Leung Chun-ying in the after-
noon, angered over his recent
comments that open elec-
tions would put voting pow-
er into the hands of people
who earn less than US$1,800
a month.
We want to protect the wel-
fare and the rights of grass-
roots people in Hong Kong,
Avery Ng, vice president of
the League of Social Demo-
crats, said on the march.
But the ongoing protests
have led to angry confronta-
tions between local residents
fed up with the disruption
caused by blockades of sev-
eral main roads.
In Mong Kok, which has
previously seen frequent vio-
lent scufes, opponents of
the protesters tried to pull
down barricades and place
them in a garbage truck.
A handful of taxis were
also parked on a nearby
street protesting against the
roadblocks.
A number of businesses
including a taxi driver asso-
ciation successfully applied
to the High Court to have in-
junctions brought against the
protesters. But given that the
camps are already considered
illegal it remains to be seen
what effect those injunctions
will have.
Police yesterday warned
against protesters using the
internet to advocate or com-
mit crimes, saying a 23-year-
old man had been arrested
for threatening an ofcers
daughter online.
They said that they were
also investigating web us-
ers who used a forum to call
on supporters to occupy the
citys airport.
The talks between students
and the government were
abruptly cancelled earlier this
month and then resurrected
after recent outbreaks of vio-
lence between protesters and
police. Observers hope some
sort of face-saving compro-
mise can be found.
If talks are abandoned,
many fear a return to vio-
lent scufes seen late last
week with dozens injured
after demonstrators battled
police as they tried to clear
barriers. AFP
People look on as pro-democracy demonstrators (not in picture) guard
a barricade in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong yesterday. AFP

Nepal calls off the search
for snowstorm survivors
NEPAL yesterday called off a
search for any more survivors of
a Himalayan snowstorm that
claimed 43 lives, after more
than a week of scouring the
popular trekking region.
Emergency workers have
airlifted 518 people to safety,
including 310 foreign tourists,
since the snowstorm struck the
Annapurna Circuit during peak
season. Thirty-five bodies have
been pulled from the snow since
the storm hit last Tuesday, while
rescuers believe another eight
are still buried in Manang
district, officials have said. A
team, from the Nepal Army and
two Sherpa rescue experts,
remain camped in the area to
continue searching for the eight,
who are thought to be four
Canadians, an Indian and three
Nepalese, he said. AFP
Migrant workers retract
Koh Tao confessions
TWO Myanmar migrant workers
accused of murdering a pair of
British tourists on a Thai island
have retracted their confessions
and alleged they were tortured,
lawyers said yesterday. Zaw Lin
and Win Zaw Tun were charged
with the murder of David Miller,
24, and the rape and murder of
Hannah Witheridge, 23, after the
tourists battered bodies were
found on the island of Koh Tao
last month. The retractions are
the latest blow for Thai police
who have come under
widespread criticism for
bungling the murder
investigation amid accusations
the migrants were being framed
for the brutal crime. AFP
Indonesian fighter jets

intercept Aussie plane
INDONESIAN air force jets
yesterday intercepted an
Australian light aircraft and
forced it to land after the plane
entered the countrys airspace
without permission, officials
said. The Australian-registered
Beechcraft civilian plane was
flying from Darwin, Australia, to
Cebu in the Philippines when it
was intercepted by two Sukhoi
fighter jets, air force spokesman
Hadi Cahyanto said. It was
forced to land at an airport in
Manado, on the northern tip of
Sulawesi island in central
Indonesia, he said. The pilot and
co-pilot, both Australians, were
the only people on board. A
Transport Ministry spokesman
was unable to say what action
would be taken against the two
men as they were still being
questioned. AFP
Provisional date set for

2015 Myanmar elections
LANDMARK elections in
Myanmar that could propel
opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyis party into office have been
provisionally scheduled for late
next year, electoral officials said
on Tuesday. The 2015 general
election, seen as a key test of
Myanmars democratic reforms,
is due to be held in the last week
of October or the first week of
November, Union Election
Commission chairman Tin Aye
said. He said the election needs
to be free and fair so that
smart and good people would
be installed in parliament,
adding that the exact date would
be confirmed next August.
Authorities have promised the
vote will be the freest in the
countrys modern history. AFP
Rob Lever

L
EGENDARY former
Washington Post edi-
tor Ben Bradlee, who
oversaw reporting on
the Watergate scandal that
brought down US president
Richard Nixon, died on Tues-
day. He was 93.
Bradlee, who died of natu-
ral causes at his Washington
home, leaves a lasting legacy
at the Post and in the wider
media, and has been hailed
as a genius and for having
the courage of an army. He
was also a friend to John F
Kennedy.
President Barack Obama,
who awarded Bradlee the Pres-
idential Medal of Freedom last
year, led the tributes, saying
that, for the newspaper man,
journalism was more than
a profession it was a public
good vital to our democracy.
During Bradlees leader-
ship of the Post from 1968 to
1991, he inspired reporters
who told stories that needed
to be told stories that helped
us understand our world and
one another a little bit better,
the president added.
His wife, former Wash-
ington Post reporter Sally
Quinn, revealed last month
Bradlee had been diagnosed
with dementia.
Donald E Graham, who
served as publisher of the Post
and was Bradlees boss, said:
Ben Bradlee was the best
American newspaper editor
of his time and had the great-
est impact on his newspaper
of any modern editor.
It was Grahams mother,
Katharine Graham, who was
publisher of the Post when
Bradlee charged young re-
porters Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein with investi-
gating the Watergate burglary.
The reporting uncovered a
vast scheme of surveillance
and dirty tricks, and the re-
sulting coverage led to the
impeachment and resigna-
tion of Nixon in 1974, and the
prosecution of dozens of ad-
ministration ofcials.
Ben was a true friend and
genius leader in journalism,
Bernstein and Woodward
said in a joint statement as
news of his death emerged.
His one unbending prin-
ciple was the quest for the
truth and the necessity of
that pursuit. He had the
courage of an army.
Bradlees reign as editor saw
the Post win the Pulitzer Prize
for its Watergate stories, and
the newspaper also played
a role in the successful legal
challenge to the publication of
the Pentagon Papers revealing
the political manoeuvres lead-
ing up to the Vietnam War.
The Watergate coverage
transformed the notion of
political investigative journal-
ism, and became the topic of
a bestselling book, and later a
lm, All the Presidents Men.
If you had to pick a single
gure to represent the pivot
from the old relationship of
journalists to politicians to
the current relationship of
journalists and politicians,
it would have to be Ben Bra-
dlee, said Alan Mutter, a
former editor at the Chicago
Daily News and Chicago Sun-
Times, and now a media
consultant.
The game changed
dramatically with
Watergate, when
the discretion
and mutual pro-
fessional courte-
sies long enjoyed
by press and
politicians gave
way to a searing
investigation of
not only the Watergate break-
in but all the wrongdoing that
preceded and followed it.
The result, said Mutter, was
a new era of greater trans-
parency than ever before.
Bradlee was born in 1921 to
a Boston family who traced
its history to the early Massa-
chusetts settlers of the 1600s.
On his maternal side, his
grandfather was the artist and
writer Frederic Crowninshield,
a descendant of King John II of
France of the House of Valois.
After graduating from
Harvard, Bradlee served
as a communications of-
cer for the US Navy in
World War II.
He
wor k e d
as a Washington Post reporter
before taking a position at the
US Embassy in Paris, and later
became a correspondent for
Newsweek, starting in France.
As a reporter, Bradlee be-
came a friend and condant
of John F Kennedy, covering
his successful 1960 presiden-
tial campaign.
When the Washington Post
Co bought Newsweek in 1965,
Bradlee became the news
magazines managing editor
and three years after that its
executive editor. A decade
later he married Quinn, his
third wife.
Bradlee retired from his
editorial job in 1991, but
maintained the title of vice
president at large and un-
til recently would frequently
visit his former colleagues at
the daily.
In his autobiography, Bra-
dlee acknowledged the un-
usual turn of events that led
to his notoriety.
It would be ungrateful of
me not to pause here and ac-
knowledge the role of Richard
Milhous Nixon in furthering
my career, he wrote.
It is wonderfully ironical
that a man who so disliked
and never understood the
press did so much to further
the reputation of the press,
and particularly the Washing-
ton Post. In his darkest hour,
he gave the press its nest
hour. AFP
World
14
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Sweden says it could use

force on mysterious sub
SWEDENS armed forces chief
warned on Tuesday that it could
use force to bring to the surface
a suspected Russian mini-
submarine its navy has been
hunting for days as two new
sightings of the vessel were
revealed. The new
observations of the supposed
foreign submarine were made
on Monday, Rear Admiral
Anders Grenstad said, after the
countrys top military
commander declared it was
ready to use armed force to
bring it to the surface.
Battleships, minesweepers,
helicopters and more than 200
troops have scoured an area
about 30 to 60 kilometres from
the Swedish capital. Grenstad
said the new sightings were
made by the public but did not
say why the navy were treating
them as credible. AFP
Two die in S Leone riot

sparked by Ebola tests
Two people died in a riot in
Sierra Leone sparked when
health workers struggling to
contain the Ebola epidemic tried
to take a blood sample from an
elderly woman, doctors said
yesterday. A machete-wielding
mob clashed with security
personnel in the eastern town of
Koidu and then went on a
rampage on Tuesday, after
preventing a medical team from
taking the blood from the
90-year-old mother of a youth
leader, doctors from the local
government hospital said.
The woman, who had been
suspected to be infected with
Ebola, had died and was
thought to have high blood
pressure. AFP
Washington Posts Watergate
editor Ben Bradlee dead at 93
Hardened Syrian army adapts to guerrilla war
THE army has shrunk by nearly half
since Syrias conict erupted in 2011
but experts say the remaining mili-
tary force is now both more exible
and capable. It has transformed itself
from a traditional military built on the
former Soviet model into an effective
counterinsurgency force.
And with sustained military support
from Russia and Iran, and the guerrilla
warfare expertise of its ally, Lebanons
Hezbollah group, it has gradually re-
gained ground.
Aram Nerguizian, a military affairs
expert from the Centre for Strategic
and International Studies, said Syrias
standing army has lost around half of
its manpower.
Defections, desertions and attri-
tion after three years of civil war saw
Syrias total manpower decline from a
high of 325,000 in 2011 to 295,000 in
2012 to an estimated 178,000 in 2013
and 2014, he said.
But the remaining 100,000 to 150,000
loyal troops tested in battle over more
than two years of ghting are arguably
more lethal than a 300,000-strong Syr-
ian military in 2010, complacent after
some 30 years of sitting idle.
Syrias armed forces were hurled
into an unprecedented conict after
the government moved to quell an
uprising that began in March 2011.
They have battled rebel groups
ranging from the moderate Free Syr-
ian Army to al-Qaedas Syria afliate
al-Nusra Front and the jihadist Islam-
ic State (IS) group.
Nearly 190,000 people have been
killed in the conict so far, including
some 40,000 soldiers and 27,000 pro-
regime forces, as well as 55,000 rebel
ghters, according to the Syrian Ob-
servatory for Human Rights.
The real toll among the military
may be even higher, according to the
Britain-based monitoring group.
Despite its losses, the army has
avoided recruitment campaigns and
relied on compulsory military service
to replenish its ranks.
Men of between 18 and 50 have to
serve for at least 18 months, and the
term can be extended on orders from
the military leadership.
Last week, the Central Committee for
Popular Reconciliation, a government
body, issued an unusual public call in
newspapers for Syrians to sign up.
It vowed to try to resolve the situ-
ation of those who had deserted or
failed to report for military service
and to secure their wages.
An official source in the army,
meanwhile, played down the need
for reinforcements, insisting losses
in personnel and materiel were be-
ing quickly replaced. The power of
the army has increased qualitatively
and quantitatively, he said.
The army lost control of large parts
of Syria in the early days of the con-
ict, but it has recaptured signcant
territory in the past year, with a focus
on protecting the capital Damascus.
Its successes have been partly the
result of a shift to the close-quarters
guerrilla warfare in which Hezbollah
specialises.
The insurgency in Syria forced Syr-
ian ground forces, and manpower in
general, to either adapt or die, Negui-
zian said.
Large units were divided up into
smaller nimbler units, ineffective and
ageing leadership was sidelined, and
new or emerging junior ofcers began
to take on greater operational respon-
sibility, he said.
Among those ofcers is Colonel
Suhail al-Hassan, nicknamed The
Tiger and described on pro-regime
social media accounts as Assads fa-
vourite soldier.
Despised by the opposition, he is
credited by supporters with the re-
gimes advances around the second
city of Aleppo in the north, in particu-
lar the opening of the road to the city
a year ago.
But despite the shifts in its capabili-
ties, experts see little chance that the
army will be able to gain back all the
territory it has lost.
Opposition forces control most ru-
ral areas in northwest Syrias Idlib,
large parts of Aleppo city and the sur-
rounding province, and parts of the
countryside in Damascus, Hassakeh
and Daraa provinces. The IS, mean-
while, controls all of northern Raqa
province and much of the oil-rich
eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
For the near to mid-term future,
Assad is very unlikely to be able to de-
stroy the insurgency and retake all the
areas now controlled by rebels, ac-
cording to Stephen Biddle, a defence
policy expert at the US Council on
Foreign Relations.
Wars of this kind typically last sev-
en to 10 years, and some last a genera-
tion or more. AFP
Ben Bradlee had the courage of an army, Watergate journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward said of
their former editor; below, a scene from All the Presidents Men. Jason Robards played Bradlee (right). AFP
Ice cold response
Dolls cook
up Toys R Us
controversy
T
OYS R Us was embroiled
in controversy on Tuesday
after a Florida woman com-
plained about the kids store sell-
ing dolls of ctional drug dealer
Walter White and other characters
from hit TV show Breaking Bad.
Plastic gurines include
Walter White holding a handgun
and Whites accomplice, Jesse
Pinkman, wearing a protective
suit used in the manufacture of
crystallised methamphetamine. It
comes complete with a gas mask
and a tray of blue crystals.
The Toys R Us decision to sell
the doll, complete with a detach-
able sack of cash and a bag of
meth, alongside childrens toys, is
a dangerous deviation from their
family-friendly values, Susan
Schrivjer of Fort Myers, Florida,
wrote in an online petition for the
products to be pulled.
Get those taken off the shelves
and put them in an appropriate
store. Put them in an adult store.
Breaking Bad follows the story
of White, a chemistry teacher who
becomes a drugs kingpin.
In a statement to NBC News, the
toy store said the product packag-
ing clearly notes that the items
are intended for ages 15 and up
and are located in the adult action
gure area of our stores.
By Tuesday morning, the Walter
White doll was no longer available
on the shops website, though the
Pinkman character remained. AFP
15
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World
Women breaking taboos high in Pakistan
Gohar Abbas

A
GROUP of young
Pakistani girls sit on
a carpeted oor lis-
tening as their teach-
er writes on a whiteboard,
preparing his students for the
rigours of climbing some of
the worlds highest peaks.
This is Shimshal Mountain-
eering School, tucked away
in a remote village in the
breathtaking mountains of
Pakistans far north, close to
the border with China.
While most of Pakistans
overwhelmingly patriar-
chal society largely relegates
women to domestic roles, in
the northern Hunza valley,
where most people follow
the moderate Ismaili sect of
Islam, a more liberal attitude
has long prevailed.
Now the women of the re-
gion are breaking more taboos
and training for traditionally
male jobs, including as car-
penters and climbing guides
on the Himalayan peaks.
You have to be careful,
check your equipment and
the rope, any slight damage
can result in death, Niamat
Karim, the climbing instructor
warns the students.
Karim is giving last-minute
advice to the eight young
women who are about to em-
bark on a practical demon-
strations of climbing class.
They are the rst batch of
women to train as high alti-
tude guides at the Shimshal
Mountaineering School, set
up in 2009 with support of
Italian climber Simone Moro.
The women have spent
the past four years learning
ice and rock climbing tech-
niques, rescue skills and tour-
ism management.
At 3,100 metres above sea
level, Shimshal is the high-
est settlement in the Hunza
valley, connected to the rest
of the world by a rough, jeep-
only road just 11 years ago.
The narrow, unpaved road
twists through mountains,
over wooden bridges and dan-
gerous turns with the constant
risk of landslides to reach the
village of 250 households.
There is no running water
and electricity is available
only through solar panels the
locals buy from China, but
despite the isolation the lit-
eracy rate in the village is 98
per cent around twice the
Pakistani national average.
It has produced some world
famous climbers including
Samina Baig, the rst Paki-
stani woman to scale Everest.
The people of Shimshal
depend on tourism for their
income and the village has
produced an average of one
mountaineer in every house-
hold. The eight women train-
ing as guides have scaled four
local peaks, including Ming-
lik Sar and Julio Sar, both over
6,000 metres.
For Duor Begum, moun-
taineering is a family tradition
and a way of honouring her
husband, killed while climb-
ing in the Hunza Valley.
I have two kids to look af-
ter, and I dont have a proper
means of income, she said.
Begum joined the moun-
taineering school with the
aim of continuing the legacy
of her late husband and to
make a living.
I am taking all the risks for
the future of my children, to
give them good education so
that they can have a better fu-
ture, she said.
But while the women are
challenging tradition by train-
ing as guides, there is a long
way to go to change attitudes,
and so far Begum has not been
able to turn professional.
Lower down in the valley,
away from the snowy peaks,
Bibi Gulshan, another moth-
er-of-two, whose late hus-
band died while ghting in
the army, has a similar tale of
battling to change minds.
She trained as a carpen-
ter under the Women Social
Enterprise (WSE), a project
set up in the area by the Aga
Khan Development Network
to provide income opportu-
nities for poor families and
advocate womens empower-
ment at the same time.
Set up in 2003, the WSE now
employs over 110 women, be-
tween 19 and 35 years of age.
I want to give the best edu-
cation to my kids so that they
dont feel the absence of their
father, Gulshan said.
I started my job just 10
days after my husband was
martyred. My friends mocked
me, saying that instead of
mourning my husband I had
started the job of a man, but I
had no choice I had to sup-
port my kids.
With the 8,000 rupees ($80)
a month she earns in the car-
pentry shop, Gulshan pays
for her children to go through
school, and she has also used
her skills to build and furnish
a new house for her family.
As well as giving poor and
marginalised women a chance
to earn a living, the WSE proj-
ect, funded by the Norwegian
Embassy, also aims to mod-
ernise local skills.
Project head Saullah Baig
said traditionally male car-
penters worked to a mental
plan of houses they were
building a somewhat unsci-
entic approach.
These girls are using scien-
tic knowledge at every step,
right from mapping and de-
sign, and their work is more
feasible and sustainable,
Baig said. AFP
Carpenters at work in Altit village in Pakistans Hunza valley on August 6;
right, students walk to the Shimshal Mountaineering School. AFP
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MARTA Santos Pais, Special Represent-
ative of the UN Secretary-General on
Violence against Children, was recently
in Cambodia for the launch of the
report of the Cambodia Violence
against Children Survey. This op-ed is
an adapted excerpt of her presentation.
I
CONGRATULATE the govern-
ment of Cambodia for conduct-
ing the ground-breaking Vio-
lence against Children Survey. It
is an outstanding example of how
research can bring to light the hid-
den reality of violence against chil-
dren and it lays the foundation for
an evidence based policy agenda.
In 2014, as we mark the 25th anni-
versary of the adoption of the Con-
vention on the Rights of the Child, to
which Cambodia acceded in 1992,
the protection of children from vio-
lence has gained increasing global
priority. There has been an incre-
mental development of legislative
and policy reform, and enhance-
ments in child protection systems.
However, even as we celebrate these
notable achievements, we must also
recognise that progress has been too
slow, too uneven and too fragmented
to make a genuine breakthrough.
Children remain at risk of violence in
every setting, including those where
they should feel safest in schools, in
care and justice institutions, and
within the home.
Ending violence against children is
an ethical imperative, but it also
makes economic sense. Besides its
impact on victims and their families,
violence has high costs for society:
around the world it is diverting bil-
lions of dollars from social spending,
slowing economic development,
eroding human and social capital,
and severely limiting children from
reaching their full potential.
Urgent action is needed and here
are six key steps that Cambodia can
take to realise its commitment to
eliminate violence against children.
Develop a national, child-centred,
integrated, multidisciplinary and
time-bound strategy to address vio-
lence against children.
Take all necessary steps to main-
stream the protection of children
from violence at all levels of govern-
ment and include it as a core compo-
nent of the national development
agenda. Ensure that relevant profes-
sionals have adequate training on
child-sensitive violence prevention
and response mechanisms, and
receive guidance on violence preven-
tion, reporting and response. Cru-
cially, provide the necessary funding
to enable these initiatives to succeed.
Enact an explicit legal ban on vio-
lence against children backed by
effective enforcement.
The legal prohibition of violence
against children should capture all
its manifestations, including in
emerging areas such as abuse of new
information and communication
technologies. Government must
invest in law enforcement, in family-
and child-sensitive judicial systems,
and in strong, supportive child pro-
tection systems and services.
Increase efforts to make violence
against kids socially unacceptable.
Eliminating violence against chil-
dren requires change in deep-rooted
attitudes and behaviour that sees it
as acceptable, especially as a form of
discipline within the family and in
schools and institutions. Mobilising
all stakeholders, including commu-
nity and religious leaders, to raise
awareness and build upon positive
social norms can overcome
entrenched beliefs.
Ensure the social inclusion of girls
and boys who are at special risk in
the prevention and response to vio-
lence against children.
Families must be supported so that
they are able to adequately care for
their children. This will help prevent
child abandonment and stop the
placement of children in residential
care where they may be at increased
risk of violence. This is especially
important for children under three
years of age whose development can
be severely compromised by institu-
tionalisation. Investment in positive
parenting, systems of social protec-
tion and early childhood care and
development should be given priority
attention and funding.
Build or enhance strong data sys-
tems and sound evidence to prevent
and address violence against children.
Monitoring tools and indicators
must be developed that cover all chil-
dren, including boys and girls of eve-
ry age and background. Universal
birth registration is the first and most
crucial component of an effective
monitoring system.
Join with other governments to put
the protection of children from vio-
lence at the heart of the post-2015
international development agenda.
As the international community
considers the future global develop-
ment agenda and formulates the
post-2015 Sustainable Development
Goals, violence against children,
including among the most vulnera-
ble and marginalised girls and boys,
must be made a priority and recog-
nised as a cross-cutting concern.
Explicit targets on the elimination of
all forms of violence against children
and clear indicators and monitoring
mechanisms must be part of the
post-2015 agenda. I am confident that
Cambodia will continue to lend its
support to this international effort.
Ending violence against children
requires a global effort on an unprec-
edented scale an effort that
includes political leaders, ordinary
citizens, as well as children and
young people.
This year of celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child provides a golden
opportunity to boost this effort and
place the protection of children at the
heart of the policy agenda. By trans-
lating the results of its survey into
concrete action towards the ending
of violence against children, the royal
government of Cambodia can be a
leader in the region and beyond. It
will also be showing its commitment
to the implementation of the Con-
vention on the Rights of the Child
and the wellbeing of children in
Cambodia.
Six steps for Cambodia to
end violence against children
A young child stands in an orphanage in Siem Reap earlier this year. The Cambodian government released the results of its Violence
against Children Survey yesterday morning. GEORGE NICKELS
Marta Santos Pais was appointed as
Special Representative of the Secretary-
General on Violence against Children in
May 2009. She has thirty years experi-
ence dealing with human rights issues.
Comment
Marta Santos Pais
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Lifestyle
CELEBRATING Halloween has fast
become a tradition in Asia, with more
and more people holding parties for
the event.
Traditionally in Europe and the US,
people wear costumes and expel evil
spirits while celebrating the autumn
harvest on Halloween. In Japan, fol-
lowing the tradition, children wear
costumes, go trick-or-treating in town,
and adults throw parties.
With this years Halloween swiftly
approaching, Takako Haseg-
awa, who heads Table & Flow-
er School Seijo in Tokyo and
gives classes on table coordi-
nation, offers some hints for decking
out your Halloween party table.
Hasegawa said many wom-
en in their 30s and 40s have
been attending her classes to
learn how to decorate their
Halloween party dining table
in a sophisticated, cute way. She, there-
fore, first suggested creating a table
arrangement based around an adult
womens party.
Hasegawa chose a purple tablecloth
that looks even more elegant when an
organdy of a similar colour with a
glossy texture is placed on it.
Next, place a glass bowl, a pottery
pot and other items on a square plate,
and the look of the space will become
chic aristocratic. A candle holder adds
much to the table as well, accord-
ing to Hasegawa.
On the other hand, an
arrangement based
around the theme of a
childrens party is quite dif-
ferent. Use all the Halloween
colours orange, yellow, pur-
ple, white and black to depict
the childs energetic image,
Hasegawa said.
Cover the table with a
tablecloth in yellow or
orange, and place two paper
napkins, each bearing a dif-
ferent pattern, instead of place
mats. Place plastic bowls in
orange or black and paper cups with
pumpkin and other Halloween
motifs. To go the extra mile, decorate
the table with pumpkin-shaped pot-
tery pieces, pointed hats, candies and
other sweets.
Hasegawa also suggests the elabo-
rate use of ornaments. Wrap bread and
sweets with thin, orange mesh paper
and place them on a cake stand to help
really accentuate the table.
To better see the person sitting oppo-
site you, the height of the ornaments
should be slightly lower than the din-
ers eye level. After decorating it with
these small items, check the entire bal-
ance and modify by adding more
or less from the table.
Halloween items can be
purchased at variety stores,
Hasegawa said. With
items available at these
stores, you can have more
var ie- ties for autumn dining
table coordination.
Once you decide to hold a party, why
not make place cards by hand?
Fold an orange drawing sheet in half
and glue goods or accessories sold at
stores around its corners and other
places with double-face adhesive tape.
Hasegawa recommends felt Hallow-
een items. Write the name of your fam-
ily member or a guest on the side
meant for the front.
These cards enhance the festive
atmosphere of Halloween, Hasegawa
said. As even children can easily make
them, making these cards is fun for the
whole family. THEYOMIURI SHIMBUN
G
EORGE Pellicanos
daughter just killed
his wife. The girls
charging around
the room with a cleaver, shriek-
ing uncontrollably. People are
screaming. Theres blood every-
where. And now, the dark-haired
11-year-old is running into the
hiding spot where her father is
waiting in the darkness.
She lowers her knife.
Their eyes meet.
He lifts his hand up in front
of his face and gives her a
high ve.
Pellicano is a man who
spends his day job at a desk.
He looks at spreadsheets. Pores
over government contracts.
Goes home.
But now its October, and Oc-
tober means that when Pellica-
no leaves work on Fridays, its
to take his wife and two chil-
dren to a decrepit 140-year-old
mansion. Just as theyve done
every fall for ve years, the Pel-
licano family is spending their
weekends working at Shockto-
ber, a haunted house in Lees-
burg, where all the proceeds go
to a nonprot organisation for
people with disabilities called
the Paxton Campus.
His wife and daughter
change into costumes for their
murder scene, his son goes to
help out in the parking lot and
Pellicano, the most dedicated
volunteer, transforms into a
role that has no name, but was
made especially for him.
He could call it the scare
monitor. Scare captain. Sur-
veyor of the scare.
For $30 apiece, around 10,000
people will stream through the
attractions all month at Shock-
tober: a clown-themed fun
tunnel, a basement called the
well of souls and t h e
main event: a 32-
room manor of
dark, dead and
dreadful.
Thats Pellica-
nos domain.
He helped
design each room, and now,
hes going to make sure the
house scares like its sup-
posed to.
I roam around, hide, and
watch to make sure everything
is going smoothly, he says.
He knows its going smoothly
when he can hear the scream-
ing. The crying. The people
running away, closing their
eyes and, more often than hes
comfortable admitting: peeing
their pants.
On opening weekend, those
noises of fear are what makes
the scare monitor smile. The
gray makeup and fake blood
splatter on his face crack from
how much he smiles. Because
history, science and ticket sales
all tell him the same thing:
We like to be scared.
Two hours
after the
d o o r s
opened, Pelli-
cano is mak-
ing rounds
on the
s e c o n d
oor of the
mansi on.
Hes dressed in a ragged an-
nel and corduroy overalls that
have a small Winnie the Pooh
sewn into the back. (They
were donated.) In the darkness
he sneaks past groups of teen-
agers whose parents dropped
them off and sports teams in
matching sweatshirts toward
one of the hiding places for
the actors.
He taps a door disguised as a
wall to let them know hes com-
ing in.
Its just me guys, just me,
Pellicano whispers. Its so dark
they cant see his face. He
knows some of the actors hate
it when he sneaks up most of
them believe the mansion is
actually haunted.
For Pellicano, each scare feels
like hes a painter, and this is his
gallery show. The satisfaction
comes from watching them
react, he says. To him, its art.
But the thing that keeps them
coming back? Thats science.
The brain perceives each
scare as a threat to your safety,
explains Margee Kerr, a soci-
ologist who studies fear. The
shock then triggers a cascade
of chemicals: dopamine, sero-
tonin, endorphins, adrenaline.
(We tend to associate these
with sex and exercise, too.)
As the group is running from
Bloody Mary, Kerr imagines,
the chemicals make them feel
euphoric and strong. In the
same moment, their brains are
recognising that theyre not in
any real danger.
Theyre left
with a high
that carries
over to the next
r o o m ,
w h e r e
theres only
a bathtub
full of fake bugs wait-
ing. Scary enough to
make them keep moving,
but calm enough to give
their systems a
chance to re-
lax before the next shock.
Its a roller coaster of emo-
tion humans have been put-
ting themselves through since
at least the 1600s, when the
Russians reportedly built one
of the rst purposefully fear-
inducing attractions: extreme
slides made of wooden
ramps and ice. These
days, an estimated 32 mil-
lion adults (1 in
every 5 who plan
to celebrate Hal-
loween) will
visit a haunted a t -
traction this year, ac-
cording to the
National Retail
Federation.
At Shockto-
ber, the team has designed
the creaky winding path-
way through the manor to
constantly present differ-
ent types of scares: a giant
wooden beam swinging for
their heads (a startle scare),
a girl carving up a dead body
then following behind the
group (stalker scare), and
of course all the phobias:
snakes, doctors, chainsaws
and worst for some people
dolls that come alive.
Dont you want to play with
dolly? a bloody pigtailed little
girl screeches in a room full of
dismembered dolls. Nobody
will play with me and dolly!
Many of the visitors guard
themselves by talking at the
actors. Sure Ill play with you,
they say. Or, No, youve
been very bad.
S c a r e -
s u r v e y o r
P e l -
l i cano
teaches ev-
eryone to keep
to the script. Stare
them down, he says,
but dont talk back.
Theyre only trying to
prove youre human.
Whenever Pellicano
makes it back
to the room
where his wife, Mary, is, he
nds her slumped over, peek-
ing out from the corner of her
eye to see who is coming.
Its going really well, Mary
says, describing all the scares
their daughter Brigid has
made. One guy fell on the
oor. Weve had a good num-
ber have to leave, too.
Some of the early-de-
parters seemed to have
been dragged into the
haunted house
by friends. There
will always be people
who never enjoy be-
ing scared. Part of the
reason could be, accord-
ing to sociologist Kerr, that
their brains dont release as
much serotonin when they feel
threatened. Studies (mostly
on the brains of chimpanzees)
have shown that serotonin
levels are likely to be genetic
meaning some people are pre-
disposed to get less of a high
from being scared.
Sometimes the people hit-
ting their breaking point when
they saw Brigids bloody knife
were kids around her own age,
brought along by parents who
thought they could handle it.
When children are scared too
soon, Kerr says, the experi-
ence can be traumatic. Es-
pecially if theyre too young to
realise whats real and whats
fake, she said. In her mind,
that age comes around 7 or 8
years old.
Brigid was 8 when she rst
asked to be a character at the
haunted house. Her parents
knew that all actors had to be
14 years old. Then the haunt-
ed house staff saw how scary
Brigid could be. She promised
to stay with her mom, and they
let her in at age 9. She loved it.
We really thought it would
toughen her up a bit, Mary
says. Shell be less prone to
scary things in life.
Another group is coming.
Mary plays dead again, Brigid
gets ready to start screeching
and waving her knife.
A family that slays together,
stays together, they like to say.
Pellicano breaks into anoth-
er facepaint-cracking smile,
and goes to check on the scare
in the next room. THE WASHING-
TON POST
One US familys Halloween tradition
Halloween in Japan meets seasonal decorations
Japan celebrates Halloween with decora-
tions for dining, including this table setting
for a childrens party. THEYOMIURI SHIMBUN
Shocktober: Brigid Pellicano, 11, and Sabrina Dyson, 17, compare snarls before the start of the show at
Shocktober in Leesburg, Virginia. Brigid has worked the event since she was 9. THE WASHINGTON POST
Food
18
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Jim Shahin

I
F EARLY summer is asparagus season and
midsummer is peak for tomatoes, then
late summer is prime time for food-on-
a-stick. State fairs are in full bloom, and
that is where skewered cuisine is at its ripest.
Cosmopolitan fairgoers nibbled caprese
salad on a stick at the just-concluded Iowa
State Fair. Exotica seekers can sample kanga-
roo on a stick at the ongoing New York State
Fair. Barbecue lovers at the upcoming Kansas
State Fair will devour moink balls, smoked
and sauced bacon-wrapped meatballs. The
Minnesota State Fair offers more than 75 vari-
eties of stick food, including Key lime pie and
something called Minnesota Music on a Stick,
whatever that might be.
While state fair sticks are a fun diversion,
for backyard cooks the most common form
of impaled food still remains the kebab.
And in my experience, people treat kebabs
with benign neglect. They buy pre-cut meat,
stick it on a metal or soaked wood skewer,
put the whole shebang over a ame and a few
minutes later, eat something thats too often
chewy and tough.
In the interest of building a better kebab,
I called the Department of Animal Science
at Texas A&M, which explores every issue
imaginable related to the butchering, prepa-
ration and cooking of meat. I talked to Jeff
Savell, a meat science professor, who offered
two primary bits of advice. One, buy high-
quality meat. Dont skimp, he said. Buy
the best you can afford. Two, understand
that size matters. If theyre too small, theyll
overcook and dry out, he said. If theyre too
large, you dont get the internal temperature
right. THE WASHINGTON POST
Kebabs: Sticking it to the grill
Grilled antipasto
For the dressing
2 cloves garlic,
minced
1 teaspoon finely
chopped fresh
oregano
1 teaspoon
chopped fresh
parsley leaves
2 teaspoons
chopped or torn
basil
1/4 cup extra-
virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon sea
salt
2 tablespoons red
wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon
coarsely ground
black pepper
Pinch crushed
red pepper flakes
For the kebabs
1 small eggplant
(8 ounces), sliced
into 3 rounds, each
1/2-inch thick, then
quartered
1 medium zuc-
chini (10 ounces),
sliced into 6
rounds, each 1/2-
inch thick, then cut
in half
1 large red bell
pepper, cut into 12
equal pieces
1 medium sweet
onion, cut into 6
sections, small in-
ner layers removed
12 cherry toma-
toes
2 tablespoons
extra-virgin olive
oil, for brushing
Kosher salt
Freshly ground
black pepper
Make ahead: The vegetables
can be grilled and dressed up
to 6 hours before serving, kept
covered with plastic wrap and
served at room temperature.
Steps: Prepare the grill for
direct heat. If using a gas grill,
preheat to medium-high (230
C). If using a charcoal grill,
light the charcoal or wood
briquettes; when the briquettes
are ready, distribute them
under the cooking area for
direct heat. For a medium-hot
re, you should be able to hold
your hand about six inches
above the coals for about four
or ve seconds. Have ready a
spray water bottle for taming
any ames. Just before cook-
ing, use a little vegetable oil to
grease the grate.
For the dressing: Whisk
together the garlic, oregano,
parsley, basil, oil, vinegar, salt,
black pepper and crushed red
pepper akes in a bowl.
For the kebabs: Thread the
eggplant, zucchini, red bell
pepper, onion and cherry toma-
toes onto the skewers. You will
have one section of onion and
two of every other vegetable on
each skewer. Brush with the oil
and season lightly with salt
and pepper.
Arrange the kebabs on the
grill. Cook, uncovered, over
direct heat, until charred
in spots, about four to ve
minutes, then use tongs to
turn them; grill for ve to ve
minutes. Transfer to individual
plates; drizzle a little of the
dressing on them. Alternatively,
you can either combine all
the vegetables together or set
them in individual groups on
a platter and drizzle with the
dressing. Serve.
Nutrition per serving: 120
calories, 2g protein, 9g carbo-
hydrates, 9g fat, 2g saturated
fat, 0mg cholesterol, 230mg
sodium, 3g dietary ber and
5g sugar
At trattorias throughout Italy, one of the most beautiful and tempt-
ing sights is a display case of grilled vegetables in olive oil. This
recipe puts it all together on skewers. The eggplant and zucchini
coins should lie flat on the grate. You will probably have parts of
vegetables left over. Reserve them for another use. Skewering the
vegetables makes for an easy way to give each dinner guest her
own antipasto. That said, mixing them together on a platter makes
for a grand presentation for the table. Your choice. Youll need to
soak six 12-inch bamboo skewers in water for at least 30 minutes.
Makes six servings.
Scorched fruit salad
For the dressing
2 tablespoons
fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon
honey
1/4 teaspoon sea
salt
1/8 teaspoon hot
Spanish smoked
paprika (pimenton)
1 tablespoon
chopped cilantro
For the kebabs
6 strawberries,
hulled
Six 1/2-inch
cubes cantaloupe
Six 1/2-inch
cubes honeydew
Six 1/2-inch
cubes pineapple
Six 1/2-inch
cubes mango
Make ahead: The dressing can
be made a day in advance and
kept in a sealed container in the
refrigerator until ready to use.
Steps: Prepare the grill for
direct heat. If using a gas grill,
preheat to medium (190 C). If
using a charcoal grill, light the
charcoal or wood briquettes;
when the briquettes are ready,
distribute them under the
cooking area for direct heat.
For a medium re, you should
be able to hold your hand about
6 inches above the coals for six
or seven seconds. Have ready
a spray water bottle for taming
any ames. Just before cook-
ing, use a little vegetable oil to
grease the grate.
For the dressing: Whisk
together the lime juice, honey,
sea salt, paprika and cilantro in
a small bowl.
For the kebabs: Slide one
piece of each fruit in whatever
order you like onto the skew-
ers; you will have six skewers
of fruit.
Arrange the skewers on the
grate. Cook for two or three
minutes per side, turning as
needed until the fruit is charred
in spots. The total grilling time
will be eight to 12 minutes.
Transfer the kebabs to a
platter and serve individually
to each guest, with a bowl of
sauce for drizzling. Or slide the
fruit from the skewers into a
bowl, dress with the sauce, and
chill for at least an hour and up
to four hours. Serve.
Nutrition per serving: 25 calo-
ries, 0g protein, 7g carbohy-
drates, 0g fat, 0g saturated fat,
0mg cholesterol, 95mg sodium,
0g dietary ber and 5g sugar
People dont often associate fruit with the grill and even less often
consider fruit on a stick. But grilling enhances fruits flavour by
caramelising it, and skewering it provides an easy way to cook and
present it. For optimum control, you can individualise the kebabs
all cantaloupe on one, all pineapple on another, and so on. But
columnist Jim Shahin prefers the colourful look of different fruits
on the same skewer. Serve the kebabs straight from the fire on
individual plates, or slide them from the sticks into a bowl, dress
and chill for a fruit salad. Youll need to soak six 12-inch bamboo
skewers in water for at least 30 minutes. Makes six servings.
Lamb kebabs in yogurt
2 cups plain
whole-milk yogurt
1 tablespoon
kosher salt
1 teaspoon
freshly ground
black pepper
1 small onion,
chopped
5 garlic cloves,
minced
1 tablespoon
finely grated
lemon zest and 1/4
cup fresh lemon
juice (from 1 or 2
lemons)
2 heaping
tablespoons finely
chopped fresh
mint
2 pounds
trimmed bone-
less leg of lamb,
cut into 1 1/2-inch
cubes (16 to 20
pieces)
Make ahead: You can make the
marinade up to a day before
using. The meat needs to mari-
nate for at least four hours and
up to 24 hours.
Steps: Combine the yoghurt,
salt, pepper, onion, garlic,
lemon zest and juice and the
mint in a gallon-size zip-top
bag. Add the lamb and seal,
pressing out as much air as
possible. Massage to coat the
meat. Refrigerate for at least
four hours and up to 24 hours.
Thread the lamb cubes on
the skewers, using four or
ve pieces per skewer. Bring
to room temperature before
grilling. Discard any remaining
marinade.
Prepare the grill for direct
heat. If using a gas grill,
preheat to medium-high (230
C). If using a charcoal grill,
light the charcoal or wood
briquettes; when the briquettes
are ready, distribute them
under the cooking area for
direct heat. For a medium-hot
re, you should be able to hold
your hand about six inches
above the coals for about four
or ve seconds. Have ready a
spray water bottle for taming
any ames. Just before cook-
ing, use a little vegetable oil to
grease the grate.
Arrange the skewers on the
grill; cook, uncovered, for ve
to seven minutes on one side,
then use tongs to turn them
over and cook for four to six
minutes on the other side.
Carefully pull the grilled
lamb from the skewers; ar-
range in rows on a platter or
plates. Serve warm.
Nutrition: Ingredients are
too variable for a meaningful
analysis.
This recipe draws upon time-honoured treatments from Turkey, the
Middle East and India, using yoghurt to tenderise and flavour the
lamb. The recipe calls for grilling the meat first on one side, then
the other. But turning the skewers throughout the cooking process
is fine. Unlike a lot of grilled meats, which are best left alone for a
while, kebabs, with their uneven sides, dont mind some fiddling.
The kebabs come out medium-rare. Youll need six metal or 12-inch
bamboo skewers. If using bamboo skewers, soak them in water for
at least 30 minutes. Makes six to eight servings.
Travel
19
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
The low-key
charms of
Providencia
Bart Beeson and
Annalise Romoser

W
EVE spent the
afternoon at
the open-air
restaurant of a
small shing co-op that offers
everything weve dreamed of
in Caribbean cuisine fresh
sh, fruit juices, coconut rice
and a little something we
havent: rondon, the islands
prized dish of pigs tail, sh
and snails. The co-op also sells
seafood, and after eating our
ll, we purchase a gorgeous
sh for dinner, then stop at a
small grocery store on the way
back to our lodgings to pick up
onions and coconut milk to
saute with mangoes for an ac-
companying creole sauce.
As we swerve up a steep hill
on our bikes, taking turns hold-
ing the large red snapper by the
tail, we have to wonder wheth-
er this is the best way to bring
home dinner. But as we discov-
er over the course of a week in
Providencia, Colombia, thats
part of the charm of this Carib-
bean island, where youre more
likely to bring home fresh sh
to cook than serve yourself at a
buffet or to grab a cold drink at
a rustic beachside hut than at a
poolside bar.
Weve heard for years
about Providencias beauti-
ful beaches, great snorkeling
and distinctive culture, so
weve nally decided to make
the journey here. The island
lies about 225 kilometres off
Nicaraguas Atlantic coast,
belongs to Colombia and,
largely because of its history
as a base for English pirates,
is mostly English-speaking.
The extremely welcoming lo-
cals move effortlessly between
English, Spanish and a unique
creole tongue, and throughout
our stay are eager to point us
to a good local restaurant or
the nearest beach.
To get to Providencia, we
rst stop in nearby San An-
dres, a larger and more com-
mercial island, where you can
catch either a quick ight or a
catamaran to Providencia. The
water surrounding the island is
known as the Sea of Seven Col-
ors, and it lives up to its name
with truly spectacular hues of
turquoise and blue set against
pristine white sand beaches.
Eager to get on the water, we
nd a guide, Atanasio Howard,
who runs a small hotel and ar-
ranges kayaking, snorkeling
and shing trips for visitors.
Well be back in the coming
days to take him up on the
latter two options, but on our
rst afternoon, we want to go
kayaking in Old Providence
McBean Lagoon. We slowly
make our way through tangled
mangroves, home to colourful
crabs and elusive little birds,
to reach the lagoon. There we
take a break for a quick hike up
Iron Wood Hill, which show-
cases the tropical dry forest on
the east side of the island and
provides a stunning view of
the turquoise sea.
Another day, we rent kayaks
and snorkeling gear on our
own and paddle out to Mor-
gans Head, a locally famous
rock outcropping named for
pirate Henry Morgan, who
used the island as a base for
raiding Spanish colonies in
the late 1600s. Its rumored
that he hid still-undiscovered
treasures in Providencia, and
the rock formation sits near
an unexcavated pirate-era fort
that exudes mystery. Theres
great snorkeling just off the
shore, and we spend a good
chunk of time lazily paddling
around before scrambling up
the rocky cliffs and jumping
into the clear water below.
Despite its tiny size, the island
keeps us busy but not over-
whelmed. There are enough
options for us to feel that we ac-
complish something each day,
but still allow us to have the re-
laxing beach vacation we were
looking for. THEWASHINGTON POST
The fomer pirate hideaway of Providincia, Colombia, is an ideal beach
vacation for the anti-resort adventurer. THE WASHINGTON POST
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48 Kind of room
50 Comedians date
51 Latish lunchtime
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58 Focus on whats important
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62 Ghanaian money
63 Axes
66 Heat of the Moment band
67 Like the Sabin vaccine
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70 Frequently shared thing
71 Rabbit ___ (Updike novel)
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7 In a minute
8 Contents of some urns
9 Astronomical distance of 3.26
light-years
10 Entry permit
11 Moving about
12 With cunning (Var.)
13 Monosyllabic, perhaps
21 Region opposite Hong Kong
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23 Team leader
24 Common greeting
30 Active individual
32 Primer pup
34 A bit of work
36 Sashayed or strutted
37 Spine-chilling
38 Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff
40 Cheer at the Met
41 House or home
42 ___ for (substantiate)
47 Company on the Web
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53 Small ornamental cases
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59 Heavy, durable
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THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
21
Pellino v Chope grudge match
headlines martial arts card in KL
Dan Riley

F
OLLOWING the block-
buster international
mixed martial arts
card ONE FC: Roar of
Tigers, which packed out Kua-
la Lumpurs Stadium Putra on
Friday, Malaysian cage ght-
ing fans will get another lethal
dose of action this Saturday
across town at the Stadium
Negara.
Billed as the the worlds
biggest amateur MMA com-
petition, Malaysian Inva-
sion Mixed Martial Arts will
be holding the grand nale
of its second successful sea-
son, showcasing the current
nalists for each weight class
against the respective champi-
ons from MIMMA Season 1 in
all but two divisions. The light-
weight and heavyweight titles
will be fought over by the top
contenders from Season 2.
However, it is the main event
of the night that has most
tongues wagging with Matt
Pellino clashing in an open
weight grudge match with fel-
low American Will Chope.
Pellino has become known
as the the voice of MIMMA
after entertaining local crowds
with his live commentary at
Malaysian MMA events. How-
ever, he will be making his
cage ghting debut on Satur-
day, something he appears to
be taking in his stride.
If you ever have a doubt
about losing you dont belong
on the mat, he told the Post.
Of course, I will go into the
cage with the mindset of get-
ting my hand raised. It is one
hell of a debut ght, isnt it?
The 21-year-old, who trains
out of K-One MMA gym in
Penang, expects his strong
wrestling background to put
him in good stead against the
highly experienced Chope.
Very few people know the
discipline and have the mental
toughness to wrestle. Wres-
tling gets you to be mentally
prepared even when things do
not go your way, said Pellino.
I have the advantage in the
transitioning aspect of the
ght. My wrestling transition-
ing will be [Chopes] biggest
hurdle to jump.
Will has fought a lot in Asia
has done well on the regional
circuits. He beats everyone
he is supposed to beat and
looked good in his last ght at
Rebel FC.
But Im a different animal
than what he has been put in
the cage with. Havent seen
him in there with a wrestler,
which is why this is an exciting
match up.
Pellino admits his job as a
trainer and mentor to some
of the rising stars in Malaysian
MMA has its limitations.
Wanting to grow myself
would be the hardest part
in being a trainer. People al-
ways come asking for help,
but I dont have all the an-
swers. Sometimes I dont
even have 5 per cent of the
answers, he said.
I want to grow as a martial
artist myself, but its difcult
when you have to dedicate a
lot of your time to training
people. I never have time to
do it myself.
Pellino says his nicknamed
of Liquid Monkey comes
from his fast and aggressive
style on the wrestling mat,
although other martial arts
skills may come into play in
his meeting with Chope.
My strategy will be to send
as many heel kicks at my op-
ponents head as possible. If
that doesnt work, I will try
and rely on my karate, add-
ed Pellino.
Will The Kill Chope has
a professional MMA record
of 20-7 and currently trains
at Juggernaut Fight Club in
Singapore.
I used to live in Malay-
sia and coach in KL, so it
feels great to come back and
ght on the best MMA show
in Malaysia in front of my
friends and old students, he
told the Post.
The animosity between Pel-
lino and Chope has been well
documented leading up to
their match, with the latter
more than happy to supply
some ghting talk.
I dont like him and he
doesnt like me. So we have a
score to settle, said Chope.
I know he is an amateur
wrestler, who has lied about
his credentials as a ghter ...
He says he is a wrestler so I
want to show him how to re-
ally wrestle. I want to take him
down and use the rule set to
soccer kick him.
What the 24-year-old feath-
erweight is giving up in mass
to middleweight Pellino, he is
making back in reach, boast-
ing a 20cm advantage.
[Im] so condent for this
ght. I really feel there is no
way Matt can beat me.
Chope was scheduled to
ght Diego Brandao at UFC
Fight Night 38 in Natal, Brazil
on March 23, but was pulled
from the card at the last min-
ute after revelations surfaced
about his past.
He had been dishonourably
discharged from the Air Force
and sentenced to ve months
connement in 2009 for re-
peatedly verbally and physi-
cally assaulting his ex-wife.
Chope is keen to put such
things rmly in the past as he
looks to add to his victories
in the cage, the majority of
which have come by way of
submission.
I am just hoping to get on
a win streak and hopefully get
the chance to ght for the UFC
again, he said.
The co-main event of Sat-
urdays card in KL features
a mouth-watering bantam-
weight match-up between Fil-
ipino-American Mark Striegl
and Kaiwhare Kara-France of
New Zealand.
Striegl (12-1), who trains at
Fight Corps MMA in his native
Baguio City as well as Borneo
Tribal Squad in the Malaysian
state of Sabah, is looking to
mark his return to the cage
after a year-long absence with
a win. He suffered the only de-
feat of his career in his most re-
cent bout last year against Kim
Jang Yom of South Korea.
Losing is part of any sport
and it comes down to how
you take the loss and what
you learn from it. I believe
that Ive learned from my
mistakes and have become a
better ghter and have per-
sonally grown as a result,
said the 26-year-old submis-
sion specialist.
Kara-France (7-4) said he
was really pumped to be ap-
pearing at MIMMA 2.
Cant wait to throw down in
KL again. Last time I fought
there, it was a war so Id ex-
pect nothing less, said the
21-year-old.
The New Zealander noted
he had started his ght camp
at Strike Force Auckland be-
fore spending the nal four
weeks at Phuket-based Tiger
Muay Thai. I am ready, he
asserted.
The most rewarding aspect
is pushing yourself to the lim-
its and seeing how your mind
and body can overcome ev-
erything you throw at it.
Fans at Stadium Negara can
expect no shortage of home-
grown talent on display, with
seven different MIMMA divi-
sional titles on the line for the
Malaysian amateurs.
Agilan Thani (4-0 amateur
record) will take on defending
welterweight champion Ooi
Aik Tong (4-0), Muhammad
Hasrul (4-1) will meet fellow
lightweight contender Richie
Celestial (3-0), heavyweight
Darren Low (2-0) faces off
against Muhammad Zulhani-
zam (7-1), Kenny Yap (4-0) will
attempt to retain his yweight
belt against Muhammad
Aiman (7-1), featherweight
titlist Keanu Subba (4-1) will
clash with Joshua Khiew (4-0),
Jenarten Radhakrishnan (5-0)
will aim to wrestle the ban-
tamweight belt from Prabu
Somanaidu (4-1) and middle-
weight master Jing Yi Chong
(4-1) will go toe-to-toe with
Stephen Onn (3-0).
Inserted between these
amateur title bouts will be a
professional lightweight con-
test featuring Italys Massimo
The Zen Capusella (2-3) and
Lenny The Show Stealer
Wheeler (6-3) of Canada.
A female yweight pro ght
between Malaysias Zhen Wei
(0-1) and English MMA debu-
tant Rachael Short will kick
off the nights activities.
Action from the Stadium
Negara on Saturday can be
streamed live free of charge
at www.mimmalive.tunetalk.
com.
Will Chope says he has a score to settle with his opponent in the main event
of MIMMA 2 at Kuala Lumpurs Stadium Negara on Saturday. PHOTOSUPPLIED
American Matt Pellino is transitioning from MMA trainer and live com-
mentator to a starring role on the inside of the cage. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Malaysian MIMMA Season 2 middleweight nalist Stephen Onn nishes off his opponent during tryouts for the tournament. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Grapplers eye return
to glory in Singapore
THE Cambodian national
wrestling teams trailblazing run
at the 27th SEA Games in
Myanmar last year where they
hauled in four gold medals, two
silvers and four bronzes was
followed by a sobering
campaign at the 17th Asian
Games in Incheon, South Korea,
three weeks ago, which was
devoid of even a single victory in
any bout. However, the talented
squad will head into this
weekends 2014 Southeast
Asian and Australian Wrestling
Championships in Singapore
with an eye of grabbing places
on the podium once more.
Cambodian Wrestling
Federation vice president Casey
Barnett is covering all of the
teams expenses, including
accommodation, food and
flights, which totals around
$6,800. Wrestlers making the
trip over for the four-day
competition starting on Friday
include gold medalists Dorn
Sao, Chov Sotheara and Ni
Samnang, as well as Chab
Loeun, Kang Denpisith, Ngoun
Makara, Chun Thu, Chham
Pisin and Dorn Sreymao. They
will be lead by CWF secretary-
general and national team
coach Thin Vichet. Veteran
coach Hok Chheangkim and
assistant coach Kim Sung Tae of
South Korea will be spending
their own money to travel with
the delegation. CHHORNNORN,
TRANSLATEDBY INSOPHENG
Anti-Doping workshop
helps educate teams
AROUND 372 national team
athletes, coaches and officials
from sports federations and
associations have been
participating in a three-day Anti-
Doping Educational Workshop,
which wraps up today at the
Institute of Technology of
Cambodia. The workshop,
hosted by National Sport
Training Center (NSTC) in
cooperation with the World Anti-
Doping Agencys Southeast Asia
Regional Anti-Doping
Organisation (WADA-SEA
RADO), the Japanese Anti-
Doping Agency and the
UNESCO Fund for the
Elimination of Doping in Sport,
aims to help individuals more
clearly understand about the
prohibited substances in elite
sports. Cambodian soft tennis
player Yi Sophany was sent
home from the recent Asian
Games in Incheon after failed a
doping test. According to NSTC
head Pun Sok, the athletes have
been split into one group while
the coaches and officials are in
another. Leading the workshop
is SEA RADO instructor
Gobinathan Nair, with JADAs
Yaya Yamamoto, the National
Olympic Committee of
Cambodias Medical Science
Committee president Sdeung
Chea, National Children
Hospital deputy chief Hout
Chantheany, and Cambodian
Anti-Doping Agency president
Ith Samheng. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY INSOPHENG
Riders line up for Phnom
Baset mountain bike race
THE Cambodia Smart MTB
Series is taking registration for
its penultimate mountain bike
race this year, which will be
held at Phnom Baset on
November 2. Riders must
submit forms to Flying Bikes 2
shop by October 31. DANRILEY
Sport
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
New Australian Wallabies rugby union coach Michael Cheika smiles as he speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney yesterday, ahead of a ve-match European tour. AFP
Cheikas names first squad
N
EW Wallabies coach Mi-
chael Cheika included ve
debutants in his rst squad
unveiled yesterday for the
November Tests in England, France,
Ireland and Wales.
The 33-man Australia squad, led by
22-year-old Michael Hooper, includes
three changes to the group that lost 29-
28 to the All Blacks last Saturday.
The tour sees the return of injured
duo Matt Toomua and Ben McCa-
lman and the inclusion of uncapped
Melbourne Rebels back-row forward
Sean McMahon.
He is one of ve uncapped players
alongside Western Force pair Tetera
Faulkner (prop) and Kyle Godwin
(centre), and wingers Henry Speight
(ACT Brumbies) and Tom English
(Melbourne Rebels).
The Wallabies are due to y to Eu-
rope on Friday for a ve-match tour,
which kicks off against the Barbarians
at Twickenham on November 1.
Cheika, who will remain coach of the
New South Wales Waratahs, vowed to
bring his passion to the Wallabies fol-
lowing the shock resignation of Ewen
McKenzie on Saturday.
But he said he did not want to discuss
the future of his Waratahs star Kurtley
Beale, who has been stood down pend-
ing a hearing tomorrow in the latest in
a series of off-eld troubles which ulti-
mately led to McKenzies walkout.
I wont be answering any questions
on that today... I dont want to preju-
dice anything thats going to happen
with Kurtley in any way, said Cheika.
With Cheikas appointment, the Aus-
tralian Rugby Union also brought in
NSW Waratahs defence coach Nathan
Grey. He will be part of a three-man
coaching line-up for the tour along-
side Cheika and existing forwards
coach Andrew Blades.
A year before the World Cup, the
tour under a new coach offers Aus-
tralia a fresh start after successive de-
feats to South Africa, Argentina and
the All Blacks. AFP
CROATIAN boxer Vido Lon-
car was suspended for life
by the national boxing fed-
eration Tuesday after he
knocked down a referee at
the European youth cham-
pionship after losing the
match.
Loncar was suspended
from boxing for life over his
brutal attack on an official,
a federation statement said
after an emergency session
of its executive committee
was held because of the in-
cident.
The savage attack against
the referee occurred on Mon-
day after the referees decision
to halt the match.
Loncar knocked down Polish
referee Magej Dziurgot and hit
him several times before he
was dragged by his ankles out
from the ring.
He was boxing against Lith-
uanian Algirdas Baniulis, who
ed the ring when Loncar at-
tacked the referee.
The footage of the attack
was posted on the internet.
The Croatian federation
apologised to both World
Boxing Organisation, the
European Boxing Organisa-
tion and all other relevant
boxing bodies for the dam-
age Loncar caused by his
act.
It also deeply apologised to
the family of the referee who
was hospitalised.
Loncar was detained after
the attack.
This is the worst thing
which could have hap-
pened, a big shame for
Zagreb and Croatia, the
federations secretary-gen-
eral, Marko Marovic, said,
according to the state-run
HRT television.
All the efforts that we have
put into organisation of this
championship and boosting
of the image of Croatias box-
ing was destroyed in a few
seconds.
The European Youth Cham-
pionship is taking place in the
Croatian capital from October
17 to 26. AFP
Croatian boxer attacks
ref, suspended for life
Hua Hin to host big event
THAILAND will next year host
a $2 million golf tournament
co-sanctioned by the Euro-
pean Tour in what will be the
richest golf event to be held in
the kingdom, organisers said
on Tuesday.
The inaugural Thailand Clas-
sic will be staged near the
southern beach resort town of
Hua Hin between February
12-15, the Asian Tour said in a
statement. It will be the first
event co-sanctioned by the
Asian Tour and the European
Tour to be permanently based
in Thailand.
Thailand has been one of
our strongest markets over the
years and the addition of a
new event will cement the
nations place as one of Asias
golfing giants, Asian Tour
chairman Kyi Hla Han said in
the statement.
The news is a boon to Thai-
lands sporting industry, which
was battered by months of
political turmoil preceding a
coup in May.
Several sporting events were
cancelled amid mass street
protests and intermittent vio-
lence, including the $1 million
Thailand Golf Open scheduled
for March.
Organisers of the Thailand
Classic are hoping to lure glo-
bal golf stars in addition to the
expected strong local line-up.
Prize money earned at the
Black Mountain Golf Club will
be counted in the 2015 Race to
Dubai, a year-long competi-
tion currently led by World
number one Rory McIlroy, the
Asian Tour said. AFP
Scott Hend of Australia takes a shot during the 2014 Kings Cup pro-am
event at the Black Mountain Golf Club in Hua Hin, Thailand. AFP
Cambodians toil again
in Chilean hot pot
THE Cambodian team were
battling fatigue in the
sweltering conditions of
Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday as
they fell to their fourth straight
defeat 6-2 against Namibia
in the preliminary round of the
2014 Homeless World Cup. The
Kingdoms Then Lang Eng
notched his ninth goal of the
campaign, while team-mate
Khoun Bora also found the net
to put the scores at 2-2.
However, a disallowed goal
from a freekick by Lang Eng
signified the beginning of the
end for Cambodia, as their
African rivals maintained their
energy levels better. We tried
our best and will keep fighting
for our first win, Lang Eng told
the Post after the game.
Cambodia have been bracketed
in Group F of the secondary
stage, which includes England,
Sweden, South Korea and
Denmark. DANRILEY
Serbia, Albania hope
for favourable ruling
BOTH Serbia and Albania are
hoping for a favourable ruling
from UEFA when European
footballs governing body meets
today over the violence that
halted the Balkan rivals Euro
2016 qualifier last week. Both
countries blame each other for
the trouble at the match which
then escalated into an
unprecedented political crisis.
Serbia could be held
responsible for several issues
linked with the organisation of
the October 14 game, notably
since Serbian fans invaded the
pitch to attack Albanian players
in Belgrade. On the other hand,
Albania should answer for its
refusal to continue playing the
match despite, as Serbias
Football Federation (FSS)
claims, an UEFA
recommendation to do it as
well as for deployment of an
illegal flag. For FSS the violence
was provoked by a drone that
carried a flag with the map of a
Greater Albania, a nationalist
project aimed at gathering all
Albanian communities in the
Balkans in one state. AFP
Alcaraz is new coach at
Spanish club Levante
LA LIGA strugglers Levante
have named Lucas Alcaraz as
their new head coach, taking
over from Jose Luis Mendilibar,
who was sacked on Monday
after just two months in charge.
Lucas Alcarez is the new coach
of Levante for the rest of the
season with a one-year option,
a club statement said late on
Tuesday. The 48-year-old
Alcaraz was coach at Grenada
until the end of last season,
having taken over at the
Andalucian outfit at the start of
2013. He also has previous
coaching experience at
Almeria, Recreativo de Huelva
and Racing Santander. The
53-year-old Mendilibar
managed just one win in eight
games in charge of Levante
leaving the Valencian side
second bottom of the table. His
fate was sealed by a 5-0
thrashing at the hands of Real
Madrid at the weekend. AFP
Football
THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
23
Magnificent seven for Bayern
as goals rain down in Europe
B
AYERN Munich produced a
stunning display to demolish
Roma 7-1 on Tuesday but they
were not the biggest winners
on the most prolic evening in Cham-
pions League history.
A record 40 goals were scored in just
eight group games as Shakhtar Donetsk
destroyed BATE Borisov 7-0 in Belarus
and Chelsea recorded their biggest win
in the competition, thumping Maribor
6-0 at Stamford Bridge.
There were also wins for Barcelona,
Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke and
Porto while Manchester City drew 2-2
away to CSKA Moscow, but it was Bay-
ern who stole the show.
Pep Guardiolas side underlined their
status as one of the contenders to win
the Champions League as they took
apart a Roma outt who had enjoyed a
ne start to the campaign.
An Arjen Robben brace, Mario Goe-
tze, Robert Lewandowski and a Thom-
as Mueller penalty made it 5-0 at the
break in the Group E game.
Gervinho got one back for Roma
in the second half before substitutes
Franck Ribery and Xherdan Shaqiri
added further goals in a performance
reminiscent of Germanys 7-1 win over
Brazil in the World Cup semi-nal in
July, a game in which ve of Bayerns
line-up against Roma featured.
This is a one-off result, it doesnt
reect the true difference between the
sides, a modest Guardiola later said.
However, Bayerns performance was
outdone by Shakhtar, as the Ukrainians
romped to a remarkable victory away
to BATE in Group H.
Brazilian forward Luiz Adriano be-
came only the second player to score
ve goals in a Champions League
game after Lionel Messi, with his tally
including four goals in the space of 16
rst-half minutes.
His compatriots Alex Teixeira and
Douglas Costa were also on target
as Shakhtar ended BATEs unbeaten
home record stretching back over a
year in emphatic fashion.
Bayern and Shakhtars feat in each
scoring seven goals away from home
on the same night is all the more re-
markable given that only two teams
had ever previously done so in the
Champions League Marseille in 2010
and Lyon in 2011.
Jose Mourinhos Chelsea fell just
short of that mark against Slovenian
champions Maribor in Group G, with
Loic Remy, a Didier Drogba penalty
and John Terry putting them three up
at the break.
Eden Hazard took centre stage in the
second half, forcing Mitja Viler into
scoring an own goal before netting a
penalty and getting his second of the
night at the death, while Agim Ibraimi
missed a penalty for the visitors.
We played seriously, said Mourin-
ho. We faced the game in the right
way and even at half-time at 3-0 the
boys kept playing at a good speed and
with good quality.
Yet that match was not the most
prolic in the group, as Schalke
stayed within two points of Chelsea
by beating Sporting who played for
almost an hour with just 10 men 4-3
in Gelsenkirchen.
Chinedu Obasi, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
and Benedikt Hoewedes scored to put
Schalke in control after Nani had put
Sporting ahead, but an Adrien Silva
brace made it 3-3 and it looked as if
the Portuguese side would return
home with a draw. However, sub-
stitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
converted a stoppage-time penalty
to hand new Schalke coach Roberto
di Matteo a second win from as many
games in charge.
City blow two-goal lead
Manchester Citys stumbling start in
Group E continued as they threw away
a 2-0 lead to draw with CSKA in a game
played behind closed doors in sub-
zero temperatures.
Sergio Aguero and James Milner
netted in the rst half for the English
champions only for Seydou Doumbia
to pull one back before a late Bebras
Natcho penalty earned the Russians
a point, and left City third in their sec-
tion. Weve lost two very important
points but we have nine points more
to play for and I believe we still have
enough chances to reach the knock-
out stage, said bullish City manager
Manuel Pellegrini.
PSG remain top of Group F after a
1-0 win at APOEL, secured thanks to a
late Edinson Cavani goal, while Barce-
lona dismissed Ajax 3-1 to stay a point
behind in second.
Neymar and Sandro Ramirez netted
for the Catalans either side of a strike
from Lionel Messi, who is now level
with Cristiano Ronaldo on 69 Cham-
pions League goals, two behind Rauls
all-time record of 71. Anwar El Ghazi
scored for the visitors.
Shakhtar are second in Group H
behind Porto, who beat struggling
Athletic Bilbao 2-1 with Ricardo
Quaresma netting the winner after
Guillermo Fernandez had cancelled
out Hector Herreras opener for the
Portuguese hosts. AFP
Roma forward Francesco Totti (right) vies with Bayern Munich defender Mehdi Benatia during their Champions League group stage match. AFP
QPR chief wants end to Taarabt-Redknapp row
QUEENS Park Rangers chair-
man Tony Fernandes has told
manager Harry Redknapp and
Adel Taarabt to end their public
spat over the forwards fitness.
Following Sundays agonising
3-2 loss at home to Liverpool,
Redknapp accused Taarabt of
being about three stone over-
weight and so unfit to play for
the west-London club, cur-
rently bottom of the English
Premier League table.
The 25-year-old Moroccan
international not even on the
bench against Liverpool hit
back on Tuesday by lifting his
shirt for a newspaper interview
to show off his slimline waist.
I am a professional this is
not about retaliation, this is
about protecting my reputa-
tion, Taarabt told the Daily
Mail. Its not true to say Im
not fit.
He insisted that he was now
85 kilograms, one kilogram
below his maximum weight
when on loan at Italian giants
AC Milan last season.
However, Redknapp refused
to let the matter lie on Tues-
day, labelling Taarabt the
worst professional he had
come across and saying he
had only lost weight because
of a bout of tonsilitis.
But Malaysian businessman
Fernandes tried to call a halt to
the escalating war of words by
saying, in a QPR statement
issued yesterday: As a club, we
are fully aware of stories in the
press over the last few days
regarding Harry Redknapp and
Adel Taarabt.
We regret these issues being
played out in public and both
Harry Redknapp and Adel
Taarabt have been notified of
our disappointment regarding
their handling of the situation.
I have spoken to them both
personally.
On behalf of the club, I
would like to apologise to the
QPR supporters for the embar-
rassment this has caused and
confirm that the issue has
been dealt with internally.
The clubs entire focus is
now on the Aston Villa fixture
next Monday and hopefully
after a tough few days we can
turn a negative into a positive
and build on Sundays
improved display.
Redknapp, asked about
Taarabts injury status following
the Liverpool loss, said: I cant
keep protecting people who
dont want to run about and
train, who are about three stone
[19 kilograms] overweight.
Redknapp demanded the
Moroccan prove he was worth
his weekly wage of about
US$100,000.
He played in a reserve team
game the other day, and I
could have run about more
than he did.
What am I supposed to keep
saying, keep getting your 60, 70
grand (US$97,000-112,000) a
week but dont train?
Taarabt said 67-year-old Eng-
lish manager Redknapp was
hardly ever at training.
He spends most of the time
in his office but when he gets
off the phone he comes down
to watch for five or 10 minutes
he never takes a session,
Taarabt said. AFP
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TUESDAYS RESULTS
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 23, 2014
Sport
Giants rout Royals in opener
S
AN Francisco pitcher Madison
Bumgarner scattered three
hits over seven innings and
the Giants ripped the Kansas
City Royals 7-1 in Tuesdays opening
game of the 110th World Series.
Bumgarner, a 25-year-old left-
hander, struck out ve and walked
only one as the Giants grabbed the
early edge in Major League Baseballs
best-of-seven nal.
Opener winners have taken the
World Series 62 per cent of the time,
including 10 of the past 11 years, and
won every playoff matchup this year.
The Giants seek their third cham-
pionship in ve seasons after having
snapped a 56-year drought in 2010,
while the Royals, in the playoffs for
the rst time since winning their only
World Series in 1985, saw their major
league record win streak to start a
playoff run snapped at eight games.
Bumgarner, making his fth start
of the 2014 playoffs, stretched his
major league record streak of score-
less playoff innings in road games to
32 2/3 over the rst six innings.
Staked to an early lead, Bumgarner
withstood a two-out, bases-loaded
jam in the third inning when top
Royals playoff hitter Eric Hosmer
grounded out to second base.
Bumgarner, who shared the major
league lead with 11 road wins this
season, then retired the next 11 bat-
ters he faced over the following four
innings. But Kansas Citys Salvador
Perez snapped Bumgarners record
scoreless inning streak with a two-
out solo homer to left eld in the
seventh inning, the rst playoff run
Bumgarner had surrendered away
from San Francisco since a 2010 rst-
round game.
Bumgarner, who threw 71 of his
106 pitches for strikes, just missed
matching Giants legend Christy
Mathewsons 1905 record of hurling
shutout triumphs in his rst three
World Series appearances.
Bumgarner had blanked Texas in
game four of the 2010 World Series and
Detroit in game two of the 2012 World
Series with a combined 14 strikeouts
and only four walks over 15 innings.
Relievers Javier Lopez and Hunter
Strickland each pitched a scoreless
inning in relief to seal Giants victory.
Giants shatter Shields
Royals starting pitcher James
Shields, who blanked San Francisco
on four hits back in August, was
tagged for three runs off ve hits in
the rst inning.
Leadoff batter Gregor Blanco sin-
gled, advanced on Joe Paniks y out
to centre eld, took third on a Buster
Posey single and scored on Pablo
Sandovals double to right eld.
Posey tried to score from rst base on
the same play but was thrown out at
home plate. Hunter Pence followed
by smashing a two-run homer over
the centre eld wall.
Sandoval reached base in his 24th
consecutive playoff game, match-
ing the fourth-best streak in major
league history.
Pence gave the Giants a 4-0 lead
in the fourth, hitting a double down
the left-eld line, reaching third on a
wild pitch and scoring on a Michael
Morse single. That prompted the
Royals to pull Shields for left-handed
reliever Danny Duffy, who walked
Brandon Crawford to load the bases
and then walked Blanco to put San
Francisco ahead 5-0.
Blanco walked again to open the
seventh and scored on a triple by
Panik, who later scored on a San-
doval single to give the Giants a 7-0
advantage. AFP
Malaysians shocked by reports Lee failed dope test
MALAYSIANS expressed shock
and disbelief yesterday after
reports claimed national icon
and badminton world number
one Lee Chong Wei had failed
a drugs test.
Still hope this is not true ...
Whatever the outcome, we
still with you! one user post-
ed on Twitter.
Oh no, say it isnt so!
another wrote among numer-
ous comments posted on
social media sites.
Malaysias Sports Minister
Khairy Jamaluddin confirmed
late on Tuesday that an athlete
had tested positive for a
banned substance but refused
to name the athlete.
However Malaysias Star
newspaper and other media
reported that Lee, who turned
32 on Tuesday, had failed a
random test at the World Bad-
minton Championships in
Denmark in late August.
We had informed the ath-
lete concerned who was
shocked by the news, Khairy
was quoted by the national
news agency Bernama as say-
ing late on Tuesday.
Khairy added in a statement
on Tuesday that the athlete
had applied for a further test
to be conducted and was
waiting to hear from interna-
tional sports authorities on
the test date.
Khairy said he had asked top
sports officials to probe all the
medicine and treatment the
athlete had received after
Malaysias anti-doping agency
was informed in an October 1
letter of the failed test.
Athletes cannot blame the
coaches or medical specialists
but themselves. We take this
matter seriously . . . We have
zero tolerance for athletes
involved in doping, he said,
according to Bernama.
The Badminton World Fed-
eration declined to comment,
saying its anti-doping regula-
tions required confidentiality.
Neither Khairy nor Lee
could be reached yesterday
for comment.
Lee, a star in the Southeast
Asian nation, has consist-
ently topped the badminton
rankings despite having
failed to win a world or Olym-
pic title. In Copenhagen, Lee
lost to Chinas Chen Long in
the final.
Lee had posted a photo with
his wife and his young son on
Twitter ealrlier this week say-
ing Birthday celebration with
my beloved family and close
friends last night.
The doping allegations are
the second involving Malaysian
athletes recently. Earlier this
month, the head of the Wushu
Federation of Malaysia resigned
to take responsibility after
Asian Games champion Tai
Cheau Xuen tested positive for
doping and was stripped of her
gold medal.
Medal snubber suspended
Indian boxer Sarita Devi was
yesterday provisionally sus-
pended by the sports world
governing body after refusing
to accept her bronze medal at
the Asian Games in a protest
against judging.
It means Devi will not be
allowed to participate in the
world championships to be
held in Jeju Island, South Korea,
in November, the International
Boxing Association said in a
statement.
AIBA, which has referred the
suspension to its disciplinary
commission for a review, has
also barred the boxers coach-
es and the Indian chef-de-
mission at the Games, Adille
Sumariwalla, from taking part
in AIBA competitions until fur-
ther notice.
Devi, who controversially
lost after appearing to domi-
nate her lightweight (60kg)
Asiad semifinal bout against
South Korean boxer Park Ji-Na
in Incheon, tearfully refused to
accept the bronze during the
medal ceremony. The conten-
tious defeat a day earlier had
sparked ugly scenes and scuf-
fles as Devis enraged husband
tried to lead a protest resulting
in him launching an expletive-
filled rant at officials.
At an extraordinary podium
ceremony, Devi twice refused
the medal before hanging it
around the neck of her stunned
Korean opponent. Devi later
issued an unconditional apol-
ogy to the Olympic Council of
Asia for her behaviour. AFP
Malaysias Lee Chong Wei returns a shot against Indias Parupalli
Kashyap during the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon on September 26. AFP
Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants pitches in the rst inning against the Kansas City Royals during Game One of the 2014 World Series in Kansas City, Missouri. AFP